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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfinityDB | InfinityDB is an all-Java embedded database engine and client/server DBMS with an extended java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap interface (a subinterface of java.util.Map) that is deployed in handheld devices, on servers, on workstations, and in distributed settings. The design is based on a proprietary lockless, concurrent, B-tree architecture that enables client programmers to reach high levels of performance without risk of failures.
A new Client/Server version 5.0 is in alpha testing, wrapping the established embedded version to provide shared access via a secure, remote server.
In the embedded system, data is stored to and retrieved from a single embedded database file using the InfnityDB API that allows direct access to the variable length item spaces. Database client programmers can construct traditional relations as well as specialized models that directly satisfy the needs of the dependent application. There is no limit to the number of items, database size, or JVM size, so InfinityDB can function in both the smallest environment that provides random access storage and can be scaled to large settings. Traditional relations and specialized models can be directed to the same database file. InfinityDB can be optimized for standard relations as well as all other types of data, allowing client applications to perform at a minimum of one million operations per second on a virtual, 8-core system.
AirConcurrentMap, is an in-memory map that implements the Java ConcurrentMap interface, but internally it uses a multi-core design so that its performance and memory make it the fastest Java Map when ordering is performed and it holds medium to large numbers of entries. AirConcurrentMap iteration is faster than any Java Map iterators, regardless of the specific map type.
Map API
InfinityDB can be accessed as an extended standard java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap, or via a low-level 'ItemSpace' API. The ConcurrentNavigableMap interface is a subinterface of java.util.Map but has special ordering and concurrency methods: this is the same API as java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentSkipListMap. Maps may be nested to form complex structures. The Maps have the standard semantics, but work internally on a 'tuple space', while the Maps are not actually stored but are helpers, each representing nothing more than an immutable tuple prefix. Maps may be created dynamically at high speed if needed for access, and are thread-safe and multi-core concurrent. The key and value types available include all Java primitive data types, Dates, Strings, small char or byte arrays, 'ByteStrings', 'huge array' indexes, Character Long Objects or Binary Long Objects, plus the special-purpose types 'EntityClass' and 'Attribute'. Maps may be multi-valued. Applications may choose to use the Map-based access alone and may mix in lower-level 'ItemSpace' access over the same tuples, as the Map access is just a wrapper and there is no tuple-level distinction.
The lower |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleanup%20stack | Cleanup Stack is a concept widely used in Symbian OS. It is most suitable to use in places where dynamic memory is used (allocated) in programming. The problem with dynamic memory is the sole discretion of the underlying OS whether the request for memory allocation shall succeed or not. Applications (Requester of memory) must be prepared to handle the rejection. In large programs dynamic memory is used almost everywhere. If an application frequently adds the code to handle this failure then it will increase the code size significantly. Symbian is used mostly on phones where this increase in the code size will further amplify the memory allocation failures. Symbian features an ingenious solution to that problem. When an application notes a memory allocation may fail, it places the earlier allocated memory address to a location which Symbian is aware of. That location is called Cleanup Stack. In the event of failure, Symbian knows that whatever resource is placed on the Cleanup Stack needs be freed. This way all the resources are freed when a program crashes (or Leaves). This freeing is performed automatically by the Symbian OS. Applications die peacefully without worrying who would clean up the mess left after them.
Cleanup stack make an idea to keep a copy of pointer to allocated memory and all elements from the cleanup stack are popped out and destroyed by using Push(), Pop(), and PopAndDestroy(). For example,
CleanupStack::PushL(ptr)
CleanupStack::Pop()
CleanupStack::PopAndDestroy()
Symbian OS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Corps%20Forces%20Cyberspace%20Command | The U.S. Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command (abbreviated as MARFORCYBER) is a functional formation of the United States Marine Corps to protect critical infrastructure from cyberattack. Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command is the Marine Corps component to U.S. Cyber Command. It comprises a command element, the Marine Corps Cyber Operations Group, and the Marine Corps Cyber Warfare Group, a total of approximately 800 personnel. MARFORCYBER was established on January 21, 2010 under the command of LtGen George J. Flynn,. As of 7 July 2021, MajGen Ryan P. Heritage is in command.
Overview
The Secretary of Defense recognized the significance of the cyberspace domain to national security, and directed the establishment of CYBERCOM as a sub-unified command under STRATCOM. CYBERCOM's primary objective is to integrate the cyberspace operations capabilities of the services and agencies in support of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace (NSSC).
In response, the Marine Corps established MARFORCYBER in October 2009 (this was complemented by the standing up of the Fleet Cyber Command, U.S. Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER), and Air Force Cyberspace Command (AFCYBER). MARFORCYBER's mission, in addition to its standard service component responsibilities, is to: plan, coordinate, integrate, synchronize, and direct the Corps' full spectrum of cyberspace operations. This includes Department of Defense (DoD) Information Network (DoDIN) operations, Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO), and planning and, when required, executing Offensive Cyberspace Operations (OCO). These operations support MAGTF, Joint and combined cyberspace requirements that enable freedom of action across all warfighting domains and deny the same to adversarial forces.
Subordinate Units
Marine Corps Cyberspace Operations Group
MCCOG directs global Network Operations (NETOPS) and computer network defense of the Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN) and to provide technical leadership in support of Marine and joint forces operating worldwide. The MCCOG is also responsible for intelligence gathering and analysis to develop future capabilities planning in accordance with DCO.
The MCCOG is the Computer Network Defense Service Provider (CNDSP) and serves as the Corps' Global Network Operations and Security Center (GNOSC). The MCCOG provides 24/7 NETOPS C2 through its Operations Center. Under the OPCON (operational command) of MARFORCYBER, the MCCOG executes Information NETOPS and DCO in support of operational requirements in order to enhance freedom of action across all warfighting domains, while denying the efforts of adversaries to degrade or disrupt this advantage through cyberspace.
Key MCCOG tasks include:
operating and defending the MCEN
collecting and sharing DoDIN Situational Awareness
reporting and directing actions that proactively address threats and vulnerabilities
responding to operational incidents
providing technical leadership to ensure that our Corps and joint capabiliti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MoneyBart | "MoneyBart" (stylized as "MoneyBART") is the third episode of the twenty-second season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on October 10, 2010. In this episode, Lisa coaches Bart's Little League baseball team to a record winning streak by using her book smarts in statistics and probability. However, when Bart questions Lisa’s coaching tactics and accuses her of taking the fun out of baseball, Lisa benches him from the championship game.
The episode was written by Tim Long. This was the last episode that Nancy Kruse directed for the series. It features an opening sequence and couch gag written by British graffiti artist and political activist Banksy, who stated he had been "inspired by reports that Simpsons characters are animated in Seoul, South Korea".
The episode was watched in a total of 6.74 million households.
Critical reception was generally favorable, with praises towards the story and jokes but criticism towards the episode's use of baseball-themed celebrity cameos.
Plot
A visit by Dahlia Brinkley, the only Springfield Elementary graduate ever to enter an Ivy League college, gives Lisa a severe inferiority complex because she is involved in very few extracurricular activities. When Ned Flanders resigns as coach of Bart's Little League team, the Springfield Isotots, Lisa seizes the chance to extend her résumé and takes the position. Since she knows nothing about baseball, she seeks advice from the patrons of Moe's Tavern, who direct her to Professor Frink and his scientific colleagues. She learns about sabermetrics from them and uses this science to organize the Isotots' strategy; as a result, their record quickly improves, and they rise in the league standings. However, Bart eventually rebels against her management, saying that she has taken all the fun out of the game, and hits a home run despite her orders to let the pitcher walk him. The Isotots win the game, but Lisa throws Bart off the team for his insubordination.
The dismissal raises tension at the Simpson household, with Homer and Marge siding with Lisa and Bart, respectively. Homer believes that Lisa needs to do what is good for the team, while Marge thinks she should put her relationship with Bart first. Under Lisa's leadership, the team advances to the championship against Capital City. On the day of the game, Marge takes Bart to an amusement park; while they ride the roller coaster, Lisa calls Bart to beg for his help, but he brushes her off. Mike Scioscia, manager of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (and a former ringer for Mr. Burns' softball team), pops up in the seats behind Marge and Bart and tells him that the best players listen to their managers, pointing out his three World Series wins – two as player, one as manager. Marge takes Bart to the game, which is now in its last inning, with the Isotots down 11-10. Bart puts aside his differences with Lisa and offers to pinch-run from first bas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana%3A%20The%20Epic | Ramayana: The Epic is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language computer-animated mythological action film from Maya Digital Media. Directed by Chetan Desai and produced by Ketan Mehta, it was released by Warner Bros. India on 15 October 2010.
Plot
The plot begins with Dashratha and his three wives ruling the kingdom Kosala, with the capital Ayodhya. The king and queens perform a special ritual to pray for children. Soon, Dasratha has four sons: Rama from Kaushalya, Bharata from Kaikeyi, and Lakshman and Shatrughna from Sumitra. Rama becomes known as a virtuous warrior and Vishamitra asks Dashratha to send Rama to help him defeat the demoness Tadka. After this incident, Vishwamitra takes Rama and Lakshmana to King Janak's swayamvara for his daughter Sita. Rama wins the contest by lifting and breaking Shiva's bow, where he and Sita get married. The three brothers also marry Sita's other sister. Dashratha decides to make Rama as his successor. Kaikeyi agrees that as the eldest son, Rama deserves the throne.
However, Manthara tells Kaikeyi that if Rama is crowned king, the other queens will become more powerful and that they will harass Kaikeyi and Bharat. Manthara reminds Kaikeyi that she has two boons to ask of Dashratha, where she asks Dashratha to crown Bharata as king and send Ram into exile for fourteen years. Dashratha is pained to see him leaving, but Rama is determined not to disobey his father's orders. Lakshmana and Sita decide to join Rama in exile. Dashratha dies longing for Rama and Bharata refuses to be a part of his mother's conspiracy. Bharata follows Rama and asks him to come back, but Rama refuses, so Bharata takes his sandals back as a symbol of Rama's rule over Ayodhya. In exile, Agastya gifts the brothers divine weapons that make them invincible.
In the thirteen of exile, Ravana's sister Shurpanakha meets Rama in the forest and is attracted to him. When he politely declines her offer to come with her, she threatens to kill Sita. To protect them, Lakshman cuts off her nose. When Ravana hears of his sister's humiliation, he plans vengeance by harming Sita. In the forest, Sita sees a beautiful deer and asks Rama to capture it for her. Rama goes to find the deer and instructs Lakshman to protect Sita while he's gone. When Rama strikes the deer, he finds that it is actually a demon named Marich in disguise, and he calls out for Sita and Lakshman in Rama's voice. Sita urges Lakshmana to make sure Rama is fine, where Lakshman draws a divine line of security around her to protect her while she is alone, telling her that she should not cross the line under any circumstances.
Ravana approaches Sita in disguise as an old sage seeking alms. He tricks her into exiting Lakshmana's circle of protection. Once she steps outside the boundary, he kidnaps her and takes her into the sky to Lanka. Jatayu tries to save Sita, but Ravana nearly kills him. To leave a trace of her path, Sita drops her jewelry from the sky, hoping someone will find it and trace th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipboard | Flipboard is a news aggregator and social network aggregation company based in Palo Alto, California, with offices in New York, Vancouver, and Bejiing. Its software, also known as Flipboard, was first released in July 2010. It aggregates content from social media, news feeds, photo sharing sites, and other websites, presents it in magazine format, and allows users to "flip" through the articles, images, and videos being shared. Readers can also save stories into Flipboard magazines. As of March 2016 the company claims there have been 28 million magazines created by users on Flipboard. The service can be accessed via web browser, or by a Flipboard application for Microsoft Windows and macOS, and via mobile apps for iOS and Android. The client software is available at no charge and is localized in 21 languages.
History
The original launch of Flipboard in 2010 was exclusively for iPad. It launched the iPhone and iPod Touch versions seventeen months later in December 2011.
The company raised more than $200 million in funding from investors, and an additional $50 million from JPMorgan Chase in July 2015.
On May 5, 2012, Flipboard was released for Android phones, beginning with the Samsung Galaxy S3. On May 30, 2012, a beta version of Flipboard for Android was released through its website. A final stable release of the Flipboard for Android was released on June 22, 2012, in Google Play. The Windows 8 version of the Flipboard app was also demonstrated during the Microsoft 2013 Build Conference and on the Flipboard blog with a video, although no release date was given. On October 22, 2014, Flipboard for Windows 8 was rolled out to Windows Phone devices starting with the Nokia Lumia 2520.
In March 2014, Flipboard bought Zite, a magazine-style reading app, from the CNN television network. Flipboard's content filtering, topic engine and recommendations system were integrated from this acquisition. Zite was shut down on December 7, 2015.
In February 2015, Flipboard became available on the web. Up until then, Flipboard was a mobile app, only available on tablets and mobile phones. The web client provides webpage links on desktop browsers, and lacks some features of the client software.
In February 2017, Flipboard updated their mobile apps for iOS and Android to 4.0, which brought a full redesign to the application, and implemented new features such as smart magazines, which allow users to bundle different things together, such as various news sources, people, and hashtags.
On May 29, 2019, Flipboard disclosed a security breach that affected an unspecified number of users between June 2, 2018, and March 23, 2019, and April 21 and 22, 2019, where customer databases including information, such as encrypted passwords and access tokens for third-party services, were accessible to an unauthorized party. All passwords and authentication tokens for third-party services are being reset, although Flipboard noted that almost all passwords were hashed using the st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Layerists%20in%20MultiMedia | The Society of Layerists in Multi-Media (SLMM) is a group of artists, centred in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, and formed in 1982. It describes itself as a network for artists and other persons interested in a holistic perspective. The Society has members at, and affiliations with, Michigan Tech.
Layering
The society was formed to look at the concept it refers to as "Layering" on a deeper level.
The society describes layering, in the context it uses the word, as something other than a label for a particular style or medium: it defines Layering as a way of making art in order to express ultimate connectedness, or a way to think about creating art as a synthesis of ideas from many sources. These include the sciences, philosophy, metaphysics, memories, synchronicities, and the imagination. The society suggests that a sense something "other" than the visible inhabits a Layered work, and that a Layered work is not distinguished by the technique so much as by "the mind of the artist who makes it"; that the Layering is an evanescent, as well as a tangible, metaphor that "grows like moss from living and learning".
Mary Carroll Nelson, founder of SLMM, observes that "In layered art, many events connect at a single point in space; and many points in space are linked at a single moment in time." Alexander Nepote, SLMM’s late mentor, expressed an idea that is relevant to Layering: "Energy that connects everything is a cosmic web— this includes information from the collective unconscious, the metaphysical as well as the physical."
The purpose of SLMM is to offer creative artists a holistic way to relate to one another, as differentiated from the academic structure of professional artists’ associations based on a single medium, such as watercolor, pastel, or sculpture. The network is meant to act as a leavening in a society whose values are based on a system of separation through competition, careerism, and hierarchy. SLMM is a society of equals designed to encourage creative expression and dynamic growth. The society reports that many members follow a personal path of aesthetics combined with an active interest in wholeness.
See also
Visionary art
References
External links
The Society of Layerists in Multi-Media
American artist groups and collectives
Organizations based in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Arts organizations established in 1982
1982 establishments in New Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinCC | SIMATIC WinCC is a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and human-machine interface (HMI) system from Siemens. SCADA systems are used to monitor and control physical processes involved in industry and infrastructure on a large scale and over long distances. SIMATIC WinCC can be used in combination with Siemens controllers. WinCC is written for the Microsoft Windows operating system. It uses Microsoft SQL Server for logging and comes with a VBScript and ANSI C application programming interface.
In 2010, WinCC and PCS 7 were the first known SCADA systems to be specifically targeted by malware. The Stuxnet worm can spy on and even reprogram infected systems.
References
External links
Siemens' WinCC product page
WinCC' WinCC scada page Introduction to WinCC Flexible
Industrial automation software
SCADA
Siemens software products
et:SIMATIC#WinCC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DQL | DQL may refer to:
DAML+OIL Query Language, an RDF query language.
Data query language, particularly for SQL.
Doctrine Query Language, for Doctrine (PHP).
Query languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20ModelSphere | Open ModelSphere is a data, process and UML modeling tool written in Java and distributed as free software under the GPL License. It provides support for forward and reverse engineering between UML and relational schemas.
History
Open ModelSphere has SILVERRUN PerfectO for an ancestor, proprietary software developed by Computer Systems Advisers and released in 1996. PerfectO was part of the SILVERRUN suite of modeling tools, known in the modeling community since the 1990s; PerfectO was used to support object-oriented modeling (limited to class modeling at that time) and object-relational modeling.
In 1998, PerfectO was translated into Java resulting in SILVERRUN-JD (Java Designer). With the addition of relational data modeling, the product was renamed to SILVERRUN ModelSphere and released in 2002. Later on, more features were added including support for business process modeling, conceptual data modeling, and UML diagramming.
In September 2008, Grandite released ModelSphere's core application as an open source product based on the GNU Public License version 3. Its development environment was hosted on JavaForge which shut down March 31, 2016. An empty project is hosted on SourceForge which was registered on Sep 16th, 2008 and last updated on Mar 27th, 2013. No releases, files, or source code are available on the SourceForge project page as of Oct 18th, 2016.
Database support
Open ModelSphere works with
Oracle
Informix
Microsoft SQL Server
Sybase
DB2
PostgreSQL
Releases
January 6, 2016: Open ModelSphere 3.2.2
No release notes provided
November 2009: Open ModelSphere 3.1, featuring
Core application based on Java 6
New look & feel
Interface to forward / reverse engineer Java code
New mechanism to facilitate the use of plug-ins
September 2008: Open ModelSphere 3.0
First open source release
July 2002: SILVERRUN ModelSphere 2.0
Addition of business process modeling
February 2002: SILVERRUN ModelSphere 1.0
Addition of relational modeling
See also
List of UML tools
Entity-relationship model
References
External links
Free UML tools
Diagramming software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Atlantic%20hurricanes%20in%20the%2018th%20century | The List of Atlantic hurricanes in the 18th century encompasses all known Atlantic tropical cyclones from 1700 to 1799. Although not all of the data for every storm that occurred are available, some parts of the coastline were populated enough to provide data of hurricane occurrences.
1700–1724
1725–1749
1750–1770
1770s
1780s
The 1780 Atlantic hurricane season was extraordinarily destructive and was the deadliest Atlantic hurricane season in recorded history with over 25,000 deaths. Four different hurricanes, three in October and one in June, caused at least 1,000 deaths each; this event has never been repeated and only in the 1893 and 2005 seasons were there two such hurricanes. The season also held the deadliest Atlantic tropical cyclone of all time.
Additionally, 1780 was a turning point in Caribbean habitation and trade, marking the end of a long period of economic boom that started in the early 1500s and marked the beginning of an economic decline for the region as news of the devastating hurricanes spread. Eight different storms battered the West Indies including three killer storms in the month of October alone. Tens of thousands were killed across the Caribbean onshore from storm surge, powerful winds and many thousands more killed offshore on sunken ships. The hurricanes struck the Caribbean in the midst of the American Revolutionary War as British and French navies were vying for control over the region and the hurricanes did considerable damage to both fleets wrecking numerous ships and drowning many.
1790s
See also
Lists of Atlantic hurricanes
Atlantic hurricane season
References
External links
The Deadliest Atlantic Tropical Cyclones, 1492-1996
18th century
18th-century natural disasters
Atlantic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wazoo%20Sports%20Network | Wazoo Sports Network was a regional sports network which specialized in airing local high school, college, and minor league sports mainly in the Kentuckiana and Bluegrass regions of Kentucky and southern Indiana, The network, which started out as online-only in December 2007, became a digital subchannel network in November 2009, but ended service at the end of 2011 due to Wazoo's parent company filing for bankruptcy.
