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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%20Center%20for%20Law | The Leibniz Center for Law has its roots in the former department of Computer Science & Law of the law faculty of the University of Amsterdam, and currently houses about 15 researchers. The Leibniz Center conducts research and provides education in the field of Artificial Intelligence and law. In the tradition of Leibniz, the Leibniz Center for Law has its focus on the development and application of techniques from Artificial Intelligence to the field of law for the purpose of supporting legal practice, and bringing new insights to legal theory.
The Leibniz Center for Law has experience on legal ontologies, automatic legal reasoning and legal knowledge-based systems, (standard) languages for representing legal knowledge and information, user-friendly disclosure of legal data, and the application of ICT in education and legal practice (e.g. CASE). It plays an important role in the development of eGovernment on both national and international level. The center provides advice on change-management issues of knowledge-intensive legal processes and the improvement of knowledge-productivity in legal organisations.
The Leibniz Center for Law has participated in many national and international projects for applied research, in which companies, governments and universities cooperate (cf. ESTRELLA, TRIAS, FEED, CLIME, E-POWER, eCOURT, Legal Services Counter, openlaws.eu, IMPACT). It is the initiator of the MetaLex initiative (http://www.metalex.eu), an XML interchange-format and standard for legal documents. Furthermore, it is frequently involved in innovative projects within governmental organisations, and conducts contract-research for private parties.
Legal Knowledge Management
This area deals with research into- and the development of methods and techniques for knowledge management in the legal field. Coupled to this research, the provision of education in Legal Knowledge Management. The chair of Legal Knowledge Management is held by Prof. Dr. Tom van Engers
The field of research is multi-disciplinary: Law, computer science, informatics.
The research covers (amongst others):
The development of knowledge-based techniques such as legal ontologies for the comparison and harmonization of law.
The automatic generation of domain-ontologies from written sources through the use of NLP-technologies.
Possibilities for the improvement of accessibility of legal sources for the not legally-educated.
Using ICT to research the consequences of proposed legal decisions (such as new laws) on micro, macro and meso level.
The development of tools which enable citizens to preview the consequences of a proposed case.
References
External links
http://www.leibnizcenter.org/information
University of Amsterdam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next%20Time%20Gadget | Jason Mosby, who performs under the name Next Time Gadget, is an American electronic musician best known for his works in the genre of arcade funk. His pseudonym is often presented in programming class structure (Next.Time.Gadget) or camelCase (nextTimeGadget).
Career
Early career
Jason Mosby began producing music at 13 years of age, creating unconventional mashups of hip-hop, funk, rock, and alternative music. From 1994-2000, he performed with a number of rock, alternative, and hip-hop groups as a bass player or drummer, anchored by his stints as the lead vocalist/emcee for the hip-hop/nu metal group Moses and drum programmer for the cult arcade funk group Stankassjazz. In 2000, Jason Mosby embarked on his solo career, initially composing and licensing original music commercially for companies like Viacom, Sprint, and Verizon.
In 2003, Jason Mosby reclusively opened Pooh+2 Studios and released his first solo album Brownmail under the moniker Stankassjazz. Unlike Stankassjazz’s group works which were intentionally nonsensical, Brownmail exhibited the versatility, progression, and contrast that became his mainstay in his subsequent releases. Brownmail also unveiled the ambient track A Song for Someone that Jason considers to be "the best thing I’ve ever written", and that has been included as track eleven on each of his full-length releases since. In 2005 Jason released These Are The Days!, ironically named considering its content of dark, driving, glitch-heavy drum and bass and IDM.
Tasteful Licks Records
In 2006, Jason Mosby signed on to Tasteful Licks Records and assumed the pseudonym Next Time Gadget. On August 21, 2007 he released his third solo album Bit[r] on Tasteful Licks Records. In stark contrast to his previous solo releases, the tracks selected for Bit[r], a collection of original tracks from live sessions conducted from 2003 to 2007, were purposely lighter and more basic in their construction.
Recent
Mosby's fourth full-length album midRange was expected to be released on Tasteful Licks Records in the summer of 2011. He also functions as the Managing Member for Tasteful Licks Records and occasionally as an Executive Producer.
Discography
2011 midRange
2007 Bit[r]
2005 These Are The Days!
2003 Brownmail
References
External links
Official Website
Next.Time.Gadget on Tasteful Licks
American electronic musicians
Living people
1980 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Scully | Robert "Tim" Scully (born August 27, 1944) is an American computer engineer, best known in the psychedelic underground for his work in the production of LSD from 1966 to 1969, for which he was indicted in 1973 and convicted in 1974. His best known product, dubbed "Orange Sunshine", was considered the standard for quality LSD in 1969. He was featured in the documentary The Sunshine Makers.
Early life
Scully grew up in Pleasant Hill, which is across the Bay from San Francisco. In eighth grade, he won honorable mention in the 1958 Bay Area Science Fair for designing and building a small computer. During high school, he spent summers working at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory on physics problems. In his junior year of high school, Scully completed a small linear accelerator in the school science lab (he was trying to make gold atoms from mercury), which was pictured in a 1961 edition of the Oakland Tribune. Scully skipped his senior year of high school and went directly to U.C. Berkeley, majoring in mathematical physics. After two years at Berkeley, Scully took a leave of absence in 1964 because his services as an electronic design consultant were in high demand. During this period, he first took LSD on April 15, 1965.
LSD production
1965: Apprentice to Owsely
Scully knew the government would move quickly to suppress LSD distribution, and he wanted to obtain as much of the main precursor chemical, lysergic acid, as possible. Scully soon learned that Owsley Stanley possessed a large amount (440 grams) of lysergic acid monohydrate. Owsley and Scully finally met a few weeks before the Trips Festival in the fall of 1965. The 30-year-old Owsley took the 21-year-old Scully as his apprentice and they pursued their mutual interest in electronics and psychedelic synthesis.
1966: Point Richmond lab and "White Lightning"
Owsley took Scully to the Watts Acid Test on February 12, 1966, and they built electronic equipment for the Grateful Dead until late spring 1966.
In July 1966 Owsley rented a house in Point Richmond, California and Owsley and Melissa Cargill (Owsley's girlfriend who was a skilled chemist) set up a lab in the basement. Tim Scully worked there as Owsley's apprentice. Owsley had developed a method of LSD synthesis which left the LSD 99.9% pure. The Point Richmond lab turned out over 300,000 tablets (270 micrograms each) of LSD they dubbed "White Lightning". LSD became illegal in California on October 6, 1966, so Owsley and Scully decided to set up a new lab in Denver, Colorado.
1967: 1st Denver lab and STP
Scully set up the new lab in the basement of a house across the street from the Denver zoo in early 1967. Owsley and Scully made the LSD in the Denver lab. 100,000 tablets (270 micrograms each) of Monterey Purple were made in Denver for the Monterey Pop Festival. Later Owsley started to tablet more of the product in Orinda, California but was arrested before he completed that work. Owsley and Scully also produced a hitherto uncommon p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Baraniuk | Richard G. Baraniuk is the C. Sidney Burrus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and the Founder and Director of the open education initiative OpenStax (formerly called Connexions).
Academic biography
Dr. Baraniuk received a B.Sc. from the University of Manitoba in 1987 and a M.Sc. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988. He earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992 under the supervision of Douglas L. Jones. After spending 1992-1993 at École Normale Supérieure in Lyon, France working with Patrick Flandrin, he joined Rice University.
Research
Baraniuk has been active in the development of digital signal processing, image processing, and machine learning systems, with numerous contributions to the theory of wavelets, compressive sensing, and deep learning. The Rice "single-pixel camera" that he developed with Kevin Kelly was the first compressive imaging device and was selected by MIT Technology Review as a TR10 Top 10 Emerging Technology in 2007.
Six of Baraniuk's currently 45 granted US and foreign patents on compressive sensing were licensed by Siemens in 2016 to accelerate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans.
He has served as Project Director for the ARO MURI on "Opportunistic Sensing" from
2013-2018, the ONR MURI on "Foundations of Deep Learning" from 2020-2025, the DOE "INCITE" project, and several DARPA projects, including "Analog to Information" and "Analog to Information Receiver".
Open education, Connexions, and OpenStax
Baraniuk is one of the founders of the Open Education movement. In 1999, Baraniuk launched "Connexions" (which was later re-named "OpenStax CNX"), one of the first initiatives to offer free, open-source textbooks via the web. OpenStax CNX continues to be one of the largest and most used open education platforms worldwide.
Baraniuk's own OpenStax CNX textbook, "Signals and Systems," has generated 9 million page views including a very popular translation into Spanish.
OpenStax CNX provides the digital publishing platform for OpenStax (formerly called "OpenStax College"), a free and open library of college textbooks that as of May 2021 has saved 20 million US college students $1.7 billion.
Baraniuk has been an active advocate and popularizer of open education – speaking at the TED 2006 conference
– and was also one of the framers of the Cape Town Open Education Declaration.
Awards and honors
Baraniuk has received numerous awards, including a NATO postdoctoral fellowship from NSERC in 1992, the National Young Investigator award from the National Science Foundation in 1994,
a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research in 1995, the Rosenbaum Fellowship from the Isaac Newton Institute of Cambridge University in 1998, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ECE Young Alumni Achievement Award in 2000, and the Wavelet Pioneer Award from SPIE in 2008. He also received the 2012 Compressive Samplin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMG%20Networks | RMG Networks, formerly Symon Communications, is a digital signage company headquartered in Texas.
RMG is headquartered in Dallas with offices in the United States and United Kingdom.
History
1980 – 2013 Early Symon Years
Reach Media Group was founded in 2006 as Danoo and received financial backing from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, DAG Ventures, National CineMedia and Tennenbaum Capital Partners. In July 2009, Danoo acquired IdeaCast. In August 2009, the company renamed itself RMG Networks and appointed Garry McGuire to take over as CEO from Aileen Lee.
2013 – 2018 Transition to RMG Networks
In April 2013, the company acquired Symon Communications, a digital signage company founded in 1980, for $45.5 million and moved its headquarters from San Francisco to the Dallas metropolitan area where Symon Communications was located. The company went public via a reverse merger with SCG Financial Acquisition Corp. in April 2013.
References
Companies based in Dallas
American companies established in 1980 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidural%20venous%20plexus | The epidural venous plexus is a network of interconnecting veins located in the anterior epidural space, in the outermost part of the spinal canal. It runs from the skull base to the sacrum. It is surrounded by very little fat, although the levels increase towards the lower levels of the spine.
References
Spinal cord |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milun%20Tesovic | Milun Tesovic (born August 6, 1985) is a Canadian computer engineer, entrepreneur and investor. He is best known for creating the Metrolyrics website, which he sold to CBS Interactive Music Group in 2011.
Early life and education
Milun Tesovic was born on August 6, 1985 in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the constituent republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. In 1994, during the Bosnian War, Tesovic emigrated to Canada with his father, mother and sister. He has cited his immigrant background for making him a self-motivated and hard working person.
Tesovic attended Simon Fraser University, where he received a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Entrepreneurship in 2008. He completed his studies while running Metrolyrics.
Career
At age 16, Milun created the online music website Metrolyrics with his partner Alan Juristovski. The website grew to become the "most comprehensive database of legal music lyrics in the world" and in 2011, it was sold to CBS Interactive Music Group in a reported eight-figure deal. In 2011, it stored more than 700,00 song lyrics and was receiving traffic of 45 million visitors a month according to Google Analytics.
Following his music endeavor, he joined up with Garrett Camp, co-founder of Uber at Expa in 2016 to fund and build alongside other founders.
Gitalytics is another company started by Milun which was acquired by Microsoft in 2019, and now part of the GitHub Enterprise suite.
His latest endeavor was cmd.com, a cybersecurity company focused on real time kernel authentication of events, which processed TBs of data for large organizations in sensitive environments and was acquired by ElasticSearch in 2021. cmd.com raised $21.6M total from VCs such as Google Ventures and Expa.
Personal life
In 2022, Tesovic reportedly purchased a home in Beverly Hills, California from tennis player Naomi Osaka for $8.7 million.
Honors
Billboard Top 30 Under 30
References
External links
Canadian Champion to compete at Global Student Entrepreneur Awards 11.11.2009
Milun Tesovic music mogul
Milun Tesovic on how metrolyrics gets 48 million unique visitors per month interivew
1985 births
Living people
Businesspeople from Sarajevo
Bosnia and Herzegovina emigrants to Canada
Canadian computer programmers
Canadian technology chief executives
Simon Fraser University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nl%20%28format%29 | nl is a file format for presenting and archiving mathematical programming problems. Initially, this format has been invented for connecting solvers to AMPL. It has also been adopted by other systems such as COIN-OR (as one of the input formats), FortSP (for interacting with external solvers), and Coopr (as one of its output formats).
The nl format supports a wide range of problem types, among them:
Linear programming
Quadratic programming
Nonlinear programming
Mixed-integer programming
Mixed-integer quadratic programming with or without convex quadratic constraints
Mixed-integer nonlinear programming
Second-order cone programming
Global optimization
Semidefinite programming problems with bilinear matrix inequalities
Complementarity problems (MPECs) in discrete or continuous variables
Constraint programming
The nl format is low-level and is designed for compactness, not for readability. It has both binary and textual representation.
Most commercial and academic solvers accept this format either directly or through special driver programs.
The open-source AMPL Solver Library distributed via Netlib and AMPL/MP library provide nl parsers that are used in many solvers.
AMPL/MP library contains an NL writer and SOL reader.
See also
sol (format) - a file format for presenting solutions of mathematical programming problems
References
Mathematical optimization software
Computer file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fold%20%28Unix%29 | fold is a Unix command used for making a file with long lines more readable on a limited width computer terminal by performing a line wrap.
Most Unix terminals have a default screen width of 80, and therefore reading files with long lines could get annoying. The fold command puts a line feed every X characters if it does not reach a new line before that point. If the -w argument is set, the fold command allows the user to set the maximum length of a line.
History
is part of the X/Open Portability Guide since issue 4 of 1992. It was inherited into the first version of POSIX.1 and the Single Unix Specification. It first appeared in 1BSD of 1977.
The version of fold bundled in GNU coreutils was written by David MacKenzie.
The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities.
Example
As a usage example, to fold a file named file.txt to have a maximum of 50 characters per line, one could run the following command:
fold -w 50 file.txt
file.txt:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Curabitur dignissim
venenatis pede. Quisque dui dui, ultricies ut, facilisis non, pulvinar non,
purus. Duis quis arcu a purus volutpat iaculis. Morbi id dui in diam ornare
dictum. Praesent consectetuer vehicula ipsum. Praesent tortor massa, congue et,
ornare in, posuere eget, pede.
Vivamus rhoncus. Quisque lacus. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Nullam mauris
tellus, sollicitudin non, semper eget, sodales non, pede. Phasellus varius
ullamcorper libero. Fusce ipsum lorem, iaculis nec, vulputate vitae, suscipit
vel, tortor. Cras varius.
Nullam fringilla pellentesque orci. Nulla eu ante pulvinar velit rhoncus
lacinia. Morbi fringilla lacus quis arcu. Vestibulum sem quam, dapibus in,
fringilla ut, venenatis ut, neque.
output:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscin
g elit. Curabitur dignissim
venenatis pede. Quisque dui dui, ultricies ut, fac
ilisis non, pulvinar non,
purus. Duis quis arcu a purus volutpat iaculis. Mo
rbi id dui in diam ornare
dictum. Praesent consectetuer vehicula ipsum. Prae
sent tortor massa, congue et,
ornare in, posuere eget, pede.
Vivamus rhoncus. Quisque lacus. In hac habitasse p
latea dictumst. Nullam mauris
tellus, sollicitudin non, semper eget, sodales non
, pede. Phasellus varius
ullamcorper libero. Fusce ipsum lorem, iaculis nec
, vulputate vitae, suscipit
vel, tortor. Cras varius.
Nullam fringilla pellentesque orci. Nulla eu ante
pulvinar velit rhoncus
lacinia. Morbi fringilla lacus quis arcu. Vestibul
um sem quam, dapibus in,
fringilla ut, venenatis ut, neque.
See also
coreutils
fmt (Unix)
Par (command)
List of Unix commands
References
External links
Unix text processing utilities
Unix SUS2008 utilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20%22Creesh%22%20Hornsby | Don Hornsby (December 6, 1923 - May 22, 1950), aka Creesh Hornsby, was a comedian and novelty pianist who was slated to be the original host of Broadway Open House, American network television's first late night program.
Born in Cooper, Texas, Hornsby attended Hardin Junior College in Wichita Falls for a short time before joining the Marines. Originally a straightforward pianist, eventually Hornsby's nightclub act, which Life described as "a five-hour marathon of surrealist madness", incorporated rubber alligators, magic tricks, acrobatics, dry ice and a live donkey. Hornsby's performance, a continuous set during which he was served meals onstage, also featured custom-made props, including a "tickle-tickle" machine, which a United Press article called "a Buck Rogers contraption with red lights, blue dials and green knobs" that fired "a bombardment of tiny rubber cones", which Hornsby would then scoop up with a butterfly net. One of his specialties was playing the Warsaw Concerto while suspended by his heels above the piano.
His catchphrase "creesh", which he shouted at frequent intervals onstage, is a portmanteau word meaning "constructive escapism". As Hornsby explained it, "creeshism" in action meant that "anything can be funny in the proper situation." Among his fanbase were veteran comedians Fred Allen, Phil Silvers and Groucho Marx.
On the strength of his act—and an endorsement from Bob Hope—Hornsby was signed to a five-year contract with NBC and was set to host the program that would become Broadway Open House, but he was diagnosed with polio the week before the series was originally scheduled to debut. The disease led to his death less than a week later at age 26 in Eastview, New York.
Personal life
Hornsby was married to Dorothy Carr, and they had three children, Dawn, Dave and Dare. They met in 1942 while he was in the Marine Corps when she was a student at San Francisco State College. Hornsby contracted spinal meningitis while in service, and as Dorothy told The American Weekly, during her frequent visits during his ten-month convalescence in a naval hospital, "we more or less grew to accept the fact that we would be married." They were married a few days after his discharge.
She described Hornsby as "brilliant and talented. He understood people and taught me to. He thought the world would be a better place if more people let off steam through laughter, rather than violence. He could see the humorous side of everything, yet he had a deep understanding of the serious things."
References
1950 deaths
American stand-up comedians
1923 births
Deaths from polio
People from Cooper, Texas
20th-century American comedians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPJW | WPJW (91.5 FM, "WALK FM") is a radio station broadcasting a Contemporary Christian music format. One of the 7 "WALK FM" network of stations. Licensed to Hurricane, West Virginia, United States, the station is currently owned by Positive Alternative Radio, Inc.
References
External links
PJW
Radio stations established in 1975 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IO%20Group%2C%20Inc.%20v.%20Veoh%20Networks%2C%20Inc. | IO Group, Inc. v. Veoh Networks, Inc., 586 F. Supp. 2d 1132 (N.D. Cal. 2008), is an American legal case involving an internet television network named Veoh that allowed users of its site to view streaming media of various adult entertainment producer IO Group's films. The United States District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that Veoh qualified for the safe harbors provided by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), 17 U.S.C. § 512 (2006). According to commentators, this case could foreshadow the resolution of Viacom v. YouTube.
Facts of the case
Veoh is a self-described Internet Television Network that allows users to share video content over the internet at its site, www.veoh.com. Users have uploaded hundreds of thousands of videos to the site since it first launched in February 2006. Users of the site have the choice to either download or stream the movie file. In addition to the user-generated content, such as family gatherings, films by aspiring filmmakers, and job interviews, Veoh also hosts a number of videos that have been uploaded by users other than the copyright owner. Some of these videos belong to Veoh's content partners, such as CBS. In these instances, Veoh has permission to display the works. However, Veoh has also received a number of takedown notices related to allegedly copyrighted material posted to the company's site. Veoh asserts that it has received notice for roughly seven percent of the videos that have been uploaded.
Video upload process
Before users are allowed to upload videos to veoh.com, they are required to register with the website. As part of this process, they are required to submit a username, password, and email address. When the user selects a video to upload, Veoh also prompts them to add: a title and description; keywords or tags; applicable content categories; and content rating. Once Veoh receives the file, its systems confirm that it is a video file with a compatible codec. It also extracts any metadata associated with the file and stores all the information related to the file in its database.
