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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%20Power%20Networks | UK Power Networks (UKPN) is a distribution network operator for electricity covering South East England, the East of England and London. It manages three licensed distribution networks (Eastern Power Networks, South Eastern Power Networks and London Power Networks) which together cover an area of square kilometres and approximately eight million customers.
In 2014 UK Power Networks was awarded £25 million from the electricity regulator Ofgem's Low Carbon Networks Fund for the Low Carbon London project. In 2011 it was awarded £6.7 million by Ofgem for another project, Flexible Plug and Play, which is researching new ways, technical and commercial, to connect renewable energy to the distribution network in Cambridgeshire.
As well as the three distribution arms UK Power Networks also operates UK Power Networks Services Holdings Limited, which develops and maintains electrical networks for customers including London Underground, Heathrow and Stansted airports, Docklands Light Railway and Canary Wharf.
History
The area originally comprised three networks: the London Electricity Board, the Eastern Electricity Board and the South Eastern Electricity Board, known as SEEBOARD, before being brought together by EDF Energy to form EDF Energy Networks.
UK Power Networks began operations in October 2010 after the sale of EDF Energy Networks to
the Cheung Kong Group for a reported £5.5 billion.
UK Power Networks maintains the electricity networks including the lines and electricity cables. There are 14 distribution network operators (DNOs), each responsible for a different area of the country. These DNOs are all regulated by the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem).
Ownership
UK Power Networks is owned by Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings, 40%, Power Assets Holdings, 40%, and The Li Ka Shing Foundation, 20%.
Open Data Portal
UK Power Networks operate an with material released under either Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licensing or alternatively UK Open Government3.0 () licensing where necessary.
See also
History of EDF Energy Networks
References
External links
Electric power distribution network operators in the United Kingdom
CK Hutchison Holdings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20SRF%204%20News | Radio SRF 4 News is the fourth radio station from Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF). The station was launched on 5 November 2007 (as DRS 4 News).
Programming
The stations programming includes: national and international news, politics, economy, stock market, sport, culture, science, information technology, media and training.
External links
2007 establishments in Switzerland
Radio stations established in 2007
German-language radio stations in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot%20%28Tam%C3%A1s%20Z.%20Marosi%29 | Pierrot, born Tamás Zoltán Marosi (3 September 1969, in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian pop singer, computer and tabletop game designer, musician and producer, best known internationally for his video game series AGON (Ancient Games Of Nations) and Yoomurjak's Ring. He is also well known in Hungary as a musician, singer-songwriter and producer of several music albums. His own music style is primarily acoustic “adult pop”, while as a producer, he has a colorful portfolio of various styles ranging from world music to alternative rock to reggae and hip-hop.
He has also been involved in edutainment and tourism projects such as an interactive sight-seeing game network Kaland&Játék (Adventure&Game). He is author of a book on Asian gastronomy, a series of novels and a story-book for children.
The name Pierrot had originally been his nickname. He has been using this alias both as musician and game developer since 1986.
Biography
Pierrot was born in Budapest in 1969 as the only child of his parents. His creativity and talent for music was realized very early. Pierrot founded his first amateur pop band when he was 14 and his public appearances started soon after. The first studio recording took place in 1986.
Pierrot has challenged himself in various fields of art.
In the first part of his career as a singer (1989–1995) he was famous for wearing a commedia dell’arte-style clown mask, covering half of his face only.
As a producer and composer, he created over 40 music albums up to 2010, including those performed by himself. A large number of his productions have gone golden and platinum in the country, with many top hits.
Pierrot established his music publisher company Private Moon Productions (1994), later Private Moon Records in 1999. They started as an independent firm, then became the label of Sony Music and subsequently EMI.
In 2004-2005, as a supporter of young musicians, Pierrot was producer (and head of jury) of a singer talent show (Pop Idol) on Hungarian television (Megasztár) as well as jury member of the national and international Eurovision Song Contest in 2015 and 2016.
He became engaged in video game development in 1997 when he started his second company Private Moon Interactive – later Private Moon Studios. The initial version of AGON was born in his mind in 1998. The concept, scenario, game design, 2D graphics, sound and music have been Pierrot’s personal fields of responsibility from the start.
Yoomurjak’s Ring, a full-length interactive movie is also a Private Moon production. This FMV (full motion video) game won first prize at the Hungarian eFestival 2007 in the category of interactive storytelling.
Pierrot devotes much of his time to studying Asian culture. The motives of Chinese, Indonesian or Indian music often appear in his compositions. His book on Asian gastronomy was published in 2004 (Megkóstolni Ázsiát; publisher: Arterego, Hungary). The most outstanding manifestation of his passion for Chinese culture was his pla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faery%3A%20Legends%20of%20Avalon | Faery: Legends of Avalon is a role-playing video game released for Xbox Live Arcade on 10 November 2010, and for PlayStation Network and Microsoft Windows in 2011. It was developed by Spiders Studio and published by Focus Home Interactive.
Plot
In the game, the player assumes control over a winged faery who has just emerged from stasis. The faery king Oberon informs the player that because humans have stopped believing in faeries, the power of magic has failed and the faery civilization and its inhabitants are slowly being destroyed. The player's objective is to assemble a party of magical creatures and attempt to save several mythical worlds from destruction. The mythical worlds that serve as the game's setting are drawn from preexisting mythologies, and include the ghost ship Flying Dutchman, the great tree Yggdrasil, and the City of Mirage, which is built on the back of a giant beetle.
Gameplay
There are two components to the gameplay of Faery: Legends of Avalon, combat and (non-combat) exploration. The game uses a turn based combat system in combat. The attacks available to characters are in part determined by the player's choices when leveling up the characters. Outside of combat, the player character can fly, and therefore exploration takes place in three dimensions, as opposed to the more common two dimensional exploration seen in most other role playing games. The game features a small number of options for customizing the player character, including the gender and face of the character, the equipment that the character uses, and what new abilities are gained when the character levels up. All of these options change the in-game appearance of the player character.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Critics praised the game's vivid visuals, which employ cel-shading, the bright and upbeat music, and the creative depictions of several well known mythical worlds. However, they also point out that the quests are tedious and repetitive, that the dialogue is bare bones and contains numerous spelling errors, and that the combat is excessively easy. Kevin VanOrd of GameSpot summarized the Xbox 360 version as "disappointingly threadbare" and stated that "Legends of Avalon amounts to a bunch of bland missions separated by elementary turn-based battles that inspire only a few faint yawns."
Since its release, the Xbox 360 version sold 48,248 units worldwide by the end of 2011.
References
External links
2010 video games
Fairies and sprites in popular culture
Fantasy video games
Focus Entertainment games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
Role-playing video games
Spiders (company) games
Video games developed in France
Video games with gender-selectable protagonists
Windows games
Xbox 360 Live Arcade games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20Film%20Critics%20Online%20Awards%202010 | 10th NYFCO Awards
December 12, 2010
Best Film:
The Social Network
The 10th New York Film Critics Online Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2010, were given on 12 December 2010.
Winners
Best Actor:
James Franco - 127 Hours as Aron Ralston
Best Actress:
Natalie Portman - Black Swan as Nina Sayers
Best Animated Film:
Toy Story 3
Best Cast:
The Kids Are All Right
Best Cinematography
Black Swan - Matthew Libatique
Best Debut Director:
John Wells - The Company Men
Best Director:
David Fincher - The Social Network
Best Documentary Film:
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Best Film:
The Social Network
Best Film Music or Score:
Black Swan - Clint Mansell
Best Foreign Language Film:
I Am Love • Italy
Best Screenplay:
Aaron Sorkin - The Social Network
Best Supporting Actor:
Christian Bale - The Fighter as Dicky Eklund
Best Supporting Actress:
Melissa Leo - The Fighter as Alice Eklund
Breakthrough Performer:
Noomi Rapace - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Top Ten Pictures of 2010
127 Hours
Another Year
Black Swan
Blue Valentine
The Ghost Writer
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
The Social Network
References
New York Film Critics Online Awards
2010 film awards
2010 in American cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20accolades%20received%20by%20The%20Social%20Network | The Social Network is a 2010 film written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher. As of June 21, 2012, the film has received 122 awards from 203 nominations.
Awards and nominations
Organizations
Guild awards
Critics groups
References
External links
Lists of accolades by film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20Los%20Angeles%20Film%20Critics%20Association%20Awards | The 36th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honored the best in film for 2010.
Winners
Best Picture:
The Social Network
Runner-up: Carlos
Best Director (TIE):
Olivier Assayas – Carlos
David Fincher – The Social Network
Best Actor:
Colin Firth – The King's Speech
Runner-up: Édgar Ramírez – Carlos
Best Actress:
Kim Hye-ja – Mother (Madeo)
Runner-up: Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone
Best Supporting Actor:
Niels Arestrup – A Prophet (Un prophète)
Runner-up: Geoffrey Rush – The King's Speech
Best Supporting Actress:
Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom
Runner-up: Olivia Williams – The Ghost Writer
Best Screenplay:
Aaron Sorkin – The Social Network
Runner-up: David Seidler – The King's Speech
Best Cinematography:
Matthew Libatique – Black Swan
Runner-up: Roger Deakins – True Grit
Best Production Design:
Guy Hendrix Dyas – Inception
Runner-up: Eve Stewart – The King's Speech
Best Music Score (TIE):
Alexandre Desplat – The Ghost Writer
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Social Network
Best Foreign Language Film:
Carlos • France/Germany
Runner-up: Mother (Madeo) • South Korea
Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
Last Train Home
Runner-up: Exit Through the Gift Shop
Best Animation:
Toy Story 3
Runner-up: The Illusionist (L'illusionniste)
New Generation Award:
Lena Dunham – Tiny Furniture
Career Achievement Award:
Paul Mazursky
The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
Jean-Luc Godard – Film Socialisme
Legacy of Cinema Awards:
Serge Bromberg for Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno (L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot)
The F. W. Murnau Foundation and Fernando Pena for the restoration of Metropolis
References
External links
36th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
2010
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20to%20Dance | Live to Dance is an American television reality program and dance competition on the CBS network based on the British series Got to Dance. Dancers from all over the country auditioned for Live to Dance in "specially constructed Dance Domes".
Resembling the British dance competition series Got to Dance, the show was first shown on January 4, 2011, and was headlined by the American Idol judge Paula Abdul as lead judge with Andrew Günsberg as host. Judging alongside Abdul were Kimberly Wyatt, the former member of Pussycat Dolls, and Michael Jackson's long-time choreographer Travis Payne. The show was intended to rival So You Think You Can Dance and unlike most other reality shows, allowed dancers of all ages to compete. The series was not renewed for a second season.
An Australian version was filmed in 2011. However, it never aired due to a scheduling conflict by another reality dance competition series Everybody Dance Now in 2012.
Auditions
Auditions were held in Los Angeles and New York City inside the Dance Dome.
Top 18
Bold Print means that the contestant was chosen by the judges/viewers to compete in the Semi-Finals via the Dance-Off.
Dance-Off
Semi-finals
Round 1
Round 2
Round 3
Finalists
Ratings
The series premiere was watched by 10.2 million viewers and was the most watched program of January 4, 2011. It additionally managed to pull a 2.4 in the Adults 18-49 demographic. The second episode, which aired in its normal timeslot of Wednesdays at eight p.m., fell hard from those numbers pulling 7.788 million viewers and a 1.8 in the Adults 18-49 demographic.
References
External links
Official Website (via Internet Archive)
Official Casting Site
DomeGuys International Blog of Building the Dance Domes
2011 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
Dance competition television shows
CBS original programming
English-language television shows
American television series based on British television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converged%20infrastructure | Converged infrastructure is a way of structuring an information technology (IT) system which groups multiple components into a single optimized computing package. Components of a converged infrastructure may include servers, data storage devices, networking equipment and software for IT infrastructure management, automation and orchestration.
IT organizations use converged infrastructure to centralize the management of IT resources, to consolidate systems, to increase resource-utilization rates, and to lower costs. Converged infrastructures foster these objectives by implementing pools of computers, storage and networking resources that can be shared by multiple applications and managed in a collective manner using policy-driven processes.
IT vendors and IT industry analysts use various terms to describe the concept of a converged infrastructure. These include "converged system", "unified computing", "fabric-based computing", and "dynamic infrastructure".
The evolution of data centers
Historically, to keep pace with the growth of business applications and the data they generate, IT resources were deployed in a silo-like fashion. One set of resources has been devoted to one particular computing technology, business application or line of business. These resources support a single set of assumptions and cannot be optimized or reconfigured to support varying usage loads.
The proliferation of IT sprawl in data centers has contributed to rising operations costs, reducing productivity, and stifling agility and flexibility. Maintenance and operations can consume two-thirds of an organization's technology budget, according to a 2009 InformationWeek survey of executives in 500 companies with annual revenue over $250 million. That leaves just a third of the budget for new IT initiatives. This ratio prevents IT from supporting new business initiatives or responding to real application demands.
A converged infrastructure addresses the problem of siloed architectures and IT sprawl by pooling and sharing IT resources. Rather than dedicating a set of resources to a particular computing technology, application or line of business, converged infrastructure creates a pool of virtualized servers, storage and networking capacity that is shared by multiple applications and lines of business.
Benefits
Converged infrastructure provides both technical and business efficiencies, according to industry researchers and observers. These gains stem in part from the pre-integration of technology components, the pooling of IT resources and the automation of IT processes. Converged infrastructure further contributes to efficient data centers by enhancing the ability of cloud computing systems to handle enormous data sets, using only a single integrated IT management system
Writing in CIO magazine, Forrester Research analyst Robert Whiteley noted that converged infrastructures, combining server, storage, and networks into a single framework, help to transform the econ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Antenna%20TV | The following is a list of programs that are currently broadcast on Antenna TV, a general entertainment network owned by Nexstar Media Group, which is designed for digital subchannel of over-the-air broadcast stations in the United States and was launched on January 1, 2011. The network's programming consists entirely of broadcast syndication of television series from the 1950s to the early 2000s.
Current programming
Sitcoms
Alice
Archie Bunker's Place
Bachelor Father
Barney Miller
Becker
The Benny Hill Show
Benson
Bewitched
Dennis the Menace
Designing Women
Family Ties
Father Knows Best
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Hazel
I Dream of Jeannie
The Jack Benny Program
The Jeffersons
Maude
McHale's Navy
My Favorite Martian
One Day at a Time
The Partridge Family
Silver Spoons
Soap
That Girl
Three's Company
Too Close for Comfort
Welcome Back, Kotter
Wings
Talk show
Johnny Carson (classic The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson episodes from 1972 to 1992)
E/I
America's Heartland Classics
Science World
References
External links
Antenna TV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure%20%28Boney%20James%20album%29 | Pure is the ninth album by jazz saxophonist Boney James, released in 2004.
Track listing
Personnel
Boney James – keyboards (1, 3-8), programming (1, 5), tenor saxophone (1, 3-6, 8, 9), string arrangements (1), soprano saxophone (2, 7), drum programming (2), horn arrangements (3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10), keyboard bass (5), alto saxophone (10)
Phil Davis – keyboards (1)
Morris Pleasure – acoustic piano (1), keyboards (2), Fender Rhodes (9), clavinet (9)
Rex Rideout – keyboards (2)
Greg Smith – keyboards (3), arrangements (3)
David Torkanowsky – Fender Rhodes (3, 4), acoustic piano (6), Wurlitzer organ (6)
Joe Sample – acoustic piano (4)
Darrell Smith – clavinet (4)
Johnny Britt – keyboards (8)
Tim Carmon – organ (9)
Kurt "KC" Clayton – Digital Rhodes piano (10)
Bobby Lyle – acoustic piano (10)
Billy Preston – organ (10)
Matt Richardson – source sounds (10)
Dean Parks – acoustic guitar (1, 2, 6), electric guitar (1, 6)
Rohn Lawrence – wah guitar (1), electric guitar (2), guitars (6, 9)
Paul Jackson Jr. – guitars (3, 7)
Tony Maiden – guitars (5)
Erick Walls – guitars (8)
Marlon McClain – guitars (10)
Pino Palladino – bass (1), fuzz bass (9)
Alex Al – bass (2, 4, 7, 8), "funk" bass (9)
Larry Kimpel – bass (6)
Ricardo Jordan – hi-hat overdubs (1), drums (6)
Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson – drums (2, 4, 9)
Teddy Campbell – drums (8)
Ricky Lawson – drums (10)
Lenny Castro – percussion (1-4, 6, 9)
Luis Conte – percussion (5, 7, 8, 10)
Dan Higgins – tenor saxophone (3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10)
Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone (3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10)
Jerry Hey – string arrangements (1, 2), trumpet (3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10), horn arrangements (3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10)
Cecilia Tsan – cello (1, 2)
Roland Kato – viola (1, 2)
Ralph Morrison – violin (1, 2)
Sara Parkins – violin (1, 2)
Bilal – vocals (2)
Debi Nova – vocals (5)
Dwele – vocals (7)
Lauren Evans – vocals (9)
Production
Jeff Aldrich – A&R
Boney James – producer, recording
Greg Smith – additional producer (3)
Paul Brown – producer (10)
Gerald McCauley – producer (10)
Ray Bardani – recording
Russell Elevado – recording
Todd Fairall – recording
Dave Rideau – recording
Rex Rideout – recording
Bill Schnee – recording
Koji Egawa – Pro Tools consultant
Aaron Fessel – second engineer
Jesse Gorman – second engineer
Marc McLaughlin – second engineer
Michael Musmanno – second engineer
Ryan Petrie – second engineer, additional Pro Tools consultant
Greg Price – second engineer, additional Pro Tools consultant
Jason Rankins – second engineer
Steef Van De Gevel – second engineer, additional Pro Tools consultant
Antony Zeller – second engineer
Dragan "DC" Capor – additional Pro Tools consultant
John Hanes – additional Pro Tools consultant
Steve Mazur – additional Pro Tools consultant
Serban Ghenea – mixing
Tim Roberts – mix assistant
Chris Gehringer – mastering
Lexy Shroyer – production coordinator
Mick Haggerty – art direction
James Minchin III – photography
Direct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Tonight | TV Tonight is an Australian-based website which features reviews, news and programming information related to television in Australia as well as OzTAM ratings information.
The site was started by television critic David Knox in 2007 after listeners of his radio programs asked him for information they had missed. Knox runs the site, publishing his interviews with Australian media actors, producers, directors and programmers. Knox regularly visits the sets of Australian television series and reviews television programs.
Knox also served as television critic for Radio National's breakfast program from 2009 to 2015. Dan Barrett is now in this role. Knox has an advanced diploma in screenwriting and was the founding Artistic Director of Screenplay.
TV Tonight is also referenced in Australian media, including The Sydney Morning Herald and news.com.au, while Knox gives commentary for other media outlets including News Corp Australia, MediaWeek and ABC.
The website began a campaign to include more female Logie Award Hall of Fame inductees. A year after the campaign, the event's second female inductee was admitted in Noni Hazlehurst at the 2016 ceremony.
References
External links
Australian entertainment websites
Australian news websites
Entertainment Internet forums
Television websites
Internet properties established in 2007
2007 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sur%20La%20Terre%20International | Sur La Terre International is a quarterly lifestyle magazine present in various cities all around the world.
Overviews
Sur La Terre International is a network of city magazines exploring the universe of rare and innovative products and targeting jet-sets places of Europe and the world. It was founded in 1998 and taken over in 2005 by the publishing company Publibrands SA.
Sur La Terre is present in various European cities as Geneva, Zürich, Gstaad and Saint-Tropez, as well as in big worldwide cities such as Moscow, Bangkok, Singapore and Doha.
