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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations%20Information%20Service%20Vienna | The United Nations Information Service Vienna (UNIS Vienna) is part of a 63-strong network of United Nations Information Centres spanning the globe, which are part of the United Nations Department of Public Information. They share a common goal: to help fulfill the substantive purposes of the United Nations by communicating the activities and concerns of the organization to the public.
UNIS Vienna plays a dual role: as UN Information Centre it serves four client countries – Austria, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia. By serving as the local voice of the UN in these countries, the Information Service aims to promote an informed understanding of the work and goals of the UN, by reaching out to media, government, academia, schools and civil society organizations. Furthermore, it provides public information support and promotional services to the substantive programmes of the United Nations based in Vienna, and acts as Secretariat to the UN Communications Group in Vienna.
Guided tours and lectures
UNIS Vienna runs the guided tours at the Vienna International Centre where one of the four UN headquarters – along with the UN Headquarters in New York City, the UN Office at Geneva and UN Office at Nairobi – is located. The Visitors Service offers lectures by UN staff members on the UN in general and the work of the Vienna-based organizations.
Media accreditation
UNIS Vienna issues annual accreditation to bona-fide representatives of the media who are writing on UN system issues, on the basis of certain criteria. Accredited journalists to the UN receive access to the Vienna International Centre, information on the happenings in the UN world in Vienna and beyond, invitations to events and press briefings being organized at the VIC.
Civil society liaison
Over 1,500 civil society organizations with strong information programmes on issues of concern to the UN are associated with the UN Department of Public Information, linking the UN with people around the world. The NGO liaison service of UNIS Vienna maintains a distribution list of approximately 400 local NGO representatives, research institutes, political think tanks and initiatives of civil society.
Publications and information products
UNIS Vienna produces a wide range of information products on the work of the UN and current international issues, including German-, Hungarian-, Slovak- and Slovene-language versions of press releases, backgrounders and the UN Secretary-General's statements, as well as information on the work of the Vienna-based organizations in English and other languages. All publications are available on UNIS website.
Library and reference assistance
The UNIS library is a repository of information from all over the UN System. Reference documents, Security Council resolutions, the latest sales publications, the latest UN reports and more are available in the library, along with UN posters and handout material on a variety of subjects. The UNIS reference library in Vienna is open to vis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS%20Education%20and%20Training%20Centers | The AIDS Education and Training Centers (AETC) are a United States network of five national centers, 11 regional training centers, and over 130 associated local performance sites that provide education on HIV and related co-morbidities such as hepatitis, tuberculosis, and sexually transmitted diseases for healthcare providers in the United States. The AETCs were established in 1987 through federal funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Bureau of Health Professions. In 1997, the AETCs became a component of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program. The Ryan White Program is administered by HRSA's HIV/AIDS Bureau.
The AETC network represents all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and the six US-affiliated Pacific Jurisdictions. The network's centers are housed in academic sites across the country and are staffed by HIV clinicians, researchers, and educators.
Education
Some of the most common AETC training topics include adherence, antiretroviral therapy, opportunistic infections, prevention methods, and substance abuse. The AETCs collectively train and educate more than 125,000 participants a year.
The AETCs also offer technical assistance to healthcare clinics that provide HIV care and treatment. Common technical assistance issues include community linkages, client scheduling, agency needs assessment, and grants management.
References
HIV/AIDS organizations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISDN%20%28disambiguation%29 | ISDN may refer to:
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (B-ISDN)
ISDN (album) by The Future Sound of London
Isosorbide dinitrate, the drug used in the treatment of angina pectoris |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDSNi | BDSNi (Bahamas Domestic Submarine Network international) is a fiber optic submarine communications cable system that links the islands of the Bahamas, and also provides connectivity to Haiti via a spur connection.
Connection to Haiti
As of 2010, BDSNi provided Haiti's only direct fibre-optic connectivity.
The spur connection to Haiti was disrupted by the 2010 Haiti earthquake, with the terminal in Port-au-Prince being completely destroyed.
References
External links
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-4749481/Tyco-to-build-Bahamas-Domestic.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20080908060627/http://www.haitiwebs.com/forums/business/41330-btc_commissions_domestic_submarine_network_inagua.html
Liberty Latin America
Communications in the Bahamas
Communications in Haiti
Submarine communications cables in the Caribbean Sea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9man%20Express | The Léman Express is a commuter rail network for the transborder agglomeration of Grand Genève (Greater Geneva) in west Switzerland and the French Alps (Haute-Savoie and Ain). Six lines serve Swiss and French towns along 230 km of railway.
At the heart of the Léman Express system is the CEVA rail project linking Eaux-Vives station with Cornavin station in Geneva. This line, largely underground, was opened on 15 December 2019. The Léman Express marked the start of direct services from Genève-Cornavin station to the French cities of Évian, Thonon, Annemasse and Annecy as well as the population of the Arve Valley up to Saint-Gervais-les-Bains.
Lines
The Léman Express operates daily from 5am to 12:30am and hourly overnight on Friday and Saturday nights between Coppet and Annemasse.
Ridership
Upon the full launch of the network in December 2019, it was hoped ridership would be around 50,000 travellers per day by the end of the next year; at the beginning of March 2020 it had already reached 45,000 per day before the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic and travel shutdowns reduced ridership. As of June 2020, ridership had recovered to around 50% of pre-pandemic ridership, and by 2022 the ridership reached 70,000 passengers per day, 40% higher than the initial target set for the network.
Fares
As the Léman Express is an international system between two countries, the fare system is complex. Until its entry into service, the cross-border agglomeration had a zone-based fare system named Unireso. Zone 10, "Tout Genève", covered all of the canton of Geneva. Fares inside this zone still use the Unireso Zone 10 ticket price. Trips to/from Vaud are charged the CFF fare, and trips entirely in France are charged the TER fare. Cross-border fares are charged at the Léman Pass rate, which is calculated as a specific fare based on the distance between stations. All stations within the Unireso zone are charged at the same rate, so a 44 minute trip from Annemasse to Pont-Céard, the last station in Zone 10, is charged the same fare as a 7 minute trip from Annemasse to Chêne-Bourg—as is a trip from Annemasse to the Geneva Airport, not even on the Léman Express network. Trips from outside Zone 10 to the other side of Zone 10, such as Annemasse to Coppet, are charged the full distance-based fare.
History
Prior to the opening CEVA, local rail in Geneva consisted of two short services: the half-hourly Regio operating from Coppet to the main Genève-Cornavin railway station and (since 2002) on to Lancy-Pont-Rouge station (now sections of L1-L4), as well as the Rhône Express Régional (abbreviated to 'RER') line from La Plaine (in Dardagny) to Genève-Cornavin station (now L5 and L6). The RER line used tram-trains derived from those on Lausanne métro's line M1, required as it was electrified using 1,500 Volts direct current, unlike the 15'000 Volts alternating current rest of the Swiss Federal Railway network. Local trains to Bellegarde-sur-Valserine (in France) joi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%20Input%20Catalog | The Kepler Input Catalog (or KIC) is a publicly searchable database of roughly 13.2 million targets used for the Kepler Spectral Classification Program (SCP) and Kepler.
Overview
The Kepler SCP targets were observed by the 2MASS project as well as Sloan filters, such as the griz filters. The catalog alone is not used for finding Kepler targets, because only a portion (about 1/3 of the catalog) can be observed by the spacecraft. The full catalog includes up to 21 magnitude, giving 13.2 million targets, but of these only about 6.5 to 4.5 million fall on Kepler's sensors.
KIC is one of the few comprehensive star catalogs for a spacecraft's field of view. The KIC was created because no catalog of sufficient depth and information existed for target selection at that time. The catalog includes "mass, radius, effective temperature, log (g), metallicity, and reddening extinction".
An example of a KIC catalog entry is KIC #10227020. Having had transit signals detected for this star, it has become a Kepler Object of Interest, with the designation KOI-730. The planets around the star are confirmed, so the star has the Kepler catalog designation Kepler-223.
Not all star Kepler Input Catalog stars with confirmed planets get a Kepler Object of Interest designation. The reason is that sometimes transit signals are detected by observations that were not made by the Kepler team. An example of one of these objects is Kepler-78b.
Notable objects
KIC 8462852 is a binary star whose primary shows a mysterious transit profile. The origin of this profile is uncertain, with proposed explanations ranging from an uneven dust ring to a Dyson swarm or similar alien megastructure.
KIC 9832227 is a contact binary and an eclipsing binary with a period of about 11 hours.
KIC 11026764 is a G-type subgiant star whose astroseismology has been studied extensively by Kepler. It shows weak variability with a period of about 1100 seconds.
KIC 11145123 is one of the more interesting non-KOI objects in the list. An A-type main-sequence star with unusually slow rotation for its high mass, it is currently believed to be the roundest natural object.
See also
Kepler object of interest (KOI)
Hubble Guide Star Catalog
Tabby's Star
References
External links
Kepler Input Catalog (SAO)
Kepler space telescope
Astronomical catalogues of stars |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeste | Zeste is a Canadian French-language discretionary service channel owned by Groupe TVA. Zeste airs food-related entertainment and lifestyle programming.
History
On August 15, 2008, Serdy was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to operate "Cuisine", a national French-language category 2 digital cable specialty channel devoted to food-related programming. On January 19, 2010, Groupe Serdy announced that it was ready to launch the channel in March, and on February 24, Serdy unveiled the channel's identity, including the channel's new name (Zeste), and programming to the media.
The channel was launched on March 22 in standard and high definition.
On January 14, 2019, the CRTC approves the acquisition of the channel by Quebecor Média on behalf of its subsidiary Groupe TVA.
Zeste HD
On May 2, 2011, Zeste launched Zeste HD, a high definition simulcast of the standard definition feed.
References
External links
Digital cable television networks in Canada
French-language television networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20Trek%2088 | Video Trek 88 is a computer game developed and published by Windmill Software in 1982, based on the earlier Star Trek text game. As opposed to the mainframe version, both the galactic chart and the local map are displayed side by side.
The game is suitable for monochrome or color adapters, but is best viewed in monochrome. It was one of Windmill Software's earliest games, written in the BASIC programming language (specifically, BASICA) and requires an interpreter such as GW-BASIC to be executed.
References
External links
Video Trek 88 on Home of the Underdogs
Video Trek 88 entry at Back to BASICs
1982 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Video games based on Star Trek: The Original Series
Unofficial works based on Star Trek
Starship simulators based on Star Trek
Video games with textual graphics
Windmill Software games
Commercial video games with freely available source code
Video games developed in Canada
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodu%20%28disambiguation%29 | Kodu may refer to:
Kodu, Kodu Game Lab - visual programming tool
Lat-Kodu (reigned 1750–1755) and Baka Kodu (reigned 1845–1847) were rulers of the Wolof Empire
See also
Kudu - a type of Antelope |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20Management%20Interface | Content Management Interface (CMI) in computer software is an Open Mobile Alliance enabler that provides a standardized way for content providers to interact with service providers (network operators).
CMI is an interface between content providers and service providers, which does not directly involve the end user. The scope of the standard covers the entire off-deck content management lifecycle but does not include implementation or behavior beyond the API. Therefore, it can accommodate a broad range of services and service policies.
As of December 2009, CMI is publicly available as a Candidate 1.0 release.
References
External links
OMA Content Management Interface V1.0
Content management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive%20on%20the%20re-use%20of%20public%20sector%20information | Directive 2003/98/EC on the re-use of public sector information, known as the PSI Directive, now called Open Data Directive, is an EU directive that stipulates minimum requirements for EU member states regarding making public sector information available for re-use. This directive provides a common legislative framework for this area. The Directive is an attempt to remove barriers that hinder the re-use of public sector information throughout the Union.
The PSI Directive was amended again in 2019, becoming the Open Data Directive (Directive (EU)2019/1024 on open data and the re-use of public sector information), which entered into force on 16 July 2019. It consisted of a revision of the public sector information directive from 2003, which was already previously amended by the directive 2013/37/EU. Member states had until 16July 2021 to transpose the new directive into national law.
Definition
Every day public bodies create and collect a massive amount of valuable data from many different domains, the need to open up public sector data is not something new, and the European Union started to stimulate the reuse of public government data since the end of the 1980s.
The directive on open data and the re-use of public sector information further stresses the importance of the principle of re-using and publishing open government data from public sector bodies for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. Even if the directive focused on the re-use principle, in Article 5 it clearly obliged member states to ‘encourage public sector bodies and public undertakings to produce and make available documents [...] in accordance with the principle of “open by design and by default’’. This aspect represented an important step forward because it prioritized and shifted the concept of re-use to the beginning stage in the process of data production. Furthermore, the PSI is clear in terms of who can gain value from the re-use of open government data, making no distinctions about the beneficiaries, and without any restrictions to a specific market or sector.
In addition, the directive specifies that it is not necessary to have and declare a pre-identified purpose for the re-use.
Moreover, another important aspect emerging from the directive, is the idea of information and data as infrastructure. In order to boost innovation and make open government data available for re-use, public bodies need to invest in structuring their data into a public infrastructural resource.
Furthermore, the PSI is clear in terms of who can gain value from the re-use of open government data, making no distinctions about the beneficiaries, and without any restrictions to a specific market or sector. In addition, the directive specifies that it is not necessary to have and declare a pre-identified purpose for the re-use.
High Value Datasets
Another important aspect is the definition of “High Value Dataset”, which includes information from different thematic topics and is expecte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data.gov.uk | data.gov.uk is a UK Government project to make available non-personal UK government data as open data. It was launched as closed beta in , and publicly launched in . As of February 2015, it contained over 19,343 datasets, rising to over 40,000 in 2017, and more than 47,000 by 2023. data.gov.uk is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data.org.
Beta version and launch
The beta version of data.gov.uk has been online since the , and by January 2010 more than 2,400 developers had registered to test the site, provide feedback and start experimenting with the data. When the project was officially launched in January 2010, it contained 2,500 data sets, and developers had already built a site that showed the location of schools according to the rating assigned to them by education watchdog Ofsted.
Data available
data.gov.uk contains over 30,000 data sets from many UK Government departments. All data is non-personal, and provided in a format that allows it to be reused. data.gov.uk intends to increase the use of Linked Data standards, to allow people to provide data to data.gov.uk in a way that allows for flexible and easy reuse. , the following UK Government departments and agencies have provided data sets to data.gov.uk: BusinessLink, the Cabinet Office, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, the Department for Children, Schools and Families, the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Department for International Development, the Department for Transport, the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department of Energy and Climate Change, the Department of Health, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Home Office, His Majesty's Treasury, Lichfield District Council, Runnymede Borough Council, the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of Justice, the Northern Ireland Office, the Ordnance Survey, and the Society of Information Technology Management.
Ordnance Survey data
When data.gov.uk was officially launched in January 2010, Ordnance Survey (OS) data was one of the key data sets that Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Prof Nigel Shadbolt wanted to see opened up as part of the project. Ordnance Survey data was included in data.gov.uk on 1 April 2010 and provides information on geographical locations. According to Shadbolt, it "will make a real difference to the way that people make sense of the information".
Combined Online Information System (COINS) data
On the 3 June 2010, the Treasury released the Combined Online Information System (COINS) data for the financial years 2008/09 and 2009/10. The Combined Online Information System, known as COINS, operates as the UK Government's central accounting system. COINS data details the spend of all government departments, and their major spending programmes. The 4.3 GB of COIN data included 3.2 million items for the financial year 2009/10, and was released using BitTo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 2010–11 daytime network television schedule for four of the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 2010 to August 2011. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, and any series canceled after the 2009–2010 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are stations affiliated with Fox (as the network does not air a daytime network schedule or network news), MyNetworkTV (as the programming service also does not offer daytime programs of any kind), and Ion Television (as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns).
Legend
New series are highlighted in bold.
Schedule
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday-Friday
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Murdoch | Steven James Murdoch is Professor of Security Engineering in the Computer Science Department, University College London. His research covers privacy-enhancing technology, Internet censorship, and anonymous communication, in particular Tor. He is also known for discovering several vulnerabilities in the EMV bank chipcard payment system (Chip and PIN) and for creating Tor Browser.
Education and career
Murdoch was educated at the University of Cambridge completing a PhD on computer security supervised by Markus Kuhn in 2008. In March 2022, he joined the board of Open Rights Group.
Awards and honours
He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He received the 2008 ERCIM Security and Trust Management Working Group Award for his PhD thesis "Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems".. In 2012 he was appointed as a Royal Society University Research Fellow.
References
Computer security specialists
Fellows of the British Computer Society
Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
Royal Society University Research Fellows
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheiradenia | Cheiradenia is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It contains only one known species, Cheiradenia cuspidata, native to northern South America (Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, northern Brazil).
See also
List of Orchidaceae genera
References
Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (1999). Genera Orchidacearum 1. Oxford Univ. Press.
Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (2001). Genera Orchidacearum 2. Oxford Univ. Press.
Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.A. & Rasmussen, F. eds. (2003). Genera Orchidacearum 3. Oxford Univ. Press
Berg Pana, H. 2005. Handbuch der Orchideen-Namen. Dictionary of Orchid Names. Dizionario dei nomi delle orchidee. Ulmer, Stuttgart
External links
Orchids of South America
Monotypic Epidendroideae genera
Zygopetalinae
Zygopetalinae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk%20Inventor | Autodesk Inventor is a computer-aided design application for 3D mechanical design, simulation, visualization, and documentation developed by Autodesk.
Features
Inventor allows 2D and 3D data integration in a single environment, creating a virtual representation of the final product that enables users to validate the form, fit, and function of the product before it is ever built. Autodesk Inventor includes parametric, direct edit and freeform modeling tools as well as multi-CAD translation capabilities and in their standard DWG drawings. Inventor uses ShapeManager, Autodesk's proprietary geometric modeling kernel. The software can be licensed as a subscription or through pre-paid Flex Tokens (daily use, consumption-based). Autodesk Inventor Professional is also a part of a collection license Autodesk Product Design & Manufacturing Collection. Autodesk Inventor competes directly with SolidWorks, Solid Edge, and Creo.
Editions
The latest Autodesk Inventor product line includes the following software titles:
Autodesk Inventor LT 2021 (discontinued)
Autodesk Inventor Professional 2024
Release dates and names
See also
Comparison of computer-aided design software
PTC Creo
Solid Edge
SolidWorks
References
External links
Autodesk Inventor official website
Autodesk Inventor Forums
Autodesk Inventor Blog
Autodesk Education Community
GrabCAD - Upload, Download, and View Inventor files
Autodesk products
Computer-aided design software for Windows
1999 software
3D printing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SinglePoint | SinglePoint is a piece of address management software from Aligned Assets. Its primary function is to act as a search engine that allows the user to search a central address database by entering search terms.
Product History
SinglePoint was originally designed and built for the British Transport Police (BTP) when they commissioned bespoke development work from Aligned Assets in 2007. They required a product that was capable of searching the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG), their names database and their internal gazetteer, and from this requirement was born SinglePoint.
The original BTP design was then productised and made available to other market sectors including local government, other emergency services and the commercial sector.
How it works
SinglePoint works by loading the chosen data into its schema, which it then indexes in a method similar to internet search engines. This process is repeated for each database, which are loaded into separate schemas allowing for their separate, as well as simultaneous searching.
It can be accessed via a web browser or can utilise web services when embedded into other applications.
Use in the Emergency Services
SinglePoint forms the main component in Symphony Bluelight Search, which is Aligned Assets’ address search engine for the emergency services. Because there continues to be no definitive choice of address data amongst the UK’s emergency services with some using the NLPG and others the products from the Ordnance Survey, SinglePoint has been adapted to allow for the searching of both. This adapter technology is what allows it to search multiple data sources and makes it customisable to the users requirements.
