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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI%20Geomatica | PCI Geomatica is a remote sensing and photogrammetry desktop software package for processing earth observation data, designed by the PCI Geomatics company. The latest version of the software is Geomatica 2018. Geomatica is aimed primarily at faster data processing and allows users to load satellite and aerial imagery where advanced analysis can be performed. Geomatica has been used by many educational institutions and scientific programs throughout the world to analyze satellite imagery and trends, such as the GlobeSAR Program, a program which was carried out by the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing in the 1990s.
A very popular edition of Geomatica is known as Freeview, which permits users to load multiple types of satellite images as well as geospatial data that is stored in different formats. The software is available for download over the web, and has registered several thousands of downloads.
Image processing packages
Geomatica is one of several software packages available to the educational, commercial, and military users. Other similar packages include Erdas Imagine, Envi, and SocetSet (or Socet GXP). An independent review of the software and its functionality written by Directions Magazine is included here: http://www.directionsmag.com/articles/product-review-pci146s-geomatica-10/123136. Geomatica has also been compared to Envi and Erdas Imagine as it relates to orthorectification. http://www.isprs.org/proceedings/XXXVII/congress/4_pdf/283.pdf
Educational institutions using Geomatica
Over 2,700 educational institutions worldwide have used Geomatica as part of their Remote Sensing course delivery, some of which are listed here
University of Calgary, Geomatics Engineering program
York University, Geomatics Engineering programs, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
University of New Brunswick, Online Course offered on Radarsat-2 and Polarimetry
Fleming College, Lindsay, Ontario, Canada
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
Université du Québec à Montréal, Remote Sensing course GEO8142
Aalto University, Institute of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
North Eastern University (NEU), Boston, USA
University of Arkansas
University of Victoria
Fanshawe College, London, Ontario
TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Remote Sensing Group
Saint Mary's University (SMU), Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies
Stellenbosch University, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies and Centre for Geographical Analysis, South Africa
Open Geospatial Consortium
Geomatica includes a web coverage service interface that complies with the OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) Interface Standard, which is a key area in which PCI Geomatics has contributed. Remote Sensing data providers distribute data in diverse formats, which makes sharing information across many different platforms challenging. WCS seeks to alleviate some of the data sha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numara%20Software | Numara Software was a software company based in Tampa, Florida which made IT service and asset management software, targeted at network management and business process managers.
Products
The Numara Software products Numara Track-It! and Numara FootPrints are focused on service desk markets for small and medium sized businesses. Numara FootPrints is awarded PinkVERIFY ITIL certification by Pink Elephant for 10 processes.
Company
Founded in 1991 as Blue Ocean Software, the company was acquired by Intuit in September 2002. The company continued to operate autonomously but as a wholly owned subsidiary under the Intuit umbrella, known as Intuit IT Solutions.
In December 2005, the company was renamed "Numara Software" when TA Associates purchased it from Intuit. The genesis of the new company name comes from the combination of the word "Nu," an English phonetic equivalent of "new" and "Mara" which in many languages means "Ocean." TA Associates has offices in Boston, Menlo Park and London and manages over $6 billion in capital.
In September 2006, Numara Software acquired UniPress Software, the makers of Gosling Emacs and "FootPrints." In September 2009, Numara Software released the Numara Asset Management Platform to the market.
On January 30, 2012, Numara Software entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by BMC Software.
References
Software companies based in Florida
Companies based in Tampa, Florida
1991 establishments in Florida
Software companies established in 1991
2012 mergers and acquisitions
Software companies of the United States
BMC Software acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20Hospital%20North | Community Hospital North is a hospital in the Castleton neighborhood of Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. It is part of the Community Health Network group of hospitals.
History
What is now Community Hospital North originally opened in 1985 as a satellite facility of Community Hospital of Indianapolis, which was subsequently renamed Community Hospital East.
See also
List of hospitals in Indianapolis
References
Hospital buildings completed in 1985
Teaching hospitals in Indiana
Healthcare in Indianapolis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleg%20Nikolaenko | Oleg Yegorovich Nikolaenko (; born July 17, 1987) is a Russian computer criminal who created the Mega-D botnet, violating the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Federal investigators believe his activities may have been responsible for as much as one third of the world's electronic spam.
Background
Oleg Nikolaenko, a resident of Vidnoye, Moscow Oblast, Russia, was identified as the "King of Spam" by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is suspected of running the "Mega-D" botnet to create a "zombie network" of as many as 500,000 infected computers. Investigators stated that his operation was responsible for producing up to 10 billion unsolicited e-mails per day, accounting for about 32% of all spam. The messages allegedly promoted counterfeit versions of Rolex watches, herbal supplements and prescription drugs such as Viagra. In October 2008, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission moved to freeze the assets of individuals involved with the Mega-D botnet, though Nikolaenko's identity was not yet known at the time.
Investigation
The FBI got a break in the case in August 2009, when Jody M. Smith pleaded guilty in Missouri to selling counterfeit Rolex watches. Federal agents used grand jury subpoenas to trace financial payments of $459,000 from convicted New Zealand spammer Lance Atkinson to Nikolaenko, who had been using the alias of "Docent". Google provided the FBI with Nikolaenko's e-mail records. Investigators subpoenaed his travel records from the U.S. State Department, which indicated that he had visited New York City, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas over the course of two trips in 2009. However, the Constitution of Russia specifically prohibits the extradition of its citizens.
In November 2009, FireEye, a computer security firm, was able to shut down servers in the United States under the control of the Mega-D botnet. Nikolaenko, who had been in Las Vegas, Nevada to attend the 2009 SEMA auto show, was forced to return to Russia two days early to undo the damage to Mega-D's functionality. By the end of 2009, Nikolaenko was able to restore capacity to generate 17% of worldwide spam.
Arrest and legal proceedings
Nikolaenko returned to Las Vegas to attend the 2010 SEMA Show and was apprehended by federal agents at the Bellagio Hotel on November 4. He was found with two passports and $4,000 cash. Nikolaenko was transported to face charges in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where an undercover agent ordered Viagra from an alleged e-mail spam and instead received herbal pills.
Nikolaenko was indicted on November 16 at the U.S. District Court of Eastern Wisconsin and faced up to five years in prison. He was accused of deliberately falsifying the header information of commercial e-mails and sending over 2,500 spam e-mails per day, both in violation of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. He was extradited to Wisconsin and assigned a case #: 2:10-cr-00246-CNC-1 in the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Nikolaenko pleaded not guilty and retained defense attorney Christopher Van Wagner |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tvtag | tvtag (formerly GetGlue) was a social networking website and mobile app for television fans. Users "check into" the shows, movies and sports that they consumed using a website, mobile website, or mobile app.
GetGlue's service was launched in June 2010, with headquarters in New York City. In November 2013, GetGlue was acquired by second screen company i.TV. Mashable called the merger “a solid meld between two platforms with similar goals — helping users find and engage with the best TV content — but different strengths.”
In January 2014, GetGlue changed its name to tvtag. Along with the new name the site also got a "new look, feel, and direction". The website and app received an update. The color scheme changed from blue to red. The new experience allowed you to "check in, unlock digital stickers, comment, doodle, and react to TV moments with other fans while watching your favorite shows".
On December 19, 2014, in an email to users and a posting on their website, tvtag announced that they "will be shutting down tvtag and its supporting apps in order to refocus our efforts on other initiatives." The site was offering users a way to retrieve their usage data via email. The statement did leave the door open for either a new app or a return of tvtag.
Features
After checking in, users received points and earned virtual stickers, received recommendations, and can earn discounts for entertainment companies.
Since March 2011, GetGlue included Foursquare check-ins, enabling users to say what they're watching and where.
Users could also request physical versions of the stickers they earned online to be mailed to them at no cost, although limited to a batch of no more than twenty each month, though in November 2013, this functionality was removed.
Partnerships
GetGlue's partners included 20th Century Fox, The CW, AMC, ABC Family, Disney Theatrical Productions, Discovery Channel, ESPN, FOX Network, Food Network, HBO, HGTV, MTV, MSNBC, Penguin Books, PBS, WWE, Random House, Showtime, Simon & Schuster, Syfy, Sony Pictures, Travel Channel, USA Network, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. theatrical.
In September 2011, GetGlue partnered with DirecTV to enable users to check in via on-screen controls, its first partnership with a pay-TV service. Users also saw their friends' streams and were able to switch to their channels.
Growth
In January 2011, the service accumulated nearly 10 times that figure with 12.1 million check-ins and ratings. On February 27, 2011, GetGlue saw over 31,000 check-ins at the Oscars.
In June 2011, the record for Most Check-Ins to a TV show was broken during the premiere of True Blood Season 4 on HBO. Over 38,000 people checked in and earned a sticker. The record was broken yet again by the season 2 premiere of "Once Upon a Time", with 93,774 check-ins.
In August 2012, GetGlue announced it has reached three million users, adding one million users since January 2012. GetGlue users had contributed a total of 500 million check-ins, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Prise%202 | This is a list of television programs currently and formerly broadcast by the Canadian television channel Prise 2.
Current programming
This a list of programs currently being broadcast as of October 14, 2011:
Canadian shows
Les Brillant
Fort Boyard
Les grands procès
Les Lions De Anjou
The Littlest Hobo (Le Vagabond)
Samedi de rire
Soirée Canadienne
Surprise sur Prise
Foreign
Adam-12 (Auto-patrouille)
Bewitched (Ma sorcière bien-aimée)
Columbo
The Flintstones (Les Pierrafeu)
The Flying Nun (La Soeur Volante)
Little House on the Prairie (Le petite maison dans la prairie)
Mission: Impossible (Mission: impossible)
Three's Company (Vivre à Trois)
Past
Canadian shows
Blanche
Chambres en ville
Chop Suey
Le Clan Beaulieu
Entre chien et loup
Fais-moi un dessin
Les Filles de Caleb
L'or du temps
Les Moineau et les Pinson
Peau de banane
Scoop
Symphorien
Foreign
The A-Team (Agence tous Risques)
Airwolf (Supercopter)
Beauty and the Beast (la Belle et la Bête)
The Benny Hill Show
Beverly Hills, 90210
Bonanza
Charlie's Angels (Drôle de dames)
Dallas
Dynasty (Dynastie)
East of Eden (À l'Est d'Eden)
Fantasy Island (L'Île Fantaisie)
The Fugitive (Le Fugitif)
The Golden Girls (Carré de dames)
I Dream of Jeannie (Jinny)
The Incredible Hulk (L'Incroyable Hulk)
Knight Rider (K 2000)
Kojak (Chez Kojak)
Land of the Giants (Au Pays Des Géant)
Lost in Space (Perdus dans l'Espace)
The Love Boat (La Croisière s'amuse)
Lucky Luke
The Rockford Files (Rockford Enquête)
Roots (Racines)
The Saint (Le Saint)
The Six Million Dollar Man (L'Homme de six millions)
Star Trek (La Patrouille du Cosmos)
The Time Tunnel (Au Coeur du Temps)
V (V: Les Visiteurs)
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Voyage au Fond de la Mer)
Who's the Boss? (Madame est servie)
Wonder Woman
Animated
Casper
Mr. Magoo (Quoi de neuf, Mr. Magoo?)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Les tortues ninja)
Yogi Bear (Yogi et ses amis)
Prise 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Forgione | Marc Forgione is an American chef who competed in Food Network's Iron Chef America and is now owner of Restaurant Marc Forgione in Tribeca, New York City. He was born on December 16, 1978 and raised in Bellerose, New York. Chef Forgione won the season three of The Next Iron Chef in 2010.
Early life
Marc began his career at age 16, joining his father, Larry Forgione, in the kitchen at An American Place. Marc fully embraced his father's livelihood and has built on his unique culinary foundation to carve out an identity of his own. Marc is related to Francesco Forgione, a Catholic saint, who is a great, great uncle of his father Larry.
Marc opted for a traditional four-year education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he graduated from the School of Hotel and Restaurant Management. He spent his summers working the line at restaurants in New York, with chef Kazuto Matsusaka. These stints would lay the groundwork for Marc's post-collegiate toils, again alongside his father at An American Place and later under Patricia Yeo at AZ. When Yeo and celebrated chef Pino Maffeo opened Pazo, they took Marc along to serve as sous chef at the short-lived eatery. When Laurent Tourondel set out to develop his flagship, BLT Steak, he recruited Marc as his sous chef.
To diversify his experience, Marc left for France, where he secured a series of humble posts under Michel Guerard in Eugenie Les Bains. He worked at three of the region's restaurants, Le Pres D'Eugenie, Ferme aux Grives and Le Cuisine Minceur.
Career
When he returned to New York, Marc reunited with Tourondel, who invited him to serve as chef de cuisine at BLT Prime. Following his role as chef de cuisine, Marc was named corporate chef for the BLT Restaurant Group, a position that enabled him to develop recipes and maintain the quality of the BLT brand as it went on to include more restaurants across the country. Marc has played a key role in the openings of BLT Fish and BLT Market, as well as the Washington, D.C., San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Dallas locations of BLT Steak.
Marc received a star in the Michelin Guide New York City 2012, making him the youngest American-born chef to receive the honor in consecutive years (2010, 2011, 2012). In addition, Marc received a two-star review from Sam Sifton of The New York Times.
The restaurant also earned the distinction of being named "Key Newcomer" by Zagat Guide 2009, "Top 25 Restaurants in NYC" by Modern Luxury magazine, and "All-Star Eatery" by Forbes. Marc was awarded the "Star Chefs Rising Star of the Year Award 2010," named "Rising Star 2008" by Restaurant Hospitality, and mentioned "New Formalist" by Esquire in 2008.
In January 2012, Marc announced he would be opening a new steakhouse at the Revel Resort & Casino in Atlantic City called American Cut.
In summer 2013 he partnered with Executive Chef Soulayphet Schwader to open Khe-Yo, a Laotian-inspired restaurant using local market ingredients.
Chef Marc Forgione opened his second ou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVHcloud | OVH, legally OVH Groupe SA, is a French cloud computing company which offers VPS, dedicated servers and other web services. As of 2016 OVH owned the world's largest data center in surface area. As of 2019, it was the largest hosting provider in Europe, and the third largest in the world based on physical servers. The company was founded in 1999 by the Klaba family and is headquartered in Roubaix, France. OVH is incorporated as a simplified joint-stock company under French law. In 2019 OVH adopted OVHcloud as its public brand name.
History and growth
OVH was founded in November 1999 by Octave Klaba, with the help of three family members (Henry, Haline, and Miroslaw).
In August 2023, it was announced OVHcloud was in exclusive negotiations for the acquisition of the Cologne-headquartered edge computing software company, gridscale GmbH.
Funding 2.
In October 2016, OVH raised $250 million in order to raise further international expansion. This funding round valued OVH at over US$1 billion. In the fiscal year of 2016, OVH reportedly had around $343 million in revenue. In 2018 OVH announced its five-year plans to triple investment starting in 2021. Which represent between 4.6 and $8.1 billion U.S. dollars (4 to 7 billion euros).
In October 2021, OVHcloud filed its IPO and is listed on the Euronext Paris, the Paris Stock Exchange as OVH. In December 2021, OVHcloud became part of the Paris SBF120 index.
Operations
As of 2021, OVH had 30 data centers in 19 countries hosting 300,000 servers. The company offers localized services such as customer service offices in many European countries, as well as in North America, Africa, and Singapore. , OVH is considered one of the largest cloud computing providers in the world, with over a million customers and one of the largest OpenStack deployments in the world, and a network capacity totaling over 20Tbps
As of 2017, OVH was known for its offering of email hosting service, considered one of the largest in the world, in addition to its general Internet hosting services.
OVH uses in-house design and manufacturing, including custom-made servers (based on standard components) and a modular shipping container architecture. In 2019, the Canadian data center (Beauharnois, Quebec) was considered a leading example of the OVH model.
Partnerships
As of 2016, OVH was one of the sponsors for Let's Encrypt, a free TLS encryption service, and OVH's hardware supplier is Super Micro Computer Inc.
Incidents
In March 2021, OVH suffered a large fire at its datacenter in Strasbourg, France. SBG2 had been built in 2016 with a capacity of 30 thousand physical servers. SBG2 was declared a total loss, with early reports indicating damage to SBG1, and services across all four Strasbourg locations experiencing disruptions. The company's chairman, Octave Klaba, took to Twitter to confirm that all its staff were safe. SBG1 was damaged partially while SBG4 remained intact, and SBG3 was intact but without power, though the servers at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufus%20Pollock | Rufus Pollock (born 1980) is a British economist, activist and social entrepreneur. He has been a leading figure in the global open knowledge and open data movements, starting with his founding in 2004 of the non-profit Open Knowledge Foundation which he led until 2015. From 2007-2010 he was the Mead Fellow in Economics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and from 2010-2013 he was a Shuttleworth Foundation fellow. In 2012 was appointed an Ashoka Fellow and remains an Associate of the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law at the University of Cambridge and continues to serve on the board of Open Knowledge International. Since leaving Open Knowledge International, his work has moved to focus more on broader issues of social transformation and in 2016 he co-founded a new non-profit "Life Itself". However, he has continued to work actively on the economics and politics of the information age, including publishing "The Open Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of the Information Age" in 2018.
In addition to his academic work, whilst at Open Knowledge International he initiated a wide variety of projects, many of which continue to be active today. For example, in 2005 he created The Open Definition which provided the first formal definition of open content and open data, and which has remained the standard reference definition. In 2005–2006 he created the first version of CKAN, open source software for finding and sharing datasets, especially open datasets. CKAN has continued to evolve and today is the leading open data platform software in the world used by governments including the US and UK to publish millions of public datasets.
He also helped to lead or co-found several other organizations including Open Rights Group (2005, co-founder and board member), Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (2005-6, UK director), Creative Commons UK, Datopian (founder) and Life Itself (co-founder).
Work
On 24 May 2004 Pollock founded in Cambridge, UK the Open Knowledge Foundation as a global non-profit network that promotes and shares open knowledge including open data and open content - information that is openly and freely available.
In 2007 and 2009, Pollock published two important papers regarding the optimal copyright term, where he proposed based on an economical model with empirically-estimable parameters an optimal duration of only 15 years, significantly shorter than any currently existing copyright term.
He has held the Mead Research Fellowship in economics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
In 2009, he was credited by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee for starting the Raw Data Now meme.
In 2010 he was appointed as one of the four founding members of the UK Government's Public Sector Transparency Board.
In 2018 he published his first book The Open Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of the Information Age, making it openly available for download online.
