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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDS%20HR%20in%20Practice | IDS HR in Practice is a subscription-based online service offering analysis and coverage of best practice in all major areas of HR. It features named case studies and benchmarking data on a wide range of employee benefits and allowances. The HR module of IDS Thomson Reuters, the service was launched in 2012 and is the successor to the fortnightly journal IDS HR Studies. A subscription to IDS HR in Practice includes access to the content of IDS HR Studies back to 2003.
IDS HR in Practice is published by Incomes Data Services, a subsidiary of Sweet & Maxwell which is itself owned by Thomson Reuters.
The service is used by companies, trade unions, consultants and other employment-related organisations.
Best practice case studies
IDS HR in Practice provides analysis and named company case studies of best practice on all major HR topics, including:
Absence management
Alcohol and drugs policies
Assessment centres
Coaching and mentoring
Corporate social responsibility
Discipline, grievance and mediation
e-HR
e-learning
Employee assistance programmes
Employee engagement
Employee health and well-being
Employer branding
Flexible benefits
Flexible working
Improving staff retention
Internet and e-mail policies
Job evaluation
Job families
Leadership development
Managing redundancy
Performance management
Succession planning
Talent management
Total reward
Training strategies
Work-life balance
Benchmarking data
IDS HR in Practice includes benchmarking data on a wide range of employee benefits and allowances, including:
Annual hours
Bonus schemes
Employee share schemes
Flexitime schemes
Hours and holidays
London allowances
Overtime
Shift pay
Sick pay
Standby and call-out pay
References
In the press
What is your redundancy cheque worth? - 10 July 2008
HR departments have survived the recession with relatively few job cuts – 14 December 2009
Human resource management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20J.%20Williams | Ronald J. Williams is professor of computer science at Northeastern University, and one of the pioneers of neural networks. He co-authored a paper on the backpropagation algorithm which triggered a boom in neural network research. He also made fundamental contributions to the fields of recurrent neural networks and reinforcement learning.
Together with Wenxu Tong and Mary Jo Ondrechen he developed Partial Order Optimum Likelihood (POOL), a machine learning method used in the prediction of active amino acids in protein structures. POOL is a maximum likelihood method with a monotonicity constraint and is a general predictor of properties that depend monotonically on the input features.
References
External links
Home page of Ronald J. Williams
American computer scientists
Northeastern University faculty
People from Boston
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir%20Hospital | Meir Medical Center (, Merkaz Refu'i Me'ir) is regional hospital in Kfar Saba, Israel. It is the seventh largest hospital complex in the country, and is part of a network of hospitals owned and operated by Clalit Health Services.
History
The medical facility in Kfar Saba was opened to the public on July 15, 1956, as a hospital for tuberculosis and diseases of the respiratory system. Later in 1962, Meir was turned into a general hospital and is now part of the Sapir Medical Center. Clalit Health Services (formerly known as Kupat Holim Clalit) built the original hospital thanks to the pivotal influence of Dr. Alfred Grünebaum.
Meir Hospital serves the ethnically diverse communities of the highly populated eastern Sharon plain, including Israeli Arab patients from the Triangle towns and villages. The hospital is named after Dr. Josef Meir (1890–1955), the first head of Kupat Holim Clalit and director of the ministry of health of pre-state Israel. Meir was a strong opponent of the elitist private health care then prevailing and stated that medicine should be organized as an equal public service aimed at improving health levels of the population at large.
Services
Meir Hospital teaching departments are affiliated with the Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, while laboratories are affiliated to Bar Ilan University. Meir Medical Center specializes in the treatment of pulmonary diseases and spinal surgery and is accredited under the JCI. It is the base hospital for the Israeli Olympic team.
717 beds for hospitalization
60 seats in the outpatient clinic
57 seats for admission to hospital births
28 sites to undergo dialysis
122 clinics
Inpatient Facilities
5 Adult Internal Medicine Wards
2 Obstretrics Wards
Gynaecology/Oncogynaecology ward
Acute/Rehabilitative Geriatrics ward
Respiratory Medicine/Thoracic Surgery ward
2 General Surgery wards
2 Orthopaedic Surgery wards
Spinal Surgery/Vascular Surgery ward
ENT Surgery ward
Ophthalmology ward
Urology ward
Haematoncology Unit
General Intensive Care Unit
Respiratory/Internal Medicine Intensive Care Unit
Coronary Care Unit/Cardiac Intensive Care
Outpatient and Procedural Units
Gastroenterology Unit including Endoscopy Suite
Oncology Unit
Nephrology and Dialysis Unit
Nuclear Medicine
Respiratory Medicine and Pulmonary Function Testing and Interventional Pulmonology/Bronchoscopy Unit
Rheumatology Day Unit
Infectious Diseases Unit
Cardiac Cath Lab
Cardiac Electrophysiology Suite
Echocardiography Unit
Liaison Psychiatry
Operating Theatres
General Operating Theatres
Obstretics and Gynaecology Theatres
Delivery Rooms
Radiology
Angiography/Invasive Radiology Unit
2 CT scanners
2 MRI scanners
General Ultrasound
Gynaecological Ultrasound
See also
Health care in Israel
References
External links
Meir Medical Center. (Hebrew official website)
Meir Medical Center. (Russian official website)
Treatment in Israel. Meir Medical Center.
Hospital buildings co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liushusaurus | Liushusaurus is an extinct genus of lizard described by Susan E. Evans and Yuan Wang in 2010. The genus has a single species, Liushusaurus acanthocaudata, and is known from eight fossils, several of which preserve soft tissue detail. The specimens were found in the Lower Cretaceous aged Yixian Formation of Northeast China. Liushusaurus is one of eight lizards that are known and have been named from the Yixian Formation, part of the diverse Jehol Biota ecosystem.
Etymology
Evans and Wang coined the generic name or Liushusaurus from the Chinese word liushu and the Greek language word . Liushu which translates as "willow tree", is derived from Liutiao, willow leaf, and refers to Liutiaogou, willow leaf valley, where the fossils were found. The Greek word () translates to "lizard". Evans and Wang chose the specific name from a combination of the Latin words acanthus meaning "spine" and cauda meaning tail. This combination is in allusion to the scale structure found along the tail.
Description
Liushusaurus was a medium-sized, stocky lizard with a wide body and short legs. Several fossils preserve the outline of individuals and show that they were robustly built, with a thick tail and legs. The body outline extends beyond the ribcage to show a wide midsection as well.
Several fossil specimens show a high degree of preservation, with intact scales, pigmentation, claw sheaths, cartilage, and small bones. The orbitospenoids are present in one specimen as two small crescent-shaped bones. These bones support the cartilage and membrane that makes up the braincase, and are rarely preserved in fossil lizards. Postcloacal or hemipenial bones are also known, which are part of the hemipenis in male individuals.
The dorsal scales that cover the back are much smaller than the ventral scales that cover the underside, which are rhomboidal and overlap each other. The bases of the ventral scales are darker than their edges. They are darkest toward the middle of the belly and nearest the midline. The ventral scales decrease in size toward the neck and limbs, becoming rounder and less dark. Going down the tail, the scales get longer and narrower and start to taper. Their coloration gives them the appearance of small spines. The dorsal scales are round and granular, each less than half a millimetre in diameter. Scales on the head are also granular, unlike the platelike scales of scincomorph and anguimorph lizards. An area of the skull not covered by scales indicates the presence of the tympanum, the external hearing structure of lizards.
Liushusaurus is known from several well preserved fossils representing eight individuals. These individuals range in age from near-hatchling to adult. All specimens preserve the tibia and fibula of the lower leg, and the length of these bones ranges from to . This indicates a wide range of ontogenetic variation. Large individuals have smaller feet in relation to their hindlimbs than small individuals, while small individuals h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole%20J%C3%B8rgen%20Anfindsen | Ole Jørgen Anfindsen (born 18 March 1958) is a Norwegian computer scientist, author and social commentator.
Anfindsen holds a doctorate in computer science from the University of Oslo. Using the research results from his doctoral thesis, he formed the company Xymphonic Systems to use the technology commercially. Later, he has been a senior research scientist at Telenor R&D, guest researcher at GTE Laboratories in Massachusetts and Sun Microsystems Laboratories in California, and adjunct associate professor at the University of Oslo.
As a social commentator, Anfindsen focuses on the issues of immigration, race and intelligence. In relation to these topics, he is the operator of the website HonestThinking, writes opinion pieces in newspapers, and in 2010 authored the book Selvmordsparadigmet.
Professional career
Anfindsen obtained a PhD in computer science from the University of Oslo in 1997. His doctoral thesis, delivered at the Department of Informatics, was titled Apotram: an application-oriented transaction model. Anfindsen's research dealt with so-called xymphonic transactions in databases, a generalization of the classical transaction model. The research results later led him to form the company Xymphonic Systems to use the technology commercially. He has since been a senior research scientist at Telenor R&D, guest researcher at GTE Laboratories in Massachusetts and Sun Microsystems Laboratories in California, and adjunct associate professor at the Institute of Informatics at the University of Oslo.
Social commentary
Anfindsen has been engaged in the debate about immigration, race and intelligence. In February 2005 Anfindsen started HonestThinking together with his brother Jens Tomas Anfindsen. Through the website and newspaper debates, Anfindsen puts the spotlight on the Norwegian immigration and integration policies. One of the site's main issues is the forecast that ethnic Norwegians may become a minority in Norway towards the end of the 21st century, possibly already by 2050. He has argued that the intelligence of immigrants in Norway could be critical for the future of the nation. He expressed worry over the low European birth rates, but held immigration to not be a sustainable solution. This was as it would lead to a multiethnic and racially mixed society. He argued that many scientists have pointed out that few things control a person's loyalty and preferences more than race, and that there likely are a limit to how many different languages and "loyalties" a society can contain until it breaks apart.
Anfindsen uses a model which divides humans into three main races: one originating from East Asia, one from Europe and the Middle East, and one from Africa. According to him, East Asians have the highest IQ and Africans the lowest. He claims that for instance foreign aid may have been less successful because one has not taken different IQ levels into account. He has also claimed that there are ideological motives behind the denial of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirah%20%28programming%20language%29 | Mirah (formerly Duby) has been a programming language based on Ruby language syntax, local type inference, hybrid static–dynamic type system, and a pluggable compiler toolchain. Mirah was created by Charles Oliver Nutter to be "a 'Ruby-like' language, probably a subset of Ruby syntax, that [could] compile to solid, fast, idiomatic JVM bytecode." The word refers to the gemstone ruby in the Javanese language, a play on the concept of Ruby in Java.
History
To foster more participation in the JRuby project from Ruby community members, Nutter began to explore the possibility of presenting Ruby syntax, but with a static type model and direct-to-native compiling. In this context, "native" meant mainly the Java virtual machine (JVM), but Mirah has been designed around the possibility of having alternative backends for other object-oriented runtimes like the Common Language Runtime (CLR) of the .NET Framework. The language needed to look and feel like Ruby, and to introduce no new library dependencies into JRuby (which precludes most other JVM languages) and to suffer no performance penalty (which precludes writing in Ruby).
Early versions of Mirah (then Duby) focused mostly on mathematical performance, where dynamic programming languages often pay the highest cost. Since then it has evolved into a full JVM language, with several users and real-world applications using it for core components.
Design
Mirah is mostly a pluggable compiler toolchain. The main elements of the chain are:
A parser, based on JRuby's parser, that emits a Ruby abstract syntax tree (AST)
A transformer that converts the Ruby AST into a Mirah AST
A type inferrer that decorates the Mirah AST with appropriate typing information for the target backend
A backend code generator
Of these phases, only the last two need specific knowledge of the eventual target platform. This makes Mirah suitable for many backends, and also makes it possible to write language plug-ins for Mirah's transformation phase that will apply to all supported backends equally.
For simple pieces of code and the JVM bytecode backend, the Mirah compiler emits nearly the same instructions as standard javac compilers.
No runtime library
Because Mirah is just a compiler, it ships no standard library. The intent is that Mirah users will choose what libraries they want to use, perhaps write plugins for the Mirah compiler to support them, and the compiler will do the rest. This is an explicit design goal, avoid introducing a requirement on any new external library. The standard library for Mirah, then, is whatever the standard library for the current backend is, and emphasis is placed on writing compiler plugins rather than libraries to extend and enhance the language.
Type system
Mirah does not impose a specific type system on users, instead relying on whatever the target backend provides. On the JVM, the type system is largely Java's type system, and type declarations refer to JVM classes, primitives, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20for%20Healthy%20Kids | Action for Healthy Kids is a nationwide grassroots network mobilizing school professionals, families and communities to take actions that support the health of the whole child. Founded in 2002, the organization is committed to addressing the root causes of the current child health crisis and focuses on increasing access to healthy foods and physical activity, supporting social emotional learning, and engaging parents, caregivers and community members to transform student health, well-being and learning. Former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher is the founding chair of the organization. Through funding opportunities and programmatic support, Action for Healthy Kids provides schools all the information and resources they need to implement successful and sustainable school health programs.
Action for Healthy Kids is the organizational home of Active Schools, formerly known as Let's Move! Active Schools, a collective impact movement of public and private sector partner organizations working to prioritize physical education and physical activity in schools.
With support from companies such as Aldi, Cargill, CSX Transportation, DOLE, Kellogg's, Nike, Materne North America and Saputo and through partnerships with Active Schools, CATCH Global Foundation, the National School Wellness District Coalition and many others. Action for Healthy Kids is able to support over 140,000 school health champions and more than 50,000 schools across the United States.
References
External links
Action for Healthy Kids official website.
Non-profit organizations based in Illinois
Youth organizations based in Illinois
Children's health-related organizations
Organizations established in 2002
2002 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20greenhouse%20gas%20emissions | This is a list of countries by total greenhouse gas (GHG) annual emissions in 2016. It is based on data for carbon dioxide, methane (), nitrous oxide (), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) and hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) emissions compiled by the World Resources Institute (WRI). The table below separately provides emissions data calculated on the basis of production, respectively consumption of goods and services in each country. WRI data includes emissions from land-use, land-use change and forestry, Global Carbon Project data does not. The unit used is megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) using the 100-year time horizon, like the UNFCCC. All countries which are party to the Paris Agreement report their greenhouse gas inventories at least biennially from 2024.
List of countries by production-based and consumption-based emissions
See also
List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions
List of countries by carbon dioxide emissions per capita
List of countries by greenhouse gas emissions per person
List of countries by renewable electricity production
Asian brown cloud
Climate change
Land use, land-use change, and forestry
References
countries, Greenhouse
Greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los%20Angeles%20Emmy%20Awards | The Los Angeles Emmy Awards are presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS) in recognition of excellence in the local programming of the Greater Los Angeles area. They are the only regional Emmys presented directly by the ATAS; all the other regional Emmys across the country are given out by each regional chapter of the ATAS' sister organization, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS).
The Los Angeles Emmy Award is the successor to the first three Emmy Award ceremonies held from 1949 to 1951 when the Emmy primarily only honored shows that were produced or aired in the Los Angeles area.
The ATAS also gives out the Los Angeles Area Governors Award, which is presented for outstanding consistent achievement over a period of years, or in recognition of an outstanding, single notable contribution.
Board of governors
The Los Angeles academy is composed of individuals who hold prominent positions in and about the entertainment field. Their job is to help oversee the business and artistic affairs of the academy as well as the awards broadcast. They serve as an active board within the academy.
Board members
Board members are elected and unlike the Board of Governors, their function is to attend business meetings and handle the everyday administration of the academy.
References
Regional Emmy Awards
Awards established in 1949
1949 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20DeMarinis | Paul DeMarinis (1948) is an American visual and sound artist, specializing in electronic music composer, sound, performance, and computer-based artist. Since the 1970s he has been active in creating digital sound sculptures, one of the early innovators of sound art. He is currently a professor of art at Stanford University.
Early life and education
Born in 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio.
DeMarinis received a B.A. in Music and Filmmaking Interdisciplinary from Antioch College in 1971. At Antioch College, DeMarinis studied film with Paul Sharits, music with John Ronsheim and philosophy with Keith McGary. DeMarinis received an M.F.A. in Electronic Music and the Recording Media from Mills College in 1973. At Mills College, DeMarinis studied music composition with Robert Ashley and Terry Riley.
Career
DeMarinis' performance pieces and interactive installations have been featured in international exhibitions and festivals.
DeMarinis in 1996 received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. He received the 2006 Golden Nica Award for Interactive Art at the Ars Electronica Festival for his installation The Messenger, which examines the myths of electricity in communication. He was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation fellowship award in 1999 for Video & Audio.
In the late 1970s he was a member of the San Francisco Bay Area-based experimental music collective The League of Automatic Music Composers.
DeMarinis has investigated abandoned technologies and the history of electronic inventions and telecommunications. Some of his installation works have used optics and computers and featured processed and synthesized speech.
DeMarinis taught computer, video and audio art at Mills College, Wesleyan University, San Francisco State University and the New York State College of Ceramics. He is currently a Professor of Art at Stanford University in California.
Selected artworks
Helmholtz (DUO) (2015) large glass spheres act as sound resonators for low frequency noises, and various sized flames and rotating mirrors are used to show the visualization of the vibrations. There is a relationship in this piece between the histories of acoustic psychology and the physics of sound, with influence from the manometric flame apparatus and Helmholtz resonators.
Tympanic Alley (2015) sound installation piece involving aluminum pie plates suspended and a simple metal piece striking them to create a complex soundscape reminiscent of the sounds of rain.
Jiffy POP (2013)
Pneuma (2010)
The Probable Flight Path of AF447 (2010)
Around the World (2010)
Dust (2009)
Early Media goes to the Movies (2008)
Hypnica (2007)
Rome to Tripoli (2006–2008)
A Light Rain (2004) in collaboration with Rebecca Cummins.
Firebirds (2004) uses fire and water to create the sounds of music and language.
Tongues of Fire (2004)
(Tommy Franks) Dérive Quebec (2003)
Rebus (2003)
Wavescape (2003)
According to Scripture (2002)
Moondust Memories (2001)
Walls in the Air (2001)
The Products o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9trolor | Métrolor, as its name suggests (as a contraction of "métro" and "Lorraine"), is a brand for the internal passenger train service of the Lorraine region, where the trains' frequency and network's density are comparable to rapid transit systems.
Origins
The idea of Métrolor was originally applied by Alain Scholtès to the half-hourly service on the Nancy – Metz – Thionville line, started on 2 January 1970, by contractual arrangement between the SNCF and the departments of Moselle and Meurthe-et-Moselle. It was the first such contract in France outside of Greater Paris. Over the next ten years or so, the idea was taken up by Stélyrail (1976), Métrazur, TCR () Région Nord-Pas-de-Calais (1978), Métralsace and others.
The first services, from 1970 to 1977, were made with SNCF Class RIB 60 rolling stock (, "Stainless steel suburban"), initially destined for the Paris region. Seven SNCF Class RIB 70 trains were assigned to the region permanently; these gave a more comfortable ride thanks to air suspension as opposed the mechanical suspension of the RIB 60. Six of these trains were heavily refurbished in 1990, with a shielded driver's cab in the style of multiple units and a new torque converter. These units were renamed ("Stainless steel railbus") RIO 90.
Used in support of the SNCF Class Z 6300 class and the RIO together with the SNCF Class BB 16500, they were soon extending as far as the city of Luxembourg, although most stayed within the limits of Thionville. Duties were shared between the RRR, the SNCF Class Z2 (French and Luxembourg SNCF Class Z 11500), "Caravelles" (diesel multiple units) and, for some routes between Metz and Nancy, a Corail train and some older trains made up of UIC Type Y rolling stock.
