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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pic%20Micro%20Pascal | Pic Micro Pascal PMP is a free Pascal cross compiler for PIC microcontrollers. It is intended to work with the Microchip Technology MPLAB suite installed; it has its own IDE (Scintilla-based) and it is a highly optimized compiler.
It is intended to target 8-bit processors only: PIC10, PIC12, PIC16, PIC16 enhanced, PIC18.
The main axis of development was to avoid special built-in functions and procedures to interface hardware registers. These registers are accessed directly as variables, there are no wrapper functions, and emitted code is quite compact.
PMP does not include an assembler or linker. It is designed to work with the Microchip MPLAB suite installed, and directly uses MPASM and MPLINK .lkr files for memory mapping initializations; as of V2 it comes with its own database for processor features and standard register definitions.
PMP also supports the GPUTILS suite.
Language features
PMP does not support object-oriented programming, but a RECORD can have methods.
As of 2014, the implementation supports multiple file compiling, by include directives and by a per unit concept.
PMP supports a unique feature: variables may be declared in EEPROM and then used transparently as any other variable (with some limitations).
PMP's data types:
simple records (subset): RECORD
bit booleans: BOOLEAN
unsigned and signed 8-bit integer types: CHAR, BYTE, SHORTINT
unsigned and signed 16-bit integer types: WORD, INTEGER
unsigned and signed 32-bit integer types: LONGWORD, LONGINT
enumerations
arrays (one dimension): ARRAY
strings (variable length): STRING
pointers (subset)
floating point variables and operations (PIC16 and PIC18 only): two FP formats, one 48-bit internal (REAL) and a subset of the IEEE 32 bits format (SINGLE); both formats do not handle infinite and NaN
Language dialect
PMP syntax is very close to the non-OOP syntax of Turbo Pascal or Delphi, with some extensions to support some target processor features (bit manipulations ...).
program Beacon;
uses
A2D;
var
I_IR_Receiver : boolean @PORTB.4; // TSOP1736 IR receiver
O_LED_RECEIVING : boolean @PORTC.0; // Receive in progress
O_LED_ERROR : boolean @PORTC.1; // Receive error
O_PWM_A : boolean @PORTC.4; // PWM to US transducer phase A (addr cannot be changed)
O_PWM_B : boolean @PORTC.5; // PWM to US transducer phase B (addr cannot be changed)
{ Beacon Addr dip switches }
I_ADDR_0 : boolean @PORTA.2;
I_ADDR_1 : boolean @PORTA.5;
CONST
LOW_BATT_SENSOR_CHANNEL = ANS0; // Channel for battery measurement (RA0)
{ Led on/off values }
cLED_ON = TRUE;
cLED_OFF = FALSE;
// pins that are inputs
TRISA_MASK = [I_NOT_OPTION_SERIAL, I_ADDR_0, I_ADDR_1];
TRISB_MASK = [I_IR_Receiver];
TRISC_MASK = [];
begin
...
PORTA := 0; // Prepare all outputs
TRISA := TRISA_MASK; // Set pins direction
...
A2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-by-phone%20parking | Pay-by-phone parking allows any driver parking in a fare required space the option to divert the expense to a credit card or to a mobile network operator via the use of a mobile phone, mobile application or computer, opposed to inserting cash into a parking meter or pay and display machine. SMS pay-by-phone parking was invented by young Croatian innovators and introduced by Vipnet. Since its introduction in Croatian capital Zagreb in 2001 under name M-parking, the number of registered users has steadily increased. By 2004, the Croatian M-parking scheme was the largest in Europe (with over 130,000 users). Today, pay-by-phone parking is used by millions of people all around the world.
How it works
Pay-by-phone parking technology can be used in multiple ways: “start stop” and “start duration.” “Start stop” parking requires the driver to contact the pay-by-phone provider first when the driver initiates the parking session and then again when the driver wishes to terminate the session. Alternatively, “start duration” requires the driver to only contact the pay-by-phone provider when the parking session is to be initiated, in which the driver dictates the amount of time the session will last. The driver can also add on additional time or extend the parking session if needed.
Most pay-by-phone solutions require pre-registration, including the need to provide either a credit card for parking charges or the use of a credit card to preload a prepaid account. There are some exceptions. For example, one provider allows new customers a one-time free parking opportunity without pre-registering, and then contacts the new customer by SMS (text) to invite him or her to register. The typical information required upon registration is data such as the mobile phone number(s) that the driver wishes to use to engage/disengage the parking session, license plate information of the vehicle(s) that the driver wishes to utilize and credit card information.
To activate a parking session, the driver must first arrive at a designated pay-by-phone parking area. In order for the service to be available, the operator of the parking space, whether a city or a private owner, must have contracted with the pay-by-phone service provider. But if the service is available it will be clearly marked on the street, meter, sign or space. Then the driver can either call the pay-by-phone service provider (via a toll free number) or use their mobile application.
For the “start stop” customer to complete a transaction, the driver must call the pay-by-phone service provider again or use their mobile application upon departure to stop their parking transaction. The provider should quickly recognize that the user has an active parking session and with the customer's discretion the session will be closed immediately.
NFC technology development for pay-by-phone parking
It's anticipated that mobile carriers will be making it easier for drivers to use near-field communications (NFC) technolo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myartspace | Myartspace was a social networking service for artists. It was launched in 2006 and shut down in 2012. In 2008 the site hosted over 500,000 images of contemporary art and contained a large collection of interviews with emerging artists.
Art competitions and exhibits
Myartspace had been involved with international art fairs such as the Bridge Art Fair and Aqua Art Miami.
The site closed down in January 2012 and its address is now redirected to godaddy.com.
Origins
Myartspace was founded by Catherine McCormack-Skiba in 2005 in order to help artists gain representation, recognition, and sell their artwork directly to buyers. The site was launched in May 2006.
Myartspace Art Scholarship Program
In 2008 myartspace launched an annual art scholarship competition. The free to enter art competition was open to undergraduate and graduate art students worldwide. The scholarship program focused on art students who exhibit exceptional artistic excellence in their chosen visual art medium. The site provided three scholarship prizes for undergraduate students and three scholarship prizes for graduate students. First place winners in each category are awarded a $5000 cash art scholarship. Second and Third placement receive $2000 and $1000 respectively.
References
Virtual art museums and galleries
Art websites
Image-sharing websites
Online companies of the United States
Internet properties established in 2006
Internet properties disestablished in 2012
Professional networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20albums%20of%202009%20%28Brazil%29 | The highest-selling albums in Brazil are ranked in the CD - TOP 20 Semanal ABPD, published by the Associação Brasileira dos Produtores de Discos (ABPD). The data are compiled by Nielsen based on each album's physical sales and published weekly since June 2009 by ABPD. In 2009, eleven albums reached the peak of the chart.
Música popular brasileira singer Roberto Carlos' Elas Cantam Roberto Carlos had the longest run among the releases that have reached peak position. The album remained at the top of the charts from its issue date of September 7 to October 19. Other artists who had extended runs on the chart include Michael Jackson—the only international artist that reached the top of the chart in 2009—, Ana Carolina, and Victor & Leo. Padre Fábio de Melo, Raça Negra, and two soundtrack albums also reached the peak position—Rede Globo telenovelas Paraiso and Caminho das Índias soundtracks.
Chart history
See also
2009 in music
Notes
The ABPD chart began on June 22, and, for this reason this list doesn't show weeks before that date.
The ABPD also did not divulge the chart for the first and for the last 2 weeks of December 2009. It also did not divulge for the week of 30 November.
References
Brazil Albums
Pro-Música Brasil
Brazilian record charts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhash%20Saini | Dr. Subhash Saini is a senior computer scientist at NASA. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California and has held positions at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).
Publications
He had published 257 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conference proceedings in the
areas of High End Computing (HEC).
Books: A chapter in Handbook of Nanostructured Materials and Nanotechnology (Academic
Press).
Editor of three Conference Proceedings including Performance Evaluation and
Engineering on High End Computing Systems
Awards
Best technical paper award “Scalable atomistic simulation algorithms for materials research”. SC 2001, in computer architectures and networks category at ACM/IEEE Supercomputing 2001
Best technical Paper Award “The impact of hyper-threading on processor resource utilization in production applications”, HiPC 2011: 1–10 in computers and NASA engineering applications
NASA employee of the year award (1993)
Excellence in Teaching award at USC, 1984
Professional activities
Served on program committees of several national and international conferences
including SC 2004 and HiPC, HPPCC IPDPS 2006 Program Committees
Chairman of ACM Gordon Bell Award “Nobel Prize in Supercomputing” 2015-2017
Member of the Source Evaluation Board (SEB) for NASA Advanced Supercomputing Services (NACS) one billions dollars contract
Panelist and reviewer for Exascale Computing Project (ECP) under US President
National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI).
Reviewer and panelist for DOE, DOD, NSF, and NASA IT research.
Member of US Government Inter Agency Panel for IT strategic research.
NASA people
American people of Indian descent
American computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidents%20at%20the%20Watercress%20Line | The Watercress Line is a heritage railway in Hampshire, England, running from New Alresford to Alton where it connects to the National Rail network. The line has four stations and operates scheduled and special services. The line was opened as the Mid-Hants Railway in 1865 and was purchased by the London & South Western Railway in 1884.
The line was closed by British Rail in 1973 and sold to the present operator Mid-Hants Railway Ltd in 1975. The first section of the line between Alresford and Ropley was reopened in 1977, with the section to Medstead & Four Marks in 1983 and via Butts Junction to Alton in 1985. This article records a number of accidents and incidents on the line when operating as a heritage railway.
Derailment at Ropley, 2006
On 25 July 2006, the leading bogie of the BR Class 117 DMU forming the 10:50 service from Alton to Alresford derailed on points approaching Platform 2 at Ropley Station. The train was stopped within 20 metres of the point of derailment by an instructor who was in the cab with the driver. There were no injuries as a result of the incident and the train and track suffered limited damage.
The immediate cause of the incident was the reversal of the points by the signalman at Ropley Signal box at the same time as the leading wheels of the train were passing over them. Causal factors were the confusion by the signalman about the exact location of the train and the lack of train-detection on the points, allowing them to be moved under a train.
The RAIB has made six recommendations aimed at:
the provision of train detection on points;
the operating of the electric token block system;
the safety management system;
the competence and medical standards for staff.
Since the accident, a new signal box has been opened at Ropley, with full interlocking, which will prevent a repeat of this incident. Also, fouling bars have been installed to prevent points being moved (when the Facing Point Lock is not in use).
Passenger fatality at Alresford, 2007
On 1 December 2007, a passenger fell from the platform at Alresford as he tried to board a departing train. It is believed that Michael Kerry, 62, of Redbridge, Southampton, fell onto the platform and was dragged under the train on Saturday night just after 10 pm as he was about to board the Real Ale Train.
The PA system was not working in the carriage in which he was travelling. As a result, he missed an announcement asking passengers not to leave the train at the second Alresford stop as it was running late.
As the train was pulling out of the station, Mr. Kerry ran to get onto the train while it was moving. Despite shouts for him to stand clear by the guard and other people on the platform, he managed to open a door but lost his footing and was dragged under the train. The train was stopped by the guard using the emergency brake and the Emergency Services were called by the signalman. The post mortem concluded that Mr. Kerry was killed by multiple crush injuries. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/READ%20Foundation | The Rural Education and Development (READ) Foundation is a non-profit educational network in North Pakistan.
It runs a network of 390 schools across Pakistan (Sialkot, Jhelum, Gujrat, Kharian), Azad Kashmir (All Districts), Murree, Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the outskirts of Islamabad/Rawalpindi. It has 5948 teachers and serves 112,006 children including 11341 orphans.
References
Educational institutions established in 1994
1994 establishments in Pakistan
Educational organisations based in Pakistan
Rural development in Pakistan
Schools in Azad Kashmir
Islamic schools in Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20La%20Russa%27s%20Ultimate%20Baseball | Tony La Russa's Ultimate Baseball is the first game in the Tony La Russa Baseball series, published in 1991 for DOS and Commodore 64.
Reception
Computer Gaming World in 1991 praised its VGA graphics, and concluded that the game "packs a tremendous amount into a single box". A 1992 review by the same author of expansion disks was less favorable. It praised the accuracy of a recreation of the 1990 Major League Baseball season, but criticized the incomplete rosters. The magazine stating that the game "still falls short of its potential ... TLRUB may be a bit closer to the "ultimate" with these disks, but it's not there yet". The magazine nonetheless that year named Tony La Russa's Ultimate Baseball as 1992's best sports game.
Computer Gaming World reviewed the game and stated that "Another nice touch in TLUB is the "Streak Rating." Players can be rated from A-H in this rating. This notes the fact that some players inevitably start off the season on fire, but then tail off in production, while other players start off slowly and become "Mr. October"s. The new rating means that one will get a realistic view of Ryne Sandberg- and Reggie Jackson-style players (Ryno usually has a rough first couple of months of the season, Jackson performed better as the season closed). It is an impressive addition."
Tony La Russa's Ultimate Baseball sold 85,684 copies, becoming SSI's most successful non-Dungeons & Dragons game.
References
External links
1991 video games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Major League Baseball video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Stormfront Studios games
Video games based on real people
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Offspring%20episodes | The following is a list of episodes for the Australian television programme, Offspring on Network Ten.
On 3 October 2014, John Edwards confirmed that Offspring would not return for a sixth series in 2015, due to cashflow issues resulting from Ten's cost-cutting measures in its production division. However on 20 September 2015, Ten confirmed that Offspring would return for a sixth season in 2016.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2010)
Season 2 (2011)
Season 3 (2012)
Season 4 (2013)
Season 5 (2014)
Season 6 (2016)
Season 7 (2017)
Ratings
References
Lists of Australian drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20design | In software engineering, test design is the activity of deriving and specifying test cases from test conditions to test software.
Definition
A test condition is a statement about the test object. Test conditions can be stated for any part of a component or system that could be verified: functions, transactions, features, quality attributes or structural elements.
The fundamental challenge of test design is that there are infinitely many different tests that you could run, but there is not enough time to run them all. A subset of tests must be selected; small enough to run, but well-chosen enough that the tests find bug and expose other quality-related information.
Test design is one of the most important prerequisites of software quality. Good test design supports:
defining and improving quality related processes and procedures (quality assurance);
evaluating the quality of the product with regards to customer expectations and needs (quality control);
finding defects in the product (software testing).
The essential prerequisites of test design are:
Appropriate specification (test bases).
Risk and complexity analysis.
Historical data of your previous developments (if exists).
The test bases, such as requirements or user stories, determine what should be tested (test objects and test conditions). The test bases involves some test design techniques to be used or not to be used.
Risk analysis is inevitable to decide the thoroughness of testing. The more risk the usage of the function/object has, the more thorough the testing that is needed. The same can be said for complexity. Risk and complexity analysis determines the test design techniques to be applied for a given specification.
Historical data of your previous developments help setting the best set of test design techniques to reach a cost optimum and high quality together. In lack of historical data some assumptions can be made, which should be refined for subsequent projects.
Based on these prerequisites an optimal test design strategy can be implemented.
The result of the test design is a set of test cases based on the specification. These test cases can be designed prior to the implementation starts, and should be implementation-independent. Test first way of test design is very important as efficiently supports defect prevention. Based on the application and the present test coverage further test cases can be created (but it is not test design).
In practice, more test design techniques should be applied together for complex specifications.
Altogether, test design does not depend on the extraordinary (near magical) skill of the person creating the test but is based on well understood principles.
ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119-4:2015, Part 4 details the standard definitions of test design techniques. The site of test designers offers the LEA (Learn-Exercise-Apply) methodology to support effective learning, exercising and applying the techniques.
Automatic test design
Entire test su |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Housser | Andrew Housser is an entrepreneur who co-founded Freedom Financial Network, and who co-founded Bills.com.
Education
Housser attended Brentwood College School in Mill Bay, Canada. Housser received his MBA from Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and received a BA from Dartmouth College, where he graduated summa cum laude, and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Housser is on the Board of Advisors of the Magnuson Center for Entrepreneurship at Dartmouth College, serves on the board of Brentwood College School, and previously served on the Phillips Brooks School board for six years.
Career
Prior to founding Freedom Financial Network, Housser was an investor in a variety of services, manufacturing, and distribution companies at Littlejohn & Company, a private equity firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut. Prior to Littlejohn & Company, he worked for Smith Barney in New York City in the company's investment banking division.
Housser and his business partner, Brad Stroh, founded Freedom Financial Network in 2002. Housser serves on the American Fair Credit Council's (AFCC) board of directors, a position he has held since 2006, when it operated under the name The Association of Settlement Companies. In 2010, he was awarded the association's President's Award for outstanding voluntary service to the organization and contributions that "benefits the consumer".
In 2005, Stroh and Housser purchased the Bills.com domain and relaunched it as a website that provides consumers with information and interactive tools dealing with personal finance topics including debt relief assistance, mortgage loans, and insurance. In 2008, Entrepreneur magazine named Bills.com No. 3 in the Hot 100 Fastest Growing Companies in America.
In December 2013, Freedom Financial Network announced that Vulcan Capital, an investment group owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, would invest $125 million of venture capital in FreedomPlus, an online lending platform to make unsecured loans to consumers. Housser is CEO of FreedomPlus.
In 2015, Stone Point Capital, a private equity firm based in Greenwich, CT purchased a minority stake in Freedom.
In 2016, Freedom Financial Network and Stone Point Capital founded the Freedom Consumer Credit Fund LLC (FCCF), which funds the Freedom Financial Asset Management (FFAM) subsidiary of Freedom Financial Network. FFAM offers personal loan products to consumers to consolidate their debts, lower interest rates and convert revolving debt into fixed-amortizing installment loans. FFAM provides long-term risk-adjusted returns for investors in consumer lending.
In 2019, Freedom Financial Network announced the launch of Lendage, its home mortgage business, founded to enable people to tap into their home value to consolidate debt, and start building a solid foundation for the future.
