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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHS%20Electronics | CHS Electronics is a former multinational distributor of microcomputer products, personal computers, peripherals, networking products, and software.
It was based in Miami, Florida from its 1994 founding to its 2000 collapse.
Description
The company sold hardware and software products such as local area networks, disk drives, printers, personal computers, random access memory chips, central processing units and integrated circuit boards. The principal vendors of the company included Seagate Technology, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, IBM, Sun and Creative Labs, 3Com, Microsoft, Epson, and Intel.
It was a leading international distributor of microcomputers, peripherals, and software to more than 130,000 resellers in 46 countries in Europe, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, until its bankruptcy due to an investigation of tax fraud. The companies customers include assemblers of non branded component products and resellers.
History
It was founded by Venezuelan entrepreneur Claudio Osorio in 1994. He was sent to prison in 2012, after a federal judge sentenced him to 12½ years, for running a $40 million investment fraud through InnoVida, another one of his companies. According to an indictment, between 2006 and 2011 Osorio conspired to steal $40 million from 10 investors and an additional $10 million from a federal government program.
Mergers
In 1997 the company acquired Karma International for $160 million.
In 1998, the company acquired Metrologies International SA, subsidiaries of SiS Distribution Ltd, and 14 other acquisition. That year CHS Electronics ranked number 320 on the 1998 Fortune 500 list of the largest U.S.-based industrial corporations, with sales of $7.5 billion and net income of $87.9 million for the last four quarters. It was one of the few South Florida businesses on the Fortune 500 list of top-selling U.S. firms then.
Demise
The company reported a $45 million accounting discrepancy that ended up cutting its 1998 profits by about half.
Due to the massive operating losses, due to problems managing its large debt and losing money, in 1999 it was forced to sell its subsidiaries in Europe and Latin America. The company also cut 10% of its workforce that year.
The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in February 2000.
The company ceased operations and was liquidated later in 2000.
Class action lawsuit
A class action lawsuit was filed in 2000, alleging securities fraud after the company collapsed.
Shareholders sued CHS and its executives, accusing them of misleading investors, artificially inflating CHS' stock price, overstating profits and income, and fraudulently reducing expenses. The suit accused Osorio of personally manipulating the company's financial statements to show a profit, a practice referred to internally as "Claudio's magic." Osorio and other CHS executives settled the suit for almost $12 million.
See also
References
External links
1994 establishments in Florida
2000 disestablishments in Flori |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens-Duewag%20Supertram | The Siemens-Duewag Supertram is a fleet of 25 trams built by Siemens-Duewag of Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1992 for use on the Sheffield Supertram light rail network in England. They were the only trams in use on the network until the entry into service of British Rail Class 399 tram-trains in 2017. As of May 2020, all 25 remain operational.
History
After undergoing trials on Düsseldorf's Rheinbahn system, the trams were delivered to Sheffield via the Rotterdam-Immingham cargo ship route. The trams are bidirectional and consist of three articulated carriages with a low-floor area of 40%. All four entrances are at low level matching the height of the platforms to provide level access. The low-floor areas have limited seating and provide space for pushchairs and wheel chairs. The high floor areas are high and can be found at the outer-end of each end carriage and in the centre carriage; they are reached by either two or three steps.
Because the Supertram network includes gradients up to 10%, all vehicle axles are powered, which limits the low-floor area to that between the bogies. For maximized low floor area, the middle bogies are installed entirely below the centre carriage section rather than under the articulations. The wheels are type Bochum 84, have resilient rubber inserts and have a diameter of . They may be worn to a diameter of at least .
There are four monomotor bogies, each powered by a longitudinally suspended DC motor driving both axles. The power supply is from overhead lines using a Brecknell Willis high reach pantograph. Speed is controlled from the cab by a joystick controller with a Dead man's switch, which must be held in place to keep the track brakes from automatically applying. No other vigilance control is fitted, because of the perceived safety of a system of street-running trams. Drivers are seated on sprung seats for comfort and a public address system allows them to communicate with passengers.
The vehicle interior is designed to meet safety requirements. The interior fittings have no sharp edges to prevent any injury and there are numerous grab rails for standing passengers. The interior lining of the ceiling consists of aluminium honeycomb bonded with melamine coloured resin. The lining is attached to suspension points welded to the roof section. The inside walls are made from coloured melamine material. The complete lining for the articulations consists of coloured fibreglass. The rear wall of the driving cab is made of laminated wood with a melamine veneer.
Passengers have 86 upholstered seats, mostly arranged face to face. The low floor areas possess minimum seating to provide space for wheelchairs in accordance with the requirements of the DPTAC. Studies were carried out by the Cranfield Institute of Technology to ensure that all members of the public may have access to the vehicles.
From September 2005, the trams' manual destination boards were changed to multicolour LED signs conforming with the Disability |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount%20Communications%2C%20Inc.%20v.%20QVC%20Network%2C%20Inc. | In Paramount Communications, Inc. v. QVC Network, Inc., 637 A.2d 34 (Del. 1994), the Delaware Supreme Court clarified the type of transaction that triggers Revlon duties.
Facts
This case, an appeal from a decision of the Delaware Chancery Court, involved a proposed merger between Viacom and Paramount Communications; as part of the merger agreement, Paramount agreed to an array of defensive measures, including a no-shop provision, $100 million termination fee and a lock-up option on approximately 20% of Paramount’s common stock. However, QVC intervened with its own, facially more generous merger proposal, conditioned on cancellation of the defensive measures. The Paramount board refused to conduct a formal bidding process with QVC on the grounds that it would be inconsistent with its contractual obligations to Viacom.
The court found that,
Holding
Revlon triggers
When a corporation undertakes a transaction which will cause (a) a change in corporate control, or (b) a break-up of the corporate entity, the directors' obligation is to seek the best value reasonably available to the stockholders
Burden of proof
The "directors have the burden of proving that they were adequately informed and acted reasonably."
Key features of the enhanced scrutiny test
The courts will look into the adequacy of the directors’ decision making process, including what information they used in coming to their decision. In addition, the court will consider the reasonableness of the directors’ action in light of the circumstances then existing.
See also
Buchwald v. Paramount
Leibovitz v. Paramount Pictures Corp.
United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc.
External links
United States corporate case law
Delaware state case law
1994 in United States case law
1994 in Delaware
Paramount Global
Paramount Pictures
QVC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acta%20Informatica | Acta Informatica is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, publishing original research papers in computer science.
The journal is mainly known for publications in theoretical computer science. One of the two 1988 papers that awarded the Gödel Prize in 1995 has appeared in this journal.
The editor-in-chief is Henning Fernau of Universität Trier. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2021 impact factor of 0.871.
References
External links
Academic journals established in 1971
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Computer science journals
English-language journals
Formal methods publications
8 times per year journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20duda | La duda (The Doubt) is a telenovela broadcast in Mexico by the TV Azteca network.
Cast
Silvia Navarro ... Victoria
Víctor González Reynoso ... Julian
Sergio Bustamante ... Adolfo
Julieta Egurrola ... Teresa
Omar Germenos ... Gabriel
Leonardo Daniel ... Jorge
Elizabeth Cervantes ... Valentina
Marta Aura ... Azucena
Pedro Sicard ... Arturo
José Carlos Rodríguez ... Mario
Adriana Parra ... Jacinta
Alejandra Lazcano ... Graciela
Martín Altomaro ... Luis
Ana Laura Espinosa ... Romualda
Ángeles Cruz ... Dominga
Luisa Dander ... Tachita
Marco Antonio Treviño ... Martín
Socorro de la Campa ... Rosa
Andrés Palacios ... Chimino
Alberto Casanova ... Lencho
Saby Kamalich ... Elvira
Carolina Carvajal ... Carolina
Arleta Jeziorska ... Florenza
Alejandro Lukini ... Humberto
Jesús Ochoa ... Santiago
Fabiana Perzabal ... Karla
Maribel Rodríguez ... Margarita
María Rojo ... Amelia
Daniela Spanic ... Blanca
2002 telenovelas
2002 Mexican television series debuts
2002 Mexican television series endings
Spanish-language telenovelas
TV Azteca telenovelas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupleura%20caudata | Eupleura caudata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. This species occurs on the Atlantic Coast of North America.
References
Muricidae
Molluscs of the Atlantic Ocean
Gastropods described in 1822
Taxa named by Thomas Say |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupleura | Eupleura is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Species
Species within the genus Eupleura include:
Eupleura caudata (Say, 1822)
Eupleura limata (Dall, 1890)
Eupleura muriciformis (Broderip, 1833)
Eupleura nitida (Broderip, 1833)
Eupleura pectinata (Hinds, 1844)
Eupleura plicata (Reeve, 1844)
Eupleura sulcidentata (Dall, 1890)
Eupleura tampaensis (Conrad, 1846)
Eupleura triquetra (Reeve, 1844)
Eupleura vokesorum (Herbert, 2005)
References
Muricidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cope-Com | Cope-Com is a Danish Amiga software developer founded in 1987 by Martin B. Pedersen and Torben B. Larsen.
History
Martin Pedersen started out in 1985 with an Amstrad computer in which he did a conversion game title called The Vikings. At the same time Torben B. Larsen was doing the graphics for the same game on the Commodore 64 and that is how the two of them met. Feeling limited with the Amstrad and its technical abilities, Martin B. Pedersen decided to take a closer look at the new Amiga 1000 computer which was about to be released. They were impressed by the better resolution, colour palette and sound sampling of the Amiga.
Game publishing
Cope-Com published two games for the Amiga: Hybris (1989, Discovery Software) and Battle Squadron (1989, Electronic Zoo). Both were vertical-scrolling shoot 'em ups. Both titles were critical successes.
On July 4, 2011, Cope-Com had converted their famed and legendary Amiga game called Battle Squadron to iOS devices titled Battle Squadron ONE and published the game through Apple App Store.
On December 14, 2011, Cope-Com released on App Store world's first 2-player split-screen shooter for iPad, called Battle Squadron ONE 2-player. The new 2-player split-screen feature enables 2 players to go head to head with or against each other on the same iPad adding twice the fun. In addition the universal iOS version of Battle Squadron ONE was upgraded from 1.0 to 2.0 also featuring world's first 2-player split-screen mode.
On April 9, 2012, Cope-Com released for Android 2.1 - 4.x on Google Play, their famed classic Amiga shooter Battle Squadron.
On November 6, 2013, Cope-Com released for AmigaOS 4.x, their famed classic Amiga shooter Battle Squadron.
On December 23, 2013, Cope-Com released for MorphOS, their famed classic Amiga shooter Battle Squadron.
References
External links
Cope-Com
Amiga companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Spaihts | Jon Spaihts () (born February 4, 1970) is an American screenwriter and author.
Early life and education
Spaihts was born in New York City, the son of Jean, a computer programmer, and Jim Spaihts, an electronics engineer. Spaihts is an alumnus of Princeton University.
Career
His science fiction romance Passengers was included on the 2007 Black List of unproduced high-value screenplays. At the request of Keanu Reeves and Stephen Hamel, Relativity Media co-founder Lynwood Spinks had hired Spaihts to write the film after Reeves originally became attached to Spaihts' abandoned science fiction script Shadow 19. After Reeves agreed to produce with Hamel and star in Passengers, Spaihts was commissioned by Scott Free to write the next installments in the Alien saga, two prequel films to be directed by Ridley Scott, which eventually turned into the more autonomous story Prometheus, ultimately revised by Damon Lindelof. For New Regency Spaihts also wrote the screenplay to the alien invasion thriller The Darkest Hour, based on a story by Leslie Bohem and M.T. Ahern.
Spaihts has worked on a film version of St. George and the Dragon for Sony Pictures, and originated a Disney film project called Children of Mars. In 2012 he entered a two-picture deal at Jerry Bruckheimer Films to adapt Ashley Wood's graphic novel World War Robot and write a space adventure film based on his own original pitch.
He co-wrote the script for Marvel Studios' 2016 live action Doctor Strange film. Spaihts also co-wrote the reboot of The Mummy franchise for Universal, directed by Alex Kurtzman.
In 2013, Spaihts began work on the story for the Black Hole remake by Walt Disney Studios. The rights to his early science fiction screenplay had originally been sold to the Weinstein Company, with Keanu Reeves and Reese Witherspoon set to star, and Game of Thrones director Brian Kirk at the helm. The project was later made into the 2016 film Passengers by Sony Pictures, produced by Original Film and Company Films, directed by Morten Tyldum, and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt.
In 2018, it was revealed that Spaihts would be co-writing Legendary Pictures's feature film adaptation of the science fiction novel Dune, alongside Eric Roth and director Denis Villeneuve. For his work on Dune, Spaihts was nominated alongside Roth and Villeneuve for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Personal life
He has written several books for The Princeton Review. Spaihts lives and works in Venice, California, and is married to actress Johanna Watts. He is also a photographer.
Filmography
References
External links
Jon Spaihts' portfolio at photo.net
1970 births
American male screenwriters
Hugo Award-winning writers
Living people
Princeton University alumni
Screenwriters from New York (state)
Writers from New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20Junior%20%28Romanian%20TV%20channel%29 | Disney Junior is a Romanian pay television preschool channel owned by The Walt Disney Company Limited in London. It was launched as a programming block in 1 June 2011, named as Disney Junior Pė Disney Channel and is Currently a channel since 1 March 2012. Playhouse Disney was rebranded as Disney Junior on 1 June 2011. It is the kids aimed 2–7 programming block on Disney Channel. Every show on the channel is dubbed by Ager Film Studio.
See also
Disney Channel Romania
References
External links
Disney Romania on YouTube
Television stations in Romania
Television channels and stations established in 1999
Romania
1999 establishments in Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element%20OS | Element OS was a Linux operating system that was intended for Home theater PC computers. It was discontinued in 2011.
Features
Element OS was based on Xubuntu and maintained compatibility with the Ubuntu repositories. It used the Advanced Packaging Tool with Element's own custom repositories and the Ubuntu repositories. In addition to the package manager, Element OS incorporated the Allmyapps software center to allow additional applications to be downloaded.
Element employed a customized Xfce interface with similar full-screen windowing effects seen on netbook and mobile interfaces such as the Ubuntu Netbook Remix.
Software
Element OS came with some specialty applications for its role, including XBMC as a media center, the Cooliris Media Browser plugin for streaming content, VLC media player to play back video, Decibel Audio Player and the Transmission BitTorrent client. It also came with the Mozilla Firefox browser with zoom functionality through the "no squint" add-on to aid in web browsing at the higher resolutions that HTPCs often use.
Hardware
Element OS worked together with Eight Virtues, a hardware reseller, to produce EVTV, a custom built HTPC with Element OS installed.
References
External links
Element 1.4 download on CNET
Ubuntu derivatives
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabKey%20Server | LabKey Server is a software suite available for scientists to integrate, analyze, and share biomedical research data. The platform provides a secure data repository that allows web-based querying, reporting, and collaborating across a range of data sources. Specific scientific applications and workflows can be added on top of the basic platform and leverage a data processing pipeline.
License
LabKey licenses LabKey Server and its documentation for free under the Apache License.
Languages and extensibility
The base platform is written in Java. It can be extended through the addition of Java-based modules or simple, file-based modules written in HTML, XML and JavaScript. The platform can also be extended using LabKey Server's Java, JavaScript, R, Python, Perl and SAS client libraries.
History
LabKey Server, originally known as the Computational Proteomics Analysis System (CPAS), was developed at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to manage high volumes of data generated at the Fred Hutch Computational Proteomics Lab. In 2005, a small team spun out of the Hutch and began operating independently as LabKey Software after contributors realized that the software could be beneficial to the broader scientific community.
Core Components
LabKey Server provides a secure data repository for all types of biomedical data, including mass spectrometry, flow cytometry, microarray, microplate, ELISpot, ELISA, NAb and observational study information. A customizable data processing pipeline allows the upload and processing of the large data files common in biomedical research.
The platform also provides domain-specific support for several areas of research, including:
Observational Studies. Supports management of longitudinal, large-scale studies of participants, subjects or animals over time. Allows the integration of clinical data with assay results.
Proteomics. Allows the processing of high-throughput mass spectrometry data using tools such as the X! Tandem search engine, the Trans-Proteomic Pipeline, Mascot and Sequest. Certified as "Silver-Level Compliant Data Service" with the caBIG standard.
Flow Cytometry. Supports automated quality control, centralized data management and web-based data sharing. Integrates with FlowJo.
Zika Open Research Portal
In 2016, LabKey and Professor Dave O'Connor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison launched the Zika Open Research Portal using LabKey Server. The portal provides direct access to experiment data being produced by members of the Zika Experimental Science Team (ZEST). The portal received attention from the scientific community for being the first platform of its kind to share real-time research data.
Open Source Software
Labkey is licensed in a variety of manners. Source-code is provided for a core set of features with the Community Edition, and there are also Premium Editions available.
Users
Users range from individual labs to large research consortia. In 2017, the program's users incl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine%20Hine | Katherine Hine is an American writer, editor, and translator at EditAnything.
She is creator and executive director of Ross County Network for Children, a child advocacy organization. She also has four children.
She was formerly a lawyer in Chillicothe, Ohio and Oklahoma. In 1997, she stopped practicing law after being publicly reprimanded by the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.
Early life and education
Hine earned a bachelor's degree from Ohio State University in 1966, a J.D. degree from the University of Toledo in 1976, and studied at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand during 1982. She has also been known as Katherine Campbell Rohrer and Katherine Hine Green.
Career
Hine practiced family law in Muskogee, Oklahoma from 1983 until 1996 when she was publicly reprimanded by the Supreme Court of Oklahoma.
In 1994, she was a candidate for district court judge for the 15th Judicial District of Oklahoma, but lost to incumbent Lyle Burris.
Hine was involved in the Oklahoma organization Stop Child Abuse Now (SCAN).
References
Living people
Writers from Columbus, Ohio
Year of birth missing (living people)
Writers from Muskogee, Oklahoma
University of Toledo College of Law alumni
Ohio State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20billboard | A digital billboard is a billboard that displays digital images that are changed by a computer every few seconds. Digital billboards are primarily used for advertising, but they can also serve public service purposes. These are positioned on highly visible, heavy traffic locations such as expressways and major roadways.
History
The first proper billboards were invented in the 1830s by Jared Bell in America. He wanted to advertise a circus and put up a large and colourful billboard in 1835. P.T. Barnum saw the benefits of this advertising medium, and also followed suit. In 2005, the first digital billboards were installed.
Safety concerns
There have been concerns regarding road safety when digital billboards are present. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) conducted a study in 2001 to review the effects of electronic billboards (EBBs) on crash rates. According to the FHWA, it appeared that there was no effective technique or method appropriate for evaluating the safety effects of EBBs on driver attention or distraction at that time. More recent and extensive studies have affirmed the negative impact of digital billboards on driver attention.
Today 46 states have passed laws permitting digital billboards, compared to approximately 33 in 2007. As of July 1, 2016, the OAAA reports that there are approximately 6,700 digital billboards installed in the U.S., and there are now over 1,000 localities allowing digital billboards.
References
[Krumina, Volberga, L., Ikaunieks, G., & Naumovs, L. (2021). The Development Of Brightness Evaluation Method For Digital Billboards. IOP Conference Series. Materials Science and Engineering, 1202(1), 12035–. https://doi.org/10.1088/1757-899X/1202/1/012035]
Fortenberry Jr, J. L., Elrod, J. K., & McGoldrick, P. J. (2010). Is billboard advertising beneficial for healthcare organizations? An investigation of efficacy and acceptability to patients. Journal of Healthcare Management, 55(2).
Billboards
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/40G | 40G may refer to:
Valle Airport's FAA identifier
40 Gigabit Ethernet, a networking standard; see 100 Gigabit Ethernet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lund%201%20Runestone | The Lund 1 Runestone, designated as DR 314 in the Rundata catalog, is a Viking Age memorial runestone originally located on the grounds of the All Saints Church in Lund, Scania, Sweden.