New definition: The Métrolor network
In November 2002 the name Métrolor returned to the Lorraine region to designate the regional railway services of TER Lorraine, encompassing also the cross-border services to Luxembourg and Saarbrücken. A yellow-and-red logo was designed, evoking the representative colours of the region.
See also
TER Lorraine
References
External links
Official Métrolor site
Transport express régional |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Exadata | The Oracle Exadata Database Machine (Exadata) is a computing platform optimized for running Oracle Databases.
Exadata is a combined hardware and software platform that includes scale-out x86-64 computer and storage servers, RoCE networking, RDMA-addressable memory acceleration, NVMe flash, and specialized software.
Exadata was introduced in 2008 for on-premises deployment, and since October 2015, via the Oracle Cloud as a subscription service, known as the Exadata Database Service. Exadata Cloud@Customer is an on-premises implementation of Exadata Database Service, available since 2017. Oracle databases deployed in the Exadata Database Service or Exadata Cloud@Customer are 100% compatible with databases deployed on Exadata on-premises, enabling customers to transition to the Oracle Cloud with no application changes. Oracle Corporation manages this service, including hardware, network, Linux software and Exadata software, while customers have complete ownership of their databases.
Use cases
Exadata is designed to run Oracle Database workloads, such as an OLTP application running simultaneously with Analytics processing. Historically, specialized database computing platforms were designed for a particular workload, such as Data Warehousing, and poor or unusable for other workloads, such as OLTP. Exadata allows mixed workloads to share system resources fairly with resource management features allowing prioritized allocation, such as always favoring workloads servicing interactive users over reporting and batch, even if they are accessing the same data. Long running requests, characterized by Data Warehouses, reports, batch jobs and Analytics, are reputed to run many times faster compared to a conventional, non-Exadata database server.
Release History
Support Policy
As the platform has been around since 2008, Oracle has published information related to the end-of-support for older Exadata generations. In Oracle's published document titled Oracle Hardware and Systems Support Policies, they mention "After five years from last ship date, replacement parts may not be available and/or the response times for sending replacement parts may be delayed." To look up the "last ship date" of a particular Oracle Exadata generation, Oracle published a document titled Oracle Exadata - A guide for decision makers.
References
External links
Oracle Website: Oracle Exadata Database Machine
Database management systems
Data warehousing products
Exadata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D218%20road | D218 is a state road in Lika region of Croatia connecting Užljebić border crossing to Croatian highway network. The road is long.
Until 2020, the southern part of the road went between Donji Lapac and Bruvno, when it was redesignated to go between Donji Lapac and Bjelopolje.
The road, as well as all other state roads in Croatia, is managed and maintained by Hrvatske ceste, a state-owned company.
Traffic volume
Traffic is regularly counted and reported by Hrvatske ceste (HC), operator of the road.
Road junctions and populated areas
Maps
Sources
State roads in Croatia
Lika-Senj County
Transport in Zadar County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personera | Personera is a technology startup based in Cape Town, South Africa. It allows the use of variable data printing technology to create on-demand print products which are personalized with a user's Facebook content (such as photos, events and friends’ birthdays). These products are then printed by commercial printers and delivered.
History
Personera was co-founded in February 2008 by Sheraan Amod and Jaco de Wet, both MSc students at Stellenbosch University. Michael Champanis, a University of Cape Town graduate, also joined the team as a co-founder. On 11 November 2009, Personera launched its public beta – a hard-copy personalized Facebook calendar, which includes users’ photos, birthdays and events.
The company's headquarters are currently located in Cape Town, South Africa.
Technology
Personera's personalized print platform is built using variable data printing technology and Facebook’s API. Users' Facebook content is placed into predesigned layouts, with users having the ability to choose which specific photos to use and to manually input additional events. Personera's method of producing a printed product is currently patent pending under the World Intellectual Property Organization.
Investors
Personera has secured $9k in seed funding and $125k in angel funding to date. Investors include Vinny Lingham, Michael Leeman and Tom Van den Berckt.
References
External links
Technology companies of South Africa
Manufacturing companies based in Cape Town |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Master%20Control%20Station | On the top-side facilities of offshore oil and gas platforms, the Master Control Station (MCS) is a dedicated system that controls and retrieves data from subsea equipment on the ocean floor. The MCS is supplied by the manufacturers of the subsea control modules (SCM), an MCS is required for each vendor. This can be a challenge in some scenarios.
Positioned between the distributed control system (DCS) on the platform and the subsea equipment, the MCS is critical to maintaining safe operating conditions, optimizing production across a field and effectively managing reserves. The complex automation systems enabling offshore production of oil & gas, particularly in deep water, have strong parallels to their on-shore, process plant applications. These systems, subsystems and instruments must interoperate in a seamless manner.
In 2008, Control Dynamics International of Houston, now a subsidiary of ENGlobal, was commissioned to develop an MCS that could communicate with and control subsea equipment from multiple vendors; dubbed the Universal Master Control Station (UMCS).
Design considerations & objectives
The primary focus of the UMCS development program was to create a new standardised solution that used commercially available, off-the-shelf components. The graphics, control routines, and logic/communication functionality would be designed and implemented to provide operations a common-look control system interface. A standard interface (communication protocol) would establish a common communication link for the UMCS enabling concurrent data exchange to multiple subsea vendors.
Additional scope of this initiative included:
Communication and control up to 100 Subsea Control Modules (SCM)
Expandable in the field
Based on commercially available, off-the-shelf hardware lowering the OPEX of the implementation
Components replaceable without well shut-in
Dual redundancy to alleviate a shut-in due to multiple points of failure
Communications with subsea equipment based on a widely accepted standards
Open architecture for integration with third-party subsystems
Standard OPC databases serve as the communication link to the Distributed Control System (DCS), Hydraulic Power Unit (HPU), and Electrical Power Unit (EPU). The UMCS will communicate with subsea control pods at the wellhead from multiple subsea equipment providers, without disrupting the subsea vendor's native communication protocol.
Physical architecture & connectivity
The UMCS has three main layers: HMI, logic/control and subsea communications to control pods on the ocean floor. Two complete and segregated channel networks simultaneously monitor data functions to and from each other, as well as between surface and subsea equipment. The UMCS uses OPC for communications with each subsea gateway. The subsea gateway consists of the SCM communication application and OPC Client. Each subsea vendor provides their own gateway, thereby preserving their traditional proprietary design and safegu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDXL%20Sharp | EDXL Sharp is a C# / .NET 3.5 implementation of the OASIS Emergency Data Exchange Language (EDXL) family of standards.
The purpose of these libraries is to allow developers to:
Parse EDXL Messages from a string or underlying stream
Programmatically create EDXL messages
Validate EDXL Messages to the schema
Validate that EDXL Messages conform to the additional business rules specified in the standards documentation
Write EDXL messages to a string or underlying stream
About the project
EDXL Sharp is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license and is part of a collaborative research project of The MITRE Corporation.
What's in EDXL Sharp
Version 1.0 includes the following:
Library for CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) v1.2
Library for Common Types across the EDXL Standards
Library for EDXL-DE (Distribution Element) v1.0
Library for EDXL-HAVE (Hospital Availability Exchange) v1.0
Library for EDXL-RM (Resource Message) v1.0
Graphical User Interface (GUI) EDXL-DE Test Tool
Library for GeoOASIS Where GML Profile
Library for EDXL xPIL (Extensible Party Information Language) Profile
Beta Library for EDXL-SitRep (Situation Reporting)
Beta Library for EDXL-TEP (Tracking of Emergency Patients)
the 2.0 version is released. Some of the draft standards implementations are in a separate source tree branch as stable alphas.
Online Testbed
This effort is a part of a larger interoperability testbed. The interop testbed serves as an online presence for learning about EDXL, how to implement systems using EDXL, online validation and information sharing tools, and a place to perform integration with other systems that use EDXL.
See also
EDXL
OASIS
XML
NIEM
External links
EDXL Sharp Codeplex Page
EDXL Wiki
OASIS EM-TC Public Page
OASIS EMA-TC Wiki
XML parsers
Computer libraries
Emergency management software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudShare | CloudShare (formerly IT Structures) is a cloud computing provider founded in 2007 in Israel. It is now headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Services
CloudShare combines aspects of virtualization, cloud computing and advanced features to offer software as a service (Saas). Similar to virtual lab automation, CloudShare makes full-featured virtual enterprise environments available online and on-demand. This has applications including developing and testing, pre-sales demos, proofs-of-concept, evaluations, technical training, development and certification of hardware or software and channel enablement.
Customers can create multi-machine IT environments in the cloud or upload existing virtual machines. CloudShare supports hypervisors (VMWare, Oracle VirtualBox ) and operating systems (Windows 7, Ubuntu), and provides templates for new machines with operating systems and even software (such as Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Office 2010 or Ruby on Rails) preinstalled.
Created environments can consist of a single virtual machine or multiple networked machines and are able to operate seamlessly with the user’s physical PC or workstation. These environments can then be saved, replicated and shared with additional users who are free to interact with their own independent replica (or “snapshot”).
CloudShare Enterprise is designed for enterprise-grade applications such as development and testing, virtual training, presales demos, proof of concepts, technical evaluations, and other IT functions. More robust and offering greater compute power and storage, as well as unlimited machines and sharing, CloudShare Enterprise also includes:
a user management dashboard with analytics tools
multiple user hierarchies, roles and privileges
customer branding
user-interface customization
integration with Salesforce.com
History
CloudShare was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel in January 2007 by Avner Rosenan, Ophir Kra-Oz and Zvi Guterman, The company was originally named IT Structures. In 2009, CloudShare moved its headquarters to San Mateo, California.
In December 2009, CloudShare closed its series B round of funding, receiving $10 million from Sequoia Capital, Charles River Ventures, and Gemini Capital, bringing total venture capital funding to $16 million. In 2014, Zvi Guterman bought the company back from Sequoia Capital and took it private.
References
Cloud computing providers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard%20Shift%20%28radio%20show%29 | The Graveyard Shift is a late night talk, news & music show broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Triple J network. Originally hosted by comedian Dave Callan, it is broadcast from the Melbourne studios. The show is currently on Saturday overnights from 1am, with chill out party until the break of dawn on Sunday mornings from 4-6am.
The Graveyard Shift first aired in 2005, replacing the simulcast of Rage (now broadcast on ABC1).
As of 23 January 2011, Paul Verhoeven is the presenter, as Callan has left to focus on his stand-up comedy.
External links
Official website with The Graveyard Shift on triple j
Triple J programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20Aria | The HTC Aria (A6366; or Liberty, or Intruder) is a smartphone manufactured by HTC Corporation that runs the Android operating system with HTC Sense.
Release
The Aria was released on June 20, 2010, and is available through AT&T. In Japan, eMobile offered the phone from the end of 2010. It is a combination of similar design and hardware from HTC, incorporating the same physical design as the HTC HD Mini, the same capacitive buttons and optical joystick as the Droid Incredible, and the same software introduced on the HTC Desire and HTC Legend. After the Motorola Backflip, it is the second Android device for AT&T Wireless, and it was better received by critics than its predecessor. The HTC Aria was also introduced in Asia Pacific and it retails at RM1799 (about US$562) in Malaysia. On September 28, 2010, HTC Australia announced that the HTC Aria would go on sale in Australia in mid-October.
In September 2010, an update was released, adding Firmware Over The Air, an update to Bluetooth, and a Calendar fix.
On February 26, 2011, the Android 2.2 update for the HTC Aria was made available to AT&T customers.
Sideloading
AT&T Wireless faced criticism for its inability to download .apk files—Android applications outside of the Android Market. AT&T cited security issues as a reason. On July 9, 2010, HTC released an update for their HTC Sync program that is used to sync their phones to a PC. The update (version 3.0.5372) gave the ability to side-load non-market applications to the device. Sideloading was only possible by syncing the phone, and installing the app to the Aria through the computer. However, the update which included this side-loading feature was taken down a few days later. HTC Sync version 3.0.5372 can still be downloaded through third-party websites not affiliated with AT&T or HTC. It is still possible to side-load .apk files through the Android Debug Bridge. This requires the use of the Android SDK and must be done through the command line. This restriction can also be removed by way of third-party ROMs.
The official Android 2.2 update prevents rooting the device, disallowing loading of custom ROMs. Root access can be restored through a multi-step process that requires the device to be connected to a computer.
Reception
Reception for the HTC Aria is generally mixed. It was praised for its speed and its interior yellow design. Others criticized the lack of a camera flash. It was also criticized for its low resolution screen. The Aria was heavily criticized for not being able to sideload apps.
See also
Galaxy Nexus
Comparison of smartphones
References
Aria
Android (operating system) devices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D36%20road%20%28Croatia%29 | D36 is a state road in central Croatia connecting Kupa River area and the city of Sisak to Croatian motorway network at the A3 motorway Popovača interchange and to the D1 state road in Karlovac in immediate vicinity of the A1 motorway Karlovac interchange. The road is long.
The road, as well as all other state roads in Croatia, is managed and maintained by Hrvatske ceste, state owned company.
Relocation of the route
The D36 state road is planned to be rerouted so that it would connect Donja Zenčina interchange on the A1 motorway and the existing route serviced by the D36. The existing road is planned to be diverted between Gradec Pokupski and Lijevo Sredičko to the west, while the road to the east from that section would remain unchanged. This is a project of the Zagreb County and it is predicated on a predicted two-fold increase of traffic on Ž3106 after the construction of the Donja Zdenčina interchange, to between 3,000 and 7,000 vehicles per day.
Traffic volume
Traffic is regularly counted and reported by Hrvatske ceste, operator of the road. Section of the road running through Sisak is not covered by the trafficcounting sites, but the section is assumed to carry a substantial volume of urban traffic in addition to the regular D36 traffic.
Road junctions and populated areas
Maps
References
D036
D036
D036
D036 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20S.%20Lancaster | Robert Starrett Lancaster (February 11, 1958 – September 9, 2019) was an American computer programmer and skeptical activist who created the websites Stop Kaz and Stop Sylvia Browne.
Software career
Lancaster's first web presence was The Bob Lancaster Gallery of Unusual Playing Cards, a site devoted to displaying some of his large collection of decks of playing cards. The site existed from 1996 until 2008 when AOL shut down member websites. Lancaster also created several shareware DOS computer games known collectively as The MicroLink Games.
Skeptical activism
Lancaster's first skeptical web site, Stop Kaz, went online in September 2004. It is devoted to critical examination of the public statements of Kaz Demille-Jacobsen. She claimed to be a survivor of the September 11 attacks and gave speeches on that topic. "Everything that she claimed seemed to be a lie", Lancaster found. He documented his efforts to create the site in a paper presented at TAM 4 in 2006.
Lancaster opened Stop Sylvia Browne, a web site devoted to critically examining the claims of self-proclaimed psychic Sylvia Browne, in November 2006. He said he did so because, "I found her work with missing children to be incredibly offensive." Lancaster has subsequently been interviewed as an expert on Browne's missteps in the Shawn Hornbeck case on CNN and elsewhere. The site has also documented other failings of Browne, including the Holly Krewson missing person case. In a 2002 episode of The Montel Williams Show, Browne said Krewson was at that time working as a stripper in Los Angeles; however, in 2006, her dental records were matched to a body that had been found in 1996. In 2013, Browne again came under criticism for her false prediction about Amanda Berry.
Lancaster presented at skeptic conferences including The Amazing Meeting (TAM) in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. He has been interviewed on The Paul Harris Show, Penn Radio, The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Beyond Reality Radio and The Paracast.
In October 2008, during Lancaster's recovery from a stroke he suffered several months prior, the domain registration for StopSylvia.com lapsed and was purchased by Boris Kreiman, who replaced the site with one advertising psychic services. When challenged by supporters of Lancaster, Kreiman offered to sell the domain back for $20,000 and put it up for auction. Lancaster's wife decided not to negotiate with Kreiman, and instead moved the site to an existing alternate domain, StopSylviaBrowne.com.
On July 11, 2009, Lancaster received the Citizen Skeptic Award from the James Randi Educational Foundation at TAM 7 in Las Vegas, Nevada for his work as a skeptical activist. He had recovered sufficiently from his stroke to receive the award in person.
In September 2010 Lancaster was interviewed in STOCKYARD Magazine. "People want answers", Lancaster said. "Answers to questions which, often, nobody else has been able to answer for them. Answers which law enforcement officials, medic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Magic%20Key%20of%20RCA | The Magic Key of RCA was an American variety radio show that featured an unusually large and broad range of entertainment stars and other noted personalities. It was on the NBC Blue Network from September 29, 1935, until September 18, 1939.
It was hosted by announcers Milton Cross and Ben Grauer, with a house orchestra directed by Frank Black through 1938 and Nathaniel Shilkret in 1939.
Sies says that, “NBC used this quality program to demonstrate the cultural contribution radio could make,” and notes that performers included Ruth Etting, Fibber McGee and Molly, John B. Kennedy, Rudolf Ganz, Casper Beardon, Paul Robeson, Eddie Green, Jane Froman, Doris Weston, Frank Forrest, Paul Taylor Chorus, Margaret Brill, Rudy Vallée, Irving Berlin, Darryl Zanuck, Jan Peerce, Tommy Dorsey, Artie Shaw, Jack Harris, Ann Jameson, Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Walter Abel, Whitney Bern and George Shelley. Dunning writes that there were appearances by Amos 'n' Andy, Lum and Abner, Paul Whiteman, Efrem Zimbalist, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vienna Boys' Choir, Benny Goodman, Gladys Swarthout, Ray Noble, Guy Lombardo, Richard Himber, Eugene Ormandy, Lauritz Melchior, Fred MacMurray, Walt Disney and the Pickens Sisters. Dunning comments on the wide variety on the show by noting that programming included short dramas, a male quartet from Stockholm, jazz from Chicago, an account of Benito Mussolini's campaign in Africa and a conversation with a crew of a submerged submarine.
A typical show in 1939 would begin with an opening number by Shilkret, followed by a comedy skit by Stoopnagle and Budd.
The complete set of broadcasts is available for listening at the Library of Congress.
References
External links
The Definitive: The Magic Key of RCA
1930s American radio programs
American variety radio programs
NBC Blue Network radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D47%20road%20%28Croatia%29 | D47 is a state road in central Croatia connecting Lipik, Novska and Una River valley area to Croatian motorway network at the A3 motorway Novska interchange and to the D6 state road in Dvor. The road is long.
The road, as well as all other state roads in Croatia, is managed and maintained by Hrvatske ceste, state owned company.
Traffic volume
Traffic is regularly counted and reported by Hrvatske ceste, operator of the road.
Road junctions and populated areas
Maps
Sources
D047
D047
D047 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20static%20checking | Extended static checking (ESC) is a collective name in computer science for a range of techniques for statically checking the correctness of various program constraints. ESC can be thought of as an extended form of type checking. As with type checking, ESC is performed automatically at compile time (i.e. without human intervention). This distinguishes it from more general approaches to the formal verification of software, which typically rely on human-generated proofs. Furthermore, it promotes practicality over soundness, in that it aims to dramatically reduce the number of false positives (overestimated errors that are not real errors, that is, ESC over strictness) at the cost of introducing some false negatives (real ESC underestimation error, but that need no programmer's attention, or are not targeted by ESC). ESC can identify a range of errors that are currently outside the scope of a type checker, including division by zero, array out of bounds, integer overflow and null dereferences.