Current Uses
SinglePoint is now a well-established product in the field of address management and competes directly with products such as Experian’s QAS Pro. Examples of its use include as part of the NEAT box office ticketing system at Worthing Borough Council and the UK-wide Planning Portal
See also
Aligned Assets
References
External links
Aligned Assets Homepage
SinglePoint page
Search engine software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch%20dynamics%20%28physics%29 | Patch dynamics is a term used in physics to bridge, using algorithms, the models describing macroscale behavior and to predict large-scale patterns in fluid flow. It uses locally averaged properties of short space-time scales to advance and predict long space-time scale dynamics.
In patch dynamics and finite difference approximations, the macroscale variables are defined at the grid points of a mesh chosen to resolve the solution. The standard PDE adaptive grid methods can be used to resolve gradients in the macroscale solution. Both patch dynamics and finite difference methods generate time derivatives at mesh points; these time derivatives then help advance the solution in time.
See also
Dynamical system#Rectification
References
Fluid dynamics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20A.%20Porter%20Collegiate%20Institute | W. A. Porter Collegiate Institute, officially known as the Scarborough Academy of Technological, Environmental and Computer Studies @ W. A. Porter Collegiate Institute (SATEC, SATEC @ W. A. Porter C.I., WAPCI, W. A. Porter or Porter) is a secondary school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is located in the Clairlea neighbourhood of the former suburb of Scarborough. The school provides grades 9-12 as part of the Toronto District School Board, formerly part of the Scarborough Board of Education.
Founded in 1958, the school program combines academics with in-depth applications of technology, computer and environmental studies. SATEC is an enriched science, technology, engineering and mathematics focused school. It is consistently ranked #1 in Toronto for Technological Studies, and within the top three for Math and Science. Porter's motto is Vincit qui se Vincit which means "He conquers who conquers himself".
History
Located on 14.9 acres of land, W. A. Porter Collegiate Institute had its cornerstone laid and constructed in 1957 and opened for classes on September 9, 1958 to serve the south-west area of Scarborough as the city's fifth collegiate. The building was designed by the Toronto-based architectural firm Carter, Coleman and Rankin Associates.
The school's namesake, William Arnot Porter (1893-1956) began teaching in 1922 at Scarborough High School as a science teacher, specializing in the science of agriculture. He became the school's principal in 1954, and continued his lifelong work until his death in 1956. The school's founding principal was J. Ross Stevenson who served a year at Porter until he was transferred to the new David and Mary Thomson Collegiate Institute in 1959.
By 1961, the swimming pool was added. Additions were made in subsequent years.
With enrolment numbers dwindling, the SBE considered closing either Porter or Midland Avenue Collegiate Institute. However, instead, it was decided that at the start of the 1997–98 school year, W. A. Porter Collegiate was designated as the Scarborough Academy of Technological, Environmental and Computer Studies by the SBE, although the original name continues to exist. As of the 2000–01 academic year, Porter's attendance area was expanded after Midland closed that June. Since then, Porter's enrolment has rapidly increased.
The school celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008, coinciding with the PEO Engineering Education Conference of the same year.
In 2010, Porter C.I. became a certified, platinum Eco-School of the TDSB.
Porter has a range of specialized programs like MST (Math and Science Technology), Cisco, High Skills Major, and many more.
It celebrated its 60th anniversary in 2018.
Porter's feeder schools are Clairlea Public School, Danforth Gardens Public School, General Brock Public School and Regent Heights Public School
Overview
Admissions to SATEC @ Porter Collegiate are competitive and based on three factors: the entrance test, which is held each December, the student's Ontari |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuspidata | Cuspidata is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Tortricinae of the family Tortricidae.
Species
Cuspidata anthracitis Diakonoff, 1960
Cuspidata bidens Diakonoff, 1960
Cuspidata castanea Diakonoff, 1960
Cuspidata ditoma Diakonoff, 1960
Cuspidata hypomelas Diakonoff, 1960
Cuspidata leptozona Diakonoff, 1960
Cuspidata micaria Diakonoff, 1973
Cuspidata obscura Diakonoff, 1970
Cuspidata oligosperma Diakonoff, 1960
Cuspidata viettei Diakonoff, 1960
See also
List of Tortricidae genera
References
External links
tortricidae.com
Archipini
Moth genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitepages%20%28company%29 | Whitepages is a provider of online directory services, fraud screening, background checks and identity verification for consumers and businesses. It has the largest database available of contact information on US residents.
Whitepages was founded in 1997 as a hobby for then-Stanford student Alex Algard. It was incorporated in 2000 and received $45 million in funding in 2005. Investors were later bought-out by Algard in 2013. From 2008 to 2013, Whitepages released several mobile apps, a re-design in 2009, the ability for consumers to control their contact information, and other features. From 2010 to 2016, the company shifted away from advertising revenue and began focusing more on selling business services and subscription products.
History
The idea for Whitepages was conceived by Alex Algard, while studying at Stanford in 1996. Algard was searching for a friend's contact information and the phone company gave him the wrong number. He thought of an online email directory as an easier way to find people. Algard bought the Whitepages.com domain for $900, which he says was all of his savings at the time. He continued operating the website as a hobby while working as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs. He expanded the database of contact information using data licensed from American Business Information (now a part of Infogroup). Eventually WhitePages was producing more ad-revenue than Algard was earning at Goldman Sachs. In 1998, Algard left his job to focus on the website; he incorporated Whitepages in 2000.
The site grew and attracted more advertisers. The company brokered deals with Yellowpages and Superpages, whereby Whitepages earned revenue for sending them referral traffic. By 2005, $15 million in annual revenues was coming from these contracts. In 2003, Algard stepped down as CEO to focus on CarDomain.com, which he had also founded and Max Bardon took his place as CEO temporarily. In 2005, Technology Crossover Ventures and Providence Equity Partners invested $45 million in the company. That same year, MSN adopted Whitepages' directory data for its "Look it up" feature. Algard returned to the company in 2007. By the end of that year, the Whitepages database had grown to 180 million records and the company was listed as one of Deloitte's 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America three times. By 2008 the company had $66 million in annual revenues.
In 2008, Whitepages said it would start working on options for users to control their information on the site. That same year, it acquired VoIP developer Snapvine in order to add features where users could be called through the website without giving out their phone number. It also introduced an api, which gave third-party developers access to Whitepages' data. Whitepages released an iOS app that August, followed by the Whitepages Caller ID app for Android devices in February 2009 and for Blackberry that May.
The app displayed information on callers, such as their latest soc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juli%C3%A1n%20Bonequi | Julián Bonequi (born December 27, 1974) is a Mexican artist working mostly with Noise and Improvisation and 3d computer graphics. He plays the drums, and experiments with electronics and voice to create a rhythmic environment much richer in atmospheres and harmonic flow situations. He played in the FOCO Orchestra (Orquesta FOCO – Madrid) (2006–2011), and create with Dave Tucker and Ricardo Tejero the project Machinations of Joy
Julian Bonequi established himself in Barcelona within the Spanish improvisation free jazz music scene since 2004, but has since also performed with a wide range of musicians working in diverse musical areas since he lived in Mexico. He has performed as guest with the London Improvisers Orchestra as electronic voice, attracted by the roots of free improvisation
From 1995 to 2000 he participated in several projects of folklore, Rock in Opposition and psychedelia in Mexico City.
Biography
Early life
Since 1995 he played in a lot of punk, psychedelia, stone rock and progressive rock projects, but always trying to give 100% importance to the freedom that improvisation gives to music.
He played with Humus (band) that was founded in 1987 by Jorge Beltrán (guitar, keyboards) and Victor Basurto the full-fledged bassist. Both of them, are formers musician of many other important Mexican bands, as Frolic Froth, Smoking The Century Away, Euphoric Darkness, Loch Ness and Semefo. Since 1997 Westminster became more or less the permanent drummer of Humus, who was preceded by Julian Bonequi (1998–2000) when Jorge Beltrán invited Bonequi to make important contributions to different albums (not yet released).
In 1999 he met Decibel. Decibel were a rare exception to the prog acts of the 1978 period in Mexico, and were well versed in European groups such as Faust, Magma, Gong, and the Italian prog masters Il Balletto di Bronzo. The lineup centered around keyboardist Carlos Robledo and the bassist Walter Schmidt. So he found finally a place for improve his skills and experiment more. With them Julian Bonequi perform in the First International Festival of Progressive Rock in Mexico City, with Magma and Gong also in the program.
And the next year, in March 2000 in a concert in the Museum Ex-Teresa Arte Actual in the historic centre of Mexico City, they celebrated the 25th anniversary and present the CD release named Fortuna Virilis, in addition to a retrospective with the work done since 1974. This concert is included in the three-disc box Fiat Lux, and it was the last time Decibel, this legendary Mexican band of Rock in Opposition play together without Javier Baviera, or Jaime Castaneda, but with Julian Bonequi on drums and Juan Carlos Ruiz on bassoon, former musician of Nazca, and leader of Culto Sin Nombre
The same year, in 2000, the Israeli Label, MIO Records produced a 3-disc box called Fiat Lux. The complete recordings. 1977 – 2000, which contains all the studio albums of Decibel, and plus live material and rarities of unedited mate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasha%20Centre | A Pasha Centre is a Digital villages Project (DVP) whose key functions are to provide a suite of services to the public via computers connected to the internet. The Pasha Centres are run by private entrepreneurs who have gone through the training program initiated by Kenya ICT Board. Prospective entrepreneurs who have undergone training are eligible to apply for a Pasha development loan from a revolving fund set up by the Kenya ICT Board.
Pasha is a Swahili word meaning "to inform". The Pasha Project's key role is to provide Kenyans in rural areas with access to information across the country.
Introduction
Most of the ICT facilities in Kenya have been in urban areas, this has resulted in glaring disparities between urban and rural areas in the distribution of ICT facilities. To redress the disparities, the Kenya ICT Board has embarked on a Digital Villages project (DVP) under the Kenya Transparency Communications Infrastructure Project, which will see a creation of networks of information facilities across the country. Digital villages are centres that provide a suite of services to the public via computers connected to the internet, digital cameras, printers, fax machines and other communication infrastructure. The digital village project (DVP) is an integral part of an innovative public-private partnership (PPP) for taking ICTs to the rural communities in Kenya. DVP seeks to harness the vast untapped potential of the rural sector by making ICTs more accessible and affordable to the wider population through the development and utilisation of ICT facilities in the rural areas.
The services to be provided by the Digital Villages will include government services; community-based services as well as a host of commercial services. Pasha is designed and facilitated by the Kenya ICT board in conjunction with key non-commercial partners.
Eligibility criteria
Eligible criteria to be a Pasha centre broadly will be:
The centre should be an existing community centre
Should be providing services to the community currently, this service need not necessarily be in ICT related service.
The vision or strategies of the centre should have synergy to the overall Pasha Project and Kenya ICT Board objectives and Vision.
Should have interest in becoming a Pasha Centre
Willingness to be a research centre for the Pasha project
Selection criteria
The Pasha centres are run by private entrepreneurs who obtain training in business and information technology from a certified training program. The training programs are run by the Kenya ICT Board. The provision of training programs in business and information technology from the certified programs will be supported by the DVP project. Prospective entrepreneurs who have obtained certification will be eligible to apply for a Pasha Development loan from a revolving fund set up by the Board.
Role of Pasha Centres
The Pasha Centres are designed to model a community-focused format that will be self-sufficient by using tec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suraj%20Singh%20Thakuri | Suraj Singh Thakuri () is a television presenter, actor, director and producer. He is currently a Chief Executive Producer in Kantipur Television Network. He is best known as the host of the longest running Nepali television talk show Call Kantipur which airs daily on Kantipur Television. After 10 years of running Call Kantipur, he handed the show over to younger talents like Suraj Giri, Akesha Bista and Riju Shrestha. He has directed several music videos, also appearing in some.
Education
Suraj attended Adarsha Vidya Mandir, Lalitpur, Nepal and completed college at Xavier Academy science college (NEF). He has a master's degree in Environmental Science. He is a sports enthusiast and has played cricket at national levels.
Personal life
He is married to Reshma Amatya back in 2007. Giving an interview to wave magazine, he said "...I had feelings for her since childhood and always believed that she is the one for me." They have a daughter, Sanbriti.
He resides in Baneshwor.
Professional career
Call Kantipur was the first show that made him recognized. He launched his show with a co-host, Prasidika, who was later replaced by Miss Nepal Preity Sitoula. She was then replaced by another Miss Nepal, Malvika Subba. He then shared the show with VJ/RJ Manavi Dhakal. He has always considered Bhusan Dahal as his role model.
Along with Call Kantipur, he has several other shows aired on KTV. He has produced shows like KTV Tiffin Box, Arrival, Kantipur Aja, Ghum Gham, Ghum Gham with Bhushan Dahal, KTV countdown, KTV Cook Book, and Pariwartan and has also directed a number of music videos.
He left Call Kantipur and started another show Pariwartan on the same channel at Kantipur Television. It is an interview based social show that discusses problems in society and their solutions. Unlike talk shows that deal with political issues this talk show delves deep into social issues.
He is currently hosting the fourth season of It's My Show with Suraj Singh Thakuri in Kantipur Television which is broadcast every Saturday at 9:00 PM NST.
References
Living people
Nepalese television directors
1979 births
Nepalese television presenters
Actors from Kathmandu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BridgeHead%20Software | BridgeHead Software is a group of computer software and services companies mainly serving the healthcare sector. The parent company BridgeHead Software Limited is unquoted and registered in London, England. The group is headquartered in Leatherhead, Surrey in the UK.
The group operates in North America through a wholly owned subsidiary BridgeHead Software Inc based in Woburn, MA. It also wholly owns BridgeHead Systems Ltd, a UK-registered company which holds title to its proprietary software.
Products
The company sells backup and archival software which is mainly used in North American hospitals as an adjunct to the MEDITECH healthcare information system (which is not supplied with an integral backup or archiving capability). However, BridgeHead products are also used in other sectors including the military, government and utilities, and there is some use of BridgeHead software outside North America, notably in the UK where the company was founded.
During the COVID-19 pandemic BridgeHead supplied the UK National Health Service with mobile clinical testing software.
History
BridgeHead Software was founded in 1994 by Charles "Tony" Cotterill, its current Chief Product Officer. The name BridgeHead derives from his intention to provide a bridgehead, or beachhead, for US companies wishing to expand into Europe. BridgeHead started selling proprietary software when it acquired a team of software developers from the now defunct Multistream Systems Ltd in 1999.
Ownership
The company is an unquoted limited company. The majority of its shares are held by its employees, however its audited accounts indicate the founder and his family are the overall controlling entity.
Management
Jim Beagle - President & Chief Executive Officer
Tony Cotterill - Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors
Michael Ball - Chief Business Development Officer
Simon Peters - VP Finance & Administration
Crispin Jewitt - VP Products & Engineering
Steve Matheson - VP of North American Sales
Kenneth Wilson - VP Global Services and Support
Gareth Griffiths - Executive Director
Source:
References
Companies based in Surrey
Software companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20involvement%20network | Local involvement networks (LINks) were launched by England's National Health Service in April 2008 following the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007. They replaced the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (CPPIH) and patient and public involvement forums and existed in every local authority area with a responsibility for NHS health care and social services.
There were 151 LINks and the Government committed £84 million in funding to them until March 2011. They were abolished at the end of March 2013.
About LINks
LINks were supposed to ask people what they like and dislike about NHS care services and adult social care services and seek ideas from the public to help improve services. They explored specific issues of concern to the community by collecting feedback from local people. LINks could tell those who commission, provide and manage local services what the community thinks and work with commissioners and providers to improve, amend, reconfigure and supplement services. They also had the power to carry out visits to services to see them at work. They sometimes facilitated consultation on new or revised commissioning and provision of services.
LINks had the power to ask health and care commissioners for information about their services and expect a response within 20 days. They issued reports and made recommendations about services with the expectation of a response from commissioners. The power to enter certain services and view the care provided was called Enter & View. LINk members had to undergo training in order to carry out this power. LINks could also refer health & social care matters to the local council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee if local service providers did not provide a satisfactory response.
There was no set structure for a LINk. Funding came from local councils, who were given money by the Department of Health to finance them. Each LINk was hosted by a "host organisation" of paid staff to set up and support the LINk. The host was accountable to the LINk. LINks were independent of the Government. An example of a host organisation is Voluntary Norfolk, the lead partner of a consortium selected as the host for Norfolk LINk.
Anyone wanting to have their say on how health and social care services are delivered in their area could become a member of a LINk. The principle was that "everyone's views matter", including individuals, such as carers, service users, community leaders, patient representatives, health and social care professionals (as long as any conflict of interest are appropriately handled or managed), organisations.
Certain bodies could not be part of a LINk, these include National Health Service trusts, NHS foundation trusts, NHS primary care trusts and strategic health authorities.
LINks were intended to give people a range of ways to get involved, whether this just taking a few minutes to answer a survey or taking more time to train as a representative who vi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillandsia%20denudata | Tillandsia denudata is a species of flowering plant in the Bromeliaceae family. It is native to Bolivia, Venezuela and Ecuador.
References
denudata
Flora of Bolivia
Flora of Venezuela
Flora of Ecuador
Taxa named by Édouard André |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20Essential%20Emergency%20Communications%20Network | The Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN) is a network of systems providing uninterrupted communications throughout the pre-, trans-, and post-nuclear warfare environment. At minimum, MEECN is designed to provide a one-way flow of information to activate nuclear forces during severe jamming and a post-nuclear environment.
Components
As of 1994, MEECN consists of various programs: Miniature Receive Terminals (MRTs) for nuclear bombers, High Power Transmit Sets (HPTS) for E-4B aircraft, Dual Frequency MEECN receivers (DFMRs) for ICBM Launch Control Centers.
Ground Element MEECN System (GEMS)
The GEMS program, short for Ground Element Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network, is intended to replace deprecated communications facilities. This system features improved infrastructure for alerting aircrew, and maintaining communications in the event of nuclear conflict. Notable elements include updated Extremely High Frequency (EHF) communications satellites, and redundant Very Low Frequency (VLF) communication paths for strategic message traffic. The changes will resolve problems associated with aging or ineffective devices such as pagers, klaxons, and Emergency Action Message (EAM) processing systems.
Minuteman MEECN Program (MMP)
The Minuteman MEECN Program (MMP) replaced the aging Survivable Low Frequency Communications System (SLFCS) Launch Control Centers (LCCs) with an Extremely High Frequency (EHF) and Very Low Frequency/Low Frequency (VLF/LF) communications equipment.
MMP consists of EHF Milstar and VLF/LF communications equipment.
The 91st Missile Wing's Oscar-01 at Minot AFB, North Dakota was the last Minuteman Launch Control Center to have updated to the MMP configuration.
See also
Post-Attack Command and Control System (PACCS)
Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS)
Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN)
Survivable Low Frequency Communications System (SLFCS)
References
Nuclear warfare
Telecommunications equipment of the Cold War
United States nuclear command and control |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition%20Network%20Technology | Cognition Network Technology (CNT), also known as Definiens Cognition Network Technology, is an object-based image analysis method developed by Nobel laureate Gerd Binnig together with a team of researchers at Definiens AG in Munich, Germany. It serves for extracting information from images using a hierarchy of image objects (groups of pixels), as opposed to traditional pixel processing methods.
To emulate the human mind's cognitive powers, Definiens used patented image segmentation and classification processes, and developed a method to render knowledge in a semantic network. CNT examines pixels not in isolation, but in context. It builds up a picture iteratively, recognizing groups of pixels as objects. It uses the color, shape, texture and size of objects as well as their context and relationships to draw conclusions and inferences, similar to human analysis.
