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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibos%20%28conference%29 | Sibos (previously known as SWIFT International Banking Operations Seminar) is a global financial services event. This annual conference, exhibition, networking event is organized by SWIFT for the financial industry and is held annually around the world in major cities. Sibos brings together thousands of business leaders, decision makers and topic experts from across the financial ecosystem. Industry leading speakers and conference sessions, partners, and multiple networking events occur at Sibos.
History
The first Sibos was held in 1978 in Brussels and has since been held in multiple European cities such as Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Berlin, and Helsinki, as well as other cities (such as Boston and Toronto) in North America and Sydney in Australia. In recent years, it has also been held more regularly in Asia and Oceania like China, Japan, Singapore, UAE, Australia and others. The conference has an average annual turnout of over 7,000 participants from around the world representing the financial services industry. The highest turnout was at the 2019 conference held in London which had about 11,500 participants.
Purpose
People who work in financial markets around the world participate as attendees and exhibitors to discuss issues relevant to the financial industry. Topics vary by year, but remain relevant to the current landscape of the global financial ecosystem in the areas of payments, securities, risk management, innovation, and cash management and trade.
References
External links
Sibos Official Website. Retrieved October 4, 2012
Banking
Business conferences
International conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Nimmo | William Lorne Nimmo (June 18, 1917 – February 22, 2011) was a television and radio personality whose career spanned seven decades.
Early life and pre-network career
Nimmo was born on June 18, 1917, in Cincinnati, Ohio. After graduating from Western Hills High School, he attended the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. He volunteered for the US Army in 1941 prior to the declaration of WWII. While serving with the 1st Infantry Division in North Africa he was awarded the Purple Heart, Silver Star, and Bronze Star Medals, plus an Invasion Arrowhead and four Campaign Stars. Following a year of diplomatic service at the U.S. Embassy in Paris in 1945-46 he was honorably discharged with the rank of Major.
After a short stint as a teacher, he returned to Cincinnati in 1947 and landed a job as an overnight disc jockey at WLW-AM with his distinctive baritone voice. In 1948 Bill became Cincinnati's first television star on WLWT-TV serving as an announcer, newscaster, and host of various shows.
In 1959, Nimmo recorded a narration, "The Little Rascals" for RCA Victor (LBY 1023).
Career on national television
In 1951 Nimmo moved to New York and went to work for network television. He played “Bill the Bartender” on the Pabst Blue Ribbon Wednesday Night Fights (CBS), in which he appeared live during the commercials to promote the sponsor, Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. He was also Johnny Carson's original sidekick on the shows Do You Trust Your Wife? and later Who Do You Trust?
When Nimmo left the show in 1957, he recommended Ed McMahon as his replacement. When Carson and McMahon moved to The Tonight Show in 1962, Nimmo returned to Who Do You Trust? as announcer-sidekick for new host Woody Woodbury. Although Bill would later admit leaving Carson was one of the biggest mistakes of his life, he had no regrets.
Nimmo was also an announcer for The Jackie Gleason Show in 1952–53, Crime Syndicated, The Plainclothesman, and This Is Show Business, as well as for Jack Lemmon, Garry Moore and Arthur Murray to name just a few. He was the spokesperson on long-running shows for Pepsodent, Newport cigarettes, and Schick electric shaver. In addition he was the host of the game shows Keep It in the Family in 1957–58, For Love or Money in 1958, and announcer on The Regis Philbin Show in 1964–65.
Career after national television
After a year working on The Regis Philbin Show in Los Angeles, Nimmo returned to southwest Ohio for the remainder of his life. In 1966-67 he was the emcee on Be Our Guest (WLWT) with future wife Marian Spelman. Between 1967 and 1975, he served as the Community Relations Director at the University of Cincinnati, and was the producer of various television and radio shows. From 1975 to 1983 he was an associate professor of history at Southern State Community College in Fincastle, Ohio.
In 1988 he narrated Powel Crosley and the 20th Century, bringing him full circle in his broadcasting career. In addition, he was a volunteer broadcaster at WMKV (89.3 M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esteban%20Areta | Esteban Areta Vélez (14 April 1932 – 9 July 2007) was a Spanish footballer who played as a defender.
Honours
Barcelona
Inter-Cities Fairs Cup: 1955–58
External links
National team data at BDFutbol
Valencia CF profile
Real Betis profile
Cádiz CF profile
1932 births
2007 deaths
Spanish men's footballers
Footballers from Pamplona
Men's association football defenders
La Liga players
Segunda División players
CA Osasuna players
Real Oviedo players
FC Barcelona players
FC Barcelona Atlètic players
Valencia CF players
Real Betis players
Cádiz CF players
Spain men's international footballers
Spanish football managers
La Liga managers
Betis Deportivo Balompié managers
Real Betis managers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%20Railway%20comprehensive%20inspection%20trains | China Railway comprehensive inspection trains, or CITs, are high-speed test trains used on the high-speed rail network of China and the Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Rail in Indonesia are normally owned and operated by China Railway or the China Academy of Railway Sciences (CARS) and Kereta Cepat Indonesia China.
CIT trains are equipped with special devices to monitor the conditions of the track, the wheel-rail force, a catenary-pantograph communications system, and a signal system. Stock is usually painted with yellow bands and the words "高速综合检测列车" (meaning "High-speed Comprehensive Inspection Train") are usually painted on the side. The designs of most CITs are based on originally commercial designs, like the CIT001 (based on CRH5) and CIT400A (based on CRH380A). However, the CIT380A trainset was converted from a prototype of CRH380A (CRH2-150C). Some re-vamped commercial trains used for testing purposes are not designated as CITs and have standard serial numbers appended with a "J" (e.g. CRH380AJ). This stands for "Jiǎn" (inspection).
List of CIT trains
CRH5J-0501
CRH5J-0501 (original designation, CIT001) is an 8-car trainset based on the CRH5 design, which serves as a test train.
The CIT001 was ordered by the China Academy of Railway Science on 2 April 2007 and was co-designed by CARS and CNR. The official name is Code Zero Comprehensive Inspection Train. The train is painted with yellow and white striped livery and started test runs on 1 July 2007. It came into service on 6 June 2008.
Formation
CRH2A-2010
CRH2A-2010 (formerly CRH2-010A) is the first high-speed test train in China and the first CRH2 trainset manufactured by CSR Sifang. The trainset rolled off the production line on 31 July 2006. In March 2007 it was converted to be a test train. The train is equipped with ATP, signal parameter monitoring, wireless field monitoring, pantograph and catenary monitoring, track geometry monitoring, dynamics and acceleration detecting devices and a circuit-monitoring system.
CRH2C-2061
CRH2C-2061 (formerly CRH2-061C) is the first high speed trainset manufactured by CSR Sifang. The trainset rolled off the production line on 22 December 22, 2007 and was named CRH2-300, as the prototype of CRH2C. During a test on 22 April 2008, CRH2-061C reached a top speed of over on Beijing-Tianjin high-speed rail and on 11 December 2009 reached an improved top speed of on the Zhengzhou-Xi'an high-speed railway line. It now serves as a 350 km/h inspection train, equipped with track inspection, catenary examination, and signal inspection devices.
CRH2C-2068
CRH2C-2068 (formerly CRH2-068C) is a inspection train, equipped with track inspection, dynamics performance monitor and pantograph/catenary inspection devices.
CRH2C-2150
CRH2C-2150 (formerly CIT380A) is a high-speed comprehensive inspection train. It is converted from the prototype vehicle CRH380A. The original train, CRH2-150C, was rolled off the production line in April 2010. The eight-ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona%20Data%20Systems | Corona Data Systems, later renamed Cordata, was an American personal computer company. It was one of the earliest IBM PC compatible computer system companies. Manufacturing was primarily done by Daewoo of Korea, which became a major investor in the company and ultimately the owner.
History
Founded in mid-1981 by Robert Harp, who co-founded Vector Graphic. Along with Harp, the firm was co-founded by Robert Steven Kramarz who at age 31 was employee #1 and General Manager. Daniel R. Carter was named as CEO a year later. By 1984, Corona employed 280 people. In mid-1985 the firm received fresh capital from the Daewoo Group of South Korea who acquired a controlling interest.
Corona Data System's first products were 5MB and 10MB external hard drives with interface cards and software to connect them to the Apple II and the IBM PC. The drives were sold under the brand name Starfire (Starfire 5 and Starfire 10). The original Corona PC was later released in 1983. The company went on to develop and release additional desktop and portable PCs corresponding to the development of the Intel x86 architecture through the 80386, as well a laser printer (the LP300) and an integrated desktop publishing system known as Intellipress. The latter offered either Aldus PageMaker or Ventura Publisher as software bundles. The laser printer was based on the Canon CX engine, but unlike competing products from HP and Apple, the printer's raster image processor was on an interface card inside the PC, which partially used the PC's processor for image processing thus reducing product cost.
IBM Lawsuit
Corona claimed "Our systems run all software that conforms to IBM PC programming standards. And the most popular software does." In early 1984, IBM sued Corona and Eagle Computer for copyright violation of the IBM PC BIOS. Corona settled with IBM by agreeing to cease infringement.
Corona PPC-400
Corona Portable PC Model PPC-400, arguably the most notable Corona computer, was introduced in 1984. The PPC-400 was remarkable for its elegant and clear screen fonts. The desktop version was the PC-400.
Cordata
After Daewoo acquired a 70% share in the company, Corona Data Systems was renamed Cordata in 1986 in order to reflect diversification and to try to distance itself from identification as just a "PC clone" manufacturer. Harp resigned in 1987, accusing Daewoo of transforming the company into a paper-only entity for the purpose of loss write-off. According to Harp, Cordata had posted $20M losses in the previous year despite the $40M investment made by Daewoo since 1985. Daewoo phased out the Cordata name in 1993.
In Popular Culture
In the first season of the TV series, Halt and Catch Fire, a fictional drama depicting the birth of the personal computer industry in the 1980s, the pivot of company Cardiff Electric resembles both the history of Corona Data Systems and Compaq. Like Cardiff Electric's fictional pivot to become a PC manufacturer, Corona's actual history included found |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordata | Cordata, a Latin adjective meaning heart-shaped, may refer to:
Cordata, a common leaf shape
Cordata (company), an American personal computer company
Species
Alnus cordata, a species of alder
Houttuynia cordata, a flowering plant native to Southeast Asia
Macleaya cordata, a species of poppy
Quararibea cordata, a fruit tree native to the Amazon Rainforest
Tilia cordata, known as the small-leaved lime or linden
Prunus subcordata, a shrub in the plum family
Eucnide cordata, a perennial shrub in the family Loasaceae native to the Sonoran Desert Region
See also
Cordatum, a species of sea urchin
Chordate, a phylum of animals having a dorsal nerve cord |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ModSquad | ModSquad is a global digital engagement services company based in the United States. The company currently has over 10,000 moderators in its network. ModSquad provides managed, on-demand customer service, content moderation, social media, and community management services and teams across online, e-commerce, in-game, in-app, and social media channels.
History
The company was founded by attorney Amy Pritchard in 2007, to provide brands with a way to give the members of their online communities a more relevant, personalized experience. Looking at the step change that today's brands could make in managing their online communities as akin to the London Mods youth culture, Pritchard – along with COO Mike Pinkerton – created a services based company around remote community managers and moderators (Mods), to staff virtual sites. The firm originally specialized in providing avatar staffing, but soon expanded to supplying forum moderation and customer service across a wide range of brands. By 2010, the company had 500 experienced Mods working on more than 100 clients' sites. In 2015, ModSquad was awarded a Silver Stevie Award in the Company of the Year (Internet/New Media) category of the 13th Annual American Business Awards. Also that year, the company was recognized as Customer Service Team of the Year in the Golden Bridge Awards.
Present
Presently the company has over 10,000 "Mods," or moderators, in its network, a 24/7 operations center in Sacramento, California established in 2010, 24/7 operations centers in Austin, Texas, and Derry, Northern Ireland, and offices in Brooklyn, New York[7] and London. In November 2015, the company, formerly known as Metaverse Mod Squad, changed its name to ModSquad. Clients include Warner Bros. (including Gossip Girl and Harry Potter), HarperCollins, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, the National Football League, Reel FX (parent firm of Webosaurs), Electronic Arts, enVie Interactive, Kimpton Hotels, Vimeo, and the United States Department of State.
Operations
The company operates by providing services via 10,000+ multilingual Mods from 70 countries in its network via a series of outsource-provision contracts. Operating under a predefined customer service brief, vetted and oriented Mods augment or replace in-house teams by managing a variety of online community activities and specializing in digital engagement from customer service and maintenance tickets to social and forum moderation and quality assurance. Mods help to maintain and shape clients’ unique online communities by assisting with community events, aiding users with technical and social issues, orienting new arrivals, and channeling community concerns and feedback to corporate clients.
Mods take both an active position in forums by acting as the corporate client to provide services, as well as passively looking through the end user experience to monitor social media and quality assurance testing. In active mode, Mods moderate content, chat with customers, ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20W.%20Parks | Thomas W. Parks (born March 16, 1939, in Buffalo, New York, died December 24, 2020, in Ithaca, New York) was an American electrical engineer and Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He is best known for his contributions to digital signal processing, especially digital filter design and computation of the fast Fourier transform. His last work before retirement was in the area of demosaicing.
Academic career
Tom Parks received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell in 1961. He worked for General Electric for two years, then returned to Cornell to earn his masters and PhD degrees in 1964 and 1967, respectively. Upon graduation he joined the electrical engineering faculty at Rice University in Houston, Texas, where he began teaching and working in the nascent field of digital signal processing. In 1972 he and James McClellan published an influential paper on digital filter design. In 1986 Parks returned to Cornell, where he spent the remainder of his career and retired as emeritus professor. Parks received multiple awards based on his research focused on digital signal processing with its application to signal theory, multirate systems, interpolation, and filter design. He co-authored more than 150 books and papers.
Affiliations and awards
Senior Fulbright fellowship (1973)
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Senior Scientist Award (1973)
IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Achievement Award (1980)
Life Fellow, IEEE (1982)
Third Millennium Medal of the IEEE (2000)
IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal (2004), together with James H. McClellan
National Academy of Engineering (2010)
References
American electrical engineers
Fellow Members of the IEEE
2020 deaths
1939 births
Cornell University College of Engineering alumni
Cornell University faculty
General Electric people
Rice University faculty
People from Buffalo, New York
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Engineers from New York (state)
Fulbright alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Ahlberg | Christopher Ahlberg, born 1968, is a Swedish/American computer scientist and executive. Ahlberg is the co-founder and CEO of Recorded Future, as well as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Hult International Business School.
Career
Before co-founding Recorded Future, Ahlberg was the president of the Spotfire Division of Tibco, which he founded as an independent company in 1996. In 2007, Spotfire was acquired by Tibco for US$195 million in cash. Spotfire was founded based on his research on information visualization at the University of Maryland under the guidance of Ben Shneiderman. Ahlberg founded his second company, Recorded Future, in 2009 and sold a majority stake in the company in 2019 for US$780 million to Insight Partners, and remains as the CEO.
Ahlberg earned his doctorate from Chalmers University of Technology with a thesis titled Dynamic queries, and has worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Maryland.
The US Patent Office has granted issuances to several of Ahlberg's applications for patents, primarily in software. He was named among the World's Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002. Ahlberg is also a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.
While indicates an address and phone number in Moscow, Russia, that address and phone number are listed by more reliable sources as belonging to the Embassy of China, Moscow. His company, Recorded Future is headquartered near Davis Square, Massachusetts.
References
External links
Recorded Future
Spotfire Tibco
Hult International Business School administrators
Information visualization experts
Chalmers University of Technology alumni
Swedish computer scientists
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
1968 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick%20Brooks%20%28disambiguation%29 | Fred Brooks (1931–2022) was an American software engineer and computer scientist.
Frederick, Freddie, or Fred Brooks may also refer to:
Fred Brooks (footballer) (1908–1996), Australian rules footballer
Fred Brooks or Fred Hellerman (1927–2016), American songwriter
Freddie Brooks (musician) (born 1962), American singer-songwriter
Freddie Brooks (sportsman) (1883–1947), Rhodesian cricketer and rugby union international
Frederick Tom Brooks (1882–1952), English botanist
See also
Frederic Brooks Dugdale (1877–1902), English recipient of the Victoria Cross |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20X68000%20games | The X68000 is a fourth-generation home computer developed and manufactured by Sharp Corporation, first released only in Japan on March 28, 1987. It was the second and last computer to be released under the Sharp brand, succeeding the X1 series. The following list contains all of the known games released commercially for the X68000 platform.
Featuring an operating system written by Hudson Soft called Human68k and bundled with a conversion of Konami's 1987 arcade game Gradius as the pack-in game at launch, the X68000 was very similar to arcade system boards of the time in terms of hardware and served as the development machine for Capcom's CP System. Many add-ons were released including networking, SCSI, memory upgrades, CPU enhancements and MIDI I/O boards, among others that increased the performance of the system. Multiple revisions were later released that included several enhancements compared to the original model, with the last model being released in 1993 before being officially discontinued in the market, though games for the platform kept being created. Games were also distributed through the Takeru software vending machines, which allowed users to write commercial titles or dōjin soft on blank 5.25" floppy disks. Originally released at JP¥369,000, later models were sold for considerably lower prices. Its unknown how many X68000 units were sold in total during its commercial life span.
Games
There are currently games on this list.
See also
List of cancelled X68000 games
Lists of video games
Notes
References
External links
List of X68000 games at MobyGames
X68000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%20Northeast%20Conference%20men%27s%20basketball%20tournament | The 2011 Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament took place March 3, 6, and 9, 2011, on campus sites. The semifinal games was televised on MSG Network, and the finals were on ESPN2. The winner, Long Island, received the NEC's automatic berth in the 2011 NCAA tournament.
Format
For the seventh straight year, the NEC Men's Basketball Tournament will consist of an eight-team playoff format with all games played at the home of the higher seed. After the quarterfinals, the teams will be reseeded so the highest remaining seed plays the lowest remaining seed in the semifinals. Bryant is in transition to D-I and remains ineligible for any post-season tournaments and thus not allowed to participate.
Bracket
Asterisk denotes an overtime.
All-tournament team
Tournament MVP in bold.
References
Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament
Tournament
Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament
Northeast Conference men's basketball tournament |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbot | Netbot was the first commercial Internet price comparison service. Founded by University of Washington Computer Science professors Oren Etzioni and Daniel S. Weld the company was funded by ARCH Venture Partners, Alta Partners and the Madrona Venture Group, and the University of Washington was also a shareholder. Netbot introduced the Jango comparison shopping “agent” first as a browser plug-in and later as a server product.
In addition, the company operated MetaCrawler, a metasearch engine, before licensing it to Go2Net. In October 1997, Netbot was acquired by the Excite portal for $35M.
References
Comparison shopping websites
Domain-specific search engines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirDrop | AirDrop is a proprietary wireless ad hoc service in Apple Inc.'s iOS and macOS operating systems, introduced in Mac OS X Lion (Mac OS X 10.7) and iOS 7, which can transfer files among supported Macintosh computers and iOS devices by means of close-range wireless communication. This communication takes place over Apple Wireless Direct Link 'Action Frames' and 'Data Frames' using generated link-local IPv6 addresses instead of the Wi-Fi chip's fixed MAC address.
Prior to OS X Yosemite (OS X 10.10), and under OS X Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks (OS X 10.7–10.9, respectively) the AirDrop protocol in macOS was different from the AirDrop protocol of iOS, and the two were therefore not interoperable. OS X Yosemite and later support the iOS AirDrop protocol, which is used for transfers between a Mac and an iOS device as well as between two 2012 or newer Mac computers, and which uses both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. Legacy mode for the old AirDrop protocol (which only uses Wi-Fi) between a 2012 or older Mac computer (or a computer running OS X Lion through OS X Mavericks) and another Mac computer was also available until macOS Mojave.
Apple reveals no limit on the size of the file which AirDrop can transfer. However, some Apple users have indicated that oversized files are almost impossible to transfer, with a high probability of failure.
Routine
iOS
On iOS 7 and later, AirDrop can be accessed by either tapping on Settings > General > AirDrop, or via the Control Center. Both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are automatically switched on when AirDrop is enabled as they are both utilized. NFC can also be utilized to initiate a transfer in iOS 17 or later.
Options for controlling AirDrop discovery by other devices include:
No one can see the device (AirDrop disabled)
Only contacts can see the device
Everyone can see the device.
In iOS 16.2 or later, the Everyone option reverts to Contacts Only after 10 minutes.
