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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopostega%20acidata | Pseudopostega acidata is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1915. It is known from the Rio Grand Valley of southern Texas and southern Ecuador.
The length of the forewings is 2.7–4.1 mm. Adults have been recorded in June (in Ecuador) and from September to November (in southern Texas).
References
Opostegidae
Moths described in 1915 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner%20Mongolia%20Radio%20and%20Television | Inner Mongolia Radio and Television (NMTV, ; ) is a radio and television network in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The Inner Mongolia Radio Broadcasting Network started in 1950, television in 1960; both were united in 2016. NMTV currently broadcasts in Mandarin and Mongolian.
See also
Mongolian National Broadcaster in Outer Mongolia, Mongolia, Near Inner Mongolia, Northern China, China, Asia
External links
Official Site
Television networks in China
Mass media in Hohhot
Television channels and stations established in 1960
Television in minority languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilk%20Elektronik | Wilk Elektronik is a Polish manufacturer of computer memory under the brand name "GOODRAM" based in Łaziska Górne. After the bankruptcy of Qimonda it remains the only European producer of RAM modules.
History
The company was established in Tychy in 1991 as a RAM distributor. In 1996 it became the leader in the Polish memory distribution market. In 2003 the company moved to Łaziska Górne where it has been manufacturing its own products under the brand name "GOODRAM" ever since. Another brand, "Gooddrive", under which flash drives and SSD had been sold, was replaced in 2011 with the unified "GOODRAM" brand.
Since 2008, WE has been the official distributor of Toshiba flash products for Central and Eastern Europe as well as Middle East and Africa. It also cooperates with Elpida, Micron and Samsung.
In 2009, Wilk Elektronik's revenues reached above 100 mil. USD.
W.E. was ranked 43rd in a 2009 ranking of 200 Polish IT-companies compiled by Computerworld.
Products
RAM modules
Memory cards
USB flash drives
Solid-state drives
References
Electronics companies established in 1991
Computer memory companies
Electronics companies of Poland
Information technology companies of Poland
Polish brands
Polish companies established in 1991 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie%20Belle%20Rittenhouse | Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Scollard (December 8, 1869 – September 28, 1948), daughter of John Edward and Mary (MacArthur) Rittenhouse, was a literary critic, compiler of anthologies, and poet.
Life
After graduating in 1890 from Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in Lima, New York, Rittenhouse taught school in Cairo, Illinois and Grand Haven, Michigan. Her literary career began with book reviews in Buffalo and Rochester, New York, and led to a year as a reporter for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle in 1894. In 1899 she moved to Boston to begin her literary career in earnest. From 1905 to 1915 Rittenhouse lived in New York City, where she was poetry reviewer for the New York Times Review of Books. From 1914 to 1924 she conducted lecture tours. In 1914 Rittenhouse helped to found the Poetry Society of America, of which she was secretary for 10 years.
Rittenhouse married fellow poet Clinton Scollard in 1924.
In the course of her career, Rittenhouse corresponded with numerous contemporary poets, such as John Myers O'Hara, Margaret Widdemer, and Arthur Guiterman. Her poems were set to music by many composers, including Samuel Barber, Noble Cain, Alice Reber Fish, Ethel Glenn Hier, Kirke Mechem, Frederick W. Vanderpool, Wintter Watts, and especially David Wendel Guion.
Late in her career, Rittenhouse moved to Winter Park, Florida, and became associated with Rollins College, where she was a lecturer in poetry.
The Poetry Society of America presented Rittenhouse the first Robert Frost Medal in 1930.
Jessie Belle Rittenhouse died at her home in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan on September 28, 1948.
Works
Anthologies
The Lover's Rubáiyát (1904)
Little Book of Modern Verse (1913)
Little Book of American Poets (1915)
Second Book of Modern Verse (1919)
Little Book of Modern British Verse (1924)
Third Book of Modern Verse (1927)
The Singing Heart (1934) (Selected verses by Clinton Scollard)
Verse
The Door of Dreams (1918)
The Lifted Cup (1921)
The Secret Bird (1930)
Moving Tide: New and Selected Lyrics (1939)
Edited with Clinton Scollard
The Bird-Lovers Anthology (1930)
Patrician Rhymes (1932)
Autobiography
My House of Life (1934)
References
External links
A guide to the Jessie Rittenhouse Collection at Rollins College
Select poems by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
1869 births
1948 deaths
20th-century American poets
Women anthologists
American literary critics
American women literary critics
American women poets
19th-century American women journalists
20th-century American women writers
People from Mount Morris, New York
Writers from New York (state)
19th-century American journalists
19th-century American women writers
Rollins College faculty
20th-century American non-fiction writers
American women academics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PUPS%20P3 | PUPS/P3 is an implementation of an organic computing environment for Linux which provides support for the implementation of low level persistent software agents.
Introduction
PUPS/P3 is a cluster computing environment derived from the MSPS operating environment implemented on the BBC Micro.
The PUPS P3 environment has been used in the infrastructure of a number of scientific computing projects include the Daisy
automated species identification system and a number of computational neuroscience projects.
Features of the P3 process
PUPS/P3 processes are homeostatic agents. These agents are able to save their state and migrate between machines running compatible Linux kernels (via CRIU). The PUPS/P3 API also gives them significant access to the state of their environment: like biological organisms they are animate. That is, they are able to sense changes in their environment and respond appropriately. Fir example, a P3 process may elect to save its state or migrate if some resource, for example processor cycles become scarce. Effectively, this is the machine equivalent of an animal electing hibernate or migrate when its food resources become scarce. PUPS/P3 can also share data resources via a low level persistent object, the shared heap. The semantics of using this are similar to those used by the free()/malloc() API supplied by standard C libraries.
Computations can be jointly executed by a cluster of co-operating P3 processes. This cluster is in many ways analalogous to a multicellular organism: like cells within an organism, individual P3 processes can specialise. For example, in the case of the Daisy pattern recognition system, the cluster consists of (ipm) processes which pre-process pattern-data, (floret) processes which run the PSOM neural nets used to classify those patterns, and (vhtml) processes which communicate the identity of patterns Daisy has discovered to the user. In addition, the Daisy cluster also has specialist (maggot and Kepher) processes to clear and recycle file and memory space and (lyosome) processes which destroy and replace other processes within the cluster which have become corrupted and therefore non-functional.
In conjunction with virtualisation systems, for example the Oracle VirtualBox system, it is possible to use PUPS/P3 to build homeostatic virtual (Linux) machines which can carry computational payloads while living in a dynamic cloud environment. The latest release
of PUPS/P3 also supports container based operating system level virtualization (via Docker (software) and check pointing and subsequent migration and/or restoration via CRIU.
P3 process network
The P3 system facilitates dynamic asynchronous peer to peer communication between processes and also dynamic asynchronous communication between processes and the user. In the example process network shown, several of the communications methods implemented in PUPS/P3 are illustrated. These include:
User to PSRP server via PSRP client (using PSRP protocol) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanxi%20Television | Shanxi Television (SXTV, ), is a television network in the Taiyuan and Shanxi province. It was founded and started to broadcast in November 2004. SXTV currently broadcasts in Jin Chinese.
External links
Official Site
Television networks in China
Television channels and stations established in 2004
Taiyuan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sony%20Cyber-shot%20cameras | Notes:
DSC is an abbreviation for Digital Still Camera
Models without a “V” suffix do not include built-in GPS functionality
D series
F series
G series
H series
All cameras used CCD sensors and had optical image stabilization. The series included bridge cameras and compact cameras.
HX series
Note: HX is an abbreviation for HyperXoom
All cameras used CMOS sensors, could zoom optically while filming, and had optical image stabilization. The series included bridge cameras and Compact cameras with Superzoom.
L series
DSC-L1 (2004, 4.0 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
M series
Compact cameras with a unique vertical-grip design and an articulated screen
DSC-M1 (2004, 5.0 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
DSC-M2 (2005, 5.0 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
MD series
Compact camera using MiniDiscs.
N series
DSC-N1 (2005, 3" LCD touch screen, 8.1 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
DSC-N2 (2006, 3" LCD touch screen, 10.1 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
P series
Ultra-compact cameras with distinctive rounded edge on one side
DSC-P1 (2000, 1.5" LCD, 3 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
DSC-P2 (1.9 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
DSC-P3 (2.8 megapixels)
DSC-P5 (1.5" LCD, 3.1 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
DSC-P7 (1.5" LCD, 3.1 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
DSC-P8 (2003, 1.5" LCD, 3.1 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
DSC-P9 (2002, 1.5" LCD, 4.0 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
DSC-P10 (2003, 1.5" LCD, 5.0 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
DSC-P12 (Same as DSC-P10, packaged with more accessories)
DSC-P20 (2001–2002, 1.1 megapixels, 3x digital zoom)
DSC-P30 (2002–2003, 1.2 megapixels)
DSC-P31 (2002–2003, 2 megapixels, 3x digital zoom)
DSC-P32 (2003, 3.2 megapixels, 1.6x digital zoom)
DSC-P41 (2004, 4.1 megapixels, fixed lens)
DSC-P43 (2004, 4.1 megapixels, fixed lens)
DSC-P50 (2001, 2.1 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
DSC-P51 (2002, 2.1 megapixels, 2x optical zoom)
DSC-P52 (2003, 3.2 megapixels, 2x optical zoom)
DSC-P71 (2002, 3.2 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
DSC-P72 (2003, 3.2 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
DSC-P73 (2004, 4.1 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
DSC-P92 (2003, 5 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
DSC-P93 (2004, 5.0 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
DSC-P100 (2004, 5.1 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
DSC-P120 (special edition version of DSC-P100)
DSC-P150 (2004, 7.2 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
DSC-P200 (2005, 7.2 megapixels, 3x optical zoom)
QX series
Lens-style compact cameras designed exclusively for use with smartphones.
DSC-QX10 (2013, 18.2 megapixels, 1/2.3 inch (7.76 mm) Exmor R™ CMOS sensor, 10x optical zoom, f/3.3–5.9 Sony G Lens)
DSC-QX30 (2014, 20.4 megapixels, 1/2.3 inch (7.82 mm) Exmor R™ CMOS sensor, 30x optical zoom, ƒ/3.5–6.3 Sony G Lens)
DSC-QX100 (2014, 20.2 megapixels, 1-inch (13.2x8.8 mm) Exmor R™ CMOS sensor, 3.6x optical zoom, f/1.8–4.9 Carl ZEISS® Vario-Sonnar T* lens)
ILCE-QX1 (2014, 20.1 megapixels, APS-C (23.2x15.4 mm) CMOS sensor, interchangeable E-mount lens)
R series
Bridge camera with large sensor
DSC-R1 (2005–2006, 10.3-mega |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage%20data | Usage data is the most effective way of evaluating the true relevancy and value of a website. For example, if users arrive on a web site and go back immediately (high bounce rate), chances are that it wasn’t relevant to their query in the first place. However, if a user repeatedly visits a web site and spends a long time on the site, there is a high likelihood that it is extremely relevant. When it comes to search engines, relevant valuable sites get promoted while irrelevant sites get demoted.
Search engines want their results to be highly relevant to web users to make sure that web users keep returning to the search engine for future searches. And the best way to establish relevance to users is to know how they use web sites. Cookies are used by search engines to maintain a history of a user’s search activity.
References
Web analytics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrid%E2%80%93Levante%20high-speed%20rail%20network | The Madrid–Levante high-speed network is a network of high-speed rail lines that connects Madrid with the Mediterranean coast of the Levante Region, specifically with Castilla-La Mancha, the Valencian Community and the Murcia Region autonomous communities.
The network extends from Madrid to the east, with branches ending in Castellón, Alicante, Elche, Murcia, Cartagena and continuing from Murcia to Almería.
When fully operational the Madrid–Levante network will total of high-speed rail capable of top speeds of in the majority of its segments.
Segments
Madrid–Cuenca–Motilla del Palancar–Valencia
The first of this line are shared with the existing Madrid–Seville high-speed rail line. The section onwards to Valencia was inaugurated on 15 December 2010 and entered service on 19 December 2010.
Thirty trains run every day, fifteen in each direction. 22 are non-stop services and the remaining eight call at intermediate stations.
Non-stop trains between Madrid and Valencia cover the in 1 hour and 40 minutes, saving two hours on the previous service of Alaris trains on the classic line.
The line is built to , and electric powered at 25 kV AC, with signalling ERTMS levels 1 and 2.
Valencia–Castellón
This segment was inaugurated on 22 January 2018 and is a part of the Mediterranean Corridor. With this extension to Castellón a new AVE service Madrid-Castellón was introduced which cut the journey time between the two cities by further 30 minutes to total 2 hours and 25 minutes.
Four AVE trains per day are scheduled, two in each direction between Madrid and Castellón while this segment is also used by the Alvia service Gijón–Castellón.
Valencia–Xàtiva
Segment under construction. Planned for mixed use (goods and passengers).
Xàtiva–Nudo de La Encina
This segment is in service with a maximum speed of .
Motilla del Palancar–Albacete
A segment between Cuenca and Albacete provinces. This section was inaugurated on 15 December and open to the public on 19 December 2010.
Albacete–Nudo de La Encina–Monforte del Cid–Alicante
The section from Albacete to Alicante opened in June 2013.
Monforte del Cid–Elche–Murcia–Cartagena
The segment between the municipality of Monforte del Cid in Alicante and Murcia has a length of , of which are located in the province of Alicante and the remaining in Murcia. It is a new segment of double track in standard gauge, suitable for speeds up to . The long access section towards the new segment to Murcia had been in service since 2008, and was only used for Iberian gauge trains until the 1st February 2021, when the section linking Monforte del Cid, Elche and Orihuela - in total length - was inaugurated. This section is fitted with three track rails, two of standard gauge and one of Iberian gauge.
Murcia–Almería
The main purpose of this line is to connect the Transversal Rail Line to the Madrid-Levante and Mediterranean Corridor rail lines.
This segment is ( in Almería Province and in Murcia Region).
Sta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Conference%20on%20Computer%20Vision | The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) is a biennial research conference with the proceedings published by Springer Science+Business Media. Similar to ICCV in scope and quality, it is held those years which ICCV is not. It is considered to be one of the top conferences in computer vision, alongside CVPR and ICCV,
with an 'A' rating from the Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences and an 'A1' rating from the Brazilian ministry of education. The acceptance rate for ECCV 2010 was 24.4% for posters and 3.3% for oral presentations.
Like other top computer vision conferences, ECCV has tutorial talks, technical sessions, and poster sessions. The conference is usually spread over five to six days with the main technical program occupying three days in the middle, and tutorial and workshops, focused on specific topics, being held in the beginning and at the end.
The ECCV presents the Koenderink Prize annually to recognize fundamental contributions in computer vision.
Location
The conference is usually held in autumn in Europe.
See also
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
International Conference on Computer Vision
References
Computer science conferences
Computer vision research infrastructure
Information technology organizations based in Europe
IEEE conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida%20Film%20Critics%20Circle%20Awards%202010 | 15th FFCC Awards
December 20, 2010
Best Picture:
The Social Network
The 15th Florida Film Critics Circle Awards were given on December 20, 2010.
Winners
Best Actor:
Colin Firth – The King's Speech
Best Actress:
Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Aaron Sorkin – The Social Network
Best Animated Film:
Toy Story 3
Best Art Direction/Production Design:
Inception – Brad Ricker and Guy Hendrix Dyas Best Cinematography:
Inception – Wally Pfister Best Director:
David Fincher – The Social Network
Best Documentary Film:
The Tillman Story
Best Film:
The Social Network
Best Foreign Language Film:
I Am Love (Io sono l'amore) • Italy Best Original Screenplay:
Christopher Nolan – Inception
Best Supporting Actor:
Christian Bale – The Fighter
Best Supporting Actress:
Melissa Leo – The Fighter
Best Visual Effects:
Inception''
Pauline Kael Breakout Award:
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone
Golden Orange for Outstanding Contribution to Film:
Matthew Curtis, programming director for the Enzian Theater and Florida Film Festival in Orlando
References
External links
2010 film awards
2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20PowerEdge%20servers | The PowerEdge is a server line by Dell, following the naming convention for other Dell products: the PowerVault (data storage) and the PowerConnect (data transfer & switches).
Below is an overview of current and former servers within Dell's PowerEdge product line. Different models are or were available as towers, 19-inch racks or blades. In the current naming scheme, towers are designated by T, racks by R, and blades by M (for modular). The 19″ rack-servers come in different physical heights expressed in rack units or U. Most modern servers are either 1U or 2U high while in the past the 4U was more common.
Model naming
Over the years, many different types of PowerEdge servers have been introduced and there was wide variety of product and family codes used within the PowerEdge name.
Itanium servers
The Dell Itanium-based servers were introduced before this new naming-convention was introduced and were only available as rack servers.
New naming conventions
Three digits
Since the introduction of the Generation 10 servers in 2007 Dell has adopted a standardized method for naming their servers; the name of each server is now represented by a letter followed by 3 digits. The letter indicates the type of server: R (for Rack-mountable) indicates a 19″ rack-mountable server, M (for Modular) indicates a blade server, whilst T (for Tower) indicates a stand-alone server.
This letter is then followed by three digits.
The first digit refers to the number of sockets in the system: 1 to 3 for one socket, 4 to 7 for two sockets, and 8 or 9 for four sockets.
The middle digit refers to the generation: 0 for Generation 10, 1 for Generation 11, and so on.
The third digit indicates the make of the CPU: 0 for Intel or 5 for AMD.
For example: The Dell PowerEdge M610 is a two-socket blade server of the 11th generation using an Intel CPU. Whereas the R605 is a two-socket, 10th generation AMD-based rack-server.
Four digits
For four-digit naming convention:
The first digit after the letter indicates the class of the system, with 1–5 defaulting to iDRAC Basic and 6–9 defaulting to iDRAC Express.
The second digit indicates the generation, with 0 for 10th generation, 1 for 11th generation and so on.
The third digit indicates the number of CPU sockets, 1 for one socket and 2 for two sockets.
The fourth digit indicates the make of the CPU, 0 for Intel and 5 for AMD.
For example: The Dell PowerEdge R6415 model is a rack, mid-range, 14th generation, single CPU socket system with AMD Processor.
Blade servers
Since Generation 10 there are models for the M1000e enclosure. The blade-servers in Generation 8 and Generation 9 are using another enclosure that is not compatible with the current M1000e system. In form-factor there are two models: half-height and full-height.
In an enclosure you can fit 8 full or 16 half-height blades (or a mix). Each server has two or four on-board NIC's and two additional Mezzanine card-slots for additional I/O options: 1 Gb or 10 Gb Etherne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHFG | WHFG (91.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to serve the community of Lafayette, Louisiana, United States.
