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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope%20Network | Hope Network is a non-profit Christian organization in Michigan that helps people with disabilities live independently. Hope Network provides services for people with brain injury, spinal cord injury, mental illness, developmental disabilities, drug and alcohol addictions, and other disadvantages. Hope Network also provides transportation, low-income housing and job training.
Hope Network was founded by Herbert A. Start. In the early 1970s the organization opened two community-based centers in Grand Rapids, Michigan, then added its first residential program in 1976. By 2002, it operated 190 locations through seven major affiliates in the state.
References
External links
Disability organizations based in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Michigan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20network%20%28disambiguation%29 | A social network is a theoretical concept in the social sciences, particularly sociology and anthropology, referring to a social structure made up of individuals or organizations.
Social network may also refer to:
Business
Business networking, an activity in which groups of like-minded businesspeople recognize, create, or act upon business opportunities
Enterprise social networking, focuses on the use of online social networks or social relations among people who share business interests and/or activities
Professional network service, a type of social network service that is focused solely on interactions and relationships of a business nature
Internet
Distributed social network, an Internet social networking service that is decentralized and distributed across different providers
List of social networking websites, major active social networking websites (excluding dating websites)
Social media, a new medium for social interaction, based on social networking service
Social media marketing, the use of social media platforms and websites to promote a product or service
Social network aggregation, the process of collecting content from multiple social networking services
Social network automation, tools that are used to semi/automate the process of posting content to social networking and social bookmarking websites
Social networking service, services which act as online sites to connect people with similar interests
Social-network game, online games where many people can play at once
Other uses
The Social Network, a 2010 biographical drama film
The Social Network (soundtrack), a soundtrack album from the film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceus%20Networks | Oceus Networks is a telecommunications company that provides mobile and fixed broadband network infrastructure. Oceus Networks is the approved exclusive provider of Ericsson communications technologies for certain segments of the U.S. federal government and the non-exclusive supplier to government agencies worldwide. It was founded in 2011 when Ericsson sold part of their business to a private equity firm.
Xiphos
In 2011, Oceus Networks launched Xiphos, a broadband network that can be set up in remote locations. Xiphos is a scalable system, letting users deploy small systems when small teams are operating in remote environments.
On April 2, 2012 Oceus announced the availability of its new expanded fourth-generation (4G) Long Term Evolution (LTE) family of fully interoperable solutions that enable secure high-speed, high-capacity, voice, video and data transmissions.
Xiphos R2 now provides: nearly unlimited coverage when used in a network of systems, support for up to ‘no practical limit’ of subscribers, up to a thousand concurrent user sessions per system.
References
Companies based in Reston, Virginia
Telecommunications companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional%20programming | In mathematical optimization, fractional programming is a generalization of linear-fractional programming. The objective function in a fractional program is a ratio of two functions that are in general nonlinear. The ratio to be optimized often describes some kind of efficiency of a system.
Definition
Let be real-valued functions defined on a set . Let . The nonlinear program
where on , is called a fractional program.
Concave fractional programs
A fractional program in which f is nonnegative and concave, g is positive and convex, and S is a convex set is called a concave fractional program. If g is affine, f does not have to be restricted in sign. The linear fractional program is a special case of a concave fractional program where all functions are affine.
Properties
The function is semistrictly quasiconcave on S. If f and g are differentiable, then q is pseudoconcave. In a linear fractional program, the objective function is pseudolinear.
Transformation to a concave program
By the transformation , any concave fractional program can be transformed to the equivalent parameter-free concave program
If g is affine, the first constraint is changed to and the assumption that g is positive may be dropped. Also, it simplifies to .
Duality
The Lagrangian dual of the equivalent concave program is
Notes
References
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A1s%20Pr%C3%A9kopa | András Prékopa (September 11, 1929 – September 18, 2016) was a Hungarian mathematician, a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was one of the pioneers of stochastic programming and has been a major contributor to its literature. He amended one of the three basic model types of the discipline, chance-constrained programming, by taking into account stochastic dependence among the random variables involved. One of his main results in the area concerns the convexity theory of probabilistically constrained stochastic optimization problems. He introduced the concept of logarithmic concave measures and provided several fundamental theorems on logconcavity, which supplied proofs for the convexity of a wide class of probabilistically constrained stochastic programming problems. These results had impact far beyond the area of mathematical programming, as they found applications in physics, economics, statistics, convex geometry and other fields.
Education
He received his university diploma as teacher of mathematics and physics from the University of Debrecen in 1952. In 1952, he became a Ph.D student (aspirant) at the Institute for Applied Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) and defended his thesis, entitled "On Stochastic Set Functions", in 1956. His advisor was Alfréd Rényi.
Academic career
Between 1956 and 1968 he was first assistant, later associate professor at the department of probability theory of the L. Eötvös University. In 1968, he became full professor at the department of mathematics of the Technical University of Budapest, where he remained until 1983. In that year he returned to the Eötvös University, and became the founder, professor and first chairman of the Department of Operations Research (OR). He retired from there in 2000. From 1985 until 2015, he was a distinguished professor of OR, statistics and mathematics at Rutgers University. He was also the graduate director of the Ph.D program in OR. In 2015 he retired from Rutgers as a distinguished professor emeritus. Prékopa's part-time appointments were also important in his scientific career in Hungary. In 1958, he founded the first research department in OR at the Mathematics Institute of the HAS and in 1977 the department of applied mathematics at the Computing and Automation Institute of the HAS.
Research and achievements
Prékopa is the father of the Hungarian Operations Research in many ways: he developed the research school and education curricula, organized international and local conferences, formed an academic committee, founded a scientific periodical, etc. He published more than a dozen books and about 350 papers alone and with co-authors and supervised 51 Ph.D students, many of whom are internationally known academics and industrial leaders.
In 1979, Prékopa was elected a corresponding member and in 1985 full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He was also elected a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering of Mexico, fell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%20London | Source London is a network of electric vehicle charging points in London.
Charging points are located in residential streets, public car parks, at supermarkets, shopping centres and similar places. Use of a Source London branded charging point requires registration with the network's website and the payment of an annual fee of £48 per vehicle. Users are required to pay the annual subscription (also payable in monthly instalments of £4/month) along with 3.6p/min for each charging session on their modern chargers. Registered members are issued with a card that is swiped on the charging point's card reader to permit charging an unlimited number of times.
Backing and funding
First announced in November 2010 and launched on 27 May 2011 by London Mayor Boris Johnson, it is the first citywide network in London It initially provided 150 charging points across the capital with plans to expand coverage to 1,300 charging points by 2013. In 2019, 850 charging points were available with a further 2,000 planned for installation by 2020.
Source London was originally a Transport for London-led consortium of public and private sector organizations. The IT infrastructure was developed by Siemens and the network is partly funded by Scottish and Southern Energy and National Car Parks. Other organisations involved include Heathrow Airport, Gatwick Airport, Asda, Capital Shopping Centres, Sainsbury's, IKEA, Whittington Hospital, Enterprise Rent-a-Car and London Underground. The Department for Transport provided £9.3 million 50% match funding for the development of the network's infrastructure. The subscription fee for the scheme was originally an annual flat-rate £10 per vehicle, with no per-charge fees.
Bolloré's IER subsidiary took over the management of the Source London charging network from Transport for London, since 1 September 2014. Most of the actual charge points are still owned by the boroughs and business owners, and it is still their responsibility to fix faults. In January 2021, the majority shareholder changed from Bolloré's IER subsidiary to Total UK Limited.
The expansion of the network will be achieved, in part, by integrating existing charging points previously operated independently by London Borough councils. At launch, 11 boroughs had installed or were planning to install Source London charging points, or were intending to upgrade their own charging points for integration into the network. Ten other boroughs had committed to the network.
Source London is working with the Department for Transport's Office for Low Emission Vehicles and cities in the UK with the aim of developing a national charging point network.
Maintenance
In 2014 it was reported that Source London's network, formed by taking on operational responsibility for various borough's chargepoints, had problems with chargepoints being out of action. Source London says it has been working with individual boroughs to take full ownership and responsibility of the existing charging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg%20ground | In building wiring installed with separate neutral and protective ground bonding conductors (a TN-S network), a bootleg ground (or a false ground) is a connection between the neutral side of a receptacle or light fixture and the ground lug or enclosure of the wiring device.
Description
A bootleg ground connects the neutral side of the receptacle to the conductive casing of an appliance or lamp. This can be a hazard because the neutral wire is a current-carrying conductor, which means the exposed casing can become energized. In addition, a fault condition to a bootleg ground will not trip a GFCI breaker, nor protect a receptacle that is wired from the load side of a GFCI receptacle.
Before 1996, in the United States it was common to ground the frames of large 120/240-volt permanently-connected appliances (such as a clothes dryer or oven) to neutral conductors. This has been prohibited in new installations since the 1996 National Electrical Code (upon local adoption by legislation or regulation). Existing installations are permitted to continue in accordance with NEC 250.140 Exception.
Correct-polarity bootleg ground
In the less-dangerous instance of a bootleg ground, a short wire jumper is connected between the bonding screw terminal (usually colored green) on a NEMA 5-15R or 5-20R outlet to the neutral (a.k.a. grounded conductor, colored white according to code) or directly to the white neutral wire via a pigtail. This practice is a NEC code violation, but a standard 3-lamp receptacle tester will report the outlet as correctly wired.
Reverse-polarity bootleg ground
In the very-dangerous instance of a reverse polarity bootleg ground, the hot and neutral wires have been connected to the opposite terminals, and a jumper or pigtail connection is made between the green bonding screw terminal and what is believed to be the neutral circuit. But because the wiring has been crossed at some point, the hot 120-volt wire is now connected directly to the ground on the receptacle, placing low-impedance live voltage on all grounded parts of all equipment plugged into that outlet. This hazardous connection allows people to come into contact with a deadly voltage with a current path back to the source (the power transformer) that will not trip either a normal circuit breaker, a GFCI, nor an AFCI quickly enough to prevent electrocution.
Safer alternatives
If a safe equipment ground path is not provided via the existing cables installed within the building, they ideally should be replaced with new cabling which includes a safety ground conductor.
A safe alternative (where local electrical code allows it), permitted by recent editions of the National Electrical Code [NEC Sec. 406.4(D)(2)(b)] if a grounding connection is not practicable, is to install a GFCI and leave the grounding terminal screw unconnected. This is permitted if a permanent label is installed that says "No Equipment Ground" on the GFCI, and a label that states “GFCI Protected” and “No Equ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue%20%28Philippine%20TV%20program%29 | Rescue is a Philippine television documentary show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Arnold Clavio, it premiered on May 13, 2010. The show concluded on February 14, 2013. It was replaced by Kandidato in its timeslot.
Premise
The show features actual footages of raids, rescue operations of emergency response teams, on-site accidents, and numerous other life-threatening situations.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the final episode of Rescue scored a 7.3% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2013 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinoy%20M.D. | Pinoy M.D. is a Philippine television informative show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Connie Sison, David Ampil II, Raul Quillamor, Oyie Balburias and Jean Marquez, it premiered on June 12, 2010.
Premise
The show provides information on diseases and medical concerns of the people nowadays. It also provides free on-air consultation for the viewers, which was later discontinued.
Hosts
Connie Sison
David Ampil II
Raul Quillamor
Oyie Balburias
Jean Marquez
Segment host
Suzy Entrata
Production
In March 2020, production was halted due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The show resumed its programming on September 15, 2020.
Accolades
References
External links
2010 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine medical television series
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanep%20Buhay | ( is a Philippine television informative show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Love Añover and Chris Tiu, it premiered on November 13, 2010. The show concluded in November 26, 2011.
It featured how to manage funds properly, start and set up a business and make better financial decisions.
References
External links
2010 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney%20Junior%20%28Australian%20TV%20channel%29 | Disney Junior was an Australian pay television channel. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company in Australia and was the sister network of the flagship property Disney Channel. The channel was originally launched 2005 as Playhouse Disney, with programming targeted towards children aged 2 to 7, as well as their families, with original series and movies. The channel was relaunched as Disney Junior on 21 December, 2012
The channel's programming is composed of original animated series television series sourced from Disney Junior in the United States, as well as screenings of Disney's theatrical releases and other acquired programming.
After indications that Disney Channel and Disney Junior would close in early 2020 due to the launch of Disney+ and expiring contracts, Foxtel advised that negotiations with Disney were continuing to keep broadcasting the networks. However, Sky confirmed that both channels would close in New Zealand from 30 November 2019. Foxtel confirmed that the channels would be leaving their service at the end of February 2020, and on Fetch TV on 30 April.
Programming
Disney Junior's programming schedule mainly consisted of animated series for children, sourced from Disney Junior in the United States. Titles airing in the 2010s have included Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Jake and the Never Land Pirates.
Disney Junior's schedule also included internationally produced series acquired by Disney Channel Worldwide, including PJ Masks, Claude, Gigantosaurus, 101 Dalmatian Street and Go Away, Unicorn!.
The channel aired event screenings of Disney's theatrical releases, including Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas.
Disney Junior Australia had also commissioned and produced original local series, including The Book of Once Upon a Time, which featured Australian voices reading classic and contemporary Disney stories. The network also debuted Alphabet Street in 2019.
References
External links
Disney Junior Australia
Defunct television channels in New Zealand
Children's television channels in Australia
English-language television stations in Australia
English-language television stations in New Zealand
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2020
Commercial-free television networks in Australia
Australia and New Zealand
2005 establishments in Australia
2020 disestablishments in Australia
Defunct television channels in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charm%20%28programming%20language%29 | Charm is a computer programming language devised in the early 1990s with similarities to the RTL/2, Pascal and C languages in addition to containing some unique features of its own. The Charm language is defined by a context-free grammar amenable to being processed by recursive descent parser as described in seminal books on compiler design.
A set of Charm tools including a compiler, assembler and linker was made available for Acorn's RISC OS platform. Charm reworked for RISC OS platforms has subsequently been reviewed in Archive magazine.
Charm is further described in the e-book Programming in Charm on the Raspberry Pi.
Grammar
The definition of the Charm grammar in Backus–Naur form along with descriptive examples of Charm constructs is defined on the Charm language page.
The language is block structured, with each block being introduced by a language keyword that is descriptive of the operation being performed in the block e.g. , , (iteration), , (selection). Each block is enclosed by { and } delimiters. Additionally language lines within a block are normally indented for clarity, though this not required as white space is ignored.
Each grammatically conforming text represents a collection of executable code and associated data which can be used by a Charm tool set as a component when assembling a program that can be run under an operating system utilising the services it provides to do useful work such as data processing or interacting with users through a graphical user interface (GUI).
Data types
Charm is a strongly typed language, but does allow some implicit conversions between numeric and floating point types. The following basic variable types are supported:
– integers
– characters
– boolean values ( or )
– floating point numbers
Data aggregates of the same type may be declared and statically initialised using the keyword, and these may be multidimensional. Aggregates of different types may be declared using the keyword, and it is allowable for such a declaration to define a of record fields that overlay each other in terms of storage allocation. Modules may also aggregate a mixture of static and dynamic data members. Instances of both records and modules (dynamic content only) can be instantiated on the stack, or on the heap via the operator. Modules may also define a constructor procedure to initialise dynamic data and corresponding deconstructor procedure to release resources in a similar manner to the C++ language.
Referencing
Data or procedures within the scope of a module may be made global to the final application by using the keyword. If a module wishes to reference a procedure or data from another Charm module, it does so using the keyword. Modules may contain instance based member variables which are accessible through procedures declared with the keyword through the implicit first parameter pointer.
References to data constructs and procedures may be made using the keyword. These can be deref |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20scientific%20data | Open scientific data or open research data is a type of open data focused on publishing observations and results of scientific activities available for anyone to analyze and reuse. A major purpose of the drive for open data is to allow the verification of scientific claims, by allowing others to look at the reproducibility of results, and to allow data from many sources to be integrated to give new knowledge.
The modern concept of scientific data emerged in the second half of the 20th century, with the development of large knowledge infrastructure to compute scientific information and observation. The sharing and distribution of data has been early identified as an important stake but was impeded by the technical limitations of the infrastructure and the lack of common standards for data communication. The World Wide Web was immediately conceived as a universal protocol for the sharing of scientific data, especially coming from high-energy physics.
Definition
Scientific data
The concept of open scientific data has developed in parallel with the concept of scientific data.
Scientific data was not formally defined until the late 20th century. Before the generalization of computational analysis, data has been mostly an informal terms, frequently used interchangeably with knowledge or information. Institutional and epistemological discourses favored alternative concepts and outlooks on scientific activities: "Even histories of science and epistemology comments, mention data only in passing. Other foundational works on the making of meaning in science discuss facts, representations, inscriptions, and publications, with little attention to data per se."
