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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acuris | Acuris is a financial news and data firm known for its products fixed income research provider Debtwire and Mergermarket, a specialist in M&A intelligence. It is owned by ION Investment Group, a financial software and data business which owns Fidessa and Dealogic. ION Group bought the company from BC Partners, a private equity group, and GIC Private Limited, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, in 2019.
Formerly known as Mergermarket Group (Mergermarket Ltd.), the company has 1,300 staff, including 600 journalists and analysts, in 67 locations around the world, with headquarters in London, New York, Mumbai and Hong Kong.
History
Acuris began with a single product, Mergermarket, which was established in December 1999 by founders Caspar Hobbs, Charlie Welsh and Gawn Rowan Hamilton. Its founding idea was that in the M&A market, “There is a lot of information out there but very little intelligence.”
In August 2006 the company, then known as Mergermarket Ltd, was acquired by The Financial Times Group for £101m, publisher of the Financial Times newspaper and FT.com. FT Group was a division of Pearson PLC, the international media group.
In 2013, the company was renamed to Mergermarket Group. In November 2013, Pearson agreed to sell Mergermarket Group to London private equity investor BC Partners in a transaction valuing the business intelligence and news service at £382m including debt. Based on the deal, Mergermarket Group was valued at 15 times its last year operating income.
On 15 January 2014, Moody's Investors Service assigned a B3 corporate family rating to the Mergermarket Group.
In July 2017, the Mergermarket Group rebranded as Acuris. The announcement of this move fueled speculation that a sale of the company might come in the next year. Indeed, BC Partners sold a minority stake of around 30% to Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC in July 2017.
In May 2019, BC Partners sold a majority stake in Acuris to ION Investment Group, a financial software and data business which owns Fidessa, in an £1.35bn deal. BC Partners will retain a 25% stake in the company, while GIC is selling out.
Services
Acuris sells web-based subscription services organised under six divisions:
Fixed Income (including the following services: Debtwire, Xtract Research, and Creditflux)
Transactions (including: Mergermarket, Unquote, AVCJ, and Activistmonitor)
Infrastructure (including: Inframation and SparkSpread)
Risk & Compliance (including: Acuris Risk Intelligence, Wealthmonitor, Anti-Corruption Report, Hedge Fund Law Report, Capital Profile, Cybersecurity Law Report, Private Equity Law Report, and Blackpeak)
Equities (including: Dealreporter, PaRR, and TIM)
Research (including: Acuris Studios and Perfect Information)
Acquisitions and divestitures
2007 – Infinata
2010 – Xtract Research
2012 – Inframation Group
2013 - Sale of MergerID
2014 – Perfect Information
2014 – Law Report Group
2015 – AVCJ and Unquote
2015 – C6 Group
2016 – Creditflux
2017 – S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%E2%80%93Iyengar%20algorithm | The Brooks–Iyengar algorithm or FuseCPA Algorithm or Brooks–Iyengar hybrid algorithm is a distributed algorithm that improves both the precision and accuracy of the interval measurements taken by a distributed sensor network, even in the presence of faulty sensors. The sensor network does this by exchanging the measured value and accuracy value at every node with every other node, and computes the accuracy range and a measured value for the whole network from all of the values collected. Even if some of the data from some of the sensors is faulty, the sensor network will not malfunction. The algorithm is fault-tolerant and distributed. It could also be used as a sensor fusion method. The precision and accuracy bound of this algorithm have been proved in 2016.
Background
The Brooks–Iyengar hybrid algorithm for distributed control in the presence of noisy data combines Byzantine agreement with sensor fusion. It bridges the gap between sensor fusion and Byzantine fault tolerance. This seminal algorithm unified these disparate fields for the first time. Essentially, it combines Dolev's algorithm for approximate agreement with Mahaney and Schneider's fast convergence algorithm (FCA). The algorithm assumes N processing elements (PEs), t of which are faulty and can behave maliciously. It takes as input either real values with inherent inaccuracy or noise (which can be unknown), or a real value with apriori defined uncertainty, or an interval. The output of the algorithm is a real value with an explicitly specified accuracy. The algorithm runs in O(NlogN) where N is the number of PEs. It is possible to modify this algorithm to correspond to Crusader's Convergence Algorithm (CCA), however, the bandwidth requirement will also increase. The algorithm has applications in distributed control, software reliability, High-performance computing, etc.
Algorithm
The Brooks–Iyengar algorithm is executed in every processing element (PE) of a distributed sensor network. Each PE exchanges their measured interval with all other PEs in the network. The "fused" measurement is a weighted average of the midpoints of the regions found. The concrete steps of Brooks–Iyengar algorithm are shown in this section. Each PE performs the algorithm separately:
Input:
The measurement sent by PE k to PE i is a closed interval ,
Output:
The output of PE i includes a point estimate and an interval estimate
PE i receives measurements from all the other PEs.
Divide the union of collected measurements into mutually exclusive intervals based on the number of measurements that intersect, which is known as the weight of the interval.
Remove intervals with weight less than , where is the number of faulty PEs
If there are L intervals left, let denote the set of the remaining intervals. We have , where interval and is the weight associated with interval . We also assume .
Calculate the point estimate of PE i as and the interval estimate is
Example:
Consider an example |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy%20Raiders | Lazy Raiders (originally Dig It Up) is a video game developed by Sarbakan and published by Microsoft Game Studios for Xbox Live Arcade in 2010. It was later ported and published by Namco Networks for iOS in 2012, and for Android in 2013.
Gameplay
Lazy Raiders uses a "World-Flip" mechanic that allows the player to flip and spin the entire world, which allows gravity to move objects (such as Dr. Diggabone, boulders, minions and thieves) through mazes. The game has 80 levels set in three different settings: Seven Cities of Gold, Arctic Caves and Wild West.
Development
Lazy Raiders was originally planned for both an XBLA and a WiiWare release, but the developers struggled to reach both demographics. Eventually they abandoned WiiWare as the multiplatform angle "resulted in design hazards that did nothing but dilute the whole game experience." Likewise, the game was initially planned to include two multiplayer modes. These were scrapped as the team was already under heavy time constraints. On June 7, 2016, it was announced that Lazy Raiders along with Anomaly: Warzone Earth and Aqua would be released for Xbox One Back Compat.
Reception
The Xbox 360 and iOS versions received "favorable" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. IGN described the former as "one of the most polished and good looking XBLA games we've played in a while." Pocket Gamer called the latter "A priceless artifact."
Since its release, the Xbox 360 version sold 13,063 units worldwide by January 2011. Sales moved up to 14,876 units by the end of 2011.
References
External links
2010 video games
Android (operating system) games
Cancelled Wii games
IOS games
Namco games
Puzzle video games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in Canada
Video games developed in the United States
Xbox 360 games
Xbox 360 Live Arcade games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex%20Mundi | Lex Mundi is a professional services network. It is the oldest and largest law firm network. The network was established in 1989, incorporating in Delaware.
The association was founded by Stephen McGarry of Minneapolis to help individuals and businesses obtain referrals to connect with reputable legal professionals as they seek to do business in new and unfamiliar jurisdictions. In 1990, Lex Mundi (Latin for "world law") had a network of 105 law firms and 8,000 attorneys in 47 U.S. states and territories and 51 countries.
By 1998, 140 law firms had joined the Lex Mundi network. Attorney Gary Lassen, the managing director of an affiliate law firm, told the Arizona Business Gazette that Lex Mundi was receiving more hits than any other legal-oriented website on the internet. Some affiliates have a defined territory within the network; for each American state, Canadian province, or country, there might be an exclusive Lex Mundi member firm.
In March 2019, Lex Mundi appointed Helena Samaha to succeed Carl Anduri as president, who had served in that role for the past 19 years. In May 2020, Michelle Liberman was elected chair of the company's board of directors.
As of 2022, Lex Mundi had over 150 member firms in 125 countries, totaling more than 23,000 lawyers worldwide.
Each affiliate firm is required to provide a full range of commercial legal services and be considered a "leader" in the use of technology and law firm management.
The non-profit Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation, a Lex Mundi affiliate, coordinates member firms who offer pro bono legal services to social entrepreneurs around the world.
References
International law organizations
Law firms based in Houston |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%20Supercomputing%20Centre | The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) () is a supercomputing centre on the Campus Garching near Munich, operated by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Among other IT services, it provides supercomputer resources for research and access to the (MWN); it is connected to the Deutsches Forschungsnetz with a 24 Gbit/s link.
The centre is named after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. It was founded in 1962 by Hans Piloty and Robert Sauer as part of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the host for several world leading supercomputers (HLRB, HLRB-II, SuperMUC).
SuperMUC
The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre operated SuperMUC, which was the fastest European supercomputer when it entered operation in 2012 and was ranked #9 in the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers. It has since been superseded by the more powerful SuperMUC-NG.
References
External links
Research institutes in Germany
Supercomputer sites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efren | Efren or Efrén is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Efrén Echeverría (born 1932), musician guitarist, composer, and compiler from Paraguay
Efrén Pérez Rivera (born 1929), former college professor and noted Puerto Rican environmentalist leader
Efrén Rebolledo (1877–1929), Mexican poet and diplomat
Efrén Vázquez (born 1986), Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer in the 250 cc World Championship riding a Derbi
Efren de la Cruz (born 1989), Ecuadorian footballer who plays for LDU Quito
Efren Herrera (born 1951), former American football place-kicker and wide receiver in the National Football League
Efren Peñaflorida (born 1981), teacher and social worker in the Philippines
Efren Ramirez (born 1973), American actor
Efren Reyes (born 1954), Filipino professional pool player from Angeles City and a two-time world champion
Efren Reyes Jr. (born 1962), Filipino actor
Efren Saldivar (born 1969), American serial killer who murdered patients while working as a respiratory therapist
Efren Torres (born 1943), former a Mexican boxer, who was world champion in the Flyweight division
See also
Sa Paraiso ni Efren (English: Efren's Paradise), a film that tackles interwoven four-way emotional entanglements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%26C%20Prize | The NEC C&C Prize () is an award given by the NEC Corporation "in recognition of outstanding contributions to research and development and/or pioneering work in the fields of semiconductors, computers, telecommunications and their integrated technologies." Established in 1985, through the NEC's nonprofit C&C Foundation, C&C Prizes are awarded to two groups or individuals annually. There is no restriction on nationality of nominees. Winners will receive a prize which includes a cash award of 10,000,000 yen and a certificate. The award ceremony is held annually in Tokyo, Japan.
Recipients
Medal recipients include Nobel Prize winners and scientists, from the father of optics to the pioneer of Internet.
Years (2018–present)
Years (2007–2017)
Years (1996–2006)
Years (1985–1995)
References
External links
財団法人 NEC C&C財団(Japanese)
NEC C&C Foundation
Awards established in 1985
Japanese science and technology awards
NEC Corporation
1985 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20ShockWave | Cyber ShockWave, similar to the Cyber Storm Exercise, was a 4-hour wargame conducted in February 2010 by the Bipartisan Policy Center, an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. Former high-ranking Cabinet and National Security Officials role played a cabinet level response to a cyberwarfare scenario. Portions of the exercise were later broadcast on CNN.
Background
Cyberwarfare has become a major threat to the United States. There is current debate over whether cyberwarfare constitutes actual war or a rhetorical and less threatening concept instead. Control of the Internet has long been an issue of Internet security and electronic privacy.
The Cyber Shockwave simulation game was developed in partnership with General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, SMobile Systems, Southern Company and Georgetown University. It was created by former CIA Director General Michael Hayden and conducted by the Bipartisan Policy Center to give a glimpse of what would happen during a cyber attack and gauged whether or not the United States was prepared for it. Security agents and lawmakers played roles in the fabricated attacks. The participants did not know the scenario in advance which helped to maintain the reality of a surprise attack. If a real attack were to happen it would come without notice and lawmakers and government agencies would have to re-act immediately in a timely manner.
To prepare for a possible attack, members of The White House, Cabinet Members and National Security Agencies plan to advise President Barack Obama on possible plans of actions.
Participants and roles
The list of attendees included:
Michael Chertoff, former Secretary of Homeland Security, as National Security Advisor
Fran Townsend, former White House Homeland Security Advisor, as Secretary of Homeland Security
J. Bennett Johnston, former Senator (D-LA), as Secretary of Energy
John Negroponte, former United States Deputy Secretary of State, as Secretary of State
Jamie Gorelick, former Deputy Attorney General, as Attorney General
Joe Lockhart, former White House Press Secretary, as Counselor to the President,
John E. McLaughlin, former Acting Director of Central Intelligence, as Director of National Intelligence
Stephen Friedman, former Director of the National Economic Council, as Secretary of Treasury
Stewart Baker, National Security Agency General Counsel, as Cyber Coordinator
Charles Wald, former Deputy Commander of U.S. European Command, as Secretary of Defense
Simulation attack
One of the simulation attacks that was presented was a malware program planted into phones during a popular basketball game. This attack caused a disruption spanning over many mobile phones across the United States. The spyware planted on the smartphones were used through a key logger and data intercepts to funnel funds to banks overseas. Several bots appear downloading videos that shows 'The Red Army'. When someone receives the spyware, it is sent to the person's contact and th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%20Network%20for%20Quality%20Assurance%20in%20Higher%20Education | The Arab Network for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ANQAHE) was established in 2007 as a nonprofit nongovernmental organization.
The purpose of ANQAHE is to establish an international Arab network for quality assurance in higher education and to facilitate exchange of information and disseminate best practice in quality assurance; develop and support quality assurance agencies according to appropriate standards; and strengthen links between existing quality agencies across national borders.
ANQAHE works in association with the International Network of Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education and in connection with the Association of Arab Universities.
It is based in Cairo, Egypt and its secretary general is Dr Tariq Alsindi.
The member organizations of ANQAHE are:
Accreditation and Quality Assurance Commission (AQAC), Ministry of Education and Higher Education, Ramallah, Palestine
Center for Quality assurance and accreditation for higher education institutions, Tripoli, Libya
Commission for Academic Accreditation, Ministry of Higher Education, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Evaluation and Accreditation Commission (EVAC), Ministry of Higher Education, Sudan
Higher Education Accreditation Commission, Amman, Jordan
National Commission for Academic Accreditation & Assessment, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Oman Academic Accreditation Authority, Muscat, Oman
Private Universities Council, Safat, Kuwait
Quality Assurance Authority for Education and Training (QAAET), Manama, Bahrain
National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education (NAQAAE), Nasr City, Egypt
References
External links
• Official website
Organizations established in 2007
2007 establishments in Egypt
Organisations based in Cairo
Higher education accreditation
Quality assurance organizations
Educational organisations based in Egypt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoran%20Stefanovi%C4%87 | Zoran Stefanović (, , born 21 November 1969 in Loznica) is a Serbian author, publisher and cultural activist, best known as the founder of several cultural networks, including Project Rastko. His works were published and produced in Europe and US.
He made his debut in theater and film in 1987 and he graduated in dramaturgy and screenwriting in 1994 at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts (University of Arts in Belgrade). He lives in Belgrade.
He is the president of the Association of Playwrights of Serbia (2022).
Writings
Some of his works belong to science fiction and fantasy - in the theater ("Slavic Orpheus," "Fable of the Cosmic Egg"), graphic novels and comics ("The Third Argument", based on stories by Milorad Pavić, "Under the Seal of the Wolf"), prose (novel Verigaši) and in film/television ("Narrow Paths").
His other works are documentary, such as the TV-series "The Janus' Face of History," or films "Lives of Kosta Hakman" and "Music of Silence" .
His theater plays, prose and graphic novels have been translated into Macedonian, Romanian, Slovene, English, French, Polish, Ukrainian and Russian.
Cultural work
Stefanović was the principal founder of several international cultural networks: Project Rastko (network of digital libraries), Distributed Proofreaders Europe (international digitization of cultural heritage), the Project Gutenberg Europe (Beta version, a public digital library) and similar communities in the fields of digitization, lexicography and pop-culture.
He is also active in cultural and scientific projects since 1993, especially in the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, Ukraine, Russia and Poland, including preservation of minority cultures as well as initiative for Balkan Cultural Network, with Greek cultural activist and music producer Nikos Valkanos.
Since the mid-1990s he promotes the philosophy of open sources and free knowledge, as "the very foundation of every civilized human society." He actively supports several regional Wikipedias, particularly in Eastern and Central Europe since 2004.
Awards and honors
As a writer, playwright and screenwriter, he has been nationally and internationally awarded and short-listed some twenty times, including The "Josip Kulundžić" award for theatrical play, Gold medal for the screenplay at the 42nd Festival of Yugoslav documentary and short films, two wins in Yugoslav literary SF/F competitions "Znak Sagite", Grand Prix for the best Serbian graphic novel and Award for the best graphic novel script, The Edition of the Year of The Belgrade Book Fair. He was nominated for the Prix Europa award in Berlin and the Prix Italia award in Rome.
For his cultural and publishing work he has been also nationally and internationally recognized, including three times the Annual award of the Informatics Society of Serbia, ten YU Web Top 50 awards (SR Web Top 50) and Webfest 2007 Award for the best culture site of the Western Balkans. He has been nominated for United Nations World Sum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Heterocyclic%20Chemistry | Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal summarizing progress in the field of heterocycle chemistry. It is a source for the ChemSpider database.
References
Chemistry journals
English-language journals
Wiley-Blackwell academic journals
Bimonthly journals
Academic journals established in 1964 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Unfinished%20Revolution | The Unfinished Revolution is a 2001 book by Michael Dertouzos that proposes why and how technology should be made to work for humans. It goes on to state that until this goal has been met the computer revolution is 'unfinished'.
Summary
In the foreword to the paperback edition, written by Tim Berners-Lee shortly after Michael Dertouzos's death, he succinctly summarizes the objectives of the book by stating the three areas he believes computers still need improvement in: "helping us to communicate better with each other, by helping with the actual processing of data, and by being less of a pain in the process." More specifically, the book breaks this down into five buckets that need special attention and improvement:
Natural Interaction
Automation
Individualized Information Access
Collaboration
Customization
Natural interaction
Dertouzos argues that since humans are not born with keyboard and mouse inputs to interact with the world why should we be expected to interact with computers in such a fashion. Instead he states that computers should engage us through our existing five senses and goes on to mostly focus on examples for vision and hearing. His primary focus for providing input to computer systems lies in proposals within the speech recognition area but he also emphasizes the need to simplify software interface systems, while warning against reducing them down to an unreasonably small number of options (such as a car only being able to accelerate or turn right).