If an application implements AirDrop support, it is available through the share button. AirDrop is subject to a number of restrictions on iOS, such as the inability to share music or videos from the native apps.
macOS
On Macs running OS X 10.7 and greater, AirDrop is available in the Finder window sidebar. On Macs running OS X 10.8.1 or later, it can also be accessed through the menu option Go → AirDrop or by pressing ++.
AirDrop must be selected in a Finder window sidebar to be able to transfer files. Furthermore, files are not automatically accepted, but instead give a prompt asking to receive or decline the file sent.
System limitations
Transfer between two iOS devices
Running iOS 7 or later:
iPhone 5 or newer
iPod Touch (5th generation) or newer
iPad (4th generation) or newer
iPad Air: all models
iPad Pro: all models
iPad Mini: all models
AirDrop can be enabled unofficially on iPad (3rd generation) by jailbreaking the device and installing "AirDrop Enabler 7.0+" from Cydia. This procedure is not endorsed by Apple.
Transfer between two Mac compu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECPAT%20International | ECPAT International is a global network of civil society organisations that works to end the sexual exploitation of children. It focuses on ending the online sexual exploitation of children, the trafficking of children for sexual purposes, the sexual exploitation of children in prostitution, child, early and forced marriages, and the sexual exploitation of children in the travel and tourism industry.
The ECPAT International network consists of 122 member organisations in 104 countries. Its secretariat is based in Bangkok, Thailand, providing technical support to member groups, coordinating research, and managing international advocacy campaigns.
History
In 1990, researchers and activists helped to establish ECPAT (an acronym for End Child Prostitution in Asian Tourism) as a three-year campaign to end "sex tourism," with an initial focus on Asia. As the terms "child prostitution" and "sex tourism" are no longer used in the sector, today the organization goes by its initials ECPAT. Anti-Slavery International was one of the original supporters, and helped to set up a branch in the UK.
In 1996, in partnership with UNICEF and the NGO Group for the Rights of the Child (now known as Child Rights Connect), ECPAT International co-organised a global world congress against the sexual exploitation of children in Stockholm, Sweden. The congress was hosted by the Government of Sweden, which also played a major role in attracting support and participation from other governments. As a result, ECPAT grew from a regional campaign into a global non-governmental organization.
Between 2009 and 2012, ECPAT, in partnership with The Body Shop, helped run the Stop Sex Trafficking of Children and Young People campaign, which called on governments to safeguard the rights of children and adolescents to protect them from trafficking for sexual purposes. More than 7 million petition signatures were collected worldwide and presented to government officials around the world and to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
Research and human rights reporting
ECPAT International produces a variety of research and resources for use by its network members, other NGOs, UN agencies, and researchers. These include regular country reports, regional reports and studies on specific forms of child sexual exploitation, such as the sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism, and the online sexual exploitation of children.
ECPAT is mandated to monitor the commitments of governments around the world and their legal obligations to protect children from sexual exploitation. ECPAT produces regular country monitoring reports that are presented to the United Nations in Geneva, to follow up implementation of the Stockholm Agenda for Action (Stockholm, 1996).
Network membership
The ECPAT network currently consists of 104 member organisations in 93 countries. These include independent civil society organisations, grassroots NGOs and coalitions of NGOs focused on a range of child righ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprocess | In computer science, a coprocess is a process that explicitly yields control to other processes or the operating system.
In Unix, a coprocess is a process that sends its output solely to the exact single process from which it solely received input.
Bash, BETA and ksh have language constructs for coprocesses.
See also
Deterministic concurrency
External links
Coprocesses definition in Bash Reference Manual
Process (computing)
Concurrent computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Neighbours%20characters%20%282003%29 | The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the Network Ten soap opera Neighbours in 2003, by order of first appearance. Ric Pellizzeri took over the role of executive producer from Stanley Walsh, who left the show in November 2002. The 19th season of Neighbours began airing on 20 January 2003 and Pellizzeri's name was added to the credits on 12 May. That same month saw Rhiannon Fish join the cast as Lisa Jeffries. Talent manager Melody Jones arrived in June and Charlie Cassidy followed in July. Oscar Scully, the fifth child of the established Lyn and Joe, was born in August. September saw three introductions; Izzy Hoyland, Detective Alec Skinner and Rocco Cammeniti. Two new members of the Bishop family arrived in October, Liljana and her daughter, Serena. Wendy Stapleton joined the cast as Nina Tucker's mother, Trixie, and Natalie Blair debuted as Carmella Cammeniti. December saw the introduction of Simon Mallory as Chris Cousens.
Lisa Jeffries
Lisa Jeffries, played by Rhiannon Fish, made her first on-screen appearance on 13 May 2003. Lisa was Summer Hoyland's (Marisa Siketa) best friend. Lisa was Fish's first screen role and she joined the cast when she was eleven years old. Lisa was initially supposed to be Australian, but after Fish was cast, the writers made her Canadian. Fish said that she loved playing Lisa and that she "got to do lots of awesome things." She described her character as being "selfish and mean" and said that she enjoyed Lisa turning into a "total bitch." Fish said that people may feel sorry for Lisa and that some scenes showed that it was her mother that had made her into a horrible girl.
Summer Hoyland makes friends with Lisa at primary school, after they both join the girls' soccer team. They try and persuade Jack Scully (Jay Bunyan) to coach them full-time, but he just teaches them some tricks. Jack later decides to take on the role of assistant coach. Lisa joins Summer's family for a trip to the beach and she and Summer go off to look for treasure and the walk onto a nudist beach. Lisa and Summer later join a pony club. When Summer's father, Max (Stephen Lovatt), splits up with Stephanie Scully (Carla Bonner), Lisa begins picking on Summer. She tells her that Max is too old for Steph and the girls fight. Summer tries to apologise, but Lisa tells her that she is no longer invited to her birthday party. During an orientation day at Erinsborough High, Lisa is paired up with Summer's brother, Boyd (Kyal Marsh), who threatens to flush her head down the toilet if she continues to bully Summer. Lisa then reports him to Susan Kennedy (Jackie Woodburne).
At their next soccer game, Lisa and Summer make up when Summer passes the ball to Lisa and she scores the winning goal. Lisa notices that Max is sad and she tells Summer that it was the same with her mother, when her father left her. Lisa and Summer then decide to get their parents together, so they can be sisters. However, Max and Lisa's mother, Andrea (Gai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playout247 | Playout247 (new company's name is Vision247) is a provider of networked broadcast automation services for multiple types of broadcasting. The company is part of a group of companies, that comprises Playout247, Vision IPTV and Soho Data. The company is privately owned.
History
Playout247 was founded in 2005 by its chairman, Matt Vidmar, and CEO Petra Oblak. In 2006 Playout247 launched their IPTV head-end and IPTV Portal hosting service. In May 2008 Playout247 announced the launch of 7 channels across Europe on the Kabel Kiosk platform in partnership with MME (Music Media Enterprises).
Later in 2008 Playout247 and PlayBox Technology formed a partnership to deliver an IP and satellite combined playout operation in central London. The service would support 24 conventional satellite channels and 38 Internet channels at full satellite broadcast quality and was the culmination of a two-year development project. In September 2010, on the back of a 40% growth in revenues, Playout247 announced a major investment programme that would more than double this capacity taking it up to 60 channels.
In October 2010 Playout247 and sister company Vision IPTV won the playout account for Renault TV with Publicis Media.
In February 2011 announced the completion of two studios designed to deliver a single solution for live streaming and satellite playout.
Press
17 October 2006—Playout247 launched their new service providing an Internet IPTV head-end and IPTV Portal hosting including front-end custom development re-branding service as part of the package.
May 2008—Playout247 have launched 7 new channels across Europe on the Kabel Kiosk platform in partnership with MME (Music Media Enterprises).
October 2008—PlayBox partners with Playout247 for broadcast and IPTV solutions.
16 September 2010 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Playout247 and Vision IPTV, sister companies, announced the beginning of a major investment program in studio and broadcast technology supported by capacity increases.
Cannes, Oct 06, 2010 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- Digital marketing leader, Publicis Entertainment has announced that it has awarded the IPTV distribution contract for their Renault TV account to Vision IPTV and sister company Playout247.
10 January 2011. Soho Data Holdings, sister company to Vision IPTV and Playout247, today signed a £10m agreement with Xiking Culture Media (Beijing), to establish a data centre and render farm, aimed at the creative video and TV industries.
25 February 2011. Playout247 Opens State Of The Art Live TV Studio Facility.
References
External links
Playout 247 website
Vision IPTV website
Broadcasting companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20Archive%20Alliance | The Active Archive Alliance is a trade association that promotes a method of tiered storage. This method provides users access to data across a virtual file system that migrates data between multiple storage systems and media types including solid-state drive/flash, hard disk drives, magnetic tape, optical disk, and cloud. The result of an active archive implementation is that data can be stored on the most appropriate media type for the given retention and restoration requirements of that data. This allows less time sensitive or infrequently accessed data to be stored on less expensive media and eliminates the need for an administrator to manually migrate data between storage systems. Additionally, since storage systems such as tape libraries have low power consumption, the operational expense of storing data in an active archive is significantly reduced.
Active archives provide organizations with a persistent view of the data in their archives and make it easy to access files whenever needed. Active archives take advantage of metadata to keep track of where primary, secondary, and tertiary copies of data reside within the system so as to maintain online accessibility to any given file in a file system, regardless of the storage medium being utilized. The impetus for active archive applications, or the software involved in an active archive, was the growing amount of unstructured data in the typical data center and the need to be able to manage and efficiently store that data. As a result, active archive applications tend to be focused on file systems and unstructured data, rather than all collective data; however, many have features and functions that address traditional backup needs as well.
Active archives provide online access, searchability and retrieval of long-term data and enable virtually unlimited scalability to accommodate future growth. In addition, active archives enhance the business value of the data by enabling users to directly access the data online, search it and use it for their business purposes.
Description
Since an active archive is built around a cost-performance ratio, the performance standards of these systems vary significantly based on each individual implementation. Within an active archive the quantities and types of media used are determined by the retention and access requirements of the varying types of data. This gives a company the flexibility to determine their own tolerance levels for accessing any given type of data. However, in general, active archive systems can recall data to a use ranging from milliseconds to 2 minutes, depending on what type of media the data is residing.
Because an active archive is being used for storing both primary, secondary, and tertiary copies of data there are several factors that become necessary for the implementation of an active archive beyond simply the ability to move and access data: data integrity, media monitoring, energy efficiency, and interoperability are all im |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Murphy%20%28producer%29 | Patrick Murphy is an American television producer for the Nine Network of Public Media, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) affiliate in St. Louis, Missouri. He also serves as the station's Vice President of Production.
Since 1981, Murphy has been known as "Voice of Channel 9", producing and narrating such programming as the popular Living St. Louis and the nationally distributed A Time for Champions, chronicling the St. Louis University soccer dynasty of the 1960s and 70s. He has also worked locally on many of PBS's national projects such as The War and Facing the Mortgage Crisis, an effort that was managed by The Nine Network.
Murphy has been honored for his work in television with four Emmys, two Auroras and numerous Tellys.
References
American television producers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Award | The IBM Award was an award given out to National Basketball Association players from 1984 to 2002. The award was sponsored and calculated by technology company IBM and was determined by a computer formula, which measured a player's statistical contribution to his team. The player with the best contribution to his team in the league received the award. The first recipient was Magic Johnson of the Los Angeles Lakers, and the final recipient was Tim Duncan of the San Antonio Spurs.
Most of the players who won the award have been forwards or centers; many finished near the top in rebounding the year they won. The award was given out nineteen times, six times to players on the San Antonio Spurs, three times each to players on the Philadelphia 76ers and Los Angeles Lakers, and twice each to players on the Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons. David Robinson won five IBM Awards, Charles Barkley won three, and Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal won two each.
As of Tim Duncan's selection to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020, all IBM Award winners who are eligible for it have been inducted. Jordan, Robinson, Barkley, Johnson, Duncan, Shaquille O’Neal, Karl Malone, and Hakeem Olajuwon also won NBA Most Valuable Player awards during their career; Robinson, O’Neal and Duncan won both awards in the same season. Jordan, Robinson, Olajuwon, Dennis Rodman and Dikembe Mutombo have won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award; Olajuwon is the only player to win both in the same season. Grant Hill is the only winner of the IBM Award who did not win an NBA MVP or Defensive Player of the Year Award sometime in his career. O'Neal is the only player to win an IBM Award and an NBA title in the same season; he did this in both the 1999–00 and 2000–01 NBA seasons. Jordan and Robinson are the only players to win the IBM Award during their respective rookie seasons, both also won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award in those years. Two of the award winners were born outside the United States: Olajuwon (Nigeria) and Mutombo (Zaire). Duncan was born in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The award was discontinued in 2002. With Tim Duncan's retirement following the 2015-16 NBA season, there are no more IBM Award winners currently playing in the NBA.
The IBM Award was originally named the Pivotal Player Award and was sponsored by the Schick razor company.
Winners
Formula
The IBM Award was calculated with the following formula:
In the formula, plyr stands for player, PTS stands for points, FGA stands for field goal attempts, REB stands for rebounds, AST stands for assists, STL stands for steals, BLK stands for blocks, PF stands for personal fouls, and TO stands for turnovers. The award was given to the player with the highest total.
The formula bears some resemblance to player efficiency rating, and many winners of the IBM award were calculated to have finished at or near the top in player efficiency rating in their award-winning seasons.
Notes
Won t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky%20Arena | Sky Arena is a pay-per-view channel operated in New Zealand by Sky Network Television. Until 2015 Sky Arena was also spin-off event promoter company jointly owned by Sky and VADR Media. Sky Arena screens events on such as professional wrestling, mixed martial arts, boxing and concerts. The David Tua vs Monte Barrett during August 2011 was the first Sky Arena event screened in 1080i high-definition. The biggest event in PPV New Zealand history was David Tua vs Shane Cameron. The event has the record with the most buys with 88,000 buys in New Zealand. The channel previously screened WWE pay-per-view events until January 2022, when Sky's pay-per-view rights agreement ended with WWE.
Current pay-per-views
DAZN Boxing (rights shared with DAZN)
UFC (rights shared with Spark Sport)
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Television stations in New Zealand
English-language television stations in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrite%20International%2C%20Inc.%20v.%20Doe%20No.%203 | Dendrite International, Inc. v. Doe No. 3, 342 N.J. Super. 134, 775 A.2d 756 (App. Div. 2001), is a New Jersey Superior Court case in which Dendrite International, Inc., a purveyor of computer software used in the pharmaceutical industry, brought a John Doe lawsuit against individuals who had anonymously posted criticisms of the company on a Yahoo message board. When Presiding Chancery Judge Kenneth MacKenzie rejected one of Dendrite's requests to compel Yahoo to reveal the identity of an anonymous defendant, Dendrite appealed. The appellate court upheld the district court's decision, and in doing so, created a set of guidelines for determining the circumstances under which an anonymous online speaker may be unmasked. This standard has since been applied to other cases, such as Mobilisa, Inc. v. Doe, Gallucci v. New Jersey On-Line LLC, Independent Newspapers v. Brodie, and The Mortgage Specialists, Inc. v. Implode-Explode Heavy Industries, Inc.
Background
No uniform standard exists in the United States for determining the circumstances under which an anonymous online speaker may be unmasked.
The original Superior Court case, Dendrite International, Inc. v. Does, was a lawsuit brought by Dendrite International, Inc. (since acquired by Cegedim), a company that provided pharmaceutical-industry-specific customer relationship management software, against fourteen anonymous defendants. These individuals had posted messages on a Yahoo message board which Dendrite claimed were breaches of contract, were defamatory and contained trade secrets.
The plaintiffs requested that the court reveal the identity of four of the Does. However, unlike judges in previous similar cases, the trial judge ordered that a notice be posted on the message board alerting the Does that Dendrite was subpoenaing Yahoo, enabling some of the Does to contest the action. In November 2000, the trial judge granted the company's motion to conduct limited discovery to ascertain the identities of Does No. 1 and 2, but denied access to Does 3 and 4.
Doe No. 3's comments were related to alleged changes in the company's accounting practices and discussed the CEO's unsuccessful attempts to sell the company. The trial judge felt that Dendrite had failed to prove that it was harmed by the allegations, and found that the conduct of Does No. 3 and 4 did not warrant the revocation of their constitutional protections. Dendrite appealed the decision with respect to Doe No. 3.
Opinion
The appellate court affirmed the Morris County court's opinion, finding that Dendrite's prima facie case did not merit the unmasking of Doe No. 3. The panel cited cases ruling that constitutional free speech protections extend to anonymous or pseudonymous comments made online, and stated that in order for Doe No. 3 to forfeit those protections, Dendrite had to demonstrate that the statements were defamatory in that they were both false and harmful. The court felt that Dendrite had not met these criteria. In mea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VERTCON | VERTCON is a computer program that computes the modeled difference in orthometric height between the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88) and the National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929 (NGVD 29) for a location in the contiguous United States. The parameters required are the latitude and longitude of the location.
The program was created by the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) in 1994 and is available as an online tool, or PC executable package. The package contains the Perl source code. The NGS is the government agency charged with responsibility for the National Spatial Reference System.
References
Vertical datums
Perl software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential%20Energy | Essential Energy is a state-owned electricity infrastructure company which owns, maintains and operates the electrical distribution networks for much of New South Wales, covering 95 percent of the state geography. It also owns the reticulated water network in Broken Hill through Essential Water, formerly Australian Inland Energy and Water.
Essential Energy was formed from the previously state-owned energy business, Country Energy, when the retail division of the company, along with the Country Energy brand, was sold by the NSW Government in 2011 to Origin Energy.
See also
Stephens Creek Dam
References
External links
Essential Energy
Essential Energy Network Map
Government-owned companies of New South Wales
Electric power distribution network operators in Australia
Australian companies established in 2011
Government-owned energy companies
Energy companies established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endeavour%20Energy | Endeavour Energy is the operator of the electrical distribution network for Greater Western Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Southern Highlands and the Illawarra region of NSW, Australia.
Background
It was formed from the previously state-owned energy retailer/supplier, Integral Energy, when the retail division of the company, along with the Integral Energy brand, was sold by the NSW Government in 2011 to Origin Energy.
In June 2017, an Australian-led consortium of institutional investors acquired 50.4% ownership of the rights to management of Endeavour Energy's network assets under a 99-year lease.
The consortium is led by Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), and includes AMP Capital, British Columbia Investment Management Corporation and Qatar Investment Authority.
The NSW Government retains a 49.6% interest and continues to regulate safety and reliability.
References
External links
Endeavour Network Map
Government-owned companies of New South Wales
Electric power distribution network operators in Australia
Government-owned energy companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial%20Discovery | Centennial Discovery Software is an IT Asset Management (ITAM) tool which identifies and records software and hardware inventories on networked devices with the centennial reporting service installed.
Each device is set up with a scheduled reporting cycle i.e. on a small desktop estate one might have each device report in every day or even every hour. However on a large corporate estate a 10-day cycle is more appropriate to reduce network traffic as well as the volume of historical data Centennial stores.
Centennial comes with a 'Control Center' application with which this data can be viewed and queried although all the data is stored in an SQL database which can be queried externally to produce usage reports etc.
On April 28, 2008, FrontRange Solutions acquired Centennial Software for an undisclosed sum.
References
Internet Protocol based network software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Naples | The Naples tramway network () is located within the city and comune of Naples, in the region of Campania, southern Italy. In operation since 1875, the network has waxed and waned in size and vitality over the years, and is now growing once again. It is now long, and comprises three routes, known as lines 1, 2 and 4.
History
The first tramways in Naples were horsecar lines, opened in 1875.
In 1929, the city of Naples rescued various lines, rolling stock and infrastructure from several concessionaires, before merging them all into the (English: Naples Municipal Tramway) (ACTN), which had been established in 1918.
In December 1930, the management of the network was entrusted to the Ente Autonomo Volturno (EAV), a local public sector producer of electricity. In 1937, the EAV became the concessionaire of the service, but due to various difficulties the city council resumed direct management from 1 January 1941, at the request of the concessionaire.
In 1947, the (English: Tramway Trolleybus Company of Naples) (ATAN) was established to take over the management of tram services. As in other Italian cities, the tramway network underwent a drastic reduction between 1952 and 1954 in favour of trolleybus lines, and motor vehicles.
Attempts in the late twentieth century to revive what was left of the network, such as the Linea Tranviaria Rapida designed for the 1990 FIFA World Cup, did not lead to any results. Instead, the network suffered further cuts (1998: Piazzale Tecchio–Bagnoli; 2000: Piazza Vittoria–Piazzale Tecchio).