The first influential policy definition of scientific data appeared as late as 1999, when the National Academies of Science described data as "facts, letters, numbers or symbols that describe an object, condition, situation or other factors". Terminologies have continued to evolve: in 2011, the National Academies updated the definition to include a large variety of dataified objects such as "spectrographic, genomic sequencing, and electron microscopy data; observational data, such as remote sensing, geospatial, and socioeconomic data; and other forms of data either generated or compiled, by humans or machines" as well as "digital representation of literature"
While the forms and shapes of data remain expansive and unsettled, standard definitions and policies have recently tended to restrict scientific data to computational or digital data. The open data pilot of Horizon 2020 has been voluntarily restricted to digital research: "'Digital research data' is information in digital form (in particular facts or numbers), collected to be examined and used as a basis for reasoning, discussion or calculation; this includes statistics, results of experiments, measurements, observations resulting from fieldwork, survey results, interview recordings and images"
Overall, the status scientific data remains a f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Potsdam | The Potsdam tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Potsdam, the capital city of the federal state of Brandenburg, Germany.
The network is owned and operated by the public citizen company (ViP), and included in the "Berlin C" fare zone (Tarifbereich Berlin C) of the Verkehrsverbund Berlin-Brandenburg.
History
The network opened on 12 May 1880: It was a horsecar system owned by the society Reymer & Masch, named Potsdamer Straßenbahn-Gesellschaft and consisted of a pair of lines. 1907 saw the introduction of electric trams which ran on a new line of . In 1908 the network consisted of 4 lines (named from A to D) and in 1949 of 5 lines (named from 1 to 5).
At the end of the 1950s, new streetcar models were introduced (typical during the DDR era), the Gothawagen (T57, G4-61, G4-65 and T2-62), produced in the Thuringian town of Gotha by the Gothaer Waggonfabrik.
In the 1980s, a pair of new routes were built: in 1984 through the new residential center in Babelsberg and in 1988 from Am Stern stop to the new south-eastern residential area in Drewitz. The Czech trams Tatra KT4 were introduced in 1993, and the modern Combino and Variotram in the 2000s. Some of the Tatra KT4D were given to Ploiești, a industrial city in Romania.
Network
The Potsdam route network is a standard-gauge railway. It is long and has 63 stops. The track length is . It is driven by five main and two amplifier lines. It is almost continuously double tracked, only the Nauener Tor is crossed by means of a gauntlet track.
The network consists, as of June 2022, of 7 lines:
The tram lines 91 to 96 operate on all days according to a uniform timetable scheme. This should give passengers better visibility. The basic scheme of the tram lines is a 20-minute-cyclic schedule. The timetable of the tram lines are coordinated at the linking points Potsdam Hauptbahnhof and Babelsberg station with the Berlin S-Bahn.
Lines 98 and 99 are amplifier lines that don´t operate at certain times. They are only a part of the timetable scheme. On Line 92, extra rides are offered throughout the route in the rush hour. As a result, lines 92 (with 2 courses) and 96 (with one course) run at 6/7/7-minute intervals, which in turn means that line 91 and 92 as well as 96 and 93 do not drive at an interval of 10 minutes.
The network is navigated with uni-directional vehicles. There are turning loops at all terminal stops. Exceptions are Glienicker Brücke, which is crossed by a triangular junction, as well as Schloss Charlottenhof , where the tramcars can be turned around by a block bypass.
Photogallery
See also
Berlin Tramway
Kiewitt Ferry
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Stadtwerke (and Verkehrsbetrieb) Potsdam
Potsdam Tramway (map, infos, pictures) at urbanrail.net
Tram Travels: Verkehrsbetrieb Potsdam (ViP)
Article about Potsdam Tramway at railway-technology.com
Transport in Potsdam
Potsdam
600 V DC railway electrification
Potsdam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UberStudent | UberStudent is a free and open-source computer operating system and collection of programs aimed especially toward higher education and secondary students and their teachers and schools. The lead developer of the platform is U.S. educator and technologist Stephen Ewen.
Dubbing itself "Linux for Learners", UberStudent describes itself as "a cohesive academic success curriculum integrated into an installable, easy-to-use, and full-featured learning platform" aimed at increasing overall student learning and academic computer literacy, and lifelong computer fluency. Its additional aim is to increase the adoption of free and open-source computing platforms, like itself, within higher education and secondary schools. It is designed around a "core academic skills approach to student success," which it describes as "the research and writing, reading, studying, and self-management skills that are essential to all students regardless of their academic major."
UberStudent's current release is 4.3, dubbed Heraclitus. The distribution uses its own dedicated software repository. It can be run from a live CD, USB flash drive, or installed onto a computer's hard drive from either of those mediums.
Support for the last published version, UberStudent 4.3, based on Ubuntu 14.04, ended in May 2019. According to Ewen, the project has been placed on hold, not discontinued or abandoned, because of his son's protracted leukemia battle.
Origin and design
UberStudent's founder and lead developer is Stephen Ewen, a U.S.-based educator who specializes in postsecondary literacy, academic success strategies, and educational technology. He began UberStudent, he has said, as "a way to place a set of smart and dedicated computing tools, and just the right amount of support, into the hands of students, whether currently within higher education or preparing for it in secondary school." His stated goal through UberStudent is for students to "learn to really excel at the core skills and habits they need to become everything they can academically be, and on into professional life." Ewen has stated that UberStudent is, in part, inspired by his own experiences achieving top academic performance with the assistance of educational technology.
Ewen has described UberStudent's overarching design philosophy as one that provides a "unified system for learning, doing, and teaching academic success". Within this, he has said that UberStudent takes what he calls a "core academic skills" approach, which he has delineated as "the skills in research and writing, studying, and self-management required of students across all academic majors". He has stated that UberStudent can be "easily extended" for specific majors via additional software. Ewen has additionally asserted that, in part due to UberStudent's open source and cross-platform nature, as well as its Unix-like base, it is geared to produce "computer fluency" among its users as a "more or less natural outcome".
Ewen has argued that ac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DGCA | DGCA may refer to:
DGCA (computing), file compression utility (also the name of its file format)
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (Albania), now called the Albanian Civil Aviation Authority
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (Bolivia)
Directorate General for Civil Aviation (Croatia)
Directorate General for Civil Aviation (France)
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (India)
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (Indonesia)
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (Turkey)
See also
Directorate General of Civil Aviation (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miso%20%28disambiguation%29 | Miso is a traditional Japanese seasoning.
MISO or Miso may also refer to:
MISO, short for Multiple Inputs, Single Output in system analysis
Master Input, Slave Output, a data line in the Serial Peripheral Interface Bus
Military information support operations, the U.S. military term for the function formally known as Psychological Operations
Midcontinent Independent System Operator, formerly known as Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator
Misophonia, a neurological and hearing disorder characterized by fear or anxiety over certain sounds
See also
Misoprostol, a medication used to start labor, induce abortions, prevent and treat stomach ulcers, and treat postpartum bleeding |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OrientDB | OrientDB is an open source NoSQL database management system written in Java. It is a Multi-model database, supporting graph, document, key/value, and object models, but the relationships are managed as in graph databases with direct connections between records. It supports schema-less, schema-full and schema-mixed modes. It has a strong security profiling system based on users and roles and supports querying with Gremlin along with SQL extended for graph traversal. OrientDB uses several indexing mechanisms based on B-tree and Extendible hashing, the last one is known as "hash index", there are plans to implement LSM-tree and Fractal tree index based indexes. Each record has Surrogate key which indicates position of record inside of Array list , links between records are stored either as single value of record's position stored inside of referrer or as B-tree of record positions (so-called record IDs or RIDs) which allows fast traversal (with O(1) complexity) of one-to-many relationships and fast addition/removal of new links. OrientDB is the fifth most popular graph database according to the DB-Engines graph database ranking, as of December 2021.
The development of OrientDB still relies on an open source community led by OrientDB LTD company created by its original author Luca Garulli. The project uses GitHub to manage the sources, contributors and versioning, Google Group and Stack Overflow to provide free support to the worldwide users. OrientDB also offers a free Udemy course for those hoping to learn the basics and get started with OrientDB.
Engine
OrientDB is built with a multi-model graph/document engine. OrientDB feels like a graph database first, but there's no reason the key-value store can't be used on its own. While OrientDB includes a SQL layer, the support for edges effectively means that these may be used to traverse relationships rather than employing a JOIN statement. OrientDB handles every record / document as an object and the linking between objects / documents is not through references, it's direct linking (saving a pointer to the object). This leads to quick retrieval of related data as compared to joins in an RDBMS.
Editions & licenses
OrientDB Community Edition is free for any use (Apache 2 license). The open source software is built upon by a community of developers. Features such as horizontal scaling, fault tolerance, clustering, sharding, and replication aren’t disabled in the OrientDB Community Edition.
OrientDB Enterprise Edition is the commercial extension of OrientDB Community Edition created to handle more robust and demanding use cases. OrientDB Enterprise Edition includes additional features such as a query profiler, distributed clustering configuration, metrics recording, a live monitor, Teleporter (a migration tool), and configurable alerts.
Applications
Banking
Big Data
Fraud prevention
Loan management software (Floify)
Master data management
Non-coding RNA human interaction database
Recommendation en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20international%20songs%20of%202011%20%28South%20Korea%29 | The Gaon Digital Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing international songs in South Korea. The data is collected by the Korea Music Content Association. Below is a list of songs that topped the weekly, monthly, and yearly charts, as according to the Gaon 국외 (Foreign) Digital Chart. The Digital Chart ranked songs according to their performance on the Gaon Streaming, Download, BGM, and Mobile charts.
Weekly charts
Sales until the week ending February 26 were not released.
Monthly charts
Year-end chart
References
International 2011
Korea International
2011 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raj%20Musix%20Telugu | Raj Musix Telugu is a Telugu language music channel, operated by the Raj Network in India. It was launched in March 2010. It is popular for Telugu movie songs and interactive shows. The channel is available on major cable and dish networks, and is also broadcast on the internet through TVU Networks.
See also
Vissa
List of Telugu-language television channels
Raj Network
References
Music television channels in India
Telugu-language television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Television stations in Chennai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather%20Zombie | Weather Zombie was a website and mobile app for iOS that provided zombie-themed weather forecasting via a weather data feed from AccuWeather.
It was created by Lycos and launched in mid-October 2010.
Weather Zombie provided worldwide weather forecasting for current, seven-day and hour-by-hour conditions. There was also radar information; however, it only covered the United States and parts of Canada. Aside from weather forecasting, Weather Zombie irregularly posted comic strips based on images loosely depicted from radar images as well as comic strips that feature the site's zombies in various situations.
In October 2011, Weather Zombie released a mobile app for iOS.
By May 2012, the mobile app was no longer available.
References
Defunct American websites
Graphic software in meteorology
Internet properties established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIO%20%28SCSI%20target%29 | In computing, Linux-IO (LIO) Target is an open-source implementation of the SCSI target that has become the standard one included in the Linux kernel. Internally, LIO does not initiate sessions, but instead provides one or more Logical Unit Numbers (LUNs), waits for SCSI commands from a SCSI initiator, and performs required input/output data transfers. LIO supports common storage fabrics, including FCoE, Fibre Channel, IEEE 1394, iSCSI, iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER), SCSI RDMA Protocol (SRP) and USB. It is included in most Linux distributions; native support for LIO in QEMU/KVM, libvirt, and OpenStack makes LIO also a storage option for cloud deployments.
LIO is maintained by Datera, Inc., a Silicon Valley vendor of storage systems and software. On January 15, 2011, LIO SCSI target engine was merged into the Linux kernel mainline, in kernel version 2.6.38, which was released on March 14, 2011. Additional fabric modules have been merged into subsequent Linux releases.
A competing generic SCSI target module for Linux is SCST. For the narrower purpose providing a Linux iSCSI target, the older IET ("iSCSI Enterprise Target") and STGT ("SCSI Target Framework") modules also enjoy industry support.
Background
The SCSI standard provides an extensible semantic abstraction for computer data storage devices, and as such has become a "lingua franca" for data storage systems. The SCSI T10 standards define the commands and protocols of the SCSI command processor (sent in SCSI CDBs), and the electrical and optical interfaces for various implementations.
A SCSI initiator is an endpoint that initiates a SCSI session. A SCSI target is the endpoint that waits for initiator commands and executes the required I/O data transfers. The SCSI target usually exports one or more LUNs for initiators to operate on.
The LIO Linux SCSI Target implements a generic SCSI target that provides remote access to most data storage device types over all prevalent storage fabrics and protocols. LIO neither directly accesses data nor does it directly communicate with applications. LIO provides a highly efficient, fabric-independent and fabric-transparent abstraction for the semantics of numerous data storage device types.
Architecture
LIO implements a modular and extensible architecture around a versatile and highly efficient, parallelized SCSI command processing engine. The SCSI target engine implements the semantics of a SCSI target.
The LIO SCSI target engine is independent of specific fabric modules or backstore types. Thus, LIO supports mixing and matching any number of fabrics and backstores at the same time. The LIO SCSI target engine implements a comprehensive SPC-3/SPC-4 feature set with support for high-end features, including SCSI-3/SCSI-4 Persistent Reservations (PRs), SCSI-4 Asymmetric Logical Unit Assignment (ALUA), VMware vSphere APIs for Array Integration (VAAI), T10 DIF, etc.
LIO is configurable via a configfs-based kernel API, and can be managed via a comma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belevitch%27s%20theorem | Belevitch's theorem is a theorem in electrical network analysis due to the Russo-Belgian mathematician Vitold Belevitch (1921–1999). The theorem provides a test for a given S-matrix to determine whether or not it can be constructed as a lossless rational two-port network.
Lossless implies that the network contains only inductances and capacitances – no resistances. Rational (meaning the driving point impedance Z(p) is a rational function of p) implies that the network consists solely of discrete elements (inductors and capacitors only – no distributed elements).
The theorem
For a given S-matrix of degree ;
where,
p is the complex frequency variable and may be replaced by in the case of steady state sine wave signals, that is, where only a Fourier analysis is required
d will equate to the number of elements (inductors and capacitors) in the network, if such network exists.
Belevitch's theorem states that, represents a lossless rational network if and only if,
where,
, and are real polynomials
is a strict Hurwitz polynomial of degree not exceeding
for all .
References
Bibliography
Belevitch, Vitold Classical Network Theory, San Francisco: Holden-Day, 1968 .
Rockmore, Daniel Nahum; Healy, Dennis M. Modern Signal Processing, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 .
Circuit theorems
Two-port networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Fit%20%28smartphone%29 | The Samsung Galaxy Fit S5670 is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung that runs the open source Android operating system.
It was announced at the 2011 Mobile World Congress as one of four Samsung low-end smartphones, along with the Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Gio and Galaxy Mini.
Key features
Multi-touch capacitive touchscreen
Quad-Band GSM and dual-band 3G support
7.2Mbit/s HSDPA
65K-color QVGA TFT touchscreen
Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 MSM7227 system-on-chip
ARMv6 (ARM11) 600 MHz CPU
Adreno 200 GPU
286 MB RAM
160 MB internal storage, hot-swappable MicroSD slot, 2 GB card included
Android OS v2.2.1 (Froyo) with TouchWiz v3.0 UI, upgradable to v2.3 (Gingerbread)
5 MP camera with auto-focus and geo-tagging
GPS receiver with A-GPS
FM radio with RDS and Radio Text
3.5 mm audio jack
Quick Office
Accelerometer and proximity sensor
Swype virtual keyboard
MicroUSB port (charging and data transfer) and stereo Bluetooth 2.1
SNS (Social networking service) integration
Image/Video editor
Compass
See also
List of Android devices
References
External links
Galaxy fit
Android (operating system) devices
Samsung smartphones
Mobile phones introduced in 2011
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encompass%20Insurance%20Company | Encompass Insurance is a subsidiary of Allstate Corporation and is one of the largest personal property and casualty insurance brands sold through a network of more than 6,500 independent agent locations across the United States. The company that would become Encompass was founded in 1897 and officially became the Encompass Insurance Company in the 1990s. The company has its headquarters in Northfield Township, Illinois, near Northbrook, Illinois.
History
In 1897, the company that would become Encompass began selling personal insurance under the motto "Protection and Security." The company’s package policy dates back to then.
In 1999, Illinois-based Allstate Insurance Company purchased the personal lines insurance business from CNA Financial when CNA moved toward commercial lines. Allstate then introduced the Encompass name to its subsidiary in 2000.
Encompass distributes its products through 6,500 independent agency locations in 42 states.
Encompass was the title sponsor of the Encompass Championship Tour celebrity pro-am golf tournament in Tampa, Florida, in February 2012, and in Glenview, Illinois, from 2013-2015.
In February 2015, the Encompass Championship was the Donor Spotlight for the First Tee Open, a youth development initiative of the World Golf Foundation supported by organizations in golf including the Masters Tournament, Ladies Professional Golf Association, Professional Golfers’ Association of America, PGA Tour and United States Golf Association. The Encompass Championship selected three other youth-serving organizations as charity partners that year as well: Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund, Junior Achievement of Chicago and JDRF.
In July 2020, Allstate announced to be acquiring National General for $4 billion, which is closed in January 2021.
