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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Network%20Television | China Network Television (CNTV; ) was a Chinese national web-based TV broadcaster of China Central Television from 2009 to 2017.
CNTV International offered 6 local language services (Chinese, Mongolian in Mongol script, Tibetan, Kazakh, Uyghur and Korean) and 6 foreign language services (English, French, Spanish, Russian, Korean and Arabic). They also provided viewers with news and feature programs from China Central Television's foreign channels.
CNTV had multiple specialty channels which focus on a wide variety of subjects, including news, business and sports. according to Alexa Internet, the network's website was ranked no. 71 in the world.
CNTV was rebranded as CCTV.com () on January 1, 2017.
See also
China Global Television Network
References
External links
CNTV Official Website
China Central Television
2016 disestablishments in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mallowstreet | mallowstreet is an online financial social networking community within the pension industry. The mallowstreet.com website is an enterprise social software application featuring blogs, forums, videos, papers and financial products. Members must have an association with a pension fund as a trustee or consultant. However, the site also allows product providers associated with an organisation targeting the pensions industry, such as a bank, to join although many parts of the site may be restricted. In August 2010 the community was made up of 730 users, representing 200 pension funds managing £500 billion in assets. In October 2011, the community consists of 2,100 users, representing 580 pension funds managing over £1 trillion in assets.
History
mallowstreet was co-founded by Dawid Konotey-Ahulu and Robert Gardner of Redington, a London-based consultancy firm. The mallowstreet.com website was launched in November 2009. mallowstreet is now a separate Private Limited company.
On 10 August 2010, members of the mallowstreet community wrote to the Government of the United Kingdom claiming that plans to link private pension increases to the Consumer Price Index measure of inflation instead of the Retail Price Index could "breach human rights".
mallowstreet was awarded Innovation of the Year by Life & Pension Risk in October 2010.
On 18 May 2011, mallowstreet held a conference, The mallowstreet Exchange, for its members with a keynote speech by the Minister of State for Pensions, Steve Webb, MP. It was discussed how mallowstreet could be used to devise working solutions for the industry using the wisdom of the crowd. For example, the potential of the mallowstreet community to devise a compelling savings fund for young people.
mallowstreet began beta testing a select group of non-UK users predominantly from Canada, the Netherlands and Ireland in 2011. As a result of the success of the testing, mallowstreet has begun to accept, and has a growing membership of, non-UK users from the global pensions community.
References
External links
mallowstreet.com
British social networking websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9l%C3%A9gation%20interminist%C3%A9rielle%20%C3%A0%20l%27am%C3%A9nagement%20du%20territoire%20et%20%C3%A0%20l%27attractivit%C3%A9%20r%C3%A9gionale | The délégation interministérielle à l'aménagement du territoire et à l'attractivité régionale (English: Interministerial Delegation of Land Planning and Regional Attractiveness) or DATAR was a French administration working for the Minister of Territorial Development. It applied decisions taken by the Interministerial Committee of Land Planning and Development (CIADT).
It was created in 1963 by Georges Pompidou's government.
In 2009, DATAR handed over its missions to the Commissariat général à l’égalité des territoires (English: General Commission for Equal Territories).
Different names
When created in 1963, the DATAR is named "Délégation à l'aménagement du territoire et à l'action régionale" (Land Development and Regional Action Delegation). In 2005, it changed to "Délégation interministérielle à l'aménagement et à la compétitivité des territoires" (DIACT; Interministerial Delegation of Planning and Territorial Competitiveness). In 2009, it became DATAR.
Actions performed by the DATAR
The DATAR insisted in the 70's that the SNCF build a new railway station on the LGV Sud-Est, near Montchanin : this station would become the Gare du Creusot TGV.
In the 70's, the DATAR gives funds Matra Transport to launch the development of ARAMIS, a personal rapid transit project.
In the 80's, the DATAR launches a Mission photographique, whose goal is to know better the French territory by taking thousands of photographs. Most of those photographs are stored in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
In 1965, the DATAR gives funds to Jean Bertin to help him create his company, the "Société d'Etude de l'Aérotrain", which aims to build a new hovercraft train.
References
External links
official website
Government of France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Walford | Edward Walford (1823–1897) was a British magazine editor and a compiler of educational, biographical, genealogical and touristic works, perhaps best known for the final four volumes of Old and New London (Cassell, London, 1878).
Life
Walford, second son of William Walford of Hatfield Peverel, Essex, matriculated at the University of Oxford on 28 November 1840, aged 17. He was a scholar at Balliol College, Oxford 1841-1847 (B.A. 1845, M.A. 1847), and an ordained clergyman of the Church of England (deacon 1846, priest 1847). He was awarded the Chancellor's Prize for Latin verse in 1843, and the Denyer Theological Prize in 1848 and 1849.
After leaving the university, he was employed as an assistant master of Tonbridge School, but in 1853 converted to Catholicism, and began to earn his living from writing and editorial work. He returned to the Church of England in 1860, but again became a Catholic in 1871.
He died at Ventnor on 20 November 1897, after some years of illness.
Works
In 1855, Walford published an abridged work containing Sozomen's and Philostorgius' Ecclesiastical History, which he translated into English. His genealogical compilations include Walford's County Families (begun 1860) and the Windsor Peerage (1890). He also contributed articles to the Dictionary of National Biography.
In 1862, he took over the existing biographical compendium of eminent living persons, Men of the Time, and retitled it Men and Women of the Time. His work on this compendium led to correspondence with many prominent individuals, including Charles Darwin and Wilkie Collins.
He edited the Gentleman's Magazine from 1866 to 1868, and The Antiquary from 1879 to 1880. Soon after The Antiquary began publication he had a well-publicized falling-out with the publisher, Elliot Stock, and in 1882 launched the rival Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer (renamed Walford's Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographical Review 1885). This journal ceased publication in 1886.
References
External links
Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographer 7 (1882) at Internet Archive
1823 births
1897 deaths
British magazine editors
Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
British genealogists
19th-century English Anglican priests
Anglican priest converts to Roman Catholicism
19th-century British journalists
British male journalists
19th-century British male writers
People from Hatfield Peverel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Reporting%20System | The Electronic recording and reporting system (ERS) is used by EU countries to record, report, process, store and send fisheries data including catch, landing, sales and transhipment.
The key element is the electronic logbook where the master of a fishing vessel keeps a record of fishing operations. The record is then sent to the national authorities, which store the information in a secure database.
Notes
Fishing industry
Fisheries science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telesphere | Telesphere is a nationwide Unified Communications as a Service provider for businesses. In 2003 Telesphere began providing highly secure cloud-based voice and data services over a private IP MPLS network to mid and large enterprises throughout the United States and now also in Europe. Telesphere provides hosted VoIP, managed video bridging, MPLS network services, private SIP trunking, mobile integration and many other cloud communications services. Services are available regardless of the geographic location throughout the United States.
History
Telesphere was founded in 2000 and is backed and operated by investors who were affiliated with Cellular One/AT&T Wireless, Nextel, Nextlink, XO Communications, and Clearwire, drawing talent from telecom industry veterans with successful track records.
In September 2009, Telesphere acquired the VoIP services business of Denver-based IP services provider Unity Business Networks.
From mid-2008 through mid-2010, Telesphere raised more capital than any other venture backed privately held company in Arizona. Funding has featured several premier telecommunications investors including: Rally Capital, Hawkeye Investments and the Greenspun Corporation. Telesphere agreed to be acquired by Vonage for $114 million in November 2014.
Current customers and sponsors
Telesphere currently supports customers across the US, Canada, and Europe.
Telesphere is active with national charities, including the American Red Cross, Make-a-Wish Foundation, Southwest Human Development’s Adapt Shop, and the American Lung Association. Community involvement is multi-faceted, taking place at all levels of the organization. Telesphere actively participates in a Lunch Buddy Mentoring Program with Big Brothers Big Sisters; Making Strides; American Society Run/Walk; Make-a-Wish 5k Run; and, numerous other philanthropic events across the nation.
Awards
Telesphere Ranked No. 1 UCaaS Provider by Wainhouse Research’s ‘BroadSoft Provider Power Rankings–2014
Telesphere Honored as One of the State’s Top 50 Largest Private Companies at Arizona Corporate Excellence Awards Night
Telesphere Recognized as a Challenger in Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) in 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant
Telesphere Recognized as Inc. 500/5000 Fast-Growing Company
Telesphere selected as one of the Top Companies to Work for in Arizona
Telesphere Receives 2014 Unified Communications Product of the Year Award
TMC's Internet Telephony Magazine - 2013 Unified Communications Award
Deloitte - Technology Fast 500 Award
Inc 500/5000 - Inc 5000 Fastest Growing companies in the US (3rd year in a row)
Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce - 2013 Sterling Award Winner
BestCompaniesAZ.com 2014 Arizona's Most Admired Companies Winner
Cloud Communications Alliance
Telesphere is one of 23 technology companies that make up the Cloud Communications Alliance.
Clark Peterson, CEO of Telesphere, is the first and current chairman of the Cloud Communications Allianc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command-line%20interface | A command-line interface (CLI) is a means of interacting with a computer program by inputting lines of text called command-lines. Command-line interfaces emerged in the mid-1960s, on computer terminals, as a user-friendly alternative to punched cards.
Today, most users rely on graphical user interfaces ("GUIs") instead of CLIs. However, many programs and operating system utilities lack GUIs, and are intended to be used through CLIs.
Knowledge of CLIs is also useful for writing scripts. Programs that have CLIs are generally easy to automate via scripting, since command-lines, being mere lines of text, are easy to specify in code.
CLIs are made possible by command-line interpreters or command-line processors, which are programs that read command-lines and carry out the commands.
Alternative user interfaces
Alternatives to CLIs include GUIs (most notably desktop metaphors with a mouse pointer, such as Microsoft Windows), text-based user interface menus (such as DOS Shell and IBM AIX SMIT), and keyboard shortcuts.
Comparison to graphical user interfaces
Compared with a graphical user interface, a command-line interface requires fewer system resources to implement. Since options to commands are given in a few characters in each command line, an experienced user often finds the options easier to access. Automation of repetitive tasks is simplified by line editing and history mechanisms for storing frequently used sequences; this may extend to a scripting language that can take parameters and variable options. A command-line history can be kept, allowing review or repetition of commands.
A command-line system may require paper or online manuals for the user's reference, although often a "help" option provides a concise review of the options of a command. The command-line environment may not provide graphical enhancements such as different fonts or extended edit windows found in a GUI. It may be difficult for a new user to become familiar with all the commands and options available, compared with the icons and drop-down menus of a graphical user interface, without reference to manuals.
Types
Operating system command-line interfaces
Operating system (OS) command-line interfaces are usually distinct programs supplied with the operating system. A program that implements such a text interface is often called a command-line interpreter, command processor or shell.
Examples of command-line interpreters include DEC's DIGITAL Command Language (DCL) in OpenVMS and RSX-11, the various Unix shells (sh, ksh, csh, tcsh, zsh, Bash, etc.), CP/M's CCP, DOS' COMMAND.COM, as well as the OS/2 and the Windows CMD.EXE programs, the latter groups being based heavily on DEC's RSX-11 and RSTS CLIs. Under most operating systems, it is possible to replace the default shell program with alternatives; examples include 4DOS for DOS, 4OS2 for OS/2, and 4NT / Take Command for Windows.
Although the term 'shell' is often used to describe a command-line interpreter, str |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLI | CLI may refer to:
Computing
Call Level Interface, an SQL database management API
Command-line interface, of a computer program
Command-line interpreter or command language interpreter; see List of command-line interpreters
CLI (x86 instruction)
ISO Common Language Infrastructure for multi-platform code (.Net)
Organizations
Caribbean Law Institute
Clì Gàidhlig, an organisation supporting learners of Scottish Gaelic
Committee for the Liberation of Iraq
Corps Léger d'Intervention
Other
151 (number), in Roman numerals
Canada Land Inventory
Cebu Landmasters, Philippine stock exchange code CLI
Critical limb ischemia
Telephone Caller Line Identification (Caller ID) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20of%20the%20South | The Radio of the South (Spanish: La Radio del Sur) is an international radio network based in Caracas, Venezuela. It was launched in January 2010. The network follows the 2005 launch of TeleSur, the Venezuelan government television propaganda network aimed at Latin America.
History
The network began operations in September 2009 with 88 stations in Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States, Canada and Spain, including 18 stations in Argentina and 10 in Colombia. Whilst initially focussed on countries with Spanish-speaking populations, the network aims eventually to translate programming into French, English, Dutch and Arabic, to provide coverage for Africa.
Initially it was reported that around a third of its content would be produced in Caracas (with the remaining content produced by allied stations in Latin America and Africa).
Controversy
In May 2011 workers at the Radio of the South protested against the dismissal of the network's president, stating that the move did not respect the network's internal participatory process, and was "without any explanation or formality, behaviour that is incoherent with socialist principles". Workers said the dismissal was a reprisal for the network's critical reporting of Venezuela's deportation to Colombia of Joaquin Pérez Becerra, an alternative media activist accused of FARC links. Becerra was a Colombian councillor for the Patriotic Union who was granted asylum in Sweden.
References
Radio stations established in 2010
Radio stations in Venezuela
Mass media in Caracas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashion%20One | Fashion One is a 24-hour New York City-based television network founded by German entrepreneur, Michael Gleissner and owned by the Miami Beach, Florida-based entertainment company, Bigfoot Entertainment. Launched on April 8, 2010, the New York City-based television network broadcasts programming related to fashion, entertainment and lifestyle.
History
Michael Gleissner, a German entrepreneur founded and established the channel and its parent company, Miami Beach, Florida-based Bigfoot Entertainment, in 2004. The Fashion One Channel was officially launched on April 8, 2010 under Fashion One Television LLC. It was initially available in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand to millions of households across free-to-air and direct-to-home satellites. It was then distributed globally via three satellites, namely the Galaxy 19 at 97°W, Hot Bird at 13°E and AsiaSat 3S at 105.5°E. The channel raised US$14 million in September to boost its in-house production slate as well as expanding its reach by adding more satellite television capacity and upgrading existing broadcasts to Full HD. Fashion One TV network later expanded its operation in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Africa, Western Europe and the United States It updated its production format from Full HD to Ultra HD in 2014 and officially launched Fashion 4K under the Fashion One television network on September 1, 2015.
Programming
Fashion One's programming is divided into two categories: core programming and original programming. The core programming primarily consists of content which is provided by external parties, while the original programming is produced by the network itself.
Other channels
Fashion One television network also includes the channels Fashion One HD, Fashion 4K and Fashion One 4K.
Fashion One 4K
Fashion One 4K is a satellite television channel broadcast in Asia, Latin America and North America that operates under the Fashion One television network. The channel was officially launched on September 1, 2015, and is the first English language free-to-air channel to broadcast in 4K/8K resolution (or Ultra High Definition) in the continents mentioned above.
Fashion One also officially launched its sister channel Fashion 4K in Europe, making both channels the first true international launch of an Ultra HD channel.
References
External links
Fashion One Official Site
Television networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMOC | SMOC may refer to:
South Middlesex Opportunities Council, a private social service group in Massachusetts, US
Saint Mary's Orthodox College, a school in Lebanon
Self-modifying code, in computing
Smoke Committee (SmoC), an operating group of the US National Wildfire Coordinating Group
Standard Mean Ocean Chloride, a measure of Chlorine-37 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macfusion | Macfusion was an open-source network file-system client, based on FUSE, CurlFtpFS and SSHFS.
See also
Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE)
ExpanDrive
WebDrive
References
External links
Macfusion official site
Macfusion discussion group
Macfusion compiled for 64-bit systems
Free FTP clients
Free special-purpose file systems
Userspace file systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution%20management%20system | An Execution management system, or EMS, is an application utilized by traders designed to display market data and provide seamless and fast access to trading destinations for the purpose of transacting orders. This application contains broker provided and independent algorithms such as TWAP and VWAP, global market data and technology that is able to help predict certain market conditions. One of the important features of EMS is the capacity to manage orders across multiple trading destinations such as stock exchanges, stock brokerage firms, crossing networks and electronic communication networks.
In addition to commercial vendors, a few open-source projects can be counted in as EMS, although their breadth varies.
See also
Algorithmic trading
Dark liquidity
Electronic trading platform
High-frequency trading
Order management system
Single-dealer platform
References
External links
Directory of EMS vendors
EMS Providers Jump Onto The Cloud
Converge and Diverge
Electronic trading systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20It%20or%20List%20It | Love It or List It is a home design TV show starring Hilary Farr and David Visentin broadcast since 2008 on HGTV, W Network, and OWN Canada. It is the original show in the Love it or List It franchise.
The show has run for 18 seasons to date having premiered on September 8, 2008. The 18th season ran from October to December 2021. In September 2014, the show began filming in North Carolina.
Format
Every episode of Love It or List It follows the same format. A couple or family shows their current house to designer Hilary Farr and real estate agent David Visentin. Hilary redesigns parts of the home based on the desires of the homeowners and their budget and she oversees the renovations and construction. David finds real estate listings that meet the homeowners' needs and budget to convince them to list their current house and buy a new one.
Common challenges that Hilary faces include an inadequate budget to complete the entire request list from the homeowners, often due to discovery of unforeseen issues with the house that are uncovered during the renovation, such as lack of compliance with modern building codes.
Common issues for David, meanwhile, depend on the homeowners' desires; for instance, the couple has children enrolled in the neighborhood school and they do not desire to change, or the potential house is too distant from family members or a workplace. Frequently, David will offer a house significantly outside his given budget, and the homeowners will consider it, or homeowners will outright increase his target; Hilary meets with much more resistance to requests for even small increases in the renovation budget.
After Hilary's renovation is complete, the homeowners are given a tour of their current home to see what she was able to accomplish.
After the tour, David meets with them and hands them an evaluation of the home's current market value following the renovations. He will then remind the couple what they could have in one of the new homes they looked at and that they would not get that in their current home.
The homeowners then meet with Hilary and David, who pose a question to them: The homeowners must choose either to "Love It," meaning that they will continue to live in their current home with the renovations, or to "List It," meaning that they will buy one of the homes David showed them and sell their current home.
At this stage, all else being equal Hilary is at a theoretical disadvantage: Although Hilary's renovations increase the attractiveness of her "Love It" option by improving the current home's livability, they simultaneously increase the attractiveness of David's "List It" option by increasing the current home's resale value and thereby decreasing the net cost of acquiring any given new home that he proposes.
By contrast, David's efforts to maximize the attractiveness of his "List It" option do not provide Hilary any offsetting benefit increasing the attractiveness of her "Love It" option.
After a moment to deli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPG%20Metanoia | RPG Metanoia is a 2010 Filipino 3D computer-animated adventure film produced by Ambient Media, Thaumatrope Animation and Star Cinema. It is the first full length Philippine animated movie presented in 3D. It was an official entry at the 2010 Metro Manila Film Festival. It won the title for 3rd Best Picture, Best Sound Recording and Best Original Theme Song, as well as the Quezon City's Special Citation given for being a Gender Sensitive Movie. The stereoscopy of the film was made by Roadrunner Network, Inc.
Cast
The film features an ensembled cast.