On September 28, 2009, Wazoo Sports announced a partnership with Louisville ABC affiliate WHAS-TV to air the network on digital subchannel 11.3 starting on November 1; that November, an identical deal was reached with Lexington NBC affiliate WLEX-TV, which ran Wazoo Sports on subchannel 18.2. On August 1, 2010, the network added a third affiliate in Evansville, Indiana (near Henderson, Kentucky), as ABC affiliate WEHT added the network over subchannel 25.2 (replacing the Retro Television Network), though WEHT also incorporated some locally produced programming (primarily focused on the Indiana portion of the market), and thus branded the service as the News 25 Sports Channel (though Wazoo Sports branding was retained on programming provided by the network).
Wazoo Sports Network lost its three digital subchannel affiliations in December 2011. WEHT ended their affiliation (and subchannel 25.2 altogether) the evening of December 1, 2011 after that station's sale to Nexstar Broadcasting Group; Nexstar, by corporate edict, rarely maintained any subchannels at the time. WHAS-TV announced its disaffiliation from Wazoo Sports on December 18; the station's general manager later elaborated that the network "seems to have run its course for us." By December 27, WLEX-TV had also left Wazoo Sports and temporarily began carrying a local weather channel on 18.2 before joining Me-TV on December 31; the station felt that the network had not met WLEX's expectations. Wazoo Sports filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy two days later. The network's website remained up until its domain registration expired, remaining in the same state it was in December 2011, along with their social media channels.
Variously Wazoo also offered other Kentucky High School Athletic Association-sanctioned high school sports broadcasts pertaining to local teams and state tourneys over a network of affiliates spread throughout Kentucky via syndication, and offered almost all of their high school programming via video on demand through the network's website.
Besides high school sports, programming of interest produced, aired in archive form, or part of a network Wazoo Sports was associated with included the following sports and teams;
Minor league baseball
Lexington Legends
Louisville Bats
College sports
Austin Peay State University
Eastern Kentucky University
University of Kentucky
University of Louisville
Morehead State University
Murray State University
Western Kentucky University
References
Defunct local cable stations in the United States
Sports television networks in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironwood%20Theatre | The Historic Ironwood Theatre is a theatre in Ironwood, Michigan offering a variety of live theatrical, musical, and artistic performances as part of its programming. The theatre is a non-profit entertainment establishment owned by the City of Ironwood and operated by Ironwood Theatre Inc., a non-profit organization led by volunteers who serve on the Board of Directors.
History
Constructed in 1928, one of three movie houses in Ironwood at the time, the theatre presented first run films and vaudeville shows. The first feature film shown was "Wings" (1927) starring Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen and Gary Cooper. Notably, the same film was shown at the unveiling of the rededicated Barton Organ with Dr. Steven Ball performing on September 18, 2010.
The theatre continued as a movie and vaudeville house under the direction of A.L. Pikar through the Golden Age of Hollywood of the 1930s, '40s, and '50s—the theatre flourished during these decades. Experiencing extreme financial difficulties in the late 70s, the theatre closed its doors in the spring of 1982.
In 1982, owner Thomas Renn gave the Ironwood Theatre to the City of Ironwood through the Downtown Ironwood Development Authority (DIDA). The Ironwood Theatre reopened in 1988 as a non-profit cultural organization featuring a wide range of programming. In 2010, the City of Ironwood purchased the adjacent Seaman building, which it renamed the City Centre. The purchase provided the Theatre "with the concourse and additional space for an elevator, new restrooms, offices and even a catering kitchen." The City of Ironwood is developing plans to install handicapped bathroom facilities at the Theatre.
Design and architecture
The theatre was designed by self-taught Ironwood architect Albert Nelson and was constructed in 1928 at a cost of $160,000 (equivalent of approximately $2 million today). The architecture was modeled after the Italian Renaissance style featuring hand-sculpted faux pillars and arched proscenium style stage. The building seated 1,000 when it opened with 600 seats on the main floor and 400 seats on the balcony level.
Due to many restoration efforts and improvements of the theatre's design, many seats were removed to accommodate for added luxuries including a handicapped accessible area, light & sound booth, and concession stand. The theatre now seats 732—480 seats on the main floor and 252 seats in the balcony. The chairs found in the theatre today are exact replica replacements of the seats originally installed.
The Barton organ
The Barton organ, happily nicknamed "The Grand Old Lady", remains in place on its pedestal where it was installed in 1928. The historic theatre organ is a 2-manual, 7-rank, 499-pipe organ that is still completely playable. Restoration efforts on the organ began in 2000 under the direction of Dr. Tom Peacock. Volunteers were taught by experts on inspection and repair of the console, pipes, valves, and wiring. Virtually all organ components wer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEUC | WEUC (88.7 FM) is a radio station broadcasting the EWTN network's Ave Maria Radio. Licensed to Morganfield, Kentucky, United States, the station serves Morganfield and surrounding areas. The station also comes in around Evansville, Indiana, though the signal there is weak.
"WEUC" used to be the call letters of Emisora Universidad Católica (English: Catholic University Broadcasting), the radio station broadcasting of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, in Ponce, Puerto Rico until the university changed its name in 1991 after Pope John Paul II bestowed on the university the title of pontifical. The PUCPR's radio station call letters were subsequently changed to "WPUC" (Pontificia Universidad Católica [English: Pontifical Catholic University]) in order to reflect the university's new name.
See also
WSGJ-LP: Catholic radio station in Bowling Green, Kentucky
References
External links
Morganfield, Kentucky
2008 establishments in Kentucky
Radio stations established in 2008
Catholic radio stations
Catholic Church in Kentucky
EUC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminole%20Sports%20Network | The Seminole Sports Network is a radio network carrying Florida State University Seminoles athletic events, operated by Learfield IMG College. There are 19 stations in the network (13 on AM, 6 on FM) including 3 flagships.
Current network stations
External links
List of affiliates on the team’s website
List of radio affiliates for the 2010-11 season
Florida State Seminoles
Florida State University
College basketball on the radio in the United States
College football on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States
Learfield IMG College sports radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20L.%20Wallace | John L. Wallace (born September 25, 1956) is a medical scientist and was the founder of the Inflammation Research Network at The University of Calgary and inaugural director of the Farncombe Institute at McMaster University. In November 2013, he became the tenth recipient of the Heymans Foundation Memorial Medal. Since its inauguration in 1972, the Medal had been awarded twelve times; six of the recipients are Nobel Laureates. Wallace is also the 2009 recipient of the Premier's Summit Award in Innovation, Canada's largest value research award (C$5 million) aimed at supporting the work of an individual scientist.
He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the British Pharmacological Society, and a fellow and former president of the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology. Wallace is an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary, the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Toronto, and in the University Camilo Castelo Branco in São Paulo, Brazil.
He is Chief Scientific Officer of Antibe Therapeutics Inc., which he founded. Antibe Therapeutics is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:ATE).
John L. Wallace is a citizen of Canada, The Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom.
Research focus
Wallace's current research focuses on the mechanisms of internal injury induced by non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and other anti-inflammatory drugs. In parallel, Wallace has been investigating the factors that regulate and promote healing of ulcers. He is also researching the causes of inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis).
Career
Wallace's career has centred on the use of gaseous mediators to treat inflammation, particularly intestinal injury and dysfunction. Wallace has published more than 500 peer-reviewed papers and is among the top 0.5 percent of biomedical scientists worldwide in citations (> 42,000), with a current Hirsch index of 110.
From 1989 to 2009, Wallace was a professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics at the University of Calgary, where he held the Canada Research Chair in Inflammation. In 2005, he acted as an invited expert for the US Food and Drug Administration's review of COX-2 inhibitors such as Vioxx.
Wallace graduated from Queen's University with his BSc and MSc and received his PhD from the University of Toronto. He completed his post-doctoral studies under Dr. Brendan Whittle, Sir John Vane and Sir Salvador Moncada at Wellcome Research Laboratories in the UK. From 1986 to 1989, he was an assistant professor at Queen's University. In 1989, he joined the University of Calgary, where he founded the Inflammation Research Network and held the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of Canada Chair in Intestinal Disease Research. Wallace received an MBA from the University of Birmingham (UK) in 2008. In 2014, Wallace co-founded the Inf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibari%20%28database%29 | Hibari is a strongly consistent, highly available, distributed, key-value Big Data store. (NoSQL database) It was developed by Cloudian, Inc., formerly Gemini Mobile Technologies to support its mobile messaging and email services and released as open-source on July 27, 2010.
Hibari, a Japanese name meaning "Cloud Bird", can be used in cloud computing with services—such as social networking—requiring the daily storage of potentially terabytes or petabytes of new data.
Distinctive features
Hibari uses chain replication for strong consistency, high-availability, and durability. Unlike many other NoSQL variants, Hibari support micro-transaction, which is ACID transaction within a certain range of keys.
Hibari has excellent performance especially for read and large value (around 200 KB) operations.
Interfaces
Hibari supports APIs such as Amazon S3, JSON-RPC and Universal Binary Protocol; plans have been announced for support of Apache Thrift; in addition to Erlang, the language it was developed in. Hibari supports language bindings such as Java, C, C++, Python, and Ruby.
References
Free database management systems
2010 software
Erlang (programming language)
Cloud storage
Distributed data storage
NoSQL
Big data products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neri%20Oxman | Neri Oxman (; born February 6, 1976) is an American–Israeli designer and professor known for art and architecture that combines design, biology, computing, and materials engineering. She coined the phrase "material ecology" to define her work.
Many of Oxman's projects use new platforms and techniques for 3D printing and fabrication, often in collaboration with or inspired by nature and biology. They include co-fabrication systems for building hybrid structures with silkworms (Silk Pavilion), bees (Synthetic Apiary), and ants; Aguahoja, a water-based fabrication platform that built structures such as Aguahoja out of chitosan;
and G3DP, the first 3D printer for optically transparent glass. Some of these platforms have been developed for broader use. Other projects print clothing, wearables, or structural elements, sometimes developing new composite materials in the process (such as resins containing biosynthetic bacteria).
Early life and education
Neri Oxman was born in Haifa, Israel, the daughter of architecture professors Robert and Rivka Oxman. Her sister Keren, is an artist. Oxman grew up in Israel, spending time in her parents' architecture studio and at her grandmother's house, which she said "cultivated in me a sense of wonder."
After graduating from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa in 1993, she served two years in the Israeli Air Force, reaching the rank of first lieutenant. Following her military service, she attended Hebrew University's Hadassah Medical School for two years before switching her studies to architecture. She began her architectural studies at Technion Israel Institute of Technology and finished her degree at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, graduating in 2004. In 2005, Oxman began Ph.D. studies in architectural design and computation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, advised by William J. Mitchell. Her thesis focused on material-aware design. She graduated from the doctoral program in 2010.
Personal life
Oxman was previously married to Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov. In 2019, she married investor and hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, with whom she has a daughter. They are co-trustees of the Pershing Square Foundation.
Career
Oxman is the "Sony Corporation Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences" at the MIT Media Lab, where she founded and led the Mediated Matter research group. She has had exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art [MoMA], Boston's Museum of Science, SFMOMA, and the Centre Pompidou, which have her works in their permanent collections. MoMA curator Paola Antonelli called her "a person ahead of her time, not of her time", and futurist Bruce Sterling called her work "shatteringly different from anything before".
In 2006, Oxman launched an interdisciplinary research project at MIT called material ecology, to experiment with generative design. She became a professor at MIT in 2010, founding the interdisciplinary Mediated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Robinson | Gary Robinson is an American software engineer and mathematician and inventor notable for his mathematical algorithms to fight spam. In addition, he patented a method to use web browser cookies to track consumers across different web sites, allowing marketers to better match advertisements with consumers. The patent was bought by DoubleClick, and then DoubleClick was bought by Google. He is credited as being one of the first to use automated collaborative filtering technologies to turn word-of-mouth recommendations into useful data.
Algorithms to identify spam
In 2003, Robinson's article in Linux Journal detailed a new approach to computer programming perhaps best described as a general purpose classifier which expanded on the usefulness of Bayesian filtering. Robinson's method used math-intensive algorithms combined with Chi-square statistical testing to enable computers to examine an unknown file and make intelligent guesses about what was in it. The technique had wide applicability; for example, Robinson's method enabled computers to examine a file and guess, with much greater accuracy, whether it contained pornography, or whether an incoming email to a corporation was a technical question or a sales-related question. The method became the basis for anti-spam techniques used by Tim Peters and Rob Hooft of the influential SpamBayes project. Spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited, undesired bulk messages. SpamBayes assigned probability scores to both spam and ham (useful emails) to guess intelligently whether an incoming email was spam; the scoring system enabled the program to return a value of unsure if both the spam and ham scores were high. Robinson's method was used in other anti-spam projects such as SpamAssassin. Robinson commented in Linux Journal on how fighting spam was a collaborative effort:
In 1996, Robinson patented a method to help marketers focus their online advertisements to consumers. He explained:
Entrepreneurial activity
In 2010, Robinson was the chief technology officer at FlyFi, an online music service owned by Maine-based Emergent Discovery which uses his anti-spam programming techniques along with collaborative filtering technologies to help make music recommendations to web users. His blog Gary Robinson's Rants has been quoted by others in the computer and online music industries and cited by academic papers. Robinson helped develop recommendation engine technology which applies high-power mathematical techniques using software algorithms to have a computer guess intelligently about what a consumer might like. For example, if a consumer likes music by artists such as the Beach Boys, Bob Dylan and the Talking Heads, the computer software will match these preferences with a much larger dataset of other consumers who also like those three artists but which cumulatively has much greater musical knowledge than the single consumer. Accordingly, the computer will find music that the user m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core%20Security%20Technologies | Core Security by HelpSystems is an American computer and network security company provides cyber threat prevention and identity access management software products and services, including penetration testing, network traffic analysis, threat detection, privileged access management, and identity governance The company’s research arm, CoreLabs, identifies new IT security vulnerabilities, publishes public vulnerability advisories, and works with vendors to assist in eliminating the exposures they find.
In February 2019, HelpSystems acquired the Core Security products from SecureAuth. HelpSystems is a global enterprise software company working in the areas automation and cybersecurity.
History
In 1996, Core Security was founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One year later, the CoreLabs Research group was established and published their first advisory.
Core conducted its first penetration test for a U.S. company in 1998. In the same year, Core Security was recognized as an "Endeavor Entrepreneur" by the Endeavor Foundation, a foundation that supports entrepreneurial projects in emerging markets.
In 2000, the company's first U.S. office opened in New York, NY. Two years later, Core released the first and second versions of their flagship penetration testing product, Core Impact Pro.
In 2002, Morgan Stanley became a shareholder in Core, investing USD 1.5 million and retaining a seat on the board.
In 2003, the company's U.S. headquarters was relocated from New York to Boston, MA. Five years later, Mark Hatton became the CEO of Core Security.
In 2009, Core adds development sites in Boston and India. One year later, Core announced the beta of its new security testing and measurement product, Core Insight.
In 2012, Core announces partnership with nCircle. In the same year, Core announces partnership with NT Objectives.
In 2013, Core Security is named to the 2013 Inc. 500/5000 List. The firm, at the time, employed 180 people, 150 of whom are based in Buenos Aires.
In 2014, Core Security Adds Intrinium to its Partner Program and extends its reach to the Pacific Northwest. In the same year, Core Security announced the latest version of its Core Attack Intelligence Platform. Also in 2014, Core Security won the Information Security Magazine and SearchSecurity.com 2014 Readers' Choice Awards for "Excellence in Vulnerability Management."
In December 2015, Core Security was acquired by identity and access management (IAM) company Courion; in May 2016, Courion rebranded itself with the Core Security name.
In July 2016, Core Security Technologies acquired Damballa for $US 9 million.
In 2017, Core Security merged with SecureAuth.
In 2019, HelpSystems acquired the Core Security solutions from SecureAuth.
On March 4, 2020, Core Security by Helpsystems acquired Cobalt Strike.
Research and advisories
According to its website, Core Security's research department, Core Labs, conducts research in system vulnerabilities, cyber attack planning and simulation, sou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopostega | Pseudopostega is a genus of moths of the family Opostegidae.
Species
Pseudopostega abrupta (Walsingham, 1897)
Pseudopostega accessoriella (Frey & Boll, 1876)
Pseudopostega acidata (Meyrick, 1915)
Pseudopostega acrodicra D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega acuminata D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega adusta (Walsingham, 1897)
Pseudopostega albogaleriella (Clemens, 1862)
Pseudopostega alleni Puplesis & Robinson, 1999
Pseudopostega amphivittata Puplesis & Robinson, 1999
Pseudopostega apotoma D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega attenuata D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega auritella (Hübner, 1813)
Pseudopostega beckeri D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega bellicosa (Meyrick, 1911)
Pseudopostega bicornuta D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega bidorsalis D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega brachybasis D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega breviapicula D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega brevicaudata Stonis, Remeikis and Sruoga, 2013
Pseudopostega brevifurcata D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega brevivalva D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega caulifurcata D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega chalcopepla (Walsingham, 1908)
Pseudopostega clastozona (Meyrick, 1913)
Pseudopostega clavata D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega colognatha D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega concava D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega congruens (Walsingham, 1914)
Pseudopostega conicula D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega constricta D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega contigua D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega crassifurcata D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega crepusculella (Zeller, 1839)
Pseudopostega cretea (Meyrick, 1920)
Pseudopostega curtarama D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega denticulata D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega didyma D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega diskusi D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega divaricata D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega dorsalis D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega dorsalis dorsalis D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega dorsalis fasciata D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega duplicata D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega euryntis (Meyrick, 1907)
Pseudopostega ferruginea D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega ecuadoriana D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega elachista (Walsingham, 1914)
Pseudopostega epactaea (Meyrick, 1907)
Pseudopostega floridensis D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega frigida (Meyrick, 1906)
Pseudopostega fungina Puplesis & Robinson, 1999
Pseudopostega fumida D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega galapagosae D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega gracilis D.R. Davis & J.R. Stonis, 2007
Pseudopostega indonesica Puplesis & Robinson, 1999
Pseudopostega javae Puplesis & Robinson, 1999
Pseudopostega kempella (Eyer, 1967)
Pseudopostega lateriplicata D.R. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praveen%20Chakravarty | Praveen Chakravarty is an Indian politician belonging to the Congress Party. He is the Chairman of the Data Analytics department, appointed by Rahul Gandhi. He is the brains behind SHAKTI, the controversial project that tried to modernise the Congress party. He along with P.Chidambaram drafted the NYAY scheme for the party's 2019 election manifesto with help from Nobel Laureate Prof. Abhijit Banerjee among others.
Chakravarty was a political economist scholar in a think tank, an investment banker and angel investor before entering politics. (praveenchakravarty.in). It was widely reported that Chakravarty will be the Congress candidate for Member of Parliament of the Upper House in 2021 from the state of Tamil Nadu
Early life
Praveen Chakravarty was born in Tamilnadu, Chennai and is an alumnus of BITS, Pilani and has an MBA from Wharton School. (praveenchakravarty.in)
Career
Praveen Chakravarty started his career with IBM in Japan and subsequently moved to Microsoft. He switched to investment banking in New York and San Francisco, after receiving his MBA from Wharton. Chakravarty moved to India to set up Thomas Weisel's India operations and 2 years later, captured headlines in a high-profile move to BNP Paribas as Managing Director with his entire team from Thomas Weisel. 4 years later, in a sudden move that caught everyone by surprise, he joined Nandan Nilekani's team at Aadhaar.