In 2021, Freedom Financial Network announced that it had surpassed more than $15 billion in debt settlement on behalf of over |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNDA | CNDA may refer to:
California Naturopathic Doctors Association
Certified Network Defense Architect
Cour nationale du droit d'asile
Canadian Naval Divers Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/VS2 | Operating System/Virtual Storage 2 (OS/VS2) is the successor operating system to OS/360 MVT in the OS/360 family.
SVS refers to OS/VS2 Release 1
MVS refers to OS/VS2 Release 2 and later
IBM mainframe operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20of%20Freedom%20%28Yugoslavia%29 | Order of Freedom (; ; , Orden na slobodata) was the highest military decoration awarded in Yugoslavia, and the second highest Yugoslav state decoration after the Yugoslav Great Star. It was awarded to the commanders of large military units for skillful leadership and for the outstanding courage of the troops. It was awarded to both Yugoslavian and foreign military commanders, and was the most rarely awarded of all Yugoslavian orders, decorations, and medals, being awarded only 7 times before the breakup of Yugoslavia.
After the breakup of Yugoslavia, the Order of Freedom was awarded in Serbia and Montenegro.
History
The Order of Freedom was founded on 12 June 1945 and was awarded by the Presidium of the AVNOJ (later Presidium of the People's Assembly of Yugoslavia). The recipient could be nominated by the Federal Executive Council (Government) of Yugoslavia, Executive Council of one of the Republics, Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs or Federal Secretary for Defense.
After the breakup of Yugoslavia, the union of Serbia and Montenegro (formally Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003) continued to use some of the decorations of former Yugoslavia, among them the Order of Freedom. It was awarded by the President of FR Yugoslavia (later President of Serbia and Montenegro). It was the highest military decoration in FR Yugoslavia, and the third highest state decoration overall, after the Order of Yugoslavia and the Yugoslav Great Star.
Recipients
The Order was awarded a total of 9 times — 7 times in SFR Yugoslavia and 2 times in FR Yugoslavia (after the 1999 Kosovo War). The recipients were:
FPR and SFR Yugoslavia
Josip Broz Tito — awarded in 1947
Ivan Gošnjak — awarded in 1951
Koča Popović — awarded in 1951
Georgy Zhukov — awarded in 1956
Peko Dapčević — awarded in 1973
Kosta Nađ — awarded in 1973
Leonid Brezhnev — awarded in 1976
FR Yugoslavia
On 16 June 1999 the Order of Freedom was awarded to:
Dragoljub Ojdanić
Nebojša Pavković
See also
Orders, decorations, and medals of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Orders and medals of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
References
Orders, decorations, and medals of Yugoslavia
Awards established in 1945
1945 establishments in Yugoslavia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Francotirador | El Francotirador is a Peruvian late-night television programme conducted by the journalist and writer Jaime Bayly.
Bayly hosted late-night shows abroad at CBS Network Latin America and Telemundo Network for six years. After the President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori, sought asylum in Japan after a ten-year term in order to avoid prosecution on charges of corruption, independent news media found itself in a more relaxed position. Bayly hosted political programme El Francotirador (The Sniper), interviewing candidates to the 2001 Presidential Election. In that programme, he apparently offended several personalities with his political opinions, and finally had to quit. Inspired by the experience, Bayly wrote a book with the name of the show. Later he resumed the conduction of the programme which continues to be one of Peru's most viewed late-night shows.
External links
Information on El Francotirador (in spanish)
Television
Peruvian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPLINK | CPLINK and Win32/CplLnk.A are names for a Microsoft Windows shortcut icon vulnerability discovered in June 2010 and patched on 2 August that affected all Windows operating systems. The vulnerability is exploitable when any Windows application that display shortcut icons, such as Windows Explorer, browses to a folder containing a malicious shortcut. The exploit can be triggered without any user interaction, regardless where the shortcut file is located.
In June 2010, VirusBlokAda reported detection of zero-day attack malware called Stuxnet that exploited the vulnerability to install a rootkit that snooped Siemens' SCADA systems WinCC and PCS 7. According to Symantec it is the first worm designed to reprogram industrial systems and not only to spy on them.
References
External links
Microsoft Security Advisory (2286198) concerning the Windows vulnerability exploited by CPLINK.
Infoworld article Is Stuxnet the 'best' malware ever?
Injection exploits
Malware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adieu%20Alouette | Adieu Alouette was a Canadian television documentary anthology series on the life and culture of Quebec. It was produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the network and aired on CBC Television in 1973.
Premise
The series was intended to portray Quebec's culture to English Canada and to dispel misconceptions about the province, particularly in response to the 1970 October Crisis and the rise of the Quebec sovereignty movement. The series approach was cultural and apolitical.
Scheduling
The series was first aired on CBC on Wednesdays, 10:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 3 January to 25 April 1973. It was repeated on Sundays, 2:00 pm from 6 January to 24 March 1974. The series consisted of 11 half-hour episodes plus the hour-long "Why I Sing: The Words and Music of Gilles Vigneault".
Episodes
Airdates are provided where known.
"Why I Sing: The Words and Music of Gilles Vigneault" (originally aired 7 February 1973): this was an hour-long episode of the series directed by John Howe.
"Just Another Job (Les Nordiques)" (14 February 1973): Pierre Letarte was director.
"La Gastronomie" (7 March 1973): Doug Jackson was director.
"La Quebecoise" (28 March 1973): Les Nirenberg was director.
"Le Devoir: 1910–1945, Do What You Must" (18 April 1973): This was the first half of a two-part history on the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir. Hugues Poulin and Jean-V. Dufresne directed these episodes.
"Le Devoir: 1945–1973, The Quiet Revolution" (25 April 1973): A continuation of the history of Le Devoir.
"The Ungrateful Land: Roch Carrier Remembers Ste-Justine": Cynthia Scott was director.
"Une Job Steady ... Un Bon Boss": Ian McLaren directed this episode about Yvon Deschamps.
"OK... Camera": Michael Rubbo was director.
"Backyard Theatre": Jean-V. Dufresne and Ian McLaren produced this episode, with Pierre Lefebvre as director. This featured André Brossard and playwright Michel Tremblay.
"Challenge for the Church": William Weintraub was director.
"In Our Own Way": Jack Zolov was director.
References
External links
Adieu Alouette at the National Film Board of Canada
CBC Television original programming
1973 Canadian television series debuts
1973 Canadian television series endings
National Film Board of Canada documentary series
Television shows filmed in Quebec
1970s Canadian documentary television series
Culture of Quebec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retired%20at%2035 | Retired at 35 is an American sitcom on TV Land starring George Segal, Jessica Walter, Johnathan McClain, Josh McDermitt, Marissa Jaret Winokur, and Ryan Michelle Bathe. It is the network's second original scripted series after Hot in Cleveland. The series premiered on January 19, 2011. On March 21, 2011, the series was renewed for a second season. The second season premiered on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, at 10:00 pm ET/PT, and concluded on Wednesday, August 29, 2012.
On December 13, 2012, TV Land announced that they were not renewing Retired at 35 for another season and it was cancelled, making it the first TV Land original sitcom to be cancelled from the network.
Premise
The series follows a successful New Yorker named David (Johnathan McClain), who decides to leave the rat race and his job in the big city to visit his father (George Segal) and mother (Jessica Walter) who live in a retirement community in Florida. Hoping to reconnect with them and re-evaluate his life, he makes a snap decision to quit his job and take some time to live the dream of retirement that so many are working toward. But he soon finds, to his surprise, that his parents are in the final stages of separating.
Cast and characters
Main cast
George Segal as Alan Robbins
Johnathan McClain as David Robbins
Jessica Walter as Elaine Robbins
Josh McDermitt as Brandon
Ryan Michelle Bathe as Jessica Sanders (season 1)
Marissa Jaret Winokur as Amy Robbins (season 2)
Casey Wilson played the role of Amy Robbins in the pilot episode, prior to joining the cast of the ABC sitcom Happy Endings
Recurring cast
George Wyner as Richard
Peter Bonerz as Chuckie Lutz
Christine Ebersole as Susan (season 1)
John Ross Bowie as Jared (season 2)
Danneel Ackles as Jenn (season 2)
Guest cast
Estelle Harris
Mimi Kennedy
Mark Christopher Lawrence
Shelley Long
John O'Hurley
Christina Pickles
Jay Thomas
Ashley Williams
Fred Willard
Robin Givens
Melissa Peterman
Episodes
Season 1 (2011)
Season 2 (2012)
Retired at 35 was renewed for a second season of ten episodes, on March 21, 2011. Marissa Jaret Winokur joined the cast as Amy Robbins, David's bubbly sister. The role was previously played by Casey Wilson in the pilot episode. Production on the 10 episodes of season 2 began on November 3, 2011. The new season premiered at 10 PM (EDT) on Tuesday, June 26, 2012. After three episodes aired, TV Land moved the first-run episodes to Wednesdays at 11 PM (EDT).
Production
Development
TV Land placed a pilot order on October 26, 2009. The series was created by Chris Case, who also serves as executive producer. Michael Hanel and Mindy Schultheis are executive producers, as well. Retired at 35 was ordered to series by TV Land on April 16, 2010. The series, which is TV Land's second original scripted comedy series, premiered on January 19, 2011, following Hot in Cleveland.
Casting
Casting announcements began in November 2009, with George Segal as the first actor cast, playing the role of Alan R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyana%20Liu | Dyana Liu (born July 29, 1981) is an American actress. Liu is known for co-starring in the Cartoon Network live-action series Tower Prep.
Career
Liu was born in Taipei, Taiwan to a Hakka father and a Taiwanese mother, and she then grew up in Ithaca, New York. At age five, she began playing classical piano and did not pursue an acting career until college. She attended school at the University of Pennsylvania while also studying acting at the Walnut Street Theatre. After graduating from college, she returned to Ithaca to perform in local theater before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film and television. She made her television acting debut guest-starring on an episode of The Unit. The next year, she co-starred in the independent western film Between the Sand and the Sky opposite Dee Wallace. In 2009, she appeared in the film Down for Life, which also starred Danny Glover. In 2010, she co-starred as Suki Sato in the Cartoon Network live-action series Tower Prep.
Filmography
References
External links
1981 births
Actresses from New York (state)
Actresses from Taipei
American film actresses
Taiwanese emigrants to the United States
American actresses of Chinese descent
American television actresses
American voice actresses
Living people
People from Ithaca, New York
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Taiwanese people of Hakka descent
American people of Chinese descent
American actresses of Taiwanese descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye%20for%20an%20Eye%20%282010%20TV%20series%29 | Eye for an Eye (Spanish: Ojo por ojo), is a Spanish-language telenovela to be produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo and RTI Colombia. From Gustavo Bolivar, the story is based on Laura Restrepo's novel, "El Leopardo al Sol" while borrowing some elements of William Shakespeare's " Romeo and Juliet ".
Telemundo was expected to air the serial from Monday to Friday over about 20 weeks. As with most of its other soap operas, the network broadcasts English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. However, and after very heavy promotional rotation, Telemundo opted for El Clon on the time slot originally allocated.
Cast
References
American television series based on telenovelas
RTI Producciones telenovelas
Telemundo telenovelas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20World | Parallel World or Parallel Worlds may refer to:
Parallel World (1983 video game), a video game published by Enix for home computers
Parallel World (1990 video game), a video game published by Varie for the Family Computer
Parallel World (Cadence Weapon album), a 2021 album by Cadence Weapon
Parallel Worlds (album), a 1993 album by Dave Douglas
Parallel Worlds (book), a 2004 popular science book by Michio Kaku
"Parallel Worlds" (song), a 2007 song by Elliot Minor
See also
Parallel universe (disambiguation)
Parallel worlds chess
Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut%20Hill%20West%20Line | The Chestnut Hill West Line is a commuter rail line in the SEPTA Regional Rail network. It connects Northwest Philadelphia, including the eponymous neighborhood of Chestnut Hill, as well as West Mount Airy and Germantown, to Center City.
Route description
The Chestnut Hill West Line branches off from Amtrak's Northeast Corridor at North Philadelphia station and runs entirely within the City of Philadelphia. Its terminal is named Chestnut Hill West to distinguish it from the end of the Chestnut Hill East Line (a competing line of the Reading Company until 1976, when SEPTA assumed operations). Some stations are less than half a mile apart, a characteristic more commonly seen in an urban rapid transit system rather than a commuter rail line. The line runs roughly parallel to the Chestnut Hill East, and the two terminals are rather close. The line is fully grade-separated.
History
The line was originally opened June 11, 1884 by the Philadelphia, Germantown and Chestnut Hill Railroad, and was operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad until 1968. Electrified service began on March 30, 1918. The Penn Central operated it until 1976, turning operations over to Conrail until 1983, when SEPTA took over.
Between 1984–2010 the route was designated R8 Chestnut Hill West as part of SEPTA's diametrical reorganization of its lines. Chestnut Hill West trains operated through the city center to the Fox Chase Line. Plans had called for the line to be paired with West Chester/Elwyn Line and designated R3, but this depended on a never-built Swampoodle Connection from the Chestnut Hill West Line to the Norristown Line; this would have connected it to the former Reading Company side of the Center City Commuter Connection. , most weekday Chestnut Hill West Line trains pass through Center City and terminate at Temple University while most weekend trains continue through Center City to the West Trenton Line. While the line runs generally northbound between 30th Street and Chestnut Hill West, it is considered to run timetable south. This anomaly exists because SEPTA considers ex-Reading lines (including the Fox Chase Line) to run timetable north and ex-Pennsylvania lines to run timetable south.
Between June 26, 1987 – December 17, 1989 service terminated at Allen Lane with shuttle buses serving St. Martin's, Highland and Chestnut Hill West because of unsafe conditions on the Cresheim Valley bridge. The original iron bridge dated to 1884 and was replaced with a $7.6 million steel structure financed by the Urban Mass Transportation Administration.
SEPTA activated positive train control on the Chestnut Hill West Line on August 22, 2016.
On April 9, 2020, the line was suspended indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, though North Philadelphia station was still being served by other rail services. In addition to reduced ridership from the COVID-19 pandemic, service on the Chestnut Hill West Line was also suspended due to Amtrak construction along the Northeast Corridor t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wu%20Jianping | Wu Jianping (; born 4 October 1953), also known as Jian-Ping Wu, is a Chinese computer scientist. He is Professor and Chair of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University. He is also Chairman of the China Education and Research Network (CERNET) Technical Board and director of the CERNET center, and vice president of the China Internet Association.
Biography
Wu was born on 4 October 1953 in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, with his ancestral home in Juye County, Shandong.
Wu graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1977, and earned his master's degree (1982) and Ph.D. (1997) in computer science and technology, also from Tsinghua. He was a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia in Canada from 1987 to 1989.
His research interests include computer architectures, routing and protocols. As one of main initiators and promoters of Next-Generation Internet (NGI) in China, he is in charge of the CERNET2 backbone, which deployed the world's largest IPv6 Internet backbone.
He was awarded the 2010 Jonathan B. Postel Service Award. for his services to Internet developments in China.
Wu was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2015. In September 2019, he was elected an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
References
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1953 births
Living people
Chinese computer scientists
Academic staff of Tsinghua University
Tsinghua University alumni
Engineers from Shanxi
People from Taiyuan
Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
University of British Columbia people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabildo%2C%20Chile | Cabildo is a Chilean city and commune located in the Petorca Province, Valparaíso Region. The commune spans an area of .
Demographics
According to data from the 2002 Census of Population and Housing, Cabildo had 18,916 inhabitants; of these, 12,453 (65.8%) lived in urban areas and 6,463 (34.2%) in rural areas. At that time, there were 9,466 men and 9,450 women. The population grew 8.0% (1,396 persons) from the 1992 census count of 17,520.
Administration
As a commune, Cabildo is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a communal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. The 2008-2012 alcalde is Eduardo Cerda Lecaros. The communal council has the following members:
Fernando Rodrigo Olmos Saavedra: (RN)
Alberto Patricio Aliaga Díaz (DC)
Margarita Mora Olivares (DC)
Ricardo Abel Altamirano Olguín
Sonia María Aguilera Sánchez (RN)
Juana Isabel Zamora Olmos (RN)
Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Cabildo is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Eduardo Cerda (PDC) and Andrea Molina (UDI) as part of the 10th electoral district, (together with La Ligua, Petorca, Papudo, Zapallar, Puchuncaví, Quintero, Nogales, Calera, La Cruz, Quillota and Hijuelas). The commune is represented in the Senate by Ignacio Walker Prieto (PDC) and Lily Pérez San Martín (RN) as part of the 5th senatorial constituency (Valparaíso-Cordillera).
References
External links
Municipality of Cabildo
Populated places in Petorca Province
Communes of Chile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid%20in%20a%20Candy%20Store | Kid in a Candy Store is a reality television series that originally premiered on Food Network on July 12, 2010. The show follows Adam Gertler on his "hunt to find the craziest desserts in the world of candy confections".
Production
To allow himself to have a spontaneous response on the show, Gertler tries to minimize what he learns about the places he visits even though he receives preparatory material. Filming takes place between September and April. Three places are profiled in every episode. Zap2it said the show mixed Gertler's 2009 show Will Work for Foods structure with Extreme Sweets, a Food Network special he presented. According to the San Antonio Current about an episode featuring the Tootie Pie Gourmet Café, "the cast was pretty type-based - a wide-eyed little girl, the all-American dad, the dynamic friend, or the jovial grandma".
Reception
In a negative review, El Universo said, "While there are other programs in this category, Kid in A Candy Store does not have that element that elevates other productions, a charismatic driver. Gertler does not arouse any sympathy during his different presentations. Despite his effort and development before the cameras, he fails to convey the flavors and sensations of the tasted, providing an tasteless adventure among so many candy and caught cookies."
References
External links
Kid in a Candy Store on TV.com
Food Network original programming
2010s American reality television series
2010 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDD | NDD may refer to:
non-DAC donor, that is, a donor outside the Development Assistance Committee (DAC)
National Direct Dialing, local area code of a phone number
Nature deficit disorder
Network for Democracy and Development
Sumbe Airport
Node Deployment Device
Neurodevelopmental delay
Neurodevelopmental disorder
Neurological determination of death |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon%20Photonics%20Link | Silicon Photonics Link is a silicon-based optical data connection developed by Intel Corporation which uses silicon photonics and hybrid silicon laser, it provides 50 Gbit/s bandwidth. Intel expected the technology to be in products by 2015.