Corporate leadership
Presidents
Peter Rendall (2021-present)
Patrick Macellaro (2016–2021)
Mark Green (2016–2016)
Tom Ealy (2011–2015)
Cynthia Young (2006–2011)
Doug Wendt (2004–2006)
Ernie Lauser (2000–2004)
Bruce Marlow (1999-2000)
Awards and recognition
Outstanding Achievements in Interface Leadership - Applied Systems (2010)
Acord Award for Property & Casualty Round Trip of Data - ACORD (2011)
Diversity Award - National African American Insurance Association National Conference (2011, 2013)
Interface Partner Award - Applied Systems (2012)
Encompass is backed by a number of independent rating agencies based on profitability, adequacy of capital liquidity, company management and investment risk.
An A.M. Best ranking of A+ (Superior) was given to the following Encompass underwriting companies: Encompass Indemnity Company, Encompass Insurance Company, Encompass Insurance Company of America, Encompass Property and Casualty Company, Encompass Independent Insurance Company, Encompass Insurance Company of Massachusetts and Encompass Home and Auto Insurance Company.
Encompass Insurance Company of New Jersey and Encompass Property and Casualty Insurance Company of New Jersey share the A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Network%20of%20Universities | The International Network of Universities (INU) is a global consortium of higher education institutions that actively seek international partnerships and experiences, create innovative programming and delivery methods, and embrace the internationalization movement. INU activities focus on:
Advancing internationalization of member universities
Preparing students for lives and careers as global citizens
Engaging students and staff in international mobility programs
Sharing experiences and best practices
Delivering joint teaching and degrees
Supporting early career researchers
New members can only be admitted according to INU criteria and procedures. Member universities are based in Argentina, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States of America.
Network Activities
Activities include:
Student Seminar and Master's Summer School for Global Citizenship and Peace
International Student Conference on Global Citizenship
Henry Fong Award for Global Citizenship and Peace
International Internship Program
Administrative Staff Shadowing
Research Seed Money Fund
Researcher Mobility Program
Governance
The council is the supreme decision-making body for the network. However, for day-to-day running the council elects an executive committee which is aided by the secretariat.
The INU Constitution can be found here.
Council
The INU is governed by a council on which each network member has a seat. Each member is entitled to one vote per institution on proposals presented. Membership on the council is institutional. The council is chaired by the INU president. The presidency of the network is currently held by European University Viadrina (Germany). The council meets bi-annually, and meetings are hosted in rotation amongst the network members.
Secretariat
The administration and coordination of INU activities are handled by the INU secretariat. The secretariat is currently held at Kingston University London (United Kingdom).
Member universities
References
International college and university associations and consortia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad%20X%20series | The ThinkPad X series is a line of laptop computers and convertible tablets produced by Lenovo with less power than its other counterparts. It was initially produced by IBM until 2005.
IBM announced the ThinkPad X series (initially the X20) in September 2000 with the intention of providing "workers on the move with a better experience in extra-thin and extra-light mobile computing." The ThinkPad X series replaced both the 240 and 570 series during IBM's transition from numbered to letter series during the early 2000s. The first X Series laptops were "slimmer than a deck of cards" and "lighter than a half-gallon of milk", despite the presence of a 12.1-inch Thin-film transistor (TFT LCD) display. These design values—thin and light—continued to be integral to the ThinkPad X-series laptops' design and marketing, even after the purchase of IBM's Personal Computing Division by Lenovo. The first X Series ThinkPad released by Lenovo was the X41 in 2005.
The ThinkPad X-series laptops from Lenovo were described by Trusted Reviews as "combining an ultraportable's weight and form factor with a durable design." The X-series laptop styles include traditional ultraportables, as well as convertible tablet designs. According to Lenovo, the ThinkPad X-series laptops include low power processors, offer long battery life, and several durability features such as a Roll Cage (Magnesium Frame around the Display), magnesium alloy covers, and a spill-resistant keyboard but currently lacks a replaceable battery and upgradable RAM slots.
IBM-branded models
2000
X20
The X20 was the first in IBM/Lenovo's long-standing X-series ultraportable line; the Celeron-based configurations had a thinner case.
Processor: Intel Coppermine Mobile, Celeron (500MHz), or Pentium III (600MHz)
Memory: 64128MiB, maximum of 320MiB (1 slot, 64MiB soldered) SDR
Storage: IDE, 10 or 20GB
Display: SVGA () or XGA () CCFL-backlit TN LCD
Dimensions: 279 × 227 × 2530mm (or 2428mm with Celeron CPU)
Mass/Weight: , or (with standard battery, and Pentium or Celeron CPU)
2001
X21
Same specifications as the X20, except an optional 600 or 700MHz processor and more onboard RAM could be ordered.
X22
All new internal design, slim-version dropped, SVGA screen option dropped, Tualatin CPUs, faster (Radeon 7000 8MiB) GPU, Communications Daughter Card/CDC slot, optional FireWire and/or WiFi on some models, 133MHz FSB, maximum RAM increased to 640MiB.
Processor: Intel Pentium III Mobile (733 or 800MHz)
Memory: 128, 256, up to 640MiB (1 slot, 128MiB soldered) SDR; 8-chip 512MiB or 4-chip 128MiB modules only.
Storage: IDE, 10 or 20GB
Display: XGA () CCFL-backlit TN LCD
Dimensions: 279 × 227 × 2530mm
Mass/Weight: (with standard battery)
2002
X23
Same as the X22 but with faster processors (800 or 866MHz), bigger hard drives up to 30GB, Bluetooth, and the IBM Security Sub System on selected models.
X24
Same as the X23 with even faster processors: 1.06 to 1.13GHz.
X30
Full-powered successor to t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20for%20operations%20with%20functions | Within computer engineering and computer science, a computer for operations with (mathematical) functions (unlike the usual computer) operates with functions at the hardware level (i.e. without programming these operations).
History
A computing machine for operations with functions was presented and developed by Mikhail Kartsev in 1967. Among the operations of this computing machine were the functions addition, subtraction and multiplication, functions comparison, the same operations between a function and a number, finding the function maximum, computing indefinite integral, computing definite integral of derivative of two functions, derivative of two functions, shift of a function along the X-axis etc. By its architecture this computing machine was (using the modern terminology) a vector processor or array processor, a central processing unit (CPU) that implements an instruction set containing instructions that operate on one-dimensional arrays of data called vectors. In it there has been used the fact that many of these operations may be interpreted as the known operation on vectors: addition and subtraction of functions - as addition and subtraction of vectors, computing a definite integral of two functions derivative— as computing the vector product of two vectors, function shift along the X-axis – as vector rotation about axes, etc. In 1966 Khmelnik had proposed a functions coding method, i.e. the functions representation by a "uniform" (for a function as a whole) positional code. And so the mentioned operations with functions are performed as unique computer operations with such codes on a "single" arithmetic unit.
Positional codes of one-variable functions
The main idea
The positional code of an integer number is a numeral notation of digits in a certain positional number system of the form
.
Such code may be called "linear". Unlike it a positional code of one-variable function has the form:
and so it is flat and "triangular", as the digits in it comprise a triangle.
The value of the positional number above is that of the sum
,
where is the radix of the said number system. The positional code of a one-variable function correspond to a 'double' code of the form
,
where is an integer positive number, quantity of values that taken , and is a certain function of argument .
Addition of positional codes of numbers is associated with the carry transfer to a higher digit according to the scheme
.
Addition of positional codes of one-variable functions is also associated with the carry transfer to higher digits according to the scheme:
.
Here the same transfer is carried simultaneously to two higher digits.
R-nary triangular code
A triangular code is called R-nary (and is denoted as ), if the numbers take their values from the set
, where and .
For example, a triangular code is a ternary code , if , and quaternary , if .
For R-nary triangular codes the following equalities are valid:
,
where is an arbitrary num |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draconian%20%28video%20game%29 | Draconian is a multidirectional shooter released in 1984. It was written by Mike Hughey and published via Tom Mix Software. The game was initially released for TRS-80 Color Computer and converted for the Dragon 32/64. Draconian is based upon the arcade game Bosconian where the player navigates a ship through scrolling space to destroy enemy bases.
Gameplay
Draconian adds some features to the Bosconian design:
Bases contain prisoners who can optionally be freed to gain more points.
The space shuttle is attacked by little dragons.
There is one big indestructible dragon which chases the player when time is running out.
The player needs to avoid mines and asteroids.
The user needs to destroy all bases to complete a level. If done, a small tunnel will open. The spaceship will explode when the borders of the tunnel are hit. In case the user flies against the borders of the field, the space shuttle will bounce back.
References
External links
Draconian manual
1984 video games
Multidirectional shooters
Video game clones
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%B3chas | Dóchas () is the network of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) involved in development and relief overseas and development education in Ireland. Formed in 1974, Dóchas is an umbrella group for a diverse range of organisations - large and small, young and old, secular or faith-based – that share their commitment to tackle poverty and inequality in the world. Through Dóchas, Irish NGOs work together on issues that are done better together than alone. Dóchas provides a space for NGOs to come together and exchange their experiences, and to use those experiences to come up with more effective ways to end all forms of poverty and injustice. Dóchas is the Irish member of CONCORD.
Vision
Dóchas's vision is of a world where poverty and inequality are unacceptable, and where every person has the right to live free from fear, free from want, and able to fulfil their potential.
Purpose
The purpose of Dóchas is to enhance Ireland's contribution to world development. It achieves this by: leading the Development sector towards high standards of practice and being an independent representative voice of Ireland's Development sector, in order to influence public debate and decision-making in Ireland and the European Union.
Mission
Dóchas is part of a movement working to build a society, in Ireland and in Europe, that actively seeks to eradicate global poverty, injustice and inequality.
People
Helen Keogh, former Chairperson
Hans Zomer, former Director
References
External links
Dóchas website
Dóchas blog
Non-profit organisations based in the Republic of Ireland
International development organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batteries%20Included%20%28company%29 | Batteries Included was a computer software and hardware company based in the Toronto area. It developed products for the Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, Atari ST, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS. The company was best known in the 1980s for its popular PaperClip word processor, which was available for the Atari 8-bit family and Commodore 64. Batteries Included was acquired by Electronic Arts in 1987.
History
Batteries Included was founded by siblings Alan Krofchick, Robbie Krofchick and Marcie Swartz in 1978 as a calculator and personal computer retail store. The hand-held electronic devices they sold were always advertised as "batteries not included," so they included the batteries for free and named themselves Batteries Included. The company began to develop its own computer software and hardware and became a multimillion-dollar multi-faceted company, charging its way into the international computer software and accessory market. Michael Reichmann joined the company in its early years and eventually became its president in the mid-1980s.
The company's first retail location was established at Village by the Grange, (109 McCaul St, Toronto, ON). Head offices were later re-located to 30 Mural Street in Richmond Hill, Ontario. The company also had a satellite office in California. At its peak, BI employed over 60 people.
Batteries Included was purchased by Electronic Arts in 1987, which cancelled most of its upcoming projects but continued to market products under the Batteries Included name.
Products
PaperClip
PaperClip, the company's flagship product, was first released for the Commodore PET in 1982, and later for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit family systems. The word processor was developed by Steve Douglas who formed a relationship with Batteries Included owners Robbie and Alan Krofchick through the retail store. PaperClip became one of the highest selling home management programs, reaching No. 1 on "Billboard's Top Computer Software" chart and spending over 70 weeks on the charts.
In 1986, Batteries Included released PaperClip II for the Commodore 128.
PaperClip III was released by Electronic Arts in 1987, following its acquisition of Batteries Included. Later Gold Disk released desktop publishing application PaperClip Publisher.
HomePak
In 1984, Batteries Included released the integrated software suite HomePak, combining word-processor, database and communications modules into one application.
Product listing
PaperClip – word processor
PaperClip II – word processor
Delphi's Oracle (later The Consultant) – database
Bus Card – IEEE interface card
Bus Card II – IEEE interface card
HomePak – office suite
B.I.-80 80-column display card (for C64 only)
I*S Talk - a full-featured GEM-based telecommunications program
Isgur Portfolio System - an investment management program
BTS The Spreadsheet - spreadsheet program
TimeLink - an electronic diary program for planning and record-keeping
I*S Time and Billing - a professional office administration p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tearist | Tearist is an American electronic and industrial band formed in 2009 by Yasmine Kittles (vocals, percussion, synthesizer) and William Strangeland (synthesizer, programming) in Los Angeles, California.
History
The members of Tearist have stated that they were intending to create a movement more than a band, accepting all influences and dissecting them to allow for a new and instinctual musical product to emerge.
Their debut album on Thin Wrist Records is a collection of live recordings titled Living: 2009—Present. It captures their lo-fi aesthetic with found objects, howling vocals and crowd noise.
Reception
LA Record described Living: 2009—Present as "an unified artifact that defies the span of time in which it was recorded," and called the album, "a gem that transcends the traditional live album and verges on being an art-object in and of itself."
Rolling Stone described Tearist as being "about pushing people out of their comfort zone to the point where they question their own existence."
Living: 2009—Present was described as a "gothy electro-noise duo" by the Los Angeles Times music blog, and LA Weekly wrote in a cover interview that, "Tearist became the most crucial musical project to come out of Los Angeles in recent years."
Discography
Albums
Living: 2009–Present (2011)]
EPs
Tearist s/t (2010)
Purple Video (2012)
CDR (2009)
Singles
"Headless" (2010) (re-release 2015)
Soundtracks
Blue Ruin (2013)
Television appearances
Last Call with Carson Daly (2014) – season 14, episode 14
References
External links
"Disposition" music video at Altered Zones
"Closest" MP3 at Stereogum
SXSW Music: Introducing Tearist at Interview
Tearist on Myspace
Electronic music groups from California
Musical groups from Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Am%20Playr | I Am Playr was a first person association football video game with social network elements. It was available on the social–networking website Facebook. Jointly developed by We R Interactive and Big Balls Productions, the gamer plays as a professional footballer in a first-person perspective taking in events both on and off the football pitch that featured full motion video cutscenes.
Gameplay
The main gameplay is in first-person, with the player deciding the actions of the character on and off the football pitch who plays for the fictional football team "River Park F.C.". In-match gameplay consists of scrolling text before switching to the first-person perspective as the player character gets chances on goal. Between games there is the opportunity to gain match fitness points by completing training exercises.
The season starts with the player character signing for River Park F.C., before moving on to the training ground to practise shooting skills. The in-game football show "Goal Mouth" also appears from time to time with Lee Dixon and Andy Townsend appearing as pundits. Virtual in-game items can improve the performance of the main character, in particular the three main statistics of accuracy, power and curl.
Revenue is generated by players purchasing equipment in the game, and from brand sponsorship. Several professional footballers make a cameo appearance in the game, including former Manchester United striker Teddy Sheringham, Tottenham Hotspur's Aaron Lennon and Arsenal's Theo Walcott. In December new features were added including free kick practice with Gary McAllister and appearances from Mark Noble. In 2016 the game had been deleted.
Development
We R Interactive was originally backed by film producer Eric Fellner of Working Title Films and Fru Hazlitt of ITV. I Am Playr was revealed for the first time in November 2010, being billed as "the first–ever point–of–view football game". It is the company's first product.
We R Interactive worked together with the film company Big Balls Productions and Boss Reece for the interactive video elements of the game, the beta version of which took nine months to design and build. Co-founder of We R Interactive, Dave Rose said of the video elements, "Film gives us the ability to build characters and bring a more visceral feel to the interactive experience". During the closed beta, initial sponsors were found in the forms of Nike, Inc. and Red Bull, with Ginsters also being in-game sponsors on the fictional football team's kit, even though they sponsor Plymouth Argyle's shirts in real life. Alfa Romeo were added as an additional sponsor in May 2011, with their branding featured in in-game matches on sponsorship boards, and the Alfa Romeo MiTo being featured as a new gaming element. Bookies Betfred were also involved allowing players to bet on Premier League matches, and money won from bets was added to the player's cash.
In May 2011 a series of investors put a collective £3.1 ($5) million, including |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%27s%20Got%20Talent | Canada's Got Talent is a Canadian television reality talent show, which debuted on the Citytv network on March 4, 2012. It is part of the global Got Talent franchise.
As with other series in the franchise, the show is a competition in which entertainers in various fields compete to win a prize. In the first season, the winner won a prize of $100,000 and a Nissan GT-R, an opportunity to perform during Citytv's New Year's Eve bash, a possibility to perform in a venue in Las Vegas and a trip to Trinidad and Tobago. In the second and third seasons, the winner received a cash prize of $150,000. In the third season finale, it was announced that the cash prize would be increased to $1 million for the fourth season.
The first season was won by the Manitoba-based dance troupe Sagkeeng's Finest. Citytv brought back Canada's Got Talent for a second season in 2022. In October 2021, Citytv announced that Lindsay Ell would host, along with Howie Mandel, Lilly Singh, Kardinal Offishall, and Trish Stratus serving as judges. The season premiered in March 2022, and ended in May. It was won by Quebec singer Jeanick Fournier. A third season premiered in March 2023, and was won by dance troupe Conversion.