The magazine is published quarterly (March, June, September, December) or on seasonal basis for some coast or mountain luxury resorts.
Sur La Terre targets high-net-worth individuals, CEO, managers or opinion leaders as well as art or and design specialists.
Content
The concept of Sur La Terre is to offer an international content for all the magazines and a local content, likely to every city where it is published. The international part tackles luxury subjects like art, fashion, decoration and travel. As for the local part, it is about various events planned in the city concerned, shopping or leisure.
Cities
Sur La Terre is distributed in the following 16 cities:
Bangkok
Courchevel
Crans-Montana
Doha
Gstaad
Megève
Moscow
Singapore
Saint Moritz
Zürich
References
External links
Magazine official website
1998 establishments in Switzerland
Lifestyle magazines
Magazines established in 1998
Quarterly magazines published in Switzerland
Magazines published in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupithecia%20gelidata | Eupithecia gelidata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is known from northern North America, Greenland, northern Russia, Scandinavia and northern central Europe.
The wingspan is 17–22 mm. There is one generation per year with adults on wing from June to mid July.
The larvae feed on Rhododendron tomentosum but possibly also other plants, because the species has been found in areas of Norway and Sweden where R. tomentosum is not present. Larvae can be found from mid July to August. It overwinters as a pupa.
Subspecies
Eupithecia gelidata gelidata
Eupithecia gelidata hyperboreata Staudinger, 1861 (Europe, northern Russia, Greenland)
References
Moths described in 1860
gelidata
Moths of North America
Moths of Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MWN | MWN can refer to:
Morocco World News, an English language e-newspaper with its headquarters in Rabat and Washington, D.C
Munich Scientific Network (Münchner Wissenschaftsnetz) at the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum
mwn, the ISO 639-3 code for the Mwanga language
Mwadui Airport, serving the Williamson diamond mine, in the Shinyanga Region of Tanzania (IATA code: MWN)
Multi-Walled Nanotubes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Premi%C3%A8re | La 1re, La 1ère or La Première () may refer to:
La Première (Belgium), a Belgian French-language radio channel produced by RTBF
La Première Chaîne (Canada), Radio-Canada radio network (SRC Radio 1)
La Première (RTI), a terrestrial television channel in Côte d'Ivoire
La Première (France), a network of radio and television stations for the overseas departments and territories of France
La Première (Switzerland), a French-language radio network in Switzerland
La Première, the marketing name for Air France's first class product
See also
Premiere (disambiguation), including "Première"
Premier (disambiguation), including "le Premier" (le 1er) masculine of "Première"
The First (disambiguation)
First (disambiguation)
Une (disambiguation),
Un (disambiguation),
1 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edappally%20railway%20station | Edappally (Station code:IPL) is a railway station of the Southern Railway Network in Edappally, Kochi, India. This station handles mainly passenger trains in Shoranur – Cochin Harbour section and a few express trains. The railway station is located about 6 km from Ernakulam Town, 9 km from Ernakulam Junction and 11 km from Aluva Railway Stations. Rail connectivity to the ICTT Vallarpadom Terminal starts from Edappally with route length of 8.86 km.
Express trains
Chennai - Alleppey Alleppey Express No:6041/6042
Tea Garden Express No:6865/6866
Amritha Express No:6343/6344
See also
Ernakulam Junction
Ernakulam Town
Aluva
References
Thiruvananthapuram railway division
Railway stations in Kochi
Railway stations in Ernakulam district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupithecia%20immundata | Eupithecia immundata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is known from the mountainous areas of Europe, as well as northern Europe.
The wingspan is 17–20 mm. There is one generation per year with adults on wing in June.
The larvae feed on Actaea spicata. Larvae can be found from the end of June to August. They live in the fruit of their host plant. It overwinters as a pupa.
References
External links
Lepiforum.de
Moths described in 1846
immundata
Moths of Europe
Taxa named by Friederike Lienig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20subspace%20method | In machine learning the random subspace method, also called attribute bagging or feature bagging, is an ensemble learning method that attempts to reduce the correlation between estimators in an ensemble by training them on random samples of features instead of the entire feature set.
Motivation
In ensemble learning one tries to combine the models produced by several learners into an ensemble that performs better than the original learners. One way of combining learners is bootstrap aggregating or bagging, which shows each learner a randomly sampled subset of the training points so that the learners will produce different models that can be sensibly averaged. In bagging, one samples training points with replacement from the full training set.
The random subspace method is similar to bagging except that the features ("attributes", "predictors", "independent variables") are randomly sampled, with replacement, for each learner. Informally, this causes individual learners to not over-focus on features that appear highly predictive/descriptive in the training set, but fail to be as predictive for points outside that set. For this reason, random subspaces are an attractive choice for high-dimensional problems where the number of features is much larger than the number of training points, such as learning from fMRI data or gene expression data.
The random subspace method has been used for decision trees; when combined with "ordinary" bagging of decision trees, the resulting models are called random forests. It has also been applied to linear classifiers, support vector machines, nearest neighbours and other types of classifiers. This method is also applicable to one-class classifiers. The random subspace method has also been applied to portfolio selection problem showing its superiority to the conventional resampled portfolio essentially based on Bagging.
To tackle high-dimensional sparse problems, a framework named Random Subspace Ensemble (RaSE) was developed. RaSE combines weak learners trained in random subspaces with a two-layer structure and iterative process. RaSE has been shown to enjoy appealing theoretical properties and practical performances.
Algorithm
An ensemble of models employing the random subspace method can be constructed using the following algorithm:
Let the number of training points be N and the number of features in the training data be D.
Let L be the number of individual models in the ensemble.
For each individual model l, choose n (n < N) to be the number of input points for l. It is common to have only one value of n for all the individual models.
For each individual model l, create a training set by choosing d features from D with replacement and train the model.
Now, to apply the ensemble model to an unseen point, combine the outputs of the L individual models by majority voting or by combining the posterior probabilities.
Footnotes
References
Classification algorithms
Ensemble learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Louis%20Gateway%20Film%20Critics%20Association%20Awards%202010 | 7th SLGFCA Awards
December 20, 2010
Best Film:
The Social Network
Best Director:
David Fincher
The Social Network
The 7th St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards were announced on December 20, 2010.
Winners and nominees
Best Actor
Javier Bardem – Biutiful
Jeff Bridges – True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
Colin Firth – The King's Speech
James Franco – 127 Hours
Best Actress
Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Noomi Rapace – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Naomi Watts – Fair Game
Best Animated Film
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
Tangled
Toy Story 3
Best Director
Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
David Fincher – The Social Network
Tom Hooper – The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan – Inception
Best Documentary Film
A Film Unfinished
Restrepo
The Tillman Story
Waiting for "Superman"
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Best Film
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The King's Speech
The Social Network
Best Comedy
Easy A
I Love You Phillip Morris
Jackass 3D
Micmacs
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Best Foreign Language Film
Biutiful • Mexico
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor) • Sweden
Micmacs (Micmacs à tire-larigot) • France
North Face (Nordwand) • Germany
A Prophet (Un prophète) • France
Best Music
Black Swan
Burlesque
The Fighter
Inception
The Social Network
Best Original Screenplay
Biutiful – Alejandro González Iñárritu, Armando Bo and Nicolás Giacobone
Black Swan – Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin
The Fighter – Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson
Inception – Christopher Nolan
The King's Speech – David Seidler
Best Adapted Screenplay
127 Hours – Simon Beaufoy and Danny Boyle
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – Edgar Wright and Michael Bacall
The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin
True Grit – Joel and Ethan Coen
Winter's Bone – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini
Best Supporting Actor
Christian Bale – The Fighter
John Hawkes – Winter's Bone
Jeremy Renner – The Town
Sam Rockwell – Conviction
Geoffrey Rush – The King's Speech
Best Supporting Actress
Amy Adams – The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter – The King's Speech
Barbara Hershey – Black Swan
Melissa Leo – The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit
Best Visual Effects
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
Inception
Kick-Ass
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Tron: Legacy
Moving the Medium Forward
(for technical/artistic innovative that advances the medium)
127 Hours
Inception
Kick-Ass
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Toy Story 3
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Best Artistic/Creative Film
(for excellence in art-house cinema)
The King's Speech
Micmacs
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Trash Humpers
Winter's Bone
Special Merit
(for best scene, cinematic technique or other memorable aspect or moment)
127 Hours: the zoom-up scene which begins with a tight shot on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20Pages | The Civil Pages is a computer system that acts as a private social media site for the UK Civil Service. It was set up by The National Archives on behalf of the Cabinet Office. It debuted shortly after an incident where the head of MI6 was identified in a holiday snap on Facebook. The head of the Civil Service, Gus O'Donnell described civil pages as '... the Facebook of the Civil Service ... without the man in the Speedos'. The system is based on Confluence, an enterprise wiki from Atlassian and was developed by Adaptavist.
References
External links
Civil Pages Launches
Adaptavist - the developers of Civil Pages
Government databases in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%2010 | Ben 10 is an American media franchise conceived by Man of Action!, produced by Cartoon Network Studios, and owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The franchise revolves around a young boy named Ben Tennyson, who discovers the Omnitrix—a high-tech, extraterrestrial device shaped like a wristwatch. This remarkable gadget contains the DNA of various alien species, allowing Ben to transform into them at will. Initially, the Omnitrix features ten alien transformations, but over time, Ben gains the ability to unlock additional species.
The franchise has garnered considerable critical acclaim, securing three Emmy Awards. It encompasses five primary television series, five feature films, and numerous video games, spanning over 16 years. With such longevity, it ranks as Cartoon Network's second longest-running franchise. Furthermore, Ben 10 has inspired a line of toys produced initially by Bandai for the franchise's first four series and later by Playmates Toys for the reboot. Overall, the franchise has amassed over $6 billion in retail sales.
On February 17, 2021, Cartoon Network announced three 44-minute specials slated for April 2021, titled Ben 10,010, Ben Gen 10, and Alien X-Tinction. These specials serve as both the series finale for the 2016 reboot and a crossover event involving the first four television series in the franchise.
Television series
Ben 10 (2005 TV series)
The series centers on Ben Tennyson, a 10-year-old boy on a summer vacation road trip with his cousin Gwen and their grandfather Max, who is later revealed to be a member of a secret intergalactic organization called the Plumbers. On their first night camping in their grandfather's RV, nicknamed the Rust Bucket, Ben finds a mysterious watch-like alien device that attaches itself upon his wrist, giving him the ability to transform into several (initially ten but later more) alien life-forms, each with special abilities. During their vacation, the Tennysons are attacked by various enemies, ranging from aliens such as intergalactic warlord Vilgax, bounty hunter duo Sixsix and Kraab, and Ectonurite high king Zs'skayr, criminals such as 11-year-old energy absorbing delinquent Kevin Levin, mad scientist Doctor Animo, and the mysterious paramilitary organization the Forever Knights, to supernatural entities such as interdimensional sorcerer Hex and his niece Charmcaster, and clown mastermind Zombozo and his Circus Freak Trio.
Ben 10: Alien Force
The series begins five years after the events of the original series. Ben has removed the Omnitrix and returned to living a normal life, but he is forced to use it again to save his grandfather Max, who has been abducted by a xenophobic alien species called the Highbreeds as part of a plot to rid the Earth of human beings. Ben's age causes the Omnitrix to reboot, granting him access to new aliens along with a few from the original series. Ben is joined by Gwen and former enemy Kevin Levin as they fight the Highbreed's universal extermination plan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SADT%20%28disambiguation%29 | SADT or Structured Analysis and Design Technique is a software engineering methodology for describing systems as a hierarchy of functions.
SADT may also refer to:
Self Accelerating Decomposition Temperature, a physical property of organic peroxides |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hisao%20Yamada | was a Japanese computer scientist, known for his influential contributions to theoretical computer science, as well as for the development of Japanese keyboard layouts, a challenging practical problem. From 1972 to 1991, he was professor of the formal languages division at the Department for Information Science at the University of Tokyo.
Work
In the field of theoretical computer science, Yamada introduced the notion of real-time computability. As his colleague Aravind Joshi recalls:
Selected publications
Hisao Yamada: "A Historical Study of Typewriters and Typing Methods: from the Position of Planning Japanese Parallels", Journal of Information Processing, 2(4) (February 1980), pp. 175–202
References
Deaths: Dr. Hisao Yamada, SEAS. University of Pennsylvania Almanac 55(2), p. 3
History, University of Tokyo, Department of Information Science
External links
Japanese computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
1930 births
2008 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofio | Cofio may refer to:
Cofio River, Spain;
Cofio Software;
Cofio Operating System; |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Family%20Restaurant | The Family Restaurant is a Canadian reality television series, which aired on Food Network Canada between 2005 and 2009.
Profiling family-owned restaurants in the Edmonton, Alberta area, the show's first two seasons focused on the Psalios family chain of Greek restaurants, while its third and final season focused on the Quon family chain of Chinese restaurants. The Quon family were later featured in their own spinoff series, The Quon Dynasty, on Citytv.
The series was produced by Anaid Productions and distributed by Picture Box Distribution. The Quon family season was also carried by WE tv in the United States in 2011.
References
External links
Food Network (Canadian TV channel) original programming
2005 Canadian television series debuts
2009 Canadian television series endings
Television shows filmed in Edmonton
2000s Canadian reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twig%20%28template%20engine%29 | Twig is a template engine for the PHP programming language. Its syntax originates from Jinja and Django templates. It's an open source product licensed under a BSD License and maintained by Fabien Potencier. The initial version was created by Armin Ronacher. Symfony PHP framework comes with a bundled support for Twig as its default template engine since version 2.
The same template language is used by the Nunjucks template engine, thus Nunjucks is also supported by the following tools.
Features
Complex control flow
Automatic escaping
Template inheritance
Variable filters
i18n support (gettext)
Macros
Fully extendable
Twig is supported by the following integrated development environments:
Eclipse via the Twig plugin
Komodo and Komodo Edit via the Twig highlight/syntax check mode
NetBeans via the Twig syntax plugin (until 7.1, native as of 7.2)
PhpStorm (native as of 2.1)
IntelliJ IDEs, including WebStorm, via a plugin
And the text editors:
Atom via the PHP-twig for atom
Emacs via web-mode.el
Notepad++ via the Notepad++ Twig Highlighter
Sublime Text via the Twig bundle
TextMate via the Twig bundle
Vim via the Jinja syntax plugin or the vim-twig plugin
Brackets via Brackets Twig
Visual Studio Code via the Twig extension
GTKSourceView via the Twig language definition
Coda via the Twig syntax mode
Coda 2 via the other Twig syntax mode
SubEthaEdit via the Twig syntax mode
Syntax
Twig defines three kinds of delimiters:
{{ ... }}, to print the content of variables or the result of evaluating an expression (e.g.: an inherited Twig template with {{ parent() }}).
{# ... #}, to add comments in the templates. These comments aren't included in the rendered page.
{% ... %}, to execute statements, such as for-loops.
{% set foo = 'bar' %}, to assign.
{% if i is defined and i == 1%} ... {% endif %}: condition.
{% for i in 0..10 %} ... {% endfor %}: counter in a loop.
The apostrophe (') is the escape character.
To create an iterative array:
{% set myArray = [1, 2] %}
An associative array:
{% set myArray = {'key': 'value'} %}
Operators precedence
The operators precedence is, from the less to more priority:
Filters
The filters provide some treatments on an expression, when placed after it, separated by pipes. For example:
capitalize: changes a string's first letter to capital.
upper: changes a whole string to capital.
first: displays the first line of an array.
length: returns a variable size.
Special variables
loop contains the current loop information. For example loop.index corresponds to the number of iterations which have already occurred.
The global variables begin with underscores. For example:
_route (URL part located after the domain)
_self (current file name)
So, to the a page route: {{ path(app.request.attributes.get('_route'), app.request.attributes.get('_route_params')) }}
The CGI environment variables, such as {{ app.request.server.get('SERVER_NAME') }}.
Example
The example below demonstrates so |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah%20Johnson | Jeremiah Johnson may refer to:
Jeremiah Johnson (film), a 1972 American western film
Jeremiah Johnson or Nullsleep (born 1980), American electronic musician and computer artist
Jeremiah Johnson (blues musician) (born 1972), American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter
Jeremiah Johnson (gridiron football) (born 1987), American and Canadian football running back
Jeremiah Johnson (mayor) (1766–1852), mayor of Brooklyn, New York
Liver-Eating Johnson (1824–1900), mountain man of the American old west
See also
Jerry Johnson (disambiguation)
Johnson, Jeremiah |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%27s%20Roadhouse | Ma's Roadhouse is an American reality television series airing on the truTV network. The series provides an inside look at the Strokers Dallas biker bar located in Texas. Rick Fairless is the owner of Strokers Dallas, a Texas motorcycle shop, tattoo parlor and biker bar. His greatest asset is his 71-year-old mother, who's also his best, but most outspoken, employee.
Production and broadcast history
Ma's Roadhouse premiered on truTV on September 15, 2010. The show had 7 episodes during its first season. The last episode of the first season was aired on October 27, 2010.
Cast
Rick Fairless, Owner
Sharon "Ma" Fairless (Manager/Cook)
Lena (Parts Department)
Sue (Office Manager)
Meghan (Marketing & PR Manager)
Debbie ("Resident Babe")
Nick Jones ("Staff Calendar Photographer")
References
External links
Ma's Roadhouse
2000s American reality television series
TruTV original programming
Television shows set in Dallas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20%28New%20Zealand%20TV%20channel%29 | Four (stylised as FOUR; formerly TV4) was the second New Zealand television channel owned and operated by MediaWorks New Zealand, broadcast via the state-owned Kordia transmission network. The channel launched on 29 June 1997 as TV4 and was replaced by C4 on 3 October 2003. It was relaunched on 6 February 2011 as a separate channel from C4.
On 2 July 2016, Mediaworks closed Four and replaced it with Bravo as part of a deal with NBC Universal.
In general, the channel's target audience was 18- to 49-year-olds and could be broader in its appeal, with programming which attracted a wider, and more mature audience. During early mornings and late afternoons the channel screened a range of children's programming such as Sesame Street and in the evenings screened shows aimed at the mainstream audience. Overnight and late mornings – early afternoons the channel screened Infomercials and Auto TV (Car Commercials). Four broadcast mostly American programming, with the exception of Sticky TV, Four Live, and Smash, which were in-house produced Auckland-hosted youth shows, and the Pukana youth show, which was produced from a Maori language government fund. Pukana also airs on one of the two government funded Maori language channels.
History
The history of Four dates back to 1997 when TV3 decided to launch a second TV channel called TV4. TV4 was an entertainment network and screened a wide range of imported shows such as South Park, Beverly Hills 90210, Beavis and Butthead. After 2000, new programming was scarce, with the infiltration of 1980's and 1990's repeats. On October 3, 2003, TV4 was replaced by music channel C4.
On 6 February 2011, TV4 returned as Four. MediaWorks announced this in October 2010, and said the new network would focus on children's programming during the day and a range of shows aimed at the 18-to-49-year-old audience in the evening. The first programme to air on Four was The Simpsons episode "Elementary School Musical" (not coincidentally featuring New Zealand band Flight of the Conchords).