History
In 1994 Professor Gerd Binnig founded Definiens. CNT was first available with the launch of the eCognition software in May 2000. In June 2010, Trimble Navigation Ltd (NASDAQ: TRMB) acquired Definiens business asset in earth sciences markets, including eCognition software, and also licensed Definiens' patented CNT. In 2014, Definiens was acquired by MedImmune, the global biologics research and development arm of AstraZeneca, for an initial consideration of $150 million.
Software
Definiens Tissue Studio
Definiens Tissue Studio is a digital pathology image analysis software application based on CNT.
The intended use of Definiens Tissue Studio is for biomarker translational research in formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue samples which have been treated with immunohistochemical staining assays, or hematoxylin and eosin (H&E).
The central concept behind Definiens Tissue Studio is a user interface that facilitates machine learning from example digital histopathology images in order to derive an image analysis solution suitable for the measurement of biomarkers and/or histological features within pre-defined regions of interest on a cell-by-cell basis, and within sub-cellular compartments. The derived image analysis solution is then automatically applied to subsequent digital images in order to objectively measure defined sets of multiparametric image features. These data sets are used for further understanding the underlying biological processes that drive cancer and other diseases. Image processing and data analysis are performed either on a local desktop computer workstation, or on a server grid.
eCognition
The eCognition suite offers three components which can be used stand-alone or in combination to solve image analysis tasks. eCognition Developer is a development environment for object-based image analysis. It is used in earth sciences to develop rule sets (or applications) for the analysis of remote sensing data. eCognition Architect enables non-technical users to configure, calibrate and execute image analysis workflows created in eCognition Developer. eCognition Server |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaru%20Kitsuregawa | is a Japanese computer scientist. Currently he is a professor at the University of Tokyo.
Biography
Education
1978: Graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Tokyo
1983: Received the degree of Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science, University of Tokyo
Work
1983: Lecturer at the University of Tokyo
1984: Associate professor
Awards and honours
2009: SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award
2013: Medal with Purple Ribbon
2015: C&C Prize
2020: IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award
References
External links
http://www.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Kilab/Members/memo/kitsure_j.html
Living people
1955 births
Japanese computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo
University of Tokyo alumni
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Recipients of the Medal with Purple Ribbon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillandsia%20pyramidata | Tillandsia pyramidata is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae. It is native to Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador. Two varieties are recognized:
Tillandsia pyramidata var. pyramidata – Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
Tillandsia pyramidata var. vivipara Rauh – Ecuador and Junín Province of Peru
References
pyramidata
Flora of Southern America
Epiphytes
Plants described in 1889
Taxa named by Édouard André |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoofing%20%28anti-piracy%20measure%29 | Spoofing, or decoying, is the practice of inundating online networks with bogus or incomplete files of the same name in an effort to reduce copyright infringement on file sharing networks. Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), calls spoofing "an appropriate response to the problem of peer-to-peer piracy," and "a self-help measure that is completely lawful."
See also
Torrent poisoning
References
Copyright infringement
Deception |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Tibet%20Network | The International Tibet Network, established in 2000, is a global coalition of Tibet-related non-governmental organisations campaigning to end the China's occupation and human rights violations in Tibet, and restore rights to the Tibetan people. Its purpose is to maximise the effectiveness of the worldwide Tibetan Freedom Movement. The Network works to increase the capacity of individual member organisations, develops coordinated strategic campaigns, and encourages increased cooperation among organisations.
Tibet Network members are committed to non-violence as a fundamental principle of the Tibetan struggle. They regard Tibet as an occupied country and recognise the Tibetan Government in Exile as the sole legitimate government of the Tibetan people. Beyond these principles, the International Tibet Network respects the variety of views and opinions of its member organisations, for example concerning Tibet's future political status, and believes that diversity strengthens the movement.
History
Established in 2000, International Tibet Network has demanded the release of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 14th Dalai Lama's choice for 11th Panchen Lama, calling him "the youngest political prisoner".
In 2004, just hours before organizers of the 2008 Beijing Games were to receive the Olympic flag, at the closing ceremony at 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, six International Tibet Network activists unfurled a black flag with five bullet holes replacing the Olympic rings, and began marching toward the main stadium, before being seized by the police.
In 2008, International Tibet Network demonstrated outside the International Olympic Committee headquarters, demanding the exclusion of Tibetan areas from the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay, and demanded that the IOC make a statement about the 2008 Tibetan unrest.
Functions
Coordination
The International Tibet Network believes that the global Tibet campaign movement is most effective when its members work together in a coordinated way. To this end, the Network's Secretariat arranges regular Regional Meetings for its member organisations in order for groups to skill-share and engage in detailed strategic planning.
The Network has Regional Coordinators in Asia and in Latin America. They are responsible for building the regional network and assisting Members in finding appropriate regional strategies for implementing global campaigns. They provide support and advice, especially to newly formed groups.
Campaigns
The current priority for the Tibet movement is to "Put Tibetans in Tibet First" and highlight their continued resistance to China's rule. This resistance takes many forms; from self-immolations to mass public protests – such as the Uprisings in 2008, which resulted in a huge increase in the numbers of political prisoners, to more subtle "cultural resistance", which emphasizes and celebrates the Tibetan national identity in music, writings and poetry.
The International Tibet Network develops coordinated c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.%20ferruginea | O. ferruginea may refer to:
Olea ferruginea, a synonym for Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata, a tree species
Orthemis ferruginea, the roseate skimmer, a dragonfly species
Oxyura ferruginea, the ruddy duck, a bird species
See also
Ferruginea (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastPort | The FastPort was a proprietary polyconnection interface used on all Sony Ericsson cellphones between 2005 and 2010. Designed in response to Nokia's proprietary Pop-Port, FastPort provided data transfer, charging, headset and speaker connections through a common interface. It was discontinued in 2010 and replaced with a micro-USB for charging and data, and a TRRS connection for audio (headphones).
Functions
Transfer of data and files
A USB FastPort-cable enables file and data transfer between a computer and a Sony Ericsson cellphone. Most models could act as a USB-storage-device, modem, phone and could load new firmware either with Sony Ericsson Update Service application, or with 3rd party software. FastPort was the interface to the PC to realize these functions.
Charging the battery/powering the phone
The port can charge the battery and power the phone while it is connected to, for example, a hands-free solution in a car. The FastPort became the only way to get external power to the phones. Chargers comes in several varieties, from 12/24 volt DC to use in cars, to 100-250 volt AC to use elsewhere. Some charger-models can only charge the phone (the cable is attached at the middle), in others all the connector pins through to the plug end, thus supporting data/signal transfer while the phone is being charged.
Sound accessories and headsets
The port also connects wired headsets or speakers, etc.
Location
Originally, the FastPort was placed on the bottom edge of the phone (when viewed from the front), for a while on the top edge, and finally on the left edge. These changes caused some accessories to become unusable, such as holders with charging options and docks.
Layout
The connector has 12 pins for electrical connections (both power and data), 2 double-sided "hooks" on the plug and matching holes in the phones connector for keeping the plug safely in place. One hook contains a small polarity key to prevent the connector being inserted upside down. The dimension of the connector on the phone is approximately . To help users identify the type of cable and see how to correctly insert the plug, a small symbol is placed on the side intended to be towards the front of the phone. Powerplugs display a small lightning bolt, headsets and hands-free-plugs show an old-fashioned headset, data-cables present a computer screen and music accessories reveal a note-sign.
External links
Sony Ericsson FastPort pinout and interfacing
Electrical connectors
Sony Mobile
Mobile phones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Indestructibles%20%282006%20TV%20series%29 | The Indestructibles is a 2006 British Documentary series made for the BBC.
The show involves four characters, Doc Damage, Data Girl and the Petri Twins, who experiment on themselves to uncover the secrets of the human body.
Presenters
Doc Damage
Played by Jonathan Goodwin
The main character of the show who usually performs the stunts.
He puts his life on the line to figure out how the stunts work and tries to push his body to the limit.
Data Girl
Played by Victoria Kruger
A researcher who finds people who have done or been involved in body stunts and impressive shows of strength. Where possible, the stunt artists will be invited to demonstrate the feat. In other episodes, experts are brought in to describe and explain historical stunts.
The Petri Twins
Played by Jamie Hull & Richard Hull
A set of identical twin brothers who compete against each other in various challenges in which the brothers will attempt different approaches to the same task in an attempt to take advantage of their identical genetic composition. Often the challenges are related to the production of bodily fluids, including saliva and semen, or physically harming one another. The winner of each challenge is either given a reward or spared an undesirable forfeit.
The twins are identified by the colour of their shirt.
References
External links
2006 British television series debuts
2006 British television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AForge.NET | AForge.NET is a computer vision and artificial intelligence library originally developed by Andrew Kirillov for the .NET Framework.
The source code and binaries of the project are available under the terms of the Lesser GPL and the GPL (GNU General Public License).
Another (unaffiliated) project called Accord.NET was created to extend the features of the original AForge.NET library.
Discontinuation of free public support and future development
On April 1, 2012, Andrew Kirillov announced the end of the public support for the library, temporarily closing the discussion forums. The last release of the AForge.NET Framework was made available on July 17, 2013. However, since its release 3.0 in 2015, the Accord.NET project started to incorporate most of the original AForge.NET source code in its codebase, continuing its support and development under the Accord.NET name.
Features
The framework's API includes support for:
Computer vision, image processing and video processing
Including a comprehensive image filter library
Artificial Neural networks library implements some common network architectures (multi-layer feed forward and distance networks) and learning algorithms (back propagation, delta rule, simple perceptron, evolutionary learning).
Genetic algorithms, genetic programming and gene expression programming
Fuzzy logic
Machine learning
and libraries for a select set of robotics kits
Lego Mindstorms NXT and RCX kits
The framework is provided not only with different libraries and their sources, but with many sample applications, which demonstrate the use of this framework, and with documentation help files, which are provided in HTML Help format. A number of software applications and research works utilized the framework.
See also
List of free and open source software packages
List of numerical libraries for .NET framework
Accord.NET - Computer vision and artificial intelligence library that extends AForge.NET.
OpenCV - A popular C++ computer vision library.
VXL - Another C++ computer vision library.
CVIPtools - A complete GUI based computer vision and image processing software environment.
OpenNN - An open source C++ neural networks library.
References
External links
.NET software
Computer vision software
Applications of artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPC%20Challenge%20Benchmark | HPC Challenge Benchmark combines several benchmarks to test a number of independent attributes of the performance of high-performance computer (HPC) systems. The project has been co-sponsored by the DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems program, the United States Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation.
Context
The performance of complex applications on HPC systems can depend on a variety of independent performance attributes of the hardware. The HPC Challenge Benchmark is an effort to improve visibility into this multidimensional space by combining the measurement of several of these attributes into a single program.
Although the performance attributes of interest are not specific to any particular computer architecture, the reference implementation of the HPC Challenge Benchmark in C and MPI assumes that the system under test is a cluster of shared memory multiprocessor systems connected by a network. Due to this assumption of a hierarchical system structure most of the tests are run in several different modes of operation. Following the notation used by the benchmark reports, results labeled "single" mean that the test was run on one randomly chosen processor in the system, results labeled "star" mean that an independent copy of the test was run concurrently on each processor in the system, and results labeled "global" mean that all the processors were working in coordination to solve a single problem (with data distributed across the nodes of the system).
Components
The benchmark currently consists of 7 tests (with the modes of operation indicated for each):
HPL (High Performance LINPACK) – measures performance of a solver for a dense system of linear equations (global).
DGEMM – measures performance for matrix-matrix multiplication (single, star).
STREAM – measures sustained memory bandwidth to/from memory (single, star).
PTRANS – measures the rate at which the system can transpose a large array (global).
RandomAccess – measures the rate of 64-bit updates to randomly selected elements of a large table (single, star, global).
FFT – performs a Fast Fourier Transform on a large one-dimensional vector using the generalized Cooley–Tukey algorithm (single, star, global).
Communication Bandwidth and Latency – MPI-centric performance measurements based on the b_eff bandwidth/latency benchmark.
Performance attributes
At a high level, the tests are intended to provide coverage of four important attributes of performance: double-precision floating-point arithmetic (DGEMM and HPL), local memory bandwidth (STREAM), network bandwidth for "large" messages (PTRANS, RandomAccess, FFT, b_eff), and network bandwidth for "small" messages (RandomAccess, b_eff). Some of the codes are more complex than others and can have additional performance sensitivities. For example, in some systems HPL performance can be limited by network bandwidth and/or network latency.
Competition
The annual HPC Challenge Award Competition at the Sup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20Alert%20System | The Primary Alerting System (PAS), was a network of land-line connections used by the Strategic Air Command (SAC) for command and control of its nuclear forces. PAS provided immediate and simultaneous voice communications to all (SAC) unit command posts and missile launch control facilities.
PAS reached each Command Post by two geographically diversified circuits; one circuit, commonly called the "front-door" circuit tied the unit directly to Headquarters (SAC); the other, or "back-door" circuit provided a link to the parent Numbered Air Force.
See also
Post Attack Command and Control System (PACCS)
Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS)
Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN)
Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN)
Survivable Low Frequency Communications System (SLFCS)
References
Telecommunications equipment of the Cold War
United States nuclear command and control
Equipment of Strategic Air Command |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Case%20Unclosed%20episodes | Case Unclosed was an informative news and public affairs television show in the Philippines aired every Thursday evenings by GMA Network. The show was hosted by Arnold Clavio, who previously hosted Emergency. Kara David served as the first host until March 5, 2009, when she was replaced by Clavio to host OFW Diaries.
The episodes of this programs featured different cases that are currently unsolved. The dramatization was directed by different Filipino film directors.
List of episodes
Kara David
Arnold Clavio
Lists of Philippine television series episodes
Lists of documentary television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaetian%20Railway%20Ge%203/3 | The Rhaetian Railway Ge 3/3 is a class of metre gauge 11 kV 16.7 Hz AC electric shunting 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 3/3 denotes a narrow gauge electric adhesion locomotive with a total of three axles, all of which are drive axles. There are only two locomotives in the Ge 3/3 class, and they are numbered 214 and 215.
Delivered by Robert Aebi (Raco) and Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC), the Ge 3/3s feature some componentry — e.g., traction motor, compressor and vacuum pump — that are the same as the corresponding components in the second series locomotives of the Rhaetian Railway Ge 4/4 II class.
The orange liveried Ge 3/3 locomotives are used at major Rhaetian Railway stations: no 214 in Samedan and no 215 in Chur.
Gallery
See also
History of rail transport in Switzerland
Rail transport in Switzerland
References
Brown, Boveri & Cie locomotives
Co locomotives
Electric locomotives of Switzerland
11 kV AC locomotives
Rhaetian Railway locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1984
Metre gauge electric locomotives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roam%20%28disambiguation%29 | "Roam" is the fourth single from The B-52's' 1989 hit album Cosmic Thing.
Roam may also refer to:
ROAM (real-time optimally adapting mesh), a computer graphics algorithm
ROAM (Réunion des Organismes d'Assurance Mutuelle) in France
Roam (public transit), the bus operator in Banff, Alberta, Canada
Roam (band), British pop punk band
Roam (musician), a Canadian musician
Roam Media, an online education brand purchased by Outside (company) in 2021
See also
Free roam (disambiguation)
Roamer (disambiguation)
Roaming (disambiguation)
Rome (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20passing%20%28disambiguation%29 | Message passing is a mechanism for inter-process communication.
Message passing may also refer to:
Belief propagation, or sum–product message passing, a message-passing algorithm for performing inference on graphical models
Variational message passing
Message passing in computer clusters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaetian%20Railway%20Ge%202/4 | The Rhaetian Railway Ge 2/4 was a class of metre gauge 1′B1′ electric locomotives formerly operated by the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), which is the main railway network in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Four members of the class are now preserved, with one of them in operational condition.
The class was so named under the Swiss locomotive and railcar classification system. According to that system, Ge 2/4 denotes a narrow gauge electric adhesion locomotive with a total of four axles, two of which are drive axles.
Technical details
As delivered
In 1912-1913, the Rhaetian Railway purchased seven examples of the Ge 2/4, numbered 201 to 207, for the newly constructed and electrified Engadin line. The long locomotives had a top speed of and a power output of . They also weighed . Their mechanical components were manufactured by the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM), while Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) furnished the electrical components. To drive the Ge 2/4s, repulsion motors were used, as these motors were characterised by a high torque and shock-free startup.
Rebuilds
Between 1943 and 1946, three Ge 2/4 machines were rebuilt as shunting locomotives, with a new single phase motor and a central driver's cab. In the vernacular, they then received the name Bügeleisen (flat iron). The rebuilt locomotives were given the numbers Gea 2/4 211, Ge 2/4 212 and 213, their service weight was reduced to , and their top speed increased to .
In 1945 and 1946, two further Ge 2/4s were rebuilt with a new single phase motor. These two machines, renumbered as Ge 2/4 221 and 222 were not outwardly altered, but their weight was reduced to only , their power output was increased to , and their top speed also increased to . They then soon began rendering service as pilot locomotives on the Albula Railway.
Preservation
The two unrebuilt locomotives, numbered 205 and 207, are both still in existence.
No. 205 stood until November 2007 as a memorial locomotive in front of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur. Originally, this locomotive was intended to be a part of the, then in the planning stage, Albula railway museum. The Rhaetian Railway's preservation society, Club 1889, is currently investigating other means of displaying the locomotive in the open air, but shielded from the weather, after completion of ongoing restoration work. Meanwhile, no. 207 can be seen on display at the Swiss Transport Museum in Lucerne.
The last remaining example of the first three rebuilt locomotives (Ge 2/4 212) was withdrawn from service as recently as 2006, and is also now preserved. It has been transformed back into its original 1940s condition, and sold to a private company that wants to set up the locomotive outside a planned model railway layout in Fribourg.
Ge 2/4 no. 222 from the second batch of rebuilds is the fourth preserved example of the class; it is based in Landquart as a heritage locomotive.
List of locomotives
See also
History |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaetian%20Railway%20Ge%204/6 | The Rhaetian Railway Ge 4/6 was an eight member class of metre gauge 1′D1′ electric locomotives formerly operated by the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), which is the main railway network in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.
The class was so named under the Swiss locomotive and railcar classification system. According to that system, Ge 4/6 denotes a narrow gauge electric adhesion locomotive with a total of six axles, four of which are drive axles.
Two members of the class are now preserved, one of them in operational condition.
History
For the opening of the Samedan to Scuol railway line in 1913, the Rhaetian Railway needed a class of powerful electric locomotives. As the AC electric power supply technology installed along that line was still in its infancy, several manufacturers of electrical equipment were commissioned to build prototype electrical systems, to help develop an optimum locomotive. The mechanical components of all the locomotives fitted with these systems were fabricated by the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM).
The first Ge 4/6 locomotive, no. 351, arrived in Graubünden in December 1912, with electrical equipment manufactured by Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon (MFO). It was thus the first electric locomotive acquired by the Rhaetian Railway. An identical sister locomotive, numbered 352, followed in February 1913. Later that year, a third Ge 4/6, numbered 391 and manufactured by SLM and AEG, joined the fleet. The last Ge 4/6 to be manufactured for the time being was no. 301, which was built by Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC), and entered service in June 1913.
Several years later, in 1918, the Rhaetian Railway acquired another Ge 4/6, no. 302. That locomotive had been constructed by BBC in 1914 on its own account, as an exhibition piece. In the meantime, trial runs had shown that the MFO electrical equipment was the best suited to the needs of the Rhaetian Railway. A sub-series of a further three locomotives had therefore been ordered with slightly increased power ratings. They had been numbered 353 to 355, and had joined the fleet in 1914.