Since users are permitted to submit the video files in a variety of formats, Veoh uses third-party software to automatically convert each of the videos into the Flash format. In addition to the Flash conversion, Veoh also automatically extracts thirty-two "screencaps" of the video. Sixteen of these screencaps contain the same resolution as the video itself. These screencaps are not available for users to view or access. The other sixteen screencaps are of a lower-resolution. One of these will be displayed in the user's search results while the entire set will be displayed to the end user to assist them in deciding if they would like to download or watch the movie file.
Veoh's terms
When a user registers with veoh.com, and before they are allowed to upload any content, they must agree to abide by the Veoh's Terms of Use such that:
any User Material that you make availa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chun%20Byung-kwan | Chun Byung-kwan (Hangul: 전병관; born November 4, 1969 in Jinan, Jeollabuk-do) is an Olympic weightlifter who represented South Korea.
External links
Profile at databaseolympics.com
1969 births
Living people
South Korean male weightlifters
Olympic weightlifters for South Korea
Weightlifters at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Weightlifters at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for South Korea
Olympic medalists in weightlifting
Asian Games medalists in weightlifting
Weightlifters at the 1990 Asian Games
Weightlifters at the 1994 Asian Games
Korea University alumni
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for South Korea
Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea
Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games
Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
20th-century South Korean people
21st-century South Korean people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Advertising%20Initiative | The Network Advertising Initiative is an industry trade group founded in 2000 that develops self-regulatory standards for online advertising. Advertising networks created the organization in response to concerns from the Federal Trade Commission and consumer groups that online advertising — particularly targeted or behavioral advertising — harmed user privacy. The NAI seeks to provide self-regulatory guidelines for participating networks and opt-out technologies for consumers in order to maintain the value of online advertising while protecting consumer privacy. Membership in the NAI has fluctuated greatly over time, and both the organization and its self-regulatory system have been criticized for being ineffective in promoting privacy.[Missing Citation]
History
The NAI was formally announced at the Public Workshop on Online Profiling held by the FTC and the Department of Commerce on November 8, 1999. Its membership then consisted of 24/7 Media, AdForce, AdKnowledge, Adsmart, DoubleClick, Engage, Flycast, MatchLogic, NetGravity (a division of DoubleClick) and Real Media.
In July 2000, the NAI published a set of principles, negotiated with the FTC and endorsed by the FTC, in their report to Congress on online profiling. In May 2001, the NAI released an accompanying website allowing users to more quickly download opt-out cookies for all participating ad networks.
In 2002, the NAI released guidelines for the use of web beacons — small images or pieces of code used to track visiting and traffic patterns, and to install cookies on visitors' machines. These guidelines use a similar model of notice and choice as the NAI Principles; opt-in consent is only required when sensitive information is associated with personally identifiable information and transferred to a third party.
In 2003, the NAI formed the Email Service Provider Coalition (since renamed the Email Sender and Provider Coalition). The ESPC engages in lobbying, press relations and technical standards development to support "email deliverability" — ensuring that mass email delivery continues despite anti-spam legislation and technologies. Today the two organizations exist entirely independent from each other.
In response to a 2007 FTC staff report (Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising), the NAI published an updated set of principles in December 2008 after providing a draft in April for public comments. The new principles incorporated new restrictions on the collection and use of sensitive data and data related to children.
In 2009, the NAI launched a consumer education page, which provided a centralized location for a variety of informational articles, videos, and other creative content designed to educate users about online behavioral advertising.
In 2010, the NAI joined the Digital Advertising Alliance, a non-profit organization of leading companies and trade associations including the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), the American Association of A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo%20search | In operations research, cuckoo search is an optimization algorithm developed by Xin-She Yang and Suash Deb
in 2009. It has been shown to be a special case of the well-known (μ + λ)-evolution strategy. It was inspired by the obligate brood parasitism of some cuckoo species by laying their eggs in the nests of host birds of other species. Some host birds can engage direct conflict with the intruding cuckoos. For example, if a host bird discovers the eggs are not their own, it will either throw these alien eggs away or simply abandon its nest and build a new nest elsewhere. Some cuckoo species such as the New World brood-parasitic Tapera have evolved in such a way that female parasitic cuckoos are often very specialized in the mimicry in colors and pattern of the eggs of a few chosen host species. Cuckoo search idealized such breeding behavior, and thus can be applied for various optimization problems.
Metaphor
Cuckoo search (CS) uses the following representations:
Each egg in a nest represents a solution, and a cuckoo egg represents a new solution. The aim is to use the new and potentially better solutions (cuckoos) to replace a not-so-good solution in the nests. In the simplest form, each nest has one egg. The algorithm can be extended to more complicated cases in which each nest has multiple eggs representing a set of solutions.
CS is based on three idealized rules:
Each cuckoo lays one egg at a time, and dumps its egg in a randomly chosen nest;
The best nests with high quality of eggs will carry over to the next generation;
The number of available hosts nests is fixed, and the egg laid by a cuckoo is discovered by the host bird with a probability . In this case, the host bird can throw the egg away/abandon the nest, and build a completely new nest.
In addition, Yang and Deb discovered that the random-walk style search is better performed by Lévy flights rather than simple random walk.
Algorithm
The pseudo-code can be summarized as:
Objective function:
Generate an initial population of host nests;
While (t<MaxGeneration) or (stopping criterion)
Get a cuckoo randomly (say, i) and replace its solution by performing Lévy flights;
Evaluate its quality/fitness
[For maximization, ];
Choose a nest among n (say, j) randomly;
if (),
Replace j by the new solution;
end if
A fraction () of the worse nests are abandoned and new ones are built;
Keep the best solutions/nests;
Rank the solutions/nests and find the current best;
Pass the current best solutions to the next generation;
end while
An important advantage of this algorithm is its simplicity. In fact, comparing with other population- or agent-based metaheuristic algorithms such as particle swarm optimization and harmony search, there is essentially only a single parameter in CS (apart from the population size ). Therefore, it is very easy to implement.
Random walks and the step size
An important issue is the applica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arden%27s%20rule | In theoretical computer science, Arden's rule, also known as Arden's lemma, is a mathematical statement about a certain form of language equations.
Background
A (formal) language is simply a set of strings. Such sets can be specified by means of some language equation, which in turn is based on operations on languages. Language equations are mathematical statements that resemble numerical equations, but the variables assume values of formal languages rather than numbers. Among the most common operations on two languages A and B are the set union A ∪ B, and their concatenation A⋅B. Finally, as an operation taking a single operand, the set A* denotes the Kleene star of the language A.
Statement of Arden's rule
Arden's rule states that the set A*⋅B is the smallest language that is a solution for X in the linear equation X = A⋅X ∪ B where X, A, B are sets of strings. Moreover, if the set A does not contain the empty word, then this solution is unique.
Equivalently, the set B⋅A* is the smallest language that is a solution for X in X = X⋅A ∪ B.
Application
Arden's rule can be used to help convert some finite automatons to regular expressions, as in Kleene's algorithm.
See also
Regular expression
Nondeterministic finite automaton
Notes
References
Arden, D. N. (1960). Delayed logic and finite state machines, Theory of Computing Machine Design, pp. 1-35, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
(open-access abstract)
John E. Hopcroft and Jeffrey D. Ullman, Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation, Addison-Wesley Publishing, Reading Massachusetts, 1979. . Chapter 2: Finite Automata and Regular Expressions, p.54.
Arden, D.N. An Introduction to the Theory of Finite State Machines, Monograph No. 12, Discrete System Concepts Project, 28 June 1965.
Formal languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhash%20Khot | Subhash Khot (born 10 June 1978 in Ichalkaranji) is an Indian-American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who is the Julius Silver Professor of Computer Science in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Khot has contributed to the field of computational complexity, and is best known for his unique games conjecture.
Khot received the 2014 Rolf Nevanlinna Prize by the International Mathematical Union and received the MacArthur Fellowship in 2016. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017 and was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.
Education
Khot obtained his bachelor's degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1999. He received his doctorate degree in computer science from Princeton University in 2003 under the supervision of Sanjeev Arora. His doctoral dissertation was titled "New Techniques for Probabilistically Checkable Proofs and Inapproximability Results."
Honours and awards
Khot is a two time silver medallist representing India at the International Mathematical Olympiad (1994 and 1995). Khot topped the highly difficult IIT JEE entrance exam in 1995.
He has been awarded the Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship Award (2005), the Alan T. Waterman Award (2010), the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize for his work on the Unique Games Conjecture (2014), and the MacArthur Fellowship (2016).
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2017. and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2023.
References
1978 births
Living people
Marathi people
Princeton University alumni
New York University faculty
IIT Bombay alumni
Theoretical computer scientists
University of Chicago faculty
International Mathematical Olympiad participants
Nevanlinna Prize laureates
American people of Indian descent
21st-century American mathematicians
21st-century Indian mathematicians
Fellows of the Royal Society
Simons Investigator
People from Ichalkaranji
MacArthur Fellows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmtop%20PC | A Palmtop PC was an approximately pocket calculator-sized, battery-powered computer compatible with the IBM Personal Computer in a horizontal clamshell design with integrated keyboard and display. It could be used like a subnotebook, but was light enough to be comfortably used handheld as well. Most Palmtop PCs were small enough to be stored in a user's shirt or jacket pockets.
Palmtop PCs distinguish from other palmtop computers by using a mostly IBM-compatible PC architecture and BIOS as well as an Intel-compatible x86 processor. All such devices were DOS-based, with DOS stored in ROM. While many Palmtop PCs came with a number of PDA and office applications pre-installed in ROM, most of them could also run generic, off-the-shelf PC software with no or little modifications. Some could also run other operating systems such as GEOS, Windows 1.0-3.0 (in Real mode only), or MINIX 2.0.
Most Palmtop PCs were based on a static hardware design for low power consumption and instant-on/off without the need to reboot. Depending on the model, the battery could power the device for a period ranging from several hours up to several days while running, or between a week and a year in standby mode. Combined with the instant-on/off feature, a battery would typically last from a week up to several months in practical use as PDA.
The first Palmtop PC was the DIP Pocket PC (aka Atari Portfolio) in 1989.
Palmtop PCs include:
DIP Pocket PC (DIP DOS 2.11, 1989)
Atari Portfolio (DIP DOS 2.11, 1989)
Poqet PC Classic (MS-DOS 3.3, 80C88, 1989)
Poqet PC Prime (MS-DOS 3.3, 80C88)
Poqet PC Plus (MS-DOS 5.0, NEC V30)
ZEOS Pocket PC (MS-DOS 5.0, 1991)
Sharp PC-3000 (MS-DOS 3.3, 1991)
Sharp PC-3100 (MS-DOS 3.3, 1991)
Hewlett-Packard 95LX (MS-DOS 3.22, NEC V20, 1991)
Hewlett-Packard 100LX (MS-DOS 5.0, 80186-compatible HP Hornet, 1993)
Hewlett-Packard Palmtop FX (MS-DOS 5.0, 80186-compatible HP Hornet, 1993)
Hewlett-Packard 200LX (MS-DOS 5.0, 80186-compatible HP Hornet, 1994)
Hewlett-Packard 1000CX (MS-DOS 5.0, 80186-compatible HP Hornet)
Hewlett-Packard OmniGo 700LX (MS-DOS 5.0, 80186-compatible HP Hornet, 1996)
Some touch-screen computers may also be included in this category:
Hewlett-Packard OmniGo 100 (Datalight ROM-DOS+PEN/GEOS 2.1, NEC V30HL-compatible Vadem VG230, 1993)
Hewlett-Packard OmniGo 120 (DOS+PEN/GEOS, NEC V30HL-compatible Vadem VG230)
See also
Sub-notebook, not necessarily IBM- and x86- compatible, clamshell design, but larger than Palmtop PCs
Handheld PC, not necessarily IBM- and x86- compatible, various form factors
Netbook (generic), IBM- and x86- compatible, legacy-free, clamshell design
Ultra-mobile PC, a Microsoft specification (IBM- and x86- compatible, legacy-free, not necessarily clamshell design, touchscreen)
netBook, StrongARM, clamshell design, touchscreen
Pocket PC, a Microsoft specification (ARM-based, various form factors, touchscreen)
PalmDOS
Electronic organizer
PDA (Personal Digital Assistant)
References
Handheld personal computers
IBM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fight%3A%20Lights%20Out | The Fight: Lights Out is a 2010 action fighting video game developed by ColdWood Interactive and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It utilizes the PlayStation Move controllers. It was unveiled at the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco and was released in November 2010.
Gameplay
The game is presented with predominantly black-and-white graphics and bright red blood. In the game, the player takes control of a character in a one-on-one fight with another character. Players use the PlayStation Move to control characters' attacks, such as punches, jabs and uppercuts by performing the same moves in real life using the controller. There are twenty-three moves available to the player.
Reception
The Fight received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Joystiq said, "Take this mess of iffy hit detection and blocking, tack on perfunctory online multiplayer and a half-realized match gambling system, and you have a game ... sort of." IGN said the game was "a mess that is not only frustrating to play – it is also tiring and boring." In Japan, Famitsu gave it a better score of two sevens, one six, and one eight for a total of 28 out of 40.
References
External links
2010 video games
Boxing video games
ColdWood Interactive games
Fighting games
Monochrome video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 3-only games
PlayStation Move-compatible games
PlayStation Move-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in Sweden
Video games with stereoscopic 3D graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20Streak | Dell Streak 5 (previously known as the Dell Mini 5) is a smartphone/tablet hybrid ("phablet") from Dell that uses the Android operating system, released in 2010. It comes with a capacitive touchscreen and two cameras, a 5MP one with dual-LED flash on the back and a VGA-resolution one on the front for video calling; both are capable of video.
The three buttons at the bottom (or right, when held in its normal landscape mode) are capacitive. The Android buttons used are Home, Menu, and Back.
It features a Dell skin on top and has a cradle adapter with HDMI out. The phone lacks the navigational trackball found in many previous Android devices. While FM radio support is not an official feature, an FM radio chip was found upon inspection of the Streak's internal hardware, and can be accessed though a user's modification of the OS.
A seven-inch version of the Streak was announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2011. The Wall Street Journal reviewed it unfavorably in February. A long-rumored ten-inch model went on sale in August in China.
Dell discontinued the Streak 5 on as of August 15, 2011. Customers attempting to purchase the device were directed to a "Good Bye, Streak 5" landing page. The larger Streak 7 was discontinued on December 2, 2011; Dell continued to sell a 10-inch tablet in China at that time.
Pre-release
The development was first disclosed in June 2009 and in October 2009 it was known that the tablet was capable of making 3G phone calls.
Software
The versions released previously have had Android 1.6 installed, with Dell offering unlocked Streaks with Android 2.2 (Froyo) in December 2010.
Customers on the British O2 mobile phone network were given the opportunity to install Android 2.1 in early September 2010 through an Over the Air update. This update, however, caused an uproar amongst consumers, over bugs and removal of some features from the previous software.
Source code and rooting
Following protests from users that Dell, by not including source code, had violated the terms of the GNU General Public License, the source code for the Dell Streak is now available for download.
There is a root method for the Dell Streak, and many roms are available, including iterations of the CyanogenMod ROM. These are available from the xda-developers website along with other ROMS.
Reception
The Streak 7 received a tepid reaction from one reviewer due to its poor display and software bugs/glitches at launch. The Streak was considered bulky, and the Android 2.2 "Froyo" that it ran was geared more for smartphones instead of tablets. While almost all tablet computers released in 2011 had failed to gain much market share in the face of overwhelming demand for the Apple iPad 2, the Streak 7 compared poorly to other Android tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab.
InfoWorld has suggested that Dell treated the Streak as a "Frankenphone business", where OEMs see tablets as a short-term, low-investment opportunity running Android OS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNK | CNK may refer to:
Blosser Municipal Airports IATA airport code
Cinemark Theatress NYSE stock symbol
Compute Node Kernel, an operating system
Crash Nitro Kart, a 2003 video game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLZ | CLZ may refer to:
Count leading zeros, a computer programming bit operation
Calabozo Airport, Calabozo, Guárico, Venezuela
Clonazepam, a medication used for seizure treatment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney%20Boomer | Barney Boomer was a Canadian children's television series which aired on CBC Television for part of the 1967-1968 programming season. Vancouver actor John Clayton portrayed the title character.
Production
The programme was produced under the network's Schools and Youth division and filmed on location in Oakville, Ontario. The series aired four days per week from Tuesdays through Fridays as a replacement for Razzle Dazzle. Each episode aired from 16:30 Toronto time for 20 minutes followed by a short quiz show, Swingaround, which completed the half-hour time slot.
In January 1968, Barney Boomer was replaced by Upside Town, a series which retained most of the cast but with a reformulated premise which gave more emphasis to characters other than Barney. Lynne Gorman did not continue her role as Florence Kozy; her character was performed by Pam Hyatt in the new series.
Premise
Barney Boomer is a 21-year-old sailor who docked his houseboat at Sixteen Harbour in the fictional town of Cedarville, intending to meet his uncle (Rex Sevenoaks), a captain who lived in a lighthouse. Barney intended the stay at Cedarville to be brief, due to his plans to navigate the Great Lakes, However, he meets Florence Kozy (Lynne Gorman), who persuades him to establish a business in the town.
Cast
John Clayton - Barney Boomer
Lynne Gorman - Florence Kozy
Franz Russell - Councillor Edgar Q. Russell
Trudy Young - Trudy
Rex Sevenoaks - Captain Boomer
Claire Drainie - Ma Parkin
Claude Rae - Mr. Andrews
Gerard Parkes - Sam Oliver
Belinda Montgomery - Susan
References
External links
Barney Boomer at the Canadian Communications Foundation
Queen's University Directory of CBC Television Series (Barney Boomer archived listing link via archive.org)
1967 Canadian television series debuts
1968 Canadian television series endings
CBC Television original programming
1960s Canadian children's television series
Television shows filmed in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parikh%27s%20theorem | Parikh's theorem in theoretical computer science says that if one looks only at the number of occurrences of each terminal symbol in a context-free language, without regard to their order, then the language is indistinguishable from a regular language. It is useful for deciding that strings with a given number of terminals are not accepted by a context-free grammar. It was first proved by Rohit Parikh in 1961 and republished in 1966.
Definitions and formal statement
Let be an alphabet. The Parikh vector of a word is defined as the function , given by
where denotes the number of occurrences of the letter in the word .
A subset of is said to be linear if it is of the form
for some vectors .
A subset of is said to be semi-linear if it is a union of finitely many linear subsets.
In short, the image under of context-free languages and of regular languages is the same, and it is equal to the set of semilinear sets.
Two languages are said to be commutatively equivalent if they have the same set of Parikh vectors. Thus, every context-free language is commutatively equivalent to some regular language.
Proof
The second part is easy to prove.
The first part is less easy. The following proof is credited to Goldstine.
First we need a small strengthening of the pumping lemma for context-free languages:
The proof is essentially the same as the standard pumping lemma: use the pigeonhole principle to find copies of some nonterminal symbol in the longest path in the shortest derivation tree.
Strengthening for bounded languages
A language is bounded if for some fixed words .
Ginsburg and Spanier
gave a necessary and sufficient condition, similar to Parikh's theorem, for bounded languages.
Call a linear set stratified, if in its definition for each the vector has the property that it has at most two non-zero coordinates, and for each if each of the vectors has two non-zero coordinates, and , respectively, then their order is not .
A semi-linear set is stratified if it is a union of finitely many stratified linear subsets.
Significance
The theorem has multiple interpretations. It shows that a context-free language over a singleton alphabet must be a regular language and that some context-free languages can only have ambiguous grammars. Such languages are called inherently ambiguous languages. From a formal grammar perspective, this means that some ambiguous context-free grammars cannot be converted to equivalent unambiguous context-free grammars.
References
Formal languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minno | Minno is an online subscription-based streaming media provider created by Erick Goss and Dan Raines. It specializes in Christian programming for children. Subscribers have access to over 2,300 episodes from 130 shows. Video is made available through applications for smartphones, tablets, and popular streaming devices such as Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV and Chromecast.
History
Minno began when founders Erick Goss and Dan Raines wanted to offer parents a streaming platform that included an ad-free streaming experience featuring shows about the Bible and Christian discipleship. The name Minno is derived from the Greek word “meno” which means "to abide" and is a reference to John 15 in the New Testament of the Bible. Minno is the operating name of Winsome Truth, Inc., which was formed by Goss and Raines in 2018 following the acquisition of the app under its former name, JellyTelly. Goss is a tech and military veteran, and Raines is a Christian media exec. The company is the recipient of TINYPulse’s 2020 Happiest Company Award. Today, Minno is both privately-funded by investors and on subscriber revenue. It is a benefit corporation.