A rebuilding program has been launched. The program includes the reconstruction of some infrastructure, and renewal of the tram fleet.
Services
The Naples tramway network is long, and comprises the following routes:
1 (Via Stadera) – Emiciclo di Poggioreale – Port (Via Cristoforo Colombo)
2 Piazza Nazionale – San Giovanni a Teduccio (ANM depot)
4 San Giovanni a Teduccio (ANM depot) – Port (Via Cristoforo Colombo)
Due to further work on the construction of Municipio metro station, the movement of trams into Piazza Vittoria is temporarily suspended.
To work around this problem, the city considered building a temporary terminus, which would have been located in Via Cristoforo Colombo. If that terminus had been built, it would have given access to some abandoned tram lines.
Projects
A new extension is under construction along Via Stadera (formerly line 31). The extension work was scheduled to be completed by the end of 2009 or early 2010, but has been delayed.
The General Plan of Urban Traffic proposes the construction of new tram lines to the district of Ponticelli, and along Via S.Alfonso Maria dei Liguori as far as Piazza Carlo III, the restoration of the connection to Mergellina, and a new line, built to light rail specifications, from Piscinola to Villaricca, on the trail of the former Ferrovia Alifana.
If work on all of these projects were completed, the network would be formed by the following lines:
1 Emicic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashes%20of%20Empire | Ashes of Empire was a 1992 strategy video game developed by Mirage, released for the Amiga and MS-DOS compatible operating systems. It was a follow-on, although not a sequel, to the earlier games Midwinter and Flames of Freedom.
Gameplay
The player is a member of a fictional UN/NATO-type organisation (CSR) to recruit followers across various CIS-inspired republics being threatened by a powerful neighbor. The mechanics of the game are similar to the earlier Midwinter game, although the player is able to use a selection of land and air vehicles to travel around. Combat is real-time, with the player maneuvering to engage the enemy vehicle(s). The overall aim of the game is to pacify each of the CSR's five Republics - Ossia, Ruzakhstan, Belokraine, Moldenia and Servonia.
From the preface by Mike Singleton: "In Ashes of Empire, you well find echoes of the real world and, I hope, echoes of how delicate a task it is to bring peace and prosperity to lands where there is, at the moment, only hardship, bloodletting and misery".
Reception
The game was reasonably well-received but not commercially successful, mainly due to the dry nature of the subject matter and the level of detail included in the game.
Computer Gaming World in 1993 stated that Ashes of Empire was a logistical game that "truly breaks new ground" but "reveals major weaknesses", with game-play that was "plodding and devoid of any intense challenge". The magazine approved of, however, the "truly fresh gaming experience" and "interactive education and thought puzzle which is highly topical in today's changing world", and concluded that "this type of game needs several generations of development [as a viable genre] ... It's about time, though, that a games like Ashes of Empire took the first, important step".
References
1992 video games
Amiga games
DOS games
Mirage Technologies (Multimedia) Ltd. games
Strategy video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annick%20Obonsawin | Annick Obonsawin (born October 12, 1983) is a First Nations Abenaki Canadian actress.
Biography
Obonsawin has played roles in many children's shows such as Inez in Cyberchase and Skunk in Franklin. She also played Slappy the Dummy in Goosebumps, and Sierra in Total Drama. She voiced Jamie, Johnny and Jimmy's sister, in the 2014 animated film The Nut Job; Belinda in the Disney Junior/TVOKids animated TV series Ella the Elephant; and Startail in Starlink: Battle for Atlas. She also voices Helda from George Shrinks.
Family
Obonsawin lives with her mother, father and sister in Unionville, Ontario. A First Nations woman, she is of Abenaki heritage.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
1983 births
Living people
Abenaki people
Actresses from Toronto
Canadian film actresses
Canadian television actresses
Canadian voice actresses
First Nations actresses
20th-century Canadian actresses
21st-century Canadian actresses
20th-century First Nations people
21st-century First Nations people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AQC | AQC may refer to:
Adiabatic quantum computation, a quantum computing model that relies on the adiabatic theorem to do calculations
Analytical quality control in laboratories
AQC (airport), an airport in Klawock, Alaska
Association Québécoise de Criminalistique [Canada]
See also
aqc, the ISO 639-3 code for the Archi language of the Caucasus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Parrish | Gary Parrish is a sports columnist for CBSSports.com, a host, studio analyst and sideline reporter for the CBS Sports Network, the host of the CBS Sports Eye On College Basketball podcast, and the host of "The Gary Parrish Show" on Grind City Media in Memphis.
Parrish has been with CBS Sports since 2006 and Grind City Media since 2023.
He previously worked at The Commercial Appeal and 92.9 FM ESPN in Memphis.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from DeSoto County, Mississippi
People from Memphis, Tennessee
American sportswriters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwizz | Goodwizz was a social network service website based in France. Users had an option to use their Facebook credentials to sign up and log on to Goodwizz. The site seems to be down since mid-2012.
Goodwizz explored new horizons in social network, with advanced approach in building social ties. It defined itself as a social network, with games, and a meeting section in four steps: matchmaking algorithm, discovery questions, personality games and meeting location suggestions.
History
In September 2010 Emmanuel Cassimatis started and gathered 60,000 members in its first 6 months of existence.
Goodwizz was a result from a market study with the cooperation of 200 people. The outcome is that most people find it hard to connect and get to know people online. The study was able to find ways on how to connect to other users by means of genuine connections.
Originally launched with a matchmaking algorithm and personality games developed with psychologists.
On June 6, 2011, Goodwizz founder Emmanuel Cassimatis made a statement on BBC News regarding the banning of French TV and radio presenters from mentioning social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter on air.
"It is about finding a balance between freedom and fairness, each company should have the right to say which communication channel they want to use. But 10 or 20 years down the line, we may have a string of lobbies created through those three or four channels that prevent small companies like ours from emerging. This move prevents that."
Today, Goodwizz extended steadily the range of proposed functionalities, focusing on guidance, evolving to a meeting management platform offering meeting-oriented tools.
Features
Like most social networking service, Goodwizz allow users to post and upload pictures and videos, share thoughts and comments on a wall, invite friends, and send them virtual gifts. It developed a unique matchmaking system that suggests particular users to members with common interests and compatible personal feature.
It has its own personality games and external games from Facebook. Meeting services that focuses on guidance and coaching based on personality plays is also an attraction.
Applications that provide service like online radio, classifieds, photo editing, psychic services and many others.
Goodwizz also offers a mobile phone version of its website.
See also
List of Social Networking Websites
References
External links
Online dating services of France
Defunct social networking services
Multilingual websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20French%20films%20of%202011 | A list of films produced in France in 2011.
Notes
External links
2011 in France
2011 in French television
French films of 2011 at the Internet Movie Database
French films of 2011 at Cinema-francais.fr
List of 2011 box office number-one films in France
2011
Films
French |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall%20of%20Game%20Awards | The Hall of Game Awards was an award show held by Cartoon Network. The inaugural show was hosted by Tony Hawk and aired
on February 25, 2011. There were four installments of the awards, the last being held in 2014.
2011
The 2011 Hall of Game awards were hosted by Tony Hawk and featured musical performances by Travie McCoy and Far East Movement.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Presenters
Nnamdi Asomugha
Jake T. Austin
Justin Bieber
Drew Brees
Shannon Brown
Chewbacca
Chris Cole
Lucas Cruikshank
Snoop Dogg
Cast of Dude, What Would Happen
Rick Fox
Zachary Gordon
Blake Griffin
David Henrie
Teck Holmes
Greg Jennings
Joe Johnson
A. J. Hawk
Jimmy Kimmel
Lisa Leslie
George Lopez
Nelly
Bobbe J. Thompson
Venus Williams
Andrew W.K.
2012
The 2012 Hall of Game Awards were hosted by Shaquille O'Neal and featured musical performances by Flo Rida and Hot Chelle Rae.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Presenters
Mordecai and Rigby from Regular Show - appearances throughout the show
Nick Cannon - presented Captain Clutch
The Miz and Zachary Gordon - presented Alti-Dude
Torii Hunter - presented the Most Awesome Mascot nominees throughout the show
The Cast of Level Up - presented Hot Chelle Rae
Leo Howard and Terrell Suggs - presented Dynamic Duo
The Cast of Dude, What Would Happen and Jimmie Johnson - presented In It To Win It
Drew Brees - presented King of the Kick
Nathan Kress - presented Dance Machine
China Anne McClain and Jimmy Graham - presented She's Got Game
Adam Hicks and A. J. Green - presented Flo Rida
Orange and Tennis Ball from The Annoying Orange - presented Miscellaneous Awards
Maya Gabeira, Clayton Kershaw and Noah Flegel - presented Gnarliest Newb
Rico Rodriguez - performed the "First Human Slingshot Dunk"
Jennette McCurdy and Tony Gonzalez - presented the Most Awesome Mascot winner
Voices included J. G. Quintel, William Salyers (as characters Mordecai and Rigby from Regular Show), and Dane Boedigheimer (as The Annoying Orange).
2013
Shaquille agreed to host the show again with Nick Cannon as the co-host. It was held on February 11 and it featured a musical performance by The Wanted.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.
Presenters
Jessica Alba
The cast of Big Time Rush
Lucas Cruikshank
Victor Cruz
Snoop Dogg
Alyson Felix
Antonio Gates
Jonny Gomes
The cast of Incredible Crew
Chris Johnson
Coco Jones
Colin Kaepernick
The cast of Level Up
Laura Marano
Bridgit Mendler
Dominic Monaghan
Jeff Probst
Rico & Raini Rodriguez
Toby Turner
Kerri Walsh Jennings
The Wanted
J. J. Watt
Voices included Dane Boedigheimer (as The Annoying Orange).
2014
2014 Hall of Game Awards was hosted by Colin Kaepernick and Cam Newton and featured a musical performance by Fall Out Boy and Jason Derulo. With Nickelodeon airing the 2014 Kids' Choice Sports in July 2014, this would be the last Hall of Ga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%20Karma | Bar Karma is the first online community-developed network television series. Online users pitch their own ideas for scenes and twists online, using a tool designed by Will Wright called the Storymaker. Some are eventually chosen by the production staff, and are utilized to help create a new episode every week. The main plot revolves around a bar known as "Bar Karma", a bar that resides someplace in between parallel timelines. Up until now, the typical structure of the shows consists of a patron accidentally walking into or being transported to the bar, where they are shown the consequences of their current life actions, and the potential outcomes for their behavior and choices. This, ultimately, leads to a karmic dilemma, and forces the patron to make a life-altering choice.
In the first episode, Doug Jones suddenly walks into the bar after a one-night stand. He is confused, and thinks that he accidentally fell asleep and is dreaming. When he finally realizes that this is some strange form of reality, James (Sanderson) and Dayna (Howarth) explain to him why he is in the bar, and is given the chance to alter his fate, and the course of "Bar Karma."
Plot
There's a place at the edge of the universe, a venue that's behind time and before space, a watering hole where the tab you run up may never be paid - in this lifetime, at least.
That place is Bar Karma.
Notoriously lucky billionaire Doug Jones wins Bar Karma on a bet. He soon learns that ownership includes more than pouring the perfect cocktail - a lot more. Every happy hour one lost soul wanders through the bar's doors, finding themselves at a karmic crossroads in his or her life. The Bar Karma staff guides their patrons using eerie glimpses into the past, present and many possible futures.
What would happen if you could change your fate? That's the question Bar Karma sets out to answer. The show may begin with "A guy walks into a bar..." but Bar Karma always ends with someone's life being changed...forever.
Characters
Doug Jones portrayed by Matthew Humphreys
Cocky Internet mogul Doug Jones never intended to own a bar. But when you're made of luck, you tend to win a few pots at the poker table—and one of them included the deed to Bar Karma. Now he's responsible for helping his customers make life-changing decisions. Which is funny, considering that Doug hasn't a clue whether he's made the right decisions himself.
James Anon portrayed by William Sanderson
Grizzled bartender James has been pouring drinks at Bar Karma for as long as he can remember. For a man who's over 20,000 years old, that's a long time. James has died more than 500 deaths, returning each time with hazy memories of his past lives—and the wrongs he still needs to right.
Dayna Rollins portrayed by Cassie Howarth
Dayna was once a patron at the bar, facing her own karmic crossroads. Rather than return to her unhappy life on Earth, Dayna made a bold move; she asked James the bartender for a job. Now as the bar's lone waitres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%20TV%20%28Philippine%20TV%20network%29 | Talk TV (stylized as talkv) was an English-language all-news and talk television network in the Philippines. It is a joint venture of Southern Broadcasting Network and Solar Entertainment Corporation through Solar TV Network, Inc. It was available over SBN 21 on free TV. Talk TV operates 24 hours a day on cable TV and 6:00 AM - 12:00MN on SBN 21 starting October 1, 2012.
Talk TV started its Test Broadcast until March 1, 2011. It started its full broadcast on March 2, 2011. Talk TV studios is located at Solar Media Center, WCC Building, EDSA corner Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong, and the transmitter is located at Strata 2000 Building, F. Ortigas Jr. Road, Ortigas Center, Pasig.
On October 29, 2012, at 05:30 am (UTC +8:00), TalkTV signed off for the last time to make way for the launching of the first 24-hour English news channel on both cable TV and free-to-air TV, Solar News Channel.
Programming
Most of the programs are the U.S. morning or late night talk shows, on either live or taped broadcast.
After Solar Entertainment bought 34% of RPN, Solar opened Talk TV and finally ventured into news at the end of 2011.
From January 16, 2012, Talk TV started airing local programming through Solar TV Network's new news arm Solar News. These programs are manned by mainly former ANC and ABS-CBN personalities including Solar News chief Jing Magsaysay, Pia Hontiveros, Pal Marquez, Nancy Irlanda, Claire Celdran, Mai Rodriguez and Jun Del Rosario. Reporters included some from RPN's NewsWatch as well as new reporters.
The first local news event that was covered was the Renato Corona impeachment trial.
Talk TV also airs Solar Headlines which is a daily news break aired every 30 minutes, a primetime newscast named Solar Network News; launched on June 18, 2012, a late-night newscast, Solar Nightly News; launched on July 16, 2012, a morning newscast Solar Daybreak and a noontime newscast Solar Newsday; both launched on October 1, 2012.
Affiliate and relay stations
References
Former Solar Entertainment Corporation channels
Defunct television networks in the Philippines
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2012
24-hour television news channels in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%20TV | Talk TV may refer to:
MTV (Canada), a lifestyle and entertainment channel in Canada previously known as Talk TV
Talk TV (Philippine TV network), a defunct all-news channel in the Philippines (2011 to 2012)
Talk TV (Philippine TV series), a defunct talk show which premiered on ABS-CBN, in the Philippines from 2001 to 2002.
TalkTV (British TV channel), a British opinion-orientated channel
Granada Talk TV, a short-lived British daytime channel broadcast by Granada Sky Broadcasting from 1996 until 1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo%203DS%20system%20software | The Nintendo 3DS system software is the updatable operating system used by the Nintendo 3DS handheld system. The Nintendo Switch system software is believed to have evolved from the Nintendo 3DS system software.
Operating system
The Nintendo 3DS firmware can run in four different modes. NATIVE_FIRM is the native firmware running the kernel for Nintendo 3DS software (including the Home Menu). SAFE_MODE_FIRM is used for safe mode applications, such as System Settings and System Updater. TWL_FIRM is the Nintendo DSi's native firmware and it is used for Nintendo DS/DSi backward compatibility. Finally, AGB_FIRM is the Game Boy Advance's native firmware and it is used to run Game Boy Advance Virtual Console games. The NATIVE_FIRM is different on the New Nintendo 3DS.
User interface
Home menu
The HOME MENU is a graphical shell similar to the Nintendo DSi Menu and Wii U Menu for Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 2DS systems. It is used to launch software stored on Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS Game Cards, applications installed on an SD card, and DSiWare titles installed in the system's internal memory. Application icons are set in a grid with the touchscreen or D-pad and may be re-arranged via drag-and-drop. The number of icons per column can also be changed, from 1 to 6 icons. The menu can display up to 300 application tiles for applications on the SD card, and up to 40 for DSiWare titles. On the upper screen, a special 3D animated logo is displayed for each individual app, as well as system information such as wireless signal strength, date and time, and battery life, while on the bottom screen, application icons are displayed. It is also possible to change the screen's brightness while in the menu. Using the HOME button, users can suspend the current software that is running and bring up the HOME Menu, allowing the user to launch certain multitasking applications, such as the Internet Browser and Miiverse.
Folders update
On April 25, 2012, a system update brought the introduction of a folder system. Up to 60 folders can be created. Applications can be dragged on top of a folder in order to move them into the folder, and a folder can contain up to 60 apps. A title for the folder is automatically created in order of creation (from "1" to "60"), but the name can also be edited by the user. Only the first character of the title will be displayed on the folder's icon. When apps inside folders receive StreetPass or SpotPass notifications, a notification icon will appear on top of the folder.
Save data backup update
On June 20, 2013, a system update brought the introduction of the Saved Data Backup feature. This feature allows the user to back up save data from downloadable Nintendo 3DS software and most Virtual Console games. Creating a backup of save data allows users to delete software from the SD card without losing save data. The backup created will then be automatically restored when the user re-downloads software from the Nintendo eShop. A total of 30 s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoadXML | RoadXML is an open file format for the road networks description used by driving simulators.
Overview
RoadXML was initiated to contribute to road network format standardization in order to enhance the interoperability between simulators. It is the outcome of the compilation of several original formats (GRS, RNS/RS, RND) developed in 1994 by academic and industrial partners: INRETS, Oktal, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Renault, Thales.
RoadXML offers a multi layer description of the environment for fast data access for real time applications. Here are the four main layers of information:
Topological: element’s location and connections with the rest of the network.
Logical: element’s signification in a road environment.
Physical: element’s properties (road surface or obstacles).
Visual: element’s geometry and 3D representation.
History
Until its 2.0 version, RoadXML was called RND (for Road Network Description):
The version 1.0 was released in 2007 and used by PSA Peugeot Citroen.
The version 1.3 was released in 2008 and was an alternative file format for the SCANeR II driving simulator, co developed by Oktal and Renault.
The version 2.0 was released in 2009 as an open file format and was renamed RoadXML.
The version 2.1 was released in June 2010.
The version 2.2 was released in September 2010
The version 2.3 was released in December 2011
The version 2.4 was released in July 2013
The version 2.4.1 was released in July 2016
The version 2.4.6 was released in April 2019
The version 3.0.0 was released in March 2020
Since the version 2.1, an open source parser for RoadXML is also available on SourceForge.
See also
OpenDRIVE (specification), another open format dedicated to the road network description for driving simulators
References
External links
RoadXML open source parser on SourceForge
SCANeR: RoadXML editor and applications
XML
Driving simulators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Turner%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Professor Raymond Turner (born 28 April 1947) is an English logician, philosopher, and theoretical computer scientist based at the University of Essex. He is best known for his work on logic in computer science and for his pioneering work in the philosophy of computer science. He is on the editorial boards for the Journal of Logic and Computation and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, for Logic, Computation, and Agency.
Books
Logics for Artificial Intelligence, 121 pages, E. Horwood, 1984,
Truth and Modality for Knowledge Representation, 141 pages, The MIT Press, 1991,
Constructive Foundations for Functional Languages, 288 pages, McGraw-Hill Publishing Co, 1 May 1991,
Computable Models, 240 pages, Springer, 2009,
Computational Artefacts: Towards a Philosophy of Computer Science, 285 pages, Springer, 2018,
Selected Papers
A theory of properties, The Journal of Symbolic Logic. 52 (02), 455–472.
Counterfactuals without possible worlds, Journal of Philosophical Logic. 10 (4), 453–493.
Logics of truth, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. 31 (2), 308–329.
Understanding programming languages, Minds and Machines. 17 (2), 203–216.
The Foundations of Specification Journal of Logic and Computation. 15 (5), 623–662.
Semantics and stratification, Journal of Logic and Computation. 15 (2), 145–158.
Type inference for set theory, Theoretical Computer Science. 266 (1–2), 951–974.
Reading between the lines in constructive type theory, Journal of Logic and Computation. 7 (2), 229–250.
Weak theories of operations and types, Journal of Logic and Computation. 6 (1), 5–31.
Lazy theories of operations and types, Journal of Logic and Computation. 3 (1), 77–102.
Philosophy of computer science, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, .
Specification, Minds and Machines, 21 (2):135–152.
Types, in Handbook of Logic and Language. 1st Edition. Editors: J. van Benthem A. ter Meulen. .
Awards
Covey award 2017..
External links
Essex Home: .
Academia: .
Mathematics Genealogy: .
