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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAIA%20Expressway | The Ninoy Aquino International Airport Expressway (NAIAX), signed as E6 of the Philippine expressway network, is an elevated expressway in Metro Manila, Philippines, which links the Skyway to Ninoy Aquino International Airport and Entertainment City. Traversing the cities of Taguig, Pasay, and Parañaque, the NAIAX runs along Andrews Avenue, Electrical Road, and NAIA Road connecting the Skyway to Ninoy Aquino Avenue, Macapagal Boulevard, New Seaside Drive and the Manila–Cavite Expressway.
The expressway is the first airport expressway in the Philippines. It opened in September 2016. It traverses the cities of Pasay and Parañaque.
Route description
From the Sales Interchange (NAIA Exit) of Skyway, the expressway heads to the southwest and runs along Sales Road across Villamor Airbase and Newport City. It then curves to the northwest on Andrews Avenue towards the entrance to NAIA Terminal 3 and continues along the northern perimeter of the airport towards Electrical Road near NAIA Terminal 4. From here, it makes a turn to the south and runs along Parañaque River, parallel to Domestic Road on the east towards the NAIA Road junction. From this junction, the expressway branches into two, with one traversing eastwards to NAIA Terminals 1 and 2, while the other continues westwards to Entertainment City and the Manila–Cavite Expressway.
Features
The expressway is operated and maintained by Skyway Operations & Maintenance Corporation (SOMCo), the same company that operates Skyway, while its concession holder is SMC NAIAX Corporation (formerly Vertex Tollways Development, Inc.); both companies are subsidiaries of San Miguel Corporation.
Lanes
Prior to the opening of the Skyway expansion project (by eliminating shoulders and shrinking the median) in 2020 that resulted in a grand total of 7 lanes, and due to the lack of right of way available for the project, NAIAX is the second expressway that does not have a shoulder, after North Luzon Expressway between Balintawak to Balagtas (Tabang Interchange) following widening to four lanes as a heavily traveled segment, and the first expressway having a narrow concrete barrier as median. Even though SMC claims that NAIAX is a 4-lane elevated expressway, in fact, SMC via its subsidiary, Vertex Tollways Development, has built 5 to 7 lanes on the expressway without shoulders and with a narrow median barrier, with the configurations listed below.
5-lane zones
2 lanes to Macapagal Boulevard/NAIA Interchange (catering to motorist to/from NAIA Terminal 1 and 2) and 3 lanes to Skyway for (1) half part of the expressway's Parañaque River alignment and (2) the alignment from NAIA Terminal 3 exit (+/- before the exit) to Andrew Ave off-ramp; the first part is configurated to tackle the possible traffic jam by the merging of NAIAX from the airport and Macapagal Boulevard
3 lanes to NAIA Interchange and 2 lanes to Skyway for another half part of the river alignment and above Airport Road to NAIA Terminal 3 Exit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPA%20Network | The EPA Network is the European Network of the Heads of Environment Protection Agencies.
The EPA Network is an informal grouping of the Heads and Directors of European Environmental Protection Agencies and similar bodies across Europe.
The Network is a forum for the exchange of views and experiences on issues of common interest to organisations involved in the practical day-to-day implementation of environmental policy.
The EPA Network was established in 2003 and consists at present of 39 organisations.
The Network meets twice a year in plenary and has established a number of interest groups dealing with issues of interest to member agencies. The issues dealt with by the interest groups cover topics from better regulation to climate change adaptation. The Network has issued a number of statements on environmental policy and implementation.
The Oslo Statement: Improving the Effectiveness of EU Environmental Regulation - A Future Vision
The Helsinki statement on Barriers to Better Regulation
Zagreb Statement on Revision of the Construction Product Directive
The Dessau statement on Sustainable Use of Natural Resources
The Prague statement on Better regulation
The secretariat is at present hosted by the European Environment Agency which is also a member of the EPA Network and is located in Copenhagen
The EPA Network cooperates on common issues with the network of European Nature Protection Agencies ENCA, as well as with other networks, such as, IMPEL
Background
Few realize that some 70–80% of environmental legislation in the member states of the European Union and member states of the European Economic Area is actually decided and agreed at EU level., The laws developed and adopted at EU level either apply directly or are transposed into national legislation after decision by national parliaments.
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This should, though, not come as a surprise. Air and water pollution, acid precipitation, climate change and many other environmental problems tend to ignore national borders. Typically, they present a threat that can affect more than one country. If we want to tackle these problems successfully, it makes more sense to address them at regional, and even in some cases global, level.
It is usually the task of Environmental Protection Agencies within individual countries, with around five exceptions where the ministries have the role, to oversee and implement these obligations and enforce national laws. However, as the legal and institutional structures differ remarkably across Europe, so too do the approaches to implementation of environmental legislation. Consequently there is a substantial variety in the roles of EPAs and what they are tasked with, however the main tasks are:
Information and data handling, including research, monitoring, as well as information systems and assessment
Operational tasks, including: advice to ministries and citizens, enforcement of regulations and licensing
The EPA Network provides a forum for the hea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Misfits%20episodes | Misfits is a British science fiction comedy-drama television show, on the network Channel 4, about a group of young offenders sentenced to work in a community service programme, where they obtain supernatural powers after a strange electrical storm. The show premiered on 12 November 2009 and concluded on 11 December 2013 after its fifth series.
Series overview
Episodes
Series 1 (2009)
Series 2 (2010)
The events of Series 2 commence immediately after the end of Series 1. Filming took place in May 2010 and the second series began airing in November 2010.
Series 3 (2011)
The third series of Misfits began airing on 30 October 2011 with the first of eight episodes. Robert Sheehan, who played Nathan in the first two series of the show, does not appear in the third series. His exit is shown in an online film that was released on the official Misfits website on 15 September, shortly before the third series airs. The online film is set in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. A new character called Rudy is introduced in the first episode to replace Nathan, played by Joseph Gilgun.
Series 4 (2012)
Misfits was renewed for a fourth season on 16 December 2011. On 20 December 2011, Antonia Thomas announced via Twitter that she will not be returning for the fourth series: 'I won't be coming back for series 4 but I can't wait to see it! I've had an amazing time in Misfits- it has been epic!'. On 20 December 2011, Iwan Rheon also announced through Facebook that he would not be returning for the fourth series.
Series 5 (2013)
References
External links
List of Misfits episodes at Channel 4
Lists of British comedy-drama television series episodes
Lists of British science fiction television series episodes
Lists of supernatural television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatti%20%28disambiguation%29 | Vatti may refer to:
Vatti, Chinese kitchen appliances manufacturer
Vätti, a district of the city of Turku, in Finland.
Vatti clipping algorithm, a computer graphics algorithm used in clipping arbitrary polygons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCup%202D%20Soccer%20Simulation%20League | The RoboCup 2D Simulated Soccer League is the oldest of the RoboCup Soccer Simulation Leagues. It consists of a number of competitions with computer simulated soccer matches as the main event.
There are no physical robots in this league but spectators can watch the action on a large screen, which looks like a giant computer game. Each simulated robot player may have its own play strategy and characteristic and every simulated team actually consists of a collection of programs. Many computers are networked together in order for this competition to take place.
Rules
In the 2D Simulation League, two teams of eleven autonomous software programs (called agents) each play soccer in a two-dimensional virtual soccer stadium represented by a central server, called SoccerServer. This server knows everything about the game, i.e. the current position of all players and the ball, the physics and so on. The game further relies on the communication between the server and each agent. On the one hand each player receives relative and noisy input of his virtual sensors (visual, acoustic and physical) and may on the other hand perform some basic commands (like dashing, turning or kicking) in order to influence its environment.
The big challenge in the Simulation League is to conclude from all possible world states (derived from the sensor input by calculating a sight on the world as absolute and noise-free as possible) to the best possible action to execute. As a game is divided into 6000 cycles this task has to be accomplished in time slot of 100 ms (the length of each cycle) .
Results
Teams reaching the top four
Titles per country
Teams
See also
RoboCup
RoboCup Simulation League
RoboCup 3D Soccer Simulation League
External links
RoboCup Soccer Simulation League
The RoboCup Soccer Simulator
RoboCup Soccer Simulator Wiki
Team Assistant for 3D Visualisation
RoboCup Historical Data Repository (Log Files, Team Binaries...)
The WrightEagle Team
The Helios Team
The Oxsy Team
The Brainstormers Team
The CMUnited Team
The Gliders Team
The Alice Team
RoboCup
Robot soccer competitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%204 | iOS 4 is the fourth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc., being the successor to iPhone OS 3. It was announced at the Apple Special Event on April 8, 2010, and was released on June 21, 2010. iOS 4 is the first iOS version issued under the "iOS" rebranding, dropping the "iPhone OS" naming convention of previous versions. It was succeeded by iOS 5 on October 12, 2011.
iOS 4 introduced folders on the home screen, significantly increasing the number of apps that can be displayed. Support for custom wallpapers was also added, although limited to newer devices due to animation performance requirements. The operating system also added a multitasking feature, letting apps dealing with Internet calling, location and audio playback function in the background, whereas a similar but more restricted "Fast App Switching" technology enabled any app to be left inactive in the background while users switch to other apps. iOS 4 also added a system-wide spell checking feature, enabled iBooks on iPhone, unified the Mail inbox to combine content from different email providers, and introduced both Game Center for social gaming and FaceTime for video calling.
The iOS 4 update introduced performance and battery problems on iPhone 3G devices, with Apple investigating the matter and promising then-upcoming updates. However, the company became the subject of a lawsuit from a unsatisfied customer over the issues. Around the same time, the release of iPhone 4 and its subsequent antenna problems made Apple focus on unsuccessfully attempting to patch the issues with software updates.
iOS 4 is the final version iOS to have the iPod app for music and videos on iPhones. Starting with iOS 5, iPhones do not have the iPod app, but instead have the Music and Videos apps, as the iPod Touch and iPad do. It is also the last version of iOS that supports the iPhone 3G and second-generation iPod Touch as its successor, iOS 5, drops support for both models.
Apps
iBooks
Game Center
FaceTime
History
iPhone OS 4 was introduced at the Apple Special Event on April 8, 2010. At the WWDC keynote address on June 7, 2010, it was renamed to iOS 4 in order to be more inclusive to the iPod Touch and iPad.
iOS 4 was officially released on June 21, 2010.
System features
Home screen
iOS 4 raised the maximum number of home screen apps from 180 to 2,160 due to the addition of folders. These folders would automatically be named based on the containing apps' respective App Store category. The ability to add custom wallpapers to the home screen was also added, though the feature was notably absent from iPhone 3G and the second-generation iPod Touch due to poor performance of icon animations.
Multitasking
iOS 4 introduced multitasking. The feature allowed users to switch between apps instantly by double-clicking the home button. It was implemented in such a way that did not cause excessive battery drain. Multitasking was limited to apps dealing with Internet cal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaceTime | FaceTime is a proprietary videotelephony product developed by Apple Inc. FaceTime is available on supported iOS mobile devices running iOS 4 and later and Mac computers that run and later. FaceTime supports any iOS device with a forward-facing camera and any Mac computer equipped with a FaceTime Camera. FaceTime Audio, an audio-only version, is available on any iOS device that supports iOS 7 or newer, and any Mac with a forward-facing camera running OS X 10.9.2 and later.
FaceTime is included for free in iOS and macOS from (10.7) onwards. Since the release of iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey, non-Apple systems can be used to participate in FaceTime calls using a web client.
History
Apple bought the "FaceTime" name from FaceTime Communications, which changed its name to Actiance in January 2011. On June 7, 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced FaceTime in conjunction with the iPhone 4 in a keynote speech at the 2010 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference. Support for the fourth generation iPod Touch (the first model of iPod Touch equipped with cameras) was announced in conjunction with the device's release on September 8, 2010. On March 2, 2011, FaceTime support was announced for the newly introduced iPad 2, which had forward- and rear-facing cameras.
On February 24, 2011, FaceTime left beta and was listed in the Mac App Store for US$0.99. Apple claims that it intended to provide the application free of charge, however, a provision of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act (2002) bars companies from providing an unadvertised new feature of an already-sold product without enduring "onerous accounting measures". The US$0.99 beta is no longer available for download from Apple. FaceTime is included for free in macOS from (10.7) onwards and iOS.
AT&T allowed customers to use FaceTime as long as they were tiered but blocked the application from working for customers with unlimited data plans. They were brought before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for net neutrality violations.
In May 2011, it was found that FaceTime would work seamlessly over 3G on all iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch models that supported it. Even though FaceTime worked only over 3G at that time, it now supports 4G LTE calls on networks all over the world, and availability is limited to operators' GSM plans.
In 2018, Apple added group video and audio support to FaceTime which can support up to 32 people in iOS 12 and macOS Mojave.
The 5th generation iPad Pro, which was introduced in May 2021, features Center Stage, which allows the camera to follow a user when they are on a FaceTime call, and was also expanded to other third party video conferencing applications. Center Stage is a feature of all iPads released since 2021, and is also available on Macs using the Apple Studio Display or a paired iPhone with an Apple A13 chip or newer using Continuity Camera, a feature that allows Macs to use iPhones as a camera that was introduced in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura.
On June 7, 2021, du |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%20University%20Computing%20Services | Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) until 2012 provided the central Information Technology services for the University of Oxford. The service was based at 7-19 Banbury Road in central north Oxford, England, near the junction with Keble Road. OUCS became part of IT Services, when the new department was created at the University of Oxford on 1 August 2012 through a merger of the three previous central IT departments: Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS), Business Services and Projects (BSP) and ICT Support Team (ICTST).
At the time when Oxford University Computing Services ceased to operate as an independent department, it offered facilities, training and advice to members of the university in all aspects of academic computing. OUCS was responsible for the core networks reaching all departments and colleges of Oxford University. OUCS was made up of 5 technical and one administration group. Each group had responsibility for different aspects of OUCS services supplied to the university. At the time of the merger, the 5 technical groups were: Learning Technologies, Information and Support, Network Systems Management Services, Infrastructure Systems and Services Group, and Network and Telecommunications.
History
A lease on a house was obtained in 1957 and operation started in 1958, initially as the Computing Laboratory at 9 South Parks Road, a Victorian building, now demolished to make way for the Experimental Psychology and Zoology departments. In 1963, due to space problems, the staff and computers moved to 19 Parks Road, the old Engineering Building. In 1970, the Computing Service occupied 17 and 19 Banbury Road, having split from the Computing Laboratory, which became the university's Department of Computer Science. By 1975, the Computing Service had taken over all of 7 to 19 Banbury Road, as IT Services still does today. An outpost at 59 George Street in central Oxford closed in the mid-1990s.
See also
Oxford University Computing Laboratory
University of Cambridge Computing Service
Oxford University Computing Services was an affiliated member of the Sakai Project
Oxford University Computing Services was a member of the Opencast Community
Oxford University Computing Services hosted several national and international services including OSS Watch and the Oxford Text Archive
References
External links
Oxford University Computing Services website
OUCS user pages
Organizations established in 1957
Computing Services
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20Blue | New York Blue is an 18 rack Blue Gene/L and a 2 rack Blue Gene/P massively parallel supercomputer based on the IBM system-on-chip technology. It is located in the New York Center for Computational Sciences (NYCCS). The supercomputer is owned by Stony Brook University and is located at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, Long Island, New York. The funds for this machine were provided by the New York state, with the leadership of the NYS Assembly. It began operating on July 15, 2007, when it was the fifth most powerful supercomputer dedicated to general research. According to Stony Brook provost Robert McGrath, it would also rank within the top 10 when including supercomputers available only for military research. The renovation of laboratory space was supported by the New York state and U.S. DOE fund. As of June 2010, the Blue Gene/L was ranked 67th in the Top 500 supercomputing rankings. Together with the Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York Blue provides New York state with more computing power available for general research than any state in the nation.
Blue Gene/L machine
The Blue Gene/L machine consists of 18432 (18 x 1024) dual-processor Compute Nodes (Blue Gene chip) with each Compute Node having two standard 700 MHz PowerPC440 processors (a total of 36864). The two processors (cores) on a chip share a 1 GB of DDR memory. The 18 racks are arranged in six (6) rows with three (3) racks each making up a 48x24x16 3D torus. The first rack on the first row (row 0) is designated as R00, while the third one on the sixth row (row 5) is R52. In addition to the Compute Nodes, there are dedicated I/O nodes. Each I/O node provides the dedicated hardware that serves the operating system tasks to a group of compute nodes. The I/O node with the compute nodes that it serves make up a group that is referred to a pset. In New York Blue, the pset ratio (the ratio of I/O nodes to compute nodes) can be one of the following: 1:16, 1:32, 1:64 and 1:128. New York Blue is subdivided into partitions (a.k.a. blocks). Each partition has a specific size (number of nodes), type (Mesh or Torus), and pset ratio (one of the ratios mentioned above). Partitions can be predefined or created by users dynamically according to their job needs. The pset ratio varies throughout the machine, having one of the four pset ratios mentioned above. There are 512 compute nodes on a midplane.
Blue Gene/P machine
In addition to New York Blue/L, there is New York Blue/P which consists of two racks of the Blue Gene/P series. Each BG/P rack contains 1024 850 MHz quad-processor nodes with each node having 2GB of memory. To compile, submit jobs, and analyze results, the user must login to the front end of the Blue Gene/P System. The front end is an IBM p-Series system with Linux as the operating system; so both the processor architecture and OS are very different from the Blue Gene compute nodes. There are two main limitations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Adelaide | The Adelaide trolleybus system formed part of the public transport network in Adelaide, South Australia from 1932 until 1963.
History
During the Great Depression, Adelaide's Municipal Tramways Trust (MTT) needed to expand services, but finances prevented laying new tracks. A decision was made to trial trolleybuses, and a converted petrol bus began running experimentally on the Payneham to Paradise tram line during the off-peak on 18 May 1932. The trial concluded on 11 August 1934, with trams resuming operation.
The trial was judged a success and the MTT planned its first permanent trolley bus line. In September 1937, the new service commenced from Light Square in the Adelaide city centre to Tusmore. In 1938, services commenced from Light Square to Port Adelaide, Semaphore and Largs Bay.
In October 1952, the Linden Park tram line was converted followed by the Erindale line in May 1953. The trolleybus network closed in July 1963 replaced by motor buses.
Fleet
Green Goddess
Petrol bus 216 was bodied by the Islington Railway Workshops as an open top bus on a Garford chassis in 1925. It was converted to a single deck trolleybus with rear platform and stairs removed and ran from May 1932 until August 1934. It was the first trolleybus in Australia and with a distinctive cream and green livery was known as "The Green Goddess". It seated twenty-three with room for twenty standing passengers. It was later used as a maintenance vehicle before being preserved by the Tramway Museum, St Kilda.
AEC 661T
To operate the permanent services, 30 AEC 661T chassis were bodied by JA Lawton & Sons in 1937 and numbered 401 to 430. The double deckers seated fifty-seven with a crush load of eighty-four with all withdrawn by June 1957, a few briefly returning to service in August 1958. ex MTT 417/S106 is preserved at the Tramway Museum, St Kilda while 413 resides on a farming property in Penfield Gardens, north of Adelaide.
Leyland double deck
In 1942, the MTT bodied five Leyland chassis using JA Lawton & Sons components, entering service as 431 to 435. These double-deck, three-axle buses were the largest in the MTT fleet and remained so until withdrawn in 1958. One was preserved by Trevor Tate before being sold to the Sydney Bus Museum in 1993.The Leyland DD that the Sydney Bus Museum had was 433, this bus was eventually returned to Adelaide for preservation by Christopher Steele but unfortunately, he died before the project could be finished, it is currently in storage at the Tramway Museum, St Kilda.
Leyland Canton
26 Leyland chassis originally built for the Guangdong province in China, were purchased and bodied by the MTT between 1942 and 1945 and numbered 471 to 496. These single deckers had a seating capacity of thirty and a crush load of sixty. They became popularly known as cantons or wombats and remained in service until 1963. One has been preserved by the Tramway Museum, St Kilda.
Sunbeam MF2B
In 1952/53, JA Lawton & Sons bodied 30 Sunbeam MF2B chassis. T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%20Live%20TV | Australia Live TV is an Australia-based online television network run from Chapel Lane Studios in Hindmarsh, South Australia, Adelaide
The company started with one sports Internet television show KG and the General but now hosts several shows
Programming
List of programs broadcast by Australia Live TV:
Two Up Front – Soccer show. Hosted by John Kosmina and Ross Aloisi. Time: Thursdays 6-7pm.
KG and The General – Australia's first live internet sports show covering national and international sports. Time: Monday – Friday 3-5pm.
Inside the Game – All things basketball NBL Hosted by 'KB' Kevin Brooks (basketball) & Brett Maher Time: Friday 6-7pm.
Amateur Footy – SA Amateur Footy show. Hosted by K. G. Cunningham and 'The General' Phil Smyth. Time: Friday 5-6pm.
Mobile Rolling – Harness racing show. Hosted by David Aldred. Time: Thursdays 5-6pm.
Open House – Real Estate show sponsored by Brock Harcourts. Hosted by Greg Moulton. Time: Fridays 12-1pm.
Qwoff TV – Australian wine show. Hosted by Justin 'JD' and Andre Eikmeier.
Rural Live TV – Rural news, weather, technology and market updates. Hosted by Rob Kerin and Will Goodings. Time: Mondays and Thursdays 1-2pm.
Xtreme Sports Hour – Extreme sports show. Hosted by Nathan Strempel. Time: Wednesdays 6-7pm.
Launched in March 2009. Finished production in December 2010.
See also
Subscription television in Australia
Internet television in Australia
List of Internet television providers
References
External links
Television stations in Australia
Internet television channels
Internet properties established in 2009
Television channels and stations established in 2009
2009 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack%20Exchange | Stack Exchange is a network of question-and-answer (Q&A) websites on topics in diverse fields, each site covering a specific topic, where questions, answers, and users are subject to a reputation award process. The reputation system allows the sites to be self-moderating. As of March 2023, the three most actively-viewed sites in the network are Stack Overflow (which focuses on computer programming), Unix & Linux, and Mathematics.