Further reading
External links
Publisher's Book website
2001 non-fiction books
Human–computer interaction
Technology books
HarperCollins books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQOH | KQOH (91.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Religious format. Licensed to Marshfield, Missouri, United States, the station is currently owned by Catholic Radio Network, Inc.
References
External links
QOH |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%201394 | IEEE 1394 is an interface standard for a serial bus for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer. It was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by Apple in cooperation with a number of companies, primarily Sony and Panasonic. It is most commonly known by the name FireWire (Apple), though other brand names exist such as i.LINK (Sony), and Lynx (Texas Instruments).
The copper cable used in its most common implementation can be up to long. Power and data is carried over this cable, allowing devices with moderate power requirements to operate without a separate power supply. FireWire is also available in Cat 5 and optical fiber versions.
The 1394 interface is comparable to USB. USB was developed subsequently and gained much greater market share. USB requires a host controller whereas IEEE 1394 is cooperatively managed by the connected devices.
History and development
FireWire is Apple's name for the IEEE 1394 High Speed Serial Bus. Its development was initiated by Apple in 1986, and developed by the IEEE P1394 Working Group, largely driven by contributions from Sony (102 patents), Apple (58 patents), Panasonic (46 patents), and Philips (43 patents), in addition to contributions made by engineers from LG Electronics, Toshiba, Hitachi, Canon, INMOS/SGS Thomson (now STMicroelectronics), and Texas Instruments.
IEEE 1394 is a serial bus architecture for high-speed data transfer. FireWire is a serial bus, meaning that information is transferred one bit at a time. Parallel buses utilize a number of different physical connections, and as such are usually more costly and typically heavier. IEEE 1394 fully supports both isochronous and asynchronous applications.
Apple intended FireWire to be a serial replacement for the parallel SCSI bus, while providing connectivity for digital audio and video equipment. Apple's development began in the late 1980s, later presented to the IEEE, and was completed in January 1995. In 2007, IEEE 1394 was a composite of four documents: the original IEEE Std. 1394–1995, the IEEE Std. 1394a-2000 amendment, the IEEE Std. 1394b-2002 amendment, and the IEEE Std. 1394c-2006 amendment. On June 12, 2008, all these amendments as well as errata and some technical updates were incorporated into a superseding standard, IEEE Std. 1394–2008.
Apple first included onboard FireWire in some of its 1999 Macintosh models (though it had been a build-to-order option on some models since 1997), and most Apple Macintosh computers manufactured in the years 2000 through 2011 included FireWire ports. However, in February 2011 Apple introduced the first commercially available computer with Thunderbolt. Apple released its last computers with FireWire in 2012. By 2014, Thunderbolt had become a standard feature across Apple's entire line of computers (later with the exception of the 12-inch MacBook introduced in 2015, which featured only a sole USB-C port) effectively becoming the spiritual successor to FireWire in the Appl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah%20Kadwani | Abdullah Kadwani (Urdu: ) is a Pakistani actor, producer and director.
As of 2019, he holds the position of group managing director at Geo Entertainment, a leading television network in Pakistan. He is currently responsible for "Geo Entertainment Holdings of TV channels; Geo Films, Geo Kahani, Fire Records and all Geo Entertainment properties."
In an article by Daily Times Pakistan, it was reported that Abdullah Kadwani was amongst the esteemed panel of judges from around the world for the prestigious Rose d'OR Awards.
Being a renowned Pakistani actor, director and producer, Kadwani has an experience of more than 25 years in the film and TV industry of Pakistan. He has three children. One of them, Haroon Kadwani recently appeared in blockbuster movie Ruposh and is an aspiring actor like his father. He has produced and created several popular award-winning drama serials including Khaani (2017), Khuda Aur Mohabbat (2021), Meri Zaat Zarra e Benishan (2009), Daam (2010), Doraha (2008) and Shehr e Zaat (2012).
Career
Fashion model
In an interview to Images by Dawn, Abdullah Kadwani mentions about his early days as a model as he remained amongst the top models in the country during the 1990s, having more than 25 television commercials to his credit.
Actor
In 1995 he appeared in STN's Chand Grehan while in 1994 he starred in a PTV telefilm, Adam Hawwa Aur Shaitan and he worked in Hawain in 1997. Later performed in more than fifty television drama serials until 2012.
Producer
Kadwani formed 7th Sky Entertainment, a premier broadcast and film entertainment company in 2004. It is reported that under the leadership of Abdullah Kadwani and Asad Qureshi, 7th Sky Entertainment has produced over 130 projects in a span of 16 years.
Filmography
Television serials
Films
Chambaili (2013 film)
Armaan (2013 film)
See also
List of Lollywood actors
References
External links
Pakistani film producers
Pakistani male television actors
Pakistani television directors
Living people
Pakistani television producers
Male actors from Karachi
St. Patrick's High School, Karachi alumni
1968 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diva%20%282010%20TV%20series%29 | Diva is a 2010 Philippine television drama comedy musical series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Dominic Zapata, it stars Regine Velasquez in the title role. It premiered on March 1, 2010 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Full House. The series concluded on July 30, 2010 with a total of 107 episodes. It was replaced by Ilumina in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Regine Velasquez as Sampaguita "Sam" Fernandez / Melody
Supporting cast
Rufa Mae Quinto as Lady Garcia Mendoza
Mark Anthony Fernandez as Gary / Ate Kuh
TJ Trinidad as Martin Valencia
Glaiza de Castro as Tiffany Mendoza
Mark Herras as Joey Pepe Smith Fernandez
Jaya as Barang / Barbra
Randy Santiago as George del Rosario
Ynna Asistio as Vanessa
Boboy Garovillo as Elvis Fernandez
Gloria Diaz as Paula Abdul-Ah Fernandez
Recurring cast
Enzo Pineda as Luke
Gretchen Espina as Debbie Romasanta
Michelle O'Bombshell as Elton
Chariz Solomon as Did
Caridad Sanchez as Aretha Abdul-Ah
Yassi Pressman as Olivia
Nadia Montenegro as Madonna
Vangie Labalan as Glo
Odette Khan as Eva
Mang Enriquez as Barry Manilow
Diego Llorico as Cams
Carmen Soriano as Martin's mom
Chinggoy Alonzo as Martin's dad
Masculados
Rochelle Pangilinan as Kelly Salvador / fake Sampaguita "Sam" Fernandez
Sheena Halili as Lilet
Mitch Valdez as Mother Superior
Radha as Maria
Pinky Amador as Leonora
Eva Castillo as Theresa
Scarlett as Bertha
Tony Mabesa as a priest
Elizabeth Ramsey as Turner
Sef Cadayona as Marlon Legaspi
Arci Muñoz as Natalie
Dion Ignacio as Jay Z
Alvin Aragon as Randy
Sweet Ramos as young Sampaguita
Nikki Bagaporo as teen Sampaguita and Stevie
Sandy Talag as Charice
JM Reyes as Mandy
Renz Valerio as Lee
Jason Abergido as Aaron
Peejay as Andrew
Vicki Belo as herself
Bearwin Meily as Rey Toke
Mike Hanopol
Victor Wood
Dexter Doria as Lady and Tiffany's mom
Djanin Cruz as Marie
German Moreno as Vernes
Rachelle Ann Go as Demi
Carlo Aquino as Joe
Beverly Salviejo as Beth
Ogie Alcasid as himself
Dingdong Dantes as himself
Vaness del Moral as teen Eva
Frencheska Farr as a host
Gian Magdangal as a host
Raymond Gutierrez as a talk show host
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Diva earned a 24.6% rating. While the final episode scored a 14.4% rating in Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings.
References
External links
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine musical television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988%20in%20British%20radio | This is a list of events in British radio during 1988.
Events
1988 sees regular evening programming begin to appear on weeknights on BBC local radio. The programming tends to be regional rather than local with the same programme networked on all the stations in that area. Consequently, these stations are now providing local/regional programming on weeknights until midnight.
January
January
Sport bulletins are broadcast on BBC Radio 2 at breakfast for the first time. Previously, apart from a racing bulletin, sports news did not commence until lunchtime.
BBC Radio 1 has a ‘’More Music Day’’ which limited presenter chat to news, weather and travel. It has been designed as an answer to those thinking that DJs talk too much, but has not been repeated.
Radio Tees is relaunched as TFM.
15 January – Less than a year after their introduction, the World Service News bulletins on BBC Radio 3 are broadcast for the final time.
February
1 February – Radio 4's long-wave frequency is adjusted from to .
March
2 March – Soundtrack on BBC Radio 4 is inaugurated with broadcaster Glyn Worsnip’s autobiographical audio diary of living with a serious medical condition, A Lone Voice, attracting substantial listener engagement.
April
1 April – Sue Lawley replaces Michael Parkinson as host of Desert Island Discs.
11 April – BBC Somerset Sound launches as an opt-out station from BBC Radio Bristol, broadcasting on BBC Radio Bristol's former MW frequency of 1323AM.
May
17 May – Mike Smith presents the Radio 1 Breakfast Show for the final time. It is a special presented from Gatwick Airport in which the winners of the Sound Experience competition prepare to embark on a trip to Walt Disney World.
23 May – Simon Mayo takes over as presenter of the Radio 1 Breakfast Show.
June
1 June – County Sound becomes the first station to introduce full time split programming on FM and AM. On FM, County Sound is renamed as County Sound Premier with a brand new oldies station called County Sound Gold launching on MW. This is to be the format used by most stations when they ended simulcasting with their chart and contemporary music format continuing on FM with a new oldies station launching on MW.
July
1 July – The Superstation launches an overnight sustaining service on a number of ILR stations around the country at 10pm. The service would run until 6am each morning.
2 July – Capital Gold starts broadcasting, initially as a weekend only service. Tony Blackburn launches the station on 1548AM at 7am.
August
12 August – Radio Clyde launches a weekend-only chart music on FM, with the full Radio Clyde service continuing on MW.
September
1 September –
The Radio 1 FM 'switch on' day which sees three new transmitters brought into service covering central Scotland, the north of England and the Midlands. With 65% of the UK now covered by the station's new FM frequency, the pop group Bros fly around the country in a helicopter to encourage listeners to switch over.
To coincide with the swi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986%20in%20British%20radio | This is a list of events in British radio during 1986.
Events
The Home Office sanctions six experiments of split programming on Independent Local Radio. Up to ten hours a week of split programming is allowed. These include Welsh language programmes on Marcher Sound, Asian programming on Leicester Sound and rugby league commentary on Viking Radio.
A European-wide re-organisation of band 2 of the VHF band comes into effect in July 1987. In preparation for this, 1986 sees many local stations change their VHF/FM frequency.
January
5 January – Michael Parkinson takes over as host of Desert Island Discs following the death last year of Roy Plomley.
February
No events
March
30 March – Bruno Brookes replaces Richard Skinner as host of BBC Radio 1's Top 40 show.
April
7 April – Derek Jameson takes over The Radio 2 Breakfast Show breakfast show from Ken Bruce.
18 April – Mike Read presents his final Radio 1 Breakfast Show after five years in the hot seat.
May
5 May – Mike Smith takes over the Radio 1 breakfast show. The same day also sees Radio 1 begin broadcasting on weekdays 30 minutes earlier, at 5:30am.
June
28 June – At midday, Portsmouth station Radio Victory stops broadcasting after more than ten years on air, three months before its broadcast licence is due to expire. The previous year the Independent Broadcasting Authority had announced that it would not renew the station's licence.
July
24 July – Pirate Radio 4 returns for a second run of three more editions and is again broadcast on the VHF/FM frequencies of BBC Radio 4 with the usual Radio 4 schedule continuing on long wave. The programme is shorter in length than last year, being on air from 9:05am until 10:45am.
August
25 August – An early evening service of specialist music programmes launches on the BBC's four local radio stations in Yorkshire. The programmes are broadcast on weeknights between 6pm and 7:30pm.
September
30 September – BBC Radio Jersey begins experimental broadcasting of States of Jersey proceedings. The broadcasts are made a permanent feature from 25 November.
October
1 October – Downtown Radio's broadcast area is expanded when it begins broadcasting to the north western area of Northern Ireland.
12 October – Ocean Sound begins broadcasting. It replaces Radio Victory in East Hampshire, but also covers Southampton, Winchester and the Isle of Wight. Ocean Sound launches as a split frequency service - Ocean Sound West on 103.2 FM and 1557 AM and Ocean Sound East operates as the replacement for Radio Victory on 97.5 FM and 1170 AM - due to management identifying two potential audiences: one familiar with commercial radio (in the East area), and one largely acquainted with the BBC (the West area). Ocean Sound East launches with a livelier sound than the West service although both services share breakfast and evening programmes with split programming airing during daytime.
November
November – Following its purchase of Northants 96, Chiltern Radio launches a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadhuis%20RandstadRail%20station | Stadhuis RandstadRail station refers to two homonymous stations in the RandstadRail network:
Stadhuis metro station (Rotterdam), operated by RET and served by metro line E.
Stadhuis RandstadRail station (Zoetermeer), operated by HTM and served by lines 3, 4 and 34.
See also
City Hall Station (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajive%20Bagrodia | Rajive Bagrodia is an Indian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is the Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Scalable Network Technologies as well as an emeritus professor of computer science at UCLA.
Education and research
Rajive Bagrodia received his Bachelor of Technology in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, and his MA and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. As a Professor of Computer Science at UCLA, his areas of research included wireless networks, mobile computing & communications, network simulation & analysis, and parallel & distributed computing. He led a research team in mobile computing and parallel and distributed programming and developed simulations systems such as Maisie, Parsec, and GloMoSim. This research was funded by The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Design of Mobile Adaptive Networks Using Simulation and Agent Technology(DOMAINS) project at UCLA. Given these results in performance prediction for complex, large-scale computer and communication systems, he founded Scalable Network Technologies in 1999.
Bagrodia has continued to conduct a prolific amount of research. He has published over 150 research papers in Computer Science journals and spoken at international conferences on high performance computing, wireless networking, and parallel simulation. He has also provided commentary on issues relating to cyberwarfare and warfighter training.
References
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
IIT Bombay alumni
American computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alureon | Alureon (also known as TDSS or TDL-4) is a trojan and rootkit created to steal data by intercepting a system's network traffic and searching for banking usernames and passwords, credit card data, PayPal information, social security numbers, and other sensitive user data. Following a series of customer complaints, Microsoft determined that Alureon caused a wave of BSoDs on some 32-bit Microsoft Windows systems. The update, MS10-015, triggered these crashes by breaking assumptions made by the malware author(s).
According to research conducted by Microsoft, Alureon was the second most active botnet in the second quarter of 2010.
Description
The Alureon bootkit was first identified around 2007. Personal computers are usually infected when users manually download and install Trojan software. Alureon is known to have been bundled with the rogue security software, "Security Essentials 2010". When the dropper is executed, it first hijacks the print spooler service (spoolsv.exe) to update the master boot record and execute a modified bootstrap routine. Then it infects low-level system drivers such as those responsible for PATA operations (atapi.sys) to install its rootkit.
Once installed, Alureon manipulates the Windows Registry to block access to Windows Task Manager, Windows Update, and the desktop. It also attempts to disable anti-virus software. Alureon has also been known to redirect search engines to commit click fraud. Google has taken steps to mitigate this for their users by scanning for malicious activity and warning users in the case of a positive detection.
The malware drew considerable public attention when a software bug in its code caused some 32-bit Windows systems to crash upon installation of security update MS10-015. The malware was using a hard-coded memory address in the kernel that changed after the installation of the hotfix. Microsoft subsequently modified the hotfix to prevent installation if an Alureon infection is present, The malware author(s) also fixed the bug in the code.
In November 2010, the press reported that the rootkit had evolved to the point that it was bypassing the mandatory kernel-mode driver signing requirement of 64-bit editions of Windows 7. It did this by subverting the master boot record, which made it particularly resistant on all systems to detection and removal by anti-virus software.
TDL-4
TDL-4 is sometimes used synonymously with Alureon and is also the name of the rootkit that runs the botnet.
It first appeared in 2008 as TDL-1 being detected by Kaspersky Lab in April 2008. Later version two appeared known as TDL-2 in early 2009. Some time after TDL-2 became known, emerged version three which was titled TDL-3. This led eventually to TDL-4.
It was often noted by journalists as "indestructible" in 2011, although it is removable with tools such as Kaspersky's TDSSKiller. It infects the master boot record of the target machine, making it harder to detect and remove. Major advancements include encryp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPoDWDM | IP over DWDM (IPoDWDM) is a technology used in telecommunications networks to integrate IP routers and network switches in the OTN (Optical Transport Network).
A true IPoDWDM solution is implemented only when the IP Routers and Switches support ITU-T G.709. In this way IP devices can monitor the optical path and implement the transport functionality as FEC (Forward Error Correction) specified by ITU-T G.709/Y.1331 or Super FEC functionality defined in ITU-T G.975.1.
Benefits
This approach saves network components including shelves, processors, interfaces cards and hence it permits to reduce the power consumption, OPEX (Operational expenditure) and CAPEX (capital expenditure).
This approach brings also a simplification of the network, eliminating the SDH/SONET intermediate layer.
Multivendors
A DWDM network can be implemented using different vendor technology from the IP devices as long as they support alien wavelength transmission specified by ITU-T G.698.2.
References
External links
(ITU-T | Kaleidoscope event 2009 | conference)
Telecommunications engineering
Network architecture
Telecommunications infrastructure
Fiber-optic communications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACORN-NS | The Atlantic Canada Organization of Research Networks - Nova Scotia (ACORN-NS) operates an advanced research and education network in Nova Scotia, Canada.
ACORN-NS is the partner for Nova Scotia and runs the Nova Scotia GigaPOP (Gigabit point of presence) on Canada's National Research and Education Network (NREN). The NREN is an essential collective of people, tools, services and digital infrastructure that provides a collaborative environment to advance Canadian leadership in
research, education and innovation. and its twelve provincial and territorial partners form Canada's NREN. The NREN connects Canada's researchers, educators and innovators to each other and to data, technology, and colleagues around the world.
The Members of ACORN-NS are the province of Nova Scotia's 11 post secondary colleges and universities; and the affiliates of ACORN-NS which include some provincial and federal government departments and organizations, as well as smaller community and regional networks.
