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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B3bert%20Lovas | Róbert Lovas is a Hungarian computer scientist at SZTAKI, Budapest, Hungary.
Biography
Lovas was born in Hungary. He received his MSc degree in electrical engineering in 1998, and PhD degree in informatics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 2006. He is currently the Deputy Director of the Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI).
Research interests
High-level programming languages, workflow-oriented tools, and integrated software engineering environments (covering the entire life cycle) for parallel, distributed, and Grid systems,
Clusters, supercomputers, Grid systems and their applications in science and business areas,
Automated correctness debugging of parallel and distributed programs including specification, formal modelling, verification, replay/active control, and execution visualisation techniques.
Scientific merits
From 1997 he has been involved in several national (ChemistryGrid, HAGRID, WEB2GRID), intergovernmental bilateral, and European research projects in the Framework Programmes 4-7 (FP4: WINPAR; FP5: CAST; FP6: GridCoord, EGEE-I-II, CancerGrid, CoreGrid; FP7: Enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science (EDGeS), ETICS-II, EGEE-III).
In the HARNESS project (US/DoE) he worked as an exchange researcher at the Department of Math and Computer Science, Emory University (Georgia, Atlanta) in 2000. He has long-running experience in ICT collaborations with academic organizations, universities, and enterprises from various application areas of meteorology, biotechnology, computational chemistry, and telecommunication. He is a co-author or co-editor of more than 35 scientific papers and books on parallel software engineering and Grid computing particularly from design, debugging and application aspects. As lecturer and tutor, he gave more than 100 presentations and demonstrations on international scientific events, meetings, and exhibitions in Europe, the USA, and Asia.
He has received the following awards and scholarships:
2011 Exhibit Third Prize at FET11 - The European Future Technologies Conference and Exhibition (awarded by the European Commission)
2008 Institute Award, Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2002 Award of Aspirants and PhD Students (1st place in the 3rd year), Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2002 Excellent Talk Award. The Third Conference of PhD Students in Computer Science, Hungary
2000 Research Scholarship (6 months): Department of Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
He is the coordinator of the European DEGISCO project, a member of the Technical Committee of the Hungarian Grid Competence Center, and the Grid Application Support Center (MTA SZTAKI/GASuC). He was the deputy member of the Project Management Board of the European ETICS-2 consortium, and the Scientific Steering Committee of the CANCERGRID project; and the activity leader of the European EDGeS res |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hidden%20Enemy | "The Hidden Enemy" is the sixteenth episode of the first season of the American animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. It originally aired on February 6, 2009 on Cartoon Network.
The episode was directed by Steward Lee and written by Drew Z. Greenberg.
In its original broadcast, "The Hidden Enemy" was watched by 2.51 million people. The episode received positive reviews from television critics.
Plot
Anakin and Obi-Wan lead Republic forces in an attempt to defeat the droid armies and free the planet of Christophsis from the Separatist siege. When the Republic is ambushed and forced to retreat, it becomes clear that someone in their midst has set them up. The Jedi believe this infiltration is a Sith-backed operation and go behind enemy lines to investigate. Meanwhile, Captain Rex and Commander Cody set out to uncover the traitor amongst them. While they at first suspect Chopper to be the traitor, a slip by Slick during the interrogation reveals him to be the traitor. In the subsequent chase Slick takes out the weapon arsenal, but manage to find him in the command center, where they confront him. He reveals his motive to be freedom from always following orders. In the meantime the Jedi return to Christophsis, where they encounter Ventress, whom they are fighting. Ventress eventually lures Anakin and Obi-Wan into an ambush, which they manage to escape.
Production
"The Hidden Enemy" was directed by Steward Lee and written by Drew Z. Greenberg, with Brian Larsen as staff writer. The production code of the episode was 2.01.
Regarding the plot of the episode, Lee said "I thought it was interesting because the clone's logic is understandable", adding "he no longer wants to be just a slave to the Jedi, and wants to try and break that infrastructure. He thinks he's doing the right thing for all the clones and that the sacrifice is worth it". Lee also said that the episode created "an interesting beginning of something to come", and questioned how many other clone troopers could possibly break from the Galactic Republic. Greenberg viewed the episode as "all about the brotherhood, and how far those boundaries stretch", saying that "Even the guy who turns out to be the bad guy makes the case that he was doing it for his brothers. This is about what it means to be a clone and what it means to be part of that brotherhood".
Dave Filoni, the supervising director of the series, refers to the betrayal of the Republic by a clone trooper as them having "gone Jango", saying that "they have a little too much of Jango Fett in them".
The episode went through numerous changes during production. Slick was originally planned to have red hair in the episode. However, when rendered, the dark hair model that was standard for clone troopers was used instead, helping him blend in with the rest of the clones rather than stick out as a potential suspect. The script of the episode had the opening sequence feature the clone troopers preparing a combat droid kno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheezburger%2C%20Inc. | Cheezburger, Inc., previously known as Pet Holdings, Inc., is the parent and holding company for the Cheezburger Network, a collection of websites best known for I Can Has Cheezburger?, Fail Blog, I Hasa Hot Dog, and others.
Websites
I Can Has Cheezburger?
I Has A Hotdog
Very Demotivational
Acting Like Animals
Babies Making Faces
Comixed
Cracked.com
Crazy Things Parents Say
Friends of Irony
My Food Looks Funny
FAIL Blog
There I Fixed It
Engrish Funny
Failbooking
Learn From My Fail
Monday Through Friday
Poorly Dressed
Probably Bad News
That Will Buff Out
Wedinator
ROFLrazzi
GraphJam
Up Next In Sports
Pundit Kitchen
Totally Looks Like
Ridiculous Poses
Tweetbaggery
The Daily What
Picture Is Unrelated
This Is Photobomb
Autocomplete Me
Lovely Listing
Hacked IRL
Oddly Specific
It Made My Day
EpicWinFTW
Once Upon A Win
Babysaur
Memebase
Know Your Meme
Daily Squee
Epicute
Must Have Cute
References
Companies based in Seattle
Online mass media companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RKO%20%28disambiguation%29 | RKO refers to RKO Pictures, an American film company.
RKO may also refer to:
Organisations
RKO General, holding company for General Tire and Rubber Company up to 1981
RKO Radio Network, a subsidiary of RKO General
Rutten Komt Op, a football team of Rutten, Flevoland
Other
Reichskommissariat Ostland, Nazi-controlled Baltic territory in WWII
A wrestling jumping cutter used by Randy Orton as a finisher
See also
Rated-RKO, a former wrestling team |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen%20Game%20Collective | Copenhagen Game Collective (CGC) is a multi-gender, multi-national, non-profit game design collective based in Copenhagen, Denmark. The collective comprises a tight network of different companies, non-commercial projects, and creative individuals.
CGC creates games of all types: browser-based games, pervasive games, card games, board games, wiimote games, social network games, mods, interactive stories, and other hybrids.
Copenhagen Game Collective has organized several game related events, including the first games and play festival in Copenhagen called w00t.
Research
Some research papers and studies are done or published in relation to CGC, including:
P. Jarnfelt, S. Selvig, D. Dimovska. Towards Tailoring Player Experience in Physical Wii Games: A Case Study on Relaxation. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference (ACE ‘09). Athens, Greece. October, 2009.
D. Wilson, D. Dimovska, S. Selvig, P. Jarnfelt. Face-off in the Magic Circle: Getting Players to Look at Each Other, not the Screen. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology Conference (ACE ‘09). Athens, Greece. October, 2009.
D. Wilson, M. Sicart. Abusing the Player, and Making Them Like it Too! In Proceedings of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA ‘09). London, UK. September, 2009.
D. Dimovska, S. Selvig, P. Jarnfelt. Towards Tailoring the Emotional Experience in a Physical Wii Game through Artificial Neural Networks based on Physiology and Gesture Data. Masters Thesis, IT University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark. August, 2009.
Games
A number of games were developed by the CGC, including:
Face-off in the Magic Circle
Where is my Heart?
B.U.T.T.O.N
Mutatione
Collectible Business Card Game
Train Mafia
Game Studies Card Game
5 Minute MMORPG
Dark Room
Magnetize Me
Idiots Attack the Top Noodle
References
External links
http://www.copenhagengamecollective.org/
Organizations based in Copenhagen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataspaces | Dataspaces are an abstraction in data management that aim to overcome some of the problems encountered in data integration system. The aim is to reduce the effort required to set up a data integration system by relying on existing matching and mapping generation techniques, and to improve the system in "pay-as-you-go" fashion as it is used. Labor-intensive aspects of data integration are postponed until they are absolutely needed.
Traditionally, data integration and data exchange systems have aimed to offer many of the purported services of dataspace systems.
Dataspaces can be viewed as a next step in the evolution of data integration architectures, but are distinct from current data integration systems in the following way. Data integration systems require semantic integration before any services can be provided. Hence, although there is not a single schema to which all the data conforms and the data resides in a multitude of host systems, the data integration system knows the precise relationships between the terms used in each schema. As a result, significant up-front effort is required in order to set up a data integration system.
Dataspaces shift the emphasis to a data co-existence approach providing base functionality over all data sources, regardless of how integrated they are. For example, a DataSpace Support Platform (DSSP) can provide keyword search over all of its data sources, similar to that provided by existing desktop search systems. When more sophisticated operations are required, such as relational-style queries, data mining, or monitoring over certain sources, then additional effort can be applied to more closely integrate those sources in an incremental fashion. Similarly, in terms of traditional database guarantees, initially a dataspace system can only provide weaker guarantees of consistency and durability. As stronger guarantees are desired, more effort can be put into making agreements among the various owners of data sources, and opening up certain interfaces (e.g., for commit protocols).
See also
Data integration
Data mapping
Information integration
Linked data
Semantic integration
Semantic query
References
Further reading
Partha Pratim Talukdar, Marie Jacob, Muhammad Salman Mehmood, Koby Crammer, Zachary G. Ives, Fernando Pereira, Sudipto Guha: Learning to create data-integrating queries. PVLDB 1(1): 785-796 (2008)
Michael J. Franklin, Alon Y. Halevy, David Maier: A first tutorial on dataspaces. PVLDB 1(2): 1516-1517 (2008)
Jens-Peter Dittrich, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles: iDM: A Unified and Versatile Data Model for Personal Dataspace Management. VLDB 2006: 367-378.
Information systems
Information technology management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billing%20and%20settlement%20plan | A billing and settlement plan (BSP) (also known as "Bank Settlement Plan") business process is an electronic billing system designed to facilitate the flow of data and funds between travel agencies and airlines. The advantage of such an intermediary organization is that instead of each travel agency having an individual relationship with each airline, all of the information is consolidated through the BSP.
BSP's are organized on a local basis, usually one per country. However, there are some BSP's, which cover more than one country (for example, the Nordics). The International Air Transport Association states that at the close of 2009, there were 86 BSP's covering more than 160 countries worldwide, while at the close of 2011, there were 88 BSPs, covering 176 countries and territories serving about 400 airlines, with gross sales processed amounting to USD 249 billion.
Travel agents are usually required to be accredited by either Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), when they are located in the US, or BSP outside of the US, in order to issue airline reservations through GDS.
References
Airline tickets
International Air Transport Association
Transport law
Payment systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debug%20code | Debug code is computer code introduced to a computer program to test for errors or to help determine the cause of an error. It can be as simple as an echo command to print the value of a variable at certain points of a program. Modern integrated development environments sometimes render this unnecessary by allowing the placement of stop points at specific places in the program, and providing the ability to view the value of variables through the IDE rather than program output.
Uses of debug code
Debug code's main function is to help debug code. This can do this in several ways, such as using print statements, assert commands and unit testing.
Use in coding
Small statements can be added to code in order to find the presence and the location of bugs within a program. It can also be used to provide test inputs to simulate possible use cases that a program might need to be able to accept. It can also be used as a place holder for code that is still in development.
Use in video games
Many video gaming mod, cheat codes, such as level cheat code, invincibility, etc. were originally introduced as debug code to allow the programmers and/or testers to skip hindrances that would prevent them from rapidly getting to parts of the game that needed to be tested; and in these cases cheat modes are often referred to as debugging mode.
It is recommended as a best practice that debugging code be removed from production versions of applications, as it can slow them down. However some games leave these commands and cheats available for the players to use as a way to enhance their play experience. For example, the PC version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim allows the player access to the command console, giving them the ability to modify certain aspects of their game as it is being run. These commands include giving the player invincibility, teleportation and unlimited gold.
Examples of debug code
Print debugging
Print debugging is making use of print statements in order to find and isolate bugs in a program. It can be used to track the flow of data values of a piece of code. This type of debug code has some distinct disadvantages. It is temporary and usually removed when the bug is solved. The use of many print statements can affect the actual output of a program and slow down the run-time, depending on how often print statements are called. In some cases print statements do not help find the problem, for example the C++ stdout has a buffered output, and sometimes the contents of the buffer are lost leading to incorrect debugging information.
C++ example
void TestFunction(int timesToRun) {
cout << "the algorithm should run " << timesToRun << " times" << std::endl;
for (int i = 0; i <= timesToRun; i++) {
// run algorithm
algorithm();
// debug print statement
cout << "algorithm run " << i++ << " times." << std::endl;
}
}
There is a bug in the above code. On an input of 5 the program should print the following to the console.
the algorithm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enomaly | Enomaly Inc., (founded in 2004) is a developer of system software for the virtualization and management of cloud computing. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario Canada. In 2011, Enomaly entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Virtustream.
History
Initially founded as an open source consulting company by Reuven Cohen, George Bazos and Lars Forsberg, the company began as an open source consultancy and system integrator before offering cloud computing space products and an infrastructure-as-a-Service platform . Richard Reiner joined Enomaly as Chairman and CEO in March, 2009.
Enomaly released Elastic Computing Platform, Service Provider Edition (ECP/SPE) in July, 2009, a service for web hosts and service providers to build their own public facing IaaS and cloud services vis-à-vis Amazon Ec2. Through ECP, Enomaly began to offer cloud infrastructure capabilities to carriers, service and hosting providers who in turn use their existing physical data center to offer a combination of cloud services and dedicated hosting services to their customers. In November 2010, Enomaly launched SpotCloud.com, a commodity style clearinghouse for unused cloud computing capacity, before its acquisition by Virtustream.
References
Cloud computing providers
Cloud infrastructure
Software companies of Canada
Companies based in Toronto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaima%20%28operating%20system%29 | Canaima GNU/Linux is a free and open-source Linux distribution that is based on the architecture of Debian. It was created as a solution to cover the needs of the Venezuelan Government as a response to presidential decree 3,390 that prioritizes the use of free and open source technologies in the public administration. On 14 March 2011, Canaima was officially established as the default operating system for the Venezuelan public administration.
The operating system has gained a strong foothold and is one of the most used Linux distributions in Venezuela, largely because of its incorporation in public schools. It is being used in large scale projects as "Canaima Educativo", a project aimed at providing school children with a basic laptop computer with educational software nicknamed Magallanes. Use of Canaima has been presented on international congresses about the use of open standards, Despite being a young development, it has been used on the Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre (FLISOL).
Features
Some of the major features of Canaima GNU/Linux are:
Easy installation
Software license cost is free.
Free distribution and use.
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) states that Canaima GNU/Linux is not 100% free software. This is because some of its components are nonfree software, in particular some firmware needed for graphic cards, sound cards, printers, etc. Canaima creators opted to include these nonfree drivers in order to support as many computers being used by the Venezuelan government as possible, and to facilitate the migration from a closed source operating system to an open-source one (although including nonfree software). It is expected that Canaima, in its upcoming releases, offers an option in the installation process for non-free drivers to be optional, being able to install a 100% free software image of the distribution if the user choose to.
Included Software
Canaima includes applications for training, development and system configuration. The Graphical User Interface (GUI) and desktop environment by default is GNOME. There are other desktop environments and GUIs maintained by the community for the system, like KDE Plasma and Xfce.
Productivity: The office software suite LibreOffice, with word processor, spreadsheet, presentation program, it includes other more specific programs like project management software Planner and a HTML editor.
Internet: Includes the Cunaguaro browser, a web browser based on Iceweasel and adapted especially for Canaima 3.0 and onwards. Canaima Curiara, is a light web browser based on Cunaguaro, developed in python-webkit for specific applications on the distribution.
Graphics: Includes GIMP, Inkscape, desktop publishing software Scribus and gLabels labels designer.
The full list of included software can be found at here.
Releases
Canaima has been releasing stable versions periodically since the last couple of years.
Development Cycle
Canaima GNU / Linux has a developmen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Motors%20EN-V | General Motors EN-V (Electric Networked-Vehicle) is a 2-seat urban electric concept car jointly developed by Segway Inc. and General Motors that can be driven normally or operated autonomously.
Designed for urban environments and around an extrapolation of the P.U.M.A. prototype announced by GM and Segway in 2009, the EN-V was unveiled at the joint GM & SAIC pavilion at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai from 1 May through 31 October 2010. Three different vehicles are showcased, 笑 Xiao (Laugh), 骄 Jiao (Pride) and 妙 Miao (Magic).
In October 2011 General Motors announced its decision to develop a second concept EN-V under the Chevrolet badge for use in field testing and demonstration programs, beginning in Tianjin, China. In June 2014 General Motors announced it would commence testing of the four wheel EN-V 2.0 at the Tianjin Eco-city
Driverless vehicle
The most significant feature of the vehicles is autonomous operation. The EN-V can detect and avoid obstacles – including other vehicles – park themselves and come to you when called by phone.
Accomplished through a combination of GPS, vehicle-based sensors, and vehicle-to-vehicle communication, this autonomous technology is an extrapolation of that found in GM's 2007 autonomous "The Boss" Chevrolet Tahoe created for the DARPA Grand Challenge (2007).
The EN-Vs can communicate with each other allowing platooning, with one or more EN-Vs tagging along automatically behind a leader. Also, if an EN-V detects another in close proximity, it can check what that other is intending to do and agree on how to pass it safely.
Shanghai concept
Specifications
Powered by two electric motors, one on each wheel, and a lithium-ion phosphate battery, the EN-V has a top speed of and a maximum all-electric range of . The sensors and communications equipment which allow it to drive itself include short-range radio and GPS, as well as optical sensors, ultrasonic sensors and doppler radars. The two-wheeled balancing system the EN-V uses was developed by Segway, and it may be an extrapolation of that found in the P.U.M.A. prototype announced by GM and Segway in 2009.
The themes
The three vehicles shown use the same automobile platform but have unique exterior and interior designs.
Xiao (笑)
Xiao, or laugh, was designed in Australia by the GM Holden Design Studio. Its design is intended to appear friendly.
Xiao Dimensions: 1,540 mm (L) × 1,420 mm (W) × 1,770 mm (H) (60.5 in × 56 in × 69.5 in)
Miao (妙)
Miao, or magic, was designed at the General Motors Advanced Design Studio in California. Miao's design is mysterious and high-tech. It was also exhibited at the Walt Disney World ride Test Track as a Chevrolet
Miao Dimensions: 1,520 mm (L) × 1,405 mm (W) × 1,635 mm (H) (60 in × 55 in × 64.5 in)
Jiao (骄)
Jiao, or pride, was designed in Europe by Opel and takes design cues from bullet trains and Chinese opera masks. Its design is supposed to be chic and stylish.
Jiao Dimensions: 1,500 mm (L) × 1,425 mm (W) × 1,640 mm (H) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetFPGA | The NetFPGA project is an effort to develop open-source hardware and software for rapid prototyping of computer network devices. The project targeted academic researchers, industry users, and students. It was not the first platform of its kind in the networking community. NetFPGA used an FPGA-based approach to prototyping networking devices. This allows users to develop designs that are able to process packets at line-rate, a capability generally unafforded by software based approaches. NetFPGA focused on supporting developers that can share and build on each other's projects and IP building blocks.
History
The project began in 2007 as a research project at Stanford University called the NetFPGA-1G. The 1G was originally designed as a tool to teach students about networking hardware architecture and design. The 1G platform consisted of a PCI board with a Xilinx Virtex-II pro FPGA and 4 x 1GigE interfaces feeding into it, along with a downloadable code repository containing an IP library and a few example designs. The project grew and by the end of 2010 more than 1,800 1G boards sold to over 150 educational institutions spanning 15 countries. During that growth the 1G not only gained popularity as a tool for education, but increasingly as a tool for research. By 2011 over 46 academic papers had been published regarding research that used the NetFPGA-1G platform. Additionally, over 40 projects were contributed to the 1G code repository by the end of 2010.