Format
Auditions
The auditions took place in front of the judges, and a live audience at different cities across Canada. At any time during the audition, the judges would show their disapproval of the act by pressing a buzzer, which lights a large red "X" on the stage. If all the judges pressed their buzzers, the act must end. Voting worked on a majority-of-two basis, where two positive votes from the judges were required.
The Cutdown
In the first season, acts that were accepted past the audition moved on to the Judges Round (also known as "The Cutdown"). This stage of the competition did not feature any audiences, and only contained contestants performing in front of the judges. Out of all the acts that made it to this point, thirty-six made it through to the next round, which was the semi-finals. In the second season, this part of the show was removed.
Semi-finals
The semi-finals and final were broadcast with a varying number of semi-finals, followed by the one final split into two episodes over one night. The remaining acts performed across a number of semi-finals, with the two most popular acts from each semi-final winning a position in the final. Judges could still end a performance early with three X's. The judges were asked to express their views on each act's performance. Phone lines, Twitter, Facebook, texting and online voting platforms opened for a one hour after all acts performed. The public voted for the act they thought were the best. Voters could submit a total of fifty votes (ten in each platform). After the votes were counted, the act that polled the highest number of public votes, was automatically placed in the final. The judges then chose between the second and third most popular acts, with the winner of that vote also gaining a place i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batteries%20Included | Batteries Included may refer to:
Batteries Included (company), a computer hardware and software company
"Batteries Included" (song), a 1996 single by Servotron
Motto of the Python programming language, meaning it comes with a large library of useful modules
"Batteries included" (slang), in a product usability (mostly in software) it states that the product comes together with all possible parts required for full usability |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conduit%20toolbar | The Conduit toolbar was an online platform that allowed web publishers to create custom toolbars, web apps, and mobile apps at no cost. It was developed by Conduit Inc. but demerged to Perion Network. Conduit had approximately 260,000 registered publishers who have collectively created content downloaded by more than 250 million end users. Web apps and pieces of content developed through Conduit's platform can be distributed and exchanged online via the Conduit App Marketplace. As of 2010, 60 million users consumed apps from the marketplace on a daily basis.
Conduit's toolbars have been described in online forums and news outlets as malware and are difficult to remove. It has both browser hijacking and rootkit capabilities. Conduit began to shift away from this part of its business in late 2013 when it spun off its toolbar division into Perion Network through a reverse merger. After the deal, Conduit shareholders still owned 81% of Perion's existing shares, though both Perion and Conduit remain independent companies.
History
In 2010 Conduit then-president Adam Boyden was featured in Forbes magazine online, in which he discussed the link between successful social gaming and marketing principles. In 2010 there were more than 100 million toolbars being powered by Conduit that were used at least once a month, which put Conduit at #29 on Google's list of top 1,000 sites on the Internet that year. In May 2011, Conduit completed the $45 million acquisition of Israeli startup Wibiya, an engagement platform that enables publishers to integrate a variety of web applications on their site via the Wibiya Bar product.
During this time Conduit moved away from the toolbar part of its business in order to focus on its mobile and browser engagement offerings. Ingrid Lunden of TechCrunch wrote that by spinning off the Client Connect business, the "split divided the company in two, with one part focusing on its mobile and engagement business and run by Shilo, and the other, Client Connect, merging with Perion". Lunden said further that, "Less than a month after browser-toolbar and mobile startup Conduit merged its Client Connect division with Perion, the company is making another change to its business. Conduit has announced that it will be discontinuing Wibiya, the social browser toolbar service that it acquired in 2011 for $45 million, as it shifts further away from its toolbar business." In late 2013 Conduit was valued at $1.5 billion.
Technology
Browser
Until 2013, one of Conduit's main businesses revolved around downloadable toolbars. Conduit allowed publishers to create and distribute their own toolbars for web browsers. Typically the toolbars were installed with another software product on which the toolbar is a piggyback program, with users given the option to not install the toolbar. Browsers that initially supported the toolbars included Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. Google Chrome was added as a supported browser in 2011. Conduit uses Mic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Nation%20Network | , abbreviated as C.N.N, is a Japanese pop duo that debuted in 1997 with their single The Power of Love, that was used as an opening theme of the anime Master of Mosquiton and followed by Good Vibration also used as a second opening theme in the series.
Members
as Professor H – Producer
as Sister MAYO – Vocals
Discography
Singles
Albums
References
External links
Official Site
Sister MAYO
Japanese pop music groups
Japanese rock music groups
Nippon Columbia artists
Musical groups established in 1997
Musical groups disestablished in 2000
Anime musical groups
Male–female musical duos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive%20Learning | Interactive learning is a pedagogical approach that incorporates social networking and urban computing into course design and delivery. It has emerged as a result of the widespread use of digital technology and virtual communication among students. The integration of digital media in education has contributed to the popularity and reliance on interactive learning, transforming the traditional education process.
In interactive learning, students and teachers collaborate to access knowledge and share information, leading to a broader and more dynamic educational experience. This shift in the role of educators from knowledge keepers to facilitators of learning presents both challenges and opportunities to revolutionize the learning process. As a result, the boundaries between teacher and student become less distinct in interactive learning settings.
Paradigm shifts in education
Interactivity as a pedagogical technique requires a fundamental change in the way education is delivered. Tapscott has identified 7 ways this change occurs:
From linear to hypermedia learning.
From the teacher as transmitter to the teacher as facilitator.
Components of interactive learning
Social media
The socialization of education is evolving in the form of personalized digital media sources. Web logs, or blogs, enable students to express thoughts and ideas individually, while at the same time sharing them with the larger community. The pervasiveness of social networks like MySpace and Facebook connect millions of learners to a virtual community where information is exchanged laterally between and among students and teachers alike. This explosion of community is contributing to an expanding learning economy, where participants have unparalleled access to knowledge, both from teachers and other students.
Urban computing
This set of technologies includes the use of wireless networks, smart phones and PDAs, search engines, and location-based media. Urban computing allows enhanced interactivity between people and their environment through the use of these technologies. For interactive learning, this means that students are able to assimilate knowledge specific to their location.
Serious games
The concept of serious games involves immersing students in virtual worlds by means of role-playing and community interactive games. For learning, this means that the cooperative, critical-thinking, and problem-solving practices encouraged in digital games make serious games a key form of pedagogy. Adapting gaming as a form of experiential learning brings real-world issues into education within the structure of a planned curriculum. Along with their intrinsically engaging properties, games have been touted for their ability to teach ill-defined problem-solving skills, elicit creativity, and develop leadership, collaboration, and other valuable interpersonal skills.
Applying interactive learning
In order to be effective, learning institutions must see computers and associated te |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20parallelization%20tool | For several years parallel hardware was only available for distributed computing but recently it is becoming available for the low end computers as well. Hence it has become inevitable for software programmers to start writing parallel applications. It is quite natural for programmers to think sequentially and hence they are less acquainted with writing multi-threaded or parallel processing applications. Parallel programming requires handling various issues such as synchronization and deadlock avoidance. Programmers require added expertise for writing such applications apart from their expertise in the application domain. Hence programmers prefer to write sequential code and most of the popular programming languages support it. This allows them to concentrate more on the application. Therefore, there is a need to convert such sequential applications to parallel applications with the help of automated tools. The need is also non-trivial because large amount of legacy code written over the past few decades needs to be reused and parallelized.
Need for automatic parallelization
Past techniques provided solutions for languages like FORTRAN and C; however, these are not enough. These techniques dealt with parallelization sections with specific system in mind like loop or particular section of code. Identifying opportunities for parallelization is a critical step while generating multithreaded application. This need to parallelize applications is partially addressed by tools that analyze code to exploit parallelism. These tools use either compile time techniques or run-time techniques. These techniques are built-in in some parallelizing compilers but user needs to identify parallelize code and mark the code with special language constructs. The compiler identifies these language constructs and analyzes the marked code for parallelization. Some tools parallelize only special form of code like loops. Hence a fully automatic tool for converting sequential code to parallel code is required.
General procedure of parallelization
1. The process starts with identifying code sections that the programmer feels have parallelism possibilities. Often this task is difficult
since the programmer who wants to parallelize the code has not originally written the code under consideration. Another possibility is that
the programmer is new to the application domain. Thus, though this first stage in the parallelization process seems easy at first it may
not be so.
2. The next stage is to shortlist code sections out of the identified ones that are actually parallelization. This stage is again most
important and difficult since it involves lot of analysis. Generally for codes in C/C++ where pointers are involved are difficult to
analyze. Many special techniques such as pointer alias analysis, functions side effects analysis are required to conclude whether a section
of code is dependent on any other code. If the dependencies in the identified code sections are more the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20yam | White yam refers to at least two plants in the genus Dioscorea:
Dioscorea alata
Dioscorea rotundata, native to Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICloud | iCloud is a cloud service developed by Apple Inc. Launched on October 12, 2011, iCloud enables users to store and sync data across devices, including Apple Mail, Apple Calendar, Apple Photos, Apple Notes, contacts, settings, backups, and files, to collaborate with other users, and track assets through Find My. It is built into iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS and macOS and may additionally be accessed through a limited web interface and Windows application.
iCloud offers users 5 GB of free storage which may be upgraded to 50 GB, 200 GB, or 2 TB through optional paid plans. Starting in September 2023, storage options for 6 TB and 12 TB have been added. All paid plans include iCloud+ which additionally provides Private Relay, Hide My Email and Custom Email Domain.
, the service had an estimated 850 million users, up from 782 million users in 2016.
In December 2022, Apple rolled out optional end-to-end encryption for all iCloud data (including iCloud Photos, iCloud Drive, and more), with the exception of Calendar, Contacts, and Mail, which rely on legacy sync technologies for compatibility with third-party apps (CalDav, CardDav, IMAP). The feature was released to U.S. customers on December 13, 2022, and rolled out worldwide on January 23, 2023.
History
iCloud was announced on May 31, 2011, in a press release. On June 6, 2011, during the WWDC 2011 keynote, Steve Jobs announced that iCloud would replace MobileMe, which had been widely seen as a "failure", a fact which Steve Jobs acknowledged during the announcement. iCloud was released on October 12, 2011, and MobileMe was discontinued on June 30, 2012. Previous MobileMe users could keep their @mac.com and @me.com email addresses as aliases to their new @icloud.com address. Earlier versions included Back to My Mac, which was previously part of MobileMe. This service allowed users to create point-to-point connections between computers. It was discontinued on July 1, 2019.
iCloud had 20 million users within a week after launch. It received early criticism for bugs, especially with Core Data syncing. These issues were addressed in iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks.
At launch, iCloud was partly hosted on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. In 2016, Apple replaced Azure with Google Cloud Platform. In 2021, The Information reported that Apple was storing 8 million TB of data on Google's cloud, and was on track to spend $300 million that year. Apple also operates its own data centers, including one in Maiden, North Carolina.
In June 2019, iCloud was introduced to Windows 10 via the Microsoft Store.
In June 2021, Apple introduced iCloud+, which added Private Relay, Hide My Email and Custom Email Domain to paid users of the services, as well as an unlimited storage limit for video from cameras added through HomeKit Secure Video.
In March 2022, Apple settled a class-action lawsuit alleging that it had misled users by storing data on non-Apple servers.
Features
iCloud is a free service, and comes with 5 GB of c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Extrusion | A network extrusion is a kind of VPN tunnel where a subnet (or host) is moved to another location, without any router advertisement changes. Such a subnet is routed to normally, but then send via a VPN tunnel to appear anywhere else on the internet. This type of VPN connection is often used for:
Adding IPv4 public address space to a location that has only 1 public IP address, such as a consumer internet connection
Assigning a static IP address to a roaming laptop to ensure it is always reachable on 1 static IP address. This is often done with IPsec and L2TP or XAUTH
In IPsec/Openswan IPv4 configuration, this corresponds to a policy on the client system like:
conn mylaptop—extruded
right=192.1.0.1
rightsubnet=0.0.0.0/0
left=%defaultroute
leftsubnet=192.0.0.1/32
leftsourceip=192.0.0.1
When this IPsec connection is active, the default IP address for outgoing connections is 192.0.0.1. Since this is covered by the IPsec tunnel, the packet will be encrypted and send to the remote IPsec gateway at 192.1.0.1. It will get decrypted and then sent to its original destination. Response packets follow a similar path in reverse.
When using leftsubnet=192.0.0.0/24, one could even run a small network with the laptop as default gateway and provide public IP addresses to many computers, all appearing to live at the remote site.
Generally, IPsec VPNs are used in many cases to route private networks rather than public ones, so while this configuration is not implausible, it is unusual for VPN administrators.
Many remote access situations run as network extrusions so that a corporate firewall can inspect the traffic that travels to and from the laptop computer.
This technique can also be used to tunnel in IPv6 space into networks where only IPv4 space is available (or vice versa)
These tunnels are invisible to traceroute because the IPsec tunnel appears as a single additional hop, just like a subnet.
Virtual private networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrabook | Ultrabook is a marketing term, originated and trademarked by Intel, for a category of high-end laptop computers.
They were originally marketed as featuring ultra thin form factor and light weight design without compromising battery life or performance, and when the term was originated they were generally small enough compared to average laptop models to qualify as subnotebooks.
As ultrabook features became more mainstream in the mid-late 2010s, explicitly branding laptop models as ultrabooks became much less frequent. As of 2021, while Intel maintains the Ultrabook trademark, it is rarely used for new models and has been superseded in Intel's own marketing by the Intel Evo branding.
History
In 2011, Intel Capital press officer Jordan Balk Schaer announced a new fund to support startups working on technologies in line with the company's concept for next generation notebooks. The company set aside a $300 million fund to be spent over the next three to four years in areas related to Ultrabooks. Intel announced the Ultrabook concept at Computex in 2011. The Ultrabook would be a thin (less than 0.8 inches thick) notebook that utilized Intel processors, and would emphasize portability and a longer battery life than other laptops By this marketing initiative and the associated $300 million fund, Intel hoped to influence the slumping PC market against rising competition from smartphones and tablet computers, which are typically powered by competing ARM-based processors.
Ultrabooks competed against other subnotebooks, including Apple’s MacBook Air, which has similar form specifications and was powered until 2020 by Intel CPUs, but was not advertised under the Ultrabook brand.
At the Intel Developer Forum in 2011, four Taiwan ODMs showed prototype Ultrabooks that used Intel's Ivy Bridge chips. Intel plans to reduce power consumption of its chips for Ultrabooks, like Ivy Bridge processors, which will feature 17 W default thermal design power.
At a presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show, an Intel manager stated that market analysis revealed that screen size motivated some of the reluctance to switch to 13" Ultrabooks. As a result, Intel planned to ensure, through cooperation with manufacturers, a 14 or 15-inch screen on 50% of the 75 Ultrabook models that would likely come to market in 2012.
IHS iSuppli had originally forecast that 22 million Ultrabooks would be shipped by the end of 2012, and 61 million would be shipped in 2013. By October 2012, IHS had revised its projections down significantly, to 10 million units sold in 2012 and 44 million for 2013. Most Ultrabooks were too expensive for wide adoption. In addition Intel's constant changing of Ultrabook specifications caused confusion among consumers; and this was compounded by OEMs that released slim/"sleek" or "Sleekbook" laptops (e.g. Hewlett-Packard Pavilion TouchSmart 15z-b000 Sleekbook, Samsung Ativ Book 9 Lite) that are cheaper AMD-powered variants of their more expensive Intel- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BatteryMAX | BatteryMAX is an idle detection system used for computer power management under operating system control developed at Digital Research, Inc.'s European Development Centre (EDC) in Hungerford, UK. It was created to address the new genre of portable personal computers (laptops) which ran from battery power. As such, it was also an integral part of Novell's PalmDOS 1.0 operating system tailored for early palmtops in 1992.
Description
Power saving in laptop computers traditionally relied on hardware inactivity timers to determine whether a computer was idle. It would typically take several minutes before the computer could identify idle behavior and switch to a lower power consumption state. By monitoring software applications from within the operating system, BatteryMAX is able to reduce the time taken to detect idle behavior from minutes to microseconds. Moreover, it can switch power states around 18 times a second between a user's keystrokes. The technique was named Dynamic Idle Detection and includes halting, or stopping the CPU for periods of just a few microseconds until a hardware event occurs to restart it.
DR DOS 5.0 in 1990 was the first personal computer operating system to incorporate an idle detection system for power management. It was invented by British engineers Roger Alan Gross and John P. Constant in August 1989. A US patent describing the idle detection system was filed on 9 March 1990 and granted on 11 October 1994.
Despite taking an early lead and having the protection of a patent, BatteryMAX did not enjoy significant commercial success having been sidelined after the disarray that followed the integration of Digital Research into Novell, Inc. in 1991. It was not until 1992, some three years after the invention, that software power management under operating system control became ubiquitous following the launch of Advanced Power Management (APM) by Microsoft and Intel.
Functional overview
BatteryMAX uses the technique of dynamic idle detection to provide power savings by detecting what the application is doing (whether it is idle), and switching power states (entering low power mode) therefore extending the battery life of the product.