The techniques used in extended static checking come from various fields of computer science, including static program analysis, symbolic simulation, model checking, abstract interpretation, SAT solving and automated theorem proving and type checking. Extended static checking is generally performed only at an intraprocedural, rather than interprocedural, level in order to scale to large programs. Furthermore, extended static checking aims to report errors by exploiting user-supplied specifications, in the form of pre- and post-conditions, loop invariants and class invariants.
Extended static checkers typically operate by propagating strongest postconditions (respectively weakest preconditions) intraprocedurally through a method starting from the precondition (respectively postcondition). At each point during this process an intermediate condition is generated that captures what is known at that program point. This is combined with the necessary conditions of the program statement at that point to form a verification condition. An example of this is a statement involving a division, whose necessary condition is that the divisor be non-zero. The verification condition arising from this effectively states: given the intermediate condition at this point, it must follow that the divisor is non-zero. All verification conditions must be shown to be false (hence correct by means of excluded third) in order for a method to pass extended static checking (or "unable to find more errors"). Typically, some form of automated theorem prover is used to discharge verification conditions.
Extended static checking was pioneered in ESC/Modula-3 and, later, ESC/Java. Its roots originate from more simplistic static checking techniques, such as static debugging or lint and FindBugs. A number of other languages have adopted ESC, including Spec# and SPARKada and VHDL VSPEC. However, there is currently no widely used software programming language that provides extended static checki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh%20Pirates%20Radio%20Network | The Pittsburgh Pirates, the Major League Baseball franchise in Pittsburgh are carried on radio stations throughout four states including Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland. In 2012, KDKA-FM in Pittsburgh became the flagship station, replacing WPGB-FM., KDKA (AM) also simulcasts all weekday afternoon games as well as select other broadcasts, and serves as the backup station when 93.7 airs Pittsburgh Panthers football.
Greg Brown and Joe Block does play by play. They are joined by either Steve Blass (for home games only) or John Wehner (for all road games and some home games).
Affiliate stations
Station list
References
Pittsburgh Pirates
Major League Baseball on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise%20%26%20Health | Noise & Health is a bimonthly peer-reviewed open access medical journal published by Medknow Publications on behalf of the Noise Research Network. It publishes articles on the subject of auditory and non-auditory effects of occupational, environmental, and leisure noise.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases, Caspur, EBSCO databases, EmCare, Excerpta Medica/EMBASE, Expanded Academic ASAP, MEDLINE/Index Medicus, ProQuest, SafetyLit, Scopus, and Tropical Diseases Bulletin. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 1.798.
See also
Health effects from noise
Noise pollution
References
External links
Occupational safety and health journals
Open access journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Environmental health journals
Medknow Publications academic journals
Academic journals established in 1999
Noise pollution |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacognosy%20Magazine | Pharmacognosy Magazine is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal published on behalf of the Pharmacognosy Network Worldwide. It publishes articles on the subjects of pharmacognosy, natural products, phytochemistry, phytopharmacology. The journal is indexed with CAB Abstracts, Caspur, Chemical Abstracts, CSA databases, DOAJ, EBSCO, Excerpta Medica/EMBASE, Google Scholar, Hinari, Index Copernicus, Indian Science Abstracts, Journal Citation Reports, OpenJGate, ProQuest, PubMed, Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.
Phcog.net (Pharmacognosy Network Worldwide) appeared on Beall's list from October 2012 through September 12, 2015.
See also
Pharmacognosy
References
External links
Open access journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Pharmacology journals
Academic journals established in 2005
Medknow Publications academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmacognosy%20Reviews | Pharmacognosy Reviews is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal published by Pharmacognosy Network Worldwide (Phcog.net). The journal publishes articles on the subject of pharmacognosy, natural products, and phytochemistry. It is indexed with Caspur, EBSCO, ProQuest, and Scopus.
Phcog.net appeared on Beall's list of predatory open-access journals from October 2012 through September 12, 2015.
References
External links
Phcog.net
Open access journals
Biannual journals
English-language journals
Pharmacology journals
Academic journals established in 2007
Medknow Publications academic journals
Pharmacognosy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20Resource%20for%20Drug%20Discovery | Computational Resources for Drug Discovery (CRDD) is one of the important silico modules of Open Source for Drug Discovery (OSDD). The CRDD web portal provides computer resources related to drug discovery on a single platform. It provides computational resources for researchers in computer-aided drug design, a discussion forum, and resources to maintain a wiki related to drug discovery, predict inhibitors, and predict the ADME-Tox property of molecules.
One of the major objectives of CRDD is to promote open source software in the field of chemoinformatics and pharmacoinformatics.
Features
Under CRDD, all the resources related to computer-aided drug design have been collected and compiled. These resources are organized and presented on CRDD so users can get resources from a single source.
Target identification provides resources important for searching drug targets with information on genome annotation, proteome annotation, potential targets, and protein structure
Virtual screening compiles resources important for virtual screening as QSAR techniques, docking QSAR, chemoinformatics, and siRNA/miRNA
Drug design provides resources important for designing drug inhibitors/molecules, such as lead optimization, pharmacoinformatics, ADMET, and clinical informatics
Community contribution
A platform has been developed where the community may contribute to the process of drug discovery.
DrugPedia: A wiki for Drug Discovery is a Wiki created for collecting and compiling information related to computer-aided drug design. It is developed under the umbrella of the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) project and covers a wide range of subjects around drugs like Bioinformatics, Cheminformatics, clinical informatics etc.
Indipedia: A wiki for collecting and compiling drug information related to India. It is intended is to provide comprehensive information about India created for Indians by Indians. It is developed under the umbrella of the Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) project.
The CRDD Forum was launched to discuss the challenges in developing computational resources for drug discovery.
Indigenous development: software and web services
Beside collecting and compiling resources, CRDD members develop new software and web services. All services developed are free for academic use. The following are a few major tools developed at CRDD.
Development of databases
HMRBase: It is a manually curated database of Hormones and their Receptors. It is a compilation of sequence data after extensive manual literature search and from publicly available databases. Hombres can be searched on the basis of a variety of data types. Owing to the high impact of endocrine research in the biomedical sciences, the Hmrbase could become a leading data portal for researchers. The salient features of Hombres are hormone-receptor pair-related information, mapping of peptide stretches on the protein sequences of hormones and receptors, Pfam domain annotations, categorical |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random-access%20Turing%20machine | In computational complexity, a field of computer science, random-access Turing machines are an extension of Turing machines used to speak about small complexity classes, especially for classes using logarithmic time, like DLOGTIME and the logarithmic hierarchy.
Definition
On a random-access Turing machine, there is a special pointer tape of logarithmic space accepting a binary vocabulary. The Turing machine has a special state such that when the binary number on the pointer tape is 'p', the Turing machine will write on the working tape the pth symbol of the input.
The pointer tape facility lets the Turing machine read any letter of the input without taking time to move over the entire input. This is mandatory for complexity classes using less than linear time.
References
Neil Immerman Descriptive Complexity (1999 Springer), chapter 5
Complexity classes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20townships%20in%20South%20Dakota | This is a list of civil townships in South Dakota and their counties, based on U.S. Geological Survey and U.S. Census data.
List
See also
List of counties in South Dakota
List of cities in South Dakota
List of towns in South Dakota
References
U.S. Board on Geographic Names
U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line
Townships
South Dakota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWEW-TV | DWEW-TV was a commercial television station in the Philippines, owned by AMCARA Broadcasting Network. Its studio and transmitter is located at Maharlika Highway, Brgy. Kanlurang Mayo, Lucena, Province of Quezon.
ABS-CBN TV-24 Lucena local programs
TV Patrol Southern Tagalog
ABS-CBN TV-24 Lucena defunct programs
MAG TV Na, Atin 'To!
Agri Tayo Dito
See also
DZAD-TV
List of ABS-CBN Corporation channels and stations
ABS-CBN stations
Mass media in Lucena, Philippines
Television stations in Quezon
Television channels and stations established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Schools%20Network | The New Schools Network (NSN) is a United Kingdom-registered charity and former think tank which formerly supported groups setting up free schools within the English state education sector.
History
Early years
The New Schools Network was founded in 2009 by its first director Rachel Wolf, a former campaign adviser to Conservative mayor of London Boris Johnson and education adviser to Conservative shadow children's secretary Michael Gove. Wolf started the group after visiting New York City whilst working for Gove and observing the city's charter schools as well as groups such as the Knowledge Is Power Program and the New York City Charter School Center, who advise new schools in the city. In its early years, the network was a think tank for education and gave policy advice. It also offered guidance to people and groups who were establishing new schools, regardless of the character of these schools.
By March 2010, 350 groups had approached the network to find out how to establish a new school. They were planned to be involved in the Conservative Party's first wave of new free schools should it be elected in favour of the incumbent Labour government in May 2010. The Conservatives won the May election and the free schools programme was established. Michael Gove, who had become Secretary of State for Education, held a bid to determine who would be in receipt of a £500,000 government grant which would be used to advise him on the programme and help parents establish new free schools. The network was uncontested in its application and won the bid, though this led to allegations of political impartiality and an investigation . After the bid, the network became central to the programme and was given a say in all free school applications. It later gained responsibility for the programme's delivery and represented free schools.
On 21 June 2010, Gove announced that the network had received over 700 expressions of interest in establishing a free school for the programme's first wave. The first 24 free schools opened in September 2011. The network had worked with 22 of them. The network worked with 61 of the 79 groups applying to open a free school in September 2012. It had since continued to support around 30 prospective schools every year.
In November 2011, the network competed to maintain its government grant and supporting role in the free schools programme in another government bid where it yet again won. It was one of two applicants. Following the victory, it was in receipt of a maximum grant of £400,000 for the 2011 to 2012 financial year and another £650,000 for the 2012 to 2013 financial year. It could also choose to extend the grant to 2014. Another bid for the funding was held in that year, with the network winning again but this time for £3 million. The network's income would become largely dependent on government funding.
From 2013, the network delivered the Academy Ambassadors programme, a non-profit initiative which aimed to recruit board |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Schwartze | Peter Heinrich Schwartze (born 23 May 1931, in Bad Salzuflen) is a German neurophysiologist, systems scientist and cyberneticist well known in the ex-German Democratic Republic. Schwartze graduated the medical university in Leipzig, Germany, in 1957 and specialized in neurophysiology. He studied and worked at the universities of Rostock, Greifswald and Leipzig. He became Doctor Habilitatus of the University Leipzig, Germany in 1968 and Professor of Pathophysiology in 1978 and served as the Director of the Carl Ludwig Institute of Physiology between 1980 and 1992 as successor of Hans Drischel.
Prof. Schwartze also served as member of the East German Parliament between 1980 and 1990, in the Cultural Association fraction.
Scientific contributions
Schwartze studied the vestibular apparatus, the air-righting reflex and related spinal reflexes for over 30 years. He published hundreds of scientific reports (mostly in German journals) and a number of scientific and text books on issues of brain development, vestibulo-ocular reflexes and cybernetics.) He served as vice president of the Society for Experimental Research between 1978 and 81 and also served as member of the editorial board of many journals such as Pediatrics and Related Topics Journal and International Tinnitus Journal.
References
External links
Peter Schwartze, Local Newspaper, 1986.
Peter Schwartze, Interview by Spiegel magazine.
Archiv Leipzig University.
1931 births
Living people
People from Bad Salzuflen
People from the Free State of Lippe
Socialist Unity Party of Germany politicians
Members of the 8th Volkskammer
Members of the 9th Volkskammer
Cultural Association of the GDR members
Free German Youth members
German neuroscientists
Systems scientists
Cyberneticists
Leipzig University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%20Sunday%20Morning | CNN Sunday Morning is a news program on CNN in the United States hosted by a series of rotating news anchors. Prior to that, it was hosted by T.J. Holmes until he left the network in December 2011. The program is produced in Atlanta and takes a look ahead at the day's top news stories and events. It airs from 6:00 to 7:30am and 8:00am to 9:00am ET on Sunday mornings.
External links
CNN Sunday Morning
References
CNN original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHAPE%20Services | SHAPE.AG (formerly SHAPE Services) is a cross-platform independent software vendor and web-based services provider. The company develops instant messaging, social networking, productivity, entertainment, games, media and location-based applications for Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad, BlackBerry, Windows Phone/Windows Mobile, Android, Symbian S60, UIQ, J2ME, and HP/Palm webOS mobile platforms.
About the company
SHAPE.AG (with AG standing for Apps&Games )is a worldwide operating company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany and offices in Germany and Ukraine. The company was founded in 2002 and as of 2011 had more than 60 employees.
In May 2008 SHAPE acquired Warelex LLC, the US developer of multimedia applications and technologies for mobile devices.
In July 2011 SHAPE has agreed to acquire Crisp App, the Hong Kong-based developer of the fone app for iOS.
In 2011 the company added location-based instant messaging service Neighbors into IM+ application.
In 2012 SHAPE raised $10 million from Russian investment firm Finam.
In March 2012 SHAPE officially changed its name from SHAPE Services to SHAPE.AG (AG stands for Apps&Games ).
Current products
The company's best-known software products include:
IM+ - multiprotocol multiplatform mobile instant messenger.
IM+ Web - multiprotocol web instant messenger.
Business Card Reader - OCR utility for business cards processing and saving of contacts in address book.
iDisplay - utility allowing to use devices running on Android OS and iOS as a secondary display for Windows and Mac computers.
RDM+ - multiplatform remote access application for mobile devices.
CheckIn+/CheckIn Pro - an augmented reality app that overlays user's current surroundings with places from select geolocation applications, allowing users to see each notable destination relative to its position in the real world.
Chat for GTalk - monoclient instant messenger for Google Talk/Google+.
See also
Mobiola
Skype - Skype VoIP program
MSN Messenger - MSN instant messenger
Yahoo! Messenger - Yahoo! instant messenger
References
External links
SHAPE Services homepage
Warelex homepage
Mobiola homepage
RDM+ homepage
IM+ Web homepage
Sicher website
Mobile software
Instant messaging
Business software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96sterg%C3%B6tland%20Runic%20Inscription%20224 | Östergötland Runic Inscription 224 or Ög 224 is the Rundata catalog number for a Viking Age memorial runestone that is located in Stratomta, east of Linköping, Östergötland, Sweden. The runestone has an inscription on two sides with an image of a ship on the south side.
Description
This runic inscription is carved on two sides of a stone that is in height. On one side, which faces south, the inscription consists of text in the Younger Futhark within a band that circles an image of a ship. On the side that faces north, the inscription consists of text within a serpent. At the top on this side is a stylized Christian cross. Because of the depiction on the north side, the inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Fp, which is the classification for inscriptions where the text bands end in serpent or beast heads depicted as seen from above.
Ship images appear on several Viking Age runic inscriptions. Other runic inscriptions from the Viking Age which depict ships include DR 77 in Hjermind, DR 119 in Spentrup, DR 220 in Sønder Kirkeby, DR 258 in Bösarp, DR 271 in Tullstorp, DR 328 in Holmby, DR EM85;523 in Farsø, Ög 181 in Ledberg, Ög MÖLM1960;230 in Törnevalla, Sö 122 in Skresta, Sö 154 in Skarpåker, Sö 158 in Österberga, Sö 164 in Spånga, Sö 351 in Överjärna, Sö 352 in Linga, Vg 51 in Husaby, U 370 in Herresta, U 979 in Gamla Uppsala, U 1052 in Axlunda, U 1161 in Altuna, and Vs 17 in Råby. Three stones, the Hørdum and Långtora kyrka stones and U 1001 in Rasbo, depict ships but currently do not have any runes on them and may never have had any.
The runic text, which starts on the south side of the stone and is designated in Rundata as line A, states that the runestone was raised as a memorial by Ástríðr, Ásvaldi, and Augmundr in memory of their father Halfdan, and by Ástríðr in memory of her "good husbandman." The south side has line B of the text and the last rune on the final word, an a-rune, is located at the top of the inscription. The last word of the inscription, kuþan or goðan ("good"), was placed on the east side of the stone and is designated as line C.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
§A : estriþ : ausualti : aukmuntr : þau : litu : rais:a
§B : stain : þansi : aftiʀ : halftan : faþur : sin : auk : astriþ : at : bunta : sin :
§C : kuþan :
Transcription into Old Norse
§A Æstrið, Asvaldi, Augmundr, þau letu ræisa
§B stæin þannsi æftiʀ Halfdan, faður sinn, ok Æstrið at bonda sinn
§C goðan.
Translation in English
§A Ástríðr, Ásvaldi, Augmundr, they had
§B this stone raised in memory of Halfdan, their father; and Ástríðr in memory of her good husbandman.
or more similar to the original text:
§A Æstrið, Asvaldi, Augmundr, they let raise
§B stone this after Halfdan, father theirs, and Æstrið for bonda theirs
§C good
Drawings
References
Runestones in Östergötland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIN%20bibliographic%20database | SPIN (Searchable Physics Information Notices) bibliographic database is an indexing and abstracting service produced by the American Institute of Physics (AIP). The content focus of SPIN is described as the most significant areas of physics research. This type of literature coverage spans the major physical science journals and magazines. Major conference proceedings that are reported by the American Institute of Physics, member societies, as well as affiliated organizations are also included as part of this database. References, or citations, provide access to more than 1.5 million articles as of 2010. SPIN has no print counterpart.
Journals
Delivery of timely indexing and abstracting is for, what are deemed to be, the significant or important physics and astronomy journals from the United States, Russia, and the Ukraine. Citations for journal articles are derived from original publications of the AIP, which includes published translated works. At the same time, citations are included from member societies, and selectively chosen American journals. Citations become typically available online on the same date as the corresponding journal article.
Sources
Overall, the source citations are derived from material published by the AIP and member societies, which are English-speaking, Russian, and Ukrainian journals and conference proceedings. Certain American physics-related articles are also sources of citations. About 60 journals have cover to cover indexing, and about 100 journals, overall, are indexed.
Scope
Subject coverage encompasses the following:
Applied physics, Electromagnetic technology, Microelectronics
Atomic physics and Molecular physics
Biological physics and Medical physics
Classical physics and Quantum physics
Condensed matter physics
Elementary particle physics
General physics, Optics, Acoustics, and Fluid dynamics
Geophysics, Astronomy, Astrophysics
Materials science
Nuclear physics
Plasma physics
Physical chemistry
See also
List of academic databases and search engines
References
External links
AIP'S SPIN Database Reaches One Million Records. American Institute of Physics. March 1, 2002.
Can everything published in physics can be found in the arXiv?. The Scholarly Kitchen. Society for Scholarly Publishing. June, 2010.
AIP partnerships (society publishing). July 2010.
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Citation indices
Scientific databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJCV%20%28AM%29 | KJCV (1450 AM) is a radio station licensed to Jackson, Wyoming, United States. The station is currently owned by Bott Radio Network, through licensee Community Broadcasting.
References
External links
JCV (AM)
Bott Radio Network stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Arden | Bruce Wesley Arden ( – ) was an American computer scientist.
Arden enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War II (1944-1946) as a Radar Technician Third Class in California, Chicago, and Kodiak, Alaska.
He graduated from Purdue University with a BS(EE) in 1949 and started his computing career in 1950 with the wiring and programming of IBM's hybrid (mechanical and electronic) Card Programmed Computer/Calculator at the Allison Division of General Motors. Next he spent a short period as a programmer for computations being done at the University of Michigan's Willow Run Laboratory using the Standards Eastern Automatic Computer.
