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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presburger%20Award | The Presburger Award, started in 2010, is awarded each year by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) to "a young scientist for outstanding contributions in theoretical computer science, documented by a published paper or a series of published papers." The award is named after Mojżesz Presburger who accomplished his path-breaking work on decidability of the theory of addition (which today is called Presburger arithmetic) as a student in 1929.
Past recipients of the award are:
Mikołaj Bojańczyk (2010)
Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (2011)
Venkatesan Guruswami and Mihai Pătraşcu (2012)
Erik Demaine (2013)
David Woodruff (2014)
Xi Chen (2015)
Mark Braverman (2016)
Alexandra Silva (2017)
(2018)
Karl Bringmann and Kasper Green Larsen (2019)
Dmitriy Zhuk (2020)
Shayan Oveis Gharan (2021)
Dor Minzer (2022)
Aaron Bernstein and Thatchaphol Saranurak (2023)
See also
List of computer science awards
References
Computer science awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad%20T%20series | The ThinkPad T series is a line of laptop computers. Originally developed by IBM, and introduced in 2000, the brand was sold along with the rest of IBM's consumer computer division to Chinese technology company Lenovo in 2005, who have continued to produce and market succeeding models.
History of IBM-branded models
IBM introduced the T series as part of their ThinkPad brand in 2000. The laptop was meant to cater to users working with multiple networks and in different environments. This resulted in the development of the IBM Embedded Security Subsystem.
From the time of its inception, the series was designed to balance speed and mobility. Despite a 14.1-inch screen, similar to desktops at the time, the titanium composite body on the laptop was designed to keep the weight as low as possible. Users were also given options to swap components for mobility, like a DVD player, writeable CD drive or numeric keypads.
The ThinkPad T20 was released by IBM as the 14.1-inch successor to the 13.3-inch ThinkPad 600 laptops. With a weight of , the T20 was the lightest laptop offering with a screen size of . With the addition of an internal 8x DVD-ROM drive, the weight remained as low as .
In October 2000, the ThinkPad T20 was upgraded and released as the ThinkPad T21 laptop with the Intel Mobile Pentium III (800 MHz) CPU. The 14.1-inch LCD display offered a higher resolution of . The hard disk space offered was a 32GBhigh for the time.
Further minor refinements were made to the T2X series resulting in the T22 and finally in 2002 with the T23 a Pentium III-M 1.13 GHz "Tualatin" having 128MiB of RAM and a 30GB hard drive.
The ThinkPad T30 was released in May 2002, with options for the Intel Mobile Pentium 4-M processor with the Intel 845MP Mobile Chipset. Additional options included the ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 video controller with 16 MiB graphics memory, a 14.1-inch LCD display with a resolution of , and 1 GiB PC2100 RAM. This was complemented by a 60 GB hard drive and a DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive, making it a powerful laptop.Announced in March 2003, the ThinkPad T40p represented the first in the T series' "performance" class of laptops. The ThinkPad T40p offered ATI Mobility 9000 with 64 MiB VRAM, a 14.1-inch LCD display with resolution, a maximum of 2 GiB PC2100 RAM, and a 60 GB IDE hard disk. The design was followed by the T41 and T41p and the T42 and T42p (ATI Mobility 7500, 9600, and FireGL T2), with almost complete parts interchangeability, except for the fan (normal or p-series), keyboard (14.1" or 15"), screen (14.1" or 15"), and screen inverter. The 15-inch T42 and T42p models were offered with an optional or "FlexView" IPS LCD display.
Launched in April 2005, the ThinkPad T43 and T43p laptops were the last T-series laptops manufactured for IBM. The major improvement was a move to lower-cost DDR2 RAM and a bus speed increase from 400 MHz to 533 MHz. The CPU also was the first to have the XD bit, making it the first Thinkpad that could run Windo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20of%20My%20Life%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | Time of My Life is a 2011 Philippine television drama dance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark A. Reyes and Andoy Ranay, it stars Mark Herras and Kris Bernal. It premiered on August 1, 2011 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Captain Barbell. The series concluded on November 18, 2011 with a total of 80 episodes.
Post-production
The very first danserye is based on original concept created for GMA Television by Senedy Que with head writer Des Garbes Severino, choreographers Miggy Tanchanco (modern) and Donald Balbuena (ballroom), and directors Mark Reyes (musicals) and Andoy Ranay (drama). In 2010 it was planned for a working title Jump. It is supposed to be replacing Tween Hearts but the GMA Network decided to put it on the Primetime block. The show is slated for 2011 despite 2010. Several auditions across the Philippines were held. The auditionees were seen in Party Pilipinas (until it was premiered in August 2011), with a working title Time of My Life.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Kris Bernal as Shane / Lizette
Mark Herras as Patrick
Supporting cast
Rocco Nacino as Jason
LJ Reyes as Zaira
Jean Garcia as Lisa
Raymond Bagatsing as Fred
Cherie Gil as Martha
Emilio Garcia as Gregory
Caridad Sanchez as Becky
Rez Cortez as Douglas
Tanya Gomez as Carlotta
Samantha Lopez as Lucinda
Joshua Zamora as Mario
Geleen Eugenio as Janet
Ronnie Henares as Vernon
Jopay as Darleen
Carl Acosta as Borggy
Guest cast
Louise Bolton
Sandy Tolentino
Regine Tolentino as Shane
Melissa Mendez as Ingrid
Kyla as Elaine
Jay R as Michael
Pop Girls as Chinese dancers
Down to Mars as Singaporean dancers
XLR8 as Japanese dancers
Lexi Fernandez as Jessica
Dance groups
Motion Masters
Ryza Cenon as Rochelle
Sef Cadayona as Harry
Sarah Lahbati as Pia
Mayton Eugenio as Amera
Ken Chan as Rudolf
Teejay Marquez as Chicho
Renelee Asilum as Cynthia
Elite Crew
Steven Silva as John
Diva Montelaba as Lally
Enzo Pineda as Donnie
Yassi Pressman as Terry
Myra Carel as Paula
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Time of My Life earned a 24.7% rating.
References
External links
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushby | Rushby is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
John Rushby (born 1949), British computer scientist
Tom Rushby (1880–1962), English cricketer
George Gilman Rushby (1900–1968), English hunter
William Rushby (1888–1981), English footballer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindspeed%20Technologies | Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. designs, manufactures, develops, and sells fabless semiconductors for communications applications in wireless and wired networks.
Products
Wireless
Mindspeed’s products are used in wireless infrastructure and small cell base-stations. The company's ARM-based processors include low-power, multi-core digital signal processor system-on-chip (SoC) products for fixed and mobile (3G/4G) carrier infrastructure (the Transcede family) and Picochip's SoCs for 3G (HSPA) femtocells and small cells.
Mindspeed announced the Transcede family of wireless baseband processors in 2010, including the single-core Transcede 3000, which serves the eNodeB processing needs of a picocell, while consuming less than 10 watts (W) of power, and the dual-core Transcede 4000, which delivers three sectors of LTE processing for macro cells serving thousands of subscribers. The Transcede 4000 integrates 26 programmable processors into a single device, including two ARM® Cortex A9® multi-core symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processors, 10 CEVA (digital signal processors (DSPs) and 10 DSP accelerators, enabling equipment manufacturers to fully support the complete processing needs of single- and multi-sector base stations using the WCDMA/HSPA, LTE, LTE time-division duplex (TD-LTE), time division synchronous code division multiple access (TD-SCDMA, in China) and other air-interface standards.
The Transcede 4000 processor was honored as the Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough at the 2010 Mobile Excellence Awards.
Following the acquisition of Picochip, that company's small cell SoC products are part of Mindspeed's Wireless Business Unit.
Communications convergence processing
Mindspeed’s ARM-based products include low-power, multi-core digital signal processor system-on-chip (SoC) for residential and enterprise platforms (the Comcerto Product line) and carrier-grade VoIP systems.
These are embedded packet processors for a wide variety of applications ranging from high-end VoIP enabled home gateways, small-to-midsized business (SMB) security appliances to Ethernet powered 802.11n enterprise access points. The Comcerto family are based on ARM host processors.
Mindspeed announced the new generation of this family, the Comcerto 2000 in June 2012.
High-performance analog
Analog products include high-density crosspoint switches, optical drivers, equalization and signal-conditioning products.
The high-performance analog transmission devices and switching products support storage area network, fiber-to-the-premise, OTN and broadcast video typically operating at data transmission rates between 155 megabits per second (Mbit/s) and 10 gigabits per second (Gbit/s).
The transmission products include laser drivers, transimpedance amplifiers, post amplifiers, clock and data recovery circuits, signal conditioners, serializers/deserializers, video reclockers, cable drivers and line equalizers. These products serve as the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICMP%20hole%20punching | ICMP hole punching is a technique employed in network address translator (NAT) applications for maintaining Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) packet streams that traverse the NAT. NAT traversal techniques are typically required for client-to-client networking applications on the Internet involving hosts connected in private networks, especially in peer-to-peer and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) deployments.
ICMP hole punching establishes connectivity between two hosts communicating across one or more network address translators in either a peer-to-peer or client–server model. Typically, third party hosts on the public transit network are used to establish UDP or TCP port states that may be used for direct communications between the communicating hosts, however ICMP hole punching requires no third party involvement to pass information between one or more NATs by exploiting a NAT's loose acceptance of inbound ICMP Time Exceeded packets.
Once an ICMP Time Exceeded packet reaches the destination NAT, arbitrary data in the packet expected by the NAT allows the packet to reach the destination server, allowing the destination server to obtain the client's public IP address and other data stored in the packet from the client.
Overview
Currently the only method of ICMP hole punching or hole punching without third party involvement (autonomous NAT traversal) was developed by Samy Kamkar on January 22, 2010 and released in the open source software pwnat, and the method was later published in the IEEE. According to the paper:
The proposed technique assumes that the client has somehow learned the current external (globally routable) IP address of the server's NAT.
The key idea for enabling the server to learn the client's
IP address is for the server to periodically send a message to
a fixed, known IP address. The simplest approach uses ICMP
ECHO REQUEST messages to an unallocated IP address, such
as 1.2.3.4. Since 1.2.3.4 is not allocated, the ICMP REQUEST
will not be routed by routers without a default route;
ICMP DESTINATION UNREACHABLE messages that may
be created by those routers can just be ignored by the server.
As a result of the messages sent to 1.2.3.4, the NAT
will enable routing of replies in response to this request.
The connecting client will then fake such a reply. Specifically,
the client will transmit an ICMP message indicating
TTL_EXPIRED. Such a message could legitimately
be transmitted by any Internet router and the sender address
would not be expected to match the server's target IP.
The server listens for (fake) ICMP replies and upon receipt
initiates a connection to the sender IP specified in the ICMP reply.
See also
Hole punching (networking)
Port Control Protocol (PCP)
TCP hole punching
UDP hole punching
References
Computer network security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities%20for%20Climate%20Protection%20program | The Cities for Climate Protection program (CCP) is one of three major global transnational municipal networks aimed at reducing urban greenhouse gas emissions. Established in 1990 by the International Union of Local Authorities and the United Nations Environment Programme, one of the largest global transnational networks, the International Council for Local Environment Initiatives (ICLEI), presented a framework to represent local government environmental concerns internationally. The ICLEI strives to ‘establish an active and committed municipal membership… that promotes environmental and sustainable development initiatives within…[a] framework of decentralised cooperation’. In 1993, subsequent to an ICLEI successful pilot scheme, the Urban Reduction Project, the CCP program was established during the post-Rio Earth Summit era. The CCP program illustrates itself within local climate policy, as a Transnational governance network.
The Cities for Climate Protection program
Established in 1993, the CCP program houses more than 650 municipal governments representing over 30 participatory countries. The CCP program assumes that whilst single local government efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) may be reasonably modest, by working together as a network of authoritative bodies, local authorities can significantly influence efforts to reduce GHG emissions. ). As areas of the world with the largest populations and most significant population growth, the world's cities populations reached an extortionate 3.2 billion in 2005, set to increase to a scintillating 5 billion by 2030. Thus indicating by representing 50% of the global population within cities in 2005, cities are a pivotal base point to raise the awareness and initiate action toward reducing GHG emissions. Local authorities of the CCP program ‘regulate, advise, and facilitate action by local communities and stakeholders…in addressing environmental impacts…of energy management, transport, and planning’.
ICLEI's initial pilot project, the Urban Reduction Project, brought together American, Canadian and European cities to develop a municipal planning framework to reduce GHG emissions and produce an energy management strategy, leading to the founding of the CCP program. As part of the figuring of the CCP program network, local authorities engaged with national and international governments, developing and implementing GHG emission reduction strategies, and strategies to protect the ability of the biological environment to remove . From the provision of the founding of the CCP program network, four main goals were stated:
• ‘Re-enforce local commitments in reducing urban GHG emissions
• Disseminating planning and management tools to facilitate development of cost-effective reduction policies
• Research and development of best practices, and development of model municipalities that lead by example
• Enhancing national and international ties so that municipal-level actions are included |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Culioli | Pierre Culioli (1912–1994), was a French tax officer who, during the World War II, led the ADOLPH resistance network in the region of Tours, Orléans and Vierzon. In late 1942 this was attached to the PHYSICIAN-Prosper group founded by Francis Suttill, which was part of section F (French Section) of SOE.
He was arrested by the Germans in Dhuizon on 21 June 1943 at the beginning of the collapse of the Prosper network and was deported and held in various places, including Buchenwald, but managed to escape.
Biography
Culioli was born in Brest in 1914 and in 1938 married Ginette Dutems, a mayor's daughter from Mer who died in June 1940, a victim of a bombing raid. In appearance he was unprepossessing—a small, slight wiry man with a nervous manner, horn-rimmed spectacles, and a toothbrush moustache, allegedly grown in derision of Hitler's own.
He was the son and the grandson of French Army officers and himself became a regular French infantry lieutenant. He took part in the disastrous summer campaign of 1940, and was taken prisoner; however, he was soon repatriated on medical grounds and following his wife's death devoted himself to anti-Nazi activity in the middle Loire Valley.
Culioli and agent Yvonne Rudellat first worked for Raymond Flower, SOE's first organiser in his neighbourhood. Flower came to believe that Culioli was a double agent for the Germans and requested a poison pill to kill him. Culioli was furious that his loyalty had been questioned and he and Rudellat broke off relations with Flower (who was later recalled to Great Britain). Culioli and Rudellat created a sub-section of the vast Prosper Network which reached from the Belgian border to the Atlantic coast. His group settled in the Sologne, where it was known as the Reseau Adolphe, the 'Adolph Network'. Culioli posed as a forestry official, and settled down in a woodland cottage near Romorantin, now Romorantin-Lanthenay, in the Loire Valley, with his cover 'wife' Yvonne Rudellat (Jacqueline), who acted as a courier. They ran an efficient small circuit, preparing for an expected major Allied invasion of France.
In mid-June 1943 they received a pair of Canadian SOE officers, John Kenneth Macalister and Frank Pickersgill, and all four of them set off on 21 June, in a car driven by Culioli, to catch a train from Beaugency to Paris where they were to meet Francis Suttill, who was by then organising the Prosper network. In the town of Dhuizon they were stopped at a temporary check point. Between Culioli and Rudellat on the front seat of the car lay a parcel containing incriminating material: wireless telegraphy equipment brought by the Canadians and unencrypted messages addressed to members of the Prosper network by their code names. The parcel was disguised as a Red Cross parcel addressed to a fictitious prisoner of war. The Germans ordered the two Canadians out of the back of the car; two Germans got in and ordered Pierre to drive to the mairie. There Jacqueline and Pierre pass |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InFiber | InFiber AS is a Norwegian telecommunication company that specialize in provision of dark fiber.
The company owns a fiber optic network of more than 2000 route km in the Oslo region in Norway.
Until 2011, InFiber was called Hafslund Fibernett and was a part of the Hafslund Group. Hafslund sold the company to the private equity fund EQT V in December 2010 at an enterprise value of NOK 1477 million.
References
External links
InFiber home page
Telecommunications companies of Norway
Telecommunications companies established in 2009
Companies based in Oslo
Norwegian companies established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIARA%20%28database%29 | The Integrated Archive of Short-Read and Array (TIARA) database contains personal genomic information obtained from next generation sequencing techniques and ultra-high-resolution comparative genomic hybridization.
See also
Personal genomics
References
External links
http://tiara.gmi.ac.kr
DNA sequencing
Genome databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltron | is a horizontally scrolling shooter for the Family Computer that was released exclusively for the Japanese market on March 19, 1986.
Plot
Taking a cue from the popular Star Wars series opening crawl (with its catch phase A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...), the title screen contains the nearly identical catch phrase of A long long time ago. In the year 2999, people from the planet Star Lenion (which is very similar to planet Earth) are under attack from the Bismark Empire.
Gameplay
The game is side-scrolling shooter where players must defeat enemy aircraft and depart from their launch pad.
Items
Blue capsule
Energy is restored up to the maximum.
Yellow capsule
The player's machine would be invincible for a certain period of time. However, hitting the terrain would still destroy the player.
Koala
Grants the player an extra life.
References
1986 video games
Science fiction video games
Horizontally scrolling shooters
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Shouei games
Video games developed in Japan
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIET | DIET is a software for grid-computing. As middleware, DIET sits between the operating system (which handles the details of the hardware) and the application software (which deals with the specific computational task at hand). DIET was created in 2000. It was designed for high-performance computing. It is currently developed by INRIA, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, CNRS, Claude Bernard University Lyon 1, SysFera. It is open-source software released under the CeCILL license.
Like NetSolve/GridSolve and Ninf, DIET is compliant with the GridRPC standard from the Open Grid Forum.
The aim of the DIET project is to develop a set of tools to build computational servers. The distributed resources are managed in a transparent way through the middleware. It can work with workstations, clusters, Grids and clouds.
DIET is used to manage the Décrypthon Grid installed by IBM in six French universities (Bordeaux 1, Lille 1, Paris 6, ENS Lyon, Crihan in Rouen, Orsay).
Architecture
Usually, GridRPC environments have five different components: clients that submit problems to servers, servers that solve the problems sent by clients, a database that contains information about software and hardware resources, a scheduler that chooses an appropriate server depending on the problem sent and the information contained in the database, and monitors that get information about the status of the computational resources.
DIET's architecture follows a different design. It is composed of:
a client - the application that uses DIET to solve problems. Clients can connect to DIET from a web page or through an API or compiled program.
a Master Agent (MA) that receives computation requests from clients. The MA then collects computation abilities from the servers and chooses one based on scheduling criteria. The reference of the chosen server is returned to the client. A client can be connected to an MA by a specific name server or a web page that stores the various MA locations.
a Local Agent (LA) that aims at transmitting requests and information between MAs and servers. The information stored on an LA is the list of requests and, for each of its subtrees, the number of servers that can solve a given problem and information about the data distributed in this subtree. Depending on the underlying network topology, a hierarchy of LAs may be deployed between an MA and the servers.
a Server Daemon (SeD) that is the point of entry of a computational server. It manages a processor or a cluster. The information stored on a SeD is the list of the data available on a server (possibly with their distribution and the way to access them), the list of the problems than can be solved on it, and all the information concerning its load (e.g., CPU capacity, available memory).