Philpapers: .
Compsci:
References
1947 births
Living people
Academics of the University of Essex
English computer scientists
English logicians
English philosophers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWAS%20Central | GWAS Central (previously HGBASE, HGVbase and HGVbaseG2P) is a publicly available database of summary-level findings from genetic association studies in humans, including genome-wide association studies (GWAS).
It is funded through the GEN2PHEN project by the European Union under their Seventh Framework Programme.
Scope
GWAS Central contains the most comprehensive collection of summary-level p-value GWAS data. The web resource employs powerful graphical and text based data presentation methods for discovery of and simultaneous visualisation and co-examination of many studies, at genome-wide and region-specific levels. Studies of interest can now be identified using chromosomal regions/genes and markers; there is also the facility for researchers to view their own data alongside selected studies.
Current content includes ‘top’ p-values from collections; supplementary data; direct researcher submissions; and publicly available data. Consequently, the database now hosts >21 million p-values and 708 studies (vs 3,948 p-values and 798 studies in the NHGRI GWAS Catalog), representing ~5% of all such data yet produced. GWAS Central makes parts of its data freely available for download by the research community. However, only parts of the data may be downloaded freely, the whole database content can be accessed as part of a collaboration.
History
The Human Genome Bi-Allelic SEquence (HGBASE) database was the first version of what is now GWAS Central. It was first released in August 1998, focusing on providing a centralized collection of known human single nucleotide polymorphisms and other simple DNA variants. It was the first publicly available SNP database. The project was expanded over the next year by a consortium including the Karolinska Institute, the European Bioinformatics Institute and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Corporate support was provided by Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline. The version released in November 2001 was renamed the Human Genome Variation database (HGVbase), as this was a better reflection of the scope of the database and its emphasis on collection from many different laboratories. In addition this also highlighted its new role as a central repository for data collection efforts in collaboration with the Human Genome Variation Society
HGVbase was scaled back in 2004 to simply provide an alternative representation of the full marker list from dbSNP, but development continued on its successor: the Human Genome Variation Genotype-to-Phenotype database (HGVbaseG2P), in many ways the natural evolution of HGVbase into a central database for summary-level genetic association data. The work was originally funded by GlaxoSmithKline, the University of Leicester, and the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme ('INFOBIOMED' Network of Excellence), but the GEN2PHEN project became the main source of funds in 2008. Early work in the project involved devising a powerful way of modeling phenotype and genotype- phenotype dat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood%20%28database%29 | Hollywood is a RNA splicing database containing data for the splicing of orthologous genes in different species.
See also
Alternative splicing
EDAS
AspicDB
References
External links
http://hollywood.mit.edu
Genetics databases
Gene expression
Spliceosome
RNA splicing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intronerator | The Intronerator is a database of alternatively spliced genes and a database of introns for Caenorhabditis elegans.
See also
Alternative splicing
AspicDB
EDAS
Hollywood (database)
List of biological databases
References
External links
A working copy of the Intronerator no longer exists as of 2003.
Equivalent functions can be performed with the U.C. Santa Cruz
genome browser:
http://genome.ucsc.edu/cgi-bin/hgTracks?clade=worm&organism=C._elegans
Biological databases
Gene expression
Spliceosome
RNA splicing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProSAS | ProSAS is a database describing the effects of splicing on the structure of a protein
See also
Alternative splicing
Protein structure
References
External links
http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/ProSAS.
Biological databases
Gene expression
Protein structure
RNA splicing
Spliceosome |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Bridge%3A%20Department%20of%20Energy%20Scientific%20and%20Technical%20Information | The Information Bridge: Department of Energy Scientific and Technical Information database provides free public access to over 298,000 full-text electronic documents of Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. See list of academic databases and search engines.
The documents are primarily from 1991 forward and were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor community, and/or DOE grantees. Legacy documents are added as they become available in electronic format. Research in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics of interest related to the DOE mission are included. DOE report literature, conference papers, books, dissertations, and patents are available. The DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) developed and hosts this website as a public service.
History
The Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information was introduced to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) community in 1997 and was the first electronic system to provide searchable full-text and bibliographic records of DOE-sponsored research report literature. Originally made available only to DOE and DOE contractors, Information Bridge was launched as a free public access database in April 1998.
The Atomic Energy Acts of 1946 and 1954, the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, the Department of Energy Act of 1977, and the Energy Policy Act of 2005, all call for the dissemination of scientific and technical information (STI) to the public, especially information resulting from DOE and predecessor agency research and development R&D.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 states: "The Secretary, through the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, shall maintain within the Department publicly available collections of scientific and technical information resulting from research, development, demonstration, and commercial applications activities supported by the Department." Since 1947, OSTI and its predecessor organizations have helped meet requirements for information dissemination on behalf of the Department and predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). Throughout its history, OSTI has worked with representatives across the agency – in laboratories, field offices, headquarters – to facilitate access to information and to promulgate policy and best practices for scientific and technical information (STI) management.
Scope
Topics, or subjects, and Department of Energy disciplines of interest in Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information are wide-ranging. Scientific and technical research encompass chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science, and related disciplines. It includes scientific literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, disse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Oncology | Texas Oncology is a network of 460+ physicians and oncology specialists who provide advanced treatment options (technology, clinical trials, and research) to cancer patients in underserved rural and urban communities throughout Texas, with one office in New Mexico and one in Oklahoma. More than 68,000 patients are treated within the Texas Oncology network annually.
Texas Oncology doctors treat cancer, blood disorders, and related chronic diseases and specialize in medical oncology, hematology, gynecologic oncology, pediatric hematology/oncology, radiation oncology, breast, and urology care.
History
Founded in 1986 by several oncologists at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, the organization has grown to include a network of over 460 physicians at more than 210 offices in Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
Texas Oncology focuses on a community-based approach, intending to give cancer patients in underserved rural or urban areas access to care and treatment in their local communities that are generally associated with major academic or medical centers. More than 80 percent of all cancer treatment is delivered in an outpatient setting.
Research
In association with US Oncology, physicians at Texas Oncology conduct ongoing research and regularly participate in clinical trials for most types of cancers, including lung, colon, and breast.
Texas Oncology specialists have shared research at events including the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting and San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) among others.
Locations
Texas Oncology currently has more than 210 offices in Texas, southern New Mexico, and southeastern Oklahoma and serves both rural and urban areas. In Texas, there are Texas Oncology practices in primary metropolitan areas including Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Houston as well as rural areas such as West Texas and the Texas Panhandle. The New Mexico practice is based in Las Cruces, and the Oklahoma location serves the Durant area.
Sources
Healthcare in Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%2015 | National Cycle Route 15 is part of the National Cycle Network in the East Midlands which, when complete, will run from National Cycle Route 1 near Tattershall in Lincolnshire to Castle Donington in Derbyshire via Sleaford, Grantham, and Nottingham.
Route
The route is currently opened in a small number of locations and covers a range of roads, cycle paths, and shared use paths.
Wilford to Bingham
Wilford | West Bridgford | Radcliffe-on-Trent
From the Wilford Toll Bridge the route follows the River Trent past Trent Bridge before joining lightly trafficked roads between Lady Bay and Radcliffe-on-Trent via the Holme Pierrepont National Watersports Centre.
From Radcliffe-on-Trent to Saxondale the route continues alongside the A52, before continuing alongside the former A52 through Saxondale itself then crossing the duelled A46 on bridleway bridge opened in 2012.
Between Gamston and Radcliffe-on-Trent the route remains signed along its former alignment on the shared use paths adjacent to the A52.
Bingham to Bottesford
Bingham | Whatton | Aslockton | Orston | Bottesford
This section runs from the A46 Fosse Way on cycle lanes and shared use paths through Bingham and along the A52 to Whatton where it leaves the A52 and runs on lightly trafficked roads through to Bottesford - for half the route between Aslockton and Orston it shared the road with National Cycle Route 64.
Muston to Grantham
Muston | Grantham
This sections runs along the Grantham Canal towpath.
External links
Sustrans Route 15
Transport in the East Midlands
National Cycle Routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LVRC%20Holdings%20LLC%20v.%20Brekka | LVRC Holdings v. Brekka 581 F.3d 1127, 1135 (9th Cir. 2009) is a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Decision that deals with the scope of the concept of "authorization" in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The major finding of this case is that even if an employee accesses a computer for an improper purpose, such as one that violates the duty of loyalty to their employer, the employee remains authorized to access the computer until the employer revokes the employee's access. The findings of this case were upheld by another Ninth Circuit decision in United States v. Nosal, 676 F.3d 854 (9th Cir.2012) (en banc) and are the current law in this circuit.
This case is noteworthy because the court differentiated itself from the Seventh's Circuit interpretation of "authorization" by assessing whether the employer made the computer system available to the employee during the employee's access, instead of examining the subjective intent the employee had when accessing the system. Since this decision limited the scope of when an employee could access a computer "without authorization" than the Seventh Circuit did in a similar case, this case defined a circuit split of authority on the scope of the term "authorization." This issue could be settled by the Supreme Court in the future. Van Buren v. United States is a pending United States Supreme Court case dealing with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and its definition of "exceeds authorized access" in relation to one intentionally accessing a computer system they have authorization to access.
Factual background
LVRC Holdings, LLC (LVRC) operated an addiction treatment center in Nevada. In April 2003, LVRC hired Christopher Brekka. Part of his duties included interacting with LVRC's email provider (Load, Inc.) and conducting Internet marketing programs. When Brekka was hired, he owned and operated EBSN and EBSF, two consulting businesses that provided referrals of potential patients to rehabilitation facilities. LVRC's owner was aware of Brekka's businesses.
During his time at LVRC, Brekka commuted between his home state, Florida, and Nevada, where LVRC and his first business were located. His second business is based in Florida. Brekka was assigned a computer at LVRC headquarters. Because of this frequent commute between Florida and Nevada, he emailed documents he obtained or created for his work at LVRC to his own personal computer. LVRC and Brekka had no written employment agreement. LVRC had no internal policy which would prohibit the transfer of LVRC documents to personal computers.
In June 2003, he emailed the administrative password for the LVRC's email system to his personal account. In August 2003, Brekka and LVRC began discussions regarding the possibilities of Brekka investing in an ownership interest in LVRC. At the end of the month, Brekka emailed to his wife and himself a number of documents including a financial statement for the company, LVRC's marketing budget, and admission reports for pat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Kentucky%20locations%20by%20per%20capita%20income | Kentucky is the fortieth richest state in the United States of America, with a per capita income of $26,779 (2017).
Kentucky Counties by Per Capita Income
Note: Data is from the 2010 United States Census Data and the 2006-2010 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates.
References
Kentucky
Locations by per capita income
Income |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic%20Guerilla | Cosmic Guerilla is a fixed shooter arcade video game developed by Universal and released 1979. A ZX Spectrum port was published by Crystal Computing in 1983.
Gameplay
Cosmic Guerilla is a two-dimensional fixed shooter game. The player takes control of a laser cannon at the bottom of the screen whose movement is limited to left and right, and must fire at the aliens above. In contrast to Space Invaders the aliens are arranged in a single vertical line on each side of the screen, with their movement being towards the centre, one or more at a time, in an attempt to capture and remove the player's shields. The aliens cannot be hit by the player's shots until they begin to move, and the player may only fire one projectile at a time. Once a row of shields has been removed, one of the player's "lives", is exposed and able to be captured. Occasionally a very fast "mothership" will appear and traverse the screen just above the player dropping bombs.
There are six levels of difficulty along with four game modes allowing combinations of the regular game, bonus enemies, and faster aliens. There is also a two player mode where players take alternative turns.
Reception
Cosmic Guerilla was invariably compared to Space Invaders, though Sinclair User described it as the "next step up", with its different scenarios and object arrangement. Home Computing Weekly, Sinclair User and ZX Computing all praised the game's smooth graphics, though HCU felt that better use could have been made of the sound. The game was generally well received, and described variously as "incredibly addictive" and "very playable", and "highly recommended".
References
External links
1979 video games
Alien invasions in video games
Arcade video games
Crystal Computing games
Fixed shooters
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Universal Entertainment games
Video games developed in Japan
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Graph%20Algorithms%20and%20Applications | The Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications is an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the subject of graph algorithms and graph drawing. The journal was established in 1997 and the editor-in-chief is Giuseppe Liotta (University of Perugia). It is abstracted and indexed by Scopus and MathSciNet.
References
External links
Computer science journals
Mathematics journals
Graph algorithms
Graph drawing
Academic journals established in 1997
English-language journals
Open access journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaplan | Anaplan is a business planning software company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Anaplan sells subscriptions for cloud-based business-planning software and provides data for decision-making purposes.
Anaplan's products are used by over 1,000 organizations globally.
The company has been listed as a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Cloud Financial Planning & Analysis Solutions in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.
History
In 2006, Anaplan was founded by Guy Haddleton, Sue Haddleton, and Michael Gould in Yorkshire, England.
In 2012, Anaplan brought on Frederic Laluyaux as CEO. Laluyaux eventually left the company four years later in April 2016.
A year after Laluyaux became CEO, Anaplan acquired its reseller Vue Analytics in U.K. for an undisclosed amount.
Recent history
In May 2014, Anaplan introduced its marketplace, Anaplan Hub. Using the marketplace, customers can share and find pre-designed planning models.
After multiple rounds of funding, to assist with going public, the company hired James Budge as its Chief Financial Officer. In 2016, Anaplan had over 480 customers in 20 countries.
In January 2017 Anaplan appointed Frank A. Calderoni as CEO. Calderoni took the company public on October 12, 2018, with Anaplan being listed on the NYSE under the ticker symbol PLAN.
In August 2019, Anaplan announced plans to acquire Mintigo, an Israeli-founded predictive marketing and sales analytics company. In November, the company was named to Deloitte Technology Fast 500.
In March 2022, the private equity firm Thoma Bravo announced a definitive agreement to purchase Anaplan for $10.7 billion. The deal closed in June 2022. Thoma Bravo renegotiated the deal to $10.4 billion, stating that Anaplan had breached the merger agreement by overpaying new workers, although commentators linked the renegotiation to the broader market downturn.
In June 2023, Anaplan began a round of major layoff, ranging from 119 to 500 employees.
Funding
Anaplan raised its first venture capital funding within a year of its first sales in 2010. In 2012, the company raised $11.4 million in Series B financing from investors that included Granite Ventures and Shasta Ventures.
Then, in 2014, the company’s Series D funding raised $100 million from new and existing investors including DFJ Growth, Workday, and Shasta Ventures. In 2016, Anaplan raised $90 million and became the second UK-founded company to achieve a $1 billion valuation.
Premji Invest led the fundraising, and was joined by Baillie Gifford, Founders Circle Capital, Harmony Partners, and Anaplan's then-current investors. As of January 2016, Anaplan had raised a total of $240 million in five funding rounds.
Technology
Anaplan's Hyperblock technology is a patented in-memory database and calculation engine for business planning.
In November 2014, Anaplan announced the launch of the Anaplan App Hub for business planning applications.
References
External links
Organizational performance management
Busin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20Networks%20in%20India | Library Network refers to an interconnected platform of some group of libraries with certain agreements aims to satisfy and fulfill their users' need. The common objectives of a library network is to acquire and develop unique collection of the each and avoiding the duplication of materials to resolve the budgetary problem. Each library performs sharing of resources to each others on demand basis. The concept of library network came into light after 1985 when the working group of the Planning Commission reported a modernize plan on National Policy on Library and Information System to the Ministry of HRD, Govt of India on the seventh five year plan. The Dept of Science and Industrial Research (DSIR), Govt. of India started to promote the integrated approach to Library Automation and Networking based on the UGC report prepared by the Association of Indian Libraries 1987.
Library Networks in India are
Ahmedabad Library Network (ADINET) is the library network of Ahmedabad area. It was established in 1994 with an initial grant for a few years from National Information System for Science and Technology (NISSAT). ADINET caters to libraries of school, college, universities, institutional libraries and even public libraries in Ahmedabad.
Bangalore Academic Library Network (BALNET) was established in 1995 in sponsored by JRD Tata Memorial Library Bangalore. BALNET caters to the libraries of Balgalore area to facilitate the sharing of resources.
Bombay Library Network (BONET) was set up in 1992 by National Centre for Software Technology (NCST), Mumbai sponsored by NISSAT.
Calcutta Library Network (CALIBNET) was established in 1986 with the financial help from NISSAT. The main objective of CALIBNET i to provide access of information to the library and information centers in eastern region.
Developing Library Network (DELNET) was established in 1988 and registered as a society in 1992 from the financial support of NISSAT at the India International Centre Library Delhi. Earlier it was named as Delhi Library Network and developed with the primer objective of sharing of resources to its member libraries.
Indore Library Network (INDOLIBNET) was established to provision of equal access to universe of knowledge, information and cultures & promote understanding of the cultural diversity of Indore.
Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) was established in 1991 with the objective of establishing a communication between the libraries and information centers universities, colleges, UGC information centers, institutes of national importance, R&D information centers etc. as a programme of the University Grants Commission. Initially it was located at the Gujarat University campus, Ahmedabad but later it was shifted to Gandhinagar.
Madras Library Network (MALIBNET) was established as a society in the 1993 to bring about co-operative working among libraries and information centres in and around Madras. Membership of MALIBNET is open to universities, colleges, R& |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libraries%20and%20Information%20Centres%20in%20India | Libraries and Information Centres in India
Ahmedabad Library Network (ADINET)
Bombay Science Librarian's Association (BOSLA)
Calcutta Library Network (CALIBNET)
Central Reference Library, Kolkata
Defence Scientific Information and Documenation Centre (DESIDOC)
Delhi Library Association
Delhi Public Library
Developing Library Network (DELNET)
Documentation Research and Training Centre (DRTC), Bangalore
Health Education Library for People
Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centres (IASLIC)
Indian Library Association (ILA)
Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET), Ahmedabad
Kerala Library Association
Kesavan Institute of Information and Knowledge Management
Madras Library Association
Medical Library Association of India (MLAI)
Mysore Library Network (MYLIBNET), Mysore
National Centre for Science Information (NCSI), Bangalore
National Information System for Science and Technology (NISSAT), New Delhi
National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources, New Delhi (Formerly INSDOC)
National Library of India
National Medical Library
National Social Science Documentation Centre (NASSDOC), New Delhi
Pune Library Network
Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation
SAARC Documentation Centre
Satinder Kaur Ramdev Memorial Trust for Advancement of Librarianship (SATKAL)
Small Enterprises National Documentation Centre (SENDOC)
Society for Advancement of Library and Information Science (SALIS)
Society for Information Science (SIS)
Society for Information Research & Studies (SIRs)
Special Libraries Association, Asian Chapter
Uttar Pradesh Library Association
Virtual Information Centre
References
Library science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%2064%20joystick%20adapters | Commodore 64 joystick adapters are hardware peripherals that extend the number of joystick ports on the Commodore 64 computer. The additional joysticks can be used on games with dedicated support for the specific adapter.
A number of different joystick adapters have been constructed for use with the C64. The Classical Games / Protovision adapter is by far supported by the largest number of games. While building instructions are available for most of the adapters, a few adapters are also available commercially. The adapters are also emulated in some of the C64 emulators.
Original Adapters
Starbyte adapter (1990)
Supports 2 additional joysticks at the user port. Released by Starbyte Software in 1990 for use with their game Adidas Championship Tie Break. At the time sold separately under the name Tie Break Adaptor.
Building instructions (plugs and wires only) have been reverse engineered and made available by Groepaz/Hitmen.
Kingsoft adapter (1992)
Supports 2 additional joysticks at the user port. Introduced with the game Bug Bomber by Kingsoft in 1992. The game came with instructions to build your own 4-player adapter.
Building instructions (plugs and wires only) have been reverse engineered and made available by Groepaz/Hitmen.
Protovision 4 player interface / Classical Games adapter (1997)
Supports 2 additional joysticks at the user port. Designed by Chester Kollschen (CKX) of Classical Games and released in 1997 with the game Bomb Mania. Kollschen later joined Protovision and the adapter is now available as the Protovision 4 player interface.
Building instructions (plugs, wires and an IC), sample code, shop and list of supported games are available at the Protovision website.
Space Balls adapter (1998)
Supports 8 joysticks, all connected to the user port and one joyport. Designed by Luigi Pantarotto and released with the game Space Balls (1998) for 2-8 players.
Building instructions (plugs and wires only) is provided with the game Space Balls (called Star Balls in its schematics page).
Ninjas SNES pad adapter (1998)
Supports 8 SNES pads at the joyports. Designed by Ninja of The Dreams.