Description
The Lund 1 Runestone is a granite stone pillar nearly four meters in height that has inscriptions carved on its four sides. There are runic inscriptions carved on sides A and B of the stone, images of two animals identified as wolves and a man's mask on side C, and the mask of a lion face on side D. The runic inscriptions are classified as being carved in runestone style RAK, which is the classification of the oldest inscriptions. This is the runestone-style classification of inscriptions where the ends of the text bands are straight and there are no attached serpent or animal heads. The inscription, which has a Danish Rundata catalog number because Scania was part of historical Denmark during the Viking Age, is dated as being carved after the Jelling stones of Denmark.
The two wolves on Side C are apparently armed with a shield and sword strapped to their bodies. The depiction of the wolves shows a mane and pointed ears similar to that of the wolf on inscription DR 284 of the Hunnestad Monument and on the DR 271 in Tullstorp. The man's mask between the two wolves is similar to those depicted on two other runestones in Scania, inscriptions DR 258 in Bösarp and DR 335 in Västra Strö. The lion face mask on Side D is similar to that depicted on the inscription DR 66 from Denmark, which is also known as the Århus 4 image stone or the Mask Stone. Other inscriptions with facial masks include DR 62 in Sjelle, DR 81 in Skern, the now-lost DR 286 in Hunnestad, Vg 106 in Lassegården, Sö 86 in Åby ägor, Sö 112 in Kolunda, Sö 167 in Landshammar, Sö 367 in Släbro, Nä 34 in Nasta, U 508 in Gillberga, U 670 in Rölunda, U 678 in Skokloster, U 824 in Örsundsbro, U 1034 in Tensta, and U 1150 in Björklinge, and on the Sjellebro Stone.
The runic text states that the stone is a memorial raised by a man named Þorgísl in memory of his two brothers, Ólafr and Óttarr. The text refers to "stones" that were raised, so the original memorial consisted of at least one additional raised stone. Ólafr and Óttarr are described as being landmennr góða, or "good landowners." A similar Old Norse phrase praising the deceased, landmanna beztr meaning "best of landholders," is present on the inscriptions on memorial runestones Sö 338 in Turinge and DR 133 in Skivum, Denmark. Landmennr is sometimes translated as "land-men." Some believe that the term land-men refers to a title that is something higher than a simple free farmer, such as a rich farmer or squire, although there is dispute regarding this.
The name of the father of the stones sponsor, Ásgeirr Bjôrn, has several name elements that were common at that time in Scandinavia. Ásgeirr means "Divine Spear" and contains a name element referring to the Æsir, the Norse pagan gods, while Bjôrn means "Bear." Þorgísl also contains a god's n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20C3-00 | The Nokia C3-00 is a QWERTY keypad feature phone with the Nokia Series 40 mobile operating system, released under the Cseries line of phones by Nokia. It features a full 4-line keyboard, like the earlier Nokia 6800 series. It was advertised as an entry-level messaging and social networking phone, retailing at 90 EUR before taxes. It was introduced on April 13, 2010, alongside the Nokia E5 and C6.
Features
The Nokia C3 was installed with Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat, which allowed users to set up their email and chat accounts straight from the device. It featured push mail and SMS, including access to Facebook and Twitter directly from the home. The C3-00 also has a 2-megapixel fixed-focus camera, built-in Wi-Fi, a 2.4-inch QVGA screen, 55 MB of internal memory, 8 GB of expandable storage via MicroSD card, and basic 2G connectivity. The phone comes with a Nokia BL-5J 1320 mAh battery.
Specification
Issues
Issues are being reported by users regarding WLAN connectivity. YouTube videos do not play correctly on WLAN on some handsets. This handset also supports Bluetooth 2.1, but the A2DP profile isn't supported by the phone software, resulting in any stereo headset not being recognized. Furthermore, it has issues regarding call logs.
References
http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_c3-review-494.php
External links
Nokia C3-00 :: The Definitive WLAN Guide
Nokia C3-00 software version
Nokia C3 WLAN Problem (BUG) Solution
Mobile phones with an integrated hardware keyboard
C3
Mobile phones introduced in 2010
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery
es:Nokia C3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomega | Biomega may refer to:
Biomega (bicycles), a Copenhagen-based, Danish bicycle manufacturer
Biomega (manga), a 2004–2009 cyberpunk action manga by Tsutomu Nihei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20SPH-i300 | The Samsung SPH-i300 was an early Palm OS-based PDA and smartphone manufactured by Samsung, released around August 2001 and marketed in the United States for use on Sprint's mobile phone network. It was the first "PDA phone" (as devices that combined phone and PDA functions were then called) in the US with a color screen.
The CDMA phone has a candybar-style design.
It operates like a standard color Palm OS device, but several hard (external) and software buttons launch the 'phone' application, which manages calls.
The phone shipped with a charging cradle with a DE-9 serial port, extra battery, and a case.
Applications
Installed applications included ones carried over from existing Palm handheld non-phone devices:
Graffiti, Memo Pad, Date Book, Scheduler, Calculator, To Do List, Alarm/Clock, Address Book, Expense Manager, and Palm Desktop Software. ZIO PalmGolf was another application.
In addition, applications to support voice and data communications were included: Blazer, Mail, Messages, Phone, Speed Dial, Voice Dial, and Voice Memo.
History and reception
The SPH-i300 was the first Palm-OS-based smartphone from Samsung, and cost $499. The phone was not compatible with Sprint's 3G network and its maximum connection speed of 14.4kbit/s made browsing slow, but browsing "the real web" in 2001 was an advance on the WAP browsers on other mobile phones. It competed with another Palm OS phone, the Kyocera QCP-6035.
Follow-up SPH-i330 model
Samsung followed up the SPH-i300 with the SPH-i330 in 2003, also on Sprint. The SPH-i330 has a more rounded body and PC connectivity over USB rather than a serial port, but has the same screen, Palm OS version, and general feature set as the SPH-i300.
Footnotes
All details and specifications are from the CNET review and specification page unless otherwise indicated.
References
Samsung smartphones
I300
Palm OS devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20Justice%20%28TV%20series%29 | Young Justice is an American superhero animated television series developed by Brandon Vietti and Greg Weisman for Cartoon Network and Distributed By Warner Bros. Domestic Television. Despite its title, it is not a direct adaptation of Peter David, Todd Dezago and Todd Nauck's Young Justice comic series, but rather an original story set in the DC Universe with a focus on teenage and young adult superheroes.
The series follows the lives of teenage superheroes and sidekicks, namely Nightwing, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Superboy, Miss Martian, and Artemis, who are members of a fictional covert operation group. Within the show, "the Team" is a group of young heroes attached to the famous adult team, the Justice League, but operating outside of the bureaucracy that constrains the more established superhero team. The main setting is a fictional universe apart from the previous DCAU and other continuities, designated at one point as Earth-16, during a time period in which superheroes are a relatively recent phenomenon, and supervillains have all began working in tandem in a grand conspiracy on behalf of a cabal of key villains known as the Light.
The series debuted with an hour-long special on November 26, 2010. Young Justice premiered on September 9, 2011, on Teletoon in Canada. After airing its second season, subtitled Invasion, the series was canceled in early 2013. In November 2016, Warner Bros. Animation announced that the series would be returning for a third season, subtitled Outsiders, which premiered on January 4, 2019, on DC Universe. In July 2019, DC Universe renewed the series for a fourth season, later subtitled Phantoms and eventually moved to HBO Max. The fourth season premiered on October 16, 2021, and ended its complete season run on June 9, 2022.
Overview
Season 1
Young Justice focuses on the lives of a group of teenage sidekicks attempting to establish themselves as proven superheroes as they deal with normal adolescent issues in their personal lives. The show corresponds to the present time of our world, a time period Vietti has called "a new age of heroes".
Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash, and Speedy (later revealed to be a clone of the original Roy Harper) are invited by their mentors Batman, Aquaman, Flash, and Green Arrow to tour the Hall of Justice and sit in on a meeting of the Justice League. At the last minute however they are called away. This angers Speedy, who resigns from being a sidekick. The other three use this as an opportunity to prove themselves and investigate a fire at Cadmus Labs. While there they uncover a clone of Superman named Superboy. They free him and in the ensuing escape expose Cadmus' illegal activities. Impressed, Batman and the rest of the Justice League agree to allow the sidekicks to form their own team to run secret missions for the League. Batman establishes Young Justice in a secret cave located inside a former Justice League headquarters, Mount Justice, a hollowed-out mountain. Here the teens are train |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubesat%20Space%20Protocol | CubeSat Space Protocol (CSP) is a small network-layer delivery protocol designed for CubeSats. The idea was developed by a group of students from Aalborg University in 2008, and further developed for the AAUSAT3 CubeSat mission that was launched in 2013. The protocol is based on a 32-bit header containing both network and transport layer information. Its implementation is designed for embedded systems such as the 8-bit AVR microprocessor and the 32-bit ARM and AVR from Atmel. The implementation is written in C and is ported to run on FreeRTOS and POSIX and pthreads-based operating systems such as Linux. The three-letter acronym CSP was adopted as an abbreviation for CAN Space Protocol because the first MAC-layer driver was written for CAN-bus. The physical layer has since been extended to include several other technologies, and the name was therefore extended to the more general CubeSat Space Protocol without changing the abbreviation.
The protocol and the implementation is still actively maintained by Johan de Claville Christiansen, Space Inventor and GomSpace. The source code is available under an LGPL license and hosted on GitHub.
Description
The CubeSat Space Protocol enables distributed embedded systems to deploy a service-oriented network topology. The layering of CSP corresponds to the same layers as the TCP/IP model. The implementation supports a connection oriented transport protocol (Layer 4), a router-core (Layer 3), and several network-interfaces (Layer 1–2). A service-oriented topology eases the design of satellite subsystems, since the communication bus itself is the interface to other subsystems. This means that each subsystem developer only needs to define a service-contract, and a set of port-numbers their system will be responding on. Furthermore, subsystem inter-dependencies are reduced, and redundancy is easily added by adding multiple similar nodes to the communication bus.
Key features include:
Simple API similar to Berkeley sockets.
Router core with static routes. Supports transparent forwarding of packets over e.g. spacelink.
Support for both connectionless operation (similar to UDP), and connection oriented operation (based on RUDP).
Service handler that implements ICMP-like requests such as ping and buffer status.
Support for loopback traffic. This can e.g. be used for Inter-process communication between subsystem tasks.
Optional support for broadcast traffic if supported by the physical interface.
Optional support for promiscuous mode if supported by the physical interface.
Optional support for encrypted packets with XTEA in CTR mode.
Optional support for HMAC authenticated packets with truncated SHA-1 HMAC.
Operating systems supported
CSP should compile on all platforms that have a recent version of the gcc compiler. CSP requires support for C99 features such as inline functions and designated initializers.
FreeRTOS – Tested on AVR8, AVR32 and ARM7.
Linux – Tested on x86, x86-64 and Blackfin.
Mac OS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeneRec | GeneRec is a generalization of the recirculation algorithm, and approximates Almeida-Pineda recurrent backpropagation. It is used as part of the Leabra algorithm for error-driven learning.
The symmetric, midpoint version of GeneRec is equivalent to the contrastive Hebbian learning algorithm (CHL).
See also
Leabra
O'Reilly (1996; Neural Computation)
References
Neuroscience
Machine learning algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATB-Market | ATB-Market LLC () is one of the leading retail trade companies in Ukraine. The company owns the largest national network of retail shops. The managing director is Borys Markov.
The company's shops operate in the "soft discounter" mode. The range of offered goods comprises ca. 3,500 articles. ATB discounters trade foodstuffs and essential nonfood commodities.
History
ATB-Market was founded in 1993 in Dnipro as a group of six groceries. In 1998, the company received its current name ATB – a short name of AgroTechBusiness.
After Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the company lost 65 stores in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions.
Stores
At the moment there are 1224 discounters operate in 117 cities and towns in 15 regions of Ukraine. The company was set up in 1993 year in the city of Dnipro. For the last four years the company has been showing the highest rate of expansion in Ukraine. In 2006 year 50 ATB discounter shops were launched in Ukraine, in 2007 – 52 shops, in 2008 – 75 and in 2009 – 83 shops, respectively. In 2009 the company was officially recognized as a retail trade leader due to its drastic expansion.
Logistics
Development of own logistics service is of particular interest to ATB Market. The company is the owner of the largest national logistics complex comprising four B-category distribution centers, three of them are located in Dnipro city, and one in Donetsk.
The monthly volume of the goods turnover processed by the distribution centers of ATB Market is 70,000 tons. The warehouse complex ensures supplies to all the shops of ATB trade network by planning, organizing and recording the commodity flows in the territory of Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Ukraine. Further development of the company's logistics base is planned to be carried out in 2010. Two large regional distribution centers are planned to be built. One of them shall be servicing the shops located in the Southern regions of Ukraine, the other – those operating in the Northern regions of the country.
Management and turnover
In its management, the company uses the experience gained by the "classical" European discounters such as Aldi and Lidl. Goods turnover of ATB retail network in 2009 amounted 8.9 billion Ukrainian hryvnyas (VAT inclusive).
More than 1 million Ukrainians do their shopping in ATB every day, and over 350 million shoppers are serviced yearly by the retail network.
ATB in the Donbas Region and Crimea
ATB stores in the territory occupied by Donetsk People's Republic were seized to form a new supermarket chain called "The First Republican Supermarket" (rus. Первый Республиканский Супермаркет) while stores in the territory occupied by Luhansk People's Republic were seized to form a new supermarket chain called People's [supermarket] (rus. "Народный"). ATBs in Crimea were seized by Russians to create "PNH" (Products Near Home) (rus. "ПУД" (Продукты У Дома)), a supermarket with a similar logo and inside of the market to ATB. Later, Art. Lebed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPU%20switching | GPU switching is a mechanism used on computers with multiple graphic controllers. This mechanism allows the user to either maximize the graphic performance or prolong battery life by switching between the graphic cards. It is mostly used on gaming laptops which usually have an integrated graphic device and a discrete video card.
Basic components
Most computers using this feature contain integrated graphics processors and dedicated graphics cards that applies to the following categories.
Integrated graphics
Also known as: Integrated graphics, shared graphics solutions, integrated graphics processors (IGP) or unified memory architecture (UMA). This kind of graphics processors usually have much fewer processing units and share the same memory with the CPU.
Sometimes the graphics processors are integrated onto a motherboard. It is commonly known as: on-board graphics. A motherboard with on-board graphics processors doesn't require a discrete graphics card or a CPU with graphics processors to operate.
Dedicated graphics cards
Also known as: discrete graphics cards. Unlike integrated graphics, dedicated graphics cards have much more processing units and have its own RAM with much higher memory bandwidth.
In some cases, a dedicated graphics chip can be integrated onto the motherboards, B150-GP104 for example. Regardless of the fact that the graphics chip is integrated, it is still counted as a dedicated graphics cards system because the graphics chip is integrated with its own memory.
Theory
Most Personal Computers have a motherboard that uses a Southbridge and Northbridge structure.
Northbridge control
The Northbridge is one of the core logic chipset that handles communications between the CPU, GPU, RAM and the Southbridge. The discrete graphics card is usually installed onto the graphics card slot such as PCI-Express and the integrated graphics is integrated onto the CPU itself or occasionally onto the Northbridge. The Northbridge is the most responsible for switching between GPUs. The way how it works usually has the following process (refer to the Figure 1. on the right):
The Northbridge receives input from Southbridge through the internal bus.
The Northbridge signals to CPU through the Front-side bus.
The CPU runs the task assignment application (usually the graphics card driver) to determine which GPU core to use.
The CPU passes down the command to the Northbridge.
The Northbridge passes down the command to the according GPU core.
The GPU core processes the command and returns the rendered data back to the Northbridge.
The Northbridge sends the rendered data back to Southbridge.
Southbridge control
The Southbridge is a set of integrated circuits such Intel's I/O Controller Hub (ICH). It handles all of a computer's I/O functions, such as receiving the keyboard input and outputting the data onto the screen. The way how it usually works usually has two steps:
Take in the user input and pass it down to the Northbridge.
(Op |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20T.%20Snodgrass | Richard Thomas Snodgrass (born April 19, 1955) is an American computer scientist and writer and is professor emeritus at the University of Arizona. He is best known for his work on temporal databases, query language design, query optimization and evaluation, storage structures, database design, and ergalics (the science of computing).
Biography
Snodgrass was born on April 19, 1955. He attended Carleton College for a Bachelor of Arts (Physics) and then Carnegie Mellon University for an M.S. as well as a PhD in Computer Science, which he earned in 1982 under the guidance of William Allan Wulf.
He has been an ACM Fellow since 1999.
He has been a member of the Advisory Board of ACM SIGMOD, of the ACM History Committee, and of the editorial board of ACM Ubiquity.
He is married to Merrie Brucks, the Robert and Kathleen Eckert Professor of Marketing Emeritus at the Eller College of Management.
Work
Snodgrass and his doctoral student originated the concept of valid time and transaction time. As of December 2011, ISO/IEC 9075, Database Language SQL:2011 Part 2: SQL/Foundation included clauses in table definitions to define "application-time period tables" (valid-time tables) and "system-versioned tables" (transaction-time tables).
TSQL2, a temporal extension to the SQL-92 language standard, was designed by the TSQL2 committee, which was formed in July, 1993. Snodgrass chaired the TSQL2 language design committee. The committee produced a preliminary language specification the following January, which appeared in the March 1994 ACM SIGMOD Record.
Various members of the temporal database research community have worked to transfer some of the constructs and insights of TSQL2 into SQL3, termed SQL/Temporal. Snodgrass initiated SQL/Temporal part of the SQL3 draft standard. SQL/Temporal has been partially implemented in Oracle, Teradata version 14, and IBM DB2 10.
Snodgrass along with Christian Jensen co-chairs TimeCenter, an international center for the support of temporal database applications on traditional and emerging DBMS technologies. The center has published more than 90 articles since 1997, many of which have been accepted in leading computer science journals.
Association for Computing Machinery
Snodgrass worked as a volunteer for Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) from the mid-1990s. He has chaired the ACM Publications Board and the ACM History Committee and has served on ACM Council. He has chaired the ACM SIGMOD Special Interest Group on Management of Data from 1997 to 2001. In 2001–07, he was Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Database Systems.
Snodgrass presented to the ACM Council a proposal for "a new ACM service, the ACM Computing Portal," a web-based repository of bibliographic information of all the computing literature. The proposal arrived at a ballpark figure of one million items that captured the entire history of computing, from roughly 1940 to 2000. The ACM Portal, also called the ACM Guide, was released to t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20M.%20Snow | Gordon M. Snow was an Assistant Director of the FBI over the Cyber Division through 2012, the FBI Director of Counterintelligence for the Middle East in 2001, and currently directs Global Security Operations for Cleveland Clinic.
FBI Assistant Director
Gordon M Snow was the Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in charge of the Cyber Division until his retirement in 2012.
Prior to becoming assistant director of the FBI, Snow served as the deputy assistant director of the Cyber Division, the number two official in that division.
Snow entered on duty as a Special Agent with the FBI on March 8, 1992. Upon completion of training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, he was assigned to the Birmingham Division's Huntsville Resident Agency. While there, he investigated violent crime, drug, civil rights, public corruption, and white-collar crime matters.
In April 1996, he was assigned to the Critical Incident Response Group as a commando in the FBI Hostage Rescue Team. During that time, he took part in several sensitive rendition missions, conducted terrorism assessments overseas with the Department of State, and was assigned to assessment, protection, and investigative support missions after the bombing of the in Aden, Yemen, and the embassy bombings in Nairobi, Kenya. Snow was promoted to supervisory special agent in the Counterintelligence Division's Middle East Unit in January 2001. Two years later, in January 2003, he was assigned to the Detroit Division, where he supervised the foreign counterintelligence program and served as the SWAT program coordinator. In April 2005, Snow was appointed chief of the Weapons of Mass Destruction and Acquisition of U.S. Nuclear & Missile Technology Unit at FBI Headquarters In May 2006, Snow was selected as the assistant special agent in charge of the San Francisco Division's San Jose Resident Agency. In that role, he had operational responsibility for the counter-terrorism, cyber, white-collar crime, and violent crime squads; the San Jose members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force; the High-Value Computer Crimes Task Force; the Silicon Valley Regional Computer Forensics Lab; and the Monterey Bay Resident Agency. He also served as the SWAT program manager.
