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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20and%20music%20computing | Sound and music computing (SMC) is a research field that studies the whole sound and music communication chain from a multidisciplinary point of view. By combining scientific, technological and artistic methodologies it aims at understanding, modeling and generating sound and music through computational approaches.
History
The Sound and Music Computing research field can be traced back to the 1950s, when a few experimental composers, together with some engineers and scientists, independently and in different parts of the world, began exploring the use of the new digital technologies for music applications. Since then the SMC research field has had a fruitful history and different terms have been used to identify it. Computer Music and Music Technology might be the terms that have been used the most, "Sound and Music Computing" being a more recent term. In 1974, the research community established the International Computer Music Association and the International Computer Music Conference. In 1977 the Computer Music Journal was founded. The Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University was created in the early 1970s and the Institute for Research and Coordination Acoustic/Music (IRCAM) in Paris in the late 1970s.
The Sound and Music Computing term was first proposed in the mid 1990s and it was included in the ACM Computing Classification System. Using this name, in 2004 the Sound and Music Computing Conference was started and also in 2004 a roadmapping initiative was funded by the European Commission that resulted in the SMC Roadmap and in the Sound and Music Computing Summer School.
With increasing research specialization within the SMC field, a number of focused conferences have been created. Particularly relevant are the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, established in 1998, the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), established in 2000, and the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), established in 2001.
Subfields
The current SMC research field can be grouped into a number of subfields that focus on specific aspects of the sound and music communication chain.
Processing of sound and music signals: This subfield focuses on audio signal processing techniques for the analysis, transformation and resynthesis of sound and music signals.
Understanding and modeling sound and music: This subfield focuses on understanding and modeling sound and music using computational approaches. Here we can include Computational musicology, Music information retrieval, and the more computational approaches of Music cognition.
Interfaces for sound and music: This subfield focuses on the design and implementation of computer interfaces for sound and music. This is basically related to Human Computer Interaction.
Assisted sound and music creation: This subfield focuses on the development of computer tools for assisting Sound design and Music com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxtel%203D | Foxtel 3D was an Australian television channel owned and operated by Foxtel, and dedicated to 3D programming. The channel launched on 1 November 2010, mainly taking sports programming from ESPN/ESPN 3D and FOX Sports. On 27 January 2011, the channel aired Despicable Me 3D, the first 3D movie on Australian television.
In July 2013, following the news that ESPN 3D and BBC were ceasing 3D productions in 2013, Foxtel announced that Foxtel 3D would cease broadcasting on 27 August 2013 due to a lack of available 3D content.
References
Defunct television channels in Australia
3D television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013
3D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales%20of%20the%20Night%20%28film%29 | Tales of the Night () is a 2011 French computer silhouette animation feature film directed by Michel Ocelot. It is a compilation movie for movie theaters of five episodes of Dragons et Princesses in stereoscopic 3D and one additional, until then unseen story, "The Girl-Doe and the Architect's Son" ("La Fille-biche et le fils de l'architecte"), for a total of six. It premièred in competition for the Golden Bear at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival on February 13, 2011 before its general release in France by StudioCanal on July 20.
It has been licensed for the United States by GKIDS and for the United Kingdom by Soda Pictures, both for a general release in 2012, with its UK release date having now been announced as Friday, 6 April 2012. In Japan, it is the fourth feature directed by Ocelot in the Ghibli Museum Library, and was shown at the 2012 Tokyo International Anime Fair, and released in June 2012.
Plot
A girl, a boy and an old cinema technician tell stories every night in a small theater. Before each story, the boy and the girl decide, in accordance with the old technician, they will play the characters in the story they will interpret, they also choose a time and a country as well as costumes through documentation the technician brings them, and make clothing and accessories with a computer-controlled machine. They then perform the story on stage.
The Werewolf
The first story takes place in Medieval Europe. The story of two sisters who are in love with the same prince. The prince is betrothed to the older one, much to the sadness of the younger one who has loved him all her life. However, the prince reveals to his betrothed that he transforms into a werewolf during the full moon. She is not pleased, and tricks him into transforming in front of her, then steals the gold necklace that will make him turn back into a human. She throws the necklace in the well and tells the people that the prince was eaten by the wolf of the woods. The younger sister figures out what her sister has done, and exposes her cruel actions.
Tijean and Beauty-Not-Knowing
The second story takes place in the West Indies. While exploring a cave down so far beneath the ground, Tijean finds himself in the land of the dead. The shadow of an old man tells him how to defeat three monsters; a giant bee, a giant mongoose, and a giant iguana. He finds his way into the king's court, whose eldest daughter, Beauty-Not-Knowing, is to be married. Since Tijean overcame the three monsters without killing them, he is deemed unworthy to marry the princess and is sentenced to death via the "big chopper". The king gives him three impossible tasks while he is in the dungeon. Fortunately, Tijean is saved by the three animals whose lives he spared.
The Chosen One and The City Of Gold
The third story is set in Aztec times. The inhabitants of a city made of gold worship a being called the Benefactor who gives them gold in exchange for a human sacrifice of the prettiest women in th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FHN | FHN may refer to:
Fiberhome Networks
First Horizon National Corporation
FitzHugh–Nagumo model
Forest Hills Northern High School |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camfecting | Camfecting, in the field of computer security, is the process of attempting to hack into a person's webcam and activate it without the webcam owner's permission. The remotely activated webcam can be used to watch anything within the webcam's field of vision, sometimes including the webcam owner themselves. Camfecting is most often carried out by infecting the victim's computer with a virus that can provide the hacker access to their webcam. This attack is specifically targeted at the victim's webcam, and hence the name camfecting, a portmanteau of the words camera and infecting.
Typically, a webcam hacker or a camfecter sends his victim an innocent-looking application which has a hidden Trojan software through which the camfecter can control the victim's webcam. The camfecter virus installs itself silently when the victim runs the original application. Once installed, the camfecter can turn on the webcam and capture pictures/videos. The camfecter software works just like the original webcam software present in the victim computer, the only difference being that the camfecter controls the software instead of the webcam's owner.
Notable cases
Marcus Thomas, former assistant director of the FBI's Operational Technology Division in Quantico, said in a 2013 story in The Washington Post that the FBI had been able to covertly activate a computer's camera—without triggering the light that lets users know it is recording—for several years.
In November 2013, American teenager Jared James Abrahams pleaded guilty to hacking over 100-150 women and installing the highly invasive malware Blackshades on their computers in order to obtain nude images and videos of them. One of his victims was Miss Teen USA 2013 Cassidy Wolf.
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University have shown how to covertly capture images from the iSight camera on MacBook and iMac models released before 2008, by reprogramming the microcontroller's firmware.
Risk sources
A computer that does not have an up-to-date webcam software or any anti-virus (or firewall) software installed and operational may be at increased risk for camfecting. Softcams may nominally increase this risk, if not maintained or configured properly.
Preventive software
Recently webcam privacy software was introduced by such companies such as Stop Being Watched or Webcamlock. The software exposes access to a webcam, and prompts the user to allow or deny access by showing what program is trying to access the webcam. Allowing the user to accept a trusted program the user recognizes, or terminate the attempt immediately.
There is now a market for the manufacture and sale sliding lens covers that allow users to physically block their computer's camera and, in some cases, microphone.
See also
Espionage
Internet privacy
Optic Nerve (GCHQ)
Secret photography
Surveillance
Trojan
Webcam
References
External links
First twitter post about Camfecting
Web cam hacking virus alert
Web cam virus writer arrested in S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20outage | An Internet outage or Internet blackout or Internet shutdown is the complete or partial failure of the internet services. It can occur due to censorship, cyberattacks, disasters, police or security services actions or errors.
Disruptions of submarine communications cables may cause blackouts or slowdowns to large areas. Countries with a less developed Internet infrastructure are more vulnerable due to small numbers of high-capacity links.
A line of research finds that the Internet with it having a "hub-like" core structure that makes it robust to random losses of nodes but also fragile to targeted attacks on key components − the highly connected nodes or "hubs".
Types
Government blackout
A government internet blackout is the deliberate shut down of civilian internet access by a government for a small area or many large areas of its country. Such a shut down is typically used as a means of information control in a brief period of upheaval or transition. In autocracies, internet shutdowns have appeared especially in the context of contested elections and post-electoral violence. It can impede the ability of protesters or insurgent forces to mobilize and organize. It also serves to prevent real-time information access for foreign people or entities. Reactions from leaders, journalists, observers and others in foreign countries can be delayed.
Military blackout
The temporary disconnection of civilian internet access by military forces is an important aspect of information warfare. This tactic is common today, and is often used in concert with a ground invasion by conventional forces. It could also be used in advance of an airstrike campaign.
Weather or natural disaster
Extreme weather events and natural disasters can lead to internet outages by either directly destroying local ICT infrastructure or indirectly damaging the local electricity grid. The Monash IP Observatory and KASPR Datahaus have tracked the impact of Hurricane Florence 2018, Cyclone Fani 2018, and Hurricane Laura in 2020.
Solar storms
Solar superstorms could cause large-scale global months-long Internet outages. A researchers describes potential mitigation measures and exceptions – such as user-powered mesh networks, related peer-to-peer applications and new protocols – and the robustness of the current Internet infrastructure.
Cyberattacks
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks
These attacks flood a website or network with traffic from multiple sources, overwhelming the server and making it unavailable to users.
Routing attacks
These attacks target the infrastructure of the internet, specifically the routing systems that direct traffic between different networks. By manipulating or disrupting these systems, attackers can cause widespread outages.
Malware
Malicious software can infect and damage computer systems and networks, leading to internet outages.
Botnets
A botnet is a network of compromised computers that are controlled by an attacker. These computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IVM | In vitro maturation
Protein Data Bank (PDB) ligand code for ivermectin
Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing, in Nigeria
See also
IVM Podcasts, a podcasting company in India. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preixens | Preixens is a municipality in the comarca of Noguera, in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Official website
Government data pages
Municipalities in Noguera (comarca)
Populated places in Noguera (comarca) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilanova%20de%20Mei%C3%A0 | Vilanova de Meià is a municipality in the comarca of Noguera, in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Noguera (comarca)
Populated places in Noguera (comarca) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selamat%20Datang%20Monument | Selamat Datang Monument (Selamat Datang is Indonesian for "Welcome"), also known as the Monumen Bundaran HI or Monumen Bunderan HI ( for 'Hotel Indonesia roundabout'), is a monument located in Central Jakarta, Indonesia. Completed in 1962 by sculptor Edhi Sunarso, the Selamat Datang Monument is one of the historic landmarks of Jakarta.
History and design
During the 1960s, President Sukarno ordered several constructions and city beautification projects in preparation for the Asian Games IV. These activities included the construction of the Ikada Sport Complex (in what is now Gelora Bung Karno Sport Complex) and several statues, including the Selamat Datang Monument, designated as Tugu Selamat Datang.
The design of the statue was sketched by Henk Ngantung, at that time the vice governor of Jakarta. The sculpting of the statue was done by sculptor Edhi Sunarso. , a close advisor to Sukarno on fine arts matters, was the coordinator of the project. The statue depicts two bronze statues of a man and a woman, waving in a welcoming gesture. The woman holds a flower bouquet in her left hand. The design evokes similarity with the style of Soviet sculptor Vera Mukhina and was heavy with socialist realism. Sukarno was said to have contributed to the design of the statue. Henk Ngantung wrote that initially the Welcome Monument was to be named "Indonesian people greet their future".
The two figures of the Welcome Monument are five metres from head to toe, or seven metres from the tip of the raised arm to toe. The two figures stand atop a pedestal. In total, the monument is about thirty meters above the ground. The Selamat Datang Monument symbolizes the openness of the Indonesian nation to visitors to the Asian Games IV.
The construction of the statue was started on August 17, 1961. During the construction of the statue, Edhi Sunarso was visited by Sukarno, US Ambassador to Indonesia Howard P. Jones, and other ministers in his studio.
Bundaran Hotel Indonesia
The Selamat Datang Monument is located in the center of a roundabout known as Bundaran Hotel Indonesia or Bundaran HI (Indonesian for "Hotel Indonesia Roundabout"). It is so named because of its proximity to Hotel Indonesia. Other accepted spelling is Bunderan HI, which is closer to local Javanese-Betawi language unique to Jakarta. The roundabout is strategically located in the heart of Jakarta, right in the center of Jakarta's main avenue, Jalan M.H. Thamrin, on its intersection with Jalan Imam Bonjol, Jalan Sutan Syahrir and Jalan Kebon Kacang. At its completion, Hotel Indonesia and its roundabout is the gateway for visitors of Jakarta. The roundabout features a round pond with fountains.
In 2002, Bundaran Hotel Indonesia was restored by PT Jaya Konstruksi Manggala Pratama. The restoration introduced new fountains, new design of the pool, and new lighting. Today after the reformation era, the paved plaza surrounds the pond has become a popular spot for civic demonstrations. Every Sunday morning d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppStream | AppStream is an agreement between major Linux vendors (i.e. Red Hat, Canonical, SUSE, Debian, Mandriva, etc.) to create an infrastructure for application installers on Linux and sharing of metadata.
The initiative was started as early as 19-21 January, 2011.
The project describes itself as: "an initiative of cross-distro collaboration, which aims at creating an unified software metadata database, and also a centralized OCS (Open Collaboration Services) user-contributed content database, thus providing the best user experience."
With the 0.6 release, the scope of the project was expanded to include more metadata for other software components, such as fonts, codecs, input-methods and generic libraries, which will allow applications to query information about software which is available in a distribution-independent way. This enhances the quality of data displayed in software-centers, but also makes it possible for 3rd-party application installers like Listaller to find the components a new application needs to run in the distribution's package database. Additionally, the new metadata allows easier installation of prerequisites needed to build software in the first place, as well as matching upstream applications with distribution packages and matching packages across distributions, which might improve the process of exchanging patches.
AppStream is also used by packaging methods such as Snap, Flatpak, and AppImage.
See also
Package manager
PackageKit, GNOME Software and Apper
Zero Install
Ubuntu Software Center
References
External links
AppData
AppStream at freedesktop.org
AppStream documentation
Project Bretzn
Phoronix - Introducing AppStream, Multi-Distro App Framework
Google Summer of Code 2011 - PackageKit backend and AppStream integration for Software Center
openSUSE's Application Manager
Free application software
Linux package management-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum%20Community%20%28Maine%29 | Spectrum Community was a regional cable television network owned by Charter Communications through its acquisition of Time Warner Cable in May 2016, with coverage throughout Time Warner Cable systems throughout Maine and Northern New Hampshire. The channel broadcasts local programming and local high school and minor league sports. The channel was previously named Time Warner Cable Community and Time Warner Cable Television (TWC TV) before that.
Programming
Business Insider Guest speakers address topical concerns for area business people.
Maine Street Interview show with community leaders discussing happenings in their town.
Mature Lifestyles Monthly news magazine show focusing on senior citizens.
Pet Haven Line Produced by the Kennebec Valley Humane Society, focusing on the care of animals.
State of the State Weekly discussion about local and national issues concerning the state of Maine.
Strictly Sports Monday night program discussing local and national sports, hosted by WGAN talk show host Mike Violette.
Consumer Matters Advice for the Consumer from the Maine Attorney General's office.
Road to the Blaine House Profiles gubernatorial candidates, similar to C-SPAN's Road to the White House.
Mainly Motorsports Focusing on motorsports in New England.
Wildfire Discussing Maine outdoors issues.
Classic Arts Showcase is seen late nights in addition to infomercials.
Sports programming
In addition to Monday night's Strictly Sports talk show. Spectrum Community airs local high school sports largely from Southern Maine and Aroostook County. The station also produces the Maine Principals' Association's high school basketball tournament from Portland every March. Spectrum Community also acts as an overflow feed for MPBN during the aforementioned high school basketball tournament and for New England Sports Network when the Boston Red Sox and Boston Bruins are playing at the same time. Spectrum Community also produces and airs select home Portland Pirates and Maine Red Claws games. The channel will also air games from Time Warner Cable SportsNet when Maine based teams are playing teams that network usually covers.
See also
TW3 (Albany, NY)
References
Television stations in Maine
Charter Communications
Defunct local cable stations in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape%20analysis | Shape analysis may refer to:
Shape analysis (digital geometry)
Shape analysis (program analysis), a type of method to analyze computer programs without actually executing the programs
Statistical shape analysis
Computational anatomy
Bayesian Estimation of Templates in Computational Anatomy
, a type of RNA chemical probing to produce secondary structure models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCaster | OpenCaster is a collection of open-source and free software for the Debian GNU/Linux system to play out and multiplex MPEG transport streams. OpenCaster generates most of the non audio/video data present into transport streams and handle playout of pre-encoded audio/video files or can be integrated with third parties audio/video encoders.
Common use cases
Table generator (PSI/SI and EPG)
Interactive TV standards DSMCC object carousel broadcast (MHP, MHEG5, HbbTv, ...)
Multiplexing of input multicast UDP MPEG transport stream to output multicast UDP transport stream
Playout of locally stored, offline encoded audio and video for non-live TV and/or radio stations
VOD system based on mpeg2 transport stream over IP or over DVB-* for walled garden network like hotels with coax
DVB-SSU update for decoders OTA
Teletext generator
Design principles
OpenCaster supports Interprocess communication among its different tools using Named pipes and enabling a high customization level by any user with basic shell script skills. The pipe paradigm has been criticized for performance
, still the easy customization payoff is too valuable compared to the performance lost and doesn't present any issue in current Mbps throughput.
Table generation is performed with serialization of a natural language description in Python and already features a large number of descriptors from different digital television standards. Adding new descriptors at the library is really fast and doesn't need any particular programming skill beside knowing how the packet is specified bit by bit.
History
Originally tests were done in Cineca as a research project under a different name targeting broadcast of DSMCC file system for MHP interactive television but the project was already started from works by German National Research Center for Information Technology. The first service featuring OpenCaster DSMCC was broadcast on air in Italy in 2003. The first non-live DVB service 100% generated by OpenCaster and open source mpeg2 encoders is operating on air since 2004. OpenCaster was presented at the 16th ACM international conference on Multimedia since then has been used also in other researches: DVB-T DIGITAL TV TANSMITTER BASED SOFTWARE
, MHP Conformance test
, Building of an HbbTV demonstrator
a project in collaboration with European Broadcasting Union, Open Source End-2-End DVB-H Mobile TV services and network infrastructure — The DVB-H pilot in Denmark. OpenCaster was used in the HbbTV Test suite in 2014 and has been cited as tool in From the Aether to the Ethernet – Attacking the Internet using Broadcast Digital Television
Integration
OpenCaster has been successfully integrated with a long list of broadcasting products, among them there are products by Adtec, Cisco/Scientific Atlanta, Deltacast, Dektec, Ericsson/Tandberg Television, Eurotek, Harmonic/Scopus, MainConcept, Mitan, Screen Service, Sr-Systems, Wellav, ...
