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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vista%20Equity%20Partners | Vista Equity Partners is one of the largest American private equity firms focused on financing software, data, and technology-enabled businesses. Vista has invested in hundreds of companies, including Citrix, Ping Identity, and Marketo.
The company has offices in several cities, including Austin, Texas, Chicago, and San Francisco.
In September 2019, Vista Equity Partners raised $16 billion for their flagship fund, which was the largest technology-focused fund ever raised by an independent private equity firm at the time. In June 2023, Vista Equity Partners was ranked 16th in Private Equity International's PEI 300 ranking of the largest private equity firms in the world.
History
2000–2009
Vista Equity Partners was founded in 2000 by American businessman and investor Robert F. Smith, who serves as chairman and CEO. Vista opened its first office in San Francisco in 2000. In November 2008, the company closed a funding round for its first institutional fund with a total of $1.3 billion raised.
Vista is known for applying detailed scrutiny in human resources when investing in firms, in a procedure it calls Vista Standard Operating Procedures.
2010–2019
In 2010, Brian N. Sheth was promoted to president and awarded the title of co-founder of the firm. He remained in this role until his departure in 2020.
In 2011, the company opened an office in Austin, Texas. Over the years, Vista has added several private equity funds and credit funds to its portfolio, including its first fund, the Vista Credit Opportunities Fund, which raised $196 million. During that time, Vista opened several funds that specifically targeted middle-market companies and emerging technology companies. The company also has a permanent capital investment fund, Vista Equity Partners Perennial, which focuses on growing vertical market software companies.
In 2018, Vista was named the top software investor of the past decade by Pitchbook. Also in 2018, Vista's sale of Marketo to Adobe was named Deal of the Year by Buyouts magazine. In 2019, Vista was named Dealmaker of the Year at the PitchBook Private Equity Awards.
2020–present
As of May 2020, Vista had more than $57 billion in capital commitments. In 2020, Vista joined Diligent Corporation's modern leadership initiative and pledged to create five new board roles among its portfolio companies for racially diverse candidates.
As of June 2021, Vista had more than $81 billion in assets under management. In August 2021, its chief operating officer David Breach was announced as president of Vista, the previous incumbent, Brian N. Sheth, a Vista co-founder, resigning in 2020 following the criminal tax investigation of CEO Smith.
In January 2022, it was announced that Citrix Systems had been acquired in a $16.5 billion deal by affiliates of Vista and Evergreen Coast Capital. The all-cash acquisition will see Citrix merge with TIBCO, a Vista portfolio company.
In August 2022, Vista agreed to acquire tax automation software platform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncdocs | Syncdocs is backup and file synchronization software for Google Drive. Syncdocs uses cloud computing to enable users to back up and synchronize Windows computer files to Google Documents and Google Drive accounts.
Features
Full data migration to and from Google Drive cloud.
The program supports editing of local Microsoft Office documents online using Google Docs.
The Windows folder structure is replicated online.
Ability to sync network folders and external USB drives to Google Drive.
Up to 16 accounts can be synced to Google Drive concurrently.
Synchronization of file and folder changes and contacts between Google and local computers.
Compression Support.
End-to-End Google Drive Encryption using 256 bit Advanced Encryption Standard
File versioning and Unicode filename support.
File sharing
Drive mapping of Google Drive to a local drive letter.
The Google Drive client shares some of the same basic features as Syncdocs. The main differences are Syncdocs ability to sync multiple Google accounts concurrently and Syncdocs ability to sync any folders on the PC or network. However, Syncdocs does not have an OS X or Android client, which Google Drive does.
See also
File synchronization
Comparison of file synchronization software
Backup
List of backup software
Dropbox
GDocsDrive
Google Drive
References
External links
http://www.syncdocs.com
Backup software
File hosting
Data synchronization
File sharing software
Cloud storage
Email attachment replacements
Online backup services
Cloud applications
File hosting for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra%20Programming%20Language | Zebra Programming Language (ZPL) is a page description language from Zebra Technologies, used primarily for labeling applications. The original language was superseded by ZPL II, but it is not fully compatible with the older version. ZPL II is supported by some non-Zebra label printers.
Later, the Zebra BASIC Interpreter (ZBI) was integrated into printer software, which is seen as an advancement to ZPL II by the producer and is ANSI BASIC oriented. Primarily, it is intended to avoid a refactoring of code when changing the printer, if the old printer software was written by a label printer of a competitor. A possible use of ZBI could be for when the Zebra printer receives a foreign label format, which it would then convert to ZPL II on the fly so it can be printed.
Commands
The language commands always start with a caret ('^') or tilde sign ('~'). ZPL II has more than 170 commands. Each format has to start with the command ^XA and end with ^XZ. For instance, the font size is sent to the printer with the ^ADN,n,m command, where n and m are integers denoting the font size and spacing characteristics; ^ADN,18,10 is the smallest size and ^ADN,180,100 the largest.
The following is a complete example of a ZPL document for a product label:
^XA
^CF0,30
^FO300,30^FDHU Label^FS
^CF0,25
^FO20,100^FDHU ID: 112345678000001107^FS
^BY2.2,3,70
^FO20,130^BCN,,N^FD112345678000001107^FS
^FO20,230^FD60-Volt Cordless Electric Hedge Trimmer^FS
^FO20,260^FD13^FS
^FO650,200^BQN,2,5^FDQA,^FS
^XZ
See also
Eltron Programming Language (EPL)
References
External links
Programming Guide (PN: P1012728-008 Rev. A)
ZPL II Programming Guide (vol. I)
ZPL II Programming Guide (vol. II)
Online ZPL Viewer from Labelary
Page description languages
Printing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astr%C3%A9e%20%28static%20analysis%29 | Astrée ("Analyseur statique de logiciels temps-réel embarqués") is a static analyzer based on abstract interpretation. It analyzes programs written in the C and C++ programming languages and outputs an exhaustive list of possible runtime errors and assertion violations. The defect classes covered include divisions by zero, buffer overflows, dereferences of null or dangling pointers, data races, deadlocks, etc. Astrée includes a static taint checker and helps finding cybersecurity vulnerabilities, such as Spectre.
The tool is tailored towards safety-critical embedded code: specific analysis techniques are used for common control theory constructs (finite state machines, digital filters, rate limiters...) and floating-point numbers.
Concurrent code is analyzed with a sound interleaving semantics that is aware of the concurrent threads of execution, their priorities and synchronization mechanisms. Astrée supports the ARINC 653, OSEK and AUTOSAR execution models and can be adapted to additional OS specifications. On multi-core processors the placement of threads to cores, and the usage of mutex locks and spinlocks are taken into account.
Astrée was developed in Patrick Cousot's group at École Normale Supérieure, a joint group with CNRS, and is marketed by AbsInt GmbH. It is used in the defense/aerospace, industrial control, electronic, and automotive industries. One of the main industrial users is Airbus.
Astrée is a commercial product available from AbsInt Angewandte Informatik.
See also
List of tools for static code analysis
Bibliography
Bruno Blanchet, Patrick Cousot, Radhia Cousot, Jérôme Feret, Laurent Mauborgne, Antoine Miné, David Monniaux & Xavier Rival. Design and Implementation of a Special-Purpose Static Program Analyzer for Safety-Critical Real-Time Embedded Software, invited chapter. In The Essence of Computation: Complexity, Analysis, Transformation. Essays Dedicated to Neil D. Jones, T. Mogensen and D.A. Schmidt and I.H. Sudborough (Editors). Volume 2566 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 85–108, Springer.
Bruno Blanchet, Patrick Cousot, Radhia Cousot, Jérôme Feret, Laurent Mauborgne, Antoine Miné, David Monniaux, & Xavier Rival, A Static Analyzer for Large Safety-Critical Software., In PLDI 2003 — ACM SIGPLAN SIGSOFT Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, 2003 Federated Computing Research Conference, June 7—14, 2003, San Diego, California, USA, pp. 196–207, ACM.
David Delmas and Jean Souyris. Astrée: from Research to Industry., Proc. 14th International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2007, G. Filé & H. Riis-Nielson (eds), Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, 22–24 August 2007, LNCS 4634, pp. 437–451
Arnaud J. Venet and Michael R. Lowry. 2010. Static analysis for software assurance: soundness, scalability and adaptiveness. In Proceedings of the FSE/SDP workshop on Future of software engineering research (FoSER '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 393-396.
Jean-Louis Boulanger. Static Analysis of Software: T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred%20Cow%20%28Bob%27s%20Burgers%29 | "Sacred Cow" is the third episode of the first season of the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers. "Sacred Cow" originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 23, 2011.
The episode was written by Nora Smith and directed by Jennifer Coyle. According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed in 4.81 million viewers in its original airing. The episode featured guest performances by Todd Barry, Larry Murphy, and Paul F. Tompkins.
Plot
Bob celebrates the restaurant's 100,000th burger and puts it on sale for half-price. A controversial documentary filmmaker named Randy (Paul F. Tompkins) starts filming his new documentary outside the restaurant, and ties a cow, named "Moolissa" (a male cow with a blonde wig on it) outside the restaurant. Bob sees this, and Randy explains his challenge for him: he can kill Moolissa and make her into a burger, or let her live; he is to make his decision when a timer placed outside the restaurant, called the "Cow-ntdown," stops. Bob becomes embarrassed about the whole situation, as well as Louise frequently calling him a murderer. Despite this, as a result of the publicity, the restaurant starts attracting more customers.
Later that night, Bob has a nightmare where he is in court, accused of killing Moolissa, and loses the case. He wakes up and sees it is raining outside and finds that Randy has left Moolissa tied-up outside in the rain. Feeling sorry for Moolissa, Bob decides to let him into the house. While the children react positively to the idea, Linda demands that Bob put the animal back outside. However, they fail to get Moolissa down the stairs, and as a result he ends up staying inside with the Belchers. Randy finds Bob with the steer inside and reminds him that he has two days until the Cow-ntdown ends and to make his decision. The next morning, Linda reveals that she successfully let Moolissa out of the house (by putting him on a mattress with socks on), only to discover Moolissa missing.
Meanwhile, Tina and Louise discover that Moolissa's feces resembles a smiley face emoticon. This leads Tina to believe that Moolissa is sending messages to her through his feces. Louise then decides to prank Tina by shaping Moolissa's feces into emoticon symbols with a pastry bag to lead Tina into thinking that he is still sending messages to her. One night, however, Louise decides to shape the feces into the shape of an "angry face" emoticon. Tina becomes upset after reading this and decides it is time for her and Moolissa to move on.
With Moolissa stolen, the Belcher family and the film crew team up to look for her, and discover that the cow was taken by a couple as an attraction for their discount petting zoo. That night, they successfully take her back, and get back to the restaurant in time for the timer to end and for Bob to make his decision. However, Bob says he wants more time, leading to an argument between him and Randy. As they argue, they fail to notice that Moolissa is walking across the road i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKBK-FM | CKBK-FM is a low-power FM radio station which broadcasts a First Nations community radio programming on the frequency 104.3 MHz in Thamesville, Ontario, Canada.
Owned by Lenape Community Radio Society, the station received Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approval on April 14, 2011.
The station began testing on January 30, 2012, and officially launched in April 2012.
Technical issues
Thamesville is located more than from Detroit, Michigan. Since the newly launched Thamesville station operates at 104.3 MHz with only 50 watts, there are possibilities that the new First Nations community radio station may receive co-channel interference from a significantly much higher powered 190,000-watt FM radio station, WOMC, which operates at 104.3 MHz from its transmitter in Ferndale, Michigan.
References
External links
Homepage of the Lenape (Delaware) Nation, includes information on CKBK-FM
KBK
KBK
Radio stations established in 2012
2012 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal%20immigration%20to%20the%20United%20Kingdom | Although it is difficult to measure how many people reside in the UK without authorisation, a Home Office study based on Census 2001 data released in March 2005 estimated a population of between 310,000 and 570,000. The methods used to arrive at a figure are also much debated. Problems arise in particular from the very nature of the target population, which is hidden and mostly wants to remain so. The different definitions of 'illegality' adopted in the studies also pose a significant challenge to the comparability of the data. However, despite the methodological difficulties of estimating the number of people living in the UK without authorisation, the residual method has been widely adopted. This method subtracts the known number of authorised migrants from the total migrant population to arrive at a residual number which represents the de facto number of unauthorised migrants.
More recently, a study carried out by a research team at LSE for the Greater London Authority, published in 2009, estimated the illegal migrant population of the UK by updating the Home Office study. The LSE's study takes into account other factors not included in the previous estimate, namely the continued arrival of asylum seekers, the clearance of the asylum applications backlog, further illegal migrants entering and leaving the country, more migrants overstaying, and the regularisation of EU accession citizens.
The most significant change in this estimate is, however, the inclusion of children born in the UK to illegal immigrants. For the LSE team illegal migrants oscillate between 417,000 and 863,000, including a population of UK-born children ranging between 44,000 and 144,000. Drawing on this and taking stock of the outcome of the recent Case Resolution Programme, a University of Oxford study by Nando Sigona and Vanessa Hughes estimated at the end of 2011 a population of illegal migrant children of 120,000, with over half born in the UK to parents residing without legal immigration status. A Greater London Authority funded study by researchers at the University of Wolverhampton's Institute for Community Research and Development updated these figures in 2020, and estimated that the figure in April 2017 was between 594,000 and 745,000 including between 191,000 and 241,000 children.
Definitions
According to the House of Commons Library, several definitions for a migrant exist in United Kingdom so that a migrant can be:
Someone whose country of birth is different to their country of residence.
Someone whose nationality is different to their country of residence.
Someone who changes their country of usual residence for a period of at least a year, so that the country of destination effectively becomes the country of usual residence.
Illegal immigrants in the UK include those who have:
entered the UK without authority
entered with false documents
overstayed their visas
worked or studied on a tourist visa/ non-immigrant visa waiver
entered into for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis%20%28computer%20programming%29 | In computer programming, ellipsis notation (.. or ...) is used to denote ranges, an unspecified number of arguments, or a parent directory. Most programming languages require the ellipsis to be written as a series of periods; a single (Unicode) ellipsis character cannot be used.
Ranges
In some programming languages (including Ada, Perl, Ruby, Apache Groovy, Kotlin, Haskell, and Pascal), a shortened two-dot ellipsis is used to represent a range of values given two endpoints; for example, to iterate through a list of integers between 1 and 100 inclusive in Perl:
foreach (1..100)
In Ruby the ... operator denotes a half-open range, i.e. that includes the start value but not the end value.
In Rust the ..= operator denotes an inclusive range for cases in matches and the .. operator represents a range not including the end value.
Perl and Ruby overload the ".." operator in scalar context as a flip-flop operator - a stateful bistable Boolean test, roughly equivalent to "true while x but not yet y", similarly to the "," operator in sed and AWK.
GNU C compatible compilers have an extension to the C and C++ language to allow case ranges in switch statements:
switch(u) {
case 0 ... 0x7F : putchar(c); break;
case 0x80 ... 0x7FF : putchar(0xC0 + c>>6); putchar( 0x80 + c&0x3f); break;
case 0x800 ... 0xFFFF : putchar(0xE0 + c>>12); putchar( 0x80 + (c>>6)&0x3f); putchar( 0x80 + (c>>12) ); break;
default: error("not supported!");
}
Additionally, GNU C allows a similar range syntax for designated initializers, available in the C language only:
int array[10] = { [0...5] = 1 };
Delphi / Turbo Pascal / Free Pascal:
var FilteredChars: set of [#0..#32,#127,'a'..'z'];
var CheckedItems: set of [4,10..38,241,58];
In the Unified Modeling Language (UML), a two-character ellipsis is used to indicate variable cardinality of an association. For example, a cardinality of 1..* means that the number of elements aggregated in an association can range from 1 to infinity (a usage equivalent to Kleene plus).
Parent directory
On Windows and Unix-like operating systems, ".." is used to access the parent directory in a path.
Incomplete code
In Perl and Raku the 3-character ellipsis is also known as the "yada yada yada" operator and, similarly to its linguistic meaning, serves as a "stand-in" for code to be inserted later.
Python3 also allows the 3-character ellipsis to be used as an expressive place-holder for code to be inserted later.
In Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1), the ellipsis is used as an extension marker to indicate the possibility of type extensions in future revisions of a protocol specification. In a type constraint expression like A ::= INTEGER (0..127, ..., 256..511) an ellipsis is used to separate the extension root from extension additions. The definition of type A in version 1 system of the form A ::= INTEGER (0..127, ...) and the definition of type A in version 2 system of the form A ::= INTEGER (0..127, ..., 256..511) constitut |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-fast%20trie | In computer science, a y-fast trie is a data structure for storing integers from a bounded domain. It supports exact and predecessor or successor queries in time O(log log M), using O(n) space, where n is the number of stored values and M is the maximum value in the domain. The structure was proposed by Dan Willard in 1982 to decrease the O(n log M) space used by an x-fast trie.
Structure
A y-fast trie consists of two data structures: the top half is an x-fast trie and the lower half consists of a number of balanced binary trees. The keys are divided into groups of O(log M) consecutive elements and for each group a balanced binary search tree is created. To facilitate efficient insertion and deletion, each group contains at least (log M)/4 and at most 2 log M elements. For each balanced binary search tree a representative r is chosen. These representatives are stored in the x-fast trie. A representative r need not be an element of the tree associated with it, but it does need be an integer smaller than the successor of r and the minimum element of the tree associated with that successor and greater than the predecessor of r and the maximum element of the tree associated with that predecessor. Initially, the representative of a tree will be an integer between the minimum and maximum element in its tree.
Since the x-fast trie stores O(n / log M) representatives and each representative occurs in O(log M) hash tables, this part of the y-fast trie uses O(n) space. The balanced binary search trees store n elements in total which uses O(n) space. Hence, in total a y-fast trie uses O(n) space.
Operations
Like van Emde Boas trees and x-fast tries, y-fast tries support the operations of an ordered associative array. This includes the usual associative array operations, along with two more order operations, Successor and Predecessor:
Find(k): find the value associated with the given key
Successor(k): find the key/value pair with the smallest key larger than or equal to the given key
Predecessor(k): find the key/value pair with the largest key less than or equal to the given key
Insert(k, v): insert the given key/value pair
Delete(k): remove the key/value pair with the given key
Find
A key k can be stored in either the tree of the smallest representative r greater than k or in the tree of the predecessor of r since the representative of a binary search tree need not be an element stored in its tree. Hence, one first finds the smallest representative r greater than k in the x-fast trie. Using this representative, one retrieves the predecessor of r. These two representatives point to two balanced binary search trees, both of which one searches for k.
Finding the smallest representative r greater than k in the x-fast trie takes O(log log M). Using r, finding its predecessor takes constant time. Searching the two balanced binary search trees containing O(log M) elements each takes O(log log M) time. Hence, a key k can be found, and its value retrieved, i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust%20boundary | Trust boundary is a term used in computer science and security which describes a boundary where program data or execution changes its level of "trust," or where two principals with different capabilities exchange data or commands. The term refers to any distinct boundary where within a system all sub-systems (including data) have equal trust. An example of an execution trust boundary would be where an application attains an increased privilege level (such as root). A data trust boundary is a point where data comes from an untrusted source--for example, user input or a network socket.
A "trust boundary violation" refers to a vulnerability where computer software trusts data that has not been validated before crossing a boundary.
References
Computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Drew%20Carey%27s%20Improv-A-Ganza%20episodes | Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza is an improvisational comedy television program that aired in the United States on the Game Show Network (GSN). A total of 40 episodes were produced during the series' only season in 2011.
Episode table
References
Lists of American comedy television series episodes
Lists of American non-fiction television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20Circular%20Dichroism%20Data%20Bank | The Protein Circular Dichroism Data Bank (PCDDB) is a database of circular dichroism and synchrotron radiation.
See also
Circular dichroism
Synchrotron radiation
References
External links
http://pcddb.cryst.bbk.ac.uk.
Biological databases
Polarization (waves)
Protein structure
Electromagnetic radiation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryad%20%28repository%29 | Dryad is an international open-access repository of research data, especially data underlying scientific and medical publications (mainly of evolutionary, genetic, and ecology biology). Dryad is a curated general-purpose repository that makes data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. The scientific, educational, and charitable mission of Dryad is to provide the infrastructure for and promote the re-use of scholarly research data.
The vision of Dryad is a scholarly communication system in which learned societies, publishers, institutions of research and education, funding bodies and other stakeholders collaboratively sustain and promote the preservation and reuse of research data.
Dryad aims to allow researchers to validate published findings, explore new analysis methodologies, re-purpose data for research questions unanticipated by the original authors, and perform synthetic studies such as formal meta-analyses. For many publications, existing data repositories do not capture the whole data package. As a result, many important datasets are not being preserved and are no longer available, or usable, at the time that they are sought by later investigators.