In 2009 work began in secrecy on the NetFPGA-10G with 4 x 10 GigE interfaces. The 10G board was also designed with a much larger FPGA, more memory, and a number of other upgrades. The first release of the platform, codenamed “Howth”, was planned for December 24, 2010, and includes a repository similar to that of the 1G, containing a small IP library and two reference designs.
From a platform design perspective, the 10G is diverging in a few significant ways from the 1G platform. For instance, the interface standards for hardware IP were completely redesigned, relying on industry standards rather than homegrown protocols. Additionally the platform relies more heavily now on industry standard tools for dealing with design composition, automated register mapping, and managing the IP library, rather than custom scripts.
The second release of the NetFPGA-10G platform is codenamed “Skellig” and is scheduled for release before second quarter 2011.
NetFPGA-1G
Board Features
Xilinx Virtex-II Pro 50
4 One Gigabit interfaces (RJ45 connectors)
4.5 Megabytes SRAM
64 Megabytes DDR2 DRAM
2 SATA-style connectors to Multi-gigabit I/O
Standard PCI card
JTAG cable connector for Xilinx ChipScope
See http://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?Prod=NETFPGA for more detailed technical information.
License
The NetFPGA-1G code is distributed using a BSD-style license.
NetFPGA-10G
Board Features
Xilinx Virtex-5 TX240T FPGA
4 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces (SFP+ interfaces)
27 MBs QDRII SRAM
288 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Storage%20Platform | Universal Storage Platform (USP) was the brand name for an Hitachi Data Systems line of computer data storage disk arrays circa 2004 to 2010.
History
The Hitachi Universal Storage Platform was first introduced in 2004.
An entry level enterprise and high-end midrange model, the Network Storage Controller was introduced in 2005. The Universal Storage Platform was one of the first disk arrays to virtualize other disk arrays in the appliance instead of in the network.
The second generation Universal Storage Platform V replaced the original Universal Storage Platform in 2007
and the Universal Storage Platform VM replacing the original Network Storage Controller also in 2007.
Architecture
At the core of the Universal Storage Platform V and VM is a fully fault tolerant, high performance, non-blocking, silicon based switched architecture designed to provide the bandwidth needed to support infrastructure consolidation of enterprise file and block-based storage services on and behind a single platform.
Notable features include:
Supports online local and distance replication and migration of data non disruptively internally and between heterogeneous storage, without interrupting application i/o through use of products such as Tiered Storage Manager, ShadowImage, TrueCopy and Universal Replicator.
Enables virtualization of external SAN storage from Hitachi and other vendors into one pool
Storage partitioning provides the ability to host multiple applications on a single storage system without allowing the actions of one set of users to affect the Quality of Service of others.
Supports thin provisioning and storage reclamation on internal and external virtualized storage
Provides encryption, WORM and data shredding services, data resilience and business continuity services and content management services.
Specifications
Universal Storage Platform V Specifications
Frames (Cabinets) - Integrated Control/Drive Group Frame and 1 to 4 optional Drive Group Frames
Universal Star Network Crossbar Switch - Number of switches 8
Aggregate bandwidth (GB/sec) - 106
Aggregate IOPS - Over 4 million
Cache Memory - Number of cache modules 1-32, Module capacity 8 or 16GB, Maximum cache memory 512GB
Control/Shared Memory - Number of control memory modules 1-8, Module capacity 4GB, Maximum control memory 28GB
Front End Directors (Connectivity)
Number of Directors 1-14
Fibre Channel host ports per Director - 8 or 16
Fibre Channel port performance - 4, 8 Gbit/s
Maximum Fibre Channel host ports - 224
Virtual host ports - 1,024 per physical port
Maximum IBM FICON host ports - 112
Maximum IBM ESCON host ports - 112
Logical Devices (LUNs) — Maximum Supported
Open systems 65,536
IBM z/OS 65,536
Disks
Type: Flash 73, 146, 200 and 400GB
Type: Fibre Channel 146, 300, 450 and 600GB
Type: SATA II 1TB, 2TB
Number of disks per system (min/max) 4-1,152
Number spare disks per system (min/max) 1-40
Maximum Internal Raw Capacity - (2TB disks) 2,268 TB
Maximum Usable Capacity - RA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Norwegian%20films%20of%20the%202010s | The following list is of films produced in Norway in the 2010s:
2010s
References
External links
Norwegian film at the Internet Movie Database
2010s
Lists of 2010s films
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kactoos | Kactoos is a defunct social network service and group buying site created by Kactoos Group and headquartered in Miami, Florida. Its slogan is "Shop together and save". Kactoos is available in Spanish and Portuguese.
The site is not an online store, but a shopping platform that allows users to join groups in order to buy a particular item. The more users join a specific product's group, the lower will its price be. This mechanism is known as Tuangou.
References
External links
Kactoos.com - Official Site
Defunct social networking services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20states%20and%20union%20territories%20of%20India%20by%20transport%20network |
Ranked by Length of National Highways
This is a list of the States of India ranked by the length of the national highways, as of 23 May 2014. National Highways are the arterial roads of the country for inter-state movements of goods and passengers. They traverse the length and width of the country connecting the National and State capitals, major ports and rail junctions and link up with border roads and foreign highways
Ranked by Length of State Highways
This is a list of the States of India ranked by the length of the state highways, as of 31 March 2012. State Highways are the arterial roads in a State for inter-district movements. They traverse the length and width of a state connecting the state capital, district headquarters and important towns and cities and link up with the National Highways and adjacent State Highways.
References
India transport-related lists
Lists of subdivisions of India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undefined%20value | In computing (particularly, in programming), undefined value is a condition where an expression does not have a correct value, although it is syntactically correct. An undefined value must not be confused with empty string, Boolean "false" or other "empty" (but defined) values. Depending on circumstances, evaluation to an undefined value may lead to exception or undefined behaviour, but in some programming languages undefined values can occur during a normal, predictable course of program execution.
Dynamically typed languages usually treat undefined values explicitly when possible. For instance, Perl has undef operator which can "assign" such value to a variable. In other type systems an undefined value can mean an unknown, unpredictable value, or merely a program failure on attempt of its evaluation. Nullable types offer an intermediate approach; see below.
Handling
The value of a partial function is undefined when its argument is out of its domain of definition. This include numerous arithmetical cases such as division by zero, square root or logarithm of a negative number etc. Another common example is accessing an array with an index which is out of bounds, as is the value in an associative array for a key which it does not contain. There are various ways that these situations are handled in practice:
Reserved value
In applications where undefined values must be handled gracefully, it is common to reserve a special null value which is distinguishable from normal values. This resolves the difficulty by creating a defined value to represent the formerly undefined case. There are many examples of this:
The C standard I/O library reserves the special value EOF to indicate that no more input is available. The getchar() function returns the next available input character, or EOF if there is no more available. (The ASCII character code defines a null character for this purpose, but the standard I/O library wishes to be able to send and receive null characters, so it defines a separate EOF value.)
The IEEE 754 floating-point arithmetic standard defines a special "not a number" value which is returned when an arithmetic operation has no defined value. Examples are division by zero, or the square root or logarithm of a negative number.
Structured Query Language has a special NULL value to indicate missing data.
The Perl language lets the definedness of an expression be checked via the defined() predicate.
Many programming languages support the concept of a null pointer distinct from any valid pointer, and often used as an error return.
Some languages allow most types to be nullable, for example C#.
Most Unix system calls return the special value −1 to indicate failure.
While dynamically typed languages often ensure that uninitialized variables default to a null value, statically typed values often do not, and distinguish null values (which are well-defined) from uninitialized values (which are not).
Exception handling
Some programmi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20busiest%20airports%20in%20the%20Republic%20of%20Ireland | The following tables show 2008 to 2019 passenger traffic statistics for all airports in the Republic of Ireland, ranked by total passenger traffic each year. The data also shows available total aircraft movements at each airport based on statistics published by the Irish Aviation Authority.
Dublin Airport is the largest airport in Ireland, and in 2018 was the 13th busiest airport in Europe. Ireland has four main airports: Cork, Dublin, Shannon and Knock. There are also smaller regional airports at Donegal, Kerry, Galway, Sligo and Waterford. The latter three, as of July 2019, do not have any scheduled flights.
Many airlines serve Ireland with Aer Lingus, Aer Lingus Regional and Ryanair having a significant presence at Irish airports. North American airlines serving Ireland include Air Canada, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines.
Ireland is well connected with Europe mainly through Dublin, Shannon and Cork Airports. The United Kingdom is the most flown to country from Ireland. Transatlantic flights are available at Dublin Airport and Shannon Airports. US preclearance is available at both Dublin and Shannon Airports, two of fifteen US preclearance airports in the world.
At a glance
The graph shows the yearly total passenger numbers handled by Irish airports.
Table per year
2022 data
2021 data
2020 data
2019 data
2018 data
2017 data
2016 data
2015 data
2014 data
2013 data
2012 data
2011 data
2010 data
2009 data
See also
List of the busiest airports in Europe
Busiest airports in the United Kingdom by total passenger traffic
List of the busiest airports in the Nordic countries
List of the busiest airports in the Baltic states
References
Ireland, Republic of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHK%20Tokyo%20Children%27s%20Choir | , or NHK Tokyo Children's Chorus, is the children's choir attached to the Tokyo Broadcasting Station (JOAK) of the NHK - Japan Broadcasting Corporation radio-TV network. Since 1943 NHK had used the Otowa Yurikago Kai, established in 1933, to be its children's choir, but since 1952 has organized its own.
Through its broadcasting and recording activities, it has played an important role in popularizing Japanese and overseas children's songs in Japan. It also toured extensively throughout the world and has won important awards, such as in BBC World Amateur Chorus Competition (No. 2 in the children's area), the Centennial of Zoltán Kodály's Birth Competition (No. 1 in the children's area), EBU World Chorus Competition (No. 1 in the children's area), etc.
See also
Children's choir
Otowa Yurikago Kai
Beijing Angelic Choir
Vienna Boys' Choir
References
External links
Official Site (in Japanese)
Otowa Yurikago Kai (in Japanese)
NHK
Organizations based in Tokyo
Choirs of children
Japanese choirs
Musical groups established in 1952
Musical groups from Shibuya
1952 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP%20delayed%20acknowledgment | TCP delayed acknowledgment is a technique used by some implementations of the Transmission Control Protocol in an effort to improve network performance. In essence, several ACK responses may be combined into a single response, reducing protocol overhead. However, in some circumstances, the technique can reduce application performance.
Method and advantages
As described in RFC 1122, a host may delay sending an ACK response by up to 500 ms. Additionally, with a stream of full-sized incoming segments, ACK responses should be sent for every second segment. RFC 1122 references RFC 813 of 1982 as the original description of delayed ACK.
Delayed ACKs can give the application the opportunity to update the TCP receive window and also possibly to send an immediate response along with the ACK. For certain protocols such as Telnet, delayed ACKs can reduce the number of responses sent by the server by a factor of 3, by combining the ACK, window update and the response data into one segment.
Problems
The additional wait time introduced by the delayed ACK can cause further delays when interacting with certain applications and configurations. If Nagle's algorithm is being used by the sending party, data will be queued by the sender until an ACK is received. If the sender does not send enough data to fill the maximum segment size (for example, if it performs two small writes followed by a blocking read) then the transfer will pause up to the ACK delay timeout. Linux 2.4.4+ supports a TCP_QUICKACK socket option that disables delayed ACK.
For example, consider a situation where Bob is sending data to Carol. Bob's socket layer has less than a complete packet's worth of data remaining to send. Per Nagle's algorithm, it will not be sent until he receives an ACK for the data that has already been sent. At the same time, Carol's application layer will not send a response until it gets all of the data. If Carol is using delayed ACKs, her socket layer will not send an ACK until the timeout is reached.
If the application is transmitting data in smaller chunks and expecting periodic acknowledgment replies, this negative interaction can occur. To prevent this delay, the application layer needs to continuously send data without waiting for acknowledgment replies. Alternatively, Nagle's algorithm may be disabled by the application on the sending side.
References
Delayed Acknowledgment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts%20in%20Second%20Life | Arts in Second Life is an artistic area of a 3D social network (called Second Life) that has served, since 2003, as a platform for various artistic pursuits and exhibitions.
Art exhibits
Second Life has created an environment where artists can display their works to an audience across the world. This has created an entire artistic culture where many residents display art in the museums, galleries and homes they can buy or build using Second Life's powerful tools. Gallery openings even allow art patrons to "meet" and socialize with exhibiting artists and has even led to many real life sales.
Numerous art gallery simulations (called "sims") abound in Second Life. Among the more popular galleries are the Sisse Singhs Art Gallery, the Windlight art Gallery and the Horus Art Gallery. Among the most notable of these was the art gallery sim Cetus Gallery District, the world's first virtual online urban arts district. Cetus was modeled on real world analogs such as New York's Chelsea gallery district as a mixed-use arts community of virtual galleries, offices, loft apartments, and coffee houses. Its many tenant-run businesses featured weekly live music performances, gallery openings, and literary events such as the virtual book launch for "Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human," by Tom Boellstorf (Princeton University Press; 2008). Cetus was chosen Best Cultural Site in Second Life in 2007, and its creator avatar Xander Ruttan (real world arts professional Aaron Collins of California), was among the most influential art world avatars in SL. Cetus resulted in many ongoing collaborative efforts among the SL community of artists, designers, writers, and virtual builders from across the real and virtual worlds. (Cetus was later bought by virtual artist DB Bailey and converted into a personal art project).
The modeling tools from Second Life allow the artists also to create new forms of art that in many ways are not possible in real life due to physical constraints or high associated costs. The virtual arts are visible in over 2050 "museums" (according to SL's own search engine).
In 2008 Haydn Shaughnessy, real life gallerist, along with his wife Roos Demol hired a real life architect, New York based, Benn Dunkley to design a gallery in Second Life. Dunkleys goal was to design an interactive gallery with art in mind in a virtual world. "Ten Cubed" is a radical departure in art exhibition, a futuristically designed gallery showcasing art in a unique setting. On January 31, 2008, "Ten Cubed" was launched.
For its inaugural exhibition, Crossing the Void II, owner and curator Shaughnessy selected five artists working in and with modern technologies. These artists included Chris Ashley based in Oakland, California, Jon Coffelt based in New York, New York, Claire Keating based in Cork, Ireland, Scott Kildall based in San Francisco, California and Nathaniel Stern originally based in New York, New York now in Dublin, Irel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plimmerton%20railway%20station | Plimmerton railway station is on the North Island Main Trunk Railway (NIMT) in Plimmerton, Porirua, New Zealand, and is part of Wellington's Metlink suburban rail network operated by Transdev Wellington. It is double tracked around a long island platform, with subway access from Steyne Avenue and Plimmerton Domain's Park and Ride to the north, and a controlled crossing to Steyne Avenue and Mainline Steam at the south end of the platform. Mainline Steam, a heritage steam train restorer and operator, is located in the former goods yard next to the station.
Services
Plimmerton is the third station north of Porirua on the Kapiti Line for commuter trains operated by Transdev Wellington under the Metlink brand contracted to the Greater Wellington Regional Council. Services between Wellington and Porirua or Waikanae are operated by electric multiple units of the FT/FP class (Matangi). Two diesel-hauled carriage trains, the Capital Connection and the Northern Explorer, pass through the station but do not stop.
All suburban services running between Wellington and Plimmerton or Waikanae stop at Plimmerton. Off-peak trains stop at all stations between Wellington and Waikanae. During peak periods, some trains from Wellington that stop at all stations may terminate at Porirua and return to Wellington while a number of peak services run express or non-stop between Wellington and Porirua before stopping at all stations from Porirua to Waikanae. Plimmerton is the northern terminus for some peak period trains which terminate at Plimmerton and return to Wellington.
Travel times by train are thirty-one minutes to Waikanae, eight minutes to Porirua, twenty-nine minutes to Wellington for trains stopping at all stations, and twenty-five minutes for express trains that do not stop between Porirua and Wellington.
Trains run every twenty minutes during daytime off-peak hours, more frequently during peak periods, and less frequently at night. Before July 2018, off-peak passenger train services between Wellington and Waikanae ran every thirty minutes but were increased to one every twenty minutes from 15 July 2018.
Mack's Track, a railway model specialist, operates a destination store, ticket agency and kiosk inside the station, and maintains a waiting room. Bicycle racks and lockers are also provided on the platform. A park and ride car park adjoining the station is located at Plimmerton Domain.
In 2021 upgrading of the Plimmerton railway station by addition of a train loop/turnback facility started, to be completed by 2023. Some trains will then turn around at Plimmerton rather than Porirua thus increasing the peak capacity of the line by reducing the number of passengers on trains to Waikanae.
History
The rail corridor through Plimmerton was built by the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company (WMR). The line reached Plimmerton in 1885 and proved to be a very popular beach destination for weekend visitors from Wellington who would ride the train to Plimmerton |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYER | DYER (828 AM) was a radio station owned and operated by DCG Radio-TV Network. It was formerly known as Environment Radio under the management of then-mayor Edward Hagedorn until 2008, when it transferred to 1062 AM. Since then, the frequency has been off the air.
References
Radio stations in Puerto Princesa
Radio stations established in 1978
Radio stations disestablished in 2008
Defunct radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extromatica%20Network%20Monitor | Extromatica Network Monitor is a network monitoring application created and maintained by Extromatica company. It is designed to monitor network hardware, servers and network services for faults and performance degradation. It alerts users when things go wrong and again when they get better. The software supports a variety of real-time notification mechanisms, including Short Message Service (SMS).
History
The development of this software began in 1999 as an internal project by Maxim Perenesenko and Yuri Zaitsev. After 2 years of development, it was released as Network Eagle Monitor. It took one more year until first stable release in 2002.
As of 2015, this software is maintained by Extromatica company and is named Extromatica Network Monitor.
Overview
Tests
Tests IP channel between monitoring system and another computer or network device with Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) protocol.
Checks accessibility of TCP based services like Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), Post Office Protocol (POP3), Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Secure Shell (SSH), and so on.
Checks availability and responsiveness of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers.
Checks availability and responsiveness of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and HTTPS servers.
Checks content of Web page by searching for specified substring.
Monitors free and used space on disk or network shares.
Tests local or remote (network share (Windows share)) directory for changes.
Periodically runs external commands or batch scripts and checks the return code.
Tests accessibility of data sources of Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) or native MS SQL. Runs SQL querys and checks return results as an option.
Executes script tests. They can be written in Visual Basic Script, JavaScript or other languages supported by the operating system (Active Scripting). For example: Active Python, ActivePerl.
Monitors a process on local or remote machines by its process identifier or name.
Monitors local or remote Windows Event Log for specified messages.
Communicates with a Windows machine to determine if a specified Windows Service is running and responding.
Monitors the content of specified file for changes by calculating MD5 hash or searching for substring; this check can test files inside archives.
Monitors status of local or network printers; can track more than twenty events, such as paper out or jammed, toner out, many more.
Tests Remote Access Service connection.
Monitors various parameters of Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) enabled computer or device.
Tests Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server accessibility, checks LDAP directory content.
System performance - monitors loads of central processor unit (CPU), random access memory (RAM), local or remote computers.
Alerts and actions
Displays a popup-window with information about events.
Executes external program.
Plays a sound f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Dogs | Space Dogs (a.k.a. Belka & Strelka — Star Dogs, original: Белка и Стрелка. Звёздные собаки, Belka i Strelka. Zvyozdnye sobaki) is a 2010 Russian computer-animated adventure comedy film. The film is based on the Soviet space dogs Belka and Strelka, and honors the first animals who survived an orbital space trip, the Korabl-Sputnik 2 flight in August, 1960. In Poland it became the leader of the box-office on its first weekend, although in the United States it grossed poorly, making only $14,408 due to its limited release.
Plot
A man in black is carrying a small cage from the Soviet Union to the U.S. president John F. Kennedy. In the cage is a present from Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev to Caroline Kennedy, a stray dog named Pushok. He finds the other Kennedy pets and tells them his story.