He then became a research associate at the University of Michigan's Statistical Research Laboratory and later an associate director of the university's Computing Center after its establishment in 1959. While at Michigan he co-authored two compilers, GAT for the IBM 650 and MAD for the IBM 704/709/7090, was involved in the design of the architecture and negotiations with IBM over the virtual memory features that would be included in what became the IBM System/360 Model 67 computer, and in the initial design of the Michigan Terminal System (MTS) time-sharing operating system.
U-M Vice President for Research Geoffrey Norman, writing in 1976, gave special credit to a triumvirate of Michigan computer specialists who contributed greatly to the future of computing at Michigan and in the nation as a whole. "Bartels, Arden, and Westervelt," Norman has said, "were a team that we took great care should not be broken up or induced to leave the University. Westervelt, the hardware expert, Arden, brilliant in software and logic, and Bartels orchestrating their progress-these three put together a superb timesharing computer system. The university and their faculty colleagues owe them much."
Arden's increasing interest in academic computer science and engineering motivated him to complete a doctoral program in electrical engineering in 1965. He was subsequently a professor in, and ultimately chairman of, the Computer and Communication Sciences department at Michigan. In 1973 he accepted a professorship at Princeton University and chaired the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. In 1986, then Princeton's Alexander Doty Professor of Engineering, he went to the University of Rochester as its dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science. In the three years preceding the addition of "Emeritus" to his academic title (William May Professor of Engineering) in 1995, he also served as Rochester's vice provost for telecommunications and computing.
During his academic career, Arden wrote two books on numerical computation and edited another on computer science and engineering research. He wrote many papers in the areas of compilers, operating systems, computer logic and networks. In addition, he supervised many students, both undergraduate and graduate, in their studies of the various aspects of computing, and he ser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Cyber-shot%20DSC-TX5 | The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX5 is a digital still camera announced by Sony on February 18, 2010. It boasts advanced features like Backlight Correction HDR, Hand-Held Twilight aided by the Exmor R CMOS sensor, and the intelligent panorama stitching mode, called the iSweep. The camera also has a waterproof body (up to 10 feet), which also makes it dust-proof. It is also freeze-proof for up to -10 °C and shock-proof, when dropped from a height of about 1.5 meters. Sony describes it as a rugged camera.
Specifications
Technical specifications
Lens
The camera has a Carl Zeiss lens, with 4x zoom capability, though the digital zoom can go up to 8x. The focal length of the lens is 4.43 - 17.7 mm.
LCD screen
The camera does not have a viewfinder. It is equipped with 3 inch touchscreen TFT display, which covers the entire back side of the device. It has about 230,400 usable pixels on the screen.
Special Features
iSweep Panorama
The DSC-TX5 can capture large panorama shots. Up to a hundred shots are taken by sweeping the camera from one side to the other. The camera can be swept from left-to-right, right-to-left and even up-to-down and down-to-up for vertical panoramas. It intelligently stitches the photos together and reduces the blur from moving subjects. It has support for up to 258° panoramic shots, which gives a 7,152 x 1,080 dimension image.
Face Detection
The DSC-TX5 is also equipped with face detection technology, which recognizes up to 8 faces on the screen. It can also focus specifically on adult or child faces and also has an optional Smile Shutter, which detects a smile and automatically shoots an image.
Recording mode
The Cyber-shot DSC-TX5 is compatible with Memory Stick Duo, Memory Stick PRO Duo, Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo, media and SD/SDHC/SDXC media. It cannot shoot video onto a Memory Stick Duo. It also has built-in 45 MB internal memory for emergency use.
References
TX5
Cameras introduced in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro%20FM%20%28Turkey%29 | Metro FM is a nationwide FM radio network broadcasting from İstanbul.
It is one of the first privately founded radio stations in Turkey and the first foreign music station. Broadcasting Pop Music in other languages than Turkish, Metro FM can be listened to via terrestrial broadcast, Turksat 2A Satellite, BlackBerry and iPhone applications.
Founded by the private Uzan Group, Metro FM remained one of the media branches of the holding for over ten years. The station briefly stayed under government entity after the takeover of the Uzan Holding companies by government banking regulation agency TMSF. With the auction held in September 2005, Metro FM has been sold to the Canadian communication group Canwest for a sum of US$22,850,000. Failing its operations in Turkey as a result of the 2007 global recession, Canwest has sold Metro FM along with its sister stations Süper FM, Joy FM and Joy Türk to Spectrum Medya, one of the domestic investment fund Actera Group’s companies. The name of the company has been changed to Karnaval Media.
Since its foundation in 1992, Metro FM has always been among the first two foreign music radio stations in the country by terms of rating. The station manager and program/music director of the radio is Cengiz Ünsal.
Metro Fm Weekly Schedule
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External links
Metro FM Website
Radio stations in Turkey
Radio stations established in 1992
Mass media in Istanbul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodyear%20ZWG | The Goodyear ZWG is classified as a ZW Airborne Early Warning Airship. The ZWG-1, designed specifically for the national early warning network mission, was ordered but was subsequently replaced by a much-modified ZPG design as the ZPG-3W.
Development
In 1947 The ZWG designation was added in the naming scheme for airships. In 1955 there was increased interest in the use of nonrigid airships as
part of the national early warning network. The ZWG-1, designed specifically for this mission, was ordered
but was subsequently replaced by a much-modified ZPG design as the ZPG-3W.
Specifications Goodyear ZWG
Notes
References
1950s United States patrol aircraft
Airships of the United States Navy
Goodyear aircraft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20monitoring%20and%20control | Remote monitoring and control (M&C) systems are designed to control large or complex facilities such as factories, power plants, network operations centers, airports, and spacecraft, with some degree of automation.
M&C systems may receive data from sensors, telemetry streams, user inputs, and pre-programmed procedures. The software may send telecommands to actuators, computer systems, or other devices.
M&C systems may perform closed-loop control.
Once limited to SCADA in industrial settings, remote monitoring and control is now applied in numerous fields, including:
Smart grids
Positive train control
Structural health monitoring
Pipeline sensors
Patient monitoring
Desktop/server monitoring
While this field overlaps with machine to machine communications, the two are not completely identical.
See also
Control engineering
Control room
Control theory
Instrument control
Remote sensing
Remote terminal unit
M&C!
Automation software
Control engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Performance%20Computing%20Wales | High Performance Computing Wales (HPC Wales) was a £44million five-year project (2010–2015) to provide Wales with a world class facility in High Performance Computing, accessible to both academic and commercial organisations based in Wales. The project aimed to give Wales a supercomputing capacity and network at a scale not attempted anywhere else in the UK or Europe. It is being followed by another five-year, £15million programme of investment called Supercomputing Wales.
HPC Wales invested in state-of-the-art computing technology, infrastructure and facilities on a pan-Wales basis, high level skills development and training. It was estimated that the project would result in the creation of over 400 jobs.
The project is financially supported by:
£19m from ERDF and ESF European funds channelled through the Welsh European Funding Office
£10m from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
£4m from collaborating academic institutions
£5m from the Welsh Assembly Government
£2m private sector and research income
Announced in December 2009 by then Welsh Secretary Peter Hain, the project was formally launched in July 2010 by Deputy First Minister and Minister for the Economy and Transport, Ieuan Wyn Jones.
Two main computer hubs were created in Cardiff University and Swansea University, with connection to partners Aberystwyth, Bangor, Glamorgan, the University of Wales Alliance Universities and Technium business innovation centres around Wales. Professor Ian Cluckie was Chair of HPC Wales's Procurement Committee, and Pro Vice Chancellor for Science and Engineering at Swansea University.
External links
HPC Wales
Supercomputing Wales
References
Wales
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Science and technology in Wales
Wales
2010s in Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT%20App%20Inventor | MIT App Inventor (App Inventor or MIT AI2) is a high-level block-based visual programming language, originally built by Google and now maintained by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It allows newcomers to create computer applications for two operating systems: Android and iOS, which, , is in beta testing. It is free and open-source released under dual licensing: a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license and an Apache License 2.0 for the source code. Its target is primarily children and students studying computer programming, similar to Scratch.
The web interface consists of a graphical user interface (GUI) very similar to Scratch and StarLogo, allowing users to drag-and-drop visual objects to create an application that can be tested on Android and iOS devices and compiled to run as an Android app. It uses a companion mobile app named MIT AI2 Companion providing live testing and debugging.
App Inventor provides integration with different online services, such as Google Sheets and Firebase.
When creating App Inventor, Google drew upon significant prior research in educational computing, and work done within Google on online development environments.
History
The application was made available through request on July 12, 2010, and released publicly on December 15, 2010.
The App Inventor team was led by Hal Abelson and Mark Friedman.
In the second half of 2011, Google released the source code, terminated its server, and provided funding to create The MIT Center for Mobile Learning, led by App Inventor creator Hal Abelson and fellow MIT professors Eric Klopfer and Mitchel Resnick. The MIT version was launched in March 2012.
On December 6, 2013 (the start of the Hour of Code), MIT released App Inventor 2, renaming the original version "App Inventor Classic" Major differences are:
The blocks editor in the original version ran in a separate Java process, using the Open Blocks Java library for creating visual blocks programming languages and programming
Open Blocks is distributed by MIT's Scheller Teacher Education Program (STEP) and is derived from master's thesis research by Ricarose Roque. Professor Eric Klopfer and Daniel Wendel of the Scheller Program supported the distribution of Open Blocks under an MIT License. Open Blocks visual programming is closely related to StarLogo TNG, a project of STEP, and Scratch, a project of the MIT Media Lab's Lifelong Kindergarten Group led by Mitchel Resnick. App Inventor 2 replaced Open Blocks with Blockly, a blocks editor that runs within a web browser.
The MIT AI2 Companion app enables real-time debugging on connected devices via Wi-Fi, or Universal Serial Bus (USB). In addition to this the user may use an "on computer" emulator available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
Spin-offs
In June 2018, a baked version of App Inventor 2 called Kodular was launched. It is promoted as an 'improved' and more modern version of App Inventor 2.
See also
Android software development
L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Types%20of%20artificial%20neural%20networks | There are many types of artificial neural networks (ANN).
Artificial neural networks are computational models inspired by biological neural networks, and are used to approximate functions that are generally unknown. Particularly, they are inspired by the behaviour of neurons and the electrical signals they convey between input (such as from the eyes or nerve endings in the hand), processing, and output from the brain (such as reacting to light, touch, or heat). The way neurons semantically communicate is an area of ongoing research. Most artificial neural networks bear only some resemblance to their more complex biological counterparts, but are very effective at their intended tasks (e.g. classification or segmentation).
Some artificial neural networks are adaptive systems and are used for example to model populations and environments, which constantly change.
Neural networks can be hardware- (neurons are represented by physical components) or software-based (computer models), and can use a variety of topologies and learning algorithms.
Feedforward
The feedforward neural network was the first and simplest type. In this network the information moves only from the input layer directly through any hidden layers to the output layer without cycles/loops. Feedforward networks can be constructed with various types of units, such as binary McCulloch–Pitts neurons, the simplest of which is the perceptron. Continuous neurons, frequently with sigmoidal activation, are used in the context of backpropagation.
Group method of data handling
The Group Method of Data Handling (GMDH) features fully automatic structural and parametric model optimization. The node activation functions are Kolmogorov–Gabor polynomials that permit additions and multiplications. It uses a deep multilayer perceptron with eight layers. It is a supervised learning network that grows layer by layer, where each layer is trained by regression analysis. Useless items are detected using a validation set, and pruned through regularization. The size and depth of the resulting network depends on the task.
Autoencoder
An autoencoder, autoassociator or Diabolo network is similar to the multilayer perceptron (MLP) – with an input layer, an output layer and one or more hidden layers connecting them. However, the output layer has the same number of units as the input layer. Its purpose is to reconstruct its own inputs (instead of emitting a target value). Therefore, autoencoders are unsupervised learning models. An autoencoder is used for unsupervised learning of efficient codings, typically for the purpose of dimensionality reduction and for learning generative models of data.
Probabilistic
A probabilistic neural network (PNN) is a four-layer feedforward neural network. The layers are Input, hidden pattern/summation, and output. In the PNN algorithm, the parent probability distribution function (PDF) of each class is approximated by a Parzen window and a non-parametric function. Then, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrlinks | Corrlinks is a privately owned company that operates the Trust Fund Limited Inmate Computer System (TRULINCS), the email system used by the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons to allow inmates to communicate with the outside world. CorrLinks is a subsidiary of Advanced Technologies Group.
TRULINCS is a fee-based system that inmates must pay for in order to send or receive email. Unlike commercial sites which allow correspondents to send an email which is then printed and mailed to an inmate, this service provides direct email access to federal inmates. Inmates must pay $0.05 per minute for use of this computer system, and they may print messages at a cost of $0.15 per page. Sending a message to someone can cost up to $0.30. As a comparison, in many U.S. federal prisons, inmates wages start at $0.12 per hour. This service is also available in some state prisons, such as those in Iowa.
Not all federal inmates have Corrlinks access, and inmates may be barred from using the service if their particular crimes involved the use of a computer in any manner. The system does not allow inmates access to the Internet, and all incoming and outgoing messages are monitored. Emails are limited to 13,000 characters and no attachments are allowed (attachments will be removed, which sometimes corrupts the rest of the message). The content of the email may not "jeopardize the public or the safety, security, or orderly operation of the correctional facility".
TRULINCS has been available at federal prison facilities since 2009.
Some state-run prisons have a similar email system available, called JPay, which is owned by Securus Technologies, a prison technology company.
References
External links
Penal system in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Food%20at%20Home | French Food at Home is a James Beard Foundation Award-winning cooking show presented by Laura Calder. It is filmed in Halifax, Nova Scotia and airs on Food Network Canada, the Asian Food Channel, and the Cooking Channel.
French Food at Home is a lifestyle series featuring simple French home cooking which anyone, anywhere, can make. All 78 episodes were shot in a home kitchen in Canada and include scenes of France (filmed in France) such as trips to the market and glimpses of everyday French food life. Music for the show was composed by Mike O'Neill.
Episodes list
Season 1
Spring flavored"
Dinner so Chic
Charcuterie Inspiration
French Food for Kids
Spring Flavors
French Holiday Dinner
First Courses
Dinner Outdoors
Chateau Memories
Fish Forever
Classic Bistro Desserts
French Food Fast
Breakfast Abroad
Country Dinner
Mediterranean Flavours
Comfort Food
Served Family Style
Bechamel Creations
Cheese 101
Chocolate Obsession
Aromatic Inspiration
Apero
Savoury Tarts
Eggs Anytime
Stand Alone Salads
Sweet Tarts
The Perfect Potato
Season 2
The Sweet Choux Show
Cooking for One
French Africa
Cooking with Wine
From the French Pantry
The Bread Show
French Ways with Vegetables
France City Tour
French Fruit Desserts
The Puff Pasty Show
The Butter Show
Simple Terrines
Simple Classics
The Olive Show
French for Dieters
Celebratory Chocolate Desserts
Truckstop French
Tribute to French Canada
Vegetarian
Picnic
Stuffed!
Girls Dinner
Reunion Food
Around Bordeaux Dinner
Dinner from the Potager
Salt and Pepper
Season 3
Small Pleasures
Exotica
Thrifty
Grandma's House
How Grand
Cozy
The Slow Show
Artist Dinner
Champagne Dinner
Lazy Daze
Sunday Lunch
Summer Buffet
Confidence Builders
Woodland Feast
Cook for a Chef
Mediterranean Sun
Moveable Feast
Gimick-Free
Free Spirit
French Barbecue
The Retro Show
The Beauty Show
Life's Luxuries
Cocktail Dinner
Well Preserved
Frenchified
Dinner at the Chateau (special)
Awards and nominations
2010 : James Beard Foundation Award, New York City
Television Show, In Studio or Fixed Location
Broadcasters
Original
Food Network Canada
Syndicate
Cooking Channel
References
2007 Canadian television series debuts
2000s Canadian cooking television series
2010 Canadian television series endings
2010s Canadian cooking television series
Cooking Channel original programming
Food Network (Canadian TV channel) original programming
Television shows filmed in Halifax, Nova Scotia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softcam%20%28disambiguation%29 | A softcam is a software based camera.
Softcam, softCAM, or soft cam may also refer to:
Software emulation of a conditional-access module (CAM)
Software used for computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)
Soft cam, a cam device on a compound bow
See also
SoftCamp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Nuclear%20Fuel%20Cycle%20Information%20System | Integrated Nuclear Fuel Cycle Information System (iNFCIS) is a set of databases related to the nuclear fuel cycle maintained by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The main objective of iNFCIS is to provide information on all aspects of nuclear fuel cycle to various researchers, analysts, energy planners, academicians, students and the general public. Presently iNFCIS includes several modules. iNFCIS requires free registration for on-line access.
Background
Nuclear fuel cycle consists of a number of steps which are critical in supporting a nuclear power programme. This included fuel supply-related activities in the front end and used or spent fuel-related activities in the back end. Reliable and accurate statistical data on worldwide nuclear fuel cycle activities is desired by the nuclear community for national policy making, international co-operation and studies pertaining to sustainable global energy futures. The IAEA provides up-to-date fuel cycle information to Member States, organizations and stakeholders, so as to understand, plan and develop nuclear fuel cycle programmes and activities. iNFCIS, a web-based system comprising several nuclear fuel cycle-related databases, is one source of such information.
Data sources
IAEA over years has accumulated a large volume of data on nuclear fuel cycle activities through its regular technical meetings and publications, wherein contributions from Member States and leading international experts has been assimilated. IAEA had initiated electronic preservation of this data more than 20 years back, and since the last 10 years it has been made freely available through the public Internet. The data is regularly updated through direct inputs from the Member States, by consultants engaged by the IAEA or from open sources. All data is reviewed by consultants continuously to maintain high quality.
Modules
iNFCIS presently includes the follow databases and a simulation tool:
NFCIS – The Nuclear fuel cycle information system provides details regarding civilian nuclear fuel cycle facilities around the world. It contains information on operational and non-operational, planned, and cancelled facilities. All stages of nuclear fuel cycle activities are included, starting from uranium ore production to spent fuel storage facilities. NFCIS data has been used for analyses and studies related to nuclear fuel cycle.
UDEPO – The World distribution of uranium deposits database is an on-line database of uranium deposits around the world. It includes classification of deposits, technical information about the deposits, detailed geological information about regions, districts and deposits. UDEPO is widely cited as an authentic source of information on uranium resources.
ThDEPO – The World Thorium Deposits and Resources database is an on-line database of thorium deposits.
PIEDB – The Post irradiation examination facilities database is a catalogue of hot laboratories maintained by the IAEA. It includes detai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheran%20Health%20Network | Lutheran Health Network is a healthcare provider and one of the largest employers in the northeast region of Indiana in the United States. The network has more than 7,000 employees working together with the more than 800 physicians who make up its medical staffs. The network's more than 100 access points in northern Indiana include physician offices, urgent care clinics, outpatient centers and eight hospitals consisting of 973 licensed beds - 797 in Allen County alone.
Lutheran Health Network is a subsidiary of Community Health Systems.
Centers
Lutheran Hospital
Lutheran Downtown Hospital
Dupont Hospital
Lutheran Children's Hospital
The Orthopedic Hospital of Lutheran Health Network
Rehabilitation Hospital of Fort Wayne
Bluffton Regional Medical Center
Kosciusko Community Hospital
Dukes Memorial Hospital
RediMed / MedStat
Lutheran Health Physicians
References
External links
Lutheran Health Network
Hospital networks in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in Indiana
Community Health Systems
Companies based in Fort Wayne, Indiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic%20Bridges%20and%20Tails | Galactic Bridges and Tails is a computer animation film created in 1972 by astrophysicists Alar Toomre and Juri Toomre. The brothers created the film as a teaching aid to accompany their 1972 landmark research paper of the same name, published in The Astrophysical Journal, which described galaxy collisions and galaxy mergers.