Snow was assigned to the Afghanistan theater of operations as the FBI's on-scene commander for the Counterterrorism Division in June 2007. Following his return to the U.S., he was appointed section chief in the Cyber Division in January 2008, and detailed to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, National Counterintelligence Executive. During that assignment, he and his staff led the effort in drafting the government-wide Cyber Counterintelligence Plan under Homeland Security Presidential Directive-23/National Security Presidential Directive-54, the Comprehensive National Cyber Initiative In January 2009. Mr. Snow was then appointed as Chief of the FBI Cyber Division's Cyber National Security Section and was dual-hatted as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20least%20squares | Linear least squares (LLS) is the least squares approximation of linear functions to data.
It is a set of formulations for solving statistical problems involved in linear regression, including variants for ordinary (unweighted), weighted, and generalized (correlated) residuals.
Numerical methods for linear least squares include inverting the matrix of the normal equations and orthogonal decomposition methods.
Formulations
The three main linear least squares formulations are:
Ordinary least squares (OLS) is the most common estimator. OLS estimates are commonly used to analyze both experimental and observational data. The OLS method minimizes the sum of squared residuals, and leads to a closed-form expression for the estimated value of the unknown parameter vector β: where is a vector whose ith element is the ith observation of the dependent variable, and is a matrix whose ij element is the ith observation of the jth independent variable. The estimator is unbiased and consistent if the errors have finite variance and are uncorrelated with the regressors: where is the transpose of row i of the matrix It is also efficient under the assumption that the errors have finite variance and are homoscedastic, meaning that E[εi2xi] does not depend on i. The condition that the errors are uncorrelated with the regressors will generally be satisfied in an experiment, but in the case of observational data, it is difficult to exclude the possibility of an omitted covariate z that is related to both the observed covariates and the response variable. The existence of such a covariate will generally lead to a correlation between the regressors and the response variable, and hence to an inconsistent estimator of β. The condition of homoscedasticity can fail with either experimental or observational data. If the goal is either inference or predictive modeling, the performance of OLS estimates can be poor if multicollinearity is present, unless the sample size is large.
Weighted least squares (WLS) are used when heteroscedasticity is present in the error terms of the model.
Generalized least squares (GLS) is an extension of the OLS method, that allows efficient estimation of β when either heteroscedasticity, or correlations, or both are present among the error terms of the model, as long as the form of heteroscedasticity and correlation is known independently of the data. To handle heteroscedasticity when the error terms are uncorrelated with each other, GLS minimizes a weighted analogue to the sum of squared residuals from OLS regression, where the weight for the ith case is inversely proportional to var(εi). This special case of GLS is called "weighted least squares". The GLS solution to an estimation problem is where Ω is the covariance matrix of the errors. GLS can be viewed as applying a linear transformation to the data so that the assumptions of OLS are met for the transformed data. For GLS to be applied, the covariance structure of the errors must be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyocera%20Zio | The Kyocera Zio (also known as SANYO Zio, also stylized ZIO, model numbers SCP-8600/M6000) is an Internet-enabled 3G smartphone manufactured by Kyocera, running Google's Android operating system.
It was announced on March 23, 2010, and is expected to sell for a retail price of $169 and $216, with no carrier subsidies. As such, it will be one of the lowest cost smartphones running the Android operating system.
Leap Wireless, a low-cost and prepaid CDMA-based wireless carrier in the US, announced on March 23, 2010 that it would introduce the Zio smartphone, in late summer 2010. This would be the first Android smartphone offered by Leap Wireless or its Cricket Wireless subsidiary.
Kyocera has stated that the phone is easily upgraded to Android version 2.0 or 2.1, based on carrier wishes. Cricket Wireless released an update for the phone to Android 2.2 on February 28, 2011.
The SANYO Zio became available to Sprint customers on October 10, 2010 with Android 2.1 (Eclair) and is one of the first to use Sprint's exclusive Sprint ID user interface.
References
External links
Kyocera Zio M6000
Zio from Cricket Wireless
Zio from Sprint
Kyocera mobile phones
Sanyo mobile phones
Smartphones
Touchscreen portable media players
Mobile phones introduced in 2010
Android (operating system) devices
Linux-based devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20state%20legislatures%27%20partisan%20trend | This chart shows the trends in the partisan composition of the various state legislatures in the United States. In most cases the data point for each year is July 1, a time when few elections are scheduled. Most states hold legislative elections in the even numbered years, so the data points below are near the end of the term for most states. However, 2018 data is for the beginning of the year. Nebraska is not included in the national summaries below. Vacancies are not listed.
See also
List of United States state legislatures
Political party strength in U.S. states
References
Legislatures
c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSDSonline | MSDSonline is a private company that creates programs designed to organize material safety data sheets for other businesses.
Overview
The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Chicago, Illinois. MSDSonline is a Material Safety Data Sheet Supplier. The company develops products for MSDS management and compliance, illness and injury record keeping, workplace safety training, environmental health and safety professional regulatory assistance and personal protective equipment. MSDSonline also informs about outsourced MSDS management, MSDS library building and MSDS indexing. MSDSonline also creates items associated with meeting the compliance requirements established by Occupational Safety and Health Administration, United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States Department of Transportation, Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System, the Joint Commission (JCAHO) and various other regulatory organizations. MSDSonline, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Automated Document Exchange Services Inc.
Environmental health & safety solutions
MSDS Management & Compliance
Injury & Illness Recordkeeping
Workplace Safety Training
EH&S Regulatory Assistance
Personal Protection Equipment
Environmental health & safety services
MSDS Fax-Back Services
Chemical Inventory Audits
MSDS Library Building
Outsourced MSDS Management
MSDS Indexing
Regulatory Cross Referencing
References
Companies based in Chicago
Companies established in 1996
Privately held companies based in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Snodgrass | Richard Snodgrass may refer to:
Richard T. Snodgrass, American computer scientist and writer
Richard Bruce Snodgrass, American writer and photographer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAF%20Urbos%203%20%28Edinburgh%29 | The Edinburgh Tram network operates a fleet of CAF Urbos 3 low-floor trams that were specially designed for use in the city. Twenty-seven were built in Beasain, Spain, between 2009 and 2011.
History
The contract to build a fleet of 27 trams for the Phase 1a (currently on hold) and Phase 1b tram lines was awarded to the Spanish rail equipment manufacturer CAF in November 2007 and is worth up to £40 million. The trams are built to meet the highly bespoke specifications issued by Transport Initiatives Edinburgh which precluded the use of an existing design.
CAF was selected by competitive tender from a list of four rail vehicle manufacturers, the others being Alstom, Bombardier, and Siemens.
A full size mockup of the front of the proposed tram was constructed and put on display on Princes Street for the public to view. The replica tram was moved to Constitution Street at the foot of Leith Walk in April 2009. There was also a tram front mockup put on display at the Gyle Shopping centre next to the bus stop.
The first finished tram was delivered on 26 April 2010 and went on public display on 28 April 2010 at the location of the previous mockup in Princes Street, before being moved to open storage in Broxburn in November 2010. The tram arrived far in advance of the completion of infrastructure (including its home depot), which has suffered serious delays and cost over-runs. The tramway opened on 31 May 2014.
Specifications
The Edinburgh trams are bi-directional, long
and built with 100% low-floor access to meet UK Rail Vehicle Access Regulations for disabled people. Passenger capacity is 250 – 78 seated, 170 standing and 2 wheelchair spaces – and the trams will be fitted with CCTV.
Several special requirements were specified for the tram vehicles: they have to cope with the steep slopes of Edinburgh streets, operate with low noise and offer a visual fit suitable for a World Heritage Site. The particular requirements were specified by Transport for Edinburgh with the aim of designing an advanced tram system tailored for the needs of Edinburgh. To achieve the low noise requirement a self lubricating system is used to avoid the squeal of wheels on track when turning tight curves around streetcorners at intersections and elsewhere.
Livery
To create a visual continuity between the tram fleets and local bus services, Edinburgh trams have the same livery as that of Lothian Buses. The tram mockup shown in 2009 was decorated with the red and gold "harlequin" design that was introduced on Lothian Buses in the 2000s. Following the announcement of a rebranding of the bus fleet in April 2010, Lothian Buses reintroduced their traditional madder and white livery, and the tram livery was updated to a matching colour scheme.
Testing
The first part of the tram line to be completed was a short section between Gogarburn and the depot at Gogar. Testing of new trams on this stretch of track started in December 2011 - the first time that a tram had moved under |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Window-Eyes | Window-Eyes is a screen reader for the Microsoft Windows operating system, developed by GW Micro. The first version was released in 1995.
Features
Window-Eyes 9.4 is compatible with Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10. Window-Eyes 7 added support for industry standard scripting, which can be used to modify specific settings in Window-Eyes, monitor portions of the screen for certain kinds of activity, define hotkeys, and automate repetitive tasks.
History
Window-Eyes was developed by GW Micro, a company based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Window-Eyes was produced in 14 languages, and the English version includes nine text-to-speech languages, including US English, UK English, Castilian Spanish, Mexican Spanish, French, Canadian French, German, Italian, and Portuguese. GW Micro was acquired by or merged with AI Squared in 2014, with the combined company retaining the URLs of gwmicro.com, but sites rebranded as 'AI Squared'. By July 2017, the product was no longer offered for sale in the United States and Canada, and support for existing purchases was only offered. The company suggests new customers instead use the JAWS screen reader.
References
Screen readers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derby%20News%20Network | Derby News Network (DNN), based in Baltimore, was an internet broadcast network, founded in 2007, which featured the women's skating sport of roller derby. DNN used the internet to collect remote streaming video, photographs, audio, and text from reporters around the world, and distribute it internationally. DNN was frequently cited as an authoritative source on roller derby by other news agencies.
On September 9, 2014, the site's staff announced that it would cease operations and was officially 'retired', although the site remains online and its pages archived.
References
External links
www.DerbyNews.net — Derby News Network official website
Internet television channels
Roller derby mass media
2007 establishments in the United States
2014 disestablishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20N8 | The Nokia N8 is a touchscreen-based smartphone developed by Nokia. Announced on 27 April 2010, the Nokia N8 was the first device to run on the Symbian^3 mobile operating system and it was the company's flagship device for the year. It was released on 30 September 2010 at the Nokia Online Store before being released in markets around the world on 1 October 2010. There were two version made, the N8 and the N8-00. The N8 was made for Vodafone and locked to its networks, and the N8-00 was made by Microsoft and open network.
The N8 has a 3.5-inch AMOLED display with 16 gigabytes of mass memory, and features a 12-megapixel camera, the second time a camera of such megapixel count was used (the first one being the Sony Ericsson Satio in 2009) with a Xenon flash (like the Nokia N82) and with a very large 1/1.83" sensor size (larger than most point-and-shoot cameras of the time). It also has 720p HD video recording, a pentaband 3.5G radio, and an FM transmitter. Among the connectivity features are an HDMI output, USB On-The-Go, and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n.
The N8 was an important device for Nokia in its bid against increasing competition in the smartphone industry, and its revamped Symbian^3 software was also important. The device was delayed several times pushing its release date by several months, which had a negative impact on the company. Despite mixed views on the Symbian software, the N8's hardware build and camera quality were very well received, with many calling it the "best camera phone". The N8 would also become Nokia's last flagship device running Symbian, due to Nokia Lumia 800 in 2011 which ran on Windows Phone software. The N8's Symbian successor, Nokia 808 PureView, appeared in 2012.
History
The previous flagship phone in the Nseries was the N97, which was criticised for its initial firmware issues. Anssi Vanjoki, Nokia's Executive Vice President for Markets, said in an interview that software quality control would be better than for the N97. The N97's reception was highly negative and tarnished the company's image in the market. The N8 was the first device to feature the Symbian^3 operating system. Initially scheduled for the second quarter of 2010, the N8 was pushed back to the third quarter, being finally released on 30 September 2010 due to 'final amendments'. The N8 became the product with the most customer pre-orders in Nokia's history up to the point of its release and sales in Q4 2010 were estimated to be almost 4 million.
The previous Nokia phone with a focus on photography had been the N86 8MP, which has an 8-megapixel sensor and had become available in June 2009.
The N8 was the second Nokia to have a capacitive touchscreen, following the X6, and the first with multi-touch.
Design
Body
Anodised aluminium monocoque case
Available in silver white, dark grey, orange, blue, green, pink and brown
Size:
Weight (including battery):
Camera with Carl Zeiss optics and 12.1-megapixel resolution
Display
3.5" AMOLED screen with capa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/License%20borrowing | License borrowing is a feature that allows a user to run software on a computer that is not continuously connected to the license server on the network.
When making a borrow request, the user is either connected to the server over the network, or with some systems the license can be borrowed via secure file exchange between the disconnected user's system and the server. After the license has been borrowed, the user can then disconnect the computer from the network and continue to use the software for the length of the borrow period, which is typically determined by the software vendor. During this time, the borrowed license is removed from the pool of available licenses. After the borrow period expires the license is then checked back into the pool.
References
License Borrowing For License Administrators - White Paper
Benefits of Network Licensing License borrowing - pg.5
Network Licensing Questions and Answers License borrowing - pg.3
See also
Floating licensing
License manager
Borrowing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pool%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, a pool is a collection of resources that are kept in memory, ready to use, rather than the memory acquired on use or the memory released afterwards. In this context, resources can refer to system resources such as file handles, which are external to a process, or internal resources such as objects. A pool client requests a resource from the pool and performs desired operations on the returned resource. When the client finishes its use of the resource, it is returned to the pool rather than released and lost.
The pooling of resources can offer a significant response-time boost in situations that have high cost associated with resource acquiring, high rate of the requests for resources, and a low overall count of simultaneously used resources. Pooling is also useful when the latency is a concern, because a pool offers predictable times required to obtain resources since they have already been acquired. These benefits are mostly true for system resources that require a system call, or remote resources that require a network communication, such as database connections, socket connections, threads, and memory allocation. Pooling is also useful for expensive-to-compute data, notably large graphic objects like fonts or bitmaps, acting essentially as a data cache or a memoization technique.
Special cases of pools are connection pools, thread pools, and memory pools.
Object pools
Pools can also be used for objects, in which context a pool refers to a design pattern for implementing pools in object-oriented languages, such as in the object pool pattern. Objects themselves hold no external resources and only occupy memory, although an already created object avoids the memory allocation required on object creation. Object pools are useful when the cost of object creation is high, but in certain situations this simple object pooling may not be efficient and could in fact decrease performance.
References
Database management systems
Memory management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Couch%20%28American%20executive%29 | John Couch is an American business executive and author who served as Apple Computers First Vice President of Education.
After becoming one of the first fifty computer science graduates from UC Berkeley, Couch joined Hewlett-Packard as software engineer and, in 1978, was recruited by Steve Jobs as Director of New Products for Apple Computer, Inc., making him the company's 54th employee. Soon thereafter he became Apple's first Vice President of Software and then General Manager overseeing the Apple Lisa computer division.
In 1984, Couch left Apple to take over a struggling Christian school in Solana Beach, California. He also served as Executive in Residence for the Mayfield Fund and, in 1997, became CEO of biotechnology software maker DoubleTwist (then called Pangea Systems). After leaving DoubleTwist, he was again recruited by Steve Jobs to return to Apple and take on the newly created role of Vice President of Education.
In May 2018, Couch and his co-author, Jason Towne, published the book Rewiring Education, which became the best-selling education book in China. That same year, Couch founded Eden Inspirations, a ministry that works with Christian music artists and labels, such as Aaron Gillespie and Bethel Music. By 2019, the company had released three CDs: Songs of the Night, Songs of Freedom, and Songs of Wisdom.
In June 2018, Couch was announced as an executive producer of the action film Sound of Freedom, starring Jim Caviezel. Later that same year, Couch launched a wine tasting company called Eden Estate Wines. Couch's memoir, My Life at Apple and the Steve I Knew, was published in July 2021. Sound of Freedom was released theatrically in 2023.
References
Apple Inc. employees
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto%20Battiti | Roberto Battiti (born 1961) is an Italian computer scientist, Professor of computer science at the University of Trento, director of the LIONlab (Learning and Intelligent Optimization), and deputy director of the DISI Department (Information Engineering and Computer Science) and delegate for technology transfer.
Biography
Battiti received the Laurea degree in physics from the University of Trento in 1985, and the Ph.D. in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology in 1990 under supervision of Geoffrey C. Fox.
His main research interests are heuristic algorithms for problem-solving, in particular Reactive Search Optimization, which aims at embodying solvers with internal machine learning techniques, data mining and visualization.
Battiti was elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2009, in recognition of his "contributions to machine learning techniques for intelligent optimization and neural networks", is author of highly cited publications.
He wrote the books The LION way. Machine Learning plus Intelligent Optimization. and Reactive Business Intelligence. From Data to Models to Insight. (with Mauro Brunato),
about integrating data mining, modeling, optimization and interactive visualization, into an end-to-end discovery and continuous innovation process powered by human and automated learning. His ideas form the basis of the Grapheur and LIONsolver software.
See also
Grapheur
LIONsolver
Reactive search optimization
Reactive business intelligence
Selected publications
Articles, a selection:
References
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Trento
1961 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechEye | TechEye is a British technology news and opinion website. It was founded by Mike Magee, James Crowley, and Allan Rutherford in January 2010.
References
External links
Official website
Computer magazines published in the United Kingdom
British news websites
Publications established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakanai%20to%20Kimeta%20Hi | is a Japanese television drama series premiered on Fuji TV network on 26 January 2010, starring Nana Eikura in the lead role. The 1st episode and the last episode are 69 minutes long.
Cast
Nana Eikura as Miki Tsunoda
Haruna Kawaguchi as Ai Tsunoda
Naohito Fujiki as Seiji Kirino
Jun Kaname as Shōta Nakahara
Anne as Marika Tachibana
Yasunori Danta as Jin Umezawa
Yoshino Kimura as Yukiko Sano
Shunji Igarashi as Kenji Nishijima
Jun Hasegawa as Yoshito Tazawa
Nana Katase as Chiaki Fujita
Mahiru Konno as Kotomi Kurita
Kurume Arisaka as Kyoko Shiraishi
Marie Machida as Sanae Kudo
Shige Uchida as Keisuke Suzuki
Yusei Tajima as Makoto Inoue
Aoba Kawai as Miho Hayashida
Emi Tanaka as Mai Mizuta
Awards
64th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actress: Anne
64th Television Drama Academy Awards: Best Theme Song: Don't Cry Anymore (miwa)
See also
Workplace politics
References
External links
泣かないと決めた日(2010) at allcinema
Japanese drama television series
2010 in Japanese television
2010 Japanese television series debuts
2010 Japanese television series endings
Fuji TV dramas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinzanmono | is a detective Japanese television drama, part of the Spring 2010 season of the Japanese TBS Network. It is based on the same-name novel in the "Kyōichirō Kaga" series by mystery author Keigo Higashino and is set and filmed in the Ningyo-cho area of Nihonbashi, Tokyo. This series was followed by a special "Akai Yubi" aired on January 3, 2011 and a feature film The Wings of the Kirin, released on January 28, 2012.
Synopsis
Shinzanmono is the name given to a newcomer. In this case, the newcomer is Kaga Kyōichirō (played by Hiroshi Abe) an experienced detective who is newly transferred to Nihonbashi Police Station in Tokyo. A woman has been murdered and he has been assigned to the team investigating the murder. As the story unfolds he finds out more about the woman, her family, and the last days of her life; hopefully leading up to the apprehension of the culprit. In the process, he uncovers the secrets of some of those who were somehow tied up in the murdered woman's life, who may, or may not have been suspects, but who were hiding truths that needed to be told.