Programming
Minno licenses and creates original programming that is vetted through a 50+ point checklist focused on child development, theology, and entertainment quality. Shows are developed with and licensed from studios around the world including France, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. Minno also currently offers the largest selection of original VeggieTales on a single platform through an agreement with NBCUniversal.
The company’s current original content includes:
5-Minute Family Devotionals
Church at Home
Hopeful Easter
Cocoa Talk
Galaxy Buck Mission To Sector 9: The Series
Micah’s Super Vlog
Fruit of the Fitness
Pops and Peanut
The Minno Day Show
Home Video Releases
The characters of Minno have recently starred in a new spinoff series by Phil Vischer titled "What's In The Bible with Buck Denver?". What's In The Bible was released over 13 DVD Volumes (each with two 25 minute episodes). The series covers the entire Bible. The first two volumes were released on March 1, 2010. Also, Why Do We Call It Christmas?, Clive and Ian's Wonder-Blimp of Knowledge, Sing Through the Bible! and Galaxy Buck: Mission to Sector 9.
Technical Details
Minno is Subscription Video on Demand platform.
Off-Screen Publishing and Resources
Off the screen, Minno publishes free and low-cost parenting resources through MinnoLife, produces The Minno Raising Boys & Girls Podcast (2M+ downloads), and published the Minno Laugh & Grow Bible for Kids (2020 Christian Book Award from Evangelical Christian Publisher Association and is the fastest-selling children’s Bible) in partnership with Hachette Book Group.
COVID lockdowns
During the COVID lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, Minno offered a free weekly “Church at Home” experience on its website for families not attending in-person church.
Referen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Humanities%20and%20Arts%20Computing | International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing is a biannual academic journal published in April and October by Edinburgh University Press. It was created in 2007 from the journal History and Computing, which had ceased publication in 2002. It is supported by three institutions: the International Association for History and Computing, the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, and Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts. The journal covers conceptual or theoretical approaches and case studies or essays demonstrating how advanced information technologies further scholarly understanding of traditional topics in the arts and humanities.
External links
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
History and Computing
Edinburgh University Press academic journals
History journals
Academic journals established in 2007
Biannual journals
English-language journals
Digital humanities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20contagion | Social contagion involves behaviour, emotions, or conditions spreading spontaneously through a group or network. The phenomenon has been discussed by social scientists since the late 19th century, although much work on the subject was based on unclear or even contradictory conceptions of what social contagion is, so exact definitions vary. Some scholars include the unplanned spread of ideas through a population as social contagion, though others prefer to class that as memetics. Generally social contagion is understood to be separate from the collective behaviour which results from a direct attempt to exert social influence.
Two broad divisions of social contagion are behavioural contagion and emotional contagion. The study of social contagion has intensified in the 21st century. Much recent work involves academics from social psychology, sociology, and network science investigating online social networks. Studies in the 20th century typically focused on negative effects such as violent mob behaviour, whereas those of the 21st century, while sometimes looking at harmful effects, have often focused on relatively neutral contagion such as influence on shopping choices, and even on positive effects like the tendency for people to take action on climate change once a sufficient number of their neighbours do.
History
Metaphoric use connecting the concept of infection with imitation (mimesis) dates back at least to Plato, and continued into medieval and early modern literature. The term "behavioural contagion" was first introduced into modern scholarship by Gustave Le Bon in his 1895 book The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. Further scholarly works on the subject were at first released slowly, only one or two a decade until the 1950s. Herbert Blumer was the first to specifically use the term "social contagion”, in his 1939 paper on collective behavior, where he gave the dancing mania of the middle ages as a prominent example. From the 1950s, studies of social contagion began to investigate the phenomena empirically, and became more frequent. There was no widely shared definition of social contagion in the 20th century however, so many of the studies had little in common. In 1993, David A. Levy and Paul R. Nail published a review where they stated that social contagion captures the broadest sense of the phenomena, as opposed to subtypes like behavioural or emotional contagion. In a 1998 review, Paul Marsden suggested that social contagion is a similar phenomena to memetics, a field of study inspired by Richard Dawkins' 1976 book The Selfish Gene. Marsden suggested that the two fields could be complementary, in the sense that work on social contagion largely lacked a coherent theory, but contained much evidence based analyses. Whereas memetics was rich in theory but lacking on the empirical side. From the 1990s and into the 21st century, interest in social contagion grew rapidly, based in part on cross fertilisation with the then emerging field of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20module | A computer module is a selection of independent electronic circuits packaged onto a circuit board to provide a basic function within a computer. An example might be an inverter or flip-flop, which would require two or more transistors and a small number of additional supporting devices. Modules would be inserted into a chassis and then wired together to produce a larger logic unit, like an adder.
History
Modules were the basic building block of most early computer designs, until they started being replaced by integrated circuits in the 1960s, which were essentially an entire module packaged onto a single computer chip. Modules with discrete components continued to be used in specialist roles into the 1970s, notably high-speed modular designs like the CDC 8600, but advances in chip design led to the disappearance of the discrete-component module in the 1970s.
See also
Modularity
References
Modularity
Electronic engineering
Logic gates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20Kentucky%20Derby | The 2010 Kentucky Derby was the 136th running of the Kentucky Derby. The race took place on May 1, 2010, and was televised in the United States on the NBC television network. The post time was EDT ( UTC). The stakes of the race were US$2,185,200. The race was sponsored by Yum! Brands and hence officially was called Kentucky Derby Presented by Yum! Brands.
Super Saver won the race with Calvin Borel as jockey. Borel became the first jockey to win three Kentucky Derby titles in a four-year span. Ice Box, Paddy O'Prado and Make Music for Me finished second, third and fourth, respectively. Attendance was listed at 155,804, making it the sixth-largest in Derby history. Total betting exceeded US$ for the main pool, and for the exacta.
Payout
The 136th Kentucky Derby Payout Schedule
$2 Exacta: (4–2) paid $152.40
$1 Trifecta: (4–2–10) paid $1,168.70
$1 Superfecta: (4–2–10–9) paid $101,284.60
The field
After early favorite Eskendereya was withdrawn due to a swollen leg the week prior to the 2010 Kentucky Derby, the field was left with no clear favorite. Lookin At Lucky was the race-time favorite based on his strong form at age two (Del Mar Futurity, Norfolk Stakes and CashCall Futurity), but only at odds of 6–1 against victory. Those odds tied the highest odds for a favorite in the history of the Derby. Super Saver, who had won the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at two and finished second in the Arkansas Derby, went off at odds of 8–1. Post positions were drawn Thursday, April 29, 2010.
Results
In what was considered "the most wide-open Derby in years", Super Saver hit the lead at the top of the stretch and held on to win the 136th Kentucky Derby. Jockey Calvin Borel captured his third Derby win in the last four years, while trainer Todd Pletcher picked up his first Derby victory in 25 tries.
The track was wet and sloppy due to rain the previous night and nearly all day on Derby Day. After a windy, rain-soaked day at Churchill Downs, the sun came out just shortly before race time. The winning time was 2:04.45, and the margin of victory was listed as lengths. Trained by Nick Zito, Ice Box came from well back in the pack to narrowly beat Paddy O'Prado for second place.
Super Saver started the day as the second favorite behind Lookin At Lucky. Coming out of the No. 4 gate, Borel immediately broke towards the inside rail, a strategy he often employs. He then pulled the horse back, rounding the final turn in fourth place, and charged to victory along the rail, holding off the impressive late charge from Ice Box on the sloppy track. It was the horse's first victory since winning the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes as a two-year-old. Pre-race favorite Lookin At Lucky was hampered by drawing the No. 1 post. He was pinned on the rail early and did not get adequate running room until it was too late, finishing sixth.
Margins – lengths, neck
Time – 2:04:45
Track – Sloppy
Exotic wager
Brian Palmer used the "successful $1 bet on the superfec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon%20%28Israel%29 | Nickelodeon is an Israeli children's television channel launched on 1 July 2003.
Programming
Israel original shows
Shchuna (שכונה) – In English, "Neighborhood".
HaHamama (החממה) – The original show of Netflix's The "Greenhouse Academy".
HaTzhokia (הצחוקייה) – A kids stand-up show with Israel's most popular comedians.
Neelamin (נעלמים) – In English, "Vanished".
Betzefer (בצפר)- A Hebrew slang commonly used by students, for the word "Beit-Sefer". In English, it means "School".
Kadabra (כדברא) – In English, "Spell keeprs".
Yapanick (יפניק) A kids wipeout type show, in which classes from all over the countries compete to win a prize.
Championsnick (צ'מפיונסניק) – A game show between schools from all over the country to win a trip to Barcelona.
Forever (פוראבר) – In English, "forever".
Spyders (ספיידרז) – In English, "the Spyders".
Gan Hayot (גן חיות) – A kid's sketch comedy show taking place in a fictional zoo called "Gancha".
Ziggy (זיגי) – A 16-year-old with vitiligo struggles with self-confidence as he pursues his dream of being a performer.
Current
Best & Bester (October 9, 2022 – present)
Big Nate (September 22, 2022 – present)
The Casagrandes (22 March 2020 – present)
It's Pony (10 May 2020 – present)
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob's Under Years (1 September 2021 – present)
Middlemost Post (October 17, 2021 – present)
Monster High (February 6, 2023 – present)
Rugrats (2021) (July 22, 2022 – present)
SpongeBob SquarePants (1 July 2003–present)
Star Trek: Prodigy (5 November 2022–present)
The Loud House (15 May 2016 – present)
The Patrick Star Show (October 17, 2021 – present)
The Smurfs (2021)
Upcoming
Fairy Express
Former
44 Cats
Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
Action League Now!
All Grown Up!
All That
Alvinnn!!! and the Chipmunks
As Told by Ginger
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Back at the Barnyard
Bakugan Battle Planet
The Barbarian and the Troll
Beyblade Burst
Bolts and Blip
Breadwinners
Bunsen is a Beast
CatDog
Catscratch
ChalkZone
Clarissa Explains It All
Cousin Skeeter
Danny Phantom
Daria
Delilah and Julius
Dorg Van Dango
Dr. Zitbag's Transylvania Pet Shop
Dragon Ball Super
Drake & Josh
El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera
Fanboy & Chum Chum
Fatherhood
Frankenstein's Cat
Gasp!
Get Blake!
Girls v. Boys
The Gnoufs
Harvey Beaks
Hero Factory
Hey Arnold!
House of Anubis
Invader Zim
Johnny Test
Just for Kicks
Just Jordan
KaBlam!
Kappa Mikey
Kenan & Kel
Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness
Legends of Chima
Lego Friends
Lego Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles
Make It Pop
Monsters vs. Aliens
Monsuno
Mr. Meaty
My Life as a Teenage Robot
Naturally, Sadie
Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
The Nick Cannon Show
Ninjago
Noah Knows Best
O'Grady
Oh Yeah! Cartoons
Ollie's Pack
Pirate Family
Pitt and Kantrop
Planet Sheen
Rabbids Invasion
Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty (9 February 2020 – 2020)
Random! Cartoons
Renford Rejects
Ricky Sprocket: Showbiz Boy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki%20Regional%20Transport%20Authority | The Helsinki Regional Transport Authority (; ) is the inter-municipal authority that maintains the public transportation network of the nine municipalities of Greater Helsinki, Finland.
HSL oversees the operation of all of Helsinki's public transportation. The system consists of local buses, trams, metro trains, ferries, commuter trains, and bikeshare.
Apart from four electric buses, HSL does not own rolling stock. Due to this, HSL relies on third-party contractors for the day-to-day operation of the transit system.
History
Founding
HSL was founded on 1 January 2010 on the basis of the Finnish public transportation law, joukkoliikennelaki, which was adopted on 3 December 2009. According to joukkoliikennelaki, HSL is responsible for the planning of public transportation in Greater Helsinki. The traffic functions of the inter-municipal Helsinki Metropolitan Area Council (YTV) and planning, procuring and tendering functions of Helsinki City Transport (HKL, within the city of Helsinki) were moved into the transport authority.
When it was founded, HSL had a revenue of over €500 million and approximately 350 employees.
Digitransit
In 2016, HSL started to develop a revamped version of its native journey planner, Reittiopas, originally released by YTV in 2001. The replacement intermodal public transport route planner named as Digitransit is built on open source OpenTripPlanner.
In February 2017, the new route planner was opened for public use, and the phasing-out of Reittiopas Classic began.
Name
The official name of the transport authority is Helsingin seudun liikenne -kuntayhtymä HSL in Finnish and Samkommunen Helsingforsregionens trafik HRT in Swedish. The official name of HSL in English is Helsinki Regional Transport Authority. Also the shorter form of the name, Helsinki Region Transport (HSL) may be used in everyday use.
Transportation
HSL oversees the operation of all public transportation in the Helsinki region. However, apart from select bus routes with electric units, the agency does not operate any rolling stock. Therefore, it relies mainly on independent contractors for the operation of the network.
Metro
The Helsinki Metro is operated by HKL. The metro line opened in 1982. The system serves 30 stations in total on its two lines, M1 and M2.
Länsimetro
The first phase of the Länsimetro expansion program extended the metro lines west to Lauttasaari and southern Espoo, serving eight new stations. The second phase of the extension opened in December 2022. At that time, the total number of metro stations on the line increased from 25 to 30.
Commuter rail
Commuter rail service in the region is operated by VR. There are 52 stations in the network, which are served by 15 lines. Out of HSL's three rail networks, commuter rail is the most far-reaching; it serves the northern, north-eastern, and western suburbs of the city, as well as Helsinki Airport in Vantaa.
Trams
Trams in Helsinki are operated by HKL. Helsinki was the only |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon%20%28Spanish%20and%20Portuguese%20TV%20channel%29 | Nickelodeon is a European pay television channel available in Spain and Portugal and operated by Paramount Networks EMEAA. The channel is aimed at children and teenagers.
History
The channel was launched in Spain on 27 March 1999 as a localised variant of American kids channel Nickelodeon, on Canal Satellite Digital. Like in the UK, Nickelodeon in Spain originally shared its signal with Comedy Central (at the time known as Paramount Comedy), until February 2005 when both channels were given their own signal. Until 2002, before switching to Paramount Comedy, a closedown bumper featuring the cows was played
On 1 June 2005, a feed of the Central European Nickelodeon channel was launched in Portugal with Portuguese audio with partial local ad breaks. The channel was initially an exclusive to the Portuguese TV operator NOS (at the time known as TV Cabo), with this exclusivity being maintained for the following 12 years.
On 1 September 2009, the Portuguese channel changed its source feed to Nickelodeon Spain. On 1 April 2010, Nickelodeon rebranded its graphical package with a new logo and new bumpers. On 22 November 2012, it changed its aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9.
On 15 January 2015, an HD version of the Spanish feed of the channel was launched exclusively on satellite provider Canal+ (now Movistar Plus+). The Portuguese feed has yet to receive a HD version, as of 2023.
In August 2019, Nickelodeon started using promos and bumpers similar to those of Central and Eastern Europe, removing end credits and any bumpers and idents with Portuguese or Spanish text, with the only difference between both feeds now, besides the audio, being the content broadcast during commercial breaks, with Spain broadcasting more commercials while Portugal airs shorts created by third parties such as Glumpers, ZellyGo or Chop Chop Ninja, or even brief clips from some Nickelodeon shows, to compensate for the time allocated for the commercials in Spain.
On 1 December 2017, Nickelodeon started to be carried by Portuguese TV provider Nowo, breaking its exclusivity with NOS. On 31 March 2020, Nickelodeon began to be carried by Portuguese TV provider Meo, and on 14 April 2020, Nickelodeon was launched on Vodafone Portugal, with the channel finally becoming available on all Portuguese TV providers. On the morning of 15 February 2021 however, Nickelodeon became unavailable on Nowo, alongside other Paramount owned channels available on the operator.
Former programming blocks
Noches Nick
Noches Nick was a night time programming block on Nickelodeon Iberia and was a localized variant of the American version of the block Nick@Nite, Not much is currently known about this block.
TeenNick
TeenNick was a Daytime programming block on Nickelodeon Iberia and was a localized variant of the American version of the TeenNick block. It was available in Spain on March 21, 2004, to 2014, and in Portugal in 2008 to 2016. The running time was 11h to 12h in Spain from 2004 to 2008. In 2009, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltron%20Force | Voltron Force is an American animated television series that premiered on June 16, 2011, exclusively on the Nicktoons television network. It is a sequel to the 1980s animated series Voltron and the 1999 CGI series Voltron: The Third Dimension. It ended after one season on April 25, 2012, with the planned second season being unproduced.
Premise
The series intro is narrated by Daniel (Vincent Tong):
The show centers on the reunion of the original Voltron Force and the group of cadets training to follow in their footsteps. In battle, they pilot their five robot lions and, when necessary, combine them to form the mighty robot Voltron. Among the enemies they face are their old nemesis, Lotor, and a corrupt military head intent on destroying Voltron and assassinating the Voltron Force to stage a coup d'état and become president of Galaxy Garrison himself.
Cast
Mark Hildreth as King Lotor.
Andrew Francis as Lance McClain.
Ty Olsson as Hunk Garrett.
Garry Chalk as Sky Marshall Wade, Manset.
Shannon Chan-Kent as Larmina.
Ashleigh Ball as Allura, Daigo.
Sam Vincent as Pidge, King Alfor, Sypat, Dudley.
Tabitha St. Germain as Kala.
Giles Panton as Keith Kogane.
Doron Bell Jr. as Vince.
Vincent Tong as Daniel.
Ron Halder as Maahox, Coran.
Gabe Khouth as Chip (Pidge's brother).
Alan Marriott as Sven Holgersson
Development and marketing
On March 11, 2010, at the Nickelodeon Upfront Presentation, a new Voltron series entitled Voltron Panthera Force was announced and set for premiere in the fall on Nicktoons with an announced premise that "The series follows the exploits of a group of five young cadets brought together under trying circumstances to form a newly appointed Voltron Lion Squad dubbed the "Panthera Force". Voltron Panthera Force is a World Wide Events production in conjunction with Kick Start Production." On April 4, 2010, it was announced that the show's title had been changed from Voltron Panthera Force to Voltron Force. On June 7, 2010, Variety announced WEP Productions, Classic Media and Kickstart Entertainment's plans to air a 26 episode season of Voltron Force in 2011 to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the original series as well as Mattel's plans to release a toyline to tie-in with the 25th anniversary of the original series and the launch of the new series. In March 2011, it was announced that Emmy-nominated composer Hal Beckett and Gemini-nominated composer Steffan Andrews, would score the show.
The Voltron Force logo and storyboards have been revealed on the official Facebook profile for the show, which is run by World Events Productions. WEP and video game publisher THQ has announced a partnership to produce video games based on the classic Voltron series and Voltron Force in 2011 and 2012 respectively; However, only the game based on the classic series was released on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network in November 2011. Following the closure of THQ and its subsidiaries, the future and rights of the Voltron v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adatanserin | Adatanserin (WY-50,324, SEB-324) is a mixed 5-HT1A receptor partial agonist and 5-HT2A and 5-HT2C receptor antagonist. It was under development by Wyeth as an antidepressant but was ultimately not pursued.
Adantaserin has been shown to be neuroprotective against ischemia-induced glutamatergic excitotoxicity, an effect which appears to be mediated by blockade of the 5-HT2A receptor.
See also
Flibanserin
References
5-HT1A agonists
5-HT2A antagonists
5-HT2C antagonists
Abandoned drugs
Adamantanes
Carboxamides
Piperazines
Aminopyrimidines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersell%2C%20Inc.%20v.%20Cybersell%2C%20Inc. | Cybersell, Inc. v. Cybersell, Inc. was a trademark infringement case based on the use of an internet service mark. The United States District Court for the District of Arizona was asked to review whether the allegedly infringing use of a service mark in a home page on the World Wide Web suffices for personal jurisdiction in the state where the holder of the mark has its principal place of business. The Cybersell holding illustrated that passive websites (i.e. sites that serve only to publish information, rather than to engage in commercial activity or collect information from a user) do not establish personal jurisdiction outside the state in which they are based.
Facts of the Case
Plaintiff Cybersell, Inc. ("Cybersell AZ"), an Arizona corporation with principals Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel, was incorporated in May 1994 providing advertisements for commercial services over the Internet. In August 1994, Cybersell AZ filed an application to register the name “Cybersell” as a service mark, and was approved for trademark registration using cyber.sell.com in October 1995. In February 1995, the site was then taken down for reconstruction.