Programming
The station's weekday lineup includes Bible Answers Live, Pioneer Memorial Church, and C.D. Brooks.
External links
Christian radio stations in Louisiana
Lafayette Parish, Louisiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T%20SportsNet | AT&T Sports Networks, LLC (ATTSN) was a group of regional sports networks in the United States that primarily own and operate AT&T Sports Networks (founded in 2009, as Liberty Sports Holdings, later DirecTV Sports Networks, LLC). It is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery through Warner Bros. Discovery Sports. Each of the networks carry regional broadcasts of sporting events from various professional, collegiate and high school sports teams (with broadcasts typically exclusive to each individual network, although some are shown on more than one AT&T-branded network within a particular team's designated market area).
In addition to carrying team and conference-related magazine, analysis and discussion programs exclusive to each region, most of the networks (with the current exception of AT&T SportsNet Southwest) also broadcast nationally distributed sports events, documentary and entertainment programs through a programming agreement with Bally Sports, which is the successor to Fox Sports Networks, a remnant of their former ownership under their previous corporate parents.
While previously operating under the FSN name, these four networks relaunched under the brand Root Sports on April 1, 2011, coinciding with the start of the Major League Baseball regular season. On July 14, 2017, following the acquisition of DirecTV by AT&T, the networks (besides Root Sports Northwest as it is majority-owned by the Seattle Mariners and minority-owned by Warner Bros. Discovery) were re-branded under the name AT&T SportsNet, coinciding with the second half of the 2017 Major League Baseball season. Collectively, the networks serve 13 million cable and satellite subscribers in 22 states. AT&T SportsNet master control operations are based in Atlanta, Georgia.
On February 24, 2023, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it would leave the RSN business.
History
On December 22, 2006, Liberty Media acquired four Fox Sports regional networks – FSN Utah, FSN Pittsburgh, FSN Northwest and FSN Rocky Mountain – as part of a deal with News Corporation, which exchanged the networks and its controlling 38.5% ownership interest in satellite provider DirecTV for US$550 million in cash and stock, in exchange for the 16.3% stake in News Corporation that had been owned by Liberty. These three FSN affiliates became part of the Liberty Entertainment division, which also owned a stake in the Game Show Network.
On May 4, 2009, DirecTV Group Inc. announced it would become a part of Liberty Entertainment, and spin off certain properties into a separate company under the DirecTV name, in a deal in which Liberty would increase its share in DirecTV from a minority 48% to a controlling 54%, while Liberty owner John Malone and his family would own a 24% interest. DirecTV would then operate the four acquired FSN-affiliated networks through DirecTV Sports Networks, a new division formed on November 19, 2009, upon the spin-off's completion.
In December 2010, DirecTV announced that it would rebrand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon%20%28Ukrainian%20TV%20programming%20block%29 | Nickelodeon Ukraine (Ukrainian; Нікелодеон Україна) was a in Pluto TV.
History
Nickelodeon started in Ukraine in October 1998 as a programming block on the Ukrainian television station QTV.
On 5 November 2003, a Ukrainian version of the channel was launched in Russian using the Pan-European feed.
In 1 September 2017, the Ukrainian-language Nickelodeon block was abolished due to QTV closing down the same month.
On 1 June 2023, 1+1 Media Group and Paramount Global announced that Nickelodeon had become available for viewers to watch in Ukrainian, after a Ukrainian audio track was added to Nickelodeon CEE.
Return
On 1 April 2022 during Russian invasion of Ukraine, Nickelodeon Ukraine returned as a pop up channel for Poland, Germany and Spain on Pluto TV.
As for Spain and Portugal, users could watch the channel using Pluto TV, and other TV services such as Movistar Plus+, Vodafone TV or Meo.
Due to the addition of a Ukrainian audio track to Nickelodeon CEE, Nickelodeon Ukraine Pluto TV closed on 1 July 2023, although the active operation of the channel ended on June 30.
References
1998 establishments in Ukraine
2017 disestablishments in Ukraine
2022 establishments in Ukraine
2023 disestablishments in Ukraine
Defunct television stations in Ukraine
Nickelodeon
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017
Television channels and stations established in 2022
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2023 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anhui%20Television | Anhui Television (AHTV; ), is a television network in the Hefei and Anhui province. It was founded and started to broadcast in September 1960. AHTV currently broadcasts in Mandarin.
List of Anhui Television programs
Current programming
Former programming
Kunlun Fight
External links
Official Site
Television networks in China
Television channels and stations established in 1960 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi%20Adaptable%20Modular%20Storage%202000 | Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 is the brand name of Hitachi Data Systems mid-range storage platforms.
The Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family of storage systems was announced in October, 2008. They can be reconfigured and optimized to accommodate changing business requirements. This midrange product family is built around a serial attached SCSI (SAS) architecture and has a symmetric active/active controller design.
This family of storage systems include:
Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2100
Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2300
Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500
Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2500DC
All models support RAID-6 disk configurations, Fibre Channel and iSCSI host interfaces, as well as the ability to intermix Flash drives with SAS and SATA disk drives in the same tray. They also support both Fibre Channel and iSCSI host interfaces in the same controller.
The AMS 2000 family of storage systems are available with just a few terabytes of storage up to 1,417TB of storage. These storage systems support upgrade in place to larger models of the AMS 2000 family as well as migration to new RAID groups while the system is in operation.
Automated storage controller
Each AMS2000 model comes with dual controllers that automate many storage management tasks. The symmetric active/active architecture with dynamic load balancing provides integrated, automated, front-to-back-end I/O load balancing. In this design both controllers are active and able to dynamically access any volume from a host port on either controller with no penalty on performance. By eliminating the need for each volume to be assigned to an owning controller, servers can be connected to either controller on an AMS2000 without establishing a primary and failover path to their volumes. With this design SAN path management software is not required.
Volumes can be accessed from either controller at the same speed. As a result, microcode updates can be done while the system is operating and without any interruption to host I/Os. In addition, the workload of each controller is continually monitored and can be automatically brought into balance whenever necessary. As a result of the monitoring and automated load balancing the utilization imbalances between controllers which traditionally have led to performance bottlenecks can be avoided.
SAS Architecture
SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) is the interface architecture used to transmit data from the storage controllers to the disk drives in the Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family. The SAS interface is a full duplex, point-to-point architecture with up to 9600MB/sec of total system bandwidth and up to 32 links available for concurrent I/O activity. This design eliminates FC Loop arbitration resulting in better performance and enables improved end user troubleshooting by detecting and displaying failed drives automatically.
Additional Features
The AMS 2000 family of storage systems includes Hitachi Dynamic Provisi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Top%20Latin%20Songs%20of%202011 | The Billboard Top Latin Songs chart ranks the best-performing Spanish-language singles in the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, and airplay.
Chart history
References
External links
Current Hot Latin Songs Chart
United States Latin Songs
2011
2011 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Latin%20Pop%20Airplay%20songs%20of%202011 | The Billboard Latin Pop Airplay chart ranks the best-performing Spanish-language pop music singles in the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on the audience impressions of each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
References
United States Latin Pop
2011
2011 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Tropical%20Songs%20of%202011 | The Billboard Tropical Songs is a chart that ranks the best-performing tropical songs of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems based on each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
See also
List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Songs of 2011
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Pop Airplay of 2011
References
United States Tropical Songs
2011
2011 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20table%20scan | A full table scan (also known as a sequential scan) is a scan made on a database where each row of the table is read in a sequential (serial) order and the columns encountered are checked for the validity of a condition. Full table scans are usually the slowest method of scanning a table due to the heavy amount of I/O reads required from the disk which consists of multiple seeks as well as costly disk to memory transfers.
Overview
In a database, a query that is not indexed results in a full table scan, where the database processes each record of the table to find all records meeting the given requirements. Even if the query selects just a few rows from the table, all rows in the entire table will be examined. This usually results in suboptimal performance but may be acceptable with very small tables or when the overhead of keeping indexes up to date is high.
When the Optimizer Considers a Full Table Scan
The most important factor in choosing depends on speed. This means that a full table scan should be used when it is the fastest and cannot use a different access path. Several full table scan examples are as follows.
No index
The optimizer must use a full table scan since no index exists.
Small number of rows
The cost of full table scan is less than index range scan due to small table.
When query processed SELECT COUNT(*), nulls existed in the column
The query is counting the number of null columns in a typical index. However, SELECT COUNT(*) can't count the number of null columns.
The query is unselective
The number of return rows is too large and takes nearly 100% in the whole table. These rows are unselective.
The table statistics does not update
The number of rows in the table is higher than before, but table statistics haven't been updated yet. The optimizer can't correctly estimate that using the index is faster.
The table has a high degree of parallelism
The high degree of parallelism table distorts the optimizer from a true way, because optimizer would use full table scan.
A full table scan hint
The hint lets optimizer to use full table scan.
Examples
The first example shows a SQL statement that returns the name of every fruit in the fruits table whose color is red. If the fruits table does not have an index for the color column, then the database engine must load and examine every row within fruits in order to compare each row's color to 'red':
SELECT name
FROM fruits
WHERE color = 'red';
The second example shows a SQL statement which returns the name of all fruits in the fruits table. Because this statement has no condition - no WHERE clause - the database engine will use a table scan to load and return the data for this query even if the fruits table has an index on the name column because accessing - i.e. scanning - the table directly is faster than accessing the table through the extra abstraction layer of an index:
SELECT name
FROM fruits
The third example is a counter-examp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YLMF%20Computer%20Technology%20Co.%2C%20Ltd. | YLMF Computer Technology Co., Ltd. is a computer software company based in Dongguan, Guangdong, China. The company was founded in May 2005, their most significant product to most of the world (including English speaking countries), was the Ubuntu based Linux distribution Ylmf OS.
History
YLMF was founded in May 2005 with a registered capital of RMB 10 million at Songshan Lake, Dongguan, Guangdong.
Products
114la.com
StartOS
115.com
References
http://www.startos.org
External links
Official Website (Chinese)
114 Website Navigation (Chinese)
Ylmf OS
915 Mobile Phone Website (Chinese)
Software companies of China
Companies based in Dongguan
Companies established in 2005
Chinese brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TigerVNC | TigerVNC is an open source Virtual Network Computing (VNC) server and client software, started as a fork of TightVNC in 2009. The client supports Windows, Linux and macOS. The server supports Linux. There is no server for macOS and as of release 1.11.0 the Windows server is no longer maintained.
History
Red Hat, Cendio AB, and TurboVNC maintainers started this fork because RealVNC had focused on their enterprise non-open VNC and no TightVNC update had appeared since 2006. The past few years however, Cendio AB who use it for their product ThinLinc is the main contributor to the project. TigerVNC is fully open-source, with development and discussion done via publicly accessible mailing lists and repositories.
TigerVNC has a different feature set than TightVNC, despite its origins. For example, TigerVNC adds encryption for all supported operating systems and not just Linux. Conversely, TightVNC has features that TigerVNC doesn't have, such as file transfers.
TigerVNC focuses on performance and on remote display functionality.
TigerVNC became the default VNC implementation in Fedora shortly after its creation.
A 2010 reviewer found the TigerVNC product "much faster than Vinagre, but not quite as responsive as Remmina".
See also
Comparison of remote desktop software
RFB protocol
X Window System
References
External links
TigerVNC Feature request, the Fedora request for switching from RealVNC to TigerVNC
TigerVNC Releases - TigerVNC Release Highlights
Cross-platform free software
Free software programmed in C++
Free software programmed in C
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Linux remote administration software
MacOS remote administration software
Virtual Network Computing
Windows remote administration software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20TV%20%28Hong%20Kong%29 | SunTV () is a blockchains Chinese movies streaming application that is supported on the system of IOS, Android App, website and TV. Sun TV is a satellite television channel that was launched on August 8, 2000 in Hong Kong. Chen Ping currently serves as the chairman of Sunshine TV, a Chinese television station that primarily airs programs related to history, humanities, finance, current events, and documentaries. The station's ownership changed hands multiple times in the past. The Chinese government-imposed restrictions on the station's signal in mainland China which prevented viewers from directly accessing the station's programs on television and the official website from mainland China. Despite this, various mobile applications still are available for users to access the station's programs and live broadcasts.
It covers a wide range of topics, including art, economics, documentaries, history, entertainment, journalism, design, food, architecture, travel, and more. ISunTV is one of Asia's few non-political media platforms that has approved or produced controversial videos such as 十年, the life of Malaysian politician Datuk Anwar Ibrahim.
The company has offices in Hong Kong, Taipei, and New York City. Currently, membership is only available via invitation.
References
External links
Television stations in Hong Kong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery%20House%20%28disambiguation%29 | Mystery House is an Apple II computer game.
Mystery House may also refer to:
Mystery House (film), a 1938 American film
Mystery House (radio drama), an American radio drama series
Winchester Mystery House, a California tourist attraction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infamous%20%28series%29 | Infamous (stylized as inFAMOUS) is a series of action-adventure platform games developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4. The series follows the adventures of Cole MacGrath, Delsin Rowe and Abigail "Fetch" Walker, super-powered "Conduits" who must decide their own destinies of becoming either good or evil.
The series consists of three main games: Infamous, Infamous 2 and Infamous Second Son, alongside expansion titles Infamous: Festival of Blood and Infamous First Light. A comic book series of the same name was published by DC Comics.
Plot
The series takes place in the present-day United States with real and alternate versions of real cities, such as the setting of Infamous, Empire City, which resembles New York City; and the setting of Infamous 2, New Marais, which resembles New Orleans (Infamous: Festival of Blood also takes place in this city). Washington, D.C. is occasionally mentioned, and Infamous Second Son takes place in Seattle. It features American government agencies such as the FBI, NSA and DARPA, along with agencies fabricated for the series, such as the DUP (Department of Unified Protection), an agency with the sole purpose of stopping conduits, now labeled "bio-terrorists", from causing mass destruction similar to what was caused by Cole MacGrath.
Gameplay
In the first two games, the player controls Cole MacGrath; in the third game, the player controls Delsin Rowe; in the standalone expansion First Light, they control Fetch. The player freely roams around the city, while fighting crime or creating havoc along the way. Cole and Delsin can use their parkour skills to jump and climb buildings throughout the city, along with their powers to help them fight enemies. Their powers come from a gauge which depletes whenever they uses various attacks, and refills when they absorb electricity, smoke, neon, video or concrete from nearby sources.
Morality, or "Karma", is a major factor in the gameplay and storyline. The player is able to control the course of the game by having Cole and Delsin use their powers for good or evil. The choice allows the player to have a different mixture of abilities, as both good and evil have their own set of powers. The game also uses a Karma meter which changes based on the main character's actions throughout the game and determines whether he eventually becomes a good or evil character.
Games
Main game
Infamous is the first game in the series, released in 2009 to positive reviews. Set in 2009, the game introduces Cole MacGrath, a bike courier, who gained his electrical-based superpowers after surviving a large explosion in Empire City caused by the package he was carrying containing the Ray Sphere. The Ray Sphere is an object of great power as it is able to consume the energy of the people around the user and transfer that energy to the user, making him immensely powerful at the cost of thousands of lives. After the explosion, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Mintz | Professor Alex Mintz (; born April 2, 1953), Director of the Computerized Decision Making Lab, and former Provost of IDC Herzliya, is a professor for decision-making in government, and former President of the Israeli Political Science Association.
Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Israeli Political Science Association, the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Foreign-Policy section of the International Studies Association, and the Karl Deutsch Award of the International Studies Association for most significant contribution to the field of International Relations by a scholar younger than 40. His book on decision-making in the American government (with C. Wayne) was published in 2016 by the prestigious Stanford University Press and received the 2017 Alexander George Best Book Award of the International Society for Political Psychology (ISPP).
Professor Mintz has served on the editorial boards of 11 international journals, including the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Studies Perspective, Open Political Science Journal, Advances in Political Psychology, and Research and Politics. He served as editor-in-chief of the international journal, Political Psychology (2010-2015), as Associate Editor of the Yale-based Journal of Conflict Resolution (2004-2009), and as editor of the University of Chicago Press book series in Leadership and Decision Making in the International Arena (until 2012).
Professor Mintz is also the Director of the Program in Political Psychology and Decision Making (POPDM) at the IDC. He served as a co-chair of the steering committee for the project "Israeli Hope: Toward a New Israeli Order", with the blessings of the President of Israel. He served as Chair of the Herzliya Conference series and as Director of the Institute for Policy and Strategy from 2013 to 2016 and as Dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy at IDC from 2008 to 2014.
Education
Mintz received his B.A. from Tel Aviv University in political science with a minor in mathematics. He then went on to receive an M.A. from Northwestern University in political science before pursuing his PhD, also at Northwestern. His research interests focus on political decision making, political marketing, behavioral political science (BPS), political psychology, strategy, and research methods.
Career
Mintz was an instructor at Northwestern University and a lecturer and then senior lecturer with tenure at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He taught at Texas A&M University from 1986 to 2005. In 1993, he became the Founding Director of the Program in Foreign Policy Decision Making at Texas A&M University and remained there as the Cullen-McFadden Professor of Political Science until 2005. He was a visiting professor at Yale, Columbia University, the Lyndon Johnson School at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Haifa, and Tel Aviv University. He moved to IDC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise-domain%20reflectometry | Noise-domain reflectometry is a type of reflectometry where the reflectometer exploits existing data signals on wiring and does not have to generate any signals itself. Noise-domain reflectometry, like time-domain and spread-spectrum time domain reflectometers, is most often used in identifying the location of wire faults in electrical lines.
Time-domain reflectometers work by generating a signal and then sending that signal down the wireline and examining the reflected signal. Noise-domain reflectometers (NDRs) provide the benefit of locating wire faults without introducing an external signal because the NDR examines the existing signals on the line to identify wire faults. This technique is particularly useful in the testing of live wires where data integrity on the wires is critical. For example, NDRs can be used for monitoring aircraft wiring while in flight.
See also
Spread-spectrum time-domain reflectometry
Time-domain reflectometry
References
Electronic engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trond%20Andresen | Trond Andresen (born 30 April 1947) is a Norwegian academic, former communist politician, public writer and debater, broadcaster, and associate professor of Cybernetics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). He served as a board member of NTNU 1999-2001, as an elected academic representative.
Career
He earned the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering at NTH (now NTNU) in 1973, and has been assistant professor at NTNU since 1982. He was elected as a member of the university board in 1999, serving one term. He earned the dr.philos. degree in 2018 with the dissertation On the Dynamics of Money Circulation, Creation and Debt – a Control Systems Approach and was thus promoted to associate professor.