Vhong Navarro as Cel / Sargo
Zaijan Jaranilla as Nico "Nick" "Nicholas" / Zero
Mika Dela Cruz as May "Mayumi" / Cassandra
Jairus Aquino as Bryan "Bry"/ Mang Ernie
Basty Alcances as Mark "Marcus" / Ahdonis
Aaron Junatas as Bobby "Bob" / Sumpak
Jonas Calapatan as Daniel "Dan" "Danny" / K'Mao
Aga Muhlach as Daddy
Eugene Domingo as Mommy
Ketchup Eusebio as Andrew "Andy" / Bossing
Igi Boy Flores as David "Dave" / Sidekick
Production
Luis Suárez stated that the idea for the film came from his time with his nephew during summer (March–May). He asked his nephew what he wanted to do and he said he wanted to play online RPG games, so they went to a café and Luis spent the whole day with his nephew inside it. He then wanted to make a story for him for his nephew to see what he is missing in life. RPG took 5 years to make. Thaumatrope Animation began work in 2006. In 2008, a teaser trailer for the movie (then titled "theRPGmovie") was shown at Level Up's Ragnarok Online event at the World Trade Center. In August 2009, Ambientmedia officially partnered with ABS-CBN. In June 2010, it was announced to be an official entry for the 36th Metro Manila Film Festival. In August 2010, RPG Metanoia's official website was launched. The Cinema Evaluation Board gave the movie a Grade A. MTRCB gave the film a rated G (General Patronage).
Reception
Critical reception
Julius Edward B. Penascosa of The Philippine Star gave RPG Metanoia a positive review, praising the film for its originality, characters and plot, also noting its depiction of Philippine culture and for not relying on star power as seen with mainstream MMFF entries; the film's voice acting however was criticized, likening the actors' performances to a typical Tagalog dub of an anime series.
Philbert Ortiz Dy of ClickTheCity.com declared the film worthy of comparison to CGI animated features released by Pixar Animation, the studio behind animated films such as Toy Story 3, Up, WALL-E, and Cars, stating: "Regular readers are probably aware of how highly I regard Pixar and their work, and so it should taken as high praise when I say that I would proudly hold RPG Metanoia up against even the best of Pixar. The film is simply extraordinary."
Score
RPG Metanoia the Album is the official soundtrack album of the film published by Star Music. The original film score was composed by Ria Osorio and Gerard Salonga, with the Filharmonika Orchestra performing their composit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyEphem | PyEphem is a library that implements astronomical algorithms for the Python programming language. It is free under the LGPL.
The library is written in Python and C, with code for calculating positions of bodies taken from XEphem by permission.
References
External links
Official homepage
Cross-platform software
Free astronomy software
Free science software
Free software programmed in Python
Python (programming language) scientific libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Fraud%20Intelligence%20Bureau | The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau is a police unit in the United Kingdom responsible for gathering and analysing intelligence relating to fraud and financially motivated cyber crime. The NFIB was created as part of the recommendations of the 2006 National Fraud Review, which also saw the formation of the National Fraud Authority. The NFIB was developed and is overseen by the City of London Police as part of its role as a national lead for economic crime investigation, and is funded by the Home Office.
Overview
The NFIB analyses information from a large number of organisations within the public and private sectors, including industry, commerce and government sources. Investigators from both law enforcement and private sector backgrounds analyse the raw intelligence for distinct patterns of fraudulent activity and behaviour. When patterns are spotted, such as an identifying a persistent offender or linked activities, intelligence reports are sent to relevant regional police or law enforcement organisations for investigation, which may involve enquiries throughout the UK and overseas. The public, as well as businesses and the police can report fraud to the NFIB using the national fraud reporting service, called Action Fraud.
Action Fraud
About 90 investigators, who are not police officers, work at the NFIB in the City of London.
Action Fraud is the UK's national reporting service for fraud and financially motivated cyber crime. It was transferred to the City of London Police after the National Fraud Authority was closed in March 2014. Action Fraud has a website and call centre which provide information about different types of fraud and offer prevention advice. Individuals and businesses can report fraud (such as forwarding scam emails for inspection) to Action Fraud on their website or by telephone. When a fraud is reported to Action Fraud, victims are given a crime reference number and their case is, allegedly, passed on to the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau.
There were about 85 call-handling staff working on the Action Fraud helpline in November 2014 which fell to 70 by December 2015. Action Fraud staff are employed by contractor Concentrix. Numbers increased to about 80 staff in 2018.
A review in July 2021 led to an announcement in July 2023 that the service would be replaced by one to be provided by Capita and PwC
Effectiveness
Despite its title, Action Fraud does not take action to resolve cases of fraud: it is a reporting and analysis centre only. An investigation by Which?, the Consumers Association, published in September 2018, found that only a quarter of cases reported to Action Fraud were passed on to local police forces for action, and that fewer than 4% of cases handled by Action Fraud resulted in anyone being charged or otherwise dealt with by the justice system (this compares, for example, with 80% of cases involving drug abuse). A BBC Radio 4 'File on 4 programme' on 17 November 2019 was devoted to disappointing exper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro%20Chinese%20Network | Metro Chinese Network is a Rockville, Maryland-based Chinese-language TV station. It occupied DTV channel 30.3 in Greater Washington, DC area. Their content comes from Chinese Mainland, Taiwan, Hong Kong, including concerts, dancing, and contemporary TV series. It broadcast 20/7. As of October 1, 2011, the free OTA network had stopped broadcasting due to budget difficulties.
Television networks in the United States
Asian-American culture in Maryland
Chinese-language television
Companies based in Rockville, Maryland
Hong Kong-American culture
Taiwanese-American culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed%20networking | Speed networking (or speed business meeting) is a meeting format designed to accelerate business contacts.
Speed networking basically involves participants gathering together to exchange information. Participants greet each other in a series of brief exchanges during a set period of time. During an interaction, participants share their professional backgrounds and business goals. Networkers are generally seeking exposure to new markets and/or expanding their pool of vendors.
History
Speed networking is often referenced as a derivative of speed dating, the round-robin approach to meeting potential suitors first developed by Rabbi Yaacov Deyo in the late 1990s.
Speed networking combines speed dating with business networking. It is thought to have started in the United States and/or the United Kingdom. Speed networking was first utilized during the early 2000s and began rising in popularity by the end of the decade.
Credit for applying speed dating concepts to the corporate world has been attributed to Tom Jaffee, a founder of a speed-dating network. In the United Kingdom, speed networking was introduced by Michael Piddock, future founder of event technology company Glisser , to increase employee-to-employee connections in corporate events.
Although the techniques for speed dating and speed networking can be similar – participants paired or grouped together for the purpose of introduction – the practices differ in their end goals. Speed daters are trying to narrow down their choices by eliminating the unsuitable; conversely, speed networkers are trying to broaden their connections by increasing their exposure.
Organization
Speed networking is based on three models
Round Robin - meeting random participants one-on-one sequentially.
Station-based - meeting specific participants based on pre-assignments.
Group-based - meeting with a preselected group.
Most speed networking events begin in an open room for Participants to mingle. The host then explains the structure of the event. The moderator will place time limits on the participants interactions, telling them when the time intervals have expired. if the event calls for participants to move to preassigned tables or groups, the moderator will facilitate this.
Models/modalities
Round robin
In the Round Robin model, participants meet each other sequentially in random pairings. To facilitate movement of participants, the chairs in the room are often organized in two circles or facing rows of desks.
The host opens the first round of meetings, usually with a bell or buzzer. The two participants in each meeting introduce themselves, briefly summarizing their business histories and goals. They often exchange business cards and possibly additional information for a follow-up meeting.
After a set time period of a few minutes, the host stops the first round of meetings. Then either the inner or outer circle participants – or the front or back line of desks – moves to the next space. Following |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realized%20kernel | The realized kernel (RK) is an estimator of volatility. The estimator is typically computed with high frequency return data, such as second-by-second returns. Unlike the realized variance, the realized kernel is a robust estimator of volatility, in the sense that the realized kernel estimates the appropriate volatility quantity, even when the returns are contaminated with noise.
Notes
Mathematical finance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surround%20%28video%20game%29 | Surround is a video game programmed by Alan Miller and published by Atari, Inc. for the Atari Video Computer System (later known as the Atari 2600). It was one of the nine Atari VCS launch titles released in September 1977. Surround is an unofficial port of the arcade video game Blockade, released the previous year by Gremlin Industries. It is the first home console version of the game that became widely known across many platforms as Snake. Atari licensed it to Sears which released it under the name Chase.
Gameplay
Like its predecessor Blockade, the object of Surround is to maneuver a square across the screen, leaving a trail behind. A player wins by forcing the other player to crash into one of the trails. Twelve game variations include options allow for speed-up, diagonal movement, wrap-around, and "erase" (the choice to not draw at a given moment). In addition, the sprites can be set to operate at a slower speed, or progressively speed up through five speeds.
Two additional variations provide a non-game mode called "Video Graffiti" in which players use the joysticks to draw pictures on the screen.
Reception
The cartridge and its individual games were reviewed twice in Video magazine. In the Winter 1979 issue of Video, the cartridge was reviewed as part of a general review of the Atari VCS. Collectively games 1-12 were given a review score of 9 out of 10 and described as "complex and challenging" whereas games 13-14 were collectively scored a 5 out of 10 and were described as "fine as a substitute for Soletaire but basically pretty dull". A more thorough review appeared in Video's "Arcade Alley" column in the Summer 1979 issue where variations #4 and #6 were singled out individually for specific praise. Variation #4 was described as the best solo-play version, though the reviewers noted that the computer employed a particularly conservative (non-aggressive) strategy. Variation #6 (which allows diagonal movements) was identified as the best tournament game, and was praised for "an elegance of design that promotes frequent replay".
See also
List of Atari 2600 games
References
1977 video games
Atari 2600 games
Atari games
North America-exclusive video games
Snake video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifier-activated%20lullaby | PAL: Pacifier Activated Lullaby is a pacifier fitted with an adapter, which houses a computer chip that activates a CD player outside the incubator. Developed in 2000 by Dr. Jayne M. Standley along with the Center for Music Research at Florida State University, the PAL is used during music therapy interventions in the neonatal intensive-care unit to promote and reinforce non-nutritive sucking (NNS) opportunities on premature infants. Dr. Standley found that infants could differentiate between silence and musical stimuli, which meant infants could be positively reinforced with music when they sucked with enough endurance and strength.
The sensors in the PAL detect correct non-nutritive sucking characteristics and activate a CD player which reproduces lullabies through small speakers placed binaurally in the incubator above the infant's head.
Music protocol
Lullabies are selected for this intervention by credentialed music therapists following these basic criteria:
no changes in tempo
no changes in volume level (65db scale C)
no key changes
higher vocal ranges (mainly female vocals)
the native language of the infant to promote language input opportunities
The music is sustained for 10 seconds after receiving the first suck, and fades out if it is not reactivated by another one, therefore making the presentation of musical stimuli contingent on the sucking behavior of the infant. Provisions are made in the protocol to discontinue the intervention if signs of infant distress are observed.
Studies
Studies have shown that contingent music, such as pacifier activated lullabies, increased pacifier sucking rate of premature infants more than 2.5 times (Standley 2000), and that they have also increased subsequent feeding rates.
Recent research observed that a PAL intervention can significantly reduce gavage feeding days and the length of hospitalization for premature infants when used at the specific gestation age of 34 weeks. Some criteria for referral are:
Infant has been determined to tolerate two simultaneous modes of stimulation.
Infant has no severe abnormalities that affect ability to suck/feed or to learn.
Infant has no indication of infection requiring quarantine.
References
External links
The sound of relief
Dr.Jayne M. Standley profile
The Effect of Music Reinforcement for Non-Nurtritive Sucking of Premature Infants
American inventions
Child care
Music therapy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steadfast%20Networks | Steadfast Networks is a Chicago, Illinois-based Internet Service Provider primarily focused on Cloud Computing, Dedicated Servers and Colocation. It is a division of Nozone, Inc., a company founded in 1998 by then high-school student Karl Zimmerman in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and incorporated in 2000. In 2008 it was named number 370 on the Inc 500 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America List and was on the Inc 5000 List of the Largest Companies in America in both 2009 and 2010.
Locations
Steadfast currently has datacenter facilities in 3 locations: Two in downtown Chicago and one in Edison, New Jersey.
Steadfast has a private network with peering points throughout the United States along with London and Amsterdam.
Controversy
In November 2007 the Chicago Tribune published an article on the hosting of hate sites in America, where they are protected by the First Amendment. The Anti-Defamation League noted that Steadfast hosted 17 such sites. Steadfast responded on the official company blog to clarify that they are strong supporters of the First Amendment, but against hate speech.
References
External links
Official website
Steadfast Blog
Steadfast Support
Web hosting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20League%20episodes | The League is an American comedy series created by Jeff Schaffer and Jackie Marcus Schaffer. It premiered on the FX Network on October 29, 2009 and concluded its first season of 6 episodes on December 10, 2009. A second season consisting of 13 episodes began airing on September 16, 2010 and concluded with a double-episode on December 9, 2010. The third season also of 13 episodes ran from October 6 to December 22, 2011 and the fourth season of 13 episodes ran from October 11 to December 20, 2012. On March 28, FX announced that the show would be renewed for a sixth season, along with its move to the new channel, FXX, starting with the fifth season.
The series' 13 episode seventh and final season premiered September 9, 2015. The 84th and final episode of The League aired December 9, 2015.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2009)
Season 2 (2010)
Season 3 (2011)
Season 4 (2012)
Season 5 (2013)
Season 6 (2014)
Season 7 (2015)
One month after the conclusion of the 6th season, FXX announced that they had renewed The League for a seventh and final season. It premiered on September 9, 2015.
References
External links
Lists of American sitcom episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invizimals%3A%20Shadow%20Zone | Invizimals: Shadow Zone is a PlayStation Portable augmented reality video game developed by Novarama, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. It is the sequel to 2009's Invizimals. As such, it is a collectible creature game, and requires the PSP's camera attachment for play. It was released on November 12, 2010 in Europe and on October 25, 2011 in North America. The game also includes a needed trap card to play but can be easily replaced by printing a new one.
A sequel entitled, Invizimals: The Lost Tribes was announced in June 2011, which was released on November 4, 2011.
Story
After the events of the previous game, Kenichi Nakamura is hurt by the betrayal of Sebastian Campbell, and creates the Alliance, a group of Invizimal hunters tasked with protecting Invizimals and the world against those like Campbell who seek to exploit InviZimals for their own gain. Kenichi appoints the player as one of the Alliance's first members.
Kenichi and his friends, Jazmin Nayar and Professor Bob Dawson, meet in a Barcelona library alongside a colleague of Dawson's, Professor Alex Michaels. There, they discuss their intentions to explore the world to find new Invizimal species. Kenichi posits that Campbell may still be alive, which the others doubt.
The three of Dawson, Kenichi, and Jazmin take part in a friendly tournament that the player wins. After this, the three friends set off to explore the world, with Dawson exploring North America, Jazmin exploring eastern Asia, and Kenichi exploring parts of Northeast Africa, with the player assisting each of them along the way through their journey.
As Kenichi is exploring the base around Mount Kilimanjaro, he discovers an unusual looking Invizimal that he caught which looks like a Rattleraptor, but much more aggressive and powerful, and it is interfering with Kenichi's PSP system. While the player fights it to conduct research, the Dark Rattleraptor uses an unusual power that had never been seen before. After the battle concludes, Kenichi determines it must be dangerous, and sends it to Professor Dawson so that he can perform further experimentation. Dawson concludes that this Rattleraptor is a dark creature, a corrupted version of Rattleraptor that is much more powerful, aggressive, and dangerous to electronics.
While Professor Dawson is exploring Native American redwood forests in California, he is becoming increasingly deranged and paranoid, to the extent that he suspects people are stalking him. Dawson soon finds out that a group of local Invizimal hunters in the area have found another Dark InviZimal, and are planning to have a tournament with it as the main prize. Dawson has the player the tournament, which they eventually win, to get a second Dark InviZimal within Dawson's collection. After the tournament is over, with Dawson now having two Dark Invizimals in his collection, Dawson begins to go insane and corrupted by their presence.
While Kenichi is struggling to enter the tomb of an Egypti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Flatter | Ronald Allen Flatter (born April 9, 1959) is an American and Australian radio broadcaster based in New York City. He is currently a reporter and anchor for the Vegas Stats & Information Network (VSiN). He is also a contributing reporter for radio station RSN927 in Melbourne, Australia. Flatter is of no relation to the musician and DJ by the same name who is based in Germany.
Broadcasting
Growing up in Chico, California, Flatter became a part-time TV sports reporter at Chico's KHSL shortly after his first assignment was calling and producing an NASL exhibition soccer match in March 1976 between the San Jose Earthquakes and Dallas Tornado when he was 16 years old.
He studied at Butte College and moved from KHSL to small-market radio and newspaper jobs in Utah, Arizona, and California. Most of these were sports assignments, but Flatter occasionally handled news duties.
In 1989, he got his first major-market job, working for the Pasadena Star-News, covering LA college, pro, and prep sports. He was also hired as a producer by Los Angeles radio station KMPC when it switched to an all sports format.
In 1992 Flatter moved to Bristol, Connecticut, to start work as a producer, production manager, and creative director in two separate stints with ESPN Radio (1992–95 and 1998–2004).
Flatter became an air personality at sports stations in Miami (1995–96) and Austin, Texas (1996–98).
Following a visit to Australia, he moved from the US to Melbourne to become Sport 927's Editor of International Sport from 2004 to 2007. He still contributes radio and web features for the station from the Super Bowl and from major horse races in the U.S. and Europe.
With his Australian work visa set to expire, Flatter returned to the States in early 2007 to begin a career as a freelance broadcaster and sportswriter in Manhattan.
In the same year, 1050 ESPN Radio, now WEPN (1050 AM, "ESPN New York") made Flatter its lead weekend anchor. In October 2009, he became the station's weekday morning anchor, delivering local SportsCenter updates during the network's Mike and Mike in the Morning program. In March 2010, Flatter was assigned to anchor updates within The Seth Everett Show, The Herd and McDonald & Tierney, an assignment that carried to the expiration of his contract in September 2010. In November 2010, Flatter was named one of the permanent anchors of Fox News Radio's national newscasts. His role at Fox included reporting from the field for certain sports events that are considered worthy of attention within the network's regular newscasts. Flatter had served as a substitute anchor for the network since January 2008.
He has covered the Kentucky Derby since 2007 as a paddock reporter for ESPN Radio, which won an Eclipse Award for its 2009 broadcast.
Flatter covered the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, both for ESPN Sports Radio in the US and Sport 927 in Australia.
Additional Flatter assignments have included the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles (1984), and W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bled%20eConference | Bled eConference is an annual international conference on “e” (e-commerce, e-business, e-health, e-government, EDI, IOS, social networks, m-commerce etc.) attracting speakers and delegates from business and academia, government officials and IT providers from around the world. The conference is organized by eCenter of University of Maribor Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Slovenia in cooperation with an international program committee, currently counting ~55 members from ~22 countries worldwide. The program consists of Research Track, including peer reviewed research paper presentations, and Business Track, presenting panels, workshops and meetings. Since 2007 the program also includes René W. Wagenaar Prototype Bazaar dedicated to PhD and MsC students’ presentations of e-prototypes and business e-solutions.
It takes place in Bled, Slovenia.
Bled eConference is considered to be the world’s longest-running conference on “e”, established in 1988 by Jože Gričar, PhD.
Research Track
Bled eConference has featured research papers since its inception. A fully reviewed Research Track was established in 1995, running parallel tracks of 40-50 papers each year, with an acceptance rate around 50%.
Since 1999, the Research Track has included an Outstanding Paper Award.
In 2006 Bled eConference has entered a strategic partnership with the journal, Electronic Markets.
The Research Volume of Bled eConference Proceedings is included in international AIS – Association of Information Systems Electronic Library (since 2001) and since 2008 in Conference Proceedings Citation Index - an integrated index within Web of Science.
Web 2.0 and social media will play a ver important part of the 2011 Bled eConference
History
Established in March 1988, conference started out as a consultation meeting on Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) for the representatives of Slovenian organizations. The meeting was initiated by Jože Gričar and organized by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia in Ljubljana. The Second consultation meeting on EDI was held in Bled, which later becomes a traditional venue of the event, and it was open to the broader public. 120 representatives from companies, banks and government attended the meeting to hear 19 submissions and see a live demonstration of a prototype solution for the electronic order exchange. The conference had opened for international participants in its third year, adding participants from USA, Austria, Japan and Poland to the program. In 1991 the consultation meeting grows into The International Electronic Data Interchange Conference with 260 participants from 15 countries and 56 research papers.