Three years earlier, in Moscow 1960, a strange man showed up, who was catching street dogs and taking them away. Once he tried to catch a terrier puppy named Strelka, but she ran away with her friend, a rat named Lenny. Then, Strelka went to dig for bones and Venya went to a pay telephone to get some money.
While Strelka was running from the strange man, Vova, a circus pig, became too large to fly in his rocket, and Belka, a circus dog, flew in his place. Belka loses control of the rocket and flew away from the circus. After some time she crashed onto the payphone where Lenny was looking for coins. The crash broke the phone and Lenny got all the money from the broken phone. After the crash Belka, Strelka, and Lenny were met by three other street dogs: a French bulldog named Bula, a pug named Mula, and a wolf named Pirate. Belka and Strelka ran from the other street dogs but the next morning all three of them were caught by the strange man.
After being caught the dogs are put on a train to Baikonur where they ended up at a Soviet space program training center. There they met their trainer, Kazbek the German Shepherd, who had to choose the two best dogs from the group. A month before the launch date, the chosen group was Bula and Mula, but on the final training day, Lenny came in first, with Belka and Strelka in 2nd and 3rd place. Belka and Strelka needed to fly with Lenny because he was first and the flight group was chosen.
At the end of their flight, Strelka wanted to stay in space, because her mother had said that her father, Sirius, is living among the stars. Kazbek shows up having stowed away on their flight and tried to convince Strelka to turn around. They saw a formation of objects flying towards them, believing them to be Space Dogs but they turned out to be meteorites, they got hit by a meteorite shower and the rocket caught fire from the damage. Strelka, Lenny, and Kazbek went to the back of the rocket to fight the fire with their feeding formula as water, Belka was afraid but still jumped through the fire ring into the driver's seat to turn the rocket back towards Earth. Strelka extinguished the fire, and Kazbek confessed his love for Belka. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovdata | Lovdata is a Norwegian foundation which publishes judicial information of Norway.
It publishes the periodical Norsk lovtidend, and Lov&Data and EuroRett, and hosts a website with free, public access to all Norwegian laws and other judicial documents, including court rulings.
Lovdata was established on 1 July 1981 by the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police and the foundation Det juridiske fakultets lovsamlingsfond [Lovsamlingsfondet] (The Norwegian Statute Book Foundation at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo).
It has had a database since 1983 and published laws on CDs since 1990.
Managing director is Odd Storm-Paulsen, and the board consists of Knut Kaasen (chairman), Ida Børresen, Ketil Gjøen, Anne K. Herse and Randi Birgitte Bull.
In 2018, Lovdata sued Håkon Wium Lie and another person for having published Norwegian court decisions openly on rettspraksis.no. Lovdata, which offers access to such court decisions for an annual fee, sued the leechers for having siphoned Lovdata's servers. In less than 24 hours, the Oslo court had ordered the web site to close and for the volunteers to pay for Lovdata's legal bills. Later, in September 2019, the Norwegian Supreme Court ordered l Wium Lie and Fredrik Ljone to remove all court decisions illegally copied from Lovdata.
References
Law of Norway
Publishing companies of Norway
Foundations based in Norway
Organisations based in Oslo
Organizations established in 1981
1981 establishments in Norway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ben%2010%3A%20Ultimate%20Alien%20episodes | Ben 10: Ultimate Alien is an American animated television series, the third entry in Cartoon Network's Ben 10 franchise created by team Man of Action (a group consisting of Duncan Rouleau, Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, and Steven T. Seagle), and produced by Cartoon Network Studios. It was slated to premiere after the series finale of Ben 10: Alien Force on March 26, 2010, but instead premiered on April 23, 2010. The series finale aired on March 31, 2012.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2010)
30 Aliens - Swampfire, Jetray, Chromastone, Humungousaur, Spidermonkey, Echo Echo, Brainstorm, Alien X, Big Chill, Goop, Ultimate Humungousaur, Ultimate Spidermonkey, Ultimate Echo Echo, Ultimate Big Chill, Ultimate Swampfire, Ultimate Cannonbolt, Cannonbolt, Rath, Lodestar, Upchuck, Water Hazard, NRG, Armodrillo, Terraspin, Ampfibian, Four Arms (16 years old), Diamondhead (16 years old), Nanomech, Way Big, Ripjaws. By 10 Year Old Ben - Heatblast, Stinkfly, Four Arms, Wildmutt. By Kevin - Ultimate Kevin.
Gwendolyn Catherine Tennyson, now sixteen years old, has perfected her knowledge of her innate magical/anodite abilities in just one year.
Bivalvan, P’andor, Andreas, Galapagus and Ra'ad each have power over the first five of the main elements of Nature- Water, Fire, Earth, Air and Aether/Quintessence- giving Ben Tennyson the exact same elemental skills as Water Hazard, NRG, Armadrillo, Terraspin and Ampfibian.
The origins of top-level magicians Hex and his niece Charmcaster are explained; their home world is Legerdomain from which all things and beings magical, supernatural, occultism and mysticism is derived.
Season 2 (2011)
35 Aliens - Swampfire, Jetray, Chromastone, Humungousaur, SpiderMonkey, Echo-Echo, Brainstorm, Alien X, Big Chill, Goop, Ultimate Humungousaur, Ultimate SpiderMonkey, Ultimate Echo-Echo, Ultimate Big Chill, Ultimate Swampfire, Ultimate Cannonbolt, Cannonbolt, Fasttrack, Rath, Lodestar, Murk Upchuck, Water Hazard, NRG, Armodrillo, Terraspin, Amphibian, Four-Arms(16 Years old), Diamond Head (16 Years old), Nanomech, Way Big, Ripjaws(16 Years old), Wildmutt (16 Years old), Ultimate Wildmutt, ChamAlien, Heatblast (16 Years old).By Ben 10,000 - Arctiguana, Spitter, Clockwork, Ultimate Ben.
It is revealed that the events of the live-action Race Against Time movie took place in an alternate reality that is entirely separate from the original show.
We see how Maxwell Tennyson, as a seventeen-year-old teen, first met his estranged anodite wife Verdona nearly half a century ago; however never their marriage and time with their sons Franklin and Carl.
Season 3 (2011–12)
39 Aliens - Swampfire, Jetray, Chromastone, Humungousaur, SpiderMonkey, Echo-Echo, Brainstorm, Alien X, Big Chill, Goop, Ultimate Humungousaur, Ultimate SpiderMonkey, Clockwork, Ultimate Echo-Echo, Ultimate Big Chill, Ultimate Swampfire, Ultimate Cannonbolt, Ultimate Way Big, Cannonbolt, Fasttrack, Rath, Lodestar, Murk Upchuck, Jury Rigg, Water Hazard, NRG, Armodrillo, Terraspin, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%20%28Spanish%20TV%20channel%29 | Cartoon Network was a Spanish specialty television channel aimed at children, operated by Time Warner through its subsidiary Turner Broadcasting System España (TBS España). Being a version of the American television channel of the same name, the channel's programmes were mostly consisted of original animated productions from Cartoon Network and fellow Time Warner company Warner Bros., but it also broadcast other American and international productions.
Besides being available in Castilian Spanish, most shows were also available in English and Catalan via a secondary audio feed.
History
Background
In 1993, Cartoon Network had a single European signal distributed via the Astra satellite, and already had five audios in different languages. On 4 March 1994 (although Turner initially said it would happen before the end of 1993) the sixth language of the channel was added: Spanish. Later, the channel was also added to Spanish cable networks.
Launch
In 1997, Canal Satélite Digital signed an agreement with Time Warner in which, apart from obtaining rights from the production company, it also benefited from the entry of Cartoon Network and TNT in its offer. The channel was broadcast in the majority of pay TV companies, in some including the Cartoon Network +1 channel, with the same programming, but one hour later. In addition, a magazine called Cartoon Network Magazine was published, but it did not manage the channel, since the license belonged to another owner.
Closure
Turner Broadcasting System Europe announced on 14 June 2013 that Cartoon Network and Cartoonito would close in Spain on 30 June 2013, due to dwindling TV ratings and the pay TV crisis Spain had at that time as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis.
On 20 June, it was published on the blog of the Cartoon Network website the cessation of its television broadcasts, but noting that the website would remain active, with its content becoming available on demand (VOD) services for tablets, smartphones or televisions connected to the Internet in which viewers could watch the series and content of the channel. This would eventually lead to the creation of Time Warner's own online VOD service in Spain, HBO España in 2016 (which would become HBO Max in 2021).
It was also explained that these contents would also be available on the channel's website, and that Turner would increase its presence on Boing, the children's channel which TBS España jointly owns with Mediaset España.
Shortly before midnight on 1 July 2013, the channel ceased broadcasting in Spain after 19 years, with the last programme to be aired being an episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The channel then displayed a filler, and after a few minutes, each operator that distributed the signal replaced it with an information screen informing customers that the channel stopped broadcasting in Spain.
Months later, at the end of August, Boing announced that from 14 September, the channel would broadcast a programming block called |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20L.%20Simpson%20Jr. | Dr. Robert L. Simpson Jr. is a computer scientist whose primary research interest is applied artificial intelligence. He served as Chief Scientist at Applied Systems Intelligence, Inc. (ASI) working with Dr. Norman D. Geddes, CEO. Dr. Simpson was responsible for the creation of the ASI core technology PreAct. ASI has since changed its name to Veloxiti Inc.
Background
Before joining ASI, Simpson was the principal investigator (PI) at IET for a DARPA-sponsored project evaluating cognitive systems under the Personalized Assistants that Learn program. Before joining IET, Simpson worked at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) as a principal research scientist. He was Co-PI on an ARDA-funded GTRI research project called “Case-Based Reasoning for Knowledge Discovery". This project discovered and made explicit in software the knowledge discovery plans and meta-information about those plans that intelligence analysts implicitly use in performing their analysis tasks. Another project at GTRI was a study of Internet Voting that included technical as well as policy issues such as data privacy and security.
Simpson also investigated the representation and use of meta-data in a DARPA interoperability program called FastC2AP. The Fast Connectivity for Coalition and Agents Project (FastC2AP) proved that agent-based technology can provide key capabilities identified by users as critical for dynamic interoperability in military architectures.
Simpson is often credited with the primary original research and development for Case Based Reasoning (CBR), a class of artificial intelligence.
Time with NCR Corp
During his ten years with NCR Corporation, Simpson served as a member of NCR’s Corporate Technology staff focused on strategic technology investments. Simpson was also the Director at NCR’s Human Interface Technology Center (HITC). From 1998-2000, Simpson participated on the NCR Privacy Steering Committee, was chairman of the NCR technical workshop on security, privacy and trust as well as NCR representative to the World-Wide Web Standards Committee Privacy Outreach Committee.
Simpson was also instrumental in the formation of the International Security Trust and Privacy Alliance a global alliance of companies and technology providers working together to clarify and resolve existing and evolving issues related to security, trust, and privacy. His key technical accomplishments while at the NCR HITC were establishing technical initiatives in intelligent software agents, image understanding, case-based reasoning, and spoken language. His key business accomplishments were in establishing customer relationships with AT&T Health Informatics and Telemedicine as well as internal NCR retail and financial business units. In addition, Simpson was able to establish the national technical reputation of the NCR HITC by successfully competing for three large national research and development contracts totaling over $90M. The most significant of these was the award o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20%28Glee%29 | "Home" is the sixteenth episode of the American television series Glee. The episode premiered on the Fox network on April 27, 2010. It was directed by Paris Barclay and written by series creator Brad Falchuk. "Home" sees new cheerleader Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley) deal with body image issues, while Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer) sets his dad and Finn Hudson's mom together, in an attempt to get closer to Finn (Cory Monteith), and club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) is reunited with his friend April Rhodes (Kristin Chenoweth). Chenoweth first appeared in Glee in the episode "The Rhodes Not Taken". She enjoyed the role of April so much that she agreed to return for "Home", and has expressed an interest in reappearing in the future.
The episode features cover versions of five songs, all of which were released as singles, available for digital download, and four of which are included on the soundtrack album Glee: The Music, Volume 3 – Showstoppers. "Home" was watched by 12.18 million American viewers and received mixed reviews from critics. Both Gerrick D. Kennedy of the Los Angeles Times and Tim Stack of Entertainment Weekly recommended that Chenoweth receive an Emmy nomination for her performance, and Mark A. Perigard of the Boston Herald opined that the episode itself should be submitted for Emmy consideration. Jean Bentley of MTV felt that Chenoweth was overused in the episode, however, and criticized the songs performed as being unrecognizable to younger viewers. Emily VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club felt that the episode was poorly balanced, and Bobby Hankinson of the Houston Chronicle deemed "Home" the weakest episode of Glee thus far.
Plot
In preparation for an interview with Splits Magazine, cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) demands that new cheerleader Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley) lose ten pounds in a week. She reserves the school auditorium for cheer practice, so glee club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) has to find the club a new rehearsal space. He visits a local roller rink where he finds former glee club member April Rhodes (Kristin Chenoweth), who tells him that she is the mistress of the wealthy eighty-year-old tycoon who owns the rink. Upon learning that Will is looking to sublet his apartment, April invites herself to visit. After spending the night sharing a bed, Will forbids April from staying over again and tells her she is worth more than being a mistress. April says she will break up with her tycoon.
Mercedes struggles to eat healthily and her mid-week weigh-in shows that she has gained two pounds. She begins extreme dieting and faints in the school cafeteria. Former cheerleading captain Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron) sympathizes with Mercedes, commending her for being so comfortable in her own body and advising her not to let being a cheerleader detract from that. Though Mercedes is embarrassed, Quinn tells her that she is beautiful. On the day of the pep rally, Mercedes abandons the planned routin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerseylicious | Jerseylicious was an American reality television show that premiered on March 21, 2010, on the now defunct Style Network. It chronicles the lives of six stylists who work at salons located in Green Brook Township, New Jersey. The Gatsby Salon, where the series is based upon, relaunched with a multimillion-dollar renovation and began hiring new employees in 2009, which included two of the main cast members: Tracy “Dimarco” Maloney and Olivia Blois Sharpe. Reruns of the series also air on Food Network (by Discovery Inc.).
The series was scheduled to return for its sixth season on October 6, 2013. However, it was announced that the Esquire Network would be taking over the Style Network rather than G4 as originally planned. The season later aired in countries where the Style Network still exists. Season 6 encompasses Olivia Blois Sharpe and Michelle DeCarlo as they pack their things and rent a summer house in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Tracy's wedding is also included. The show has now ended with Style Network being discontinued.
On August 26, 2014, Tracy “Dimarco” Maloney announced on her social networks that she was filming something for E! that was believed to be a spin-off show but ended up being for an E! True Hollywood Story special titled "Life After Reality" where she discussed her life now that Jerseylicious has ended.
Cast
Main
Tracy “Dimarco” Maloney: Former employee at The Gatsby Salon, The Glam Fairy, and Anthony Robert Salon.
Olivia Blois Sharpe: Makeup artist. Former employee at Anthony Robert Salon, The Gatsby Salon and The Glam Fairy who eventually works on her own.
Gigi Liscio: Hairstylist at The Gatsby Salon.
Christy Pereira: Manager of The Gatsby Salon. Gayle Giacomo's daughter.
Gayle Giacomo: Owner of The Gatsby Salon.
Alexa Prisco: Former lead makeup artist at The Gatsby Salon, owner of The Glam Fairy. Married to Danny. Alexa was given her own spinoff, Glam Fairy. She gave birth to their first child, McKayla in December 2012.
Anthony Lombardi: Owner of Anthony Robert Salon in New Jersey. Author of The Glamour State.
Recurring
Briella Calafiore: Hairdresser at Glam Fairy.
Frankie Buglione Jr.: Gigi's ex-boyfriend
Filippo Giove Jr.: Former manager at the Anthony Robert Salon. Former Gatsby intern and assistant.
Lorenzo Gangala (seasons 1–3): Gangala was never seen again on the series after his October 2011 arrest for assault.
Jaclyn "Jackie" Bianchi (seasons 2–6): Olivia's childhood friend and stylist at Anthony Robert Salon.
Doria Pagnotta (seasons 2–4): Makeup artist at The Gatsby Salon.
Mike Aktari (seasons 2–4): Olivia's and Tracy's ex-boyfriend. (Aktari died at the age of 28 on March 13, 2017, from reasons unknown.)
Michelle DeCarlo (seasons 3–6): Hairstylist at The Gatsby Salon.
Catherine "Cathy" Giove (seasons 3–6): Former co-owner of the Anthony Robert Salon. Filippo's mother.
Miguel Allure Rodriguez (seasons 3–6): Assistant stylist at The Gatsby Salon.
Krystle Couso (seasons 3–4)
Corey Epstein (s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief%20of%20Hearts | "Chief of Hearts" is the eighteenth episode of the twenty-first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 18, 2010. In this episode, Homer and Chief Wiggum become friends after Homer shares a sandwich with Wiggum during his community service sentence. Meanwhile, Bart becomes addicted to a Japanese kids' game called Battle Ball, but Marge and Principal Skinner believe that Bart is dealing drugs. It is also the first episode in which Lisa does not deliver any dialogue.
The episode was written by Carolyn Omine and William Wright and directed by Chris Clements, features guest star Jane Kaczmarek as Judge Constance Harm, Maurice LaMarche and Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony and has references to the television shows Starsky and Hutch, Three's Company, and Bakugan Battle Brawlers.
"Chief of Hearts" received mixed to positive reviews from critics and came first in its timeslot.
Plot
When Homer attempts to bring a candy apple into a bank, he is mistaken for a gun-toting bank robber and sentenced by Judge Constance Harm to 100 hours of community service. While completing his community service, Homer offers Chief Wiggum a tasty parm sandwich. Wiggum is touched by the offer, and the two become instant friends. As the two spend time together, Wiggum confesses to Homer that he has very few friends because citizens fear him as a cop and other cops belittle him. Their moment is interrupted when the chief must rush to a robbery, where Wiggum is shot by a thug in Fat Tony's mob. Homer keeps a bedside vigil in the hospital until Wiggum awakes, but soon tires of Wiggum's neediness and goes to Moe's for a break. When Wiggum finds him there, he declares Homer to be a bad friend and demands that Eddie and Lou arrest him, but when they refuse the unlawful task, Wiggum yells at them and storms out.
Later, Homer finds Wiggum on the same hillside where they first hung out together. When they spot Fat Tony and his mob counterfeiting Lacoste shirts, Homer and Wiggum are captured and thrown in the trunk of Tony's car to be taken to an execution site. The situation seems hopeless, but Homer expresses faith in Wiggum to find a way out. Wiggum rearranges the CDs to play "At Seventeen" by Janis Ian instead of a dramatic song, angering Tony. When Legs and Louie open the trunk, Wiggum uses items in it to knock them out and the two make their escape. They reconcile and proceed to hassle Ned Flanders with the police helicopter, tricking him into believing that God is convincing him to do embarrassing tasks.
Meanwhile, Bart is introduced to a Japanese card game called "Battle Ball" at Dylan's birthday party. While it is never resolved whether Dylan is male or female, Bart becomes hooked on this game. His jargon and secretive behavior lead Principal Skinner to suspect Bart of dealing drugs. Marge cannot believe that Bart would become involved with drugs, but she becomes suspicious and searches his |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shree%20K.%20Nayar | Shree K. Nayar is an engineer and computer scientist known for his contributions to the fields of computer vision, computational imaging, and computer graphics. He is the T. C. Chang Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering at Columbia University. Nayar co-directs the Columbia Vision and Graphics Center and is the head of the Computer Vision Laboratory (CAVE), which develops advanced imaging and computer vision systems. Nayar also serves as a director of research at Snap Inc. He was elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 2008 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011 for his pioneering work on computational cameras and physics based computer vision.
Education and career
Nayar received a B.E. in electrical engineering from Birla Institute of Technology in Mesra, in 1984, and an M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from North Carolina State University in Raleigh in 1986. He received a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 1991.
Nayar worked as a research engineer for Taylor Instruments in New Delhi in 1984. From 1986 to 1990 he was a graduate research assistant at The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. In the summer of 1989, he was a visiting researcher at Hitachi Ltd. in Yokohama, Japan. He joined the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Columbia University in 1991, and in 2009 he became chair of the department. Nayar also serves as a director of research at Snap Inc.