At the end of 2012, Four began screening some new episodes of shows within seven days of the show being broadcasting in the United States under the Fast Four brand. Examples of shows include The Simpsons, Family Guy, Glee and How I Met Your Mother. New Zealand TV networks typically start screening most US television series around five months after the original release, usually first screening in late January or February at the end of the New Zealand summer, catching up to the US at the end of the season as all 22 episodes are broadcast week-after-week, not spread out over nine months as in the US. The transition of shows like Glee from TV3 to Four also lost the NZ On Air funding that is given to TV3 to get EIA-608 captions converted from source masters to the preferred Teletext format by TVNZ's Access Services. As New Zealand broadcasters are completely reliant on this process for program subtitling.
Closure
The final ever show to air on FOUR was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Francisco%20Film%20Critics%20Circle%20Awards%202010 | 9th SFFCC Awards
December 13, 2010
Best Picture:
The Social Network
The 9th San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2010, were given on 13 December 2010.
Winners
Best Picture:
The Social Network
Best Director (TIE):
Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
David Fincher – The Social Network
Best Original Screenplay:
The King's Speech – David Seidler
Best Adapted Screenplay:
The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin
Best Actor:
Colin Firth – The King's Speech
Best Actress:
Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine
Best Supporting Actor:
John Hawkes – Winter's Bone
Best Supporting Actress:
Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom
Best Animated Feature:
Toy Story 3
Best Foreign Language Film:
Mother (Madeo) • South Korea
Best Documentary:
The Tillman Story
Best Cinematography:
Black Swan – Matthew Libatique
Marlon Riggs Award (for courage & vision in the Bay Area film community):
Elliot Lavine (in recognition of his two decades of film programming, his revival of rare archival and independent titles, and his role in the renewed popularity of film noir and pre-Production Code features)
References
S.F. Film Critics Circle honors 'Social Network'
External links
2010 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards
2010 film awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Price%20Is%20Right%20%28Philippine%20game%20show%29 | There are two versions of The Price Is Right in the Philippines, aired on two networks. The first version aired every Sunday on ABC (now TV5) from November 25, 2001 to December 8, 2002, and was hosted by Dawn Zulueta, with voice over provided off screen by Jefferson Utanes and later Michael Knight. The second version, hosted by Kris Aquino on ABS-CBN, It premiered on February 14, 2011, replacing Shoutout!. The show concluded on August 13, 2011. It was replaced by Junior MasterChef Pinoy Edition in its timeslot. Voice over is provided by "Rich," composed of the identically-named The Amazing Race Asia 4 winners Richard Hardin and Richard Herrera; at one point, due to a prior commitment by the Richards, ABS-CBN reporter Marc Logan, known for his tongue-in-cheek reporting and comedic voice overs, filled in for the duo.
Overview
The two versions are nearly identical to the template set by the original US series (i.e. One Bid (P1,000 for perfect bid), pricing games, two Showcase Showdowns, and a Showcase round) with some exceptions. Both versions also use models of both genders, as the hosts of the two versions are female.
The ABC version featured six contestants, three competing in each of the two Showcase Showdowns. The winners of each Showcase Showdown competed in the Showcase portion. Initially, the Australian format (1981 onwards) was used, involving the alternate guessing of the price of the showcase and the winner rearranging the Showcase items in correct order from cheapest to the most expensive. The more familiar American format was used later in the ABC version's run. This version aired only on Sundays.
The ABS-CBN version initially involved only four contestants, two competing in each of the two Showcase Showdowns. The winners of those two Showdowns then competed in a third, one-spin-only Showdown to determine who competed in the Showcase round. This round used the British/European format, involving the choice of a range (two each of , three squares, and one each of ) and bidding on one Showcase to be within the chosen range without going over the actual price.
Later, the show involved only three contestants competing in one Showdown to determine who played in the Showcase round. In addition, each contestant was partnered with two other players who won money if the main contestant won a pricing game. Initially airing on weekdays, it was moved to Saturdays due to its low ratings.
The ABS-CBN version also used the US version's music package for its run (alongside a few original music cues), whereas the ABC version used original music. (The ABS-CBN also used the theme from the British version with Joe Pasquale, which played as the wheel spun during the Showcase Showdown.)
List of pricing games used in the Philippine versions
ABC version
Any Number
Balance Game
Cliff Hangers
Clock Game
Cover Up
Danger Price
Double Prices
Easy as 123
Hi Lo
Hole In One
Joker
Let 'Em Roll
Money Game
Most Expensive
One Right Price
Pick-A-Number
Pick-A-Pair
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent%20object%20identifier | In database design, a persistent object identifier (POID) is a unique identifier of a record on a table, used as the primary key. Important characteristics of a POID are that it does not carry business information and are not generally exported or otherwise made visible to data users; as such a POID has many of the characteristics of a surrogate key. The only purpose of the POID is to act as the primary key on the table where it is defined and to be referenced as the foreign key by other tables. Because POIDs, like surrogate keys, do not carry business information, they are immune to changes in the form or meaning of business data.
See also
Natural key
Primary key
Surrogate key
Unique key
Object identifier
External links
Persistent Object ID Service
What is a Persistent Object Identifier and why should I care?
Persistent Object
Database theory
Identifiers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-orientation | Object-oriented or object-orientation is a software engineering concept, in which concepts are represented as "objects". Object-oriented topics include:
Object-oriented programming
Object-oriented source code
Object-oriented analysis and design
Object-oriented design
Object-oriented database
Object-oriented modeling
Object-oriented operating system
Object-oriented user interface |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto%20Film%20Critics%20Association%20Awards%202010 | 14th TFCA Awards
December 14, 2010
Best Film:
The Social Network
The 14th Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2010, were given on December 14, 2010.
Winners
Best Actor:
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
Runners-Up: Colin Firth – The King's Speech and James Franco – 127 Hours
Best Actress:
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone
Runners-Up: Natalie Portman – Black Swan and Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine
Best Animated Film:
How to Train Your Dragon
Runners-Up: Despicable Me and Toy Story 3
Best Director:
David Fincher – The Social Network
Runners-Up: Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan and Christopher Nolan – Inception
Best Documentary Film:
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Runners-Up: Inside Job and Marwencol
Best Film:
The Social Network
Runners-Up: Black Swan and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Best First Feature:
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Runners-Up: Get Low and Monsters
Best Foreign Language Film:
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives • Thailand
Runners-Up: Mother • South Korea and Of Gods and Men • France
Best Screenplay:
The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin
Runners-Up: The King's Speech – David Seidler and True Grit – Joel and Ethan Coen
Best Supporting Actor:
Armie Hammer – The Social Network
Runners-Up: Christian Bale – The Fighter and Geoffrey Rush – The King's Speech
Best Supporting Actress:
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit
Runners-Up: Amy Adams – The Fighter and Melissa Leo – The Fighter
Jay Scott Prize for Emerging Talent:
Daniel Cockburn
Special Citation:
to Bruce McDonald, who directed four movies in 2010: This Movie Is Broken, Trigger, Music from the Big House and Hard Core Logo 2
Rogers Canadian Film Award:
Incendies
Runners-Up: Splice and Trigger
References
2010
2010 film awards
2010 in Toronto
2010 in Canadian cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prep%20%26%20Landing%3A%20Operation%3A%20Secret%20Santa | Operation: Secret Santa — A Prep & Landing Stocking Stuffer is a computer-animated short film sequel to 2009's Christmas special Prep & Landing, produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and directed by Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton. The short premiered on TV channel ABC on Tuesday, December 7, 2010. The second half-hour Christmas TV special, Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice aired on December 5, 2011, on ABC.
Plot
Wayne and Lanny, now partners, are called by Magee to meet with a secret contact – Mrs. Claus, who sends them on a new mission to retrieve a box from Santa's secret workshop. Later they sneak into Santa's office while he is asleep, using their high tech equipment from the previous film. Lanny's expertise at dressing the tree enables them to enter the hidden workshop where they recover the box and escape just in time. Mrs. Claus reveals the contents of the box to be the last part of the first toy that Santa ever made, and gives the complete toy (a wooden duck on wheels) back to him as his Christmas Present.
Cast
Derek Richardson as Lanny
Dave Foley as Wayne
Sarah Chalke as Magee
Betty White as Mrs. Claus
W. Morgan Sheppard as Santa Claus (credited as "The Big Guy")
Release
Prep & Landing: Operation: Secret Santa aired on TV channel ABC on Tuesday, December 7, 2010.
The short was released on the Prep & Landing DVD on November 22, 2011, accompanying the original special and the short film Tiny's Big Adventure. It was also released on DVD and Blu-ray of Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection on November 6, 2012, together with Prep & Landing, Naughty vs. Nice, and Tiny's BIG Adventure. It was released on the Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection Blu-ray on August 18, 2015.
See also
List of Disney animated shorts and featurettes
Walt Disney Animation Studios
References
External links
2010 television films
2010 films
2010 short films
2010 computer-animated films
2010s Disney animated short films
2010s Christmas films
American Christmas films
Christmas television specials
Computer-animated short films
American Broadcasting Company television specials
Films scored by Michael Giacchino
Emmy Award-winning programs
American Christmas television specials
Santa Claus in film
2010s English-language films
Films directed by Kevin Deters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20health%20center | A healthcare center, health center, or community health center is one of a network of clinics staffed by a group of general practitioners and nurses providing healthcare services to people in a certain area. Typical services covered are family practice and dental care, but some clinics have expanded greatly and can include internal medicine, pediatric, women’s care, family planning, pharmacy, optometry, laboratory testing, and more. In countries with universal healthcare, most people use the healthcare centers. In countries without universal healthcare, the clients include the uninsured, underinsured, low-income or those living in areas where little access to primary health care is available. In the Central and East Europe, bigger health centers are commonly called policlinics (not to be confused with polyclinics).
Community health centers by country
Canada
Community Health Centers (CHCs) have existed in Ontario for more than 40 years. The first established CHC in Canada was Mount Carmel Clinic in 1926. Most CHC's consist of an interdisciplinary team of health care providers using electronic health records.
In Quebec, local community services centers known by their French acronym, CLSC, offer routine health and social services, including consultations with general practitioners with and without an appointment.
China
In China there are, as of 2011, 32,812 community health centers and 37,374 township health centers.
Indonesia
Puskesmas (, ) are government-mandated community health clinics located across Indonesia. They are overseen by the Indonesian Ministry of Health and provide healthcare for the population on sub-district level. The concept was designed by Johannes Leimena, the third Indonesian Minister of Health, and be realized by G. A. Siwabessy in New Order era. Community and preventive health programs formed another component of Indonesia's health system. There is approximately 9718 Puskesmas around the country according to the Ministry of Health of Indonesia.
Portugal
The health center () was the basic community primary healthcare unit of the National Health Service of Portugal, as well as acting as the local public health authority. Usually, each health center covered the area of one of the Portuguese municipalities, but municipalities with over 15 000 habitants could be covered by more than one of these centers. Health centers were staffed with general practitioners, public health physicians, nurses, social workers and administrative personnel.
In 2008, the more than 300 health centers were aggregated into around 70 health center groups (agrupamentos de centros de saúde) or ACES. Each ACES includes several family and personalized healthcare units, these being now the basic primary health care providers of the Portuguese National Health Service. Besides family health care services, the ACES also include public health, community health and other specialized units, as well as basic medical emergency services.
Some of the ACES were |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MikroSim | MikroSim is an educational software computer program for hardware-non-specific explanation of the general functioning and behaviour of a virtual processor, running on the Microsoft Windows operating system. Devices like miniaturized calculators, microcontroller, microprocessors, and computer can be explained on custom-developed instruction code on a register transfer level controlled by sequences of micro instructions (microcode). Based on this it is possible to develop an instruction set to control a virtual application board at higher level of abstraction.
General
Initially MikroSim was developed to be a processor simulation software to be widely available in educational areas. Since MikroSim operability starts on the basis of microcode development, defined as a sequence of micro instructions (microcoding) for a virtual control unit, the software's intention is on first approach a microcode simulator with various levels of abstractions including the ability of CPU simulators and instruction set emulators. In the current software revision it is feasible for a microcode controlled virtual application to operate on own coded instruction sets. With MikroSim typical and well-known concepts in the area of computer engineering like computer architecture and instruction set architecture are non-specifically treated, which have been established since the early days of the information era and being still valid. In this fashion the simulation software gains a timeless, free didactical benefit without being restricted on special developments of the past and in the future. The detailed documentation and the bilingual application's graphical user interface (GUI) in German and English, as well as the software's upward compatibility given to some extent by Microsoft's operating system Windows, are reasons for being a well-established, valuable e-learning tool in the field of computer engineering since 1992 for educational use.
History of development
The software is based on a version written under Turbo Pascal compiled for MS-DOS operating systems which has been used for educational purposes in computer engineering and computer science at the Philipps-University Marburg (Germany) until 1992. The concept was picked up by Martin Perner during his study of physics (1990–95) in summer 1992, revised, and converted into a windows application compiled with Microsoft Visual Basic and running on Windows 3.1x. In doing so, at this time a simulator with huge conceptual improvements arose by exploiting the novel functionality and utilisation of MS Windows’ GUI for supporting the composition of microcode and the traceability of its instructional influence. The enhancements of the e-learning tool under Windows has been supported and promoted by the Fachbereich Mathematik/Informatik of the University of Marburg by Heinz-Peter Gumm until end 1995.
The Simulator has been awarded with the ‘’European Academic Software Award 1994’’ in the computer science category in Heide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macne%20series | The is a series of voice banks designed for Reason and GarageBand, music sequencer software for the Macintosh operating system, developed by MI7 Japan and distributed by Act2. They are sold under an Open-source license. Following the release of the Vocaloid "Neo" version for the Mac, several hints were left on Macne Nana's Twitter that an official Vocaloid voicebank was in progress. It was confirmed and announced later in October 2013 that Macne Nana would be released for both the Vocaloid 3 software and the Vocaloid Neo software on January 31, 2014.
History
The idea of releasing a voicebank for Macintosh computers was conceptualized in the Japanese voice actress Haruna Ikezawa's regular column "天声姫語 Vox Reginae, Vox Dei" ("voice of the queen, voice of god," a spoof of Asahi Shimbuns editorial article "天声人語 Vox Populi, Vox Dei" or "voice of the people, voice of god") carried in the magazine Mac Fan by Mainichi Communications. It followed the success story of Hatsune Miku, a voice produced for the Vocaloid software, which was produced for Microsoft Windows only but has no connection to the Vocaloid software's development. The Macne series gained popularity after it was discovered that the sound files could be imported into the singing software Utau.
A plan was made to introduce new characters to the series in 2012, and as of October 2012, a selection of finalists had been chosen.
In late December, the concept of turning all the Macne series into Vocaloid was spoken about. The most major factor in the process was the cost of doing so.
Characters
The Macne vocals are set up as a family unit with each "character" given a distinct personality.
Macne Nana
is cheerful and positive (but a little clumsy), she is accident prone but always looks on the bright side of things even when running late for work. Macne Nana is about 14 or 15 years old according to her official profile.
Macne Petit
Originally labelled , is the "straight man" of the Macne house, she keeps the family together and makes sure they are not divided. Although generally the quiet one, she would rather have a conversation with someone then watch things go wrong. She is 10 years old and currently is the youngest member of the family.
Macne Coco (white)
is friendly, calm and mature. She is responsible for keeping the general Macne home running and works at "Macne Cafe" (Mac音カフェ). Though she is always smiling, others do not wish to see what her angry face might look like so everyone smiles back at her. She and her twin sister Macne Coco Black are 17 years old and currently the eldest two daughters of the Macne family.
Macne Coco (black)
easily gets emotional. Compared to her sister White, she loses her temper easily and cries quite easily. Whereas Coco White runs the general work of the Macne household, Coco Black is incapable of holding responsibilities beyond tasks like selling candy sticks. Coco black is also the ignorance queen of the Macne household and often puts h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American%20Film%20Critics%20Association%20Awards%202010 | Winners for the 2010 African-American Film Critics Association.
Best Picture
Winner: The Social Network
Top 10 Pictures:
The Social Network
The King's Speech
Inception
Black Swan
Night Catches Us
The Fighter
Frankie & Alice
Blood Done Sign My Name
Get Low
For Colored Girls
Other categories
References
2010 film awards
African-American Film Critics Association Awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq%20Concerto | The Compaq Concerto was a detachable laptop computer made by Compaq, introduced in 1993. Concerto was the first tablet computer manufactured by Compaq on a large scale, and can be considered a very early form of a 2-in-1 PC.
Specifications
There were three Concerto models, varying in hard disk capacity, and processor speed. All had 4 MB of RAM soldered to the motherboard, which was expandable to 20 MB using proprietary memory modules.
There were two processor options: Intel 486SL @ 25 MHz or 33 MHz. The 25-MHz model was available with either a 120-MB or 240-MB IDE hard disk drive, and the 33-MHz model had a 240-MB IDE hard disk drive. Both models had a built in 3.5" 1.44-MB floppy disk drive.
All models shipped with MS-DOS 6.2, with Compaq's unique set of DOS extensions for power management, configuration and model specific help. Windows for PEN Computing Version 1, which was Windows 3.1 with necessary add-ons for pen operation — including handwriting recognition - was also pre-installed. The Concerto was made with some help from Wacom and their associates
Modem: Internal modem was available as add-on
PCMCIA: two Type II PCMCIA slots, could also be used as a single Type III PCMCIA slot
Docking Station: a Concerto specific docking station was available
The Concerto was not a very successful laptop, but it did have some special features: a detachable keyboard, and a pen & touch screen (the touch screen only worked with the special pen). It could be considered to be ahead of its time.
Its screen had Wacom functionality as mentioned above
The pen had a button which could produce a double-click or right-click. (Touching the screen gave a single-click.)
The position of the pen could be detected, and the correctly placed pointer could be displayed, even when the pen was up to 1 cm away from the screen. This could e.g. trigger tooltip text display in newer operating systems.
The Concerto was a unique design, in as much as it was "upside-down" - the main body including the motherboard, hard disk drive, floppy disk drive, and expansion slots were behind the screen. The detachable keyboard was used as the lid but could be completely removed, at which point the Concerto became what is known as a slate PC. The pen was connected to the Concerto through an RF link, and there was a compartment in the Concerto for the pen.
References
Concerto
2-in-1 PCs
Computer-related introductions in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Azerbaijani%20films%20of%20the%202010s | A list of the most recent films produced in Azerbaijan ordered by year of release in the 2010s:
2010s
External links
Azerbaijani film at the Internet Movie Database
Azerbaycan Kinosu
2010
Azerbai
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnie%20E.%20John | Bonnie E. John (born September 10, 1955) is an American cognitive psychologist who studies human–computer interaction, predictive human performance modeling, and the relationship between usability and software architecture. She was a founding member of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, a research staff member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and the director of computation and innovation at The Cooper Union. She is currently a UX designer at Bloomberg L.P.
Background
A founding member of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute, established in 1993 at Carnegie Mellon University, she was previously an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon. She earned her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in 1988.
John has published over 100 technical papers in the area of human–computer interaction. She was elected to the CHI Academy in 2005. She was also a founding associate editor for ACM Transactions on Computer Human Interaction (TOCHI) and regularly serves on the ACM SIGCHI conference program committee. John was the director of the Masters in HCI Program in Human–Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University from 1997 to 2009. John was a research staff member at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center from December 2010 through December 2014. She returned to her alma mater, The Cooper Union, as the director of computation and innovation in December 2014. In July 2015 Bonnie joined Bloomberg's UX design team, to focus primarily on discoverability of new functionality on the Bloomberg Terminal.
Research
John researches techniques to improve the design of computer systems with respect to their usefulness and usability. She has investigated the effectiveness and usability of several HCI techniques (e.g., think-aloud usability studies, Cognitive Walkthrough, GOMS) and produced new techniques for bringing usability concerns to the design process (e.g., CPM-GOMS and Usability-Supporting Architectural patterns). Her team at Carnegie Mellon University has developed CogTool, an open-source tool to support Keystroke-Level Model analysis.