Technology of the original animated film
The Toomre film contains both 2D and 3D computer graphics simulations of colliding galaxies. The animations are time-lapses that compress billions of years into just a few minutes. Written in the FORTRAN programming language, the simulations sent character and vector information to a CRT-based ASCII character film recorder. The film recorder exposed multiple frames of 16mm film to create the final animated film.
Digital film restoration
In 2007, filmmaker Michael Lauter worked with the Toomre brothers to digitally restore the 16mm original film and create a new HD video (1080p24) digital master.
Derivative simulations
Massachusetts-based MathWorks created a Simulink model titled Spiral Galaxy Formation Simulation for use within their MATLAB programming environment. The company states that their computer animation model was inspired by the original Galactic Bridges and Tails paper and film.
References
External links
Astrophysics
3D graphics art |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audimated | Audimated was a social networking website for independent musicians and their fans. Audimated.com, which launched in June 2010, offers a platform in which both artists and fans can sell music and related products to make a profit. The founders of Audimated.com are Lucas Sommer and Andrew Levine, two alumni from the University of Miami Business School.
History
The idea for Audimated came to Lucas and Andrew during their senior year of college together at the University of Miami. After receiving positive feedback on the idea from their business professors, they put their business plan into action in 2008 to make their website a reality. The website name is a combination of the words audio and automated, which represents the website's goal of combining music (audio) and automating the process of marketing through social networking (mated) for independent artists.
Concept
Audimated.com is an online music community with a variety of unique features. Most notably, fans and artists alike can use the website as a tool for earning money. For example, Audimated.com allows artists to sell their merchandise (songs, concert tickets, etc.) and also lets fans have "stores" where they can add their favorite bands’ products for sale.
In addition to the revenue generating component, Audimated.com also allows the fan user group to find top artists that match their taste, listen to and upload songs on the Audimated.com radio and search specific locations for new musicians of different genres.
While artists upload their creative content onto the website, Audimated.com guarantees that they keep the rights to all creative content of their work. Audimated.com simply offers a platform to increase awareness and interest in independent music. Signing up for Audimated.com is free of charge for artists and their fans. The website business model is to charge a 10% fee of all sale transactions by artists and fans while up-selling premium services to its members.
News
In March 2010, Audimated.com won the annual WeMedia Pitch It! Contest. The grand prize, awarded to Lucas Sommer on behalf of Audimated.com for the best pitch, was $25,000 in start up funds for the website. Audimated.com has also received press for its services in The Wall Street Journal, the Miami Herald and various blogs devoted to independent music.
References
American companies established in 2010
Defunct social networking services
Free music download websites
Internet properties established in 2010
Online music stores of the United States
2010 establishments in Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Dolan | Charles Francis Dolan (born October 16, 1926) is an American billionaire businessman, best known as founder of Cablevision and HBO. Today, Dolan controls Madison Square Garden Sports, MSG Networks, Madison Square Garden Entertainment, Madison Square Garden, MSG Sphere at The Venetian, MSG Sphere London, Radio City Music Hall, BBC America and AMC Networks. As of October 2021, his net worth was estimated at US$5.6 billion.
Early life
The son of an inventor, Dolan was born in Cleveland, Ohio, United States. He served in the United States Army Air Forces at the end of World War II and studied at John Carroll University, before dropping out and entering the telecommunications field. His father, David, sold a patent to Ford Motor.
Career
Dolan's earliest professional endeavors focused on the packaging, marketing and distribution of sports and industrial films, which he produced with his wife in their Cleveland home and then sold to televisions stations which syndicated the material. Dolan sold his interests to Telenews in exchange for a job, and when he was 26 years old, he moved to New York and founded Teleguide Inc, a service that provided information to hotels.
That same decade, Dolan founded Sterling Manhattan Cable, the first company to wire buildings to have cable television access. In its early years, Sterling forged first-of-its-kind agreements to bring New York professional sports teams, cultural programming and movies into the homes of New York City cable viewers, including agreements with the New York Knicks and New York Rangers. Two years later, he sold Sterling Cable's Manhattan operations to Time Inc and renamed his Long Island business Cablevision Systems.
In the early 1970s, Dolan founded Home Box Office, the first premium programming service in the cable television industry, which he sold to Time Life. Later, he organized Cablevision Systems Corporation on Long Island and has spearheaded many of the company's advancements. After that, he was the vision behind VOOM, Cablevision's effort to expand content delivery and meet the demands of the exploding HDTV market, which was expected to include six million households by the end of 2003 and 12 million by year-end 2005, but was shut down when other directors deemed it financially unsustainable.
From 2001 through early 2002, Dolan was a bidder in the sale of the Boston Red Sox. He submitted a maximum bid of $750 million, but ultimately lost out to a group headed by John Henry, Tom Werner, and Larry Lucchino.
In 2016, Dolan sold Cablevision to Patrick Drahi's Altice USA for $17.7 billion.
Affiliations and honors
Dolan is a trustee of Fairfield University and is also a member of the board of governors of St. Francis Hospital in Port Washington, New York.
In November 2016, Dolan received an honorary doctorate from Fairfield University, in recognition of his remarkable contribution to our culture industry, for his exemplary vision and tenacity as a media pioneer, and for his important c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Freeman | Peter Freeman may refer to:
Peter A. Freeman (born 1941), founding dean of the Georgia Tech College of Computing
Peter Freeman (musician) (1965–2021), American multi-instrumentalist, composer and music producer
Peter Freeman (footballer) (born 1969), former Australian rules footballer
Peter Freeman (politician) (1888–1956), Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom
Peter Anthony Freeman, Welsh author and storyteller
See also
Peter Friedman (born 1949), American actor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20A.%20Freeman | Peter A. Freeman is the founding dean of Georgia Tech's College of Computing, a position he held from 1990 to 2002. Freeman was assistant director of the National Science Foundation from 2002 to 2007.
Freeman has been emeritus dean of the Georgia Tech College of Computing since 2007. He is currently the director of the Washington Advisory Group. Freeman is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Education
Freeman received a Bachelor of Arts in physics and mathematics from Rice University in 1963, a Master of Arts in mathematics and psychology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1965, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1970.
Early career
After graduation from Carnegie Mellon, Freeman was a researcher, professor, and administrator at the University of California, Irvine's Department of Information & Computer Science from 1971 to 1987, where he focused on artificial intelligence and software engineering research, funded primarily by the National Science Foundation. Freeman is one of the founders of software engineering education, starting a course on the subject in 1974. During the course of his career at UC Irvine, Freeman also administered the undergraduate and graduate programs and served as the department chair.
In 1987, Freeman became the director of the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Computation Research; in this post, he managed about $20 million in grants each year, and helped develop the High Performance Computing and Communications program.
For a year after his post at NSF, Freeman served as a Visiting Distinguished Professor at George Mason University (1989–1990) to assist in the creation of a computing program at that university.
Recent career
From 1992 to 1995, Freeman became the chief information officer of the Georgia Institute of Technology, and oversaw their Office of Information Technology (OIT) as it prepared for the 1996 Summer Olympics. At the time, OIT had an annual budget of $10 million.
When Georgia Tech was reorganized in 1988 under the administration of John Patrick Crecine (see History of Georgia Tech), the School of Information and Computer Science was promoted to college status, on the same administrative level as Georgia Tech's mainstay, the College of Engineering. Thus the Georgia Tech College of Computing was created. Freeman was selected as the college's founding dean and oversaw the program's transition and subsequent rapid growth; he would hold this post until 2002. Under his administration, the school added three research centers (including the Georgia Tech Information Security Center), increased research funding from $2 million annually to $10 million annually, hired 55 faculty members, and secured millions in funding for the construction of the College of Computing Building.
From 2002 to 2007 Freeman was held the pos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MarkMonitor | MarkMonitor Inc. is an American software company founded in 1999. It develops software intended to protect corporate brands from Internet counterfeiting, fraud, piracy, and cybersquatting. MarkMonitor also develops and publishes reports on the prevalence of brand abuse on the Internet.
In November 2022, the company was acquired by Newfold Digital.
History
MarkMonitor was founded in 1999 in Boise, Idaho and its initial business as a service provider for the protection of corporate trademarks on the Internet. In 2000, it gained ICANN accreditation status for domain registration and acquired a domain management business called AllDomains the following year.
In October 2010, MarkMonitor acquired an anti-piracy company (DtecNet) and was itself purchased by Thomson Reuters' Intellectual Property & Science business in July 2012. In 2016, the IP division of Reuters, including MarkMonitor, was sold to two venture capital companies, under the new parent company Clarivate Analytics.
In 2022, Clarivate announced that Newfold Digital purchased its subsidiary. Backed by the Clearlake and Siris groups, Newfold is a web and commerce technology provider.
Research
According to the MarkMonitor web site, it has been publishing a report called the Brandjacking Index since 2007, to assess how Internet threats affect corresponding brands. The company's annual report says that cybersquatting increased 18 percent in 2008 and "phishing attacks" rose 36 percent in the first quarter of 2009.
In 2010, the company estimated that $200 billion in revenues is lost annually as a result of worldwide counterfeiting and piracy on the Internet. The 2011 report said the company had identified 23,000 listings "for clones, suspected counterfeits, or gray market" versions of tablet computers by 8,000 sellers. A 2011 opinion piece in Techdirt criticized the research methodology of MarkMonitor's report.
Corporate structure
Half of MarkMonitor's employees are based at its San Francisco facility where its "brand protection solutions" division is located. Domain development, administration and customer service personnel are located in Boise, Idaho, and their anti-fraud and security center is based in Washington DC.
Products and services
According to MarkMonitor, it develops and markets brand protection software and services to combat counterfeiting, piracy, cybersquatting and paid search scams in four categories; domain management, antifraud software, brand protection and antipiracy. The Idaho Statesman reported that "MarkMonitor safeguards more than half of the Fortune 100 brands". MarkMonitor provides services to Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Tencent, YouTube, Wikipedia, and eBay, among others.
References
External links
Clarivate
Online companies of the United States
Software companies established in 1999
1999 establishments in California
American companies established in 1999
2022 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer%20S-45%20%28satellite%29 | Explorer S-45 was a NASA satellite, which was lost in a launch failure in February 1961. The satellite was intended to operate in a highly elliptical orbit, from which it was to have provided data on the shape of the ionosphere, and on the Earth's magnetic field. It was part of the Explorer program, and would have been designated Explorer 10 had it reached orbit. A second identical satellite, Explorer S-45A, also failed to achieve orbit when it was launched.
Launch
Explorer S-45 was launched aboard a Juno II launch vehicle, serial number AM-19F. The launch took place from Launch Complex 26B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) at 00:13:16 GMT on 25 February 1961. The launch vehicle malfunctioned after the second stage separated, and contact with the payload was lost. The third stages subsequently failed to ignite, resulting in the satellite failing to achieve orbit.
See also
Explorer S-45A
Explorer program
References
Spacecraft launched in 1961
Satellite launch failures
Explorers Program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer%20S-45A%20%28satellite%29 | Explorer S-45A was a NASA satellite, which was lost in a launch failure in 1961. The satellite was intended to operate in a highly elliptical orbit, from which it was to have provided data on the shape of the ionosphere, and on the Earth's magnetic field. It was part of the Explorer program and would have been designated Explorer 12 had it reached orbit. It was the second of two identical satellites to be launched; the first, Explorer S-45, had also been lost in a launch failure, earlier in the year.
Launch
Explorer S-45A was launched aboard a Juno II launch vehicle, serial number AM-19G. It was the final flight of the Juno II. The launch took place from LC-26B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) at 19:48:05 GMT on 24 May 1961. The system which was intended to ignite the second stage malfunctioned, and as a result that stage failed to ignite. The launch vehicle failed to achieve orbit.
See also
Explorer program
References
Spacecraft launched in 1961
Satellite launch failures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CING%20%28biomolecular%20NMR%20structure%29 | In biomolecular structure, CING stands for the Common Interface for NMR structure Generation and is known for structure and NMR data validation.
NMR spectroscopy provides diverse data on the solution structure of biomolecules. CING combines many external programs and internalized algorithms to direct an author of a new structure or a biochemist interested in an existing structure to regions of the molecule that might be problematic in relation to the experimental data.
The source code is maintained open to the public at Google Code. There is a secure web interface iCing available for new data.
Applications
9000+ validation reports for existing Protein Data Bank structures in NRG-CING.
CING has been applied to automatic predictions in the CASD-NMR experiment with results available at CASD-NMR.
Validated NMR data
Protein or Nucleic acid structure together called Biomolecular structure
Chemical shift
(Nuclear Overhauser effect) Distance restraint
Dihedral angle restraint
RDC or Residual dipolar coupling restraint
NMR (cross-)peak
Software
Following software is used internally or externally by CING:
3DNA
Collaborative Computing Project for NMR
CYANA (Software)
DSSP (algorithm)
MOLMOL
Matplotlib
Nmrpipe
PROCHECK/Aqua
POV-Ray
ShiftX
TALOS+
WHAT_CHECK
Wattos
XPLOR-NIH
Yasara
Algorithms
Saltbridge
Disulfide bridge
Outlier
Funding
The NRG-CING project was supported by the European Community grants 213010 (eNMR) and 261572 (WeNMR).
References
External links
CING - includes tutorials and blog.
iCing - web interface to CING.
software - Google code with issue tracker and Wiki.
NRG-CING - validation results on all PDB NMR structures.
CASD-NMR CING - validation results of recent CASD-NMR predicted structures.
Protein structure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%E2%80%9311%20Ukrainian%20Cup | The 2010–11 Ukrainian Cup is the 20th annual season of Ukraine's football knockout competition, and third under the name of DATAGROUP – Football Ukraine Cup.
The Cup begins with two preliminary rounds, before the first round proper involving the Premier League clubs. The draw for both the preliminary rounds was held on July 14, 2010. The First Preliminary Round consists of teams from Druha Liha and Amateur Cup champions and has only five fixtures. In the Second Preliminary Round teams of the Persha Liha enter the competition. Sixteen teams, winners of the 2nd preliminary round enter the first round or the round of 32 where the Premier League teams enter the competition for the first time.
Tavriya Simferopol is the defending champion and as a member of the Premier League enter the competition at the round of 32. Tavriya were eliminated in the round of 32 by Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 1–4. This season's winner enters the play-off round of the UEFA Europa League 2011–12.
Format
This season's format for the main event has changed again. The announcement of the format was given during the draw of the round 32 in the headquarters of the FFU. All matches consist of a single game and would include extra time and series of penalties if necessary to identify a winner. The broadcast of the draw was officially conducted for the first time by one of the sponsors of the Ukrainian Premier League (Footballua).
The draw was blind. All participants were ranked according to their table standings on September 8, 2010 and listed in that order for the draw. All seeds of pairs were numerated such as the first pair consisted of number 1 and number 2, the second pair of number 3 and number 4, the third – 5 and 6, and so on. Clubs of a lower league when seeded with one from a higher would receive a home advantage. However, in case for the same league seeded clubs, the hosting club was identified by an odd number that was drawn upon calling its name. A former Soviet player Vadym Yevtushenko was invited as a "special guest" to conduct the draw. For each announced club from the ranking list a ball with a number was drawn from a pot. According to the number, the announced club was placed into the seed with the corresponding number. The first club that was announced was FC Shakhtar Donetsk.
For the round of 16 draw, Viktor Leonenko was invited as the honorary visitor.
Fifty eight teams entered the Ukrainian Cup competition.
Distribution
Round and draw dates
All draws held at FFU headquarters (Building of Football) in Kyiv unless stated otherwise.
Competition schedule
First Preliminary Round
In this round entered 8 clubs from the Druha Liha, the winner of the Ukrainian Amateur Cup, and the newly admitted club from Nova Kakhovka all seeded into five fixtures. The round matches are scheduled to be played July 28, 2010.
Notes:
Match not played due to Ros Bila Tserkva's financial difficulties
Qualify as Amateur Cup Champions of Ukraine 2009.
The match was played on J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC%20Orange%20Network | The NBC Orange Network, also known as the NBC Pacific Coast network, was a National Broadcasting Company radio network in the western United States from 1927 to 1936, before two-way broadcast-quality communications circuits reached the West to relay the larger NBC Red Network and NBC Blue Network.
The Orange Network had its own production and performance staffs on the West Coast. In addition to producing original West Coast works, the Orange Network also had duplicate productions of many eastern shows until the end of 1928. In December 1928, a single broadcast-quality line was completed to San Francisco, and the Orange Network could then carry eastern programming directly, but only one program at a time; from then until 1936, Orange Network fed some programs from Red and some from Blue.
In 1936, a second broadcast-quality circuit was completed, this time to Los Angeles. This circuit also allowed the direction of amplification to be reversed in under 15 seconds, allowing Los Angeles, with its easy access to talent during the Golden Age of Hollywood, to feed broadcast-quality sound to the eastern networks as well. With the opening of the second circuit, the need for the Orange Network disappeared, and the stations on the old Orange Network became the Pacific Coast Red Network, fed by KPO (AM), except KGO (AM), which itself fed a new Western Blue Network made up of stations on the short-lived former NBC Gold Network.
References
Radio stations established in 1927
Radio stations disestablished in 1936
1927 establishments in the United States
1936 disestablishments in the United States
Defunct radio networks in the United States
History of the American West
History of Hollywood, Los Angeles
Orange Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-optimization | In cellular communications technology, self-optimization is a process in which the system’s settings are autonomously and continuously adapted to the traffic profile and the network environment in terms of topology, propagation and interference. Together with self-planning and self-healing, self-optimization is one of the key pillars of the self-organizing networks (SON) management paradigm proposed by the Next Generation Mobile Networks Alliance. The autonomous trait of self-optimization involves no human intervention at all during the aforementioned optimization process.
In the area of control engineering most compact controllers for the industrial sector include an automatic adjustment of the control parameters to the connected section. This function is called auto-tuning or self-optimization. Usually, two different types of self-tuning are available in the controller: the oscillation method and the step response method.
The term is also used in Computer Science to describe a portion of an information system that pursues its own objectives to the detriment of the overall system. Low level of self optimization amongst system components leads to Coupling. High level of self optimization leads to Cohesion
See also
Self-management (computer science)
Self-optimizing network
References
3GPP standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmedia%20Network | Postmedia Network Canada Corp. (also known as Postmedia Network, Postmedia News or Postmedia) is a Canadian media conglomerate consisting of the publishing properties of the former Canwest, with primary operations in newspaper publishing, news gathering and Internet operations. It is best known for being the owner of the National Post and the Financial Post. The company is headquartered at Postmedia Place on Bloor Street in Toronto.
The company's strategy has seen its publications invest greater resources in digital news gathering and distribution, including expanded websites and digital news apps for smartphones and tablets. This began with a revamp and redesign of the Ottawa Citizen, which debuted in 2014.
Postmedia is currently 66% owned by American media conglomerate Chatham Asset Management.
History
The ownership group was assembled by National Post CEO Paul Godfrey in 2010 to bid for the chain of newspapers being sold by the financially troubled Asper family's Canwest (the company's broadcasting assets were sold separately to Shaw Communications). Godfrey secured financial backing from a U.S. private equity firm, the Manhattan-based hedge fund GoldenTree Asset Management—which owns 35 per cent—as well as IJNR Investment Trust, Nyppex and other investors. The group completed a $1.1 billion transaction to acquire the chain from Canwest on July 13, 2010.