Service and withdrawal
Further acquisitions of locomotives were made impossible by the onset of World War I, and therefore no more Ge 4/6s were built. Only in 1921 did any additional locomotives arrive at the Rhaetian Railway, in the form of the more powerful Ge 6/6 I class. From then onwards, the Ge 4/6s were used in light and medium duty passenger and goods traffic over the whole of the Rhaetian Railway's core network.
The first member of the Ge 4/6 class to be retired from service was no. 301, which was withdrawn in 1966 to be used as a donor of spare parts. No 301 was scrapped in 1971, and no. 302 followed five years later. The delivery of the first Ge 4/4 II in 1973 meant the end for nos. 351 and 352. Nos. 354 and 355 followed them to the scrap yard in 1982 and 1984 respectively, while no. 353 was retained as a preserved locomotive. Meanwhile, the AEG locomotive, no. 391, ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20Touch2 | The HTC Touch2 (also known as the HTC T3333 and HTC Mega), is a mobile telephone running the Windows Mobile operating system. The phone was designed and manufactured by HTC, and was released in Europe in November 2009. It is a middle budget smart phone featuring Windows Mobile 6.5 and Touch Flo 2D.
Specifications
Screen size:
Screen resolution: 240 x 320, QVGA, backlit TFT LCD
Input devices: Resistive touchscreen, front panel buttons
Battery: 1100 mAh
Talk time: 440 minutes (GSM) to 370 minutes (WCDMA)
Standby time: 370 hours (GSM) to 500 hours (WCDMA)
3.2-megapixel rear-facing camera
GPS and A-GPS
520 MHz Qualcomm MSM7225 processor
RAM: 256 MB
ROM: 512 MB
TouchFLO 2D
Browser: Opera Mobile and Internet Explorer
3G: Up to 7.2 Mbit/s download speed, up to 384 kbit/s upload speed
microSD slot (SDHC compatible) up to 32 GB
Operating system: Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional
Quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE (GSM 850, GSM 900, GSM 1800, GSM 1900)
Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) (Including WiFi router)
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR & A2DP
Mini USB
3.5 mm audio jack, microphone, speaker
FM radio
Size: (h) (w) (d)
Weight: with battery
External links
HTC Touch2 product page (Europe)
Touch2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV%20MAX | AV MAX is a special-interest audiophile magazine owned by Network18 Publishing, which is in turn a Network18 division. Based in Mumbai, the magazine is distributed across India and certain South-East Asian cities. Since June 2008, the Editor of the magazine is Swapnil Raje.
Established in December 1999, the magazine focuses on reviewing high-end audio-video equipment like amplifiers, stereos, floor-standing speakers and related news. The magazine also publishes content on music reviews, Blu-ray/DVD reviews and music events and profiles. The magazine caters to audiophiles or AV enthusiasts and the B2B communities alike.
The magazine is an independent, self-styled content that has with its in-depth product reviews, have won a strong readership across the country. The magazine has a panel of in-house engineering experts and also collaborates with experts from select streams of the market. Also, equipped with a state-of-the-art AV studio in the office, the magazine provides the reader with detailed unbiased reviews, sharp product shots and fresh insights into the market.
In October 2010, the magazine was redesigned and restructured. In January 2013, in-line with the redesign, the price of the magazine has gone up from Rs 75 to Rs 100 that reflects AV MAX’s interest in giving more to the reader. Stated Sandeep Khosla, CEO, Infomedia18, about the redesign, "The new cover design is a lot more open, without borders and the new AV Max logo is taller and leaner, because of which it can be noticed in a crowd of magazines; the cover, too, has a premium look. The new cover design also allows us to showcase more stories on the cover, informing the reader that there is a whole lot to be read in the magazine."
Recently, 'AV MAX' completed 13 years and came out with a special "Anniversary Special" issue in January 2013.
History
The previous editor of AV MAX was Nishant Padhiar went on to become the editor of the men's gadget magazine, T3. He left Infomedia18 in 2008 to become the editor of UK based magazine called What Hi-Fi (India) and Stuff, owned by the Haymarket Media Group, UK.
AV MAX Expo
AV MAX also initiated an Audio-Video (AV) Expo dedicated showcasing event for Audiophiles and Home-Entertainment/Hi-Fi enthusiasts. In the expo, leading players like Bose, Bowers & Wilkins, Onkyo, Denon, Thiel, Definitive Technology, Yamaha and more than 200 brands display their wide array of latest products. They are the first ones to introduce the concept of ‘demo rooms’ in AV MAX Expo wherein the consumer gets to touch, feel and experience these products.
Initiated in January 2002, so far AV MAX has conducted nine successful AV Expos in India with the latest one – AV MAX EXPO 2013 – soon to be held at Delhi during 8–10 March 2013.
The first of its kind AV MAX Expo was held at Taj Lands End on 18 January 2002 and witnessed a strong crowd of 40,000. Second AV MAX Expo was successfully held at Le Meridien, Bangalore during 20–22 June 2003. Some of the famous bran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyro%20rate%20unit | Gyro rate unit refers to a fire-control computer developed by the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom in 1937, and which was used extensively on British warships in World War II. In the 1930s the Royal Navy began to investigate the possibility of combining gyroscopes with optical sights to directly and accurately measure target aircraft speed and direction and began development of the GRU in 1937. A gyroscope was attached, via mechanical linkage, to an optical monocular sight to form the gyro rate unit or GRU.
Gyroscopes, when spinning, keep their spin axes pointed in a given direction if they are undisturbed. The basic premise of the GRU was that as the cross-hairs of the optical sight were kept centred on the moving target aircraft, the mechanical linkage would pull the gyroscope in the direction of the aircraft movement. The force required to move the gyroscope is proportional to the observed target movement across the line of sight. This force was measured by the deflection of a spring-loaded device and the deflection measurement was combined with rangefinder, and/or, radar measured target range and altitude in a specialized computer, the gyro rate unit box (GRUB).
History
The Royal Navy, after World War I, became increasingly concerned with the threat posed by aerial attack. In 1930 the RN began equipping ships with the High Angle Control System, a non-tachymetric anti-aircraft fire control system, that would compute the gun laying orders and the time fuze setting of the anti-aircraft guns, to hit the target. The HACS marks I through IV depended upon the control officer inputting to the computer an estimated aircraft direction, and speed, which was combined with range and height measurement from an optical coincidence rangefinder to permit the computer to form a solution. The control officer would estimate target speed based upon aircraft type, while target direction could only be crudely measured by aligning the graticule of his binoculars with the aircraft fuselage. Unfortunately, these estimates of target speed and direction were often in error, and it took time for the HACS to correct these estimates through a feedback loop from the director to the computer, thus delaying the generation of a correct fire control solution and reducing the accuracy of the resulting gunfire. In the 1930s the Royal Navy began to investigate the possibility of combining gyroscopes with optical sights to directly and accurately measure target aircraft speed and direction and began development of the GRU in 1937.
[[File:The Royal Navy during the Second World War A3651.jpg|360px|thumbnail|left|Pom-pom directors, Mk IV on HMS King George V. The large rectangular box centered above the director contains the Gyro Rate Unit. This image was taken early in King George V'''s career as the directors do not yet have Type 282 radar.]]
The gyro rate unit box
The gyro rate unit box'' used the measured target motion, range and height, to accurately determine the true direc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy%20Meets%20Curl | "Boy Meets Curl" is the twelfth episode of the twenty-first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 14, 2010. In this episode, Homer and Marge Simpson form a mixed curling team with Agnes and Seymour Skinner, which is chosen to play in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Meanwhile, Lisa begins collecting pins shaped like Olympic mascots, but her obsession soon turns to desperation.
With the Winter Olympics being held in Canada, the writers wanted an Olympic-themed episode that could air during the Games. The script was written by Rob LaZebnik, who considered having the plot revolve around Homer competing in four-man bobsled. However, he decided a curling episode would allow for the plot to revolve around Homer and Marge. In order to try to make the depiction of curling in the episode accurate, the writers visited a curling club and tried the sport themselves. They also consulted with a number of curlers. The episode was directed by Chuck Sheetz, while sportscaster Bob Costas guest-starred in the episode.
Airing during the Olympics, the episode was watched by 5.87 million viewers and had a Nielsen rating of 2.6.
The episode received positive reviews from critics, and CTV reported that Olympic curlers largely enjoyed the episode.
Plot
Marge and Homer's plans for a romantic date night fall through when Homer is forced to stay longer than expected at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant to fix a leak in one of the plant's nuclear processing pipes. Looking for a romantic activity after walking out of a movie starring Ben Affleck, they find an ice rink and decide to do some skating. However, they are unable to rent skates because it is curling night. They decide to try it and discover their innate talent for the sport, particularly Marge, who has years of experience sweeping floors. Agnes and Seymour Skinner notice and invite Marge and Homer to join their mixed-doubles team. It is announced that mixed-doubles has been added to the Winter Olympics as a demonstration sport, and the Skinner-Simpson team qualifies for the United States curling trials. Agnes cautions Marge not to let emotions get in the way of winning, relating how a fetal kick by an unborn Seymour foiled her chances at winning gold in the pole vault at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki At the trials, Marge's talented sweeping earns the team a win and a trip to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Meanwhile, at the trials, Lisa is given an Olympic mascot pin, which she attaches to her dress. She decides that it "looks lonely" and buys another, but her interest in the pins quickly spirals out of control. The Simpsons arrive in Vancouver, where Agnes insists that Homer be cut from the team. Marge refuses and insists she can compensate for his weak throws, but Homer accidentally overhears the exchange and feels terrible. Marge continues to perform superbly, but she injures her right shoulder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Mountain%20Community%20Network | Green Mountain Community Network (GMCN) is a private, nonprofit organization, that owns and operates the public transit system by local bus in Bennington County in southwestern Vermont called the Green Mountain Express. Their bus service currently has 3 local "fixed deviated" weekday routes in Bennington: the Red, Blue and Brown routes, which can deviate up to 1/4 mile from their alignment upon request. They also have two local Saturday (Green and Light Green) routes, and three commuter routes: the Orange Line, with weekday plus Saturday service to Manchester; the Purple Line, with weekday service to Williamstown, Massachusetts; and the Emerald line, with weekday service to Wilmington. The Emerald Line is a partnership between West Dover-based Southeast Vermont Transit's "the MOOver" and GMCN.
The company also provides paratransit and Medicaid transportation services for Bennington County.
GMCN had an annual ridership of approximately 64,900 in fiscal year 2010, the second fewest of any public bus transit provider in Vermont for that time period when not including the Brattleboro BeeLine (now fully operated by the Current). They now have an annual ridership of about 135,000. There are 22 wheelchair accessible vehicles in GMCN's fleet. Their management headquarters, bus garage and transit hub are located at 215 Pleasant Street in Bennington.
History
Prior to February 2007 and dating back to 1985, the Green Mountain Chapter of the American Red Cross filled the role of providing the Bennington area's public transportation needs.
On July 9, 2012, GMCN added the Emerald Line to their schedule with weekday service to Wilmington, along with the opening of the renovated Pleasant St office building as their transit center. And as of March 18, 2019, the Yankee Trails Bennington shuttle and Vermont Translines' Albany to Burlington and Shires Connector intercity bus routes use the transit center as their main Bennington stops as well.
As of January 19, 2015, trip planning via Google Maps is also available for GMCN bus routes. And as of November 10, 2019, live bus tracking is available on the Transit mobile application for Android and Apple devices.
In March 2020, GMCN became one of the first public transit agencies in Vermont to go fare free because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Route list and fare schedule
(information is current as of November 2019)
Red Line (30 minute loop, $0.50)
Blue Line (30 minute loop, $0.50)
Brown Line (bidirectional line between Bennington College and the east end of town, Southern Vermont College and Old Bennington service has been terminated as of November 2019, $0.50)
Orange Line (bidirectional commuter line between Bennington and Manchester, $0.50-$2.00)
Purple Line (bidirectional commuter line between Bennington and Williamstown, Massachusetts, $0.50-$1.00)
Emerald Line (evening bidirectional commuter line between Bennington and Wilmington, morning service provided by Southeast Vermont Transit's "MOOver" 13 route, fare f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaetian%20Railway%20Gem%204/4 | The Rhaetian Railway Gem 4/4 is a two member class of metre gauge Bo′Bo′ electro-diesel locomotives operated since 1968 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, Gem 4/4 denotes a narrow gauge electro-diesel engined adhesion locomotive with a total of four axles, all of which are drive axles.
The companies involved in building the Gem 4/4s were the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM), Schweizerische Wagons- und Aufzügefabrik AG Schlieren-Zürich (SWS), Brown, Boveri & Cie (BBC) and Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon (MFO). The power output of the Gem 4/4s at the wheels is in diesel operation, and under the DC wires.
Closely related to the Gem 4/4s are the two HGm 4/4s that were delivered a year later to the Furka Oberalp Bahn.
Technical details
As delivered
The Gem 4/4 locomotives, which bear the traffic numbers 801 and 802, each feature two diesel engines with DC generators. They can therefore operate over the entire Rhaetian Railway network, independently of the overhead catenary. Many components of their electrical equipment match those of the ABe 4/4 class electric railcars used on the Bernina Railway, with the consequence that the Gem 4/4s can be used on that railway, which is electrified at 1,000 V DC, like a normal electric locomotive. However, the Gem 4/4s are not also able to draw current from the 11 kV 16.7 Hz AC catenary used to power electric locomotives on the rest of the Rhaetian Railway network.
When the Gem 4/4s are operating on the Bernina Railway, their diesel engines are needed only in case of failure of the contact wires, for example following an avalanche. In that event, one of the locomotive's two generators can be used to supply an Xrote (Ger.) class snow blower (either no 9918 or no 9919) with DC current, and the second generator is sufficiently powerful to move the locomotive and snow blower. In this way, the DC powered blowers can also be put to use on the Rhaetian Railway's core network. However, this has seldom been the case since the delivery of the Rhaetian Railway's Xrotm (Ger.) class diesel powered snow blowers.
As rebuilt
Between 2000 and 2003, the Rhaetian Railway radically modernised the Gem 4/4s, which, in more than just their external appearance, had become noticeably affected by many years of hard use. During their rebuilding, both locomotives were fitted with new Cummins diesel engines, each with an output of , and they also received new drivers cabs and computerised control electronics.
Liveries
At the time of their commissioning, the Gem 4/4s were painted red with silver ventilation grilles. Between 1986 and 1987, the livery was revised as follows: grey-brown frame, red body with bilingual logo and the cantonal shield of Graubünden.
Since the Gem 4/4s were rebuilt, they have remained in red livery. The two locomotives ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20Levich | Eugene V. (Yevgeny) Levich is a Russian-Israeli physicist known for work on the Bose–Einstein condensate and 3D optical data storage.
Levich has published over 100 papers and book chapters in the fields of plasma physics, astrophysics, phase transitions, nonlinear phenomena and chaos, turbulence in fluids and plasma and geophysics. He also holds over 40 patents in fundamental fields of technology, ranging from managing of turbulent drag and heat exchange in turbulent flows to optical storage in consumer electronics.
Early life and education
Levich was born in 1948 in Moscow, the son of Veniamin Levich. He obtained an MSc in physics in 1968, from Moscow State University and a PhD in theoretical physics from the Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics in 1970.
In 1972 he applied for an exit visa to leave to Israel, was denied permission to emigrate and joined the refusenik movement.
After meeting with New York City mayor John Lindsay in Moscow, Levich was ordered into the Soviet army, and then in May, 1973 abducted and sent to a labor camp in the Siberian Arctic.
His mother Tanya dictated an open letter to Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, while US politicians Benjamin Gilman and Bertram L. Podell expressed his support.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists published an open letter of support signed by 50 American and Canadian scientists.
He was released in 1974 after international struggle and support from the West.
Scientific career
Levich discovered, together with Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, the phenomenon of Bose–Einstein condensate in radiation and what is known now as one of the most important mechanisms of interaction between plasma and radiation in astrophysical conditions (MBH environs, quasars, pulsars and radio sources). His later works (together with V. Yakhot) paved way to a new direction in the theory of phase transitions-kinetics of phase transitions.
In 1975 Levich immigrated to Israel, along with his brother Aleksandr, even though his father was denied until 1978.
He worked until 1978 as a senior scientist at the department of nuclear physics of the Weizmann Institute. In 1979-1980 he was a senior visiting fellow at the faculty of physics of Harvard University.
In 1981 Levich became associate professor and in 1985 professor of theoretical physics and professor of engineering at the City University of New York where he served till 1991. In 1982-1985 he was senior visiting fellow at the department of theoretical physics at the University of Oxford and visiting professor at Tel-Aviv University.
From 1982 on Levich was working on the theory of turbulence in fluids and plasma. He discovered and predicted, in parallel with professor of Cambridge University H.K. Moffatt FRS, totally unexpected structure and fundamental properties of turbulent flows in fluids and plasma that have bearing in particular on the issue of turbulence management and control in fluids and plasma.
In 1991-1996 Levich was chief scientist of Orlev Scientifi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FX%20%28Greek%20TV%20channel%29 | FX is a Greek pay television network, launched by the Fox Networks Group, which launched on 30 November 2009. The channel is broadcasting in Cyprus too, with the same schedule to Greece.
The program includes sci-fi series such as The X-Files and Battlestar Galactica, reality shows such as The Amazing Race animation such as The Simpsons and Family Guy, other series such as Law & Order and The Walking Dead, with new episodes for the first time in Greece and also new recent series such as Terra Nova and The Killing for the first time in Greece.
On 1 October 2012 FX has been relaunched as Fox under a brand new programming grid. Most of the following series, are broadcasting from Fox.
On 15 March 2023, The Walt Disney Company announced that Fox and Fox Life would reuse the FX brand due to the international Star name used by Disney being already used by the unrelated Star Channel, being named after the channel in the United States of the same name.
Programmes
Current
9-1-1
9-1-1: Lone Star
American Horror Story
Bob's Burgers
Bones
Chicago P.D.
Godfather of Harlem
How I Met Your Mother
Mad About You
NCIS: Los Angeles
NCIS: New Orleans
Snowfall
Solar Opposites
Tales of the Walking Dead
The Goldbergs
The Simpsons
True Lies
White Collar
Former (first incarnation)
24
Around the World for Free
Battlestar Galactica (miniseries)
Battlestar Galactica (series)
Breakout Kings
Bridget Marquardt
Call Me Fitz
Camelot
Caprica
Crash
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
Day Break
Detroit 1-8-7
Dhani Tackles the Globe
Dinner: Impossible
Dollhouse
Episodes
Falling Skies
Family Guy
FlashForward
Happy Town
I Can't Believe I'm Still Single
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Jesse James Is a Dead Man
Law & Order
Legend of the Seeker
Life on Mars
Lights Out
Line of Fire
Living in Your Car
Long Way Round
Lost
Manswers
Neighbors from Hell
No Ordinary Family
Persons Unknown
Shaq Vs.
Sons of Anarchy
Stargate Universe
Terra Nova
Terriers
The Amazing Race
The Buried Life
The Chicago Code
The Cleveland Show
The Glades
The Goode Family
The Good Guys
The Hour
The Killing
The League
The Life & Times of Tim
The Walking Dead
The X-Files
Tiempo final
Touch
Traffic Light
Notes
References
External links
FX Greece official site
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Greek-language television stations
Greece |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20%28Telekom%20Slovenija%20Group%29 | One was a Macedonian GSM/UMTS mobile operator. The company was under a 100-per-cent ownership of Telekom Slovenije.