Testing
OpenCaster has been tested with Rohde & Schwa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porteus%20%28operating%20system%29 | Porteus (formerly Slax Remix) is a portable operating system based on Slackware. It does not require installation and can be run from fixed and removable media, such as a USB flash drive or compact disc.
Porteus is available in 32-bit and 64-bit version.
Development
The Porteus project started out as "Slax Remix" at the beginning of 2010 and was started as a community project using the Zen kernel to improve and update the Slax OS.
The community agreed on the new name of the project, Porteus, which was named after "'Portability' and 'Proteus'. 'Proteus' is a "Greek god of the sea, capable of changing his form at will," according to the naming announcement on the Porteus forum. The project leader commented on the name, "I find this name as a kind of synonym of 'flexibility.' We have portable (small) and flexible (modular) features included in one name: Porteus."
Porteus 4.0 is available in seven desktop variants: Cinnamon, KDE Plasma 5, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, Openbox and Xfce.
Features
Porteus is based on a substantially modified and optimized version of the Linux Live Scripts. It can be run from a disk or USB stick (with changes saved onto the portable device) or installed on a hard drive. Porteus can even be installed within another system without the need to create a new partition.
Porteus is preloaded with a variety of software that the user selects before installing. The system is downloaded only after selecting various options from a menu including one of four windows management systems, a browser and other features. Porteus uses a package manager utilizing slackware.
Porteus Kiosk
Porteus Kiosk is a specialized edition of the Porteus operating system, a minimalist Linux distribution for web-only terminals with Firefox (or Google Chrome, Chromium or Opera, set upon installation) as the sole application. Porteus Kiosk provides users with a locked down computing environment, designed to be deployed in schools, offices, public libraries, internet cafés or any other business establishment that provides Internet access to their clients.
Porteus Kiosk can be installed to CD/DVD, USB flash drive, hard drive, or any other bootable storage media such as Compact Flash or SD/MMC memory cards. Prior to installation the system can be customized through the kiosk wizard utility which allows system and browser related tweaks.
The Porteus Kiosk system is open source and available free-of-charge, although a number of commercial services such as custom builds, automatic updates and software upgrades are available.
Until version 3.7.0 Porteus Kiosk was able to run on both 32-bit (i486 or greater) and 64-bit (x86_64) machines. As Google Chrome doesn't support 32-bit machines anymore, the developers of the distribution decided to follow that path. Hence with release 4.0.0 Porteus Kiosk supports only the x86_64 architecture. The system is lightweight in terms of size and resources used. The default image is about 80 MB while the size of the custom kiosk ISO w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mai%20no%20Mah%C5%8D%20to%20Katei%20no%20Hi | is a 2011 Japanese anime television special produced by P.A. Works which aired in the Toyama Prefecture of Japan on the local network, KNB, and other networks in February 2011. Toyama Governor Takakazu Ishii revealed the project during a press conference for the 2011 prefectural budget. The series centers on second-grader Mai Tatsumi who use magic to understand her family's feelings. The series was designed to raise public awareness about the importance of family bonds.
Voices included Sumi Shimamoto as the mother, Yuki, and Mami Koyama as Hotaru, the grandmother.
References
External links
Mai no Mahō to Katei no Hi official website
Mai no Mahō to Katei no Hi at IMDb.com
courtesy of Lantis
2011 anime OVAs
P.A.Works
Films about families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%27s%20Greatest%20Athlete%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of Australia's Greatest Athlete was broadcast on the Seven Network and was hosted by Mark Beretta, with last season's competitor Wendell Sailor. Mark Webber and past season winner Billy Slater presented occasional fitness tips and interviews with the competitors in video packages.
Billy Slater, who won the first two seasons of the show, did not defend his title due to recovery from shoulder surgery, but was still involved in the show as a 'Rexona ambassador' alongside Mark Webber, where each also tips a player in each event. This season was filmed at the Novotel Twin Waters Resort on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.
The season began on 13 February 2011 at 4:30pm for a total of six episodes.
Participants
Shannon Eckstein - Three-time world Ironman champion and runner up of season 2
Mark Winterbottom - V8 Supercar driver
Quade Cooper - Rugby Union player
Luke Hodge - Australian rules football player
Kurt Gidley - Rugby league 4 time defending champion
Eamon Sullivan - Olympic swimmer
Fabrice Lapierre - athletics competitor (long jump)
Ken Wallace - Olympic Kayaking competitor
Episodes
Episode 1
Mini Ironman Challenge
Rugby Oz Tag Challenge
Episode 2
Swimming Challenge
Bench Press Challenge
Episode 3
Jet Ski Challenge
40m Beach Sprint Challenge
Episode 4
Surf Boat Rowing Challenge
AFL Kick For Goal Challenge
Episode 5
Basketball Challenge
Boxing Challenge
Episode 6
Final Assault Course
Results table
The following table shows how many points each competitor earned throughout the series.
† indicates this event was the 'sports specific challenge' for this athlete
The contestant won the challenge
The contestant came second in the challenge
The contestant came last in the challenge
The contestant won the series
The contestant came second overall in the series
The contestant came last overall in the series
References
External links
Official Website
Preview of competition - The Roar
2011 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20R.%20Rice%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | John Rischard Rice (born 1934) is an American mathematician and computer scientist, the W. Brooks Fortune Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and a professor of mathematics (by courtesy) at Purdue University. He specializes in numerical computing, founded the ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software and is the author of more than 20 books and approximately 300 research articles.
Biography
Rice was born on June 6, 1934, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and grew up in small towns in Oklahoma. As a teenager, his father was assigned to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he lived for three years. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics from Oklahoma State University in 1954 and 1956; while studying there, he spent his summers in southern California, working in the aerospace industry. He then moved to the California Institute of Technology, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1959 under the supervision of Arthur Erdélyi; his dissertation concerned approximation theory. After taking a one-year postdoctoral position at the National Bureau of Standards, he became a researcher for General Motors. In 1964 he left GM and joined the recently founded computer science department at Purdue, which he later headed from 1983 to 1996
Rice organized the first Symposium on Mathematical Software at Purdue University in 1970, which produced the recommendation to start a journal for the field. This led to the founding of ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS) in 1975, of which Rice would be editor-in-chief until 1993. He was chair of the Computing Research Association from 1991 to 1993.
Research
Rice showed an early interest in computing, publishing a paper titled "Electronic Brains" as a college sophomore. Although his early research was on the mathematics of approximation theory, he spent most of his career working in the analysis of algorithms for solving numerical problems, and particularly on the solution of elliptic partial differential equations.
Books
Rice's Introduction to Computer Science (with J. K. Rice, published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston in 1969) was the "leading textbook of the day" and emphasized general principles of algorithms and data structures rather than specific programming languages, the focus of previous introductory CS texts. It was translated into three other languages.
Rice's other books include:
Solving Elliptic Problems with ELLPACK (Springer-Verlag, 1985)
Mathematical Aspects of Scientific Software (Springer-Verlag, 1988)
Expert Systems for Scientific Computing (North Holland, 1992)
Enabling Technologies for Computational Science (Kluwer, 2000)
Awards and honors
Rice was named the Brooks Fortune Professor in 1989. In 1994, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for his "for leadership in founding the field of mathematical software and for fundamental contributions to its content". He is also a Fellow of the AAAS and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
See also
Hobby–Rice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapital%20Network%20International | Kapital Network International is a regional network of independent accounting and consulting firms in Turkey, Eurasia and the Middle East. Serving small and medium-sized, growth-oriented international businesses in accounting, tax, legal services, human resources, software and consulting.
History
Founded on 29 January 1997 as Kapital Serbest Muhasebeci Mali Müşavirlik Ltd. Şti. in Istanbul and formerly a member of RSM International. The firms under the umbrella name of Kapital Network International are Kapital SMMM Ltd., Kapital Denetim YMM Ltd., and Kapital Online Ltd.
References
<Eurasia in the Global Economy >
<Turkey in the Euro Med >
<Corporate tax: State vigilance is a rising investor concern>
<Silk Road Intelligencer >
<Turkey Briefing >
<Mid-tier firm enters into Azerbaijan audit market >
External links
kapitalnetwork.com
kapitalbusinesspartners.com
kapitalonline.net
Financial services companies of Turkey
Accounting in Turkey
Accounting organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance%20addressing | High-performance addressing (HPA) is an LCD passive-matrix display technology commonly found on low-end portable computers; versions of HPA have been developed by Hitachi and by Sharp. HPA enables higher response rates and contrast, displaying up to 16-million colors; however, HPA displays lack the crispness that is found with an Active-matrix display.
HPA uses a technique called multiline addressing in which the incoming video signal is analyzed and the image is refreshed with a frequency as high as possible.
References
Display technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20William%20Armstrong | Peter William Armstrong (born 1 April 1943) is a television and radio producer, whose career at the BBC spanned 25 years. He is best known for innovative religious programming and as the founder and project editor of the BBC's Domesday Project (1986), for which he won a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2004 BAFTAs. He is the father of documentary maker Franny Armstrong.
Educational background
Armstrong earned First Class Honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and continued doctorate studies at Mansfield College, Oxford.
Professional background
Armstrong joined the BBC in 1971, after he was spotted by the then head of religious programming John Lang. He quickly moved from radio into television, founding well-known series like Everyman, Songs of Praise, and Global Report, as well as writing and producing one-off series and programmes including The Sea of Faith, which led to the formation of the Sea of Faith movement.
Armstrong was innovative in his approach to religious programming, insisting that, rather than viewing the world through the lens of faith, the programmes (Everyman and Heart of the Matter) would bring a journalist's eye to bear on the world's faith communities.
1986: The BBC Domesday Project
Inspired by the original Domesday Book, Peter Armstrong wondered if it would be possible to harness technology to recreate the philosophy of the Domesday Book, but applied to modern Britain. The resulting BBC Domesday Project bought together millions of British citizens to produce an interactive record of the nation. He went on to create the award-winning Interactive Television Unit, and became its chair when it floated as the MultiMedia Corporation.
Oneworld.net
In 1995, Armstrong co-founded oneworld.net, the first internet portal devoted to global justice and development. Oneworld.net's central purpose was to act as a newswire for issues related to social justice – to aggregate and highlight the content of development NGOs such as Oxfam and Christian Aid. Oneworld joined Yahoo!'s world news platform in 2001 alongside newswires such as AP and Reuters. Sarah Wright, Yahoo! News Editor, said "OneWorld journalists provide a unique and valuable resource to Yahoo by providing context for international headlines and voices from the front lines of international development."
He also founded OneWorldTV and OneClimate, part of the OneWorld Network.
Awards
In 2004, Armstrong received a Lifetime Achievement BAFTA at the Interactive Awards for his contributions to interactive media. He was the second person to win this award, after Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web.
References
External links
Alumni of Mansfield College, Oxford
1943 births
Living people
British television producers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi%20coraz%C3%B3n%20insiste%20en%20Lola%20Volc%C3%A1n | Mi corazón insiste en Lola Volcán (My Heart Beats for Lola Volcan) is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network Telemundo.
Telemundo aired the serial from May 23 to November 28, 2011, at 8pm central. As with most of its other telenovelas, the network broadcasts English subtitles as closed captions on CC3. It is a remake of Colombian telenovela of 1998-1999 Yo amo a Paquita Gallego by Julio Jimenez.
Plot
"Love is an adrenaline and feeling in which the world disappears when you cling to a woman who loves and hates with the force of a volcano. Only she has wept in silence of suffering, lives intensely in the pain, and loves in the hours of true happiness; Because she is Lola Volcán ..."
Cast
Main
Carmen Villalobos as María Dolores "Lola" Volcán
Jencarlos Canela as Andrés Suárez / Andrés Santacruz
Angélica María as Isabel "Chabela" Volcán
Ana Layevska as Débora Noriega, main female villain, hates Lola, obsessed with Andres, mistress of Marcelo, murdered him, killed by Diana
Fabián Ríos as Ángel Meléndez, main male villain, in love with Lola, killed Tiberio, Fulgencio and Diana, shot by Andres to save Lola
Secondary
Katie Barberi as Victoria "Vicky" de Noriega, villain, later turns good
Carlos Torres as Rodrigo Suárez, police officer, father of Andres, in love with Soledad
Rossana San Juan as Soledad Volcán, former lover of Tiberio, mother of Lola, in love with Rodrigo. She is kidnapped by Debora, and is held captived by Tiberio, and then Angel for over a year (at one point is presumed dead) and it becomes a main focus of the series to find her.
Gerardo Murguía as Marcelo Santacruz, villain, hates Andres and Lola, kills Veronica, murdered by Debora
Alejandro Suárez as Diógenes Rugeles, in love with Lola, hates Andres
Liannet Borrego as Verónica Alcázar, in love with Daniel, hates Adela, and killed by Marcelo
Mauricio Hénao as Daniel Santacruz, villain, later good, in love with Adela but left her for Veronica, becomes a drug addict, ends up together with Adela
Carlos Ferro as Camilo Andrade, a lawyer, Andres' best friend, is in love with Sofia
Cynthia Olavarría as Sofía Palacios, a psychatrist, Andres' aunt, in love with Camila
Roberto Huicochea as José "Pepe" Linares, Adela's grandfather, in love and marries to Etelvina
Rubén Morales as Ramón Noriega, villain, accomplice of Marcelo, the father of Debora, husband of Vicky, is murdered by Angel
Paloma Márquez as Adela "Adelita" Linares, Lola's best friend, turns against her family and becomes a prostitute but escapes a reunites with her family, she's initially in love with Daniel, then Fulgencio Lopez (whom would be the father of her child), but ends up together with Daniel after Lopez is murdered.
Lino Martone as Fulgencio López, in love with Adela (is the father of her child), killed by Angel
Jeannette Lehr as María Etelvina Rengifo / Eduviges Rengifo, villain, later good, is in love with Diógenes, then falls in love and marries Pep |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20Action%20and%20Information%20Network%20for%20the%20Bodily%20Integrity%20of%20Women | Research Action and Information Network for the Bodily Integrity of Women (RAINBO, also stylized as RAINB♀) is an international non-governmental organisation working to eliminate female circumcision and female genital mutilation.
Foundation and initial impact
RAINBO was founded in 1994 by a group of African immigrants to the United States including Nahid Toubia, Sudan's first female surgeon. The organisation has offices in New York City and London and works in Uganda, South Africa, The Gambia, and Nigeria.
The RAINBO played a prominent role in changing the view of female circumcision/female genital mutilation from being a predominantly medical concern to a human rights issue. In 1995 RAINBO published Nahid Toubia's "Female Genital Mutilation: A Call for Global Action", discussing the cultural significance of FC/FGM in Africa and suggesting legal, religious, social and political measures to combat the practice and the report "Intersections Between Health and Human Rights: The Case of Female Genital Mutilation", based on the National Council on International Health (NCIH) international workshop attended by legal professionals, academics, social scientists, and activists.
Significant publications
In 1998 Nahid Toubia and Susan Izett of RAINBO were responsible for producing the World Health Organisation's "Female Genital Mutilation: an overview", a comprehensive review of the prevalence, epidemiology and health consequences of FC/FGM, suggesting an agenda for research and "technically sound policies and approaches" for use by government agencies and NGOs working to eliminate the practice.
In 1999 the African Immigrant Program at RAINBO published three pamphlets for the African immigrant and refugee communities and the social workers and health care providers working with those communities:
"Caring for Women with Circumcision: A Technical Manual for Health Care Providers" (Nahid Toubia), on managing the physical complications of FC/FGM, understanding the social and cultural significance of the practice and providing culturally sensitive counselling (foreword by Donna Shalala, Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
"Learning About Social Change: A Research and Evaluation Guidebook Using FC/FGM as a Case Study (Susan Izett and Nahid Toubia), using FC/FGM as a case study of research and evaluation aimed at understanding and effecting social change.
"FC/FGM Full Color Quick Reference Chart", a chart illustrating the commonest types of FC/FGM and defibulation.
Approach
RAINBO emphasises African leadership in its work and the use of culturally sensitive terminology. Nahid Toubia has criticised the West's "sensationalisation" of a practice she strongly opposes on the grounds that it reinforces a view of Arabs, Muslims and Africans as "primitive" and provokes a reaction of over-sensitivity in the communities concerned.
AMANITARE initiative
AMANITARE (African Partnership for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women and G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bates%27s%20chip | Bates's chip (also called a sloppy chip or fuzzy chip) is a theoretical chip proposed by MIT Media Lab's computer scientist Joseph Bates that would incorporate fuzzy logic to do calculations. The resulting calculations would be less accurate, though they would be performed significantly faster.
References
Fuzzy logic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holberton | Holberton may refer to:
Betty Holberton (1917–2001), American computer programmer
See also
Halberton, a village in Devon, England
Holbeton, a village in Devon, England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working%20Class%20%28TV%20series%29 | Working Class is an American television sitcom created by Jill Cargerman, which premiered on CMT on January 28, 2011. The network ordered twelve episodes for the comedy, which was the first scripted series for the network.
On April 11, 2011, CMT cancelled Working Class after only one season, due to low ratings.
Premise
According to a press release, "the ... series follows Carli Mitchell (Melissa Peterman), a single mom from a rough and tumble background, trying to give her three kids a better life by moving them to an upscale suburb. She quickly finds that making the transition to 'the good life' is harder than she thought."
Critical reception
Brian Lowry of Variety panned the series, writing that "On paper, structuring a show around the recession must have felt bold...Ultimately, this is a comedy for people who find Jeff Foxworthy’s material too intellectually demanding."
Cast
Melissa Peterman as Carli Mitchell
Ed Asner as Hank Greziak
Steve Kazee as Nick Garrett
Patrick Fabian as Rob Parker
Lachlan Buchanan as Scott Mitchell
Courtney Merritt as Pam Mitchell
Cameron Castaneda as Will Mitchell
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American sitcoms
2011 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
CMT (American TV channel) original programming
English-language television shows
Mass media portrayals of the working class
Working-class culture in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Comprehensive%20Ocean-Atmosphere%20Data%20Set | The International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) is a digital database of 261 million weather observations made by ships, weather ships, and weather buoys spanning the years 1662 to 2007. The database was initially constructed in 1985 and continues to be expanded upon and updated on a regular basis. From the original data, gridded datasets were created. ICOADS information has been useful in determining the reliability of ship and buoy wind measurements, helping to determine temperature trends in the sea surface temperature field, and updating the Atlantic hurricane database.
History
Beginning in 1981, the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere data set (COADS) began construction within the United States. In April 1985, the first version of this database was created, including 70 million reports covering the years of 1854 through 1979. Each year thereafter, recent data was added to the dataset to extend its length towards the present. In November 1996, the first gridded datasets were created, using a one degree latitude by one degree longitude grid for the years 1960 through 1993. The following November, they were revised and extended to cover years through 1995. In November 1999, they were extended into 1997. In March 2002, two degree grids were created on a monthly basis for the years 1800 through 1949, and in recognition of input from other countries such as the United Kingdom and Germany, the database was renamed ICOADS. In November 2000, the database was extended backward to 1784. In September 2002, this data became available through the internet. In late 2005, data from weather buoys were added into the database. In July 2009, the database was extended back to 1662. Data updates to include recent observations were begun on a monthly basis. The total number of observations in the database is now 261 million.