Cast
Hiroshi Abe as Kyōichirō Kaga
Meisa Kuroki as Ami Aoyama
Osamu Mukai as Kōki Kiyose
Junpei Mizobata as Shūhei Matsumiya
Yuichi Kimura as Kazumichi Kojima
Takashi Sasano as Yosaku Kishida
Mieko Harada as Mineko Mitsui
Tomokazu Miura as Naohiro Kiyose
Guests
Yumi Asō (ep1)
Kanji Tsuda (ep1)
Kenji Anan (ep1)
Teruyuki Kagawa (ep1)
Anne/Anne Watanabe (ep1)
Takashi Kobayashi (ep1)
Etsuko Ichihara (ep1)
Susumu Terajima (ep2)
Yui Natsukawa (ep2)
Hideo Ishiguro (ep2)
Mao Miyaji (ep2,4,8)
Yuko Ogura (ep3)
Haru (ep4)
Taichi Saotome (ep7,10)
Mokomichi Hayami (ep9,10)
Monta Mino (ep10)
Production credits
Original writing (novel): Shinzanmono by Higashino Keigo
Screenwriter: ,
Producers: ,
Directors: , Hirano Shunichi
Music: Yugo Kanno
See also
The Wings of the Kirin
Nemuri no Mori
The Crimes That Bind
References
External links
Official website
2010 in Japanese television
Japanese drama television series
2010 Japanese television series debuts
2010 Japanese television series endings
Nichiyō Gekijō
Television shows based on Japanese novels
Television shows based on works by Keigo Higashino |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Gates%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Gates is an American supernatural crime drama television series that aired on the ABC network from June 20, 2010 to September 19, 2010. The show was cancelled after its first season due to low ratings.
Plot
Nick Monahan and his family move from Chicago to a serene, upscale community called The Gates, where he has a job as the new chief of police. They soon realise that the community is unlike any other, consisting of mysterious neighbors who are not what they appear to be.
Cast and characters
Frank Grillo as Nick Monohan, the Gates’ new chief of police.
Marisol Nichols as Sarah Monohan, his wife.
Travis Caldwell as Charlie Monohan, his son.
McKaley Miller as Dana Monohan, his daughter.
Luke Mably as Dylan Radcliff, a vampire.
Rhona Mitra as Claire Radcliff, a vampire and Dylan's wife.
Chandra West as Devon Buckley, the series' main antagonist and a witch.
Victoria Platt as Dr. Peg Mueller, Devon's nemesis, as well as a witch.
Skyler Samuels as Andie Bates, a succubus and both Charlie and Brett's love interest.
Colton Haynes as Brett Crezki, Andie's ex-boyfriend and a werewolf.
Justin Miles as Marcus Jordan, a deputy officer alongside Leigh Turner and Nick Monahan.
Janina Gavankar as Leigh Turner, a deputy officer alongside Marcus Jordan and Nick Monahan. Her species is unknown, presumed the "living dead" as her heart was ripped out by an ex-boyfriend.
James Preston as Lukas Ford, a werewolf and leader of his own small pack of teenage werewolves.
Development and production
In January 2009, The Gates was among numerous pilot scripts being considered by ABC for the 2009–2010 season. It was not until October 2009 that ABC first announced development of the series, which is an international co-production for Fox Television Studios through their international paradigm. A green-light for the 13 episode order was contingent on international financing for the project, which makes the series more economically feasible as a summer replacement.
Casting began in January 2010. In early February, casting announcements included Frank Grillo in a lead role, as well as Luke Mably, Janina Gavankar, and Chandra West having joined the cast. Late March 2010 castings included Marisol Nichols and Rhona Mitra in leading roles. Victoria Platt, Skyler Samuels and newcomer Justin Miles were also cast in the project. Paul Blackthorne will appear in a recurring role.
Filming began in Shreveport, Louisiana on March 29, 2010, and was expected to continue until August 2010. Original reports by Variety suggested that the series might be filmed overseas, with another outlet mentioning South America. The show has featured music by a variety of artists, including indie folk songwriter Quinn Marston.
Cancellation
Soon after the first season finished airing there were rumors that the show would not be returning for a second season. These rumors were further fueled by cast member Grillo's tweets suggesting that his contract was not going to be renewed. In October 2010 s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Xiaolin | Li Xiaolin (; born 1 June 1961) is a Chinese businesswoman, currently serving as vice-president of the China Datang Corporation, a state-owned power generation enterprise. She is the former CEO of China Power International Development (SEHK: 2380). She is the only daughter of former Chinese Premier Li Peng and his wife Zhu Lin. She was trained as a power generation engineer at Tsinghua University.
Career
Li was born on International Children's Day in June 1961 at Fourth Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University in Huanggu District, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, Past is Railway Hospital in Liaoning, She is daughter from three children to Li Peng, then fourth Premier of the People's Republic of China, and Zhu Lin, a Russian-language translator. She was the second of Li Peng's three children. Her older brother is Li Xiaopeng. Li followed her father's footsteps and studied power generation, eventually obtaining a Master of Engineering degree in Power System and Automation from the prestigious Tsinghua University.
Li claims to have spent time at the MIT Sloan School of Management, however MIT stated that the only record it has of attendance by a student with Li’s name was enrollment in a “non-degree short course” open to anyone who has “intellectual curiosity” and pays $7,500 for 15 days of classes. Currently, she is the only female CEO of a Hong Kong Stock Exchange-listed company. She is also a member of the Copenhagen Climate Council. In 2008, she was named one of the 50 most powerful women in business by Fortune magazine. In 2012, Li was conferred with Tamgha-e-Pakistan (Medal of Pakistan). According to Hurun Report's China Rich List 2013, she had an estimated personal fortune of US$550 million, making her the 606th wealthiest person in China.
In 2014, leaked data obtained by the think tank International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) showed that Li Xiaolin owned assets in the tax haven British Virgin Islands. She had been listed as the director of the BVI shell companies Tianwo Holdings Ltd and Tianwo Development Ltd since 2005. The report further revealed that Li and her husband opened a Swiss-based account with HSBC in 2001, and by 2006-2007 held $2.45 million on the account; additionally, the couple were listed as owners of Metralco Overseas S.A., registered in Panama.
In July 2015, Li Xiaolin was transferred from China Power International to China Datang Corporation to serve as a vice-president.
In April 2016, Li was named in the Panama Papers, linking her to a British Virgin Islands company via a Lichtenstein foundation.
References
1961 births
Living people
Li Peng family
Tsinghua University alumni
Businesspeople from Beijing
Children of national leaders of China
Children of prime ministers
People named in the Panama Papers
North China Electric Power University alumni
Members of the 12th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Members of the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Wos | Lawrence T. Wos (1930–2020) was an American mathematician, a researcher in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory.
Biography
Wos studied at the University of Chicago, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1950 and a master's in mathematics in 1954, and went on for doctoral studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he received PhD in 1957 supervised by Reinhold Baer. He joined the Argonne in 1957, and began using computers to prove mathematical theorems in 1963.
Wos was congenitally blind. He was an avid bowler, the best male blind bowler in the US.
Awards and honors
In 1982, Wos and his colleague Steve Winker were the first to win the Automated Theorem Proving Prize, given by the American Mathematical Society.
In 1992, Wos was the first to win the Herbrand Award for his contributions to the field of automated deduction. A festschrift in his honor, Automated reasoning and its applications: essays in honor of Larry Wos (Robert Veroff, ed.) was published by the MIT Press in 1997 ().
Books
Wos and Gail W. Pieper are the coauthors of the books A Fascinating Country in the World of Computing: Your Guide to Automated Reasoning (World Scientific, 1999, ) and Automated Reasoning and the Discovery of Missing and Elegant Proofs (Rinton Press, 2003, ). Wos's collected works were published by World Scientific in 2000, in two volumes ().
References
External links
Publication list at DBLP
Maria Paola Bonacina (with Franz Baader, Alan Bundy, Ulrich Furbach, Frank Pfenning, John Slaney, and Christoph Weidenbach), "In Memoriam: Larry Wos"
American scientists with disabilities
Academics from Chicago
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
University of Chicago alumni
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
1930 births
2020 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSDA | CSDA may refer to:
CSDA (genetics), a gene
Certified Software Development Associate, a certification in software engineering
in particle physics, the continuous slowing down approximation range, i.e. the path length after which a particle of a given kinetic energy is stopped, assuming it losts its energy continuously.
Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WINLAB%20%28Yeungnam%20University%29 | The Wireless Information Networking Laboratory (WINLAB) at Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, South Korea, was founded to carry out the extensive research in wireless communication. WINLAB contributed many research articles in many reputed world class journals in wireless networks, mobile networks, and embedded system areas. Some of the research areas they contributed are:
Wireless networks: Protocol design and performance evaluation in wireless PAN/LAN/MAN/RAN, Cognitive radio.
Ad hoc networks: Wireless sensor networks, wireless mesh networks, and mobile ad hoc networks.
Mobile networks: Access control, handoff, power control, routing, and admission control.
Standard: IEEE 802.11/15/16/20/21/22.
Embedded system: ASIC, SoC, and embedded controller.
Kim Sung Won is the adviser of this laboratory.
Goals and Missions
The mission of WIN laboratory is to conduct research and education in the field of Wireless Communication Engineering and to develop industry partnerships to solve significant issues of interest in telecommunication.
Wireless communication is the transfer of information over a distance without the use of enhanced electrical conductors or "wires". The distances involved may be short (a few meters as in television remote control) or long (thousands or millions of kilometers for radio communications). When the context is clear, the term is often shortened to "wireless". Wireless communication is generally considered to be a branch of telecommunications.
See also
Yeungnam University
Education in South Korea
Process Systems Design and Control Laboratory
Notes and references
Wireless Information Networking Laboratory Homepage
BK21 Scholarship Program
External links
Yeungnam University Official website
The Korean Society of Industrial and Engineering
International Federation of Automatic Control
Universities and colleges in North Gyeongsang Province
Universities and colleges in Daegu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruckus%20Networks | RUCKUS Networks (formerly known as Ruckus Wireless) is a brand of wired and wireless networking equipment and software owned by CommScope. Ruckus offers Switches, Wi-Fi access points, CBRS access points, Controllers, Management systems, Cloud management, AAA/BYOD software, AI and ML analytics software, location software and IoT controller software products to mobile carriers, broadband service providers, and corporate enterprises. As a company, Ruckus invented and has patented wireless voice, video, and data technology, such as adaptive antenna arrays that extend signal range, increase data rates, and avoid interference, providing distribution of delay-sensitive content over standard 802.11 Wi-Fi.
RUCKUS began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in 2012, and was delisted in 2016, after it was acquired by Brocade Communications Systems for approximately $1.5 billion on May 27, 2016. Ruckus Wireless and Brocade ICX line of Switching products were acquired by Arris International for $800 million in a deal finalized on December 1, 2017. The company was renamed as Ruckus Networks, an ARRIS company from Ruckus Wireless. On April 4, 2019, CommScope completed its acquisition of Arris, which included the recently acquired Ruckus.
History
Origin, Incubation and Funding
RUCKUS Networks started in 2002 as an incubator project with name SCEOS (Sequoia Capital Entertainment Operating System) funded by a small seed round from Sequoia Capital, in Menlo Park, California. After incubation Ruckus was incorporated in June 2004 as Video54 Technologies Inc., by William Kish and Victor Shtrom. Sequoia Capital, WK Technology Fund, and Sutter Hill Ventures initially funded the company. Selina Lo was the first CEO of the company and continued until company's acquisition by Brocade Communications in 2016.
At its initial days, RUCKUS focuses on In-Home IPTV content distribution over wireless. In 2007, Ruckus introduced a miniaturised wireless multimedia adapter, the MediaFlex USB Dongle, designed to provide wireless connectivity to in-home multimedia devices such as set-tops and media center systems. At 2007 CES event, Ruckus demonstrated the dongle with Motorola set top box VIP1720.
On September 19, 2005, Ruckus announced that it has secured $9 million in its second round of financing, which increases total investment in the company to over $14 million since its formation in June 2004. Sutter Hill Ventures and Investor Growth Capital, the venture capital arm of Investor AB of Sweden, led the new financing. Existing investors Sequoia Capital and WK Technology Fund completed the oversubscribed round. WK Technology Fund led the $3.5 million first round of financing, while Sequoia Capital and private investors provided the initial $1.5 million of seed money. Ruckus Wireless has also appointed Wen Ko, founding managing director of WK Technology Fund, to its board of directors. In addition to Mr. Ko, the Ruckus board of directors includes Dominic Orr, chairman and form |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Crowley | Dennis Crowley (born June 19, 1976) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded the social networking sites Dodgeball and Foursquare.
Education
Crowley was born in Medway, Massachusetts to Mary Moraski Crowley and Dennis P Crowley. He graduated from Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts in 1994. He received a B.A. in 1998 from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and a M.P.S. master's degree in 2004 from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP).
Career
After graduating from Syracuse, Crowley worked as a researcher for Jupiter Communications, but lost his job during the dot-com bubble and moved home to New Hampshire for seven months. In 2000, he joined mobile app provider Vindigo as a product developer. In 2003, Crowley co-founded Dodgeball with fellow student Alex Rainert while attending New York University. Dodgeball was acquired by Google in 2005. After Google abandoned the Dodgeball project in 2007, Crowley found work at a company called Area/Code where he met Naveen Selvadurai and co-founded Foursquare in 2009. Foursquare, known for its location intelligence offerings for both enterprises and consumers, is used by more than 50 million people every month. In January 2016, after 7 years as CEO, Crowley handed the role of CEO to Jeff Glueck and became Executive Chairman of the company.
He was an adjunct professor in New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.
Awards
Crowley has been named one of Fortune Magazine's "40 Under 40" (2010 & 2011),) was featured on Vanity Fair's "New Establishment" list (2011 & 2012), and was named to the MIT Technology Review "TR35" as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35 (2005).
In 2012, Crowley received the George Arents Award for Excellence in Social Media Innovation from Syracuse University.
Personal life
Crowley married Chelsa Lynn Skees at Buttermilk Falls Inn in Milton, N.Y. Sarah Simmons, a Universal Life Church minister, officiated. Crowley is also the Founder and Chairman of Kingston Stockade FC, a semi-professional soccer team in the Hudson Valley region of the state of New York that competes in the 4th division of the United States soccer pyramid. In 2014 Crowley admitted to producing a fraudulent Boston Marathon bib for his wife, Chelsa Crowley, to use. He apologized for his actions. In a statement, Crowley admitted what he had done had "overshadowed the event for those who ran and those who ran to honor others".
Appearances
Crowley delivered the commencement speech at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies in 2011. He was a keynote speaker at the 2015 Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders.
References
External links
Living people
American computer businesspeople
S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications alumni
Tisch School of the Arts alumni
1976 births
People from Medway, Massachusetts
21st-century Americ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delcho%20Stoilov | Delcho Stoilov () (born 31 December 1981) is a Bulgarian footballer, who currently plays for Dimitrovgrad as a midfielder.
External links
FootballDatabase.eu profile
1981 births
Living people
Bulgarian men's footballers
FC Kaliakra Kavarna players
First Professional Football League (Bulgaria) players
Men's association football midfielders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Biggest%20Loser%20Germany | The German version of The Biggest Loser started in 2009 on ProSieben. The following seasons switched channels inside the ProSiebenSat.1 network, season two and three airing on kabel eins and since season four on Sat.1.
Series overview
Trainers
Winners
Seasons on ProSieben
Season One
Season one was shown on ProSieben in early 2009. The show was hosted by retired figure skater Katharina Witt and filmed on a Hacienda near Budapest. The season consisted of 7 episodes and featured 14 candidates contesting for a 100,000 € first prize. The season had mostly negative critiques and was not renewed. The season was won by Enrico Proba who lost over 50% of his starting weight. He won the first prize of 100,000 €, Falko gained 10,000 € for second and René got 5,000 €. After the show, Enrico works in dietics and is a fitness trainer.
Seasons on kabel eins
Season Two
Season two of The Biggest Loser was held in 2010 on Mallorca. The slogan of that season was Abspecken im Doppelpack (Losing weight in double pack). The host was retired boxer Regina Halmich. There were eight teams with 2 persons each. One team was evicted each week until three were left, after which the teams were dissolved and everyone was as individuals. The first prize was much lower this season with the winner getting only 25,000 € and nothing going to second and third place. The biggest loser title was won by Heino from Hamburg who shared the prize with his teammate Sven, who finished third.
Season Three
After the success of season two with average market shares of 6.4% within the target group of 14- to 49-year-olds Kabel Eins announced a season three for March 2011. The will be no changes in host or trainers, and the show will be taped in Ischgl, Austria.
The season started on 15 March 2011 and featured 9 couples. The winner received 25.000 €.
Seasons on Sat.1
All of these seasons were hosted in Andalusia.
Season Four
In 2012 a fourth season was shown on Sat.1 with kickboxer Christine Theiss as a new host.
Season Five
In 2013 Biggest Loser returned for a fifth season.
Season Six
In 2014 there was a sixth season. The episodes were aired every Wednesday at 8:15 pm. There also was a Biggest Loser Teens season in the second half of the year.
Season Seven
In 2015 Biggest Loser returned for a seventh season. Eight men and eight women completed under the motto men versus women.
References
External links
Official Sat 1 Site
Official Kabel Eins Site
Germany
2009 German television series debuts
German television series based on American television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabasoft%20Folio%20Cloud | Fabasoft Folio Cloud is a cloud computing service developed by Fabasoft in Linz, Austria announced in April 2010. It focuses on enabling secure collaboration and is web-based with iOS and Android apps for use on mobile devices. The software is object-oriented and offers a wide range of sophisticated functionality for document management and global collaboration, which can be extended by specialist cloud applications. Fabasoft places a large amount of focus on usability and accessibility.
Security
Folio Cloud is certified and tested according to the following security standards : ISO 27001:2005, ISO 20000, ISO 9001, SAS 70 Type II. Fabasoft was also the first software manufacturer to receive MoReq2 certification – the European standard for records management.
All Folio Cloud data is saved in data centers in Europe, where European standards for security, reliability and data protection apply. Cloud data is kept permanently synchronized in two mirrored data centers in Austria so that a fail over is possible at any time. A backup of data is constantly maintained in a third data center. Further data center locations are being integrated in Germany and Switzerland and in future users will be able to decide at which data center location their data is stored.
Folio Cloud is based on open source and does not contain any US-owned software. This prevents access to European cloud data by US authorities under the “US Patriot Act”.
All communication and transfer of data within Folio Cloud is encrypted via SSL/TLS. Cloud access is protected by secure forms of authentication including two factor authentication with Motoky or SMS and login via digital ID. Folio Cloud has integrated the new German digital ID card, the Austrian Citizen Card with mobile signature and the SuisseID as forms of digital authentication. Fabasoft is active in the support of the advancement of European cloud infrastructure.
Mobile cloud
Folio Cloud supports all common web browsers, different operating systems and end user devices. Folio Cloud apps are also available on Google Play and the Apple App Store for use on Android and iOS devices. Folio Cloud supports open standards such as WebDAV, CalDAV and CMIS.
Apps
Apps are online applications that extend the functionality of Folio Cloud to fulfill concrete use cases and needs. All Folio Cloud Apps are available in the Fabasoft Cloud App Store.
Fabasoft held its first Cloud Developer Conference (CDC) from December 15–17, 2010 as a free event for Cloud developers. Since then the event has taken place twice a year, once in the summer and once in the winter.
References
External links
Official Folio Cloud Website
Cloud platforms
Centralized computing
Technology companies of Austria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauro%20Gilardi | Mauro Gilardi (born 21 December 1982) is an Italian professional football player.
External links
AIC profile (data by football.it)
1982 births
Living people
Italian men's footballers
AC Pavia 1911 SSD players
Olbia Calcio 1905 players
ASD Victor San Marino players
AS Gubbio 1910 players
Serie C players
Polisportiva Monterotondo Lupa players
Men's association football midfielders
Polisportiva Alghero players
Sportspeople from Lecco
Footballers from the Province of Lecco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Database%20on%20Protected%20Areas | The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is the largest assembly of data on the world's terrestrial and marine protected areas, containing more than 260,000 protected areas as of August 2020, with records covering 245 countries and territories throughout the world. The WDPA is a joint venture between the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA).
Data for the WDPA is collected from international convention secretariats, governments and collaborating NGOs, but the role of custodian is allocated to the Protected Areas Programme of UNEP-WCMC, based in Cambridge, UK, who have hosted the database since its creation in 1981. The WDPA delivers invaluable information to decision-makers around the world, particularly in terms of measuring the extent and effectiveness of protected areas as an indicator for meeting global biodiversity targets. In October 2010, UNEP-WCMC launched the social media-based website Protected Planet, which allows users to interact with and improve the data that is currently recorded on the World Database on Protected Areas.