Multi-hierarchy
Two approaches were developed:
a multi-MA extension was developed by the University of Franche-Comté. Those Master Agents are connected by a communication graph. Several DIET platforms are shared |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take%20This%20House%20and%20Sell%20It | Take This House and Sell It is a Canadian home and renovation reality show that originally ran from September 2, 2004 to May 18, 2010 on the W Network. The show was formerly produced by Grace Productions until Berlin Productions took over, and ran until the show ended.
Storyline
In each episode of "Take This House and Sell It" a designer is chosen to visit a family or couple's home that is having trouble selling. He or she makes comments before meeting with the home owners. Once meeting with the homeowners, the designer humorously criticizes the home owner's home and then dispatches their crew, which includes a painter, a contractor, a handyman and seamstress, and in less than 2 days prepare for a "last chance open house". The designer and crew work hard to give the homeowner's home a good impression in order to get a sale. The show then reveals if the homeowner sold their house or not
Show format
Introduction- the homeowners are introduced along with their home, commonly they would refer a lot of positive features of their house, when the negative features are clearly presented in the show, such as the spycam showing the open house viewer's reactions to the home along with the homeowner's real estate agent pointing out the problems.
Inspection- the designer chosen for the task is seen making his or her way to the home and makes his or her comments on it, the show then shows the home owners presenting their views of pros in their home, while the designer point outs the opposite. The designer then scans the home for any problem, preventing the house of getting any offers, after the full inspection is complete the designer comes out and meets with the homeowners and tour their house once again. The homeowner is asked various questions to see if they can detect the problems in their home and once the meeting is over, the couple makes comments and impressions of what they think of their designer and what they will plan to do.
Renovations- the designer dispatches her crew and starts making plans to the home owner's home. The home owners are expected to help fix their home doing various jobs around their house, various activities included DIY (do it yourself) project that include one of the homeowner and the designer to complete. Then the designer insists the home owner leave and do not return to their house in 2 days as the designer and her crew prepares to finish renovating their house with a budget under $5000.
Grand Opening - after completing the renovations the designer welcomes the home owner back and gives them a grand viewing allowing them to see the changes made in their house. After that the homeowner make their impressions, they then leave as the designer and her crew prepares for a last chance open house. The spycam is once again used, showing the same open house viewers and their reactions along with the home owner's real estates opinions, the tally chart is shown covering the cost for the materials needed to renovate the home and the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ServiceNow | ServiceNow, Inc. is an American software company based in Santa Clara, California that develops a cloud computing platform to help companies manage digital workflows for enterprise operations. Founded in 2003 by Fred Luddy, ServiceNow is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Russell 1000 Index and S&P 500 Index. In 2018, Forbes magazine named it number one on its list of the world's most innovative companies.
History
ServiceNow was founded as Glidesoft, Inc. in 2003 by Fred Luddy, and later incorporated in California in 2004. Luddy had previously served as chief technology officer for Peregrine Systems, an enterprise software company based in San Diego, until 2002. In founding the company, Luddy intended to provide the same services previously available from the then defunct Peregrine Systems.
Luddy was the only employee until mid-2005 when in venture financing from JMI Equity allowed Glidesoft to hire five additional people. In 2006, the company changed its name to Service-Now.com. In 2007, ServiceNow reported an annual revenue of and opened their first Silicon Valley office, in San Jose. 2007 was also the first year that the company "went cash flow positive".
, the company had 275 employees in its San Diego, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, London and Frankfurt offices, as well as a partnership with Accenture who had more than 100 ServiceNow consultants. At this time, the company was sometimes known as "Service-now". By April 2011, the company had named Frank Slootman as chief executive officer.
In June 2012, ServiceNow became a publicly traded company following a IPO. Shortly thereafter, the company relocated its headquarters from San Diego to Santa Clara, California. It was taken public by Morgan Stanley one month after they took Facebook public.
In October 2019, the company announced that CEO John Donahoe would be succeeded by Bill McDermott, formerly CEO of SAP SE at the end of the calendar year.
In May 2023, Nvidia announced a partnership with ServiceNow to bring AI services to major corporations. This partnership aims to utilize company-specific data in the new AI service, distinguishing it from the AI advancements made by OpenAI and ChatGPT.
Acquisitions
July 2013: Mirror42, an Amsterdam-based software developer
July 2014: Neebula Systems, an Israeli cloud computing tools company
February 2015: Intréis
June 2016: Brightpoint Security
January 2017: Machine learning startup DxContinuum
October 2017: San Diego human-centered design firm Telepathy; the acquisition doubled the size of ServiceNow's internal design agency, the Design Experience Organization
October 2017: SkyGiraffe, an enterprise mobility company backed by Microsoft Ventures. SkyGiraffe formed the basis for ServiceNow's Mobile Platform, released in March 2019.
April 2018: VendorHawk, a software-as-a-service management company
May 2018: AI startup Parlo
October 2018: Data analytics company, FriendlyData
May 2019: Appsee Ltd., an analytics start |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marceline%20the%20Vampire%20Queen | Marceline the Vampire Queen (real name Marceline Abadeer) is a fictional character in the American animated Cartoon Network television series Adventure Time, created by Pendleton Ward. She is voiced by Olivia Olson in most appearances, by Ava Acres as a child, and by Cloris Leachman as an older woman. Marceline is a fun-loving 1,000-year-old vampire queen, as well as a musician who plays an electric bass that she made from her family's heirloom battle-ax. Ward created the artistic design for Marceline, with small changes and additions added by Phil Rynda, the former lead character and prop designer for Adventure Time.
Marceline makes her debut in the first-season episode "Evicted!" in which she forces Finn and Jake from their home. However, as the series progresses, Marceline becomes a close friend to the two. Several backstory episodes have established that she was born to an unnamed human mother (voiced by Rebecca Sugar) and the demon Hunson Abadeer (voiced by Olivia's real-life father, Martin Olson). Furthermore, when she was a child, the cataclysmic Mushroom War occurred, and soon after, she developed a father-daughter-like bond with Simon Petrikov (voiced by Tom Kenny), who would one day turn into the Ice King.
Marceline has been critically acclaimed and is popular with the Adventure Time fandom. The character was also the focus of the seventh season miniseries Stakes (2015). Early in the show's history, Ward himself stated that Marceline was his favorite character because he did not know everything about her history and backstory, which he felt added a mysterious element to her character. Marceline's relationship with Princess Bubblegum created controversy when the episodes "What Was Missing" and "Sky Witch" implied that they had been in a relationship—a relationship that was confirmed in the series finale "Come Along with Me." The relationship was also the subject of the second episode of Adventure Time: Distant Lands, "Obsidian," which was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Kids and Family Programming.
Creation and design
Marceline is one of the major characters in Adventure Time. Although she did not appear in the series pilot, the groundwork for her design and character was present in the series pitch book, penned by series creator Pendleton Ward. Ward purposely set out to make Marceline's character complex, as he explained that "with the female characters it's easy to either write them as clichés or write them as the extreme opposite of those clichés ... I just try to make them have faults and strengths just like Finn and Jake have." Initially, in the series bible, Marceline is described as being "friendly rivals" with Bubblegum. Marceline's name is based on the name of a childhood friend of Ward's, Marie, whose middle name is Marceline. Ward described Marie as someone who likes the horror movie Psycho and wears dark clothing. When Rebecca Sugar joined the production crew and began working on Marceline episodes, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JaJaMaru%20no%20Daibouken | is a Family Computer video game that was released exclusively for a Japanese market in 1986.
The player controls a red ninja, JaJaMaru, as he progress through a series of Japanesque levels defeating evil spirits that have spread across the land. The player can even ride his faithful frog if he can recover it from hiding.
Items
Soul
Collect 50 of these for an extra life.
Transparent pill
The player becomes transparent and invincible against enemies in addition to their attacks.
Dolly
The player can jump longer distances and at higher speed.
Super Shuriken
Expands the range of the "Fixed Time Shuriken". It helps to kill different enemies and their souls can be taken. Also enables every enemy to blow down to size.
Flash
Items such as flashlights. The player can stock up on flashlights and use at any time at the enemy.
Diamond
Adds a certain amount to the player's score.
Adaptations
JaJaMaru no Daibouken was one of the video games bases for the manga Famicom Rocky published by Coro Coro Comics from 1985 to 1987.
In 1986, JaJaMaru no Daibouken was adapted as a manga by Ōno Katsuhiko. It was released in the Number 12 of part collection and published by Wan Pakku Comics.
References
1986 video games
Jaleco games
Japan-exclusive video games
Ninja Jajamaru
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Platformers
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipes | Snipes may refer to:
Snipe, a wading bird
Snipes (surname)
Snipes (film), a 2001 film
Snipes (video game), a 1983 text-mode networked computer game
Snipes Mountain AVA, a wine region in Washington State
See also
Snipe (disambiguation)
Sniper (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WINGS%3A%20Women%20IN%20Great%20Sciences | WINGS: Women IN Great Sciences is and open network for all people at Lund University. The members of the network are scientists at all levels working in or outside the university, including PhD students and postdocs, and other staff at Lund University.
Background
The network was initiated by co-workers at the Department of Geology, Lund University, in 2003, and in the beginning, it was an informal lunch club that met regularly to discuss science, careers, and equality issues. During 2007, the network expanded to include the Faculty of Science and related industries. In 2012, the network was further expanded to include the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Engineering (LTH). In 2013, WINGS merged with StepUp, a PhD student and postdoc network focusing on career planning. In 2015, WINGS merged with the female grass root network WISE at CIRCLE, which is part of USV.
Steering Group
The WINGS steering group is responsible for organizing activities such as seminars, meetings, workshops, and conferences, as well as distributing information to the members of the network through this webpage, our emailing list, and social media. The current steering committee consists of eight members from all three faculties, and the current coordinator is Johanna Stadmark, who is a researcher at Quaternary Sciences, Faculty of Science, following a common agreement of the other members of the steering group. WINGS is a member of the European Platform of Women Scientists, EPWS.
Activities
WINGS organizes regular workshops and courses, as well as lunch-meetings with invited speakers to inspire discussion and development of research, career opportunities, innovation and the ongoing process of change for equality. Since 2008 WINGS organize a yearly conference to discuss research and equality issues. WINGS organize a yearly networking congress for PhD students and postdocs called StepUp.
References
External links
WINGS webpage at Lund University
Organizations for women in science and technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Cascade | Open Cascade is an information technology company owned by Capgemini. Open Cascade provides services in the domain of scientific and technical computing and simulation tools.
Open Cascade is primarily known to the public for its open source platforms, which the company maintains, improves, and distributes free of charge:
It provides:
Open Cascade Technology (OCCT) for 3D surface and solid modeling, visualization, data exchange, and rapid application development
Salome (software) – a free software that provides a generic platform for pre- and post-processing for numerical simulation
Open Cascade builds its business model on using its open-source software in the development of commercial software for various customers worldwide.
The company’s head office is located in Guyancourt, France, and there are production sites in Lyon and Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. Open Cascade employs around 150 engineers and developers in France and Russia.
Shareholders
Open Cascade is a subsidiary of Capgemini.
Capgemini employed 180,000 people in 2015.
Historical background
1980: Matra Datavision, a French company, released the Euclid CAD system.
1987: Euclid-IS, the first integrated CAD/CAM system, appeared.
1993: Euclid 3 was released. This was a completely new and unique system that supported concurrent engineering. Euclid software made Matra Datavision a true market leader in the field of CAD/CAM. Euclid was employed in the widest variety of engineering domains, from general mechanical and automotive engineering to the complex robotics and aerospace industries.
1993: a development platform called CAS.CADE (Computer Aided Software for Computer Aided Design and Engineering) created by Matra Datavision was released. CAS.CADE had been used by Matra Datavision as a platform to develop Euclid Quantum.
1996: Matra Datavision released Euclid Quantum, a new generation of Euclid.
1998: Matra Datavision changed its strategy and became a software service provider. That year, the company signed an agreement with Dassault Systèmes to acquire some products from the Quantum product line, including Euclid Styler, Euclid Machinist, Strim, etc.
1999: Matra Datavision published CAS.CADE as open source on the Internet as Open Cascade, while focusing on rendering services around it.
2000: On December 7, Matra Datavision announced the foundation of Open Cascade SAS, its subsidiary for support and development of the Open Cascade platform as well as for carrying out numerous custom development projects for its customers.
2003: Matra Datavision, the parent company, was purchased by IBM, while Open Cascade was acquired by Principia Research & Development – a French editor of finite-element solvers and provider of engineering services.
2004: The Open Cascade platform was renamed to Open Cascade Technology to avoid name confusion with the company itself (Open Cascade).
2007: Open Cascade SAS became a subsidiary of Euriware, which was a subsidiary of Areva Group.
2014: Euriware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Dandrades | Tony Dandrades (born June 17, 1968 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) is a Dominican journalist and television personality who works at the Univision Network. He is currently the entertainment reporter/anchor for the five o'clock news magazine show Primer Impacto.
Career
On finishing his studies in communication at the Interamerican University in Puerto Rico, Tony developed his skills at Puerto Rican television and radio stations before he found new opportunities on the radio in Miami. Then he took his big step into the South Florida Univision affiliate.
Dandrades worked for five years as weekend weatherman at Channel 23 in Miami. He was notorious for his live reports from festivals and cultural events, in which he mixed weather reporting with entertainment. He gained a huge following with Miami residents because of his spontaneous and charismatic style of reporting.
In 1997, Tony Dandrades left Channel 23 to work on Primer Impacto, one of the top-ranked programs on the network. With his characteristic style and hilarious antics, his interviews have always gone beyond just informing to reveal the many dimensions of the audience’s favorite artists. He has shown his fearlessness and impartiality in handling controversial issues, as well as sensitivity when working in the team coverage of the September 11 situation.
Dandrades has traveled extensively throughout Latin America and across the U.S. covering stories for “Primer Impacto” and “Ver Para Creer”, the weekend magazine highlighting unbelievable stories. He has broadcast from the last four World Cup tournaments in Korea and Japan, Germany, South Africa and Brazil. He has also hosted events and festivals, lending his time to telethons and other charity events.
References
1968 births
Living people
People from Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic journalists
Male journalists
Dominican Republic television presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAnCER%20%28database%29 | DAnCER (disease-annotated chromatin epigenetics resource) is a database for chromatin modifications and their relation to human disease.
It was developed by the Wodak Lab at the Hospital for Sick Children.
It has been developed to serve as the core bioinformatics resource for seven experimental and bioinformatics laboratories working together to unravel the mechanisms of chromatin modifications and their relation to human disease. Since molecular networks are essential to the understanding of biological processes, this research effort strives to explore CM-related genes in the full context of protein complexes, gene-expression regulation and pathways. To gain additional insights into the CM process in human cells, it also explores patterns of evolutionary conservation across model organisms - from sequence, domain composition and 3D structure, to interaction patterns and regulatory mechanisms.
See also
Epigenomics
chromatin
References
External links
Genetics databases
Nuclear substructures
Epigenetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Dewar | Robert Berriedale Keith Dewar (21 June 1945 – 30 June 2015) was an American computer scientist and educator. He helped to develop programming languages and compilers and was an outspoken advocate of freely licensed open-source software. He was a cofounder, CEO, and president of the AdaCore software company. He was also an enthusiastic amateur performer and musician, especially with the Village Light Opera Group in New York City.
Early life and education
Dewar was born in Oxford, England, one of two sons of the theoretical chemist Michael J. S. Dewar and Mary Dewar, née Williamson (d. 1994), a historian and scholar of English Tudor history. In 1959, he moved with his parents from England to Chicago, Illinois, when his father accepted a teaching job at the University of Chicago. Dewar attended the University of Chicago, earning a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in 1964, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in chemistry in 1968. He began to work with computers during graduate school.
Career
Dewar was first Assistant Professor of Information Science and later Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) from 1968 to 1975, before becoming Research Associate Professor of Computer Science at New York University (NYU) in 1975, where he was Full Professor of Computer Science from 1976 to 2005, and becoming chair of the department.
He was involved with developing international standards in programming and informatics, as a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 (WG 2.1) on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, maintains, and supports the languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68. He was involved in the design of ALGOL 68, and was WG 2.1 chairperson from 1978 to 1983.
He was associate director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences from 1994 to 1997. Until his death, he was president of AdaCore, which he cofounded in 1994, and served as its CEO until 2012. Dewar was an outspoken advocate of freely licensed open-source software and an expert in copyright and patent law for software. He was in demand as a speaker at conferences and expert witness in legal actions.
Software contributions
While at the IIT, Dewar created the original SPITBOL compiler, with Ken Belcher in 1971, and Macro SPITBOL, with Tony McCann in 1974. These implementations of SNOBOL4, which quickly gained widespread popularity, are still being used today. In the 1980s, he was a principal author of the Realia COBOL compiler for the IBM PC, today marketed by Computer Associates, and still widely used in commercial environments.
Dewar became involved with the language Ada from its early days as a Distinguished Reviewer of the Ada 1983 design proposed by Jean Ichbiah that was selected by the United States Department of Defense (US DoD). He was codirector, with Edmond Schonberg, of the team at NYU that produced Ada/Ed, an interpreter for Ada 83 written in SETL and the first Ada implemen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20grammar | The term "string grammar" in computational linguistics (and computer languages) refers to the structure of a specific language, such that it can be formatted as a single continuous string of text, without the need to have line-breaks (or newlines) to alter the meaning. The appearance of any text in "column 1" (or any column) of a line does not change the meaning of that text in a string grammar. A string grammar can be used to describe the structure of some natural languages, such as English or French, as well as for some computer languages.
Note that the string-based structure is for defining the grammar of a language, rather than the formatting of the language itself. The production rules, of the grammar, are in the form of continuous text strings.
Benefits of using a string grammar
When a string grammar is used to define a computer language, some string-grammar parsing tools and compiler-generator tools can be used to more easily create a compiler software system for that particular computer language. Because other grammars can be more difficult to use for parsing text written in a specific computer language, using a string grammar is a means to seek simplicity in language processing.
Unrelated terms that may be confused
Sometimes the word "string" precedes "grammar" in unrelated terms. An example is "address string grammar", which is a grammar for Internet Protocol address strings.
Another is the term "numeric string grammar" which refers to numeric strings (strings which denote numbers or numerals).
See also
Formal grammar
Tree-adjoining grammar
Context-free grammar
LALR
References
Computational linguistics
Compiler construction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio%20Moggi | Eugenio Moggi is a professor of computer science at the University of Genoa, Italy.
He first described the general use of monads to structure programs.
Biography
Academic qualifications:
PhD in Computer Science, University of Edinburgh 1988
Laurea in Computer Science, University of Pisa 1983
Diploma, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa 1983
References
External links
Personal page of Eugenio Moggi at the University of Genoa.
Italian computer scientists
Living people
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20vector | Binary vector may mean:
In computer science: a bit array or bit vector
In biotechnology: a transfer DNA binary system |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFIP%20Working%20Group%202.1 | IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi is a working group of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).
IFIP WG 2.1 was formed as the body responsible for the continued support and maintenance of the programming language ALGOL 60. The Modified Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60 and the ALGOL 68 programming language were produced by WG 2.1.