The Objectives of ACORN-NS
to refine, implement and maintain a resilient, secure, advanced research and education network architecture
to reliably operate Nova Scotia's advanced research and education network including the CANARIE GigaPoP
to promote the value and innovation created by the advanced research and education network
to maintain a sustainable model for ACORN-NS
References
External links
ACORN-NS Homepage
Academic computer network organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PALLAS | PALLAS stands for Parallel Applications, Libraries, Languages, Algorithms, and Systems. It is a research group in The Parallel Computing Laboratory of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at University of California, Berkeley, led by Professor Kurt Keutzer. The group believes that the productive development of applications for an emerging generation of highly parallel microprocessors is the preeminent programming challenge of our time. Its goal is to enable the productive development of efficient parallel applications by domain experts, not just parallel programming experts.
The group conducts its research with the hypothesis that the key to the design of parallel programs is software architecture, and the key to their efficient implementation is frameworks. In its approach, the basis of both the software architecture and the corresponding frameworks is design patterns and a pattern language. Borrowed from civil architecture, the term design pattern means solutions to recurring design problems that domain experts learn. A pattern language is an organized way of navigating through a collection of design patterns to produce a design.
The computational elements of Our Pattern Language(OPL) are built up from a series of computational patterns drawn largely from thirteen motifs . These are considered as the fundamental software building blocks that are then composed using the structural patterns of OPL drawn from common software architectural styles, such as pipe‐and‐filter. A software architecture is then the hierarchical composition of computational and structural patterns, which is subsequently refine using lower‐level design patterns.
References
PALLAS, the PALLAS website.
Our Pattern Language, a set of patterns for parallel programming.
Berkeley discusses progress in parallel programming, an EETimes article, 02/11/2010.
Creating a Pattern Language for Parallel Programming: the evolving view from Berkeley, a report from the Intel Software Network, 12/08/2008.
University of California, Berkeley
Research institutes in the San Francisco Bay Area
Parallel computing
Software design patterns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone%20VoIP%20adapter | A telephone VoIP adapter (TVA), also called digital telephone adapter, is a device that interfaces digital private branch exchange (PBX) telephone sets to a voice of Internet (VoIP) network, using, for example, the Session Initiation Protocol.
An analog telephone adapter (ATA) converts an analog telephone port (Foreign exchange station, FXS) to a VoIP network.
A Centrex TVA interfaces centrex telephones and analog-based Centrex telephones.
Some telecom manufacturers have produced hybrid exchanges with TVA-like elements that support IP telephones and also have units or cards that allow connection of digital telephones.
Whether a standalone TVA or a hybrid PBX is deployed, the intention is to preserve investment in an installed base of telephones, and eliminate the need to install Ethernet network infrastructure.
References
Voice over IP
VoIP hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal%20movement%20grammar | In linguistics and theoretical computer science, literal movement grammars (LMGs) are a grammar formalism intended to characterize certain extraposition phenomena of natural language such as topicalization and cross-serial dependency. LMGs extend the class of context free grammars (CFGs) by adding introducing pattern-matched function-like rewrite semantics, as well as the operations of variable binding and slash deletion. LMGs were introduced by A.V. Groenink in 1995.
Description
The basic rewrite operation of an LMG is very similar to that of a CFG, with the addition of arguments to the non-terminal symbols. Where a context-free rewrite rule obeys the general schema for some non-terminal and some string of terminals and/or non-terminals , an LMG rewrite rule obeys the general schema , where X is a non-terminal with arity n (called a predicate in LMG terminology), and is a string of "items", as defined below. The arguments are strings of terminal symbols and/or variable symbols defining an argument pattern. In the case where an argument pattern has multiple adjacent variable symbols, the argument pattern will match any and all partitions of the actual value that unify. Thus, if the predicate is and the actual pattern is , there are three valid matches: . In this way, a single rule is actually a family of alternatives.
An "item" in a literal movement grammar is one of
, a predicate of arity n,
, a variable binding x to the string produced by , or
, a slash deletion of by the string of terminals and/or variables .
In a rule like , the variable y is bound to whatever terminal string the g predicate produces, and in and , all occurrences of y are replaced by that string, and and are produced as if terminal string had always been there.
An item , where x is something that produces a terminal string (either a terminal string itself or some predicate), and y is a string of terminals and/or variables, is rewritten as the empty string () if and only if , and otherwise cannot be rewritten at all.
Example
LMGs can characterize the non-CF language as follows:
The derivation for , using parentheses also for grouping, is therefore
Computational power
Languages generated by LMGs contain the context-free languages as a proper subset, as every CFG is an LMG where all predicates have arity 0 and no production rule contains variable bindings or slash deletions.
References
Formal languages
Grammar frameworks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Turkish%20films%20of%20the%202010s | A list of films produced in Turkey in the 2010s:
2010
2017
Distant Constellation, documentary
References
External links
Turkish films at the Internet Movie Database
2010s
Turkish
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Crack%20Program%20Hacker%20Group | The Network Crack Program Hacker Group (NCPH Group) is a Chinese hacker group based out of Zigong in Sichuan Province. While the group first gained notoriety after hacking 40% of the hacker association websites in China, their attacks grew in sophistication and notoriety through 2006 and received international media attention in early 2007. iDefense linked the GinWui rootkit, developed by their leader Tan Dailin (Wicked Rose) with attacks on the US Department of Defense in May and June 2006. iDefense linked the group with many of the 35 zero-day hacker proof-of-concept codes used in attacks with over a period of 90 days during the summer of 2006. They are also known for the remote-network-control programs they offer for download. Wicked Rose announced in a blog post that the group is paid for their work, but the group's sponsor is unknown.
Members
The group had four core members in 2006, Wicked Rose, KuNgBim, Charles, and Rodag, with approximately 10 members in total. The group's current membership is unknown.
Wicked Rose
Wicked Rose, also known as Meigui (玫瑰), is the pseudonym of the Chinese hacker Tan Dailin. He is first noted as a hacker during the "patriotic" attacks of 2001. In 2005, Wicked Rose was contracted by the Sichuan Military Command Communication Department which instructed him to participate in the Chengdu Military Command Network Attack/Defense Competition. After winning the local competition, he received a month of intense training in simulating attacks, designing hacking tools, and drafting network-infiltration strategies. He and his team represented the Sichuan Military Command in a competition with other provinces which they went on to win. Wicked Rose is also credited with the development of the GinWui rootkit used in attacks on the US Department of Defense in 2006.
As the group's leader, he is responsible for managing relationships with sponsors and paying NCPH members for their work. In April 2009 he was arrested after committing distributed denial of service attacks on Hackbase, HackerXFiles, and 3800hk, possibly for the purpose of committing blackmail. the organizations attacked collected information on the attack and turned it in to the public security department. The authorities conducted an investigation and shut down his website. Hackbase reported Wicked Rose was arrested and faces up to 71/2 years in prison.
Controversy
The group expelled the hacker WZT on 20 May 2006. Although the cause is unknown, the group ejected him soon after the zero-day attacks were publicly disclosed. WZT was a coding expert within the group.
Associates
Former NCPH member associates with the Chinese hacker Li0n, the founder of the Honker Union of China (HUC). Wicked Rose credits the Chinese hacker WHG, also known as "fig" as one of the developers of the GinWui rootkit. WHG is an expert in malicious code. Security firms researching Wicked Rose's activities have connected him with the Chinese hacker group Evil Security Team.
Activities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetracis%20pallidata | Tetracis pallidata is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Clifford D. Ferris in 2009. It is found in British Columbia, Idaho and Washington.
Habitats are mixed riparian forest (cottonwood with aspen and willows intermingled with choke cherry) in sage-shrub steppe, riparian in the ecotone between ponderosa pine and shrub steppe, and in Owyhee County in Idaho, sage-shrub steppe with juniper and mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus ledifolius).
The length of the forewings 20–23 mm. Adults are on wing from mid-September into early October.
Larvae have been reared on Ribes species.
External links
Revision of the North American genera Tetracis Guenée and synonymization of Synaxis Hulst with descriptions of three new species (Lepidoptera: Geometridae: Ennominae)
Tetracis
Moths described in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobophora%20magnoliatoidata | Lobophora magnoliatoidata is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1904. It is found in western North America in Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, the Northwest Territories, south through Washington to California.
External links
Trichopterygini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopula%20limboundata | Scopula limboundata, the large lace-border, is a moth of the family Geometridae. It was described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1809. It is found in North America east of the Rocky Mountains. There is a single and unconfirmed record from Great Britain.
The wingspan is . Adults are on wing from late May to late August or early September.
The larvae feed on apple, blueberry, clover, dandelion, meadow-beauty, and black cherry.
References
External links
"Lace-border Moth". Moths of Fermilab. Archived from the original July 21, 2011.
"Large Lace Border Moth Scopula limboundata #7159". PBase.
limboundata
Moths of North America
Moths described in 1809
Taxa named by Adrian Hardy Haworth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20Database%20Connectivity | Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is an application programming interface (API) for the Java programming language which defines how a client may access a database. It is a Java-based data access technology used for Java database connectivity. It is part of the Java Standard Edition platform, from Oracle Corporation. It provides methods to query and update data in a database, and is oriented toward relational databases. A JDBC-to-ODBC bridge enables connections to any ODBC-accessible data source in the Java virtual machine (JVM) host environment.
History and implementation
Sun Microsystems released JDBC as part of Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.1 on February 19, 1997.
Since then it has been part of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE).
The JDBC classes are contained in the Java package and .
Starting with version 3.1, JDBC has been developed under the Java Community Process. JSR 54 specifies JDBC 3.0 (included in J2SE 1.4), JSR 114 specifies the JDBC Rowset additions, and JSR 221 is the specification of JDBC 4.0 (included in Java SE 6).
JDBC 4.1, is specified by a maintenance release 1 of JSR 221 and is included in Java SE 7.
JDBC 4.2, is specified by a maintenance release 2 of JSR 221 and is included in Java SE 8.
The latest version, JDBC 4.3, is specified by a maintenance release 3 of JSR 221 and is included in Java SE 9.
Functionality
Since JDBC ('Java Database Connectivity') is mostly a collection of interface definitions and specifications, it allows multiple implementations of these interfaces to exist and be used by the same application at runtime. The API provides a mechanism for dynamically loading the correct Java packages and registering them with the JDBC Driver Manager (). is used as a factory for creating JDBC connections.
JDBC connections support creating and executing statements. JDBC connections support update statements such as SQL's CREATE, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE, or query statements such as SELECT. Additionally, stored procedures may be invoked through a JDBC connection. JDBC represents statements using one of the following classes:
– the is sent to the database server each and every time. In other words, the methods are executed using SQL statements to obtain a object containing the data.
– is a subinterface of the interface. The statement is cached and then the execution path is pre-determined on the database server, allowing it to be executed multiple times in an efficient manner. is used to execute pre-compiled SQL statements. Running pre-compiled statements increases statement execution efficiency and performance. The is often used for dynamic statement where some input parameters must be passed into the target database. The
allows the dynamic query to vary depending on the query parameter.
– is a subinterface of the interface. It is used for executing stored procedures on the database. Both input and output parameters must be passed into the database for stored procedures.
Update s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cas%20%28name%29 | Cas is a masculine given name and nickname, as well as a surname. It may refer to:
People
Cas Anvar (), Canadian actor, voice actor, and writer
Cas Cremers (born 1974), Dutch computer scientist and professor of Information Security at the University of Oxford
Cas Haley (born 1980), American singer-songwriter
Cas Mudde (born 1967), Dutch political scientist
Cas Oorthuys (1908–1975), Dutch photographer and designer known as Cas
Cas Spijkers (1946–2011), Dutch chef and cookbook author
Cas Walker (1902–1998), American businessman, politician, and television and radio personality
nickname of James Castrission (born 1982), half of Cas and Jonesy, Australian explorers, endurance athletes and motivational speakers
Katarina Čas (born 1976), Slovenian actress
Marcel Cas (born 1972), Dutch former footballer
Other
Cas Corach, a hero in Irish mythology
Tál Cas, Dynastic founder of the Dál gCais
Masculine given names
Dutch masculine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual%20dependency%20theory | Conceptual dependency theory is a model of natural language understanding used in artificial intelligence systems.
Roger Schank at Stanford University introduced the model in 1969, in the early days of artificial intelligence. This model was extensively used by Schank's students at Yale University such as Robert Wilensky, Wendy Lehnert, and Janet Kolodner.
Schank developed the model to represent knowledge for natural language input into computers. Partly influenced by the work of Sydney Lamb, his goal was to make the meaning independent of the words used in the input, i.e. two sentences identical in meaning, would have a single representation. The system was also intended to draw logical inferences.
The model uses the following basic representational tokens:
real world objects, each with some attributes.
real world actions, each with attributes
times
locations
A set of conceptual transitions then act on this representation, e.g. an ATRANS is used to represent a transfer such as "give" or "take" while a PTRANS is used to act on locations such as "move" or "go". An MTRANS represents mental acts such as "tell", etc.
A sentence such as "John gave a book to Mary" is then represented as the action of an ATRANS on two real world objects, John and Mary.
See also
Augmented transition network
Conceptual space
Scripts (artificial intelligence)
References
External links
Lytinen, S.L. (1992) "Conceptual Dependency and its Descendants" Computers, Mathematics, and Applications 23(2-5):51-73
Natural language parsing
History of artificial intelligence
Semantic relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Guy%20%28season%209%29 | The ninth season of Family Guy first aired on the Fox network in eighteen episodes from September 26, 2010, to May 22, 2011, before being released as two DVD box sets and in syndication. Family Guy follows the dysfunctional Griffin family—father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and dog Brian, all of whom reside in their hometown of Quahog.
Season nine was the debut of the series' eighth production season, which was executive produced by Chris Sheridan, David Goodman, Danny Smith, Mark Hentemann, Steve Callaghan and series creator Seth MacFarlane. The season's showrunners were Hentemann and Callaghan.
The season received a mixed reception from critics, who called it "a mixture of laugh out loud gags, groan inducing puns, and astonishing 'I can't believe they got away with that' statements." Season nine contains some of the series' most acclaimed episodes, including "And Then There Were Fewer", "Road to the North Pole" and "New Kidney in Town", as well as some of the most controversial episodes, including "And I'm Joyce Kinney", "Friends of Peter G.", and "The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair". This season marks the first time Family Guy aired in 720p high definition and widescreen with a remastered title sequence. It was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series, Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series and Animation.
The Volume Nine DVD box set was released in Region 1 on December 13, 2011, and was released in Region 2 on May 9, 2011 (titled Season 10) and Region 4 on June 15, 2011. Three of the eighteen episodes are included in the volume. The remaining fourteen episodes were included in the Volume Ten DVD box set, released in Region 2 on November 3, 2011, titled Season 11, Region 4 on February 29, 2012, and finally on Region 1 on September 24, 2012. One other episode, "It's a Trap!", was released independently on DVD.
In the UK, the debut episodes were shown on Sunday nights from May to July 2011 on BBC Three. These repeated the Saturday after, although re-runs of the series continue to be shown on the channel nightly.
Production
Production for the ninth season began in 2009, during the airing of the eighth season. The season was executive produced by series regulars Chris Sheridan, David Goodman, Danny Smith, Mark Hentemann and Steve Callaghan, along with series creator Seth MacFarlane. The showrunners for the ninth season were Hentemann and Callaghan, who oversaw the series's transition into 720p high definition in the premiere of the ninth-season episode "And Then There Were Fewer".
As production began, Callaghan, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Hentemann, Patrick Meighan, Brian Scully, Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith, Alec Sulkin, John Viener and Wellesley Wild all stayed on from the previous season. Matt Harrigan, Dave Willis, Anthony Blasucci and Mike Desilets received their first writing credit for the series. Series executive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Nivat | Maurice Paul Nivat (21 December 1937 – 21 September 2017) was a French computer scientist. His research in computer science spanned the areas of formal languages, programming language semantics, and discrete geometry. A 2006 citation for an honorary doctorate (Ph.D.) called Nivat one of the fathers of theoretical computer science. He was a professor at the University Paris Diderot until 2001.
Early life and education
Nivat was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France. His parents were high-school teachers; his father taught languages while his mother taught mathematics. His sister, Aline, became a notable mathematician.
In 1954, Nivat moved with his family to Paris. Nivat was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure in 1956, but began working at the Blaise Pascal Institute of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, a newly established computing laboratory, in 1959. He returned to study mathematics in 1961 under the supervision of Marcel-Paul Schützenberger. His 1967 thesis was entitled Transductions des langages de Chomsky ("Transductions of Chomsky Languages").
Career
In 1969, Nivat became a professor at Paris Diderot University and taught until 2002. He remained as professor emeritus until his death in 2017.
He was involved in many endeavours in theoretical computer science in Europe: he was one of the founders of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) in 1972 and organized the first International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP) conference in the same year at French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA, then called IRIA) in Paris. In 1975, he was a founder of the journal Theoretical Computer Science. He was editor-in-chief of the journal for over 25 years.
He was a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, supports, and maintains the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.
Awards
Since 1983, Nivat was a corresponding member of the French Academy of Sciences. Nivat was also an officer of both the Legion d'honneur and the Ordre national du Mérite, and a commander of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques in France. Nivat won the EATCS award in 2002. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Bologna in 1997 and the University of Quebec at Montreal in 2006.
References
1937 births
2017 deaths
Scientists from Clermont-Ferrand
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Grenoble Alpes University alumni
French computer scientists
Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Officers of the Ordre national du Mérite |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALNAP | ALNAP (Active Learning Network for Accountability and Performance) is a UK based non-profit organization that works to increase learning and accountability in the humanitarian aid sector.
It produces The State of the Humanitarian System report every two to three years.
History
ALNAP was created to increase learning and accountability in the humanitarian sector in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.
Selected publications
In 2010 ALNAP released the first The State of the Humanitarian System report, which was updated in 2012, 2015 and 2018.
It released the report Urban services during protracted armed conflict: A call for a better approach to assisting affected people in 2015.
Members
ALNAP is a membership organization. As of January 2022 it had 86 full members and 16 Associate members.