Political activity
Andresen has been a member of a number of left-wing organisations in Norway, and was a co-founder of the Red Electoral Alliance (RV) political party in 1973. In 1982, he founded a left-wing radio station affiliated with RV, Radio RV, and served as its editor until 1996. He has also freelanced for the NRK. Andresen was a columnist for the left-wing daily Klassekampen from 2000 to 2016, and also for some time moderated its online forum, launched in 2008. He was also very active in hosting and participating in the debate about the newspaper's strategy that ended with the replacement of then-editor Paul Bjerke by Jon Michelet by the owners of the paper, the Workers' Communist Party, in 1996.
Due to his membership and activity in several communist organisations, Andresen was under surveillance by the Police Surveillance Agency from 1970 until the early 1990s, and has published his dossier, which he obtained following the inquiries into the Police Surveillance Agency's activities, on the Internet.
In February 2009, Andresen left the Red party.
In recent years, Andresen has been a vocal critic of Israel. He was one of the signatories of the petition to the university board that NTNU boycott Israel, an initiative which received worldwide media attention. The initiative by 34 NTNU professors eventually failed in the university board.
In April 2015, he was asked by the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions not to bring a poster to the International Workers' Day stating that "whining about anti-Semitism is a derailment tactic", that he had used for several years. In 2016 he announced his support for Marine Le Pen.
Awards
In 2006, Andresen received the SINTEF Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
References
Norwegian engineers
Academic staff of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Red Party (Norway) politicians
Norwegian columnists
1947 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Engster | James R. Engster is a journalist and host of "Talk Louisiana" on WRKF, the National Public Radio affiliate in Baton Rouge.
Engster is also owner and president of Louisiana Radio Network (LRN), which provides news, sports and agricultural news statewide. In 2014, he served as president of the National Association of Statewide Radio Networks, known as StateNets, which provides regional radio advertising campaigns for marketers nationwide. Engster is a political analyst for WAFB in Baton Rouge.
He currently hosts "Ask the Governor" a monthly call-in show for listeners to speak with Governor John Bel Edwards.
Education
Engster is a 1981 graduate of Louisiana State University and was inducted into the LSU Manship School Hall of Fame in 2012. In April 2018, the LSU Alumni Association inducted Engster into the LSU Hall of Distinction, an honor that recognizes alumni who have distinguished themselves and the university through their careers, civic accomplishments, volunteer activities, and loyalty to their alma mater.
Career
Since 1981, Engster has built his legacy as "the inveterate Louisiana talk radio host, historiographer, and pantomath of state politics."
From 1983 to 1998, Engster served as a reporter and news director for Louisiana Network. In 1998, he began hosting "Louisiana Live," a syndicated call-in talk show airing on more than 20 affiliates. "Louisiana Live" was named best public affairs program three times by the Louisiana-Mississippi Associated Press Managing Editors.
From 2003 to 2006, Engster served as general manager of WRKF. In 2006, he returned to Louisiana Network as general manager. In April 2010, Engster bought a controlling interest in the network after the FCC granted its permission. Now serving as president, he renamed the company Louisiana Radio Network to reflect the medium. From 2004-October 2014, “The Jim Engster Show” was heard live on NPR affiliate WRKF-FM.
From 2014 - 2017, he hosted "The Jim Engster Show" on the commercial station WBRP.
In addition to his work in radio, Engster also is a long-time featured columnist and current president of Tiger Rag Magazine, “the Bible of LSU sports.” Acquired by LRN in 2000, the magazine focuses on sports at Louisiana State University. It analyzes numerous LSU sports teams, including football, baseball, basketball, and track and field. Engster's column “Statistically Speaking” incites frequent comments from readers and LSU insiders. In 2018, Engster was named Louisiana Sports Writers Association's Columnist of the Year for his contributions to Tiger Rag Magazine.
The Public Relations Association of Louisiana named Engster Communicator of the Year in 2008. The YWCA Greater Baton Rouge awarded him the Racial Justice Award in 2011 "for his advocacy of racial and social justice". Engster is currently serving his eighth term as Media Board Chairman of the Press Club of Baton Rouge and is also the president of the LSU Media Board, which oversees student media operations.
Referen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland%20Group | Portland Group may refer to:
The Portland Group, a computer company
Portland Group (geology) or Portlandian, a series of rock strata from the Late Jurassic of southern England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison%20Design%20Group | The Edison Design Group (EDG) is a company that makes compiler front ends (preprocessing and parsing) for C++ and formerly Java and Fortran. Their front ends are widely used in commercially available compilers and code analysis tools. Users include the Intel C++ compiler, Microsoft Visual C++ (IntelliSense), NVIDIA CUDA Compiler, SGI MIPSpro, The Portland Group, and Comeau C++. They are widely known for having the first, and likely only, front end to implement the unused until C++20 export keyword of C++.
EDG was founded in 1988 in New Jersey by J. Stephen "Steve" Adamczyk, a 1974 B.S. graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a 1977 M.S. graduate of the Indiana University Bloomington, and an experienced compiler engineer who had worked for Advanced Computer Techniques in New York City.
Other employees include John Spicer and Daveed Vandevoorde.
See also
Dinkumware, supplier of the standard library for several commercial C/C++ compilers
References
Further reading
Adamczyk, J. Stephen. MU: A System Implementation Language for Microcomputers, Indiana University, 1977
External links
Compilers
C++
Java (programming language)
Fortran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Film%20Critics%20Circle%20Awards%202010 | 31st London Film Critics Circle Awards
11 February 2011
Film of the Year:
The Social Network
British Film of the Year:
The King's Speech
The 31st London Film Critics Circle Awards, honouring the best in film for 2010, were announced by the London Film Critics Circle on 11 February 2011.
Winners and nominees
Film of the Year
The Social Network
Black Swan
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
Toy Story 3
British Film of the Year
The King's Speech
127 Hours
Another Year
The Arbor
Monsters
Foreign Language Film of the Year
Of Gods and Men • FranceDogtooth • Greece
I Am Love • Italy
The Secret in Their Eyes • Argentina
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives • Thailand
Director of the YearDavid Fincher – The Social Network
Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
Joel and Ethan Coen – True Grit
Christopher Nolan – Inception
Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
British Director of the Year
Tom Hooper – The King's Speech
Clio Barnard – The Arbor
Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
Mike Leigh – Another Year
Christopher Nolan – Inception
Screenwriter of the Year
Aaron Sorkin – The Social Network
Chris Morris, Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain – Four Lions
Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg – The Kids Are All Right
David Seidler – The King's Speech
Joel and Ethan Coen – True Grit
Breakthrough British Filmmaker
Gareth Edwards – Monsters
Banksy – Exit Through the Gift Shop
Clio Barnard – The Arbor
J Blakeson – The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Chris Morris – Four Lions
Actor of the Year
Colin Firth – The King's Speech
Jeff Bridges – True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
Ryan Gosling – Blue Valentine
Édgar Ramírez – Carlos
Actress of the Year
Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone
Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Noomi Rapace – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Hailee Steinfeld – True Grit
British Actor of the Year
Christian Bale – The Fighter
Riz Ahmed – Four Lions
Jim Broadbent – Another Year
Colin Firth – The King's Speech
Andrew Garfield – Never Let Me Go
British Actress of the Year
Lesley Manville – Another Year
Helena Bonham Carter – The King's Speech
Rosamund Pike – Barney's Version
Ruth Sheen – Another Year
Tilda Swinton – I Am Love
British Supporting Actor of the Year
Andrew Garfield – The Social Network
David Bradley – Another Year
Pierce Brosnan – The Ghost Writer
Tom Hardy – Inception
Peter Wight – Another Year
British Supporting Actress of the Year
Olivia Williams – The Ghost Writer
Helena Bonham Carter – Alice in Wonderland
Christine Bottomley – The Arbor
Minnie Driver – Barney's Version
Rosamund Pike – Made in Dagenham
Young British Performer of the Year
Conor McCarron – Neds
Jessica Barden – Tamara Drewe
Will Poulter – The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Saoirse Ronan – The Way Back
Thomas Turgoose – The Scouting Book for Boys
Dilys Powell Award
Kristin Scott Thomas
References
2
2010 film awards
2010 in British cinema
2010 in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBoss%20operations%20network | JBoss Operations Network (or JBoss ON or JON) is free software/open-source Java EE-based network management software. JBoss Operations Network is part of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware portfolio of software. JBoss ON is an administration and management platform for the development, testing, deployment, and monitoring of the application lifecycle. Because it is Java-based, the JBoss application server operates cross-platform: usable on any operating system that supports Java. JBoss ON was developed by JBoss, now a division of Red Hat.
Product features
JBoss ON provides performance, configuration, and inventory management in order to deploy, manage, and monitor the JBoss middleware portfolio, applications, and services.
JBoss ON provides management of the following:
Discovery and inventory
Configuration management
Application deployment
Perform and schedule actions on servers, applications and services
Availability management
Performance management
Provisioning (IT)
JBoss ON is the downstream of RHQ (see also section Associated Acronyms).
Licensing & Pricing
The various JBoss application platforms are open source, but Red Hat charges to provide a support subscription for JBoss Enterprise Middleware.
Associated acronyms
Acronyms associated with JBoss ON:
RHQ - upstream open source project of JBoss ON. Current stable version is RHQ 4.13; main difference between RHQ 4 and RHQ 3 is the transition of the UI framework to Google Web Toolkit.
Jopr - previously the JBossAS management bits (upstream) of JBoss ON - now integrated into the RHQ source base (since September 2009). Jopr used to use RHQ as its upstream. There will be no more separate Jopr releases.
JON - JBoss Operations Network (ON)
See also
List of JBoss software
Network monitoring system
Comparison of network monitoring systems
HyPerformix IPS Performance Optimizer
IBM Tivoli Framework
References
Bibliography
External links
JBoss application server website
Securing JBoss
JBoss Wiki
JBoss Community Projects
JBoss Introduction by Javid Jamae
Java enterprise platform
Red Hat software
Cross-platform software
Network management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edius | Edius is a video editing software package for PC computers running Windows.
Edius is a non-linear editor (NLE) that works with most modern video formats. The software is capable of 3D editing. The software comes bundled with a large collection of tools, including NEWBlue Video Filters, proDAD video effects along with image stabilization for unsteady shots and for audio mastering needs iZotope VST audio plug-ins such as Audio Effects Suite, AudioRestore, AGC & Mastering Effects Suite.
Edius was originally developed by the Japanese-based Canopus Corporation and first introduced for Windows XP in 2003. In 2005, the Canopus Corporation was sold to Grass Valley. The first version released by Grass Valley was Edius 4.0. Edius 5.5 (released around 2010) was the first version to support Windows Vista and Windows 7. The first version to support Windows 8 (and the first that was later discovered to also run on Windows 10) was Edius 6.5 (released June 2012). The current version (as of October 2023) is Edius 11.
Release history
References
EDIUS
2003 software
Windows-only proprietary software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIG%20Star%20Entertainment%20Awards | The Big STAR Entertainment Awards was an annual award show presented by Reliance Broadcast Network Limited in association with STAR India to honour personalities from the field of entertainment across movies, music, television, sports, theatre and dance. The award is touted to be a completely viewer driven award where in audience participation right from nominations to the final winners through SMS and online voting across the categories is used for deciding the winners. The award was announced on 12 December 2010 and the first ever nominations for 2010 Awards were published online through various entertainment websites on 15 December. The last award ceremony happened in 2015.
History
The awards were conceptualised by Reliance Broadcast Network Limited's marketing arm, Big Live. The first ever Big Star Entertainment Awards was held on 21 December 2010 at Bhavan's Grounds in Mumbai. The Awards were given immense promotion through various media outlets like Reliance Broadcast Network's verticals like 92.7 BIG FM, Big Street, Big Live and Big Digital.
The awards were launched in a public ceremony with Arshad Warzi unveiling the statuette of Big Star Entertainment Awards. Reliance Broadcast Network CEO Tarun Katial said, "We are very proud to announce the Big Star Entertainment Awards, an award with a high degree of consumer centricity and representing all Entertainment genres Indian’s love." He added the aim of the award was to celebrate entertainment the way audiences consume and enjoy it. Through this award, the audience are empowered to decide who their favourite entertainers are. He said "Delivered through engaging ideas and multiple touch points, this is a truly integrated property that is bound to create unprecedented impact, in its first year itself."
Star India COO Sanjay Gupta said, "The Big Star Entertainment Awards will witness the coming together of Star India and Reliance Broadcast Network, two of India’s biggest media companies, with complementary capabilities. Star India is the leading television network in the country reaching more than 400 million viewers weekly; and together we are all set to create superlative entertainment reaching out to our viewers across all platforms." He added, "Today, almost 50 per cent of TV viewing happens in the entertainment space and December 31 night is a time when television viewing actually increases manifold because people are willing to sit together and watch TV. Therefore, we are sure that the property will pull in good eyeballs." Price Waterhouse Coopers were the auditors for the first award ceremony held in 2010.
Awards
There were 21 categories in the 2010 Big Star Entertainment Awards. These included 8 categories for the mainstream Hindi films, 4 for the Hindi television programmes and a set of 9 awards which honored the best shows and personalities of the 2000–2010 Decade.
Film Awards
BIG Star Most Entertaining Film Actor – Male
BIG Star Most Entertaining Film Actor – Female
BIG Star |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Wave%20II%20S8530 | The Samsung Wave II S8530 (or "Samsung Wave II") is the successor of the Samsung Wave S8500 smartphone running the Bada 1.2 operating system designed by Samsung, which was commercially released in October 2010. The Wave is a slim touchscreen phone powered by Samsung's "Hummingbird" CPU, which includes a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-8 CPU and a built-in PowerVR SGX 540 graphics engine, "Super LCD" display and 720p high-definition video capture capabilities.SlashGear speculated that the phone could be the result of a rumored AMOLED panel shortage.
Hardware features
Design
The phone is made of mostly metal alloy and is measured 10.9 mm thick. In terms of form factor, it is a slate-style featuring 3 physical buttons on the front: a call, reject/shutdown, and main menu button.
Screen
The screen is a capacitive touchscreen Super LCD with an anti-smudge oleophobic coating on top of the scratch-resistant tempered-glass (Gorilla Glass Display) touch panel, which has been shown to be capable of resisting extreme friction (scratch-resistant). The screen resolution is 800x480 WVGA.
Processor
The phone features a 1 GHz SoC, which internally contains an ARM Cortex A8 CPU core identical to the ARM Cortex CPU core used in Apple's A4 package on package SoC. The Phone graphics engine is SGX 540 which is said to be capable of generating 90 million triangles per second (same as the SoC used on the Samsung Galaxy S).
And 256MB+128MB RAM (same hardware as the Samsung Wave S8500).
Camera
The phone features a 5 megapixel camera which supports 2592 x 1944 pixels, along with autofocus, LED flash, Geotagging, face, blink detection, image stabilization, touch focus, etc. Other than these features it has shooting modes such as beauty shot, smile shot, continuous, panorama and vintage shot. As a camcorder it is able to record a 720p HD video (1280x720) at 30 FPS with flash and a 320x240 slow-motion video at 120 FPS with flash.
Other features
Other features include A-GPS, 2 GB/8 GB of internal storage with a microSDHC slot for an additional 32 GB. It also has a magnetometer, a proximity sensor, an accelerometer, 5.1-channel surround sound Mobile Theater, music recognition, a fake call service, smart search and Social Hub. The Samsung Wave II is the first phone to support Bluetooth version 3.0. It also features Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, HSDPA 3.2 Mbit/s and HSUPA 2 Mbit/s.
This phone is available with European, Asian and North American 3G bandings. The North American 3G bandings version of the phone is a limited availability and is not available in the US.
Software features
User interface
The phone is one of the few smartphones to feature the Samsung Bada operating system platform. The UI is Samsung's own TouchWiz 3.0, which, like its 2 predecessors (TouchWiz 2.0 and TouchWiz), utilizes widgets. The 3 most notable widgets pre-installed in TouchWiz 3.0 are Daily Briefing (including all essential information such as weather, finance, AP mobile news, and schedule), Feeds and Updat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Direct%20Connect%20software | This article compares features and other data about client and server software for Direct Connect, a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol.
Hub software
Direct Connect hubs are central servers to which clients connect, thus the networks are not as decentralized as Gnutella or FastTrack. Hubs provide information about the clients, as well as file-searching and chat capabilities. File transfers are done directly between clients, in true peer-to-peer fashion.
Hubs often have special areas of interest. Many have requirements on the total size of the files that their members share (share size), and restrictions on the content and quality of shares. A hub can have any arbitrary rule. Hubs can allow users to register and provide user authentication. The authentication is also in clear text. The hub may choose certain individuals as operators (similar to IRC operators) to enforce said rules if the hub itself cannot.
While not directly supported by the protocol, hub linking software exists. The software allow multiple hubs to be connected, allowing users to share and/or chat with people on the other linked hubs. Direct connect hubs have difficulty scaling, due to the broadcast-centricity of the protocol.
General
Operating system support
Client software
While not mandated by the protocol, most clients send a "tag". This is part of the client's description and display information ranging from client name and version to number of total available slots to if the user is using a proxy server. It was originally added to DC++, due to its ability to be in multiple hubs with the same instance. The information is arbitrary. The original client's file list (a comprehensive list of the files a user shares) was compressed using Huffman's compression algorithm. Newer clients (among them DC++) serve an XML-based list, compressed with bzip2.
General
Other software
Hub linking software links hubs' main chat, so that users can see and respond to chat that is in a hub they're not directly connected to. Often used to draw in users to hubs, or make private or small hubs more widely known. Whereas advertising a hub is "frowned upon" and is usually repercussion with floods or denial of service attacks, forming a more or less formal network by means of linking hub chat is a legitimate means for getting free publicity. Some Hub programs are able to support a more advanced form of linking which includes all the normal functions, chat, private messages, search and file transfers between users on different hubs can be supported through hub specific solutions or hub software neutral extensions using scripts/plug-ins.
General
Operating system support
Interface and programming
References
Direct Connect network
File sharing software
Direct Connect |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andres%20Spokoiny | Andrés Spokoiny (born 1968) is an Argentine Jewish activist, now living in New York City and is the President and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network.
Personal life
Spokoiny was born at Buenos Aires in 1968. Both his paternal and maternal grandparents emigrated from Poland in the 1930s.
He and his younger brother were raised by their divorced mother, who still lives in Buenos Aires. His childhood coincided with tough economic times, and the local Jewish community center was a refuge for his family. He grew up in a strong Jewish home and, with assistance from the local community, attended Jewish schools. "I knew the names of the streets of Haifa before I knew those of Buenos Aires."
At his bar mitzvah, he discovered that being Jewish involved a religion, as well as a culture, and entered a Conservative seminary of Masorti movement. His formation is well-rounded and includes seven years at a rabbinical seminary, though he was never ordained Rabbi. He received an MBA degree equivalent for Jewish education studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and studied Business Administration from the University of Buenos Aires.