, its scope is:
Study of calculation of programs from specifications
Design of notations for such calculation
Formulation of algorithm theories, using such notations
Investigation of software support for program derivation
Continuing responsibility for ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68
History
Formation
Soon after the publication of the original ALGOL 60 Report in 1960, issues arose that needed some form of authoritative resolution. ALGOL 60 had been chosen by leading scientific journal Communications of the ACM as its language for algorithms, then an important part of the items published in the Communications. Computer manufacturers and academic groups were laboring to produce implementations. There were issues that needed clarification, such as ambiguities and errors in the Report. Another urgent issue was the absence of even basic input/output (I/O) facilities.
The authors of the ALGOL 60 Report met in Rome, Italy, in April 1962 to resolve most of the ambiguities and errors known at the time, resulting in the Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60. During that meeting, the authors decided to institutionalize the responsibility for the continued support and maintenance of ALGOL 60 by transferring it to the young international IFIP organization.
To this end, IFIP established a working group under its Technical Committee 2 on Programming. The initial membership consisted largely of most of the original authors, with the addition of several members responsible for ALGOL 60 implementations. IFIP WG 2.1 held its first meeting in August 1962 in Munich, Germany.
ALGOL 68
When ALGOL 60 was designed, its intended scope of use was similar to that of FORTRAN: largely the field of numerical analysis or computing. IFIP WG 2.1 embarked on the design of a successor to the ALGOL 60 programming language, code-named ALGOL X, with a much wider application scope, including nonnumerical programming, areas better served by languages like COBOL and Lisp than by ALGOL 60. Among several competing initial designs, including a proposal by Niklaus Wirth that eventually led to ALGOL W, the Working Group chose that by Aad van Wijngaarden, ultimately leading to ALGOL 68.
IFIP WG 2.1 decided to adopt the design in December 1968 during a stormy meeting, once again held in Munich. However, there was considerable opposition among the members, led by Edsger Dijkstra, expressed in a Minority Report. This led to a split in the group and the formation of a new working group, IFIP Working Group 2.3 on Programming Methodology.
Notable members, former and current
WG 2.1 has, and has |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody%20Poco | is a Japan-exclusive video game released for the Family Computer in addition to various other systems. It is a side-scrolling action role-playing game similar to Mystical Ninja.
Summary
The player controls an old wooden figure named "Poco."
He is a hero who has lived in harmony with humans for many years. For Poco, the journey is to find the fairy who teaches people to get back to being friendly with wooden dolls. Enemies encountered through the game are strange creatures and bothersome old men. The player attacks by using his fists at them. Players can steal the items in the store. But after stealing, the player's appearance is changed to resemble that of a thief. Hotels and pawn shops can no longer admit the player for the remainder of the game after a theft has taken place.
The player can equip one hand with a weapon, and the other with a passive tool, such as a lamp for dark areas. The player can buy gear, sleep at hotels, gamble, steal, and bribe non-player characters. The player needs to eat to prevent hunger, with recharging health based on food level. It features an in-game clock, with day/night cycles and four seasons; the color changes to reflect the time of day and the season.
References
1986 video games
Action role-playing video games
DB-SOFT games
Fairies and sprites in popular culture
FM-7 games
Japan-exclusive video games
MSX2 games
NEC PC-8801 games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Sentient toys in fiction
Sharp X1 games
Side-scrolling role-playing video games
Video games about toys
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle%20Ropitt%3A%202100-Nen%20no%20Daib%C5%8Dken | , also called Miracle Ropit's Adventure in 2100 on its title screen, is a Family Computer video game that was released in 1987 exclusively for the Japanese market. The Adventures of Star Saver, also known as Rubble Saver is a related quasi-sequel for Game Boy.
Summary
The game must be played through twice in order to see the true ending, just like in Ghosts 'n Goblins.
A girl in the year 2100 uses a robot suit. If the player is hit once, then the suit is lost and the player must play as the little girl. One more hit and the player loses a life. Although the game was only released in Japan, the game's text is in English and is completely playable by English speakers.
Notes
References
1987 video games
Action games
Japan-exclusive video games
Micronics games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Science fiction video games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games featuring female protagonists
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal%20Pictures | Colossal Pictures (also styled as (Colossal) Pictures or (C)P) was an entertainment company that developed and produced television programming, advertising, network branding, and visual effects. Colossal's work has won every major industry award, from the Clio, Emmy, and Grammy Awards to the Cannes Gold Lion and Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Top Honor.
History
In the mid-1970s, Drew Takahashi and Gary Gutierrez were working with John Korty on animated shorts for children's programs such as Vegetable Soup. When Vegetable Soup was renewed for a second season, Korty began working on a movie, and suggested to Drew and Gary that they start their own production company. The two founded Colossal Pictures in 1976 and worked on projects such as shorts for Vegetable Soup, the opening sequence of The Grateful Dead Movie and commercials for Boise Cascade, KQED, KSAN-FM, and Gap Inc. The Boise Cascade commercial received national attention and attracted many businesses to Colossal.
In 1981, Colossal began producing dozens of network IDs for MTV, which led to the company receiving more high-profile clients including Nickelodeon, Levi's, and Coca-Cola. The following year, Gary Gutierrez launched USFX, a new division of Colossal, while he was working on The Right Stuff. Colossal started producing computer animation in 1983, when they collaborated with Pacific Data Images to produce a commercial for the Atari game Joust and a network ID for MTV. In 1986, Colossal began working with Western Images using a Quantel Harry unit, resulting in Colossal being able to create state-of-the-art computer graphics. Colossal also launched a new division, BIG Pictures, which produced television programs. In January 1989, New York City production company Noyes & Laybourne became Colossal's East Coast division. In September, Colossal began representing Pixar to produce CGI-animated commercials. As part of the deal, Colossal would receive a project and develop the storyboards, while Pixar animated the project. Colossal terminated its relationship with Pixar in 1992 when they started production on Toy Story for Walt Disney Pictures.
During the early 1990s, well-known artists like Caroline Leaf and Henry Selick were hired to direct commercials at Colossal. In 1991, Colossal began representing Sculptoons and the Brothers Quay, but their relationships with Colossal did not last very long. That same year, after Colossal's relationship with Pixar ended in 1992, Stuart Cudlitz and Brad DeGraf launched a new digital media division, which produced projects such as The Moxy Show, RoboCop: The Ride, and a Living Books game. Colossal closed BIG Pictures in 1994; that October, Colossal employees John Hays, Phil Robinson, and Jeff Fino left the company and launched a new animation studio, Wild Brain.
Earlier in 1994, Colossal created exhibits for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Due to cost overruns, production delays and other problems, the museum refused to pay all of Colossal's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut%20Springs%20Park | Walnut Springs Park (also known as the Walnut Branch Walk) in Seguin, Texas is a network of walkways and bridges along the banks of Walnut Branch, a small tributary of the Guadalupe River. The stream is fed by various small springs. The main one near Court St. was filled in for parking, but the water still trickles out from the beneath the fill.
The park is an important part of the city's urban fabric and a historic attraction in its own right.
History
The town of Seguin was founded in 1838 just a few blocks from the springs. Many of the earliest and then some of the best homes erected in the 19th century were along Walnut Branch, which provided clean water for animals, laundry, and cleaning. Sebastopol House State Historic Site is one of several early concrete homes surviving from before the Civil War.
In the late 1920s, plans for a park came into play under Seguin's Mayor Max Starcke. San Antonio native and environmental architect Robert Hugman submitted his ideas for what would become Walnut Springs Park.
Federal depression-relief funds became available in the spring of 1933 to beautify the stream and create a park. The project was planned by Hugman, the architect who later designed the San Antonio River Walk, which was completed by the Works Progress Administration in 1941. Hugman was also the designer of Max Starcke Park, Seguin's much larger park along the Guadalupe River, which was built by the National Youth Administration and dedicated in 1938. Many of the elements seen in the River Walk were given tryouts along Walnut Branch and in Starcke Park.
In June 1933, workmen from the Civilian Conservation Corps, which had a small camp south of town, began building walkways and bridges along Walnut Branch and lining the slopes of the waterway with curving stone retaining walls. Dams crossed by stepping stones, low falls, and quiet pools were built along the natural course of the waterway that passes along the edge of the city's downtown. The former stagecoach route was also marked with stone walls, from Market Street (now Donegan) to Market Street (now Nolte). Landscaping was minimal, due to the native trees in place and the natural beauty of the location, but included ferns, elephant ears, and umbrella plants, which like boggy soil. Most of the park is about two stories lower than the streets of downtown, which with the humidity from the flowing stream and shade from the tree canopy creates its own microclimate.
Neglect and Decay
The park eventually fell into neglect during the severe drought in the 1950s, though the main spring never dried up. Fear that breeding mosquitoes in the small ponds could possibly spread polio led to the demolition of the stepping stone dams along the waterway. City officials lost interest in maintaining the area, and it became overgrown with weeds and weed trees, creating an environment much more welcoming to snakes and vermin than to park users. With the flow of the waters limited and the loss of the beautif |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry%20Coquand | Thierry Coquand (; born 18 April 1961) is a French computer scientist and mathematician who is currently a professor of computer science at the University of Gothenburg, having previously worked at INRIA. He is known for his work in constructive mathematics, especially the calculus of constructions.
He received his Ph.D. under the supervision of Gérard Huet, another academic who has experience in both mathematics and computer science. According to the ACM Digital Library, his first published article was a 1985 collaboration with Huet titled "Constructions: A Higher Order Proof System for Mechanizing Mathematics". Coquand and Huet published another joint article in September of that year which further expanded on their ideas regarding constructive mathematics. In the following year, 1986, Coquand published a noteworthy paper about Girard's paradox in the System U logic system. Since then, Coquand has written a wide variety of papers in both French and English.
In addition to his contributions to theoretical computer science, Coquand is also known for being the co-creator of the Coq (the name partially being a reference to Coquand's surname) proof assistant, which he began development of in 1984 while working at INRIA (a French national research institute for computer science and mathematics), and which was officially released in 1989. Coq won the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award in 2013, for "provid[ing] a rich environment for interactive development of machine-checked formal reasoning". Coq has been used to provide novel solutions for mathematical problems, especially for those that have a non-surveyable proof, such as the four color theorem. It has also been used in software development, such as with the CompCert C compiler.
Coquand often gives talks about the subjects that he specializes in, such as his description of the work of University of Nottingham professor Thorsten Altenkirch.
See also
Coq
System U#Girard's paradox
References
External links
Academic homepage
French computer scientists
École Normale Supérieure alumni
20th-century French mathematicians
21st-century French mathematicians
Academic staff of the University of Gothenburg
1961 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach%20Chair%20%28film%20test%29 | Beach Chair is a short computer animation test clip created by animator Eben Ostby for Pixar in 1986. It depicts a chair walking across the sand, dipping its leg into the water, and then moving along. Ostby made the project with the feedback of John Lasseter to work out details of rendering software.
It was exhibited at SIGGRAPH in Dallas in 1986, along with Lasseter’s landmark computer-animated short Luxo Jr. and another test project, Flags and Waves by Bill Reeves. Beach Chair can also be found as an Easter egg in Pixar Short Films Collection – Volume 1, which was released in 2007.
Plot
Beach Chair is a short about a chair on the beach watching the sea. The chair goes to the border of the sea and it touches the water. It feels the water to be too cold, so it starts turning away from the beach.
References
1986 films
Pixar short films
1986 short films
1980s American animated films
1986 computer-animated films
American animated short films
Animated films without speech
Films set on beaches |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Parkes | David Parkes may refer to:
David C. Parkes, British-American computer scientist
David Parkes (footballer, born 1892) (1892–1975), English football player for Sheffield Wednesday and Rochdale
David Parkes (footballer, born 1950), Irish football player
See also
David Parks (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Beck | Frank Beck may refer to:
Frank Beck (baseball) (1860–1941), American baseball player
Frank Beck (British Army officer) (1861–1915)
Frank Beck (computer scientist) (1930–2020), British computer scientist
Frank Beck (sex offender) (1942–1994), English child sex offender
Frank Beck (fencer) (born 1961), German Olympic fencer
Frank Ver Beck (1858–1933), American illustrator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20Scorpio | Mac Scorpio is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network. The role was originated by John J. York in February 1991. He was introduced as the brother of Robert Scorpio, and later became the guardian of Robert's daughter, Robin Scorpio, after Robert and his wife Anna Devane were presumed dead. He is the husband of Felicia Scorpio-Jones and the stepfather of Maxie and Georgie Jones.
Casting
York was hired by returning executive producer, Gloria Monty in December 1990. York made his first appearance on February 14, 1991. York had previously auditioned for two other roles on GH but was rejected. In late 1999, it was reported that York could possibly depart from the series as he was in contract negotiations. However, York renewed his contract for another year. In November 2001, York was taken off contract and began appearing on a recurring basis. In the spring of 2003, York re-signed with the series and began appearing on a contractual basis once again. York was once again dropped from contract status, in November 2014, following confirmation from the series. York crossed over to All My Children on October 8, 2001, when Mac learned his former sister-in-law Anna Devane (Finola Hughes) was alive.
Development
The character was introduced as a plot device by Monty to delve into Robert Scorpio's (Tristan Rogers) background. The character was described as "shifty" and "unreliable" who Robert holds a grudge against. Despite his brother initially hating him, Mac never becomes a villain, and he even manages to rebuild his relationship with his brother. Prior to his Port Charles arrival, Mac works as a hired hand on boating trips. York got help from Rogers on his Australian accent. However, Monty advised him to worry more about the scene than the accent which has since taken a back seat. Nancy Reichardt described Mac as being "carefree" and "mischievous." According to York, in response to Mac's sudden infatuation with Dominique Stanton (Tawny Fere Ellis), Mac has an "accessibility to love right now." York implied that this behavior stems from Mac's time as a longshoreman.
Storylines
1991–92
Mac arrived in Port Charles on Valentine's Day in 1991, on a ship owned by the Quartermaines, called the S.S. Tracy. The ship was having trouble docking into the Port Charles harbor due to engine problems as well as protesters causing a scene. When the ship caught on fire after an explosion, Mac jumped into the water. He was dragged out by Police Commissioner, Robert Scorpio, Mac's older brother. The pair came face to face after many years of estrangement. Robert was very hostile to Mac and called him a killer as well as accusing him of having something to do with the ship's engine problems. Mac's problems with Robert got worse when several attempts on Robert's life were made. Robert accused Mac of being behind the death threats. When Robert was critically wounded after someone threw a plastic explosive into his office, Mac was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DbCRID | The Chromosomal Rearrangements In Diseases (dbCRID) is a database of human chromosome rearrangements events and diseases related to them.
See also
Chromosome rearrangements
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20110814091330/http://dbcrid.biolead.org/
Biological databases
Chromosomes
Cytogenetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20National%20Law%20Review | The National Law Review is an American law journal, daily legal news website and legal analysis content-aggregating database. In both 2020 and 2021, the National Law Review published over 20,000 legal news articles and experienced an uptick in readership averaging 4.3 million readers in both March and April 2020, due to the demand for news regarding the COVID-19 Pandemic. The site offers hourly legal news updates and analysis of recent court decisions, regulatory changes and legislative actions and includes a combinations of original content and content submitted by various professionals in the legal and business communities. The online version of The National Law Review was started as a research tool by a group of corporate attorneys looking to store and classify useful and reputable legal analysis and news they located on the internet. The National Law Review has grown to one of the most widely read business law websites in the United States.
The on-line version contains primarily attorney-authored articles, podcasts, and videos, and specializes in US business law news and analysis. Though submissions on regulatory changes and state and federal court rulings, slowed somewhat in 2022, from their peak during the height of the COVID crisis and the turbulence of the Trump Administration to an average of 350 new articles per week. The journal specializes in business and commercial issues, such as banking law, financial regulation, tax law, consumer protection and product liability, and intellectual property issues such as copyright, trademark, and patents. Other legal fields discussed by the National Law Review include civil procedure, criminal law, environment law, family law, health law, insurance law, property law, and torts.
History and Evolution
Monthly Print National Law Review
The National Law Review print edition was founded in 1888 in Philadelphia by publishers and book sellers Kay & Brother who initially specialized in publishing analysis on Pennsylvania legal developments authored by practicing attorneys . The print edition National Law Review was a monthly scholarly law review which included sections such as Current Legal News, a Book Review section, a Digest of Important Decisions which summarized recent judicial decisions in various states, and a section devoted to Current Legal Thought organized by legal topic.
The National Law Review premiered during an era when legal news and analysis resources authored by practitioners were considered an "almost indispensable auxiliary to the profession" and forty-two new law journals began in United States in the 1870s alone and even more in the 1880s. Academic law reviews continued going strong but few of the local law focused and attorney authored publications survived after West Publishing began to dominate the legal publishing market in the early 1900s by eliminating or consolidating numerous local legal reporters and many of the attorney authored law reviews. Historically, articles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20reservoirs%20in%20Staffordshire | This is a list of reservoirs in the county of Staffordshire in England with a capacity of more than 25,000m³, based on data from the public register of reservoirs. There are 34 reservoirs above this capacity in Staffordshire, these include two water supply reservoirs, seven canal feeder reservoirs and 25 amenity or ornamental lakes. This list does not include flood storage reservoirs, service reservoirs or ash lagoons.
Reservoirs
Staffordshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convertible%20laptop | A 2-in-1 PC, also known as convertible laptop, 2-in-1 tablet, 2-in-1 laptop, 2-in-1 detachable, laplet, tabtop, laptop tablet, or simply 2-in-1, is a portable computer that has features of both tablets and laptops.
Before the emergence of 2-in-1s and their denomination as such, technology journalists used the words convertible and hybrid to denominate pre-2-in-1 portable computers: Convertible typically denominated those that featured a mechanism to conceal the physical keyboard by sliding or rotating it behind the chassis, and hybrid those that featured a hot-pluggable, complementary, physical keyboard. Both pre-2-in-1 convertibles and hybrids were crossover devices that combined features of both tablets and laptops. The later 2-in-1 PCs comprise a category that is a sibling to both the pre-2-in-1 convertibles and hybrids. Models of 2-in-1 PC were each similarly denominated either a 2-in-1 convertible or 2-in-1 detachable, respectively, and despite borrowing the terminology of the pre-2-in-1 PCs, the two species of 2-in-1 PCs are distinct from the two species of pre-2-in-1 PCs because 2-in-1 PCs have additional features of traditional laptops.
2-in-1 PCs consist of portable computer components within light and thin chassis, and exemplify technological convergence. They are convenient for media consumption and non-intensive tasks in tablet mode yet useful for content production in laptop mode.
Forms
2-in-1 convertible
2-in-1 convertibles are tablets with in which the keyboard can be rotated, folded, or slid behind the display. On most devices, the hinge is at the junction of the display and the keyboard. In the Dell XPS Duo, uniquely, the display sits in a spinning frame.
Netvertible
Rotational-convertible format is where in addition to the conventional hinging action, the central single hinge mechanism is also able to rotate about a central axis perpendicular to the keyboard surface, such that the laptop can be turned into a thick tablet. Most netvertibles have the option to support active (electromagnetic) stylus and/or touch screen (resistive or capacitive), some being ruggedized such as Panasonic Toughbook CF series. Other examples include Toshiba Portege M7xx, Fujitsu LifeBook T series and HP EliteBook Revolve series.