BatteryMAX employs a layered model of detection software encapsulated into an DOS character device driver called $IDLE$ that contains all the hardware-dependent code to support dynamic idle detection. It can either be linked into the DR-DOS operating system BIOS or loaded dynamically using the CONFIG.SYS DEVICE directive, overloading the built-in default driver. All versions of DR-DOS since version 5.0 have contained dynamic idle detection support inside the operating system kernel. When the operating system believes an application is idle, it calls the $IDLE$ BIOS/driver layer, which executes custom code written by the computer manufacturer or third parties to verify the request and switch power states. Using the device driver concept, BatteryMAX can be integrated with hardware-related pow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FINDbase | The Frequency of INherited Disorders database (FINDbase) is a database of frequencies of causative genetic variations worldwide. FINDbase was founded in 2006 to be a relational database for these frequencies of causative genetic variations of inherited genetic disorders, as well as pharmacogenetic markers. Out of all the national/ethnic mutation databases (NEMDBs), FINDbase has the most content and since all the entries are collected from various populations worldwide, it is seen as a great resource for population-specific information.
See also
Genetic variation
References
External links
http://www.findbase.org
Genetics databases
Population genetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Routes%20of%20Uruguay | The National Routes of Uruguay (officially in Spanish, Rutas nacionales de Uruguay) are the most important transport routes in the country, linking all locations. It has a network of 8,698 km of which 303 km are with concrete, asphalt 3,164 km, 4,220 km bituminous and 1,009 km rough.
Route numbers
Types of routes
The Ministry of Transport and Public Works classifies Uruguayan Routes as Corredor Internacional, Primary Network (Red Primaria), Secondary Network (Red Secundaria) and Tertiary Network (Red Terciaria).
Corredor Internacional
Pathways linking Montevideo with the main points of departure from Uruguay.
Route 1, all the way.
Route 2, all the way.
Route 3, all the way.
Route 5, all the way.
Route 8, from the beginning of Montevideo to Treinta y Tres.
Route 9, all the way.
Primary network
Pathways linking other department capitals.
Route 6: the nearest stretch to Montevideo (80 km approximately).
Route 7: the nearest stretch to Montevideo (100 km approximately).
Route 8: from Treinta y Tres to Aceguá.
Route 21: all the way.
Route 24: all the way.
Route 26: all the way.
Route 30: from the junction with Route 5 to Artigas.
Ruta Interbalnearia: all the way.
Secondary and tertiary networks
Minor roads linking towns, some resorts or important agribusiness areas.
External links
MTPW website about the national route network
Routes of Uruguay
National Routes of Uruguay, Viajando Por Uruguay
Photos of the National Routes of Uruguay, via Picasa Web Albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20Luck%20Duck | Hard Luck Duck is a What a Cartoon! animated cartoon directed by William Hanna, produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, and broadcast as a part of World Premiere Toons on Cartoon Network on April 16, 1995. The cartoon involves Hard Luck Duck (Russi Taylor), after venturing away from Harley Gator (Brad Garrett)'s watch, is a hungry fox (Jim Cummings)'s target to be cooked.
Although he was a producer on many Hanna-Barbera titles until his death on March 22, 2001, Hard Luck Duck is notable for being, with fellow What a Cartoon! short Wind-Up Wolf, the last cartoons written and directed by William Hanna, whose career began in the Golden Age of American animation at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) with the short To Spring (1936) and his later Tom and Jerry series.
Plot
A villainous fox wants to put Hard Luck Duck on his menu. Hard Luck Duck has a friend/bodyguard, an alligator named Harley. Harley routinely thwarts the fox's efforts to make a meal of the duck.
Production
Fred Seibert became president of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons in 1992 and helped guide the struggling animation studio into its greatest output in years with shows like 2 Stupid Dogs and SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron. Seibert wanted the studio to produce short cartoons, in the vein of the Golden age of American animation. Although a project consisting of 48 shorts would cost twice as much as a normal series, Seibert's pitch to Cartoon Network involved promising 48 chances to "succeed or
fail," opened up possibilities for new original programming, and offered several new shorts to the thousands already present in the Turner Entertainment library. According to Seibert, quality did not matter much to the cable operators distributing the struggling network, they were more interested in promising new programs.
Seibert's idea for the project was influenced heavily by Looney Tunes. Hanna, with partner Joe Barbera, as well as veteran animator Friz Freleng, taught Seibert how the shorts of the Golden Age of American animation were produced. As was the custom in live action film and television, the company did not pay each creator for the storyboard submitted and pitched. For the first time in the studio's history, individual creators could retain their rights, and earn royalties on their creations. Hard Luck Duck was written and pitched by Hanna, and immediately entered production.
Release
Hard Luck Duck premiered Sunday, April 16, 1995 as a stand-alone cartoon. The cartoon preceded Cartoon Network's Sunday night movie block, Mr. Spim's Cartoon Theatre.
References
External links
1995 animated films
1995 films
1990s animated short films
What a Cartoon! shorts
Short films directed by William Hanna
Hanna-Barbera animated films
1990s American animated films
Animated films about foxes
Films about ducks
1990s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Linux%20adopters | This is a list of companies, organizations and individuals who have moved from other operating systems to Linux. On desktops, Linux has not displaced Microsoft Windows to a large degree. However, it is the leading operating system on servers.
Government
As local governments come under pressure from institutions such as the World Trade Organization and the International Intellectual Property Alliance, some have turned to Linux and other free software as an affordable, legal alternative to both pirated software and expensive proprietary computer products from Microsoft, Apple and other commercial companies. The spread of Linux affords some leverage for these countries when companies from the developed world bid for government contracts (since a low-cost option exists), while furnishing an alternative path to development for countries like India and Pakistan that have many citizens skilled in computer applications but cannot afford technological investment at "First World" prices. The cost factor is not the only one being considered though – many governmental institutions (in public and military sectors) from North America and European Union make the transition to Linux due to its superior stability and openness of the source code which in its turn leverages information security.
Africa
The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) deployed multi-station Linux desktops to address budget and infrastructure constraints in 50 rural sites.
First National Bank switched more than 12,000 desktop computers to Linux by 2007.
Asia
East
The People's Republic of China exclusively uses Linux as the operating system for its Loongson processor family, with the aim of technology independence.
Kylin, used by People's Liberation Army in The People's Republic of China. The first version used FreeBSD, but since release 3.0, it employs Linux.
State owned Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is installing Linux in all of its 20,000 retail branches as the basis for its web server and a new terminal platform. (2005)
North Korea uses a Linux distribution developed by the Korea Computer Center, called Red Star OS, on their computers. Prior to its release in 2008, Red Hat Linux or Windows XP were used.
West
In 2003, the Turkish government decided to create its own Linux distribution, Pardus, developed by UEKAE (National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology). The first version, Pardus 1.0, was officially announced on 27 December 2005.
South
Government of India's CDAC developed an Indian Linux distribution, BOSS GNU/Linux (Bharat Operating System Solutions). It is customized to suit Indian's digital environment and supports most of the Indian languages.
The Government of Kerala, India, announced its official support for free/open-source software in its State IT Policy of 2001, which was formulated after the first-ever free software conference in India, "Freedom First!", held in July 2001 in Trivandrum, the capital of Kerala, where Richard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Network%20Management%20Center | HP Network Management Center (NMC) is a suite of integrated HP software used by network managers in information technology departments. The solutions allows network operators to see, catalog and monitor the routers, switches and other devices on their network. It alerts IT staff when a network device fails and predicts when a network node or connection point may go down. It was designed to improve operational efficiency.
HP no longer packages its network management solutions as HP Network Management Center. HP now offers automation, orchestration, and cloud management software for automating the lifecycle of IT services. HP's software assets first became part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and finally Micro Focus
Products
HP Security and Compliance Service
The HP BSA Security and Compliance subscription service attacks IT vulnerabilities through IT automation, providing industry compliance and security alerts to HP Business Service Automation (BSA) software. Alerts come from vendor bulletins and from agencies like the National Vulnerability Database, PCI Security Standards Council and the Center for Internet Security.
HP Database and Middleware Automation Software
Originally acquired from Stratavia in 2010, HP Database and Middleware Automation software automates administrative tasks like provisioning and configuration, compliance, patching and release management associated with databases and application servers. Version 10 was announced in May 2013.
HP Network Automation Software
HP Network Automation software is designed to simplify the management of complex, distributed, multi-vendor networks in large enterprise data centers. It provides process-powered automation to automate the complete operational lifecycle of network devices from provisioning to policy-based change management, compliance and security administration.
HP Network Node Manager i Software
HP Network Node Manager i (NNMi) 10.00 and the HP NNMi Smart Plug-in modules use continuous spiral discovery, a network discovery technology that provides up-to-date network topology and root cause analysis. This allows network administrators to ascertain the level of congestion in their networks and identify the root cause of the congestion. The product helps IT departments monitor their networks, isolate issues, find outages and improve network availability and performance. The solution supports a multitenancy architecture, including tenant user-level map and incident security, and allows teams to manage more customers, departments or sites from one console.
HP Network Node Manager i Smart Plug-in Modules
HP Network Node Manager i Smart Plug-in Modules (iSPIs) extend HP Network Node Manager i software’s (NNMi) fault and availability management with HP NNM iSPIs for performance and advanced network services. The HP Smart Plug-ins integrate fault, availability, performance and advanced network services for physical and virtualized network infrastructure. They allow network operator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empires%20%26%20Allies | Empires & Allies was a social network game that was Zynga's first combat and strategy game. The game, the first release by Zynga's Los Angeles studio, launched in twelve languages on June 1, 2011. G4TV.com writer Jake Gaskill called the release the "biggest launch of any Zynga title to date". Empires & Allies became the fourth most popular game on Facebook within weeks after launch, reaching 33 million monthly active users by the third week of June. The game was a freemium game, meaning there was no cost to play but players had the option of purchasing premium content. The game was taken offline on June 17, 2013.
On May 5, 2015, Empires & Allies was revived and re-released as an entirely different mobile game on Apple's App Store and Google Play worldwide. The old Facebook page was repurposed for this game.
Empire Points
Empire Points are used to sell certain items.
Players get 15 empire points when starting the game and have to pay to get more.
Additional Empire Points can be purchased in-game, from Zynga's Website, via game cards from some local stores or by completing certain in-game goals.
Setting
Empires & Allies portrays a military cartoon world composed mostly of archipelagos with each player beginning with one island, and being able to expand to up to four other islands. Each archipelago represents an "empire" or militarized island nation, with a "world alliance" that the player can optionally enter, but by doing so forfeits an ability to attack other sovereign nations. The player's task is to recover their island nation's glory and defeat the main villain, "The Raven," and his commanders, who each have covered a separate archipelago that the player must island hop until the end of the "chain" which is the island that "The Raven" resides on.
The game begins with a massive enemy attack which all but demolishes the player's nation, in a quest for revenge, the player is dragged into a war against the aggressors, uncovering their reasoning for the attack. It is later revealed that the player's island contains a valuable ore that the enemy requires for a super weapon, which the player is tasked to stop at all costs. The player meets several advisors: a civic advisor, a military advisor, a construction advisor, and a mission advisor.
Empires & Allies has the distinction of being Zynga's first graphics based (as opposed to Mafia Wars, which is browser based) game to portray violence and modern warfare. Although the game still retains the graphical style of previous Zynga games such as CityVille and FarmVille, neither of said games portrayed military hardware. Despite all this, Empires & Allies still maintains good humor with enemy commanders having often comedic portrayals and biographies, such as "The Raven" being named such for he couldn't catch an eagle and instead settled on a raven.
Within nine days, Empires & Allies had gained nearly 10 million users.
Gameplay
The basic gameplay consists of two parts: building an island city whe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOV | Iov or IOV may refer to:
Independent Order of Vikings, an American organization that promotes Swedish culture and language
Internet of vehicles, a network of connected transport devices and their monitoring systems
In-Orbit Validation satellites, testbed satellites followed by four IOV Galileo satellites
Interval of Validity, the range of values for x and y under which a differential equation is valid (see also Method of averaging and Integrating factor)
Patriarch Job of Moscow (; 16th century1607), first Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
Istituto Oncologico Veneto (Venetian Oncology Institute), the public clinical research centre and hospital specialised on oncology in Veneto, Italy. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOST%20Bus | MOST (Media Oriented Systems Transport) is a high-speed multimedia network technology for the automotive industry. It can be used for applications inside or outside the car. The serial MOST bus uses a daisy-chain topology or ring topology and synchronous serial communication to transport audio, video, voice and data signals via plastic optical fiber (POF) (MOST25, MOST150) or electrical conductor (MOST50, MOST150) physical layers.
MOST technology is used in car brands worldwide, including Audi, BMW, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Jaguar, Lancia, Land Rover, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Toyota, Volkswagen, SAAB, SKODA, SEAT and Volvo.
MOST is a registered trademark of Standard Microsystems Corporation (SMSC), now owned by Microchip Technology.
Principles of communication
The MOST specification defines the physical and the data link layer as well as all seven layers of the OSI model for data communication. For the system developer, MOST is primarily a protocol definition. It provides the user with a standardized application programming interface (API) to access device functionality. The communication functionality is provided by driver software known as MOST Network Services. MOST Network Services include Basic Layer System Services (layers 3, 4, 5) and Application Socket Services (layer 6). They process the MOST protocol between a MOST network interface controller (NIC) and the API.
MOST networks
A MOST network is able to manage up to 64 MOST devices in a ring configuration. Plug-and-play functionality allows MOST devices to be easily attached and removed. MOST networks can also be set up in virtual star network or other topologies. Safety-critical applications use redundant double-ring configurations.
In a MOST network, one device is designated the timing master. Its role is to continuously supply the ring with MOST frames. A preamble is sent at the beginning of the frame transfer. The other devices, known as timing followers, use the preamble for synchronization.
MOST25
MOST25 provides a bandwidth of approximately 23 megabaud for streaming (synchronous) as well as package (asynchronous) data transfer over an optical physical layer. It is separated into 60 physical channels. The user can select and configure the channels into groups of four. MOST25 provides services and methods for the allocation (and deallocation) of physical channels.
MOST25 supports up to 15 uncompressed stereo audio channels with CD-quality sound or up to 15 MPEG-1 channels for audio and video transfer, each of which uses four physical channels.
MOST also provides a channel for transferring control information. The system frequency of 44.1 kHz allows a bandwidth of 705.6 kbit/s, enabling 2670 control messages per second to be transferred. Limitations restrict the effective data transfer rate to about 10 kB/s (80 kbit/s). Control messages are used to configure MOST devices and configure synchronous and asynchronous data transfer. Reference data can also be transferred |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation%20%28sociology%29 | In actor-network theory (ANT), translation is the process that allows a network to be represented by a single entity, which can in itself be an individual or another network. It encompasses all negotiations, intrigues, calculations, and acts of persuasion, thanks to which an actor (or actant) takes authority to speak or act on behalf of other actors. According to ANT, an actor is an actant, something made to act, therefore it includes both human and non-human entities. Non-humans can have interests, they can enroll others, in exactly the same way as humans do.
The concept of translation was developed by the French philosopher Michel Serres, and then applied to sociology by Michel Callon.
Some elements of translation
In 1984, Callon published the influential article "Some elements of a sociology of translation", wherein the progressive development of new social relationships is examined through the constitution of supposed scientific knowledge. Due to the decline of scallop populations across France in the early 1970s, three marine biologists developed a conservation strategy with the intention to preserve the domestication of scallops. The researchers brought three other actors into their study, namely their scientific colleagues, the fishermen of St. Brieuc Bay, and the scallops. The progressive development of social relationships between these actors consists of four phases ('moments of translation') which, taken together, add up to translation:
Problematization - the definition of the nature of the problem in a specific situation by an actor (a group or an individual) and the consequential establishment of dependency
Interessement - "locking" other actors into the roles that were proposed for them in the actor's approach for resolving that problem
Enrolment - the definition and interrelation of the roles that were allocated to other actors in the previous step
Mobilization - ensuring that supposed spokespersons for relevant collective entities are properly representative of all members of the network that are acting as a single agent.
In sociology, translation is a process which creates a situation where certain actors control others as a consequence of the displacements and transformations made by an actor. For example, the three researchers established themselves as the obligatory passage point in the network of relationships they were building, which made them indispensable in the network. This constitutes the problematization phase. Interessement is the activity done by, in this case, the three researchers in order to impose and stabilize the identity of the other actors. If successful, this confirms the validity of the problematization phase, as well as the alliances it implies. Ideally, interessement achieves enrolment, in which the three researchers define and interrelate the various roles they allocate to the other actors. Finally, alliances are mobilized when enrolment is transformed into active support.
Sociological |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interessement | The term 'interessement' is French-English, and is synonymous with the word 'interposition'. It was first used by Michel Callon. It is used within the scientific tradition known as actor-network theory, in association with translation and the formation of networks. Various devices can be used in the interessement phase of a translation process, to strengthen the association between actors, and support the structure of the network.