Dryad serves as a repository for tables, spreadsheets, flat files, and all other kinds of published data for which specialized repositories do not already exist. Optimally, authors submit data to Dryad in conjunction with article publication, so that links to the data can be included in the published article. All data files in Dryad are associated with a published article, and are made available for reuse under the terms of a Creative Commons Zero waiver.
Dryad is also a non-profit membership organization registered in the US, providing a forum for all stakeholders to set priorities for the repository, participate in planning, and share knowledge and coordinate action around data policies.
Dryad is listed in the Registry of Research Data Repositories re3data.org.
Features
Dryad enables authors, journals, societies and publishers to facilitate data archiving at the time of publication, when the data are readily available. Data in Dryad receives a permanent, unique Digital object identifier (DOI), which can be included in the published article so that readers are able to access the data. Authors can archive data in Dryad and be assured of its preservation, while satisfying journals' and research funding agencies' mandates to disseminate their research outputs.
Authors submit data to Dryad either when the associated article is under review or has been accepted for publication. The choice depends on whether the journal includes data within the scope of peer reviewer. Authors may also submit data after an article has been published.
Data submission is facilitated by journals sending notices of new manuscripts to Dryad. This saves authors from having to re-enter the bibliographic details when they upload their data files.
Dryad curators review submitted data files and perform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%9312%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 2011–12 daytime network television schedule for four of the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 2011 to August 2012. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, and any series canceled after the 2010–11 season.
Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included are stations affiliated with Fox (as the network does not air a daytime network schedule or network news expect on Sundays), MyNetworkTV (as the programming service also does not offer daytime programs of any kind), and Ion Television (as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns).
Legend
Schedule
New series are highlighted in bold.
All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.
Monday-Friday
Note: After Good Afternoon America aired its final broadcast on September 7, ABC turned the 3:00 p.m. ET hour over to its owned-and-operated stations and affiliates to accommodate syndicated programming.
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
ABC World News
General Hospital
Good Morning America
One Life to Live
The View
This Week
New series:
The Chew
Good Afternoon America
The Revolution
Litton's Weekend Adventure
Jack Hanna's Wild Countdown
Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin
Born to Explore with Richard Wiese
Culture Click
Everyday Health
Food for Thought with Claire Thomas
Sea Rescue
Not returning from 2010–11:
All My Children
ABC Kids
The Emperor's New School
Hannah Montana
The Replacements
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
That's So Raven
CBS
Returning series:
The Bold and the Beautiful
CBS Evening News
CBS News Sunday Morning
The Early Show
Face the Nation
Let's Make a Deal
The Price Is Right
The Talk
The Young and the Restless
Cookie Jar TV
Busytown Mysteries
Horseland
New series:
CBS This Morning
Cookie Jar TV
Danger Rangers
The Doodlebops
Not returning from 2010-11:
Cookie Jar TV
Doodlebops Rockin’ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffman%E2%80%93Graham%20algorithm | The Coffman–Graham algorithm is an algorithm for arranging the elements of a partially ordered set into a sequence of levels. The algorithm chooses an arrangement such that an element that comes after another in the order is assigned to a lower level, and such that each level has a number of elements that does not exceed a fixed width bound . When , it uses the minimum possible number of distinct levels, and in general it uses at most times as many levels as necessary.
It is named after Edward G. Coffman, Jr. and Ronald Graham, who published it in 1972 for an application in job shop scheduling. In this application, the elements to be ordered are jobs, the bound is the number of jobs that can be scheduled at any one time, and the partial order describes prerequisite relations between the jobs. The goal is to find a schedule that completes all jobs in minimum total time. Subsequently, the same algorithm has also been used in graph drawing, as a way of placing the vertices of a directed graph into layers of fixed widths so that most or all edges are directed consistently downwards.
For a partial ordering given by its transitive reduction (covering relation), the Coffman–Graham algorithm can be implemented in linear time using the partition refinement data structure as a subroutine. If the transitive reduction is not given, it takes polynomial time to construct it.
Problem statement and applications
In the version of the job shop scheduling problem solved by the Coffman–Graham algorithm, one is given a set of jobs , together with a system of precedence constraints requiring that job be completed before job begins. Each job is assumed to take unit time to complete. The scheduling task is to assign each of these jobs to time slots on a system of identical processors, minimizing the makespan of the assignment (the time from the beginning of the first job until the completion of the final job). Abstractly, the precedence constraints define a partial order on the jobs, so the problem can be rephrased as one of assigning the elements of this partial order to levels (time slots) in such a way that each time slot has at most as many jobs as processors (at most elements per level), respecting the precedence constraints. This application was the original motivation for Coffman and Graham to develop their algorithm.
In the layered graph drawing framework outlined by the input is a directed graph, and a drawing of a graph is constructed in several stages:
A feedback arc set is chosen, and the edges of this set reversed, in order to convert the input into a directed acyclic graph with (if possible) few reversed edges.
The vertices of the graph are given integer -coordinates in such a way that, for each edge, the starting vertex of the edge has a higher coordinate than the ending vertex, with at most vertices sharing the same -coordinate. In this way, all edges of the directed acyclic graph and most edges of the original graph will be oriented consis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer%20data%20management | Customer data management (CDM) is the ways in which businesses keep track of their customer information and survey their customer base in order to obtain feedback. CDM includes a range of software or cloud computing applications designed to give large organizations rapid and efficient access to customer data. Surveys and data can be centrally located and widely accessible within a company, as opposed to being warehoused in separate departments. CDM encompasses the collection, analysis, organizing, reporting and sharing of customer information throughout an organization. Businesses need a thorough understanding of their customers’ needs if they are to retain and increase their customer base. Efficient CDM solutions provide companies with the ability to deal instantly with customer issues and obtain immediate feedback. As a result, customer retention and customer satisfaction can show marked improvement. According to a study by Aberdeen Group, "above-average and best-in-class companies... attain greater than 20% annual improvement in retention rates, revenues, data accuracy and partner/customer satisfaction rates."
Customer data management and cloud computing
Cloud computing offers an attractive choice for CDM in many companies due to its accessibility and cost-effectiveness. Businesses can decide who, within their company, should have the ability to create, adjust, analyze or share customer information. In December 2010, 52% of Information Technology (IT) professionals worldwide were deploying, or planning to deploy, cloud computing; this percentage is far higher in many countries.
Uses for management
Customer data management
should provide a cost-effective, user-friendly solution for marketing, research, sales, human resources and IT departments
enables companies to create and email online surveys, reports and newsletters
encompasses and simplifies customer relationship management (CRM) and customer feedback management (CFM)
Background
Customer data management, as a term, was coined in the 1990s, pre-dating the alternative term enterprise feedback management (EFM). CDM was introduced as a software solution that would replace earlier disc-based or paper-based surveys and spreadsheet data. Initially, CDM solutions were marketed to businesses as software, which were specific to one company, and often to one department within that company. This was superseded by application service providers (ASPs) where software was hosted for end user organizations, thus avoiding the necessity for IT professionals to deploy and support software. However, ASPs with their single-tenancy architecture were, in turn, superseded by software as a service (SaaS), engineered for multi-tenancy. By 2007 SaaS applications, giving businesses on-demand access to their customer information, were rapidly gaining popularity compared with ASPs. Cloud computing now includes SaaS and many prominent CDM providers offer cloud-based applications to their clients.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem%20Solvers | Problem Solvers may refer to:
The Problem Solverz, an animated television series aired on Cartoon Network
"The Problem Solvers", an episode of sitcom 30 Rock
Problem Solvers Caucus, in U.S. politics
See also
Problem solving |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Kriegsman | Mark Edwin Kriegsman (born 1966) is an American entrepreneur, computer programmer, inventor, writer, and former Director of Engineering at Veracode.
Open source, web, and software security work
Kriegsman has been writing and porting open-source software for 30 years. He founded and ran pioneering software companies, including Document.com, later acquired by Merrill, and Clearway Technologies, acquired by Mirror Image Internet. After college, Kriegsman worked for Cognitive Systems, Inc. (started by notable AI researcher Roger Schank), developing large scale rule-based, statistical, and text-processing AI systems. He later integrated those three technologies in a paper he wrote for IEEE. Designing document management systems at Interleaf led him to found his first startup, Document.com. After founding Clearway, Kriegsman was a senior developer at @stake, which was later acquired by Symantec.
Clearway created the FireSite web accelerator and content delivery network, and the early WebArcher internet search tool. In late 1998, Clearway was involved in an early ad-blocking controversy. Its release of the ad blocking web software AdScreen angered its user base and spurred a lively discussion of the role of advertisements in web publishing. Based on user feedback, Clearway pulled AdScreen just two days later.
Kriegsman is an active participant in several, often overlapping, areas of software development. He is one of the founders of Veracode, reflecting a long-standing interest in software security. He is also, however, interested in both secure information sharing and the open-access movement, and has been an outspoken skeptic of what he sees as shady business practices in the computer industry.
Background
Kriegsman's fascination with computers caught the attention of a local newspaper in 1979, when he was 13. Lucy Meyer of the New Jersey Summit Herald reported that "Mark... likes to make up programs, sometimes patterns and sometimes short programs 'that just pop into my head.' He parlayed this skill and interest into writing computer games; at age 15 he released his first game, "StarBlaster", and later his second, "Panic Button."
He graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst Massachusetts, where he studied cognitive science. After graduation, Kriegsman worked for Cognitive Systems, Inc., and later went on to found several successful technology companies, starting with Document.com and later including Clearway and Veracode.
Kriegsman is a descendant of William Bradford, leader of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, as well as of early Santa Fe merchants Willi and Flora Spiegelberg. Willi was the Mayor of Santa Fe from 1884–1886.
He lives in Massachusetts with his child Ness.
Patents
Kriegsman holds the following patents:
Patents concerning Content Delivery Networks and Systems:
US Patent 5,991,809, 1999
US Patent 6,370,580, 2002
US Patent 6,480,893, 2002
US Patent 6,915,329, 2005
Patent concerning dynamic web page assembly and c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen%20Superstar | Kitchen Superstar is a 2011 Philippine television reality competition cooking show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Marvin Agustin, it premiered on April 4, 2011 replacing Kapuso Movie Festival. The show concluded on July 1, 2011 with a total of 63 episodes.
Premise
The program sought to discover the best non-professional cook in the Philippines. The contestants were selected from auditions in National Capital Region, Pangasinan, Pampanga, Davao City, Naga, Cebu and Iloilo.
The prizes for the winner; PH₱ 1,000,000, a chance to shine as a culinary A-lister and to star in his/her own cooking show.
Contestants
Top 15
Teresa "Ting" Lledo – Pangasinan - winner
Arabella "Ara" Padilla – NCR
Teresa "Ting" Lledo – Pangasinan
TJ Temelo – Iloilo
Judiel "Jude" Trogani – Iloilo - Eliminated, June 21, 2011
Janice Andaya – Pangasinan - Eliminated, June 27, 2011
Maria Riza Santos – Pampanga - Eliminated, June 13, 2011
Aileen Asilom – Davao - Quit, June 3, 2011
Maria Marlene Carlos – NCR - Eliminated, May 31, 2011
Michael John "MJ" Nicasio – Cebu - Eliminated, May 31, 2011
Red Zamora – Iloilo - Eliminated, May 18, 2011
Fe Dorina "Dorie" De Paz – NCR - Eliminated, May 13, 2011
Sonny Azarcon – Naga - Eliminated, May 6, 2011
Dolph Gonzales – Pangasinan - Eliminated, April 29, 2011
Joer Rosal – Naga - Eliminated, April 19, 2011
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Kitchen Superstar earned a 13.6% rating. While the final episode scored a 4.3% rating in Mega Manila People/Individual television rating.
References
External links
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lero%20%28software%20engineering%29 | Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, Ireland, is a world-leading Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) research centre. It was established in 2005 as an SFI Centre for Science Engineering and Technology (CSET), being one of nine (originally ten) such centres established by the Irish Government in various areas of science and engineering.
Overview
Hosted at University of Limerick, Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, is home to around 250 active researchers across eight Irish universities and three Institutes of Technology. Its research spans a wide range of application domains from driverless cars to artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, fintech, govtech, smart communities, agtech and healthtech.
Lero brings together researchers from University of Limerick, Dublin City University, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Galway, University College Cork, Munster Technological University, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Waterford Institute of Technology and Limerick Institute of Technology.
As the world’s second largest software exporter, Ireland is recognised internationally as a leading location for companies in the software sector and Lero is a key pillar of that. Fifteen out of the top 20 global technology firms have strategic operations in Ireland. Lero actively engages with industry and currently has in the region of 50 industry partners.
Leadership
Lero's first Centre Director was Professor Kevin T Ryan and its Scientific Director was Professor Klaus Pohl. Professor Mike Hinchey was appointed Director of Lero in mid-2010. Professor Bashar Nuseibeh served as Chief Scientist from 2010 to 2014 and was succeeded by Professor Brian Fitzgerald. In 2016, Professor Fitzgerald was appointed Director of Lero and continues to lead the centre today. Professor Nuseibeh returned to the role of Chief Scientist, a position he holds today.
Joe Gibbs was appointed General Manager in 2018 replacing Brendan O’Malley. Mr Gibbs previously held the role of Business Development Manager at the centre.
References
Educational institutions established in 2005
University of Limerick
Research institutes in the Republic of Ireland
Software engineering organizations
2005 establishments in Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch%20and%20price | In applied mathematics, branch and price is a method of combinatorial optimization for solving integer linear programming (ILP) and mixed integer linear programming (MILP) problems with many variables. The method is a hybrid of branch and bound and column generation methods.
Description of the algorithm
Branch and price is a branch and bound method in which at each node of the search tree, columns may be added to the linear programming relaxation (LP relaxation). At the start of the algorithm, sets of columns are excluded from the LP relaxation in order to reduce the computational and memory requirements and then columns are added back to the LP relaxation as needed. The approach is based on the observation that for large problems most columns will be nonbasic and have their corresponding variable equal to zero in any optimal solution. Thus, the large majority of the columns are irrelevant for solving the problem.
The algorithm typically begins by using a reformulation, such as Dantzig–Wolfe decomposition, to form what is known as the Master Problem. The decomposition is performed to obtain a problem formulation that gives better bounds when the relaxation is solved than when the relaxation of the original formulation is solved. But, the decomposition usually contains many variables and so a modified version, called the Restricted Master Problem, that only considers a subset of the columns is solved. Then, to check for optimality, a subproblem called the pricing problem is solved to find columns that can enter the basis and reduce the objective function (for a minimization problem). This involves finding a column that has a negative reduced cost. Note that the pricing problem itself may be difficult to solve but since it is not necessary to find the column with the most negative reduced cost, heuristic and local search methods can be used. The subproblem must only be solved to completion in order to prove that an optimal solution to the Restricted Master Problem is also an optimal solution to the Master Problem. Each time a column is found with negative reduced cost, it is added to the Restricted Master Problem and the relaxation is reoptimized. If no columns can enter the basis and the solution to the relaxation is not integer, then branching occurs.
Most branch and price algorithms are problem specific since the problem must be formulated in such a way so that effective branching rules can be formulated and so that the pricing problem is relatively easy to solve.
If cutting planes are used to tighten LP relaxations within a branch and price algorithm, the method is known as branch price and cut.
Applications of branch and price
The branch and price method can be used to solve problems in a variety of application areas, including:
Graph multi-coloring. This is a generalization of the graph coloring problem in which each node in a graph must be assigned a preset number of colors and any nodes that share an edge cannot have a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Management%20Inc. | TimeClock Plus LLC. (TCP), formally Data Management Inc. (DMI), is an American corporation in San Angelo, Texas. It was founded by Jorge Ellis in 1988 and specializes in business software development, particularly for time and labor management. Its flagship product is TimeClock Plus, a computerized time and attendance system.
The company originally developed the "One Number Delivery System" software for food delivery services. Through his business with retailers, Ellis discovered a growing need to track time and attendance: "'No one could tell me at any given minute what the [labor] costs were. I decided to develop a software package that would give a 24-hour picture.'" The system developed by DMI, called TimeClock Plus, was written for companies as small as five employees or as large as 750 and larger.
In April 2011, the San Angelo Standard Times reported that about 50,000 companies were using the system including Boeing, Harley Davidson, Ford Motor Company, Dial, and Sara Lee.
Awards
Data Management Inc. was listed among the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
DMI was also selected by CIO Review for the 50 most promising education technology solution providers in 2015.
References
Companies based in San Angelo, Texas
Business software companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhi-Li%20Zhang | Zhi-Li Zhang is a computer scientist, the McKnight Distinguished University Professor and the Qwest Chair Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. He leads the Networking Research Group at the university. Zhi-Li obtained his PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts in 1997 under Don Towsley and Jim Kurose. He has published a large number of papers in the field of routing, computer communication and multimedia communication.
Zhi-Li Zhang graduated with B.S. in Computer Science with highest distinction from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. While a junior student at Nanjing, Zhi-Li led a team of senior students for their senior design projects. He was one of five students selected for graduate study exempted from the graduate school entrance exam at Nanjing University. Shortly afterwards, he was awarded a highly selective fellowship from the Chinese National Committee for Education for graduate study in Europe, and studied at the Computer Science Department, Århus University, Denmark. Zhi-Li is a Fellow of IEEE.
Zhang has been selected by the University of Massachusetts Amherst School of Computer Science as the 2014 recipient of the Outstanding Achievement and Advocacy (OAA) Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research.
References
External links
Home page
IMDEA Board
University of Minnesota faculty
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
American computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure%20atlas%20of%20human%20genome | The Structure atlas of human genome (SAHG) is a database of protein-structure-prediction.
See also
Protein structure
References
External links
http://bird.cbrc.jp/sahg.
Biological databases
Protein structure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deformed%20power | Deformed power is a concept in electrical engineering which characterize the distortion to the sinusoidal states in electric network. It was introduced by Constantin Budeanu in 1927.
It is defined by the following formula:
where S, P, Q, D are the apparent, active, reactive and deformed powers.
In linear electrical components like electrical resistance occurs no deformed (distortion) power. It is caused by nonlinear loads represented for instance by semiconducting devices (rectifiers, thyristors) especially when used for rectification of an alternating current to a direct one. The rectification is needed especially for providing current for electric traction and electrochemical industry.
References
C. Budeanu Puissances reactives et fictives 1927
External links
IEC wepage
AC power |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecaut%20Square | Pecaut Square (formerly known as Metro Square) is a large concrete-and granite-clad plaza located in front of Metro Hall in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The square supports the PATH network connection between Metro Hall and nearby buildings such as Metro Centre. Glass pavilions provide access to the PATH network.
History
Pecaut Square was built as part of Toronto's postmodern Metro Hall project, meant to house the government of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, which existed from 1954 to 1998. The agreement to build Metro Hall was signed in 1988, and the project was completed in 1992.
It was formerly known as Metro Square but was renamed in April 2011 by a unanimous Toronto City Council vote to honour the late civic leader David Pecaut.
Culture and amenities
The public space features Canadian sculptor Bernie Miller's The Poet, The Fever Hospital, a 1992 piece made up of galvanized steel, bronze, granite, and marble. The sculpture incorporates a fountain and reflecting pool. The title refers to the poet Isabella Valancy Crawford, who stayed for a brief time in a house that was demolished for the construction of Metro Hall at the southeast corner of King and John Streets. The fever hospital refers to one of Toronto's first hospitals, which stood at the northeast corner of King and John Streets from 1829 to 1856. Sheltered by a large granite wall, four bronze boxes evoking television monitors stacked nearly 5 metres high form a fountain. The water flows into a marble basin and into the reflecting pool. The boxes are framed with a semi-circular steel beam, perforated with small holes and mounted at a gentle tilt. The reflecting pool also has an eternal flame fueled by natural gas, unveiled in 1996. The Eternal Flame of Hope is inspired by the perseverance of disabled people, and burns as a reminder that society must be all-inclusive.
Also located at the southwestern part of the square is Jaan Poldaas' Surface Design for Tampered Windscreens (1992), a sculpture composed of tempered glass screens which functions as a windbreak. The screens are etched with vertical and horizontal lines to create different relationships, and are arranged so that people can walk between them. Cynthia Short's Remembered Sustenance (1992) is piece composed of 19 small and generic bronze animals on the grass just off the sidewalk on Wellington Street West. Half the animals appear to be headed for a bronze feeding dish while the other half seem to be walking away.
Pecaut Square also has a lawn and trees along its outer edges. The public space allows for unique views of Metro Hall, Roy Thomson Hall and the Royal Alexandra Theatre. It is frequently used for free concerts, film screenings, and other events; for the state funeral of Jack Layton on August 27, 2011, the square was used to accommodate a screening for overflow crowds not able to be seated inside Roy Thomson Hall.