Bibliography
The Open Revolution: Rewriting the Rules of the Information Age (2018)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INSAT-3D | INSAT-3D is a meteorological, data relay and satellite aided search and rescue satellite developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation and was launched successfully on 26 July 2013 using an Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle from French Guiana. The satellite has many new technology elements like star sensor, micro stepping Solar Array Drive Assembly (SADA) to reduce the spacecraft disturbances and Bus Management Unit (BMU) for control and telecom and telemetry function. It also incorporates new features of bi-annual rotation and Image and Mirror motion compensations for improved performance of the meteorological payloads.
Mission
The mission goal is stated as "to provide an operational, environmental & storm warning system to protect life & property and also to monitor earth’s surface and carryout oceanic observations and also provide data dissemination capabilities."
Payloads
The satellite has 4 payloads:
6 channel multi-spectral Imager
19 channel sounder
Data Relay Transponder (DRT)
Satellite Aided Search and Rescue (SAS&R)
The sounder has not been operational since September 2020.
Launch
The satellite was expected to be launched using the GSLV Mk-II. On December 4, 2010, ISRO Chairman revealed that ISRO was considering the use of an Ariane 5 ECA launch vehicle for the launch. The launch was successfully carried out on 26 July 2013 from French Guiana. INSAT-3D was launched along with AlphaSat, which is Europe's largest telecommunication satellite.
Footnotes
External links
INSAT-3D brochure
Weather satellites of India
INSAT satellites
Spacecraft launched in 2013
2013 in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20early%20word%20processors | This article compares early word processing software.
Operating system compatibility
This table gives a comparison of what operating systems are compatible with each word processor in 1985.
References
Word processors, early
Word processors, early |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitendra%20Malik | Jitendra Malik is an Indian-American academic who is the Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley.
He is known for his research in computer vision.
Academic biography
Malik was born in Mathura, India, on October 11, 1960. He did his schooling from Jabalpur, at the St. Aloysius Senior Secondary School. He received the BTech degree in electrical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 1980 and the PhD degree in computer science from Stanford University in 1985. In January 1986, he joined the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently the Arthur J. Chick Professor in the Computer Science Division, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS). He is also on the faculty of the department of Bioengineering, and the Cognitive Science and Vision Science groups. He served as the chair of the Computer Science Division during 2002–2004 and as the department chair of EECS during 2004–2006 and 2016–2017. Since January 2018, he is also the research director and site lead of Facebook AI Research in Menlo Park, where he leads a team of researchers and engineers in computer vision, machine learning and robotics.
Research
Malik's research group has worked on many different topics in computer vision, computational modeling of human vision, computer graphics and the analysis of biological images. He has mentored over 60 PhD students and postdoctoral fellows, a number of whom hold faculty appointments at major universities in the US—including MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, Caltech, Cornell, UIUC, U. Penn, and U. Michigan—and around the world. Several well-known concepts and algorithms arose in this research, such as anisotropic diffusion, normalized cuts, high dynamic range imaging, shape context and R-CNN. According to Google Scholar, his works have been cited over 150,000 times with h-index of 124, i10-index of 278 and over 20 of his papers have received more than a thousand citations each. He is one of ISI's Highly Cited Researchers in engineering. He has served on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize from 2019.
He received the gold medal for the best graduating student in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur in 1980 and a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1989. At UC Berkeley, he was selected for the Diane S. McEntyre Award for Excellence in teaching in 2000, a Miller Research Professorship in 2001, and appointed to be the Arthur J. Chick Professor in 2002. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Kanpur in 2008. He was awarded the Longuet-Higgins Prize in 2007 and 2008 and the Helmholtz Prize twice in 2015 for contributions that have stood the test of time (awarded to papers after 10 years of publication). He is a fellow of the IEEE, the ACM, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. and the National Academy of Sciences. He is also the rec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parks%20and%20Recreation%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of Parks and Recreation originally aired in the United States on the NBC television network between January 20 and May 19, 2011. Like the previous seasons, it focuses on Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and her staff at the parks and recreation department of the fictional Indiana town of Pawnee. The season featured 16 episodes, most of which were approximately 22 minutes long each and aired at 9:30 p.m. on Thursdays. The season stars Amy Poehler, Rashida Jones, Aziz Ansari, Nick Offerman, Aubrey Plaza, Chris Pratt, Adam Scott, and Rob Lowe, with supporting performances from Jim O'Heir and Retta.
All of the members of the original cast returned for the third season except Paul Schneider, who previously played city planner Mark Brendanawicz. Rob Lowe and Adam Scott, who appeared as guest stars in the second season, began season three as regular cast members playing Chris Traeger and Ben Wyatt, respectively. The season also featured guest appearances by Megan Mullally, Will Forte and Parker Posey, among others.
To accommodate Amy Poehler's pregnancy, the first six episodes of the third season were filmed immediately after season two wrapped so they could be saved for a projected an air date for September 2010. However, after the episodes were finished, NBC postponed the season premiere until January to accommodate their new series, Outsourced. The third season consisted of several major story arcs, including a complete shutdown of the Pawnee government for budgetary reasons, inspired by the real-life global financial crisis. Other storylines included the parks department's organization of a harvest festival, a romance between Leslie and Ben, and the dating and eventual marriage of Andy Dwyer (Chris Pratt) and April Ludgate (Aubrey Plaza).
As in the previous season, Parks and Recreation was critically acclaimed during its third season, and was declared by several reviewers to be one of the best comedies on television. Entertainment Weekly featured it on its cover in February 2011 and declared it "the smartest comedy on TV". The episodes "Harvest Festival" and "Li'l Sebastian" received particularly positive reviews, as did Nick Offerman in his role as parks director Ron Swanson. Parks and Recreation received its first nomination for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series for its third season, and Poehler received her second nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Nevertheless, Parks and Recreation continued to struggle in the Nielsen ratings and averaged about 4.75 million household viewers per week.
Cast
Main
Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope
Rashida Jones as Ann Perkins
Aziz Ansari as Tom Haverford
Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson
Aubrey Plaza as April Ludgate
Chris Pratt as Andy Dwyer
Adam Scott as Ben Wyatt
Rob Lowe as Chris Traeger
Starring
Jim O'Heir as Jerry Gergich
Retta as Donna Meagle
Episodes
denotes an extended episode.
Production
Cast
Almost the entire original cast from season two re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha%20CX5M | Yamaha CX5M is an MSX-system compatible computer that expands upon the normal features expected from these systems with a built-in eight-voice FM synthesizer module, introduced in 1984 by Yamaha Corporation.
This FM synth itself has stereo audio outputs, an input for a purpose-built four-octave keyboard, and a pair of MIDI Input/Output ports that could be used for normal MIDI on the second revision of the CX5M, but only used for management of data from a Yamaha DX7 on the first model.
Specification
The CX5M was built for the MSX standard, which included slots for inserting programmed cartridges. These cartridges extended the machine's capability, accepting a range of games, office applications and so on. Yamaha produced a range of cartridges for the system including a programmer for Yamaha's DX range of FM keyboards and a real-time sequencer. Two of these, the Voice Editor and Music Composer, allowed the user to program a bank of 48 sounds for the CX5M's own built-in synthesizer and to sequence up to eight channels of music, controlling the built-in module or external instruments via MIDI, in step-time using a musical-stave input screen.
Three versions of the CX5M were released. The first contained as its FM module the SFG-01, which could not receive external MIDI note information; it required a proprietary keyboard and only used its MIDI port was an output to send data to Yamaha's then-flagship DX7. The second version, the CX5M II (or CX7M/128 in Japan), upgraded the FM system to the SFG-05, which supported MIDI input and thus allowed the internal FM synth to be played by any external MIDI keyboard. There was also a later CX5M II with some smaller differences.
Later in 1986, Yamaha released the Yamaha FB-01 MIDI module, which was effectively an SFG-05 in a standalone, portable case.
References
External links
CX5M
Computer music
MSX microcomputer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%20Wars | Storage Wars (stylized as STORAGE WAR$) is an American reality television competition series that airs on the A&E network. It initially aired for twelve seasons, from December 1, 2010, to January 30, 2019. A season premiered in April 2021. A 15th season has aired as of August 15, 2023.
When rent is not paid on a storage locker for three months in California, the contents can be sold by an auctioneer as a single lot of items in the form of a cash-only auction. The show follows professional buyers who visit storage facilities throughout the state and bid on these lockers. Before each locker is auctioned, the buyers are given five minutes to inspect the contents from the doorway, but may not enter the locker or touch any of the items.
After the day's auctions are completed, the winning bidders sort through the lockers, estimating the prices they will set on the contents and/or consulting with experts for an appraisal of unusual items. Running totals on-screen display the cost versus the estimated total value, and a final tally at the end of the episode summarizes the buyers' net profit or loss.
History
Thom Beers is the executive producer and narrator of the show. He provides a quick explanation of the show's premise at the beginning and does a recap of the featured buyers' profits or losses at the end of each episode. He has stated that the series avoids delving into behind-the-scenes stories of the lockers' original owners because "all you see is misery there, and I didn't want to trade on that". In the United States, Storage Wars premiered on A&E on December 1, 2010.
Season one of Storage Wars consisted of 19 episodes, 17 of which were filmed at various self-storage facilities throughout Southern California. The show enjoyed ratings success, and its second-season premiere attracted 5.1million total viewers, making it the most-watched program in A&E's history to that point.
Storage Wars was recommissioned for another 26-episode season in January 2012, with the season officially premiering on June 5, 2012. Only 20 of the 26 episodes were aired however, with six of the episodes being held back for broadcast during the second half of the show's season which began airing on December 4, 2012.
Storage Wars concluded its season on January 30, 2019, and there initially was no news regarding a season renewal. A season was eventually announced in March 2021 and premiered on April 20. Season 14 premiered on November 2, 2021, with Barry Weiss (who had left the show after season 4) returning as a buyer..
Season 15 aired 24 episodes and concluded on August 15, 2023.
Spin-offs
Several spin-off series were also produced, most of them airing on A&E:
Storage Wars: Texas (2011–14)
Storage Wars: New York (2013)
Storage Wars: Canada (originally aired on OLN from 2013 to 2015; re-runs aired as Storage Wars: Northern Treasures on A&E)
Barry'd Treasure (2014)
Brandi & Jarrod: Married to the Job (2014)
Storage Wars: Miami (2015)
Storage Wars Franc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word%20Juggler | Word Juggler was a word processor application by Quark, Inc. for the Apple IIe, IIc, and III computers. Until the release of AppleWorks, Word Juggler was the leading word processor on the IIe and IIc, beating out Apple Writer. The software was copy protected with a hardware dongle.
It was one of the first software titles to use ProDOS.
The software was well received and was considered easy to learn and master.
The software also came with a dictionary/spell checker called Lexicheck which was also well received.
Apple III version
The software was the first commercially available word processor for the Apple III and featured formatting commands such as margin settings, centering, justification, bold, underlined, subscript, superscripts, doublestrike, titles, footnotes, and page numbers. The program was also able to use the Apple III redefinable keyboard to provide single-stroke editor commands (such as find, delete character, delete line, and so forth).
The Apple III version made use of the full 80 column display, and could support 1210 lines with 128K memory, or 806 lines with 96k memory.
The Apple III version supported printing with Qume, Diablo, and Xerox printers.
For the Apple III version which came on a single diskette with a backup copy and instruction manual, the MSRP was US$295.
References
Apple II word processors
Apple Inc. software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican%20Network%20for%20Unity | The Republican Network for Unity () is a small Irish republican political party. It was formed in 2007 in opposition to the Sinn Féin special Ard Fheis's vote of support for the Police Service of Northern Ireland. A number of commentators view RNU as the political wing of Óglaigh na hÉireann, a militant dissident republican paramilitary group. That group committed to a ceasefire in 2017, which RNU supported.
History
The organisation was originally known as the "Ex-POWs and Concerned Republicans against RUC/PSNI & MI5". This group was formed by ex-republican prisoners and combatants who opposed the decision by Sinn Fein to support policing structures in Northern Ireland such as the PSNI. The group re-organized in 2008, changing its name to "Republican Network for Unity". It held its first Ard Fheis in Derry City that year and elected local republican Danny McBrearty as its first national chairman, along with Tony "TC" Catney as a national organiser and Carl Reilly as "6 county co-ordinator". The party was subsequently involved in campaigns including opposition to plans to introduce water meters and anti-political policing and support for republican prisoners and their families.
By late 2011 the group moved into more community-based politics and believed that electoral politics should be explored. After a motion put forward by the then leadership, RNU agreed to reconstitute as a political party and in October 2013, it registered as a political party with the electoral commission NI and moved from being a pressure group. This coincided with the release of their documents "standing outside the peace process" and "revolutionary Republicanism". RNU is opposed to the Good Friday Agreement because it believes that it usurps Irish sovereignty and entrenches Irish partition. RNU opposes the PSNI, which it sees as a continuation of the disbanded Royal Ulster Constabulary and the first stage of protection of an illegal state.
In 2015 a number of senior members of RNU were arrested by the PSNI, including then RNU Chairman Carl Reilly who was accused of being the Belfast commander of ONH. Reilly was charged with directing terrorism and being a member of a proscribed organisation.
In 2017 ONH committed to a ceasefire and the RNU supported it, declaring that it was time for Irish republicanism to adapt to the politics of the 21st century and not be ideologically bound to 20th-century thinking.
In 2018 the Times reported that a charity in Northern Ireland named "Conflict Resolution Services Ireland", which claimed to offer mediation services for people threatened by ONH punishment attacks, had been infiltrated by the RNU and used to siphon money. Several members of the staff of CRSI were in fact members of RNU, including Carl Reilly. The charity had received £100,000s in charitable donations through the state over the course of 4 years, but by 2018 its offices had been raided 3 times in 2 years by counterterrorism units, and the charity itself was under inv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20Simplex%20Link | Fast Simplex Link is a 32-bit wide interface on MicroBlaze. The FSL channels are uni-directional, point-to-point data streaming interfaces. The FSL can be used for extending the processor execution unit with custom hardware accelerators thanks to a low latency dedicated interface to the processor pipeline. In addition, the same FSL channel can be used to transmit or receive either control or data words. A separate bit indicates whether the transmitted, or received, word is control or data information.
External links
Fast Simplex Link (FSL) Bus (v2.11c) Data Sheet
Soft microprocessors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street%20Racer%20%281977%20video%20game%29 | Street Racer is a racing video game developed for the Atari Video Computer System, later known as the Atari 2600. It was programmed by Larry Kaplan and released by Atari, Inc. in September 1977 as one of the nine Atari VCS launch titles.<ref
name="AtariAgeLaunch"/> The game was also published by Sears for their Tele-Games product line as Speedway II.
Gameplay
Street Racer was one of the two launch titles programmed by Kaplan; Air-Sea Battle was the other. Street Racer offered 27 game variations, grouped into the following sub-games:
1–6: Street racer
7–12: Slalom
13–16: Dodgem
17–20: Jet shooter
21–24: Number cruncher
25–27: Scoop ball
Each of the sub-games has roughly the same gameplay: the player controls a vehicle that must avoid or collect certain objects as they scroll down the screen. Between one and four players can compete simultaneously by using the paddle controllers, which allow the vehicle to move left and right along the bottom of the screen. If a one-player game is selected, the player competes with a static computer opponent that allows objects to collide with it or pass by.
Development
As one of the earliest games written for the platform, Street Racer suffered from unattractive, blocky graphics. According to Kaplan himself, later racing games released for the Atari, such as Activision's 1982 games Barnstorming and Grand Prix, were able to offer improved graphics and gameplay.
In a 2007 interview with Digital Press, Kaplan was asked what he would change about any of the games he had written:
Kaplan went on to become one of the founders of Activision where he developed Kaboom!, one of the 10 top-selling games for the Atari 2600.
Reception
Street Racer was reviewed in Video magazine as part of a general review of the Atari VCS where it was given a review score of 5.5 out of 10. The game did not age well and modern critics have given it poor reviews as well. Gamasutra have described the "Number cruncher" sub-game as a highlight of the game.
References
External links
1977 video games
Atari 2600 games
Atari games
North America-exclusive video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Top-down racing video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls%20Will%20Be%20Girls | Girls Will Be Girls may refer to:
Girls Will Be Girls (film), a 2003 film directed by Richard Day
Girls Will Be Girls (TV series), a television show on The Comedy Network
Girls Will Be Girls (Farmer's Daughter album), 1993
Girls Will Be Girls (Klymaxx album), 1982 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skern%20Runestone | The Skern Runestone, designated as Danish Runic Inscription 81 or DR 81 in the Rundata catalog, is a Viking Age memorial runestone located in the small village of Skjern, Denmark between Viborg and Randers. The stone features a facial mask and a runic inscription which ends in a curse. A fragment of a second runestone designated as DR 80 was also found in Skjern.
Description
This inscription consists of runic text in the younger futhark that circles a facial mask, with text listed as line B located on the top of the stone. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style RAK, which is the oldest classification. This classification is used for inscriptions where the runic bands have straight ends without any attached serpent or beast heads. The facial mask on this stone is a common motif and is found on several other Scandinavian runestones including DR 62 in Sjelle, DR 66 in Århus, DR 258 in Bösarp, the now-lost DR 286 in Hunnestad, DR 314 in Lund, DR 335 in Västra Strö, Vg 106 in Lassegården, Sö 86 in Åby ägor, Sö 112 in Kolunda, Sö 167 in Landshammar, Sö 367 in Släbro, Nä 34 in Nasta, U 508 in Gillberga, U 670 in Rölunda, U 678 in Skokloster, U 824 in Holms, U 1034 in Tensta, and U 1150 in Björklinge, and on the Sjellebro Stone. The Skern Runestone was discovered in 1843 in the foundation of a staircase in the ruins of a local castle dating from the 14th century, which had been razed in 1626 during the Thirty Years War. Before the cultural and historic significance of runestones was understood, they were often re-used in the construction of roads, bridges, walls, and buildings. The inscription has been dated as being carved approximately 1000 C.E.
The runic text states that the stone was raised by a woman named Sasgerðr in memory of Óðinkárr Ásbjǫrnson, who is described in Old Norse as þan dyra meaning "valued" or "the dear one." The runic text ends in a curse, which is on line B on the top of the stone, and calls anyone who would break the monument a siþi. This word is translated in Rundata as "sorcerer," but actually refers to a "seiðr worker." During the Viking Age the practice of seiðr by men had connotations of unmanliness or effeminacy known as ergi, and aspects of this sorcery ran counter to the male ideal of forthright, open behavior. Other runestones with similar curses include DR 83 in Sønder Vinge, DR 209 in Glavendrup, DR 230 from Tryggevælde, DR 338 in Glemminge, and Vg 67 in Saleby.