Conference edited its name again in 1993, adding Interorganizational Systems (IOS) to it. As the development trends indicated in 1997 the terms EDI and IOS in the conference's name were substituted with the term Electronic Commerce, also the conference recognized Bled as its traditional venue (10th Bled Electronic Commerce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KZGM | KZGM is a non-commercial educational FM broadcast station on 88.1 MHz at Cabool, Missouri. The station produces over 50% of its programming locally featuring local and independent artists as well as coverage of area events and issues. The station is listener supported. It is locally owned an operated. It is owned by Real Community Radio Network at the same location as the studio. It runs a community radio format and describes itself as providing the first public radio service to over 25,000 people.
As of the end of July 2010, KZGM is being fed to 90.7 WAZU Peoria, Illinois as well, while WAZU establishes its permanent operations.
See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
References
External links
Radio stations established in 2009
Community radio stations in the United States
Texas County, Missouri
ZGM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurpreet%20Singh%20Lehal | Gurpreet Singh Lehal (born 6 February 1963) is a professor in the Computer Science Department, Punjabi University, Patiala and Director of the Advanced Centre for Technical Development of Punjabi Language Literature and Culture. He is noted for his work in the application of computer technology in the use of the Punjabi language both in the Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi script.
A post graduate in Mathematics from Panjab University, he did his master's degree in Computer Science from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology and Ph.D. in Computer Science on Gurmukhi Optical Character Recognition (OCR) System from Punjabi University, Patiala.
Background
As a researcher Lehal's main contribution has been development of technologies related to the computerization of the Punjabi language. Prominent among these are first Gurmukhi OCR, first bilingual Gurmukhi/Roman OCR, first Punjabi font identification and conversion system, first multi-font Punjabi spell checker, first high accuracy Gurmukhi-Shahmukhi and Shahmukhi-Gurmukhi transliteration systems and first Intelligent Predictive Roman-Gurmukhi transliteration techniques for simplifying Punjabi typing. Lehal has published more than 100 research papers in various national and international journals and conference proceedings. Lehal has handled research projects worth more than 43 million Rupees, including three international projects, which were awarded in an open competition among contestants from more than 30 countries. As a software engineer, Lehal has developed more than 25 software systems, including the first commercial Punjabi word processor, Akhar. As an academician, Lehal has taught and supervised research activities of postgraduate and doctorate students. He has guided more than 100 postgraduate Research scholars and 11 PhD students on various topics related to the computerization of Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu and Sindhi languages.
Work
Lehal has been working for more than fifteen years on different projects related to computerization of Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu and Sindhi languages and has been a pioneer in developing technical solutions for these languages. For the first time, many new technologies have been developed by him including Intelligent Predictive Roman-Gurmukhi transliteration techniques for simplifying Punjabi typing, Punjabi spell checker, Intelligent Punjabi and Hindi font converter, bilingual Gurmukhi/Roman OCR and Sindhi-Devnagri transliteration. Many other products for popularizing Punjabi and breaking the script and language barriers have been developed under his leadership. Some of these products which are being widely used include a multi-media based website for Punjabi teaching, Gurmukhi-Shahmukhi transliteration utility, Punjabi-Hindi translation software, Urdu-Hindi transliteration software, Punjabi Search Engine, Punjabi Text-to-Speech Synthesis System, Punjabi text summarization system and Punjabi grammar checker.
Language Software and Technologies developed
First Gurmuk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tournan%20station | Tournan station (French: Gare de Tournan) is a hub in the French transport network enabling travellers to reach the region around Tournan-en-Brie (Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France). This place provides an easy connection to other forms of road transport. It is a railway station serving the town Tournan-en-Brie, Seine-et-Marne department, northern France. It is on the line from Gretz-Armainvilliers to Sézanne.
See also
List of Réseau Express Régional stations
List of SNCF stations in Île-de-France
List of Transilien stations
External links
Réseau Express Régional stations
Railway stations in Seine-et-Marne
Railway stations in France opened in 1861 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Arab%20Network | Global Arab Network (GAN) (in Arabic غلوبال اراب نتورك) is a comprehensive news and information service about the Arab world in English and Arabic, registered and based in London, UK.
Founded in 2006, GAN covers news and information from the Middle East and North Africa concerning national and international affairs, relations between the Arab countries and the rest of the world, economy and business, foreign policy, science and technology, culture and society, entertainment and lifestyle. ".
Global Arab Network is one of the Strategic Partners of The Middle East Association
References
External links
Global Arab Network (official homepage)
Arab mass media
European news websites
International business
Business organisations based in the United Kingdom
London newspapers
Newspapers established in 2006
Arabic-language newspapers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mekano%20Set | The Mekano Set is a music collective formed in 2007 by Milk (vocals, baritone guitar, programming), Nigel Barrett (guitar, synth, recorder), U Brown (DJ) and Beth Rettig (vocals, guitar).
The group's sound relies heavily upon bass, programmed beats and noise.
History
The Mekano Set originally began as an informal collective of musicians and DJs improvising around programmed electronic beats. Initial recordings relied heavily on improvisation, and non-musical elements such as location recordings and found sounds. Early live performances avoided conventional venues in favour of squat parties and theater spaces. The group regularly perform as a trio but have appeared as a quintet.
Recordings
The group's songs are widely available online via iTunes, Spotify, Grooveshark and Amazon, and through various independent labels including Stray Recordings and Elementary Recordings.
Influences
The group cite an eclectic list of influences including Curve, Talk Talk, Kate Bush, Hawkwind, The Chameleons, David Sylvian, Leftfield, Massive Attack, Joy Division, Public Image Limited, The Sisters of Mercy, The Clash, Depeche Mode, New Order, Gilles Peterson's Worldwide radio show, Twin Peaks, Whitley Strieber and Situationism.
The group's musical style is a combination of post-punk, dance music, shoegazing and breakbeat, with an emphasis on distinctive drum-beats, bass, heavily distorted and processed guitars and unconventional song-structures. The use of baritone vocals, minor keys and drum machines lends much of the group's material a dark, Alternative Rock sound.
The group also continue to cite The Fourth Way, Anarchist and Left Wing political movements as motivation and inspiration. Particularly Situationist and Syndicalist politics.
References
External links
Official website
Official Blog
English techno music groups
Post-punk revival music groups
English alternative rock groups
English electronic music groups
British shoegaze musical groups
British noise rock groups
Musical groups established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20Render%20Targets | In the field of 3D computer graphics, Multiple Render Targets, or MRT, is a feature of modern graphics processing units (GPUs) that allows the programmable rendering pipeline to render images to multiple render target textures at once. These textures can then be used as inputs to other shaders or as texture maps applied to 3D models. Introduced by OpenGL 2.0 and Direct3D 9, MRT can be invaluable to real-time 3D applications such as video games. Before the advent of MRT, a programmer would have to issue a command to the GPU to draw the 3D scene once for each render target texture, resulting in redundant vertex transformations which, in a real-time program expected to run as fast as possible, can be quite time-consuming. With MRT, a programmer creates a pixel shader that returns an output value for each render target. This pixel shader then renders to all render targets with a single draw command.
A common use of MRT is deferred shading, a shading process which, unlike forward shading, performs lighting calculations on an entire 3D scene at once instead of on each individual object. To do this in real-time, MRT is used to store the required information for the lighting calculations in multiple render targets, which are then used after the entire scene has been drawn to calculate the lit final image. Typically one render target holds color and surface information of objects, while another contains the surface normals and depth information of the scene which are used to calculate the reflection of light. Additional render targets can be used to store information such as the specularity of the surface and ambient occlusion data.
See also
Deferred Shading, a shading process that relies heavily on MRT to perform in real-time
3D rendering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Adventures%20of%20Chuck%20and%20Friends | The Adventures of Chuck and Friends (also known as The Adventures of Chuck & Friends, Chuck and Friends, or simply Chuck & Friends) is a computer-animated television series that aired in the U.S. on The Hub's defunct HubBub block, with repeats which aired Saturday mornings on The CW as part of the Vortexx block. The series is mostly about anthropomorphic multiple types of trucks and even construction vehicles.
The show was produced in collaboration by Toronto based studio Nelvana and Hasbro Studios. The Adventures of Chuck and Friends formerly aired on Tiny Pop and Cartoonito in the United Kingdom and on Treehouse TV in Canada.
In 2012, it was announced that Shout! Factory would release episodes of the show on DVD, starting February 14 with "Friends to the Finish".
Characters
Chuck is the whole main protagonist of the series. He is a male red dump truck with a manual transmission. Chuck aspires to be a race truck. His parents are Haulie and Porter, and he has an older brother named Rally. He has various friends, and tries to be the best friend he can be, though he can sometimes be selfish and a bit angry. For example, in "Lights, Camera, Trucks", he repeatedly stops a film production in order to get it perfect. Also, in "Fender Bender", when he accidentally gets injured by Boomer by playing tag, he takes advantage of Boomer in order to get out of cleaning his room. It is revealed in "The Best" that he is great at racing on paved roads. He often uses the phrases "Red-hot turbo chargers!" and "Powering pickups!" He, along with his friends, chant the phrase, "Friends for the long haul!" Chuck's model is a Fusion Greenman.
Rowdy is a male green garbage truck. He is one of Chuck's friends. Like his type of truck indicates, he enjoys getting filthy, usually to the chagrin of his friends. In one episode, it is revealed that he is great at finding things, although he loses the horn his grandfather gave him in the episode "Mystery, He Rode". He likes sleeping sometimes. Rowdy's model is a Wizota D3-7.
Handy is a male blue tow truck. He is one of Chuck's friends. As his name indicates, he has various objects, usually tools, in the bed of his truck. He also has a hook. He is often seen with Soku. In the episode, "Charlie the Screwdriver", it is revealed he has a younger brother named Clutch who is also a tow truck and is missing a front tooth to indicate his young age. Handy is a Wizota Forest.
Digger is a male yellow backhoe loader. He is one of Chuck's friends. As his name indicates, he enjoys digging. He has a Spanish accent. He refers to his friends as "amigos". In the episode "The Best", it is revealed that he can race best on a track with obstacles. He's very good at keeping an eye on vehicles in danger (hinted in the episode "Sleepdriving Chuck" where he has to keep an eye-out for Chuck after Chuck gets into an accident while playing a game). Digger's model is a Wizota Toughlander.
Spill is a female gray and dark orange cement mixer.
Tier |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon%20Secours%20Health%20System | The Bon Secours Health System is the largest private hospital network in Ireland. It was formed in 1993 to co-ordinate the health care facilities in Ireland managed by the Roman Catholic Sisters of Bon Secours.
Background
The Congregation of the Sisters of Bon Secours was founded in Paris in 1824. One of the first of the congregations of nursing sisters, its object was to nurse the sick in their own homes.
The Archbishop De Quélen gave the group the name - "bon secours" means "good help" in French. Their work soon spread to other French cities such as Lille and Boulogne-Sur-Mer. Catherine O'Ferrall, who was acquainted with their work in Paris, invited the sisters to Ireland.
History
In 1861, four Sisters of Bon Secours arrived in Dublin and established the congregation's first mission outside France. Their in-home nursing included providing care for the particular patients, and assistance with basic needs for other family members. As news of their work spread, they were invited to work in other dioceses.
Bon Secours Hospital, Cork, was established in 1915. With 300 beds, it is the largest private hospital in Ireland and is a teaching hospital affiliated with University College Cork.
Bon Secours Hospital, Tralee, was established in 1921. It is an acute-care facility with 130 beds.
Bon Secours Hospital, Dublin, is an independent acute care hospital located in Glasnevin in North Dublin established in 1951. It was the first in Ireland to receive Joint Commission International accreditation.
Bon Secours Hospital, Galway, was built in 1954 and was known then as Calvary Hospital. It was owned and managed by the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary until 1985. Following a short closure the hospital reopened as Galvia in 1986. In 1998, Galvia Private Hospital was purchased by Bon Secours Healthcare System.
Barringtons Hospital, Limerick, was established in 1929 at George's Quay by Joseph Barrington and his sons. It closed in 1988. In 1991, it was acquired by the vascular surgeon Paul O'Byrne who saw a need for a private hospital in the area.
In 2015, the for-profit Bon Secours Health System had about 2,700 staff who worked with 350 medical consultants and saw more than 200,000 patients, making €2.5 million in profit after paying €3 million to the order in rent.
In 2019, Bon Secours Health System of Dublin merged with Bon Secours Mercy Health of Cincinnati, Ohio. Together, the health systems have 60,000 employees serving more than 10.5 million people through nearly 50 hospitals, more than 50 home health agencies and senior health and housing facilities. It is owned by the Bon Secours Sisters
See also
List of hospitals in Ireland
Bon Secours Health System (USA)
References
Bon Secours Sisters
Hospital networks
Medical and health organisations based in the Republic of Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OlivePad | OlivePad VT100 is a tablet computer phone designed and developed by Olive Telecom for the Indian market. It was released on October 23, 2010. It has a dimension of 7-inches with a resolution of 800 x 480 on a capacitive touchscreen supporting multi-touch. The tablet runs the Android operating system (OS) and offers video calling over its 7.2 Mbit/s High-Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) 3G connectivity, among other features.
Hardware
Powered by an ARM11 600 MHz processor, the OlivePad is based on the Qualcomm MSM7227 chipset, and features 512 MB RAM, 512 MB inbuilt flash memory, and microSD expandability up to 32 GB, aside from a CMOS 3 megapixel camera and webcam. It will be India's first 3.5G tablet with HSUPA support. OlivePad will have quad-band GSM support and also would be available with tri-band WCDMA support.
At the rear of the tablet, there is a 3 megapixel autofocus camera supporting 4x zoom. The tablet also supports Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth, standard USB 2.0 ports, an added compass, G-sensor, ambient light sensor and dual speakers built-in.
The device supports 720p video playback and has a 3.5-mm jack, supporting 3GP, MP4, Audio Video Interleave (AVI) and MP3 formats. Weighing , the 7-inch tablet has dimensions of high, wide, deep, and a 3,240 mAh lithium-ion polymer battery that gives 16 hours of standby time, and 7 hours of talk time.
Software
The OlivePad runs the Android 2.2 Froyo OS with Android Market support. The OS is not fully standard and is slightly customized. The tablet does not support Flash due to the ARM6 limits.
See also
Comparison of tablet PCs
Adam tablet
iPad
HP Slate 500
Sakshat
References
External links
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers
Tablet computers introduced in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric%20Database%20Law | The Biometric Database Law is an Israeli law which the Knesset passed in December 2009, determining that fingerprints and facial contours would be collected from all Israeli residents, that the collected data would be integrated onto the Israeli digital identity cards and digital passports, and that a biometric government database of all Israeli citizens and residents would be created which would be used for biometric identification that would allow the management of access control, identification of individuals and assist in locating individuals suspected of criminal activity by the law enforcement officials. When the law passed in December 2009 it was determined that the law be gradually applied and that at the first phase, the inclusion of one's biometric data in the central database would be voluntary.
Goals
The law's targets which are presented in its first section are:
Determining the arrangements which would allow the identification and verification of the identity of Israeli residents by including biometric identification means and biometric identification data in passports and identity cards, to prevent forgery and the using of a false identity, and to determine the permitted uses of such data and measures;
Establishment of a biometric database which would include biometric identification means which would be integrated onto identification documents, as described in paragraph (1), biometric identification data generated from them, and defining the permitted uses of the database by the Israel Police forces and the Israeli security authorities;
Determining the necessary arrangements to protect the privacy of the residents who provided their biometric data, determining the means of access to the biometric database and securing the information in it.
The law addresses serious issues in identifying fake ID cards and passports, producing double records for the same person, and identity theft which are caused when using the documentation of a person from whom the identity was stolen. These examples, allow the misuse of identification documents for illegal immigration, criminal and economic offenses, and activities which harm Israel's national security. Nowadays identification documents are easily forged by criminals, who often try to get the assistance of state workers. From 2005 to 2007 the Interior Ministry reported the loss, theft and destruction of about 150,000 ID cards per year, for which submitted requests were handed in for new identity cards. In many cases, in question the loss, theft and destruction of the ID cards occurred several times for the same resident during these three years. The data of the Israeli Police indicates that about 52 percent of the individuals who submitted requests for new identity cards after theirs was lost, stolen and/or destroyed, between the years 1995 to 2006 had a criminal record, of which 10 percent have a criminal record of distribution of counterfeit documents.
Clauses
The employees of the Inte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20America%201969 | Miss America 1969, the 42nd Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 7, 1968 on NBC Network. Miss Illinois was the winner, Judith Ford performing on a trampoline during the talent competition of the pageant. She later became a physical education teacher at an elementary school.
The event was the site of a protest held on the boardwalk sponsored by feminists. They threw feminine products, like bras, pots, false eyelashes, mops, and other items into a "Freedom trash can". The event was reported under the headline "Bra Burners and Miss America," which conflated the idea of the protest with men who burned their draft cards.
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A protest held outside Boardwalk Hall was attended by about 200 feminists. The protest, nicknamed No More Miss America!, was organized by New York Radical Women, included tossing feminine products, bras, pots, false eyelashes, mops, and other items into a "Freedom trash can" on the Atlantic City boardwalk.
A story by Lindsy Van Gelder in the New York Post carried the headline "Bra Burners and Miss America." Her story drew an analogy between the feminist protest and Vietnam War protesters who burned their draft cards. The bra-burning trope was erroneously and permanently attached to the event and became a catch-phrase of the feminist era.
A lesser known protest was also organized on the same day by civil rights activist J. Morriss Anderson. It was held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel a few blocks from the Miss America pageant. They crowned the first Miss Black America.
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1968 in the United States
1969 beauty pageants
1968 in New Jersey
September 1968 events in the United States
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Women in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20America%201968 | Miss America 1968, the 41st Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 9, 1967 on NBC Network.
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1967 in the United States
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September 1967 events in the United States
Events in Atlantic City, New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20Food%20Truck%20Race | The Great Food Truck Race is a reality television and cooking series that originally aired on August 15, 2010, on Food Network, with Tyler Florence as the host. Billed as a cross between Cannonball Run and Top Chef, this late summer show features several competing teams of three who drive across the United States in their food trucks and make stops every week to sell food in different cities.
The sixteenth season premiered on June 18, 2023.
Format
Every season, between six and nine food truck teams compete in a race where they must cook, sell, and adapt to different challenges in the hopes of winning $50,000 (and in some cases, their own food truck). While taking a journey through a specific region or route, every week the food truck that makes the least profit is eliminated and sent home, while the rest of the food trucks continue on to the next city. They're usually given "seed money" at the beginning of each episode that goes towards grocery shopping. The teams are assigned different challenges every week for a chance to earn more money (usually in the form of selling the most of a special dish or making a version of a local delicacy for Tyler and a guest judge). They're also thrown obstacles that hinder their ability to make normal sales (for example, switching their menu to vegan food or being unable to restock supplies for the day).
In the first two seasons of the Great Food Truck Race, the competitors were seasoned, professional food truck operators who were competing for a cash prize (first season was $50,000 and second season was $100,000). In the following seasons (save for season six), food trucks were provided to novices (from home cooks to former restaurateurs) who have dreamed of owning and operating their own food truck. In seasons three, four, and five, the winning team got the money and got to keep the food truck they were provided by the show. In season six and onward, the show reverted to awarding the winning teams only the $50,000.