He is a co-founder of Mumbai Angels and is ranked among the top five angel investors in the country by a survey. He was also a contributing editor at BloombergQuint where he hosted a popular monthly column called "Noise To Signal".
Chakravarty has served on many corporate boards. He was the founding board member of many successful startups.
He then became a scholar in a think tank and published extensive research on India's economic divergence among its states.
Chakravarty is a prolific writer on India's political economy and has co-authored articles with former Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh and former Finance Minister P.Chidambaram.
He was a founding trustee of the respected data journalism non-profit, IndiaSpend and was a board member of legislative research firm, PRS Legislative.
References
External links
Profile
Living people
Indian investment bankers
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20WebWise | BBC WebWise is both the BBC's archived guide to the internet for computer novices as well as some videos. Created in 1998, it consisted and on the archive, consists of a series of articles and videos. It also incorporates elements of another BBC website, BBC raw computers. All BBC websites are required to link to WebWise when using content which requires a plug-in.
History
BBC WebWise was created in 1998 to encourage new users to explore the internet, as part of a wider BBC campaign which included TV and radio programmes. By December 1999 it consisted of articles, columns, a blog, message boards and a Q&A section. A wide range of freelance writers were attached to the project, including Charlie Brooker and Bill Thompson (resident columnist with WebWise until 2008).
In 2004, WebWise launched a 10-hour accredited course, called Becoming WebWise.
Current features
WebWise was completely redesigned and relaunched in September 2010, with articles on a variety of computer-related subjects written by well-known technology writers such as Bill Thompson, Wendy M. Grossman and Jack Schofield. It formerly contained new courses, and also has a weekly column, and a large A to Z of technical terms.
References
BBC New Media
Broadcasting websites
British educational websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland%20Runic%20Inscription%20181 | Uppland Runic Inscription 181 or U 181 is the Rundata catalog number for a Viking Age memorial runestone located at Össeby-Garn, which is about one kilometer east of Karby, Uppsala County, Sweden.
Description
This inscription on a granite stone, which is 1.85 meters in height, consists of runic text in the younger futhark that is carved on a serpent that circles a central area where it becomes intertwined with itself, with a Christian cross in the upper part of the encircled area. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr5, which is considered to be Urnes style. This runestone style is characterized by slim and stylized animals that are interwoven into tight patterns. The animal heads are typically seen in profile with slender almond-shaped eyes and upwardly curled appendages on the noses and the necks. The text indicates that the inscription was carved by the runemaster Öpir, who was active during the late 11th century and early 12th century in Uppland, Sweden. His name ubiʀ is on the serpent on the lower right of this inscription. Öpir is known for his Urnes style inscriptions and signed almost fifty surviving inscriptions, with many more unsigned inscriptions attributed to him. Runic inscriptions are often dated based upon comparative linguistic and stylistic analysis, and the inscription on U 181 has been dated as being carved approximately after 1100.
The runic text indicates that the stone was raised by several brothers and possibly daughters as a memorial to their father named Eistr. In carving the text, Öpir left off the final "ʀ" in runaʀ, or "runes," which he also did on inscriptions such as that on U Fv1976;107 at Uppsala Cathedral. Öpir also used a dot as a punctuation mark between each word of the text of this inscription. The inscription was signed by the runemaster Öpir using the Old Norse phrase en Øpiʀ risti runaʀ, which means "and Öpir carved the runes." This exact phrase was also used by Öpir when signing inscriptions on U 118 in Älvsunda, the now-lost U 262 in Fresta, U 287 in Vik, U 462 in Prästgården, U 541 in Husby-Sjuhundra, and U 566 in Vällingsö.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
askutr ' uk ' suain ' ikifastr ' uk ' ikibiarn ' uk ' tutr ' ... ...ain ' iftiʀ ' est ' faþur ' sin ' in ' ubiʀ ' risti ' run
Transcription into Old Norse
Asgautr ok Svæinn, Ingifastr ok Ingibiorn ok døtr(?)/Dyntr(?) ... [st]æin æftiʀ Æist, faður sinn. En Øpiʀ risti runaʀ.
Translation in English
Ásgautr and Sveinn (and) Ingifastr and Ingibjǫrn and the daughters(?)/Dyntr(?) ... the stone in memory of Eistr, their father. And Œpir carved the runes.
References
Uppland Runic Inscription 0181 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound%20Puppies%20%282010%20TV%20series%29 | Pound Puppies is an animated children's television series developed by Wendy Klein Moss, Nancy Steingard, Paul Germain and Joe Ansolabehere for the Hub Network. It premiered on October 10, 2010 in the United States as the first Hub "original series". It also aired on YTV in Canada and on Boomerang in the UK, Ireland and Australia. Produced by Hasbro Studios, it was the second series (after the 1986 series) to adapt Pound Puppies into a cartoon format. Originally a property by Tonka, Hasbro acquired Tonka itself and currently manages Pound Puppies. The plot style and music were similar to the 1960s TV series Hogan's Heroes and to films like Stalag 17 and The Great Escape. 9 Story Entertainment animated the first 7 episodes of the series. However, DHX Media/Vancouver took over production starting with episode 8.
The show is known for being one of four original series from The Hub to win the CINE Golden Eagle Award for high quality production and storytelling in July 2012; one month later, the season 1 episode "I Never Barked for My Father" was honored with the HUMANITAS Prize for excellence in writing for children's television animation. 65 episodes were produced.
Plot
The Pound Puppies is a group of dogs who spend most of their time at Shelter 17. Together with a group of squirrels recruited by Strudel, an incredibly smart Dachshund, they operate a secret and highly sophisticated underground facility beneath the pound, aimed at finding new owners for puppies or even grown up dogs that come to their pound. They rely on their motto, "A pup for every person, and a person for every pup". Although the facility is filled with advanced equipment (mainly built by Strudel and the squirrels) and is often shown bustling with activity, it consistently manages to avoid detection by the pound's clueless human staff. Several episodes have shown that there are multiple Pound Puppies units worldwide. There is also a similar organization, the "Kennel Kittens", which is a group of cats at the Happy Valley shelter that try to find forever homes for the kittens and cats that come their way. The Kennel Kittens have appeared in several episodes, and often mess up the Pound Puppies' missions. The Pound Puppies also have an unofficial side branch, the "Super Secret Pup Club".
A recurring plot often involves the Pound Puppies helping dogs find loving homes and coming across various challenges as they do so. Once a dog is successfully matched with a new owner, the Pound Puppies give him/her a dog tag shaped like a dog house as a parting gift, along with the quote, "Once a pound puppy, always a pound puppy."
Episodes
Characters
Pound Puppies
The following dogs appear regularly in the series.
Lucky (voiced by Eric McCormack) – The Mongrel dog of the group and the leader of the underground facility. Well-adjusted and intelligent, but strict, he exudes authority and is often obeyed without question. He has a secret crush on Cookie (as revealed in "Rebel Without A Collar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Beat%20the%20Star%20episodes | Following is a list of Beat the Star episodes, from the British game show which aired on television network ITV for two series from 2008 to 2009.
Episode list
– indicates the candidate won
– indicates the celebrity won
Unbroadcast pilot
Series 1
Series 2
Series 2 began on 19 April 2009 and contains seven episodes. The jackpot now always stands at £50,000. If the celebrity wins, the money for that show is rolled over to the final show of the series where host Vernon Kay will go head to head against a mystery celebrity guest with the winner donating the money that is in the prize pot to charity.
Scores
Notes
References
Lists of British non-fiction television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Research%20in%20Computing%20and%20the%20Arts | The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) was an interdisciplinary organized research unit of UCSD in San Diego, California. CRCA provided support for numerous projects that intersect with the fields of New Media Art, Software Studies, Game studies, Art/Science collaborations, Mixed Reality, Experimental Music, Digital Audio, Immersive Art and Networked Performance over its 40 year history. CRCA was originally founded by composer Roger Reynolds as the Center for Music Experiment (CME) in 1972, and was directed for many years by F. Richard Moore. The center was renamed and the scope widened when artist and artificial intelligence pioneer Harold Cohen became Director in 1993.
Projects emerging from CRCA have been seen at venues including SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, ISEA and the Whitney Museum of Art as well as numerous museums, galleries and scientific contexts.
CRCA, as an Organized Research Unit (ORU) at UCSD, ended on July 1, 2012. The functions, support and facilities that CRCA managed were folded into Calit2.
Institutional Collaborations
CRCA worked closely in collaboration with art and science institutions including Calit2, UCLA, UCSD Visual Arts Department, UCSD Music Department, UC DARNet, the Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute, the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the UCSD School of Medicine.
Art and Science Research
Artists and researchers at CRCA have been involved in numerous technoscience research projects, such as Sheldon Brown's work on Game Design focusing on algorithmic generation of 3D game environments in Scalable City, the Software Studies Initiative's work developing data visualizations of large sets of cultural data and Micha Cárdenas' 365 hour Becoming Dragon project, about which Katherine sweetman of San Diego City Beat said "nobody has ever 'lived' in virtual reality continuously for so long".
Highlights
People
CRCA was home to artists, scientists and theorists. Some of the people involved include:
Harold Cohen, Founding Director
Sheldon Brown, Past Co-Director
Miller Puckette, Past Co-Director
Micha Cárdenas
Diana Deutsch
Mark Dresser
Ricardo Dominguez
Matt Hope
Natalie Jeremijenko
George E. Lewis
Lev Manovich
Elle Mehrmand
János_Négyesy
Noah Wardrip-Fruin
References
External links
Center for Research in Computing and the Arts Website
Scalable City
Software Studies Initiative
Version Journal
b.a.n.g. lab
ATLAS in Silico
Organizations based in San Diego |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pursuit%20%281972%20American%20film%29 | Pursuit is a 1972 American made-for-television drama film that screened on the ABC network as an ABC Movie of the Week. It was Michael Crichton's first work as a director, though his theatrical directorial debut would not premiere until the following year. It is based on Crichton's 1972 novel Binary, which he published under the pseudonym John Lange.
Premise
A political extremist plots to destroy San Diego.
Cast
Ben Gazzara as Steven Graves
E.G. Marshall as James Wright
William Windom as Robert Phillips
Joseph Wiseman as Dr. Nordman
Jim McMullan as Lewis
Martin Sheen as Timothy Drew
Will Kuluva as Dr. Wolff
Production
Development
Crichton had long been interested in movies, well before he started his medical career.
Barry Diller wanted to buy the film rights for Crichton's novel to make it an ABC Movie of the Week. Crichton would only agree to this on the provision that he be able to direct. Diller was amenable, but insisted that a more experienced writer, Robert Dozier, do the screenplay. "It was crazy, another writer doing the screenplay of my book for me to direct," said Crichton, "but I was so anxious to direct I went along with it... He had a maiden director, he wanted a pro on the script."
Crichton later declared that film directing was not a complicated craft. "I think you could learn all you need to know in a month," he said. "Orson Welles said four hours. But he was being outrageous".
Shooting
Filming took place in April 1972 over 11 days in San Diego. The novel would not be published until August 1972.
Crichton:
I like the television movie. I like the form and the speed of it. I think about 80% of the movies I see on the big screens are television movies... I was terrified at first by the actors, but I found the actors will help you every chance they get. The rest of the people have no interest in taking responsibility. You're the big daddy and that's the way they want it.
Crichton says his medical training came in handy being a director. "So much of medicine is doing things for the first time; you learn to plunge right in... I found out if you wanted to be in control of the situation, you had to stay on your feet. Once you sit down, your control evaporates. That's where med school came in too – you're on your feet 15 hours a day."
Reception
ABC were so impressed by the quality of the movie they held it back until December to screen it. It aired opposite the Carol Burnett special Once Upon a Mattress and a repeat of NBC's adaptation of The Snow Goose.
The critic from the Los Angeles Times wrote that "you cannot say that as a director, at least in this maiden effort, Crichton achieves the bone tingling suspense of his novel but Pursuit nonetheless has its own fascination... Marshall is superb; Gazzara, as usual is excellent and heads a fine support cast... Crichton attempted here a realistic, newsreel look to the film which is at its worst when real newsreels from a real political convention are inserted."
Footnotes
External |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofer%20Dekel%20%28researcher%29 | Ofer Dekel is a computer science researcher in the Machine Learning Department of Microsoft Research. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is an affiliate faculty at the Computer Science & Engineering department at the University of Washington.
Areas of research
Dekel's research topics include machine learning, online prediction, statistical learning theory, and stochastic optimization. He is currently engaged in the application of machine learning techniques in the development of the Bing search engine.
Bibliography
h-index
, Ofer Dekel has an h-index of approximately 18, above the mean for computer scientists.
Highly cited publications
Below is a select list of publications in descending order of citations
See also
Bing
Jubatus
Machine learning
Statistical learning theory
Stochastic optimization
References
External links
Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Computer Science & Engineering alumni
Living people
Machine learning researchers
Microsoft employees
University of Washington faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trygve%20Harvold | Trygve Harvold (born 28 August 1944) is a Norwegian civil servant.
In 1981 he was hired as the managing director of Lovdata, a position he held until 1 September 2010. He was appointed a Knight, 1st Class of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav in 2000 for his work in Lovdata.
From 2003 to 2011 he was a member of the Norwegian Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee.
References
1944 births
Living people
Norwegian civil servants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD | NetBSD is a free and open-source Unix operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). It was the first open-source BSD descendant officially released after 386BSD was forked. It continues to be actively developed and is available for many platforms, including servers, desktops, handheld devices, and embedded systems.
The NetBSD project focuses on code clarity, careful design, and portability across many computer architectures. Its source code is publicly available and permissively licensed.
History
NetBSD was originally derived from the 4.3BSD-Reno release of the Berkeley Software Distribution from the Computer Systems Research Group of the University of California, Berkeley, via their Net/2 source code release and the 386BSD project. The NetBSD project began as a result of frustration within the 386BSD developer community with the pace and direction of the operating system's development. The four founders of the NetBSD project, Chris Demetriou, Theo de Raadt, Adam Glass, and Charles Hannum, felt that a more open development model would benefit the project: one centered on portable, clean, correct code. They aimed to produce a unified, multi-platform, production-quality, BSD-based operating system. The name "NetBSD" was chosen based on the importance and growth of networks such as the Internet at that time, and the distributed, collaborative nature of its development.
The NetBSD source code repository was established on 21 March 1993 and the first official release, NetBSD 0.8, was made on 19 April 1993. This was derived from 386BSD 0.1 plus the version 0.2.2 unofficial patchkit, with several programs from the Net/2 release missing from 386BSD re-integrated, and various other improvements. The first multi-platform release, NetBSD 1.0, was made in October 1994, and being updated with 4.4BSD-Lite sources, it was free of all legally encumbered 4.3BSD Net/2 code. Also in 1994, for disputed reasons, one of the founders, Theo de Raadt, was removed from the project. He later founded a new project, OpenBSD, from a forked version of NetBSD 1.0 near the end of 1995.
In 1998, NetBSD 1.3 introduced the pkgsrc packages collection.
Until 2004, NetBSD 1.x releases were made at roughly annual intervals, with minor "patch" releases in between. From release 2.0 onwards, NetBSD uses semantic versioning, and each major NetBSD release corresponds to an incremented major version number, i.e. the major releases following 2.0 are 3.0, 4.0 and so on. The previous minor releases are now divided into two categories: x.y "stable" maintenance releases and x.y.z releases containing only security and critical fixes.
Features
Portability
As the project's motto ("Of course it runs NetBSD" ) suggests, NetBSD has been ported to a large number of 32- and 64-bit architectures. These range from VAX minicomputers to Pocket PC PDAs. As of 2019, NetBSD supports 59 hardware platforms (across 16 different instruction sets). The kernel and userland for these pla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-224 | The DF-224 is a space-qualified computer used in space missions from the 1980s. It was built by Rockwell Autonetics. As with many spacecraft computers, the design is very redundant, since servicing in space is at best difficult and often impossible. The configuration had three CPUs, one active and two spares. The main memory consisted of six memory units, each with 8K 24-bit words of plated wire memory, with up to 48K words total. Four memory modules could be powered up at one time, resulting in a maximum of 32K words of available memory, though some applications such as the Hubble Space Telescope used fewer memory banks to allow for graceful failure modes. There were three I/O processors, one operational and two backups. The power supply consisted of 6 independent power converters, with overlapping coverage of the operating functions. The processor used fixed-point arithmetic with a two's complement format.
Compared to computers that came later, the DF-224 was big and slow. It was roughly by by , weighed , and had a clock speed of 1.25 MHz.
The DF-224 on HST was augmented with a 386 co-processor on the first servicing mission (SM1). This had a clock speed of 16 MHz.
In Hubble servicing mission 3A the DF-224 (with co-processor) was replaced by the Advanced Computer using a 25 MHz Intel i486, and much more storage
The DF-224 was one of the candidate computers for the Space Shuttle, but was not selected. It was also baselined in a version of a reusable Agena upper stage for use with the Shuttle, but this was never built.
See also
IBM RAD6000 - a more modern space-qualified computer.
RAD750 - newer version
Mongoose-V - radiation hard processor based on the MIPS-3000.
Various implementations of the MIL-STD-1750A 16-bit processor have been used in several spacecraft
References
Avionics computers
Radiation-hardened microprocessors
Hubble Space Telescope |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Social%20Network%20%28soundtrack%29 | The Social Network is the score album for David Fincher's 2010 film of the same name, composed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. It was released on September 28, 2010, through The Null Corporation. On September 17, a five-track sampler was also made available for free. The score bears a similar sound to the previous Reznor/Ross 2008 collaboration, Ghosts I–IV, and even features two slightly reworked tracks from Ghosts; the track "Magnetic" (reworked from "14 Ghosts II") and "A Familiar Taste" (a remixed version of "35 Ghosts IV").
The soundtrack received positive reviews from critics, and widespread acclaim across the film industry. The score won nine major awards, including the 2010 Golden Globe award for Best Original Score – Motion Picture, and the Academy Award for Best Original Score at the 83rd Academy Awards.
Background
When Trent Reznor was originally asked by director David Fincher to score The Social Network, he initially declined, partly due to just finishing up a long touring and recording schedule. After further reflecting, Reznor apologized and told Fincher to keep him in consideration, to which he told Reznor that he had been waiting for him to accept.
On July 1, 2010, Reznor publicly announced that he and Ross were taking part in the soundtrack on nin.com:
The film initially had a "John Hughes vibe", which concerned Reznor at first, but after meeting with Fincher and trying out different ideas with Atticus Ross, it turned out to work a lot more smoothly after all. Reznor recalled, "The whole process was fun for me because I liked answering to someone I respect and not having to make all the decisions for a change." Reznor and Ross would try sketches of songs, figuring they would have to revise it eventually, only for Fincher to get back to them and say, "I don't have anything bad to say – that's never happened before."
The idea of recording "In the Hall of the Mountain King" came from a scene at the Henley Royal Regatta and trying to find a song that would match up with its Edwardian era garden party theme. Fincher told them to try a Wendy Carlos version of it, which Reznor admits "threw [him] for a loop" and says it took four weeks to work on.