This technology is enabled and well supported by academic and industrial research work at Intel labs, 50 Gbit/s multi-color transmission line at Cornell University and Columbia University.
See also
List of device bandwidths
Thunderbolt (Light Peak)
Universal Serial Bus (USB)
References
External links
The 50G Silicon Photonics Link
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/research/intel-labs-silicon-photonics-research.html
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/data-center/silicon-photonics-research.html
Computer buses
Intel products
Silicon photonics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HardDrive%20%28radio%20show%29 | hardDrive with Lou Brutus is a two-hour, weekly rock radio show hosted by rock radio veteran Lou Brutus. It is syndicated by United Stations Radio Networks and broadcasts on over 90 stations nationwide. Music industry veteran Roxy Myzal produced both hardDrive, since its early upbringings in 1996, until her retirement at the end of 2017.
Producer Roxy Myzal has won four RadioContraband Rock Radio Awards for "Non-traditional Programmer of the Year" in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
Lou Brutus won a RadioContraband Rock Radio Award for "Disc Jockey of the Year" in 2013 and "Syndicated DJ of the Year" 2014
hardDrive XL with Lou Brutus
hardDrive XL with Lou Brutus is the weeknight expansion of radio show hardDrive with Lou Brutus. The program is five hours long and airs Monday thru Friday nights. It is syndicated by United Stations Radio Networks and broadcasts on over 30 stations nationwide. It has numerous segments including Ask Lou, hardDrive XL Shout Box, Screen Time, Weird World News, Flix Pix and It Came From the Web.
References
External links
Official hardDrive/hardDriveXL website
Official "harddrive/hardDriveXL" MySpace
Official "harddrive/hardDriveXL" Facebook
Official "harddrive/hardDriveXL" Twitter
Official "Lou Brutus" website
"Lou Brutus" Facebook
Official "Lou Brutus" Twitter
American music radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E261 | European route E 261 is a Class B road part of the International E-road network. It begins in Bielany Wrocławskie near Wrocław and ends in Nowe Marzy near Świecie.
Route: Bielany Wrocławskie – Wrocław – Leszno – Poznań – Gniezno – Bydgoszcz – Świecie – Nowe Marzy.
E261 follows the route of Polish national road 5 for its entire length. It is the only European route in Poland that does not cross the country border or even approach it. On some older road maps of Poland the route was extended from Bielany Wrocławskie to Bolków.
Route
: Nowe Marzy () – Świecie
: Świecie – Bydgoszcz
: Bydgoszcz
: Bydgoszcz
: Bydgoszcz – Szubin – Gniezno – Poznań ()
: Poznań ()
: Poznań () – Leszno – Rawicz – Wrocław ()
: Wrocław () – Bielany Wrocławskie ()
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
261
E261 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collab%20Group | Collab Group is a membership organisation representing a network of 29 colleges and college groups of further education in the United Kingdom.
Collab Group offers services to both public and private sector clients. They work with their members to deliver nationwide apprenticeship and training services to large employers, as well as consultation services relating to skills and education. They offer commercial training services for organisations looking to bring new talent into their business, or who wish to upskill or retrain their existing workforce. They support employers in critical industries to make the most of their apprenticeship levy as they work in partnership to strategically plan their current and future talent needs.
The group changed its name from the 157 Group in October 2016, having been established under its former name in 2006. Its creation was announced at that year's Association of Colleges annual conference chaired by the then Secretary of State for Education Alan Johnson, with its former name taken from the 157th paragraph of a British government paper on education, The Foster Report (formally the Review of the future role of FE colleges), published a year previously.
Members
References
External links
Further education colleges in the United Kingdom
Educational organisations based in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catemu | Catemu is a city and commune in the San Felipe de Aconcagua Province of central Chile's Valparaíso Region.
Geography
Catemu spans an area of .
Demographics
According to data from the 2002 Census of Population and Housing, the Catemu commune had 12,112 inhabitants; of these, 6,706 (55.4%) lived in urban areas and 5,406 (44.6%) in rural areas. At that time, there were 6,172 men and 5,940 women. The population grew by 7.2% (817 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses.
Administration
As a commune, Catemu is a third-level administrative division of Chile, administered by a communal council (consejo comunal), which is headed by a directly elected alcalde. The current alcalde is Boris Luksic Nieto. The communal council has the following members:
María Salas Herrera
Pablo Pacheco Delgado
Aurora Medina Carvajal
Luís René Carvajal Leiva
Claudio Núñez Cataldo
María Sánchez Contreas
Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Catemu is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by Marco Antonio Núñez (PDC) and Gaspar Rivas (RN) as part of the 11th electoral district, together with Los Andes, San Esteban, Calle Larga, Rinconada, San Felipe, Putaendo, Santa María, Panquehue and Llaillay. The commune is represented in the Senate by Ignacio Walker Prieto (PDC) and Lily Pérez San Martín (RN) as part of the 5th senatorial constituency (Valparaíso-Cordillera).
Notable people
Olga Lehmann (1912–2001), visual artist born in Catemu
Monica Pidgeon (1913–2009), interior designer born in Catemu
References
External links
Municipality of Catemu
Populated places in San Felipe de Aconcagua Province
Communes of Chile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globalcell%20Mobile | Globalcell Mobile was a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) was based in the UK and was established in late 2008.
The service offered customers a SIM-only pre-paid service with all customer interaction conducted in the customers' native language, which includes Polish, Russian, Lithuanian, Slovak and English.
Their customer base were predominantly Poles, Lithuanians, Russians and Slovaks living in the UK but also cater for the UK’s immigrant and ethnic population that are looking to call internationally.
Globalcell mobile offered an alternative to calling cards, dual SIM cards and access numbers. The pre-paid SIM not only offered competitive rates to call internationally and low cost rates within the UK for Pay as you go customers not wanting to be tied down by a mobile phone contract.
They are able to do this due to buying capacity in bulk from a much larger UK network.
GloballCell (UK) ceased trading as of 28 November 2010.
References
External links
Globalcell Mobile's website
Mobile virtual network operators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariposa%20botnet | The Mariposa botnet, discovered December 2008, is a botnet mainly involved in cyberscamming and denial-of-service attacks. Before the botnet itself was dismantled on 23 December 2009, it consisted of up to 12 million unique IP addresses or up to 1 million individual zombie computers infected with the "Butterfly (mariposa in Spanish) Bot", making it one of the largest known botnets.
History
Origins and initial spread
The botnet was originally created by the DDP Team (Spanish: Días de Pesadilla Team, English: Nightmare Days Team), using a malware program called "Butterfly bot", which was also sold to various individuals and organisations. The goal of this malware program was to install itself on an uninfected PC, monitoring activity for passwords, bank credentials and credit cards. After that the malware would attempt to self-propagate to other connectible systems using various supported methods, such as MSN, P2P and USB.
After completing its initial infection routine the malware would contact a command-and-control server within the botnet. This command and control server could be used by the controllers of the botnet, in order to issue orders to the botnet itself.
Operations and impact
The operations executed by the botnet were diverse, in part because parts of the botnet could be rented by third party individuals and organizations. Confirmed activities include denial-of-service attacks, e-mail spam, theft of personal information, and changing the search results a browser would display in order to show advertisements and pop-up ads.
Due to the size and nature of a botnet its total financial and social impact is difficult to calculate, but initial estimates calculated that the removal of the malware alone could cost "tens of millions of dollars". After the apprehension of the botnet's operators government officials also discovered a list containing personal details on 800,000 individuals, which could be used or sold for Identity theft purposes.
The countries most infected by the botnet were India, Mexico, Brazil and South Korea.
Dismantling
In May 2009 the Mariposa Working Group (MWG) was formed as an informal group, composed of Defence Intelligence, the Georgia Tech Information Security Center and Panda Security, along with additional unnamed security researchers and law enforcement agencies. The goal of this group was the analysis and extermination of the Mariposa botnet itself.
On 23 December 2009 the Mariposa Working Group managed to take control of the Mariposa Botnet, after seizing control of the command-and-control servers used by the botnet. The operational owners of the botnet eventually succeeded in regaining control over the botnet, and in response launched a denial-of-service attack on Defence Intelligence. The attack itself managed to knock out Internet connectivity for a large share of the ISP's customers, which included several Canadian universities and government agencies.
On 3 February 2010, the Spanish national police |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Telugu%20films%20of%201952 | This is a list of films produced by the Tollywood film industry based in Madras & Hyderabad in 1952. Movies Released 25. Data collected from Song books, from news papers
References
External links
Earliest Telugu language films at IMDb.com (149 to 167)
1952
Telugu
Telugu films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLB%20International | HLB International is a global network of independent advisory and accounting firms, comprising member firms in 157 countries. HLB International member firms offer audit, accounting, tax and business advisory services.
HLB International is a leading mid-tier accounting network. As of January 2023 the network has a total worldwide revenue of US $4.44 billion. HLB International is a member of the Forum of Firms.
History
The network was formed in 1969. The current name was derived from Hodgson Landau Brands, which was based on some of the early members: Hodgson Harris, founded in 1877 by Robert Hodgson (UK), Mann Judd Landau, founded in 1926 as Fred Landau & Co by Fred Landau, (US) and Brands & Wolff (Netherlands). In the course of time, these three names all disappeared through mergers, and the network shortened its name to HLB International in 1990.
Membership
HLB is represented in 157 countries on five continents. Collectively, member firms have 40,831 partners and staff in 1,128 offices worldwide.
United Kingdom
The founder firm in the United Kingdom, Fuller Jenks Beecroft & Co, merged with Mann Judd in 1975 and then left this network to join Touche Ross, which is now Deloitte. (In Australia and New Zealand, some firms with the name Mann Judd remain members of HLB.)
Hodgson Harris succeeded Mann Judd as the UK member, contributing the name Hodgson to HLB. By successive mergers this UK firm became Hodgson Impey, then Kidsons Impey, and was finally known as HLB Kidsons before leaving the network for Baker Tilly in London (not to be confused with Baker Tilly International) in 2002.
HLB then invited the listed company Numerica, an accountancy consolidator, to become its UK member. In 2005 Numerica, in financial difficulty, was mostly taken over by another listed consolidator, Vantis, which replaced it as the UK member of HLB. At the end of June 2010, Vantis also foundered, and was broken up.
Having been dependent for several years on the expansion plans of a public company, the network instead built a federation of local partnerships by the end of 2010, following its model in the US and elsewhere.
Menzies (ranked 23rd in the UK), Hazlewoods (41st) and Lovewell Blake LLP (44th) joined HLB from accounting network Praxity, followed by Hawsons, Beever and Struthers, and French Duncan.
Management and governance
In April 2017, COO Marco Donzelli succeeded Rob Tautges as Chief Executive.
In February 2010, Minnesota partner Rob Tautges succeeded Peter Frost as Chief Executive.
Other managing and governing bodies are the Council, the Chairman, and the Executive Committee.
There are also several Technical Committees. The two main international committees relate to tax and audit and financial reporting.
The Executive Office is based in London.
Corporate and social responsibility
HLB Sustainability Programme
HLB member firms are committed to community outreach and "green" initiatives, based on both volunteer efforts and fundraising. Initiativ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20custodian | In data governance groups, responsibilities for data management are increasingly divided between the business process owners and information technology (IT) departments. Two functional titles commonly used for these roles are data steward and data custodian.
Data Stewards are commonly responsible for data content, context, and associated business rules. Data custodians are responsible for the safe custody, transport, storage of the data and implementation of business rules. Simply put, Data Stewards are responsible for what is stored in a data field, while data custodians are responsible for the technical environment and database structure. Common job titles for data custodians are database administrator (DBA), data modeler and ETL developer.
Data custodian responsibilities
A data custodian ensures:
Access to the data is authorized and controlled
Data stewards are identified for each data set
Technical processes sustain data integrity
Processes exist for data quality issue resolution in partnership with data stewards
Technical controls safeguard data
Data added to data sets are consistent with the common data model
Versions of master data are maintained along with the history of changes
Change management practices are applied in maintenance of the database
Data content and changes can be audited
See also
Data governance
Data steward
References
Related Links
Establishing data stewards, by Jonathan G. Geiger, Teradata Magazine Online, September 2008, http://apps.teradata.com/tdmo/v08n03/Features/EstablishingDataStewards.aspx
A Rose By Any Other Name – Titles In Data Governance, by Anne Marie Smith, Ph.D., EIMInstitute.ORG Archives, Volume 1, Issue 13, March 2008, http://www.eiminstitute.org/library/eimi-archives/volume-1-issue-13-march-2008-edition/a-rose-by-any-other-name-2013-titles-in-data-governance
Information technology governance
Data management
Knowledge representation
Library occupations
Metadata
Technical communication
de:Data Steward |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partner%20relationship%20management | Partner relationship management (PRM), used especially in IT and cybersecurity industries, is a system of methodologies, strategies, software, and web-based capabilities which help a vendor to manage channel partner relationships. The most common types of channel partners include resellers, distributors, independent software vendors, or affiliate partners like influencers. The most popular PRM platforms include Impartner, PartnerStack, and Allbound.
The general purpose of a PRM is to enable vendors to better manage their partners through the introduction of reliable systems, automated processes, optimization tools, and procedures for interacting with them. Web-based PRM systems typically include a Content Management System, a partner and customer contact database, and a partner portal which allows partners to log in and interact with a vendor's sales opportunity database and obtain product, pricing, and training information. This helps vendors to streamline processes, as well as to collect and assess data about various stages of the partner sales funnel. There are a number of solution providers who offer PRM software to companies who rely heavily on a PRM solution to stay relevant in their respective industries.
Vendors who implement a PRM solution are typically motivated by a need to reduce the financial overhead, automate regular processes, and establish new partnerships to drive channel revenue and scale. Partners may also be integrators or managed service providers. Unlike customer relationship management systems, which are tailored toward getting an end customer to purchase from you, a PRM system is focused on getting a partner to sell on your behalf. As a result, they commonly offer web-based self-service tools, information, and resources to partner resellers.
PRM Tools
Partner relationship management tools often include:
Market development funds (MDF) request programs
Training, certification, and accreditation automation
Deal registration programs, under which vendors register the partner who has brought them a potential deal with a qualified prospect as their intended or preferred channel for a subsequent sale
Indirect sales pipeline reporting
Joint business planning
Reward and loyalty programs
Content library
Partner marketing automation tools
Trends
Gartner reports that PRM solutions have mainly been adopted by companies in the hardware technology, software technology, telecommunication, and manufacturing industries.
The PRM application market has expanded significantly in the last 10 years, with vendors offering improved end-to-end and point solutions for the management of channel sales partners. It's also grown steadily due to the recent trend towards a strategic partner-first approach at companies like Dell and others.
A 2023 Forrester Wave report notes: "Marketing decision-makers identified increased focus on achieving B2B revenue and growth via the partner ecosystem among their most important priorities in the next |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Talk%20%28talk%20show%29 | The Talk is an American talk show that debuted on October 18, 2010, as part of CBS' daytime programming block. The show was developed by actress and host Sara Gilbert.
The show features Sheryl Underwood, Amanda Kloots, Jerry O'Connell, Akbar Gbaja-Biamila, and Natalie Morales (who serves as moderator). They discuss the latest headlines, current events, and human-interest stories while engaging in open conversation. The original concept theme focused on motherhood, and over time evolved into a broader platform.
The Talk is broadcast before a live studio audience at the CBS Studio Center in Studio City, California, each Monday through Friday at 11:00 a.m. Pacific Time Zone, and airs live on most CBS owned-and-operated station and network affiliates in the Eastern and Central United States at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time Zone. The show is on a broadcast delay elsewhere from the Mountain Time Zone westward. The Friday shows are recorded on Thursday afternoons at 1:00 pm PT for broadcast the next day. Friday shows are taped before the same studio audience in attendance for the earlier live Thursday broadcast.
Format
The Talk has a format similar in style to ABC's The View. The opening segment of the broadcast is known as "Everybody Talks" and usually runs a combined 12 to 25 minutes over multiple segments, depending on the number of stories featured and the number of guests. It is followed by topical discussion segments, involves the five host panel discussing current news items, typically focusing on tabloid headlines, offbeat stories, and celebrity news. The program also actively incorporates social media to allow viewers to provide their opinions on the stories discussed through Twitter (using the hashtag #EverybodyTalks, or alternately the abbreviated #EVBT). In season five, the program began allowing viewers to use Instagram to record and upload videos using the aforementioned hashtags, with one or two videos being selected to air on the live broadcasts.
On most editions, the "Top Talker" serves as the final segment of the topical discussion, featuring a rotating set of contributors – most of whom are correspondents/hosts of entertainment-related newsmagazine programs or magazines or hosts of local or syndicated radio programs – providing detailed analysis of a single trending, usually celebrity-related, story. Following the "Everybody Talks" segment, all five hosts interview one or two featured celebrity guests; most of these interviews are conducted at the set's roundtable. Musical performances are also occasionally included.
The show also regularly has a cooking segment two to four times each week, with two of the panelists – rotating between any combination of Osbourne, Underwood or Inaba – assisting in the preparation of the featured recipes with the guest chef. Product giveaways are also done once per week, as part of an advertorial segment showcasing fashion/beauty products and electronics that are given away to studio audience members |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaiken | Chaiken is a surname of Yiddish origin. Notable people with the surname include:
David Chaiken, computer programmer and developer of X2x
Ilene Chaiken (born 1957), creator, writer and executive producer of the television series The L Word
Ilya Chaiken (born 1973), American film director and screenwriter
Jen Chaiken, American film producer
Julie Chaiken, American fashion designer
Shelly Chaiken (born 1949), American psychologist
See also
Chaikin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded%20Future | Recorded Future is a privately held cybersecurity company founded in 2009, with headquarters in Somerville, Massachusetts.
The company specializes in the collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination of threat intelligence. Recorded Future uses machine learning and natural language processing methods to continuously collect and organize data from open web, dark web, and technical sources.