2-in-1 detachable
2-in-1 detachable are devices with detachable keyboards. In most cases, the keyboard part provides few, if any, additional features (most often a touchpad, as in the HP Spectre x2). However, the keyboards of some detachable provide additional features similar to those of a docking station such as additional I/O-ports and supplementary batteries. For instance, the Surface Book can leverage the discrete GPU in the keyboard upon the keyboard's connection.
When connected to the keyboard, the display of the detachable can either be free-standing on the hinge or require external support, often in the form of a kickstand. Novel ways of providing external support include the bending frame and locking mecha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCBI%20Epigenomics | The Epigenomics database at the National Center for Biotechnology Information was a database for whole-genome epigenetics data sets. It was retired on 1 June 2016.
The Epigenomics database
The Epigenomics database of the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was launched in June 2010 as a means to collect maps of epigenetic modifications and their occurrence across the human genome. This database provides a publicly available resource for maps in stem cells and primary ex vivo tissues that detail genome-wide landscapes of epigenetic factors that occur in human development and disease.
Content of Epigenomics database
The primary resources for the content of the Epigenomics Database are derived from two archival databases at the NCBI: The Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and the Sequence Read Archive (SRA). The Gene Expression Omnibus is a data system for high-throughput genomic data that is generated from microarray and next-generation sequencing technologies. Data used in the Epigenomics database is a combination of GEO and SRA subsets that are specific to Epigenetic factors. This data is subjected to additional review and organized in a more easily attainable fashion before added to the Epigenomics database.
Database use
All of the experiments and corresponding samples in the Epigenomics database are displayed in the default browser. As of October 2013, there are currently 4112 experiments and 1257 samples available in the database. Five studied species are represented in the database, and many data tracks are available including expression of micro and small RNAs, histone modification and histone modifying enzymes, chromatin accessibility and chromatin associated factors, and transcription factors. One such example from the database is a study of certain epigenetic factors in Drosophila melanogaster at the 20- to 24-hour embryonic stage of development.
The Epigenomics database browser contain two fundamental search records, "Experiments" and "Samples".
Experiment search
The Experiment search record refers to one or more experiments with a set of scientific aims. Here a user is able to retrieve full data source information. This information includes the institution of the submitter, links to the original data submissions in GEO and SRA, links to literature citations in PubMed and/or full text articles in Pubmed. Experiment records contain a unique accession number that includes a prefix 'ESS'.
Sample search
The sample search record corresponds to the biological material examined in a given experiment in the database and provides details about source attributes with values from controlled vocabularies. There are over 20 biological attribute fields available, and among these fields include strain, cultivar, ecotype, individual, gender, age, developmental stage, cell line, cell type, tissue type, and health status.
Database navigation and usage help resources
There are many available |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Din%20%28din%20is%20noise%29 | DIN (DIN Is Noise) is a software musical instrument for the Linux, Mac OS X and Windows operating systems. A DIN player either plays with a keyboard, or uses the computer mouse to pick both the pitch (by moving horizontally) and the volume (by moving vertically) of a sound from an on-screen keyboard that displays the notes of the current scale and a number of microtones in-between. By varying the mouse position, a player can simultaneously change the pitch & volume of their sound and improvise their music. Players can use Bezier curves to create and sculpt waveforms to change the timbre of the instrument, provide carrier and modulator waveforms for the FM and AM and control other parameters like stereo gater patterns, Delay feedback & volume patterns and Compressor patterns. Users can also create an unlimited number of drones pitched on any microtone and edit them in real-time.
DIN uses JACK to output audio on Linux and accepts input using MIDI, OSC & IRC protocols.
DIN is free software on Linux and proprietary software on Windows and Mac OS X.
References
din feature article at Create Digital Music
External links
Din (Din is noise) website
Software synthesizers
Synthesizers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synkron | Synkron is an open-source multiplatform utility designed for file synchronization of two or more folders, supporting synchs across computers. It is written in C++ and uses the Qt4 libraries. Synkron is distributed under the terms of the GPL v2.
Apart from carrying out synchronisations, Synkron provides other features. The user interface of Synkron is divided into several sections: Synchronise, Multisync, SyncView, Scheduler, Restore, Blacklist and Filters. The user can switch between these sections by using the toolbar. Multisync supports synching multiple folders into one folder.
Synkron is available as a portable app. It can be installed from the software repositories of most major KDE Linux distributions.
See also
Comparison of file hosting services
Comparison of file synchronization software
Comparison of online backup services
References
External links
Synkron's homepage
File copy utilities
Data synchronization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge%20Wang | Ge Wang (born November 2, 1977) is a Chinese American professor, musician, computer scientist, designer, and author, known for inventing the ChucK audio programming language
and for being the co-founder, chief technology officer (CTO), and chief creative officer (CCO) of Smule, a company making iPhone and iPad music apps. He also helped create the Princeton Laptop Orchestra and later founded its Stanford counterpart Stanford Laptop Orchestra, as well as the Stanford Mobile Phone Orchestra.
Wang is the designer of the Ocarina
and Magic Piano iPhone apps. Wang is currently an associate professor at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). Wang is the author of Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime (A MusiComic Manifesto), a book on design and technology, art and life, created entirely in the format of a photo comic book, published by Stanford University Press in 2018.
References
External links
Official Website
ChucK Music Programming Language
Stanford Laptop Orchestra
TED talk: "The DIY Orchestra of the Future"
Book: Artful Design: Technology in Search of the Sublime (A MusiComic Manifesto)
Chinese computer scientists
American musicians of Chinese descent
Living people
American chief technology officers
1977 births
Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Duke University alumni
American computer scientists
Stanford University Department of Music faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini%20Rue | Gemini Rue is a cyberpunk graphic adventure game made by Joshua Nuernberger, and published by Wadjet Eye Games. The game uses a point and click interface to interact with the environment to solve puzzles and communicate with characters. A port for iOS devices was released on April 11, 2013.
Gameplay
Gemini Rue is a graphic adventure game. The player alternates control between two characters, Azriel and Delta-Six, at different intervals throughout the story. Later in the game they also control an additional character named Sayuri. Gameplay consists of exploration of the local environment, interactions with characters, and puzzle solving. The game also contains a minor gunplay mechanic. The player is equipped with a communicator device to call other characters and look up information via a limited text interface. At certain times, the player is able to switch between two characters located in different areas of the game's world; proceeding through each of these stories separately until reaching a common story.
Plot
Gemini Rue takes place in the 23rd century within the "Gemini System", a star system recently declared independent from the Taurus and Pleaidas System through the war ten years prior to the beginning of the game. Though peace has come, the war left a power void, and the mafia-like Boryokudan crime syndicate controls much of the system, using its control of a drug called "Juice".
The game initially follows two characters. One is Azriel Odin, an assassin now turned to a law enforcer who is seeking to get any information about his brother Daniel. While searching the planet of Barracus, Azriel is aided by his friend and pilot Kane Harris, who maintains their spacecraft in orbit. Azriel comes to aid Matthius Howard, a friend of Azriel's from the previous war who is wanted by the Boryokudan and who claims to have information on Daniel's location. His information is tentative, pointing to a secret facility, Center 7, in a nearby nebula where Daniel may have been taken. Azriel convinces the Boryokudan to give him the location of Center 7 in exchange for Azriel retrieving a missing Juice supply to the Boryokudan, which is eventually revealed to have been stolen by a woman named Sayuri, who reveals she had escaped from Center 7 one year previously. Azriel eventually gets the location of Center 7 while still destroying the Juice supply, and leaves Barracus for Center 7 along with Kane, Matthius, and Sayuri, who claims to have "left someone behind" on Center 7.
The other character is Delta-Six, who later takes the name "Charlie". When Delta-Six first awakes he finds himself in a "rehabilitation center" for "criminals", lacking any memories of his past, but promised by the center's "director" that by completing tests involving gun training he will be allowed to go free. As he meets other patients, it is clear that he previously had tried to escape the facility but had his mind wiped after he was captured. Giselle, one of the patients that had tr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Computer%20Entertainment%2C%20Inc.%20v.%20Connectix%20Corp. | Sony Computer Entertainment v. Connectix Corporation, 203 F.3d 596 (2000), is a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which ruled that the copying of a copyrighted BIOS software during the development of an emulator software does not constitute copyright infringement, but is covered by fair use. The court also ruled that Sony's PlayStation trademark had not been tarnished by Connectix Corp.'s sale of its emulator software, the Virtual Game Station.
Background of the case
In July 1998, Connectix started the development of the Virtual Game Station (VGS) as a Macintosh software application that emulates Sony's popular PlayStation video games console's hardware and firmware. This would make it possible for VGS users to play games developed for the PlayStation on Macintosh hardware, with plans to release a Windows PC compatible version at a later date. Connectix's development strategy was based upon reverse engineering the PlayStation's BIOS firmware, first by using the unchanged BIOS to develop emulation for the hardware, and then by developing a BIOS of their own using the original firmware as an aid for debugging. During the development work, Connectix contacted Sony, requesting "technical assistance" for completing the VGS, but this request was eventually declined in September 1998.
The Virtual Game Station development reached completion in December 1998, with the software being commercially released in the following month, January 1999. Sony perceived the VGS as a threat to its video game business, and filed a complaint alleging copyright infringement as well as violations of intellectual property against Connectix on January 27, 1999. Sony drew support from fellow video game hardware manufacturers Nintendo, Sega, and 3dfx Interactive, while Connectix was backed by fellow software firms and trade associations.
The district court awarded Sony an injunction blocking Connectix
from copying or using the Sony BIOS code in the development of the Virtual Game Station for Windows; and
from selling the Virtual Game Station for Macintosh or the Virtual Game Station for Windows.
The district court also impounded all of Connectix's copies of the Sony BIOS and all copies of works based upon or incorporating Sony BIOS. Connectix then successfully appealed the ruling, with the United States Courts of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversing the earlier decision.
The court's decision
The Ninth Circuit Court's 3-0 ruling centered on deciding whether or not Connectix's copying of the PlayStation firmware while reverse engineering it had been protected by fair use. The court relied heavily on the similar case between Sega Enterprises Ltd. v. Accolade Inc. in 1992, where the key finding relating to Connectix v. Sony was that copying for the purpose of reverse engineering was within fair use.
Each of the four components of fair use were considered by the court individually. The components are the nature of the copyrighted work, the amount and subs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipro%20Supernova | Wipro Supernova is the name of a series of high-performance computing (HPC) solutions offered by Wipro Infotech.
Features
The product is offered under 3 segments: entry level, mid-segment and high-end, which have varying performance and storage capacities. The entry level system costs ₹25,00,000; and performs at 1 TeraFLOPS and has a storage capacity of 4 TB. They use the Gluster software stack.
See also
Supercomputing in India
References
External links
Wipro Supernova (Product Page) - dead link
Supercomputers
Supercomputing in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swissnex | Swissnex is a network of education, research, innovation and art outposts aimed at connecting Switzerland with the world's innovation hubs. The network is managed by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) in cooperation with the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA). There are currently five Swissnex branches: Boston (2000), San Francisco (2003), Shanghai, China (2008), Bangalore, India (2011) and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2013). One Swissnex office operated in Singapore from 2004 to 2015.
Since 2003, the network has relied on public and private funding (one third from the SERI and two thirds from other sources). Each Swissnex branch offers a variety of services to Swiss companies, academics, policy-makers, and others.
The SERI also maintains and develops a worldwide network of science and technology counselors sharing the Swissnex mission. Twelve science and technology counselors work at selected Swiss embassies.
Swissnex in Boston and New York
Swissnex in Boston, the network's first location, opened in 2000 to pioneer “science diplomacy" in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Situated strategically between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Swissnex in Boston and New York works closely with higher education institutions in both Switzerland and the Greater Northeastern US. The region, due to its highly dynamic startup ecosystem and leading role in biotech and biomedical research, is also fertile ground for Swissnex in Boston's startup programs.
In 2013, Swissnex in Boston and New York opened the New York Outpost in Manhattan. Since 2016, the office is actively involved in the planning of swissnex mobile, as part of the Swiss Pavilion at the Expo 2017 in Kazakhstan.
Swissnex in San Francisco
Swissnex in San Francisco is located at pier 17. Services offered by Swissnex in San Francisco include public events, study tours, startup coaching, innovation consulting, press outreach, social media training, university affairs, alumni networking, workspace, and more. Swissnex in San Francisco hosts the three-month CTI Start-up US Market Entry Camp for Swiss startups, and worked on a two-year social media program for all Swiss institutions of higher education, now called the Digital Campus. Public events organized by Swissnex in San Francisco cover topics from augmented reality to astronomy to innovative design. It also maintains a blog called nextrends that reports news and insights from the American West in the fields of science, education, innovation.
Swissnex in China
Swissnex in China, the Science Consulate of Switzerland in China, was founded in 2008 and is located in the heart of Shanghai. Working together with the Science, Education and Technology Section at the Embassy of Switzerland in China and Consulates-General in Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Shanghai, Swissnex in China connects the dots between Switzerland and China in science, research, education and innovation. The main |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ITV%20Breakfast%20programmes | The following details are for the programmes that ITV Breakfast currently broadcasts.
ITV Breakfast is the breakfast television franchise for the UK's ITV network. It began broadcasting on 6 September 2010 as the replacement for GMTV Limited.
Good Morning Britain
Good Morning Britain is the weekday breakfast television programme on the British commercial ITV network that broadcasts on weekday mornings from 06:00 to 08:30 (2014 - 2020), 06:00 to 09:00 (2020 - ) and is presented by Susanna Reid, Ben Shephard and Kate Garraway. It features news and entertainment stories interspersed with celebrity interviews, competitions, consumer and health items and news reports from the regions. Piers Morgan was also a presenter until 2021.
Lorraine
Lorraine is the early weekday morning, lifestyle and entertainment show for the British ITV network, presented by Lorraine Kelly. ITV Breakfast produces Lorraine, which airs every weekday from 08:30 until 09:25, following Good Morning Britain. The programme replaced Kelly's previous show, GMTV with Lorraine.
CITV
CITV was broadcast each weekend on ITV Breakfast on weekends originally from 06:00-09:25. In the summer holidays, it was usually cut back to 8.25am. The CITV simulcast came to an end in until August 2023, when kids programmes were moved to ITVX and ITV2. Daytime repeats are now broadcast during the earlier hours of the ITV Breakfast slot at weekends.
Weekends
References
External links
ITV plc
ITV Breakfast
ITV Breakfast
Breakfast programmes
ITV Breakfast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DbDNV | The duplicated gene nucleotide variant database (dbDNV) is a database of duplicated-gene nucleotide variants in the human genome
See also
Gene duplication
References
External links
http://goods.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/DNVs/
Biological databases
Molecular evolution
Mutation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme%20Couponing | Extreme Couponing (renamed Extreme Couponing: All-Stars for its third season) is an American reality television entertainment series produced by Sharp Entertainment and aired on cable network TLC in the United States and Canada.
History
Extreme couponing is an activity that combines shopping skills with couponing in an attempt to save as much money as possible while accumulating the most groceries. The concept of "extreme couponers" was first mentioned by The Wall Street Journal on March 8, 2010, in an article entitled "Hard Times Turn Coupon Clipping Into the Newest Extreme Sport". On March 25, 2010, ABC Nightline followed up with its Season 3 premiere with a segment entitled "Extreme Couponing Competition: How Far Can $50 Go?"
TLC's Extreme Couponing is a show about shoppers who make extensive and focused use of coupons to save money while accumulating large quantities of goods. It was previewed in December 2010; after surpassing network expectations with more than 2 million viewers, it received a series order and began regular airings in April 2011.
On June 6, 2011, TLC announced it ordered a second season of Extreme Couponing. It premiered on Wednesday, September 28, 2011.
The third season debuted on May 28, 2012.
On November 20, 2015, the show returned to Discovery Family, a sister network to TLC, and was renamed Greatest Givers: Extreme Couponing for its run during the Thanksgiving season. It now runs regularly on Thursday nights on Discovery Family.
Reception
New York Times columnist Virginia Heffernan described the show as "a deceptively simple look at the complex drama of American spending and the paradoxes of parsimony." E! Onlines critic Jennifer Arrow called it a "recessionista series" marked by "a lot of tawdry, exploitative 'reality and participants "just doing their crazy best to stretch dollars and provide a little more for their families." Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly noted that the show "has elicited some extreme reactions", and called it "a canny example of two elements floating through the country right now," citing "a fascination with extreme behavior as it's filtered through reality TV" and "the fact that a lot of people don't have as much money as they used to."
The show has come under fire by consumer bloggers and experts such as Jill Cataldo about potential coupon misuse on the show. Actions such as the use of coupons for incorrect items, using counterfeit coupons, and encouraging compulsive hoarding have been cited as reasons to question the show's authenticity.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2010–2011)
Season 2 (2011)
Season 3: All-Stars (2011–2012)
Shoppers compete in a reality series that features 12 of the best "Extreme Couponing" savers in 30-minute challenges to see who can save the most on $500 worth of merchandise, which is then donated to charity.
Season 4 (2012)
Season 5 (2012)
References
External links
TVGuide.com
Couponing Guide
2010 American television series debuts
2010s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraken%20%28supercomputer%29 | Kraken was a Cray XT5 supercomputer that entered into full production mode on February 2, 2009. Kraken was operated by the University of Tennessee and was the most powerful computer in the world managed by academia at the time. It was housed in the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Kraken was decommissioned on April 30, 2014.
History
Kraken's history began in 1991 with the establishment of the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences (JICS), a joint venture between the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The JICS facility, the UT campus building in which JICS is housed, is one of the only state-owned buildings ever built on the campus of a national laboratory. The main goals of JICS are to create new ways to simulate and model data using supercomputers and to train future engineers and scientists on the use of these techniques.
The next major event in the establishment of Kraken occurred in the Spring of 2008 when the National Science Foundation awarded the University of Tennessee a $65 million grant to build and operate a supercomputer in order to aid public research in academia; the grant provided $30 million for the hardware and $35 million for the operation of the system. The supercomputer was housed at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility and managed by the University of Tennessee's National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS).
Kraken entered full production on February 2, 2009 with a speed of 607 TeraFLOPs, or 607 trillion calculations per second. In late 2009 Kraken became only the fourth supercomputer ever to perform at a petaFLOP, 1,000 trillion calculations per second, and attained its highest position on the list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers at 3rd place. Kraken was also the most powerful supercomputer operated by a public university. In late 2010 Kraken had fallen to the 8th place on the list of most powerful supercomputers but was still the most powerful supercomputer operated by academia.
Kraken was taken offline and retired on April 30, 2014.
Hardware/Software
Kraken's hardware occupied in January 2011. It ran the Cray Linux Environment, a range of UNIX like operating system variants developed by Cray specifically for supercomputers, with a peak performance of 1.17 petaFLOPs. Kraken contained 112,896 computing cores (18,816 2.6 GHz six-core AMD Opteron processors) having 147 TB of memory. It had a 2.4-PB raw parallel file system of disk storage. The compute system was made up of 9,408 compute nodes, each having two 2.6-GHz hex-core AMD Opteron processors, 16 GB of memory and connections via Cray's SeaStar2+ router.