Research
Nayar's research is in the field of computational imaging and computer vision and focuses on the creation of novel cameras, physics based models for vision and graphics, and algorithms for image understanding. His work is motivated by applications in the fields of machine vision, digital imaging, computer graphics, robotics, and human-computer interactions. Nayar developed the concept of computational cameras and is a leading researcher in the field of computational imaging and computer vision. The field of computational photography is organized according to a taxonomy proposed by him.
Nayar's inventions include cameras that can capture 360 degree, high dynamic range, and three-dimensional images. He demonstrated the concept of a self-powered camera that can produce video using power harvested by the light captured by the camera without requiring an external power source. His method of using assorted pixels for single-shot high dynamic range imaging has been incorporated into image sensors that are currently being used by cameras in smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. In 2017, Popular Photography published a profile of Nayar that describes his impact on digital imaging and smartphone cameras.
Nayar developed the Oren–Nayar Reflectance Model in collaboration with Michael Oren in 1994, which is widely used in commercial graphics rendering packages. In 2009, he created the Bigshot Camera, a ki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos%20City%20Polytechnic | Lagos City Polytechnic is a privately owned polytechnic in Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria. It provides National Diploma courses in Accountancy, Banking & Finance and Business Studies.
The Lagos City Computer College is affiliated with the polytechnic.
The polytechnic is recognized by the National Board for Technical Education.
The polytechnic was established in 1990 by Engineer Babatunde Odufuwa as the first private tertiary educational institution in Nigeria.
It gained official recognition in 1995.
In December 2002 the polytechnic held its second convocation ceremony, where about 300 students received Higher Diplomas or National Diplomas.
The institution was criticized in 2006 by a Sunday Sun reporter who found lax admission procedures and inadequate staff.
See also
List of polytechnics in Nigeria
References
Polytechnics in Nigeria
Education in Lagos State |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard%20Friedman | Howard Steven Friedman (born June 10, 1972) is a prominent American statistician, data scientist, health economist, and writer who teaches at Columbia University
Friedman is widely known for his role as a lead statistical modeler on a number of key United Nations projects and for his wide-ranging publications in the fields of statistics, data science and health economics.
Biography
Career
Friedman was born in New York City and received his bachelor's degree from Binghamton University in applied physics in 1993, where he was a National Merit Scholar. He received a master's in statistics in 1998 and PhD in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1999. His thesis work focused on neural representations of object color through neurophysiological records of awake, behaving monkeys. This research leveraged a visual phenomenon known as Troxler's fading which is related to the phenomena of color filling-in to explore how object color is represented in the visual cortex. He has also contributed to areas of changepoint detection as it applies to neurophysiology.
Friedman was awarded a number of awards during his undergraduate and graduate career including the National Merit Scholarship, Whitaker Foundation Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship NSF-GRF
Following his dissertation work, Friedman took a position as a director at Capital One where he led teams of statisticians, analysts and programmers in various areas of operations and marketing. He left Capital One to form Analytic Solutions LLC in 2003 which provided consulting services in areas of designing, developing and modeling data and served as Chief Data Scientist for DataMed Solutions LLC and Sygeny LLC.
He has worked with the United Nations where he led a large number of research projects related to data analytics and health economics. He is credited with being the lead developer of the Integrated Health Model (used for costing the Health-related Millennium Development Goals within UNDP) and the Reproductive Health Costing Tool in UNFPA
He is a lead scientist for the interagency collaboration among UNICEF, World Bank, World Health Organization, UNFPA, UNAIDS and UNDP for the development of the OneHealth Tool, a project sponsored by the IHP+. In 2014, he was a Visiting Researcher at Oxford University's Department of Economics.
Friedman is the author of over 100 scientific articles and book chapters in areas of applied statistics, health economics and politics and has created data science courses using R, Python, SQL and SAS software.
Personal
Friedman was born in New York City. His father worked as a math teacher, his mother worked as an early education teacher.
Literature and artwork
In addition to his scientific career, Friedman is an accomplished artist and writer. His formal art training was at both Binghamton University and the School of Visual Arts. His first book, Angels and Stardust, featured original poetry and artwork. I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodat | Geodat was a commercial project, begun in 1980 and completed by 1991, that provided digital geographic mapping data for commercial users at scales equal to or greater than 1:1,000,000. The term "Geodat" was derived from "GEOgraphic DATa". Geodat data was primarily "medium scale", a nominal 1:100,000, but ranged from 1:50,000 to 1:250,000. The cartographic data was vector-based digitisation of coastline, hydrography, internal and international political boundaries, primary transportation routes and city locations. The data was intended to be used on its own to produce quick, cheap, consistent maps, initially for oil exploration firms. Harry Wassall, the founder of Petroconsultants SA, a Geneva-based energy information services firm, began the project in 1979 by hiring a researcher from the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis, Michael Mainelli, to explore how to automate Petroconsultants' extensive paper map series. Mainelli became Project Director in 1981. Petroconsultants concluded that a cooperative project among the oil firms acknowledged the high degree of overlap in their computer mapping interests.
Petroconsultants SA assessed client interest at a meeting in Geneva on 20–21 August 1981 with attendees from Amoco, BP, Cities Service, Deminex, Elf Acquitaine, Exxon, Gulf and Shell. The need for computerised mapping data was high and the response positive enough to form an advisory committee with paid sponsorship. The sponsors commissioned Petroconsultants to produce four sample digitised maps of the Ivory Coast. The Ivorian pilot project resulted in four 1:200,000 maps with 800 features and 40,000 data points. The pilot established Common Geographic Format (CGF) records, for a time the industry standard for computer cartographic information exchange. These digitised map files, and their attendant file structures, feature codes, segment records, map records, annotation records and set records were reviewed at a meeting in Dublin on 10–11 November 1981 with participation from Amoco, BP, Chevron, Cities Service, Elf Acquitaine, Exxon, Gulf, Phillips Petroleum and Shell. Geodat was formally launched in Houston on 9–10 February 1982 with attendees from Amoco, BP, Chevron, Elf Acquitaine, Exxon, Getty, Gulf, Texas Easter and Union Texas. Four primary sponsors were Shell, BP, Elf Acquitaine and Chevron, while ten other firms were partial sponsors. Full sponsors received a guarantee of six million digitised points (approximately 360 maps) digitised to a specified quality level.
First data delivery was in June 1983, consisting of 57 maps and 1.24 million points. By the end of 1985, Geodat had delivered twenty million data points and 750 map sheets in the 1:50,000 to 1:250,000 scale range. Alongside mainstream production for the project sponsors, the Geodat project produced a complete digital map of the world at a scale of 1:1,000,000, MundoCart, in 1985. MundoCart was based on digitisation of paper prints of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CycleStreets | CycleStreets is a not-for-profit United Kingdom organisation that provides a free-to-use national cycle journey planner for the United Kingdom. The planner uses OpenStreetMap data for routing, Shuttle Radar Topography Mission for height data and official postcode data. It was launched in March 2009 and by January 2010 had planned 100,000 journeys. As of August 2015, the site has planned over 45 million itineraries. It was 'Highly Commended' at the 2009 ACT Travelwise awards. It provides worldwide routing using OpenStreetMap data.
History
CycleStreets is a development of the Cambridge Cycle Campaign Journey Planner, which was launched in 2006. CycleStreets itself was launched on 20 March 2009; which was by co-incidence the same day that it was announced that the Transport Direct Portal was about to introduce cycle routing for a small number of trial locations including Manchester. In June 2009, a feature to plan circular routes was added and the project was featured in The Guardian newspaper. In August 2009 functionality was added to export routes for use in GPS device and the ability to route via ferry services and then in October 2009 the project released elevation profiles and 'Balanced routes'.
In December 2009, CycleStreets was 'Highly Commended' in the ACT Travelwise annual awards.
In February 2010, the ability to share short video clips was added and then in March 2010 CycleStreets added Google Streetview images to the route description pages and a post code look-up function. They reported their 100,000th journey plan itinerary the same month.
Development
In 2007, during the development of CycleStreets, Simon Nuttall and Martin Lucas-Smith advised Transport Direct on the CycleNetXChange data exchange standard for cycle route data which was later used in the Transport Direct Portal cycle journey planner.
In July 2009, CycleStreets was presented at the OpenStreetMap annual 'State of the Map' Conference In September 2009, Martin Lucas Smith of CycleStreets presented the project at the School of Cartography Summer School.
The project held its first 'Developer Day' in March 2010, where technical issues relating to the project were discussed and there was a session on cycle routing at WhereCampEU.
Funding
CycleStreets is a not-for-profit project and has been largely self-funded. It has received grants from the following organisations (in chronological order):
Cycling Scotland (£5,000): To develop a version of the site for Edinburgh, which Cycling Scotland are now promoting as a Scotland-wide system
Cambridge City Council — Cambridge Sustainable City project (£3,200) in February 2010.
Co-op Community Fund (£1,000) in March 2010.
The project has also benefited from a number of donations in kind, including geographic information donated in OpenStreetMap.
References
External links
CycleStreets website
Cycling in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 2009
Non-profit organisations based in the United Kingdom
Route planning softwar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonido | Tonido is remote access and home server software for network-attached storage. Once installed on a computer, Tonido software makes that computer's files available remotely via the internet through the web browser or through native mobile apps. This allows access to files stored on the computer, including music and videos, to any computing device connected to the Internet in possession of login credentials. Data is by default transmitted via Tonido's servers, with no port forwarding required, but can be transmitted without using Tonido's servers by setting up port forwarding. Data transfer speed cannot exceed that of the slowest link in the data path, including USB 2.0 for USB-connected storage.
Tonido stores all user information including login credentials locally, enabling login into Tonido software without the requirement of an internet connection.
Tonido allows different computing devices to synchronise files via a Tonido server, without using the public computing "cloud". Synchronisation uses Tonido's servers; the company provides 2 GB of synchronised storage free of charge, and 100 GB for Pro users.
Tonido runs on x86, ARM, PowerPC and MIPS architectures, and is available as binary packages for popular Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora, and OpenSUSE, and for Mac OS X and Windows.
Tonido sell a small computer that runs Tonido software. The TonidoPlug is based on the SheevaPlug, running Ubuntu Linux.
References
External links
Linux-based devices
Computer storage devices
File sharing software for Linux
Home servers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Bradshaw%20%28journalist%29 | Professor Paul Bradshaw is an online journalist and blogger, who leads the MA in Data Journalism at Birmingham City University. He manages his own blog, the Online Journalism Blog (OJB), and was the co-founder of Help Me Investigate, an investigative journalism website funded by Channel 4 and Screen WM. He has written for journalism.co.uk, Press Gazette, The Guardian's Data Blog, Nieman Reports and the Poynter Institute in the US. From 2010 to 2015 he was also a visiting professor at City University's School of Journalism in London. From 2015 to 2020 he worked with the BBC England data unit and since 2020 he has worked with the BBC Shared Data Unit.
Bradshaw is the author of the Online Journalism Handbook,<ref>{{Cite web | last = McAthy | first = Rachel | title = 'Online innovator to leave university post after 'complicated decision |publisher= Journalism.co.uk | date = 20 July 2010 | url = http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2010/07/20/online-innovator-to-leave-university-post-after-complicated-decision/ | accessdate = 30 July 2010 }}</ref> and co-author with Steve Hill of Mobile-First Journalism. He also co-wrote the 3rd edition of Magazine Editing with John Morrish. He has self-published a number of ebooks on data journalism and Snapchat and contributed to books including Investigative Journalism (2nd Ed), Web Journalism: A New Form of Citizenship; Face the Future; Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives; Specialist Reporting; Data Journalism: Mapping the Future; and Ethics for Digital Journalists: Emerging Best Practices.
Adrian Monck ranked Bradshaw second in his list of "Britain's Top Ten Journo-Bloggers" (2007),. He was placed thirty-sixth in the Birmingham Post'''s "Power 50" list of 2009 and listed again in the Media section of the 'Power 250' list in 2016. He has been listed in Journalism.co.uk's list of the leading innovators in journalism and media and Poynter's most influential people in social media.
In 2010 he was shortlisted for Multimedia Publisher of the Year and in 2011 ranked 9th in PeerIndex's list of the most influential UK journalists on Twitter. In 2016 he was part of a team that won the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards.
Bradshaw is also a graduate of Birmingham City University (then the University of Central England), where he studied media from 1995 to 1998.
One of Bradshaw's MA students was Lyra McKee.
See also
Wiki journalism
References
External links
Online Journalism Blog
Help Me Investigate
Birmingham City University page
City University London page
Academics of Birmingham City University
Alumni of Birmingham City University
British bloggers
British investigative journalists
Journalism academics
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Online journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism%20in%20Rugrats | The animated television series Rugrats has been noted for its portrayal of Judaism, a dynamic rarely represented in American animated programming during the series' broadcast run (1991–2004). Six episodes of the series are devoted to Jewish holidays and to explaining their history, and the Pickles family is shown to be part-Jewish.
The first Rugrats Jewish holiday special was suggested to the production staff in 1992 by Nickelodeon executives as a special devoted to Hanukkah. One of the show creators, Paul Germain, instead refashioned it into a Passover episode, and the series did not explore a Hanukkah special until 1996. Critical reaction to Jewish themes in Rugrats was largely positive. Each holiday special achieved high viewing numbers according to Nielsen Media Research and received positive reviews. However, Jewish character Grandpa Boris' portrayal in a 1998 Rugrats comic strip was criticized by the Anti-Defamation League for apparent antisemitism.
Jewish themes
Background
In Rugrats, the root of Jewish themes stem from Boris and Minka Kropotkin, the Russian Jewish maternal grandparents of Tommy Pickles. Boris and Minka follow traditional Ashkenazi Jewish practices and speak in heavy Yiddish accents. Tommy and the Pickles family therefore partake in several Jewish activities throughout the series, particularly through holidays. However, while Boris and Minka appear to practice their faith regularly, the Pickles are rarely shown to participate in religious activities outside of major holidays.
Rugrats (1991–2004)
A Rugrats Passover (1995)
"A Rugrats Passover" (Season 3, Episode 26) follows the main characters, Tommy, Phil, Lil, Chuckie, and Angelica, as they arrive at the Kropotkin residence to celebrate Passover Seder alongside Boris and Minka, and imagine themselves as Jewish figures, notably Tommy as Moses and Angelica as the pharaoh of Exodus as it's told by Boris, who has accidentally locked the group in the attic.
A Rugrats Chanukah (1996)
In "A Rugrats Chanukah" (Season 4, Episode 1), though the opening title card for the episode simply reads Chanukah, the main characters are told the story of the Maccabean Revolt by Tommy's Jewish grandfather, Boris, and imagine themselves as Biblical characters, with Tommy seeing himself as Judas Maccabeus while others play nameless Jewish characters. A reference to the song "I Have a Little Dreidel" is made, with Chuckie telling a Greek guard baby that the two are just playing with their dreidels, to which Tommy adds that they made out of clay, and Tommy's famous line, "A baby's gotta do what a baby's gotta do", is modified to "A Macca-baby's gotta do what a Macca-baby's gotta do", a reference to Maccabees. The tradition of giving chocolate coins was also mentioned. It was groundbreaking in that it was the first children's series to air a Hanukkah special, in a time when children's shows frequently released Christmas-themed episodes during the holiday season.
The Rugrats Movie (1998)
In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AL4 | AL4 may refer to:
AL4, a postcode district in the AL postcode area
British Rail Class 84
Fault Tolerance - Nonstop Computing - High Availability Computing - AL4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland%20highway%20system | The Maryland highway system is a network of highways owned and maintained by the U.S. state of Maryland. In addition to the nationally numbered Interstate Highways and U.S. Highways, the highway system consists of a network of Maryland state-numbered highways. All three types of highways together provide access to all incorporated and unincorporated areas in all 23 counties of Maryland as well as the independent city of Baltimore.
Highway systems
Interstate highways
Maryland has 16 Interstate highways, including six primary Interstates and ten auxiliary Interstates. The longest Interstate in Maryland is Interstate 95, while the shortest Interstate is I-295. Maryland also contains an unsigned Interstate, I-595; a former Interstate, I-170; and an intracounty Interstate, I-97, which is also the shortest primary highway in the Interstate Highway System.
U.S. highways
Maryland has 14 U.S. Highways, including seven primary U.S. Highways and seven auxiliary U.S. highways. The longest U.S. highway in Maryland is U.S. Route 40, while the shortest U.S. highway is US 522. Maryland also contains six former U.S. highways.
Maryland state highways
Maryland has a unitary system of numbered state highways with numbers between 2 and 999. The longest Maryland state highway is Maryland Route 2, while several state highways are less than in length. Most of the shortest highways are unsigned. Several state highways have multiple disjoint segments that are denoted internally by suffixes, encompassing either old alignments of a major highway or a collection of service roads related to a particular highway.
Other systems
There are other systems of highways in Maryland that are not marked but are numbered internally.
County highways: All 23 counties have internal numerical designations for all highways under their jurisdiction.
Municipal highways: Every city, town, and village maintains an internal system of numerically designated municipal streets.
Federal government or agency highways: Highways maintained by the federal government or agencies such as the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission are designated inventory numbers. Examples of highways within this category include parkways, such as the Clara Barton Parkway or Sligo Creek Parkway; streets on federal research campuses, such as those of the National Institutes of Health or Goddard Space Flight Center; roads on military bases, such as those on Fort Meade; and roads within reservations of the National Park Service, such as Bayberry Drive within Assateague Island National Seashore.
State reservation highways: Highways maintained by non-highways agencies of the state of Maryland. Examples of highways within this categories include streets on state university campuses, access roads to state parks and state forests, and highways within state-owned airports.
Highway agencies
Maryland State Highway Administration
The vast majority of Interstate, U.S., and state highways are co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triad%20method | The TRIAD method is the earliest published algorithm for determining spacecraft attitude, which was first introduced by Harold Black in 1964. Given the knowledge of two vectors in the reference and body coordinates of a satellite, the TRIAD algorithm obtains the direction cosine matrix relating to both frames. Harold Black played a key role in the development of the guidance, navigation, and control of the U.S. Navy's Transit satellite system at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratories. TRIAD represented the state of practice in spacecraft attitude determination before the advent of Wahba's problem. and its several optimal solutions. Covariance analysis for Black's solution was subsequently provided by Markley.
Summary
Firstly, one considers the linearly independent reference vectors and . Let be the corresponding measured directions of the reference unit vectors as resolved in a body fixed frame of reference. Following that, they are then related by the equations,
for , where is a rotation matrix (sometimes also known as a proper orthogonal matrix, i.e., ). transforms vectors in the body fixed frame into the frame of the reference vectors. Among other properties, rotational matrices preserve the length of the vector they operate on. Note that the direction cosine matrix also transforms the cross product vector, written as,
TRIAD proposes an estimate of the direction cosine matrix as a solution to the linear system equations given by
where have been used to separate different column vectors.
The solution presented above works well in the noise-free case. However, in practice, are noisy and the orthogonality condition of the attitude matrix (or the direction cosine matrix) is not preserved by the above procedure. TRIAD incorporates the following elegant procedure to redress this problem. To this end, one defines unit vectors,
and
to be used in place of the first two columns of equation (). Their cross product is used as the third column in the linear system of equations obtaining a proper orthogonal matrix for the spacecraft attitude given by the following:
While the normalizations of equations () - () are not necessary, they have been carried out to achieve a computational advantage in solving the linear system of equations in (). Thus an estimate of the spacecraft attitude is given by the proper orthogonal matrix as
Note that computational efficiency has been achieved in this procedure by replacing the matrix inverse with a transpose. This is possible because the matrices involved in computing attitude are each composed of a TRIAD of orthonormal basis vectors. "TRIAD" derives its name from this observation.
TRIAD Attitude Matrix and Handedness of Measurements
It is of consequence to note that the TRIAD method always produces a proper orthogonal matrix irrespective of the handedness of the reference and body vectors employed in the estimation process. This can be shown as follows: In a matrix form given
where
and
Note t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland%20Runic%20Inscription%201144 | Uppland Runic Inscription 1144 or U 1144 is the Rundata catalog designation of a Viking Age memorial runestone in a churchyard that is located five kilometers southwest of Tierp, Uppsala County, Sweden, which was in the historic province of Uppland.
