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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20social%20networking | Enterprise social networking focuses on the use of online social networks or social relations among people who share business interests and/or activities. Enterprise social networking is often a facility of enterprise social software (regarded as a primary component of Enterprise 2.0), which is essentially social software used in "enterprise" (business/commercial) contexts. It encompasses modifications to corporate intranets (referred to as social intranets) and other classic software platforms used by large companies to organize their communication, collaboration and other aspects of their intranets. Enterprise social networking is also generally thought to include the use of a standard external social networking service to generate visibility for an enterprise.
History
Social networking sites started to form in the 1990s; an example of these websites is Theglobe.com, which began in 1995. As other websites such as GeoCities and Tripod.com started to form online communities, they encouraged their users to interact with each other via chat rooms and other tools. They also provided easy-to-use publishing tools along with free web space. Classmates.com’s approach was to link people together via their emails, the website was like a friends search engine.
Businesses eventually realized that social networking websites could provide a fast and efficient way of marketing. Social media websites are great places for businesses to reach their customers, and the environment can provide a means for growing a business.
In 2005, as social networking websites were becoming more and more popular, Myspace had more page views than Google. Myspace was followed by Facebook which started in February 2004.
When Facebook began, users were limited to college students in the United States, who had to use a college email with a .edu extension to join the network. In September 2005 some high schools were allowed to join the network, but they needed an invitation to join. On September 26 of 2006, Facebook announced that anyone around the world older than 13 years old with a valid email would be able to join
Facebook’s online community.
In October 2007, Microsoft purchased a 1.6% share of Facebook. That gave them the right to place international ads on Facebook. In July 2010 it was reported that Facebook had more than 500 million active users. This means that one out of fourteen people around the world is a Facebook user.
The growth of Facebook was a boom in the social networking space. Facebook became a huge corporation that had 1400 employees in 2009; their estimated revenue was US$800 million in 2009. In 2010, it was reported that there were more than 200 social networking websites on the web.
Business impacts
Companies such as Jive Software and IBM have recently been doing research to see how social networking can impact enterprise networks. Different companies have embraced social networking and they are creating their own internal social networking sites. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelsey%20Nixon | Kelsey Nixon is an American cook and television personality. In 2008, she came in fourth place on the fourth season of the Food Network series Food Network Star. She hosted the Cooking Channel series Kelsey's Essentials, which ran for five seasons from 2010 to 2013. In 2015 she hosted the show Kelsey's Homemade, again on the Cooking Channel, which ran for one season.
Early life and career
Kelsey Nixon attended Brigham Young University with a degree in Broadcast Journalism. While she was still in college, she created her own cooking show, Kelsey’s Kitchen, eventually hosting and producing 100 episodes over 2 years. After graduating, she then earned a professional culinary arts degree at Le Cordon Bleu – Hollywood, and later received additional training at the French Culinary Institute. She also interned at Martha Stewart Living and The Food Network series, Semi-Homemade with Sandra Lee.
Television
Nixon was voted "fan favorite" and finished in fourth place in the fourth season of the Food Network series Food Network Star.
Kelsey's Essentials premiered on November 6, 2010, on the Cooking Channel, a sister network of Food Network. It ran for five seasons, until 2013. Nixon received a 2013 Daytime Emmy nomination in the Outstanding Culinary Host Category.
In 2015 she hosted the Cooking Channel show Kelsey's Homemade, which ran for six episodes.
Personal life
Nixon married Robby Egan in 2008 and gave birth to a son, Oliver, on June 24, 2012. Nixon and Egan had a second son, Leo Ezra Egan, in March 2015, who was born prematurely and died soon after. Nixon and her husband welcomed a baby girl, Nora Elizabeth, born on November 21, 2016 via gestational surrogate. Their fourth child, Penelope Kathryn, was born in 2020 also via surrogate.
References
External links
1980s births
American television chefs
Brigham Young University alumni
Food Network chefs
Food Network Star contestants
Living people
People from North Ogden, Utah
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women chefs
Chefs from Utah |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20Venue%20Pro | The Dell Venue Pro, codenamed Lightning, was a smartphone running the Windows Phone operating system. The phone used the T-Mobile network, but was only available for purchase at Microsoft retail stores or directly from Dell.
The launch of the phone suffered multiple setbacks, due to many technical and logistics issues, with poor communication between Dell and its customers. In March 2012, Dell stopped production of Venue Pro smartphones.
It was being priced with $99.99 on 2-year contract (8GB), $149.99 on 2-year contract (16GB), $449.99 off contract (8GB) and $499.99 off contract (16GB).
In the USA, it was being available on carriers such as T-Mobile USA; AT&T; Cincinnati Bell Wireless
Launch
The phone was codenamed 'Lightning', and was leaked to the Internet on April 21, 2010.
Despite being cited as a launch partner for Windows Phone headsets early in July, the phone was not widely on sale in the United States on the launch day, unlike phones from other launch partners, such as Samsung Focus and three other phones by HTC.
On October 11, in an official statement, Dell announced the phone to be available in the U.S. in holiday season of 2010. On November 8, Windows Phone was launched, and a very limited quantity of Venue Pros were available for purchase only in the seven Microsoft stores in the U.S. However, some early adopters of the phone received defective phones with Wi-Fi issues, SIM card issues, faulty headphone jack, and batteries marked as "Engineering Sample". Despite Dell urging users to return the phones, no phones were available in stock for exchange, and phones were not reshipped on November 19 as claimed.
After missing both the States-wide launch on November 8 and the online launch on November 15, Dell announced that they were "ramping up production" and intended to launch the phone on a bigger scale.
On December 1, Dell reintroduced the phone and began taking orders. Customers were given a shipping date of December 15. However, a day before the estimated shipping date, customers were informed that the shipping date was pushed further until January 6, 2011, two months after its intended launch date, as the phones "were being reworked in the factories". This caused user uproar in many Windows Phone communities.
On December 16, Dell issued a new notice to assure that orders received before December 14 would be shipped before Christmas with an overnight shipping upgrade and a free gift. However, the Estimated Delivery Date of the orders were not updated until a couple days later, causing confusion amongst anticipating customers. Several customers who ordered on a later date received phones before those who ordered earlier. The promised shipping upgrade was also not fulfilled for many customers.
On February 3, 2011, Dell launched Venue Pro in India. The launch price of Dell Venue was Rs. 34,990.
On September 23, 2011, Dell posted that the Dell Venue Pro will get the Mango update "later this fall" on the unlocked Cincinnati Bel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20says%20no | "Computer says no" is a catchphrase first used in the British sketch comedy television programme Little Britain in 2004. In British culture, the phrase is used to criticise public-facing organisations and customer service staff who rely on information stored on or generated by a computer to make decisions and respond to customers' requests, often in a manner which goes against common sense. It may also refer to a deliberately unhelpful attitude towards customers and service-users commonly experienced within British society, whereby more could be done to reach a mutually satisfactory outcome, but is not.
Little Britain
In Little Britain, "Computer says no" is the catchphrase of Carol Beer (played by David Walliams), a bank worker and later holiday rep and hospital receptionist, who always responds to a customer's enquiry by typing it into her computer and responding with "Computer says no" to even the most reasonable of requests. When asked to do something aside from asking the computer, she would shrug and remain obstinate in her unhelpfulness, and ultimately cough in the customer's face. The phrase was also used in the Australian soap opera Neighbours in 2006 as a reference to Little Britain.
The catchphrase returns in Little Brexit, where Carol is still working at Sunsearchers as a holiday rep, confronted by a woman wanting to go to Europe. Carol uses the paraphrase "Brexit Says No", when the woman wants to go to France, Spain and Italy.
Usage
The "Computer says no" attitude often comes from larger companies that rely on information stored electronically. When this information is not updated, it can often lead to refusals of financial products or incorrect information being sent out to customers. These situations can often be resolved by an employee updating the information; however, when this cannot be done easily, the "Computer says no" attitude can be viewed as becoming prevalent when there is unhelpfulness as a result. This attitude can also occur when an employee fails to read human emotion in the customer and reacts according to his or her professional training or relies upon a script. This attitude also crops up when larger companies rely on computer credit scores and do not meet with a customer to discuss his or her individual needs, instead basing a decision upon information stored in computers. Some organisations attempt to offset this attitude by moving away from reliance on electronic information and using a human approach towards requests.
"Computer says no" happens in a more literal sense when computer systems employ filters that prevent messages being passed along, as when these messages are perceived to include obscenities. When information is not passed through to the person operating the computer, decisions may be made without seeing the whole picture.
See also
Computers Don't Argue
Jobsworth
Garbage in, garbage out
References
Comedy catchphrases
Computer humor
Computers
Customer service
English phrases
Little Bri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Armorer | Sir Nicholas Armorer (c.1620–1686) was a Royalist army officer during the English Civil War. During the Interregnum he was an active Royalist conspirator who ran a spy network in England and helped to foment insurrection against the Commonwealth and the Protectorate. He took part in Booth's Rebellion in 1659 and was forced to flee back to the continent when the uprising failed.
After the restoration of the monarchy as a reward for his services to Charles II he was made appointed equerry in ordinary to the hunting stable. In 1662 he was given several parcels of land confiscated from members of the former regime, and was granted the monopoly on the import of horses for the king's use. In the same year he was also knighted.
Towards the end of the Civil War he had spent some time in Ireland, and after the Restoration he spent much of his time there, as he had been under the patronage of Duke of Ormond during his time in exile, and continued to do so under the Restoration: he was appointed a captain in the Irish Guards and lieutenant-governor of Fort Duncannon.
Notes
References
Cavaliers
1686 deaths
Year of birth uncertain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris%20Willis | Boris Willis (born October 9, 1967) is Chief Artistic Officer of Boris Willis Moves and Associate Professor of Computer Game Design at George Mason University. Willis' work has been presented both nationally and internationally. He is the recipient of the 2003 Kennedy Center Local Dance Commission and 2004 Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship in Choreography. He founded the dance troupe "Boris Willis Moves" in 2003. Willis is most commonly known for his work, Dance-A-Day, in which he creates a piece every day by dancing in public places and posting video to his Dance-A-Day blog.
Willis has also performed with Liz Lerman/Dance Exchange, Streb, Edgeworks Dance Theater and City Dance Ensemble. His video work has been presented with frequent collaborator Sharon Mansur and Anatomical Scenario/ Anna and the Annadroids.
References
American male dancers
Living people
1967 births
George Mason University faculty
20th-century American dancers
21st-century American dancers
African-American male dancers
20th-century African-American people
21st-century African-American people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winners%20%26%20Losers | Winners & Losers is an Australian television drama series first broadcast on the Seven Network on 22 March 2011. It was created by the producers of Packed to the Rafters and is aired in the show's former time slot. Winners & Losers focuses on the lives of four women living in Melbourne, after they win a large amount of money in the Oz Lotto. Seven renewed Winners & Losers for a second season in July 2011 and it began airing from 26 June 2012. Two months later, it was announced the series had been renewed for a third season. A fourth season was confirmed on 19 December 2013. A fifth season was confirmed on 3 December 2014.
Angus Ross, the Director of Programming at the Seven Network, confirmed in an interview with Australian television blog TV Tonight that the fifth season of Winners & Losers would be the final season. The season premiered on 5 July 2016 and concluded on 12 September 2016.
Plot
The series revolves around the lives of four women: Jenny Gross (Melissa Bergland), Bec Gilbert (Zoe Tuckwell-Smith), Frances James (Virginia Gay) and Sophie Wong (Melanie Vallejo). The girls were "the losers" in high school. Ten years later, they realise they are really winners once they are reunited at their school reunion and afterwards, win the Oz Lotto.
Cast
Regular
Melissa Bergland as Jenny Gross
Virginia Gay as Frances James
Melanie Vallejo as Sophie Wong
Zoe Tuckwell-Smith as Bec Gilbert (series 1–4)
Sarah Grace as Bridget Gross
Paul Moore as Wes Fitzpatrick
Nick Russell as Gabe Reynolds (series 3–5)
Nathin Butler as Luke MacKenzie (series 3–5)
James Saunders as Pete Reeves (series 3–5)
Demi Harman as Riley Hart (series 5)
Scott Smart as Alex MacKenzie (series 5)
Tom Wren as Doug Graham (series 1–4)
Denise Scott as Trish Gross (series 1–5)
Francis Greenslade as Brian Gross (series 1–5)
Jack Pearson as Patrick Gross (series 1–4)
Damien Bodie as Jonathan Kurtiss (series 1–3)
Stephen Phillips as Zach Armstrong (series 1–3)
Mike Smith as Callum Gilbert (series 1–3)
Blair McDonough as Matt O'Connor (series 1–2)
Tom Hobbs as Flynn Johnson (series 2–3)
Katherine Hicks as Sam MacKenzie (series 2–4)
Sibylla Budd as Carla Hughes (series 3–4)
Laura Gordon as Izzy Hughes (series 4)
Recurring
Anne Phelan as Dot Gross (series 2–4)
Madeleine West as Deirdre Gross (series 1)
PiaGrace Moon as Jasmine Patterson (series 1–4)
Nell Feeney as Carolyn Gilbert (series 1–4)
Nick Simpson-Deeks as Rhys Mitchell (series 1–3)
Greg Stone as Steve Gilbert (series 1–3)
Michala Banas as Tiffany Turner (series 1–2, 5)
Natalie Saleeba as Claire Armstrong (series 1–2)
Luke Arnold as Lachie Clarke (series 2)
Peta Sergeant as Cat Johnson (series 2)
Thomas Lacey as Ollie Masters (series 2)
Dieter Brummer as Jason Ross (series 3–4)
David Paterson as Ryan Sharrock (series 3)
Ben Geurens as Adam Grabowski (series 3)
Luke McKenzie as Shannon Taylor (series 3)
Ryan Hayward as Brett Tully (series 3)
Dan O'Connor as Nate Simpson (series 3)
Anna Sams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20Shop%2018 | HomeShop18 was an Indian online and on-air shopping channel. Previously, it was owned by the Network 18 Group division of Reliance Industries.
But, now it was closed by Network 18 Group on 24 May 2019. According to close sources, there is news of the re-opening of HomeShop18 with a new name in 2023.
Investors
GS Home Shopping of South Korea, the third-largest and dominant home shopping company in the e-commerce market, has a 1.89% stake in the company. Skyblue Buildwell Pvt. Ltd. has the controlling stake of 16%.
Television channel
The HomeShop18 television channel was launched on 9 April 2008. The television network can be currently seen on cable, satellite and some terrestrial channels in India.
It also became the country's first ever 24/7 home shopping channel to be available on DD Free Dish reach, a free-to-air direct-to-home (DTH) broadcasting platform of Prasar Bharati. The channel was made available from 1 November 2015.
Acquisitions
HomeShop18 has acquired two companies, namely, Coinjoos.com and Shop CJ Network. Coinjoos was acquired in 2011 and Shop CJ Network was acquired in 2017. Coinjoos was an online music and books retailer and Shop CJ Network was a home shopping channel.
Carriage
HomeShop18 TV channel is available to all cable operators & leading DTH players except DishTV: Tata Sky-151, Reliance- 219, Airtel- 112, DD Free Dish-45.
References
Companies based in Noida
Shopping networks
Online retailers of India
Retail companies established in 2008
Retail companies disestablished in 2019
2008 establishments in Uttar Pradesh
Indian companies established in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-user%20%28disambiguation%29 | An end-user is a person who uses a commercial product or service.
End-user or end user may also refer to:
User (computing), a person or software using an information system
Consumer, a person or group using commercial products or services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un%20Amor%20de%20Pel%C3%ADcula | Un Amor de Película (Love Just Like in the Movies) is a Spanish-language telenovela to be produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami.
Telemundo will air the serial from Monday to Friday during the 2011-2012 season. As with most of its other telenovelas, the network broadcasts English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.
References
Spanish-language telenovelas
Television pilots not picked up as a series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack.lu | hack.lu (also written as HACKLU) is a yearly computer security conference held in Luxembourg that brings together a variety of people interested in information security. It's organized by the Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg (CIRCL), the country's CERT for the private sector, communes and non-governmental entities.
History
The first conference was organized in 2005 and held its 10th edition in 2014. In the scope of European information security conferences, hack.lu is one of the oldest conferences running.
Content and organisation
Where other conferences often provide day-long training sessions, Hack.lu chooses a different model by filling its first few days with workshops, enforcing a strong focus on practical things. The aim of the convention is to make a bridge of the various actors in the computer security world, by discussing and presenting on topics like computer security, privacy, information technology and its cultural/technical implication on society.
CTF
Since the first conference a capture the flag event has been organized.
In recent years FluxFingers from Ruhr-University Bochum are the event organizers, for the 5th time in 2014. The event usually lasts 48h with the possibility to participate remotely. But only teams who have one person physically present will be able to claim for prize. More than 400 people participated in 2013.
References
External links
hack.lu official website
Computer security conferences
Annual events in Luxembourg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veritas%20Preparatory%20Academy | Veritas Preparatory Academy is a charter school in Phoenix, Arizona centered around classical education and is a member of the Great Hearts Academies charter network.
School philosophy
As a charter school, Veritas Prep offers a Great Books education centering on fundamental texts in the Western canon. Veritas Prep's philosophy includes small class sizes that reach up to 30 students and education using the Socratic method. While at school, students are prohibited from mentioning anything seen as “Pop culture” focusing rather on classical texts and works such as those of Plato, Aristotle, and other canonical philosophers of the Western tradition.
Teachers ask questions, and prompt them to think deeply about the subject matter. A key idea or assignment might require that the teacher present material to the class, but the forward progress of the class is driven by the questions that the teacher asks of the students, the answers that they give, and the further questions that those answers inspire.
Curriculum overview
All students seeking graduation from Veritas Preparatory Academy must take at least one course in Latin. While high school students have the opportunity to choose between Spanish, French, and Latin / Ancient Greek, all 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students take Latin.
High school students are required to take one year (with an extra optional year) of honors physics, including kinetics, dynamics, electricity, magnetism, mechanical waves, light, and sound. Students also take a year of honors chemistry, honors biology, as well as natural, life, and earth science. These courses are taken alongside one year of honors calculus (calculus II is optional), honors Euclidean Geometry, and honors algebra II/trig.
Throughout middle and high school, students take five years of music, three years of studio art, and one year of honors economics, drama, and poetry. Students were forbidden from choosing their own classes with the exception of a foreign language. As of the 2020–2019 school year, students were given some electives in the high school.
Uniform
Veritas Prep uniform requires a blue or white shirt with the Veritas logo badge for all students, and a plaid skirt for girls or Khaki shorts or pants for boys. Boys are required to wear pants from fall break to spring break. All students 7th grade and above must wear black Dress shoes and black Dress socks. Boys’ hair must not grow over their ears which is a Controversy of Great Hearts Academies.
Admission
As a charter school in Arizona, Veritas Preparatory Academy has no entrance requirements but limited enrollment. Interested families must apply for the school's annual admissions lottery, which takes place in the spring of each school year.
However, if a family has one child enrolled, any other children automatically receive a spot. Software designed by alumnus Joseph Irvine is used to perform these lotteries randomly.
Achievements
Veritas Prep students outscored peers in every country in t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer%20Day | Spencer Day (born June 28, 1978) is a modern jazz singer and songwriter best known for his hit Jazz single "Till You Come to Me" as well as appearing on the CBS television network show Star Search in 2002–2003.
He has released six studio albums to date. His latest album Broadway By Day, funded through a PayPal crowdfunding campaign and originally set for a late 2019 release, will be released in Fall 2021.
Early life
Spencer Day was born on June 28, 1978, in a small town in Utah. Growing up, Day said, his mother wanted to get him involved in singing, but he was not interested. Following his parents' separation, he lived with his grandparents in Arizona. After working at a gas station, he moved to California. When he was 20, his roommate heard him singing in the shower and suggested he take lessons. Day took the advice, and he began studying piano seriously. Mostly self-taught, Day sang and played piano at bars and retirement homes, typically playing jazz standards.