See also
Albert Campbell Square
Nathan Phillips Square
Yonge-Dundas Square
References
Fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett%20Packard%20Enterprise%20Networking | Hewlett Packard Enterprise and its predecessor entities have a long history of developing and selling networking products. Today it offers campus and small business networking products through its wholly owned company Aruba Networks which was acquired in 2015. Prior to this, HP Networking was the entity within HP offering networking products.
History
HP has been in the networking and switching business for decades. HP's networking division was previously known as HP ProCurve. The HP division that became the HP ProCurve division began in Roseville, CA, in 1979. Originally it was part of HP’s Data Systems Division (DSD) and known as DSD-Roseville. Later, it was called the Roseville Networks Division (RND), then the Workgroup Networks Division (WND), before becoming the ProCurve Networking Business (PNB). The trademark filing date for the ProCurve name was February 25, 1998.
On August 11, 2008 HP announced the acquisition of Colubris Networks, manufacturer of wireless capabilities, such as 802.11n. This completed on October 1, 2008
On November 11, 2009, HP announced its intent to acquire 3Com Corporation for $2.7B. In April 2010, HP completed its acquisition.
In April 2010, following HP's acquisition of 3Com Corporation, HP combined the ProCurve and 3Com entities as HP Networking.
HP ProCurve. Based in Roseville, CA, USA. Developer of networking switches and wireless solutions. Global sales.
The acquired 3Com Corporation. Based in Marlborough, MA, USA. Global sales outside of China.
The 3Com division H3C Technologies Co., Ltd. Based in Hangzhou, China. Developer of networking switches, routers, telephony and wireless solutions. Sales within China.
The 3Com division TippingPoint. Based in Austin, Texas. Developer of networking security solutions, particularly intrusion prevention systems. Global sales.
On May 19, 2015, HP completed the acquisition of Aruba Networks and subsequently moved all its networking business into the Aruba Networking entity.
Past networking initiatives and technologies
Network architecture
Network architecture encompasses the entire framework of an organization's computer network, including hardware components that are used for communication, network layout and topologies, physical and wireless connections, and cabling and device types, as well as software rules and protocols. The core and aggregation layers of a traditional three-tier, hierarchical model provide built-in redundancy, but this design can be inefficient for virtualized environments. The flat layout of the HP FlexNetwork Architecture is designed to provide more agility to the network and to support functionality such as virtualization, convergence, and automation.
HP FlexNetwork Architecture unites an organization's networks in the data center, campus, and branch offices through a cost-efficient, consistent architecture, according to published reports. Four product groups make up the architecture: FlexFabric, for data centers with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Networking%20Products | HP Networking products include:
Fixed configuration Ethernet switches including stackable switches.
Modular Chassis switches
Wide area network routers
Wireless access points, adapters, and connectivity products
Internet access gateways and firewalls, both wired and wireless
Network management applications
Network security platforms including the TippingPoint Intrusion Prevention System.
IP Telephony applications including PBX and CTI solutions.
HP Networking arranged its products into four primary product series:
A-Series: Data center, campus and branch network switches and routers. Predominantly heritage H3C.
E-Series: Campus and branch network switches, voice, and wireless products. Mix of heritage ProCurve and 3Com.
V-Series: Small business smart managed and unmanaged switches and wireless products. Mix of heritage ProCurve and 3Com.
S-Series: Enterprise and small business security products. Heritage TippingPoint.
Below is a summary of key products.
Modular Ethernet switches
A12500
A9500
A7500 - 4-, 5-, 8, and 12-slot configurations with optional dual fabric modules. One model with 8 vertical slots. Of total slots, two reserved for fabrics. Backplane capacity 2.88 Terabit-per-second. Up to 24 10GE ports or 480 Gigabit ports, with optional PoE.
E8200 zl - (Released September 2007) Core switch offering, 12-module slot chassis with dual fabric modules and options for dual management modules and system support modules for high availability (HA). IPV6-ready, 692 Gbit/s fabric. Up to 48 10GbE ports, 288 Gb ports, or 288 SFPs. Powered by a combination of either 875W or 1500W PSU's, to provide a maximum of 3600W (5400W using additional powersupplies) of power for PoE.
E5400 zl - Chassis based, Layer 3, in either 6 or 12 slot bays. Supports up to 48 10GE ports, 288 Gb ports, or 288 SFPs. Powered by a combination of either 875W or 1500W PSU's, to provide a maximum of 3600W (5400W using additional powersupplies) of power for PoE.
E4200 vl - Chassis based, in either 4 or 8 slot bays. Supports up to 192 10/100 ports or 128 Gb ports, or 32 SFP
Fixed-port Ethernet switches
Fixed-port L3 managed Ethernet switches
A5820
A5810
A5800
A5500 EI - Gigabit switches. Models - 24-Port; 48-Port; 24-Port PoE; 48-Port PoE; 24-Port SFP; 24-Port DC; 24-Port SFP DC. Full Layer 3 (static routes, RIP, multicast routing (OSPF, PIM). Stackable to 9-units high with IRF stacking technology; max stacking bandwidth 96Gbit/s with four high bandwidth ports dedicated to stacking on each unit (4 ports x 12 Gbit/s stacking bandwidth x 2 full duplex). Two expansion slots per unit with these available modules: 2-Port 10GE XFP; 1-Port 10GE XFP; 2-Port Local Connection; 2-Port Gb SFP; 2-Port SFP+. Former 3Com H3C Switch 5500-EI. Equivalent to HP E4800G and former 3Com Switch 4800G.
A5500 SI
A5120 EI
A5120 SI
A3610
A3600 EI
A3600 SI
E6600 - (Released February 2009) Datacenter switch offered in five versions. There are four switches with either 24 or 4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic%20W3 | The Magic W3 is a 4.8" Windows®7 full OS touchscreen microcomputer with voice call functionality. The Magic W3 provides true windowed multitasking, multimedia entertainment, social network connectivity, navigation capability, voice telephony, and the full internet experience. The device is assembled in Malaysia and is expected to be available in November, 2012 in China and Hong Kong, with plans underway to distribute it in other regions.
Specifications
Processor
Intel Atom Z series 1.6 GHz
Operating System
Windows 7 Home Premium
Display
Touch Screen Size 4.8"
Resolution 800 x 480 WVGA native
800 x 600/1024 x 600 W/SVGA interpolated
RAM
1GB DDR2
Capacity
32 GB SSD
Network
GSM Quad Band
3.5G HSPA
Radio Connectivity
Wi-Fi b/g /n
GPS Transceiver
Dimensions / Weight
141 x 81.5 x 23 mm / 270 g
Battery
3200 mAh 3.7V
2.0 MP Camera (Video Conferencing)
Accelerometer
Vibrate Alert
Peripheral Connectivity
Mini HDMI
Mini USB
Micro SD
SIM Card Slot
Charging & Docking I/O
3.5mm Jack Connector
Audio
Dual Mics
Receiver
Stereo Speakers
Hardware Interface
Volume Control +/- buttons
Call Key
End Key
Power Switch - Sleep/Standby, Screen/Key Lock
Applications (Apps)
MAGIC Telephony Touch UI
Phone Dialer
Messaging
Call History
Contacts
Microsoft Windows Live Essentials
Microsoft Office Starter
Other Applications Not Supplied
Adobe Flash
Netflix
iTunes
Photoshop
Windows Media Center
Winamp
World of Warcraft
Millions of other Windows applications
References
External links
Magic W3 official site
Magic W3 review - Worlds First...
Magic W3 review - Engadget
Magic W3 review - Slashgear video demos
Magic W3 distributors in China and Hong Kong - China Media Group Corporation(Public, OTC:CHMD)
Magic W3 review - enterprise market
Microcomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20manifest%20in%20HTML5 | The cache manifest in HTML5 was a software storage feature which provided the ability to access a web application even without a network connection. It became part of the W3C Recommendation on 28 October 2014.
Since 2021, this technology is no longer widely available. It was removed from Firefox 85, and disabled by default in Chrome 84 and removed in Chrome 95. Using any of the offline Web application features at this time is highly discouraged and use of service workers is recommended instead. Cache manifests are distinct from web application manifests, a JSON-based file format which is part of the progressive web app technology, and is currently active and going through the standardization process at the W3C.
Background
Web applications consist of web pages that need to be downloaded from a network. For this to happen there must be a network connection. However, there are many instances when users cannot connect to a network due to circumstances beyond their control. HTML5 provides the ability to access the web application even without a network connection using the cache manifest.
Web applications consist of resources identified by URLs. These can be HTML, CSS, JavaScript, images or any other source that is required for a web application to be rendered. Their addresses can be copied into a manifest file, which can be updated regularly by the author of the web application, indicating any new web addresses that are added or deleted. When connecting to a network for the first time, a web browser will read the HTML5 manifest file, download the resources given and store them locally. Then, in the absence of a network connection, the web browser will shift to the local copies instead and render the web application offline.
Basics
In order for the offline applications to work, a cache manifest file must be created by the web developer. If the web application exceeds more than one page then each page must have a manifest attribute that points to the cache manifest. Every page referencing the manifest will be stored locally. The cache manifest file is a text file located in another part of the server. It must be served with content type text/cache-manifest
The attribute manifest="<path>" must be added to the html element in order for the cache manifest file to work. Example:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html manifest="cache.appcache">
<body>
…
</body>
</html>
The argument to the manifest attribute is a relative or absolute path to the manifest file.
Consider the HTML file given below. The <html> element indicates a file named cache.appcache will contain the list of resources (i.e., test.js, test.css) needed for this web page to work offline. Common names for this file are cache.manifest and manifest.appcache.
<!—- test.html -->
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html manifest="cache.appcache">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<script src="test.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="test.css">
</head>
<body>
Testing the manifest file.
</body>
</html>
Syntax |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retravision | Retravision is a Western Australian-based consumer electronics retailer of computers, technology products, home entertainment products, laundry and kitchen appliances, air-conditioning products, small appliances and homewares. The retailer was founded in 1961 in Osborne Park, Western Australia. As of January 2022 there are 19 stores across Australia with 17 stores in Western Australia, one in South Australia and one in the Northern Territory.
References
External links
Official website
Consumer electronics retailers of Australia
1961 establishments in Australia
Retail companies established in 1961
Consumer electronics retailers of Australia
1961 establishments in Australia
Retail companies established in 1961
Companies based in Western Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20protein%20structure%20annotation%20network | The Open Protein Structure Annotation Network (TOPSAN) is a wiki designed to collect, share and distribute information about protein three-dimensional structures The site runs on the MindTouch software.
See also
Protein structure
References
External links
http://www.topsan.org.
Biological databases
Protein structure
Wikis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice%20Worsley | Beatrice Helen Worsley (18 October 1921 – 8 May 1972) was the first female Canadian computer scientist. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge with Maurice Wilkes as adviser, the first Ph.D. granted in what would today be known as computer science. She wrote the first program to run on EDSAC, co-wrote the first compiler for Toronto's Ferranti Mark 1, wrote numerous papers in computer science, and taught computers and engineering at Queen's University and the University of Toronto for over 20 years before her death at the age of 50.
Early life
Beatrice was born on 18 October 1921 to Joel and Beatrice Marie (nee Trinker). Joel was born in 1887 to a working-class family in Ashton-Under-Lyne, Manchester. Beatrice Marie's grandparents had started a textile mill in Xia, Mexico, in the 1850s, and in 1908 Joel and Beatrice Marie moved to work at the plant. The plant was destroyed by rebels around 1917 and Joel took a job in El Salto with Rio Grande group's CIMSA mills, rising to become the general manager.
Beatrice Marie gave birth to a son in 1920, Charles Robert, and then Beatrice Helen the next year. The two were homeschooled for security reasons, having little interaction with their neighbours. In 1929, Joel moved the family to Toronto to provide better schooling for his children. Charles entered Upper Canada College, while Beatrice started at Brown Public School, but moved to Bishop Strachan School in 1935.
Bishop Strachan offered two tracks, and Beatrice enrolled in the more difficult university prep courses. She excelled to the point that the headmaster stated she was one of the best students to attend the school. She graduated in 1939 with awards in maths, science, and for having the highest overall grade, earned the Governor General's Award.
Undergraduate studies
Worsley won the Burnside Scholarship in Science from Trinity College, part of the University of Toronto, and began studies in September 1939. Her high marks won her the first Alexander T. Fulton Scholarship in Science.
For her second year she transferred to the Mathematics and Physics division, an applied program rather than theoretical. In her third year, Worsley won the James Scott Scholarship in Mathematics and Physics. Graduating in 1944 in mathematics and physics with a Bachelor of Arts, she had the distinction of earning the highest mark in every class every year.
Wartime service
Immediately after graduation, Worsley enlisted in the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service, better known as the "Wrens". After basic training at HMCS Conestoga in Galt (today known as Cambridge, Ontario), she was assigned to the Naval Research Establishment (NRE) in Halifax. She was first tasked with studying harbour defences, then degaussing, and torpedo guidance.
When World War II ended, Worsley was the only Wren at the NRE to choose to remain in service. In September 1945 she was promoted to lieutenant and put on a new research project on hull corrosion. Over the next yea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Networking%20Training | HP Networking offers trainings, typically delivered in HP Authorized Trainings Centers (ATCs) by HP Certified Instructors (HPCI).
HP Networking training is an evolution of what HP ProCurve offered as training.
The titles are oriented at the HP Certified Professional Program (HPCP). Candidates can take most of the technical certification tests at Prometric Testcenters. Sales certification tests can be taken online in the Internet. Attending a course is currently not a prerequisite for achieving the titles. Annual based recertification can be achieved via Continuous Learning Program of HPCP.
Sales
Sales Training enables IT resellers the ability to competently sell the vendors products.
ASP
The Accredited Sales Professional (ASP) certifies that someone knowledgeable of networking concepts, like the OSI Model, and can describe the features & functions ProCurve products.
ASP can be done online at
ASC
The Accredited Sales Consultant (ASC) expands sales skills, to provide the ability to engage customers at the board level to understand business issues, and to design a solution that will meet evolving networking requirements.
ASC
Technical
Technical Training enables Network Engineers, to understand the concepts and correct operation of the vendors products.
APS
The Accredited Platform Specialist (APS) will give Service technicians the ability to restore a single ProCurve Networking product (including hardware and internal operating system) to operational level as from factory.
Installation and Service
AIS
The Accredited Integration Specialist (AIS) is the first level of technical certification. ProCurve Networking Primer (Free CBT) is an optional course. The qualification comprises
Adaptive Edge Fundamentals
ASE
The Accredited Systems Engineer (ASE) has three specialisations - Mobility , WAN and Network Management . The AIS is a prerequisite before achieving this qualification.
The following are optional, but recommended, and are useful for some pre-knowledge:
IP Routing Foundations (Free CBT) (optional)
Network Security Fundamentals (Free CBT) (optional)
Fundamental WAN Technologies (Free CBT) (optional)
The student must pass the following exams:
Building ProCurve Resilient, Adaptive Networks (BPRAN)
Security
To achieve the different specialisation, one of the following must be passed:
Mobility
Secure WAN
Network Management
MASE
The Master Accredited Systems Engineer (MASE) has three specializations - Secure Mobility , Security Specialist and Convergence
Both the AIS and one ASE qualification are prerequisites before achieving this qualification.
To achieve the MASE Secure Mobility Specialist, the student must have also passed the ASE - ProCurve Networking & Mobility certification. The following must then be passed:
Secure Mobility Solutions
To achieve the MASE Security Specialist, the student must have also passed the ASE - ProCurve Network Management certification. The following must then be passed:
Network A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer%20Bean%20Forever | Killer Bean Forever is a 2008 American computer-animated action film written, produced, and directed by Jeff Lew, starring Vegas E. Trip, Bryan Session, David Guilmette, Matthew Tyler and Jeff Lew. It was preceded by two web shorts: Killer Bean: The Interrogation in 1996, and Killer Bean 2: The Party in 2000. Taking place in a world of anthropomorphic coffee beans, the film's plot follows a bean assassin named Jack "Killer" Bean, who is sent to hunt down a crime boss, while he himself is hunted by mercenaries and the police.
In 2020, an animated series that continues the story of the film was announced, and premiered on September 6, 2020, but was cancelled in August 2021. In the same month, a game simply titled Killer Bean was announced, which also continues the film's story. The movie has obtained a cult following online since 2018.
Plot
One late night in the city of Beantown, professional assassin Jack "Killer" Bean has problems sleeping due to some gangsters holding a loud party in a nearby warehouse - when his requests for them to turn the music down is refused, Jack storms the warehouse and kills everyone inside. Their leader is revealed to be the nephew of Cappuccino, an Italian American crime boss and drug lord. A police investigation led by Detective Cromwell occurs, during which he has a confrontation with Vagan, Cappuccino's lieutenant and hitman.
The next morning, Jack sees the investigation from his apartment and attempts to assassinate Cromwell with a sniper rifle, but is stopped by his boss, who berates him for drawing attention with the warehouse shooting and reminds him of his intended target - at the same time, Chinese assassin Jet Bean is sent to Beantown on a mission from his boss. At the same time, Cappuccino learns of his nephew's death and vows revenge on Killer Bean, while Cromwell manages to identify Jack from his signature on the bullet casings left at the warehouse.
Killer Bean storms another of Cappuccino's warehouses later that day, only to find it empty, and is ambushed by Vagan with a sniper rifle. The two engage in an intense gunfight, with Vagan being forced to retreat after Jack destroys his scope with a shot. He then heads to a pub across the road to get a drink, but is confronted by Cromwell, who interrogates him and offers to turn a blind eye if he assassinates Cappuccino, having been on the drug lord's case for several years to no success. When Jack leaves, Cromwell discovers a note left in the warehouse - "Shadow Bean, you are too late" - and attempts to confront Jack over this, but is incapacitated as Jack escapes.
Cromwell calls his friend and intelligence officer, Harrison "The Dye Beano", who reveals that the Shadow Beans were a private organization of assassins who formerly carried out operations for the government before seemingly disbanded. That night, Killer Bean then raids Cappuccino's third, main warehouse and manages to kill both all of the gang members inside and the platoon of mercenaries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Plant%20Germplasm%20System | The U.S. National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS) is a network of institutions and agencies (federal, state and private) led by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the effort to conserve and facilitate the use of the genetic diversity of agriculturally important plants and their wild relatives.
Introduction
Tremendous genetic variability exists in the local varieties (landraces) of crops and their closely related wild plants (crop wild relatives). The NPGS assists plant breeders and other research scientists by acquiring, conserving, evaluating, documenting, and distributing germplasm (seeds and other propagative material) of these plants, as well as of improved cultivars and breeding lines. This diverse germplasm provides the genetic raw material needed by plant breeders to develop new varieties of crops that have desirable qualities and can withstand constantly changing biological and environmental stresses. Conservation and use of this genetic diversity are critical to meeting the current and future challenges to global food security.
History
Before the Americas were colonized by Europeans, native peoples domesticated indigenous plants including corn, squash and beans and spread them to new agricultural environments. European colonists adopted some crops from Native Americans and introduced others. As demand by farmers and hobbyists for expansion and diversification of agriculture in the U.S. eventually led the federal government to adopt a role in the introduction of and exploration for plant material, which had previously been spearheaded by individuals and agricultural societies. The history of federal plant introduction and exploration in the U.S. has been reviewed in numerous publications. In 1819, The Secretary of the Treasury issued a circular requesting that consuls stationed in other countries obtain seed of useful plants and send them to the U.S. Between 1836 and 1862 the U.S. Patent Office, first under the State Department and then under the Department of the Interior, administered a plant exploration and introduction program funded through yearly appropriations. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) was established in 1862 when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Department of Agriculture Organic Act into law. One of the Department's seven main responsibilities was the collection, testing and distribution of seeds and plants. The Department was headed by a Commissioner until 1889 when it was elevated to Cabinet rank and the first Secretary of Agriculture was appointed.
In 1898, a formal program of plant introduction was initiated with the establishment of the Section of Seed and Plant Introduction in USDA under the direction of noted plant explorer David Fairchild. According to the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture for 1900, the Section's job was " to bring into this country for experimental purposes any foreign seeds and plants which might give promise of increasing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univa%20Grid%20Engine | Univa Grid Engine (UGE) is a batch-queuing system, forked from Sun Grid Engine (SGE). The software schedules resources in a data center applying user-configurable policies to help improve resource sharing and throughput by maximizing resource utilization. The product can be deployed to run on-premises, using IaaS cloud computing or in a hybrid cloud environment.