References
External links
Official website
Organizations established in 1997
1997 establishments in the United Kingdom
Charities based in London
Humanitarian aid organizations
International organisations based in London
Organisations based in the London Borough of Southwark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecmo%20Bowl%20Throwback | Tecmo Bowl Throwback is a video game released by Koei Tecmo for the Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade. The PlayStation 3 version was released via the PlayStation Network store on June 1, 2010, followed by the iOS version on May 26, 2011. The game is an update of the 1993 version of Tecmo Super Bowl. Due to Electronic Arts obtaining the exclusive NFL and NFLPA licenses in 2004 for the Madden NFL series, the game used generic team and player names.
Gameplay
The gameplay retains the classic feel of the series, which the ESRB described as a "top-down arcade-style football game in which players compete against teams around the world to become the 'International Tecmo Bowl Champion'", with "animated cutscenes".
Key features
Updated 3D graphics and user interface improvements
Player and team name editor
Online play
Season play (three total seasons)
The ability to switch between 3D and 2D graphics by pressing the R button.
Reception
The game received "mixed or average reviews" on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
2010 video games
IOS games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
Southend Interactive games
Tecmo Bowl
Video games developed in Sweden
Xbox 360 Live Arcade games
Xbox 360 games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20Bomb%20Data%20Center | The U.S. Bomb Data Center serves as a nationwide collection center for information regarding arson and explosives related events throughout the United States. The Center was established in 1996 as a result of a congressional mandate and utilizes information from various government organizations such as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and the United States Fire Administration.
Mission
The mission of the Center covers a variety of topics, specifically:
Provide statistics on arson and explosives, from federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies data.
Maintain a database on arson and explosives investigations accessible to federal, state and local law enforcement.
Compile data on trends and patterns.
Assist with communication and corroboration on arson and explosives investigations.
Preparing material to aid the identification of explosive material, and techniques used to perpetrate arson.
History
In 1996, the United States Congress passed legislation ordering the United States Secretary of the Treasury to establish a National Repository of Information concerning arson incidents and the actual and suspected criminal misuse of explosives throughout the United States. The Secretary of the Treasury turned around and decided that the ATF was best suited for this job and handed over the responsibility. From there the ATF created the National Repository of Information, specifically in regards to incidents involving arson and the criminal misuse of explosive materials. The information that is gathered is available for a broad array of uses such as statistical analysis and research, investigative leads, and intelligence research. Historically, this center is staffed by ATF special agents, intelligence research specialists and support personnel who all possess a background in arson and explosives.
With the implementation of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the responsibilities of the center were transferred from the United States Department of the Treasury to within the United States Department of Justice. Two years later in 2004, the United States Attorney General ordered the consolidation of all DOJ arson and explosives databases into what is now known as the Bomb Arson Tracking System (BATS).
Explosives Tracing
According to the ATF's website, "tracing is the systematic tracking of explosives from manufacturer to purchaser (and/or possessor) for the purpose of aiding law enforcement officials in identifying suspects involved in criminal violations, establishing stolen status, and proving ownership." To trace these explosives, the manufacturers, importers, wholesalers, and retail dealers of explosive materials work in tandem with the ATF by providing specific information from their records of manufacture, importation, or sale. Furthermore, due to its unique responsibilities, the ATF is the only federal agency authorized access to these records due to its unique lic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlo%C3%A9%20Sainte-Marie | Chloé Sainte-Marie (born Marie-Aline Joyal on May 29, 1962 in Saint-Eugène-de-Grantham, Québec, Canada) is an actress, singer, activist, and official spokesperson for a network of natural caregivers in Québec.
Biography
She is equally well known as the companion, muse, and caregiver of renowned Quebec filmmaker Gilles Carle, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease which, over 18 years, progressively reduced his ability to move or speak. Slightly before the death of Gilles Carle in 2009, she opened the Maison Gilles-Carle, to accept chronically ill patients looking to live in a family style setting while allowing respite to their primary caregivers by sharing care for the residents amongst the caregivers.
In 2005, Charles Binamé and Amazone Film released the documentary Gilles Carle ou l'indomptable imaginaire (released in English as Gilles Carle, the untamable mind) where, as part of his exploration of the movie's subject, he chronicled Sainte-Marie's life as the companion and muse to Gilles Carle.
In 2009, she released her latest album Nitshisseniten e tshissenitamin (translated as: "I know that you know"), performed in its entirety in the Innu language. The words and music are from author-poet-composer-performer Philippe McKenzie, a fore-runner in the contemporary folk-Innu movement.
In 2012, she was interviewed on the Pénélope McQuade show about the Maison Gilles-Carle and how so many people came together to make the project a reality.
Awards
2003 : She received the Félix Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album for Je marche à toi (2002).
2003 : She received the Premier Prix du public (translated as: "Grand Prize from the public" at the Festival Alors ... Chante! (France).
2004 : She received the Révélation du festival (translated as: "Discovery of the Festival") prize at the Festival Pully.
2006 : For the album Je marche à toi (2002), she received, from the Académie Charles-Cros the prize Coup de cœur chanson - Année de la francophonie pour le Canada (translated as: "Song from the Heart - Canada's Year of Francophony").
2006 : She once again received a Félix Award, this time for Show of the Year - Performer for her show Parle-moi (2005).
2010 : On February 14, 2010, Les Artistes pour la paix honoured Chloé Sainte-Marie and designated her as Artiste pour la paix de l'année 2009 (translated as: "Artist for Peace for the year 2009").
Filmography
1982 : Scandale
1984 : Cinéma Cinéma (as singer)
1984 : Le Parc (leading role)
1985 : O Picasso (as singer)
1985 : Le dernier havre (secondary role)
1986 : La Guêpe (film) (leading role)
1987 : Vive Québec (as singer)
1989 : La terre est une pizza (leading role)
1991 : La milliardaire (TV) (secondary role)
1992 : Miss Moscou (TV) (leading role)
1992 : La Postière aka "The Postmistress" (leading role)
1996 : Pudding chômeur aka "Bread Pudding" and "Poor Man's Pudding" (leading role)
1998 : La Penderie (leading role)
2005 : Gilles Carle ou l'indomptable imaginaire (as self)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKWare | PKWARE, Inc. is an enterprise data protection software company that provides discovery, classification, masking and encryption software, along with data compression software, used by organizations in financial services, manufacturing, military, healthcare and government. The company's products are intended to assist other companies in complying with various data protection regulations such as GDPR and CCPA. The company is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with additional offices in the US, UK, and India.
PKWARE was founded in 1986 by Phil Katz, co-inventor of the ZIP standard.
Thompson Street Capital Partners acquired PKWARE Inc. in 2020.
History
Compression software (1986–2000)
PKWARE was founded in 1986 by Phil Katz, a software developer who had begun distributing a new file compression utility, called PKARC, as shareware. PKARC represented a radical improvement over existing compression software (including the ARC utility, on which it was based) and gained popularity among individuals and corporations.
Following a legal settlement with Systems Enhancement Associates Inc., the owners of ARC, Katz stopped distributing PKARC. He released his own compression program, which he called PKZIP, in 1989. PKZIP was the first program to use the new ZIP file format, which Katz developed in conjunction with Gary Conway and subsequently released into the public domain.
PKWARE grew in its early years through business from large corporations. The ZIP format proved so popular that it became the de facto standard for data compression and remains in use throughout the world after more than 30 years.
Purchase and expansion (2001–2008)
After Katz died in 2000, his family sold the company to a new management team led by George Haddix and backed by investment-banking firm Grace Matthews. Two years later, the company acquired Ascent Solutions, a large-platform software firm based in Dayton, Ohio.
SecureZIP, a program that combined PKZIP's data compression with enhanced encryption functionality, was released in 2004. In the following years, PKWARE continued to add support for large and small platform operating systems and introduced new features for both PKZIP and SecureZIP.
Shift toward data protection (2009–2015)
A new ownership group including company management, Novacap Technologies, and Maranon Capital acquired PKWARE in 2009. The company's new CEO, V. Miller Newton, steered the company toward an increased focus on its encryption products in response to growing concerns about data security among PKWARE's customers in industries such as healthcare and government.
In 2012, PKWARE released Viivo, a cloud storage encryption product to help customers secure data stored on Dropbox and other cloud storage services. Viivo received attention for having been developed outside of traditional methods in an effort toward "disruptive innovation" in the emerging cloud security market.
Developing and purchasing expanded capabilities (2016–present)
PKWARE released S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNSSEC | OpenDNSSEC is a computer program that manages the security of domain names on the Internet. The project intends to drive adoption of Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to further enhance Internet security.
OpenDNSSEC was created as an open-source turn-key solution for DNSSEC. It secures DNS zone data just before it is published in an authoritative name server. OpenDNSSEC takes in unsigned zones, adds digital signatures and other records for DNSSEC and passes it on to the authoritative name servers for that zone. All keys are stored in a hardware security module and accessed via PKCS #11, a standard software interface for communicating with devices which hold cryptographic information and perform cryptographic functions.
OpenDNSSEC uses the Botan cryptographic library, and SQLite or MySQL as database back-end. It is used on the .se, .dk, .nl and .uk top-level domains.
See also
References
External links
Domain Name System
DNS software
Free network-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20Brunetti | Dana Brunetti (born June 11, 1973) is an American media executive, film producer and entrepreneur.
Brunetti has been nominated for two Academy Awards for producing The Social Network and Captain Phillips and five Emmy Awards for producing the Netflix series House of Cards.
Early life
Brunetti grew up in Covington, Virginia, and attended secondary school at Alleghany High School. As a child, Brunetti delivered morning and evening editions of his local newspaper.
He joined the U.S. Coast Guard in 1992 and served until 1995. During his enlistment, Brunetti moved to New York. He met actor Kevin Spacey through a chance introduction from a mutual friend while Brunetti was working at a start up digital wireless network company.
Career
Early career
Shortly after meeting each other in 1997, Spacey hired Brunetti as his executive assistant. Brunetti worked with Spacey through several feature films, such as American Beauty (1999) and The Shipping News (2001).
In 2001, Brunetti transformed Spacey's Trigger Street Productions website, TriggerStreet.com, originally a static homepage for Trigger Street Productions, into a platform for aspiring filmmakers. The site was a place for users to submit screenplays and short films for feedback from other members. TriggerStreet.com was relaunched in 2002 as an early social media site, hosting member profiles, providing member ratings of submitted work and interactive forums. TriggerStreet steadily gained users resulting in it being named one of the top 50 best websites of 2004 by Time magazine. The site became known as TriggerStreet Labs and expanded to include short story submissions, it closed down in 2015.
Soon after the launch of the new TriggerStreet.com, Brunetti started working as a motion picture producer.
Producer
In 2002, Brunetti co-produced the documentaries Uncle Frank and America Rebuilds: A Year At Ground Zero through TriggerStreet. The controversial unreleased documentary Hackers Wanted was also part of the early film slate of the company.
In 2004, Spacey promoted Brunetti to President of TriggerStreet productions.
Brunetti's first feature film producing credit was as co-producer for Beyond the Sea (2004). His first full feature credit was Mini's First Time. He later produced the film The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang (2006). He also produced the Emmy-nominated Bernard and Doris.
Brunetti, a Star Wars fan himself, eagerly produced the Star Wars comedy Fanboys. The film was distributed by The Weinstein Company, and originally slated for release on August 17, 2007. However, after delays for re-shoots and disagreements over the film's final cut, the release for Fanboys was delayed until February 9, 2009. Brunetti discussed the film's struggles with the Weinstein Company in interviews on KCRW's The Business podcast and in The New York Times.
Brunetti's first major success was for 21 (2008), a film based on Ben Mezrich's New York Times best selling book Bringing Down The House. Produced on a budget of $ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine%20Jacob | Catherine Jacob may refer to:
Catherine Jacob (journalist) (born 1976), news correspondent for the British television network Sky News
Catherine Jacob (actress) (born 1956), French actress |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASACUSA%20experiment | Atomic Spectroscopy and Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons (ASACUSA), AD-3, is an experiment at the Antiproton Decelerator (AD) at CERN. The experiment was proposed in 1997, started collecting data in 2002 by using the antiprotons beams from the AD, and will continue in future under the AD and ELENA decelerator facility.
ASACUSA physics
ASACUSA collaboration is testing for CPT-symmetry by laser spectroscopy of antiprotonic helium and microwave spectroscopy of the hyperfine structure of antihydrogen. It compares matter and antimatter using antihydrogen and antiprotonic helium and looks into matter-antimatter collisions. It also measures atomic and nuclear cross-sections of antiprotons on various targets at extremely low energies.
In 2020 ASACUSA in collaboration with the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) reported spectral measurements of long lived pionic helium.
In 2022 ASACUSA reported spectral measurements of antiprotonic helium suspended in gaseous and liquid (He-I and He-II) targets. An abrupt narrowing of spectral lines was discovered at temperatures near the superfluid phase transition temperature. The narrowness and symmetry of the spectral lines for antiprotonic helium contrasts with other types of atoms suspended in He-I and He-II. This is hypothesized to be related to the order of magnitude smaller orbital radius of 40 pm which is comparably unaffected during laser excitation.
Experimental setup
Antiproton Trap
ASACUSA receives antiproton beams from the AD and ELENA decelerator. These beams are decelerated to 0.01 MeV energy using a radiofrequency decelerator and the antiprotons are stored in the MUSASHI traps. The positrons to form antihydrogen atoms are obtained from Na^{22} radioactive source and stored in a positron accumulator. The mixing of antiprotons and positrons forms polarised and cold antihydrogen inside a double-Cusp trap. The polarised antihydrogen atoms from this system then enter the spectrometer where the measurements are done.
Beam Spectroscopy
Hyperfine spectroscopy measurements on H beams in flight have been made using a Rabi experiment. The collaboration plans to conduct similar measurements on in flight.
Cryogenic Target Spectroscopy
Electrostatic Beamline
Anticipating completion of ELENA, with the aim of making spectral measurements of previously undetected atomic resonances in antiprotonic helium, a new 6 m electrostatic beamline was constructed to transport s to a cryogenic target.
(Previous experiments, including the antiprotonic helium spectral measurements of March 2022 used a 3 m Radio-frequency Quadrupole to decelerate s from the Antiproton Decelerator.
) 0.1 MeV ELENA s entering the beamline are focussed to a width of 1 mm and pass through an aperture (30 mm length and 8 mm diameter). The transverse horizontal and vertical dimensions of the beam are determined by beam monitors consisting of a grid of gold-coated tungsten-rhenium wires with grid spacing of 20 μm. (There are 3 such monitors along t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri%20Baptist%20Convention | The Missouri Baptist Convention is the state convention of Southern Baptists in Missouri. Headquartered in Jefferson City, it operates as a network of nearly 1,800 independent Southern Baptist churches, which are divided into eight regions and 60 Baptist associations. Missouri Baptists elect an executive board that oversees the convention's ministries, which in turn are carried out by the Missouri Baptist Convention staff.
Leadership
Convention officers
Missouri Baptist churches send messengers to an annual meeting to nominate and elect convention officers. The 2022–2023 convention officers are:
President: Chris Williams
First Vice President: Wesley Vance
Second Vice President: Richard Young
Recording Secretary: Justin Perry
Executive board
The executive board is responsible for overseeing the missionary, educational, and benevolent work of the convention. Messengers from Missouri Baptist Convention churches elect board members from each of the state's eight regions to serve three-year terms.
Executive director
The executive director is elected by the executive board. On October 13, 2011, John Yeats was elected the 20th executive director of the convention.
Missouri Baptist Ministries
The Missouri Baptist Convention staff is engaged in more than a dozen ministries under the administration of five strategic groups:
Making Disciples. Ministries include evangelism; strategies for church leaders and families and age-graded training events and conferences.
Multiplying Churches. Ministries include discovering multiplying churches, sending churches, and church multipliers; training sending churches; mentoring, assessing, and training church multipliers; deploying church multipliers throughout Missouri, across the U.S., and around the world; and partnership missions.
Developing Leaders. Ministries include a statewide network of local church leaders, associational leaders, and convention staff members who work together to provide pastoral leader development and care; church revitalization; transitional pastor training; and disaster relief training and deployment.
Collegiate Ministries. These include ministries on 25 Missouri campuses; training events for collegiate leaders; a summer missions and mentoring initiative; international student ministry; equipping churches to reach out to nearby campuses; developing leaders to serve on new campuses; and coordinating mission experiences for students.
Executive Office. These include the office of the executive director,; business services; property management; and the office of The Pathway, the official news journal of Missouri Baptists
Ministry Support. Ministries include creative services (graphic design, web and social media, and video); live-event support; technology; and Christian apologetics.
Funding
Funding for the Missouri Baptist Convention is provided primarily through the Cooperative Program (CP). Missouri Baptist churches give a percentage of their budget to the Missouri Baptist Conventio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurogammon | Neurogammon is a computer backgammon program written by Gerald Tesauro at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center. It was the first viable computer backgammon program implemented as a neural net, and set a new standard in computer backgammon play. It won the 1st Computer Olympiad in London in 1989, handily defeating all opponents. Its level of play was that of an intermediate-level human player.
Neurogammon contains seven separate neural networks, each with a single hidden layer. One network makes doubling-cube decisions; the other six choose moves at different stages of the game. The networks were trained by backpropagation from transcripts of 400 games in which the author played himself. The author's move was taught as the best move in each position.
In 1992, Tesauro completed TD-Gammon, which combined a form of reinforcement learning with the human-designed input features of Neurogammon, and played at the level of a world-class human tournament player.
See also
World Backgammon Federation
References
Further reading
Backgammon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Reiter%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Michael K. Reiter is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a James B. Duke Professor at Duke University. He was formerly the Lawrence M. Slifkin Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was previously a professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Reiter's research interests are in computer and communications security and distributed computing.
References
External links
Michael Reiter home page at the Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
American computer scientists
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Computer systems researchers
Cornell University alumni
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Living people
Researchers in distributed computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty
Engineers from North Carolina
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive%20learning | Competitive learning is a form of unsupervised learning in artificial neural networks, in which nodes compete for the right to respond to a subset of the input data. A variant of Hebbian learning, competitive learning works by increasing the specialization of each node in the network. It is well suited to finding clusters within data.
Models and algorithms based on the principle of competitive learning include vector quantization and self-organizing maps (Kohonen maps).
Principles
There are three basic elements to a competitive learning rule:
A set of neurons that are all the same except for some randomly distributed synaptic weights, and which therefore respond differently to a given set of input patterns
A limit imposed on the "strength" of each neuron
A mechanism that permits the neurons to compete for the right to respond to a given subset of inputs, such that only one output neuron (or only one neuron per group), is active (i.e. "on") at a time. The neuron that wins the competition is called a "winner-take-all" neuron.