Career
Star Search, debut album, and Movie of Your Life
In 2002, he auditioned and was selected to compete on the CBS television network show Star Search. Day soon made it to the semi-finals against singers Ugochi Nwaogwugwu and Nikki Kimbrough for the Adult Singer category, eventually moving onto the finals against Adult Singer Jake Simpson, Junior Singers Tiffany Evans and Lisa Tucker, Comedians Loni Love and John Roy, and Models Porschla Coleman and Candace Campfield. Following the show, his cover of "What a Wonderful World" was released as a single alongside Tiffany Evans's "There's a Winner in You." In 2004, he released his debut album Introducing Spencer Day, which featured his love of jazz standards.
His second album Movie of Your Life the following year featured his own songs and the title track won San Francisco Academy of Art University's 2005 competition for best original song. Dolby Laboratories chose the video version of the song for use in its global launch of the Dolby 7.1 system. The same year, he collaborated with improvisation actor Rafe Chase on a 20-song musical revue, Someday, Love, which premiered at San Francisco's New Conservatory Theatre Center. In addition to writing the score, Day also starred in the show.
Day performed at the 2007 San Francisco Jazz Festival, and has been a recurring headliner in a number of high-profile Bay Area clubs, including Yoshi's, Plush Room, Great American Music Hall and the Herbst Theatre. On the opposite coast, he has earned raves for performances at the Town Hall, Joe's Pub and the Canal Room in New York City, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. He has also appeared at both the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Tanglewood Jazz Festival.
In March 2008, Day opened for Rufus Wainwright at the Napa Valley Opera House.
He appeared at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival in the summer of 2008. Of Day's Tanglewood performance of Mel Tormé's "Born to be Blue" with Marian McPartland on piano, NPR's David Lyon said he "can croon with the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Technology%20Transfer%20Network | National Technology Transfer Network (NTTN), (), () within technology transfer, is built according to the methodology and models of European Innovation Relay Centers — IRC network (EEN — since 2008), Russian Technology Transfer Network RTTN and Ukrainian Technology Transfer Network UTTN.
The project of creating the network is intended to unify informational resources of state, public, and private innovation structures of Ukraine, companies, institutions, and organizations into one technology transfer network and its further integration into the European Network EEN.
As of October 3, 2017, 61 entities are members of the NTTN network.
The main objectives
Transfer of technologies, know-how between science sectors and industry.
Search for partners and investors for cooperation to develop and implement scientific advanced technology product in Ukraine and abroad.
Organization of NTTN cooperation with Russian, Belarusian and other international technology transfer networks.
References
External links
Website
uk
Science and technology in Ukraine
Scientific organizations based in Ukraine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offspring%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of Offspring, an Australian drama television series, began airing on 15 August 2010 on Network Ten. The season concluded on 21 November 2010 after 13 episodes and the Pilot – Telemovie.
Offspring is the story of the impossible loves of 30-something obstetrician Nina Proudman (Asher Keddie), and her fabulously messy family, as they navigate the chaos of modern life. The show mixes conventional narrative drama with flashbacks, graphic animation and fantasy sequences.
The first series aired Sundays at 8:30 pm in Australia. The season was released on DVD as a five disc set under the title of Offspring: The Complete First Series and Feature-Length Telemovie on 1 December 2010.
On 21 November 2010, Network Ten aired the final two episodes as a two-hour season finale as two parts. However the episodes have been released separately on iTunes and on the DVD release of Series 1.
Cast
Regular
Asher Keddie as Nina Proudman
Kat Stewart as Billie Proudman
Don Hany as Chris Havel
Deborah Mailman as Cherie Butterfield
Eddie Perfect as Mick Holland
Richard Davies as Jimmy Proudman
Linda Cropper as Geraldine Proudman
and John Waters as Darcy Proudman
Recurring
Jane Harber as Zara Perkich
Alicia Gardiner as Kim Akerholt
Lachy Hulme as Martin Clegg
Leah De Niese as Odile
Christopher Morris as Brendan Wright
Marta Kaczmarek as Sonja
John Wood as Gareth Butterfield
Damon Herriman as Boyd Carlisle
Kestie Morassi as Ivy
Kate Atkinson as Renee
Kate Box as Alice Havel
Sacha Horler as Stacey
Matilda Brown as Chloe Fraser
Paul Denny as Sam Jenkins
Archie Flegeltaub as Ray Proudman
Tahlia Accornero as Lucy Havel
Guest stars
Ian "Dicko" Dickson as Ian "Dicko" Dickson
Brian Mannix as Guitar Man
Shaun Micallef as Lachlan
Episodes
DVD release
References
2010 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayan%20Rajapakse | Chaminda Dayan Rajapakse, MBCS, MIEEE, MCS (SL) (8 October 1972 – ) is a Sri Lankan physician, teacher, and businessman. He is the managing director of ESOFT Computer Studies Pvt Ltd (ESOFT), which is a private sector educational institute in Sri Lanka.
Educated at Maliyadeva College, Kurunegala; he graduated from the University of Colombo with a MBBS in 1999.
In the year 2000, he established ESOFT Computer Studies Pvt ltd., where he conducts lectures for several undergraduate programmes including the University of Colombo School of Computing BIT external Degree, and the BCS Higher Education Qualifications.
In 2009, he was elected to the post of Student Counselor of the Computer Society of Sri Lanka for which post he was re-elected for the year 2010. At the AGM held on 10 December 2010, Dr. Dayan was elected as a Council Member for the year 2011.
Another area of interest for him is the advancement of knowledge and learning among the young generation in Sri Lanka as he believes that this is the best way to develop Sri Lanka as a country.
References
Sinhalese people
Sri Lankan medical doctors
Sinhalese businesspeople
Sinhalese educators
1972 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Colombo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer%20Stream | The Acer Stream is a smartphone manufactured by Acer Inc. and powered by the Android 2.1 operating system. It has 3.7” AMOLED capacitive multi-touchscreen. It was announced at Computex 2010.
Hardware
The smartphone is shipped with the Android 2.1 "Eclair" operating system. It features a 3.7-inch AMOLED capacitive touchscreen with WVGA resolution, 5-megapixel camera capable with automatic geotagging supported by the integrated Assisted GPS antenna and digital compass.
The device is upgradable and powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 1 gigahertz processor and 512 megabytes random access memory. It also has 512 megabytes of read-only memory alongside its 2 gigabytes internal memory backed up with a microSD card slot capable of offering up to 32 gigabytes of expandable storage memory with 8 gigabytes included respectively.
Acer Stream support 720p video streaming via miniHDMI port and Dolby Mobile.
Software
The Acer Stream runs the Android operating system and integrated third party applications such as Facebook and Twitter social networks, and photo and video sharing abilities through Flickr and YouTube respectively. Other applications available include full HTML browser abilities for the Web, Google Search, Maps and Mail respectively, and a document viewer which opens Microsoft Office and PDF documents.
Acer Spinlet
"Acer spinlet" is a pre-installed application to browse and listen to songs for free that can be instantly played back on the handset or shared with social networks such as Facebook or Twitter.
Acer urFooz
"Acer urFooz" is a pre-installed application to create a virtual lookalike to post on social networks
Software updates
The Android 2.2 (FroYo) update was released.
See also
List of Android devices
Galaxy Nexus
References
External links
Spinlet page
Official Acer Stream features video
Stream
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20audio | Semantic audio is the extraction of meaning from audio signals. The field of semantic audio is primarily based around the analysis of audio to create some meaningful metadata, which can then be used in a variety of different ways.
Semantic Analysis
Semantic analysis of audio is performed to reveal some deeper understanding of an audio signal. This typically results in high-level metadata descriptors such as musical chords and tempo, or the identification of the individual speaking, to facilitate content-based management of audio recordings. In recent years, the growth of automatic data analysis techniques has grown considerably,
Music Information Retrieval
Sound recognition
Speech segmentation
Automatic music transcription
Blind source separation
Musical similarity
Audio indexing, hashing, searching
Broadcast Monitoring
Musical performance analysis
Applications
With the development of applications that use this semantic information to support the user in identifying, organising, and exploring audio signals, and interacting with them. These applications include music information retrieval, semantic web technologies, audio production, sound reproduction, education, and gaming. Semantic technology involves some kind of understanding of the meaning of the information it deals with and to this end may incorporate machine learning, digital signal processing, speech processing, source separation, perceptual models of hearing, musicological knowledge, metadata, and ontologies.
Aside from audio retrieval and recommendation technologies, the semantics of audio signals are also becoming increasingly important, for instance, in object-based audio coding, as well as intelligent audio editing, and processing. Recent product releases already demonstrate this to a great extent, however, more innovative functionalities relying on semantic audio analysis and management are imminent. These functionalities may utilise, for instance, (informed) audio source separation, speaker segmentation and identification, structural music segmentation, or social and Semantic Web technologies, including ontologies and linked open data.
Speech recognition is an important semantic audio application. But for speech, other semantic operations include language identification, speaker identification or gender identification. For more general audio or music, it includes identifying a piece of music (e.g. Shazam (service)) or a movie soundtrack.
Areas of research in semantic audio include the ability to label an audio waveform with where the harmonies change and what they are and where material is repeated and what instruments are playing.
Semantic Audio and the Semantic Web
The Semantic Web provides a powerful framework for the expression and reuse of structured data. The use and storage of semantic audio descriptors in the semantic web framework, allows for a much greater reach and unifying standard for storing and managing associated semantic audio metadata. A number |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy%20of%20Neonatal%20Nursing |
Founder
Charles Rait is the founder of Neonatal Network (1981) and the National Association of Neonatal Nurse (1984). He is the originator of the Academy of Neonatal Nursing (2001). He also has done hundreds or educational conferences and learning programs sponsored through these organizations.
History
The Academy of Neonatal Nursing (ANN) is a professional organization in the United States for neonatal nurses. It was established on February 6, 2001 and has approximately 6,000 members. The organization is supporter of the Foundation for Neonatal Research and Education (FNRE).
Mission
The mission of the Academy of Neonatal Nursing is to provide neonatal education and programs to health care professionals caring for neonatal and their families.
What the Academy of Neonatal Nursing Does
The mission is achieved through professional, peer-reviewed publications (Neonatal Network: The Journal of Neonatal Nursing), educational conferences, and offering books and other materials to neonatal health care professionals.
Executive committee
ANN is governed by an Executive Committee. Members of this committee are:
Debbie Fraser,
Julieanne Schiefelbein,
Denise L. Zimmerman,
Tina Scott,
AnnMarie Barber,
Karen D'Apolito,
Sean G. Smith,
Publications
ANN's primary publication is Neonatal Network: The Journal of Neonatal Nursing, published bimonthly. It has approximately 10,000 subscribers, including over 1,000 American neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The peer-reviewed journal was established in 1981 and publishes articles on clinical practice, research and nursing education.
Continuing education
ANN is an accredited source for continuing education in nursing in the US. It runs three educational conferences per year: one for advanced-practice neonatal nurses, one for neonatal nurses in general, and one for mother-baby nurses. ANN also supports nursing research and education through the Foundation for Neonatal Research and Education.
See also
Neonatal Nursing Hall of Fame
References
External links
Official website
Nursing organizations in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in California
Neonatology
Hospital nursing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal%20Network | Neonatal Network: The Journal of Neonatal Nursing is a bimonthly peer-reviewed healthcare journal on neonatal nursing. It is the official journal of the Academy of Neonatal Nursing and is published by Springer Publishing. Neonatal Network was established in 1981. , the editor-in-chief is Debbie Fraser.
Abstracting and indexing
Neonatal Network is indexed or abstracted in CINAHL, Web of Science ESCI, the International Nursing Index, Index Medicus, and RNdex Top 100.
See also
List of nursing journals
References
External links
Pediatric nursing journals
Academic journals established in 1981
Bimonthly journals
English-language journals
Springer Publishing academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20F.%20Tapsell | R. F. (Robert Frederick) Tapsell was an English author born in 1936, in Croydon, Surrey (now South London). Tapsell wrote three historical novels and was the editor (compiler) of a single non-fiction book on royal family dynasties. During his National Service in the British Royal Air Force (RAF) he was trained as a Russian Language interpreter. Later, Tapsell worked in military intelligence, specializing in Eastern Europe. After demobilization he worked in an insurance company and as a shipping clerk, while preparing himself for college. In 1960 he began studying at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at London University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in History in 1963. In 1964 he married Shirley Joan Fussell at Walton, Stafford, England. He also traveled extensively in Western Europe, the Balkans, Egypt and Iraq, and described himself as a "jack of many foreign languages, master of none". Tapsell then moved into academic administration, working at several British universities, including the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, before emigrating to Australia in 1974. He returned to the United Kingdom in 1982, where he died in April, 1984. He was survived by his widow and two sons.
Bibliography
Monarchs, Rulers, Dynasties and Kingdoms of the World: An Encyclopaedic Guide to More Than 13,000 Rulers and 1,000 Dynasties from 3000 BC to the 20th Century (1983)
Shadow of Wings (1972). A historical novel set around the rise of the Persian Empire. It starts with the career of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Persian Achaemenid Empire, but mainly deals with the rise to power of King of Kings Darius I (the Great).
The Unholy Pilgrim (1968). A historical novel centered on Tancred of Varville, a Norman knight on forced pilgrimage to Jerusalem who shipwrecks and is forced to fight for his survival and the hand of a beautiful woman.
The Year of the Horsetails (1967). A celebrated historical novel set on the Eurasian Steppe that follows the exploits of Bardiya, a Saka tribesman who is a fugitive from the dreaded Mongol-like Tugars. He is adopted by the Drevich, a Slav people whom he teaches to fight for their land against the Tugars.
External links
Amazon.com R. F. Tapsell page
References
1936 births
1984 deaths
Writers of historical fiction set in antiquity
20th-century English novelists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayside%20Church | Bayside Church is an Australia church in fellowship with Crosslink Christian Network. The church is based in the Melbourne Bayside suburbs of Cheltenham and Frankston. The church’s founding senior pastors are Rob and Christie Buckingham.
Whilst the headquarters of Bayside Church is in Cheltenham, the church is multi-location, with a congregation in Frankston also. In 2011, new premises were established in Carrum Downs which is located in the Frankston municipality (this closed in 2021).
History
In June 1992, Rob Buckingham started Bayside Church at WD Rose & Sons Funeral Chapel in Cheltenham. After a year, the church moved into a hall at Cheltenham Primary School. By 1994 a third move was made and Mentone Secondary College became Bayside’s home for seven years. During this time Bayside Church consisted of 300 congregational members.
In 1999, a printing factory in Cheltenham was purchased and building plans began for Bayside Church's permanent residence. The Bayside Centre opened in August 2000, home of Bayside Church Cheltenham location.
Bayside Church continued to grow to incorporate three services - Saturday night, Sunday morning and Sunday evening. In November 2005, a new location in Frankston opened kick-starting the vision of multi-locations in the Bayside suburbs.
Media
In 2002, a media production arm of Bayside Church was born. Bayside Media produces an engaging TV show "The Exchange". The Exchange is broadcast on C31 Melbourne, Australian Christian Channel as well as internationally on United Kingdom’s UCB. www.theexchangetv.com.au
Beliefs
Bayside Church is a non-denominational Pentecostal church which is affiliated with Crosslink Christian Network, an Australian based group of Churches and Christian Ministries. The Church’s beliefs are evangelical and Pentecostal in that they "wholeheartedly" believe that the Bible is the inspired, infallible and authoritative written Word of God (2 Tim 3:16; 2 Peter 1:19-21). They also hold that there is one God, eternally existent in three persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (Matt 28:19; 2 Cor 13:14), and that Jesus Christ, as the son of God, reconciled humanity through his death and resurrection and that everyone is invited to accept this gift of salvation. The Church also believes that salvation can only take place with the regenerative work of the Holy Spirit and that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is given to believers who ask. The Holy Spirit also gives supernatural gifts to believers.
Rob Buckingham
Until the age of 19, Rob Buckingham was a self-professed atheist and didn't think too highly of Christians. While hitchhiking around Australia, Rob had a near-death experience in a truck as it collided with another truck. Both the driver and Rob survived the ordeal, but the occupants in the other truck, unfortunately, didn't.
After leaving the hospital, Rob was invited to stay with the truck driver’s family. They were devout Christians and decided to challen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20magazines%20in%20Croatia | List of magazines in Croatia is an incomplete list of magazines published in Croatia.
Contemporary
Magazines
BUG (1992), monthly computer magazine
Drvo znanja (1998), monthly youth magazine
Globus (1990), weekly newsmagazine
Gloria (1994), weekly women's magazine
Hrvatska revija, quarterly magazine published by Matica hrvatska
Hrvatski vojnik (1991), weekly military magazine published by the Ministry of Defence
Modra lasta (1954), children's monthly
Nacional (1995), weekly
Novi Plamen (2007), political quarterly
Novosti, Serbian minority magazine
Oris (1999), magazine for architecture
PC Chip, monthly computer magazine
Republika (1945), monthly magazine for literature, art and society
Vidi (1994), monthly computer magazine
Vijenac (1993), biweekly magazine for literature, art and science published by Matica hrvatska
VP: Magazin za vojnu povijest (2011), monthly magazine about the history of war
Zarez (1999), biweekly magazine for literature, arts and culture
PLACE2GO (2006), travel magazine, quarterly
International magazines
Cosmopolitan
Elle
FHM
Forbes
FourFourTwo
GEO
Grazia
Men's Health
Le Monde diplomatique
National Geographic
Playboy
Reader's Digest
Defunct
Magazines
Computer
GamePlay
Literary
Kokot (1916-1918)
Music
Pop Express (1969-1970)
Politics
Feral Tribune (1993-2008)
Hrvatska ljevica (1993-2005)
Regional
Nedjeljna Dalmacija (1971-2002)
Tabloid
Slobodni tjednik (1990-1993)
Women's magazines
Mila (1988-2006)
Tena (1999-2008)
See also
Media in Croatia
List of newspapers in Croatia
References
Croatia
Magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fare%20%28disambiguation%29 | A fare is the fee paid by a passenger for use of a public transport system.
Fare or FARE may also refer to:
Organisations
Fare! (Act!), a 2015–2022 Italian political party
Fare network, an anti-discrimination initiative in European football
Food Allergy Research & Education, United States
Forces Alternatives pour le Renouveau et l'Emergence (Alternative Forces for Renewal and Emergence), a Malian political party
Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, Australia
Fuerza Aérea de la República Española, the Spanish Republican Air Force
Other uses
Fare, French Polynesia, a village on Huahine in the Society Islands, French Polynesia
The Fare, a 2018 mystery film
John Fare, a character in a 1968 story by N.B. Shein
See also
Fair (disambiguation)
Faire (disambiguation)
Fares (disambiguation)
La Fare (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Harvey%20%28bishop%29 | Donald Frederick Harvey (born 13 September 1939) is a Canadian Anglican bishop. He was the Moderator Bishop and director of the Anglican Network in Canada, a founding diocese of the Anglican Church in North America, from 2009 to 2014, and the Director of Anglican Essentials Canada. He was previously the Bishop of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador in the Anglican Church of Canada from 1993 to 2004.
Early life and family
Born in St John's, Newfoundland on 13 September 1939, Harvey was educated at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and, following a short period of service as a school teacher, ordained a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada in 1964. He published his M.A. dissertation in 1987 on the life and poetry of the Reverend John Keble, a founding member of the Anglo-Catholic movement, and lectured in English language and literature at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He also taught Pastoral Theology at Queen's College, also in St. John's, Newfoundland. The degree of Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa, was conferred on Harvey by Nashotah House in October 2009. He and his wife, Trudy, make their home in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Anglican Church of Canada
Harvey was an ACC priest for 30 years in various parishes in Newfoundland and Labrador, including Portugal Cove, Twillingate, King's Cove, Happy Valley, St. Michael and All Angels in St. John's and a six-year appointment as a university chaplain.
He became the Dean of the Cathedral of St John the Baptist,St. John's, Newfoundland in 1989. He was elevated to the ACC episcopate in 1993 as Bishop of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador. He opposed revisionist interpretations of the Bible that would lead to the acceptance of blessing of same-sex unions by the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster in 2002. He retired as a bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada in 2004 after 12 years.