All sites in the network are modeled after the initial site Stack Overflow which was created by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky in 2008. Further Q&A sites in the network are established, defined and eventually if found relevant brought to creation by registered users through a special site named Area 51.
User contributions since May 2, 2018 are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Older content, contributed while the site used the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license or the earlier Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Unported license, remains licensed under the license in force at the time it was contributed.
In June 2021, Prosus acquired Stack Overflow for $1.8 billion, its first complete acquisition in the area of educational technology.
History
Founding and growth
In 2008, Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky created Stack Overflow, a question-and-answer web site for computer programming questions, which they described as an alternative to the programmer forum Experts-Exchange. In 2009, they started additional sites based on the Stack Overflow model: Server Fault for questions related to system administration and Super User for questions from computer power users.
In September 2009, Spolsky's company, Fog Creek Software, released a beta version of the Stack Exchange 1.0 platform as a way for third parties to create their own communities based on the software behind Stack Overflow, with monthly fees. This white label service was not successful, with few customers and slow growing communities.
In May 2010, Stack Overflow (as its own new company) raised US$6 million in venture capital from Union Square Ventures and other investors, and it switched its focus to developing new sites for answering questions on specific subjects, Stack Exchange 2.0. Users vote on new site topics in a staging area called Area 51, where algorithms determine which suggested site topics have critical mass and should be created. In November 2010, Stack Exchange site topics in "beta testing" included physics, mathematics, and writing. Stack Exchange publicly launched in January 2011 with 33 Web sites; it had 27 employees and 1.5 million users at the time, and it included advertising. At that time, it was compared to Quora, founded in 2009, which similarly specializes in expert answers. Other competing sites include WikiAnswers and Yahoo! Answers.
In February 2011, Stack Overflow released an associated job board called Careers 2.0, charging fees to recruiters for access, which la |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trove | Trove is an Australian online library database owned by the National Library of Australia in which it holds partnerships with source providers National and State Libraries Australia, an aggregator and service which includes full text documents, digital images, bibliographic and holdings data of items which are not available digitally, and a free faceted-search engine as a discovery tool.
Content
The database includes archives, images, newspapers, official documents, archived websites, manuscripts and other types of data. it is one of the most well-respected and accessed GLAM services in Australia, with over 70,000 daily users.
Based on antecedents dating back to 1996, the first version of Trove was released for public use in late 2009. It includes content from libraries, museums, archives, repositories and other organisations with a focus on Australia. It allows searching of catalogue entries of books in Australian libraries (some fully available online), academic and other journals, full-text searching of digitised archived newspapers, government gazettes and archived websites. It provides access to digitised images, maps, aggregated information about people and organisations, archived diaries and letters, and all born-digital content which has been deposited via National edeposit (NED). Searchable content also includes music, sound and videos, and transcripts of radio programs. With the exception of the digitised newspapers, none of the contents is hosted by Trove itself, which indexes the content of its partners' collection metadata, formats and manages it, and displays the aggregated information in a relevance-ranked search result.
In the wake of government funding cuts since 2015, the National Library and other organisations have been struggling to keep up with ensuring that content on Trove is kept flowing through and up to date.
History
Trove's origins can be seen in the development of earlier services such as the Australian Bibliographic Network (ABN), a shared cataloguing service launched in 1981.
The "Single Business Discovery Project" was launched in August 2008. The intention was to create a single point of entry for the public to the various online discovery services developed by the library between 1997 and 2008, including:
PANDORA archive (1996)
the Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts (RAAM, launched 1997)
PictureAustralia (2000)
Libraries Australia (the service that developed out of the ABN in 2006);
Australia Dancing, a joint venture with Ausdance (2003)
Music Australia (2005)
ARROW Discovery Service (first Australian Research Repositories Online, then Australian Research Online, launched 2005)
People Australia (late 2006)
Australian Newspapers Beta service (July 2008)
The service developed by the project was called Single Business Discovery Service, and also briefly known by the staff as Girt. The name Trove was suggested by a staff member, with the associations of a treasure trove and the French verb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3D | S3D or S-3D may refer to:
Stereoscopic 3D, see stereoscopy
3D film, films with S-3D
Stereoscopic video game, video games with S-3D
S3D, a supercomputer project that models the molecular physics of combustion
S3D, a diode electrical component
Rocketdyne S-3D, a rocket engine used in early US ballistic missiles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna.aero | anna.aero (Airline Network News and Analysis) is a weekly e-journal and website devoted to airline and airport network planning, written by experienced airline and airport network planners, with experience ranging from easyJet, Go Fly and Birmingham Airport. Its work and research has been used in many airline and airport reports, and has been quoted in mainstream media as well as a financial report presentation from Ryanair.
Layout
The anna.aero website includes the following sections:
Top Story: Analysis of recent news from the aviation industry.
Route News: A weekly report of new airline routes that have been launched during the last week.
Take-offs & Landings: A review and analysis of new airline route development. Also includes coverage of any high-profile route withdrawals.
Airline Analysis: Analysis of airline's traffic developments and route networks.
Airport Analysis: Analysis of airports, including recent developments of passenger traffic, variation in demand, key airlines, country markets and routes.
Country feature: Analysis of airline routes, airport news, and national trends of a country or region.
Farewatch: Analysis and commentary on the published airline fare data of a particular airline route.
Market Trends: Looks at both airport and airline market trends, provides a regular update on airline industry trends across various national and international markets. On a monthly basis, the numbers of aircraft delivered by Airbus and Boeing to each airline customer are also presented and analysed.
Route Analysis: In-depth report on a particular airline route.
anna.aero awards
Weekly Awards: On a weekly basis, anna.aero awards "Route of the Week" to the new air service that best demonstrates the greatest tenacity and entrepreneurship as well as "Cake of the Week" to the best route welcoming cake.
€URO ANNIES Awards: The €URO ANNIES Awards, on a regular basis awarded by anna.aero, are based on science, statistics, and evidence rather than the opinions of a panel of judges or votes.
References
External links
Aviation websites
2007 establishments in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser%20speed%20test | A browser speed test is a computer benchmark that scores the performance of a web browser, by measuring the browser's efficiency in completing a predefined list of tasks. In general the testing software is available online, located on a website, where different algorithms are loaded and performed in the browser client. Typical test tasks are rendering and animation, DOM transformations, string operations, mathematical calculations, sorting algorithms, graphic performance tests and memory instructions.
Browser speed tests have been used during browser wars to prove superiority of specific web browsers. The popular Acid3 test is no particular speed test but checks browser conformity to web standards (though it checks whether a general performance goal is met).
General tests
Speedometer 2.0
Speedometer was originally developed by the WebKit team at Apple and released in 2014 and was updated in 2018. Speedometer 2.0 tests a browser's Web app responsiveness by timing simulated user interactions.
This benchmark simulates user actions for adding, completing, and removing to-do items using multiple examples in TodoMVC. Each example in TodoMVC implements the same todo application using DOM APIs in different ways. Some call DOM APIs directly from ECMAScript 5 (ES5), ECMASCript 2015 (ES6), ES6 transpiled to ES5, and Elm transpiled to ES5. Others use one of eleven popular JavaScript frameworks: React, React with Redux, Ember.js, Backbone.js, AngularJS, (new) Angular, Vue.js, jQuery, Preact, Inferno, and Flight. Many of these frameworks are used on the most popular websites in the world, such as Facebook and Twitter. The performance of these types of operations depends on the speed of the DOM APIs, the JavaScript engine, CSS style resolution, layout, and other technologies.
Peacekeeper
Peacekeeper is a platform-independent benchmark by Futuremark that tests rendering, mathematical and memory operations. It takes approx. 5 minutes for execution and tells the results of other browsers with different CPUs. Futuremark stopped maintaining Peacekeeper in July 2015. The test was taken offline in March 2018 and is no longer available.
Speed-Battle
Test of a JavaScript engine using simple algorithms. It displays results of other visitors (best, average, poorest) with the same operating system and browser version. It has an additional statistics page with browser ranking.
Testdrive
Microsoft maintains a suite of performance-oriented tests, often designed to test and stress JavaScript and rendering performance. These tests are typically designed to highlight IE's performance, but are compatible with other major browsers.
WebXPRT
WebXPRT is a cross-platform browser benchmark that runs HTML5- and JavaScript-based workloads. The benchmark provides scores for six individual workloads, as well as an overall score. WebXPRT is published by the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community, which is administered by Principled Technologies, and is one of the BenchmarkXPRT benchmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPDC | The openPDC is a complete set of applications for processing streaming time-series data in real-time. The name stands for "open source phasor data concentrator" and was originally designed for the concentration and management of real-time streaming synchrophasors. Due to the system's modular design, the openPDC can be classified as a generic event stream processor.
History
The openPDC is based on the SuperPDC which was developed by the Tennessee Valley Authority starting in 2004. The openPDC officially launched on October 7, 2009. The first stable release of the openPDC was made available on January 28, 2010. Then on February 23, 2010, AREVA T&D announced that they would be providing commercial support for the openPDC. Finally, on April 1, 2010, the Grid Protection Alliance inherited development of the openPDC and entered into a contract with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation in an effort to further enable its use as a distributed system.
Operation
The phasor data concentrator runs as a Windows service. The service is responsible for managing the life cycle of adapters that create and process the streaming phasor measurements. Adapters are split into three layers:
The input adapter layer is typically responsible for receiving data from an outside source such as a phasor measurement unit. That data is used to create measurements which are sent to other adapters to be processed or archived.
The action adapter layer is typically responsible for concentration and processing of the input measurements. Adapters in this layer can also introduce new measurements to the system, just like adapters in the input adapter layer.
The output adapter layer is typically responsible for archival of measurements received from the input adapter layer and the action adapter layer.
These adapters can be configured using any one of three supported database systems: Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and Microsoft Access.
Features
The openPDC implements a number of standard phasor protocols which can be used to receive data from devices. The supported protocols are IEEE C37.118 (v1.0 and Draft 6), IEEE 1344, BPA PDCstream, FNET, SEL Fast Message, and Macrodyne. There is also a built-in concentration engine which sorts the real-time data into frames based on the timestamp associated with each measurement. The sorted measurements can then be streamed to other applications using either IEEE C37.118 or BPA PDCstream. The system is capable of concentrating over one billion measurements per day coming from over 100 phasor measurement units across the Eastern Interconnection.
The project includes a historian for data archival. The files produced by the historian can later be analyzed using Hadoop. The historian is also designed to be used in distributed systems, having a single node dedicated to archival and several others sending concentrated measurements to the central archive. This design even allows for its use in any distributed system enabling one PDC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebra%20station | Bebra station is a railway station on the German passenger and freight rail network in the northern Hesse town of Bebra. It is a railway junction as well as an intercity stop on the Dortmund–Berlin–Stralsund route. The station was opened in 1846 and quickly became a major transport hub. Bebra then developed into a classic railway town.
History
Bebra became part of the German railway network on 29 August 1848, with commissioning of the first section of the Frederick William Northern Railway to Guxhagen. On 25 September, the line was extended to Gerstungen. On the same day the Thuringian line to Halle was also extended to Bebra. In 1866 this was followed by the first section of the Frankfurt–Bebra railway to Bad Hersfeld and in 1875 by the line to Göttingen.
The present station building was built in 1869 on an island surrounded by rail tracks.
It experienced a small decline in importance with the opening of the Berlin curve in 1914, connecting between the Frankfurt–Bebra line and the Thuringian line and avoiding the reversal previously required in Bebra.
After World War II traffic in the area Bebra shifted more in a north-south direction as traffic heading east was disrupted by the nearby Inner German border. Bebra was, however, a border station for interzone trains to East Germany and transit trains and military trains of the Western powers to West Berlin. In Bebra, locomotives of the West German and East German railways were exchanged. From the summer 1973 timetable this was done in Gerstungen. The "Berlin curve" was not used while Germany was divided.
The electrification of the railways serving the station started in 1963. In 1990, the Berlin curve was rebuilt and put back into operation.
Bebra is now served by an Intercity line and several regional lines. The marshalling yard is also one of Deutsche Bahn’s 13 cargo centres.
Rail services
The following services serve Bebra station:
References
Railway stations in North Hesse
Buildings and structures in Hersfeld-Rotenburg
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1848
1840s in the Electorate of Hesse
Establishments in the Electorate of Hesse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20Patrol%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth and final series of the Australian drama Sea Patrol began airing as Sea Patrol 5: Damage Control on 26 April 2011. The Nine Network has confirmed that series 5, which comprised comprise thirteen episodes each with a stand-alone story, would be the last series of Sea Patrol, due to a reliance of government rebates which expired after 68 episodes.
Casting
Main Cast. Chris | Yc
Recurring cast
Episodes
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See also
List of Sea Patrol episodes
References
General references
External links
2011 Australian television seasons
Sea Patrol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade%20Space%20Visualizer | The Trade Space Visualizer is a data visualization tool developed at the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) at The Pennsylvania State University. Initial development started in 2002, and it is currently supported by a team at ARL/Penn State.
Overview
The Trade Space Visualizer is a Java-based tool that includes multidimensional visualization techniques to display data files. The interface can load data in tabular format (.txt or .csv format). Recent work has focused on using the interface to drive underlying simulation models, by allowing users to place visual steering commands within data visualization plots.
Visualization Capabilities
3D Glyph Plots
2D Scatter Plot
Scatter Matricies
Parallel Coordinates
Histogram plots
Binned Plots
Additional Features
Visual Steering
Brushing/Linked Views
Preference Shading
Pareto Frontiers
Supports continuous, discrete, categorical, and datetime variables
K-Means Clustering
Principal Component Analysis
Add Calculated Columns
Further reading
Stump, G.M., Lego, S., Yukish, M., Simpson, T. W., Donndelinger, J. A., Visual Steering Commands for Trade Space Exploration : User-Guided Sampling With Example. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 2009. 9(4): p. 044501:1-10.
Stump, G.M., Yukish, M., Simpson, T. W., and O'Hara, J. J. Trade Space Exploration of Satellite Datasets Using a Design By Shopping Paradigm. in IEEE Aerospace Conference. 2004. Big Sky, MT.
External links
ARL/Penn State Trade Space Visualizer
Data visualization software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictly%20Come%20Dancing%20%28series%208%29 | Strictly Come Dancing returned for its eighth series on BBC One with a red carpet launch show on 11 September 2010, and the competitive live shows began on 1 October. According to BARB data, this series was the consistently highest-rated of the show to date, peaking at 14.28 million viewers. Alesha Dixon, Len Goodman, Craig Revel Horwood, and Bruno Tonioli all returned as judges.
Five professional dancers from the last series did not return for this series: Darren Bennett, Matthew Cutler, Brian Fortuna, Lilia Kopylova, and Ian Waite. Three new professionals joined this series: Artem Chigvintsev, Jared Murillo, and Robin Windsor. For the eighth series, the set was totally revamped: the backstage room where scores were given was replaced by a tower above the dance floor so that the couples could watch as their teammates performed. During week 8, the live show was transmitted from the Tower Ballroom at the Blackpool Tower.
Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly returned to present the main show on BBC One. For the results show, Daly was joined by Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two presenter Claudia Winkleman.
The celebrities did not know their professional partners until they were introduced to each other at the launch show. The series concluded on 18 December when EastEnders actress Kara Tointon and Artem Chigvintsev were announced as the winners, while television presenter Matt Baker and Aliona Vilani finished in second place, and psychologist Pamela Stephenson and James Jordan finished in third.
Format
The couples dance each week in a live show. The judges score each performance out of ten. The couples are then ranked according to the judges' scores and given points according to their rank, with the lowest scored couple receiving one point, and the highest scored couple receiving the most points (the maximum number of points available depends on the number of couples remaining in the competition). The public are also invited to vote for their favourite couples, and the couples are ranked again according to the number of votes they receive, again receiving points; the couple with the fewest votes receiving one point, and the couple with the most votes receiving the most points.
The points for judges' score and public vote are then added together, and the two couples with the fewest points are placed in the bottom two. If two couples have equal points, the points from the public vote are given precedence. As with the previous series, the bottom two couples have to perform a dance-off on the results show. Based on that performance alone, each judge then votes on which couple should stay and which couple should leave, with Len Goodman, as head judge, having the last and deciding vote.
Couples
This series featured fourteen celebrity contestants.
Dance troupe
The members of the dance troupe included Darren Bennett & Crystal Main, Ian Waite & Aneta Piotrowska, and Shem Jacobs & Tanya Perera.
The dance troupe performed the following:
Launch show: Quicks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax%20Studio | Parallax Studio is an American animation studio based in Nixa, Missouri, created by J. Allen Williams. The company is most known for the production of the science fiction computer game Darkstar: The Interactive Movie, which starred the original cast of Mystery Science Theater 3000 the actor Clive Robertson, and the actor Peter Graves in his final released work. The game also featured designs by the comic artist Richard Corben, Darkstar was released November 5, 2010 through Strategy First, company website, and later in stores through Lace Mamba Global in 2011.
On March 10, 2012, Parallax Studio announced via Facebook starting pre-production on a full-length fantasy film Everything. The company later ran a Kickstarter to raise additional funds for the film.
In 2020, Parallax Studio announced production on a second independent film MEAD (originally titled To Meet the Faces You Meet), based on the underground comic Fever Dreams by Jan Strnad and Richard Corben, featuring the voice of Patton Oswalt. On July 20, 2020, it was announced that the actors Patrick Warburton and Samuel Hunt had joined the cast. In September 2020, it was announced that Robert Picardo had also joined the cast. Principal photography began in late September and ended in early October 2021. MEAD was premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival on May 22, 2022, and will be released for streaming in North America on August 9, 2022.
Productions
2010 - Darkstar: The Interactive Movie (video game)
2017 - Everything (film)
2022 - MEAD (film)
References
External links
Official Parallax Studio Website
American animation studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland%20Runic%20Inscription%20Fv1946%3B258 | Uppland Runic Inscription Fv1946;258 or U Fv1946;258 is the Rundata catalog designation for a Viking Age memorial runic inscription to two fathers that is located in Fällbro, which is about 5 kilometers northwest of Täby, Stockholm County, Sweden, which is in the historic province of Uppland.
Description
This inscription was discovered in 1946 and is carved on a rock-face of a cliff. The runic inscription, which is 2.23 meters high and 1.14 meters wide, consists of text in the younger futhark carved on a serpent that is intertwined in an intricate design. Above the serpent is the figure of a man with raised arms. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr4, which is also known as Urnes style. This runestone style is characterized by slim and stylized animals that are interwoven into tight patterns. The animal heads are typically seen in profile with slender almond-shaped eyes and upwardly curled appendages on the noses and the necks.
The runic text states that the inscription is a memorial by three sons in memory of their father. There are two transliterations of the runic text documented in Rundata, the first, which is designated below as P, was performed by Sven B. F. Jansson and published in 1946, and the second, which is designated below as Q, was published in 1997. There are several differences between the two versions based not only on the reading of the runes, but also upon assumptions made regarding missing letters or assumed misspellings from the transliteration to the transcription into Old Norse. Such assumptions are required since letters were often deliberately left out of the runic text under several accepted rules when carving inscriptions on runestones. For the text on U Fv1946;258, in the 1946 version Jansson transcribed the runes rauþkar, the name of the father, as an odd spelling of the Germanic name Hroðgæiʀ, which means "Honor Spear." This interpretation, which ignores the a-rune in the name, was later re-interpreted by Evert Salberger as being Rauðkar, a name given to a man with "red hair."
The text is signed by the runemaster Visäte, who was active during the last half of the eleventh century in southern Uppland. The runes (u)isiti * (r)i(s)ti, meaning Viseti risti ("Véseti carved"), are located near the head of the serpent. Seven other runestones signed by Visäte include U 74 in Husby, U 208 in Råcksta, U 236 in Lindö, U 337 in Granby, U 454 in Kumla, U 669 Kålsta, and U 862 in Säva. Over twenty additional runestones have been attributed to him on stylistic grounds.
The Rundata designation for this inscription, U Fv1946;258, is from the year and page number of the issue of Fornvännen in which the inscription was first described.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
P: * uikr * uk * utryk * uk * bali * lata * raisa * mirki * iftʀ * faþur sn * rauþkar * uk skib * þu-- * -i-a-----i-iti * uk ---... skib * fa-t
Q: * uni(m)r * uk * utryk * uk * bali * lata * raisa * mirki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Newsome%20Crossley | John Newsome Crossley (born 28 September 1937, Yorkshire, England) is a British-Australian mathematician and logician who writes in the field of logic in computer science, history of mathematics and medieval history. He is involved in the field of mathematical logic in Australia and South East Asia.
As of 2010, Crossley is Emeritus Professor of Logic at Monash University, Australia, to which he has been connected since 1968.
Biography
Crossley was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield, and then went up to St John's College, Oxford. He was a Harmsworth Senior Scholar at Merton College from 1960 to 1962, before taking up a one-year Junior Research Fellowship there; he received his DPhil and MA (Mathematics) in 1963. His early career was spent at Oxford where he was the first university lecturer in mathematical logic and was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is still a Quondam Fellow there. He was offered a Readership position and following a lecturing visit to Monash University in 1968, he was elected to a Chair in Pure Mathematics. He accepted this position and as of 2010, Crossley continues to be active at Monash University where he serves through its Faculty of Information Technology.
Crossley has written books in logic, mathematics and computer science. He is known as the lead author of the book What is Mathematical Logic. Co-written with some of his students, the book popularized the subject to the interested layman. Many of Crossley's doctoral students have gone on to be professors themselves and have written books in the field of mathematics or computing, including Peter Aczel, Wilfrid Hodges, John Lane Bell and Rod Downey.
Crossley is also an avid photographer. In 1974 he first exhibited his photographs in Melbourne and again in 2005 he exhibited Composition and Context, a collection of photographs shot by Crossley around the world that illustrates the title and theme of the exhibition. A number of these photographs since have appeared in publications in Australia, Britain and the Philippines.
