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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda%20Telecommunications%20Corporation%20Limited | Uganda Telecommunications Corporation Limited (UTCL), also (UTel), is an information and communication technology network company in Uganda owned by the government of Uganda. UTel acquired the assets and some of the liabilities of the defunct Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL) which was also owned by the Ugandan government. UTL was previously in receivership which it entered after the Libyan company that owned about 69 percent shares abandoned the investment in 2017 .
History
Following the Ugandan Parliament's passage of the Communications Act in 1997, the Ugandan parastatal Uganda Posts and Telecommunications Company Limited (UPTCL) was divided into four entities:
Uganda Communications Commission - the communications industry regulator
Uganda Post Limited - also known as Posta Uganda
PostBank Uganda - a government-owned financial institution
Uganda Telecom - an information technology and communication network company
In June 2000, UTL was privatized when the government divested 51 percent of its shares to Ucom, a consortium formed by Detecon of Germany, Telecel International of Switzerland, and Orascom Telecom Holding of Egypt. The Ugandan government retained 49 percent ownership in UTL.
Scope of service
UTL is a leading total communications provider with a broad range of services in Uganda, including:
Fixed voice (copper, CDMA, fixed GSM)
Mobile voice and data
Dedicated circuits for data and internet (xDSL, FTTx, leased lines)
Broadband services (3G, WiMAX, xDSL, FTTx, CDMA, Wi-Fi)
Data centre services (hosting/housing/backup/failover)
In February 2009, UTL launched an unstructured supplementary service data-based mobile wallet service called "M-SENTE", using software purchased from Redknee Solutions Inc., a Canadian information technology company. In September 2009, UTL became the first Ugandan provider to introduce the solar powered hand-held mobile phone, locally called "Kasana". In July 2011, UTL estimated their own market share of the Ugandan telecommunication industry at about 10 percent.
Seizure and release of assets
In March 2011, the Ugandan government seized Lap Green's 69 percent shareholding in UTL as part of sanctions against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. After the end of the Libyan civil war in May 2012, the shareholding was returned to Lap Green, ending a period of considerable uncertainty for the carrier. Since then, UTL has undergone major restructuring to revive its fortunes.
Ownership
As of October 2018, UTL was a joint venture between Taleology Holdings GIB Limited, a private company based in Nigeria, which owned 67 percent of the company, and the Ugandan government, which owned the remaining 33 percent.
Following the rebrand, starting in February 2022, the ownership structure of Uganda Telecommunications Corporation Limited is as depicted in the table below.
Leadership structure
Stephen Kaboyo was the chairman of the board of directors in 2014. The managing director was Mark Shoebridge, who was appointed temp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble%20sort | Bubble sort, sometimes referred to as sinking sort, is a simple sorting algorithm that repeatedly steps through the input list element by element, comparing the current element with the one after it, swapping their values if needed. These passes through the list are repeated until no swaps had to be performed during a pass, meaning that the list has become fully sorted. The algorithm, which is a comparison sort, is named for the way the larger elements "bubble" up to the top of the list.
This simple algorithm performs poorly in real world use and is used primarily as an educational tool. More efficient algorithms such as quicksort, timsort, or merge sort are used by the sorting libraries built into popular programming languages such as Python and Java.
However, if parallel processing is allowed, bubble sort sorts in O(n) time, making it considerably faster than parallel implementations of insertion sort or selection sort which do not parallelize as effectively.
History
The earliest description of the Bubble sort algorithm was in a 1956 paper by mathematician and actuary Edward Harry Friend, Sorting on electronic computer systems, published in the third issue of the third volume of the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , as a "Sorting exchange algorithm". Friend described the fundamentals of the algorithm, and, although initially his paper went unnoticed, some years later, it was rediscovered by many computer scientists, including Kenneth E. Iverson who coined its current name.
Analysis
Performance
Bubble sort has a worst-case and average complexity of , where is the number of items being sorted. Most practical sorting algorithms have substantially better worst-case or average complexity, often . Even other sorting algorithms, such as insertion sort, generally run faster than bubble sort, and are no more complex. For this reason, bubble sort is rarely used in practice.
Like insertion sort, bubble sort is adaptive, giving it an advantage over algorithms like quicksort. This means that it may outperform those algorithms in cases where the list is already mostly sorted (having a small number of inversions), despite the fact that it has worse average-case time complexity. For example, bubble sort is on a list that is already sorted, while quicksort would still perform its entire sorting process.
While any sorting algorithm can be made on a presorted list simply by checking the list before the algorithm runs, improved performance on almost-sorted lists is harder to replicate.
Rabbits and turtles
The distance and direction that elements must move during the sort determine bubble sort's performance because elements move in different directions at different speeds. An element that must move toward the end of the list can move quickly because it can take part in successive swaps. For example, the largest element in the list will win every swap, so it moves to its sorted position on the first pass even if it starts near |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal%20South%20East%20European%20Network | The Liberal South East European Network (LIBSEEN) is a South East European alliance of liberal parties and think tanks in the region, founded in Skopje, North Macedonia, in 2008. Its main initiative is to gather liberal parties of Southeastern Europe together and implement liberal policies in their respective countries. Most member organizations of LIBSEEN are also members of Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party (ALDE).
Members
Liberal Democratic Party (Liberalno Demokratska Stranka)
Our Party (Naša stranka)
Movement for Rights and Freedoms (Dvizhenie za prava i svobodi)
Croatian People's Party-Liberal Democrats (Hrvatska Narodna Stranka - Liberalni Demokrati)
Croatian Social Liberal Party (Hrvatska socijalno liberalna stranka)
Istrian Democratic Assembly (Istarski demokratski sabor/Dieta Democratica Istriana)
Hungarian European Society (Magyarországi Európa Társaság)
Democratic Party of Kosovo (Partia Demokratike e Kosovës)
New Kosovo Alliance (Aleanca Kosova e Re)
Liberal Party (Partidul Liberal)
Liberal Party of Montenegro (Liberalna Partija Crne Gore)
Liberal Party of Macedonia (Либерална Партија на Македонија, Liberalna Partija na Makedonija)
Liberal Democratic Party (Либерално Демократска Партија, Liberalno Demokratska Partija)
USR PLUS (Alianța 2020 USR-PLUS)
Liberal Democratic Party (Либерално-демократска партија, Liberalno-demokratska partija)
Movement of Free Citizens (Покрет слободних грађана, Pokret slobodnih građana)
Civic Platform (Грађанска платформа)
Alliance of Alenka Bratušek (Zavezništvo Alenke Bratušek)
Modern Centre Party (Stranka modernega centra)
Novum Institute (New Institute)
See also
Political parties of the world
Liberal International
European Liberal Youth
References
External links
Liberal South East European Network
Political parties established in 2008
Pan-European political parties
International liberal organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOXO%2C%20Panda%20and%20the%20New%20Kid%20Revival | XOXO, Panda and the New Kid Revival is Marc Bianchi's 2008 album under his pseudonym Her Space Holiday. The album was released on October 7, 2008. In this album, Bianchi abandons the computerized sounds that marked previous Her Space Holiday efforts in favor of an organic, folk-driven style. The track "Sleepy Tigers", which also became its own EP, has become his most known and most played on his Myspace page, having over 350,000 plays.
Critical reception
XOXO, Panda and the New Kid Revival received mixed to positive reviews from critics. It scored a 65 out of 100 on review aggregator MetaCritic. Its departure from Her Space Holiday's previous darker, more indietronica work is mentioned frequently. For example, Rolling Stone Magazine describes the album as "brighter" than Her Space Holiday's previous releases, and calls the tracks "charming" and "simple". LAS Magazine describes the album as a "divergence from his defining brand of electro-infused indie-rock to unapologetic, cadenced pop" and calling the lyrics "sometimes playful, sometimes cringe-inducing". The magazine rated the album a 7.6 out of 10. Webzine PopMatters warns that the album is "worth hearing, just don’t expect anything life-changing", and describes Bianchi's vocals as "less-than-stellar". Still, the webzine awarded the album a 6 out of 10 rating.
Track listing
References
2008 albums
Her Space Holiday albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E001 | European route E001 is a European B class road in Georgia and Armenia part of the United Nations international E-road network, connecting the cities Marneuli - Sadakhlo - Bagratashen - Vanadzor.
Route
: Marneuli () - Sadakhlo
: Bagratashen - Vanadzor ()
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
Roads in Georgia (country)
E001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent%20Network | The Independent Network (IN) is a United Kingdom-based non-profit organisation supporting independent politicians and political candidates. It is also registered as a political party with the Electoral Commission in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Founded in 2005, the IN consists of supporters and volunteers who advocate non-partisan politics. Former independent MPs Martin Bell and Richard Taylor have been involved. A number of supporters of the IN are current independent representatives in European, national, regional and local governments and independent candidates in local and general elections.
The IN does not impose any political views on the individuals it supports. However, they must be non-discriminatory and adhere to a code of conduct proposed by Bell and endorsed by the IN executive committee.
Organisation
Marianne Overton, Jim Thornton and Karen Lucioni are the organisations leadership, fulfilling the roles of leader, treasurer, nominations officer and campaigns officer. Similarly, these individuals are the registered officers for the political party. The organisation is also registered as a company since 2009. Jim Thornton and Brian Ahearne are the directors.
Supporters
The IN is supported by several notable figures in independent politics, including Martin Bell; Richard Taylor MP; Terry Waite and Esther Rantzen. During the 2005 elections, with the IN's backing, Reg Keys stood against Tony Blair in Blair's own Sedgefield Constituency because of the death of his son in the Iraq War.
In January 2010, Waite sent an open letter to all independent Parliamentary candidates giving them his support and approval. The letter also discusses several problems Waite sees with the Westminster system and British politics in general.
Services
The IN offers services and support to independent candidates free of charge. Services provided include the following:
Administrative and legal assistance for election purposes; independent candidates set up on their own or alternatively register and maintain new political parties.
A list of best practices for campaigning, fundraising, public relations, and appropriate use of the Internet.
Public opinion and policy research.
Organising debates and discussions.
The IN also encourages members to contact one another for advice and guidance, to promote cohesive rather than adversarial politics.
In January 2010, the IN organised a training session on procedure in the UK Parliament for independent PPCs. The event was run by Parliamentary Outreach, a government agency that works to expand the public's knowledge of Parliament. That same month the IN held a workshop in the Birmingham Priory Rooms to instruct PPCs on the electoral process and regulations. Bell, Taylor, Rantzen, and Lynn Faulds Wood attended the event.
In the 2010 election, the IN endorsed independent candidates to provide a quality marker for independent politicians. Endorsed candidates could use the IN logo and branding.
References
External |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radius%20Travel | Radius Travel is a privately held global travel management company with headquarters in Washington, DC, USA. Radius designs and delivers travel programs for multinational companies through a network of travel agencies. The Radius network is made up of 100+ agencies and manages over US$30 billion of annual corporate travel spending.
The company has existed in its present form since 1992 as a result of a merger between two independent North American travel management companies.
In 2018, Radius Travel was acquired by Travel and Transport, a U.S.-based travel management company.
References
External links
Travel and holiday companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallband | Smallband (or reduced speed) is the slow internet connection speed given by Belgian Internet service providers when the monthly data-transfer limit has been reached. The internet providers themselves do not use the word smallband in official communications; they simply refer to reduced speed.
According to the Acceptable use policy of most providers where this limitation is in place, the speed is comparable to that of an old dial-up connection. However, there were numerous complaints by customers that the actual speed was lower. In response to these complaints, Telenet (cable internet provider) in October 2007 increased the speed from 32 kbps downstream and 16 kbit/s upstream to 192 kbit/s downstream and 64 kbit/s upstream, for http data traffic only. All other traffic shaping remained at 32 kbit/s downstream and 16 kbit/s upstream.
When the limit was reached, users could choose between surfing at reduced speed for the rest of the month or buy extra blocks (1 block = 1 gig) at higher prices. Additional data typically cost around 1 euro per gigabyte. Some ISPs offered bigger blocks at a lower price; subscribers of Belgacom's "Internet Favorite" for instance could buy a 20 gigabyte block for 5 euro.
Subscribers to unlimited plans were limited by the fair use policy, which warned against excessive use.
The word 'smallband' (double l) in Dutch is an anglicism. It is created as an opposite for the Dutch word 'breedband' (broadband), however it is an incorrect translation. The opposite of broadband in English is narrowband. The Dutch translation for narrow is 'nauw' (same etymology) or 'smal' (single l), so a more correct Dutch translation would be 'nauwband' or 'smalband' (single l).
References
Homophonic translation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avizo%20%28software%29 | Avizo (pronounce: ‘a-VEE-zo’) is a general-purpose commercial software application for scientific and industrial data visualization and analysis.
Avizo is developed by Thermo Fisher Scientific and was originally designed and developed by the Visualization and Data Analysis Group at Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) under the name Amira. Avizo was commercially released in November 2007. For the history of its development, see the Wikipedia article about Amira.
Overview
Avizo is a software application which enables users to perform interactive visualization and computation on 3D data sets.
The Avizo interface is modelled on the visual programming. Users manipulate data and module components, organized in an interactive graph representation (called Pool), or in a Tree view. Data and modules can be interactively connected together, and controlled with several parameters, creating a visual processing network whose output is displayed in a 3D viewer.
With this interface, complex data can be interactively explored and analyzed by applying a controlled sequence of computation and display processes resulting in a meaningful visual representation and associated derived data.
Application areas
Avizo has been designed to support different types of applications and workflows from 2D and 3D image data processing to simulations.
It is a versatile and customizable visualization tool used in many fields:
Scientific visualization
Materials Research
Tomography, Microscopy, etc.
Nondestructive testing, Industrial Inspection, and Visual Inspection
Computer-aided Engineering and simulation data post-processing
Porous medium analysis
Civil Engineering
Seismic Exploration, Reservoir Engineering, Microseismic Monitoring, Borehole Imaging
Geology, Digital Rock Physics (DRP), Earth Sciences
Archaeology
Food technology and agricultural science
Physics, Chemistry
Climatology, Oceanography, Environmental Studies
Astrophysics
Features
Data import:
2D and 3D image stack and volume data: from microscopes (electron, optical), X-ray tomography (CT, micro-/nano-CT, synchrotron), neutron tomography and other acquisition devices (MRI, radiography, GPR)
Geometric models (such as point sets, line sets, surfaces, grids)
Numerical simulation data (such as Computational fluid dynamics or Finite element analysis data)
Molecular data
Time series and animations
Seismic data
Well logs
4D Multivariate Climate Models
2D/3D data visualization:
Volume rendering
Digital Volume Correlation
Visualization of sections, through various slicing and clipping methods
Isosurface rendering
Polygonal meshes
Scalar fields, Vector fields, Tensor representations, Flow visualization (Illuminated Streamlines, Stream Ribbons)
Image processing:
2D/3D Alignment of image slices, Image registration
Image filtering
Mathematical Morphology (erode, dilate, open, close, tophat)
Watershed Transform, Distance Transform
Image segmentation
3D models reconstruction:
Polygonal surface generation from s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stationary%20source | The term "stationary source" may refer to one of the following:
A source of data produced by a stationary process, in the mathematical theory of probability and stochastic processes
A source of pollutant emissions that has a fixed location, such as a major stationary source, in pollution and air quality terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan%20MNP%20Database | Pakistan MNP Database (Guarantee) Limited is a subsidiary of all the four Cellular Mobile Operators of Pakistan which maintains the country's Central Number Portability Clearing House.
Implementation Info
Pakistan Mobile Number Portability Database (Guarantee) Limited (PMD) was incorporated in 2005 under the Companies Ordinance, 1984 after the launch of MNP in Pakistan pursuant to the ‘Mobile Number Portability Regulations, 2005’ under S.R.O 763 (2005).
Pakistan is the first country in South Asia to implement Mobile Number Portability.
Telenor was the first operator in Pakistan to secure 1 million subscribers through MNP.
SECP’s eServices Integration
SECP's eServices recently integrated with Pakistan Mobile Number Portability (MNP) Database (Guarantee) Limited.
References
External links
Official site
Telecommunications companies of Pakistan
Databases in Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Watcom%20Assembler | Open Watcom Assembler or WASM is an x86 assembler produced by Watcom, based on the Watcom Assembler found in Watcom C/C++ compiler and Watcom FORTRAN 77. Further development is being done on the 32- and 64-bit JWASM project, which more closely matches the syntax of Microsoft's assembler.
There are experimental assemblers for PowerPC, Alpha AXP, and MIPS.
Technical details
Assembler
Native support for output formats Intel OMF output formats
Supports Intel x86 (Pentium MMX, Pentium III-4, 3DNow!, SSE and SSE2) instruction sets.
Supports Microsoft macro assembler (MASM) 5 and 6 syntax (incomplete).
Disassembler
There is an associated Watcom disassembler, wdis. The assembler does not have listing facilities; instead the use of wdis for generating listings is recommended. wdis can read OMF, COFF and ELF object files and PE and ELF executables. It supports 16-bit and 32-bit x86 instruction set including MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, and SSE3. Support for PowerPC, Alpha AXP, MIPS, and SPARC V8 instruction sets is also built in.
WASM forks
JWasm
JWasm is a fork of Wasm originated by Japheth with following features:
Native support for output formats Intel OMF (16/32-bit), MS Coff (32-bit and 64-bit), Elf (32-bit and 64-bit), Bin and DOS MZ.
Precompiled JWasm binaries are available for DOS, Windows and Linux. For OS/2 and FreeBSD, makefiles are supplied.
Supports Intel x86 (8086, 80186, 80286, 80386, 80486, Pentium, Pentium Pro), x86-64 instruction sets with SIMD (MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3 and SSSE3, SSE4.1/2 (since Jwasm), AVX (since JWasm 2.06), VMX (Intel VT-x; AMD SVM, the latter though already implemented, currently still inactive) extensions (since JWasm 2.09)).
JWasm is written in C. The source is portable and has successfully been tested with Open Watcom, MS VC, GCC and more.
On Windows, JWasm can be used with both Win32Inc and Masm32. Since v2.01, it will also work with Sven B. Schreiber's SBS WALK32 Win32 Assembly Language Kit
C header files can be converted to include files for JWasm with Japheth's own dedicated h2incX.
JWasm's source code is released under the Sybase Open Watcom Public License, which allows free commercial and non-commercial use.
Fully supports Microsoft macro assembler 6 syntax, all MASM 8 instructions sets.
Japheth ceased development (or rather, was out of contact) of JWASM in January 2014 with version 2.12pre, but others on the Masm32 forum picked up where Japheth left off.
HJWasm
HJWasm, adding the prefix H in reference to Masm32 forum member Habran who started off this second WASM development continuation. Version 2.13pre was originally announced in 2016. New features include:
Instructions:
SIMD:
MMX: MOVQ and added in 2.13, to supplement MOVD.
AVX2: VGATHERDPD, VGATHERQPD, VGATHERDPS, VGATHERQPS, VPGATHERDD, VPGATHERQD, VPGATHERDQ, VPGATHERQQ, VEX-encoded general purpose instructions added in 2.13. Remaining instructions added in 2.16.
AVX-512: VCMPxxPD, VCMPxxPS, VCMPxxSD, VCMPxxPD, VCMPxxSS, AVX-512F set, EVEX-enco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Film%20Database | ChristianFilmDatabase.com, LLC (CFDb) was an online database of Christian films and their associated information. It was designed to be a Christian version of the Internet Movie Database.
History of the CFDb website
CFDb was founded in 2008 by Roger Rudlaff who had previously created "The Wayhouse Christian Film Library", a library that lent Christian movies to the public. He and his wife Annelie Rudlaff started "The Wayhouse Christian Film Library" in 2001 by loaning out Christian books and VHS movies in Buena Vista, Colorado out of their home and showing a few films to the public in their town's chamber of commerce building. They later moved to Roanoke, Virginia, where they re-opened in 2006. While the Rudlaffs were running this lending library, Roger Rudlaff had difficulty finding certain Christian films, because the different films he searched for were scattered on many different websites. He started a specialist Christian films website called CFDb, after doing some research on IMDb. He was unable to claim the title of CMDb, because that domain name was taken by another Christian music website. He registered the CFDb domain name in 2008 and on Feb. 25 2011, the company became a LLC.
The database includes information on the films such as release date, running time, MPAA rating, formats, film director, film producer, screenwriter, film score composer, cinematographer, language and subtitles, film production company, film distribution company, cast, film trailer, film website, Facebook page, Twitter page, movie reviews, contact info, and synopsis.
In March 2012 the company made informal agreements with "Cruciflicks" and with "Indy Christian Review" for sharing Christian movie review content. In May 2012, CFDb signed an exclusive deal with Christian Book Distributors to sell the films listed on CFDb via Christian Book Distributors' website.
On March 13, 2013 CFDb and the crowdfunding website FaithLauncher announced a strategic alliance.
As of March 2021 the site is undergoing major renovations and is currently down.
Criteria for inclusion
According to their website, the CFDb states that they are a non-denominational list of what they call "Christian films" and that "We list all films with a Christian message, it does not matter who makes it."