Spokoiny is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew and Yiddish.
Career
He worked in the private sector working for IBM in South America. He thought he would make his career in the corporate world until he received a phone call from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in 1997 to come and work in Paris, France. (They had first known him when he ran High Holiday services for the Jewish community of Cuba as a rabbinical student.)
While working at the JDC, a Jewish American NGO known for supporting Jewish communities around the world, in Paris, Spokoiny served as the JDC's Regional Director. He was on the frontline of the rebuilding of the Jewish communities in Poland, the Baltic states and parts of Russia after the fall of communism and also involved in other projects to develop communities internationally for Northeast Europe.
Spokoiny has, concurrently, been Director of Leatid Europe, the leading training institute for Jewish lay and professional leaders in Europe. It was rewarding but not fun work for him. Rebuilding Jewish communities that had basically been wiped out by Nazism and communism was like taking revenge on history. It was fascinating, but daunting and emotionally heavy.
Spokoiny was the executive director of the Jewish Federation CJA in Montreal from 2009 to 2011. In 2011, Spokoiny joined the Jewish Funders Network as president and CEO.
He was a Board Member of the JDC International Centre for Community Development (June 2012).
Spokoiny also serves as a member of the Selection Committee of the Genesis Prize Foundation.
References
External links
Jewish Funders Network Website
1968 births
Living people
Argentine people of Polish-Jewish descent
Argentine Ashkenazi Jews
Jewish activists
Activists from Buenos Aires
Yiddish-speaking people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectoedemia%20undatae | Ectoedemia undatae is a moth of the family Nepticulidae. It was described by Scoble in 1983. It is known from South Africa (it was described from Pretoria).
The larvae feed on Maytenus undulata.
References
Endemic moths of South Africa
Nepticulidae
Moths described in 1983
Taxa named by Malcolm Scoble
Moths of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated%20local%20search | Iterated Local Search (ILS) is a term in applied mathematics and computer science
defining a modification of local search or hill climbing methods for solving discrete optimization problems.
Local search methods can get stuck in a local minimum, where no improving neighbors are available.
A simple modification consists of iterating calls to the local search routine, each time starting from a different initial configuration. This is called repeated local search, and implies that the knowledge obtained during the previous local search phases is not used. Learning implies that the previous history, for example the memory about the previously found local minima, is mined to produce better and better starting points for local search.
The implicit assumption is that of a clustered distribution of local minima: when minimizing a function, determining good local minima is easier when starting from a local minimum with a low value than when starting from a random point. The only caveat is to avoid confinement in a given attraction basin, so that the kick to transform a local minimizer into the starting point for the next run has to be appropriately strong, but not too strong to avoid reverting to memory-less random restarts.
Iterated Local Search is based on building a sequence of locally optimal solutions by:
perturbing the current local minimum;
applying local search after starting from the modified solution.
The perturbation strength has to be sufficient to lead the trajectory to a different attraction basin leading to a different local optimum.
Perturbation Algorithm
Finding the perturbation algorithm for ILS is not an easy task. The main aim is not to get stuck at the same local minimum and in order to ensure this property, the undo operation is forbidden. Despite this, a good permutation has to consider a lot of values, since there exist two kind of bad permutations:
too weak: fall back to the same local minimum
too strong: random restart
Benchmark Perturbation
The procedure consists in fixing a number of values for the perturbation such that these values are significant for the instance: on average probability and not rare. After that, on runtime it will be possible to check the benchmark plot in order to get an average idea on the instances passed.
Adaptive Perturbation
Since there is no function a priori that tells which one is the most suitable value for a given perturbation, the best criterion is to get it adaptive. For instance Battiti and Protasi proposed a reactive search algorithm for MAX-SAT which fits perfectly into the ILS framework. They perform a "directed" perturbation scheme which is implemented by a tabu search algorithm and after each perturbation they apply a standard local descent algorithm. Another way of adapting the perturbation is to change deterministically its strength during the search.
Optimizing Perturbation
Another procedure is to optimize a sub-part of the problem while keeping the not-undo property ac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20200%20number-one%20albums%20of%202011 | The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200 chart, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2011, 30 albums advanced to the peak position of the chart.
Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift's Speak Now was the first album to reach the top in 2011, spending four consecutive weeks at the top with 259,000 copies sold, while Michael Bublé's Christmas was the last album to do so, also spending four consecutive weeks there and selling 448,000 copies. The most successful album of the year was Adele's 21, which spent 13 non-consecutive weeks at number one, and sold 5 million copies. The Billboard magazine mentioned 21 as the highest-selling album in the year since 2004, when Usher's Confessions reached sales of 8 million copies. Lady Gaga's Born This Way held the record for the highest first-week total in 2011, with 1,108,000 copies sold in its first week. Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV had the second-highest first-week total in 2011, with 964,000 copies.
Chart history
See also
2011 in music
List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2011 (U.S.)
References
2011
United States Albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20songs%20of%202011%20%28U.S.%29 | The highest-selling digital singles in the United States are ranked in the Hot Digital Songs chart, published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each single's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a single for a summarized figure.
Chart history
See also
2011 in music
Hot Digital Songs
References
United States Digital Songs
2011
Number-one digital songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METER%20Group | METER Group, Inc., formerly Decagon Devices, is an American corporation that designs and markets scientific instruments, sensors, and data loggers for use in both agricultural and food science applications. Decagon was founded in 1983 by Dr. Gaylon Campbell.
In 2008, Decagon Devices was selected by The Wall Street Journal as one of the "Top Small Workplaces."
In 2016, Decagon Devices merged with the German scientific engineering company UMS AG to form METER Group, Inc.
In 2022, METER Group market group 'Environment' was purchased by Campbell Scientific. Market Group 'Food' and 'Horticulture' known as 'AROYA' split and became ADDIUM.
References
Technology companies of the United States
2018 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FKT%20algorithm | The Fisher–Kasteleyn–Temperley (FKT) algorithm, named after Michael Fisher, Pieter Kasteleyn, and Neville Temperley, counts the number of perfect matchings in a planar graph in polynomial time. This same task is #P-complete for general graphs. For matchings that are not required to be perfect, counting them remains #P-complete even for planar graphs. The key idea of the FKT algorithm is to convert the problem into a Pfaffian computation of a skew-symmetric matrix derived from a planar embedding of the graph. The Pfaffian of this matrix is then computed efficiently using standard determinant algorithms.
History
The problem of counting planar perfect matchings has its roots in statistical mechanics and chemistry, where the original question was: If diatomic molecules are adsorbed on a surface, forming a single layer, how many ways can they be arranged? The partition function is an important quantity that encodes the statistical properties of a system at equilibrium and can be used to answer the previous question. However, trying to compute the partition function from its definition is not practical. Thus to exactly solve a physical system is to find an alternate form of the partition function for that particular physical system that is sufficiently simple to calculate exactly. In the early 1960s, the definition of exactly solvable was not rigorous. Computer science provided a rigorous definition with the introduction of polynomial time, which dates to 1965. Similarly, the notation of not exactly solvable, for a counting problem such as this one, should correspond to #P-hardness, which was defined in 1979.
Another type of physical system to consider is composed of dimers, which is a polymer with two atoms. The dimer model counts the number of dimer coverings of a graph. Another physical system to consider is the bonding of H2O molecules in the form of ice. This can be modelled as a directed, 3-regular graph where the orientation of the edges at each vertex cannot all be the same. How many edge orientations does this model have?
Motivated by physical systems involving dimers, in 1961, Pieter Kasteleyn and Neville Temperley and Michael Fisher independently found the number of domino tilings for the m-by-n rectangle. This is equivalent to counting the number of perfect matchings for the m-by-n lattice graph. By 1967, Kasteleyn had generalized this result to all planar graphs.
Algorithm
Explanation
The main insight is that every non-zero term in the Pfaffian of the adjacency matrix of a graph G corresponds to a perfect matching. Thus, if one can find an orientation of G to align all signs of the terms in Pfaffian (no matter + or - ), then the absolute value of the Pfaffian is just the number of perfect matchings in G. The FKT algorithm does such a task for a planar graph G. The orientation it finds is called a Pfaffian orientation.
Let G = (V, E) be an undirected graph with adjacency matrix A. Define PM(n) to be the set of partitions of n element |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20Room%20%28TV%20series%29 | Music Room is an innovative British television music series that presents classical musicians and the pieces they play in a manner normally associated with popular music programming. Filmed in a bare studio with only a scaffold cube for a set, the programme strips away the glamour that often marks classical music as an elitist art form. The series has also been broadcast in Canada (on Knowledge) and across South America (on Film&Arts).
Programme description
The format is a simple alternation of performance and conversation, in which soloists discuss issues and subjects arising from their selected pieces of music. There is also one item in which a particular piece is treated to basic musical analysis.
Episodes
1. Julian Lloyd Webber (cellist) plays J.S. Bach's Adagio from Cantata no. 156 (arr. Julian Lloyd Webber), William Lloyd Webber's In the half-light, Frank Bridge's Scherzetto for cello and piano, the Scherzo pizzicato & Marcia from Benjamin Britten's Sonata for cello and piano, Gabriel Fauré's Élégie and 'In haven' from Edward Elgar's Sea Pictures (arr. Julian Lloyd Webber)
2. Lang Lang (pianist) plays Frédéric Chopin's - Etude (op.10 no.3), The Moon chased by the colourful clouds (arr. Wang Jian-Zhong ), 'Evocation' from Isaac Albéniz's Iberia, Precipitato from Sergei Prokofiev's Piano sonata no.7 and the Allegro assai from Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano sonata no.23: 'Appassionata'.
3. Nicola Benedetti, (violinist), Gabriel Fauré's Après un rêve (arr. Mischa Elman), Largo molto rubato from James MacMillan's From Ayrshire, Allegro brusco from Sergei Prokofiev's Violin sonata no.1, Blues: Moderato from Maurice Ravel's Sonata for violin and piano no.2 and the Chaconne from J. S. Bach's Partita for solo violin no.2.
4. Alison Balsom (trumpeter) plays Claude Debussy's Syrinx, Jean-Baptiste Arban's Variations on Bellini’s 'Norma' ('Casta diva'), Georges Enesco's Légende, Toru Takemitsu's Paths and arrangements of If I were a bell and Autumn leaves.
5. Leif Ove Andsnes (pianist) plays 'Norwegian' and 'Folktune' from Edvard Grieg's Lyric pieces, Andante from Leoš Janáček's In the mists, 'Promenade' and 'Gnome' from Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an exhibition, 'Sirens of the deluge' and 'Farewells (after Janáček)' from György Kurtág's Játékok, 'Of foreign lands and peoples', 'A curious story', 'Blind-man's bluff', 'A child falling asleep' and 'The poet speaks' from Robert Schumann's Kinderszenen and Frédéric Chopin's Ballade no.1.
6. Emma Johnson (clarinetist) plays Fughetta from Gerald Finzi's Five Bagatelles, Zart und mit Ausdruck from Robert Schumann's Fantasiestücke, Adagio from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Clarinet concerto, her own piece, Georgie, Grazioso from Leonard Bernstein's Sonata for clarinet, John Dankworth's Picture of Jeannie and Alamiro Giampieri's Carnevale di Venezia.
7. Natalie Clein (cellist) plays Song of the birds (arr. Pablo Casals), Prelude and Bourée from J.S.Bach's Cello suite no.3, Ástor Piazzolla's Grand Tang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Hazel | Philip Hazel is a computer programmer best known for writing the Exim mail transport agent in 1995 and the PCRE regular expression library in 1997. He was employed by the University of Cambridge Computing Service until he retired at the end of September 2007. In 2009 Hazel wrote an autobiographical memoir about his computing career which he updated in 2017.
Hazel is also known for his typesetting software, in particular "Philip's Music Writer", as well as programs to turn a simple markup into a subset of DocBook XML for use in the Exim manual, and to produce PostScript from this XML.
Published works
References
External links
Philip Hazel's personal website
English computer programmers
Free software programmers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thecus | Thecus Technology Corporation (Thecus) is a Taiwanese multinational corporation that designs and markets Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Direct-attached storage (DAS), and Network Video Recorders (NVRs). Thecus is best known for producing NAS and creates and designs its own hardware, firmware, and accessory software. Thecus's products are distributed worldwide and localized in several languages. Thecus's headquarters are located in Taipei, Taiwan with subsidiaries located around the world.
Company Profile and History
Thecus was founded in 2004 and released their first SMB NAS, the N4100, at CeBIT 2005 in Hannover, Germany. Thecus is a relative newcomer, having released only about two dozen NAS and related devices.
In 2006, Thecus released the World's first 5 bay NAS.
Thecus is an Intel Storage Community Member and is counted among Intel's 20 largest worldwide strategic partners, which also includes Cisco, IBM, HP, EMC, Hitachi, and Sony. They operate from four locations worldwide, including their headquarters in Taipei and three branches in America, Holland, and China.
Thecus had their Initial public offering on November 26, 2010 with a net revenue of $19.5 million in 2011 and current assets valued at $9.1 million
In September 2014, Thecus launched the World's first Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Essentials NAS product line.
In March 2015, the 5-bay N5810PRO NAS was launched. Containing a Built-in Mini-UPS, as a contingency power supply.
In December 2015, their latest operating system, the ThecusOS 7.0 was launched
In May 2016, Thecus was formally acquired by Ennoconn Corporation and thus became part of the Foxconn IPC Technology group.
In December 2016, they added (Scale out) functionality to ThecusOS 7.0, enabling storage scalability without limit
In March 2017, Thecus added Window Storage Server 2016 to their Windows rackmount NAS product line.
In March 2017, Thecus announced their new 4-bay N4910U series, 1U rackmount architecture.
In March 2017, Thecus unveiled their new budget-friendly 2-bay NAS, the N2350
In late 2019 they stopped shipping to the United States. By the second quarter of 2020 Thecus products in the US not available. Inquiry to the Sales department have gone unanswered.
Product Overview
Thecus is a Network-Attached Storage producer. Thecus has Linux and Window versions for each NAS category. NAS are Thecus's primary products since its establishment in 2004.
NAS
Network-Attached Storage, or NAS, are network-accessible storage devices commonly used for backing up data, web serving, file sharing, or as a shared hub for local or remote storage. Thecus's product lines include smaller devices for home use, such as 2-4 bay NAS, medium-sized devices for SMB (Small and medium businesses) use, such as 4-8 bay NAS, and larger enterprise NAS, such as the 12 and 16 bay NAS.
DAS
Direct-attached storage, or DAS, are storage units that can be added to a NAS solution via Daisy-Chaining technology to increase the NAS' stora |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO%20Signature%20%28Asian%20TV%20channel%29 | HBO Signature is a Southeast Asian pay television network owned by HBO Asia featuring Hollywood blockbuster movies, regardless of genre.
On 1 March 2019, In a preparation for the 8th and final season of Game of Thrones, the channel was temporarily re-branded as HBO Signature Game of Thrones, a dedicated channel that airs past seasons and exclusive behind-the-scene features from the series until 30 April 2019.
Programming
HBO Signature Asia has licensing deals with 5 major Hollywood conglomerate film studios:
Warner Bros. Discovery (Warner Bros. Pictures; New Line Cinema, HBO Films, Castle Rock Entertainment; Warner Independent Pictures)
Paramount Global: (Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage).
Universal Pictures (NBCUniversal)
Sony Pictures
Independent Film Productions, such as Lionsgate Films, Regency Enterprises, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, A24, etc.
Other channels
References
External links
Official website
HBO
HBO Signature
HBO Signature
Movie channels in Singapore
Television stations in Singapore
Television channels and stations established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXYZ | DXYZ (963 AM) Sonshine Radio is a radio station owned and operated by Sonshine Media Network International. The station's studio is located at the 4th floor, MindPro Building, La Purisima St., Zamboanga City.
History
Established on July 12, 1963, DXYZ was the first station of Nation Broadcasting Corporation under the helm of Abelardo L. Yabut, Sr. It is also in Zamboanga City. Its offices and studios were located then in the third floor of Evangelista Building, the tallest in the city by that time. It transmitted then on a 1-kilowatt surplus transmitter from Deeco Electronics through its tower on the building rooftop. Eddie Rodriguez, who later on became the city councilor, was the station's first manager by later part of that year.
It was known as NBC DXYZ Radyo 963 and later on Angel Radyo 963. In 1998, PLDT media subsidiary MediaQuest Holdings bought NBC from the consortium led by the Yabut family and real estate magnate Manny Villar. In 2005, The Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC) leader, Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy purchased all of NBC AM radio stations, including DXYZ, and rebranded them as Sonshine Radio.
References
Radio stations in Zamboanga City
Radio stations established in 1963
Sonshine Media Network International
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
1963 establishments in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augusta%20University%20Medical%20Center | Augusta University Health is an academic health center that manages the clinical operations associated with Augusta University. It is a health care network that offers primary, specialty and sub-specialty care in the Augusta, Georgia area and throughout the Southeastern United States.
On August 30, it was announced that its merger with Wellstar Health System had been completed.
Facilities
Augusta University Health's facilities include:
478-bed medical center
154-bed children's hospital
Medical office building with more than 80 outpatient practice sites
13-county regional Level 1 trauma center at the Critical Care Center
Cancer center, including a freestanding outpatient clinic, radiation oncology building and the M. Bert Storey Cancer Research Building
Convenient satellite locations, including Augusta University Medical Associates at West Wheeler, Augusta University Medical Associates at Lake Oconee, Roosevelt Warm Springs and various freestanding clinics for specialty and subspecialty care
Augusta University Health also partners with rural hospitals across Georgia to improve access to advanced health care options.
Awards
The hospital has received several awards.
The Breast Health Center was named Augusta's only Breast Imaging Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology in 2011.
The Kidney Transplant Excellence Award from Healthgrades was awarded in 2009 and 2010. GRMC was one of 10 kidney transplant programs to receive the distinction.
Children's Hospital of Georgia
The Children's Hospital of Georgia (CHOG) is a 154-bed academic children's hospital, and is the only children's hospital in the Augusta area. CHOG provides the highest level of neonatal intensive care and pediatric intensive care available as defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics. It is staffed by a team of pediatric specialists who deliver inpatient and outpatient care for everything from common childhood illnesses to life-threatening conditions like heart and neurological conditions and cancer.
The facility opened in 1998 as part of the Medical College of Georgia's 10 year master-plan expansion as the MCGHealth Children's Medical Center, and was renamed in 2013. The hospital is among the largest pediatric facilities in the United States.