Publications
Books
Constructive Order Types John N. Crossley North-Holland Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1969
What is Mathematical Logic John N. Crossley et al. Oxford University Press, 1972
Combinatorial Functors John N. Crossley and Anil Nerode, Ergebnisse der Mathematik und ihrer Grenzgebiete, Springer, Berlin, 1974
The emergence of number John Newsome Crossley, World Scientific, Singapore, 1987
Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art -- Companion & Commentary, Shen Kangshen, John N. Crossley and Anthony W.-C. Lun. Oxford University Press, 1999
Adapting proofs-as-programs: The Curry-Howard Protocol, Iman Hafiz Poernomo, John Newsome Crossley and Martin Wirsing, Springer Monographs in Computer Science, Springer, New York, 2005
Growing ideas of number John N. Crossley Australian Council for Educational Research, Camberwell, 2007
Ars musice Constant J. Mews, John N. Crossley, Catherine Jeffreys, Leigh McKinnon, and Ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20as%20a%20service | In computing, data as a service (DaaS) is a cloud-based software tool used for working with data, such as managing data in a data warehouse or analyzing data with business intelligence. It is enabled by software as a service (SaaS). Like all "as a service" (aaS) technology, DaaS builds on the concept that its data product can be provided to the user on demand, regardless of geographic or organizational separation between provider and consumer. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and the widespread use of APIs have rendered the platform on which the data resides as irrelevant.
Data as a service as a business model is a concept when two or more organizations buy, sell, or trade machine-readable data in exchange for something of value.
Overview
DaaS began primarily in Web mashups and, since 2015, has been increasingly employed both commercially, and within organizations such as the United Nations.
Traditionally, most organisations have used data stored in a self-contained repository, for which software was specifically developed to access and present the data in a human-readable form. One result of this paradigm is the bundling of both the data and the software needed to interpret it into a single package, sold as a consumer product. As the number of bundled software with data packages proliferated, and required interaction among one another, another layer of interface was required. These interfaces, collectively known as enterprise application integration (EAI), often tended to encourage vendor lock-in, as it is generally easy to integrate applications that are built upon the same foundation technology.
The result of the combined software/data consumer package and required EAI middleware has been an increased amount of software for organizations to manage and maintain, simply for the use of particular data. In addition to routine maintenance costs, a cascading amount of software updates are required as the format of the data changes. The existence of this situation contributes to the attractiveness of DaaS to data consumers, because it allows for the separation of data cost and of data usage from the cost of a specific software environment or platform. Sensing as a Service (S2aaS) is a business model that integrates Internet of Things data to create data trading marketplaces.
Vendors, such as MuleSoft, Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure, undertake development of DaaS that more rapidly computes large volumes of data; integrates and analyzes that data; and publish it in real-time, using Web service APIs that adhere to its REST architectural constraints (RESTful API).
Data as a service business model
Data as a service as a business model is a concept when two or more organizations buy, sell, or trade machine-readable data in exchange for something of value.
Data as a service is a general term that encompasses data-related services. Now DaaS service providers are replacing traditional data analytics services or happily clustering with existing ser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECIPHER | DECIPHER is a web-based resource and database of genomic variation data from analysis of patient DNA. It documents submicroscopic chromosome abnormalities (microdeletions and duplications) and pathogenic sequence variants (single nucleotide variants - SNVs, Insertions, Deletions, InDels), from over 25000 patients and maps them to the human genome using Ensembl or UCSC Genome Browser. In addition it catalogues the clinical characteristics from each patient and maintains a database of microdeletion/duplication syndromes, together with links to relevant scientific reports and support groups.
An acronym of DatabasE of Chromosomal Imbalance and Phenotype in Humans using Ensembl Resources, DECIPHER was initiated in 2004 at the Sanger Institute in the United Kingdom, funded by the Wellcome Trust. However it is supported by an international research consortium, with patient data contributed by more than 240 clinical genetics centres from 33 countries. Each centre is represented by an experienced clinical geneticist and a senior molecular cytogeneticist.
Aims
DECIPHER was established in 2004 by Nigel Carter of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Helen Firth, a clinical genetics consultant at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. It has three main aims:
Aid in the interpretation of plausibly pathogenic variants from genome- wide analyses by placing them in the context of known pathogenic variants, other plausibly pathogenic variants and population variation
Annotate plausibly pathogenic variants with their likely functional impact using Ensembl tools to compare sequence and structural variants with the latest functional annotation of the current human reference genome e.g. define which genes are involved in a specific copy number variant (microdeletion / microduplication) or for sequence variants, whether they are positioned within a gene or regulatory element.
Facilitate research into the study of genes that affect human health and development to improve diagnosis, management and therapy of rare diseases.
As a tool for clinical geneticists, cytogeneticists and molecular biologists, DECIPHER is used to determine whether gene copy number variations identified in patients are of clinical significance. Members can visualise the genes within the region of DNA altered in their patients, and ascertain whether any are known to be implicated in disease. Chromosomal imbalances are a major cause of developmental delay, learning disabilities and congenital abnormalities and — according to Emily Niemitz writing in Nature Genetics — the database facilitates collaboration between researchers and clinicians who have patients with similar clinical characteristics, which can "assist in the discovery of new syndromes and in the recognition of genes of clinical importance."
Process
Patients are entered into DECIPHER by registered consortium members. Typically a clinical geneticist arranges for a chromosome analysis (usually microarray based) of a patient's DNA. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooga | Wooga is a German game software company based in Berlin that develops story-driven casual games for mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets and social networks like Facebook. It has developed mobile games such as June's Journey, Pearl's Peril and Switchcraft. The company is part of the social games company Playtika. Their name comes from the words "World of Gaming".
History
Wooga was founded in January 2009 by Jens Begemann (CEO), Patrick Paulisch, and Philipp Moeser (CTO). Paulisch has since left Wooga. The first games released were only available on social networks, first and foremost on Facebook. The first game developed by Wooga was Brain Buddies, a quiz game released in July 2009. Wooga received €5 million in a round of funding led by Balderton Capital in November 2009. Holtzbrinck Ventures, which had provided funding earlier that year, also participated in this round.
In April 2010, Wooga released its second game, Monster World. That same year, Holtzbrinck Ventures and Balderton Investment stepped in, helping to fund a third game. In October 2010, the company employed 50 people; in 2011, that number increased to 150.
In November 2010, Wooga launched Happy Hospital. In March 2011, Wooga launched Diamond Dash. The company raised a Series B Round of $24 million funding in May 2011. Magic Land Island was launched during the GDC Europe in August 2011 in Cologne. In June 2012, the HTML5 game was open sourced under the name Pocket Island on GitHub under MIT license and with the assets under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-SA.
With the progressive development of mobile technology and the global spread of mobile devices, Wooga's focus shifted in 2012 to games for the mobile sector. Diamond Dash was first game they released for iPhone and iPad on the iOS App Store (December 2011). In December 2012, Diamond Dash became the first Wooga game for Android smartphones and tablets. On 22 August 2013, Jelly Splash was the first game to be released for mobile devices first. The game was subsequently released on Facebook in September 2013 and on Android in October 2013. For Jelly Splash, Wooga entered into a cooperation with the South Korean internet service provider Kakao, and the game was launched as a test title for their KakaoTalk platform on 9 November 2013.
In March 2013, Wooga launched both Monster World mobile for iOS and Pearl's Peril. Pearl's Peril became the company’s fastest selling game. On 10 April 2013, Wooga launched Pocket Village. In May, they launched Fantastic Forest and Kingsbridge on 21 and 28 March, respectively. In December 2013, Jelly Splash reported monthly active users of 8.2 million. In February 2014, Fantastic Forest was relaunched as Farm Tales.
Investments in smartwatch games in 2015 did not paid off and sales plummeted for the first time. The trend continued in 2016, when newly developed games, such as Agent Alice, no longer brought in the same success figures. That year, the company laid off 40 employees and t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Student%20Loan%20Data%20System | The National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS) is the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) central database for Federal Student Aid. NSLDS receives data from schools, guaranty agencies, the Direct Loan program, and other ED programs. NSLDS Student Access provides a centralized, integrated view of Title IV loans and grants so that recipients of Title IV Aid can access and inquire about their Title IV loans and/or grant data.
Source of information
The loans and grants listed on the NSLDS website have been reported from different sources. In general, the agency that authorized the aid award is responsible for reporting aid information to NSLDS. Direct Loans are reported by a Direct Loan servicer, Federal Family Education Loan Program loans are reported by their guarantor, Perkins loans are reported by schools (or their agent), and grants are reported by the U.S. Department of Education's Common Origination and Disbursement System.
Loan servicers can typically provide more current balance and loan status information than the information provided in the database, which may be out of date or incorrect.
References
United States Department of Education
Student loans in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd%20Fix | Bernd Fix (born 19 March 1962 in Wittingen, Lower Saxony) is a German hacker and computer security expert.
Biography
After final secondary-school examination from Gymnasium Hankensbüttel in 1981, Bernd Fix studied Astrophysics and Philosophy at the universities of Göttingen and Heidelberg. He received his diplom for a work in the field of theoretical astrophysics in 1989. From 1998 Fix was living and working in Switzerland; he moved to Berlin in 2014.
In 1986 Fix joined the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in Hamburg and started to work on computer security issues, focussing on computer virus research. He published a first demo virus (Rushhour) in autumn 1986 in the Datenschleuder #17, the hacker magazine edited by the CCC. He also contributed results of his research to the book "Computer Viruses" by Ralf Burger. From 1987 to 1989 Fix was one of the spokespersons for the Chaos Computer Club and author for the "Hacker Bible 2".
In 1987 he devised a method to neutralize the Vienna Virus; this event marks the first documented antivirus software ever written.
Fix is also the author of several research viruses; among them the VP370 virus for IBM mainframe computers. The VP370 source code was allegedly stolen by the Bundesnachrichtendienst (Federal Intelligence Service in Germany) in 1988 to be used in attacks against East Block and NATO mainframe computer systems in the so-called "Project Rahab".
Wau Holland Foundation and WikiLeaks
After the death of his friend Wau Holland (co-founder of the Chaos Computer Club) in 2001 Fix helped to establish the Wau Holland Foundation and serves as a founding member of the Board of Directors ever since.
According to Fix, when the Wau Holland Foundation started official operations in 2003, he and other founding members were in contact with Julian Assange and in 2009 they decided to support WikiLeaks. According to an interview from 2011, he got fired from his job at SIX Financial Information because of the foundation's support for WikiLeaks.
In July 2016, on the same day "Guccifer 2.0" sent Assange an encrypted 1 GB file containing stolen DNC emails, German hackers Andrew Müller-Maguhn and Bernd Fix met with Assange for at least four hours. Müller-Maguhn, the Wau Holland Foundation Vice President, is named in the Mueller report as a possible conduit for delivering hacked emails to Assange. According to The Washington Post, a former WikiLeaks associate said that year Müller-Maguhn and a colleague oversaw submissions to WikiLeaks server that year, which Müller-Maguhn denied. According to court documents, Müller-Maguhn and Bernd Fix were identified as priority targets of UC Global's spying.
References
External links
Wau Holland Foundation
Chaos Computer Club
Datenspuren 2011
Das-Internet-darf-kein-Rechtsfreier-Raum-sein.pdf
1962 births
Living people
People from Wittingen
German computer scientists
Hackers
Members of Chaos Computer Club
People associated with WikiLeaks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS%20Sailing | RS Sailing is an international designer, builder and supplier of sailboats and dinghies and associated goods and services supported by a worldwide dealer network and class associations.
The current RS range contains 19 dinghies and related parts and fittings, as well as clothing, footwear, hats, caps, bags and other kit. The RS range includes All Purpose Boats (the RS Tera, RS Quba, RS Zest, RS Neo, RS Feva, RS Quest, RS Vision and RS Venture) for beginners, families, sailing clubs and schools. The Performance Boats are the RS100, RS200, RS300, RS400, RS500, RS600, RS700, RS800, RS Vareo, the new RS Aero and the RS Elite is a racing keel boat. The Performance Boats have been created to make modern high performance sailing available to a huge range of sailors, and includes single handers and two person skiffs. Offering sailors competitive one-design racing, RS Events take place throughout the UK and internationally for some RS classes.
History
1957 - H.Taylor & Son (Brockley) Ltd incorporated in the UK on 29 October 1957.
Traded as Racing Sailboats and London Dinghy Centre (LDC) in South East London.
RS Sailing has a boat design, manufacture and fit out side of the business, a chandlery side, and a range of clothing, headwear, footwear, bags, harnesses, sunglasses, helmets, and other kit for sailors and beach goers.
RS have over 60 dealers worldwide.
RS Sailing is the largest small boat manufacturer in the world.
The most common boat seen by RS is the Quest. The company said "The RS Quest is our most popular teaching/training and family boat. A completely modern design that is both comfortable, simple, strong, and stable. ... Quest is an easy to trailer, easy to rig, and fun to sail family boat. For programs and yacht clubs, the Quest offers generous space that makes new sailors comfortable." If you know about RS you will likely know about the RS Quest. The Quest is also easy to use because of how it interacts with wind. The sails can be reefed which helps learners in the harsh winds.
Products
The RS range is the world's largest and fastest growing sailing/boating brand with boats for championship level racing, recreational sailing, families, clubs and schools.
Memberships
RS Sailing is a partner in World Sailing Connect to Sailing programme which seeks to revitalise grass roots participation in all categories of sailing outside elite activity and put sailing firmly back into a growth sport with a focus on youth.
International Success & Awards
Sailing World - Dinghy of the Year 2015 - RS Aero
SAIL Best Boat Awards - Best Daysailor 2018 - RS Zest
RS Sailing won Asian Marine Boating Award's Best Dayboat / Sportboat / Dinghy for their entire range.
The RS Venture won Sailing World's Boat of the Year 2012.
The RS100 gained ISAF Class status in 2012.
The RS Feva has ISAF Class status.
The RS Tera gained ISAF Class status in 1997.
The RS500 has ISAF Class status.
In 1998, the RS300 won Small Sailing Boat of the Year Award at the British N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento%20New%20Technology%20High%20School | Sacramento New Technology High School is a small charter school based on the rings of New Tech Network's New Technology High Schools. It is part of the Sacramento City Unified School District and is located in South Sacramento.
History
Sacramento New Technology High School was established in 2003 on the site of Thurgood Marshall High School, an alternative high school during the 1990s. Prior to Thurgood Marshall, the site was home to Argonaut Alternative High School during the 1980s.
Affiliation
The school a New Tech Network (NTN) school. NTN is a school development organization, that helps public schools implement the "New Tech Model". This model is based on three key elements:
Project-based learning (PBL) - This is the heart of the instructional approach. Teachers facilitate students' use collaborative methods of learning.
Trust, Respect, and Responsibility - In this type of cultural environment, students decide how to allocate their time and team roles as opposed a traditional school setting where teachers are more involved in a student's time management.
Smart use of Technology - With a one-to-one ratio of computer to student, the New Tech Learning Platform facilitates students and faculty to share projects online, collaborate, communicate, and conduct research.
There are currently dozens schools across the nation that have adopted this model. Sacramento New Technology High School, or SNTHS, regularly hosts administrators and faculty from other public schools to demonstrate the "New Tech Model". There are tours of the school conducted by student ambassadors.
The School and Curriculum
In 2010/2011 SNTHS had an estimated 350 networked computers. 90% are Windows-based, and 10% are Apple Mac OS. The Apple computers were implemented for the 2010/2011 school year in an effort to give students the opportunity to develop more graphic design-oriented skills. As of 2021/2022, Every student is issued a personal Chromebook, which the previously mentioned statistics do not account for. Along with the conventional math, language, and social science courses found at other high schools, this effectively expanded the current digital media course offering. SNTHS also houses a fully digital ProTools music studio, a state of the art multi-media and multi-purpose room, and interactive whiteboards in every classroom.
References
External links
New Tech Network
High schools in Sacramento, California
Charter high schools in California
2003 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20dispensing%20cabinet | An automated dispensing cabinet (ADC), also called a unit-based cabinet (UBC), automated dispensing device (ADD), or automated dispensing machine (ADM), is a computerized medicine cabinet for hospitals and healthcare settings. ADCs allow medications to be stored and dispensed near the point of care while controlling and tracking drug distribution.
Overview
Hospital pharmacies have provided medications for patients by filling patient-specific cassettes of unit-dose medications that were then delivered to the nursing unit and stored in medication cabinets or carts. ADCs, originally designed for hospital use, were introduced in hospitals in the 1980s and have facilitated the transition to alternative delivery models and more decentralized medication distribution systems.[2] Implementing automated dispensing cabinets as part of a decentralized or hybrid medication distribution system can improve patient safety and the accountability of the inventory, streamline certain billing processes.
However, in the 2000s, the technology began to be deployed into other care settings where medication doses were stored onsite, and higher security methods were needed to control inventory, access, and dispensing of each patient dose. Settings that now deploy ADCs include long-term care facilities, hospice, critical access hospitals, surgery centers, group homes, residential care facilities, rehab and psych environments, animal health, dental clinics, and nursing education simulation. These diverse care settings share a common need to safely store, account for, and dispense individual doses of medications, especially narcotics and high-value medications, at the point of care.[3]
ADCs track user access and dispensed medications, and their use can improve control over medication inventory. The real-time inventory reports generated by many cabinets can simplify the filling process and help the pharmacy track expired drugs. Furthermore, by restricting individual drugs – such as high-risk medications and controlled substances – to unique drawers within the cabinet, overall inventory management, patient safety, and medication security can be improved. Automated dispensing cabinets allow the pharmacy department to profile physician orders before they are dispensed.[4]
ADCs can also enable providers to record medication charges upon dispensing, reducing the billing paperwork the pharmacy is responsible for. In addition, nurses can note returned medications using the cabinets' computers, enabling direct credits to patients' accounts. Since automated cabinets can be located on the nursing unit floor, nursing have speedier access to a patient's medications. Also, shorter waiting time ensures improved patient comfort and care.[5]
Role of automated dispensing in healthcare
Automated dispensing is a pharmacy practice in which a device dispenses medications and fills prescriptions. ADCs, which can handle many different medications, are available from a number of manufacturer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Center%20for%20Integrative%20Biomedical%20Informatics | The National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics (NCIBI) is one of seven National Centers for Biomedical Computing funded by the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Roadmap for Medical Research. The center is based at the University of Michigan and is part of the Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics. NCIBI's mission is to create targeted knowledge environments for molecular biomedical research to help guide experiments and enable new insights from the analysis of complex diseases. It was established in October 2005.
The Center develops computational methods to effectively access and integrate biological data. Driving Biological Projects (DBPs) provide a starting point from which tool development is informed, launched, and tested. Current DBPs include gene fusion in cancers, major organ-specific complications of diabetes, nutrition and obesity, and co-morbid disease associations of bipolar disorder. In addition to testing tools for function, a separate team is dedicated to testing usability and user interaction.
Once tools are developed and validated, the Center disseminates data and software throughout the University and the broader biomedical research community. Various mechanisms such as training videos, tutorials, and demonstrations and presentations at prominent scientific conferences are used to share NCIBI data and software nationally and internationally.
Available tools
In addition to the tools listed below, the enriched data contained in many NCIBI databases is available from the Databases tab on the Try Our Tools page.
Exploratory analysis
Conceptual literature searching
See also
Bioinformatics
Biomedical Informatics
Notes
References
External links
National Center for Integrative Biomedical Informatics homepage
Cytoscape
Genomics
Proteomics
Research institutes in Michigan
Medical research institutes in the United States
Bioinformatics organizations
National Institutes of Health
Medical and health organizations based in Michigan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat%20algorithm | The Bat algorithm is a metaheuristic algorithm for global optimization. It was inspired by the echolocation behaviour of microbats, with varying pulse rates of emission and loudness. The Bat algorithm was developed by Xin-She Yang in 2010.
Metaphor
The idealization of the echolocation of microbats can be summarized as follows: Each virtual bat flies randomly with a velocity at position (solution) with a varying frequency or wavelength and loudness . As it searches and finds its prey, it changes frequency, loudness and pulse emission rate . Search is intensified by a local random walk. Selection of the best continues until certain stop criteria are met. This essentially uses a frequency-tuning technique to control the dynamic behaviour of a swarm of bats, and the balance between exploration and exploitation can be controlled by tuning algorithm-dependent parameters in bat algorithm.
A detailed introduction of metaheuristic algorithms including the bat algorithm is given by Yang where a demo program in MATLAB/GNU Octave is available, while a comprehensive review is carried out by Parpinelli and Lopes. A further improvement is the development of an evolving bat algorithm (EBA) with better efficiency.
See also
List of metaphor-based metaheuristics
References
Further reading
Yang, X.-S. (2014), Nature-Inspired Optimization Algorithms, Elsevier.
Nature-inspired metaheuristics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland%20Runic%20Inscription%20Fv1948%3B168 | This runic inscription, designated as U Fv1948;168 in the Rundata catalog, is on a Viking Age memorial runestone to two sons that is located in Alsike, Uppsala County, Sweden, which is in the historic province of Uppland.
Description
This runestone was discovered on December 5, 1947 during restoration work at the church in Alsike. Before the historic significance of runestones was understood, they were often reused as materials in the construction of buildings, roads, and bridges. The stone was repaired and raised next to the church in 1948. The inscription on this granite stone, which is 1.9 meters in height, consists of runic text in the younger futhark carved on a serpent that is intertwined in an intricate design. In the upper center of the design is a Christian cross. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr5, which is also known as Urnes style. This runestone style is characterized by slim and stylized animals that are interwoven into tight patterns. The animal heads are typically seen in profile with slender almond-shaped eyes and upwardly curled appendages on the noses and the necks.
The runic text states that the stone was raised by the parents and two brothers in memory of Gagi and Harðr. The father's name Sibbi is likely a nickname, and, based upon the names of two of the two sons, Sigmundr and Sigfastr, may be short for Sigbjórn. A common practice at that time in Scandinavia was the repeating one of the name elements from a parent's name in the names of the children to show the family connection. The inscription is signed by the runemaster Öpir, who was active during the late 11th century and early 12th century in Uppland. His signature, ybir risti or Øpiʀ risti ("Œpir carved"), is separated from the rest of the runic text and is located on the left side of the inscription, inside of the serpent, and under the cross. His style is sufficiently distinctive that this inscription would have been attributed to him even without his signature being present.