The CFDb states that two of their criteria for being a Christian film are: 1. "The film must show a need for God, Jesus, or the Holy Spirit in some way." 2. "The film is marketed to the Christian Community, therefore Christians will be searching for it on the database."
Number of films
On January 1, 2010, there were approximately 1,250 films listed on CFDb, with more added weekly. Rudlaff said, "I list films in many formats, like 16mm, VHS, DVD, and now Blu-ray and (VOD) Video on Demand" As of January 2013, CFDb had over 1600 films listed, some of which have multiple film titles listed on one page as a series: these are counted as a single film.
Rankings (CFDb's top 100)
In December 2012, t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C2%BFD%C3%B3nde%20est%C3%A1%20Elisa%3F%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | (English: Where is Elisa?) is a Spanish-language telenovela, written by Pablo Illanes, produced by TVN (Chile) and remade by the U.S. television network Telemundo and RCN Colombia. It is based on the Chilean telenovela of the same name produced by TVN in 2009.
Telemundo began airing on March 8, 2010 airing weeknights at 10pm/9c over about 26 weeks during the 2010 season. As with most of its other telenovelas, the network broadcasts English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.
The first sneak peek of the production was shown on Tuesday on January 13, 2010. The series was produced in Miami, Florida. The filming started on January 27 and ended in May 2010. On July 26, the series shared the 1 hour time slot with another Telemundo telenovela La Diosa Coronada. The last episode of the series was aired on Tuesday on August 10, 2010.
A question is how much of DEE is based on the successful book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (also known as Men Who Hate Women in English), a 2009 Swedish film adaptation of the novel Män som hatar kvinnor by the late Swedish author/journalist Stieg Larsson. DEE was written or adapted by Pablo Illanes, who wrote the Chilean version that preceded that of Telemundo. Illanes says that the inspiration of the story comes from the book and the real life drama of British native Madeleine McCann in Portugal. The list of suspects is long, and it includes family members, fellow students, and friends of the teenager who went to the same places that she used to go to before disappearing. There is a striking similarity between DEE and the previously aired Desaparecida, a limited serial drama television series from Spain.
United Kingdom TV audience demand for Parrot Analytics has found that the audience demand for is less than one-tenth of the demand for the average TV series in the United Kingdom in the last 30 days. Twitter 24.4% of all shows in this market have this level of demand.
Plot
The lives of the Altamira family are changed forever. Their lives are engulfed by the events in the disappearance of Elisa (Vanessa Pose), the oldest daughter of Mariano Altamira (Gabriel Porras) and Dana Riggs Altamira (Sonya Smith).
Once she disappears, we begin to learn the secrets of every member of the family and friends; the paranoias start, histories from the past, themes that were supposed to be buried. Then the recriminations among family members start.
In the midst of family conflicts many suspects come to light, among them family members (Elisa's parents, uncles, cousins) fellow students, former and present Altamira employees, as well as friends that used to go to the same places that Elisa would frequent. Eventually, Bruno Cáceres (Roberto Mateos) will emerge as the kidnapper....
Despite the continual efforts to find Elisa, a more prominent theme is the disintegration of the Altamira clan. In the initial episode they look like a one big happy clan, but there are many problems beneath that surface which come to light. A major th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealing%20First%20Base | "Stealing First Base" is the fifteenth 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 March 21, 2010. In this episode, Bart falls in love with a girl named Nikki from a second fourth-grade class, but when he kisses her, Nikki begins treating Bart like dirt. Meanwhile, First Lady Michelle Obama teaches Lisa that there is no shame in being an overachiever, and Nelson Muntz teaches a blind boy how to be a schoolyard bully.
The episode was written by John Frink and directed by Steven Dean Moore.
The episode was also watched by 5.69 million households and received a 2.8/8 in the 18-49 Nielsen Rating.
The episode received mixed reviews from critics. The episode guest stars Sarah Silverman as Nikki and Angela Bassett as Michelle Obama.
Plot
Bart's fourth-grade class is merged with another fourth-grade class when teacher Mrs. Krabappel is absent. In the crowded classroom, Bart is forced to sit by a new student named Nikki. At first, they dislike each other, until Nikki admires Bart's artistic skills. Bart seeks romance advice from Homer, who passes him off to Grandpa Abe. After Grandpa advises Bart to kiss Nikki, however, when Bart does so after the two skateboard together, she recoils in disgust. Nikki's attorney's parents threaten to sue the school unless it is declared an "affection-free environment". Superintendent Chalmers causes a play in which Willie plays Nikki and Skinner plays Bart who was strangled by Homer after calling him a “Fatso”, meaning they are forced to kiss. Bart is confused at the outcome of this seemingly innocent action, and his confusion is later amplified when Nikki hides in his locker and kisses him again.
Meanwhile, Lisa becomes popular when she receives an F on a test, but becomes unpopular again when it is revealed that her test was mistakenly given to Ralph, as both tests were mixed up as the F grade was supposed to be given to Ralph who had written Lisa's name on his test. Angry about being ostracized for being an overachiever once again, Lisa blogs about it, and her post is noted by a mysterious blogger known as Flotus 1 who turns out to be First Lady Michelle Obama. Obama drops by Springfield Elementary to give a speech about the importance of academics and recommends that the students should be nice to Lisa and other overachievers like her friends, Martin Prince and Allison Taylor.
Bart and Nikki have been watching this speech from the roof, and Bart confesses to Nikki he does not understand her ever-changing moods. They argue and Bart stumbles, falling off the roof. Nikki says "I love you," but seeing that Bart is breathing treats him badly again. Bart stops breathing again, but the school's "no-touch" policy prevents anyone from performing CPR. Nikki defies the policy and revives Bart via mouth-to-mouth, thus setting off a montage of kiss scenes from various movies, some of which (such as Alien 3) never ev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiMP | WiMP was a music streaming service available on mobile devices, tablets, network players and computers. Music in WiMP was streamed using the AAC+ file format at a bitrate of 96 kbit/s or the AAC file format at a bitrate of 320 kbit/s if the high quality streaming option was selected. WiMP also offered a HiFi-product with FLAC/ALAC. WiMP has since been merged with Tidal.
History
WiMP was developed by Aspiro AS and the Norwegian music store chain Platekompaniet AS. It was first launched in Norway in February 2010.
On January 30, 2015, it was announced that Aspiro AB had been acquired by Project Panther Bidco Ltd., which is indirectly owned by S. Carter Enterprises, LLC. The company was controlled by Shawn Corey Carter, better known by his stage name, Jay-Z. Aspiro AB was sold for 464 million SEK, which is about €50 million or US$56 million. However, WiMP would later merge with Tidal under the Tidal name.
Cost and availability
WiMP is funded by paid subscriptions such as, music fees, and subscriptions. As of 2012, WiMP is available in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Germany and Poland.
Tidal
The service is also available in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Romania and Turkey, where it is known as Tidal; and emphasizes the high-fidelity lossless mode, but the other modes, "High" and "Normal", are also available. Tidal claims to have 80 million tracks.
Last.fm integration
The application is integrated with Last.fm allowing a track to be "scrobbled".
Catalog and editorial experience
WiMP gives access to a music library of some 25 million tracks. WiMP has local editors in each country it operates, to present the local and international music and in-app magazines also available online. WiMP also offers music videos, so far available in the Android-client.
Mobile devices
WiMP is compatible with, Android, iOS, Symbian, MeeGo, Windows Phone 7, and Windows Phone 8, as well as Squeezebox, Sonos, Simple Audio, Auralic, Teufel and Bluesound.
See also
Last.fm
rara.com
Spotify
Grooveshark
Guvera
Soundtracker (music streaming)
List of online music databases
Comparison of online music stores
References
External links
Digital audio
Freeware
Jukebox-style media players
Online music database clients
Online music stores of Norway
Music streaming services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20ECN%20group | The ECN Group operates in electronic data interchange, business process management and system integration. ECN provides all export and import messaging services to and from NZ Customs. ECN has over 3,500 customers.
ECN's head office is in Wellington, New Zealand; it also has offices in Auckland, Sydney and Manila. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of New Zealand Post.
References
External links
ECN group web site
Service companies of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murex%20singaporensis | Murex (Murex) singaporensis is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.
References
Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database : Murex (Murex) singaporensis
Gastropods described in 1853
Murex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20learning%20network | A personal learning network is an informal learning network that consists of the people a learner interacts with and derives knowledge from in a personal learning environment. In a PLN, a person makes a connection with another person with the specific intent that some type of learning will occur because of that connection.
Personal learning networks share a close association with the concept of personal learning environments. Martindale & Dowdy describe a PLE as a "manifestation of a learner’s informal learning processes via the Web".
Aspects
According to the theory of connectivism developed by George Siemens (as well as Stephen Downes), the "epitome of connectivism" is that learners create connections and develop a personal network that contributes to their personal and professional development and knowledge.
The following is an excerpt from Dryden's and Vos' book on learning networks:
"For the first time in history, we know now how to store virtually all humanity's most important information and make it available, almost instantly, in almost any form, to almost anyone on earth. We also know how to do that in great new ways so that people can interact with it, and learn from it."
Specifically, the learner chooses whom to interact with in these media and how much to participate. Learners have certain goals, needs, interests, motivations and problems that are often presented to the people they include in their PLN. Moreover, the learner will collaborate and connect differently with various members. The learner will establish stronger relationships with some members and have a low level of connection with others. Not all nodes will be equal. Some of the member roles include searcher, assemblator, designer of data, innovator of subject matter, and researcher.
Recognition of PLNs
The European Union Lifelong Learning Programme 2007–2013 has recognized the potential for PLNs by funding the aPLaNet project (Autonomous Personal Learning Networks for Language Teachers). The project explains the value of PLNs for the professional development of language educators.
See also
Connectivism (learning theory)
Networked learning
References
External links
European Union funded education project "Autonomous Personal Learning Networks for Language Teachers" (acronym aPLaNet)
Radford University Presentation on Developing Personal Learning Networks
Learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian-Oceanian%20Computing%20Industry%20Organization | The Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organization (ASOCIO) is a grouping of ICT industry associations representing the Asian-Oceania region. Established in 1984 in Tokyo, Japan, ASOCIO’s objective is to develop the computing society and industry across the Asia Oceania region domain by promoting trade as well as fostering relationships between its member economies. ASOCIO has created links between ICT companies and the industry’s growth in member economies.
ASOCIO is founded by Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Australia and New Zealand in 1984. It represents the interests of 24 economies from Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
ASOCIO Presidency
Chronology of member expansion
External links
Official website
Information technology organizations based in Asia
International organizations based in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20%28disambiguation%29 | iPad is a line of tablet computers by Apple Inc.
iPad may also refer to:
iPad models:
iPad (1st generation)
iPad 2, successor to the iPad
iPad (3rd generation), successor to the iPad 2, often called the iPad 3 or the New iPad
iPad (4th generation), successor to the 3rd-generation iPad, often called the iPad 4 or the iPad with Retina Display
iPad Air, successor to the 4th-generation iPad
iPad Air 2, successor to the iPad Air
iPad Air (2019) or 3rd generation, successor to the iPad Air 2
iPad Air (2020) or 4th generation, successor to the 2019 model
iPad Air (5th generation), successor to the 2020 model
iPad (2017), successor to the iPad Air 2 marketed as iPad
iPad (2018), successor to the 2017 model
iPad (2019), successor to the 2018 model
iPad (2020), successor to the 2019 model
iPad (2021), successor to the 2020 model
iPad Mini, various smaller versions of the tablet computer
iPad Mini (1st generation)
iPad Mini 2, successor to the iPad Mini
iPad Mini 3, successor to the iPad Mini 2
iPad Mini 4, successor to the iPad Mini 3
iPad Mini (5th generation), successor to the iPad Mini 4
iPad Mini (6th generation), successor to the 5th-generation iPad Mini
iPad Pro, various larger versions of the tablet computer
iPad Pro (1st generation)
iPad Pro (2nd generation), successor to the 1st-generation iPad Pro
iPad Pro (3rd generation), successor to the 2nd-generation iPad Pro
iPad Pro (4th generation), successor to the 3rd-generation iPad Pro
iPad Pro (5th generation), successor to the 4th-generation iPad Pro
Fujitsu iPAD, retail point-of-sale device
Proview iPAD, a computer manufactured by the company who sold the iPad trademark to Apple
"iPad" (song), a 2022 song by the Chainsmokers
See also
IPOD (disambiguation)
Eyepad or eyepatch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujitsu%20iPAD | The Fujitsu iPAD is a lightweight handheld device that was introduced by Fujitsu, in 2002. It runs Microsoft's CE.NET operating system. It supports 802.11b wireless LAN to connect wirelessly with other company infrastructure. The device can support inventory management as well as credit card payments. In January 2010, when Apple announced the Apple iPad, there was a naming controversy between the two devices. To settle the trademark infringement allegation, Apple purchased the trademark rights from Fujitsu. Some trademark analysts estimate that Apple paid Fujitsu over US$4 million in exchange for the March 17, 2010 assignment of Fujitsu's iPad trademark rights to Apple.
References
Retail point of sale systems
Fujitsu computers
Products introduced in 2002
Mobile computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplygon | Simplygon is 3D computer graphics software for automatic 3D optimization, based on proprietary methods for creating levels of detail (LODs) through Polygon mesh reduction and other optimization techniques.
Since the launch of Simplygon, the product has been licensed by a number of AAA game studios, for multi-platform games, and used in areas such as architecture, 3D CAD, 3D scan, 3D web and 3D printing.
The algorithms in Simplygon are designed to also optimize different type of input forms, and a number of visualization projects outside gaming are currently deploying this technology in areas such as architecture, 3D CAD, 3D scan, 3D web and 3D printing.
History
The Swedish company Donya Labs was founded in 2006 in Linköping. Donya Labs developed Simplygon with the vision to optimize the handling of 3D graphics to allow game developers to focus on making good games. In January 2017, Simplygon was acquired by Microsoft. In 2019, Simplygon Studios became a part of Xbox Game Studios division.
Technology
Simplygon's optimization processes are:
Reduction
A reduction process reduces the amount of data while preserving all relevant original vertex data.
Remeshing
A remeshing process generates a new replacement mesh, often used to replace a group of objects with one so called proxy object.
Aggregation
An aggregation process combines all geometry and materials in a scene into one single object.
Impostor
An imposter model maps all geometric details as textures and can be used if a model will be viewed from a distance and a certain direction.
Occlusion mesh
An occlusion mesh process generates a silhouette based geometry that removes internal features and concavities.
Process integration
API/SDK
Simplygon is available as an API for C++, C# and Python allowing customized Simplygon integration.
Plug-in
Simplygon is available as a plug-in for the following digital content creation tools:
Autodesk 3ds Max
Autodesk Maya
Blender
Houdini
Games industry use
Simplygon integration is available for the following game engines:
Unreal Engine
Unity
Awards
Simplygon won a 2015 The Independent Games Developers Association TIGA Games industry award in the category “Best Technology Innovation”. Donya Labs was ranked 9th in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50, 2014.
References
Further reading
External links
Video game engines
3D graphics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20IUCN%20Red%20List%20data%20deficient%20species | On 29 January 2010, the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species identified 6,702 (5,913 Animalia (1 Annelida, 1,328 Arthropoda, 3,814 Chordata, 149 Cnidaria, 617 Mollusca, 3 Nemertina, 1 Onychophora), 780 Plantae, 9 Protista) data deficient species.
Lists of data deficient species
Animals
Amphibians — List of data deficient amphibians
Birds — List of data deficient birds
Fish — List of data deficient fishes
Invertebrates — List of data deficient invertebrates
Arthropods — List of data deficient arthropods
Insects — List of data deficient insects
Molluscs List of data deficient molluscs
Mammals — List of data deficient mammals
Reptiles — List of data deficient reptiles
Plants — List data deficient plants
Chromista/Protista — List of Chromista by conservation status (9 data deficient species)
Fungi — List of fungi by conservation status (22 data deficient species)
Older lists (IUCN 2009.2)
Annelida — IUCN Red List data deficient species (Annelida)
Chordata — IUCN Red List data deficient species (Chordata)
Cnidaria — IUCN Red List data deficient species (Cnidaria)
Nemertina — IUCN Red List data deficient species (Nemertina)
Onychophora — IUCN Red List data deficient species (Onychophora)
Protista — IUCN Red List data deficient species (Protista)
References
IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, v2009.2. Source of the above list: online IUCN Red List. Retrieved d.d. 29 January 2010. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Sabine | Charles Edward Sabine (born 20 April 1960, British Army Battalion HQ, Rinteln, West Germany), is an Emmy Award-winning television journalist who worked for the US Network NBC News for twenty-six years, before becoming a global spokesman for patients and families suffering degenerative brain diseases. He is active throughout advocacy and charity sectors across four continents and founder of the Hidden No More Foundation. He has 2 children, Roman and Sabrina.
Early life and career
Sabine was educated at Brentwood School, England, then obtained a first class honours degree in Media Studies from Westminster University, where he was tutored by BBC Radio Producer Charles Parker.
Sabine joined NBC in 1982 in London, and worked as a writer at 30 Rock in Manhattan, New York, in 1987. He then transitioned to field production in conflicts and according to NBC Universal, “Sabine participated in most of the major international news stories of the next two decades”.
As producer of the NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw'''s team coverage of the Romanian Revolution, Sabine received an Emmy Award for his program segments which aired in December 1989, in the Outstanding General Coverage of a Single–Breaking News Story category of the News & Documentary Emmy Awards.
During his time in the field, Sabine conducted three tours on CVN-71 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers at battle stations, USS George Washington (the Adriatic), the USS Theodore Roosevelt (Mediterranean) and the USS Enterprise (Arabian Sea).
He was the last western journalist to interview the founder of Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassin in a secret location in Gaza.
The thirty-five countries and territories from which Sabine reported conflicts for NBC News, include the allied Gulf Wars in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait; wars in Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia, Kosovo and Chechnya; the US invasion of Haiti; the Genocide in Rwanda; the Ebola outbreak in Zaire; revolutions in Poland, Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia and sectarian conflicts in Lebanon, Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Pakistan, South Africa and Northern Ireland.
Sabine, as producer of the team coverage of the , received an Emmy Award for his program segments which aired in December 1989, in the Outstanding General Coverage of a Single–Breaking News Story category of the News & Documentary Emmy Awards.
Advocacy
In 2006, between tours of Iraq for NBC, Sabine tested positive for the expanded Huntington's gene. His father, uncle, half-brother and brother John, would all die of Huntington's disease (HD). John, five years older than Charles, was, before he became symptomatic, an Oxford graduate and barrister in London.
In interviews, Sabine has described why he then chose to use what remaining time he had, to switch battlefields from Baghdad to the one facing HD families due to unparalleled misrepresentation, discrimination and prejudice: “My neurologist said: ‘there is nothing you can do about this disease, just live your life as well as you can.’” Sabin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Gerleman | French Gerleman is a regional supplier of electrical, automation, datacom, power transmission and safety products and services. Founded in St. Louis, Missouri in 1923, the company is currently headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. It is a member of the National Association of Electrical Distributors.
History
In 1923, Albert O. French and Charles C. French, brothers who initially were partners with J.F. Gerleman, started French Gerleman in St. Louis, Missouri. The 1930s brought French Gerleman into an agency relationship with the Allen-Bradley Company (now Rockwell Automation). The result was French Gerleman's gradual expansion into the industrial controls market.
In 1976, French Gerleman moved from St. Louis to Maryland Heights, MO. Twelve years later in 1988, French Gerleman opened their first two locations in Quincy, IL and Columbia, MO. As growth continued, they opened another branch in Lenexa, KS and expanded their St. Louis headquarters. In 2000, French Gerleman opened another branch in Washington, MO. Most recently in 2017, another location was opened in Springfield, MO.
Locations
St. Louis, Missouri
Columbia, Missouri
Quincy, Illinois
Lenexa, Kansas
Washington, Missouri
Springfield, Missouri
Philanthropy
French Gerleman host an annual event with Rebuilding Together, an American non-profit organization with the goal of preserving affordable homeownership and revitalizing neighborhoods through free home repairs and modifications for neighbors in need. French Gerleman host a Rebuilding Day, a single day where volunteers come together to help low-income homeowners in the St. Louis area to improve the safety and comfort of their home. Rebuilding Day 2019 consisted of the French Gerleman team partnering with a family from Maryland Heights, Missouri. Similar to previous years, the family's home was in need of many updates to improve safety and general quality of life. The team was able to help the owner, who suffered from multiple sclerosis, with a variety of projects that will benefit the family moving forward.
The French Gerleman branch in Quincy, IL teamed up with RAB Lighting to light up the different monuments and memorials for veterans. French Gerleman donated LED fixtures, a mix of incandescent, HID and fluorescent lights to help bring light to different building and monuments including the WWII Memorial, the Korean War Memorial and the Vietnam War Memorial, on the Veterans Home in Quincy, IL.
Awards and honors
Workplace
In 2016, French Gerleman was named a winner in the St. Louis Business Journal’s inaugural Family Business Awards, selected for its longevity, entrepreneurship, perseverance, creativity and community involvement.