Building instructions (plugs and wires only) are available at the Hitmen 4 player adapter website. Code interface is demonstrated in the SNES-Pad-Tooldisk #1.
Digital Excess & Hitmen 4 player joystick adapter (1999)
Supports 2 additional joysticks at the user port. Designed by Groepaz of Hitmen and Thomas Koncina and Bjoern Odendahl of Digital Excess in 1999 as an easier to build alternative to the Classical Games adapter.
Building instructions (plugs and wires only) and sample code is available at the Hitmen 4 player adapter website.
Inception – 8 joysticks adapter (2013)
Supports 8 joysticks at one joystick port. Designed by Ray and PCH (Petr Chlud).
Available commercially at the c64.cz website.
Compatible Adapters
Singular Crew 4Player Adapter (2008)
Supports 2 additional joysticks at the user port. Compatible with the Protovision 4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Educational%20measurement | Educational measurement refers to the use of educational assessments and the analysis of data such as scores obtained from educational assessments to infer the abilities and proficiencies of students. The approaches overlap with those in psychometrics.
Educational measurement is the assigning of numerals to traits such as achievement, interest, attitudes, aptitudes, intelligence and performance.
Overview
The aim of theory and practice in educational measurement is typically to measure abilities and levels of attainment by students in areas such as reading, writing, mathematics, science and so forth. Traditionally, attention focuses on whether assessments are reliable and valid. In practice, educational measurement is largely concerned with the analysis of data from educational assessments or tests. Typically, this means using total scores on assessments, whether they are multiple choice or open-ended and marked using marking rubrics or guides.
In technical terms, the pattern of scores by individual students to individual items is used to infer so-called scale locations of students, the "measurements". This process is one form of scaling. Essentially, higher total scores give higher scale locations, consistent with the traditional and everyday use of total scores. If certain theory is used, though, there is not a strict correspondence between the ordering of total scores and the ordering of scale locations. The Rasch model provides a strict correspondence provided all students attempt the same test items, or their performances are marked using the same marking rubrics.
In terms of the broad body of purely mathematical theory drawn on, there is substantial overlap between educational measurement and psychometrics. However, certain approaches considered to be a part of psychometrics, including Classical test theory, Item Response Theory and the Rasch model, were originally developed more specifically for the analysis of data from educational assessments.
One of the aims of applying theory and techniques in educational measurement is to try to place the results of different tests administered to different groups of students on a single or common scale through processes known as test equating. The rationale is that because different assessments usually have different difficulties, the total scores cannot be directly compared. The aim of trying to place results on a common scale is to allow comparison of the scale locations inferred from the totals via scaling processes.
References
Standardized tests
Educational research
Statistics of education |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Yes | THE YES is a retail app and platform that focuses on women's fashion and clothing. Its algorithms analyze user data in order to optimize product personalization. THE YES has headquarters in New York City and Silicon Valley, California.
It is the first app to use Apple's App Clips in iOS 14.
On June 10, 2022, THE YES was acquired by Pinterest, Inc.
History
THE YES was founded in 2018 by former Stitch Fix COO Julie Bornstein and Amit Aggarwal, formerly of Bloomreach. The app began development in 2018 and was released in May 2020.
At launch, THE YES was the first app to use Apple's App Clips in iOS 14.
Although THE YES originally started out as an app, in 2021 the company also launched the same functionality on their website.
Description
The Yes uses AI technology to curate a feed of fashion product recommendations based on a user's individual preferences. Upon downloading the app, users will be asked a series of questions to determine their aesthetic preferences. These include questions about preferred brands, colors, styles, and sizes. Users can also vote "yes" or "no" to signify whether they like a product being shown. The platform's algorithms tailor recommendations based on this information.
In 2021, The Yes started allowing users to invite friends to view their liked items and provide feedback via emojis.
The Yes has more than 250 brands, 40 of which are plus-size. The Yes has brands such as Prada, Ralph Lauren, Levi's, Bottega Veneta, and Zara.
The Yes offers price matching and price filtering, but does not use traditional shopping filters.
References
External links
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Software companies based in New York City
2022 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNOC | DNOC may refer to:
Dinitro-ortho-cresol
Defence Network Operations Centre at HMAS Harman, Canberra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Agent%20Programming%20Contest | The Multi-Agent Programming Contest is an annual international programming competition with stated goal of stimulating research in the area of multi-agent system development and programming.
History
In 2005 Jürgen Dix (Clausthal University of Technology), Mehdi Dastani (University Utrecht) and Peter Novák (Czech Technical University in Prague) have brought the contest into being and running. The competition originally focused on Logic programming of Multi-agent systems. The goals, raised in 2005, have proven to be a solid basis for multi-agent system development and are still valid:
Identification of key problems
To collect suitable benchmarks.
In 2007, a third goal has been added:
To gather test cases which require and enforce coordinated action.
Although it is necessary to find a solution for the contest quest to win, the organizers pursue the intention that the solution is a system of cooperating autonomous programs that achieve the objectives together. They are also interested in how the contest participants develop the solution.
Scenarios
Food collectors
Agents have to look for food and bring it to a depot on a two-dimensional grid world. Each cell can contain an agent, or food. The agents can only see a small part of the map. Initially there is no food available, it appears randomly during the game, so that agents need to search the map constantly in order to win. This scenario was used in 2005.
Gold miners
On a grid based map, teams of agents look for gold and transport it to the depot. As opposed to the food scenario, cells can also contain trees which block the agents and can form more or less complex labyrinths. Also, there are now two opposing teams competing for the gold. This scenario was used in the contests of 2006 and 2007. In 2007, the scenario was extended to allow the agents to carry more than one piece of gold, and to push opposing agents aside.
Cowboys
A grid based map contains trees, corrals, cows and agents. Two opposing teams try to drive as many cows as possible in ones corral. Cows behave using Swarm intelligence. They are also afraid of cowboys and try and run away. This scenario was used in 2008, 2009 and 2010. For the last two years, gates were introduced to make the scenario more challenging.
Agents on Mars
The 2011 contest introduces a scenario called agents on mars. Goal is to conquer as much space on mars as possible, using a team of cooperating agents. The challenge here is the higher complexity resulting from the introduction of five roles with different properties and abilities, which have to be used to scout, conquer, and keep the conquered land.
The team HactarV2 from the TU-Delft won the 2011 competition while using the GOAL programming language.
References
Toni, Francesca; Torroni, Paolo (Eds.): Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems. 6th International Workshop, CLIMA VI 2005. Springer 2006 - .
Dastani, M.; El Fallah Seghrouchni, A.; Ricci, A.; Winikoff, M. (Eds.): Programming Multi-Agent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AQS | AQS may refer to:
Aviation Quality Services, a division of Lufthansa Flight Training
AQS Inc., manufacturer of the main circuit board for the Novena (computing platform) open-source laptop computer
AQS-13, a series of US Navy helicopter dipping sonars |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%20Man%20Murray | Old Man Murray (OMM) is a UGO Networks computer game commentary and reviews site, known for its highly irreverent and satiric tone. Founded in 1997, it was written and edited by Chet Faliszek and Erik Wolpaw. Old Man Murray was critical of games that received strong reviews elsewhere, Common targets of OMM news updates included John Romero and American McGee. Old Man Murray was a significant early influence in both the world of game development and internet comedy, and is often considered to have "helped birth online games journalism".
Themes
A major theme in Old Man Murray criticism was the accusation that many new games failed to add any original ideas to the medium. Gabe Newell, CEO of Valve, cited the opinion of Old Man Murray as a factor when designing the popular and iconoclastic Half-Life. Wolpaw and Faliszek would even become writers for Half-Life 2 episodes and other Valve games. Old Man Murray often took aim at the conventions embedded within game genres.
Two of the site's attacks on stale game conventions have received particular attention from game developers and journalists. One was the April 2000 "Crate Review System" essay, which half-seriously introduced the "Start to Crate" metric as an "objective" measure of the overall quality of a video game. The Start to Crate was the number of seconds from the start of a game until the player first encountered a crate or barrel. By 2000, crates and barrels were a commonplace of video game map design; according to the essay, the first crate "represents the point where the developers ran out of ideas". This essay has had a significant impact in future game design, in part for pointing out "a good gauge to determine just how creative your game is", and driving designers to a point where games are "at the stage where warehouse based level design is not de rigueur". Gabe Newell mentions that there was such a worry about the crate cliché that eventually the team gave up and made a crate one of the first things the player sees and manipulates, figuring that this "was the Old Man Murray equivalent of throwing yourself to the mercy of the court". LightBox Interactive's Matthew Breit considered the "Start to Crate Time" system the "first actual critical look at a level design trend", making him self-conscious of the off-handed use of crates in his level designs to fill an otherwise empty room. Ernest Adams of Gamasutra cites Old Man Murray as being the original source of the sixth condition of "twinkie denial" named in the article: "I can't claim crates without pallets as an original Twinkie Denial Condition because the Old Man Murray guys thought of it first...". A decade after the original "Start to Crate" article, it can still be found as a tongue-in-cheek metric for game quality.
Another essay, "The Death of Adventure Games", mocked the elaborate and contrived puzzles that adventure games of the time used to confound the player. Wolpaw uses an example from Gabriel Knight 3: the game requires |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent%20homology | See homology for an introduction to the notation.
Persistent homology is a method for computing topological features of a space at different spatial resolutions. More persistent features are detected over a wide range of spatial scales and are deemed more likely to represent true features of the underlying space rather than artifacts of sampling, noise, or particular choice of parameters.
To find the persistent homology of a space, the space must first be represented as a simplicial complex. A distance function on the underlying space corresponds to a filtration of the simplicial complex, that is a nested sequence of increasing subsets. One common method of doing this is via taking the sublevel filtration of the distance to a point cloud, or equivalently, the offset filtration on the point cloud and taking its nerve in order to get the simplicial filtration known as Čech filtration. A similar construction uses a nested sequence of Vietoris-Rips complexes known as the Vietoris-Rips filtration.
Definition
Formally, consider a real-valued function on a simplicial complex that is non-decreasing on increasing sequences of faces, so whenever is a face of in . Then for every the sublevel set is a subcomplex of K, and the ordering of the values of on the simplices in (which is in practice always finite) induces an ordering on the sublevel complexes that defines a filtration
When , the inclusion induces a homomorphism on the simplicial homology groups for each dimension . The persistent homology groups are the images of these homomorphisms, and the persistent Betti numbers are the ranks of those groups. Persistent Betti numbers for coincide with
the size function, a predecessor of persistent homology.
Any filtered complex over a field can be brought by a linear transformation preserving the filtration to so called canonical form, a canonically defined direct sum of filtered complexes of two types: one-dimensional complexes with trivial differential and two-dimensional complexes with trivial homology .
A persistence module over a partially ordered set is a set of vector spaces indexed by , with a linear map whenever , with equal to the identity and for . Equivalently, we may consider it as a functor from considered as a category to the category of vector spaces (or -modules). There is a classification of persistence modules over a field indexed by :
Multiplication by corresponds to moving forward one step in the persistence module. Intuitively, the free parts on the right side correspond to the homology generators that appear at filtration level and never disappear, while the torsion parts correspond to those that appear at filtration level and last for steps of the filtration (or equivalently, disappear at filtration level ).
Each of these two theorems allows us to uniquely represent the persistent homology of a filtered simplicial complex with a persistence barcode or persistence diagram. A barcode represents eac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20P.%20Taylor | Michael Paul Taylor (born 12 March 1968) is a British computer programmer with a Ph.D. in palaeontology. To date, he has published 18 paleontological papers and is co-credited with naming three genera of dinosaur (Xenoposeidon in 2007 with Darren Naish, Brontomerus in 2011 with Matt J. Wedel and Richard Cifeli, and Haestasaurus in 2015 with Paul Upchurch and Phil Mannion).
Along with paleontologists Darren Naish and Matt Wedel, he founded the paleontology blog Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week, where he blogs as Mike Taylor.
He lives in Ruardean, Gloucestershire, England.
References
External links
Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
1968 births
Living people
British palaeontologists
People from Bishop's Stortford
People from Forest of Dean District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loquendo | Loquendo is an Italian multinational computer software technology corporation, headquartered in Torino, Italy, that provides speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker verification and identification applications. Loquendo, which was founded in 2001 under the Telecom Italia Lab (formerly, CSELT), also had offices in United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, France, and the United States.
Current business products to can be found in portable and in-car navigation devices, assistive devices for the differently able, smartphones, ebook readers, talking ATMs, computer games, voice-controlled domestic appliances and others. The voice synthesis and speech recognition systems is used in a new e-health application as part of Spain's Junta de Andalucía Government Health Services's virtual assistant.
Loquendo's products have been the recipient of several awards including being a Speech Technologies Speech Engine Leader in 2007, 2008, and 2009 It was rated as 'Market Leader' by Speech Technologies in 2009 and 2010.
On 30 September 2011, Nuance announced that it had acquired Loquendo.
History
Loquendo was originally a research group created in the mid-seventies by managers at IRI-STET in the CSELT laboratories in Turin before becoming a company in its own right in 2001.
Speech synthesis
Building on the recommendations of the University of Padua, by applying the technique of so-called diphones (the union of a consonant and a vowel, that counts 150 in total for the Italian) the voice technology group led by Giulio Modena created the first speech synthesizer with high intelligibility able to speak (and sing) Italian in 1975. It was called MUSA (MUltichannel Speaking Automaton), which demonstrated what was possible with the technology of the time. The results achieved in those years were condensed into an audio disc at 45 rpm published in 1978, distributed in thousands of copies through the mass communication media. The auto track, after a short spoken self-presentation of the system, contained a funny Italian version of the song Frère Jacques carried out in polyphony (a cappella) with more singing voices (MUSA could manage up to 8 synthesis channels in parallel).
The evolution of this prototype, with the increase in the number of diphones (about 1000), the refinement of the tools of language analysis, and improved waveform management led to a marked improvement of the synthetic voice too. This led to the creation of the first integrated circuit of "voice synthesizer" developed internally in CSELT, which was manufactured by SGS (catalog as Zilog's Z80 microprocessor's peripheral (with the code M8950).
Later in the nineties, "ELOQUENS" was born, a multi-platform software speech synthesizer aimed for various operating systems including DOS, Windows, System 7, Unix, OS/2) and telephone boards with very large numbers of channels, such as those used by the Italian telephone operator to build the reverse telephoner subscribers information service (used to obtain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDBsum | PDBsum is a database that provides an overview of the contents of each 3D macromolecular structure deposited in the Protein Data Bank. The original version of the database was developed around 1995 by Roman Laskowski and collaborators at University College London. As of 2014, PDBsum is maintained by Laskowski and collaborators in the laboratory of Janet Thornton at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI).
Each structure in the PDBsum database includes an image of structure (main view, Bottom view and right view), molecular components contained in the complex(structure), enzyme reaction diagram if appropriate, Gene ontology functional assignments, a 1D sequence annotated by Pfam and InterPro domain assignments, description of bound molecules and graphic showing interactions between protein and secondary structure, schematic diagrams of protein–protein interactions, analysis of clefts contained within the structure and links to external databases. The RasMol and Jmol molecular graphics software are used to provide a 3D view of molecules and their interactions within PDBsum.
Since the release of the 1000 Genomes Project in October 2012, all single amino acid variants identified by the project have been mapped to the corresponding protein sequences in the Protein Data Bank. These variants are also displayed within PDBsum, cross-referenced to the relevant UniProt identifier. PDBsum contains a number of protein structures that may be of interest in structure-based drug design. One branch of PDBsum, known as DrugPort, focuses on these models and is linked with the DrugBank drug target database.
See also
Crystallographic database
Protein structure
Protein structure database
References
External links
Biological databases
Science and technology in Cambridgeshire
South Cambridgeshire District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20OLN | This is a list of past and present programs broadcast by the Canadian television channel OLN and its former incarnations Outdoor Life Network and Outdoor Life.
Present
#
A-E
Dirt Trax Television
F-J
Fail Army
Fish TV
Impractical Jokers
K-O
P-T
Storage Wars
Storage Wars Canada
U-Z
Past
#
2000 European Football Championships
2010 Winter Olympics
A-E
Angry Planet
Angler and Hunter Television
The Beat
The Best and Worst of Tred Barta
Beyond Borders
Beyond Survival
Buck Commander
Campus PD
Canada in the Rough
The Canadian Tradition
Close Up Kings
Conspiracy Theory with Jesse Ventura
Courage in Red
Crash Addicts
Creepy Canada
Dangerous Game
Deals from the Darkside
Descending
Departures
Destination Truth
Dog The Bounty Hunter
Duck Commander
Duck Dynasty
Dudesons
Dussault Inc.
Dynamo: Magician Impossible
Ed's Up
F-J
Forbidden
Get Stuffed
Ghost Hunters
The Happenings
Haunted Collector
Half Mile Of Hell
Hillbilly Preppers: Atlanta
I Shouldn't Be Alive
Illusions of Grandeur
K-O
Kentucky Bidders
Killing Bigfoot
The Liquidator
The Liquidator: On the Go
Man v. Food
Mantracker
Meat Eater
Minute to Win It
Monsterquest
NASCAR Outdoors
ODYSSEY: Driving Around the World
Operation Repo
The Outhouse
P-T
Pilot Guides
Polar Bear Town
The Project - Guatemala
Python Hunters
RCTV
Red Bull: Air Race
Red Bull: Cliff Diving
Red Bull: Crashed Ice
Red Bull: Signature Series
Red Bull: X-Fighters
The Rig
Saw Dogs
Snowmobiler TV
SnowTrax Television
Road Hockey Rumble
Spruce Meadows
Storage Hunters
Storage Wars: New York
Storage Wars: Texas
Survivorman
Tour de France
Tow Biz
Treks in a Wild World
U-Z
UFO Hunters
Which Way To...
Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan
Word Travels
You Can't Lick Your Elbow
See also
OLN
NBC Sports Network
External links
OLN website
Lists of television series by network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979%20Asian%20Wrestling%20Championships | The following is the final results of the 1979 Asian Wrestling Championships.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's freestyle
References
External links
UWW Database
Asia
W
Asian Wrestling Championships
Sport in Jalandhar
International wrestling competitions hosted by India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim%20Boldt | Joachim Boldt (born 29 September 1954) is a German anesthesiologist who fabricated or falsified data, including those reporting clinical trial results.
Medical research fabrication
Boldt was previously considered to be a leading researcher of medicinal colloids. He was an advocate for the use of colloidal hydroxyethyl starch (HES) to boost blood pressure during surgery. However, a meta-analysis of trials that excluded Boldt's fabricated data found that the intravenous use of hydroxyethyl starch is associated with a significant increased risk of death and acute kidney injury compared with other resuscitation solutions. He was stripped of his professorship and came under criminal investigation for possible forgery of up to 90 research studies.
The editors of 16 different scientific journals, including Anesthesia & Analgesia, Anaesthesia, the European Journal of Anaesthesiology, and the British Journal of Anaesthesia, allege that 89 of 102 studies published by Boldt contained research without proper institutional review board approval.
On 10 November 2010 Boldt was suspended from Klinikum Ludwigshafen, a hospital in Germany, for a scientific publication in Anesthesia & Analgesia with insufficient background research. His field of research and the publications were related to hydroxyethyl starch. Some 90 studies he published were being reviewed by medical authorities in 2011.
In February 2011, Boldt was stripped of his title of professor at the University of Giessen for failing to teach, and the university investigated possible charges of scientific misconduct. His case was described as "possibly the biggest medical research scandal since Andrew Wakefield was struck off in 2010 for falsely claiming to have proved a link between the MMR vaccine and autism".
In August 2012, the hospital released the results of the investigation: while it did not find that any patients were harmed, "in a large number of the studies investigated, the conduct of research failed to meet required standards. False data were published in at least 10 of the 91 articles examined, including, for instance, data on patient numbers/study groups as well as data on the timing of measurements".
On 20 February 2013, JAMA published a meta-analysis on HES in critically ill patients. Boldt had 7 studies from the 1990s that had not yet been retracted. If Boldt's papers were included in the analysis no increase in mortality was apparent; but if they were excluded, mortality was seen to increase significantly with use of HES. The Boldt studies, but no others, showed an improvement with HES; all other studies showed significant risks with no benefits. It is considered that his fraudulent studies caused harm and risk to critically ill patients.
An overview of the challenges that this fraud presented for the meta-analysts was published in 2013. The fraud included double publication of studies, manipulating demographic and outcome data to conceal double publication, and showing better re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artifact-centric%20business%20process%20model | Artifact-centric business process model represents an operational model of business processes in which the changes and evolution of business data, or business entities, are considered as the main driver of the processes. The artifact-centric approach, a kind of data-centric business process modeling, focuses on describing how business data is changed/updated, by a particular action or task, throughout the process.