References
Actor-network theory
Sociological terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next%20Generation%20Mobile%20Networks | The Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance is a mobile telecommunications association of mobile operators, vendors, manufacturers and research institutes. It was founded by major mobile operators in 2006 as an open forum to evaluate candidate technologies to develop a common view of solutions for the next evolution of wireless networks. Its objective is to ensure the successful commercial launch of future mobile broadband networks through a roadmap for technology and friendly user trials. Its office is in Frankfurt, Germany.
The NGMN Alliance complements and supports standards organizations by providing a coherent view of what mobile operators require. The alliance's project results have been acknowledged by groups such as the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), TeleManagement Forum (TM Forum) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Activities
The Initial phase of the NGMN Alliance involved working groups on technology, spectrum, intellectual property rights (IPR), ecosystem, and trials, to enable the launch of commercial next generation mobile services in 2010.
In a white paper first released in March 2006, NGMN summarized a vision for mobile broadband communications and included recommendations as well as requirements. It provided operators´ relative priorities of key system characteristics, system recommendations and detailed requirements for the standards for the next generation of mobile broadband networks, devices and services.
From July 2007 to February 2008, standards and technologies were evaluated for next generation mobile networks. These were 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) and its System Architecture Evolution (SAE), IEEE 802.16e (products known as WiMax), 802.20, and Ultra Mobile Broadband.
In June 2008, the NGMN Alliance announced that, “based on a thorough technology evaluation, the NGMN board concluded that LTE/SAE is the first technology which broadly meets its requirements as defined in the NGMN white paper. The NGMN Alliance therefore approves LTE/SAE as its first compliant technology”.
Also in June 2008 the alliance announced it would work with the Femto Forum to ensure femtocells benefit from the technology.
The alliance worked on intellectual property rights "to adapt the existing IPR regime to provide a better predictability of the IPR licenses (...) to ensure Fair, Reasonable And Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) IPR costs".
As part of this work, it issued a public request for information on LTE patent pool administration.
The alliance provided input to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) on frequency allocation, since they considered a timely and globally aligned spectrum allocation policy a key to the development of a viable ecosystem on a national, regional and global scale.
The ITU and regional bodies are developing channeling arrangements for the frequency bands identified at the ITU World Radio Conference in 2007.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC | WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is a free and open-source project providing web browsers and mobile applications with real-time communication (RTC) via application programming interfaces (APIs). It allows audio and video communication to work inside web pages by allowing direct peer-to-peer communication, eliminating the need to install plugins or download native apps.
Supported by Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Opera, WebRTC specifications have been published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
According to the webrtc.org website, the purpose of the project is to "enable rich, high-quality RTC applications to be developed for the browser, mobile platforms, and IoT devices, and allow them all to communicate via a common set of protocols".
History
In May 2010, Google bought Global IP Solutions or GIPS, a VoIP and videoconferencing software company that had developed many components required for RTC, such as codecs and echo cancellation techniques. Google open-sourced the GIPS technology and engaged with relevant standards bodies at the IETF and W3C to ensure industry consensus. In May 2011, Google released an open-source project for browser-based real-time communication known as WebRTC. This has been followed by ongoing work to standardize the relevant protocols in the IETF and browser APIs in the W3C.
In January 2011, Ericsson Labs built the first implementation of WebRTC using a modified WebKit library. In October 2011, the W3C published its first draft for the spec. WebRTC milestones include the first cross-browser video call (February 2013), first cross-browser data transfers (February 2014), and as of July 2014 Google Hangouts was "kind of" using WebRTC.
The W3C draft API was based on preliminary work done in the WHATWG. It was referred to as the ConnectionPeer API, and a pre-standards concept implementation was created at Ericsson Labs. The WebRTC Working Group expects this specification to evolve significantly based on:
Outcomes of ongoing exchanges in the companion RTCWEB group at IETF to define the set of protocols that, together with this document, define real-time communications in web browsers. While no one signaling protocol is mandated, SIP over WebSockets () is often used partially due to the applicability of SIP to most of the envisaged communication scenarios as well as the availability of open-source software such as JsSIP.
Privacy issues that arise when exposing local capabilities and local streams
Technical discussions within the group, on implementing data channels in particular
Experience gained through early experimentation
Feedback from other groups and individuals
In November 2017, the WebRTC 1.0 specification transitioned from Working Draft to Candidate Recommendation.
In January 2021, the WebRTC 1.0 specification transitioned from Candidate Recommendation to Recommendation.
Design
Major components of WebRTC include several JavaScript APIs:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddleja%20cordata | Buddleja cordata is endemic to Mexico, growing along forest edges and water courses at elevations of 1500–3000 m; it has also naturalized in parts of Ethiopia. The species was first described and named by Kunth in 1818.
Description
Buddleja cordata is a large deciduous dioecious shrub or tree < 20 m tall in the wild. The trunk, which can reach 45 cm in diameter, has a furrowed bark, brownish or blackish in colour. The ovate to narrowly elliptical leaves are opposite and paired, 4–23 cm long by 3–14 cm wide, on petioles 1–4 cm long. The terminal inflorescences are paniculate, 6–30 cm long with at least two orders of branches, the lowermost subtended by leaves, the uppermost by small bracts. The small fragrant flowers are grouped into shortly pedunculate cymules, the corollas white, cream, or yellow, with a flush of orange at the throat, 1.5–2.5 long. Ploidy: 2n = 76 (tetraploid).
Cultivation
The species is cold hardy in the UK. A large specimen grows in the Centenary Border of the Sir Harold Hillier Gardens in Hampshire, another as part of the NCCPG national collection at Longstock Park Nursery, also in Hampshire. Hardiness: USDA zone 8.
Uses
The species (and the genus as a whole) contain secondary metabolites such as flavonoids and iridoid glycosides which have shown much promise in the treatment of cancers and a wide range of other disorders.
References
cordata
Flora of Mexico
Flora of Central America
Medicinal plants of North America
Dioecious plants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Colton | Simon Colton (born 1973) is an English computer scientist, currently working as Professor of Computational Creativity in the Game AI Research Group at Queen Mary University of London and in the Sensilab at Monash University, Australia.
He previously worked as Professor in the Metamakers Institute at Falmouth University, UK and led the Computational Creativity Research Groups at Goldsmiths, University of London and at Imperial College, London.
Early life and education
Born in Nottingham, Colton graduated from the University of Durham in 1994 with a BSc degree in Mathematics. After a year spent as a programmer at a software company, he studied at the University of Liverpool, where he gained an MSc in Pure Mathematics in 1996. In 2000 he finished his PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh, having been supervised by Alan Bundy and Toby Walsh.
Career
Overview
Colton stayed on as a Research Associate at the University of Edinburgh until 2002, at which point he moved to Imperial College, London as a lecturer in the Department of Computing. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in 2007 and then Reader in Computational Creativity in 2010. He was appointed Professor of Computational Creativity at Goldsmiths College in 2013 and joined Queen Mary, University of London in 2018.
The Painting Fool
Colton is the driving force behind thepaintingfool.com, an artificial intelligence that he hopes will one day be accepted as an artist in its own right. His work, along with that of Maja Pantić and Michel Valstar, won the British Computing Society Machine Intelligence Award in 2007. The work has also been the subject of some media attention.
Prior to his work on The Painting Fool, Colton worked on the HR tool, a reasoning tool that was applied to discover mathematical concepts. The system successfully discovered theorems and conjectures, some of which were novel enough to become published works. Colton's work with HM included the discovery of refactorable numbers, which appeared to be original but turned out to have been previously discovered.
References
External links
The Computational Creativity Research Group at Goldsmiths, University of London
Simon Colton's Goldsmiths page
1973 births
Living people
British computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Liverpool
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Academics of Imperial College London
Alumni of St Aidan's College, Durham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Arrowsmith | Douglas Arrowsmith is a Canadian film director and writer. He has produced award-winning documentaries for CBC Television, music videos, and feature-length films for BBC Four, The Movie Network and HBO Canada.
Personal background
Arrowsmith received his Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought in 2001 from York University, Canada. His doctoral thesis examines technologies of the self founded in Montaigne's self-essays, Shakespeare's self-dramatisations in the historical plays, and Freud's self-analysis. Part of the research involved a series of field interviews with writers, actors, and singer/songwriters including with Timothy Findley, Peter O’Toole, and Steve Earle, each of whom discussed the concept of ‘mastery’. Arrowsmith's doctoral supervisor was the renowned Canadian sociologist, phenomenologist, and social theorist John O’Neill, F.R.S.C, who would become a friend and mentor for life.
Film and television
Arrowsmith began his television career in 2001 as a producer on CBC News: Sunday, a current affairs program on CBC's main network. During his 10 years as a staff producer he worked on everything from quick-turnaround video features to network specials and documentaries, including As the Towers Fell: Moment by Moment with the Journalists (2002), Deadline Iraq: Uncensored Stories of the War (2003, nominated for Canada's Donald Brittain Award for Best Social/Political documentary), and Tsunami: Untold Stories (2006, nominated for a Gemini Award, Best Direction). He also produced ‘live’ show and video story segments for CBC's flagship Sunday program in the early-mid 2000s with singer/songwriters including Serena Ryder, Kathleen Edwards, Derek Miller, Daniel Lanois, Henry Rollins, Bruce Cockburn, Barenaked Ladies, and William Shatner.
In 2008, Arrowsmith was honored with a Gemini Award, for the short documentary "The Girl Sings Carnegie" that he produced and directed for CBC television about Montreal singer Nikki Yanofsky. The award was presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television.
In 2009, he produced and directed a feature-length documentary, entitled Memory & Desire: 30 Years in the Wilderness with Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time, about Stephen (Tin Tin) Duffy, founding member of Duran Duran. The film was nominated for the "Sound & Vision Award" at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen.
In 2010, he wrote, produced, and directed a feature-length film, entitled Love Shines, about Canadian songwriter, Ron Sexsmith. Love Shines won the 2011 Audience Choice Award at SXSW in the "24 Beats per Second" category, and an Audience Choice Award at the 2011 Maui Film Festival.
The film also won two Canadian Screen Awards: Best Performing Arts Documentary and for Best Direction in Performing Arts.
In the film, “Love Shines”, Arrowsmith draws an in-depth essay of Sexsmith's elements of character and gift for songwriting, achieved through an extraordinary encounter with Ron's (at the time) estranged son and a series of impactful interviews with some of Sex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Triangle%20%28game%20show%29 | Love Triangle is an American dating themed game show–talk show crossover broadcast by Game Show Network. Hosted by Wendy Williams, the show premiered on April 11, 2011, and aired its final episode on August 28, 2011.
The series focuses on a single dater who is involved in a romantic relationship with two different people. Through a series of personality and lie-detector tests, the dater observes the level of compatibility between himself and each of the suitors before eliminating one of the suitors at the end of the episode.
Format
Love Triangle features civilians caught in a real-life "love triangle", featuring a dater and two suitors, with the suitors often having vastly different lifestyles and personalities. The episode begins by discussing secrets of each of the suitors' past. The suitors then take a personality test to see how compatible they are with the dater, especially in the subjects of lifestyle, money, and sex. The dater then asks the suitors questions which they must answer while hooked up to a lie detector, nicknamed the "Trustbuster". The dater is shown what the future will hold with each of the suitors, including their financial situation and what their child might look like, before deciding whom to keep and whom to let go. The dater and the suitor who was chosen win a vacation as a grand prize.
Production
Kelly Goode, former Senior Vice President of Programming for GSN, cited the success of the network's other dating and relationship shows Baggage and The Newlywed Game as promising signs for Love Triangle to succeed. On January 20, 2011, GSN green-lit Love Triangle and announced Williams as host of the show the same day. The show taped in Los Angeles with Williams also serving as an executive producer along with her husband, Kevin Hunter. The show premiered on April 11, 2011, along with Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza. Neither show, however, was renewed for a second season. Love Triangle aired its final episode on August 28, 2011.
Reruns
Reruns of Love Triangle currently air on LifeStyle You in Australia.
GSN aired reruns at various times until January 10, 2015, when it was replaced on the schedule by Deal or No Deal.
References
External links
GSN (US)
Lifestyle You (Australia)
2011 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
2010s American reality television series
2010s American game shows
American dating and relationship reality television series
Game Show Network original programming
English-language television shows
2010s American television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapR | MapR was a business software company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. MapR software provides access to a variety of data sources from a single computer cluster, including big data workloads such as Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark, a distributed file system, a multi-model database management system, and event stream processing, combining analytics in real-time with operational applications. Its technology runs on both commodity hardware and public cloud computing services. In August 2019, following financial difficulties, the technology and intellectual property of the company were sold to Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
Funding
MapR was privately held with original funding of $9 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners and New Enterprise Associates in 2009. MapR executives come from Google, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Informatica, EMC Corporation and Veoh. MapR had an additional round of funding led by Redpoint Ventures in August, 2011. A round in 2013 was led by Mayfield Fund that also included Greenspring Associates. In June 2014, MapR closed a $110 million financing round that was led by Google Capital. Qualcomm Ventures also participated, along with existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mayfield Fund, New Enterprise Associates and Redpoint Ventures.
In May 2019, the company announced that it would shut down if it was unable to find additional funding.
History
The company contributed to the Apache Hadoop projects HBase, Pig, Apache Hive, and Apache ZooKeeper.
MapR entered a technology licensing agreement with EMC Corporation on 2011, supporting an EMC-specific distribution of Apache Hadoop. MapR was selected by Amazon Web Services to provide an upgraded version of Amazon's Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service. MapR broke the minute sort speed record on Google's Compute platform.
See also
Apache Accumulo
Apache Software Foundation
Big data
Bigtable
Database-centric architecture
Hadoop
MapReduce
HBase
RainStor
References
External links
MapR Homepage
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Cloud infrastructure
Distributed file systems
Hadoop
Companies based in San Jose, California
Big data companies
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koichi%20Ohata | is a Japanese anime mecha designer, storyboard artist, and director, known for cult classics M.D. Geist, Genocyber, and Gunbuster. He directed Burst Angel and the second through fourth seasons of Ikki Tousen anime series.
Filmography
References
External links
1962 births
Living people
Anime character designers
Anime directors
Mechanical designers (mecha)
People from Aichi Prefecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroCity%20in%20Germany | The German rail network provides connections to each of its neighbouring countries, many of which are under the EuroCity classification. EuroCity services are part of the Intercity network - many EC services represented a couple of train pairs on an IC route extended across the border, while other routes are served primarily by EuroCity services. EuroCity services are generally locomotive-hauled, using Intercity rolling stock, either from Deutsche Bahn or one of the other countries along the route.
EuroCity services
Below is a list of current EuroCity services in Germany.
† Name no longer in use.
Intercity services that cross borders
A number of trains provide international connections, but are classed as Intercity rather than Eurocity. This may be because the routes were former InterRegio services, or they only travel a short distance over the border.
ICE international
The ICE network has grown since its introduction, and there are now services to Aarhus, Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Interlaken, Paris, Vienna and Zurich. In addition, there are TGV and Thalys routes to Brussels, Paris and Marseille, as well as ÖBB's Railjet to Vienna and Budapest.
EuroCity Express
With the December 2017 schedule change, a new train service between Frankfurt am Main and Milano Centrale was introduced and branded by Deutsche Bahn (though neither by the Swiss nor the Italian railroads) as "EuroCity Express" with tickets put in the same price category as ICE tickets, unlike "regular" EuroCity trains which are in the same ticket category as IC.
Notes
See also
EuroCity
Intercity (Deutsche Bahn)
Gallery
External links
Fernbahn - train formations
Deutsche Bahn IC/EC Network
Passenger rail transport in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-11 | The FM-11 (Fujitsu Micro 11) was a business computer announced by Fujitsu in November 1982. It is a higher-end model of their previous FM-8 computer, and was released simultaneously with the mass-market FM-7 machine.
The FM-11 series was intended to be used in offices and the EX model had a price of 398 000 yen in 1983/4. Japanese characters could be displayed by using a 16×16 pixel font.
The FM-11 range was replaced by the 16-bit FM-16β series by the mid-1980s.
Models
There was a series of different FM-11 models:
1982 – FM-11 EX: 6809 & 8088 dual microprocessors.
1982 – FM-11 AD: 6809 microprocessor only.
1982 – FM-11 ST: economic version of the AD, with a floppy disc drive as an option. Built-in ROM Basic.
1984 – FM-11 BS: 8088 microprocessor only.
1984 – FM-11 AD2, OS-9 operating system.
1985 – FM-11 AD2+: enhanced AD2 with 256 KB of RAM.
Emulator
Multi Emulator Super System for Windows/Linux/Mac includes an FM-11 emulator.
References
External links
Old-Computers.com Page
Fujitsu computers
8086-based home computers
Personal computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20W.%20Loveland | Donald W. Loveland (born December 26, 1934 in Rochester, New York) is a professor emeritus of computer science at Duke University who specializes in artificial intelligence. He is well known for the Davis–Putnam–Logemann–Loveland algorithm.