Notes and references
"Kraken". The National Institute for Computational Sciences. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
"Frank Munger": Old supercomputers may go to universities. 20 April 2011. Knox News. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
"Kraken User Guide". The National Institute for Computational Sciences. 22 May 2011.
"UT's Kraken Supercompu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity%20Worldwide | Proximity is a digital, direct and CRM network with 25 offices around the world. Founded in 2000, Proximity began in the digital age and has a varied portfolio of digital creative work including digital advertising, search, strategy and planning, email, data and analytics and design.
They specialize in:
Interactive marketing; mobile and social media analytics; branding; email marketing and eCRM direct marketing; Interactive advertising and design; customer segmentation; Search marketing; strategy and planning; technology architecture and integration; and strategic planning.
In May 2020, Omnicom merged Proximity Worldwide with RAPP Worldwide, consolidating offices of both agencies under the RAPP name.
History
Founded in 2000, Proximity worldwide has over 2,000 employees in 25 offices around the globe.
Proximity Worldwide is a member of the Omnicom group of companies.
Proximity Worldwide counts brands like HP, Mercedes, Bayer, Emirates (airline), The Economist, ExxonMobil, P&G, and Visa Inc. as clients.
Awards
Proximity Worldwide has been consistently recognized as the Most Awarded Agency Network from 2006-2016 at the John Caples Awards. They were deemed Most Awarded Agency Network at DMA Echo Awards in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010 and from 2007–2009, they also were crowned winners of The Big Won.
References
External links
proximity WORLDWIDE
Omnicom Group
Direct marketing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Tree%20Hill%20%28season%209%29 | The ninth and final season of One Tree Hill, an American television series created by Mark Schwahn for The WB Television Network, was officially ordered by The CW on May 17, 2011. Two days later, the network announced that the ninth season would serve as the series' final season. Premiering on January 11, 2012, the series aired its 13 episodes uninterrupted.
This season takes place sixteen months after the season eight finale, marking the series' third time jump in four years. Original series co-lead James Lafferty opted to return as a part-time regular for the final season, with original cast members Bethany Joy Lenz and Sophia Bush returning to lead the season with Austin Nichols, Robert Buckley, Shantel VanSanten, Jackson Brundage, Lee Norris, Jana Kramer, Lisa Goldstein and Stephen Colletti. Additionally, Paul Johansson and Tyler Hilton returned as regulars after notable absences, whilst former stars Chad Michael Murray, Antwon Tanner, Barbara Alyn Woods, and Craig Sheffer returned for guest appearances.
The season opened to 1.75 million viewers and a 0.9 Adults 18–49 rating, up 26% in viewers compared to its season eight finale. The final episode aired on April 4, 2012, concluding the series with 1.43 million viewers.
Cast and characters
Regular
James Lafferty as Nathan Scott
Bethany Joy Galeotti as Haley James Scott
Sophia Bush as Brooke Davis
Austin Nichols as Julian Baker
Robert Buckley as Clay Evans
Shantel VanSanten as Quinn James
Jackson Brundage as Jamie Scott
Lee Norris as Mouth McFadden
Jana Kramer as Alex Dupre
Lisa Goldstein as Millicent Huxtable
Stephen Colletti as Chase Adams
Tyler Hilton as Chris Keller
Paul Johansson as Dan Scott
Recurring
Michael May as Chuck Scolnik
Pierce Gagnon as Logan Evans
Richard Burgi as Ted Davis
Manu Intiraymi as Billy
Antwon Tanner as Skills Taylor
Daphne Zuniga as Victoria Davis
Chelsea Kane as Tara Richards
Devin McGee as Xavier Daniels
Bradley Evans as Jerry
Genna Poletti as Genna
Alexa Poletti as Alexa
Jessica Allen as Pony
Allison Munn as Lauren
Kelley Davis as Mrs. Scolnik
Katelin Hall as Caitlin
Lance Tafelski as Sergei
Bevin Prince as Bevin Mirskey
Cullen Moss as Junk Moretti
Vaughn Wilson as Fergie Thompson
Katherine Landry as Madison
Special guest star
Chad Michael Murray as Lucas Scott
Craig Sheffer as Keith Scott
Barbara Alyn Woods as Deb Lee
Episodes
Production
The CW officially renewed One Tree Hill for a ninth season on May 17, 2011. On May 19, 2011, Dawn Ostroff confirmed that the 13 episodes for season nine will be the last for the series. In the official announcement of The CW's schedule, they confirmed the series stars and the executive producers for the final season. Mark Schwahn, Joe Davola, Greg Prange, Mike Tollin, and Brian Robbins will all continue in their roles on the show. Deadline reported that the final season will begin mid-season and air its 13 episodes uninterrupted, leading into the series finale.
Production for the season bega |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Jr. | Family Jr. is a Canadian specialty channel owned by WildBrain. A sister channel to Family Channel, it broadcasts children's programming aimed at viewers aged 2 to 7. Legally, the channel operates as a multiplex service of Family Channel (stemming from its former status as a premium television service); therefore, it is distributed at no additional charge to Family Channel subscribers. Along with its French-language counterpart, Télémagino, it was available in over 4 million Canadian households as of 2013.
The channel launched on November 30, 2007, as a Canadian version of Playhouse Disney, under license from Disney Channels Worldwide (which had a library agreement with Family Channel at the time). It then rebranded under Disney's new preschool television brand Disney Junior in 2011. In 2015, Family Channel lost the rights to Disney Channel programming to Corus Entertainment: this resulted in the launch of a new Corus-run Disney Junior channel, and DHX's existing Disney Junior channel being rebranded as Family Jr.–a brand extension of Family Channel–in September 2015.
History
As Playhouse Disney and Disney Junior
The channel originally launched as Playhouse Disney on November 30, 2007; as Family was originally licensed as a premium television service, it is allowed to operate multiplex channels consistent with the network's licence (which dictated that it provide a service with programming aimed at youth aged 17 and younger), thus the channel did not require separate CRTC approval, and would be offered at no additional charge to television providers who already carry Family Channel.
A French-language version, originally known as Playhouse Disney Télé, was launched on July 5, 2010. Unlike the English version, it operates under a separate Category B license.
On May 6, 2011, the networks were rebranded under Disney's new preschool television brand, Disney Junior.
On March 4, 2013, Bell Media announced that it would divest the Family Channel networks as part of its then-proposed acquisition of Astral Media. On November 28, 2013, DHX Media (now WildBrain) announced it would acquire the Family Channel networks $170 million, pending CRTC approval. On July 24, 2014, the CRTC approved DHX's purchase of the networks, and the deal was closed on July 31, 2014.
As Family Jr.
On April 16, 2015, it was announced that Corus Entertainment had acquired rights to Disney's children's television library and brands, succeeding a previous license agreement with DHX. Corus stated that following the launch of a Canadian version of Disney Channel, it would re-launch Disney's other linear children's television brands in Canada in the future. In anticipation for this transition, DHX concurrently announced that its Disney-branded networks would be re-branded as spin-offs of Family Channel; Disney Junior was re-branded as Family Jr. on September 18, 2015. A Corus-owned incarnation of Disney Junior later launched on December 1, 2015.
Programming
Current programming
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic%20programming | Relativistic programming (RP) is a style of concurrent programming where instead of trying to avoid conflicts between readers and writers (or writers and writers in some cases) the algorithm is designed to tolerate them and get a correct result regardless of the order of events. Also, relativistic programming algorithms are designed to work without the presences of a global order of events. That is, there may be some cases where one thread sees two events in a different order than another thread (hence the term relativistic because in Einstein's theory of special relativity the order of events is not always the same to different viewers). This essentially implies working under causal consistency instead of a stronger model.
Relativistic programming provides advantages in performance compared to other concurrency paradigms because it does not require one thread to wait for another nearly as often. Because of this, forms of it (Read-Copy-Update for instance) are now used extensively in the Linux kernel (over 18,000 times and has grown from nothing to 11.8% of all locking primitives in just under two decades).
See also
Non-blocking algorithm
References
External links
Relativistic Programming at Portland State University
Concurrent computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sones%20GraphDB | Sones GraphDB was a graph database developed by the German company sones GmbH, available from 2010 to 2012. Its last version was released in May 2011. sones GmbH, which was based in Erfurt and Leipzig, was declared bankrupt on January 1, 2012.
GraphDB was unique in that its design based on weighted graphs. The open source edition was released in July 2010. The commercially available enterprise version offered a wider variety of functions.
GraphDB was developed in the programming language C# and ran on Microsoft's .NET Framework and on the open source reimplementation Mono.
GraphDB was available as software as a service (SaaS) on the Microsoft cloud Azure Services Platform. GraphDB was also a component of an open source solution stack.
In 2014 the trademark "GraphDB" was acquired by Ontotext. OWLIM, Ontotext's graph database and RDF triplestore, was renamed GraphDB.
Functionality
GraphDB had index-free adjacency, which meant that it not necessary to manage a global index for relationships between nodes/entities. The linked objects contained direct reference to their adjacent neighboring nodes.
The sones graph database was able to store and retrieve unstructured properties in any node of the graph. The idea was also to transfer unstructured data to structured data and vice versa.
Structured data could be dynamically extended with high performance in nodes and edges during runtime. Additional properties could easily be entered or deleted from vertex types in a short amount of time.
GraphDB used its own query language, GraphQL, which was similar to SQL. It could be dynamically extended during runtime using plugins such as functions or aggregates.
GraphDB used an object-oriented concept, which enabled better integration into object-oriented programming languages.
Interfaces
REST API
In addition to providing a number of interfaces (e.g., Java, C#, WebShell, WebDAV) the sones graph database also offers a REST API. This enables simpler interaction with state-of-the-art web technologies. A REST-query is all that is needed to execute CRUD operations directly on the database.
Traverser API
The Traverser API makes it possible to analyze local data. Based on a number of nodes (local), neighboring nodes can be searched recursively (breadth-depth first).
Architecture
GraphDB has a modular structure consisting of 4 application layers. The storage engines act as the interface to different storage media. The GraphFS serializes and deserializes database objects (nodes and edges) and operates the available storage engines. The actual graph-oriented database logic as well as all functionalities specific to the database are implemented in the GraphDB. The GraphDS provides the interface for using the database. The interfaces between the application layers are generic, which makes it possible to update components separately.
See also
Graph databases
Graph theory
Glossary of graph theory
References
External links
Download of community edition 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandai%20RX-78 | The Bandai RX-78 is a Japanese 8-bit microcomputer manufactured by Bandai. Its name comes from the RX-78-2 Gundam. It was released in July 1983, and employed a SHARP LH0080A (Zilog Z80A clone) CPU. It ran at a clock speed of 4.1 MHz, and shipped with 30 KB of RAM and 8KB of ROM. It had two joystick ports in a proprietary format using 8-pin DIN connectors.
The computer can generate 27 colors, created from 3 levels of intensity of each RGB channel, arranged into VRAM video planes, with a maximum resolution of 192×184 pixels, and is capable of displaying 30 x 23 text characters using a 6x8 pixel font. Sound was generated by the Texas Instruments SN76489 chip, providing 3 voices in four octaves and noise generator. Software was available on cartridges or cassettes.
The RX-78 had a release cost of 59,800 yen, and was sold with a dozen of games and software, including a BASIC interpreter cartridge featuring a cassette tape interface .
Software
The Bandai RX-78 was primarily a gaming machine, with two joysticks included. Software was released on ROM cartridges ("Sen'you Soft Cartridge") and compact cassettes ("Sen'you Tape Cassette").
Games
About 20 games for the Bandai RX-78 were released:
Cannon Ball (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Card World (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Challenge Golf (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Champion Racer (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Combined Fleet
Donjara (Sen'you Tape Cassette)
Excite Baseball (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Excite Tennis (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Hamburger Shop (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Battle of Gundam Luna Two
Fight! Ultraman
Hitsuji Yaai (Sen'you Tape Cassette)
Mobile Suit Gundam: Luna Two no Tatakai (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Perfect Mah-jongg (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
The Pro-Wrestling (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Rengo Kantai (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Sekigahara (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Sheep
Space Capsule (Sen'you Tape Cassette)
Space Enemy (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Super Motocross (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Tatakae! Ultraman (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Yellow Cab (Sen'you Tape Cassette)
Zero Fighter
Zerosen (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Educational (Education Series)
A smaller number of non-gaming titles were released:
ABC Tangou Game (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Graphic Sugaku (Sen'you Tape Cassette)
Keisan Enshuu Drill (Sen'you Tape Cassette)
Sansu Tsuma Zuki
Applications (Culture Series)
A smaller number of non-gaming titles were released:
3-Dimension Graphics (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Animation Graphics (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
BS BASIC Ver.1.0 (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Creative Graphics (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Healthy Life Plan (Sen'you Tape Cassette)
Kanji Word Processor
Music Master (Sen'you Soft Cartridge)
Z80 Assembler
References
Bandai consoles
Computer-related introductions in 1983
Z80-based home computers
Discontinued video game consoles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CumFreq | In statistics and data analysis the application software CumFreq is a tool for cumulative frequency analysis of a single variable and for probability distribution fitting.
Originally the method was developed for the analysis of hydrological measurements of spatially varying magnitudes (e.g. hydraulic conductivity of the soil) and of magnitudes varying in time (e.g. rainfall, river discharge) to find their return periods. However, it can be used for many other types of phenomena, including those that contain negative values.
Software features
CumFreq uses the plotting position approach to estimate the cumulative frequency of each of the observed magnitudes in a data series of the variable.
The computer program allows determination of the best fitting probability distribution. Alternatively it provides the user with the option to select the probability distribution to be fitted. The following probability distributions are included: normal, lognormal, logistic, loglogistic, exponential, Cauchy, Fréchet, Gumbel, Pareto, Weibull, Generalized extreme value distribution, Laplace distribution, Burr distribution (Dagum mirrored), Dagum distribution (Burr mirrored), Gompertz distribution, Student distribution and other.
Another characteristic of CumFreq is that it provides the option to use two different probability distributions, one for the lower data range, and one for the higher. The ranges are separated by a break-point. The use of such composite (discontinuous) probability distributions can be useful when the data of the phenomenon studied were obtained under different conditions.
During the input phase, the user can select the number of intervals needed to determine the histogram. He may also define a threshold to obtain a truncated distribution.
The output section provides a calculator to facilitate interpolation and extrapolation.
Further it gives the option to see the Q–Q plot in terms of calculated and observed cumulative frequencies.
ILRI provides examples of application to magnitudes like crop yield, watertable depth, soil salinity, hydraulic conductivity, rainfall, and river discharge.
Generalizing distributions
The program can produce generalizations of the normal, logistic, and other distributions by transforming the data using an exponent that is optimized to obtain the best fit.
This feature is not common in other distribution-fitting software which normally include only a logarithmic transformation of data obtaining distributions like the lognormal and loglogistic.
Generalization of symmetrical distributions (like the normal and the logistic) makes them applicable to data obeying a distribution that is skewed to the right (using an exponent <1) as well as to data obeying a distribution that is skewed to the left (using an exponent >1). This enhances the versatility of symmetrical distributions.
Inverting distributions
Skew distributions can be mirrored by distribution inversion (see survival function, or complementary d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profile%20diagram | In the field of software engineering, a profile diagram operates at the metamodel level to show stereotypes as classes with the «stereotype» stereotype, and profiles as packages with the «profile» stereotype. The extension relation (solid line with closed, filled arrowhead) indicates what metamodel element a given stereotype is extending.
History
The profile diagram did not exist in UML 1. It was introduced with UML 2 to display the usage of profiles. Before its introduction, other diagrams had been used to display this issue.
See also
UML diagrams
References
Christoph Kecher: "UML 2.0 - Das umfassende Handbuch" Galileo Computing, 2006,
Unified Modeling Language diagrams
Systems Modeling Language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20rail%20transport%20in%20Greece | The history of rail transport in Greece began in 1869, with the construction of the link between Piraeus and Athens with private funding.
The Greek railway network then developed slowly over time, at the initiative of private foreign companies, with the adoption of a four gauge network: 600, 750, 1,000 and 1,435 mm.
Some of the network was inherited as a result of annexation of Greek territory that had been part of the Ottoman Empire.
See also
History of rail transport
Hellenic Railways Organisation
History of Greece
Rail transport in Greece
References
External links
Society of the Friends of the Greek Railways
Verein der Freunde der Peloponnesbahnen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Necessary%20Roughness%20episodes | Necessary Roughness is a USA Network drama which premiered on June 29, 2011. The series stars Callie Thorne as Danielle Santino, a tough Long Island divorcee who, in order to make ends meet, gets a job as a therapist for a professional football team.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2011)
Season 2 (2012–13)
Season 3 (2013)
References
External links
Official website
Lists of American drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Suits%20episodes | Suits is an American television drama series created by Aaron Korsh, which premiered on June 23, 2011 on the USA Network. It revolves around Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams), who begins working as a law associate for Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht), despite never attending law school. The show focuses on Harvey and Mike managing to close cases, while maintaining Mike's secret.
The series was renewed for an eighth season on January 30, 2018. In January 2019, the series was renewed for a ninth and final season which premiered on July 17, 2019.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2011)
Season 2 (2012–13)
Season 3 (2013–14)
Season 4 (2014–15)
Season 5 (2015–16)
Season 6 (2016–17)
Season 7 (2017–18)
Season 8 (2018–19)
Season 9 (2019)
Special
Ratings
Home video releases
References
External links
Official website
Episodes
Lists of American drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%20Belmont%20Stakes | The 2011 Belmont Stakes was the 143rd running of the Belmont Stakes and was won by Ruler on Ice. The race was run on June 11, 2011, and was televised in the United States on the NBC television network. The post time was EDT ( UTC). As in the previous year, the Belmont (the final jewel in the Triple Crown) was run without the elusive championship at stake as 2011 Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom lost in the Preakness.
Favorite Animal Kingdom lost his footing at the start and could only muster sixth; Ruler On Ice, with jockey Jose Valdivia Jr., sprinted to the finish ahead of Stay Thirsty.
Race
Derby winner Animal Kingdom and Preakness winner Shackleford both competed in the race, which was the first clash at the Belmont between winners of the first two classics since Afleet Alex scored over Giacomo in 2005.
Animal Kingdom attempted to become the 12th horse to complete a Derby-Belmont double, last accomplished by Thunder Gulch in 1995. Animal Kingdom suffered from a bad start and clipped heels with another horse (not identified by his jockey) and was the last horse for the first quarter of the race, but was able to recover and finished in 6th place. Shackleford finished in 5th place after leading for most of the race before the final stretch.
Other starters were Kentucky Derby second-place finisher Nehro and Mucho Macho Man, 3rd in the Derby and 6th in the Preakness. Other Derby contenders Master of Hounds (5th) and Santiva (6th) also ran.
Field
Kentucky Derby winner Animal Kingdom was installed as the 2–1 early line favorite.
For the first time, the first seven finishers from the Derby ran in the Belmont.