Recognition as one of the 200 largest distributors of electrical supplies
#68 on Electrical Wholesaling Magazine's 2019 list of the 200 largest distributors of electrical supplies
#74 on Electrical Wholesaling Magazine's 2017 list of the 200 largest distributors of electrical supplies
Recogn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin%20Entertainment | Irwin Entertainment, Inc. is a television production company founded in 2004 by John Irwin. The company is based in Los Angeles, California, and produces entertainment programming that are either scripted, live, or reality television.
Productions
VH1
Irwin Entertainment produced a past VH1 reality series about addiction, seasons 1-7 of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew starring Drew Pinsky, Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew Reunion Special (2008) and 2 seasons of Sober House (2009). Irwin Entertainment also produced Couples Therapy, the 6th season of which aired during the fall of 2015 on VH1.
Irwin Entertainment produced the documentary series, Make or Break: The Linda Perry Project, with singer, songwriter, and producer Linda Perry, and showcases her Hollywood studio and her process of re-launching her record label. The series also shows her mentoring a group of young artists. Make or Break: The Linda Perry Project aired during the summer of 2014. The series was nominated for the 2014 GLAAD Award for Outstanding Reality Program.
Irwin Entertainment also produced the series Family Therapy with Dr. Jenn. The series shows five celebrity families as they partake in three weeks of family therapy.
John Irwin and Irwin Entertainment also produced NBC's Must See TV: A Tribute to James Burrows, which premiered to over 5.5 million viewers on February 21, 2016. Cast members from programs such as Friends, Cheers, Frasier, Will & Grace, Taxi, The Big Bang Theory, Mike & Molly, and Two and a Half Men participated in the show.
NBC
For NBC, the company produced Blake Shelton's Not so Family Christmas, a scripted comedy variety special that aired on December 3, 2012. The variety special won the 2014 WGA Award in the “Comedy/Variety – Music, Awards, Tributes – Specials” category. For his second consecutive year (Dec. 2013, Dec. 2014) John Irwin produced NBC's New Year's Eve with Carson Daly.
The company also produced the first season of A Little Late with Lilly Singh, a late-night talk show.
Other productions
For Spike (TV network), Irwin Entertainment produced Coaching Bad with retired two-time Super Bowl Champion and Super Bowl MVP Ray Lewis, who participated as a mentor to youth coaches from around the United States. The eight episode series premiered in January 2015 and followed Ray Lewis along with anger management specialist Dr. Christian Conte as they put nine coaches through an anger management program to change their way of coaching. The coaches, who came from a variety of different sports from all around the country, move into a coaching center in Los Angeles for retraining and reconditioning.
Irwin has produced comedy specials with Nikki Glaser, Kevin Hart, David Spade, Daniel Tosh, John Mulaney, Artie Lange, Neal Brennan, Chris D'Elia, Steve Rannazzisi, Anthony Jeselnik, Nick Swardson, Norm Macdonald, Hannibal Buress, Tracy Morgan, Patton Oswalt, Trevor Noah, Nate Bargatze, Demetri Martin, Chris Hardwick, Patrice O'Neil, and Todd Barry.
Irwin En |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show%20Me%20Da%20Manny | Show Me Da Manny is a Philippine television situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Starring Manny Pacquiao and Marian Rivera, it premiered on August 23, 2009, on the network's Linggobingo sa Gabi line up replacing Ful Haus. The series concluded on July 10, 2011, with a total of 98 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Marian Rivera as Manuella "Ella/Manny" Paredes
Manny Pacquiao as Manuel "Manny" Santos
Supporting cast
Paolo Contis as Eric Paredes
Benjie Paras as Oscar Paredes
AJ Dee as Marco Antonio Barreiro
Gladys Guevarra as Banig
Onyok Velasco as J-R
Jai Reyes as Jai
Ogie Alcasid as Manny Pacute
Rochelle Pangilinan as Maria Juana 'Rihanna' Balbaqua
John Lapus as Nicolas 'Nicole' Ty
Lovi Poe as Hannah Montano
Kevin Santos as Chris Brawner
Mike Nacua as Usher
Lito Camo as Tolits
Carl Acosta as Jonas
Marvin Kiefer as Marvin
Tuesday Vargas as Socorro "Shakira" Domingo
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Show Me Da Manny earned a 23.3% rating. While the final episode scored an 11.2% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2009 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television sitcoms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis%20on%20Hughes | Tennis on Hughes was the de facto name of a series of syndicated professional tennis telecasts, produced by the Hughes Television Network. The telecasts were sold to commercial stations on an individual market basis by Taft Broadcasting.
In 1978, Hughes televised eight tournaments, all slotted for 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturdays and 5 to 7 p.m. on Sundays (all Eastern time). The announcers for these broadcasts were Bud Collins and Donald Dell.
The tournaments were the following:
Australian Open
Canadian Open
French Open
Italian Open
US Open
U.S. Pro Championships
Washington Star International
References
Hughes
1978 American television series debuts
1978 American television series endings
1970s American television series
Hughes Television Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leng%20Buai%20Ia%20Shrine | Leng Buai Ia Shrine (; ) is a Chinese shrine, in the Samphanthawong district of Bangkok's Chinatown. It is located in a courtyard among a network of narrow alleys off Charoen Krung Road.
History
The shrine is considered to be the oldest Chinese shrine in Thailand, based on a plaque contained inside with a Chinese inscription stating that it was built in 1658, during the Ayutthaya period. Thought to have originally been a Teochew-style shrine, it would have been used by Chinese businessmen aiming to improve the prosperity of their businesses and to establish social connections.
Style and Layout
Built in a classic Chinese architectural style, the shrine has a roof made of glazed colored tiles, adorned with two ceramic-clad dragons. The two main columns at the shrine entrance are also entwined by ceramic-clad dragons.
The shrine contains, at its center, an altar dedicated to Leng Buai Ia and his wife. To the left and right there are altars dedicated to the Martial Deity, Lord Guan (Guan Yu) and the Queen of Heaven, Tianhou respectively.
Near the entrance is an ancient bell attributed to the Daoguang Emperor, towards the end of the Qing dynasty.
Other items inside the shrine include three plaques from the reign of the Kangxi Emperor in the Qing dynasty, a bell inscribed with the name of Choen Thai Chue, and a container for incense sticks given as a gift from King Chulalongkorn (Rama V).
References
Buildings and structures in Bangkok
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1658
Religious buildings and structures in Bangkok
Samphanthawong district
Chinese shrines in Thailand
1658 establishments in Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coachway%20interchange | A coachway interchange (also transitway station, busway station) is a stopping place for express coach services near the trunk road/motorway road network. It relies on available local transport modes to complete individual journeys. Coachway interchanges help to achieve low overall journey times by avoiding operation through congested urban centres.
History
United Kingdom
The Milton Keynes Coachway was the first to be called a coachway and has been in operation since 1989.
Alan Storkey, a transport economist, proposed a motorway based coach system based on Coachway interchanges to the House of Commons Transport Select Committee in May 2006 and was promoted by George Monbiot in 2006.
The South East England regional assembly gave support to the High Wycombe Coachway in December 2009.
In January 2010, the South East England regional transport board criticised the plans published by the development authority for the 2012 Summer Olympics for not providing plans of a credible long term coach network saying 'The ODA has been working on an extensive network of coach services... [but] the lack of reference to this work [in the plan] is both intriguing and at the same time concerning.'
Coachway stations in service
United Kingdom
Milton Keynes Coachway (near M1 Junction 14), in operation since 1989, is the UK's second busiest coach station. Its parking facility doubles as the local Park and Ride.
Meadowhall Interchange (near M1 Junction 34) serves Sheffield.
The Hard Interchange (at the end of the M275) serves Portsmouth.
The Ferrytoll park and ride in south Fife is an important intermediate stop for many coach services between Edinburgh, Fife and the rest of Scotland.
High Wycombe Coachway opened near Junction 4 of the M40 in January 2016.
Other coachway interchanges are less formal. The Reading Coachway on the M4 motorway is more like a bus stop in a supermarket car park.
See also
Coach transport in the United Kingdom
Victoria Coach Station in central London is the UK's busiest and had been in operation since 1932.
Bus rapid transit (A general article about bus rapid transport - similar issues for coach rapid transport)
References
Coach transport in the United Kingdom
Road infrastructure in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NightMare%20%28scareware%29 | NightMare is a scareware program distributed on the Fish Disks for the Amiga computer (Fish #448). It is generally credited to be the first scareware program of its type.
The program was developed by Patrick Evans (Nobleton, Ontario, Canada) in 1990 and was free to redistribute, with source code available from the author.
Effects
When NightMare executes, it runs in the background. Every five minutes, it changes the entire screen of the computer for four fifths of a second to an image of a skull with blood on its teeth and a bullet hole with blood leaking out of it, and plays an echoing shriek on the audio channels.
References
Scareware
1990 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20A910 | The Motorola A910 is a clamshell mobile phone from Motorola, which uses MontaVista Linux as the operating system.
Motorola started selling this phone in the first quarter of the year 2006. Utilizing a balanced Linux-Java operating system and Wi-Fi connectivity, the Motorola A910 surpasses its predecessors with user-friendly features, everything from text messaging to email management. It is also the only clamshell phone from Motorola with Wi-Fi, as well as the only non-touchscreen Motorola with Wi-Fi in Europe.
Features
The phone is supplied with a number of applications including a POP and IMAP email client, Opera web browser, calendar and a viewer for PDF and Microsoft Office files. Calendar and address book can be synchronized with a Microsoft Exchange or SyncML server. The phone has a 1.3 megapixel camera with Self Portrait Viewfinder External Display and photo lighting, recording still and video images. RealPlayer is included to play sound audio files and streamed audio and video. The phone has 48 megabytes of internal flash memory for storing user data and a slot for a microSD card, which supports additional 2 GB of storage. Both Bluetooth and USB are provided for communication with another computer. Character entry is made by the keypad interface.
Linux enthusiasts
This phone is popular with Linux enthusiasts. It is able to establish an Ethernet connection between the phone and another computer over USB, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. One can then telnet to the phone and be presented with a bash prompt. From the prompt one can, for example, mount a NFS drive(s) on the phone. The underlying operating system, Motorola EZX is Linux based, its kernel is open source. With the source code hosted on opensource.motorola.com, it is possible to recompile and replace the kernel for this operating system. However Motorola did not publish a software development kit for native applications. Instead, they expect third-party programs to be written in Java ME. The OpenEZX website is dedicated to providing free opensource software for this phone and others using the same OS.
See also
Motorola
List of Motorola products
List of mobile phones running Linux
OpenEZX
References
External links
Motorola A910 official website
OpenEZX Wiki - A910 Hardware details
Motorola Open source - Makes the Linux source code and drivers available in compliance with GPL
Motorolafans - fansite with many applications for Motorola Linux Phones
Motorola smartphones
Information appliances |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evasive%20Boolean%20function | In mathematics, an evasive Boolean function ƒ (of n variables) is a Boolean function for which every decision tree algorithm has running time of exactly n. Consequently, every decision tree algorithm that represents the function has, at worst case, a running time of n.
Examples
An example for a non-evasive boolean function
The following is a Boolean function on the three variables x, y, z:
(where is the bitwise "and", is the bitwise "or", and is the bitwise "not").
This function is not evasive, because there is a decision tree that solves it by checking exactly two variables: The algorithm first checks the value of x. If x is true, the algorithm checks the value of y and returns it.
( )
If x is false, the algorithm checks the value of z and returns it.
A simple example for an evasive boolean function
Consider this simple "and" function on three variables:
A worst-case input (for every algorithm) is 1, 1, 1. In every order we choose to check the variables, we have to check all of them. (Note that in general there could be a different worst-case input for every decision tree algorithm.) Hence the functions: "and", "or" (on n variables) are evasive.
Binary zero-sum games
For the case of binary zero-sum games, every evaluation function is evasive.
In every zero-sum game, the value of the game is achieved by the minimax algorithm (player 1 tries to maximize the profit, and player 2 tries to minimize the cost).
In the binary case, the max function equals the bitwise "or", and the min function equals the bitwise "and".
A decision tree for this game will be of this form:
every leaf will have value in {0, 1}.
every node is connected to one of {"and", "or"}
For every such tree with n leaves, the running time in the worst case is n (meaning that the algorithm must check all the leaves):
We will exhibit an adversary that produces a worst-case input – for every leaf that the algorithm checks, the adversary will answer 0 if the leaf's parent is an Or node, and 1 if the parent is an And node.
This input (0 for all Or nodes' children, and 1 for all And nodes' children) forces the algorithm to check all nodes:
As in the second example
in order to calculate the Or result, if all children are 0 we must check them all.
In order to calculate the And result, if all children are 1 we must check them all.
See also
Aanderaa–Karp–Rosenberg conjecture, the conjecture that every nontrivial monotone graph property is evasive.
Boolean algebra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAMBO%20code | Yambo is a computer software package for studying many-body theory aspects of solids and molecule systems.
It calculates the excited state properties of physical systems from first principles, e.g., from quantum mechanics law without the use of empirical data. It is an open-source software released under the GNU General Public License (GPL). However the main development repository is private and only a subset of the features available in the private repository are cloned into the public repository and thus distributed.
Excited state properties
Yambo can calculate:
Quasiparticle energies: plasmon pole, COHSEX approximation, or real-axis
Lifetimes within the GW approximation
Optical absorption: RPA, Bethe Salpeter with or without Tamm-Dancoff approximation, TDDFT in TD-LDA or LRC
Electron energy loss spectroscopy
Dynamical polarizability
electron-phonon coupling (static and dynamic perturbation theory)
magneto optical properties
surface spectroscopy
Physical systems
Yambo can treat molecules and periodic systems (both metallic an insulating) in three dimensions (crystalline solids)
two dimensions (surfaces) and one dimension (e.g., nanotubes, nanowires, polymer chains). It can also handle collinear (i.e., spin-polarized wave functions) and non-collinear (spinors) magnetic systems.
Typical systems are of the size of 10-100 atoms, or 10-400 electrons, per unit cell in the case of periodic systems.
Theoretical methods and approximations
Yambo relies on many-body perturbation theory and time-dependent density functional theory. Quasiparticle energies are calculated within the GW approximation for the self energy. Optical properties are calculated either by solving the Bethe–Salpeter equation or by using the adiabatic local density approximation within time-dependent density functional theory.
Numerical details
Yambo uses a plane waves basis set to represent the electronic (single-particle) wavefunctions. Core electrons are described with norm-conserving pseudopotentials.
The choice of a plane-wave basis set enforces the periodicity of the systems. Isolated systems, and systems that are periodic in only one or two directions can be treated by using a supercell approach.
For such systems Yambo offers two numerical techniques for the treatment of the Coulomb integrals: the cut-off and the random-integration method.
Technical details
Yambo is interfaced with plane-wave density-functional codes: ABINIT, PWscf, CPMD and with the ETSF-io library. The utilities that interface these codes with Yambo are distributed along with the main program.
The source code is written in Fortran 95 and C
The code is parallelized using MPI running libraries
User interface
Yambo has a command line user interface. Invoking the program with specific option generates the input with default values for the parameters consistent with the present data on the system.
A postprocessing tool, distributed along with the main program, helps with the analysis and visualization o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatheon%20Technologies | Jatheon Technologies, Inc. is a privately-held company founded in 2004 providing various products for the archiving of email, social media and other unstructured data with a focus on highly regulated industries such as education, healthcare, government, financial and legal works. The company is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in Northern America.
The company's products are intended to capture, index and store email, instant messages, social media content, text messages, calls and voicemail to enable organizations to respond to eDiscovery requests and meet various regulatory compliance requirements such as Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, and others. The email archiving appliances are installed in an organization's network and capture messaging traffic within the network. The products are compatible with all major mail servers, including Exchange, Office 365, Groupwise, Gmail and IBM Lotus, etc.
History
In December 2009, the company announced a partnership with Dell. Under the partnership, four new products combining Dell's PowerEdge R610 and R710 server technology, Dell's PowerVault MD1000 storage arrays, and Jatheon's email archiving and management software in various virtual storage configurations were launched.
In June 2014, Jatheon Technologies redesigned its entire family of PnC-based email and message archiving products for companies that require full regulatory compliance, internal policy management and storage space management.
In 2017, the company launched a social media and mobile communications archiving functionality.
Acquisitions
In June 2009, the company acquired the ongoing operations and support of NorthSeas AMT customers.
In 2010, Jatheon acquired the operations of TrendMicro, respectively.
Industry recognitions
Jatheon is the recipient of Deloitte's Top 10 Companies to Watch Award (2006) and InfoTech's Value Champion Award (2012). In 2009, the company was included in Gartner's Email Archiving Vendors Report.
In 2016, 2018 and 2019, Jatheon Technologies Inc. was included in The Radicati Group's Information Archiving Market Quadrant as a Specialist.
References
External links
Evident domain @ SC Magazine
Tips For Smoother Email Archiving @ Processor.com
10 Technologies and 20 Vendors You Should Know for 2008 @ Channel Insider
Computer Technology Review's first Annual E-Discovery Product Roundup @ Computer Technology Review
E-mail archiving vendor Jatheon goes back to its Canadian roots @ ItBusiness.ca
Computer companies established in 2004
Companies based in Toronto
Email
Computer archives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized%20algorithms%20as%20zero-sum%20games | Randomized algorithms are algorithms that employ a degree of randomness as part of their logic. These algorithms can be used to give good average-case results (complexity-wise) to problems which are hard to solve deterministically, or display poor worst-case complexity. An algorithmic game theoretic approach can help explain why in the average case randomized algorithms may work better than deterministic algorithms.
Formalizing the game
Consider a zero-sum game between player A, whose strategies are deterministic algorithms, and player B, whose strategies are inputs for A's algorithms. The cost of a strategy profile is the running time of A's chosen algorithm on B's chosen input. Therefore, player A tries to minimize the cost, and player B tries to maximize it. In the world of pure strategies, for every algorithm that A chooses, B may choose the most costly input – this is the worst-case scenario, and can be found using standard complexity analysis.
But in the real world, inputs are normally not selected by an ‘evil opponent’ – rather, they come from some distribution over inputs. Since this is the case, if we allow the algorithms to also be drawn from some distribution, we may look at the game as one that allows mixed strategies. That is, each player chooses a distribution over its strategies.
Analysis
Incorporating mixed strategies into the game allows us to use von Neumann's minimax theorem:
where R is a distribution over the algorithms, D is a distribution over inputs, A is a single deterministic algorithm, and T(A, D) is the average running time of algorithm a on input D. More specifically:
If we limit the set of algorithms to a specific family (for instance, all deterministic choices for pivots in the quick sort algorithm), choosing an algorithm A from R is equivalent to running a randomized algorithm (for instance, running quick sort and randomly choosing the pivots at each step).
This gives us an insight on Yao's principle, which states that the expected cost of any randomized algorithm for solving a given problem, on the worst-case input for that algorithm, can be no better than the expected cost, for a worst-case random probability distribution on the inputs, of the deterministic algorithm that performs best against that distribution.
Non-cooperative games
Randomized algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation%20unit%20%28programming%29 | In C and C++ programming language terminology, a translation unit (or more casually a compilation unit) is the ultimate input to a C or C++ compiler from which an object file is generated. A translation unit roughly consists of a source file after it has been processed by the C preprocessor, meaning that header files listed in #include directives are literally included, sections of code within #ifndef may be included, and macros have been expanded.
Context
A C program consists of units called source files (or preprocessing files), which, in addition to source code, includes directives for the C preprocessor. A translation unit is the output of the C preprocessor – a source file after it has been preprocessed.
Preprocessing notably consists of expanding a source file to recursively replace all #include directives with the literal file declared in the directive (usually header files, but possibly other source files); the result of this step is a preprocessing translation unit. Further steps include macro expansion of #define directives, and conditional compilation of #ifdef directives, among others; this translates the preprocessing translation unit into a translation unit. From a translation unit, the compiler generates an object file, which can be further processed and linked (possibly with other object files) to form an executable program.
Note that the preprocessor is in principle language agnostic, and is a lexical preprocessor, working at the lexical analysis level – it does not do parsing, and thus is unable to do any processing specific to C syntax. The input to the compiler is the translation unit, and thus it does not see any preprocessor directives, which have all been processed before compiling starts. While a given translation unit is fundamentally based on a file, the actual source code fed into the compiler may appear substantially different than the source file that the programmer views, particularly due to the recursive inclusion of headers.
Scope
Translation units define a scope, roughly file scope, and functioning similarly to module scope; in C terminology this is referred to as internal linkage, which is one of the two forms of linkage in C. Names (functions and variables) declared outside of a function block may be visible either only within a given translation unit, in which case they are said to have internal linkage – they are not visible to the linker – or may be visible to other object files, in which case they are said to have external linkage, and are visible to the linker.
C does not have a notion of modules. However, separate object files (and hence also the translation units used to produce object files) function similarly to separate modules, and if a source file does not include other source files, internal linkage (translation unit scope) may be thought of as "file scope, including all header files".
Code organization
The bulk of a project's code is typically held in files with a .c suffix (or .cpp, .cxx or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Marian%20Network | The European Marian Network connects twenty Catholic Marian sanctuaries in Europe (as many as the number of decades in the Rosary). It was established in 2003, promoted by the Holy See.