Packaging
The album's art was created by Nine Inch Nails' creative director Rob Sheridan, based upon the designs used to promote the film, mixed with Sheridan's style of image distortion. He explained the ideas, techniques and methods that made up the compositions that were used for the physical release:
Release
The first track from the soundtrack, "Hand Covers Bruise (No Piano)" debuted on The Social Networks website on August 30, 2010, streaming in the background. The album was released by The Null Corporation and distributed by Sony Music.
A five-track sampler for the album was released on September 17, on The Null Corporation's homepage.
On the day of the five-track sampler's launch, Reznor posted about the release on the Null Corporation's site:
The album was released for dig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babao%C4%9Flu | Babaoğlu is a Turkish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Aydoğan Babaoğlu (born 1944), Turkish military officer
Özalp Babaoğlu (born 1955), Turkish computer scientist
See also
Babaoğlu, Çorum
Babaoğlu, İnegöl
Turkish-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refund%20Home%20Loans | Refund Home Loans was an Australian mortgage services company founded by Wayne Ormond in 2004. The company created a franchised network of remote working mortgage brokers. After issues with the regulator for breaching trading practices in 2009 it got into financial difficulties. In October 2011, the business went into administration and in June 2012, its assets were sold to rival Australian mortgage company Homeloans Ltd.
History Of Refund Home Loans
The company was founded by Wayne Ormond in April 2004 as a mortgage broking service. In December 2004, it was raised in the House of Representatives that Westpac, Commopnwealth, St George and ANZ banks did not approve of Refund Home Loans sharing their commission with customers, and refused to do business with Refund. This matter was taken to the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC)
It expanded its business and by 2008 had over 350 franchisees nationally in every state and territory of Australia. It also expanded into other services including financial planning, Finance & Leasing, Property Investment and real estate. The company and its chairman received acknowledgement for the company growth between 2008 and 2010.
By 2009 the company had head office staff of more than 40 who provide support for the company’s Australia-wide network of work-from-home franchisees, mortgage brokers. It had access to a panel of over 30 lenders and was independent of the major banks.
In October 2009, the ACCC commenced proceedings against the company over accusations it breached the Trade Practices Act. In October 2011, the company was placed in administration after not being able to meet its debts. and in June 2012 the company assets and network of brokers was sold to Home loans Ltd another Australian home loan company.
References
Financial services companies of Australia
Mortgage industry of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component%20detection%20algorithm | The component detection algorithm (CODA) is a name for a type of LC-MS and chemometrics software algorithm focused on detecting peaks in noisy chromatograms (TIC) often obtained using the electrospray ionization technique.
The implementation of the algorithm from one piece of mass spectrometry software to another differs. Some implementations need clean chromatograms to substruct background.
References
Computational chemistry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECPD | ECPD may refer to:
Engineers' Council for Professional Development
El Cajon Police Department
European Cultivated Potato Database |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS%20Live%20DVD | GIS Live DVD is a type of the thematic Live CD containing GIS/RS applications and related tutorials, and sample data sets. The general sense of a GIS Live DVD is to demonstrate the power of FLOSS GIS and encourage users to start on FLOSS GIS. However, a disc can be used for GIS data processing and training, too. A disc usually includes some selected Linux-based or Wine (software)-enabled Windows applications for GIS and Remote Sensing use. Using this disc the end users can execute GIS functions to get experience in free and open source software solutions or solve some simple business operations. The set-up and the operating behaviour of the applications can also be studied prior to building real FLOSS GIS-based systems. Recently a LiveDVD image is stored and booted from USB (Live USB).
Use cases
There can be multiple use cases:
Demonstration of one or more GIS applications or dataThe disc contains preconfigured applications with some GIS data and introductory tutorials. It is used at workshops or meetings to demonstrate the capabilities of one or more GIS applications or data sets or results of projects that applied FLOSS GIS. It makes possible the stand-alone operation using the pre-installed tutorial and sample data. The performance is critical especially the time behaviour. Usually a demonstration disc tends to promote a project so the user friendliness and correctness are critical too.
Evaluation of GIS applicationsThe objective is to provide a simple use and compact environment for evaluating and/or benchmarking applications or data sets. It has a similar built to a demonstration disc however it needs more flexibility in using external data and access to network. The time behaviour and the performance is less critical since is highly likely the disc is run in a virtual machine. The user-friendliness is less important since the evaluation is done by professional usually.
EducationPrimary aim of this disc is to support of certain GIS training that is based on an established curricula. It can be university education or a special training course. The selection of the applications for the disc supports the gathering of the targeted skill. The disc includes the agenda of the course too. Networking and using peripherals such as printer and external disks is important.
Installation The goal is support the installation of WEB or Desktop applications by users do not have the required skills or the configuration is complex or difficult.
Development Kit for implementing complex customised applications The goal is provide a package of a tools for GIS/LIS application development that includes standard software components and business related sample models and codes to support and speed up implementation. The emphases is on the demonstration of system integration and the sample databases and software codes and instruction.
GIS data processing Theoretically a Thematic Live DVD can be used for supporting real business procedures. A USB version |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your%20Network%20of%20Praise | Your Network of Praise is a non-profit, listener supported, Christian broadcast radio network in the Northern United States, mainly in the state of Montana, but also in nearby states. Based in Havre, Montana, it broadcasts a mix of music and various Christian programs from a variety of sources. The original station, KXEI in Havre, started broadcasting in 1983.
Owned stations
Notes:
Translators
References
External links
Moody Radio Official Site
American radio networks
Christian mass media companies
Christian radio stations in the United States
Radio broadcasting companies of the United States
Hill County, Montana
Radio stations established in 1983
1983 establishments in Montana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction%20window | An instruction window in computer architecture refers to the set of instructions which can execute out-of-order in a speculative processor.
In particular, in a conventional design, the instruction window consists of all instructions which are in the re-order buffer (ROB). In such a processor, any instruction within the instruction window can be executed when its operands are ready. Out-of-order processors derive their name because this may occur out-of-order (if operands to a younger instruction are ready before those of an older instruction).
The instruction window has a finite size, and new instructions can enter the window (usually called dispatch or allocate) only when other instructions leave the window (usually called retire or commit). Instructions enter and leave the instruction window in program order, and an instruction can only leave the window when it is the oldest instruction in the window and it has been completed. Hence, the instruction window can be seen as a sliding window in which the instructions can become out-of-order. All execution within the window is speculative (i.e., side-effects are not applied outside the CPU) until it is committed in order to support asynchronous exception handling like interrupts.
This paradigm is also known as restricted dataflow because instructions within the window execute in dataflow order (not necessarily in program order) but the window in which this occurs is restricted (of finite size).
The instruction window is distinct from pipelining: instructions in an in-order pipeline are not in an instruction window in the conventionally understood sense, because they cannot execute out of order with respect to one another. Out-of-order processors are usually built around pipelines, but many of the pipeline stages (e.g., front-end instruction fetch and decode stages) are not considered to be part of the instruction window.
See also
Superscalar processor
References
Computer architecture
Instruction processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20relation%20assumption | The universal relation assumption in relational databases states, that one can place all data attributes into a (possibly very wide) table, which may then be decomposed into smaller tables as needed.
However, the assumption that a single large table can capture real database designs is often plagued with a number of difficulties. The "nested universal relation" model has attempted to address some of the problems and offer improvements.
References
External links
Who won the Universal Relation wars? by Alberto Mendelzon
Database theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Transactions%20on%20Magnetics | IEEE Transactions on Magnetics is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers the basic physics of magnetism, magnetic materials, applied magnetics, magnetic devices, and magnetic data storage. The editor-in-chief is Amr Adly (Cairo University, Egypt).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index, Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences, Scopus, CSA databases, and EBSCOhost. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a recent impact factor of 2.1.
References
External links
Physics journals
Materials science journals
Transactions on Magnetics
Monthly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1965 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20William%20Bailey | Nicholas William Bailey (born December 21, 1980) is an American composer and songwriter from New Bern, North Carolina. Bailey composes for a variety of cable television networks including TLC, A&E, Animal Planet, The National Geographic Channel, E! Entertainment, CMT, OWN TV, Travel Channel, Speed, MSNBC, ABC, SyFy, CNBC, Tru TV, Discovery and VH1. Bailey is an active ASCAP composer and publisher. Bailey is also a member of the rock band "Nick and the Babes," and produces reality based television programming.
Career
Upon graduating from East Carolina University in 2003 Bailey accepted residency as a piano bar musician. In 2008 Bailey was given the opportunity to compose for TLC's 18 Kids and Counting by fellow North Carolina musician Scott Pearson. Bailey landed music cues into the TLC series. Post composing contributions include Crime 360, The Last American Cowboy, Known Universe, Lockup, Pit Bulls and Parolees, What's Eating You, Lizard Lick Touring, My Deadly Appetite, Searching For, Make Me Superhuman, Car Warriors, Police POV, Fact or Faked, Joe Rogan Questions Everything, Shark Shoot: Fiji, Legend Quest, Breaking Down the Bars, Full Throttle Saloon, In The Bedroom with Dr. Laura Berman, Car Chasers, Abby & Brittany, Swanderosa, Chainsaw Gangs, Duck Dynasty, My Cat From Hell, and Dad Camp. Bailey has scored over 700 cable television episodes and produced programming for PBS, TRU TV, UKTV and HGTV.
Bailey's film/commercial music contributions include The Editor and the Dragon (narrated by Morgan Freeman), Intel/Lenovo, an award-winning Dale Earnhardt Jr./Taxslayer advert, corporate media, Newsweek.com's acclaimed webseries The District and the defunct virtual gaming world Zookazoo.
Bailey along with members of "Nick and the Babes" appeared on Ramseur Records' 2011 release "My Favorite Gifts" Christmas album along with The Avett Brothers. Bob Crawford (Avett Brothers) produced their rendition of Vince Guaraldi's "Christmas Time is Here." "Nick and the Babes" often referred to as NATB is an Americana/Indie Rock band based out of Raleigh, North Carolina.
References
External links
American male composers
21st-century American composers
1980 births
Living people
East Carolina University alumni
People from New Bern, North Carolina
Musicians from North Carolina
21st-century American male musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PD%20360 | PD 360 is an online library of educational professional development video programs broken into segments. The product was developed by the School Improvement Network, and it has since been renamed Edivate. The segments are topical based with classroom examples featuring various educational experts. PD 360 has increased student achievement in schools in North America.
Basic Operation
PD 360 is an on-demand professional learning system for teachers and educators, with a series of tools built around a library of video segments. The video segments are streamed to the end user in the Flash Video format (FLV). The videos focus on pedagogical topics such as differentiated instruction, English language learners (ELL), instructional strategies, and classroom management. PD 360 is built in Flex, as a Flash application, so Flash is required for its operation.
Observation 360 is a sister product to PD 360 that allows principals and other instructional leaders to do an observation or walkthrough of a teacher using an iPad or iPod Touch. Observation 360 is linked to PD 360.
History
PD 360 version 1 was released in June 2007, following a beta that had been released in November 2006. Version 1 contained basic viewing and searching capability. Version 2 released in November 2007 and added the capability to customize content a viewer sees based on the specific needs of a district. Version 3 was released in November 2008 and added reporting capability so that customers could track and see usage. Version 4 was released in summer of 2009 and added a learning community, with forums and file sharing between users. Version 3.5 was released in November 2009 and added the ability to have colleagues and create membership-based groups, and launched a beta of the achievements program.
Awards
2010 Bronze Telly Award for online video production: High School
2009 Adobe Max Award winner in education: PD 360
2009 Codie awards finalist in the category of Best Professional Development Solution: PD 360
2009 Scholastic Best in Tech Award: PD 360
References
Educational organizations based in the United States
Educational software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish%20College%20London | The Cavendish College London (CCL), also sometimes known as Cavendish College, was a private education institution. It provided courses in computing, creative studies, digital media, business, hospitality and music. Cavendish College London closed in December 2011.
History
The college was established in 1985. In 2004, Cavendish expanded its operations in Africa and opened a university in Zambia (Cavendish University Zambia) after four years of successful operation in Zambia, the brand expanded to Uganda and opened its second university in 2008 (Cavendish University Uganda) and established other colleges internationally. Cavendish College Limited was dissolved following insolvency proceedings in 2012.
Cavendish International Education continues to operate other colleges internationally.
References
External links
Cavendish International
Cavendish University Uganda (CUU)
Cavendish University Zambia (CUZ)
Educational institutions established in 1985
Education in London
Higher education colleges in London
Defunct universities and colleges in London
1985 establishments in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Research%20on%20Computer%20Supported%20Learning%20and%20Cognition | The Centre for Research on Computer Supported Learning and Cognition (abbreviated as CRLI) is an education research centre within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences of The University of Sydney that carries out research into the sciences and technologies of learning. Established on 1 January 2016, the Centre was formed through the amalgamation of the University's Computer Supported Learning and Cognition Centre (CoCo) and the Sciences and Technologies of Learning (STL) research network.
The Centre is located in the Education Building (A35), adjacent to Manning Road, that houses the Sydney School of Education and Social Work on the University's campus, New South Wales, Australia. The Co-Directors of the Centre are Professor Peter Reimann and Associate Professor Lina Markauskaite.
The Centre leads a graduate program in Learning Science and Technology.
Research areas
Key focus areas for the Centre's research groups include:
Knowledge co-creation
Neuroscience and education
Learning analytics
Student partnerships
Learning spaces
Interdisciplinarity
, the Centre accommodated approximately 20 teaching and lecturing research staff and approximately 30 post-graduate research students. The Centre is a member of the Institute for Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education (IISME).
The Centre investigates factors that move research on learning and innovation forward and shape fundamental learning and innovation outcomes by:
connecting learning researchers and educational innovators at the University of Sydney and the wider community;
studying innovation as a multifaceted phenomenon that drives improvement in learning and education; and
committing to methodological innovation that enables the linkage between theory and practice.
History
The CoCo Research Centre was launched in 2004 by professors Peter Goodyear and Peter Reimann. Goodyear was previously Professor of Educational Research at the University of Lancaster and Reimann was previously Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Heidelberg. The CoCo Research Centre grew from 5 to 40 team members since its inception until its amalgamation with the Sciences and Technologies of Learning research network in 2016 to form the Centre for Research on Computer Supported Learning and Cognition. Prior to its amalgamation, the CoCo Research Centre included approximately 70 members including affiliates and externals. Co-director Peter Goodyear was named a Laureate Fellow by the Australian Research Council in July 2010. This was the first of these fellowships to be given to a researcher in the field of education.
The Centre for Research on Computer Supported Learning and Cognition was formed on 1 January 2016 through the amalgamation of the CoCo Research Centre and the Sciences and Technologies of Learning research network.
Events
The Centre organises a number of events, including the following:
Learning and Innovation Research Festheld annually, this free event attracts appr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20bauxite%20production | This is a list of countries by bauxite production in 2020. It exhibits certain changes from the geographical rankings of 2018.
Data
Citations
Lists of countries by mineral production
Bauxite mining |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet%20Exchange | Ethernet exchange is a physical network infrastructure through which Ethernet service providers, carriers and Internet service providers exchange Ethernet traffic between their networks. The Ethernet exchange was created as a neutral meeting place where wireless carriers can connect to multiple Ethernet services in several markets that need access to specific locations though one connection. As service providers and operators continue to grow, they need a network to support the increasing amount of data and video on mobile networks. Thus, allowing Ethernet sellers connecting to an Ethernet exchange immediate access to the buyers and a more basic technical process.
Ethernet exchanges offer an accelerated system for carriers and worldwide service providers to extend market reach and coverage. Many carriers and service providers have adopted this technology due to the refined administration features and lower costs when compared to older wholesale Ethernet interconnectivity solutions.
References
External links
expereo.com
neutraltandem.com
telx.com
equinix.com
cenx.com
metroethernetforum.org/index.php
Exchange
Network topology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak%20Tiwari | Deepak Tiwari is an Indian journalist, serving as the Hindi editor of Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN) and former Vice Chancellor of Makhanalal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism MCU, Bhopal. He was founder managing editor of JoshHosh Media, Bhopal.
Life
In the field of journalism since 1991, Tiwari had worked for Press Trust of India PTI, New Delhi, Free Press, Central Chronicle and All India Radio. As a journalist he has reported news-stories from the states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Assam, Mizoram, Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra. He has also covered stories from United Kingdom, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand outside India.
His story on the abuse of dalit women in Panchayati Raj fetched him the Sarojini Naidu Prize for best reporting on women in Panchayati Raj. The award carries a cash prize of Rs Two Lakh and is given every year to development journalists. Another story in 2002 on missing tribal girls from central India got him United Nation Development Program (UNDP) award. Tiwari is also a recipient of Makhanlal Chaturvedi Puruskar, Jagat Pathak Patrakarita Puruskar, Prashant Samman and other awards.
With The Week magazine he had written number of investigative stories on human rights and development issues. He is known as a progressive journalist writing on marginalised sections of society. A feature film Devaki, made in 2004, was based on his story of women being auctioned in tribal society.
Apart from being a political commentator on various media forums including television, Tiwari had worked as media consultant to a projects of European Commission, DFID of United Kingdom and UNICEF.
His book on political history of Madhya Pradesh titled Rajneetinama Madhya Pradesh Rajnetaon Ke Kisse (1956-2003) published in December 2013 was termed as the seminal work on political history of Madhya Pradesh by The Hindu. His second book Rajnitinama Madhya Pradesh - Bhajapa Yug (2003-2018) forms part of two volumes on political history of MP. Only books on political history of state since 1956.
He has traveled to England, Scotland, Germany, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Spain, France, Sri Lanka and United Arab Emirates.
References
https://www.jansatta.com/education/madhya-pradesh-congress-government-appointed-senior-journalist-deepak-tiwari-as-vc-of-makhanlal-chaturvedi-national-journalism-and-communication-university/924602/
https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/senior-journalist-deepak-tiwari-appointed-vc-of-mp-varsity-119022400471_1.html
https://www.bhaskar.com/mp/bhopal/news/mp-news-deepak-tiwari-will-be-the-new-vice-chancellor-of-journalism-university-042634-3979743.html
https://www.dailypioneer.com/2020/state-editions/appointed-during-nath-govt--mcu-university--v-c-now-calls-it-quits.html
https://hindi.news18.com/news/madhya-pradesh/bhopal-mcu-vice-chancellor-issued-notice-to-more-than-24-professors-mprd-nodark-2788666.html
External li |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competency%20dictionary | A competency dictionary is a tool or data structure that includes all or most of the general competencies needed to cover all job families and competencies that are core or common to all jobs within an organization (e.g., teamwork; adaptability; communication). They may also include competencies that are more closely related to the knowledge and skills needed for specific jobs or functions (e.g., IT skills, financial administration skills).
Comprehensive
A typical comprehensive competency dictionary should include a broad range of competencies developed through extensive literature search, review of best practices as well as ongoing refinement based on field research with various client groups. The competencies in the dictionary are required by a broad range of employees functioning within a wide variety of private and public sector organizations. The demonstration of these competencies by employees and managers is related to increased performance at the individual, team, and organizational levels.
Each competency has a general definition, which provides the user with a general understanding of the type of behavior addressed by a particular competency. Each competency includes up to five proficiency levels and each level has an associated brief statement describing how that particular level is distinct from the other levels within that competency. The behavioral indicators at each proficiency level are illustrative of the proficiency level as opposed to representing a definitive list of all possible behaviors at each level.
Finally, the defined levels of proficiency for each competency are incremental and additive so that employees demonstrating proficiency at a particular level can be assumed to perform effectively at all competency levels below.