Overview
In general, a process model describes activities conducted (i.e. activity-centric) in order to achieve business goals, informational structures, and organizational resources. Workflows, as a typical process modeling approach, often emphasize the sequencing of activities (i.e., control flows), but ignore the informational perspective or treat it only within the context of single activities. Without a complete view of the informational context, business actors often focus on what should be done instead of what can be done, hindering operational innovations.
Business process modeling is a foundation for design and management of business processes. Two key aspects of business process modeling are a formal framework that integrates both control flow and data, and a set of tools to assist all aspects of a business process life cycle. A typical business process life cycle includes at least a design phase, concerned with the “correct” realization of business logic in a resource-constrained environment, and an operational phase, concerned with optimizing and improving execution (operations). Traditional business process models emphasize a procedural and/or graph-based paradigm (i.e., control flow). Thus, methodologies to design workflow in those models are typically process-centric. It has been argued that a data-centric perspective is more useful for designing business processes in the modern era.
Intuitively, business artifacts (or simply artifacts) are data objects whose manipulations define the underlying processes in a business model. Recent engineering and development efforts have adopted the artifact approach for design and analysis of business models. An important distinction between artifact-centric models and traditional data flow (computational) models is that the notion of the life cycle of the data objects is prominent in the former, while not existing in the latter.
Research and history
Artifact-centric modeling is an area of growing interest. Nigam and Caswell introduced the concept of business artifacts and information-centric processing of artifact lifecycles. Kumaran et al.'s further studies on artifact-centric business processes can be found here. Bhattacharya described a successful business engagement which applies business artifact techniques to industrialize discovery processes in pharmaceutical research. Liu et al. formulated nine commonly used patterns in information-centric business operation models and developed a computational model based on Petri Nets. Bhattacharya, K., et al. provides a formal model f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Amazing%20World%20of%20Gumball | The Amazing World of Gumball (also known simply as Gumball or by its abbreviation TAWOG) is a british animated sitcom created by Ben Bocquelet for Cartoon Network. The series concerns the lives of 12-year-old Gumball Watterson, an anthropomorphic blue cat, and adoptive goldfish brother Darwin, who attend middle school in the fictional city of Elmore, California. They often find themselves in various shenanigans around the city, during which they interact with fellow family members—younger sister Anais, mother Nicole, and father Richard—along with an extended supporting cast of characters.
Bocquelet based several of the series' characters on rejected characters from his previous commercial work while making its premise a mixture of "family shows and school shows", which Cartoon Network was heavily interested in. After Bocquelet pitched The Amazing World of Gumball to the network, Turner Broadcasting executive Daniel Lennard green-lit the production of the series. The show was produced by Cartoon Network Studios Europe, in association with Boulder Media (Ireland; season 1) and Studio Soi (Germany; seasons 2–6).
Gumball is noted for its intentional stylistic disunity, with characters designed, filmed, and animated using various styles and techniques, oftentimes within the same scene (stylized traditional animation, puppetry, CGI, stop motion, Flash animation, live-action, etc.). Although it is a children's series, Gumball comments on topics that are often considered serious or mature, including philosophy, marriage, cyberbullying, political intolerance, mental illness, and the human condition. The series has received critical acclaim and developed a cult following, with particular praises for its extensive references to popular culture and internet culture, sarcasm, subtle innuendos, dark humor, and metahumor.
On September 6, 2016, Bocquelet announced the series would end after season 6; he reaffirmed his position on Twitter in October 2018. However, Turner Northern Europe was unable to confirm at the time whether the sixth season would be the show's last. Following the season 6 finale, two miniseries were released: the six-episode Darwin's Yearbook in November 2019 and The Gumball Chronicles in October 2020. On June 15, 2023, it was confirmed at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival that the seventh season of the show was in the works, though a release date has not been announced yet.
On February 17, 2021, Cartoon Network revealed that a television film based on the series was in development. On September 21, 2021, it was announced that a new spin-off series, to be a follow-up for both the show and the movie, had been greenlit for Cartoon Network and HBO Max alongside the film. On August 22, 2022, it was reported that the film would no longer be heading to HBO Max, but would be shopped to other outlets instead.
Premise
The series revolves around the life of a 12-year-old cat named Gumball Watterson and his frequent shenanigans in t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20octree | A linear octree is an octree that is represented by a linear array instead of a tree data structure.
To simplify implementation, a linear octree is usually complete (that is, every internal node has exactly 8 child nodes) and where the maximum permissible depth is fixed a priori (making it sufficient to store the complete list of leaf nodes). That is, all the nodes of the octree can be generated from the list of its leaf nodes. Space filling curves are often used to represent linear octrees.
Trees (data structures) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queap | In computer science, a queap is a priority queue data structure. The data structure allows insertions and deletions of arbitrary elements, as well as retrieval of the highest-priority element. Each deletion takes amortized time logarithmic in the number of items that have been in the structure for a longer time than the removed item. Insertions take constant amortized time.
The data structure consists of a doubly linked list and a 2–4 tree data structure, each modified to keep track of its minimum-priority element. The basic operation of the structure is to keep newly inserted elements in the doubly linked list, until a deletion would remove one of the list items, at which point they are all moved into the 2–4 tree. The 2–4 tree stores its elements in insertion order, rather than the more conventional priority-sorted order.
Both the data structure and its name were devised by John Iacono and Stefan Langerman.
Description
A queap is a priority queue that inserts elements in O(1) amortized time, and removes the minimum element in O(log(k + 2)) if there are k items that have been in the heap for a longer time than the element to be extracted. The queap has a property called the queueish property: the time to search for element x is O(lg q(x)) where q(x) is equal to n − 1 − w(x) and w(x) is the number of distinct items that has been accessed by operations such as searching, inserting, or deleting. q(x) is defined as how many elements have not been accessed since x's last access. Indeed, the queueish property is the complement of the splay tree working set property: the time to search for element x is O(lg w(x)).
A queap can be represented by two data structures: a doubly linked list and a modified version of 2–4 tree. The doubly linked list, L, is used for a series of insert and locate-min operations. The queap keeps a pointer to the minimum element stored in the list. To add element x to list l, the element x is added to the end of the list and a bit variable in element x is set to one. This operation is done to determine if the element is either in the list or in a 2–4 tree.
A 2–4 tree is used when a delete operation occurs. If the item x is already in tree T, the item is removed using the 2–4 tree delete operation. Otherwise, the item x is in list L (done by checking if the bit variable is set). All the elements stored in list L are then added to the 2–4 tree, setting the bit variable of each element to zero. x is then removed from T.
A queap uses only the 2–4 tree structure properties, not a search tree. The modified 2–4 tree structure is as follows. Suppose list L has the following set of elements: . When the deletion operation is invoked, the set of elements stored in L is then added to the leaves of the 2–4 tree in that order, proceeded by a dummy leaf containing an infinite key. Each internal node of T has a pointer , which points to the smallest item in subtree v. Each internal node on path P from the root to has a pointer , which |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%20Big%20Ten%20women%27s%20basketball%20tournament | The 2011 Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament was played between Thursday, March 3 and Sunday, March 6 at the Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Big Ten Network carried every game except the final, which was aired on ESPN2. Ohio State won the tournament and received an automatic bid to the 2011 Women's NCAA tournament.
Seeds
All Big Ten schools participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by 2010–11 Big Ten Conference season record, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records (Tie-breaking Procedure. The top 5 teams received a first round bye.
The seeding for the tournament was as follows:
Schedule
Bracket
All game times are ET.
References
Big Ten women's basketball tournament
Tournament
Big Ten women's basketball tournament
Big Ten women's basketball tournament
Basketball competitions in Indianapolis
College basketball tournaments in Indiana
Women's sports in Indiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20tree | A top tree is a data structure based on a binary tree for unrooted dynamic trees that is used mainly for various path-related operations. It allows simple divide-and-conquer algorithms. It has since been augmented to maintain dynamically various properties of a tree such as diameter, center and median.
A top tree is defined for an underlying tree and a set of at most two vertices called as External Boundary Vertices
Glossary
Boundary Node
See Boundary Vertex
Boundary Vertex
A vertex in a connected subtree is a Boundary Vertex if it is connected to a vertex outside the subtree by an edge.
External Boundary Vertices
Up to a pair of vertices in the top tree can be called as External Boundary Vertices, they can be thought of as Boundary Vertices of the cluster which represents the entire top tree.
Cluster
A cluster is a connected subtree with at most two Boundary Vertices.
The set of Boundary Vertices of a given cluster is denoted as
With each cluster the user may associate some meta information and give methods to maintain it under the various internal operations.
Path Cluster
If contains at least one edge then is called a Path Cluster.
Point Cluster
See Leaf Cluster
Leaf Cluster
If does not contain any edge i.e. has only one Boundary Vertex then is called a Leaf Cluster.
Edge Cluster
A Cluster containing a single edge is called an Edge Cluster.
Leaf Edge Cluster
A Leaf in the original Cluster is represented by a Cluster with just a single Boundary Vertex and is called a Leaf Edge Cluster.
Path Edge Cluster
Edge Clusters with two Boundary Nodes are called Path Edge Cluster.
Internal Node
A node in \ is called an Internal Node of
Cluster Path
The path between the Boundary Vertices of is called the cluster path of and it is denoted by
Mergeable Clusters
Two Clusters and are Mergeable if is a singleton set (they have exactly one node in common) and is a Cluster.
Introduction
Top trees are used for maintaining a Dynamic forest (set of trees) under link and cut operations.
The basic idea is to maintain a balanced Binary tree of logarithmic height in the number of nodes in the original tree ( i.e. in time) ; the top tree essentially represents the recursive subdivision of the original tree into clusters.
In general the tree may have weight on its edges.
There is a one-to-one correspondence with the edges of the original tree and the leaf nodes of the top tree and each internal node of represents a cluster that is formed due to the union of the clusters that are its children.
The top tree data structure can be initialized in time.
Therefore the top tree over ( ) is a binary tree such that
The nodes of are clusters of ( );
The leaves of are the edges of
Sibling clusters are neighbours in the sense that they intersect in a single vertex, and then their parent cluster is their union.
Root of is the tree itself, with a set of at most two External Boundary Vertices.
A tree with a single vertex has |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FXX | FXX is an American basic cable channel owned by the Disney Entertainment business segment and division of The Walt Disney Company through FX Networks, LLC. It is the partner channel of FX, with its programming focusing on original and acquired comedy series and feature films for a primary demographic of men ages 18–34.
FXX launched on September 2, 2013, at 7:00 a.m. ET/6:00 a.m. CT, replacing Fox Soccer. The channel is best known for setting the record for the longest continuous marathon in the history of television. The marathon featured every episode of The Simpsons that had been released at the time and The Simpsons Movie over the course of twelve days. This record has since been broken by VH1 Classic.
As of September 2018, approximately 86.6 million households in the United States (93.9% of those with cable) receive FXX. Since September 2023, following a pay dispute between Disney and Charter Communications, Spectrum no longer carries the channel.
History
Development
In January 2013, it was reported by various media outlets that sports-focused channel Fox Soccer would be shut down and be replaced with a general entertainment network that would act as a brother service to FX; while FXX was a possible name from the start, another name proposed for the new network was FX2. The decision appeared to stem from Fox Sports' loss of U.S. television rights to English Premier League soccer matches, rights it shared with ESPN; NBC Sports had secured U.S. rights to the league in October 2012, a deal that took effect at the start of the 2013–14 season. Also likely having an effect on Fox Soccer's future was the eventual conversion of two other Fox Sports specialty channels on August 17, 2013, when the motorsports-oriented Speed became the new general-interest Fox Sports 1 and the extreme sports-heavy Fuel TV converted to Fox Sports 2 (Premier League broadcasts on NBC began that same day).
On March 28, 2013, News Corp.'s FX Networks outlined plans to launch FXX on September 2 which would replace the Fox Soccer channel. The new network would be available in approximately 74 million American homes. FX President John Landgraf said FXX would complete "a suite of three channels" targeting three different demos: FX would aim for viewers 18–49, FXX would seek viewers 18–34, and FXM — the movie network — would go for viewers 25–54. He would oversee all three channels.
In the months leading up to the launch, Fox was generally coy about definitively confirming where FXX would be placed on cable/satellite channel lineups, though Fox officials had indicated off the record that the plan was to indeed replace Fox Soccer with the new network.
Fox Soccer's conversion to FXX took place on the morning of September 2, 2013, leading out of a final airing of Fox Soccer's Being: Liverpool with an hour block of paid programming (which featured a FXX disclaimer card at the front) at 6 a.m. (ET), followed by the proper launch an hour later at 7 a.m. ET.
Launch
The launch cl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20NBCSN | This is a list of programs broadcast by the American television channel NBCSN, which includes its eras as the Outdoor Life Network (OLN) and Versus (VS.).
3-Gun Nation
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Aaron's Outdoors
All of the Best Whitetail Tips
American Drag Racing League
American Ninja Warrior
Americana Outdoors
Ammo & Attitude
AMSOIL Championship Snocross
Armstrong
Ask Bobke
Atlanta Football Classic
Babe Winkelman: Outdoor Secrets
Babe Winkelman's Good Fishing
Back County Quest
Bass 2 Billfish
The Bass Pros
Behind the Bike with Austin Caroll
Beretta's Bird Hunter's Journal
Beretta's Waterfowler's Edge
The Best and Worst of Tred Barta
Big Bass Battle
Bill Dance Outdoors
Blue Collar Adventures
Bob Izumi's Real Fishing
Bob Redfern's Outdoor Magazine
Bobke's Beef
The Bucks of Tecomate
Cabela's Master Walleye Circuit
Camo Life
Campbell Outdoor Challenge
Charlie Moore: No Offense
City Limits Fishing with Mike Iaconelli
The Coaches Corner
College Football Talk
Collegiate Bass Championship
Contador
Costas Tonight
Criterium de Dauphine
Critérium International
The Crossover
Curling Night in America
D U's WaterDog
The Daily Line
The Daily Line Interview
Dakar Rally
Danica's Decade
The Dan Patrick Show
Deer and Deer Hunting TV
Deer Gear
Dirt Knight
/DRIVE
Elk Fever
Eye of the Hunter
F1 Extra
Fanarchy
Fantasy Football Live
Federal Premium Damage Game
Fish the Baja
Fishing with Roland Martin
FLW Outdoors
Fly Fish TV with Kelly Galloup
Formula D
Formula One (from 2013 to 2017, 16 races)
George Poveromo's World of Saltwater Fishing
Global Pursuit Safari
Goin' Country with Kristy Lee Cook
GP2 Series
Great American Outdoor Trail's Radio Magazine
Greatest MLB Rivalries
Grid
Gun It with Benny Spies
Gun Talk
Guns & Gear
Hank Parker 3D
Hank Parker's Outdoor Magazine
Hook 'N Look with Kim Stricker
Hunt For Big Fish
Huntin' with the Judge
Ice Men
Indianapolis 500 - Carb Day
Indy Lights
Inside the Daily Line
Inside Israeli Basketball
InterBike 2010
Into the Blue
Intrepid Outdoors: Guns vs. Bows
Jenny from the Blog
Jimmy Houston Outdoors
Kicker Big Air Bash
La Flèche Wallonne
The Lance Chronicles
Liege Bastogne Liege
The 'Lights
Lindner's Angling Edge
Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship
Lucas Oil Motorsports Hour
Majesty Outdoors
MLS on NBC
Match of the Day
Mountain West Basketball
Napa's North to Alaska
NASCAR America
NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour
National Lacrosse League
NBA D-League
NBC SportsTalk
The Next Bite
NHL Draft Lottery
The NHL Guardians
NHL on NBC
Non-Stop Hunting
North American Fisherman
North American Hunter
The Numbers Guys
One More Cast with Shaw Grigsby
O'Neill Outside
OPA Offshore Racing Series
Outdoor Edge's Love of the Hunt
Pacific Expeditions
Paris–Nice
Paris Roubaix
Poker2Nite
Primal Adventures TV
Pro Football Talk
Quest for the One
Racer TV
Razor Dobbs Alive
Real Hunting
Remington's The Buck Stops Here with Mike Hanback
The Rider Insider
The Robin Hood Rally
The Roadside Tour
Ruger's Adventures
Safari Hunter's Journal
Saltwater Experience
Saturday Night Live
Scent Blocker |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CgeTV | CgeTV was a user-generated video channel and current internet video-sharing website created by ABS-CBN Interactive. On cable, CgeTV aired exclusively on SkyCable Digital channel 72.
Programming
CgeTV Programs
In Da Loop (also broadcast on ABS-CBN)(Now moved to Jeepney TV)
Cge Mishmash
The Viewing Room
Let's Sync It!
Dancesingcredible
Supercgezen
Dance Entertainment
Segments of CgeTV In Da Loop
Cute
Usapang Lalake
How2D2
Reporting for Beauty
Your the Star
Sports (on http://cge.tv)
Non CgeTV Programs
It's Showtime (live on CgeTV website only with no commercial breaks) also broadcast on ABS-CBN
Final CgeJock's
Edu Ibazeta (now a vlogger)
DJ ChaCha Balba-Guevarra (Former PBB Housemate/Recording Artist/Radio Personality - from Tambayan 101.9 & now currently moved to TV5, ONE PH & Radyo5 92.3 News FM)
Anna Tan (1st winner of Cge Star)
Ashley "Petra Mahalimuyak" Rivera (now moved to GMA 7)
Jobert Austria (now currently a comedian & now currently seen & moved to GMA 7)
See also
PIE Channel
ABS-CBN Interactive
External links
ABS-CBN Digital Media
Philippine entertainment websites
Video hosting
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2012
Internet properties established in 2010
Internet properties disestablished in 2012
ABS-CBN Corporation channels
Defunct television networks in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20Radio%20Network | The Victoria Radio Network (VRN) is a hospital radio station based in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. It currently broadcasts 24 hours a day to the premises of the Victoria Hospital and surrounding facilities to patients' bedside radios and www.vrnkirkcaldy.com
History
VRN was formed in February 1971 by a group of young people in Kirkcaldy. Its first broadcast took place on 3 March, and the studio was originally housed in a cupboard of the main tower block of the hospital.
The station moved to premises on nearby St Clair Street, approximately 1 mile from the hospital. However, when this area was later redeveloped, the station moved back to the hospital site. This time, a custom-built studio was created out of Portakabins. The final move was to an old boiler house on Willow Drive.
In 2002, VRN was awarded a medium wave broadcasting licence. The first AM (medium wave) broadcast took place on 2 February 2002, and the station continued to broadcast on AM till Dec 2017. The station is now available on bed side tablets and on line at www.vrnkirkcaldy.com.
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Membership
VRN is run entirely by volunteers, with no full-time members of staff. There are currently around 50 members of the team. The majority of members are presenters, but there are also ward visitors, fundraisers and committee positions.
Broadcasting Output
As a hospital station, output is directed towards patients, staff and visitors.
Main programming features include:
Patient Request Shows every weeknight
Live commentaries of Raith Rovers Saturday home matches.
VRN's Book at Bedtime - a selection of audio books
Getting to Know You - local people are interviewed, and select music to play
When presenters are not in the studio, a series of pre-recorded programmes are played along with music.
Former members
An important function of hospital radio is that it has allows a first step for those looking to work in broadcasting.
Notable former members of VRN include:
Richard Park - Managing Director of Global Radio
Arthur Ballingall - (former) Managing Director of Radio Tay
Jackie Storrar - Country and Western singer and broadcaster
Scott Davie - BBC Scotland Football Commentator
Laura Haldane - Scottish News Anchor for ITV's Daybreak
Awards
VRN has received awards, many of which have come from the Hospital Broadcasting Association (HBA).
Recent awards include:
2006
Male Presenter of the Year (HBA): John Murray - bronze award
Female Presenter of the Year (HBA): Laura Haldane - silver award
2007
Male Presenter of the Year (HBA): John Murray - gold award
Best Speech Package (HBA): Interview with Gordon Brown - silver award
Best Specialised Music (HBA): Blues & Stuff - bronze award
Station of the Year (HBA) - silver award
2008
Best Radio Broadcast (Creative Fife): The Treatment Table
Male Presenter of the Year (HBA): Neil Ingebrigtsen - bronze award
2010
The John Whitney Award(HBA): John Murray
Website
As a hospital station, VRN streams its output online. A selection of archived m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Milan | The Milan trolleybus system () is part of the public transport network of Milan, Italy. In operation since 1933, the system presently comprises four routes.
History
A trolleybus system was established in Milan in 1933, with the opening of the short route 81 (Piazza Spotorno – Piazza Dergano).