Accordingly, the individual neurons of the network learn to specialize on ensembles of similar patterns and in so doing become 'feature detectors' for different classes of input patterns.
The fact that competitive networks recode sets of correlated inputs to one of a few output neurons essentially removes the redundancy in representation which is an essential part of processing in biological sensory systems.
Architecture and implementation
Competitive Learning is usually implemented with Neural Networks that contain a hidden layer which is commonly known as “competitive layer”. Every competitive neuron is described by a vector of weights and calculates the similarity measure between the input data and the weight vector .
For every input vector, the competitive neurons “compete” with each other to see which one of them is the most similar to that particular input vector. The winner neuron m sets its output and all the other competitive neurons set their output .
Usually, in order to measure similarity the inverse of the Euclidean distance is used: between the input vector and the weight vector .
Example algorithm
Here is a simple competitive learning algorithm to find three clusters within some input data.
1. (Set-up.) Let a set of sensors all feed into three different nodes, so that every node is connected to every sensor. Let the weights that each node gives to its sensors be set randomly between 0.0 and 1.0. Let the output of each node be the sum of all its sensors, each sensor's signal strength being multiplied by its weight.
2. When the net is shown an input, the node with the highest output is deemed the winner. The input is classified as being within the cluster corresponding to that node.
3. The winner updates each of its weights, moving weight from the connections that gave it weaker signals to the connections that gave it stronger signals.
Thus, as more data are received, each node co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive%20semantics | Naive semantics is an approach used in computer science for representing basic knowledge about a specific domain, and has been used in applications such as the representation of the meaning of natural language sentences in artificial intelligence applications. In a general setting the term has been used to refer to the use of a limited store of generally understood knowledge about a specific domain in the world, and has been applied to fields such as the knowledge based design of data schemas.
In natural language understanding, naive semantics involves the use of a lexical theory which maps each word sense to a simple theory (or set of assertions) about the objects or events of reference. In this sense, naive semantic theory is based upon a particular language, its syntax and its word senses. For instance the word "water" and the assertion water(X) may be associated with the three predicates clear(X), liquid(X) and tasteless(X).
References
Natural language processing
Semantics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erana | Erana can refer to:
Erana (Cilicia), a town of ancient Cilicia, now in Turkey
Erana (Messenia), a town of ancient Messenia, Greece
, a fictional character in the Quest for Glory computer game series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMDS | DMDS may refer to:
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, an album by the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem
Defense Manpower Data Center, a part of the United States Department of Defense
Dimethyl disulfide, a chemical compound |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20semantic%20analysis | Stochastic semantic analysis is an approach used in computer science as a semantic component of natural language understanding.
Stochastic models generally use the definition of segments of words as basic semantic units for the semantic models, and in some cases involve a two layered approach.
Example applications have a wide range. In machine translation, it has been applied to the translation of spontaneous conversational speech among different languages. In the area of spoken language understanding the fact that spoken sentences often do not follow the grammar of a language and involve self-corrections, repetitions, and other irregularities, the use of stochastic semantic has been suggested as a natural fit to achieve robustness to deal with noise due to the spontaneous nature of spoken language.<ref>R. De Mori et al, Spoken language understanding in IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, May 2008 Volume: 25 Issue: 3, pages 50 - 58 ISSN 1053-5888</ref>
References
Stochastically-based semantic analysis'' by Wolfgang Minker, Alex Waibel, Joseph Mariani 1999
Notes
Natural language processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbia | Orbia (previously Mexichem) is a company providing specialty products and methodologies in the agriculture, building and infrastructure, fluorinated solutions, polymer solutions, and data communications sectors. It was founded in 1953 and has headquarters in Mexico City.
History
In 1953 – Cables Mexicanos S.A. was founded by a group of Mexican and American investors, to sell high-carbon steel wire ropes in Mexico.
In the 60s Cables Mexicanos S.A. changed its name to Aceros Camesa.
In 1978 – A control company was created "Grupo Industrial Camesa". It became a publicly-held company, listed on Mexican Stock Exchange.
1997 – Grupo Empresarial Privado Mexicano (GEPM), a company held by the del Valle Family, acquired Grupo Industrial Camesa.
Globalization, 2006–2013
2011 – Mexichem acquired Alphagary Group, a producer of PVC, TPE, and TPO compounds in the United States and the United Kingdom.
2012 – Mexichem acquires Wavin, a European supplier of plastic pipes, expanding Mexichem's water management portfolio with acquired operations in 22 European countries.
Recent history, 2014–2018
2017 – Mexichem acquired an 80% stake in Netafim, a precision irrigation approaches provider. This expanded the company's reach into the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.
Change of name
Mexichem was rebranded in 2019 as Orbia, from the Latin word for a sphere and Bia, an ancient Greek personification of the concept of "force."
References
External links
Technology companies of Mexico
Chemical companies of Mexico
Companies listed on the Mexican Stock Exchange
Mexican brands
Mexican companies established in 1953
Companies based in Mexico City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaton%20branch%20line | The Seaton branch line was a railway branch line connecting the seaside resort of Seaton, Devon, in England, to the main line network at Seaton Junction railway station, on the main line between Salisbury and Exeter.
The branch line opened in 1868; it became very popular with holidaymakers, greatly enhancing the attraction of the resort, but it declined and the line was closed in 1966.
Origins
The small town of Seaton became a seaside holiday resort in the middle of the nineteenth century, although its historic port activity had declined to the use of fishing boats only. When the London and South Western Railway (L&SWR) opened a main line from Yeovil to Exeter in 1860, completing a route from London, local people saw that a rail connection might reinvigorate their town. However the difficult terrain of the Devon Coast in the area forced the L&SWR to align its route a considerable distance to the north. They opened a station called Colyton for Seaton, near Shute. The station was four miles from Seaton, and over a mile from Colyton.
Local people wanted an actual rail link to the town, and after a first failed attempt to obtain an Act of Parliament for the purpose, they were successful, obtaining an Act for the "Seaton and Beer Railway" on 13 July 1863. The Company had an authorised capital of £36,000, and powers for a loan of £12,000, for the construction of a line from near the L&SWR Colyton station to a Seaton station to the east of the town.
The Act included powers to construct a bridge over the River Axe, giving access to Axmouth.
Construction
At a Company meeting on 5 December 1863, Sir Walter Trevelyan was elected Chairman of the Company, and W.R. Galbraith the Engineer.
A contract for the construction was awarded to Howard Ashton Holden, signed on 8 January 1864, but progress was extremely slow, and in April 1865 the Company wrote to Holden threatening suspension of the contract. On 27 September 1865 the Company terminated Holden's contract on Galbraith's advice. Two alternative potential contractors fell by the wayside, and it was obvious that the available firms lacked the financial resources to undertake the work. The Company itself was now running short of money, and it had to obtain a further £12,000 by a 5% preference share issue and a £4,000 loan in an attempt to fund the work more directly, and John Sampson was engaged to carry the work on, with considerable financial assistance from the Company. Even Galbraith, on the Company's authority, was unable to obtain a locomotive to hire for the conduct of the works. With horses instead, he took direct control of the works, with Sampson in effect his site manager.
The planned opening for the summer season of 1867 was abandoned, but by 2 August 1867 a locomotive was found to be hired in to work on the construction. Several small contracts were let for constructing buildings; an understanding regarding the supply of water to Seaton station was found to be unsatisfactory, and an alter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20Use%20Microdata%20Area | A Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA) are geographic units used by the US Census for providing statistical and demographic information. Each PUMA contains at least 100,000 people. PUMAs do not overlap, and are contained within a single state. PUMAs were first created for the 1990 Census. For the 2012 American Community Survey (ACS), there are 2,378 PUMAs.
PUMAs allow the Census to publish census data for sub-state areas throughout every state. For example, the ACS publishes detailed data every year, but due to their sampling procedure only publishes data for census area that have more than 65,000 People. Only seven of the 55 counties of West Virginia were large enough to receive estimates from the 2006 ACS. In contrast, all 12 PUMAs that partition West Virginia received 2006 ACS estimates.
The state governments drew PUMA boundaries for the 2000 Census, to allow reporting of detailed data for all areas. There were a total of 2,071 PUMAs in the 2000 Census.
See also
Census tract
Census block
References
External links
https://www.census.gov/acs/www/Downloads/Handbook2006.pdf
https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/puma.html
https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/gtc/gtc_pumas.html
United States Census Bureau geography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLGE | GLGE may refer to:
Greenville/Sinoe Airport (ICAO code GLGE)
GLGE (programming library) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhye%27s%20and%20Fall%20of%20Civilization | Rhye's and Fall of Civilization (RFC) is a "fan scenario" (mod) for the 2005 computer game Sid Meier's Civilization IV. It is an 'Earth simulator' that uses a variety of scripted events to mirror history much more closely than a typical game of Civilization. The name of the scenario references its core feature—the dynamic "Rise and Fall" of civilizations through time—and its creator, Gabriele Trovato, known as "Rhye" in the forums community.
A version of the scenario was included in the second official expansion pack, Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword. It is the second most popular Civilization IV mod (after Fall from Heaven 2) by number of downloads on Civilization Fanatics Center, a large Civilization fan website.
Development
Rhye's and Fall of Civilization built upon Gabriele Trovato's earlier mods for Civilization II and Civilization III, especially Rhye's of Civilization which also sought greater historical accuracy. The popularity of these prompted Civilization IV developers Firaxis to invite him to contribute content for inclusion in the game upon its release. The result was two maps ("Earth" and "Ice Age Earth") and two historical scenarios ("Earth 1000 AD" and "Greek World").
The first alpha version of Rhye's and Fall of Civilization, then called "Rhye's Catapult", was released on 26 April 2006, featuring an elaborated Earth map and the "Rise and Fall" mechanism. With the release of the first official Civilization IV expansion, Warlords, the mod was forked into two versions: one incorporating the new Warlords content and one that remained compatible with 'vanilla' Civilization IV. A third fork was made with the release of the second expansion for the same reason. The Beyond the Sword version of Rhye's and Fall of Civilization was one of the three user-created scenarios that shipped with the official Firaxis expansion (along with Fall from Heaven and Road to War). Development of all three forks continued concurrently, with new features being incorporated into all as far as possible. The final versions of all three were released on 2 June 2010.
As of May 2010 there are two 'variants' of Rhye's and Fall of Civilization, which alter the core gameplay in some way. The first, RFC MP, was released on 21 October 2007 and enables multiplayer games of Rhye's and Fall of Civilization over the internet, LAN or locally in hotseat mode. In order to make this possible, several gameplay features had to be disabled. The second variant, RFC RAND, was released on 28 July 2008. It is similar to regular Rhye's and Fall of Civilization but is played on a randomised map of various sizes, climates and "Earth likeness". Other parameters are also randomised, such as which civilizations will appear in the game and when and where they will "spawn". The variant is intended to provide "something halfway between RFC and standard Civ", but the reaction to it has been mixed.
Gameplay
Rhye's and Fall of Civilization is set on Earth and is designed to mirror a histo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAM%20Entertainment | is a Japanese record label founded by CyberAgent, the company behind ameba.
The initials CAM mean Cyber Agent Music.
Artists
Maki Ohguro
Miyu Nagase
Maika Sawaki
Sacon
Strawberry Record
Wonder-holic
Eri Yoshida
Mistral
See also
List of record labels
Avex Group (distributor)
References
External links
Jei-One
Japanese record labels
Record labels established in 2008
CyberAgent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%20Labor%20Action%20Coalition | The Student Labor Action Coalition (SLAC) is a network of campus organizations that support worker struggles and their unions.
Since its founding in 1994, SLAC organizations typically have worked to educate the campus community on unions and worker struggles, organized students and broader campus communities to participate in labor solidarity activities in the U.S. and worldwide, built coalitions with local unions and social justice organizations, and trained students to work within the labor movement.
History
The first Student Labor Action Coalition was established in 1994 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to support the 700 locked out workers at the A.E. Staley Company in Decatur, Illinois. In February 1994, a group of undergraduates saw the video "Deadly Corn" in their UW-Madison sociology course, and angered by what they learned of the Staley workers' struggle for safe working conditions, they organized the Staley Solidarity Action Coalition. After a semester organizing a study group on the issue and taking a trip to Decatur, they changed their name to the Student Labor Action Coalition (SLAC) with the aim to help worker struggles wherever they occur.
In their first year, the UW-Madison SLAC educated the campus community on the Staley lockout, participated in the Miller and Pepsi boycotts of A.E. Staley, traveled to Decatur, Illinois to attend labor solidarity rallies and helped spread similar support activities to other university campuses.
In October 1994, SLAC activists met University of Michigan students at a solidarity rally in Decatur. Soon, Michigan students formed a SLAC on their campus, and in the spring of 1995 hosted a young activist conference which was attended by students from eight different campuses. Within a year, SLAC organizations spread to other campuses in the Midwest and Northeast.
In the 1990s, two developments helped spread the formation of SLAC nationwide. First, the AFL–CIO, under the direction of AFL–CIO president John Sweeney, initiated the AFL–CIO Organizing Institute, which sought to enlist college activists as labor organizers. The AFL–CIO supported SLAC activities as part of this initiative. Secondly, beginning in 1998, SLAC organizations got a boost from the outpouring of anti-sweatshop activism on college campuses, which focused on solidarity efforts with workers in the Third World.
By 1999, there were dozens of SLAC student organizations on campuses nationwide, working on a wide variety of worker solidarity campaigns. Many campus SLACs affiliated with the national organization, United Students Against Sweatshops , after its founding in 2000.
Notes
References
Featherstone, Lisa (2002). Students Against Sweatshops. New York: Verso.
External links
History of the first SLAC at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Student political organizations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeenNick%20%28disambiguation%29 | TeenNick may refer to:
TeenNick, an American television channel
TEENick, a former programming block on Nickelodeon and the namesake of the channel
TeenNick (Italian TV channel)
TeenNick (Indian TV programming block), a programming block on Nick Jr. India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20Automatic%20Computer | FLAC, the Florida Automatic Computer, was an early digital electronic computer built for the United States Air Force at Patrick Air Force Base (PAFB) in Brevard County of Florida, to perform missile data reduction. The computer began service in 1953.
The system's architecture resembled that of the many machines of the period that used the von Neumann architecture, and in design was most closely related to SEAC. It was operated by RCA's Data Reduction Group, a subcontractor to Pan American Airways. Three FLACs were ultimately built, with two upgraded FLAC systems (dubbed "FLAC II") entering service in the fall of 1956. FLAC computations supported the flight tests of early ballistic missiles and air-breathing cruise missiles such as the Redstone, Juno, Snark, Matador, Bomarc, Navaho, Atlas, and Thor.
History
Design on the computer was begun in December 1950 at PAFB's Atlantic Missile Range. The Air Force Civilian engineering team assembled to design and build the computer consisted of seven key members: Thomas G. Holmes, Charlie West, John MacNeill, Jim Bellinger, Steve Batchelor, Bruce Smith and Harlan Manweiler. Thomas G. Holmes was responsible for the overall logical design of the computer, ensuring all of the components worked together. He determined how to interconnect the modules to provide the control and numeric function of the computer. Charlie West was the director of the project. John MacNeill and Jim Bellinger were the mechanical engineers responsible for designing all of the system mechanisms. Jim also designed the input-output system. The punch design increased the existing punch speeds dramatically. Existing punch systems operated at around 10 characters per second but Jim's design was capable of over 400 characters per second. Jim also developed a reader for the paper tape input system. Steve Batchelor was in charge of purchasing and manufacturing. Bruce Smith was in charge of designing the building modules to be used in the design and Harlan Manweiler was the comptroller.
Specifications
Like the ENIAC, EDVAC, and other early computers, FLAC's basic electronic element was the vacuum tube, but it also used crystal diodes for gating. The complete system comprised 1,050 vacuum tubes of 5 different types and 18,000 crystal diodes, but the computer proper used only 420 6AN5 tubes and 15,000 diodes. FLAC's electronic components were built into 7 different kinds of exchangeable plug-in units which could be inserted or removed into 6 separate cabinets (excluding those for power and air conditioning), permitting faulty units to be replaced quickly to restore the machine to functionality following, for example, the burn-out of a vacuum tube.
FLAC consumed 7.5 kW of power (plus another 7.5 kW for the air conditioning needed to cool the computer) and occupied of space over 65 square feet (plus an additional over for air conditioning). It weighed 1000 pounds. The approximate cost of the basic system was $500,000 to the USAF |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Network%20South%20Beach%20Wine%20and%20Food%20Festival | The Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival is an annual four-day event in Miami, typically in mid-February. The event showcases wine, spirits, chefs, and culinary personalities. The four-day event consists of dinners, wine seminars, tasting and demos, brunches and lunches, walk-around tastings, family events, fitness, and late-night parties. The event is hosted by Florida International University.
See also
Boston wine festival
Naples Grape Festival
North Carolina Wine Festival
San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival
Simply Wine Festival
Tallahassee Wine and Food Festival
Temecula Valley Balloon & Wine Festival
References
External links
South Beach Wine and Food Festival
Food Network South Beach Wine and Food Festival
Festivals in Miami
Food and drink festivals in the United States
Wine festivals in the United States
1994 establishments in Florida
Festivals established in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Disturbance%20Theater | The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), established in 1997 by performance artist and writer Ricardo Dominguez, is an electronic company of cyber activists, critical theorists, and performance artists who engage in the development of both the theory and practice of non-violent acts of defiance across and between digital and non-digital spaces.
History
The Electronic Disturbance Theater was founded in 1997 by Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum, Stefan Wray and Carmin Karasic. Taking the idea of the American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the EDT members used their real names. As a collective, they organized and programmed computer software to show their views against anti-propagandist and military actions, mobilizing micronetworks to act in solidarity by staging virtual sit-ins online and allowing the emergence of a collective presence in direct digital actions.
A second iteration of the group, called Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0, included Brett Stalbaum, Amy Sara Carroll, Elle Mehrmand, Micha Cárdenas, and Ricardo Dominguez.