Content
The WDPA uses the IUCN's definition of a protected area as the main criteria for entries to be included in the database.
The database contains comprehensive information on the different types of protected areas ranging from those strictly protected for conservation purposes to those where sustainable use of natural resources is allowed; and includes government, co-managed, private and community-managed areas. The IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas gives international guidance on the categorisation of protected areas, through its Protected Area Management Categories. These categories are recognised worldwide and facilitate a global system for defining and recording protected areas. Within the WPDA the IUCN Management Category of a protected area is listed (if one has been assigned/reported) as part of the information on a protected area.
Data held in the WDPA is made up of both 'attribute' and 'spatial' information. Attribute data refers to the characteristics of a protected area, such as its name, reported area and designation type. Spatial data is provided in the form of Geographical Information System (GIS) electronic maps, often referred to as shapefiles. These files provide information on the location (latitude & longitude) and spatial extent of a protected area, either as a midpoint location or a polygon that shows the boundaries of a protected area, which gives the indication of its size and shape. This is the form that the data takes on Protected Planet through which the data on WDPA is available for public use worldwide. The WDPA Development Team at UNEP-WCMC has a formal agreement with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) to integrate their network species occurrence data with the shapefiles of protected areas on the W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Reality%20Channel | Global Reality Channel was a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel owned by Shaw Media. The channel broadcasts reality television series and related programming. It was an offshoot of the Shaw-owned Global Television Network, which is now owned by Corus Entertainment.
History
Canwest Global Communications, the channel's original owner, first attempted to launch a reality TV-based channel in the mid-2000s when the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) granted Canwest approval to launch Reality TV, a channel "devoted exclusively to reality-based programming." However, the channel did not commence operations within the allotted time limit stated by the CRTC and the licence expired.
Determined to launch the channel, Canwest applied to the CRTC (through a joint subsidiary, Canwest Television Limited Partnership) for another reality TV-based channel also called Reality TV that was approved on October 14, 2009. The channel was described, through its nature of service, as "a national, English-language Category 2 specialty programming service devoted exclusively to reality-based programming, including competition-based reality and do-it-yourself makeover programs."
Before the channel was approved by the CRTC, Canwest filed for creditor protection in early October 2009. In February 2010, Shaw Communications announced it was purchasing Canwest's broadcasting assets.
The channel was launched on July 1, 2010, as "Global Reality Channel". On October 27 that year, Shaw finalized its purchase of Canwest, renaming the company Shaw Media, and took control of Global Reality Channel.
At the Shaw Media upfronts on May 30, 2012, Shaw Media announced the 2012 fall schedules of all its terrestrial stations and specialty channels; however, Global Reality Channel was not included in the upfronts. The following day, Rogers announced that it would be adding Nat Geo Wild, a recently launched Shaw Media channel, by replacing Global Reality Channel on August 1, 2012. Effectively, this meant Nat Geo Wild would launch the same way it did in the United States in June 2010, as NGW replaced Fox Reality Channel in the United States, though there was very little similar between Fox and Global's reality channel efforts.
This would result in MTS as the only remaining distributor of the channel, assuming no other distributors begin carrying the channel. Following the upfronts and Rogers announcement, speculation and online gossip, citing various sources, arose stating that Global Reality Channel would be ceasing operations on August 1, 2012. Despite Rogers' initial intention to launch Nat Geo Wild in August, only days later in early June, Rogers added Nat Geo Wild without replacing Global Reality Channel.
On August 1, 2012, MTS confirmed the channel's closure by displaying the following message on channel 255:
"Global Reality going out of business August 1, 2012. Global Reality, channel 225 in the Rewind theme group, is going out of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OURsceneTV | OURsceneTV is a lifestyle entertainment video site for the LGBT community, headquartered in New York City. Owned by OURscene Networks, LLC, it was founded in 2008 by Christine Alloro to "bridge gaps for the LGBT community to the rest of the world, and also give those who are closeted a sense that they can come out.
Description
The site features original programming in short-form video format, and includes red carpet coverage, celebrity interviews, lifestyle segments, and a coverage of New York and Los Angeles gay-friendly businesses and nightlife.
In October 2009 OURsceneTV was recognized by writer Cathy Brooks of The Huffington Post as a “catalyst in the evolution of LGBT public expression.” Brooks writes that OURsceneTV has a "distinctly Entertainment Tonight/Access Hollywood feel," albeit from an LGBT perspective, balanced with more socially conscious features such as the site's series, "Stonewall: Profiles of Pride," tackling serious topics ranging from "issues facing the trans(gendered) community, gay parents, immigration and adoption laws, and safeguarding your finances."
OURsceneTV segments have been featured by The San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, Towleroad.com, AfterEllen.com, and Queerty.
Celebrity Interviews include Lady Gaga, Sean Penn, Mary Louise Parker, Cyndi Lauper, Marc Jacobs, Michael Bloomberg, Cheyenne Jackson, Chace Crawford, The Indigo Girls, Tyra Banks, Eve, Alan Cumming, Whoopi Goldberg, Wilson Cruz, Candis Cayne, and more.
References
2008 establishments in New York City
LGBT-related websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20A.%20Newman | William A. Newman (born 1948 in Great Lakes, IL) is an American painter and computer artist residing in Washington, D.C.
College
Newman received his BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art for Painting. His early medical studies were of great influence to his later paintings at MICA, which often involved bloody, gruesome scenes. Joe Shepard, Newman's painting teacher taught him the technique of laying glazes of transparent color over imprimatura (monochromatic underpaintings). Newman continued to use this technique throughout his career.
After his undergraduate years at MICA, in 1971, Newman spent one year running the Art Store at the Corcoran School of Art. During this time, he met many young artists, with whom he would create the group "The Washington Color Pencil School". These artists also organized an exhibit of the same name at the Corcoran Gallery of Art In 1973.
In 1973, Newman began studying for his MFA at University of Maryland, where he began teaching his first courses.
Lady Sarah controversy
In 1975, Newman had already begun as a full-time teacher at the Corcoran School of Art. He was hired to paint a mural at the Construction site across from the Old Executive Office building, where he and twenty students created 35 - 40 magnified insects and animals and cut them out of plywood to place around the site. Since that project was a great success, Newman offered to create a painting for the inside of the building of a large nude. They accepted his proposal, so he began working. When he was finished, the painting was twenty four feet long. When the General Services Administration came to the Corcoran before it went up, they decided not to show the original piece. They refused to put the piece up, unless Newman painted a bathing suit over the woman in the mural.
"At the time I was just thinking, great, I'll paint a bathing suit on it, but that bathing suit is coming off as soon as it rains. I mixed tempera paint with that famous Corcoran bathroom soap, and I knew it would wash off right away. I told Paul Richard, the art writer at the Washington Post, about it, and he wrote a story titled "Praying for Rain." The painting came to be called Lady Sarah, named after its model."-William Newman: Peripheral Vision
During the first night it was up, rain fell. There was a line of about 300 people waiting to look through the peephole, in reaction to the article.
Before the bathing suit could be completely washed off by the rain, the piece was taken down. Newman washed off the soap bathing suit and repainted it to become permanently present. He gave the piece to the Corcoran to raise money.
Reaction to Lady Sarah
The National Organization for Women very publicly opposed of the mural and there was a piece written about it in Time Magazine.
Other controversy
In 1984, there was a construction wall in D.C. that was opened up to the art community for anyone who wanted to create work on it. There were several people who participated, and N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almeida%E2%80%93Pineda%20recurrent%20backpropagation | Almeida–Pineda recurrent backpropagation is an extension to the backpropagation algorithm that is applicable to recurrent neural networks. It is a type of supervised learning. It was described somewhat cryptically in Richard Feynman's senior thesis, and rediscovered independently in the context of artificial neural networks by both Fernando Pineda and Luis B. Almeida.
A recurrent neural network for this algorithm consists of some input units, some output units and eventually some hidden units.
For a given set of (input, target) states, the network is trained to settle into a stable activation state with the output units in the target state, based on a given input state clamped on the input units.
References
Machine learning algorithms
Neuroscience |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error-driven%20learning | Error-driven learning is a sub-area of machine learning concerned with how an agent ought to take actions in an environment so as to minimize some error feedback. It is a type of reinforcement learning.
Algorithms
GeneRec
Machine learning algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda-like%20systems | Linda-like systems are parallel and distributed programming models that use unstructured collections of tuples as a communication mechanism between different processes.
Examples
In addition to proper Linda implementations, these include other systems such as the following:
Intel Concurrent Collections (CnC) is a programming model based on "item collections" which resemble tuple spaces, but are single assignment (tuples may not be removed or replaced). Because of this restriction Concurrent Collections has a deterministic execution semantics, but has difficulties with storage deallocation.
References
Parallel computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xero%20Error | Xero Error, also known as Levity - Xero Error Minus1, is a computer generated science fiction film created and directed by Ashraf Ghori and starring Muhammad Ali Jamadar, Rhiannon Downie, Mouna Abbassy, Phat Mo, Nasser Chhipa, Nick Rego, Adnan Arif, and Aqeel Fikree. It was produced by Xpanse CGI. It is notable for being UAE's first CGI science fiction film. It was shown at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.
Production
Production on Xero Error commenced in November 2009 and completed by March 2010 . Xero Error is UAE's first film produced using computer-generated imagery. It is also the first film for production company Xpanse CGI, which has worked previously in commercial advertising. In December 2008, Xpanse officials were in Houston, in attempts to raise the financing to cover the budget.
Although the budget needed for a feature-length version of the film was not raised, it was produced as an eight-minute short and completed independently at Xpanse CGI. Volunteers from social media channels were enlisted to complete the film. Actors were auditioned after a Twitter and Facebook campaign.
Release
The film had its world premiere at the 3rd Gulf Film Festival, April 2010 in Dubai UAE. It was also featured at the 63rd Festival de Cannes, the 10th edition of Sci-Fi-London and other international film festivals.
Following its release, Xpanse CGI were seeking investors to produce Xero Error for TV & film.
Awards and recognition
Digital Studio Awards 2011 — Winner, Best up and coming filmmaker
Digital Studio Awards 2011 — Runner-up, Animation of the Year
Made in UAE Awards — Distinguished Achievement Award, 2011
Gulf Film Festival, 2010 — Official Selection
Festival de Cannes 2010 — Screening, Court Metrage
Sci-Fi-London 2011 — Official Selection
ICon festival 2011 — Official Selection
SME Advisor Stars of Business Awards 2011 — Winner, Best Technology Implementation
SME Advisor Stars of Business Awards 2011 — Winner, Industry Achievement for Events & Entertainment
Cast
XE7 - Muhammad Ali Jamadar
ACYD - Rhiannon Downie
In Raby - Phat Mo
News Reporters
David George-Cosh
Mouna Abbassy
Nick Rego
Nasser Chhipa
Adnan Arif
Sheikh Abdullah - Aqeel Fikree
Video Caller - Mohammad Mondal
Crew
Written & Directed by - Ashraf Ghori
Produced by - Xpanse CGI
Executive Producer - Ashraf Ghori
Associate Producers
Mohammad Mondal
Waqqas Qadir Sheikh
Production Coordinator - Vonnie Maddox
Post Production Supervisor - Tamas Tancos
Motion Graphic Design - Nizam Mohammed
Sound Design - Abdul Razzak Al Busmait ‘Q’
Theme Music Composer - Abdul Razzak Al Busmait ‘Q’
Sound Engineer - DJ Rav
Audio Production - Tambi Studios
Environment Design
Ashraf Ghori
Peter Steiner
Character Rigging - Ahmed Shalaby
Character Modeling -
Stanislav Klabik
Ashraf Ghori
Character Animation
Ashraf Ghori
Jeen M. Thankappan
Matte Painting
Shane Dale
Ashraf Ghori
Rendered at
Xpanse CGI
Blackstone Studios
Cameramen
Waqqas Qadir Sheikh
Rit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendfile | In computing, sendfile is a command which can be found in a number of contexts relating to data transmission:
Sendfile (Unix), a push-based asynchronous file transfer, regardless of whether local or remote, using the Simple Asynchronous File Transfer (SAFT), an Internet protocol bound to TCP port 487
Sendfile (IBM VM), a command to transfer a file asynchronously from one VM/CMS user to another, regardless of whether local or remote
Sendfile (system call), a system call.
As a command within an Instant messaging application.
Notes
Data synchronization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roscoe%20Giles | Roscoe C. Giles, III is an American physicist and computer engineer, the deputy director of Boston University's Center for Computational Science. He is also a professor of computer and electrical engineering at Boston University College of Engineering, with a joint appointment in physics.
Early life and family
Giles grew up in a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, and attended high school in nearby Hyde Park at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. His first exposure to computers was through access to the School of Education's IBM 1620.
Giles' grandfather and namesake was Roscoe Conkling Giles, the first Black person to earn a degree from Cornell University Medical College.
Academic biography
Giles earned his bachelor's degree in Physics at the University of Chicago in 1970. In 1975 he received his doctorate from Stanford University, becoming the first African American to earn his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from that school. At Stanford, he worked with Sidney Drell on the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC).
He was a research associate at SLAC and the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics before becoming an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1979 to 1985, at which point he joined the Boston University faculty as an associate professor, and was promoted to full professor in 1999.
Research area of interest
Advanced computer architectures, distributed and parallel computing, and computational science
Other activities
In 2002 Giles was the chair of the Supercomputing Conference in Baltimore, becoming the first African American to take this role. In 2004 he became the first faculty member to serve on the BU board of trustees.
Roscoe Giles is the founder and executive director for the Institution of African American E-Culture. This foundation was developed to deal with the problem of the digital divide, or the lack of access to information technology by minority groups and other poor communities in the US.
Giles was also a team leader in the National Science Foundation's National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) Education, Outreach and Training group, through which students and teachers learned to use advanced computing systems for understanding, modeling and solving problems. As of 2010, he is the chair of the United States Department of Energy's Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee.
Awards and honors
In 2000 Giles won the A. Nico Habermann Award offered by the Computing Research Association for "outstanding contributions aimed at increasing the numbers and/or successes of underrepresented groups in the computing research community". In 2004 he was listed by the Career Communications Group as one of the "50 Most Important Blacks in Research Science".
References
External links
Computer Scientists of the African Diaspora: Roscoe Giles. Scott Williams, State University of New York at Buffalo.
21st-century African-American academics
21st-century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOXS | Solar X-Ray Spectrometer, or SOXS, was an experimental payload launched onboard Indian geostationary satellite GSAT-2 by the Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO. SOXS collected data about X-ray emissions from solar flares with high energy and temporal resolutions.
Features
X-Ray Spectrometer (SOXS) was flown onboard GSAT-2 on 8-May-2003.
SOXS employs Si and CZT semiconductor devices, which are extremely high resolution and low noise detectors.
Detector package is mounted on a Sun Pointing Mechanism with tracking accuracy better than 0.1 degree.
Pulse Height (PHA) measurements in 256 channels.
System Dead Time- 16 microseconds for Si Pin and 13 microseconds for CZT.
Energy window counters.
On board calibration using Cd109 Radio isotope.
System Health Parameters Monitoring.
Onboard selection for Background Rejection (LLD/Threshold).
In view of Temperature sensitivity of the detectors, observational interval is < 3 Hrs starting from 04:00 to 06:45 UT.
Block Schematics of SLD Payload (SLED, SFE, SLE and SCE)
SSTM Daily Tracking (0 to 189 degrees)
References
Astronomical spectroscopy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sine%20Novela%20episodes | This is the list of episodes of GMA Network's daytime drama Sine Novela.
Sine Novela episodes
Season 1
Sinasamba Kita
Pati Ba Pintig ng Puso
Kung Mahawi Man ang Ulap
Pasan Ko ang Daigdig
Season 2
My Only Love
Maging Akin Ka Lamang
Kaputol ng Isang Awit
Magdusa Ka
Season 3
Gaano Kadalas ang Minsan
Una Kang Naging Akin
Saan Darating ang Umaga?
Paano Ba ang Mangarap?
Season 4
Dapat Ka Bang Mahalin?
Ngayon at Kailanman
Kung Aagawin Mo ang Lahat sa Akin
Kaya Kong Abutin ang Langit
Tinik sa Dibdib
Season 5
Ina, Kasusuklaman Ba Kita?
Gumapang Ka sa Lusak
Basahang Ginto
Trudis Liit
References
See also
Sine Novela
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes
Lists of soap opera episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitpop | Bitpop is a type of electronic music and subgenre of chiptune music, where at least part of the music is made using the sound chips of old 8-bit (or 16-bit) computers and video game consoles.
Characteristics
Among systems used include the Atari 8-bit computer, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System and Amiga. The sounds produced from these systems can be combined to any degree with traditional instruments, such as guitar and drums, modern synthesizers and drum machines, or vocals and sound effects.
History
Bitpop uses a mixture of old and new equipment often resulting a sound which is unlike Chiptune although containing 8-bit sourced sounds. For example, a bitpop production may be composed almost entirely of 8-bit sounds but with a live vocal, or overlaid live guitars. Conversely, a bitpop production may be composed almost entirely of live vocals and instruments, but feature a bassline or lead melody provided by an 8-bit device.
One of the pioneers of bitpop music were Welle:Erdball, with their heavy use of Commodore 64 for their first album in 1992. Being a German-speaking group not using the term bitpop and who don't travel by plane, they remained popular among people listening to industrial music or electroclash.
Bitpop music began gaining popularity towards the end of the 1990s. The first electroclash record, I-F's "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass" (1997), has been described as "burbling electro in a vocodered homage to Atari-era hi-jinks," particularly Space Invaders. The Beastie Boys outer-space sci-fi themed album Hello Nasty (1998), included, among other potentially influencing tracks, the distinctively video game sound themed original composition track UNITE; garnering mainstream recognition years ahead of the popular video game tune genre and movement. The trance song "Kernkraft 400" (1999), often played at sports events worldwide, was a remix of a chiptune song written by David Whittaker called "Stardust" for the 1984 Commodore 64 computer game Lazy Jones.
In 2003, Malcolm McLaren wrote an article on bitpop and chip music. It also noted a planned release in that style by McLaren.
By the mid-2000s, 8-bit chip music began being incorporated in mainstream pop music, used by acts such as Beck (for example, the 2005 song "Girl"), The Killers (for example, the 2004 song "On Top"), and particularly The Postal Service in many of their songs. The MIDI-style and FM synthesis of early game music composers such as Hiroshi Kawaguchi also began gaining popularity. In 2003, the J-pop girl group Perfume, along with producer Yasutaka Nakata, began producing music combining chiptunes with synthpop and electro house; their breakthrough came in 2007 with Game, which led to other Japanese female artists using a similar electronic style, including Aira Mitsuki, immi, Mizca, SAWA, Saori@destiny, and Sweet Vacation.
Since the 2000s, 8-bit chiptune sounds, or "video game beats", have been used by a number of mainstream pop artists. Examples in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone%20numbers%20in%20Eritrea | The following are the telephone codes in Eritrea.
Allocations in Eritrea
Mobile telephone services began in May 2001. However, no allocation data is available.
References
Eritrea
Telecommunications in Eritrea
Telephone numbers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emre%20K%C4%B1z%C4%B1lkaya | Emre Kızılkaya (born 6 July 1982, in Istanbul) is a Turkish journalist and researcher who is a vice-chair of the Vienna-based International Press Institute, a global network of leading editors and media executives.
Career
Kizilkaya worked in various positions, including foreign news editor and managing editor of digital news, at the leading Turkish daily Hürriyet from 2003 to 2019.
Soon after the last independent mainstream media company left in Turkey was taken over by a staunchly pro-government corporation, Kizilkaya resigned from the Turkish newspaper and went ahead to study sustainable journalism at Harvard University as a Knight Visiting Nieman Fellow in 2019.
As of 2022, Kizilkaya works as the project editor of Journo.com.tr, a non-profit news website for Turkey’s next-generation journalists, and as a Ph.D. researcher on media studies at Galatasaray University in Istanbul.