CHOG has an award-winning Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) program, which is considered a pioneer in this area, having started the first program in the Southeast in 1985, and having been designated a Center of Excellence in 2012.
Merger with Wellstar
In December 2022, it was announced the Augusta University Health would proceed with a merger with the Atlanta-based Wellstar Health System - the goal being to provide more ample options for students at the Medical College of Georgia to study around the state of Georgia. Following approval by the University System of Georgia's Board of Regents in April 2023, the system would be renamed Wellstar MCG Health when the merger is completed at a later date.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Chervenak | Matthew Chervenak is the founder, President and CEO of General Biologic (GBI), a China-based, healthcare focused consulting firm and data company. He founded the company in Shanghai in 2002. Chervenak also serves as the Chairman of the Healthcare Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce (Amcham) in Shanghai. Prior to establishing General Biologic, Chervenak was a strategist at Sapient Corporation in New York City and researcher at New York University Medical Center and the National Institutes of Health. Chervenak graduated with a B.S. in Biology from Pennsylvania State University.
Chervenak regularly contributes to international publications and speaks at industry conferences about China's pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. Chervenak believes that China is an ideal base for global biogenerics. In an editorial, Chervenak wrote that China's low-cost, highly skilled technologists and scientists, a strong track record in life-science research, a high-quality talent pool of returnee overseas Chinese, advantageous regulations and tax policy, and China's entrepreneurial culture, all contribute to create a bright future for China's life sciences industry. Even in the controversial case of intellectual property in the life sciences field in China, according to Chervenak, as long as foreign firms protect their IP in the most lucrative markets, it is usually not worth being overly concerned about violations in China, where the market is still small.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Eberly College of Science alumni
American chief executives
New York University Grossman School of Medicine faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MalCon | The International Malware Conference, abbreviated as MalCon and stylized as MALCON is a computer security conference targeted on the development of malware.
Announcements
Some new announcements made at MalCon include malware that can share USB smart card reader data, Windows Phone 8 malware, security problems with counterfeit phones and the AirHopper attack.
See also
DEF CON
Chaos Communication Congress
References
External links
Hacker conventions
Recurring events established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlqvist%20gap | The Karlqvist gap or Karlqvist Field is an electromagnetic phenomenon discovered in 1953 by the Swedish engineer Olle Karlqvist (1922-1976), which is important in magnetic storage for computers.
Karlqvist discovered the phenomenon while designing a ferromagnetic surface layer to the magnetic drum memory for the BESK computer. When designing a magnetic memory store, the ferromagnetic layer must be studied to determine the variation of the magnetic field with permeability, air gap, layer thickness and other influencing factors. The problem is non-linear and extremely difficult to solve. Karlqvist's gap discovery shows that the non-linear problem could be approximated by a linear boundary value for the two-dimensional static field and the one-dimensional transient field. This linear calculation gives a first approximation.
Karlqvist published his discovery in the 1954 paper "Calculation of the magnetic field in ferromagnetic layer of a magnetic drum" at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
See also
Carousel memory, 2560-kilobyte storage unit first sold in 1958
References
Electromagnetism
Computer memory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Hot%20100%20number%20ones%20of%202011 | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs of the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay. In 2011, 14 singles claimed the top spot in 53 issues of the magazine, one of which, singer Katy Perry's "Firework" started its peak position in late 2010.
In 2011, nine acts achieved their first US number-one single, either as a lead artist or a featured guest: Wiz Khalifa, Adele, Pitbull, Afrojack, Nayer, LMFAO, Lauren Bennett, GoonRock and Calvin Harris. Six collaboration singles topped the chart. Pop singers Adele, Britney Spears, Katy Perry and Rihanna each earned two number-one songs during the year.
One of Adele's songs, "Rolling in the Deep", was the best-performing single of 2011, topping the Billboard Year-End Hot 100. She became the fourth solo female to have multiple songs spend at least five weeks each at number one in one calendar year.
Rihanna's "We Found Love" was the longest-running single of the year, having topped the chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2011 and two additional weeks in 2012. It became only the eleventh single by a female solo artist to have spent at least ten weeks at number-one in the chart's history. Adele's "Rolling In the Deep" stayed at number one for seven consecutive weeks, while Lady Gaga's "Born This Way"—the 1,000th number-one single of the Hot 100—and LMFAO's "Party Rock Anthem" topped the chart for six consecutive weeks. Perry's "E.T." and Adele's "Someone Like You" each spent five weeks at the number-one spot.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2011 in music
List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2011
Notes
Perry had three number-one singles on the chart in 2011. However, "Firework" is excluded from the count, because it previously topped the chart in 2010.
References
External links
Hot 100 chart at Billboard
United States Hot 100
2011
Hot 100 number-one singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20Gal%20Sunday | Our Gal Sunday is an American soap opera produced by Frank and Anne Hummert, network broadcast via CBS from March 29, 1937, to January 2, 1959, starring Dorothy Lowell and, after Lowell's 1944 death, Vivian Smolen in the title role.
The origin of this radio series was a 1904 Broadway production, Sunday, which starred Ethel Barrymore. This play was the source of the catchphrase, "That's all there is, there isn't any more."
Characters and story
The Hummerts adapted the Broadway play into a long-running melodramatic radio serial about a Colorado orphan who marries a British aristocrat. It began when two grizzled miners, Jackie and Lively, found a child abandoned and left at the door of their mountain cabin. She was given the name Sunday because that was the day she entered their lives. Later, her last name was given as Smithson. As an adult, she was desired by her childhood friend, Bill Jenkins. She fell under the spell of wealthy Englishman Arthur Brinthrope, who came to check his silver mine. Arthur was shot by Jackie, who wanted to prevent him from running away with Sunday. Arthur's brother, Henry, arrived, eventually marrying Sunday. The couple moved to their Black Swan Hall estate in Virginia, where they lived with their adopted son, Lonnie, and their two natural children, Caroline and Little Davy, who was crippled by a hit-and-run driver.
Dorothy Lowell had the title role from 1937 to 1944. When she died in childbirth at age 28, she was replaced by Vivian Smolen, who portrayed Sunday from 1944 to 1959. Leading reference sources claim that Lowell continued to star in the radio program until 1946, but those books and websites are obviously incorrect since Lowell died in 1944.
The show opened with this question:
"Red River Valley" was the series' theme music. The announcers were Ed Fleming, Jim Fleming, John Reed King, Art Millett, Bert Parks, Charles Stark, Warren Sweeney and John A. Wolfe.
See also
List of soap operas
References
Listen to
Our Gal Sunday (September 21, 1939)
Our Gal Sunday
External links
Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs: Our Gal Sunday
Short story in Radio and Television Mirror (February 1940, page 12) based on Our Gal Sunday
WDRC programming: October 2, 1939 schedule
1937 radio programme debuts
1959 radio programme endings
1930s American radio programs
1940s American radio programs
1950s American radio programs
American radio soap operas
CBS Radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZScreen | ZScreen is a push-pull electro-optical liquid crystal modulator that is placed immediately in front of the projector lens or computer screen to alternately polarize the light from each video frame. It circularly polarizes the frames clockwise for the right eye and counterclockwise for the left eye.
The RealD 3D system now showing in theaters is using the ZScreen that was invented by Lenny Lipton.
See also
RealD Cinema
RealD
Lenny Lipton
StereoGraphics
Patents
External links
Dolby Digital 3D vs Real D / Master image systems Video Technology Blog
Who is Lenny Lipton? About Inventor and Chief technical officer of RealD through 2008
3D imaging
3D cinema |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy%20Klein | Judy Klein (born 14 April 1943, in Chicago) is an American composer, music educator. She is the founder of the Computer Music Studio at New York University and served as its director in 1980's. Her music is primarily acousmatic, and includes works for the electronic medium, sound installations, music for theatre and collaborations with visual artists.
Education
Judy Klein earned her Bachelor in Arts at the University of California, Berkeley (1967), and continued her studies at the Music Academy in Basel, Switzerland (Diploma, 1977). She graduated with a Master of Arts degree from New York University (1987), after studying with Thomas Kessler, Reynold Weidenaar, Lilli Friedemann and Ruth Anderson. She continued her studies in computer generated music at the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music with Charles Dodge.
Musical career
Klein began teaching electro-acoustic music composition at New York University (SEHNAP) in 1985, and later founded and directed the New York University Computer Music studio. She has served as a consultant for the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (Lincoln Center) where she worked to create the Library's Archive of Electro-Acoustic Music(1990 -2006). She has been an artist-in-residence at places such as Bregman Studio at Dartmouth College, The Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music, Elektronische Musik Studio in Basle, Switzerland, Institute of Electroacoustic Music (Bourges, France), and guest composer and lecturer at Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music, the Cincinnati College Conservatory, and the Computer Music Center at Columbia University, among others.
Klein composes almost exclusively in the C programming language and the C sound computer music language. Her works are primarily acousmatic and increasingly combine her interest in sound with her commitment to animal rights, which she speaks about in an interview with Peter Shea about her piece “The Wolves of Bays Mountain”, as well as other aspects of her work. She currently resides in New York City and serves on juries and selections committees for electroacoustic music competitions, festivals and conferences. She is a member of the Steering Committee for the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival and is a contributing editor for The Open Space Magazine and for Perspectives of New Music. Her music is recorded on ICMA, SEAMUS, Cuneiform and Open Space compact discs.
Musical works
Selected works include:
Dead End (1979) - tape
Little Piece (1979) - tape
Dream/Song (1980) - tape
Journeys (1982) - tape, art installation; collaboration with B. Nathan
God Bites (1983) - tape
The Mines of Falun, pt 1 (1983) - tape
The Tell-Tale Heart (1983) - film score; directed by H. Marti
From the Journals of Felix Bosonnet (1987) - tape; Performed at the 1989 International Computer Music Conference
Elements 1.1: sulphur, phosphorus; diamond (1992) - tape
88” for Nick (1992) - tape
Elements 1.2 (1993) - sound installation; collaborati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomb%20Alarm%20System | The Bomb Alarm System (also known as the Bomb Alarm Display System) was a US and UK network of optical bhangmeter sensors intended to confirm the detonation of an enemy nuclear weapon near cities or military installations within the US or at US operated early warning radar sites in the UK or Greenland.
The BAS was designed by Western Union in 1959 and was in full operation by 1962. The BAS was the responsibility of the 9th Space Division. The BAS operated until 1967.
The BAS sensors were designed to report the occurrence of a nuclear flash via telephone or telegraph lines before the sensor was destroyed by the explosion. They were designed to ignore spurious signals from lightning, sunlight, or electrical surges.
See also
Strategic Air Command
Pinetree Line contemporary early warning RADAR.
National Emergency Alarm Repeater contemporary device.
References
Telecommunications equipment of the Cold War
Western Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenNebula | OpenNebula is an open source cloud computing platform for managing heterogeneous data center, public cloud and edge computing infrastructure resources. OpenNebula manages on-premise and remote virtual infrastructure to build private, public, or hybrid implementations of Infrastructure as a Service and multi-tenant Kubernetes deployments. The two primary uses of the OpenNebula platform are data center virtualization and cloud deployments based on the KVM hypervisor, LXD/LXC system containers, and AWS Firecracker microVMs. The platform is also capable of offering the cloud infrastructure necessary to operate a cloud on top of existing VMware infrastructure. In early June 2020, OpenNebula announced the release of a new Enterprise Edition for corporate users, along with a Community Edition. OpenNebula CE is free and open-source software, released under the Apache License version 2. OpenNebula CE comes with free access to patch releases containing critical bug fixes but with no access to the regular EE maintenance releases. Upgrades to the latest minor/major version is only available for CE users with non-commercial deployments or with significant open source contributions to the OpenNebula Community. OpenNebula EE is distributed under a closed-source license and requires a commercial Subscription.
History
The OpenNebula Project was started as a research venture in 2005 by Ignacio M. Llorente and Ruben S. Montero. The first public release of the software occurred in 2008. The goals of the research were to create efficient solutions for managing virtual machines on distributed infrastructures. It was also important that these solutions had the ability to scale at high levels. Open-source development and an active community of developers have since helped mature the project. As the project matured it began to become more and more adopted and in March 2010 the primary writers of the project founded C12G Labs, now known as OpenNebula Systems, which provides value-added professional services to enterprises adopting or utilizing OpenNebula.
Description
OpenNebula orchestrates storage, network, virtualization, monitoring, and security technologies to deploy multi-tier services (e.g. compute clusters) as virtual machines on distributed infrastructures, combining both data center resources and remote cloud resources, according to allocation policies. According to the European Commission's 2010 report "... only few cloud dedicated research projects in the widest sense have been initiated – most prominent amongst them probably OpenNebula ...".
The toolkit includes features for integration, management, scalability, security and accounting. It also claims standardization, interoperability and portability, providing cloud users and administrators with a choice of several cloud interfaces (Amazon EC2 Query, OGF Open Cloud Computing Interface and vCloud) and hypervisors (VMware vCenter, KVM, LXD/LXC and AWS Firecracker), and can accommodate multiple hardware and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity%20%28Twitter%20client%29 | Gravity was a Twitter and social networking client for Symbian smartphones. Apart from Twitter it also connected to StatusNet, Facebook, Foursquare, Google reader, Sina Weibo and YouTube. It was developed by Jan Ole Suhr.
In 2017 an Android based version of Gravity has been released. Due to licensing issues it just offers Twitter and a RSS reader.
References
Symbian software
Twitter services and applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hespagarista%20caudata | Hespagarista caudata is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in western Africa.
Agaristinae
Lepidoptera of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lepidoptera of the Republic of the Congo
Lepidoptera of West Africa
Lepidoptera of Malawi
Lepidoptera of Tanzania
Lepidoptera of Zambia
Moths of Sub-Saharan Africa
Moths described in 1879 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacio%20M.%20Llorente | Ignacio Martín Llorente (born 1 July 1969) is an entrepreneur, researcher and educator in the field of cloud and distributed computing. He is the director of OpenNebula, a visiting scholar at Harvard University and a full professor at Complutense University. Dr. Llorente is a IEEE Senior Member. He holds a Ph.D in Computer Science from UCM and an Executive MBA from IE Business School.
Llorente graduated in physics, with a major in computer science in 1992. He obtained his Ph.D. in physics, with a specialty in computer science in 1995 at the Complutense University of Madrid. Later in 2003, he received an Executive MBA degree from IE Business School. After finishing his Ph.D. on efficient execution of scientific applications on parallel computers, he worked on parallel systems with different scaling models. Llorente was promoted to associate professor at the Complutense University of Madrid in 1997. From 1997 to 2002, he held consultancy positions at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering at the NASA Langley Research Center, where he conducted research on multi-grid methods, their application to computational fluid dynamics, and their parallel implementation.
Since 2002, Llorente led the Distributed Systems Architecture Research Group in large-scale distributed infrastructures, virtualization technologies, distributed computing, and resource provision platforms. Supporting projects including the EU-funded RESERVOIR project. He has focused his research on architectures, meta-scheduling and benchmarking for grid computing, as well as cloud computing architectures and federation. These efforts have resulted in several open-source technologies, such as Globus, GridWay, and OpenNebula. Later, in 2010, he co-founded C12G Labs, a cloud computing technology start-up which leads OpenNebula development.
Llorente was promoted to full professor in 2006. From 2002 to 2007, he also held a senior researcher position in the Advanced Computing Lab at CAB (CSIC/INTA center associated to NASA Astrobiology Institute). In 2009, Llorente co-founded and co-chaired the Open Grid Forum Working Group on the Open Cloud Computing Interface. Since 2009, he participated in the European Cloud Computing Group of Experts.
Llorente received the ARITMEL 2020 Computer Science Award for his contributions to cloud computing.
References
External links
Personal web page
CloudBook Profile of Ignacio M. Llorente
The Next Generation of Cloud Computing Platforms, An Interview with Ignacio M. Llorente, Science, Technology and Innovation Projects, August 2010.
Cloudview: An Interview with Dr. Ignacio M. Llorente, HPC in the Cloud, May 2010
Living people
Researchers in distributed computing
Spanish computer scientists
1969 births
Complutense University of Madrid alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash%20Deluxe | Crash Deluxe is a postcyberpunk novel by science fiction author Marianne de Pierres and is the third and final Parrish Plessis Novel.
Synopsis
Parrish Plessis, sometime coup leader, paid assassin and ex-bodyguard, is finding life tough. Betrayed by the enigmatic Loyl Daac, and still under blood debt to the deadly Cabal Coomera, Parrish is trying to hold together the little empire she's inherited in the Tert, live up to the expectations of the many strays and waifs she's accumulated, and attempt to flush the high-tech parasite from her system before she becomes something so much less than human. Not an ideal lifestyle, Parrish would be the first to admit, but she can make everything alright again if she can manage just one little task. Bring down the media.
2005 novels
2005 science fiction novels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rui%20de%20Figueiredo | Rui José Pacheco de Figueiredo (19 April 1929 – 22 July 2013) was an electrical engineer, mathematician, computer scientist, and a professor of electrical engineering, computer engineering, and applied mathematics at the University of California, Irvine.
Life and career
de Figueiredo was born on 19 April 1929 in Panjim, Goa where he grew up the second of four boys. His parents were João Manuel Pacheco de Figueiredo and Maria Alcina da Rocha Pinto. He was identified very early on as academically gifted and musically talented. From the ages of four to nine he was home schooled in Portuguese by tutors in various subjects including maths, science, and music. At the age of nine he entered the Liceu where he continued his studies. In 1945, professors from the Trinity College of Music in London assessed his piano performance, commenting that his play of the scales was "as graceful as the gliding of skates on virgin ice." He acquired the title of Licenciate of the Trinity College and was awarded a fully funded scholarship to pursue music at the school in London. After careful consideration, his parents advised him to decline the offer as they felt he was too young, at age 16, to live alone in London. After graduating from high school, he left India to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a BS degree in 1950, and an MS degree in 1952. He subsequently received a PhD from Harvard University in 1959.
de Figueiredo worked as a consultant for the Portuguese Atomic Energy Commission while finishing his PhD, and upon graduation, became the head of the Applied Maths and Physics Division of the Nuclear Research Centre, in Sacavém, Portugal. In 1962, he returned to the United States to take a tenured position as an associate professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University. In 1965, he became a full professor jointly appointed in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Applied Mathematics at Rice University. In 1990, Figueiredo moved to Irvine, California, where he was a professor in both the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and Mathematics Department at the University of California at Irvine. He also was founder and Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications at UCI.
de Figueiredo was married to Isabel Colaço de Figueiredo and has five children, Alcina Dalton, Paulo (Paul) de Figueiredo, João (John) de Figueiredo, Rui de Figueiredo Jr., and Miguel (Michael) de Figueiredo. Rui Jr., is a professor at Haas School of Business.