Anglican Church in North America
In November 2007, Harvey relinquished his ministry in the Anglican Church of Canada pursuant to Canon XIX of the General Synod, and was received into the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone under its primate, Gregory Venables. In becoming a bishop in the Southern Cone, he came out of retirement, resumed full-time episcopal ministry on a volunteer basis as Moderator Bishop of the Anglican Network in Canada, a founding diocese of the Anglican Church in North America in 2009, and began to offer episcopal oversight to a number of Canadian Anglican parishes that no longer believed the Anglican Church of Canada was doctrinally orthodox.
Reflecting on his 43 years of ordained ministry in the Anglican Church of Canada, Harvey has said that his cherished hope is that the church will be able to reform.
Harvey retired as bishop/moderator of the Anglican Network in Canada in June 2014, being succeeded by co-adjutor bishop Charlie Masters. In retirement he serves as honorary assistant and bishop in residence at the Anglican Church of the Good Samaritan in St. John's.
References
1939 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cult%20Movie%20Network | The Cult Movie Network is a Canadian-based English language online video-on-demand service consisting of programming devoted to cult films from a variety of genres, primarily horror, but also including fantasy, comedy, and action, among others. The channel is owned by the Cult Movie Channel Inc., a company owned by Dieter Kohler.
The service previously operated additionally as a linear television service in Canada and international markets until the channel was dropped by the only provider who carried it in Canada in late 2018. It is unknown whether the channel still operates in international markets.
History
In May 2003, Dieter Kohler was granted approval by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a television channel called The Cult Movie Channel, described as being "an English-language Category 2 specialty television service... devoted to exploring the world of cult film and television."
The service initially launched as an online subscription service in 2008-2009 as The Cult Movie Network focusing on low-budget B movies primarily from the horror film genres.
The service launched its linear television service in December 2010 on MTS TV in Manitoba. Since that time, the channel had reached carriage agreements with other TV providers around the world for carriage on their systems, including Slovakia, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.
According to the service's website in early 2011, the service was scheduled to undergo a rebrand in the summer of 2011 by introducing a new logo, graphics, and programming initiative. The service was expected to focus on higher profile cult films from various genres including comedy, sci-fi, and fantasy. However, the rebrand did not take effect as planned. The rebranding took effect in January 2012; and although the channel began to broadcast programming from a wider variety of films, the majority remained focused on films from the horror genre and are low budget B movies.
On July 21, 2015, the CRTC approved The Cult Movie Channel Inc.'s request to convert The Cult Movie Network from a licensed category B specialty service to an exempted category B service.
On December 1, 2018, the only Canadian television service provider to carry the channel, Bell MTS, dropped the channel from their service.
See also
TCM Underground
The Incredibly Strange Film Show
Mystery Science Theater 3000
References
External links
English-language television stations in Canada
Movie channels in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2018
Internet television streaming services
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Defunct television networks in Canada
Commercial-free television networks
Film and video fandom
Cult following |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosu%20%28programming%20language%29 | Gosu is a statically typed general-purpose programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine. Its influences include Java, C#, and ECMAScript. Development of Gosu began in 2002 internally for Guidewire Software, and the language saw its first community release in 2010 under the Apache 2 license.
Gosu can serve as a scripting language, having free-form Program types (.gsp files) for scripting as well as statically verified Template files (.gst files). Gosu can optionally execute these and all other types directly from source without precompilation, which also distinguishes it from other static languages.
History
Gosu began in 2002 as a scripting language called GScript at Guidewire Software. It has been described as a Java variant that attempts to make useful improvements while retaining the fundamental utility and compatibility with Java. It was used to configure business logic in Guidewire's applications and was more of a simple rule definition language. In its original incarnation it followed ECMAScript guidelines. Guidewire enhanced the scripting language over the next 8 years, and released Gosu 0.7 beta to the community in November 2010. The 0.8 beta was released in December 2010, and 0.8.6 beta was released in mid-2011 with additional typeloaders, making Gosu capable of loading XML schema definition files and XML documents as native Gosu types. The latest version is 1.10, released in January 2016, along with a new IntelliJ IDEA editor plugin.
Guidewire continues to support and use Gosu extensively within InsuranceSuite applications. Guidewire has decided to freeze the development of new Gosu programming language constructs at this time. Guidewire continues to evolve InsuranceSuite through RESTful APIs and Integration Frameworks that can be accessed using Java.
Philosophy
Gosu language creator and development lead, Scott McKinney, emphasizes pragmatism, found in readability and discoverability, as the overriding principle that guides the language's design. For instance, Gosu's rich static type system is a necessary ingredient toward best of breed tooling via static program analysis, rich parser feedback, code completion, deterministic refactoring, usage analysis, navigation, and the like.
Syntax and semantics
Gosu follows a syntax resembling a combination of other languages. For instance, declarations follow more along the lines of Pascal with name-first grammar. Gosu classes can have functions, fields, properties, and inner classes as members. Nominal inheritance and composition via delegation are built into the type system as well as structural typing similar to the Go programming language.
Gosu supports several file types:
Class (.gs files)
Program (.gsp files)
Enhancement (*.gsx files)
Template (*.gst files)
In addition to standard class types Gosu supports enums, interfaces, structures, and annotations.
Program files facilitate Gosu as a scripting language. For example, Gosu's Hello, World! is a simple one-line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer%20beTouch%20E120 | The Acer beTouch E120 is an Internet-enabled smartphone by Acer Inc that uses Android 1.6 operating system. It was officially presented at Computex 2010 in Tapei and it looks very similar to Acer beTouch E130
Main features
The Acer beTouch E120 is an Android phone running version 1.6 and it packs a 2.8-inch touchscreen, a 3.2 -megapixel camera, and the processor is powered by a ST Ericsson at 416 MHz.
One of the main differences with the Acer beTouch E130 – is that the latter comes with a QWERTY keyboard . The smartphone includes WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth and radio.
See also
List of Android devices
Galaxy Nexus
References
External links
Acer Smartphones overview
Acer beTouch E120 Official Site
Android (operating system) devices
beTouch E120
Mobile phones introduced in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Vyborg | Vyborg, in Finland until 1940, and since then in Russia, had an electric tramway network from 1912 to 1957.
See also
History of rail transport in Finland
History of rail transport in Russia
List of town tramway systems in Europe
Trams in Finland
Rail transport in Finland
Rail transport in Russia
External links
Finnish Tramway Society - official website
Transport in Vyborg
Vyborg
Vyborg
Vyborg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%20Williams%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Richard Ryan Williams, known as Ryan Williams (born 1979), is an American theoretical computer scientist working in computational complexity theory and algorithms.
Education
Williams graduated from the Alabama School of Mathematics and Science before receiving his bachelor's degree in math and computer science from Cornell University in 2001 and his Ph.D in computer science in 2007 from Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Manuel Blum. From 2010 to 2012, he was a member of the Theory Group of IBM Almaden Research Center. From Fall 2011 to Fall 2016, he was a professor at Stanford University. In January 2017, he joined the faculty at MIT.
Research
Williams has been a member of the program committee for the Symposium on Theory of Computing in 2011 and various other conferences. He won the Ron V. Book best student paper award at the IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity in 2005 and 2007, and at the best student paper award at the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming in 2004 from the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.
Williams’s result that the complexity class NEXP is not contained in ACC0 received the best paper award at the Conference on Computational Complexity in 2011. Complexity theorist Scott Aaronson has called the result "one of the most spectacular of the decade".
Williams has also worked on the computational complexity of k-anonymity.
Personal life
Ryan is married to Virginia Vassilevska Williams, also a theoretical computer scientist.
Selected publications
References
External links
Ryan William’s homepage at MIT
Theoretical computer scientists
Living people
1979 births
Cornell University alumni
Stanford University faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie%20cookie | A zombie cookie is a piece of data usually used for tracking users, which is created by a web server while a user is browsing a website, and placed on the user's computer or other device by the user's web browser, similar to regular HTTP cookies, but with mechanisms in place to prevent the deletion of the data by the user. Zombie cookies could be stored in multiple locations—since failure to remove all copies of the zombie cookie will make the removal reversible, zombie cookies can be difficult to remove. Since they do not entirely rely on normal cookie protocols, the visitor's web browser may continue to recreate deleted cookies even though the user has opted not to receive cookies.
The term was used by Attorney Joseph H. Malley, who initiated the Super-Cookie class actions in 2010.
Purpose
Web analytics collecting companies use cookies to track Internet usage and pages visited for marketing research. Sites that want to collect user statistics will install a cookie from a traffic tracking site that will collect data on the user. As that user surfs around the web the cookie will add more information for each site that uses the traffic tracking cookie and sends it back to the main tracking server.
Zombie cookies allow the web traffic tracking companies to retrieve information such as previous unique user ID and continue tracking personal browsing habits. When the user ID is stored outside of a single browser's cookie storage, such as in a header injected by the network into HTTP requests, zombie cookies can track users across browsers on the same machine.
Zombie cookies are also used to remember unique IDs used for logging into websites. This means that for a user who deletes all their cookies regularly, a site using this would still be able to personalize to that specific user.
Implications
A user who does not want to be tracked may choose to decline or block third party cookies or delete cookies after each browsing session. Deleting all cookies will prevent some sites from tracking a user but it may also interfere with sites that users want to remember them. Removing tracking cookies is not the same as declining cookies. If cookies are deleted, the data collected by tracking companies becomes fragmented. For example, counting the same person as two separate unique users would falsely increase this particular site's unique user statistic. This is why some tracking companies use a type of zombie cookie.
Implementation
According to TRUSTe: "You can get valuable marketing insight by tracking individual users' movements on your site. But you must disclose your use of all personally identifiable information in order to comply with the Fair Information Practices guidelines".
Possible places in which zombie cookies may be hidden include:
Standard HTTP cookies
Storing cookies in and reading out web history
Storing cookies in HTTP ETags
Internet Explorer userData storage (starting IE9, userData is no longer supported)
HTML5 Session Storage
H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Charles%20Fahey | James Charles Fahey (1903–1974) was an American writer best remembered as the original compiler and publisher of the popular American reference The Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet.
The Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet
James Fahey lived in the Bronx working as a cab driver and merchant marine sailor while he wrote for various publications on the subject of military ships and aircraft. His disappointment at editors "butchering" his manuscripts caused him to self-publish the first edition of Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet in 1939. He carefully compiled data from unclassified sources and had a unique talent for presenting a great deal of information in compact, tabular format. His softbound 48-page booklet sold for fifty cents, and gained public interest as World War II unfolded. An updated second edition (the Two Ocean Fleet Edition) was published in the same 48-page format in 1941, and sold for seventy-five cents. His third edition (the first War Edition) in 1942. The updated third edition had grown to 64 pages in the same softbound format, and sold for one dollar. Significant quantities were ordered by the United States Navy to train the officers and sailors mobilized to man the new ships. An updated Second War Edition was published in 1944, and the 96-page updated 1945 Victory Edition enjoyed enormous popular interest from returning veterans. Fahey documented the Korean War fleet in the 1950 6th edition, the Cold War fleet in the 1958 7th edition, and the Vietnam War fleet in the 1965 8th edition. The 9th and 10th editions were compiled by John Rowe and Samuel Morison. Norman Polmar has authored subsequent editions.
Other publications
Fahey published a companion 64-page reference booklet for one dollar in 1946 entitled U. S. Army Aircraft (Heavier than Air) 1908-1946 and subsequently documented early Cold War developments in USAF and United States Army Aircraft: 1947-1956.
References
1903 births
1974 deaths
Writers from New York City
American military writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehran%20Monolingual%20Corpus | The Tehran Monolingual Corpus (TMC) is a large-scale Persian monolingual corpus. TMC is suited for Language Modeling and relevant research areas in Natural Language Processing.
The corpus is extracted from Hamshahri Corpus and ISNA news agency website. The quality of Hamshahri corpus is improved for language modeling purpose by a series of tokenization and spell-checking steps.
TMC comprises more than 250 million words. The total number of unique words (with frequency of two or more) of the corpus is about 300 thousand, which is relatively good for a highly-inflectional language like Persian.
TMC is created by Natural Language Processing Lab of University of Tehran. The corpus is free for research use, after obtaining permission from the corpus aggregator.
See also
Bijankhan Corpus
Hamshahri Corpus
External links
TMC description page
Persian corpora
Applied linguistics
Linguistic research
Natural language processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidBus | RapidBus may refer to:
RapidBus (TransLink), an express bus network in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
97X Kelowna RapidBus, a bus rapid transit line in Central Okanagan, British Columbia, Canada
Rapibus, a bus rapid transit system in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Rapid Bus, a bus transit operator in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
See also
Bus rapid transit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northborough%20Free%20Library | The Northborough Free Library is a public library serving the town of Northborough, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1868. Today it is a member of the C/W MARS network and provides library service to the 14,155 residents of Northborough and people of neighboring towns. In fiscal year 2009 the Library received 1.5% of the town budget, or $645,208 ($43.41 per resident.) Currently located at 34 Main Street, it has a staff of twelve full-time and part-time employees and is overseen by a board of trustees.
History
Prior to 1868, other libraries had been established in Northborough, including the Free Parish Library and Society Library which united to form the Free Library of the Congregational Society, the Young Ladies’ Library, the Free Juvenile Library, and the Agricultural Library. In 1867 the Northborough Library Association was formed for the purpose of raising money to purchase books for a free town library. In addition to the money raised, prominent citizens including Captain Cyrus Gale made donations. A board of trustees was elected and the Library was launched in the newly constructed Town Hall in 1868. The collection quickly outgrew the space and the Library was permanently relocated to a new building donated by Gale's son, Cyrus Gale Jr, in 1894. The building was designed by Worcester architect Amos P. Cutting.
Departments and collections
The Library consists of the following departments: Circulation, Children's Services, Teen Services, and Adult Services. Along with providing access to library materials, the Library also sponsors programs for patrons of all ages including crafts and story time for children, a teen advisory group, and book groups for adults. The collection consists of more than 70,000 books and over 5,000 videos, CDs, periodicals, and e-books. Research help is also available, with the library offering free access to various databases. There was a WiiU in the Teen section, but the staff considered it broken after they didn’t know how the WiiU Gamepad worked.
Renovation
Between 2007 and 2009 the Library underwent a major expansion and renovation. The Library in 2007 consisted of the 1895 original and a 1975 addition, totaling 15,000 square feet. Plans for expansion began in 1998 when funds were appropriated for a new design. Funds for the renovation came from state, local, and private donations. Construction was delayed from its anticipated start because of an injunction filed against the Town by the lowest bidder for the project, who was passed over after a background check. Federal Appeals Court ruled in the Town's favor. The library collections and operations were moved to a temporary location during the construction, which lasted from November 2007 to January 2009. The 1975 addition was demolished and a 21,000 square foot addition was made in its place; the historic 1894 building was renovated. The Library reopened in March 2009.
References
Further reading
History of the Northborough Free Library by Cora Small. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Natural%20Parks%20System%20%28Colombia%29 | The Special Administrative Unit of the Network of National Natural Parks of Colombia (; PNN) is Colombian central agency that manages all the national parks and protected areas.
References
Government agencies established in 1977
Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (Colombia)
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qu:Kulumbyapi mama llaqta parkikuna sallqa pachap risirwakunapas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature%20Selection%20Toolbox | Feature Selection Toolbox (FST) is software primarily for feature selection in the machine learning domain, written in C++, developed at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation (UTIA), of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Version 1
The first generation of Feature Selection Toolbox (FST1) was a Windows application with user interface allowing users to apply several sub-optimal, optimal and mixture-based feature selection methods on data stored in a trivial proprietary textual flat file format.
Version 3
The third generation of Feature Selection Toolbox (FST3) was a library without user interface, written to be more efficient and versatile than the original FST1.
FST3 supports several standard data mining tasks, more specifically, data preprocessing and classification, but its main focus is on feature selection. In feature selection context, it implements several common as well as less usual techniques, with particular emphasis put on threaded implementation of various sequential search methods (a form of hill-climbing). Implemented methods include individual feature ranking, floating search, oscillating search (suitable for very high-dimension problems) in randomized or deterministic form, optimal methods of branch and bound type, probabilistic class distance criteria, various classifier accuracy estimators, feature subset size optimization, feature selection with pre-specified feature weights, criteria ensembles, hybrid methods, detection of all equivalent solutions, or two-criterion optimization. FST3 is more narrowly specialized than popular software like the Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis Weka, RapidMiner or PRTools.
By default, techniques implemented in the toolbox are predicated on the assumption that the data is available as a single flat file in a simple proprietary format or in Weka format ARFF, where each data point is described by a fixed number of numeric attributes. FST3 is provided without user interface, and is meant to be used by users familiar both with machine learning and C++ programming. The older FST1 software is more suitable for simple experimenting or educational purposes because it can be used with no need to code in C++.
History
In 1999, development of the first Feature Selection Toolbox version started at UTIA as part of a PhD thesis. It was originally developed in Optima++ (later renamed Power++) RAD C++ environment.
In 2002, the development of the first FST generation has been suspended, mainly due to end of Sybase's support of the then used development environment.
In 2002–2008, FST kernel was recoded and used for research experimentation within UTIA only.
In 2009, 3rd FST kernel recoding from scratch begun.
In 2010, FST3 was made publicly available in form of a C++ library without GUI. The accompanying webpage collects feature selection related links, references, documentation and the original FST1 available for download.
In 2011, an update of FST3 to version 3.1 included new methods (p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20Nunataks | The Ford Nunataks () are a cluster of nunataks and low peaks rising above a network of ice-drowned ridges about in extent, lying northwest of Murtaugh Peak in the Wisconsin Range of the Horlick Mountains, Antarctica. They were mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1960–64, and were named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Franklin E. Ford, a construction mechanic with the winter parties at the Byrd Station in 1961 and then the South Pole Station in 1965.
References
Nunataks of Marie Byrd Land |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Mitzenmacher | Michael David Mitzenmacher is an American computer scientist working in algorithms. He is Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and was area dean of computer science July 2010 to June 2013. He also runs My Biased Coin, a blog about theoretical computer science.
Education
In 1986, Mitzenmacher attended the Research Science Institute. Mitzenmacher earned his AB at Harvard, where he was on the team that won the 1990 North American Collegiate Bridge Championship. He attended the University of Cambridge on a Churchill Scholarship from 1991–1992. Mitzenmacher received his PhD in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley in 1996 under the supervision of Alistair Sinclair. He joined Harvard University in 1999.
Research
Mitzenmacher’s research covers the design an analysis of randomised algorithms and processes. With Eli Upfal he is the author of a textbook on randomized algorithms and probabilistic techniques in computer science. Mitzenmacher's PhD thesis was on the analysis of simple randomised load balancing schemes. He is an expert in hash function applications such as Bloom filters, cuckoo hashing, and locality-sensitive hashing. His work on min-wise independence gives a fast way to estimate similarity of electronic documents and is used in internet search engines. Mitzenmacher has also worked on erasure codes and error-correcting codes.
Mitzenmacher has authored over 100 conference and journal publications. He has served on dozens of program committees in computer science, information theory, and networks, and chaired the program committee of the Symposium on Theory of Computing in 2009. He belongs to the editorial board of SIAM Journal on Computing, Internet Mathematics, and Journal of Interconnection Networks.
Awards and honors
Mitzenmacher became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014. His joint paper on low-density parity-check codes received the 2002 IEEE Information Theory Society Best Paper Award. His joint paper on fountain codes received the
2009 ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Paper Award. In 2019, he was elected as an IEEE Fellow.
Selected publications
There is also an earlier 1998 technical report with the same title.
References
External links
Mitzenmacher’s web page
Theoretical computer scientists
Living people
Harvard University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Harvard University faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Science bloggers
Santa Fe Institute people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WenQuanYi | WenQuanYi (; aka: Spring of Letters) is an open-source project of Chinese computer fonts licensed under GNU General Public License.
General
WenQuanYi project was started by Qianqian Fang (Screen name: FangQ; ), a Chinese biomedical imaging researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital, in October, 2004.
The fonts of the WenQuanYi project are now included with the Linux distributions Ubuntu, Fedora, Slackware, Magic Linux and CDLinux. Debian, Gentoo, Mandriva, Arch Linux and Frugalware offer the sources for WenQuanYi fonts. The fonts are among the Chinese fonts officially supported by Wikimedia.
WenQuanYi's website is using Habitat, a Wiki software derived from UseModWiki by Qianqian Fang. It is allowed to create or modify the glyphs online.