As a journalist, a media executive and a press freedom advocate, Kizilkaya has been extensively interviewed and quoted by the international media, including The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, BBC, Reuters, Agence France-Presse, Associated Press, Le Figaro, Le Nouvel Observateur, Corriere della Sera, Deutsche Welle, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Asahi Shimbun, South China Morning Post, The Intercept, Yedioth Ahronoth and Al Jazeera.
Throughout his career, Kizilkaya interviewed numerous leaders including presidents, prime ministers, and opinionmakers in Turkey and around the world for news reports and research projects. He contributed to several international and national publications, including Nieman Reports,
Al-Monitor and The Huffington Post.
Awards and education
In 2017, Kizilkaya was awarded in the Best Use of Video category by the U.S.-based International News Media Association for producing Turkey's first VR news story, and as the Best Digital Columnist by Turkish Journalists' Association for his articles on how digital transformation affects free speech.
In 2018, the Turkish Journalists' Association selected Kizilkaya as the Digital Journalist of the Year for his investigation into the correlations between Google searches and Turkey's official data, revealing previously unreported trends and public-interest information on a wide range of issues including migrants, domestic violence, water pollution, and terrorism.
In 2021, Kizilkaya co-produced an in-depth study into Turkey’s emerging news deserts, which was shortlisted in the Top 100 in the Sigma Awards 2022, a competition to celebrate the best data journalism from around the world.
Emre Kizilkaya has a B.A degree in Political Science and International Relations from Istanbul University, and an M.A degree in Journalism from Marmara University. As of 2022, Kizilkaya’s Ph.D. research at Galatasaray University focused on the relationship between public trust and digital media.
External links
The personal website of Emre Kizilkaya
References
1982 births
Living people
Writers from Istanbul
Turkish journ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20Week%20in%20Blackness | This Week in Blackness (also referred to as TWiB!) was an independent digital media platform which acts as a hub for a network of multimedia projects. Founded in 2008 during the presidential campaign season it is also the home of the video series of the same name hosted by Elon James White. The Blog was nominated for 4 Black Weblog Awards in 2009 and won 3 including "Blog of the Year." The site combines pointed criticism of politics and pop culture with social activism and urban humor.
This Week in Blackness originally published the controversial "Notes From a Phantom Negro: Skip Gates, Please Sit Down" discussing the arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. which was then republished by Salon.com The blog also originally posted "Message From The Average Black Person" which later was published by The Huffington Post and AlterNet.
The site is best known for the critically acclaimed web series by the same name. TWiB! Prime with Elon James White, in both video and podcast format, has been featured on DailyKos, Crooks and Liars, The Huffington Post and Salon.
See also
Political podcast
References
External links
American political blogs
American political websites
African-American blogs
Internet properties established in 2008
Political podcasts
Audio podcasts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20communications | Cloud communications are Internet-based voice and data communications where telecommunications applications, switching and storage are hosted by a third-party outside of the organization using them, and they are accessed over the public Internet. Cloud services is a broad term, referring primarily to data-center-hosted services that are run and accessed over an Internet infrastructure. Until recently, these services have been data-centric, but with the evolution of VoIP (voice over Internet protocol), voice has become part of the cloud phenomenon. Cloud telephony (also known as hosted telephony) refers specifically to voice services and more specifically the replacement of conventional business telephone equipment, such as a private branch exchange (PBX), with third-party VoIP service.
Cloud communications providers deliver voice and data communications applications and services, hosting them on servers that the providers own and maintain, giving their customers access to the “cloud.” Because they only pay for services or applications they use, customers have a more cost-effective, reliable and secure communications environment, without the headaches associated with more conventional PBX system deployment.
Companies can cut costs with cloud communications services without sacrificing features. The success of Google and others as cloud-based providers has demonstrated that a cloud-based platform can be just as effective as a software-based platform, but at a much lower cost. Voice services delivered from the cloud increases the value of hosted telephony, as users can equally well turn to a cloud-based offering instead of relying on a facilities-based service provider for hosted VoIP. This expands their options beyond local or regional carriers.
In the past, businesses have been able to do this for IT services, but not telecommunication. Cloud communications is attractive because the cloud can now become a platform for voice, data and video. Most hosted services have been built around voice, and are usually referred to as hosted VoIP. The cloud communications environment serves as a platform upon which all these modes can seamlessly work as well as integrate.
There are three trends in enterprise communications pushing users to access the cloud and allowing them to do it from any device they choose, a development traditional IT communications infrastructure was not designed to handle. The first trend is increasingly distributed company operations in branches and home offices, making wide area networks cumbersome, inefficient and costly. Second, more communications devices need access to enterprise networks – iPhones, printers and VoIP handsets, for example. Third, data centers housing enterprise IT assets and applications are consolidating and are often being located and managed remotely.
Applications
Cloud telephony services were predominantly used for business processes, such as advertising, e-commerce, human resources, and payments processi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnTourage%20eDGe | The enTourage eDGe is a dual-panel personal device, combining a tablet computer on one screen and an e-book reader on the other. Since 2011 it has been developed by Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
The device runs Google's Android OS. At present Foxconn is engaged in mass manufacturing of the enTourage eDGe v2.5. Production volume is growing in line with demand (especially in scholastics), and the device is being geared to the high requirements for modern tablets.
Features
The enTourage eDGe is a dual-touchscreen device that when open looks like a book. One screen is based on e-Ink technology, and the other is a 10.1" polychromatic LCD. Both screens respond to touch, and the interactive use of a stylus. The LCD color screen is designed for multimedia display (an important advantage of the modern educational process), whereas the e-Ink screen is designed for reading and, in the corresponding mode, for taking notes, as though on paper.
The e-Ink screen used in modern e-readers works on reflected light, so is virtually harmless to the eyes, which makes it suitable for any amount of textual information. This is important for the educational process since it is possible to use electronic devices without violating health standards. Both screens are interconnected. For example, if an e-book is downloaded from the enTourage store, the book is added to the device's library and can be accessed at both the LCD and e-Ink screens. Or if a document is created on the e-Ink screen, it can be reproduced on the LCD screen.
The enTourage eDGe is equipped with a camera above the LCD screen, as well as two USB ports, which can take two flash memory drives, an external keyboard, and other compatible devices. The enTourage eDGe also comes with a stylus, which can be used for writing or interacting with both screens. Both sides of the device may be folded closed like a book, but they can also be fully folded open so that the screens are back-to-back.
Timeline
March 2010, enTourage eDGe v. 2.0 launched.
November 2011, development of v. 2.5 begins, mass production of which starts in July 2012.
June 2013, development of v. 4.0 begins, with launch planned for late 2014.
In a review, "Wired" magazine −
The devices were marketed as enTourage eDGe – "the world’s first dualbook".
Applications
In the past, the enTourage eDGe was the hardware basis for the E-OK (Electronic Educational Complex) project. E-OK's main distinguishing feature was the use of cloud technology, which ensures a full-fledged teaching-learning process, as well as additional/optional activities.
Educational portal
E-library
External links
UK edition March, 2012, wired.co.uk UK edition March, 2012, wired.co.uk
entourageedge.eu Manufacturers web page. Accessories still available in Europe.
Mobileread.com page "Resources for New Edge and Pocket Edge Owners"
Dedicated ebook devices
Electronic paper technology
Foxconn
Linux-based devices
Tablet computers
Touchscreen portable media players
Computer-relate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan%20chart | Catalan charts or Catalan portolans are portolan charts in the Catalan language. Portolan charts are a type of medieval and early modern map that focuses on maritime geography and includes a network of rhumb lines. Most medieval portolan charts were made in Italian-speaking cities (mainly Genoa and Venice), with a substantial minority made in Catalan-speaking Majorca. In the 19th century, historians of cartography emphasized the differences of style and content between Italian and Catalan charts, but other authors have nuanced this distinction since then.
Common properties of all portolan charts
Portolan charts all share the characteristic windrose networks, which emanate out from compass roses located at various points on the map. These better called windrose lines, are generated by observation and the compass, and designated lines of bearing (though not to be confused with modern rhumb lines, meridians or isoazimuthals).
Portolan charts are also characterized by the accuracy of inland features, sometimes for the lines of latitude/longitude and specially for the lack of map projection, for cartometric investigation has revealed that no projection was used in portolans. To understand that the straight lines drawn on the map should be better called "windrose lines", one has to know that they can be loxodromes (modern rhumblines) only if the chart was is on a suitable projection.
As Leo Bagrow states:"..the word ("Rhumbline") is wrongly applied to the sea-charts of this period, since a loxodrome gives an accurate course only when the chart is drawn on a suitable projection. Cartometric investigation has revealed that no projection was used in the early charts, for which we therefore retain the name 'portolan'."
Differences between Italian and Catalan Portolans
Italian portolan charts tend to focus exclusively on coast lines, harbors and the open sea, whereas Catalan ones often shows information about the interior such as rivers. Catalan charts also tend to have richer decoration, with illustrations of cities, monarchs and animals.
Catalan maps milestones
Major Catalan maps in history
Catalan Atlas
Sites of Major Catalan Schools
Majorca (Majorcan cartographic school)
Barcelona
Major Catalan Mapmakers
Angelino Dulcert
Abraham Cresques
See also
Nautical chart
Països Catalans
Rhumbline network
Història de la Marina Catalana
La Cartografía Mallorquina
References
Map types |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exilioidea%20rufocaudata | Exilioidea rufocaudata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ptychatractidae.
Description
Distribution
References
Ptychatractidae
Gastropods described in 1896 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaetian%20Railway%20ABe%204/4%20II | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Rhaetian Railway ABe 4/4 II}}
The Rhaetian Railway ABe 4/4 II is a class of metre gauge railcars of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), which is the main railway network in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.
The class is so named because it was the second class of railcars of the Swiss locomotive and railcar classification type ABe 4/4 to be acquired by the Rhaetian Railway. According to that classification system, ABe 4/4 denotes an electric railcar with first and second class compartments and a total of four axles, all of which are drive axles.
All members of the class operate on the Bernina Railway, under the traffic numbers 41 to 49 (motrice quaranta).
Technical Details
The ABe 4/4 II class railcars were the first new items of motive power to be acquired by the Rhaetian Railway since its merger with the Bernina Railway in 1943 for use on the 1000 V DC powered Bernina line. They were delivered in two series: nos 41–46 in 1964–1965, and 47–49 in 1972.
The mechanical components for the class were manufactured by Schweizerische Wagons- und Aufzügefabrik AG Schlieren-Zürich (SWS). The electrical componentry, made by SAAS and Brown, Boveri & Cie, conformed with decades old technologies for DC powered railways: contactor relay controls and universal motors.
Members of the class have a top speed of , weigh to , and have a power output of . Maximum towing capacity is , and two powered cars can combine to haul the maximum draw hook load. The second series (nos 47–49) differs from the first only by being about longer and having a different bogie type.
Since entering service, these red liveried railcars have not been subjected to any significant alterations. They are fitted with 12 seats in first class, and 24 in second class.
The built in multiple-unit train control enables multiple unit operation with the Gem 4/4 class electro-diesel locomotives (nos 801–802), and also with the newer ABe 4/4 III class railcars (nos 51–56). Moreover, the ABe 4/4 IIs can be operated in combination with the Xrotet snow blowers (nos 9218–9219) by remote control from the cab of the snow blower.
At the end of Summer season 2010 and after eight ABe 8/12 Allegra class EMUs had been delivered, Rhaetian Railway put off the ABe 4/4 II. Numbers 41, 42 and 45 were towed to the scrapyard early in November 2010, 43 and 44 followed by mid-December. The three members of the second series plus 46 have been handed over to the infrastructure department for use as service vehicles, in place of the Xe 4/4 class nos 9922–9924. 48 has been rebuilt into Xe 4/4 232 01 in 2012.
In 2020 the Rhb Historic announced that ABe 4/4 II no. 46 was selected for preservation into their register as it's an historical vehicle into their collection eventually the locomotive will be saved for preservation and will be preserved by Club 1889 collection.
Livery
Although the ABe 4/4 II class has always been decorated in a red livery, their appearance has evolved over the years, in li |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%20%28command%29 | In computing, route is a command used to view and manipulate the IP routing table in Unix-like and Microsoft Windows operating systems and also in IBM OS/2 and ReactOS. Manual manipulation of the routing table is characteristic of static routing.
Implementations
Unix and Unix-like
In Linux distributions based on 2.2.x Linux kernels, the ifconfig and route commands are operated together to connect a computer to a network, and to define routes between computer networks. Distributions based on later kernels have deprecated ifconfig and route, replacing them with iproute2.
Route for Linux was originally written by Fred N. van Kempen.
Syntax
The command-syntax is:
route [-nNvee] [-FC] [<AF>] List kernel routing tables
route [-v] [-FC] {add|del|flush} ... Modify routing table for AF.
route {-h|--help} [<AF>] Detailed usage syntax for specified AF.
route {-V|--version} Display version/author and exit.
Example
user@linux:~$ route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.101.0 192.168.102.102 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.102.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.103.0 192.168.102.102 255.255.255.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.12.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.12.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
Microsoft Windows
The command is only available if the TCP/IP protocol is installed as a component in the properties of a network adapter.
Syntax
The command-syntax is:
route [-f] [-p] [-4|-6] [Command [Destination] [mask Netmask] [Gateway] metric Metric if Interface
Parameters
-f: Clears the routing table
-p: The route is added to the Windows Registry and is used to initialize the IP routing table whenever the TCP/IP protocol is started (only when used with the add command)
Command: The command to run (add, change, delete, print)
-4: Force using IPv4
-6: Force using IPv6
Destination: Network destination of the route
mask Netmask: The netmask (subnet mask) associated with the network destination
Gateway: The forwarding or next hop IP address over which the set of addresses defined by the network destination and subnet mask are reachable
metric Metric: Integer cost metric (ranging from 1 to 9999) for the route
if Interface: The index of the interface over which the destination is reachable
/?: Command help
The -p parameter is only supported on Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows Millennium Edition, and Windows XP. It is not supported on Windows 95 or Windows 98.
IBM OS/2
Syntax
The command-syntax is:
route [-nqv] [COMMAND] [[MODIFIERS] args]
Parameters
-n: Bypasses translating IP addresses to symbolic host names
-q: Suppresses all output
-v: Verbose
COMMAND: The command to run (add, delete, change, get, monitor, flush)
-net: <dest> is a network address
-host: <dest> is host |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WINLAB | WINLAB, WIN-LAB or Wireless Information Networking Laboratory can refer to:
WINLAB (Rutgers University), at Rutgers University in the United States
WINLAB (Yeungnam University), at Yeungnam University in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Daisy%20Siete%20episodes | Daisy Siete is a seasonal drama program broadcast by GMA Network and FOCUS Entertainment Inc. in the Philippines. The drama aired from September 1, 2003, to July 2, 2010.
Daisy Siete episodes
Seasons 1 to 6
Season 7: May Bukas Pa ang Kahapon
Season 8: Tahanan
Season 9: Ang Pitong Maria
Season 10: Sayaw ng Puso
Season 11: Nasaan Ka?
Season 12: Landas
Season 13: Moshi Moshi Chikiyaki
Season 14: Siete Siete, Mano Mano
Season 15: Isla Chikita
Season 16: Tabaching-ching
Season 17: Ulingling
Season 18: Prince Charming and the Seven Maids
Season 19: Vaklushii
Season 20: Tinderella
Season 21: Tarzariray: Amasonang Kikay
Season 22: Kambalilong
Season 23: Chacha Muchacha
Season 24: My Shuper Sweet Lover
Season 25: Bebeh and Me
Daisy Siete welcomes back Rochelle Pangilinan to the 25th season of the drama anthology—through Bebe and Me
Season 26: Adam or Eve
See also
Daisy Siete
External links
Daisy Siete at iGMA.tv
Daisy Siete at Telebisyon.net
Lists of soap opera episodes
Lists of Philippine drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdaControl | AdaControl is a free (GMGPL) tool that detects the use of various kinds of constructs in Ada programs. Its first goal is to control proper usage of style or programming rules, but it can also be used as a powerful tool to search for use (or non-use) of various forms of programming styles or design patterns. Searched elements range from very simple, like the occurrence of certain entities, declarations, or statements, to very sophisticated, like verifying that certain programming patterns are being obeyed.
History
The development of AdaControl by Adalog started in 2004, under a contract of Eurocontrol, which developed the CFMU (Central Flow Management Unit), a million+ lines of code program (in Ada) to manage Air Traffic over Europe. Only automated tools could verify compliance of a program of that size to programming standards.
Since Eurocontrol had no interest in commercializing software, it was decided to release AdaControl as free software. This had the benefit of helping the Ada community at large, and at the same time, allowed Eurocontrol to enjoy further improvements made by the community. Later, other companies sponsored further development, creating a virtual consortium effect.
Features
AdaControl applies a set of controls to a set of Ada units. A control is defined by a rule (and possibly a subrule) with appropriate parameters. Controls (as well as various commands used to adjust the behaviour of the program) are provided directly from the command line, from a file, or interactively.
There is a wide range of controls available. As of current version(1.22r16c), there are 591 tests that can be performed by AdaControl. The number increases with each new release.
In addition, AdaControl provides suggestions of fixes for a number of violations. When AdaControl is launched from the GPS environment, the fixes can be performed by clicking on an icon, just like for compiler messages. A companion tool can also apply all suggested fixes automatically.
Adacontrol is written in Ada, using ASIS for syntactic and semantic analysis. This gives the tool the same level of language accuracy as the underlying compiler.
Great care has been taken to make the tool easily extensible by the user.
References
External links
Adalog website
Adalog website
Static program analysis tools
Free computer programming tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop%20%28franchise%29 | RoboCop is an American cyberpunk action media franchise featuring the futuristic adventures of Alex Murphy, a Detroit, Michigan police officer, who is fatally wounded in the line of duty and transformed into a powerful cyborg, brand-named RoboCop, at the behest of a powerful mega-corporation, Omni Consumer Products. Thus equipped, Murphy battles both violent crime in a severely decayed city and the blatantly corrupt machinations within OCP.
The franchise began in 1987 with the film RoboCop. RoboCop 2 followed in 1990, and RoboCop 3 in 1993. There have also been various television series, video game and comic book tie-ins. The franchise has made over US$100 million worldwide and a remake serving as a reboot titled RoboCop was released in February 2014. A new installment titled RoboCop Returns was in the works and will serve as a direct sequel to the 1987 film, ignoring other sequels and the remake, as well as the two live action TV spin-offs. As of June 2019, the script, which will be based on an original story from the writers of the 1987 film, Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, was still being written. Neill Blomkamp was originally signed on to direct the film but left the project, and Abe Forsythe was later selected to direct.
Films
RoboCop (1987)
RoboCop is a 1987 American cyberpunk action film directed by Paul Verhoeven. Set in a crime-ridden Detroit, Michigan in 2043, RoboCop centers on a police officer who is brutally murdered and subsequently re-created as a super-human cyborg known as "RoboCop". The film features Peter Weller, Dan O'Herlihy, Kurtwood Smith, Nancy Allen, Miguel Ferrer, and Ronny Cox.
In addition to being an action film, RoboCop includes larger themes regarding the media, resurrection, gentrification, corruption, privatization, capitalism, masculinity, and human nature. It received positive reviews and was cited as one of the best films of 1987, spawning a large franchise, including merchandise, two sequels, a television series, two animated TV series, and a television mini-series, video games and a number of comic book adaptations/crossovers. The film was produced for a relatively modest $13 million.
RoboCop 2 (1990)
RoboCop 2 is a 1990 cyberpunk action film directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Belinda Bauer, Tom Noonan and Gabriel Damon. It is the sequel to the 1987 film, and pits RoboCop against another cyborg created with the intention of replacing him.
The film received mixed reviews from critics. It was the last film directed by Irvin Kershner.