Two of names on the stone have been of interest to scholars. Sasgerðr is otherwise unknown, but is likely derived from the common name Ásgerðr, perhaps as a result of children's speech. The runes uþinkaur are translated as Óðinkárr, a theophoric name that refers to the Norse pagan god Odin and a curl of hair, suggesting that the name originally may have referred to cultic initiates who grew long hair. In this connection, it is possible that the drott or lord from the text could refer to Odin, although it is likely that the lord wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaxys | Reaxys is a web-based tool for the retrieval of information about chemical compounds and data from published literature, including journals and patents. The information includes chemical compounds, chemical reactions, chemical properties, related bibliographic data, substance data with synthesis planning information, as well as experimental procedures from selected journals and patents. It is licensed by Elsevier.
Reaxys was launched in 2009 as the successor to the CrossFire databases. It was developed to provide research chemists with access to current and historical, relevant, organic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry information, from reliable sources via an easy-to-use interface.
Scope and access
One of the primary goals of Reaxys is to provide research chemists with access to experimentally measured data – reactions, physical, chemical or pharmacological – in one universal and factual platform. Content covers organic, medicinal, synthetic, agro, fine, catalyst, inorganic and process chemistry and provides information on structures, reactions, and citations. Additional features include a synthesis planner and access to commercial availability information. There have been regular releases and enhancements to Reaxys since it was first launched, including similarity searching.
Reaxys provides links to Scopus for all matching articles and interoperability with ScienceDirect. Access to the database is subject to an annual license agreement.
Core data
The content covers more than 200 years of chemistry and has been abstracted from several thousands of journal titles, books and patents. Today the data is drawn from selected journals (400 titles) and chemistry patents, and the excerption process for each reaction or substance data included needs to meet three conditions:
It has a chemical structure
It is supported by an experimental fact (property, preparation, reaction)
It has a credible citation
Journals covered include Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis, Journal of American Chemical Society, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, Synlett and Tetrahedron.
Patents in Reaxys come from the International Patent Classes:
C07 Organic Chemistry
A61K and secondary IPC C07 [Medicinal, Dental, Cosmetic Preparations]
A01N
C09B Dyes
Comparison with other chemical databases
Only a very limited number of studies compared Reaxys with other databases, that provide chemical search functionality, such as SciFinder, ChEMBL, PubChem and Questel-Orbit. For example, the most comprehensive study published in 2020 by researchers from the University of Sydney concluded, that "Reaxys is definitely the first choice, due to both its wealth of data and its precise search facilities...but for less common data and spectra SciFinder contains often more information than Reaxys. PubChem should also be included, not only because of its size and accessibility... Reaxys has well over 100 times the number of experimental property data points <as SciFinder>... In th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual%20bit%20error%20rate | The residual bit error rate (RBER) is a receive quality metric in digital transmission, one of several used to quantify the accuracy of the received data.
Overview
In digital transmission schemes, including cellular telephony systems such as GSM, a certain percentage of received data will be detected as containing errors, and will be discarded. The likelihood that a particular bit will be detected as erroneous is the bit error rate.
The RBER characterizes the likelihood that a given bit will be erroneous but will not be detected as such
Applications
When digital communication systems are being designed, the maximum acceptable residual bit error rate can be used, along with other quality metrics, to calculate the minimum acceptable signal-to-noise ratio in the system. This in turn provides minimum requirements for the physical and electronic design of the transmitter and receiver.
References
Error detection and correction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational%20data%20mining | Educational data mining (EDM) is a research field concerned with the application of data mining, machine learning and statistics to information generated from educational settings (e.g., universities and intelligent tutoring systems). At a high level, the field seeks to develop and improve methods for exploring this data, which often has multiple levels of meaningful hierarchy, in order to discover new insights about how people learn in the context of such settings. In doing so, EDM has contributed to theories of learning investigated by researchers in educational psychology and the learning sciences. The field is closely tied to that of learning analytics, and the two have been compared and contrasted.
Definition
Educational data mining refers to techniques, tools, and research designed for automatically extracting meaning from large repositories of data generated by or related to people's learning activities in educational settings. Quite often, this data is extensive, fine-grained, and precise. For example, several learning management systems (LMSs) track information such as when each student accessed each learning object, how many times they accessed it, and how many minutes the learning object was displayed on the user's computer screen. As another example, intelligent tutoring systems record data every time a learner submits a solution to a problem. They may collect the time of the submission, whether or not the solution matches the expected solution, the amount of time that has passed since the last submission, the order in which solution components were entered into the interface, etc. The precision of this data is such that even a fairly short session with a computer-based learning environment (e.g. 30 minutes) may produce a large amount of process data for analysis.
In other cases, the data is less fine-grained. For example, a student's university transcript may contain a temporally ordered list of courses taken by the student, the grade that the student earned in each course, and when the student selected or changed his or her academic major. EDM leverages both types of data to discover meaningful information about different types of learners and how they learn, the structure of domain knowledge, and the effect of instructional strategies embedded within various learning environments. These analyses provide new information that would be difficult to discern by looking at the raw data. For example, analyzing data from an LMS may reveal a relationship between the learning objects that a student accessed during the course and their final course grade. Similarly, analyzing student transcript data may reveal a relationship between a student's grade in a particular course and their decision to change their academic major. Such information provides insight into the design of learning environments, which allows students, teachers, school administrators, and educational policy makers to make informed decisions about how to interact with, prov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Toolbar | Data Toolbar is a Web scraping computer software add-on to the Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome Web browsers that collects and converts the structured data from Web pages into a tabular format that can be loaded into a spreadsheet or database management program.
Algorithm
The program implements a variation of the genetic tree-matching algorithm with respect to nested lists. That is, inside a given website, the program recursively traverses the branches of its DOM tree, aiming to detect nested lists of data items matching the format of the specified content. This approach is known to have several advantages over a simple string-matching algorithm.
Features
Collection of data and images directly from the Internet Explorer.
Collection of information from Details pages linked to the catalog.
Automatic processing of multi-page catalogs.
Support of irregular multi-row catalogs mixed with advertisement.
Similar tools
Automation Anywhere - The Web Extractor is a part of the larger automation system
Easy Web Extract - Standalone application, Windows
Mozenda - Web based service
Newprosoft - Standalone application, includes an Agent, Windows
OutWit – Standalone Application and Firefox Extension
Data Scraping Studio – Standalone Application for Windows and Chrome Extension
Diggernaut – Web platform with standalone application for Windows, Linux, MacOS and Google Chrome Extension
Sources
External links
http://datatoolbar.com/
Internet Explorer add-ons
Web scraping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapi | Rapi or RAPI may refer to:
Råpi, a mountain in Sweden
Rapi Films, an Indonesian film production company
Remote Application Programming Interface, a mechanism in the Pocket PC
People
Luigi Rapi (born 1902), Italian automobile designer
Nina Rapi, Greek-born playwright
See also
RPi or Raspberry Pi, a series of small single-board computers
Leuconostoc rapi a bacterium
Rapi:t, an express train service in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robic | Robic () —a programming language created in the USSR for primary school education (8–11 years old children). It was developed in 1975 and later modified to be included in a software system called "Schoolgirl" for the computer Agat.
The language uses syntax based on the Russian vocabulary.
An interesting language feature is a performer, an object that functions in a certain environment, which is different for each performer. It is possible to create and delete instances of different types of performers. Each performer type has its own collection of commands, expanding the list of commands available in the language itself.
External links
Robic language description from A.P. Yershov`s academician archive.
Russian programming language and means of production forum
Educational programming languages
Computing in the Soviet Union
Education in the Soviet Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puso%20ng%20Pasko%3A%20Artista%20Challenge | Challenge ( is a 2010 Philippine television reality show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Richard Gutierrez, Vicky Morales, Rhian Ramos and Drew Arellano, it premiered on December 6, 2010. The show concluded on December 31, 2010 with a total of 20 episodes.
Premise
The show features 12 groups of Kapuso celebrities competing in various challenges and win for the 12 families and communities (1 for each pair). Over P5 million in cash and prizes will be awarded to the 12 partner families.
Challengers
Green team
Carla Abellana and Geoff Eigenmann
Paolo Contis and Sam Pinto
Benjie Paras and Bubbles Paraiso
Mariz Umali and Raffy Tima (winners)
Red team
Jennica Garcia and Carl Guevarra
Bianca King and Aljur Abrenica
Heart Evangelista and Ervic Vijandre
Rachelle Ann Go and Kris Lawrence
Blue team
Kris Bernal and Rocco Nacino
Gwen Zamora and Fabio Ide
Ynna Asistio and Mark Herras
Cesar Montano and Sunshine Cruz
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings, the pilot episode of Challenge earned a 9.1% rating.
References
External links
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Christmas television series
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRF%20advantage | In cryptography, the pseudorandom-function advantage (PRF advantage) of an algorithm on a pseudorandom function family is a measure of how effectively the algorithm can distinguish between a member of the family and a random oracle. Consequently, the maximum pseudorandom advantage attainable by any algorithm with a fixed amount of computational resources is a measure of how well such a function family emulates a random oracle.
Say that an adversary algorithm has access to an oracle that will apply a function to inputs that are sent to it. The algorithm sends the oracle a number of queries before deciding whether the oracle is a random oracle or simply an instance of the pseudorandom function family. Say also that there is a 50% chance that the oracle is a random oracle and a 50% chance that it is a member of the function family. The pseudorandom advantage of the algorithm is defined as two times the probability that the algorithm guesses correctly minus one.
References
External links
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mihir/papers/gb.html
Theory of cryptography
Pseudorandomness |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladik%20Kreinovich | Vladik Kreinovich is a professor of computer science at the University of Texas at El Paso.
He was educated at Leningrad State University and received a doctorate in mathematics from the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, affiliated with Novosibirsk State University in Novosibirsk.
His research spans several areas of computer science, computational statistics and computational mathematics generally, including interval arithmetic, fuzzy mathematics, probability theory, and probability bounds analysis. His research addresses computability issues, algorithm development, verification, and validated numerics for applications in uncertainty processing, data processing, intelligent control, geophysics and other engineering fields. In 2015, the Society For Design and Process Science gave him its Zadeh Award.
Books
Vladik Kreinovich (ed.), Uncertainty Modeling, Springer Verlag, Cham, Switzerland, 2017.
Christian Servin and Vladik Kreinovich, Propagation of Interval and Probabilistic Uncertainty in Cyberinfrastructure-related Data Processing and Data Fusion, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015.
Hung T. Nguyen, Vladik Kreinovich, Berlin Wu, and Gang Xiang, Computing Statistics under Interval and Fuzzy Uncertainty, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.
Vladik Kreinovich, Anatoly Lakeyev, Jiri Rohn, and Patrick Kahl, Computational complexity and feasibility of data processing and interval computations, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1998.
R. Baker Kearfott and Vladik Kreinovich (eds.). Applications of Interval Computations Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1996.
Selected publications
V. Kreinovich, "Solving equations (and systems of equations) under uncertainty: how different practical problems lead to different mathematical and computational formulations", Granular Computing, 2016, Vol. 1, No. 3, pp. 171–179.
V. Kreinovich and S. Shary, "Interval methods for data fitting under uncertainty: a probabilistic treatment", Reliable Computing, 2016, Vol. 23, pp. 105–141.
L. Thompson, A. Velasco, V. Kreinovich, "Construction of ShearWave models by applying multi-objective optimization to multiple geophysical data sets", In: G. O. Tost and O. Vasilieva (eds.), Analysis, Modelling, Optimization, and Numerical Techniques, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015, pp. 309–326.
A. Jalal-Kamali, M. S. Hossain, and V. Kreinovich, "How to Understand Connections Based on Big Data: From Cliques to Flexible Granules", In: S.-M. Chen et al. (eds.), Information Granularity, Big Data, and Computational Intelligence, Springer, Cham, 2015, pp. 63–87.
V. Kreinovich, "Interval computations and interval-related statistical techniques", In: F. Pavese et al. (eds.), Advanced Mathematical and Computational Tools in Metrology and Testing, World Scientific, Singapore, 2015, pp. 38–49.
V. Kreinovich, "Decision Making under Interval Uncertainty (and beyond)", In: P. Guo and W. Pedrycz (eds.), Human-Centric Decision-Making Models for Social Sciences, Springer Verlag, 2014, pp. 163–193.
M. Beer, S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoner | Phoner and PhonerLite are softphone applications for Windows operating systems available as freeware. Phoner is a multiprotocol telephony application supporting telephony via CAPI, TAPI and VoIP, while PhonerLite provides a specialized and optimized user interface for VoIP only. Beside the different user interface focus both programs share the same code base.
Both programs use the Session Initiation Protocol for VoIP call signalisation. Calls are supported via server-based infrastructure or direct IP to IP. Media streams are transmitted via the Real-time Transport Protocol which may be encrypted with the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) and the ZRTP security protocols. Phoner provides as well an interface for configuring and using all supplementary ISDN services provided via CAPI and thus needs an ISDN terminal adapter hardware installed in the computer.
Both programs support IPv4 and IPv6 connections by using UDP, TCP and TLS.
Supported audio formats
G.711 A-law: 64 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
G.711 μ-law: 64 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
G.722: 64 kbit/s payload, 16 kHz sampling rate
G.726: 16, 24, 32 or 40 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
GSM: 13 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
iLBC: 13.3 or 15.2 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
Speex narrow band: 15 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
Speex wide band: 30 kbit/s payload, 16 kHz sampling rate
Opus: 10-50 kbit/s, up to 48 kHz sampling rate
G.729: 8 kbit/s payload, 8 kHz sampling rate
Linear PCM: 705 kbit/s payload, 44.1 kHz sampling rate
See also
Comparison of VoIP software
List of SIP software
Opportunistic encryption
References
External links
Phoner Main Website
VoIP software
Cryptographic software
Internet privacy software
Secure communication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TreapDB | TreapDB is a kind of NoSQL data store, and it is based on Treap data structure. Treap is a randomized balanced search tree, which has O(log(n)) complexity to insert or find a key. TreapDB supports many operations besides "get" and "set". For example, "prefix foo" fetch all the pairs whose key startswith "foo". TreapDB can be used in two ways: embedded library or standalone server.
TreapDB is sponsored by Sino-German Joint Laboratory of Software Integration.
References
External links
Cross-platform software
Structured storage
Free database management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%20D.C.%20Area%20Film%20Critics%20Association%20Awards%202010 | The 9th Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards were given out on December 6, 2010.
Winners and nominees
Best Film
The Social Network
127 Hours
Black Swan
Inception
Toy Story 3
Best Director
David Fincher – The Social Network
Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – True Grit
Christopher Nolan – Inception
Best Actor
Colin Firth – The King's Speech
Jeff Bridges – True Grit
Robert Duvall – Get Low
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
James Franco – 127 Hours
Best Actress
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone
Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right
Anne Hathaway – Love & Other Drugs
Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole
Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale – The Fighter
Andrew Garfield – The Social Network
John Hawkes – Winter's Bone
Sam Rockwell – Conviction
Geoffrey Rush – The King's Speech
Best Supporting Actress
Melissa Leo – The Fighter
Amy Adams – The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter – The King's Speech
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit
Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin 127 Hours – Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle
Toy Story 3 – Michael Arndt
True Grit – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Winter's Bone – Debra Granik and Anne RoselliniBest Original Screenplay Inception – Christopher Nolan Another Year – Mike Leigh
Black Swan – Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John McLaughlin
The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
The King's Speech – David SeidlerBest Cast The Town
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The Social Network
Best Animated Film
Toy Story 3
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
Shrek Forever After
Tangled
Megamind
Best Documentary Film
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Inside Job
Restrepo
The Tillman Story
Waiting for "Superman"
Best Foreign Language Film
Biutiful • Mexico
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo • Sweden
I Am Love • Italy
Mother • South Korea
White Material • France
Best Art Direction
Inception
Alice in Wonderland
Black Swan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
True Grit
Best Cinematography
Inception
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Social Network
True Grit
Best Score
Inception – Hans Zimmer
127 Hours – A. R. Rahman
Black Swan – Clint Mansell
The Social Network – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
True Grit – Carter Burwell
References
External links
The Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
2010
2010 film awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Jewish%20Anti-Zionist%20Network | The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) is a network of anti-Zionist Jews pledged to "Oppose Zionism and the State of Israel".
Policies and membership
Sara Kershnar and others founded the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network in 2008.
The IJAN views Zionism as a racist movement, and Israel as an apartheid state. The charter of the organization states "[w]e are an international network of Jews who are uncompromisingly committed to struggles for human emancipation, of which the liberation of the Palestinian people and land is an indispensable part. Our commitment is to the dismantling of Israeli apartheid, the return of Palestinian refugees, and the ending of the Israeli colonization of historic Palestine." It calls for the unconditional freeing of all Palestinian prisoners in Israel. The group also opposes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, capitalism, and Islamophobia.
Prominent members of IJAN include feminist activist Selma James and the late Holocaust survivor Hajo Meyer. It comprises groups in the United States, Canada, India, Argentina, and several European countries.
Activities
During the Gaza War (2008–2009) six members chained themselves to the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles, California, while around 40 others protested in front, shutting it down for two hours. Members of IJAN participated in a protest in London at the same time.
In 2010, Ireland's national trade-union federation invited the Network to a conference in Dublin about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
IJAN member and Auschwitz survivor Hajo Meyer, author of The End of Judaism: An Ethical Tradition Betrayed, was a key speaker in IJAN's 2010–11 "Never Again – For Anyone" tour, with talks in the UK and Ireland.
In 2011, IJAN was one of a number of organizations that organized a 13-city speaking tour of the United States, which according to the Jerusalem Post "compares Israel's relations with the Palestinians to the Nazis' treatment of Jews during the Holocaust".
In November 2012, members of the IJAN participated in a protest against a meeting of the Jewish National Fund in Toronto.
Third party views
Irish academic David Landy describes IJAN as one of the few Jewish organizations not to "sideline" anti-Zionism, "believing Zionism to be the underlying problem that must be tackled in order to achieve Palestinian liberation and incidentally reclaim the Jewish commitment to liberation".
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has said that although the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network does not organise "a significant number of events", it has an important role "in creating policy and setting anti-Israel agendas".
In 2010, the Jerusalem Post correspondent Jonny Paul characterised IJAN as a "small radical fringe group".
Notes
External links
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network web site
Charter of the International Jewish anti-Zionist Network. September 29, 2008.
Organizations established in 2008
Jewish anti-Zionist organizations
Non-governme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist%20Memorial%20Hospital-Golden%20Triangle | Baptist Memorial Hospital-Golden Triangle is a hospital in Columbus, Mississippi, and part of the Baptist Memorial Health Care network.