Description
The runic inscription consists of runic text within bands that are around an unusual image of a Christian cross surrounded by stylized serpents and two lambs. It has been suggested that the runestone's iconography of an adoring lamb on each side of the cross may have been based on similar images seen during pilgrimages to Rome or the Holy Land. The stone is composed of granite and is 1.8 meters in height with the upper right portion missing. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr3, which is also known as Urnes style. This runestone style is characterized by slim and stylized animals that are interwoven into tight patterns. The animal heads are typically seen in profile with slender almond-shaped eyes and upwardly curled appendages on the noses and the necks.
The runic text on runestone U 1144 states that the stone is a memorial raised by five brothers in memory of their father Geiri, and, consistent with the iconography, includes a prayer for his soul. The inscription is signed by two runemasters with the normalized names of Hæriarr and Åsmund Kåresson. Åsmund was a runemaster active in the Uppland region in the first half of the eleventh century and signed about twenty runic inscriptions, with another thirty stones attributed to him. Other surviving runestones that are signed by Åsmund include U 301 in Skånela, the now-lost U 346 in Frösunda, U 356 in Ängby, the now-lost U 368 in Helgåby, U 824 in Holm, U 847 in Västeråker, U 859 in Måsta, U 871 in Ölsta, U 884 in Ingla, U 932 at Uppsala Cathedral, U 956 in Vedyxa, U 969 in Bolsta, the now-lost U 986 in Kungsgården, U 998 in Skällerö, U 1142 in Åbyggeby, U 1149 in Fleräng, U Fv1986;84 in Bo gård, U Fv1988;241 in Rosersberg, Gs 11 in Järvsta, Gs 12 in Lund, and Gs 13 in Söderby. The signature of Hæriarr, however, is not on any other surviving runestone. When writing runic text, it was common to only carve a single rune for two consecutive letters, even when the letters were at the end of one word and the beginning of a second word. When the text is shown as Latin characters, the transliterated runes are doubled and separate words are shown. In the runemaster's signature, osmuntritsi, an additional r-rune, is added in the transliteration to form the words osmuntr| |ritsi ("Ásmundr carved"). Åsmund signed his name using the same runes on two other inscriptions, U 824 and U 1142.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
' kaiʀfast(r) [auk hunifraʀ auk hrafn] ' auk ' fulkbiurn ' auk þuriʀ ' litu rita stino ' aftiʀ ' kaiʀ[a] f[a]þur sin ' kuþ hialbi (a)n- h(o)ns ' osmuntr| |risti ' uk hiriaʀ '
Transcription into Old Norse
Geirfastr ok Hónefr ok Hrafn ok Folkbjǫrn ok Þórir létu rétta stein |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonal%20system | The tonal system is a base 16 system of notation (predating the widespread use of hexadecimal in computing), arithmetic, and metrology proposed in 1859 by John W. Nystrom. In addition to new weights and measures, his proposal included a new calendar with sixteen months, a new system of coinage, and a clock with sixteen major divisions of the day (called tims). Nystrom advocated his system thus:
Names for the numbers
He proposed names for the digits, calling zero "noll" and counting (from one to sixteen):
"An, de, ti, go, su, by, ra, me, ni, ko, hu, vy, la, po, fy, ton." (Therefore, tonal system.)
Because hexadecimal requires sixteen digits, Nystrom supplemented the existing decimal digits 0 through 9 with his own invented characters (shown on his clockface above) and changed the value of 9 to ten. Later, the hexadecimal notation overcame this same obstacle by using the digits 0 through 9 followed by the letters A through F.
The numbers 1116 and 1216 would be said "tonan", "tonde", etc. The table below shows Nystrom's names for successive powers of 1016.
Thus, the hexadecimal number 1510,0000 would be "mill-susanton-bong". This first hexadecimal system, proposed in the 19th century, has thus far not achieved widespread usage.
Although Nystrom did not propose a language for tonal fractions, his nomenclature for units of measure does provide one: the name of a power of sixteen before the base unit's name multiplies it by that number, but a power of sixteen after the base unit's name divides it by that number. Thus, de timtons means tim.
Geography
For latitudes he put 0 at the North Pole, 4 at the equator and 8 at the South Pole. The units were called tims. They are the same as the colatitudes measured in turns times 16.
Music
In his book he made a reference to music notation, where binary division is already in use for time. He also discussed the problem of pitch inflation, which he proposed to solve by setting the A below middle C to a frequency of san per timmill (194 Hz).
References
Hexadecimal numeral system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FGP%20227 | The FGP 227 was a scale flying model of the Blohm & Voss BV 238 flying boat, built to provide data for the development of the BV 238.
Design and development
The proposed Blohm & Voss BV 238 flying boat was to have an advanced hull design which had never been tried before. The Czech Flugtechnische Fertigungsgemeinschaft Prag (FGP) was engaged to build a quarter-scale test aircraft.
The FGP 227 was a faithful, approximately quarter-scale model of the proposed design, having a long, narrow hull with a high-mounted wing and conventional tail. The pilot sat in a front cockpit and the flight test observer in another one aft of the wing. Power was supplied by six ILO F 12/400 air-cooled two-stroke engines driving three bladed propellers, mounted along the wings.
The model was completed early in 1944, registered as BQ+UZ and fitted with a temporary wheeled undercarriage of ten small wheels fitted with low-pressure tyres.
Operational history
Intended to allow flight tests to commence from the manufacturers airfield, the FGP 227 refused to take-off from the grass airfield. The aircraft was dismantled and transported to Erprobungsstelle See, Travemünde (E-Stelle - flying boat testing station). During transport French prisoners of war loading the wing onto flat-bed trucks allowed it to fall from a crane causing damage which was not repaired until September 1944.
Flight tests commenced in September 1944 as soon as the repairs were completed, but all six engines stopped due to fuel starvation soon after take-off, resulting in a heavy landing on the water. The FGP 227 was again repaired after which the aircraft flew several more times. By this time construction and testing of the BV 238 had started, so no useful data was gleaned from the programme.
Specifications (FGP 227)
See also
Blohm & Voss
Notes
References
Flying boats
1940s German aircraft
Six-engined tractor aircraft
High-wing aircraft
Aircraft manufactured in Germany
Aircraft first flown in 1944 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion%20polling%20for%20the%202010%20Brazilian%20presidential%20election | Opinion polling for the 2010 Brazilian presidential election started as early as 2008. All polls conducted between 1 January 2010 and election day were registered in the Supreme Electoral Court database, as required by electoral law. The main nationwide polling institutes are Datafolha, IBOPE, Vox Populi, and Sensus.
Election information
The first round of the 2010 Brazilian presidential election was held on October 3, as part of the country's general election, with a second round between the two leading candidates on October 31. That happened because under Brazilian law, if none of the candidates receives more than a half of the valid votes, a run-off is held four weeks after the first round. The leading candidate, Dilma Rousseff, received 46.9% of the first-round vote, thereby making a second round necessary.
In the election, Brazilian citizens eligible to vote chose their successor to then-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, of the democratic socialist/social democratic Workers' Party. According to the Constitution, the president is elected directly to a four-year term, with a limit of two terms. Lula was hence ineligible for a third term, since he was elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. The 2010 election marked the first time since the end of the military dictatorship that Lula was not a candidate for the presidency.
Candidates overview
Since the earliest polls for president, former São Paulo Governor José Serra – candidate for the center-right opposition group led by the centrist/Third Way Social Democratic Party – was ahead of Dilma Rousseff, pre-candidate for the ruling center-left bloc led by the Workers' Party. Rousseff, however, increased her popularity greatly, rising from 3% in March 2008 to 30% in March 2010. On the May 8, 2010 poll by Vox Populi, she finally surpassed Serra, achieving 37% of the voting intention.
Another potential candidate for the ruling center-left group was Ciro Gomes from the Brazilian Socialist Party, who lost his comfortable second place in polls to Rousseff in May 2009. After that, he maintained an average of 12% of voting intention. On April 27, 2010, Gomes' party declined to launch his candidacy, instead supporting Rousseff. In the left-wing opposition group, Socialism and Freedom Party's Heloísa Helena was the most likely candidate, but her name was withdrawn from polling after she decided to run for a seat in the Senate for Alagoas. Plínio de Arruda Sampaio was her party's candidate for president. Almost simultaneously, Marina Silva left the Workers' Party and joined the Green Party to run for president. Prior to her candidature, she was well known internationally as a defender of the Amazon Rainforest, but was less known in her native Brazil.
Polls
The results displayed in this article excludes results for spontaneous polls (in which cards with the names of likely candidates are not presented to researched voters), due to the significant number of voters that would vote for Luiz Inácio Lula da |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virion%20Screen%20Project | Virion is a screen-based digital art exhibition that links to public sites across Brisbane, focused in the Kelvin Grove Urban Screen Network. The Virion Screen Project was held from 19 July 2015 to 1 August 2015.
Premise
Developed by Rachael Parsons, Virion aimed to explore the internet's potential to support a democratic, networked arts culture, by employing an open curatorial process that allowed members of the general public to actively contribute to the exhibitions’ content and construction. Virion sought to maximize and diversify Brisbane audiences’ exposure to new media practices by screening works in non-traditional & traditional locations, each creating a unique viewing experience. Virion strived to make vital connections between contemporary art, the general public and the local community and environment.
Submissions
Using the Virion website, internet users were invited to upload an image, short video work or sound work to be exhibited during the exhibition both on selected screen sites and online. The exhibition was open to all users with no selection criteria (the exception being explicit material that may be inappropriate for public spaces). Each work was given equal showing time. Users were able to select the screen they wanted their work to be shown on . The ability to upload content remained open during the exhibition period. Virion provided artists the opportunity to display their work across a network of public screens and access a diverse audience. The exhibition was open to all users from professional and emerging artists to people experimenting with cameras and scanners. Submissions could be in the form of digital stills or video files up to 1 minute each. Throughout the exhibition the audience was invited to respond and participate by contributing further content to the show. Sites were updated progressively to include all work.
Screens
Each screen played a compilation of diverse images and video that represented a wide and integrated range of local and international art practices and styles. Screens were located across a range of public, gallery and institutional sites to offer unique viewing experiences and to maximize and diversify Brisbane audiences’ exposure to new media practices.
The KGUV Screens Network was a unique and innovative method of sharing visual art and creative industries content out into the broader community, through a network of linked screens in Kelvin Grove and QUT. Screens were located at AXIOM Estate Agents, The Exchange, Blue Lotus, Urban Dental, Health Stream Fitness Club, QUT Health Clinics – Podiatry and Optometry, Queensland Academy for Creative Industries and the Creative Industries Precinct.
The Edge was The State Library of Queensland's newest initiative in 2015. It is a place for young Queenslanders; a place for experimentation and creativity, giving contemporary tools to young people to allow them to explore critical ideas, green initiatives, new design practices and media making. T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozelle%20Tram%20Depot | Rozelle Tram Depot is a former tram storage and operations centre that was part of the Sydney tram network. It is the largest remaining tram depot in Sydney. The depot was turned into the food-centric retail complex Tramsheds that opened in September 2016.
History
Rozelle Tram Depot opened on 17 April 1904, working in conjunction with Newtown and Ultimo depots operating trams on the western, south-western and Ryde tram routes. The depot was originally accessed by a reserved track from Glebe which ran along what is now known as Minogue Crescent. Access to the depot was controlled by a signal box situated near the staff waiting room which also served as a changeover point for drivers.
Constructed in stages from 1904 the depot was a 25 road car shed accommodating 96 carriages, this was gradually increased to 125 by 1907. Construction of the second half of the depot in that same year saw the depot cater for an additional 70 trams. From 1918 depot capacity was increased to 200 tram cars.
In 1926 and 1928 the Rozelle Depot gardens won the Garden Competition which was held annually between tram depots.
A Returned Soldiers branch was established by Tramways employees and a Soldiers Memorial was erected on-site at the front of the Traffic Offices on 26 November 1916. This was to commemorate the various depot staff who served in both World War I and World War II. Of the 1,157 Tramway men enlisted during World War I, 139 were either killed or went missing.
Upon closure of Ultimo depot on 27 June 1953, Rozelle depot received additional trams to run the Darling Street Wharf to Canterbury route.
The depot ceased operations on 22 November 1958 upon closure of the Glebe line. On the following day the depot was cleared of all cars and the lines connecting the system were removed.
Soon after its closure the depot was leased out to several different parties, including CHEP, the Sydney City Council and the City Tram Association.
The depot at one stage contained six historic Sydney trams, some of which date back to the 1930s, as well as a Leyland Royal Tiger Worldmaster bus that has been heavily vandalised. The trams that were in near mint condition prior to 2000 were vandalised, stripped and painted with graffiti. Five of the trams belonging to the Sydney Tramway Society were originally acquired and stored in the shed as part of a now defunct plan by the City of Sydney council to introduce a heritage tramway to The Rocks. One of the trams was R1 class 1995, the last tram to operate on Sydney's original tram network, entering Randwick Tramway Workshops in February 1961 on the last day of operations.<
A development proposal submitted in 2005 that included multi-storey apartments, underground car parking and commercial offices ran into opposition from residents. The site has been considered for a variety of uses, including a market, artists' studios, performance spaces.
On 10 December 2010 it was announced the entire Harold Park Paceway site had been purcha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetbook | Jetbook may refer to:
ECTACO jetBook, a line of eBook readers
A line of notebook computers by Jetta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-layer%20interaction%20and%20service%20mapping | Cross-layer interaction and service mapping (CLIASM) was designed for achieving QoS for wireless network.
P. Venkata Krishna et al., proposed a cross-layer QoS model called CLIASM for MANET. This model proposes a back and forth flow mechanism for sharing information. A shared database is being utilized to enable layers share information though each layer is performing different function. Between two layers two interfaces are created to enable flow of information on both sides. The model is implemented based on the division of network features according to layers as application layer metrics (ALM), transport layer metrics (TLM), network layer metrics (NLM) and MAC layer metrics (MLM). But in deploying several cross-layering approaches, one has to keep in mind the possibilities of occurrence of unintended interactions and side effects. Conflicting interactions may create stability problems and result performance degradation.
References
Network performance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street%20Hawk%20%28video%20game%29 | Street Hawk is a video game based on the Street Hawk TV series. It was developed by Ocean Software in the 1980s for the ZX Spectrum home computer. When development on the first attempt stalled in 1985, a new version had to be quickly produced by their in-house team to fulfil orders for Kays Catalogues and never went on general release. This version is sometimes known as the "subscribers edition" as it was offered as a free gift to new subscribers to Crash magazine - the magazine eventually had to offer a choice of other Ocean games - Ping Pong, Movie, Super Bowl and Green Beret - as alternatives.
Ocean went on the develop another version of the game for release in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC. The Commodore 64 version was 90% complete but was canceled by Ocean due to lack of profitability from programming delays. In Spain it was distributed by Erbe Software with the name El Halcón Callejero.
References
External links
1985 video games
1986 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Cancelled Commodore 64 games
Ocean Software games
ZX Spectrum games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAXQDA | MAXQDA is a software program designed for computer-assisted qualitative and mixed methods data, text and multimedia analysis in academic, scientific, and business institutions. It is being developed and distributed by VERBI Software based in Berlin, Germany.
MAXQDA is designed for the use in qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research. The emphasis on going beyond qualitative research can be observed in the extensive attributes function (called variables in the programme itself) and the ability of the programme to deal relatively quickly with larger numbers of interviews.
Products
MAXQDA Standard
The standard version of MAXQDA for macOS and Windows offers tools for the organisation and analysis of qualitative data. This includes text, audio, image, video and bibliographical files as well as survey data, Twitter tweets or focus group transcripts. The data can be analysed in a four-screen window with the help of codes and memos. MAXQDA's visualisation functions and export options facilitate presentations. MAXQDA includes some quantitative data analysis tools (e.g. Mixed Methods tools).
MAXQDA Plus
MAXQDA Plus is an extended version of MAXQDA and includes the MAXDictio module. MAXDictio can be used to create dictionaries, as well as to search and filter text files. Vocabulary and word frequency analyses can be used to support qualitative findings.
MAXQDA Analytics Pro
MAXQDA Analytics Pro is the most advanced version of MAXQDA. Besides the MAXDictio module, it also integrates a comprehensive module for statistical analysis of qualitative data. The "Stats" module offers tools to statistically analyze MAXQDA project data or import and work with external quantitative data sets in Excel or SPSS.
MAXQDA Reader
The MAXQDA Reader makes it possible to read and search MAXQDA projects without owning a license. Projects cannot be edited.
Version history
1989: MAX (DOS)
2001: MAXqda (Windows)
2003: MAXDictio (Add on for quantitative text analysis)
2005: MAXMaps (Add on for visual mapping)
2007: MAXQDA 2007 (Windows)
2010: MAXQDA 10 (Windows)
2012: MAXQDA 11 (Windows)
2012: MAXApp for iOS (iOS App)
2014: MAXApp for Android (Android App)
2014: MAXQDA 11 (Mac OS X)
2015: MAXQDA 12 (Universal for Windows and Mac OS X)
2016: VERBI releases two new products: MAXQDA Base and MAXQDA Analytics Pro
2017: MAXQDA 2018 (Universal for Windows and macOS)
2019: MAXQDA 2020 (Universal for Windows and macOS)
2022: MAXQDA 2022 (Universal for Windows and macOS)
Features of MAXQDA 2022
Import of text documents, tables, audio, video, images, twitter tweets, surveys
Data is stored in project file
Reading, editing and coding data
Paraphrasing
Settings links from one part of a document to another
Annotating data with memos
Visualization options (number of codes in different documents etc.)
Group Comparison
Analyse code combinations
Import and export demographic information (variables) from and to SPSS and Excel
Import of online surveys from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20D.%20Macredie | Robert Duncan Macredie (born 31 July 1968) is a British computer scientist. He served as Professor, Head of department, and Head of the School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics at Brunel University, Uxbridge, west London and was, until February 2010, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Student Experience at Brunel University. Macredie was founder and is editor-in-chief, of the Springer research journal Virtual Reality. He has held a number of UK Research Council and EU Framework grants in the areas of computer science and information systems. He is Governor of the Crest Girls' Academy in Brent, West London.
Biography
Macredie was born in Rotherham, West Riding of Yorkshire and attended Broom Valley junior and infants' school, Oakwood Comprehensive School, and Rotherham College of Arts and Technology, before an undergraduate degree in Physics and Computer Science at the University of Hull. He graduated in 1989, and subsequently completed an SERC-funded PhD in Computer Science before joining the Virtual Environments Research Group (VERG) (now HIVE) at the University of Hull. In 1994 he joined Brunel University as a lecturer, and became full Professor in 1999, Head of department in 2001, Dean of Faculty and Head of School in 2004 and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Student Experience in 2006.
Publications
References
1968 births
Alumni of the University of Hull
Living people
Academics of Brunel University London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Rau | Bantwal Ramakrishna "Bob" Rau (1951 – December 10, 2002) was a computer engineer and HP Fellow. Rau was a founder and chief architect of Cydrome, where he helped develop the Very long instruction word technology that is now common in modern computer processors. Rau was the recipient of the 2002 Eckert–Mauchly Award.
IEEE Computer Society has established a "B. Ramakrishna Rau Award" in his memory. Past recipients include major contributors in the microarchitecture field.
References
External links
IEEE Biography of Rau
Hewlett Packard obituary
http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/02-12-128
1951 births
2002 deaths
Computer hardware engineers
Hewlett-Packard people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%2032%20%28Poland%29 | Droga krajowa nr 32 (translates from Polish as national road 32) is route that is part of the Polish national roads network. It runs through Lubusz and Greater Poland Voivodeships, leading from the former border crossing with Germany in Gubinek to Stęszew, where meets national road 5. Locally act as a bypass for small towns through the route. For a 14 km stretch it runs on the route of expressway S3. National road 32 connects Poznań urban area and Zielona Góra urban area with Polish-German border.