On October 6, 2014, Postmedia's CEO Godfrey announced a deal to acquire the English-language operations of Sun Media. The purchase received regulatory approval from the federal Competition Bureau on March 25, 2015, even though the company manages competitive papers in several Canadian cities; while the Sun Media chain owns numerous other papers, four of its five Sun-branded tabloids operate in markets where Postmedia already publishes a broadsheet competitor. Board chair Rod Phillips has cited the Vancouver market, in which the two main daily newspapers, the Vancouver Sun and The Province, have had common ownership for over 30 years, as evidence that the deal would not be anticompetitive. The purchase did not include Sun Media's now-defunct Sun News Network. The acquisition was approved by the Competition Bureau on March 25, 2015, and closed on April 13.
In 2016, the company sought to restructure its compensation plans and reduce spending by as much as 20%, after reporting a net loss of $99.4 million, or 35 cents per diluted share, in the fourth-quarter ended Aug 31, compared with a $54.1 million net loss, or 19 cents per diluted share, in the same period a year earlier. This resulted in 90 newsroom staff losing their jobs.
On November 27, 2017, Postmedia and Torstar announced a transaction in which Postmedia will sell seven dailies, eight community papers, and the Toronto and Vancouver 24 Hours to Torstar, in exchange for 22 community papers and the Ottawa and Winnipeg versions of Metro. Except for the Exeter Times-Advocate, St. Catharines Standard, Niagara Falls Review, Peterborough E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20margin%20nearest%20neighbor | Large margin nearest neighbor (LMNN) classification is a statistical machine learning algorithm for metric learning. It learns a pseudometric designed for k-nearest neighbor classification. The algorithm is based on semidefinite programming, a sub-class of convex optimization.
The goal of supervised learning (more specifically classification) is to learn a decision rule that can categorize data instances into pre-defined classes. The k-nearest neighbor rule assumes a training data set of labeled instances (i.e. the classes are known). It classifies a new data instance with the class obtained from the majority vote of the k closest (labeled) training instances. Closeness is measured with a pre-defined metric. Large margin nearest neighbors is an algorithm that learns this global (pseudo-)metric in a supervised fashion to improve the classification accuracy of the k-nearest neighbor rule.
Setup
The main intuition behind LMNN is to learn a pseudometric under which all data instances in the training set are surrounded by at least k instances that share the same class label. If this is achieved, the leave-one-out error (a special case of cross validation) is minimized. Let the training data consist of a data set , where the set of possible class categories is .
The algorithm learns a pseudometric of the type
.
For to be well defined, the matrix needs to be positive semi-definite. The Euclidean metric is a special case, where is the identity matrix. This generalization is often (falsely) referred to as Mahalanobis metric.
Figure 1 illustrates the effect of the metric under varying . The two circles show the set of points with equal distance to the center . In the Euclidean case this set is a circle, whereas under the modified (Mahalanobis) metric it becomes an ellipsoid.
The algorithm distinguishes between two types of special data points: target neighbors and impostors.
Target neighbors
Target neighbors are selected before learning. Each instance has exactly different target neighbors within , which all share the same class label . The target neighbors are the data points that should become nearest neighbors under the learned metric. Let us denote the set of target neighbors for a data point as .
Impostors
An impostor of a data point is another data point with a different class label (i.e. ) which is one of the nearest neighbors of . During learning the algorithm tries to minimize the number of impostors for all data instances in the training set.
Algorithm
Large margin nearest neighbors optimizes the matrix with the help of semidefinite programming. The objective is twofold: For every data point , the target neighbors should be close and the impostors should be far away. Figure 1 shows the effect of such an optimization on an illustrative example. The learned metric causes the input vector to be surrounded by training instances of the same class. If it was a test point, it would be classified correctly under the nearest n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Brazilian%20states%20by%20murder%20rate | This is a list of Brazilian federative units by homicide rate, according to data from the Atlas da Violência (years 1996 to 2021, prepared by the Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea) and the Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública (FBSP) and the Mapa da Violência from 1998 (1980s to 1988 ) and 2000 (years 1989 to 1995, prepared by United Nations Educational Organization. Science and Culture (UNESCO).
Homicide rate by state
The 2000s to 2020s
The list of decades, by default, is ordered by homicide rate in a decreasing manner according to 2021. That is, the federative units with the highest rates this year are closer to the top of the list.
See also
List of Brazilian federative units by homicide rate
Crime in Brazil
List of cities by murder rate
Homicide in world cities
List of countries by firearm-related death rate
List of countries by intentional homicide rate
References
Murder in Brazil
Brazil
Murder rate
Brazil, Murder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20S.%20B.%20Mitchell | Joseph S. B. Mitchell is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is Distinguished Professor and Department Chair of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Research Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University.
Biography
Mitchell received a BS (1981, Physics and Applied Mathematics), and an MS (1981, Mathematics) from Carnegie Mellon University, and Ph.D. (1986, Operations Research) from Stanford University (under advisership of Christos Papadimitriou). He was with Hughes Research Laboratories (1981–86) and then on the faculty of Cornell University (1986–1991). He now serves as Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Research Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. He serves as Chair of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (since 2014).
Mitchell has served for several years on the Computational Geometry Steering Committee, often as Chair. He is on the editorial board of the journals Discrete and Computational Geometry, Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications, Journal of Computational Geometry, and the Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, and is an editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications. He has served on numerous program committees and was co-chair of the PC for the 21st ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (2005).
Research
Mitchell's primary research area is computational geometry, applied to problems in computer graphics, visualization, air traffic management, manufacturing, and geographic information systems.
Awards and honors
Mitchell has been an NSF Presidential Young Investigator, Fulbright Scholar, and a recipient of the President's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. He shared the 2010 Gödel Prize with Sanjeev Arora for devising a polynomial-time approximation scheme for the Euclidean travelling salesman problem.
In 2011 the Association for Computing Machinery listed him as an ACM Fellow for his research in computational geometry and approximation algorithms.
He has also won numerous teaching awards.
References
External links
Joseph S. B. Mitchell's Homepage
Living people
Gödel Prize laureates
Stanford University alumni
Researchers in geometric algorithms
American computer scientists
Stony Brook University faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh%20Steelers%20Radio%20Network | The Pittsburgh Steelers Radio Network is an American radio network composed of 39 radio stations which carry English-language coverage of the Pittsburgh Steelers, a professional football team in the National Football League (NFL).
Since 2013, co-owned Pittsburgh market stations WDVE () and WBGG () have served as the network's two flagships. The network also includes 37 affiliates in the U.S. states of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virginia: eighteen AM stations, fifteen of which supplement their signals with a low-power FM translator; and nineteen full-power FM stations.
Station list
Blue background indicates low-power FM translator.
Gray background indicates station is a simulcast of another station.
References
External links
National Football League on the radio
Pittsburgh Steelers
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSN | SCSN can refer to:
Southern California Seismic Network
Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Baron | Black Baron may refer to:
People nicknamed Black Baron
Benoît de Bonvoisin (born 1939), Belgian baron and politician.
Chris Pile (programmer) (born 1969), British programmer and computer criminal
Terry Funk (born 1944), American pro wrestler whose ring name is Black Baron
Michael Wittman (1914–1944), a German Waffen-SS commander
Roman von Ungern-Sternberg (1885–1921), Russian anticommunist general in the Russian Civil War and later warlord in Mongolia
Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (1878–1928), Russian White Army commander
Robert Munro, 18th Baron of Foulis (died 1633), Scottish soldier of fortune
Hugh Rose of Kilravock, the tenth Laird of the Highland Scottish Clan Rose
Arts, entertainment, and media
The Black Barons, a Swiss country-folk music band
Black Baron, a character in the Sly Cooper video game series
The Black Baron, a character in the Overlord: Dark Legend video game
Black Baron, a character in the French TV series Super 4
Black Baron, a member of the vampire race in Marvel Comics
Black Baron, a character from the 2010 Wii game MadWorld
Other uses
Birmingham Black Barons, Negro leagues baseball team, Birmingham, Alabama, 1920–1960
Black Baron, Pennsylvania, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
Black Barons (book), a novel by Miloslav Svandrlik
Black Barons, Special Designation for the 18th Aviation Brigade (United States)
See also
Black baronets, two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Black
Black Barony, a historic house at Eddleston in the Scottish Borders
Red Baron (disambiguation)
Nicknames
Nicknames of politicians
Nicknames in crime
Nicknames in sports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20J.%20Plumeri | Joseph J. Plumeri II (born July 7, 1943) is vice chairman of the First Data Board of Directors. He was the chairman and CEO of Willis Group Holdings (Willis), a New York Stock Exchange-listed insurance broker, until July 2013. The company has 17,000 employees in 400 offices, located in 120 countries. As of June 2010, Willis had the third-highest insurance brokerage revenues in the world.
Plumeri worked for Citigroup from 1968 to 2000. During that time he held the roles of President and Managing Partner of Shearson Lehman Brothers, President of Smith Barney, Vice Chairman of Travelers, Chairman and CEO of Primerica, and CEO of Citibank, North America. He was appointed Chairman and CEO of Willis in 2000.
Plumeri is also the co-owner of the Trenton Thunder. The team plays in Samuel J. Plumeri Sr., Field, named after his father. In addition, he funded the construction of Plumeri Park, the stadium of the William & Mary Tribe baseball team. A philanthropist, he has made multimillion-dollar gifts to The College of William & Mary and the Make-a-Wish Foundation.
Early life
Plumeri is the son of Samuel J. Plumeri Sr. (a Trenton city commissioner and local businessman, who died in 1998) and Josephine Plumeri (who died in 2012). His grandparents immigrated to the United States from Villalba, Sicily. He was raised in North Trenton, New Jersey, in a working-class family. Speaking of his father, he said: "He never quit, and he always saw the good in everything. He was a dreamer, and because of my father ... I have an affection for people who are passionate."
Plumeri attended Trenton Catholic High School and Bordentown Military Institute (1962). He then studied at The College of William & Mary, graduating in 1966 with a B.A. in History and Education. While an undergraduate, he played on the William & Mary Tribe football team (on scholarship as a halfback for Lou Holtz) and baseball team (as a second baseman and outfielder). He was also a member of Pi Kappa Alpha.
Upon graduation, he first taught History for two years at Langhorne's Neshaminy High School in Bucks County, in Pennsylvania. There, he also coached football and two other sports.
In 1968, he was in the Army Reserve for six months at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. After he was released, he enrolled in New York Law School in 1968, but did not finish before leaving although he was given an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the school in 2015.
Business career
Plumeri worked at Citigroup Inc. and its predecessors companies from 1968 until 2000, when he was appointed as Chairman and CEO of Willis.
Carter, Berlind & Weill/Shearson Lehman Brothers (1968–93)
While in law school, one afternoon in 1968 he decided to look for part-time employment, and began knocking on doors in the Wall Street area. Entering 55 Broad Street, he looked at the lobby directory and noticed the name Carter, Berlind & Weill. Assuming (incorrectly) that if a firm had three names or more than it must be a law firm, he |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngayon%20at%20Kailanman | Ngayon at Kailanman may refer to:
"Ngayon at Kailanman" (song), a song originally sung by Basil Valdez
Ngayon at Kailanman (2009 TV series), a Philippine telenovela aired on GMA Network
Ngayon at Kailanman (2018 TV series), a Philippine telenovela aired on ABS-CBN
tl:Ngayon at Kailanman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTL/2 | RTL/2 (Real-Time Language) is a discontinued high-level programming language for use in real-time computing, developed at Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. (ICI), by J.G.P. Barnes. It was originally used internally in ICI but was distributed by SPL International in 1974.
It was based on concepts from ALGOL 68, and intended to be small and simple. RTL/2 was standardised in 1980 by the British Standards Institution.
Language overview
The data types in RTL/2 were strongly typed, with separate compiling. The compilation units contained one or more items named bricks, i.e.:
Procedure bricks
Data bricks
Stack bricks
A procedure brick was a procedure, which may or may not return a (scalar) value, have (scalar) parameters, or have local (scalar) variables. The entry mechanism and implementation of local variables was reentrant. Non-scalar data could only be accessed via reference (so-called REF variables were considered scalar).
A data brick was a named static collection of scalars, arrays and records. There was no heap or garbage collection, so programmers had to implement memory management manually.
A stack brick was an area of storage reserved for running all the procedures of a single process and contained the call stack, local variables and other housekeeping items. The extent to which stack bricks were used varied depending on the host environment in which RTL/2 programs ran.
Access to the host environment of an RTL/2 program was provided via special procedure and data bricks called SVC procedures and SVC data. These were accessible in RTL/2 but implemented in some other language in the host environment.
Hello World
TITLE Hello World;
LET NL=10;
EXT PROC(REF ARRAY BYTE) TWRT;
ENT PROC RRJOB() INT;
TWRT("Hello World#NL#");
RETURN(1);
ENDPROC;
Embedded assembly
RTL/2 compiles to assembly language and provides the CODE statement to allow including assembly language in RTL/2 source code. This is only available when compiled with a systems programming option (CN:F)
The CODE statement takes two operands: the number of bytes used by the code insert and the number of bytes of stack used.
Within code statements two trip characters are used to access RTL/2 variables. These vary between different operating systems. On a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-11 running RSX-11M, and a VAX running VMS, the trip characters are * and /.
While the specifics varied by operating system the following is an example of a code insert on VAX/VMS:
CODE 6,0;
JMP CODE_ENT ; This code insert can be set to a fixed length as it jumps to a new psect.
; this method is especially useful on systems such as VMS where the length of
; instructions is variable
.SAVE_PSECT ; Save current program section
.PSECT ASMB_CODE,EXE,NOWRT,LONG
CODE_ENT:
MOVL *PARAM1(AP),*COUNTER/MYDATA
JMP CODE_EX
.RESTORE_PSECT
CODE_EX:
*RTL
This code insert moves the value of a variable passed into the RTL/2 procedure into a variable named COUNTER in a data brick named MYDATA.
Reserved w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Statistics%20Education | The Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education is a triannual open access peer-reviewed< academic journal. It was established in 1992 at North Carolina State University by E. Jacquelin Dietz as the Journal of Statistics Education, obtaining its current title in 2020. It is published by Taylor & Francis on behalf of the American Statistical Association of which it became an official publication in 1999. The journal covers subjects related to statistical literacy and statistics education at all levels of education.
See also
Comparison of statistics journals.
References
External links
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1993
Statistics journals
Education journals
Triannual journals
Open access journals
Taylor & Francis academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf%20on%20ESPN | Golf coverage on ESPN has been a regular feature of the cable sports channels' programming since soon after ESPN's launch in the United States in 1979.
Although ESPN no longer owns any share of the rights to the week-to-week events on the PGA Tour, LPGA Tour, or Champions Tour, it is the cable rightsholder for two of the men's majors as of 2020 — the Masters Tournament (since 2008) and the PGA Championship (since 2020). In both cases, the telecasts are produced in association with CBS Sports (which serves as the U.S. broadcast television rightsholder for both tournaments) and have incorporated talent from the network's own golf telecasts.
Coverage history since 2010
Continued from PGA Tour on ABC
Prior to 2007, ESPN and ABC shared some announcers, but the main ABC coverage team did not generally work on ESPN except for events that ABC had weekend rights to, in which case the full ABC team would work on ESPN's weekday telecasts. After losing PGA Tour rights following the 2006 season, what remained of ESPN and ABC's coverage team's merged, as did the production, with all ABC broadcasts being branded as ESPN broadcasts as part of ESPN on ABC. History of the ESPN golf team during the period when some telecasts were still shown on ABC (2007–2009) can be found at the PGA Tour on ABC article.
2010–present
In 2010, all coverage was moved to ESPN, with highlight presentations being shown on ABC during the afternoons on Open Championship weekend. This meant that in 2010, for regular men's golf, ESPN showed The Masters, the U.S. Open, the Open Championship, and the Ryder Cup.
ESPN revamped its coverage team in 2010 as well. Mike Tirico and Paul Azinger remained the lead booth announcers. Curtis Strange returned as a hole announcer, while Scott Van Pelt moved from the studio host position to become a hole announcer as well. Sean McDonough joined the coverage team as another hole announcer. Andy North, Judy Rankin and Billy Kratzert all returned as on-course reporters. Terry Gannon moved from a hole announcer role to the role of studio host during live coverage, for highlight updates. Tom Weiskopf, who had been a hole announcer, became an analyst for holes Van Pelt was assigned to, and was joined by Peter Alliss in this role for one hour per day at the Open Championship. At the Ryder Cup, Alliss took Van Pelt's place as a hole announcer, while Van Pelt and Weiskopf worked on the studio set. Tom Rinaldi remained the lead interviewer and essayist.
In 2011, Olin Browne joined as an additional on-course reporter. Alliss began to only appear as a guest at the Open Championship, still for one hour per day, and still working as Van Pelt's analyst. In 2012, Gannon's role was eliminated and he joined NBC Sports and the Golf Channel.
2012 would also be ESPN's final Ryder Cup. The network traded its Friday rights to the 2014 event back to NBC for additional Premier League highlights. NBC then signed a rights deal covering the 2016–2030 editions of the event, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Strategy%20Session | The Strategy Session was an investment television talk show on the CNBC television network that was aired for a half-hour, from noon to 12:30 ET, on weekdays. It was hosted by David Faber and Gary Kaminsky.
Debuting June 7, 2010, this program, along with the Fast Money Halftime Report (12:30-1 ET), replaced the first hour of Power Lunch, which itself had its runtime cut in half from two hours to one (1-2 ET).
Cancellation
The Strategy Session was cancelled October 14, 2011 and replaced three days later by the newly expanded Fast Money Halftime Report, which itself doubled its runtime from 30 minutes to 60 minutes and also moved up to the noon ET timeslot.
References
External links
Official website
CNBC original programming
2010 American television series debuts
2010s American television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Bletsas | Michail Bletsas (born March 19, 1967) is a Greek research scientist and the Director of Computing at the MIT Media Lab.
Early life
Bletsas was born in Chania, Crete. He studied at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received a master's degree in computer engineering from Boston University.
Career
Before joining the Media Lab, Bletsas was a Systems Engineer at Aware Inc. He is one of the founders of the Greek mobile advertising and marketing company Velti S.A. and he was also one of the leaders in an effort to provide wireless networking to the island of Patmos, Greece.
Since June 23, 2010, Bletsas is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA (Athens, Greece).
OLPC
Michail Bletsas is one of the designers of OLPC's XO laptop.
He was one of the principals of the OLPC team
where he made various contributions, including the design and implementation of the first embedded layer-2 wifi mesh stack. From February 2006 to January 2009, he was OLPC's Chief Connectivity Officer and VP Advanced Technology and he was member of the group which received the Community category award of the 2007 Index: Award, for the design of the OLPC XO-1 laptop computer.
Conferences
He was a keynote speaker at the 4th and 5th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, 2007
and 2008
respectively, at the 8th International Conference on Computer Based Learning in Science in Heraklion, Crete, 2007, at Disruptions 2007 in Athens, Greece, and at the 4th Balkan Conference in Informatics in Thessaloniki, Greece, 2009.
References
External links
MIT Media Lab "http://web.media.mit.edu/~mbletsas/"
MIT School of Architecture and Planning faculty
1967 births
Living people
Greek academics
One Laptop per Child
MIT Media Lab people
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki alumni
People from Chania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow%20River%20pathway | The Bow River pathway is a pathway system developed along the banks of the Bow River in the city of Calgary. It contains a network of pedestrian and bicycle paths connecting parks on both sides of the river.