The network of One was covering 99,9% of the population and 98,17% of the territory of Macedonia with quality signal.
One has launched the first DVB-T in Macedonia, BoomTV.
One used to host its network at an mvno operator called Albafone. It started operations in 2013 and ceased operations in 2015.
In 2015, One merged with Vip operator into one mobile network operator - one.Vip, under the name Vip, with Telekom Austria (Vip) having an equity interest of 55% and Telekom Slovenije (One) having an equity interest of 45%. The agreement includes options for the exit of the Telekom Slovenije Group within three years of the transaction's closing date.
In November 2017 sold to Telekom Austria.
External links
One Operator
Mobile phone companies of North Macedonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland%20Runic%20Inscription%20839 | This runic inscription, designated as U 839 in the Rundata catalog, is on a Viking Age memorial runestone located in Ryda kungsgård, which is about 6 kilometers north of Enköping, Uppsala County, Sweden, and in the historic province of Uppland.
Description
The design on this stone has the runic text inscribed within a serpent band. The stone is granite and is 2.25 meters in height. The inscription has been attributed to a runemaster named Torgöt Fotsarve, who on the signed runestone U 308 describes himself as the son of the runemaster Fot. Other inscriptions signed by Torgöt include U 746 in Hårby and U 958 in Villinge. This inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr4, which is also known as Urnes style. This runestone style is characterized by slim and stylized animals that are interwoven into tight patterns. The animal heads are typically seen in profile with slender almond-shaped eyes and upwardly curled appendages on the noses and the necks.
The runic text is in the younger futhark and states that Ámundi and Auðgerðr raised the stone and had a bridge made as a memorial to their son Ǫnundr. The reference to bridge-building is fairly common in runestones during this time period. Some are Christian references related to passing the bridge into the afterlife. At this time, the Catholic Church sponsored the building of roads and bridges through a practice similar to the use of indulgences in return for the church's intercession for the soul of the departed. There are many examples of these bridge stones dated from the eleventh century, including runic inscriptions Sö 101 in Ramsundsberget, U 489 in Morby, and U 617 at Bro.
The name of the woman in the inscription, Auðgerðr or Ödgärd, is also mentioned on another memorial runestone, U 821, which is located in Mysinge, Uppland. As U 821 is located approximately two miles from U 839, it is possible that both runestones refer to the same woman, although there is no other evidence of this besides the same name being used in the text.
Inscription
Runic text
ᚼᛅᛉᚢᚾᛏᛁ᛫ᛅᚢᚴᚽᚱ᛫ᛚᛁᛏᚢ᛫ᚱᛅᛁᛋᛅ᛫ᛋᛏᛁᚾ᛫ᚦᛁᚾᛅ᛫ᚽᛓᛏᛣ᛫ᛅᚾᚢᚾᛏ᛫ᛋᚢᚾᛋᛁᚾ᛫ᛅᚢᚴ᛫ᛒᚱᚢ᛫ᚵᛁᛅᚱᛅ
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
* hamunti * auk * auþker * litu * raisa * stin * þina * eftʀ * anunt * sun sin * auk * bru * giara
Transcription into Old Norse
Ámundi ok Auðgerðr létu reisa stein þenna eptir Ǫnund, son sinn, ok brú gera.
Translation in English
Ámundi and Auðgerðr had this stone raised and the bridge made in memory of Ǫnundr, their son.
References
Uppland Runic Inscription 0839 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20%26%20Friends%3A%20Misty%20Island%20Rescue | Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue is a 2010 computer-animated fantasy adventure film and feature-length special of the British television series, Thomas & Friends. The film is produced by HIT Entertainment and animated by Nitrogen Studios.
This special takes place in between the thirteenth and fourteenth seasons of the television series.
Plot
A new Sodor Search and Rescue Centre is being built for Harold the Helicopter, Rocky the Crane, and Captain, a new lifeboat. Jobi wood from Japan is needed in order to build it. All the engines want to help deliver the Jobi wood. Thomas the Tank Engine inadvertently insults Diesel for being a diesel engine, so Diesel tries to prove himself by taking the Jobi wood, resulting in a chase between him and Thomas, and all the Jobi wood being lost in the sea after Diesel almost falls off an unfinished bridge. Thomas saves Diesel and is rewarded with visiting the rescue centre on the mainland. Being told there is no room on the boat, Thomas asks to be carried on a raft behind the boat. However, along the way, the chain to the raft snaps and, after falling asleep, Thomas wakes up only to find himself landing on a nearby island, Misty Island.
Thomas explores the island and soon finds it to be inhabited by the "Logging Locos", consisting of a large engine named Ferdinand and two small twins, Bash and Dash, who were sent to the island after causing trouble on the mainland. As Thomas continues exploring the island, Sir Topham Hatt receives a call telling him Thomas is missing, prompting him, Harold and Captain to send out a search party to find him.
After seeing the entire island, Thomas discovers a logging station which the Logging Locos are running and learns that Misty Island is the only place other than Japan that grows Jobi wood. He and the others decide they want to go back to Sodor with some of the wood and use a tunnel that connects Misty Island to Sodor. However, as they are halfway through the tunnel, the tunnel caves in on both sides, causing them to get stuck. At the same time, the Logging Locos run out of oil. Thomas finds a hole in the ceiling of the cave which gives him an idea: he can puff smoke out through the hole and alert his friends of his location. The smoke soon alerts the rest of the engines of Thomas's location, convincing his best friend Percy and the garbage dump engine Whiff to go into the tunnel. Percy alerts Thomas of his presence, convincing Thomas he should break through the caved-in rocks himself. However, Whiff sternly corrects Thomas, saying he knows the tunnel more than he does. Thomas is soon convinced, allowing Percy and Whiff to break through. The three then haul the Logging Locos out of the tunnel and take them to be fixed up. However, Sir Topham Hatt, Edward, James, and Gordon have all sailed to Misty Island in order to find Thomas, so Thomas rushes back to Misty Island and finds them just in time. Once he does, the Logging Locos are all welcomed to Sodor and there is a bi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STARAN | STARAN in the information technology industry might be the first commercially available computer designed around an associative memory. The STARAN computer was designed and built by Goodyear Aerospace Corporation. It is a content-addressable parallel processor (CAPP), a type of parallel processor which uses content-addressable memory. STARAN is . The STARAN machines became available in 1972.
Goodyear Aerospace later developed the MPP based on similar principles but with a larger and wider processor array.
See also
Index of computing articles
Outline of computers
Outline of computing
References
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
One-of-a-kind computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONVIF | ONVIF (the Open Network Video Interface Forum) is a global and open industry forum with the goal of facilitating the development and use of a global open standard for the interface of physical IP-based security products. ONVIF creates a standard for how IP products within video surveillance and other physical security areas can communicate with each other. ONVIF is an organization started in 2008 by Axis Communications, Bosch Security Systems and Sony.
It was officially incorporated as a non-profit, 501(c)6 Delaware corporation on November 25, 2008. ONVIF membership is open to manufacturers, software developers, consultants, system integrators, end users and other interest groups that wish to participate in the activities of ONVIF. The ONVIF specification aims to achieve interoperability between network video products regardless of manufacturer.
ONVIF concerns itself with standardization of communication between IP-based physical security products to achieve open interoperability between equipment from different manufacturers.
Members
In December 2009, the ONVIF member base had grown to 103 members. This comprised 12 full members, 13 contributing members and 78 user members. In December 2010, the forum had more than 240 members and more than 440 conformant products on the market. By January 2015, this had grown to more than 3,700 ONVIF conformant products and 500 members. By August 2016, this had grown to more than 6,900 conformant products on the market but shrunk to 461 members. In February 2020, ONVIF reached more than 14,000 conformant products. , there are 496 members and more than 23000 conformant products.
Name
ONVIF originally was an acronym for Open Network Video Interface Forum. The longer name was dropped as the scope of the standard expanded beyond video applications.
Specification
The ONVIF Core Specification aims to standardize the network interface (on the network layer) of network video products. It defines a network video communication framework based on relevant IETF and Web Services standards including security and IP configuration requirements. The following areas are covered by the Core Specification version 1.0:
IP configuration
Device discovery
Device management
Media configuration
Real-time viewing
Event handling
PTZ camera control
Video analytics
Security
ONVIF utilizes IT industry technologies including SOAP, RTP, and Motion JPEG, MPEG-4, H.264 video codecs and H.265 video codecs. Later releases of the ONVIF specification (version 2.0) also cover storage and additional aspects of analytics.
Milestones
November 25, 2008: Incorporated as Open Network Video Interface Forum
November 2008: Release of Core Specification version 1.0
December 2008: Release of Test Specification version 1.0
December 2008: First member meeting in Washington, DC
March 2009: Set up of several working groups to work on the further development of the forum
May 2009: Release of test tool and conformance process
July 2009: Relea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Time%20%28TV%20series%29 | First Time is a 2010 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Andoy Ranay, it stars Barbie Forteza, Joshua Dionisio and Jake Vargas. It premiered on February 8, 2010 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Ikaw Sana. The series concluded on May 28, 2010 with a total of 78 episodes. It was replaced by Langit sa Piling Mo in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Barbie Forteza as Cyndi Gomez
Joshua Dionisio as Lukas Ynfante
Jake Vargas as Sebastian "Baste" Luna
Supporting cast
Bea Binene as Natalie Dimaculangan
Jhoana Marie Tan as Sara Santiago
Lucho Ayala as Jimbo Dimaculangan
Mark Elliot Castillo as Daniel Olivia
Gracie Henson as Patty Montalban
Joyce Ching as Bea
Mac Castillo as Nathan
Eugene Domingo as Barbarella Buncalan Jackson
Michelle Madrigal as Valeria Gomez
Joross Gamboa as Ted
Ian Veneracion as Robert Gomez
Ana Capri as Hilda Gomez
Cris Villanueva as Ben Gomez
Angel Jacob as Olive Ynfante
Eric Quizon as Jaime Ynfante
Manilyn Reynes as Laura Luna
Romnick Sarmenta as Marcelo "Marcel" Luna
Bayani Agbayani as Raffy Santiago
Shiela Marie Rodriguez as Doris Santiago
Alicia Mayer as the fake Ms. Dimaculangan
Mel Kimura as Ms. Ida
Ricci Chan as Pete
Roxanne Barcelo as Ms. Berna
Peter Serrano as Oh
Harlene Bautista-Sarmenta as Teresa Chavez
Recurring cast
Anna Vicente as Belle
Carmi Martin as Ms. Dimaculangan
Patrick Suelto as Josh Goretti
Tricia Andrews as Hannah
Emsi Nightmare as Mary Christine
Controversy
On May 11, 2010, director Andoy Ranay reportedly insulted Jake Vargas during the production. Vargas' then-manager, German Moreno, rushed to the set and confronted Ranay for his actions.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of First Time earned a 22.5% rating.
References
External links
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
2010s high school television series
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television series about teenagers
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkroom%20manipulation | Darkroom manipulation is a traditional method of manipulating photographs without the use of computers. Some of the common techniques for darkroom manipulation are dodging, burning, and masking, which though similar conceptually to digital manipulations, involve physical rather than virtual techniques. Darkroom manipulations are those processes used, for example, to remove unwanted areas and change image background, among others. Varying techniques can be used to accomplish the same tasks.
History
Photo manipulation started in the darkroom in the 1860s when searching for a heroic image of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. An unidentified artist appended the statesman's head to the body of John C. Calhoun. One of the modern American masters of darkroom manipulation is Jerry Uelsmann. To get his final product, he uses up to twelve enlargers at a time. Jerry Uelsmann seeks to reach a level of surrealist imagery of the unfathomable. He still uses this process today, as do other photographers. Some photographers believe that the darkroom is "a magical place where there is indeed a chamber of secret."
Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry Uelsmann is best known for using digital tools in the darkroom before Photoshop was available. He started off with photography in high school as a hobby and then decided to go to an institution to learn photography. Uelsmann's photographs are different from those of most photographers because he uses multiple negatives to produce one picture. He started with one enlarger but after waiting for some prints to dry one day, he decided to use more enlargers to get more images quickly, then began using seven enlargers at one time. His darkroom style allowed him to create images that had realism and the motion of what would be seen in dreams.
Techniques
Before Photoshop, dodging and burning were used to lighten or darken a part of the photograph to get better details in highlights and shadows. Toning changes the color of the photograph. Black and white photographs can be changed to sepia, red, orange and even blue. Toning can be used to help make the photograph last long. Cropping is used to decide what is left out in the final print.
Dodging
Dodging is a very important part of the manipulation process. Dodging holds back exposure in order to make it light. Dodging can be used by hand or specific tools such as black cardboard or opaque materials so that shadows can lighten the image. Dodging is best when used in a circular motion on the image to get the desired result.
Burning
Burning is when the image receives more exposure so the image can darken. Just like dodging, burning can be done by hand or by using objects that controls the size and shape of the area. To avoid a very obvious change between the burned-in area and the rest of the image, the device must stay in motion. Burning is a longer process because it needs a longer exposure and time to change the image.
Masking
Image Masking is a very faint positive image that come |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaze%20Europe | Blaze Europe was a developer and distributor of accessories and software for video game consoles, handheld media devices and personal computers.
The company is well known for releasing handheld versions of home consoles such as handheld versions of the Sega Mega Drive and the Neo Geo X.
The company is currently in liquidation.
References
External links
Computer companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detached%20signature | A detached signature is a type of digital signature that is kept separate from its signed data, as opposed to bundled together into a single file.
See also
XML Signature
References
Public-key cryptography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicDNA | MusicDNA may refer to:
MusicDNA (company), a Norwegian company
MusicDNA (database), an online ontology describing the underlying structure of the events within musical history
MusicDNA (file format), a downloadable music file format able to carry additional data, such as lyrics, video and cover art |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshikazu%20Tanaka | is a Japanese entrepreneur known for founding and developing the social networking service Gree, provided by Gree, Inc.
Yoshikazu Tanaka was born in Mitaka, Tokyo in 1977. When Tanaka was a junior high school student, Tanaka became keenly interested in changes in society by informatization and the field of information-communication by reading “Power Shift” by Alvin Toffler.
In 2003, at the age 26, Tanaka started developing Gree as a hobby. In February 2004, Tanaka opened Gree to the public, as a personal website. By March 2004, over 10,000 users had joined the service that soon became hard for him to manage rapidly growing service by himself. In December 2004, Tanaka established Gree, Inc. in order to cope the growing number of users.
In December 2008, Gree, Inc. was listed on the Market of the High-Growth and Emerging Stocks, closing at the highest market value of shares on the first day.
In February 2009, Tanaka was ranked 24th among “Japan's 40 Richest Billionaires” by Forbes Asia. As of 2010, at age 33, he was ranked as “Asia's Youngest Self-Made Billionaire” under the age of 35 and was selected as the “World's Second-Youngest Self-Made Billionaire” after Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
In June 2010, 5 years after the foundation, Gree was listed on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Tanaka was 33 years and 3 month at that time and the youngest founder whose company is listed on the TSE first section.
Tanaka was able to set his social network apart from the well established Japanese brands Mixi and DeNA by concentrating on mobile games and making partnerships with major Internet Service Providers.
References
External links
GREE
GREE Corporate site
GREE International, Inc.
Living people
Japanese businesspeople
People from Mitaka, Tokyo
1977 births
Nihon University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sintel | Sintel, code-named Project Durian during production, is a 2010 computer-animated fantasy short film. It was the third Blender "open movie". It was produced by Ton Roosendaal, chairman of the Blender Foundation, written by Esther Wouda, directed by Colin Levy, at the time an artist at Pixar and art direction by David Revoy, who is known for Pepper&Carrot an open source webcomic series. It was made at the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation. The plot follows the character, Sintel, who is tracking down her pet Scales, a dragon. Just like the other Blender "open movies," the film was made using Blender, a free and open source software application for animation, created and supported by the Blender Foundation.
The name comes from the Dutch word sintel, which can mean 'cinder', or 'ember'.
Overview
Work began in May 2009. The film was officially released on 27 September 2010 at the Netherlands Film Festival. The online release was made available for download on 30 September 2010. The film was viewed over 1,000,000 times in a matter of weeks. By May 2020, it was viewed 5.2 million times on YouTube.
Plot
The main character, Sintel, is attacked while traveling through a wintry mountainside. After defeating her attacker and taking his spear, she finds refuge in a shaman's hut. He asks her why she is traveling, and she confesses that she is looking for a dragon, leading into a flashback. Sintel was a homeless loner, looking for food when she discovered an injured baby dragon. She nursed him back to health and named him Scales, and the two quickly formed an emotional bond. One day, while Scales was flying, he was captured by an adult dragon. Determined to get him back, she began the long and dangerous journey that led her to the shaman's hut.
Sintel is ready to give up when the shaman tells her that they are in dragon lands, showing her the glyph on her attacker's spear as proof. She finds the tree pictured on the spear, and near it a cave with an adult dragon and his baby. The baby runs away upon seeing Sintel, and the adult dragon attacks. After a brief battle the adult dragon pins Sintel to the ground, but freezes when he recognizes her scent. Sintel takes advantage of this momentary pause and stabs the dragon in the heart. As she is about to land the killing blow, she notices the scar on his wing is exactly the same as her old friend's. Sintel discovers in a moment of horror that she has just killed Scales.
Scales bleeds out rapidly, and Sintel stares in shock at her reflection in a pool of blood. It is revealed that she is significantly older than she has appeared throughout the film. She has much gray hair, worn and wrinkled skin, and several scars on her body. The long search for Scales had lasted many years, and she had never realized that Scales would have grown up. Her single-minded quest to get back her friend, and to take revenge on the large dragon who took Scales away, contributed to her mistaking Scales for the small dragon. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%E2%84%A2 | Freedom™, the sequel to Daemon, is the second of a two-part novel, by American writer Daniel Suarez, about a distributed, persistent computer application, known as The Daemon, that begins to change the real world after the original programmer's death.
Plot
The sequel picks up shortly after the end of Daemon. Sobol's distributed AI has already infiltrated the computer systems of numerous companies and governments. Many companies have surrendered, either out of fear of annihilation or because they have been converted to the fairer and more efficient system using a kind of government by algorithm. While the Daemon is a technological creation, much of the work is carried out by human beings, compelled by the Daemon to change the world, according to the vision of Matthew Sobol.
Connected by the "Darknet", the human followers, using Sobol's game engine (for his award-winning game "The Gate") as a base, have created their own ranking system and economy. Online identities mimic an MMORPG, with operatives doing tasks to gain levels and gaining access to new technologies and help from the Daemon in an effort to advance their communities. Numerous towns have slowly joined the Daemon's network as a means to improve their own situations and their society as a whole.
The rest of the world believes the Daemon is still a hoax, due to the efforts of the US government (and its allies) to appear to the general public that they are still in charge. In truth, the American political and economic system is collapsing, with the price of fuel and the unemployment rates both skyrocketing.
As with the first book, the interweaving stories follows specific characters:
Detective Sebeck, now acting as an unwilling Daemon operative, has been sent on a "quest" by the avatar of the late Matthew Sobol, one in which will to determine the role of freedom to the human race. Using special glasses to see online Darknet items and threads, Sebeck is joined by a Daemon operative, Laney Price, and he soon learns that his quest is being monitored by the entire Darknet community.
Sebeck begins his quest meeting another operative named Riley, who introduces him to the newly growing Daemon communities, dubbed Holons, which are based on being self-sufficient, using natural energy sources and technologies, and avoiding the military-industrial complex opposed to the type of freedom that the Daemon communities want. Riley teaches Sebeck how to navigate the Darknet and to use it to his advantage. With Laney in tow, Sebeck journeys around the country, always witnessing important events in the history of the Daemon. Sebeck reunites with Jon Ross in a town called Greely, Iowa.