Margins – length, lengths
Time – 2:30:88
Track – Sloppy (sealed)
Payout
The Belmont Stakes Payout Schedule
$2 Exacta: 3-2 paid $928.00
$2 Trifecta: 3-2-5 paid $8,268.00
$2 Superfecta: 3-2-5-6 paid $74,052.00
See also
2011 Kentucky Derby
2011 Preakness Stakes
References
2011
Belmont Stakes
Belmont Stakes
Belmont Stakes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Bocquelet | Benjamin Bocquelet (born June 27, 1980) is a French-British animator, writer, director and producer, best known as the creator of the Cartoon Network animated series The Amazing World of Gumball. He was also the director of a short film called The Hell's Kitchen in 2003. When Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe was created in 2007, Bocquelet was hired in order to help people pitch their projects to Cartoon Network after the dismissal of Nickelodeon and Jetix subdivisions of Europe. However, when the studio decided to have its employees all pitch their own ideas, he decided to take some of the rejected characters he had created for commercials and put them all in one series, with a school setting. Daniel Lennard, Khaki Jones, and Brian A. Miller, the Vice President of Original Series and Development at Turner Broadcasting System, liked the idea and the series was ultimately greenlit.
Career
The Amazing World of Gumball
After leaving Studio AKA, the creative director at the studio encouraged Bocquelet to join the new Cartoon Network studio in London, Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe. He received a job there helping other people pitch their ideas to Cartoon Network, and came up with his own idea while doing so. He pitched his idea to the producers. His idea was a show called Gumball about reject cartoon characters attending a remedial school, but producers felt this concept was too sad. He then revised this idea and made it more cheery, taking on the structure of a family sitcom. The producers liked this idea, and work went underway for what would become The Amazing World of Gumball, which premiered on Cartoon Network on May 3, 2011. He named some characters after his relatives (Nicole, Richard, and Anais were named after his mother, father, and sister, respectively). In October 2011, Bocquelet revealed in a Twitter post that the Wattersons themselves were named after Bill Watterson, the creator of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.
On September 6, 2016, Bocquelet said that he was departing from the show after the completion of Season 6, but production would continue. However, on October 7, 2018, he retweeted that the show would end after the sixth season, though the author of the article made a follow-up article saying that more seasons are still possible.
Following the series finale of The Amazing World of Gumball, and the mixed reviews it received from fans, Bocquelet said that he would create a film to resolve its cliffhanger. The film was officially announced on February 17, 2021, under the working title The Amazing World of Gumball Movie. On September 21, 2021, HBO Max and Cartoon Network announced the film had been greenlit and was now titled The Amazing World of Gumball: The Movie!. The film's planned release on HBO Max was cancelled in August 2022, as HBO went under new management, but the movie is still in production.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
1980 births
Living people
French animators
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funkefeller | Daniel Douglas Orlando (born May 29, 1981), also known as Funkefeller, is an Electro House producer from Phoenix, Arizona. Funkefeller has a computer science background and portrays the Funkefeller identity as a mad scientist. When playing live, Funkefeller can be found in full costume with an extensive amount of gear on stage. His shows are combined with a large plethora of visual effects that seem to have come from a science lab gone haywire.
History
Daniel Douglas Orlando began his music career at the age of 4 years old. His father, Douglas Orlando, gave him piano lessons for many years. Orlando enjoyed most of his days growing up playing in his father's music studio. Once he was 12 years old, Orlando became interested in other instruments.
Orlando was devastated by the breakup of Fixation 29. To cope with the dissolution, Orlando developed his own music. He spent every waking moment of his years. Orlando also took several music courses in college. He attended a community college his first year, and would on occasion go four straight days with little to no sleep in his father's studio producing music. During this time, he produced many different genres such as metal, pop, alternative and electronic music.
When Orlando left home to attend Illinois State University, others would be dissecting frogs and learning the periodic table while he would be sitting as his desk with a book of blank staff paper writing music scores for a multitude of instruments. He knew he wanted to be part of the Digital Arts Technology program at Illinois State University, but knew it was extremely hard to get into. Musical and technical skills were a must because the program was still being developed and the students who admitted into the program were required to assist the instructors in developing their course curriculum. He applied for the program and was accepted immediately. Orlando enjoyed working so closely with the prestigious Professors that came from the well-respected departments of Theatre, Art, and Music at Illinois State University.
Orlando was a DJ for a number of large underground parties during this time. During his Junior year, he became a DJ for the local radio station, WZND Normal-Bloomington.
Once Orlando had relocated to Arizona, he got into small business entrepreneurship and software programming. He started buying an immense amount of gear for the studio and soon after decided to start a record label called Sonic Masterworks.
Artists that currently have tracks signed to Sonic Masterworks include but are not limited to Funkefeller, Spy VZ Spy, Silent J, Constantine, Switchup, Jason Camiolo, Steph, DJ A-Ros and Miss Krystle.
The SUPER TOXIC EP was Funkefeller's first official release on Sonic Masterworks that was distributed by Acuna Digital and sold all around the world. THE UNKNOWN, a three track single was released soon after, which features vocals by Steph and a remix produced by Jason Camiolo.
The mad scientist identity came into pla |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20Defender | Mac Defender (also known as Mac Protector, Mac Security, Mac Guard, Mac Shield, and FakeMacDef) is an internet rogue security program that targets computers running macOS. The Mac security firm Intego discovered the fake antivirus software on 2 May 2011, with a patch not being provided by Apple until 31 May. The software has been described as the first major malware threat to the Macintosh platform (although it does not attach to or damage any part of OS X). However, it is not the first Mac-specific Trojan, and is not self-propagating.
A variant of the program, known as Mac Guard, has been reported which does not require the user to enter a password to install the program, although one still does have to run the installer.
Symptoms
Users typically encounter the program when opening an image found on a search engine. It appears as a pop-up indicating that viruses have been detected on the users' computer and suggests they download a program which, if installed, provides the users' personal information to unauthorized third parties.
The program appears in malicious links spread by search engine optimization poisoning on sites such as Google Image Search. When a user accesses such a malicious link, a fake scanning window appears, originally in the style of a Windows XP application, but later in the form of an "Apple-type interface". The program falsely appears to scan the system's hard drive. The user is then prompted to download a file that installs Mac Defender, and is then asked to pay US$59.95 to US$79.95 for a license for the software. Rather than protect against viruses, Mac Defender hijacks the user's Internet browser to display sites related to pornography, and also exposes the user to identity theft (by passing on credit card information to the cracker). A newer variant installs itself without needing the user to enter a password. All variants require the user to actively click through an installer to complete installation even if a password is not required.
Origin
The software has been traced through German websites, which have been closed down, to the Russian online payment ChronoPay.
Mac Defender was traced to ChronoPay by the email address of ChronoPay financial controller Alexandra Volkova. The email address appeared in domain registration for mac-defence.com and macbookprotection.com, two web sites Mac users are directed to in order to purchase the security software. ChronoPay is Russia's largest online payment processor. The web sites were hosted in Germany and were suspended by Czech registrar Webpoint.name. ChronoPay had earlier been linked to another scam in which users involved in file sharing were asked to pay a fine.
Apple response
According to Sophos, by 24 May, 2011, there had been sixty thousand calls to AppleCare technical support about Mac Defender-related issues, and Ed Bott of ZDNet reported that the number of calls to AppleCare increased in volume due to Mac Defender and that a majority of the calls at that ti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic%20Legal%20Immigration%20Network | Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (commonly referred to as CLINIC) is the US's largest network of non-profit immigration activist programs. In its 1986 pastoral statement "Together a New People", the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) observed that the church's ministry to immigrants reflects the "biblical understanding of the justice of God reaching out to all peoples and rectifying the situation of the poor, the orphans, the widows, the disadvantaged, and especially in the Old Testament, the alien and the stranger." Two years later, USCCB established CLINIC as a legally distinct 501(c)(3) non-profit organization to support a rapidly growing need for community-based programs dedicated to serve indigent and low-income immigrants. CLINIC's network originally comprised seventeen diocesan affiliates and has since increased to over 200 Catholic and community-based immigration programs with 290 field offices in 47 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. In addition, the network affiliates employ roughly 1,200 Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) accredited attorneys who serve over 600,000 low-income immigrants each year. CLINIC affiliated agencies represent low-income immigrants without reference to their race, religion, gender, ethnic group, or other distinguishing characteristics.
Mission statement
"Embracing the Gospel value of welcoming the stranger, CLINIC promotes the dignity and protects the rights of immigrants in partnership with a dedicated network of Catholic and community legal immigration programs."
Programs
National Legal Center for Immigrants: The National Legal Center works to expand the availability of professional, low-cost immigration services by providing legal expertise, training and technical assistance to CLINIC's member agencies and constituents. Attorneys from the National Legal Center provide legal advice to more than 1,000 nonprofit, community-based immigration service providers through phone consultations, multi-day trainings, broadcast e-mails, and a variety of publications. Its success in delivering legal support to this expanding network has made CLINIC widely recognized as the most productive legal support group in the field.
Center for Citizenship and Immigrant Communities: The Center for Citizenship and Immigrant Communities strengthens immigrant rights community by preparing charitable immigration programs to expand their service-delivery capacity and establishing a coordinated service-delivery and legal support architecture. Through its various projects, the Center for Citizenship and Immigrant Communities seeks to develop capacity for lasting change by working with a cross-section of national and regional groups in under-served communities, (whether geographic, ethnic, or population-specific communities) to start or improve existing programs that will allow millions of immigrants throughout the United States to understand and to exercise their rights.
Center for Immigrant Rights: The Ce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpin%27%20Kid%3A%20Jack%20to%20Mame%20no%20Ki%20Monogatari | was released on December 19, 1990 in Japan for the Family Computer. A North American release was planned but ultimately scrapped. The game was popular in Poland, Russia via Famiclones.
Gameplay
This video game is a variation of the famous fairy tale, "Jack and the Beanstalk". It is a challenging platform game that plays similar to Mega Man. Bean power-ups help to improve the player's attack, while springs are used to improve his jumping height.
Reception
References
External links
1990 video games
Asmik Ace Entertainment games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Video games about children
Video games about plants
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn%20Song | Dawn Song is a Chinese American academic and is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department.
She received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2010.
Education
Song earned her B.S. (1996) from Tsinghua University, her M.S. (1999) from Carnegie Mellon University, and her Ph.D. (2002) from the University of California, Berkeley.
Career
Song became an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University (2002–2007) before joining the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 2007.
Song's work focuses on computer security, machine learning, and blockchains.
Song is the Founder of Oasis Labs. At UC Berkeley, Song is the co-Director of the campus-wide center: Berkeley Center for Responsible Decentralized Intelligence (RDI).
Recognition
Song is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Sloan Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, the IBM Faculty Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. In 2009, the MIT Technology Review TR35 named Song as one of the top 35 innovators in The World under the age of 35.
She was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to security and privacy".
References
External links
"Dawn Song", DBLP
Living people
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
University of California, Berkeley alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
MacArthur Fellows
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Santa Fe Institute people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight%20Now%20TV | Fight Now TV was a Canadian English language specialty channel devoted to airing programming related to wrestling, boxing, mixed martial arts, and other combat sports. Along with airing live events, Fight Now TV also aired fight-related programming such as news, news magazines, taped sports events, and more.
The channel was founded and owned by Channel Zero Inc and was launched on May 24, 2011 as a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week combat sports channel.
The channel ceased broadcasting on June 30, 2014, citing difficulties achieving long-term viability due to difficulties within the sports genre such as industry consolidation, increased re-transmission fees, insufficient subscribers, and declining video margins.
References
External links
Fight Now TV
Channel Zero (company)
Sports television networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Defunct television networks in Canada
English-language television stations in Canada
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20%27n%20Ball | Rock'n' Ball, released in Japan as , is a Family Computer video game that was originally released in 1989. The video game was released in both Japan and North America. In the North American version, fictional human characters are used instead of the licensed Namco characters; four male characters and two female characters are at the player's disposal.
Compared to the North American version, the bumpers in the Japanese version are separately further and the players have more room to guide their ball around the playing surface. The Japanese version has a higher overall difficulty compared to the North American version despite the latter having bigger arches.
Summary
There are several gameplay options in the game. Some are; "regular pinball" for up to four players which resembles a game of Pac-Man (rock and roll in the North American version), "nineball" where balls are knocked into a Bingo pattern, "battle pinball" (which operates more like Pong instead of pinball), and "sports pinball" where the pinball game becomes more similar to a soccer or hockey field.
There are three different variations to the "battle pinball" mode; "thunder," "bomber," and the basic "attack" mode. All three of these options uses specialized flippers and a specialized pinball. For example, the "bomber" mode has a pinball that explodes after a certain time limit has been reached and the player's two target switches have been turned into bombs. A switch on the right-hand side of the board activates the special effects in the "attack" mode.
Special guest characters in the Japanese version of the game include the Pac-Man character from the video game of the same name, Valkyrie from the video game Valkyrie no Bōken: Toki no Kagi Densetsu, Wonder Momo and Kai from the Babylonian Castle Saga series.
Reception
Allgame gave Rock'n' Ball a rating of 3.5 stars out of a possible 5.
References
1989 video games
KID games
Namco games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Pinball video games
Top-down video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20%28White%20Collar%29 | "Pilot" is the debut episode of the American comedy-drama television series White Collar. It was first broadcast on USA Network in the United States on October 23, 2009. The episode sets up major story arcs for the series, including Neal Caffrey's (Matt Bomer) collaboration with FBI Special Agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay), and the significance of the disappearance of Neal's girlfriend, Kate Moreau (Alexandra Daddario).
The episode was written by Jeff Eastin and directed by Bronwen Hughes. The original broadcast ran 90 minutes. The cast includes Matt Bomer as Neal Caffrey, Tim DeKay as Peter Burke, Willie Garson as Mozzie, Marsha Thomason as Diana Lancing, and Tiffani Thiessen as Elizabeth Burke, Peter's wife. The pilot features the introduction of recurring characters Special Agent Clinton Jones (Sharif Atkins), Kate Moreau (Alexandra Daddario), and Neal's landlady June (Diahann Carroll). Guest stars include Mark Sheppard as the Dutchman, Michael Gaston and Stephen Singer. It is also the only episode in the series not to have a title sequence, with the opening credits rolling on as the episode progresses.
According to the Nielsen ratings system, an estimated 5.40 million household viewers watched the original broadcast of the pilot; this is the second-most watched episode of the series to date, behind "Free Fall". The episode received mostly positive reviews.
Plot
Neal Caffrey, a successful con man, is about to finish a four-year prison sentence after being convicted of bond forgery, when he stages an elaborate prison break. FBI Special Agent Peter Burke, the man who captured Neal four years earlier, is the first to be notified with the news. He immediately abandons his current case, a forger known as "the Dutchman", to search for Neal. His intuition tells him that Neal had escaped to search for his girlfriend, Kate Moreau. Peter follows Neal to Kate's Manhattan apartment, where he confronts Neal. Neal explains that Kate has disappeared, leaving behind only an empty Bordeaux wine bottle, signifying their relationship is over. Peter takes Neal back into custody, but not before Neal gives Peter a valuable tip regarding the Dutchman: paper fiber Peter had found earlier had come from new Canadian currency. In return, Neal asks for a meeting with Peter to discuss his future.
A week passes while Peter confirms the origin of the fiber, which are found to be from Canadian currency. Peter meets with Neal in prison, and Neal offers his expertise on Peter's case in exchange for his release from prison. Peter reluctantly accepts, on the condition that Neal abandons his search for Kate and wears a tracking anklet. Peter also warns Neal that if he runs, or if the Dutchman is not found, Neal will be sent back to prison with no further possibility of release.
After his release, Neal learns the FBI will only pay for a cheap apartment. Instead of accepting this, Neal heads for a local thrift shop, where he meets June, a wealthy elderly widow. Charmed by Neal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara%20Ellis | Sara Ellis may refer to:
Sara L. Ellis (born 1969), Canadian-born American federal judge in the Northern District of Illinois
Sara Ellis (White Collar), character on the USA Network TV series White Collar
See also
Sarah Ellis (author) (born 1952), Canadian writer
Sarah Stickney Ellis (1799–1872), English writer on women's roles in society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGLS | AGLS may refer to:
Atlanta Gas Light Services
Australian Government Locator Service, Australian metadata standard, AS 5044-2010
Automatic Gun Laying System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%2013%29 | Season thirteen of Dancing with the Stars premiered on September 19, 2011, on the ABC network.
Actor J.R. Martinez and Karina Smirnoff were crowned the champions, while Rob Kardashian and Cheryl Burke finished in second place, and talk show host Ricki Lake and Derek Hough finished in third.
Cast
Couples
Nine professional partners — Derek Hough, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, Cheryl Burke, Tony Dovolani, Mark Ballas, Lacey Schwimmer, Karina Smirnoff, Anna Trebunskaya, and Kym Johnson — returned this season. Maksim's brother, Valentin Chmerkovskiy, made his debut competing as a professional. Peta Murgatroyd and Tristan MacManus, part of season 12's troupe of dancers, also became professional partners for the first time. Louis van Amstel did not compete as a professional, but participated in a new segment called "Ballroom Battles", which was cancelled on November 7. The dance troupe consisted of six dancers: Sharna Burgess, Dasha Chesnokova, Oksana Dmytrenko, Sasha Farber, Kiki Nyemchek, and Ted Volynets, plus the first eliminated male and female pros, who ended up being Val Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd.
This season featured twelve celebrity contestants. The cast was revealed during an episode of Bachelor Pad on August 28, 2011. The twelve professionals were revealed on August 31, 2011 during Good Morning America. Actor Ryan O'Neal was planning on competing as a celebrity, but could not after knee surgery, so Carson Kressley took his place.
From the start, controversy erupted over the inclusion of Chaz Bono, the child of singers Sonny and Cher. His appearance resulted in backlash from conservative supporters of the show, who even threatened to boycott due to his transgender status. Despite the criticism, Bono received strong support from the LGBT community. It was stated in LGBT Weekly that "Bono has become the transgender community's living symbol of hope, strength and defiance against vitriolic hate. When ABC Television announced that Bono would appear on DWTS, he faced vile slurs and death threats from a group of trans-phobic women and men." The controversy did lead producers to hire extra security protection for his time on the show.
Host and judges
Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli returned as the judges, while Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke Charvet returned as hosts.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1: First Dances
Each couple performed either the cha-cha-cha or the Viennese waltz. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 2: Top 11
Each couple performed either the jive or the quickstep. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 3: Most Memorable Year Week
Each couple performed one unlear |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball%20tree | In computer science, a ball tree, balltree or metric tree, is a space partitioning data structure for organizing points in a multi-dimensional space. A ball tree partitions data points into a nested set of balls. The resulting data structure has characteristics that make it useful for a number of applications, most notably nearest neighbor search.
Informal description
A ball tree is a binary tree in which every node defines a D-dimensional ball containing a subset of the points to be searched. Each internal node of the tree partitions the data points into two disjoint sets which are associated with different balls. While the balls themselves may intersect, each point is assigned to one or the other ball in the partition according to its distance from the ball's center. Each leaf node in the tree defines a ball and enumerates all data points inside that ball.
Each node in the tree defines the smallest ball that contains all data points in its subtree. This gives rise to the useful property that, for a given test point outside the ball, the distance to any point in a ball in the tree is greater than or equal to the distance from to the surface of the ball. Formally:
Where is the minimum possible distance from any point in the ball to some point .