History
The roots of Grid Engine as a commercial product date back to 1993 (under the names CODINE and later, in a variation of the product, GRD). A more comprehensive genealogy of the product is described in Sun Grid Engine. Grid Engine was first distributed by Genias Software and from 1999, after a company merger, by Gridware, Inc. In 2000, Sun Microsystems acquired Gridware. Sun renamed CODINE/GRD as Sun Grid Engine later that year, and released it as open-source in 2001.
In 2010, Oracle Corporation acquired Sun and subsequently renamed SGE to Oracle Grid Engine. Oracle Grid Engine (6.2u6) moved to a closed-source model providing binaries with the distribution but no source code. As a result, the project's open-source repository no longer reflected changes made by Oracle and users were prevented from contributing code changes. In response to this, the Grid Engine community started the Open Grid Scheduler and the Son of Grid Engine projects to continue to develop and maintain a free implementation of Grid Engine. The University of Michigan has been maintaining the Son of Grid Engine code publicly since 2019.
On January 18, 2011, Univa announced that it had hired the principal engineers from the Sun Grid Engine team. Univa Grid Engine development is led by CTO Fritz Ferstl, who founded the Grid Engine project and ran the business within Sun/Oracle for the past 10 years.
On October 22, 2013, Univa announced that it had acquired Oracle Grid Engine assets and intellectual property, making it the sole commercial provider of Grid Engine software.
Between 2011 and 2013 Univa added new capabilities to Univa Grid Engine including Univa Unisight, and Univa License Orchestrator.
Univa Unisight provided new reporting and analytics capabilities related to Univa Grid Engine workloads and infrastructure. Univa License Orchestrator extended Univa Grid Engine scheduling policies to support allocation and optimization of commercial software licenses, an important capability in electronic design automation (EDA) and other industries.
On June 24, 2018, Univa announced massive scalability operating a single cluster with over 1 million cores on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
In September 2020, Altair Engineering, a global technology company providing solutions in data analytics, product development, and high-performance computing (HPC) acquired Univa.
See also
Job Scheduler and Batch Queuing for Clusters
Beowulf cluster
Maui Cluster Scheduler
Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR)
Slurm Workload Manager
TORQUE
References
External links
pointer to repository for old Debian and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Network%20Star%20%28season%207%29 | The seventh season of the renamed American reality television series Food Network Star premiered Sunday, June 5, 2011. Food Network executives, Bob Tuschman and Susie Fogelson, are joined again by Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis as the judges for this season. The series was filmed in Los Angeles, California and New York, New York.
After the first episode of this season aired as "The Next Food Network Star", the series was retitled Food Network Star and this name was used from the second episode onward.
Contestants
Eliminated
(In order of elimination)
Howie Drummond – Highlands Ranch, Colorado
Juba Kali – New Orleans, Louisiana
Katy Clark – Long Beach, California
Alicia Sanchez – New York, New York
Justin Balmes – Marietta, Georgia
Justin Davis – Minneapolis, Minnesota
Orchid Paulmeier – Bluffton, South Carolina
Chris Nirschel – Hoboken, New Jersey
Penny Davidi – Los Angeles, California
Jyll Everman – Glendora, California
Whitney Chen – New York, New York
Mary Beth Albright – Washington, D.C.
Vic "Vegas" Moea – Las Vegas, Nevada
Runner-Up
Susie Jimenez – Aspen, Colorado
Winner
Jeff Mauro – Elmwood Park, Illinois
Contestant Progress
(WINNER) The contestant won the competition and became the next "Food Network Star".
(RUNNER-UP) The contestant made it to the finale, but did not win.
(WIN) The contestant won that episode's Star Challenge.
(HIGH) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's favorites for that week, but did not win the Star Challenge.
(IN) The contestant was not one of the Selection Committee's favorites nor their least favorites. They were not up for elimination.
(LOW) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's three or four least favorites for that week, but was not eliminated.
(LOW) The contestant was one of the Selection Committee's two least favorites for that week, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The contestant was the Selection Committee's least favorite for that week, and was eliminated.
Episodes
Week One: Lights, Camera, Cook
Camera Challenge: The contestants created breakfast dishes representing their culinary points of view and presented them on camera.
Winner: Orchid (Breakfast Tortilla)
Star Challenge: The contestants were divided into groups of three and got four takes to create promos with Alton Brown. Then, the groups headed to the Food Star Kitchens to create one dish on their own and one collaborative dish. After, they presented their dishes and promos to the Selection Committee, Brown, and special guests, including Extra host Mario Lopez.
Winners: Juba (Boil Spiced Shrimp with Whole Tomato Ketchup), Jeff (Chicken Slider on Ciabatta Bread) and Orchid (Hot Asian Pork Skewer with Cole Slaw) (collaborative dish: "Que" Lime Pie with Mango Coulis and Chili Whipped Cream)
Eliminated: Howie (Potato Gnocchi with Lemon Zest)
Original Air Date: June 5, 2011
Week Two: In the Line of Fire
Camera Challenge: The contestants created pizzas that reflected their culinary poin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Chew | The Chew was an American cooking-themed talk show that aired for seven seasons from September 26, 2011, to June 28, 2018, having replaced the soap opera All My Children, on ABC as part of the network's weekday daytime lineup. The name was inspired by fellow ABC talk show The View, but The Chew centered on food and lifestyle topics rather than the news of the day.
For most of the show's run, it was hosted by chefs Mario Batali, Carla Hall and Michael Symon, wellness expert Daphne Oz, and Clinton Kelly (who served as the show's moderator). Oz left in August 2017, while Batali left in December 2017, and was later officially terminated, amid sexual misconduct allegations from some of his restaurant workers. The five co-hosts won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host in 2015.
On May 23, 2018, ABC announced that it would be canceling The Chew after seven seasons due to low ratings. The show taped its final scenes on June 15, 2018, and its final episode aired on June 28, 2018. Repeats of The Chew continued airing until September 7, 2018. On September 10, 2018, ABC replaced The Chew with the Good Morning America brand extension GMA Day (which later became GMA3).
Production
The Chew was produced by British-Australian former talk show host Gordon Elliott, who also served as the show's announcer with occasional on-camera roles. The show was taped at ABC's Lincoln Square facilities at 30 West 67th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
Broadcast
The Chew aired at 1:00 pm Eastern/12 noon Central, the slot formerly occupied by the long-running soap opera All My Children. ABC stations in the Mountain and Pacific time zones, and in Alaska and Hawaii follow a Central time zone schedule for daytime programming; thus, The Chew was scheduled by the network to air at 12 noon in these areas.
A limited number of ABC affiliates in the Central Time Zone aired the program on a one-day delay at 11:00 am (maintaining the delay schedule All My Children followed before it was ended, thus delaying Friday's episode to Monday) in order to continue airing their noon hour local newscasts such as WFAA in Dallas, KRGV-TV in Weslaco, Texas and WBRZ-TV in Baton Rouge, Louisiana; three stations, WBAY-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin, KSAT-TV in San Antonio and KMIZ in Columbia, Missouri, had network permission to tape-delay the program same-day to avert situations where episodes with recipes timed to a specific holiday were rendered useless due to the delay.
The Chew aired on week-delay basis weeknights at 8:00 pm Eastern 7:00 pm Central on the Live Well Network. The program also aired in Canada on City.
Awards and nominations
References
External links
2010s American cooking television series
2011 American television series debuts
2018 American television series endings
American Broadcasting Company original programming
English-language television shows
2010s American television talk shows
All My Children |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abhaya%20Induruwa | Abhaya Induruwa () is the inaugural Professor V K Samaranayake Endowed Professor of Computing, University of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka. Having served as the Director of Cyber Innovation Hub he recently retired from the Canterbury Christ Church University in the United Kingdom where he researched into security and forensic investigation of Internet of Things (IoT). Currently he is engaged in promoting IoT in digital agriculture as a disruptive technology, primarily in developing countries, leading to smart agriculture resulting in higher yields in food production. Induruwa is considered the father of Internet in Sri Lanka.
Education
After spending three years of his early primary education at Kahagolla Madya Maha Vidyalaya, Diyatalawa, he was admitted to Nalanda College, Colombo from where he proceeded to the University of Sri Lanka, Katubedda Campus. He is the first student to graduate with a First Class Honours degree in Electrical or Electronics Engineering since the inception of the University of Sri Lanka, Katubedda Campus, and is the recipient of the Prof Om Prakash Kulshreshtha award for the Best Electrical and Electronic Engineering student in 1975. In September 1976 he proceeded to Imperial College London and in January 1980 he was awarded PhD from the University of London for his research on Computer Simulation Techniques in Power Systems Planning. His research supervisor was Emeritus Professor Brian J. Cory.
Professional career
Induruwa founded the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Moratuwa in 1985, the first and the only department of its kind in a Sri Lankan university, and served as its Head until 1998.
In 1989 he pioneered and served as the Principal Investigator of project LEARN (Lanka Education and Research Network), which he developed into the academic Internet in Sri Lanka
.
He obtained funds from the Sri Lankan government and other well wishers, commissioned staff and resources, provided technical and managerial leadership, and led the project LEARN to completion in 1995. He also administered the .LK domain since its first registration in 1990 until 1998.
Induruwa is a founding member of the Internet Society (ISOC - Kobe, 1992) and a member of the Internet Society Sri Lanka Chapter. He serves as a Member of the Advisory Group of the Asia Internet History project, and is a contributing author.
He is a Chartered Engineer, a Chartered Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, UK, Chartered Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka, and a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society.
Induruwa is a founding member of the Computer Society of Sri Lanka (1976). In recognition of his services to computer education and IT industry in Sri Lanka the Honorary Fellowship of the Computer Society of Sri Lanka was conferred on him in 2003.
In recognition of his signal contribution to the growth, connectivity, and use of the Internet in Sri Lanka, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maja%20Matari%C4%87 | Maja Matarić is an American computer scientist, roboticist and AI researcher, and the Chan Soon-Shiong Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics at the University of Southern California. She is known for her work in human-robot interaction for socially assistive robotics, a new field she pioneered, which focuses on creating robots capable of providing personalized therapy and care that helps people help themselves, through social rather than physical interaction. Her work has focused on aiding special needs populations including the elderly, stroke patients, and children with autism, and has been deployed and evaluated in hospitals, therapy centers, schools, and homes. She is also known for her earlier work on robot learning from demonstration, swarm robotics, robot teams, and robot navigation.
Matarić is also known for her many outreach activities aimed at engaging children, youth, educators, women, and other groups that are under-represented in computing, engineering, and science.
Biography
Matarić was born in Belgrade, the capital of the former Yugoslavia. She did her undergraduate studies at the University of Kansas. She then moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she earned her MSc in 1990 and her Ph.D. in 1994, both under the supervision of Rodney A. Brooks. She joined the faculty at Brandeis University as an assistant professor of Computer Science in January 1995, then moved to the University of Southern California in 1997 as an assistant professor of Computer Science with a courtesy appointment in the Neuroscience Program. There she was promoted to associate professor, received a courtesy appointment in the Department of Pediatrics, and was then promoted to Professor. She served as the Chair of the Women in Science and Engineering Committee of the Viterbi School of Engineering (2005), as the elected President of the USC Faculty and the Academic Senate (2006-2007), Senior Associate Dean for Research in the Viterbi School of Engineering (2006–2011), Vice Dean for Research in the Viterbi School of Engineering (2011–2019), and interim Vice President of Research (2020–2021).
Awards and honors
Matarić received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring from President Barack Obama (2009). She was the winner of the 2013 ABIE Award for Innovation from the Anita Borg Institute. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of AAAI, Fellow of the ACM, and a recipient of the Okawa Foundation Award, the National Science Foundation Career Award, the MIT Technology Review TR35 Award, and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Early Career Award. She is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi, is one of five LA Times Magazine 2010 Visionaries, and is featured in the Emmy Award-nominated documentary Me & Isaac Newton and in the New Yorker article "Robots that Care", Popular Science article "T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgBase | AgBase is a curated genomic database containing functional annotations of agriculturally important animals, plants, microbes and parasites. AgBase biocurators provides annotation of Gene Ontology terms and Plant ontology terms for gene products. By 2011 AgBase provided information for 18 organisms including horse, cat, dog, cotton, rice and soybean.
See also
Agronomy
Genomics
References
External links
http://agbase.arizona.edu/
Biological databases
Agronomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susudata | Susudata was a placename pointed out in Ptolemy's atlas Geographia which is dated 150 AD. The word itself is a derivation from the Germanic term "Susutin". For a long time the place could not be positively identified, due to Ptolemy's variances. It was assumed to be in the vicinity of Berlin and could recently be located by an expedition led by Andreas Kleineberg, which confirmed the site at Fürstenwalde, Germany.
Literature
Andreas Kleineberg, Christian Marx, Eberhard Knobloch, Dieter Lelgemann: Germania und die Insel Thule.Die Entschlüsselung von Ptolemaios' "Atlas der Oikumene".Wissenschaftl. Buchgesell.,2010.
Claudius Ptolemäus: Geographia, Ed. C. F. A. Nobbe cum introd. Aubrey Diller, Hildesheim 1966.
Achim Leube: Die römische Kaiserzeit im Oder-Spree-Gebiet, Berlin(Ost) 1975.
Footnotes
External links
spiegel online
Names of places in Europe
Settlements in Germania Magna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IGRhCellID | IGRhCellID is a database of cell lines using some common tools to reduce cell lines misidentification.
See also
Cell line
References
External links
http://igrcid.ibms.sinica.edu.tw
Biological databases
Cell culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20settlements%20in%20Staffordshire%20by%20population | This is a list of settlements in Staffordshire with over 5,000 inhabitants based on the data from the article on each settlement which in turn is taken from the 2001 and 2011 UK Censuses. The entire population of Staffordshire is 1,069,000. Staffordshire has two cities, Stoke on Trent and Lichfield. There are a number of towns but the majority of settlements in the county are small rural villages.
External links
Census 2001 website
References
Settlements
Towns in Staffordshire
Staffordshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ships%20built%20by%20William%20Denny%20and%20Brothers | This is a list of ships built by William Denny and Brothers, Dumbarton, Scotland.
Ships
Footnotes
See also
Scottish Built Ships database
Denny
William Denny and Brothers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Public%20Data%20Explorer | Google Public Data Explorer provides public data and forecasts from a range of international organizations and academic institutions including the World Bank, OECD, Eurostat and the University of Denver. These can be displayed as line graphs, bar graphs, cross sectional plots or on maps. The product was launched on March 8, 2010 as an experimental visualization tool in Google Labs.
In 2011 the Public Data Explorer was made available to everyone. The Dataset Publishing Language (DSPL) was created to be used with the platform. Once data is imported, the dataset can be visualized, embedded in external websites, and shared with others.
In May 2016, the addition of the Google Analytics Suite enabled the import of public or individual datasets and provided no-code data visualization tools to users.
SDMX conversion
The SDMX converter is an open source application that offers the ability to convert DSPL (Google's Dataset Publishing Language) messages to SDMX-ML, and vice versa. The output file of a DSPL dataset is a zip file containing data (in the form of CSV files) and metadata (as an XML file). Datasets in this format can be visualized in the Google Public Data Explorer.
See also
Trendalyzer
References
Further reading
Eurostat data as open data: experience with Google and with the open data community by Chris Laevaert, May 2012
Enhancing Data Discovery and Exploration by Jürgen Schwärzler, March 2011
Using the Google Public Data Explorer as a Learning Tool in the University Geography Classroom by Thomas Pingel and Devin Moeller, October 2014
External links
International Telecommunication Union Data Explorer
United Nations Human Development Reports
Public Data Explorer
Data visualization software
Online databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem%20cell%20lineage%20database | The Stem Cell Lineage Database (SCLD) is a database of resources used to identify cell lineages.
The Stem Cell Lineage Database (SCLD) was created by the University of Connecticut in order to have a more user friendly approach to retrieve and share data. The purpose of the Stem Cell Lineage Database is to consolidate the three key components into a database that is accessible and capable of storing information "about cell type gene expression, cell lineage maps and stem cell differentiation protocols for both human and mouse stem cells and endogenous developmental lineages". One of the major factors that separates SCLD from other stem cell databases is that it allows users to edit information pertaining to cell types, markers, and lineages. The database allows user to update information found from the organic developmental stages and it also allows users to discuss experimental practices that altered the stem cells.
Stem cells are cells in the body that can divide indefinitely in a culture and can be formulated into specialized cells. In biological research, these cells have become a subject of extensive research. With these cells, scientists will be able to better understand how these cells are differentiated by the process of turning on and off genes. Through this research, scientists will be able to better understand certain diseases such as cancer and how these diseases arise.
As stem cell research continues, scientists will need a database to store and share their information and research. Three key components are necessary for this database to be effective: cell type-specific gene expression profiles, anatomical and developmental relationships between cells and tissues and signals important for development and differentiation of stem cells to mature cell types.
Database usage
The purpose of the database is to provide an openly available, quick reference for information pertaining to stem cell lineages. Ini the database, researchers can acquire information that can influence the expression(s) of stem cells, such information includes: experimental details such as time required, reagents, and the physical manipulations necessary to transition between cell types. By having this information openly available to the public, it gives researchers a place to meet and share information that could possibly enhance the experimental success of stem cell research as well as provide techniques to influence stem cells down specific pathways.
Also, another feature of the database is that it includes information based on in vivo and in vitro lineages. One could go in and compare certain lineage factors between in vivo and in vitro, as well as look at what factors influence the stem cells down specific pathways.
One flaw to the system is that anyone can create an account and go into the database and change information. However, if an error or such actions did take place, a person who notices the change to be incorrect can contact the database manageme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexy%20Dance%20Fighting | "Sexy Dance Fighting" is the fourth episode of the first season of the animated comedy series Bob's Burgers. The episode originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 13, 2011.
The episode was written by Steven Davis and Kelvin Yu and directed by Anthony Chun. According to Nielsen ratings, it was viewed in 4.19 million viewers in its original airing. The episode featured guest performances by Jon Glaser, Larry Murphy, and Andy Kindler.
Plot
Tina is hitting puberty by lying on the kitchen floor, groaning in front of her family. Bob orders Tina to do her grill cooking job as their father-daughter time. Gene and Louise later show Tina a surprise outside the restaurant while Bob works alone, revealing to Tina a capoeira class where she begins to have a crush on the long-haired headmaster, Jairo (Jon Glaser).
Tina signs up for the class and practices capoeira a lot at home, but the rest of the family compares capoeira to dancing. Tina becomes more interested in Jairo and extends her classes to see him more. Meanwhile, the other kids fail at taking over Tina's grill cooking position and Bob needs to go to the toilet at 4:30 like he usually does (he refers to it as an afternoon meeting) but Tina is not at the restaurant to cover for him. Bob postpones his meeting and goes to the capoeira studio to demand that Tina go back into the restaurant. While there, Bob meets Jairo and criticizes him and capoeira. Jairo forces Bob to have a duel with him, which he easily wins by whipping his hair at him and making him fall and embarrassingly poop in his pants. Bob wants his family to never mention what happened at the class and forbids Tina from continuing to attend the class. Tina resumes lying on the floor and groaning throughout the rest of night. Jairo visits the restaurant the next day after receiving a letter from Tina (which was actually from Louise who forged Tina's name to get her father to take revenge on Jairo for the incident) and suggests that Tina should come back because next week all attenders will get promoted to yellow cord. Tina goes with Jairo and quits her job at the restaurant.
The family goes to Tina's promotion except for Bob who stays to take care of the restaurant. While Tina is getting ready for her yellow cord, Bob gets in a huge argument with Teddy but later calms down and closes the restaurant to watch Tina with Linda and the kids. The other attendants receive their yellow cord, but not Tina who did not perform the studio's five elementary motions. Bob criticizes this and claims that Tina deserves the cord. They later get into another fight at 4:30 as Bob is aware of his 'meeting'. Jairo frequently trips and embarrasses Bob during the fight, but Tina supports her father for getting beat up to defend her. Angry with Jairo, Tina quits and returns to the grill, enjoying her father-daughter time with Bob where he gives her yellow gloves.
Bob tries to make Gene and Louise stay and work as well, until Louise poin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barada%20TV | Barada TV is a London-based Syrian opposition satellite television network. Classified U.S. diplomatic cables, provided by the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks, show that the U.S. State Department had funneled $6 million to Barada TV between 2006 and 2011 to operate the satellite channel and finance other activities inside Syria, The Washington Post reported. The State Department refused to comment on this allegation.
In a NPR story in 2011, the channel was described as a low-tech outlet, which is supported by videos sent from Syrian protesters and increasingly funded by donations from Syrians.