Many Comprehensive Competency Dictionaries are divided into two sets of competencies:
General job competencies – common across many jobs and demonstrate the key behaviors required for success regardless of position.
Job-specific competencies – these are required for success in particular functions or jobs.
Proficiency levels
Organizations typically include incremental competency proficiency scales as part of the overall competency structure. These scales reflect the amount of proficiency typically required by the organization within a competency area. For example, communication skills may be a requirement for most entry-level jobs as well as at the executive levels; however, the amount of communication proficiency needed at these two levels may be quite different.
The proficiency scales serve two purposes:
They facilitate planning and development for improvement within current roles or jobs; and
They allow for comparisons to occur across jobs, roles and levels, not only in terms of the competencies required, but also the proficiency levels needed using a common incremental scale for defining the competencies.
Thus, having competency proficiency scales supports career development, suc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20Friends%20of%20the%20Earth | Young Friends of the Earth Europe (YFoEE) is a grassroots network of young people and youth organisations working together on social and environmental justice issues. It works collectively on the local, national and European level, to inspire young people, organise actions and events and get attention in the media, in politics and among the general public on issues important to young people.
YFoEE is a part of Friends of the Earth, the world's largest international grassroots environmental network. It was established in 2007 by national youth groups affiliated to member groups of Friends of the Earth Europe. YFoEE is also part of the international Youth Climate Movement.
Activities
In 2008, the YFoEE team took 2000 messages to the UNFCCC climate change negotiations in Poznan (COP 14), collected from nearly 20 countries in Europe, on young peoples demands to stop climate change, which were delivered to leaders at the UN climate talks.
In 2009, the ‘Act Now’ campaign was founded, led by the YFoEE Climate Team - a group of 40 young people from 15 different countries from across Europe who were trained to follow the international climate change negotiations. The group of youth delegates, who also included young delegates from South America and Asia, attended the UNFCCC talks in Copenhagen (COP 15) in December 2009. Within the Act Now project, Young Friends of the Earth Europe organized regional conferences in Germany, Ireland, Sweden and France with the aim to educate young Europeans about climate politics and motivate them to take action. Previously, the group also sent youth delegates to Bonn in 2008 and Bonn in 2009 (Seventh session of the AWG-KP and fifth session of the AWG-LCA).
In 2010, YFoEE hosted a parallel convergence to the COP16 UN Climate Talks in Cancún, Mexico, in Brussels, Belgium as an alternative forum to the International political negotiations and to build the regional European Youth Climate Movement.
See also
BUNDjugend (Young Friends of the Earth Germany)
Nature and Youth (Young Friends of the Earth Norway)
Friends of the Earth Europe
Youth Climate Movement
Friends of the Earth
References
International environmental organizations
Friends of the Earth
International organisations based in Belgium
International organizations based in Europe
Youth organisations based in Belgium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity%20function | In computer science, the complexity function of a word or string (a finite or infinite sequence of symbols from some alphabet) is the function that counts the number of distinct factors (substrings of consecutive symbols) of that string. More generally, the complexity function of a formal language (a set of finite strings) counts the number of distinct words of given length.
Complexity function of a word
Let u be a (possibly infinite) sequence of symbols from an alphabet. Define the function
pu(n) of a positive integer n to be the number of different factors (consecutive substrings) of length n from the string u.
For a string u of length at least n over an alphabet of size k we clearly have
the bounds being achieved by the constant word and a disjunctive word, for example, the Champernowne word respectively. For infinite words u, we have pu(n) bounded if u is ultimately periodic (a finite, possibly empty, sequence followed by a finite cycle). Conversely, if pu(n) ≤ n for some n, then u is ultimately periodic.
An aperiodic sequence is one which is not ultimately periodic. An aperiodic sequence has strictly increasing complexity function (this is the Morse–Hedlund theorem), so p(n) is at least n+1.
A set S of finite binary words is balanced if for each n the subset Sn of words of length n has the property that the Hamming weight of the words in Sn takes at most two distinct values. A balanced sequence is one for which the set of factors is balanced. A balanced sequence has complexity function at most n+1.
A Sturmian word over a binary alphabet is one with complexity function n + 1. A sequence is Sturmian if and only if it is balanced and aperiodic. An example is the Fibonacci word. More generally, a Sturmian word over an alphabet of size k is one with complexity n+k−1. An Arnoux-Rauzy word over a ternary alphabet has complexity 2n + 1: an example is the Tribonacci word.
For recurrent words, those in which each factor appears infinitely often, the complexity function almost characterises the set of factors: if s is a recurrent word with the same complexity function as t are then s has the same set of factors as t or δt where δ denotes the letter doubling morphism a → aa.
Complexity function of a language
Let L be a language over an alphabet and define the function pL(n) of a positive integer n to be the number of different words of length n in L The complexity function of a word is thus the complexity function of the language consisting of the factors of that word.
The complexity function of a language is less constrained than that of a word. For example, it may be bounded but not eventually constant: the complexity function of the regular language takes values 3 and 4 on odd and even n≥2 respectively. There is an analogue of the Morse–Hedlund theorem: if the complexity of L satisfies pL(n) ≤ n for some n, then pL is bounded and there is a finite language F such that
A polynomial or sparse language is one for which the comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide%20Incidents%20Tracking%20System | The Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (WITS) was the US government's database on tracking acts of terrorism. It contained details about incidents of violence against civilians and non-combatants (including military personnel and assets outside of war-like settings) from publicly viewable information.
The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) discontinued WITS in 2012 and was merged into the Global Terrorism Database (GTD), which can be downloaded from the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) website at the University of Maryland.
Data collection
When collecting data WITS addressed two areas of concern: it practiced basic knowledge management techniques to ensure consistency in data collection and it cast a wider net on political violence than what may be considered terrorism. Casting a wider net ensured all candidate events are given fair consideration. Data was collected in a variety of ways. The NCTC gathered data from open sources manually using commercial subscription news services, the USG's Open Source Center (OSC), local news websites reported in English, and, as permitted by the linguistic capabilities of the team, local news websites reported in foreign languages. Team members on the NCTC read and reviewed each article. A senior intelligence analyst provided quality control over his or her team. The senior analyst reviewed each article to maintain consistency before publishing to the database.
To reduce interpretation bias further (or increase inter-rater reliability), NCTC has analysts maintained account notes of commonly used terms and phrases found in the press, recurring political and ethnic issues, terrain notes, weather related trends, and other factors that influence a mastery of context surrounding acts of violence in countries assigned to their area of responsibility.
To ensure WITS would give fair and proper consideration to all the events available in open source, WITS collected information on attacks that have any indications of terrorism.
Humans and computers
NCTC designed the WITS data coding process to make the best use of humans and computers. There is evidence to suggest that statistical models based on expert human judgment in older cases tend to outperform the same expert human judgment in newer cases. John Wiggle says, "Studies show that humans are good at categorizing and recognizing discrete objects and concepts, but often lack the ability to make effective aggregate judgments." Being able to use humans and computers allows analysts to separate data quickly and effectively to determine what is or is not an act of violence. Analysts can then code them into the database, and the WITS system then made a logical decision on whether the act meets the criteria for terrorism. Having the computer assist NCTC with what is or is not terrorism allowed an analyst to compare the computer’s answer with human thinking about the attack.
Content
As of September 2010, WITS cont |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAnywhere | WebAnywhere is a free web-based open source screen reader, created at the University of Washington.
Features
Since WebAnywhere is web-based, it is available on all operating systems. Users simply go to the WebAnywhere site and the screen reader begins working.
History
WebAnywhere was originally created at the University of Washington. It is currently being developed at the University of Rochester's ROCHCI Lab.
Release history
External links
WebAnywhere (Click here to use WebAnywhere.)
WebAnywhere main project page
WebAnywhere source code
University of Washington Computer Science Department
University of Rochester's ROCHCI Lab
Web-based program gives the blind Internet access
Screen readers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anyone%20for%20Denis%3F%20%28video%29 | Anyone for Denis? is a British video-taped television version of the stage play of the same name broadcast by the ITV network on 28 December 1982. The original play, first performed at the Whitehall Theatre in 1981, was written by satirist John Wells.
It is based on Private Eye's 'Dear Bill' letters, purportedly written by Denis Thatcher, the husband of Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister at the time. Set in Chequers, the play parodies the couple's relationship. The title is a punning reference to the more familiar question "Anyone for tennis?"
The television production, for Thames Television was directed by Dick Clement and stars John Wells, Angela Thorne, John Cater and Nicky Henson.
Cast
John Wells ... Denis Thatcher
Angela Thorne ... Margaret Thatcher
John Cater ... Maurice Picarda
Nicky Henson ... Vouvrey
Mark Kingston ... Hamilton Thisp
Roy Kinnear ... Boris
Alfred Molina ... Eric
John Nettleton ... Jenkins
Terence Rigby ... Major
Joan Sanderson ... Rear Admiral
Robert Stephens ... Schubert
References
1982 plays
1982 television films
1982 films
Films about Margaret Thatcher
ITV comedy
Television series by Fremantle (company)
British television plays
Television shows produced by Thames Television
Films directed by Dick Clement
1980s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.R.V.%20video | L.R.V. standing for Left-Right-Video, is a connector widely used in Villa Monarchy television network from 2004 to 2010.
Audiovisual connectors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Agency%20for%20Computer%20Security | The National Agency for Computer Security is the Tunisian national computer security agency. It was founded in 2004 and it is based in Tunis, Tunisia. Its Director General is Ali GHRIB.
References
External links
Government agencies established in 2004
Information technology organizations based in Africa
Legal organisations based in Tunisia
Computer emergency response teams
Organisations based in Tunis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpectraVision | SpectraVision may refer to:
Spectravideo, 1981–1988 computer and video game company also known as SpectraVision
SpectraVision, brand name for On Command Corporation's hotel television service
SpectraVision, implementation of the Pepper's ghost optical illusion
See also
SelectaVision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic%20model | In statistics and natural language processing, a topic model is a type of statistical model for discovering the abstract "topics" that occur in a collection of documents. Topic modeling is a frequently used text-mining tool for discovery of hidden semantic structures in a text body. Intuitively, given that a document is about a particular topic, one would expect particular words to appear in the document more or less frequently: "dog" and "bone" will appear more often in documents about dogs, "cat" and "meow" will appear in documents about cats, and "the" and "is" will appear approximately equally in both. A document typically concerns multiple topics in different proportions; thus, in a document that is 10% about cats and 90% about dogs, there would probably be about 9 times more dog words than cat words. The "topics" produced by topic modeling techniques are clusters of similar words. A topic model captures this intuition in a mathematical framework, which allows examining a set of documents and discovering, based on the statistics of the words in each, what the topics might be and what each document's balance of topics is.
Topic models are also referred to as probabilistic topic models, which refers to statistical algorithms for discovering the latent semantic structures of an extensive text body. In the age of information, the amount of the written material we encounter each day is simply beyond our processing capacity. Topic models can help to organize and offer insights for us to understand large collections of unstructured text bodies. Originally developed as a text-mining tool, topic models have been used to detect instructive structures in data such as genetic information, images, and networks. They also have applications in other fields such as bioinformatics and computer vision.
History
An early topic model was described by Papadimitriou, Raghavan, Tamaki and Vempala in 1998. Another one, called probabilistic latent semantic analysis (PLSA), was created by Thomas Hofmann in 1999. Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), perhaps the most common topic model currently in use, is a generalization of PLSA. Developed by David Blei, Andrew Ng, and Michael I. Jordan in 2002, LDA introduces sparse Dirichlet prior distributions over document-topic and topic-word distributions, encoding the intuition that documents cover a small number of topics and that topics often use a small number of words. Other topic models are generally extensions on LDA, such as Pachinko allocation, which improves on LDA by modeling correlations between topics in addition to the word correlations which constitute topics. Hierarchical latent tree analysis (HLTA) is an alternative to LDA, which models word co-occurrence using a tree of latent variables and the states of the latent variables, which correspond to soft clusters of documents, are interpreted as topics.
Topic models for context information
Approaches for temporal information include Block and Newman's determinati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama9 | Panorama9 is a cloud-based service within enterprise Network management. The service is provided by the company of the same name and is a cloud-based remote monitoring and management RMM [Remote_monitoring_and_management] service which consists of a hosted Dashboard displaying the status of all devices on an enterprise's network and also provides a set of reports on inventory on both hardware, software and users. The service operates by collating data transmitted from agents installed on each monitored device.
In November 2011 the service introduced an interactive network map displaying real-time information.
In May 2012 Zendesk and Panorama9 announced a partnership.
In 2014 an MSP Managed services Control Panel was introduced for service providers which enables MSP's to manage multiple clients from one dashboard.
In 2017 a mobile app was released.
The company
The company operating the service has the same name, Panorama9, and was founded in Copenhagen and later moved their headquarters to San Francisco, California with some sales and development teams continuing from Copenhagen
See also
Software Asset Management
IT Asset Management
SNMP
List of mergers and acquisitions by Symantec
References
External links
American companies established in 2010
System administration
Network management
Port scanners
Network analyzers
2010 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Cuatro | This is a list of programs currently, formerly, and soon to be broadcast on the TV network Cuatro, in Spain.
References
Lists of television series by network
Television stations in Spain
Spanish television-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Archaeological%20Database | The Integrated Archaeological Database system, or IADB, is an open-source web-based application designed to address the data management requirements throughout the lifespan of archaeological excavation projects, from initial excavation recording, through post-excavation analysis and research to eventual dissemination and archiving.
History
Development of the IADB began in the late 1980s at the Scottish Urban Archaeological Trust (SUAT) in Perth, Scotland (archaeological services in Perth are now provided by Alder Archaeology). The aim was to develop a computerised integrated database to record and help with the analysis of several large excavation projects on which SUAT was working at the time. Initial components included a simple stratigraphic analysis program, a basic Context and Find cataloging application and an early attempt at a single context plan digitising solution.
The original concept of the IADB was to make available digital versions of the various excavation records as an easily accessible integrated resource for use in post-excavation analysis and to provide a framework within which that analysis would be undertaken. Initially, the IADB only dealt with simple artefact records and stratigraphic unit or context records. Over time, the scope of the IADB has widened to include other digital resources including single context plans, photographs, stratigraphy diagrams, etc. Initially the IADB was described as a "digital workbench" or a "computerised desktop", today we would probably call it a virtual research environment.
Early versions of the IADB ran under MS-DOS and were written in Clipper and C using the dBase database format. Vector graphics used the GEM graphics library, a precursor to Windows. With the launch of Visual Basic, the IADB was moved to Windows using an MS Access database. In 1997 development of the IADB moved from SUAT to York Archaeological Trust and shortly afterwards the IADB programs were re-written in Delphi, still using an Access database. In 1999 work was begun on converting the IADB to a web application using MySQL and PHP.
In recent years, development has continued in collaboration with the Silchester Town Life Project at the University of Reading. Grants from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) have funded the development of the IADB as a web publication tool, and grants from the UK JISC have funded the OGHAM and VERA projects for the development of the IADB as a Virtual Research Environment for archaeology using the Silchester project as a test-bed.
In September 2005, an edition of the BBC Radio 4 programme The Material World featured a discussion on the role of the IADB in the Silchester project with particular reference to the development of the IADB as a virtual research environment. As of September 2010, this programme remains available online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld_20050922.shtml.
The IADB was Highly Commended in the Best Archaeological Innovation cat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega%20TV%20%28Tamil%29 | Mega TV () is a Tamil Language satellite television channel based in Chennai, India. It is the flagship channel of the Mega TV Network, launched on 19 November 2007. It is founded by Former Union minister of India K. V. Thangkabalu. The channel features a variety of infotainment shows, music programs, newscasts and classic films.
History
Mega TV was launched by All India Congress Committee President Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi on 19 November 2007.
List of films
Neeyum Naanum (2010)
Virunthali (2010)
Sattam Oru Iruttarai (2012)
Touring Talkies (2015)
Thunai Mudhalvar (2015)
References
http://megatv.in
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/article394675.ece
Tamil-language television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Television stations in Chennai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shweeb | Shweeb is a proposed personal rapid transit network in New Zealand, based on human-powered monorail cars. The project prototype was originally designed and implemented in Rotorua, New Zealand, as a leisure attraction. The name is a reference to the German "schweben" meaning "to hang/hover/levitate", and indirectly to the suspended monorail Schwebebahn Wuppertal.
The proposed Shweeb transit network relies on recumbent bicycle technology to power pods suspended from monorails. According to Shweeb Monorail Technology, the intent of their proposal is to "create a solution which provided the user with the same flexibility and comfort offered by the car but without the consequential costs - both direct financial and indirect health and environmental costs." The proposal envisions networks of monorail track providing point to point and commuter transit for urban areas.
Proposals
In September 2010, a proposal for development of an expanded network was chosen to receive a million dollars of funding from Google as part of project 10100. As of August 2017, there were no active proposals to utilise the system for public transportation although a "sport resort" in the United States is considering it. In January 2021 a proposal was made for a Shweeb track be built as an attraction in a planned stadium in Christchurch, New Zealand. The monorail would be suspended out from main frame of the stadium.
The original track in New Zealand is open to the public.
Technical
Track
The track is built in folded galvanised steel. Its external height and width is . Support piles are also in galvanised steel.
Pods
Pods are covered with transparent plastic sheets, with ventilation holes. Front and rear long dampers are provided to limit the impact acceleration in case of pods collision and to ease the association of pods to build 'pod trains' which could significantly improve overall aerodynamic efficiency.
External power boost
To help climb ramps, an electrically powered chain installed on a track section could push the pods for a limited distance, in a way similar to the Trampe bicycle lift. This could also help entering stations built at a higher elevation than the track. The purpose of this elevation is to help a pod gain momentum while descending from station track to the main line track.
See also
Hotchkiss Bicycle Railroad
WireRoad/tarbato, a pedal powered suspended monorail developed in Nepal in 2004
Velomobile
Schwebebahn
Suspended monorail
Gadgetbahn
References
External links
Including pictures and videos of the Shweeb attraction device
North American website, includes CG images of Shweeb PRT network
Rotorua system's website
Film of Rotorua system
Agroventures - Rotorua Adrenaline Attractions, Rotorua shweeb
Skyride A similar system, used for leisure rides
Personal rapid transit
Community bicycle programs
Public transport
Utility cycling
Human-powered vehicles
Cycle types
Proposed monorails
Monorails in New Zealand
New Zealand inventions
New Zealand de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLSQL | CLSQL is an SQL database interface for Common Lisp. It was created in 2001 by Kevin M. Rosenberg, and initially based substantially on the MaiSQL package by Pierre R. Mai. After being orphaned by onShore Development, Marcus Pearce ported the UnCommonSQL package to CLSQL, which provides a CommonSQL-compatible API for CLSQL.
CLSQL can be used to query and interface with MySQL, PostgreSQL, ODBC, AODBC, SQLite version 2 and 3, and Oracle OCI.
External links
Official git repo
Common Lisp (programming language) software
Database APIs
2001 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DG/L | DG/L is a programming language developed by Data General Corp for the Nova, Eclipse, and Eclipse/MV families of minicomputers in the 1970s and early 1980s.
There were two separate versions:
"Old" Algol, which ran on and generated code for the Nova series of 16 bit computers. The compiler only did a little optimization. It was only available on the RDOS family of operating systems.
DG/L, which was developed by extensively modifying the Fortran 5 optimizing compiler. This compiler ran only on the Eclipse and Eclipse/MV family of computers but generated optimized code for the Nova, Eclipse and Eclipse/MV (Eagle) family. It was available on RDOS, AOS and AOS/VS.