It is one of several Midwestern towns chosen by the elite powers for invasion and destruction. Sebeck's Darknet quest thread returns, and he and Laney follow it through enemy lines, only to discover that it is a trap laid by the Major, who has developed a means of infiltrating the Daemon mainframe and make slight alterat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Color%20Yellow | "The Color Yellow" is the thirteenth episode of the twenty-first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 21, 2010. In this episode, Lisa discovers that her ancestors from Florida helped a black slave named Virgil escape to freedom, but Milhouse has a piece of family history that shows Lisa's ancestors giving Virgil up in an act of cowardice.
The episode was written by Ian Maxtone-Graham and Billy Kimball and directed by Raymond S. Persi. It guest starred Wren T. Brown as Virgil.
The episode was viewed by 6.08 million viewers and received mixed to positive reviews.
Plot
While working on a genealogy assignment, Lisa discovers a diary written by her great-great-great grandaunt, Eliza Simpson. She reads it, hoping to discover a Simpson in her family tree that was not an alcoholic, criminal, or sexual fetishist. At first she believes through reading the diary that, to her dismay, Eliza was a slaveowner, but she soon learns that she and her mother Mabel were part of the Underground Railroad in 1860. Eliza sneaks into a ball hosted by Colonel Burns (later said to be the father of Monty Burns, again making fun of his age) to meet a slave named Virgil, but as the two make their escape, they are spotted by a mounted patrol. Unfortunately, the diary is too disintegrated for Lisa to read on, and she cannot bear not knowing if Virgil escaped.
Lisa and Marge discover a cookbook at the local library written by Mabel, made decades after Eliza saved Virgil. In it is an anecdote that tells how Eliza and Virgil evaded capture by donning disguises at a traveling circus with a Krusty-type clown. They make it back to the Simpson household, but Eliza's father Hiram is suspicious of Virgil's presence. Virgil makes him "wheel cakes" and Hiram swears to keep Virgil's whereabouts a secret. As the story continues on, it becomes like The Color Purple.
Lisa believes Eliza to be a hero for helping Virgil escape, and tells this story at a Black History Month presentation at Springfield Elementary. Milhouse, however, challenges her story and suggests that Eliza was a coward. He reads from the journal of his ancestor, Milford Van Houten, who witnessed Colonel Burns bribe Hiram with "a pleasant surprise", a new pair of shoes in exchange for giving up Virgil. Eliza does not stand up against the Colonel and Lisa is crushed to think her ancestor was indeed a coward. Milford said he was so disgusted he could never look at Eliza again (Milhouse adding it did not help that he went blind the next day after drinking bad well water). Milford Van Houten's account is substantiated when Lisa views a 1950s oral history archival film interview with an elderly Eliza, where she indicates this cowardice as being the one regret of her life. In the film, a wedding portrait behind Eliza shows she married Milford Van Houten, thus creating a family link between the Simpsons and the Van Houtens and makin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KartMe | KartMe is a social networking website and mobile application that specializes in social cataloging. Members organize and share favorite links, products and places in lists called "Karts". The mobile application was an Apple "Staff Pick". The full service has been called a beauty lifesaver, a step beyond bookmarking and useful for home design projects.
KartMe was started by Phil Michaelson with a Rock and Lebor Fellowship from Harvard Business School.
References
External links
KartMe Official Site
KartMe Recipe Site
Social cataloging applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Blade | Sun Blade is a line of blade server computer systems sold by Sun Microsystems from 2006 onwards.
In June 2006, Sun announced the AMD Opteron-based Sun Blade 8000 modular blade server system. The Sun Blade 8000 chassis can hold up to 10 Sun Blade X8420 or X8440 modules.
In July 2007, Sun launched the Sun Blade 6000 Modular System. This allowed up to 10 mixed UltraSPARC and x64 architecture blades. The Sun Blade T6300 and T6320 modules run Solaris and use UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2 processors respectively, while the Sun Blade X6220 and X6250 modules use AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon 5000-series processors respectively.
In November 2007, Sun announced the Sun Blade 6048 Modular System, supporting up to 48 UltraSPARC, AMD Opteron and/or Intel Xeon blades.
The X-series blades support Solaris, Oracle Linux, RHEL, SLES, Windows Server or VMware.
External links
Sun System Handbook
Sun System Handbook, v2.1
Sun blade servers
Blade
SPARC microprocessor products
Blade servers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye%20to%20Eye%20%28novel%29 | Eye to Eye is a 1997 young adult science fiction novel by Catherine Jinks. It follows the story of Jansi who while scavenging in the desert comes across a damaged star ship which contains a computer that has the ability to project thought, expression and friendship.
Background
Eye to Eye was first published in Australia in 1997 by Puffin Books in trade paperback format and by Bolinda Publishing as an audiobook. It was also released in the United Kingdom in 1997 in hardback format. Eye to Eye was a joint winner, along with Isobelle Carmody's Greylands, of the 1997 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel.
Awards
Won - CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers (1998)
References
1997 Australian novels
Australian science fiction novels
1997 science fiction novels
Children's science fiction novels
Australian young adult novels
Novels by Catherine Jinks
Aurealis Award-winning works
CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award-winning works
1997 children's books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling%20on%20NBC | Bowling on NBC is a presentation of professional ten-pin bowling matches from the PBA Tour formerly produced by NBC Sports, the sports division of the NBC television network in the United States.
Historical overview
Championship Bowling
Prior to the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA)'s inception, bowling was broadcast on television sporadically beginning in the early 1950s. NBC began with an early 1950s special telecast entitled Championship Bowling.
Jackpot Bowling
Jackpot Bowling (also known as Phillies Jackpot Bowling and Jackpot Bowling Starring Milton Berle) was a professional bowling program that ran on NBC for two seasons from January 9, 1959, to March 13, 1961. It was the first bowling show on national television since Bowling Headliners. The program aired on Fridays at 10:30 p.m. Eastern Time, following the Cavalcade of Sports Friday Night Fight.
First hosted by Leo Durocher, who left after only two episodes, the program was subsequently hosted by Mel Allen. However, Allen was not popular with viewers as he showed a lack of bowling knowledge. He was replaced by Bud Palmer on April 10, 1959, before Allen returned in October 1959, remaining with the show until April 1960; Palmer subsequently returned to the program as host, staying through June.
Jackpot Bowling was put on a brief hiatus by NBC after the June 24 episode. When it returned on September 19, 1960, the program was retooled; the series not only moved to Monday nights at 10:30, but Bayuk Cigars replaced Phillies Cigars as sponsor, the Hollywood Legion Lanes replaced the T-Bowl in Wayne, New Jersey, as the program's venue, and Milton Berle took over as host.
Sportsworld
The NBC sports anthology series Sportsworld covered several professional bowling events throughout its run that were not broadcast as part of the Pro Bowlers Tour on ABC.
In 1980, NBC aired the "Legends of Bowling" mini-series on three consecutive Saturdays. The game consisted of 7 frames, with a combination of strikes and spare shots, with point values assigned to each frame. The winning team got a chance to make the "big money split" at the end. The play-by-play announcer was Sam Nover while the color analyst was Steve Neff. The off-stage announcer was the legendary NBC voice, Don Pardo.
From 1984 to 1991, it had its own series called "The PBA Fall Tour". Jay Randolph and Earl Anthony served as commentators. Unlike ABC's coverage, NBC was the first to introduce uninterrupted coverage of the championship match.
From 1988 to 1990, bowling had its own version of the Skins Game called The Bowling Shootout. Four bowlers (three pros and one amateur in the 1989 and 1990) competed. Each frame had a designated value and to win, the bowler on the floor must be the only one to strike, spare or have most pin count to claim the prize. A two-player tie meant all tied, but all players bowled regardless (where there was a game within a game). If it was still tied after the 10th frame, the players would go on to a on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20200%20number-one%20independent%20albums | The following is a list of independently distributed records to achieve the #1 spot on the Billboard 200 chart since 1991, when Nielsen Soundscan began recording album sales data.
Though not clearly defined, an independent record label is generally considered to be any label that is not part of the big three record companies, which consist of Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music Group. Billboard cites the following definition for use on their Top Independent Albums chart: "For Billboard charting purposes, defining an independent album is done on a title level and based on its distribution. If an album is sold by an indie distributor (or, one of the major label's indie distribution arms), it is classified as an independent title and can chart on our Top Independent Albums tally. Classification is not based on a label's ownership, or if an act is signed to an independent label." Note that this definition does not exclude record labels owned by other large corporations from being classified as independent: for example, Billboard considered Disney Music Group to be an independent label for over a decade, despite being part of The Walt Disney Company, the largest media and entertainment conglomerate in the world. Disney lost the distinction in 2000 when they signed a distribution deal with Universal.
Some of the independently released albums to have topped the Billboard 200, such as the Eagles' Long Road Out of Eden (2007), Radiohead's In Rainbows (2008), Pearl Jam's Backspacer (2009), and Frank Ocean's Blonde (2016) are from former major label acts who had developed strong and established fanbases from their time being signed to a major label.
In 2020, Billboard updated their eligibility rules for independent albums. As of the chart dated July 18, 2020, labels that are independently owned and control their masters, but which are distributed directly through one of the "Big Three" record companies (as opposed to a major label within one of the aforementioned companies), would be eligible for Top Independent Albums. This change retroactively classified many albums that had hit #1 on the Billboard 200 as "independent". For the sake of consistency, those albums, such as Taylor Swift's 1989 (Big Machine Records), Adele's 21 (XL Recordings), and the soundtrack to Frozen (Walt Disney Records), are not included in the list below.
Albums
N.W.A – Niggaz4Life (Ruthless Records/Priority Records), 1991
Ice Cube – The Predator (Priority Records/EMI), 1992
Various Artists – The Lion King Soundtrack (Walt Disney Records), 1994
Various Artists – Friday Soundtrack (Priority Records), 1995
Various Artists – Pocahontas Soundtrack (Walt Disney Records), 1995
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – E 1999 Eternal (Ruthless Records), 1995
Tha Dogg Pound – Dogg Food (Death Row Records/Interscope), 1995
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony – The Art of War (Ruthless Records), 1997
Eagles – Long Road out of Eden (Eagles Recording Company II), 2007
Radiohead – In Rainbows (TB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LON-CAPA | LON-CAPA (Learning Online Network with Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach) is an e-learning platform, also known as a Course Management System (CMS) or Learning Management System (LMS). It possesses the standard features of many learning platforms (user roles, calendar, e-mail, chat rooms, blogs, resource construction, test grading, etc.), but it differs from traditional e-learning platforms in that its many web servers (in various parts of the world) can communicate with each other. Consequently, the term LON-CAPA can also refer to the LON-CAPA network, i.e. the entire set of LON-CAPA web servers and the specific implementation of an internet protocol that connects these web servers. LON-CAPA can also refer to the LON-CAPA project, i.e. the core team of scientists and programmers that develop and maintain the LON-CAPA software.
There are, as of 2010, more than 160 LON-CAPA domains, where a domain is a unified set of LON-CAPA web servers. LON-CAPA domains are operated, generally speaking, by individual universities and high schools in the United States and Canada, but include private organizations and a significant number of universities in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa. The LON-CAPA network allows participating universities and schools to create learning resources (test problems, web pages, etc.) and to share them across the network. This collaborative aspect is LON-CAPA's most distinctive feature.
Another special feature of LON-CAPA is the ability to design test resources (called problems) that make use of random numbers (stored in Perl variables). This allows a single "problem resource" to generate a variety of similar (but different) test exercises, thus significantly reducing the risk of cheating amongst students.
Currently, the great majority of LON-CAPA's learning resources are written in English and focus on the mathematical and natural sciences, mostly significantly physics and chemistry. The learning platform works extensively with LaTeX, a language used to represent formulas and mathematical expressions. The project is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
LON-CAPA is open source and free of licensing fees. Significant technologies include Linux, Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, LaTeX and CPAN. The core LON-CAPA development team is based at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. There are also major LON-CAPA network nodes at Simon Fraser University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Purdue University.
The name LON-CAPA is an acronym, derived from Learning Online Network with Computer-Assisted Personalized Approach. In 1999, two distinct e-learning projects, CAPA and LectureOnline, joined efforts in the creation of LON-CAPA, which provides a superset of the CAPA and LectureOnline functionalities.
References
Free learning support software
Learning management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetCologne | NetCologne is a regional telecommunications, cable television and Internet service provider in the Cologne region of Germany. It operates its own copper, coaxial, FTTB and CDMA2000 networks. It serves 518.000 customers and is owned by the city of Cologne. The company has around 900 employees.
References
External links
Companies based in Cologne
Internet service providers of Germany
Internet mirror services
Cable television companies
Cable television companies of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS-50 | SS-50, SS 50 or SS50 may refer to:
SS-50 Bus, a component of an early computer configuration
USS L-10 (SS-50), a United States Navy submarine which saw service during World War I
and also:
USS S-50 (SS-161), a United States Navy submarine which saw service during World War I
Super Soaker, the first model of this recreational water gun was named the SS50 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounter%20%28game%29 | Encounter is an international network of active urban games. Also known as "Схватка" (reads as 'skhvatka') (translated "Combat" from Russian) – the game that gave birth to this project.
Project history
The game rules applied today were developed by belarusian Ivan Masliukov in 2001 as part of the Skhvatka project. Ivan Masliukov was supporting the game at his own expense before the project was ceased in the end of 2001.
At the beginning of spring 2002 Ivan started seeking for donors to continue the project. Minsk internet provider "BelInfonet" company was there to sponsor the game. By June 2002 "Skhvatka" games were resumed.
Disputes over the project arose between Ivan Masliukov and "BelInfonet".
Developers of such games like "Hunt", "Skhvatka", and "Dozor" copied the main idea of Encounter, slightly altering the format and task management.
As a result, Ivan separated from partnership with BelInfonet and created an independent Encounter project. A noteworthy fact is both parties of the conflict registered their game name trademarks "Skhvatka" and "Encounter" in 2002 and 2004 correspondingly.
Konstantin Glushakov, who developed "Skhvatka" game application platform from scratch, headed the group of programmers who are currently working on the Encounter platform design and development.
After creation of the Encounter project Skvatka game, being one of several game formats, was called Combat.
Having gone through many stages of development, through criticism and disagreements with BelInfonet, the games labeled Encounter get held in many countries of the world: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, United States, Czech Republic, Poland, France, Germany, Israel and many other. Currently the project involves tens of thousands of participants.
In 2008 several new urban game formats were added to the Combat and Brainstorming. These were PhotoHunt, PhotoExtreme, WetWars, GeoCaching, Caching and Points. In 2009 VideoHunt appeared as a new game among other ones.
The same very year the first book about urban games called "Encounter. Night Extreme" written by Ivan Maslukov was issued.
The filming and processing of documentary about urban games "Encounter: lust for life" over by December 2009.
Stats
The service platform of Encounter makes it possible to hold various urban games within a city or a country. The project covers over 230 cities in Russia and CIS, France and Germany.
Since the beginning of the project more than 8000 games have been held with over 175 000 participants, project managers say.
In 2006 Russian magazine "Kommersant" wrote:
At the end of 2009 the administration of the game network published Encounter annual report:
a new game format Points was started and quickly gained popularity among participants (over 2000 games held)
new game formats PhotoSearch and PhotoMuseum based on the PhotoExtreme application were started
"Global live help" service launch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20Independence%20Model | The Binary Independence Model (BIM) in computing and information science is a probabilistic information retrieval technique. The model makes some simple assumptions to make the estimation of document/query similarity probable and feasible.
Definitions
The Binary Independence Assumption is the that documents are binary vectors. That is, only the presence or absence of terms in documents are recorded. Terms are independently distributed in the set of relevant documents and they are also independently distributed in the set of irrelevant documents.
The representation is an ordered set of Boolean variables. That is, the representation of a document or query is a vector with one Boolean element for each term under consideration. More specifically, a document is represented by a vector where if term t is present in the document d and if it's not. Many documents can have the same vector representation with this simplification. Queries are represented in a similar way.
"Independence" signifies that terms in the document are considered independently from each other and no association between terms is modeled. This assumption is very limiting, but it has been shown that it gives good enough results for many situations. This independence is the "naive" assumption of a Naive Bayes classifier, where properties that imply each other are nonetheless treated as independent for the sake of simplicity. This assumption allows the representation to be treated as an instance of a Vector space model by considering each term as a value of 0 or 1 along a dimension orthogonal to the dimensions used for the other terms.
The probability that a document is relevant derives from the probability of relevance of the terms vector of that document . By using the Bayes rule we get:
where and are the probabilities of retrieving a relevant or nonrelevant document, respectively. If so, then that document's representation is x.
The exact probabilities can not be known beforehand, so estimates from statistics about the collection of documents must be used.
and indicate the previous probability of retrieving a relevant or nonrelevant document respectively for a query q. If, for instance, we knew the percentage of relevant documents in the collection, then we could use it to estimate these probabilities.
Since a document is either relevant or nonrelevant to a query we have that:
Query Terms Weighting
Given a binary query and the dot product as the similarity function between a document and a query, the problem is to assign weights to the
terms in the query such that the retrieval effectiveness will be high. Let and be the probability that a relevant document and an irrelevant document has the term respectively. Yu and Salton, who first introduce BIM, propose that the weight of the term is an increasing function of . Thus, if is higher than , the weight
of term will be higher than that of term . Yu and Salton showed that such a weight assignment to query terms yi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex%20%28computer%20graphics%29 | A vertex (plural vertices) in computer graphics is a data structure that describes certain attributes, like the position of a point in 2D or 3D space, or multiple points on a surface.
Application to 3D models
3D models are most often represented as triangulated polyhedra forming a triangle mesh. Non-triangular surfaces can be converted to an array of triangles through tessellation. Attributes from the vertices are typically interpolated across mesh surfaces.
Vertex attributes
The vertices of triangles are associated not only with spatial position but also with other values used to render the object correctly. Most attributes of a vertex represent vectors in the space to be rendered. These vectors are typically 1 (x), 2 (x, y), or 3 (x, y, z) dimensional and can include a fourth homogeneous coordinate (w). These values are given meaning by a material description. In realtime rendering these properties are used by a vertex shader or vertex pipeline.
Such attributes can include:
See also
For how vertices are processed on 3D graphics cards, see shader.
References
Computer graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrow-tailed%20four-clawed%20gecko | The narrow-tailed four-clawed gecko or narrowhead dtella (Gehyra angusticaudata) is a species of gecko. It is endemic to eastern Thailand.
References
Angusticaudata
Geckos of Thailand
Endemic fauna of Thailand
Reptiles described in 1963
Taxa named by Edward Harrison Taylor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20statistics%20in%20the%20United%20Kingdom | Crime statistics in the United Kingdom refers to the data collected in the United Kingdom, and that collected by the individual areas, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, which operate separate judicial systems. It covers data related to crime in the United Kingdom. As with crime statistics elsewhere, they are broadly divided into victim studies and police statistics. More recently, third-party reporting is used to quantify specific under-reported issues, for example, hate crime.
Crime surveys
The Crime Survey for England and Wales is an attempt to measure both the amount of crime, and the impact of crime on England and Wales. The original survey (carried out in 1982, to cover the 1981 year) covered all three judicial areas of the UK, and was therefore referred to as the British Crime Survey, but now it only covers England and Wales. In Scotland and Northern Ireland, similar surveys, namely the Scottish Crime and Victimisation Survey and Northern Ireland Crime Survey have similar purposes. These surveys collect information about the victims of crime, the circumstances surrounding the crime, and the behaviour of the perpetrators. They are used to plan, and measure the results of, crime reduction or perception measures. In addition, they collect data about the perception of issues such as antisocial behaviour and the criminal justice system.