Overview
Baptist Memorial has 328 beds and is a Level III trauma facility. The hospital is the seventh largest provider of medical and surgical services in the state of Mississippi.
The hospital has been certified by The Joint Commission. In 2009, it employed a total of 1,100 people, including 100 doctors, making it Lowndes County's largest private employer.
Baptist Golden Triangle is also home to one of the best ambulance services in the state of Mississippi which has received several awards including the Lifeline award for excellence in prehospital cardiac care.
References
External links
Hospitals in Mississippi
Buildings and structures in Lowndes County, Mississippi
Trauma centers
Baptist hospitals in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20H.%20Pappas | Lee H. Pappas is an American entrepreneur and founder of a number of technology publications. He co-founded Atari 8-bit family enthusiast magazine ANALOG Computing in 1981. After the Atari ST was released, ANALOG spun-off a magazine for that computer: ST-Log. VideoGames & Computer Entertainment also started as a section within ANALOG Computing before becoming a separate publication. Pappas later founded print magazines PC Laptop, TurboPlay, VISIO, Picture This!, and Home Theater Builder. He is currently the CEO of Enflight, a provider of flight planning software for the aviation industry.
References
External links
Personal website
Klanky's A.N.A.L.O.G. Computing website
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CommerceHub | CommerceHub is one of the world’s commerce networks, providing software for drop shipping, marketplace, digital marketing, and delivery management. Generating over $50 billion in GMV annually, it provides integration and fulfillment services to both online and brick and mortar retailers, distributors, and supplier companies such The Home Depot, Nordstrom, Macy's, Lowe's, Adidas, Kohl’s, Nike, Costco, QVC, Staples, Best Buy, Meijer, drugstore.com, Walgreens, Dell, Toshiba, Sanyo, Minolta, Gateway and Little Tikes.
CommerceHub was formed in 1997 to develop e-commerce integration services for the sharing of data and business processes between trading partners. As online retailing was developing, merchants were fulfilling orders via “virtual merchant” business models, selling online and fulfilling orders via drop shipping. Founder Frank Poore, a logistics expert familiar with retailer order management systems, recognized the growing online business was attracting retailers that had never sold direct and would change the way retailers and manufacturers needed to communicate to make drop shipping work.
Merchant data transmitted via a value-added network (VAN) was generally formatted as electronic data interchange (EDI). Online businesses found EDI was too cumbersome to accommodate all the file formats and business rules the growing volume of e-commerce retailers required. CommerceHub developed a web-based approach to serve e-commerce integration needs with their Universal Connection Hub, a translation engine that provides integration to translate and normalize supply chain communications, and enable electronic processing of purchase orders, change orders, and remittance confirmations in native file format. The Universal Connection Hub supports industry communications and file format options including web browser, VPN, VAN, FTP, web services, HTTPS, EDI, XML, flat files, spreadsheets, and others.
In 1998 drop-ship fulfillment services were added to the connectivity hub to provide management and monitoring of the order fulfillment life cycle. CommerceHub’s DropShip Master provided order tracking, visibility, and event management with automated exception alerts to customizable business rules.
In August 2000 CommerceHub received a multimillion-dollar investment from Interactive Technology Holdings, LLC, and announced the signing of a contract with iQVC, the online retailing division of QVC, to provide electronic business communications between iQVC and its participating vendors to automate management of iQVC customer service operations from point of sale through delivery. The company became profitable in 2002 with the signing of four Top 20 retailers. By 2003 CommerceHub had signed on 10 major e-commerce retailers and announced in 2004 that its network of integrated clients was approaching one thousand organizations representing nearly a million unique product SKUs.
CommerceHub was acquired by QK Holdings, a supply-chain management company, in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Coprinopsis%20species | The following is a list of the species of the genus Coprinopsis in the family Psathyrellaceae. Coprinopsis was split out of the genus Coprinus based on molecular data. The species Coprinopsis cinerea is a model organism for mushroom-forming basidiomycota, and its genome has been sequenced completely.
Species
Coprinopsis acuminata (Romagn.) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis aesontiensis A. Melzer, Ferisin & Dovana (2017)
Coprinopsis africana (Pegler) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis afrocinerea Mešić, Tkalčec, Čerkez, I. Kušan & Matočec (2018)
Coprinopsis afronivea Desjardin & B.A. Perry (2016)
Coprinopsis albiflavida Voto (2021)
Coprinopsis alcobae (A. Ortega) Valade (2014)
Coprinopsis alnivora (Bogart) Voto (2019)
Coprinopsis alopecia (Lasch) La Chiusa & Boffelli (2017)
Coprinopsis alutaceivelata (Bogart) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis ammophilae (Courtec.) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis annulopora (Enderle) P. Specht & H. Schub. (2013)
Coprinopsis arachnoidea P. Voto (2019)
Coprinopsis argentea (P.D. Orton) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis asiaticiphlyctidospora Fukiharu & Horigome (2013)
Coprinopsis atramentaria (Bull.) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis austrofriesii (Redhead & Pegler) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis austrophlyctidospora Fukiharu (2011)
Coprinopsis babosiae L. Nagy, Vágvölgyi & Papp (2013)
Coprinopsis bellula (Uljé) P. Roux & Eyssart. (2011)
Coprinopsis bicornis (Uljé & Horvers) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis bogartii Voto (2021)
Coprinopsis brunneistragulata (Bogart) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis brunneofibrillosa (Dennis) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis bubalina (Bogart) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis burkii (A.H. Sm.) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis calospora (Bas & Uljé) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis candidata (Uljé) Gminder & Böhning (2016)
Coprinopsis candidolanata (Doveri & Uljé) Keirle, Hemmes & Desjardin (2004)
Coprinopsis canoceps (Kauffman) Örstadius & E. Larss. (2015)
Coprinopsis caracasensis (Dennis) Voto (2020)
Coprinopsis caribaea (Pegler) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis cerkezii Tkalčec, Mešić, I. Kušan & Matočec (2017)
Coprinopsis cinchonensis (Murrill) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis cineraria (Har. Takah.) Örstadius & E. Larss. (2015)
Coprinopsis cinerea (Schaeff.) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis cinereofloccosa (P.D. Orton) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis clastophylla (Maniotis) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis coniophora (Romagn.) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis cortinata (J.E. Lange) Gminder (2010)
Coprinopsis cothurnata (Godey) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis cubensis (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (2001)
Coprinopsis dendroc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Kevin%20Spencer%20episodes | Kevin Spencer is a Canadian adult animated comedy developed by Greg Lawrence. It originally ran on The Comedy Network from January 17, 1999 to November 4, 2005. A total of 113 episodes aired over the course of 8 seasons.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1999)
Season 2 (1999-2000)
Season 3 (2000-01)
Season 4 (2001-02)
Season 5 (2003)
Season 6 (2003-04)
Season 7 (2004-05)
Season 8 (2005)
References
External links
Lists of comedy television series episodes
Lists of Canadian television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Youth%20Organizations%20Nepal | The Association of Youth Organizations Nepal (AYON) is a non-political, non-religious, non-governmental, not-for-profit, autonomous network of Youth Organizations and as such, a platform for collaboration, cooperation, joint action and collective endeavor between Youth Organizations in Nepal. So far, 92 youth organizations have registered with AYON. The organisation is situated in New Baneshwor, Kathmandu.
AYON took lead during the Nepali earthquake and mobilized thousands of youth volunteers. Immediately after the disastrous earthquake, within just 23 hours Association of Youth Organizations Nepal (AYON) in coordination with various youth groups like Come on Youth Stand Up initiated #act4quake youth group within to respond to the earthquake disaster.
(AYON), together with other local, national, and international agencies, has been involved in relief works from immediately after the earthquake mobilizing more than 900 youth volunteers in 14 districts. The youth volunteers team meets the people, make the community, does the medical emergency medical treatments, cleans the area to stop the epidemics and in some locations like Sankhu, Nuwakot building temporary bamboo houses.
To date {16 May 2015} it has reached more than 140 villages of 14 districts and its teams including medical persons are reaching to un-reached and un-served areas with relief materials.
Member organisations
In 2015, AYON works with 987 member organisations, situated in Nepal:
Definitions
These definitions are according to AYON.
Youth: Youth is an individual, male or female, of any class, caste, creed, origin or religion, who is of the age group between 16 years to 35 years. To compare the Youth definition of the United Nation is between 15 and 24 years old.
Youth Organization: Youth Organization is an organization run by youth, conducting activities directly targeting youth, for the development of youth. These organizations should have at least 75% youths in its membership base and the executive committee.
Objectives
To act as an umbrella organization for Youth Organizations in Nepal to foster cooperation, dialogue, network and collaboration for youth empowerment and development
To advocate, lobby and facilitate mainstreaming of youth issues in the National agenda.
To organize capacity building programs, trainings and workshops to strengthen the network and its member organizations.
To serve as consulting and advisory body to the government agencies and relevant stakeholders regarding youth issues in Nepal.
To organize various youth events having national and international significance.
To represent Nepalese youth in international policy/decision making bodies, associations, conferences, and various fora.
To build network and alliance with international youth organizations and networks to foster youth development.
References
The Loyal Youth Club -Salyan
External links
Official website
Community organizations
Youth organisations based in Nepal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20Kruse | Rudolf Kruse (born 12 September 1952 in Rotenburg/Wümme) is a German computer scientist and mathematician.
Education and professional career
Rudolf Kruse obtained his diploma (Mathematics) degree in 1979 from the TU Braunschweig, Germany, and a PhD in Mathematics in 1980 as well as the venia legendi in Mathematics in 1984 from the same university. Following a short stay at the Fraunhofer Society, in 1986 he joined the University of Braunschweig as a professor of computer science. From 1996–2017 he was a full professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg where he has been leading the computational intelligence research group. Since October 2017 he has been an emeritus professor.
Research activities
He has carried out research and projects in statistics, artificial intelligence, expert systems, Fuzzy control, fuzzy data analysis, Computational Intelligence, and information mining. His research group was very successful in various industrial applications.
Rudolf Kruse has coauthored 40 books as well as more than 450 refereed technical papers in various scientific areas. He is associate editor of several scientific journals. He is a fellow of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA), fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) and fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
References
External links
Web pages of the Computational Intelligence group
Personal Homepage R. Kruse
Scientific Publications (DBLP)
Living people
1952 births
Fellows of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATHENA%20%28European%20cultural%20heritage%20project%29 | ATHENA is a European Union funded project which aims to provide content to Europeana. It is led by the Italian Ministry of Culture, and "takes its origins from the existing MINERVA network."
References
External links
Cultural organizations based in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Coatings%20Journal | The European Coatings Journal is an English-language trade magazine for the coatings industry. It is published by Vincentz Network. It was established in 1986. According to the Informationsgemeinschaft zur Feststellung der Verbreitung von Werbeträgern, it reached about 33.000 readers per issue in 2010. The European Coatings Journal is an official partner of the Conseil Européen de l'Industrie des Peintures, des Encres d'Imprimerie et des Couleurs d'Arts, the European coatings association.
Content
Professional articles
Topics from research and development as well as topics from coatings production and raw materials are dealt with in extensive articles. There is always one main topic (e.g. powder coating, additives or water based coatings). The articles are written by external professionals and revised by the editorial team.
Categories
Next to professional articles which compose the main part of the journal, there are some permanent sections:
Market Watch (An overview of relevant M&A, investments, and cooperations in the European paint, coatings and printing inks industry. Exclusive interviews with leading players in the coatings industry, plus indispensable special reports on important coatings and raw material market segments.)
Association (Structure, strategy and main issues of different associations, which are active in the European paint, coatings and printing inks industry.)
Technical Papers (High-level technical articles on latest developments in coatings technology written by internationally renowned coatings experts from industry and academia.)
Events (Exclusive reports from international conferences, meetings and coatings shows.)
Market Place (Offers an overview of new products, including raw materials, testing, laboratory and production equipment.)
Special topics
The European Coatings Journal publishes preliminary reports and news reports about subject specific fairs and congresses (e.g. FATIPEC-Congress, European Coatings Show).
Market studies of various key markets are published at irregular intervals.
Special issues
The EC Directory is a buyer's guide for the coatings industry. It includes company profiles and an overview of the most important organizations and institutes.
See also
List of magazines in Germany
References
External links
1986 establishments in West Germany
Business magazines published in Germany
Coatings
English-language magazines
Magazines established in 1986
Monthly magazines published in Germany
Paint and coatings industry
Professional and trade magazines
Mass media in Hanover |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%202011 | Network 2011 was a plan for transit expansion created in 1985 by the Toronto Transit Commission. It was centred on three proposed subway lines: the Downtown Relief Line, Eglinton West Line, and the Sheppard Line. Only a portion of the Sheppard Line was built. The Eglinton West and Downtown Relief Lines were cancelled; they were superseded by the Eglinton Crosstown light rail line and the Ontario Line respectively.
The plan
The 1970s had seen the end of new expressway construction in Toronto, and the preservation of the Downtown streetcar system. In 1972, while construction was underway on the Spadina Subway line, the provincial government of Bill Davis introduced the GO-Urban transit plan for the Toronto region. Rather than build either subways or light rail, the plan would build a network of innovative maglevs to ring Metro Toronto. The maglev project failed, and the province switched to supporting UTDC's Intermediate Capacity Transit System. An initial line was built, the Scarborough RT, but it went greatly over budget and no further lines were attempted.
Network 2011 was designed to meet the needs of a rapidly growing city where building new expressways was politically impossible. There was also strong resistance to further intensification of the downtown core. The same spirit of activism that had stopped the Spadina Expressway and saved the streetcars also blocked residential redevelopment projects such as the plans for Trefann Court and Kensington Market. Community activists also opposed more downtown office towers, and as a result the city plan called for the creation of three suburban "subcentres" that would become central business districts independent of the core: North York City Centre, Scarborough City Centre, and Etobicoke City Centre. Improving transit to these areas was a central focus of the plan.
The GO-Urban and ICTS experiments being failures, the TTC was unwilling to again risk anything experimental, and the plan called for future transit expansion to use subways of the same design as the existing lines. The plan did not consider using the CLRV and ALRV streetcars which were being delivered at the time to run on the downtown tracks.
Under the lead of planner Jiri Pill, the TTC delivered a plan to Metro Toronto in May 1985 calling for a near doubling of Toronto's rapid transit lines. The Network 2011 plan had five elements to be built over the next 28 years and would cost an estimated $2.7 billion:
Sheppard Subway Line from Yonge Street to Victoria Park Avenue, the top priority with work hoped to begin almost immediately. Estimated cost of $500 million
Downtown Relief Line running from Union Station to Donlands Station to relieve pressure on the Yonge-Bloor Station. Estimated to cost $565 million and open in 1998.
Temporary busway on Eglinton West to be completed by 2003 and would cost $365 million
Sheppard Phase 2, extension of the Sheppard Line east from Victoria Park Avenue to Scarborough Town Centre and west to Dufferin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography%20tools | A steganography software tool allows a user to embed hidden data inside a carrier file, such as an image or video, and later extract that data.
It is not necessary to conceal the message in the original file at all. Thus, it is not necessary to modify the original file and thus, it is difficult to detect anything. If a given section is subjected to successive bitwise manipulation to generate the cyphertext, then there is no evidence in the original file to show that it is being used to encrypt a file.
Architecture
Carrier
The carrier is the signal, stream, or data file into which the hidden data is hidden by making subtle modifications. Examples include audio files, image files, documents, and executable files. In practice, the carrier should look and work the same as the original unmodified carrier, and should appear benign to anyone inspecting it.
Certain properties can raise suspicion that a file is carrying hidden data:
If the hidden data is large relative to the carrier content, as in an empty document that is a megabyte in size.
The use of obsolete formats or poorly-supported extensions which break commonly used tools.
It is a cryptographic requirement that the carrier (e.g. photo) is original, not a copy of something publicly available (e.g., downloaded). This is because the publicly available source data could be compared against the version with a hidden message embedded.
There is a weaker requirement that the embedded message not change the carrier's statistics (or other metrics) such that the presence of a message is detectable. For instance, if the least-significant-bits of the red camera-pixel channel of an image has a Gaussian distribution given a constant colored field, simple image steganography which produces a random distribution of these bits could allow discrimination of stego images from unchanged ones.
The sheer volume of modern (ca 2014) and inane high-bandwidth media (e.g., youtube.com, bittorrent sources. eBay, Facebook, spam, etc.) provides ample opportunity for covert information±.
Chain
Hidden data may be split among a set of files, producing a carrier chain, which has the property that all the carriers must be available, unmodified, and processed in the correct order in order to retrieve the hidden data. This additional security feature usually is achieved by:
using a different initialization vector for each carrier and storing it inside processed carriers -> CryptedIVn = Crypt( IVn, CryptedIVn-1 )
using a different cryptography algorithm for each carrier and choosing it with a chain-order-dependent equiprobabilistic algorithm
Robustness and cryptography
Steganography tools aim to ensure robustness against modern forensic methods, such as statistical steganalysis. Such robustness may be achieved by a balanced mix of:
a stream-based cryptography process;
a data whitening process;
an encoding process.
If the data is detected, cryptography also helps to minimize the resulting damage, since the data is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champaign%20County%20Museums%20Network | Champaign County Museums Network, formerly The Museums at the Crossroads Consortium, is a group of museums in Champaign County, Illinois, that collaborate to raise awareness about their respective institutions, on public programs, education, and outreach. Current members in the consortium include: Anita Purves Nature Center, Champaign County Historical Museum, Homer Lake Interpretive Center, Krannert Art Museum, Museum of the Grand Prairie, Orpheum Children's Science Museum, Pollinatarium, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, Spurlock Museum, and Staerkel Planetarium. Projects of the consortium include producing educators' resource guides, brochures, banners and collaborations for special events.
References
Museum associations and consortia
Museums in Champaign, Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20%28C%2B%2B%29 | In the context of the programming language C++, functional refers to a header file that is part of the C++ Standard Library and provides a set of predefined class templates for function objects, including operations for arithmetic, comparisons, and logic. Instances of these class templates are C++ classes that define a function call operator, and the instances of these classes can be called as if they were functions. It is possible to perform very sophisticated operations without writing a new function object, simply by combining predefined function objects and function object adaptors.
The class template std::function provided by C++11 is a general-purpose polymorphic function wrapper. Instances of std::function can store, copy, and invoke any callable target—functions, lambda expressions (expressions defining anonymous functions), bind expressions (instances of function adapters that transform functions to other functions of smaller arity by providing values for some of the arguments), or other function objects.