Available information
ICOADS has a variety of marine meteorological information within it, such as air temperature, sea surface temperature, wind, pressure, humidity, and cloudiness. Data in the time frame from 1662 through the early 1800s in quite sparse, as ship voyages covered only small areas of the globe in those days.
Related research
Based upon data from ICOADS, wind reports from moored weather buoys were determined to have smaller error than those from ships. The use of winds and pressures from ocean observations within ICOADS has led to a refinement of the Atlantic hurricane database as part of the North Atlantic hurricane reanalysis. Sea surface temperature data from ICOADS have been used to detect 20th century trends within that field. Global atmospheric reanalyses of past years have utilized the data within ICOADS.
See also
Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth
References
Climate and weather statistics
Historical climatology
Meteorological data and networks
Numerical climate and weather models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Federation%20of%20Business%20and%20Professional%20Women | International Federation of Business and Professional Women (or BPW International) is a worldwide organization committed to networking among and empowering women worldwide. BPW International serves as a forum for professional business women with branches in over 100 countries with a membership of over a quarter of a million, developing the professional, leadership and business potential of women on all levels through advocacy, mentoring and skill building. Their economic empowerment programs and projects around the world promote equal participation of women and men in decision-making roles at all levels. BPW International has consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and participatory status with the Council of Europe.
The International Federation of Business and Professional Women gathers and offers the views of business and professional women to world organizations and agencies. BPW International promotes its objectives without distinction as to ethnicity, race, religion or political beliefs.
According to their website, members of local, regional and national clubs are to take an active role as professional women "in the economy, politics and society." They are to work on behalf of professional women everywhere, especially in the roles of mentoring and lobbying. The organization has a close relationship with the United Nations as well as other international organizations in their work to advance the role of women. The organization has many publications documenting their work.
History
The International Federation of Business and Professional Women was founded in Geneva, Switzerland, on August 26, 1930, by Dr. Lena Madesin Phillips of Kentucky. As President of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs in the United States, Phillips had organized several trips to Europe in 1928 and 1929 to network with business and professional women in Europe. Hundreds of American clubwomen participated in these "Goodwill Tours" and the movement was born. The founding member countries of the BPW International were Austria, Canada, France, Great Britain, Italy and the United States of America. Dr. Phillips was elected as the first president of BPW International and served until 1947. In 1933 Dr. Phillips served as president of the International Council of Women which was held in conjunction with the Chicago World's Fair.
In 1934, the headquarters moved from Geneva to London, sharing office space at 20 Regent Street with the Electrical Association for Women (EAW). In 1936, British engineer and Director of the EAW Caroline Haslett became vice-president and president in 1950. By 1950, British membership had reached 90,000 and filmmaker Mary Field became the UK president when Haslett moved into the international president role.
See also
Business and Professional Women's Foundation
Azra Jafari, national director, Afghanistan
Yvette Swan, former president
Esther Afua Ocloo, honoree
Elisabeth Fell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperMUC | SuperMUC was a supercomputer of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. It was housed in the LRZ's data centre in Garching near Munich. It was decommissioned in January 2020, having been superseded by the more powerful SuperMUC-NG.
History
SuperMUC (the suffix 'MUC' alludes to the IATA code of Munich's airport) is operated by the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, a European centre for supercomputing. In order to house its hardware, the infrastructure space of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre was more than doubled in 2012. SuperMUC was the fastest European supercomputer when it entered operation in the summer of 2012 and is currently ranked No. 20 in the Top500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers.
SuperMUC serves European researchers of many fields, including medicine, astrophysics, quantum chromodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, life sciences, genome analysis and earth quake simulations.
Performance
SuperMUC is an IBM iDataPlex system containing 19,252 Intel Xeon Sandy Bridge-EP and Westmere-EX multi-core processors (155,656 cores), for a peak performance of about 3PFLOPS (3×1015FLOPS). It has 340TB of main memory and 15PB of hard disk space. It uses a new form of cooling that IBM developed, called Aquasar, that uses hot water to cool the processors. IBM claims that this design saves 40percent of the energy normally needed to cool a comparable system.
SuperMUC is connected to powerful visualization systems, which consist of a large 4K stereoscopic powerwall as well as a five-sided CAVE artificial virtual reality environment.
References
External links
"System description of SuperMUC at the LRZ website"
Rechnen und Heizen: Neuer Supercomputer für Garching bei br-online.de, 13. Dezember 2010
"PRACE Announces 'SuperMUC' System for LRZ"
IBM supercomputers
Petascale computers
Supercomputing in Europe
IDataPlex supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20of%20conservation%20of%20complexity | The law of conservation of complexity, also known as Tesler's Law, or Waterbed Theory, is an adage in human–computer interaction stating that every application has an inherent amount of complexity that cannot be removed or hidden. Instead, it must be dealt with, either in product development or in user interaction.
This poses the question of who should be exposed to the complexity. For example, should a software developer add complexity to the software code to make the interaction simpler for the user or should the user deal with a complex interface so that the software code can be simple?
Background
While working for Xerox PARC in the mid-1980s, Larry Tesler realized that the way users interact with applications was just as important as the application itself. The book Designing for Interaction by Dan Saffer includes an interview with Larry Tesler that describes the law of conservation of complexity. The interview is popular among user experience and interaction designers.
Larry Tesler argues that, in most cases, an engineer should spend an extra week reducing the complexity of an application versus making millions of users spend an extra minute using the program because of the extra complexity. However, Bruce Tognazzini proposes that people resist reductions to the amount of complexity in their lives. Thus, when an application is simplified, users begin attempting more complex tasks.
Many other consultants, however, have stated on social media that this is not a law at all. While acknowledging the tradeoff between how the software is built and how it is used happens, it is not inherent. Instead, it is mostly due to a poor architecture and not attending to the customer journey the product is in.
Applications
Possible applications of Tesler's Law:
Programming
Vehicles
Home appliances
Workplace equipment
References
External links
http://www.nomodes.com
Human–computer interaction
Software engineering folklore
Software development philosophies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Life | Discovery Life is an American cable television network owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched on February 1, 2011 as Discovery Fit & Health, it was the result of the merger of Discovery Health Channel and FitTV (following the former's replacement in its channel space by OWN), and focuses on reality programming dealing with "life events". Its programming is drawn from the libraries of its predecessors and TLC.
, approximately 46,696,000 American households (40.1% of households with television) received Discovery Life.
History
On January 17, 2011, Discovery Communications announced that FitTV would be re-launched as Discovery Fit & Health on February 1, 2011. Its formation was the result of Discovery Health's replacement with the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) at the beginning of the year; the company noted that Discovery Health's programming still had loyal viewership, even as the network was being wound down in favor of OWN. Initially, the channel's programming was similar to what was being carried by Discovery Health, but with a fitness-oriented block in the morning featuring FitTV programs.
As Discovery Life
On January 15, 2015, the channel was re-branded as Discovery Life. The rebranding was meant to reflect a broadening of the network's concept targeting women aged 25–54, focusing upon life events and "the drama inherent in our everyday lives".
Programming
The network's schedule consists primarily of library programs (including series and specials) from TLC. Programs span the topics of medical emergencies (Untold Stories of the ER, Mystery Diagnosis), addiction and mental illness (Cracking Addiction, Hoarding: Buried Alive), pregnancy and childbirth (A Baby Story, Outrageous Births: Tales from the Crib), and sex (Sex Sent Me to the ER). The channel does not currently originate any first-run programming.
References
Warner Bros. Discovery networks
Television channels and stations established in 2011
English-language television stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalam%20Nawaem | Kalam Nawaem (Arabic: , English: "Sweet Talk") is a one-hour, female-hosted Arabic talk show that airs late Sunday evenings on the satellite network MBC1. Premiering in 2002, it is credited with pushing social boundaries on Arab television. As of 2007, it was classed among the top 10 programs in the Arab world and commanded the highest ad rates on MBC. In a notable 2011 episode, the program hosted U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The show's format was inspired by the American television series The View and features four female hosts of different ages, Arab nationalities and points of view. The hosts are Muna AbuSulayman, Mahira Abdel Aziz, Sally Abdel Salam, Nadia Ahmad, Samar El Mogren, Hala Kadim and Nadia Ahmad. The show discusses controversial topics and taboos in the middle east such as gender equality, terrorism, incest, sexual harassment, rape, child abuse, infidelity and divorce. The presenters also read correspondence from viewers. Parts of the show have been censored by MBC.
Some of the women have also shared their personal lives with the audience. In one episode, Besiso's then-boyfriend proposed to her on the show, and later Besiso allowed the program to document her pregnancy and televise the birth of her child.
External links
Kalam Narwaem official site (in Arabic).
References
Arabic television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Business%20Service%20Management | HP Business Service Management (BSM) is an end-to-end management software tool that integrates network, server, application and business transaction monitoring. HP Business Service Management is developed and marketed by the HP Software Division.
HP introduced HP Business Service Management 9.0 as a common single platform for managing complex applications, including those supported by both private and public cloud computing, outsourced IT, software-as-a-service (Saas) and traditional IT service delivery.
The 9.0 release was made generally available in June 2010 and was part of a portfolio of applications developed by HP to aid businesses and government organizations with the management of cloud computing as well as traditional IT service delivery.
Business service management is an area of Information Technology that focuses on management of software tools, methods and processes that help the IT department manage technology in a way that supports the business through the services they provide. The BSM methodology connects key IT components to the goals of the business so that the IT department can forecast how technology will affect the business and how business will impact the IT infrastructure.
Components
HP Business Service Management includes operations intelligence, operations bridge, application performance management, systems and virtualization management, network management and storage management.
See also
Business service management
Cloud computing
Software as a service
References
Business software
Business Service Management
Network management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20simulation%20%28disambiguation%29 | Business simulation may refer to
Business simulation game - a computer game genre.
Training simulation
Simulations and games in economics education
Business simulation
Business game |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagudates | The Sagudates (, Sagoudatai) were a South Slavic tribe that lived in Macedonia region, in the area between Thessaloniki and Veria.
History
The Sagudates were first attested in a Byzantine document of 686 as allies of the Avars and besiegers of Thessalonica in alliance with other South Slavic tribes, the Rynchines and Drugubites. In the 7th century, along with other tribes they were using armed logboats to plunder the coasts of Thessaly. In the 9th century the Sagudates lived in mixed villages with the Drugubites and paid taxes to the Byzantine authorities of Thessalonica.
References
Slavic tribes in Macedonia
Sclaveni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Logo | Beginning in June 2005, Logo TV has been broadcasting programming of interest to the LGBT community. The network broadcasts a blend of original programming and syndicated fare previously broadcast on other networks. Logo offers content from a wide variety of genres, including drama, comedy, reality and documentary. It also airs theatrically released films which have been edited for time and content.
Current
Original programming
Canada's Drag Race
RuPaul's Drag Race (First-run premieres have moved to MTV since January 6, 2023)
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (First-run premieres have moved to VH1 after Season 2)
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked (Produced for the LogoTVLive website; first runs moved VH1 in 2018)
Syndicated programming
Bewitched
The Facts of Life
Mama's Family
Married... with Children
The Nanny
The New Adventures of Old Christine
Three's Company
Will & Grace
Former
Original programs
Other original programming
Reality
Animated
Syndicated/co-produced programs
References
External links
Logo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Bruder | Ron Bruder is an American entrepreneur and advocate for increased youth employment opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa. He is the founder of Education for Employment (EFE), a network of affiliated locally-run nonprofits which create public-private partnerships with employers to train youth in technical and soft skills and place them in jobs. The network has local affiliates in Jordan, Palestine, Yemen, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia and capacity-building support organizations in the United States and Spain. EFE has supported over 155,000 youth (59% women) to enter the world of work. In 2011 Bruder was named on the TIME 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. He lives in Westchester County, New York.
Background
Childhood
Born in Brooklyn, Bruder was a part of a Jewish family that had migrated to the United States from Eastern Europe in the early half of the 20th century. Both of his parents worked, with his father an optometrist and his mother a remedial reading teacher. While working as an encyclopedia salesman at age 17, Bruder created a new, more efficient method for selling them, by hiring "economically disadvantaged mothers to do phone solicitations and employed their children to stuff envelopes through doorways all over Brooklyn."
At the age of 16, Bruder enrolled at Shimer College, a Great Books college then located in Mount Carroll, Illinois. He went on to earn a Bachelor's degree in Economics at Adelphi University, followed by a Master's Degree in Business Administration at New York University, and a Post-Master's Degree in Accounting and Taxation at Iona College.
Career
Ron Bruder worked as a real estate developer for more than 30 years, and his earliest real estate activity involved converting an "electric generating plant in lower Manhattan to residential use." He created The Brookhill Group, a real estate company that built and turned around shopping centers and reclaimed brownfields. From there, he went on to found a "medical technology company and an oil-and-gas business, and he redeveloped a number of shopping malls".
It was after this that he started working with brownfields in partnership with Dames and Moore, a multibillion-dollar engineering company. Bruder invented a method of encouraging investment in tainted properties by capping clean-up costs and "securitizing the debt", which enabled The Brookhill Group to become "one of the largest buyers of distressed properties in the U.S." The group quickly obtained properties in more than 21 states.
The September 11 attacks were very traumatic for Bruder, as his eldest daughter was working near the World Trade Center and the event drove Bruder to "make a real impact" in something other than real estate. Working with experts and business owners in the Middle East and North Africa, Bruder investigated entrepreneurial responses to overcoming two key challenges in the Middle East and North Africa: the wor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Sonora | This is a list of radio stations in the state of Sonora, Mexico, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, location, ownership, names, and programming formats.
Defunct
XEDJ-AM 1450, Magdalena de Kino
XEQC-AM 1390, Puerto Peñasco
XHNOS-FM 97.5, Nogales
Notes
References
Sonora |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nita%20Negrita | Nita Negrita (International title: Nita) is a 2011 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Barbie Forteza in the title role. It premiered on February 14, 2011 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Little Star. The series concluded on June 10, 2011, with a total of 83 episodes. It was replaced by Sinner or Saint in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Barbie Forteza as Antoinette / Nita "Netnet" Raymundo
Supporting cast
Joshua Dionisio as Prince Ramirez
Lexi Fernandez as Mystica "Misty" Del Castillo
Nova Villa as Ima
Lotlot de Leon as Mirasol "Mira" Buenaventura
Zoren Legaspi as Arturo Del Castillo
Diana Zubiri as Danica
Rachelle Ann Go as Amanda Del Castillo
Bubbles Paraiso as Alexandra "Alex" Del Castillo
Lollie Mara as Andrea Del Castillo
Jenny Miller as Pia Antonio
Dexter Doria as Segunda
Jim Pebangco as Ben
Alvin Aguilar as Edgar
Miguel Tanfelix as Jun Jun
Michelle Vito as Peachy
Jhoana Marie Tan as Selyang
Glenda Garcia as Belen
Mel Kimura as Bella
Sabrina San Diego
Guest cast
Melijah Panturilla as young Misty
Blackface controversy
The show's use of blackface was criticized in the media and by foreign academics. Axel Honneth professor of philosophy at both the University of Frankfurt and Columbia University stated that the show "presents the stereotypical theme of poverty being ascribed with skin colour", while Dr Elaine Marie Carbonell Laforteza, Lecturer in Cultural Studies Macquarie University, Australia, stated in her book The Somatechnics of Whiteness and Race: Colonialism and Mestiza Privilege, that "Nita does not appear 'authentically black', but painted as black. The effect is a caricature of blackness" and that "blackness is used to create Nita as a manifestation of black identity that is constantly open to scrutiny and mockery".
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings, the pilot episode of Nita Negrita earned a 7.8% rating. While the final episode scored a 19.1% rating in Mega Manila household television ratings.
References
External links
2010s controversies
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
African-American-related controversies
Blackface minstrelsy
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Obscenity controversies in television
Race-related controversies in television
Television controversies in the Philippines
Television shows set in Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEN%20Networks | DEN Networks Limited is a cable television distribution company in India. It is owned by Sameer Manchanda and was acquired by Reliance Industries in 2018 along with Hathway. In 2003, it stood as one of the three major cable distributors in India alongside Hathway and InCablenet.
On 17 October 2018, Reliance Industries announced that it had acquired a 66% stake in DEN for . The shares would be held through multiple Reliance subsidiaries including Jio Futuristic Digital Holdings Private Limited, Jio Digital Distribution Holdings Private Limited, Jio Television Distribution Holdings Private Limited, Reliance Industries Limited Digital Media Distribution Trust, Reliance Content Distribution Limited and Reliance Industrial Investments and Holdings Limited. At the time of the acquisition, DEN had 106,000 broadband subscribers. The acquisition received approval from the Competition Commission of India in January 2019. Reliance acquired an additional 12.05% stake in DEN in March 2019 taking its total stake in the company to 78.62%.
References
External links
Companies based in New Delhi
Internet service providers of India
Cable television companies of India
Reliance Media
Indian companies established in 2007
2007 establishments in Delhi
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange
Reliance Industries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20journalism | Mobile journalism is a form of multimedia newsgathering and storytelling that enables journalists to document, edit and share news using small, network connected devices like smartphones.
Mobile journalists report in video, audio, photography, and graphics using apps on their portable devices.
Such reporters, sometimes known as mojos (for mobile journalist), are staff or freelance journalists who may use digital cameras and camcorders, laptop PCs, smartphones or tablet devices. A broadband wireless connection, satellite phone, or cellular network is then used to transmit the story and imagery for publication.
The term mojo has been in use since 2005, originating at the Fort Myers News-Press and then gaining popularity throughout the Gannett newspaper chain in the United States.
Some key benefits of mobile journalism in comparison to conventional methods include affordability, portability, discretion, approachability, and the ease of access for beginners.
History
One of the first instance of mobile journalism recorded is from wearable technology pioneer Steve Mann as a feature in a personal visual assistant that he designed, he identified himself as a roving reporter.
In the beginning, he faced concerns from the press about privacy. He responded by writing on The Tech of MIT on July 24, 1996 a guest column "Wearcam Helps Address Privacy Issue". In the column, he stated that he was wearing his experimental eye glass to bring awareness to the huge and growing number of surveillance cameras that were watching over citizen's activities. He also stated in the article that he "exercises deference to others, " many of the photos he took were "architecture details, experiments in light and shade, posed shots done at the request of those in the picture".
Every year, hundreds of mobile journalists attend mobile journalism conferences. One of these is MojoFest, which has been organized in association with RTE, the national public services broadcaster of Ireland.