Episodes
Production
Bob Tuschman, general manager of the Food Network, had gotten several pitches for a food truck themed competition show before settling on the show that would become The Great Food Truck Race. He believed it to be ideal because it combined the Survivor-style reality show competition with the rising trend of food trucks. Tyler Florence was immediately on board and as the show grew and got renewed, so did the food truck scene. Florence believed the food truck trend grew in large part because of the economic slump around the early 2000s, and his show "helped invent an entirely new genre of restaurants".
References
External links
Official website
Food Network original programming
Reality cooking competition television series
2010 American television series debuts
2010s American reality television series
2020s American reality television series
Food trucks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerUP%20%28accelerator%29 | PowerUP boards were dual-processor accelerator boards designed by Phase5 Digital Products for Amiga computers. They had two different processors, a Motorola 68000 series (68k) and a PowerPC, working in parallel, sharing the complete address space of the Amiga computer system.
History
In 1995, Amiga Technologies GmbH announced they were going to port AmigaOS to PowerPC. As part of their Power Amiga plan, Amiga Technologies was going to launch new Power Amiga models using the PowerPC 604e reduced instruction set computer (RISC) CPU and in cooperation with Amiga Technologies Phase5 would release AmigaOS 4-compatible PowerPC accelerator boards for old Amiga 1200, Amiga 3000 and Amiga 4000 models. However, in 1996 Amiga Technologies' parent company ESCOM entered into deep financial problems and could not support Amiga development. Due to a lack of resources, the PowerPC project at Amiga Technologies stalled and Phase5 had to launch accelerators without a PowerPC-native AmigaOS. As a stopgap solution, a new PowerUP kernel was created allowing new PPC-native software run parallel with 68k Amiga OS. To complicate things even further, former Commodore International chief engineer Dave Haynie questioned Phase5's plans to develop PowerPC boards without Amiga Technologies: "Their approach on the software front is kind of a hack, and on the hardware front it's just too much like the old Commodore; at best, they'll wind up with interesting, non-standard, and overpriced machines that can't keep up with the rapid changes in the industry."
Nevertheless Phase5 had decided to go their own way and develop a PowerPC-based AmigaOS-compatible computer without Amiga Technologies. They also announced plans to write a new Amiga OS-compatible operating system. Wolf Dietrich (managing director of phase5) earlier commented that "we found that Amiga Technologies offers us no sort of outlook or basis for developing into the future".
There is no detailed information about how many PowerPC accelerator boards Phase5 (and later DCE) sold. According to Ralph Schmidt in an AmigActive article featuring MorphOS, there were about 10,000 people using Phase5 PowerPC accelerator boards. The unofficial PowerUP support page estimates similar figures.
PowerUP software
PowerUP kernel is a multitasking kernel developed by Ralph Schmidt for Phase5 PowerPC accelerator boards. The kernel ran alongside the AmigaOS where PPC and 68k native software could run parallel.
The PowerUP kernel used Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) as the executable format and supported runtime linking, relocations and custom sections; it used GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) as its default compiler. This caused controversy in the Amiga community when developers thought that phase5 was bringing "too Unixish stuff" to Amiga.
It was feared that PowerUP kernel introducing shared objects and dynamic linking would replace the original shared library model and shared objects were indeed adapted into AmigaOS.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20America%201966 | Miss America 1966, the 39th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 11, 1965 on CBS Network.
Deborah Bryant became the first Miss Kansas to win the crown. The judges for this year's pageant included actress Joan Crawford.
Results
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Miss America official website
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1965 in the United States
1966 beauty pageants
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Events in Atlantic City, New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Great%20Food%20Truck%20Race%20episodes | The following is a list of episodes for the reality television series The Great Food Truck Race on Food Network.
In the later half of 2021, the fourteenth season of The Great Food Truck Race premiered, featuring their first ever season of all previously winning teams returning for another competition. The sixteenth season premiered on June 18, 2023.
Season 1: 2010
Seven truck teams compete in the race for a grand prize of $50,000. Each truck team consists of a driver and two crew members who must staff the truck and are responsible for cooking, shopping, orders, and publicity. Each week they start with no food to make things fair for all the teams who must make do with the seed money Tyler Florence provides at the start of each episode, in each new city.
Truck Teams
Grill 'Em All – A Los Angeles food truck with a theme inspired by Metallica's album Kill 'Em All. The three heavy metal enthusiasts, Ryan Harkins, Matt Chernus and Joel Brown cook gourmet hamburgers with names like "the hatchet" (with sausage gravy and maple syrup) and "the behemoth" (with cheese sandwiches for buns).
Nana Queens – Sisters Janel and Shanel Prator, along with their friend Rick Wilson, representing Compton, California and dishing up hot wings and banana pudding. They even have a banana costume to promote their signature dish.
Ragin' Cajun – Generations of old family recipes are used to serve authentic Cajun food in Hermosa Beach, California. The team is made up of Lafayette, Louisiana natives Stephen Domingue, Joey Quebedeaux and Jazmin Banionis, with Stephen playing up his crazy, outlandish personality to bring in customers.
Austin Daily Press – A food trailer from Austin, Texas led by Cory Nunez, his business partner Amy Hildenbrand and his girlfriend Melani Feinberg. They started their business with the idea of tapping into the less serviced market for late night delivery. They serve hot, pressed sandwiches.
Crepes Bonaparte – Coming from Fullerton, California, this team is headed by engaged couple, Christian Murcia and Danielle Law as well as their best friend, Matthew Meyer. This truck serves sweet and savory Parisian-style crepes.
Nom Nom Truck – The second Los Angeles food truck and specializes in Vietnamese bánh mi sandwiches and tacos. The trio consisted of UCLA business graduates Misa Chien, Jennifer Green, and David Kien. Their plan was to partner up with local businesses in every city.
Spencer on the Go – A San Francisco food truck led by chefs Laurent Katgely, John Desmond, and Jesse Vera. Their aim is to serve high-end, French cuisine, going so far as to set up a folding table so patrons can enjoy a sit-down dining experience.
Episodes
Let's Get Rolling (Week 1)
The established trucks began the first-ever race in Los Angeles and they were given $500 to buy their ingredients before being sent to San Diego to sell their food over the weekend. This was meant to level the playing field because some of the food trucks were already from Los Angeles a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG%20Optimus%20series | The LG Optimus series is a series of smartphones and tablet computers manufactured by LG Electronics. Optimus-branded devices have been produced running both the Android and Windows Phone 7 operating systems.
Android
LG Optimus, alternatively titled LG Optimus GT540, LG Loop, or LG Swift
LG Optimus Q, alternatively titled LG LU2300
LG Optimus Pad, a tablet released in May 2011
LG Optimus Pad LTE, an LTE-capable successor tablet released in January 2012 in South Korea
LG Optimus 2X, the first dual-core smartphone in the series, released in February 2011
LG Optimus 4X HD, a quad-core successor launched in October 2012
LG Optimus 3D, released in July 2011
LG Optimus 3D Max, successor announced in Mobile World Congress 2012
LG Optimus M
LG Optimus Me
LG Optimus Zip, released by Verizon Wireless on September 22, 2011
LG Optimus Slider, released by Virgin Mobile USA on October 17, 2011.
LG Optimus LTE (alternatively LG Optimus True HD LTE), released in December 2011
LG Optimus LTE 2 was announced in May 2012, to feature 2 GB of RAM
LG Optimus Vu, announced in February and released in March 2012
LG Optimus G, LG's 2012 flagship phone, released in November 2012
LG Optimus G Pro, a larger variation on the Optimus G, featuring a 1080p display; released in March 2013 in Japan and South Korea and May 2013 in the United States
Optimus One
The LG Optimus One, released in October 2010, is LG's second phone in the Optimus series. Due to network differences between carriers, LG created a sub-series with carrier-specific variants based on the Optimus One. Over two million of the Optimus One and its carrier variants combined have been sold. Additionally, some hardware variants add minor new features:
LG Optimus Black, released in May 2011
LG Optimus Chat, featuring a smaller screen and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard
LG Optimus Chic, with different hardware design plus improved digital camera and modem
LG Optimus Net, with an improved 800 MHz single-core processor
LG Optimus Sol, with an improved 1 GHz single-core processor
Optimus L
LG Optimus L is an Android sub-series launched in 2012. It consists of the following:
First Series
LG Optimus L2, released in July 2012
LG Optimus L3, released in February 2012
LG Optimus L5, released in June 2012
LG Optimus L7, released in July 2012
LG Optimus L9(P769), released in October 2012
LG Optimus L9(MS769), released in July 2013
Second Series
LG Optimus L1 II, released in April 2013
LG Optimus L2 II, released in March 2014
LG Optimus L3 II, released in April 2013
LG Optimus L4 II, released in July 2013
LG Optimus L5 II, released in April 2013
LG Optimus L5 II Dual SIM
LG Optimus L7 II, released in March 2013
LG Optimus L9 II, released in October 2013
Third Series
LG Optimus L20
LG Optimus L30 Sporty
LG Optimus L35
LG Optimus L40
LG Optimus L50 Sporty
LG Optimus L60
LG Optimus L65
LG Optimus L70
LG Optimus L80
LG Optimus L90
And until fourth series, LG has started a new L pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20America%201965 | Miss America 1965, the 38th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 12, 1964 on CBS Network.
Pageant winner Vonda Kay Van Dyke authored books in years to come. She was the first Miss America to use ventriloquism in the talent portion of the contest. Miss Arkansas, first runner-up Karen Carlson, later became an actress, seen in several films and many television series.
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Miss America official website
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1964 in the United States
1965 beauty pageants
1964 in New Jersey
September 1964 events in the United States
Events in Atlantic City, New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T2D | T2D can refer to:
Type 2 Diabetes
Technology Transfer Database
Type-2 Copper-Depleted
Douglas T2D, an American twin-engined torpedo bomber, 1927–1937
River Torrens to Darlington (T2D) section of the North–South Motorway, South Australia. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Iberville%20%28TV%20series%29 | D'Iberville is a Canadian dramatic adventure television series which aired on Radio-Canada in 1967 and 1968, and on CBC Television's English network from 1968 to 1969.
Premise
The series is a dramatic portrayal based on the adventures of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville (Albert Millaire) in late 17th century when the British, Dutch and French were rivals for North American lands and the fur trade.
The initial episodes concerned Lemoyne's early years when his father explored Lake Ontario, in the context of competition between Chevalier de La Salle and Sieur de LaBarre. In 1685, Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville, Marquis de Denonville became governor of New France.
In the second phase of the series, episodes featured d'Iberville's early military career under the Chevalier de Troyes and the expeditions to Hudson's Bay and their capture of various forts in that region.
Finally, the series concludes with episodes featuring d'Iberville commanding naval troops during the New England Campaign near the beginning of the 18th century.
Production
Radio-Canada produced D'Iberville in co-production with ORTF (France) and Radio-Télévision Belge (Belgium), Société suisse de radiodiffusion (Switzerland).
Episodes were filmed in colour at Île d'Orléans, Quebec with sets which resembled 17th century Quebec. The production featured a reconstruction of d'Iberville's ship, the Pelican. The cast featured 175 actors.
Scheduling
This half-hour series was broadcast on CBC's English network on Mondays at 4:30 p.m. (Eastern) from 7 October 1968 to 23 June 1969. It was rebroadcast Saturdays at 1:30 p.m. from September to November 1969, and from February to March 1970. An English dub of the series was produced later.
This is D'Iberville, a making-of documentary of the series was produced by Brian O'Leary, It was broadcast on 7 August 1967 through CBC television.
Cast
Albert Millaire as Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville
Jean Besre as Paul Lemoyne, Sieur de Maricourt
Alexandre Rigneault as Jacques Le Ber
Jacques Monod as Joseph-Antoine de La Barre
Francois Rozet as Charles le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay (d'Iberville's father)
Gilles Pelletier as Jacques-René de Brisay de Denonville, Marquis de Denonville
Yves Letourneau as La Salle
Leo Ilial as Pierre de Troyes, Chevalier de Troyes.
References
External links
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CBC Television original programming
1968 Canadian television series debuts
1969 Canadian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopwatch%20and%20Listen | Stopwatch and Listen is a Canadian comedy television series which aired on CBC Television in 1952.
Premise
This mockumentary series was based on a 1951 programme on CBC Radio's Trans-Canada Network. All aspects of the production were managed by producer Ross McLean. He chose a theme such as feature films or telephones six weeks prior to airdate then conducted rehearsals on the resulting scripts four weeks later. This culminated in a live broadcast of that episode.
Stopwatch and Listen was one of CBC's very first regular TV series, debuting the week the TV network went on the air. It not a success, with Peter Gzowski opining "it may well have been the most catastrophic flop in CBC history and which left the air in a flurry of bad taste." (The final broadcast, which like all episodes in this series was broadcast live, apparently included some ad-libs that were considered to be off-colour by 1952 standards.) A contemporary review by Alex Barris after the first broadcast noted that the show suffered from "poor timing - on the part of the producer", but praised cast members Sam Aaron and Barbara Hamilton. A few weeks later, Gordon Sinclair of The Toronto Star reported Stopwatch and Listen was cancelled "because it was so unfunny...[and] was replaced by a concert last night."
Producer Ross McLean later wrote that the show was "nothing but a trauma".
Scheduling
This half-hour series debut was broadcast on Fridays at 9:00 p.m. (Eastern) from 12 September to 10 October 1952. Its time slot was filled by CBC Concert after this.
References
External links
CBC Television original programming
1950s Canadian comedy television series
1952 Canadian television series debuts
1952 Canadian television series endings
Black-and-white Canadian television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSI-Plot | PSI-Plot is a scientific and engineering data analysis and technical plotting software developed by Poly Software International, Inc. The software can read multiple formats and perform mathematical transforms and statistical analyses. PSI-Plot is maintained on Microsoft Windows operating systems, and the current version is 9.5 for Windows 98 to Windows 7.
History
PSI-Plot was developed by Poly Software International, Inc. in September 1992, under the name TechPlot for MS-DOS. The name was later changed to PS-Plot, and changed again to the current PSI-Plot. PSI-Plot later migrated from MS-DOS to the Microsoft Windows operating system. Currently, PSI-Plot is used by more than 75,000 scientists and engineers worldwide.
Capabilities
PSI-Plot features an Excel-style spreadsheet where users can manage and analyze their data, perform various numerical calculations, solve their equations, and visualize their data in 2D and 3D graphics. Users can also import their data from various formats including Microsoft Excel, ASCII, CSV, Microsoft Access, and dBase.
PSI-Plot also includes an eighteen-lesson tutorial for new users to introduce them to the basics of PSI-Plot.
Data Analysis
PSI-Plot has implemented a broad ranges of commonly used data analysis methods, which include data interpolation, three different methods (Levenberg-Marquardt, Powell, and Simplex) for non-linear curve fitting, over one hundred built-in fitting models, multiple linear fitting, stepwise multiple liner fitting, generalized linear models (GMLs), dose-response analysis, digital signal processing (DSP), matrix manipulation and eigen-problems, ordinary differential equations (ODE) solvers, algebraic equation solvers, difference equation solvers, and other methods.
2D and 3D Plots
PSI-Plot provides various 2D and 3D plot types and allows users to customize the graphics in great detail for visual presentations and for submission to research journals for publication. Users have full control of plot and label attributes, including background color, color gradients, size, and thickness. PSI-Plot supports 2D and 3D Cartesian coordinate systems as well as special coordinate systems such as polar, Smith, ternary (triangle), Nichols, cylindrical, and spherical systems.
Comparison with ProStat
ProStat is the sister software to PSI-Plot. The differences between the two software are generally in extent or depth of a tool class rather than presence or absence. ANOVA in PSI-Plot becomes ANOVA, ANCOVA and MANOVA in ProStat, while the range of plot types in ProStat is extended in PSI-Plot by the addition of options such as Pareto charts, Smith curves, ternary, vector, and column plots. FFT is available in both, but extended differently according to the emphases of the different target users.
References
External links
Poly Software International, Inc., official site
Plotting software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProStat | ProStat is a program for statistical analysis and graphical presentation designed to analyze data and create publication quality 2D and 3D graphs developed by Poly Software International, Inc. The software can read multiple formats and perform mathematical transforms and statistical analyses. ProStat can help reach research and development goals, including analyzing data for a proposal, preparing graphs for publication, or solving technical research problems. ProStat is maintained on Microsoft Windows operating systems, and the current version is 5.5 for Windows 98 to Windows 7.
History
ProStat was developed by Poly Software International, Inc. in 1996.
Capabilities
ProStat provides a data sheet window called Sheet Window where data can be edited and analyzed, a graphics editing window called Plot Window where data can be plotted on screen, the capability to export to most computer graphic formats, and the ability to print at high resolutions on common dot-matrix printers, laser printers, plotters, or slide makers. Users can import their data from various formats including Microsoft Excel, ASCII, CSV, Microsoft Access, and dBase.
ProStat also includes a thirteen-lesson tutorial for new users to introduce them to the basics of ProStat.
Comparison with PSI-Plot
PSI-Plot is the sister software to ProStat. The differences between the two software are generally in extent or depth of a tool class rather than presence or absence. ANOVA in PSI-Plot becomes ANOVA, ANCOVA and MANOVA in ProStat, while the range of plot types in ProStat is extended in PSI-Plot by the addition of options such as Pareto charts, Smith curves, ternary, vector, and column plots. FFT is available in both, but extended differently according to the emphases of the different target users.
References
External links
Poly Software International, Inc., official site
Plotting software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Style%20%28TV%20series%29 | Family Style is an American reality television series that was premiered on Food Network on August 22, 2010. The show centers around an Italian restaurateur family, The Maggiores, in Carlsbad, California. The series focuses on the brother and sister Joey and Melissa opening their first restaurant, Tommy V's, together. Melissa is the more strait-laced and is in charge of running the restaurant. Joey is the flashy one who is in charge of cooking in the kitchen. Their different styles constantly collide.
Episodes
References
External links
2010 American television series debuts
2010s American cooking television series
2010 American television series endings
2010s American reality television series
English-language television shows
Food Network original programming
Food reality television series
Television shows set in San Diego |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couchbase%20Server | Couchbase Server, originally known as Membase, is a source-available, distributed (shared-nothing architecture) multi-model NoSQL document-oriented database software package optimized for interactive applications. These applications may serve many concurrent users by creating, storing, retrieving, aggregating, manipulating and presenting data. In support of these kinds of application needs, Couchbase Server is designed to provide easy-to-scale key-value, or JSON document access, with low latency and high sustainability throughput. It is designed to be clustered from a single machine to very large-scale deployments spanning many machines.
Couchbase Server provided client protocol compatibility with memcached, but added disk persistence, data replication, live cluster reconfiguration, rebalancing and multitenancy with data partitioning.
Product history
Membase was developed by several leaders of the memcached project, who had founded a company, NorthScale, to develop a key-value store with the simplicity, speed, and scalability of memcached, but also the storage, persistence and querying capabilities of a database. The original membase source code was contributed by NorthScale, and project co-sponsors Zynga and Naver Corporation (then known as NHN) to a new project on membase.org in June 2010.
On February 8, 2011, the Membase project founders and Membase, Inc. announced a merger with CouchOne (a company with many of the principal players behind CouchDB) with an associated project merger. The merged company was called Couchbase, Inc. In January 2012, Couchbase released Couchbase Server 1.8.
In September of 2012, Orbitz said it had changed some of its systems to use Couchbase.
In December of 2012, Couchbase Server 2.0 (announced in July 2011) was released and included a new JSON document store, indexing and querying, incremental MapReduce and replication across data centers.
Architecture
Every Couchbase node consists of a data service, index service, query service, and cluster manager component. Starting with the 4.0 release, the three services can be distributed to run on separate nodes of the cluster if needed.
In the parlance of Eric Brewer's CAP theorem, Couchbase is normally a CP type system meaning it provides consistency and partition tolerance, or it can be set up as an AP system with multiple clusters.