The algorithms provided by the C++ Standard Library do not require function objects of more than two arguments. Function objects that return Boolean values are an important special case. A unary function whose return type is is called a predicate, and a binary function whose return type is is called a binary predicate.
Adaptable function objects
In general, a function object has restrictions on the type of its argument. The type restrictions need not be simple, though: may be overloaded or may be a member template. Similarly, there need be no way for a program to determine what those restrictions are. An adaptable function object, however, does specify what the argument and return types are, and provides nested s so that those types can be named and used in programs. If a type is a model of an adaptable generator, then it must define . Similarly, if is a model of the adaptable unary function, it must define and , and if is a model of the adaptable binary function, it must define , , and . The C++ Standard Library provides base classes and to simplify the definition of adaptable unary functions and adaptable binary functions.
Adaptable function objects are important, because they can be used by function object adaptors: function objects that transform or manipulate other function objects. The C++ Standard Library provides many different function object adaptors, including (that returns the logical complement of the value returned by a particular adaptable predicate), and and , which perform composition of function object.
Predefined function objects
The C++ Standard Library includes in the header file functional many different predefined function objects, including arithmetic operations (, , , , , and ), comparisons (, , , , , and ), and logical operations (, , and ).
Examples
Function wrappers can be used to make calls to ordinary functions or to functions objects created by lambda expressions.
#include <iostream>
#i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang%20Liang%20%28author%29 | Zhang Liang is the pseudonym of the compiler of the controversial book The Tiananmen Papers. Zhang has refused to reveal his true identity for fear of repression and retaliation by the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) against him, his family, and his friends. Moreover, Zhang contends that he wants to remain anonymous to avoid being seen as a figurehead or a saviour. He believes that the Chinese government is the only entity which can reverse the damaged system One of the only known facts about Zhang is that he is a former high-ranking cadre within the Communist Party of China. Some people within China and abroad believe that his unwillingness to reveal his identity immediately discredits the documents and accusations presented in The Tiananmen Papers.
Motivations for Writing
Zhang and some of his pro-reform colleagues had petitioned the Chinese Communist Party to own up to, what they viewed as, its mistakes on June 4, 1989. However, because of the government’s unwillingness to change its position regarding its actions during the protests, Zhang felt he had no option but to collect the documents and release them publicly. Following the publishing of his book, Zhang met with CNN for an interview where he divulged that he felt it was his national duty to publish the secret documents and that “what I did, I did for history and for the people." Andrew Nathan and Perry Link, The Tiananmen Papers editors, write that Zhang had further hopes when publishing the material: In 2002, China had its CCP 16th National Congress. At this Congress, China would experience a political leadership overhaul and Zhang hoped that more progressive future leaders would lead China to a more democratic future. By publishing the book a year in advance of the Congress, Zhang wanted to spark the memories of the Chinese public as well as other international support groups; and restore the spirit of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
Authenticity
After arriving in the U.S., Zhang began looking for the most strategic way to publish the documents. He contacted Andrew Nathan and Perry Link, who later brought in Orville Schell, to help assemble the book. In order to authenticate the documents, Nathan, Link, and Schell all describe meeting with Zhang on multiple occasions and corroborating his accounts with documents and other historical interpretations of events around the time of the protests. They also offer detailed arguments about why they consider Zhang’s research and collection methods as correct and fair. Perhaps the most convincing reason that supporters of The Tiananmen Papers point to is the Chinese government’s reaction to the release of the documents. After the release of the book, the Chinese Communist Party heightened its security by “[cracking down] on dissent,” and “[tightening its] surveillance on liberal intellectuals as well as Chinese-American scholars doing research on China." Further, the government began censoring all forms of media (print, internet, audio, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe%20Animate | Adobe Animate (formerly Adobe Flash Professional, Macromedia Flash, and FutureSplash Animator) is a multimedia authoring and computer animation program developed by Adobe Inc.
Animate is used to design vector graphics and animation for television series, online animation, websites, web applications, rich web applications, game development, commercials, and other interactive projects. The program also offers support for raster graphics, rich text, audio video embedding, and ActionScript 3.0 scripting. Animations may be published for HTML5, WebGL, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) animation and spritesheets, and legacy Flash Player (SWF) and Adobe AIR formats. The developed projects also extend to applications for Android, iOS, Windows Desktop and MacOS.
It was first released in 1996 as FutureSplash Animator, and then renamed Macromedia Flash upon its acquisition by Macromedia. It served as the main authoring environment for the Adobe Flash platform, vector-based software for creating animated and interactive content. It was renamed Adobe Animate in 2016 to more accurately reflect its market position then, since over a third of all content created in Animate uses HTML5.
History
The first version of Adobe Flash/Adobe Animate was FutureSplash Animator, a vector graphics and vector animations program released in May 1996. FutureSplash Animator was developed by FutureWave Software, a small software company whose first product, SmartSketch, was a vector-based drawing program for pen-based computers. With the implosion of the pen-oriented operating systems, it was ported to Microsoft Windows as well as Apple Inc.'s Classic Mac OS. In 1995, the company decided to add animation abilities to their product and to create a vector-based animation platform for World Wide Web; hence FutureSplash Animator was created. (At that time, the only way to deploy such animations on the web was through the use of Java.) The FutureSplash animation technology was used on websites such as MSN, The Simpsons website and Disney Daily Blast of The Walt Disney Company.
In December 1996, Macromedia bought FutureWave and rebranded the product as Macromedia Flash, a brand name that continued for 8 major versions. Adobe Systems acquired Macromedia in 2005, and re-branded the product Adobe Flash Professional to distinguish it from the player, Adobe Flash Player. It was included as part of the Creative Suite of products from CS3 to CS6, until Adobe phased out the Creative Suite lineup in favor of Creative Cloud (CC).
On December 1, 2015, Adobe announced that the program would be renamed Adobe Animate on its next major update. The move comes as part of an effort to disassociate the program from Adobe Flash Player, acknowledging its increased use for authoring HTML5 and video content, and an effort to begin discouraging the use of Flash Player in favor of web standards-based solutions. The first version under the new name was released February 8, 2016. Although Adobe Animate is movin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted%20Micro%20Function%20Points | Weighted Micro Function Points (WMFP) is a modern software sizing algorithm which is a successor to solid ancestor scientific methods as COCOMO, COSYSMO, maintainability index, cyclomatic complexity, function points, and Halstead complexity. It produces more accurate results than traditional software sizing methodologies, while requiring less configuration and knowledge from the end user, as most of the estimation is based on automatic measurements of an existing source code.
As many ancestor measurement methods use source lines of code (SLOC) to measure software size, WMFP uses a parser to understand the source code breaking it down into micro functions and derive several code complexity and volume metrics, which are then dynamically interpolated into a final effort score. In addition to compatibility with the waterfall software development life cycle methodology, WMFP is also compatible with newer methodologies, such as Six Sigma, Boehm spiral, and Agile (AUP/Lean/XP/DSDM) methodologies, due to its differential analysis capability made possible by its higher-precision measurement elements.
Measured elements
The WMFP measured elements are several different software metrics deduced from the source code by the WMFP algorithm analysis. They are represented as percentage of the whole unit (project or file) effort, and are translated into time.
Flow complexity (FC) – Measures the complexity of a programs' flow control path in a similar way to the traditional cyclomatic complexity, with higher accuracy by using weights and relations calculation.
Object vocabulary (OV) – Measures the quantity of unique information contained by the programs' source code, similar to the traditional Halstead vocabulary with dynamic language compensation.
Object conjuration (OC) – Measures the quantity of usage done by information contained by the programs' source code.
Arithmetic intricacy (AI) – Measures the complexity of arithmetic calculations across the program
Data transfer (DT) – Measures the manipulation of data structures inside the program
Code structure (CS) – Measures the amount of effort spent on the program structure such as separating code into classes and functions
Inline data (ID) – Measures the amount of effort spent on the embedding hard coded data
Comments (CM) – Measures the amount of effort spent on writing program comments
Calculation
The WMFP algorithm uses a three-stage process: function analysis, APPW transform, and result translation.
A dynamic algorithm balances and sums the measured elements and produces a total effort score.
The basic formula is:
Σ(WiMi)ΠDq
M = the source metrics value measured by the WMFP analysis stage
W = the adjusted weight assigned to metric M by the APPW model
N = the count of metric types
i = the current metric type index (iteration)
D = the cost drivers factor supplied by the user input
q = the current cost driver index (iteration)
K = the count of cost drivers
This score is then transformed into time by applyi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20HD%20Mini | The HTC HD Mini is a smartphone running the Windows Mobile operating system with HTC Sense. The phone was designed and manufactured by HTC, and was first released in February 2010.
Description
With a screen size of and weighing with battery, it is a compact version of its larger sibling, the HTC HD2, although being powered by a lower speed 600 MHz Qualcomm processor and a 512 MB ROM/384 MB RAM storage combination. Other features include multi-touch display, 5 megapixel color camera with auto focus; internal GPS antenna; 3G broadband connectivity, Wi-Fi and FM radio. As compared to the HD2's WVGA resolution, the HD Mini has HVGA, in tandem with the smaller screen.
The HTC HD mini includes capacitive touch for viewing, zooming and resizing websites, Microsoft Office files, PDF documents and pictures.
Unlike the HD2, the HD Mini natively runs Windows Mobile 6.5.3, as compared to 6.5.1 native on the HD2 (although developers have cooked 6.5.3 and 6.5.5 ROMs for the HD2).
See also
HTC Touch Family
HTC Touch HD
HTC HD2 – the original phone on which the HD Mini is based on
HTC HD7 – the successor to the HD2
References
HTC HD Mini – GSMArena.com
HD Mini
Windows Mobile Professional devices
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BronxNet | BronxNet is a public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable television network in The Bronx, New York, airing on multiple Cablevision and Verizon FiOS channels. BronxNet is located on the campus of Lehman College, and at a new studio, "BronxNet East", in the Mercy College campus at 1200 Hutchinson Metro Center.
BronxNet produces some original programming, notably Bronx Flavor, a food-oriented comedy series which focuses on ethnic cuisine and restaurants in the borough.
Bronxnet is a not-for-profit organization that was created under a joint agreement between Cablevision of New York City and the City of New York. The channel provides training for local residents of the Bronx, as well as students who attend a school located in the Bronx. The television production training is available four times a year. The station just produced its 900th episode in late October.
The various channels offer different types of programming such as original local issue programs, shows produced by local residents highlighting local arts and artists, foreign language programs produced by local residents and programs produced by local churches.
Shows
Open 2.0 is a show produced, written and hosted by participating Bronx high school students in a magazine style. The show covers issues pertaining to a younger audience.
Bronx Live! is a show in the style of a monthly series that showcases performing artists, musicians, singers and art institutions. It has been on the air since September 1995.
Bronx Currents is a show that broadcasts local meetings pertaining to the community, such as debates, seminars and town meetings. There are also occasional documentaries highlighting individuals from the neighborhood, either from politics, sports or the community.
BronxTalk is a talk show hosted by Gary Axelbank that is focused on local happenings, crime, economic development and education. Axelbank has guests on the show frequently to help explain issues to the Bronx community.
BronxNet Sports is a sports show that brings live coverage, highlights and analysis for local high school and college sports teams.
Bronx Journal is another issue-related talk show, hosted by Miguel Perez, which has a more national and international basis, while still catering to the local community.
Bronx Flavor is an Emmy-nominated show with Justin Bornal, who plays the fictional character Baron Ambrosia, in which Ambrosia takes the audience through the Bronx and highlights a small family-owned restaurant and its food, while keeping a comedic tone and giving history and background on the food of choice.
Art and About is a show with Daniel Hauben where he takes the viewer on a process to show how to create art in the world.
References
Further reading
External links
BronxNet web site
American public access television
Television stations in New York City
Lehman College
Mercy College (New York)
Jerome Park, Bronx |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula%20Hancocks | Paula Hancocks is an international correspondent for CNN television news network. She is based in Seoul, South Korea, and is the channel's representative in the Korean Peninsula.
Career
Hancocks joined CNN in 1997, and had broadcast from its London branch. Among others, she covered the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, and Israel's conflict with Hezbollah in 2006. From 2001, she served as a production assistant, and rose through the ranks.
References
British expatriates in Israel
British expatriates in South Korea
British women journalists
CNN people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currensee | Currensee (or currensee.com) was a financial services company based in Boston to serve as a social network for foreign exchange (FX, Forex, or currency) traders. The company provided mirror trading services to its clients that allowed them to make trading decisions based on other traders actions. The company was acquired by Oanda in 2013, which decided to close down the service a year later in October 2014.
The idea behind the company was to let traders collaborate on trading strategies, styles, and techniques in what would become known as social trading. This stemmed from the fundamental chaos of the retail forex market and the large number of solo "day traders" that were looking for trading ideas.
One of Currensee's main innovations was the "Trade Leaders Investment Program," in which Currensee used a proprietary algorithm to identify top-performing traders from within the social network, invited them to participate in the program, and then allowed other investors to follow and execute their trades in their own brokerage account, something that was akin to the mutual fund system based in stock indexes.
History
The company was founded in 2008 by software developer Asaf Yigal and Forex trader Avi Leventhal, at the time of the late-2000s recession. They identified an opportunity to offer Forex trading as an alternative asset class and a new way to trade together.
The company was led by CEO Dave Lemont, and was headquartered in Boston's North End neighborhood. Currensee was funded by North Bridge Venture Partners, Egan-Managed Capital, and Vernon & Park Capital. They were a member of the National Futures Association and registered with the Financial Services Authority.
It was acquired by the forex broker Oanda Corporation in September 2013.
On October 9, 2014, Oanda Corporation announced that on October 31, 2014, Currensee and the OANDA Trade Leaders Program (OTLP) will cease operation.
The Currensee Social Network
Together Yigal and Leventhal combining social networking with real trade collaboration. Currensee's goal was to bring transparency to retail Forex trading by creating an active network of traders and a different way to make investing decisions. The Currensee trading social network connected retail Forex traders from around the world so they could see each other's actual trades and share trading strategies in real time to make more informed trade decisions.
Traders linked their live brokerage accounts to Currensee, so when they participated in discussions and on trading teams, fellow traders could look at their trading performance and make an informed decision about their next trade. This form of social trading, or trading together, allows Forex traders to collaborate and share their Forex best practices, trading strategies, preferred pairs and economic indicators, and so on. This is a key differentiator, as there is a wide discrepancy between user performance in "demo accounts" and live brokerage accounts.
As of 2010, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20Enforcement%20National%20Data%20Exchange | The Law Enforcement National Data Exchange (N-DEx) brings together data from criminal justice agencies throughout the United States, including incident and case reports, booking and incarceration data, and parole/probation information. N-DEx detects relationships between people, vehicles/property, location, and/or crime characteristics. N-DEx is housed at the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division in West Virginia.
Awards
GCN Awards 2009 Government Computer News Agency Award
Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation 2010 Award for Information Sharing
References
External links
N-DEx Program site
FBI CJIS Division site
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Law enforcement in the United States
United States intelligence agencies
Law enforcement databases in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che%20Che | Che Che may refer to:
Chéché, a village on the Corubal River in Guinea-Bissau
Che Che Lazaro Presents, a now defunct program of Philippines TV network GMA
Cheche Lazaro, Filipina TV host
Che Rosli Che Mat, Malaysian politician and Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Hulu Langat constituency.
Che Uda Che Nik, Malaysian politician and Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Sik constituency in Kedah. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamish%20McLachlan | Hamish Angus McLachlan (born 28 August 1975) is an Australian sports broadcaster and host with Seven Sport.
Since he joined the Seven Network in January 2008, he has been a host/presenter/reporter at multiple events, including being a part of every Australian Open tennis tournament until 2018 and hosting AFL Game Day since its beginning through to this day. McLachlan was the host for the network's Olympics and Commonwealth Games, a position previously held by the likes of Sandy Roberts and Matt White.
Early career
McLachlan began working in sports management in 1998, where he worked with Elite Sports Properties (ESP). As general manager of the Events and Entertainment Division, he was involved in a number of different sporting events, including the 2000 Summer Olympics, the 2002 Winter Olympics, the 2002 FIFA World Cup, and the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
In 2004, McLachlan became a director of the Australian Football Hall of Fame and Sensation exhibition in Melbourne which was placed into administration two months after opening due to severe debt. He had previously co-founded Spyglass Management, which was awarded the licence to operate the Hall of Fame. In November 2004, the Federal Court of Australia described Spyglass Management as "hopelessly insolvent", with "many creditors, whose debts in aggregate exceed $26 million".
Media career
In 2008, McLachlan joined the Seven Network becoming co-host of AFL Game Day, a new Australian Rules Football review panel television program on Sunday mornings. He also took up a role at Triple M radio as a match-day commentator, calling Saturday-night and Sunday-afternoon AFL matches. He also co-hosted the 2009 and 2011 Brownlow Medal 'Blue Carpet' ceremonies with Seven News presenter, Rebecca Maddern, and fellow Seven Sport presenter, Rachel Finch, respectively.
McLachlan was a court interviewer at the 2008 Australian Open (his first role at the Seven Network), an event he has been a part of every year since, becoming a host a few years later (afternoons) and then prime-time host from 2015 (taking over from Johanna Griggs who herself replaced Matt White a few years earlier).
McLachlan hosts AFL Game Day on Sunday mornings (a program he has hosted since its inception in 2008), which reviews and analyses the weekend's AFL round.
The same year, he called the Spring Racing Carnival for Triple M.
Outside of Australian rules football and horse racing, McLachlan is involved in calling polo matches. He also owns Ten Goals, a small media and production described as specialising in "sports broadcasting, commentary, hosting and multimedia presentations".
In 2012, McLachlan became part of the Seven Network's AFL team, initially as co-commentator of Saturday afternoon matches with Basil Zempilas. In 2015, he began calling Sunday afternoon matches with Dennis Cometti (and later Brian Taylor), only for matches played in Melbourne (as AFL Game Day, which he hosts earlier in the day, is produced at Seven's Docklands s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable/DSL%20gateway | Cable/DSL gateway is the network gateway which interfaces from digital subscriber line (DSL) and Cable TV to some other physical implementation of the computer network, usually to the wireless network or LAN.
External links
Review of the cable/DSL gateway to the wireless 802.11g network, manufactured by Belkin
Product page of the cable/DSL gateway to the 10/100 Ethernet network, manufactured by 3COM
Dictionary definition of the cable/DSL gateway
Cable television
Digital subscriber line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strutt%20%26%20Parker | Strutt & Parker is one of the largest property consultancies in the UK with a network of 60 offices, 10 in prime central London.