Honors
2005—Elected to CHI Academy
References
External links
Bonnie E. John's Cooper Union projects, courses, publications, students, etc.
Bonnie E. John's IBM website
Bonnie E. John's Carnegie Mellon website
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Human–computer interaction researchers
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
American cognitive scientists
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Human-Computer Interaction Institute faculty
Cooper Union alumni
1955 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Braun | Daniel Braun (born 1992) is a German computer scientist. He is an assistant professor at the University of Twente.
Life
Braun was born in Saarbrücken and studied computer science at Saarland University and the University of Aberdeen. He obtained his PhD from the Technical University of Munich in 2021.
Awards
2022: KlarText – Prize for Science Communication, Dr.-Heinz-Sebiger-Prize
Bibliography
Let’s Play Minecraft: Dein Redstone-Guide, 2015.
Let's Play Minecraft: Plugins programmieren mit Java, 2015.
Let’s Play Minecraft : Dein Praxis-Guide, 2014.
Roboter programmieren mit NXT-G : für LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT, 2011.
Roboter programmieren mit NXC für LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2nd Edition, 2010.
External links
Daniel Braun’s page on the site of the German national library
Daniel Braun’s private page
Living people
German computer scientists
German non-fiction writers
German male non-fiction writers
1992 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issikiomartyria%20nudata | Issikiomartyria nudata is a species of moth belonging to the family Micropterigidae. It was described by Syuti Issiki in 1953. It is known from Japan.
The length of the forewings is for males and for females.
References
Micropterigidae
Moths described in 1953
Moths of Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly%20Grigsby | Beverly Grigsby née Pinsky (born 11 January 1928) is an American composer, musicologist and electronic/computer music pioneer.
Early life
Beverly Pinsky was born in Chicago, Illinois, and studied music as a child. She moved to California with her family at the age of 13 and graduated from Fairfax High School.
Education
She entered the University of Southern California to study pre-med, and also studied composition with Ernst Krenek at the Southern California School of Music and the Arts. She graduated with Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in composition from California State University, Northridge, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in composition from the University of Southern California. She later studied computer music generation at Stanford University’s Center for Artificial Intelligence and at M.I.T. in 1975-1976.
Career
After completing her studies, Grigsby took a position teaching music at California State University, Northridge, and also established and directed the Computer Music Studio there. In 1984 Grigsby composed the first computerized score for an opera. Along with Jeannie G. Pool, she founded the International Institute for the Study of Women in Music in 1985. She retired from her teaching position in 1993, but continued to teach privately and work as a composer. Her music has been performed internationally.
Honors and awards
The National Endowment for the Arts award
The Arts International (Rockefeller) Grant
CSUN Distinguished Professor Award
CSU Chancellor’s Maxi Grant
IAWM Outstanding Music Contribution Award
Annual ASCAP awards
Carnegie Mellon Fellow in Technology (1987)
Getty Museum Research Scholar (1997–98)
Works
Grigsby has composed choral and chamber music, and also for film soundtracks and stage. She is noted for electroacoustic compositions. Selected works include:
The Mask of Eleanor (1984) chamber opera with computer score
Vision of St. Joan for soprano and computer (1987)
Shakti II (1985) for soprano
Trio for Violin, B-flat Clarinet and Piano (1994)
Movements for Guitar (1982)
Five Studies for Two Untransposed Hexachords for piano (1971)
Spheres (1998) for Fairlight III Computer Music Instrument
References
External links
Interview with Beverly Grigsby - NAMM Oral History Library (2010)
1928 births
Living people
20th-century classical composers
American music educators
American women music educators
American women classical composers
American classical composers
Musicians from Chicago
University of Southern California alumni
California State University, Northridge alumni
Stanford University alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
California State University, Northridge faculty
American women in electronic music
20th-century American women musicians
20th-century American composers
Classical musicians from Illinois
20th-century women composers
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent%20Resilient%20Framework | Intelligent Resilient Framework (IRF) is a proprietary software virtualization technology developed by H3C (Huawei 3Com). Its purpose is to connect multiple network devices through physical IRF ports and perform necessary configurations, then virtualize the devices into a distributed device. This virtualization technology performs the unified management and maintenance of multiple devices. This technology follows some of the same general concepts as Cisco's VSS and vPC technologies.
History
This technology was originally developed by 3Com and released in 2003 as XRN (eXpandable Resilient Networking). When HP purchased 3Com in April 2010, HP renamed the technology to IRF.
General overview
Simplified topology and streamlined management. An IRF virtual device appears as a node on the network. You can log into it by connecting to any port of any member to manage all members of the IRF virtual device.
Simple network operation. Various control protocols running on different member devices as if they are running on one device. For example, routing protocols calculate the routes of the IRF virtual device instead of calculating the routes of each member. This avoids a great number of protocol packet exchanges among the members, simplifies network operation, and shortens the convergence time during network flapping. In addition, this advantage of the IRF technology is not delivered by the common cluster technology, which only realizes the unified management of devices, and the devices in a cluster operate as independent nodes.
Low cost. The IRF technology creates an IRF virtual device from multiple low-end devices, and thus the IRF virtual device has a higher port density and bandwidth and costs lower than using high-end devices.
Powerful network expansion capability. By adding member devices, the number of IRF ports, network bandwidth, and processing capability of the IRF virtual device can be easily expanded.
Protecting investment. Users only need to add new devices rather than replacing the original ones when upgrading a network because of the powerful network expansion capability of the IRF virtual device.
High reliability. IRF provides both link and node redundancy. An IRF virtual device comprises multiple member devices that operate in 1:N redundancy: the master runs, manages and maintains the IRF virtual device, whereas the slaves process services as well as functioning as the backups. As soon as the master fails, the IRF virtual device immediately elects a new master to prevent service interruption. In addition, you can aggregate both IRF links of members and the links between the IRF virtual device and its upper or lower layer devices.
High resiliency. You can increase the bandwidth and processing capability of an IRF virtual device simply by adding member devices. Each member device has its own CPU and they independently process and forward protocol packets.
Diversified functions. IRF provides all features supported by a switch, such as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetPetDB | MetPetDB is a relational database and repository for global geochemical data on and images collected from metamorphic rocks from the Earth's crust. MetPetDB is designed and built by a global community of metamorphic petrologists in collaboration with computer scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as part of the National Cyberinfrastructure Initiative and supported by the National Science Foundation. MetPetDB is unique in that it incorporates image data collected by a variety of techniques, e.g. photomicrographs, backscattered electron images (SEM), and X-ray maps collected by wavelength dispersive spectroscopy or energy dispersive spectroscopy.
Purpose
MetPetDB was built for the purpose of archiving published data and for storing new data for ready access to researchers and students in the petrologic community. This database facilitates the gathering of information for researchers beginning new projects and permits browsing and searching for data relating to anywhere on the globe. MetPetDB provides a platform for collaborative studies among researchers anywhere on the planet, serves as a portal for students beginning their studies of metamorphic geology, and acts as a repository of vast quantities of data being collected by researchers globally.
Design
The basic structure of MetPetDB is based on a geologic sample and derivative subsamples. Geochemical data are linked to subsamples and the minerals within them, while image data can relate to samples or subsamples. MetPetDB is designed to store the distinct spatial/textural context of mineral analysis that is a crucial to petrologic interpretation. A web-based user interface allows a user to become members and download their search results. Approved members may become contributors and upload data to catalogue and share with the public. More information about the data model and the design of the database is available on the MetPetDB Support Wiki.
Contents
The database houses a wide range of information available for samples from all over the globe to be grouped into two categories: (a) observations and measurements (e.g. mineral data, images, chemical analyses), for which robust data models already exist, and (b) interpretative results (e.g. P-T conditions, crystallization ages, cooling rates, etc.), which are conclusions based on the observational data. Development of a robust data model for interpretative data is currently underway as of December 2010. The database system is beginning to incorporate a number of tools for data analysis and calculation that adds considerable power to the researcher.
MetPetDB differs from other Geochemistry relational databases (e.g. GEOROC, NAVDAT, PetDB) in that it incorporates unpublished data in addition to data published in peer-reviewed journals. The vast majority of data collected by metamorphic geologists is not presented in publication, and therefore a forum for sharing this data with the public is an objective of MetPetDB. Contributors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB%2011%3A%20The%20Show | MLB 11: The Show is a Major League Baseball video game published by Sony Computer Entertainment and developed by San Diego Studio. The game was released on March 8, 2011, for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 2. The game includes all 30 MLB teams, rosters, and stadiums from the 2011 season. This is the final installment in the series available for the PlayStation 2 and the PSP, and the first game in the series to be compatible with PlayStation Move for use with the PlayStation 3. It is also the final PlayStation 2 game to be published by Sony Computer Entertainment in North America.
New features
PlayStation 3
MLB 11: The Show features the Pure Analog Control System, which includes analog controls for hitting, pitching, and fielding. Pure Hitting allows the player to stride and swing using the Right Analog Stick, Pure Pitching functionality incorporates a new Pitch Meter when setting strength and location, and Pure Throwing can be used to make defensive throws by simply pointing the Right Analog Stick in the direction of the base, also allowing for fake throws to keep runners honest.
The Co-op Mode allows up to four-player offline or online cooperative play where players can split duties covering either the infield or outfield, while also switching off at the plate or choosing the specific batters they’d like to control. Users can play 1 vs. 2, 2 vs. 2, or 2 vs. CPU. There is also a Challenge of the Week online feature, which will include 2-3 minute single player online gameplay, which will be supported by leader boards and prizes awarded in three tiers.
The fifth generation of Road to The Show adds a new interactive slider set to the Create Player process, new training modes triggered by the Player Performance Evaluator, Minor League substitution logic improvements, advancement system improvements that now compares a player's stats to their competition in the organization, and the new No Assist Fielding option.
MLB 11: The Show also includes stereoscopic 3D functionality, a customizable camera editor, stadium specific broadcast camera angles for all 30 MLB teams, new weather elements, stadium specific Jumbotrons and fireworks, and PlayStation Move motion controller support for the Home Run Derby mode.
PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 version also featured co-op play and updated rosters, but did not receive the updated Road to the Show, analog control or the Challenge of the Week feature. The controls stay the same as MLB 10: The Show's and Road to the Show continues with the advancement goals and in-game goals. Also, Eric Karros did not replace Rex Hudler in the PlayStation 2 version. Some features have also notably been removed from the PlayStation 3 version despite being in the earlier PS2 installments, such as the bullpen meter that states whether or not a relief pitcher is warmed up.
PlayStation Portable
The PlayStation Portable version features tweaked artificial intelligence, the updated Road to the Show, revamp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continue | Continue may refer to:
Continue (video gaming), an option to continue a video game after all the player's lives have been lost
Continue (keyword), a programming language keyword
Music
Continue (Pakho Chau album), 2008
Continue (Wax album)
...Continued, the second album released by Tony Joe White
Continue?, the debut extended play by Lun8
"Continue?", a song by Kilo Kish from American Gurl (2022)
See also
European Parliament Committee on Budgetary Control, abbreviated CONT
Continent (magazine), an online open access scholarly journal abbreviated as cont.
Continuity (disambiguation)
Continuation (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20application | A database application is a computer program whose primary purpose is retrieving information from a computerized database. From here, information can be inserted, modified or deleted which is subsequently conveyed back into the database. Early examples of database applications were accounting systems and airline reservations systems, such as SABRE, developed starting in 1957.
A characteristic of modern database applications is that they facilitate simultaneous updates and queries from multiple users. Systems in the 1970s might have accomplished this by having each user in front of a 3270 terminal to a mainframe computer. By the mid-1980s it was becoming more common to give each user a personal computer and have a program running on that PC that is connected to a database server. Information would be pulled from the database, transmitted over a network, and then arranged, graphed, or otherwise formatted by the program running on the PC. Starting in the mid-1990s it became more common to build database applications with a Web interface. Rather than develop custom software to run on a user's PC, the user would use the same Web browser program for every application.) A database application with a Web interface had the advantage that it could be used on devices of different sizes, with different hardware, and with different operating systems. Examples of early database applications with Web interfaces include amazon.com, which used the Oracle relational database management system, the photo.net online community, whose implementation on top of Oracle was described in the book Database-Backed Web Sites (Ziff-Davis Press; May 1997), and eBay, also running Oracle.
Electronic medical records are referred to on emrexperts.com, in December 2010, as "a software database application". A 2005 O'Reilly book uses the term in its title: Database Applications and the Web.
Some of the most complex database applications remain accounting systems, such as SAP, which may contain thousands of tables in only a single module. Many of today's most widely used computer systems are database applications, for example, Facebook, which was built on top of MySQL.
The etymology of the phrase "database application" comes from the practice of dividing computer software into systems programs, such as the operating system, compilers, the file system, and tools such as the database management system, and application programs, such as a payroll check processor. On a standard PC running Microsoft Windows, for example, the Windows operating system contains all of the systems programs while games, word processors, spreadsheet programs, photo editing programs, etc. would be application programs. As "application" is short for "application program", "database application" is short for "database application program".
Not every program that uses a database would typically be considered a "database application". For example, many physics experiments, e.g., the Large Hadron Collider, genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20MultiPoint%20Mouse | Windows MultiPoint Mouse is a technology that enables the use of multiple pointing devices on the same computer. This technology is particularly useful in schools, where a small group of students can use the same computer simultaneously. It was developed for the needs of developing countries where there may only be a limited number of computers available. The technology was conceived in the summer of 2005 and it was launched in December 2006.
Microsoft has made available a Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK for applications. Today, various education ISVs and publishers around the world such as Scholastic and SIVECO Romania are developing and piloting applications built using the SDK.
Windows MultiPoint Mouse shares the common "MultiPoint" brand with Windows MultiPoint Server as both products aim to enable multiple individuals to work from a single computer, simultaneously. However, the technologies do not ship in a single distribution and are made separately available.
References
External links
Windows MultiPoint home page
Windows MultiPoint Mouse SDK 1.5 Download
Developer site
Computer mice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Holocaust%20Organizations | The Association of Holocaust Organizations (AHO), a 501(c)(3), was established in 1985 to serve as an international network of organizations and individuals for the advancement of Holocaust education, remembrance and research. Among its functions and services are: annual conferences, a winter seminar, regional conferences, co-sponsorship of other conferences and seminars, a listserv for members, a website, and the publication of an annual print directory.
The AHO is governed by a nine-member board of directors, which is elected by and from the membership at its annual business meeting. The term of office is three years. The AHO is run on a voluntary basis. Membership dues cover the expenses of the organization.
AHO Website
The AHO website is a significant resource for networking among the various organizations. The website includes a Members Directory, Affiliated Members, Archives and Traveling Exhibits pages. The Members Directory which alphabetically lists the countries which have AHO members in them as well their major contact information. The Traveling Exhibit page shows the available exhibits for rent by their "home" museums' the page also has descriptions, contact information, availability of the exhibits.
Organizations
The various organizations: museums, Holocaust centers, and memorial organizations receive funding from multiple sources.
Membership
In order to become a member, an organization or individual must meet a certain criteria and be voted in by the board. The criteria are: An organization or individual must be involved in Holocaust education, remembrance or research. Full organization members and individual members pay annual dues, while affiliated organizational members do not.
External links
Holocaust-related organizations
Organizations established in 1985
1985 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer%20beTouch%20E140 | The Acer beTouch E140 is a smartphone manufactured by Acer Inc. utilizing the Android 2.2 (Froyo) operating system.
Main specifications
Operating System: Android 2.2
Display: 2.8-inch touch screen
Processor: 600 MHz
Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g,
Bluetooth 2.1, IR
FM-radio
Camera: 3.2MP
Battery: 1300 mAH
Weight: 115 grams
Release
The Acer beTouch 140 was unveiled in December 2010.
The device is to be released in the UK though the exact date is not known.
Price has not been announced but it should be around €199
See also
Galaxy Nexus
List of Android devices
References
beTouch E140
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorization%20of%20polynomials%20over%20finite%20fields | In mathematics and computer algebra the factorization of a polynomial consists of decomposing it into a product of irreducible factors. This decomposition is theoretically possible and is unique for polynomials with coefficients in any field, but rather strong restrictions on the field of the coefficients are needed to allow the computation of the factorization by means of an algorithm. In practice, algorithms have been designed only for polynomials with coefficients in a finite field, in the field of rationals or in a finitely generated field extension of one of them.
All factorization algorithms, including the case of multivariate polynomials over the rational numbers, reduce the problem to this case; see polynomial factorization. It is also used for various applications of finite fields, such as coding theory (cyclic redundancy codes and BCH codes), cryptography (public key cryptography by the means of elliptic curves), and computational number theory.
As the reduction of the factorization of multivariate polynomials to that of univariate polynomials does not have any specificity in the case of coefficients in a finite field, only polynomials with one variable are considered in this article.
Background
Finite field
The theory of finite fields, whose origins can be traced back to the works of Gauss and Galois, has played a part in various branches of mathematics. Due to the applicability of the concept in other topics of mathematics and sciences like computer science there has been a resurgence of interest in finite fields and this is partly due to important applications in coding theory and cryptography. Applications of finite fields introduce some of these developments in cryptography, computer algebra and coding theory.
A finite field or Galois field is a field with a finite order (number of elements). The order of a finite field is always a prime or a power of prime. For each prime power , there exists exactly one finite field with q elements, up to isomorphism. This field is denoted GF(q) or Fq. If p is prime, GF(p) is the prime field of order p; it is the field of residue classes modulo p, and its p elements are denoted 0, 1, ..., p−1. Thus in GF(p) means the same as .
Irreducible polynomials
Let F be a finite field. As for general fields, a non-constant polynomial f in F[x] is said to be irreducible over F if it is not the product of two polynomials of positive degree. A polynomial of positive degree that is not irreducible over F is called reducible over F.
Irreducible polynomials allow us to construct the finite fields of non-prime order. In fact, for a prime power q, let Fq be the finite field with q elements, unique up to isomorphism. A polynomial f of degree n greater than one, which is irreducible over Fq, defines a field extension of degree n which is isomorphic to the field with qn elements: the elements of this extension are the polynomials of degree lower than n; addition, subtraction and multiplication by an element |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Hydrography%20Dataset | The National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) is a digital database of surface water features used to make maps. It contains features such as lakes, ponds, streams, rivers, canals, dams and stream gages for the United States.
Description
Cartographers can link to or download the NHD to use in their computer mapping software. The NHD is used to represent surface water on maps and is also used to perform geospatial analysis. It is a digital vector geospatial dataset designed for use in geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze the flow of water throughout the nation. The dataset represents over 7.5-million miles of streams/rivers and 6.5-million lake/ponds.
Mapping
In mapping, the NHD is used with other data themes such as elevation, boundaries, and transportation to produce general reference maps. In geospatial analysis the NHD is used by scientists using GIS technology. This takes advantage of a flow direction network that can be processed to trace the flow of water downstream. A rich set of attributes used to identify the water features includes an identifier, the official name of the feature, the length or area of the feature, and metadata describing the source of the data. The identifier is used in an addressing system to link specific information about the water such as water discharge, water quality, and fish population. Using the basic water features, flow network, linked information, and other characteristics, it is possible to study cause and effect relationships, such as how a source of poor water quality upstream might affect a fish population downstream.