The resulting information is displayed within a software-as-a-service portal.
History
In 2007, co-founders Christopher Ahlberg and Staffan Truvé, both Ph.D.s in computer science from Chalmers University of Technology, filed for Recorded Future's first patent (granted in 2013 as United States patent US8468153B2) – Data Analysis System with Automated Query and Visualization Environment Setup. The patent was used for continuous collection and processing of data and information from sources across the open, deep, and dark web, facilitated by machine learning. Recorded Future was officially incorporated in 2009.
The company received initial funding from Google and In-Q-Tel, which was reported in a July 2010 introduction to Recorded Future published by Wired.
When it decided that its algorithms and visualization software matched needs within the intelligence community, Recorded Future entered the cyber threat intelligence market in January 2012.
In 2014, the company launched Recorded Future Dark Web, integrating open and dark web sourcing as well as dark web forum access and analysis.
In 2016, Recorded Future was named a partner for threat intelligence by Splunk, Palo Alto Networks, and Vencore GEOINT.
In May 2017, Recorded Future introduced Insikt Group, the company's threat intelligence research arm. The word "insikt" is Swedish, a nod to Recorded Future's co-founders, and means "insight." Insikt Group is responsible for delivering analyst-generated assessments, insights, and recommended actions to customers and the public.
In May 2019, New York-based private equity firm Insight Partners acquired Recorded Future for $780 million.
In November 2019, the company opened a second office in Somerville with the goal of building a "campus" in the Davis Square area. Recorded Future currently employs more than 430 people around the world.
In 2020, the company announced the establishment of The Record from Recorded Future News, a cybersecurity focused news outlet.
In April 2023, the company launched Recorded Future AI, built on a trained OpenAI GPT model which combines insight from Insikt Group with over 100 terabytes of text, images, and technical data, the Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud.
Products
Recorded Future's product is called the Recorded Future Intelligence Cloud.
Using what they call a "Temporal Analytics Engine," Recorded Future provides forecasting and analysis tools to help analysts predict future events by scanning sources on the internet, and extracting, measuring, and visualizing the information to show networks and patterns in the pa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grudin | Grudin is a surname, and may refer to:
Jonathan Grudin, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in human-computer interaction.
Robert Grudin, an American writer and philosopher. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACE%20Electoral%20Knowledge%20Network | The ACE Electoral Knowledge Network is a web portal with information on elections designed to meet the needs of people working in the electoral field.
Goals
The goal of the ACE network is to provide knowledge to people working in the field elections, with the intention of supporting credible and transparent electoral processes with emphasis on sustainability, professionalism and trust.
The ACE Website
Most activities of the ACE network are carried out through the ACE website. The website is divided into a number of sections:
Elections today contains information on current affairs in elections, such as news articles, upcoming events and an election calendar.
Encyclopaedia presents texts and articles on a number of electoral topics (for example Electoral Systems or Elections and Technology).
Comparative Data provides statistics (graphs, pie charts etc.) and data on election-related topics.
Electoral Materials is a virtual library with sample materials (ballot papers, electoral laws, publications etc.) from different countries.
Support and Advice holds information on areas of electoral support (election observation and assistance) and links to the ACE expert network.
Regions and Countries is a portal page for region- or country-specific information.
About ACE has more information about the ACE network and its structure.
The full website is fully available in English while much content is also available in Spanish, French, Arabic and Russian.
The ACE Experts
Part of ACE is the Practitioners' Network – an online community of experts in the field of elections. The members of the Practitioners' Network share a private online platform where they discuss electoral issues, exchange experiences and connect to fellow experts. Any user can submit a question to the Practitioners' Network; the question will be discussed among the experts and the expert replies forwarded to the user.
The Practitioners' Network is open to applications; membership of the network is free but members are required to have “several years of experience of working in a senior position for one or a number of organisations within the electoral field” and/or “proven expertise” in a specific area of elections.
History
The ACE network was created in 1998 as the ACE (Administration and Cost of Elections) Project by International IDEA, IFES and UNDESA. At this time, the project focused solely on election administration with the aim to create an encyclopaedia with texts on how to administer electoral processes. However, the project developed further into a more interactive network with a focus wider than just electoral administration. In 2006, to reflect the new identity of the project, the name was changed to the ACE Electoral Knowledge Network (with the letters ACE no longer standing for Administration and Cost of Elections).
Organisation
ACE is a collaboration between nine Partner Organisations: The Carter Center, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assista |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D.%20Vernon | D. Vernon may refer to:
Dai Vernon (1894–1992), Canadian magician
David Vernon (professor) (born 1958), artificial intelligence researcher
David Vernon (writer) (born 1965), Australian writer
Di Vernon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Melby | John Melby (born 1941) is an American composer.
Life and work
John Melby is most widely known for his numerous compositions for computer-synthesized sounds, particularly in combination with live acoustic instruments. In addition to electronic music, Melby's catalog includes many acoustic chamber, vocal, and orchestral works. Since 2010, he has focused almost exclusively on writing acoustic music for chamber ensembles and symphony orchestra.
Born in Whitehall, Wisconsin, Melby holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University. He studied with Henry Weinberg, George Crumb, Peter Westergaard, J. K. Randall, and Milton Babbitt. Melby has held faculty positions at West Chester University and was appointed to the faculty of the School of Music of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1973, where he served until his retirement in 1997.
Melby has won numerous awards for his work including an NEA Fellowship (1977), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1983), an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1984), and the 1979 First Prize from the International Electroacoustic Music Awards in Bourges, France.
His music is published by Theodore Presser Company (Merion Music), Associated Music Publishers, and American Composers Alliance. Recordings are available on a number of record labels. An all-Melby disc of three concerti was released on the Albany Records label in 2008.
Major works
Orchestral
Concerto for Computer and Orchestra (1987)
Symphony No. 1 (1993)
Thanatopsis (1999) for lyric baritone, chorus, and orchestra
Symphony No. 2 (2004)
Piano Concerto No. 3 (2010)
Violin Concerto No. 3 (2011)
Violoncello Concerto No. 3 (2012)
Viola Concerto No. 3 (2013)
Symphony No. 3 (2019)
Symphony No. 4 (2020)
Symphony No. 5 (2020)
Symphony No. 6 (2021)
Symphony No. 7 (2021)
Symphony No. 8 (2021)
Symphony No. 9 (2022)
Symphony No. 10 (2023)
Electro-Acoustic Concerti
Violin (No. 1: 1979 and No. 2: 1986)
Violoncello (No. 1: 1981 and No. 2: 1989)
Viola (No. 1: 1982 and No. 2: 2009)
Flute (No. 1: 1984 and No. 2: 1990)
Violin and English Horn (1984)
Piano (No. 1: 1985 and No. 2: 2006)
Clarinet (No. 1: 1986 and No. 2: 2006)
English Horn (1986)
Contrabass (1989)
Violin and Piano (2008)
Electro-Acoustic and Acoustic Vocal
Two Norwegian Songs (1965–66) for soprano (or tenor) and piano (texts by Henrik Ibsen)
Due canti de Leopardi (1966/74) for soprano, horn and piano (texts by Giacomo Leopardi)
Two Dances (1970) for tenor and piano (text by L. E. Kramer)
Valedictory (1973) for soprano and computer (text by L. E. Kramer)
Two Stevens Songs (1975) for soprano and computer (texts by Wallace Stevens)
The men that are falling (1978) for soprano, piano, and computer (text by Wallace Stevens)
Peter Quince at the Clavier (1988) for soprano and computer (text by Wallace Stevens)
Three Wordsworth Songs (2005) for soprano and computer (texts by William Wordsworth)
In Darkness (2007) for soprano and computer (tex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Hamilton%20%28software%20engineer%29 | Margaret Elaine Hamilton (; born August 17, 1936) is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo program. She later founded two software companies—Higher Order Software in 1976 and Hamilton Technologies in 1986, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hamilton has published more than 130 papers, proceedings, and reports, about sixty projects, and six major programs. She invented the term "software engineering", stating "I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process."
On November 22, 2016, Hamilton received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from president Barack Obama for her work leading to the development of on-board flight software for NASA's Apollo Moon missions.
Early life and education
Margaret Elaine Heafield was born August 17, 1936, in Paoli, Indiana, to Kenneth Heafield and Ruth Esther Heafield (). The family later moved to Michigan, where Margaret graduated from Hancock High School in 1954. She studied mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1955 before transferring to Earlham College, where her mother had been a student; she earned a BA in mathematics with a minor in philosophy in 1958. She cites Florence Long, the head of the math department at Earlham, as helping with her desire to pursue abstract mathematics and become a mathematics professor. She says her poet father and headmaster grandfather inspired her to include a minor in philosophy in her studies.
Career
In Boston, Hamilton initially intended to enroll in graduate study in abstract mathematics at Brandeis University. However, in mid-1959, Hamilton began working for Edward Norton Lorenz, in the meteorology department at MIT. She developed software for predicting weather, programming on the LGP-30 and the PDP-1 computers at Marvin Minsky's Project MAC. Her work contributed to Lorenz's publications on chaos theory. At the time, computer science and software engineering were not yet established disciplines; instead, programmers learned on the job with hands-on experience. She moved on to another project in the summer of 1961, and hired and trained Ellen Fetter as her replacement.
SAGE Project
From 1961 to 1963, Hamilton worked on the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) Project at the MIT Lincoln Lab, where she was one of the programmers who wrote software for the prototype AN/FSQ-7 computer (the XD-1), used by the U.S. Air Force to search for possibly unfriendly aircraft. She also wrote software for a satellite tracking project at the Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories. The SAGE Project was an extension of Project Whirlwind, started by MIT to create a computer system that could predict weather systems and track their movements using simu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiha%20Life | Xiha Life was a multilingual social networking website. It integrates Google's automatic translation software, Google Translate, which enables users to instantly translate comments and posts within the site itself. The user interface has been translated into 42 languages, and the system supports communication in 56 languages. Xiha Life has 750,000 members worldwide, with no single country comprising more than 5% of its membership.
History
Xiha Life was founded on September 28, 2007, by Jani Penttinen, who serves as its CEO. The name, "Xiha", is Mandarin for "happy" or "joyful". In 2009, Xiha was named one of the Red Herring 100 Europe, an award given to promising European tech companies.
Board of Members
Its board includes Jaiku co-founder and former Google Project Manager Jyri Engeström, Jan Achenius and Ville Miettinen. Xiha Life is operated out of Sunnyvale, California, Switzerland, and Finland.
References
External links
Xiha Life official site
American social networking websites
Companies based in Sunnyvale, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristopher%20Battles | Kristopher J. Battles is an American artist, known as the last remaining USMC combat artist in 2010.
Military career
Battles joined the Corps in 1986. He served as a computer operator, combat correspondent and chaplain's assistant. He had to reenlist for active duty as a combat artist.
War artist
The United States Marine Corps supported more than 70 war artists in World War II; and the number of combat artists has declined since the end of the Vietnam War. In July 2010, the Corps supports only one last combat artist. Unless something happens, Sergeant Battles will become notable as the last of his kind.
Since World War I, a long line of American servicemen-artists have produced artwork based on their experiences in combat. The USMC artists have documented the life of Marines in the field. Like his predecessors, Sgt. Battles' artwork develops during a process of "balancing a tactical eye as a Marine" with the "artist's visual eye" and also noticing the way the light is bouncing off the body armor. Battles' deployment to Iraq gave him a sharper eye for what can be portrayed in a combat zone.
"Go to war, do art" is the motto of a Marine combat artist. The mission is to capture images of war on canvases and sketchpads.
Honors
2010: United States Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association, Merit Award, First Place Combat Art.
See also
War artist
American official war artists
Michael D. Fay
Notes
References
Sanborn, James K. "Heroics illustrated, comic-book style," Marine Corps Times. March 24, 2010.
External links
Sketchpad Warrior blog
American war artists
United States Marines
Living people
Truman State University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus%C3%A3o%20do%20Brasil | Busão do Brasil was a Brazilian reality television show, which premiered July 30, 2010 with the season finale airing October 19, 2010 on the Band television network.
The show was presented by former MTV Brasil VJ Edgard Piccoli, with the direction of Michael Ukstin. There were twelve contestants competing for the grand prize, which was R$1,000,000 without tax allowances.
Twenty-nine-year-old police officer Mario Remo won the competition over student Thalita Wagner and fashion designer Camilla Fit at the live finale.
Production
Cast
Casting and production started in March 2010. Applications were due by May 3, 2010, until June 3, 2010. Ultimately, twelve contestants were chosen by the producers to participate the show between July and October 2010.
The bus
During three months, the bus traveled for 11 different Brazilian states, covering about 4,000 miles and stopping in 14 cities.
Format
Busão do Brasil is a reality television show created by Endemol, in which a group of people live together in a large and luxury bus, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras.
The series lasted for around three months, where the contestants tried to win a cash prize by avoiding periodic evictions from the bus.
Voting format
Each week the public makes the nominations. On Friday night, the lines are temporarily frozen and the three highest rated contestants are revealed to the public, while only clues to the nominated candidates are given to contestants. Then, the lines are re-opened until Tuesday night, where the three contestants who received the most votes throughout the week face the elimination.
Contestants
On Day 1, twenty-four hopefuls arrived at the entrance of the bus. Only eleven contestants were selected to enter out of all candidates. The twelfth contestant was selected by a special vote, in which the eleven contestants vote for one of the thirteen that were not originally chosen. A new contestant, Teca, entered the bus on Day 47.
(ages stated at time of contest)
Summaries
The Bus tour
Voting history
Notes
References
External links
Official site
Rede Bandeirantes original programming
Brazilian reality television series
2010 Brazilian television series debuts
2010 Brazilian television series endings
2010s Brazilian television series
Portuguese-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniwave | Aniwave was an annual one day anime convention held during December at the Wilmington Convention Center in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Programming
The convention typically offered a costume contest, demonstrations, panels, vendors, and workshops.
History
Aniwave was founded in 2007 by artist Michal Wisniowski as a free film festival held at the Cameron Art Museum and Jengo's Playhouse. The convention moved to a larger venue in 2010, the Wilmington Convention Center, and had new leadership due to Michal Wisniowski moving away.
Event history
Film Festivals
References
External links
Aniwave official website
Defunct anime conventions
Recurring events established in 2007
2007 establishments in North Carolina
Annual events in North Carolina
Festivals in North Carolina
Tourist attractions in New Hanover County, North Carolina
Wilmington, North Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20largest%20protected%20areas | The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is compiled and managed by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, an executive agency of the United Nations Environment Programme. It uses the IUCN and CBD definitions of protected areas to determine whether a site should be included in the WDPA. The extent to which each area and the resources within are protected can vary significantly.
The largest protected areas – those exceeding an area of 250,000 square kilometres – are listed below in order of total area protected. All are marine protected areas except for Northeast Greenland National Park – which is mostly terrestrial but also has a marine component – and three entirely terrestrial biosphere reserves in Brazil. Protected areas with multiple coterminous or overlapping designations (e.g. Northeast Greenland National Park and the corresponding Biosphere Reserve) are listed only once.
Currently, Marae Moana is the largest protected area in the world with a total area larger than Mexico (1,964,375 km2).
Largest protected areas of the world
References
Largest
Protected areas
Protected areas
Protected areas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voivodeship%20road%20797 | Voivodeship road 797 (, abbreviated DW 797) is a route in the Polish voivodeship roads network. It runs through the Masovian Voivodeship (Otwock County), leading from Celestynów to Regut where it meets national road 50, a Warsaw transit bypass.
Cities and towns along the route
Celestynów
Regut
Route plan
797 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar%20%28software%29 | Madagascar is a software package for multidimensional data analysis and reproducible computational experiments. Its mission is to provide
a convenient and powerful environment
a convenient technology transfer tool
for researchers working with digital image and data processing in geophysics and related fields. Technology developed using the Madagascar project management system is transferred in the form of recorded processing histories, which become "computational recipes" to be verified, exchanged, and modified by users of the system.
Features
The Madagascar environment consists of:
Standalone programs for out-of-core data analysis;
Standalone programs for geophysical data processing and imaging;
A development kit for C, C++, Java, Fortran-77, Fortran-90, Python, Matlab, and Octave;
A framework for reproducible numerical experiments, based on SCons;
A framework for scientific publications, based on SCons and LaTeX;
A collection of reproducible scientific articles also used as usage examples and regression tests for the standalone programs;
A collection of datasets used as input to reproducible numerical experiments.
Example script
An example file is shown below
from rsf.proj import *
Fetch('wz.35.H','wz')
Flow('wind','wz.35.H','dd form=native | window n1=400 j1=2 | smooth rect1=3')
Plot('wind','pow pow1=2 | grey')
Flow('mute','wind','mutter v0=0.31 half=n')
Plot('mute','pow pow1=2 | grey')
Result('denmark','wind mute','SideBySideAniso')
End()
Note that by itself does not do any job other than setting rules for building different targets. The targets get built when one executes on the command line. Running produces
bash$ scons
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
scons: done reading SConscript files.
scons: Building targets ...
retrieve(["wz.35.H"], [])
< wz.35.H /RSF/bin/sfdd form=native | /RSF/bin/sfwindow n1=400 j1=2 | /RSF/bin/sfsmooth rect1=3 > wind.rsf
< wind.rsf /RSF/bin/sfpow pow1=2 | /RSF/bin/sfgrey > wind.vpl
< wind.rsf /RSF/bin/sfmutter v0=0.31 half=n > mute.rsf
< mute.rsf /RSF/bin/sfpow pow1=2 | /RSF/bin/sfgrey > mute.vpl
/RSF/bin/vppen yscale=2 vpstyle=n gridnum=2,1 wind.vpl mute.vpl > Fig/denmark.vpl
scons: done building targets.
License
Madagascar is free software and is licensed under the GPL.
History
Madagascar was first publicly presented at the EAGE Workshop in Vienna in June 2006. The work on the package (previously named RSF) was started by Sergey Fomel in 2003. Since then, many people have contributed to it.