In May 1995, while Cybersell AZ was in the process of registering as a federal service mark, Cybersell, Inc. ("Cybersell FL"), a Florida corporation formed “to provide business consulting services for strategic management and marketing on the web” established a website advertising its services at cybsell.com. Cybersell FL used their website to provide contact information for their business, including their phone number and email address.
After Cybersell AZ learned of Cybersell FL's website and use of their "Cybersell" service mark, Cybersell AZ notified Cybersell FL that they were infringing on Cybersell AZ's mark. As a result, Cybersell FL changed their name to WebHorizons, and later to WebSolvers, Inc., “to disassociate themselves” from Cybersell AZ, however, they left “Welcome to Cybersell!” on their web page.
Cybersell AZ then filed the complaint in this action alleging trademark infringement, unfair competition, fraud, and Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) violations in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona. Cybersell AZ alleged that personal jurisdiction over Cybersell FL was proper because the internet is without borders, and a website which advertises a product or service is necessarily intended for use on a worldwide basis. Cybersell FL moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. The court granted the motion and Cybersell AZ appealed.
Opinion
The court applied the “minimum contacts” test to determine whether the court could exercise specific personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant:
"(1) The nonresident defendant must do some act or consummate some transaction with the forum or perform some act by which he purposefully avails himself of the privilege of conducting activities in the forum, thereby invoking the benefits and protection |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Art%20of%20the%20Sucker%20Punch | "The Art of the Sucker Punch" is the third episode of the first season of the American animated sitcom Home Movies, and the 3rd episode of the series overall. It originally aired on the UPN network on May 10, 1999. The episode concerns a confrontation between Brendon Small and local bully Shannon, after Brendon discovers Shannon has been physically harassing his friend Jason. Brendon decides to record his preparation for the fight, as well as the fight itself, in order to create a documentary.
"The Art of the Sucker Punch" was written using "retroscripting," where each cast member completely improvised their lines, though certain script material was provided by co-creator and episode director Loren Bouchard. The episode was based on an experience co-creator and lead voice actor Brendon Small had at his school in his childhood with a bully. Comedian Emo Philips guest starred in the episode as Shannon.
In its original broadcast, "The Art of the Sucker Punch" received a 1.0/2 Nielsen Rating, continuing a streak of low ratings the series had been receiving since the pilot episode. Despite very low ratings, the episode received generally positive reviews, with multiple commentators noting its portrayal of relatable life problems.
Plot
Aspiring filmmaker and eight-year-old Brendon Small discovers that his best friend, Jason, has been physically harassed by local neighborhood bully Shannon on a daily basis. Vowing vengeance on Shannon for this crime, Brendon challenges the bully to a brawl, despite lacking both the physical aptitude and knowledge to actually engage in a fight. Despite this, he starts training and records the entire training process, deciding to turn it into a documentary, implying that his actual motives behind the fight was to just create such a film about himself. Throughout his training process, several members of his community note their complete disbelief in Brendon's chances of actually coming out of the fight victoriously.
The day of the fight finally comes, but when Brendon goes to engage Shannon, he is knocked to the ground immediately by a knee to the face. Despite this, Shannon calls Brendon the next day and invites him, Jason, and their friend Melissa to his birthday party, which Brendon resentfully accepts. When the kids arrive at Shannon's party, they see that no one has arrived. Shannon laments about how his bullying ways have caused no one he knows to actually like him, and the kids sympathize with the bully. However, Shannon then reveals that there are several kids at the party, who come out from hiding spots and ridicule Brendon, Jason, and Melissa for being swindled. As their retaliation, the children steal Shannon's lawn gnome and depart from the party.
Production
"The Art of the Sucker Punch" was inspired by a confrontation series co-creator Brendon Small had with a school bully when he was a child. The episode, as with the other first four episodes of the series, demonstrated a writing style known as "retro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disasteradio | Disasteradio is the pseudonym of Luke Rowell, a computer musician from Lower Hutt, New Zealand. He began writing a mixture of Chiptune and synthpop in 1999 and has released eight albums, toured New Zealand over ten times and completed several tours of Europe, and two of the US. In 2012, Luke created a pseudonym Eyeliner to explore vaporwave.
History
Beginning as Disasteradio in 1999, Rowell released free albums for a number of years on mp3.com, BeSonic and IUMA. He released his first self-titled CD-R in 2002, selling at live shows and through Wellingtonian Kerry Ann Lee's zine distro "Red Letter".
Disasteradio's first live show was in 2002 supporting Atom and his Package. Subsequent shows that year were supporting bands in the local punk and hardcore scenes. In 2003, Blink, who ran local Wellington label A Low Hum saw Disasteradio play a show at Wellington's Thistle Hall. The two have worked closely together ever since – beginning with Disasteradio playing two New Zealand tours in 2004 under the A LOW HUM banner. Late 2004 saw the release of "Hotline", which had notable impact on student radio locally, reaching the top position on New Zealand's bNet stations in Wellington, Dunedin and Auckland.
After the success of Hotline at Student Radio, Disasteradio signed a record deal in 2004, with the now defunct Wellington-based label Capital Recordings to release his next record "Synthtease". After six months of delays, he was released from his deal and this album was released with longtime supporter A Low Hum. In 2006 Disasteradio released a further two records, the first a short-run limited edition cassette tape on Wanganui label Stink Magnetic. Titled "Datasette", it carried a mixture of previously released and new material. His first ever non CD-R CD release "Synthtease" was released on A Low Hum in April 2006, with a nationwide New Zealand tour alongside Surf City and Voom.
In 2007 Disasteradio released his most commercially successful and critically acclaimed album "Visions". It was voted the best New Zealand release of 2007 by leading music magazine Real Groove and received glowing reviews from Vice NZ, The Dominion Post, NZ Musician, NZ Herald Under The Radar and student magazine Critic
In 2007 Disasteradio also headlined the inaugural Camp A Low Hum music festival in Wellington. He would also go on to headline at the 2008 and 2009 events.
In 2008 Disasteradio was invited by Hans Nieswandt to perform at the New Zealand night of Worldtronics Festival in Berlin. The following year during the Northern Hemisphere summer, Disasteradio embarked on a 5-month World tour playing shows in seventeen countries, including all of Western Europe and the USA. He returned to Europe late 2009 returning to several countries and also including Norway.
"Charisma" was released in October 2010 with A Low Hum as pay-as-you-like or free mp3 on bandcamp.com. It was subsequently released on vinyl and CD.
In 2011 Disasteradio became a minor internet celebrity when |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAMT | HAMT may stand for:
The ICAO code for Mizan Teferi Airport
Hash array mapped trie, a functional data-structure
Hodkinson abbreviated mental test score for dementia
Human-aided machine translation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Mama%20%28TV%20series%29 | Hot Mama is a 2010 Philippine television drama comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. It is the tenth and final installment of SRO Cinemaserye. Starring Eugene Domingo in the title role, it premiered on March 11, 2010. The series concluded on April 8, 2010 with a total of 6 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Eugene Domingo as Lola Cardenas / Hot Mama
Wendell Ramos as Randy
Supporting cast
Janna Dominguez as Myrna
Maureen Larrazabal as Mari
Victor Aliwalas as Bruce
References
igma.tv SRO Cinemaseye:Hot Mama
Eugene Domingo plays a sex therapist in SROs Hot Mama
External links
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20operating%20system | A distributed operating system is system software over a collection of independent software, networked, communicating, and physically separate computational nodes. They handle jobs which are serviced by multiple CPUs. Each individual node holds a specific software subset of the global aggregate operating system. Each subset is a composite of two distinct service provisioners. The first is a ubiquitous minimal kernel, or microkernel, that directly controls that node's hardware. Second is a higher-level collection of system management components that coordinate the node's individual and collaborative activities. These components abstract microkernel functions and support user applications.
The microkernel and the management components collection work together. They support the system's goal of integrating multiple resources and processing functionality into an efficient and stable system. This seamless integration of individual nodes into a global system is referred to as transparency, or single system image; describing the illusion provided to users of the global system's appearance as a single computational entity.
Description
A distributed OS provides the essential services and functionality required of an OS but adds attributes and particular configurations to allow it to support additional requirements such as increased scale and availability. To a user, a distributed OS works in a manner similar to a single-node, monolithic operating system. That is, although it consists of multiple nodes, it appears to users and applications as a single-node.
Separating minimal system-level functionality from additional user-level modular services provides a "separation of mechanism and policy". Mechanism and policy can be simply interpreted as "what something is done" versus "how something is done," respectively. This separation increases flexibility and scalability.
Overview
The kernel
At each locale (typically a node), the kernel provides a minimally complete set of node-level utilities necessary for operating a node's underlying hardware and resources. These mechanisms include allocation, management, and disposition of a node's resources, processes, communication, and input/output management support functions. Within the kernel, the communications sub-system is of foremost importance for a distributed OS.
In a distributed OS, the kernel often supports a minimal set of functions, including low-level address space management, thread management, and inter-process communication (IPC). A kernel of this design is referred to as a microkernel. Its modular nature enhances reliability and security, essential features for a distributed OS.
System management
System management components are software processes that define the node's policies. These components are the part of the OS outside the kernel. These components provide higher-level communication, process and resource management, reliability, performance and security. The components match the function |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-GRADE%20Portal | The P-GRADE Grid Portal was software for web portals to manage the life-cycle of executing a parallel application in grid computing.
It was developed by the MTA SZTAKI Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems (LPDS) at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary, from around 2005 through 2010.
Features
By building onto the GridSphere portal framework, the P-GRADE Portal hides details of grid systems with high-level interfaces that can be integrated with middleware. It offers portlet based access to the following services:
definition of grid environments
creation and modification of workflow applications
management of grid certificates
controlling and execution of workflow applications on grid resources
monitoring and visualization of workflows and their component jobs.
The P-GRADE Portal allows multi-user development and execution of workflows, and also provides support for workflow level grid interoperation.
The portal supports middleware technologies including Globus Toolkit, European Grid Infrastructure (LCG or gLite) and Advanced Resource Connector.
License and support
The P-GRADE Portal was developed under the GNU General Public License.
The 2.9 version introduced features such as Portable Batch System (PBS) and Platform LSF cluster support, EDGes 3G Bridge resource support, local PS port support and extended NorduGrid (ARC) support.
Release 2.10 of P-GRADE was announced in November 2010.
Installations
The P-GRADE Portal served grid communities in research and industry, providing access to Grids including:
EGEE Grids - through the P-GRADE Multi-Grid portal
South-Eastern European Grid - through the P-GRADE Multi-Grid portal
NGS Grid (UK) - through the NGS P-GRADE GEMLCA Portal
The Belgian Grid for Research (operated by BELNET)- through the BEgrid Portal
KnowledgeGRID Malaysia (operated by MIMOS) - through the KnowledgeGRID Malaysia P-GRADE Portal
CLGrid (Chile)- through the CLGrid Portal
and others, listed on the P-Grade Portal homepage.
Applications
Application specific portals can be created by adding application specific portlets to P-GRADE portal, omitting some generic purpose portlets and hiding the underlying workflow within an application specific portlet.
Applications include:
The parallel version of MadCity, a discrete time-based traffic simulation, developed by the University of Westminster and MTA-SZTAKI. In this case the legacy code of MadCity is deployed in a service-oriented Grid architecture and accessed through a user-friendly Web interface
Parallelization and gridification of air pollution forecast on the HUNGRID infrastructure, with P-GRADE Portal providing a flexible and unified way for parallel application development and multi-grid development
Gridification of OMNeT++, a public-source, component-based, modular, discrete event simulation environment. OMNeT++ is frequently used in a wide area of simulation applications due to its strong GUI support and embeddable simulation kernel. The P- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBEdit | DBEdit 2 is a database editor, which can connect to an Oracle, IBM Db2, MySQL and any database that provides a JDBC driver. It runs on Windows, Linux and Solaris.
Open source
DBEdit is free and open source software and distributed under the GNU General Public License. The source code is hosted on SourceForge.
History
DBEdit is developed by Jef Van Den Ouweland. The first Windows and was used to edit an Oracle or IBM Db2 database.
It is written in Java.
Later on, generic JDBC support was added so that the application could connect to basically any type of database that provides a JDBC driver.
One year after the first release, support for other operating systems, such as Linux and Solaris, was added. The last version of DBEdit was released in May 2012
See also
Java Database Connectivity
SQL
Comparison of database tools
External links
Official website
Project site
References
Cross-platform free software
Database administration tools
Microsoft database software
Oracle database tools
MySQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTA%20SZTAKI%20Laboratory%20of%20Parallel%20and%20Distributed%20Systems | The Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems (LPDS), as a department of MTA SZTAKI, is a research laboratory in distributed grid and cloud technologies. LPDS is a founding member of the Hungarian Grid Competence Centre, the Hungarian National Grid Initiative, and the Hungarian OpenNebula Community, and also coordinates several European grid/cloud projects.
LPDS laboratory, in cooperation with other departments of MTA SZTAKI, was involved in the development of the SZTAKI Cloud and takes part in many cloud-based projects. The LPDS cloud research is focusing on the field of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)-based cloud systems to make the previously evolved products and services of LPDS available for cloud-based execution in a scalable and transparent way.
Main research areas
Cloud systems
Scientific gateways for grid and cloud systems
Workflow-based IT
Grid computing, especially Desktop Grids
Interoperability between cloud and grid systems
Resource brokering in cloud systems
Products
gUSE (grid and cloud user support environment) is an open source science gateway framework that enables users access to grid and cloud infrastructures. It has been developed to support a large variety of user communities. It provides a general-purpose, workflow-oriented graphical user interface to create and run workflows on various Distributed Computing Infrastructures including clusters, grids, desktop grids, and clouds. The gUSE framework can be used by National Grid Initiatives (NGIs) to support small user communities that cannot afford to develop their own customized science gateway.
P-GRADE Portal is a Liferay technology-based web portal of gUSE. It can be accessed via major modern web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, etc. It supports the development and submission of distributed applications executed on the computational resources of various distributed computing infrastructures (DCIs) including clusters, service grids, desktop grids, and clouds.
Research
LPDS has participated in national and international grid and cloud research projects since 2000, with notable results in the area of grid/cloud resources and in the development of high-level user interfaces. In this field, an important result is the WS-PGRADE/gUSE (used in several European grid), made for accessing grid and cloud systems through a portal in a convenient and user-friendly way.
Additionally, LPDS participates in Big data management and storage within the field of agricultural research.
Training
LPDS has played an active role in providing grid and cloud training in Europe and worldwide. Through national and international training, the Laboratory provides knowledge transfer and targets new users from the industry as well as from science. LPDS organized and hosted summer schools and training on the grid- and cloud-related topics since 2005.
Personnel
The Head of the LPDS is Prof. Dr. Péter Kacsuk.
The Deputy Head of the LPDS is Dr. Robert Lovas.
1 DSc, 10 PhDs, and over 20 full |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin%20Sculpture-Network | The Berlin Sculpture-Network is a cooperative project between the Antiquities Collection of the Berlin State Museums and the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the Free University of Berlin. It is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the initiative “Translating Humanities” (“Übersetzungsfunktion von Geisteswissenschaften"). This project aims to reconstruct the spatial, functional and substantive contexts context of ancient sculptures.
The "Berlin Sculpture-Network" project includes a database of the ancient sculptures in the museums, the associated archival records and current excavation data as well as the collection of all plaster casts in the Berlin collections. The data will be made available in the online database Arachne.
Objects
Selected research results will be shown in a major exhibition in the Pergamon Museum in 2011, where an interactive 3D visualization of archaeological monuments of the city of Pergamon will be introduced to the general public. This virtual 3D model will be a research tool combining the latest research results from the excavations in Pergamon and the reconstruction of the famous city in its surrounding landscape with marble sculptures shown in their original contexts. The exhibition provides a basis for the long-term development of new exhibition concepts for the Berlin Antiquities collection of the Berlin State Museums.
The "Berlin Sculpture-Network" is a platform for scientific exchange between project members and numerous specialists in and outside of Berlin who research Greek and Roman sculpture and supply scientific contributions to the project.
See also
German Archaeological Institute, Berlin central office
German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul
Exzellenzcluster 264 „TOPOI – The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations“
The Winckelmann Institute for Classical Archaeology at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Konrad Zuse Center for Information Engineering, Berlin
Chair for Presentation Teaching by the Technical University of Cottbus in Brandenburg
Archaeological Institute and Research Archive for Ancient Sculpture at the University of Cologne: Arachne (archaeological database)
Municipal Museums of Berlin – PK, Institute for Museum Research
Municipal Museums of Berlin – PK, Plaster Casts
References
Art and design organizations
Culture in Berlin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM/IEEE%20Supercomputing%20Conference | SC (formerly Supercomputing), the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, is the annual conference established in 1988 by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society. In 2019, about 13,950 people participated overall; by 2022 attendance had rebounded to 11,830 both in-person and online. The not-for-profit conference is run by a committee of approximately 600 volunteers who spend roughly three years organizing each conference.
Sponsorship and Governance
SC is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery and the IEEE Computer Society. From its formation through 2011, ACM sponsorship was managed through ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH). Sponsors are listed on each proceedings page in the ACM DL; see for example. Beginning in 2012, ACM began the process of transitioning sponsorship from SIGARCH to the recently formed Special Interest Group on High Performance Computing (SIGHPC). This transition was completed after SC15, and for SC16 ACM sponsorship was vested exclusively in SIGHPC (IEEE sponsorship remained unchanged). The conference is non-profit.
The conference is governed by a steering committee that includes representatives of the sponsoring societies, the current conference general chair, the general chairs of the preceding two years, the general chairs of the next two conference years, and a number of elected members. All steering committee members are volunteers, with the exception of the two representatives of the sponsoring societies, who are employees of those societies. The committee selects the conference general chair, approves each year's conference budget, and is responsible for setting policy and strategy for the conference.
Conference Components
Although each conference committee introduces slight variations on the program each year, the core components of the conference remain largely unchanged from year to year.
Technical Program
The SC Technical Program is competitive with an acceptance rate around 20% for papers (see History). Traditionally, the program includes invited talks, panels, research papers, tutorials, workshops, posters, and Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions.
Awards
Each year, SC hosts the following conference and sponsoring society awards:
ACM Gordon Bell Prize
ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship
ACM/IEEE-CS Ken Kennedy Award
ACM SIGHPC Computational & Data Science Fellowships
ACM SIGHPC Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award
ACM SIGHPC Emerging Woman Leader in Technical Computing Award
IEEE-CS Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award
IEEE-CS Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award
IEEE CS TCHPC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers in HPC
Test of Time Award
Exhibits
In addition to the technical program, SC hosts a research exhibition each year that includes universities, state-sponsored computing research organizations (such as the Federal labs in the US), and vendors of HPC-rel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movial | Movial is a privately held software engineering company focused on Internet enabled devices in consumer electronics and telecommunications industries. The company’s services include device concept and user interface (UI) design, third-party application, service and platform integration, consulting, training, product maintenance and support.
The company was founded in Helsinki, Finland in 2001 by Lauri Vilamo, Jari Ala-Ruona and Jon Molander. The company is known for having created Scratchbox, a cross-compilation toolkit intended to make embedded Linux application development easier. The company is also known for contributing their Browser D-Bus Bridge code, which allows developers to build widgets that can incorporate phone capabilities such as instant messaging and audio to the Open Source Community. In 2008, the company was recognized by the Linux Foundation for being one of the key contributors to the Linux kernel.
The company is also a member of the GSMA's RCS and VoLTE (Voice over LTE) initiative.
Company
The company's products include an SIP/IMS (RCS and MMTel) application for device manufacturers and service providers, and a white label toolkit and web runtime environment for Linux devices. Movial's products can be used in PCs, mobile phones, netbooks, laptops,in-car entertainment systems, and more.
Movial customers and partners include Adobe, ARM and BMW. The company claims it has the most commercial deployments of PC IMS clients in the world
History
Movial participated in creating the first mobile Linux device in the world. The company was formed in 2001 in Helsinki, Finland, and in 2003 became the first company in the world to cross-compile GTK for an embedded device with touch screen.
In 2004 Movial launched Push-to-video Phone, IM, and Video Camera in on Nokia's first S60 phone, followed by Communicator client products for PC and Consumer Electronics the following year. Movial joined LiPS Forum in 2006 and helped launch the COnverged MEssaging Technology (COMET) consortium. It also provided an IMS Client to Trolltech's Greenphone for 3GSM World Congress 2006.