Major towns along the route
Gubinek, Polish-German border
Gubin
Krosno Odrzańskie
Dąbie (national road 29)
Zielona Góra (S3, national road 27)
Sulechów (S3, national road 3)
Wolsztyn
Grodzisk Wielkopolski
Stęszew (national road 5)
Route plan
32 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized%20rounding | In computer science and operations research, randomized rounding
is a widely-used approach for designing and analyzing approximation algorithms.
Many combinatorial optimization problems are computationally intractable to solve exactly (to optimality). For such problems, randomized rounding can be used to design fast (polynomial time) approximation algorithms—that is, algorithms that are guaranteed to return an approximately optimal solution given any input.
The basic idea of randomized rounding is to convert an optimal solution of a relaxation of the problem into an approximately-optimal solution to the original problem. The resulting algorithm is usually analyzed using the probabilistic method.
Overview
The basic approach has three steps:
Formulate the problem to be solved as an integer linear program (ILP).
Compute an optimal fractional solution to the linear programming relaxation (LP) of the ILP.
Round the fractional solution of the LP to an integer solution of the ILP.
(Although the approach is most commonly applied with linear programs,
other kinds of relaxations are sometimes used.
For example, see Goemans' and Williamson's semidefinite programming-based
Max-Cut approximation algorithm.)
In the first step, the challenge is to choose a suitable integer linear program.
Familiarity with linear programming, in particular modelling using linear programs and integer linear programs, is required. For many problems, there is a natural integer linear program that works well,
such as in the Set Cover example below. (The integer linear program should have a small
integrality gap;
indeed randomized rounding is often used to prove bounds on integrality gaps.)
In the second step, the optimal fractional solution can typically be computed
in polynomial time
using any standard linear programming algorithm.
In the third step, the fractional solution must be converted into an integer solution
(and thus a solution to the original problem).
This is called rounding the fractional solution.
The resulting integer solution should (provably) have cost
not much larger than the cost of the fractional solution.
This will ensure that the cost of the integer solution
is not much larger than the cost of the optimal integer solution.
The main technique used to do the third step (rounding) is to use randomization,
and then to use probabilistic arguments to bound the increase in cost due to the rounding
(following the probabilistic method from combinatorics).
Therein, probabilistic arguments are used to show the existence of discrete structures with
desired properties. In this context, one uses such arguments to show the following:
Given any fractional solution of the LP, with positive probability the randomized rounding process produces an integer solution that approximates according to some desired criterion.
Finally, to make the third step computationally efficient,
one either shows that approximates
with high probability (so that the step can |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost%20Lettermen | Lost Lettermen was a sports weblog and database, which was launched by Jim Weber in March 2009. It was dedicated to former college football and basketball players. It regularly interviewed former college stars such as Tee Martin, Charlie Ward, Ki-Jana Carter, Ed O'Bannon, Corliss Williamson and Mateen Cleaves. It also had a database of over 150,000 former college athletes to answer the question, "Where Are They Now?"
The site was featured in USA Today in March 2010 to locate the current whereabouts of NCAA Tournament one-hit wonders such as Bryce Drew and Kevin Pittsnogle. Jim Weber sold the site in 2015, and as of August 2017 it no longer was in operation.
References
External links
Sports News Website
Heisman Winners: Where Are They Now?
American football websites
College basketball websites
Internet properties established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drilliola%20emendata | Drilliola emendata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Borsoniidae.
Description
The brown shell grows to a length of . The whorls show three cingulae and two lirae. The body whorl is spirally multicingulate and
longitudinally lirulate. The suture is slightly but distinctly incised. The aperture is white within. The siphonal canal is short and wide. The sinus is wide between the first and second carina.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Greece and Sicily.
References
Nordsieck F., 1971: Kontinentale und abyssische Meeresmollusken des Jonischen Meeres ; Archiv für Molluskenkunde 101: 187–190
Bouchet, P. & Warén, A., 1980. Revision of the northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies: 1–119, sér. Suppl.8
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
External links
Locard A. (1897–1898). Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882 et 1883. Mollusques testacés. Paris, Masson. vol. 1 (1897), p. 1-516 pl. 1-22; vol. 2 (1898), p. 1-515, pl. 1-18
MNHN, Paris: lectotype
emendata
Gastropods described in 1872 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnobela%20laticaudata | Gymnobela laticaudata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Description
Distribution
This marine species was found in the Naska y Sala-i-Gomes Ridges, East Pacific
References
Sysoev, A. V. "Gastropods of the fam. Turridae (Gastropoda: Toxoglossa) from the underwater Sala y Gomez Ridge." Transactions of the PP Shirshov Institute of Oceanology [Trudy Instituta Okeanologii] 124 (1990): 245-260.
External links
Census of Marine Life (2012). SYNDEEP: Towards a first global synthesis of biodiversity, biogeography and ecosystem function in the deep sea. Unpublished data
laticaudata
Gastropods described in 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnobela%20rotundata | Gymnobela rotundata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.
Description
Distribution
This marine species was found in the Naska y Sala-i-Gomes Ridges, East Pacific
References
Sysoev, A. V. "Gastropods of the fam. Turridae (Gastropoda: Toxoglossa) from the underwater Sala y Gomez Ridge." Transactions of the PP Shirshov Institute of Oceanology [Trudy Instituta Okeanologii] 124 (1990): 245-260.
External links
Census of Marine Life (2012). SYNDEEP: Towards a first global synthesis of biodiversity, biogeography and ecosystem function in the deep sea. Unpublished data
rotundata
Gastropods described in 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oenopota%20undata | Oenopota undata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.
This is a nomen dubium.
Description
The length of the shell attains 16 mm.
Distribution
This marine species was found in the Annapolis Basin, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, Canada.
References
Verkruzen, T. A. 1878. Zur Fauna von Neu-Schotland (Nova Scotia) und Neufundland Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft 5 208–230.
External links
Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
undata
Gastropods described in 1878 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aha%21%20%28TV%20program%29 | Aha! is a Philippine television informative show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Drew Arellano, it premiered on April 4, 2010 on the network's Sunday morning line up.
The show is streaming online on YouTube.
Hosts
Drew Arellano
Segment hosts
Betong Sumaya
Isko Salvador
Boobay
Rhian Ramos
Production
Principal photography was halted in March 2020 due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The show resumed its programming on October 11, 2020.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Aha! earned a 10.1% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2010 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine television shows
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christos%20Faloutsos | Christos Faloutsos () is a Greek computer scientist and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He has received the Presidential Young Investigator Award by the National Science Foundation (1989), 22 best paper awards, and several teaching awards. He has served as a member of the executive committee of SIGKDD. He has published over 300 refereed articles, one monograph, and holds five patents. His research interests include data mining for streams and networks, fractals, indexing for multimedia and bio-informatics data bases, and performance.
He also received the ACM 2010 SIGKDD Innovation Award and he was also named a Fellow of the ACM in 2010.
References
External links
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Greek computer scientists
American computer scientists
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
University of Toronto alumni
National Technical University of Athens alumni
Network scientists
People from Athens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20J.%20Damerau | Frederick J. Damerau (December 25, 1931 – January 27, 2009) was a pioneer of research on natural language processing and data mining.
After earning his B.A. from Cornell University in 1953, he spent most of his career at IBM, in the Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He holds a PhD from Yale University.
One of his most influential and ground-breaking papers was "A technique for computer detection and correction of spelling errors" published in 1964. He also developed and patented for IBM the first algorithm for placing hyphens automatically in words.
In 1971 he published the book "Markov Models and Linguistic Theory : An Experimental Study of a Model for English."
After being active in research for over four decades, Fred Damerau died on January 27, 2009.
See also
Damerau–Levenshtein distance
References
External links
cornellalumnimagazine.com
2009 deaths
1931 births
IBM employees
Place of birth missing
Cornell University alumni
Natural language processing researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20Reputation%20%28Glee%29 | "Bad Reputation" is the seventeenth episode of the American television series, Glee. The episode premiered on the Fox network on May 4, 2010. It was directed by Elodie Keene, and written by series creator Ian Brennan. In "Bad Reputation", cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) is publicly ridiculed when a video of her dancing to Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" is posted on YouTube. A salacious list about members of the glee club circulates the school, leading certain members to try to earn themselves a bad reputation. Newton-John guest-stars as herself in the episode, and Molly Shannon makes her first appearance in a recurring role. Following their romance in the episode "Mash-Up", club members Rachel (Lea Michele) and Puck (Mark Salling) are reunited, a decision made by the producers due to the unexpected popularity of the pairing.
The episode features cover versions of five songs, all of which were released as singles, available for digital download, and two of which are included on the soundtrack album Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers. "Bad Reputation" was watched by 11.62 million American viewers and received mixed reviews from critics. Darren Franich of Entertainment Weekly and Bobby Hankinson of the Houston Chronicle both considered it a return to form following disappointing episodes. Franich also praised the episode's cover version of "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice, which in contrast was criticized by Raymund Flandez of The Wall Street Journal and Gerrick D. Kennedy of the Los Angeles Times, with Kennedy deeming the performance his least favorite moment of the entire series thus far.
Plot
When Kurt (Chris Colfer) steals a video of cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) performing Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" to a Jazzercise routine, the glee club members decide to post it on YouTube as a prank. The video becomes a viral hit and Sue is mortified. In retaliation, she gives Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba) a list she has found, called a "glist", which ranks the students in the glee club based on a scale of sexual promiscuity. The list goes: Quinn, Santana, Puck, Brittany, Jesse, Finn, Mike, Matt and Rachel, from most to least. Figgins tells club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) that he must either find the creator of the list, or he will be forced to disband the glee club and suspend all of its members. Will reprimands the club members, and for their weekly club assignment, he has the students find songs with bad reputations and rehabilitate them, performing Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" as an example.
Sue is laughed at by her co-workers, who have seen the video, and is mocked by new alcoholic astronomy teacher and badminton coach Brenda Castle (Molly Shannon). Sue is reminded by her sister, Jean (Robin Trocki), who has Down syndrome, that when they were hurt as children they would volunteer at an animal shelter as a reminder there was always someone less fortunate than themselves. In light of her sister's a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threat%20%28disambiguation%29 | A threat is an act of coercion.
Threat may also refer to:
Common uses
Threat (computer), a possible danger that might exploit a vulnerability to breach security
Intimidation
Threat display, a behaviour aiming at intimidation of a potential enemy
Threat of force (public international law), an act of coercion between nations
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
Threat (film), a 2006 American film by Matt Pizzolo
The Threat (1949 film), an American film noir directed by Felix E. Feist
The Threat (1960 film), an American crime film
The Threat (1966 film), a Japanese black-and-white film
Literature
The Threat (memoir), a 2019 memoir by Andrew McCabe
The Threat (novel), a 1998 novel by K.A. Applegate
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
"The Threat" (Dynasty), an episode of the TV series Dynasty
See also
Threatin, an American rock band accused of being fake and a vanity project
Triple threat (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silmaril%20%28disambiguation%29 | The Silmarils are three brilliant jewels in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy fiction.
Silmaril may also refer to:
Silmarils (company), a French computer game software company
Silmaril (horse), an American thoroughbred mare racehorse
The Silmarillion, a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic works |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simbad%20robot%20simulator | Simbad robot simulator is an open-source cross-platform software simulator used to develop robotics and artificial intelligence applications. The Simbad project started in 2005, initially developed by Dr. Louis Hugues and is widely used for educational purposes. Simbad is distributed under the GNU General Public License. It is written in Java language and enables users to develop robot controllers in a simulated 3D environment.
References
External links
Free simulation software
Robotics simulation software
2005 software
2005 in robotics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20stream%20management%20system | A data stream management system (DSMS) is a computer software system to manage continuous data streams. It is similar to a database management system (DBMS), which is, however, designed for static data in conventional databases. A DBMS also offers a flexible query processing so that the information needed can be expressed using queries. However, in contrast to a DBMS, a DSMS executes a continuous query that is not only performed once, but is permanently installed. Therefore, the query is continuously executed until it is explicitly uninstalled. Since most DSMS are data-driven, a continuous query produces new results as long as new data arrive at the system. This basic concept is similar to Complex event processing so that both technologies are partially coalescing.
Functional principle
One important feature of a DSMS is the possibility to handle potentially infinite and rapidly changing data streams by offering flexible processing at the same time, although there are only limited resources such as main memory. The following table provides various principles of DSMS and compares them to traditional DBMS.
Processing and streaming models
One of the biggest challenges for a DSMS is to handle potentially infinite data streams using a fixed amount of memory and no random access to the data. There are different approaches to limit the amount of data in one pass, which can be divided into two classes. For the one hand, there are compression techniques that try to summarize the data and for the other hand there are window techniques that try to portion the data into (finite) parts.
Synopses
The idea behind compression techniques is to maintain only a synopsis of the data, but not all (raw) data points of the data stream. The algorithms range from selecting random data points called sampling to summarization using histograms, wavelets or sketching. One simple example of a compression is the continuous calculation of an average. Instead of memorizing each data point, the synopsis only holds the sum and the number of items. The average can be calculated by dividing the sum by the number. However, it should be mentioned that synopses cannot reflect the data accurately. Thus, a processing that is based on synopses may produce inaccurate results.
Windows
Instead of using synopses to compress the characteristics of the whole data streams, window techniques only look on a portion of the data. This approach is motivated by the idea that only the most recent data are relevant. Therefore, a window continuously cuts out a part of the data stream, e.g. the last ten data stream elements, and only considers these elements during the processing. There are different kinds of such windows like sliding windows that are similar to FIFO lists or tumbling windows that cut out disjoint parts. Furthermore, the windows can also be differentiated into element-based windows, e.g., to consider the last ten elements, or time-based windows, e.g., to consider the last ten seco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Route%206%20%28Morocco%29 | National Route 6 (N6) is a national highway of Morocco. It is one of the most important road networks linking the west of the country to the east, connecting the capital Rabat and Salé on the west coast to Maghnia, Algeria on the border. It passes through many of Morocco's major cities such as Oujda, Fes, Meknes and Khemisset. For much of the Fes- Rabat leg is runs parallel with the A2 Rabat–Fes expressway.
References
Google maps
Roads in Morocco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Route%208%20%28Morocco%29 | National Route 8 (N8) is a national highway of Morocco. It is one of the most important road networks running through mid-central Morocco. It links with National Route 1 in Inezgane, a southern suburb of Agadir near the Atlantic coast to the central mountainous area of the country. The highway passes through cities such as Chichaoua, Marrakech, Beni Mellal, Khenifra, Fez, and the ski resort in the Atlas Mountains, Ifrane. At Marrakech it connects with the National Route 9.
In June 2010 the main-section from Marrakech to Agadir with a length of 180,5 km was completed. Other sections around Marrakech were completed in January 2009: a 17 km stretch from the exit Marrakech West to the RN8 and the ring-road around Marrakech of 33 km.
The total building costs of these three parts were 34,71 Million Dirhams
References
Google maps
Roads in Morocco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%2091%20%28Poland%29 | Droga krajowa nr 91 (translates from Polish as national road 91) is a route belonging to Polish national roads network. It runs from the seaport in Gdańsk to Częstochowa, and goes through the Pomeranian, Kuyavian-Pomeranian, Łódź and Silesian Voivodeships. Since this route was renumbered from DK1, it is frequently referred as "stara jedynka" (eng. "old one").
National road 91 is the alternative road for A1 motorway (partially tolled). As such, it runs parallel to:
existing stretch of motorway A1 from exit "Rusocin" to Piotrków Trybunalski,
the dual carriageway road (part of national road 1) between Piotrków Trybunalski and Częstochowa built in 1970s, which is currently under reconstruction to the motorway standard.
Previous route
Before 2000, road 91 ran from Gliwice–Rybnik–Wodzisław Śląski–Chałupki to the state border. This is now part of road 78.
Major cities through the route
Rusocin (connects with A1, S6 and national road 1)
Tczew
Świecie
Toruń
Łódź (national road 14, national road 72)
Piotrków Trybunalski (expressway S8, national road 12, voivodeship road 716)
Kamieńsk (voivodeship road 484)
Radomsko (national road 42, voivodeship road 784)
Częstochowa (national road 1, national road 46, voivodeship road 786)
Route plan
References
91 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%202.0 | Science 2.0 is a suggested new approach to science that uses information-sharing and collaboration made possible by network technologies. It is similar to the open research and open science movements and is inspired by Web 2.0 technologies. Science 2.0 stresses the benefits of increased collaboration between scientists. Science 2.0 uses collaborative tools like wikis, blogs and video journals to share findings, raw data and "nascent theories" online. Science 2.0 benefits from openness and sharing, regarding papers and research ideas and partial solutions.
A general view is that Science 2.0 is gaining traction with websites beginning to proliferate, yet at the same time there is considerable resistance within the scientific community about aspects of the transition as well as discussion about what, exactly, the term means. There are several views that there is a "sea change" happening in the status quo of scientific publishing, and substantive change regarding how scientists share research data. There is considerable discussion in the scientific community about whether scientists should embrace the model and exactly how Science 2.0 might work, as well as several reports that many scientists are slow to embrace collaborative methods and are somewhat "inhibited and slow to adopt a lot of online tools."
Definitions
The term has many meanings and continues to evolve in scientific parlance. It not only describes what is currently happening in science, but describes a direction in which proponents believe science should move towards, as well as a growing number of websites which promote free scientific collaboration.
The term Science 2.0 suggests a contrast between traditional ways of doing science, often denoted Science 1.0, with more collaborative approaches, and suggests that the new forms of science will work with Web 2.0 technologies. One description from Science is that Science 2.0 uses the "networking power of the internet to tackle problems with multiple interacting variables - the problems, in other words, of everyday life." A different and somewhat controversial view is that of Ben Shneiderman, who suggested that Science 2.0 combines hypothesis-based inquiries with social science methods, partially for the purpose of improving those new networks.
While the term describes websites for sharing scientific knowledge, it also includes efforts by existing science publishers to embrace new digital tools, such as offering areas for discussions following published online articles. Sometimes it denotes open access which, according to one view, means that the author continues to hold the copyright but that others can read it and use it for reasonable purposes, provided that the attribution is maintained. Most online scientific literature is behind paywalls, meaning that a person can find the title of an article on Google but they can not read the actual article. People who can access these articles are generally affiliated with a university or secon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20workflow%20system | A scientific workflow system is a specialized form of a workflow management system designed specifically to compose and execute a series of computational or data manipulation steps, or workflow, in a scientific application.
Applications
Distributed scientists can collaborate on conducting large scale scientific experiments and knowledge discovery applications using distributed systems of computing resources, data sets, and devices. Scientific workflow systems play an important role in enabling this vision.
More specialized scientific workflow systems provide a visual programming front end enabling users to easily construct their applications as a visual graph by connecting nodes together, and tools have also been developed to build such applications in a platform-independent manner. Each directed edge in the graph of a workflow typically represents a connection from the output of one application to the input of the next. A sequence of such edges may be called a pipeline.
A bioinformatics workflow management system is a specialized scientific workflow system focused on bioinformatics.
Scientific workflows
The simplest computerized scientific workflows are scripts that call in data, programs, and other inputs and produce outputs that might include visualizations and analytical results. These may be implemented in programs such as R or MATLAB, using a scripting language such as Python with a command-line interface, or more recently using open-source web applications such as Jupyter Notebook.
There are many motives for differentiating scientific workflows from traditional business process workflows. These include:
providing an easy-to-use environment for individual application scientists themselves to create their own workflows.
providing interactive tools for the scientists enabling them to execute their workflows and view their results in real-time.
simplifying the process of sharing and reusing workflows between the scientists.
enabling scientists to track the provenance of the workflow execution results and the workflow creation steps.
By focusing on the scientists, the focus of designing scientific workflow system shifts away from the workflow scheduling activities, typically considered by grid computing environments for optimizing the execution of complex computations on predefined resources, to a domain-specific view of what data types, tools and distributed resources should be made available to the scientists and how can one make them easily accessible and with specific Quality of Service requirements
Scientific workflows are now recognized as a crucial element of the cyberinfrastructure, facilitating e-Science. Typically sitting on top of a middleware layer, scientific workflows are a means by which scientists can model, design, execute, debug, re-configure, and re-run their analysis and visualization pipelines. Part of the established scientific method is to create a record of the origins of a result, how it was obtained, exp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETB%20Sat | ETB Sat was an international television channel operated by Euskal Irrati Telebista.