RoboCop 3 (1993)
RoboCop 3 is a cyberpunk action film directed and co-written by Fred Dekker, released in 1993, set in the near future in a dystopian metropolitan Detroit, Michigan, and filmed in Atlanta, Georgia. Most of the buildings seen in the film were slated for demolition to make way for facilities for the 1996 Olympics. Nancy Allen as Anne Lewis, Robert DoQui as Sgt. Warren Reed, Felton Perry as Donald Johnson, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Economides | Nicholas Economides is an internationally recognized academic authority on network economics, electronic commerce and public policy. His fields of specialization and research include the economics of networks, especially of telecommunications, computers, and information, the economics of technical compatibility and standardization, industrial organization, the structure and organization of financial markets and payment systems, antitrust, application of public policy to network industries, strategic analysis of markets and law and economics.
Professor Economides is a professor of economics at the NYU Stern School of Business.
Professor Economides has published more than 100 articles in top academic journals in the areas of networks, telecommunications, oligopoly, antitrust, product positioning and on the liquidity and the organization of financial markets and exchanges. He holds a PhD and MA in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, as well as a BSc (First Class Honors) in Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics. Previously, he taught at Columbia University (1981-1988) and at Stanford University (1988-1990). He is editor of the Information Economics and Policy, Netnomics, Quarterly Journal of Electronic Commerce, the Journal of Financial Transformation, Journal of Network Industries, on the Advisory Board of the Social Science Research Network, editor of Economics of Networks Abstracts by SSRN and former editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization. His website on the Economics of Networks has been ranked as one of the top four economics sites worldwide by The Economist magazine.
Professor Economides is Executive Director of the NET Institute, http://www.NETinst.org, a worldwide focal point for research on the economics of network and high technology industries. He is advisor to the US Federal Trade Commission, the governments of Greece, Ireland, New Zealand and Portugal, the Attorney General of New York State, major telecommunications corporations, a number of the Federal Reserve Banks, the Bank of Greece and major Financial Exchanges. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Economist Intelligence Unit. He has commented extensively in broadcast and in print on high technology, antitrust and public policy issues. He is a founding member of Greek Economists for Reform.com, a blog about economic policy and reforms in Greece.
References
External links
Faculty biography page from NYU Stern School of Business
Economics of Networks site
Greek Economists for Reform.com
University of California, Berkeley alumni
New York University Stern School of Business faculty
Alumni of the London School of Economics
Columbia University faculty
Stanford University Department of Economics faculty
Living people
21st-century American economists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20translation | Medical translation is the practice of translating various documents—training materials, medical bulletins, drug data sheets, etc.—for health care, medical devices, marketing, or for clinical, regulatory, and technical documentation. Most countries require that companies and organizations translate literature and labeling for medical devices or pharmaceuticals into their national language. Documents for clinical trials often require translation for local clinicians, patients, and regulatory representatives. Regulatory approval submissions typically must be translated. In addition to linguistic skills, medical translation requires specific training and subject matter knowledge because of the highly technical, sensitive, and regulated nature of medical texts.
Process
Medical translation steps can include:
Extracting text from the source format
Translating text to the target language
Editing by a separate person to assure adherence to approved terminology and proper style and voice
Publishing the translation in the original format (e.g., Word document, Web page, e-learning program)
Proofreading to ensure the formatted translation has proper punctuation and line and page breaks, and displays correctly
Reviewing in-country by a native-speaking expert to ensure the translation meets all requirements
Translation agencies may oversee both project management and linguistic aspects.
Quality and standards
The life and death nature of medical texts mandates a strong emphasis on translation quality. The international medical industry is highly regulated, and companies who must translate documentation typically choose translation agencies certified or compliant with one or more of the following standards:
EN 15038 — European standard for translation vendor quality (Translation-quality standards)
ISO 9001 — Quality system standard
ISO 13485 — Overarching standard for medical device manufacture
Because of the high amounts of specificities, regulations, and challenges in the field of medical translation, some specialized translation companies have emerged who deal with medical translations exclusively. Some of these companies have hired medical practitioners to supervise the translation process.
See also
Tremédica
References
External links
4 Practical Reasons to Use a Professional Translation Service
The Challenges of Selling in Multiple Markets
Translation
Academic works about medicine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netwitness | NetWitness is a network security company that provides real-time network forensics automated threat detection, response, and analysis solutions. The company is based in Bedford, Massachusetts. In 2011, NetWitness was acquired by EMC Corporation and in 2020 was acquired by Symphony Technology Group as a stand-alone business unit, part of RSA Security.
History
In the mid-1990s the NetWitness technology was established by CTX Corporation, a Washington D.C. based system integrator. The technology, initially chartered as a US Government research project, was created to help analysts better understand large volumes of captured network data for various types of investigations. CTX Corporation was subsequently acquired by ManTech International Corporation () in December 2002. At Mantech, the technology was further developed to aid Federal Law Enforcement in criminal investigations and support professional service engagements for the Federal Government and commercial organizations.
In November 2006, NetWitness Corporation was spun out of Mantech, by Nick Lantuh, who was brought in to run the NetWitness Product Group and execute the spin-out. As an independent company, NetWitness focused on bringing its network analysis technology to the worldwide market. Since the spin-out, NetWitness focused on products to support deep, real-time network situational awareness and agile network response.
In February 2010, NetWitness announced the discovery of a major ZeuS botnet infestation impacting roughly 2,400 companies across the globe. The company dubbed this botnet the “Kneber ZeuS botnet” after the criminal gang was involved. This news went viral as it shed light on the continued vulnerabilities of the world’s corporate Information Security practices and provided a deep dive understanding of the inner-workings of a botnet.
NetWitness Visualize, announced in July 2010, provided a new way to visualize network traffic.
In August 2010, NetWitness was named the 21st fastest growing private company in the United States in the annual Inc 500 report. With 7,745.8 percent three-year growth, the company was also ranked as the fastest growing privately held enterprise security product company and the fastest growing company in the Washington, D.C. area.
On April 1, 2011, NetWitness was acquired by EMC Corporation for an undisclosed amount. Former NetWitness products were integrated into EMC's security division, RSA Security.
NetWitness’ CEO, Amit Yoran, was formerly Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security division.
See also
Shawn Carpenter (Principal Analyst)
Amit Yoran
Zeus (malware)
Security information and event management (SIEM)
References
External links
Computer security companies
Companies based in Reston, Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomized%20Hough%20transform | Hough transforms are techniques for object detection, a critical step in many implementations of computer vision, or data mining from images. Specifically, the Randomized Hough transform is a probabilistic variant to the classical Hough transform, and is commonly used to detect curves (straight line, circle, ellipse, etc.) The basic idea of Hough transform (HT) is to implement a voting procedure for all potential curves in the image, and at the termination of the algorithm, curves that do exist in the image will have relatively high voting scores. Randomized Hough transform (RHT) is different from HT in that it tries to avoid conducting the computationally expensive voting process for every nonzero pixel in the image by taking advantage of the geometric properties of analytical curves, and thus improve the time efficiency and reduce the storage requirement of the original algorithm.
Motivation
Although Hough transform (HT) has been widely used in curve detection, it has two major drawbacks: First, for each nonzero pixel in the image, the parameters for the existing curve and redundant ones are both accumulated during the voting procedure. Second, the accumulator array (or Hough space) is predefined in a heuristic way. The more accuracy needed, the higher parameter resolution should be defined. These two needs usually result in a large storage requirement and low speed for real applications. Therefore, RHT was brought up to tackle this problem.
Implementation
In comparison with HT, RHT takes advantage of the fact that some analytical curves can be fully determined by a certain number of points on the curve. For example, a straight line can be determined by two points, and an ellipse (or a circle) can be determined by three points. The case of ellipse detection can be used to illustrate the basic idea of RHT. The whole process generally consists of three steps:
Fit ellipses with randomly selected points.
Update the accumulator array and corresponding scores.
Output the ellipses with scores higher than some predefined threshold.
Ellipse fitting
One general equation for defining ellipses is:
with restriction:
However, an ellipse can be fully determined if one knows three points on it and the tangents in these points.
RHT starts by randomly selecting three points on the ellipse. Let them be , and . The first step is to find the tangents of these three points. They can be found by fitting a straight line using least squares technique for a small window of neighboring pixels.
The next step is to find the intersection points of the tangent lines. This can be easily done by solving the line equations found in the previous step. Then let the intersection points be and T, the midpoints of line segments and be and . Then the center of the ellipse will lie in the intersection of and . Again, the coordinates of the intersected point can be determined by solving line equations and the detailed process is skipped here for conciseness.
Let th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Seymour%20Robinson | Charles Seymour Robinson, D.D., LL.D., (March 31, 1829 – February 1, 1899), was a pastor, and an editor and compiler of hymns.
Born in Bennington, Vermont, Robinson graduated from Williams College in 1849, then spent a year and a half at Princeton Theological Seminary before entering the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, where he was afterward an instructor. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Troy, April 19, 1855, and was pastor of the Park Street (Presbyterian) church of Troy, New York from 1855 to 1860. He was then pastor of the First church of Brooklyn from 1860 to 1868, and of the American Chapel of Paris from 1868 to 1871. He then became pastor of the Memorial Presbyterian church, New York City, which was erected and freed from debt under his management.
Robinson, in 1876–1877 was editor of the Illustrated Christian Weekly, and compiled and published several successful hymn-books. The first was the Songs of the Church in 1862, revised as the Songs for the Sanctuary in 1865, which was "very widely adopted". Around the time of his return from Europe to New York City there was a demand for an additional work of a slightly different character which he met by issuing (through the Century Company) the book called Spiritual Songs, 1878. In 1884, Robinson published another hymn-book in the series, titled Laudes Domini. Robinson resigned his final pastorate in 1887, and died in his home, in New York City.
References
External links
1829 births
1899 deaths
Williams College alumni
American Presbyterian ministers
Hymnologists
People from Bennington, Vermont
19th-century American clergy
19th-century musicologists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samedan%20railway%20station | Samedan railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Samedan, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is an important interchange station on the Rhaetian Railway network between the Albula Railway line (between Chur and St. Moritz) and the Samedan–Pontresina railway. Hourly services operate on each line.
Services
The following services stop at Samedan:
Glacier Express: Several round-trips per day between Zermatt and St. Moritz.
InterRegio: hourly service between and St. Moritz.
RegioExpress: hourly service between and St. Moritz.
Regio:
hourly service between and .
limited service between Chur and St. Moritz.
References
External links
Railway stations in Graubünden
Rhaetian Railway stations
Railway stations in Switzerland opened in 1903 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20ID | Apple ID is a user account by Apple for their devices and software. Apple IDs contain the user's personal data and settings. When an Apple ID is used to log in to an Apple device, the device will automatically use the data and settings associated with the Apple ID.
Usage
Creation of account
An Apple ID account can be created on the Apple ID Web site.
Modification
Users can change their passwords or personal information on the My Apple ID page by selecting the "Manage your account" link. Changes that a user makes to an Apple ID account, whilst they are using one Apple product, are also recognized by other applications where the user uses the same Apple ID account (for example, the online Apple Store, iCloud, or Photos). Apple will send a verification message to the email address provided, and the user is required to follow the URL included in the verification email to confirm the changes. After confirming the changes, users may still be asked to verify their information the next time they use their Apple ID to purchase, such as using the App Store.
Apple also allows users to change the name of an Apple ID, but users must contact Apple customer service to make such a change.
Multiple Apple IDs
Users can use different Apple IDs for their store purchases and their iCloud storage and other uses. This includes many MobileMe users who have always had difficulties as they were forced to use more than one Apple ID, because on signing up to the MobileMe service a new Apple ID was automatically created using the me.com email address being created at the time, meaning users could not change their previous Apple ID email address to be their me.com email address, and it has always remained so. Apple does not permit different accounts to be merged. However, if one account is disabled (in most cases, due to fraudulent transactions or other abusive activity or for security reasons), any other accounts associated with the primary account will also be disabled, and the user cannot create any new accounts until the affected account has been unlocked.
Apple Online Store
An Apple ID is not required to place an order with Apple. Apple lets buyers place orders on its online store without an Apple ID by using the Guest Checkout Feature. An Apple ID and the Guest Checkout Feature both allow the customer to access order info such as invoices, check the order status, and track the shipping package. However, Apple IDs allow users to customize their Apple Online Store experiences. Users can save items they are interested in purchasing; save a cart if they are almost ready to place an order; save shipping and billing addresses and payment information to speed up the checkout process; use 1-Click ordering on Apple's website and check Apple Gift Card balances.
iCloud
iCloud allows users to store data such as music and iOS applications on remote computer servers for download to multiple devices, such as iOS-based devices running iOS 5 or later, and personal computers r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam%20Productions | Jam Productions may refer to:
JAM Creative Productions, an American commercial music production
JAM Productions (software), an American computer game development company
See also
The Jam (production team), an American producing and recording duo
Jam-On Productions, a musical group that formed the basis of Newcleus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemurs%20of%20Madagascar%20%28book%29 | Lemurs of Madagascar is a 2010 reference work and field guide for the lemurs of Madagascar, giving descriptions and biogeographic data for the known species. The primary contributor is Russell Mittermeier, president of Conservation International, and the cover art and illustrations were drawn by Stephen D. Nash. Currently in its third edition, the book provides details about all known lemur species, general information about lemurs and their history, and also helps travelers identify species they may encounter. Four related pocket field guides have also been released, containing color illustrations of each species, miniature range maps, and species checklists.
The first edition was reviewed favorably in the International Journal of Primatology, Conservation Biology, and Lemur News. Reviewers, including Alison Jolly, praised the book for its meticulous coverage of each species, numerous high-quality illustrations, and engaging discussion of lemur topics, including conservation, evolution, and the recently extinct subfossil lemurs. Each agreed that the book was an excellent resource for a wide audience, including ecotourists and lemur researchers. A lengthy review of the second edition was published in the American Journal of Primatology, where it received similar favorable comments, plus praise for its updates and enhancements. The third edition was reviewed favorably in Lemur News; the reviewer praised the expanded content of the book, but was concerned that the edition was not as portable as its predecessors.
The first edition identified 50 lemur species and subspecies, compared to 71 in the second edition and 101 in the third. The taxonomy promoted by these books has been questioned by researchers, such as Ian Tattersall, who view these growing numbers of lemur species as insufficiently justified inflation of species numbers (taxonomic inflation).
Overview
Lemurs of Madagascar is published by Conservation International (CI), a non-profit conservation organization headquartered near Washington, D.C., and is intended as a field guide that identifies all of the known lemur species from Madagascar. The first edition of Lemurs of Madagascar was published in 1994 and contained 356 pages. The 520-page second edition was published in 2006 and is now officially out of print, having been followed by the 767-page third edition in the fall of 2010.
For all three editions, Stephen D. Nash, winner of the 2004 American Society of Primatologists President's Award, has been the illustrator and front cover artist. The lead author for all three editions is Russell A. Mittermeier, president of CI and a well-published primatologist, herpetologist and biological anthropologist. In the first edition, four other authors were also listed: Ian Tattersall, a curator in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History; William R. Konstant, the Director of Conservation and Science at the Houston Zoo; David M. Meyers, a researcher and co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatricality | "Theatricality" is the twentieth episode of the American television series Glee. The episode was written and directed by series creator Ryan Murphy, and premiered on the Fox network on May 25, 2010.
In "Theatricality", glee club member Tina Cohen-Chang (Jenna Ushkowitz) has an identity crisis. The female club members and Kurt (Chris Colfer) pay tribute to Lady Gaga, performing in a selection of her costumes, while the rest of the male club members perform as Kiss. Rachel (Lea Michele) meets her mother Shelby (Idina Menzel), the coach of rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline, and Finn (Cory Monteith) and his mother move in with Kurt and his father, leading to a confrontation between Kurt and Finn, and Finn continuing to control Kurt about keeping his sexuality away from him, and using scare tactics to keep Kurt away. The episode features cover versions of five songs, all of which were released as singles, available for digital download, and three of which are included on the soundtrack album Glee: The Music, Volume 3 Showstoppers.
"Theatricality" was watched by 11.5 million American viewers and received generally positive reviews from critics. Tim Stack of Entertainment Weekly deemed it one of his favorite episodes of the season, and both Terri Schwartz of MTV and CNN's Lisa Respers France compared it positively to the Madonna tribute episode, "The Power of Madonna". O'Malley's acting and the Kurt and Finn storyline attracted critical praise, although Jarett Wieselman of the New York Post felt that similar scenes between Kurt and Burt were becoming increasingly frequent, diminishing their impact. BuddyTV's Henrik Batallones and Mary Hanrahan of Broadway World highlighted pacing issues with the Rachel storyline, and Hanrahan and Kevin Coll of Fused Film criticized the use of "Poker Face" as a mother–daughter duet.
Plot
Principal Figgins (Iqbal Theba) informs Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) that she can no longer dress as a goth, alarmed by a spate of pseudo-vampirism in the school, inspired by the Twilight series. She briefly changes her style, before dressing as a vampire and convincing Figgins that if he does not allow her to wear her preferred clothes, her vicious Asian vampire father will bite him.
Rachel (Lea Michele) discovers that rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline is planning on performing a Lady Gaga number at Regionals, so glee club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) sets the club a Gaga assignment. The girls and Kurt (Chris Colfer) create costumes inspired by Lady Gaga and perform "Bad Romance". The rest of the male club members, unwilling to do a Gaga number, dress as Kiss and perform "Shout It Out Loud". Puck (Mark Salling) suggests to Quinn (Dianna Agron) that they name their daughter Jackie Daniels, as in Jack Daniel's. Later, in an attempt to show her he is serious about being a father, he does another Kiss song with the guys, "Beth", and suggests that Quinn give that name to their daughter. Quinn agrees that he can be present at her bi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jester%20Interactive | Jester Interactive is a video game developer based in Flintshire, Wales in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1997 as a trading arm of Morgan Computing Limited. It would later trade under the name Jester Interactive Limited, and after going into administration in 2003, it would re-emerge as Jester Interactive Publishing Limited.
History
Jester Interactive Limited was formed as part of a Database Software company based in North Wales, through funding from Morgan Computing Limited. The key staff who initiated this venture were Lee Wright, Tim Wright and Gavin Morgan, managing director of Morgan Computing Limited.
Jester Interactive initially consisted of a small team of five people working in offices based at Liverpool's Port of Liverpool Building where they developed the company's first title NoiseToys. NoiseToys was later renamed as Music Station, then shortened to Music with the strapline Music Creation for the PlayStation Generation. This line of software also featured a DJ Character known as 'Scratchy' which usually appeared on all Jester's Music products.
After about 9 months, Jester launched its first title MUSIC™ through Codemasters to critical acclaim. As the winners of the Official PlayStation Magazine award for the Most Innovative Game 1999 and Sony Computer Entertainment America's award for Most Innovative Game 2000, Jester also twice reached final nomination for the highly acclaimed BAFTA awards in the category of the user interface. Jester went on to develop several racing games involving Super Trucks and the Isle of Man TT races.
In 2000 Jester won the Achievement Wales 2000 Business of the Year Award from the Daily Post / Wales 2000 initiative.
In 2001 it was ranked No. 4 in the Fast Growth 50 company list.
Jester's most recent titles include TT Superbikes Real Road Racing and TT Superbikes Legends. They are currently working on titles which have yet to be revealed.
Games developed
References
External links
Official Jester Interactive Website
Codemasters MUSIC 2000 forum
Interview with bike racer Paul Owen, Regarding Jester Bike Racing Game
BBC News Article - Jester Interactive Computer game is Wales Creative IP Fund's first new media investment
Organisations based in Flintshire
Software companies of Wales
Video game companies established in 1997
Video game companies of the United Kingdom
British companies established in 1997
Video game development companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alumniportal%20Deutschland | Alumniportal Deutschland is a non-profit online social network of "Germany Alumni" that is designed for anyone from around the world who has studied, researched, worked or completed a (further) training or a language course in Germany or at a German institution abroad.
Overview
It offers the opportunity to get in touch with Germany-Alumni from around the world as well as companies in order to discuss special interest topics, develop their skills and benefit from the expertise of others. The portal is a networking platform for both the professional and private field. It is open to any and all international Germany Alumni, regardless of whether or not they received a scholarship from one of the many German scholarship organizations, participated in an organized study abroad program, or enrolled directly in an institution. The registration and use of Alumniportal Deutschland is free of charge and can be done as individual or as business/organization.