Cluster manager
The cluster manager supervises the configuration and behavior of all the servers in a Couchbase cluster. It configures and supervises inter-node behavior like managing replication streams and re-balancing operations. It also provides metric aggregation and consensus functions for the cluster, and a RESTful cluster management interface. The cluster manager uses the Erlang programming language and the Open Telecom Platform.
Replication and fail-over
Data replication within the nodes of a cluster can be controlled with several parameters.
In December of 2012, support was added for replication between different data centers. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyrodes%20appalachia | Satyrodes appalachia, the Appalachian brown or woods eyed brown is a species of Satyrinae butterfly that is native to North America.
Wingspan: 39 to 51 mm.
Larvae on Rhynchospora inundata, Carex lacustris, and Carex stricta.
See Lethe appalachia (Lethe = current genus name) at Wikipedia for more Satyrodes appalachia information.
Similar species
Satyrodes eurydice [Lethe eurydice] (R.L. Chermock, 1947) – eyed brown
Enodia anthedon / Lethe anthedon A.H. Clark, 1936 – northern pearly-eye
References
Butterflies of North America
Elymniini
Butterflies described in 1947 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouseless | The Mouseless is a proposed input device for personal computers. A prototype Mouseless, designed by Pranav Mistry of the MIT Media Lab. Mouseless replaces conventional hardware mouse with a set of infrared laser strobe, an infrared camera and image recognition software. The laser beam is optically split into a wide beam illuminating an imaginary plane above the working desk. The camera captures the pattern of invisible infrared light as it illuminates user's hand. The user rests the palm on the desk and commands the system in the same way as he or she would do with a conventional mouse.
As of July 2010, the project has been presented to the media but has not been commercialized. According to Mistry' statement, the fully functional prototype of the Mouseless costs around $20.
References
T. Ramachandran (2010, July 25). Now the ‘mouseless' mouse. The Hindu.
External links
Mouseless homepage
Pointing devices
2010 in science
Surface computing
MIT Media Lab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%2A | A* or A star may refer to:
A* search algorithm, a pathfinding algorithm used in computing
A*, the highest grade in examination systems such as the GCE Advanced Level
A*STAR, the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research
AStar, the Eurocopter AS350 Écureuil helicopter
Class A star, a star of spectral class A
Sagittarius A*, a radio source at the center of the Milky Way, believed to be a supermassive black hole
See also
Astar (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word-sense%20induction | In computational linguistics, word-sense induction (WSI) or discrimination is an open problem of natural language processing, which concerns the automatic identification of the senses of a word (i.e. meanings). Given that the output of word-sense induction is a set of senses for the target word (sense inventory), this task is strictly related to that of word-sense disambiguation (WSD), which relies on a predefined sense inventory and aims to solve the ambiguity of words in context.
Approaches and methods
The output of a word-sense induction algorithm is a clustering of contexts in which the target word occurs or a clustering of words related to the target word. Three main methods have been proposed in the literature:
Context clustering
Word clustering
Co-occurrence graphs
Context clustering
The underlying hypothesis of this approach is that, words are semantically similar if they appear in similar documents, with in similar context windows, or in similar syntactic contexts. Each occurrence of a target word in a corpus is represented as a context vector. These context vectors can be either first-order vectors, which directly represent the context at hand, or second-order vectors, i.e., the contexts of the target word are similar if their words tend to co-occur together. The vectors are then clustered into groups, each identifying a sense of the target word. A well-known approach to context clustering is the Context-group Discrimination algorithm based on large matrix computation methods.
Word clustering
Word clustering is a different approach to the induction of word senses. It consists of clustering words, which are semantically similar and can thus bear a specific meaning. Lin’s algorithm is a prototypical example of word clustering, which is based on syntactic dependency statistics, which occur in a corpus to produce sets of words for each discovered sense of a target word. The Clustering By Committee (CBC) also uses syntactic contexts, but exploits a similarity matrix to encode the similarities between words and relies on the notion of committees to output different senses of the word of interest. These approaches are hard to obtain on a large scale for many domain and languages.
Co-occurrence graphs
The main hypothesis of co-occurrence graphs assumes that the semantics of a word can be represented by means of a co-occurrence graph, whose vertices are co-occurrences and edges are co-occurrence relations. These approaches are related to word clustering methods, where co-occurrences between words can be obtained on the basis of grammatical or collocational relations. HyperLex is the successful approaches of a graph algorithm, based on the identification of hubs in co-occurrence graphs, which have to cope with the need to tune a large number of parameters. To deal with this issue several graph-based algorithms have been proposed, which are based on simple graph patterns, namely Curvature Clustering, Squares, Triangles and Diamo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banke%20Mian | Bankay Mian or Bankay Mian Qawwal () is a computer-animated character of Pakistani television channel Express News. As evident from his name, he appears as a Qawwal on television. Bankay Mian expresses his views on politics, current affairs or other topics of interest in the form of Qawwali. Banke Mian first appeared on television on 14 August 2009.
Historically "Banka" was a popular tradition pertaining to Delhi and Lucknow. "Bankas" were those characters of these cities who emerged in the British era of India. "Bankas" pretended to be very brave people in humorous manner. But Bankay Mian is a bit different. He comments on every day issues using wit and satire.
Bankay Mian is also a columnist in the Urdu Daily Express. The name of his column is "Bankay Nama".
References
Fictional television personalities
Fictional Pakistani people
Animated characters
Pakistani animation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Ignacio%2C%20Chile | San Ignacio () is a Chilean town and commune located in the Diguillín Province, Ñuble Region. It spans an area of .
Demographics
According to data from the 2002 Census of Population and Housing, San Ignacio had 16,106 inhabitants; of these, 4,873 (30.3%) lived in urban areas and 11,233 (69.7%) in rural areas. At that time, there were 8,192 men and 7,914 women. Sanignacino is the demonym for a man, and Sanignacina is that of a woman.
Administration
As a commune, San Ignacio is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. For the years 2008-2012, the alcalde is Nelson Aedo Figueroa (UDI), and the councilors are:
Osiel Soto Lagos (UDI)
Juan Muñoz Pérez (UDI)
Rolando Flores Monsalve (UDI)
Mauricio López Muñoz (RN)
Patricio Hernán Chávez Benavente (PDC)
Romeo Valdés Guerra (PS)
Within the electoral divisions of Chile, San Ignacio is represented in the Chamber of Deputies as a part of the 41st electoral district (together with Chillán, Coihueco, Pinto, El Carmen, Pemuco, Yungay and Chillán Viejo). The commune is represented in the Senate
References
See also
List of towns in Chile
Communes of Chile
Populated places in Diguillín Province |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anil%20K.%20Jain%20%28electrical%20engineer%2C%20born%201946%29 | Anil K. Jain (January 21, 1946 – November 14, 1988) was an Indian-American electrical engineer and Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Davis, known for his contributions on "two-dimensional stochastic models for images provided a firm theoretical foundation for a number of algorithms of spectral analysis, adaptive image estimation and image data compression", including work on transform coding for image compression and block-based motion compensation for video compression in particular.
Biography
Born in India, Jain received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1967 at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, and a master's degree in 1969 and Ph.D. in 1970 from the University of Rochester. He had conducted his doctoral research at the University of Southern California under guidance of Richard Bellman.
After graduation Jain continued as postdoctoral fellow and later assistant professor in the department of Electrical Engineering and in the Image Processing Institute of the University of Southern California. In 1974 he joined the faculty of the State University of New York at Buffalo, and in 1978 he returned to California and became a professor at the University of California, Davis.
In 1983 Jain received the IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award.
In 1988 Jain was recognized as a Fellow of the IEEE.
Work
Jain's research interests ranged from "digital and image processing, computer vision, fast algorithms, real time digital systems architecture to stochastic processes and communication theory."
Image processing textbook
Jain wrote an influential textbook, Fundamentals of Image Processing, published in 1988 by Prentice Hall ().
Video compression
Anil K. Jain was a contributor to the field of motion video compression. With his colleague Jaswant R. Jain, Anil published the original paper combining block-based motion compensation and transform coding in December 1981.
Subsequently, most of the video compression standards for two-way communications and video broadcast applications were based upon motion compensation and transform coding, including those most widely used today such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2 (used on DVDs) and the most common Internet video H.264/MPEG-4 AVC.
Optivision and its transform coding products
While at University of California, Davis, Jain co-founded Optivision, Inc. in the mid-1980s with Professor Joseph Goodman from Stanford. Optivision pioneered both JPEG transform coding products for picture capture systems such as for the California Department of Motor Vehicles, and video compression systems such as videoconferencing that used the block-based motion-compensated transform coding techniques he developed. Jain's work also inspired other video industry entrepreneurs such as Brian Hinman, co-founder of PictureTel, Polycom, and 2Wire. Optivision later, after Jain's untimely death, had an initial public offering primarily thanks to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Hinman | Brian L. Hinman (born August 22, 1961 in Bethesda, Maryland) is an entrepreneur and investor in high technology businesses, especially the computer-based communications industry.
Hinman founded three successful (annual revenues greater than $500 million) high technology companies; PictureTel Corp. (Videoconferencing), Polycom (Conference call), and 2Wire (digital subscriber line). Both PictureTel Corp. and Polycom had initial public offerings. Hinman and his co-founders took PictureTel public in November 1984, only three months after the company was founded, and two years before the first product was shipped. 2Wire was acquired by set-top box maker Pace in July, 2010. Technologies where Hinman has been granted patents include video compression and conference calls.
Early life and education
Hinman, the son of Earl E Hinman, Jr and Roberta D. Hinman, grew up primarily in Wheaton, Maryland
Brian received a BSEE from the University of Maryland, College Park in December 1982, and an MSEE from MIT in June 1984. Hinman later sponsored an entrepreneurship program at University of Maryland, College Park called the "Hinman CEOs".
Career
From 2006 to 2015, Hinman worked at Oak Ventures as a venture partner where he worked with Cleantech investments such as algae company Aurora Algae and solar technology companies eSolar and GreenVolts. Hinman has also been involved with public-private partnerships by buying and funding an underfunded fire station in Los Gatos.
In 2012, Hinman co-founded Mimosa Networks, a gigabit wireless hardware company based in Santa Clara, CA. Hinman served as Co-Founder, CEO and President at Mimosa Networks. In November 2018, Mimosa merged with Airspan Networks, a leader in 5G mobile technologies.
Awards
Brian Hinman received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award in 2004 and was a national finalist in 2005. The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year© award is the world's most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs, spanning more than 140 cities and 50 countries worldwide.
In 2011, the Rochester Institute of Technology awarded him an honorary doctorate of science.
References
Living people
American venture capitalists
1961 births
Businesspeople from Bethesda, Maryland
MIT School of Engineering alumni
University of Maryland, College Park alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustam%20%28Haqqani%20network%29 | Mullah Rustam is a citizen of Afghanistan, and an alleged Taliban leader. According to Der Spiegel Rustam was among at least 13 Afghans added to the Joint Prioritized Effects List, at the request of the Bundeswehr. They reported he and Qari Jabar were added in 2007 and removed in 2009. They reported Rustam was the 74th name on the list.
Der Spiegel reports Rustam was reported to have been leading fighters in the Haqqani network in the region of Afghanistan the International Security Assistance Force assigned to Germany as early as 2005.
References
Taliban leaders
Living people
Pashtun people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad%20E%20series | The ThinkPad E Series (formerly ThinkPad Edge) is a notebook computer series introduced in 2010 by Lenovo. It is marketed to small and medium-sized businesses.
Launch and reviews
The Edge series of ThinkPad computers was introduced at the 2010 International CES in Las Vegas and became available for sale in April of the same year.
For the Thinkpad Edge 13, a review on the Engadget web site said that even though, "it may not carry the premium features of [Lenovo Thinkpad] X301..., but for a budget ultraportable... [there is] little to complain about." Engadget also tested the battery life of the Edge 13 and discovered that "Lenovo's battery life prediction of seven hours is pretty on the mark." The Edge 13's battery lasted 5 hours and 12 minutes.
Laptop Magazine reviewed the Thinkpad Edge 14 and found it was "the most compelling 14-inch small business notebook on the market today."
NotebookReview reviewed the Thinkpad Edge 15 and said that its "build quality seems to be a step down from the 13 and 14 inch." The website also mentioned that the Edge series in general "feels under built...[and] the Edge 15 fares much worse".
Reviews of the E220s and E420s were more positive, citing better build quality than other models in the Edge line.
Features
The ThinkPad Edge series uses processors from both AMD and Intel. AMD processors offered include the Athlon II dual-core, the Turion II Dual-core, Phenom II Triple-core and Ryzen 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Generation mobile Accelerated Processing Units (APUs). Intel processors used include the Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7.
Voice Over IP (VoIP) features including high resolution cameras and an HD LED screen are also included. All four models offer a glossy LED back-lit 16:9 display capable of playing 720p video. However the Edge 11 and 13 does not include an optical drive. The laptops came in three colors: Midnight Black (Smooth), Midnight Black (Gloss), and Heatwave Red (Gloss).
Design
Lenovo designed the laptops to "reflect a new progressive and strikingly clean appearance while retaining ThinkPad durability and reliability". For example, along with the new Island-style keyboard, the Edge series had some keyboard design changes: uniform black keys and the removal of the embedded number pad. The Function keys were re-designed so users could use one finger to access functions such as multimedia keys. Some keys which were rarely used like SysRq were removed.
Models
Gen 1 (2010)
Edge 11
The ThinkPad Edge 11 laptop was not released in the United States, with the X100e serving as an 11-inch laptop solution in the US.
The laptop was 1.1 inches thick and weighed 3.3 lbs.
Like other laptops in the series, the Edge 11 was made available in glossy black, matte black and glossy red. Despite the low starting price, the Edge 11 laptop included some of the traditional ThinkPad durability features, including solid metal hinges.
The battery life was better than both the IdeaPad U160 and the ThinkPad X100e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alena%20%281947%20film%29 | Alena is a 1947 Czechoslovak comedy film, directed by Miroslav Cikán. It stars Miluse Zoubková, Vladimír Repa, and Terezie Brzková.
References
External links
Alena at the Internet Movie Database
1947 films
Czechoslovak comedy films
1947 comedy films
Films directed by Miroslav Cikán
Czechoslovak black-and-white films
1940s Czech films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Santa%20Coloma%20de%20Gramenet | Public transport in Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Catalonia, Spain) is an important part of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona transportation network. Santa Coloma is a densely populated suburb of the city of Barcelona which fulfills both the role of dormitory town and one of the biggest settlements in the capital's urban area, at around 120,000 inhabitants, and is straddled by Barcelona's Nou Barris and Sant Andreu districts, Badalona, Sant Adrià de Besòs and Montcada i Reixac. The town still relies mostly on bus lines for transportation, but essential improvement arrived in late 2009 with the partial construction of Barcelona Metro line L9. In the future, Generalitat de Catalunya will construct a new line of Tram.
Barcelona Metro stations
Bus lines
Operated by Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona and Tusgsal:
Transport in the municipalities of Barcelonès
Transport in Barcelona
Transport in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
Transport in Badalona
Transport in Sant Adrià de Besòs
Transport in Montcada i Reixac
Transport in other Metropolitan Area municipalities
Transport in Cornellà de Llobregat
See also
List of Barcelona Metro stations
Autoritat del Transport Metropolità
External links
Grame.net |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Cornell%C3%A0%20de%20Llobregat | Public transport in Cornellà de Llobregat (Catalonia, Spain, Cornellà henceforth) is an important part of the transportation network spanning the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. The city of Cornellà, a mostly working-class area with strong dormitory town traits, is one of the most populated in the Baix Llobregat with about 90,000 inhabitants and a daily destination for thousands of commuters in the urban area of the capital.
Barcelona Metro stations
Barcelona Metro line L5 is operated by Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona (TMB) and is a regular rapid transit line. On the other hand, L8 is a Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat de Catalunya (FGC) service which grew out of a former commuter line, adapted to the standards, schedules and frequency of metro lines.
Commuter railway stations
Tram stations
All served by Trambaix.
Bus lines
Day services
67 Barcelona (Plaça Catalunya) – Cornellà (Av. Fama) (via Sant Ildefons i Avinguda Diagonal)
68 Barcelona (Plaça Catalunya) – Cornellà (Av. Fama) (via Pedralbes i Via Augusta)
94 Almeda-Riera-Fontsanta-Centre-El Pedró-Sant Ildefons-Gavarra-Almeda(Bus urbà de Cornellà)
95 Almeda-Gavarra-Sant Ildefons-El Pedró-Centre-Fonstsanta-Riera-Almeda(Bus urbà de Cornellà)
L10 El Prat (Sant Cosme) – Sant Feliu (Consell Comarcal)
L12: Barcelona (Plaça Reina Maria Cristina) - Cornella (Almeda)
L46 Cornellà (Ambulatori) – Sant Just (Plaça Parador) (Bus urbà de Sant Joan Despí)
L52 L'Hospitalet (Ciutat de la Justícia / Santa Eulàlia) – Sant Feliu (Plaça Pere Dot)
L74 Cornellà (Sant Ildefons) – Sant Boi (Plaça Assemblea de Catalunya)
L75 Cornellà (Centre) – Sant Boi (Plaça Assemblea de Catalunya)
L77 Sant Joan Despí (Hospital Moisès Broggi) – Gavà Mar (per l'aeroport)
L82 L'Hospitalet (Ciutat de la Justícia / Santa Eulàlia) – Gavà (Avinguda l'Eramprunyà) (Per Almeda)
L85 L'Hospitalet (Ciutat de la Justícia / Santa Eulàlia) – Gavà (Avinguda l'Eramprunyà) (Per Sant Ildefons)
Night buses
N13 Barcelona (Plaça Catalunya) – Sant Boi (Ciutat Cooperativa)
N14 Barcelona (Plaça Catalunya) – Castelldefels (Centre)
N15 Barcelona (Plaça Portal de la Pau - Plaça Catalunya) – Sant Joan Despí (Torreblanca)
See also
Transport in Barcelona
Transport in Badalona
Transport in Castelldefels
Transport in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
Transport in Santa Coloma de Gramenet
Transport in Sant Adrià de Besòs
Transport in Montcada i Reixac
External links
Cornellà city council website.
http://cornella.lamamacompra.com/c/transporte/136
Transport in Baix Llobregat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limneria%20undata | Limneria undata is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Velutinidae.
Distribution
Distribution of Limneria undata include:
European waters
USA: Cobscook Bay
Clam Cove
Frost Cove 44.993197, -67.063513]{}
L'Etang
Description
The maximum recorded shell length is 27 mm.
Habitat
Minimum recorded depth is 0 m. Maximum recorded depth is 1127 m.
References
External links
Velutinidae
Gastropods described in 1839 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CodeCharge%20Studio | CodeCharge Studio is a rapid application development (RAD) and integrated development environment (IDE) for creating database-driven web applications. It is a code generator and templating engine that separates the presentation layer from the coding layer, with the aim of allowing designers and programmers to work cohesively in a web application (the model-view-controller design pattern).
CodeCharge is the first product released by Yes Software, Inc., after two years of development.
Software
CodeCharge utilizes point-and-click wizards for creating record and search forms, grids, and editable grids without the need for programming. The databases it supports include MySQL, MS SQL Server, MS Access, PostgreSQL, and Oracle, as well as any other database that supports web connectivity. CodeCharge can export code to all major programing languages, such as ASP.NET, ASP, Java, ColdFusion, PHP, and Perl.
CodeCharge employs an interactive user interface (UI) designed for the creation of web applications. When generating code, CodeCharge automatically structures the code, using naming conventions and comments to describe the code's purpose. Moreover, CodeCharge keeps the application separate from the code it generates, so that projects may be converted to any language at any time.
Without additional programming, a CodeCharge-generated project is not a routed web site (where everything is routed through, for example, index.asp); rather, every page is accessible by reference to its own name or URL.