FloodNet
The group's objective was, with the use of digital media and internet based technology, to demonstrate nonviolent resistance in support of the Zapatista rebels residing in the state of Chiapas in Mexico. EDT uses both e-mail and the Internet to promote their work around the world, encouraging fellow supporters to download and run a tool based on HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) and Java applet (an internet program used to help support interactive web-based features or programs that a HTML cannot provide alone) called FloodNet. FloodNet is a computer-based program, created by members of the Electronic Disturbance theater company Carmin Karasic and Brett Stalbaum.
The FloodNet program would simply reload a URL for short several times, effectively slowing the website and network server down (a DDOS attack), if a high number of protesters were to join in the sit-in at one time. The EDT would first execute the FloodNet software in what would be for them a dress rehearsal before attacking their main targets on April 10, 1998, and a month later, on both Mexican and American government websites, representing both the Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo and American President Bill Clinton.
FloodNet would work on this basic idea taken from street theater practices and political rallies and protest, but instead present it on a much larger and international stage, with the facilitation of macro-networks and non-digital forms of action.
Ricardo Dominguez took up the idea of the Floodnet from the "netstrike" organized by the Florentine group Strano Network. On December 21, 1995, the first world Virtual sit-in, conceived by Tommaso Tozzi, was created by the Florentine group Strano Network against the French government to protest against the nuclear tests in Mururoa and was defined as a "Netstrike".
The EDT's mission was to allow the voices of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation to be heard, after the attack |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Archer%20episodes | Archer is an American animated comedy series created by Adam Reed for the FX network. The first four seasons are set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) and surround suave master spy Sterling Archer as he deals with global espionage; a domineering, late middle-aged mother/boss, Malory Archer; his ex-girlfriend, Agent Lana Kane; and accountant Cyril Figgis.
The fifth season (Archer Vice) follows Archer and his entourage as they resort to drug dealing, having been caught by the FBI operating as an illegal espionage operation in the seasons' opening. The sixth season chronicles the group working as contract hires for the CIA until they commit the ultimate screw-up. Out of work, the ISIS ensemble moves to Los Angeles and pursues private investigation work as the Figgis Agency in the seventh season. This concludes with Archer being shot, which sets the plot for the following seasons (8–10) in which he is in a coma. In seasons 11–14, the show returns to its original spy-agency format.
The fourteenth and final season premiered on August 30, 2023 and ended on October 11. However, two days later it was announced that a three-part series finale called, Archer: Into the Cold would air on December 17, 2023.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2009–10)
Season 2 (2011)
Season 3 (2011–12)
Season 4 (2013)
Season 5: Archer Vice (2014)
Season 6 (2015)
Season 7 (2016)
Season 8: Archer Dreamland (2017)
Season 9: Archer: Danger Island (2018)
Season 10: Archer: 1999 (2019)
Season 11 (2020)
Season 12 (2021)
Season 13 (2022)
Season 14 (2023)
References
External links
Lists of American adult animated television series episodes
Lists of American sitcom episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willsborough | Willsborough is a small townland in the Barony of Ormond Lower, County Tipperary, Ireland. It is approximately in area and located in the civil parish of Ardcrony. Although the Placenames Database of Ireland gives Willsborough as the Irish language name, 19th century records indicate that the area was formerly known as Derrynashig.
References
Townlands of County Tipperary
Untranslated Irish place names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Hanson | Scott Richard Hanson (born June 24, 1971) is an American television anchor and reporter for NFL Network. He has served as sports reporter and anchor for several regional stations and was hired by NFL Network in 2006. He is currently the host of the NFL RedZone channel.
Early life and education
Hanson was born and raised in Rochester, Michigan. He graduated from the Bishop Foley Catholic High School in Madison Heights, Michigan in 1989. In high school, Hanson was the team captain of the football team and earned all-conference honors.
Hanson attended Syracuse University' S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and graduate cum laude in 1993.
Football career
Hanson played as a walk-on on the Syracuse Orange football team and played four seasons, two under head coach Dick MacPherson and two under Paul Pasqualoni. He played as a long snapper, wide receiver and defensive back on the scout team, and was a teammate of future Pro Football Hall of Famer Marvin Harrison. He was Scout Team Player of the Year in 1992.
Professional career
While attending Syracuse, Hanson worked as a summer intern at WXYZ-TV in Southfield, Michigan.
In 1993 Hanson landed his first job as an anchor and reporter for NBC affiliate WPBN-TV in Traverse City, Michigan. He then moved to Springfield, Illinois, in 1994, sticking with NBC to be a reporter for WICS-TV. Next, Hanson headed south to ABC affiliate WFTS-TV in Tampa, Florida, where he covered the Tampa Bay Buccaneers rise under coach Tony Dungy.
Hanson then did a two-year stint in 2000 with Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, where he served as an anchor on SportsNite as well as intermission reporter for the Philadelphia Flyers. In 2002, Hanson moved to sister network Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic in Bethesda, Maryland, where he served as a main anchor and reporter. There, Hanson was reunited with his former WFTS-TV colleague Sage Steele, who joined CSN Mid-Atlantic a year earlier (2001).
In 2006, Hanson left CSN Mid-Atlantic to join the NFL Network, where he serves as a reporter, anchor, and host.
As of 2022, Hanson is a National Correspondent and host of NFL Network's show, NFL RedZone which he debuted in Fall of 2009. On Sundays he presents NFL coverage live for seven straight hours from 1:00-8:00 PM EST with no commercial breaks. On Mondays, he hosts Up to the Minute looking at NFL games from the previous week along with a preview of the Monday Night Football matchup. In addition, Hanson also co-anchors NFL Total Access during the week.
In 2015, Hanson served as the blow-by-blow announcer for Spike TV's Premier Boxing Champions series.
Hanson has served as in-stadium host for 14-straight Super Bowls, usually serving when the broadcast cuts to commercial break.
Personal life
Hanson lives in Florida. He grew up in a religious home but was a skeptic before he converted to Christianity. Hanson has gone on to mission trips from the Missionaries of Charity in Mauritania, Nairobi, and locally in Los Angeles.
In 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vonabell%20Sherman | Vonabell Sherman is best known as a Home Shopping Network on-air guest since 2001, presenting a wide variety of home and family products. She is a member of the National Association of Professional Organizers
Vonabell Sherman has been in front of the camera since the age of 13 and did her first commercial at age 16. During her TV career she has appeared in TV, movies and in hundreds of print ads.
References
External links
Vonabell On-Air Talent
Living people
American television personalities
American women television personalities
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market%20share%20of%20personal%20computer%20vendors | The annual worldwide market share of personal computer vendors includes desktop computers, laptop computers, and netbooks but excludes mobile devices, such as tablet computers that do not fall under the category of 2-in-1 PCs. The global market leader has been Chinese technology company Lenovo in every year since 2013, with the exception of 2017. Previously, Compaq was the global market leader in the late 1990s until the year 2000, while HP and Dell shared market leadership in the 2000s.
Top vendors market share (2022)
Historical vendors market share
2021
2016–2020
2011–2015
2006–2010
2001–2005
1996–2000
Toshiba personal computer division was sold to Sharp in 2019, now Dynabook.
IBM sold its personal computer business to Lenovo in 2005, and its x86 server division in 2014.
Compaq was acquired by HP in 2002.
Fujitsu figures include Fujitsu Siemens.
Figures include desktop PCs, mobile PCs, and servers using the Intel x86 processor architecture. 1996–1999 figures exclude x86 PCs.
Figures subject to revision in later data releases.
Unit sales
Worldwide (1996–2022)
Sales volume worldwide grew rapidly in the late 1990s but declined briefly around the early 2000s recession. Sales increased again for the rest of the decade though more slowly during the late 2000s recession. After substantial growth in 2010, sales volume started declining in 2012 which continued for seven consecutive years until 2019. A consumer-lead spike in PC sales occurred in 2020 and 2021 as a result of stay-at-home orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
(*) Figures include desktop PCs, mobile PCs, and servers using the Intel x86 processor architecture. 1996–1999 figures exclude x86 PCs.
Worldwide (1975–1995)
Japan
See also
List of computer hardware manufacturers
List of computer system manufacturers
List of laptop brands and manufacturers
References
Personal computers
Personal computer vendors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTNC%20%28AM%29 | KTNC (1230 AM) is a radio station broadcasting an oldies music format. Licensed to Falls City, Nebraska, United States, the station is currently owned by KNZA Inc. and features programming from Westwood One.
References
External links
Oldies radio stations in the United States
TNC
Richardson County, Nebraska
Radio stations established in 1957
1957 establishments in Nebraska |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTFC%20%28FM%29 | KTFC (103.3 FM) is a radio station in Sioux City, Iowa, United States. It is owned and operated by the Bott Radio Network, a regional broadcaster of Christian talk and teaching programming. The transmitter is located east of Sioux City.
Prior to being a Bott station, KTFC was a locally run Christian radio station for the Sioux City area under the same ownership for 40 years.
History
On May 16, 1964, Donald A. Swanson applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a new FM radio station on 103.3 MHz in Sioux City. The application was granted on August 26 of that year, and KTFC began broadcasting on July 1, 1965. It was on the air for 17 hours a day and broadcast sacred music, news, weather, and church announcements. The Swansons expanded to an AM station, KTFJ (1250 AM) in nearby Dakota City, Nebraska, in 1988; at that time, KTFC's local programming included a daily broadcast for homemakers and weekly Bible quizzes. In 1991, KTFG in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, came on the air as a rebroadcaster of KTFC; it only split from the Sioux City station to air two local church services.
In 1992, Swanson—who, while the owner, quipped, "God owns the radio station; he just lets me run it"—sought relief from high electricity bills to keep the station in operation. He purchased and installed an wind turbine, acquired from a wind farm in Arizona, near the tower to generate electricity for KTFC. Swanson used profits from a nearby farm to subsidize the station's operation.
Swanson elected to sell KTFC and KTFG to Midwest Bible Radio, a division of the Good News Broadcasting Association of Lincoln, Nebraska, in 2005; no change in format was planned by the new owners. He continued to own KTFJ until his death in 2011. Bott Radio Network, through its subsidiary Community Broadcasting, Inc., purchased KTFC and KTFG in 2007.
References
Moody Radio affiliate stations
Bott Radio Network stations
TFC
Radio stations established in 1965
1965 establishments in Iowa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KUUZ | KUUZ (95.9 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a religious format, as an affiliate of SonLife Radio Network. Licensed to Lake Village, Arkansas, United States, the station is currently owned by Family Worship Center Church, Inc.
References
External links
Lake Village, Arkansas
UUZ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules%20%28dwarf%20galaxy%29 | Hercules, or Her, is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy situated in the Hercules constellation and discovered in 2006 in data obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The galaxy is located at a distance of about 140 kpc from the Sun and moves away from the Sun with a velocity of about 45 km/s. It is classified as a dwarf spheroidal galaxy (dSph). It has a noticeably elongated (ratio of axes ~ 3:1) shape with a half-light radius of about 350 pc. This elongation may be caused by tidal forces acting from the Milky Way galaxy, meaning that Her is being tidally disrupted now. Her also shows some gradient of velocities across the galaxy's body and is embedded into a faint stellar stream, which also points towards its ongoing tidal disruption.
Her is one of the smallest and faintest satellites of the Milky Way—its integrated luminosity is about 30,000 times that of the Sun (absolute visible magnitude of about −6.6), which is comparable to the luminosity of a typical globular cluster. However, its total mass is about 7 million solar masses, which means the galaxy's mass to light ratio is around 330. A high mass to light ratio implies that Her is dominated by dark matter.
The stellar population of Her 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 stars of Her were probably among the first stars to form in the Universe. Currently there is no star formation in Her. Measurements have so far failed to detect neutral hydrogen in it—the upper limit is 466 solar masses.
Notes
References
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies
4713560
Hercules (constellation)
Local Group
Milky Way Subgroup
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region-based%20memory%20management | In computer science, region-based memory management is a type of memory management in which each allocated object is assigned to a region. A region, also called a zone, arena, area, or memory context, is a collection of allocated objects that can be efficiently reallocated or deallocated all at once. Like stack allocation, regions facilitate allocation and deallocation of memory with low overhead; but they are more flexible, allowing objects to live longer than the stack frame in which they were allocated. In typical implementations, all objects in a region are allocated in a single contiguous range of memory addresses, similarly to how stack frames are typically allocated.
Example
As a simple example, consider the following C code which allocates and then deallocates a linked list data structure:
Region *r = createRegion();
ListNode *head = NULL;
for (int i = 1; i <= 1000; i++) {
ListNode* newNode = allocateFromRegion(r, sizeof(ListNode));
newNode->next = head;
head = newNode;
}
// ...
// (use list here)
// ...
destroyRegion(r);
Although it required many operations to construct the linked list, it can be quickly deallocated in a single operation by destroying the region in which the nodes were allocated. There is no need to traverse the list.
Implementation
Simple explicit regions are straightforward to implement; the following description is based on the work of Hanson. Each region is implemented as a linked list of large blocks of memory; each block should be large enough to serve many allocations. The current block maintains a pointer to the next free position in the block, and if the block is filled, a new one is allocated and added to the list. When the region is deallocated, the next-free-position pointer is reset to the beginning of the first block, and the list of blocks can be reused for the next allocated region. Alternatively, when a region is deallocated, its list of blocks can be appended to a global freelist from which other regions may later allocate new blocks. With either case of this simple scheme, it is not possible to deallocate individual objects in regions.
The overall cost per allocated byte of this scheme is very low; almost all allocations involve only a comparison and an update to the next-free-position pointer. Deallocating a region is a constant-time operation, and is done rarely. Unlike in typical garbage collection systems, there is no need to tag data with its type.
History and concepts
The basic concept of regions is very old, first appearing as early as 1967 in Douglas T. Ross's AED Free Storage Package, in which memory was partitioned into a hierarchy of zones; each zone had its own allocator, and a zone could be freed all-at-once, making zones usable as regions. In 1976, the PL/I standard included the AREA data type. In 1990, Hanson demonstrated that explicit regions in C (which he called arenas) could achieve time performance per allocated byte superior to even the fastest-known heap alloc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RanksTel | RanksTel () is a Bangladeshi telecommunications company. It is a private public switched telephone network (PSTN) operator in Bangladesh, and nation's second largest PSTN operator.
Ranks Telecom Limited, a member of Rangs Group, launched its fixed line operation under the brand name RANKSTEL on 14 April 2005. RANKSTEL is registered with Registrar of Joint Stock Companies. RANKSTEL holds PSTN and ISP licenses to operate nationwide. RANKSTEL has also been awarded an International Gateway (IGW) license and currently originates and terminates international voice traffic.
RANKSTEL's physical infrastructure includes about 10 major hubs (switching and transmission) and more than 200 access nodes across the country.
History
On 7 June 2004, Ranks Telecom Limited, a sister company of the RANGS Group, got a PSTN license to operate in Chittagong, Sylhet and Dhaka.
On 13 January 2005, RANKSTEL received an operational license from BTRC, allowing them to operate in Khulna and Bogra.
The firm launched its wireless phone service under the brand name of RanksTel on 14 April 2005.
On 9 September 2007, after more than two years of service, RANKSTEL received a nationwide PSTN license from the Bangladesh Telecom Regulatory Commission (BTRC).
On 19 March 2010, the BTRC shut down the phone line operations of RanksTel for allegedly running unlicensed VoIP operations. On 17 July 2011, RanksTel won approval to resume operations after a 16-month shutdown.
On 1 July 2012, RanksTel commercially relaunched their PSTN service.
On 8 January 2017, RanksTel launched a gigabit connectivity service and rebranded itself with a new logo.
Number plan
RanksTel uses the following numbering scheme:
+880 44 R1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8
+880 is the International subscriber dialling Code for Bangladesh.
44 is the BTRC allocated code for RANKSTEL.
R1 is the local code for RANKSTEL
7: Dhaka Central
3: Chittagong
9: Sylhet
5: Bogra
4: Khulna
9: Dhaka
R2 is the Package identification number for the subscriber of RanksTel
R3 to R8 is Subscriber identification number for RanksTel
References
Telecommunications companies of Bangladesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callidrepana%20gelidata | Callidrepana gelidata is a moth of the family Drepanidae. It is found in Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Burma and India.
References
Drepaninae
Moths described in 1863 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyrby%20Runestone | The Fyrby Runestone, which is designated as Sö 56 in the Rundata catalog, is a Viking Age memorial runestone located in Fyrby, which is about 15 kilometers south of Flen, Södermanland County, Sweden, and in the historic province of Södermanland.
Description
The runic inscription on the Fyrby Runestone consists of runic text within a band that curves along the face of the north side of a granite boulder that is two meters in height. The runic inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style RAK. RAK is the classification for the oldest style where the ends of the runic bands are straight and there are no animal designs. The inscription is considered somewhat enigmatic due to its use of the pronoun "I" at the beginning of the runic text, which might even refer to the stone itself speaking to the reader. This runestone is notable for its reference to Midgard ("Middle Earth"), which was one of the nine worlds of Norse cosmology and the home of humans. The period that proposed for the RAK style was 990-1010 AD.
The runic text indicates that the inscription is a memorial to a father from his two sons which also boasts of the skills of the sons in rune-making, claiming that the brothers were the most skilled in runes in Miðgarði or "Middle Earth". One personal name in the inscription contains the name of the Norse pagan god Freyr as a theophoric name element. The father's name, Freysteinn, means "Freyr's Stone." In addition, the Hár or "High" in the name Hásteinn, which means "High Stone", may refer to the byname Hár of the god Odin. The names in the Fyrby Runestone inscription also reflect a common practice of that time in Scandinavia of repeating an element in a parent's name in the names of the children. Here the steinn from the father's name, Freystein, is repeated in the names of the two sons, Hásteinn and Holmsteinn, to show the family relationship. The statement that the sons placed stafa marga or "many staffs" in memory of their father may refer to the staves of the runes in the text. Two other inscriptions, DR 40 in Randbøl and Sm 16 in Nöbbele, make explicit use of the word "staff" to refer to runes. Other inscriptions which use the word in reference to the raising of a staff as a monument include Sö 196 in Kolsundet, Vs 1 in Stora Ryttern, U 226 in Bällsta, the now-lost U 332 in Vreta, and the now-lost U 849 in Balingsta.