The NHD is part of the United States Geological Survey The National Map for the United States. The NHD is also linked with similar datasets representing the surface water for Canada and Mexico. The dataset primarily maps features a 1:24,000-scale, but in certain areas provides detail at 1:5,000-scale. A version of the NHD called the NHDPlus is integrated with elevation and other landscape data to create detailed drainage catchments and flow volume and velocity estimates for streams and rivers of the U.S. at 1:100,000-scale. This data is available from the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
References
External links
http://nhd.usgs.gov/
http://nhd.usgs.gov/tools.html
Reading
Simley, J.D., Carswell Jr., W.J., 2009, The National Map—Hydrography: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2009-3054, 4 p.
Hydrography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silva%20Saga%20II%3A%20The%20Legend%20of%20Light%20and%20Darkness | is a role-playing video game developed and published by SETA Corporation, which was released exclusively in Japan in 1993. It is a direct sequel to Silva Saga for the Family Computer.
The player will find similarities with Dragon Quest. Players search out the soldier of light who travels on a journey to defeat the Zolde, son of the Zuhl. Up to 12 mercenaries and deity statues can be combined as well as organized.
Story
The story starts a few days before Silva Saga's ending. The main character is an amnesiac who goes on a quest to discover his identity and to try and save Kyral, the Light Warrior and main protagonist of the prior game from the game's main antagonist, Zolde.
Gameplay
Although the game shares similarities with the Dragon Quest series, there are some noticeable differences. That being the mercenary and idol battle system. In the game, the player is given the chance to buy mercenaries (up to four) and find idols (up to four as well) to add to your party. In battle, the player is allowed to trade out the main party to bring in the mercenary party or idol party. The mercenary party cannot use spells but are very strong offensively and defensively. Unlike the mercenary party, idols are weak in both offense and defense but are very powerful with magic. Both parties cannot be controlled manually by the player.
Minelvaton series
Silva Saga 2 is the third game in a trilogy of role playing games. The series started with Minelvaton Saga: Ragon no Fukkatsu, continued with Silva Saga, and ended with Silva Saga 2. Unlike many other role playing games, the Minelvaton series takes place within one world, Minelvaton, and players are able to re-explore towns and dungeons from all three titles.
Translation
The game was released for the first time in English on January 24, 2012 from fan translation group Dynamic-Designs.
References
External links
Silva Saga II English Translation at dynamic-designs
Silva Saga II FAQ/Walkthrough at GameFAQs
Silva Saga II: The Legend of Light and Darkness at superfamicom.org
シルヴァ・サーガII / Silva Saga II at super-famicom.jp
Silva Saga II at eStarland.com
1993 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Role-playing video games
SETA Corporation games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Video games developed in Japan
Video game sequels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Bord | James Bord (born 1981), is an entrepreneur and founder of shortcircuit.science, a company applying data science to medical prescription technology and climate adaption analysis. Originally from Stanmore, England, Bord now divides his time between London and the United States.
Poker career
His biggest victory came in the 2010 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, where he won $1,313,611 and became the first British champion of that event. He held pocket 10s against Fabrizio Baldassari's pocket 5s on the last hand to win the championship. A former banker for Citigroup, he left banking for poker in his mid-20s. Apart from that he has a lot cashes coming from the WSOP. Plus a second place in the Shootout - Invitational Aussie Millions Event, for more than $140,000.
Preferring high-stakes games to tournaments, Bord describes himself as a "mixed game cash player," usually playing high-low games. When in Las Vegas he plays in $300–600 or $400–800 games at the major poker venues. He has cashed in eight other WSOP events, the best being sixth in the 2008 no limit 2-7 lowball. As of April 2018, his lifetime live tournament winnings are $4,304,535.
References
1981 births
People from Stanmore
Poker players from London
Living people
World Series of Poker bracelet winners
World Series of Poker Europe Main Event winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandoc | mandoc (historically called mdocml) is a utility used for formatting man pages in BSD Operating Systems (e.g. NetBSD), specifically those written in the mdoc and man macro languages. Unlike the groff and older troff and nroff tools that are predominantly used for this purpose by tools such as , mandoc focuses specifically on manuals and is not suitable for general-purpose type-setting.
is mainly used to format the mdoc manuals used in the BSD Operating Systems, but it also implements most of the man macros used in Linux distributions, as well as a subset of roff commands occasionally intermixed with the man macros. It does not support other macro sets such as mm and ms, or any typesetting features like hyphenation, fonts and alignment. Simple styling such as bold and italics are supported, but italicized text is replaced by underlined text on the terminal.
mandoc has built-in support for the troff soelim (inclusion) preprocessor and partial built-in support for tbl and eqn. It has strong support for UTF-8 output. It can also use the semantic information in mdoc manuals to implement semantic search, which before version 1.4.1, relied on sqlite.
History
Development began in November 2008 specifically to produce CSS-enabled HTML forms of manuals in response to the limitations of groff. mandoc gained initial text-mode output in February 2009. It was then showcased at AsiaBSDCon-2009. In summer of 2010, mandoc was the subject of a NetBSD-mentored Google Summer of Code project for producing PostScript and PDF output alongside the existing text, HTML, and XHTML outputs. This work was completed in August 2010. mandoc became the default formatter of manuals for OpenBSD 4.8, released in November 2010. It later became the default formatter in NetBSD, FreeBSD, illumos, Void Linux, Alpine Linux and macOS, and is also included in DragonFlyBSD, MINIX 3, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Fedora. Its advantages were stated as high speed, license, and clean reimplementation.
Sample usage
The following demonstrates running mandoc on its own. Usually, it would be called via the man utility. In this example, foo.1 is the name of an mdoc UNIX manual.
# Page manual to the terminal.
$ mandoc -l foo.1
# HTML output with a style-sheet.
$ mandoc -Thtml -Ostyle=style.css >foo.1.html
Multibyte (localised) manuals may also be rendered without preprocessing. In this example, foo.jp.1 is a Japanese manual encoded in UTF-8. mandoc will automatically detect the encoding.
# Page wide-character manual to the terminal.
$ mandoc -l foo.jp.1
The included apropos implementation can use semantic information in search:
# Search for all functions starting with 'str' having return type size_t:
$ apropos -s 3 Ft=size_t -a Nm~^str
Other features
mandoc supports HTML 5, PostScript, and PDF output via the parameter.
man.cgi is a CGI program designed to display manual pages on the web. OpenBSD uses it to format all its manual pages.
References
External links
The mandoc UN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causeway%20Bay%20North%20station | Causeway Bay North or Victoria Park () is a proposed station of the MTR rapid transit network in Hong Kong, which would be situated at the northern part of Causeway Bay to the northwest of Victoria Park on Hong Kong Island. The station is part of the North Island line (NIL) proposal, which includes the extension of the from its present terminus to Tamar station in Central.
The KCRC also proposed adding Causeway Bay North station as part of the Sha Tin to Central Link (SCL), to be situated between and . However, a major drawback was that road traffic would be severely impacted, as this would involve closing Gloucester Road for 5 years. Eventually, this station was eliminated from the SCL plan altogether after the MTR–KCR merger, and will only be part of the NIL if it is constructed.
In 2013, the name "Causeway Bay North" was mentioned in the Review and Update of the Railway Development Strategy 2000 as an intermediate station on the North Island line, instead of "Victoria Park".
See also
North Island line
References
This article draws some information from the corresponding article in Chinese Wikipedia.
External links
Victoria Park interchange station
MTR stations on Hong Kong Island
Proposed railway stations in Hong Kong
Causeway Bay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine-generated%20data | Machine-generated data is information automatically generated by a computer process, application, or other mechanism without the active intervention of a human. While the term dates back over fifty years, there is some current indecision as to the scope of the term. Monash Research's Curt Monash defines it as "data that was produced entirely by machines OR data that is more about observing humans than recording their choices." Meanwhile, Daniel Abadi, CS Professor at Yale, proposes a narrower definition, "Machine-generated data is data that is generated as a result of a decision of an independent computational agent or a measurement of an event that is not caused by a human action." Regardless of definition differences, both exclude data manually entered by a person. Machine-generated data crosses all industry sectors. Often and increasingly, humans are unaware their actions are generating the data.
Relevance
Machine-generated data has no single form; rather, the type, format, metadata, and frequency respond to some particular business purpose. Machines often create it on a defined time schedule or in response to a state change, action, transaction, or other event. Since the event is historical, the data is not prone to be updated or modified. Partly because of this quality, the U.S. court systems consider machine-generated data as highly reliable.
Machine-generated data is the lifeblood of the Internet of Things (IoT).
Growth
In 2009, Gartner published that data will grow by 650% over the following five years. Most of the growth in data is the byproduct of machine-generated data. IDC estimated that in 2020, there will be 26 times more connected things than people. Wikibon issued a forecast of $514 billion to be spent on the Industrial Internet in 2020.
Processing
Given the fairly static yet voluminous nature of machine-generated data, data owners rely on highly scalable tools to process and analyze the resulting dataset. Almost all machine-generated data is unstructured but then derived into a common structure. Typically, these derived structures contain many data points/columns. With these data points, the challenge lies mostly with analyzing the data. Given high performance requirements along with large data sizes, traditional database indexing and partitioning limits the size and history of the dataset for processing. Alternative approaches exist with columnar databases as only particular "columns" of the dataset would be accessed during particular analysis.
Examples
Web server logs
Call detail records
Financial instrument trades
Network event logs
Security information and event management (SIEM) logs
Telemetry collected by the government
Notes
Reference List
Bibliography
Computer data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Aachen | The Aachen tramway network () was the backbone of public transport in Aachen, now in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and the surrounding areas from 1880 to 1974. The track gauge was , see Nordrhein-Westfalen.
At times, the network also extended into Belgium and the Netherlands. At its maximum extent, its route length was and its line length was . In 1914, it was the fourth largest tramway network in Germany. Also, it was one of the most extensive German interurban networks. In 1974, the last tramway in the network was closed.
The network was operated from 1880 by the Aachener und Burtscheider Pferdeeisenbahn-Gesellschaft (in English: Aachen and Burtscheid Horse Railway Company), which in 1894 became the Aachener Kleinbahn-Gesellschaft (AKG, in English: Aachen Light Railway Company). In 1942 the name was changed to Aachener Straßenbahn und Energieversorgungs-AG (ASEAG, in English: Aachen Tramway and Power Company). It is now a bus company, but the company name still refers to trams.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
External links
Aachen
History of Aachen
1880 establishments in Germany
1974 disestablishments in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepstral%20%28company%29 | Cepstral is a provider of speech synthesis technology and services. It was founded in June 2000 by scientists from Carnegie Mellon University including the computer scientists Kevin Lenzo and Alan W. Black. It is a privately held corporation with headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The company primarily produces synthetic voices to be used in telephony systems, mobile applications, desktop applications, and with other TTS software such as open-source Festival.
See also
Cepstrum
Kevin Lenzo
Alan W. Black
Speech synthesis
References
External links
The Cepstral website
Software companies based in Pennsylvania
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%27s%20Play%20%28module%29 | Child's Play is an adventure module published in 1989 for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. It was originally created as an RPGA Network Tournament module for characters of levels 13 through 15.
Plot summary
Child's Play is high-level introductory scenario to the 2nd edition rules, designed for beginning dungeon masters and player characters.
The monarchy of Rhesdain, nestled deep in Greyhawk, somewhere on the edge of the Yetil Mountains, is in danger of toppling. A group of young noblemen, among them a few of Queen Joanna Lune's grandchildren, have launched a campaign to turn the country into a democracy. The group claims a Constitution exists which proves Rhesdain was never intended to be a monarchy. The rebels claim the land is free and the people who live there, according to the constitution, are free to choose their own rulers.
Publication history
WG10 Child's Play was written by Jean Rabe and Skip Williams, and published by TSR in 1989 as a 32-page booklet with an outer folder.
Reception
Reviews
References
Greyhawk modules
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTA1%20World | MTA1 WORLD or just MTA1 is the first television channel of the MTA International satellite network. It was launched on 1 January 1994 and was initially named as AMP or Ahmadiyya Muslim Presentation. The name was later changed to Muslim Television Ahmadiyya or MTA International.
History
Background
The channel was established by Mirza Tahir Ahmad and became the First International Muslim channel to specifically broadcast a variety of Islamic programmes. After the launch of sister channels, the channel was renamed as MTA1. However, it is still loosely referred to as MTA or MTA International. Its programmes are broadcast throughout Europe, North America, South America and Asia. It is also available for live streaming via the Internet. MTA International is run and voluntarily funded by Ahmadis. The purpose of the channel was primarily to broadcast the sermons of the Khalifa.
It now broadcasts a variety of programs in various global languages for the benefit of the international Muslim Community. Programs include news, sermons, documentaries and even Arabic language learning for children. Programs are broadcast mainly in Urdu, but several programs are also simultaneously translated and broadcast in other languages. MTA1 broadcast 24/7 and commercial-free with programs for all ages.
HD Broadcast
MTA1 began its HD broadcast on the Astra 2 in May 2022.
Programs
Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International is the main source of media for the Ahmadiyya Muslim community and also aims to spread the message of Islam around the world. Some of the key programs broadcast include the Friday Sermon by the current Ahmadiyya Caliphate, educational and cultural programs, world news, and a various Talk Shows. These can be watched on TV as well as through smartphone apps for Android, iOS and Nokia.
Due to the worldwide audience, a number of programs are simultaneously translated into different languages such as English, German, Bengali, French, Urdu and others. An example of this is the program Friday Sermon which is translated live simultaneously in at least 8 languages including Arabic, Swahili and Indonesian. This is later translated into more languages like Russian and Spanish etc. All together there can be 16 translations (more or less) per sermon.
Friday Sermon
Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Caliph and worldwide head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, delivers the Friday Sermon each Friday, usually from the Baitul Futuh Mosuqe in London. MTA broadcasts the Friday Sermon Live with up to 8 simultaneous translations, and also provides an online stream. Through MTA therefore, the Imam is able to address not just the congregation, but also the entire world. It gives the Imam a chance to advise all Muslims at the same time on urgent matters that face them. The Friday Sermon was the first program aired on MTA International in 1992 and is MTA's longest-running programme.
Question and Answer Session
Mirza Tahir Ahmad, the late Fourth Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Comm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20McConnachie | Brian McConnachie (born December 23, 1942) is an American actor, comedy writer, and children's book author. In 1982, he won an Emmy Award as part of the writing team for SCTV Network, and in 1979 he was nominated for an Emmy as part of the writing team for Saturday Night Live.
During the early 1970s, he was one of the main writers for National Lampoon, where he authored and co-authored many articles. He left the magazine after four years, but as Rick Meyerowitz commented in the book Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead in 2010,
"...[McConnachie's Lampoon work] is well loved, here on Earth, and on his home planet."
As an actor, McConnachie has appeared in 15 films. As a television writer, in addition to SCTV Network and Saturday Night Live, he has also written fifteen episodes of Noddy and eighteen of Shining Time Station.
Filmography
The TVTV Show (1977)
Saturday Night Live (1978-1979)
SCTV Network (1981)
Encyclopedia (1988)
Shining Time Station (1989-1993)
Earthday Birthday (1990)
Shining Time Station: 'Tis a Gift (1990)
Shining Time Station: Second Chances (1995)
Shining Time Station: One of the Family (1995)
Noddy (1998)
The Simpsons (2013)
Bibliography
National Lampoon (1973-1977)
The Job of Sex: A Working Man's Guide to Productive Lovemaking (1974)
The Naked and The Nude: Hollywood and Beyond (1977)
The American Bystander (1983)
Lily of the Forest (with Jack Ziegler) (1987)
Blowing Smoke: The Wild and Whimsical World of Cigars (1997)
Acting
This is a list of films that McConnachie has appeared in, and the roles he played in those films.
People I Know (2002) – Jamie Hoff
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) – Voltan's Participant
Small Time Crooks (2000) – Paul Milton
Celebrity (1998) – Exercise Tape Fan
Deconstructing Harry (1997) – Dr. Reese
Don't Drink the Water (TV film) (1994) – Washington Reporter
Bullets Over Broadway (1994) – Mitch Sabine
Six Degrees of Separation (1993) – Mrs. Bannister's Guest
Sleepless in Seattle (1993) – Bob
Husbands and Wives (1992) – Rain's Father
Quick Change (1990) – Bank Manager
The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew (1983) – Ted
Caddyshack (1980) – Drew Scott
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979) – "LaserBra 2000" Scientist
See also
Further reading
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Artists and Writers who made National Lampoon Insanely Great, 2010, Rick Meyerowitz, Abrams Books, New York,
External links
Living people
American satirists
American parodists
Parody novelists
American satirical novelists
1942 births
Primetime Emmy Award winners
National Lampoon people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nest%20Family%20Entertainment | Nest Family Entertainment is an American family entertainment company based in Coppell, Texas. It was formed in 1988 as Family Entertainment Network by Jared F. Brown, Stephen W. Griffin, and Seldon O. Young. The company has produced several dramatized radio series, animated films and TV series since the '80s which include the Animated Stories from the New Testament, The Swan Princess, The King and I, and The Scarecrow among others.
History
Nest Family Entertainment started as Family Entertainment Network in 1988, which was an offshoot of the Living Scriptures company that Brown, Griffin, and Young had formed a decade prior. It specialized in dramatized audio cassette sets and animated direct-to-video series based on stories from the Holy Bible. In 1991, a sibling company was formed, Living History Productions, for dramatized audio cassettes and animated videos based on noted figures and principles of history.
In 1993, a single umbrella company named Nest Entertainment owned two production companies, Family Entertainment Network was renamed to Family Entertainment until 1994, and Living History Productions until 1996. They acquired Richard Rich's animation studios Rich Entertainment, responsible for producing the videos, around that time and expanded into other ventures including animated features and live-action children's series.
After Stephen W. Griffin stepped down, Atlanta businessman K. Douglas Martin took over as president of Nest Entertainment. The company self-financed the original 1994 animated feature film, The Swan Princess, with New Line Cinema distributing (now distributed by Sony Pictures). Despite performing poorly at the box office, strong video sales helped save the company from potential debt. The next year, Nest partnered with Warner Music Group to form Warner-Nest Animation, a children's entertainment outlet.
On New Year's Day 2000, Rich Animation Studios was sold to Indian animation company Crest Animation Studios and Nest Entertainment was renamed to NestFamily around the same time.
Currently, Nest Family Entertainment distributes short animated films for children's education, such as Animated Hero Classics. The intellectual property rights for The Swan Princess art, logo, and title have been transferred to Swan Princess Partners Utah LLC (DBA Swan Princess Partners). Swan Princess Partners is also owned by Jared F. Brown and Seldon O. Young, and is currently active in merchandizing The Swan Princess brand and creating more animated films with Sony Pictures and Streetlight Productions (Richard Rich's production studio).
Productions
Animated Stories from the New Testament (1987–2004)
Animated Hero Classics (1991–2004)
Animated Stories from the Bible (1992–1995)
The Swan Princess (1994)
The Swan Princess: Escape from Castle Mountain (1997)
The Swan Princess III: The Mystery of the Enchanted Treasure (1998)
The Swan Princess: Christmas (2012)
The Swan Princess: A Royal Family Tale (2014)
The Swan Princess: Pri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kroyer%20Films | Kroyer Films, Inc. was a pioneering animation studio formed in 1986 by animator Bill Kroyer and his wife Susan Kroyer and is one of the earliest studios to combine computer and hand-drawn animation.
Productions
Kroyer Films produced the Oscar-nominated short film Technological Threat and the 20th Century Fox feature film FernGully: The Last Rainforest. It also produced the animation for the 1994 video game Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure.
Legacy
The Academy Film Archive preserved Technological Threat in 2013.