Work
Figueiredo is best known for his work developing novel mathematical foundations for the solution of fundamentally nonlinear problems, with applications in pattern recognition, signal processing, image processing, and neural networks. His work supported a variety of NASA space exploration projects, assisted the Department of Defense in weapons detection systems, helped companies identify credit card fraud, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Flight%20Before%20Christmas%20%282008%20film%29 | The Flight Before Christmas (, aka Niko & The Way to the Stars) is a 2008 computer animated Christmas film directed by Michael Hegner and Kari Juusonen. It revolves around a young reindeer named Niko who must overcome his fear of flying by heading to Santa Claus' fell to save him and his fleet of flying reindeer from a pack of wolves. The film was a Finnish production with co-producers in Denmark, Germany and Ireland. It was produced by Anima Vitae, Animaker Oy, A. Film A/S, Ulysses Films, and Magma Films. The animation was produced in Finland, Germany and Denmark, with post-production carried out in Ireland. A 45-minute television edit in American English, was produced in the United States for CBS under the title The Flight Before Christmas. A sequel, Little Brother, Big Trouble: A Christmas Adventure was released in October 2012 in Finland. It is one of the most expensive Finnish films.
Plot
Niko, a young reindeer, is told by Oona, his mother, that his father is one of the "Flying Forces", Santa's flying reindeer. For years, Niko has dreamed of joining his father in the Flying Forces, but he himself is unable to fly and even has a fear of heights. While trying to fly with the encouragement of Julius, a flying squirrel, the other young reindeer teased Niko. To avoid further teasing, Niko and his friend Saga leave their protected valley so Niko can practice without any disruptions. However, they are spotted by wolves and flee back to the herd in panic, but wind up luring the wolf pack to the valley. As the herd flees, Saga's father, the herd's leader battles and defeats a wolf, but is wounded in the process. Later, Niko overhears others talking of how his actions have damaged the herd, and decides to leave the herd in an attempt to find his father and Santa's Fell.
When Niko is discovered missing, Julius chooses to look for Niko, since he can search without leaving a trail as fresh snow is falling. Once he finds him, Julius is unable to convince Niko to return to the herd, and reluctantly joins him in the search for Santa's secret location. Meanwhile, Essie, a lost pet poodle, stumbles upon the wolf pack and is about to be eaten, but suggests to Black Wolf, the alpha wolf, the idea of killing Santa's reindeer. Essie is considered Black Wolf's good luck charm for this idea and is spared, but is also forced to join the pack. Niko and Julius discover Wilma, a weasel, stuck in a small tree branch and rescue her. She reluctantly joins Niko and Julius, believing she is indebted to them. Julius and Niko later get separated in a sudden blizzard and Niko wakes up under a pile of snow, unnoticed by the nearby wolf pack. Niko overhears Black Wolf resolving to kill Santa as well and take his place so he could also eat children.
When Niko is discovered, he flees and finds Julius, but the two are cornered between rock cliffs. Wilma saves them by triggering an avalanche with her singing, then guides Niko and Julius to safety. She then continues to follow the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost%20of%20recycling%20computers | The Cost of recycling computers might refer to:
Computer recycling
Electronic waste |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4stmanland%20Runic%20Inscription%2017 | Västmanland Runic Inscription 17 or Vs 17 is the Rundata designation for a Viking Age memorial runestone with an image of a ship that is located in Råby, which is about two kilometers east of Tortuna, Västmanland County, Sweden, which was in the historic province of Västmanland.
Description
The inscription on Vs 17 consists of runic text in the younger futhark on a serpent that encircles a ship that is on a granite stone which is 1.4 meters in height. Other runic inscriptions from the Viking Age which depict ships include DR 77 in Hjermind, DR 119 in Spentrup, DR 220 in Sønder Kirkeby, DR 258 in Bösarp, DR 271 in Tullstorp, DR 328 in Holmby, DR EM85;523 in Farsø, Ög 181 in Ledberg, Ög 224 in Stratomta, Ög MÖLM1960;230 in Törnevalla, Sö 122 in Skresta, Sö 154 in Skarpåker, Sö 158 in Österberga, Sö 164 in Spånga, Sö 351 in Överjärna, Sö 352 in Linga, Vg 51 in Husaby, U 370 in Herresta, U 979 in Gamla Uppsala, U 1052 in Axlunda, and U 1161 in Altuna. Three stones, the Hørdum and Långtora kyrka stones and U 1001 in Rasbo, depict ships but currently do not have any runes on them and may never have had any.
The inscription, which has been damaged on the left side, is classified as probably being carved in runestone style Pr5, which is also known as Urnes style. This runestone style is characterized by slim and stylized animals that are interwoven into tight patterns. The animal heads are typically seen in profile with slender almond-shaped eyes and upwardly curled appendages on the noses and the necks. The inscription based on stylistic analysis is attributed to a runemaster with the normalized name of Litle, who signed the inscriptions on runestones Vs 20 in Prästgården (Romfartuna synod), Vs 27 in Grällsta, and probably the now-lost Vs 28 in Grällsta. Other inscriptions attributed to Litle based on stylistic analysis include Vs 22 in Ulvsta and Vs 32 in Prästgården (Västerfärnebo synod).
The runic text indicates that the stone was raised by Holmsteinn in memory of his wife Tíðfríðr and of himself. There are over twenty other runestones where the sponsor of the stone stated that the stone was raised in memory of himself, including Sö 55 in Bjudby, U 127 in Danderyds, the now-lost U 149 in Hagby, U 164 and U 165 in Täby, U 171 in Söderby, U 194 in Väsby, U 212 in Vallentuna, U 261 in Fresta, U 308 in Ekeby, the now-lost U 345 in Yttergärde, U 433 in Husby-Ärlinghundra, U 734 in Linsunda, U 739 in Gådi, U 803 in Långtora, U 962 in Vaksala, U 1011 in Örby, U 1040 in Fasma, the now-lost U 1114 in Myrby, U 1181 in Lilla Runhällen, U Fv1958;250 in Sigtuna, Vs 32 in Prästgården, and DR 212 in Tillitse. Of these, five stones known as the Jarlabanke Runestones were sponsored by the same person in memory of himself. In carving the runic text, the runemaster used a punctuation mark consisting of two dots as a word divider between each word.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
holmste[n] : let : resa : mer[ki : eftir : tifrit : go |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6dermanland%20Runic%20Inscription%20351 | Södermanland Runic Inscription 351 or Sö 351 is the Rundata catalog number of a Viking Age memorial runestone located in Överjärna, which is part of Järna, Stockholm County, Sweden, which was part of the historic province of Södermanland. The damaged inscription depicts a ship and the text names the killer of the decedent.
Description
This damaged inscription consists of text in the younger futhark carved on a serpent that circles a cross and ship which is on a granite stone that is 1.22 meters in height. Other runic inscriptions from the Viking Age which depict ships include DR 77 in Hjermind, DR 119 in Spentrup, DR 220 in Sønder Kirkeby, DR 258 in Bösarp, DR 271 in Tullstorp, DR 328 in Holmby, DR EM85;523 in Farsø, Ög 181 in Ledberg, Ög 224 in Stratomta, Ög MÖLM1960;230 in Törnevalla, Sö 122 in Skresta, Sö 154 in Skarpåker, Sö 158 in Österberga, Sö 164 in Spånga, Sö 352 in Linga, Vg 51 in Husaby, U 370 in Herresta, U 979 in Gamla Uppsala, U 1052 in Axlunda, U 1161 in Altuna, and Vs 17 in Råby. Three stones, the Hørdum and Långtora kyrka stones and U 1001 in Rasbo, depict ships but currently do not have any runes on them and may never have had any. Based on stylistic analysis, it is believed that the same runemaster who carved Sö 351 also carved the nearby inscriptions on Sö 350 in Valsta and Sö 352 in Linga.
The runic text indicates that the stone was raised in memory of a man named Végeirr, who was the father of the sponsor of the inscription. It states the name of the killer of Végeirr, a man named Wends. It is one of two runestones which name the killers of the decedent by name, the other being the now-lost U 954 in Söderby.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
...[u] + raisti + stain + þansi + at + uikaiʀ + faþur + sin + uinr ...abu + h-n ×
Transcription into Old Norse
... ræisti stæin þannsi at Vigæiʀ, faður sinn. Vindr [dr]apu h[a]nn.
Translation in English
... raised this stone in memory of Végeirr, his father. Wends killed him.
References
External links
Photograph of Sö 351 in 1960 - Stockholm Läns Museum
Runestones in Södermanland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday%20Night%20Football%20%28disambiguation%29 | Saturday Night Football is the name given to college football broadcasts on Saturday nights on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television network.
Saturday Night Football may also refer to:
Big Ten Saturday Night, Saturday night college football broadcasts on the NBC television network starting in 2023
NFL on DuMont, which ran on Saturday nights from 1951 to 1955
NFL Network Exclusive Game Series, which included games branded as Saturday Night Football from 2006 to 2008
ESPN College Football Saturday Primetime
Saturday Night Football (UK TV programme), 2013–2016 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molicel | E-One Moli Energy Corp. is a Taiwanese manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries. It was founded in 1998 and focused on producing high capacity energy cells for notebook computers, high-end electronics and networking communication devices under the "Molicel" brand.
In 2004, it partnered with Milwaukee Electric Tool to develop a high energy power cell for cordless power tools, with its first power tool model introduced in 2005. It has also provided batteries to Ford for electric cars, and in 2008 became the first qualified battery supplier for BMW MINI E.
Its E-One Moli Energy (Canada) Limited division has a facility in Maple Ridge, British Columbia that is the only North American high volume manufacturer of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. It has been listed by the Critical Foreign Dependencies Initiative as a result.
History
The history of E-One Moli Energy goes back to Moli Energy Ltd., the Canadian pioneer of rechargeable lithium battery technology, founded in 1977 in the Greater Vancouver suburb of Burnaby. Moli Energy went into receivership after a cell phone battery produced by the company caught fire in 1989, resulting in its sales being halted and tens of thousands of phones getting recalled. The failure of Moli's battery technology caused a shift towards safer intercalation electrode materials.
The company was then acquired by "a consortium of Japanese tech companies" for CAD 5 million in a deal with the British Columbia government. The deal was criticized for being far below the value of Moli's patents. In 1994 the company became Nippon Moli Energy Corp. and in 1997 it became NEC Moli Energy Corp. In 1998 it merged with Taiwanese E-One Technology forming the current E-One Moli Energy Corp.
References
Energy companies established in 1998
Lithium-ion batteries
Manufacturing companies established in 1998
Manufacturing companies based in Taipei
Taiwanese companies established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2010%20X1%20%28Elenin%29 | Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) is an Oort cloud comet discovered by Russian amateur astronomer Leonid Elenin on December 10, 2010, through remote control of the International Scientific Optical Network's robotic observatory near Mayhill in the U.S. state of New Mexico. The discovery was made using the automated asteroids discovery program CoLiTec. At the time of discovery, the comet had an apparent magnitude of 19.5, which made it about 150,000 times fainter than can be seen with the naked eye. The discoverer, Leonid Elenin, originally estimated that the comet nucleus was 3–4 km in diameter, but more recent estimates place the pre-breakup size of the comet at 2 km. Comet Elenin started disintegrating in August 2011, and as of mid-October 2011 was not visible even using large ground-based telescopes.
Brightness
In April 2011, the comet was around magnitude 15 (roughly the brightness of Pluto), with a coma (expanding tenuous dust atmosphere) estimated to be about 80,000 km in diameter. the coma had exceeded 100,000 km, and it had exceeded 200,000 km. Estimates of the comet's visual brightness varied from 13.1 to 13.8 magnitude between May 22 and June 4, were approaching 10 by late July 2011, and were around 8.3 as of mid August 2011. Even at a magnitude of 8.3, the comet was about 5 times fainter than the naked eye can see under a completely dark sky. On 19 August 2011 comet Elenin was hit by a coronal mass ejection (CME). The comet started disintegrating, as did comet C/1999 S4. As of mid September 2011 the comet had become dimmer than magnitude 10.5, and appeared around magnitude 12 as seen by STEREO-A. the comet is projected to be about magnitude 14 and fading. By mid-October 2011 there had been no confirmed ground based sighting of Comet Elenin even using the Faulkes Telescope North with a limiting magnitude of around 20.5. The dust cloud remnants of Comet Elenin started to become visible to ground-based telescopes around 21 October 2011. The post-disintegration appearance of C/2010 X1 has been visually compared to the debris field of Shoemaker-Levy 9 as seen on 23 June 1993.
Between August 1 and August 12 of 2011, NASA repeatedly rolled the STEREO-B spacecraft to view the forward scattering of light as the spacecraft, comet, and Sun aligned. , Comet Elenin was visible in STEREO-B without rolling the craft. Because it disintegrated, SOHO failed to detect the forward scattering of light in late September. Because the orbit of Elenin is nearly coincident with the ecliptic plane with an inclination of only 1.84°, the comet entered forward-scattering geometry from STEREO-B, SOHO, and Earth. Had the comet not disintegrated, it would have allowed the dust scattering function to be studied simultaneously from two different locations.
C/2010 X1 made its closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) on 10 September 2011 at a distance of . The remnant of Elenin made its closest approach to Earth on 16 October 2011, at a distance of or slightly closer than |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwe%20Windhorst | Uwe Windhorst (Prof. Dr. Uwe Windhorst) is a German neuroscientist, systems scientist and cyberneticist, who was born in Bremen, Germany in 1946. Windhorst became known for his pioneer research in the use of diverse methods of correlation, spectral analysis as well as nonlinear systems analysis to describe the dynamic properties of signal transmission through small neuronal networks assessed in experimental animals.
Contributions in Neurophysiology
Windhorst's research has revolved around the control of skeletal muscle contraction based on sensory signal arising in muscles and skin and on neuronal networks predominantly in the spinal cord and brainstem. In this wider context, one line of research strived to elucidate the dynamic signal processing of the participating neurons, such as muscle spindles, motoneurons and interneurons (particularly Renshaw cells) and their importance for oscillatory process such as tremor. Related issues were the plastic properties of such networks and their modulation by signals arising in the peripheral and central nervous system, specifically in the context of muscle fatigue. A related aspect of research concerned the origin of muscle pain and its effects on spinal neurons. In addition to experimental studies, computer modeling was used to unravel the properties of small neuronal networks, especially with respect to tremor.
Education
Between 1968 and 1974, he studied medicine at the University of Göttingen in Germany, where he also earned his PhD and his Habilitation in Neurophysiology. He became Distinguished Professor in 1987.
List of major works
Windhorst, U. and Schwestka, R. (1982): Interactions between motor units in modulating discharge patterns of primary muscle spindle endings. Exp. Brain Res. 45, 417 427
Christakos, C.N. and Windhorst, U. (1986): The information carried by spindle afferents on motor unit activity as revealed by spectral analysis. Brain Res. 367, 52 62
Hamm, T.M., Sasaki, S., Stuart, D.G., Windhorst, U. and Yuan, C. S. (1987): The measurement of single motor axon recurrent inhibitory post synaptic potentials in the cat. J. Physiol. 388, 631 651
Windhorst, U., Rissing, R., Meyer Lohmann, J., Laouris, Y. and Kuipers, U. (1988): Facilitation and depression in the responses of spinal Renshaw cells to random stimulation of motor axons. J. Neurophysiol. 60, 1638 1652
Laouris, Y., Windhorst, U., Rissing, R., Kuipers, U. and Meyer Lohmann, J. (1988): Time constants of facilitation and depression in Renshaw cell responses to random stimulation of motor axons. Exp. Brain Res. 72, 117 128
Laouris, Y. and Windhorst, U. (1989): The relationship between coherence and nonlinear characteristics in Renshaw cell responses to random motor axon stimulation. Neurosci. 28, 625 633
Richter, D.W., Bischoff, A., Anders, K., Bellingham, M. and Windhorst, U. (1991): Response of the medullary respiratory network of the cat to hypoxia. J. Physiol. 443, 231-256
Windhorst, U., Kirmayer, D., Soibelman, F., Misri, A. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws%20and%20regulations%20for%20electronic%20payment%20in%20Mauritius | Laws and Regulations for Electronic Payment in Mauritius
The Electronic Transactions Act (ETA).
References
External links
National Computer Board
Economy of Mauritius |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KWMN | KWMN (99.3 FM) is a radio station serving the Winona, Minnesota area. It airs a sports format, primarily carrying programming from the Fox Sports Radio network.
The station is owned by Leighton Broadcasting, through licensee Leighton Radio Holdings, Inc., and is located at 752 Bluffview Circle, with its other sister stations, KHWK, KGSL, KWNO, and KRIV-FM.
On March 4, 2019, KWNO-FM rebranded as "99.3 The Hawk" under new KHWK-FM calls (the call sign was changed on March 1).
On August 23, 2021, the station flipped to a sports talk format branded as the "Winona Sports Network" under new callsign KWMN. The station will carry University of Minnesota football and basketball, Minnesota Timberwolves basketball, Minnesota Wild hockey, and football and basketball from three local high schools: Winona, Cotter, and Rushford-Peterson. Outside of the local broadcasts, the station will carry programming from Fox Sports Radio.
References
External links
Winona Radio
Radio stations in Minnesota
Sports radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1991
1991 establishments in Minnesota
Fox Sports Radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland%20Runic%20Inscription%20979 | Uppland Runic Inscription 979 or U 979 is the Rundata designation for a Viking Age runestone located at Gamla Uppsala, Sweden, which depicts a ship.
Description
U 979 is a damaged runestone located near the north entrance to the church at Gamla Uppsala. The inscription on the stone, which is 1.3 meters in height, depicts a ship with a cross for a mast, but does not have any readable runes remaining on the surviving portion. This ship motif was used on several other memorial runestones in Sweden apparently in reference to the voyage of a Christian's soul to the afterlife. Other Scandinavian runic inscriptions from the Viking Age which depict ships include DR 77 in Hjermind, DR 119 in Spentrup, DR 220 in Sønder Kirkeby, DR 258 in Bösarp, DR 271 in Tullstorp, DR 328 in Holmby, DR EM85;523 in Farsø, Ög 181 in Ledberg, Ög 224 in Stratomta, Ög MÖLM1960;230 in Törnevalla, Sö 122 in Skresta, Sö 154 in Skarpåker, Sö 158 in Österberga, Sö 164 in Spånga, Sö 351 in Överjärna, Sö 352 in Linga, Vg 51 in Husaby, U 370 in Herresta, U 1052 in Axlunda, and Vs 17 in Råby. Three other stones, the Hørdum and Långtora kyrka stones and U 1001 in Rasbo, depict ships but currently do not have any runes on them and may never have had any.