Loveland graduated from Oberlin College in 1956, received a master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958 and a Ph.D. from New York University in 1964. He joined the Duke University Computer Science Department in 1973. He previously served as a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at New York University and Carnegie Mellon University.
He received the Herbrand Award for Distinguished Contributions to Automated Reasoning in 2001. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2000), a Fellow of the Association of Artificial Intelligence (1993), and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2019).
Bibliography
Books
Selected papers
See also
Model elimination
References
External links
Publication list at DBLP
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
1934 births
Living people
Oberlin College alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
New York University alumni
Duke University faculty
American computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk%20Way%20%28disambiguation%29 | Silk Way may refer to the following:
The Silk Road, a network of ancient trade routes connecting the Mediterranean region with the Middle East and Far East
Silk Way Airlines, a cargo airline from Azerbaijan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Research%20Data%20Commons | The Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) is a limited company, formed on 1 July 2018 by combining the Australian National Data Service (ANDS), Nectar (National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources) and Research Data Services (RDS). Its purpose is to enable Australian researchers and industry access to nationally significant eInfrastructure, skills platforms, and data collections.
ANDS was established in 2008 in order to help address the challenges of storing, managing and making accessible Australia's research data. It was a joint collaboration between Monash University, The Australian National University and CSIRO. It manages Research Data Australia, a web portal which enables access to data from over 100 Australian research organisations, cultural institutions, and government agencies.
Nectar was established in 2009 by the Australian Government, with the project directorate to establish the IT infrastructure at the University of Melbourne created in 2011.
The Research Data Services project provides service development for prioritised areas of research, and continuing operational support of the IT infrastructure which accesses the data in the national collections.
ANDS and Research Data Australia
A project led by Monash University in collaboration with the Australian National University (ANU) and CSIRO created the basis for full ANDS implementation. The aim was to allow researchers "to identify, locate, access and analyse any available research data", by transforming the large number of scattered and disparate collections around Australia into a cohesive and accessible body of resources, with the importance of eResearch Infrastructure to Australian future research competitiveness emphasised as a prime reason.
Funding was provided through the Australian Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), as part of a funding agreement between the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) and Monash University in September 2008. In mid-2009 ANDS was further funded by the Education Investment Fund (EIF) for the establishment of the Australian Research Data Commons under the Australian Government’s Super Science Initiative.
Research Data Australia (formerly the ANDS Collections Registry), ANDS' most significant service, is a web portal which enables access to data from over 100 Australian research organisations, cultural institutions, and government agencies. The Online Research Collections Australia (ORCA) Registry was the software utility that drove the ANDS Collections Registry, which was precursor to Research Data Australia. They were all used as names for the online discovery service run by ANDS, which allows researchers to publicise the existence of their research data and enables prospective users of that data to find it.
Research Data Australia made use of the ISO 2146-based RIF-CS metadata standard.
Research Data Services
The Research Data Services project is a continuatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redeye%2C%20The%20Photography%20Network | Redeye, The Photography Network is a UK-based photography network with around 7000 subscribers, the majority of whom are full- or part-time photographers, artists and other creatives. Based in Manchester, it works with a large number of partner organisations such as galleries, universities and other photographic and arts organisations across the country to deliver its events. It has been described as "a leader among a strengthening body of nationally significant photography-focused organisations that address career development for practitioners".
Formation
Redeye was created in 1998 by a group of photographers who met in Manchester to discuss research into what the region's practitioners needed in regard to North West Arts. With many facilities in demand such as darkrooms, exhibition spaces and help with legal matters, they decided that most photographers needed an environment in which they could network and learn from each other. By the beginning of 1999 these meetings had become regular. Some of the group, chaired by Len Grant, volunteered to help run the organisation. The award-winning British photographer Paul Hill gave the first of six talks that launched Redeye events in October 1999. The first paid member of staff was appointed in 2001, and a co-ordinator was selected the next year.
Non-profit status
Redeye receives funding support from the Arts Council of England. In March 2011 it received funding for the next four years. It also has project funding from ACE, RALP, CIDS, AGMA and a number of other organisations.
In line with its manifesto, Redeye organises various events every year including talks each year by established photographers and workshops running at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels. Monthly portfolio viewing and advice sessions are held with curators, picture editors and experienced photographers. Redeye also works in partnership with QUAD, Derby and The Buy Art Fair, held annually in Manchester. As a non-profit organisation, the aim of Redeye is to look continually at what is happening in photography and provide activities to keep it healthy.
Projects
National Photography Symposium
The National Photography Symposium was established by Redeye in 2009. It has been described as "one of the must attend events of the photographic year” by Pete Jenkins, NUJ. It is a weekend of talks, workshops and events held annually, and covers every type of photography from fine art, photojournalism, community, editorial and commercial to museums, galleries, higher education and libraries. The 2009 symposium started with a punchy keynote address by Francis Hodgson of the Financial Times.
References
External links
Redeye's website
Redeye's Twitter page
National Photography Symposium Page
British photography organisations
Culture in Manchester
Arts organizations established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipeout%202048 | Wipeout 2048 is a racing game in which players pilot anti-gravity ships around futuristic race tracks. It was developed by Studio Liverpool and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was a launch game for the Sony PlayStation Vita hand-held console, released worldwide in 2012. It is the ninth instalment of the Wipeout series and the last game to be developed by Studio Liverpool before its closure in August 2012. Wipeout 2048 is a prequel to the first game in the series and is set in the years 2048, 2049, and 2050.
The game was designed as a testbed for the PlayStation Vita. During development, Studio Liverpool staff sent feedback about aspects that could affect the Vita design to Sony. Some of their suggestions, including the addition of a rear touchscreen and two separate joysticks, were added to the Vita.
Wipeout 2048 preserves some technical aspects of its predecessor game Wipeout HD, including downloadable content (DLC), online multiplayer mode, and cross-platform play with PlayStation 3 owners running Wipeout HD. It received mainly positive reviews; critics said its graphics and visuals showcased the power of the then-new PlayStation Vita but criticised its long loading times and other technical problems. The game, together with Wipeout HD and its Fury expansion, was remastered for PlayStation 4 and released as Wipeout Omega Collection in 2017.
Gameplay
Wipeout 2048 is a racing game in which players pilot anti-gravity ships through a variety of scenarios. It is set primarily in 2048 and is a prequel to the first instalment of the Wipeout series; dedicated race tracks have not yet been built, and races are held on city streets. The single-player game progresses through the first three years of the Anti-Gravity Racing Championships (AGRC) in 2048, 2049, and 2050. The game includes four types of ships: speed ships, agility ships, fighters, and prototypes. Speed ships are lightweight, Formula 1-like vehicles that emphasise acceleration and momentum, and are primarily used for speed-oriented races such as time trials. Agility ships are similar to rally cars and have extra manoeuvrability and handling; fighter ships are heavily armoured craft that sacrifice speed for combat power.
During races, numerous weapons may be picked up by flying the vehicle over coloured weapon pads. Yellow pads equip the player with offensive weaponry that can be used to destroy other racers whereas green pads provide defensive weapons such as mines, shields, and speed boosts. Game modes including one-on-one races, tournaments, time trials, speed laps, and Zone mode—which revolves around survival as the player's ship automatically accelerates to extreme speeds—have been carried over from Wipeout HD.
The online multiplayer mode has the same races and modes as the single-player version. The online multiplayer is cross-platform, allowing players using the PlayStation 3 version of Wipeout HD Fury to play the Fury tracks with the PlayStation Vita. Wipeout 2048 al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict%20determinism | Strict determinism may refer to:
In physics:
Strict determinism (physics), the assumption that given a known set of initial conditions, future states can be computed
In computing:
a strict property of deterministic context-free grammars
In philosophy:
Strict determinism (philosophy), the notion that there is no free will, or human autonomy
See also
Determinism (disambiguation)
Determinism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema.org | Schema.org is a reference website that publishes documentation and guidelines for using structured data mark-up on web-pages (called microdata). Its main objective is to standardize HTML tags to be used by webmasters for creating rich results (displayed as visual data or infographic tables on search engine results) about a certain topic of interest. It is a part of the semantic web project, which aims to make document mark-up codes more readable and meaningful to both humans and machines.
History
Schema.org is an initiative launched on June 2, 2011, by Bing, Google and Yahoo! (operators of the world's largest search engines at that time) to create and support a common set of schemas for structured data markup on web pages. In November 2011, Yandex (whose search engine is the largest in Russia) joined the initiative. They propose using the schema.org vocabulary along with the Microdata, RDFa, or JSON-LD formats to mark up website content with metadata about itself. Such markup can be recognized by search engine spiders and other parsers, thus granting access to the meaning of the sites (see Semantic Web).
The initiative also describes an extension mechanism for adding additional properties.
In 2012, the GoodRelations ontology was integrated into Schema.org.
Public discussion of the initiative largely takes place on the W3C public vocabularies mailing list.
Much of the vocabulary on Schema.org was inspired by earlier formats, such as microformats, FOAF, and OpenCyc. Microformats, with its most dominant representative hCard, continue (as of 2015) to be published widely on the web, where the deployment of Schema.org has strongly increased between 2012 and 2014. In 2015, Google began supporting the JSON-LD format, and as of September, 2017 recommended using JSON-LD for structured data whenever possible.
Despite the advantages of using Schema.org, adoption remained limited as of 2016. A survey in 2016 of 300 US-based marketing agencies and B2C advertisers across
industries showing only 17% uptake.
Such validators as the soon-to-be-deprecated Google Structured Data Testing Tool, or more recent Google Rich Results Test Tool, Yandex Microformat validator, and Bing Markup Validator can be used to test the validity of the data marked up with the schemas and Microdata. More recently, Google Search Console (formerly webmaster tools) has provided a report section for unparsable structured data. If any Schema code on a website is incorrect, it will show in this report.
Some schema markups such as Organization and Person are commonly used to influence search results returned by Google's Knowledge Graph.
Schema Types
There are a number of items that a web page can be marked up with using a Schema, with examples including:
Article
Breadcrumb
Course
Event
FAQ
LocalBusiness
Logo
Movie
Product
Recipe
Review
Video
Examples
Microdata
The following is an example of how to mark up information about a movie and its director using the Schema.org |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20Shapes | Sound Shapes is a 2012 music platform video game developed by Queasy Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. It was originally released in 2012 and a port for the PlayStation 4 was released in 2013. The game, designed by Jessica Mak and Shaw-Han Liem, is a side-scrolling platform game with a musical focus. The game also features the ability to create levels and share levels with other users. The Vita version of the game features use of the touch screen and back touch pad to place sounds of different musical instruments during creation of levels. Sound Shapes was shown at industry conference E3 in 2011 and picked up nominations for best of show award from media sites including IGN, 1UP, and Electric Playground. It also received 2 Game Critics Awards (Best Mobile and Best Casual).
At the Spike Video Game Awards 2011, it was announced that Deadmau5 would be contributing songs and sound material to the project.
Beck has contributed 3 new songs to the game: "Cities", "Touch the People", and "Spiral Staircase". These are still exclusive to the game as of 2017, despite fan desire to see them released digitally.
It was included on the "Best of PlayStation Network Vol. 1" compilation disc, released 18 June 2013.
Development
Mak and Liem wanted to develop a game that could give beginners a sense of joyful creation, without the need for harmonic training or complicated music theory. They prototyped their idea for about a year before settling on the coin-collecting musical mechanics that the final game has. To cater to the 'hardcore platformer' player base, Death Mode was introduced. It was important to marry the sound with the style, so each album was a close collaboration between a musician and a visual artist. In some cases levels began with a song, in other cases a style, and evolved naturally from there.
Downloadable Content
At launch Sound Shapes had various downloadable content (DLC) available.
The first round of DLC was released on 4 December 2012, having three sound packs and a curved terrain pack. It introduces five new instruments and Beat School levels.
The second round of DLC was released on 12 March 2013, having more milkcrate free updates and a Car Mini-Album Creator pack. It also introduced a much requested feature of offline play.
On 14 May 2013, two new sound packs were released. One being an 80s sound pack, adding synth features, and the other DLC being a dubstep sound pack featuring new Beat School features.
On 28 May 2013, five new Milkcrate albums were released as a free update.
Online Server Shutdown
On 15 October 2018, The server for Sound Shapes was shut down, meaning that people who played past that point were no longer able to access any online-related info. This included Community-made levels and uploading levels to the Community. This accounted for every console the game was released on PS4, PS3, and PS Vita.
Reception
Sound Shapes was selected for Best Hand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Powerpuff%20Girls%20video%20games | The Powerpuff Girls video games are a series of action and platformer games based on Cartoon Network's animated series, The Powerpuff Girls. They were published by BAM! Entertainment and distributed by Cartoon Network Interactive and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Nintendo Game Boy and Game Boy Advance games include Bad Mojo Jojo, Paint the Townsville Green, Battle HIM, HIM and Seek, Mojo Jojo A-Go-Go, and the Powerpuff Girls Z game Game de Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z. Console games include Chemical X-Traction for the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation and Relish Rampage for GameCube and PlayStation 2. Microsoft Windows games include Mojo Jojo's Clone Zone, Gamesville, Princess Snorebucks, Mojo Jojo's Pet Project, and Defenders of Townsville.
The Powerpuff Girls have also been featured in the Cartoon Network games Cartoon Network Racing for PlayStation 2 and Nintendo DS, the massively multiplayer online game Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall, and Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion/XL for Nintendo 3DS, Wii, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.
Games
Handheld
The Powerpuff Girls: Bad Mojo Jojo was developed by Sennari Interactive for the Game Boy Color. It was released in North America on November 14, 2000. Bad Mojo Jojo follows Blossom, the leader of the Powerpuff Girls, as she fights Mojo Jojo and his henchmen. Blossom can fly, but only for a short period of time. GameSpot cites this as a key problem, as whenever Blossom falls into water, the player not only loses a life, but any progress in collecting required trinkets throughout the level is reset to nothing. Another aspect of the game is that the player takes the role of Bubbles, Buttercup, Rowdyruff Boys Brick, Boomer, Butch, and the Mayor of Townsville through the use of entering passwords, which can also be used to unlock special features like unlimited flight.
The Powerpuff Girls: Paint the Townsville Green was developed by Sennari Interactive for the Game Boy Color. It was released in North America on November 21, 2000. Unlike the previous game, this installment follows Buttercup as she fights the Gangreen Gang. The game plays very similar to the first one, for the sake of being able to trade cards between the two games when they're linked together.
The Powerpuff Girls: Battle HIM was developed by Sennari Interactive for the Game Boy Color. It was released in North America on February 27, 2001. Unlike the other two games, Battle HIM follows Bubbles as she fights HIM and his henchmen, and plays very similar to the first two, for the sake of being able to trade cards between the three when two are linked together.
The Powerpuff Girls: Mojo Jojo A-Go-Go centers around the name of the Powerpuff Girls' mission to stop Mojo Jojo and his minions. The game was developed by Sennari Interactive in 2001 and it is only available for the Game Boy Advance.
The Powerpuff Girls: HIM and Seek was developed by Vicarious Visions for the Game Boy Advance, released on October 29, 2002. Styled as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LulzSec | LulzSec (a contraction for Lulz Security) was a black hat computer hacking group that claimed responsibility for several high profile attacks, including the compromise of user accounts from PlayStation Network in 2011. The group also claimed responsibility for taking the CIA website offline. Some security professionals have commented that LulzSec has drawn attention to insecure systems and the dangers of password reuse. It has gained attention due to its high profile targets and the sarcastic messages it has posted in the aftermath of its attacks. One of the founders of LulzSec was computer security specialist Hector Monsegur, who used the online moniker Sabu. He later helped law enforcement track down other members of the organization as part of a plea deal. At least four associates of LulzSec were arrested in March 2012 as part of this investigation. Prior, British authorities had announced the arrests of two teenagers they alleged were LulzSec members, going by the pseudonyms T-flow and Topiary.
At just after midnight (BST, UT+01) on 26 June 2011, LulzSec released a "50 days of lulz" statement, which they claimed to be their final release, confirming that LulzSec consisted of six members, and that their website was to be shut down. The sudden disbandment of the group was unexpected. Their final release included accounts and passwords from many different sources. Despite claims of retirement, the group committed another hack against newspapers owned by News Corporation on 18 July, defacing them with false reports regarding the death of Rupert Murdoch. The group had also helped launch Operation AntiSec, a joint effort involving LulzSec, Anonymous, and other hackers.
Former members and associates
LulzSec consisted of seven core members. The online handles of these seven were established through various attempts by other hacking groups to release personal information of group members on the internet, leaked IRC logs published by The Guardian, and through confirmation from the group itself.