The pathway is used for cycling, hiking, jogging, as well as rollerblading and skateboarding. The paths are connected with a system that extends along the Elbow River and other areas of the city.
The network spans from Bearspaw Dam to Fish Creek Provincial Park, connecting major parks and green areas in Calgary.
Construction of the Bow River Pathways started in 1975 to mark the city's centenary. The project was funded by the City of Calgary, the Province of Alberta and the Devonian Group of Charitable Foundations. It was dedicated on June 25, 1977.
Recreation areas
Recreation areas connected by the pathway include:
See also
List of attractions and landmarks in Calgary
References
External links
City of Calgary. Pathways and Bikeways
Bow River
Parks in Calgary
Tourist attractions in Calgary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes%20Block | Agnes, or Agneta Block (29 October 1629, Emmerich am Rhein – 20 April 1704, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Mennonite art collector and horticulturalist. She is most remembered as the compiler of an album of flower and insect paintings.
Life
Agneta Block was the daughter of a successful Mennonite textile merchant. She first married Hans de Wolff (1613–1670), a silk merchant, in Amsterdam in 1649, and after he died, in 1674 she remarried in Amsterdam Sijbrand de Flines (1623–1697). In Amsterdam, she lived on the Herengracht close to Joost van den Vondel, who became a regular visitor at her house. Vondel had married Mayken de Wolff, who was the sister of Agnes's first husband's father. This elderly uncle ate at her house on Fridays, and is probably one of her greatest influences.
Vijverhof
After the death of her first husband, Agneta bought a country estate on the Vecht river in Loenen, which she proceeded to decorate with a large collection of curiosities, including the gardens, which were planted with exotic plants. She enjoyed drawing and painting in water colors, and her garden lent itself to this hobby. She is registered as an artist with the Dutch Institute of Art History as a papercut artist and painter, but no works survive. To embellish her albums, she hired artists to paint for her albums. Unfortunately, her collection, and the garden have not survived, but research has revealed many of the original pages of her three albums in the albums of later collectors.
Alida Withoos was - with her brother Pieter Withoos - one of the many artists from Hoorn who painted plants while in residence at Vijverhof. Agnes Block's stepson owned a summer house in Purmerend, near Hoorn. Other painters from Hoorn were Johannes Bronkhorst, Herman Henstenburgh, and a friend of Alida's father, Otto Marseus van Schrieck.
Painters from other cities who lived at Vijverhof and made contributions were Maria Sibylla Merian, her daughter Johanna Helena Herolts-Graff, Pieter Holsteyn II, Nicolaas Juweel (Rotterdam, 1639 - Rotterdam, 1704), Jan Moninckx, Maria Moninckx, Herman Saftleven, Rochus van Veen, Marino Benaglia Venetiano, and Nicolaes de Vree. Agnes Block was in regular correspondence with other horticulturalists such as Jan Commelin.
References
External links
Biography of Alida Withoos in 1001 Vrouwen uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis
Konstboeck Website of Wageningen university with period illustrations of plants, some of which came from Agnes Block's collection
Information over Vijverhof in Dutch
Website of the Netherlands Institute for Ecology showing an old print of Vijverhof
Print of Vijverhof showing the owner in 1710 in the website of the Utrecht archives
1629 births
1704 deaths
Botanical illustrators
Art collectors from Amsterdam
Dutch horticulturists
Dutch Mennonites
People from Emmerich am Rhein
17th-century women scientists
Mennonite artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Movie%20Channel | Sony Movies (also known as Sony Movie Channel) is an American cable television channel launched on . Owned by the Sony Pictures Television subsidiary of Sony Group Corporation, its programming consists of films from the Sony Pictures Entertainment library (including content from Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Sony Pictures Classics and Destination Films among others), alongside films from other distributors, mainly from Millennium Films, Nu Image, Lionsgate Films and Shout! Factory, which are broadcast unedited, and remastered in 1080i high definition.
Program blocks and theme weeks
A former program block on the channel is "Killer Mandays", a double feature of horror films on Monday nights. From November 6 – 12, 2011 the channel aired a week-long salute to Bollywood films.
Availability
Sony Movies is available nationally on Philo, DirecTV and Dish Network, and regionally on AT&T U-Verse, Suddenlink, Optimum. DirecTV and Dish Network also offer "Sony Movie Channel Everywhere", which allows viewers to watch its movies through its website for no additional cost. The channel is also available through streaming for owners of the Sony Network Media Player.
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Television networks in the United States
Movie channels
Sony
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Television
Commercial-free television networks
Cable television in the United States
HD-only channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20H.L.%20Hansen | John H.L. Hansen (born November 17, 1959, in Plainfield, New Jersey) is professor of electrical engineering (EE) and associate dean for research in Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science, at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He is also the University Distinguished Chair in Telecommunications Engineering, and holds a joint appointment as professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. He is the son of Henrik Hansen, Danish wrestling champion who won a bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, welterweight class, at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.
Education
Hansen received the B.S.E.E. degree with highest honors from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ in 1982. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, in 1983 and 1988, respectively.
Career
He started his academic career as assistant professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University, in 1988, where he established the Robust Speech Processing Laboratory, (RSPL) and worked closely with the Duke Medical Center and corporations in Research Triangle Park, NC.
In 1999, he moved to The University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder), where he served as department chairman and professor in the Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, and held a joint appointment as professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. While at CU-Boulder, he co-founded the Center for Speech and Language Research (CSLR), where he served as associate director from 1999 to 2003.
In 2005, he was named head of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), a position he held till November 2012 before he was appointed as associate dean for research in Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science at UTDallas. At UTD, he established the Center for Robust Speech Systems (CRSS), which is focused on interdisciplinary research in speech processing, hearing sciences, and language technologies.
Awards and honors
Hansen was the recipient of a Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Research Award in 1993, a National Science Foundation's Research Initiation Award in 1990, and has been named a Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow for "Contributions to the Advancement of Engineering Education".
References
External links
John H.L. Hansen's Homepage
CRSS Homepage
University of Texas at Dallas faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Georgia Tech alumni
Living people
1959 births
People from Plainfield, New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangzhou%20Television%20Cantonese%20controversy | In July 2010, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Guangzhou Committee, in a written proposal to mayor of Guangzhou Wan Qingliang, suggested increasing Mandarin programming on Guangzhou Television's main and news channels. The proposal sparked widespread controversy, met with fierce criticism in native Cantonese-speaking cities including Guangzhou and Hong Kong, which eventually triggered a mass protest in the former city. In a formal response, Guangzhou TV rejected the proposal, citing "historic causes and present demands" as reasons for Cantonese-Mandarin bilingualism.
Background
Mandarin as the official language
Beijing made Mandarin (known in China as Putonghua) the nation's sole official language in 1982, leading to bans on other languages at many radio and television stations. This status was confirmed by the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Standard Spoken and Written Chinese Language, which went into effect on January 1, 2001. This law implements the provision in the Constitution of the People's Republic of China that the state promotes nationwide use of the language.
Use of Cantonese on television
Due to Mandarin's status as the official language, use of the country's other languages in television as well as radio and film is rigorously restricted by the State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (SARFT). Permission from national or local authorities is required for using a dialect as the primary programming language at radio and television stations.
In 1988, the Ministry of Radio, Film, and Television, predecessor of the SARFT, approved the use of Cantonese by Guangdong TV in GDTV Pearl River Channel and Guangzhou TV as a countermeasure against the influence of Hong Kong television in the Pearl River Delta region. TVS-* (TVS2 in Guangdong) is another major channel in China offering Cantonese programming and is the only Cantonese channel permitted to be broadcast worldwide via satellite.
Decline of Cantonese in younger generations
Despite having been approved for use in local television, Cantonese still faces restrictions and challenges in other aspects of social activities, which contributes to the decline of the language, particularly in the younger generations.
In elementary and secondary schools, the medium of instruction is mandated by law to be Mandarin. Use of Mandarin is also ubiquitously promoted in schools. In contrast, few, if any, local schools offer classes on Cantonese, although this is not explicitly forbidden by law.
In the past few years, there have been a number of newspaper reports about students in Guangzhou being punished for speaking Cantonese in school and even outside the classroom. One elementary school in Yuexiu, Guangzhou reportedly requires students to speak Mandarin not only in classes but also during their spare time, and threatens to deduct points from their records if they fail to comply. This has caused some children to become reluctant to learn and u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold%20Central%20Victoria | Gold is a commercial radio station based in Bendigo and Central Victoria. It is currently part of Australian Radio Network. Formerly branded "Easymix", the station broadcasts on 1071 AM, across parts of Central Victoria including Bendigo, Ballarat, Maryborough, Castlemaine and Daylesford. It also broadcasts on 98.3 FM, which covers a 25-30 kilometre radius in the Bendigo region.
Radio station 3CV began broadcasting on the 1071 AM frequency in 1938, but Gold was never technically 3CV, because that call sign had been relinquished when 3CV was given a Section 39 supplementary FM licence and became Star FM, now known as Hit 91.9. The discarded 1071 AM frequency was purchased by a solo operator and became "Easy Listening 1071". Several years later, it was sold and re-branded as "Easymix 1071", after the owner of 3BO (now Triple M) and 3CV (now Hit 91.9) sold off its 1071 AM service, deciding to keep the Section 39 supplementary FM licence. On 1 August 2014, EasyMix re-branded to "Gold".
In November 2021, Gold, along with other stations owned by Grant Broadcasters, was acquired by the Australian Radio Network. The deal, which was finalised on 4 January 2022, allowed Grant's stations, including Gold, to access ARN's iHeartRadio platform in regional areas. According to a media release from ARN, it was expected that Gold would integrate with ARN's Pure Gold Network, but would retain its name. It was thought that the deal included a clause not allowing ARN to reduce staffing levels for two years.
References
Gold Central Victoria
Gold Central Victoria
Gold Central Victoria
Gold
Bendigo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20West%20Country | Heart West Country was a regional radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network, broadcasting to Bristol and Somerset.
It launched on 16 July 2010 as a result of a merger between Heart Bristol (formerly GWR FM), Heart Bath (formerly GWR FM Bath) and Heart Somerset (formerly Orchard FM).
History
The regional station originally broadcast as three separate stations – GWR FM began broadcasting to Bristol in October 1985, following a merger between Radio West and Swindon's Wiltshire Radio. Two years later, GWR launched a separate service for the Bath area (although some local programming was simulcast with GWR Bristol). Meanwhile, Orchard FM began broadcasting to Somerset in November 1989 – the station was bought out by GWR Group as part of its acquisition of the Orchard Media Group ten years later.
In 2005, the GWR Group merged with Capital Radio to form GCap Media – shortly afterwards, Orchard FM and ten other stations (outside of the company's primary target area) were put on sale. The sale was called off a few months later because of lower than expected bids. In November 2008, GCap was taken over by Global Radio.
GWR in Bristol & Bath and Orchard FM were rebranded as Heart on 23 March 2009. On 21 June 2010, Global Radio announced it would merge the three stations as part of plans to reduce the Heart network of stations from 33 to 16. The new station began broadcasting from the 'West Country Broadcast Centre' in Bristol on Friday 16 July 2010, leading to the closure of studios in Taunton.
Station merger
On 26 February 2019, Global announced Heart West Country would be merged with three sister stations in Devon and Cornwall, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.
From 3 June 2019, local output will consist of a three-hour regional Drivetime show on weekdays, alongside localised news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising. Local breakfast and weekend shows were with network programming from London.
Heart West began broadcasting regional programming from the Bristol studios on 3 June 2019.
References
External links
Heart West Country
West Country
Radio stations in Wiltshire
Radio stations in Bristol
Radio stations in Somerset
Mass media in Bath, Somerset
Radio stations established in 2010
Defunct radio stations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Turtle%27s%20Tale%3A%20Sammy%27s%20Adventures | A Turtle's Tale: Sammy's Adventures (known as Sammy's Adventures: The Secret Passage in the progress) is a 2010 Belgian-French 3D computer-animated romantic adventure film co-written and directed by Ben Stassen. The film was released on 6 June 2010 in California, and on 11 August 2010 in France. The British version features the voice talents of Dominic Cooper, Gemma Arterton, John Hurt, Kayvan Novak, and Robert Sheehan; the U.S. version features the voice talents of Yuri Lowenthal, Anthony Anderson, Tim Curry, Kathy Griffin, Melanie Griffith, and Jenny McCarthy.
Plot
In October of 1959, Sammy, a green sea turtle, hatches on a deserted beach and while trying to climb up a sand slope is caught by a seagull. He manages to escape along with another hatchling sea turtle named Shelly who was caught by another seagull. Sammy falls onto an old raft and gets carried into the Tasman Sea, losing Shelly. He spends the next 50 years traveling the world changed by global warming into the Tasman Sea.
The day after he hatches, Sammy befriends a Leatherback Sea Turtle named Ray, who also just hatched the day before. The two friends grow up together, traveling around the Ocean on their raft. One morning, Ray takes Sammy underwater and introduces him to his newfound friend Slim the day octopus, but they are forced to take shelter from an oil spill, caused by an oil tanker shipwreck. As Sammy and Ray grow bigger and bigger, and the raft begins losing parts, the raft suddenly collapses, leaving Sammy and Ray without their home. While they argue, Sammy, Ray and hundreds of fish are caught in trawler nets and separated. Hours later, Sammy is thrown back into the sea unconscious, but is saved by a dolphin.
Sammy makes it to shore and the next day finds himself in an enclosure, taken in by human hippies led by a woman named Snow and has the company of a British shorthair named Fluffy. Eventually Sammy shares the enclosure with a larger turtle named Vera, however Vera is released into sea when the Hippies realise the two are not mating. Not long after that, the unauthorized hippies are evicted from their beach by the police, leaving Sammy behind due to Fluffy’s tricks.
Sammy returns to the ocean and is rejoined by Vera. On a search for food, Sammy and Vera rescue a female turtle, who turns out to be Shelly. Sammy and Shelly travel the oceans and ask around in search of the secret passage Sammy heard of. Finally the two turtles brave the dangers of the Panama Canal but are separated as they try to pass a lock. Sammy follows her trail to the Antarctic, where he is picked up by Ecologists and taken to California where he is reunited with Snow (who now works as an Ecologist) and Fluffy once again.
Soon after he is released back into the ocean, two female leatherbacks ask Sammy to help a trapped turtle in a container. His rescue is none other than his old friend Ray. With help from Ray's partner Rita, Sammy explores a wrecked galleon and finds Shelly flirting with anot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20Four%20Counties | Heart Four Counties was a local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network. It broadcast to Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Northamptonshire.
The station launched on Friday 16 July 2010 as a result of a merger between Heart Milton Keynes (formerly Horizon Radio), Heart Northants (formerly Northants 96), Heart Dunstable (formerly 97.6 Chiltern Radio) and Heart Bedford (formerly 96.9 Chiltern Radio).
History
The regional station originally broadcast as four separate stations - Chiltern Radio began broadcasting to Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in October 1981 and launched a separate Bedford station in June 1982. Northants 96 began broadcasting to Northamptonshire in November 1986 and Horizon Radio launched in north Buckinghamshire in October 1989.
These stations were owned and operated by the Chiltern Radio Group, which was sold off to the GWR Group in 1995. Subsequently, the GWR Group merged with Capital Radio in 2005 to form GCap Media, which was subsequently bought out by Global Radio in 2008.
On 21 June 2010, Global Radio announced it would merge the four stations as part of plans to reduce the Heart network of stations from 33 separate stations to 16 co-located 'broadcast centres'. The new station began broadcasting from Dunstable on Friday 16 July 2010 and moved to new studios in Milton Keynes on 6 September 2011.
Station merger
On 26 February 2019, Global announced Heart Four Counties would be merged with three sister stations in Cambridgeshire, Essex and East Anglia.
From 3 June 2019, local output will consist of a three-hour regional Drivetime show on weekdays, alongside localised news bulletins, traffic updates and advertising. Local breakfast and weekend shows were replaced with network programming from London.
Heart East will begin broadcasting regional programming from the Milton Keynes studios on 3 June 2019.
Former presenters
Stuart Miles
Katy Hill
References
External links
Heart Four Counties
Four Counties
Radio stations established in 2010
Radio stations in Northamptonshire
Radio stations in Bedfordshire
Radio stations in Buckinghamshire
Radio stations in Hertfordshire
Defunct radio stations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite%20multiplexing | Sprite multiplexing is a computer graphics technique where additional sprites (moving images) can be drawn on the screen, beyond the nominal maximum. It is largely historical, applicable principally to older hardware, where limited resources (such as CPU speed and memory) meant only a relatively small number of sprites were supported. On the other hand, it is also true that without multiplexing, the sprite circuitry would be idle much of the time, and limited resources were wasted.
Description
The sprite multiplexing technique is based on the idea that while the hardware may only support a finite number of sprites, it is sometimes possible to re-use the same sprite "slots" more than once per frame or scan line. The program will first use the hardware to draw one or more sprite(s), as normal. Before the next frame (or next scanline) needs to be drawn, the software reprograms the hardware to display additional sprites, in other positions.
For example, the Nintendo Entertainment System explicitly supports hardware sprite multiplexing, where it has 64 hardware sprites, but is only capable of rendering 8 of them per scanline. On the older Atari 2600, sprite multiplexing was not intentionally designed in, but programmers discovered they could reset the TIA graphics chip to draw additional sprites on the same scanline.
The sprite multiplexing technique relies on the program being able to identify what part of the video screen is being drawn at the moment, or being triggered by the video hardware to run a subroutine at the crucial moment. The programmer must carefully consider the layout of the screen. If the video graphics hardware is not reprogrammed in time for the extra sprites to be displayed, they will not appear, or will be drawn incorrectly.
Modern video graphics hardware typically does not use hardware sprites, since modern computer systems do not have the kind of limitations that sprite hardware is designed to circumvent.
Implementations
Computers that allow the programmer to employ the sprite multiplexing technique include:
Atari 2600
Atari 8-bit family
Amiga
Commodore 64
MSX
Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Master System
Sega Genesis / Mega Drive
Computer graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20particle%20analysis | Single particle analysis is a group of related computerized image processing techniques used to analyze images from transmission electron microscopy (TEM). These methods were developed to improve and extend the information obtainable from TEM images of particulate samples, typically proteins or other large biological entities such as viruses. Individual images of stained or unstained particles are very noisy, and so hard to interpret. Combining several digitized images of similar particles together gives an image with stronger and more easily interpretable features. An extension of this technique uses single particle methods to build up a three-dimensional reconstruction of the particle. Using cryo-electron microscopy it has become possible to generate reconstructions with sub-nanometer resolution and near-atomic resolution first in the case of highly symmetric viruses, and now in smaller, asymmetric proteins as well. Single particle analysis can also be performed by induced coupled plasma mass spectroscopy (ICP-MS).
Techniques
Single particle analysis can be done on both negatively stained and vitreous ice-embedded transmission electron cryomicroscopy (CryoTEM) samples. Single particle analysis methods are, in general, reliant on the sample being homogeneous, although techniques for dealing with conformational heterogeneity are being developed.
Images (micrographs) are taken with an electron microscope using charged-coupled device (CCD) detectors coupled to a phosphorescent layer (in the past, they were instead collected on film and digitized using high-quality scanners). The image processing is carried out using specialized software programs, often run on multi-processor computer clusters. Depending on the sample or the desired results, various steps of two- or three-dimensional processing can be done.