The language itself was an extended version of Algol 60. It supported Integers, Single and Double precision floating point and complex numbers, and both fixed and arbitrary precision strings. It also supported full arbitrary precision binary-coded decimal (BCD) arithmetic on strings. It had many convenient program control flow features, but being designed in the mid 70s, lacked user defined data structures.
DG/L had a substantial runtime library for its day, and was used for systems programming both within and outside of Data General.
Originally called Algol/5, the product renamed DG/L shortly before the first commercial release in 1978. Officially, the name is meaningless but it was apparently supposed to imply "Data General Language". After the first commercial release, targeting 16-bit Eclipse and Nova, several subsequent updates and major versions were released, approximately one a year.
Comparison with Algol 60
Appendix A of Data General's 1982 revision of its DG/L Language Reference Manual, 093-00229-01 describes DG/L as based on the ALGOL 60 programming language, but gives "data types, operations and statements that ALGOL 60 lacks". Specific differences are:
Algol 60 features unsupported in DG/L
Extensions
Some of the extensions to the Algol 60 standard introduced in DG/L or carried over from Data General's previous Algol implementation of 1971:
String operations
SUBSTR - substring
INDEX - position of a substring
LENGTH - length of a string
SETCURRENT - sets the current length of a string, e.g. setcurrent(str,length(str)-1);
Concatentation operator: "!!"
String arithmetic (e.g. "123.45" + "0.01" )
Type conversion (Boolean, Integer, Real, Pointer, Bit)
Octal numbers and some special symbols enclosed in brackets to represent ASCII characters
Input and output
Fully formatted output, unformatted input, and output for all supported data types
Full interface to Data General's RDOS, AOS and AOS/VS system calls
Cache memory management (with virtual memory option).
Interface to CLRE and INFOS II databases
Other extensions
Conditional compiling of sections of code, using /**letter-digit-string <statement> */
end-of-line comments using the % character and /* comment */
expanded do, for, and if syntax (e.g. WHILE <boolexp1> DO <statement> UNTIL <boolexp2> )
T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Butler | Max Ray Vision (formerly Max Ray Butler, alias Iceman) is a former computer security consultant and hacker who served a 13-year prison sentence, the longest sentence ever given at the time for hacking charges in the United States. He was convicted of two counts of wire fraud, including stealing nearly 2 million credit card numbers and running up about $86 million in fraudulent charges.
Early life
Butler was born on July 10, 1972, and grew up in Meridian, Idaho with a younger sibling; his parents divorced when he was 14. His father was a Vietnam War veteran and computer store owner who married a daughter of Ukrainian immigrants. As a teenager, Max Butler became interested in bulletin board systems and hacking. After a parent reported a theft of chemicals from a lab room at Meridian High School, Butler pleaded guilty to malicious injury to property, first-degree burglary, and grand theft. Butler ultimately received probation for his crimes. He was sent to live with his father and he transferred to Bishop Kelly High School.
First offense
Butler attended Boise State University for a year. In 1991, Butler was convicted of assault during his freshman year of college. His appeal was unsuccessful on procedural grounds, as a judge ruled that Butler's defense attorney did not raise the issue in an earlier appeal. The Idaho State Penitentiary paroled Butler on 26 April 1995.
Professional and personal life
Butler moved with his father near Seattle and worked in part-time technical support positions in various companies. He discovered Internet Relay Chat and frequently downloaded warez, or illegally downloaded software or media. After an Internet service provider in Littleton, Colorado traced Butler's uploads of warez to an unprotected file transfer protocol server –the uploads were consuming excessive bandwidth–to the CompuServe corporate offices in Bellevue, Washington, CompuServe fired Butler.
After moving to Half Moon Bay, California, he changed his last name to Vision and lived in a rented mansion "Hungry Manor" with a group of other computer enthusiasts. Butler became a system administrator at computer gaming start-up MPath Interactive. The Software Publishers Association filed a $300,000 lawsuit against Butler for engaging in unauthorized distribution of software from CompuServe's office and later settled the case for $3,500 and free computer consulting.
After marrying Kimi Winters, he moved to Berkeley, California, and worked as a freelance pentester and security consultant. During this time, he developed 'an online community resource called the "advanced reference archive of current heuristics for network intrusion detection systems," or arachNIDS.'
FBI investigation, guilty plea, and sentencing
In the spring of 1998, Butler installed a backdoor onto American federal government websites while trying to fix a security hole in the BIND server daemon. However, an investigator with the United States Air Force found Butler via pop-up notifi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScuttlePad | ScuttlePad was a social network launched in August 2010 for children aged 6–11 years old. Users can add friends, upload photos and update statuses through pre-defined word lists. It is a self-funded venture established in Utah.
Overview
ScuttlePad was created to be an educational social network for youngsters under 13 years old, the minimum required age for most social networks. The site was created because many youngsters use Facebook and MySpace before they turn the minimum required age and recent studies have shown the increase in usage of social networks among children under the required age for registration.
How ScuttlePad Works
Users require a parental email address and answers to security questions to create a profile. Users create profiles and upload photos. Members can add friends and communicate using pre-defined word lists. All photos are manually reviewed by ScuttlePad management.
Adults may not join ScuttlePad, but can use the site in a supervisory role with their children. ScuttlePad offers basic social networking, including user photos and status updates, and communication among users.
Security, Profanity & Cyberbullying Prevention
ScuttlePad abides by the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) guidelines. The act applies to websites and online services and details what the site's responsibilities are to protect children's privacy and safety online. The act also determines the restrictions on marketing to children under the age of 13.
ScuttlePad's pre-defined word lists prevent profane language from usage on the site. The word lists may produce nonsensical statuses but block swearing and offensive language.
Underage children on social networks without safeguards are susceptible to cyberbullying and online predation. Forms of cyberbullying include harassing emails, instant messages, Facebook chats or Facebook wall posts.
Founder
Founder Chad Perry spent nine months studying how youngsters use Facebook prior to establishing the site. He decided to create ScuttlePad because many of his friends' children were unsafely updating their statuses and were also under the age limit for Facebook.
See also
Togetherville
Club Penguin
Webkinz
References
External links
Former official website via Wayback Machine
American social networking websites
Defunct social networking services
Internet properties established in 2010
Companies based in Utah
Privately held companies based in Utah
2010 establishments in Utah
American children's websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterpoise%20%28ground%20system%29 | In electronics and radio communication, a counterpoise is a network of suspended horizontal wires or cables (or a metal screen), used as a substitute for an earth (ground) connection in a radio antenna system. It is used with radio transmitters or receivers when a normal earth ground cannot be used because of high soil resistance or when an antenna is mounted above ground level, for example, on a building. It usually consists of a single wire or network of horizontal wires, parallel to the ground, suspended above the ground under the antenna, connected to the receiver or transmitter's "ground" wire. The counterpoise functions as one plate of a large capacitor, with the conductive layers of the earth acting as the other plate.
The counterpoise evolved with the Marconi (monopole) antenna during the 1890s, the first decade of radio in the wireless telegraphy era, but it was particularly advocated by British radio pioneer Oliver Lodge, and patented by his associate Alexander Muirhead in 1907.
Working principle
Counterpoises are typically used in antenna systems for radio transmitters where a good earth ground connection cannot be constructed.
Monopole antennas used at low frequencies, below 3 MHz, such as the mast radiator antennas used for AM broadcasting, require the radio transmitter to be electrically connected to the Earth under the antenna; this is called a ground (or earth). The ground serves as a capacitor plate to receive the displacement current from the antenna element and return it to the feedline from the transmitter. The ground connection must have a low electrical resistance, because it carries the full antenna current and any resistance in the ground connection will dissipate power from the transmitter. Low-resistance grounds for radio transmitters are normally constructed of a network of cables buried in the earth. However, in areas with dry, sandy or rocky soil the ground has a high resistance, so a low-resistance ground connection cannot be made. In these cases, a counterpoise is used. Another circumstance in which a counterpoise is used is when earth for a buried ground under the antenna mast is not available, such as in antennas located in a city or on top of a tall building.
A common design for a counterpoise is a series of radial wires suspended a few feet above the ground, extending from the base of the antenna in all directions in a "star" pattern, connected at the center. The counterpoise functions as one plate of a large capacitor, with the conductive layers in the earth as the other plate. Since the radio frequency alternating currents from the transmitter can pass through a capacitor, the counterpoise functions as a low-resistance ground connection. There should not be any closed loops in the wires of a counterpoise system, as the strong fields of the antenna will induce circular currents in it which will dissipate transmitter power.
Use at low frequencies
The largest use of counterpoises is in transmitte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PINN | PINN may stand for:
Proposed International nonproprietary name
Physics-informed neural networks
See also
Pinn (surname) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illiac%20Suite | Illiac Suite (later retitled String Quartet No. 4) is a 1957 composition for string quartet which is generally agreed to be the first score composed by an electronic computer. Lejaren Hiller, in collaboration with Leonard Isaacson, programmed the ILLIAC I computer at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (where both composers were professors) to generate compositional material for his String Quartet No. 4.
The piece consists of four movements, corresponding to four experiments: the first is about the generation of cantus firmi, the second generates four-voice segments with various rules, the third deals with rhythm, dynamics and playing instructions, and the fourth with various models and probabilities for generative grammars or Markov chains (see stochastic music).
References
External links
December 4, 2011. See also: 2/4, 3/4, and 4/4.
Compositions for string quartet
Computer music compositions
Suites (music) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATN%20SVBC | ATN SVBC is a Canadian exempt Category B Telugu specialty channel owned by Asian Television Network (ATN). It is the first Telugu channel in Canada and is currently available via Bell Fibe TV and Rogers Cable.
ATN SVBC is a devotional Bhakti channel dedicated to broadcasting Hindu devotional programmes and live telecasts of poojas performed in Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams from Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh, India.
The channel originally launched as 'ATN Malayalam' on September 13, 2010 on the newly launched Bell Fibe TV platform.
In February 2013, ATN Malayalam was renamed 'ATN Asianet'.
In October 2017, ATN Asianet was renamed ATN SVBC due to loss of programming from Asianet.
References
External links
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Telugu-language television channels
South Asian television in Canada
Indo-Canadian culture
Indian diaspora mass media
Asian-Canadian culture in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHED-FM | XHED-FM is a radio station on 99.1 FM in Ameca, Jalisco, Mexico. XHED is locally owned and carries a format of ranchera and pop music with news, known as La Líder, with programming targeted to the Valles region of Jalisco.
History
Tomás Flores Lamas received the concession for XEED-AM 1490 on January 9, 1959. XEED broadcast with 1,000 watts day and 250 at night. In 1969, Salvador López Chávez bought XEED; in the 1990s, his estate upgraded XEED to 1,000 watts full-time on 1450 kHz, and in 2002 to the same power on 900 kHz.
XEED migrated to FM in 2011 and was transferred to its current concessionaires in 2012.
In 2017, XHED was approved to move its transmitter, but not to change frequencies or increase power. A power increase on 99.1 MHz could not be approved without causing interference to XHZAM-FM in Mazamitla. The station activated the upgraded facilities in 2018 and began programming 24 hours a day.
External links
La Líder online
References
Radio stations in Jalisco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20boxes%20test | The four boxes test is a computer-based test used to measure reaction times.
In the test, a black circle appears in one of four boxes on the screen, and the patient presses the corresponding key on the keyboard as quickly as possible. The next circle appears after 500 ms, until 52 circles have been exposed.
The computer measures the time the subject takes to complete the test and the number of errors they make.
The test has been used to measure long-term cognitive dysfunction in elderly people who have undergone an operation.
When subjects had undergone anesthesia with different drugs, and were then tested using the Stroop Colour and Word Interference Test, the digit symbol substitution test and the four boxes test, recovery times varied both by anesthetic and by type of test.
Other studies have shown that there is an association between postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) and impaired performance in the four boxes test, but that the test is not a good predictor of POCD.
References
Neuropsychological tests |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia%20Louvel | Olivia Louvel is a French-born British composer and artist whose work draws on voice, computer music and digital narrative. The Sculptor Speaks, a resounding of a 1961 tape of Barbara Hepworth's voice, was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award in the Sound Art category at the Ivors Composer Awards 2020.
She was interviewed by Stuart Maconie on his BBC Radio 6 programme Freak Zone about her "compelling sculpture-inspired work" on Barbara Hepworth.
The "composer, researcher, and sound artist" often operates at the intersection of creation and documentation.
Education
Louvel studied at the National Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Arts of Paris and had the opportunity to work with Klaus Michael Grüber and Michel Piccoli in a reworking of a Luigi Pirandello play. She holds a master's degree in Digital Music and Sound Art from DMSA, University of Brighton.
Career
Initially trained in classical singing, she began to work as a singer for the flying trapeze circus Les Arts Sauts, performing at 12 metres in the air a Meredith Monk composition. She toured with them for three years, with notable performances at Festival de la Batie in Geneva, and Festival of Perth in 1995.
December 2014, she produced an exclusive mix for Electronic Beats, which features her remix of Antye Greie's Poemproducer.
For Data Regina (2017), Olivia Louvel "packaged experimental electronic music, new media art, and 16th century conflict into multimedia art", exploring the reign of Mary Queen of Scots, through an interactive digital platform and an album release.
In November 2018, she toured throughout the UK presenting a headline audio-visual set of Data Regina for Synth Remix, an event curated by Benjamin Tassie under Sound and Music's Composer-Curator scheme, also featuring Jo Thomas.
With her generative sound mural The Whole Inside (2019), Louvel explored an explicit sociopolitical agenda: the violent misogyny of incel communities. The Whole Inside was selected for the Longlist at the Aesthetica Art Prize 2021, and is featured in the Aesthetica Art Prize Anthology: Future Now.
Commissioned by avant-garde ensemble Juice Vocal, she composed ‘Not A Creature Of Paper’ (2019) a Louise Labé inspired composition, premiered at Kings Place, London.
[Hepworth Resounds] (2020) is a multipartite sound art project based on British sculptor Barbara Hepworth. ‘The Sculptor Speaks’ is a resounding of a 1961 tape by Barbara Hepworth, premiered on Resonance Extra Resonance FM, and followed by an audio-visual iteration. "The sculptor's cut-glass Received Pronunciation might be off-putting for the modern ear, but waves of technological manipulation have eroded its edges, turning it into a dreamy meditation on the nature of creativity."Deborah Nash, The Wire, [print], October 2020, issue 440.
The critically acclaimed album ‘SculptOr’ (2020) is a suite of nine pieces based on Hepworth's extensive writings. “Armed with an algorithmic chisel and mallet, Louvel repurposes writings by t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarab%20Research | Scarab Research is a research and development company specialized in recommender systems and machine learning.
History
Scarab Research was founded in 2009 by a group of European scientists and IT engineers. Its development operations were based in Budapest, Hungary.
That time personalized recommendations offer had been a new way for returning customers to discover products that match their personal tastes, even though they may never heard of them before.
In December 2013, Scarab Research was acquired by Emarsys.
Scarab Cloud
Scarab Cloud is the name of Scarab Research's cloud-based SaaS e-commerce product recommender service.
References
Recommender systems
Collective intelligence
Companies based in Budapest
Privately held companies of Hungary
Software companies of Hungary
Hungarian brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OptimJ | OptimJ is an extension for Java with language support for writing optimization models and abstractions for bulk data processing. The extensions and the proprietary product implementing the extensions were developed by Ateji which went out of business in September 2011.
OptimJ aims at providing a clear and concise algebraic notation for optimization modeling, removing compatibility barriers between optimization modeling and application programming tools, and bringing software engineering techniques such as object-orientation and modern IDE support to optimization experts.
OptimJ models are directly compatible with Java source code, existing Java libraries such as database access, Excel connection or graphical interfaces. OptimJ is compatible with development tools such as Eclipse, CVS, JUnit or JavaDoc. OptimJ is available free with the following solvers: lp_solve, glpk, LP or MPS file formats and also supports the following commercial solvers: MOSEK, IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio.
Language concepts
OptimJ combines concepts from object-oriented imperative languages with concepts from algebraic modeling languages for optimization problems. Here we will review the optimization concepts added to Java, starting with a concrete example.
The example of map coloring
The goal of a map coloring problem is to color a map so that regions sharing a common border have different colors. It can be expressed in OptimJ as follows.
package examples;
// a simple model for the map-coloring problem
public model SimpleColoring solver lpsolve
{
// maximum number of colors
int nbColors = 4;
// decision variables hold the color of each country
var int belgium in 1 .. nbColors;
var int denmark in 1 .. nbColors;
var int germany in 1 .. nbColors;
// neighbouring countries must have a different color
constraints {
belgium != germany;
germany != denmark;
}
// a main entry point to test our model
public static void main(String[] args)
{
// instantiate the model
SimpleColoring m = new SimpleColoring();
// solve it
m.extract();
m.solve();
// print solutions
System.out.println("Belgium: " + m.value(m.belgium));
System.out.println("Denmark: " + m.value(m.denmark));
System.out.println("Germany: " + m.value(m.germany));
}
}
Readers familiar with Java will notice a strong similarity with this language. Indeed, OptimJ is a conservative extension of Java: every valid Java program is also a valid OptimJ program and has the same behavior.
This map coloring example also shows features specific to optimization that have no direct equivalent in Java, introduced by the keywords model, var, constraints.
OR-specific concepts
Models
A model is an extension of a Java class that can contain not only fields and methods but also constraints and an objective function. It is introduced by the model keyword and follows the same rules as class declarations. A non-abstract model must be linked to a solver, introdu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20Conference%20USA%20Football%20Championship%20Game | The 2010 Conference USA Football Championship Game was played on December 4, 2010, at Bright House Networks Stadium, now known as Spectrum Stadium, in Orlando, Florida. The game was played between the UCF Knights, winner of Conference USA's East Division, and the SMU Mustangs, the winner the West Division.
UCF was seeking their second C-USA title, and hosting the game for the third time. SMU was experiencing their second consecutive winning season, and their third one since returning from the "death penalty" in 1989. It would be SMU's first attempt to win a conference title since 1984, when they won a share of the Southwest Conference championship.
2009 season
The 2009 Conference USA Football Championship Game on December 5, 2009, consisted of the East Carolina Pirates, the champion of Conference USA's East Division, beating the West Division champion Houston Cougars at Dowdy–Ficklen Stadium in Greenville, North Carolina by a score of 38 to 32.
Match-up History
This was the third time the UCF Knights and the SMU Mustangs met on the football field. The previous to match-up proved UCF victorious at home by a score of 31–17 in the regular season. SMU up on till this point has not bested UCF in a football game.
Game summary
Under conference rules, the game was held at the home field of the team with the best record in conference play; since UCF finished C-USA play at 7–1, better than SMU's 6–2, the game was held at the Knights' home field.
Scoring summary
Statistics
References
Conference USA Championship
Conference USA Football Championship Game
SMU Mustangs football games
UCF Knights football games
Sports competitions in Orlando, Florida
Conference USA Football Championship Game
Conference USA football
2010s in Orlando, Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYSR | DYSR (95.1 FM), broadcasting as SR95, is a radio station owned and operated by the National Council of Churches in the Philippines. It is part of the Magic Nationwide network. Its studio and transmitter are located at Camp SEA Site, Brgy. Banilad, Dumaguete. The station broadcasts daily from 5:30 AM to 12:00 MN.
History
DYSR-AM
1950-1975: Beginnings
The station began as DYSR-AM as a test broadcast on July 1, 1950 beginning only two hours of broadcasting time in the evening, following the approval of House Bill #896 to establish DYSR. At that time, the station was owned by Silliman University as a nonsectarian and non-profit educational station. Operating at 840 kilocycles, the station at that time also operates as a shortwave station, operating at 6055 kilocycles on the 49 meter band.