Ball-trees are related to the M-tree, but only support binary splits, whereas in the M-tree each level splits to fold, thus leading to a shallower tree structure, therefore need fewer distance computations, which usually yields faster queries. Furthermore, M-trees can better be stored on disk, which is organized in pages. The M-tree also keeps the distances from the parent node precomputed to speed up queries.
Vantage-point trees are also similar, but they binary split into one ball, and the remaining data, instead of using two balls.
Construction
A number of ball tree construction algorithms are available. The goal of such an algorithm is to produce a tree that will efficiently support queries of the desired type (e.g. nearest-neighbor) in the average case. The specific criteria of an ideal tree will depend on the type of question being answered and the distribution of the underlying data. However, a generally applicable measure of an efficient tree is one that minimizes the total volume of its internal nodes. Given the varied distributions of real-world data sets, this is a difficult task, but there are several heuristics that partition the data well in practice. In general, there is a tradeoff between the cost of constructing a tree and the efficiency achieved by this metric.
This section briefly describes the simplest of these algorithms. A more in-depth discussion of five algorithms was given by Stephen Omohundro.
k-d construction algorithm
The simplest such procedure is termed the "k-d Construction Algorithm", by analogy with the process used to construct k-d trees. This is an offline algorithm, that is, an algorithm that operates on the entire data set at once. The tree is bui |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zino%20%28disambiguation%29 | Zino is a Greek social networking site.
Zino may also refer to:
People
Zino Davidoff, founder of Davidoff, a tobacco brand
Zino Francescatti (1902–1991), French violinist
Zino Vinnikov (born 1943), Russian-Dutch violinist
Lotem Zino (born 1992), Israeli footballer
Paul Alexander Zino (1916–2004), British businessman and ornithologist
Haim Zinovitch, half of Zino & Tommy, an Israeli musical duo
Other uses
Zino (horse), a racehorse
Zino 300, HD 400 and HD 410, models of Dell Inspiron desktop computers
A variety of the hypothetical gaugino particle
See also
Zino's petrel, a seabird |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-Order%20and%20Symbolic%20Computation | Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation (formerly LISP and Symbolic Computation) was a computer science journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It focuses on programming concepts and abstractions and programming language theory. The final issue appeared in 2013.
Editors
Former editors-in-chief of the journal have been:
Richard P. Gabriel, Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA (1988 – 1991)
Guy L. Steele Jr., Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA (1988 – 1991)
Robert R. Kessler, University of Utah, USA (1991 – 1998)
The last editors-in-chief were Olivier Danvy (Aarhus University) and Carolyn Talcott (SRI International).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Academic OneFile, ACM Computing Reviews, ACM Digital Library, Computer Abstracts International Database, Computer Science Index, Current Abstracts, EBSCO, EI-Compendex, INSPEC, io-port.net, PASCAL, Scopus, Summon by Serial Solutions, VINITI Database RAS, and Zentralblatt MATH.
See also
Journal of Functional Programming
Journal of Functional and Logic Programming
Journal of Symbolic Computation
External links
Journal page at Aarhus University
Online access
Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation at DBLP
The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies
Computer science journals
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20granularity%20principle | In the context of software engineering and software architecture, service granularity is a key design concern when applying the paradigm of service-orientation for instance during service-oriented modeling. Service granularity specifies the scope of business functionality and the structure of the message payload in a service operation that is provided within a service-oriented architecture (SOA).
Definition
Service granularity is both an application domain concern (business granularity), as well as a software interface design issue (technical granularity); it is a property of the service contract exposed by a service provider. It pertains to the semantics and syntax of the in (request) and out (response) message content, which can be viewed as instances of two general Enterprise Integration Patterns, Command Message and Document Message. By definition a coarse-grained service operation has broader scope than a fine-grained service, although the terms are relative. The former typically requires increased design complexity but can reduce the number of calls required to complete a task.
Criteria
Due to the fallacies of distributed computing, finding an adequate granularity is hard. There is no single simple answer but a number of criteria exist (see below). A primary goal of service modeling and granularity design is to achieve loose coupling and modularity, which are two of the essential SOA principles, and to address other architecturally significant requirements.
Many forces influence the service granularity; four particularly relevant factors to consider when designing for an adequate granularity are performance, message size, transactionality and business function:
Business function
Ideally, each service operation maps to a single business function, although if a single operation can provide multiple functions without adding design complexity or increasing message sizes, this generality can reduce implementation and usage costs.
Performance
Web services are accessed remotely and calls to web service operation create more network overhead. Reducing the number of service requests reduces that overhead.
Message size
Coarse-grained services may pass more data than fine-grained services, including data that is not specifically required for the task. This complicates message processing in the endpoint and might in turn harm performance. Reducing message size may require adding a more fine-grained operation.
Quality-of-service characteristics including transactionality
For conceptual clarity each service operation should perform a single system-level transaction and leave data integrity across service boundaries to the business logic in the service consumer. This also simplifies error recovery, and typically eases design.
Many more decision criteria for finding an appropriate granularity exist; there is no global optimum. Sixteen such coupling criteria are compiled from the literature in.
Patterns
As one size does not fit all, the des |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddles | Daddles, also known as Daddles the duck, is the name of an animated duck who was first introduced in 1977, used in the television coverage of cricket by the Australian Nine Network's Wide World of Sports.
When a batsman is dismissed without scoring, usually referred to as a "duck", an animation of Daddles, dressed as a batsman, is shown using on-screen graphics, crying, tucking his bat under his wing and walking across the screen accompanying the coverage of the departing batsman on his way back to the pavilion. According to Cricinfo, this adds "to the departing batsman's shame" at being dismissed without troubling the scorers. In its most common format, the sound of the duck was similar to an upset-sounding Donald Duck. The duck was used in many cricket broadcasts for nearly 40 years.
Origins
In 1977, Australian media tycoon Kerry Packer organised a break-away professional cricket tournament called World Series Cricket, despite never having played cricket himself. He ensured that Daddles was one of a number of innovations introduced at the new tournament, along with additional cameras placed around the ground, greater usage of slow-motion replays, day-night matches, coloured costumes, white balls and stump-cam. There existed a perception that Test cricket needed to "make major changes" to keep the public interested, and that "observing cricket rated about as high as watching paint dry". The graphical innovation, conceived by Australian cartoonist Tom Kerr (no relation to the British cartoonist of the same name) was brought to David Hill, a sports producer for Nine who later brought further innovative coverage of sports to the United States through his presidency of Rupert Murdoch's Fox Sports. It initially horrified the cricket establishment. It was thought of as "brash" coverage of the game; subsequently, broadcasters such as the United Kingdom's Channel 4, upon announcing that they would be covering the English cricket team in 1999, stated "there will be no cartoon ducks". Daddles was considered to be a way in which to keep young people interested in the long format of the game.
Kerr himself stated on his website in 2016: "I read somewhere that the pommies (the English) hated it, and that is reward in and of itself."
See also
Primary Club
References
External links
Daddles the Duck footage
Animated characters
World Series Cricket
Fictional ducks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCFile | Within database management systems, the RCFile (Record Columnar File) is a data placement structure that determines how to store relational tables on computer clusters. It is designed for systems using the MapReduce framework. The RCFile structure includes a data storage format, data compression approach, and optimization techniques for data reading. It is able to meet all the four requirements of data placement: (1) fast data loading, (2) fast query processing, (3) highly efficient storage space utilization, and (4) a strong adaptivity to dynamic data access patterns.
RCFile is the result of research and collaborative efforts from Facebook, The Ohio State University, and the Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Summary
Data storage format
For example, a table in a database consists of 4 columns (c1 to c4):
To serialize the table, RCFile partitions this table first horizontally and then vertically, instead of only partitioning the table horizontally like the row-oriented DBMS (row-store). The horizontal partitioning will first partition the table into multiple row groups based on the row-group size, which is a user-specified value determining the size of each row group. For example, the table mentioned above can be partitioned to two row groups if the user specifies three rows as the size of each row group.
Then, in every row group, RCFile partitions the data vertically like column-store. Thus, the table will be serialized as:
Row Group 1 Row Group 2
11, 21, 31; 41, 51;
12, 22, 32; 42, 52;
13, 23, 33; 43, 53;
14, 24, 34; 44, 54;
Column data compression
Within each row group, columns are compressed to reduce storage space usage. Since data of a column are stored adjacently, the pattern of a column can be detected and thus the suitable compression algorithm can be selected for a high compression ratio.
Performance Benefits
Column-store is more efficient when a query only requires a subset of columns, because column-store only read necessary columns from disks but row-store will read an entire row.
RCFile combines merits of row-store and column-store via horizontal-vertical partitioning. With horizontal partitioning, RCFile places all columns of a row in a single machine and thus can eliminate the extra network costs when constructing a row. With vertical partitioning, for a query, RCFile will only read necessary columns from disks and thus can eliminate the unnecessary local I/O costs. Moreover, in every row group, data compression can be done by using compression algorithms used in column-store.
For example, a database might have this table:
This simple table includes an employee identifier (EmpId), name fields (Lastname and Firstname) and a salary (Salary). This two-dimensional format exists only in theory, in practice, storage hardware requires the data to be serialized into one form or another.
In MapReduce-based systems, data is normally |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning%20Legend%3A%20Daigo%20no%20Daibouken | , is a 1996 3D-based fighting game developed by Konami Computer Entertainment Tokyo and published by Konami. It is the first 3D-based fighting game created by Konami. It is also a straight-to-console release, without an arcade counterpart.
Gameplay
It is a 3D fighting game, which features 8 playable characters. There is also a story mode with role playing game elements. Story mode includes short anime cutscenes and dialogue between battle. Defeating enemies in this mode rewards players with up to 200 potential unique items.
There are several gameplay modes:
Story Mode: The player moves across the world map as a chibi character and, upon encountering CPU characters, the scene transitions into a battle. After knocking out the last boss, Dragless, the player receives a separate ending.
VS Mode
Time Attack Mode (Hidden)
Collection Mode (Hidden): This is the so-called special feature mode of the game. In this mode, the player can gain access to hidden costumes and stages by collecting various items from replaying battles. The items can be acquired through completing specific requirements (such as winning under 1 second, performing a general attack as the finishing blow, and double KO the CPU opponent) or by completing the collection of all 208 items.
Fighters
Default Fighters (can be used across all modes)
(Voiced by: Mariko Kouda)
(Voiced by: Yuri Shiratori)
(Voiced by: Junko Iwao)
(Voiced by: Shō Hayami)
(Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu)
(Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa)
(Voiced by: Yuri Amano)
(Voiced by: Yuri Shiratori)
Imposter Fighter (that disguises as a subordinate of Dragless)
(Risa Atago is Misa's wild older sister) (Voiced by: Yuri Amano)
Secret Fighters (Upon satisfying certain requirements in the game, these fighters become usable in all modes, with the exception of story mode.)
(Voiced by: Satomi Kōrogi)
(a.k.a. Mitsuru Gongōin) (Voiced by: Kenichi Ogata (voice actor))
(Voiced by: Norio Wakamoto) and is also the boss of the game
K.O.J. (a.k.a. Shirogane Hirō) (Voiced by: Shōzō Iizuka)
Reception
Weekly Famitsu gave it a score of 25/40.
References
External links
1996 video games
3D fighting games
Japan-exclusive video games
Konami games
Multiplayer video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only games
Video games scored by Akira Yamaoka
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Shop%20Stewards%20Network | National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) is a network of shop stewards launched in Britain in 2007.
Foundation
The NSSN was founded at a conference called by the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) on 7 July 2007. The proposal to re-establish a shop stewards movement came from an RMT sponsored conference to discuss working class political representation held in January 2006.
Campaigns
Anti-cuts campaign
Following a unanimous decision of the steering committee, on 22 January 2011, the NSSN held a conference to discuss launching its own anti-cuts campaign. A motion from a majority on the steering committee proposed establishing an anti-cuts campaign "anti-cuts campaign, bringing trade unions and communities together to save all jobs and services", whilst a minority on the steering committee argued against the motion, opposing setting up an anti-cuts campaign and argued for "working with Coalition of Resistance, Right to Work and other groups, to build and launch a single national anti-cuts organisation early in 2011". In the debate both sides had equal speakers and shared responsibility for chairing the debate which lasted 2 1/2 hours, with the conference voting 305 to 89 to establish an anti-cuts campaign committee which was elected immediately afterwards.
Since the conference, the anti-cuts campaign has called on its supporters to lobby local councils against carrying out government imposed cuts and organised a lobby Labour's Local Government conference in London on 5 March 2011.
The NSSN has also been involved in supporting co-ordinated action between trade unions over proposed government changes to public sector pensions and has called a lobby of the TUC in London on 11 September 2011
Car industry
The NSSN has been involved in helping car workers organise campaigns against closures of car and component plants in Southampton and organised a meeting of car worker shop stewards to build further links. It has also been involved in defending union reps from victimisation at Swansea Linamar and Swindon Honda.
References
External links
labour movement in the United Kingdom
organizations established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend%20Adventure | Weekend Adventure (originally known as ABC Weekend Adventure and Litton's Weekend Adventure) is an American syndicated programming block that is produced by Hearst Media Production Group, and airs weekend mornings on the owned-and-operated stations and affiliates of ABC. The block features live-action documentary and lifestyle series aimed at a family audience that meet educational programming requirements defined by the Children's Television Act. Announced on May 24, 2011, Litton's Weekend Adventure premiered on September 3, 2011, replacing the ABC Kids block.
The block is syndicated to ABC stations directly rather than being part of the network's official schedule. This was the result of a compromise between the network and its stations after ABC management decided in 2010 that it no longer wanted to provide educational programming. Thus, Weekend Adventure does not contain any ABC branding or promotions, and likewise is not promoted directly by ABC on-air or mentioned on the network's website.
Background
The block came as a result of ABC's decision in March 2010 to no longer provide E/I programming as part of its Saturday morning network lineup to its affiliates; the network had not introduced any new E/I programs for its ABC Kids block since 2007, and those that had been airing on the network at the time of the decision consisted of reruns of Disney Channel sitcoms that had first aired on the block between September 2005 and May 2007, all of which were out of production by the time ABC Kids ended its run. In addition, before Haim Saban and Saban Brands repurchased the rights to the Power Rangers franchise from The Walt Disney Company in 2010, several station groups that owned ABC affiliates (such as Hearst Television, which would later acquire a majority stake in Litton Entertainment in 2017 and Allbritton Communications) refused to carry any series from that franchise (or any other non-E/I-compliant shows within the block such as Kim Possible) or chose to run them only in low-rated early morning timeslots, and had demanded any lineup be fully educational so the stations would not have to purchase E/I programming from syndication distributors.
Most of the major commercial networks began restructuring their Saturday morning children's program blocks (with Fox dropping its outright) to comply to tightened educational content and advertising regulations in the Children's Television Act; cultural shifts and changes in viewing habits through the migration of younger viewers to cable channels, recordable and streaming media were also affecting viewership of children's lineups carried by broadcast television networks.
As a compromise, the network's affiliate board agreed to instead look for a syndication package that would air exclusively on ABC owned-and-operated and affiliate stations. Litton Entertainment was eventually selected by the ABC affiliate board to program the block, beating out two other competitors as a part of the winning presenta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabadabadog%21 | Sabadabadog! is a 2011 Philippine television informative children's show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Tonipet Gaba and Arkin Magalona, it premiered on May 21, 2011. The show concluded on November 19, 2011 with a total of 27 episodes.
Segment
Balitang Sabadabadog!
Bebe GaruMania
Special Sabado Report
Da Who!
Mascots
Sabadabadog, a dog who is a Bebe Garu's friend. He also learn to break the fourth wall.
Don Kahon, a box friend of Sabadabadog. He can find some of junks that he and Sabadabadog find.
Mei-Mei, a girlfriend of Sabadabadog and it's precisely a cellphone shaped mascot. Sometimes she can learn technologies of success.
Bebe Garu, Sabadabadog's helper she can tell something else about something. Like Sabadabadog, she and her dog can learn some success.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the final episode of Sabadabadog! scored a 4.6% 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 children's television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM/386 | VM/386 is a multitasking operating system or 'control program' that took early advantage of the capabilities of Intel's 386 processor. By utilizing Virtual 8086 mode, users were able to run their existing text-based and graphical DOS software in safely separate environments. The system offered a high degree of control, with the ability to set memory limits, CPU usage and scheduling parameters, device assignments, and interrupt priorities through a virtual machine manager menu. Unique CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files could be configured for each application, and even different DOS versions. In 1991 the vendor announced intentions to support DPMI 1.0 in VM/386.
Overview
VM/386 had initially been developed by Softguard Systems, a producer of copy-protection software, with plans to include features like non-DOS system support, but financial constraints forced its sale to Intelligent Graphics Corporation (IGC), which launched the product in 1987. It won a PC Magazine award for technical excellence in 1988. The company also introduced a multi-user version, which allowed a number of serial terminals and even graphical systems to be connected to a single 386 computer. Current versions of the software have built on the multi-user support, and can handle tens of users in a networked environment with Windows 3.11 support, access controls, virtual memory and device sharing, among other features.
A version of the software designed to cooperate with Unix was bundled with Everex Systems workstations. The system now sees use mainly in vertical applications like point-of-sale systems, where its ability to run reliably on cheap, reliable hardware outweigh any gains from newer operating systems that are more complex and less reliable.
Early competition included DESQview 386, Sunny Hill Software's Omniview, StarPath Systems' Vmos/3, and Windows/386 2.01. As the target market shifted away from single-user systems to multiple-user setups with many serial terminals it began to compete more directly with the likes of Multiuser DOS and PC-MOS/386.
See also
Virtual DOS machine
Multiuser DOS Federation
References
External links
VM/386 as the operating system in a nuclear waste processing facility
DOS software
Proprietary operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVidya | cVidya Networks is a provider of big data analytics products for communications and digital service providers. cVidya's market includes business protection and business growth, including revenue assurance, fraud management, marketing analytics and data monetization. The company has 300 employees in 18 countries and has over 150 customers. cVidya's investors include Battery Ventures, Carmel Ventures, Hyperion, StageOne, Saints Capital and Plenus.
History
cVidya was founded in 2000 by Israeli businessman Alon Aginsky in the US and saw projects at Telecom Italia and Bezeq within its first years.
Between 2004–2010 cVidya became one of the leading vendors in the Revenue Assurance domain with the MoneyMap product suite, with their entrance into Europe followed closely by LATAM, APAC, North America and Africa.
In 2009, cVidya's acquired ECtel for $20.5 million. By acquiring the larger, publicly traded company and consolidating their product portfolios cVidya added the FraudView fraud management product. In 2010, cVidya announced the addition of Cloud capabilities. In 2011, cVidya added risk management product and announced revenue assurance and fraud management eLearning courses. In that same year, Gartner ranked cVidya as a market leader. In 2012, cVidya added big data analytics capabilities and in 2013 a marketing analytics suite.
In January 2016, the company was bought by Amdocs for 30 million dollars.
References
External links
cVidya website
Revenue assurance
Big data companies
Business intelligence companies
Revenue services
Consulting firms established in 2001
Amdocs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail%20Files | Nail Files is a reality television series that premiere on TV Guide Network in June 2011. It ran for 2 seasons and ended in October 2012.