It was founded in 1885, by the partnership of two friends, Hon. Edward Gerald Strutt and Charles Alfred Parker.
In 2017 Strutt & Parker was acquired by BNP Paribas Real Estate, part of the BNP Paribas Group.
References
External links
Official website
Property services companies of the United Kingdom
British companies established in 1885
BNP Paribas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted%203%3A%20Drake%27s%20Deception | Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception is a 2011 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the third main entry in the Uncharted series and was released in November 2011 for the PlayStation 3. Set two years after Among Thieves (2009), the single-player story follows Nathan Drake and his mentor Victor Sullivan as they search for the legendary lost city of Iram of the Pillars while battling a secret society led by Sullivan's former employer, Katherine Marlowe.
Development for Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception began in 2010. Development was approached by incorporating locations distinct from the series' previous entries, with the team deciding on deserts and urban areas, drawing inspiration for the plot from the life of archaeologist T. E. Lawrence. Naughty Dog sought to upgrade the game's openness and realism, increasing the volume of motion capture and voice acting, and conducting field research for better visual environments and sounds. The development team also aimed to improve the multiplayer system, introducing new competitive and co-operative modes, while the game is also notable for being one of the first to carry the new online PlayStation Network Pass feature.
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception received critical acclaim for its voice acting, graphics, story, and cinematic quality. Some criticized its linearity and found it inferior to its predecessor. The game received Game of the Year accolades from numerous publications and award events, and was a commercial success, selling over six million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling PlayStation 3 games. The game was followed by the sequel Uncharted 4: A Thief's End in 2016, and was re-released on PlayStation 4 as part of Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection.
Gameplay
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception is an action-adventure platform video game played from a third-person perspective, with the player in control of Nathan Drake. Drake has a large number of different animation sets, enabling him to react according to his surroundings. Drake is physically adept and can jump, sprint, climb, swim, scale narrow ledges and wall faces to get between points, and perform other acrobatic actions. Drake can now take on opponents in more ways than before: hand-to-hand combat with multiple opponents, contextual melee attacks, and new stealth options. Uncharted 3 also features expanded and diverse traversal moves with deep gunplay. Drake can be equipped with up to two firearms – one single-handed and one two-handed – and four grenades. Drake can pick up weapons, automatically replacing the existing weapon he was using, and additional ammunition from downed enemies.
The player can direct Drake to take cover behind corners or low walls using either aimed or blind fire to kill his enemies. The player can also have Drake fire while moving. If Drake is undetected by his enemies, the player can attempt to use stealth to take them out, such as by sneaking up |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networker%20Turbo | Networker Turbo may refer to three related classes of diesel multiple unit members of the Networker family of trains built for British Rail, the United Kingdom's then state owned rail operator, between 1990 and 1993:
British Rail Class 165, in service with both Chiltern Railways and Great Western Railway
British Rail Class 166, a faster air conditioned variant of the 165 in service with Great Western Railway
British Rail Class 168, a later partial derivative of the 165 in service with Chiltern Railways |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20at%20Oak%20Tree%3A%20The%20Series | Live at Oak Tree: The Series is a TV series from Daywind Records that airs on The Inspiration Network. The series presents many artists behind-the-scenes during all the preparation and recording of a live presentation.
The Series
Daywind Records started releasing the presentations of the series as CDs and DVDs. These are some of the ones they've released:
References
External links
INSP Adds Daywind Records’ “Live at Oak Tree” Series on INSP
Daywind's "Live At Oak Tree" Series Picks Up Regular Time Slot On INSP on SouthernGospel.com
American music television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opta%20Sports | Opta Sports, formerly Opta Sportsdata and more commonly known as Opta, is a British sports analytics company. Opta provides data for more than 30 sports in over 70 countries, with clients ranging from leagues and federations to broadcasters and betting websites. The company was founded in 1996, and acquired by Perform Group in 2013. In turn, Perform Group was acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2019, merging it with STATS LLC to form Opta's current parent company, Stats Perform.
History
Opta Index Limited was founded in 1996 to analyze Premier League football matches and was contracted by Sky Sports for their television broadcasts of the 1996–97 season. The following season, Opta became the official statistics provider for the league itself and became sponsored by Carling. In June 1999, Opta was acquired by internet betting service Sports Internet Group for £3.9 million. Sky Group acquired the Sports Internet Group in 2000 and sold Opta to Sportingstatz Limited, a data service co-founded by Aidan Cooney.
Opta debuted its current real-time data collection process for football matches in 2006, leading to an expansion in new data offerings across different sports. In 2011, the company entered the US market when it opened an office in New York and partnered with Major League Soccer.
Offices
Opta is headquartered in London with additional offices in Europe located in Limerick, Aveiro, Munich, Bassano del Grappa, Milan, Paris, Madrid, and Amsterdam. The company opened offices in New York City and Sydney in 2011.
References
External links
Sports mass media in the United Kingdom
Companies based in the City of Westminster
British companies established in 2001
Sports records and statistics
2001 establishments in England
2001 in London
Data companies
Statistical service organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclops%20%28company%29 | Cyclops is a UK provider of consumer speed camera alert systems. It offers an eponymous dedicated device and an iPhone app. It compares a driver's GPS location to its database of speed camera locations.
The company is privately owned and run by Chairman Peter Johnson and Managing Director Stephen Wreford.
The company has coverage of speed cameras for 28 countries and includes all fixed, average, temporary, variable, red light, speed and mobile camera type categories in its database.
History
In 2001 the eponymous company, Cyclops UK Ltd, become the global distributor and subsequently acquired all the intellectual property rights in the product, software and databases from Trafficmaster plc.® (the UK traffic information company).
The Cyclops device was sold in volume by Halfords, Motor World, Peugeot, Citroen, Nissan, Alfa Romeo and Ford as an aftermarket product.
In 2003-2004, investments were made by Octopus Ventures, East Midlands Business Angels and Catapult Venture Managers to further fund development.
In 2010, Cyclops UK launched a new real-time alert service using the "3G/GPRS" connectivity of mobile phones and connected personal navigation devices to enable a community of users to share information on the activity of mobile speed camera enforcement. A team of internal researchers added foreseen location information from local official agencies. In the UK, such agencies include the Safer Roads Partnership that manage such programs on behalf of local councils and police forces.
Technology
Cyclops uses a system of digital way-points in its database-creation-process to eliminate non-relevant alerts. Other camera alert systems often use a radius or cone look-up based on a vehicle's heading that can generate false alerts in some instances.
The system filters user reports against historic, frequent and clusters of current reported data to derive a "risk" rating for each report. Only alerts that have an appropriate score are forwarded to users. A similar system is also used by traffic information systems to help predict traffic patterns.
Partnerships
Cyclops UK is a long standing supplier to Garmin, the largest satellite navigation brand in the world. All Garmin satellite navigation units come pre-loaded with Cyclops content.
The databases provided by Cyclops are found in some satellite navigation devices and mobile navigation device.
The company logo and strap-line "powered by Cyclops" appear on some satellite navigation boxes.
Marketing
Since 2001 the company has used the strap-line "keeping an eye on the road ahead".
References
Companies established in 2001
Companies based in Banbury |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard%20Year-End%20Hot%20100%20singles%20of%202010 | Billboard publishes annual lists of songs based on chart performance over the course of a year based on Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems and SoundScan information. For 2010, the list for the top 100 Billboard Hot 100 Year-End songs was published on December 8, calculated with data from December 5, 2009 to November 27, 2010. At the number-one position was Kesha's "Tik Tok", which stayed atop the Hot 100 for nine weeks. This achievement made Kesha the first female artist in the history of the chart to top the Year-End Hot 100 with a debut single.
The list is also notable for being one of five Billboard Year-End lists that featured 14 songs that appeared in the previous year (in this case 2009's) repeat onto to this list. The highest being Jay Z's "Empire State of Mind", which made it on to 2009's list at number 62 and repeat higher at number 21 in 2010's. Only four other year-end lists repeat the same feat, that being 1997, 2016, 2018 and 2022.
See also
2010 in American music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2010
List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2010
References
United States Hot 100 Year-End
Lists of Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omphalina%20pyxidata | Omphalina is a species of fungus in the family Tricholomataceae, and the type species of the genus Omphalina. It is found in North America and Europe.
References
External links
Tricholomataceae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapsgaliwn | Rapsgaliwn is an S4C programme for pre-school children. It is shown on the Welsh-language children's television programming strand, Cyw.
Rapsgaliwn is a rapper, who claims to be 'the best rapper in the world'. Recognised for wearing gold. He is Dona Direidi's cousin. Each episode revolves around children asking him a question and he produces a rap with the answer after doing a bit of research.
Despite being a Welsh language programme for Welsh speaking children, English subtitles are usually available with the phrases reworded in order to maintain a rhyming pattern after translation.
References
British preschool education television series
British television shows featuring puppetry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCode | QuickCode (formerly ScraperWiki) was a web-based platform for collaboratively building programs to extract and analyze public (online) data, in a wiki-like fashion. "Scraper" refers to screen scrapers, programs that extract data from websites. "Wiki" means that any user with programming experience can create or edit such programs for extracting new data, or for analyzing existing datasets. The main use of the website is providing a place for programmers and journalists to collaborate on analyzing public data.
The service was renamed circa 2016, as "it isn't a wiki or just for scraping any more". At the same time, the eponymous parent company was renamed 'The Sensible Code Company'.
History
ScraperWiki was founded in 2009 by Julian Todd and Aidan McGuire. It was initially funded by 4iP, the venture capital arm of TV station Channel 4. Since then, it has attracted an additional £1 Million round of funding from Enterprise Ventures.
Aidan McGuire is the chief executive officer of The Sensible Code Company
See also
Data driven journalism
Web scraping
References
External links
github repository of custard
Collaborative projects
Wikis
Social information processing
Web analytics
Mashup (web application hybrid)
Web scraping
Software using the GNU AGPL license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teach%20For%20All | Teach For All is a global network of 61 independent, locally led and funded partner organizations whose stated shared mission is to "expand educational opportunity around the world by increasing and accelerating the impact of social enterprises that are cultivating the leadership necessary for change." Each partner aims to recruit and develop diverse graduates and professionals to exert leadership through two-year commitments to teach in their nations' high-need classrooms and lifelong commitments to expand opportunity for children. The organization was founded in 2007 by Wendy Kopp (founder and former CEO of Teach For America) and Brett Wigdortz (founder and former CEO of Teach First). Teach For All works to accelerate partners' progress and increase their impact by capturing and sharing knowledge, facilitating network connections, provisioning global resources, and fostering leadership development of staff, teachers, and alumni.
History
Teach For America founder Wendy Kopp and Teach First founder Brett Wigdortz co-founded Teach For All after fielding numerous requests from social entrepreneurs around the world who wanted to create similar organizations that would expand educational opportunities in their own countries. Since its launch at the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2007, Teach For All has grown to include 59 partners on six continents as of February 2021 who are pursuing a similar approach to working towards educational equity and excellence for all of their nations' children. The organization has global hubs in New York, Washington, London, Doha, Pune, and Hong Kong. It has an annual budget of $19.9 million provided by global foundations, corporations, and individuals.
Organization structure
Teach For All is a network of organizations with a unifying mission to expand educational opportunity. Teach For All partner organizations work to improve the education of students in classrooms now, while simultaneously working to build the long-term movement for educational equity in their countries. In order to achieve this, Teach For All partner organizations recruit outstanding graduates and professionals from a range of academic disciplines to commit two years to teach in high-need schools and communities and to work throughout their lives to ensure more students are able to fulfill their potential. Teach For All network partners provide participants with ongoing training and support throughout their initial two-year commitments, and foster the development of alumni as leaders for educational change.
In a 2017 lecture at Princeton University reported in the Daily Princetonian, Teach For All co-founder Wendy Kopp said, "In actuality, the organization’s primary aim is to find solutions for 'the big, complex, systemic challenges that can’t be solved in classrooms alone'."
Teach For All is based on the concept of global-local practice-partners which launch grassroots organizations in their countries and belong to a global network of o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suurballe%27s%20algorithm | In theoretical computer science and network routing, Suurballe's algorithm is an algorithm for finding two disjoint paths in a nonnegatively-weighted directed graph, so that both paths connect the same pair of vertices and have minimum total length. The algorithm was conceived by John W. Suurballe and published in 1974. The main idea of Suurballe's algorithm is to use Dijkstra's algorithm to find one path, to modify the weights of the graph edges, and then to run Dijkstra's algorithm a second time. The output of the algorithm is formed by combining these two paths, discarding edges that are traversed in opposite directions by the paths, and using the remaining edges to form the two paths to return as the output.
The modification to the weights is similar to the weight modification in Johnson's algorithm, and preserves the non-negativity of the weights while allowing the second instance of Dijkstra's algorithm to find the correct second path.
The problem of finding two disjoint paths of minimum weight can be seen as a special case of a minimum cost flow problem, where in this case there are two units of "flow" and nodes have unit "capacity". Suurballe's algorithm, also, can be seen as a special case of a minimum cost flow algorithm that repeatedly pushes the maximum possible amount of flow along a shortest augmenting path.
The first path found by Suurballe's algorithm is the shortest augmenting path for the initial (zero) flow, and the second path found by Suurballe's algorithm is the shortest augmenting path for the residual graph left after pushing one unit of flow along the first path.
Definitions
Let be a weighted directed graph with vertex set and edge set (figure A); let be a designated source vertex in , and let be a designated destination vertex. Let each edge in , from vertex to vertex , have a non-negative cost .
Define to be the cost of the shortest path to vertex from vertex in the shortest path tree rooted at (figure C).
Note: Node and Vertex are often used interchangeably.
Algorithm
Suurballe's algorithm performs the following steps:
Find the shortest path tree rooted at node by running Dijkstra's algorithm (figure C). This tree contains for every vertex , a shortest path from to . Let be the shortest cost path from to (figure B). The edges in are called tree edges and the remaining edges (the edges missing from figure C) are called non-tree edges.
Modify the cost of each edge in the graph by replacing the cost of every edge by . According to the resulting modified cost function, all tree edges have a cost of 0, and non-tree edges have a non-negative cost. For example: If , then If , then
Create a residual graph formed from by removing the edges of on path that are directed into and then reverse the direction of the zero length edges along path (figure D).
Find the shortest path in the residual graph by running Dijkstra's algorithm (figure E).
Discard the reversed edges of from bot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Hama | Apache Hama is a distributed computing framework based on bulk synchronous parallel computing techniques for massive scientific computations e.g., matrix, graph and network algorithms. It was a Top Level Project under the Apache Software Foundation. Retired in April 2020, project resources are made available as part of the Apache Attic. It was created by Edward J. Yoon, who named it (short for "Hadoop Matrix") and was inspired by Google's Pregel large-scale graph computing framework described in 2010. Hama also means hippopotamus in Korean language (하마), following the trend of naming Apache projects after animals and zoology (such as Apache Pig).
Architecture
Hama consists of three major components: BSPMaster, GroomServers and Zookeeper.
BSPMaster
BSPMaster is responsible for:
Maintaining groom server status
Controlling super steps in a cluster
Maintaining job progress information
Scheduling jobs and assigning tasks to groom servers
Disseminating execution class across groom servers
Controlling fault
Providing users with the cluster control interface.
A BSP Master and multiple grooms are started by the script. Then, the bsp master starts up with a RPC server for groom servers. Groom servers starts up with a BSPPeer instance and a RPC proxy to contact the bsp master. After started, each groom periodically sends a heartbeat message that encloses its groom server status, including maximum task capacity, unused memory, and so on.
Each time the BSP master receives a heartbeat message, it brings up-to-date groom server status - the bsp master makes use of groom servers' status in order to effectively assign tasks to idle groom servers - and returns a heartbeat response that contains assigned tasks and others actions that a groom server has to do. For now, we have a FIFO job scheduler and very simple task assignment algorithms.
GroomServer
A groom server (shortly referred to as groom) is a process that performs BSP tasks assigned by BSPMaster. Each groom contacts the BSPMaster, and it takes assigned tasks and reports its status by means of periodical piggybacks with BSPMaster. Each groom is designed to run with HDFS or other distributed storages. Basically, a groom server and a data node should be run on one physical node.
Zookeeper
A Zookeeper is used to manage the efficient barrier synchronisation of the BSPPeers.
See also
Bulk synchronous parallel
Message Passing Interface
References
External links
Apache Hama Website
Apache Hama blog
Hama
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Cloud computing
Cloud infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable%20router | "Cable router" has two basic meanings:
Single Cable Router (SCR) - a down-conversion device for the radio data link. It converts RF signal from a satellite dish or TV antenna to the user-defined IF channel. Usually, many SCRs are connected to a single coaxial cable - each converting to a separate IF channel. The entire system referred to as Single Cable Distribution.
A piece of computer network equipment located between cable modem and LAN, performing functions of the network router in a modem.
Cable routers are usually integrated with the modem, frequently incorporating firewall, proxy, or network gateway functions as well.
See also
Cable/DSL router
Networking hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMAGE | EMAGE (e-Mouse Atlas of Gene Expression) is an online biological database of gene expression data in the developing mouse (Mus musculus) embryo. The data held in EMAGE is spatially annotated to a framework of 3D mouse embryo models produced by EMAP (e-Mouse Atlas Project). These spatial annotations allow users to query EMAGE by spatial pattern as well as by gene name, anatomy term or Gene Ontology (GO) term. EMAGE is a freely available web-based resource funded by the Medical Research Council (UK) and based at the MRC Human Genetics Unit in the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Edinburgh, UK.
Contents
EMAGE contains in situ hybridisation, immunohistochemistry, and in situ reporter (e.g. knock-in and gene trap) data. It includes wholemount data, section data and full 3D OPT (Optical Projection Tomography) data. The gene expression patterns are mapped into or onto the standard models by a team of biocurators, using bespoke mapping software. In addition to the spatial annotations, EMAGE data is also text annotated to provide a text based description of the expression patterns. This text annotation is carried out in collaboration with the MGI Gene Expression Database (GXD) using the EMAP mouse anatomy ontology.
EMAGE data comes primarily from peer reviewed, published journal articles, and from large scale screens, but also from direct submissions from researches working in the field. Data does not need to be published to be included in EMAGE, however EMAGE is a curated database. Biocurators check the accuracy of the meta-data included in the database entries and as well as performing the spatial annotations of the data.
EMAGE entries are designed to adhere to the Minimum information specification for in situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry experiments (MISFISHIE) specifications, and as such contain information about the submitter/author publication, detection reagent, assay specimen preparation, and experimental procedures as well as the original data images and the spatial and text annotations. EMAGE entries also contain links to a variety of related resources based on the either the gene being assayed, or the assay itself.