Only one sanctuary per country (the best known) was chosen. The sanctuaries, and their devotions, are the following:
Chapel of the Miraculous Image in Altötting, Germany
Our Lady of Banneux in Banneux, Belgium
Shrine of Mary Help of Christians in Brezje, Slovenia
Our Lady of Csíksomlyó in Șumuleu Ciuc, Romania
Our Lady of Częstochowa in Częstochowa, Poland
The Black Madonna of the Einsiedeln Abbey in Einsiedeln, Switzerland
Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal
Shrine of Our Lady of Europe in Gibraltar
Our Lady of Knock in Knock, Ireland
Mariánska hora in Levoča, Slovakia
Basilica della Santa Casa in Loreto, Italy
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in Lourdes, France
Our Lady of Máriapócs in Máriapócs, Hungary
Basilica of the Birth of the Virgin Mary in Mariazell, Austria
Mary of the Snows in Marija Bistrica, Croatia
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Mellieħa in Mellieħa, Malta
Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn in Vilnius, Lithuania
Our Lady of Walsingham in Walsingham, United Kingdom
Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar in Zaragoza, Spain
Theotokos of Zarvanytsia in Zarvanytsia, Ukraine
The Sanctuary Animators from the members of the Network meet each year to get to know each other better and, above all, to understand better the needs of the millions of pilgrims and visitors who frequent these Sanctuaries. The gathering in 2003 took place in Lourdes, in 2004 it took place in Fátima, in 2005 it took place in Máriapócs, in 2006 in Sanctuary of Our Lady of Knock, in 2007 in Vilnius, in 2008 in Zaragoza and in 2009 in Częstochowa. 2010 took place in Gibraltar, 2011 was in Walsingham, 2012 was in Rome and in 2013, it took place in Mellieħa
See also
Shrines to the Virgin Mary
Titles of Mary
References
Catholic Mariology
Catholic Church-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court%20show | A court show (also known as a judge show, legal/courtroom program, courtroom series, or judicial show) is a broadcast programming subgenre comprising legal dramas and reality legal programming. Court shows present content mainly in the form of legal hearings between plaintiffs (or claimants in the United Kingdom) and defendants presided over in one of two formats: a scripted/improvised with an actor portraying a judge; or an arbitration-based reality format with the case handled by an adjudicator who was formerly a judge or attorney.
At present, these shows typically portray small claims court cases, produced in a simulation of a small claims courtroom inside of a television studio. However, in 2020 through 2021, numerous aspects of this genre were largely forsaken due to COVID-19, such as hearings transpiring from simulated courtroom studio sets. More so than other genres, the pandemic resulted in transformations that were drastic and conspicuous on court shows, because of their unique nature which demands a transition in disputants for each individual episode.
The genre first began in radio broadcasting in the 1930s, starting with The Court of Human Relations, and then the genre later shifted to television in the late 1940s, beginning with such TV shows as Court of Current Issues, Your Witness, Famous Jury Trials, etc.
Synopsis
The most widely used techniques in court show genre are dramatizations (scripted or loosely script-directed hearings) and arbitration-based reality shows. The genre began with dramatizations and remained the technique of choice for roughly six decades. By the late 1990s, however, arbitration-based reality shows took over as the technique of choice, continuing into the present. Dramatizations were either fictional cases (often inspired from factual details in actual cases) or reenactments of actual trials. The role of the judge was often taken by a retired real-life judge, a law school professor or an actor.
Arbitration-based reality shows, on the other hand, typically involve litigants who agree to have their disputes aired on national television and adjudicated by a television show "judge". However, the forum is merely a simulated courtroom constructed within a television studio and not a legitimate court of law. Therefore, the shows' "judges" are actually arbitrators, and what is depicted is a form of binding arbitration. Most arbitrators presiding in modern court programs have had at least some legal experience, which is often listed as a requirement by these programs.
These television programs are a staple of daytime television, often airing once or twice for every weekday. With production costs minimal (under ~$200,000 a week, whereas entertainment magazines cost five times that) and an evergreen, episodic format, court shows are easily and frequently rerun. Like talk shows, the procedure of court shows varies based upon the titular host. In most cases, they are first-run syndication programs. In 2001, the genr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC%204592 | IC 4592 (also known as the Blue Horsehead Nebula) is a reflection nebula in the Scorpius constellation that is lit by Nu Scorpii.
External links
IC 4592 in NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
IC 4592 in SIMBAD Database
IC 4592 at seds.org
4592
Reflection nebulae
Scorpius |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solved%20%28TV%20series%29 | Solved is an American true crime television series that airs on the Investigation Discovery network. The show also aired on TLC. Debuting on October 13, 2008, Solved is produced in conjunction with Digital Ranch Productions.
Synopsis
The series features career-defining cases of police officers and FBI agents, with a heavy emphasis on forensic evidence. In each episode, a mysterious homicide case unfolds through first person accounts from America's elite law enforcement officers.
Topics covered include forensic document examination, forensic linguistics, and computer forensics.
CGI environments are used to illustrate crime scenes, physical evidence, and various high-tech crime fighting techniques.
See also
Cold Case Files, USA/A&E, 1999 (true cases)
Cold Justice, USA/TNT, 2013 (true cases)
To Catch a Killer, CAN/OWN, 2014 (true cases)
References
External links
2000s American documentary television series
2008 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings
2010s American documentary television series
2000s American crime television series
2010s American crime television series
English-language television shows
Investigation Discovery original programming
True crime television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20IV%20%28dwarf%20galaxy%29 | Leo IV is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Leo constellation, discovered in 2006 in the data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The galaxy is located at the distance of about 160 kpc from the Sun and moves away from the Sun with the velocity of about 130 km/s. It is classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph) meaning that it has an approximately round shape with the half-light radius of about 130 pc.
Leo IV is one of the smallest and faintest satellites of the Milky Way; its integrated luminosity is about times that of the Sun (absolute visible magnitude of ), which is much lower than the luminosity of a typical globular cluster. However, its mass is about 1.5 million solar masses, which means that Leo's mass to light ratio is around 150. A high mass to light ratio implies that Leo IV is dominated by the dark matter.
The stellar population of Leo IV consists mainly of old stars formed more than 12 billion years ago. The metallicity of these old stars is also very low at , which means that they contain 400 times less heavy elements than the Sun. The observed stars were primarily red giants, although a number of Horizontal branch stars including three RR Lyrae variable stars were also discovered. The stars of Leo IV were probably among the first stars to form in the Universe. Nevertheless, the detailed study of the stellar population revealed the presence of a small number of much younger stars with the age of about 2 billion years or less. This discovery points to a complicated star formation history of this galaxy. Currently there is no star formation in Leo IV. The measurements have so far failed to detect any neutral hydrogen in it—the upper limit is just 600 solar masses.
In 2008, another galaxy called Leo V was discovered in the vicinity of Leo IV. The former is located 20 kpc further from the Milky Way than the latter and 3 degrees (~ 10 kpc) away from it. These two galaxies may be physically associated with each other.
Notes
References
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies
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Leo (constellation)
Local Group
Milky Way Subgroup
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20custom%20chips | In addition to the Amiga chipsets, various specially designed chips have been used in Commodore Amiga computers that do not belong to the 'Amiga chipset' in a tight sense.
System logic
Gary
CSG 5719 Gary, short for Gate Array, has been used in the Amiga 500, 2000(B) and CDTV. Gary provides glue logic for bus control and houses supporting functions for the floppy disk drive. It integrates many functions built discretely in the earlier Amiga 1000 in order to reduce costs.
Fat Gary
Fat Gary was Gary's upgrade for the 32-bit A3000/T and A4000/T.
Gayle
Gayle replaced Gary in the A600 and A1200. It also incorporates the control logic for the PCMCIA and internal ATA interface on these systems.
Akiko
Akiko is the CD32's all-purpose 'glue' chip and forms part of the AGA chipset used in that system. Akiko is responsible for implementing system glue logic that in previous Amiga models were found in the discrete chips Budgie, Gayle and the two CIAs. In detail, it includes control logic for the CD32's CD-ROM controller, system timers, the two game ports, the serial ('AUX') port, and the chip memory soldered onto the motherboard. It controls a one kilobyte EEPROM for saving data such as highscores etc.
Additionally, the Akiko chip is able to assist simple 'chunky-to-planar' graphics conversion in hardware. The Amiga's native display is a planar display which is simple and efficient to manipulate for routines like scrolling or 2D composition. However, chunky displays are faster and more efficient for 3D graphics manipulation. Akiko assists this conversion in hardware, instead of shifting the bits solely by CPU code which would cause more overhead. The conversion works by writing 32 8-bit chunky pixels to Akiko's registers and reading back eight 32-bit words of converted planar data to be copied to the display buffer.
Bridgette
Bridgette is an integrated bus buffer in the A4000 series. It connects the chip, CPU and I/O buses. It replaces six 74F646s and four 74F245s chips used in the original A3000 design.
Expansion
Buster
Buster is the expansion BUS conTrollER and was used in the Amiga 2000(B), integrating discrete logic from the original A2000(A). Buster controls bus arbitration and DMA for the Zorro II expansion subsystem.
Super Buster (Fat Buster)
The Amiga 3000 and 4000 lines use Super Buster for bus control and arbitration of both Zorro II and Zorro III subsystems. Super Buster's development was never really finished, so there are various levels of compatibility. All revision Super Buster are pin-compatible and can be upgraded.
Level I - up to rev 7 (A3000), only provides support for basic Zorro III without DMA.
Level II
rev 9 (A4000) is slightly faster than Level I. It provides DMA support, but has a bug that might lead to a bus lockup.
rev 11 (Late A4000, A4000CR, A4000T and aftermarket) provides DMA support for a single bus master. A 16 MHz A3000 requires a 25 MHz upgrade for Buster 11 to work.
All revisions fully support Zorro II PIO an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAL%20Actor%20Language | CAL (the Cal Actor Language) is a high-level programming language for writing (dataflow) actors, which are stateful operators that transform input streams of data objects (tokens) into output streams. CAL has been compiled to a variety of target platforms, including single-core processors, multicore processors, and programmable hardware. It has been used in several application areas, including video and processing, compression and cryptography. The MPEG Reconfigurable Video Coding (RVC) working group has adopted CAL as part of their standardization efforts.
History and Introduction
The CAL Actor Language was developed in 2001 as part of the Ptolemy II project at University of California at Berkeley. CAL is a dataflow language geared towards a variety of application domains, such as multimedia processing, control systems, network processing etc.
Another common reason for choosing dataflow is that the goal is an efficient parallel implementation which would be difficult or impossible to achieve using a sequential programming language. Sequential languages are notoriously difficult to parallelize in general, so efficient parallel implementations will usually require significant guidance from the user. A CAL dataflow program provides simple, understandable, and powerful abstractions that allow the specification of as much or as little parallelism as is required, enabling tools to produce sophisticated implementations that exploit the concurrent structure of a computation.
When programming in dataflow, the programmer is typically constructing a concurrent description of a computational system, which is different from a common sequential program. Rather than being concerned with the step-by-step execution of an algorithm, a dataflow programmer builds a system of asynchronously communicating entities called actors. Much of the programming effort is directed toward finding a good factoring of the problem into actors, and toward engineering appropriate communication patterns among those actors.
CAL features
The structure of actors
Actors perform their computation in a sequence of steps called firings. In each of those steps:
1. the actor may consume tokens from its input ports,
2. it may modify its internal state,
3. it may produce tokens at its output ports.
Consequently, describing an actor involves describing its interface to the outside, the ports, the structure of its internal state, as well as the steps it can perform, what these steps do (in terms of token production and consumption, and the update of the actor state), and how to pick the step that the actor will perform next. This section discusses some of the constructs in the CAL language that deal with these issues. Actions describe the things that happen during a step that an actor takes. In fact, it is accurate to say that a step consists of executing an action. Recall that when an actor takes a step, it may consume input tokens and produce output tokens.
Therefore, input patterns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EqualLogic | EqualLogic, Inc. was an American computer data storage company based in Nashua, New Hampshire, active from 2001 to 2007. In 2008, the company was merged into Dell Inc. Dell-branded EqualLogic products are iSCSI-based storage area network (SAN) systems. Dell has 3 different lines of SAN products: EqualLogic, Compellent and Dell PowerVault.
History
EqualLogic was a company based in Nashua, New Hampshire. Formed in 2001 by Peter Hayden, Paul Koning, and Paula Long, it raised $52 million from investors between 2001 and 2004. The company was considering an initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock-exchange, but accepted an offer from Dell in 2007, and was absorbed in late January 2008. The all-cash take-over transaction of $1.4 billion was the highest price paid for a company financed by venture investors at the time. At the time of acquisition, the company was backed by four venture capital investors: Charles River Ventures, TD Capital Ventures, Focus Ventures and Sigma Partners.
Architecture
EqualLogic systems use iSCSI via either Gigabit Ethernet or 10 Gigabit Ethernet controllers. The currently (June 2014) sold systems with 1 Gbit/s connections are the PS4100, PS6100 and PS6200 while the comparable systems with 10 Gbit/s Ethernet connections are PS4110, PS6110 and PS6210. There have been a number of previous generations, and as long as the software is updated on older systems they can work with the newer models. Within each series there are several options allowing for different types and sizes of hard disk drives or solid-state drives. EqualLogic options combine both in the same chassis and automatically migrate the most frequently accessed data to the SSDs. All PS series systems, except the PS-M4110 blade chassis system, are 19-inch rack systems in a 2 rack unit form factor or a 4 RU chassis for some of the PS61x0 models and the PS65x0 dense models.
EqualLogic Arrays can be combined with up to 16 arrays per group. Groups can mix different members, including multiple hardware generations, as well as different RAID types, in a group. By combining multiple arrays per group, very large storage groups can be created with maximum capacity in one group of over 1.5 PB. Arrays can be segmented into pools, and from pools, volumes. Volumes are exposed on a SAN network, and used by virtual machine hosts or other computers.
Controllers
Each array comes with two controllers, offering redundancy and load-balancing. A controller offers one or more data Ethernet interfaces for the iSCSI traffic and one management interface. A typical array has 2 or more iSCSI Ethernet interfaces and one management interface.
The arrays with model PS XX00 have Gigabit Ethernet ports while the PS XX10 offer 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports for iSCSI traffic and a 10 Mbit/s / 100 Mbit/s management port. Depending on the model the interfaces can be either copper-based Gigabit Ethernet or 10GBASE-T or fiber-optic interfaces using small form-factor pluggable transceivers.
Con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sm%C3%A5land%20Runic%20Inscription%2099 | This runic inscription, designated as Sm 99 in the Rundata catalog, is on a Viking Age memorial runestone located in Nederby, which is about two kilometers northwest of Myresjö, Jönköping County, Sweden, and in the historic province of Småland.
Description
The inscription on this granite runestone, which is 1.55 meters in height, consists of runic text in the younger futhark inscribed within a spiral text band. The stone is near a road and a small stream, and the runic text states that a bridge was made as a memorial. The reference to bridge-building in the runic text 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 an indulgence 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 Ramsund, U 69 in Eggeby, and U 489 in Morby. Nearby to Sm 99 on the other side of the stream is a second runestone, Sm 100 in Glömsjö, which also discusses the building of a bridge as a memorial. It is unclear if the two stones refer to the same bridge or if two families cooperated in its construction.
The runic text states that two sons named Þórðr and Þorbjôrn built the bridge and raised the stone as a memorial to their father Verskulfr. Of the personal names mentioned in the text, two contain the Norse pagan god Thor as a theophoric name element. The name Þorbjôrn translates as "Thor Bear," and Þórðr is a shortened form of Þór-röðr, a common male name form based upon the god's name.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
: þurþʀ * auk * þurbiourn * karþu [b](r)(u) [þas]i [ef]tiʀ : uersku(l)f * faþur * sin
Transcription into Old Norse
Þórðr ok Þorbjôrn gerðu brú þessa eptir Verskulf, fôður sinn.
Translation in English
Þórðr and Þorbjôrn made this bridge in memory of Verskulfr, their father.
See also
List of runestones
References
Smaland Runic Inscription 099 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succinct%20game | In algorithmic game theory, a succinct game or a succinctly representable game is a game which may be represented in a size much smaller than its normal form representation. Without placing constraints on player utilities, describing a game of players, each facing strategies, requires listing utility values. Even trivial algorithms are capable of finding a Nash equilibrium in a time polynomial in the length of such a large input. A succinct game is of polynomial type if in a game represented by a string of length n the number of players, as well as the number of strategies of each player, is bounded by a polynomial in n (a formal definition, describing succinct games as a computational problem, is given by Papadimitriou & Roughgarden 2008).
Types of succinct games
Graphical games
Graphical games are games in which the utilities of each player depends on the actions of very few other players. If is the greatest number of players by whose actions any single player is affected (that is, it is the indegree of the game graph), the number of utility values needed to describe the game is , which, for a small is a considerable improvement.
It has been shown that any normal form game is reducible to a graphical game with all degrees bounded by three and with two strategies for each player. Unlike normal form games, the problem of finding a pure Nash equilibrium in graphical games (if one exists) is NP-complete. The problem of finding a (possibly mixed) Nash equilibrium in a graphical game is PPAD-complete. Finding a correlated equilibrium of a graphical game can be done in polynomial time, and for a graph with a bounded treewidth, this is also true for finding an optimal correlated equilibrium.
Sparse games
Sparse games are those where most of the utilities are zero. Graphical games may be seen as a special case of sparse games.
For a two player game, a sparse game may be defined as a game in which each row and column of the two payoff (utility) matrices has at most a constant number of non-zero entries. It has been shown that finding a Nash equilibrium in such a sparse game is PPAD-hard, and that there does not exist a fully polynomial-time approximation scheme unless PPAD is in P.
Symmetric games
In symmetric games all players are identical, so in evaluating the utility of a combination of strategies, all that matters is how many of the players play each of the strategies. Thus, describing such a game requires giving only utility values.
In a symmetric game with 2 strategies there always exists a pure Nash equilibrium – although a symmetric pure Nash equilibrium may not exist. The problem of finding a pure Nash equilibrium in a symmetric game (with possibly more than two players) with a constant number of actions is in AC0; however, when the number of actions grows with the number of players (even linearly) the problem is NP-complete. In any symmetric game there exists a symmetric equilibrium. Given a symmetric game of n players facing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20SGH-T401G | Samsung SGH-T401G is a side slider messaging featurephone manufactured by Samsung for use on the U.S. GSM networks of Net10, TracFone Wireless, and Straight Talk.
Hardware and features
The front of the phone has a traditional 23-key keypad consisting of twelve input keys and eleven function keys, of which one is dedicated for one-touch text messaging. The full 38-key QWERTY keyboard slides out to the left (pictured).
The back houses a 1.3 Mpix camera and video recorder. The device also includes support for Bluetooth, Stereo and a MicroSD card slot for music storage.
Software features include text and picture messaging, a web browser, and an MP3 player.
References
External links
Official product page for SGH-T401G
GSM Arena page for Samsung T401g
Samsung mobile phones
Mobile phones introduced in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad%20Ataul%20Karim | Mohammad Ataul Karim (; born 4 May 1953) is a Bangladeshi American scientist and higher education administrator, with expertise in electro-optical systems, optical computing, and pattern recognition. Ataul Karim is ranked amongst the top 50 researchers who contributed most to Applied Optics in its 50-year history. Ataul Karim served as provost, executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth between june 2013-2020, and was for 9 years the first Vice President for Research of Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Virginia.
Biography
Mohammad Ataul Karim was born on 4 May 1953 in Barlekha, a border town in South Sylhet. He attended Shatma Primary for his elementary education and Patharia Chotolekha High for a year after which he left home to be schooled at Faujdarhat Cadet College (1965–1969), Sylhet MC College (1969–1972), and the University of Dacca (1972–1976) wherefrom he received his bachelor's honors degree in physics. Ataul Karim earned his master's degrees in physics (1978) and electrical engineering (1979), and a doctor of philosophy degree in electrical engineering (1982) from the University of Alabama.
Ataul Karim began creative writing in high school. A large number of his popular science writings in Bengali appeared in Biggyan Shamoeeki and Bangla Academy Biggyan Patrika during 1972–1976. Of these, the most significant were Biborthon Kahinee, a series of articles on cosmic and biological evolution, and Shamproteek, a monthly feature of current affairs in science, both of which appeared in Biggyan Shamoeeki. By the second year of his bachelor's degree in 1974, he had completed his first book manuscript which he submitted to Bangla Academy for publication. After about two years, the Academy informed him that it was not prepared to take a chance on its juvenile author. This episode troubled him deeply ending his creative writing efforts in Bengali. All his subsequent books and articles were written in English and all were published from outside of Bangladesh.