The Rundata designation for this Uppland inscription, U Fv1948;168, refers to the year and page number of the issue of Fornvännen in which the runestone was first described.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
sibi * uk * ikriþ * litu * raisa * stain * iftiʀ * g-ha * uk * at * harþ * suni * sina * sihimuntr * uk * sihikfastr * bryþr * sina ybir risti
Transcription into Old Norse
Sibbi ok Ingrið letu ræisa stæin æftiʀ G[a]ga(?) ok at Harð, syni sina, Sigmundr ok Sigfastr [at] brøðr sina. Øpiʀ risti.
Translation in English
Sibbi and Ingríðr had the stone raised in memory of Gagi(?) and in memory of Harðr, their sons; Sigmundr and Sigfastr in memory of their brothers. Œpir carved.
References
Runestones in Uppland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20%28Friday%20Night%20Lights%29 | "Pilot" is the first episode of the sports drama television series Friday Night Lights. The episode premiered on the NBC network on October 3, 2006. It introduces the men and women involved with the Dillon Panthers, a Texas high school football team. In the pilot episode, the team is preparing for the first game of the season, which will be the first game under new head coach Eric Taylor.
The show is based on the 2004 film Friday Night Lights, which was in turn based on the 1990 non-fiction book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H. G. Bissinger. Peter Berg, who is Bissinger's cousin and who directed the film, wrote and directed the pilot episode, and served as executive producer for the series. While some of the actors from the movie returned to act on the show, most of the actors were cast specifically for the television series.
Critical reception of the show was good to average, with a general appreciation for the realistic portrayal of Middle America. Generally speaking, however, there were serious doubts about whether the show would be able to stay on the air very long, though it has since gone on to complete five seasons. The episode's viewership of just over seven million was characterized as disappointing, though it did relatively well among men aged 18 to 34.
Plot
It is Monday morning, and five days until the first game of the season for high school football team Dillon Panthers. While coach Eric Taylor is surveying the field, some of the players are getting ready for practice. Fullback Tim Riggins is recovering from a hangover, and his brother Billy warns him that he could be kicked off the team if he does not show. Meanwhile, second-string quarterback Matt Saracen is preparing lunch for his grandmother, before his friend Landry Clarke drives him to practice. At the stadium, a television crew is conducting interviews. It is revealed that coach Taylor, who has recently been made head coach, used to coach the exceptionally gifted quarterback Jason Street. It also becomes clear that there is a deep-seated conflict between Tim Riggins and the brash and loud-mouthed running back Brian "Smash" Williams. Later, at the local fast food restaurant where the players regularly hang out, Landry and Matt try to approach the coach's daughter Julie. She insists that she does not associate with football players. They assure her that Landry is not on the team and Matt gets virtually no playing time because of Street, but she still rebuffs them both.
On Tuesday night a pep rally is held at the local car dealership. The owner and host is Buddy Garrity, who is also the father of Jason Street's girlfriend Lyla. Coach Taylor is surrounded by members of the local community questioning him about the game. It is gradually emerging how important football is to the town, and the great responsibility that rests on Taylor's shoulders. His wife Tami, meanwhile, is reluctantly recruited by the society wives to join their book club. Riggins' girlfr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demos%20%28Matt%20Skiba%20album%29 | Demos is the first full-length album by Alkaline Trio singer/guitarist Matt Skiba. It is composed of demos that Skiba has recorded into his computer. Skiba released the project on Asian Man Records, which was Alkaline Trio's label for their first two full-length albums, Goddamnit and Maybe I'll Catch Fire. Four of the songs from this release, namely "Angel of Deaf," "Haven't You," "How The Hell Did We Get Here," and "Nausea (Cruel and Unusual)," were later rerecorded and released on Babylon, Skiba's first album with his band The Sekrets. On that release, however, "Nausea (Cruel and Unusual)" underwent lyrical alterations and was renamed "Olivia."
Track listing
All songs written and performed by Matt Skiba.
References
2010 debut albums
Demo albums
Matt Skiba albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual%20Homeless%20Assessment%20Report%20to%20Congress | Perhaps the most accurate and current data on homelessness in the United States is reported annually by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (AHAR). The AHAR report relies on data from two sources: single-night, point-in-time counts of both sheltered and unsheltered homeless populations reported on the Continuum of Care applications to HUD; and counts of the sheltered homeless population over a full year provided by a sample of communities based on data in their local Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS).
Sample results from the 2010 AHAR
The sixth report to Congress, the 2010 AHAR, released in July 2011, reports the following household and demographic information for people that had accessed emergency shelters and transitional housing between October 2009 and September 2010, based on a sampling of HMIS data:
Total Number
About 1.59 million people were homeless in emergency shelters or transitional housing at some point during the year between October 1, 2009, and September 30, 2010. The nation's sheltered homeless population over a year's time included approximately 1,092,600 individuals (68 percent) and 516,700 persons in families (32 percent). A family is a household that includes an adult 18 years of age or older and at least one child. All other sheltered homeless people are considered individuals.
Ethnicity
83.6% are Non-Hispanic/Non-Latino
16.4% are Hispanic/Latino
Race
41.6% are White, non-Hispanic/Latino
9.7% are White, Hispanic/Latino
37.0% are Black or African American
4.5% Other Single Race
7.2% Multiple Races
Age
21.8% Under age 18
23.5% are 18 to 30
37% are 31 to 50
14.9% are 51 to 61
2.8% are 62 and older
Household Size
63.0% are in a 1-person household
10.1% are in a household of 2 people
10.4% are in a household of 3 people
8.1% are in a household of 4 people
8.4% are in a household of 5 or more people
Veteran Status
11.6% are veterans
88.4% are not veterans
Disability Status (adults only)
36.8% are disabled
63.2% are not disabled
Living Situation Prior to Program Entry
Already Homeless:
14.1% were in a place not meant for human habitation
25.0% were in emergency shelter
From 'Housing', newly homeless:
11.8% were in a rented or owned housing unit
17.6% were staying with family
12.6% were staying with friends
From Institutional Settings:
6.4% were in a psychiatric facility, substance abuse center or hospital (nonpsychiatric)
4.4% were in a jail, prison, or juvenile detention
0.2% were in a foster care home
Total Other:
7.9% were in a hotel or motel (no voucher)
Stability of Previous Night’s Living Arrangement
20.6% stayed 1 week or less
15.4% stayed more than 1 week, but less than a month
21.6% stayed 1 to 3 months
16.0% stayed more than 3 months, but less than a year
26.4% stayed 1 year or longer
ZIP Code of Last Permanent Address
62.5% came from the same jurisdiction as program location
37.6 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work%20of%20Art%3A%20The%20Next%20Great%20Artist | Work of Art: The Next Great Artist is an American reality competition show that aired on the cable television network Bravo, in which up-and-coming artists compete for a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum and a cash prize of $100,000. The show was produced by Pretty Matches Productions and Magical Elves Productions, the same company that created Project Runway and Top Chef. The series premiered on June 9, 2010. Work of Art was renewed for a second season in September 2010 which began on October 12, 2011.
Seasons
Season 1 (2010)
Contestants
: Age at the time of filming.
: City of residence at the time of filming.
Contestant progress
: John had his book cover published by Penguin Books; he did not receive immunity.
: Beginning with this episode, the winners no longer received immunity.
(WINNER) The artist won Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.
(RUNNER-UP) The artist was a runner-up for the season.
(WIN) The artist won that episode's challenge.
(HIGH) The artist was selected as one of the top entries in the challenge, but did not win.
(IN) The artist neither won nor lost that week's challenge. They also were not up to be eliminated.
(LOW) The artist was selected as one of the bottom entries in the challenge, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The artist lost that week's challenge and was out of the competition.
Episodes
Season 2 (2011)
Contestants
: Age at the time of filming.
: City of residence at the time of filming.
Contestant progress
: Young had a two-page spread published in Entertainment Weekly; he did not receive immunity.
(WINNER) The artist won the season of Work of Art: The Next Great Artist.
(RUNNER-UP) The artist was a runner-up for the season.
(WIN) The artist won that episode's challenge.
(HIGH) The artist was selected as one of the top entries in the challenge, but did not win.
(IN) The artist neither won nor lost that week's challenge. They also were not up to be eliminated.
(LOW) The artist was selected as one of the bottom entries in the challenge, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The artist lost that week's challenge and was out of the competition.
Episodes
Future seasons
Work of Art's renewal status was unclear as the second season concluded: In late December 2011, Judge Bill Powers wrote that "We will have to see if our work of art worked for Bravo." Jerry Saltz, another Work of Art judge, announced via his Vulture blog that he would not return for a third season of the show. The uncertainty as to Work of Art's fate on Bravo was somewhat resolved when the Gallerist reported the show's cancellation in August 2012. The LA Times reported that while Bravo would not officially confirm the cancellation, "a source close to the channel said it was "unlikely" that the show would return for a third season on Bravo." Work of Art's producers as of August 2012 were approaching other television networks in the hopes of continuing the show's run elsewhere.
References
External links
Bravo Says Encore to "Work of A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5G%20%28disambiguation%29 | 5G is the fifth generation cellular network technology.
It usually refers to 5G NR and some other Internet of Things network, but some carriers have also applied the 5G label on their LTE Advanced network, which is a fourth generation cellular network technology.
5G may also refer to:
Other network technology
5G, 5G network, or 5G Wi-Fi labeling on network or telecommunication devices can also mean either of followings:
5 GHz, a radio frequency used by Wi-Fi among others; see List of WLAN channels.
Wi-Fi 5 (IEEE 802.11ac), the fifth generation of Wi-Fi technology, from year 2013
5 Giga of any other units, for example 5 Gigabytes
5th generation of any other technologies/services/goods
Arts and entertainment
"5G" (Mad Men), an episode of the television series Mad Men
5GFM, a radio station
The Creature from the Pit (production code: 5G), a 1979 Doctor Who serial
A song from Bill Bruford's second solo album, One of a Kind
Other uses
iPod (5G)
Mercedes-Benz 5G-Tronic transmission, an automotive transmission
See also
Fifth-generation programming language (5GL)
G5 (disambiguation)
Fifth generation (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20%28disambiguation%29 | Social refers to the interaction of people and other organisms with each other, and to their collective co-existence.
Social may also refer to:
Social science and economics
Social network, a theoretical concept referring to a social structure made up of individuals or organizations
Social ownership, ownership of the means of production by society as a whole
Social structure, patterns of social arrangements in society
Social system, a patterned network of interrelationships between individuals, groups and institutions that makes up a coherent whole
Relating to Socialism, the society-wide ownership and coordination of production and resource allocation
Politics and public policy
Social policy, policies concerning the welfare of economically and socially-disadvantaged members of society;
Social security
Social housing
Relating to the social welfare of a population;
Culture and media
Social media, as in e.g. "What's our social strategy?"
The Heavenly Social, also known as "The Social", a chain of venues owned by Heavenly Records
The Social (Irish TV series), fronted by Craig Doyle
The Social (Canadian TV series), a Canadian daytime television talk show
a 2013 social cognitive neuroscience book, Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect by Matthew Lieberman
The Social, a venue run by the Beacham Theatre in Orlando, Florida
Other uses
A party or other social event
See also
Social activity (disambiguation)
Social network (disambiguation)
Social science disambiguation pages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble%20averaging%20%28machine%20learning%29 | In machine learning, particularly in the creation of artificial neural networks, ensemble averaging is the process of creating multiple models and combining them to produce a desired output, as opposed to creating just one model. Frequently an ensemble of models performs better than any individual model, because the various errors of the models "average out."
Overview
Ensemble averaging is one of the simplest types of committee machines. Along with boosting, it is one of the two major types of static committee machines. In contrast to standard network design in which many networks are generated but only one is kept, ensemble averaging keeps the less satisfactory networks around, but with less weight. The theory of ensemble averaging relies on two properties of artificial neural networks:
In any network, the bias can be reduced at the cost of increased variance
In a group of networks, the variance can be reduced at no cost to bias
Ensemble averaging creates a group of networks, each with low bias and high variance, then combines them to a new network with (hopefully) low bias and low variance. It is thus a resolution of the bias-variance dilemma. The idea of combining experts has been traced back to Pierre-Simon Laplace.
Method
The theory mentioned above gives an obvious strategy: create a set of experts with low bias and high variance, and then average them. Generally, what this means is to create a set of experts with varying parameters; frequently, these are the initial synaptic weights, although other factors (such as the learning rate, momentum etc.) may be varied as well. Some authors recommend against varying weight decay and early stopping. The steps are therefore:
Generate N experts, each with their own initial values. (Initial values are usually chosen randomly from a distribution.)
Train each expert separately.
Combine the experts and average their values.
Alternatively, domain knowledge may be used to generate several classes of experts. An expert from each class is trained, and then combined.
A more complex version of ensemble average views the final result not as a mere average of all the experts, but rather as a weighted sum. If each expert is , then the overall result can be defined as:
where is a set of weights. The optimization problem of finding alpha is readily solved through neural networks, hence a "meta-network" where each "neuron" is in fact an entire neural network can be trained, and the synaptic weights of the final network is the weight applied to each expert. This is known as a linear combination of experts.
It can be seen that most forms of neural networks are some subset of a linear combination: the standard neural net (where only one expert is used) is simply a linear combination with all and one . A raw average is where all are equal to some constant value, namely one over the total number of experts.
A more recent ensemble averaging method is negative correlation learning, proposed by Y. Liu an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse%20of%20the%20City | Pulse of the City is a 15-minute American television anthology drama series on the DuMont Television Network. The series ran from September 15, 1953, to March 9, 1954.
Stars of episodes included Rochelle Hudson.
Production
Robert B. Tobias produced and directed the series. Other directors of the dramas included Robert Altman. Marvin Wald was the writer. Episodes were filmed on location in New York in 16mm color. Ehler's Coffee was the sponsor.
Critical response
Patrick McGilligan, in the book Robert Altman: Jumping Off the Cliff, described Pulse of the City as "a kind of poor man's Dragnet" and said, "Some episodes were takeoff; others were sharply dramatic."
Episodes
Partial list of episodes
"Comeback" - September 22, 1953 - Cliff Cothron, Pat Rogers, John Scanlon, Fay Sappington
"Time Exposure" - October 6, 1953 - Carlotta Sherwood, Edward Cary, Frank Sutton, Bob Herrman
"The Case of Captain Denning"
"The Case of Norman Doyle"
"The Case of Bill Huff"
Status
Three episodes are in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1950s American anthology television series
1953 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
1950s American drama television series
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banks%20ATM%20Network%20and%20Customer%20Services | Banks ATM Network and Customer Services (BANCS) is an interbank network in India. It was launched on 25 February 2004, with 13 member banks. It is managed by an advisory board consisting of member banks. It is successor to the now-defunct Swadhan ATM network. After the cyber attack by Wannacry several ATM were shut down in Kerala in May 2017
Member banks
Bank of Maharashtra
Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait
Greater Bombay Co-op Bank
Centurion Bank
Central Bank of India
UTI Bank
Punjab & Sind Bank
IDBI Bank Ltd
RBL Bank
SBI Commercial & International Bank
Cosmos Bank
Air Corporation Employees Co-op Bank
Saraswat Bank
Technology
BANCS is supported by the India Switch Company (ISC), acquired by eFunds in 2005, which in turn, was acquired by Fidelity National Information Services. ISC supports BANCS through a mix of VSATs, ISDN, leased lines, CDMA and GPRS. The financial switches used in the system are provided by Oasis Technology Ltd., Mumbai. The software used is from IBM, Solaris and Oracle.
Competitors
Cashnet
MITR
CashTree
References
External links
BANCS
Interbank networks in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MotorStorm%3A%20Apocalypse | MotorStorm: Apocalypse is a 2011 racing video game by Evolution Studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It is the fourth game in the MotorStorm series and the third for the PlayStation 3. The title was revealed shortly before the beginning of the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2010 on the PlayStation Blog by Evolution Studios on 6 June.
The planned UK release date of MotorStorm: Apocalypse was 16 March 2011, but was delayed by Sony Computer Entertainment UK following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The Australian launch went ahead as planned on 17 March, but Sony announced further shipments of the game to that country were halted in the wake of the disaster. The planned North American release date of 12 April was delayed again by Sony who later confirmed new releases dates of 31 March in the UK and 3 May in North America.
The Multiplayer servers were closed on 27 August 2018.
Story
Apocalypse is more story-driven than previous instalments. The events of Apocalypses MotorStorm Festival are told from the perspective of three participants, labelled Mash "The Rookie", Tyler "The Pro", and Big Dog "The Veteran" by Evolution Studios, with each participant also representing a difficulty level of gameplay. These three participants will each see different parts of the catastrophe unfold over the course of the three-day festival.
Setting
The game takes place in an apocalyptic urban area called The City, based on the West Coast of the United States (in particular California's Bay Area). The game consists of more than 40 tracks that can be altered from active catastrophic earthquakes and tornadoes as well as helicopters crashing through buildings.
Gameplay
New vehicles in the game include supercars, superbikes, hot hatches, muscle cars and choppers. Apocalypse is the first game in the MotorStorm series to focus on an urban setting as opposed to natural environments. The city that the Festival takes place is enduring the throes of a massive natural disaster, causing the man-made structures in the city to visibly deteriorate. As players race through the tracks, the tracks can change in real-time; bridges can buckle and twist, buildings collapse and rifts open up beneath the vehicles as they drive. Players can also customize their vehicles with vinyls, vehicle parts, and modify the vehicle's handling, boosting and offensive abilities through perks. They are able to create and design their own game rules for online tournaments. A new gameplay element is the addition of "air cooling" one's boost. Similar to driving through cool water in Pacific Rift would speed up the rate of boost cooling, releasing the accelerator over a large jump will also cause the boost temperature gauge to drop quicker.
A new challenge in Apocalypse is the introduction of people who try to interfere in the event. The City houses two factions, known as the Crazies and DuskLite, who vie for survival. The Crazies try to impede the pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediaset%20Italia%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | Mediaset Italia is a Canadian Italian language specialty channel owned by TLN Media Group. It broadcasts programming from Canale 5, a television channel from Italy and local Canadian content.
Mediaset Italia Canada was licensed by the CRTC on September 6, 2006 as Italian Entertainment TV.
Mediaset Italia is the international service of Mediaset, the largest private broadcaster in Italy, founded in the 1970s by former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and still controlled today with a 38.6% stake by his family holding company Fininvest (via MFE - MediaForEurope), it features programming from Mediaset's three channels: Canale 5, Italia 1 and Rete 4.
Mediaset Italia airs top rated entertainment programming including comedies, dramas, reality shows as well as news and current affairs programs.
On April 2, 2014, Mediaset Italia launched on Bell Satellite TV and Bell Fibe TV. On May 31, 2016, Mediaset Italia launched on Cogeco.
See also
TLN
Mediaset Italia
References
External links
Mediaset television channels
Multicultural and ethnic television in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Italian-Canadian culture
Italian-language television stations
Digital cable television networks in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playerhistory.com | Playerhistory.com is an internet association football statistics database, founded in April 2002 by former footballer Håkon André Winther (born 15 September 1969 in Tromsø).
Maintained by a team of volunteers from all over the world, it is one of the largest websites of its kind. As of August 2009, when Football DataCo threatened legal action in a dispute over fixtures, the site contains more than 340,000 player profiles, 40,000 club details and more than 1,600,000 match results.
Playerhistory.com's material has been reproduced in media sources including Aftenposten, and Bladet Tromsø.
References
External links
List of archived Playerprofiles on Playerhistory.com at Wayback Machine.
Online person databases
Association football websites
Sport Internet forums
Internet properties established in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Systems%20Concepts%2C%20Inc. | Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc. (ASCI) provides job scheduling, scripting and command language, and data replication and recovery software. Founded in 1981 in Hoboken, the company is now based in Morristown, New Jersey. Initially, the company was focused on the development of products for former Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC) OpenVMS operating system (OS) product; now they can be used across different platforms and technologies, including Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX, and OpenVMS. Its products include ActiveBatch, XLNT, and RemoteSHADOW.
ActiveBatch
ActiveBatch, a Workload Automation and Job Scheduling system, integrates business applications, stand-alone tasks, processes, and scripts across different computing environments to give the user a centralized view of operations at the project, organizational or enterprise level. It functions to eliminate wait or idle time in existing workflows and reduce manual error.
ActiveBatch was first developed as a script scheduling tool called BQMS® (Batch Queue Management System) to schedule the company's XLNT product. Based on customer feedback and continued R&D, Advanced Systems Concepts developed BQMS into a standalone, cross-platform enterprise job scheduler designed for distributed computing environments, at which time renamed the solution ActiveBatch.
Since its inception, ActiveBatch has been developed from a cross-platform job scheduler into a workload automation solution, providing a graphical user interface for workflow design and a single interface for definition and monitoring of jobs across a distributed network of computers. It also provides capabilities for the integration of real-time business activities with traditional background IT processing across different operating system platforms and business application environments.
Other Software Offerings
XLNT is an advanced Scripting and Command Language for Windows' systems that provides a command language for system administrators.
RemoteSHADOW provides users to mirror their data to a remote site, to protect against network failures.
Integration Application Control System, INTACT (or DECIntact) performs terminal, file, network, and security management for applications. It is a transaction processing system for OpenVMS to allow customers to use OpenVMS systems and was licensed to major financial organizations around the world. In the late 1980s, DEC exclusively licensed INTACT from ASCI and renamed it DECIntact. Although DEC was acquired by Compaq in 1998 (Compaq has since been acquired by Hewlett-Packard), INTACT and DECIntact remain in use.