Editors at AJ+, a digital outlet form Al Jazeera, use mobile journalists in their video news coverage.
See also
Backpack journalism
Mobile reporting
References
External links
Journalism occupations
Online journalism
Types of journalism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Movement%20Germany | European Movement Germany (EM Germany) is a non-partisan network of interest groups in the field of EU politics in Germany. It cooperates closely with all EU stakeholders on a national and European level, most particularly with the German Federal Government and the European Commission. The EM Germany network consists of 250 member organisations representing various social groups including business and professional associations, trade unions, educational and academic institutions, foundations and political parties, amongst others. The network aims to continually improve, in close cooperation with political institutions, communication on European politics, European perspectives and the coordination of European policy, all in close cooperation with political institutions. The EM Germany network is a member of European Movement International.
Activities, projects and policy
European Movement Germany is a not-for-profit, registered organisation, recognised and supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs and by the federal budget at institutional level. EM Germany is therefore not a non-governmental organisation in the narrow sense. Its legal status and institutional relationship to the Foreign Office is similar to the Goethe Institute. In 2015, EM Germany came to a framework agreement with the German Foreign Office. The organisation works closely with the European Division of the Foreign Office as regards content and organisation. Following the European Division, certain concepts of European communication and policy-planning were adopted. Within this framework, EM Germany provides information sessions on European topics to its member organisations. Topics range from discussions of the commission's consultation procedure to information events on the decisions of the European Council.
EM Germany is further responsible for choosing running the application process for German students who wish to apply for scholarships to the College of Europe in Bruges and Natolin. In addition, the EM Germany organises the European Competition, a student competition in which students of all ages submit creative, artistic, or written pieces of work on the activities of the European Union.
The main activities of the EM Germany include commenting on the regulatory framework of German European policy, European Public Relations and posing general questions on the development of the European Union.
Cooperation with other organisations
The network differs from the Europa-Union Deutschland or the Paneuropean Union in that it is not open to private membership. EM Germany works primarily to improve the acceptance and the regulatory framework of European policy in Germany and avoids activities that could be better undertaken by its member organisations. The network works in an advisory capacity with representatives of the federal states on the coordination of European public relations in the German federal level, in the European Parliament, and the Commission. Together with i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Ruczko | Daniel Ruczko (born 3 July 1982) is a director, author, composer, writer and music producer.
He started producing music at the age of 12 on his Amiga 500 computer using the software Protracker, a couple of years later that lead to a career as an internationally known DJ and producer.
After spending most of his twenties releasing records on numerous labels and touring the globe as a DJ, in 2010 Ruczko went to a music school in Hamburg, Germany to become a Film Music composer.
In the same year he won an award for the concept of his short film "Bipolar - A Narration of Manic Depression" which was chosen by the German actor Matthias Schweighöfer.
"Bipolar" got Daniel a lot of attention and also his first awards..
Throughout his creative career, Daniel has received over 60 awards for his films, three of which have been screened at the Short Film Corner of the Cannes Film Festival.
Ruczko works on commercials and music videos under his company name Misfit Media, as well as film projects under his company name Mind Pollution Pictures.
In 2018 Daniel moved to Los Angeles to work as a film director, author and producer.
He still composes and also produces all the music for a Hip hop group that he is a member of, together with the Rappers "Kayohes", "V3rb" & "Steez". He also still produces various styles of electronic music
According to IMDb Ruczko is currently working on a feature film with the writer Michael Reisz (Truth or Dare) that is believed to have a budget of 7 million dollars.
In July 2023, Ruczko published his first novel entitled "Pieces of a Broken Mind", which according to him includes some autobiographical elements.
Short Film filmography
Film Accolades
Music Video filmography
Books
Bibliography
Music
Musical beginnings
At the age of 8, Daniel learned to play the accordion, but gave it up after three years.
When he was 12 years old he started producing Hardcore Techno music on his Amiga 500 using Protracker, he later switched to the PC using FastTracker 2. In 1997 he bought his first set of Turntables and taught himself how to DJ.
In 1999 Ruczko got interested in Drum and Bass and decided to make that his new genre, at first he used Fruity Loops to experiment but pretty quickly found his new home in Steinberg Cubase, which is still his main Software for music today.
He established himself as a serious DJ and producer, known for his cinematic and dark sound, and played over 450 gigs in his DJing career.
Misfit Music
"Misfit Music" or "Rusher, Kayohes & V3rb" is a Hip hop group entirely produced by Ruczko, with him also directing their music videos.
After releasing the single "Some Way, Some How / March On" on Origu in 2015, the group is in the process of finishing up their debut Album with the title "Ordinary Madness" which is expected to be released in 2019.
Discography as Rusher
Discography as Daniel Ruczko
References
Voyage-LA-Interview 2021
Neat-Video-Interview 2018
Weser-Kurier-Interview 2018
Weser-Kurier-I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20Marble%20Geographics | Blue Marble Geographics is a developer and provider of geographic information system software products focused on data translation. They provide software products and services for working with GIS data in different formats.
Blue Marble is a member of the Open Geospatial Consortium.
Products
Geographic Calculator
Blue Marble's first software product, the Geographic Calculator, was developed in 1992 and released in 1993. The Geographic Calculator is a coordinate conversion library with a database of coordinate mathematical objects including projections, coordinate systems, datums, ellipsoids, linear and angular units. The tool is primarily used to translate map coordinates from one system to another. In 2004, the underlying GeoCalc library was re-written and in 2007 a new version was released as the Blue Marble Desktop.
2013 saw a rebranding of the Blue Marble Desktop back to the Geographic Calculator. Blue Marble incorporated all of the functionality of the Blue Marble Desktop including the Geographic Transformer, Translator and Spatial Connect products into the new Geographic Calculator. This did away with the confusing versioning and introduced an easier-to-follow annual naming convention with one or two service pack updates between releases.
Global Mapper
Global Mapper is a geographic information system software package currently developed by Blue Marble Geographics that runs on Microsoft Windows. Global Mapper handles both vector, raster, and elevation data, and provides viewing, conversion, and other general GIS features.
In 1995 the USGS was in need of a Windows viewer for their data products, so they developed the dlgv32 application for viewing their DLG (Digital Line Graph) vector data products. Between 1995 and 1998 the dlgv32 application was expanded to include support for viewing other USGS data products, including DRG (topographic maps) and DEM (digital elevation model) and SDTS-DLG and SDTS-DEM data products. The development process is described in detail in the USGS paper titled 'A Programming Exercise'.
In 1998 the USGS released the source code for dlgv32 v3.7 to the public domain.
In 2001, the source code for dlgv32 was further developed by a private individual into the commercial product dlgv32 Pro v4.0 and offered for sale via the internet. Later that same year the product was renamed to Global Mapper and become a commercial product of the company Global Mapper Software LLC. The USGS was distributing a version of the software under the name dlgv32 Pro (Global Mapper).
Blue Marble acquired Global Mapper, LLC at the end of 2011. Mike Childs, the original developer of Global Mapper, continues to work for Blue Marble as a lead developer.
In 2013, Blue Marble released a major version update to Global Mapper that also introduced the new Global Mapper LiDAR Module. The Global Mapper LiDAR Module offers optional enhancement to base Global Mapper application and provides numerous advanced LiDAR processing tools (e.g., automa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKHot40 | UKHotList, originally Hit40UK and UKHot40, is a televised Top 40/20 chart show produced by The Box Plus Network for 4Music, The Box and Box Hits.
The show was originally based on Hit40UK, a former radio chart show that aired from 2003 until 2009. Unlike the official UK Singles Chart broadcast by BBC Radio 1, the Hit40UK chart included only the digital downloads and airplay in the UK, whereas the Official Chart includes physical, audio streams and download sales with no radio airplay.
Since 2015, the show, now UKHotList, is complied by Spotify and counts down the most streamed tracks of the week on the platform. Plus there are other versions of the show such as UKHotList: Kiss Edition, a version of the show on Kiss TV, and UKHotList of (year), where the most streamed tracks of the year are counted.
See also
Hit40UK
External links
UK HOT LIST on Behance
British record charts
Music chart shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry%20Dad%3A%20The%20Movie | "Angry Dad: The Movie" is the fourteenth episode of the twenty-second season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 20, 2011. In this episode, Bart wins many awards for his new short film based on his web cartoon series Angry Dad, which was first introduced in "I Am Furious (Yellow)", while Homer takes credit for the film during acceptance speeches.
"Angry Dad: The Movie" was written by John Frink and directed by Matthew Nastuk, with Ricky Gervais, Halle Berry, Russell Brand, Maurice LaMarche, Nick Park and J. B. Smoove guest starring. Cultural references in the episode include Pixar, Toy Story, Wallace and Gromit, Kung Fu Panda, Ms. Pac-Man and the 68th Golden Globe Award ceremony.
The episode was viewed in an estimated 6.35 million households, with a 2.8 Nielsen rating, marking a slight rise in audience from the previous episode, while the episode was the twenty-fifth most viewed show for the week of broadcast among adults aged 18–49.
Critical reception of the episode was generally positive, with critics praising the episode's use of visual gags and cultural references.
Plot
After Bart once again recklessly causes damage to the home while the rest of the family are out on Saturday, he is surprised by a visit from Mr. Millwood. It turns out Millwood's very successful chair-design company seized the rights to Bart's "Angry Dad" Internet series when the provider company went bankrupt. Millwood offers Bart a chance to make a film adaptation of "Angry Dad". Bart accepts, and Millwood takes him to film studio animators. Homer is soon offered the opportunity to voice Angry Dad, as the voice actor from the original Angry Dad series has dropped out of frustration of never being paid. The film is test screened to a horrible reception. Lisa convinces Bart to remove all of the parts the audience did not like, thus making the Angry Dad a short film. The film is shortly thereafter nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Short.
At the Golden Globe ceremony, Angry Dad wins, and Homer angers Bart by pushing him out of the way and taking all the credit despite not being professional or supportive of the film before it was a hit. Homer takes credit at many other awards ceremonies. Angry Dad soon receives an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short Film. Out of frustration against Homer for taking the credit, Bart attempts to distract Homer from going by making him and Marge go on an attraction tour in Los Angeles while he and Lisa attend the awards. However, Homer gets recognized by the friendly Rollin' 80 street gang who take him to the ceremony. Homer arrives in time to see Angry Dad win the Oscar. Bart goes up to accept the Oscar and thanks Lisa for having the idea to make the film into a short film, the animation studio, and Homer. Touched by this, Homer gets up on stage with Bart and apologizes to him for taking all the credit, and the two agr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigore%20Moisil%20National%20College | Grigore Moisil National College () may refer to one of four educational institutions in Romania:
Grigore Moisil National College of Computer Science (Brașov)
Grigore Moisil National College (Bucharest)
Grigore Moisil National College (Onești)
Grigore Moisil National College (Urziceni)
Grigore Moisil High School () may refer to one of three educational institutions in Romania:
Grigore Moisil High School (Bucharest)
Grigore Moisil High School (Timișoara)
Grigore Moisil High School (Tulcea) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodestar%20method | In the legal realm, the "lodestar method" refers to a method of computing attorney's fees whereby a trial court must multiply the number of hours reasonably spent by trial counsel by a reasonable hourly rate. This figure can then be adjusted upward or downward for certain factors known as multipliers, such as contingency and the quality of the work performed, to arrive at a final fee. Under the lodestar method, the most heavily weighted multipliers are the time and labor required.
References
External links
What is Reasonable Under Lodestar?
American legal terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Consulting%20Institute | Digital Consulting Institute (DCI) was a seminar company launched in 1982 by George Schussel and his wife Sandi from their home in Massachusetts. It evolved out of a series of database seminars taught by George Schussel in the 1970s.
Early development
In the early 1980s the United States was coming out of a steep recession, and the DCI company grew quickly as demand for improved knowledge about the use of information technology (IT) soared. Experts in other IT fields were drawn to DCI as a way to spread knowledge about the IT discipline.
Success
DCI's business model underwent two significant paradigm shifts in the two decades following its inception. In the late 1980s, the company began to launch larger multi-speaker conferences. Then, around 1990, DCI began to serve a larger constituency by sponsoring trade show expositions as well as educational events. This expansion of DCI's model was responsible for dramatic growth experienced in the 1990s.
In 1990 the company moved into the historic Ballardvale Mill (1835) in Andover, Massachusetts. At the mill, DCI experienced good fortune as the company's revenues grew from $12 million to $45 million during the 1990s. DCI produced an average of 120 seminar, conference, and exposition events a year. The majority were held in the United States, but the company also had a significant presence in Canada, Germany, and Australia. It held a smaller number of events around the world in mostly European and Asian venues.
DCI was a leader in creating and producing high technology conferences and tradeshows. Most of the company's events were about the management of computer based systems for improved business efficiency. The company's events were market leaders in the fields of database management systems (DBMS), eBusiness, application development, sales force automation (SFA), data warehouse, and customer relationship management (CRM) areas. DCI produced approximately 120 conferences, seminars, and expositions annually.
As the 1990s wore on, the Internet became of ever-increasing importance in communicating with IT professionals. DCI evolved a product line of on-line communities and web sessions for business professionals to serve this need.
DCI's products served on the order of 200,000 business professionals annually from a customer database of over one million. The events were highly regarded for their content, educational focus, and ability to draw important industry exhibitors and qualified speakers. DCI events consistently drew real users and companies that needed to purchase software solutions, and, for that reason, the events were popular with the software vendor community.
Examples of conferences and expositions run by DCI included:
Business Intelligence World Conference & Expo
CASE World
Client/Server World
Corporate Portals Conference
Customer Relationship Management Conference & Exposition
Database World
Downsizing Expo
eB2B World
eCRM University
eCustomer Conference & Exposition
Info |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoard%20%28video%20game%29 | Hoard (trademarked as HOARD) is an action-strategy video game developed by Canadian studio Big Sandwich Games Inc. It was released on November 2, 2010, in North America on PlayStation Network, on April 4, 2011, for the PC and Mac on Steam, and on June 2, 2011, on the PAL PlayStation Network regions.
Development
Hoard was released for the PlayStation 3 on November 2, 2010. The PSP version of Hoard was released on March 22, 2011, in the United States.
Reception
Review aggregator Metacritic rated the PlayStation 3 version of Hoard at 75 percent and the PC version at 65 percent.
IGN awarded Hoard "Best Quick Fix" in their PlayStation 3 Best of 2010 Awards, and also nominated the game for "Best Competitive Multiplayer."
References
External links
Official site
Developer site
2010 video games
Linux games
MacOS games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
PlayStation Portable games
Windows games
Action games
Strategy video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Canada
Dragons in popular culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMA%20News%20TV | GMA News TV (GNTV; visually rendered in its logo in uppercase) is a 24-hour Philippine-based international pay television channel owned by Citynet Network Marketing and Productions Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of GMA Network Inc. Originally launched in the Philippines on February 28, 2011 as a domestic free-to-air television network replacing Q. It launched an international pay television channel (GMA News TV International) in the latter part of 2011.
GMA News TV ended its Philippine broadcast operations on February 22, 2021 to give way to GTV. GMA News TV International was renamed to GMA News TV and continues to broadcast.
History
GMA News TV was created as a replacement for "Q", a network which primarily featured imported dramas and lifestyle-oriented programming aimed towards women, and as part of GMA News and Public Affairs's plans to expand its presence on free-to-air television. GMA News TV was unveiled on February 7, 2011 through GMA-7's flagship newscast 24 Oras, and Q was discontinued on February 20, 2011, in preparation for the launch of the new service, which occurred on February 28, 2011.
Until 2019, ZOE Broadcasting Network served as an originating affiliate and flagship station of GMA News TV, as a result of a blocktime lease agreement between ZOE Broadcasting and GMA's subsidiary Citynet Network Marketing and Productions in 2005, allowing the latter to lease the entire airtime of DZOE-TV 11 Manila, in exchange for upgrading the former's facilities and an off-peak timeslot for its programs on Channel 11 and GMA Network. However, due to increasing lease payments of GMA Network to ZOE Broadcasting which is accompanied with decreased revenues of GMA, the two networks announced on April 24, 2019 that they will terminate the agreement by the end of May 2019. As a result, GMA News TV Manila was reassigned to analog Channel 27, which was being used for digital test broadcast of GMA Network, on June 4. In turn, DTV operations of GMA were transferred on a permanent frequency, UHF Channel 15 (479.143 MHz), which was being used since May 15.
On July 27, 2019, GMA News TV premiered its first and only English language news broadcast GMA Regional TV Weekend News (now Regional TV Weekend News) before switching to Filipino since September 12, 2020.
In line with the enhanced community quarantine imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, GMA News TV temporarily went off air on March 19, 2020 and has returned on air on March 21, 2020 with limited broadcasting hours. On April 13, 2020, the channel resumed its regular primetime programming after 24 Oras, with its full programming restored by September 21.
Programming changes and rebranded as GTV
On November 21, 2020, an article was published by its affiliate news portal Sports Interactive Network, GMA Network announced plans for a possible reformat of GMA News TV into a sports and entertainment channel which is to be similar to the old format of Citynet Television and QTV. The plans were |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajtai | Ajtai or Ajtay is a Hungarian surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Andor Ajtay (1903–1975), Hungarian actor
Miklós Ajtai (born 1946), Hungarian computer scientist and mathematician
Hungarian-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20CBS%20Prime | Big CBS Prime was an India based English language television channel started as a joint venture between Reliance Broadcast Network Limited and CBS Studios International(now Paramount International Networks).
The channel went on air and began telecasting from 29 November 2010. It was High quality cover In including
The company, BIG CBS Networks had rolled out its three channels in a phased manner. The other channels from the network are Big CBS Spark, which was aimed at the youth and Big CBS Love, the channel that targeted women. Reliance Broadcast Network Limited also launched a Regional Bouquet of Channels like Spark Punjabi, Big Magic, big RTL amongst others.
Availability and distribution
Big CBS Prime was being distributed through DTH platforms such as Big TV, Videocon d2h and Airtel Digital TV, and on cable network via Digicable, Den Networks and Hathway, InCable and 7Star.
Shows broadcast on Big CBS Prime
Dexter
Galileo Extreme
Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h
America's Got Talent
Big Wheels
The Jerry Springer Show
Survivor
Aspire
Blue Bloods
13: Fear Is Real
CSI: New York
Hawaii Five-0
See also
Big CBS Spark
Big CBS Love
References
External links
Official Site
BIG CBS Prime on Facebook
BIG CBS Prime on Twitter
English-language television stations in India
Television stations in Mumbai
CBS Television Network
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013
Television channels and stations established in 2010
2010 establishments in Maharashtra
2013 disestablishments in India
Defunct television channels in India
Former CBS Corporation subsidiaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Stal | Michael Stal (born 1963 in Munich) is German computer scientist. He received a Ph.D. title from the University of Groningen which appointed him an honorary professorship for software engineering in 2010.