Other crime surveys include the Commercial Victimisation Survey, which covers small and medium-sized businesses, and the Offending, Crime and Justice Survey, with a particular focus on young people.
Background and counting rules
Until the late 1990s crime figures for varying crime types were not released to the general public at individual police force level. The annual publication 'Crime in England & Wales' produced by the Home Office began to break the figures down to a smaller area in 1996. Crime figures in England & Wales during the late 1990s and early 2000s were often misinterpreted in the media and scrutinised because of frequent changes in the way crimes were counted and recorded that lead to rises in the crime category 'Violence Against the Person'.
Commenting on figures from 1 April 1998 onwards, the then-Home Secretary Jack Straw said "changes in the way crime statistics are compiled are in line with recommendations by senior police officers. They are intended to give a more accurate picture of the level of offences". The largest increases were recorded in the "Violence Against the Person" category owing to the inclusion of common assault figures to accompany other offence types within this category that include assault occasioning actual bodily harm, grievous bodily harm, harassment, murder, possession of offensive weapons and a selection of other low volume violent crimes grouped together by the Metropolitan Police as 'other violence'.
The change in counting rules, and the significant impact it had on violence against the person figures, was often misconstrued by the media as r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan%20Planet%20Search%20Program | The Magellan Planet Search Program is a ground-based search for extrasolar planets that makes use of the radial velocity method. It began gathering data in December 2002 using the MIKE echelle spectrograph mounted on the 6.5m Magellan II "Clay" telescope located within the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile.
In 2010, the program began using the newly commissioned Planet Finder Spectrograph (PFS), an instrument purpose-built for precise radial velocity measurement.
Specifications
The Magellan Planet Search uses a molecular Iodine absorption cell to imprint a set of extremely well known absorption lines onto each stellar spectrum that act as a fiducial wavelength reference. In the early years of the program, MIKE spectra were collected with a resolving power, R, of about 65,000 and achieved velocity precision of several meters per second. Using PFS, most spectra are collected with a resolving power of about 80,000 and velocity precision closer to one meter per second.
Observations
The program has surveyed approximately 500 stars with spectral types ranging from F7 to M5. Stars included in the program were initially chosen to minimize overlap with two complementary surveys: the Anglo-Australian Planet Search (AAT) and the Keck Hi-Res planet search. The Magellan Planet Search has discovered a number of extrasolar planets using MIKE data alone, PFS data alone, a combination of the two, and a combination of these and data collected using other telescopes and instruments. For example, an early announcement was made in January 2010 regarding the discovery of five long period, Jovian mass planets in eccentric orbits around G and K type dwarfs.
Extrasolar planets discovered
As of December 2013, the program had announced the following discoveries:
HD 48265 b
HD 86226 b
HD 129445 b
HD 143361 b
HD 152079 b
Caleuche
HD 175167 b
HD 28185 b
HD 111232 b
HD 106906 b
References
Exoplanet search projects
Astronomical surveys
Observational astronomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVC4WPF | MVC4WPF for computer software is an open-source, extensible, automated code pattern developed at Information Control Corporation for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) development based on the Model–View–Controller (MVC) and Presentation–Abstraction–Control (PAC) patterns. It was released to the general public as an open source project on July 23, 2009. It depends on Microsoft's .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 for functionality. The MVC4WPF source code for the 0.9 beta is available for download on CodePlex.
Pattern description
MVC4WPF is not a new architectural pattern but is rather a hybrid derived from two older patterns supported by an automation system and development tenets. The authors refer to it as an automated code pattern rather than a framework because design frameworks create a logical environment that must be used in a precise manner; whereas, MVC4WPF promotes a more flexible environment that is intended to be adapted to the solution without restrictions. However, MVC4WPF does support code libraries, snippets, and uses the supporting language associated with WPF (XAML), giving it many characteristics of a design pattern.
Creators Stephen Giffin and John Hannah state in their three part broadcast on Channel 9 (discussion forum) that MVC4WPF is designed to take advantage of the MVC pattern's flexibility in problem solving while the PAC pattern provides a hierarchy through parent-child controller interactions. All interactions between layers are managed by contracts which dictate the terms which parent and child layers interact. Because of these contracts, the model, view and controller layers have a great deal of flexibility in how they interact, handle data, or are constructed. All that is required is that contract terms are met. For example, a model (data) layer may consist of a local database, Web feeds, or any other information provided that the given model meets all of the requirements of its contract. This contract-centered approach increases the potential flexibility of applications as well as proscribes the conditions for testing code (i.e. contracts set the testing conditions). It also promotes development specialization, as developers only need to understand their area of expertise and how to meet their contract requirements.
The hierarchical flow of the pattern stems from the parent-child relationships. Controllers always hold parent relationships to Views and Models, while Controllers can be parents or children to other Controllers. As such, Controller layers drive much of the pattern and receive information from any Controller that is one of its children. Because of this design and WPF's ability to propagate information internally, passing data up and down parent-child relationships becomes very efficient, requiring little supporting code.
MVC4WPF is intended primarily for creating enterprise applications in which teams of specialists may work together to create specific areas or in applications which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daiana%20Menezes | Daiana Alves Menezes (born June 20, 1987) is a Brazilian actress, singer, and television host based in the Philippines and working for GMA Network. Menezes is best known as one of the hosts of Eat Bulaga!.
Career
Menezes worked with her father in their growing shoe business, leading her to take a Fashion Design business course. She later graduated from the New York Film Academy. Offers from several countries, including Thailand, were followed by one in the Philippines. She appeared in various commercials internationally before becoming a TV personality in the Philippines on TV5, ABS-CBN, and GMA Network. She was featured in Maxim Philippines' June 2009 issue and in FHM Philippines' October 2011, 2014, and 2017 issue.
She endorses Baliwag Lechon, Master Siomai, Flauntit, Rebisco Hansel Crackers, Texas Wild chips, Choco Mucho, Judge (chewing gum), Sassa Activewear, Belo, Pretty Looks, Lady Grace and Ever Bilena, Mike Cervera Hair, Shell, and Scratch It!.
Menezes was awarded 2022 best host on the best choice awards and best television host and singer of 2022 on Pinnacle Awards, 2020 NCCA for "performing arts singing", and previously the prestigious 2012, 2014, and 2015 Global Achiever Awardee as Outstanding Ramp Model and Commercial Endorser by the Asia Pacific Awards Council (APAC) during the 20th Annual Asia Pacific Excellence Awards, headed by chairman Jonathan Navea and Japanese educator Dr. Seiji Yii-Kagawa.
Menezes also got the highest, record-breaking bid for a second-hand bikini to help raise funds for a beach environment in the Philippines. The bidder paid 100,000.00 pesos for her used bikini on November 28, 2012.
Menezes is the main host of two taped (not live) TV shows on Pinoy Xtreme, Super Sabong (since 2015) and #chikatitas. She is now concentrating on her music with the 8ONE group.
Personal life
As a college student, Menezes was an international model, pianist, and painter. She went to Centro Universitário UNA, taking Fashion Design in Belo Horizonte New York FILM ACADEMY graduate New York City. Her father runs a shoe business in Brazil and created the franchise named after what Daiana chose as a store name. A small town, Bairro Menezes in Cataguases, Minas Gerais, was named after her grandfather, Romualdo Menezes.
In 2013, Menezes joined PETA's campaign to free Mali from Manila Zoo and have her transferred to Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary where she will have access to proper veterinary care, space to roam, and to be in the company of other elephants. Mali has been in captivity in Manila for more than 3 decades after she was poached from the wild.
Menezes was married to Jose Benjamin Benaldo, who attempted suicide after he lost in the 2013 elections.
Filmography
Television
Film
Online
References
Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Daiana Meneses is on FHM's Cover!
External links
1987 births
Living people
Brazilian expatriates in the Philippines
Brazilian television personalities
Brazilian female models
Actors from Belo Horizonte
Mu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress%20Embedded%20Database | Empress Embedded Database is a relational database management system that has been embedded into applications, including medical systems, network routers, nuclear power plant monitors, satellite management systems. Empress is an ACID compliant relational database management system (RDBMS) with two-phase commit and several transaction isolation levels for real-time embedded applications. It supports both persistent and in-memory storage of data and works with text, binary, multimedia, as well as traditional data.
History
The first version of Empress was created by John Kornatowski and Ivor Ladd in 1979 and was originally named MISTRESS. It was based on research done on "MRS: A microcomputer database management system" at the University of Toronto, which was published by the Association for Computing Machinery in SIGSMALL SIGMOD 1981. The commercial version was one of the first available relational database management systems (RDBMS) and was named Empress. Its first customer ship was in early 1981. Empress was the first commercial database to be available on Linux. Its Linux release dates back to early 1995.
API and architecture
Empress supports many application programming interfaces in several programming languages. The C programming language has the most APIs including the low-level kernel MR Routines, Embedded SQL, MSCALL and ODBC. There are also APIs for C++ and JAVA. The layered architecture design provides levels of system optimization for application development. Applications developed using these APIs may be run in standalone and/or server modes.
Product features
Kernel API
SQL API
Fast Bulk Data Handling (BLOBs)
Bulk Chunks
Unlimited Attributes
File Indices
Persistent Stored Modules
Triggers
Stored Procedures
No Pre-Partitioning required
Referential Constraints
Range Checks
Micro-Second Time Stamps
Layered Architecture
Text Search Index
Spatial Search Index
Cancel Functionality
Hierarchical Query
JDBC Interface
C++ APIs
Database Encryption
64 BIT Operating System Versions
UTF-8
UNICODE & National Language Support
Replication Server
Time-out Function
Supported platforms
Empress runs on all major Android, Linux-, Real-Time- and Windows-supported platforms:
Android
BlueCat Linux
Debian
Fedora
HP-UX
AIX
Linux
LynxOS RTOS
MontaVista Linux
QNX Neutrino
Red Hat Linux
Solaris
Suse Linux
Ubuntu
Unix
VxWorks
Windows CE
Windows Mobile
Windows XP
Windows 7
Wind River Linux
References
External links
Product Reviews: Empress RDBMS and Just Logic by Rob Wehrli
Data
Embedded databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo%20System%20Development | commonly abbreviated as Nintendo SDD and formerly known as Nintendo Network Business & Development (NBD), Nintendo Network Service Development (NSD), and Nintendo Special Planning & Development (SPD), was a Japanese division located in the Nintendo Research Institute in Kyoto, Japan, until it moved to the Nintendo Development Center, also in Kyoto. The division consisted of a single development team that focused on software and peripheral development. SDD was composed of two development departments with different duties: the Network Development & Operations Department, which handled Nintendo Network service programming, in cooperation with Nintendo Network Service Database, and the Environment Development Department, which developed Software Development Kits (SDKs), among other technologies.
On September 16, 2015, SDD merged with Nintendo Integrated Research & Development (IRD), becoming the Nintendo Platform Technology Development.
History
The Nintendo Special Planning & Development team originated from former Nintendo R&D2 staff, and was mainly responsible for ports and in-house development for low profile hardware, such as the Pokémon Mini and the Super Famicom Satellaview service. Most of the software developed by this group has remained domestic having hardly ever seen release outside Japan. The original general manager, Satoshi Yamato, produced all of the software which included in-house software for the Game Boy Advance, and the e-Reader. The group also created mechanical devices and peripherals like the Pokéwalker and Pokémotion. The last general manager, Masaru Shimomura described the Mechanical Design Group as a small creative unit that has a hardware and a software team working jointly together to create innovative products.
In 2008, Nintendo SPD was renamed to Nintendo Network Service Development. In 2011, the Nintendo NSD development team was consolidated into a division and was renamed to Nintendo Network Business & Development, appointing Masaru Shimomura as manager. Following the change, the Nintendo Network Business department was created. The department contained two different groups: the former Mechanical Design Group, which was responsible for developing software titles and peripherals, as well the new Network Planning Group, which was responsible for developing Nintendo Network services.
In 2013, the division renamed to Nintendo System Development Division. Nintendo consolidated the Network Planning Group into a department named Network Development & Operations Department which was responsible for handling Nintendo Network service programming in cooperation with Nintendo Network Service Database, and created the Environment Development Department', which developed Software Development Kits (SDKs), among experimental technologies. With the change, the Mechanical Design Group was dissolved.
On September 16, 2015, SDD merged with Nintendo Integrated Research & Development (IRD), becoming the Nintendo Platform Technology De |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocesan%20Schools%20Group%20of%20Pagadian | Diocesan Schools Group of Pagadian (also referred as the Diocesan Schools of Pagadian) is the network of sixteen schools under the administration and control of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pagadian. The schools are governed by the Bishop of Pagadian, Most Rev. Emmanuel T. Cabajar, C.Ss.R, through the Diocesan Schools Superintendent, Rev. Foelan G. Echavez, M.A.
Prior to the takeover in the 1970s under Bishop Jesus B. Tuquib , Holy Child Academy, Star of the Sea High School, Immaculate Heart Academy, and Saint Columban College were run by the Missionary Society of St. Columban.
Tertiary
Saint Columban College
Columban is the largest among the diocesan schools. Operating in three campuses in Pagadian City, the College offers elementary, secondary, and tertiary education.
Sta. Maria Goretti College
Sta. Maria Goretti has not developed its own undergraduate programs. It offered undergraduate programs while serving as a satellite campus for Saint Columban College. However, due to the preference of students to attend college in cities like Ozamis and Pagadian, it ceased offering the same programs.
Major Secondary Institutions
Holy Child Academy
Holy Child Academy or "HCA", is the oldest diocesan school. Established in 1940, HCA is also the second oldest school in Pagadian City and the Province of Zamboanga del Sur following the Southern Mindanao Colleges. HCA began as a parochial school, pioneering Catholic education in the Province.
Star of the Sea High School
Star of the Sea is the only private academic institution in the Municipality of Tukuran in Zamboanga del Sur.
Immaculate Heart Academy
Immaculate Heart Academy or "IHA", colloquially pronounced as , is the largest academic institution in the Municipality of Dumalinao in Zamboanga del Sur.
Other Institutions
The following are the other academic institutions in the Province of Zamboanga del Sur under the control of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pagadian.
See also
Roman Catholic Diocese of Pagadian
Missionary Society of St. Columban
Zamboanga del Sur
References
External links
Roman Catholic Diocese of Pagadian
Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines
St. Columban College
Roman Catholic Diocese of Pagadian (Educational Centers)
Catholic elementary schools in the Philippines
Schools in Pagadian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magix%20Samplitude | MAGIX Samplitude/ Sequoia is a computer program made by MAGIX for recording, editing, mixing, mastering and outputting audio. The first version was released in 1992 for the Amiga and three years later for Microsoft Windows. The latest versions of the software are Samplitude Pro X5, Samplitude Pro X5 Suite and Sequoia 16. Samplitude is an example of a digital audio workstation (DAW).
Features
Samplitude is like most DAWs in that it allows the user to:
Record and manipulate multitrack digital audio
Record and manipulate MIDI data
Apply effects, such as reverb and delay, some versions of Samplitude come bundled with effects
Automate the process of mixing audio
Utilize virtual instruments, such as software synthesizers, software samplers, software drum machines
Connect to other multimedia applications with sample accuracy via ReWire
Samplitude uses the term "objects" for what other DAWs call "clips" (Pro-Tools, et al.) or "items" (Reaper, et al.). In Samplitude, an "object" is a graphical representation of a piece of audio or MIDI data that appears on a Track in the Arranger window. If the object is an Audio object, it will look like a standard graphic of a Wav file. If the object is a MIDI object, it will appear as a series of square dots that represent the MIDI notes contained therein. Through the Object Editor, various controls and effects (Pan, Volume, Invert Phase, Timestretch, Pitchshift, VST plugins, Magix Plugins, etc.) can be applied at the Object level as opposed to being applied at the Track level.
Objects can be created in Samplitude either by importing them or by recording. Objects created by recording appear as a continuous, unbroken rectangle on the Track. However, objects can also be "split", creating multiple smaller objects from a larger one, or "glued", which combines multiple smaller objects into one larger one.
Samplitude Pro X2 Suite also includes a variety of high-quality built-in effects, including the AM-munition Compressor/Limiter, the AM-Suite (Analogue Modeling Suite), and Vandal (Guitar and Bass Amp simulator). Samplitude also includes the essentialFX Suite, which are 10 plug-ins using high quality algorithms that have low resource demands. Samplitude Pro X2 Suite also includes the Independence Sampler Workstation that includes 70GB of content (Samplitude Pro X2 only 12GB).
History
In 1992 the first version of Samplitude, written for the Amiga platform, was completed. It was mainly a sample editor with 24-bit audio processing. One year later, Samplitude Pro II came with hard disk recording.
In 1995 Samplitude was released for Microsoft Windows 3.1. Three versions were available:
Multimedia (four tracks) with virtual editing, real-time surround effect, integration of MIDI and AVI
Pro (8 tracks) like Multimedia Version plus features such as resampling, timestretching, pitch-shifting, MIDI sample dump
Studio (16 tracks) like Pro Version plus features such as external sync and various digital filters
In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeSharers | LifeSharers was a nonprofit United States-based organization which functioned as an organ donation network. By agreeing to donate their organs to the network, they received priority in receiving organs from other members of the network.
LifeSharers was founded by Dave Undis in 2002. He believed that the best way to encourage increased organ donation was to ensure those willing to donate receive priority in receiving organs. The concept has been criticized by those who believe that decisions of priority should be based on purely medical criteria.
On March 21, 2016, a post on the Lifesharers blog announced that the network had shut down.
References
Transplant organizations
Medical and health organizations based in the United States
Defunct organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E772 | European route E772 is a class B road, part of the International E-road network in Bulgaria. It connects the two sections of the Hemus motorway (A2) constructed so far, and is part of one of the most important transport corridors in the country: from the capital Sofia in the west to Varna and the northern Bulgarian Black Sea Coast in the east.
The road starts near Yablanitsa and ends near Shumen. It serves as a connection between the provincial capitals Shumen, Targovishte, Veliko Tarnovo and Lovech with Sofia and the port of Varna. It is a two-lane road (one lane in each direction). There are few three-lane parts for overtaking. The road surface is in a comparatively good condition since it is one of the main roads in northern Bulgaria and will remain so until the completion of the Hemus motorway.
Route
E83 Jablanica
E85 Veliko Tarnovo
E70 Šumen
See also
Roads in Bulgaria
Highways in Bulgaria
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
799772
E772 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Climate%20Assessment%20and%20Dataset | The European Climate Assessment and Dataset (ECA&D) is a database of daily meteorological station observations across Europe and is gradually being extended to countries in the Middle East and North Africa. ECA&D has attained the status of Regional Climate Centre for high-resolution observation data in World Meteorological Organization Region VI (Europe and the Middle East).
The objective of ECA&D is to monitor and analyze climate and changes in climate with a focus on climate extremes while making the data publicly available to download. Included in the database is a collection of daily series observations obtained from climatological divisions of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs), observatories and research centres throughout Europe and the Mediterranean. The daily series of observations is combined with quality control and analysis of extremes via climate change indices.
The ECA&D project is initiated by the European Climate Support Network (ECSN) and is coordinated at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (Dutch: Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut or KNMI) which now funds the project after it was initially funded by EUMETNET, the network of European national meteorological services.