Filmography
Films
Technological Threat (1988) (Oscar nomination)
Troop Beverly Hills (1989) (title animation with Spümcø)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) (title animation)
The Making of Me (1989) (animation on the sperm with Walt Disney Animation Studios)
Christmas Vacation (1989) (title animation)
Jetsons: The Movie (1990) (vehicle animation)
FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
Tom and Jerry: The Movie (1992) (computer animation)
The Thief and the Cobbler (1993) (additional animation)
Son of the Pink Panther (1993) (title animation)
Asterix Conquers America (1994) (additional animation)
TV Series
Bobby's World (1990) (title animation)
Widget the World Watcher (1990) (character designs)
Computer Warriors (1990) (TV pilot)
Video Game
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure (1994) (original animation)
External links
Kroyer Films at IMDb
Selected Art of the Title articles about Bill Kroyer's title sequences
References
American animation studios
Mass media companies established in 1986
American companies established in 1986
Film and television title designers
1994 disestablishments in the United States
Companies that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zong%20%28mobile%20network%29 | CMPak Limited (), doing business under brand name Zong, is a Pakistan based mobile data network operator, owned by the company China Mobile.
It is the first overseas setup of China Mobile through acquisition of a license from Millicom to operate a GSM network in Pakistan in 2008.
Zong is a 100% subsidiary of China Mobile.
It is Pakistan's second-largest GSM mobile service provider and third largest mobile service in terms of subscriber base of 46 million, among which 32 million are 4G/LTE subscribers. With over 14,000 4G enabled sites across the county, it has a market share of 24% among cellular operators in the country.
History
Zong commenced operations as Paktel by Cable & Wireless in 1991. It was the first company granted a free license to carry out cellular phone services in Pakistan. It carried out AMPS services until 2004, when the company launched GSM services.
In 2003, Millicom Corporation, who at that time were majority owners of Instaphone, bought Paktel from Cable & Wireless. Millicom installed a new management team headed by John Tumelty, former CEO of Instaphone, and Chief Financial Officer David Ordman.
On 22 January 2007, Millicom International Cellular S.A. stated that it would sell its 88.86 percent stake in Paktel Limited to China Mobile for $284 million, which includes the repayment of intercompany debt. The sale implies an enterprise value for Paktel of $460 million, Millicom said in its press release. Merrill Lynch advised China Mobile on the transaction.
On 4 May 2007, Paktel Limited was renamed to China Mobile Pakistan. On May 16, 2007 China Mobile announced that it had increased its stake in CMPak to 100%.
On 1 April 2008, Paktel was rebranded to Zong.
Network
China Mobile Pakistan has invested more than US$2 billion so far to build up network infrastructure in Pakistan since 2008. It will invest US$1 billion in next two to three year for next generation service roll-out.
Zong has built the third-largest cellular network in the country with over 10,000 base stations. To go green, Zong has installed solar powered cell sites in various locations. It has country's largest solar power telecommunication network.
Its network base stations, microwave links, IT support and transmission towers are maintained and provided by ZTE Pakistan.
Zong currently uses GSM, UMTS/HSPA+ and LTE technologies.
Radio frequency summary
Zong has refarmed 5 MHz of its 2100 MHz 3G spectrum for 4G. They are currently deploying (via carrier aggregation) 15 MHz of Band 3 (1800 MHz), and 10 MHz of Band 1 (2100 MHz) for LTE-A.
Next generation mobile services
On 23 April 2014, Pakistan concluded the auction for the next generation of mobile spectrum. Zong paid $516 million for a 10 MHz spectrum in the 2.1 GHz frequency range for 3G and a 10 MHz spectrum in the 1.8 GHz frequency range for 4G, making it Pakistan's first 3G and 4G operator.
LTE Advanced (4G+)
Zong has 4G+ (LTE-A) coverage in all major cities of Pakistan.
5G Testing
As of Au |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway%20Business%20Africa | Gateway Business Africa (GBA) provides pan-African data hosting services and telecommunications services in 42 sub-Saharan countries and employs 350 people in Africa.
It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the South Africa mobile phone company Vodacom, Gateway Business is the brand name of Vodacom Business Africa, the statutory entity under which it operates. They have offices in Angola, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, France and the UK.
Gateway Business was formerly a division of Gateway Communications, which was acquired by the Vodacom Group in December 2008 for $675m
.
History
In March 2010, as part of Vodafone Global Enterprise, Gateway Business Services won a Five Year Contract to provide Deutsche Post DHL with a managed network.
In August 2010 Gateway Business Africa launched wireless broadband in six states of Nigeria, to be rolled out across the whole of Nigeria.
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In June 2012, Vodacom sold some of the business units of Vodacom Business Africa to PCCW Global, including Gateway Communications.
References
Telecommunications companies of South Africa
Telecommunications in Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pops%20in%20Seoul | Pops in Seoul, airing from 1998 to 2021, has presented Korean pop music for the past eleven years on the network Arirang TV. The show's VJ presented current music, news about K-pop culture, and provided overseas viewers with the latest Korean pop music and information. Former host Daniel of DMTN was caught up in a drug scandal and as a result, stepped down March 13, 2013, being replaced by BtoB's Peniel. On August 18, 2013, Wonder Girls member Lim became the show's newest host. On March 10, 2014, Lim officially stepped down from her duties and was succeeded by five new hosts.
Each day of the week featured different segments, including new music videos, and a closer look at stars on Mondays with Skarf's leader Tasha, the latest K-pop news and a look back at past music on Tuesdays with Nak Hun, up-and-coming stars on Wednesdays with Electroboyz's 1kyne, an interview with top stars on Thursdays with Blady's Coco (in which they pick their own questions), and the top 20 songs of the week on Fridays with Sam Ku. On June 4, 2018, Samuel became host of the show. On July 1, 2019, Felix of Stray Kids took over as the new host. A.C.E's Kim Byeongkwan was the last MC from January 6, 2020 to March 31, 2021.
The final episode of this series was aired on March 31, 2021 to conclude the program. The show is available on Viki, with subtitles in multiple languages.
Programmes
On 13 September 2012 boy band 100%, label mates of T.O.P Media Teen Top, was the first featured group new segment, ‘New Star.com'.
Soy - 2006
Isak - 2009
NS Yoon-G - 2011
Daniel (DMTN)
Peniel (BtoB) - March 2013- August 2013
Woo Hye-lim (Wonder Girls) - August 2013 - March 2014
Nancy (Momoland) - March 2017 - June 2018
Samuel - June 2018 - July 2019
Felix (Stray Kids) - July 2019 - January 2020
Kim Byeongkwan (A.C.E) - January 2020 - 31st March 2021
See also
Music programs of South Korea
SBS Inkigayo
KBS Music Bank
MBC Show! Music Core
Mnet M Countdown
Arirang TV Simply K-Pop (formerly called The M-Wave and Wave K)
JTBC Music On Top
JTBC Music Universe K-909
MBC M Show Champion
SBS M The Show
References
External links
About The Program | Pops in Seoul
South Korean music television shows
K-pop television series
2021 South Korean television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Society%20of%20Film%20Critics%20Awards%202010 | 31st BSFC Awards
December 12, 2010
Best Film:
The Social Network
The 31st Boston Society of Film Critics Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2010, were given on December 12, 2010.
Winners
Best Film:
The Social Network
Runner-up: Toy Story 3
Best Actor:
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
Runner-up: Colin Firth – The King's Speech
Best Actress:
Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Runner-up: Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right
Best Supporting Actor:
Christian Bale – The Fighter
Runner-up: Andrew Garfield – The Social Network
Best Supporting Actress:
Juliette Lewis – Conviction
Runner-up: Melissa Leo – The Fighter
Best Director:
David Fincher – The Social Network
Runner-up: Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
Best Screenplay:
Aaron Sorkin – The Social Network
Runner-up: Nicole Holofcener – Please Give
Best Cinematography:
Roger Deakins – True Grit
Runner-up: Matthew Libatique – Black Swan
Best Documentary:
Marwencol
Runner-up: Inside Job
Best Foreign-Language Film:
Mother (Madeo) • South Korea
Runner-up: I Am Love (Io sono l'amore) • Italy
Best Animated Film:
Toy Story 3
Runner-up: The Illusionist (L'illusionniste)
Best Editing:
Andrew Weisblum – Black Swan
Runner-up: Lee Smith – Inception
Best New Filmmaker:
Jeff Malmberg – Marwencol
Runner-up: David Michôd – Animal Kingdom
Best Ensemble Cast:
The Fighter
Runner-up: The Kids Are All Right
Best Use of Music in a Film:
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – The Social Network
Runner-up: Carter Burwell – True Grit
External links
2010 Winners
References
“The Social Network” Leads Boston Critics Awards IndieWire
‘Social Network’ is tops with Boston Society of Film Critics Boston Globe
2010
2010 film awards
2010 awards in the United States
2010 in Boston
December 2010 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20New%20York%20Film%20Critics%20Circle%20Awards | 76th NYFCC Awards
January 10, 2011
Best Picture:
The Social Network
The 76th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2010, were announced on 12 December 2010 and presented on 10 January 2011.
Winners
Best Film
The Social Network
Best Actor:
Colin Firth – The King's Speech
Best Actress:
Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right
Best Animated Film:
The Illusionist (L'illusionniste)
Best Cinematography:
Matthew Libatique – Black Swan
Best Director:
David Fincher – The Social Network
Best First Film:
David Michôd – Animal Kingdom
Best Foreign Language Film:
Carlos • France
Best Non-Fiction Film:
Inside Job
Best Screenplay:
Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg – The Kids Are All Right
Best Supporting Actor:
Mark Ruffalo – The Kids Are All Right
Best Supporting Actress:
Melissa Leo – The Fighter
Special Award:
Jeff Hill
References
External links
2010 Awards
New York Film Critics Circle Awards
2010 film awards
2010 in American cinema
2010 awards in the United States
2010 in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Fox | Brian Fox may refer to:
Brian Fox (computer programmer) (born 1959), computer programmer, author, and free software advocate
Brian Fox (artist), portrait painter
Brian James Fox, drummer known for his work with White Tiger and as a member of Silent Rage
Brian Fox (Gaelic footballer) (born 1988), Irish Gaelic football player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20Film%20Critics%20Association%20Awards%202010 | 23rd CFCA Awards
December 20, 2010
Best Film:
The Social Network
The 23rd Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 2010, were announced on December 20, 2010.
Winners and nominees
Best Actor
Colin Firth – The King's Speech
Jeff Bridges – True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
James Franco – 127 Hours
Ryan Gosling – Blue Valentine
Best Actress
Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone
Lesley Manville – Another Year
Michelle Williams – Blue Valentine
Best Animated Film
Toy Story 3
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Tangled
Best Cinematography
Inception – Wally Pfister Black Swan – Matthew Libatique
Shutter Island – Robert Richardson
The Social Network – Jeff Cronenweth
True Grit – Roger Deakins
Best DirectorDavid Fincher – The Social Network
Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
Debra Granik – Winter's Bone
Tom Hooper – The King's Speech
Christopher Nolan – Inception
Best Documentary Film
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Inside Job
Restrepo
The Tillman Story
Waiting for "Superman"
Best Film
The Social Network
Black Swan
Inception
The King's Speech
Winter's Bone
Best Foreign Language Film
A Prophet, France Biutiful, Mexico
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Sweden
I Am Love, Italy
Mother, South Korea
Best Original ScoreBlack Swan – Clint Mansell I Am Love – John Adams
Inception – Hans Zimmer
The Social Network – Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
True Grit – Carter Burwell
Best Screenplay – AdaptedThe Social Network – Aaron Sorkin Rabbit Hole – David Lindsay-Abaire
Toy Story 3 – Michael Arndt
True Grit – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Winter's Bone – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini
Best Screenplay – OriginalInception – Christopher Nolan Black Swan – Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz and John McLaughlin
Four Lions – Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong, and Sam Bain
The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
The King's Speech – David Seidler
Best Supporting ActorChristian Bale – The Fighter
Andrew Garfield – The Social Network
John Hawkes – Winter's Bone
Mark Ruffalo – The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush – The King's Speech
Best Supporting Actress
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit
Amy Adams – The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter – The King's Speech
Melissa Leo – The Fighter
Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom
Most Promising Filmmaker
Derek Cianfrance – Blue Valentine
Banksy – Exit Through the Gift Shop
David Michôd – Animal Kingdom
Aaron Schneider – Get Low
John Wells – The Company Men
Most Promising Performer
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone
Armie Hammer – The Social Network
Katie Jarvis – Fish Tank
Tahar Rahim – A Prophet
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit
References
External links
chicagofilmcritics.org
2010
2010 film awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tru%20Vu%20Entertainment | Tru Vu Entertainment was an entertainment company that streamed live programs via their website. All of the programming on the site was audience interactive. Each show was hosted by a person called a Cyber Jockey (CJ). Viewers would watch the CJs and communicate instantaneously with them via typed comments flashed on a monitor in a studio.
History
IM2K
Tru Vu Entertainment initially began business in Nashville, Tennessee during October 1998 as IM2K (Internet Music 2000). The IM2K website was used as a beta test, and ran live for three weeks tallying more than 300,000 visits amongst viewers before the website was taken down and the studio was deconstructed.
RAVE2000
The company relocated to Hudson, Florida and returned in October 2000 as RAVE2000 (Radio Audio Visual Entertainment). Starting with more than 200 CJs RAVE2000 debuted, as a live music channel that played all genres. After one year, around the same time as the end of the Dot-com bubble, the website was once again put to an end.
Tru Vu Entertainment
In July 2010 the company relocated to McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Having been named Tru Vu Entertainment, the company opened its doors at the former Immel's department store.
References
External links
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tru Vu Entertainment
Mass media companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAL%20Technologies | TAL Technologies, Inc. is a privately owned software development company which develops and sells applications that automate data collection. Their main product lines include WinWedge, TCP-Com, TAL Barcode ActiveX Control and B-Coder Professional Barcode software.
Corporate history
1985: TAL Technologies, Inc. was founded by President, Thomas Lutz
1989: Released Software Wedge for DOS, a RS-232 data collection software
1990: Released WinWedge, a Windows-based RS-232 data collection software
1990: Released B-Coder, a Barcode image generating software
2001: Introduced CE-Wedge, an RS-232 data collection software for Pocket PCs
2002: Introduced TCP-Com, an RS-232 to TCP/IP converter software
Key Products
TAL Technologies, Inc. major product lines include:
• WinWedge - RS-232 data collection products for quality control and laboratory instruments including balances, scales, pH meters, spectrophotometers, force gauges, digital electronic measuring instruments, etc.
• TCP/Com - Multifunction serial to ethernet (and ethernet to serial) interface software. Easily access a serial device via a TCP/IP or UDP network or redirect Ethernet/IP data to real or “Virtual” RS-232 serial ports.
• B-Coder - Software for generating customized barcode images of various symbologies such as Code 39, UPC, PDF417, Data Matrix, etc.
• Barcode ActiveX Control - ActiveX Control used for generating barcode images
References
Software companies based in Pennsylvania
Companies based in Philadelphia
Privately held companies based in Pennsylvania
American companies established in 1985
1985 establishments in Pennsylvania
Software companies of the United States
Software companies established in 1985 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu%20Cixin | Liu Cixin (, pronounced ; born 23 June 1963) is a Chinese computer engineer and science fiction writer. He is a nine-time winner of China's Galaxy Award and has also received the 2015 Hugo Award for his novel The Three-Body Problem as well as the 2017 Locus Award for Death's End. He is also a winner of the Chinese Nebula Award. In English translations of his works, his name is given as Cixin Liu. He is a member of China Science Writers Association and the vice president of Shanxi Writers Association. He is sometimes called "Da Liu" ("Big Liu") by his fellow science fiction writers in China.
Life and career
Liu was born on 23 June 1963 in Beijing and raised in Yangquan, Shanxi, where his parents had been sent to work in the mines. Due to the violence of the Cultural Revolution he was sent to live in his ancestral home in Luoshan County, Henan. Liu graduated from the North China University of Water Conservancy and Electric Power in 1988. He then worked as a computer engineer at a power plant in Shanxi province.
Writing
Liu cites English authors George Orwell and Arthur C. Clarke as important literary influences. He was labeled the first cyberpunk Chinese author after his novel, China 2185, was published in 1989. Liu's most famous work, The Three-Body Problem, was published in 2007 (it is the first novel in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy). American author Ken Liu's 2014 translation (published by Tor Books) won the 2015 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Liu Cixin thus became the first author from Asia to win Best Novel. The German translation (which included some portions of the original text not included in the English translation) followed in 2016. Ken Liu also translated the third volume of The Three-Body Problem series, Death's End, in 2016. Death's End was a 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel finalist and won a 2017 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.
Liu's three novels had been a sensation of Chinese science fiction literature within Chinese territory and internationally. In 2012, even the winner of the Nobel Prize of Literature, Mo Yan, acclaimed the remarkable originality of Liu Cixin. Liu's fiction focuses primarily on problems such as social inequality, scientific development and ecological limitations that impact humanity.
Adaptations
A cinematic adaptation of The Three-Body Problem has been filmed, but its release has been indefinitely postponed. In March 2018, Amazon was rumored to be negotiating for the rights to the project. However, YooZoo Pictures released a statement in response stating that it was the "sole owner of the rights for film and TV series adaptations." Although it "was originally scheduled to be released in 2017," the project "was postponed indefinitely due to the company's internal shuffling and the rumored 'bad quality' of the film's first cut." In June 2019, it was reported that work had begun on an animated adaptation, and in 2020, October Media announced another adaptation in the works.
The cinematic ad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pairwise%20sorting%20network | The pairwise sorting network is a sorting network discovered and published by Ian Parberry in 1992 in Parallel Processing Letters. The pairwise sorting network has the same size (number of comparators) and depth as the odd–even mergesort network. At the time of publication, the network was one of several known networks with a depth of . It requires comparators and has depth .
The sorting procedure implemented by the network is as follows (guided by the zero-one principle):
Sort consecutive pairwise bits of the input (corresponds to the first layer of the diagram)
Sort all pairs into lexicographic order by recursively sorting all odd bits and even bits separately (corresponds to the next 14 layers of the diagram)
Sort the pairs in nondecreasing order using a specialized network (corresponds to the final layers of the diagram)
Relation to Batcher odd-even mergesort
The pairwise sorting network is very similar to the Batcher odd-even mergesort, but differs in the structure of operations. While Batcher repeatedly divides, sorts and merges increasingly longer subsequences, the pairwise method does all the subdivision first, then does all the merging at the end in the reverse sequence. In certain applications like encoding cardinality constraints, the pairwise sorting network is superior to the Batcher network.
References
External links
Sorting Networks – Archive of web page by the author.
Sorting algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Greengard | Leslie Frederick Greengard (born 1957) is an American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist. He is co-inventor with Vladimir Rokhlin Jr. of the fast multipole method (FMM) in 1987, recognized as one of the top-ten algorithms of the 20th century.
Greengard was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for work on the development of algorithms and software for fast multipole methods.
Short biography
Leslie Frederick Greengard was born in 1957 in London, England, but grew up in the United States in New York City, Boston, and New Haven. He holds a B.A. in mathematics from Wesleyan University (1979), an M.D. from the Yale School of Medicine (1987), and a Ph.D. in computer science from Yale University (1987).
From 2006 to 2011, Greengard was director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, an independent division of the New York University (NYU) and is currently a professor of mathematics and computer science at Courant. He is also a professor at New York University Tandon School of Engineering and the director of the Simons Center for Data Analysis.