See also
Allen Brain Atlas
References
Notes
External links
EMAGE resource home page
Genetics databases
Genetic engineering in the United Kingdom
Science and technology in Edinburgh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorkXPlore%203D | PartXplore is a computer aided design (CAD) file viewer developed by Sescoi for reading, analyzing, and sharing 3D and 2D CAD files without requiring the original CAD application. It was introduced in 2008 and is supported from local Vero offices. The software is available as a viewer and an evaluation version.
Functionality
PartXplore serves as a collaborative viewer for 2D and 3D CAD files, allowing users to measure 3D parts and analyze various properties such as undercut areas, plane surfaces, thickness, volumes, surfaces, and weight. The software also provides dynamic cross-sectional visualization.
PartXplore enables users to add dimensional and geometric measurements, annotations, and labels directly to the 3D model. Additionally, the software facilitates the sharing of 3D parts and assembly files through a standalone application that can be transmitted as an executable file. The recipient can then access and work on the 3D model received.
CAD formats supported
PartXplore is compatible with various file types, including:
2D formats: DXF, DWG, WorkNC 2D curves, CATIA V5 2D, UG 2D, Pro/E 2D and HPGL
3D formats: STL (Stereo-lithography), IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Specifications - igs, iges), STEP (STandard for the Exchange of Product model data - stp, step), WorkNC 3D (wnc), UGS Parasolid (x_t, xmt_txt, x_b), SolidWorks (Parts, assemblies, drawings & sheet metal -sldprt, sldasm, slddrw), PTC Pro/ENGINEER (prt, asm), CATIA V4 (model, exp, user-def), CATIA V5 (catpart, catproduct, cgr), UGS Unigraphics 3D (prt, asm), CADDS, SolidEdge (prt, asm), ACIS and UNISURF
NC formats: ISO G-code, WorkNC files.
See also
WorkNC
WorkPLAN
References
External links
Partxplore website
Computer-aided design software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDCI-LD | WDCI-LD (channel 57) is a low-power television station in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned and operated by the Daystar Television Network. The station's transmitter is located atop the Aon Center in the Chicago Loop.
History
Prior to becoming a Daystar affiliate, this station was licensed in Elgin and it was owned by Trinity Broadcasting Network as a translator of full-power station WWTO-TV in LaSalle. The station started airing Daystar programming in August 2010 and changed their call letters to WDCI.
Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:
References
Television stations in Chicago
DCI
Daystar Television Network affiliates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consortium%20for%20Research%20on%20Renewable%20Industrial%20Materials | The Consortium for Research on Renewable Industrial Materials (CORRIM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to developing life-cycle assessment (LCA) data related to wood-based materials and energy, and their alternatives.
Research results
In general, the data generated through CORRIM research provide evidence for the favorable environmental impact profile of wood products. Complete CORRIM reports are available from its website, and have been published by the Society of Wood Science and Technology (SWST) in its journal. The life cycle inventory (LCI) data developed by CORRIM are also available to the public from the US LCI Database Project.
References
External links
Phase 1 report
Phase 2 report
US LCI Database
The Society of Wood Science and Technology
The Athena Institute
Non-profit organizations based in Seattle
Renewable resources |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organized%20Crime%20and%20Corruption%20Reporting%20Project | The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) is a global network of investigative journalists with staff on six continents. It was founded in 2006 and specializes in organized crime and corruption.
It publishes its stories through local media and in English and Russian through its website. OCCRP works with and supports 50+ independent media outlets in Europe, Africa, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. In 2017, NGO Advisor ranked it 69th in the world in their annual list of the 500 best non-governmental organizations (NGO).
History
OCCRP was founded by veteran journalists Drew Sullivan and Paul Radu. Sullivan was serving as the editor of the Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) and Radu worked with an early Romanian center. The team paired with colleagues in the region on a story looking at energy traders. The project showed traders were buying power at below production rates while the public was paying increasingly higher fees.
In 2019 the project received a Global Shining Light Award Citation of Excellence from the Global Investigative Journalism Network for its story entitled The Azerbaijani Laundromat.
Work
Investigations
The project has been involved in a number of high-profile investigations, including looking at the offshore services industry, organized crime ownership in football clubs, casinos and the security industry. In 2013, it investigated the Magnitsky case, the largest tax fraud in Russian history, and wrote that funds stolen from the Russian treasury ended up in a company now owned by the son of Moscow's former transportation minister. Some of the money was used to buy high-end real estate near Wall Street. US prosecutors have since sought to seize $18 million in property from the company.
It investigated an assassination attempt on a Russian banker which led the Moldovan government to ban the pro-Russian Patria political party from the 2014 elections and the party's leader to flee the country. It also looked at a massive money laundering scheme, the Russian Laundromat, that moved tens of billions of dollars into Europe using offshore companies, fake loans and bribed Moldovan judges. Some of the Russian banks involved were owned in part by Igor Putin, a cousin of Russian President Vladimir Putin. In March 2022, OCCRP was labeled as "undesirable organization" in Russia.
It published stories on Montenegro's long-time President and Prime Minister Milo Đukanović. Two series looked at the ties between Đukanović and organized crime. One series traced the President's family-owned bank, Prva Banka (First Bank), and how the president privatized it to his brother cheaply, moved massive state funds into the bank and then loaned the money out to his family, friends and organized crime on overly favorable terms. When the bank failed under the weight of these bad loans, the president bailed it out with taxpayer money. The Central Bank said the government lied about repaying the loan simply shuttling funds back and forth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Consortium%20of%20Investigative%20Journalists | The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Inc. (ICIJ), is an independent global network of 280 investigative journalists and over 140 media organizations spanning more than 100 countries. It is based in Washington, D.C., with personnel in Australia, France, Spain, Hungary, Serbia, Belgium and Ireland.
The ICIJ was launched in 1997 by American journalist Charles Lewis as an initiative of the Center for Public Integrity, with the aim of exposing international crime and corruption. In 2017, it became a fully independent organization and was later granted 501(c)(3) nonprofit status.
The Panama Papers were the result of a collaboration with the German newspaper and more than 100 other media partners, with journalists spending a year sifting through 11.5 million leaked files from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca. It culminated in a partial release on 3 April 2016, garnering global media attention. The set of confidential financial and legal documents included detailed information on more than 14,000 clients and more than 214,000 offshore entities, revealing the identities of shareholders and directors including noted personalities and heads of state— government officials, close relatives and associates of various heads of government of more than 40 other countries. first received the released data from an anonymous source in 2015. After working on the Mossack Fonseca documents for a year, ICIJ director Gerard Ryle described how the offshore firm had "helped companies and individuals with tax havens, including those that have been sanctioned by the U.S. and UK for dealing with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad."
The ICIJ helped bring about the Corporate Transparency Act in the United States. The Enablers Act, included in the annual defense bill, was first proposed shortly after ICIJ's Pandora Papers investigation exposed widespread exploitation of lax financial disclosure rules in the U.S.
Governments have recovered more than US$1.36 billion in taxes as a result of the Panama Papers project alone, and some continue to collect lost tax revenue.
History
In 1997, the Center for Public Integrity began creating the consortium. By 2000, the ICIJ consisted of 75 investigative reporters in 39 countries."
In early November 2014, the ICIJ's Luxembourg Leaks investigation revealed that Luxembourg under Jean-Claude Juncker's premiership had turned into a major European centre of corporate tax avoidance.
In February 2015, the ICIJ website released information about bank accounts in Switzerland under the title Swiss Leaks: Murky Cash Sheltered by Bank Secrecy, which published information on 100,000 clients and their accounts at HSBC.
In February 2017, ICIJ was spun off into a fully independent organisation, which is governed by three committees: a board of directors, an Advisory Committee, and the ICIJ Network Committee.
ICIJ was granted nonprofit status from US tax authorities in July 2017.
In 2017, the ICIJ, the McClatchy Compan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tastebuds.fm | Tastebuds is a dating and social networking website and iOS app that matches people based on their tastes in music.
Overview
Users can connect with Facebook, Spotify or Last.fm, or enter some of their favorite musical artists to be matched with people who share their musical preferences.
Tastebuds is integrated with popular events service Songkick allowing users to arrange to meet at concerts they're attending.
Messaging is free on the iPhone app, however, it is not free to new website users as of January 2014. Existing users can message anyone.
Tastebuds acquired one of its competitors, moosify in 2014, bringing along approximately 100,000 members with it.
On Thursday 2 March 2023, Tastebuds announced to its online memembers "It is with a heavy heart that we share the news that Tastebuds will be shutting down on April 18th, 2023. Unfortunately, it is no longer viable to keep Tastebuds running. Supporting a service of this scale - while maintaining a high quality of user experience - is a huge technical and administrative undertaking which requires considerable resources. We have explored many different ways to keep the service going, but ultimately, it is no longer possible!"
See also
List of online dating websites
Online dating service
References
Mashable.com, Friday 18, 2010 Mashable.com feature on Tastebuds.fm
Guardian.co.uk, If music be the food of love Tastebuds.fm is on to a winner
Glamour.com Glamour.com article on Tastebuds.fm
Time.com Tastebuds.fm Finds Your Musical and Romantic Soulmate For You
Consequence.net Finding Love Through Music: Online dating app Tastebuds.fm does just that
MTV.com Is this Music Dating Site the new Tinder?
External links
Tastebuds website
Tastebuds iPhone app
Online dating services of the United States
Internet properties established in 2010
2010 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit-testing | In computer graphics programming, hit-testing (hit detection, picking, or pick correlation) is the process of determining whether a user-controlled cursor (such as a mouse cursor or touch-point on a touch-screen interface) intersects a given graphical object (such as a shape, line, or curve) drawn on the screen. Hit-testing may be performed on the movement or activation of a mouse or other pointing device.
Hit-testing is used by GUI environments to respond to user actions, such as selecting a menu item or a target in a game based on its visual location. In web programming languages such as HTML, SVG, and CSS, this is associated with the concept of pointer-events (e.g. user-initiated cursor movement or object selection).
Collision detection is a related concept for detecting intersections of two or more different graphical objects, rather than intersection of a cursor with one or more graphical objects.
Algorithm
There are many different algorithms that may be used to perform hit-testing, with different performance or accuracy outcomes. One common hit-test algorithm is presented in the pseudo-code below:
function HitTest(Rectangle r1, Rectangle r2) returns boolean
{
return ((r1.X + r1.Width >= r2.X) and (r1.X <= r2.X + r2.Width) and (r1.Y + r1.Height >= r2.Y) and (r1.Y <= r2.Y + r2.Height));
}
In Python:
def hit_test(r1: Rectangle, r2: Rectangle) -> bool:
"""Return true if it hits else return false."""
return (
(r1.x + r1.width >= r2.x)
and (r1.x <= r2.x + r2.width)
and (r1.y + r1.Height >= r2.y)
and (r1.y <= r2.y + r2.height)
)
See also
Point in polygon
Computational geometry
Collision detection
User interface
References
External links
MSDN: Hit Testing in the Visual Layer
MSDN: Hit Testing Lines and Curves
Computer graphics
User interfaces
Video game development |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYMB-TV | DYMB-TV, channel 36 (analog) and channel 18 (digital), is a local commercial television station of Philippine television network TV5, owned by its sister company Cignal TV, Inc., It is the first UHF station affiliate by a major network in Iloilo City, Philippines. Its studio is located at Magsaysay Road, La Paz, Iloilo City, and its 10,000-watt transmitter is located at Piña-Tamborong-Alaguisoc Road, Jordan, Guimaras.
TV5 Iloilo History
1967 - Associated Broadcasting Corporation opened its broadcast in Jaro, Iloilo City via Channel 6 (DYXX-TV), which was the first television station in the whole Panay, until 1972 when President Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law and it was forced to shut down. The Channel 6 frequency would eventually handed over to GMA Network, through Asian-Pacific Broadcasting Company in 1974.
August 9, 2008 - TV5 started its official broadcast in Iloilo City (with the change of its callsign to DYER-TV on UHF Channel 46), following ABC-5's closure prior to signed off on August 8 which aired a countdown to its re-launch for much of the next day until 19:00 PHT, when the network officially re-launched under its new name of the same network.
April 4, 2010 - TV5 Iloilo was reformatted, with a new lineup of programming and branding as the "Kapatid" ("sibling") network.
July 2012 - TV5 Iloilo switched its channel assignment from Channel 46 to Channel 36; the former frequency was given to the newly launched AksyonTV.
February 17, 2018 - as the recent changes within the network and in celebration of its 10th anniversary, TV5 Iloilo was relaunched as The 5 Network Iloilo with a new logo and station ID entitled Get It on 5 whereas the TV on the northeastern quadrant of the logo has been dropped, making it more flexible for the other divisions to use it as part of their own identity.
January 13, 2019 - 5 Iloilo introduced a variation of the current numerical 5 logo, similar to the newly network 5 Plus.
August 15, 2020 - 5 Iloilo was reverted to TV5 while retaining the 2019 numerical 5 logo.
July 14, 2021 - TV5 Iloilo started its digital test broadcasts on UHF Channel 18 covering Metro Iloilo, Metro Bacolod and the provinces of Iloilo and Guimaras, as well as several parts of Negros Occidental.
Digital television
Digital channels
UHF Channel 18 (497.143 MHz)
Areas of coverage
Primary areas
Iloilo
Guimaras
Secondary areas
Portion of Negros Occidental
TV5 television and radio stations nationwide
References
External links
Official Site
Television stations in Iloilo City
TV5 (Philippine TV network) stations
Television channels and stations established in 2008
2008 establishments in the Philippines
Digital television stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Omnia%207 | The Samsung Omnia 7 (also known as the SGH-i8700) is a smartphone which runs Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. It features a Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 SoC clocked at 1 GHz, a 4.0-inch Super AMOLED screen with a resolution of 480×800, and either 8 GB or 16 GB capacity of internal storage. The phone does not contain a microSD slot for extra storage. It was available in Europe and South Africa, whereas the Samsung Focus was sold in the United States. The Samsung Omnia 7 supports Windows Phone 7.8.
Software issues
Some users of the Omnia 7 along with the Samsung Focus had issues with upgrading to the March 2011 update and again with the NODO update. Samsung and Microsoft have since worked to deliver updates for the phones to resolve the upgrade problem.
See also
Windows Phone
References
External links
Official Samsung Omnia 7 homepage
Windows Phone devices
Samsung smartphones
Mobile phones introduced in 2010
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG%20Optimus%207 | The LG Optimus 7 (also known as the LG-E900) is a slate smartphone which runs Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. The Optimus 7 is part of the first-generation Windows Phone line-up launched in October 2010.
Technical issues
Update issues
Several users reported an error while updating their handsets to Windows Phone 7.5 via Zune which only seemed to affect users with firmware versions 1.0.1.12 and 1.1.2.10. Newer versions of the firmware do not seem to have this problem. Certain users have reported the error has been removed after re-flashing their device ROM via an Authorised LG Support Center or restoring the previous version of their device and updating to Mango again.
Overheating
The Optimus 7 has a tendency to heat to a high temperature when the handset is left to run an application for an extended period of time. This behavior has also been noted during charging. Due to the device's metal battery cover, the handset tends to retain any heat generated.
It has also been reported that the phone can reboot after reaching high temperatures. Upon rebooting, the phone can hang at the LG start-up logo, necessitating the user to reset the device manually.
See also
LG Quantum
Windows Phone
Comparable Devices
LG Quantum
HTC HD7
Samsung Omnia 7
HTC 7 Trophy
Nokia Lumia 520
References
External links
Official LG Optimus 7 homepage
Windows Phone devices
LG Electronics smartphones
Mobile phones introduced in 2010
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Heart%20You%2C%20Pare%21 | I ♥ You, Pare! (International title: I ♥ You, Bro / read as I Heart You, Pare! / ) is a 2011 Philippine television drama romantic comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Andoy Ranay and Joyce E. Bernal, it stars Regine Velasquez and Dingdong Dantes. It premiered on February 7, 2011, on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Beauty Queen. The series concluded on May 27, 2011, with a total of 78 episodes. It was replaced by Amaya in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Regine Velasquez-Alcasid as Antonia "Tonya" Estrella / Tonette
Dingdong Dantes as Kenneth Castillo
Iza Calzado as Antonia "Tonya" Estrella / Tonette
Supporting cast
Tirso Cruz III as Cesar / Sarsi
Ian Veneracion as Ramon Castillo
Celia Rodriguez as Marita Castillo
Luane Dy as Nikki Romualdez
Ehra Madrigal as Mandy
Paolo Ballesteros as Vodka
Via Antonio as Polly
Joel Camacho as Pepsi
Boy Alano as Coka
Joey Paras as Serbeza
Peter Serrano as Vi
Marc Abaya as Joel
Antonio Aquitania as Sonny Boy
Carlo Gonzales as Caloy
Kevin Santos as Joni
Butz Aquino as Henry Castillo
Racquel Villavicencio as Corazon Romualdez
Luz Valdez as Charito Castillo
Guest cast
Ryza Cenon as Mia Valencia
Stella Cañete as a doctor
Tom Olivar as Costales
Chinggoy Alonzo as Carlos Romualdez
Arthur Solinap as Chong
Mark Anthony Fernandez as Chito Salazar
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings, the pilot episode of I Heart You, Pare! earned an 11.4% rating. While the final episode scored a 22.9% rating in Mega Manila household television ratings.
References
External links
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romantic comedy television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONIX%20for%20Books | ONIX for Books is an XML format for sharing bibliographic data pertaining to both traditional books and eBooks. It is the oldest of the three ONIX standards, and is widely implemented in the book trade in North America, Europe and increasingly in the Asia-Pacific region. It allows book and ebook publishers to create and manage a corpus of rich metadata about their products, and to exchange it with their customers (distributors and retailers) in a coherent, unambiguous, and largely automated manner.
Overview
The ONIX for Books standard provides a free-to-use format for passing descriptive metadata about books between publishers, data aggregators, book retailers and other interested parties in the publishing industry. Metadata concerning one or more book titles can be stored in a suitably formatted XML file known as an 'ONIX message' ready for dissemination. Whereas other data standards exist for storing the contents of a book - the text, layout and graphics - the ONIX for Books standard holds information about the book, similar to, but more extensive than, the information one would typically find on the cover or title page of a printed book or in a library catalog. The ONIX for Books standard provides a way to communicate information about a book's author, publisher, price, publication date, physical dimensions, synopsis and many other details besides. The standard is quite extensive and most publishers currently provide only a few dozen of the many hundreds of pieces of information that the standard is designed to carry.