Stal is currently working for the corporate technology department of Siemens AG and as a professor at University of Groningen. He is editor-in-chief of the Java programming language magazine JavaSPEKTRUM.
Stal co-authored the book series Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture.
Volume 1 ”A System of Patterns” book introduced Architecture Patterns, classified different categories of Design Patterns, and a method how to use Pattern Systems.
Volume 2 addresses “Patterns for Concurrent and Distributed Objects”.
In addition to software architecture, his research fields comprise distributed computing middleware, systems integration, programming languages, and programming paradigms.
Stal has been member of the Object Management Group and participated in the standardization of C++.
Works
Michael Stal Understanding and Analyzing Software Architecture (of Distributed Systems) using Patterns, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 2007,
Frank Buschmann, Regine Meunier, Hans Rohnert, Peter Sommerlad, Michael Stal Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture - A System of Patterns, Wiley & Sons, 1996,
Douglas C. Schmidt, Michael Stal, Hans Rohnert, Frank Buschmann Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture - Patterns for Concurrent and Networked Objects, Wiley & Sons, 2000,
References
External links
website of Michael Stal
blog of Michael Stal
German computer scientists
Scientists from Munich
1963 births
Living people
Technical University of Munich alumni
University of Groningen alumni
Academic staff of the University of Groningen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-screen%20writing%20program | In computing, a full-screen writing program or distraction-free editor is a text editor that occupies the full display with the purpose of isolating the writer from the operating system (OS) and other applications. In this way, one should be able to focus on the writing alone, with no distractions from the OS and a cluttered interface. Often, distraction-free editors feature a dark background and a text field, with lighter colored text. However, most distraction-free editors include customisable user interfaces. Some editors support rich text editing.
List of full screen editors
Free and open-source
Freeware
Proprietary
Features
Rich text support
Some distraction-free editors support rich text editing. These include CreaWriter, TextRoom, and WriteRoom. In some cases, this feature turned off per default and must be set by a user.
Syntax highlighting
Currently, only a few distraction-free editors support syntax highlighting. CodeRoom is an open source project with the purpose of creating a distraction-free code editor with customisable highlighting schemes. The latest version of Marave supports syntax highlighting. Sublime Text supports a distraction-free full-screen view. Packages exist for GNU Emacs that turn off various features and reformat the display to a distraction-free layout while retaining syntax highlighting and other features familiar to Emacs users.
Aids to writing
Word count is a common feature in these editors. Other aids can include spell checkers, auto-corrections and quick text templates.
Other Features
Many of the programs include timers to pace writing. FocusWriter and WriteMonkey, among others, include typewriter sound effects.
See also
Text editor
References
Text editors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIG%20CBS%20Spark | Big CBS Spark was a youth entertainment channel which was a joint venture between Reliance Broadcast Network and CBS Studios International. It was shut down from June 2013.
In January 2014, CBS Studios International and Reliance Broadcast Network Ltd. ended their three-year joint venture. The joint venture was carrying three television channels for broadcast in India including Big CBS Prime, Big CBS Love and youth channel Big CBS Spark. Along with this JV dissolution between the two companies, Reliance started discontinuing CBS Spark from major cable operators in India including Reliance Digital TV, Den Networks, Airtel Digital TV, Dish TV, Videocon D2H and Hathway.
Shows broadcast
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Spark Hitz
Warbirds
Hot Hitz
The Jerry Springer Show
Livewire
America's Got Talent
Spark's B Crunk'd
Mojai Moja
90210
Weekend Special
Spark Hitz Vdos
Ggits
Ultimate Top 50
Cheaters
References
External links
Television stations in Mumbai
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013
Defunct television channels in India
Former CBS Corporation subsidiaries
Year of establishment missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20CBS%20Love | Big CBS Love was an English-language TV channel started as a joint venture between Reliance Broadcast Network and CBS Studios International in March 2011 to focus on young urban viewers. It was shut down in late November 2013.
Programming
Australia's Next Top Model
Canada's Next Top Model
ILS Special Weekend
Shedding for the Wedding
Everybody Loves Raymond
America's Got Talent
Sex and the City
New Zealand's Next Top Model
Elite Model Look
Love Flicks
Rules of Engagement
I Love Style
Excused
Ringer
Under the Dome
Dexter
See also
Big CBS Spark
Big CBS Prime
References
External links
Official Site
Women's interest channels
CBS Television Network
Television channels and stations established in 2011
2011 establishments in Maharashtra
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013
2013 disestablishments in India
Defunct television channels in India
Former CBS Corporation subsidiaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Human%20Markup%20Language | The Virtual Human Markup Language often abbreviated as VHML is a markup language used for the computer animation of human bodies and facial expressions. The language is designed to describe various aspects of human-computer interactions with regards to facial animation, text to Speech, and multimedia information.
Format
VHML consists of the following so-called "sub-languages":
Emotional Markup Language (EML)
Gesture Markup Language (GML)
Speech Markup Language (SML)
Facial Animation Markup Language (FAML)
Body Animation Markup Language (BAML)
Extensible HyperText Markup Language (XHTML)
Dialogue Manager Markup Language (DMML)
See also
Rich Representation Language
Sources
External links
VHML.org
Markup languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich%20Representation%20Language | The Rich Representation Language, often abbreviated as RRL, is a computer animation language specifically designed to facilitate the interaction of two or more animated characters. The research effort was funded by the European Commission as part of the NECA Project. The NECA (Net Environment for Embodied Emotional Conversational Agents) framework within which RRL was developed was not oriented towards the animation of movies, but the creation of intelligent "virtual characters" that interact within a virtual world and hold conversations with emotional content, coupled with suitable facial expressions.
RRL was a pioneering research effort which influenced the design of other languages such as the Player Markup Language which extended parts of the design of RRL. The language design specifically intended to lessen the training needed for modeling the interaction of multiple characters within a virtual world and to automatically generate much of the facial animation as well as the skeletal animation based on the content of the conversations. Due to the interdependence of nonverbal communication components such as facial features on the spoken words, no animation is possible in the language without considering the context of the scene in which the animation takes place - e.g. anger versus joy.
Language design issues
The application domain for RRL consists of scenes with two or more virtual characters. The representation of these scenes requires multiple information types such as body postures, facial expressions, semantic content and meaning of conversations, etc. The design challenge is that often information of one type is dependent on another type of information, e.g. the body posture, the facial expression and the semantic content of the conversation need to coordinate. An example is that in an angry conversation, the semantics of the conversation dictate the body posture and facial expressions in a distinct from which is quite different from a joyful conversation. Hence any commands within the language to control facial expressions must inherently depend on the context of the conversation.
The different types of information used in RRL require different forms of expression within the language, e.g. while semantic information is represented by grammars, the facial expression component requires graphic manipulation primitives.
A key goal in the design of RRL was the ease of development, to make scenes and interaction construction available to users without advanced knowledge of programming. Moreover, the design aimed to allow for incremental development in a natural form, so that scenes could be partially prototyped, then refined to more natural looking renderings, e.g. via the later addition of blinking or breathing.
Scene description
Borrowing theatrical terminology, each interaction session between the synthetic characters in RRL is called a scene. A scene description specifies the content, timing, and emotional features employed within a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaZebra | MegaZebra is a game development company located in Munich, Germany.
The company develops free-to-play games for social networks like Facebook and mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. As of July 2018, the company employs 55 people.
History
MegaZebra pioneered the social gaming space in Europe in late 2008. Behind MegaZebra is the team around Henning Kosmack (CEO) and Mark Gazecki (Chairman).
Since then, MegaZebra developed several cross-platform games for mobile devices and social networks like Facebook.
In September 2009 the company got backed by the founders of Web.de through Kizoo Technology Ventures.
With Mahjong Trails they launched their first game, reaching more than two million monthly players in January 2011. Today the game has still more than 2 million monthly active players.
In March 2011 MegaZebra raised ‘multiple millions Euros’ in a second round of funding, led by Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures. Furthermore, Kizoo Technology Ventures participated again, alongside private investor Markus Stolz.
With Gaute Godager, founder of Funcom, and Jürgen Goeldner, two Gaming veterans joined the company`s board of directors in January 2012.
Both have a long-standing experience in the gaming sector. Apart from Goeldner and Godager, the MegaZebra board consists of Nigel Grierson from Doughty Hanson, Matthias Hornberger from Atevia, and Mark Gazecki of the founders.
MegaZebra launched its second hit game Solitaire Castle in late 2011. Following in the footsteps of Mahjong Trails, it reached more than 1.5 million monthly active users in October 2012. and reached more the 2 million user per month in January 2013.
1 year later MegaZebra launched Suburbia, which reached 2 million MAU in early 2014. With Suburbia, MegaZebra was the first company to combine episodic, TV-style content with simulation game mechanics. but you can only complete up to episode 5 episode 6 has been in development for about 4 years
MegaZebra’s latest game Solitaire Chronicles is the first cross-platform title, that is available on the web and on mobile devices. Recently it won the Tabby Award in the category Best iPad game: Cards, Casino and Dice.
Figures
According to AppData, in January 2011 MegaZebra is one of the top 25 fastest growing developers on Facebook, reaching almost 4 million monthly users and is with more than half a million daily active users, among the Top 3 European developers in terms of daily active users.
With Mahjong Trails and Solitaire Castle, MegaZebra has now two games exceeding the 2 million monthly active user mark.
Awards
In 2015 Solitaire Chronicles, the first mobile game of the company, won the Tabby Award for the category “Best iPad game: Cards, Casino and Dice”.
Games
Desperate Housewives: The Game
Mahjong Trails
Suburbia 2
Solitaire Chronicles
Solitaire Castle
Mahjong
References
External links
Official MegaZebra website
Video game development companies
Virtual economies
Facebook games
Mobile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%20Albans%20City%20and%20DC%20v%20International%20Computers%20Ltd | St Albans City and DC v International Computers Ltd [1996] EWCA Civ 1296 is an English contract law case, concerning unfair terms under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977. The parties were St Albans City and District Council and International Computers Limited.
Facts
A contract to provide software (COMCIS) for the implementation of the Community Charge ("poll tax") of International Computers Ltd limited its liability to £100,000. The software was meant to create a register of tax payers. Because of errors in the software, the loss to the council was £1,313,846. The council claimed breach of contract, and that the liability limitation was unreasonable under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977. International Computers Ltd claimed that the liability limitation should remain.
Judgment
Scott Baker J awarded the full sum because the city council was operating on International Computers Ltd's written standard terms of business and so UCTA 1977 section 3 applied. Sections 6 or 7 also applied and under section 11 the clause was unreasonable. Under section 11(4) Scott Baker J highlighted that International Computers Ltd had ample resources and had £50m worldwide product liability insurance. Looking at Schedule 2, he said that the council was in a weaker bargaining position because they had financial restraints and were not in the commercial field. They had no opportunities of other contracts without the term. The council knew of the term and made representations about it. He noted (as in The Flamar Pride) that Schedule 2 should be taken into account just as with ss. 6–7. He summed up by saying that the loss of this size is better to fall on the company and not the local population through increased taxes or reduced services.
The Court of Appeal upheld Scott Baker J's reasoning, but concluded the damages were in fact £484,000 less.
See also
English contract law
Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977
Unfair Contract Terms Bill
Interpreting contracts in English law
Notes
References
The Salvage Association v CAP Financial Services Ltd [1995] FSR 655, failure to show evidence of why a particular limit is put in may lead to it being unreasonable
British Fermentation Products Ltd v Compair [1999] 2 All ER (Comm) 389, Judge Bowsher QC had some trouble with the ‘written standard terms of business’ line in UCTA 1977 s 3, holding that the industry's model forms of contract did not mean using standard terms, because they were not BFP's own standard terms.
English contract case law
Court of Appeal (England and Wales) cases
1996 in United Kingdom case law
St Albans City Council |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic%201985%3A%20Corridor%20to%20Berlin | Baltic 1985: Corridor To Berlin is a computer wargame published in 1984 by Strategic Simulations. Developed by Roger Keating, it is the third in the "When Superpowers Collide" series.
Gameplay
In 1985, after NATO halts a Soviet invasion of West Germany, and a communist invasion of Saudi Arabia is thwarted by the American Rapid Deployment Forces, the Soviets rush forces from the West German front into Poland to put down an anti-Soviet uprising. NATO takes advantage of the moment by invading East Germany to relieve the siege of West Berlin and evacuate its personnel trapped behind enemy lines.
The player may choose to play either the NATO or Soviet forces, and can play in turns against another human component or against the computer.
See also
Germany 1985
RDF 1985
Norway 1985
External links
Images of Baltic 1985 box and manual from C64Sets.com
1984 video games
Alternate history video games
Apple II games
Cold War video games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Strategic Simulations games
Video games developed in Australia
Video games set in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin%20%22Tack%22%20Kuntz | Irwin Douglas "Tack" Kuntz is an important figure in the field of computer-aided drug design and molecular modeling. He is a pioneer in the development and conception of the area of study known as molecular docking. One of the first docking programs DOCK was developed in his group in 1982.
Education
Tack received his Bachelor of Arts degree in physical chemistry from Princeton University in 1961 and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1965 for spectroscopic studies of photosynthesis.
Career and research
He moved to the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry the University of California, San Francisco in the early 1970s. He founded the Molecular Design Institute at UCSF in 1993. He was awarded the UCSF medal in 2018.
References
Living people
Molecular modelling
University of California, San Francisco faculty
Princeton University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Autonomous%20Agents%20and%20Multiagent%20Systems | The International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems or AAMAS is the leading scientific conference for research in the areas of artificial intelligence, autonomous agents, and multiagent systems. It is annually organized by a non-profit organization called the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS).
History
The AAMAS conference is a merger of three major international conferences/workshops, namely International Conference on Autonomous Agents (AGENTS), International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS), and International Workshop on Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages (ATAL). As such, this highly respected joint conference provides a quality forum for discussing research in this area.
Current and previous conferences
2023: London, United Kingdom (May 29-June 1)
2022: Auckland, New Zealand (May 9–13)
2021: London, United Kingdom (May 3-May 7)
2020: Auckland, New Zealand (May 9–13)
2019: Montreal, Canada (May 13–17)
2018: Stockholm, Sweden (July 10–15)
2017: São Paulo, Brazil
2016: Singapore City, Singapore
2015: Istanbul, Turkey
2014: Paris, France
2013: Saint Paul, USA
2012: Valencia, Spain
2011: Taipei, Taiwan
2010: Toronto, Canada
2009: Budapest, Hungary
2008: Estoril, Portugal
2007: Honolulu, USA
2006: Hakodate, Japan
2005: Utrecht, The Netherlands
2004: New York, USA
2003: Melbourne, Australia
2002: Bologna, Italy
Activities
Besides the main program that consists of a main track, an industry and applications track, and a couple of special area tracks, AAMAS also hosts over 20 workshops (e.g., AOSE, COIN, DALT, ProMAS, to mention a few) and many tutorials. There is also a demonstration session and a doctoral symposium. Finally, each year AAMAS features a bunch of awards, most notably the IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award. It publishes proceedings which are available online.
See also
The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.
References
External links
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence conferences
Electronic design automation conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20Robot%20Battle | Color Robot Battle is a programming game developed by Glenn Sogge and Del Ogren for the TRS-80 Color Computer and published by Radio Shack in 1981.
Robot Programming
The aim of the game is to write a computer program that controls a (simulated) robot. Two programs are selected to do battle in an arena with the last robot standing being the winner. One of the examples from the manual follows:
*OMEGA
ROB> =R:XM
WAL> =W:T-2
START> CROB:CWAL:F8:=?:T1
GSTART
The robot controlled by this program follows the wall of the arena making an occasional random turn to break the movement pattern. The program scans for an opponent and attacks if one is found.
See also
RobotWar
References
External links
Color Robot Battle on the Programming Games Wiki
Core Robot Battle: Adventures in Programming
Tandy/TRS-80 Color Computer Robot Battle
1981 video games
TRS-80 Color Computer games
TRS-80 Color Computer-only games
Programming games
Video games about robots
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WomanStats%20Project | The WomanStats Project is a donor-funded research and database project housed at Brigham Young University that "seeks to collect detailed statistical data on the status of women around the world, and to connect that data with data on the security of states." The WomanStats Database has the most comprehensive compilation of information on the status of women in the world. Coders comb the extant literature and conduct expert interviews to find qualitative and quantitative information on over 300 indicators of women's status in 174 countries with populations of at least 200,000. Access to the online database is free.
History and structure
WomanStats began as an outgrowth of a paper Dr. Valerie M. Hudson (of the Brigham Young University Political Science department) and one of her graduate students, Andrea den Boer, published in International Security on the association between national security and the abnormal sex ratio in Asia. After the success and influence of their first article, (later added as one of their top twenty national security articles of that journal of all time), Hudson and den Boer did further research on the connection between the status of women and national security, but found that there was no single database that covered the range of topics that they needed for their research. Consequently, they began compiling information on variables regarding the status of women around the world.
The database was officially formed in 2001 and grew exponentially as it later added more variables. The Project went live on the Internet in July 2007. The principal investigators are: Valerie M. Hudson (International Relations), Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill (Psychology, emeritus), and Chad F. Emmett (Geography) all from Brigham Young University, Mary Caprioli from the University of Minnesota, Duluth (International Relations), Rose McDermott from Brown University (International Relations), Andrea Den Boer from the University of Kent at Canterbury in the United Kingdom (International Relations) and S. Matthew Stearmer from the Ohio State University (Sociology; doctoral student).
Approximately a dozen undergraduate and graduate students at Brigham Young University and Texas A&M University work at any one time as coders for the project. The coders take the raw quantitative and qualitative data collected in government reports, news articles, research papers, etc. and sort the applicable information on women into categories. They may also implement scales developed by the principal investigators, or that they (the students) themselves have developed.
Database
As of February 2011, the database has 307 variables, covers 174 nations with populations over 200,000, uses 18,015 sources and contains over 111,000 individual data points. All data is referenced to original sources. Not every variable has information for each country; similarly, not all countries have information for each variable: overall, about 70% of country-variable combinations have informa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drew%20Carey%27s%20Improv-A-Ganza | Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza is an American improvisational comedy television program that aired in the United States on the Game Show Network (GSN). Produced at the Hollywood Theatre at the MGM Grand in Paradise, Nevada, the series was hosted by Drew Carey, host of the original American version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, a similar show that featured several of the same cast members. The show premiered on April 11, 2011, airing 40 episodes in total. The series completed its eight-week run on June 3, 2011. Despite only lasting for one season, critical reception of the show was generally positive.
Format
Similar to Whose Line Is It Anyway? and Drew Carey's Green Screen Show, the program features the performers acting in improvisational comedy sketches in front of a live audience using suggestions and participation from the live studio audience viewers. Many American Whose Line alumni return for this show. Each episode consists of three or four improv games, each one introduced by a different cast member, with each game taking up an entire segment. Unlike Whose Line, the series is filmed at the MGM Grand Las Vegas in Paradise, Nevada. Carey himself is a performer and takes part in games with the other cast members.