He formerly served as the Director at the Center for Computational Biology at the Flatiron Institute. , he has assumed the directorship of the new Center of Computational Mathematics at the Institute.
He is the son of neuroscientist Paul Greengard and the nephew of Irene Kane, later known as Chris Chase, an actress, writer, and journalist.
Awards and honors
2016, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2014, Von Neumann Lecture, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
2011, Wilbur Cross Medal
2010, Plenary Speaker, SIAM Annual Meeting
2010, "National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship", from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)
2006, elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering
2006, elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences
2005, Plenary Speaker, 2nd National Congress on Applied and Industrial Mathematics (France)
2004, "Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Award in the Sciences" from the New York University
2001, Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research from the American Mathematical Society (together with Vladimir Rokhlin), for their paper describing a new algorithm: the fast multipole method (FMM)
2000, Plenary Speaker, SIAM Conference on Computational Science & Engineering
1999, Plenary Speaker, International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics
1998, Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians
1990, "Fellowship for Science and Engineering" from the Packard Foundation
1990, Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation
1987–1989, "Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowship" from the National Science Foundation
1987, Council of Graduate Schools/University Microfilms International Distinguished Dissertation Award, for his PhD. dissertation "The Rapid Evaluation of Potential Fields in Particle Systems"
1987, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acasis%20viridata | Acasis viridata, the olive-and-black carpet, is a species of moth belonging to the family Geometridae. It was described by Packard in 1873. It is found from Newfoundland to British Columbia and the adjacent northern part of the United States, south in the east to Florida, and south in the west to Colorado and Oregon.
The wingspan is 18–20 mm. Adults are on wing from April to July in North America. There is one generation per year.
The larvae feed on the flower heads of Viburnum cassinoides.
References
External links
Trichopterygini
Moths of North America
Moths described in 1873 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufficient%20dimension%20reduction | In statistics, sufficient dimension reduction (SDR) is a paradigm for analyzing data that combines the ideas of dimension reduction with the concept of sufficiency.
Dimension reduction has long been a primary goal of regression analysis. Given a response variable y and a p-dimensional predictor vector , regression analysis aims to study the distribution of , the conditional distribution of given . A dimension reduction is a function that maps to a subset of , k < p, thereby reducing the dimension of . For example, may be one or more linear combinations of .
A dimension reduction is said to be sufficient if the distribution of is the same as that of . In other words, no information about the regression is lost in reducing the dimension of if the reduction is sufficient.
Graphical motivation
In a regression setting, it is often useful to summarize the distribution of graphically. For instance, one may consider a scatter plot of versus one or more of the predictors. A scatter plot that contains all available regression information is called a sufficient summary plot.
When is high-dimensional, particularly when , it becomes increasingly challenging to construct and visually interpret sufficiency summary plots without reducing the data. Even three-dimensional scatter plots must be viewed via a computer program, and the third dimension can only be visualized by rotating the coordinate axes. However, if there exists a sufficient dimension reduction with small enough dimension, a sufficient summary plot of versus may be constructed and visually interpreted with relative ease.
Hence sufficient dimension reduction allows for graphical intuition about the distribution of , which might not have otherwise been available for high-dimensional data.
Most graphical methodology focuses primarily on dimension reduction involving linear combinations of . The rest of this article deals only with such reductions.
Dimension reduction subspace
Suppose is a sufficient dimension reduction, where is a matrix with rank . Then the regression information for can be inferred by studying the distribution of , and the plot of versus is a sufficient summary plot.
Without loss of generality, only the space spanned by the columns of need be considered. Let be a basis for the column space of , and let the space spanned by be denoted by . It follows from the definition of a sufficient dimension reduction that
where denotes the appropriate distribution function. Another way to express this property is
or is conditionally independent of , given . Then the subspace is defined to be a dimension reduction subspace (DRS).
Structural dimensionality
For a regression , the structural dimension, , is the smallest number of distinct linear combinations of necessary to preserve the conditional distribution of . In other words, the smallest dimension reduction that is still sufficient maps to a subset of . The corresponding DRS will be d-dimensional. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20OMIM%20disorder%20codes | This is a list of disorder codes in the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database. These are diseases that can be inherited via a Mendelian genetic mechanism. OMIM is one of the databases housed in the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Isolated 17,20-lyase deficiency; ; CYP17A1
17-alpha-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase deficiency; ; CYP17A1
17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase X deficiency; ; HSD17B10
2-methylbutyrylglycinuria; ; ACADSB
3-hydroxyacyl-coa dehydrogenase deficiency; ; HADHSC
3-hydroxyisobutryl-CoA hydrolase deficiency; ; HIBCH
3-M syndrome; ; CUL7
3-Methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase 1 deficiency; ; MCCC1
3-Methylcrotonyl-CoA carboxylase 2 deficiency; ; MCCC2
3-Methylglutaconic aciduria type I; ; AUH
3-Methylglutaconic aciduria type III; ; OPA3
3-Methylglutaconic aciduria type V; ; DNAJC19
46XX true hermaphroditism; ; SRY
46XY complete gonadal dysgenesis; ; DHH
46XY complete gonadal dysgenesis; ; SRY
46XY gonadal dysgenesis, complete or partial, with or without adrenal failure; ; NR5A1
46XY gonadal dysgenesis, complete, CBS2-related; ; CBX2
46XY partial gonadal dysgenesis, with minifascicular neuropathy; ; DHH
5-fluorouracil toxicity; ; DPYD
6-mercaptopurine sensitivity; ; TPMT
Aarskog–Scott syndrome; ; FGD1
ABCD syndrome; ; EDNRB
Abetalipoproteinemia; ; MTP
ACAD9 deficiency; ; ACAD9
Acampomelic campomelic dysplasia; ; SOX9
Achalasia-Addisonianism-Alacrimia syndrome; ; AAAS
Acheiropody; ; LMBR1
Achondrogenesis Ib; ; SLC26A2
Achondrogenesis type 1A; ; TRIP11
Achondrogenesis-hypochondrogenesis type 2; ; COL2A1
Achondroplasia; ; FGFR3
Achromatopsia-2; ; CNGA3
Achromatopsia-3; ; CNGB3
Acrocallosal syndrome; ; GLI3
Acrocapitofemoral dysplasia; ; IHH
Acrodermatitis enteropathica; ; SLC39A4
Acrokeratosis verruciformis; ; ATP2A2
Acromesomelic dysplasia, Hunter-Thompson type; ; GDF5
Acromesomelic dysplasia, Maroteaux type; ; NPR2
Action myoclonus-renal failure syndrome; ; SCARB2
Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, long chain, deficiency of; ; ACADL
Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, medium chain, deficiency of; ; ACADM
Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, short chain, deficiency of; ; ACADS
Adenocarcinoma of lung, response to tyrosine kinase inhibitor in; ; EGFR
Adenocarcinoma of lung, somatic; ; BRAF
Adenocarcinoma of lung, somatic; ; ERBB2
Adenocarcinoma of lung, somatic; ; PRKN
Adenocarcinoma, ovarian, somatic; ; PRKN
Adenomas, multiple colorectal; ; MUTYH
Adenomas, salivary gland pleomorphic; ; PLAG1
Adenomatous polyposis coli; ; APC
Adenosine deaminase deficiency, partial; ; ADA
Adenosine triphosphate, elevated, of erythrocytes; ; PKLR
Adenylosuccinase deficiency; ; ADSL
Adiponectin deficiency; ; ADIPOQ
Adrenal cortical carcinoma; ; TP53
Adrenal hyperplasia, congenital, due to 11-beta-hydroxylase deficiency; ; CYP11B1
Adrenal hyperplasia, congenital, due to combined P450C17 and P450C21 deficiency; ; POR
Adrenal hypoplasia, congenital, with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism; ; DAX1
Adrenocorticotropic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf%20on%20USA | Golf on USA is the umbrella title for USA Network's coverage of the PGA Tour and other golf events. in the United States. USA Network's own coverage of the PGA Tour ended after the 2006 season. USA also covered the early rounds of The Masters Tournament from 1982 until 2007. The network also carried the Ryder Cup Matches regularly from 1989 until 2006, as well as overflow coverage in 2010.
Beginning in 2022, USA returned to golf coverage, airing NBC's early round coverage of The Open Championship, U.S. Open, and their women's counterparts, replacing Golf Channel. In 2023, the Ryder Cup, one of the original golf events on USA, would also be added to the schedule.
Coverage overview
USA was also, separately, the cable home of the Masters Tournament from 1982 to 2007. USA's sister network, Universal HD, broadcast The Masters in high-definition (one of the first golf tournaments to ever hold that distinction).
The Masters Tournament
The USA Network began first and second round Masters coverage in 1982, which was also produced by the CBS production team. This was the first ever cable coverage for one of the golf majors. Initially, the USA Network provided Thursday and Friday coverage for 2 hours live each day along with a prime time replay. In 1995, USA expanded the Thursday/Friday coverage to 2.5 hours each day. In 2003 and 2004, both CBS and USA televised the Masters commercial-free. In 2005, USA increased the Thursday/Friday coverage to 3 hours.
Other events covered by USA
The Shark Shootout, which began in 1989 as the RMCC Invitational, was originally broadcast in the United States by the USA Network and CBS, with USA broadcasting the first round on a tape-delayed basis, and CBS handling the second round live. Not all the country saw the final round live, as CBS' commitment to the NFL only allowed part of the country to see the round as it takes place, with the rest of the U.S. seeing the event beginning at 4 p.m. Eastern Time. In 2007, the event was moved to December, and was broadcast live by both Golf Channel and NBC.
Bob Hope Chrysler Classic - From 1003 to 2006, USA Network covered the early action. Prior to 2917, USA and ESPN/ABC consistently covered all four courses used for the event, with the primary camera crew covering PGA West, but live coverage still emanating from the other courses. However, when Golf Channel took over coverage, the network only assigned live coverage to the West (both the Palmer and Nicklaus courses). All other courses used did not receive live coverage at all, with an hourly highlights package sent in and played, but none of it live. This has been the approach consistently taken by Golf Channel in regards to tournaments with multiple courses, including the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and the Walt Disney World Golf Classic. However, since NBC has taken over the production of PGA Tour events on Golf Channel, coverage of all courses on multi-course events has returned.
Buick Invitational
FBR Open
AT&T Peb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUNAB | SUNAB, Svenska UMTS-nät AB, is a company jointly owned by Tele2 Sverige AB and Telia Company AB for the purpose of building, owning and operating a 3G network for the parent companies. SUNAB was formed in 2001.
The joint network operated by SUNAB is the largest 3G network in Sweden, both by coverage and customer base.
SUNAB is operated as a multi-operator core network (MOCN) and was one of the first in the world.
See also
Telecom infrastructure sharing
References
Telecommunications companies of Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Distance%20and%20E-learning%20Network | The European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN), originally named the European Distance Education Network, was established in 1991. EDEN is an international educational association open to institutions and individuals dealing with e-learning, open education, and distance education. EDEN is a not-for-profit organisation, registered as a limited company under English law.
EDEN organises annual European conferences, releases academic
publications, offers information services and plays a useful role in a wide range of European projects. Bi-annual research
workshops and the open classroom conferences increase the impact. Since 1995 EDEN has run the European Journal of Open,
Distance and E-Learning (EURODL).
Since 1997 the secretariat of the association has been hosted by the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary.
Activities
Social online and face-to-face networking,
Organisation of European annual and bi-annual thematic conferences,
Publications and information services with regular Newsflashes to members, and irregular news to non-members,
Active role in a wide range of important EU projects,
Thematic hubs such as the Open Classroom Working Group (school level distance education),
Promoting ‘cutting edge’ research in the field,
Linking European initiatives and institutions with international peers in other continents.
Network of Academics and Professionals
The EDEN Network of Academics and Professionals (NAP) supports networking of individual members by providing meeting and communication forum. NAP has a functional autonomy and is co-ordinated by its own Steering Committee elected by a ballot of NAP members, its Chair is ex officio member of the EDEN Board.
In 2018 the Council of EDEN Fellows has been established which includes all Fellows and Senior Fellows of EDEN – it has an advisory role in the EDEN Community, a think tank for future visioning, and as ambassador of EDEN. It is governed by the Board of the Council.
Promoting research
The association supports good quality research into open, distance and e-learning by means of its conferences and bi-annual research workshops as well as by providing a high-quality peer-reviewed online journal for publication of research results and best practices from all around the world. Publications related to the conferences and workshops are disseminated via the association's public webpage and its social online network.
European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
EDEN has actively been supporting the online European Journal of Open and Distance Learning. EURODL publishes accounts of research, development and teaching for Europe, presents scholarly work and solid information about open, distance and e-learning. The journal is free to readers and contributes to the Open Content movement with over 4000 subscribers.
Conferences
EDEN's mission includes the exchange of academic and professional experience, to promote effective navigation in the field, and improve q |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadly%20%28franchise%29 | Deadly... is a strand of British wildlife documentary programming aimed principally at children and young people, which is broadcast on CBBC on BBC One and Two and on the CBBC Channel. It is presented by Steve Backshall, with Naomi Wilkinson as co-host on Live 'n Deadly, and Barney Harwood as co-host on Natural Born Hunters. The strand began with a single series known as Deadly 60, and has subsequently expanded into a number of spin-offs, re-edits and follow-up versions.
Deadly 60
Each series shows Backshall and his camera crew travelling the world in an attempt to find another 60 of the "most deadly" animals in the world. In each episode, Backshall tracks several animals in its habitat, and giving details of what makes the animal notable, with particular emphasis on its impact on the wider ecosystem and the manner of its predatory behaviour; thus, why it is "deadly".
Deadly 60 is distributed by BBC Worldwide to many other countries, including in the US on NatGeo Wild from August 2011.
Live 'n Deadly
Live 'n Deadly is a spin-off series to Deadly 60, with 10 live shows and 3 non-live specials. This series is a live magazine program hosted by Steve Backshall and Naomi Wilkinson, which features a range of magazine content, features and games relating to animals and wildlife, and also uses its live broadcast to encourage interactivity with the viewing audience. The program was a touring series, with episodes filmed live on location from areas around the UK.
The first series of Live 'n Deadly aired on BBC Two (simulcast with CBBC Channel) on Saturday mornings at 9:00 am in between September and December 2010. In addition to the live Saturday show, a public roadshow event was also held the following day in the general area that the program had visited that week (though never in exactly the same location). These roadshows were run by BBC Learning and featured a number of hands-on wildlife-related activities for children and families, and footage from the roadshow events was broadcast the following Saturday as part of the following live programme.
Series 2 of Live 'n' Deadly aired between September and December 2011.
Deadly 60 Bites
This is a series of short filler programmes consisting of individual animals' segments of Deadly 60 cut down into a 5- to 10-minute standalone segment; this is often used as a filler between programmes on the CBBC channel.
Deadly Art
In 2011 a spin-off show was broadcast called Deadly Art, which airs as a short filler programme on weekdays.
Series 1
Alligator snapping turtle, piranha, saltwater crocodile, brown bear, wolves, African killer bees, hippos, African fish eagle, king cobra, shark, lynx, mountain gorilla, tuna, rattlesnake, tiger, ghost bat, tarsier, wolverine, red back spider, chameleon, praying mantis, peregrine falcon, donkey, vulture, pangolin, Tasmanian devil The Final Selection
Series 2
Goliath birdeater, snow leopard, tokay gecko, aye aye, squid, scorpion, scutigera centipede, lion, wrinkle-lipped |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotonic%20query | In database theory and systems, a monotonic query is one that does not lose any tuples it previously made output, with the addition of new tuples in the database. Formally, a query q over a schema R is monotonic if and only if for every two instances I, J of R, (q must be a monotonic function).
An example of a monotonic query is a select-project-join query containing only conditions of equality (also known as conjunctive queries). Examples of non-monotonic queries are aggregation queries, or queries with set difference.
Identifying whether a query is monotonic can be crucial for query optimization, especially in view maintenance and data stream management. Since the answer set for a monotonic query can only grow as more tuples are added to the database, query processing may be optimized by executing only the new portions of the database and adding the new results to the existing answer set.
Applications
Unnesting Queries
Monotonic queries are important in the topic of unnesting SQL queries. If a query is monotonic, it implies that a nested query can actually be unnested.
Data streams
A data stream is a real-time, continuous, ordered (implicitly by arrival time or explicitly by timestamp) sequence of items.
The number of items is considered to be infinite and therefore cannot feasibly be stored in its entirety. Queries over data streams are often called continuous or long-running queries, and are mostly run over a limited window of tuples in the stream. To evaluate a continuous query, one can simply reevaluate the query over newly arrived tuples, and append the new tuples to the existing result set. More formally, let A(Q, t) be the answer set of a continuous query Q at time t, τ be the current time, and 0 the start time. Then, if Q is monotonic, its result set at time τ is
In contrast, non-monotonic queries have the following answer semantics:
References
Database theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Scientology%20officials | The Church of Scientology network operates as a multinational conglomerate of companies with personnel, executives, organizational charts, chains of command, policies and orders.
Hierarchy of staff
Personnel are bound by policy as written by L. Ron Hubbard and by orders from any senior. Each staff member is junior to those above them on the organizational chart (called an "org board") and is senior to those under them.
Scientology "members" are those public individuals who are not on staff, who pay the organization for training or auditing services, and who live and work separately from the Church of Scientology. Members defer to all staff personnel, who are seen as their seniors. All members and staff defer to Sea Org staff. Even though public members are not part of the organization proper, they are ranked within the entire chain of command and are frequently pressed into service for clerical or promotional tasks or recruiting new members. Members who recruit people for Scientology services are called "field staff members" (FSM) and are paid a commission of 10%–15% of the amount the new person pays.
Staff contracts
Staff sign employment contracts, though in recent years these contracts label them as volunteers or "religious workers" to circumvent labor laws because staff are almost universally paid less than locally mandated minimum wage. However, all organizational policies written by L. Ron Hubbard refer to such workers as "staff".
These contracts have lengthy durations. At a Class V organization, a contract may be as short as 2.5 years; extending to 5 years or more if they are sent to Flag Service Org for extensive training. Sea Org members sign billion-year contracts; effectively a perpetual contract with no expiration date. Sea Org personnel live in communal housing; Class V staff make their own living arrangements and sometimes even have second jobs.
Pay
Staff hold posts where they are either given a small fixed allowance (Sea Org) or are paid based on a share-percentage of the organization's weekly gross receipts. Occasionally, those who work in sales or fundraising posts may have a chance for bonuses. Sea Org members who work for one of the for-profit corporations in the network are paid a minimum wage, reduced by deductions for housing and other expenses, bringing their pay back in line with other Sea Org allowances.
Production
Staff are required to keep "stats" (statistics)—a count of their production. They perform weekly evaluations of their own stats and are required to chart the stats on a graph, declare their "ethics condition" for last week's production, and write up their "ethics formula", laying out their plans for the next week. Personnel whose production stats were lower than the prior week, or whose graph shows a general downtrending pattern, are dealt with by the "ethics officer", often with harsh penalties. For example, certain conditions below "Normal" may preclude getting paid at all.
Staff may be punished |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberArts%20International | CyberArts International was a series of conferences dealing with emerging technologies that took place during years 1990, 1991, and 1992 in Los Angeles and Pasadena, California. The gatherings brought together artists and developers in all types of new media, including software engineers, electronic musicians, and graphic artists to explore what was a new field at the time, digital media collaborations.
A fourth, reunion, exposition was held in San Francisco in September 2001 but saw its attendance undercut by the transportation difficulties which followed the September 11 terrorist attacks.