Fonts
WenQuanYi project aims to create high-quality open-source bitmap and outline fonts for all CJK characters. It includes Zen Hei (Regular, Mono and Sharp), Micro Hei (Regular and Mono), Bitmap Song and Unibit font. As of version 0.8.38, the WenQuanYi Zen Hei font covers more than 35,000 glyphs.
Zen Hei
WenQuanYi Zen Hei (文泉驿正黑), WenQuanYi Zen Hei Mono (文泉驿等宽正黑) and WenQuanYi Zen Hei Sharp (文泉驿点阵正黑) co-exist in a single TTC file. They are also with embedded bitmaps. The Latin/Hangul characters are derived from UnDotum, Bopomofo are from cwTeX, mono-spaced Latin are from M+ M2 Light. These fonts have full CJK coverage. The font package is included with Fedora and Ubuntu.
Micro Hei
WenQuanYi Micro Hei (文泉驿微米黑), WenQuanYi Micro Hei Mono (文泉驿等宽微米黑) are derived from the Droid Sans font (merged with Droid Sans Fallback) and readable in compact sizes. The primitive motivation of this project was to extend Droid Sans Fallback's glyph coverage. Since the GB 18030 compatible Droid Sans Fallback font's release, the Micro Hei project has been de facto inactive.
Unlike Zen Hei, which is drawn stroke-by-stroke, Micro Hei and its predecessor Droid Sans are created by combining radical components using TrueType references. The main goal is a reduced file size, hence "Micro".
Bitmap Song
WenQuanYi Bitmap Song (文泉驿点阵宋体) has full coverage to GB 18030 Hanzi at 11-16px (9pt-12pt) font sizes.
Unibit
WenQuanYi Unibit (文泉驿Unibit) adopted the GNU Unifont's scheme of 8x16 and 16x16 glyphs. Then the contributors added 10,000 more glyphs. The improvements done by WenQuanYi Unibit has been merged back to GNU Unifont.
Glyph
The glyph of traditional characters included in WenQuanYi is the new character form of the Mainland China. The glyph comes from G-Source (character source from Mainland China) of Unicode and the standard of a character list from the 1988 List of Commonly Used Characters in Modern Chinese and the 2009 List of General Standardized Chinese (通用规范汉字表).
The glyph is not from T-Source (character source from Taiwan) and H-Source (character source from Hong Kong). It does not conform with the standardized traditional character writing behavior of writers from Taiwan and Hong Kong. In other words, it does not s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxmap%20sort | ProxmapSort, or Proxmap sort, is a sorting algorithm that works by partitioning an array of data items, or keys, into a number of "subarrays" (termed buckets, in similar sorts). The name is short for computing a "proximity map," which indicates for each key K the beginning of a subarray where K will reside in the final sorted order. Keys are placed into each subarray using insertion sort. If keys are "well distributed" among the subarrays, sorting occurs in linear time. The computational complexity estimates involve the number of subarrays and the proximity mapping function, the "map key," used. It is a form of bucket and radix sort.
Once a ProxmapSort is complete, ProxmapSearch can be used to find keys in the sorted array in time if the keys were well distributed during the sort.
Both algorithms were invented in the late 1980s by Prof. Thomas A. Standish at the University of California, Irvine.
Overview
Basic strategy
In general:
Given an array A with n keys:
map a key to a subarray of the destination array A2, by applying the map key function to each array item
determine how many keys will map to the same subarray, using an array of "hit counts," H
determine where each subarray will begin in the destination array so that each bucket is exactly the right size to hold all the keys that will map to it, using an array of "proxmaps," P
for each key, compute the subarray it will map to, using an array of "locations," L
for each key, look up its location, place it into that cell of A2; if it collides with a key already in that position, insertion sort the key into place, moving keys greater than this key to the right by one to make a space for this key. Since the subarray is big enough to hold all the keys mapped to it, such movement will never cause the keys to overflow into the following subarray.
Simplied version:
Given an array A with n keys
Initialize: Create and initialize 2 arrays of n size: hitCount, proxMap, and 2 arrays of A.length: location, and A2.
Partition: Using a carefully chosen mapKey function, divide the A2 into subarrays using the keys in A
Disperse: Read over A, dropping each key into its bucket in A2; insertion sorting as needed.
Collect: Visit the subarrays in order and put all the elements back into the original array, or simply use A2.
Note: "keys" may also contain other data, for instance an array of Student objects that contain the key plus a student ID and name. This makes ProxMapSort suitable for organizing groups of objects, not just keys themselves.
Example
Consider a full array: A[0 to n-1] with n keys. Let i be an index of A. Sort A's keys into array A2 of equal size.
The map key function is defined as mapKey(key) = floor(K).
Pseudocode
// compute hit counts
for i = 0 to 11 // where 11 is n
{
H[i] = 0;
}
for i = 0 to 12 // where 12 is A.length
{
pos = MapKey(A[i]);
H[pos] = H[pos] + 1;
}
runningTotal = 0; // compute prox map – location of start of each subarray
for i = 0 to 11
if H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Chan | Henry F. Chan () is an American film and television director. He has directed over 200 episodes of television for all major U.S. networks. In 2013, he directed his first Chinese language film, 100 Days (真愛100天) in Taiwan.
Career
At the beginning of his career, Chan won a Primetime Emmy Award for editing The Cosby Show in 1986, he was also nominated again the following year. He made his directorial debut, directing A Different World.
Chan has since directed episodes of The Ms. Pat Show, Bigger, The Comedy Get Down, Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life, Fresh Off the Boat, Zoe Ever After, A to Z, Growing Up Fisher, The Neighbors, Whitney, Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, 10 Things I Hate About You, Let's Stay Together, Kitchen Confidential, Living Single, Moesha, The Parkers, Girlfriends, The King of Queens, Scrubs, Lizzie McGuire and a few other series.
Henry's Chinese comedy series "Rich House, Poor House" 王子富愁记，aired on Youku in January 2018. In 2003, Henry directed his first film Gas'' starring Flex Alexander and Khalil Kain.
References
External links
Henry Chan profile at AlivenotDead.com
Henry Chan on Vimeo
American film directors
American film directors of Chinese descent
American television directors
Primetime Emmy Award winners
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarusian%20Railway | Belarusian Railway (BCh) ( () / Biełaruskaja čyhunka, ) is the national state-owned railway company of Belarus. It operates all of the rail transport network in Belarus. As of 2005, the railway employs 112,173 people.
Overview
The company, formed in 1992 after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, is one of the inheritors of the Soviet Railways. It administers 5,512 km of railway with (). The railway's most important station is Minsk Terminal, the central station of the capital.
BCh reports to the ministry of transport and as of 2010 was composed of 84 organizations; 46 enterprises, 38 institutions, and 7 factories/plants. The rail network is divided into 6 departments: named after the regions around Minsk, Baranovichi, Brest, Gomel, Mogilev and Vitebsk.
Rolling stock
Electric locomotives
ChS4T; Co'Co' electric locomotive
VL80, BCG-1; twin-unit (Bo'Bo')-(Bo'Bo') locomotives
Diesel locomotives
M62, TE10, 2TE116, TEP60, TEP70, ChME3; Co'Co' diesel electric locomotives
TGK2; two-axle diesel shunter
Passenger multiple units
DR1; diesel multiple unit
ER9, Stadler FLIRT (EPg, EPr, EPm); electric multiple units
DP1, DP3, DP6 Pesa; diesel multiple unit for Minsk-Vilnius services.
Stations
International sanctions
Belarusian Railway was included in the sanctions lists of Canada in November 2022 and Ukraine in January 2023, respectively. Canada also blacklisted Vladimir Morozov, the head of Belarusian Railway, as later did the European Union and Switzerland.
Gallery
See also
Minsk Railway station
Rail transport in Belarus
Notes
References
External links
, official website
Companies based in Minsk
Railway companies of Belarus
Government-owned railway companies
Railway companies established in 1992
Railway companies of the Soviet Union
Belarusian brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret%20Mountain%20Fort%20Awesome | Secret Mountain Fort Awesome is an American animated television series created by Peter Browngardt for Cartoon Network that debuted in 2011. The show revolves around a fraternity of five monsters who unleash wild stunts upon the public from their eponymous underground mountain fort.
The series is loosely based on the antagonists that appeared in Browngardt's animated short, Uncle Grandpa, which Browngardt created for The Cartoonstitute. It employs Mike Conte of the heavy metal band Early Man as composer. The show's raunchy, surrealist humor was heavily indebt to the underground comix scene, and received a mixed to negative reception, though it received praise for its art direction.
The show premiered as a sneak peek on August 1, 2011, and had a formal premiere on September 26, 2011. Designers Robertryan Cory and Chris Tsirgiotis both won awards for "Outstanding Individual in Animation" at the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony. The Uncle Grandpa short that Browngardt had produced was eventually adapted as a full series of the same name, which he felt was a more lighthearted adaptation for children.
The series last aired on television on February 17, 2012, with the remaining episodes being released on iTunes from March 8 to 29, 2012.
Plot
A race of monsters known as the Disgustoids are banished from society due to their unruly behavior and grotesque appearances.
From their sentient and eponymous subterranean mountain fort, they unleash crazy stunts on the public.
Their leader, a purple tusked creature depicted wearing a pair of underwear named Festro (voiced by Peter Browngardt), is a macho party animal willing to do anything to help out his group, even when his help is less than desired.
Dingle (also voiced by Browngardt), a scrawny, blue dog-like monster, who acts as their faithful pet, intelligible only to the group.
Slog (voiced by Steve Little), a furred proboscis monkey-like monster, is likewise blindly loyal, but lacks critical judgement skills—the more hazardous something is, the more likely he will be to follow it.
Gweelok (voiced by Paul Rugg), an acned ball of mucus, has a demanding attitude and an obsession with technology.
The Fart (voiced by Pat Duke), a giant monster made of buttocks who flatulates when touched—is the most sensitive and levelheaded of the group.
Production
At their 2011 upfront, Cartoon Network announced Secret Mountain Fort Awesome, along with various other series. Billed as a comedy, the show was created by Peter Browngardt and based on his animated short Uncle Grandpa, which garnered praise, a cult following and an Emmy Award nomination.
Both were produced at Cartoon Network Studios. Before landing his own show, Browngardt had worked at Augenblick Studios and MTV, as well as on individual programs, such as Futurama, The Venture Bros., Chowder, and The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. Browngardt's work on Chowder began when its creator C.H. Greenblatt looked through one of his pitch bibles that he lef |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20Interchange%20Protocol | The Standard Interchange Protocol is a proprietary standard for communication between library computer systems and self-service circulation terminals. Although owned and controlled by 3M, the protocol is published and is widely used by other vendors. Version 2.0 of the protocol, known as "SIP2", is a de facto standard for library self-service applications.
History
SIP version 1.0 was published by 3M in 1993. The first version of the protocol supported basic check in and check out operations, but had minimal support for more advanced operations. Version 2.0 of the protocol was published in 2006 and added support for flexible, more user-friendly notifications, and for the automated processing of payments for late fees.
SIP2 was widely adopted by library automation vendors, including ODILO, Lyngsoe Systems, Nexbib, Bibliotheca, Nedap, Checkpoint, Envisionware, FE Technologies, Meescan, Redia and open source integrated library system software such as Koha and Evergreen. The standard was the basis for the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP) standard which is eventually intended to replace it.
Description
SIP is a simple protocol in which requests to perform operations are sent over a connection, and responses are sent in return. The protocol explicitly does not define how a connection between the two devices is established; it is limited to specifying the format of the messages sent over the connection. There are no "trial" transactions; each operation will be attempted immediately and will either be permitted or not.
The protocol specifies messages to check books in and out, to manage fee payments, to request holds and renewals, and to carry out the other basic circulation operations of a library.
Encryption and authentication
SIP has no built in encryption, so steps need to be taken to send the connection through some sort of encrypted tunnel. Two common methods are to use either stunnel or SSH to add a layer of encryption and/or an extra level of authentication.
References
Library automation
Network protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Breastfeeding%20Week | World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) is an annual celebration which is held every year from 1 to 7 August in more than 120 countries. According to the 26 August data of WBW website, 540 events have been held worldwide by more than 79 countries with 488 organizations and 406,620 participants for the World Breastfeeding Week 2010.
Organized by World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA), the World Health Organization (WHO), and UNICEF, WBW came up with the goal to promote exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life which yields many health benefits, providing critical nutrients, protection from deadly diseases such as pneumonia and fostering growth and development for the first time in 1991.
History
World Breastfeeding Week was first celebrated in 1992 by WABA and is now observed in over 120 countries by UNICEF, WHO and their partners including individuals, organizations, and governments. WABA itself was formed on 14 February 1991 with the goal to re-establish a global breastfeeding culture and provide support for breastfeeding everywhere.
WHO and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) emphasize the value of breastfeeding for mothers as well as children. Both recommend exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months of life and then supplemented breastfeeding for at least one year and up to two years or more. WBW commemorates the Innocenti Declaration made by WHO and UNICEF in August 1990 to protect and support breastfeeding.
See also
Breastfeeding promotion
Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative
World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA)
United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)
World Health Organization (WHO)
References
External links
Breastfeeding
Awareness weeks
August observances |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Swiss%20tariff%20networks | The list of the Swiss tariff networks contains tariff networks with SBB participation.
Switzerland has had a national integrated ticketing system for over a hundred years. This, however, was limited to the regional and mainline services, as well as some tourist traffic. It is known that not uniform pricing schedule and the participation of the individual companies could be limited to certain parts of the entire network (single tickets, multi-journey tickets, season tickets, half-price tickets collective, etc.). In an effort to include local traffic and therefore resulted in a regional tariff networks, which initially covered only the subscriptions in the narrow context of larger cities. Thus it was unnecessary for commuters, two or three passes to purchase for their commute. To provide this benefit also to the other passengers emerged from this integral tariff networks, those that cover the whole range of tickets. This grew into regional or national associations, which continue the existing direct transport are superimposed.
The first regional integrated ticketing in Switzerland was the Tariff Association of North Western Switzerland (Tarifverbund Nordwestschweiz, TNW), which was introduced in 1987. The first and only transport association is the Zurich Transport Network (Zürcher Verkehrsverbund, ZVV), in operation since 1990. The stated aim is to establish a pan-Swiss ticketing.
Key to tables
Abbreviation: The abbreviation often begins with "T" or "TV" for Tarifverbund.
Full name and marketing name: Shows the official name first, followed by the marketing name, if any, in guillemets.
Regions: Areas included in the respective tariff network.
Population: The number of residents connected to the network (2007).
Network length: The length of the entire route network in kilometers.
Number of stops: The number of stops of a composite (2007).
Networks with comprehensive ticket offerings
Networks offering transit passes only
Notes and references
Passenger rail transport in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeVisLab | MeVisLab is a cross-platform application framework for medical image processing and scientific visualization. It includes advanced algorithms for image registration, segmentation, and quantitative morphological and functional image analysis. An IDE for graphical programming and rapid user interface prototyping is available.
MeVisLab is written in C++ and uses the Qt framework for graphical user interfaces. It is available cross-platform on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. The software development is done in cooperation between MeVis Medical Solutions AG and Fraunhofer MEVIS.
A freeware version of the MeVislab SDK is available (see Licensing). Open source modules are delivered as MeVisLab Public Sources in the SDK and available from the MeVisLab Community and Community Sources project.
History
MeVisLab development began in 1993 with the software ILAB1 of the CeVis Institute, written in C++. It allowed to interactively connect algorithms of the Image Vision Library (IL) on Silicon Graphics (SGI) to form image processing networks. In 1995, the newly founded MeVis Research GmbH (which became Fraunhofer MEVIS in 2009) took over the ILAB development and released ILAB2 and ILAB3. OpenInventor and Tcl scripting was integrated but both programs were still running on SGI only.
In 2000, ILAB4 was released with the core rewritten in Objective-C for Windows. For being able to move away from the SGI platform, the Image Vision Library was substituted by the platform-independent, inhouse-developed MeVis Image Processing Library (ML). In 2002, the code was adapted to work on the application framework Qt.
In 2004, the software was released under the name MeVisLab. It contained an improved IDE and was available on Windows and Linux. See the Release history for details.
In 2007, MeVisLab has been acquired by MeVis Medical Solutions AG. Since then, MeVisLab has been continued as a collaborative project between the MeVis Medical Solutions and Fraunhofer MEVIS.
Features
MeVisLab features include:
Image processing with the MeVis Image Processing Library (ML): The ML is a request-driven, page-based, modular, expandable C++ image processing library supporting up to six image dimensions (x, y, z, color, time, user dimensions). It offers a priority-controlled page cache and high performance for large data sets.
2D image viewing: Fast, modular, extensible 2D viewers with combined 2D/3D rendering are implemented, supporting slab rendering (volume rendering/MIP), overlays, point/ROI selection, Multiplanar Reformations (MPR), as well as interactive editing of marker objects (points, vectors, discs, spheres, etc.)
Volume rendering: A high-quality volume renderer (Giga Voxel Renderer, GVR) based on OpenGL/Open Inventor is available. It supports large image volumes (e.g., 512x512x2000 CT volumes, 12bit), time-varying data (e.g. dynamic MRI volumes), lookup tables, interactive region of interest, sub-volume selection, modular, multi-purpose GLSL shader framework.
DICOM a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.abc | .abc is the name of several file extensions:
.abc (ActionScript), or ActionScript Byte Code, used in virtual machines
.abc (Alembic), a computer graphics file format
.abc (Clean), an intermediate compiling language used in Clean
.abc (music notation), a language for notating music using ASCII characters
See also
ABC (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaseweb | Leaseweb is a Dutch cloud computing and web services company with offices in the continents of Europe, Asia, and North America.
Leaseweb is a subsidiary of OCOM, an internet services company headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
History
Leaseweb was founded in 1997 by Dutch pilots Con Zwinkels and Laurens Rosenthal.
In 1998, Leaseweb acquired its first servers and set up their first office in Utrecht. By 2005 the company owned 5,000 servers, a number that had doubled to 10,000 two years later.
In 2007, Leaseweb relocated the company headquarters to the Amsterdam area.
In 2010, Leaseweb acquired German hosting provider Netdirekt.
In 2016, Leaseweb acquired the Illinois based Nobis Technology Group, and its Ubiquity Hosting operations.
In 2018, Leaseweb USA acquired ServInt, a Northern Virginia-based web hosting and managed hosting services for cloud IT operations.
In 2021, Leaseweb acquired iWeb, and their Canadian data centres, from INAP for an undisclosed amount. In February 2023, Leaseweb rebranded their Canadian operations under the name Leaseweb Canada.
Leaseweb Network
The company operates eighteen data centers in Europe, Asia and the United States. Leaseweb peers with Internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Stockholm, Warsaw, Budapest, Vienna, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Zurich, Brussels, Paris, Luxembourg, London, Madrid, Washington DC, New York, Miami, Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Seattle, San Jose, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Network and datacenters
The company operates 26 datacenters in Europe, North America, Asia and the Oceania. Leaseweb peers with Internet exchanges in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, London, New York City, Brussels, Stockholm, Madrid, Zurich, Düsseldorf, Paris, Warsaw, Budapest, Milan, Vienna, Prague, Luxembourg, Bucharest, Bratislava, Copenhagen, Oslo, Ashburn, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Palo Alto and Los Angeles. Leaseweb's network consists of 55 Points-of-Presence and 33 Internet Exchanges across the globe. The network has a bandwidth capacity of 5.9 Tbit/s with peak traffic about 2.5 Tbit/s and reports uptime of 99.9999%
References
Internet hosting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metriochroa%20tylophorae | Metriochroa tylophorae is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa.
The larvae feed on Tylophora cordata. They probably mine the leaves of their host plant.
References
Endemic moths of South Africa
Phyllocnistinae
Moths of Africa
Moths described in 1961 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver%20%281985%20TV%20series%2C%20season%201%29 | The first season of the American television series MacGyver, consisting of 22 episodes, began on September 29, 1985, and ended on May 7, 1986, and aired on the ABC network. The region 1 DVD was released on January 25, 2005.