Technologies
Here are listed technologies which used, when the application is ready and running.
OOP - The generated application is Object Oriented. Every structural element, like database connection, grid, navigation bar, the visible page itself etc. are all objects.
The application uses the Microsoft .NET 2 Framework and will also install when the .NET 3.5 framework is detected on the host computer.
Templating - Codecharge uses HTML template pages to generate visible internet sites. Templates of web pages may be previewed before making it "live." There are xxxx.html files, accordingly xxxx.asp (xxxx.php etc.) code files and for server side events a separate xxxx_events.asp (xxxx_events.php etc.) files.
Customization - CodeCharge provides its users a standard way to set up custom code for handling events not fully addressed by the built-in features.
Application generating technologies
PHP
Perl
.NET
Java
ASP
Coldfusion
xml
Reception
In 2003, regarding the original version of CodeCharge Studio, Arbi Arzoumani of PHP Architect wrote:
Kevin Yank of SitePoint Tech Times was impressed "by the many ways in which experienced developers could draw added power out of the software, instead of being limited by it, as is the case with most RAD tools for Web development."
In his review of CodeCharge Studio 2.0, Troy Dreier wrote in Intranet Journal, "CodeCharge Studio [allows] Web application developers [to] shave literally months off their development time |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarn%C3%AD%20vody | Spring Waters () is a 1968 Czechoslovak film directed by Václav Krška. The film starred Josef Kemr.
References
External links
Jarní vody at the Internet Movie Database
1968 films
Czechoslovak romantic drama films
1960s Czech-language films
Czech romantic drama films
Films based on works by Ivan Turgenev
1960s Czech films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chl%C3%A9b%20a%20p%C3%ADsn%C4%9B | Chléb a písně is a 1971 Czechoslovak film. The film starred Josef Kemr.
References
External links
Chléb a písně at the Czech Film Database (in Czech)
1971 films
Czechoslovak drama films
1970s Czech-language films
Czech historical drama films
1970s Czech films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20Angluin | Dana Angluin is a professor emeritus of computer science at Yale University. She is known for foundational work in computational learning theory and distributed computing.
Education
Angluin received her B.A. (1969) and Ph.D. (1976) at University of California, Berkeley. Her thesis, entitled "An application of the theory of computational complexity to the study of inductive inference" was one of the first works to apply complexity theory to the field of inductive inference. Angluin joined the faculty at Yale in 1979.
Research
Angluin's work helped establish the theoretical foundations of machine learning.
L* Algorithm
Angluin has written highly cited papers on computational learning theory, particularly in the context of learning regular language sets from membership and equivalence queries using the L* algorithm. This algorithm addresses the problem of identifying an unknown set. In essence, this algorithm is a way for programs to learn complex systems through the process of trial and error of educated guesses, to determine the behavior of the system. Through the responses, the algorithm can continue to refine its understanding of the system. This algorithm uses a minimally adequate Teacher (MAT) to pose questions about the unknown set. The MAT provides yes or no answers to membership queries, saying whether an input is a member of the unknown set, and equivalence queries, saying whether a description of the set is accurate or not. The Learner uses responses from the Teacher to refine its understanding of the set S in polynomial time. Though Angluin's paper was published in 1987, a 2017 article by computer science Professor Frits Vaandrager says "the most efficient learning algorithms that are being used today all follow Angluin's approach of a minimally adequate teacher".
Learning from Noisy Examples
Angluin's work on learning from noisy examples has also been very influential to the field of machine learning. Her work addresses the problem of adapting learning algorithms to cope with incorrect training examples (noisy data). Angluin's study demonstrates that algorithms exist for learning in the presence of errors in the data.
Other Achievements
In distributed computing, she co-invented the population protocol model and studied the problem of consensus. In probabilistic algorithms, she has studied randomized algorithms for Hamiltonian circuits and matchings.
Angluin helped found the Computational Learning Theory (COLT) conference, and has served on program committees and steering committees for COLT She served as an area editor for Information and Computation from 1989–1992. She organized Yale's Computer Science Department's Perlis Symposium in April 2001: "From Statistics to Chat: Trends in Machine Learning". She is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Association for Women in Mathematics.
Angluin is highly celebrated as an educator, having won "three of the most distinguished teaching prizes Yale College has |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interxion | Interxion is a European provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre services. Founded in 1998 in the Netherlands, the firm was publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange from 28 January 2011 until its acquisition by Digital Realty in March 2020. Interxion is headquartered in Schiphol-Rijk, the Netherlands, and delivers its services through 53 data centres in 11 European countries located in major metropolitan areas, including Dublin, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam, and Madrid, the 6 main data centre markets in Europe, as well as Marseille, Interxion’s Internet Gateway.
The company's core offering is carrier-neutral colocation, which includes provision of space, power and a secure environment in which to house customers’ computing, network, storage and IT infrastructure. Interxion also supplements its core colocation offering with a number of additional services, including systems monitoring, systems management, engineering support services, data back-up and storage.
Within its data centres, Interxion enables approximately 1,500 customers to house their equipment and connect to a broad range of telecommunications carriers, ISPs and other customers. The data centres act as content and connectivity hubs that facilitate the processing, storage, sharing and distribution of data, content, applications and media among carriers and customers.
Interxion's customer base is in high-growth market segments, including financial services, cloud and managed services providers, digital media and carriers. Customers in these target markets enable expansion of existing communities of interest and build new, high-value communities of interest within the data centre. Communities of interest are particularly important to customers in each of these market segments. For example, customers in the digital media segment benefit from the close proximity to content delivery network providers and Internet exchanges in order to rapidly deliver content to consumers. Interxion expects the high-value and reduced-cost benefits of communities of interest to continue to attract new customers.
Interxion's data centres enable its customers to connect to more than 500 carriers and ISPs and 20 European Internet exchanges, allowing them to lower telecommunications costs and reduce latency times.
Communities of interest
Interxion focuses its efforts on attracting customers in well-defined sectors of industry:
Digital media
Interxion has created content hubs across its European data centre footprint. The hubs allow organisations to aggregate, exchange, store, manage, and distribute content in addition to interconnecting with a large digital media community, helping to optimise distribution and minimize costs.
Financial services
Interxion has created financial hubs across key European financial markets, including London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Dublin and Stockholm. The hubs consist of highly interactive and extensive communities of capital market parti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Montcada%20i%20Reixac | Public transport in Montcada i Reixac (Catalonia, Spain) is a part of the transportation network in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. The town is located in a geographically strategic position, immediately to the north of Barcelona's Nou Barris district and surrounded by the hills of Collserola and the adjacent towns of Vallès, and contains a few train stations which articulate the rail transport in the urban region.
Barcelona Metro stations
Barcelona Metro line L11 links Montcada i Reixac with Nou Barris. In the future it will be extended further into Montcada Centre and other towns in the area.
Railway stations
Future tram developments
A tram spanning the Vallès area, linking it to northern Barcelona and the so-called Metro del Vallès, has been proposed under the name Tramvallès, following the convention initiated with Trambaix (for Baix Llobregat), and Trambesòs (after the Besòs river). As of 2010 it remains under consideration by the Autoritat del Transport Metropolità.
References
Transport in other municipalities of the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona
Transport in Badalona
Transport in Barcelona
Transport in Cornellà de Llobregat
Transport in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
Transport in Sabadell
Transport in Sant Cugat del Vallès
Transport in Terrassa
Transport in Sant Adrià de Besòs
Transport in Santa Coloma de Gramenet
See also
List of Barcelona Metro stations
Autoritat del Transport Metropolità |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render%20Target | In the field of 3D computer graphics, a Render Target is a feature of modern graphics processing units (GPUs) that allows a 3D scene to be rendered to an intermediate memory buffer, or Render Target Texture (RTT), instead of the frame buffer or back buffer. This RTT can then be manipulated by pixel shaders in order to apply additional effects to the final image before displaying it.
See also
Video post-processing, a generic term for effects applied to an image after it has been rendered. In real-time applications such as video games, render targets are often used to achieve this.
Framebuffer Object, the OpenGL equivalent
3D rendering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeeGFS | BeeGFS (formerly FhGFS) is a parallel file system, developed and optimized for high-performance computing. BeeGFS includes a distributed metadata architecture for scalability and flexibility reasons. Its most used and widely known aspect is data throughput.
BeeGFS was originally developed at the Fraunhofer Center for High Performance Computing in Germany by a team around Sven Breuner, who later became the CEO of ThinkParQ (2014–2018), the spin-off company that was founded in 2014 to maintain BeeGFS and offer professional services.
Whilst the Community Edition of BeeGFS can be downloaded and used free of charge, the Enterprise Edition must be used under a professional support subscription contract.
History and usage
BeeGFS started in 2005 as an in-house development at Fraunhofer Center for HPC to replace the existing file system on the institute's new compute cluster and to be used in a production environment.
In 2007, the first beta version of the software was announced during ISC07 in Dresden, Germany and introduced to the public during SC07 in Reno, NV. One year later the first stable major release became available.
In 2014, Fraunhofer started its spin-off, the new company called ThinkParQ for BeeGFS. In this process, FhGFS was renamed and became BeeGFS®. While ThinkParQ maintains the software and offers professional services, further feature development will continue in cooperation of ThinkParQ and Fraunhofer.
Due to the nature of BeeGFS being free of charge, it is unknown how many active installations there are. However, in 2014 there were already around 100 customers worldwide that used BeeGFS with commercial support by ThinkParQ and Fraunhofer. Among those are academic users such as universities and research facilities as well as commercial companies in fields like the finance or the oil & gas industry.
Notable installations include several TOP500 computers such as the Loewe-CSC cluster at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany (No. 22 on installation), the Vienna Scientific Cluster at the University of Vienna, Austria (No. 56 on installation), and the Abel cluster at the University of Oslo, Norway (No. 96 on installation).
Key concepts and features
When developing BeeGFS, Fraunhofer aimed to create a software focused on scalability, flexibility and usability.
BeeGFS runs on any Linux machine and consists of several components that include services for clients, metadata servers and storage servers. In addition, there is a service for the management host as well as one for a graphical administration and monitoring system.
To run BeeGFS, at least one instance of the metadata server and the storage server is required. But BeeGFS allows multiple instances of each service to distribute the load from a large number of clients. The scalability of each component makes sure the system itself is scalable.
File contents are distributed over several storage servers using striping, i.e. each file is split into chunks of a given size and th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESATAp | In computing, eSATAp (also known as Power over eSATA, Power eSATA, eSATA/USB Combo, eSATA USB Hybrid Port/EUHP) is a combination connection for external storage devices. An eSATA or USB device can be plugged into an eSATAp port. The socket has keyed cutouts for both types of device to ensure that a connector can only be plugged in the right way.
Standard
As the port is designed to work with both SATA and USB, both organizations have formally approved it. The USB Implementers Forum states it does not support any connector used by other standards, hence such 'combo' ports are to be used at one's own risk. the organization responsible for the SATA specification, SATA-IO (Serial ATA International Organization), is working to define the eSATAp specification.
Implementation
SATA is a computer bus interface for connecting host bus adapters to mass storage devices such as hard disk drives and optical drives. eSATA is a SATA connector accessible from outside the computer, to provide a signal (but not power) connection for external storage devices.
eSATAp combines the functionality of an eSATA and a USB port, and a source of power in a single connector. eSATAp can supply power at 5 V and 12 V.
On a desktop computer the port is simply a connector, usually mounted on a bracket at the back accessible from outside the machine, connected to motherboard sources of SATA, USB, and power at 5 V and 12 V. No change is required to drivers, registry or BIOS settings and the USB support is independent of the SATA connection.
If advanced functionality such as a port multiplier is required, a PCI Express add-on card can be used. If it has port multiplier support, an eSATAp port allows a user to connect to a multi-bay NAS (network attached storage) machine with multiple hard disks (HDD) using one eSATA cable.
On many notebook computers only a limited amount of power at 5 V is available, and none at all at 12 V. Devices requiring more power than is available via the Expresscard, or an additional 12 V supply as required by most 3.5" or 5.25" drives, can be driven if an additional power supply is used. Cables are available to both connect and power a SATA device from an eSATAp port (including 12 V power if available).
Compatibility
eSATAp throughput is not necessarily the same as SATA, many enclosures and docks that support both eSATA and USB use combo bridge chips which can severely reduce the throughput, and USB throughput is that of the USB version supported by the port (typically USB 3.0 or 2.0). eSATAp ports (bracket versions) can run at a theoretical maximum of 6 gigabits per second (Gbit/s) and are backwards compatible with devices such as eSATA 3 Gbit/s (SATA Revision 2) and also at 1.5 Gbit/s (SATA Revision 1). The USB port is fully compatible with USB 5 Gbit/s (USB 3.0), USB 480 Mbit/s (USB 2.0) and USB 12 Mbit/s (1.1); USB 3.0 devices are compatible, but will operate at USB 2.0 speed if internal USB 3.0 connector is not connected.
+12 V issue
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics%20display%20resolution | The graphics display resolution is the width and height dimension of an electronic visual display device, measured in pixels. This information is used for electronic devices such as a computer monitor. Certain combinations of width and height are standardized (e.g. by VESA) and typically given a name and an initialism which is descriptive of its dimensions. A graphics display resolution can be used in tandem with the size of the graphics display to calculate pixel density. An increase in the pixel density often correlates with a decrease in the size of individual pixels on a display.
The graphics display resolution is also known as the display mode or the video mode. It indicates the number of distinct pixels that can be displayed on a screen, which affects the sharpness and clarity of the image. The graphics display resolution can be controlled by various factors, such as the type of display device, the signal format, the aspect ratio, and the refresh rate. The graphics display resolution can be expressed as a single number (e.g. 1080p), which represents the number of horizontal or vertical pixels, or as two numbers separated by a multiplication sign (e.g. 1920×1080), which represent the width and height in pixels.
The graphics display resolution is influenced by the aspect ratio, which is the ratio of the width to the height of the display. The aspect ratio determines how the image is scaled and stretched to fit the screen. The most common aspect ratios for graphics displays are 4:3, 16:10 (equal to 8/5), 16:9, and 21:9 (equal to 7/3). The aspect ratio also affects the field of view and the perceived size of objects on the screen. Some graphics displays support multiple resolutions and aspect ratios, which can be changed by the user or by the software.
Overview by vertical resolution and aspect ratio
Legend:
Bold pixel numbers (width) are resolutions of named computer display standards like e.g. "QWXGA" or "HD+".
Bold big display standard names are ″fundamental″ standards (PAL, NTSC, CGA, EGA, VGA, XGA, HD) or widely used (FHD, 4K).
Bold Italic are no display standards but format standards (SIF, CIF, DVCPRO HD).
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Castelldefels | Public transport in Castelldefels (Catalonia, Spain) belongs to the broader Metropolitan Area of Barcelona transportation network, organised around the entity Autoritat del Transport Metropolità (ATM). Castelldefels is both a dormitory town, with many commuters driving everyday into Barcelona, and an important locality in itself.
Railway transport
Trains first arrived in 1881 in Castelldefels with the introduction of the Vilanova line.
Railway stations
Both part of the Rodalies Barcelona commuter railway network.
New railway projects
A Barcelona Metro line which was to be numbered L12 was presented in 2002 as part of a major, much-needed revamp of the transportation facilities in the Baix Llobregat part of the metropolitan area. The line, however, was effectively deemed completely unpractical, and dropped out of the final draft for the area and instead a reform of Rodalies Barcelona, with a new line from Castelldefels to L'Hospitalet de Llobregat or Cornellà.
Accidents
The Castelldefels rail accident occurred on 23 June 2010 when a passenger train struck a group of people who were crossing the railway on the level at Platja de Castelldefels station. Twelve people were killed, and fourteen injured: the majority of the victims were of Latin American origin, particularly from Ecuador.
The accident occurred on St. John's Eve, a major celebration in Catalonia as in other parts of Spain and in several other European countries. The victims were apparently trying to get to the beach less than 200 metres from the station, where a concert by Ecuadorian singer Rubén de Rey had been organized. It was the worst railway accident in Spain since a collision between a passenger train and a freight train at Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón in June 2003 killed 19 and injured 38 people.
Bus lines
All of the local bus lines are operated by Avanza Spain SL.
CF1 - Castelldefels (Agustina d'Aragó) - Castelldefels (Les Botigues - Pg. Marítim)
L94 - Barcelona (Estació de Sants) - Castelldefels (Les Botigues - Pg. Marítim)
L95 - Barcelona (Ronda Universitat) - Castelldefels (Carles Riba)
L96 - Castelldefels (Bellamar) - Sant Boi de Llobregat (Estació FGC)
L97 - Barcelona (Pl. Reina Mª Cristina) - Castelldefels (Bellamar)
L99 - Castelldefels (Passeig Pitort) - Aeroport Terminal T1
Night bus lines
N14 - Barcelona (Ronda Universitat) - Castelldefels (Centre vila)
N16 - Barcelona (Ronda Universitat) - Castelldefels (Bellamar)
N19 - El Prat (Estació Rodalies) - Castelldefels (Passeig Pitort)
See also
Autoritat del Transport Metropolità
List of Rodalies Barcelona railway stations
Transport in Barcelona
Transport in Badalona
Transport in Cornellà de Llobregat
Transport in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
Transport in Santa Coloma de Gramenet
Transport in Sant Adrià de Besòs
Transport in Montcada i Reixac
References
External links
City council website |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20Crime | Real Crime is a British documentary television series produced by ITV Studios for the ITV network. Each episode examines a notorious crime and includes interviews with relatives of the victims. It was broadcast from 2001 to 2011, and ended after ten series. From 2008 until 2011, each episode was presented by Mark Austin and from 2010 was listed as Real Crime with Mark Austin.
Episodes
Series 1 (2001)
Wednesday 6 June 10:20pm – The Hunt for Wearside Jack
Wednesday 13 June 10:20pm – I Was a Great Train Robber
Wednesday 20 June 10:20pm – Ben Needham: Somebody Knows
Wednesday 27 June 10:20pm – The Rachel Nickell Story
Wednesday 11 July 10:35pm – Who Killed the Pageant Queen? - Murder of JonBenét Ramsey
Wednesday 5 September 10:20pm – The Gang the Krays Feared
Wednesday 12 September 10:20pm – Suzy Lamplugh
Series 2 (2002)
Monday 18 March 11:00pm – Kenny Noye: A Face from the Past
Friday 12 April 11:00pm – Justice for Julie
Tuesday 7 May 9:00pm – Crocodile Tears
Tuesday 14 May 9:00pm – Tracie Andrews: Blood on her Hands
Monday 24 June 10:30pm – Mr Nice Guy
Monday 1 July 11:00pm – Starring John Bindon
Monday 15 July 11:00pm – The Truth About the Babes in the Wood
Monday 29 July 10:25pm – Cracking the Killers' Code
Monday 5 August 11:00pm – The Heiress and the Kidnapper
Monday 12 August 10:25pm – Angel of Death: The Beverly Allitt Story
Monday 30 September 11:00pm – Britain's Richest Killer
Series 3 (2003)
Sunday 27 April – Justice for My Daughter
Monday 29 September 11:00pm – 'Til Death Us Do Part
Tuesday 14 October 9:00pm – Lady Jane
Sunday 21 December 11:20pm – A Mind to Murder
Series 4 (2004)
Monday 5 January 11:00pm – Jeremy Bamber
Monday 26 January 11:00pm – Love You to Death
Monday 29 March 11:00pm – Girlsnatcher
Tuesday 15 June 9:00pm – Who Killed the Pageant Queen?: The Prime Suspect
Series 5 (2006)
Monday 3 July 9:00pm – Skydiver: Murder or Suicide?