A 2004 Government of Bangladesh report and a number of books in Bengali, including Bangladesher Shera Bigyani (Hitler A. Halim, Shikor, 2004), Medhabi Manusher Golpo (Mohammad Kaykobad, Annyaprokash, 2005), "Medhabi O Binoyi Manusher Golpo" (Mohammad Kaykobad, "Shore O", 2020), and "Tarae Tarae Khochito" (Fardin Munir and Munir Hasan, "Odomya Prokash", 2022) as well as Star Insight, cite him as an example of the outstanding success of the Bangladeshi diaspora. His efforts to correct illegal practices that otherwise discriminated against international graduate students were featured by the Chronicle of Higher Education, The Wall Street Journal in "Hidden Costs of a Brain Gain" and in turn by David Heenan in his book "Flight Capital: The Alarming Exodus of America's Best And Brightest".
Professional affiliations
Prior to University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (2013–present), he had held academic appointments with the Universit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Widom | Jennifer Widom is an American computer scientist known for her work in database systems and data management. She is notable for foundational contributions to semi-structured data management and data stream management systems. Since 2017, Widom is the dean of the School of Engineering and professor of computer science at Stanford University. Her honors include the Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science and multiple lifetime achievement awards from the Association for Computing Machinery.
Education
Widom earned a BS degree in trumpet performance from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 1982 and a PhD in computer science under David Gries from Cornell University in 1987.
Academic career
Widom began her career as a researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center and joined Stanford University as a professor in 1993. She was the chair of the Stanford computer science department from 2009 to 2014, and served as senior associate dean for faculty and academic affairs in the School of Engineering from 2014 to 2016. In February 2017 she was named Dean of the School of Engineering.
Widom is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) since 2005. In 2015, she won the ACM-W Athena Lecturer Award, which honors prominent female computer scientists, for her work in the introduction of fundamental concepts and architectures of active database systems. Widom is also a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Widom has co-authored four academic textbooks on database systems. These books focus on database design, use, and implementation of applications and management systems. The course materials have been utilized at the junior, senior, and graduate levels in the computer science department.
In late 2011, Widom launched one of the first Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), entitled "Introduction to Databases". The course had more than 100,000 enrolled students, and launched at the same time as two other MOOCs by Stanford University School of Engineering faculty. In 2018, she won the Erna Hamburger prize from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne -Women in Science and Humanities Foundation for her work with MOOCs.
Personal life
Widom is the daughter of Lois Widom and Harold Widom, an American mathematician.
Selected works
Widom, Jennifer; (with H. Garcia-Molina and J. D. Ullman). Database Systems: The Complete Book, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2002.
Widom, Jennifer; (with J. D. Ullman). A First Course in Database Systems, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1997 and 2002.
Widom, Jennifer; (with H. Garcia-Molina and J.D. Ullman). Database System Implementation, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 2000.
Widom, Jennifer; (with S. Ceri). Active Database Systems: Triggers and Rules for Advanced Database Processing, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 1996.
References
External links
Dean of Engineering page at Stanford
Living people
Fellows of the Association for Computing Mac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praegmelina | Praegmelina is an extinct genus of crustacean in the order Amphipoda. It existed during the middle Miocene period.
References
External links
Praegmelina at the Paleobiology Database
Gammaridea
Amphipod genera
Miocene crustaceans |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20tablet | The Adam Tablet is a tablet computer designed by Bangalore-based firm Notion Ink Design Labs. The worldwide launch occurred on December 18, 2010 via a video released by Notion Ink detailing their Eden Interface. On December 9 a limited number of devices were released for pre-order globally, followed by a larger pre-order starting January 9, 2011 and an open subscription pre-order from 11 January 2011. The Adam runs a customized version of Android 2.2 Froyo, and has released beta versions of Android 3.0 Honeycomb and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich The beta versions released were largely done through the efforts of volunteer developers. The Adam is set to be the first Android device marketed to contain Pixel Qi's low-power, dual-mode display. The device is one of several tablet form-factor devices to include a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor that can support 1080p video output mirroring.
The Adam was shown at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas where it received favorable initial reviews.
Features
The Adam includes an Nvidia Tegra 250 processor with a 1 GHz Dual Core Cortex A9. Running Android 2.2 Froyo, the Adam incorporates a Notion Ink created overlay interface, called Eden, which is forward compatible; it incorporates modules from the successor to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Rohan Shravan, CEO of Notion Ink, has stated that his company is currently working on porting Android 3.0, Honeycomb to the product.
The Notion Ink Design Labs Adam has two choices of screen, a transflective liquid crystal display made by Pixel Qi or a backlit liquid crystal display (LCD). Both screen choices are diagonal with a resolution of 1024x600. The device measures and weighs .
A 185° swivel-camera can face a user during video chatting at -5°, can face a live lecture or meeting while the unit is on a table at 90°, or can snap photographs at 180°. The camera does not work on the beta version for Ice Cream Sandwich.
The Adam can be plugged into a high-definition television (HDTV) through a high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) port.
The Adam's USB ports are enabled in host mode which allows the connection of USB flash drives and hard drives. This feature also can be used to connect a keyboard and a mouse to the Adam.
The Adam was supposed to come bundled with Adobe Flash but the first shipped devices did not have it pre-installed. However, Adam owners were able to sideload a Tegra 2-optimized version of Adobe Flash with no problems. It is expected to support Adobe AIR when it launches. The Tegra 250's supports flash acceleration.
Controversy
The Notion Ink Adam was beset by a number of controversies and delays since its preorder launch in December 2010. These included shipping problems, confusion over the specifications of the machine, reportedly poor customer support and questionable build quality.
The first units shipped were subject to an OTA updating error in which the update file failed to completely download to the device (i. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDI%20PowerLite | The RDI PowerLite is a series of SPARC-based laptops and mobile workstations marketed by RDI Computer Corporation.
PowerLite models were all based on Sun's sun4m architecture, and were fully compatible with all operating systems and software developed for them. All models had support for two 2.5" SCSI hard drives and one floppy drive or PCMCIA adapter, or three 2.5" SCSI hard drives. 104-key keyboards and trackballs were also included. In addition, there were docking stations available, with SBus slots and additional 3.5" hard drive bays.
A ruggedized model was also released, the RUGGEDIZED PowerLite, with one floppy drive and PCMCIA standard, and an optional CD-ROM or DAT drive.
Notes
Mobile workstations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxUser | LinuxUser is a German computer magazine for Linux users published by German media company Medialinx AG. It was first published in 2000.
References
External links
2000 establishments in Germany
Computer magazines published in Germany
German-language magazines
Linux magazines
Magazines established in 2000
Magazines published in Munich
Monthly magazines published in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford%20Stroh | Bradford G. Stroh is an entrepreneur, who has founded and led several companies, and also an author. Stroh co-founded Freedom Financial Network and several related specialty finance businesses. He is currently the CEO of Bills.com.
Education
Stroh received his MBA from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and received a BA from Amherst College, where he captained the men's Lacrosse team.
Career
Prior to founding Bills.com and Freedom Financial Network, Stroh was an investor in financial services and growth companies at TA Associates, a private equity fund, CIVC Partners, an investment fund, and Doll Capital Management, a venture capital firm. Stroh has also worked with two start-ups: Trigo Technologies (sold to IBM) and Luminous Networks, a Gigabit Ethernet startup. He is an investor, board adviser and board member to several entrepreneurial companies, including Ujogo, BioIQ, Goldline International, Position2, SharesPost, Stream Dynamics, Realty Nation, Vertical Brands, Group Card, Home-Account and Vitality Health (sold to CarePayments Technology,).
In 2002, Stroh and his business partner Andrew Housser founded Freedom Financial Network (FFN), to provide a full range of specialty financial services to U.S. consumers. Companies within the Freedom Network are Freedom Debt Relief, offering debt relief assistance; Freedom Tax Relief to manage IRS tax debts; Golden Road Financial focused on mortgage lending; and the most recent acquisition in early 2010, Home Account. Stroh is currently the Founder and CEO of Bills.com which provides tools and information to help consumers make better personal financial decisions. Entrepreneur magazine named Bills.com No. 3 in the Hot 100, of fastest growing companies in America. Bills.com has been named to the Inc. 500/5000 in 2008, 2009, and 2010. The company employs approximately 600 people, and has annual revenue of $106 million.
Stroh also wrote the fictional novel The Dharma King about Tibetan Buddhism and the search for the Panchen Lama.
Awards
2008 Winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneurs of the Year for the Northern California region
Named to the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's "40 Under 40" list
Personal life
Brad is of German descent. Brad is married to Brandy Stroh and have 2 kids Brooke and Brayden. They currently live in Portola Valley, California.
References
External links
Profiles
Brad Stroh Website
Talks
Early Stage Sales – Stanford Business School
Starting a Business After School – Stanford Business School
Stroh at The Commonwealth Club
Interview on CNN
Interview on KRON4 TV
Interview on NBC News
Bradford Stroh on Fox
American financial businesspeople
Silicon Valley people
Stanford University alumni
Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni
Businesspeople from the San Francisco Bay Area
1973 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Slate%20500 | The HP Slate 500 is a multi-touch capable Windows 7 tablet computer that was announced at CES 2010 and launched on 22 October 2010.
History
The Slate 500 began as an e-reader concept, but after further study of the uses for such devices, HP realigned their goal to deliver a product that provided a "rich user experience; to browse, listen to music, watch videos and enjoy media".
HP Chief Technology Officer, Phil McKinney, stated that "2010 is the optimal year...there is now this convergence of low cost, low power processors, with an Operating System - Windows 7 that is touch aware."
Hardware
The Slate 500 has a three-megapixel camera on its back panel and a VGA resolution webcam on the front panel, an 8.9" capacitive multi-touch screen supporting 1024×600 pixel resolution with digitizer and pen support. The Slate is powered by a 1.86 GHz Intel Atom Z540 processor with 2GB DDR2 of RAM, 64GB of onboard solid state flash storage and one standard USB 2.0 port. The device supports 1080p playback powered by the Intel GMA 500 integrated graphics chipset in addition to a Broadcom Crystal HD media accelerator card for hardware assisted video playback. Wireless capabilities include the built-in WiFi and Bluetooth support. Power is supplied by a 2-cell 30WHr lithium-polymer battery with an average runtime of 5 hours.
The Slate 500 also has support for a stylus pen/digitizer, to enable on-screen freehand drawing and writing.
Software
The Slate 500 runs Windows 7, which includes native touch technology. Adobe Systems and HP confirmed that the "full web" experience will be available on the Slate 500, including full hardware accelerated Adobe Flash content and Adobe AIR applications.
When upgraded to Windows 8, the display resolution will preclude the use of the tiled interface. However, with a driver from Intel, resolution can be changed to 1024 x 768 which is the minimum value for Modern interface.
Release
HP announced that the device was available for purchase on 22 October 2010, initially with a cost of US$799. A month after launch, HP announced that the device was back ordered for six weeks due to "extraordinary demand", though Engadget claimed that a source said that HP had planned to build only 5,000 Slates, but received orders for 9,000, forcing the delay.
Reception
The Slate 500 (at the time known simply as the Slate) received a positive reception when it was shown at CES 2010. CNBC said "HP's Slate has been the big buzz".
Initial reviews have not met a general consensus yet. CNET said the device was a "lightweight, sturdy device, with...a slick industrial design and several hardware advantages over the iPad." Its only criticism was the lack of a specialized interface for touchscreen use; rather, the Slate has no additional software beyond what is included with Windows 7 Professional, and the CNET review considered this a limitation for productivity uses.
See also
HP Slate 7
HP Touchpad
References
External links
Official Site
HP S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VivaCit%C3%A9 | VivaCité is a Belgian public service radio station operated by RTBF. The station launched on 29 February 2004 from the merger of regional network Fréquence Wallonie and Brussels station Bruxelles Capitale. VivaCité is the French-language equivalent of VRT Radio 2.
Overview
VivaCité is a radio network, covering the French-speaking regions of Belgium, via six regional stations (Brussels, Charleroi, Hainaut, Liège, Namur/Luxembourg/Walloon Brabant). Its programming is a mix of adult contemporary music with personality-driven shows and sports coverage in the evenings. All six stations air local programming in the morning between 5:30 and 8:30 weekdays, with evening drive coming from four locations (Luxembourg and Charleroi air neighbouring stations' shows).
Radiolène, a station based in Verviers was absorbed into the VivaCité network. Radiolène was created in 1982 as an experimental local station. It was severely reduced in 2004 by the Magellan Plan re-organisation of public radio, then closed as an independent station with three morning opt-out news bulletins remaining as local output.
Slogans
2004: La nouvelle radio
2004-2006: On a plein de choses à se dire
2006: Au cœur de vos émotions
2007-2009: En toute complicité
2009: La radio complice
2009: Et la vie va!
2011: Ma radio complicité
Reception
FM
VivaCité Brabant wallon
Wavre: 97.3
VivaCité Bruxelles
Brussels: 99.3
VivaCité Liège
Liège: 90.5
Malmedy: 91.6
Spa: 94.6
Verviers: 103.0
Welkenraedt: 89.4
VivaCité Charleroi
Charleroi: 92.3
Chimay: 95.4
VivaCité Hainaut
La Louvière: 99.5
Mons: 97.1
Hainaut: 101.8
VivaCité Namur
Couvin: 94.2
Namur (centre): 89.1
Namur (province): 98.3
VivaCité Luxembourg
Ardennes and Luxembourg: 91.5
Bouillon: 98.1
Houffalize: 91.8
La Roche-en-Ardenne: 88.2
Marche-en-Famenne: 95.2
AM
621 kHz - shared time with La Première, everyday between 20:00-23:00, within a radius of about from Wavre
1125 kHz - within a radius of about from La Louvière
DAB+
Since the end of 2018, each local stations are available on DAB+ on their provincial block.
Until 2018, VivaCité was broadcast on DAB Block 12B (225.648 kHz). These were programmes that are broadcast by VivaCité Bruxelles which covers all of the French Community of Belgium.
Satellite
Astra 19.2°E - 12343.50 H (encrypted) Audio: 137
Digital terrestrial television
UHF channel 56, 66 and 45
Internet
Listen to VivaCité
See also
Classic 21
La Première
Musiq'3
Pure
RTBF International
References
External links
RTBF
VivaCité
VivaCité Bruxelles streaming
VivaCité Liège streaming
VivaCité Namur - Brabant Wallon streaming
VivaCité Hainaut streaming
VivaCité Charleroi streaming
VivaCité Luxembourg streaming
VivaCité Radiolène streaming
2004 establishments in Belgium
French-language radio stations in Belgium
Mass media in Brussels
Radio stations established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oullim%20Spirra | The Oullim Spirra is a sports car manufactured by Oullim Motors, a subsidiary of Oullim Networks. The company headquarters are located in Yangjae-dong in downtown Seoul while the production facility is located in Kyunggi-do province just south of Seoul. Oullim Motors was co-founded in 2007 by former Ssangyong Motors designer Han-chul Kim and Dong-hyuk Park, the founder and CEO of Oullim Networks.
The Spirra had been in production from 2008 to 2017, and was available in various countries including China, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia and the Netherlands.
Introduction
The initial conception of a Korean exotic sports car was envisioned by Han-chul Kim in the mid 1990s, then a designer at SsangYong Motors. Upon the inception of a tangible vision, Kim quit Ssangyong Motors to further pursue the dream of building a sports car and founded Proto Motors with his wife, a researcher at Asia Motors.
The original mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive design featured a Ford-derived V8 engine with an output of . This engine was from the 1999/2001 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra. With the engine the Spirra has a claimed 0-62 mph (100 km/h) time under 4.0 seconds with an expected top speed of . A prototype, developed to compete as a competent sports car, was codenamed the PS-II and revealed to the public for the first time at the 2000 Seoul Motor Show. The PS-II was renamed the Spirra before being debuted at the 2004 Beijing Motor Show. Initial production attempts failed due to insufficient funds and the project was delayed indefinitely.
The production of the Spirra became feasible when Kim coincidentally met Dong-hyuk Park, an ardent car enthusiast and successful IT entrepreneur. Park had established Oullim Networks Inc, a firm specializing in internet securities. He also founded Oullim Motors, a subsidiary of the Oullim conglomerate concentrating on the development, design and innovation of motor vehicles. In 2007, Proto Motors was acquired by Oullim Motors with Kim as chief of development, and under new management the Spirra project was rejuvenated after five years of stagnation.
Production models
The Spirra lineup consisted of four different trims under the names Spirra N, Spirra S, Spirra Turbo and Spirra EX. All engines before CregiT are based on the DOHC 2656 cc V6 Delta engine. These engines undergo extensive calibrations and modifications for increased performance, power and responsiveness suitable for applications requiring such characteristics.
All of Spirra CregiT used DOHC 3778 cc V6 Lambda RS engine.
Specifications of the Spirra (Iconic, N, S, T, EX Models)
Spirra EX
0–100 km/h(62 mph) – 3.5s
Top speed –
Curb weight(dry) –
Max. power (SAE net) –
Max. torque –
Spirra T
0–100 km/h(62 mph) – 3.8s
Top speed –
Curb weight(dry) –
Max. power (SAE net) –
Max. torque –
Spirra S
0–100 km/h(62 mph) – 4.6s
Top speed –
Curb weight(dry) –
Max. power (SAE net) –
Max. torque –
Spirra N
0–100 km/h(62 mph) – 6.8s
Top speed –
Curb weight(dry) –
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semblance | Semblance may refer to:
Semblance (video game), a 2018 video game by Nyamakop
Semblance analysis, a process used in the refinement and study of seismic data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS%20Antivirus%20%28malware%29 | MS Antivirus (also known as Spyware Protect 2009 and Antivirus XP 2008/Antivirus2009/SecurityTool/etc) is a scareware rogue anti-virus which purports to remove virus infections found on a computer running Microsoft Windows. It attempts to scam the user into purchasing a "full version" of the software. The company and the individuals behind Bakasoftware operated under other different 'company' names, including Innovagest2000, Innovative Marketing Ukraine, Pandora Software, LocusSoftware, etc.
Names
Many clones of MS Antivirus that include slight variations have been distributed throughout the web. They are known as XP Antivirus, Vitae Antivirus, Windows Antivirus, Win Antivirus, Antivirus Action, Antivirus Pro 2009, 2010, 2017 or simply just Antivirus Pro, Antivirus 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 360, AntiMalware GO, Internet Antivirus Plus, System Antivirus, Spyware Guard 2008 and 2009, Spyware Protect 2009, Winweb Security 2008, Antivirus 10, Total Antivirus 2020, Live Protection Suite, System Security, Malware Defender 2009, Ultimate Antivirus2008, Vista Antivirus, General Antivirus, AntiSpywareMaster, Antispyware 2008, XP AntiSpyware 2008, 2009 and 2010, Antivirus Vista 2010, Real Antivirus, WinPCDefender, Antivirus XP Pro, Anti-Virus-1, Antivirus Soft, Vista Antispyware 2012, Antispyware Soft, Antivirus System PRO, Antivirus Live, Vista Anti Malware 2010, Internet Security 2010, XP Antivirus Pro, Security Tool, VSCAN7, Total Security, PC Defender Plus, Disk Antivirus Professional, AVASoft Professional Antivirus, System Care Antivirus, and System Doctor 2014. Another MS Antivirus clone is named ANG Antivirus. This name is used to confuse the user of the software into thinking that it is the legitimate AVG Antivirus before downloading it.
Symptoms of infection
Each variant has its own way of downloading and installing itself onto a computer. MS Antivirus is made to look functional to fool a computer user into thinking that it is a real anti-virus system in order to convince the user to "purchase" it. In a typical installation, MS Antivirus runs a scan on the computer and gives a false spyware report claiming that the computer is infected with spyware. Once the scan is completed, a warning message appears that lists the spyware ‘found’ and the user either has to click on a link or a button to remove it. Regardless of which button is clicked -- "Next" or "Cancel"—a download box will still pop up. This deceptive tactic is an attempt to scare the Internet user into clicking on the link or button to purchase MS Antivirus. If the user decides not to purchase the program, then they will constantly receive pop-ups stating that the program has found infections and that they should register it in order to fix them. This type of behavior can cause a computer to operate more slowly than normal.
MS Antivirus will also occasionally display fake pop-up alerts on an infected computer. These alerts pretend to be a detection of an attack on that computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling%20transformation | In computer science, an enabling transformation is a compiler optimization that increases the effectiveness of other compiler optimizations. Such an optimization may or may not improve program performance by itself, but it also alters the structure of the program in such a way that other optimizations may produce superior results. Typical enabling transformations include:
Inline expansion: By inserting the body of a function in place of its call site, a large collection of intraprocedural optimizations such as dead code elimination, loop-invariant code motion, and induction variable elimination can take advantage of information from both the caller and callee.
Loop skewing: By "skewing" the logical shape of an array, this loop optimization can (when combined with loop interchange) eliminate loop-carried dependencies, allowing an inner loop to be parallelized.
Loop unswitching moves loop invariants out of a loop, reducing the number of conditional branches in each loop.
References
Compiler optimizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GQL | GQL may refer to:
Google Query Language, SQL-like language for retrieving entities and keys in Google Cloud Datastore.
Graph Query Language, a proposed international standard property graph query language.
GraphQL, open-source data query and manipulation language for APIs, and a runtime for fulfilling queries with existing data.
See also
Query language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schooner%20Information%20Technology | Schooner Information Technology, Inc. provided database management system appliances for Web 2.0, cloud computing and data centers. It was headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and acquired by SanDisk in 2012.