References
Uppland Runic Inscription 0979 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-commerce%20credit%20card%20payment%20system | Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, or e-business consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown extraordinarily with widespread Internet usage. The use of commerce is conducted in this way, spurring and drawing on innovations in electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at some point in the transaction's lifecycle, although it can encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail as well.
A large percentage of electronic commerce is conducted entirely electronically for virtual items such as access to premium content on a website, but most electronic commerce involves the transportation of physical items in some way. Online retailers are sometimes known as e-tailers and online retail is sometimes known as e-tail. Almost all big retailers have electronic commerce presence on the World Wide Web.
Electronic commerce that is conducted between businesses is referred to as business-to-business or B2B. Electronic commerce that is conducted between businesses and consumers, on the other hand, is referred to as business-to-consumer or B2C. This is the type of electronic commerce conducted by companies such as Amazon.com. Online shopping is a form of electronic commerce where the buyer is connected directly online to the seller's computer usually via the Internet. There is no specific intermediary service. The sale and purchase transaction is completed electronically and interactively in real-time, such as when buying a new book on Amazon.com. If an intermediary is present, then the sale and purchase transaction is called consumer-to-consumer, such as an online auction conducted on eBay.com.
This payment system has been widely accepted by consumers and merchants throughout the world, and is by far the most popular method of payments especially in the retail markets. Some of the most important advantages over the traditional modes of payment are: privacy, integrity, compatibility, good transaction efficiency, acceptability, convenience, mobility, low financial risk and anonymity.
This flow of ecommerce payment system can be better understood from the flow of the system below.
See also
Payment service provider (PSP)
Electronic money
List of free and open source eCommerce software
Multichannel ecommerce
Non-store retailing
Online marketplace
Paid content
Payments as a platform
Virtual economy
References
Online payments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OutServe-SLDN | OutServe-SLDN was a network of LGBT military personnel, formed as a result of the merger between OutServe and the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network. OutServe-SLDN was one of the largest LGBT employee resource groups in the world. OutServe was founded by a 2009 graduate of the US Air Force Academy, Josh Seefried (also known as JD Smith to protect his identity) and Ty Walrod. There were over 7,000 members and 80 chapters worldwide.
On July 2, 2012, OutServe announced that it would merge with Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, an organization that advocates on behalf of and provides legal services to gay and lesbian military personnel and veterans, in October 2012. On October 25, 2012, Allyson Robinson was the first executive director of OutServe-SLDN following the merger of those two organizations. She was the first transgender person to ever lead a national LGBT rights organization that does not have an explicit transgender focus.
As part of an extensive reorganization and a review of the organization's mission and finances, which included some public airing of internal dissension and inability to fund its current operations, Josh Seefried resigned from the Board on July 8, 2013 Less than nine months after hiring Robinson, OutServe-SLDN's board announced it was bankrupt and had to close its Washington D.C. headquarters; on the same day, Robinson announced that her resignation as executive director would take effect the following day, July 12, 2013. The board announced that for at least a year it plans to focus on the financial crisis and the payment of debts, followed by an eventual return to providing "advocacy, development, or other support." Since that time, OutServe-SLDN continued to actively serve its over 7,000 members and in early 2014 engaged with the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding Marriage Equality Cases in Oklahoma and Utah.
In May 2019, OutServe-SLDN merged with the American Military Partner Association (AMPA) to form the Modern Military Association of America (MMAA), a united voice for the LGBTQ military and veteran community. MMAA continues the missions of both OutServe-SLDN and AMPA through education, advocacy, and support for LGBTQ service members, veterans, military spouses, family members and allies.
Leadership
Allyson Robinson was the first executive director of OutServe-SLDN, following the merger of those two organizations. She was the first transgender person to ever lead a national LGBT rights organization that does not have an explicit transgender focus.
There are leaders for each of the 80+ chapters worldwide, whose identities, as well as those of all members, were kept anonymous under DADT. With the expiration of DADT on September 20, 2011, JD Smith revealed his true identity. One hundred and one OutServe members in total came out publicly with the end of DADT.
Membership
As of April 2011, OutServe was divided into 42 regional chapters, with a total membership of over 5,000 members. It included pers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf%20Nordhagen%20%28physicist%29 | Rolf Nordhagen (2 August 1927 – 1 July 2013) was a Norwegian physicist and computer scientist.
Early life and education
Rolf was born in Bergen, Norway. He was the son of the noted botanist, Rolf Nordhagen (1894– 1979) and the brother of art historian Per Jonas Nordhagen. He took his PhD in Liverpool in 1958, and was a docent in nuclear physics at the University of Oslo from 1970 to 1974. He changed to being the university's director of "EDB" (information technology) from 1974 to 1986 before being hired as a professor of informatics in 1986.
Career
Nordhagen was involved in the development and reconstruction of both the Norwegian academic network UNINETT as well as the Nordic university network NORDUnet. Rolf Nordhagen was posthumously honored with admission into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2014.
References
Other sources
NORDUNET: The Roots of Nordic Networking by Rolf Nordhagen
External links
UNINETT Official Website
NORDUnet official website
1927 births
2013 deaths
Scientists from Bergen
Academic staff of the University of Oslo
Norwegian nuclear physicists
Norwegian computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf%20Nordhagen | Rolf Nordhagen is the name of:
Rolf Nordhagen (botanist) (1894–1979), Norwegian botanist
Rolf Nordhagen (physicist) (1927–2013), Norwegian physicist and computer scientist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Jazeera%20Media%20Network | Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN) ( , ) is a Qatari state-owned media conglomerate headquartered at Qatar Radio and Television Corporation Complex in Wadi Al Sail, Doha.
Al Jazeera Media Network serves as the overarching entity overseeing Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera Arabic, AJ+ along with a host of other fact-based media endeavors that bear the same distinct brand. Originally conceived as a satellite TV channel delivering Arabic news and current affairs, it has since evolved into a multifaceted media network encompassing various platforms such as online, specialized television channels in numerous languages, and more.
The organization is a "private foundation for public benefit" under Qatari law.
While AJMN receives public funding from the Qatar government, and despite allegations of government control,
the organization asserts its commitment to editorial independence. AJMN maintains that its reporting is not influenced or directed by the Qatari government, and it does not reflect any official government viewpoints.
Furthermore, as of today, it remains unregistered as a foreign agent and the United States Department of Justice has not yet taken any action to enforce its order against AJ+.
The network's news operation currently has 70 bureaus around the world that are shared between the network's channels and operations, the second-largest amount of bureaux of any media company in the world after the BBC. In June 2017, the Saudi, Emirati, Bahraini, and Egyptian governments, supported by 12 other OIC member governments (with initial rumours claiming the support of additional governments; later reduced to 9 member governments by the latest of August 2019), pressed for the closure of the entire conglomerate as one of thirteen demands made to the government of Qatar during the 2017-2021 Qatar diplomatic crisis. Other media networks have spoken out in support of the network.
History
Launch
The original Al Jazeera Satellite Channel (then called JSC or Jazeera Satellite Channel) was launched on 1 November 1996. This was following the closure of the first BBC Arabic language television station, then a joint venture with Orbit Communications Company, owned by Saudi King Fahd's cousin, Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud. The BBC channel had closed after a year and a half when the Saudi government attempted to thwart a documentary pertaining to executions under sharia law.
The Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa, provided a loan of QAR 500 million ($137 million) to sustain Al Jazeera through its first five years, as Hugh Miles detailed in his book Al Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel That Is Challenging the West.
Al Jazeera's first day on the air was 1 November 1996. It offered 6-hours of programming per day; this would increase to 12 hours by the end of 1997. It was broadcast to the immediate neighborhood as a terrestrial signal, and on cable, as well as through satellites (which was also free to users in the Arab world). 1 Jan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datapoint%203300 | The DataPoint 3300 was the first computer terminal manufactured by Computer Terminal Corporation, later renamed Datapoint, announced in 1967 and shipping in 1969. Since this terminal was intended to replace a teleprinter such as those made by Teletype Corporation it was one of the first glass TTYs (glass for the screen, TTY as the abbreviation for "Teletype") ever produced.
As well as being sold under its own name, it was also sold as the DEC VT06 and the HP 2600A (introduced in 1972).
Details
The Datapoint 3300 emulated a Teletype Model 33, but went beyond what a Teletype could achieve with its paper output. It supported control codes to move the cursor up, down, left and right, to the top left of the screen, or to the start of the bottom line. The 3300 could also clear to the end of the current line, or clear to the end of the screen.
It did not, however, support direct cursor positioning. It also had 25 rows of 72 columns of upper-case characters, rather than the 80 x 24 that would become more common in subsequent years.
Hardware
Like most terminals designed up until the mid-1970s, the Datapoint 3300 was implemented using TTL logic in a typical mix of small-scale and medium-scale integrated circuits, i.e. in a very similar way to how many mini-computers of the 1970/80s (such as the Digital VAX-11) were built. Later terminals (such as the VT100) typically used a microprocessor to implement large parts of the user interface and general logic.
At the time of its introduction, RAM was expensive (it would not be until 1970 that Intel released the 1103, the first DRAM semiconductor memory chip making RAM affordable). Thus, the terminal stored its display of 25 rows of 72 columns of upper-case characters using fifty-four 200-bit shift registers, arranged in six tracks of nine packs each, providing shift register memory for 1800 6-bit characters. The shift-register design meant that scrolling the terminal display could be accomplished by simply pausing the display output to skip one line of characters.
See also
Datapoint 2200
References
External links
Datapoint documentation on bitsavers.org
Page with links to a doctoral thesis about early microprocessor history, with lots of details about Datapoint's role, and a copy of the Datapoint 2200 Programmer's Guide (both in PDF format) – both with a lot of historical detail.
The man who invented the PC
Unofficial Datapoint Organization WEB site at datapoint.org
Computing output devices
Character-oriented terminal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%20and%20Dusenbury%20Lumber%20Company | Between 1887 and 1938, railroads built and owned by the Wheeler & Dusenbury Co., Endeavor, Pennsylvania, formed one of the largest logging rail networks in Northwest Pennsylvania. A logging railroad network sprawled over Warren County, Pennsylvania and Forest County, Pennsylvania fed two large band mills at Endeavor, Pennsylvania, hosted rod and geared steam locomotives, and for a time, even connected the Collins Pine empire to the outside world as the Hickory Valley Railroad. The railroad featured an entry in the Official Railway Guide, a formal timetable, and the only rail bridge across the Allegheny River between Oil City and Warren to connect the empire to the Pennsylvania Railroad at West Hickory.
W&D's policies of widespread selective tract cutting resulted in the logging railroads being active until the 1930s, supplying the Mayburg Chemical Company with chemical wood on second-growth tracts, and contributing to the survival of the Sheffield & Tionesta Railroad until World War II. W&D's legacy can also be seen at Hearts Content National Scenic Area, where a tract of virgin timber was saved and is a public recreation area today. Even in 1906, W&D was known for saving virgin tracts of timber.
See also
Forest railway
References
Sources
External links
Logging railroads in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha%20J.%20King | Elisha James King (1821-1844) was, with B. F. White, the compiler of The Sacred Harp, a shape note hymnbook that came to be used widely in the rural South. In revised form, the book continues to be popular among singers to this day.
Little is known about King's short life. Steel (2010) suggests that he mostly likely was born in Wilkinson County, Georgia; his parents were named John King and Elizabeth Dubose. The family moved in 1828 to Talbot County.
E. J. King worked as a farmer and also taught singing to others.
It is clear that King was the junior member of the partnership with White (born 1800), who had already had an extensive career as a shape note composer and teacher. The early 20th century Sacred Harp editor Joseph Summerlin James suggested that King was in fact White's pupil. Yet King's musical contribution to the volume was substantial; in the present-day 1991 edition of the Sacred Harp, his name appears on 22 of the tunes as composer, arranger, or co-arranger. Steel describes King as having a distinctive musical style, and describes three of his songs, "Bound for Canaan," "Sweet Canaan," and "Fulfilment" as "classics".
Steel conjectures that King may also have provided the initial financing that would have been needed to persuade the printer (in Philadelphia) to take on the job of producing the book. At the time White was "still establishing himself" as a farmer, but King came from a wealthy family with a large plantation.
The Sacred Harp was first published in 1844; King died 31 August of the same year.
His younger brother Elias Lafayette King (1828-1876) was an important member of the early Sacred Harp community. He served on the committee that prepared the augmented second edition (1850). He contributed six songs to this edition, of which one (308, Parting Friends) remains in the 1991 edition today. Four (Sweet Heaven, Parting Friends, The Lost City, The Cause of Christ) remain in the 2012 Cooper edition of The Sacred Harp.
Notes
References
Steel, David Warren (with Richard H. Hulan) (2010) The Makers of the Sacred Harp. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Sacred Harp
1821 births
1844 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amutria | Amutria (Amutrion, Amutrium, Admutrium, Ad Mutrium, Ad Mutriam, ) was a Dacian town close to the Danube and included in the Roman road network, after the conquest of Dacia.
The name is homonymous with the ancient name of the nearby Motru River. Its possible position at this river's junction gives a certain importance.
Ancient sources
Ptolemy's Geographia
Amutria is mentioned in Ptolemy's Geographia (c. 150 AD) in the form Amutrion () as an important Dacian town, at latitude 50° 00' N and longitude 44° 45' E (note that he used a different meridian and some of his calculations were off). It is located on a road between Drubetis and Potulatensioi.
Tabula Peutingeriana
Amutria is also depicted in the Tabula Peutingeriana (2nd century AD) between Drubetis and Pelendava, on one of the three roads build by Emperor Trajan in Dacia. The road was connecting into Via Trajana and most likely crossing Trajan's Bridge over the Danube. The location corresponds to the one mentioned by Ptolemy.
Etymology
Romanian archaeologist and historian Grigore Tocilescu, assumes that Amutria should be read Ad-mutriam, Ad Mutriam or Ad Mutrium, meaning by/at the Mutrium (Motru). The modern Romanian linguist Sorin Olteanu is also suggesting the form Ad Mutrius, with Mutrius possibly being the ancient name of Motru River.
Location
Amutria is hypothetically located at one of the following sites in Oltenia (Southwestern Romania):
Valea Perilor, commune Cătunele, Gorj County
Motru, Gorj County
Gura Motrului, commune Butoiești, Mehedinți County
Botoșești-Paia, Dolj County
Valea Perilor/Cătunele
Based on the archaeological survey and excavations performed at Cătunele in 1885, 1973, and later in 1981-84, a Roman castrum and civilian settlement was discovered.
The castrum lies in the Valea Perilor village, on an alluvial terrace of the Motru river, approximately 130 meters from the highway that connects the modern towns of Motru and Baia de Aramă. It is bordered in the east by the Chivădarul River and was intended to oversee the Valea Motrului mountainous region inhabited by a large Dacian population.
The archaeological site is cataloged as Chivadarul (LMI code GJ-I-s-B-09155) by the Romanian National Institute of Historical Monuments in the List of historical monuments in Romania.
The shape of the castrum is rectangular with rounded corners, with the dimensions 156 x 114 m2. The castum is aligned lengthwise with the north-south axis, with the Porta Praetoria on the southern side.
The first systematic research was made in 1973 by the Iron Gates Region Museum from Drobeta-Turnu Severin and the Institute of Archaeology, Bucharest and then continued during 1981-1984, done by Gorj County Museum in collaboration with the Institute of Archaeology in Bucharest.
On the territory of the castrum were discovered many sherds of Roman and Dacian origin, indicating that the Dacians had coexisted with Roman soldiers and settlers. Some of the Dacian pottery was handmade, while ot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy%20Burson | Nancy Burson (born 1948) is an American artist known for creating photographs using computer morphing technology, including the Age Machine, Human Race Machine and Anomaly Machine.
Biography
Artist/photographer Nancy Burson's work is shown in museums and galleries internationally. "Seeing and Believing", her traveling 2002 retrospective originating at the Grey Art Gallery, was nominated for Best Solo Museum Show of the Year in New York City by the International Association of Art Critics. She has served as a visiting professor at Harvard and was a member of the adjunct photography faculty at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts for five years. Burson currently organizes the New York Film Academy Photo Guest Speaker Series and also teaches Portfolio Review.
Her work is included in museums worldwide including the MoMA, Metropolitan Museum, and the Whitney Museum in New York City, as well as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris, the LA County Museum of Art, MoMA (San Francisco), the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC, as well as many others.
Burson is best known for her work in morphing technologies which age enhance the human face and still enable law enforcement officials to locate missing children and adults. Her Human Race Machine, which allowed people to view themselves as a different race, was used worldwide as an educational diversity tool that provided viewers with the visual experience of being another race.
The Human Race Machine
Burson’s invention, The Human Race Machine, was inspired by a meeting in mid-1998 with one of Zaha Hadid's staff. It made its debut at the Mind Zone in the London Millennium Dome on January 1, 2000 and it was seen by millions of people during that year. Set in the futuristic environment of Zaha’s Mind Zone, there were four machines and wait lines of sometimes two hours long to use the all new, race morphing technology that had been developed throughout 1999. The Human Race Machine was conceived as an interactive tool for the resolution of humanity’s racial issues.
Several other interactive machines had already been developed in the late 1980s. These were based on commissions from science museums as well as concepts from the patent that was issued to Nancy Burson in 1981 called “The Method and Apparatus for Producing an Image of a Person’s Face at a Different Age.” A few years later, that patent became the basis for morphing technology for the entire computer graphics industry. A Composite Machine that showed the viewer what they might look like with their face melded with a celebrity had been developed by a science museum from that patent. An Age Machine showed viewers what they might look like when older and had been shown in art museums as early as 1990. That same technology had also been used to find children and adults that had been missing for many years. The software was acquired by the FBI and the National Cente |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altos%20586 | The Altos 586 was a multi-user microcomputer intended for the business market. It was introduced by Altos Computer Systems in 1983. A configuration with 512 kB of RAM, an Intel 8086 processor, Microsoft Xenix, and 10 MB hard drive cost about US$8,000. 3Com offered this Altos 586 product as a file server for their IBM PC networking solution in spring 1983. The network was 10BASE2 (thin-net) based, with an Ethernet AUI port on the Altos 586.
Reception
BYTE in August 1984 called the Altos 586 "an excellent multiuser UNIX system", with "the best performance" for the price among small Unix systems. The magazine reported that a Altos with 512 kB RAM and 40 MB hard drive "under moderate load approaches DEC VAX performance for most tasks that a user would normally invoke". A longer review in March 1985 stated that "despite some bugs, it's a good product". It criticized the documentation and lack of customer service for developers, but praised the multiuser performance. The author reported that his 586 had run a multiuser bulletin board system 24 hours a day for more than two years with no hardware failures. He concluded that "Very few UNIX or XENIX computers can provide all of the features of the 586 for $8990", especially for multiuser turnkey business users.