The series also interacted with the viewing audience by allowing viewers to enter a sweepstakes to win a trip for two to Las Vegas and a stay in the MGM Grand Hotel. One random winner was selected per day for each episode aired.
Cast
In addition to hosting the show, Carey also serves as one of the main performers. Other members of the cast include Heather Anne Campbell, Jeff Davis, Chip Esten, Kathy Kinney, Jonathan Mangum, Sean Masterson, Colin Mochrie, Greg Proops, Brad Sherwood, Ryan Stiles, and series musician Bob Derkach. Guest performers include Wayne Brady, Charlie Sheen, Steve Kamer, series announcer Rich Fields, and The Price Is Right models Rachel Reynolds, Manuela Arbeláez, Gwendolyn Osborne.
Production
The series, its cast members, and its premiere date were announced on January 10, 2011. On February 16, 2011, GSN announced that the show would premiere alongside Love Triangle. The show premiered on April 11, 2011, at 8:00 p.m. EDT.
On August 25, 2011, Carey announced through Twitter that the show was effectively canceled as GSN would not be ordering any more episodes of Improv-A-Ganza. From November 16, 2012 to January 4, 2013, reruns of the show aired on GSN. The two-hour time slot allowed GSN to air the entire 40 episodes in a 10-week stretch. Laff acquired the rights to the show in 2015, airing it on Saturday nights. The series has never been released on DVD or Blu-ray, although as of June 2023 it's available to stream on TubiTV.
Reception
The A.V. Clubs Ryan McGee believed fans of improv would enjoy the show, writing, "what escapes through this series' run should give fans of improv enough pleasure to justify checking in whenever possible." Melinda Houston of The Sydney Morning Herald found the premise of the show |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogiera | Rogiera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It has 15 species and its native range is from Mexico to Colombia.
Rogiera amoena, Rogiera cordata, and Rogiera gratissima are sometimes cultivated as ornamentals. The type species for the genus is Rogiera amoena.
Rogiera was named and published by Jules Émile Planchon in Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe (Fl. Serres Jard. Eur.) Vol.5 on page 442 in 1849. The name honours the Belgian politician Charles Latour Rogier (1800–1885), who was also Minister for the Interior and patron of horticulture.
Some authors have included Rogiera in a broadly defined Rondeletia, but molecular phylogenetic studies have shown that Rogiera is closer to Guettarda than to Rondeletia.
Species
The following species list may be incomplete or contain synonyms;
Rogiera amoena Planch.
Rogiera backhouses(Hook.f.) Borhidi
Rogiera breedlovei (Lorence) Borhidi
Rogiera cordata (Benth.) Planch.
Rogiera edwardsii (Standl.) Borhidi
Rogiera gratissima Linden
Rogiera ligustroides (Hemsl.) Borhidi
Rogiera macdougallii (Lorence) Borhidi
Rogiera nicaraguensis (Oerst.) Borhidi
Rogiera oaxacensis Borhidi & K.Velasco
Rogiera standleyana (Ant.Molina) Lorence
Rogiera stenosiphon (Hemsl.) Borhidi
Rogiera tabascensis Borhidi
References
External links
Rubiaceae genera
Guettardeae
Plants described in 1849 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes%20of%20ununennium | Ununennium (119Uue) has not yet been synthesised, so all data would be theoretical and a standard atomic weight cannot be given. Like all synthetic elements, it would have no stable isotopes.
List of isotopes
No isotopes of ununennium are known.
Nucleosynthesis
Target-projectile combinations leading to Z=119 compound nuclei
The below table contains various combinations of targets and projectiles that could be used to form compound nuclei with Z=119.
Cold fusion
Following the claimed synthesis of 293Og in 1999 at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 208Pb and 86Kr, the analogous reactions 209Bi + 86Kr and 208Pb + 87Rb were proposed for the synthesis of element 119 and its then-unknown alpha decay daughters, elements 117, 115, and 113. The retraction of these results in 2001 and more recent calculations on the cross sections for "cold" fusion reactions cast doubt on this possibility; for example, a maximum yield of 2 fb is predicted for the production of 294Uue in the former reaction. Radioactive ion beams may provide an alternative method utilizing a lead or bismuth target, and may enable the production of more neutron-rich isotopes should they become available at required intensities.
Hot fusion
248Cm(51V,xn)299-xUue
The team at RIKEN in Wakō, Japan began bombarding curium-248 targets with a vanadium-51 beam in January 2018 to search for element 119. Curium was chosen as a target, rather than heavier berkelium or californium, as these heavier targets are difficult to prepare. The reduced asymmetry of the reaction is expected to approximately halve the cross section, requiring a sensitivity "on the order of at least 30 fb". The 248Cm targets were provided by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. RIKEN developed a high-intensity vanadium beam. The experiment began at a cyclotron while RIKEN upgraded its linear accelerators; the upgrade was completed in 2020. Bombardment may be continued with both machines until the first event is observed; the experiment is currently running intermittently for at least 100 days per year. The RIKEN team's efforts are being financed by the Emperor of Japan.
+ → * → no atoms yet
The produced isotopes of ununennium are expected to undergo two alpha decays to known isotopes of moscovium (288Mc and 287Mc respectively), which would anchor them to a known sequence of five further alpha decays and corroborate their production. In 2022, the optimal reaction energy for synthesis of ununennium in this reaction was experimentally estimated as at RIKEN. The cross section is probably below 10 fb.
249Bk(50Ti,xn)299-xUue
From April to September 2012, an attempt to synthesize the isotopes 295Uue and 296Uue was made by bombarding a target of berkelium-249 with titanium-50 at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany. This reaction between 249Bk and 50Ti was predicted to be the most favorable practical reaction for formation of ununennium, as it is rather asymmetrical, though also somewhat c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes%20of%20unbinilium | Unbinilium (120Ubn) has not yet been synthesised, so all data would be theoretical and a standard atomic weight cannot be given. Like all synthetic elements, it would have no stable isotopes.
List of isotopes
No isotopes of unbinilium are known.
Nucleosynthesis
Target-projectile combinations leading to Z = 120 compound nuclei
The below table contains various combinations of targets and projectiles that could be used to form compound nuclei with Z=120.
Hot fusion
238U(64Ni,xn)302-xUbn
In April 2007, the team at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany attempted to create unbinilium using a 238U target and a 64Ni beam:
+ → * → no atoms
No atoms were detected, providing a limit of 1.6 pb for the cross section at the energy provided. The GSI repeated the experiment with higher sensitivity in three separate runs in April–May 2007, January–March 2008, and September–October 2008, all with negative results, reaching a cross section limit of 90 fb.
244Pu(58Fe,xn)302-xUbn
Following their success in obtaining oganesson by the reaction between 249Cf and 48Ca in 2006, the team at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna started experiments in March–April 2007 to attempt to create unbinilium with a 58Fe beam and a 244Pu target. Initial analysis revealed that no atoms of unbinilium were produced, providing a limit of 400 fb for the cross section at the energy studied.
+ → * → no atoms
The Russian team planned to upgrade their facilities before attempting the reaction again.
248Cm(54Cr,xn)302-xUbn
In 2011, after upgrading their equipment to allow the use of more radioactive targets, scientists at the GSI attempted the rather asymmetrical fusion reaction:
+ → * → no atoms
It was expected that the change in reaction would quintuple the probability of synthesizing unbinilium, as the yield of such reactions is strongly dependent on their asymmetry. Although this reaction is less asymmetric than the 249Cf+50Ti reaction, it also creates more neutron-rich unbinilium isotopes that should receive increased stability from their proximity to the shell closure at N = 184. Three signals were observed in May 2011; a possible assignment to 299Ubn and its daughters was considered, but could not be confirmed, and a different analysis suggested that what was observed was simply a random sequence of events.
In March 2022, Yuri Oganessian gave a seminar at the JINR considering how one could synthesise element 120 in the 248Cm+54Cr reaction.
249Cf(50Ti,xn)299-xUbn
In August–October 2011, a different team at the GSI using the TASCA facility tried a new, even more asymmetrical reaction:
+ → * → no atoms
Because of its asymmetry, the reaction between 249Cf and 50Ti was predicted to be the most favorable practical reaction for synthesizing unbinilium, although it is also somewhat cold, and is further away from the neutron shell closure at N = 184 than any of the other three reactions attempted. No unbinilium atoms we |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Kitchen%20Rules%20%28series%202%29 | The second season of the Australian competitive cooking competition show My Kitchen Rules premiered on the Seven Network on 31 January 2011.
Teams
Elimination history
Competition details
Instant Restaurants
During the Instant Restaurant rounds, each team hosts a three-course dinner for judges and fellow teams in their allocated group. They are scored and ranked among their group, with the lowest scoring team from each group competing in a Sudden Death Cook-Off, where one team is eliminated.
Round 1
Episodes 1 to 6
Airdate — 31 January to 9 February
Description — The first of the two instant restaurant groups are introduced into the competition in Round 1. At the end of the round, the lowest scoring team goes to Sudden Death, with a risk of being eliminated.
Round 2
Episodes 7 to 12
Airdate – 14 February to 23 February
Description – The second group now start their Instant Restaurant round. The same rules from the previous round apply and the lowest scoring team goes to Sudden Death, with a chance of being eliminated.
Sudden Death Cook-off
Episode 12
Airdate – 23 February
Description – The two lowest scoring teams from each Instant Restaurant round will now compete in a cook-off, with the lowest-scoring team being eliminated.
Top 11
People's Choice Challenge: Street Party
Episode 13
Airdate - 28 February 2011
Description - This is the first People's Choice Challenge. While Sammy & Bella, Bill & Alex are immuned for being on top of the leader board in the Instant Restaurant Challenge, the 9 teams left have to cook for an annual street party. Each team has to cook in the resident house and can choose to cook either sweet or savoury dishes. The team with the most votes from the residents who enjoy the party will be People's Choice and get immuned from the Kitchen HQ. The team with the weakest dish decides by Pete & Manu will join the Sudden Death Cook-off.
Kitchen Cook off
Episode 14
Airdate - 1 March 2011
Description - After the People's Choice, beside Bill & Alex, Sammy & Bella and Mal & Bec. The rest teams has to join the Kitchen Headquarter. Each team has to cook a dish with meat and 3 types of vegetable. However, the rule changes and all the ingredients must be in a pie and have to make it in 1 hour left. The team with the weakest dish chosen by Pete and Manu will join the Sudden Death Cook-off with Artie & Johnie.
Sudden Death
Episode 15
Airdate – 2 March 2011
Description – Artie & Johnnie compete against Donna & Reade. Each team has to cook a 3-course meal for the judges. The team with the lower score from the judges will be eliminated from the competition.
Top 10
People's Choice Challenge: Channel 7 Studios Breakfast
Episode 16
Airdate - 7 March 2011
Description - Top 10 has to cook breakfast for all the employees and celebrities who are working in Channel 7 Studio. The team with the most votes from everyone who enjoy the breakfast will be People's Choice and get immuned from the Kitchen HQ. The team with th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinetheodolite | A cinetheodolite (a.k.a. kinetheodolite) is a photographic instrument for collection of trajectory data. It can be used to acquire data in the testing of missiles, rockets, projectiles, aircraft, and fire control systems; in the ripple firing of rockets, graze action tests, air burst fuze tests, and similar operations. Cinetheodolites provide angular measurements of the line of sight to the vehicle. This permits acquiring accurate position data. Together with timing systems, velocity and acceleration data can be developed from the position measurements. Cinetheodolites can serve as primary sources of position and velocity data to about 30 km slant range.
These instruments were developed from theodolites by the addition of a movie camera, adding the ability to track a vehicle in flight and so obtain continuous trajectory data.
Introduction
One of the objectives of testing missile and rocket systems is to determine the actual "in-flight" performance of the vehicles themselves. One of the prime requirements for establishing the performance of vehicles in flight is to obtain accurate data which will reveal the position in space and the attitude of the vehicle during its trajectory. The employment of optics at a missile range may become highly significant in obtaining these data, if the atmosphere permits reasonably unobstructed observation, and if, moreover, an all-land test area makes possible optimum siting of instruments for most desirable look angles. Under these conditions, optics in general, and photogrammetry in particular, correlated with other instrumentation systems, can provide effective and accurate data of target trajectory.
Description
The cinetheodolite is a combination motion-picture-recording and surveying instrument which tracks and photographs targets (in flight vehicles, etc.). Cinetheodolites are employed in synchronized pairs, and azimuth/elevation data recorded on film is later reduced by trigonometry to establish position and movement of the target at a given moment. The recorded visual images and synchronizing pulse assure accuracy. German and UK WW2 cinetheodolites were large and complex, requiring two operators while USA versions were more compact with a single operator. The USA instruments served wartime and postwar aviation research and aircraft/missile evaluation (White Sands Test Base/Missile Range) until 1950 and the arrival of the more capable German Askania units.
Postwar models had selectable frame rates. Some cinetheodolites have rate-aided tracking control, whereby an open loop servomechanism in conjunction with operator actuated hand wheels match the angular rates of the tracking axis with the angular rates of the target line of position.
Cinetheodolites consist of a stable base and bearing, a vertical gimbal or trunnion carrier which rotates about a vertical axis normal to the plane of the base; a central drum or housing which contains the system telescopic lenses, plus a camera and film assembly; a horiz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance%20Design | Advance Design is a computer-aided engineering (CAE) software application developed by GRAITEC to structural analysis and design of reinforced concrete / steel / timber structures and automated creation of design reports.
Features
Advance Design offers an environment for the static and dynamic analysis of 2D and 3D reinforced concrete, steel and timber structures using the finite elements method. Advance Design is part of the BIM structural GRAITEC Advance suite.
Release history
See also
Comparison of CAD editors for CAE
External links
Advance Design Official Page
Product lifecycle management
Computer-aided engineering software
Finite element software
Computer-aided design software
GRAITEC products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oran%20B.%20Hesterman | Oran B. Hesterman is the president and chief executive officer of Fair Food Network, a non-profit organization based in Ann Arbor Michigan, is a national leader in sustainable agriculture and food systems and the author of Fair Food: Growing a Healthy, Sustainable Food System for All (Public Affairs), as well as more than 400 reports and articles on subjects such as cover crops, crop rotation, and the impact of philanthropic investments on food systems practice and policy.
Since its release, Fair Food has garnered a significant amount of attention, with over 4,000 food and social justice activists attending book events nationwide in 2011. Beyond listing the health, environment, and economic dysfunctions of the current broken American food system, the book presents burgeoning success stories and illuminates a clear path toward a more sustainable and equitable food future. The New York Times calls it “an important, accessible book on a crucial subject.”
Before starting Fair Food Network, Dr. Hesterman co-led the Integrated Farming Systems and Food and Society Programs for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation for 15 years, during which time the Foundation seeded the local food systems movement with over $200 million. At Kellogg, Dr. Hesterman envisioned and nurtured national and international food system projects and collaborations and organized seminars on sustainable agriculture and community-based food systems on behalf of the Foundation.
Prior to his position at the Kellogg Foundation, he was a fellow at the National Center for Food and Agriculture Policy in Washington, DC and a professor of crop and soil science at Michigan State University in East Lansing from 1984-1995.
Dr. Hesterman earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of California, Davis, in plant science/vegetable crops and agronomy, respectively. He received his doctorate in agronomy and business administration from the University of Minnesota, St. Paul.
He grew up in Berkeley, California and presently lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan with his wife, Lucinda Kurtz.
References
http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/oran-hesterman-reinvents-fair-food-network-to-redesign-broken-food-system/
http://www.bioneers.org/presenters/oran-hesterman
http://ww2.wkkf.org/Default.aspx?tabid=90&CID=19&ItemID=5000184&NID=5010184&LanguageID=0
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mfpc/Council_Meeting_Summary_March_2010_324210_7.doc - 2010-06-09
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dr-oran-b-hesterman-to-lead-new-fair-food-foundation-53580292.html
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/dhs/09-09-10_340804_7.pdf - 2010-12-20
External links
University of Minnesota alumni
Living people
Michigan State University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of California, Davis alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Blei | David Meir Blei is a professor in the Statistics and Computer Science departments at Columbia University. Prior to fall 2014 he was an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University. His work is primarily in machine learning.
Research
His research interests include topic models and he was one of the original developers of latent Dirichlet allocation, along with Andrew Ng and Michael I. Jordan. As of June 18, 2020, his publications have been cited 109,821 times, giving him an h-index of 97.
Honors and awards
Blei received the ACM Infosys Foundation Award in 2013. (This award is given to a computer scientist under the age of 45. It has since been renamed the ACM Prize in Computing.) He was named Fellow of ACM "For contributions to the theory and practice of probabilistic topic modeling and Bayesian machine learning" in 2015.
References
External links
Homepage
Latent Dirichlet Allocation (PDF)
Publications
ACM-Infosys Foundation Award, 2013
Living people
Artificial intelligence researchers
Brown University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Columbia University faculty
Columbia School of Engineering and Applied Science faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Recipients of the ACM Prize in Computing
Year of birth missing (living people)
Machine learning researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wael%20Ghonim | Wael Ghonim ( ; born 23 December 1980) is an Internet activist and computer engineer with an interest in social entrepreneurship.
In 2011, he became an international figure and galvanized pro-democracy demonstrations in Egypt after his emotional interview following 11 days of secret incarceration by Egyptian police. During these 11 days, he was interrogated regarding his work as one of two administrators of the Facebook page, "We are all Khaled Said", which helped spark the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Time magazine included him in its "Time 100" list of the 100 most influential people of 2011, and the World Economic Forum selected him as one of the Young Global Leaders in 2012.
Ghonim is the author of Revolution 2.0: The power of people is greater than the people in power (2013). In 2012, he founded Tahrir Academy, a technology focused NGO that aims to foster education in Egypt. In 2015, Ghonim co-founded Parlio, a social media platform that was acquired by Quora in March 2016. He is currently a non-resident senior fellow at Harvard's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.
Background
Ghonim was born to a middle-class family on 23 December 1980 in Cairo, Egypt, and grew up in Abha, Saudi Arabia. When he was 13 years old, he moved back to live in Cairo.
He earned a BS in computer engineering from Cairo University in 2004 and an MBA, with honors, in marketing and finance from the American University in Cairo in 2008.
Professional career
Between 2002 and 2005, Ghonim was the Marketing and Sales Manager of Gawab. In 2005, Ghonim left Gawab to establish Mubasher.info, a financial portal serving the Middle East region. Ghonim joined Google Middle East and North Africa as its Regional Marketing Manager in 2008 based in Google Egypt. In January 2010, Ghonim became Head of Marketing of Google Middle East and North Africa based in Google's United Arab Emirates office in Dubai Internet City in Dubai. During the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, Ghonim took leave from Google to focus on his work in Egypt and the Middle East. In 2014, Ghonim joined Google Ventures as an Entrepreneur in Residence before resigning in December to work at a start-up company.