Summary
In this season, the show introduces MacGyver, described as "an action hero who practiced non-violent methods and fought with his mind instead of his hands or weapons." It follows MacGyver and his friend Pete, as they use tools and cleverness to deal with difficult and often dangerous situations.
Episodes
See also
Leiningen Versus the Ants (book that inspired "Trumbo's World")
References
External links
1985 American television seasons
1986 American television seasons
MacGyver (1985 TV series) seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer%20beTouch%20E130 | The Acer beTouch E130 is a smartphone manufactured by Acer Inc. using the Android 1.6 (Donut) operating system at launch and Android 2.1 in later releases and is designed for a professional use. It has a QWERTY keyboard. It was unveiled in June 2010 and available for sale from August 2010.
Software
The beTouch E130 runs the Android operating system 1.6 (Donut). Several applications that come installed on this device are:
Gmail
Google Talk
Google Maps
Google Talk
Google Street View
YouTube video player
The device comes equipped with Acer Spinlet's application for listening to music in streaming and preinstalled Facebook and Twidroid.
Hardware
Display: LCD 2.6” QVGA touchscreen
CPU: ST-Ericsson PNX6715, 416 MHz
Keyboard: QWERTY
OS: Android 1.6 (Donut) or Android 2.1
Camera: 3.2 megapixel
Connectivity: Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, GPS built A-GPS, AGPS support, FM receiver, 3.5mm stereo audio jack
Colors: black, white, a rare purple version debuted in October 2010
Dimensions = 115 x 62.5 x 11.5 mm
Weight = 109 g
Reception
Reviews from newspapers and blogs underline its similarity to BlackBerry.
See also
Galaxy Nexus
List of Android devices
References
External links
Acer beTouch E130 video
beTouch E130
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver%20%281985%20TV%20series%2C%20season%202%29 | The second season of the American television series MacGyver, consisting of 22 episodes, began on September 22, 1986, and ended on May 4, 1987 and aired on the ABC network. The region 1 DVD was released on June 7, 2005.
Episodes
References
External links
1986 American television seasons
1987 American television seasons
MacGyver (1985 TV series) seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver%20%281985%20TV%20series%2C%20season%203%29 | The third season of the American television series MacGyver, consisting of 20 episodes, began on September 21, 1987, and ended on May 4, 1988, and aired on the ABC network. The region 1 DVD was released on September 6, 2005. According to IMDb, it is current available on Amazon's Paramount+ channel.
Episodes
References
External links
1987 American television seasons
1988 American television seasons
MacGyver (1985 TV series) seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kineto%20Wireless | Kineto Wireless is based in Milpitas, California and provides telco-OTT solutions to the mobile industry. Kineto's solutions enhance and extend communications services out over IP-based networks, such as the Internet.
Kineto is a privately held, venture-backed company whose investors, including Venrock Associates, Sutter Hill Ventures, Oak Investment Partners and SeaPointVentures.
Customers and partners include Acme Packet, HTC Corporation, Huawei, LG Electronics, Motorola, NewPace, Orange (telecommunications), Rogers Wireless, Research in Motion, Samsung Group, SFR, T-Mobile USA and ZTE.
The company innovated Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA), also known as Generic Access Network (GAN).
References
External links
Official company website
Companies based in Milpitas, California
Software companies based in California
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Stewards | The e-Stewards Initiative is an electronics waste recycling standard created by the Basel Action Network.
The program and the organization that created it grew out of the concern that electronic waste generated in wealthy countries was being dismantled in poor countries, often by underage workers. The young workers were being exposed to toxic metals and working in unsafe conditions.
In 2009, BAN published the e-Stewards Standard for Responsible Recycling and Reuse of Electronic Equipment which set forth requirements for becoming a Certified e-Stewards Recycler—a program that "recognizes electronics recyclers that adhere to the most stringent environmentally and socially responsible practices when recovering hazardous electronic materials." Recyclers that were qualified under the older Pledge program had until 1 September 2011 to achieve certification to the Standard by an e-Stewards Accredited Certification Body accredited by ANAB (ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board).
Standard
The e-Stewards Standard for Responsible Recycling and Reuse of Electronic Equipment was developed by the Basel Action Network. It is an industry-specific environmental management system standard that is the basis for the e-Stewards Initiative. On 6 March 2012, BAN released and updated revised Version 2.0 to open public comment prior to its final adoption later in the spring of 2012.
The certification is available to all electronics recyclers and refurbishers. To achieve an e-Stewards certification organizations are subject to an initial Stage I and Stage II audit. After passing such audits and being accepted by BAN, yearly surveillance audits take place to ensure organizations with the standard and have a registered ISO 14001 environmental management system in place, as well as achieving numerous performance requirements including assuring no export of hazardous electronic wastes to developing countries, no use of prison labor and no dumping of toxic materials in municipal landfills.
See also
Basel Convention
Basel Action Network
Electronic waste
Electronic waste by country
ISO 14001
E-Cycling
Digger gold
Hazardous waste
References
External links
e-Stewards (official website and locator)
Basel Action Network
Electronic waste
Recycling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTP%20Desporto | RTP Desporto is the sports division of the Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP). It is controlled by News division of RTP. Its flagship programming is the National Football Team matches.
The official website of RTP Desporto is rtp.pt/desporto, and one of the most visited of the News division of the RTP website.
Radio coverage of RTP is mostly on RDP Antena 1.
RTP also offers HDTV coverage.
Streaming channels
In 2019, RTP launched a number of pop-up channels dedicated to sports on its streaming service, RTP Play. The RTP Desporto channels opened with the coverage of the UEFA Women's Futsal Euro 2019 final four round in Gondomar.
TV Rights
Football
Motor racing
For several years, RTP was the home of motor racing broadcasts in Portugal but now the only motorsports competition on RTP is the Rally de Portugal.
Olympics
RTP holds exclusive rights to broadcast the Olympics on free-to-air terrestrial television. RTP broadcasts a major coverage during the Summer Olympics, while during the Winter Olympics only highlights are shown.
Athletics
For several years, RTP has followed the tracks of Portuguese athletes in athletics. The major international athletics competitions are all broadcast on RTP, with supplementary coverage by Eurosport. The events are: IAAF World Championships in Athletics, European Athletics Championships and World Championship on Indoor surfaces. RTP also broadcasts some local events such as the Meia-Maratona de Lisboa and Meia-Maratona do Porto. RTP has also access to highlights of the Portuguese Championship.
Cycling
Basketball
RTP is currently broadcast the LPB, Taça de Portugal, Super Taça, selected national team qualifiers, Portugal clubs at the women's Euro Cup, and many more through national 2 and both regional (Madeira and Açores) channels.
Futsal
RTP broadcasts one game per week of the Portuguese Futsal League and its playoffs in its entirety. European Championships are also broadcast, such as the UEFA Futsal Cup.
Previous coverage
Football
RTP broadcast during almost 50 years the Portuguese Liga, broadcasting several games a week. However, in 2004, when SportTV took total control of Liga's rights, they sold a two-year, 32-game package to TVI, a decision that was not appreciated be football fans, as many consider that the TVI sports division does not have the quality to cover a big league.
RTP recovered Liga's rights in 2008, for an undisclosed fee (the only that was known, is that RTP gave a fee plus some sports rights that they were not going to be used, since they didn't have programming slots available for them at that time). RTP's bid and victory was cheered by football fans, as they consider the RTP's coverage in the 2000s, superior to the TVI one. However this bid was criticized by politicians who thought and saw this as a waste of money by a public service corporation. RTP again lost the rights for Liga's coverage, when TVI outbid their controversial 20 million euros bid.
During a brief period of two year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Pacific%20Index | The Pacific Index is the student-run newspaper of Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, United States. The biweekly paper is a member of the College Publisher Network.
History
Pacific University started a campus newspaper in 1893 as a monthly paper named the Pacific University Index. By 1899, circulation for the 16-page paper had grown to 275, with a subscription costing 50 cents. The paper experimented with a "date bureau" to help students find dates, starting the program in March 1936. In 1939, The Index was selected for a second-class honor rating by the Associated Collegiate Press. Then, for the 1939 to 1940 academic year, The Index went through three editors, with freshman Don Wilson as the third taking over in January 1940.
In 1943, the paper was awarded a first-class honor rating by the Associated Collegiate Press. For the 1951 to 1952 school year, Bill Hilliard was the elected editor of the paper, which was still a weekly publication at that time. In 1965, the newspaper and school yearbook were both put under the direction of the school’s journalism department, the first time that had happened at Pacific. That year, Patricia Stephenson was selected as the editor.
The Index endorsed then U.S. Representative Robert B. Duncan over then-governor Mark Hatfield in the 1966 U.S. Senate Race, which Hatfield went on to win. The newspaper also endorsed Tom McCall for Oregon Secretary of State, and Pacific University later started an annual lecture series named in McCall’s honor. In October 2010, the Index went through a redesign as well as improvements to the associated website. The newspaper was a biweekly publication at that time.
Details
The student newspaper is published biweekly, though stories appear online more frequently. The Index is distributed only on the college’s main campus in Forest Grove and at the school’s Health Professions Campus in Hillsboro, Oregon. In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, The Pacific Index temporarily stopped production of their print issues, and moved to an online only platform. The Pacific Index Podcast was launched in 2020.
References
External links
The Pacific Index
Index
1893 establishments in Oregon
Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association
Newspapers established in 1893
Student newspapers published in Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberspace%20Law%20and%20Policy%20Centre | The Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre was a research and social justice centre at the University of New South Wales Faculty of Law in Sydney, Australia. It provided a focus for research, public interest advocacy and education on issues of law and policy arising from digital transactions in cyberspace. It ceased to operate sometime after mid-2016.
Description
The founding sponsors were Baker & McKenzie, an international law firm, and its original name was the Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre. In 2005, with Australian Research Council research project funding, the name was shortened.
The centre's work dealt with subjects like privacy and freedom of information in digital records, cloud computing and Web 2.0 issues, content regulation and the interests of young people, e-commerce, provision of government services by Internet, online bankings, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and the use of encryption, Internet governance, intellectual property in digital artefacts, and decision-making technologies in public administration.
Much of the centre's work concerned Australian law and policy, but there was also a focus on the development of cyberspace regulation in Asia, the fastest growing part of cyberspace's "terrestrial footprint". There was at time also increasing interest in jurisdictional and other issues created by personal and other data stored outside a person's home country in "the cloud".
The Centre collaborated with lawyers and legal researchers in a range of other firms and organisations, including as Research Associates. It also enabled experienced external researchers to visit, and students to do internships or volunteer.
Research projects
Some of the centre's research projects include the following:
Net Filtering & Young People
This research project looked at Internet filtering and censorship proposals developed by recent Australian governments. It generated materials from workshops in 2008 and 2009, and an extensive references list covering those years. It involved collaboration with the UNSW Journalism and Media Research Centre.
Unlocking IP
Unlocking IP: New models for sharing and trading IP: "Unlocking IP" is a research project supported by a 2005-2009 ARC Linkage grant to a consortium led by Graham Greenleaf, contributions from industry partners, and hosted by the Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre.
As well as hosting a library of publications, and events such as Unlocking IP conferences in 2004, 2006, and 2009,
the project and its participants also:
hosted the House of Commons Blog,
co-hosted the launch of the Creative Commons licence Australian version, and the Free for Education open content licences,
supported the work of several PhD candidates, including a development of tools to survey the extent of open content licences used online, and
saw a number of spin-off projects, including work:
for Consumers International on the 2006 Copyright Act amendments legalising format-shifting (e.g. iPod) and time-shif |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phodoryctis%20thrypticosema | Phodoryctis thrypticosema is a moth of the family Gracillariidae. It is known from South Africa and Zimbabwe.
The larvae feed on Craibia brevicaudata. They mine the leaves of their host plant. The mine has the form of a moderate, irregular, narrowly oblong, semi-transparent blotch-mine on the upperside of the leaf.
References
Acrocercopinae
Lepidoptera of South Africa
Lepidoptera of Zimbabwe
Moths of Sub-Saharan Africa
Moths described in 1961 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver%20%281985%20TV%20series%2C%20season%204%29 | The fourth season of the American television series MacGyver consisting of 19 episodes. The series began on October 31, 1988 and ended on May 15, 1989 while it aired on the ABC network. The first season of the series to be broadcast in stereo. The region 1 DVD was released on December 6, 2005.
Episodes
References
External links
1988 American television seasons
1989 American television seasons
MacGyver (1985 TV series) seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-induced%20medical%20problems | Computer-induced health problems can be an umbrella term for the various problems a computer user can develop from extended and incorrect computer use. A computer user may experience many physical health problems from using computers extensively over a prolonged period of time in an inefficient manner. The computer user may have poor etiquette when using peripherals, for example incorrect posture. Reportedly, excessive use of electronic screen media can have ill effects on mental health related to mood, cognition, and behavior, even to the point of hallucination.
Overview
In today's world, using computers is a necessity for the majority of people but not many people actually consider the medical consequences that working with computers can cause, such as damaged eyesight, bad posture, arthritis in fingers and computer stress injuries that can be caused by sitting in one position for a prolonged period of time. The above problems are more commonly associated with old age but due to many factors such as poor component design, proximity of the user to the screen and an excess of consecutive working hours mean that the above problems can feature in both young and old computer users. This is an extremely important issue as computers become more important in every corner of employment the medical effects caused by them will elevate unless sufficient research is performed and time is dedicated into eliminating and reducing these problems as much as possible.
It is estimated that today at least 75% of all jobs involve some level of computer use; this means three-quarters of the workforce are being exposed to numerous health problems, the same can be said of students and educators who do not go through any day without access to a computer for academic work. The figure for people working with and using computers recreationally is to increase considerably in the coming years so it is crucially important that these problems are identified and resolved sooner rather than later in an effort to reduce if not eradicate these problems.
Common computer-induced medical problems
Notable physical medical problems that can arise from using computers include Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Computer Vision Syndrome, and Musculoskeletal problems.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
The medical problem associated with computer-related work is carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). CTS is a stress-related injury caused by repetitive movement of joints, especially the wrist, and can lead to numerous musculoskeletal problems. It has become very common among Computer professionals due to poorly placed computer components and extensive typing over a long period of time. Studies conducted show that one in eight computer professionals experience CTS. This study was conducted over 21 companies and the majority of affected people said that they experienced acute and in some cases severe pain due to CTS. The main cause of CTS seems to be debatable, however, with many sources saying that the syndrome is pred |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhale%20Yoga%20with%20Steve%20Ross | Inhale Yoga with Steve Ross, sometimes shortened to just Inhale, was an Oxygen Network television show in the US that was shown at 6am from spring 2000 until spring 2010. The show featured the yoga instructor Steve Ross, named the "guru of Los Angeles" by Vanity Fair.
Critics note the lack of technical guidance and disruptive commercial breaks.
References
2000 American television series debuts
2010 American television series endings
Oxygen (TV channel) original programming
Yoga mass media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20CJK%20fonts | This is a list of notable CJK fonts (computer fonts with a large range of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters). These fonts are primarily sorted by their typeface, the main classes being "with serif", "without serif" and "script". This article name the two first classes Ming and sans-serif (gothic) while further divide the "script" into several Chinese script styles.
The fonts are then sorted by their target writing system:
Chinese: Chinese character. (May also support bopomofo.)This can be subdivided into the following classification:
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese (General, using printing standard or jiu zixing, )
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan, using education standard: Standard Form of National Characters, )
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong, using education standard: List of Graphemes of Commonly-Used Chinese Characters, )
The following localization table shortens Simplified Chinese to SC and Traditional Chinese to TC.
Japanese: kanji, hiragana and katakana
Korean: Hangul, hanja, etc.
Vietnamese: for the Nom script formerly used
Zhuang: for Sawndip
Pan-Unicode: intended to globally support the majority of Unicode's characters, and not specifically designed for one or a few writing systems (note that Pan-Unicode font ≠ Unicode font)
Pan-CJK: intended to support the majority of Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters, and not specifically designed for any one of these writing systems
Legends
[F] means the font is free and open-source software (FOSS). [F] means it was formerly seen as FOSS but has been involved in a legal controversy.
Ming (Song)
Pan-Unicode/Pan-CJK
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Vietnamese
Zhuang
Sans-serif
Pan-Unicode/Pan-CJK
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Vietnamese
Regular script
Chinese
Vietnamese
Clerical script
Imitation Song
Other fonts or projects
Pan-Unicode/Pan-CJK
Chinese
Japanese
Korean
Font series
This section lists fonts that are designed to be used together, or created by the same person/organization such that it forms a series of fonts.
Font Foundries
This section lists major font foundries that produce CJK fonts.
See also
Calligraphy
Chinese input methods for computers
Free software Unicode typefaces
Japanese input methods
Keyboard layout
Korean language and computers
List of typefaces
Unicode typeface
Notes
References
Further reading
External links
East Asian Unicode fonts for Windows computers
List of free Simplified Chinese fonts
List of free Traditional Chinese fonts
List of free Japanese fonts
List of free Korean fonts
Free Chinese Font
Free Japanese Font
Free Korean Fonts
Arphic Public License: a free font, licensed by Arphic Technology
免费中文字体
適用於 GNU/Linux 的字型
Japanese Fonts on OSDN
CJKV Fonts on ArchWiki
Maoken.com, Free Chinese Fonts list
Luc Devroye's Type Design Information Pages: China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macau, Taiwan
Chinese script style
Chinese type styles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSI-63 | NSI-63 is a railway signaling system used for interlocking on the Norwegian railway network. It is based on relays and was developed by Norsk Signal Industri for the Norwegian State Railways (NSB) during the early 1960s. The systems are installed at railway stations and passing loops and consist of single relays built form drawings. The system is simple, robust and economical for smaller stations on single-track railways. The system makes use of track circuits for train detection.
History
NSB-63 was based on NSB-EB, the very first automatic interlocking system used in Norway. NSB-63 is the most common system used in Norway, with about 220 installed interlockings belonging to the Norwegian National Rail Administration. This is more than the combined number of other interlocking systems. About 140 of the systems were installed during the 1960s, with about 80 installed during the 1970s. NSB later developed a series of modified versions of NSI-63, which were installed up until the 1990s. The first development was NSI-63/PLS, which used programmable logic controllers (PLC) instead of telephone relays. Other variations include NSB-78 and NSB-84, which have about 25 and 10 installed units, respectively.
The most extensive redevelopment of NSI-63 is NSB-87. It was developed to be installed on the Røros Line, including all stations between Hamar and Røros, and selected stations on the Nordland Line. It was designed to only work at the simplest stations, and lacks some of the more advanced features in NSI-63. NSB-87 was developed by SattControl, now part of ABB Group, who made the computer and communication systems, based on PLC. The National Rail Administration made the relay circuits and the software. The design of NSB-87 included a simplification of the NSI-63 design, in particular to reduce costs.
During the 1990s, NSB and its successor the Norwegian National Rail Administration chose to install Siemens ESTW on the Gardermoen Line, and Adtranz-developed NSB-GS at Oslo Central Station. Following the Åsta accident, the Accident Investigation Board Norway criticized the National Rail Administration for having installed NSB-87, a system that by the time it was installed, was out of date, a mixed relay and PLC technology in an inappropriate way.
From the mid-2000s, Norway has been required to implement European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) on all new lines. The first part of this, GSM-R, was finished installed on the whole railway network from 2 January 2007. The estimated lifetime of NSI-63-based systems are 40 to 50 years. The National Rail Administration has started a plan to replace the existing interlocking systems with an ERTMS-compatible system. In 2008, the Merkur system designed by ABB was not permitted used by the Norwegian Railway Inspectorate, and the National Rail Administration has chosen to instead adopt a strategy to retain the use of NSI-63 on all new railway projects until the introduction of ERTMS Level 2. As of 2010, the a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liblzg | liblzg is a compression library for performing lossless data compression. It implements an algorithm that is a variation of the LZ77 algorithm, called the LZG algorithm, with the primary focus of providing a very simple and fast decoding method. One of the key features of the algorithm is that it requires no memory during decompression. The software library is free software, distributed under the zlib license.
Algorithm
If a duplicate series of bytes (a repeated string) is spotted in the uncompressed data stream, then a back-reference is inserted, linking to the previous location of that identical string instead. An encoded match to an earlier string consists of a length (3–128 bytes) and a distance (1–526,341 bytes). The level of compression can be controlled by specifying the maximum distance for which duplicated strings will be searched (this is the size of the sliding window).