Inscription
In Unicode
ᛁᛅᚴ᛫ᚢᛅᛁᛏ᛬ᚼᛅᛋᛏᛅᛁᚾ᛬ᚦᛅ᛬ᚼᚢᛚᛘᛋᛏᛅᛁᚾ᛬ᛒᚱᚢᚦᚱ᛫ᛘᛂᚾᚱ᛬ᚱᚢᚾᛅᛋᛏᛅ᛬ᛅ᛬ᛘᛁᚦᚴᛅᚱᚦᛁ᛬ᛋᛂᛏᚢ᛬ᛋᛏᛅᛁᚾ᛬ᛅᚢᚴ᛬ᛋᛏᛅᚠᛅ᛬ᛘᛅᚱᚵᛅ ¶ ᛂᚠᛐᛁᛦ᛫ᚠᚱᛅᚤᛋᛏᛅᛁᚾ᛬ᚠᛅᚦᚢᚱ᛫ᛋᛁᚾ
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
iak · uait : hastain : þa : hulmstain : bryþr · menr : rynasta : a : miþkarþi : setu : stain : auk : stafa : marga ¶ eftiʀ · fraystain · faþur · sin ·
Transcription
Old West Norse
Ek veit Hástein þá Holmstein brœðr menn rýnasta á Miðgarði, settu stein ok stafa marga eptir Freystein, fǫður sinn.
Runic Swedish
Iak væit Hāstæin þā Holmstæin brø̄ðr mænnr rȳnasta ā Miðgarði, sattu stæin ok stafa marga æftiʀ Frøystæin, f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etisalat%20%28Sri%20Lanka%29 | Etisalat (Sinhalese: එටිසලාට් Etisalat; Tamil: எடிசலாட்) (formerly known as Celltel and later Tigo), was a mobile telecommunications network in Sri Lanka. It was owned by the UAE based telecommunications operator Etisalat until December 2018. Etisalat had over 4.2 million customers at the end of February 2012. The company announced the commercial launch of Dual Carrier HSPA+ services on 15 August 2012, becoming the first operator in South Asia to do so. In April 2018 CK Hutchison Group and Etisalat Group have entered into a definitive agreement to merge their mobile telecommunications businesses in Sri Lanka. Upon completion of the transaction, CKHH Group will have the majority and controlling stake in the combined entity. CK Hutchison completed the acquisition of Etisalat Lanka on 30 November 2018.
History
Celltel and Tigo
Celltel was founded on 18 June 1989 on a Motorola TACS system, becoming the first cellular network in Sri Lanka and 36th operator in world. It was then re-branded by Millicom International in January 2007, as Tigo (Sri Lanka). then it was acquired by Etisalat.
Acquisition by Etisalat
Etisalat acquired Sri Lankan operations of Millicom International (Tigo Sri Lanka). The acquisition was completed with a total enterprise value of 207 Million US$, out of which 155 Million US$ was in cash. Etisalat changed the Operator/Brand Name Tigo to Etisalat on 25 February 2010.
Acquisition by Hutch
In April 2018 CK Hutchison Holdings and Etisalat Group have entered into a definitive agreement to merge their mobile telecommunications businesses in Sri Lanka. Upon completion of the transaction, CKHH Group will have the majority and controlling stake in the combined entity. CK Hutchison completed the acquisition of Etisalat Lanka on 30 November 2018.
Competition
Before the acquisition by Hutch, the operator competed with other mobile operators Dialog Axiata, Mobitel, Hutch and Airtel.
Technology
Etisalat Lanka operated a GSM/EDGE supported network using 900 / 1800 MHz. The company on 5 May 2011 launched HSPA+ services over 2100 MHz, becoming a LTE ready mobile network in the country. The company announced the commercial launch of DC-HSPA+ service on 15 August 2012, was the first operator in the South Asian region and the 63rd in the world to do so.
Slogan
The slogan of the company was "power to you".
References
External links
Celltel – Internet Archive
Tigo – Internet Archive
Etisalat Lanka – Internet Archive
Acquisition by Hutch
2018 disestablishments in Sri Lanka
Mobile telecommunications networks
Telecommunications companies of Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan companies established in 1989
Telecommunications companies established in 1989
Sri Lanka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastCopy | FastCopy computer software is a file and directory copier that runs under Microsoft Windows. It was originally open-source, under the GPLv3 license, but later freeware releases reported "Due to various circumstances, distribution of the source code is temporarily suspended". In version 5.0.0, it changed the license for a newly added Pro version with addition features, and separated the use case in non-domestic environments, while previous versions allow using FastCopy in workplace.
There are 32- and 64-bit versions, which run under Windows 7 and later, and Windows Server 2012 and later. The total size of the executable and DLL files comprising 64-bit version 4.1.7 is 1.3MB. It can run as a free-standing portable application or be integrated into the Windows shell, and claims to achieve reading and writing performance close to the device limit.
In a test conducted in 2008 by lifehacker, Fastcopy was several times faster than its rival Teracopy, a program with similar functionality. However, both programs have been updated since then. A more extensive comparison was performed between TeraCopy v2.07beta, KillCopy v2.85, FastCopy v1.99r4, SuperCopier v2.2bet and published on a forum in 2009.
In Microsoft Windows prior to Windows 10 v1607, programs that use the Win32 API, such as Windows Explorer, do not support path names longer than 260 UTF-16 characters; later versions of Windows allow this to be changed via the registry or group policy. FastCopy does not use Microsoft's API and places its own calls to the NT kernel, allowing operations with path names longer than 260 characters.
In 2015 FastCopyV2.11 (BSD License) was ported to Mac OS X by Japanese PostProduction L'espace Vision. It is sold on the Mac App Store as "RapidCopy". In 2016 L'espace Vision released the Linux version of "RapidCopy for Linux" on GitHub under a BSD 2-Clause license.
Screenshots
Reception
Bogdan Popa, who reviewed FastCopy 3.92 in Softpedia, praised the product as being "An overall efficient and reliable file management tool" and gave it 4.5 out of 5 stars. User ratings by 419 users gave it an average of 4.2 out of 5 stars.
On December 25, 2015 (JST), FastCopy was given Grand Prize in the .
Ported versions
macOS: RapidCopy
Linux: RapidCopy for Linux
See also
RichCopy
Robocopy
Teracopy
Ultracopier
References
External links
Utilities for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakynthos%20Marine%20Park | The National Marine Park of Zakynthos () founded in 1999, is a national park located in Laganas bay, in Zakynthos island, Greece. The park, part of the Natura 2000 ecological network, covers an area of and
is the habitat of the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). It is the first national park established for the protection of sea turtles in the Mediterranean.
Geography
Zakynthos Marine Park encompasses the marine area of the Bay of Laganas, on the southern shores of the island of Zakynthos, and hosts one of the most important sea turtle nesting beaches in the Mediterranean. The nesting habitat in the bay comprises six discrete beaches: Gerakas, Daphni, Sekania, Kalamaki, E. Laganas and Marathonissi islet, totalling about in length, of which Sekania is rated amongst the world's highest loggerhead nesting concentrations. Apart from the nesting areas the park encompasses the wetland of Keri Lake and the two small islands of Strofadia, which are located south from the island of Zakynthos.
The marine park is composed of three marine zones (A, B, C) in the Bay of Laganas, in addition to the strictly protected nesting areas, as well as the terrestrial and peripheral zone. For the protection of the ecosystem, fishing activities are strictly prohibited inside each of the marine zones.
Biology
The area is home to the endangered loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta), which is considered one of the oldest forms of life on planet. The marine park hosts annually 900 to 2,000 nests, which represents an average of eighty percent of the nest total of Mediterranean loggerhead population. The loggerhead spends most of its life at sea, but females lay their eggs on Laganas bay at night from May to August.
Furthermore, the area is characterised by a variety of habitats of interest including sand dunes, Posidonia oceanica beds, the critically endangered sea daffodil (Pancratium maritimum), submerged reefs, as well as hundreds of species of flora and fauna, some of which are of great importance. A resident population of the critically endangered species of monk seal, Monachus monachus is present at the west coast of Zakynthos.
Park management
The recent rapid development of the local tourism industry is seen as a potential threat for the protected area's existence. Moreover, the annual migration of the loggerhead sea turtle to their nesting grounds has become increasingly risky due to the obstacles encountered on beaches. In addition speedboats, in violation of the boating ban off nesting beaches are another factor that endangered the turtles' lives. For this reason the National Marine Park of Zakynthos was established, in December 1999, aiming at the protection and the preservation of Caretta caretta and other species such as the Mediterranean monk seal Monachus monachus, as well as several other important species of animals, birds, amphibians and flora found in this area.
Furthermore, in order to achieve the objective of active public participation, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandra%E2%80%93Toueg%20consensus%20algorithm | The Chandra–Toueg consensus algorithm, published by Tushar Deepak Chandra and Sam Toueg in 1996, is an algorithm for solving consensus in a network of unreliable processes equipped with an eventually strong failure detector. The failure detector is an abstract version of timeouts; it signals to each process when other processes may have crashed. An eventually strong failure detector is one that never identifies some specific non-faulty process as having failed after some initial period of confusion, and, at the same time, eventually identifies all faulty processes as failed (where a faulty process is a process which eventually fails or crashes and a non-faulty process never fails). The Chandra–Toueg consensus algorithm assumes that the number of faulty processes, denoted by , is less than n/2 (i.e. the minority), i.e. it assumes < /2, where n is the total number of processes.
The algorithm
The algorithm proceeds in rounds and uses a rotating coordinator: in each round , the process whose identity is given by mod is chosen as the coordinator. Each process keeps track of its current preferred decision value (initially equal to the input of the process) and the last round where it changed its decision value (the value's timestamp). The actions carried out in each round are:
All processes send (r, preference, timestamp) to the coordinator.
The coordinator waits to receive messages from at least half of the processes (including itself).
It then chooses as its preference a value with the most recent timestamp among those sent.
The coordinator sends (r, preference) to all processes.
Each process waits (1) to receive (r, preference) from the coordinator, or (2) for its failure detector to identify the coordinator as crashed.
In the first case, it sets its own preference to the coordinator's preference and responds with ack(r).
In the second case, it sends nack(r) to the coordinator.
The coordinator waits to receive ack(r) or nack(r) from a majority of processes.
If it receives ack(r) from a majority, it sends decide(preference) to all processes.
Any process that receives decide(preference) for the first time relays decide(preference) to all processes, then decides preference and terminates.
Note that this algorithm is used to decide only on one value.
Correctness
Problem definition
An algorithm which "solves" the consensus problem must ensure the following properties:
termination: all processes decide on a value;
agreement: all processes decide on the same value; and
validity: all processes decide on a value that was some process's input value;
Assumptions
Before arguing that the Chandra–Toueg consensus algorithm satisfies the three properties above, recall that this algorithm requires = 2* + 1 processes, where at most f of which are faulty.
Furthermore, note that this algorithm assumes the existence of eventually strong failure detector (which are accessible and can be used to detect the crash of a node). An even |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20J-B%20Wets | Roger Jean-Baptiste Robert Wets (born February 1937) is a "pioneer" in stochastic programming and a leader in variational analysis who publishes as Roger J-B Wets. His research, expositions, graduate students, and his collaboration with R. Tyrrell Rockafellar have had a profound influence on optimization theory, computations, and applications. Since 2009, Wets has been a distinguished research professor at the mathematics department of the University of California, Davis.
Schooling and positions
Roger Wets attended high school in Belgium, after which he worked for his family while earning his Licence in applied economics from Université de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium) in 1961. He was encouraged by Jacques H. Drèze to study optimization with George Dantzig at the program in operations research at the University of California, Berkeley. Dantzig and mathematician–statistician David Blackwell jointly supervised Wets's dissertation. In 1965 Wets befriended R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, whom Wets introduced to stochastic optimization, starting a collaboration of many decades.
He worked at Boeing Scientific Research Labs, 1964–1970 and was Ford Professor at the University of Chicago, 1970–1972 before being appointed Professor at the Mathematics Department of the University of Kentucky and then University Research Professor (1977–78). While at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, during 1980–1984, he led research in decision-making in uncertainty, returning as an acting leader in 1985–1987; during that time, Wets and Rockafellar developed the progressive-hedging algorithm for stochastic programming. The University of California, Davis named him Professor (1984–1997), Distinguished Professor, and Distinguished Research Professor of Mathematics (2009–).
Awards and contributions
Wets was awarded a George B. Dantzig Prize for "original research that has had a major impact on the field of mathematical programming" by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the Mathematical Programming Society (MPS, now the Mathematical Optimization Society). In 1994, the Dantzig Prize was awarded to Wets and also to the French pioneer in nonsmooth computational-optimization, Claude Lemaréchal.
Wets's contributions included developing set-valued analysis, including metric spaces of sets, which he used to study the convergence of epigraphs; Wets's ideas of epigraphical convergence was used to study the convergence iterative methods of stochastic optimization and has had applications in the approximation theory of statistics. A metric theory of finite-dimensional epigraphical convergence ("cosmic convergence") appears in Variational analysis. Wets and his coauthor R. Tyrrell Rockafellar were awarded the 1997 Frederick W. Lanchester Prize by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for their monograph Variational Analysis, which was published in November 1997 and copyrighted in 1998.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20double | In computer programming and computer science, programmers employ a technique called automated unit testing to reduce the likelihood of bugs occurring in the software. Frequently, the final release software consists of a complex set of objects or procedures interacting together to create the final result. In automated unit testing, it may be necessary to use objects or procedures that look and behave like their release-intended counterparts, but are actually simplified versions that reduce the complexity and facilitate testing. A test double is a generic (meta) term used for these objects or procedures.
Types of test doubles
Gerard Meszaros identified several terms for what he calls, "Test Doubles." Using his vocabulary, there are at least five types of Test Doubles:
Test stub — used for providing the tested code with "indirect input".
Mock object — used for verifying "indirect output" of the tested code, by first defining the expectations before the tested code is executed.
Test spy — used for verifying "indirect output" of the tested code, by asserting the expectations afterwards, without having defined the expectations before the tested code is executed. It helps in recording information about the indirect object created.
Fake object — used as a simpler implementation, e.g. using an in-memory database in the tests instead of doing real database access.
Dummy object — used when a parameter is needed for the tested method but without actually needing to use the parameter.
For both manual and automated black box testing of service oriented architecture systems or microservices, software developers and testers use test doubles that communicate with the system under test over a network protocol. These test doubles are called different names depending on the tool vendor. A commonly used term is service virtualization. Other names used include API simulation, API mock, HTTP stub, HTTP mock, over the wire test double
.
Another form of test double is the verified fake, a fake object whose behavior has been verified to match that of the real object using a set of tests that run against both the verified fake and the real implementation.
While there is no open standard for test double and the various types, there is momentum for continued use of these terms in this manner. Martin Fowler used these terms in his article, Mocks Aren't Stubs referring to Meszaros' book. Microsoft also used the same terms and definitions in an article titled, Exploring The Continuum Of Test Doubles.
See also
Mock object
Software testing
Service virtualization
Comparison of API simulation tools
List of unit testing frameworks
Object-oriented programming
Test-driven development
References
External links
Gerard Meszaros:
Test Double
Test Double Patterns
Mocks, Fakes, Stubs and Dummies
Martin Fowler:
TestDouble, 17 January 2006
Open source:
ELF Spy - Fakes and Spies in C++
FakeIt - Mocks, Fakes and Spies in C++
Google Mock - Mocking in C++
jMock - Test Driv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard%20layout | A keyboard layout is any specific physical, visual or functional arrangement of the keys, legends, or key-meaning associations (respectively) of a computer keyboard, mobile phone, or other computer-controlled typographic keyboard.
is the actual positioning of keys on a keyboard. is the arrangement of the legends (labels, markings, engravings) that appear on those keys. is the arrangement of the key-meaning association or keyboard mapping, determined in software, of all the keys of a keyboard; it is this (rather than the legends) that determines the actual response to a key press.
Modern computer keyboards are designed to send a scancode to the operating system (OS) when a key is pressed or released: this code reports only the key's row and column, not the specific character engraved on that key. The OS converts the scancode into a specific binary character code using a "scancode to character" conversion table, called the keyboard mapping table. This means that a physical keyboard may be dynamically mapped to any layout without switching hardware components—merely by changing the software that interprets the keystrokes. Often, a user can change keyboard mapping in system settings. In addition, software may be available to modify or extend keyboard functionality. Thus the symbol shown on the physical key-top need not be the same as appears on the screen or goes into a document being typed. Some settings enable the user to type supplementary symbols that are not engraved on the keys used to invoke them. Modern USB keyboards are plug-and-play; they communicate their (default) visual layout to the OS when connected (though the user is still able to reset this at will).
Key types
A computer keyboard consists of alphanumeric or character keys for typing, modifier keys for altering the functions of other keys, navigation keys for moving the text cursor on the screen, function keys and system command keys—such as and —for special actions, and often a numeric keypad to facilitate calculations.
There is some variation between different keyboard models in the physical layout—i.e., how many keys there are and how they are positioned on the keyboard. However, differences between national layouts are mostly due to different selections and placements of symbols on the character keys.
Character keys
The core section of a keyboard consists of character keys, which can be used to type letters and other characters. Typically, there are three rows of keys for typing letters and punctuation, an upper row for typing digits and special symbols, and the on the bottom row. The positioning of the character keys is similar to the keyboard of a typewriter.
Modifier keys
Besides the character keys, a keyboard incorporates special keys that do nothing by themselves but modify the functions of other keys. For example, the key can be used to alter the output of character keys, whereas the (control), (alternate) and (alternative graphic) keys trigger special ope |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20Immersion | Video Immersion is the name of a set of computer graphics processing technologies, used by ATI Technologies in their Radeon video cards. It is the brand name ATI uses to refer to the video compression acceleration feature in their R100, R200, and R300 video cards. Video Immersion is present in R100 based cards, and ATI introduced Video Immersion II with the R200.
Video Immersion II improved the de-interlacing, temporal filtering, component video, and resolution.
Video Immersion has been superseded by Unified Video Decoder (UVD) and Video Coding Engine (VCE).
Features
iDCT
Adaptive De-Interlacing
Motion Compensation
Video Scaling
Alpha Blending
Colorspace Conversion
Run-Level Decode & De-ZigZag
See also
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Coding Engine (VCE)
References
ATI Technologies
Graphics cards
Video acceleration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202010%20%28Spain%29 | This lists the singles that reached number one on the Spanish Promusicae sales and airplay charts in 2010. Total sales correspond to the data sent by regular contributors to sales volumes and by digital distributors. There is a two-days difference between the reporting period from sales outlets and from radio stations. For example, the report period for the first full week of 2010 ended on January 10 for sales and January 8 for airplay.