In addition, single particle analysis can also be performed in an individual particle mode using an ICP-MS unit.
Alignment and classification
Biological samples, and especially samples embedded in thin vitreous ice, are highly radiation sensitive, thus only low electron doses can be used to image the sample. This low dose, as well as variations in the metal stain used (if used) means images have high noise relative to the signal given by the particle being observed. By aligning several similar images to each other so they are in register and then averaging them, an image with higher signal-to-noise ratio can be obtained. As the noise is mostly randomly distributed and the underlying image features constant, by averaging the intensity of each pixel over several images only the constant features are reinforced. Typically, the optimal alignment (a translation and an in-plane rotation) to map one image onto another is calculated by cross-correlation.
However, a micrograph often contains particles in multiple different orientations and/or conformations, and so to get more representative image averages, a method is required to group similar part |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gems%20TV%20%28USA%29 | Gems TV was an American reverse auction jewelry shopping channel. The channel was available on DirecTV, Dish Network and other local networks. The channel operations were based in Reno, Nevada.
History
Gems TV launched exclusively on DirecTV. On January 15, 2007, Gems TV also became available through select cable providers in the U.S. and some TV affiliates such as KLDT in Lake Dallas, Texas. The channel was also streamed live on the website. On August 30, 2007, Gems TV became available on Dish Network.
Bankruptcy and closure
In March 2010, it was announced that the US operation would close and be wound down. On April 7, 2010, Gems TV USA filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, blaming the Great Recession. Gems TV ceased broadcasting on April 15, 2010. The website and customer service team continued operating until May 6, 2010.
Criticism
On February 1, 2010, the manufacturing operations at its factory in Chanthaburi, Thailand were closed down due to the change in sourcing and manufacture. The new strategic decision to fully outsource its gemstone jewelry supply was aimed at reducing operating costs, increasing supply, improving manufacturing flexibility and the main reason of increasing profit margins. This was one of the principles the company was originally well known for - Going direct to the mines and handcrafting gem set jewelry in their own in-house facilities. The consequence of this has resulted in a large number of redundancies.
DirecTV has filed a lawsuit against Gems TV (USA) Limited, claiming that Gems TV refused to pay their satellite bills.
References
External links
Official site
See also
Jewelry Television
Gemporia
Defunct television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2010
2006 establishments in Nevada
2010 disestablishments in the United States
Shopping networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega%20Man%20Universe | was the name of a cancelled 2.5D side-scrolling platform game in the Mega Man series that was being developed by Capcom for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. Mainly based on Mega Man 2, the game would have allowed players to create their own levels and customize characters. It would have been the first game in the franchise to be referred to as "Mega Man" in Japan, where the franchise is known as "Rockman".
Summary
Much like the recent downloadable releases, Mega Man 9 and 10, the gameplay takes its cue from Mega Man 2, forgoing the special abilities introduced in games afterwards. However, the game is given a 2.5D look, featuring rendered level designs and CG characters. The game's base story and main campaign will be based on those of Mega Man 2. In this game, however, players have the choice to construct their own levels, or customize existing levels, using various tools to place platforms, obstacles, enemies and items. These levels can be shared online for other people to play. Players can also customize their Mega Man with exchangeable parts and special chips which gives each Mega Man unique attributes, such as jumping height, available weapons, etc. Alongside the customizable characters, the game offers several iterations of Mega Man, including one based on the North American NES box art of Mega Man, along with characters from other Capcom properties such as Ryu from Street Fighter and Arthur from Ghosts 'n Goblins. DLC was also planned.
Development
Production of the game began in March 2010. News of Mega Man Universe first appeared when Capcom registered the trademark on April 27, 2010. On July 16, 2010, a stop motion animated teaser trailer created by American production company iam8bit was released, which featured Mega Man, Ryu from Street Fighter and Arthur from Ghosts 'n Goblins.
Mega Man artist and producer Keiji Inafune stated "We wanted to preserve as much as we can of the classic 8-bit Mega Man feel, while allowing players to project their own Mega Man onto the game." The first gameplay trailers were released on September 2, 2010, and it was later revealed that the game would feature a level editor and character customization. Trailers for the game so far have featured music by cover band, The Megas. The game's development team will consist of various Capcom members who had previously worked on the first few Mega Man titles. Producer Akiko Ito stated that the game was quite early in production and was currently asking for feedback on what fans would like to see in the game.
Four months later, after the departure of Keiji Inafune, Capcom's Christian "Sven" Svensson reported that despite the continued silence on the game's development, it was not cancelled, although it had experienced some significant changes due to criticism regarding unresponsive controls and strong negative feedback regarding the game's art direction. However, on March 31, 2011, Capcom announced the game had been cancelled due to "various circumstances |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberDissidents.org | CyberDissidents.org is a division of Advancing Human Rights, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization. CyberDissidents.org focuses on the human rights of online political activists. The group believes that highlighting the plight of individual democratic dissidents in the West affords a measure of protection against government oppression.
Profile
Founded in 2008, CyberDissidents.org originally focused on autocratic Middle Eastern countries. The organization's co-founder and director, David Keyes, served previously as coordinator for democracy programs under Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky. Keyes has written for The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, The Daily Beast, National Review, The Jerusalem Post and other publications.
Relying on a broad network of bloggers in the region, CyberDissidents.org monitors, analyses and publicizes dissidents' activities in the West. Its staff meet frequently with policy-makers in the United States, the Middle East and Europe. CyberDissidents.org promotes linkage between foreign aid and human rights.
The organization aims to utilize the findings of psychology professor Paul Slovic who studied the phenomenon of indifference in the face of humanitarian disasters. Professor Slovic has written that highlighting individuals is the most effective way of provoking sympathy and concern for a cause. This is seen in the organization's "Featured CyberDissident" which focuses on a particular dissident's story.
Now incorporated into Advancing Human Rights, CyberDissidents serves as a database of dissident writing and can be found at the AHR website.
Board of advisors
Ahmed Batebi, Chairman
Dr.Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Irwin Cotler
Natan Sharansky
Peter Deutsch
Nazanin Afshin-Jam
Abdul Wahid al-Nur
Samer Libdeh
Bernard Lewis served on CyberDissidents.org's board of advisers for the first two years of its existence.
In 2011, Keyes partnered with founding chairman emeritus of Human Rights Watch, Bob Bernstein, to form Advancing Human Rights.
Activities
On June 11, 2010, Keyes hosted a panel in the United States Congress. The briefing was held in the Committee on Foreign Affairs and addressed the issue of technology, Internet and access to independent media in Iran. Former Iranian deputy Prime Minister in Political Affairs, Mohsen Sazegara, and former senior director for Middle East Affairs in the National Security Council, Michael Singh joined the briefing. The panel was broadcast live on C-SPAN .
CyberDissidents.org sparked international controversy following an op-ed authored by the organisation's director on February 16, 2010, in The Wall Street Journal criticizing Turkey's ban on YouTube, which launched a protest movement in Turkey. According to PBS, Keyes' piece which was written from Istanbul, caused the Turkish newspaper Milliyet, together with other leading Turkish papers, to initiate a protest campaign to draw attention to the ban on YouTube. Shortly after the publication of Keyes' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%20of%20the%20World%27s%20Worst%20Invasive%20Alien%20Species | 100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species is a list of invasive species compiled in 2014 by the Global Invasive Species Database, a database of invasive species around the world. The database is run by the Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The ISSG acknowledges that it is "very difficult to identify 100 invasive species from around the world that really are 'worse' than any others."
Criteria for inclusion
Two criteria were used in selecting items for the list:
An invasive species' "serious impact on biological diversity and/or human activities" and
That species' "illustration of important issues surrounding biological invasion"
According to the ISSG, "only one species from each genus was selected."
List of species
Notes
References
External links
100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species's observations on the map - iNaturalist
100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species List - iNaturalist
2014-related lists
Lists of invasive species
Lists of worsts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Yegge | Steve Yegge is an American computer programmer and blogger who is known for writing about programming languages, productivity and software culture through his "Stevey's Drunken Blog Rants" site, followed by "Stevey's Blog Rants."
Education
Yegge began high school at 11 and graduated when he was 14. During his youth, Yegge played guitar in garage bands. After turning 18, Yegge joined the United States Navy and attended Nuclear Power School to become a nuclear reactor operator. Yegge received a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Washington.
Career
Yegge began his career as a computer programmer at GeoWorks in 1992. From 1998 to 2005, he worked as a Senior Manager of Software Development at Amazon. From 2005 to 2018, Yegge worked as a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google in Kirkland, Washington. In 2018, Yegge left Google to join Grab, a ridesharing company based in Singapore with an American hub in Seattle. After leaving Google, Yegge was interviewed by CNBC about why he left the company. Yegge stated that the company had grown "too conservative" and was "no longer innovative."
In May 2020, Yegge announced that he would be leaving Grab to focus on the development of Wyvern, a video game he has been working on independently since 1995.
In October 2022, Yegge joined Sourcegraph as Head of Engineering.
Blog
Yegge's blog has received considerable attention, particularly his series of posts on hiring and interviewing.
In addition to his posts on hiring and interviewing, Yegge's "Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp" post about the Lisp programming language has been widely discussed and cited.
Other programmers—including Paul Bissex, the co-author of Python Web Development with Django—have described Yegge's blog as "required reading".
Upon leaving Google for Grab, Yegge published a 5000-word post in which he critiqued what he claimed is Google's lack of innovation.
Yegge accidentally made an internal Google memo public on Google+ in October 2011. His 3,700-word comment garnered major media and blogger attention for Yegge's pointed commentary criticizing the leanings of the company's technological culture (such as labeling Google+'s minimalist and, in his view, lackluster public platform "a pathetic afterthought") as well as for his comments about his former employer, Amazon (such as calling Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos "Dread Pirate Bezos"). Google co-founder Sergey Brin stated that he would still have his job. Washington Post reporter Melissa Bell stated that Yegge's public rant was a Jerry Maguire moment.
Software
Yegge released the graphical MUD Wyvern in 2001 through his company Cabochon Inc.
Yegge advocates server-side JavaScript for development. After failing to convince Google to adopt Ruby on Rails, he ported Rails to JavaScript, creating the "Rhino on Rails" project. In 2008, Yegge was interviewed for the Google Code Blog and discussed the "Rhino on Rails" project. His work on "Rhino on Rails" has inspired at leas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft%20II%3A%20Tides%20of%20Darkness | Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness is a fantasy real-time strategy computer game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and released for MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows in 1995 and Mac OS in 1996 by Blizzard's parent, Davidson & Associates. A sequel to Warcraft: Orcs & Humans, the game was met with positive reviews and won most of the major PC gaming awards in 1996. In 1996, Blizzard released an expansion pack, Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, for DOS and Mac OS, and a compilation, Warcraft II: The Dark Saga, for the PlayStation and Sega Saturn. The Battle.net edition, released in 1999, included Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, provided Blizzard's online gaming service, and replaced the MS-DOS version with a Windows one.
In Warcraft II, as in many real-time strategy (RTS) games, players collect resources to produce buildings and units in order to defeat an opponent in combat. Players gain access to more advanced units upon construction of tech buildings and research. The majority of the display screen shows the part of the territory on which the player is currently operating, and, using the small minimap, the player can select another location to view and operate on. The fog of war completely hides all territory (appears black) which the player has not explored: terrain that has been explored is always visible in gray tones, but enemy units remain visible only so long as they stay within a friendly unit's visual radius. Buildings remain displayed as the player last saw them, and do not register unobserved changes such as being built, damaged, or repaired, etc.
Warcraft II was a commercial hit, with global sales above 3 million units by 2001; roughly two-thirds were sold in the United States. The game strongly influenced the company's next successful RTS, the futuristic StarCraft (1998) in gameplay, and in attention to personality and storyline. In 1996, Blizzard announced Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans, an adventure game in the Warcraft universe, but canceled the project in 1998. Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, released in 2002, used parts of Warcraft Adventures''' characters and storyline, but extended the gameplay used in Warcraft II.
GameplayWarcraft II is a real-time strategy game. In Warcraft II one side represents the human inhabitants of Lordaeron and allied races, and the other controls the invading orcs and their allied races. Each side tries to destroy the other by collecting resources and creating an army. The game is played in a medieval setting with fantasy elements, where both sides have melee, ranged, naval and aerial units, and spellcasters.
ModesWarcraft II allows players to play AI opponents in separate Human and Orc campaigns, and in stand-alone scenarios. Most of the campaign missions follow the pattern "collect resources, build buildings and units, destroy opponents". However, some have other objectives, such as rescuing troops or forts, or escorting important characters through enemy territory.
The game's map editor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20A.%20McAfee | Eric Armstrong McAfee (born September 24, 1962) is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist, founding and funding companies in renewable energy, oil and gas, agriculture, networking devices and enterprise software. Based in the Silicon Valley, McAfee is Chairman of McAfee Capital, a growth equity investment fund; is a principal at merchant bank, Cagan McAfee Capital Partners; and co-founded Berg McAfee Companies, a holding company.
Since 1993, McAfee has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the California Manufacturers and Technology Association (CMTA). The CMTA “represents businesses from the entire manufacturing community—an economic sector that generates more than $250 billion every year and employs more than 1.5 million Californians.”
Early life and education
McAfee was born in Santa Monica, California and grew up on a farm west of Fresno. McAfee graduated from Merced High School in 1980.
Upon his graduation from high school, McAfee traveled for one year as a performer and lead trumpet player with Up With People . While on tour with Up With People, McAfee visited 105 cities in Mexico and the United States, performed for the President of Mexico, and performed at the Indianapolis 500 and the World Figure Skating Championships.
In 1986, McAfee earned a B.S. in Management, with and emphasis in Statistics, from the Craig School of Business at California State University, Fresno. McAfee is also a 1993 graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Executive Program and a 2004 graduate of the Harvard Business School Private Equity and Venture Capital Program. He is currently a resident of Loomis, CA.
Business career
Today, McAfee is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and venture capitalist with lifelong commitment to agriculture and renewable energy. He is a founding shareholder of Pacific Ethanol ($800 million revenues, $85 million from Bill Gates equity). He is a founding shareholder of several publicly held energy companies, including Evolution Petroleum, Pacific Asia Petroleum, Particle Drilling Technologies, World Waste Technologies, and Solargen Energy. He has funded more than twenty-five companies as principal investor, and has founded seven public companies with a combined high market value of $4 billion.
His current project is Aemetis, Inc.. Aemetis has a mission to transform renewable energy into below zero carbon transportation fuels with its Carbon Zero production process to decarbonize the transportation sector using existing fuel delivery infrastructure through its Carbon Zero 1 plant in Riverbank, California to convert renewable electricity from solar and hydroelectric sources along with renewable hydrogen from waste orchard wood into renewable jet fuel, renewable diesel, renewable hydrogen and cellulosic ethanol, its biogas digester network and pipeline system to convert dairy waste gas from network of dairy digesters into Renewable Natural Gas (RNG), its ethanol production facility in California’s C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%20network | A mechanical network is an abstract interconnection of mechanical elements along the lines of an electrical circuit diagram. Elements include rigid bodies, springs, dampers, transmissions, and actuators.
Network symbols
The symbols from left to right are: stiffness element (e.g. spring), mass (rigid body), mechanical resistance (e.g. damper), force generator, velocity generator. The symbols for generators depend on which mechanical–electrical analogy is being used. The symbols shown relate to the impedance analogy. In the mobility analogy the symbols are reversed, being respectively velocity and force generators.
See also
Multibody system
Machines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20Communities | Secure Communities is a data-sharing program that relies on coordination between federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. The program was designed to "check the immigration status of every single person arrested by local police anywhere in the country". As part of the program, fingerprints that are taken upon arrest, which are traditionally forwarded to the FBI, are then also forwarded to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) . If these finger prints match the DHS's Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT), then the ICE district office decides whether or not to issue a detainer request which can include requesting that the person be detained for up to 48 hours (I-247D), or a request for ICE to be notified upon their release (I-247N).
Between July 2015 and January 2017, Secure Communities was replaced by the Priority Enforcement Program (PEP). The goal of PEP was to "target resources toward detaining and deporting individuals convicted of significant criminal offenses."
On January 25, 2017 former President Donald Trump signed executive order 13768 re-instituting Secure Communities (see section 10), indicating that it would penalize jurisdictions that did not comply with the program, and re-expanded immigration enforcement priorities to include even those not convicted of serious criminal offenses.
On January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden revoked EO 13768.
Currently the ICE indicates that the web page ice.gov/secure-communities is "archived and not reflective of current practice"
However, Secure Communities was primarily a data-sharing program, and biometric information of people arrested continues to be sent both to the FBI and to DHS to flag for potential immigration violations. This practice still continues, and is now described under an ICE page called "Criminal Apprehension Program."
Overview
Secure Communities relied on integrated databases and partnerships with local and state jailers to build domestic deportation capacity. The goals, as outlined in a 2009 report to Congress, are to: "1. IDENTIFY criminal aliens through modernized information sharing; 2. PRIORITIZE enforcement actions to ensure apprehension and removal of dangerous criminal aliens; and 3. TRANSFORM criminal alien enforcement processes and systems to achieve lasting results."
John Morton of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE called Secure Communities "the future of immigration enforcement" because it "focuses our resources on identifying and removing the most serious criminal offenders first and foremost."
The program came under controversy, however, for misrepresenting who was being targeted and what was expected of law enforcement partners. Secure Communities was created administratively, not by congressional mandate and, throughout its implementation, no regulations were promulgated to govern the program's implementation.
History
Secure Communities was piloted in 2008. Under the administration of George W. Bush, ICE recruited a total |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20capability%20interaction%20manager | In computer networks, a service capability interaction manager (or SCIM) orchestrates service delivery among application server platforms within the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) architecture.
A key requirement for the Service Broker functionality is to be able to bridge between the existing legacy networks, and the next-generation networks. For example, if the operator has a service platform that provides freephone (or reverse charging)-type services to its GSM subscriber, the service broker will enable the operator to extend this to the IMS environment without modifying the service platform or the service application. The service broker will also enable the Centrex-type services to be combined with existing GSM services, such as ringback tones or VPN.
References
Service-oriented (business computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8%204K%20Disk%20Monitor%20System | The PDP-8 Disk Monitor is a discontinued operating system released by Digital Equipment Corporation for their PDP-8 line of mini-computers. The minimum hardware requirements consisted of a ASR 33 teletype,
3 cycle data break (an option on the PDP-8/S model), and a mass storage option of a DF32 disk sub-system or a TC01 DECtape unit, with later releases the additional option of using a RF08 disk drive. The distribution media was on paper tape, a common means of data storage for computers of that era. The included user programs consisted mainly of modified versions of the paper tape software library distributed by DEC for their PDP-8 family of small computers, much of this was exported to the TSS-8 and MS/8 operating systems.
A modified version of this monitor was used on "8K or larger PDP 8/E" systems, with one of its claimed benefits being that it made better use of additional DECtape drives than OS/8.
References
DEC DEC-08-SBAB-D PDP-8 Disk System Builder, October 27, 1967
DEC DEC-08-ODSMA-AD 4K Disk Monitor System, 2ed Revision, February, 1974
DEC DEC-D8-SDAB-D PDP-8/I Disk Monitor System Programmer's Reference Manual, Revised July, 1969
DEC DEC-08-AJBB-DL Advanced FOCAL Technical Specification, 1st Printing April, 1970
External links
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/dec-faq/pdp8/
DEC operating systems |
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