Data format
The data format consists of a header, followed by the compressed data. The header contains an identifier and house keeping information, such as compressed and decompressed data sizes and a 32-bit checksum (a variant of the Fletcher checksum).
The compressed data starts with four bytes, identifying four unique 8-bit marker symbols (m1, m2, m3 and m4). These are used to separate literal data bytes from various forms of length-distance pair encodings.
Any symbol that is not a marker byte is considered a literal byte, and will be copied as is to the decompressed data buffer. However, if the decoder encounters any of the four marker bytes, it will decode a length-distance pair that is used as a back reference into the previously decompressed data.
The marker bytes are interpreted as follows (% denotes a binary number):
General copy (m1)
m1 represents the most general form of a copy operation, and it occupies four bytes in the compressed data stream:
...where length=, and offset=.
Medium copy (m2)
m2 is a shorter form of a copy operation, occupying three bytes in the compressed data stream:
...where length=, and offset=.
Short copy (m3)
m3 requires only two bytes, and is used for short lengths, close to the marker:
...where length=, and offset=.
Near copy (m4)
m4 requires only two bytes, and is used for nearby copies (including RLE, when the offset is 1):
...where length=, and offset=.
Literal copy
As a special case, if any of the marker symbols are followed by a zero byte (0), the marker symbol itself is written to the decompressed buffer.
Non-linear length encoding
The function implements a non-linear mapping of a number in the range 3-33 to a number in the range 3-128, according to the following table:
Worst case data growth
As the marker symbols are chosen as the four least common symbols in the uncompressed data stream (with a probability of at most each), and a single occurrence of a marker symbol requires two bytes to encode, the compressed data may grow by at most < 1.6% compared to the decompressed data (worst case).
The li |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP-823/U | The CP-823/U, also known as the Univac 1830, was the first digital airborne 30-bit computer. It was engineered, built and tested as the A-NEW MOD3 prototype computer for the Lockheed P-3 Orion.
In 1963, the US Navy Dept., Bureau of Weapons, Naval Air Development Center contracted Univac Defense Systems Division of Sperry-Rand to perform a study of the feasibility of a central digital avionics computer for the Navy’s Project A-NEW, the ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare) development for the Lockheed P-3 Orion. The idea was to develop and build the first central digital computing system able to coordinate the many sensors, MPD (Multipurpose Display) and tactical air command functions.
The study, “Final Report on Avionics Unit Computer Study 10-21-63”, concluded that a miniature, modular, digital avionics computer could be engineered, built and tested using current developing technologies.
After a meeting in January 1964 with representatives from Univac and the Naval Air Development Center, contracts worth almost $2 million were awarded to Univac Defense Systems Division to engineer, build and test the first digital 30-bit Airborne computer, the CP-823/U (Univac 1830) engineering prototype, for the A-NEW MOD3 test aircraft.
This would be Univac’s first computer to use flatpack monolithic integrated circuits, using a diode-transistor logic (DTL) silicon chip. This technology was simultaneously being developed for use in the Univac 1824 for the missile guidance program. It was also their first computer to lay the electronics flat, on a printed circuit card, instead of on-end like the cordwood block electronics modules, (Burndy packs).
The CP-823/U Computing System, Serial A1, (Univac 1830), A-NEW MOD3 was delivered to the Naval Air Development Center, Johnsville, Pa in 1965. It consisted of a Control Console (Maintenance Panel), combined Airborne Power Supply, Central Processor, 32,000 30-bit Memory unit, four Airborne I/O units, Ground I/O unit and cables.
The Univac 1830, Navy designated CP-823/U, was a digital electronic computing machine which received problems and data and processed answers in numerical form. It used parallel binary arithmetic and logic operations; word length was 30 bits. All of the Central Processor (C.P.) logic and I/O logic control was microelectronic circuitry, constructed of integrated, monolithic semiconductor elements (resistors, diodes and transistors contained within a single chip of silicon). Logic cards that were not microelectronic are the Master Clock cards in the C.P and the Input amplifier and output data driver cards in the I/O units.
In the A-NEW integrated system, the CP-823/U airborne digital computer performed many functions aboard the Lockheed P-3 Orion test aircraft. It continuously computed the aircraft’s latitude and longitude, calculated optimum deployment of sonobuoys, kept tabs on their location with respect to the moving aircraft and determined estimated target positions from data supplied by all air |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable%20telemetry | The portable system for telemetry applications is a solution that gathers in a portable computer full functionalities and performances. Based on Data acquisition software, Portable Telemetry is an essential tool for the test engineer to run tests on-site.
Function
Portable Telemetry system acquires, analyzes and visualizes data from PCM telemetry signal, whatever the format (IRIG, CCSDS, CE83). Portable Telemetry is defined in various configuration : laptop with PCMCIA cards, with PCI cards, or external USB modules. It provides all the functionality in the same working environment.
Use
Portable Telemetry can be used in various applications such as:
Missile applications
J.A.V Applications
Aircraft / Flight testing
Space
References
Telemetry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%2012%20Network | The Big 12 Network (stylized as the Big XII Network) was a syndicated package featuring live broadcasts of College basketball events from the Big 12 Conference that was broadcast under that branding from 2008 until 2014. It was owned and operated by ESPN Plus, the syndication arm of ESPN, Inc., and was mainly shown in areas in the Big 12’s geographical footprint, along with other areas of the United States. Games were shown locally on broadcast stations, regional sports networks, as well as on ESPN Full Court, and WatchESPN.
History
The Creative Sports/OCC merger and the ESPN Plus years
Beginning in 1996 after ESPN’s consolidation of Creative Sports (which ESPN owned since 1994 ) and OCC Sports (acquired from Ohlmeyer Communication Company), ESPN Plus (also known as ESPN Regional Television) assumed syndication rights to Big 12 Conference men’s basketball games after the Big 8 Conference and the Southwest Conference merged to create the Big 12. Raycom Sports previously had syndication rights to basketball and football games of both those conferences from the 1980s until that syndicator lost the Big 8 in 1993–94, and the Southwest Conference merged with the Big 8 to become the Big 12 Conference in 1996.
The new branding
Starting with the 2008–2009 season, all Big 12 Conference basketball game broadcasts from ESPN Plus began to be broadcast under the Big 12 Network branding.
Demise
After the first 18 years of the conference’s existence, the Big 12 Network ceased operations in 2014 as all rights to Big 12 Basketball moved to the ESPN family of networks (e.g. ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPNews).
Several Big 12 basketball games also moved to the Texas Longhorns-oriented Longhorn Network, which is a joint venture between ESPN and the University of Texas at Austin that launched in August 2011.
However, CBS Sports does choose to broadcast at least two to three Big 12 games under their NCAA on CBS branding.
On-air personalities
College basketball
Dave Armstrong – play-by-play commentator (2010–2013)
Reid Gettys – color commentator (2010–2013)
Mitch Holthus – play-by-play commentator (2010–2013)
Bryndon Manzer – Big 12 Conference color commentator (2010–2013)
Chris Piper – Big 12 Conference sideline reporter (2012–2013)
Brad Sham – Big 12 Conference play-by-play (2010–2013)
Jon Sundvold – Big 12 Conference color commentator (2010–2012)
Rich Zvosec – Big 12 Conference sideline reporter (2012–2013)
Availability
The Big 12 Network was available mainly in areas of the central United States, including much of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, eastern Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, and western Arkansas. Other areas served by the Big 12 Network included parts of West Virginia, north-central and east-central Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and southern Pennsylvania, especially during the 2012–2013 and 2013–2014 season. This was true because in 2012, Texas Christian University joined the Big 12 from the Mountain West Conference, and West Virginia University joined the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Vanilla%20Ice%20Project | The Vanilla Ice Project is an American reality television series on the DIY Network. It is hosted by construction contractor and rapper Rob Van Winkle, a.k.a. Vanilla Ice, who has significant experience with home improvement and real estate flipping. Ice began purchasing houses in his early twenties and became more involved in home improvement projects starting around 1998.
Production
The series premiered on October 14, 2010 with the initial season continuing until January 1, 2011. Season 2 of The Vanilla Ice Project started on January 21, 2012, and featured a new house and more up-to-date and state-of-the-art improvements. To mark the premiere, Vanilla Ice posted live Tweets during the show on Twitter, answering fan questions and commenting on the show.
Due to the success of the show, Vanilla Ice launched a training course that aims to help others succeed at real estate investing.
Episodes
Awards
In addition to winning the Telly Award, the Factual Entertainment Award and Hermes Platinum Press Award, the first season of The Vanilla Ice Project was selected as a finalist for the Cable Fax Awards.
Home media
A deluxe edition DVD box set of the first season was released in late 2016. This included deleted scenes as well as a bonus episode that follows Vanilla Ice and his long-time friend Dave Whitman as they remodel Whitman's home in Pennsylvania. The series is available to stream on Discovery+.
External links
Official site for The Vanilla Ice Project
Vanilla Ice Real Estate's official website
References
2010 American television series debuts
2010s American reality television series
2019 American television series endings
DIY Network original programming
English-language television shows
Home renovation television series
Vanilla Ice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodie%20family | The Brodie family are a fictional family from the soap opera River City that appeared on-screen from 2010 onwards.
Creation
On 1 September 2010, ATV News Network announced that a new mixed-race family would join River City. The family were collectively introduced by the show’s executive producer Gaynor Holmes, and debuted on-screen throughout October and November. The family consists of patriarch Michael Brodie (Andy Clark); his son and daughter, Conor (Rian John Gordon) and Nicole (Holly Jack); his wife Leyla (Maryam Hamidi); her son Adeeb (Taryam Boyd); and Michael’s brothers Gabriel (Garry Sweeney) and Leo (Nick Rhys). Speaking of the family, Holmes stated: "We're absolutely delighted to be welcoming Andy Clark, Garry Sweeney, Nick Rhys and Maryam Hamidi to River City. They're certainly going to shake things up in Shieldinch with some exciting upcoming stories. It is a real testament to the show’s popularity that it continues to attract such strong acting talent."
Gabriel Brodie
Gabriel Brodie, played by Garry Sweeney, is Michael and Leo's brother. He made his first on-screen appearance on 5 October 2010. Sweeney spoke on his casting: "It’s a joy to be part of the cast and to play such a larger-than-life character like Gabriel. He is so much fun to play – always ducking and diving – but also seems to have a real heart of gold."
Gabriel arrives in Shieldinch and breaks into 11 Montego Street to leave a post-it note in the fridge with "found you" written on it. Later, he sets up a stall outside Versus, annoying prospective tenant Fraser Crozier. He breaks into the premises to move his stock in and calls the letting agents. Gabriel later asks Stella Walker (Keira Lucchesi) to lock herself in so he can meet with the estate agent. When he meets the agent, the agent refuses to let him on the premises. After another disagreement, Fraser calls the police and reports Gabriel for selling stolen goods, but when the police search, they find Fraser's goods have already been reported as stolen and Gabriel's are legitimate.
Gabriel gives the agent the deposit for Versus. He officially departed in late 2015 before returning for Malcolm Hamilton's funeral in March 2016. He left in April but returned again in the summer to help Stevie Burns, before remaining as a regular in July as Kelly Marie-Adams announces she is pregnant with his child. Gabriel is attacked by Alex Murdoch, but survives. In 2019, Gabriel dies after being shot by Dougie Patterso. Years later, Gabriel returns as an angel after Stevie O'Hara attempts to kill himself. Gabriel returned yet again in a Multiverse dream shared between Bob and Angus where he is married to Eileen.
Michael Brodie
Michael "Mike" Brodie, played by Andy Clark, is Leyla's husband and Conor and Nicole's father. He made his first on-screen appearance on 5 October 2010, and becomes the soap's resident general practitioner. The character's profile on the official River City website describes him as "uptight and regim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario%20Highway%205A | Ontario Highway 5A (1937–1953), as a former Connecting Link in the Ontario Provincial Highway Network, bypassed portions of Ontario Highway 5 within what is now Toronto. There were two discontinuous segments:
Dundas Street, Scarlett Road, and St. Clair Avenue from Highway 5 (Islington) eastward to Highway 11 (Yonge Street, Toronto).
Eglinton Avenue from Victoria Park Avenue (then Dawes Road, Scarborough) eastward to Ontario Highway 2 (Kingston Road); renumbered as Highway 109 in 1953.
Roads in the Greater Toronto Area
005A
1937 establishments in Ontario
1953 disestablishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20In%20Plain%20Sight%20characters | This is a list of characters in the USA Network original drama TV series In Plain Sight, which follows two U.S. marshals working in the witness protection program. The principal cast has undergone many changes over the course of the show. Additionally, various recurring characters have appeared during the show's run.
Main characters
Mary Shannon
Marshal Mary Shannon (Mary McCormack) is a US marshal working in witness protection. She is a sharp-tongued nonconformist, often leading to difficulties. Her father, a gambler, left her childhood family after robbing a bank. Mary's issues, stemming from her father's abandonment and her mother's alcoholism, has saved the lives of some of her witnesses.
Throughout the first season, Mary almost constantly fights with her mother, Jinx, and her sister, Brandi. She is unable to understand why they cannot obtain and hold steady jobs, which often leads to conflict. Meanwhile, Mary is dating Raphael ("Raph"), a minor league baseball player. He finds her difficult at times, but ultimately loves her. In the season finale, a two-part episode including "Stan by Me" (1.11) and "A Fine Meth" (1.12), Mary is kidnapped and Brandi is charged with and almost convicted of distributing drugs due to Brandi's usual poor choice in men.
During the second season, Mary's family continues to annoy her, but she can see past it more often. She becomes engaged to Raph, though she has feelings of uncertainty at times. She is, however, able to trust him enough to reveal the true nature of her job to him. Throughout the season, a new office manager, Eleanor Prince, is hired. Mary immediately decides she doesn't like her, but eventually, they become mild friends. In the second-season finale, "Don't Cry for Me, Albuquerque" (2.15), Mary is shot while defending a witness. Marshall, Mary's partner, and Stan, her boss, work together to find the person who shot her. They eventually do, but Mary is still in danger of losing her life.
The third season opens with Mary being released from the hospital, very much alive and ready to get back to work. Very early on, Raph calls off their wedding. Soon, Mary meets FBI Special Agent Mike Faber, who asks her on a date. She refuses. Soon, Mary and Brandi's half brother, Scott Griffin enters their lives. She is very skeptical of his motives, especially when he asks Brandi to give him money. They learn he is addicted to gambling, much like their father. Mary becomes increasingly annoyed with Brandi, and it comes to a peak when she actually hands the money over to Scott. By the season finale, "A Priest Walks Into a Bar" (3.13), Mary and Faber had started dating. At the start of the fourth season, Mary had already ended the relationship with Faber in order to give him the opportunity to try to work things out with his ex-wife. In the fifth episode of the season, "Second Crime Around", it is revealed that she has an ex-husband, Mark, whom she married at 17 but divorced soon after. In the sixth ep |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit%20Fall | Rabbit Fall is a Canadian television supernatural drama series, which aired on Space, APTN and Saskatchewan Communications Network.
The series stars Andrea Menard as Tara Wheaton, a police officer of Métis descent who takes a job in Rabbit Fall, a remote town in northern Saskatchewan with a history of unexplained events; she is reluctant to accept the community's supernatural explanations for the events, but finds that the events challenge her sense of rationality. The series was shot primarily in the community of Duck Lake, Saskatchewan.
The show's cast also includes Kevin Jubinville, Peter Stebbings, Peter Kelly Gaudreault, Tinsel Korey, Patrick Bird, Tamara Podemski and Booth Savage.
Produced by Angel Entertainment, the series premiered in 2007 with a six-episode first season which aired solely on APTN. Its eight-episode second season aired in 2008 on both APTN and Space. The series has not produced any further episodes since 2008, but has sometimes aired in repeats on both APTN and SCN as recently as the late 2010s.
Menard received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Actress in a Drama Series at the 24th Gemini Awards in 2009. The series was nominated for Best Drama Series at the Saskatchewan Motion Picture Industry Association's Showcase Awards in the same year.
References
External links
2000s Canadian drama television series
2007 Canadian television series debuts
2008 Canadian television series endings
Aboriginal Peoples Television Network original programming
CTV Sci-Fi Channel original programming
Television shows set in Saskatchewan
Television shows filmed in Saskatoon
First Nations television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels%20Regional%20Express%20Network | The Brussels S-train, also known as the Brussels Regional Express Network ( or RER; or GEN) is a suburban rail system in and around the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. It will offer fast connections and increased frequency within a radius of the region, covering a territory inhabited by 2.5 million people.
Most jobs in the Brussels-Capital Region are filled by workers from other regions. Private vehicles clog the city daily, hampering mobility and creating pollution. The RER/GEN is a response to these growing problems. Only 20% of commuters use public transport daily; the goal is to double this figure by facilitating movement into and within the region.
Total costs for the GEN/RER project will be at least €2.173bn. The initially planned nine lines have since increased to 12; but the projected frequency of "a departure at least every 15 minutes" has not been implemented as of early 2018: most services run once per hour, a few twice per hour.
The scope includes widening existing railway lines from double to quadruple; a few additions like the Schuman-Josaphat tunnel; the creation or re-activation of stations just outside Brussels' city centre (Germoir/Mouterij and Arcades/Arcaden on the south-east, Brussels-West and Tour et Taxis/Thurn en Taxis on the west); and the acquisition of new rolling stock.
History
A first draft of the RER/GEN network was published in 1995. The commissioning of the first lines was then planned for 2002.
Construction requires the approval and funding from the Federal Government and the three regions, as well as the collaboration of four public transit companies (NMBS/SNCB, MIVB/STIB, De Lijn and TEC). The initial work started in 2005, and service was supposed to start in 2012. However, Belgium's administrative complexity caused numerous delays and postponements; the network will now be put into service between 2015 and 2025.
Infrastructure
Railway lines within a radius of Brussels are included in the project. Parts of the project are already in place. The most substantial works relate to the quad-tracking of several lines: two tracks for GEN/RER trains, and two tracks for intercity and high-speed trains.
The RER/GEN project includes a double-tracked Schuman-Josaphat tunnel in the north-east of the region. This links the European Quarter to Brussels Airport, cutting to 13 minutes journey times between the two.
Most of the network uses existing rail lines. Increased frequencies and passengers, however, requires other significant infrastructure projects, in addition to the Schuman-Josaphat tunnel:
Quad-tracking of sections in order to segregate local and regional traffic from faster inter-city trains
Demolition and reconstruction of several bridges that cross the wider track
Construction of additional breakpoints
Installation of noise barriers
Redevelopment of 28 existing stations in Brussels
Creation of transfer points
Construction of park-and-ride lots
Rolling stock
As of 2020 most services are oper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberia%20%28ISP%29 | Cyberia is a West-Asian ISP that was established in 1995 by Transmog Inc. serving branches in Lebanon, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia.
Cyberia offers such as:
ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line): A combination of phone and data signals on a phone line that allows Internet Connection to reach very high speeds.
Wireless broadband: The transfer of Internet over a certain distance without using electrical conductors or any wires. So, instead of hooking the internet to the computer, the computer can be hooked up with the internet connection.
Dial-up: Form of an Internet connection that uses fixed phone line.
Fair usage policy is a policy Cyberia uses to ensure that all the subscribers of Cyberia have an enjoyable experience while using the Internet. This policy only applies to shared broadband users. Cyberia will monitor the Internet capacity used by each subscriber during the unlimited period and will apply a speed restriction to the user who exceeds the normal Internet consumption. If this account continues to use high capacity again during the unlimited period, Cyberia will hold the account user liable of breaking the "Fair Usage Policy" and will stop the service either temporarily or permanently without prior notice.
History
In 1996, Cyberia obtained license to offer Internet services to the market, and later that year it became the leading Internet service provider.
In 1998, Cyberia launched a consulting group for the region which made it have a very good infrastructure and thus its launching in Saudi Arabia in 1999
In 1999, Cyberia was given the year's "Best Commercial Internet Solution" award for the Gulf and Middle East from Microsoft Corporation. It was chosen for this special award because of its performance and success in Internet applications development, and for building high and innovative Internet solutions for its consumers.