In 2007 Movial was selected by ARM to create a free and open-source platform for next-gen mobile applications. Movial joined GSMA’s RCS program, LiMo and Khronos Group in 2008, the same year that Movial IXS Application Suite launched on Texas Instruments OMAP3 Platform.
Movial launched Social Communicator at Demo '08, shortly before Optimus in Portugal "PC-Enables" all mobile phone subscriptions with Movial Communicator. In 2009 Movial announced support for Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset and that it would integrate, test, and certify Adobe Flash technology in embedded mobile environments that utilize ARM-based Linux under the Open Screen Project. The following year it launched a new cross platform Movial IXS Browser running on QtWebKit, which enabled developers to deploy and port touchscreen optimized User Interface code across any device.
In 2009, Movial expanded to Rom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell%20ARGUS | ARGUS, an acronym for Automatic Routine Generating and Updating System, was an Assembly Language devised in the late 1950s by Honeywell for their Honeywell 800 and 1800 computers.
As with other Assembly Languages, each line of ARGUS was copied on to one card and related to one word in memory, except that one ARGUS command, RESERVE, could reserve any specified number of words in the position specified. The RESERVE command was also exceptional in not prescribing the initial data in the reserved words. With a few exceptions Machine Language words were coded in the same order as the ARGUS lines.
Honeywell 800 Memory
The Honeywell 800 and 1800 had a main memory and a control memory, both using ferrite cores. The main memory had between 4 and 16 banks, depending on customer requirements. Each bank contained 2048 words of 48 bits each. The actual number of banks in an individual installation had to be a multiple of 4.
The control memory had 256 registers of 16 bits each. At any given time the machine could theoretically run one Operating System and 7 application programs, each with exclusive use of 32 registers.
A program that required more than 2048 words (data and instructions combined) had to be split into segments of 2048 words or less. Each segment would have exclusive use of one bank of main memory. There were special instructions to pass control from one segment to another.
Layout of ARGUS Commands
Each line of ARGUS command had six fields as follows:
Location is an optional ARGUS name to be assigned to that word in memory. When the address of each word has been assigned in memory, the ARGUS name of the line would be linked with the position of its corresponding word. Other lines of ARGUS could refer to that name and their words would be assigned the correct memory address. Within the program, each name had to be unique.
This field could begin with R, . If so then the rest of the card is remarks only.
This field could begin with X, or X,addressname. If so then this line and any other X, lines will be placed away from the lines not so marked. They can then be addressed by X,+n or by the addressname in the address field.
This field could begin with M,maskname. If so the line defines a Mask
Operation: The ARGUS name of a Machine Language command or an ARGUS-only command. This could be followed by the address of a mask, if required. A few commands had extra information.
A, B and C addresses: To be translated into machine code (see below). The A and B addresses were typically the two input words and the C address was the destination.
ID: Normally a serial number punched on to the card by the card punch machine. Used to resort any cards that might be dropped.
Layout of Machine Language Commands
Each Machine Language Command used one word of 48 bits. This was split into 4 sections of 12 bits each. The first 12 bits specified the operation, with ancillary information including the offset address of any mask for the command. The three other |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell%20800 | The Datamatic Division of Honeywell announced the H-800 electronic computer in 1958. The first installation occurred in 1960. A total of 89 were delivered. The H-800 design was part of a family of 48-bit word, three-address instruction format computers that descended from the Datamatic 1000, which was a joint Honeywell and Raytheon project started in 1955. The 1800 and 1800-II were follow-on designs to the H-800.
Data
The basic unit of data was a word of 48 bits. This could be divided in several ways:
8 Alphanumeric characters of 6 bits each
12 Hexadecimal or Decimal characters of 4 bits each
16 Octal characters of 3 bits each
An instruction with four components of 12 bits each: the operation to be performed, and three memory addresses.
Hardware
The Honeywell 800 was a transistorized computer with core memory. Its processor used around 6000 discrete transistors and around 30,000 solid-state diodes.
The basic system had:
A Central Processor with 16 controlled input/output trunks
An Input/Output Control Center (IOCC) with control functions for:
A card reader/punch,
A high-speed printer
Up to 4 magnetic tape units
A Control Memory of 256 special registers of 16 bits each
A Main memory containing 4 banks of 2048 words.
Extra peripherals could be added running through additional controllers with a theoretical possibility of 56 tape units.
Up to 12 more main memory banks could be added.
A random access disc system with a capacity of 800 million alphanumeric characters could be added.
Multiprogram control allowed up to 8 programs to be sharing the machine, each with its own set of 32 special registers.
A Floating-Point Unit was optionally available. The 48 bit word allowed a seven bit exponent and 40 bit mantissa. So numbers between 10−78 and 10+76 were possible and precision was 12 decimal places. If the customer did not buy the floating point unit, then floating point commands were implemented by software simulation.
Peripheral devices included: high-density magnetic tapes, high-speed line printers, fast card and paper tape readers and punches to high-capacity random access magnetic disc memories, optical scanners, self-correcting orthoscanners and data communications devices.
Software
Available software included:
ARGUS (Automatic Routine Generating and Updating System), an assembly language.
FACT (Fully Automatic Compiling Technique), a business compiler.
PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique), a project management system.
COP (Computer Optimization Package), a program testing system.
COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language), a compiler for the well known business programming language.
FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslator), a compiler, runtime package, and "load and go" OS for the scientific language compiler.
References
Further reading
Jane King, William A. Shelly, "A Family History of Honeywell's Large-Scale Computer Systems," IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 42–46, Oct.-Dec. 1997,
Exter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMO%20%28non-interfering%20multiple%20output%29 | An approach of an antenna and beamforming system, NIMO (non-interfering multiple output), is introduced that can be used to overcome bandwidth and capacity limitations on dense wireless networks. The new system combines beamforming technology with MIMO, providing a higher quality of service (QoS), and supports transparent integration with any telecommunication system. NIMO provides multiple narrow beams using a single antenna, and provides improved characteristics compared to conventional beamforming techniques such as reduced interference. Such a multi-beam antenna system increases spectral efficiency, user capacity, and throughput, as well as QoS.
References
Wireless networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameba%20%28website%29 | is a Japanese blogging and social networking website.
In December 2009, Ameba launched Ameba Now, a micro-blogging platform competing with Twitter. In March 2009 Ameba launched Ameba Pico, a Facebook app for the English market based on the virtual community Ameba Pigg.
Ameba Pigg (PC version)
Pigg is a Japanese blog virtual community in which users can customize an avatar, socialize with people around the world using replicas of landmarks around the world like Shibuya 109 and the Statue of Liberty.
Users can also decorate their own rooms with different types of furniture, bought with virtual currencies called "Gummies", "Tokens", and "Silver Coin". Users can and invite other players to their rooms and leave them messages.
For the English version, Gummies and Tokens are game currencies that are earned by doing in-game tasks such as ringing other people's rooms and giving the props, while "Candy Gold" is a currency in the game which users can only acquire by paying real money, Facebook Credits, Phone Balance, or by doing tasks from the game's providers like Paymentwall. Selected Items bought with Candy Gold can be alternatively purchased using tokens.
In early 2019, Ameba announced that the PC version of Pigg and related communities (Pigg Life, Pigg World, Pigg Brave, Pigg Cafe, and Pigg Island) would be shut down by December 2, 2019 due to the termination of Adobe Flash in 2020. They listed on their website three alternatives to Pigg (PC Version). One is a mobile browser version of Pigg, which can be also accessed by desktop computers, but features are limited compared to the original Flash game. In addition, Ameba created two mobile apps, Pigg Party and Pigg Life, which are more interactive and have a closer resemblance to their predecessor.
See also
AbemaTV
References
External links
Ameba Pigg (PC Version)
Virtual world communities
Japanese social networking websites
Internet properties established in 2004
2004 establishments in Japan
Microblogging services
CyberAgent
Ameba (website) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Yin%20Presents... | "Mr. Yin Presents..." is the sixteenth and final episode of the Fourth season of Psych, and the 63rd episode in the series overall. It premiered on March 10, 2010 on USA Network in the United States. The episode serves as the season 4 finale and is the sequel to the third season's finale, "An Evening with Mr. Yang". It is an important installment in one of the series' few story arcs. A third and final installment of the Yin/Yang series, entitled "Yang 3 in 2D", aired as the fifth season finale.
Plot
Shawn and Gus are attending a triple-feature of famous Alfred Hitchcock films, including (according to a playbill) The Birds, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Psycho. After squeezing down a row of other patrons, Shawn finally is able to sit down, 20 minutes into Psycho. After finally finishing the films, they exit the theater and bump into Mary Lightly (Jimmi Simpson), one of the key figures in capturing Mr. Yang a year earlier. He takes them to a diner, where they discuss a new book written by Yang. Mary insists that, according to Yang's account of the events leading up to her capture, it was impossible that she was working alone. There had to have been a Yin. Shawn and Gus are skeptical, and leave the diner. Shawn rereads Yang's book but falls asleep. The next morning he and Gus are called to a crime scene. The waitress who had served them their pie at the diner had been found dead. Shawn notices that her body was arranged into a Yin/Yang symbol.
Shawn, Gus, Detective Lassiter, Detective O'Hara, and Mary arrive at the diner, where they find a pie marked with the Yin/Yang sign. Inside is a crossword clue, decoded by Officer McNab (Sage Brocklebank) to mean "Find Me." Mary insists that the events of the past day are the work of Yin. Shawn, Gus, and Mary visit Yang (Ally Sheedy) in the mental institution, where she is kept in solitary confinement. She reveals that she did have a partner, and that her partner is even more psychopathic than she is.
Shawn leads the group back to the theater, using the crossword to find a specific seat. Shawn remembers that the person who had sat in that seat was one of the people he had been forced to squeeze by when trying to get to his seat during the showing of Psycho. After discovering a note, Mary concludes that Yin is working alone, and that, being the opposite of Yang, represents chaos. After realizing that Yin must be basing his devious activities off of Hitchcock films, Gus proposes that they each take several Hitchcock films and watch them all so as to get a better idea what Yin will do next. The others agree, and split up. While watching Vertigo, Shawn falls asleep. During a dream, he sees Juliet, Lassiter, Chief Vick, and his father in classic Hitchcock situations encouraging him to find something. Finally, he sees the person in the theater. He remembers that the person in theater was wearing ankle weights, leading him to believe that Mary is Yin. When he is awakened by Gus, Shawn disc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudine%20%28TV%20program%29 | Claudine is a 2010 Philippine television drama anthology broadcast by GMA Network. Starring Claudine Barretto, it premiered on April 10, 2010 replacing BandaOke! Rock 'N Roll to Millions. The show concluded on August 7, 2010 with a total of 18 episodes.
Episodes
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Claudine earned a 16.6% rating. While the final episode scored a 9.2% 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 original programming
Philippine anthology television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb%20Alley%20%28disambiguation%29 | Bomb Alley is a computer game. Bomb Alley may also refer to
1942 Operation Vigorous
1982 Battle of San Carlos during the Falklands War
3D Bomb Alley, a computer game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Freeman | Eric Freeman may refer to:
Eric Freeman (cricketer) (1944–2020), Australian cricketer
Eric Freeman (artist) (born 1970), artist based in New York
Eric Freeman (writer), computer scientist and author |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinay%20Kumar%20Pathak | Vinay Kumar Pathak is an Indian professor (Computer Science) who has served as lecturer, assistant professor at HBTI Kanpur, project scientist at IIT Kanpur and again as professor and dean at HBTI Kanpur before taking over as vice-chancellor UOU on 25 November 2009. After that he has served many universities of Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and UP as Vice Chancellor. He has successfully organized many national and international conferences.
Education
Pathak did his Bachelor of Technology in computer science from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur, in 1991; M.Tech. from IIT Kharagpur in 1998; and Ph.D. in computer science from U.P. Technical University, Lucknow under the joint guidance of IIT Kanpur, November 2004. Research interests of Pathak include computational geometry and image processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning.
Pathak was instrumental in the implementation of Vedic mathematics in 1992. He worked in Media Lab Asia and successfully did the work of info-sculpture.
Corruption Allegations
Case
On October 29, 2022, UP Police's Special Task Force started probing charges of bribery, corruption, illegal confinement, and extorting money against him and his alleged associates on the complaint of David Mario Denis whose firm was engaged in exam related work at Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University in Agra. The FIR was registered in the Indira Nagar police station of Lucknow under section 342, 386, 504, and 506 of the IPC & section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. Denis claimed to have paid Pathak commission to the tunes of ₹1.4 crore via his associates for clearing of various bills.
The matter came to light when UP STF was probing irregularities in the BAMS exam copy case conducted by Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University in Agra where Pathak held additional charge of VC between January 2022 and September 2022. Eventually, UP STF arrested Ajay Mishra and Ajay Jain, who were the alleged associates and co-accused in the matter.
As the charges surfaced, six former MLAs from Uttarakhand, where Pathak previously held the position of Vice Chancellor in the Uttarakhand Open University (Haldwani), also wrote to the Governor of Uttar Pradesh Anandiben Patel alleging corruption and unethical acts in his tenure and requesting an investigation led by the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation.
Court Ruling
Pathak then approached the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court praying the court to quash the FIR registered against him and to issue direction to the state in the nature of mandamus not to prosecute him on the basis of the FIR. The plea was contested by the Government of Uttar Pradesh stating that the FIR disclosed serious offences committed by Pathak and that he cannot be granted relief from arrest. Thereafter, the two-judge bench of Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan and Justice VK Singh rejected the writ petition filed by Pathak, granting him no relief on the matter, on November 15, 2022, stated in parag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexed%20Database%20API | The Indexed Database API (commonly referred to as IndexedDB) is a JavaScript application programming interface (API) provided by web browsers for managing a NoSQL database of objects. It is a standard maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
As an alternative to the Web storage standard, IndexedDB can provide more storage capacity. Web storage has fixed limits per website, but IndexedDB limits are "usually quite large, if they exist at all".
Use cases for IndexedDB include caching web application data for offline availability. Some browser modules, such as devtools or extensions, may also use it for storage.
History
Support for IndexedDB was added to Firefox version 4, Google Chrome version 11, Internet Explorer version 10, Safari version 8, and Microsoft Edge version 12.
Web SQL Database was a prior API developed by Apple. But Firefox refused to add support for it and argued against it becoming a standard because it would codify the quirks of SQLite. It was thus deprecated in favor of IndexedDB.
IndexedDB 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation on January 8, 2015. IndexedDB 2.0 became a W3C Recommendation on January 30, 2018. IndexedDB 3.0 is currently a First Public Working Draft.
Performance
Because IndexedDB is running inside of the security sandbox of a browser, all operations have to go through various security layers which decreases the performance of IndexedDB. With IndexedDB 2.0 the getAll() method was added which allows to improve performance on bulk read operations.
References
External links
IndexedDB API on MDN Web Docs
Browser database comparison
Slow IndexedDB
World Wide Web Consortium standards
Database APIs
Web technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9%20World | Café World is a defunct multiplayer restaurant simulation social network game created by Zynga and launched in September 2009. It quickly became the fastest growing social game ever, reaching 8 million users in seven days, and peaked at over 10 million daily active users, which made it Zynga's third-largest game after FarmVille and CityVille. Available on Facebook, players strive to become master chefs and build a food empire by completing catering orders.
In celebration of the first anniversary, players were challenged to complete a “One Year Anniversary Party” order with five new cookbook recipes. Players who successfully completed the order were entered for a chance to win a trip for two to New York City.
Following the Japan earthquake in March 2011, Zynga re-released several Japanese-themed decorations to Café World in order to benefit Japan's Save the Children Earthquake Emergency Fund.
To celebrate the second anniversary, players were challenged to complete a goal series to prepare a feast for British Royals. Players who successfully completed the goal series were entered for a chance to win a trip to Britain.
In 2012, the game attracted approximately 2.6 million monthly active users. It was a freemium game, meaning there is no cost to play, but players have the option of purchasing premium content.
Zynga announced on 23 May 2014, that it would be closing the game on 22 July 2014. On July 23, 2014, Café World was completely removed from Facebook.
References
External links
How to Play "Cafe World" on wikiHow
Browser-based multiplayer online games
Business simulation games
Facebook games
2009 video games
Zynga
Inactive massively multiplayer online games
Video games about food and drink
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filmy%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | Filmy is a Canadian Category B Hindi language specialty channel owned by SoundView Entertainment Inc.
Filmy broadcasts Bollywood films, music programs, and other Bollywood film based programming.
History
In October 2007, SoundView Entertainment Inc. was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a television channel called Sahara Filmy, described as "a national, third-language ethnic Category 2 specialty service devoted to the Hindi-speaking community. The programming schedule shall only consist of feature films, made-for-TV movies, actor interviews, documentaries and similar movie-related programming."
The channel launched as Filmy on April 29, 2009 initially on Rogers Cable.
See also
Filmy
References
External links
Filmy
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Movie channels in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Hindi-language television stations
Sahara India Pariwar
Hindi-language television in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microfinance%20Information%20Exchange | Microfinance Information Exchange, Inc. (commonly known by its acronym MIX) was a non-profit organization that provided market data and intelligence on financial service providers catering to low-income populations around the world. Founded by the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) and sponsored by the Citi Foundation, CGAP, the Mastercard Foundation, MetLife Foundation, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others, MIX had offices in Washington DC, New York, Lima (Peru), Baku (Azerbaijan), Dakar (Senegal), and Hyderabad (India). MIX's mission was to provide data analytics to empower decision-makers - socially responsible investors, policy makers and financial services providers - to build an inclusive financial services ecosystem. Since its founding in 2002, MIX had built the digital information infrastructure needed to bring greater transparency to financial sectors serving low-income populations in emerging markets, including providing market data on over 3,000 financial services providers (FSPs). In 2016, MIX shifted its strategy to help improve the information flow in other segments of financial inclusion, like smallholder agricultural finance, fintech, digital financial services (DFS) and green energy finance. In May 2020, MIX became a unit of the Center for Financial Inclusion, a thinktank housed at Accion.
Market intelligence data
MIX collects, validates and publishes financial, operational and social performance data from financial service providers (FSPs) including non-bank financial institutions, rural cooperatives, fintechs, agricultural businesses, and others, in addition to business information from networks, funders and socially responsible investors. This data is standardized and made available to users through subscriptions on an online platform: MIX Market. MIX also produces a variety of publications covering the sector such as Barometer Forecast, Annual Benchmark Reports, and Quarterly Factsheets, as well as a number of ad hoc publications each year like the Global Outreach and Financial Performance Benchmark Report.
Custom data analytics
MIX works with major funders of financial inclusion to carry out projects related to data and information provision for financial services sectors in emerging markets. Because many investors and FSPs in these regions struggle to make business and investment decisions due to the limited flow and availability of data and information, MIX and its partners identify these information 'gaps' and develop solutions to address them. Examples of efforts to support the healthy development of financial markets through better information include One Acre Fund's Smallholder Finance Product Explorer, the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance's State of the Sector report and analysis, and the CGAP Cross Border Funder Survey; all are initiatives supported by MIX's custom data analytics.
Platforms
MIX Market
MIX Market is an online platform for delivering data and information on FSPs se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eumeswil | Eumeswil is a 1977 novel by the German author Ernst Jünger. The narrative is set in an undatable post-apocalyptic world, somewhere in present-day Morocco. It follows the inner and outer life of Manuel Venator, a historian in the city-state of Eumeswil who also holds a part-time job in the night bar of Eumeswil's ruling tyrant, the Condor. The book was published in English in 1993, translated by Joachim Neugroschel.
Themes
The key theme in the novel is the figure of the Anarch, the inwardly-free individual who lives quietly and dispassionately within but not of society and the world. The Anarch is a metaphysical ideal figure of a sovereign individual, conceived by Jünger. Jünger was greatly influenced by egoist thinker Max Stirner. Indeed, the Anarch starts out from Stirner's conception of the unique (der Einzige), a man who forms a bond around something concrete rather than ideal,<ref>An exposition of the figure of the Anarch through citations from Juenger's Eumeswil.]</ref> but it is then developed in subtle but critical ways beyond Stirner's concept.
ReceptionPublishers Weekly'' reviewed the book in 1994: "In this acute if labyrinthine study of a compromised individual, [Jünger telescopes past and present, playing over the sweep of Western history and culture with a dazzling range of allusions from Homer and Nero to Poe and Lenin, displaying his erudition but failing to ignite the reader's engaged interest."