See also
United States involvement in regime change#2005–2009: Syria
References
Television channels in Syria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Conversation%20%28website%29 | The Conversation is a network of not-for-profit media outlets publishing news stories and research reports online, with accompanying expert opinion and analysis. Articles are written by academics and researchers under a Creative Commons license, allowing reuse without modification. Copyright terms for images are generally listed in the image caption and attribution. Its model has been described as explanatory journalism. Except in "exceptional circumstances", it only publishes articles by "academics employed by, or otherwise formally connected to, accredited institutions, including universities and accredited research bodies".
The website was launched in Australia in March 2011. The network has since expanded globally with a variety of local editions originating from around the world. In September 2019, The Conversation reported a monthly online audience of 10.7 million users, and a combined reach of 40 million people when including republication. The site employed over 150 full-time staff as of 2020.
Each regional or national edition of The Conversation is an independent not-for-profit or charity funded by various sources such as partnered universities and university systems, governments and other grant awarding bodies, corporate partners, and reader donations.
History
Launch
The Conversation was co-founded by Andrew Jaspan and Jack Rejtman, and launched in Australia in March 2011.
Jaspan first discussed the concept of The Conversation in 2009 with Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor at the University of Melbourne. Jaspan wrote a report for the university's communications department on the university's engagement with the public, envisioning the university as "a giant newsroom", with academics and researchers collaboratively providing expert, informed content that engaged with the news cycle and major current affairs issues. This vision became the blueprint for The Conversation.
Jaspan and Rejtman were provided support by Melbourne University in mid-2009 which allowed time to incubate the business model. By February 2010 they had developed their model, branding and business identity which they launched to potential support partners by way of an Information Memorandum in February 2010.
The founders secured $10m in funding from four universities (Melbourne, Monash, Australian National University, University of Western Australia), CSIRO, the Victorian State Government, the Australian Federal Government, and the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. The Conversation Media Group opened its Carlton office in November 2010 with a small team, and launched to the public in March 2011.
Departure of Andrew Jaspan
In March 2017, Andrew Jaspan resigned as executive director and editor, six months after being placed on enforced leave after complaints from senior staff in Melbourne about his management style and the global direction of the group. Management of the UK, U.S., and Africa offices also wrote a letter of no confidence to the Conversation Media Group aski |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Dale | Paul Dale (born 1970) announced in July 2010 as the first CTO to be appointed to the management board at ITV plc, the oldest and largest commercial television network in the UK. Dale regards his family home to be Rowrah.
Early life and education
Dale grew up and went to school in Workington, Cumberland (now Cumbria). He attended Stainburn School and went on to Sellafield to complete and apprenticeship as an instrument mechanic.
He studied at Lancaster University.
Career
Nuclear industry
Dale completed an apprenticeship as an instrument mechanic with BNFL at their Sellafield site.
Media industry
Dale started his media career in 1991.
He was founder and director of Bailrigg FM in 1994.
In 1995 he joined NDS at their Southampton Site as a Project Manager delivering CA and MPEG digital head ends.
In 2002 he was appointed as Technology Director at BSkyB in their Networked Media division.
In 2006 he joined the BBC as Controller of Future Media and Technology for BBC Vision.
In 2008 Dale was appointed CTO of Astro, Malaysia's DTH Satellite Pay TV Operator, based in Kuala Lumpur. It was under Paul's tenure as CTO that Astro B.yond was launched and introduced a Digital video recorder (The Astro B.yond PVR) on 1 June 2010, and later Video on Demand (VOD) and IPTV connectivity over his 24 months in Malaysia.
Paul Dale joined ITV in January 2011 as their first CTO and is part of the ITV Management Board and reported directly in to Adam Crozier.
In December 2013 Dale joined German TV Broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Media as their SVP, overseeing five digital businesses, Maxdome, ProSiebenSat.1 Digital, MyVideo, Ampya and Studio 71.
In November 2014 Dale joined multinational media and digital marketing communications company Dentsu Aegis Network as their Global Chief technology officer.
IT industry
Dale's first two years at ITV were defined by the "Workplace Refresh" project, an 18-month programme of work consisting of 9 projects that rolled out a leading edge, mobile, consumerised, virtualised and cloud based IT solution to the whole company. The project has been globally recognised by the likes of Apple, Google, Citrix and Gartner as "industry defining" and world leading in key IT trends.
Under Dale's tenure as CTO at ITV they were awarded the "Global Innovation" award by Citrix in recognition of their pioneering approach to IT delivery.
In 2012 Dale was awarded CIO Top 50 status by Tech Republic.
In May 2012 Dale was a panelist in Google's Atmosphere on Tour event in London discussing his role in Business IT Transformation.
In January 2013 Dale was stated as being one of the Top 50 Global Social CIO's by The Huffington Post. due to his "good frequent content" on Twitter () and actively "engaging" in social networks.
Other roles
2011 to 2013 Board Director, YouView, a joint venture among BBC, ITV plc, Channel 4, Channel 5, BT, TalkTalk, Arqiva and chaired by Lord Sugar
2011 to 2013 Board Director, Freesat, a joint venture between BBC an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Hus%20Educational%20Foundation | The Jan Hus Educational Foundation was founded in May 1980 by a group of British philosophers at the University of Oxford. The group operated an underground education network in Czechoslovakia, then under Communist Party rule, running seminars in philosophy, smuggling in books, and arranging for Western academics to give lectures.
The Foundation was deemed a "centre of ideological subversion" by the Czech police, and several of the visiting philosophers, including Jacques Derrida, Roger Scruton and Anthony Kenny, were arrested or placed on the "Index of Undesirable Persons".
In 1998 Václav Havel, the last president of Czechoslovakia and first president of the democratic Czech Republic, awarded Roger Scruton the Medal of Merit (First Class) for his work on behalf of the students, and gave Commemorative Medals of the President of the Republic to the Foundation and two of its organizers, Barbara Day and Kathy Wilkes. In 2019 the British ambassador to the Czech Republic, Nick Archer, unveiled a plaque on the building in the Letná area of Prague in which the early seminars were held.
Background
The Foundation was created after Czech dissident philosopher Julius Tomin wrote in 1978 to four Western universities asking them to support philosophy seminars he was holding in his apartment in Prague. The seminars were known as bytové semináře ("home seminars"). Tomin called his discussion group "Jan Patočka University", after the Czech philosopher who died in 1977 after being interrogated by police.
Correspondence from the Eastern Bloc was slow and uncertain; one commentator compared it to sending a message in a bottle. Only one letter is known to have arrived at its intended destination, the philosophy faculty at the University of Oxford, one year after it was sent. The letter was read out to the faculty by William Newton-Smith of Balliol during a meeting in January 1979; the final item on the agenda was "Letter from Czechoslovakian philosophers". Those present voted to offer financial support and to send two philosophers to address the seminars. The minutes noted:
It was agreed that the Chairman (J. L. Mackie) should send a letter of support to the Czechoslovakian philosophers. It was agreed to ask the Lit. Hum [Literae Humaniores] Board to make a grant to cover the cost of sending two members of the Philosophy Sub-Faculty to meet with the Czechoslovakian philosophers."
Seminars
Kathy Wilkes of St. Hilda's and Steven Lukes of Balliol were the first philosophers to visit Tomin. Wilkes visited in April 1979, carrying books for the students. Her first seminar was on Aristotle at Tomin's apartment in Keramická Street from 6 pm to midnight; she gave another a few days later, for 25 people, on "Identity of Human Personality". She told her colleagues that one of the books she took over had apparently been read by 40 people within the week.
When she returned to Oxford, Wilkes asked its Literae Humaniores board for financial support (at that time philosoph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Updata | Updata Infrastructure UK Ltd was a privately held UK company providing Internet and broadband connectivity services, primarily to public sector markets. Updata’s headquarters were in Premier House, Reigate, Surrey and the company also had offices in Wales (Cefn Coed Business Park, Cardiff) and Scotland (Strathclyde Business Park, Bellshill).
In 2009/2010 Updata had revenues of £19.7m, an increase of 82% on the previous year.
History
Updata was founded in 2003 by Richard Bennett and Victor Baldorino.
In 2009, Updata received investment from UK private equity firm LMS Capital plc. Subsequently, in 2010, Tim Pearson, former CEO of RM plc, was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman.
On 1 April 2014 it was announced that Capita had acquired Updata for a cash consideration of £80m on a cash free, debt free basis. Subsequently, Updata was absorbed into the Capita I.T. Enterprise Services business.
Activities
Updata initially focused on implementing local-loop unbundling in UK telephone exchanges, winning a number of contracts Over time, the company has developed a broad range of Internet and broadband services, aimed primarily at public sector clients. The company operates both as a direct suppliers to public sector clients, and in partnership with larger IT services organisations such as Siemens, Logicalis and Fujitsu.
Updata had significant success with its focus on public sector contracts - offering low cost technology innovation via the competitive dialogue public-sector tendering process. As a result they won a number of contracts with local authorities, education authorities and health service providers.
The company competed successfully for public sector business against major UK broadband suppliers. In 2010, Updata was awarded the contract to provide connectivity for the Hertfordshire Grid for Learning, displacing Virgin Media Business. This contract was valued at £17.1m over six years. In 2012, Updata won a 10-year, £81 million contract to manage and develop the IT network infrastructure and associated services for Essex County Council. The deal was won as a joint venture with Daisy Group (named Daisy Updata Communications (DUCL)) with 75 percent of the total contract value going to Updata.
References
External links
Company Web site
Press coverage of contract awards
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council Computerworld UK
Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council The Guardian
Herefordshire County Council Computing
Companies established in 2003
Companies based in Surrey
Internet in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20tornadoes%20from%20January%20to%20March%201982 | This is a list of all tornadoes that were confirmed by the National Climatic Data Center in the United States from January to March 1982. During this period, 81 tornadoes touched down across 23 states, resulting in 7 fatalities and numerous injuries. The strongest of these storms was an F4 in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles on March 18. Activity greatly varied between the three months, with January being above average, February at record low levels and March around average. Aside from two notable outbreaks, tornado events were sporadic and scattered across the country. More than half of the 60 tornadoes in March occurred during a single outbreak from March 14 to 17.
United States yearly total
January
February
March
References
Footnotes
Tornadoes of 1982
1982 natural disasters in the United States
1982, 01
January 1982 events in the United States
February 1982 events in the United States
March 1982 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady%20Windermere%27s%20Fan%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, Lady Windermere's Fan is a telescopic identity employed to relate global and local error of a numerical algorithm. The name is derived from Oscar Wilde's 1892 play Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman.
Lady Windermere's Fan for a function of one variable
Let be the exact solution operator so that:
with denoting the initial time and the function to be approximated with a given .
Further let , be the numerical approximation at time , . can be attained by means of the approximation operator so that:
with
The approximation operator represents the numerical scheme used. For a simple explicit forward Euler method with step width this would be:
The local error is then given by:
In abbreviation we write:
Then Lady Windermere's Fan for a function of a single variable writes as:
with a global error of
Explanation
See also
Baker–Campbell–Hausdorff formula
Numerical error
Numerical analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2A%3D | *= may refer to:
Augmented assignment, an operator for multiplication
A relational database join, in deprecated SQL syntax
See also
/= (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operon%20database | ODB (Operon DataBase) is a database of conserved operons in sequenced genomes.
See also
Operon
References
External links
http://operondb.jp/
Biological databases
Gene expression
Operons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODS-Petrodata | ODS-Petrodata is a market intelligence company specialised in the upstream offshore oil and gas industry. ODS-Petrodata is considered an authoritative source for market intelligence, data, market research and consulting services. "ODS-Petrodata has been a leading provider of market intelligence and data to the offshore oil and gas industry [by association with its previous entities], since 1974"
History
ODS-Petrodata was founded in 2002 from the merger of Offshore Data Services Inc., Petrodata Ltd. and Bassoe Offshore Consultants Ltd., each a provider of "data, information and market intelligence to the offshore energy industry". ODS-Petrodata's website claims that their organisation has existed in some form since 1973. In the recent years, they also starting producing tools and publications oriented towards the offshore renewables market.
Locations
ODS-Petrodata operates from offices in Houston, Aberdeen, Oslo, Singapore and Dubai.
Acquisition
ODS-Petrodata was acquired by IHS Inc. in April 2011.
References
External links
Business intelligence companies
2011 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Haderle | Donald Haderle is an American computer scientist and IBM Fellow, best known for his work on relational database management systems (RDBMS). He led the architecture and design of DB2, one of the first commercial RDBMSs, which led to his moniker "Father of DB2." DB2 debuted on IBM's mainframe system MVS in 1983 and validated the applicability of relational databases for high performance transaction processing. With DB2 enterprises store, retrieve, and analyze their business transaction data. The cited reference describes the early technology hurdles, the shift from a monolithic architecture to a distributed architecture portable across many operating systems (Unix, Windows, OS/2, and others) and the technology collaborations with IBM Research. DB2 is used in most enterprises around the world.
Haderle was appointed IBM Fellow in 1989. He was also elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2008 for contributions to the management of high-performance relational databases and leadership in founding the relational database-management industry. Before his retirement from IBM in 2005, he was vice president and chief technology officer for information management. He is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2000).
On February 23, 2008, Haderle joined Boardwalktech (company), which provides enterprise spreadsheet data management solutions which enable cell-level collaboration for spreadsheet-based processes across the extended enterprise as a Technology advisor.
In November 2010, Haderle joined Aerospike, a company working on a NoSQL Database called Aerospike as Technology Advisor. This relationship was formally announced in August 2012.
On March 26, 2013, Haderle joined ParStream (company), a company working on a real-time SQL columnar Database for big data analytics called ParStream database as a Technology advisor.
Life and career
Haderle was born on Feb. 5, 1944 and raised in San Francisco, California. He studied at Archbishop Riordan High School and received a B.A. degree in economics from the University of California Berkeley in 1967. He worked at the Port of New York Authority in New York, New York for a year and then joined IBM in San Jose, California as a computer programmer in 1968. He was appointed IBM Fellow in 1989 and Chief Technology Officer for Database Management in 1991. He retired in 2005.
References
American computer scientists
IBM employees
IBM Fellows
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Living people
American chief technology officers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Archbishop Riordan High School alumni
Scientists from San Francisco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZEUS%20robotic%20surgical%20system | The ZEUS Robotic Surgical System (ZRSS) was a medical robot designed to assist in surgery, originally produced by the American robotics company Computer Motion. Its predecessor, AESOP, was cleared by the Food and Drug Administration in 1994 to assist surgeons in minimally invasive surgery. The ZRSS itself was cleared by the FDA seven years later, in 2001. ZEUS had three robotic arms, which were remotely controlled by the surgeon. The first arm, AESOP (Automated Endoscopic System for Optimal Positioning), was a voice-activated endoscope, allowing the surgeon to see inside the patient's body. The other two robotic arms mimicked the surgeon's movements to make precise incisions and extractions. ZEUS was discontinued in 2003, following the merger of Computer Motion with its rival Intuitive Surgical; the merged company instead developed the Da Vinci Surgical System.
History
AESOP
In the 1990s, Computer Motion was a leading producer of medical robotics, manufacturing systems such as the HERMES Control Center and the SOCRATES Telecollaboration System. Computer Motion conducted its original research developing the AESOP arm under a NASA SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) contract. NASA funded the research in the hope that derivatives of such technology could help service the Space Shuttle in orbit, working on parts of the shuttle where humans cannot easily access or making other delicate repairs or adjustments.
AESOP was cleared for use by the FDA in 1994, and it became the first robot to assist in a surgery. AESOP's function is to maneuver an endoscope inside the patient's body during the surgery. The camera moves based on voice commands given by the surgeon. Voice activation of the AESOP arm allows the surgeon to position the camera while also controlling the other two arms of the ZEUS system. The endoscope can also be controlled by a computer which allows for more precise movements and also allows the endoscope to be inserted into the patient through a smaller incision (a key component of minimally invasive surgery).
ZEUS system
The first prototype of the ZEUS was demonstrated in 1995, and tested on animals in 1996. Two years later, in 1998, it carried out its first tubal re-anastomosis procedure, and its first coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) procedure. By 2000, the ZEUS was equipped to hold 28 different surgical instruments, and in 2001 it received FDA approval. In 2003, the ZEUS Robot Surgical System was marketed at $975,000. This was slightly cheaper than the competing Da Vinci system, which sold for $1 million.
Computer Motion vs. Intuitive Surgical
By 2000, Computer Motion had filed eight lawsuits against a rival medical robotics company, Intuitive Surgical, for allegedly infringing on Computer Motion's patents relating to robotic surgery.
On March 7, 2003, Computer Motion and Intuitive Surgical merged into a single company. This was partially done to try to end the litigation between the companies, but also to combine their ef |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padutha%20Theeyaga | Padutha Theeyaga (transl: I will sing sweetly) is an Indian Telugu-language Reality television singing show that is aired on ETV Telugu, a channel of ETV Network, a part of Ramoji Group. The program seeks to discover the best singing talent in Telugu language. The show used to be hosted by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, a legendary Playback singer from the state of Andhra Pradesh, India.
It is the first of its kind in South India. The main objective of this program is to bring out emerging singing talent into spotlight. Started in the year 1996 "Padutha Theeyaga" has so far completed more than 1100 episodes.
It helped identify and establish singers such as Mallikarjun, Usha, Smitha, Karunya, Hemachandra, Gopika Poornima, Kousalya, Venu, Geetha Madhuri, Malavika, Anjana Soumya, Parthasaradhi, Sandip, Madhavi Bhamidipati, Nitya Santhoshini, Sandeep Kurapati, Sri Sivathmika Medicherla and many more.
Overview
The program was first started in 1996 and continued till 2000 with 4 successful seasons. Again in 2007 the show restarted with new format and it continued till 20 September 2020, due to the unfortunate death of S. P. Balasubrahmanyam. However, from 27 September 2020, the Grand finale episodes of all seasons of the show were aired on the title of "Alanati Apurupalu". On 4 June 2021 an announcement was made, saying that the show will be hosted by S. P. Charan and will be judged by Chandrabose, Sunitha Upadrashta and Vijay Prakash. The new series debuted on ETV on 5 December 2021.
Old series 1 (1996)
Top 4 Contestants:-
Old Series 2 (Junior 1998)
Top 4 Contestants:-
Series 1 (2007)
The program was restarted again in 2007 with new format it
was for adult contestants. They selected 3 or 2 singers from each district of United Andhra Pradesh and gave voice of the district title to one among them and started the series with voice of the district title holders. Rajesh Kumar from Ananthapur and Lipsika from Khammam shared the first two places. Finals was judged by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and guest judge was Devi Sri Prasad. Megastar Chiranjeevi made a special appearance in the finals and gave prizes to the contestants. The Grand Finale was conducted in Visakhapatnam. Winner Rajesh Kumar won Cash prize of Rs.10,00,000 and runner Lipsika won Rs.5,00,000. The prize money was sponsored by Suvarna Bhoomi. Grand finals was completed on October 18, 2007.
Series 2 (2008)
This season was for the junior contestants with Lakshmi Meghana, Ganesh Revanth, Anjani Nikhila, Raghawendra as finalists.Lakshmi Meghana is the winner.
Series 3 (2008)
This season was sponsored by EXO-Dishwash. In this season, Sairamya got first prize., Damini got second prize, and Sarathchandra Kalahasti and Nuthana got equal marks and the two were equally given third place.
Series 4 (2009)
This season was also for the adult contestants. Ivaturi Harini, Nandibhatla Tejaswini, Rohit and Sai Charan were the finalists and these contestants stood in the first, second and the third pla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Safety%20Scanner | Microsoft Safety Scanner is a free time-limited virus scan utility similar to the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. It is used to scan a system for computer viruses and other forms of malware. It was released on 15 April 2011, following the discontinuation of the Windows Live OneCare Safety Scanner.
It is used as a more rigorous second opinion in cases where daily-use programs are suspected to have missed an infection. It is not intended to be used as a replacement for these tools, as it does not provide real-time protection, cannot update its malware definitions, and expires after ten days. It uses the same detection engine and malware definitions as Microsoft Security Essentials and Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection.
License restriction
, Microsoft Safety Scanner's end-user license agreement permits personal usage of one copy for the development and testing of user programs.
References
Further reading
External links
2011 software
Windows-only freeware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciao%20%28programming%20language%29 | Ciao is a general-purpose programming language which supports logic, constraint, functional, higher-order, and object-oriented programming styles. Its main design objectives are high expressive power, extensibility, safety, reliability, and efficient execution.
Language Characteristics
Ciao provides a full Prolog system (supporting ISO-Prolog),
declarative subsets and extensions of Prolog, functional programming (including lazy evaluation), higher-order (with predicate abstractions), constraint programming, and objects, as well as feature terms
(records), persistence, several control rules (breadth-first search, iterative deepening, ...), concurrency (threads/engines), distributed execution (agents), and parallel execution. Libraries also support WWW programming, sockets, external interfaces (C, Java, TclTk, relational databases, etc.), etc.