While being written mostly from scratch, Madagascar borrows ideas from the design of SEPlib, an open-source package maintained by Bob Clapp at the Stanford Exploration Project (SEP). Generations of SEP students and researchers contributed to SEPlib. Most important contributions came from Rob Clayton, Jon Claerbout, Dave Hale, Stew Levin, Rick Ottolini, Joe Dellinger, Steve Cole, Dave Nichols, Martin Karrenbach, Biondo Biondi, and Bob Clapp.
Madagascar also borrows ideas from Seismic Unix (SU), |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20Underwriters%20Survey | Fire Underwriters Survey (FUS) a subsidiary of Opta Information Intelligence Corp., is a provider of data, underwriting, risk management and legal/regulatory services focusing on community fire-protection and fire prevention systems in Canada. Fire Underwriters Survey publishes the Canadian Fire Insurance Grading Index, which is utilized by the property-casualty insurers in that country. Opta Information Intelligence Corp. was acquired by Verisk Analytics Inc. in 2022.
History
The organization was formed in 1883 as the Canadian Fire Underwriters' Association (CFUA), then became the Canadian Underwriters Association (CUA), the Insurers Advisory Organization and Fire Underwriters Survey.
The intent of the system of fire insurance grading is primarily to provide insurers with accurate information to base underwriting decisions on, however a significant benefit of the system is that it results in incentives for development of recognized forms of public fire protection by communities throughout Canada. Many Canadian communities organize and develop their public fire protection systems and organizations to strategically optimize the cost benefit to constituents.
References
External links
http://www.fireunderwriters.ca
Financial services companies of Canada
Risk management companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation%20in%20the%20United%20States | The United States has an extensive air transportation network. In 2013, there were 86 airports in the U.S. that annually handled over 1,000,000 passengers each. The civil airline industry is entirely privately owned and has been largely deregulated since 1978, while most major airports are publicly owned. The three largest airlines in the world by passengers carried are U.S.-based; American Airlines is number one after its 2013 acquisition by US Airways. Of the world's 50 busiest passenger airports, 16 are in the United States, including the top five and the busiest, Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport. In terms of cargo, in 2015, eight of the world's thirty busiest airports were in the U.S., including the world's second-busiest, Memphis International Airport, just behind Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong. Private aircraft are also used for medical emergencies, government agencies, large businesses, and individuals.
, there are 19,919 airports in the United States, of which 5,217 are designated as "public use", including for general aviation and other activities. In 2012, 88% of all traffic was through the 62 busiest airports in the country.
Due to the geography of the United States and the generally large distances between major cities, air transportation is the preferred method of travel for trips over , such as for business travelers and long distance vacation travelers. For cities closer together in the Northeastern part of the country (e.g. Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington D.C.), the Northeast Corridor rail line carries the majority of intercity traffic.
From the start of the Great Recession to the early 2010s, air traffic in the U.S. declined and the U.S. government reported 1.2 million fewer scheduled domestic flights in 2013 than in 2007. Air traffic volume also dropped sharply during the Covid-19 pandemic. At the same time, the airline industry has also experienced rapid consolidation with all of nation's largest carriers experiencing mergers. The average domestic airline fare steadily increased from 2009 until the first quarter of 2017 where it retreated to the same average of 2009, the lowest the average fare has been since 1995.
History
On January 1, 1914, pioneering aviator Tony Jannus captained the inaugural flight of the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line, the world's first commercial passenger airline.
World War I
When the U.S. entered the World War I in April 1917, it had already been lagging behind its European counterparts in aircraft production. This was largely due to the fact that the U.S. entered the war much later, when most of the European countries were already pressured to advance their aircraft technologies to outcompete one another. The Europeans had already developed standardized mass production of aircraft, while the U.S. was forced to expand to meet their wartime necessities. Even so, most of the aircraft used by the U.S. in wartime were from Britain or Fran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musixmatch | Musixmatch is an Italian music data company and platform for users to search and share song lyrics with translations. It is the largest platform of its kind in the world, having 80 million users (50M active users), 8M lyrics and 130+ employees.
In 2022, Musixmatch launched Musixmatch Podcasts, a platform for transcription driven by artificial intelligence and community.
Overview
Musixmatch's mobile app displays lyrics synchronized with the music being played. Its native apps can scan all the songs in a user's music library, find lyrics, and be used as a music player. On Android, it also supports music streaming services like Spotify, Google Play Music, Rhapsody, and YouTube. The company also has global agreements with Apple Music, Amazon Music, Instagram, Facebook, Google Search and Spotify.
Features
Musixmatch has a free, public database where lyrics are displayed. To contribute to the database, users can sign up and contribute lyrics, synchronizations, translations, and structuring to get points and move up levels. Musixmatch's points have no redeemable value, but are instead a marker of a particular user's contributions.
Users that excel at contributing content to Musixmatch's database can take a test to become a Lyrics Curator, similar to the role of a Content Moderator. Lyrics Curators are eligible to assist Musixmatch with certain tasks in exchange for a monetary reward. Users who abuse Musixmatch for personal gain, including Lyrics Curators, are banned from contributing further. Musixmatch maintains quality guidelines as a standard to avoid such situations. Curators that repeatedly provide perfect/high-quality contributions have the chance to be hand-picked by Musixmatch to become a part of their internal team of Specialists, similar to an administrator, who approve and edit Curator contributions, and receive higher rewards.
Musicians also have access to Musixmatch Pro to verify, distribute to streaming platforms such as Spotify, and enhance their lyrics with synchronization, tags, and translations.
In October 2022, Musixmatch launched Podcasts, a platform that generates transcription every day for podcast episodes across different topics and charts, using its NLP base model architecture, Umberto, to tag keywords such as places, people and topics that are linked to topics on Wikipedia.
History
Musixmatch was originally conceived in early 2007 by Massimo Ciociola, who later founded the company in 2010 in Bologna with Francesco Delfino, Giuseppe Costantino and Gianluca Delli Carri.
Musixmatch went live in July 2010, and by January 2015 had raised US$14.1 million in angel and venture capital funding. Musixmatch has signed agreements with publishers such as EMI Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Universal Music Publishing, Sony ATV, Kobalt, Peer Music and Disney Music.
The company provided Spotify's lyrics user interface on Spotify Desktop until this service was discontinued in May 2016, and again after November 2019 in certain region |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest%20History%20Center | The Forest History Center is part of the Minnesota Historical Society's network of historic sites and museums. Located in Grand Rapids, Itasca County, Minnesota, on wooded acreage adjoining the Mississippi River, the Forest History Center provides learning experiences about the forests, logging industry, and forest conservation. The historical and changing relationship between the people and the forest is displayed through exhibits and films, demonstrations, a living history lumber camp, an original 1934 fire tower, and nature trails. The Forest History Center has regular special events, and offers various programs for school field trips.
Features
Visitor Center
The Visitor Center is the entrances to the site. The building includes multimedia forestry exhibits of the earliest recorded history to modern times, has sensory displays for children, a small theater showing "Fire in the Forest" (a film about the 1918 Cloquet and Moose Lake fire), and a museum store.
Logging Camp
The Logging Camp is a re-creation of a typical logging camp of 1900. Buildings include a bunkhouse, cook house, blacksmith shop, horse barn, and outhouse. Costumed interpreters reenact logging camp processes as well as interact with visitors and tell stories. Visitors may choose to follow a tour, or use a self-guided brochure.
River Wanigan
The river wanigan is a 1901 replica of a floating cook shack and bunkhouse once used by river drivers when moving logs down river to the mills. Visitors may walk a short distance from the camp to the river where it is moored.
Fire Tower and Forest Service Cabin
Forest Lookout Tower is an original structure built in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, and moved on location. It is 100 feet high, and visitors over the age of six are allowed to climb it. The forest service cabin and tool shed are reproductions of what were used to house patrolmen and by fire fighting crews during the 1930s.
Trails
Surrounding the Forest History Center are three hiking trails, totaling five miles, that provide opportunities for wildlife watching. The Swamp Trail is an elevated gravel trail and boardwalk through a cedar and black spruce swamp and a tamarack bog. The River Trail has informational signposts for tree identification. The Forest of Today Trail leads through aspen stands, hardwoods, old-growth and red pine, and a plantation of genetically improved tree stands. During the winter, Northern Lights Nordic Ski Club maintains a 4 km cross-county ski trail through the logging camp and virgin timber.
References
External links
Minnesota Historical Society: Forest History Center
Lakeland PBS Common Ground 416 - Grand Rapids Forest History Center
History centers
Minnesota state historic sites
Forestry museums in the United States
Museums in Itasca County, Minnesota
Open-air museums in Minnesota
Forest history
Minnesota Historical Society
Environmental history of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF%20Danby%20Beacon | Royal Air Force Danby Beacon or more simply RAF Danby Beacon was an early warning radar Royal Air Force station that formed part of the Chain Home network of radar (or Radio Direction Finding (RDF)) stations built by the Royal Air Force immediately prior to the Second World War.
Construction
The receiving masts were high timber structures and the transmitting masts were steel masts. The construction of these masts was the work of the RAF controlled, but civilian staffed, No. 2 Installation Unit of No. 1 Maintenance Unit RAF (1 MU).
Second World War
During the first part of the war the station was under the control of 13 Group of RAF Fighter Command. On 3 February 1940 it was a plot from Danby that led Hawker Hurricane aircraft from Blue section, 43 Squadron stationed at RAF Acklington to shoot down a Heinkel He 111 bomber over Whitby. This was the first German aircraft shot down over England during the war, the British aircraft being under the command of (then) Flight Lieutenant Peter Townsend. The intercept is described in detail in Townsend's highly-successful book about the Battle of Britain, "Duel of Eagles."
Soon after control of the station passed to the newly formed 60 Group but its information was passed to 13 Group headquarters in Kenton, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Cold War
In 1946 the station moved to the control of 90 Group and continued to function in the early warning role until 1954 when the station ceased operating. The masts and buildings were demolished in 1957.
Memorial
None of the structures remain but the site of the station is now marked by a memorial stone.
References
Royal Air Force stations in Yorkshire
Military history of North Yorkshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20indexing | Automatic indexing is the computerized process of scanning large volumes of documents against a controlled vocabulary, taxonomy, thesaurus or ontology and using those controlled terms to quickly and effectively index large electronic document depositories. These keywords or language are applied by training a system on the rules that determine what words to match. There are additional parts to this such as syntax, usage, proximity, and other algorithms based on the system and what is required for indexing. This is taken into account using Boolean statements to gather and capture the indexing information out of the text. As the number of documents exponentially increases with the proliferation of the Internet, automatic indexing will become essential to maintaining the ability to find relevant information in a sea of irrelevant information. Natural language systems are used to train a system based on seven different methods to help with this sea of irrelevant information. These methods are Morphological, Lexical, Syntactic, Numerical, Phraseological, Semantic, and Pragmatic. Each of these look and different parts of speed and terms to build a domain for the specific information that is being covered for indexing. This is used in the automated process of indexing.
The automated process can encounter problems and these are primarily caused by two factors: 1) the complexity of the language; and, 2) the lack intuitiveness and the difficulty in extrapolating concepts out of statements on the part of the computing technology. These are primarily linguistic challenges and specific problems and involve semantic and syntactic aspects of language. These problems occur based on defined keywords. With these keywords you are able to determine the accuracy of the system based on Hits, Misses, and Noise. These terms relate to exact matches, keywords that a computerized system missed that a human wouldn't, and keywords that the computer selected that a human would not have. The Accuracy statistic based on this should be above 85% for Hits out of 100% for human indexing. This puts Misses and Noise combined to be 15% or less. This scale provides a basis for what is considered a good Automatic Indexing System and shows where problems are being encountered.
History
There are scholars who cite that the subject of automatic indexing attracted attention as early as the 1950s, particularly with the demand for faster and more comprehensive access to scientific and engineering literature. This attention in indexing began with text processing between 1957 and 1959 by H.P. Lunh through a series of papers that were published. Lunh proposed that a computer could handle keyword matching, sorting, and content analysis. This was the beginning of Automatic Indexing and the formula to pull keywords from text based on frequency analysis. It was later determined that frequency alone was not sufficient for good descriptors however this began the path to where we are now with Automat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20Solent | Heart Solent was a local radio station owned and operated by Global Radio as part of the Heart network. It broadcast to southern and western parts of Hampshire, West Sussex, Dorset and Isle of Wight.
The station launched on 30 July 2010 as a result of a merger between Heart Hampshire (formerly Ocean Sound) and Heart Dorset & New Forest (formerly 2CR).
History
The regional station originally broadcast as two separate stations – Two Counties Radio (2CR) began broadcasting to East Dorset and West Hampshire in September 1980. Ocean Sound served South Hampshire, West Sussex and Isle of Wight from October 1986 onwards.
At first, Ocean broadcast two distinct services for the east and west of its service area with a further service for the Winchester area launching in December 1987. The West service was relaunched as Power FM (later Capital South Coast) a year later while the north and east services (The Light FM and Ocean Sound) merged in 1992.
Both 2CR and Ocean underwent various ownership changes until its current owners Global Radio rebranded the stations as Heart on 22 June 2009.
On 21 June 2010, Global Radio announced it would merge both stations as part of plans to reduce the Heart network of stations from 33 to 16. The new station began broadcasting from Segensworth, near Whiteley on Friday 30 July 2010, leading to the closure of studios in Bournemouth.
Station merger
On 26 February 2019, Global announced Heart Solent would be merged with three sister stations in Kent, Sussex & Surrey and the Thames Valley.
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 South began broadcasting regional programming from the Fareham studios on 3 June 2019.
Former presenters
Lucy Horobin (Now at Heart Dance)
Jason King (Now at Heart London)
Michael Underwood (now at Virgin Radio Groove)
Availability and transmitters
Analogue (FM)
Digital (DAB)
References
External links
Heart Radio
Solent
Radio stations in Hampshire
Radio stations in Dorset
Radio stations in the Isle of Wight
Radio stations established in 2010
Defunct radio stations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit | Judit is a feminine given name of Hungarian and Catalan origin related to Judith. Notable people with the name include:
Judit Bar-Ilan (1958–2019), Israeli computer scientist
Judit Elek (born 1937), Hungarian film director and screenwriter
Judit Földing-Nagy (born 1965), Hungarian runner who specializes in the marathon
Judit Gófitz (1701–1723), Hungarian conjoined twins
Judit Kovács (born 1969), Hungarian retired high jumper
Judit Mascó (born 1969), Spanish model, television host and writer
Judit Polgár (born 1976), Hungarian chess Grandmaster
Judit Temes (born 1930), Hungarian swimmer and Olympic champion
Judit Varga (born 1976), Hungarian middle-distance runner
Judit Varga (born 1979), Hungarian composer
Hungarian feminine given names
Feminine given names
de:Judit
nl:Judit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evans%20Tuning | Evans Tuning, LLC is an automotive engine tuning, and aftermarket modification shop that specializes in the reprogramming of engine control units (ECUs), to provide a smooth driving experience and safe engine conditions after modifications to a stock automotive configuration have been performed.
Overview
The company was founded in 2004 by Jeffrey Evans and is located in Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania. The company was initially started in Easton, PA and in late 2009 moved to its current location in Mount Bethel. Additionally, the company started by only performing service to modified Honda and Acura models. Mid 2004, the company purchased its first 2WD Dynapack Dynomometer (dyno) and began their in-house dyno tuning operations. In early 2009 an additional 2WD Dynapack Dyno was purchased expanding their operation into an AWD dyno shop.
Tuning Services
Dyno Tuning
Evans Tuning's dyno tuning service requires the car to be present for tuning. After a car has been put on the dyno it can be tuned (usually in real-time) and air/fuel ratios, timing, cam angles, and other adjustments can be made to optimize the engine. All of these tuning services are included with the standard tuning rate (which varies depending on the car and tuning system used).
The use of a Dynapack Dyno requires the wheels to be removed prior to tuning. Adapters are then bolted onto the wheel hubs using lug nuts to properly center them. The dyno is then connected to the adapters and locked into place.
eTuning
Evans Tuning began eTuning in February 2010. The eTuning service was discontinued in late 2014.
Drag Racing
2011
Evans Tuning began drag racing again in 2011 after taking 4 racing seasons off with a 95 Acura Integra built for the True Street Class. The car was built for 2 years by Jeffrey Evans before it was ready for competition. It made its debut in the 4th Annual $10,000 Outlaw FWD Shootout with Brian Ballard driving during Fall Nationals at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ.
Record and Crash
Jeffrey Evans was able to set a record in the class running an 8.980 @ 167.34MPH during the first round of qualifying and on the 3rd full power pass in the car. He was the first in the class to run an 8-second quarter mile at a True Street event in full legal race trim.
Control of the car was lost after it made it to the end of the track. The car swerved across lanes and crashed into the wall. Although Evans Tuning has said on their official Facebook page that they will compete it 2012, it is unknown whether this car will be repaired for next season.
2012
Evans Tuning is building a new race car based on the Honda EK hatchback chassis for the 2012 season. The car debuted at World Cup Finals at Maryland International Raceway piloted by Andrea Evans but had issues preventing it from running.
2013
The Evans Tuning True Street Civic made its first appearance of the 2013 season at Maryland International Raceway piloted by Andrea Evans.
References
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry%20PlayBook | The BlackBerry PlayBook was a mini tablet computer developed by BlackBerry and made by Quanta Computer, an original design manufacturer (ODM). It was first released for sale on April 19, 2011, in Canada and the United States.
The PlayBook was the first device to run BlackBerry Tablet OS, based on QNX Neutrino, and run apps developed using Adobe AIR. It was later announced that the BlackBerry Tablet OS would be merged with the existing BlackBerry OS to produce a new operating system, BlackBerry 10, that would be used universally across BlackBerry's product line. A second major revision to the BlackBerry PlayBook OS was released in February 2012. The PlayBook also supported Android OS applications, allowing them to be sold and installed through the BlackBerry App World store.