The conferences dealt with the interrelationship between computer technology, visual design, music and sound, education, and entertainment.
History
Background
CyberArts International was a series of three annual conferences and exhibitions held in Southern California from 1990 to 1992, focusing upon emerging technologies and techniques for artists working to build interactivity or in the multimedia field. The expositions were originally developed by Dominic Milano, editor of Keyboard Magazine, who served as conference chair, in collaboration with Robert B. Gelman, event producer and Director of Business Development for Miller Freeman Expositions and co-produced by Linda Jacobson, who later edited the anthology CyberArts: Exploring Art and Technology, published by Miller Freeman, Inc. in 1992.
Other paid staff members and volunteers also assisted in event preparation, including arts organizations YLEM and EZTV, as well as author and publisher Michael Gosney of Verbum Magazine, who later co-produced a series of Digital Be-Ins with Robert Gelman from 1993 to 1998.
The notion of cyberarts
The term cyberarts is a portmanteau combining the root word of cybernetics, dealing with the study of control systems in machines and human nervous systems, and the word for the broad creative fields dealing with the creation of objects of form, beauty, and expression. Inspiration for the CyberArts International conferences revolved around the artistic implications of the rapidly changing technologies related to computers, input devices, digital storage, networking, and reproduction — parallel technologies that were revolutionizing the traditional visual and sonic arts and making possible new forms of artistic expression.
As one enthusiast noted, these new and changing computer tools served to "enhance the creative process by making it easy to experiment with color schemes, sound layers, scene transitions, 3D models, photo retouching, and animated characters."
Convention structure
The motivating concept behind the CyberArts International conventions was a desire to bring together artists working in the various new media and the firms producing tools for such work, blending artistic exhibition with trade show. During the day the gatherings featured interactive exhibitions and aisles of traditional exhibit booths found at any ordinary trade show. There were in additi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian%20Railways%20narrow-gauge%20freight%20vehicles | Unlike the broad-gauge, the Victorian Railways' narrow-gauge network never had four-wheeled trucks (aside from a handful of trollies). Instead, a single design of 249 underframes was constructed, with identical structure, bogies, couplers and brake equipment. Different bodies were provided on these frames for each purpose. The most common, by far, was the convertible flat/open truck, followed by cattle, louvred, insulated and boxcar types.
From 1926, all of the goods stock which had double-letter classification, were simplified to single-letter classification (e.g. NMM became NM). In more recent years, the E.T.R.B. has started a process of reclassifying all previously double-letter classified goods stock back to its original identities. This is in recognition of the adopted Era of Significance for the Railway, which covers period 1900–1930, during which time they mostly had the double letter coding.
The same frame design was later used for the second generation of NBH passenger carriages, after the first had been converted from NQR flat/open trucks.
Convertible Flat/Open trucks—NQR
The NQR class of trucks were the staple of the Victorian Railways' narrow gauge fleet. 218 examples were constructed between 1898 and 1914, designed as an open wagon with removable end panels as well as three drop-down but removable doors either side. When assembled into the open wagon format these wagons were designed to have the same capacity (weight and volume) as a normal broad gauge four-wheel open truck, to make load transferring easier at the interchange stations—Colac, Wangaratta, Upper Ferntree Gully and Moe.
The goods truck code had been derived from the conceptually similar broad-gauge QR trucks, which had removable sides to permit various types of loading. Previously, "Q" had been used for bogie flat wagons and "R" for bogie open trucks.
Letters and numbers were originally painted only on the end bulkheads and doors and the side doors, both of which could be removed as traffic dictated, and this made vehicle identification difficult until these details were transferred to the underframes of each truck. The superscript "N" changed to regular script in the goods vehicle recoding following the auto coupler conversion in 1926.
Some of these trucks were fitted with seats and frameworks supporting shelter to cater for holiday traffic on the Gembrook line. In particular, NQR trucks 114 and 140 were identified as having screw-type hand brakes fitted in addition to normal air brakes, permitting their use in lieu of brake vans—but only in the Up direction, and only for holiday traffic.
NBH
In April 1919 NQR wagons 31, 33, 36, 38, 39 and 46 were rebuilt into the first of the NBH passenger carriages, numbered 1 through 6 respectively and used for second-class passenger holiday traffic by adding seats, a removable roof on poles and tarps for wagon sides and doors. Over the years, a number of NQRs were provided with removable wood and steel frameworks with canvas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SESAM%20%28database%29 | SESAM / SQL Server is a relational database system originally developed by Siemens, whose role as developer was successively succeeded by Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme (SNI), Fujitsu Siemens Computers, and now Fujitsu Technology Solutions. It runs on the BS2000/OSD mainframe.
Clients running on BS2000/OSD, UNIX systems, Solaris, Linux and Microsoft Windows are supported.
Features
Support for SQL3
Data can be stored in EBCDIC and Unicode
Cost-based optimizer
Maintenance is possible during operation
Table partitioning
Multi-platform support
Apache web-server integration
References
SESAM/SQL Product Page
SESAM/SQL Presentation
Relational database management systems
Fujitsu software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20in%20Aviation%20International | Women in Aviation International (WAI) is an international nonprofit organization, which provides networking, education, mentoring, and scholarship opportunities for women and men in careers in the aviation and aerospace industries. It aims to promote public understanding of notable women in the aviation industry.
About
WAI has resources for members who include astronauts, pilots, flight attendants, maintenance technicians, air traffic controllers, educators, students, air show performers, airport managers, business owners, and many others. The group emphasizes helping members find employment and build their careers. Membership in WAI is composed of aviation professionals, enthusiasts, students and corporate members. Local chapters work to help break cultural stereotypes about gender and aviation careers. The organization is based in Germantown, Ohio.
WAI publishes a magazine called Aviation for Women which has six issues per year. WAI also sponsors scholarships for members of WAI.
History
Dean of academic support at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Peggy Baty Chabrian, had experienced problems recruiting and retaining female aviation students. In order to attract more women, she suggested creating a seminar and invited Moya Lear, Jeana Yeager, Shannon Lucid and Bobbi Trout to speak at the first annual conference in 1990. Women responded well to the conference, and an informal organization was created.
WAI was incorporated in 1994. As the founder of the WAI Conference, Chabrian was named the first full-time president and CEO of the organization in 1996 by the board of directors. By 1998, the group had 3,000 members, and as of September 2023, membership numbered over 16,000 worldwide.
WAI sponsored the first Arab Women in Aviation show at the Dubai International Convention Center in May of 2016.
Annual conference
Each year the organization hosts an annual conference, which has grown from 150 participants in 1990 to approximately 5,000 in 2023. In 1996, there were 1,400 women attending the conference. In 2013, there were more than 3,000 attendees. Men are also able to join Women in Aviation International and are approximately 20% of the membership.
The conference includes educational workshops, networking opportunities with various aspects of the aviation industry, a scholarship awards banquet, and the annual WAI Pioneer Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Almost $1,000,000 will be awarded in the 2024 scholarship program. A portion of the scholarships are awarded to men.
In 1996, Robin Lamar and Marcia Buckingham sponsored an organizational meeting for aviation and mechanics at the WAI annual conference, leading to the formation of a new group, called the Association for Women in Aviation Maintenance.
The organization will host the 35th Annual Women in Aviation Conference in Orlando, FL, March 21-23, 2024.
Girls in Aviation Day
In 2015, WAI launched Girls in Aviation Day observed on last Saturday of the month of September. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinghai%20Television | Qinghai Television (QHTV), ) is a television network under Hunan Broadcasting System (HBS) in the Xining city and Qinghai province area. It was founded on January 1, 1971. QHTV currently broadcasts in Chinese, Mongolian, Tibetan and Salar.
Programming
Kunlun Fight (2014)
External links
Official Site
Television networks in China
Mass media in Xining
Television channels and stations established in 1971
1971 establishments in China
Hunan Broadcasting System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%20Wen-tsuen | Chen Wen-tsuen (; born 27 May 1948) is an ethnic Taiwanese computer scientist, a distinguished research fellow at the Academia Sinica and a lifelong national chair of the Ministry of Education, Taiwan. From 2006 to 2010, he was the president of the National Tsing Hua University, a premier research university in Taiwan.
Early life
Chen received his B.Sc. degree (1970) in nuclear engineering at the National Tsing Hua University, and his M.Sc. degree (1973) and Ph.D. degree (1976) in electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been with the National Tsing Hua University since 1976 when there were no computer, communication, and IC industries in Taiwan. He has since witnessed and contributed to its development from an agrarian economy to a world center for ICT technologies and products.
Career
Chen started his academic career as a faculty member of the computer science program of the Institute of Applied Mathematics of National Tsing Hua University. He helped found the Department of Computer Science of the university in 1977. He has also helped develop the software engineering program of the Institute for Information Industry, a non-governmental organization for promoting information industry in Taiwan, since its founding in 1979. In early 1980s, Chen established his computer network laboratory and was one of the pioneering computer network researchers in Taiwan.
Chen served as the chairman of the Department of Computer Science of National Tsing Hua University from 1983 until 1988. From 1988 for four years, he was a science and technology advisor to the Ministry of Education and helped establish the Taiwan Academic Network (TANet), the first Internet in Taiwan. From 1992 to 1996, he was on leave from National Tsing Hua University to serve as the director of the Advisory Office of Ministry of Education to advise on education policy and improve higher education in Taiwan. Chen founded the Computer and Communication Research Center of the university in 1994 and served as its founding director for 10 years. He also founded the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1998 and served as its founding dean for 6 years. From 2003 to 2006, he was the vice chancellor (research) of the University System of Taiwan, a university alliance of four top research universities in northern Taiwan.
In February 2006, Chen was appointed as president of the National Tsing Hua University. During his 4-year term of presidency, the university was noted for initiating the "Project Thousand Points of Light" (繁星計畫) university entrance program, which was enthusiastically endorsed and adopted by the Ministry of Education, and launching the Tsing Hua College (清華學院]), a residential college for undergraduate education, the first of its kind in Taiwan. Since August 2006, he had been a distinguished chair professor of the university.
In 2007 Chen attended an Association of East Asian Research Universities Board of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK%20Uncut | UK Uncut was a network of United Kingdom-based protest groups established in October 2010 to protest against cuts to public services and tax avoidance in the UK. Various sources have described the group as left-wing in its political orientation.
History
The idea of UK Uncut originated in October 2010 with a group of ten activists in a north London pub who claimed that clamping down on tax avoidance would be a credible alternative to public sector spending cuts. Private Eye had recently published an article alleging that Vodafone had reached a highly favourable settlement of a long-standing tax dispute with HM Revenue and Customs so they organised a protest against a store on Oxford Street. Protesters met at Piccadilly and successfully closed the store.
Tactics and targets
The group uses direct action to disrupt the business of high street stores and banks that they believe have a connection with tax avoidance. Actions are organised independently by local UK Uncut groups and promoted through the UK Uncut website.
Vodafone was targeted after Private Eye alleged that a deal they made with HM Revenue and Customs substantially reduced the amount of back taxes that they had to pay. Private Eye alleged that Vodafone were originally found liable for £6 billion, but negotiated the amount to be paid down to under £2 billion. However, the National Audit Office said that the settlement represented reasonable value for the British taxpayer.
The Arcadia Group's shops including Topshop, BHS, and Burton have been targeted as the group is owned by Tina Green, the wife of Sir Phillip Green. Tina Green is a resident of Monaco and was able to receive a dividend of £1.2bn from the group free of UK income tax in 2005.
Boots was targeted on 30 January 2011 as the protesters claimed it avoided UK tax by being registered in Switzerland. Three people needed hospital treatment after police used CS spray when attempting to arrest a protester.
Fortnum & Mason was targeted during 26 March 2011 anti-cuts protests. UK Uncut claimed that the parent company, Wittington Investments was "guilty of tax avoidance". This took the form of a mass sit-in. The police arrested and charged 138 protesters with aggravated trespass. Of these, ten were convicted and were given a conditional discharge and fined £1,000. Their convictions were upheld at the Court of Appeal.
In November 2011, the legal arm of UK Uncut took HM Revenue & Customs to court. HMRC had been accused of failing to provide substantial reasons for not collecting billions of pounds in tax revenue.
HMRC are unable to comment on specific taxpayers' tax affairs. Instead, the National Audit Office (NAO) were asked to review the settlements in question, one being Vodafone, as mentioned above. The NAO found that "the settlements reached by HMRC in these five cases were all reasonable".
Banks
Through meetings on Twitter at the end of January it was decided that the next UK Uncut targets would be banks that were alleged to ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Is%20functions | The Is functions (also known as data information functions, data inspection functions, or data-testing functions) are a set of functions in Microsoft's Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic for Applications, VBScript, and Visual Basic .NET. Several of them are also provided in Transact-SQL by the .NET Framework Data Provider for Microsoft SQL Server.
What the functions do
The functions are simple data validation and data type checking functions. The data validation functions determine whether it is possible to convert or coerce the data value given as an argument to the function to the type implied by the function name, and return a Boolean value recording whether it was possible or not. (Note that the actual data conversion functions, such as Oct() throw exceptions if conversion is not possible. The validation functions allow one to test whether a conversion would fail, and change the program's flow of control in an if statement.) True indicates that conversion would be possible, False indicates that it would not be. Similarly the type checking functions return a Boolean recording whether the argument expression is of a particular type.
In Transact-SQL, the functions return zero or one rather than Boolean values True and False.
IsArray(name)
This function determines whether the variable name passed as its argument is an array. Uninitialized arrays will, note, return False from this function in Visual Basic .NET. In Visual Basic 6, arrays are not reference types, and an uninitialized array will return True from this function just like an initialized array.
IsDate(expression)
This function determines whether the expression passed as its argument can be converted to a variable of type Date, or is already of type Date. Uninitialized variables that are of type Date can of course be converted, despite being uninitialized, so this will always return True for such variables. Note that strings that contain a day of the week in addition to a date (e.g. "Sat, October 12, 2010") will return a failure result. In VBScript and Visual Basic .NET, the conversion process employs the locale settings of Microsoft Windows, meaning that what may parse as a date on one system, configured to use one locale, may fail to parse as a date on another system, configured to use a different locale.
IsDBNull(expression)
This function determines whether the expression passed as its argument evaluates to System.DBNull.Value. This is equivalent to Visual Basic 6's IsNull() function. Note that it is not possible to directly compare an expression for equality to System.DBNull, because any expression of the form x = DbNull will evaluate to DbNull simply because it contains a null. IsDBNull() is the only way to test for equality to System.DBNull.
IsEmpty(expression)
This function determines whether the expression passed as its argument is an uninitialized variant. Note that an uninitialized variant is distinct from a variant that has been initialized to hold Null. Although th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDCO | CARDCO was a computer peripheral company during the 1980s in Wichita, Kansas, United States. CARDCO was well known in the Commodore 64 and VIC-20 community because of advertisements in numerous issues of Compute! magazine and availability of their products at large retailers, such as Target.
History
CARDCO was founded by Ed J. Lippert II (President / Management) and Breck Ricketts (Vice President / Engineering). It went out of business in 1986 because of the decline in sales of C64 computers.
In 1986, they formed a new company called C-Ltd that manufactured peripherals for Amiga computers, and it eventually went out of business in 1989 as the Amiga computer sales declined.
Computers Anonymous was a spin-off company ran by Cardco owners wife Betsy Lippert & Cherie Hovaidar-Safid, which repaired devices made and sold by CARDCO.
Hardware products
Printer interfaces
There were severe shortcomings of early Commodore printers, so CARDCO created the Card Print A (C/?A) printer interface that emulated Commodore printers by converting the Commodore serial interface to a Centronics parallel printer interface to allow numerous 3rd-party printers to be connected to a Commodore 64 or VIC-20.
A second model, a version that supported printer graphics was released called the Card Print +G (C/?+G), supported printing Commodore graphic characters using Epson ESC/P escape codes.
CARDCO released additional enhancements, including a model with RS-232 serial output, and shipped over two million total printer interfaces.
Common compatible printers were manufactured by Epson, Panasonic, Okidata, Star Micronics, and C. Itoh.
GWIZ - Computer Interface between a Commodore 64 and a non Commodore printer such as a (Silver Reed Printer, Gorilla Printer, Etc.)
Cassette player interface
Unlike most other systems, Commodore computers could only use specialized cassette players, known as "Commodore Datasettes", to save data. CARDCO made an adaptor to work with normal cassette players.
Numpad
CARDCO made a numpad that plugged into both of the joystick ports on the Commodore 64.
Software products
Cartridge
Write Now (C/01) - word processor for VIC20.
Write Now (C/02) - word processor for C64.
Freeze Frame
S'MORE
Floppy Disk
Mail Now (D/01) - mailing list processor for C64.
Spell Now (D/04) - spell checker for C64.
File Now (D/05) - relational database for C64.
Graph Now / Paint Now (D/06) - graph and chart generator for C64.
Super Printer Utility Programs (D/08)
See also
Commodore 64 peripherals
Commodore bus
IEEE 1284
Parallel port
PETSCII
References
External links
CARDCO Manual Archive
CARDCO Card Print A (C/?A) Printer Interface: User Manual, Addendum
CARDCO Card Print +G (C/?+G) Printer Interface: User Manual, Supplement
VIC-20
Defunct companies based in Kansas
Defunct computer hardware companies
Electronics companies disestablished in 1986
Commodore 64 peripheral manufacturers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ot%C3%A1vio%20Good | Otávio Good is a Brazilian and American computer programmer and inventor. He is the original author of Word Lens, the first augmented reality translation application that replaces printed text into the desired language in video without connection to the Internet.
Because of its potential impact on international travel, Word Lens received significant amount of attention following its release on December 16, 2010, including Wired, The Economist, CNN, The New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and MIT Technology Review. To develop Word Lens, Otávio Good founded Quest Visual Inc., which was acquired by Google, Inc. in 2014, leading to the incorporation of the Word Lens feature into the Google Translate app in 2015.
While at Google, Good became a spokesperson for machine learning efforts, explaining how it is possible to "squeeze" a high-quality convolutional neural network into a smartphone, and why machine learning is the "next underlying technology". Word Lens feature was expanded from 7 to 27 languages of the Google Translate app in 2015, and then to both simplified and traditional Chinese in 2016.
Prior to Word Lens, Good was a video game developer and co-founded Secret Level Inc., which was acquired by Sega Inc. in 2006 and became Sega Studios San Francisco. In 2011, Otávio Good led the team All Your Shreds Are Belong to U.S. that won the DARPA Shredder Challenge 2011. Good was awarded the 2011 World Technology Award in the category IT-Software (Individual) presented at the United Nations headquarters and the Netexplo award in the category Innovation & Technology presented at the UNESCO headquarters. for creation of Word Lens.
Career
Co-founder of Secret Level (1999–2006)
Software architect at Sega Studios San Francisco (2006–2009)
Founder of Quest Visual (2009–2014)
Google Translate engineer (2014–present)
See also
Word Lens
Google Translate
Google
Quest Visual
Sega Studios San Francisco
Machine learning
References
External links
Quest Visual homepage
Word Lens on iTunes
Otávio Good explains Word Lens
Building 43 journalist Robert Scoble interviews Otávio Good about Word Lens
Google Translate vs. "La Bamba" demo of the Word Lens feature
American technology chief executives
American computer programmers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Google employees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon%207000%20series | Radeon 7000 series may refer to:
AMD Radeon RX 7000 series, a computer graphics card series introduced in 2022
AMD ATI Radeon HD 7000 series, a computer graphics card series from 2012
ATI Radeon 7000, a computer graphics card series from 2001 |
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