Works
Ghonim's memoir, "Revolution 2.0", was published in January 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the U.S. and by HarperCollins in the UK. A reviewer at The New York Times called the book "a touchstone for future testimonials about a strengthening borderless digital movement that is set to continually disrupt powerful institutions, be they corporate enterprises or political regimes".
Involvement in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011
In 2010, Ghonim founded a Facebook page titled, "We Are All Khaled Said," in support of Khaled Said, a young Egyptian who was tortured to death by police in Alexandria. Ghonim used this page in moving and integrating the anti-government protests of the January 25 Revolution. He first made an announcement on the page on 14 January, asking members whether they wer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Margolus | Norman H. Margolus (born 1955) is a Canadian-American physicist and computer scientist, known for his work on cellular automata and reversible computing. He is a research affiliate with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Education and career
Margolus received his Ph.D. in physics in 1987 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the supervision of Edward Fredkin. He founded and was chief scientist for Permabit, an information storage device company.
Research contributions
Margolus was one of the organizers of a seminal research meeting on the connections between physics and computation theory, held on Mosquito Island in 1982. He is known for inventing the block cellular automaton and the Margolus neighborhood for block cellular automata, which he used to develop cellular automaton simulations of billiard-ball computers.
In the same work, Margolus also showed that the billiard ball model could be simulated by a second-order cellular automaton, a different type of cellular automaton invented by his thesis advisor, Edward Fredkin. These two simulations were among the first cellular automata that were both reversible (able to be run backwards as well as forwards for any number of time steps, without ambiguity) and universal (able to simulate the operations of any computer program); this combination of properties is important in low-energy computing, as it has been shown that the energy dissipation of computing devices may be made arbitrarily small if and only if they are reversible.
In connection with this issue, Margolus and his co-author Lev B. Levitin proved the Margolus–Levitin theorem showing that the speed of any computer is limited by the fundamental laws of physics to be at most proportional to its energy use; this implies that ultra-low-energy computers must run more slowly than conventional computers.
With Tommaso Toffoli, Margolus developed the CAM-6 cellular automaton simulation hardware, which he extensively described in his book with Toffoli, Cellular Automata Machines (MIT Press, 1987), and with Tom Knight he developed the "Flattop" integrated circuit implementation of billiard-ball computation. He has also done pioneering research on the reversible quantum gate logic needed to support quantum computers.
See also
Programmable matter
References
External links
Margolus' web site at MIT
1955 births
Living people
American computer scientists
21st-century American physicists
Cellular automatists
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
University of Alberta alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mat%C3%ADas%20Duarte | Matías Duarte is a Chilean-American computer interface designer and Google's Vice President of Design. Prior to his current role, he was the Director of Android User Experience. Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" was the first release with major elements of his design influence.
Prior to moving to Google to work on Android, Duarte had similar roles in Palm, Inc.’s webOS, the Helio Ocean and the Danger Hiptop (T-Mobile Sidekick).
Career
Duarte started his career at Psycroft where he cowrote xBill with Brian Wellington. He left Psycroft in 1996 at which time he moved to Hyper Image Productions where he was the lead designer on Phase Zero, an unreleased shooter game for the Atari Jaguar. In 1997 he left Hyper Image Productions and moved to MagicArts where he filled the role of Vice President of Design until 1999. In March 2000 Duarte took a role at Danger as the Director of Design where his team won the 2002 Wired 'Industrial Designer' Rave Award for their work in designing the Hiptop/SideKick. In August 2005 he took up a role at Helio, as Vice President Experience Design and left shortly before the company was acquired by Virgin Mobile. In September 2007 Duarte was hired as the Vice President at Palm, Inc. to lead development of Palm’s webOS Human Interface and User Experience and introduced the design of webOS at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show. In May 2010 Duarte was hired by Google as Director for the Android User Experience working on the interface and design for Android 3.0 (AKA Honeycomb).
Award
2002 Wired Rave Award, Industrial Designer of the Year "to Matias Duarte, Joe Palmer, and Andy Johnston for their work in designing Danger's hiptop communications device."
Education
Duarte graduated from the Science, Mathematics and Computer Science Magnet Program at Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland. He earned a Bachelor of Science with Honors from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Computer Science. He took on additional concentrations of study in Fine Art and Art History, and managed the Student Art Gallery from 1993 to 1996 at the University of Maryland.
Personal life
Duarte is married, and had a daughter in June 2008, another one in 2010.
References
External links
Personal website
1973 births
Living people
People from Talca
Chilean emigrants to the United States
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Businesspeople in software
American computer businesspeople
Chilean businesspeople
Chilean computer scientists
Google employees
Android (operating system)
21st-century American inventors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Format%20Description%20Language | Data Format Description Language (DFDL, often pronounced daff-o-dil), published as an Open Grid Forum Recommendation in February 2021, is a modeling language for describing general text and binary data in a standard way. A DFDL model or schema allows any text or binary data to be read (or "parsed") from its native format and to be presented as an instance of an information set. (An information set is a logical representation of the data contents, independent of the physical format. For example, two records could be in different formats, because one has fixed-length fields and the other uses delimiters, but they could contain exactly the same data, and would both be represented by the same information set). The same DFDL schema also allows data to be taken from an instance of an information set and written out (or "serialized") to its native format.
DFDL is descriptive and not prescriptive. DFDL is not a data format, nor does it impose the use of any particular data format. Instead it provides a standard way of describing many different kinds of data formats. This approach has several advantages. It allows an application author to design an appropriate data representation according to their requirements while describing it in a standard way which can be shared, enabling multiple programs to directly interchange the data.
DFDL achieves this by building upon the facilities of W3C XML Schema 1.0. A subset of XML Schema is used, enough to enable the modeling of non-XML data. The motivations for this approach are to avoid inventing a completely new schema language, and to make it easy to convert general text and binary data, via a DFDL information set, into a corresponding XML document.
Educational material is available in the form of DFDL Tutorials, videos and several hands-on DFDL labs.
History
DFDL was created in response to a need for grid APIs to be able to understand data regardless of source. A language was needed capable of modeling a wide variety of existing text and binary data formats. A working group was established at the Global Grid Forum (which later became the Open Grid Forum) in 2003 to create a specification for such a language.
A decision was made early on to base the language on a subset of W3C XML Schema, using <xs:appinfo> annotations to carry the extra information necessary to describe non-XML physical representations. This is an established approach that is already being used today in commercial systems. DFDL takes this approach and evolves it into an open standard capable of describing many text or binary data formats.
Work continued on the language, resulting in the publication of a DFDL 1.0 specification as OGF Proposed Recommendation GFD.174 in January 2011.
The official OGF Recommendation is GFD.240 published in February 2021 which obsoletes all prior versions and incorporates all issues noted to date (also available as html). A summary of DFDL and its features is available at the OGF. Any issues with the specificati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium%20paraputrificum | Clostridium paraputrificum is an anaerobic, motile, gram-positive bacterium.
References
External links
Type strain of Clostridium paraputrificum at BacDive - the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase
Gram-positive bacteria
Bacteria described in 1936
paraputrificum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon%E2%80%93Geneva%20railway | The Lyon–Geneva railway is an important route in the national rail network. It connects not only Geneva but also feeds the Maurienne railway and the Geneva to Valence via Grenoble line. It carries a variety of traffic: TGV Paris-Geneva, Geneva - South of France, TER Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Rhône Express Regional and goods trains.
The line is numbered 890 000 of the RFF national network.
Route
From Lyon-Perrache the line runs round Lyon city centre to Lyon-Part-Dieu. After running through the northeast suburbs of Lyon, the line runs in more or less straight sections across the plain to Ambérieu where it joins the line to Bourg-en Bresse and Macon, (formerly the Geneva Paris route). The rest of the line winds through the foothills of the Alpes and Jura. At Culoz is the junction with the Maurienne line to Turin via Modane. From Culoz the line runs close to the Rhône to Bellegarde-sur-Valerine where it meets the Ligne du Haut-Bugey. After Bellegarde trains plunge into the 4 km Cret d'Eau tunnel, emerging at the Longeray junction, where the line to Evian branches off via the spectacular Longeray viaduct clearly visible from the line. Thereafter, the line descends close to the Rhône, crossing the Swiss frontier between Challex and la Plaine. Between la Plaine and Geneva stations are much closer together, due to commuter traffic for Geneva. Entering the Geneva conurbation through the Meyrin-Vernier industrial estate, with many goods sidings, the railway crosses the Swiss A1 motorway over a high bridge, then reduces to a single track beside the double track Cornavin-Airport line. Inside a tunnel, a triangular junction connects to the la Praille goods yard and the CEVA connection to Annemasse and Evian. Still in the tunnel, the line crosses the Cornavin-Airport line by a diveunder. The line emerges in the St. Jean quarter of Geneva to terminate at platforms 5, 7 and 8 of Cornavin station.
History
Creation
23 June 1856: Opening of the section from Lyon Saint-Clair to Ambérieu-en-Bugey.
7 May 1857: Ambérieu to Seyssel
18 March 1858: Seyssel to Geneva (Cornavin)
1 June 1859: Lyon Saint-Clair to Lyon Brotteaux
24 November 1859: link to Lyon Guillotière and Lyon Perrache
Electrification
The line was progressively electrified to 1500 V DC
14 December 1952: Lyon Perrache and Lyon St Clair.
22 September 1953: Lyon-Saint-Clair to Culoz.
16 December 1953: Culoz to Bellegarde.
20 September 1956: completion of the electrification with the section Bellegarde to Geneva. The inaugural train was hauled by CC 7121 (at the time the world rail speed record holder).
Evolution
In subsequent years the line has undergone various modifications, the most important of which are:
1980, opening of the cord line at Culoz allowing Genève - Grenoble - Valence traffic to pass through directly at 60 km/h avoiding the reversing movement in Culoz station.
27 September 1981 first commercial Paris - Geneva TGV service via Bellegarde, Culoz, Ambérieu et Bourg-en- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbula | Nimbula was a computer software company that existed from 2008 to 2017. It developed software for the implementation of public and private cloud computing environments.
History
The company was first incorporated as Benguela, based in Menlo Park, California with a development center in Cape Town, South Africa.
It was founded in late 2008 by Chris Pinkham and Willem Van Biljon, who had developed the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).
The company raised a total of $20.75 million in venture funding from Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and VMware.
Their software was designed to make it easier for service providers and enterprises to build, manage and deploy infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offerings similar to Amazon EC2.
The company emerged from stealth mode in June 2010 and changed its name to Nimbula.
Diane Greene and Roelof Botha became members of the board of directors at that time.
Eventually the company had its office in Mountain View, California.
A public beta version of its software was announced in December 2010. Nimbula Director 1.0 was released in April 2011.
Nimbula was Named a ‘Cool Vendor’ in Cloud Management by Gartner in April 2012.
In October 2012, Nimbula joined the OpenStack Foundation.
In March 2013, Nimbula was acquired by Oracle Corporation.
Features
Nimbula Director software allows users to implement IaaS-style private, public and hybrid clouds. The software was aimed at both enterprise customers and service providers. It can manage both on- and off-premises infrastructure through a Web UI, an API or a command line interface.
Nimbula Director’s features include:
Control access to local and external cloud resources with a policy based authorization system supporting multi-tenancy.
Hands-off automated installation on bare metal
Automated (zero touch) cluster expansion as new hardware is added
API to manage local and external cloud resources
Reduce demands on system administrators through low-touch automated cloud management.
Multiple hypervisor support from a single management pane
Support for common cloud APIs like Amazon Web Services API
Support for Linux and Windows virtual machines (VMs)
Integrate existing user services through support for Active Directory/LDAP
Elastic IPs and security groups
Support for virtual ethernets, allowing creation of isolated Layer 2 networks
Integrated system metrics and reporting that will allow for integration with chargeback systems
Nimbula's license agreement allowed deployment of the software on up to 40 CPU cores without a license fee.
Release History
References
External links
Official website
Cloud infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V3%20Gaming%20PC | Morphosis Inc., doing business as V3 Gaming PC was a manufacturer of custom-built personal computers headquartered in Lomita, California. The company, founded in 2010 by industry veterans, touted compatibility with 3D gaming technologies such as Nvidia 3D Vision as a selling point for its products. V3 Gaming PC computers were specifically designed for the gaming and enthusiast markets, and offered different levels of performance for different usage environments and price segments. V3 offered several different models of desktop computers ranging from full-tower systems to small form factor mini-PCs, all of which are liquid-cooled. The company also had a range of laptop computers with high-end gaming hardware and full HD displays.
In line with their 3D gaming persuasion, V3 was a launch partner for Nvidia 3D Vision Technology under the 3D PC initiative.
Morphosis, Inc. dissolved in 2016.
Media coverage
V3 Gaming PC products garnered favorable reviews from various print and online technology publications, including PC World, Legit Reviews, CPU Magazine, and PC Magazine. A review of the V3 Gaming PC Avenger desktop computer earned the prestigious TweakTown Must Have: Best Features Award, citing value-adding tweaks like a significant processor overclock and RAID 0 as justification.
In February 2011, the V3 Convoy system reviewed at PC World was ranked in second place on the Top 10 Performance Desktop PCs list behind a $6399 computer from Origin PC. Given the similar performance of the V3 Convoy at $2499, it represents far greater value for money.
See also
List of computer system manufacturers
References
External links
V3 Gaming PC Website
Review of V3 Avenger at TweakTown
Review of V3 Convoy Desktop at PC World Magazine
Review of Move 3DS SFF PC at Legit Reviews
2010 establishments in California
2016 disestablishments in California
American companies established in 2010
American companies disestablished in 2016
Companies based in Los Angeles County, California
Computer companies established in 2010
Computer companies disestablished in 2016
Defunct computer companies based in California
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Lomita, California
Manufacturing companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Technology companies based in Greater Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna-Barbera%20Studios%20Europe | Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe Ltd. (also known as Great Marlborough Productions and previously known as Cartoon Network Studios Europe and Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe) is a British animation studio based in London and owned by the Warner Bros. Television Studios UK division of Warner Bros. International Television Production, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Television Group. It is the EMEA arm of Cartoon Network Studios.
On April 7, 2021, it was announced that the studio had rebranded as Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe, paying tribute to the original American studio, founded by Oscar and Emmy winners William Hanna and Joseph Barbera on July 7, 1957. The Hanna-Barbera name had previously been revived on some Warner Bros. Animation series and films based on the classic franchises, including from the fifth to thirteenth Scooby-Doo direct-to-video animated films, The Jetsons & WWE: Robo-WrestleMania!, the 2017 reboot of Wacky Races and Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs.
The first projects to be greenlit under the new name were a new series and a movie relating to The Amazing World of Gumball.
Filmography
Television series
Shorts series
Pilots
Films
Short films
Logos
See also
Cartoon Network Studios, American sister studio of the company.
Hanna-Barbera
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA
Fat Dog Mendoza
The Cramp Twins
Robotboy
Chop Socky Chooks
Hero: 108
References
External links
Finn Arnesen
Turner Broadcasting commissions first series from its European Development Studio
New and adventurous design
Boulder Media Enters ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’
2007 establishments in the United Kingdom
British animation studios
British companies established in 2007
Cartoon Network
Companies based in London
Film production companies of the United Kingdom
Mass media companies established in 2007
Turner Broadcasting System Europe
Turner Broadcasting System UK & Ireland
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA
Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiaries
Warner Bros. divisions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safal | Safal is the largest organised retail network of fruits and vegetables in the National Capital Region of India. Currently it operates over 400 retail outlets in the NCR region. Safal is owned by Mother Dairy, a subsidiary of the National Dairy Development Board. Safal was started in 1988 as an Indian government initiative to benefit fruit & vegetable producers and the urban consumers. The task was assigned to the National Dairy Development Board, as they had similar experience in the related sector of milk. Safal's supply chain covers 16 states, around 50,000 farmers and over 200 farmer associations.
Safal gives lower prices as well. With fruits and vegetables, Safal stores also sell products such as biscuits, noodles and milkshakes.
References
External links
Official website
Retail companies of India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian%20Service%20Processor | The Guardian Service Processor (also referred as GSP) is a subsystem within several models of server computers made by HP.
It is a separate computer system within the server that allows some service tasks. It is available as long as the system is supplied with power, even when the main operating system (usually HP-UX) is shut down, defective or not installed at all.
Common tasks of the GSP are:
Alert display configuration
Automatic System Restart configuration
Remote Power Control (if the system is managed from remote)
Configure asynchronous/serial ports
Display of several status values
Reset system ("reboot")
Show logs (chassis code buffer)
System status of proc. modules
LAN configuration for console port
Firmware upgrades
External links
Hewlett-Packard products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOMR | OpenOMR is an open source optical music recognition (OMR) tool written in Java for printed music scores. It allows a user to scan printed sheet music and play it through the computer speakers. It is being published as free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
External links
Music OCR software
Cross-platform free software
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Free music software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20%28software%29 | In computing, Red Hat Satellite is a systems-management product by the company Red Hat which allows system administrators to deploy and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) hosts.
A Satellite server registers with Red Hat Subscription Management, mirrors all relevant software like security errata and bug fixes, and provides this together with locally added software and configuration to the attached servers.
The managed hosts register against the local Satellite server and access the provided resources like software packages, patches, configuration, etc. while they also provide information about the current health state of the server to the Satellite
As of March 2017:
The latest version is Red Hat Satellite 6, based on Foreman. This article focuses on Red Hat Satellite 6
The previous version was Red Hat Satellite 5. Based on Spacewalk, it is still in widespread use despite being in the sunset of its lifecycle
Architecture
Red Hat Satellite Server
The Red Hat Satellite Server enables planning and management of the content life cycle and the configuration of Capsule Servers and hosts through GUI, CLI (Hammer), or API (RESTful API).
Capsule Servers
Capsule Servers mirror content from the Satellite Server to establish content sources in different geographical locations, they are analogous to the Red Hat Satellite 5 Proxy Server.
Managed Client Systems
As well as Supported Managed Hosts Red Hat Satellite 6 also has some deployment and management capability on certain other hosts though Red Hat Support for these will be limited.
Connection to Red Hat Customer Portal and External Content Sources
Satellite generally operates in "connected" mode, registering directly with the RHN and downloading relevant software into Satellite's software channels. The organisation's hosts then register against the local Satellite server, instead of directly against Red Hat Network.
For secure deployments, Satellite can operate in a "Disconnected" mode, where updates are downloaded directly from Red Hat via an Internet connected machine and then uploaded into Satellite or a local offline RHN proxy.
Both modes allow the organisation to control which versions of software it makes available for its hosts, as well as making additional software available within the local network.
Red Hat Satellite 6 components
Major modules
Provision
Satellite offers numerous methods for deploying hosts, including simple kickstart, bare metal install and re-imaging. Current versions of Satellite support kickstart using Cobbler as an underlying framework. PXE Boot, and Koan are methods that can be used to implement bare metal installs and re-imaging of hosts.