Chart history
References
Spain
Number-one singles
2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champion%20list | A champion list, also called top doc or fancy list is a precomputed list sometimes used with the vector space model to avoid computing relevancy rankings for all documents each time a document collection is queried. The champion list contains a set of n documents with the highest weights for the given term. The number n can be chosen to be different for each term and is often higher for rarer terms. The weights can be calculated by for example tf-idf. There are two types of champion lists , champion list and global champion list.
References
Information retrieval evaluation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rp | RP, R-P, Rp, R-p, or rp may refer to:
Businesses and organizations
Rainforest Partnership, an environmental organization based in Austin, Texas
RallyPoint, a social network for the US military
Reform Party (Singapore), an opposition party in Singapore led by Kenneth Jeyaretnam
Republic Polytechnic, a polytechnic in Singapore
Rheinische Post, a German newspaper
Rhône-Poulenc, a former French chemical company
Royal Society of Portrait Painters (London), with membership indicated RP
Roma Party (Romska partija), a political party in Serbia
Welfare Party, or Refah Partisi, in Turkey
Chautauqua Airlines (IATA airline designator RP)
Registered Plumber, in UK
Economics and finance
Repurchase agreement, the sale of securities together with an agreement for the seller to buy back the securities at a later date
Reservation price, the highest price a buyer is willing to pay for goods or a service
Rupee, common name for the currencies of several countries
Rupiah, the official currency of Indonesia
Language
Received Pronunciation, a standard accent of Standard English in the United Kingdom
Rioplatense Spanish, a dialect spoken in parts of Argentina and Uruguay
Places
Republic of the Philippines (former two-letter country code)
Republic of Poland (Rzeczpospolita Polska)
Rhineland-Palatinate, one of sixteen German states
Région Parisienne or Île-de-France, the area surrounding Paris, France
Religion
Reformed Presbyterian Church (disambiguation)
Regulative principle of worship, a Calvinist and Anabaptist principle
Religious Programs Specialist
Retribution principle (RP)
Science, technology, and mathematics
Biology and medicine
Radical prostatectomy
Raynaud's phenomenon
Retinitis pigmentosa
Medical prescription from Latin, also Rp/.
Mathematics
RP (complexity), randomized polynomial time, a class in computational complexity theory
Ranked Pairs, a Condorcet voting method
Real projective line
Real projective plane
Real projective space
Other uses in science and technology
Rapid prototyping, a manufacturing and engineering process
Rear projection effect, a film technique
Red phosphorus, an allotrope of the element
Rendezvous Point in Protocol Independent Multicast, a collection of network layer multicast routing protocols
Reversed-phase chromatography, a laboratory technique
Route Processor, a general-purpose CPU in some Cisco routers
RP, a small rock climbing nut, named after Roland Pauligk
RP-1, a rocket propellant
RP-3, a British rocket projectile in World War II
Other uses
Relief pitcher, a baseball term
Registered Paralegal, a certification program of the National Federation of Paralegal Associations
Riot Points (used in League of Legends)
Regimental Police or Regimental Provost, soldiers responsible for regimental discipline and unit custody in the British Army
Reporting Person or Party, in U.S. law enforcement jargon
Registered Psychotherapist within Ontario
Role-playing
Rating Pending, a rating used by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Players%20%282010%20TV%20series%29 | Players is an American comedy series which premiered on the Spike network on March 2, 2010. The series is a partially scripted/mostly improvised comedy about two brothers who run a sports bar together. After airing 3 episodes, Players was removed from the Spike schedule and put on hiatus. The remaining seven episodes from season one were pushed back to air beginning July 21, 2010. Spike aired the final four episodes back-to-back on August 14, 2010.
Premise
Creator Matt Walsh stars as fun-loving Bruce who runs a sports bar with his uptight older brother Ken, played by Ian Roberts. June Diane Raphael and Danielle Schneider co-star as Barb and Krista, the bar's waitresses. The cast also features James Pumphrey as Calvin, the young bartender who lives in the storage room and Jack McGee as Hickey, a retired police officer who spends most of his time hanging out at the bar betting on games.
Guests stars included Matt Besser, Rob Huebel, Ken Jeong, Andrew Daly, Cathy Shim, Joseph Nunez, Paul Scheer and Horatio Sanz.
Cast
Matt Walsh as Bruce Fitzgerald
Ian Roberts as Ken Fitzgerald
June Diane Raphael as Barb Tolan
Danielle Schneider as Krista DiMarco
James Pumphrey as Calvin Trout
Jack McGee as Hickey
Episodes
References
External links
2010 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings
2010s American sitcoms
2010s American workplace comedy television series
Spike (TV network) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twig%20%28disambiguation%29 | A twig is a small thin terminal branch of a woody plant.
Twig, TWiG, or twigs may also refer to:
In computing
Twig (database), an open source object database
Twig (template engine), an open source template engine for PHP
In the arts
FKA Twigs, an English singer, songwriter, record producer, director, and dancer
Twig (novel), a 1942 book by Elizabeth Orton Jones
Twigs (play), a play by George Furth
Other uses
This Week in Google, technology netcast
Twig World, an educational company in the United Kingdom
Twig, Minnesota, an unincorporated community in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States
See also
Teeth cleaning twig
Twiggy (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20systems%20biology%20visualization%20software |
Online software
Applications
References
Systems
Systems biology
Data visualization software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockport%20Music | Rockport Music is a presenting organization in Rockport, Massachusetts, bringing music and other artistic programming in variety of genres to audiences in the greater Boston area and the Massachusetts North Shore. Founded in 1981 as the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Rockport Music has been under the artistic direction of violinist/violist Barry Shiffman since 2017. From 1995-2017, the Festival was under the artistic direction of pianist David Deveau. In Summer 2010 the organization completed construction on a year-round permanent home, the Shalin Liu Performance Center. Situated on the Atlantic coast, one hour north of Boston, Rockport has long been a destination for seaside tourism and historically a fishing village and artist colony.
Founding and history
Rockport Music was founded in 1981 as the Rockport Chamber Music Festival—a twelve concert series of chamber, early, and vocal music—by singer Leila Deis and composer-pianist David Alpher, who acted as co-artistic directors until 1994, in collaboration with Rockport businessman Paul Sylva.
Rockport Music has since presented numerous artists, many of whom have returned repeatedly to perform in the festival, including Andrés Diaz (cello), Garrick Ohlsson (piano), Richard Stoltzman (clarinet), Andrés Cárdenes (violin), David Leisner (guitar), Edwin Barker (bass) and Jordi Savall (viola da gamba), as well as acclaimed groups such as the Eroica Trio (piano, cello & violin), the Emerson Quartet, Borromeo, the Calder String Quartet, A Far Cry and the Canadian Brass.
The organization has also commissioned and premiered a number of compositions, including Lera Auerbach's String Quartet No. 3 & Sonata No. 1 for cello and piano, Elena Ruehr’s Song of Silkie, Mark Harvey's Rockport Blues, John Harbison’s Abu Ghraib, Bruce Adolphe’s Whispers of Mortality, and Scott Wheeler's Granite Coast.
Performance Center and expansion
Since the first festival in 1981, Rockport Music's concerts were hosted by the Rockport Art Association in its Hibbard and Maddocks Galleries. In 2008, under the guidance of Artistic Director David Deveau and the Board of Trustees, preparation began on the site of Rockport Music's new Shalin Liu Performance Center, which opened for the summer chamber music festival in June 2010. The new facility provides seating for approximately 330 and features a third-floor reception space complete with a catering kitchen. The facility is in compliance with the American with Disabilities Act. The concert stage, set in front of a two-story window overlooking Rockport's Sandy Bay, is visible from ground level and balcony seating.
The space's design is a collaboration between architects Alan Joslin and Deborah Epstein, of Epstein Joslin Architects (Cambridge, MA) and R. Lawrence Kirkegaard, of Kirkegaard Associates (Chicago). Joslin and Kirkegaard have also collaborated on, among other projects, Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall. Construction was executed by Consigli Construction, which has worked on numer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Elements%20of%20Java%20Style | The Elements of Java Style is a book of rules of programming style in the Java computer language. The book was published by Cambridge University Press in January 2000. The book provides conventions for formatting, naming, documentation, programming and packaging.
This book is part of a series of books that include The Elements of C# Style and The Elements of C++ Style.
This book is used as a style guide by computer science courses and in business.
Notes
External links
Cambridge University Press
Computer programming books
2000 non-fiction books
Cambridge University Press books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Roast | French Roast is a 2008 French computer-animated short created by Fabrice Joubert. The short received the Best Animation Award at ANIMA Córdoba and was nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2010 but lost to Logorama.
French Roast is the first short film by Fabrice O. Joubert, an animator, who worked from 1997 to 2006 at DreamWorks Animation and later worked as the animation director of A Monster in Paris (2011).
Plot
In a fancy Parisian Café c. 1960, an uptight businessman man sits at a table and orders a coffee. He cannot seem to pay so he begins to stall while in the background a disheveled beggar can be seen walking into the cafe asking for spare change.
Release
French Roast was first released in France on 30 October 2008 at the Festival Voix d'Etoiles. It was later released in the Czech Republic on 3 May 2009 at the AniFest Film Festival, in Canada on 19 February 2010 in Waterloo, Ontario and in the USA on 19 February 2010, limited release.
Accolades
Fabrice Joubert was presented with the Elña for Best Animation at the 2009 Córdoba International Animation Festival. Fabrice Joubert has been nominated for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 2010 ending up losing to Logorama.
References
External links
2008 films
2000s French animated films
French short films
2000s animated short films
2008 animated films
Animated films set in the 1960s
Animated films set in Paris |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet%20%28programming%20language%29 | Comet is a commercial programming language designed by at-the-time Brown University professor Dr. Pascal Van Hentenryck and used to solve complex combinatorial optimization problems in areas such as resource allocation and scheduling. It offers a range of optimization algorithms: from mathematical programming to constraint programming, local search algorithms and "dynamic stochastic combinatorial optimization."
Comet programs specify local search algorithms as two components:
a high-level model describing the applications in terms of constraints, constraint combinators, and objective functions;
a search procedure expressed in terms of the model at a high abstraction level.
This approach promotes reusability across applications.
Its API allows it to be used as a software library. Comet also features high-level abstractions for parallel and distributed computing, based on loop scheduling, interrupts, and work stealing.
References
External links
Comet homepage at Dynadec (defunct)
Constraint-Based Local Search by Pascal Van Hentenryck and Laurent Michel. The MIT Press, 2005.
Domain-specific programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunistic%20reasoning | Opportunistic reasoning is a method of selecting a suitable logical inference strategy within artificial intelligence applications.
Specific reasoning methods may be used to draw conclusions from a set of given facts in a knowledge base, e.g. forward chaining versus backward chaining. However, in opportunistic reasoning, pieces of knowledge may be applied either forward or backward, at the "most opportune time".
An opportunistic reasoning system may combine elements of both forward and backward reasoning. It is useful when the number of possible inferences is very large and the reasoning system must be responsive to new data that may become known.
Opportunistic reasoning has been used in applications such as blackboard systems and medical applications.
References
Marin D. Simina et al. "Opportunistic Reasoning: A Design Perspective" in Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Conference of Cognitive Science edited by Johanna D. Moore, 1995 , page 78
Notes
Automated reasoning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQM | IQM may refer to:
IQM (Computers), a Finnish-German quantum computer manufacturer
Interquartile mean, a statistical measure
IATA code for Qiemo Yudu Airport, China
former IATA code for Qiemo Airport (former) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document%20comparison | Document comparison, also known as redlining or blacklining, is a computer process by which changes are identified between two versions of the same document for the purposes of document editing and review. Document comparison is a common task in the legal and financial industries.
The software-based document comparison process compares a reference document to a target document, and produces a third document which indicates (by colored highlighting or by differing font characteristics) information (text, graphics, formulas, etc.) that has either been added to or removed from the reference document to produce the target document.
Common documents formats for comparison include word processing documents (e.g. Microsoft Word), spreadsheets, presentations (e.g. PowerPoint), and Portable Document Format (PDF) documents.
Overview
In the broadest definition, document comparison can refer to any act of marking changes made between two versions of the same document and presenting those changes in a third document via a graphical user interface (GUI). There are several variants in the types of changes registered through the process of document comparison. Some programs limit comparison to solely text and table content in word processing documents, while others register changes made in spreadsheets and presentations, along with changes made in versions of PDF documents. Certain programs also exist that compare changes made to objects like JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PNG images embedded in documents, and plain text files.
Document comparison solutions mark changes made to the following types of documents:
It is common for document comparison software vendors to present forms of the compared document in separate windows in a GUI. Each window contains the following items and the various windows are displayed on one or more computer display monitors:
the original document
the modified document
the redline (or comparison) document, and
the list of changes made between document versions.
Presentation of changes made between document versions are also traditionally customizable. While one standard display of showing deletions with red underlines and additions with blue underlines is still used by many document comparison products, some programs allow users to customize the presentation of changes in the redline/comparison document. U.S. contract lawyers typically show deletions as red strikethrough text (red text with a line crossing off the words being deleted) and additions with red underlines.
History
Prior to personal computers, document comparison entailed the printing of two versions of a single document and reviewing those hard copies in detail for changes and version amendment. Included in this process were the potential for human error and the expansive administrative time necessitated by this arduous process. A ruler was used with a red pen to draw strike-through lines of deleted text and double-underline inserted text. The term "redline" came from usin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist-Led%20Initiatives%20Support%20Network | Artist-Led Initiatives Support Network, abbreviated ALISN, is a non-profit international support network for artists which provides exhibition spaces, strategic support, education, creative facilitation and artist-to-artist exchange. ALISN was founded in 2007 by designer Jordan Dalladay-Simpson (Goldsmiths Alumnus) and artist Iavor Lubomirov (Oxford University Alumnus). ALISN was previously known as AFMMXII (Artists for 2012), and was officially re-branded as ALISN in August 2009.
History
Artist-Led Initiatives Support Network began when Iavor Lubomirov and Jordan Dalladay-Simpson met in 2006 while organising a pop-up exhibition for art students and recent art graduates in a disused office building in London. At the time Lubomirov had recently left his art degree at University of East London and Dalladay-Simpson was an undergraduate studying design at Goldsmiths. Both founders were looking for ways of showing work and collaborating with other struggling artists to organise and promote art events. The show attracted over 300 visitors and laid the ground for future working relationships between the artists involved.
In November 2007, ALISN was officially launched under the name of Artists for 2012 (AF2012) and held a pilot show of 5 emerging artists at the 491 Gallery, east London.
ALISN's next project was facilitating the Goldsmiths/BAA Expo Award 08, which would see two large-scale sculptures installed in the departures lounge of the newly opened Heathrow Terminal 5. This project was done in collaboration with BAA and Goldsmiths students, with mentor-ship from Cathy de Monchaux and Andrew Shoben and oversight from the global communications company Imagination. The two winning teams built and installed Arc and Taking Place. Arc was by London-based art-collective Lobby, and Taking Place by Sally Hogarth and Emma Johnson.
At the start of 2009, ALISN aided the formation of the Hackney Transients Art Project (HTAP), which is an east London arts organisation founded by Lucy Tomlins and Marnie Baumer. HTAP went on to produce two collaborative events that year, the workshop-based Pattern-making for Beginners as part of the annual HackneyWICKed Art Festival and In/Flux exhibition on Kingsland Road, Hackney, London. They also produced an Oral History Archive containing ethnographic recordings the opinions of various Hackney residents regarding the area's 'transient nature'. The project was also featured on the British Community Channel.
In August 2008, ALISN embarked on a second independent collaborative arts exhibition, under the name Art in the Carpark. This event took place in October, in the CCP Cark Park, Liverpool, and was in collaboration with the underground arts organisation The Arts Organisation (TAO). The event featured a diverse range of artwork from 14 Artists, and was part of the Liverpool Independents Biennial.
In the summer of 2009, a decision was made by the founders to find a name more appropriate to the way the organisation had bee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20Interface%20Specification | The Application Interface Specification (AIS) is a collection of open specifications that define the application programming interfaces (APIs) for high-availability application computer software. It is developed and published by the Service Availability Forum (SA Forum) and made freely available. Besides reducing the complexity of high-availability applications and shortening development time, the specifications intended to ease the portability of applications between different middleware implementations and to admit third party developers to a field that was highly proprietary in the past.
History
The AIS is part of the Service Availability Interfaces (SAI) of the SA Forum. The original specifications, released on April 14, 2003, were the Availability Management Framework (AMF), the Cluster Membership Service (CLM) and four other utility services (Checkpoint, Event, Message, Lock).
Additional services were added in subsequent releases.
Release 3 (January 18, 2006) added the first set of management services: Log, Notification and Information Model Management (IMM).
Release 4 (February 27, 2007) extended the utility services with Timer and Naming.
Release 5 (October 16, 2007) extended the management services with Security and added the Software Management Framework.
Release 6 (October 21, 2008) added the Platform Management Service to close the gap between AIS and HPI (Hardware Platform Interface).
AIS consists of 12 services and two frameworks. The services are classified into three functional groups - AIS Platform Services, basic AIS Management Services, and general AIS Utility Services - in addition to the AIS Frameworks.
Initially, the APIs were defined in the C programming language only, but as of July 2008, the Java mapping of the different service APIs is being released incrementally.
Service dependencies
The different services and frameworks of the interface specifications have been designed to be modular and, to a certain degree, independent of one another. This allows a system providing only AIS and no HPI to exist and vice versa.
The only required architectural dependency is the dependence on the Cluster Membership Service (CLM). All AIS Services, with the exception of the Platform Management Service (PLM) and the Timer Service (TMR), depend on CLM.
It is expected that all AIS Services should use the AIS Management Services to expose their administrative interfaces, configuration, and runtime management information (fig2).
Platform services
The Platform Management Service (PLM) provides a logical view of the hardware and the low-level software of the system. Low-level software in this sense comprises the operating system and virtualization layers that provide execution environments for all kinds of software.
The main logical entities implemented by PLM are :
Hardware Element (HE) - A hardware element is a logical entity that represents any kind of hardware entity, which can be, for instance, a chassis, a CPU blade, |
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