The channel aimed to bring television and Basque culture to Basques and others worldwide. Its programming was based primarily on self-produced content from the domestic flagship channels ETB 1 and ETB 2. The programming is offered in Spanish, Basque and French. On 1 May 2013, the channel decided to cease broadcasting on Astra satellite in Europe, focusing its availability on CATV operators and the online live streaming.
On 1 January 2021, it was merged along with Canal Vasco into ETB Basque.
Programming
Teleberri – News in Spanish language
Gaur Egun – News in Basque language
Lazkao Txiki – Cartoons
Dokugune – Talk show
EiTB Kultura – Cultural
Exclusivas ETB – News reports
Surfin' Euskadi – Surfing
Objetivo Euskadi – Reports and interviews on current affairs
La Noche de... – Film program
Vaya Semanita – Comedy show
Basxtrem – Contest
Chiloè
Mihiluze – Word game in Basque
See also
Euskal Irrati Telebista
ETB 1
ETB 2
ETB 3
ETB 4
Canal Vasco
References
EITB
International broadcasters
Television channels and stations established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droid%20Incredible | The HTC Droid Incredible (ADR6300) (also known as the HTC Incredible) is a smartphone manufactured by HTC Corporation using the Android operating system. It was released on April 29, 2010, and is available through Verizon Wireless only. The device is similar to the Sprint HTC Evo 4G. The device has been succeeded by the HTC Incredible S and the HTC ThunderBolt. The device's "end of life" was March 30, 2011.
Features
The device was released running Android 2.1 (Eclair) software, modified with HTC Sense, an overlay user interface for the Android operating system. Following the announcement of Android 2.2 (Froyo), HTC did not comment on whether the device would receive 2.2 or when, although it did state all equipped devices would be updated by Christmas 2010, and an update to the following version of Android, codenamed Gingerbread, would depend on its release by Google. The updates would come in the form of an over-the-air (OTA) update.
It has improvements over standard 2.1 devices including an FM tuner; a Facebook-, Twitter-, and Flickr-integrated social-aggregation application called Friend Stream (as well as a Twitter client named Peep); a geotagging application for photos called Footprints; and a redesigned appearance and functionality for stock 2.1 applications. The device features an 8-megapixel camera with dual LED flash, optical mouse and a camcorder with resolution of up to 1280x720 (WXGA), which may be compressed in either MP4 or H.263 format.
It optionally supports tethering by Verizon Wireless with VZAccess Manager. Other ways of tethering may be possible. The device shares the AV output with micro USB output, providing the facility to see the video/YouTube/browser on a television or projector via an extra (not bundled) composite cable accessory.
Display change
During summer 2010, HTC switched the AMOLED displays made by Samsung to Sony Super TFT LCD. The change was done to keep up with the high demand for the device. HTC claims that there are "no discernible difference between the displays" and they even expect the change to go unnoticed.
Update to Android 2.2 (Froyo)
On July 19, 2010, it was leaked from HTC that the device would receive Android 2.2 (Froyo) via an OTA update in late July or early August 2010.
Before Verizon Wireless had officially announced the update, its technicians, speaking "officially unofficially" on Twitter, confirmed it. On August 13, 2010, Mashable reported that the device would begin to receive Android 2.2 (Froyo) on August 18, 2010. However, statements from official Verizon Wireless sources indicated that this was a hoax. Verizon Wireless confirmed on August 27, 2010, that the device would begin receiving Android 2.2 through an OTA update beginning on that date.
Starting August 26, 2010, all new devices were shipped with Android 2.2 (Froyo). The software update from Android 2.1 v1 (Éclair) to 2.2 also included an updated version of HTC's "Sense" User Interface, which included minor updates to the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreenSpring%20Computers | GreenSpring Computers was started in 1984 as VME Specialists. The original product focus was VMEbus cards for industrial automation. The company was founded by Leonard Lehmann and his father Henry Lehmann in Redwood City, California, United States.
Change of name
Around 1988, the company changed its name to GreenSpring Computers. With the name change came a change of focus away from VMEbus specific products to industrial automation products. The company worked with Apple Computers and SuperMac Technologies to design and manufacture the first video cards for the new Macintosh II product family. With the new Macintosh computers came the vision that the embedded market was looking for alternatives to industrial PCs running DOS. The RackMac became the only industrial version of the Macintosh computer available. In addition to the main computer (RM1200) was a 14" monitor available with a touchscreen (RM1240 w/o touchscreen and RM1250 w/ touchscreen).
Acquisition
GreenSpring Computers was acquired by SBS Technologies in April 1995. In 2006, SBS Technologies was acquired by GE Fanuc Embedded Systems. The SBS headquarters in Albuquerque is now the headquarters for GE Fanuc Embedded Systems.
Original product line
Mezzanine modules
With the focus moving away from VMEbus only, Leonard brought on Kim Rubin to develop a bus independent module called IndustryPacks (IP). IndustryPack became recognized as an industry standard for mezzanine modules and was adopted by ANSI as VITA 4. These mezzanine modules are approximately the size of a business card (99mm x 45mm). Featuring a 16 or 32 bit wide I/O interface and 50 User defined I/O pins.
Original IPs
The big advancements for IPs was when Motorola adopted the standard for their MVME162 processor line (see Motorola Single Board Computers) based on the Motorola 68040. In a short time, there were multiple IP manufacturers and over 100 different IP modules available.
Final product line
References
External links
VMEbus International Trade Association (VITA)
Companies based in Redwood City, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997%20in%20Japanese%20television | Events in 1997 in Japanese television.
Events
February 8- The final episode of the popular anime series Sailor Moon is aired.
September 1- Cartoon Network launches in Japan.
December 16–Denno Senshi Porygon, an episode of Pokémon, is aired on TV Tokyo in Japan. 20 minutes in the episode, Ash Ketchum's Pikachu uses his Thunderbolt attack on vaccine missiles, causing red and blue strobe lights flashing rapidly. This gives 685 viewers (310 boys and 375 girls) seizures and causes Indigo League (The series of Pokémon) to go into hiatus until April 1998. Its time slot was taken over by Class King Yamazaki (学級王ヤマザキ).
Debuting this year
Ongoing shows
Music Fair, music (1964–present)
Mito Kōmon, jidaigeki (1969-2011)
Sazae-san, anime (1969–present)
FNS Music Festival, music (1974–present)
Panel Quiz Attack 25, game show (1975–present)
Doraemon, anime (1979-2005)
Soreike! Anpanman, anime (1988–present)
Downtown no Gaki no Tsukai ya Arahende!!, game show (1989–present)
Crayon Shin-chan, anime (1992–present)
Shima Shima Tora no Shimajirō, anime (1993-2008)
Nintama Rantarō, anime (1993–present)
Chibi Maruko-chan, anime (1995–present)
Azuki-chan, anime (1995–1998)
Kodomo no Omocha, anime (1996-1998)
Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo, anime (1996-2004)
Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Swordsman Romantic Story, anime (1996-1998)
Detective Conan, anime (1996–present)
Hiatus
Endings
See also
1997 in anime
List of Japanese television dramas
1997 in Japan
List of Japanese films of 1997
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite%20Software | Composite Software, Inc. was previously a privately held data virtualization software company based in San Mateo, California. Composite Software was founded in October 2001 by Michael R. Abbott. In 2003, former Active Software founder and webMethods CTO, Jim Green joined Composite Software as CEO. On July 30, 2013, Composite Software was acquired by Cisco Systems for approximately US $180 million. Then on October 5, 2017 TIBCO purchased what was Composite Software from Cisco.
Composite Software was cited as an "industry leader" in the Forrester Research "2012 Forrester Wave: Data Virtualization" study for its help in advancing data virtualization to its current form, known under a variety of names including data federation and Information as a Service.
Composite Data Virtualization Platform
The Composite Data Virtualization Platform is data virtualization middleware that "brings together data from multiple, disparate sources—anywhere across the extended enterprise—into a unified, logical virtualized data layer for consumption by nearly any front-end business solution including portals, reports, applications and more."
The Composite Data Virtualization Platform consists of:
Composite Studio, which includes an integrated development environment for source data introspection, relationship discovery, data modeling, view and data service development, and revision control;
Composite Information Server, which includes a query engine with patent-pending query optimization technology, caching, data access, data publishing, data quality, security, data governance and a metadata repository;
Composite PerformancePlus Adapters for Greenplum, Hadoop/Hive, HP Vertica, IBM DB2, IBM Informix, IBM Netezza, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Oracle MySQL, SAP Sybase, SAP Sybase IQ and Teradata;
Composite Discovery for location of key entities and reveal hidden data relationships within enterprise data assets;
Composite Active Cluster for scalability that maintains continuous availability of data services to fulfill service level agreements;
Composite Monitor to provide comprehensive coverage in a real-time view for both systems management and data governance.
Customers
Composite Software's data virtualization software is used in financial services companies, pharmaceutical companies, energy companies, communications, consumer and industrial companies, and government agencies including the U.S. Army and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Post-Acquisition Development at Cisco
Composite Software was incorporated into Cisco as the Data Virtualization Business Unit. The Composite Data Virtualization Platform was renamed Cisco Data Virtualization, and Composite Information Server (CIS) became Cisco Information Server (CIS). It continues to be sold to address the same use cases at large enterprise customers, and is also central to Cisco's move into data and analytics associated with the Internet of Things.
Post-Acquisition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton200k | The Proton200k is a high-speed, space-qualified, radiation-hardened single-board computer based on a Texas Instruments 320C 6415/6713 DSP. The Proton200k is produced by Space Micro Inc, a designer and manufacturer of radiation hardened electronics for space applications. The Proton200k was originally developed under Phase I and Phase II SBIR contracts. The Proton200k displays processing speeds of 900 MFLOPS or 4000 MIPS while operating at 5 watts. It is radiation hardened to a total ionizing dose greater than 100 krad(Si) and fewer than 1 single event upset per 1000 days. Space Micro Inc also offers a triple-core version of the Proton200k.
In 2006, the Proton200k space computer was selected for Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Autonomous Nanosatellite Guardian Evaluating Local Space (ANGELS) satellite program.
Enabling technologies originally developed for the Proton200k led to the development of Space Micro's Proton400k PowerPC-based single-board computer.
References
External links
Proton200k datasheet
Proton400k comparison
Avionics computers
Radiation-hardened microprocessors
Single-board computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Hern%C3%A1ndez%20Ochoa | Joseph Hernández Ochoa (1983/84 – March 2, 2010) was a Honduran journalist and television presenter. He hosted an entertainment show on the Honduran television network, Channel 51 and was a journalism student at the National Autonomous University of Honduras.
On March 2, 2010, Hernández was driving a colleague, Karol Cabrera, a host on a private radio station, Radio Cadena Voces, through the El Chile neighborhood of Tegucigalpa. The two journalists were ambushed by gunmen around 8 p.m. Hernández was shot several times and died at the scene of the attack. Cabrera, who had received death threats before the attack, suffered gunshot wounds to her left arm, but survived the attack. Hernández was 26 years old.
References
1980s births
2010 deaths
Male journalists
Honduran television journalists
Assassinated Honduran journalists
People from Tegucigalpa
Deaths by firearm in Honduras
Honduran Roman Catholics
Year of birth missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrailleNote | A BrailleNote is a computer made by HumanWare for persons with visual impairments. It has either a braille keyboard or a Qwerty Keyboard, a speech synthesizer, and a 32- or 18-column refreshable Braille display, depending on model. The "VoiceNote" is the same device without a braille display. The BrailleNote GPS is an 18 or 32 cell BrailleNote with an External GPS module, BrailleNote GPS.
BrailleNote can use only the software provided by the manufacturer, although this can be upgraded.
Use of BrailleNote is suggested by the State University of New York Center for Assistive Technology and is sometimes purchased by colleges for use by disabled students. The BrailleNote product series, introduced in 2000, is regarded as being the first of its kind.
It is possible to obtain a visual interface to the data on a BrailleNote by attaching a computer with a terminal emulator such as Hyperterminal.
Classic
The first "Classic" version of the BrailleNote was released in April, 2000. It used Windows CE 2.12 to Windows CE.NET 4.2 on a MIPS R4000 at 100 MHz Processor.
PK
Introduced in 2004, this small, purse-sized computer has an ARM processor, 40 MB of RAM, 16 MB of Flash, Bluetooth and USB connectivity. This unit also has a Compactflash slot.
mPower
The BrailleNote mPower was introduced in June 2005 and had 128 megabytes of onboard memory and used DiskOnChip memory to avoid losing data if power is lost.
Apex
The BrailleNote Apex, released in November 2009, is a thinner and lighter version of its predecessors. It runs Windows CE 6. It uses the i.MX31 processor. It usually sells for about $5,500 with the 32 Braille cell display.
Software and supported formats
The Apex's internal software suite is called KeySoft. The current version is 9.5. It includes a word processor, book reader, Web browser, email client, voice recorder, media player, and an XMPP-based IM client called KeyChat (which can also be used with popular non-XMPP protocols such as MSN, but the setup process is complex). The book reader supports English text files (it can convert these to Grade 2 braille automatically if required), Braille ASCII files that specify the dot patterns precisely (these usually have the extension .BRL or .BRF), and audio books including the DAISY format.
Connectivity
The Apex has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and three USB host ports for connecting to printers, embossers, and storage devices. The Apex has a fourth USB port that can be used to connect it to a computer for ActiveSync and for operation as a Braille terminal for the computer. It is capable of interfacing with Bluetooth GPS receivers.
Apex has a built-in VGA (monitor) port for viewing information on a monitor. The Apex has removable battery on its underside.
BrailleNote Touch
There are two models of BrailleNote Touch, itself being the newest model in the BrailleNote line. The original, the BrailleNote Touch, was released in spring of 2016. The later version, the BrailleNote Touch Plus, is its more powerful succe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard%20Hot%20Latin%20Songs%20Year-End%20Chart | The year-end charts for the Hot Latin Songs chart are published in the last issue of Billboard magazine every year. Initially, the chart was based on information provided by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems, which collected airplay information from Latin radio stations in the United States. On the week ending October 20, 2012, the methodology was changed to track the best-performing Spanish-language songs based on digital downloads, streaming activity, and airplay from all radio stations in the country. The Year-End charts represent aggregated numbers from the weekly charts that were compiled for each artist, song and record company.
Mexican singer-songwriters Ana Gabriel and Juan Gabriel have had the best-selling single of the year three times each. The Latin Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences awarded Juan Gabriel the Person of Year Award for his professional accomplishments and commitment to philanthropic efforts. Venezuelan singer Franco De Vita's "Te Amo" ranked at number eight in 1989 and received a gold certification in Latin America and Spain for the album Al Norte del Sur. De Vita also wrote "Tal Vez", performed by Ricky Martin, the number-one single of 2003. Billboard magazine posthumously named singer Selena the Top Artist of the 1990s, due to her fourteen top-ten singles in the Hot Latin Songs chart (including seven number-one hits). Selena had the most successful singles of 1994 and 1995, "Amor Prohibido" and "No Me Queda Más".
Cuban singer-songwriter Jon Secada released the best-selling Latin album of 1992, titled Otro Día Más Sin Verte. The album earned a Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album, and yielded three singles, "Angel", "Sentir" and the title song, which were among the top Latin singles from 1992 and 1993. Alejandro Fernández released his album Me Estoy Enamorando in 1997; its first single "Si Tú Supieras" won the Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Song of the Year and ended 1998 as the second most successful single. During the 1990s, Mexican singer Luis Miguel became the first Latin singer to receive two platinum certifications in the United States with his albums Romance and Segundo Romance; he also had eight songs ranking as top singles of the year.
"A Puro Dolor", performed by Son by Four, became the best-performing Latin single from the 2000s in the United States. "Despacito" by Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee featuring Justin Bieber holds the record for the longest run at number one in the Hot Latin Songs chart. It held this position for 56 non-consecutive weeks, and finished as the Top Latin Single of 2017 and 2018. The Spanish versions of "Livin' la Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin, "Bailamos" by Enrique Iglesias and "Hips Don't Lie" by Shakira featuring Wyclef Jean were among the most successful Latin singles of 1999 and 2006. The English versions of these songs all peaked at number one in the Billboard Hot 100. With his song "No Me Doy Por Vencido", Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi became the first artist to appear in the top ten fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz%20John%20conditions | The Fritz John conditions (abbr. FJ conditions), in mathematics, are a necessary condition for a solution in nonlinear programming to be optimal. They are used as lemma in the proof of the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, but they are relevant on their own.
We consider the following optimization problem:
where ƒ is the function to be minimized, the inequality constraints and the equality constraints, and where, respectively, , and are the indices sets of inactive, active and equality constraints and is an optimal solution of , then there exists a non-zero vector such that:
if the and are linearly independent or, more generally, when a constraint qualification holds.
Named after Fritz John, these conditions are equivalent to the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions in the case . When , the condition is equivalent to the violation of Mangasarian–Fromovitz constraint qualification (MFCQ). In other words, the Fritz John condition is equivalent to the optimality condition KKT or not-MFCQ.
References
Further reading
Mathematical optimization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi%20Iyengar | Ravi Iyengar, is a principal investigator at The Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Trained as a biochemist, Iyengar studies cellular signaling networks using both experiments and computer simulations. His laboratory focuses on how cell signals are routed and processed through cellular signaling networks within cells to discover new drug targets for complex diseases. He has published more than 100 primary papers, 92 reviews and is the editor of 6 books.
Biography
Iyengar earned both an undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Physics in 1971 and a master's degree in Biophysics in 1973 from the University of Mumbai in India. He completed his Ph.D. in Biophysical Sciences at the University of Houston in 1977. He joined Baylor College of Medicine in 1977 as a postdoctoral fellow and rose to assistant and then associate professor. In 1986, he joined the Department of Pharmacology at The Mount Sinai Medical Center as an associate professor. In 1999, he was appointed chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at Mount Sinai, and in 2001 he was named Mount Sinai's Dorothy H. and Lewis Rosenstiel Professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry. He stepped down from his position as chair in January 2014.
Iyengar served as the dean of research for The Mount Sinai School of Medicine from 2002 to 2004.
In 2004, Iyengar was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Additional honors include:
Established Investigator, American Heart Association, 1980–1983
New Investigator Award, NIH, 1978–1980
National Research Service Award, NIH
Iyengar holds Patent No. 20080261820: Methods to Analyze Biological Networks.
Research grants
Structure and Function of Signal Transducing Components, 5R01DK03876-21, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Dynamics Underlying Tissue Integrity, 1R01DK087650-01, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Diseases and Kidney Diseases
Systems Biology Center in New York, 5P50GM071558-03, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Functions of Regulatory Motifs in Signaling Networks, 5R01GM054508-21, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Modeling Cell Regulatory Networks, 5R01GM072853-04, National Institute of General Medical Sciences
Books
Heterotrimeric G Proteins, Volume 237 (Methods in Enzymology). John N. Abelson, Melvin I. Simon, Ravi Iyengar, editors. Academic Press; 1st edition (June 28, 1994)
Heterotrimeric G-Protein Effectors, Volume 238 (Methods in Enzymology). John N. Abelson, Melvin I. Simon, Ravi Iyengar, Editors. Academic Press; 1st Edition (September 1994)
G Protein Pathways, Part A: Receptors, Volume 343 (Methods in Enzymology). Ravi Iyengar, John D. Hildebrandt, Editors. Academic Press; 1st Edition (October 2001)
G Protein Pathways, Part B: G Proteins and Their Regulators, Volume 344 (Methods in Enzymology). Ravi Iyengar, John D. Hildebrandt, Editors. Academic Press; 1st Edition (December 2001)
G Protein Pathways, Par |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20McClendon | Brian A McClendon (born 1964) is an American software executive, engineer, and inventor. He was a co-founder and angel investor in Keyhole, Inc., a geospatial data visualization company that was purchased by Google in 2004 to produce Google Earth. Keyhole itself was spun off from another company called Intrinsic Graphics, of which McClendon was also a co-founder. McClendon was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2015 for strategic, technical, and managerial leadership resulting in widespread accurate and useful geographic information.
Early life
McClendon grew up in Lawrence, Kansas. His childhood home, Meadowbrook Apartments in Lawrence, is the default center point of Google Earth. He graduated from Lawrence High School in 1982 and from the University of Kansas in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering.