Ciao is built on a kernel with an extensible modular design which
allows both restricting and extending the language — it can be seen as a language building language. These restrictions and extensions can be activated separately on each program module so that several extensions can coexist in the same application for different modules.
Developing Safe and Reliable Programs
Programming in the large in Ciao is supported via:
A robust module/object system. This provides module-based separate/incremental compilation (which is automatic without need for makefiles).
An integrated assertion language for declaring (optional) program properties (specifications). These include types, modes, determinacy, non-failure, cost (time, memory), etc.
Automatic inference and static/dynamic checking of such assertions (including unit testing).
Ciao has also support for programming in the small: the compiler is
capable of producing small executables (including only those builtins
used by the program) and the interpreter supports scripting.
The environment includes a classical top-level and an evolved emacs
interface with an embeddable source-level debugger and a number of
execution visualization tools.
The Ciao preprocessor supports static debugging and verification
assertion checking and optimization via source to source program
transformation. These tasks are performed by Ciaopp, distributed
separately).
Auto-Documentation
Ciao includes lpdoc, an automatic documentation generator. It
processes programs adorned with (Ciao) assertions and machine-readable
comments and generates manuals in many formats including HTML, pdf,
texinfo, info, man, etc., as well as on-line help, ascii README
files, entries for indices of manuals (info, WWW, ...), and maintains
WWW distribution sites.
Portability and Efficiency
The Ciao compiler (which can be run outside the top level shell)
generates several forms of architecture-independent and stand-alone
executables, which run with speed, efficiency and executable size
which are very competitive with other high-level languages in general
and in particular with commercial and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Forbes%20%28disambiguation%29 | Jonathan Forbes is an Irish actor.
Jonathan Forbes may also refer to:
Jonathan Forbes (programmer), co-inventor of the LZX compression algorithm and file archiver
Jonathan Forbes (officer), British army major involved in the discovery of Sigiriya in 1831 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMMCore%20standard | The SMMCore standard (Singapore Multimedia Metadata Set) is the national metadata standard used for B2B content exchange in Singapore. In 2008, seeing a need for the adoption of best practices and standards for managing the storage of digital content through a set of metadata frameworks, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) organized an industry roundtable where Mediacorp chaired the Metadata Standardization Subgroup, working with other industry providers, such as Disney and Ascent Media, to define a set of practices for metadata used in the local media industry. Initially, SMMCore was built on the foundation of PBCore. However, with its second revision in 2011, harmonization work has been carried out with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), where the SMMCore framework has been revised to be built on the foundation of the EBU Core. Harmonization allows for support from a larger metadata community of people versed in the field, access to knowledge on semantic web and linked data for which EBU and therefore SMM Core are ready, adoption by the industry, sharing resources in research, development, and maintenance of the metadata specifications.
Scope
The subgroup identifies seven groups of first-level elements, which are:
Identifier group – e.g., ,
Title group – e.g.,
Description group – e.g.,
Audience group – e.g., (genre, rating)
Rights group – e.g.,
Instantiation group – e.g.,
Others group – e.g.,
A common library of basic attributes groups and derived data types are defined as well.
Methodology
The subgroup adopted the approach of identifying the market participants and their transactional requirements gathered from a survey conducted, and then using an established standard as a baseline to get started.
See also
Dublin core
PBCore
References
External links
EBUCore
EBUCore specification
SMMCORE and EBUCore
ETS metadata
Internet in Singapore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofie%20Formica | Sofie Formica (born 29 June 1971 Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian radio and television presenter best known for hosting Queensland-based lifestyle show The Great South East on the Seven Network from 1997 until 2016. Afternoons with Sofie Formica was launched on Brisbane radio station 4BC in October 2021.
Career
Host
Formica's television career commenced at age 14 on local Queensland school TV programs. In 1990, Sofie joined the cast of the award-winning Seven Network children's show Wombat; however, the show was axed that same year. Formica then hosted two children's programs: the Saturday morning program Saturday Disney (1990–1992) and the weekday program Now You See It (1990–1993) based on the US format Now You See It. In hosting Now You See It, she became the first female game-show host on Australian television.
The older audience pegged her as a presenter of several shows. She was host of the comedy TV series Just Kidding (from 1992 until 1995), and she was an original member of The Great Outdoors. She was also a reporter on Extra.
Actress
Formica appeared in several guest roles in TV serials, including featuring in Home and Away as the character Imogen Miller, cast in 10 episodes between 1992 and 1993.
Formica guest-starred on the American TV series Murder, She Wrote, Season 12, Episode 20, titled "Southern Double-Cross" as the character Linda Molen; at that time, she also hosted technology-based programming in San Francisco for CNET during its Sunday morning run on USA Network in the mid-to-late '90s. She has had minor roles in the movies First Strike (1996) and San Andreas (2015).
Radio
In October 2021, Formica joined Brisbane radio station 4BC to host Afternoons with Sofie Formica.
Personal life
On 31 December 1994, Formica married Scott Wilkie. They have three children and lived in the Brisbane suburb of Chelmer for almost ten years until 2016, then moved to St Lucia for the next five years.
References
External links
Living people
1971 births
Actresses from Brisbane
Australian television presenters
Australian television actresses
Australian women television presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICME%20cyberinfrastructure | Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) involves the integration of experimental results, design models, simulations, and other computational data related to a variety of materials used in multiscale engineering and design. Central to the achievement of ICME goals has been the creation of a cyberinfrastructure, a Web-based, collaborative platform which provides the ability to accumulate, organize and disseminate knowledge pertaining to materials science and engineering to facilitate this information being broadly utilized, enhanced, and expanded.
The ICME cyberinfrastructure provides storage, access, and computational capabilities for an extensive network of manufacturing, design, and life-cycle simulation software. Within this software framework, data is archived, searchable and interactive, offering engineers and scientists a vast database of materials-related information for use in research, multiscale modeling, simulation implementation, and an array of other activities in support of more efficient, less costly product development. Furthermore, the ICME cyberinfrastructure is expected to provide the capability to access and link application codes, including the development of protocols necessary to integrate hierarchical modeling approaches. With an emphasis on computational efficiency, experimental validation of models, and protecting intellectual property, the cyberinfrastructure assimilates 1) process-microstructure-property relations, 2) development of constitutive materials models that accurately predict multiscale material behaviors admitting microstructure/inclusions and history effects, 3) access to shared databases of analytical and experimental data, and 4) material models. As such, it is also crucial to identifying gaps in materials knowledge, which, in turn, guides the development of new materials theories, models, and simulation tools. Such a community-based knowledge foundation ultimately enables materials informatics systems that fuse high fidelity experimental databases with models of physical processes.
In addition, the vision of the ICME cyberinfrastructure is compatible with the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery, which advocates development and deployment of human-centered information technology (IT) systems that address the needs of science and engineering communities and open new opportunities for enhancing education and workforce development programs. According to the NSF directive, IT systems, such as the ICME cyberinfrastructure, should provide access to tools, services, and other networked resources, including high-performance computing facilities, data repositories, and libraries of computational tools, enabling and reliably supporting secure and efficient nationwide or global virtual organizations spanning across administrative boundaries.
Implementation
The National Materials Advisory Board (NMAB) of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhylomeDB | PhylomeDB is a public biological database for complete catalogs of gene phylogenies (phylomes). It allows users to interactively explore the evolutionary history of genes through the visualization of phylogenetic trees and multiple sequence alignments. Moreover, phylomeDB provides genome-wide orthology and paralogy predictions which are based on the analysis of the phylogenetic trees. The automated pipeline used to reconstruct trees aims at providing a high-quality phylogenetic analysis of different genomes, including Maximum Likelihood tree inference, alignment trimming and evolutionary model testing.
PhylomeDB includes also a public download section with the complete set of trees, alignments and orthology predictions, as well as a web API that facilitates cross linking trees from external sources. Finally, phylomeDB provides an advanced tree visualization interface based on the ETE toolkit, which integrates tree topologies, taxonomic information, domain mapping and alignment visualization in a single and interactive tree image.
New steps on phylomeDB
The tree searching engine of PhylomeDB was updated to provide a gene-centric view of all phylomeDB resources. Thus, after a protein or gene search, all the available trees in phylomeDB are listed and organized by phylome and tree type. Users can switch among all available seed and collateral trees without missing the focus on the searched protein or gene.
In phylomeDB v4 all the information available for each tree is now shown using an integrated layout in which tree topology, taxonomy data, alignments and domain annotations, and event-age (phylostratigraphy) information are rendered in the same figure using the newest visualization features provided by the ETE toolkit v2.2:
Pfam domains have been mapped to each alignment in our database and are now displayed in a compact panel at the right side of the tree. For each sequence, domains and their names are shown, they can be clicked to obtain a short description and the external link to Pfam. Protein regions not mapped to domains are shown using the standard amino acid color codes, while gap regions are represented by a flat line.
Tree images have been also simplified to improve readability. Mappings and/or cross-linking to general and organism-oriented databases has been extended to include the major Arabidopsis thaliana sequence database TAIR, Drosophila’s Flybase, as well as the Ascomycete-based genome database Genolevures.
Speciation and duplication events are indicated using different node colors and branch support values are now automatically highlighted for lowly supported partitions using a transparent red bubble inversely proportional to the branch bootstrap or aLRT value.
Internal tree searches can be performed for any of the annotated node attributes while links to other databases are provided through the contextual menu of the tree browser that appear when clicking any node.
Also, users can download relevant data, including t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernorms%20group | Cybernorms began officially on March 1, 2009 as a research project by Dr Måns Svensson, Stefan Larsson, and Professor Håkan Hydén of the Sociology of Law department at the University of Lund. The group researches how real-world norms interact with laws concerning file-sharing. The group is currently led by head researcher Måns Svensson. The group is exploring the rift between traditional society’s rules and the social norms that are generated from today's internet culture. The group also maintains the blog Cybernormer, launched in March 2009, to create a venue for knowledge and discussion on how the Internet creates new societal norms. Also discussed are norms in the shape of legislation aiming at regulation of and controlling activities on the internet. The blog covers the groups' research within this field and occasional guests are brought in to write articles.
Research
Social Norm Strength
In 2009, the group's first survey findings were published in a paper, Social Norms and Intellectual Property. The researchers came to the conclusion that there are "no social norms that hinder illegal file sharing. The surrounding imposes no moral or normative obstruction for the respondents file sharing of copyrighted content."
The group conducted a second survey, a comparison to the first survey, and an analysis of the effects of implementation of the IPR enforcement directive in Swedish law, generally called ”the IPRED-law”, under preparation in an article on April 14, 2010. Preliminary results were released on the blog, and statements were made to national press when the IPRED law celebrated its first year in force. Later the results were also published in an article by Måns Svensson and Stefan Larsson in the journal New Media & Society.
In February 2012, the group conducted a third similar survey as a comparison to the two prior surveys. Partial preliminary results were released in Swedish media and on the project blog. The results mostly concerned the relation between copyright enforcement and online anonymity.
Collaboration with Pirate Bay
On April 18, 2011, the torrent site The Pirate Bay renamed itself to "Research Bay," a display of their collaboration with the Cybernorms group. The Pirate Bay encouraged its users to take a sociological survey about file-sharing related issues. Private information was promised not to be released. The survey, powered by Questback queried participants about what media they were most likely to share, and what sources they use to download besides The Pirate Bay. Questions including asking about uploading practices to P2P networks and how much they use free streaming media services to watch TV, films, and listen to music. The survey's stated purpose was to understand online norms and values, which, the website goes on to say, is essential to developing relevant and effective laws and policies. Another purpose of the survey was to help researchers to better understand habits and norms within the file-sharing comm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazing%20Cooking%20Kids | Amazing Cooking Kids is a 2011 Philippine television reality cooking competition show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Carmina Villaroel, it premiered on April 16, 2011. The show concluded on July 16, 2011 with a total of 12 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Contestants
Top 18
Angela Rosales - Quezon City - Most Amazing Cooking Kids 11 yrs old
Ronin Leviste - Mindoro - 1st runner up 11 yrs old
Duday Reyes - Quezon City - 2nd runner up 11 yrs old
Budik Villalobos - Cebu - Eliminated 9th 9 yrs old
Tasha Pulgado - Bulacan - Eliminated 8th 11 yrs old
Xymon Caballero - Caloocan - Eliminated 7th 11 yrs old
Pat Reyes - Mandaluyong - Eliminated 6th 12 yrs old
Dingdong Lagman - Cagayan de Oro City - Eliminated 5th 12 yrs old
Paulo Sablaya - Quezon City - Eliminated 4th 10 yrs old
Ice Almalmani - Parañaque - Eliminated 3rd 9 yrs old
Nica Fortuno - Batangas- Eliminated 2nd 9 yrs old
Tarah Santos - Muntinlupa - Eliminated 1st 9 yrs old
Call-out order
The contestant won the competition.
The contestant won the week's reward challenge.
The contestant was eliminated.
In episode 3, everybody won the reward challenge.
In episode 5, the kids were divided into two groups. Budik and Ronin were the best of the Group 1 while Pat, Xymon, and Tasha were the best of the Group 2. While Pat was deemed as the over-all best. The call-out order from 2-5 was arranged according to the group and time they have finished.
In episode 6, Tasha and Xymon won the reward challenge.
In episode 7, Duday and Xymon was in a non-elimination bottom-2.
In episode 8, Dingdong was back because of Angela's powers to get some eliminated contestant to help her, but if their team won Dingdong will come back but not he is out.
In episode 11, Angela and Ronin won the reward challenge.
Judges
Rosebud Benitez - a chef and host of, Quickfire.
Jackie Ang-Po - a chef, owner of Fleur De Lys Patisserie and former host of the shows, True Confections and Delcioso!.
GB Barlao - a chef, vice president of Magsaysay Center for Hospitality and Culinary Arts.
Challenges
Episode 1: Specialty dish
Episode 2: Asian food
Episode 3: Seafood
Episode 4: Rice topping
Episode 5: Ice cream dessert
Episode 6: Pinoy dish
Episode 7: Picnic plate
Episode 8: Pasta dish
Episode 9: Cake
Episode 10: Chicken dish
Episode 11: Signature dish of GB Barlao
Episode 12: World class Pinoy dishes
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Amazing Cooking Kids earned an 11.7% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misteryo | () is a Philippine television horror documentary show broadcast by Q and GMA Network. Hosted by Ryan Eigenmann, it premiered on Q on January 10, 2010. It moved to GMA Network on December 18, 2010. The show concluded on July 9, 2011. It was replaced by Wish Ko Lang! in its timeslot.
The show is streaming online on YouTube.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings, the final episode of scored a 4.7% rating.
References
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly%20Qerim | Molly Qerim (born March 31, 1984) is an American television personality and a host of ESPN's First Take. She previously was the host of NFL Network's weekday morning show, NFL AM, and NFL Fantasy Live.
Early life
Qerim was born at Yale New Haven Hospital and grew up in Cheshire, Connecticut to a Catholic mother and Muslim father. She graduated from Cheshire High School before attending the University of Connecticut where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in communications and a minor in business administration. She received a master's degree from Quinnipiac University in broadcast journalism.
Career
Qerim began as an anchor and reporter for the CBS Sports Network.
She was also a studio anchor, where she hosted SEC Tailgate Show, SEC Tonight, MaxPreps Lemming Report, Full Court Press and Bracket Breakdown. Qerim has also covered the UFC in her time with ESPN, Versus (which became NBCSN) and FS1. In addition to her work outside the Octagon, she has co-hosted the annual World MMA Awards.
In 2008, Qerim was the interactive host for College Football Live on ESPN and ESPN2. She was also the breaking news reporter for Fantasy Football Now on ESPN2 and was honored with an Emmy for her contribution to the show. Additionally, she co-hosted Campus Connection on ESPNU.
Qerim has been part of other digital media content, conducting interviews of various athletes and celebrities for ESPN.com and ESPN Mobile. She has covered multiple Super Bowls (hosting, reporting, and red carpet events), the Heisman Trophy presentation, the NBA draft, the NBA All-Star Game and the MLB All-Star game, providing on-site reporting and interviews. She became the interim host of ESPN2's First Take in mid-July 2015. She replaced Cari Champion, who was promoted to ESPN's flagship show, SportsCenter. She was promoted to permanent host of First Take on September 15, 2015.
Personal life
On April 13, 2018, Qerim announced that she has severe endometriosis. On July 20, 2018, Qerim married former NBA player and fellow ESPN host Jalen Rose. In December 2021, TMZ Sports announced Rose had filed for divorce from Qerim, after being separated for about a year.
Qerim is a fan of the NFL’s New York Giants.
References
External links
1984 births
American people of Albanian descent
American people of Italian descent
American television sports anchors
American women sportswriters
College basketball announcers in the United States
College football announcers
Disney people
ESPN people
Living people
Mixed martial arts broadcasters
National Football League announcers
NFL Network people
People from Cheshire, Connecticut
People from New Haven, Connecticut
Quinnipiac University alumni
University of Connecticut alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20RAM%20drive%20software | RAM drive software allows part of a computer's RAM (memory) to be seen as if it were a disk drive, with volume name and, if supported by the operating system, drive letter. A RAM drive has much faster read and write access than a hard drive with rotating platters, and is volatile, being destroyed with its contents when a computer is shut down or crashes—volatility is an advantage if security requires sensitive data to not be stored permanently, and to prevent accumulation of obsolete temporary data, but disadvantageous where a drive is used for faster processing of needed data. Data can be copied between conventional mass storage and a RAM drive to preserve it on power-down and load it on start-up.
Overview
Features
Features that vary from one package to another:
Some RAM drives automatically back up contents on normal mass storage on power-down, and load them when the computer is started. If this functionality is not provided, contents can always be preserved by start-up and close-down scripts, or manually if the operator remembers to do so.
Some software allows several RAM drives to be created; other programs support only one.
Some RAM drives when used with 32-bit operating systems (particularly 32-bit Microsoft Windows) on computers with IBM PC architecture allow memory above the 4 GB point in the memory map, if present, to be used; this memory is unmanaged and not normally accessible. Software using unmanaged memory can cause stability problems.
Specifically in IBMPC based 32-bit operating systems, some RAM drives are able to use any 'unmanaged' or 'invisible' RAM below 4 GB in the memory map (known as the 3 GB barrier) i.e. RAM in the 'PCI hole'. Note: Do not assume that RAM drives supporting 'AWE' (or Address Windowing Extensions) memory above 4 GB will also support unmanaged PAE (or Physical Address Extension) memory below 4 GB—most don't.
FreeBSD
md – memory disk
This driver provides support for four kinds of memory backed virtual disks: malloc, preload, vnode, swap. Disks may be created with the next command line tools: mdconfig and mdmfs. An example of how to use these programs follows.
To create and mount memory disk with mdmfs:
# mdmfs -F newimage -s 5m md0 /mnt
To create and mount memory disk with mdconfig:
# mdconfig -a -t swap -s 5m -u 0
# newfs -U md0
# mount /dev/md0 /mnt
To destroy previously created disk:
# umount /mnt
# mdconfig -d -u 0
Linux
shm
Modern Linux systems come pre-installed with a user-accessible ramdisk mounted at /dev/shm.
RapidDisk
RapidDisk is a free and open source project containing a Linux kernel module and administration utility that functions similar to the Ramdiskadm of the Solaris (operating system). With the rxadm utility, the user is capable of dynamically attaching, removing, and resizing RAM disk volumes and treat them like any other block device.
RAMDisk
Free and open-source utility that allows using RAM as a folder.
tmpfs and ramfs
An example of how to use tmpfs and ramfs i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Network%20of%20Prison%20Ministries | The International Network of Prison Ministries (INPM) is a Dallas, Texas based crime prevention and rehabilitation trans-national organization.
History
As of 2016 INPM listed over 4,600 prison ministries worldwide.
Programs
INPM functions through a website that serves as a clearinghouse for information about various Christian prison ministries. This group provides information on Christian groups who are guided by the INPM's statement of faith: "Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away...(2 Cor. 5:17)". Prison ministry groups are allowed to become members of the INPM and are provided web pages within the INPM website to present information about themselves. Searchable information on jails and prisons (mostly US) is provided.
This information is available to other ministries, those involved with the criminal justice system, and to the general public. The site contains a variety of different methods to conduct an online search within its database to allow for easy access to chaplains of jails and prisons and to relevant ministries.
Numerous websites provide endorsements of INPM. The Faith and Service Technical Education Network (FASTEN) provides an overview of INPM and approves of its work.