History
Schooner Information Technology was founded by John R. Busch and Thomas M. McWilliams in February 2007. An investment of about $7 million in November 2007 included CMEA Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. The investment was increased to $15 million by November 2008.
Schooner appliances were designed to reduce total cost of ownership and be compatible with Memcached and MySQL. The Schooner appliances were marketed for Web 2.0, cloud computing and enterprise data centers.
After the financial crisis of 2007–08, Schooner was one of only a few to receive venture investment.
On April 13, 2009, Schooner announced IBM would resell its appliance for MySQL Enterprise and one for Memcached.
Another round of $20 million investment was announced in July 2009, led by Menlo Ventures.
Schooner's appliances were originally built on the IBM System x server with Nehalem dual four-core processors from Intel Corporation, 64 GB of dynamic random access memory, 512 GB of Intel X25-E solid-state drives, four Gigabit Ethernet ports and in a 2 rack unit appliance, with the ability to expand.
By early 2011, the tie to IBM hardware ended. Instead, the product was sold as software that could run on other brands of computers. In April 2011, Schooner announced support for using cluster computing with the InnoDB technology.
SanDisk acquired the company with undisclosed terms in June 2012 and it operated as a subsidiary of SanDisk.
The Memcached software was marketed with the name Membrain through about mid-2014.
References
Software companies established in 2007
Companies based in Menlo Park, California
SanDisk
2007 establishments in California
Software companies disestablished in 2012
2012 disestablishments in California
2012 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20Life%20of%20the%20American%20Teenager%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of The Secret Life of the American Teenager, an American television series created by Brenda Hampton, debuted on the ABC Family television network on Monday, June 7, 2010 at 8:00 PM. After its second season's mid-season premiere was successful, ABC Family announced on January 12, 2010, that the show would be renewed for a third season, consisting of 26 episodes, the most episodes in a season to date. Season 3 began with 14 episodes broadcast before going on a hiatus until March 2011.
Main cast
Shailene Woodley as Amy Juergens
Kenny Baumann as Ben Boykewich
Mark Derwin as George Juergens
India Eisley as Ashley Juergens
Greg Finley as Jack Pappas
Daren Kagasoff as Ricky Underwood
Megan Park as Grace Bowman
Francia Raisa as Adrian Lee
Steven R. Schirripa as Leo Boykewich
Molly Ringwald as Anne Juergens
Episodes
References
External links
Official website
2010 American television seasons
3
2011 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Pavilion%20dv1000%20series | The HP Pavilion dv1000 series was a model series of "thin and light" widescreen laptops manufactured by Hewlett-Packard Company that features a 14.1" diagonal 16:10 display. Quanta Computer Inc. manufacturers the laptops alongside the dv2000, dv6000, and dv9000 series of laptops.
Several different models and revisions of the motherboard were available, which included Intel (single or dual core) or AMD CPUs, and SATA or IDE hard drives. Equivalent models of the dv1000 series were the Compaq Presario ze2000 and V2000 series, and HP Compaq nx4800 series of laptops.
Overview
The HP Pavilion dv1000 series was marketed towards home and small business users. A notable feature included was HP QuickPlay, the ability to boot into a dedicated environment for multimedia use.
The laptop was wide by deep by thick and weighed .
The following CPUs were available:
Intel Pentium M and Celeron M Banias and Dothan (855 and 910 chipsets)
Intel Pentium Dual-Core, Core Duo (later models with 945 chipset)
AMD Athlon 64 X2
Problems
A common issue with some models of the series is the failure of the battery charging/internal power system in which the notebook will not detect DC power when plugged in.
Models
The dv1000 series are divided into the 1000 and 1600 sub-lines, each with different features.
Pavilion dv1000
Released in 2004 with Intel Celeron M (1.4/1.5 GHz) or Pentium M (1.4-1.8 GHz); up to 1 or 2 GB DDR memory.
Pavilion dv1040 — The 1040 contains a Pentium M CPU with a published speed of approx. 1700 MHz (1.7 GHz).
Pavilion dv1600
Released in 2006 with Intel Core Solo or Duo or Celeron M; up to 2 GB DDR2 memory. Optional webcam and microphone and speakers by Altec Lansing or Harman Kardon. Operating systems offered are Windows XP and Windows Vista, with Windows XP being the recommended option for most users.
Pavilion dv1658 — The 1658 used an Intel Centrino platform with a Pentium M single core processor with virtualization support with a published speed of approx. 1663 MHz (1.6 GHz). The minimum RAM capacity is 512 MB, with the possibility to upgrade to 2 GB.
References
Pavilion dv1000 series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20image | Computer image may refer to:
Computer-generated imagery, still or moving imagery created by or with help of a computer.
System image, a serialized (backup) copy of the entire state of a computer system. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycling%20in%20Detroit | Detroit is a popular city for cycling. It is flat with an extensive road network with a number of recreational and competitive opportunities and is, according to cycling advocate David Byrne, one of the top eight biking cities in the world. The city has invested in greenways and bike lanes and other bicycle-friendly infrastructure. Bike rental is available from the riverfront and tours of the city's architecture can be booked.
The city has a strong cycling heritage, and first embraced cycling during the "golden age" of the 1890s.
Infrastructure
On-road Infrastructure
Detroit is an excellent city for cycling with flat terrain and an extensive but often virtually traffic free road network; according to David Byrne it is one of the top eight biking cities in the world. The city has invested in greenways and bike lanes and has a number of plans to further develop the cycling infrastructure.
The city of Detroit installed its first bike lanes along portions of Atwater Street as part of the Renaissance Center redesign of 2002/2003. The Atwater plans were never fully realized.
As of early 2012, there are over 43 miles of bike lanes in Detroit, including 6 miles on Belle Isle Park and about 20 miles throughout Southwest Detroit; there are also in-park shared-use paths at Rouge Park, Palmer Park, Patton Park and throughout the city parks in the Lafayette-Elmwood neighborhoods. The Dequindre Cut, a major greenway designed for cycling, links to the Detroit International Riverfront which also allows cycling along the waterfront. Portions of the Conner Creek Greenway on Detroit's east side are also completed.
Though still in the early planning stages, United States Bicycle Routes 25, 30, and 36 provide connection through Detroit.
The 'Detroit Non-Motorized Master Plan' calls for 400 miles of bike lanes primarily through road diets. The plan's implementation was started in summer 2009 with initial projects completed in 2010.
The Detroit Health and Wellness Promotion Department (DHWP) is leading the effort to educate the community and elected officials on the value of Complete streets. Groups are working to bring a Complete Streets ordinance before the Detroit City Council by summer 2012.
The Adventure Cycling Association together with Michigan Trails, Greenways Alliance and the Michigan Historic Trails Commission has developed a new 400-mile spur through Detroit to the existing 2,100-mile 'Underground Railroad Bicycle Route' which follows historic Underground Railroad sites from Mobile, Alabama to Owen Sound, Ontario in Canada. The tour map from Oberlin, Ohio to Marine City, Michigan via Detroit is completed. A shorter route just within Detroit has been developed and a brochure is planned.
Trails and greenways
The 'Detroit Greenway Network' is currently under development and would create a citywide network of greenways encompassing more than 70 miles of greenways and use additional miles of bike lanes (based on the City's non-motorized plan) for on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain%20Barbell%20%282011%20TV%20series%29 | Captain Barbell (International title: Captain Barbell: The Return) is a 2011 Philippine television drama action fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a Philippine fictional superhero of the same title by Mars Ravelo. Directed by Dominic Zapata, it stars Richard Gutierrez in the title role. It premiered on March 28, 2011 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Machete. The series concluded on July 29, 2011 with a total of 88 episodes. It was replaced by Time of My Life in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Richard Gutierrez as Potenciano "Teng" Magtanggol / Captain Barbell
Supporting cast
Jillian Ward as Lelay / Super Tiny
Lovi Poe as Althea
Isabel Oli as Melanie Ocampo
Christopher de Leon as Nero
Michelle Madrigal as Anita / Cyclone
Frencheska Farr as Celina / Sonica
Sam Pinto as Sammy
Solenn Heussaff as Janna Esquivel
Ellen Adarna as Katrina "Kat" Lazatin / Fuega
Jake Vargas as Alden / Spin
Bea Binene as Misha / Blade
Mike Tan as Teban / Anino
Eddie Gutierrez as Armando Chavez
TJ Trinidad as Gregor Javier / Metal Man
Akihiro Sato as Bruno / Higante
Paolo Paraiso as Rodel / Buhangin
Ervic Vijandre as Ricky Alejandre / Kidlat
Jon Hall as Robert
Stef Prescott as Eva
Elvis Gutierrez as Gaston / Black Angel
Recurring cast
Ces Quesada as Liya
Ryan Yllana as Bobby Santos
Jaya Ramsey as Dolores Fernandez
Marky Lopez as Hekki
Lloyd Samartino as Manuel Javier
Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino as Evie
Christine Joy De Guzman as Angelina
Saab Magalona as Kristel
Nina Ricci Alagao as Corrinne Lumibao
Joko Diaz as Bong
Fayatollah as Wifey
Jade Lopez as Melanie's officemate
Jaime Fabregas as President
Guest cast
Rhian Ramos as Leah Lazaro-Magtanggol
Jennylyn Mercado as Rose
Tin Arnaldo as Ofelia Concepcion
Dino Guevarra as Fernando
Jennica Garcia as Linda / Aswang
Bubbles Paraiso as Aswang
Lilia Cuntapay as Faustina
Rox Montealegre as Edith / Aswang
Maxene Magalona as Dalisay
Bianca King as Lary Gempez
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode earned a 25% rating. While the final episode also scored a 25% rating.
References
External links
Captain Barbell
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine action television series
Philippine fantasy television series
Superhero television series
Television shows based on comics
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20major%20district%20roads%20in%20Himachal%20Pradesh | This is a list of Major District Roads in Himachal Pradesh, India.
Introduction
Himachal Pradesh State has a good road network. There are 9 National Highways with total length of 1,208 km, 19 State Highways with total length of 1,625 km and 45 Major District Roads with total length of 1753.05 km.
List of State Highways in Himachal Pradesh
References
Public Works Department, Government of Himachal Pradesh website
Roads in Himachal Pradesh
Himachal Pradesh roads
Roads
Himachal Pradesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sairocaris | Sairocaris is an extinct genus of crustaceans, in the order Hoplostraca, that lived in the Mississippian age.
References
External links
Sairocaris at the Paleobiology Database
Prehistoric Malacostraca
Prehistoric crustacean genera
Carboniferous crustaceans |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudanese%20Universities%20Information%20Network | Sudanese Universities Information Network (SUIN) is the national research and education network in Sudan. In 2004, SUIN was first founded and developed under the umbrella of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. Since the beginning of October 2009, SUIN has been operational under the umbrella of the Association of Sudanese Universities, which is a non-governmental organization (NGO) body for all tertiary education and research institutions in Sudan. An MoU was signed between thirty universities (ASU members), with a main objective to support the establishment of SUIN as a legal independent body.
Objective
It provides broadband connectivity among Sudanese research and educational institutions, with other NRENs in Africa and the rest of the world. Additional objectives aim to increase sharing of knowledge and collaboration for research, education and development activities.
Overall goal
It promotes research and education networking among post-secondary education and research institutions by pooling of resources and sharing the cost of common software and e-services.
Sources
References
External links
Sudanese Universities Information Network (suin)
College and university associations and consortia in Africa
Internet in Sudan
National research and education networks
Universities and colleges in Sudan
2004 establishments in Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computerchemist | computerchemist is the ongoing solo project of Dave Pearson, a British-Hungarian musician who lives in Székesfehérvár, Hungary.
Biography
Pearson's love of electronic music started as a teenager when he first heard Tangerine Dream's Cloudburst Flight.
During the early 1980s he played synthesiser in a number of rock bands, including Lichfield UK-based Monteagle with founder Mark Thwaite, as well as simultaneously composing his own solo music.
Since 2006 he has issued a number of albums on his own label "Terrainflight".
His music has been likened to "Berliner Schule/Berlin School style jazz-rock".
Bruce Gall of ARFMs "Sunday Synth" has remarked on the crossover style of his playing, invoking comparisons to electronic artists Tangerine Dream, Jean-Michel Jarre, Klaus Schulze, Kraftwerk, and the progressive sounds of Pink Floyd and David Gilmour solo work, Ash Ra Tempel, Mike Oldfield, Steve Hackett, Brian Eno and King Crimson.
During April 2008, SynGate started producing re-issues of the first two albums atmospheric (2006) and icon one(2007), however the agreement was short-lived and SynGate ceased production of the SynGate re-issues in June 2009. The original Terrainflight editions are still available.
Guest musician Robin Hayes played cello on the third release landform(2008), the first time a guest musician had appeared on a computerchemist solo album.
Uwe Cremer, otherwise known as Level Pi, was the guest musician on the fourth album, aqual measure(2009), and played guitar on the title track.
A collaboration project started in July 2010 between Computerchemist and "Nemesis", ex-Hawkwind dancer and singer has produced several tracks, some of which were initially released for free under Creative Commons licensing which had been available on the computerchemist website for free download, with a full album promised at a later date entitled Chronicles of Future Present. The link as of August 2011 to this project is no longer active. The single and first track Sky Turned Black, a rework of Mirage from Aqual Measure, was however released on a charity compilation in October 2012 entitled Space Rock: The Compilation on bandcamp on the "Sound for Good" label.
Computerchemist was featured through the month of August 2010 on WDIY's Galactic Travels show with Bill Fox, as the "Special Focus", where each album was consecutively played back-to-back each week.
A different approach was taken for his fifth album, Music for Earthquakes(2011), involving the conversion of seismograph readings into musical form. It was inspired by the 4.8 richter scale earthquake in Hungary in early 2011, and featured on the national Hungarian news channel Hir24 and Hungarian English Language news site pestiside.hu shortly afterwards.
His sixth double release album, and second collaboration, launched January 2013, Signatures I. and Signatures II. feature the Hungarian drummer Zsolt Galántai, formerly of the Hungarian metal band Ossian.
A single track was specially compos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortis%20Healthcare | Fortis Healthcare Limited (FHL) is an Indian for-profit private hospital network headquartered in Gurgaon, India. Fortis started its health care operations in Mohali, Punjab, where the first Fortis hospital was started. Later on, the hospital chain purchased the healthcare branch of Escorts group and increased its strength in various parts of the country. The Escorts Heart and Research Center, Okhla, Delhi became a major operating unit of the chain. Dr. Tehran, the current MD of Medanta and several others have started their careers at this institute.
The Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI) hospital at Gurgaon is the headquarter and flagship hospital of Fortis Healthcare, with all the major facilities at the hospital. It was named as 23rd smart hospital in the world for the year 2021. FMRI was also named the 22nd-best hospital in the country for the year 2022 by Newsweek.
Apart from Fortis Escorts Okhla & FMRI, Fortis Healthcare has other units in Dehli NCR as well, which include Fortis Hospital Faridabad, Noida, Vasant Kunj, Shalimar Bagh (Delhi) and at several other places in the country. Currently, the company operates its healthcare delivery services in India, Dubai and Sri Lanka with 36 healthcare facilities.
Malaysia's IHH Healthcare became the controlling shareholder of Fortis Healthcare Ltd by acquiring a 31.1% stake in the company. Fortis Healthcare also appointed four persons from IHH Healthcare to its board in a meeting held in Mohali. The board approved the allotment of over 230 million shares through preferential issue to Northern TK Venture Pte Ltd, a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of IHH Healthcare, at ₹170 per share of ₹10 face value.
Other information
In 2018, Manipal Hospitals and TPG Capital acquired Fortis Healthcare Limited as part of a deal for 39,000 million. In 2019, Fortis Healthcare announced that it had completed the acquisition of RHT Health Trust (RHT) assets for an enterprise value of 46,500 million. In the same financial year, Fortis reported a consolidated net profit of 780.10 million for the quarter ended 30 June.
In August 2023, it was announced Fortis had completed its acquisition of Medeor Hospital in Manesar, India from VPS Healthcare for $27.23 million.
Fortis is also a component of the S&P BSE 500.
See also
Healthcare in India
Manipal Hospitals India
Medanta
References
External links
Hospitals in Haryana
Hospitals in Kolkata
Hospital networks in India
2018 mergers and acquisitions
Hospitals in Chennai
1996 establishments in Tamil Nadu
Indian companies established in 1996
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision%20response | In the context of classical mechanics simulations and physics engines employed within video games, collision response deals with models and algorithms for simulating the changes in the motion of two solid bodies following collision and other forms of contact.
Rigid body contact
Two rigid bodies in unconstrained motion, potentially under the action of forces, may be modelled by solving their equations of motion using numerical integration techniques. On collision, the kinetic properties of two such bodies seem to undergo an instantaneous change, typically resulting in the bodies rebounding away from each other, sliding, or settling into relative static contact, depending on the elasticity of the materials and the configuration of the collision.
Contact forces
The origin of the rebound phenomenon, or reaction, may be traced to the behaviour of real bodies that, unlike their perfectly rigid idealised counterparts, do undergo minor compression on collision, followed by expansion, prior to separation. The compression phase converts the kinetic energy of the bodies into potential energy and to an extent, heat. The expansion phase converts the potential energy back to kinetic energy.
During the compression and expansion phases of two colliding bodies, each body generates reactive forces on the other at the points of contact, such that the sum reaction forces of one body are equal in magnitude but opposite in direction to the forces of the other, as per the Newtonian principle of action and reaction. If the effects of friction are ignored, a collision is seen as affecting only the component of the velocities that are directed along the contact normal and as leaving the tangential components unaffected
Reaction
The degree of relative kinetic energy retained after a collision, termed the restitution, is dependent on the elasticity of the bodies‟ materials. The coefficient of restitution between two given materials is modeled as the ratio of the relative post-collision speed of a point of contact along the contact normal, with respect to the relative pre-collision speed of the same point along the same normal. These coefficients are typically determined empirically for different material pairs, such as wood against concrete or rubber against wood. Values for close to zero indicate inelastic collisions such as a piece of soft clay hitting the floor, whereas values close to one represent highly elastic collisions, such as a rubber ball bouncing off a wall. The kinetic energy loss is relative to one body with respect to the other. Thus the total momentum of both bodies with respect to some common reference is unchanged after the collision, in line with the principle of conservation of momentum.
Friction
Another important contact phenomenon is surface-to-surface friction, a force that impedes the relative motion of two surfaces in contact, or that of a body in a fluid. In this section we discuss surface-to-surface friction of two bodies in relati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queries%20per%20second | Queries per second (QPS) is a measure of the amount of search traffic an information-retrieval system, such as a search engine or a database, receives in one second. The term is used more broadly for any request–response system, where it can more correctly be called requests per second (RPS).
High-traffic systems must be mindful of QPS to know when to scale to handle greater load.
See also
Transactions per second
References
Units of frequency
Information retrieval evaluation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Platform%20for%20Rehabilitation | The European Platform for Rehabilitation (EPR) is a network of European providers of rehabilitation services to people with disabilities and other disadvantaged groups. EPR members deliver services in the fields of vocational training and education, reintegration of service users into the open labour market and improvement of their employability, physical rehabilitation and social care.
The Platform was first established in 1993 by rehabilitation centres in France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands. Its secretariat is located in Brussels, Belgium.
Main activities
The European Platform for Rehabilitation operates a range of services in the areas of professional development, research and innovation and public affairs. EPR is also active in the field of quality of services, and has developed its own quality system: EQUASS (European Quality Assurance for Social Services).
EPR is a member of the Social Platform and has a seat at the EU's High Level Group on Disability as well as participatory status with the Council of Europe. EPR receives structural funding under the European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme 2007–2013, and is involved in a number of projects funded by the European Commission.
Projects
The European Platform for Rehabilitation is currently involved in the "Assistive Technologies and Inclusive Solutions for All (ATIS4all)" project funded by EU's Policy Support Programme - Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme. ATIS4all project aims to improve the accessibility of assistive technology (AT) for all. Its main objective is to encourage an open discussion in order that a greater sharing of knowledge and expertise among key experts and users takes place. This is to be done while assuring the key principle that Human Rights are to be enjoyed equally by all people, including those with disabilities, the elderly and those from disadvantaged backgrounds. The project started in January 2011, and is expected to last for three years. EPR takes part in the project consortium, along with other major European organisations and stakeholders in the field of assistive technologies and integration. The ATIS4all open European collaborative web portal, collecting information about Assistive Technologies and inclusive solutions for all has been launched. ATIS4all network invites interested parties to visit and register to the portal and to join as “supporters” i.e. any organisation working in any field related to ICT-AT and inclusive solutions.
Members
EPR's membership is separated into two types: Full and Associate. :
Full members:
A2G, Norway
Adelante, the Netherlands
Centre de Réadaptation de Mulhouse (CRM), France
Durapart, Norway
Fundación ONCE, Spain
Kompetanseutvikling Grenland (GREP), Norway
Heliomare, the Netherlands
Josefs-Gesellschaft (JG), Germany
Luovi Vocational Institute, Finland
National Learning Network, Ireland
Pluryn, The Netherlands
RehabCare, Ireland
TBG Learning, United Kingdom
Associate members:
APPACDM de Vila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saphenista | Saphenista is a genus of moths belonging to the family Tortricidae.