Early reviews were mixed, saying that although the hardware was good, several features were missing. Shipments totaled about 500,000 units in the first quarter of sales, and 200,000 the following quarter. Many of the 700,000 units shipped to retailers allegedly remained on the shelves for months, prompting BlackBerry to introduce dramatic price reductions in November 2011 to increase sales. Sales rebounded following the price cuts, with BlackBerry shipping about 2.5 million BlackBerry PlayBooks by June 1, 2013. At the end of that month, the CEO announced the platform would not be further developed.
History
Rumors about the forthcoming computer, nicknamed the 'BlackPad' in the press because of its expected similarity to Apple's competing iPad, had circulated for several months before the announcement. Research In Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis and Adobe Systems CTO Kevin Lynch staged the first public demonstration of the PlayBook on October 25, 2010,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cantechletter.com/2010/11/blackberry-playbook-vs-ipad-head-to-head-comparison/|title=BlackBerry Playbook vs. iPad: Head to Head comparison|work=Cantech Letter|date=16 November 2010}}</ref> onstage at the opening-day keynote of the Adobe MAX 2010 conference.
Among the features demonstrated was its tight integration with and support for Adobe AIR applications and full Flash support. According to Lazaridis, "We're not trying to dumb down the internet for a mobile device. What we've done is bring up mobile devices to the level of desktop computers." Lazaridis then announced at the end of his presentation that developers who get Adobe AIR applications approved on BlackBerry App World would be eligible for free BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. Since then, the free PlayBook offer has been extended to include WebWorks applications.
Features
The BlackBerry PlayBook supports up to 1080p video playback. It has a 3 MP front-facing camera for video chatting over Wi-Fi and a rear-facing 5 MP camera, both of which can record 1080p video. Its 7-inch, 1024×600 WSVGA display has an aspect ratio of 16:9, making it adequate for viewing HD video content or other media, and it has 3D graphics acceleration. It has a varie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn%20College%20Center%20for%20Computer%20Music | The Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (BC-CCM) located at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York (CUNY) was one of the first computer music centers at a public university in the United States. The BC-CCM is a community of artists and researchers that began in the 1970s.
The mission of the BC-CCM is to explore the creative possibilities of technology in relation to the creation of music, sound art, sound design, and multimedia arts. Courses cover techniques of music composition with digital tools and instruments, theories and implementation of sound processing and sound synthesis, design and creation of new digital music and multimedia performance instruments, audio production, history and aesthetics of experimental music and sound art, and creative collaboration. The BC-CCM also sponsors residencies of visiting composers and media creators.
History
The Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music began when composer Robert Starer, then a member of the faculty of the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, proposed the idea of creating an electronic music studio at Brooklyn College in the mid-1970s. The idea took root, and Jacob Druckman and Noah Creshevsky were the studio’s first Co-Directors. In those early days the equipment consisted largely of Moog analog synthesizers. Charles Dodge took over as Director in 1978, and he was responsible for having the studios designated as a center within Brooklyn College, the Center for Computer Music (CCM).
Charles Dodge was a pivotal figure in the history of the center. Dodge, originally from Iowa, had done a bachelor's degree at the University of Iowa and then earned his MA and doctorate (DMA) in Music Composition at Columbia University. While at Columbia, Dodge was very active at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. In particular, Dodge was an innovator in the emerging field of computer music composition (as opposed to analog electronic composition, the norm in the field through the 1970s). Dodge created some of the first meritorious works in the field of computer music, including Earth’s Magnetic Field (1970), which mapped magnetic field data to musical sounds, Speech Songs, a 1974 work that used analysis and resynthesis of human voices, and Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental (1980), which combines live piano performance with a digitally-manipulated recording of Enrico Caruso singing the aria "Vesti la giubba".
During Dodge’s years as Professor of Composition and Director of the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (BC-CCM), Dodge had the CCM designated as a center within Brooklyn College in 1978, and brought it to a world-class standing in the field of computer music. Dodge secured an initial donation of equipment from Bell Laboratories, and then proceeded to acquire large grants to fund BC-CCM work. The facilities received funding through grants from the United States Office of Education, the National Endowment for the Arts, the City University of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell%20File%20Reporter | Novell File Reporter (a.k.a. NFR) is software that allows network administrators to identify files stored on the network and generates reports regarding the size of individual files, file type, when files were last accessed, and where duplicates exist. Additionally, the File Reporter tracks storage volume capacity and usage. It is a component of the Novell File Management Suite.
How It Works
Novell File Reporter examines and reports on terabytes of data via a central reporting engine (NFR Engine) and distributed agents (NFR Agents). The NFR Engine schedules the scans of file instances conducted by NFR Agents, processes and compiles the scans for reporting purposes, and provides report information to the user interface.
In addition to the standard reports it can generate, the NFR Engine can also produce "trigger reports" in response to specific events (a server volume crossing a capacity threshold, for example). Accordingly, the NFR Engine monitors the data gathered by the NFR Agents in order to identify these "triggers."
The NFR Engine when working in either eDirectory or Active Directory connects to the directory via a Directory Services Interface (DSI) and thus can monitor and check file permissions.
References
External links
Novell File Reporter: Product page Overview, features, and technical information
Novell File Reporter: Documentation
Novell File Reporter: Support
Novell
Novell software
Storage software
Data management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novell%20File%20Management%20Suite | Novell File Management Suite is a suite of applications designed for the identity -based indexing and management of user files on enterprise networks. The three components of the File Management Suite are Novell Storage Manager, Novell File Reporter, and Novell Dynamic File Services. The Suite was introduced in January 2010.
References
External links
"Novell Storage Manager Strikes Data Management Gold"
Novell File Management Suite Reviewer's Guide
Novell File Management Suite White Paper
Cloud Management Suite
Novell
Novell software
Storage software
Data management software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churning%20%28cipher%29 | Churning is an encryption function used to scramble downstream user data of the ATM passive optical network system defined by the ITU G.983.1 standard.
The standard states that churning "offers a low level of protection for data confidentiality". Cryptanalysis had shown that "the churning cipher is robustly weak".
Algorithm
Churning uses 24 bits of the key, designated X1..X8 and P1..P16.
Ten static K bits are generated from the key:
K1 = (X1×P13×P14) + (X2×P13×not P14) + (X7×not P13×P14) + (X8×not P13×not P14)
K2 = (X3×P15×P16) + (X4×P15×not P16) + (X5×not P15×P16) + (X6×not P15×not P16)
K3 = (K1×P9) + (K2×not P9)
K4 = (K1×not P9) + (K2×P9)
K5 = (K1×P10) + (K2×not P10)
K6 = (K1×not P10) + (K2×P10)
K7 = (K1×P11) + (K2×not P11)
K8 = (K1×not P11) + (K2×P11)
K9 = (K1×P12) + (K2×not P12)
K10 = (K1×not P12) + (K2×P12)
The churning transforms eight bits into eight bits:
(Z1..Z4) = TransformNibble(Y1..Y4, K1, P1, K3, K2, P2, K4, K1, K3, K5, K2, P4, K6)
(Z5..Z8) = TransformNibble(Y5..Y8, K1, P5, K7, K2, P6, K8, K1, P7, K9, K2, P8, K10)
Cryptanalysis
The cryptanalysis had shown the cipher to be effectively broken in more than one way:
the cipher pretends to be using a 24-bit key, but the effective key length is 8 bit, making a full search attack trivial
being a substitution cipher, churning is easily attacked using the standard attacks against this class of ciphers
the churning function is entirely linear, so it can be broken using linear algebra.
Triple churning
Due to extreme weakness of the churning cipher, PON systems frequently use the "triple churning" technique, where the three churning operations are combined with two XORs with adjacent data in the stream.
Patents
PMC Sierra holds patents on triple churning ().
Sources
ITU-T Recommendation G.983.1. Broadband optical access systems based on Passive Optical Networks (PON). 13 October 1998.
References
Broken block ciphers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehal | Lehal (also spelled as Laihl , Lahel) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
A.S. Lehal (born 1981), Indian golfer
Gurpreet Singh Lehal (born 1963), Indian computer science professor
Karam Lehal (born 1994), Indian skeet shooter
Surnames of Indian origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20ni%20Mister%2C%20Love%20ni%20Misis | Love ni Mister, Love ni Misis () is a Philippine television lifestyle talk show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Carmina Villaroel and Zoren Legaspi, it premiered on August 9, 2010. The show concluded on March 4, 2011 with a total of 150 episodes.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings, the pilot episode of Love ni Mister, Love ni Misis earned a 3.9% rating. While the final episode scored a 3.3% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houttuynia | Houttuynia is a genus of two species in the Saururaceae native to Southeast Asia. One species, H. cordata, is widely cultivated as a culinary herb. The genus was originally described in 1783 by Carl Peter Thunberg when he formally described H. cordata as the only species. It remained a monotypic genus until 2001 when Zheng Yin Zhu and Shi Liang Zhang discovered and described a second species native to China, H. emeiensis but the validity still unestablished. It was named after Martinus Houttuyn.
References
Piperales genera
Saururaceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driven%20Crazy | Driven Crazy is an Australian children's television series, based on the short stories by author Paul Jennings. It first aired in 1998 on Network Ten, and was the second television series based on his works.
Plot
Driven Crazy follows the adventures of the Bourke family, who decide to drive across the continent. There, not only their old Chevy causes trouble.
Cast
Production
All thirteen episodes were based on short stories from Paul Jennings' books Undone! and Uncovered!. After writing the scripts for the first two seasons of Round The Twist, Paul left, after which new writers took over. The debut broadcast of first and only season of Driven Crazy occurred just two years before that of the third season of Round The Twist (in which – along with the subsequent fourth series – Jennings had no input).
Episode List
Season 1 (1998)
References
1998 Australian television series debuts
1998 Australian television series endings
Australian children's television series
Network 10 original programming
Australian television shows featuring puppetry
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-DEAS | I-DEAS (Integrated Design and Engineering Analysis Software), a computer-aided design software package. It was originally produced by SDRC in 1982. I-DEAS was used primarily in the automotive industry, most notably by Ford Motor Company (who standardized on the program) and by General Motors. SDRC was bought in 2001 by its competitor, Electronic Data Systems, which had also acquired UGS Corp. (maker of Unigraphics). EDS merged these two products into NX. UGS was purchased by Siemens AG in May 2007, and was renamed Siemens PLM Software, now known as Siemens Digital Industries Software.
References
Computer-aided design software
Siemens software products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Talkin%27%20%27Bout%20Your%20Generation%20episodes | Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation is an Australian game show produced by Granada Productions which premiered on Network Ten on 5 May 2009. It is hosted by Shaun Micallef.
Series 1 ran for a total of 18 episodes, with the original production order extended due to the success of the show. A second series of 26 episodes began airing from 7 February 2010. Series 2 went on a planned hiatus as of Episode 10 on 18 April 2010. It returned with new episodes from 1 August 2010 and concluded with a Christmas special on 23 November 2010. Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation returned to its original timeslot of 7:30 pm Tuesday from 7 September 2010. A third series began on 8 February 2011 before concluding on 18 September 2011. The fourth series began on 1 February 2012 before concluding on 29 March 2012.
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A fifth series has been announced by the Nine Network to premiere 21 May 2018. A sixth series was premiered on 1 May 2019.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2009)
The first series of Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation began airing on Network Ten on 5 May 2009. It ran for 18 episodes concluding with a Christmas special on 22 November 2009.
Notes
a. From episode 12 onwards a small trophy with a plaque saying "Winner: Trivia Competition" replaced the different prizes that were awarded in each episode. A new trophy parodying the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima was used starting from the first episode of the second season.
b. The season finale featured the contestants and the host dressed up in costume as people related to their generation era. Shaun dressed as Robert Smith, Amanda as Marilyn Monroe, Kerri-Anne as Krystle Carrington, Charlie as Marty McFly, Wil as "Doc" Emmett Brown, Josh Thomas as Gerard Way and Josh Lawson as Harry Potter.
c. This episode was a Christmas Special, with Christmas-themed questions. An extended version was aired on Christmas Eve, 24 December 2009.
Viewership
Season 2 (2010)
The second series consists of 26 episodes and began airing on 7 February 2010 on Network Ten in Australia. The series was split into two blocks, both airing in 2010. The first ten episodes were broadcast until 18 April, and the second block consisting of a further 16 episodes aired from 1 August to 23 November. Additionally, a highlights special, dubbed Family Assortment, aired on 4 April 2010.
Notes
a. The series 2 premiere featured a special 3D segment requiring anaglyphic glasses. Ten made the glasses available in copies of Woman's Day and TV Week magazines in the lead up to the broadcast.
b. Returning after a two-week break for the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
c. A Halloween themed special.
d. A Christmas themed special.
Season 3 (2011)
On 14 September 2010, Network Ten confirmed Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation would return in 2011. On 25 January 2011, it was announced that Series 3 would begin airing on 8 February 2011. Similar to series 2, this series was split into two airing blocks with a hiatus in the middle.
Season 4 (2012)
On 27 October |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal%20verification%20results | Terminal verification results (TVR) or Tag '95' is an EMV data object . The TVR is a series of bits set by the terminal reading an EMV card, based on logical tests (for example has the card expired). This data object is used in the terminal's decision whether to accept, decline or go on-line for a payment transaction. The format of the TVR is as follows:
See also
EMV
References
EMV Specification Bulletins
EMV Specification
External links
Online decoder
EMV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Beckmann | Otto Beckmann (5 May 1908, in Vladivostok, Russia – 13 February 1997, in Vienna, Austria) was an Austrian sculptor and pioneer of media and computer art.
Life
The family was forced to flee to Austria in 1922 where Otto Beckmann graduated from the HTL (Federal Secondary College of Engineering) in Mödling near Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In 1941, he became professor at the Institute for Arts and Crafts in Kraków.
Since 1945, he lived as an independent artist in Vienna and was a member of the Austrian Professional Association of Fine Arts. In 1951, he became a member of the Vienna Secession. In 1958, he was bestowed the professor title by the Austrian Federal Chancellor.
Otto Beckmann had 25 personal exhibitions and participated in more than 75 exhibitions in Austria and abroad.
Work
The comprehensive and manifold art work by Otto Beckmann took place in the broad field between mystics and algorithms. It comprises paintings and sculptures as well as new forms of expression like abstract films and imaginary architecture (1966).
In 1966, he founded ars intermedia in cooperation with scientists of the Technical University Vienna. Among the members were Alfred Grassl, Oskar Beckmann and Gerd Koepf. The group was active until 1980.
Otto Beckmann participated in the international symposium on computer art in Zagreb and is regarded as “one of the pioneers of media and computer art” (Peter Weibel).
Otto Beckmann's works are in the Albertina, Vienna; the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education; the State Museum of Lower Austria, MUSA Vienna; Neue Gallerie Graz; Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany; as well as numerous private collections. Beckmann created a great number of mosaics on Vienna residential buildings as well as windows and doors in sacred buildings by Robert Kramreiter.
In 2005 the Archiv Otto Beckmann was founded by his son Richard.
References
Peter Weibel, Peter Peer (Eds.): Otto Beckmann – Zwischen Mystik und Kalkül (Between mystics and calculus). Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln 2008, .
Horst Oberquelle, Oskar Beckmann: Beckmann's Studio Computers Specified for Early Computer Art. In: IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, USA, Vol. 30, No. 3, 2008, pp 20–31.
Wulf Herzogenrath, Barbara Nierhoff-Wielk (Eds.): Ex Machina – Frühe Computergrafik bis 1979. (Ex Machina- Early computer graphics), Deutscher Kunstverlag 2007, .
External links
Literature by and on Otto Beckmann in the catalogue of the German National Library (Data record on the sculptor Otto Beckmann)
Archiv Otto Beckmann – Index of exhibitions and publications by Beckmann
Austrian male sculptors
1908 births
1997 deaths
Artists from Vienna
Austrian digital artists
20th-century Austrian sculptors
Soviet emigrants to Austria
20th-century Austrian male artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandor%20Graphics | Kandor Graphics is a Spanish 3D computer animation feature and short film studio in Granada, Spain, established in 1992. The studio produced feature films The Missing Lynx and Justin and the Knights of Valour, and short films The Tell-Tale Heart and The Lady and the Reaper.
Feature films
Short films
The Tell-Tale Heart (Animated Short, 2005).
The Lady and the Reaper (Animated Short, 2009). Nominated in the 82nd Academy Awards for Best Animated Short
References
External links
Spanish animation studios
Mass media companies established in 1992
Spanish companies established in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadynamics | Metadynamics (MTD; also abbreviated as METAD or MetaD) is a computer simulation method in computational physics, chemistry and biology. It is used to estimate the free energy and other state functions of a system, where ergodicity is hindered by the form of the system's energy landscape. It was first suggested by Alessandro Laio and Michele Parrinello in 2002 and is usually applied within molecular dynamics simulations. MTD closely resembles a number of newer methods such as adaptively biased molecular dynamics, adaptive reaction coordinate forces and local elevation umbrella sampling. More recently, both the original and well-tempered metadynamics were derived in the context of importance sampling and shown to be a special case of the adaptive biasing potential setting. MTD is related to the Wang–Landau sampling.
Introduction
The technique builds on a large number of related methods including (in a chronological order) the
deflation,
tunneling,
tabu search,
local elevation,
conformational flooding,
Engkvist-Karlström and
Adaptive Biasing Force methods.
Metadynamics has been informally described as "filling the free energy wells with computational sand". The algorithm assumes that the system can be described by a few collective variables (CV). During the simulation, the location of the system in the space determined by the collective variables is calculated and a positive Gaussian potential is added to the real energy landscape of the system. In this way the system is discouraged to come back to the previous point. During the evolution of the simulation, more and more Gaussians sum up, thus discouraging more and more the system to go back to its previous steps, until the system explores the full energy landscape—at this point the modified free energy becomes a constant as a function of the collective variables which is the reason for the collective variables to start fluctuating heavily. At this point the energy landscape can be recovered as the opposite of the sum of all Gaussians.
The time interval between the addition of two Gaussian functions, as well as the Gaussian height and Gaussian width, are tuned to optimize the ratio between accuracy and computational cost. By simply changing the size of the Gaussian, metadynamics can be fitted to yield very quickly a rough map of the energy landscape by using large Gaussians, or can be used for a finer grained description by using smaller Gaussians. Usually, the well-tempered metadynamics is used to change the Gaussian size adaptively. Also, the Gaussian width can be adapted with the adaptive Gaussian metadynamics.