Litigation
After Advanced Systems Concepts protested keyword advertising purchases by its competitor Network Automation, Network Automation sued Advanced Systems Concepts for a declaratory judgment. In 2011, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important decision clarifying trademark law for the Internet. Network Automation, Inc. v. Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc., 638 F.3d 1137 (9t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20UPS%20Tools | Network UPS Tools (NUT) is a suite of software component designed to monitor power devices, such as uninterruptible power supplies, power distribution units, solar controllers and servers power supply units. Many brands and models are supported and exposed via a network protocol and standardized interface.
It follows a three-tier model with dozens of NUT device driver daemons that communicate with power-related hardware devices over selected media using vendor-specific protocols, the NUT server which represents the drivers on the network (defaulting to IANA registered port ) using the standardized NUT protocol, and NUT clients (running on same as the server, or on remote systems) which can manage the power devices and query their power states and other metrics for any applications, usually ranging from historic graphing and graceful shutdowns to orchestrated power failover and VM migration.
Based on NUT design and protocol, the project community authored "UPS management protocol", Informational RFC 9271, which was published by IETF in August 2022, and the IANA port number registry was updated to reflect it (even though this RFC is not formally an Internet Standard).
Clients maintained in the NUT codebase include , and for command-line actions, for relatively simple monitoring and graceful shutdowns (considering the amount of minimally required vs. total available power source units in the current server), for complex monitoring scenarios, for a simple web interface, a X11 desktop client, as well as C, C++ and Python libraries for third-party clients. Community projects include more clients and bindings for other languages.
Being a cross-platform project, NUT works on most Unix, BSD and Linux platforms with various system architectures, from embedded systems to venerable Solaris, HP-UX and AIX servers. There were also native Windows builds based on previous stable NUT release line, last being 2.6.5. This effort was revived after the NUT 2.8.0 release, becoming part of the main codebase in September 2022 (at this time there are areas of the codebase documented in the project as placeholders and not yet ported to the Windows platform, and packages are not yet produced by the project).
History
Pavel Korensky's original provided the inspiration for pursuing the APC Smart-UPS protocol in 1996. This is the same software that Apcupsd derived from, according to the Debian maintainer of the latter.
Russell Kroll, the original NUT author and coordinator, released the initial package, named smartupstools, in 1998. The design already provided for two daemons, (which serves data) and (which protects systems), a set of drivers and examples, a number of CGI modules and client integration, and a set of client CLI tools (, and ), for interfacing the system with a specific UPS of a given model.
Evgeny "Jim" Klimov, the current project leader since 2020, focuses first on automated testing and quality assurance of existing codebase to ensure minima |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20Transferring%20Assessment | A Knowledge Transferring Assessment combines the knowledge assessment directly with the knowledge transfer. In this sense it is a specific form of an Online Assessment/E-assessment/Computer-based assessment implementing a "Pull Learning Approach". In contrast to an Online Assessment which may finalize a formal training in order to assess the gained knowledge (as part of a "Push Learning Approach" ), a Knowledge Transferring Assessment replaces the formal training by providing the required or desired knowledge fully integrated in the assessment by means of a specific design.
Advantages
Each trainee only spends the time required to gain the still missing knowledge. I.e. no time is wasted for the knowledge already sufficient to answer related assessment questions.
The assessment itself becomes the means to "pull" the information required (See "pull based learning" )
Performers become aware of the availability of the web based material, useful for their "Self-efficacy" in their day-to-day work.
The desired/required knowledge can be gained during the assessment by the way.
Any existing knowledge base or knowledge material can be integrated provided it meets the minimum requirements:
Reachable via a URL
The granularity conforms with the assessed questions in the way that the knowledge required to answer a question can be gathered from one to two web pages, i.e. the knowledge is not spread over too may pages
The content of the material provides the required knowledge in a simple and efficient manner
The content is structured in correspondence with the assessed questions
Primary design principles
The below principals are mandatory for a Knowledge Transferring Assessment and thus differ from the form of usual Online Assessments performed e.g. at the end of a formal training.
The Knowledge Transferring Assessment is web based and thus can be used like Web-based teaching materials.
The Knowledge Transferring Assessment primarily makes use of multiple choice questions. However, other forms like a "sequence of steps" or a so-called Click Assessment are alternatives. The latter is a means to assess a users ability to use an application software correctly when performing a certain task.
In a Knowledge Transferring Assessment each question refers (via a URL) to the source(s) providing the required knowledge, i.e. enable to answer the question correctly.
In case of a multiple choice question all answers but one are correct. By that, the one and only incorrect answer is the correct one (See Objective Assessment). Sample question: "Which of the below named tasks is not part of the process x?". Because all answers but one name correct steps the performer obtains a maximum of correct information - an essential design principal to transfer knowledge by the assessment itself.
For each question a "negative feedback" (in case the selected answer is not correct) additionally refers to the source of knowledge - in order to enforce the impression that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedna%20%28database%29 | Sedna is an open-source database management system that provides native storage for XML data.
The distinctive design decisions employed in Sedna are (i) schema-based clustering storage strategy for XML data and (ii) memory management based on layered address space.
Data organization
Data organization in Sedna is designed with the goal of providing a balance in performance between XML queries and updates execution.
The two primary design decisions in data organization in Sedna are:
Direct pointers are used to represent XML node relationships such as parent, child, and sibling ones. Unlike relational-based approaches that require performing joins for traversing an XML document, traversing in Sedna is performed by simply following a direct pointer.
A descriptive schema-driven storage strategy is developed which consists of clustering nodes of an XML document according to their positions in the descriptive schema of the document. In contrast to a prescriptive schema that is known in advance and is usually specified in DTD or XML Schema, the descriptive schema is generated from data dynamically (and is maintained incrementally) and represents a concise and an accurate structure summary for data. Using the descriptive schema instead of the prescriptive one makes the storage strategy applicable to any XML document, even a one that comes with no prescriptive schema.
The following figure illustrates the overall principles of data organization in Sedna.
The descriptive schema represented as a tree of schema nodes is the central component in the data organization.
Each schema node is labeled with an XML node kind (e.g. element, attribute, text, etc.) and has a pointer to data blocks that store XML nodes corresponding to the given schema node.
Depending on their node kind, some schema nodes are also labeled with names (e.g., element nodes, attribute nodes).
Data blocks related to a common schema node are linked via pointers into a bidirectional list. Node descriptors in a list of blocks are partly ordered according to document order.
Citations
External links
Sedna project homepage
Free database management systems
XML databases
Database-related software for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Shoch | John F. Shoch is an American computer scientist and venture capitalist who made significant contributions to the development of computer networking while at Xerox PARC, in particular to the development of the PARC Universal Protocol (PUP), an important predecessor of TCP/IP.
His contributions were significant enough to warrant including his name on the memorial plaque at Stanford University commemorating the "Birth of the Internet."
Career
Shoch attended Stanford, where he earned a B.A. in political science (1971); he later went on to earn an M.S. (1977) and a Ph.D. (1979) in Computer Science from Stanford as well. His Ph.D. thesis was entitled "Design and Performance of Local Computer Networks".
He joined Xerox in 1971, working at PARC, where his research interests included internetwork protocols, computer local area networks (in particular the Ethernet, which he helped develop), packet radio, programming languages, and various other aspects of distributed systems. His best-known work from that period, after the Ethernet and PUP, is on network worms; although the most famous incident involves one that ran out of control, they were actually early experiments in distributed computing over a network of loosely coupled machines.
In 1980, he became the assistant to the CEO of Xerox and director of the Corporate Policy Committee. In 1982, he moved on to become president of Xerox's Office Systems Division (which developed network-based office systems derived from research performed at PARC).
He left Xerox to become a venture capitalist with Asset Management Associates in 1985, and then became a founding general partner at Alloy Ventures in 1996.
He has also taught at Stanford University, is a member of the ACM and the IEEE, and serves as a trustee for the Computer History Museum.
Publications
David R. Boggs, John F. Shoch, Edward A. Taft, Robert M. Metcalfe, "Pup: An Internetwork Architecture", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Volume COM-28, Number 4, April, 1980, pp. 612–624.
John Shoch, "A note on Inter-Network Naming, Addressing, and Routing", IEN-19, 1978.
John Shoch, Jon Hupp, "The 'Worm' Programs - Early Experience with a Distributed Computation", Communications of the ACM, Volume 25, Number 3, March 1982, pp. 172–180. This paper has the unusual distinction of being cited by authors on a science fiction television program: Star Cops, episode #3 "Intelligent Listening for Beginners".
John Shoch, Yogen Dalal, R.C. Crane, and David D. Redell, "Evoluation of the Ethernet Local Computer Network", IEEE Computer Magazine 15(8), 10-27, August 1982.
See also
History of the Internet
Internet pioneers
References
Further reading
Michael A. Hiltzik, Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (HarperBusiness, New York, 1999) pp. 289–299 covers Shoch, and the worm that ran out of control
Internet pioneers
American computer scientists
Stanford University alumni
Living people
Trustees of museums
Scientists at PARC (c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ove%20Sk%C3%A5ra | Ove Skåra (born 9 March 1961) is a Norwegian civil servant.
Skåra is the current director of information in the Norwegian Data Inspectorate. When long-time director Georg Apenes stepped down in April 2010, Skåra was acting director. He made his mark while in office; among others the Data Inspectorate, together with other organizations, boycotted a sitdown arranged by the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and the Police where the Data Retention Directive was to be debated. Skåra reverted to being information director when Bjørn Erik Thon was named as permanent director in late May 2010. Skåra was not among those who applied for the position.
Skåra resides in Bærum.
References
1961 births
Living people
Directors of government agencies of Norway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20Radio%2090s | Absolute Radio 90s is a semi-national digital radio station owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Absolute Radio Network. Its output is non-stop 1990s hits.
The station launched on DAB in London in June 2010 and on the Digital One platform on 25 August 2010 and was initially available for one month as a "test". However, the availability of the station nationally continued beyond the end of September, and after a strong opening RAJAR figure, it was confirmed that the 90s service would continue to be available on Digital One. It remained on that multiplex until January 2015, when its slot was given over to Magic. Ahead of this change Absolute 90s began appearing on a number of local DAB ensembles from 12 December 2014, replacing Kerrang! Radio in many cases. Absolute 90s continues to broadcast nationally via satellite TV and online, and on 29 January 2018 the station went nationwide on DAB.
Background
The station was announced in May 2010 when Absolute Radio 80s launched on the Digital One national multiplex.
Launch
The service was launched on 21 June 2010 by Christian O'Connell at 10am with the Oasis song "Roll With It" the first song played on the station. It was then followed by a 90s mixtape.
Like its other digital spin-offs, Absolute Radio 90s also carries the Dave Berry breakfast show from Absolute Radio. During the 2013 season, Absolute Radio 90s was the UK's broadcaster of NFL (American football) games, taking over in that capacity from BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra. (Absolute Radio abandoned NFL broadcasts in 2014.)
Availability
The service, which took over the slots previously used by Absolute Radio 80s, was available in London on the Switch Digital multiplex. The station replaced dabbl in Bristol, Essex, London, Newbury, Reading, Swindon and Cardiff. The service is also available on Sky (channel 0203).
Absolute Radio 90s launched on the Digital One platform in August 2010, initially as a test due to run until 30 September 2010. This used the broadcast capacity of Absolute Radio Extra during that station's downtime. The trial was subsequently extended, and in November 2010 it was confirmed that the station would remain on Digital One, sharing with Extra as before, on a permanent basis, and that a new station, Absolute Radio 00s ("Noughties") would launch on DAB in London in December (in the former 90s slot.) As a result of its national launch Absolute Radio 90s has now also been removed from the other local DAB multiplexes it broadcast on (Absolute Classic Rock took over the slot on the Cardiff local multiplex).
As a result of sharing its Digital One slot with Absolute Radio Extra, Absolute Radio 90s was off-air on DAB between 1:30pm and 6:30pm on Saturdays. However, the digital TV and internet broadcasts of the 90s station were uninterrupted and continuous throughout this period. Following the closure of Absolute Radio Extra, Absolute Radio 90s regained a full uninterrupted service on all platforms.
At the end of 2017, Ab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A9rcio%20Pacitti | Tércio Pacitti (September 9, 1928 in Atibaia – June 18, 2014 in Rio de Janeiro), São Paulo, Brazil was an electronic engineer and computer scientist in Brazil.
Biography
Pacitti was born in Atibaia-SP, Brazil, son of Antônio Pacitti and Isabel de Moraes Pacitti. He graduated as aeronautical engineer from ITA, first in the class of 1952, having completed a Masters (1961) and Ph.D. (1971) at University of California, Berkeley. He was a student of David A. Huffman among others at Berkeley.
Pacitti wrote several books in computer science, especially the Fortran Monitor, which from 1967 to 1987 has sold 250,000 copies in the country, and Do Fortran à Internet (From Fortran to the Internet), retrospect of his life and information technology in the world, already in its third edition. He launched in 2006 Paradigmas do software aberto (Paradigms of open source software), his most recent work.
He led the introduction of information technology at the ITA, at the Air Force, at COPPE-UFRJ and at UNIRIO. He was rector of the ITA between 1982 and 1984, and established the course of Computer Engineering.
His last post in the Air Force Command, as Major-Brigadier Engineer, was the Head of the Directorate of Engineering in 1986 and 1987 season in which he also chaired the ADESG. He was president of the Council of Informatics of the State of Rio de Janeiro from 1987 to 1990. It currently belongs to the National Academy of Engineering and is scientific adviser to the presidency of Consist.
On April 24, 2019, the President of the Republic, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, signed Law No. 13,817, in which he granted the title of Patron of Information Technology of Aeronautics to Major-Brigadier Engineer Tércio Pacitti.
Awards
Excellence in Software Award granted by the International Centre for Software Technology (CTIS), 1996
Decorations
Tercio Pacitti was container, among others, the following medals:
Commander of the Order of Military Merit (Ordem do Mérito Militar)
Commander of the Order of Naval Merit (Ordem do Mérito Naval)
Grand Officer of the Order of Merit for Defense (Ordem do Mérito da Defesa)
Grand Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico) - President of the Republic of Brazil - Mar/1998.
Peacemaker Medal (Medalha do Pacificador) (Port Min No 791 of 28 Sep 83 / No. 41 BE, 14 Oct 83)
Medal of Merit Tamandaré (Medalha Mérito Tamandaré) - Air Force
Grand Officer of the Order of Ipiranga (Ordem do Ipiranga)
Books
References
1928 births
2014 deaths
People from Piracicaba
Brazilian people of Italian descent
Brazilian computer scientists
Recipients of the Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (Brazil)
Brazilian engineers
Brazilian Air Force generals
Recipients of the Order of Naval Merit (Brazil) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox%204 | The Swift Vox 4 (trademarked in capitals as VOX 4G) is a smartphone developed by the Swift Corporation. It is the second phone sold in the United States that can use a WiMAX network, which the mobile phone carrier Clear is branded as a 4G network.
It is powered by a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor and runs the Android operating system, version 2.1. It includes a 320x 480 true color display capacitive touchscreen screen, an HD camera, which can record 720p and 1080p video, in the rear and VGA camera in the front, a kickstand for media viewing, and an 1080p HDMI output port to connect to a high-definition television.
References
Mobile phones introduced in 2010
Android (operating system) devices
Linux-based devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroogi | Kroogi [Russian: Круги, translation: circles] is a social networking service where musicians, painters, writers, videographers, photographers, and other users and organizations that wish to share their projects with the world, showcase their work. Their supporters can follow their activity, download content, and make monetary contributions.
Kroogi encourages its users to support artists and their projects through voluntary contributions, and by promoting artistic content. Users pay for downloading content based on a “Pay what you want” model, which allows fans and followers to set their own price for artists’ work. Artists also have the option of setting a minimum necessary contribution for downloads.
Kroogi offers a middle ground between free-of-charge (and often illegal) and fixed-fee models in ways that respect both artist and user rights.
History
Kroogi was founded in 2007 by Miro Sarbaev, a director at Liquid Audio as well as Shawn Fanning's Napster and SNOCAP.
The beta version of the site was launched on November 11, 2008.
The beta version focused on the Russian market. In its first year, the site attracted major names in the music, art, publishing and film industries. Countless communities of fans and supporters have sprung up around Kroogi projects.
Since its launch, Kroogi and its projects have made multiple appearances in the national press and on major TV channels such as MTV and MuzTV. As of April, 2010, the Kroogi beta version supported an active community of approximately 45,000 artists and fans in and around Russia.
A year later, after building a community of approximately 100,000 artists and fans in and around Russia, Kroogi began expansion into the U.S., Europe and South America.
In March 2010, t.A.T.u. launched a contest on Kroogi.
Main Features
Kroogi provides customized tools for social interaction, community creation, fundraising, content sharing, chatting, content rating and more. The Kroogi Facebook application and embeddable music widget for blogs and websites allow artists to give their content a global audience, and fans to share and promote artist's content.
Use of the website is free. In order to receive contributions for their content, users are required to create a Kroogi account. Similar to Myspace and Facebook, users can add other users as friends, send private messages, and post comments and announcements. They can also add images, writings, videos, music, create folders with multiple files, and share their content with other users and projects. Users must own the copyright or have permissions of copyright owners for the content they upload to their profile.
Personal Profile vs. Project Profile
In addition to regular personal profiles, users can create project profiles to manage their creative projects. For example, band members can set up individual personal profiles for themselves, and then create a project profile for their band and manage it together. A project profile can have multiple hosts, wher |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aegean%20Hawks | Aegean Hawks FC is an American amateur soccer team based in Arlington, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1996, the team plays in Region I of the United States Adult Soccer Association, a network of amateur leagues at the fifth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid.
The team plays its home games at the Dulles SportsPlex in nearby Sterling, Virginia. The team's colors are black, red, and white.
History
The Aegean Hawks Football Club was founded in 1996 by a group of Greek and Cypriot university students from the Arlington, Virginia area. The team plays in the Washington Premier League, which is a member of the United States Adult Soccer Association Region I group of leagues. The Hawks are record 8-time WPL champions, having taken the title in the Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2009 and Fall 2009 seasons. They also won the USASA National Amateur Cup in 2009, in addition to numerous other local and regional trophies.
The Hawks also have a good pedigree in qualifying for the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. They made their first appearance in 2007, overcoming Greek American AA and AC United in their regional qualification group before falling to USL Second Division pro side Harrisburg City Islanders in the first round of tournament proper.
They returned to the tournament in 2009 by beating the Vereinigung Erzgebirge and Charm City FC, before losing 1-0 to USL Second Division side Real Maryland Monarchs in a game which was abandoned in the 74th minute due to lightning.
After failing to advance far enough in regional USASA Open Cup qualifiers in 2010 and 2011, the Hawks made a triumphant return to the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup in 2012 to knock off the Carolina Dynamo (Professional Development League) in the first round. The Hawks fell to the Richmond Kickers in the second round by a score of 4-0.
Players
Current roster
Year-by-year
Head coach
Doug Homer (2008–2010)
Jonathan Knight (2002–present)
Assistant coach
Doug Homer (2010–present)
Stadia
Maryland SoccerPlex; Germantown, Maryland (2008)
References
External links
Official site
Soccer clubs in Virginia
Arlington County, Virginia
1996 establishments in Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Gold%20Radio | One Gold Radio Ltd (now More FM Ltd), until 3 July 2011, shared a network service with TotalStar radio station based in Cheltenham, England.
TotalStar in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire – and the Total Star brand – is owned by Storm Radio Ltd.
2011 changes
In 2011, a number of changes were made to the network of stations operated under the Total Star banner. The licence for Bath was re-awarded by Ofcom to Celador, operator of Bristol's The Breeze 107.2, and the Bath service was renamed as The Breeze later in the year. Furthermore, One Gold Radio and Storm Radio made a complete split of Total Star operations, with the Cheltenham station becoming a standalone service and retaining the Total Star brand, and the One Gold Radio-operated services in Wiltshire adopting the brand name More FM.
One GOLD Radio is a radio station on the Costa Blanca, Spain and is run by Mike Read and some of the team that also work at Total Star.
References
One GOLD Radio web site
Radio broadcasting companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Angola | All of Angola uses UTC+01:00 (West Africa Time), and has never observed Daylight saving time.
TZ database
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamavisi%C3%B3n | Gamavisión is a state-owned Ecuadorian television network. The network was one of Televisa's partners in Ecuador until 2016. The network belongs to financial Group Isaías and is owned by Company Teledos SA Pacific TV.
The channel began transmissions, on April 18, 1977. The station broadcasts as Channel 2 in Quito, Channel 8 in Guayaquil and Channel 9 in Cuenca.
References
External links
Television channels in Ecuador
Television channels and stations established in 1977 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmella%20propalaea | Stigmella propalaea is a species of moth in the family Nepticulidae. It is endemic to New Zealand. This species is classified as "Data Deficient" by the Department of Conservation.
Taxonomy
This species was described by Edward Meyrick in 1889 using a specimen collected at Arthur's Pass at 600m above sea-level. Meyrick named the species Nepticula propalaea. George Hudson discussed this species under that name in his 1928 publication The Butterflies and Moths of New Zealand. In 1988 John S. Dugdale assigned this species to the genus Stigmella. The holotype specimen is held at the Natural History Museum, London. This species is only known from its holotype and the specimen is in poor condition.
Description
Meyrick described the species as follows:
Distribution
It is endemic to New Zealand. This species is only known from its type locality of Arthur's Pass.
Biology and behaviour
The adult moths are on the wing in January. The female of this species has yet to be collected.
Conservation status
This species has been classified as having the "Data Deficient" conservation status under the New Zealand Threat Classification System.
References
External links
Image of holotype species
Nepticulidae
Moths of New Zealand
Moths described in 1889
Taxa named by Edward Meyrick
Endemic fauna of New Zealand
Endemic moths of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Collins%20%28actress%29 | Isabelle Abiera Collins (born August 28, 1992), professionally known as Max Collins, is a Filipino-American actress and model. She is currently an exclusive artist of GMA Network.
Early life
Collins was born in California. Her mother is a Filipino who is from Kalibo, Aklan. Her father is an American of Irish-Italian descent. Her parents met in Los Angeles when her mother was working at Bloomingdale's. Her parents separated when she was four years old. Her mother remarried when she was 9. She has a younger half-brother.