The station would continue test broadcasts following the initial July 1 broadcast, with the notable extension of broadcasting hours and additional programming, until it was inaugurated on August 26, 1950.
Its initial staff of DYSR-AM includes Roy Bell as the director of DYSR, Abby Jacobs as the program director and Eliseo Araneta leading the engineering department of DYSR. Silliman's faculty working as part-time staff of programming includes Mary Reese as music director, Boyd Bell as director of farm programming and Justice Venancio Aldecoa (1926–December 14, 2017) as assistant director of farm programming. The latter later became the president of Silliman University from 1983 to 1986.
DYSR-AM became one of the notable firsts in Dumaguete radio when the station was launched, having notable in the following:
The first radio station to launch in Dumaguete. (Launched on August 26, 1950)
The first to be broadcast in shortwave.
The first to air a radio drama as part of the programming schedule.
The first to air select programming in English and in Cebuano
DYSR studios and its AM and shortwave transmitters at launch were located at the Guy Hall at Silliman University, where the College of Mass Communication was also located before moving to the Emilio T. Yap Hall in 2011. It was then later moved to Camp SEA Site in Banilad.
1975-2006: Later years
DYSR-AM was notable for relaying what's known to be the city's first night flight on March 29, 1975, that led a Fairchild C-123K Provider aircraft landing safely in Sibulan Airport. At that time, the airport did not have runway lights until it was installed 42 years later. The provincial Philippine Constabulary headquarters relayed announcements through this station to car owners to go to the airport and light the runway using headlights, which various car owners responded to the announcement. The announcement on this station gave pilot Eugene Malahay and co-pilot Antonio Paulin time to land the aircraft safely into the airport.
In 1979 or in 1980, when the Philippines switched from the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement or NARBA-assigned 10 kHz to the Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975-assigned 9 kHz, DYSR-AM sw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Transformers%3A%20Robots%20in%20Disguise%20%282000%20TV%20series%29%20characters | This is a list of characters from the 2000 anime series Transformers: Robots in Disguise. The series focuses on two warring species of transforming robots from the planet Cybertron, the Autobots and Predacons.
Autobots
The Autobots are alien robots from the planet Cybertron who came to Earth to pursue the Predacons and assume various vehicular disguises while operating on the planet.
Commanders
Omega Prime, or "God Fire Convoy" in Japan, is the combiner forced fusion of Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus as Matrix. In battle, he can flying and uses the Ultra Magnus's weapon of Lazer and Galting on shoulders to shooting the enemies. Later, Fortress Maximus giving the Matrix Blade to defeat the Galvatron. Omega Prime is voiced by Daniel Riordan (U.S.) and by Satoshi Hashimoto (Japan).
Optimus Prime, or "(Super) Fire Convoy" in Japan, is the leader of the Autobots who possesses a Matrix to symbolize his authority, transforms into a fire truck, and can assume a super mode. Later in the series, he gains the ability to combine with his brother Ultra Magnus to become Omega Prime. Optimus Prime is voiced by Neil Kaplan (U.S.) and by Satoshi Hashimoto (Japan).
Ultra Magnus, or "God Magnus" in Japan, is Optimus Prime's embittered and violent brother who transforms into a car carrier truck and became jealous of the latter after being passed over for leadership of the Autobots and now seeks to claim Optimus' Matrix for his own, believing it is rightfully his. In pursuit of this goal, Ultra Magnus comes to Earth, grants the Autobot Brothers extra power, and attempts to steal Optimus' Matrix, only to gain the ability to combine with him into Omega Prime.Ultra Magnus is voiced by Kim Strauss (U.S.) and by Takashi Matsuyama (Japan).
Autobot Brothers
Autobot Brothers are three-man of Autobots, who both transform into the vehicle cars mode, Later giving by Ultra Magnus the Super changing color mode.
X-Brawn, or "Wildride" in Japan, is eldest and most reliable of the three Autobot Brothers who can transform into a SUV. He loves extremes, lives for the thrill, can handle any type of environment, and traverse tough terrains. In battle, he is a master in martial arts, possesses super-strength in his left arm, and a winch in his vehicle mode capable of pulling him up buildings. X-Brawn is voiced by Bob Joles (U.S.) and by Masahiro Shibahara (Japan).
Prowl, or "Mach Alert" in Japan, is the strict middle sibling of the Autobot Brothers who can transform into a Lamborghini Diablo police highway pursuit vehicle. In battle, he wields two missile launchers which become thrusters in his vehicle mode.Prowl is voiced by Wayne C. Lewis (U.S.) and by Takayuki Kondo (Japan).
Side Burn, or "Speedbreaker" in Japan, is the courageous yet impulsive youngest sibling of the Autobot Brothers who can transform into a Dodge Viper and possesses the most speed out of his brothers. Side Burn is voiced by Wally Wingert (U.S.) and by Punch UFO (Japan).
Team Bullet Train
Team Bullet Train is a t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coraz%C3%B3n%20valiente | Corazón Valiente (Fearless Heart), originally known as Caídas del Cielo (Falls of Heaven), is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami, featuring an ensemble cast. Adriana Fonseca, Ximena Duque, José Luis Reséndez and Fabián Ríos starred as the main protagonists, with Aylin Mujica and Manuel Landeta starred as the main antagonists.
Telemundo aired Corazón Valiente weeknights at 9pm/8c from March 6, 2012 to January 7, 2013, replacing Flor Salvaje. On January 8, 2013, La Patrona replaced Corazón Valiente. As with most of its other telenovelas, the network broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.
Plot
Corazón valiente is the story of the friendship between two girls in a remote Mexican city called Valle de Bravo. Ángela Valdez (Sofía Sanabria), humble and sweet, was the daughter of Miguel Valdéz (Jorge Luis Pila), the bodyguard of the powerful and wealthy family Sandoval Navarro. Samantha Sandoval Navarro was the rich girl guarded by Miguel Valdéz. The two girls' lives are forever changed when Samantha is kidnapped, resulting in Miguel Valdéz sacrificing his life to save her. After what happened, the girls were separated.
Ángela and Samantha meet again after eighteen years. Ángela (Adriana Fonseca) is married to Luis Martínez (Gabriel Valenzuela); Has a daughter, Violeta (Nicole Arci), and works as a baker. For her part, Samantha (Ximena Duque) works as a bodyguard. Samantha comes up with the idea of inviting Ángela to work with her; Ángela accepts and assigns her the mission to protect Génesis Arroyo, the daughter of a multimillionaire lawyer named Juan Marcos Arroyo (Jose Luis Reséndez) who is unfortunately married to Isabel Uriarte (Sonya Smith), a proud and evil woman who is unfaithful, even with his own bodyguard. Meanwhile, Samantha is ordered to protect Willy del Castillo (Fabián Ríos), her first love, who has become a whimsical playboy and womanizer. Samantha decides not to reveal anything of her past, but he ends up discovering who she is and love arises between them.
Thus, Ángela and Samantha will have to fight with all the obstacles that their enemies will put them through in order to be happy with the people they love, while always having a brave heart.
Cast
Main
Adriana Fonseca as Ángela Valdez (Female Protagonist)
José Luis Reséndez as Juan Marcos Arroyo (Male Protagonist)
Aylín Mújica as Fernanda del Castillo / Victoria Villafañe (Female antagonist)
Ximena Duque as Samantha Sandoval Navarro / Samantha Valdéz Navarro (Co-Female Protagonist)
Fabián Ríos as Guillermo "Willy" del Castillo (Co-Male Protagonist)
Vanessa Pose as Emma Arroyo
Jon-Michael Ecker as Pablo Peralta
Jorge Luis Pila as Miguel Valdéz
Manuel Landeta as Bernardo del Castillo (Antagonist)
Katie Barberi as Perla Navarro
Leonardo Daniel as Darío Sandoval
Gilda Haddock as Estela de Valdéz (Antagonist)
Gabriel Valenzuela as Luis Martínez / Camilo Martínez
José Guillermo Cort |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Force%20Network | Air Force Network (AFNet) is an Indian Air Force (IAF) owned, operated and managed digital information grid. The AFNet replaces the Indian Air Force's (IAF) old communication network set-up using the tropo-scatter technology of the 1950s making it a true net-centric combat force. The IAF project is part of the overall mission to network all three services, that is The Indian Army, The Indian Navy and The Indian Air Force. The former Defence Minister AK Antony inaugurated the IAF's the AFNET on 14 September 2010 dedicating it to the people of India, for their direct or indirect participation in the communication revolution.
Background
Armed Forces in India has been using troposcatters as primary means of military communications since the 1950s, thereby occupying huge and expensive 2G and 3G spectrums which otherwise could have been used for expanding and de-clogging the civilian wireless communication network. The rapid expansion of civilian mobile telephony leading to need for larger bandwidth for wireless communication and commercial need to operate the 3G network necessitated the Government of India to have the Indian Armed Forces vacate the spectrum occupied by them. Thus the government of India through Department of Telecommunication (DoT) started a project called "Network for Spectrum" to set up a fiber optics network for the exclusive use of Indian Armed Forces in exchange for spectrum being released by the Defence Forces. The aim of 'Network for Spectrum' being twofold - to facilitate the growth of national tele-density on the one hand, and ensuring modernization of defence communications with the state-of-the-art communication infrastructure, and to support net-centric military operations.
The Department of Telecom and the Ministry of Defence signed the memorandum of understanding for vacating the spectrum and setting up dedicated network for the use of defence forces. In this MoU, DoT agreed to laying of 40,000 route kilometres of optical fibre cable connecting 219 Army stations, 33 Navy stations and 162 points for the Air Force. It further agreed to setting up an exclusive defence band and Defence Interest Zone along 100 km of the international border, where spectrum will be reserved only for use by the Armed Forces. The total cost of implementing "Network for Spectrum" project is estimated to be 10,000 crores. AFNet is Indian Air Force component of Digital Information Grid under "Network for Spectrum" project and the AFNet is likely to be extended and connected to the Digital Information Grid Project under implementation for the Indian Navy and the Indian Army by 2015.
Project Origin
The Air Force Network (AFNet) has been developed by the Indian Air Force at a cost of 1,077 crore in collaboration with HCL Technologies and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited. It will replace the Air Force's more than half-a-century-old telecom network. This project is part of the defence ministry's initiative to digitize the communication systems of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cwm%20%28software%29 | Cwm (pronounced koom) is a general-purpose data processing software for the Semantic Web, similar to sed or awk for text files or XSLT for XML. It is a forward chaining semantic reasoner that can be used for querying, checking, transforming and filtering information. Its core language is RDF, extended to include rules, it can use RDF/XML or RDF/N3 (see Notation3 Primer) serializations.
cwm can perform the following tasks:
Parse and pretty-print the following RDF formats: XML RDF, Notation3, and N-Triples.
Store triples in a queryable triplestore (a triples' database).
Perform inferences as a forward chaining FOPL inference engine.
Perform builtin functions such as comparing strings, retrieving resources, all using an extensible builtins suite.
cwm was written in Python from 2000–10 onwards by Tim Berners-Lee and Dan Connolly of the W3C.
External links
cwm homepage
Information about CWM - TimBL's Closed World Machine
Python (programming language) software
Semantic Web
Web services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20desktop%20Linux | Criticism of desktop Linux is a history of comment on the perceived shortcomings of the Linux operating system when installed on desktop computers. These criticisms have been aimed at the plethora of issues and lack of consistency between Linux distributions, their usefulness and ease of use as desktop systems for general end users, driver support and issues with multi-media playback and audio development.
While smartphones running the Linux-based Android mobile operating system dominate the smartphone market, and Linux is used on most servers, as of 2021 exclusively run on the world's 500 fastest supercomputers, and is used on the New York Stock Exchange, Linux-based operating systems have failed to achieve widespread adoption on personal computers.
Viability of Linux as a desktop system
Linus Torvalds has expressed that he intended the Linux kernel to be used in desktop operating systems. He argues that Android is widely used because it comes pre-installed on new phones, and that Linux distributions would need to be bundled on new computers to gain market share.
Linux has been criticized for a number of reasons, including lack of user-friendliness and having a steep learning curve, being inadequate for desktop use, lacking support for some hardware, having a relatively small games library, lacking native versions of widely used applications.
Some critics do not believe Linux will ever gain a large share in the desktop market. In May 2009 Preston Gralla, contributing editor to Computerworld.com, believed that Linux would never be important to desktop/notebook users, even though he felt it was simple and straightforward to use, but that its low usage was indicative of its low importance in the desktop market.
In his essay Luxury of Ignorance: An Open-Source Horror Story, Eric S. Raymond stated that the lack of usability in many open-source and Linux tools is not from lack of manuals but from a lack of thought about the users' experience.
James Donald from Princeton University analyzed shared library concepts of several operating systems. In his 2003 paper titled Improved Portability of Shared Libraries, he worried about the lack of a Windows Application Compatibility Group equivalent.
Missed opportunities
Desktop Linux was criticized in late 2010 for having missed its opportunity to become a significant force in desktop computing. PC World executive editor Robert Strohmeyer commented that although Linux has exceptional security and stability, as well as great performance and usability, the time for desktop Linux to succeed has been missed. Nick Farrell, writing for TechEye, felt that the release of the poorly-received Windows Vista was a missed opportunity to grab significant market share.
Both critics indicated that Linux did not fail on the desktop due to being "too geeky," "too hard to use," or "too obscure". Both had praise for distributions, Strohmeyer saying "the best-known distribution, Ubuntu, has received high marks for usabil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Science%20CTA | The Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS CTA) is a collaborative research alliance funded by the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and focused on fundamental research on the critical scientific and technical challenges that emerge from the close interdependence of several genres of networks such as social/cognitive, information, and communications networks. The primary goal of the NS CTA is to deeply understand the underlying commonalities among these intertwined networks, and, by understanding, improve our ability to analyze, predict, design, and influence complex systems interweaving many kinds of networks.
This emerging research domain, termed network science,
also has the potential to accelerate understanding of each
genre of network by cross-fertilization of insights, theories,
algorithms, and approaches and by expanding their study
into the larger context of the multi-genre (or composite) network environments
within which each must act.
The NS CTA is an alliance between ARL, other government
researchers, and a consortium of four research centers: an
Academic Research Center (ARC) focused on social/cognitive
networks (the SCNARC), an ARC focused on information
networks (the INARC), an ARC focused on communications
networks (the CNARC), and an Interdisciplinary Research Center
(the IRC) focused on interdisciplinary research and technology transition. Overall, these centers include roughly one hundred
PhD-level researchers from about 30 universities and industrial
research labs, engaged with as many graduate students and interns.
The Alliance unites research across organizations and research
disciplines to address the critical technical challenges faced by
the Army in a world where all missions are embedded in and
depend upon many genres of networks. The expected impact
of its transdisciplinary research includes greatly enhanced
human performance for network-embedded missions and
greatly enhanced speed and precision for complex military
operations. Beyond this vital focus, its research is also
expected to accelerate the reach and depth of our understanding
of the interwoven networks that so profoundly influence all our
lives.
The Alliance conducts interdisciplinary research in network
science and transitions the results of this fundamental
research to address the technical challenges of network-embedded
Army operations. The NS CTA research program exploits
intellectual synergies across its disciplines by uniting
fundamental and applied network science research in parallel.
It drives the synergistic combination of these technical areas
for network-centric and network-enabling capabilities in
support of all missions required of today's military forces,
including humanitarian support, peacekeeping, and combat
operations in any kind of terrain, but especially in complex
and urban settings. It also supports and stimulates dual-use
applications of this research and resulting technology to benefit
commercial use.
As a critical el |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iboe | Iboe or IBoE may refer to:
InfiniBand over Ethernet (IBoE), in computer networking
See also
Ibu (disambiguation) (Dutch and former Indonesian spelling of Iboe)
Igbo (disambiguation) (old spelling Iboe) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Denver%20RTD%20rail%20stations | The Regional Transportation District (RTD) operates a mass transit network, serving portions of Denver, Colorado, United States, and its surrounding metropolitan area, with light rail and commuter rail services. , the urban rail transit system includes 74 stations on 10 lines: A, B, D, E, G, H, L, N, R, and W. In first quarter of 2016, the six light rail lines served an average 79,600 passengers a day, making the RTD light rail the eighth-largest light rail system in the United States in terms of ridership.
All of the stations are open-air structures featuring passenger canopies for protection from adverse weather conditions. The RTD has established criteria for station design with the intention of incorporating each station effectively into its surrounding community. All stations feature three elements according to the criteria: the platform, its transition plaza and the intermodal passenger transport available to and from the facility. Platforms are designed to accommodate four-car trains and may be in either a side, island or side center style. The transition plaza is the area where passenger services can be found between the platform and where intermodal access is available. All stations are decorated with works of public art as part of the RTD's "Art-n-Transit" program. They include independent works as well as pieces incorporated into the canopies, columns, pavers, windscreens, fencing and landscaping.
Light rail service began on October 8, 1994, with the opening of the initial fourteen stations on the Central Corridor segment from 30th & Downing station to I-25 & Broadway station. The first extension opened on July 14, 2000, and included the completion of an additional of rail and five stations through its present southern terminus at Littleton–Mineral station. In 2002, a four station, spur through the Central Platte Valley opened between the 10th & Osage station and Union Station. By November 2006, expansion to the southeast saw the completion of of rail and thirteen stations between I-25 & Broadway and both Nine Mile station in Aurora and Lincoln in Lone Tree. On April 26, 2013 the W Line was opened which added of rail and eleven stations between Auraria West station and the Jefferson County Government Center–Golden station in Golden, Colorado. The first commuter rail line, the A Line to Denver Airport station, opened on April 22, 2016.
Rail services use a zone-based fare system, where passengers are charged based on the number of zones through which they are traveling. Fare zones are noted A, B, and C, based on distance from Downtown Denver, with a separate airport zone for travel to and from Denver Airport station.
Stations
Future stations
FasTracks is a twelve-year, $6.9 billion public transportation expansion developed by the Regional Transportation District and currently underway. The plan called for six new lines: light rail, diesel commuter rail, and electric commuter rail lines with a combined length of to be opene |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20County%20Newschannel | The Orange County Newschannel (often branded as OC Newschannel and OCN) was a regional cable news network pioneering a rolling news format, serving Orange County, California south of the Greater Los Angeles area. The channel also pioneered the producer - presenter work format where the reporters self-produced television news items using the then emerging light weight cameras and video digitising ingestion systems based on Apple Computer and Oracle Database software.
Technically a network because it was carried by multiple cable operators then in business in Orange County, OCN, launched in 1990 by Freedom Communications, was among the earliest regional 24-hour cable news cable television channels (the first being the Cablevision-owned News 12 Networks, which all launched in December 1986). As early as 1992, OCN began producing news for KTLA (which would eventually attempt to rival the cable channel in its home county). Freedom sold OCN to New Canaan, Connecticut-based Century Communications, which at the time operated other cable entities in California, most notably in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles, in 1996.
The network was purchased by Adelphia Cable in 1999 (eventually the name was changed slightly to Orange County News Channel) and struggled with decreasing profits and ad revenue and ended up going out of business on September 7, 2001 after years of losing money in which the network ended up going bankrupt. Throughout its life, OCN had a largely captive audience, as the only other sources for news in Orange County were KTLA and KOCE-TV.