Metadynamics has the advantage, upon methods like adaptive umbrella sampling, of not requiring an initial estimate of the energy landscape to explore. However, it is not trivial to choose proper collective variables for a complex simulation. Typically, it requires several trials to find a good set of collective variables, but there are several automatic procedures proposed: essential c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Carmel%20%28Barcelona%20Metro%29 | El Carmel is a station on the Barcelona metro network, served by L5. It is part of the extension that opened on 30 July 2010.
Services
See also
List of Barcelona Metro stations
External links
Transport in Horta-Guinardó
Railway stations in Spain opened in 2010
Barcelona Metro line 5 stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ircle | Ircle (formerly rendered as "IRCle") was an IRC client developed by Onno Tijdgat for the Macintosh computer platform. Ircle was shareware, with free upgrades. The client was scriptable with AppleScript, supported multiple channels and servers, and up to ten simultaneous connections. It was discontinued in 2009. Since 2012, Ircle was not compatible with most recent versions of OS X, and no updates were available. In December 2017 the Ircle home page displayed a poll, to end Q2 2018, to determine whether a new version should be released on OS X and iOS. The results of the poll were 311 votes in favor of a new Mac OS version, 43 votes for an iOS version, and 117 votes for both a Mac OS and iOS version, out of 528 votes cast.
History
Ircle was originally written in THINK Pascal by Olaf Titz and released in 1993, with the source code licensed under the GPL
up to version 1.56.
Titz then gave up on the project and Tijdgat took over. Tijdgat continued development privately, rewriting it in C under Metrowerks CodeWarrior Pro and updating it for the then-new Power Macs.
Ircle 3.0 was released in 1994. The Talk City internet chat service supported Ircle, and as of 2000, negotiated for a custom version called "Talk City Ircle", free for subscribers, with "comparable features without the disruption" from flood attacks.
Tijdgat announced in December 2005 that extensive work was underway to update Ircle for x86 based Macs. The upgrades were to be backward compatible with older CPUs, while development for Mac OS 7, 8, and 9 would cease. On September 21, 2006, the Intel compatible (universal binary) version was released with a number of new features.
Features
Ircle supported up to ten simultaneous server connections, and comes configured with a "long list of servers". The "channelbar" feature simplified managing the otherwise large number of windows in Ircle. Applescript allowed detailed control and modification of the client. Third party developer Public Access Software hosted Ircle Scripting Resources, Applescript scripts for Ircle-based tools, applications and even games, until 1999.
The Ircle "faces" window displays updateable images of chat contacts.
Reception
Ircle was once described as "the most widely used IRC client for Macintosh computers", "stable, full-featured", with "good user support," and "one of the best" Mac IRC clients. The "one downside" to Ircle was "a rather intimidating preferences dialog". One author described it as "the godfather of Mac IRC clients. It has been around the longest and has the most features, making it the de facto gold standard against which all other clients compare themselves."
See also
Comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients
References
External links
Ircle 1.5.1 code at the Info-Mac HyperArchive
Ircle help for versions 2.5, 3.0 and 3.04
Internet Relay Chat clients
Classic Mac OS Internet Relay Chat clients
MacOS Internet Relay Chat clients
Discontinued software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microangelo | Microangelo may refer to the following computer related products:
MicroAngelo, an early graphics card
Microangelo Toolset, a collection of software utilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variance%20Adaptive%20Quantization | Variance Adaptive Quantization (VAQ) is a video encoding algorithm that was first introduced in the open source video encoder x264. According to Xvid Builds FAQ: "It's an algorithm that tries to optimally choose a quantizer for each macroblock using advanced math algorithms." It was later ported to programs which encode video content in other video standards, like MPEG-4 ASP or MPEG-2.
In the case of Xvid, the algorithm is intended to make up for the earlier limitations in its Adaptive Quantization mode. The first Xvid library containing this improvement was released in February 2008.
References
External links
Implementation of variance-based adaptive quantization in x264
The intuitive justification (handwaving)
Signal processing
Video compression |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBAR | NBAR is an acronym that could refer to:
Nadir BRDF-Adjusted Reflectance, a basis for spectral calibration of remotely sensed imagery
Nonbinding allocation of responsibility
Network Based Application Recognition, the mechanism used by some Cisco routers and switches to recognize a dataflow by inspecting some packets sent. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LION%20%28cable%20system%29 | Lower Indian Ocean Network (LION) is a submarine communications cable network that connects Madagascar, Réunion, and Mauritius.
History
The construction of a new submarine cable to connect the Southeast African islands was announced in March 2008. The project was financed by a consortium made up of Orange Madagascar, Mauritius Telecom and France Telecom S.A. Overall, the LION project cost an estimated 37 million dollars. The Mauritius Telecom group has reportedly invested 10.8 million in the project. The LION I network was inaugurated in March 2010. This cable digitized the region, and paved the way for the development of an outsourcing economy (call centers).
LION II, linking Madagascar, Mayotte and Kenya, was launched in April 2012. In July 2017, Orange announced the construction of FLY-LION III, a 400 km extension of LION I and II. The capacity of this new cable should be 4 terabits/s.
In July 2018, the website Cable.com ranked Madagascar 22nd in the list of countries with the fastest connections.
On 5–6 October 2018, the LION II cable broke, leading to a severe decrease of digital access in Mayotte the following days. While Emtel had to play the diplomacy with its users, Mauritius Telecom, thanks to its global participation in the LION consortium, was able to re-route on other LION cables for balance-loading.
Description
The LION is 1,000 kilometres long and delivers up to 1.28 terabits per second. To reach Europe and other destinations, the LION cable is linked to the SAFE cable and will be connected to the EASSy and the East African Marine System (TEAMs) cable when they are operational.
It has cable landing points at:
Toamasina, Toamasina Province, Atsinanana Region, Madagascar
Sainte Marie, Saint-Denis Arrondissement, Réunion
Terre Rouge, Pamplemousses District, Mauritius
The LION II submarine cable network (2700 km), which required a 57 million euro investment, connects the LION I network to Mayotte and Mombasa, Kenya. The LION II network enables a shorter cable distance to the Middle East and Europe, thus lowering latency between servers.
References
External links
LION optical fiber submarine cable system
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1038143/000130817909000044/chap8p13302.jpg
Submarine communications cables in the Indian Ocean
France–Madagascar relations
France–Mauritius relations
2009 establishments in Madagascar
2009 establishments in Mauritius
2009 establishments in Réunion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Institute%20for%20the%20Advancement%20of%20Deaf%20Persons%20in%20Israel | The Institute for the Advancement of Deaf Persons in Israel (Hebrew: המכון לקידום החרש בישראל, Arabic: معهد النهوض بالصم في اسرائيل) was founded in 1993 to provide services and programming to the Israeli deaf community. This includes employment assistance, creation of an electronic Israeli Sign Language dictionary, and organization of a national Deaf Day in 2009 to increase public awareness about the Israeli deaf community and Israeli Sign Language.
The institute is also the coordinator for government-provided interpreting services to deaf Israelis, including providing ISL interpreters, note takers, technology lending, and other support services for deaf university students. These services are handled through the institute's Sela Center. The institute also organizes an annual Student Day (יום הסטודנטים) for deaf and hard-of-hearing university students throughout Israel. In addition, the institute also works with Arab-Israeli deaf communities in Israel, providing Arabic-language materials and professional training to deaf Arab-Israelis and the professionals who work with them, as well as works in conjunction with deaf communities outside of Israel.
See also
Israeli Sign Language
Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language
References
External links
1993 establishments in Israel
Deafness organizations
Disability organizations based in Israel
Organizations established in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Happy%20Cricket%20and%20the%20Giant%20Bugs | The Happy Cricket and the Giant Bugs () is a 2009 Brazilian computer-animated fantasy film directed by Walbercy Ribas and Rafael Ribas and produced by Start Desenhos Animados. The film is the sequel of The Happy Cricket, released in 2001.
The Happy Cricket and the Giant Bugs was nominated for best movie in the 2009 Chicago International Children's Film Festival." In 2010, the film won the Academia Brasileira de Cinema's prize for best animation and best children's feature film.
Production
This hectono Gollono Croatian computer-animated children's fantasy film was produced by Start Desenhos Animados. It uses animation software Adobe After Effects and minazu kashonima
Cast
Gayo Makashino - Professor Vareta
Daren Makashijasi - Yakko
Osanu Mahirsoin - Trambika
Kikon Makashijoso - Caradura
Mort Makashijoso - Sakana
Raibaru Tamakai - Sebastião
Simon Yukino - Kakatus
Ayano Tomakashi - Pétala
Tony Makashijoso - Happi Kriket
Magata Makashimoa - Pétali
Mistuhiko Nanasei - Camelin
Hector Takumianoi - Happi Kriket
Bucky Zamakashio - Montanhin
Chino Faramaiko - Camlin
Sayo Makashijo - Litter Bitukini
Sean Mafahiron - Locutori
Savana Makashijasa - Teacaku
Eevee Makashijoso - Sapaia
Yakko Ribakas - Peteião
Matthew Nazokimasa - Manjoin
References
External links
Tickets for Chicago International Film Festival
O Grilo Feliz e os Insetos Gigantes
2009 films
2000s children's animated films
2009 computer-animated films
20th Century Fox films
20th Century Fox animated films
Brazilian animated films
Brazilian children's films
Animated films about insects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20C.%20Ray | Stuart C. Ray is an American physician. He is Vice Chair of Medicine for Data Integrity and Analytics, Associate Director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and a Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases. Ray also holds appointments in Viral Oncology and the Division of Health Sciences Informatics. He is affiliated with the Institute for Computational Medicine at Johns Hopkins and is licensed to practice medicine in Maryland.
Ray researches the influence of viral evolution on viral pathogenesis, concentrating in particular on complex RNA viruses such as hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). He has published approximately 100 scientific articles on HIV, HCV, or both.
Education and training
As an undergraduate, Ray studied at the California Institute of Technology and graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.S. cum laude in molecular biology. He remained at Vanderbilt for medical school and received his M.D. in 1990.
Ray completed a medical residency and both research and clinical fellowships in infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. In 1995, he became the assistant chief of service for the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Ray was appointed to an assistant professorship in 1997 and was promoted to associate professor in 2003.
HIV research
Ray has studied the ability of HIV to undergo high levels of mutation in its genomic sequence, exploring the health consequences of this mutability. In 1999, Ray and colleagues reported on the sequence diversity of HIV in India. They cautioned that different subtypes could combine, thwarting traditional efforts to develop vaccines.
In 2005, along with colleagues including Robert F. Siliciano, Ray examined the phenomenon of viral "blips." HIV-positive patients who have suppressed HIV replication with the help of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) occasionally exhibit apparent transient increases in the amount of virus in their blood, leading some scientists to express concern that these blips could allow the virus to develop drug resistance. The results of the 2005 study indicated that the virus was unable to gain resistance mutations during the blips, and that many of the blips could be attributed to statistical artifact.
Ray has also participated in the study of "elite suppressors," rare individuals who control HIV replication naturally and do not progress to AIDS quickly, even in the absence of treatment. With Joel Blankson and others, Ray contributed to a study of a monogamous husband-wife couple who were infected with the same strain of HIV but had very different responses to the virus. This work was published in 2008.
HCV research
As HCV evades the immune system, Ray found, its genome not only mutates to escape the body's defenses, but also reverts to its previous, "ancestral" state when possible. This balance helps the virus to retain fitness.
Ray's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary%20School%20Musical%20%28The%20Simpsons%29 | "Elementary School Musical" is the twenty-second season premiere of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on September 26, 2010. In this episode, Krusty the Clown invites Homer to the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony in Oslo. Later turning out to be a hoax, Krusty is sued by the International Court of Justice for his many instances of public indecency. Meanwhile, Marge takes Lisa to a performing arts camp for a week.
The episode was written by Tim Long and directed by Mark Kirkland. Upon airing, it was met with mixed reception from television critics. "Elementary School Musical" was viewed by 7.8 million viewers and attained a 3.7/8 rating in the 18–49 demographic, according to Nielsen ratings. The episode features guest appearances by Lea Michele, Amber Riley, and Cory Monteith from the musical television show Glee, as well as Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, Ira Glass, and Stephen Hawking.
Plot
As Homer, Lisa, and her friends watch the announcement of the year's Nobel Prize winners, they are astounded to hear that Krusty the Clown has won the Peace Prize. Krusty picks Homer to accompany him to Oslo for the awards ceremony to ensure that his jokes will be met with laughter, and Homer decides to take Bart with him. Their plane lands in The Hague, and it is revealed that the Peace Prize announcement was a ruse to bring Krusty there so he could be tried by the International Court of Justice for his deplorable public behavior over the years, such as dropping a monkey from the Eiffel Tower in Paris, and stealing the act from a local clown in The Hague. Homer and Bart search desperately for any evidence to show that Krusty has made a genuine contribution to humanity, and eventually argue that his refusal to perform at Sun City because he wanted potato chips led directly to the South African government's decision to release Nelson Mandela from prison. Even though these two incidents are not connected in any way, the court accepts this argument and frees Krusty, who immediately seeks out the nearest place to buy marijuana — the courthouse cafeteria.
Meanwhile, Marge surprises Lisa, who is despondent about Bart attending the Peace Prize ceremony instead of her, by sending her to a performing arts camp for a week. She eagerly immerses herself there in music and theater, meeting several campers who love to break into song and two guitar-playing hipster counselors, Ethan and Kurt. When Marge takes her home at the end of the week, Lisa has trouble readjusting to normal life and looks for a chance to express her newly awakened creative side. She runs away from home and seeks out Ethan and Kurt in "Sprooklyn", described by the counselors as the "artistic hotbed of Springfield". However, she soon learns that they have grossly exaggerated the area, which is really a run-down slum, and that they actually work at a sandwich shop. They sing a song about the difficulties of being an artist, d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face2face%20%28software%29 | Face2face is a proprietary proximity-based mobile application developed by Proximate Global Inc. It allows users to privately identify when members of their social networks are within close proximity.
Face2face was launched in July 2010 for smartphones. Face2face does not reveal precise location coordinates, although its technology gathers the data. The app was downloaded 10,000 times within its first month of launch.
Privacy and security
Face2face compiles data from existing online social and business networks, including Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter. Responding to growing concerns about location-based apps revealing too much information about a user's whereabouts, face2face incorporates "reciprocal sharing functionality" so that only users who make themselves known to each other are sharing their location data.
Awards
Face2face earned Mashable's "Spark of Genius" award in July 2010.
References
External links
Official site
Android (operating system) software
Geosocial networking
IOS software
BlackBerry software
Mobile social software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballades%20et%20chansons | Ballads and Songs was a Canadian music variety television series which aired on CBC Television in 1969.
Premise
This series was produced in English and French by CBC's French network, Radio-Canada, for the English network. Episodes were recorded in various locations throughout all Canadian provinces. The series included a range of musical artists of various genres from individuals to choirs. Songs of both Canadian languages were featured.
Scheduling
The half-hour series aired on Sundays at 5:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 6 July to 28 September 1969.
References
External links
CBC Television original programming
1969 Canadian television series debuts
1969 Canadian television series endings
Ici Radio-Canada Télé original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Movies%20%28TV%20series%29 | Great Movies was a Canadian series of mid-season feature films which aired on CBC Television from 1957 to 1970.
Premise
CBC broadcast feature films as replacement programming for Hockey Night in Canada during the months when the NHL was not playing. Fred Davis hosted the movies in 1957, 1958 and 1959.
Scheduling
The series was broadcast on Saturday nights, either from 8:30 or 9:00 p.m. (Eastern) since 20 April 1957. The movies were broadcast each mid-year until the final movie in this series aired on 3 October 1970. Movies under this title were also broadcast late Friday nights from April to October 1961.
For the 1962 season, the mid-year movies were branded with the title Front Row Centre, reverting to the Great Movies banner in 1963.
Reception
The Great Movies concept was deemed successful, with July 1961 ratings indicating that the viewership ranked fourth place.
References
External links
CBC Television original programming
1957 Canadian television series debuts
1970 Canadian television series endings
Black-and-white Canadian television shows
Canadian motion picture television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20About%20That%3F | How About That?, originally titled Weather and Why, is a Canadian children's science television series which aired on CBC Television from 1953 to 1954.
Premise
This series, hosted by the network's weather presenter Percy Saltzman, featured demonstrations of physics concepts and provided instructions on creating instruments such as rain gauges or anemometers out of common items.
Scheduling
This 15-minute series was broadcast on Tuesdays at 5:15 p.m. (Eastern) from 20 October 1953 until 29 June 1954. The first two weekly episodes were aired under the original title Weather and Why until it was retitled as of 4 November.
References
External links
CBC Television original programming
1953 Canadian television series debuts
1954 Canadian television series endings
Black-and-white Canadian television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R2%20Come%20Home%20and%20Lethal%20Trackdown | "R2 Come Home" and "Lethal Trackdown" are the final two episodes of the second season in the Cartoon Network animated television series Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The twenty-first and twenty-second episodes, entitled "R2 Come Home" and "Lethal Trackdown", were first aired on April 30, 2010, and attracted an average of 2.756 million viewers during the original broadcast. The finale is significant for ending "with twin fandom bangs, courtesy of Boba Fett and a mammoth beast inspired by Godzilla." Fett's entrance in the series commemorates the 30-year anniversary of the character's appearance in the 1980 film The Empire Strikes Back.
Plot
Anakin Skywalker and Mace Windu are trapped in the crumbling ruins of a crashed ship while searching for survivors, and only R2-D2 can get out a message to save them – if he can elude vicious gundarks and, worse yet, a crew of determined bounty hunters led by Boba Fett and Aurra Sing.
While Anakin and Mace Windu recover from their injuries, Plo Koon and Ahsoka tracks down Boba Fett from the underworld of Coruscant to the planet Florrum. Boba's revenge scheme finally leads to a climactic battle, and the life of a Republic admiral hangs in the balance.