Collins used to live in Vallejo, California. When she was 10, her family moved to Kalibo, Aklan.
For four years she lived in Boracay and attended Brent School Boracay.
Career
2006–2010: Early years in ABS–CBN
Collins started doing commercials when she was 10. She has also appeared in magazines like Meg, Candy, Mega, People and Seventeen. According to her, she was discovered by a talent scout when she accidentally walked into a shop while a shoot was ongoing. After a year she was brought to ABS-CBN, Tried out a VTR with Star Magic, and got a call back after a month. Eventually she qualified for Star Magic Batch 15.
Collins was just 13 when she was launched as a Star Magic Batch 15 member. Under her stage name Isabelle Abiera, she did small roles in ABS-CBN's Star Magic Presents: Astigs and Star Magic Presents: Abt Ur Luv Ur Lyf 2 She also had a short hosting stint in Channel V. However, her entertainment career was put on a hold when she left for the United States.
Collins made a comeback into the Philippine entertainment industry as one of the regular hosts of the defunct noontime program Wowowee, at the same time she appeared as Veronica in the afternoon TV series Rosalka. She played a planted gate crasher in Pinoy Big Brother: Teen Clash 2010. When Rosalka ended, she went on to play Christy in Precious Hearts Romances Presents: Alyna.
2011–present: Transfer to GMA Network
In 2010, when her contract with Star Magic ended, Collins left for the United States to figure things out. A year after, she returned to the Philippines to relaunch her entertainment career. She changed her agent to Perry Lansigan's PPL Entertainment, Inc., changed her stage name to Max Collins, and finally signed an exclusive contract with GMA Network.
In 2012, she starred as a supporting role in her first afternoon series project under GMA Network, The Good Daughter and plays as Bea's (Kylie Padilla) best friend and a secret lover of Darwin. She also appeared in some episodes of Maynila. She also starred in Primetime TV series Pahiram ng Sandali with Dingdong Dantes, alongside Lorna Tolentino and Boyet de Leon.
In March 2015, Collins appeared as a cover girl for FHM Philippines 15th Anniversary issue, which co-headline with Online babes Tricia Santos and PBA courtside reporter Rizza Diaz. Collins was included on the top 10 of the 2015 FHM 100 Sexiest Woman, Collins was on the ninth spot.
Personal life
Collins is a cousin of actresses Lauren Young an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20E.%20Smith%20%28engineer%29 | James E. Smith is a computer engineer and an emeritus professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Smith was awarded the 1999 Eckert–Mauchly Award "for fundamental contributions to high performance micro-architecture, including saturating counters for branch prediction, reorder buffers for precise exceptions, decoupled access/execute architectures, and vector supercomputer organization memory, and interconnects."
Smith earned his BS in computer engineering and his MS and PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois in 1972, 1974, and 1976 respectively. He joined Wisconsin's ECE faculty in 1976 and took leaves of absence to work in industry between 1979 -'81 and 1984-'89.
References
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Living people
University of Illinois alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland%20Runic%20Inscription%20905 | This runic inscription, designated as U 905 in the Rundata catalog, is on a Viking Age memorial runestone that is located in Vänge, Uppsala County, Sweden, which is in the historic province of Uppland.
Description
This inscription consists of runic text in the younger futhark surrounding two beasts and a Christian cross that is on a granite runestone which is 1.58 meters in height. It was known in the 17th century, and Olof Celsius is known to have inspected it in 1717 and 1726. Richard Dybeck, known for authoring the lyrics of the Swedish national anthem Du gamla, Du fria, attempted to locate the runestone in 1863 but was told that it had been walled up in the church. Before the historical nature of runestones was understood, they were often reused as materials in the construction of roads, bridges, and buildings. The stone was rediscovered during restoration of the church on September 27, 1965, under the threshold of the church porch and raised outside the church.
The runic text states that the stone was raised by a woman named Þorgerðr in memory of three different persons. Although she has the same name as a Norse pagan goddess, Þorgerðr, the inscription with its cross is clearly a Christian monument. Although unsigned, the stone has been attributed for stylistic reasons to a runemaster named Likbjörn. There are three inscriptions known to have been signed by Likbjörn, the now-lost U 1074 in Bälinge, U 1095 in Rörby, and U Fv1976;104, which was discovered in 1975 at the Uppsala Cathedral. Other runestones have been attributed to him based on stylistic analysis.
Locally the stone is known as the Vängestenen.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
* þorker * halfr... (t)o(t)(i)ʀ (l)(i)(t) ri(t)a sten yftiʀ ala * ok * ermutr ok f(t)iʀ * brynulfr *
Transcription into Old Norse
Þorgærðr, Hallfr[iðaʀ](?)/Hallfr[eðaʀ](?) dottiʀ, let retta stæin æftiʀ Ala/Alla ok Ærnmund ok æftiʀ Brynulf.
Translation in English
Þorgerðr, Hallfríðr's(?)/Hallfreðr's(?) daughter, had the stone erected in memory of Áli/Alli and Ernmundr and in memory of Brynjulfr.
References
Uppland Runic Inscription 0905 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity%20North%20West | Electricity North West Limited is a British electricity distribution network operator, responsible for the administration and maintenance of the network, that distributes electricity to the North West of England excluding Merseyside and parts of Cheshire.
In 2023 it began a £2 billion five-year investment in the region's network as part of a five-year business plan. The plan was approved by the energy regulator, Ofgem.
Operations
As the distribution network operator for much of North West England, Electricity North West owns and is responsible for the construction and maintenance of the network that distributes electricity in the region. This includes the inspection and maintenance of assets which include 13,000 km of overhead lines, 43,000 km of underground cables, and 38,000 transformers.
Innovation
Electricity North West's technology known as CLASS (Customer Load Active System Services) reduces demand for electricity on local distribution networks, helping manage spikes in demand nationally. In 2022 an Ofgem panel agreed that the technology had met an exceptional threshold and stated that the technology could save customers across Great Britain more than £1bn.
Background and history
Electricity North West Limited is a private limited company registered in England and Wales. The company is ultimately owned by a consortium led by Kansai Electric Power Co. Inc; Equitix; and CNIC.
The principal activity of the group is the distribution of electricity in North West England on behalf of the electricity supply companies. Customers receive their electricity bill from their suppliers who pay for use of the electricity network. Electricity North West delivers electricity to five million people, in 2.4 million properties in the North West.
The distribution network had originated as NORWEB, the state-owned North West Electricity Board from 1948 to 1990.
On 19 December 2007, United Utilities Group plc sold United Utilities Electricity Limited to North West Electricity Networks (Jersey) Limited, a company advised by Colonial First State Global Asset Management and the Infrastructure Investment Group, which is advised by JP Morgan Asset Management.
United Utilities operated and maintained North West England's electricity network on behalf of Electricity North West Limited, until June 2010. On 30 June 2010, the company completed the purchase of United Utilities Electricity Services Limited (‘UUES’) from United Utilities Group PLC (‘UU’).
The purchase of UUES, which had previously been contracted to operate and maintain the network, established one group which owns, operates, manages and maintains its network. UUES was subsequently renamed Electricity North West Services Limited (‘ENWSL’). In November 2019, Equitix and power firm from Japan, Kansai Electric Power, acquired a 50% stake in ENW.
References
Electric power distribution network operators in the United Kingdom
British companies established in 2007
Companies based in Warrington |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InOverOurHeads | InOverOurHeads is a Jewish documentary-style reality television series currently airing on JLTV - the Jewish Life Television network. It is produced in Sharon, Massachusetts and is shot on location in Greater Boston and the New York metropolitan area. The show was originally created for Public-access television, but subsequently was completely revamped for a national audience.
InOverOurHeads is believed to be the first unscripted Jewish reality series. From Date to Mate, which aired on Shalom TV in 2009 utilizes the reality style, but is a fully scripted production featuring professional actors.
Matthue Roth of MyJewishLearning.com calls InOverOurHeads "The Orthodox Jersey Shore. Linda Keenan of the Huffington Post calls the show "The View for Jews".
Premise
InOverOurHeads primarily features Jewish parents in their 20s and 30s who appear to struggle with the challenges of everyday life. Each episode is self-contained and explores a specific subject matter, such as an emotion or Jewish ritual.
While the show is set around an Orthodox Jewish community, the cast members vary in their religious affiliation and level of observance. One cast member, Valerie identifies herself as a Reform Jew, while others vary from Modern Orthodox to Hasidic to an apostate of Orthodox Judaism. The latest cast member, Marc identifies himself as a secular Jew, having been brought up with little knowledge of his Jewish heritage. Marc is also the first single castmember, opening up new avenues for the show to explore Jewish dating and single life.
The show varies from traditional Jewish television programming in that the cast consists neither of professional actors nor subject-matter experts (such as rabbis).
Episodes
References
Television series about Jews and Judaism
2010s American reality television series
2010 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXKX | DXKX (91.5 FM), broadcasting as 91.5 Brigada News FM, is a radio station owned by Primax Broadcasting Network and operated by Brigada Mass Media Corporation. The station's studio is located at the 3rd Floor, Gabucan Bldg., Ulas, Brgy. Talomo, Davao City, and its transmitter is located along Broadcast Ave., Shrine Hills, Matina, Davao City.
History
1995–2013: K91/City Lite/Smooth FM
The station was established in 1995 as K91. It had an Adult Top 40 format. In 1998, it became an affiliate of Raven Broadcasting Corporation in Manila and rebranded as City Lite 91.5 with a smooth jazz format. In early 2000, after it ended its affiliation with RBC, it rebranded as Smooth FM 91.5. It went off the air sometime in 2013.
2015–present: Brigada News FM
In early 2015, Brigada Mass Media Corporation took over the station's operations and became part of the Brigada News FM network. The station's old transmitter was replaced with a new 10,000 watt transmitter bought from Quark Electronics of Italy. Regular programming was first aired on August 10, 2015. In time for the 30th Kadayawan Festival, on August 23, 2015, Brigada News FM was formally launched. Then Davao City Mayor (now Vice President) Inday Sara Duterte, Brigada Group of Companies President Elmer Catulpos, and other Brigada officials were present in the occasion.
On July 1, 2023, Mareco-owned 93.1 FM started simulcasting Brigada News FM in Manila, causing the latter having 2 different Brigada area stations in the city.
References
External links
Brigada News Davao
Radio stations in Davao City
Radio stations established in 1995
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API | An () is a way for two or more computer programs to communicate with each other. It is a type of software interface, offering a service to other pieces of software. A document or standard that describes how to build or use such a connection or interface is called an . A computer system that meets this standard is said to or an API. The term API may refer either to the specification or to the implementation. Whereas a system's user interface dictates how its end-users interact with the system in question, its API dictates how to write code that takes advantage of that system's capabilities.
In contrast to a user interface, which connects a computer to a person, an application programming interface connects computers or pieces of software to each other. It is not intended to be used directly by a person (the end user) other than a computer programmer who is incorporating it into the software. An API is often made up of different parts which act as tools or services that are available to the programmer. A program or a programmer that uses one of these parts is said to that portion of the API. The calls that make up the API are also known as subroutines, methods, requests, or endpoints. An API specification these calls, meaning that it explains how to use or implement them.
One purpose of APIs is to hide the internal details of how a system works, exposing only those parts that a programmer will find useful, and keeping them consistent even if the internal details change later. An API may be custom-built for a particular pair of systems, or it may be a shared standard allowing interoperability among many systems.
There are APIs for programming languages, software libraries, computer operating systems, and computer hardware. APIs originated in the 1940s, though the term did not emerge until the 1960s and 1970s. Contemporary usage of the term API often refers to web APIs, which allow communication between computers that are joined by the internet. Recent developments in APIs have led to the rise in popularity of microservices, which are loosely coupled services accessed through public APIs.
Purpose
In building applications, an API simplifies programming by abstracting the underlying implementation and only exposing objects or actions the developer needs. While a graphical interface for an email client might provide a user with a button that performs all the steps for fetching and highlighting new emails, an API for file input/output might give the developer a function that copies a file from one location to another without requiring that the developer understand the file system operations occurring behind the scenes.
History of the term
The term API initially described an interface only for end-user-facing programs, known as application programs. This origin is still reflected in the name "application programming interface." Today, the term is broader, including also utility software and even hardware interfaces.
1940s and 1950s
The ide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo%20Ghezzi | Carlo Ghezzi is an emeritus professor and former chair of software engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and an adjunct professor at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland. At the Politecnico, he has been the Rector's Delegate for research, department chair, head of the PhD program, and member of the academic senate and of the board of governors of Politecnico.
Education and academic career
He received his Dr.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano, where he spent most of his professional life, as assistant, associate, and full professor. He also taught and did research in other institutions: University of California, Los Angeles, US (1976), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA (1979–80), Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy (1980–81), Escuela Superior Latinoamericana de Informática, Argentina (1990), University of California, Santa Barbara, US (1991), Technical University of Vienna, Austria (1996), and University of Klagenfurt, Austria (1996).
Ghezzi is a 1999 ACM fellow (citation: "Numerous research contributions from compiler theory to real-time systems to software processes. A strong contributor to the software engineering community in Europe and worldwide.") and 2006 IEEE Fellow (citation: "for contributions to programming languages and software engineering"). In 2006, he was awarded the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award. He is a Member of Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere.
Professional service
He is a regular member of the program committee of important conferences of the software engineering field, such as the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) and the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE) conference, jointly held in conjunction with the European Software Engineering Conference (ESEC).
He has been chairing such conferences as program co-chair (ICSE 1991), program chair (ESEC/FSE '99), general chair (ICSE 2000), and general co-chair (International Conference on Service Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2006).
He has been a keynote speaker at several conferences, including ESEC 1993, the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 1997), the European Joint Conference on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS 2006), ICSE 2009, the IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2010), the IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2010), the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2010), ServiceWave (ServiceWave 2010), and Fundamentals of Software Engineering (FSEN 2011).
He has been editor in chief of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (2001–2006) and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He is currently an associate editor of Science of Computer Programming (Elsevier), Service Oriented Computing and Applications (Springer Science+Business Media), a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalota%20circumdata | Cephalota circumdata is a tiger beetle species in the genus Cephalota that can be found in such European countries as Albania, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Italy, North Macedonia, Romania, Spain, Ukraine, and on the islands such as Balearic, Sardinia, and Sicily. It can also be found in African nations of Algeria and Tunisia, and in Turkey.
References
Cicindelidae
Beetles described in 1822
Beetles of North Africa
Beetles of Asia
Beetles of Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated%20Media | Federated Media may refer to:
Businesses
Federated Media (broadcasting), a radio broadcasting company based in Mishawaka, Indiana.
Federated Media Publishing, an advertising network founded by John Battelle in 2005 and sold to LIN Media in 2014. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditional%20Surrender%20%28sculpture%29 | Unconditional Surrender is a series of computer-generated statues by Seward Johnson that resemble an iconic 1945 photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt, V–J day in Times Square, but was said by Johnson to be based on a similar, less well-known, photograph by Victor Jorgensen that is in the public domain. The first in the series was installed temporarily in Sarasota, Florida, then was moved to San Diego, California and New York City. Other copies have been installed in Hamilton, New Jersey; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; and Normandy, France. Johnson later identified the statue at exhibitions as "Embracing Peace" for the risqué double entendre when spoken.
2005: First temporary installation in Sarasota
Seward Johnson manufactured a life-size bronze precursor to the huge statues of Unconditional Surrender using a computer copying technology that would be used for the entire series. A 25-feet-tall (7.6 m) styrofoam version of the statue was part of a temporary exhibition in Sarasota, Florida in 2005, at its bay front. The technology he used copies two-dimensional images in order to manufacture three-dimensional objects.
Johnson proceeded with the manufacture of aluminum versions of the 25-feet-tall statue, marketing them through a foundation he had created. He offered copies ranging from $542,500 for styrofoam (plastic), $980,000 for aluminum, and $1,140,000 for bronze. Johnson established the Sculpture Foundation to disseminate his work.
2007: Temporary installation in San Diego encounters controversy
After being exhibited in Florida, the plastic copy of the statue was moved to San Diego, California, on a flatbed truck. That copy is entitled Embracing Peace where the Port of San Diego installed it in Tuna Harbor Park temporarily in 2007. The statue, made of a foam core with a urethane outer layer, was scheduled to be on loan through August 2010, but after a May 2012 restoration it has now become permanent.
Placement of the statue was criticized by multiple people. Robert L. Pincus, art critic of The San Diego Union Tribune, said that according to "theme-park logic" the statue suited the site, in front of the Midway Aircraft Museum, and that it pleased couples who mimicked the pose, but that it was kitsch and "The figures look like something from a cheap souvenir factory, blown up beyond any reason." Other critics stated that the statue "was not artistically or [a]esthetically pleasing."
2009: Aluminum copy to Sarasota temporarily amid controversy
Interest in a revisit to Sarasota in 2009 was cultivated by a director of a bay-front biannual show and an aluminum copy was placed at the bay front, again temporarily. An "88-year-old donor, who served in the U.S. Navy during World War II" offered to pay half a million dollars for it against an initial asking price of $680,000.
While some members of the community supported the statue, others felt the statue was not good enough to be displayed on the bay front. The chairwoman of the public art committee at t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootless | Rootless may refer to:
System Integrity Protection, a security feature of the operating system macOS, sometimes referred to as rootless.
Rootless, a mode of operation of an X Window System server.
Music
Rootless (band), a Japanese rock band.
"Rootless", a song by Marina and the Diamonds from The Family Jewels. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20M%20method | In operations research, the Big M method is a method of solving linear programming problems using the simplex algorithm. The Big M method extends the simplex algorithm to problems that contain "greater-than" constraints. It does so by associating the constraints with large negative constants which would not be part of any optimal solution, if it exists.
Algorithm
The simplex algorithm is the original and still one of the most widely used methods for solving linear maximization problems. However, to apply it, the origin (all variables equal to 0) must be a feasible point. This condition is satisfied only when all the constraints (except non-negativity) are less-than constraints and with positive constant on the right-hand side. The Big M method introduces surplus and artificial variables to convert all inequalities into that form. The "Big M" refers to a large number associated with the artificial variables, represented by the letter M.
The steps in the algorithm are as follows:
Multiply the inequality constraints to ensure that the right hand side is positive.
If the problem is of minimization, transform to maximization by multiplying the objective by −1.
For any greater-than constraints, introduce surplus si and artificial variables ai (as shown below).
Choose a large positive Value M and introduce a term in the objective of the form −M multiplying the artificial variables.
For less-than or equal constraints, introduce slack variables si so that all constraints are equalities.
Solve the problem using the usual simplex method.
For example, x + y ≤ 100 becomes x + y + s1 = 100, whilst x + y ≥ 100 becomes x + y − s1 + a1 = 100. The artificial variables must be shown to be 0. The function to be maximised is rewritten to include the sum of all the artificial variables. Then row reductions are applied to gain a final solution.
The value of M must be chosen sufficiently large so that the artificial variable would not be part of any feasible solution.
For a sufficiently large M, the optimal solution contains any artificial variables in the basis (i.e. positive values) if and only if the problem is not feasible.
Other usage
When used in the objective function, the Big M method sometimes refers to formulations of linear optimization problems in which violations of a constraint or set of constraints are associated with a large positive penalty constant, M.
When used in the constraints themselves, one of the many uses of Big M, for example, refers to ensuring equality of variables only when a certain binary variable takes on one value, but to leave the variables "open" if the binary variable takes on its opposite value. One instance of this is as follows: for a sufficiently large M and z binary variable (0 or 1), the constraints
ensure that when then . Otherwise, when , then , indicating that the variables x and y can have any values so long as the absolute value of their difference is bounded by (hence the need for M to be "lar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20II%20sound%20cards | Throughout its lengthy, multi-model lifespan, the Apple II series computers lacked any serious built-in sound capabilities. At the time of its release in 1977, this did not distinguish it from its contemporaries (ex. the TRS-80 and Commodore PET), but by 1982, it shared the market with several sound-equipped competitors such as the Commodore 64, whose SID chip could produce sophisticated multi-timbral music and sound effects.
All Apple II models (except the Apple IIGS, a significantly different, albeit backwards-compatible machine) possess a speaker, but it was limited to 1-bit output in the form of a simple voltage the user could switch on and off with software, creating clicks from the speaker each time the state was toggled. By turning the signal on and off rapidly, sounds with pitches could be produced.
This approach places extreme constraints on software design, since it requires the CPU to be available to toggle the output at specific frequencies, and all other code must be structured around that requirement. If sound generation code didn't execute at precisely the right intervals, generating specific output frequencies would be impossible.
Sound hardware in competing computers consisted of extra chips that generated sounds without continuous CPU involvement, freeing up the CPU for normal code execution. The various third-party add-on devices listed here provide this same capability to the Apple II.
Music
Music Cards
Music cards consist primarily of circuit boards plugged into the expansion slots of the Apple computer. There is generally no method to directly play the cards as a musical instrument. Instead, music is programmed into the computer, typically using the computer's keyboard and pointing devices (such as the Apple's game controls or using an add-on light pen). The computer then plays the music back using the music cards to produce the sound, generally through a standard audio system.
ALF Music Card MC16
The first hardware music accessory for the Apple II was ALF's "Apple Music Synthesizer", later renamed "Music Card MC16". It was demonstrated late in 1978 and began shipping in volume June 1979. It featured graphical music entry, a first for any personal computer. Each card produced three voices, and two or three cards could be used for six or nine voices.
ALF Music Card MC1
Using much the same software as the ALF Music Card MC16, ALF introduced a new hardware design as the "Apple Music II", later renamed "Music Card MC1". It had nine voices on a single card, although the range, tuning accuracy, and envelope/volume control was reduced compared to the Music Card MC16. The card used three TI SN76489N chips.
American Micro Products Juke Box Synthesizer
Advertised for sale in June 1980, this card featured three simultaneous voices with a five octave range and one white noise generator.