The project is administered by a core group of four major German organizations (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, German Academic Exchange Service, Goethe-Institut, Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit), supported by strategic partners and financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany and supported by the Federal Foreign Office.
The Alumniportal Deutschland is available in both English and German. The communication language within the community is arbitrary.
Background / history
German alumni relations departments and professional development organizations in Germany have historically been limited to each group reaching out to their specific alumni. However, approximately 80% of people from abroad who study or undertake professional training in Germany – a total of roughly 14,000 people per year – are “free movers”, organizing and financing their own program. Trying to get in touch with these free movers was a complicated and often fruitless effort.
Alumniportal Deutschland is an online social network created entirely for Germany Alumni, regardless of organizational affiliation. Bringing this group of individuals together is aimed at creating tangible benefits for the Germany Alumni, for the various scholarship organizations, and for companies and institutions looking for highly qualified individuals with experience in Germany.
Since its inception in 2008, more than 155,000 users, from 184 countries have registered with the Alumniportal (as of December 2017).
Structure of the website
The Alumniportal Deutschland is divided into various sections: the Online Community, Topics & Projects, Webinars & Events and a section on Jobs & Careers, Groups, Members & Network.
The Online Community is the social networking component of the website. Registered members have the opportunity to network and communicate with fellow alumni and participating organizations using the standard array of social networking tools such as groups, blogs, profiles, etc.
Partn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20railway%20lines%20in%20Norway | The Norwegian railway network consists as of March 2010 of of line, owned and managed by the Norwegian National Rail Administration. Of this, has regular traffic. This includes 30 lines in regular traffic and 10 lines with irregular traffic. Twenty-four of these lines are electrified. Norway's longest is the Nordland Line, which runs from Trondheim to Bodø. The longest electrified line is the Sørlandet Line, which runs from Drammen to Stavanger.
As of March 2010, the system consists of of double track, 2487 bridges, 695 tunnels, 3514 level crossings and 358 stations. The Drammen Line, the Gardermoen Line and the Asker Line are the only to be double track in their entire length.
List
The following list contains all non-industrial railways to be completed in Norway. The list states the line's name and its terminal stations, or terminal points, if it does not terminate at a station. The list indicates if the line was opened as a private railway (one not owned or operated by NSB, and since 1996 by the National Rail Administration), and if the private line was later nationalized. The list also states which gauge the line was built in, and if it later has been converted to another gauge.
The overall length and length of double track are given in kilometers and miles; this is the route length, not the length of the track. For those lines that have the full route in operation, the distance is the current length, while for lines that have been closed partially or in full, it is the length at the time of the opening. Next is listed if the line is electrified or not, and if the line was electrified at a different system than the standard used by NSB and the National Rail Administration. The list then states the number of stations, bridges and tunnels on the line; for currently operating lines, this is the current count, while for other lines, it is the peak count in the line's history. The list then states the date the first section of line was taken into use and the date the last section of the line was taken into use. These dates may or may not be the same day that the official opening took place. For those railways that have been closed in full, the date of the closing (the first date without permitted revenue transport) is stated, along with if the track remains or not, and if the line has been taken into use by a heritage railway. This column also states if part of the railway has been closed for revenue traffic.
References
Bibliography
Norway
Railway lines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%20Chef%20UK | Iron Chef UK is a British competition-based cooking show based on Fuji Television's Iron Chef and Food Network's Iron Chef America. It was produced by IWC Media and broadcast on Channel 4 in 2010.
Summary
The show aired during daytime, five days a week at 5pm in 2010, and was hosted by Olly Smith and Nick Nairn. The four Iron Chefs were Tom Aikens, Martin Blunos, Sanjay Dwivedi and Judy Joo. Like the original Iron Chef, the competitions were held in Kitchen Stadium and presided over by the Chairman. Judging occurred in two rounds, with the first round being appetisers, and the second being the main courses. Two challengers prepared an appetiser each, while professional chefs, the Iron Chefs prepared two dishes. They were judged, and the scores for the challenging team versus the Iron Chef were announced. Then the second half of the team and the Iron Chef returned to the kitchen to prepare the main course. The two challengers each prepared a dish and the Iron Chef prepared two. Judging resumed, and results announced. As well as announcing whether the Challenging team, or the Iron Chef won, the best dish from the challenging team was also announced. The challengers with the best dish returned on the following Friday to compete with the best Iron Chef of the week. Dishes were scored out of 25—15 for taste, 5 for design, and 5 for originality in the use of the special ingredient.
The first episode aired on 26 April 2010. Liz Moore from Northern Ireland was the first finalist.
Internationally
The show has been seen worldwide by countries including India, Finland, New Zealand, Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
The Iron Chefs
Notes
External links
Iron Chef UK at Channel4.com
UK
British cooking television shows
2010s British cooking television series
2010s British reality television series
2010 British television series debuts
2010 British television series endings
Channel 4 original programming
Cooking competitions in the United Kingdom
British television series based on Japanese television series
Television series by Banijay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Kudumbam%20Viruthugal | The Sun Kudumbam Awards is an awards ceremony held to honour the cast and crew of the television serials which air on Sun TV, presented by Sun Network. The first awards ceremony happened in 2010 and it is a biennial award ceremony.
Nominations
The top four performances in all serials, including the serials that have ended the past year, in different categories are chosen by jurors. During February and March, the nominees are interviewed on Sun TV and viewers are asked to cast their votes by text messaging their favourite actor in each category. The actor receiving the highest votes are proclaimed winner of the award in that category.
Technical awards are given to backstage technicians, such as screenwriters and directors, by Sun Network and are not chosen by viewers.
Awards
General awards
Best Overall Performance Award
The Sun Kudumbam Best Overall Performance Award is given by Sun Network as part of its annual Sun Kudumbam Awards for artistes in television serials aired on Sun TV.
Special Jury Award
Best Serial Award
Lifetime Achievement Award
Natchathira Special Award
Performance awards
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Brother
Best Sister
Best Father
Best Mother
Best Mamiyar
Best Mamanar
Best Male Villain
Best Female Villain
Technical Awards
Best Serial
Best Director
Best Screenwriter
Best Dialogue Writer
Best Cinematographer
Best Music Director
Best Editor
Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal 2010
The Sun Kudumbam Awards 2010 were given for 22 categories, of which there were 8 main awards, 8 performance awards and 6 technical awards. The nominations and victories were based on votes via text messaging. The award ceremony was hosted by actress Kasthuri and Rishi.
Thirumathi Selvam won 10 awards including Best Serial. Other winners were Arasi and Best Director V. Thiru Selvam for Kolangal with five awards, Thangam with three awards and Sivasakthi and Metti Oli with one.
Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal 2012
The second edition of Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal 2012 was held on end December 2012. The award ceremony was hosted by actor Deepak Dinkar and Aishwarya. Actress Raadhika Sarathkumar won Lifetime Achievement Award
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal 2014
The third edition of Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal 2014 was aired as two parts wherein the Part 1 of the awards night to be telecast this Sunday 30 November 2014 from 6.00 PM onwards and Part 2 by the succeeding Sunday 7 December 2014 in the same time band. The awards consists of 26 categories with 4 nominations each in various categories for the artists and technicians. Deepak Dinkar and Devadarshini as the Host.
Many Kollywood celebs including Andrea Jeremiah, Shiva, Sanchita Shetty, Raai Laxmi, Pooja Umashankar and Vishakha Singh will be a part of the show.
Sun Kudumbam Virudhugal 2018
The fourth edition of Sun Kudumbam Viruthugal 2018 was held on end December 2018. The award ceremony was hoste |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefrontal%20cortex%20basal%20ganglia%20working%20memory | Prefrontal cortex basal ganglia working memory (PBWM) is an algorithm that models working memory in the prefrontal cortex and the basal ganglia.
It can be compared to long short-term memory (LSTM) in functionality, but is more biologically explainable.
It uses the primary value learned value model to train prefrontal cortex working-memory updating system, based on the biology of the prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia.
It is used as part of the Leabra framework and was implemented in Emergent in 2019.
Abstract
The prefrontal cortex has long been thought to subserve both working memory (the holding of information online for processing) and "executive" functions (deciding how to manipulate working memory and perform processing). Although many computational models of working memory have been developed, the mechanistic basis of executive function remains elusive.
PBWM is a computational model of the prefrontal cortex to control both itself and other brain areas in a strategic, task-appropriate manner. These learning mechanisms are based on subcortical structures in the midbrain, basal ganglia and amygdala, which together form an actor/critic architecture. The critic system learns which prefrontal representations are task-relevant and trains the actor, which in turn provides a dynamic gating mechanism for controlling working memory updating. Computationally, the learning mechanism is designed to simultaneously solve the temporal and structural credit assignment problems.
The model's performance compares favorably with standard backpropagation-based temporal learning mechanisms on the challenging 1-2-AX working memory task, and other benchmark working memory tasks.
Model
First, there are multiple separate stripes (groups of units) in the prefrontal cortex and striatum layers. Each stripe can be independently updated, such that this system can remember several different things at the same time, each with a different "updating policy" of when memories are updated and maintained. The active maintenance of the memory is in prefrontal cortex (PFC), and the updating signals (and updating policy more generally) come from the striatum units (a subset of basal ganglia units).
PVLV provides reinforcement learning signals to train up the dynamic gating system in the basal ganglia.
Sensory input and motor output
The sensory input is connected to the posterior cortex which is connected to the motor output. The sensory input is also linked to the PVLV system.
Posterior cortex
The posterior cortex form the hidden layers of the input/output mapping. The PFC is connected with the posterior cortex to contextualize this input/output mapping.
PFC
The PFC (for output gating) has a localist one-to-one representation of the input units for every stripe. Thus, you can look at these PFC representations and see directly what the network is maintaining. The PFC maintains the working memory needed to perform the task.
Striatum
This is the dynamic gating system represe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELKI | ELKI (Environment for Developing KDD-Applications Supported by Index-Structures) is a data mining (KDD, knowledge discovery in databases) software framework developed for use in research and teaching. It was originally at the database systems research unit of Professor Hans-Peter Kriegel at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, and now continued at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. It aims at allowing the development and evaluation of advanced data mining algorithms and their interaction with database index structures.
Description
The ELKI framework is written in Java and built around a modular architecture. Most currently included algorithms belong to clustering, outlier detection, and database indexes. The object-oriented architecture allows the combination of arbitrary algorithms, data types, distance functions, indexes, and evaluation measures. The Java just-in-time compiler optimizes all combinations to a similar extent, making benchmarking results more comparable if they share large parts of the code. When developing new algorithms or index structures, the existing components can be easily reused, and the type safety of Java detects many programming errors at compile time.
ELKI has been used in data science for example to cluster sperm whale codas, phoneme clustering, for anomaly detection in spaceflight operations, for bike sharing redistribution, and traffic prediction.
Objectives
The university project is developed for use in teaching and research. The source code is written with extensibility and reusability in mind, but is also optimized for performance. The experimental evaluation of algorithms depends on many environmental factors and implementation details can have a large impact on the runtime. ELKI aims at providing a shared codebase with comparable implementations of many algorithms.
As research project, it currently does not offer integration with business intelligence applications or an interface to common database management systems via SQL. The copyleft (AGPL) license may also be a hindrance to an integration in commercial products; nevertheless it can be used to evaluate algorithms prior to developing an own implementation for a commercial product. Furthermore, the application of the algorithms requires knowledge about their usage, parameters, and study of original literature. The audience are students, researchers, data scientists, and software engineers.
Architecture
ELKI is modeled around a database-inspired core, which uses a vertical data layout that stores data in column groups (similar to column families in NoSQL databases). This database core provides nearest neighbor search, range/radius search, and distance query functionality with index acceleration for a wide range of dissimilarity measures. Algorithms based on such queries (e.g. k-nearest-neighbor algorithm, local outlier factor and DBSCAN) can be implemented easily and benefit from the index acceleration.
The database core |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oslo%20Tramway%20and%20Metro%20operators | The Oslo Tramway is a six-line tram and light rail network that serves the central parts of Oslo, Norway, of which three lines stretch into the suburbs. The Oslo Metro is a six-line rapid transit system that covers all boroughs of Oslo and some of western Bærum. Currently, the infrastructure of both systems is owned by the municipal company Sporveien (Kollektivtransportproduksjon). The tramway is operated by the subsidiary Sporveien Trikken (previously Oslotrikken), while the metro is operated by Sporveien T-banen (previously Oslo T-banedrift) and the rolling stock is owned by the subsidiary Oslo Vognselskap. All operations are conducted on contract with Ruter, the public transport authority for Oslo and Akershus, which operates the ticket system and manages public grants.
Throughout the history of the Oslo Tramway and Metro, 15 different companies have owned, constructed or operated parts or all of the network. The first street trams in Oslo were built by three different companies, each with their own network. The private Kristiania Sporveisselskab started with a horsecar service in 1875, but electrified their lines after Kristiania Elektriske Sporvei started with electric trams in 1894. Between 1899 and 1905, the municipality operated street trams through Kristiania Kommunale Sporveie. Starting in 1898, the private Holmenkolbanen, and later the municipal Akersbanerne and private Ekebergbanen, built suburban light rail systems. In 1924, the city took over the street trams and established Oslo Sporveier. After the municipal merger between Aker and Oslo in 1948, the Municipality of Oslo became the major stock holder of Holmenkolbanen. Bærumsbanen was taken over by Oslo Sporveier in 1944, and in 1971 disestablished. The private light rail lines were gradually nationalized and transferred to Oslo Sporveier, which operated the entire network by 1975. The metro was established in 1966 and was operated by Oslo Sporveier, which also operated the city's buses and contracted the ferries.
From 2003 to 2008, the operations were again split. In 2003, the operations of the trams and metro trains were transferred to Oslotrikken (originally named Oslo Sporvognsdrift) and Oslo T-banedrift, respectively. In 2006, Oslo Sporveier was split into the infrastructure company Kollektivtransportproduksjon and a public transport authority, the latter of which kept the Oslo Sporveier name. From 2007, the ownership of the trams and trains was transferred to Oslo Vognselskap. In 2008, Oslo Sporveier merged with its Akershus counterpart, Stor-Oslo Lokaltrafikk, to create Ruter.
Operators
The following table lists companies involved in the operation of the Oslo Tramway and the Oslo Metro. Infrastructure owners (denoted as "infrastructure") only own track and station, leasing these to other companies; if the lessors only operate trains, and have no track themselves, they are operators (denoted as "operator"). Transit authorities (denoted as "authority") do not perform any |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20%28software%29 | In computing, Flow is middleware software which allows data-integration specialists to connect disparate systems (whether on-premises, hosted or in the cloud); transforming and restructuring data as required between environments. Flow functionality can be utilised for data integration projects, for EDI and for data-conversion activities. Developed by Flow Software Ltd in New Zealand, Flow is available through a variety of partner companies or directly from Flow Software in New Zealand and Australia.
Integration software allows organisations to continue using existing applications, overcoming the need to customize or upgrade as their requirements change. By using integration software, many businesses benefit from reduced dependence on manual keying of data and the avoidance of costs and delays caused by keying errors.
Features
Flow enables data management:
Transformation of data, within and between sets
Generation and consumption of data, accessioning from specified sets within structures
Transportation of data files, using various transport formats, including secure
Specification of task work-flows
Notification of transactions and formats via reports
Data Generation
Flow accesses and generates data in structured formats, from files or databases.
Flow can access and read from, or write to databases using either the SQL89 or SQL92 specification. Informix provides support for extended SQL use.
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 & above
Microsoft Access 97 97 above
MySQL 4.x
Oracle 8i
InterBase 5.6
Informix
IBM DB2
MYOB
Any ODBC compliant database as per the Microsoft ODBC specification
Any ADO compliant data source as per the Microsoft ADO specification
Flow can access and read from, or write to various file types.
Any ASCII format file
Any EDI type file based on either UN/EDIFACT or ANSI X12 standards
Any XML file based on XML standards such as SOAP, XHTML or ebXML
Data Transformation
A visual mapping engine is used to configure data transformation between data sets. Data can be restructured as it is transformed, thus allowing for dissimilar data structures between source and destination. Flow data access operates independently of the mapping layer. The applied mapping logic uses events containing Object Pascal code.
Data Transportation
Flow transports generated data and files using the following formats:
Local file access
LAN
FTP
HTTP/S POST
HTTP/S GET
SMTP
POP
ebMS
SOAP
User Interface
The Flow user interface allows users to create and processes, activate processes and view activity logs.
Email notifications of Flow process activity can also be configured.
Actions
Flow uses predefined processing of events that can be executed either on schedule, or event driven. Actions and their results are logged and available via the user interface.
Actions include:
Transformation of data or files
Generation of specific reports
Windows-based shell commands
Outward-bound transports of data or files
Selected SQL statements
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dioscorea%20cayenensis%20subsp.%20rotundata | Dioscorea cayenensis subsp. rotundata, commonly known as the white yam, West African yam, Guinea yam, or white ñame, is a subspecies of yam native to Africa. It is one of the most important cultivated yams. Kokoro is one of its most important cultivars.
It is sometimes treated as separate species from Dioscorea cayenensis.
Domestication
Its wild progenitor is Dioscorea praehensilis and possibly also D. abyssinica (by hybridization). Domestication occurred in West Africa, along the south-facing Atlantic coast. There is insufficient documentation and insufficient research to determine how long ago that occurred.
Distribution
D. c. subsp. rotundata is grown in West Africa, including countries such as Ivory Coast, Ghana and Nigeria.
Linguistics
Blench (2006) reconstructs the tentative Proto-Niger-Congo (i.e., the most recent common ancestor of the Niger-Congo languages) root -ku for D. rotundata.
References
Crops originating from Africa
Yams (vegetable)
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Plant subspecies
cayenensis subsp. rotundata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir%20Technologies | Palantir Technologies is a public American company that specializes in big data analytics. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, it was founded by Peter Thiel, Nathan Gettings, Joe Lonsdale, Stephen Cohen, and Alex Karp in 2003. The company's name is derived from The Lord of the Rings where the magical palantíri were "seeing-stones," described as indestructible balls of crystal used for communication and to see events in other parts of the world.
The company is known for three projects in particular: Palantir Gotham, Palantir Apollo, and Palantir Foundry. Palantir Gotham is used by counter-terrorism analysts at offices in the United States Intelligence Community (USIC) and United States Department of Defense. In the past, Gotham was used by fraud investigators at the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, a former US federal agency which operated from 2009 to 2015. Gotham was also used by cyber analysts at Information Warfare Monitor, a Canadian public-private venture which operated from 2003 to 2012. Palantir Apollo is the operating system for continuous delivery and deployment across all environments. Their SaaS is one of five offerings authorized for Mission Critical National Security Systems (IL5) by the U.S. Department of Defense. Palantir Foundry is used by corporate clients such as Morgan Stanley, Merck KGaA, Airbus, Wejo, Lilium, PG&E and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles.
Palantir's original clients were federal agencies of the USIC. It has since expanded its customer base to serve state and local governments, as well as private companies in the financial and healthcare industries.
History
2003–2008: Founding and early years
Though usually listed as having been founded in 2004, SEC filings state Palantir's official incorporation to be in May 2003 by Peter Thiel (co-founder of PayPal), who named the start-up after the "seeing stone" in Tolkien's legendarium. Thiel saw Palantir as a "mission-oriented company" which could apply software similar to PayPal's fraud recognition systems to "reduce terrorism while preserving civil liberties."
In 2004, Thiel bankrolled the creation of a prototype by PayPal engineer Nathan Gettings and Stanford University students Joe Lonsdale and Stephen Cohen. That same year, Thiel hired Alex Karp, a former colleague of his from Stanford Law School, as chief executive officer.
Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, the company initially struggled to find investors. According to Karp, Sequoia Capital chairman Michael Moritz doodled through an entire meeting, and a Kleiner Perkins executive lectured the founders about the inevitable failure of their company. The only early investments were $2 million from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's venture capital arm In-Q-Tel, and $30 million from Thiel himself and his venture capital firm, Founders Fund.
Palantir developed its technology by computer scientists and analysts from intelligence agencies over three years, through pilots facilitated by In-Q-Tel. The |
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