Species
Saphenista absidata Razowski, 1994
Saphenista aculeata (Razowski, 1967)
Saphenista aeraria (Razowski, 1967)
Saphenista allasia Razowski, 1994
Saphenista alpha Razowski & Becker, 2007
Saphenista ambidextria Razowski, 1994
Saphenista amusa Razowski, 1993
Saphenista anaxia (Clarke, 1968)
Saphenista beta Razowski & Becker, 2007
Saphenista bimaculata Nishida & Adamski, 2004
Saphenista brunneomaculata Razowski & Wojtusiak, 2008
Saphenista burrens Razowski, 1993
Saphenista campalita Razowski, 1993
Saphenista carchiana Razowski & Becker, 2002
Saphenista ceteora Razowski & Becker, 2002
Saphenista chanostium Razowski & Wojtusiak, 2009
Saphenista chiriboga Razowski & Wojtusiak, 2008
Saphenista chloromixta Razowski, 1992
Saphenista chorfascia Razowski & Becker, 2007
Saphenista cinigmula (Razowski & Becker, 1986)
Saphenista cnemiodota Razowski, 1994
Saphenista consectaria Razowski, 1993
Saphenista consona Razowski & Becker, 1983
Saphenista constipata Razowski, 1994
Saphenista consulta Razowski, 1986
Saphenista contermina Razowski & Becker, 2002
Saphenista cordifera (Meyrick, 1932)
Saphenista cryptogramma Razowski & Becker, 1994
Saphenista cubana Razowski & Becker, 2007
Saphenista cuscana Razowski & Wojtusiak, 2010
Saphenista cyphoma Razowski, 1994
Saphenista delapsa Razowski, 1990
Saphenista delicatulana (Zeller, 1877)
Saphenista deliphrobursa (Razowski, 1992)
Saphenista dexia Razowski & Becker, 1986
Saphenista discrepans Razowski, 1994
Saphenista domna (Clarke, 1968)
Saphenista embolina Razowski, 1984
Saphenista endomycha Razowski, 1992
Saphenista eneilema Razowski, 1992
Saphenista ephimera Razowski, 1992
Saphenista epiera Razowski, 1992
Saphenista epipolea Razowski, 1992
Saphenista eranna Razowski & Becker, 1986
Saphenista erasmia Razowski, 1992
Saphenista ereba Razowski, 1992
Saphenista euprepia Razowski, 1993
Saphenista fluida Razowski, 1986
Saphenista frangula (Clarke, 1968)
Saphenista gilva Razowski & Becker, 1986
Saphenista glorianda Razowski, 1986
Saphenista gnathmocera Razowski, 1992
Saphenista illimis Razowski, 1986
Saphenista imaginaria Razowski & Becker, 1986
Saphenista incauta Razowski & Becker, 1986
Saphenista juvenca Razowski & Becker, 1986
Saphenista lacteipalpis (Walsingham, 1891)
Saphenista lassa (Razowski, 1986)
Saphenista lathridia Razowski & Becker, 1986
Saphenista leuconigra Razowski & Wojtusiak, 2008
Saphenista lineata Razowski & Becker, 2002
Saphenista livida Razowski, 1986
Saphenista mediocris Razowski, 1986
Saphenista melema Razowski, 1992
Saphenista merana Razowski & Becker, 2002
Saphenista milicha Razowski, 1994
Saphenista mira Razowski, 1989
Saphenista muerta Nishida & Adamski, 2004
Saphenista multistrigata Walsingham, 1914
Saphenista nauphraga Razowski & Becker, 1983
Saphenista nephelodes (Clarke, 1968)
Saphenista nomonana (Kearfott, 1907)
Saphenista nongrata Razowski, 1986
Saphenista novaelimae Razowski & Becker, 2007
Saphenista nuda Razowski & Becker, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koundata | Koundata is a town and arrondissement in the Atakora Department of northwestern Benin. It is an administrative division under the jurisdiction of the commune of Natitingou. According to the population census conducted by the Institut National de la Statistique Benin on February 15, 2002, the arrondissement had a total population of 3,590.
References
Populated places in the Atakora Department
Arrondissements of Benin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Htab | Htab, htab and HTAB may refer to:
Horizontal tab (a US-ASCII control character)
Hash table
HTAB, a Honeywell version of the programming language Filetab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20virtualization | Data virtualization is an approach to data management that allows an application to retrieve and manipulate data without requiring technical details about the data, such as how it is formatted at source, or where it is physically located, and can provide a single customer view (or single view of any other entity) of the overall data.
Unlike the traditional extract, transform, load ("ETL") process, the data remains in place, and real-time access is given to the source system for the data. This reduces the risk of data errors, of the workload moving data around that may never be used, and it does not attempt to impose a single data model on the data (an example of heterogeneous data is a federated database system). The technology also supports the writing of transaction data updates back to the source systems. To resolve differences in source and consumer formats and semantics, various abstraction and transformation techniques are used. This concept and software is a subset of data integration and is commonly used within business intelligence, service-oriented architecture data services, cloud computing, enterprise search, and master data management.
Applications, benefits and drawbacks
The defining feature of data virtualization is that the data used remains in its original locations and real-time access is established to allow analytics across multiple sources. This aids in resolving some technical difficulties such as compatibility problems when combining data from various platforms, lowering the risk of error caused by faulty data, and guaranteeing that the newest data is used. Furthermore, avoiding the creation of a new database containing personal information can make it easier to comply with privacy regulations. As a result, data virtualization creates new possibilities for data use.
However, with data virtualization, the connection to all necessary data sources must be operational as there is no local copy of the data, which is one of the main drawbacks of the approach. Connection problems occur more often in complex systems where one or more crucial sources will occasionally be unavailable. Smart data buffering, such as keeping the data from the most recent few requests in the virtualization system buffer can help to mitigate this issue.
Moreover, because data virtualization solutions may use large numbers of network connections to read the original data and server virtualised tables to other solutions over the network, system security requires more consideration than it does with traditional data lakes. In a conventional data lake system, data can be imported into the lake by following specific procedures in a single environment. When using a virtualization system, the environment must separately establish secure connections with each data source, which is typically located in a different environment from the virtualization system itself.
Security of personal data and compliance with regulations can be a major issue when introduci |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobilicity | Data and Audio-Visual Enterprises Wireless, d/b/a Mobilicity, was a Canadian mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) owned by Rogers Communications. Its name was a portmanteau of the words "mobility" and "simplicity". Mobilicity was one of several new mobile network operators, along with Public Mobile (later acquired by Telus) and Wind Mobile (later acquired by Shaw Communications), which launched in Canada after a government initiative to encourage competition in the wireless sector. The carrier had over 250,000 Mobilicity subscriptions on May 16, 2013, the day in which Telus announced its failed attempt to acquire Mobilicity. The subscription count decreased to 157,000 by April 2015 according to court documents filed by Mobilicity's Chief Restructuring Officer in that month.
On June 24, 2015, the Ontario Superior Court gave approval for the sale of Mobilicity to Rogers for $440 million CAD at which point Mobilicity became an MVNO operating on the Rogers network. In May 2016, Rogers announced it planned to retire the Mobilicity brand and migrate subscribers to its Chatr brand by the end of 2016.
History
2008–2009: Early years
Originally formed as DAVE Wireless by Canadian businessman John Bitove, the company entered the 2008 spectrum auction for AWS frequencies. DAVE spent $243 million on 10 MHz of AWS spectrum blocks largely covering southern and eastern Ontario, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. The domain davewireless.com was registered on July 10, 2008, via Go Daddy. Later, on October 27, 2009, the domain mobilicity.ca was registered via Internic.ca and the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA).
Dave Dobbin, who had held executive posts at other telecom firms (COO of Telecom Ottawa, President of Toronto Hydro Telecom, President of Cogeco Data Services), was named President and CEO.
2010–2012: Launch and competition
DAVE Wireless's website was launched with information on January 7. The following month, on February 2, it was confirmed that the company would operate under the name Mobilicity. The company was built to deliver Canadians a simple mobile solution. Later, service was launched to the public on May 15, but only for the city of Toronto. On November 17, service was launched in Edmonton and Vancouver, and in the Ottawa and Gatineau area the following day. Coverage in Calgary went live on April 28, 2011. This was the last major update to Mobilicity's coverage.
During Q4 2011, Mobilicity had a 50% off sale on all monthly plans. Dave Dobbin resigned in November 2011. John Bitove assumed the role of Executive Chairman and commented that Dobbin didn't have a "consumer background." Stewart Lyons, formerly Executive Vice President of XM Satellite Radio Canada, replaced Dobbin as Mobilicity's president, while Bitove assumed the role of Executive Chairman. Mobilicity ended the year with approximately 206,500 subscribers, of which 113,000 (54%) who activated during Q4 of either 2010 or 2011.
Several new devices launched at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Necula | George Ciprian Necula is a Romanian computer scientist, engineer at Google, and former professor at the University of California, Berkeley who does research in the area of programming languages and software engineering, with a particular focus on software verification and formal methods. He is best known for his Ph.D. thesis work first describing proof-carrying code, a work that received the 2007 SIGPLAN Most Influential POPL Paper Award.
Life and work
Originally from Baia Mare, Romania, Necula received a BS in Computer Science (1992) from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest. He then came to Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, completing his MS in Computer Science (1995) and PhD in Computer Science (1998) under programming-languages researcher Peter Lee. His PhD work introduced proof-carrying code, which was influential as a mechanism to allow untrusted machine code to run safely without performance overhead. He joined as faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1998.
More recently, Necula's work has focused on open-source analysis, verification, and transformation tools for C, including the C Intermediate Language (CIL), CCured , and Deputy .
C Intermediate Language
C Intermediate Language (CIL) is a simplified subset of the C programming language, as well as a set of tools for transforming C programs into that language.
Several other tools use CIL as a way to have access to a C abstract syntax tree. One of these programs is Frama-C (Framework to Analyze C programs).
Awards
Necula is a Fellow of the Okawa Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (see Sloan Fellowship). He received the Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2001, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 1999, and the ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award in 2006.
References
External links
George Necula's homepage at UC Berkeley
George Necula's faculty page at UC Berkeley
CIL on GitHub
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Living people
People from Baia Mare
Politehnica University of Bucharest alumni
Programming language researchers
Romanian computer scientists
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Heisley | Michael E. Heisley (March 13, 1937 – April 26, 2014) was an American businessman and former majority owner of the Memphis Grizzlies.
Biography
A computer salesman by trade, Heisley used $150,000 from selling his home and $10 million in bank loans to acquire Conco, maker of sewer and drain equipment. Later Heisley expanded his holdings through the purchase of several near-bankrupt Rust Belt manufacturers. As of 2009, Heico operates 40 companies, largely in steel, construction, and equipment.
Heisley was also involved in multiple business ventures, such as:
Heico Holding, Inc.
The Heico Companies, LLC
Heico Acquisitions
Stony Lane Partners
He appeared several times on the Forbes rich list.
Memphis Grizzlies
He orchestrated the move of the team from Vancouver in 2001, after promising to keep the franchise in Vancouver when he purchased it in 2000. He agreed in 2006 to sell his 70% controlling stake in the Grizzlies to a consortium including Christian Laettner and Brian Davis, but the group missed a deadline for the purchase and Heisley found no other bidder willing to meet the team's $300M asking price.
In 2012 Heisley decided to sell the Grizzlies and step aside from all of his corporate interests due to his advancing age. The team announced on June 11, 2012, that Ubiquiti Networks founder Robert J. Pera would be purchasing the team, but Heisley would remain on board until the sale was finalized. The sale was finalized on October 25, 2012, and the team is now a part of Memphis Basketball, LLC.
Personal life
Heisley, was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Alexandria, Virginia, and had residences in Chicago, Illinois, and Jupiter Island, Florida. He was a graduate of Georgetown University, and was married with five children.
He was instrumental in establishing and running the Heisley Family Foundation.
Heisley died on April 26, 2014, of complications of a stroke. He was 77.
References
1937 births
2014 deaths
Philanthropists from Illinois
Georgetown University alumni
Memphis Grizzlies owners
Businesspeople from Alexandria, Virginia
People from Kane County, Illinois
Businesspeople from Washington, D.C.
People from Jupiter Island, Florida
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American philanthropists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming%20C.%20Lin | Ming C. Lin is an American computer scientist and a former chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she also holds an endowed faculty position as the Elizabeth Stevinson Iribe Chair of Computer Science. Prior to moving to Maryland in 2018, Lin was the John R. & Louise S. Parker Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Research
Lin is known for her work on collision detection, and in particular for the Lin–Canny algorithm for maintaining the closest pair of features of two moving objects, for the idea (with Cohen, Manocha, and Ponamgi) of using axis-aligned bounding boxes to quickly eliminate from consideration pairs of objects that are far from colliding, and for additional speedups to collision detection using bounding box hierarchies. Her software libraries implementing these algorithms are widely used in commercial applications including computer aided design and computer games. More generally, her research interests are in physically based modeling, haptics, robotics, 3D computer graphics, computational geometry, and interactive computer simulation.
Biography
Lin did her graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the UNC faculty in 1997.
She is the Editor in Chief Emeritus of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2011-2014). She is currently a member of the IEEE Computer Society Board of Governors and a member of Computing Research Association-Women (CRA-W) Board of Directors.
Lin is married to her frequent collaborator and UMD faculty colleague, Dinesh Manocha.
Awards and honors
In 2003, UNC gave Lin their Hettleman Prize for Scholarly and Artistic Achievements, and in 2007, she was named as the Beverly W. Long Distinguished Professor. She has won many best-paper awards for her research, and was given the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee 2010 Virtual Reality Technical Achievement Award "in recognition of her seminal contributions in the area of interactive physics-based interaction and simulation for virtual environments." In 2011 she was listed as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for her research in geometric modeling and computer graphics, and she was listed as one of the 2012 IEEE Fellows for her "contributions to real-time physics-based interaction and simulation for virtual environments, robotics and haptics".
References
External links
Ming C. Lin home page at the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
GAMMA research group at the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
American computer scientists
Computer graphics researchers
Living people
People from College Park, Maryland
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Taiwanese computer scientists
Taiwanese women computer scientists
Taiwanese emigrants to the United States
University of California, Berkeley alumn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20Chemistry | Real Chemistry, formerly known as W2O Group, is a global health innovation company that utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) for its healthcare services. Founded by Jim Weiss in 2001, Real Chemistry is an American company with global offices in Europe and Canada.
Corporate history
Real Chemistry was founded as WeissComm Partners in 2001 by Jim Weiss as a one-person marketing consulting firm, with clients primarily in the healthcare industry. His firm grew quickly until 2008. According to Weiss, less favorable conditions in the healthcare industry led to a series of layoffs.
In response, the following year Weiss acquired creative services firm ODA and social media marketing firm, Common Sense Media Group, in order to diversify his interests and reduce reliance on the healthcare industry. That same year, Weiss re-formed the company under the acronym WCG, consolidating the two acquisitions under a new corporate umbrella. The acquired companies and the firm's revenues continued growing. By 2011 it had annual revenues of $48 million.
In 2012, WCG was re-structured again under a new holding company called W2O Group, which was made up of three companies: WCG, W2O Ventures, and Twist Mktg. The fourth company in the holding group, Brewlife, was formed the following year to focus on startup companies. The holding group had $75 million in annual revenues by 2013 and $82.6 million in 2014. In 2014 and 2015, W2O opened new offices in major U.S. and European cities.
In May 2016, a private-equity firm called Mountaingate Capital made an investment in W2O Group, which funded a series of acquisitions. Seven months after acquiring Fox Communications, W2O Group laid off founder Lynn Fox, who sued alleging gender discrimination.
In June 2019, New Mountain capital acquired an interest in W2O Group for an undisclosed amount. Following the acquisition, the company acquired Elysia Group, Discern Health and 21GRAMS.
The company acquired starpower LLC, an entertainment marketing agency, in 2020. In January 2021, Swoop, Inc., which specializes in pharmaceutical IT, and IPM.ai, a data and analytics company, were both acquired.
In March 2021, W2O Group was rebranded as Real Chemistry, and all subsidiaries were consolidated into the newly unified company. As a result of rapid acquisition activity in 2019, Real Chemistry has grown to employ over 2,000 people in 10 locations worldwide.
In January 2022, Shankar Narayanan took over as CEO, and founder Jim Weiss became chairman.
In April 2022, Real Chemistry acquired the conversational AI company conversationHEALTH.
In March 2023, Real Chemistry acquired TI Health, a data-driven marketing and predictive analytics company.
Acquisitions
Operations and services
Real Chemistry provides marketing and tech-enabled global health services to healthcare and technology companies. The company operated through five subsidiaries: WCG, Twist, Pure, Sentient and Marketeching, but has since unified into Real Chemistry. WCG was the p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HipHop%20for%20PHP | HipHop for PHP (HPHPc) is a discontinued PHP transpiler created by Facebook. By using HPHPc as a source-to-source compiler, PHP code is translated into C++, compiled into a binary and run as an executable, as opposed to the PHP's usual execution path of PHP code being transformed into opcodes and interpreted. HPHPc consists mainly of C++, C and PHP source codes, and it is free and open-source software distributed under the PHP License.
The original motivation behind HipHop was to save resources on Facebook servers, given the large PHP codebase of facebook.com. As the development of HipHop progressed, it was realised that HipHop could substantially increase the speed of PHP applications in general. Increases in web page generation throughput by factors of up to six have been observed over the Zend PHP. A stated goal of HPHPc was to provide a high level of compatibility for Zend PHP, where most Zend-based PHP programs run unmodified on HPHPc. HPHPc was originally open sourced in early 2010.
As an addition to HPHPc, Facebook engineers also created a "developer mode" of HipHop (interpreted version of a PHP execution engine, known as HPHPi) and the HipHop debugger (known as HPHPd). These additions allow developers to run PHP code through the same logic provided by HPHPc while making it possible to interactively debug PHP code by defining watches, breakpoints, etc. Running the code through HPHPi yields lower performance when compared to HPHPc, but the developer benefits were, at the time, worth having to maintain these two execution engines for production and development. HPHPi and HPHPd were also open sourced in 2010.
By many accounts HPHPc fulfilled its goals, especially within Facebook as it allowed facebook.com to run much faster while using fewer resources. However, in early 2013 Facebook deprecated HPHPc in favor of the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM), which is a just-in-time (JIT) compilation-based execution engine for PHP, also developed by Facebook. There were many reasons for this; one of them was HPHPc's flattened curve for further performance improvements. Also, HPHPc did not fully support the PHP language, including the create_function() and eval() constructs, and it involved a specific time- and resource-consuming deployment process that required a bigger than 1 GB binary to be compiled and distributed to many servers in short order. In addition, maintaining HPHPc and HPHPi in parallel (as they needed to be, for the consistency of production and development environments) was becoming cumbersome. Finally, HPHPc was not a drop-in replacement for Zend, requiring external customers to change their whole development and deployment processes to use HPHPc.
See also
Parrot virtual machine
Phalanger
References
External links
, by Haiping Zhao
The HipHop Compiler for PHP, OOPSLA 2012, by Guilherme Ottoni et al.
, PHP UK Conference 2013, by Sara Goleman
2010 software
C (programming language) software
C++ software
Facebook so |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souvenirs%20Garantis | Souvenirs Garantis (French for "Memories Guaranteed") was a network of French-language classic hits radio stations broadcasting throughout Quebec, Canada. Anchored by CFOM-FM 102.9 in Quebec City, the format was created by Corus Entertainment, as part of the Corus Québec group of stations.
Under Corus ownership, Souvenirs Garantis stations were based in all major Quebec markets, except for Montreal, which had no station carrying the format full-time.
The format featured a largely defined classic hits format, including music from the 1970s to the 1990s but mostly from the 1970s and 1980s.
The branding was first used by CFOM-FM in 2005, though that station carried an oldies format since 1995. CFOM-FM acted as the flagship station of the Souvenirs Garantis network.
In March 2009, Corus expanded the Souvenirs Garantis format to four other stations -- CHLT-FM 107.7 in Sherbrooke, CJRC-FM 104.7 in Gatineau, CHLN-FM 106.9 in Trois-Rivières and CKRS-FM 98.3 in Saguenay—replacing their long-time news-talk formats on these stations. These changes also came following the closedown of these stations' AM signals, as well as a CRTC revision of its formatting regulations a few weeks earlier to permit oldies music on FM radio for the first time. These stations carry local programming, along with some networked programs originating from CFOM.
There was no full-time Souvenirs Garantis outlet in Montreal, though its programming is simulcasted during weekends on CHMP-FM 98.5; until 2010, it was also carried during late-night hours on CKAC-AM 730. It was also broadcast overnight on news radio station CINF AM 690, until that station folded in January 2010.
On April 30, 2010, it was announced that Cogeco would acquire all radio stations owned by Corus in Quebec, including its Corus Québec stations and Montreal anglophone station CFQR-FM, pending CRTC approval. The sale of the Corus Québec stations has been approved by the CRTC on December 17, 2010.