OCN's website continued to operate as an internet-only news portal for Orange County, offering daily news to subscribers. Several members of the news staff that had worked at OCN eventually found a new home at KOCE-TV's news desk.
The network was a founding member of the Association of Regional News Channels.
In 2007, the similarly named and formatted OC Channel began, run by KOCE and Chapman University.
References
External links
Historic station makes history, for the last time
So Long, OCN
24-hour television news channels in the United States
Defunct local cable stations in the United States
Freedom Communications
Television channels and stations established in 1990
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2004
1990 establishments in California
2004 disestablishments in California
Defunct mass media in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenzero | Kenzero is a computer trojan that is spread across peer-to-peer networks and is programmed to monitor the browsing history of victims.
History
The Kenzero trojan was first discovered on the November 27, 2009, but researchers think it went undetected for a few months prior to the initial discovery.
Operations
Kenzero attacks computers that download files through peer-to-peer networks (P2P). Once the file is opened, the virus locates the victim's browsing history and publishes it online. People can then view the file(s).
References
Windows trojans
Hacking in the 2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer%20Predator | Predator Gaming is a gamer-focused brand and line of computer hardware owned by Acer. In 2008, Acer introduced itself in the gaming computer market with a line of desktop computers: the Acer Aspire Predator series, later renamed as Acer Predator. The series is characterized by the futuristic computer chassis and high performance. In 2016, a complete range of Predator desktops, gaming laptops, tablets and accessories exists.
The range competes with Lenovo's Legion, Dell's G series and Alienware subsidiary, BenQ's Mobiuz & Zowie, HP's Omen and Asus ROG series.
Laptops
Specifications
Predator Helios 300
Predator Helios 300 Special Edition
Predator Helios 500
Predator Triton 500
Acer's first entry into the "Thin and light gaming laptop" Series
Predator Triton 700
Predator Triton 900
Predator 21 X
Acer's 9000$ range gaming laptop that run's as powerful as a desktop with 2 nvidia gtx 1080's in sli. It comes with 64gb of ram memory and 1tb of ssd
Desktops
AG3620 (2012)
AG5900 (2010)
AG7200
AG7700 (2009)
AG7710 (2009)
AG7711
AG7712
AG7713
AG7750 (2010)
AG3-710-UR53
AG3-710-UR54
AG6-710-70001
AG6-710-70002
AG6-710-70004
Specifications
Monitors
Specifications
References
External links
Official website
Predator Gaming - It Lies Within
Acer Predator Helios 300 Review
Acer Inc. products
Consumer electronics brands
Acer Inc. laptops
Gaming computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCI%20Banks | DCI Banks is a British television crime drama series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the ITV network. Originally broadcast over five series in 2010–2016, the series was based on Peter Robinson's Inspector Alan Banks novels and stars Stephen Tompkinson as Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. In 2013, the series won in the drama category at the regional Royal Television Society Yorkshire Programme Awards.
Background
In January 2010, author Peter Robinson signed with Left Bank Pictures and ITV to adapt novels from the Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks series for television. Filming on a two-part pilot based on Aftermath was completed in July 2010, with scenes filmed in Leeds. DCI Banks: Aftermath was broadcast on ITV on 27 September and 4 October 2010. The two episodes drew 6.55 million viewers, twice becoming the fifth most-watched programme on the ITV network that week.
ITV commissioned six episodesthree two-part dramas adapted from three novels for the first series. Filming began in February 2011 and included locations in Otley for Friend of the Devil. Some shop names were unchanged during filming. The first episode, Playing with Fire, aired 16 September 2011, and drew an average of 4.5 million viewers. The subsequent two 2-part dramas, Friend of the Devil and Cold is the Grave, achieved similar ratings.
ITV commissioned a second series. Filming began in March 2012, and episodes began broadcasting from 10 October. For this series, the novels Dry Bones that Dream, Innocent Graves and Strange Affair were adapted. With Andrea Lowe on maternity leave, Stephen Tompkinson was joined by Caroline Catz as DI Helen Morton, a character not in the novels. Sally Haynes, head of the ITV drama commissioning, said of the second series: "DCI Banks is now established as a firm favourite within ITV's crime drama slate. We're delighted so many viewers are appreciating Robert Murphy’s adaptations and how the team at Left Bank Pictures are producing DCI Banks."
On 1 December 2012, Peter Robinson announced on his website " that DCI Banks has been recommissioned for a third series of six one-hour episodes (again, three two-parters), according to a revised statement posted June 17, 2013, based on three books: Wednesday’s Child, Piece of My Heart, and Bad Boy. The revised announcement said filming would begin in August 2013, broadcast dates to be confirmed later. In January 2013, Stephen Tompkinson mentioned in an interview "I’m pleased to say [DCI Banks has] recently been commissioned for a third series, which should start filming later in the year," and in a subsequent interview he said: "In series three [DCI Alan] Banks will be assisted by both Annie and Helen," indicating that Lowe and Catz will return. Describing Alan Banks, Tompkinson said, "He is heavily reliant on his team and a great, almost patrician leader."
The show was originally shown on ITV but from June 2014 the show was repeated on ITV's subscription drama channel ITV Encore on Friday nigh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry%20Tablet%20OS | BlackBerry Tablet OS is an operating system from BlackBerry Ltd based on the QNX Neutrino real-time operating system designed to run Adobe AIR and BlackBerry WebWorks applications, currently available for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer.
The BlackBerry Tablet OS is the first tablet running an operating system from QNX (now a subsidiary of RIM).
BlackBerry Tablet OS supports standard BlackBerry Java applications. Support for Android apps has also been announced, through sandbox "app players" which can be ported by developers or installed through sideloading by users. A BlackBerry Tablet OS Native Development Kit, to develop native applications with the GNU toolchain is currently in closed beta testing. The first device to run BlackBerry Tablet OS was the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet computer.
A similar QNX-based operating system, known as BlackBerry 10, replaced the long-standing BlackBerry OS on handsets after version 7.
See also
BlackBerry OS
BlackBerry 10
References
External links
Meet the Power Behind the BlackBerry Tablet OS, official announcement, QNX website
Blackberry - Playbook development Overview
ARM operating systems
Tablet OS, BlackBerry
Computing platforms
Embedded operating systems
Lightweight Unix-like systems
Microkernel-based operating systems
Mobile operating systems
Real-time operating systems
Tablet operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%E2%80%93Carter%20model | The Lee–Carter model is a numerical algorithm used in mortality forecasting and life expectancy forecasting. The input to the model is a matrix of age specific mortality rates ordered monotonically by time, usually with ages in columns and years in rows. The output is a forecasted matrix of mortality rates in the same format as the input.
The model uses singular value decomposition (SVD) to find:
A univariate time series vector that captures 80–90% of the mortality trend (here the subscript refers to time),
A vector that describes the relative mortality at each age (here the subscript refers to age), and
A scaling constant (referred to here as but unnamed in the literature).
Surprisingly, is usually linear, implying that gains to life expectancy are fairly constant year after year in most populations. Prior to computing SVD, age specific mortality rates are first transformed into , by taking their logarithms, and then centering them by subtracting their age-specific means over time. The age-specific mean over time is denoted by . The subscript refers to the fact that spans both age and time.
Many researchers adjust the vector by fitting it to empirical life expectancies for each year, using the and generated with SVD. When adjusted using this approach, changes to are usually small.
To forecast mortality, (either adjusted or not) is projected into future years using an ARIMA model. The corresponding forecasted is recovered by multiplying by and the first diagonal element of S (when ). The actual mortality rates are recovered by taking exponentials of this vector.
Because of the linearity of , it is generally modeled as a random walk with trend. Life expectancy and other life table measures can be calculated from this forecasted matrix after adding back the means and taking exponentials to yield regular mortality rates.
In most implementations, confidence intervals for the forecasts are generated by simulating multiple mortality forecasts using Monte Carlo Methods. A band of mortality between 5% and 95% percentiles of the simulated results is considered to be a valid forecast. These simulations are done by extending into the future using randomization based on the standard error of derived from the input data.
Algorithm
The algorithm seeks to find the least squares solution to the equation:
where is a matrix of mortality rate for each age in each year .
Compute which is the average over time of for each age:
Compute which will be used in SVD:
Compute the singular value decomposition of :
Derive , (the scaling eigenvalue), and from , , and :
Forecast using a standard univariate ARIMA model to additional years:
Use the forecasted , with the original , and to calculate the forecasted mortality rate for each age:
Discussion
Without applying SVD or some other method of dimension reduction the table of mortality data is a highly correlated multivariate data series, and the complexity of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Tablet%20PC | Microsoft Tablet PC is a term coined by Microsoft for tablet computers conforming to a set of specifications announced in 2001 by Microsoft, for a pen-enabled personal computer, conforming to hardware specifications devised by Microsoft and running a licensed copy of Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system or a derivative thereof.
Hundreds of such tablet personal computers have come onto the market since then.
History
In 2003, original equipment manufacturers released the first tablet PCs designed to the Microsoft Tablet PC specification. This generation of Microsoft Tablet PCs were designed to run Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, the Tablet PC version of Windows XP. This version of Microsoft Windows superseded Microsoft's earlier pen computing operating environment, Windows for Pen Computing 2.0. After releasing Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, Microsoft designed the successive desktop computer versions of Windows, Windows Vista and Windows 7, to support pen computing intrinsically. The Tablet PC with Windows XP released in 2001 had 128 megabytes of RAM and a 600 megahertz processor, with a storage capacity of 10 GB.
Following Windows for Pen Computing, Microsoft has been developing for tablets running Windows under the Microsoft Tablet PC name. According to a 2001 Microsoft definition of the term, "Microsoft Tablet PCs" are pen-based, fully functional x86 PCs with handwriting and voice recognition functionality. Tablet PCs use the same hardware as normal laptops but add support for pen input. For specialized support for pen input, Microsoft released Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Today there is no tablet specific version of Windows but instead support is built into both Home and Business versions of Windows Vista and Windows 7. Tablets running Windows get the added functionality of using the touchscreen for mouse input, hand writing recognition, and gesture support. Following Tablet PC, Microsoft announced the UMPC initiative in 2006 which brought Windows tablets to a smaller, touch-centric configuration. This was relaunched in 2010 as Slate PC, to promote tablets running Windows 7 Slate PCs are expected to benefit from mobile hardware advances derived from the success of the netbooks.
Many tablet manufacturers are moving to the ARM architecture with lighter operating systems, Microsoft followed suit in 2012 with Surface and Windows RT. Though Microsoft has Windows RT for ARM support it has kept its target market for the smartphone industry with Windows Phone 8. Some manufacturers, however, still have shown prototypes of Windows CE-based tablets running a custom shell.
Recent developments of tablet computers with Windows featured Microsoft's Surface line, which ran the windows RT operating system, and later Windows 8.1 and x86 and ARM versions of Windows 10.
Configurations
Booklet
Booklet PCs are dual screen tablet computers that fold like a book. Typical booklet PCs are equipped with multi-touch screens and pen writing recognition abilit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin%20Zhong | Lin Zhong is a Chinese American computer scientist. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science with Yale University. He received his B.S and M.S. in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Princeton University. From 2005 to 2019, he was with Rice University. At Yale, he leads the Efficient Computing Lab to make computing, communication, and interfacing more efficient and effective. He and his students received the best paper awards from ACM MobileHCI, IEEE PerCom, IEEE QCE, ACM MobiSys (3), and ACM ASPLOS. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Duncan Award from Rice University, the RockStar Award (2014) and Test of Time Award (2022) from ACM SIGMOBILE. He is a Fellow of IEEE and ACM.
His research has provided the technical foundation to Skylark Wireless and Theseus OS.
References
External links
http://www.yecl.org
Living people
Yale University faculty
Rice University faculty
American computer scientists
Tsinghua University alumni
Princeton University alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latitude%20Varsity | Latitude Varsity is a small university located in Bellville, South Africa. It specializes in computer science, business education, and finance.
Ranking
External links
Official Site
Distance education institutions based in South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Future%20University%20%28Sudan%29 | Future University (FU) (), formerly known as Computer Man College () or (CMC), is the first specialized Information and communications technology university in Sudan. Since its establishment in 1991 as Computer Man College, it was considered the first college to introduce an Information Technology program in the region, and within the country , it was the first to introduce a Computer Engineering program and the second to introduce the Telecommunication Engineering and Architecture & Design programs. It was upgraded to a university in August 2010 by the Sudan Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. The university adopts the credit hours system in its education process, one of the first educational institutes to implement this system in Sudan. It is the first private academic institution in Sudan hosting a UNESCO chair. Currently, the university contains seven faculties, each offering several programs (some running and others proposed).
History
About the founder
Dr. Abubaker Mustafa Mohammed Khair the founder and chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Future University, received a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering Communication (University of Belgrade, 1970), M.Sc. in Computer Technology, Computer Systems (American University), Applied Science in Engineering, (George Washington University, 1975), and a Ph.D. in Management of Information Systems (George Washington University).
First years
The foundation of the college was a result of a huge bounce in the field of information technology. The effect has been reflected in the administrative and economical structure of Sudan and other countries; new concepts were created, such as globalization, knowledge societies, e-commerce and e-government.
During this era, the college embarked on strategic plans to offer three programs: Information Technology, Computer Engineering and Computer Science, and then introduce the Telecommunication Engineering and Architecture & Design programs. CMC is in buildings that are almost 20 years old; Future University's new campus is being constructed.
From CMC to FU
Upgrading Computer Man College into the new Future University has been requested from the Sudan Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research three times, beginning 15 years ago.
It was eventually approved in 2010. On the morning of the day after the approval, many of the students reported that they were surprised when they came in the college; because they saw the new sign at the forefront of the buildings saying “Future University” instead of the old “Computer Man College.” On that day, a camel and a number of sheep were sacrificed (i.e. slaughtered) inside the campus, and their meat was given away as charity (Karāma) for the poor and other people in the shape of a good-deed attempt to thank the grace of God that the college has been upgraded.
Faculties
Faculty of Information Technology, offering 10-semester B.Sc.degree programs in Information Technol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Business%20Network | Global Business Network (GBN) was a consulting firm that specialized in helping organizations adapt and grow in a changing world. The firm was particularly well known for using tools such as scenario planning and also offered experiential learning with networks of experts and futurists (dubbed "Remarkable People", or RPs).
GBN advised businesses, non-profits, and governments on how to address critical challenges and anticipate possible trends that could shape the future.
Originally an independent firm, GBN became part of the Monitor Group in 2000, which was in turn acquired by Deloitte. GBN was based in San Francisco and had offices in New York City, London, and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
History
GBN was founded in Berkeley, California, in 1987 by a group of entrepreneurs including Peter Schwartz, Jay Ogilvy, Stewart Brand, Napier Collyns, and Lawrence Wilkinson. The company grew to include a core group of "practice members", and over a hundred individual network members (or "RPs") from a range of different fields, such as Wired editor Kevin Kelly, social media expert Clay Shirky, anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, economist Aidan Eyakuze, musician Brian Eno, biotechnologist Rob Carlson, and China scholar Orville Schell.
For its first 15 years, corporate clients would pay an annual subscription of up to $40,000 to become members of GBN's "Worldview". In return, they received exposure to the network of experts, were invited to workshops and interactive meetings to explore emerging trends and alternative futures, while gaining access to training seminars, a private website, and the GBN Book Club, offering a selection of literature about future issues each month. After its acquisition by Monitor in 2000, GBN soon stopped offering this membership service, concentrating instead on scenario-based consulting and training.
Before GBN, Peter Schwartz had been employed at SRI International as director of the Strategic Environment Center; following that, he took a position as head of scenario planning at Royal Dutch/Shell, from 1982 to 1986, where he continued the pioneering work of Pierre Wack in the field of scenario planning.
GBN ceased to be an active entity following the acquisition of the Monitor Group by Deloitte in January 2013.
Scenario planning
Unlike forecasting which extrapolates past and present trends to predict the future, scenario planning is a process for exploring alternative, plausible, possible futures and what those might mean for strategies, policies, and decisions. Scenario planning was first used by the military in World War II and then by Herman Kahn at RAND (“Thinking the Unthinkable”) during the Cold War, before being adapted to inform corporate strategy by Pierre Wack and other business strategists at Royal Dutch/Shell in the 1970s. The key principles of scenario planning include thinking from the outside in about the forces in the contextual environment that are driving change, engaging multiple perspectives to identif |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogo%20%28disambiguation%29 | Sogo is a department store chain that operates an extensive network of branches, primarily in Japan.
Sogo may also refer to:
Companies and organizations
Hotel Sogo, a hotel chain in the Philippines
NHK General TV, known as NHK Sōgō in Japanese
Pacific Sogo, a department store chain in Taiwan and mainland China
SOGo, an open source collaborative software server
Sogo Hong Kong, department stores in Hong Kong and China
Sogo & Seibu, a Japanese retail company
Sogo shosha, Japanese general trading companies
Sogou, traded on the NYSE as SOGO, an internet company in China
People
Shinji Sogō (1884–1981), president of Japanese National Railways
Sogō Kazumasa (1532–1561), Japanese samurai
Sōgo Ishii (born 1957), Japanese film director
Other uses
Sogo, a fictional city in Barbarella (comics)
Sogo, a small Korean hand drum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Aaron%20Woods | William Aaron Woods (born June 17, 1942), generally known as Bill Woods, is a researcher in natural language processing, continuous speech understanding, knowledge representation, and knowledge-based search technology. He is currently a Software Engineer at Google.
Education
Woods received a bachelor's degree from Ohio Wesleyan University (1964) and a Master's (1965) and Ph.D. (1968) in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University, where he then served as an Assistant Professor and later as a Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science.
Research
Woods built one of the first natural language question answering systems (LUNAR) to answer questions about the Apollo 11 Moon rocks for the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center while he was at Bolt Beranek and Newman (BBN) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At BBN, he was a Principal Scientist and manager of the Artificial Intelligence Department in the '70's and early '80's. He was the principal investigator for BBN's early work in natural language processing and knowledge representation and for its first project in continuous speech understanding. Subsequently, he was Chief Scientist for Applied Expert Systems and Principal Technologist for ON Technology, Cambridge start-ups. In 1991, he joined Sun Microsystems Laboratories as a Principal Scientist and Distinguished Engineer, and in 2007, he joined ITA Software as a Distinguished Software Engineer. ITA was acquired by Google in 2011, where he now works.
Woods' 1975 paper "What's in a Link" is a widely cited critical review of early work in semantic networks. This paper has been cited in the context of querying and natural language processing approaches that make use of Semantic Networks and general knowledge modeling. The paper attempts to clarify notions of meaning and semantics in computational systems. Woods further elaborated on the issues and how they relate to contemporary systems in "Meaning and Links" (2007).
Awards
Woods has received many honors:
1978, Fulbright Fellowship
1990, Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence
1992, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
2010, Association for Computational Linguistics Lifetime Achievement Award
Selected works
"The Lunar Sciences Natural Language Information System: Final Report" (with R. M. Kaplan and B.L. Nash-Webber), BBN Report No. 2378, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge, MA 02138, June, 1972. (Available from NTIS as N72-28984.)
Speech-Understanding Systems: Final Report of a Study Group, (with A. Newell, chairman, et al. .), North-Holland/American Elsevier, 1973.
"An Experimental parsing System for Transition Network Grammars", in R. Rustin (ed.), Natural Language Processing, New York: Algorithmics Press, 1973.
"Progress in Natural Language Understanding: An Application to Lunar Geology," AFIPS Conference Proceedings 42 (1973 National Computer Conference and Exposition).
"What's in a Link: Foundations for Semantic Networks" i |
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