References
External links
English Language copy of the book
Blog discussing and exploring Jünger's anarch through excerpts from Eumeswil
Association Eumeswil, a Florentine cultural association dedicated to the study of Ernst Jünger's life and works.
1977 science fiction novels
1977 German novels
German science fiction novels
German-language novels
Novels by Ernst Jünger
Novels set in Morocco
Post-apocalyptic novels
Novels about time travel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoluMill | VoluMill is Computer Aided Manufacturing software developed by Celeritive Technologies that produces a toolpath designed for High Speed Machining applications. These applications include all 2-axis and 3-axis rough milling tasks, from simple prismatic parts to complex freeform molds. VoluMill is offered as a standalone version called VoluMill Universal, which is designed to work with any CAM system, and also as integrated versions that run inside hyperMILL, GibbsCAM, BobCAD-CAM, SigmaNEST, Mastercam, and NX (Unigraphics),RTM (Lemoine Technologies)
VoluMill was created to address the four problem areas of traditional toolpaths:
The initial full cut into the material
Stepping over between cuts
Feeding into new areas of the part
Overloading in corners
See also
Computer-aided manufacturing
References
External links
Official VoluMill Website from Celeritive
Computer-aided manufacturing software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Force%20%28film%29 | T-Force is a 1994 science fiction film directed by Richard Pepin. Set in the near future, its plot concerns a group of law enforcement cyborgs called Cybernauts, which, after being threatened with their shutdown, rebel against their superiors and the authorities.
Plot
A terrorist group led by Sam Washington (Vernon Wells) seizes the British embassy in downtown Los Angeles, killing hostages. All seems lost, but the T-Force, the world's first fully cybernetic law enforcement team is deployed and within minutes, more than thirty terrorists are dead. One member of the T-Force is destroyed Athens (R. David Smith). Upon learning this Adam (Evan Lurie), one of the members of T-Force, goes too far and shoots a disarmed and surrendering female terrorist (Spice Williams-Crosby). He then destroys a terrorist helicopter with six hostages on board including the U.N. Ambassador Chris Olsen (Clement von Franckenstein) with a grenade launcher. Mayor Pendleton (Erin Gray) and Chief Richman (Duke Stroud) of the LAPD decide to shut down the program and disassemble the cybernauts despite protest from the cybernaut's chief scientist Dr. Jon Gant (Martin E. Brooks).
Perceiving their shutdown a threat to their self-preservation, Adam, Mandragora (Jennifer MacDonald) and Zeus (Deron McBee) rebel and go on a killing rampage by targeting the mayor and the chief. Lieutenant Jack Floyd (Jack Scalia) of the LAPD teams up with Cain (Bobby Johnston), one of the cybernauts who chose to obey the law, to hunt down the renegade cybernauts and destroy them.
Cast
Reception
References
External links
1990s science fiction films
1994 films
Android (robot) films
American science fiction action films
American robot films
Cyborg films
Films directed by Richard Pepin
Films scored by Louis Febre
1990s English-language films
1990s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal | Ordinal may refer to:
Ordinal data, a statistical data type consisting of numerical scores that exist on an arbitrary numerical scale
Ordinal date, a simple form of expressing a date using only the year and the day number within that year
Ordinal Priority Approach, a multiple-criteria decision analysis method that aids in solving the group decision-making problems
Ordinal indicator, the sign adjacent to a numeral denoting that it is an ordinal number
Ordinal number in set theory, a number type with order structures
Ordinal number (linguistics), a word representing the rank of a number
Ordinal scale, ranking things that are not necessarily numbers
Ordinal utility (economics): a utility function which is used only to describe the preference ordering between different outcomes.
Government
Regnal ordinal, used to distinguish monarchs and popes with the same regnal name
Religion
Edwardine Ordinals, two early liturgical books of the Church of England
Ordinal (liturgy), particularly in Anglicanism and Catholicism, is the book containing the rites for the ordination of deacons and priests, and the consecration of bishops
Ordinal can be a book that gives the ordo (ritual and rubrics) for celebrations, see Order of Mass |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewsTrust | NewsTrust was a non-profit news network that operated a web site where users were able to reference news stories, rate those stories according to quality of journalism, post reviews, and add stories they found worthwhile. It was operated and co-founded by former Wikimedia staff member, Fabrice Florin.
History
NewsTrust was first presented as an idea via MoveOn.org, in which MoveOn co-founder Wes Boyd expressed concern about "traditional media...losing" its way. He recruited Fabrice Florin, then CEO of cellular content provider Handtap Communications, to run the effort as part of NewsTrust Communications of Mill Valley, California. Users and editors of the NewsTrust website would rate news stories on a daily basis as to whether they were "news you can trust." The site was launched in a basic mode in May 2005.
In 2011, NewsTrust piloted a Baltimore-specific site focused on news local to the Baltimore area. NewsTrust launched in Baltimore due to its proximity to the Open Society Institute's Baltimore offices, and hired a former editor of the Baltimore Sun, Mary Hartney, as the editor. The Baltimore pilot ended six months after it was launched, although user-submitted content continued to be posted, and the NewsTrust mission shifted to a more "fact-checking service"-based model for the 2012 election.
From June 2012 until the website went offline, NewsTrust was owned and operated by The Poynter Institute.
Partnerships and funding
NewsTrust had many media partners, including Huffington Post, PolitiFact and the Washington Post and advisers including Howard Rheingold of Stanford University and Craig Newmark of Craigslist. NewsTrust also received financial donations from nonprofit foundations and private donors, including a $500,000 grant from the MacArthur Foundation in 2008 and Omidyar Network in 2010.
References
American news websites
American journalism organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Outside%20Music%20Association | The California Outside Music Association (a.k.a. COMA) was a nonprofit music presenter and networking organization operating in the Los Angeles area from 1983 until 1991. The organization is best known for producing the album A Beginner’s Guide to COMA and a series of festivals called Day of Music. Founded by Titus Levi and Eric Potruch, COMA officially launched on March 3, 1983, when the two founders passed out a flyer describing COMA’s planned activities. This flyer came to be known as The COMA Manifesto. COMA's goals included bringing an eclectic scope of artists from diverse genres, for concerts and festivals.
Genres included (but were not limited to) jazz, jazz rock, progressive rock, experimental 20th century compositions, ambient music music-concrete, free-jazz, post-rock improvisation, experimental rap, and multicultural/trans-cultural experiments.
COMA produced its first live performance event in July 1983 at a small art gallery in Downtown Long Beach. The format of the concert would form the template of the Day of Music events: solo performers and small ensembles playing sequentially over several hours. In this case, the performances started at noon and ended at 10:00 PM. At the Day of Music events, which launched in 1988, events started at noon and ran until midnight. They took place in multiple venues in the Pine Avenue area of Downtown Long Beach, including the gallery-café-performance space System M, a restaurant called Mum’s, and multiple gallery spaces on Pine Avenue, Broadway, and Third Street in Downtown Long Beach. In 1985 the group produced a full-length LP on Rotary Totem Records called A Beginner’s Guide to COMA. This ten-song disc included music from a number of rock-leaning performers, including Dogma Probe, Elma Mayer, Tao Mao, The Underpeople, Mark Soden, The Motor Totemist Guild, Cartoon, Newcross, 5UUs, and Rhythm Plague.
The activities and impact of COMA have been documented in at least two research papers, Jarle Glesåen Storløkken’s COMA - American avant rock: a study of the music of avant rock bands and Charles Sharp’s book-length dissertation Improvisation, Identity, and Tradition: Experimental Music Communities in Los Angeles.
Discography
A Beginner’s Guide to COMA 1985, Rotary Totem Records, RTR-LP-003
Members and affiliates
5uu's
Josh Adelson
Ken Ando
Bonnie Barnett
Bazooka
Guy Bennett
Joseph Berardi
Alex Cline
Nels Cline
Cruel Frederick
Mike Demers
Karl Denson
Richard Derrick
Tom Dougherty
Brad Dutz
False Dimitri
Ken Filiano
The Fnords
Ron George
Vinny Golia
James Grigsby
Richard Grossman
Greg Harris
Emily Hay
Lynn Johnston
Darrell Jónsson
Jason Kahn
Kaoru
Dave Karasony
Dave Kerman
Elise Kermani
Virtus Kerny
Bob Mair
Manufacturing of Humidifiers
Goucho Marks
Elma Mayer
Dean Myerson
NEEF
Jim Nightingale
Non Credo
Jim Norman
PFS
Paper Bag
Papa’s Midnight Hop
Wayne Peet
Bill Plake
Eric Potruch
David Poyourow
Tim Quinn
Rena
John Reager
Ken Rosser
B.B. Russell
Vicki Silbert
Mark Soden
G.E. Stinson
Carl Stone
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIXatdl | FIX Algorithmic Trading Definition Language, better known as FIXatdl, is a standard for the exchange of meta-information required to enable algorithmic trading activity within the financial markets. It works in tandem with the Financial Information eXchange (FIX) protocol which is the lingua franca of electronic trading in the securities market.
Background
Prior to the mid-nineties, virtually all trading of securities was transacted over the phone, but with the advent of FIX, trading moved steadily over to electronic means. The FIX protocol is used to communicate between sell-side and the buy-side Order Management Systems (OMS) to exchange orders and order execution information without human intervention, using standardised messages and workflows that are defined by the protocol.
Initially, sell-side firms only provided access to their 'trading desks' via FIX, which meant that once an order arrived at the sell-side broker, it was handled by a human trader, at least at the start of its lifecycle. Subsequently, sell-side firms started to offer direct access via FIX to the exchanges/markets they were members of; this is known as direct market access (DMA). At this time, many sell-side firms had their own proprietary systems to trade automatically in the market, using algorithmic trading strategies, and over time they began to see that offering access to these trading strategies to the buy-side was a way to attract business and increase revenue.
Whilst FIX is an extensible protocol, there were two challenges that arose as a result of sell-side firms offering access to their algorithmic trading strategies via FIX. The first was that each sell-side strategy had its own parameters that had to be included as part of the order, so every firm ended up requiring a different set of fields (known in FIX as "tags") to be included in the FIX message. This made life very difficult for the buy-side, and more particularly for their suppliers as adding new algorithms to their trading systems and managing all the different combinations of tags became a significant overhead for their development operations.
The second issue for the market was that each sell-side firm had a specific way they wanted their algorithms to be displayed on the buy-side OMS, with controls in the user interface arranged logically for easy order entry. Again, this proved a challenge for the buy-side systems vendors, as each new screen for each sell-side broker required dedicated development and testing effort.
History
To tackle these issues, FIX Protocol Limited established the Algorithmic Trading Working Group in Q3 2004. The initial focus of the group was to solve the first of these issues, which it did by defining a new group of fields, the StrategyParametersGrp, made up of FIX tags 957 through 960 – these tags were formally introduced with the release of FIX 5.0 in Q4 2006. By allowing sell-side firms to include their proprietary fields in a repeating name-value pair struc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblivion%20Island%3A%20Haruka%20and%20the%20Magic%20Mirror | is a 2009 Japanese computer-animated film directed by Shinsuke Sato. It was produced in commemoration of Fuji Television's 50th anniversary. The film was nominated for the award for Excellent Animation of the Year at the 33rd Japan Academy Prize. The film is produced using Autodesk Maya 3D software.
Plot
After losing her mother at a young age, Haruka has treasured the hand mirror she had received from her. As she grew older, she forgot about the mirror and eventually lost it. One day, she decides to go to a local shrine and pray to Inari for the hand mirror to be returned to her. After a brief nap, she drops her house key under the steps, but when she retrieves them, a small fox/pig-like creature, takes her key. She follows the creature into the woods, and comes across a small pool with one of the eggs offered at the shrine. She dips her hand into it but is sucked through the pool and lands in a cart with the creature.
The creature, named Teo, explains to Haruka she is in the world of the neglected, made of forgotten things because his race cannot make things themselves. Haruka agrees to give him her keychain if he can help her find the mirror. With Haruka in disguise, the two board a tram cart to the main town on Oblivion Island. After asking several vendors, Haruka discovers that the mirror has magical powers, and it was kept by the Baron, the leader of the land who hovers in an airship, but that it was stolen. A group of bullies try to remove Haruka's mask, but Teo and Haruka escape.
At a theater area where they project the memories of neglected things. Haruka recognizes her stuffed animal named Cotton, who is upset that Haruka neglected him. When the bullies bust in with a large ostrich-like contraption, Haruka grabs Cotton and they escape. At Teo's place, Haruka learns Teo wants to build a real airplane. Cotton shares that the mirror was taken by a group of underground bandits called the Petitloss. While Teo goes to get water, he is captured and delivered to the Baron, who orders him to help Haruka find the mirror but bring it to the Baron, who will neglect his crime and will also give him a huge reward of stamp cards.
Haruka, Teo and Cotton head into the lair of the Petitloss. They soon find themselves attacked by Petitloss and a large Petitloss creature. Cotton removes the threads from the large creature and Haruka finds her mirror. Although they escape the underground area, the Baron arrives to seize the mirror and to abduct Haruka. Teo is left with a pile of stamp cards but he is upset about his choice to betray his friend.
The Baron tries to make Haruka swallow an Oblivion Drop in order to remove her memories. Teo tells the townsfolk that humans are actually good. He gives away his stamp cards, and the townsfolk build him a plane, which he flies. Cotton rallies the petit-loss to raid the airship, and Haruka breaks free. The Baron activates a bunch of robots using the power of the mirror to grab Haruka, but she falls off the airshi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Feinberg | Martin Feinberg is an American chemical engineer and mathematician known for his work in chemical reaction network theory.
Life
Born in New York, Feinberg received his undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 1962. A year later, he obtained his master's degree from Purdue University. In 1968, he received his PhD degree from Princeton University. The subject of the doctoral thesis is fluid mechanics and the advisor is William Schowalter.
After completing the PhD, he went to work at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, where he was a professor of chemical engineering until 1997. He then moved to The Ohio State University, where he serves as Richard M. Morrow Professor of Chemical Engineering and professor of mathematics.
Feinberg was a member of the editorial board of the Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis from 1978–1991.
Research
Together with F. J. M. Horn and Roy Jackson, Feinberg created chemical reaction network theory, a field of mathematics that connects the graphical and algebraic structure of chemical reaction networks with their dynamic behavior. He is best known for stating and proving the deficiency zero theorem (together with Horn and Jackson) and the deficiency one theorem. He has also articulated complete necessary and sufficient conditions for detailed balancing in mass-action systems.
More recently, Feinberg has turned his attention to problems arising from biology. Together with Gheorghe Craciun, he developed the theory of injective reaction networks and explored its implications for biochemistry. A current research focus (together with Guy Shinar) is the application of chemical reaction network theory to questions of robustness in biochemical reaction networks.
He has also worked with Richard Lavine on foundations of classical thermodynamics. Feinberg is the author of "Foundations of Chemical Reaction Network Theory," published in 2019 by Springer in its Applied Mathematical Sciences series.
Selected publications
Feinberg, M. (2019) "Foundations of Chemical Reaction Network Theory," Springer, Switzerland,
Feinberg, M. and R.B. Lavine, Foundations of the Clausius-Duhem Inequality, pp. 49–64 in New Perspectives in Thermodynamics (editor James Serrin), Springer-Verlag, Berlin- Heidelberg-New York (1986).
Notes
External links
Feinberg, M., Lectures on Chemical Reaction Networks, written versions of Lectures 1 - 5 (out of nine) delivered at the Mathematics Research Center, University of Wisconsin, fall, 1979
Living people
1942 births
Cooper Union alumni
Purdue University College of Engineering alumni
Princeton University alumni
University of Rochester faculty
Ohio State University faculty
American chemical engineers
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWFJ | KWFJ (89.7 FM, "Keep Working For Jesus") is a radio station broadcasting a religious format. Licensed to Roy, Washington, United States, the station is currently owned by Bible Broadcasting Network, Inc. and features BBN programming.
References
External links
WFJ
Mass media in Pierce County, Washington
Bible Broadcasting Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waze | Waze Mobile Ltd, (; ) doing business as Waze (), formerly FreeMap Israel, is a subsidiary company of Google that provides satellite navigation software on smartphones and other computers that support the Global Positioning System (GPS). In addition to turn-by-turn navigation, it incorporates user-submitted travel times and route details while downloading location-dependent information over a cellular network. Waze describes its application as a community-driven initiative that is free to download and use.
The software was originally developed in Israel by Waze Mobile, a company founded by Israeli entrepreneurs Ehud Shabtai, Amir Shinar, and Uri Levine. Funding for the initial project was provided by two Israeli venture capital firms, Magma and Vertex Ventures Israel, as well as by an early-stage American venture capital firm, Bluerun Ventures. In June 2013, Waze Mobile was acquired by Google for US$1.3 billion.
The application generates revenue through hyperlocal advertising to an estimated 130 million users.
History
Development
In 2006, Israeli programmer Ehud Shabtai founded a community project known as FreeMap Israel, which aimed to create (with the crowd-sourcing assistance of community users) a free digital mapping database of Israel compiled in the Hebrew language with ensured free content, updates, and distribution. In 2008, Shabtai formed a company called Waze to commercialize the initial project; in 2009, it was renamed to Waze Mobile Ltd.
In 2010, the company raised US$25 million in the second round of funding; an additional $30 million was raised in financing in the following year. The application was updated in 2011 to display real-time, community-curated points of interest, including local events such as street fairs and protests.
By December 2011, Waze had employed 80 people, 70 of whom were based in Raʽanana, Israel, with the remaining 10 based in Palo Alto, United States. In November 2012, the company began to monetize its application, offering resellers and advertisers a web interface to advertise based on location, where a small icon appears when a phone is at a particular location, prompting the user to engage. It also offers television news stations a web interface to broadcast current traffic reports and alerts directly from the Waze application; the service had been in use by 25 American television news stations by June 2013. It has also been used in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, inside Rio's Operations Center since July 24, 2013, as well as in the American states of New York and New Jersey since 2012.
In 2013, the GSM Association, a trade association of mobile network operators, gave Waze the Best Overall Mobile App award at the association's Mobile World Congress exhibition.
Acquisition by Google
In June 2013, Waze was acquired by Google for $1.3 billion. Waze's then-100 employees received about $1.2 million on average: the largest payout to employees in Israeli high tech.
In June 2013, the Federal Trade Commission (FT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry%20DeVeaux | Gerry DeVeaux is a Bahamian songwriter/producer and Creative Director. DeVeaux was a contributing editor for style magazine Tatler. He was style consultant for MTV Networks co-hosting shows like MTV Style and contributing to shows like Who Wore What. He was a Creative Director and Judge on the show Britain's Next Top Model and Style Director and judge for Scandinavia’s Next Top Model.
He was a guest presenter on Australia's Next Top Model sharing on-screen style tips with Elle Macpherson. DeVeaux also shared his fashion advice on Project Catwalk and in the Channel 4 series Slave to Fashion with June Sarpong. He served as style Ambassador for Sony Cybershot and co-hosted the Sony-sponsored Sydney Fashion week. His other projects include producing and presenting his own half-hour BBC programme Living Style with Gerry DeVeaux, shown globally on BBC World and an MTV special showing his behind the scenes perspective for the US launch of Topshop with Kate Moss. He was also Creative Director for the charity campaign Fashion Targets Breast Cancer.
Among his multi-platinum music hits were "Be My Baby" for French singer/actress Vanessa Paradis and international hits for Lenny Kravitz, including 'Heaven Help'. He wrote and produced hits for Kylie Minogue and Angie Stone whom he signed to his label/imprint DeVox Records. The DeVeaux co-produced Angie Stone album Black Diamond was voted Best Album of The Year in the U.S. by Billboard, and was an international platinum seller. He has written hits for Chaka Khan including "Never Miss the Water".
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
British magazine editors
British male songwriters
British television presenters
British television producers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi%20SR8000 | The Hitachi SR8000 is a high-performance supercomputer manufactured by the Japanese Hitachi Ltd. c. 2001. It comprises 4 to 512 nodes, each containing multiple Hitachi RISC microprocessors. Cooperative microprocessors are assigned to the same address space for synchronicity within each node.
In 2002, Yasumasa Kanada calculated the decimal expansion of pi to 1.24 trillion digits using this model.