Critical response
IGN reviewer Eric Goldman rated the first episode 8.2/10 and the second 8.8/10, stating "this was a very layered, exciting episode to end Season 2 on", though he did not appreciate Boba Fett's limited dialogue. Bryan Young, a writer for The Huffington Post and Examiner.com, also disliked Fett's responses at the end of the episode when confronting Mace Windu: "He says something incredibly whiny." Young does state, however, that "[o]verall, this pair of episodes was a satisfying conclusion to season two, which really upped the game in this series in terms of animation, storytelling and suspense." GalacticBinder.com's reviewer Chris Smith wrote, "Lucasfilm delivers another exciting episode to finish off a tremendous second season." Adam Rosenberg writing in MTV Movies Blog discusses Boba Fett's return: "He's going to have to be put through a lot more hell before he embraces his inner badass. I'll say though... he's off to a mighty good start with the dual blasters he wears on his belt. Sure, they're almost the size of his thighs, but hey... he's still just a kid."
References
External links
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008 TV series) episodes
2010 American television episodes
Television episodes about revenge
Television episodes directed by Dave Filoni
Television episodes written by Dave Filoni
Television episodes written by Drew Z. Greenberg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low%20Orbit%20Ion%20Cannon | Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) is an open-source network stress testing and denial-of-service attack application written in C#. LOIC was initially developed by Praetox Technologies, however it was later released into the public domain and is currently available on several open-source platforms.
Use
LOIC performs a DoS attack (or, when used by multiple individuals, a DDoS attack) on a target site by flooding the server with TCP, UDP, or HTTP packets with the intention of disrupting the service of a particular host. People have used LOIC to join voluntary botnets.
The software inspired the creation of an independent JavaScript version called JS LOIC, as well as LOIC-derived web version called Low Orbit Web Cannon. These enable a DoS from a web browser.
Countermeasures
Security experts quoted by the BBC indicated that well-written firewall rules can filter out most traffic from DDoS attacks by LOIC, thus preventing the attacks from being fully effective. In at least one instance, filtering out all UDP and ICMP traffic blocked a LOIC attack. Firewall rules of this sort are more likely to be effective when implemented at a point upstream of an application server's Internet uplink to avoid the uplink from exceeding its capacity.
LOIC attacks are easily identified in system logs, and the attack can be tracked down to the IP addresses used.
Notable uses
Project Chanology and Operation Payback
LOIC was used by Anonymous (a group that spawned from the /b/ board of 4chan) during Project Chanology to attack websites from the Church of Scientology, once more to (successfully) attack the Recording Industry Association of America's website in October 2010, and it was again used by Anonymous during their Operation Payback in December 2010 to attack the websites of companies and organizations that opposed WikiLeaks.
Operation Megaupload
In retaliation for the shutdown of the file sharing service Megaupload and the arrest of four workers, members of Anonymous launched a DDoS attack upon the websites of Universal Music Group (the company responsible for the lawsuit against Megaupload), the United States Department of Justice, the United States Copyright Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the MPAA, Warner Music Group and the RIAA, as well as the HADOPI, all on the afternoon of January 19, 2012, through LOIC. In general, the attack hoped to retaliate against those who Anonymous members believed harmed their digital freedoms.
Origin of name
The LOIC application is named after the ion cannon, a fictional weapon from many sci-fi works, video games, and in particular after its namesake from the Command & Conquer series. The artwork used in the application was a concept art for Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.
Legality
While downloading and using the LOIC on one's own personal servers as a means of stress-testing is perfectly legal, at least in the United States, using the program to perform a DDoS attack on other parties could be considered a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20Banking%20ePayments | Online Banking ePayments (OBeP) is a type of payments network, developed by the banking industry in conjunction with technology providers. It is specifically designed to address the unique requirements of payments made via the Internet.
Key aspects of OBeP that distinguish it from other online payments systems are:
The consumer is authenticated in real-time by the consumer financial institution's online banking infrastructure.
The availability of funds is validated in real-time by the consumer's financial institution.
The consumer's financial institution provides guarantee of payment to the merchant.
Payment is made as a credit transfer (push payment) from the consumer's financial institution to the merchant, as opposed to a debit transfer (pull payment).
Payment is made directly from the consumer's account rather than through a third-party account.
Nearly half of the bills paid in the US during 2013 were done via electronic bill payment. Also, during 2014, nearly 48% of all online shopping in North America were made with a credit card. Globally, online payments are expected to exceed 3 trillion Euros (approx. US$3.2 trillion) in the next 5 years.
Privacy and security features
OBeP systems protect consumer personal information by not requiring the disclosure of account numbers or other sensitive personal data to online merchants or other third parties. During the checkout process, the merchant redirects the consumer to their financial institution's online banking site where they login and authorize charges. After charges are authorized, the financial institution redirects the consumer back to the merchant site. All network communications are protected using industry standard encryption. Additionally, communications with the OBeP network take place on a virtual private network, not over the public Internet.
In order to be positive that your identity, information and other personal features are truly secure, the following cautions should be taken:
Make sure a secure browser is being used.
Read all privacy policies provided. Many individuals simply skip over such important information that could spell out potential risks. If a risk seems unnecessary and odd, it would be safer to skip this payment rather than take the risk with one's hard earned money.
Keep all personal information private. If phone numbers, social security numbers or other private, important information is asked for one should be cautious. Banking information is important information as it is, asking for unnecessary personal information should be a red flag of suspicious behavior.
Selecting businesses that are trustworthy is key.
Most companies will email a customer with a transaction receipt upon payment. Keeping a record of these is important in order to have proof of purchase or payment.
Lastly, checking bank statements regularly is crucial in keeping up-to-date with transactions.
Costs
Costs associated with fraud, estimated at 1.2% of sales by online retai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenChrom | OpenChrom is an open source software for the analysis and visualization of mass spectrometric and chromatographic data. Its focus is to handle native data files from several mass spectrometry systems (e.g. GC/MS, LC/MS, Py-GC/MS, HPLC-MS), vendors like Agilent Technologies, Varian, Shimadzu, Thermo Fisher, PerkinElmer and others. But also data formats from other detector types are supported recently.
OpenChrom supports only the analysis and representation of chromatographic and mass spectrometric data. It has no capabilities for data acquisition or control of vendor hardware. OpenChrom is built on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP), hence it is available for various operating systems, e.g. Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux. It is distributed under the Eclipse Public License 1.0 (EPL). Third-party libraries are separated into single bundles and are released under various OSI compatible licenses.
History
OpenChrom was developed by Philip Wenig (SCJP, LPIC-1) as part of his PhD thesis at the University of Hamburg, Germany. The focus of the thesis was to apply pattern recognition techniques on datasets recorded by analytical pyrolysis coupled with chromatography and mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS).
OpenChrom won the Thomas Krenn Open Source Award 2010 as well as the Eclipse Community Award 2011. The developers are also founding members of the Eclipse Science Working Group. After successful commercialization of contract development and services around the OpenChrom project, vendor Lablicate reinforced the commitment to Free/Libre/Open-Source Software with the release of ChemClipse in October 2016, which serves as the base for all OpenChrom products.
Supported data formats
Each system vendor stores the recorded analysis data in its own proprietary format. That makes it difficult to compare data sets from different systems and vendors. Furthermore, it's a big drawback for interlaboratory tests. The aim of OpenChrom is to support a wide range of different mass spectrometry data formats natively. OpenChrom takes care that the raw data files can't be modified according to the good laboratory practice. To help scientists OpenChrom supports several open formats to import and export the analysis results. In addition, OpenChrom offers its own open source format (*.ocb) that makes it possible to save the edited chromatogram as well as the peaks and identification results.
Mass selective detector
Agilent ChemStation *.D (DATA.MS and MSD1.MS)
AMDIS Library (*.msl)
Bruker Flex MALDI-MS (*.fid)
Chromtech (*.dat)
CSV (*.csv)
Finnigan (*.RAW)
Finnigan MAT95 (*.dat)
Finnigan ITDS (*.DAT)
Finnigan ITS40 (*.MS)
Finnigan Element II (*.dat)
JCAMP-DX (*.JDX)
Microsoft Excel (*.xlsx)
mzXML (*.mzXML)
mzData (*.mzData)
NetCDF (*.CDF)
NIST Text (*.msp)
Open Chromatography Binary (*.ocb)
Peak Loadings (*.mpl)
PerkinElmer (*.raw)
Varian SMS (*.SMS)
Varian XMS (*.XMS)
VG MassLab (*.DAT_001;1)
Shimadzu (*.qgd)
Shimadzu (*.spc)
Waters (*.RAW)
ZI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20feature%20size | Local feature size refers to several related concepts in computer graphics and computational geometry for measuring the size of a geometric object near a particular point.
Given a smooth manifold , the local feature size at any point is the distance between and the medial axis of .
Given a planar straight-line graph, the local feature size at any point is the radius of the smallest closed ball centered at which intersects any two disjoint features (vertices or edges) of the graph.
See also
Nearest neighbour function
References
Geometric algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Sage | Robin Sage is a fictional American cyber threat analyst. She was created in December 2009 by Thomas Ryan, a security specialist and white hat hacker from New York City. Her name was taken from a training exercise of United States Army Special Forces.
Fictional biography
According to Sage's social networking profiles, she is a 25-year-old "cyber threat analyst" at the Naval Network Warfare Command in Norfolk, Virginia. She graduated from MIT and had allegedly 10 years of work experience, despite her young age. Ryan created several accounts under the name Sage on popular social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. and used those profiles to contact nearly 300 people, most of them security specialists, military personnel, staff at intelligence agencies and defense contractors. Her pictures were taken from a pornography-related website in order to attract more attention.
Despite the fake profile and no other real-life information, Sage was offered consulting work with notable companies Google and Lockheed Martin. She also received dinner invitations from several male contacts.
Not everyone was fooled by Sage's profiles, and Ryan admitted that his cover was already blown on the second day, when several of those Sage tried to befriend attempted to verify her identity using the phone number he provided, checking email addresses outside the social networking sites or using the MIT alumni network to find her. Others recognized the fake identity of Sage based on her implausible profiles. Yet no central warning was issued about the profile, and users continued to connect with Sage despite warnings not to do so.
Security problems revealed
Using those contacts, Ryan befriended men and women of all ages during a short time period between December 2009 and January 2010. Almost all of them were working for the United States military, government or companies (amongst the only organizations that did not befriend Sage were the CIA and the FBI). Using these contacts, Ryan gained access to email addresses and bank accounts as well as learning the location of secret military units based on soldiers' Facebook photos and connections between different people and organizations. She was also given private documents for review and was invited to speak at several conferences.
"Getting in bed with Robin Sage"
Ryan presented his findings as a speaker at the "Black Hat" conference in Las Vegas with a presentation he called "Getting in bed with Robin Sage". He explained that his short experiment proves that seemingly harmless details shared via social networking pages can be harmful but also that many people entrusted with vital and sensitive information would share this information readily with third parties, provided they managed to capture their interest. He concluded that his findings could have compromised national security if a terrorist organization had employed similar tactics.
See also
Honey trapping
Sexpionage
References
Fictional characters from Vi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt-Samoa%20cryptosystem | The Schmidt-Samoa cryptosystem is an asymmetric cryptographic technique, whose security, like Rabin depends on the difficulty of integer factorization. Unlike Rabin this algorithm does not produce an ambiguity in the decryption at a cost of encryption speed.
Key generation
Choose two large distinct primes p and q and compute
Compute
Now N is the public key and d is the private key.
Encryption
To encrypt a message m we compute the ciphertext as
Decryption
To decrypt a ciphertext c we compute the plaintext as which like for Rabin and RSA can be computed with the Chinese remainder theorem.
Example:
Now to verify:
Security
The algorithm, like Rabin, is based on the difficulty of factoring the modulus N, which is a distinct advantage over RSA.
That is, it can be shown that if there exists an algorithm that can decrypt arbitrary messages, then this algorithm can be used to factor N.
Efficiency
The algorithm processes decryption as fast as Rabin and RSA, however it has much slower encryption since the sender must compute a full exponentiation.
Since encryption uses a fixed known exponent an addition chain may be used to optimize the encryption process. The cost of producing an optimal addition chain can be amortized over the life of the public key, that is, it need only be computed once and cached.
References
A New Rabin-type Trapdoor Permutation Equivalent to Factoring and Its Applications
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street%20Pastors | Street Pastors is an interdenominational network of Christian charities that operates worldwide, composed of members who spend time in their communities in order to assist people who they feel are in need of help, and to spread their religion through their service.
Street Pastors is an initiative of the Ascension Trust. Individual street pastors are Christians who walk around the streets of their towns and cities attempting to help and care for people in what they feel are practical ways. The initiative began in the United Kingdom.
Street pastors wear a blue uniform, with the term 'Street Pastor' visible in white. Street pastors are not police, ambulance or official emergency services in any way. They do not have any powers of law enforcement, arrest or to compel any member of the public to follow any requests given.
History
Street Pastors was founded in Brixton, South London, UK in 2003 by Rev. Les Isaac. It was based on a model from Jamaica in which individual churches joined together to take their values out onto the streets. Street Pastors is an initiative of the Ascension Trust, a registered charity established in 1993. The initial activities of street pastors in areas such as Lewisham and Hackney focussed mainly on confronting gang culture and the use of knives and guns. As Street Pastors started to operate in other parts of the UK, the initiative responded to other local issues, including anti-social behavior and drunkenness.
By 2008 there were Street Pastors groups in 70 locations, with another 50 being established. the official website states that there are over 270 active groups.
In 2010 Ascension Trust devolved responsibility to oversee Street Pastors in Scotland to Ascension Trust (Scotland), a Scottish registered charity which has an office in Perth, and whose first chairman is former police officer Sandy Scrimgeour. In 2015 he became CEO and was succeeded in the chair by Shaw Anderson.
In 2010 Michael Frost and others established the first Australian group in Manly, New South Wales.
In 2013 several churches in Chico, CA established the first United States Street Pastors group in Chico, CA.
School pastors
In February 2011 a sister organisation, School Pastors was launched nationally after several trial projects. School Pastors aim to reduce bullying, anti-social behaviour and drug use, and to remove barriers to learning. They mentor young people within a school setting, and walk around outside to break patterns of negative behaviour at the end of the school day.
Rail pastors
Similarly, Rail Pastors commenced in 2014. Volunteers receive training from The Samaritans and British Transport Police, and aim to prevent suicide attempts and fatalities on the railway.
Training and support for volunteers
Individual street pastors are Christians, over the age of 18, committed to a local church for at least one year, who pass an enhanced CRB check and who have a positive reference from their church leader stating that they would be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative%20technology | Creative technology is a broadly interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field combining computing, design, art and the humanities. The field of creative technology encompasses art, digital product design, digital media or an advertising and media made with a software-based, electronic and/or data-driven engine. Examples of creative technology include multi-sensory experiences made using computer graphics, video production, digital music, digital cinematography, virtual reality, augmented reality, video editing, software engineering, 3D printing, the Internet of Things, CAD/CAM and wearable technology.
In the artistic field, new media art and internet art are examples of work being done using creative technology. Performances, interactive installations and other immersive experiences take museum-going to the next level and may serve as research processes for humans' artistic and emotional integration with machines. Some believe that "creativity has the potential to be revolutionised with technology", or view the field of creative technology as helping to "disrupt" the way people today interact with computers, and usher in a more integrated, immersive experience.
Description
Creative technology has been defined as "the blending of knowledge across multiple disciplines to create new experiences or products" that meet end user and organizational needs. A more specific conceptualization describes it as the combination of information, holographic systems, sensors, audio technologies, image, and video technologies, among others with artistic practices and methods. The central characteristic is identified as an ability to do things better.
Creative technology is also seen as the intersection of new technology with creative initiatives such as fashion, art, advertising, media and entertainment. As such, it is a way to make connections between countries seeking to update their culture; a winter 2015 Forbes article tells of 30 creative technology startups from the UK making the rounds in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and New York City in an effort to raise funds and make connections.
Applications
Creative technology facilities may be organized as arts, research or job development entities, such as the UK's Foundation for Art and Creative Technology which has presented hundreds of new media and digital artworks from around the world, or a recently established $20.5 million project in Hawaii specializing in film industry job training and workforce development programs which plans to offer robotics, computer labs, recording studios and editing bays, pitched as a "game-changing" opportunity to bring new skills and jobs to Kauai. Degrees in this field were designed to address needs for cross-disciplinary interaction and aim to develop lateral thinking skills across more rigidly defined academic areas. Some educators have complained that creative technology tools, though "widely available", are difficult to use for young populations.
The first major corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20megachurches%20in%20the%20United%20States | This is a list of the largest megachurches in the United States with an attendance of more than 10,000 weekly, sometimes also termed a gigachurch. According to that The Hartford Institute's database, approximately 50 churches had attendance ranging from 10,000 to 47,000 in 2010. The same source also lists more than 1,300 such Protestant and Evangelical churches in the United States with a weekly attendance of more than 2,000, meeting the definition of a megachurch.
As the term megachurch in common parlance refers to Protestant congregations; although there are some Roman Catholic parishes which would meet the criteria, they are not listed. St Ann's in Coppell, Texas, would be near the top, with almost 30,000 registered parishioners in 2013. St Matthew's Catholic Church in the Ballantyne neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina likewise has been described as a Catholic megachurch. with nearly 36,000 registered members in 2017 and 11 weekly masses. Weekly attendance figures may be lower than the number of registered parishioners, and the differences in way the churches operate and the way attendance is counted are given as reasons for not including Catholic churches in lists of megachurches.
Membership numbers of the following churches give only a very rough indication of size. They vary from year to year. Also, some churches report typical Sunday attendance while others report the number who are listed in church records or make financial contributions, which may be higher. Some of the larger churches are multi-site churches. Many churches deliver their message through television or other media, sometimes reaching much higher numbers than those who physically attend the church.
List
Note that the attendance numbers are often provided by the church itself.
See also
List of the largest evangelical megachurches
List of the largest evangelical church auditoriums
List of largest church buildings in the world
Notes
References
Megachurches
Megachurches, United States
Megachurches |
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