Participants
, the European Climate Assessment and Dataset contains 13472 series of observations at 3314 meteorological stations provided by 56 participants from 61 different countries and is constantly expanding. These participants contribute daily, quality controlled data from (a subset) of their national meteorological station networks. In order to ensure that each station's time series are as complete as possible, the database contains an automated update procedure that relies on daily data from SYNOP (surface synoptic observations) messages that are distributed in near real-time over the Global Telecommunication System (GTS). Any gaps in data are infilled with observations from nearby stations, provided they are within a distance radius and within a height range of less than . These series are referred to as blended series and are used for calculating the ECA&D indices of extremes (see below) and are also used in the E–OBS daily gridded observational dataset (see below).
Participation in ECA&D is open to anyone maintaining daily station data.
Data availability
Data is available for the following elements:
Temperature
Mean temperature
Maximum temperature
Minimum temperature
Cloud cover
Humidity
Precipitation amount
Wind
Wind speed
Wind gust
Wind direction
Sunshine
Snow depth
Pressure
As of June 2010, the number of stations providing data involving temperature is on the order of 1500, and nearly 3000 stations contribute precipitation data. In contrast, the number of stations currently providing data for the other elements ranges from approximately 150 (wind direction) to 900 (snow depth). Data collection for the elements other than temperature and precipitation began later so the data availabil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing%20Machine%20Laboratory | The Computing Machine Laboratory at the University of Manchester in the north of England was established by Max Newman shortly after the end of World War II, around 1946.
The Laboratory was funded through a grant from the Royal Society, which was approved in the summer of 1946. He recruited the engineers Frederic Calland Williams and Thomas Kilburn where they built the world's first electronic stored-program digital computer, which came to be known as the Manchester Baby. Their prototype ran its first program on 21 June 1948.
References
1946 establishments in England
Year of disestablishment missing
Buildings at the University of Manchester
Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
University and college laboratories in the United Kingdom
Royal Society
History of computing in the United Kingdom
Alan Turing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarines%3A%20A%20Warhammer%2040%2C000%20Movie | Ultramarines: A Warhammer 40,000 Movie is a 2010 British adult computer-animated action science fiction film set in Games Workshop's fictional Warhammer 40,000 universe and based on the Ultramarines Chapter of the Space Marines. Terence Stamp, Sean Pertwee, and John Hurt head the cast of voice actors, and the screenplay was written by Black Library author Dan Abnett.
Plot
The film opens with footage from the planet Mithron with a group of Space Marines of the Imperial Fists Chapter under attack from an unknown enemy. A Space Marine by the name of Nidon is told to protect "the Codex" and races to obey his orders, just before a fireball engulfs them all. Elsewhere, aboard a Space Marine Strike Cruiser, Brother Proteus and Captain Severus of the Ultramarines Chapter’s 2nd Company spar in a training duel. Proteus manages to disarm Severus; however, he quickly escapes Proteus's grasp and in turn defeats him, proclaiming that a Space Marine never yields. Following this, Proteus and the other newly initiated members of the 2nd Company’s Ultima Squad are then shown a sacred weapon in their ship's reclusium, a Relic Thunder Hammer. The Captain and his right-hand man, Apothecary Pythol, lead the initiates in a swearing-in ceremony on the Hammer. With the ceremony finished, Ultima Squad prepare themselves for their first mission as a squad—a sortie to the planet of Mithron.
In orbit above the planet, Captain Severus departs the cruiser with only Pythol and the ten-strong Ultima Squad as support, all of whom are highly eager to prove themselves in battle finally. En route to the planet's surface, Severus addresses the squad, informing them of the distress call received shortly before all contact with the planet was lost, and how it is still unclear whether it is automated or not. Soon enough, they arrive on the tough and unforgiving desert surface of Mithron, and head in the direction of the only location of importance on the planet: a shrine guarded by a full company of one hundred Marines from the Imperial Fists. En route to the shrine, Proteus senses something shadowing them and opens fire on it, but when the others fail to find any evidence of their supposed pursuer, they quickly dismiss his concerns as just nerves, something which Proteus denies. Soon afterward though, Ultima Squad discovers that a terrible battle has indeed taken place, with the garrison force annihilated and the planet's Imperial shrine desecrated. It is also evident that the forces of Chaos are responsible, and against Pythol’s advice to retreat, Severus decides they must continue the mission to search for any remaining survivors.
While approaching the ruins, the Ultramarines are ambushed by the Black Legion. Three of the Ultramarines (squad leader Veteran Sergeant Crastor, Brother Lycos, and Brother Boreas) are killed, but the ambush is thwarted. The squad then continues on, and eventually makes it inside the shrine. While traveling through a dark passage, though, they are attack |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad | The iPad is a brand of iOS and iPadOS-based tablet computers that are developed by Apple Inc., first introduced on January 27, 2010. The iPad range consists of the original iPad lineup and the flagship products iPad Mini, iPad Air, and iPad Pro.
The iPhone's iOS operating system (OS) was initially used for the iPad but in September 2019, its OS was switched to a fork of iOS called iPadOS that has better support for the device's hardware and its user interface is customized for the tablets' larger screens. The iPad's App Store is subject to application and content approval. Many older devices are susceptible to jailbreaking, which circumvents these restrictions. The original iPad was well-received for its software and was recognized as one of the most-influential inventions of 2010.
As of the third quarter of 2021, iPad had a market share of 34.6%; beside personal use, the iPad is used in the business, education, healthcare, and technology sectors. There are two variants of iPad; one has only Wi-Fi and one has support for cellular networks. Accessories include the Apple Pencil, Smart Case, Smart Keyboard, Smart Keyboard Folio, Magic Keyboard, and several adapters.
History
Background
Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs said in a 1983 speech: "What we want to do is we want to put an incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you and learn how to use in 20 minutes... and we really want to do it with a radio link in it so you don't have to hook up to anything and you're in communication with all of these larger databases and other computers".
In 1993, Apple worked on the Newton MessagePad, a tablet-like personal digital assistant (PDA). John Sculley, Apple's chief executive officer, led the development. The MessagePad was poorly received for its indecipherable handwriting recognition feature and was discontinued at the direction of Jobs, who returned to Apple in 1998 after an internal power struggle. Apple also prototyped a PowerBook Duo–based tablet computer but decided not to release it to avoid hurting MessagePad sales.
In May 2004, Apple filed a design trademark patent in Europe for a handheld computer, hypothetically referencing the iPad, beginning a new round of speculation that led to a 2003 report of Apple-affiliated manufacturer Quanta leaking Apple's orders for wireless displays. In May 2005, Apple filed US Design Patent No. D504,889 that included an illustration depicting a man touching and using a tablet device. In August 2008, Apple filed a 50-page patent application that includes an illustration of hands touching and gesturing on a tablet computer. In September 2009, Taiwan Economic News, citing "industry sources", reported the tablet computer Apple was working on would be announced in February 2010, although the announcement was made in that year's January.
The iPad's concept predates that of the iPhone, although the iPhone was developed and released before the iPad. In 1991, Apple's chief design officer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Books | Apple Books (formerly known as iBooks between January 2010 and September 2018) is an e-book reading and store application by Apple Inc. for its iOS, iPadOS and macOS operating systems and devices. It was announced, under the name iBooks, in conjunction with the iPad on January 27, 2010, and was released for the iPhone and iPod Touch in mid-2010, as part of the iOS 4 update. Initially, iBooks was not pre-loaded onto iOS devices, but users could install it free of charge from the iTunes App Store. With the release of iOS 8, it became an integrated app. On June 10, 2013, at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Craig Federighi announced that iBooks would also be provided with OS X Mavericks in fall 2013.
It primarily receives EPUB content from the Apple Books store, but users can also add their own EPUB and Portable Document Format (PDF) files via data synchronization with iTunes. Additionally, the files can be downloaded to Apple Books through Safari or Apple Mail. It is also capable of displaying e-books that incorporate multimedia. According to product information as of March 2010, iBooks will be able to "read the contents of any page [to the user]" using VoiceOver.
On January 19, 2012, at an education-focused special event in New York City, Apple announced the free release of iBooks 2, which can operate in landscape mode and allows for interactive reading. In addition, a new application, iBooks Author, was announced for the Mac App Store, allowing anyone to create interactive textbooks for reading in iBooks; and the iBooks Store was expanded with a textbook category. The iBooks Author Conference, an annual gathering of digital content creators around Apple's iBooks Author, has convened between 2015 and 2017. Apple discontinued iBooks Author in 2020, its functionality having been integrated into Pages.
In September 2018, iBooks was renamed "Apple Books" upon the release of iOS 12 and macOS Mojave. It features a new variation of the San Francisco typeface known as "SF Serif", which was later revealed to be released in six optical weights under the "New York" name.
History
iBooks was announced alongside the iPad at a press conference in January 2010. The store itself, however, was released in America three days before the iPad with the introduction of iTunes 9.1. This was supposedly to prevent too much traffic on Apple's servers, as they have been overloaded with previous releases of the iPhone. On the day of its launch, on March 31, 2010, the iBooks Store collection comprised some 60,000 titles.
On April 8, 2010, Apple announced that iBooks would be updated to support the iPhone and iPod Touch with iOS 4. As a result, iBooks was not supported on first-generation iPhones and iPod Touches.
On June 8, 2010 at the WWDC Keynote it was announced that iBooks would be updated that month to read PDF files as well as have the ability to annotate both PDFs and eBooks.
As of July 1, 2010, Apple expanded iBooks availability to Canada.
Upon its re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumi%20Makgabo | Tumi Makgabo (born c. 1974/75) is a South African television presenter. From 2000 to 2005 she was a current affairs presenter at Cable News Network (CNN) International and anchor of its Inside Africa programme interviewing among others Thabo Mbeki, George W. Bush, Shimon Peres and Oprah Winfrey. She was based at the headquarters in Atlanta. Before that, she had worked for SABC.
After CNN she returned to her home country to help prepare for the upcoming soccer world cup. From 2006 to 2008, she was head of communications and international relations at the 2010 LOC ( Local Organising Committee) but abruptly quit on February 8 without giving reasons.
Career
Tumi Makgabo has been a broadcaster for more than a decade both in South Africa and as anchor and co-producer of 'Inside Africa' at the global news network CNN International's headquarters in Atlanta, US. In 2006, she established her production company, 'Tumi & Co.', which produced ‘Talk with Tumi Makgabo’ for M-Net and continues to produce long-form and documentary content for broadcast and in-house use. Her company also runs media skills development programmes for corporates as well as individuals.
Until early 2008, Makgabo was the International Affairs and Communications Manager and spokesperson for the 2010 FIFA World Cup Organising Committee South Africa and in the same year she was selected to join the World Economic Forum's Forum of Young Global Leaders.
Makgabo has also served as a speaker and commentator on broadcasting and media in Africa for global organisations including the United Nations Development Fund, the European Commission, The World Economic Forum, Kofi Annan's Association for a Green Revolution in Africa and the IUCN.
Makgabo holds several board positions including South African Tourism, Sun International and is a newly appointed member of the Global Agenda Council on the Gender Gap. In recognition of her work in broadcasting, Makgabo is a recipient of an Eagle Award, a Rapport City Press Prestige Award, a DuPont Award as well as the African People's Intercontinental Broadcaster of the Year Award amongst others.
Makgabo is one of the directors at Foschini Group (TFG)
References
External links
Official website
Living people
South African television presenters
South African women television presenters
CNN people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klumpenhouwer%20network | A Klumpenhouwer Network, named after its inventor, Canadian music theorist and former doctoral student of David Lewin's at Harvard, Henry Klumpenhouwer, is "any network that uses T and/or I operations (transposition or inversion) to interpret interrelations among pcs" (pitch class sets). According to George Perle, "a Klumpenhouwer network is a chord analyzed in terms of its dyadic sums and differences," and "this kind of analysis of triadic combinations was implicit in," his "concept of the cyclic set from the beginning", cyclic sets being those "sets whose alternate elements unfold complementary cycles of a single interval."
"Klumpenhouwer's idea, both simple and profound in its implications, is to allow inversional, as well as transpositional, relations into networks like those of Figure 1," showing an arrow down from B to F labeled T7, down from F to A labeled T3, and back up from A to B, labeled T10 which allows it to be represented by Figure 2a, for example, labeled I5, I3, and T2. In Figure 4 this is (b) I7, I5, T2 and (c) I5, I3, T2.
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Lewin asserts the "recursive potential of K-network analysis"... "'in great generality: When a system modulates by an operation A, the transformation f = A f A -inverse plays the structural role in the modulated system that f played in the original system."
Given any network of pitch classes, and given any pc operation A, a second network may be derived from the first, and the relationship thereby derived 'network isomorphism' "arises between networks using analogous configurations of nodes and arrows to interpret pcsets that are of the same set class – 'isomorphism of graphs'. Two graphs are isomorphic when they share the same structure of nodes-and-arrows, and when also the operations labeling corresponding arrows correspond under a particular sort of mapping f among T/I."
"To generate isomorphic graphs, the mapping f must be what is called an automorphism of the T/I system. Networks that have isomorphic graphs are called isographic."
To be isographic, two networks must have these features:
They must have the same configuration of nodes and arrows.
There must be some isomorphism F that maps the transformation-system used to label the arrows of one network, into the transformation-system used to label the arrows of the other.
If the transformation X labels an arrow of the one network, then the transformation F(X) labels the corresponding arrow of the other."
"Two networks are positively isographic when they share the same configuration of nodes and arrows, when the T-numbers of corresponding arrows are equal, and when the I-numbers of corresponding arrows differ by some fixed number j mod 12." "We call networks that contain identical graphs 'strongly isographic'". "Let the family of transpositions and inversions on pitch classes be called 'the T/I group.'"
"Any network can be retrograded by reversing all arrows and adjusting the transformations accordingly."
Klumpenhouwer's [true] conjecture: "node |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comitas%20arcana | Comitas rotundata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.
Description
The length of the shell attains 25 mm, its diameter 9 mm.
The dark white shell has a fusiform shape, and an acuminate, turreted spire. It contains about 10 whorls. The upper portion of the whorl is declining and concave. Below the whorls are angulated and tuberculated at the angles. These rather sharp tubercles number 12 on the body whorl. The transverse striae upon the upper concave portion of the whorls are finer and less conspicuous than those below the row of tubercles. The aperture is narrowed in front and measures about ½ the total length. The columella is a little oblique and is callous. The outer lip is tenuous, widely sinuate and prominently arcuate in the middle.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Southwest India and the Andamans.
References
E.A. Smith, Illustrations of the Zoology of H.M. Indian Marine Surveying Steamer Investigator. Part I: Mollusca (1897-1908)
External links
arcana
Gastropods described in 1899 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comitas%20breviplicata | Comitas rotundata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae, the turrids and allies.
Description
The white, slender shell has a fusiform shape, and an acuminate, turreted spire. It contains 10 whorls. The protoconch is subglobose and smooth. The subsequent whorls are angulated in the middle, concave in the upper portion and contracted below. The plicae are delicate, oblique, about thirteen in number, and very short, commencing at the median angle and scarcely reaching the suture below. The aperture and the long siphonal canal measure about ½ the total length. The outer lip is tenuous, widely sinuate and prominently arcuate in the middle, and near the suture slightly sinuate. The columella is smooth and almost upright. The narrow siphonal canal is slightly oblique.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Andamans.
References
E.A. Smith, Illustrations of the Zoology of H.M. Indian Marine Surveying Steamer Investigator. Part I: Mollusca (1897-1908)
External links
breviplicata
Gastropods described in 1899 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comitas%20rotundata | Comitas rotundata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pseudomelatomidae.
Description
(Original description) The shell is high, narrow, fusiform and conical. It has rounded whorls and a shallow suture, below which the inferior whorl swells out tumidly. The body whorl is short and rounded, with a constricted conical base and a long narrow aperture.
Sculpture: Longitudinals— there are strongish, close-set, rounded, hair-like lines of growth, specially strong below the suture. Spirals — over the whole surface are strong, but unequal, rather distant,
sharpish threads. Those in the sutural area are, with two or three exceptions, weaker than those elsewhere. About three at the periphery are somewhat prominent.
The colour of the shell is porcelain-white under a thin yellow epidermis. The sutureis fine, superficial, but well defined. The aperture is club-shaped, being oval, with a long narrow siphonal canal below and a blunt angulation
above. The outer lip is very evenly curved, but a little more steeply above than below.;It is drawn out into a long straight line along the side of the siphonal canal. The edge-line, on leaving the body, retreats very straight toward the left to the rather remote, wide, and openly rounded, but very deep sinus, between which and the body whorl lies an acute triangular shelf, while below is the very high shouldered and prominent lip. The inner lip is exceptionally narrow, but strong and marginated. It is very little concave at the junction of the body and the columella, which is long, narrow, and is cut off at the point with a long, little oblique, sharp, and scarcely twisted edge.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Mid-Pacific, east of Japan.
References
R.B. Watson, 1886; Preliminary Report on the Scaphopoda and Gasteropoda collected by the H. M. S. Challenger during the years 1873–76; Journal of the Linnean Society of London vol. XV p. 399
A.W.B. Powell, 1966, 969. The family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific. Pt. 2. The subfamily Turriculinae. IndoPacific Mollusca 2 (10): 207-414
R.N. Kilburn, Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 3. Subfamily Borsoniinae; Ann. Natal Mus. Vol. 27(2), December 1986
External links
rotundata
Gastropods described in 1881 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synex%20Systems%20Corporation | Synex Systems Corporation, a subsidiary of Synex International Inc. (Symbol SXI, TSX) was formed in 1983 in an effort to develop software for the microcomputer market and was run by Synex International Vice President Murray Hendren until 1992. In 2002, Synex Systems was acquired by privately owned Lasata Software of Perth, Australia. In 2005, Lasata was acquired by UK based Systems Union. In 2007, Systems Union was acquired by privately held Infor Global Solutions, a U.S. company that specializes in enterprise software.
What was Synex Systems Corporation now operates as an independent business unit within Infor Global Solutions called F9 and continues to develop and partner with new and existing ERP and Accounting Software solutions. It is located in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Products
Synex Systems products were diverse and targeted accounting, civil engineering, minicomputer thin client, and file compression utility markets. By 2001 the concentration was only on the accounting reporting product F9 and all other products were discontinued or sold.
PK Harmony
PK Harmony was Synex System's first software offering. It is a terminal emulation package that would now be termed a thin client.
PK Harmony provides an interface from a PC to a Pick host by emulating a terminal. Connectivity is achieved by serial port-to-port cabling or a modem.
PK Harmony allows users to transfer data to and from a Pick operating system legacy host and a DOS or Windows based PC. Development started in 1983.
PK Harmony was purchased by Pierre Bourbonnais, a former senior Synex marketing team member, and is now marketed as PK Harmony - PK Term Plus through TechnoDroids CyberCorp.
F9
F9 Financial Reporting was developed starting in 1986 to allow a non-technical user, typically an accountant, to create a dynamic, customized general ledger financial report using a spreadsheet that is 'hot-linked' to an accounting system's general ledger
This product is currently in wide use, is still being updated, and is the longest lasting and most profitable of the products developed by Synex Systems.
SQZ!
In the late 1980s microcomputer (PC) use in offices was ubiquitous and the most used program was the spreadsheet. Hard drive space was limited and expensive and many businesses found the plethora of spreadsheets they came to rely upon exceeded the space on the drives. SQZ was the first automatic file compression utility when it was introduced as Symantec's second product offering in the mid-1980s through its Turner Hall Publishing division, the first being Note-It, a notation utility for Lotus 1-2-3. SQZ! initially sold for US$79.95 and was a major part of Symantec's early success and helped form the basis of the 1990s acquisitions Symantec grew from. Several people working at Synex involved with SQZ! were hired by Symantec as a result of this success.
SQZ! is a compression utility specifically designed to compress spreadsheet files and was marketed starting 1986. Sqz! is |
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