Manage
Satellite assists in remotely managing hosts in several areas: software, operational management, and configuration. The 3 main mechanisms for managing hosts are:
Software Channel
Configuration Channels
Activation Keys
Monitor
Satellite can provide monitoring of software and systems via probes. These prob |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XidML | XidML (eXtensible Instrumentation Data exchange Mark-up Language) is an open standard XML tailored for the aerospace industry. XidML describes how data is acquired, processed and packaged for transmission, storage or reproduction. The primary objective of XidML is to store and exchange complex instrumentation information between multiple vendors and user-groups gathering thousands of parameters.
Taxonomy
There are five major components within XidML – parameters, instruments, packages, links and algorithms – each with their own subset of metadata.
Parameters
Parameters describe all there is to know about a value being measured. Examples of the type of metadata associated with a parameter include
Name: uniquely identifies the parameter
DataFormat: format used to encode the sampled data - examples include Offset Binary and Binary Coded Decimal
Unit: unit of measurement of the parameter (expressed relative to SI units)
LongDescription: detailed description of a parameter
ShortDescription: brief description of the parameter
SizeInBits: number of bits used to encode the sampled data
It is also possible to decompose a parameter into sub-parameters and to describe the meaning of each sub-parameter. For example, a 48-bit IRIG time parameter is typically broken up into High, Low and Micro time components.
Instruments
Instruments are the physical hardware used in data acquisition and describe how FTI devices are configured. All instruments share the following common metadata:
Name: uniquely identifies the parameter
Manufacturer: identifies the device manufacturer
PartReference: uniquely identifies the type of device
SerialNumber: uniquely identifies a specific device
Device configuration
Device configuration is described using zero or more settings. Settings are those values that affect the behavior of a device in an acquisition network. Settings consist of
Name: This is the name of the setting. Device vendors publish the allowed values for settings using XdefML. Examples of settings include Filter Cutoff and Excitation Amplitude
Value: This is the value associated with setting. Device vendors publish the allowed values and other value constraints using XdefML.
Packages
Packages describe how data is transmitted or stored. All packages must have globally unique names. Examples of transmission packages include IRIG-106 Chapter 4 PCM frame definitions, MIL-STD-1553 message definitions and Ethernet packet descriptions. An example storage format is the IRIG Chapter 10 data storage description.
All packages share the same common structure:
Properties: contains structural and other header information
Content: describes the payload content of a package – specifically, what parameters are transmitted, how often they are transmitted and where they are located within the package
Source: defines where a package originates
Destination: describes the destination of a package
All packages also include the following data:
Name: uniquely identifies a package
PackageRa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylophanes%20fusimacula | Xylophanes fusimacula is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found from Brazil to Colombia and Bolivia.
Adults are similar in colour and pattern to Xylophanes undata and Xylophanes zurcheri but can be distinguished by the entire (not crenulated) outer margin of the forewing. Furthermore, the first, second and fourth postmedian lines are conspicuous, strongly crenulated and more oblique, delineating a narrow, rectangular, pale purple-grey patch.
Adults are probably on wing year-round.
The larvae possibly feed on Psychotria panamensis, Psychotria nervosa and Pavonia guanacastensis.
References
fusimacula
Moths described in 1874 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen%20Ninety%20Five%20and%20Nowhere | Nineteen Ninety Five and Nowhere is the second solo studio album by the British guitarist Gary Marx.
Track listing
Personnel
Gary Marx - Vocals, all instruments & drum programming
External links
Official D-Monic page
Official Gary Marx page
2008 albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty%20Black%20Dots | Pretty Black Dots is the first solo studio album by the British guitarist Gary Marx.
Track listing
Personnel
Gary Marx - Vocals, all instruments
Choque Hosein - Drum programming
External links
Official Gary Marx page
2002 debut albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenComRTOS | OpenComRTOS is a commercial network-centric, formally developed real-time operating system (RTOS), aimed mainly at the embedded system market.
Overview
OpenComRTOS was developed using formal methods. It has features like the ability to support heterogeneous multi-processor systems transparently, independent of the processor word size (16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit), and the communication medium (shared memory, buses, point-to-point links or virtual links on extant communication mechanisms). Typical code size on a 32-bit target processor is about 5 KiBytes.
OpenComRTOS is based on the meta-modelling paradigm of Interacting Entities. In the RTOS, the unit of execution is a Task (a function with its local workspace or stack). Task entities synchronise and communicate using intermediate Hubs entities that are decoupled from the interacting Tasks. Hubs are formally modelled as Guarded Actions. The current implementation provides the functions of traditional RTOS services like events, semaphores, ports, first in first out (FIFO) stacks, resources, packet pools, and memory pools. The user can also create custom Hub types.
OpenComRTOS uses a uniform architecture with a kernel Task, driver Tasks, and application Tasks, each having a Task input Port. The same interface is used for the Interrupt Service Routines. The underlying architecture relies on the use of prioritised packet switching with communication and routing being part of the underlying system services. One of the results is that the source code of the Tasks is independent of the mapping of Tasks and Hubs to the processing nodes in the target system.
History
The initial purpose for developing OpenComRTOS was to provide a software runtime environment supporting a coherent and unified systems engineering methodology based on Interacting Entities. This was originally developed by the Open License Society since 2005, and since 2008 further developed and commercialised by Altreonic. A formerly developed RTOS named Virtuoso served as a guideline. Virtuoso is a distributed RTOS, developed by Eonic Systems until the technology was sold to Wind River Systems in 2001. Its overall functionality of transparent parallel processing (called the Virtual Single Processor runtime model) was a major driving force to redevelop it in a better way. OpenComRTOS is conceptually a fourth generation of Virtuoso although it was a clean room development. The Virtuoso RTOS had its origin in the pioneering Inmos Transputer, a partial hardware implementation of C.A.R. Hoare's communicating sequential processes (CSP) process algebra.
Most challenging applications:
Oil exploration system with 12,000 processors featuring microcontrollers, fixed point and floating point DSPs and a Linux host in a single network.
Sonar system with 1,600 floating point DSPs.
Rosetta and Giotto ESA space missions.
Converting a 400,000 lines application running on a Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) style RTOS to OpenComRTOS.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RailML | railML (Railway Markup Language) is a proprietary freeware XML Schema-based data exchange format for data interoperability of railway applications.
Motivation
The growing number of computer applications modeling different aspects of railway operations, with different operators developing separate solutions parallelly, bore a chronic difficulty of connecting different railway IT applications. The exchange of data for operation concepts, slot management, simulation or infrastructure planning, etc. was possible either by hand or with a lot of special developed interfaces with loss of time and cost problems for railway companies. If there are n applications that are supposed to exchange data, with a special interface for each pair of programs respectively, interfaces are required — only one, if n=2, but 10, if n=5 — increasing the complexity above average.
This problem can be mitigated by means of enterprise application integration with a single, universal exchange format that is supported by all applications and meets the needs of all kinds of data exchange in the field of railway operation: The number of required interfaces decreases to n — one interface to the exchange format for each application respectively. railML tries to place at disposal a free and self-describing format close to existing standards. The paradigm is to meet the demands of the data exchange processes of railways, industry and authorities rather than describing the complete railway system.
Outline
History
The development of railML was initiated in early 2002 by the Fraunhofer-IVI (Dresden, Germany) and the ETH Zürich – IVT (Zurich, Switzerland) against the background of the chronic difficulty of connecting different railway IT applications. railML is changed and adapted to the needs of railway infrastructure managers (IMs) and railway undertakings (RUs) within discussions. The first stable version 1.0 was released in 2005 for productive usage. Up to now the versions 1.0; 1.1; 2.0 to 2.5 were released for download and productive use. railML's version 3 with a new topology model based on RailTopoModel and other evolutions was under development since mid 2015 to be released as beta in mid 2016 and finally released with 3.1 for productive use in February 2019 and evolved to 3.2 in 2022.
In 2015 a viewer and validator programme for railML data named railVIVID was released.
Working principle
railML (railway mark-up language) is a common exchange format, which employs XML for the description of rail-specific data. railML enables the exchange of railway data between internal and external railway applications. railML is developed within the so-called “railML consortium” from railML.org. The model language of railML is UML and the documentation language is English. Every railML developer and user is invited to contribute or propose scheme extensions.
Applications can exchange data via railML either via exporting respectively importing railML files, or as a direct inter-process co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracomp | Paracomp was a Macintosh programming company known for their 3D software, Swivel 3D and ModelShop and FilmMaker. FilmMaker was known for its packaging which was a 16 mm film reel tin, which was used to contain the software and manuals. Paracomp was also the publisher of the computer algebra system Milo, which was the first program on Macintosh able to perform symbolic computation using standard math notation. Paracomp was acquired by MacroMind in 1991 to briefly form MacroMind-Paracomp, before adding Authorware in 1992 and becoming Macromedia.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20food%20energy%20intake | Food consumption is the amount of food available for human consumption as estimated by Our World in Data. However, the actual food consumption may be lower than the quantity shown as food availability depends on the magnitude of wastage and losses of food in the household, for example during storage, in preparation and cooking, as plate-waste or quantities fed to domestic animals and pets, thrown or given away.
According to the FAO, the average minimum daily energy requirement is about per person. Although this data is presented in kilocalorie format, most countries today use the SI unit kilojoules as their primary measurement for food energy intake, with the exception of the USA, Canada, and the UK, which require both.
Historical development
Regions of the world by food consumption per capita in kilocalories per capita per day from 1961 to 2018.
See also
Food power
Food politics
References
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Food energy intake
Food energy intake
Malnutrition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus%20Towers | Indus Towers Limited is an Indian telecommunications infrastructure company offering passive infrastructure services to mobile network operators and other wireless services providers. Headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana, Indus Towers was incorporated in November 2007 by Bharti Infratel (a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel), Vodafone Essar, and Idea Cellular, to provide shared telecom infrastructure to telecom operators on a non-discriminatory basis.
Bharti Infratel merged with Indus Towers on 19 November 2020, creating one of the largest mobile tower infrastructure operators in the world. Post-merger, Bharti Airtel holds a 36.73% stake in Indus Towers, with Vodafone Group holding 28.12%, and 3.1% shares held by Providence Equity.
Indus Towers Limited has over 192,874 towers and 342,831 co-locations and a nationwide presence covering all 22 telecom circles. It has the widest coverage in India and has already achieved 289,000 tenancies, a first in the telecom tower industry globally. Some of its major customers include Airtel, Bharti Hexacom, Jio and Vi.
History
Indus Towers Limited was founded in November 2007 by Bharti Infratel, Vodafone Essar, and Idea Cellular, with the goal of merging their passive infrastructure assets across 16 telecom circles. It was incorporated with an objective to provide shared telecom infrastructure to telecom operators on a non-discriminatory basis. Bharti Infratel held a 42% stake in the company, with Vodafone Group holding 42% and Vodafone Idea holding 11.15%. The remaining 4.85% stake was held by private equity firm Providence Equity.
Bharti Infratel merger
In 2017, reports suggested that Bharti Infratel was looking to acquire the 53% stake in Indus Towers, owned by Vodacom Group and Vodafone Idea. However, in July, the head of Vodafone stated that they were "actively considering" a float of their stake in Indus Towers. Vodafone went on to deliver a formal mandate to both Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley to finalize buyers.
Bharti Airtel (Bharti Infratel's parent company), Vodafone Group, and Vodafone Idea announced on 25 April 2018 that they had signed an agreement to merge Bharti Infratel with Indus Towers. Under the terms of the agreement, Bharti Infratel will transfer 1,565 of its own shares for each Indus Towers share valuing the latter at $10 billion. Other major shareholders in Indus Towers such as Idea Cellular and Providence Equity Partners would be provided an option to cash out. Prior to the merger, shareholding in Indus Towers was Bharti Infratel (42%), Vodafone Group (42%), Idea Cellular (11.15%) and Providence Equity Partners (4.85%).
The merger was originally planned to go through before October 2019. However, due to delays in approvals, it was postponed to December 2019 by when the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) was supposed to give its permission. Owing to further delays by the DoT and the National Company Law Tribunal the deadline was extended multiple times to 24 June 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirix | Empirix Inc. is a privately held company which designs and manufactures service assurance testing and monitoring equipment for IP-based communications networks such as Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-based, next generation network and 4G wireless networks. Empirix offers enterprise and carrier grade products as well as quality assurance products for network equipment manufacturers. Empirix is headquartered in Billerica, MA. On April 21, 2021, Empirix has been acquired by Infovista, a Network automation software. Infovista, which is majority owned by Apax Partners, says the deal “brings together a team of over 1,000 professionals serving over 1,700 customers across more than 150 countries, including 23 of the top 30 CSPs globally.”
Company history
Empirix's Hammer test technology was originally developed at Hammer Technologies, Inc. Hammer Technologies was founded by Steve Gladstone and John Kuenzig in late 1991. Hammer was originally called Transaction Environments, Inc., but changed its name to Hammer Technologies based on the success of their initial "Hammer" test products. The company started by developing test systems for enhanced telecom services (such as voice mail and IVR), but later moved into VoIP, then a new communication technology. The methodologies developed proved viable for testing, and subsequently monitoring, other IP communications applications such as data, video, web and mobile services. Hammer Technologies was purchased by Teradyne in 1995 as part of Teradyne's effort to diversify into more software-oriented test systems.
On September 6, 2000, the Hammer test technology was spun out of Teradyne and became Empirix Inc. Alex d'Arbeloff, co-founder of Teradyne, was appointed chairman of the board.
On June 6, 2008, Empirix sold its e-TEST suite, a set of Web application testing products, to Oracle. The company then focused on developing products for testing and monitoring voice quality, contact center equipment and enterprise communications networks as well as carrier grade products for mobile, cable and telecom operators.
In 2009, Empirix was awarded the Global VoIP Test & Monitoring Equipment Market Leadership of the Year Award from research firm Frost & Sullivan. In March 2010, Empirix helped found the Network Test Automation Forum (NTAF) to promote interoperability and develop test automation standards in a collaborative, open and transparent manner.
The July 2010 acquisition of Mutina Technology S.p.A. expanded the company's offerings to cover Mobile Broadband (MBB), Next Generation Networks (NGN), SS7/SIGTRAN Signaling, VoD/IPTV, and IP Core for telecom and enterprise networks.
In November 2013, Empirix was acquired by Thoma Bravo LLC, a private equity partnership.
Technology
The company's core Hammer technology was designed to automate the testing of IP communications networks, applications and services. It models realistic user behavior and emulates the associated session-base |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20version%20history | The version history of the Android mobile operating system began with the public release of its first beta on November 5, 2007. The first commercial version, Android 1.0, was released on September 23, 2008. The operating system is developed by Google on a yearly cycle since at least 2011. New major releases are announced at Google I/O along with its first public beta to supported Google Pixel devices. The stable version is then released later in the year.
Overview
The development of Android started in 2003 by Android, Inc., which was purchased by Google in 2005. There were at least two internal releases of the software inside Google and the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) before the beta version was released. The beta was released on November 5, 2007, while the software development kit (SDK) was released on November 12, 2007. Several public beta versions of the SDK were released. These releases were done through software emulation as physical devices did not exist to test the operating system. Both the operating system itself and the SDK were released along with their source code, as free software under the Apache License.
The first public release of Android 1.0 occurred with the release of the T-Mobile G1 (aka HTC Dream) in October 2008. Android 1.0 and 1.1 were not released under specific code names. The code names "Astro Boy" and "Bender" were tagged internally on some of the early pre-1.0 milestone builds and were never used as the actual code names of the 1.0 and 1.1 releases of the OS.
The project manager, Ryan Gibson, conceived using a confectionery-themed naming scheme for public releases, starting with Android 1.5 Cupcake. Google announced in August 2019 they were ending the confectionery theming scheme to use numerical ordering for future versions. The first release under the numerical order format was Android 10, which was released September 2019.
In 2017, Google announced that Google Play would begin to require apps to target a recent Android version. Since then, a new major Android version has been released in the second half of each year, and apps must target it by August 31 of the following year for new apps, or November 1 for app updates.
Version history
The following tables show the release dates and key features of all Android operating system updates to date, listed chronologically by their official application programming interface (API) levels.
Android 1.0
Android 1.1
Android 1.5 Cupcake
Android 1.6 Donut
Android 2.0 Eclair
Android 2.0.1 Eclair
Android 2.1 Eclair
Android 2.2 Froyo
Android 2.3 Gingerbread
Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread
Android 3.0 Honeycomb
Android 3.1 Honeycomb
Android 3.2 Honeycomb
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
Android 4.2 Jelly Bean
Android 4.3 Jelly Bean
Android 4.4 KitKat
Android 4.4W KitKat, with wearable extensions
Android 5.0 Lollipop
Android 5.1 Lollipop
Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Android 7.0 Nougat
Android 7.1 Nougat
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%20Peak%20Systems | Silver Peak is a company that develops products for wide area networks (WANs), including WAN optimization and SD-WAN (Software-Defined WAN). The company was founded in 2004 by David Hughes. Silver Peak shipped its first product, the NX-series hardware appliance, in September 2005, and their first SD-WAN solution, EdgeConnect, in June 2015.
On July 13, 2020, Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced its intent to acquire Silver Peak for $925 Million. This acquisition was completed on September 21, 2020, with Silver Peak becoming part of HPE subsidiary Aruba Networks.
Products and services
As of 2019, Silver Peak's major product lines are:
WAN optimization
NX series network appliances
VX series virtual appliances
GMS Global Management System — Management software for NX and VX
Unity
Unity EdgeConnect — Physical and virtual appliances for SD-WAN implementation
Unity Boost — Optional WAN optimization package
Unity Orchestrator — Management software/service, available as a virtual appliance, cloud-hosted, or Software as a service (SaaS) subscription
Partnerships
Dell
Silver Peak is a Dell partner for WAN optimization in over 30 countries, where Dell resells Silver Peak to improve the performance of Dell storage (EqualLogic and Compellent), networking (Force10), server, and virtual desktop (VDI) implementations over the wide area network.
VMware
Silver Peak partners with VMware to offer its virtual WAN optimization products as part of the VMware vCloud Air offering.
EMC
EMC Corporation resells Silver Peak physical and virtual WAN optimization appliances, which are available through the EMC Select program. Silver Peak is also the only WAN optimization product qualified and integrated with EMC’s VPLEX Geo. Silver Peak’s WAwan optimization products are E-lab qualified on Symmetrix Remote Data Facility/Asynchronous (SRDF/A), Symmetrix Remote Data Facility/Data Mobility (SRDF/DM), SAN Copy, Celerra Replicator, Isilon SyncIQ, RecoverPoint, and Atmos.
Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) resells Silver Peak's WAN optimization products. Silver Peak can be deployed with HDS backup and replication products.
See also
WAN optimization
Virtual appliance
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