Career
Early years
McClendon spent eight years with Silicon Graphics developing high-end workstation 3D graphics including GT, GTX, RealityEngine, and InfiniteReality, and then worked as an engineering director with @Home Network.
Keyhole
In 2001, he was one of the original investors in Keyhole, Inc., a software development company specializing in geospatial data visualization applications. He served as a board member and later joined the company as vice president of engineering.
Google
When Google acquired Keyhole in 2004, McClendon became a director of engineering for Google Geo, a team focussed on geospatial data visualization applications. He was later promoted to vice president, overseeing the Geo team.
Keyhole's main application suite, Earth Viewer, and Keyhole Markup Language (KML), formed the basis for Google Earth. Under McClendon's tenure, Google Geo products included Google Maps, Google Maps API, Street View, Google Local Search, Panoramio, Sketchup, Waze, Google Earth, and Google Earth Engine. Brian was also instrumental in the creation of Google Santa Tracker
Uber
He left Google to join Uber in June 2015 to work on mapping and machine learning.
Niantic
In November, 2021, McClendon joined Niantic as a senior vice president of augmented reality, research and mapping
Politics
In March 2017, McClendon resigned his full-time role at Uber, though remaining an adviser, in order to return to his hometown of Lawrence, Kansas, indicating an interest in politics. In January 2018, he announced his intention to run for Kansas Secretary of State as a Democrat. He ran unopposed in the primary election and was selected as the Democratic candidate. He was defeated in the general election by Republican candidate Scott Schwab.
Teaching and philanthropy
McClendon maintains close ties with his alma mater, the University of Kansas, serving on advisory boards for both the School of Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He and his wife Beth Ellyn McClendon established the McClendon Engineering Scholarship at the university in 2007, donated computer tablets for electrical engin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plazes | Plazes AG was a Berlin, Germany-based geosocial networking site. Plazes allowed users to post their location and current activities and share this information with other Plazes users via computers or mobile telephones. On 23 June 2008, Nokia Corporation announced plans to acquire Plazes. Plazes was subsequently integrated to Nokia Maps which itself was integrated to HERE Maps.
History
Plazes AG introduced the beta version of the Plazes service on 16 August 2004. The service was continually updated and began to attract attention on technology blogs. In October 2004, Plazes introduced two APIs: a Web-based API that advised users of the current location of other Plazes users; and a launcher API that allowed users to create their own Plazes launchers. In January 2005, Plazes introduced a Movable Type plugin that allowed users to automatically include or add their location to blog postings. In June 2005, Plazes created an API that allowed users to access photos from their Flickr accounts and to add those photos to their Plazes accounts. A Flickr group of Plazes users quickly sprang up. In 2006, Plazes was awarded the LeadAward in Bronze in the Category "WebLeader 2006″.
Notable features
Web interface
The Plazes Web interface allows users to post a location, the time of day they will be at the location and the activity they will be engaged in at the location. This information can be shared with people selected by the user, Plazes contacts or all members of the Plazes community. In addition to the Web interface, users can update their location using Plazer (see below), via text message or via m.plazes.com, the mobile Plazes Web site. Plazes users are able to publish their Plazes location on Fire Eagle, Twitter, Google Maps, MySpace and on the user's blog.
The Web interface allows users to invite others to join Plazes. Plazes can search a user's Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail or Microsoft Outlook contacts and send invitations to these contacts.
Plazes allows users to create groups or to join an existing group of Plazes users. Under the Groups tab, Plazes suggests groups that the user may wish to join, as well as offer the user the opportunity to search for existing groups. If the user wants to create a group, the user will need to select a group name and a draft a brief description of the group. The user may add an image to the group to help differentiate it from other groups.
Plazes has a radar function that allows users to discover other Plazes users that are located near the user's current location. The Plazes Radar generates a list of the locations close to the user's current location and lists the number of Plazes users that have previously stated they were at that location. When the user clicks on the location name, information about the user that was at that location is displayed along with a description of the user's activity at the location.
Plazes Launcher/Plazer
The Plazes Launcher was a client application that allowed Plazes use |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusinessMirror | The BusinessMirror is a daily business newspaper in the Philippines founded in 2005 by Antonio Cabangon Chua, who was also its publisher and the owner of radio network Aliw Broadcasting Corporation.
As of September 2011, BusinessMirror has a daily circulation of 82,000.
ABS-CBN agreement
On April 30, 2014, BusinessMirror and ABS-CBN Integrated News and Current Affairs (consisting of ABS-CBN News Channel and its online affiliate, ABS-CBNnews.com) signed a content sharing/partnership agreement that will boost both entities to continue to deliver the credible business and economy news in the country.
Officers of BusinessMirror and ABS-CBN News, including its news chief, Regina Reyes, witnessed the agreement signing.
References
External links
Finance – Today's News
Business Registration & Licensing
Business newspapers
Companies based in Makati
Newspapers published in Metro Manila
National newspapers published in the Philippines
Daily newspapers published in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebu%20Catholic%20Television%20Network | Cebu Catholic Television Network (CCTN) is a broadcast television channel owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cebu and Fil-Products Group of Companies in the Philippines. The station's studios are located at the CCTN Broadcast Center, Cardinal Rosales Avenue, Cebu Business Park, Cebu City. CCTN 47 now operates 24/7 for cable operators and through online webcast, and 18 to 19 hours on free-to-air UHF TV. It is the Philippines' first ever Catholic television station on cable and free-to-air television and it's largest Asian religious broadcasting channel in Southeast Asia, Asia, behind Thailand's Dhammakaya Theravada Buddhist Global Buddhist Network (GBN).
History
Cebu Catholic Television Network Channel 47 (CCTN), founded by its president, Nonito “Dodong” Limchua, signed on in 2002 as the country's pioneer Catholic TV station. After his stint in the cable business, Nonito started family relationship programs that promote Gospel values, and bring the message and teachings of the Catholic Church to the people. Since he and wife Diana are devout Catholics, they have been involved in Walking with Jesus Seminars. Together, they shared their vision with the Archbishop of Cebu, Cardinal Ricardo Vidal, and he supported them in their desire for others to see the face of Christ through professional coverage of events, documentaries and issues concerning the Catholic Church. The impetus was the creation of a Catholic TV station on the same lines as EWTN and Catholic TV in the US but adapted for Philippine conditions. Just as Cebu proved to be the springboard for Philippine Christianity, its launch finally placed the country on the forefront of Catholic TV programming on par with other channels.
Just on its first three years since it was launched in 2002, CCTN gained popularity along Central Visayas and reached out its viewers to Eastern Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula and Northern Mindanao.
Since it was launched, CCTN exists with various names. Started as CCTN on 2002, the station was rebranded as INTV in 2008 with the slogan Inform, Inspire, Interact. Following the rebranding was the station's website at intv.com.ph. Then in 2012, the network tries to bring back the CCTN name and rebranded as INTV powered by CCTN. In 2013, the network then removed the INTV name and rebranded as, CCTN 47. Their website was then moved to cctn47.com as their old website with the INTV brand was dropped.
Today, CCTN reaches its broadcast signals to Metro Manila, Cavite, Sarangani, Agusan del Norte, Misamis Occidental and Zamboanga Sibugay, via local cable providers.
Programming
CCTN's regular programming primarily consists of daily Catholic mass services and other Catholic-related programs, news and current affairs, serial and seasonal dramas, sitcoms, variety and talk shows, and canned programs; all are broadcasting in Cebuano language.
Affiliates
San Gabriel Productions
Total Viewing Productions
Cebu City Council
M-Talent Events and Promotions
DYRF-AM
DYLA
DYHP-RMN C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan%20address%20algorithm | The Manhattan address algorithm refers to the formulas used to estimate the closest east–west cross street for building numbers on north–south avenues in the New York City borough of Manhattan.
Algorithm
To find the approximate number of the closest cross street, divide the building number by a divisor (generally 20) and add (or subtract) the "tricky number" from the table below:
See also
List of numbered streets in Manhattan
Numbered street
References
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Algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex%20Route%20Utilisation%20Strategy | The Sussex Route Utilisation Strategy (Sussex RUS) is a Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS), published by Network Rail (NR) in January 2010.
It was the fourteenth RUS to be completed, not counting the partially completed Network RUS. By default, RUSs are established by the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) unless the latter objects within 60 days, and the ORR have confirmed no objection to the establishment of the Sussex RUS.
The scope of the Sussex RUS is largely the main line, with branches, connecting Brighton, Redhill, Croydon and central London, but also includes the so-called 'Coastway' lines. Most trains are operated by Southern, with the remainder run by First Capital Connect and First Great Western.
The recommendations are grouped into each strategic routes, and, as has become customary with RUSs, provide short-term (to end of Control Period 4, CP4, March 2014), medium-term (CP5, 2019) and some long-term (thereafter) solutions.
Contingent projects
East London Line Extension
Inner suburban services through the London end of the geographical area will be affected by the completion of the East London Line Extension in May 2010. Though these services themselves were covered by the South London RUS, there will be some consequential effects on timetabling of services covered by the Sussex RUS.
Thameslink
This is the largest single programme affecting the RUS area, though in reality it comprises a significant number of related projects. The key objective is eventually to increase the frequency and length of the trains which pass between north and south London, and therefore has much wider scope than the Sussex RUS area. It includes very major works at Blackfriars and Farringdon, currently under way as at March 2010, and at London Bridge and its environs, after the 2012 Olympic Games. It will largely separate train services through London Bridge to/from Charing Cross-bound from those to/from Blackfriars. This programme will cause a number of sequential recasts of services affecting the Sussex RUS area.
The programme is divided into three stages:
Key Output 0, complete
Key Output 1, 2009–2011
Key Output 2, 2012-2018
Train lengthening under the Thameslink Programme will affect a limited number of stations.
In general, the works will have the greatest impact on suburban routes rather than the longer-distance routes featuring in the Sussex RUS area.
Gaps and options
The RUS summarises gaps in the following groups:
Gap A - between passenger demand and capacity in the peaks into London
Gap B - between passenger demand and capacity in the peaks on the West and East Coastway routes
Gap C - between passenger demand and capacity on key regional links
Gap D - between existing and desired journey times on key regional links
Gap E - accessing the rail network
Gap F - achieving performance targets on an increasingly busy railway
Gap G - between passenger demand at the weekend and in the evening and services provided
Gap H - between demand and c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthSpace | The HealthSpace website was operated by the English National Health Service for patients to record blood pressure, blood sugar levels and other medical data. It was also the portal for the patient to view their Summary Care Record and for making hospital appointments. In December 2012 the service was shut down due to lack of interest. In April 2013 all HealthSpace Data was destroyed in order to comply with the Data Protection Act.
HealthSpace name and trademark was subsequently taken by a multi-discipline clinic in Hampshire, UK. It is a permanently closed service now making way to a new NHS App gateway that is accessible and available for everyone who wants it to use.
References
External links
British medical websites
Databases in England
Government services web portals in the United Kingdom
Medical databases in the United Kingdom
National Health Service (England) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-bit%20%28disambiguation%29 | 8-bit computing is computing with 8-bit addresses or units of data.
8-bit may also refer to:
Technology
Octet (computing), a unit of information that consists of eight bits
Byte, a unit of information that commonly consists of eight bits
8bit, a MIME encoding
8-bit era, in the history of video game consoles
8-bit color, in computer graphics
8-bit sound
Other uses
8-bit (music), synthesized electronic music in a style that imitates 8-bit era sound
8-Bit (studio), a Japanese animation studio
8-BIT, a character from the video game Brawl Stars
Rob Fusari, music producer known as 8Bit
See also
8-bit clean, a computer system that correctly handles 8-bit character encodings
Bit (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel%20Durov | Pavel Valeryevich Durov (; born 10 October 1984), is a Russian-born French-Emirati entrepreneur who is known for founding the social networking site VK and the app Telegram Messenger. He is the younger brother of Nikolai Durov. , his net worth is estimated at US$15.1 billion. In 2022, he was recognized as the richest person in the United Arab Emirates according to Forbes. In February 2023, Arabian Business named him the most powerful entrepreneur in Dubai.
For some years after his dismissal as CEO of VK in 2014, the Durov brothers travelled the world in self-imposed exile as citizens of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
In 2017, Pavel joined the World Economic Forum (WEF) Young Global Leaders as a representative of Finland. Durov was naturalized as French in August 2021 and therefore now has European Union citizenship.
Early life and education
Pavel Durov was born in Leningrad, but spent most of his childhood in Turin, Italy, where his father was employed. In 2006, he graduated from the Philology Department of the Saint Petersburg State University, where he received a first-class degree. Durov's early life and career are described in detail in the book The Durov Code. The True Story of VK and its Creator (2012).
Family
Pavel Durov's grandfather Semyon Petrovich Tulyakov fought in World War II. He served in the 65th Infantry Regiment, participated in the battles on the Leningrad front at Krasnoborsky, Gatchinsky, and elsewhere, and was wounded three times, receiving the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree, and on the 40th Victory Day, the Order of the Great Patriotic War level I. After the war, he was arrested.
Durov's father Valery Semenovich Durov is a Doctor of Philological Sciences and the author of many academic papers. Since 1992, he has been head of the Department of classical philology of the philological faculty of Saint Petersburg State University. In March 2022, Durov wrote that "On my Mom's side, I trace my family line from Kyiv. Her maiden name is Ukrainian (Ivanenko), and to this day we have many relatives living in Ukraine."
Career
VK
In 2006, Durov started VKontakte with Ilya Perekopsky, later known as VK, which was initially influenced by Facebook. When he and his brother Nikolai built up the VKontakte website, the company grew to a value of $3 billion.
In 2011, he was involved in a standoff with the police in Saint Petersburg when the government demanded the removal of opposition politicians' pages after the 2011 election to the Duma; Durov posted a picture of a dog with his tongue out wearing a hoodie and the police left after an hour when he did not answer the door.
In 2012, Durov publicly posted a picture of himself extending his middle finger and calling it his official response to Mail.ru Group's efforts to buy VK. In December 2013, Durov decided to sell his 12% to Ivan Tavrin (at that time 40% of the shares belonged to Mail.ru Group, and 48% to the United Capital Partners). Later, Tavrin reso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyposmocoma%20emendata | Hyposmocoma emendata is a species of moth of the family Cosmopterigidae. It was first described by Lord Walsingham in 1907. It is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Maui. The type locality is Haleakalā, where it was collected at an elevation of .
External links
emendata
Endemic moths of Hawaii
Moths described in 1907
Taxa named by Thomas de Grey, 6th Baron Walsingham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging%20data%20record | For mobile telecommunications, the Charging Data Record (CDR) is, in 3GPP parlance, a formatted collection of information about a chargeable telecommunication event (making a phone call, using the Internet from your mobile device).
CDRs are used for user billing: a telecom provider transfers them from time to time in order to send bills to their users. CDRs are sent in GTP' messages, or saved in files and fetched with FTP protocol.
Information on chargeable events includes time of call set-up, duration of the call, amount of data transferred, etc. A separate CDR is generated for each party to be charged.
Entries on CDRs use a {category, usage} syntax. Usage units can be bits (e.g. user downloaded a 1MB movie), seconds (e.g. user downloaded 1 minute of a movie), or other units (e.g. user downloaded 1 movie).
CDR type
CDRs can be classified basically on two parameters
The node at which they're generated: GGSN, SGSN, PGW, SGW, etc.
The kind of service or activity they're charging : MBMS, Mobility, Location request etc.
As per the specifications the records are classified as follows :
S-CDR
SGW-CDR
PGW-CDR
eG-CDR
M-CDR
S-SMO-CDR
LCS-MO-CDR
LCS-NI-CDR
S-MB-CDR
G-MB-CDR
MBMS-GW-CDR
See also
Call detail record, the counterpart for Circuit Switch service usage. Also abbreviated as CDR.
References
External links
3GPP TS 32.240: Charging architecture and principles
3GPP TS 32.295: Charging Data Record (CDR) transfer
3GPP TS 32.297: Charging Data Record (CDR) file format and transfer
3GPP TS 32.298: Charging Data Record (CDR) parameter description
3GPP standards
Mobile telecommunications standards
it:Cartellino di traffico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen%20Chesis | Eileen Chesis is an American actress who appeared as a child in several American network television series of the 1960s.
Television career
Chesis portrayed Cissy Porter, one of the daughters in the sitcom The Tom Ewell Show in 1960-1961. Her other television work as a child consisted of appearances in Lassie, in the crime-drama The Detectives, in the medical-drama The Eleventh Hour, and in the western Destry — she also appeared (as two different characters) in two different episodes of Bonanza (1962-1963).
Her only television work as an adult was in 1975, where she played Nancy in the live-action super-hero series The Secrets of Isis.
Film career
She appeared, despite uncredited, in the 1960 film Tall Story.
Personal life
Chesis was born in Newark, New Jersey. She married lawyer Richard Devirian on March 8, 1975.
References
External links
American film actresses
American television actresses
Living people
21st-century American women
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllegroGraph | AllegroGraph is a closed source triplestore which is designed to store RDF triples, a standard format for Linked Data.
It also operates as a document store designed for storing, retrieving and managing document-oriented information, in JSON-LD format.
AllegroGraph is currently in use in commercial projects and a US Department of Defense project. It is also the storage component for the TwitLogic project that is bringing the Semantic Web to Twitter data.
Implementation
AllegroGraph was developed to meet W3C standards for the Resource Description Framework, so it is properly considered an RDF Database. It is a reference implementation for the SPARQL protocol. SPARQL is a standard query language for linked data, serving the same purposes for RDF databases that SQL serves for relational databases.
Franz Inc. is the developer of AllegroGraph. It also develops Allegro Common Lisp, an implementation of Common Lisp, a dialect of Lisp (programming language). The functionality of AllegroGraph is made available through Java, Python, Common Lisp and other APIs.
The first version of AllegroGraph was made available at the end of 2004.
Languages
AllegroGraph has client interfaces for Java, Python, Ruby, Perl, C#, Clojure, and Common Lisp. The product is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms, supporting 32 or 64 bits.
AllegroGraph includes an implementation of Prolog based on the implementation developed by Peter Norvig in Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming.
References
External links
Archived released
Practical Semantic Web and Linked Data Applications — a book by Mark Watson
Graph databases
Triplestores
Ontology (information science)
Proprietary software
Common Lisp (programming language) software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viximo | Viximo, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, makes software for virtual currency used in social networking, online dating and casual gaming sites. The software includes payment systems, virtual goods, and white-label apps and games.
History
Viximo was founded in October 2008 by Brian Balfour and Sean Lindsay. In April 2009, the company secured US $5 million in a round of funding from North Bridge Venture Partners and Sigma Partners. In January 2010, Viximo appointed Dale Strang as Chief Executive Officer. In July 2012, the company received an investment from Michael Pope and Adam Levin. Michael Pope was appointed President in July 2012, with Shamoon Siddiqui being appointed interim CTO.
In October 2015, Viximo announced the sale of the company to Pocket Games, Inc. (OTC PINK: PKGM).
In October 2009, Viximo announced its partnership with Zorpia.com, an international social network with 16 million worldwide users.
In November 2009, Viximo added music company Interscope Geffen A&M, a division of Universal Music Group, to its portfolio of clients and powered Lady Gaga's Gift Shop on Facebook.
In January 2010, Viximo was one of 11 Boston start-ups honored as winners of the 2010 OnMedia 100 Top Private Companies Award.
In late July 2012, Viximo was acquired by Social Technology Holdings, Inc.
Business model
Viximo is supported by revenue sharing agreements with social networking, online dating and casual gaming sites. Viximo provides these online publishers with the technology needed to run a virtual goods economy which can help them monetize user activities and increase user engagement. The technology includes virtual currency, payment systems, user analytics and white-label apps and games in which users can spend virtual currency. Viximo also works with content creators such as artists, brands, sports teams, athletes and celebrities to distribute and monetize branded content.
Viximo's publisher network reaches over 60 million monthly users. As of 2010, their clients included:
Bebo
BlackPlanet
Quepasa
Friendster
Gaia Online
Multiply
StudiVZ
Tuenti
Notes
External links
Official Viximo website
Virtual economies
Software companies based in Massachusetts
Online companies of the United States
Defunct software companies of the United States |
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