References
External links
Official Website
Christian charities based in the United States
Prison charities based in the United States
Charities based in Texas
Religious prison-related organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Compute%20Project | The Open Compute Project (OCP) is an organization that shares designs of data center products and best practices among companies, including Arm, Meta, IBM, Wiwynn, Intel, Nokia, Google, Microsoft, Seagate Technology, Dell, Rackspace, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NVIDIA, Cisco, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, Lenovo and Alibaba Group.
Project structure
The Open Compute Project Foundation is a 501(c)(6) non-profit incorporated in the state of Delaware. Rocky Bullock serves as the Foundation's CEO and has a seat on the board of directors. As of July 2020, there are 7 members who serve on the board of directors which is made up of one individual member and six organizational members. Mark Roenigk (Facebook) is the Foundation's president and chairman. Andy Bechtolsheim is the individual member. In addition to Mark Roenigk who represents Facebook, other organizations on the Open Compute board of directors include Intel (Rebecca Weekly), Microsoft (Kushagra Vaid), Google (Partha Ranganathan), and Rackspace (Jim Hawkins).
A current list of members can be found on the opencompute.org website.
History
The Open Compute Project began in Facebook as an internal project in 2009 called "Project Freedom". The hardware designs and engineering team were led by Amir Michael (Manager, Hardware Design) and sponsored by Jonathan Heiliger (VP, Technical Operations) and Frank Frankovsky (Director, Hardware Design and Infrastructure). The three would later open source the designs of Project Freedom and co-found the Open Compute Project. The project was announced at a press event at Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto on April 7, 2011.
OCP projects
The Open Compute Project Foundation maintains a number of OCP projects, such as:
Server designs
Two years after Open Compute Project had started, with regards to a more modular server design, it was admitted that "the new design is still a long way from live data centers". However, some aspects published were used in Facebook's Prineville data center to improve energy efficiency, as measured by the power usage effectiveness index defined by The Green Grid.
Efforts to advance server compute node designs included one for Intel processors and one for AMD processors. In 2013, Calxeda contributed a design with ARM architecture processors. Since then, several generations of OCP server designs have been deployed: Wildcat (Intel), Spitfire (AMD), Windmill (Intel E5-2600), Watermark (AMD), Winterfell (Intel E5-2600 v2) and Leopard (Intel E5-2600 v3)
Data storage
Open Vault storage building blocks offer high disk densities, with 30 drives in a 2U Open Rack chassis designed for easy disk drive replacement. The 3.5 inch disks are stored in two drawers, five across and three deep in each drawer, with connections via serial attached SCSI. This storage is also called Knox, and there is also a cold storage variant where idle disks power down to reduce energy consumption. Another design concept was contributed by Hyve Solutions, a divis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digea | Digea is a Greek network operator that provides a digital terrestrial television system in Greece for seven nationwide free-to-air channels (Alpha TV, Alter Channel, ANT1, Makedonia TV, Mega Channel, Skai TV and Star Channel). In addition to these free-to-air nationwide stations, the network is open to any other station choosing to use its services.
The name Digea is a word play in Greek: composed of the words "Digital" and "Gaea" (the Greek name for Gaia, the ancient goddess who was the personification of the Earth), literally translated as "Digital Earth". It symbolizes a union of the digital era and the basis for life in our world. The company’s main area of activity is the provision of networking and multiplexing services, both to the above-mentioned shareholders as well as to any legal entity opting to use the company’s services.
Time line
24/09/2009: The first digital broadcasting of Digea consisting of television stations Alpha TV, Alter Channel, ANT1, Makedonia TV, Mega Channel, Skai TV and Star Channel was carried out in the Gulf of Corinth from the transmitting site of Xylokastro.
14/01/2010: Digital broadcasting began in Thessaloniki - Central Macedonia from the transmitting sites of Chortiatis and Philippion.
18/06/2010: Digital broadcasting began in Athens - Attica from the transmitting sites of Hymettus and Aegina.
01/09/2010: Digital broadcasting of regional channels TV 0-6, Attica TV, Extra Channel, High TV, MAD TV, MTV Greece, Nickelodeon and Sport TV added in Athens - Attica from the transmitting site of Aegina.
19/11/2010: Digital broadcasting began in Alexandroupolis - South West Thrace from the transmitting site of Plaka.
08/02/2011: Digital broadcasting of regional channels Blue Sky, Channel 9, Kontra Channel and Teleasty added in Athens - Attica from the transmitting site of Aegina.
25/02/2011: Digital broadcasting began in Rhodes from the transmitting site of Monte Smith.
27/05/2011: Digital broadcasting began in Central Thessaly from the transmitting site of Dovroutsi.
09/12/2011: Digital broadcasting began in Northern Aetolia-Acarnania, Preveza and Arta from the transmitting site of Acarnanian Mountains.
03/02/2012: Digital broadcasting began in Patras and Southern Aetolia-Acarnania from the transmitting site of Aroi.
26/06/2013: Digital broadcasting began in Crete from the transmitting site of Malaxa and Rogdia.
27/09/2013: Digital broadcasting began in Messenia and Laconia from the transmitting site of Petalidi.
27/06/2014: Analog-to-digital full switchover throughout Peloponnese areas. Analog signal is due to shutoff and everyone who watches digital TV should retune their TVs.
01/08/2014: Analog-to-digital full switchover throughout Attica areas. Analog signal is due to shutoff and everyone who watches digital TV should retune their TVs.
05/09/2014: Analog-to-digital full switchover throughout Eastern Macedonia and Thrace area and North Aegean areas. Analog signal is due to shutoff and everyone who watches digital T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Keyes | David Keyes () is an Israeli-American public relations representative and human rights activist. Keyes was the executive director of Advancing Human Rights, the co-founder of CyberDissidents.org, and the head of Movements.org, a platform for crowdsourcing human rights. The New York Times called Keyes "a pioneer in online activism."
From 2016 to 2018, Keyes was the foreign media advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In December 2018, Keyes resigned from his role as Netanyahu's spokesperson following allegations of sexual misconduct, which he denied.
Early life
Keyes was born in Los Angeles, California. He attended Shalhevet High School and University High School. In his youth, he was a top-ranked tennis player in California and played in the junior national championships. He once trained with Andre Agassi and wanted to be a professional tennis player.
Keyes graduated with honors from the University of California, Los Angeles with a degree in Middle Eastern studies. While in college, he ran a group called Students Against Dictators and wrote for the UCLA newspaper, the Daily Bruin. In 2004, Keyes conducted research at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, where he specialized in terrorism and assisted Dore Gold, Israel's former ambassador to the United Nations. In 2005, Keyes was a research intern at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He studied Arabic in Cairo in 2006. After immigrating to Israel, Keyes served in the Strategic Division of the Israel Defense Forces and completed a master's degree in diplomacy at Tel Aviv University. He is fluent in Hebrew and Arabic.
Career
Human rights activism
While working for former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky in Israel, Keyes founded CyberDissidents.org, a site meant to "highlight the voices of democratic online activists in the Middle East." CyberDissidents was a database and a platform for dissidents who wanted to reach a wider audience. Keyes was a keynote speaker at a conference on internet freedom organized by former President George W. Bush. In his speech, Keyes laid out his agenda to make dissidents more well-known.
In 2008, Keyes condemned the Egyptian government for jailing bloggers who publish criticism of the government. Keyes organized a protest at the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv to decry the ongoing detention of Egyptian blogger Kareem Amer. The assistant Egyptian consul emerged to speak with the protesters and claimed he had no knowledge of Amer's imprisonment. In 2014, Keyes called for "maximum pressure on the Egyptian government to uphold civil liberties."
In February 2010, Keyes published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal criticizing the ban on YouTube in Turkey. Keyes wrote that Turkey's status as a "European Capital of Culture" should be suspended until the YouTube ban was repealed. The op-ed sparked a protest movement for free speech in Turkey after it was reprinted in Turkish media. In October 2010, the Turkish government lifted the YouTube |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Westcott | Paul Westcott (born April 22) is a Business Development and Marketing Executive at political and consumer data powerhouse, L2. Formerly he was a senior digital editor for iHeartMedia. He is a frequent guest to talk about politics and political data siriusxm POTUS to discuss political data.
Early life and education
Westcott born to David and Paula Westcott on April 22. Westcott started his career in media working at WFUV at Fordham University where he anchored, reported and produced local news for the NPR Affiliate. Upon graduating (May 2006) he earned a master's degree in Political science while working for NBC News in New York. He graduated from Fordham University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in (May 2008).
Career
Westcott had a short stint as a production assistant for the O'Reilly Factor before becoming a New York-based Assignment Editor for NBC News, covering breaking and planned events on the network's news desk. During his time at NBC Westcott worked for the national desk covering domestic news and the International Desk covering the world and working with NBC News' many international bureaus. Prior to leaving, Westcott covered the 2008 President race from the network's political desk.
In 2008 Westcott started at iHeartMedia as senior digital news/political editor for the company's 850+ radio station websites. After the 2008 election, Westcott was asked to create a channel for iHeartRadio iHeart's digital platform specifically covering Washington and the President. The White House Brief launched in May 2009 as short news loop and grew into a two-hour show with a massive digital reach, along with an aggressive sales strategy built in large part by Westcott and his production team.
Westcott maintained a role with iHeartMedia's digital properties as a political news editor overseeing all political news content. After building relationships within the political community specifically with campaigns, consultants, unions, and trade associations Westcott went to work for L2, America's leading provider of voter, consumer, and modeled data. Heading up the company's business development program since 2014 Westcott has grown L2's salesforce, expanded their reach into national media organizations, Presidential campaigns, and into the commercial market.
Currently, Westcott is the Vice President of Sales & Marketing at L2.
References
1984 births
Living people
American bloggers
Fordham University alumni
American broadcast news analysts
American political commentators
American political writers
American male non-fiction writers
American talk radio hosts
People from Westchester County, New York
Fox News people
Journalists from New York City
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male bloggers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhEVER | PhEVER is a database of homologous gene families between viral sequences and sequences from cellular organisms.
See also
Phylogenetics
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20101105222933/http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/databases/phever/
Genetics databases
Phylogenetics
Virology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20Data%20Protection%20Agency | The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD, ) is an independent agency of the government of Spain which oversees the compliance with the legal provisions on the protection of personal data. The agency is headquartered in the city of Madrid and it extends its authority to the whole country.
Apart from the AEPD, there are regional data protection agencies. These agencies have limited access to the files of public administrations because all that information remains the responsibility of the national agency. Currently there are only two regional agencies: the Catalan Data Protection Authority and the Basque Data Protection Agency. From 1995 to 2013, there was also the Data Protection Agency of the Community of Madrid.
Legal basis and foundation
The AEPD was established by Royal Decree 428/1993 of 26 March, as amended by Organic Act 15/1999 on the Protection of Personal Data. This amendment implemented Directive 95/46/EC. The agency was created in the context of the Spanish Constitution of 1978, Article 18.4, stating that "the law shall restrict the use of informatics in order to protect the honour and the personal and family privacy of Spanish citizens, as well as the full exercise of their rights" as elaborated by Organic Law 5/1992.
Major activities
The AEPD is a public law authority enjoying "absolute independence from the Public Administration". It is responsible for:
Information awareness about its activities and the right to protection of personal data (including 450 interviews and 850 "impacts" on media)
Direct assistance in response to citizen queries (47,741 in 2007)
Procedures to protect rights of individuals to access, rectify, cancel, and object. Most common are processes to cancel (62%) and access (32%)
Registry of filing systems (1,017,266 total entries)
Inspection and sanction procedures (399 sanction procedures resolved with €19.6 million in fines)
Advocacy leading to Royal Decree 1720/2007
Cooperation with international agencies and those of the autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Basque Country, and Madrid
Evaluation of emerging risks, including personal data on the Internet, generalisation of video surveillance systems, employer monitoring of labor by video surveillance, biometrics, and Internet usage, and intensification of international data flows
In response to the latter point, the AEPD advocated:
Developing procedures allowing copyright protection in a manner compatible with the fundamental right to data protection
Regulating the anonymized publication of judgements passed by Courts of Law
Regulating internal whistleblowing systems available to workers within companies, outlining the activities in which it may be necessary to establish these systems and guaranteeing the confidentiality of those reporting and the rights of those being reported on
Development of specific public policy plans for the protection of minors on the Internet
Increased caution in order to prevent the undesirable exchange of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Przepis%20na%20%C5%BCycie%20episodes | Przepis na życie (English Recipe For Life) is a Polish Comedy drama television series produced by Akson Studio for the TVN network. The series was created and written by Polish actress Agnieszka Pilaszewska. It premiered on 6 March 2011 at 21:25 after X Factor.
Series 1 (Spring 2011)
Series 2 (Fall 2011)
Series 3 (Spring 2012)
References
Lists of comedy-drama television series episodes
Lists of Polish television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smail%20%28disambiguation%29 | Smail is a mail transfer agent used on Unix-like operating systems.
Smail may also refer to:
Snail mail, a disparaging retronym referring to missives carried by conventional postal delivery services
Robert Smail's Printing Works, a Victorian-era letterpress printing works in the Scottish Borders town of Innerleithen
People with the surname
David Smail (golfer) (born 1970), New Zealand professional golfer
David Smail (psychologist) (born 1938), British clinical psychologist
Doug Smail (born 1957), Canadian ice hockey left winger
John R.W. Smail (1930-2002), Cornell historian of Southeast Asia
Thomas Smail (born 1928), Scottish theologian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recipe%20For%20Life | Przepis na życie (English Recipe For Life) is a Polish Comedy-drama television series produced by Akson Studio for the TVN network. The series was created and written by Polish actress Agnieszka Pilaszewska.
Premise
The main character is a middle-aged woman whose life changes when her husband leaves her and she loses her job. The only activity that can make her feel better is cooking. This is her passion. The storyline follows her fate, as well as her daughter's and ex-husband's who is now with another woman.
Cast
Magdalena Kumorek as Anka Zawadzka
Aleksandra Radwańska as Mania Zawadzka
Dorota Kolak as Irena
Piotr Adamczyk as' Andrzej Zawadzki
Edyta Olszówka as Pola
Maja Ostaszewska as Beata Darmieta
Dominika Gwit as Gruba
Paweł Marczuk as Grochol
Borys Szyc as Jerzy Knape
Lesław Żurek as Maciek
Jakub Mazurek as Leszek
Iwona Bielska as Wanda
Wojciech Duryasz as Karol
Sławomir Orzechowski as Stefan
Jerzy Fedorowicz as General, Beata's father
List of episodes
Ratings
International broadcast
Following the success in Poland, broadcast rights have been sold abroad. The series currently airs in China, Hungary, Slovakia and the countries of Middle East.
Lithuanian version
The Lithuanian version of the series titled Gyvenimo receptai'', featuring Donata Rinkevičienė, Inga Norkutė, Kristina Kazlauskaitė, Giedrius Arbačiauskas, Ridas Žirgulis, Lina Rastokaitė, Paulius Ignatavičius and Eglė Špokaitė as the main cast, will premiere on 10 September 2014 on LNK.
References
External links
Official site
Przepis na życie at Distribution.tvn.pl (English)
Polish comedy-drama television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty%20Hurts%20%28TV%20series%29 | Pretty Hurts is an American reality television series from the LGBT-interest network Logo. The show revolves around Rand Rusher, a Botox/Restylane injectionist to the starlets, Hollywood wives, and the wannabes of Beverly Hills. The setting is Rusher's office on S. Bedford Drive in Beverly Hills.
Cast
Rand Rusher: Rusher is a registered nurse with over 20 years experience in all specialties relating to surgical and dermatological medicine. Rand spent his early career years working as a surgical nurse at the University of Southern California Norris Cancer Hospital and Research Center. While in practice at USC for seven years as a critical care nurse, he received national recognition and certification from the Association of Preoperative Nurse's Association for his outstanding knowledge and skills in operating room nursing and all related surgical specialties. In 2002 Rand joined Dr. Norman Leaf in creating Leaf & Rusher Skincare – an advanced skincare program focused on non-acid technology with active and botanical ingredients.
Curt W. Meeuwsen: In 2004 Curt became the Chief Executive Officer of Leaf & Rusher Corporation, a beauty products company located in Beverly Hills. In his role he oversees all aspects of Operations, Brand Management, Marketing, Product Development, Sales and Finance.
Episodes
References
External links
Pretty Hurts at the Internet Movie Database
2010s American reality television series
2011 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
Logo TV original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Path%20Acceleration%20Architecture | The QorIQ Data Path Acceleration Architecture or QorIQ DPAA is a architecture which integrates aspects of packet processing in the SoC, thereby addressing issues and requirements resulting from the multicore nature of QorIQ SoCs. The DPAA includes Cores, Network and packet I/O as well as hardware offload accelerators.
The DPAA can be used to address various performance related requirements, especially those created by the high speed network I/O found on multicore SoCs such as the P4080.
References
External links
http://freescalesemi.com.cn/cstory/ftf/2009/download/net_f0279.pdf
Freescale – Three new QorIQ processors incorporate data path acceleration (DPAA software)
http://cache.freescale.com/files/soft_dev_tools/doc/app_note/AN4543.pdf
http://cache.freescale.com/files/soft_dev_tools/doc/user_guide/QORIQCSDPAAUG.pdf
http://www.freescale.com/files/32bit/doc/white_paper/QORIQDPAAWP.pdf
Packets (information technology) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPCC | HPCC (High-Performance Computing Cluster), also known as DAS (Data Analytics Supercomputer), is an open source, data-intensive computing system platform developed by LexisNexis Risk Solutions. The HPCC platform incorporates a software architecture implemented on commodity computing clusters to provide high-performance, data-parallel processing for applications utilizing big data. The HPCC platform includes system configurations to support both parallel batch data processing (Thor) and high-performance online query applications using indexed data files (Roxie). The HPCC platform also includes a data-centric declarative programming language for parallel data processing called ECL.
The public release of HPCC was announced in 2011, after ten years of in-house development (according to LexisNexis). It is an alternative to Hadoop and other Big data platforms.
System architecture
The HPCC system architecture includes two distinct cluster processing environments Thor and Roxie, each of which can be optimized independently for its parallel data processing purpose.
The first of these platforms is called Thor, a data refinery whose overall purpose is the general processing of massive volumes of raw data of any type for any purpose but typically used for data cleansing and hygiene, ETL (extract, transform, load) processing of the raw data, record linking and entity resolution, large-scale ad-hoc complex analytics, and creation of keyed data and indexes to support high-performance structured queries and data warehouse applications. The data refinery name Thor is a reference to the mythical Norse god of thunder with the large hammer symbolic of crushing large amounts of raw data into useful information. A Thor cluster is similar in its function, execution environment, filesystem, and capabilities to the Google and Hadoop MapReduce platforms.
Figure 2 shows a representation of a physical Thor processing cluster which functions as a batch job execution engine for scalable data-intensive computing applications. In addition to the Thor master and slave nodes, additional auxiliary and common components are needed to implement a complete HPCC processing environment.
The second of the parallel data processing platforms is called Roxie and functions as a rapid data delivery engine. This platform is designed as an online high-performance structured query and analysis platform or data warehouse delivering the parallel data access processing requirements of online applications through Web services interfaces supporting thousands of simultaneous queries and users with sub-second response times. Roxie utilizes a distributed indexed filesystem to provide parallel processing of queries using an optimized execution environment and filesystem for high-performance online processing. A Roxie cluster is similar in its function and capabilities to ElasticSearch and Hadoop with HBase and Hive capabilities added, and provides for near real time predictable query |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Green%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce | The United States Green Chamber of Commerce (USGCC) is a national networking organization for businesses and community organizations that emphasize green and sustainable business practices. It asserts that sustainable business practices "spur innovation, job creation, energy efficiency and an overall brighter economic future through the triple bottom line: economic, environmental, and social sustainability." Founded in California, it has expanded into several US states including Maryland, Missouri, Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, and New York.
CEO Michelle Thatcher and Board of Directors chair Jim Bunch lead the US Green Chamber of Commerce.
About
The USGCC was launched in 2011 as a nationwide expansion of the Green Chamber of San Diego County, co-founded by David Steel and Peter Zahn in 2009.
The USGCC has created strategic alliances with like-minded groups such as E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs, Entrepreneurs' Organization), chambers and workforce partnerships to further its purpose of advancing best practices related to corporate sustainability and social responsibility.
Prominent members include Toyota, Kimpton Hotels, Northwestern Mutual, and Union Bank.
See also
Sustainability
Triple bottom line
Climate change
References
External links
Chambers of commerce in the United States
Business organizations based in the United States
Sustainability organizations
2011 establishments in California
Organizations established in 2011
Organizations based in San Diego |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer%20sorting | In computer science, integer sorting is the algorithmic problem of sorting a collection of data values by integer keys. Algorithms designed for integer sorting may also often be applied to sorting problems in which the keys are floating point numbers, rational numbers, or text strings. The ability to perform integer arithmetic on the keys allows integer sorting algorithms to be faster than comparison sorting algorithms in many cases, depending on the details of which operations are allowed in the model of computing and how large the integers to be sorted are.