In subsequent decades, the system developed rapidly, with the opening of radial and tangential routes. The new external circular route (originally CE (circolare esterna), now 90/91) was built as a trolleybus line.
In the mid-1970s, it was intended to transform the 90/91 circular route into a light rail line, and abandon the rest of the trolleybus network. Many trolleybus routes were therefore converted into bus routes, and their overhead wires were removed.
Routes abandoned during the 1970s and 1980s were:
81 and 82 (closed 27 September 1976);
83 and MB (closed 25 October 1976);
95 (closed 20 September 1977);
96/97 (closed 5 March 1979);
84 (closed 6 February 1984).
In subsequent years, following the abandonment of the proposal for the 90/91 tram line, there were no more interventions on the system, except for some limited changes to the routes.
Currently, efforts are focused on reducing journey times, with the construction of dedicated lanes. There are no plans to expand the system.
Service
The four routes are:
90 clockwise circle line (Viale Isonzo - Lotto M1 - Viale Isonzo);
91 counter-clockwise circle line (Viale Isonzo - Lotto M1 - Viale Isonzo);
92 Viale Isonzo - Bovisa FN;
93 Viale Omero - Lambrate M2.
Fleet
Milan's current trolleybus fleet is as follows:
70 "Socimi 8820" trolleybuses on Iveco chassis 2470 (nos. 901–970), many of which were sold or dismantled in 2008/2009 (ATM sold 23 vehicles to Ruse, Bulgaria);
33 "Socimi F8843" articulated trolleybuses on Iveco chassis 2480 (nos. 100–132);
33 "Bredabus 4001.18 F04" articulated trolleybuses 4001 (nos. 200–232);
8 "C.A.M. Busotto", also known as "MAN NGT 204" articulated trolleybuses on MAN chassis (nos. 300–307), of which only 2 are still in service;
10 "Irisbus Cristalis" type "ETB 18" articulated trolleybuses (nos. 400–409);
45 "Van Hool AG300T" articulated trolleybuses (nos. 700–744);
30 "Solaris Trollino" 18-metre articulated trolleybuses (nos. 800–829);
1 "Fiat 2472 Viberti" articulated trolleybus (nos. 548), retired from regular service in 1996 and renovated in 2008.
Depots
There are presently two large trolleybus depots in Milan. The first depot is located in Viale Molise, east of the city. This depot accommodates about 70 trolleybuses and 40 articulated trolleybuses. The second depot is in the west of the city, and more specifically in Via Novara. It hosts about 40 articulated trolleybuses.
Both depots are used not only for the storage of trolley buses, but also for diesel powered buses. In contrast with the depots used solely for diesel buses, these depots are fully covered, for the better safeguarding of the fleet.
See also
Trams in Milan
List of tro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter%20Broadcasting | Jupiter Broadcasting is a podcasting network formed by Chris Fisher and Bryan Lunduke in May 2008 following the initial success of The Linux Action Show!
History
In 2008, the company had two shows The Linux Action Show! and CastaBlasta.
By 2017, they were producing nine video and audio podcasts.
In September of 2018, Jupiter Broadcasting announced their merger with Linux Academy, a Linux and cloud training platform.
In December of 2019, Linux Academy was acquired by A Cloud Guru.
In August 2020, on Linux Unplugged 368, Chris Fisher announced Jupiter Broadcasting would be independent again, and 2 shows, Coder Radio and Linux Action News, would resume. Linux Headlines would stay with A Cloud Guru.
Broadcasts
Current
Coder Radio – a talk show which advises listeners on business and software development. It is hosted by Michael Dominick and Chris Fisher.
Linux Action News – Weekly Linux news and analysis by Chris and Wes Payne.
LINUX Unplugged – a spin-off of The Linux Action Show! where the hosts Chris Fisher and Wes Payne (formerly Chris Fisher and Matt Hartley) together with an open Mumble room discusses topics around Linux and its community topics
Self-Hosted – Hosted by Chris Fisher and Alex Kretzschmar. The show covers self-hosting network services and digital software.
Former
Ask Noah – a community oriented Q&A show featuring live callers run by Noah Chelliah. In September 2019, Ask Noah became a part of the Destination Linux Network.
Beer is Tasty – a show which reviewed various beers
BSD Now – an all-encompassing BSD podcast covering a range of topics on a variety of BSDs. It is hosted by Allan Jude and Benedict Reuschling. Previous host Kris Moore left in episode 185. Beginning at episode 349, BSD Now became independent of Jupiter Broadcasting. This was announced on episode 347.
CastaBlasta – a podcast that was hosted by Chris Fisher, Jeremy Randall, Bryan Lunduke, and John. It covered TV shows and movies. Originally an audio-only podcast, it migrated over to video before being put on an indefinite hiatus.
Choose Linux – A show about discovering Linux. Previously hosted by Joe Ressington, Drew DeVore, Ell Marquez and Jason Evangelho of Forbes, who left in episode 11. On April 9, 2020, this show wase retired due to Ressington's termination from A Cloud Guru.
FauxShow – branded as "not a real show, but a social experience". Last broadcast to date was in February 2016. It was hosted by Chris and Angela Fisher.
HowTo Linux – a show focusing on Linux tutorials geared toward new and experienced Linux users. It was hosted by Chris Fisher and Chase Nunes.
In-Depth Look – a show that went in-depth on various technology topics
Tech Talk Today – a daily commentary show focusing on tech news and Internet culture. It was hosted by Chris and Angela Fisher.
Joint Failures – a general entertainment show
Jupiter@Nite – a loose talk show-style show, its theme was based on current events with an emphasis on science and technology
Legend |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Cagliari | The Cagliari trolleybus system () forms part of the public transport network of the city and comune of Cagliari, in the region of Sardinia, Italy.
In operation since 1952, the system presently comprises three routes, serving the city and the surrounding comuni.
Services
The three routes comprising the present Cagliari trolleybus system are:
Parco San Michele – San Bartolomeo
Lungomare Poetto-Cinquini (active during the summer only
Cagliari (Piazza Matteotti) – Selargius – Quartu Sant'Elena – Cagliari (Piazza Matteotti)
Cagliari (Piazza Matteotti) – Quartu Sant'Elena – Selargius – Cagliari (Piazza Matteotti)
Trolleybus fleet
Retired trolleybuses
Fiat 668 Cansa (9 trolleybuses, nos. 501 to 509), served from 1952 to summer 1972.
Fiat 2405 Casaro (11 trolleybuses, nos 551 to 561), served from 1955 to 1986. The only remaining example, no. 552, is kept at the National Museum of TransportIT in La Spezia.
Fiat 2405 Lancia Esatau P (6 trolleybuses, nos. 562 to 567), served from 1957 to 1971.
Fiat 2405 Casaro (25 trolleybuses, nos. 568 to 592), served from 1962 to 1989.
(15 trolleybuses, nos. 601 to 615), served from 1981 to 2003, dismantled in 2008.
Socimi 8839 (20 trolleybuses, nos. 616 to 635), entered service in 1986-87 season, dismantled in 2012.
Current fleet
Socimi 8845 (16 trolleybuses, nos. 636 to 651), entered service in 1991-92 season; six were still active as of mid-2014.
Solaris Trollino 12 (16 trolleybuses, nos. 701 to 716), entered service between March and June 2012.
On order
Van Hool A330T (14 trolleybuses); order placed in May 2014, with delivery due around mid-2015.
See also
Cagliari railway station
List of trolleybus systems in Italy
References
Notes
Books
External links
Cagliari
Cagliari
Transport in Cagliari |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexer%27s%20Annual%20Data%20Miner%20Survey | Rexer Analytics’s Annual Data Miner Survey is the largest survey of data mining, data science, and analytics professionals in the industry. It consists of approximately 50 multiple choice and open-ended questions that cover seven general areas of data mining science and practice: (1) Field and goals, (2) Algorithms, (3) Models, (4) Tools (software packages used), (5) Technology, (6) Challenges, and (7) Future. It is conducted as a service (without corporate sponsorship) to the data mining community, and the results are usually announced at the PAW (Predictive Analytics World) conferences and shared via freely available summary reports. In the 2013 survey, 1259 data miners from 75 countries participated. After 2011, Rexer Analytics moved to a biannual schedule.
Surveys
2020 Survey: 579 participants from 71 countries.
2017 Survey: 1,123 participants from 91 countries.
2015 Survey: 1,220 participants from 72 countries.
2013 Survey: 68-item survey; 1,259 participants from 75 countries.
2011 Survey: 52-item survey; 1,319 participants from over 60 countries. Citations include:
2010 Survey: 50-item survey; 735 participants from 60 countries. Citations include:
2009 Survey: 40-item survey; 710 participants from 58 countries. Citations include:
2008 Survey: 34-item survey; 348 participants from 44 countries. Citations include:
2007 Survey: 27-item survey; 314 participants from 35 countries.
Recent survey results
While the five Data Miner surveys have covered many data mining topics, the three topics that get the most attention in citations and at conference presentations are:
Algorithms: Each year the surveys have consistently shown that decision trees, regression, and cluster analysis form a triad of core algorithms for most data miners. However, a wide variety of algorithms are being used. This is consistent with independent polls of data miners conducted by KDnuggets over the years.
Data Mining Tools: Data miners report using an average of four software tool to conduct their analyses. Over the survey years, R has risen in popularity. In 2010 it overtook SPSS Statistics and SAS to become the tool used by the most data miners. And the 2011 survey showed that R is now being used by close to half of all data miners (47%). STATISTICA has also grown in popularity. From 2007-2009 more data miners indicated that SPSS Clementine (now IBM SPSS Modeler) was their primary data mining tool than any other tool. However, in 2010 and 2011, STATISTICA was cited most frequently as data miners' primary tool. In terms of satisfaction with their tools, in the past few years, STATISTICA, SPSS Modeler, R, KNIME, RapidMiner and Salford Systems have received the strongest satisfaction ratings from data miners in these surveys. The growing popularity of R is consistent with independent polls of data miners conducted by KDnuggets, but the KDnuggets polls show a different picture regarding the popularity of commercial data mining software. Robert Muenchen ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RINGS%20King%20of%20Kings%20Tournament%201999 | The King of Kings Tournament 1999 was a series of three separate mixed martial arts events held by the Fighting Network Rings (RINGS). The tournament took place in both Tokyo and Osaka between October 28, 1999 and February 26, 2000. The tournament was the first of two King of Kings tournaments. The tournament matched up 32 of the best fighters from nine different countries.
Rules
The tournament had two qualifying events: King of Kings 1999 Block A and King of Kings 1999 Block B. The fighters who advance from the qualifying events would compete
in the King of Kings 1999 Final. The fights would consist of two five-minute rounds and, as in all RINGS bouts, no striking was allowed to the head of a grounded opponent.
King of Kings 1999 Block A
The first event of the tournament took place on October 28, 1999 at the Yoyogi National Stadium in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
King of Kings 1999 Block B
The second event of the tournament took place on December 22, 1999 at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium in Osaka, Japan.
Results
King of Kings 1999 Final
The third and final event of the tournament took place on February 26, 2000 at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, Japan.
Results
Tournament Bracket
See also
Fighting Network Rings
List of Fighting Network Rings events
1999 in Fighting Network Rings
2000 in Fighting Network Rings
References
Fighting Network Rings events
1999 in mixed martial arts
2000 in mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts in Japan
Sports competitions in Osaka
Sports competitions in Tokyo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDA%20Adverse%20Event%20Reporting%20System | The FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS or AERS) is a computerized information database designed to support the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) postmarketing safety surveillance program for all approved drug and therapeutic biologic products. The FDA uses FAERS to monitor for new adverse events and medication errors that might occur with these products. It is a system that measures occasional harms from medications to ascertain whether the risk–benefit ratio is high enough to justify continued use of any particular drug and to identify correctable and preventable problems in health care delivery (such as need for retraining to prevent prescribing errors). The system interacts with several related systems including MedWatch and the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System. FAERS replaced legacy AERS system in Sep 2012.
Background
Reporting of adverse events from the point of care is voluntary in the United States. The FDA receives some adverse event and medication error reports directly from health care professionals (such as physicians, pharmacists, nurses and others) and consumers (such as patients, family members, lawyers and others). Health professionals and consumers may also report these events to the products’ manufacturers. If a manufacturer receives an adverse event report, it is required to send the report to the FDA as specified by regulations. The MedWatch site provides information about mandatory reporting.
Structure
The structure of FAERS is in compliance with the international safety reporting guidance (ICH E2B2) issued by the International Conference on Harmonisation. Adverse events in FAERS are coded to terms in the Medical Dictionary for Regulatory Activities terminology (MedDRA)3.
Uses
FAERS is a useful tool for the FDA, which uses it for activities such as looking for new safety concerns that might be related to a marketed product, evaluating a manufacturer's compliance to reporting regulations and responding to outside requests for information. The reports in FAERS are evaluated by clinical reviewers in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) to monitor the safety of products after they are approved by the FDA. If a potential safety concern is identified in AERS, further evaluation might include Epidemiology studies. Based on an evaluation of the potential safety concern, The FDA may take regulatory action(s) to improve product safety and protect the public health, such as updating a product's labeling information, restricting the use of the drug, communicating new safety information to the public, or, in rare cases, removing a product from the market.
Limitations
AERS data does have limitations. First, there is no certainty that the reported event was actually due to the product. The FDA does not require that a causal relationship between a product and event be proven, and reports do not always contain enough detail to properly evaluate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racer%20Mini%20Yonku%3A%20Japan%20Cup | is a Family Computer Mini 4WD-based video game developed and published by Konami, which was released exclusively in Japan in 1989.
References
1989 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Konami games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Racing video games
Tamiya Corporation
Digital tabletop games
Video games based on toys
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%20Premium%20TV | NBA Premium TV was a Philippine pay television sports-oriented network owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation. The channel is a joint venture between Solar and NBA TV. It was a live simulcast broadcast of NBA TV, the league's dedicated channel in the United States.
On September 25, 2019, it announced on the official Facebook page of Basketball TV (BTV) as well as on its Instagram and Twitter accounts that the channel and BTV will cease their operations on October 1, 2019. The final program to air on this channel was a replay of NBA Playoff Playback on September 30, 2019, before signing off at 12:10 a.m. on October 1, 2019.
Upon the channel's termination, Sky Cable and Cignal in their joint statement said that they were jointly negotiating directly with the NBA to make games and programming available to millions of fans in the Philippines, “We have submitted an offer to the NBA and are awaiting a response.” 10 months later, NBA awarded the broadcast rights of its games to Cignal and its sister stations TV5 and One Sports, with Cignal launching its own channel NBA TV Philippines on July 31, 2020.
Features
NBA Premium was the sister channel of Basketball TV (now defunct), but the channel aired more games and NBA-content than its sister channel or ABS-CBN (Free TV partner). Since it was also a re-direct broadcast of NBA TV, there were no local commercial insertions and only aired commercials coming from the US feed and during some NBA games were not to be televised on NBA TV, it used local advertisements and few from the US advertisements. The channel was only dedicated to NBA programs. The channel also retained commentary from US broadcast during the NBA Finals, and also a direct re-broadcast from ABC/ESPN, while BTV and ABS-CBN used the world feed and local commentary, respectively. The channel also aired NBA-related programming during off-season like WNBA games on pre-season games.
History
On April 10, 2017, Sky Cable, Destiny Cable & Sky Direct dropped NBA Premium TV along with Basketball TV, Jack TV, Solar Sports & CT (now defunct) allegedly due to Sky Cable's unpaid carriage fees. However, on October 16, 2018, the channel was restored on Sky Cable & Sky Direct after 18 months of carriage disputes. On October 28, 2018, the channel was dropped again on Sky Cable & Sky Direct. On January 1, 2019, the channel was restored again on Sky Cable and Sky Direct.
Final programming
Season
NBA Regular Season/Post-season Games
Pre-game and Post game shows
Inside the NBA
NBA Action
Fantasy Insider
The Beat
The Jump
NBA TV Marquee Match-up of the week
NBA Gametime Live
NBA All-Star Game
NBA Mid-season Report Card
NBA Special
Playoff Playback
Off season
NBA Greatest Games
Hardwood Classics
NBA Top Games of the Year
NBA Courtside Cinema
Old School Monday
WNBA Regular Season/Play off Games
WNBA Action
Championship Clinchers
Team USA exhibition games
NBA draft
Summer League Games
Training Camp
See also
Basketball TV, NBA Premiu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20to%20Eat%20a%20Small%20Country | How to Eat a Small Country: A Family's Pursuit of Happiness, One Meal at a Time is a memoir by Amy Finley, the Season 3 winner of The Next Food Network Star and former host of The Gourmet Next Door on Food Network. The memoir, released by Clarkson Potter/Random House in April 2011, chronicles her abrupt departure from television in 2008 to save her marriage, moving her family to a rural farm in Burgundy, France and roadtripping around the country in search of some of the disappearing regional dishes written about by Waverly Root in his 1958 book, The Food of France.
Story
A professionally trained cook turned anxious stay-at-home mom, Amy Finley's marriage was already in fragile shape when she sent in an audition tape for the third season of The Next Food Network Star. When she was cast on the show in 2007, her husband, who feared for their privacy and hated the idea of reality shows and what celebrity could do to their marriage, forbade her to participate, but Finley did anyway, hoping to jumpstart her career and self-esteem. But while she was filming the show in New York, her husband retaliated by threatening to divorce her. Finley was the last contestant eliminated from Season 3 before the two person finale and returned home defeated to put her marriage back in order, but was recalled into the competition when one of the finalists had to withdraw, and ultimately was voted the winner and starred in her own cooking show, The Gourmet Next Door. But she gave up the show when she realized her family was so shaky, the stress would probably cause her marriage to fail. To get away from a life that had gotten too complicated, they moved to France and took a road trip Finley had dreamed about since she was living in Paris, falling in love with her husband, and going to culinary school. They drive all over France, and while they are learning about and enjoying regional dishes, Finley tries to figure out how her marriage became so delicate, and how to make it, and herself, strong again.
Critical reception
Some early readers reacted strongly to the book's opening chapter, in which Finley and her husband butcher a rabbit so that Finley can cook ‘’lapin a la moutarde", a traditional dish from Burgundy, where they are living. Throughout the book, Finley frankly discusses other old and disappearing French specialties, like ‘’tete de veau", the boiled face of a baby cow, and some readers found her descriptions off-putting.
Anthony Bourdain, himself notorious for graphic food descriptions, offered a blurb for the cover of the book and called it "an unexpected and delightful memoir." Cookbook author Dorie Greenspan and former Chez Panisse chef David Lebovitz also praised the book on its cover. Kirkus Reviews gave the book five stars and called it a "charming, bare-bones chronicle of a woman reclaiming her family and a couple reclaiming their relationship." Booklist also admired the book and called it a "bold bouillabaisse of a food memoir." The Boston Globe c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron%20Corpus | The Enron Corpus is a database of over 600,000 emails generated by 158 employees of the Enron Corporation in the years leading up to the company's collapse in December 2001. The corpus was generated from Enron email servers by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) during its subsequent investigation. A copy of the email database was subsequently purchased for $10,000 by Andrew McCallum, a computer scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He released this copy to researchers, providing a trove of data that has been used for studies on social networking and computer-mediated communication.
Creation
In the legal investigation into Enron's collapse, the discovery process required collecting and preserving vast amounts of data, for which the FERC hired Aspen Systems (now part of Lockheed Martin). The emails were collected at Enron Corporation headquarters in Houston during two weeks in May 2002 by Joe Bartling, a litigation support and data analysis contractor for Aspen. In addition to the Enron employee emails, all of Enron's enterprise database systems, hosted in Oracle databases on Sun Microsystems servers, were captured and preserved, including its online energy trading platform, EnronOnline.
Once collected, the Enron emails were processed and hosted in proprietary electronic discovery platforms (first Concordance, then iCONECT) for review by investigators from the FERC, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and Department of Justice. At the conclusion of the investigation, and upon the issuance of the FERC staff report, the emails and information collected were deemed to be in the public domain, to be used for historical research and academic purposes. The email archive was made publicly available and searchable via the web using iCONECT 24/7, but the sheer volume of email of over 160GB made it impractical to use. Copies of the collected emails and databases were made available on hard drives.
Jitesh Shetty and Jafar Adibi from the University of Southern California processed the data in 2004 and released a MySQL version. In 2010, EDRM.net published a revised and expanded version 2 of the corpus, containing over 1.7 million messages, which has been made available on Amazon S3 for easy access to the researchers.