Applied Engineering Super Music Synthesizer
Super Music Synthesizer is a 16 voice music synthesizer created by Applied Engineering which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouped%20data | Grouped data are data formed by aggregating individual observations of a variable into groups, so that a frequency distribution of these groups serves as a convenient means of summarizing or analyzing the data. There are two major types of grouping: data binning of a single-dimensional variable, replacing individual numbers by counts in bins; and grouping multi-dimensional variables by some of the dimensions (especially by independent variables), obtaining the distribution of ungrouped dimensions (especially the dependent variables).
Example
The idea of grouped data can be illustrated by considering the following raw dataset:
The above data can be grouped in order to construct a frequency distribution in any of several ways. One method is to use intervals as a basis.
The smallest value in the above data is 8 and the largest is 34. The interval from 8 to 34 is broken up into smaller subintervals (called class intervals). For each class interval, the number of data items falling in this interval is counted. This number is called the frequency of that class interval. The results are tabulated as a frequency table as follows:
Another method of grouping the data is to use some qualitative characteristics instead of numerical intervals. For example, suppose in the above example, there are three types of students: 1) Below normal, if the response time is 5 to 14 seconds, 2) normal if it is between 15 and 24 seconds, and 3) above normal if it is 25 seconds or more, then the grouped data looks like:
Yet another example of grouping the data is the use of some commonly used numerical values, which are in fact "names" we assign to the categories. For example, let us look at the age distribution of the students in a class. The students may be 10 years old, 11 years old or 12 years old. These are the age groups, 10, 11, and 12. Note that the students in age group 10 are from 10 years and 0 days, to 10 years and 364 days old, and their average age is 10.5 years old if we look at age in a continuous scale. The grouped data looks like:
Mean of grouped data
An estimate, , of the mean of the population from which the data are drawn can be calculated from the grouped data as:
In this formula, x refers to the midpoint of the class intervals, and f is the class frequency. Note that the result of this will be different from the sample mean of the ungrouped data. The mean for the grouped data in the above example, can be calculated as follows:
Thus, the mean of the grouped data is
The mean for the grouped data in example 4 above can be calculated as follows:
Thus, the mean of the grouped data is
See also
Aggregate data
Censoring (statistics)
Data binning
Partition of a set
Level of measurement
Frequency distribution
Discretization of continuous features
References
Descriptive statistics
Statistical data coding |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilma%20%28Philippine%20TV%20program%29 | Vilma is a Philippine television variety show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Vilma Santos, it premiered on August 8, 1986 on the network's Friday evening line up. The show concluded on September 29, 1995 with a total of 479 episodes. It was replaced by Bubble Gang in its timeslot.
Overview
Formerly known as Vilma In Person, Vilma! (also known as Vilma! on Seven) premiered on August 8, 1986. The pilot episode was filmed from the Metropolitan Theater where Vilma Santos and the VIP Dancers regularly performed there until 1987 when the show moved to GMA Broadway Studios. The show received four nominations in the PMPC Star Awards for TV from 1988 to 1990, 1992 and 1994, as well as Best Female Musical Variety Show Host from 1987 to 1988. There were also anniversary and birthday specials from 1987 to 1994.
Cast
Host
Vilma Santos
Dancers
V.I.P. Dancers
Segments
OFF-Cam with Vi!
Cafe Vi!
Vilma's Music Watch
Ratings
Vilma is one of the highest-rated television shows in Philippine history, reaching 47% national ratings nationwide.
Accolades
References
External links
1986 Philippine television series debuts
1995 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine variety television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20panic | Media panic is emotional criticism against a new medium or media technology such as the Internet, the World Wide Web, computer games or social media. Media panic has a long history. At the end of the 18th century, print media were the subject of strong criticism in Great Britain for "the poison continually flowing thro' the channel of vulgar and licentious publications".
The Danish media scholar Kirsten Drotner defines media panic in the following way:
In some cases, debate of a new medium brings about - indeed changes into - heated, emotional reactions: in that case we have to do with what may be defined as a media panic. It may be considered a specification of the wider concept of moral panic, and it has some basic characteristics: the media is both instigator and purveyor of the discussion; the discussion is highly emotionally charged and morally polarised (the medium is either "good" or "bad") with the negative pole being the most visible in most cases; the discussion is an adult discussion that primarily focuses on children and young; the proponents often have professional stakes in the subject under discussion as teachers, librarians, cultural critics or academic scholars; the discussion, like a classic narrative, has three phases: a beginning often catapulted by a single case, a peak involving some kind of public or professional intervention, and an end (or fading-out phase) denoting a seeming resolution to the perceived problems in question.
Media panic may be considered a form of moral panic applied to new media.
See also
Alarmism
Hostile media effect
Media bias
Sensationalism
Vicarious trauma after viewing media
References
Crowd psychology
Mass media issues
Media bias
Media manipulation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%3A%20Computation%20in%20Neural%20Systems | Network: Computation in Neural Systems is a scientific journal that aims to provide a forum for integrating theoretical and experimental findings in computational neuroscience with a particular focus on neural networks. The journal is published by Taylor & Francis and edited by Dr Simon Stringer (University of Oxford).
Network: Computation In Neural Systems was established in 1990. It is published 4 times a year.
Citation metrics:
7.8 (2022) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
2.9 (2022) 5 year IF
2.7 (2022) CiteScore (Scopus)
0.836 (2022) SNIP
0.255 (2022) SJR
References
Neuroscience journals
Taylor & Francis academic journals
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 1990
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference%20genome | A reference genome (also known as a reference assembly) is a digital nucleic acid sequence database, assembled by scientists as a representative example of the set of genes in one idealized individual organism of a species. As they are assembled from the sequencing of DNA from a number of individual donors, reference genomes do not accurately represent the set of genes of any single individual organism. Instead a reference provides a haploid mosaic of different DNA sequences from each donor. For example, one the most recent human reference genomes, assembly GRCh38/hg38, is derived from >60 genomic clone libraries. There are reference genomes for multiple species of viruses, bacteria, fungus, plants, and animals. Reference genomes are typically used as a guide on which new genomes are built, enabling them to be assembled much more quickly and cheaply than the initial Human Genome Project. Reference genomes can be accessed online at several locations, using dedicated browsers such as Ensembl or UCSC Genome Browser.
Properties of reference genomes
Measures of length
The length of a genome can be measured in multiple different ways.
A simple way to measure genome length is to count the number of base pairs in the assembly.
The golden path is an alternative measure of length that omits redundant regions such as haplotypes and pseudoautosomal regions. It is usually constructed by layering sequencing information over a physical map to combine scaffold information. It is a 'best estimate' of what the genome will look like and typically includes gaps, making it longer than the typical base pair assembly.
Contigs and scaffolds
Reference genomes assembly requires reads overlapping, creating contigs, which are contiguous DNA regions of consensus sequences. If there are gaps between contigs, these can be filled by scaffolding, either by contigs amplification with PCR and sequencing or by Bacterial Artificial Chromosome (BAC) cloning. Filling these gaps is not always possible, in this case multiple scaffolds are created in a reference assembly. Scaffolds are classified in 3 types: 1) Placed, whose chromosome, genomic coordinates and orientations are known; 2) Unlocalised, when only the chromosome is known but not the coordinates or orientation; 3) Unplaced, whose chromosome is not known.
The number of contigs and scaffolds, as well as their average lengths are relevant parameters, among many others, for a reference genome assembly quality assessment since they provide information about the continuity of the final mapping from the original genome. The smaller the number of scaffolds per chromosome, until a single scaffold occupies an entire chromosome, the greater the continuity of the genome assembly. Other related parameters are N50 and L50. N50 is the length of the contigs/scaffolds in which the 50% of the assembly is found in fragments of this length or greater, while L50 is the number of contigs/scaffolds whose length is N50. The higher the val |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20Time%20Club | The Real Time Club is a networking society for professionals with interest in IT and technology. The club is based in London and organises an annual dinner series with speakers on a wide range of topics from ICT, technology and science.
History
The Real Time Club (RTC) was founded as dining club in the 1960s by US American IT entrepreneur Alan Marshall. For the first 25 years of its existence the Real Time Club dined at numerous London restaurants, but dinners are now usually held at the National Liberal Club in Whitehall. The club celebrated its 45th anniversary in 2013 with a charity dinner hosted by Lord Lucas at the House of Lords.
The founding members of the Real Time Club were entrepreneurs and early IT professionals. In its early years the Real Time Club engaged actively in lobbying and policy making to help setting the scene for a thriving IT industry in the UK. Consequently politicians, civil servants and members of the media became regular attendees at the club dinners as the club engaged with Parliament and media. The RTC published a number of influential reports and engaged with parliamentary committees. As part of its effort to foster a successful technology sector in the UK, the Real Time Club also took a keen interest in IT education in school and university. Education and skilled workforce remain a reoccurring topic at the club's dinners, and the club supports various initiatives through its members or through direct sponsorship, including hack days for children
and experimentation with 3D printing. While individual members keep engaged in policy making, the club's focus has shifted away from lobbying. Today the Real Time Club sees itself primarily as networking society and debating platform.
The club always had a strong connection to London's City which it maintains to this day. The founding members were entrepreneurs who turned to the financial institutions for venture capital and as clients for their early network applications. The early themes of venture capital and entrepreneurship were soon complemented with international competitiveness and national infrastructure. Recently, high performance computing, security and system integrity are topics that draw a growing number of IT professionals from the finance sector, entrepreneurs and investors to the RTC dinners.
Name
The Real Time Club takes its name from the real time and time-sharing computing systems that the club's founders were pioneering at the time. Today the club covers a much larger range of interests. The club now sees the "real time" in its name as referring to the currentness and cutting edge nature of topics discussed in the club.
Dinner programme
Every year the Real Time Club runs a series of dinners with speakers on a broad range of topics related to technology. Meetings are held under the Chatham House Rule and a robust debate is explicitly encouraged. Although for the first 25 years of its existence the RTC dined at numerous London restaurants, dinners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia%20%28object-oriented%20programming%29 | Object schizophrenia or self schizophrenia is a complication arising from delegation and related techniques in object-oriented programming, where self/this can refer to more than one object. By way of metaphor with the public confusion of dissociative identity disorder with the psychiatric diagnosis of schizophrenia, the former being associated with "split personalities," this configuration is called object schizophrenia or self schizophrenia in object-oriented programming.
Overview
An object can be defined as a computing concept combining data and behavior, and having an identity. In class-based programming, objects are built on class systems, where an object is an instance of a class. Classes can in turn be related by inheritance: a base class provides the fundamental or default behavior of an object, and acts as a template for creating objects, while a derived class can be used to override behaviors of a base class, and can be used as a template for objects whose behaviors refine those of the base class.
An alternative to classes and inheritance is prototypes and delegation, which is used in prototype-based programming, and is more dynamic. Instead of using one class to refine another, delegation allows one object to override the behavior of another. The original object a (analogous to the derived class behaviors) can delegate some of its methods to another object b (analogous to the base class behaviors). If a delegates its foo method to the bar method of b, then any invocation of foo on a will cause b'''s bar method to execute. However, bar executes in the context of the a object, for example, its self identifier refers to a rather than to b.
When delegation is used, the question arises: What is the value of self when evaluating a method on object a, which is delegated to a method on object b? The identity is split: it can refer to a or b. Note that while the two objects are separate and have separate physical identity, self (whether used explicitly or implicitly) is ambiguous.
History and discussion
Herrmann reports that the term was coined by William Harrison, IBM Research, around May 1997 in a set of web pages, which discussed problems incurred by some of the common design patterns (these web pages are no longer publicly available). In the given examples the problem was aggravated by the fact that typical solutions would use a weaker form of delegation (sometimes called forwarding) where knowledge about the original receiver object is actually lost during delegation. Here the use of forwarding is owed to the fact that most mainstream object-oriented programming languages do not support the stronger form of delegation.
Harrison et al proposed subject-oriented programming as a solution, which by static composition avoids any issues of object schizophrenia. On the other end of the spectrum, Herrmann shows that a language featuring contextual roles can be designed in such a way that potential problems of object schizophrenia are essential |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Wirral%20High%20School | South Wirral High School is a coeducational foundation secondary school and sixth form located in Eastham, Merseyside, England. It has specialisms in Visual & Performing Arts alongside ICT & Computing.
History
South Wirral High School was established in 1985, by the merger of 'Eastham Secondary School' and 'Bromborough Secondary School'. It is situated on the former Eastham Secondary School site. Prior to being a high school, the site was a prisoner of war camp during the Second World War.
Facilities
The school contains 2 large Sports Halls, Dance and Drama studios and 9 ICT suites. It has a SSAT Leading Edge status.
When the school became a Visual & Performing Arts College, a number of facilities were built or improved including a specialist 'VAPA Studio' often used for Performing Arts subjects and as a temporary Art Exhibition space to showcase GCSE and A Level students' work.
Notable former students
James Garner (footballer, born 2001)
References
Secondary schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
Educational institutions established in 1969
1969 establishments in England
Foundation schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
World War II prisoner-of-war camps in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20access%20layer | The virtual access layer (VAL) refers to the virtualization of the access layer that connects servers to the network in the data center. Server virtualization is now aggressively deployed in data centers for consolidation of applications hosted on x86 servers. However, the underlying limitations in current networks prevent organizations from meeting the performance, availability, security, and mobility requirements of server virtualization. VAL is a product strategy that delivers features to address the unintended consequences of server virtualization. It focuses on issues in the server and virtual server I/O, addressing the operational challenges for server, application, and network administrators.
A commonly deployed three-tier LAN network design includes the access layer, which provides initial connectivity for devices to the network. At the next tier, the aggregation layer (sometimes referred to as distribution layer) concentrates the connectivity of multiple access-layer switches to higher-port-count and typically higher-performance Layer 3 switches. The aggregation layer switches are in turn connected to the network core layer switches, which centralize all connectivity in the network. The trinity of access, aggregation, and core layers enables the network to scale over time to accommodate an ever greater number of end devices
In physical environments, the access layer of the network was the physical edge switch. With server virtualization, the access layer moved into the server via embedded Ethernet switches in software (known as “softswitches”) inside the virtualization hypervisor. The migration of the access layer into the server has created challenges for scalability, security, management, and reliability. Today the edge of the network extends past the physical access layer switch and now includes hypervisor-hosted softswitches, virtualization-capable adapters, the physical access layer switch, and optionally a bladed server switch. In virtualized environments, this approach impacts simplicity and performance and exposes the network to a much larger attack “surface.”
The requirements for the virtual access layer are as follows:
Transparently extending the network and its services to heterogeneous Virtual Machines (VMs)
Automatic migration and enforcement of network policies with VM migration
Choice of inter-VM switching methods to match different use cases
Uniform, open management of the network edge across physical and virtual components
This requires virtualization of the network access layer, so that network administrators can provide consistent enforcement of network access control and security policies—and integrate them with configuration templates for VMs inside the physical server. The data center networking challenge today is how to simplify, optimize, and manage the virtual access layer.
Local area networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasikovo | Jasikovo is a village in the municipality of Majdanpek, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 717 people.
History
Some data on the age of the settlement can be found in Antonio Lazić work (Settlement and development of settlements in central and upper Pek), which are based on the notes of Dr. Bartol Kunibert, who described the first Serbian Uprising and the first reign of Prince Miloš Obrenović. In his records, Lazić states: Jasikovo lies at the mouth of the Jagnjilo in Veliki Pek. Administratively it belongs to Homolj and economically it is referred to Žagubica. The village is of older origin and is deserted in the seventeenth century, as are many Homolje villages. We find it as a deserted place in 1723. In 1818 the settlement was repopulated and had about 15 homes. Near the settlement, upstream of the river Lipa, where the river Božina flows into Lipa, there are traces of old Roman works on washing gold and various tools. This gives enough evidence to claim that there was a settlement in this place in Roman times.
Knowing that the Habsburg army ravaged and plundered this area in 1690. during the Great Turkish War, when the settlement of Medeni Pek (today's Majdanpek) was completely destroyed, it is possible that the surrounding villages were displaced in that period.
Today's Jasikovo belongs to the municipality of Majdanpek. It has an area of about 3493 ha. and about 800 inhabitants, which is demographically declining compared to previous periods. With the development of technology and research of the surrounding locations, it has been discovered that they are rich in certain mineral wealth, including gold, which was proved too by the ancient Romans many centuries ago. This led the current government of the Republic of Serbia to start pit works on Choka Marin in the Jasikovac area, in addition to the Bor, Majdanpek, Krivelj and Cerovo excavations. The practice from previous years shows a great exploitation of mineral wealth in the municipality of Majdanpek itself. Of that, little has been invested in the infrastructure of the Municipality of Majdanpek, but also in sustainable development.
During the Balkan Wars, then during the First and Second World Wars, a large part of the male population of Jasikovo was recruited, and even participated in the breakthrough of the Macedonian front. A monument to fallen heroes was erected in Jasikovo, which still stands today.
References
Populated places in Bor District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland%20Runic%20Inscription%20Fv1976%3B104 | This runic inscription, designated as U Fv1976;104 in the Rundata catalog, is on a Viking Age memorial runestone that is located at the Uppsala Cathedral, Uppland, Sweden.
Description
This inscription consists of runic text in the younger futhark that is carved on an intertwined serpent under a small Christian cross. The red granite runestone, which is 1.65 meters in height and 1.64 meters wide, was discovered in May 1975 during excavation work at the Hornska chapel at the Uppsala Cathedral. Before the historical nature of runestones was understood, they were often reused as materials in the construction of roads, bridges, and buildings. The runestone is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr2, which is also known as Ringerike style. This is the classification for inscriptions where the runic bands end in serpent or beast heads seen in profile, but the serpents or beasts are not as elongated and stylized as in the Urnes style.
The runic text states that three sons raised the stone in memory of their father, Vígmarr, who is described as being styrimann goðan or "a good captain." A styrimann is a title often translated as "captain" and describes a person who was responsible for navigation and watchkeeping on a ship. This term is also used in inscriptions on Sö 161 in Råby, U 1011 in Örby, U 1016 in Fjuckby, and DR 1 in Hedeby. Part of the stone has been damaged with a word missing from the middle of the runic text, but based upon other inscriptions the missing word is likely to be the infinitive verb haggva, or "cut." The text is signed by a runemaster named Likbjörn. There are two other inscriptions known to have been signed by Likbjörn, the now-lost U 1074 in Bälinge and U 1095 in Rörby, although others have been attributed to him based on stylistic analysis.
The Rundata designation for this Uppland inscription, U Fv1976;104, refers to the year and page number of the issue of Fornvännen in which the runestone was first described.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
rikr * ok * hulti * fastkair * þaiʀ * litu * ...a stain * at * uikmar * faþur * sin * styriman * koþan : likbiarn * risti
Transcription into Old Norse
Rikʀ/Rinkʀ/Ringʀ ok Hulti [ok] Fastgæiʀʀ þæiʀ letu ... stæin at Vigmar, faður sinn, styrimann goðan. Likbiorn risti.
Translation in English
Ríkr/Rekkr/Hringr and Holti and Fastgeirr, they had ... the stone in memory of Vígmarr, their father, a good captain. Líkbjôrn carved.
References
1975 archaeological discoveries
Runestones in Uppland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLWB-FM | KLWB-FM (103.7 MHz) is a commercial radio station broadcasting a sports format. Licensed to Carencro, Louisiana, it serves the Lafayette metropolitan area. KLWB programming is also heard in the Lake Charles region of Louisiana, with a simulcast on KLCJ 104.1 FM. The two stations carry ESPN Radio's morning programming as well as Matt Moscona's After Further Review.
KLWB-FM is owned by the Delta Media Corporation and calls itself "Southwest Louisiana's Sports Station." KLWB's studios are on Evangeline Thruway in Carencro, and its transmitter is located northeast of Lafayette.
History
KLWB-FM signed on in May 2010, with its official launch coming on May 27. The station's format originated as classic hits on sister station KXKW. That station - Mustang 87.7 - now airs a classic country format.
On June 1, 2012, KLWB-FM changed its format from classic rock (as "Snap 103.7) to sports radio, branded as "103.7 The Game".
On February 7, 2022, KLWB-FM began simulcasting on KLCJ 104.1 FM in Oak Grove. The KLCJ simulcast brings KLWB's sports programming into the Lake Charles radio market.
On June 26th, 2023, KLWB-FM and KLCJ-FM became ESPN Radio Affiliates and also picked up Matt Moscona's After Further Review for their afternoon drive programming
References
External links
Radio stations in Louisiana
Sports radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2010
Lafayette Parish, Louisiana
2010 establishments in Louisiana
CBS Sports Radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieselpunk | Dieselpunk is a retrofuturistic subgenre of science fiction similar to steampunk or cyberpunk that combines the aesthetics of the diesel-based technology of the interwar period through to the 1950s with retro-futuristic technology and postmodern sensibilities. Coined in 2001 by game designer Lewis Pollak to describe his tabletop role-playing game Children of the Sun, the term has since been applied to a variety of visual art, music, motion pictures, fiction, and engineering.
Origin
The name "dieselpunk" is a derivative of the science fiction subgenre cyberpunk, and represents the time period from World War I until the 1950s, when diesel-based locomotion was the main technological focus of Western culture. The "-punk" suffix attached to the name is representative of the counterculture nature of the genre with regard to its opposition to contemporary aesthetics. The term also refers to the tongue-in-cheek name given to a similar cyberpunk derivative, "steampunk", which focuses on science fiction based on industrial steam power and which is often set within the Victorian era.
Differences from steampunk
Author Scott Westerfeld addresses the question of where to draw the line between steampunk and dieselpunk, arguing that his novel Leviathan (2009) qualifies as steampunk despite the fact that the technology it depicts includes diesel engines:
I like the word "dieselpunk" if you are doing something like 'Weird World War II'. I think that makes perfect sense. But to me, World War I is the dividing point where modernity goes from being optimistic to being pessimistic. Because when you put the words "machine" and "gun" together, they both change. At that point, war is no longer about a sense of adventure and chivalry and a way of testing your nation's level of manhood; it's become industrial, and horrible. So playing around with that border between optimistic steampunk and a much more pessimistic dieselpunk, which is more about Nazis, was kind of interesting to me because early in the war we were definitely kind of on the steampunk side of that.