Monday 2 October 11:00pm – Married to a Monster: At Home with the M25 Rapist
Series 6 (2007)
Tuesday 9 January 11:00pm – The Caroline Dickinson Murder
Tuesday 16 January 11:00pm – Lady in the Lake
Tuesday 27 February 11:00pm – The Beauty Salon Murder
Tuesday 20 March 11:00pm – The Almost Perfect Murder
Tuesday 27 March 11:00pm – The Perverted World of Marc Dutroux
Tuesday 17 April 11:00pm – Killed by a Perfect Son
Tuesday 24 April 11:00pm – A Killer Came Calling
Tuesday 1 May 11:00pm – A Deadly Secret
Tuesday 8 May 11:00pm – Nailing the Nail Bomber
Series 7 (2008)
Monday 28 April 9:00pm – Murder at Harvey Nicks
Wednesday 25 June 9:00pm – The Fight for Sarah's Law
Monday 22 September 10:35pm – Serial Killer on Camera
Monday 29 September 10:35pm – The 30 Year Secret
Monday 6 October 10:35pm – The Hunt for Mr Swirl
Thursday 16 October 9:00pm – A Very Special Constable
Thursday 23 October 9:00pm – Death of a Hostess
Thursday 30 October 9:00pm – The Suffolk Strangler
Thursday 13 November 10:40pm – The Cat and Mouse Killer
Wednesday 19 November 10:5 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correctness | Correct or Correctness may refer to:
What is true
Accurate; Error-free
Correctness (computer science), in theoretical computer science
Political correctness, a sociolinguistic concept
Correct, Indiana, an unincorporated community in the United States
See also
Correct Craft, a U.S.-based builder of powerboats
Correct sampling, a sampling scenario in Gy's sampling theory
Right (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarti%20Sequeira | Aarti Lucica Sequeira (born 19 August 1978) is an Indian American cook and television personality, best known as the winner of the sixth season of Food Network's reality television show, The Next Food Network Star. In 2010, after her victory, her show Aarti Party premiered on the network. Following Aarti Party, she went on to host Taste in Translation on Cooking Channel, in which she seeks out the most popular dishes from around the world. She had previously worked as a CNN news producer and in 2008 started the online cooking variety show Aarti Paarti.
Early life and education
Aarti Lucica Sequeira, was born in Mumbai on August 19, 1978. Her family was originally from Mangalore in the state of Karnataka. She had two sisters, and grew up in a traditional Indian Catholic home. When she was still an infant, her family moved to Dubai due to better job opportunities for her father. Sequeira was educated in a primarily Indian-attended school in Dubai until age seven, when she was transferred to a British school, which was initially a challenge for her as she felt like an outsider. She participated in music-related activities at school, including choir and playing piano.
Sequeira said cooking was a large part of her family's identity, and she credits much of her culinary inspiration to her Indian cultural background and her mother's influence. She called her grandmother an "incredible, incredible cook". Sequeira's mother started keeping a recipe journal after her own mother died, which inspired Sequeira to start her own recipe journal starting at age 10. Her fondest food memories as a child were her father's weekly trips to the market for fresh fish and produce, as well as her mother's daily recipe creations. She was also exposed to cuisines of other countries, including homemade pastas in the home of her Italian best friend, and Arabian spit-roasted shawarmas her family ate every Friday. As a child, Sequeira would sometimes pretend to host a cooking show, She moved to the United States in 1996. and she was nicknamed "Showcase" because she enjoyed dancing and performing for people.
Sequeira was inspired to pursue a career in journalism after watching CNN cable news coverage of the Gulf War as a child. She aspired to work at CNN and pursue a career like that of journalist Christiane Amanpour. Sequeira graduated from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism in 2000, with a degree in Broadcast Journalism, with an adjunct major in International Relations. She worked at the school's student-run radio and television stations as a student, and spent a short time in Washington, D.C. covering the United States Congress for a local news station in Fargo, North Dakota. Sequeira described Medill as a challenging school, but said it helped make her feel tougher, more prepared for challenges, and "like I had something to offer".
Early career
Two weeks after her graduation from Medill, Aarti started worked as a production assistant for CNN in Chicago. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Arena | Christian Joseph "Chris" Arena is an American singer-songwriter and producer whose work can be seen across television networks such as ABC, ABC Family, CBS, The CW and others as well as feature films. Arena was nominated for a 2016 Emmy Award for 'Outstanding Original Song in Daytime Drama' for his song 'Dreams' written for ABC's "General Hospital". Most recently, Arena's work can be seen on "Catfish" and "Scream" on MTV. Other tracks, "Baby Fish", "Yes It Do", "Train", "City Inside Me", and "Closed Window" were featured in Season 4 of ABC's Pretty Little Liars. His song "Dreams" was used as a theme song on ABC's General Hospital in January 2015 as well as his latest song "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us", which was featured in TV Land's Younger in April 2015. His song "For You" was also picked for the romantic comedy/feature film, This Thing With Sarah.
Music on television
Arena's music has been featured on Pretty Little Liars, Ravenswood, General Hospital, and Younger, as follows:
Biography
Born into a music-oriented family, Arena was taught at a young age to play guitar by his father, an airline pilot who also grew up playing. Arena's grandfather played guitar as a jazz musician in New York City in the 1950s where he purchased what became a very rare 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard Guitar. The guitar was passed down to Arena's father, who gave it to Chris in high school under the condition that he pursues music as a career. Many of Arena's tracks have been created using that same guitar.
In 2005, Arena moved from New Jersey to Memphis, Tennessee with his family, where he later attended the University of Memphis and received a BA in Music. After graduating in 2008, he began writing songs that would eventually comprise his debut album, Black. In 2010, he moved to Philadelphia after completing the recording sessions for his album. Upon receiving word that his acoustic piece "For You" would be featured in the indie film, This Thing With Sarah, he decided to move west where he could more seriously pursue a career in music. He moved to Los Angeles in 2011 and currently resides in Santa Monica.
Career
In 2013 Arena's songs "Baby Fish", "Yes It Do", and "Train" were featured in Season 4 of ABC's Pretty Little Liars. The tracks "Crazy" and "Wait" were part of New Jersey surf documentary Dark Fall in 2010. His song "For You" was featured in the indie film This Thing With Sarah that was a contender in the Los Angeles Dances with Films festival in the Summer of 2013.
Arena performed at the Dark Fall premiere and encore showing at the House of Blues in Atlantic City, at subsequent showings in San Diego, CA as well as the Tribeca Surf Film Festival in New York, NY. In addition, Arena has performed at dozens of locations in many cities, including House of Blues and World Cafe Live.
In Fall 2012, Arena and British songwriter and producer, Stefan Skarbek collaborated on a new band, Blackout Cash that would feature Indie Rock infused with EDM. The first album is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toby%20Walsh | Toby Walsh is Chief Scientist at UNSW.ai, the AI Institute of UNSW Sydney. He is a Laureate fellow, and professor of artificial intelligence in the UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales and Data61 (formerly NICTA). He has served as Scientific Director of NICTA, Australia's centre of excellence for ICT research. He is noted for his work in artificial intelligence, especially in the areas of social choice, constraint programming and propositional satisfiability. He has served on the Executive Council of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
He received an M.A. degree in theoretical physics and mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh. He has held research positions in Australia, England, Ireland, Italy, France, Germany, Scotland, and Sweden. He has been Editor-in-Chief
of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and of AI Communications. He was chaired several conferences in the area of artificial intelligence
including the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. He is Editor of the Handbook of Constraint Programming, and of the Handbook of Satisfiability. He proposed the idea of Turing red flag laws, which require any AI system to identify itself as a computer program to prevent human confusion.
In 2015, he helped release an open letter calling for a ban on offensive autonomous weapons that attracted over 20,000 signatures. He later gave a talk at TEDxBerlin on this topic. In 2017, he organized an open letter calling for a ban signed by over 100 founders of AI and Robotics companies. Also in 2017, he organized a letter to the Prime Minister of Australia calling for Australia to negotiate towards a ban signed by over one hundred researchers from Australia working on artificial intelligence. In 2022, he was one of 121 prominent Australians banned from travelling to Russia indefinitely for his outspoken criticism of the use of AI by the Russian military.
In 2018, he chaired the Expert Working Group of the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA) preparing a Horizon Scanning Report on the "Deployment of Artificial Intelligence and what it presents for Australia" at the request of Australia’s Chief Scientist, Dr Alan Finkel, and on behalf of the Commonwealth Science Council. Additionally, he was interviewed on ABC Comedy by Tom Ballard, discussing the "robot revolution".
He is the author of four books on artificial intelligence for a general audience: "It's Alive!: Artificial Intelligence from the Logic Piano to Killer Robots", which looks at the history and present of AI, "2062: The World that AI Made", which looks at the potential impact AI will have on our society, and "Machines Behaving Badly: the Morality of AI", which looks at the ethical challenges of AI.
His latest book is Faking It: Artificial intelligence in a Human World. All four books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGAC | CGAC may refer to:
China General Aviation Corporation - A former Chinese airline
Galicia Contemporary Art Centre - A museum in Galicia
CGA Computer - A software security company whose flagship product, Top Secret, was acquired by Computer Associates in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uki%20%28TV%20series%29 | Uki is a Belgian computer-animated television series. The main character is a small yellow creature who invites his young viewers to discover the world with him. The show has been airing on Belgian and Finnish networks since April 2010. It was first shown on Club RTL and Ketnet.
From September 2011 it was also aired on BBC's CBeebies channel, as part of Show Me Show Me.
Characters
Uki is the main character in the series and is a yellow creature with a long neck, wings and a single antenna on his head which can perform telekinesis. Neither male nor female (despite being referred to with masculine pronouns), Uki doesn't talk but expresses himself through sounds, laughter and smiles in the manner of a toddler.
In the course of each episode Uki experiences a new adventure with his friends Hedgehog, Rabbit, Squirrel, Tortoise, Duck, and the Flowers, under the protective eye of Sun and Cloud. Each episode describes a day in Uki's life.
Production
The production of the show is overseen by the Belgian arm of Universal Music Group.
The original designs were created by a Belgian design studio Topfloor (www.topfloor.to). For the actual production of the show Universal Music teamed up with Belgian production studio Creative Conspiracy, the company that was responsible for the 3D character animation in the 2D-animation feature The Triplets of Belleville.
Storylines and scripts were written by Belgian TV and children's authors Dirk Nielandt, Griet Vanhemel, Tom Neuttiens and Diane Redmond.
Music composed by Piet de Ridder. Audio postproduction by Temple Of Tune Belgium. Voices by Jorka Decroubele and Fredo Gevaert.
Set
Uki's world is safe and contained; it is the world of a child awakening to new experiences and sensations that will shape her development and deepen her understanding of her environment. Music is key to the show – simple, catchy melodic jingles that make the show accessible to even the youngest child.
Structure
The show has a modular structure: the carefully layered episode content provides the young viewer with a sequentially linked set of games, puzzles and activities that enhance the concept at the heart of the story.
Awards
In 2008 the show won the KidScreen Summit's Pitch it! Award.
Episodes
External links
References
2010 Belgian television series debuts
2010s animated television series
2010s Belgian television series
2010s Canadian animated television series
Belgian children's animated television series
French-language television programming in Belgium
Animated preschool education television series
2010s preschool education television series
CBeebies
Television shows about telekinesis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geac%20Computer%20Corporation | Geac Computer Corporation, Ltd ( and ) was a producer of enterprise resource planning, performance management, and industry specific software based in Markham, Ontario. It was acquired by Golden Gate Capital's Infor unit in March 2006 for US$1 billion.
History
Geac was incorporated in March 1971 by Robert Kurt Isserstedt and Robert Angus ("Gus") German.
Geac started with a contract with the Simcoe County Board of Education to supply onsite accounting and student scheduling. They programmed inexpensive minicomputers to perform tasks that were traditionally done by expensive mainframe computers.
Hardware/software
Geac designed additional hardware to support multiple simultaneous terminal connections, and with Dr Michael R Sweet developed its own operating system (named Geac) and own programming
language (OPL) resulting in a multi-user real-time solution called the Geac 500.
The initial implementation of this system at Donlands Dairy in Toronto led to a contract at Vancouver City Savings Credit Union ("Vancity") in Vancouver, British Columbia, to create a real-time multi-branch online banking system. Geac developed hardware and operating system software to link minicomputers together, and integrated multiple-access disk drives, thereby creating a multi-processor minicomputer with a level of protection from data loss. Subsequently, Geac replaced the minicomputers with a proprietary microcoded processor of its own design, resulting in vastly improved software flexibility, reliability, performance, and fault tolerance. This system, called the Geac 8000 was introduced in 1978.
Geac introduced its library management software in 1977, and a number of well-known libraries adopted it. These included the US Library of Congress and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. In the mid-1980s, it released a suite of office automation apps (calendar, wordprocessor, e-mail, spreadsheet, etc.) running on the 8000. This application suite was piloted by the federal Office for Regional Development (ORD – later absorbed by Industry Canada) and later still was used by the NAFTA Trade Negotiations Office. Compared to similar LAN-based office initiatives of the same period, Geac's multi-user minicomputer-based offering provided significantly higher availability. And its software developers were exemplary in fixing bugs promptly and responding to requests for enhancements.
Financials
During the 1990s the company successfully embarked on an aggressive acquisition strategy led by Steve Sadler, CEO, and expanded into a wide range of vertical markets, including newspaper publishing, health care, hospitality, property management, and others.
Its 1999 acquisition of JBA Holdings PLC by the new leader, Doug Bergeron, Geac CEO, doubled the size of the company, but became a financial disaster.
Geac's acquisitions were not aligned to any customer focused strategy: they covered a wide range of products and geographies, and many analysts accused Geac of "financial engineering" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet%20%26%20Clank%3A%20All%204%20One | Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One is a platform video game for the PlayStation 3 developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment in October 2011. It is the third spin-off from the Ratchet & Clank series.
Upon release, the game received mixed reviews, with praise aimed at the soundtrack, story, graphics, humor, voice acting, combat and gameplay, though criticism was aimed at the frustrating partner AI and glitches. It was a commercial success, selling 1.5 million copies worldwide.
Gameplay
Unlike previous games in the series which were mostly single-player-only games, All 4 One focuses on a four-player cooperative multiplayer mode which allows for drop-in and drop-out online as well as offline multiplayer. Players can each take the role of one of the four main characters of the game, namely Ratchet, Clank, Qwark and Doctor Nefarious.
Plot
The game begins when Galactic President Captain Qwark goes to the city of Luminopolis to receive an "Intergalactic Tool of Justice Award", and he asks Ratchet and Clank to escort him. When the ceremony begins, Dr. Nefarious (having been teleported off his space station right before it exploded in the previous game) arrives and awakens a light-eating Z'Grute from cyrosleep, but it immediately turns against him, forcing Dr. Nefarious to join Ratchet, Clank and Qwark to stop it. While the team tracks the Z'Grute, strange unidentified robots follow the Z'Grute that don't seem to belong to Nefarious. After the team defeats the Z'Grute, a massive moon-sized drone appears and captures both the Z'Grute and the four heroes. They then awake in a mysterious facility but are rescued by Susie, a young galactic scout. When the team escapes and arrives at a Tharpod village, they find out that the drone that captured them is known as Ephemeris, the Creature Collector. It takes the universe's most dangerous beasts and brings them to planet Magnus. The team agrees to get rid of Ephemeris and heads through the Deadgrove to the N.E.S.T. (Northern Extraterrestrial Sorting Terminal). After fighting a Wigwump, the team finds the fifth holo-diary of Dr. Frumpus Croid. It shows that whoever is now in control of Ephemeris has plans for the monsters.
After fighting Commander Spog at the N.E.S.T, they find out that only the Architect knows how to defeat Ephemeris and head over to Terawatt Forest, beyond Octonok Cay. They also find Dr. Croid's first holo-diary. It shows the happier times on Magnus. While in Octonok Cay, they find Dr. Croid's next two holo-diaries. They show that Dr. Nevo Binkelmiyer, Dr. Croid's colleague betrayed him, ravaged his laboratory, took Mr. Dinkles, Dr. Croid's companion and stole the plans to a protomorphic energy extractor and that Dr. Croid sent a smaller version of Ephemeris to rescue his companion, Mr. Dinkles. When they reach Dr. Croid's research station, they find Dr. Croid's fourth holo-dairy. It shows that Nevo seized control of Ephemeris and modified it into what it is now, and th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Faction%3A%20Battlegrounds | Red Faction: Battlegrounds is a vehicle simulation multi-directional shooter developed by Volition and published by THQ for the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade in 2011. It was released for the promotion of Red Faction: Armageddon.
Reception
The Xbox 360 version received "mixed" reviews, while the PlayStation 3 version received "generally unfavorable reviews", according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
2011 video games
Multidirectional shooters
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
Red Faction
THQ games
Vehicular combat games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in the 22nd century
Video games set on Mars
Xbox 360 games
Xbox 360 Live Arcade games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qseven | Qseven, a computer-on-module (COM) form factor, is a small, highly integrated computer module that can be used in a design application much like an integrated circuit component. It is smaller than other computer-on-module standards such as COM Express, ETX or XTX and is limited to very low power consuming CPUs. The maximum power consumption should be no more than 12 watts.
Specification
The name comes from the word "quadratic" due to the square shape of the original module, 70mm on a side. It was first proposed in 2008 by Congatec.
Other companies based in Europe such as Kontron adopted the standard, but after a few years it had not yet been popular in the USA.
The Qseven specification is hosted by the Standardization Group for Embedded Technologies (SGET), which took over from the original Qseven consortium in 2013. The revision 2.0 was released September 9, 2012, and 2.1 on February 25, 2016.
The Qseven design guide provides information for designing a custom system carrier board for Qseven modules. It includes reference schematics for the external circuitry required to implement various peripheral functions. It also explains how to extend the supported buses and how to add additional peripherals and expansion slots to a Qseven-based system.
It's available from the Qseven consortium webpage.
Since the release of Specification 1.20 (September 10, 2010) Qseven modules can be based on x86 or ARM architectures.
Interfaces
The Qseven specification defines a rich set of legacy-free interfaces. Older interfaces like PCI, ISA, RS-232 or EIDE are not supported.
4× PCI Express ×1 Lanes
2× SATA
8× USB 2.0
1× 1000BaseT Ethernet
1× SDIO 4-bit
Low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) 2× 24-bit
SDVO / HDMI / DisplayPort (shared)
HDA (High Definition Audio)
I²C Bus
Low Pin Count bus
CAN bus (Controller–area network)
Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) bus
Sizes
70 mm × 70 mm;
70 mm × 40 mm.
Connector
Qseven uses one 230 pin MXM2 SMT edge connector to connect all power and signal lanes to the carrier board. This connector is available from multiple vendors at different heights (5.5 mm and 7.8 mm).
See also
ETX
XTX
COM Express
Smart Mobility Architecture (SMARC) another specification from the same group
References
External links
RTC Magazine: Atom-Based Qseven Module Addresses the Portable Device Market
Computer hardware standards
Motherboard form factors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20D.%20Moore | H. D. Moore is a network security expert, open source programmer, and hacker. He is the founder of the Metasploit Project and was the main developer of the Metasploit Framework, a penetration testing software suite.
Moore is currently the co-founder and chief technical officer of runZero, Inc, a provider of cyber asset attack surface management software and cloud solutions. The company was originally founded in 2018 as Rumble, Inc and renamed to runZero, Inc. in 2022.
Prior to starting runZero, Moore served as the vice president of research and development at Atredis Partners, the chief research officer at Boston, Massachusetts-based security firm Rapid7, and remained the chief architect of the Metasploit Framework until his departure from Rapid7 in 2016.
Information security work
Moore developed security software utilities for the United States Department of Defense as a teenager, and founded the Metasploit Project in the summer of 2003 with the goal of becoming a public resource for exploit code research and development.