Versioning
ONIX for Books Release 1.0 was published in 2000. Revisions were made in releases 1.1, 1.2 and 1.2.1.
Release 2.0 was issued in 2001. A backwards-compatible version, Release 2.1, arrived in June 2003. Three minor revisions intended for general use have been made since then, the most recent in January 2006. A further revision intended solely for use in Japan was issued in 2010.
Release 3.0 was published in April 2009 with some corrections in 2010, and the first minor revision (labelled 3.0.1) was issued in January 2012. A second minor revision (3.0.2) was published in January 2014 and a third in April 2016. The latest version is 3.0.7, released in October 2019, and the standard continues to evolve to meet new business requirements as they emerge. This 3.0 release has not yet completely replaced 2.1, though implementation of 3.0 is widespread and continuing to grow. There is also an Acknowledgement message format (published 2015) which recipients of ONIX data files may send to confirm receipt of ONIX messages.
The authors have stated that any new revisions will be based on, and backwards-compatible with, Release 3.0. The international steering committee announced in January 2012 that support for version 2.1 would be reduced at the end of December 2014.
Releases 2.1 and 3.0 share a set of 'Codelists' or controlled vocabularies, that are extended regularly to allow new types of information to be carried without havin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromley%20%28surname%29 | Bromley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Allan Bromley (historian) (1947–2002), Australian historian of computing
Allyn Bromley (born 1928), American artist and art educator
Bruce Bromley (1893–1980), American trial lawyer
Cuthbert Bromley, VC, (1878–1915), British army officer
D. Allan Bromley (1926–2005), Canadian-American physicist
Darwin Bromley (1950–2019), American board game designer
David Bromley (disambiguation), several people, including:
David Bromley (artist) (born 1960), Australian artist
David Allan Bromley (1926–2005), Canadian–American physicist and academic administrator
David G. Bromley, American sociologist
Eliot Bromley-Martin (1866–1946), English cricketer
Ernest Bromley, (1912–1997) American civil rights activist and tax resister
Ernest Bromley (cricketer) (1912–1967), Australian cricketer
Fred Bromley (1917–1988), politician in Queensland, Australia
Frederick Bromley (1854–1908), trade unionist and politician in Victoria, Australia
Gordon Bromley (1916–2006), long-distance runner from New Zealand
Granville Bromley-Martin (1875–1941), English cricketer
H. Thomas Bromley (1853–1924), English artist
Hugh Bromley-Davenport (1870–1954), English cricketer
John Bromley (disambiguation), several people
Kristan Bromley (born 1972), English skeleton racer
Marion Bromley, (1912–1996), American civil rights activist and tax resister
Massey Bromley, 19th century British locomotive engineer
Nelly Bromley (1850–1939), English actor and singer
Nick Bromley (born 1983), Australian middle-distance track athlete
Paulie Bromley (born 1974), bass player for Australian roots music band "The Beautiful Girls"
Peter Bromley (1929–2003), English horse-racing commentator
Philip Bromley (1930–2007), English cricketer
Thomas Bromley (disambiguation), several people
Yulian Bromley (1921–1990), Soviet anthropologist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albuna | Albuna is a genus of moths in the family Sesiidae.
Species
Albuna fraxini (Edwards, 1881) – Virginia creeper clearwing
Albuna pyramidalis (Walker, 1856)
Albuna bicaudata Eichlin, 1989
Albuna polybiaformis Eichlin, 1989
Albuna rufibasilaris Eichlin, 1989
References
Sesiidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichneumenoptera | Ichneumenoptera is a genus of moths in the family Sesiidae.
Species
Ichneumenoptera auripes (Hampson, [1893])
Ichneumenoptera caudata Gorbunov & Arita, 1995
Ichneumenoptera daidai Gorbunov & Arita, 2000
Ichneumenoptera duporti (Le Cerf, 1927)
Ichneumenoptera punicea Gorbunov & Arita, 2000
Ichneumenoptera vietnamica Gorbunov & Arita, 1995
Ichneumenoptera chrysophanes (Meyrick, 1887)
Ichneumenoptera commoni (Duckworth & Eichlin, 1974)
Ichneumenoptera xanthogyna (Hampson, 1919)
Ichneumenoptera cinnamomumi (Tosevski, 2005)
References
Sesiidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcathoe%20%28moth%29 | Alcathoe is a genus of moths in the family Sesiidae.
Species
Alcathoe autumnalis Engelhardt, 1946
Alcathoe carolinensis Engelhardt, 1925
Alcathoe caudata (Harris, 1839)
Alcathoe pepsioides Engelhardt, 1925
Alcathoe verrugo (Druce, 1884)
Alcathoe altera Zukowsky, 1936
Alcathoe cuauhtemoci Krogmann & Riefenstahl, 2004
Alcathoe helena (Druce, 1889)
Alcathoe korites (Druce, 1884)
Alcathoe leucopyga Bryk, 1953
Alcathoe melini Bryk, 1953
References
Sesiidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravn | Ravn is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
People
Allan Ravn (born 1974), Danish former professional association football player
Anders P. Ravn (1947–2019), Danish computer scientist
Jørgen Ravn (born 1940), Danish former football (soccer) player
Mette Ravn (born 1943), Norwegian diplomat
Palle Ravn (1928–2012), Danish chess master
Per Ravn Omdal (born 1947), former president of the Norwegian Football Association
Peter Ravn (speedway rider) (born 1962), former international motorcycle speedway rider
Simon Ravn (born 1974), composer who composes orchestral music for film, television and video games
Businesses
Ravn Alaska, air marketing brand operated by Corvus Airlines based in Fairbanks, Alaska
Ravn Studio, independent game development studio based in Drammen, Norway
See also
Ravn Rock, submerged rock in the center of Neptunes Bellows, the entrance to Port Foster, Deception Island, in the South Shetland Islands
Ravn virus, a close relative of Marburg virus that causes a viral hemorrhagic fever in humans
Surnames from nicknames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally%20asynchronous%20locally%20synchronous | Globally asynchronous locally synchronous (GALS), in electronics, is an architecture for designing electronic circuits that addresses the problem of safe and reliable data transfer between independent clock domains. GALS is a model of computation that emerged in the 1980s. It allows to design computer systems consisting of several synchronous islands (using synchronous programming for each such island) interacting with other islands using asynchronous communication, e.g. with FIFOs.
Details
A GALS circuit consists of a set of locally synchronous modules communicating with each other via asynchronous wrappers. Each synchronous subsystem ("clock domain") can run on its own independent clock (frequency). Advantages include much lower electromagnetic interference (EMI). The CMOS circuit (logic gates) requires relatively large supply current when changing state from 0 to 1. These changes are aggregated for synchronous circuit as most changes are initialised by an active clock edge. Therefore, large spikes on supply current occur at active clock edges. These spikes can cause large electromagnetic interference, and may lead to circuit malfunction. In order to limit these spikes large number of decoupling capacitors are used. Another solution is to use a GALS design style, i.e. design (locally) is synchronous (thus easier to be designed than asynchronous circuit) but globally asynchronous, i.e. there are different (e.g. phase shifted, rising and falling active edge) clock signal regimes thus supply current spikes do not aggregate at the same time. Consequently, GALS design style is often used in system on a chip (SoC). It is especially used in network on a chip (NoC) architectures for SoCs.
Some larger GALS circuits contain multiple CPUs.
Generally each CPU in such an asynchronous array of simple processors has its own independent oscillator.
That oscillator can be halted when there's no work for its CPU to do.
In some cases each CPU is further divided into smaller modules, each with their own independent clock,
or in a few cases no clock at all ().
See also
Synchronous programming
Asynchronous programming
Concurrency (computer science)
Asynchronous system
Clock domain crossing
SIGNAL – a dataflow-oriented synchronous language enabling multi-clock and GALS specifications
References
General
Dataflow Architectures for GALS
Synchronization
Digital circuits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20manager | Memory manager may refer to:
Memory management, a form of resource management applied to computer memory
Memory management unit, primarily performing the translation of virtual memory addresses to physical addresses
DOS memory management
Expanded memory manager (EMM)
Extended memory manager (XMM)
HIMEM.SYS
80386 memory manager, may manage both expanded and extended memory
386MAX
CEMM
EMM386
QEMM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak%20Express | Kodak Express is the world's largest branded photo processing network operating in 41 countries and with over 26,000 stores worldwide offering Kodak products and services including photo books, gifts, digital cameras, frames and traditional printing. Stores are locally owned and operated with the support of Kodak and their regions program manager for marketing, product purchasing and technical support.
References
Kodak |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine%20News%20Melbourne | Nine News Melbourne is the weeknight, flagship news bulletin of the Nine Network in Australia, screened in Melbourne, Tasmania, and across Victoria.
Like all Nine News bulletins, the Melbourne bulletin runs for one hour, from 6pm every day. It comprises local, national and international news, as well as sport, weather and finance.
History
The late Brian Naylor presented National Nine News Melbourne for 20 years from 1978 following his resignation from HSV-7 to 1998. Following his retirement, he was succeeded by Peter Hitchener as weeknight presenter, while Jo Hall took over from Hitchener as weekend presenter. Hall scaled back her work with Nine to news updates and fill-in duties in November 2011, with Weekend Today newsreader Alicia Loxley taking over as weekend presenter. Rob Gell formerly presented the weather until 2003, when he was replaced by Nixon; Gell subsequently defected to the rival Seven News Melbourne bulletin presenting the weather on weekends.
In March 2011, the GTV studios moved their base from Bendigo Street, Richmond, to a new building in Bourke Street, Docklands.
In May 2017, the station launched its first local afternoon news bulletin, Nine Afternoon News Melbourne, putting it head to head with its rival station Seven's local afternoon news. The bulletin is presented by Alicia Loxley (Monday-Wednesday) and Dougal Beatty (Thursday and Friday).
In December 2021, it was announced that Peter Hitchener would scale back to four days a week from January 2022 presenting from Monday to Thursday with Alicia Loxley presenting on Friday.
Ratings
For many decades, Nine News Melbourne was the most dominant local news service, often drawing a peak audience of more than 400,000 viewers. However, in the mid-2000s, the bulletin started to lose ground to the rival Seven News Melbourne, winning only 24 (out of 40) weeks in 2006 and then narrowly losing in 2007 when it won 19 weeks (to Seven's 20 weeks, with the other week tied). Even during the years when Nine News struggled nationally, the Melbourne bulletin remained competitive, being the only metropolitan bulletin to win any weeks against Seven News in 2008 and 2009. By 2012, however, Nine News Melbourne had re-established its ratings dominance, often leading their rivals by an average margin of over 100,000 viewers.
Current presenters
Fill-in presenters
Alicia Loxley (news)
Dougal Beatty (news)
Alicia Muling (sport)
Stephanie Anderson (weather)
Justine Conway (weather)
Past presenters
Sir Eric Pearce (1956–1978)
Brian Naylor (1978–1998)
Reporters
Christine Ahern (Today Melbourne reporter)
Seb Costello (A Current Affair reporter)
Jo Hall
Dougal Beatty
Alexis Daish (A Current Affair reporter)
Emily Rice (Health reporter)
Madeline Spark
Justine Conway
Eliza Rugg
Allan Raskall
Neary Ty
Chris Kohler
Izabella Staskowski (Today Melbourne reporter)
Adam Hegarty
Reid Butler
Brett McLeod (Europe correspondent)
Elisabeth Moss
Heidi Murphy
Stephanie Anderson
Mark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20Hits%20Weekly%20Hot30%20Countdown | MTV Hits Weekly Hot30 Countdown is an Australian music television show that first aired on 5 December 2010. It broadcast on MTV Hits, Today Network radio stations and online each Sunday from 6:00pm–8:30pm.
Programme format
MTV Hits Weekly Hot30 Countdown generally plays a top 30 countdown that consists of the latest national and international video clips. It also features interviews with both local and international artists. It broadcasts every Sunday for two hours and thirty minutes on channel MTV Hits, Today Network radio stations across Australia and also online at MTVhits.com.au and Hot30.com.
Presenters
The presenters of the show include:
Erin McNaught (2010–current)
Matty Acton (2010–current)
See also
List of Australian music television shows
List of Australian television series
References
MTV original programming
Australian music chart television shows
Television shows set in Australia
2010 Australian television series debuts
2013 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wortmann | Wortmann AG is a German computer manufacturer, based in Hüllhorst, North Rhine-Westphalia. The main products are computers, notebooks and servers, as well as computer monitors and thin clients. The majority of their products are assembled in Germany and are marketed under their own brand, "Terra".
History
The company was founded in 1986 by Siegbert Wortmann, Gabriele Wortmann and Thomas Knicker as Wortmann Terra Impex Computer- und Datenverarbeitungs GmbH. Shortly after the foundation, they began marketing products under the Terra brand. In 1996 Wortmann had a revenue of over 100 million Euros. In 1998, the enterprise was converted into a Joint-stock company. The company expanded to Switzerland, France and the Benelux countries in 2005.
Siegbert Wortmann, the founder, has been awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2007 for his work as an entrepreneur. Despite the financial crisis, Wortmann saw an increase in turnover of 12% in 2009 and had a revenue of 350 million Euros and employed 350 people.
Wortmann is one of the few remaining, larger European computer manufacturers. Wortmann products are sold only via speciality retailers. Their main market is Germany, only about 15% of revenue is generated abroad.
Wortmann AG was one of sixteen regional companies that joined forces in 2020 to become OWL Sport & Event GmbH & Co. KG. In December 2021, it was announced that the ATP 500 Noventi Open in Halle, Westphalia, would become known as the Terra Wortmann Open as the company took over as principal sponsor of the tennis event for the next two years.
External links
Official website
References
Companies based in North Rhine-Westphalia
Companies established in 1986
Computer hardware companies
Electronics companies of Germany
German brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forman%20S.%20Acton | Forman Sinnickson Acton (August 10, 1920 – February 18, 2014) was an American computer scientist, engineer, educator and author. He was an emeritus professor in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University.
Education
Acton began his education in the Salem City School system. He left at the end of 9th grade to attend boarding school at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, from which he graduated in 1939. He then attended Princeton University, obtaining his Bachelor of Science degree in 1943, and his Master of Science degree in chemical engineering in 1944.
He was drafted into the Army in June 1944, and worked for the U.S. Army at Oak Ridge, at a facility that played a key role in the Manhattan Project, for the remainder of World War II. After the war, he became the second graduate from Carnegie Institute of Technology to earn a Ph.D. in applied mathematics.
Career
Acton spent three years at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards' Institute for Numerical Analysis at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he worked on a machine called SWAC (Standards Western Automatic Computer), one of the first digital computers.
In 1952, he returned to Princeton to teach in the mathematics department, and served as director of the Analytical Research Group. While there, his group worked on military weapons, contributing to systems such as the U-2 spy plane and the Nike anti-aircraft missile. He also became an expert and teacher on the IAS Machine, another of the first computers, which was located at the Institute for Advanced Study.
During this time, Acton worked with other important figures in early computing, including Princeton Professor John Tukey, who coined the terms "software" and "bit," and Thomas Kurtz, who went on to co-invent the computer language BASIC. Other contemporaries he knew and worked with included Albert W. Tucker, Grace Hopper, Richard Feynman, James H. Wilkinson, Claude Shannon, John Backus, and John Nash.
Acton moved to the Department of Electrical Engineering in 1955. In 1963, he made the first of two extended visits to the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur, India, where he helped establish the school's early computing facilities and courses. He initially stayed for one year, and he returned in 1967 to teach and offer organizational advice.
As computing evolved, Princeton's electrical engineering department added "computer science" to its name before the Department of Computer Science became its own department in 1985. Acton retired as professor of computer science in 1989.
Books
Acton is known for his 1970 book Numerical Methods That Work, which was reissued in 1990 by the Mathematical Association of America. More recently, he published Real Computing Made Real: Preventing Errors in Scientific and Engineering Calculations.
Philanthropy
Before his death, Acton made several anonymous scholarship donations to students in the Salem City School District in Salem County, NJ. Before he di |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Option%20Musique | Option Musique is the fourth radio station operated by RTS Radio Télévision Suisse. Now known as RTS Option Musique, the station was launched in 1994 and offers music programming along with popular French variety and contributes actively to the promotion of songwriters and performers in Switzerland. Every hour begins with a short news flash.
Reception
Option Musique can be received via FM in Geneva and Valais as well as DAB and DAB+, cable, satellite and via the Internet. Until 6 December 2010, it was also available on medium wave (765 kHz) through the Sottens transmitter.
See also
Radio suisse romande
External links
Radio stations established in 1994
French-language radio stations in Switzerland
1994 establishments in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Windows%20Phone%208%20devices | This is a list of hardware devices that are shipped with Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 operating system. HTC Corporation, Samsung, Nokia and Huawei have all launched Windows Phone 8 based devices. The list, sorted by processor and screen resolution, contains devices that have been confirmed and officially announced by their manufacturers.
Devices
Dual-core 480p
These devices feature a 480p (WVGA) screen with a 480x800 resolution and a microSD card reader.
Dual-core 720p and WXGA
Non-Nokia devices and the Nokia Lumia 1320 feature a 720p screen and, except for the Samsung devices, lack a microSD card reader. All other Nokia devices feature a WXGA screen at 768x1280.
Quad-core 1080p
Among these devices, only the Nokia Lumia Icon lacks a microSD card reader.
See also
Windows Phone version history
Windows Phone 8
List of Windows Phone 8.1 devices
References
Technology-related lists
Lists of mobile phones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apranga%20Group | Apranga Group is a clothing retail chain in Lithuania and the Baltic states. Apranga group consists of the main company APB "Apranga" and 18 subsidiary companies. Aprangas Group manages a network of 166 stores in the Baltic countries.
It runs stores under various brands, often under franchise agreements, including:
Zara, Pull and Bear, and Bershka
Mango, Stradivarius.
Hugo Boss, Emporio Armani, and other luxury brands.
Apranga is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Vilnius Stock Exchange and is owned by MG Baltic. In 2007, Euromoney ranked it 1st in Lithuania among "Emerging Europe's Best Managed Companies" In 2009, Apranga made a net loss of 17 m LTL on retail turnover of 393 m LTL. As of 2014, Apranga owned 152 stores, of which 94 were in Lithuania, 43 in Latvia and 15 in Estonia. As of April 1, 2014, the sales area was 70,400 square meters.
Apranga has 192 stores around the Baltic States.
References
External links
Clothing retailers of Lithuania
Companies listed on Nasdaq Vilnius
Companies based in Vilnius
Clothing companies established in 1993
Retail companies established in 1993
1993 establishments in Lithuania |
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