See also
Fortune XP 20
References
Microcomputers
Computer-related introductions in 1983
16-bit computers
Computer systems
Silicon Valley
Software companies based in California
Microcomputer software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20partnership | A content partnership is a term describing a joint venture between brands, broadcasters, publishers and producers to create original audio visual programming across any media platform. Stakeholders in the project co-finance and share the exploitation rights to that content and its intellectual property.
Most commercial content partnerships are now being applied to Advertiser Funded Programming (AFP) where brands directly fund TV shows. These new partnerships allow advertisers to gain web exploitation rights without having to fully fund the creation of original programming.
Changes in UK product placement legislation in March 2011 will also allow advertisers to co-fund television content that features their brands within the editorial of the show.
Some recent examples of content partnerships:
The Krypton Factor, in partnership with The Sage Group on ITV
The Factory on Eurosport, in partnership with the Philips and AT&T Williams F1
Vodafone TBA on Channel 4, in partnership with Vodafone
Crest toothpaste in The Apprentice
American Express in The Restaurant
Advertising industry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contraction%20hierarchies | In computer science, the method of contraction hierarchies is a speed-up technique for finding the shortest-path in a graph. The most intuitive applications are car-navigation systems: a user wants to drive from to using the quickest possible route. The metric optimized here is the travel time. Intersections are represented by vertices, the road sections connecting them by edges. The edge weights represent the time it takes to drive along this segment of the road. A path from to is a sequence of edges (road sections); the shortest path is the one with the minimal sum of edge weights among all possible paths. The shortest path in a graph can be computed using Dijkstra's algorithm but, given that road networks consist of tens of millions of vertices, this is impractical. Contraction hierarchies is a speed-up method optimized to exploit properties of graphs representing road networks. The speed-up is achieved by creating shortcuts in a preprocessing phase which are then used during a shortest-path query to skip over "unimportant" vertices. This is based on the observation that road networks are highly hierarchical. Some intersections, for example highway junctions, are "more important" and higher up in the hierarchy than for example a junction leading into a dead end. Shortcuts can be used to save the precomputed distance between two important junctions such that the algorithm doesn't have to consider the full path between these junctions at query time. Contraction hierarchies do not know about which roads humans consider "important" (e.g. highways), but they are provided with the graph as input and are able to assign importance to vertices using heuristics.
Contraction hierarchies are not only applied to speed-up algorithms in car-navigation systems but also in web-based route planners, traffic simulation, and logistics optimization. Implementations of the algorithm are publicly available as open source software.
Algorithm
The contraction hierarchies (CH) algorithm is a two-phase approach to the shortest path problem consisting of a preprocessing phase and a query phase. As road networks change rather infrequently, more time (seconds to hours) can be used to once precompute some calculations before queries are to be answered. Using this precomputed data, many queries can be answered taking very little time (microseconds) each. CHs rely on shortcuts to achieve this speedup. A shortcut connects two vertices and not adjacent in the original graph. Its edge weight is the sum of the edge weights on the shortest - path.
Consider two large cities connected by a highway. Between these two cities, there is a multitude of junctions leading to small villages and suburbs. Most drivers want to get from one city to the other – maybe as part of a larger route – and not take one of the exits on the way. In the graph representing this road layout, each intersection is represented by a node and edges are created between neighboring intersections. To calcul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precomputation | In algorithms, precomputation is the act of performing an initial computation before run time to generate a lookup table that can be used by an algorithm to avoid repeated computation each time it is executed. Precomputation is often used in algorithms that depend on the results of expensive computations that don't depend on the input of the algorithm. A trivial example of precomputation is the use of hardcoded mathematical constants, such as π and e, rather than computing their approximations to the necessary precision at run time.
In databases, the term materialization is used to refer to storing the results of a precomputation, such as in a materialized view.
Overview
Precomputing a set of intermediate results at the beginning of an algorithm's execution can often increase algorithmic efficiency substantially. This becomes advantageous when one or more inputs is constrained to a small enough range that the results can be stored in a reasonably sized block of memory. Because memory access is essentially constant in time complexity (except for caching delays), any algorithm with a component which has worse than constant efficiency over a small input range can be improved by precomputing values. In some cases efficient approximation algorithms can be obtained by computing a discrete subset of values and interpolating for intermediate input values, since interpolation is also a linear operation.
History
Before the advent of computers, printed lookup tables of values were used by people to speed up hand calculations of complex functions, such as in trigonometric tables, logarithm tables, and tables of statistical density functions
School children are often taught to memorize "times tables" to avoid calculations of the most commonly used numbers (up to 9 x 9 or 12 x 12). Even as early as 493 A.D., Victorius of Aquitaine wrote a 98-column multiplication table which gave (in Roman numerals) the product of every number from 2 to 50 times and the rows were "a list of numbers starting with one thousand, descending by hundreds to one hundred, then descending by tens to ten, then by ones to one, and then the fractions down to 1/144"
Examples
Even modern computer implementations of digital trigonometric functions often use precomputed lookup tables to either provide coefficients for interpolation algorithms or to initialise successive approximation algorithms.
Many attacks on cryptosystems involve precomputation.
Examples of large-scale precomputation as part of modern efficient algorithms include:
Rainbow tables
Perfect hashes
The cube attack
Precalculated BSP trees for visibility calculations in 3D graphics
Radiosity precomputation for illumination in 3D graphics
Compilers use precomputation extensively as a means of increasing the run-time speed of the resulting code: this precomputation can be regarded as in effect a form of partial evaluation of the program code itself. Examples of this sort of precomputation include dataflow analysi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20Film%20Critics%20Society%20Awards%202010 | 14th Online Film Critics Society Awards
January 3, 2011
Best Picture:
The Social Network
The 14th Online Film Critics Society Awards, honoring the best in film for 2010, were announced on 3 January 2011.
Winners and nominees
Best Picture
The Social Network
Black Swan
Inception
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone
Best Director
David Fincher – The Social Network
Darren Aronofsky – Black Swan
Danny Boyle – 127 Hours
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen – True Grit
Christopher Nolan – Inception
Best Actor
Colin Firth – The King's Speech
Jeff Bridges – True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg – The Social Network
James Franco – 127 Hours
Ryan Gosling – Blue Valentine
Édgar Ramírez – Carlos
Best Actress
Natalie Portman – Black Swan
Annette Bening – The Kids Are All Right
Kim Hye-ja – Mother
Nicole Kidman – Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence – Winter's Bone
Best Supporting Actor
Christian 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
Mila Kunis – Black Swan
Melissa Leo – The Fighter
Jacki Weaver – Animal Kingdom
Best Original Screenplay
Inception – Christopher Nolan
Black Swan – Mark Heyman, Andres Heinz, and John McLaughlin
Greenberg – Noah Baumbach
The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
The King's Speech – David Seidler
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Social Network – Aaron Sorkin
127 Hours – Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – Michael Bacall and Edgar Wright
True Grit – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Winter's Bone – Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini
Best Foreign Language Film
Mother
Carlos
Dogtooth
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
A Prophet
Best Documentary
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Catfish
Inside Job
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Restrepo
Waiting for "Superman"
Best Animated Feature
Toy Story 3
Despicable Me
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
Tangled
Best Cinematography
True Grit – Roger Deakins
127 Hours – Anthony Dod Mantle and Enrique Chediak
Black Swan – Matthew Libatique
Inception – Wally Pfister
Shutter Island – Robert Richardson
Best Editing
Inception – Lee Smith
127 Hours – Jon Harris
Black Swan – Andrew Weisblum
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – Jonathan Amos and Paul Machliss
The Social Network – Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
References
2010 film awards
2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20singles%20of%202011 | The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Weekly Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each singles' weekly physical sales.
Chart history
See also
2011 in music
References
2011 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Lists of number-one songs in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20albums%20of%202011 | The highest-selling albums and extended plays (EPs) in Japan are ranked on the Oricon Weekly Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based upon weekly physical album sales. In 2011, a total of 45 albums claimed the top position of the Oricon Weekly Chart.
Chart history
See also
2011 in music
References
External links
Current Oricon Albums Chart
Number-one albums
Japan
2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meertens | Meertens is a Dutch patronymic surname (son of Meerten/Maarten). It may refer to:
Jacques Meertens (born 1948), Dutch clarinetist
Lambert Meertens (born 1944), Dutch computer scientist
Bird–Meertens formalism, Meertens number
Piet Meertens (1899–1985), Dutch dialectologist and ethnologist
Meertens Institute, research institute for Dutch language and culture
See also
Mertens
Dutch-language surnames
Patronymic surnames
Surnames from given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interact%20Home%20Computer | The Interact Home Computer (also called The Interact Family Computer) is a 1978 American home computer made by Interact Electronics, Inc., of Ann Arbor, Michigan. It sold under the name "Interact Model One Home Computer". The original Interact Model One computer was designed by Rick Barnich and Tim Anderson at 204 E. Washington in Ann Arbor, then moving to the Georgetown Mall on Packard St. in Ann Arbor.
Interact Electronics Inc was a privately held company that was funded by Hongiman, Miller, Swartz and Cohn, a law firm out of Detroit. The President/Founder of Interact Electronics Inc was Ken Lochner, who was one of the original developers of the BASIC language based out of Dartmouth College. Ken had started Interact Electronics Inc after founding the successful computer time-sharing company Cyphernetics in Ann Arbor, which was purchased by ADP in 1975.
The Interact Model One Home Computer debuted at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago in June 1978, at a price of . Only a few thousand Interacts were sold before the company went bankrupt in late 1979. Most were sold by the liquidator Protecto Enterprizes of Barrington, Illinois, through mail order sales. It was also sold at Highland Appliance in the Detroit area, Newman Computer Exchange in Ann Arbor, and Montgomery Wards in the Houston, TX, area.
The computer didn't come with any operating system, but Microsoft BASIC V4.7 or EDU-BASIC (supplied with the computer) could be loaded from tape.
Probably the most successful application available for the Interact was a program called "Message Center". With it, a store could program a scrolling message which appeared on a TV screen (such as advertisements, or a welcome message to guests).
Although it was mostly a game machine (with games such as Showdown, Blackjack and Chess), users could also create their own programs using the BASIC computer language. Customers began hooking up the Interact to control everything from lights in their house, doors, windows, smoke detectors, to a Chevrolet Corvette.
Later on the design was sold to a French company, Lambda Systems, and re-branded as the "Victor Lambda" for the French market.
Technical specifications
CPU: Intel i8080, 2.0 MHz
Memory: 8K RAM, expandable to 16K RAM; 2K ROM
Keyboard: 53-key chiclet
Display: 17 x 12 text; eight colors, 112 x 78 graphics, four colors
Sound: SN76477 (One voice, four octaves)
Ports: Television, two joysticks
Built-in cassette recorder (1200 Bps)
PSU: External AC transformer
1980 price: US$300 ()
References
External links
old-computers.com page for Interact
interactfamilycomputer.com
Home computers
Computer-related introductions in 1978 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelldon | Shelldon (; ) is a computer-animated children's television series directed by Dr. Jirayuth Chusanachoti. The series debuted on Channel 3 in Thailand on October 13, 2008, and on Qubo on October 16, 2009, later being removed from its line-up on September 30, 2012.
Premise
The series tells the adventures of Shelldon and his various friends in the fictional underwater town of Shell Land.
Characters
Main characters
Shelldon Clam (voiced by Tabitha St. Germain) is a young Yoka star shell who lives in a hotel called the Charming Clam Inn with his family. He likes helping his friends and solving problems.
Herman (voiced by Richard Ian Cox) is a blue hermit crab with an immense infatuation with "alien" artifacts and "paranormal" events. He has a crush on a classmate Hurly.
Connie is a money cowry who works at the Charming Clam Inn, so she could do more than rely on her parents' money.
Recurring characters
Dr. Shell (voiced by Lee Tockar) is a brilliant yet scatter-brained riversnail inventor and a guest in the Charming Clam ever since it was set up and has become something of a permanent resident there. He has traveled widely across the seas in search of inspiration but is not interested in making money, only the social benefits his inventions bring to others.
Mama Clam (voiced by Ellen Kenndy) is a magnolia crocus clam who lives and runs the Charming Clam Inn with her husband and three children. She is a cool-headed wife and mother who is not easily daunted by hardship or challenges. Raised in the cut-throat, fast-paced Shell City, Mama Clam is savvy, a careful planner who always seems to know the perfect solution to a problem.
Papa Clam (voiced by Colin Murdock) is a muddy-brown crocus clam that lives in and runs the Charming Clam Inn with his wife and three kids. He is guileless, none too bright, and crass at times. He is easily frazzled by setbacks and his solutions to problems tend to border on the impractical.
Mr. Inkysquid (voiced by Scott McNeil) a small squid who is Shelldon's gang’s school teacher.
Cracken a wealthy sea slug businessman.
Nikki Nautilus a nautilus TV celebrity with a cult following amongst the youngsters in Shell City.
Luther a loggerhead sea turtle who drives a taxi.
Click and Clack two hyperactive Yoka star shells who are Shelldon's cousins.
Hook, Sam and Mack a trio of heavy metal-addicted fishes, Hook is a Nkhomo-benga peacock, Sam is a sockeye salmon and Hook is a mackerel.
Stan Starfish a purple starfish who is a bully at Shelldon's school.
Captain 8-Ball a octopus pirate who lives inside of a sunken ship.
Louise a friendly humpback whale that gives Shelldon advice.
Dr. Bao a Chinese Haliotis discus with herbal knowledge.
Emperor Ehru a fiddler crab who lives on a small island.
Crabby a Christmas Island red crab who is the owner of the neighbourhood bookstore.
Mugsley a sly hermit crab who is Cracken's henchmen.
Napoleon a mantis shrimp that talks in a high-pitched voice.
Wilbur a goofy seagull.
Mayor Yoka a Yoka s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%2012%29 | Season twelve of Dancing with the Stars premiered on March 21, 2011, on the ABC network.
Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward and Kym Johnson were the winners of the competition, while actress Kirstie Alley and Maksim Chmerkovskiy finished second, and Disney star Chelsea Kane and Mark Ballas finished third.
Cast
Couples
This season featured eleven celebrity contestants. The cast was revealed on February 28, 2011, during The Bachelor, and the professional partners were revealed on March 2. Hip-hop artist Romeo, who had been slated to appear on season 2 before he had to withdraw due to an injury, was one of the contestants to compete this season. This was also the first season to feature a dance troupe, which consisted of six dancers: Oksana Dmytrenko, Tristan MacManus, Peta Murgatroyd, Kiki Nyemchek, Nicole Volynets, and Ted Volynets.
Future appearances
Kirstie Alley returned for the All-Stars season, where she was again paired with Maksim Chmerkovskiy.
Host and judges
Carrie Ann Inaba, Bruno Tonioli, and Len Goodman returned to the show as judges, while Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke returned as co-hosts.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1: First Dances
The couples danced either the cha-cha-cha or foxtrot. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 2: First Elimination
The couples danced either the jive or quickstep. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 3: Personal Story Week
The couples performed one unlearned dance. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 4: Classical Week
The couples performed one unlearned dance. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 5: American Week
The couples performed one unlearned dance. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 6: Guilty Pleasure Week
The couples performed one unlearned dance. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 7: Ballroom Greats Week
Individual judges scores in the chart below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Donnie Burns, Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
The six couples were divided into two teams to perform a cha-cha-cha team dance, and each couple also performed one unlearned dance. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 8: Instant Choreography Week
Each couple performed two dances. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 9: Semifinals
Each couple performed two unlearned dances, plus competed in a "winner takes all" cha-cha-cha dance relay. Two couples faced off against each other, with the winners from each match competing against each other for fifteen bonus points. Couples are listed in the order they pe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguishable%20interfaces | Distinguishable interfaces use computer graphic principles to automatically
generate easily distinguishable appearance for computer data.
Although the desktop metaphor revolutionized user interfaces, there is evidence
that a spatial layout alone does little to help in locating files and other data;
distinguishable appearance is also required.
Studies have shown that average users have considerable difficulty finding files
on their personal computers, even ones that they created the same day.
Search engines do not always help, since it has been found that users
often know of the existence of a file without being able to specify relevant search terms.
On the contrary, people appear to incrementally search for files using some form of context.
Recently researchers and web developers have argued that the problem is the
lack of distinguishable appearance: in the traditional computer interface most objects
and locations appear identical. This problem rarely occurs in the real world, where
both objects and locations generally have easily distinguishable appearance.
Discriminability was one of the recommendations in the
ISO 9241-12 recommendation on presentation of information on visual displays
(part of the overall report on Ergonomics of Human System Interaction),
however it was assumed in that report that this would be achieved by manual
design of graphical symbols.
VisualIDs, semanticons, and identicons
The mass availability of computer graphics supported the introduction of approaches
that make better use of the brain's "visual hardware", by providing
individual files and other abstract data with distinguishable appearance.
This idea initially appeared in strictly academic
VisualIDs
and Semanticons
works, but the web community has explored and rapidly adopted similar ideas, such as the Identicon.
The VisualIDs project
automatically generated icons for files or other data based
on a hash of the data identifier, so the icons had no relation to the content or meaning of the data.
It was argued not only that generating meaningful icons is unnecessary (their user study showed rapid learning of the arbitrary icons),
but also that basing icons on content is actually incorrect ("contrasting visualization with visual identifiers").
The Semanticons project
developed by Setlur et al. demonstrated an algorithm to create icons that reflect the content of files.
In this work the name, location and content of a file are parsed and used to retrieve
related image(s) from an image database. These are then processed using a Non-photorealistic rendering technique in order to generate graphical icons.
Developer Don Park introduced the identicon library for making a visual icon from a hash
of a data identifier. This initial public implementation has spawned a large number
of implementations for various environments. In particular, identicons are
now being used as default visual user identifiers (avatars) for several widely used systems. They are also us |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYHY-FM | DYHY (97.5 FM), broadcasting as Barangay FM 97.5, is a radio station owned and operated by GMA Network Inc. Its studios and transmitter are located along Solid Road, Brgy. San Manuel, Puerto Princesa.
References
External links
Barangay FM stations
Radio stations in Puerto Princesa
Radio stations established in 1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%204%20Navarra | Canal 4 Navarra was a Spanish television channel, launched in 1997. It was founded and started to broadcast in 1997. Canal 4 Navarra mainly broadcast in Spanish but some programming was in Basque.
Canal 4 was closed on 29 February 2012, being substituted by the new Navarra Televisión.
External links
www.canal4.es (no longer active)
Defunct television channels in Spain
Television channels and stations established in 1997 |
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