Nail Files is created by the creators of Jersey Shore, and follows Katie Cazorla, who owns a popular Sherman Oaks salon called The Painted Nail, while juggling her relationship with Walter Afanasieff, a Grammy award-winning music producer.
The series follows Cazorla as she aspires to take The Painted Nail to the next level. With the support of Walter and her best friend Amy, Cazorla hosts gifting suites at the Sundance Film Festival and The Academy Awards, walks the red carpet at the Grammy Awards, launches her Spring line of polishes, and handles her celebrity clients all while placating her trouble-making staff.
References
2010s American reality television series
2011 American television series debuts
2012 American television series endings
Pop (American TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.9963 | Recommendation G.9963 is a home networking standard under development at the International Telecommunication Union standards sector, the ITU-T.
It was begun in 2010 by ITU-T to add multiple-input and multiple-output (known as MIMO) capabilities to the G.hn standard originally defined in Recommendation G.9960. The standard is also known as "G.hn-mimo".
As part of the family of G.hn standards, G.9963 was endorsed by the HomeGrid Forum.
References
Networking standards
Network protocols
Open standards
International standards
Computer networks
Internet Standards
ITU-T recommendations
ITU-T G Series Recommendations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie%20Beth%20Lovins | Julie Beth Lovins (October 19, 1945, in Washington, D.C. – January 26, 2018, in Mountain View, California) was a computational linguist who published The Lovins Stemming Algorithm - a type of stemming algorithm for word matching - in 1968.
The Lovins Stemmer is a single pass, context sensitive stemmer, which removes endings based on the longest-match principle. The stemmer was the first to be published and was extremely well developed considering the date of its release, having been the main influence on a large amount of the future work in the area. -Adam G., et al
Background
Born on October 19, 1945, in Washington, D.C., Lovins grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her father Gerald H. Lovins was an engineer and her mother, Miriam Lovins, a social services administrator. Lovins' brother Amory Lovins is the co-founder and chief environmental scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute.
For her undergraduate degree, Lovins attended Pembroke College, the women's college of Brown University, which later combined into Brown University in 1971. At Pembroke College, Lovins studied mathematics and linguistics, graduating with honors. Her thesis was named, A Study of Idioms. She received the inaugural Bloch Fellowship in 1970 from the Linguistic Society of America to attend graduate school. Lovins obtained her Master of Arts in 1970 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1973 from the University of Chicago, studying linguistics. At the University of Chicago, her dissertation was titled, Loan Phonology -- Subject Matter. A revision of her thesis on loanwords and the phonological structure of Japanese was published in 1975 by the Indiana University Linguistics Club.
Teaching career
Following Lovins' PhD, she spent a year working as a linguist-at-large at a University of Tokyo language research institute and as an English conversation teacher. She then joined the faculty at Tsuda College as a professor of English and linguistics, where she taught for seven years. During her time as a faculty member at Tsuda College, Lovins also served as a guest researcher in the University of Tokyo's Research Institute of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, a research center for speech science.
Industry career
After teaching Japanese phonology at Japanese universities abroad, Lovins moved back to the U.S. to work in the computing industry. She worked on early speech synthesis at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. At Bell Labs, Lovins worked with Osamu Fujimura, a Japanese linguist who is credited as a pioneer in speech sciences.
Lovins also worked as a software engineer at various companies in Silicon Valley and served as a consultant for computational linguistics throughout the 1990s. As a consultant, she called her business, "The Language Doctor."
The Lovins Stemming Algorithm
Lovins published an article about her work on developing a stemming algorithm through the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT in 1968. Lovins' stemming algorithm is frequently referred to as the Lovins ste |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhan%20Karky | Madhan Karky Vairamuthu is an Indian lyricist, screenwriter, research associate, software engineer, and entrepreneur. A holder of a doctorate in computer science from the University of Queensland, Karky began his professional career as an assistant professor at the College of Engineering, Guindy, and soon after ventured into the Tamil film industry, working as a lyricist and dialogue writer. He resigned from his teaching profession in early 2013 and began working full-time in the film industry, while also launching the Karky Research Foundation (KaReFo), an educational research organization which primarily focuses on language computing and language literacy. He also founded the Mellinam Education, which develops educational games and story books designed to propagate learning among children, and DooPaaDoo, an online music platform which promotes independent music and serves a distributor for film soundtracks.
Early life
Karky is the eldest son of seven-times National Award winning lyricist Vairamuthu and Ponmani, a Tamil scholar and veteran professor at the Meenakshi College for Women. He has a younger brother, Kabilan, who is a novelist and also works as a lyricist and dialogue writer for Tamil films.
Education
He grew up in Chennai and was educated at the Loyala Matriculation School in Kodambakkam. By his own admission, he was not a good student, excelling primarily only in Tamil and English. During his time in high school, he gained an interest in computer science He got admission in College of Engineering, Guindy which is affiliated with the Anna University. He began his undergraduate education in the field of Computer engineering in the year 1997.
While in CEG, as part of his final year project, Karky developed a program called the Tamil Voice Engine, under the supervision of Professor T.V. Geetha. The goal of the project was construction of a text to speech engine for the Tamil language. The research paper on the project was officially selected at the Tamil Internet Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Other projects during his tenure include the Name Generator, which was part of his course on Creativity, Innovation and New Product Development (the objective being to generate random names that are pronounceable with respect to Indian phonetics) and Compiler Design, for which a high level programming language was conceived, with the goal of proper specification and interpretation of lexical rules and grammar rules.
For Chennai Kavigal, he created a Spell Checker for a Tamil Word Processor. The project involved a lot of Natural Language Processing elements, based on a root dictionary built as a part of the morphological analyzer for the Tamil Language. The endgame being determining the correctness of words.
Following the completion of his bachelor's degree in 2001, Karky began his master's degree at the University of Queensland in the year 2003. In that particular stint, he developed a project based on the theory of computation and st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay%20Cable%20Network | Gay Cable Network (GCN) was one of the first cable television networks which openly appealed to a gay and lesbian audience. It was established in 1982 in New York City by Lou Maletta, was broadcast on Manhattan Cable Television channel 35 and wound down operations in 2000–2001. It initially broadcast a series titled Men in Films, which explored male erotica, and evolved to host a wider variety of content, including news and current affairs programs which covered political developments affecting the LGBT community and the AIDS/HIV epidemic. Throughout its time, GCN provided coverage of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, with on-floor correspondents interviewing candidates and delegates, as well as coverage of the 1987 and 1993 LGBT rights marches on Washington. A documentary aired on GCN, Out in the 90's, earned the network a Special Recognition Award at the inaugural GLAAD Media Awards in 1990.
In 2009, New York University acquired from Maletta some 6,100 VHS tapes of GCN broadcasts from throughout its 19 years of operation for preservation.
People
George Bouzetos, hosted and co-created Pride and Progress and helmed coverage of the 1988, 1992 and 2000 party conventions, currently host of Gay USA with Ann Northrop.
Kostis Chatzidakis (Selfed named as "The short one"), correspondent with GCN until his death in 1991. His brother Allen negotiated the preservation of GCN's archives with NYU.
Programs
Gay USA (1985 as Pride and Progress - present)
Men in Films
Be Our Guest
In the Dungeon with "Slave Dale"
Good Morning, Gaymerica!
Men in Rims
Inside/Out
The Closet Case Show
Lovie TV
Men for Men
Out! in the 90's
Out on Wednesdays
Dyke TV
Party Talk
Stonewall Place After Dark
Way Out!
See also
here!
Logo
References
External links
Gay Cable Network Archives, Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University
LGBT-related television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JenNet-IP | Within computer networking, JenNet-IP software is an enhanced 6LoWPAN network layer for ultra-low-power 802.15.4 based wireless networking. Using a "mesh-under" networking approach, JenNet-IP is designed to enable the Internet of Things and can serve wireless networks in excess of 500 nodes.
In May 2011, NXP Semiconductors announced its intent to release JenNet-IP software, developed by wireless semiconductor company Jennic which it acquired in July 2010, under an open source license.
References
External links
JenNet-IP wireless networking for the 'Internet of Things'
Network layer protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astro%20Fang%3A%20Super%20Machine | is a Family Computer video game that was released for an exclusively Japanese market in 1990.
Gameplay
Somewhere in the galaxy lies the planet RS-121 – a desolate planet that has suffered terrible disasters which made life impossible.
Only one construction still remains on the planet – a highway called the Black Line. It is said that an ancient legend is somehow connected to this highway. Players must knock enemies off the road by using missiles before they can knock him off the same highway. Automobile repair shops can be found where cars can be repaired and re-supplied with much-needed weapons. The playable vehicle resembles a 1982 DeLorean while the unplayable enemy vehicles resemble dune buggies.
The game has an infinite amount of continues and a meter appears on the bottom left-hand side of the screen to remind how close the player is to achieving the goal.
Reception
Video Game Den gave Astro Fang: Super Machine a rating of 3 stars out of a possible 5 in their December 14, 2011 review.
References
External links
1990 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Science fiction video games
Vehicular combat games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah%27s%20Master%20Class | Oprah's Master Class (or Oprah Presents: Master Class, as it was titled in the first season) is a primetime television program that airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The series premiered on the network's first day, January 1, 2011.
Concept
According to OWN, Master Class "tells the stories you've never heard from the people you thought you knew best. Hand-picked by Oprah Winfrey for their unique impact on the world, true modern masters from Academy Award-winning actors, to Grammy-winning musicians, to ground-breaking athletes, share the greatest lessons they've learned along the way. In an intimate setting, they share their successes, failures, triumphs, disappointments and heartbreaks."
Each episode features an in-depth conversation with the subject, as they explore their story with viewers. The conversation is split up into numerous lessons that each master teaches, using personal anecdotes from their life to illustrate the point. Video clips, photographs, and re-enactments illustrate a visual representation of the stories being told. The biographical sketch is interspersed with personal insights and reflections from Oprah Winfrey on each master's life lessons.
Overview
Episodes
Season One (2011)
The first season of Oprah Presents: Master Class premiered on Saturday January 1, 2011 on the first day of the launch of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, with rapper, songwriter, and entrepreneur Jay-Z. The first season aired weekly on Sundays at 10/9c and consists of eight hour-long episodes.
Season Two (2012)
The second season of Oprah's Master Class premiered on Sunday January 8, 2012 at 10/9c on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network with actress, writer, and activist Jane Fonda. The second season premiered to record-high numbers for the series, with 930,000 viewers tuning into Fonda's Master Class. The second season aired weekly on Sundays at 10/9c and consists of ten hour-long episodes.
Season Three (2013)
The third season of Oprah's Master Class premiered on March 3, 2013, at 10/9c with an episode featuring singer-songwriter Alicia Keys. The third season aired weekly on Sundays at 10/9c and consists of eight hour-long episodes.
Season Four (2014)
Oprah's Master Class returned to OWN on May 11, 2014, with an episode featuring Justin Timberlake. The fourth season aired weekly on Sundays at 10/9c and consists of ten hour-long episodes.
Season Five (2015)
Oprah's Master Class returned to OWN on Sunday October 25, 2015 with an episode featuring Ellen DeGeneres. The fifth season aired weekly on Sundays at 8/7c and consists of seven hour-long episodes.
Season Six (2017-18)
Oprah's Master Class returned to OWN on Saturday June 10, 2017 with a sneak-preview episode featuring Kevin Hart.
Specials
Awards and nominations
International broadcast
— The series premiered on Discovery Home & Health from October 27, 2013.
References
External links
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey Network original programming
2011 American television series debuts
2018 Ame |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20McKenzie%20%28ice%20hockey%29 | Mike McKenzie (born April 29, 1986) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who last played for the Ontario Reign in the ECHL during the 2011–12 season. He is the son of The Sports Network (TSN) hockey analyst Bob McKenzie. McKenzie is currently the general manager of the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League.
College hockey
St. Lawrence Saints (2006-2010)
McKenzie joined the St. Lawrence Saints of the NCAA for the 2006-07 season, where as a freshman, he scored 12 goals and 25 points in 31 games, finishing fourth in team scoring. The Saints won the Cleary Cup as the top regular season team in the ECAC Hockey Conference.
In his sophomore season with the club during the 2007-08 season, McKenzie skated in 34 games, scoring seven goals and 20 points for the rebuilding Saints. McKenzie was named to the ECAC All-Academic Team during this season.
In 2008-09, during his junior season with the Saints, McKenzie saw his offensive production increase to new heights, as he scored 16 goals and 34 points in 38 games to lead the club in scoring. For the second consecutive season, McKenzie was named to the ECAC All-Academic Team.
In his final season with St. Lawrence in 2009-10, McKenzie was named an alternate captain. In 41 games, McKenzie scored 14 goals and 35 points, finishing second on the club in both goals and points.
Overall, in four years with the Saints, McKenzie scored 49 goals and 114 points in 165 games.
Professional career
Albany River Rats (2009-2010)
On March 24, 2010, McKenzie was signed to an Amateur Tryout with the Albany River Rats of the American Hockey League. The River Rats were the top minor league of the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League.
McKenzie made his professional hockey debut on April 3, 2010, as he recorded his first career AHL point, an assist on a goal scored by Brad Herauf, in a 4-2 victory over the Adirondack Phantoms. McKenzie would appear in three games with Albany during the 2009-10 season, earning one assist.
Charlotte Checkers (2010-2012)
On August 3, 2010, McKenzie signed a one-year contract with the Charlotte Checkers of the American Hockey League. The Checkers were the top affiliate of the Carolina Hurricanes, as McKenzie had an amateur tryout with their previous AHL affiliate, the Albany River Rats in the 2009-10 season.
McKenzie was assigned to the Florida Everblades of the ECHL after training camp. In 55 games with Florida, McKenzie scored 18 goals and 38 points, earning a promotion back to the AHL with Charlotte. On March 22, 2011, McKenzie scored his first career AHL goal against Michael Leighton of the Adirondack Phantoms in a 5-2 victory. McKenzie finished the 2010-11 season by playing 14 games with Charlotte and recording the one goal. In December 2010, McKenzie was named the ECHL Rookie of the Month after scoring nine goals and 17 points in 14 games with the Everblades.
The Checkers extended McKenzie's contract, however, McKenzie was once again assigned to the Ev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious%20and%20Theological%20Abstracts | Religious and Theological Abstracts is a database that indexes many religious and theological journals and other literature. In 2005, one Guide to Research described it as a "popular reference" covering more than 600 periodicals in most major European languages beginning in 1958. It covers "a wide array of periodical literature, including Christian, Jewish, and other world religions and some denominational and popular religious magazines."
A guide to how to acquire documents for libraries stated that
Because of the interrelationship between indexing and abstract services and the literature that they document, tools such as Religious and Theological Abstracts (1958-, Myerstown, PA), Religion Index One (1949-, Evanston, IL), and The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index (1930-, Catholic Library Association) often become de facto standards against which many librarians measure their collections. If a journal is indexed by one of these services, it becomes important on the grounds that the index service provides access points to the information contained in the articles themselves.
A guide to library research stated that "religion has its primary indexes in Religion Index One, Religion Index Two, Religious and Theological Abstracts, and a few other such titles."
References
External links
Religious and Theological Abstracts (website)
Educational publishing companies
Bibliographic database providers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Fallows | South African born Chris Fallows is an expert on great white sharks and their hunting habits. He has amassed the largest database of predatory events involving great white sharks in False Bay and was the first member of the scientific community to observe the breaching behaviour.
Early life
Growing up in a game reserve, Fallow's fascination with wildlife stretches back to his childhood. After moving to the coast at the age of 12 his fascination with the ocean and marine wildlife grew. At the age of 16 Fallows co-ordinated a tag and release program in his home town. His endeavours, with the co-operation of local beach net fishermen, saw the tagging, documenting and releasing of over fifteen thousand sharks and rays.
Fallows attended Rondebosch Boys' High School in Cape Town.
Career
In 1992 Fallows was at the forefront of great white shark tours when he started his work and research at Dyer Island off Gansbaai. He worked there until 1996 when he co-founded African Shark Eco-Charters in False Bay. It was then that he along with colleague discovered the breaching great white sharks that have been made famous by the Air Jaws movies. In 2000 Fallows formed Apex Shark Expeditions with his wife Monique. Over the last 15 years together they observed and catalogued over 9500 predatory events. This is the largest database of its kind in the world.
Chris Fallows has co authored 10 scientific papers on the breaching behaviour of great white sharks when hunting as well a book titled, Great White and the Majesty of Sharks which has sold over 25,000 copies. Fallows has worked with David Attenborough on the "Shallow Seas" episode of the Planet Earth series, National Geographic, Discovery Channel and helped produce the Air Jaws series of shark documentaries.
As well as great white shark observation and cage diving, Fallows has undertaken nearly 200 open water diving expeditions with the mako shark and blue sharks in South Africa since 1999.
Chris Fallows is also a wildlife photographer. Although he is best known for his world famous breaching great white shark images, he specialises in both ocean and terrestrial wildlife photography. His limited edition fine art prints are globally renowned for their intimate representation of some of the world's most charismatic and iconic mega fauna. His gallery can be viewed on www.chrisfallows.com His August 2020 image, "The Pearl", of a great white shark breaching the sea's surface, was selected by BBC as one of "the most striking images of 2020."
References
External links
Apexpredators.com
Chris Fallows Photography
Living people
South African ichthyologists
Alumni of Rondebosch Boys' High School
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OKC%20Abra%C5%A1evi%C4%87 | OKC Abrašević (English: The Youth Cultural Centre Abrašević) is an open network of non-governmental organizations, informal groups and individuals based in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It offers a space and support to youth in realizing ideas and it encourages projects that promotes civic society, arts and social cohesion. After being closed for nearly ten years, it came back to life in 2003 thanks to a network of non-government, youth associations which were initially created around the MIF (Mostar Intercultural Festival).
The organization organizes concerts, theatre performances, art exhibitions, workshops, movie screenings, and poetry readings. The main OKC Abrašević space includes a concert hall and a bar.
Abrašević also houses three subdivisions called AbrašMEDIA, ABArt and AbrašMEDIA Radio. AbrašMEDIA covers news stories and articles, ABArt encourages social transformation through arts and AbrašRadio produces radio program.
References
External links
Official OKC Abrasevic Website
Culture in Mostar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Albums%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202009 | The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2009, there were 23 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was Chinese Democracy by Guns N' Roses, which reached the top of the chart for the week ending 6 December 2008 and remained at number one for six consecutive weeks. The final number-one album of the year was the Foo Fighters compilation album Greatest Hits, which first topped the chart for two weeks beginning in the week ending 14 November and returned for a four-week run at the end of the year.
The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2009 was Green Day's eighth studio album 21st Century Breakdown, which spent a total of eleven weeks at number one over five separate runs during the year. Nickelback's fifth studio album All the Right Reasons and Greatest Hits by Foo Fighters each spent six weeks at number one during 2009, while Muse's fifth studio album The Resistance was number one for a total of five weeks. The Resistance was also the best-selling rock and metal album of the year in the UK, ranking 25th in the UK End of Year Albums Chart. Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses was number one for three weeks in 2009, while Chinese Democracy, Kerrang! The Album '09 and Paramore's Brand New Eyes each spent two weeks at number one.
Chart history
See also
2009 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2009
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1
2009 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Albums
2009 |
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