On June 25, it was reported that Corus has agreed to sell CKRS to a local company called Radio Saguenay; the station soon after adopted the "FM 98" moniker but retaining the classic hits format with local talk programming during the day.
On February 1, 2011, Cogeco switched the Sherbrooke station from CHLT 107.7 FM to CKOY 104.5 FM; the latter station, which was to have been sold off by December 2011, was re-called CJTS-FM, picking up the Souvenirs Garantis format and branding. That station would go dark on December 6, 2011, in compliance with the conditions set forth by the sale of the station to Cogeco, as Cogeco was unable to find a buyer for the station by the deadline.
On February 21, 2011, CJRC-FM in Gatineau and CHLN-FM in Trois-Rivières was rebranded to CKOI 104.7 and CKOI 106.9, respectively, bringing the expanding CKOI format and branding to the Ottawa Valley and the Mauricie region. (CKOF-FM, CKOY-FM and CKOB-FM reverted to their talk formats on August 20, 2012.)
Sometime during 2012, CHMP-FM discontinue |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migrants%20Rights%20Network | The Migrants' Rights Network (MRN) is a London based non-governmental organisation working for a rights-based approach to migration.
MRN works with organisations across the UK, aiming to strengthen the voice of migrants in discussion and debates.
The overall mission of MRN is to ensure recognition of migration as a key component of economic progress and development, in the creation of culturally rich and diverse societies, and in the promotion of human, political, social and economic rights and gender equality.
Background
The need for a permanent network of migrant organisations in the UK was first identified through the discussions and research undertaken by the Barrow Cadbury Trust funded project entitled 'Migrant Community Organisations in the UK (MCOP)'.
The project explored the possibility for closer and better collaboration between different groups working in the field of migration to strengthen the voice of migrants in the UK. Especially since such organisations often have limited funding, and have been set up to support what are often beleaguered communities with high numbers of refugees and asylum-seekers and/or significant numbers of irregular migrants.
The outcome of the MCOP's work was set out in the report "Migrant Voices, Migrant Rights" published by the Barrow Cadbury Trust.
In response to the recommendations of the report, the Migrant Rights Network (MRN) has been established as a permanent network of organisations working to support the development of migrants' rights across the UK. The network's main goal is to develop strategies which will increase the involvement of 'migrant voices' in national policy debates, and enhance cooperation across a wide range of civil society organisations to achieve this end.
References
External links
Migrants' Rights Network Official Site
Immigration to the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Samsonadzes | The Samsonadzes (, ) is a Georgian computer-animated sitcom created and produced by Shalva Ramishvili. It first aired in Georgia in November 2009 and ended sometime in 2010.
Description and resemblance to The Simpsons
It has been described as "bearing more than a passing resemblance" to the American animated television sitcom The Simpsons, although the creator has denied accusations of plagiarism.
The Samsonadzes are "a yellow-skinned cartoon family, consisting of a dopey husband" (Gela Samsonadze, who works in a bank) "and his lavishly coiffed wife, who live in a made-up city with their children", Shorena and Gia. They also have a parrot, Koke. Their home city has been noted for its apparent resemblance to Tbilisi.
Ramishvili has stated that the series aimed to be "relevant to Georgian reality and touch on social issues that will resonate with a Georgian audience", while its chief scriptwriter, Zviad Bliadze, explained: "We just took an average family and made a parody of the common traits, like laziness or love of alcohol."
Russian focus
The series has attracted some attention by featuring Russian leaders in a negative light, in a context of tense Georgia–Russia relations. Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appears in one episode, sending a spy into Georgia. Ramishvili described this criticism of the Russian government as "simply our civil liberty and duty". The Independent, however, has remarked that there are "no plans to introduce the controversial Georgian President, Mikheil Saakashvili" into the programme, and Russia Today has noted that the series' creators "make lots of fun of Russian politicians, while forgetting their own."
Episodes
References
External links
The Simpsons
2009 Georgia (country) television series debuts
Georgian adult animated comedy television series
Animated satirical television series
Computer-animated television series
Television sitcoms in Georgia (country)
Television shows set in Georgia (country)
Animated television series spinoffs
2000s Georgia (country) television series
2000s adult animated television series
Cultural depictions of Vladimir Putin
2010 television series endings
Imedi TV original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.Goodliving | Mr.Goodliving Ltd. was a Finnish video game developer and a video game publisher based in Helsinki, Finland. It was founded in 1999, and acquired by RealNetworks on 6 May 2005. Mr.Goodliving was focused on games for mobile phones, the iPhone and other high-end portable devices.
The company was best known for the casual sports game franchise Playman Sports, spanning numerous incarnations such as Playman Summer Games, Playman Winter Games and Playman World Soccer. Along with original intellectual property, the company worked with several high-profile licenses such as Trivial Pursuit, South Park, Scrabble, and the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
In addition to its games, Mr.Goodliving developed EMERGE, a proprietary development platform which enables rapid and scalable publishing of games to more than 2000 handsets in 20 languages.
On February 9, 2011, Real unexpectedly announced to close Mr.Goodliving.
External links
Official Mr.Goodliving website
Mr.Goodliving, Pocket Gamer
References
Companies based in Helsinki
Video game development companies
Video game companies established in 1999
Video game companies disestablished in 2011
Defunct video game companies of Finland
Browser-based game websites
1999 establishments in Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SymbolicC%2B%2B | SymbolicC++ is a general purpose computer algebra system written in the programming language C++. It is free software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. SymbolicC++ is used by including a C++ header file or by linking against a library.
Examples
#include <iostream>
#include "symbolicc++.h"
using namespace std;
int main(void)
{
Symbolic x("x");
cout << integrate(x+1, x); // => 1/2*x^(2)+x
Symbolic y("y");
cout << df(y, x); // => 0
cout << df(y[x], x); // => df(y[x],x)
cout << df(exp(cos(y[x])), x); // => -sin(y[x])*df(y[x],x)*e^cos(y[x])
return 0;
}
The following program fragment inverts the matrix
symbolically.
Symbolic theta("theta");
Symbolic R = ( ( cos(theta), sin(theta) ),
( -sin(theta), cos(theta) ) );
cout << R(0,1); // sin(theta)
Symbolic RI = R.inverse();
cout << RI[ (cos(theta)^2) == 1 - (sin(theta)^2) ];
The output is
[ cos(theta) −sin(theta) ]
[ sin(theta) cos(theta) ]
The next program illustrates non-commutative symbols in SymbolicC++. Here b is a Bose annihilation operator and bd is a Bose creation operator. The variable vs denotes the vacuum state . The ~ operator toggles the commutativity of a variable, i.e. if b is commutative that ~b is non-commutative and if b is non-commutative ~b is commutative.
#include <iostream>
#include "symbolicc++.h"
using namespace std;
int main(void)
{
// The operator b is the annihilation operator and bd is the creation operator
Symbolic b("b"), bd("bd"), vs("vs");
b = ~b; bd = ~bd; vs = ~vs;
Equations rules = (b*bd == bd*b + 1, b*vs == 0);
// Example 1
Symbolic result1 = b*bd*b*bd;
cout << "result1 = " << result1.subst_all(rules) << endl;
cout << "result1*vs = " << (result1*vs).subst_all(rules) << endl;
// Example 2
Symbolic result2 = (b+bd)^4;
cout << "result2 = " << result2.subst_all(rules) << endl;
cout << "result2*vs = " << (result2*vs).subst_all(rules) << endl;
return 0;
}
Further examples can be found in the books listed below.
History
SymbolicC++ is described in a series of books on computer algebra. The first book described the first version of SymbolicC++. In this version the main data type for symbolic computation was the Sum class. The list of available classes included
Verylong : An unbounded integer implementation
Rational : A template class for rational numbers
Quaternion : A template class for quaternions
Derive : A template class for automatic differentiation
Vector : A template class for vectors (see vector space)
Matrix : A template class for matrices (see matrix (mathematics))
Sum : A template class for symbolic expressions
Example:
#include <iostream>
#include "rational.h"
#include "msymbol.h"
using namespace std;
int main(void)
{
Sum<int> x("x",1);
Sum<Rational<int> > y("y",1);
cout << Int(y, y); // => 1/2 yˆ2
y.depend(x);
cout << df(y, x); // => df(y,x)
return 0;
}
The second version of SymbolicC++ featured new class |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C3%B4%20S%C4%A9%20Li%C3%AAn | Ngô Sĩ Liên (吳士連) was a Vietnamese historian of the Lê dynasty. He was the main compiler of the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, a chronicle of the history of Vietnam and a historical record of a Vietnamese dynasty. Ngô based information for his historical book from collections of myths and legends such as Lĩnh Nam chích quái or Việt điện u linh tập.
History
The exact dates of Ngô Sĩ Liên's birth and death are unknown but it was said that he was born in the Đan Sĩ village, Hà Đông, Hanoi. In his youth, Ngô Sĩ Liên participated in the Lam Sơn uprising of Lê Lợi that led to the retreat of the Ming dynasty and the foundation of the Lê dynasty in Vietnam. In the 1442 imperial examination under the rule of Lê Thái Tông, Ngô Sĩ Liên gained the title Doctorate (Tiến sĩ) and thus became an official in the royal court of three successive emperors Lê Thái Tông (1434–1442), Lê Nhân Tông (1442–1459) and Lê Thánh Tông (1460–1497), during the latter's reign, Ngô Sĩ Liên was appointed Director of the National Bureau for Historical Record (Viện Quốc sử) in 1473. According to some sources, Ngô Sĩ Liên lived up to the age of 99, so he was likely born around 1400 and died during the late period of Lê Thánh Tông's reign.
Ngô Sĩ Liên was born around the time of the Trần dynasty, the subsequent Fourth Chinese domination by the Ming dynasty, the Lam Sơn uprising, the coronation of Lê Lợi and several struggles in the royal family of the Lê dynasty. Besides, Ngô Sĩ Liên also witnessed the gradual predomination of the Confucianism over the Buddhism in the royal court, especially during the reign of Lê Thánh Tông, it was the context in which Ngô Sĩ Liên wrote his Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư.
Works
Ngô Sĩ Liên's major work is the historical record Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, a 15-volume (quyển) book that he compiled in revising the Đại Việt sử ký and Đại Việt sử ký tục biên. During the reign of Lê Thánh Tông, the emperor had commissioned his historians to write an official chronicle for the dynasty in the Quang Thuận period (1460–1469). This work was later lost but after Thánh Tông's order, Ngô Sĩ Liên, a member of the board of compilation, wrote his own version in 1479 which was finally resulted in the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư. The fact that Ngô Sĩ Liên decided to write his own national history despite the existence of the official records might be explained by Ngô's intention of expressing his opinions in the book just as Lê Văn Hưu did with his Đại Việt sử ký instead of satisfying with only an objective narration of the official records. Some reasoned that Ngô Sĩ Liên compiled the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư because he felt the need to promote Confucian ideology in the Lê dynasty.
Ngô Sĩ Liên's style of compilation was influenced by Sima Guang, the author of the Zizhi Tongjian. Ngô Sĩ Liên not only used official historical documents, but also extracted information from Việt điện u linh tập (Compilation of the potent spirits in the Realm of Việt) and Lĩnh Nam chính quái (Extraordina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sass%20Henno | Sass Henno (born September 13, 1982 in Tartu, Estonia) is an Estonian writer.
He attended Miina Härma Secondary Grammar School in Tartu between 1989-2001. 2001-2003 he studied computer graphics and advertising in Tartu Art College, then film and video directing in the Tallinn University between 2003-2005. Since 2007 he has been attending a master’s level screenwriting course in Baltic Film and Media School.
He won the first prize in Estonian Novel Competition 2005 with his work Mina olin siin. Esimene arest. A feature-length film based on the novel was released in 2008 (I Was Here).
Henno worked in Estonian Television as an assistant and director. Since 2005 he has been a member of Estonian Writers' Union. Since 2010 he works as a CEO of Spring Advertising ad agency Royal Service event marketing agency.
Henno also enjoys reading, sailing and shooting (IPSC).
Bibliography
Elu algab täna (Life Starts Today e-book, 2003)
Mina olin siin. Esimene arest (I Was Here. The First Arrest; Eesti Päevaleht 2005)
Mereröövlimäng (Pirat Game; Troll 2005)
Elu algab täna (Life Starts Today; Eesti Päevaleht 2006)
Südameasjad (Matters of the Heart; shortfilm, Allfilm 2007)
Translations
I Was Here. The First Arrest
Macedonian: Jас бев тука, Skopje: Antolog 2014
Hungarian: Itt jártam: az első letartóztatás, Budapest: Silenos 2010
Latvian: Šeit biju es. Pirmais arests, Riga: Dienas Grāmata 2006
Pirate Game
Russian: Игра в пиратов, Tallinn: Kite 2012
Awards
2004 Writers’ Union Novel Competition, winner (I Was Here. The First Arrest)
References
Toomas Haug, "Sass Henno, Robertino Loretti ja narkorealism" – Looming 2006, nr. 2, p. 300–304 (Sass Henno, Robertino Loretti and the narcorealism)
"Sass Henno" – Estonian Children's Literature Centre
1982 births
Living people
Estonian screenwriters
Estonian male novelists
Writers from Tartu
21st-century Estonian novelists
Miina Härma Gymnasium alumni
Tallinn University alumni
21st-century screenwriters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends%20of%20Oz%3A%20Dorothy%27s%20Return | Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return is a 2013 computer-animated musical fantasy film that is loosely based on the 1989 book Dorothy of Oz by L. Frank Baum's great-grandson Roger Stanton Baum. It was directed by Daniel St. Pierre and Will Finn. The film stars the voices of Lea Michele, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Belushi, Kelsey Grammer, Hugh Dancy, Megan Hilty, Oliver Platt, Patrick Stewart, Bernadette Peters, and Martin Short.
The film premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France on June 14, 2013 and was released in the United States and Canada on May 9, 2014. The movie received negative reviews from critics and became a box-office bomb, grossing $21.7 million worldwide against a budget of $70 million. It is also the only film produced by Summertime Entertainment, which shut down in response to the film's underperformance at the box office. Due to the film's poor reception, Clarius Entertainment cancelled the planned sequels and a TV series.
Plot
In the Land of Oz, the Emerald City's co-leaders – the Scarecrow, Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion – discover that an evil Jester has stolen the broomstick of his sister, the late Wicked Witch of the West, and taken control over the Flying Monkeys. With Oz's future at stake, the Scarecrow decides to use his invention called the Rainbow Mover to summon Dorothy Gale to save the kingdom again. However, flying monkeys invade the castle and force the trio out the window.
In Kansas, Dorothy's farm has been wrecked by a tornado, leaving it in disrepair. A sleazy man claiming to be a government appraiser arrives and condemns the farmhouse, handing the Gales an eviction notice. Dorothy discovers people all across town have been handed the same notices and are moving on. Dorothy and Toto encounter a rainbow which transports them to Oz, but not to the Emerald City as intended.
Dorothy meets Wiser, an overweight but intelligent owl who cannot fly. They enter Candy Country, where everything is made out of candy, including the people. They are promptly arrested by Marshal Mallow for breaking the "no eating anything made of candy" rule due to the Jester tampering with the signs, and are taken to court. Upon realizing who Dorothy is, the judge drops the charges and releases her and Wiser. Mallow joins the group on their way to the Emerald City as a promise he made to find the missing General Candy Apple. Meanwhile, Glinda confronts the Jester, who has used a magic scepter created from his sister's broomstick and crystal ball to turn Oz's leaders, including General Candy Apple, into subservient marionettes. Glinda falls victim to this as well, giving him complete control of Oz.
Dorothy's company enter the Dainty China Country and require permission from the vain China Princess to pass through her kingdom. With Mallow posing as a suitor, the group enter the China Princess' castle and see her rejecting potential suitors, but she is enchanted by Mallow's singing. An earthquake caused by the Jester damages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Revolution | Virtual Revolution (also known as 2047: Virtual Revolution) is a 2016 independent cyberpunk film directed and written by Guy-Roger Duvert in his directorial debut, and starring Mike Dopud, Jane Badler, Jochen Hägele and Maximilien Poullein. The film is set in a dystopian Neo Paris in which people have embraced virtual reality completely.
Plot
In 2047, more than 75% of the population, known as the Connected, spend the majority of their lives living in online virtual games (called verses). The world is dominated by a few corporations, and politicians are happy to keep the masses docile through online games. After 148 gamers are killed in a computer virus attack perpetrated by terrorist group Necromancers, Synternis Corporation operative Dina hires shadow agent Nash to track and eliminate the attackers. Nash spends half his time online and is haunted by the death of his love Helena in a virus attack a few years back. Nash recruits a hacker, Morel, Helena's brother, to hack security video from Interpol servers. Synternis covers up the attack to avoid any involvement of Interpol. Nash infiltrates a Necromancer cell by taking over the online avatar of one of their members. There he learns that the goal of Necromancers is to break people out of virtual reality by any means. Morel's hacking attempts draw the attention of Interpol, which leads to Interpol intimidating him. Nash is ambushed at his flat by Camylle, leader of the Necromancers. She tells him that Synternis Corporation is responsible for the death of Helena, as they first developed the virus capable of killing players while online. Camylle asks Nash to help in her plan to free everyone by injecting the virus into a server at Synternis headquarters. This virus will systematically shut down all the verses, forcing people to confront the real world. Nash contemplates whether it is wise to force the unwilling populace into freedom. Before they can shut down the servers, a furious mob lynches the necromancers. Dina severs all the ties between Synternis and Nash. She also claims that he was misled; the virus that killed Helena was launched by the Necromancers, and Helena was a Synternis mole working inside the Necromancers. He does not know which version to believe. To escape his painful memories, Nash becomes one of the Connected and uses his fortune to add features and comforts to his online avatar. He reasons that since his brain can not distinguish between real and virtual, the online life is as good as real.
Cast
Mike Dopud as Nash
Jane Badler as Dina
Jochen Hägele as Stilson
Maximilien Poullein as Morel
Kaya Blocksage as Camylle
Petra Silander as Kate
Nicolas van Beveren as Jon
Elie Haddad as Camille
Reception
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 40% of five surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 6/10. Justin Lowe of The Hollywood Reporter criticized what he felt was a "consistently derivative plotline". Lowe said Duvert put too much |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culpina | Culpina is a small town in Bolivia. In 2010 it had an estimated population of 2,747.
References
External links
www.ine.gob.bo Culpina Municipality: population data and map
Populated places in Chuquisaca Department |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warisata | Warisata is a location in the La Paz Department in Bolivia.
References
External links
Achacachi municipality: population data and map
Populated places in La Paz Department (Bolivia) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragster%20%28video%20game%29 | Dragster, released in 1980 for the Atari Video Computer System, is one of the first video games developed by Activision. It was programmed by David Crane, who later wrote Pitfall!. The objective of the game is to either beat the player's opponent across the screen or to race against the clock for best time, depending on the settings used. Dragster is an unauthorized adaptation of the 1977 Kee Games coin-op Drag Race.
Gameplay
The game can be played single or with two players. The goal is to reach the finish line in the shortest time possible. A countdown of few seconds introduces a round, during which the player may not shift gears or get disqualified for the round. At start, the player needs to accelerate and shift up to four gears.
Reception
Dragster was reviewed by Video magazine in its "Arcade Alley" column where it was described as having "an interesting premise" and as being "undeniably clever and, with a lot of patience, ... probably fun" but the reviewers also called it the "least" of Activision's early Atari 2600 releases. Specific criticism was given to the "clumsy" and "annoying" gameplay mechanics, and the game design was characterized as "ill-suited to the Atari control system".
The game sold over 500,000 copies.
World record and controversy
In 1982, Todd Rogers claimed the world record with a time of 5.51 seconds. Until January 29, 2018, this was accepted by Twin Galaxies and Guinness World Records, which later recognized it as the longest-standing video game record. Rogers said he achieved his time by shifting into second gear as the countdown timer reached zero. Eric Koziel, a speedrunner and creator of tool-assisted speedruns, analyzed the source code of the game, and it was discovered that 5.51 seconds was impossible. He did not find it possible to shift during the countdown and determined the best possible time to be 5.57.
On January 29, 2018, Twin Galaxies removed Todd Rogers' records and banned him from participating in their competitive leaderboards. Guinness World Records also removed him from its database.
The world record stands at 5.57 seconds, which has been achieved by multiple players.
See also
List of Atari 2600 games
List of Activision games: 1980–1999
References
External links
Dragster at Atari Mania
Dragster at Atari Age
Dragster manual
1980 video games
Activision games
Atari 2600 games
Atari 2600-only games
North America-exclusive video games
Racing video games
Unauthorized video games
Video game clones
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppelganger%20Week | Doppelgänger Week was an internet meme in February 2010 in which Facebook users of social networking websites changed their profile picture to that of celebrities, athletes, historical figures, or friends with whom they share a physical resemblance.
In a Huffington Post piece, it was claimed to be started by Bob Patel, who was constantly told by workmates that he looks like Tom Selleck. However, news organisations including ABC cast doubt on the verifiability of the interview later.
See also
Doppelgänger
References
Internet memes
Computer-related introductions in 2010 |
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