Jennifer McStotts, another author, considers the two genres to be close cousins. She defines steampunk as concerned with the Victorian era, and the shift in technology and energy generation that came with industrialization, and dieselpunk as combining the aesthetic and genre influences of the period of both world wars.
Science fiction editor and critic Gary K. Wolfe defines steampunk as primarily set in the Victorian era and dieselpunk as set in the interwar period.
Iolanda Ramos, an assistant professor of English and Translation studies at NOVA University Lisbon, argues,
Dieselpunk draws not on the hiss of steam nor on the Victorian and Edwardian aesthetics and cosplay but on the grease of fuel-powered machinery and the Art Deco movement, marrying rectilinear lines to aerodynamic shapes and questioning the impact of technology on the human psyche.
In addition, Ramos gives "noir ambience" as an element o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%C3%A7a%20dos%20Famosos%20%28season%204%29 | Dança dos Famosos 4 was the fourth season of Brazilian reality television show Dança dos Famosos which premiered March 11, 2007 and ended June 17, 2007 on the Rede Globo television network.
Ten celebrities were paired with ten professional ballroom dancers, a decrease over the previous seasons. Faustão and Adriana Colin were the hosts for this season.
Actor & model Rodrigo Hilbert won the competition over actress Elaine Mickely.
Overview
The season follows the same split-by-gender style from the last couple of seasons.
Couples
The twelve professionals and celebrities that competed were:
Scoring chart
Average chart
This table only counts dances scored on the traditional 50-point scale.
Weekly results
Week 1
Week 1 – Men
Style: Bolero
Aired: March 11, 2007
Week 2
Week 1 – Women
Style: Bolero
Aired: March 18, 2007
Week 3
Week 2 – Men
Style: Forró
Aired: March 25, 2007
Week 4
Week 2 – Women
Style: Forró
Aired: April 1, 2007
Week 5
Repechage
Style: Rock and Roll
Aired: April 8, 2007
Week 6
Top 9
Style: Disco
Aired: April 15, 2007
Week 7
Top 8
Style: Samba
Aired: April 22, 2007
Week 8
Top 7
Style: Salsa
Aired: April 29, 2007
Week 9
Top 6
Style: Lambada
Aired: May 13, 2007
Week 10
Top 5
Style: Maxixe
Aired: May 20, 2007
Week 11
Top 4 – Week 1
Style: Foxtrot & Paso Doble
Aired: May 27, 2007
Week 12
Top 4 – Week 2
Style: Waltz & Gypsy
Aired: June 3, 2007
Week 13
Top 2
Style: Zouk, Tango and Surprise Dance (Disco for Elaine and Salsa for Rodrigo)
Aired: June 17, 2007
References
External links
Official Site
Season 04
2007 Brazilian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%C3%A7a%20dos%20Famosos%20%28season%205%29 | Dança dos Famosos 5 was the fifth season of Brazilian reality television show Dança dos Famosos which premiered February 24, 2008 and ended May 11, 2008 on the Rede Globo television network.
Ten celebrities were paired with ten professional ballroom dancers. Fausto Silva and Adriana Colin were the hosts for this season.
Actress Christiane Torloni won the competition over Malhação Cast Member Rafael Almeida.
Overview
The season follows the same split-by-gender style from the last couple of seasons. It was the last season to feature the semi-final four-down-to-two format, as well a Final Two in Finale Night.
At 51, Christiane Torloni became the oldest winner in the history of the show. Ironically, she beat Rafael Almeida, who at 18, is the youngest finalist and contestant that the show ever had.
Couples
The ten professionals and celebrities that competed were:
Scoring Chart
Red numbers indicate the couples with the lowest score for each week.
Green numbers indicate the couples with the highest score for each week.
indicates the couple (or couples) eliminated that week.
indicates the returning couple that finished in the bottom two.
indicates the couple withdrew from the competition.
indicates the couple that would have been eliminated had an elimination taken place.
indicates the semifinal winning couple.
indicates the wild card winning couple.
indicates the winning couple.
indicates the runner-up couple.
Average Chart
This table only counts dances scored on the traditional 50-point scale.
Call-Out Order
The table below lists the order in which the contestants' fates will be revealed by Faustão.
The celebrity did not perform
The celebrity was brought back into the competition, but had to withdraw
The celebrity was eliminated
The celebrity won the competition
Episode 5 was the wild card round.
Weekly results
Week 1
Week 1 – Men
Style: Bolero
Aired: February 24, 2008
Week 2
Week 1 – Women
Style: Bolero
Aired: March 2, 2008
Week 3
Week 2 – Men
Style: Merengue
Aired: March 9, 2008
Week 4
Week 2 – Women
Style: Merengue
Aired: March 16, 2008
Week 5
Repechage
Style: Gypsy
Aired: March 23, 2008
Week 6
Top 7
Style: Forró
Aired: March 30, 2008
Week 7
Top 6
Style: Lambada
Aired: April 6, 2008
Week 8
Top 5
Style: Paso Doble
Aired: April 13, 2008
Week 9
Top 4 – Week 1
Style: Maxixe
Aired: April 20, 2008
Week 10
Top 3 – Week 2
Style: Hip Hop
Aired: April 27, 2008
Week 11
Top 2
Style: Samba & Tango
Aired: May 11, 2008
Dance Chart
Highest Scoring Dance
Lowest Scoring Dance
Withdrawn Dance (Not Performed/Scored)
References
External links
Official Site
Season 05
2008 Brazilian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sorcerer%27s%20Apprentice%20%28Alfred%20Hitchcock%20Presents%29 | "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" is a seventh-season episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents made in the summer of 1961 that has never been broadcast on network television. The episode was scheduled to be episode 39 of the season. The story and teleplay were written by Robert Bloch, the author of Psycho, and the episode was directed by Josef Leytes.
The four main characters are played by Diana Dors (Irene Sadini), Brandon deWilde (Hugo), David J. Stewart (Vincent Sadini), and Larry Kert (George Morris).
Although formerly considered a lost episode, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" has since been widely distributed in syndication and due to its status in the public domain in numerous Hitchcock home media releases and video on demand.
Plot
Exiting his trailer on a cold windy night in Toledo for a smoke, carnival magician Sadini the Great spots an unconscious youth on the ground. Sadini and food vendor Milt carry the boy into Sadini's trailer. A short time later, Sadini's wife Irene enters. Displeased by the youth's presence, Irene finally accedes to Sadini's request to get food for the lad after the boy describes her as an angel. The boy also compares Sadini's appearance to that of the devil.
The boy, Hugo, regains his strength and becomes infatuated with Irene. He follows her around the carnival, inadvertently discovering that she is cheating on Sadini with George Morris, the high-wire artist. Hugo and George watch Sadini's magic act together. Hugo becomes fascinated, especially when Sadini saws Irene in half and then "restores" her. Sadini offers Hugo a job with the Keeley's Carnival assisting with his props.
Irene plans to murder her husband and frame Hugo for the crime. Irene uses Hugo's inability to distinguish fantasy from reality to convince the boy that by killing Sadini, he will inherit Sadini's magic wand and gain its powers.
Late at night while Irene is with George, Hugo waits in Sadini's trailer. When Sadini arrives, Hugo stabs him to death and hides the body in a trunk. George arrives in a drunken state to warn Hugo of Irene's intentions, but he passes out. Hugo leaves him in the trailer with the body, and goes to George's trailer in Sadini's cape, wand in hand. He tries to convince Irene to run away with him.
Startled by Hugo's demeanor, Irene tries to escape but she slips and falls, hitting her head and falling unconscious. Hugo scoops up Irene and carries her off to the performance tent. There, as a demonstration of his newly acquired magical powers, he attempts to perform Sadini's "sawing a woman in half" trick on Irene, to her horror as she awakens screaming. Hugo shouts, "Smile, Irene! Smile! Smile!," as the picture fades to black.
In his closing monologue, Hitchcock explains, "I don't quite know how to put this, however, I must tell you the truth. The saw worked excellently, but the wand didn't. Hugo was terribly upset, and Irene was beside herself. As for the police, they misunderstood the whole thing and arrested Hugo for murder. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/346th%20Test%20Squadron | The 346th Test Squadron is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the 318th Cyberspace Operations Group at Joint Base San Antonio–Lackland, Texas. The squadron tests military cyberspace operation systems.
The squadron was first activated as the 346th Bombardment Squadron in 1942. After training in the United States, it moved to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, where it earned two Distinguished Unit Citations in operations against the Axis Powers. After V-E Day, the squadron remained in Italy until November 1945, when it was inactivated. The squadron was activated in the reserves from 1947 to 1949, but does not appear to have been fully manned or equipped.
In 1953, the squadron was activated as the 346th Strategic Reconnaissance Squadron as part of Strategic Air Command. It returned to the bombardment mission two years later, and served in this role until inactivating in 1974. Although the squadron remained in the United States except for one deployment in the 1950s, during the Vietnam War it deployed its aircrews and Boeing B-52 Stratofortresses to Southeast Asia. For extended periods, all squadron personnel and equipment were deployed.
The squadron was activated in 1993 as the 346th Test and Evaluation Squadron and performed operational testing and evaluation until inactivating in 1995. It was activated in its current role in 2000.
Mission
The squadron mission is to conduct independent operational tests and evaluations, emissions security tests, and other specialized tests of cyberspace capabilities. It operates Air Force Space Command’s cyber test & training range. The 346th's 120 personnel include 50 active duty airmen, 30 Department of Defense civilian employees and 40 contractors.
The 346th conducts operational tests for components of weapons systems, equipment, or software to determine its operational effectiveness and suitability. It identifies unexpected critical system performance issues that might affect system combat effectiveness before system fielding.
History
World War II
The squadron was activated in June 1942 as the 346th Bombardment Squadron, one of the four original squadrons of the 99th Bombardment Group, at Orlando Army Air Base, Florida, moving on paper the same day to MacDill Field, Florida. However, the Army Air Forces had decided to concentrate all heavy bomber training under Second Air Force, and before the end of the month, the squadron moved to Pendleton Field, Oregon to begin its training in Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses. It continued training with the B-17 until January 1943, when it began deploying to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations.
The squadron's ground echelon went by ship from New York City to Marrakech, Morocco; the air echelon flew to Morrison Field, Florida, then along the South Atlantic Route. The ground and air echelons of the squadron were reunited at Navarin Airfield, Algeria in March 1943. It moved forward to Oudna Airfield, Tunisia after the Allies drove Axis fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late%20Night%20Liars | Late Night Liars is an American television game show on Game Show Network (GSN) that was under The Jim Henson Company's Henson Alternative brand and premiered on June 10, 2010. The series was hosted by Larry Miller, and stars several "celebrity" puppets, which were created by The Jim Henson Company. Each episode has two human contestants trying to figure out which of the puppets are lying, and which are telling the truth.
Characters
Five puppet characters regularly participate in the show:
In addition, the following puppets representing real-life celebrities have been panelists on certain episodes.
Gameplay
Round 1
In round 1, host Larry Miller gives a category, and the puppet panelists each give one answer. Two of the panelists are giving real answers, and the other two are lying. After all four panelists give an answer, the contestants secretly and simultaneously pick one panelist that they think is lying. If a contestant selects a liar, he or she wins a pre-stated amount of money as announced by announcer Weasel, usually in the range of $500 to $600.
Round 2
Round 2 is played the same as round 1, except that three panelists are giving true answers and one is lying. Correctly selecting the liar earns the contestant a pre-stated amount of money, usually in the range of $800 to $900, although one episode's second round was worth $797.
Round 3
In Round 3, each contestant, starting with the current leader, selects one panelist, who gives a statement relating to the category given by host Miller. The contestant must then determine if the statement is true or a lie. If the contestant correctly judges the statement, a computer randomizer (dubbed the "Randomometer") is activated, when the contestant presses a button, the reels stop, revealing a cash amount greater than $100 (the upper limit is never clearly established; however, the screen has spaces for four digits). At the end of this round, the contestant with more money wins the game and keeps the money; the losing contestant receives a consolation prize (usually a product made by Telebrands) and $500 in cash, regardless of their score. The winning contestant also plays the "Two Topic Showdown" for a larger cash prize (from $10,000 up to $25,000).
Two Topic Showdown (Bonus Round)
The two panelists that did not participate in round 3 are each assigned a subject by host Miller. They alternate giving statements, the night's winner must determine whether the statement is true or a lie when applied to that panelist's subject. For each correct response, the contestant wins $500, if the contestant gives eight correct responses within 43 seconds, he or she wins the announced grand prize amount, prior to the last break, host Miller initially announces it to be $10,000, however, Weasel occasionally interrupts him to increase or reduce the amount, usually by very little; from $9,993 (eighth aired episode) to $10,004 (fourth aired episode). Episodes with special guest puppets have had higher cash prizes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquincum%20Institute%20of%20Technology | Aquincum Institute of Technology (AIT) is a study abroad opportunity for North American undergraduates in Budapest, Hungary. AIT offers undergraduate programs in computer science, software engineering, and information technology. Established in 2007, the program was created by the businessman Gábor Bojár, founder of Graphisoft. After Bojár sold Graphisoft, he used a majority of the profit from this sale to found AIT in an effort to "Invest in People.". The first official semester was Spring 2011. Each semester, approximately 30-50 North American students study at AIT.
A similar program for mathematics students in Budapest is the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics Program.
Scientific advisory board
László Babai
Albert-László Barabási
Péter Csermely
András Falus
Daniel L. Goroff
Anthony Knerr
Norbert Kroó
László Lovász
Ernő Rubik
Charles Simonyi
Notes
References
"AIT-Budapest: Aquincum Institute of Technology," http://www.ait-budapest.com/.
Universities in Budapest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Noon%20Toons | High Noon Toons was a three-hour programming block of cartoons hosted by two cowboy hand puppets named Haas and Lil' Jo (a Bonanza reference) shown on Cartoon Network in the mid-1990s. The series was made by Matt Thompson and Adam Reed, who later went on to create adult-themed cartoon series such as Sealab 2021 and Frisky Dingo for Adult Swim and Archer for FX.
Often the show had special themes, such as "Quick Draw McGraw: Pure Mustang". Haas and Lil' Jo also hosted Cartoon Network's "Spring Break '95", with the two on a beach setting with bikini-clad Barbie dolls, and which showed Spring Break-related cartoons. They also hosted the Thanksgiving Cartoon Parade in 1995.
Creation and cancellation
Matt Thompson had been working for Turner for a while already in the early 1990s, when his boss at Cartoon Network liked his sense of humor. Thompson was then asked to come up with some funny interstitial material for a new three-hour block of cartoons. When it came time to present, he was so hungover from the night before that he had actually failed to come up with any ideas, so he simply started making his hand talk like a puppet. The hand puppets were a hit, and Thompson was ordered to write 500 jokes to fill 10 to 15 seconds of filler time from the noon to 3pm time slot. He recruited his friend Adam Reed for the other hand puppet and the show was complete.
Thompson and Reed were often drunk while making the show, and were eventually reprimanded for drinking on the job after setting a prop spaceship on fire.
References
Cartoon Network programming blocks
Cartoon Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20computed%20tomography | Industrial computed tomography (CT) scanning is any computer-aided tomographic process, usually X-ray computed tomography, that uses irradiation to produce three-dimensional internal and external representations of a scanned object. Industrial CT scanning has been used in many areas of industry for internal inspection of components. Some of the key uses for industrial CT scanning have been flaw detection, failure analysis, metrology, assembly analysis and reverse engineering applications. Just as in medical imaging, industrial imaging includes both nontomographic radiography (industrial radiography) and computed tomographic radiography (computed tomography).
Types of scanners
Line beam scanning is the traditional process of industrial CT scanning. X-rays are produced and the beam is collimated to create a line. The X-ray line beam is then translated across the part and data is collected by the detector. The data is then reconstructed to create a 3-D volume rendering of the part.
In cone beam scanning, the part to be scanned is placed on a rotary table. As the part rotates, the cone of X-rays produce a large number of 2D images that are collected by the detector. The 2D images are then processed to create a 3D volume rendering of the external and internal geometries of the part.
History
Industrial CT scanning technology was introduced in 1972 with the invention of the CT scanner for medical imaging by Godfrey Hounsfield. The invention earned him a Nobel Prize in medicine, which he shared with Allan McLeod Cormack. Many advances in CT scanning have allowed for its use in the industrial field for metrology in addition to the visual inspection primarily used in the medical field (medical CT scan).
Analysis and inspection techniques
Various inspection uses and techniques include part-to-CAD comparisons, part-to-part comparisons, assembly and defect analysis, void analysis, wall thickness analysis, and generation of CAD data. The CAD data can be used for reverse engineering, geometric dimensioning and tolerance analysis, and production part approval.
Assembly
One of the most recognized forms of analysis using CT is for assembly, or visual analysis. CT scanning provides views inside components in their functioning position, without disassembly. Some software programs for industrial CT scanning allow for measurements to be taken from the CT dataset volume rendering. These measurements are useful for determining the clearances between assembled parts or the dimension of an individual feature.
Void, crack and defect detection
Traditionally, determining defects, voids and cracks within an object would require destructive testing. CT scanning can detect internal features and flaws displaying this information in 3D without destroying the part. Industrial CT scanning (3D X-ray) is used to detect flaws inside a part such as porosity, an inclusion, or a crack. It has been also used to detect the origin and propagation of damages in concrete.
Metal cast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20News%20Network | Sun News Network (commonly shortened to Sun News) was a Canadian English language Category C news channel owned by Québecor Média through a partnership between two of its subsidiaries, TVA Group (which maintained 51% majority ownership of the company) and Sun Media Corporation (which held the remaining 49% interest). The channel was launched on April 18, 2011 in standard and high definition and shut down February 13, 2015. It operated under a Category 2 (later classified as Category C) licence granted by the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in November 2010, after the network aborted a highly publicized attempt for a Category 1 licence (later classified as Category A) that would have given it mandatory access on digital cable and satellite providers across Canada.
Sun News was distributed by most major cable and satellite providers across Canada but was included in channel tiers subscribed by only 40% of all Canadian households (5.1 million homes with a pay television subscription). Quebecor had sought wider distribution for Sun News since its launch, most notably making an unsuccessful request for mandatory carriage on basic cable and satellite tiers in 2013. Sun News was simulcast on CKXT-DT (channel 51), a general entertainment independent television station based in Toronto (with repeaters in Southern and Eastern Ontario) that was branded as "Sun TV" before it began simulcasting Sun News from the network's launch until Quebecor surrendered the CKXT licence in the fall of 2011. The existence of Sun TV prior to Sun News (and the fact a similar on-screen logo was used for the CKXT venture) has resulted in Sun News sometimes being erroneously referred to as "Sun TV".
The network, known for its right-of centre editorial stance, was plagued with poor viewership: the network reported an average of 8,000 viewers, which was significantly lower than its competitors, CBC News Network and CTV News Channel. This lack of viewership has been attributed in part to failing to gain mandatory carriage, which their competitors enjoyed, by the CRTC. Following failed attempts to sell the network to ZoomerMedia (a company owned by Canadian television executive Moses Znaimer) and Leonard Asper, Sun News Network abruptly signed off on February 13, 2015 at 5:00 a.m. ET.
History
Licensing
From the start of its licensing attempts for Sun News, Quebecor intended for the network to replace the company's existing licence for general entertainment independent station CKXT-TV (branded as "Sun TV"), which was available at the time over-the-air in Toronto and through relayed through rebroadcasters in Hamilton, London and Ottawa. In its initial submission to the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in the spring of 2010, Quebecor requested that Sun News be awarded a Category 1 digital specialty channel licence that would have reverted to Category 2 status after three years. The Category 1 status, if the CRTC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOXM%20%28FM%29 | WOXM (90.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Middlebury, Vermont. The station is owned by Vermont Public, and carries classical music through the VPR Classical network.
WOXM signed on May 27, 2010. In April 2014, the WOXM call sign moved to 89.1 FM; the 90.1 FM license then changed its call letters to WVXM and went silent. By October 2015, VPR had discovered that the new WOXM was interfering with the Vermont Electric Power Company's emergency response radio system; on October 12, 2015, VPR Classical was moved back to the 90.1 facility. The station changed its call sign back to WOXM on June 28, 2019.
References
External links
OXM
NPR member stations
Classical music radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2010
2010 establishments in Vermont |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Kosseff | Jeff Kosseff is a cybersecurity law professor at the United States Naval Academy. He was previously a journalist, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and recipient of the George Polk Award.
Education
Kosseff graduated from the University of Michigan with bachelor's and master's degrees. He received a doctorate of jurisprudence from Georgetown University Law Center.
Journalism
As a journalist, Kosseff started working for The Oregonian in 2001 covering technology, and worked from its Washington, D.C. bureau from 2004 through 2008. He won the George Polk Award in 2006 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2007.
Legal career
Kosseff clerked for Judge Milan Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
He currently teaches, researches, and writes about cybersecurity law at the United States Naval Academy, where he is an associate professor in the Cyber Science department.
Previously, as a lawyer at Covington & Burling LLP, he represented media and technology companies in a wide range of First Amendment and privacy issues. Among his representative matters, he advocated for federal shield law for journalists on behalf of a coalition of more than 70 media organizations. He frequently writes and speaks about the First Amendment and privacy law. The Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario has named Kosseff a Privacy by Design Ambassador. Kosseff is an adjunct professor of communications law at American University's School of Communications, and he serves on the board of directors of the Writer's Center in Bethesda and Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma in Washington, D.C.
Personal life
He lives with his wife and daughter in the Washington, D.C. area.
Bibliography
References
External links
International Association of Privacy Professionals -- Jeff Kosseff
"Jeff Kosseff: The FishbowlDC Interview", April 19, 2007
American male journalists
American lawyers
First Amendment scholars
George Polk Award recipients
Journalists from Portland, Oregon
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Michigan alumni
The Oregonian people
Georgetown University Law Center alumni
United States Naval Academy faculty |
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