In July 2003, Cyberia got its hands on INDEX Holdings L.L.C (One of Jordan's top ISP)
Lebanon
Cyberia is now the major Internet Service Provider in Lebanon and it owns more than 50 percent market share.
In 2009, a meeting was held with the board of directors CEO and chairman Kamal Shehadi (Representatives from private companies licensed to provide Internet Services with representatives from companies such as, "Cable 1" and representatives of Internet service providers, "Cyberia", "IDM", "Broadband Plus" and "TerraNet" to raise discussion about the problems that are facing Lebanese consumers and how to deal with it.
Despite the fact that Cyberia offers excellent Internet services, there was a misconception with the Fair Usage Policy which was applied to DSL users with free night traffic. This raised a huge feud among customers since they had now a limit on the amount of download they can do at night. However, this policy proved to be effective on the long term since this was made to set restrictions and to ensure that users who engage in substantial continuous download activity will not impair the performan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPrint | AirPrint is a feature in Apple Inc.'s macOS and iOS operating systems for printing
without installing printer-specific drivers.
Connection is via a local area network (often via Wi-Fi), either directly to AirPrint-compatible printers, or to non-compatible shared printers by way of a computer running Microsoft Windows, Linux, or macOS.
History and printer compatibility
Following the iPad's introduction in 2010, user concerns were raised about the product's inability to print, at least through a supported Apple solution. Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs reportedly replied "It will come" in May 2010 to a user request for printing.
AirPrint's Fall 2010 introduction, as part of iOS 4.2, gave iPhones and iPads printing capability for the first time. AirPrint for Mac computers was introduced in the Mac OS X Lion release.
At launch, twelve printers were AirPrint compatible, all of them from the HP Photosmart Plus e-All-in-One series. As of July 2020, that number had grown to about 6,000 compatible printer models from two dozen different manufacturers. The current list can be found on Apple's support site. The related technology is covered by .
AirPrint was originally intended for iOS devices and connected via a Wi-Fi network only, and thus required a Wi-Fi access point. However, with the introduction of AirPrint to the macOS desktop platform in 2012, Macs connected to the network via Ethernet connection could also print using the AirPrint protocol—not just those connected via Wi-Fi. Direct Wi-Fi connection between the device and the printer is not supported by default, but has appeared as the 'HP ePrint Wireless Direct AirPrint' feature. It uses a proprietary page description language called Apple Raster.
Non-AirPrint printer support
A number of software solutions allow for non-AirPrint printers to be used with iOS devices, by configuring support on an intermediary system accessible via Wi-Fi, connected to the printer. Since AirPrint is driverless, such a configuration compensates for the printer's lack of native AirPrint support by using the drivers on the intermediary system instead.
The simplest solution for all platforms is to create a new Bonjour service that tricks iOS clients into believing they're talking to an AirPrint device. Many blog posts and commercial software products exist to accomplish this, as well as open-source solutions in Linux. This works in many cases because AirPrint is an extension of the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), which many printers already support either directly, or as a result of being shared through an intermediary system (typically CUPS, the Mac/Linux printing system). This approach is limited however, as the AirPrint-specific components of the protocol are missing. This can lead to compatibility issues and unexpected results. Some software packages address this completely by translating between the two dialects of IPP, avoiding compatibility issues, while most just re-share printers using the AirPrint |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground%20%28Armchair%20Theatre%29 | "Underground" was a science-fiction television play presented as part of the British anthology series Armchair Theatre which was broadcast live by the ITV commercial network on 30 November 1958. It is chiefly remembered because an actor had a fatal heart attack during transmission.
Written by dramatist James Forsyth (1913–2005) the play depicted survivors from a nuclear holocaust living in the London Underground. It featured actors Donald Houston, Ian Curry, Patricia Jessel, Warren Mitchell, Peter Bowles and 33-year-old Gareth Jones in what would be his last role.
A little over halfway through the production, Gareth Jones complained of feeling unwell while off-set in make-up between two of his scenes, and then suddenly collapsed and died as he was about to continue. His character was due to die from a heart attack during the course of the play. Peter Bowles recalled many years later: "During transmission, a little group of us was talking on camera while awaiting the arrival of Gareth Jones's character, who had some information for us. We could see him coming up towards us, but we saw him fall. We had no idea what had happened, but he certainly wasn't coming our way. The actors started making up lines, 'I'm sure if so-and-so were here he would say'..."
Producer Sydney Newman instructed director Ted Kotcheff to continue with the play and "shoot it like a football match", meaning to follow the characters around as they improvised a way of coping with the missing cast member. Kotcheff hurriedly re-structured the story during a commercial break in order to be able to bring the play to an end without the missing character being noticed by the audience.
While Kotcheff was on the studio floor, the inexperienced production assistant Verity Lambert, later to become the founding producer of Doctor Who, directed camera movements from the studio gallery.
The actors were not informed that Jones had died until after the play had finished. Houston was a close friend and it was thought he would have been unable to continue if he had known.
No recording of this play exists, as live television transmissions at the time were not automatically recorded or preserved (See Wiping).
References
Further reading
External links
1958 television plays
1958 in British television
Armchair Theatre
ITV television dramas
Lost television episodes
November 1958 events in the United Kingdom
Television shows produced by ABC Weekend TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKF | OKF may refer to:
OKF, the IATA code for Okaukuejo Airport, Namibia
Open Knowledge Foundation, a global, non-profit network that promotes and shares information at no charge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Exalogic | Exalogic is a computer appliance made by Oracle Corporation, commercially available since 2010. It is a cluster of x86-64-servers running Oracle Linux or Solaris preinstalled.
Its full trade mark is Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud (derived from the SI prefix exa- and -logic, probably from Weblogic), positioned by the vendor as a preconfigured clustered application server to use for cloud computing with elastic computing abilities.
History
Oracle Corporation announced Exalogic at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco in September 2010. The company presented it as a continuation of the Oracle-engineered systems product-line which had started in 2008 with Exadata (preconfigured database cluster).
Exalogic is a factory assembled 19-inch rack of 42 rack units, completed with servers and network equipment. There are 4 configurations, at different prices, depending on what fills the rack.
The weight of the full rack is about 1 ton (more than 2000 lbs), a quarter rack weighs half as much.
Hardware
The hardware component of the X2-2 appliance consisted of: a group of 1-unit Intel Xeon servers, each equipped with two six-core 2.93 GHz processors and two solid-state drives for operating system and swap space; a common storage area network; and a set of InfiniBand and Ethernet switches. A full rack contains 30 server nodes, a half rack, 16, a quarter rack, 8, and an eighth rack, 4. Each server node has installed 96 GB of RAM, four 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces, and a double InfiniBand port. The storage area network for all configurations is similar, with 40 TB of raw space. The vendor's specifications and advertising content usually indicate the total parameters (360 processor kernels and 2.9 TB RAM for full rack).
An X3-2 model was announced in 2012 with newer processors and more memory. Since late 2013 an X4-2 model is commercially available, it has yet more processor cores and four times as large capacity of solid-state drives.
The latest version of Exalogic compute nodes have two Intel E5-2699v3 2.3 GHz Xeon (18-core) processors and eight 32 GB DDR4 2133 MHz RAM for a total of 256 GB per node. Two 400 GB SSDs (RAID1) and redundant power supplies
Software
Two 64-bit operating systems run on the server nodes of the appliance: Oracle Linux version 5.5 or Solaris 11. All servers have an installed cluster configuration of Oracle WebLogic Server and distributed memory cache Oracle Coherence. To run Java applications on a machine there is a choice of HotSpot or JRockit. Management of the appliance is available in the Oracle Enterprise Manager toolset, which is also pre-installed in the appliance. A transaction monitor Tuxedo is optionally supplied.
Customers
Exalogic is deployed by the University of Melbourne, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States, Amway, the Hyundai Motor Group, Bank of Chile, Haier, and Deutsche Post DHL, Public Authority of Minors Affairs (PAMA) in Kuwait .
Criticism
Mark Benioff, founder of Salesfo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griffin%20Castillo | Griffin Castillo is a fictional character from the ABC and The Online Network soap opera All My Children. The character debuted on November 16, 2010, and was portrayed by Jordi Vilasuso.
Storylines
Griffin Castillo first appeared at Pine Valley Hospital and immediately began flirting with the married Amanda Martin and helped her repair her husband's car. He also assisted Opal Cortlandt after a heart related problem where he was revealed to be a Cardiologist. Later that day, Griffin is punched by Jake Martin, who reveals that Griffin is the man that stole his former wife Cara Finn, when all three had been involved in Doctors Without Borders. It was revealed on December 16, 2010, that Cara is actually Griffin's sister.
Griffin goes to find Zach Slater, who called him to town to help expand the Miranda Center, but when he goes to Zach's house, his wife Kendall, tells him Zach has died in plane crash. Griffin saved his mentor Dr. David Hayward's life when he was admitted with a gunshot wound. Later, Dr. Angie Hubbard offered Griffin a job working at Pine Valley Hospital due to being short-staffed, Griffin accepted.
Cara is revealed to be traveling on a fake passport, and ends up getting detained by Immigration. Later, Jake's brother, Tad, steps up to help her by saying Cara is his fiancée. Griffin goes along with the ruse to save Cara, keeping their mother, Leticia, at bay so that she can't stop the wedding. Later, he tells Jake to help Cara get a full-time job at the hospital to establish the cover of her marriage.
Griffin finds out Kendall thinks Zach was murdered by his casino partners, and wants to help her out. He later realizes that Reverend Ricky Torres is trying to win over Kendall, and tries to be light about it. Griffin saves Kendall's life when he has to perform heart surgery on her in the back of an ambulance, and confides to her that he has been taking drugs from the hospital to give to clinics around the world that need the medicine. When he tries to investigate the casino partners on his own, he ends up getting beaten and lies to Kendall about it.
Trying to save Kendall's life, Griffin tries to keep her at a distance, but Kendall is persistent, bidding at a bachelor auction for a date with him and even inviting him to her mother's wedding as her date. However, Griffin finds himself a target when Zach's partner, Diana Holden, is found dead in his room with evidence suggesting he was planning to leave town with her. Griffin insists he's innocent, but Kendall tells the police that Griffin stole drugs from the hospital, and he ends up in jail. While in lock-up, he is stabbed by a "guard," and taken to the hospital. Cara gets Jake to lie about his diagnosis so that he won't go back to jail. However, when the lie is revealed, Griffin confesses to protect Cara.
Before he can go back, Kendall helps him escape through a diversion Cara creates. She admits that she turned him in because she wanted answers about Zach's death, but realizes it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaner | Kaner may refer to:
People with the surname
Cem Kaner (fl. from 1988), American professor of software engineering
Jake Kaner (born 1959), British academic
Matthew Kaner (born 1986), British composer
Ömer Kaner (born 1959), Turkish footballer
Richard Kaner (fl. from 1984), American chemist
Walter Kaner (1920–2005), American journalist
Places
Kaner State, a village and former princely state in Kathiawar, Gujarat, India
See also
Kanera (disambiguation)
Danish Kaneria (born 1980), Pakistani cricketer
Surnames of Jewish origin
Kohenitic surnames
Jewish families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Black%20Bass%20%281986%20video%20game%29 | is a 1986 fishing video game developed and published by Gamu (later known as HOT・B). It was originally released for the MSX computer in 1986 and later ported to the Family Computer on March 18, 1987, in Japan. It is the first game in the long-running Black Bass series and was not released outside of Japan.
Gameplay
The objective is for the player to catch as many black bass as possible from sunrise to sunset. The player may select a beginner's game or ranking game. A ranking game requires a password. From here, a player may select a location on the lake to start at and begin fishing. Simply tossing a lure out with the desired power will start the process. A fish can be lured in by moving the lure around and if it bites, then the player can try reeling it in. Too much constant reeling leads to the line breaking and the loss of both the fish and the lure.
Between casting rounds, the player can make certain selections. Among the selections available is the option to change the type and or color of lure being used.
Legacy
Sequels
The Black Bass (USA) (known in Japan as The Black Bass II) (1989)
The Blue Marlin (1991)
Super Black Bass (1992)
Black Bass: Lure Fishing (Game Boy: 1994 / Game Boy Color: 1999)
Bassin's Black Bass with Hank Parker (known in Japan as Super Black Bass 2) (SNES: 1994 / PC: 2000)
Super Black Bass 3 (1995)
Bass Fishing Tatsujin Techou (1996)
Super Black Bass Pocket 2
Big Bass World Championship (known in Japan as Super Black Bass X)(1997)
TNN Outdoors Fishing Champ (known in Japan as Super Black Bass 3) (1998)
Black Bass with Blue Marlin (known in Japan as Super Black Bass X2 & Blue Marlin; both were later released separately) (1999)
Super Black Bass: Real Fight (1999)
American Bass Challenge (known in Japan as Super Black Bass Advance) (2001)
Fishing Fantasy: BuzzRod (known in Japan as BuzzRod: Fighting Fantasy) (2005)
Super Black Bass Fishing (known in Japan as Super Black Bass: Dynamic Shot) (2005)
Professional Fisherman's Tour: Northern Hemisphere (known in Japan as Super Black Bass: Kitahankyuu o Tsuru) (2007)
Super Black Bass: 3D Fight (2011)
External links
1986 video games
Fishing video games
Hot B games
MSX games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Video games developed in Japan
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KQSL | KQSL (channel 8) is a religious television station in Cloverdale, California, United States, which is a broadcast partner of the Total Living Network. The station is owned by One Ministries, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Santa Rosa, California. KQSL's transmitter is located west of Laytonville, California.
History
KQSL debuted in 1990 as KFWU, originally licensed to Fort Bragg, California and owned by California Oregon Broadcasting as a satellite of ABC affiliate KAEF-TV in Eureka. Previously, cable operators in Fort Bragg would carry either network-owned KGO-TV (channel 7) or KNTV (channel 11, currently an NBC owned-and-operated station). Despite KGO and KNTV's signals not being able to reach Fort Bragg at that time, KFWU was the third ABC station in the San Francisco Bay Area. However, the station was sold to Lamco Communications (along with KAEF) in 1995. It was then sold to Sainte Limited in 1996, and to Pappas Telecasting Companies in 1997, at which point KFWU became a satellite of KTNC-TV in Concord (however, at first, KFWU was considered the main station and KTNC the satellite). It became KUNO-TV in 2003.
On November 7, 2008, KUNO was taken silent due to financial troubles. In May 2008, Pappas filed for bankruptcy protection. On November 5, 2008, KUNO returned to on-air operation just under one year of having been silent with its analog facilities on channel 8 and pre-transition DTV facility on channel 15.
On January 16, 2009, it was announced that several Pappas stations, including KTNC and KUNO, would be sold to New World TV Group after the sale received United States bankruptcy court approval.
On June 12, 2009, KUNO signed off of its analog signal and completed its move to digital. Both KUNO and KDSL-CA (licensed to Ukiah, California) were transferred to Titan TV Broadcast Group on October 15, 2009. KUNO was taken silent again on October 31, 2009 and was subsequently sold to Jeff Chang in July 2010 for $100,000. The sale to Jeff Chang was completed on October 6, 2010, and he got the station back on the air just under one year of it being silent. If not for Jeff Chang relaunching KQSL's on-air operation, its license would have been revoked.
Upon taking over, Chang dropped the KTNC simulcast in favor of Retro Television Network programming, under new call letters. In October 2010, he call signed the station as KBQR; in June 2011, the station was given new a new call sign again, this time to KQSL. The KQSL call sign had previously belonged to an LPFM construction permit in Penngrove, California, belonging to One Ministries, Inc., and coincidentally One Ministries, Inc. would become the future owner of KQSL in 2018.
KQSL joined TheCoolTV in September 2011; the network regarded the station as its San Francisco affiliate. In 2012, KQSL dropped TheCoolTV and picked up FilmOn programming. The station dropped FilmOn in early 2013, but carried a schedule of classic television shows and entertainment news magazines and s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPLASH%20%28conference%29 | SPLASH is a programming language-related conference held since 2011, sponsored by the SIGPLAN special interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Its name is an acronym for Systems, Programming, Languages, and Applications: Software for Humanity. SPLASH is an umbrella conference for two longstanding conferences, OOPSLA and Onward! which are now tracks of SPLASH.
SPLASH conferences held so far have been:
Sparks, Nevada, October 17–21, 2010
Portland, Oregon, October 22–27, 2011
Tucson, Arizona, October 19–25, 2012
Indianapolis, Indiana, October 26–31, 2013
Portland, Oregon, October 20–24, 2014
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 25–30, 2015
Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 30 - November 4, 2016
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 22–27, 2017
Boston, Massachusetts, November 4–9, 2018
Athens, Greece, October 20–25, 2019
Virtual, November 15–21, 2020
Chicago, Illinois, October 17–25, 2021
Auckland, New Zealand, December 5–10, 2022
Upcoming SPLASH conferences:
Cascais, Portugal, October 22–27, 2023
References
External links
Official SPLASH website
History of the conference
Computer science conferences
Association for Computing Machinery conferences
Programming languages conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross%20Dawson | Ross Dawson is an Australian author, futurist, entrepreneur and former stockbroker. Best known for his 2002 book 'Living Networks', Dawson founded the futures think tank Future Exploration Network and consults on digital futures to various big organisations such as Ernst & Young, Macquarie Bank, Microsoft and News Corp.
Named by Digital Media magazine as one of the 40 biggest players in Australia's digital age, Dawson graduated from Bristol University with a B.Sc (Hons) and from Macquarie University with a Grad. Dip in Applied Finance.
Dawson regularly gives keynote addresses on digital media futures and his 'Future of Media Reports' have a readership in the tens of thousands.
According to Richard Susskind writing in The Times, Dawson's first book, Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships, was a bestseller, resulting in a second edition in 2005.
The New York Times credits Dawson with predicting the growth of social media in 2002 in his book Living Networks. The BBC credits him with being a "leading futurist" and with having "predicted the social networking revolution" in 2002.
Books
Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships 2000 Woburn, MA:Butterworth-Heinemann
Living Networks 2003, New Jersey:Prentice Hall
Implementing Enterprise 2.0: A Practical Guide To Creating Business Value Inside Organizations With Web Technologies 2009, Sydney:Advanced Human Technologies
Getting Results from Crowds: The definitive guide to using crowdsourcing to grow your business 2011, Sydney:Advanced Human Technologies
References
Living people
1962 births
Stockbrokers
Futurologists
Australian motivational speakers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugee%20women | Refugee women face gender-specific challenges in navigating daily life at every stage of their migration experience. Common challenges for all refugee women, regardless of other demographic data, are access to healthcare and physical abuse and instances of discrimination, sexual violence, and human trafficking are the most common ones. But even if women don't become victims of such actions, they often face abuse and disregard for their specific needs and experiences, which leads to complex consequences including demoralization, stigmatization, and mental and physical health decay. The lack of access to appropriate resources from international humanitarian aid organizations is compounded by the prevailing gender assumptions around the world, though recent shifts in gender mainstreaming are aiming to combat these commonalities.
Health
Health issues faced by refugee women range from dehydration and diarrhea, to high fevers and malaria. They also include more broad reaching phenomena, such as gender-based violence and maternal health. The leading causes of death to refugee women include malnutrition, diarrhea, respiratory infections, and reproductive complications. Health concerns of refugee women are influenced by a variety of factors including their physical, mental, and social wellbeing. Health complications and concerns for refugee women are prevalent both during their time as refugees living in transient camps or shelters, as well as once they relocate to countries of asylum or resettlement.
External factors contributing to the health concerns of refugee women include culturally-reinforced gender inequality, limited mobility, lack of access to healthcare facilities, high population density within the refugee camps, and low levels of education.
Reproductive health
International humanitarian aid organizations, such as the United Nations, agree that adequate reproductive care must be "safe, effective...[and] affordable." According to the United Nations, while universal values in human rights support the availability of reproductive health care needs of all women, services that conform to adequate standards while respecting cultural differences are rarely provided to refugee women. Due to the lack of satisfactory reproductive health care in refugee camps, complications related to child delivery and pregnancy was one of the leading cause of both death and illness among refugee women living in transitory camps in 2010.