References
External links
Hitachi SR8000 in Historical Computers in Japan
Hitachi supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Belgian%20films%20of%20the%201960s | A list of films produced in Belgium ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of Belgian films see :Category:Belgian films
External links
Belgian film at the Internet Movie Database
1960s
1960s in Belgium
Lists of 1960s films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Belgian%20films%20of%20the%201970s | A list of films produced in Belgium ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of Belgian films see :Category:Belgian films
Notes
External links
Belgian film at the Internet Movie Database
19070s
1970s in Belgium
Belgian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Belgian%20films%20of%20the%201980s | A list of films produced in Belgium ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of Belgian films see :Category:Belgian films
External links
Belgian film at the Internet Movie Database
1980s
1980s in Belgium
Belgian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Belgian%20films%20of%20the%201990s | A list of films produced in Belgium ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of Belgian films see :Category:Belgian films
External links
Belgian film at the Internet Movie Database
1990s
1990s in Belgium
Lists of 1990s films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20T | Leo T is a dwarf galaxy situated in the Leo constellation and discovered in 2006 in the data obtained by Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The galaxy is located at the distance of about 420 kpc from the Sun and moves away from the Sun with the velocity of about 35 km/s. The velocity with respect to the Milky Way is around −60 km/s implying a slow infall onto the Milky Way. Leo T is classified as a transitional object ('T' in the name) between dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSph) and dwarf irregular galaxies (dIrr). Its half-light radius is about 180 pc.
Leo T is one of the smallest and faintest galaxies in the Local Group—its integrated luminosity is about 40,000 times that of the Sun (absolute visible magnitude of about −7.1). However, its mass is about 8 million solar masses, which means that Leo's mass to light ratio is around 140. A high mass to light ratio implies that Leo T is dominated by dark matter.
Neutral hydrogen and star formation
The stellar population of Leo T consists of both old and young stars. The old stars probably formed from 12 to 6 billion years ago. The metallicity of these old stars is very low at , which means that they contain 100 times less heavy elements than the Sun. The observed old stars are primarily red giants, although a number of horizontal branch stars and red clump stars were also discovered. After a pause star formation activity resumed about 1 billion years ago resulting in a generation of blue young stars. These young stars, which comprise only about 10% of all stellar mass, appear to be more concentrated at the center of Leo T than the old population. Currently there is no star formation in this galaxy.
Leo T contains significant amount of neutral hydrogen (HI) gas with the mass of about 280,000 solar masses, which is three times more than the mass of the stars in this galaxy. The gas includes two main components: cool gas in the center of the galaxy with a temperature of about 500 K and warm gas distributed throughout Leo T with a temperature of 6,000 K. The density of this gas is, however, not enough on average for star formation, which indicates that local processes have a role. Still the presence of hydrogen gas implies that in the future the galaxy will begin forming stars again.
Leo T galaxy may have formed when a small dark matter halo started accretion of gas some time after the reionization epoch. Later this gas gave birth to the first generation of old stars.
Notes
References
Dwarf spheroidal galaxies
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Leo (constellation)
Local Group
Milky Way Subgroup
Astronomical objects discovered in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busan%20Metro%20Line%204 | Busan Metro Line 4 () is a rubber-tyred metro line of the Busan Metro network that connects part of Gijang-gun, Busan, and upper Haeundae-gu, Busan, into Dongnae-gu, Busan Korea. It is operated by the Busan Transportation Corporation. Opened on 30 March 2011, the line is a rapid transit (metro) system consisting of 14 stations - 8 underground, 1 on-ground, and 5 above-ground. The line color is blue. A trip through the entire line takes about 24 minutes. Unlike lines 1 to 3 of Busan Metro, the trains are driverless and run with pneumatic tires on concrete track (Roll way) between two guide bars. Line 4 was originally planned to be simply a branch of Line 3 (similar to Seoul Subway Line 2's Sinjeong and Seongsu branches), but was turned into its own line later.
Line 4's station signs have blue frames, sharing their design with the station sign design used in some stations of Line 1, such as Seomyeon and Dongnae. Their main body is white and circled by a blue frame and the station name is printed in big Hangul near the top with smaller English and Hanja names near the bottom, with the English name having the station number beside it. The arm that points to the next station has that station's name in it and a pointed end, while the arm that has the previous station's name printed on it and points to that station has a concave indent.
Lines 3 and 4
While Busan Metro Line 3 was being planned, the planners thought about making what is now Busan Metro Line 4 the 2nd phase of Busan Metro Line 3. However, for several reasons, they have made this 2nd phase into a new line called Busan Subway Line 4.
Archaeology
Compared to Line 3, Line 4 took quite a long time for its construction. There are many reasons for this; however the most significant one is that there were many artifacts found in the construction site of the line, including those from the time of the Three Kingdoms of Korea and the Joseon Dynasty. These artifacts had great historical value, so they caused the completion date of the line to be delayed from its original date of opening in 2008. Some of these artifacts are being displayed inside a historical museum dedicated to this in Suan Station (the museum opened on 28 January 2011).
Rolling stock
Woojin Industrial System Company Limited, supplied urban rubber tire trains for Line 4.
List of stations
All stations are in Busan.
See also
Busan Metro
Transportation in South Korea
References
External links
Introduction of Busan Metro Line 4 (Korean text)
4
Railway lines opened in 2011
Light rail in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Barbarossa%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Struggle%20for%20Russia | Operation Barbarossa – The Struggle for Russia is a turn-based strategy computer game and the only release by Binary Evolution Studios, a small independent development team based in Nuremberg, Germany. The game depicts the Eastern Front theatre from 1941–1945.
The gameplay is strongly influenced by Panzer General II and the graphics are displayed in a 3D environment using the OGRE Engine.
It was developed from December 2006 to August 2009 (English version). In February 2010 a German version was released.
Gameplay
Structure and content
In Operation Barbarossa – The Struggle for Russia, the player leads divisions of Germany, Romania or Russia through single scenarios or in campaigns, a string of scenarios each representing a specific battle on the Eastern Front.
The campaigns are strictly historical.
The first campaign is a small tutorial campaign of four scenarios length.
The second campaign Operation Barbarossa consists of nine scenarios and takes place from June to December 1941.
The third campaign Great Patriotic War also contains nine scenarios and leads the player through the Russian campaign from the defence of Moscow 1941 to the conquest of Berlin in 1945.
A smaller fourth campaign includes the German Operation Blau with four scenarios and depicts the German battles for the Caucasus.
Since Service Pack 1 there is a fifth campaign Army Group North is about the fights from the Prussian borders towards Leningrad in 1941.
Basic rules
The maps are divided in hexfields that represent about five square kilometer. The game provides fog of war so enemy units have to be spotted by own units. Each unit has a certain attack and spotting range.
Movement is influenced by weather and terrain.
Unit improvement
One of the most important differences to Panzer General is that special abilities can be added to units called upgrades in the game.
In a campaign the players units are kept from scenario to scenario (the core unit principle) and improve by gaining experience. Anytime a unit reaches a certain amount of experience the player may upgrade the unit with special abilities. There 47 different updates depending on the unit type (e.g. an AA unit has different upgrades than a tank unit) such as e.g."Sharp Shooter" that increases the attack value against infantry units.
Trivia
A leveleditor for making own scenarios is included.
Since version 1.20 the nations Great Britain and Italy were added to support a user made Africa Mod.
In March 2011 a tool called OBKonverter was released to make it easier to edit the game data.
In July 2011 a free so called "Service Pack 1" with a new campaign, new scenarios and graphics was released.
Reviews
GamersHall.de gives 7.6/10 - [Translated from German] There it is again, the good old Panzer General feeling. Operations looks a bit different and the gameplay is too, but it cannot deny its huge role model...I warmly recommend this to all lovers of Panzer General - you will not be disappointed!
EGC Games gives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Brown%20%28philatelist%29 | Mount Brown (1837-19 September 1919) was an early British philatelist and the compiler of only the second published stamp catalogue in the English language. Brown attended the City of London School and started to collect stamps in around 1860.
Catalogues
Mount Brown published his Catalogue of British, Colonial, and Foreign Postage Stamps in May 1862, just weeks after Frederick Booty published his catalogue in April 1862, however, Brown's catalogue was more successful and reckoned to be more complete. Unlike Booty, Brown's catalogue was unillustrated. Others, such as Dr. Viner, may already have prepared unpublished hand-written lists of stamps. Brown's catalogue was more successful than Booty's and went through 7500 copies and five editions up to 1864.
Brown largely compiled his catalogue in the Rectory of All Hallows Staining, and he believed that the church there was the one mentioned by Charles Dickens in Dombey & Son. Mount Brown had a collection of about 400 stamps but was able to list 1200 different types in his first catalogue with the help of a group of like-minded collectors who met on Saturday afternoons to pool their knowledge. These included Dr. Charles W. Viner, Henry Haslett, Frederick Philbrick, William Hughes-Hughes, Sir Daniel Cooper and the Rev. Francis J. Stainforth. The Rev. Stainforth in particular was said to have had a very fine collection which largely formed the basis for Brown's catalogue.
The catalogue was quickly plagiarised, by John Kline, writing as A.C. Kline, in 1862, and by W.H. Wright writing as "A Collector" in 1863. According to The Stamp Collectors Magazine, Brown was well aware of the plagiarism and had arranged for all copies of Wright's work to be surrendered to him for destruction. He had also taken steps to prevent the introduction of Kline's work to Great Britain.
Addenda to the catalogue were published in The Stamp Collector's Magazine, of which Mr Viner was editor 1863-67, and revisions to the format of the catalogue took place in the third edition, following contact between Mount Brown and Dr. Gray of the British Museum. The number of stamps listed also expanded and details of forgeries began to be included.
Philatelic business
As well as catalogues, a stamp album was available, billed as Mount Brown's Postage-Stamp or Crest Album, price seven and a half shillings, and lists of unused postage stamps.
By 1870 Brown's philatelic business was so great that he was forced to choose between it and his normal profession. He chose to give up philately but retained an interest, visiting the Junior Philatelic Society's exhibition in 1908 where he met Fred Melville.
Organised philately
The small group who met at All Hallows Staining formed the nucleus of what became The Philatelic Society, London, which eventually became the Royal Philatelic Society London. Mount Brown was not a member of The Philatelic Society, possibly because it was open only to amateurs.
Selected publications
Catalogue of British, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing%20with%20Memory | Computing with Memory refers to computing platforms where function response is stored in memory array, either one or two-dimensional, in the form of lookup tables (LUTs) and functions are evaluated by retrieving the values from the LUTs. These computing platforms can follow either a purely spatial computing model, as in field-programmable gate array (FPGA), or a temporal computing model, where a function is evaluated across multiple clock cycles. The latter approach aims at reducing the overhead of programmable interconnect in FPGA by folding interconnect resources inside a computing element. It uses dense two-dimensional memory arrays to store large multiple-input multiple-output LUTs. Computing with Memory differs from Computing in Memory or processor-in-memory (PIM) concepts, widely investigated in the context of integrating a processor and memory on the same chip to reduce memory latency and increase bandwidth. These architectures seek to reduce the distance the data travels between the processor and the memory. The Berkeley IRAM project is one notable contribution in the area of PIM architectures.
Details
Computing with memory platforms are typically used to provide the benefit of hardware reconfigurability. Reconfigurable computing platforms offer advantages in terms of reduced design cost, early time-to-market, rapid prototyping and easily customizable hardware systems. FPGAs present a popular reconfigurable computing platform for implementing digital circuits. They follow a purely spatial computing model. Since their inception in 1985, the basic structure of the FPGAs has continued to consist of two-dimensional array of Configurable Logic blocks (CLBs) and a programmable interconnect matrix. FPGA performance and power dissipation is largely dominated by the elaborate programmable interconnect (PI) architecture. An effective way of reducing the impact of the PI architecture in FPGA is to place small LUTs in close proximity (referred as clusters) and to allow intra-cluster communication using local interconnects. Due to the benefits of a clustered FPGA architecture, major FPGA vendors have incorporated it in their commercial products. Investigations have also been made to reduce the overhead due to PI in fine-grained FPGAs by mapping larger multi-input multi-output LUTs to embedded memory blocks. Although it follows a similar spatial computing model, part of the logic functions are implemented using embedded memory blocks while the remaining part is realized using smaller LUTs. Such a heterogeneous mapping can improve the area and performance by reducing the contribution of programmable interconnects.
Contrary to the purely spatial computing model of FPGA, a reconfigurable computing platform that employs a temporal computing model (or a combination of both temporal and spatial) has also been investigated in the context of improving performance and energy over conventional FPGA. These platforms, referred as Memory Based Computing (MBC), |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy-free%20PC | A legacy-free PC is a type of personal computer that lacks a floppy and/or optical disc drive, legacy ports, and an Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus (or sometimes, any internal expansion bus at all). According to Microsoft, "The basic goal for these requirements is that the operating system, devices, and end users cannot detect the presence of the following: ISA slots or devices; legacy floppy disk controller (FDC); and PS/2, serial, parallel, and game ports." The legacy ports are usually replaced with Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports. A USB adapter may be used if an older device must be connected to a PC lacking these ports. According to the 2001 edition of Microsoft's PC System Design Guide, a legacy-free PC must be able to boot from a USB device.
Removing older, usually bulkier ports and devices allows a legacy-free PC to be much more compact than earlier systems and many fall into the nettop or all-in-one form factor. Netbooks and ultrabooks could also be considered a portable form of a legacy-free PC. Legacy-free PCs can be more difficult to upgrade than a traditional beige box PC, and are more typically expected to be replaced completely when they become obsolete. Many legacy-free PCs include modern devices that may be used to replace ones omitted, such as a memory card reader replacing the floppy drive.
As the first decade of the 21st century progressed, the legacy-free PC went mainstream, with legacy ports removed from commonly available computer systems in all form factors. However, the PS/2 keyboard connector still retains some use, as it can offer some uses (e.g. implementation of n-key rollover) not offered by USB.
With those parts becoming increasingly rare on newer computers as of the late 2010s and early 2020s, the term "legacy-free PC" itself have also become increasingly rare.
History
Late 1980s
In 1987, IBM released the IBM PS/2 line with new internal architecture; the BIOS and the new PS/2 port and VGA port was introduced, but this line was heavily criticized for a relatively high-closed proprietary architecture and low compatibility with PC-cloned hardware.
1990s
In 1998, Apple's iMac G3 was introduced as the first widely known example of a legacy-free PC, and drew much criticism for its lack of legacy peripherals such as a floppy drive and Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) connector; However, its success popularized USB ports.
Compaq released the iPaq desktop in 1999.
From November 1999 to July 2000, Dell's WebPC was an early less-successful Wintel legacy-free PC.
2000s
More legacy-free PCs were introduced around 2000 after the prevalence of USB and broadband internet made many of the older ports and devices obsolete. They largely took the form of low-end, consumer systems with the motivation of making computers less expensive, easier to use, and more stable and manageable. The Dell Studio Hybrid, Asus Eee Box and MSI Wind PC are examples of later, more-successful Intel-based legacy-free PCs.
Apple introduced the Ap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crackout%20%28video%20game%29 | is a video game by Konami that was released in Japan for the Family Computer Disk System on December 13, 1986, and in Europe and Australia for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991. It is a Breakout clone, with some additional elements not normally found in other games in the genre.
Gameplay
The object of the game is to clear levels by either destroying all bricks or defeating the enemies.
There are four zones of eleven levels each. The zones are Cubic Zone, Mirror Zone, Tube Zone and Final Zone. This game differs from the original Breakout as it contained enemies on screen that could be hit to gain power ups. Powerups included a parachute to slow the ball down, multiple balls, or projectiles. There were also level warps in the form of Konami Man, who would fly from top to bottom of the play area. There were typically one to three enemies on screen at once, appearing out of a trapdoor in the top corners, or let in through the side walls. Every few levels there was also a boss, ranging from a small dragon to a centipede. The bosses changed colour from Green to Blue to Pink, each time increasing in speed. Each level also contained a hidden letter which made up a password presented at the end of the game (Zone 4 Level 11).
If this was not input correctly, the player restarted the game from the beginning. If the player input the password correctly, they were shown the end credits which consisted of a procession of the enemies from the game. The password is MERRYCHRISTMAS.
References
External links
Crackout at GameFAQs
1986 video games
Action games
Breakout clones
Famicom Disk System games
Konami games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma%20Mesonet | The Oklahoma Mesonet is a network of environmental monitoring stations designed to measure the environment at the size and duration of mesoscale weather events. The phrase "mesonet" is a portmanteau of the words mesoscale and network.
The network consists of 120 automated stations covering Oklahoma and each of Oklahoma's counties has at least one station. At each site, the environment is measured by a set of instruments located on or near a -tall tower. The measurements are packaged into “observations” and transmitted to a central facility every 5 minutes, 24 hours per day, every day of the year.
Oklahoma Mesonet is a cooperative venture between Oklahoma State University (OSU) and the University of Oklahoma (OU) and is supported by the taxpayers of Oklahoma. It is headquartered at the National Weather Center (NWC) on the OU campus.
Observations are available free of charge to the public.
Background
According to the Tulsa World, creation of the Oklahoma Mesonet resulted from the inability of emergency management officials to plan for the May 26–27, 1984 flood that killed 14 people in the Tulsa area. The 1984 flood demonstrated that emergency managers could not receive accurate and adequate data quickly enough about the progress of flooding from airport radars, updated hourly. The University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University collaborated with the Climatological Survey and other public and private agencies to create the Oklahoma Mesonet. This system collects weather information (e.g., wind speed, rainfall, temperature) every 5 minutes from 121 Mesonet stations throughout Oklahoma. Emergency planners can now monitor up-to-date weather information in advance of the arrival of an approaching storm. The article quoted an official of the Tulsa Area Emergency Management as saying that his staff uses the Oklahoma Mesonet every day.
Products
The Oklahoma Mesonet produces multiple weather products for public consumption and download: these include maps of all of the meteorological variables updated every five minutes to show the latest observations and time series plots of a station (called meteograms) over a given period of time. Historical data can be plotted using the Oklahoma Mesonet's Long Term Average tools.
See also
Flooding and flood control in Tulsa
References
External links
Mesonet.org
Oklahoma Mesonet Oral History Project
Organizations based in Oklahoma
Meteorological data and networks
Organizations established in 1994
1994 establishments in Oklahoma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20data%20modeling%20tools | This article is a comparison of data modeling tools which are notable, including standalone, conventional data modeling tools and modeling tools supporting data modeling as part of a larger modeling environment.
General
Features
See also
Comparison of database administration tools
List of Unified Modeling Language tools
Data modeling
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donn%20B.%20Parker | Donn B. Parker (1929 – October 9, 2021) was an information security researcher and consultant and a 2001 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. Parker had over 50 years of experience in the computer field in computer programming, computer systems management, consulting, teaching, and research.
Early life and education
Parker earned BA (1952) and MA (1954) degrees in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Career
Parker was a senior research engineer and systems manager for General Dynamics for eight years and Control Data Corporation for eight years. He retired in 1997.
In 2002, Parker proposed the Parkerian Hexad, six atomic and orthogonal elements of information security that extend the traditional model of Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (the CIA triad).
He later became a retired emeritus senior consultant engaged in writing and lecturing, and his collected papers are archived at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota. Parker passed away at the age of 91 on September 22, 2021.
Lectures
Parker lectured at conferences, seminars, and universities worldwide. He was the subject writer on computer crime for the Encyclopædia Britannica, Groliers Encyclopedia, Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, and the Encyclopedia of Computer Science. Parker lectured for the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, Churchill Club of Silicon Valley, many universities, and the World Organization of Detectives.
Memberships
Parker became active in the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 1954. He was elected Secretary of the ACM from 1966 to 1970 while serving on the ACM Council from 1964 to 1974 and was chairman of the professional standards and practices committee for several years. In addition, he is a member of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). He was the consulting editor and columnist for the Journal of Information Systems Security (Auerbach) from 1994 to 1997.
Parker was involved with many other organizations. He is a grantee of the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Justice, and was the founder in 1986 (while at SRI International) of the International Information Integrity Institute (I-4) an ongoing confidential service to large, international corporations and governments now owned and operated by KPMG-UK.