Exploitation
The corpus is valued as one of the few publicly available mass collections of real emails easily available for study; such collections are typically bound by numerous privacy and legal restrictions which render them prohibitively difficult to access, such as non-disclosure agreements and data sanitization. Shetty and Adibi, based on their MySQL version, published some link analysis of which user accounts emailed which. Linguistic comparison with more recent email corpora shows changes in the email register of English. It is also used as test or training data for research in natural language processing and machine learning.
References
External links
Tutorial on data modeling with the Enron Corp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaya%20ERS%208800%20Series | Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 8800 Series or ERS 8800, is a range of modular chassis products that combine hardware router and switch used in computer networking, designed and manufactured by Avaya. When an ERS 8000 Chassis, a passive device in its own right, is equipped with the 8895 SF/CPU, this system is known as an Ethernet Routing Switch 8800; conversely, when equipped with an 8692 SF/CPU module (with SuperMezz) the system is known as an Ethernet Routing Switch 8600.
History
In December 2011 this system completed evaluation and certification by the U.S. Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) testing center for use in the United States Department of Defense as an Assured Services Local Area Network (ASLAN).
General performance
The switch architecture for the ERS 8800 supports up to 720 gigabits per second of gross throughput. The Switch Fabric performs up to 512 Gigabits per second in an active/active configuration with a frame forwarding rate of up to 380 million packets per second. The frame length is from 64 to 1,518 bytes, with Jumbo frame support of up to 9,600 bytes. The 8800 supports up to 128 groups of multi-link trunks, with 8 links per group; additionally, it can also support up to 4,000 VLANs, 32 multiple spanning tree groups, 64 thousand MAC addresses, and 1,972 IP interfaces.
References
Further reading
ERS 8800
Hardware routers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Rome | The Rome trolleybus system () forms part of the public transport network of the city and comune of Rome, Italy. In operation since 2005, the current system comprises three routes (60, 74 and 90).
From 1937 to 1972, Rome was served by a much more extensive trolleybus system, which was then the largest in Italy and one of the largest in Europe.
History
The first trolleybus system (1937–1972)
The first route of Rome's original trolleybus system was inaugurated on 8 January 1937. In later years, the system was greatly expanded at the expense of conventional buses, which were regarded at the time as slow and uncomfortable.
Following the suspension of trolleybus services due to World War II, the system was restored and expanded during the post-war era, reaching its maximum length of 137 km in 1957. At its maximum, the fleet consisted of 424 (or 419) trolleybuses, the largest of any Italian city.
In the 1960s, the trolleybus system (as well as Rome's tram network) was considered outdated and costly to maintain. The trolleybus routes were therefore rapidly replaced by conventional buses.
On 2 July 1972, operations ceased on the last surviving trolleybus route of the original system, route 47 (Porto di Ripetta - Santa Maria della Pietà).
The current system (since 2005)
In the early 2000s, Rome's municipal administration decided to reduce car traffic and air pollution by strengthening urban public transport in central Rome, and particularly those forms of public transport powered by electric traction. The administration decided to improve the tram network (but in fact it was reduced), and by reintroducing trolleybuses on the most popular bus routes. An order for 30 Solaris trolleybuses was placed in 2000, to be low-floor, articulated, bi-mode vehicles capable of operating on batteries away from the overhead wiring for a portion of each trip. The sections of route in the city centre would not be equipped with overhead wires. Construction of the infrastructure along the first route (90) began in September 2003, while work to reequip ATAC's Montesacro depot for trolleybuses had begun in late 2002. The first trolleybus was delivered in early 2004.
On 23 March 2005, the new, second trolleybus system opened, as trolleybuses took over the operation of route 90 Express. Route 90 connected Roma Termini railway station with Largo Labia, in the city's northeast suburbs. Of the route's overall length of 11.5 km, the 1.5-km section between Stazione Termini and Porta Pia is not equipped with wiring, and is covered in battery mode. ATAC was proposing the conversion of several more express routes to trolleybuses, with route 60 next.
Plans were announced around late 2007 to construct a network of additional trolleybus routes that would be physically separate from the 2005-opened route and located in the developing southern section of the city and feeding metro line B. The plans called for 26 km of routes, of which 17 km would be equipped with overhead wiring, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Genoa | The Genoa trolleybus system () forms part of the public transport network of the city and comune of Genoa, in the region of Liguria, northern Italy. In operation since 1997, the system currently comprises only one route. Between 2008 and 2012, two routes were being operated.
From 1938 to 1973, Genoa was served by a more extensive system, which reached a maximum length of and eight routes in 1964.
History
The first trolleybus system (1938–73)
Genoa's first trolleybus system was activated on 13 April 1938, to complement the Genoa tram network and replace its steeper sections. On 30 January 1951, trolleybuses replaced trams on the important uphill bypass.
At the time of its greatest extent (1955), the first trolleybus system consisted of nine lines totalling 27 km. Its trolleybus routes served only the central areas of the city, as opposed to the tram network, which stretched across .
In subsequent years, the original system was gradually reduced, by replacing the trolleybus routes with bus routes, until its total closure on 10 June 1973.
The current system (since 1997)
Trolleybuses were reintroduced to Genoa on 26 June 1997, when route 30 was electrified between Foce and Via di Francia. Service was operated by a newly built fleet of 20 Breda two-axle trolleybuses, of which three were available at the time of reopening with delivery and acceptance of the remaining 17 taking place gradually through 1999.
Operation of the new trolleybus system was suspended from June 2000 to December 2002, for cut-and-cover tunnel construction for the Genoa Metro at Piazza De Ferrari. Only a few months later, in May 2003, a four-year suspension of trolleybus service on the western part of the system, west of Piazza delle Fontane Marose in the city centre, began. This was a result of the conversion of Via Balbi from a two-way to a one-way street (westbound only). The latter required the permanent diversion of route 30's eastbound routing to follow Via Gramsci, and some time passed before the new eastbound routing was fitted with overhead trolley wiring. In the meantime, trolleybus service operated as route 30-barrato (Foce – Piazza delle Fontane Marose), while diesel buses served the full route 30. Trolleybus service west of the city centre was reactivated on 13 February 2007.
On 5 May 2008, an extension west from Via di Francia to Sampierdarena entered service, thereby converting route 20 (Foce – Sampierdarena) into a trolleybus route. Route 30, which had been running from Foce to Via di Francia, was curtailed at its east end, to Stazione Brignole (Brignole station), no longer running to Foce. Route 30 operated Monday to Saturday at that time, but in January 2010, its Saturday service was discontinued.
On 15 October 2012, route 30 was replaced by 30-barrata (abbreviated as "30/" at stops and on destination signs), running only between Via di Francia and Piazza Fontane Marose, no longer between the latter point and Stazione Brignole (Viale Duca D'Aosta), |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%203%20Paris%20%C3%8Ele-de-France | France 3 Paris Île-de-France is a regional television service and part of the France 3 network. It is broadcast from its headquarters in Paris. It broadcasts to people in the Île-de-France region. Its content is produced in Paris.
Current presenters
Marlène Blin (Ici 19/20 news)
Carla Carrasqueira (Ici 12/13 news)
Jean-Noël Mirande (weekend news)
Florent Carrière (Dimanche en politique)
Vincent Ferniot (Ensemble c’est mieux !)
Wendy Bouchard (Boulevard de la Seine)
Yvan Hallouin (Paname)
Bertrand Lambert (Parigo)
Other presenters
Séverine Larrouy (replacing 12/13 news)
Céline Cabral (replacing weekend news)
Yannick Le Gall (« Avant le JT »)
Emmanuel Tixier (chronicler « Avant le JT »)
William Van Qui (« 5 minutes pour convaincre »)
Current programming
Ici 12/13
Ici 19/20
Parigo
Dimanche en politique
Enquêtes de région
Paname
Boulevard de la Seine
Ensemble c’est mieux !
La France en vrai
Former presenters
Paul Wermus
Marianne Théoleyre
Sébastien Thomas
Élisabeth de Pourquery
Pierre Lacombe
Maud De Bohan
Jean-Jacques Cros
Laura Massis
Former programming
13 minutes dimanche
La Voix est libre
Vues sur Loire
Elysée Wermus
Le Plus Grand Musée du Monde
See also
France 3 Centre
References
External links
Official site
03 Paris Ile-de-France
Television channels and stations established in 1965
Mass media in Paris
1965 establishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NVM%20Express | NVM Express (NVMe) or Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface Specification (NVMHCIS) is an open, logical-device interface specification for accessing a computer's non-volatile storage media usually attached via the PCI Express bus. The initialism NVM stands for non-volatile memory, which is often NAND flash memory that comes in several physical form factors, including solid-state drives (SSDs), PCIe add-in cards, and M.2 cards, the successor to mSATA cards. NVM Express, as a logical-device interface, has been designed to capitalize on the low latency and internal parallelism of solid-state storage devices.
Architecturally, the logic for NVMe is physically stored within and executed by the NVMe controller chip that is physically co-located with the storage media, usually an SSD. Version changes for NVMe, e.g., 1.3 to 1.4, are incorporated within the storage media, and do not affect PCIe-compatible components such as motherboards and CPUs.
By its design, NVM Express allows host hardware and software to fully exploit the levels of parallelism possible in modern SSDs. As a result, NVM Express reduces I/O overhead and brings various performance improvements relative to previous logical-device interfaces, including multiple long command queues, and reduced latency. The previous interface protocols like AHCI were developed for use with far slower hard disk drives (HDD) where a very lengthy delay (relative to CPU operations) exists between a request and data transfer, where data speeds are much slower than RAM speeds, and where disk rotation and seek time give rise to further optimization requirements.
NVM Express devices are chiefly available in the form of standard-sized PCI Express expansion cards and as 2.5-inch form-factor devices that provide a four-lane PCI Express interface through the U.2 connector (formerly known as SFF-8639). Storage devices using SATA Express and the M.2 specification which support NVM Express as the logical-device interface are a popular use-case for NVMe and have become the dominant form of solid-state storage for servers, desktops, and laptops alike.
Specifications
Specifications for NVMe released to date include:
1.0e (January 2013)
1.1b (July 2014)
1.2 (November 2014)
1.2a (October 2015)
1.2b (June 2016)
1.2.1 (June 2016)
1.3 (May 2017)
1.3a (October 2017)
1.3b (May 2018)
1.3c (May 2018)
1.3d (March 2019)
1.4 (June 2019)
1.4a (March 2020)
1.4b (September 2020)
1.4c (June 2021)
2.0 (May 2021)
2.0a (July 2021)
2.0b (January 2022)
2.0c (October 2022)
Background
Historically, most SSDs used buses such as SATA, SAS, or Fibre Channel for interfacing with the rest of a computer system. Since SSDs became available in mass markets, SATA has become the most typical way for connecting SSDs in personal computers; however, SATA was designed primarily for interfacing with mechanical hard disk drives (HDDs), and it became increasingly inadequate for SSDs, which improved in speed over time. For example, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delissea%20subcordata | Delissea subcordata is a rare species of flowering plant in the bellflower family known by the common names Koʻolau Range delissea and oha. It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known only from the island of Oahu. It is now only found in the Waianae Mountains, and it is believed to be extirpated from the Koʻolau Range, where it once occurred. As of 2008 there were 40 individuals remaining, 28 of which were mature plants. This plant was federally listed as an endangered species of the United States in 1996.
This Hawaiian lobelioid is a shrub which grows up to 3 meters tall and bears white or greenish flowers. It grows in moist forest habitat. Other plants in the forests include ohia lehua (Metrosideros polymorpha) and koa (Acacia koa), which dominate the canopy, and Ēlama (Diospyros hillebrandii), papala kepau (Pisonia spp.), and ʻĀlaʻa (Planchonella sandwicensis) in the understory.
Threats to this rare species and its ecosystem include feral goats and pigs.
References
External links
USDA Plants Profile
Lobelioideae
Endemic flora of Hawaii
Biota of Oahu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPSOL | NPSOL is a software package that performs numerical optimization. It solves nonlinear constrained problems using the sequential quadratic programming algorithm. It was written in Fortran by Philip Gill of UCSD and Walter Murray, Michael Saunders and Margaret Wright of Stanford University. The name derives from a combination of NP for nonlinear programming and SOL, the Systems Optimization Laboratory at Stanford.
References
External links
Description of NPSOL on the Stanford Business Software, Inc. website.
Mathematical software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gostiny%20Dvor%20%28disambiguation%29 | Gostiny dvor () is a historic Russian term for an indoor market or shopping centre.
The term Gostiny Dvor may refer to:
Arkhangelsk Gostiny Dvor, a network of fortified depots built in Arkhangelsk, Russia
Great Gostiny Dvor, the oldest and largest shopping centre in St. Petersburg, Russia
Gostiny Dvor (Saint Petersburg Metro), a station on the Nevsko-Vasileostrovskaya line near the shopping centre
Kostroma Gostiny Dvor, the best preserved complex of provincial Neoclassical trading arcades in Russia
Moscow Gostiny Dvor, the Old Merchant Court in Moscow, Russia
Hostynnyi Dvir (Kyiv), the Neoclassical trade center in Kyiv, Ukraine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iress | Iress is a technology company providing software to the financial services industry in Asia-Pacific, North America, Africa and UK & Europe. Iress software has more than 200 integrations and 300 data feeds, and is used by more than 500,000 users globally.
It is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), and is a member of the S&P/ASX 200 index.
History
Iress stands for Integrated Real-time Equity System. The company was formed in June 1993 as Dunai Financial Systems (DFS) by Peter Dunai, Neil Detering and Hung Do. Two years later the equity information software product ‘Iress’ was launched. In January 1997 Bridge Information Systems acquired 80% of Dunai Financial Systems (DFS) and formed BridgeDFS.
In June 1997 the trading software product ‘Iress Order System (IOS)’ was launched, in line with the ASX options market moving from floor to screen to commence electronic trading. In November 2000, BridgeDFS listed on the Australian Stock Exchange as BIS.ASX. and in October 2001, BridgeDFS changed its name to Iress Market Technology Limited (Iress).
Over the next decade, Iress expanded from a predominantly Australian operation, into a global technology business through a string of acquisitions. The company continued to evolve and expand to serve multiple client segments internationally. It faced a range of competitors, and its software services incorporated global technology trends and financial services regulatory influences.
Key acquisitions
2000: Listed on ASX
2003: Acquired Xplan (AU)
2004: Established Canadian JV (CA)
2006: Bought out Canadian JV (CA), Acquired Plantech (AU)
2007: Acquired Visiplan (AU), Acquired Spotlight (ZA)
2008: Acquired TransActive Systems (AU), Acquired DMS (AU)
2009: Acquired Fund Data (AU)
2010: Commenced operations in Asia, Acquired Sentryi (Asia)
2011: Commenced operations in the UK, Acquired Peresys (ZA)
2013: Acquired Avelo (UK)
2015: Acquired Innergi (AU), Acquired Proquote (UK), Acquired Pulse [10]
2016: Acquired Financial Synergy (AU) [12], Inet BFA (ZA)
2018: Acquired Pathway (AU)
2019: Acquired QuantHouse (FR)
2020: Acquired O&M Systems (UK), Acquired OneVue Holdings Limited (AU)
Software
Financial Advice
Xplan -Advice software platform
CommPay - Revenue & remuneration management software
O&M Profiler - Pensions and investments research and planning software.
Trading and Market Data
Iress Order System - Trade order management software
Pro - Market data & trading software
Market Data - News, data & information service
ViewPoint - Online trading & market data software
QuantFeed - Low latency market data API for high-performance trading
Investment Management
Execution Management System - Multi-asset, multi-market, global trading software
Portfolio System - Portfolio management software
Pulse Symphony (UK) - Front, middle and back office investment management software
O&M Profiler - Pensions and investments research and planning software.
Mortgages
Xplan Mortgage (UK) - Mortgag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Dragon | is a horizontally scrolling shooter released as a coin-op by Jaleco in 1989. Ports to several home computer systems were published by Storm Entertainment in 1990. On February 6, 2020, Saint Dragon was released as part of Hamster's Arcade Archives lineup for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
Gameplay
In Saint Dragon, the player controls the cyborg Saint Dragon, who has rebelled against the tyrannical Monster Cyborg army. Saint Dragon is initially armed with plasma bolts and a fiery breath. By collecting tokens, the dragon's firepower can be upgraded with pulse torpedoes, a laser, bouncing bombs, ring lasers or a turret. Other tokens can upgrade the dragon's speed, weapon power, or initiate a "hyper" mode which endows maximum firepower and invulnerability. In addition, the dragon has an armoured tail which follows the player's movement, allowing it to be used as a defensive shield.
There are five levels, each culminating in a battle with a large end-of-level guardian.
Ports
Storm were a software development team for The Sales Curve (Silkworm, The Ninja Warriors), who were affiliated with Accolade. The conversion project was managed by Dan Marchant, with programming by Andrew Taylor, music by Tony Williams, and graphics by Sean McClurg. Before working on the ZX Spectrum conversion, Taylor spent two weeks reading reviews of other scrolling games and studied videos of the arcade board gameplay. He noted several challenges: "There are some huge sprites in here, some half the size of the screen, which use up a vast amount of memory. The other thing is that in St Dragon each alien seems to make a much more complicated series of moves than in, say, R-Type, so we've got to try and reproduce them all, which is pretty complicated." He also wanted to achieve smooth scrolling, rather than the by-character-block movement in R-Type, without sacrificing speed. A method called "pre-shifts" was eventually used, in which several versions of a sprite are held in memory, each in a slightly different position, then cycled through to give the appearance of smooth movement. This used up more memory, so he restricted the game to the 128K models of Spectrum. The larger sprites, such as the leaping Puma, were handled by dividing them into strips of separate but co-ordinated entities.
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Saint Dragon on their April 1, 1989 issue as being the sixth-most-successful table arcade unit at the time.
The ZX Spectrum conversion was well-received on its initial release. CRASH awarded it 92%, finding the dragon theme to be a refreshing change in the genre. The graphics were highlighted as well-animated, smooth and colourful. Your Sinclair awarded 80%, criticizing the uneven difficulty and low number of levels but praising it as "pretty, tough and a blast-a-minute".
On its budget re-release in 1992, Your Sinclair adjusted their rating to just 29%, criticizing it as "hideously slow, graphically abysmal, impossibly tedious load of old junk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20Free%20Ulema%20%E2%80%93%20Libya | The Network of Free Ulema – Libya is a group of senior religious leaders, or ulama, from all areas of Libya. Due to the persistent's security constraints with families and associates of those opposing Muammar Gaddafi being taken hostage none of the names of members have been released. However, they have been very vocal in the international media throughout the Libyan Civil War, releasing a constant stream of statements, appeals, calls, endorsements, responses and fatwas. Since the liberation of Libya the Network of Free Ulema have formed a larger organization of Libyan religious scholars called the League of Libyan Ulema, headed by Sheikh Umar Abdul Hamid al Mawlud.
Members of the Network
The network consists of senior Muslim religious scholars or ulama, and each have various specializations and different tribal backgrounds from and around Libya. According to the background of the Network posted on the bottom of a press release the members make up a mixture of high-level figures, including senior judges, lawyers, doctors, engineers, university professors, intellectuals, as well as Sufi teachers, writers, and poets. According to the write-up on the network, these include a proportion of young people, and both men and women. Individuals are predominantly educated in Libya, however, there are also many individuals who received their education abroad. According to the Network's statements, they come from a diverse group of "different schools and outlooks" and they believe "in the richness of plurality, including the wisdom of dialogue and communication with all other faiths and cultures."
The network points to the suppression of civil society activity and the strength of the Gaddafi regime over its people during the four-decade-long reign of Muammar Gaddafi. They emphasize however about the Libyan civil society that their network:
Official Statements Libyan civil war
Press Releases
A number of press releases have been released in reaction to the civil war against the former Gaddafi regime.
Saturday 19 February 2011 - STOP THE MASS KILLINGS OF PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATORS IN LIBYA
As the government responded to peaceful protests with massive violence the Libyan clerics released their first statement. The statement came from 'religious Scholars (Faqihs and Sufi Sheikhs), intellectuals, and clan elders from Tripoli, Bani Walid, Zintan, Jadu, Msalata, Misrata, Zawiya, and other towns and villages of the western area of our beloved Libya to all of humanity, to all men and women of good will'.,
Monday 21 February 2011 - CALL FOR FULL REBELLION IN LIBYA,
On 21 February, the Network of Free Ulema called for full rebellion against the Gaddafi regime in Libya. This came after a massive crackdown on peaceful protest by the use of aircraft weaponry, and heavy artillery. The clerics called immediately for people's action against the regime, stating that is a religious duty to oppose tyranny and repression. They suggested that the actions of Gaddafi's governme |
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