Refugee women who have left humanitarian aid camps and have moved permanently to countries of asylum and resettlement also face reproductive health challenges. A study published in 2004 by the Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health found that refugee women living in wealthy nations face troubles in accessing appropriate reproductive care due to stereotyping, language barriers, and lack of cultural respect and understanding.
Mental health
Refugee women often face a host of mental health complications in their home countries, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLOT3D%20file%20format | In computational fluid dynamics, the PLOT3D file format is a standard file format used for storing grid and results data. PLOT3D was created by NASA Ames Research Center in 1982 by Pieter Buning and remains an often used file format. It can only store a structured grid. The structured grid allows random access, that is by knowing the block number, i location, j location, and k location, any grid point value or result value may be extracted. Additionally, given the location of any value, the block number, i location, j location, and k location may be determined. This makes it simple to iterate through a series of volumetric elements and calculate all required properties for the purpose of a CFD analysis.
The most basic format includes two different files, a grid file (G-file) and a solution file (Q-file). The filename extensions used vary, though .q is common for Q-files. Grid files may use .g, .x, .xy, or .xyz, among other extensions. The grid file contains the coordinates of the solution grid, while the solution file contains information typical of a CFD solution, flow density, flow momentum (a vector), and flow energy. Data may be stored in either binary or ASCII text format and floating point values may be either single or double precision. There are also multiblock and unstructured extensions to the format, so it is often unclear how a particular set of nominally PLOT3D-format files is formatted on the binary level without referring to the software that created them. Examination with a hex editor may be useful in determining the format variant.
Additional files may be present containing different kinds of ancillary data.
"Formatted" FORTRAN (ASCII text) data files will typically use CR-LF (0x0d 0x0a) delimiters at the end of the line, though the line breaks are implementation dependent. "Unformatted" FORTRAN (binary) files have the variables laid out in the same order but will normally lack delimiters such as line breaks. The binary format will be implementation and machine dependent.
A multiblock, 3 dimensional Q file begins with a single integer for the number of blocks M on its own line. The next M lines contain three integers for each of the blocks, which give the i, j, and k dimension sizes for each block. The M blocks are read in next. Each block begins with a line containing four floating-point values, the freestream Mach number, the freestream angle of attack, the freestream Reynolds number, and the time. The rest of the block contains the values iterated over i, j, k, m (block index), and the outermost n, which counts through 5 sections, the density, the 3 components of the momentum, and finally the energy.
A multiblock, 3 dimensional grid file begins with a single integer for the number of blocks M on its own line. The next M lines contain three integers for each of the blocks, which give the i, j, and k dimension sizes for each block. The M blocks are read in next. Each block contains a coordinate value iterated over i, j |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YTL%20Communications | YTL Communications or YTL Communications Sdn. Bhd. dba Yes is a mobile network operator in Malaysia, the fifth in the country overall. Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, YTL Communications is a subsidiary of the utilities company YTL Power International Berhad and serves as the communications arm of YTL Corporation Berhad, a leading infrastructure conglomerate in Malaysia. Yes uses the native dialling prefix identifier of 018 and 011-1.
Network and coverage
4G LTE
Yes 4G operates 4G LTE and 4G LTE-A networks.
The Yes network is built from the ground up with an all-IP architecture, making it the first and only all-4G and all-IP network provider in Malaysia capable of offering unique services such as user ID-based unified communications as well as session concurrency for mobile data and telephony services.
Yes owns and operates its own network infrastructure in Malaysia. Yes has close to 5,000 base stations across the country with an all-4G network footprint reaching over 85% population coverage nationwide.
WiMAX networks were discontinued on 1 October 2019.
It is also the first in Malaysia to provide nationwide VoLTE (Voice over LTE), available for Android VoLTE-supported smartphones.
5G
In December 2021, Yes is one of the first operators (along with unifi Mobile) to roll out 5G pilot test for consumers in Malaysia, branded as Yes FT5G. The backbone of Yes's 5G service is powered by Digital Nasional Berhad, and it's currently available in Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya and Cyberjaya.
In May 26 2022, Yes launched the Infinite plans, bringing Malaysia to the world map for providing the most economical data usage plans. The event was graced by the MCMC Minister, Tan Sri Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Annuar Musa at Majestic Hotel Kuala Lumpur. Major device manufacturers (Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo) are also backing Yes in collaboration to sell Yes Infinite+ plans with their devices. Yes Infinite plans have no tonnage capping, no speed capping and no bill shocks, the only capping is on the plan monthly fee. A free 5G device is included if subscribers opt for the contract.
Services to the education sector
Yes has worked closely with the Malaysian Ministry of Education to equip all 10,000 primary and secondary national schools across the country with high-speed 4G Internet connectivity integrated with cloud-based Frog VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) platform under the 1BestariNet program.
Under Yes' own Education Partner Programme (EPP), it entered into strategic partnerships with selected public colleges and universities within Malaysia to furnish the entire campus grounds and buildings with high-speed 4G Internet connectivity and free data to access the Internet for educational purposes.
History
Yes was officially launched on 19 November 2010 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and was the first in the world to commercially launch a converged 4G network at a national scale based on IEEE Broadband Wireless Access Standards (WiMAX). At launch, it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinyu%20Zhang | Xinyu Zhang (born 5 March 1955 in Ordos, Inner Mongolia) is a Chinese computer software engineer. He was a teacher at Inner Mongolia Normal University. He served as a leader of the CIMS Research Office of the Guangzhou City Productivity Center, general manager of the He-Yi Digital Technology Co., Ltd. Tianjin, led foreign experts in computer science of Ningbo University of Technology and Chairman of the NinBo Tian Mei Technology Co.. He was involved in December 1986 China democracy movement and June 4, 1989 China democracy movement.
Early life
Before age 22, Zhang studied in Hangjinqi Erdos, Inner Mongolia. He worked as a production team leader and a private primary school teacher.
After the Cultural Revolution in China in 1977, he attended the first session of the university entrance examination and was admitted by East China Chemical Engineering institute in Shanghai. In March 1982, he was assigned to Inner Mongolia Normal University. He taught and participated in the negotiations over equipment procurement for the school testing center.
In 1986, he was admitted to the joint training plan of graduate students by Department of Materials of Zhejiang University and the (Chinese Academy) Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics. During this period, he created a flux method of crystal growth. He earned a master's degree in 1989 and was employed as an engineer of the Electronic Engineering department of Shenzhen University, specializing in research on phase-conjugate mirrors in fiber optics.
In order to learn more about computer technology, Chang was admitted to the South China University of Technology as a PhD student in 1991, specializing in Computer Integrated Manufacturing System (CIMS) applications in the ceramic industry. During his studies, he developed application software systems for government departments in Guangzhou City.
Career
In 1996, Zhang was employed as the leader of Guangzhou Institute of Computer Application CIMS Research Office, and general manager of Guangzhou Cash Register Company and general manager of Guangdong and sanmei company.
He emigrated to Canada in 1999 and was naturalized as a Canadian citizen in 2002. During this period, he mainly developed computer software and created computer technology services.
In 2003, Zhang was employed as general manager of Tianjin HeYi Digital Technology Co., Ltd. In 2004, he was employed as general manager of Guangzhou Jia Computer Technology Co., Ltd. In September of this year, he was employed as a foreign expert of Ningbo University of Technology and returned to Canada in 2007. During three years in Ningbo, he served as general manager of Tian Mei Technology Co., Ltd., served as project Leader of high-tech project for Ningbo Municipal Science and Technology Committee (NMSTC) and served as expert in enterprise information technology for Ningbo Municipal Economic Committee. He completed 3 high-tech projects of NMSTC, mobile office service platform system based on a thre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%202257 | NGC 2257 is a globular cluster that lies on the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). It was discovered in 1834 by John Herschel. The compiler of the New General Catalogue, John Louis Emil Dreyer, described this cluster as "faint, considerably large, round, very gradually a little brighter middle, mottled but not resolved, 17.0 seconds of time diameter." At an aperture of 30.5 arcseconds, its apparent V-band magnitude is 12.62, but at this wavelength, it has 0.12 magnitudes of interstellar extinction.
NGC 2257 is quite old, at about 12.74 billion years old. Its estimated mass is , and its total luminosity is , leading to a mass-to-luminosity ratio of 2.00 /. All else equal, older star clusters have higher mass-to-luminosity ratios; that is, they have lower luminosities for the same mass.
References
External links
An Ancient Cluster of Stars Against a Stunning Background – ESO Picture of the week.
Globular clusters
2257
Dorado
Large Magellanic Cloud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Bronson | Richard D. Bronson (born August 5, 1941) is an American professor emeritus of mathematics at Fairleigh Dickinson University where he served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Acting Dean of the College of Science and Engineering, Interim Provost of the Metropolitan Campus, Director of Government Affairs, and Senior Executive Assistant to the President. He served as an officer (2008-2011) of the International Association of University Presidents, where he was actively involved in the creation of the United Nations Academic Impact initiative and the World Innovative Summit in Education, held annually in Qatar. He is also the author of the political thriller Antispin.
Personal life
Richard D. Bronson was born in New York City on August 5, 1941. He attended Stevens Institute of Technology, where he earned his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in applied mathematics. He is married and has two children.
Writing
Bronson has written eleven books in mathematics, some in their third edition with many translated into multiple languages. He has published children’s poetry in magazines, including Highlights for Children. He was on the editorial staff of Simulation Magazine and SIAM News and the children’s magazine Kids Club. Antispin is his first novel.
Awards
In 1994, Richard Bronson was awarded the Distinguished College or University Teaching award by the New Jersey Section of Mathematical Association of America. He also received the Fairleigh Dickinson University Distinguished Faculty Award for Research & Scholarship, and the University College Outstanding Teacher Award.
Research
Bronson’s research interests are in mathematical modeling and computer simulation with a focus on macro-sociological theory. He has written extensively on the topic in articles for professional journals and a general-interest trade magazine.
Publications and presentations
Fiction
Antispin (e-book, published 2010; )
Non-fiction: books
Matrix Methods: An Introduction 3rd edition with Gabriel Costa (in production), Academic Press, New York. Second edition, 1991 (still in print). First edition 1970–1991.
Linear Algebra: An Introduction 2nd edition with Gabriel Costa, Academic Press, New York, 2007. First edition, 1995–2007.
Differential Equations 3rd edition with Gabriel Costa, Schaum's Outline Series, McGraw–Hill Book Company, New York, 2006. Second edition, 1993–2006; first edition under the title Modern Introductory Differential Equations, 1974–1993.
Differential Equations, Schaum’s Easy Outlines, McGraw–Hill Book Company, New York, 2003.
Operations Research 2nd edition, with G. Naadimuthu, Schaum's Outline Series, McGraw–Hill Book Company, New York, 1997. First edition, 1982–1997.
Matrix Operations, Schaum's Outline Series, McGraw–Hill Book Company, New York, 1989 (still in print).
Finite Mathematics with Calculus, with Gary Bronson, Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., CA, 2000–2003 (out of print).
Finite Mathematics, with Gary Bronson, West Publishing Co. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaya%20VSP%209000%20Series | Avaya Virtual Services Platform 9000 Series or VSP 9000 is a set of modular chassis switches used in enterprise and data center networks, manufactured by Avaya. The VSP 9000 is used by institutions which are suffering from performance limitations, need to simplify their network infrastructure in a virtualized environment, or require 10 Gigabit Ethernet today with the option to scale to 40 or 100 Gigabit Ethernet in the future. It is also an option for companies who are looking to reduce the power and cooling cost in order to maximize the cost-effectiveness of their infrastructures; this unit was also designed and is expected to have a lifespan of seven-to-ten years.
In 2013 the Olympics network backbone is built with VSP 9000 Switches supporting 30,000 users and up to 54 terabits per second of traffic.
General Specifications
The VSP 9000 Series consists of two Chassis models; the original 9012 Chassis supports twelve (12) horizontally-orientated front-panel slots, ten (10) of which are designated for I/O Modules and two reserved for CPU Modules, and the newer 9010 Chassis that support ten (10) vertically orientated slots, eight (8) for I/O Modules, again with two reserved for CPU Modules. The primary driver for the 9010 Chassis is where there is an exclusive requirement for front-to-back cooling.
The VSP 9000 supports up to 240 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports and is future-ready to support 40 Gigabit Ethernet and 100 Gigabit Ethernet ports which speed over a 100 terabit per second
Switch Cluster. The chassis also supports Shortest Path Bridging, Provider link state bridging, and Split multi-link trunking at up to 480 trunks with 16 links per trunk group. This product can also maintain over 4000 VLANs and IP interfaces with support for up to ten thousand static IP routes over an IP forwarding table with 500 thousand entires. Some more technological performance measures are as follows:
VRRP Interfaces: up to 512
Circuitless IP Instances: up to 256
ECMP Routes: up to 64k
RIP Instances: up to 64
RIP Routes: up to 10k
OSPF Instances: up to 64
OSPF Areas: up to 80
OSPF Adjacencies: up to 512
OSPF Routes: up to 64k
BGP Peers: up to 256
BGP Routes: up to 1,500k
VRF instances: up to 512
Rack scalability
720 × 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports
1440 × 1 Gigabit Ethernet ports
See also
Avaya
Avaya Networking Products
Avaya Government Solutions
Avaya Professional Credentials
Shortest Path Bridging
Terabit Ethernet
Split multi-link trunking
References
Further reading
Chad Berndtson (9 June 2011) Westcon Sees Inroads With Avaya Data Networking CRN
External links
Virtual services platform 9000 overview
Avaya
VSP-9000
Network architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian%20Public%20Safety%20Network | The Norwegian Public Safety Network ( literally Emergency Network) is a public safety network system based on Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA). Nødnett is implemented by the Directorate for Emergency Communication (). The network is primarily used for internal and interdisciplinary communication by the police, fire departments and health services. Nødnett is also used by several organisations participating in rescue and emergency work. Planning of the network started in 1995 and in 2006 the contract to build it was awarded to Nokia Siemens Networks. As Nokia Siemens Networks was unable to complete the contract, it was passed on to Motorola Solutions in 2012. The critical infrastructure of Nødnett was finished and was operational in all districts of mainland Norway by December 1, 2015.
The network replaced nearly 300 local and regional networks which operated independently for the fire, police and healthcare agencies. Nødnett allows functionality such as authentication, encryption and higher reliability.
Background and choice of technology
Prior to the introduction of Nødnett, Norway had three separate systems for telecommunications within the police, fire departments and paramedics, all based on analog radio. The old system had two main downsides: it was not encrypted, and it prevented communication between agencies. This was particularly problematic in larger disasters and accidents, and in instances where criminals listened to the police radio during police actions. The Norwegian Data Inspectorate had also instructed the agencies to encrypt their communications for reasons of privacy. This would either have to be done through an expensive upgrade to the existing systems, or through the construction of a new, digital network.
Another issue is using standardized technology for communication with agencies in other countries. Norway is a member of the Schengen Agreement, which requires trans-border communication between law enforcement agencies. There were 27 different networks for the police, one for each police district. In Oslo, Akershus and Østfold, the police had also been using Enhanced Digital Access Communication System since 1994. There were 230 municipal fire department radio systems, and a manual mobile phone system for the health sector. The health network was built by the county municipalities between 1990 and 1995 and covers all parts of the health service, including paramedics, ambulance services, midwives and medical doctors. The various systems had different levels of coverage. In addition, Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) and Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT450) telephones were being used where encrypted communication was necessary.
Keeping the old systems and converting them to encrypted systems was also considered. This was estimated to cost NOK 500 million to install, but could not be guaranteed to work satisfactorily. In particular, encryption would delay communications, which would be a problem for urgent comm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer%203 | Mercer 3, also known as GLIMPSE-C02, is a heavily obscured globular cluster embedded in the disk of the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered in 2008 in the data obtained by 2MASS and GLIMPSE infrared surveys, and independently characterized by two groups. The cluster is located in the Scutum constellation. It had avoided detection for such a long time due to the extremely strong foreground extinction in its direction reaching 24 magnitudes in the visible light. Mercer 3 is probably situated at the distance from 4 to 8 kpc from the Sun and has a half-light radius of 0.7–1.5 pc.
Mercer 3 is an old globular cluster having the age of about 12 billion years. The mass of cluster is estimated at 2–3 hundred thousand solar masses. It is among the most metal-rich galactic globular clusters known.
References
Globular clusters
Scutum (constellation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSGC3 | RSGC3 (Red Supergiant Cluster 3) is a young massive open cluster belonging to the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered in 2010 in the GLIMPSE survey data. The cluster is located in the constellation Scutum at the distance of about 7 kpc from the Sun. It is likely situated at the intersection of the northern end of the Long Bar of the Milky Way and the inner portion of the Scutum–Centaurus Arm—one of its two major spiral arms.
The age of RSGC3 is estimated at 18–24 million years. The 16 detected red supergiant cluster members with masses of about are type II supernova progenitors. The cluster is heavily obscured and has not been detected in the visible light. It lies close to other groupings of red supergiants known as RSGC1, Stephenson 2, Alicante 7, Alicante 8, and Alicante 10. The total mass of RSGC3 is estimated at 20 thousand solar masses, which makes it one of the most massive open clusters in the Galaxy.
More work has identified a population of at least 30 additional red supergiants in the vicinity of RSGC3, 7 of which are tightly grouped and have been assumed to form a cluster named Alicante 7. The number of red supergiants identified in the several small areas studied in this region of the sky forms a significant fraction of all those known in the galaxy, suggesting very unusual properties for the region near the end of the galactic bar.
See also
List of largest known stars
References
RSGC3
Scutum (constellation)
Scutum–Centaurus Arm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20estate%20investment%20association | A real estate investment association (REIA) is a trade organization for real estate investors. The purpose of a REIA is to provide networking opportunities, educational events, to advocate on behalf of the industry, REIAs range from small, informal groups to more organized and larger groups with hundreds or even thousands of members.
References
Real estate investing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24/7%20Comedy | 24/7 Comedy was a 24-hour live, commercial-free radio format produced by iHeartMedia's Premiere Networks in the United States and by Bell Media in Canada. It showcased the stand-up comedy routines of established and emerging comedians in a rapid-fire presentation style and was programmed by an array of comedians and comedy experts. The network targeted a 18-54 demographic range. It remains available through the iHeartRadio app in a more automated form, and in Canada through IHeart's Bell Media-managed presences.
It was first conceived in April 2008 by Bill Bungeroth, who had his partner George Gimarc design the format. 24/7 Comedy's debut on air was September 27, 2010 in Riverside, California, on KFNY, and a few weeks later digitally on iHeartRadio on October 22, 2010. Bungeroth's company was purchased by what was then Clear Channel in July 2012.
Short and fast-paced comedic bits are broadcast all day and night, averaging two to four minutes, like music formats. A different comedian would appear weekly as a guest host, often with on the road stories about their routines and featuring their favorite fellow comedians.
Clear Channel started phasing out the format from its stations in early 2014, with it discontinuing over-the-air on August 3, 2014. Non-iHeart-owned stations then transitioned to another network known as "Today's Comedy," which launched concurrently with 24/7 Comedy's closure.
Astral Media introduced the network on its AM stations in Hamilton and London, Ontario in 2012It is a rarity among Canadian radio networks in that the programming originates almost entirely from outside Canada — the longstanding Canadian content requirements do not apply to spoken-word programming (however, the stations still provide local inserts, and also air the locally produced Humble & Fred as a late night program).
Former Affiliate(s)
United States
Notes:
¹ Indicates a Daytimer radio station.
Canada
Notes:
² Indicates a shortwave station, repeating CKMX Calgary.
References
External links
24/7 Comedy Radio - official site
IHeartMedia
Defunct radio networks in the United States
American radio comedy
Radio stations established in 2010
Radio stations disestablished in 2014
Defunct radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onward%21 | Onward! is a conference sponsored by the SIGPLAN special interest group of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Onward! began in 2002 as a track inside of the OOPSLA conference. Starting in 2009, it was considered a conference, but remained co-located with OOPSLA. When OOPSLA was replaced by SPLASH in 2010, Onward! co-located with SPLASH and one registration fee paid for sessions of either conference.
References
External links
Official Onward! website
Computer science conferences
Association for Computing Machinery conferences
Programming languages conferences |
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