Awards
In 1992, Parker received the Information Systems Security Association's Individual Achievement Award. In 1994, U.S. NIST/NSA awarded him the 1994 National Computer System Security Award and the Aerospace Computer Security Associates named him their Distinguished Lecturer. In 1996, he received MIS Infosecurity News' Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 1998, the Information Security Magazine profiled him as one of the top five “Infosecurity Pioneers,” In 2001 he was named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery “[f]or contributions to information security and professio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Adventure%20Time%20episodes | Adventure Time is an American animated television media franchise created by Pendleton Ward for Cartoon Network. The first series, Adventure Time (2010–2018), follows the adventures of Finn (voiced by Jeremy Shada), a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (John DiMaggio), a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo. Throughout the series, they interact with the show's other main characters: Princess Bubblegum (Hynden Walch), the sovereign of the Candy Kingdom and a sentient piece of gum; the Ice King (Tom Kenny), a demented but largely misunderstood ice wizard; Marceline the Vampire Queen (Olivia Olson), a thousand-year-old vampire and rock music enthusiast; Lumpy Space Princess (Pendleton Ward), a melodramatic and immature princess made out of "irradiated stardust"; BMO (Niki Yang), a sentient video game console-shaped robot that lives with Finn and Jake; and Flame Princess (Jessica DiCicco), a flame elemental and ruler of the Fire Kingdom. The pilot first aired in 2007 on Nicktoons Network, where it was later re-aired on the incubator series Random! Cartoons. The pilot was eventually uploaded onto the internet and became a cult hit on YouTube. After Nickelodeon declined to turn the short into a full-fledged show, Cartoon Network purchased the rights, and Adventure Time launched as a series on April 5, 2010. The series concluded its eight-year and ten-season run on September 3, 2018. The series was followed by two limited-run spinoffs: Adventure Time: Distant Lands (202021) and Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake (2023).
Each Adventure Time episode is about eleven minutes in length; pairs of episodes are often telecast in order to fill a half-hour program time slot. For the first five seasons, the show aired on Monday nights. However, starting with the early sixth-season episode "Breezy", the show began to shift both its timeslot and its day of airing. Upon its debut, Adventure Time was a ratings success for Cartoon Network, with its highest-rated episodes scoring over 3 million viewers. The show received universal acclaim from critics and has developed a strong following among teenagers and adults, many of whom are attracted due to the series' animation, stories, and characters. Adventure Time has won three Annie Awards, eight Primetime Emmy Awards, two British Academy Children's Awards, a Motion Picture Sound Editors Award, a Pixel Award, a Peabody Award, and a Kerrang! Award. The series has also been nominated for three Critics' Choice Television Awards, two Annecy Festival Awards, a TCA Award, and a Sundance Film Festival Award, among others. Domestically, several compilation DVDs containing a random assortment of episodes have been released; additionally, all the seasons have been released in North America on DVD and seasons one to six were released on Blu-ray. All seasons were released on Blu-ray in Australia only. A North American box set con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sym-Bionic%20Titan | Sym-Bionic Titan is an American animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky (in his fourth collaboration with the channel), Bryan Andrews and Paul Rudish for Cartoon Network. The series focuses on a trio consisting of the alien princess Ilana, the strict but rebellious alien soldier Lance, and the robot Octus, who arrive on Earth and combine themselves to create the titular Sym-Bionic Titan.
A preview of the series was first shown at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con International, and further details were revealed at Cartoon Network's 2010 upfront. The series premiered on September 17, 2010, and ended on April 9, 2011, with a total of 20 episodes as ordered by the channel; Tartakovsky had hoped to expand on that, but the series was not renewed for a second season, as it "did not have any toys connected to it".
While Sym-Bionic Titan has never been released to DVD in the United States, all 20 episodes were available for purchase on iTunes and the Microsoft Store. On October 7, 2012, reruns of the series began airing on Adult Swim's Toonami block along with the 2011 television series of ThunderCats until Cartoon Network wrote-off Sym-Bionic Titan for the shows financial reasons in September 2014. The series was later released on Netflix in 2019, but was removed from the service in December 2020.
Premise
Billed as "an exciting hybrid of high school drama and giant robot battles", Sym-Bionic Titan features "the adventures of three beings from the planet Galaluna who crash-land on Earth while attempting to escape their war-torn world". The series follows the lives of Lance (voiced by Kevin Thoms), Ilana (voiced by Tara Strong) and Octus (voiced by Brian Posehn), two alien teenagers and a robot respectively in the form of humanoids living on Earth, an "identical" planet to Galaluna, while fleeing an evil general who has taken over their home planet with the help of monstrous creatures called Mutraddi. Ilana is the kind princess of the Galalunan royal family, Lance is a dark-hearted but capable soldier and Octus is a bio-cybernetic robot created by Ilana's father to protect her: all three having to now pose as normal high school students to blend into everyday life in Sherman, Illinois so Lance and Octus can conceal Ilana from General Modula (Don Leslie) and his hideous space mutants sent to kill the sole heir of Galaluna and complete his conquest.
When called into battle, the Galalunans are outfitted with individual armor that provides more than ample protection. It is when the gravest of danger appears that Octus activates the sym-bionic defense program and he, Ilana, and Lance unite "Heart (Ilana), Body (Lance) and Mind (Octus)" and come together to form the spectacular cyber-giant, Sym-Bionic Titan.
Production
Series co-creator Genndy Tartakovsky, best known for creating Dexter's Laboratory, Star Wars: Clone Wars and Samurai Jack for Cartoon Network, drew inspiration for the show from many sources. He grew up with various mecha anime s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20University%2C%20Hpa-An | Computer University, Hpa-An () is located on the west bank of Salween river near the city of Hpa-an Township, Kayin State in Myanmar. The university is administered by the Ministry of Science and Technology (Myanmar).
History
Computer University, Hpa-An was formerly opened as Government Computer College (GCC) on 3 September 2001. The university was then promoted to university level on 20 January 2007.
Department
Software Department
Hardware Department
Burmese Department
English Department
Mathematics Department
Graduate programs
Post Graduate Programs
Undergraduate program
References
External links
Computer University (Hpa-An) in google books
Educational institutions established in 2001
Technological universities in Myanmar
Buildings and structures in Kayin State
Arts and Science universities in Myanmar
2001 establishments in Myanmar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20University%2C%20Myitkyina | The Computer University, Myitkyina is situated in No. 21/23 between ZawJun and Taryoe street in the Shansu (south) quarter, in Myitkyina, capital city of Kachin State in Myanmar. On 20 January 2007, GCC (Myitkyina) was promoted to the Computer University (Myitkyina).
Program
Post Graduate
Post Graduate Diploma
Graduate Degree
Undergraduate program
Department
Software Department and its responsibilities
Hardware Department and its responsibilities
Myanmar Department and its responsibilities
English Department and its responsibilities
Website
https://web.archive.org/web/20110719005332/http://www.ucsy.edu.mm/myitkyinacu/index.php
Technological universities in Myanmar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blab%20TV | Blab TV is a local television channel in Pensacola, Florida, United States. It airs local programming as well as locally produced infomercials for businesses in the Florida Panhandle. Blab TV programming airs on local cable systems and on WPAN (channel 53), a broadcast station serving the Mobile–Pensacola region.
History
Blab TV (originally stylized BLAB-TV, a backronym for Basic Local Area Broadcasting or Basic Local Audience Broadcasting) was started by Fred Vigodsky and debuted on February 1, 1984, with a 90-minute program aired through local cable systems; Vigodsky owned the network until its 2016 sale to a consortium of Doug Bunze, John Tolan, and Eric Ober. During the time he owned it, Vigdosky expanded its reach from the Florida panhandle to the broader Gulf Coast region; it even briefly expanded beyond to New Orleans and Richmond, Virginia. It also appeared on broadcast television for the first time when it leased 37 hours a week from WPAN, at the time an inactive station. By 1994, 400,000 Mobile–Pensacola-area cable viewers had access to BLAB. The next year, BLAB moved into new studios in the former J. C. Penney store in downtown Pensacola.
Joe Scarborough used Blab TV in his 1994 campaign to run for Florida's 1st congressional district.
In 2011, Blab TV leased a subchannel on WFBD, a regional television station, expanding its reach. Since October 2020, it has returned to WPAN, airing as its main subchannel.
References
External links
Television stations in the Mobile–Pensacola market
Television channels and stations established in 1984
1984 establishments in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awesome%20%28window%20manager%29 | awesome is a dynamic window manager for the X Window System developed in the C and Lua programming languages. Lua is also used for configuring and extending the window manager. Its development began as a fork of dwm. It aims to be extremely small and fast, yet extensively customizable. It makes it possible for the user to manage windows with the use of keyboard.
The fork was initially nicknamed jdwm, where "jd" denoted the principal programmer's initials and dwm denoted the software project it was forked from. The first git repository for what was to become awesome was set up in September 2007. jdwm was renamed to awesome, named after the same phrase used by the How I Met Your Mother character Barney Stinson. awesome was officially announced on the dwm mailing list on September 20, 2007.
Aim
awesome has emerged as a dwm fork featuring customization through external configuration files (see Configuration and customization below). Although highly extensible, the default setup of the window manager is deliberately simplified. In doing so, the author has created what he calls a framework window manager for users to expand and adapt to their own needs.
Features
Configured via a Lua configuration file.
Like dwm and wmii, awesome uses tags instead of workspaces. Windows can be assigned to several tags, and multiple tags can be selected at the same time.
As a dynamic window manager, awesome can switch between different layouts for each tag, including floating, several dynamic tiling layouts, maximized and magnifier.
Multiple and per screen status bars, including a variety of widgets (text and icon boxes, graphs, progress bars, and so on).
Everything can be done with the keyboard, so usage of a mouse is optional.
Multihead support (XRandR, Xinerama or Zaphod mode).
Implements freedesktop.org standards including EWMH, XDG Base Directory, XEmbed, Desktop Notification and System Tray.
Compositing and true transparency support through an external compositor such as xcompmgr.
Remote control via D-Bus (awesome-client).
Supports the pango markup language.
Configuration and customization
From the very beginning, awesome was conceived as a dwm fork with an external configuration file. As such, its configuration file format, and the process of configuration itself, was subject to special attention by the author.
Early configuration file formats
Prior to the third major release, one of awesome's features was what Danjou termed a 'no complicated configuration'. First versions of awesome (1.x) were simple modification of dwm with flat file configuration which used libconfig. In 2.x branch, Danjou changed the configuration library from libconfig to libconfuse, a different flat file configuration library, somewhat resembling libconfig. During the development of 2.x releases, many customization features were added to awesome, such as titlebars and icon drawing.
New configuration file
On May 20, 2008, Danjou announced in an e-mail to the awesome mailin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20University%2C%20Sittwe | University of Computer Studies in Sittway (UCSS) is located in Pyitawthar quarter, Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar. It was formerly opened as Government Computer College on 1 October 2001, and was promoted to university level on 20 January 2007. Professor Dr. Zaw Tun (PhD (IT)) is the principal of University of Computer Studies (Sittway). In 2018, there are over 300 students in University of Computer Studies (Sittway).
Department
Faculty of Computer Systems and Technologies
Faculty of Computer Science
Faculty of Information Science
Faculty of Computing
Department of Languages
Department of Natural Science
Department of Information Technology Support and Maintenance
Programs
Technological universities in Myanmar
Sittwe
Buildings and structures in Rakhine State
External links
Online Learning Management System - Computer University Sittwe
Official website |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20University%2C%20Loikaw | Computer University, Loikaw is a university in Loikaw, Kayah State, Burma. It is near the Loikaw Airport. It was founded as the Government Computer College on February 21, 2001, and it became a university on January 20, 2007.
Academic departments
Faculty of Software Department
Faculty of Hardware Department
Faculty of Information Science Department
Myanmar Department
English Department
Programs
Postgraduate
Graduate degrees
Undergraduate program
External links
Official site
Technological universities in Myanmar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20University%2C%20Pyay | The University of Computer Studies, Pyay (), is a university in Pyay, Bago Region, Myanmar, offering courses in computer science and information technology.
Background History
University of Computer Studies, Pyay is a government funded university located in Pyay, Bago Region with an emphasis is on computer engineering at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Founded in 2004 as a Government Computer College (GCC) and during the first year of GCC only computer application trainings were offered. Starting from 2005, undergraduate student admissions have begun. In 2007, Government Computer College (Pyay) became a university named Computer University (Pyay). Its name was changed to University of Computer Studies (Pyay) in the year 2017. The campus has an area of 17.68 acres and lies to the south of 081/2 milestone on the highway from Pyay to Aunglan.
Degrees Offered
Bachelor of Computer Science (B.C.Sc.)
Bachelor of Computer Technology (B.C.Tech.)
Departments
Faculty of Computer Systems and Technologies ()
Faculty of Computer Science ()
Faculty of Information Science ()
Faculty of Computing ()
Myanmar Department ()
English Department ()
Physics Department ()
Application Department ()
Library Department ()
Maintenance Department ()
Administrative Department ()
Finance Department ()
Student Affair ()
Courses
First Year Computer Science & Technology
Second Year Computer Science
Second Year Computer Technology
Third Year Computer Science
Third Year Computer Technology
Fourth Year Computer Science
Fourth Year Computer Technology
Fifth Year Computer Science
Fifth Year Computer Technology
References
Technological universities in Myanmar
Universities and colleges in Bago Region |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaisa%20Sere | Kaisa Sere (3 June 1954 – 5 December 2012) was a Finnish computer scientist, specialising in research into formal methods.
Kaisa Sere was born 3 June 1954 in Gamlakarleby. She received an MSc in mathematics in 1979 and a PhD in computer science in 1990, both from Åbo Akademi University in Turku, southern Finland. She undertook formal methods research in action systems, distributed systems, hardware design, neural networks, and program refinement. She undertook joint research with Ralph-Johan Back and was involved in many collaborative European research projects. She also supervised 19 PhD students.
During 1984–5, Sere was a lecturer at Ohio State University in the United States. During 1991–2, she was a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the Utrecht University in the Netherlands. During 1993–8, she held an Associate Professorship at the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics in the University of Kuopio in Finland. In 1997, she became a Docent of Computer Science in the same department in 1997. During 1998–9, she held a senior research professorship funded by the Academy of Finland. In 1998, she became a full professor of Computer Science and Engineering in the Department of Information Technology at Åbo Akademi University. She held a senior researcher position from the Academy of Finland during 2010–11. Sere was also affiliated with the Turku Center for Computer Science (TUCS) and a member of the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering for the Academy of Finland.
Publications
Sere's books included:
Emil Sekerinski and Kaisa Sere, Program Development by Refinement: Case Studies Using the B Method. Springer-Verlag, Formal Approaches to Computing and Information Technology (FACIT), 1998. .
Michael Butler, Luigia Petre, and Kaisa Sere (editors), Integrated Formal Methods, Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 2335, 2002. .
References
External links
1954 births
2012 deaths
Åbo Akademi University alumni
Academic staff of Åbo Akademi University
Formal methods people
People from Kokkola
Finnish women computer scientists
20th-century women scientists
Finnish women academics
Place of death missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic%20Air%20Command%20Digital%20Information%20Network | The Strategic Air Command DIgital Network (SACDIN) was a United States military computer network that provided computerized record communications, replacing the Data Transmission Subsystem and part of the Data Display Subsystem of the SAC Automated Command and Control System.
SACDIN enabled a rapid flow of communications from headquarters SAC to its fielded forces, such as B-52 bases and ICBM Launch Control Centers.
Logistics
Major portions of SACDIN were developed, engineered and installed by the International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) company, under contract to the Electronic Systems Center.
Chronology
1969
- Headquarters SAC submits a request to the Joint Chiefs of Staff to study an expanded communications system, known as the SAC Total Information Network (SATIN). It would interconnect Air Force Satellite Communications (AFSATCOM), Advanced Airborne Command Post (AABNCP), Airborne Command Post (ABNCP), high frequency/single sideband radio HF/SSB radio, SAC Automated Command and Control System (SACCS), Automatic Digital Information Network (AUTODIN), Survivable Low Frequency Communications System (SLFCS) and Command Data Buffer (CDB)
1977
1 November - SATIN IV was effectively terminated by Congress. The restructured program was renamed SAC Digital Network (SACDIN), and was formulated to meet SAC's minimum essential data communications requirements, but also had the capability to grow in a modular fashion.
1986
?? ??? - SACDIN replaces much of the SAC Automated Command and Control System (SACCS) and the SAC Automated Total Information Network (SATIN)
See also
Strategic Automated Command and Control System (SACCS) - precursor (and resurrected successor) to SACDIN
Post Attack Command and Control System (PACCS)
Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS)
Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN)
Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN)
Survivable Low Frequency Communications System (SLFCS)
Primary Alerting System (PAS)
References
United States nuclear command and control
Computer networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Force%20Satellite%20Communications | The United States military's Air Force Satellite Communications (AFSATCOM) is a network of ground and space systems to allow rapid dissemination of communications to a worldwide audience. AFSATCOM's creation was during the height of the Cold War to guarantee that Emergency Action Messages would be received by Strategic Air Command nuclear forces.
Operations
AFSATCOM operations used leased transponders off United States Navy Fleet Satellite Communications (FLTSATCOM) satellites for EAM transmission.
See also
Strategic Automated Command and Control System (SACCS)
Post Attack Command and Control System (PACCS)
Airborne Launch Control System (ALCS)
Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN)
Minimum Essential Emergency Communications Network (MEECN)
Survivable Low Frequency Communications System (SLFCS)
Primary Alerting System (PAS)
Strategic Air Command Digital Information Network (SACDIN)
References
United States nuclear command and control |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20international%20Turner%20Classic%20Movies%20channels | Turner Classic Movies, a movie-oriented network that was originally established as a cable channel in the United States, has expanded to include worldwide versions.
History in the United States
Launch and contributions (1994–1996)
Turner Classic Movies debuted on April 14, 1994, at 6 p.m. Eastern Time, with Ted Turner launching the channel at a ceremony in New York City's Times Square district. The date and time were chosen for their historical significance as "the exact centennial anniversary of the first public movie showing in New York City". The first movie broadcast on TCM was the 1939 film Gone with the Wind, the same film that served as the debut broadcast of its sister channel TNT six years earlier on October 3, 1988. At the time of its launch, Turner Classic Movies was available to approximately one million cable television subscribers.
The network originally served as a competitor to AMC, which at the time was known as "American Movie Classics" and maintained a virtually identical format to Turner Classic Movies, as both networks largely focused on films released prior to 1970 and aired them in an uncut, uncolorized, and commercial-free format.
Time Warner ownership (1996–2018)
In 1996, Turner Broadcasting System merged with Time Warner which, besides placing Turner Classic Movies and Warner Bros. Entertainment under the same corporate umbrella, also gave Turner Classic Movies access to Warner Bros.' library of films released after 1950 (which itself includes other acquired entities such as the Lorimar, Saul Zaentz and National General Pictures libraries); incidentally, Turner Classic Movies had already been running select Warner Bros. film titles through a licensing agreement with the studio that was signed prior to the launch of the channel.
In the early 2000s, AMC abandoned its commercial-free format, which led to Turner Classic Movies being the only movie-oriented basic cable channel to devote its programming entirely to classic films without commercial interruption or content editing. By 2002, AMC had broadened its film content to feature colorized and more recent films.
TCM Movie Database (2006–2019)
Launched in 2006, Turner Classic Movies maintains its own comprehensive database of actors, actresses, and film crew (listing more than 1.25 million people, with 15,000 written biographies), and motion picture titles (more than 130,000 titles), not limited to the film libraries that Turner Classic Movies owns, and it includes links by which a user can request that Turner Classic Movies schedule any title for viewing. TCM Movie Database has lost some functionality. The portal page is now unavailable, yet database entries are still available and function. Richard B. Steiner was the creator, architect, and supervisor of TCM Movie Database. By 2013, the Watch TCM app for iOS, Android, and Blackberry had some TCM Movie Database information. Leonard Maltin's reviews appear in the TCM Movie Database.
Corporate restructuring (2019– |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meravigliosa%20creatura | "Meravigliosa creatura" is a song by Italian rock vocalist Gianna Nannini, written by Mara Redeghieri, vocalist at Ustmamò. The single was simultaneously on air at different radio networks on 1 January 1995, one minute after midnight, and it anticipates the release of the album Dispetto, expected on 13 February of the same year in all Europe. In 2004, it was featured on the album Perle with a new arrangement of the song, a new slow version with piano and chord instruments that will be finished as a last arrangement of February 2007, 3 years after the album Perlo was released. The final arrangement was chosen as the soundtrack for the Fiat Bravo spot, helping the piece to get in the charts. It was not released as a single, but the sales of the piece was mostly by internet download. Incredibly, the piece reaches the number one in charts, for the third time in the singer musical career; it had to pass 17 years until Gianna Nannini reached the singles top.
Charts
Certifications
References
External links
1995 singles
Gianna Nannini songs |
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