Integer sorting algorithms including pigeonhole sort, counting sort, and radix sort are widely used and practical. Other integer sorting algorithms with smaller worst-case time bounds are not believed to be practical for computer architectures with 64 or fewer bits per word. Many such algorithms are known, with performance depending on a combination of the number of items to be sorted, number of bits per key, and number of bits per word of the computer performing the sorting algorithm.
General considerations
Models of computation
Time bounds for integer sorting algorithms typically depend on three parameters: the number of data values to be sorted, the magnitude of the largest possible key to be sorted, and the number of bits that can be represented in a single machine word of the computer on which the algorithm is to be performed. Typically, it is assumed that ; that is, that machine words are large enough to represent an index into the sequence of input data, and also large enough to represent a single key.
Integer sorting algorithms are usually designed to work in either the pointer machine or random access machine models of computing. The main difference between these two models is in how memory may be addressed. The random access machine allows any value that is stored in a register to be used as the address of memory read and write operations, with unit cost per operation. This ability allows certain complex operations on data to be implemented quickly using table lookups. In contrast, in the pointer machine model, read and write operations use addresses stored in pointers, and it is not allowed to perform arithmetic operations on these pointers. In both models, data values may be added, and bitwise Boolean operations and binary shift operations may typically also be performed on them, in unit time per operation. Different integer sorting algorithms make different assumptions, however, about whether integer multiplication is also allowed as a unit-time operation. Other more specialized models of computation such as the parallel random access machine have also been considered.
showed that in some cases the multiplications or table lookups required by some integer sorting algorithms could be replaced by customized operations that would be more easily implemented in hardware but that are not typically available on general-purpose computers. improved on this by showing how to rep |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minibloq | Minibloq is a graphical development environment for Arduino and other platforms. Its main objective is to help in teaching programming. It is specially used in robotics at elementary, middle and high schools. It's widely used in Argentina, where in the San Luis province alone, more than 60000 children have been trained with this software in public schools.
How it works
Minibloq is basically a graphical code generator with some IDE capabilities. It's self-contained and every distribution includes the complete [toolchain] needed to compile (or interpret, depending on the selected target) and deploy the code to the selected hardware target. Every code block is configured in XML. Since its first public version, the code is generated in real time (for this purpose uses Scintilla). Here are some examples of code generated for Arduino:
Since the v0.82 version, it also can be used as an IDE for conventional programming of Arduino and other physical computing boards.
miniSim
Since the v0.82 version, miniBloq includes miniSim: a small 2D robot simulator, aimed specially for kids. It's a very simple tool to help teaching basic robot programming to kids whom do not own a real robot. miniBloq features some simple blocks that controls a small simulated robot with some remembrances to Logo, where the robot can draw a small environment (a maze, for example) and then use a sensor to interact with that environment. miniSim is under the same license as miniBloq, and has been programmed in Python, using PyGame. miniSim is the official simulator software used by the Educ.Ar educational program from the Argentine Government.
Operating systems
miniBloq runs under Windows and Linux, in principle, without dependencies. The v0.81 version is distributed both as a Windows installer (exe) or as a single multiple OS compressed file, which contains the Windows and the Linux versions. This last distribution was designed to be portable, so the user can run in from a pen drive in any of these operating systems. The version v0.82 comes only in Windows version, since the Linux is under development. However, a preliminary Linux version can be downloaded from a branch from miniBloq's GitHub repository.
Derivative software
There are derivative versions of miniBloq made for specific platforms by third party teams or private companies:
AERobot: an Affordable Education Robot: This is a project from a Team at Harvard University, winner of the African Robotics Network 2103/2014 Design Challenge
ArcBotics miniBloq for Sparki: Specific miniBloq version made from a pre-release of the v0.82 for the ArcBotics' Sparki robot.
Lego Duino: Hobbyist project made by J. Benschop to help teaching robotics to kids using Lego and open source robotics hardware and software.
References
Publications
There are some activity books available online as PDF about miniBloq and educational robotics:
miniBloq + Arduino (Spanish)
SparkFun RedBot & RedBoard with miniBloq
External links
Offic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolving%20network | Evolving networks are networks that change as a function of time. They are a natural extension of network science since almost all real world networks evolve over time, either by adding or removing nodes or links over time. Often all of these processes occur simultaneously, such as in social networks where people make and lose friends over time, thereby creating and destroying edges, and some people become part of new social networks or leave their networks, changing the nodes in the network. Evolving network concepts build on established network theory and are now being introduced into studying networks in many diverse fields.
Network theory background
The study of networks traces its foundations to the development of graph theory, which was first analyzed by Leonhard Euler in 1736 when he wrote the famous Seven Bridges of Königsberg paper. Probabilistic network theory then developed with the help of eight famous papers studying random graphs written by Paul Erdős and Alfréd Rényi. The Erdős–Rényi model (ER) supposes that a graph is composed of N labeled nodes where each pair of nodes is connected by a preset probability p.
While the ER model's simplicity has helped it find many applications, it does not accurately describe many real world networks. The ER model fails to generate local clustering and triadic closures as often as they are found in real world networks. Therefore, the Watts and Strogatz model was proposed, whereby a network is constructed as a regular ring lattice, and then nodes are rewired according to some probability β. This produces a locally clustered network and dramatically reduces the average path length, creating networks which represent the small world phenomenon observed in many real world networks.
Despite this achievement, both the ER and the Watts and Storgatz models fail to account for the formulation of hubs as observed in many real world networks. The degree distribution in the ER model follows a Poisson distribution, while the Watts and Strogatz model produces graphs that are homogeneous in degree. Many networks are instead scale free, meaning that their degree distribution follows a power law of the form:
This exponent turns out to be approximately 3 for many real world networks, however, it is not a universal constant and depends continuously on the network's parameters
First evolving network model – scale-free networks
The Barabási–Albert (BA) model was the first widely accepted model to produce scale-free networks. This was accomplished by incorporating preferential attachment and growth, where nodes are added to the network over time and are more likely to link to other nodes with high degree distributions. The BA model was first applied to degree distributions on the web, where both of these effects can be clearly seen. New web pages are added over time, and each new page is more likely to link to highly visible hubs like Google which have high degree distributions than to nodes with only a few li |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Tech%20High%20charter%20schools | High Tech High is a San Diego, California-based school-development organization that includes a network of charter schools, a teacher certification program, and a graduate school of education. Students are admitted to the public elementary, middle, and high schools through a zip-code based lottery system in an effort to admit a demographically diverse representative sample of San Diego County.
History
In 1996, forty members of San Diego's civic and high-tech industry assembled to discuss how to engage and prepare more young people for the high-tech industry. Called upon by the San Diego Economic Development Corporation and Business Roundtable, these members met regularly for the next two years to discuss how to engage and prepare local students for high-tech careers. One of these members included Gary E. Jacobs, former director of education programs at Qualcomm.
The original "High Tech High School" is now known as The Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs High Tech High.
In 2000, the San Diego Unified School District approved the first charter and construction began in a former U.S. Navy training center in the Point Loma district, now known as Liberty Station, near the San Diego airport. The grouping of High Tech High schools in this area is known as High Tech High Village. With a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, High Tech High opened with 200 students in the 9th and 10th grades in September. In 2003, the first graduating class graduated with 50 students. In 2006, the Statewide Benefit Charter was approved. In 2007, High Tech High Digital Commons launched. In 2009, the statewide Benefit Charter was expanded to K-12.
In 2010, it had approximately 3,500 students in high, middle, and elementary schools. The HTH website states that in 2010, 100% of high school graduates were accepted to colleges, of which 80% were to four-year institutions. As of 2008, 99% percent of graduates had entered college. As of 2015, 98% of students attended college after graduation, with around 75% attending 4-year schools. According to statistics from that year, students of HTH scored higher than others within their demographic groups elsewhere in the state.
Enrollment
Based on the 2019–20 school year, 503 students attend High Tech High. When divided by grade levels, 126 students were in 9th grade,127 in 10th, 130 in 11th, and 120 in 12th. The school is 46.1% Hispanic or Latino, 31.8% White, 8% Asian, 8% two or more races, 5.2% African American, 0.6% American Indian or Alaskan Native and 0.2% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
Program design principles
The High Tech High program and curriculum evolved from the work of Larry Rosenstock and colleagues in the New Urban High School Project, an initiative of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Vocational and Adult Education. The focus was on inner-city high schools using school-to-work strategies, including internships and other forms of field work, as a leverage for whole-school change. The findin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munting%20Heredera | (International title: Little Heiress) is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Maryo J. de los Reyes, it stars Gloria Romero. It premiered on May 9, 2011 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Dwarfina. The series concluded on February 3, 2012 with a total of 195 episodes. It was replaced by Biritera in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Gloria Romero as Anastacia "Ana" Montereal-Lobregat
Supporting cast
Mark Anthony Fernandez as Jacob Montereal
Camille Prats as Sandra Santiago-Montereal/Susan Velasco
Katrina Halili as Lynette Sarmiento-Montereal
Roderick Paulate as Emmanuel "Manny" Mejia
Mona Louise Rey as Jennifer "Jenny" S. Montereal
Gabby Eigenmann as Desmond Montereal / Michael Sison
Leandro Baldemor as Philip Arboleda
Ynez Veneracion as Claire Montereal
Neil Ryan Sese as Simeon Velasco
Krystal Reyes as Gemmalyn "Gemma" Sarmiento
Kristofer Martin as Timothy James "TJ" Navarro-Arboleda
Joyce Ching as Kyla Montereal
Luz Valdez as Maria Montereal
Barbara Miguel as Calilla S. Arboleda
Kyle Ocampo as Michelle S. Velasco
Guest cast
Robert Arevalo as Enrique Lobregat
Boots Anson-Roa as Ingrid Spencer-Lobregat
Bobby Andrews as Stanley Lobregat
Andrea del Rosario as Kate Lobregat
Jesus Ramon as Allen Lobregat
Rammy Bitong as Marlon
Miggs Cuaderno as Tonton
Matet de Leon as Helen
Orlando Dela Cruz as Emong
Deborah Sun as Meding
Sharmaine Arnaiz as Maritess / Lulu
Elijah Alejo as Abigail
Sue Prado as Nerissa
Marita Zobel as Veronica
Shiela Marie Rodriguez as Pipa
Julio Diaz as Toto
Kryshee Grengia as Nini
Nathaniel Britt as Bugoy
Madeleine Nicolas as Aurora
Remake
In 2016, Munting Heredera was slated to have an adaptation in Mexico, marking the first drama series by GMA Network to be adapted by a Latin country. It will be produced by Telefilm Atlantico S.A.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the final episode scored a 27.7% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2012 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20Kiesler | Sara Beth (Greene) Kiesler is the Hillman Professor Emerita of Computer Science and Human Computer Interaction in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also a program director in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences at the US National Science Foundation, where her responsibilities include programs on Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace, The Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier, Smart and Connected Communities, and Securing American Infrastructure. She received an M.A. degree in psychology from Stanford in 1963, and a Ph.D., also in psychology, from Ohio State University in 1965.
Areas of Research
Kiesler has broad interests in the design and social impact of computing and online behavior ranging from computer-mediated communication and computer-supported cooperative work to human-robot interaction and social media. In her early studies with Lee Sproull and her colleagues and students, she examined how computer networking changed group dynamics and social interaction. Their influential 1992 book, Connections described the indirect, secondary effects of using email in organizations. Through field observations and experiments they demonstrated the influence of computer-mediated communication phenomena such as status equalization, personal connections and flaming. Research with Robert E. Kraut from the 1990s showed that everyday use of the Internet increased users' depression and decreased their social connections. Later research showed that the psychological consequences of Internet use depend fundamentally on how it is used: communication with friends and family online has positive psychological consequences, while communication with strangers has negative effects. Her ongoing projects include studies of collaboration and virtual organization in science, of collaborative analysis online, of the cognitive and social aspects of human-robot and digital agent interaction, and of how people perceive and try to protect their privacy online. Her publications can be found on her website and in Google Scholar.
Awards and honors list
Elected to the CHI Academy, 2002
CHI Lifetime Achievement Award, the most prestigious award by SIGCHI, 2009
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, 2010
Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence, 2013
International Communication Association Williams Prize, 2015
InGROUP McGrath Lifetime Award, 2016
Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2018
Human Robot Interaction Lifetime Service Award, 2018
Elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering (2019) for leadership, technical innovation, and identification of social trends with the adoption of computers and robots in work and society
She regularly serves on the ACM SIGCHI, CSCW, and HRI conference program committees. She is a past board member of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academy of Sciences, and past Editor of the Journal of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reel%20Love%20Presents%20Tween%20Hearts | Reel Love Presents Tween Hearts is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gina Alajar, it stars Barbie Forteza, Joshua Dionisio, Bea Binene and Jake Vargas. It premiered on September 26, 2010, replacing Love Bug. The series concluded on June 10, 2012, with a total of 87 episodes. It was replaced by Together Forever in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Barbie Forteza as Barbara "Bambi" Fortez
Bea Binene as Belinda "Belle" Fortez
Joshua Dionisio as Joshua "Josh" Diones
Jake Vargas as Jacob Vergara
Kristofer Martin as Christoper "Chris" Soriano
Joyce Ching as Ligaya "Aya" Baltazar-Chan
Derrick Monasterio as Ricardo "Rick" Montano
Louise delos Reyes as Luisa dela Cruz
Lexi Fernandez as Leslie "Les" Fernan
Kylie Padilla as Heidilyn "Heidi" Rivera
Marlo Mortel as Uno Morales
Recurring cast
Hiro Peralta as Bayani "Ian" de Castro
Yassi Pressman as Eunice Fuentabella
Ken Chan as Mackenzie "Mac" Santos
Kim Rodriguez as Angela "Angel" Villavicencio
Teejay Marquez as Nathaniel Antonio "Nathan" Dimagalpok
Rhen Escaño as Lucy Villavicencio
Krystal Reyes as Mallory Santos
Kiko Estrada as Kevin Del Mundo
Julie Anne San Jose as Mira
Supporting cast
Gabby Eigenmann as Coach A / Bulldog / Sir Boris
Roxanne Barcelo as Rose Diones
Emilio Garcia as Ted Fortez
Sylvia Sanchez as Irene Fortez
Richard Quan as Emerson Chan
Pinky Amador as Liwayway Baltazar-Chan
Tina Monasterio as Josephine "Josie" Montano
Rochelle Barrameda as Maila Rivera
Jao Mapa as Julio Vega
Kit Thompson as Keith Villanueva
Claudine Barretto as Clarisse Benitez
Isabelle Daza as Annabelle
Mariel Rey as Alexa
Nathalie Hart as Vanessa
Ynna Asistio as Yza
Alden Richards as Dennis
Steven Silva as Leo
Bubbles Paraiso as Bunny
Miguel Tanfelix as Miguel
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings, the pilot episode of Reel Love Presents Tween Hearts earned a 4.6% rating. While the final episode scored a 13.3% rating in Mega Manila household television ratings.
Film adaptation
Tween Academy: Class of 2012 was directed by Mark Reyes and produced by GMA Films. Based on the show, it was released in theaters on August 24, 2011. The total of film's box office earnings is P32.23 million.
Tours
Tween Hearts: The Mini Concert (October 24, 2012)
Accolades
References
External links
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2012 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Philippine teen drama television series
Television series about teenagers
Television shows set in Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Mazur | Mary Mazur is a producer. After graduating from Santa Clara University she began her career working in television movies, primetime programming and drama development at NBC. She has been the Development Executive for the Emmy Award-Winning Miniseries A Year In the Life as well as the executive producer for Copenhagen and The Old Settler. She has also been the executive producer for documentaries such as World War Two: Behind Closed Doors and How Art Made the World.
Filmography
World War Two: Behind Closed Doors - 2008
How Art Made the World - 2005
A Place of Our Own - 2005
Copshop - 2004
Copenhagen - 2002
Collected Stories - 2002
The Old Settler - 2001
References
External links
Living people
Santa Clara University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
American producers
American documentary film producers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cibecs | Cibecs, founded in 2004, is a company located in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Cibecs develops enterprise endpoint data backup, protection and security software. The company was co-founded by Richard Dewing, Neal Dewing and Ilze Dewing.
In early 2016 Cibecs released Cibecs Version 8.0, their latest data backup and recovery software for laptops and desktops. In 2016 Cibecs extended its offering in South Africa with a cloud based endpoint data backup and protection solution called Cibecs Cloud.
Investment & Partnerships
In December 2008 Hasso Plattner Ventures Africa, personal investment vehicle of Prof. Dr. Hasso Plattner, co-founder of SAP, acquired a stake in Cibecs.
In 2009 Cibecs partnered with JSE Limited listed managed services enterprise Gijima in a deal worth in excess of $30 Million.
References
Further reading
“Cibecs CEO Among 15 High-Impact Entrepreneurs,” 11/23/10)
“Unisys Africa partners with Cibecs to tackle data protection”, 10/09/06
South African companies established in 2004
Software companies established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20Product%20Advertising%20API | Amazon's Product Advertising API, formerly Amazon Associates Web Service (A2S) and before that known as Amazon E-Commerce Service (ECS), is a web service and application programming interface (API) that gives application programmers access to Amazon's product catalog data. Accessible via either the SOAP or REST protocols it enables products to be listed and/or sold through third-party websites and applications.
It is a product of Amazon Services, not to be confused with Amazon Web Services.
Functionality
Amazon.com developed the Product Advertising API toward three classifications of users:
Associates: third-party site owners wishing to build more effective sponsored affiliate links to Amazon products, thus increasing their referral fees
Vendors: sellers on the Amazon platform looking to manage inventory and receive batch product data feeds
Developers: third-party developers building Amazon-driven functionality into their applications
The API allows clients to search or browse Amazon.com's product catalog; to retrieve detailed product information, reviews, and images; and to interface with customer shopping carts. Purchases at Amazon through a third-party website or application allows the operators of that site to earn up to 8.5% in referral fees.
Motivation
The motivation behind the free Product Advertising API is to give partners the opportunity to earn money by promoting for Amazon products. The access is given to developers of applications that primarily bring or at least seem to have the potential to bring gains to Amazon.
See also
Amazon Web Services
References
Further reading
Paul Bausch (2003). Amazon Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools, O'Reilly Media. .
Jason Levitt (2005). The Web Developer's Guide to Amazon E-commerce Service: Developing Web Applications Using Amazon Web Services And Php, Lulu Press. .
External links
Amazon Product Advertising API (official site)
Amazon (company)
Web services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet%20Global%20Data%20Protocol | Ethernet Global Data (EGD) is a protocol that enables producer (server) to share a portion of its memory to all the consumers (clients) at a scheduled periodic rate. This protocol is developed for GE Fanuc PLCs to exchange data between PLCs / Drive Systems / HMI/SCADA systems. The protocol uses UDP over Ethernet layers for exchanging the data. A snapshot of internal reference memory, mediated by an Ethernet interface, is referred to as an exchange. An exchange does not require a reply and is identified by a unique combination of three major identifiers.
The Producer ID (the producer's IP address)
The Exchange ID (the exchange's identifier)
The Adapter Name (the Ethernet interface identifier)
EGD is implemented using classes.
Class 0 - supports configured exchanges only (implemented in most PACSystems CPUs)
Class 1 - supports all class 0 services plus programmed EGD exchanges that can be used to read and write other devices on an ad-hoc basis
Class 2 - supports all class 1 services plus acts as a responder for programmed EGD exchanges (implemented by Ethernet interface module only)
Class 3 - supports all class 2 services plus static configuration from an EGD configuration server
Class 4 - supports all class 3 services plus dynamically bound configuration from an EGD configuration server
External links
Industrial computing
Industrial Ethernet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBay%20API | The eBay API is an Application Programming Interface for interacting directly with the eBay database. The communication occurs over the Internet in the XML format. Using the API, an application can provide a custom interface, functionality or specialized operations not otherwise afforded by the eBay interface.
Functionalities
With the eBay API, developers can create programs that can
Display eBay listings
Get high-bidder information for sold items
Get the current list of eBay categories
Leave feedback about other users when finishing a commerce transaction
Retrieve lists of items a particular user is currently selling
Retrieve lists of items a particular user has bid
Submit items for listing on eBay
View information about items listed on eBay
As the API does not depend upon the eBay User Interface, this makes it possible to create stable, custom functionality and interfaces that meet business needs.
eBay APIs
Trading Api
Feedback Api
Open Api
See also
eBay
References
External links
What is the eBay API?
EBay
Application programming interfaces |
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