He is known for his work in WarVOX, AxMan, the Metasploit Decloaking Engine and the Rogue Network Link Detection Tools, and started a "Month of Browser Bugs" (MoBB) initiative in 2006 as an experiment in fast-paced vulnerability discovery with full disclosure. This started the Month of Bugs project meme, and resulted a number of web browser patches and improved security measures.
Moore has discovered, or been involved in the discovery of, a number of critical security vulnerabilities.
Metasploit Framework
The Metasploit Framework is a development platform for creating security tools and exploits. The framework is used by network security professionals to perform penetration testing, system administrators to verify patch installations, product vendors to perform regression testing, and security researchers worldwide. The framework is written in the Ruby programming language and includes components written in C and assembly language. In October 2009, the Metasploit project was acquired by Rapid7. While the Metasploit Framework continues to be free, Rapid7 has added commercial editions. With the acquisition of the project, HD Moore became chief security officer at Rapid7, and later chief research officer, while remaining chief architect of Metasploit.
WarVOX
WarVOX is a software suite for exploring, classifying, and auditing telephone systems. Unlike normal wardialing tools, WarVOX processes the raw audio from each call and does not use a modem directly. This model allows WarVOX to find and classify a wide range of interesting lines, including modems, faxes, voice mail boxes, PBXs, loops, dial tones, IVRs, and forwarders using signal processing techniques.
AxMan
AxMan is an ActiveX fuzzing engine. The goal of AxMan is to discover vulnerabilities in COM objects exposed through Internet Explorer. Since AxMan is web-based, any security changes in the browser will also affect the results of the fuzzing process.
Metasploit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popstars%20%28German%20season%201%29 | In fall 2000, German television network RTL2 started with the production of a German adaption of Popstars. Over the course of three months more than 4,500 hopeful female singers attended open television auditions in Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Leipzig, Cologne, Oberhausen, Stuttgart and Munich. Judged by Dutch entertainer Simone Angel, booker Mario M. Mendryzcki and Rainer Moslener, a director of A&R, thirty-two out of two hundred pre-selected girls eventually made it from the local recall shows to Majorca, Spain, to get trained in singing, dancing, and fitness. While the judges continued eliminating two or three girls each day with the help of choreographer Detlef "D!" Soost, eleven finalists remained and were sent home to prepare. In November 2000, Angel and Moslener visited each of the contestants at home to reveal whether or not they had been selected for the band. In the end five girls made it into the band: Nadja Benaissa, Lucy Diakovska, Sandy Mölling, Vanessa Petruo and Jessica Wahls. With the final members of the group in place, Popstars continued tracking the development and struggles of the new band.
Episodes
Episode 1: The Casting I
First Aired: 14 November 2000
Episode 2: The Casting II
First Aired: 21 November 2000
Episode 3: Recall
First Aired: 28 November 2000
Episode 4: Re-Recall + Telephone Callbacks
First Aired: 5 December 2000
Episode 5: The Workshop I
First Aired: 12 December 2000
Disqualified in training: Katja
Eliminated: Abir, Peggy, Stefanie
Episode 6: The Workshop II
First Aired: 19 December 2000
Eliminated: Allison, Asia, Ji-In Cho, Juana
Episode 7: The Workshop III
First Aired: 26 December 2000
Eliminated: Anke, Hariklia, Susan, Sushi
Episode 8: The Visits: Who Makes The Band? + Band Haus I
First Aired: 2 January 2001
Eliminated: Christiane Feist, Corinna "Curly" Riti, Franziska Frank, Maja Belger, Rachel Colley, Verena Stanley
In the Band: Jessica Wahls, Lucy Diakovska, Nadja Benaissa, Sandy Mölling, Vanessa Petruo
Episode 9: Band Haus II
First Aired: 9 January 2001
The girls practise their first single in a studio, take dance-lessons but don't like their coach. For one day they are coached by another dance-teacher, who is introduced as their new main-coach later. Simone visits the band to talk about styling and types. She tells that every girl stands for one element. After the meeting they drive to a radio station where the name of the band is revealed: No Angels.
Episode 10: Band Haus III
First Aired: 16 January 2001
Make-overs and video...
Episode 11: Band Haus IV
First Aired: 23 January 2001
mouse in the house...
Episode 12: Band Haus V
First Aired: 30 January 2001
Episode 13: Band Haus VI
First Aired: 6 February 2001
Episode 14: Band Haus VII
First Aired: 13 February 2001
Episode 15: Band Haus VIII
First Aired: 20 February 2001
Episode 16: Band Haus IX
First Aired: 27 February 2001
Episode 17: Band Haus X
First Aired: 6 March 2001
Television ratings
Germany
References
Ext |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExoPC | The EXOPC is a Tablet PC, in slate form, that uses Windows 7 Home Premium as its operating system, and is designed by the company of the same name, based in Quebec, Canada. The EXOPC Slate is manufactured by Pegatron. The first EXOPC slate was launched in October 2010 directly from EXOPC Corp. on their website, and in Canada through the company Hypertechnologie Ciara. Hypertechnologie Ciara markets the slate under the name Ciara Vibe. Probitas markets the EXOPC as Mobi-One in Southern Europe and North Africa. RM Education markets the EXOPC in the UK as the RM Slate. Leader Computers markets the EXOPC in Australia. The EXOPC Slate is also currently available in the United States via the Microsoft Store, both online and in stores. Mustek markets it as the Mecer Lucid Slate in South Africa.
Hardware
The architecture is based on an Intel Atom-M Pineview N450 CPU that is clocked at 1.66 GHz, and includes 2 GB of DDR2 SDRAM and 32 GB of solid-state drive (SSD) storage in its basic version, with an alternative model having a larger 64 GB SSD.
The EXOPC is also equipped with an accelerometer, which lets the display change from a portrait mode to a landscape mode by turning the slate in either direction. Internally it has four mini-PCIe slots of which three provide space for full-length cards and one half length. Three of these slots are in use and the fourth is available, but intended for a WWAN card. The unit also provides a SIM card slot.
Display
The EXOPC has an 11.6-inch diagonal, capacitive multi-touch screen. The screen has a resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels (WXGA), a 16:9 ratio, and has 135 pixels per inch.
The screen's firmware currently allows detection of two points of simultaneous touch, but is technically capable of up to 10 points of touch.
A light sensor built into the front of the tablet automatically adjusts the display brightness to ambient condition.
It is also possible to use a capacitive stylus for precision work, such as hand-drawn art and graphic works.
Connectivity
The EXOPC offers connectivity equivalent to that of a standard laptop:
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11b/IEEE 802.11g / IEEE 802.11n
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Two USB 2.0 ports
Audio in/out SuperJack
Mini-HDMI for connecting to an external monitor or television, with a maximum output resolution of 1080p (upscaled from 1366 × 768)
Dock connector
External power supply
Recharging the battery is done through a standard external power supply:
Size:
Weight:
Input: 100–240 V
Output: 19 V, 2.1 amperes
Software features
Operating system
The EXOPC uses Microsoft Windows 7 as its operating system. The company has developed a GUI interface around the standard Windows 7 GUI, nicknamed by the EXOPC community as the Connect Four Interface due to its full screen of interactive circles arranged in a grid pattern. A dedicated button on the touch-screen interface will minimize the EXOPC layer and reveal the Windows 7 desktop, allowing the user to have the EXOPC Slate act as a standar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslamp%20Games | Gaslamp Games, Inc. was an independent game developer based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada which designed video games for the Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux operating systems. Their first game, Dungeons of Dredmor, was released in 2011. Their most recent game, Clockwork Empires, was released in 2016. While the company did not appear to announce it was no longer operating, employees posted on social media that they no longer worked there after the Christmas holiday in 2016. There have also been no social media posts by the company and no further developments to their games after that time. In May 2019 they confirmed that the company had ceased all operations and officially removed Clockwork Empires from sale on all platforms.
Staff
Nicholas Vining, Gaslamp's technical director, has been involved in the game industry since the age of sixteen, when he got his Linux gaming start working for Loki Software. Since then, he has contributed to games developed by Piranha Games, 3000AD Inc., Destineer Studios, and TimeGate Studios. He has also written for Game Developer Magazine, and is listed as a contributor to the OpenGL Rendering API specification. He has also worked with prolific coder Ryan C. Gordon on various open source and Linux-related projects.
David Baumgart, Gaslamp's art director, has previously worked as a contractor specialising in 2-D artwork for video games. His list of credited titles includes work for Niels Bauer Games, Hexwar Games, Data Spire, and Tactic Studios. He also created the logo for the FatELF project.
Daniel Jacobsen, Gaslamp's CEO, co-founded the company while working on his undergraduate in physics at the University of Victoria, and their first release, Dungeons of Dredmor, was his first commercial video game project. In addition to programming and company management, he has also lectured with Nicholas Vining at the University of Victoria on game design, and contributes actively to Australian National University's SkyMapper project.
Releases
Their first project, Dungeons of Dredmor, was released on July 13, 2011. Dungeons of Dredmor is a Rogue-inspired dungeon crawler which embraces procedural content generation. Gaslamp's second game, Clockwork Empires, a steampunk city-building game, was released on Steam Early Access on August 15, 2014. Version 1.0 of Clockwork Empires launched on October 26, 2016.
References
External links
Gaslamp Games - Official Website
Gaslamp Games at YouTube
Gaslamp Games at Facebook
Defunct video game companies of Canada
Video game companies established in 2010
Video game companies disestablished in 2017
2010 establishments in British Columbia
2017 disestablishments in British Columbia
Video game development companies
Companies based in Victoria, British Columbia
Defunct companies of British Columbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Processing%20Iran%20Co. | Data Processing Iran Company (DPI) (, Dadheperdazi-ye Iran) is a computer, technology and IT Consulting corporation headquartered in Tehran, Iran. DPI is currently the largest technology provider in Iran
DPI manufactures and sells computer hardware and software (with a focus on the latter), and offers infrastructure services, hosting services, and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.
The company also offers a series of Internet-related services, namely dedicated servers; colocation services; Web hosting services, such as shared hosting, shared mail, DNS recording, and domain registration services; and managed services, including network services, security services, managed application services, storage and backup services, monitoring and reporting, and professional services.
History
DPI was established in 1959 as a regional branch for the IBM corporation. The company operated as a subsidiary until 1981, when IBM's operations in Iran were ceded to the Iranian government. In 2001, DPI became a private company, listed under the Tehran Stock Exchange. Over the company's history, DPI has signed numerous technology-sharing agreements with other software companies, including Mindscape, Dataproducts and Hypercom.
See also
Communications in Iran
References
Former IBM subsidiaries
Computer companies of Iran
Companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange
Cloud computing providers
Computer storage companies
Display technology companies
Iranian brands
Computer companies established in 1957
Companies based in Tehran
Iranian companies established in 1957 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TvOne%20%28Indonesian%20TV%20network%29 | PT Lativi Media Karya (previously PT Pasaraya Media Karya), operating as tvOne (formerly known as Lativi) is an Indonesian free-to-air news television network based in East Jakarta. tvOne is owned by Visi Media Asia, a unit of Bakrie Group.
As Lativi, The channel was test broadcast on 17 January 2002 at 4:00pm local time, and was officially formal launched took place on 30 July 2002 at 4:00pm. The final transmission and broadcast aired on 14 February 2008 at 7:30pm. The network was then sold by Abdul Latief in 2007 and the new owners changed the name from Lativi to tvOne.
History
As Lativi
As part of the boom in national television networks, channels and stations in the 2000s, Lativi was one of five new terrestrial television networks which were granted a license to broadcast nationwide in Indonesia. It was initially owned by Abdul Latief, previously Minister of Labor and also a famous businessman.
After Lativi bankruptcy
By 2007, ownership of the network was transferred to Aburizal Bakrie and Erick Thohir (as president director) due to debt and poor network management.
The television network officially formal relaunched took place as tvOne on 14 February 2008 at 7:30pm local time. It was opened by the then President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta. Anindya Bakrie (the son of Aburizal Bakrie) was named the Chief Commissioner and Erick Thohir as the President Director.
On 14 February 2020 during its 12th anniversary, station ID was rebranded after 8 years being unchanged; including news openings and its themes. However, its logo remained unchanged until 2023 when tvOne adopted the flat design of its logo and removed world's map on the globe as part of its 15th anniversary.
Domestic and international bureaus
tvOne had a domestic and international bureaus in:
Beijing, China
Doha, Qatar
Polonia, Medan
Hong Kong
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
London, United Kingdom
Manila, Philippines
Melbourne, Australia
Moscow, Russia
Munich, Germany
New York City, United States
Tokyo, Japan
Karanganyar, Central Java
Rappocini, Makassar
Jemursari, Surabaya
Programming
tvOne broadcasts a mixture of news and sports. The network is now more targeted towards A and B socio-economic groups. Currently, tvOne broadcasts general news and current affairs programming during the daily schedule and some sports and live events programming during afternoons and some evening and weekend timeslots. Aside from its daily news bulletins, tvOne broadcasts a three-minute news summary every hour outside its bulletins and live breaking news. Since 2008, tvOne has successfully maintained its position as the country's #1 TV news channel. Significant daily events are presented in “Breaking News” which has become a leading reference for viewers throughout the country. During the legislative elections and also the presidential and vice presidential election debates, tvOne generally ranks as the #1 news channel, beating the general entertai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dortmund%20Stadtbahn |
The Dortmund Stadtbahn is a light rail system in the German city of Dortmund and is integrated in the Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn network. Its network consists of eight lines and is operated by Dortmunder Stadtwerke, which is operating under the brand DSW21 since 2005.
The light rail system was gradually opened between 1976 and 2008 by relocating the inner-city tram tracks in underground tunnels and opening new express tram routes that are independent of road traffic (e.g. Kirchderne – Grevel). It operates on of route (of which are underground in tunnels, with the other being above-ground in dedicated rights-of-way). It has 23 underground stations and 59 on the surface.
Network
The system has eight Stadtbahn lines:
The U41 and U47 rail lines connect with bus 490, which travels to Dortmund Airport.
Rolling stock
See also
Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr
List of rapid transit systems
References
External links
Dortmund Stadtbahn - official site
Dortmund Stadtbahn at urbanrail.net
Transport in Dortmund
Light rail in Germany
Tram transport in Germany
Underground rapid transit in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnie%20%28disambiguation%29 | Arnie is a masculine given name or nickname. It may also refer to:
Arnie (video game), a 1992 game for the Commodore 64
Arnie II, a 1993 computer game, sequel to Arnie
Arnie (TV series), a 1970s sitcom
"Arnie", a song from the 1997 Brown Album by Primus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20Process%20Achievement%20Award | The Software Process Achievement Award is a non-competitive award offered by the IEEE Computer Society and Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and annually presented for outstanding and innovative contributions to the field of software quality.
Award recipients receive an engraved commemorative plaque and make several presentations at appropriate practitioner and researcher community events. Award recipients also produce an SEI Technical Report describing their accomplishments, experiences, and lessons learned. The SEI helps produce this report and pays the authors an honorarium of $1500 to partially offset the expense of preparing their presentation and report.
History
In 1994, the Software Process Achievement Award program was first established by the IEEE Computer Society. Since then, only nine companies have received this award, including renowned organizations such as Goddard Space Flight Center, Raytheon Company and Hughes Electronics.
List of past recipients
The SPA, granted annually, has been declared null as often as it has been granted, due to the lack of candidates that meet the criteria of the recognition. So far, six North American companies, two Indian IT services providers, and one Colombian software development organization have received the accolade.
2009, Infosys Technologies Limited
2006, Productora de Software S.A (PSL)
2004, IBM Global Services, Australia: Application Management Group.
2002, Wipro: Software Process Engineering Group.
1999, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center: Aircraft Management Test Software & Industrial Automation Branches.
1998, Advanced Information Services, Inc: Development Group.
1997, Hughes Electronics: Software Process Improvement Team.
1995, Raytheon Company: Software Engineering Process Group, Equip. Div.
1994, Goddard Space Flight Center: Software Engineering Laboratory.
See also
List of computer-related awards
References
External links
IEEE Computer Society Awards
Computer-related awards
IEEE society and council awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20Smart | HTC Smart (F3188 aka HTC Rome 100) is a budget smartphone produced by HTC Corporation. It is based on Qualcomm's BREW mobile operating system. HTC Smart was officially announced on January 7, 2010 and was released on March 15, 2010 in Europe and Asia.
See also
Comparison of smartphones
References
External links
HTC Smart Homepage
Price Comparison
HTC smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAND%20CDBMS | SAND Nucleus CDBMS is a column-oriented DBMS software system optimized for business intelligence applications, delivering the data warehousing component, developed by SAND Technology Inc.
Company history
SAND Technology was founded in 1983.
SAND CDBMS traces its roots to developments by Nucleus International Corporation research and eventual patent issued to, among others, Edward L. Glaser on “Bit string compressor with boolean operation processing capability.”
Originally encoded on firmware, the application is now completely software based.
SAND Technology is now a division of N. Harris Computer Corporation.
Description
A fully tokenized, bit array encoded and compressed database, data storage is column-oriented using domains across schemas/tables rather than as rows of data within tables. This results in an optimized platform for data analytics and data mining, although not suitable for transaction processing.
This architecture exhibits the following characteristics:
All columns act as if they are indexed
Actual data values are stored only once and referenced by their token
Columns use lossless data compression when stored
Only columns requested in a query are accessed from the database
Queries are done directly on the compressed columns and only the result set is decompressed.
Platform agnostic, SAND CDBMS runs on 64 bit Windows or the following 64 bit Linux/Unix environments: HP-UX, IBM-AIX, Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux and Sun Solaris.
Database Administration
SAND/DNA Analytics is managed via ANSI standard SQL and DML commands.
Database space allocation and core management are done by the database engine. This means typical database administration is focused on data modeling, data content, managing the data life cycle and managing the user profiles and access permissions.
Data loading is straight forward and only requires pointing to the source and destination in load scripts. There are multiple data manipulation functions and commands available, but all internal structure optimizations are automatically managed by the database engine.
While data load performance can be slower than row based databases, it is mitigated by not having to build any indexes or run post-load administration routines once complete. Parallel load processing or segmented pre-load processing can also be used to improve load performance.
A core feature of SAND CDBMS is its support of “virtual” mounting of a database. This provides an isolated environment for developing and testing changes to a database, where upon dismounting, the entire environment is removed.
References
External links
SAND Technology Inc. website
Data warehousing products
Proprietary database management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20at%20Schuba%27s%20Tavern | Live at Schuba's [sic] Tavern is a live album by The Handsome Family recorded at Schubas Tavern in Chicago, Illinois. It was released 2002 by Digital Club Network. It contains songs as well as short jokes or stories told by the band.
Track listing
"Amelia Earhart Vs. The Dancing Bear" - 3:21
"The Good Toothpicks" - 0:18
"So Much Wine" - 3:57
"The Czar Bar" - 1:02
"Tinfoil" - 2:41
"A Beautiful Thing" - 3:45
"Vienna Sausage Hotline" - 0:53
"The Giant of Illinois" - 3:12
"My Sister's Tiny Hands" - 3:18
"Names For All His Shirts" - 0:36
"Cathedrals" - 3:51
"Weightless Again" - 3:44
"Bony Bread" - 0:24
"Winnebago Skeletons" - 3:45
"Drunk by Noon" - 2:49
"Magic Balls, Introduction" - 0:58
"The Sad Milkman" - 3:18
"Magic Balls, Conclusion" - 2:07
"I Know You Are There" - 3:21
"Down in the Ground" - 3:10
"Arlene" - 3:46
"Moving Furniture Around" - 3:50
"Freebird" - 0:16
"My Ghost" - 2:44
"The Woman Downstairs" - 4:25
Tracks 2, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 18 and 23 are conversations on stage or with the audience.
References
External links
The Handsome Family official website
2002 live albums
The Handsome Family albums |
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