Sabu – One of the group's founders, who seemed to act as a kind of leader for the group, Sabu would often decide what targets to attack next and who could participate in these attacks. He may have been part of the Anonymous group that hacked HBGary. Various attempts to release his real identity have claimed that he is an information technology consultant with the strongest hacking skills of the group and knowledge of the Python programming language. It was thought that Sabu was involved in the media outrage cast of 2010 using the skype "anonymous.sabu" Sabu was arrested in June 2011 and identified as a 29-year-old unemployed man from New York’s Lower East Side. On 15 August, he pleaded guilty to several hacking charges and agreed to cooperate with the FBI. Over the following seven months he successfully unmasked the other members of the group. Sabu was identified by Backtrace Security as Hector Montsegur on 11 March 2011 in a PDF publication named "Namshub." |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpressure%20routing | In queueing theory, a discipline within the mathematical theory of probability, the backpressure routing algorithm is a method for directing traffic around a queueing network that achieves maximum network throughput, which is established using concepts of Lyapunov drift. Backpressure routing considers the situation where each job can visit multiple service nodes in the network. It is an extension of max-weight scheduling where each job visits only a single service node.
Introduction
Backpressure routing is an algorithm for dynamically routing traffic over a multi-hop network by using congestion gradients. The algorithm can be applied to wireless communication networks, including sensor networks, mobile ad hoc networks (MANETS), and heterogeneous networks with wireless and wireline components.
Backpressure principles can also be applied to other areas, such as to the study of
product assembly systems and processing networks.
This article focuses on communication networks,
where packets from multiple data streams arrive and
must be delivered to appropriate destinations. The backpressure
algorithm operates in slotted time. Every time slot it seeks to route data in directions that
maximize the differential backlog between neighboring nodes. This is similar to how water
flows through a network of pipes via pressure gradients. However, the backpressure algorithm
can be applied to multi-commodity networks (where different packets may have different destinations),
and to networks where transmission rates can be selected
from a set of (possibly time-varying) options. Attractive features
of the backpressure algorithm are: (i) it leads to maximum network throughput, (ii)
it is provably robust to time-varying network conditions, (iii) it
can be implemented without knowing traffic arrival rates or channel state
probabilities. However, the algorithm may introduce large delays, and may
be difficult to implement exactly in networks with interference. Modifications of
backpressure that reduce delay and simplify implementation are described below
under Improving delay and Distributed backpressure.
Backpressure routing has mainly been studied in a theoretical
context. In practice, ad hoc wireless networks have typically
implemented alternative routing methods based on shortest
path computations or network flooding, such as
Ad Hoc on-Demand Distance Vector Routing (AODV),
geographic routing, and extremely opportunistic routing (ExOR).
However, the mathematical optimality properties of backpressure
have motivated recent experimental demonstrations of its use
on wireless testbeds at the University of Southern California
and at North Carolina State University.
Origins
The original backpressure algorithm was developed by Tassiulas and Ephremides. They considered a multi-hop packet radio network with random packet arrivals and a fixed set of link selection options. Their algorithm consisted of a max-weight link selection stage and a differential backlog ro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/63rd%20Primetime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards, honoring the best in prime time television programming from June 1, 2010 until May 31, 2011, were held on Sunday, September 18, 2011, at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, California. Fox televised the ceremony within the United States. Jane Lynch hosted the Emmys for the first time. The Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony was held on September 10.
The nominations were announced live on Thursday, July 14, 2011, at 5:40 a.m. PDT (12:40 UTC) at the Leonard H. Goldenson Theatre in North Hollywood, Los Angeles. The nominations were announced by Melissa McCarthy of Mike & Molly and Joshua Jackson of Fringe.
The biggest winner of the night was ABC's Modern Family. The series ended the event with five wins, including Outstanding Comedy Series for the second consecutive year. For the fourth time in history, the Outstanding Drama Series category was won for a fourth time, by AMC's Mad Men. It is also the third series to win four times consecutively in that category. Downton Abbey walked away with the award for Outstanding Miniseries or Movie, with four wins overall.
This year's ceremony was watched by 12.4 million people, down 8% from last year's show. The ceremony received mixed reviews from critics, with many praising the performance of Lynch as the host but criticizing the overall quality of the production, particularly the presenters and the orchestra.
Beginning this year, the Outstanding Miniseries and Outstanding Television Movie categories were merged. This was due to the continuing decline in the number of miniseries being produced; the previous two ceremonies only had two miniseries nominated. The merge was short-lived however when the separate categories returned, beginning in 2014.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold:
Programs
Acting
Lead performances
Supporting performances
Directing
Writing
Most major nominations
Most major awards
Notes
Presenters
The awards were presented by the following:
In Memoriam
The annual In Memoriam segment was presented by John Shaffner and featured the Canadian Tenors performing the song "Hallelujah". The segment was extended for this ceremony, as executive producer Mark Burnett stated that "it [didn't] need to be a bummer... It can be a celebration".
Cliff Robertson – performer
Elizabeth Taylor – performer
Anne Francis – performer
James MacArthur – performer
Peter Falk – performer
Harold Gould – performer
Stanley Frazen – editor
James Arness – performer
Janet MacLachlan – performer
Madelyn Pugh Davis – writer
Steve Landesberg – performer
Blake Edwards – creator, producer
Betty Garrett – performer
John Cossette – producer
Bill Erwin – performer
Barbara Billingsley – performer
Leslie Nielsen – performer
Tom Bosley – performer
Reza Badiyi – director
Leonard Stern – director, producer, writer
Ryan Dunn – performer
Denise Cramsey – producer
Frank Potenza – performer
Bob Banner – director, producer
Andy Wh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasturi%20%281980%20film%29 | Kasturi is a 1980 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Bimal Dutt, starring Nutan, Mithun Chakraborty, Parikshit Sahni, Sadhu Meher and Shreeram Lagoo.
External links
*http://www.ibosnetwork.com/asp/filmbodetails.asp?id=Kasturi+(1980)
1980 films
1980s Hindi-language films
Best Hindi Feature Film National Film Award winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20ProBook | The HP ProBook is a line of business-oriented laptop computers made by Hewlett-Packard (HP Inc.). HP marketed the ProBook series to business users; the list price was lower than that of HP's higher-end EliteBook series.
History
S-Series (discontinued in 2012)
In April 2009, HP introduced the ProBook s-series (standard/essential) notebooks, which consisted of the Intel powered 4410s, 4510s, and 4710s (14", 15.6", and 17.3" screens, respectively) and the AMD powered 4415s and 4515s (14" and 15.6" screens, respectively). This was followed by the introduction of the 13.3" ProBook 4310s in June of the same year.
The s-series was updated in 2010 with Intel Core i3, i5, and i7 processors, a brushed aluminium case, chiclet keyboard, and multi-touch ClickPad. Updates to the line in 2012 included a new exterior aluminium design.
4x1xs
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ProBook 4230s
ProBook 4330s
ProBook 4331s
ProBook 4430s
ProBook 4431s
ProBook 4520s
ProBook 4530s
ProBook 4730s
ProBook 4435s
ProBook 4436s
ProBook 4535s
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ProBook 4341s
ProBook 4440s
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ProBook 4540s
ProBook 4740s
ProBook 4445s
ProBook 4446s
ProBook 4545s
B-Series (discontinued in 2012)
The ProBook B-series was announced on October 13, 2009, replacing the previous HP Compaq B-series with similar design in early models. All models still have a CD drive bay, docking port, pointstick options, screen latches, draining holes, easy-replaceable battery with additional slice options, TPM chip, socketed CPU, WLAN options and 2 RAM slots.
Two AMD powered models were announced in 2009 — the 14" ProBook 6445b and the 15.6" ProBook 6545b; Their Intel powered counterparts were announced three months later as the 14" ProBook 6440b and the 15.6" ProBook 6540b.; and the next-year upgrade is an AMD-powered 6455b and 6555b, and Intel-based 6450b and 6550b.
The B-series design was updated in 2011 with the Intel-powered 6460b and 6560b, and the AMD-powered 6465b and in 2012 with the Intel-powered 6470b and 6570b, and the AMD-powered 6475b. The updated sibling EliteBook line had an additional magnesium frame under screen top lid, the keyboard LED-backlight, the aluminium bottom-cover, the 17" workstation version and the additional security options.
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ProBook 6440b
ProBook 6540b
ProBook 6445b
ProBook 6545b
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ProBook 6565b
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ProBook 6470b
ProBook 6570b
ProBook 6475b
M-Series (discontinued in 2011)
HP launched the 5310m in September 2009 as a line of compact mid-range 12" and 13" ProBooks without CD-drive bay. The 5310m was enclosed by an aluminium and magnesium case, weighed under four pounds, and was less than an inch thick.
The M-series was updated in September 2010 with a 5320m, closely followed with the release of the 5330m in May 2011 which featured a dual-tone aluminium chassis and Beats Audio.
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ProBook 5310m
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba%20Pasopia%207 | Toshiba Pasopia 7 (also known as PA7007) is a computer from manufacturer Toshiba, released in 1983 and only available in Japan, with a price of $1350.
It was intended as the successor of the Toshiba Pasopia, offering improved sound and graphics. The machine is partially compatible with the original Pasopia, and supports connecting cartridge-type peripherals.
Graphic memory is increased to 48 KB and two SN76489 sound chips are available, producing six five-octave channels and two noise channels.
A new version of the operating system, T-BASIC7, is also available. This version is based on Microsoft BASIC and adds specific commands for this model, such as higher numerical precision or support for extra colors.
Available peripherals for the Pasopia 7 are a 5" disk drive, a Chinese characters ROM, a RS-232 interface and a printer. The keyboard is full-stroke JIS standard, with a separate numeric keypad and some function keys.
After 1988, some Pasopia 7 computers were donated to other countries (ex: Poland) under the "International Development of Computer Education Program".
Related models
Released in 1985, the Pasopia 700 is based on the Pasopia 7, and was intended as a home learning system developed by Toshiba and Obunsha. Two disk-drives were added to the side of the main unit and the keyboard is separate. This machine has two cartridge slots (one at the front).
Color palette
The Pasopia 7 uses hardware dithering to simulate intermediate color intensities, based on a mix of two of eight base RGB colors displayed using the 640 x 200 resolution. This allows the machine to display a maximum of 27 colors (3-level RGB).
The 8 base colors are displayed in bold.
Actual color limits depend on the graphic mode used:
Text mode: characters in 8 base colors, graphics in 4 colors (from 27);
Fine graphics mode: kanji characters in 8 base colors, graphics in 8 colors (from 27);
Palette function: 8 or 4 colors (from 27) depending on the overlap of kanjis and graphics;
Hardware tiling function: 27 colors can be displayed by combining 2 pixels, with 8 base colors available per pixel.
See also
Toshiba Pasopia
Toshiba Pasopia 5
Toshiba Pasopia IQ
Toshiba Pasopia 16
References
Pasopia
Z80-based home computers
Computer-related introductions in 1983 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis%20wireless%20internet%20network | The city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, is covered by a citywide broadband wireless internet network, sometimes called Wireless Minneapolis. The network was first proposed in 2003, at which point only a few other cities nationwide had such systems in place. Local firm US Internet beat out EarthLink to build and operate the network, with a guaranteed ten-year, multimillion-dollar contract from the city itself as the network's anchor tenant. Construction began on the project in 2006, but encountered several delays. Most of the city was covered by the network by 2010, and USI Wireless, the subsidiary of US Internet responsible for the system, set up numerous free internet access points at public locations around Minneapolis.
The network, which offers speeds of one to six megabits per second at a rate of about $20 per month, had about 20,000 residential subscribers by the end of 2010. Municipally, the network is used by city inspectors and employees, with plans in place for the police and fire departments to use it in the future. In 2007, when the I-35W Mississippi River bridge collapsed, the wireless system helped coordinate rescuers and emergency services. The city and USI Wireless have won praise for the network, which has been singled out for being one of the few successful municipal wireless ventures nationwide among a number of stalled or failed projects.
Background
At the time when the wireless network was under consideration, various other American cities already had such networks or were in the process of constructing them. Chaska and Moorhead, both in Minnesota, had city-owned and -operated wireless networks, while Philadelphia was considering building its own and Corpus Christi, Texas, was experimenting with a specialized government-use-only network.
Before the network was built, Minneapolis's city services were run on a combination of fiber optics and other services, with city inspectors, who worked throughout the city, using Sprint Cellular while working in the field. Around the same time, in 2005, Popular Science ranked Minneapolis as the "Top Tech City" in America, citing factors such as the city's 110 wireless hotspots, compared to the national average of 61 at the time.
History
The initiative to construct a citywide wireless internet network, initiated in 2003 by city councilmember Gary Schiff, aimed to both offer city residents with wireless access for around $20 per month, and also to improve city services such as fire and police by giving them greater access to information while en route or on-site anywhere in the city. Bridging the digital divide in the city was also a stated goal for the network.
Several ownership schemes were considered in the process of building and running the system. One plan, which named city officials as the owners and operators of the network, was scrapped because the city lacked the core competency to do it on its own, as well as the $25–30 million capital investment required for the initial construct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DPAA | DPAA may refer to:
Data Path Acceleration Architecture (DPAA)
Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters%20on%20Photonic%20Networks%20Engineering | The Masters on Photonic Networks engineering (MAPNET) is a European Union Erasmus Mundus Masters programme.
Overview
The Masters study programme has 30 ECTS by semester and is divided into four semesters. In the programme the first three semesters are designed as courses, laboratory sessions, and the last semester is based an independent work for the Masters thesis. This program is offered by the four universities:
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies
Berlin Institute of Technology
Aston University
Osaka University
Associated members
Ericsson - Sweden
Deutsche Telekom - Germany
Mitsubishi Electric - Japan
Fujitsu - Japan
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology - Japan
References
External links
MAsters on Photonic NETworks Engineering (MAPNET) website
Education in Pisa
Osaka University programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film%20Crash | Film Crash is a California-based annual film festival and screenplay competition, programming independent, animated, experimental, low-budget and underground films. The programmers award prizes.
History
In 1985 film director Matthew Harrison launched a floating film screening series in the East Village, Manhattan, adopting the name Film Crash and its associated logo in early 1988. He was joined later that year by film directors Karl Nussbaum and Scott Saunders.
Expansion
Film Crash grew, playing in venues such as 124 Ridge Street Gallery, Performance Space 122, R.A.P.P. Arts Center, Angelika Film Center, Shooting Gallery, São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound, Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. and Heliotrope Theater in Los Angeles. In 2014 Film Crash was held in Mid-City, Los Angeles on October 22. In 2015 a Screenplay Competition component was added to Film Crash. The 2023 Film Crash festival and screenplay competition was held at the Laemmle Royal Theatre in West Los Angeles on October 14.
Theater collaboration
As a collective of filmmakers, Film Crash also collaborated with the experimental theater group Ridge Theater , producing and directing films for several theater productions including Jack Benny at La Mama in 1988 and The Manson Family opera at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1990.
Film production
In 2002 Film Crash presented Mark Christensen's debut feature film Box Head Revolution. In 2006 Film Crash produced Ben Rodkin's debut feature film Big Heart City starring Seymour Cassel and Shawn Andrews.
Film Crash Programs
2023
October 14, 2023 - Laemmle Royal, West Los Angeles
2022
October 15, 2022 - Laemmle Royal, West Los Angeles
2021
October 16, 2021 - Laemmle Royal, West Los Angeles
2020
October 31, 2020 - Online event (due to COVID-19)
2019
October 12, 2019 - Laemmle Royal , West Los Angeles
2018
October 13, 2018 - Laemmle Royal , West Los Angeles
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|The Midpoint of a Very Long Story, Directed by Ertug Tufekcioglu, First Prize Drama
|My Heart is a Lure, Directed by Patrick Moser, First Prize Experimental Film
|Move, Directed by David Stenseth, First Prize Student Documentary
|Voice, Directed by Takeshi Kushida, First Prize Experimental Drama
|College Nomad, Directed by Albert Rano, First Prize Documentary
|The Hyacinth Girl, Julia Rock, Best Actor
|The Hyacinth Girl, Directed by Marielle Heydt, First Prize Best Movie
|Until We Reach The Sun, Directed by Daisy Dickinson, First Prize Animated Film
|Did You Hear?, Written by Joseph Harrison, First Prize Romantic Comedy Screenplay
|The Color Of Evil, Written by Connie Wilson, First Prize Horror Screenplay
|The Cottages, Written by John Darbonne, First Prize Web/New Media Screenplay
|Back Home, Written by Matthew Baker, First Prize Comedy Feature Screenplay
|Egalité, Written by Michael Head, First Prize 1-Hour Drama Pilot
|Til Death, Written by Alexandra Marshall, First Prize Dra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothed%20finite%20element%20method | Smoothed finite element methods (S-FEM) are a particular class of numerical simulation algorithms for the simulation of physical phenomena. It was developed by combining meshfree methods with the finite element method. S-FEM are applicable to solid mechanics as well as fluid dynamics problems, although so far they have mainly been applied to the former.
Description
The essential idea in the S-FEM is to use a finite element mesh (in particular triangular mesh) to construct numerical models of good performance. This is achieved by modifying the compatible strain field, or construct a strain field using only the displacements, hoping a Galerkin model using the modified/constructed strain field can deliver some good properties. Such a modification/construction can be performed within elements but more often beyond the elements (meshfree concepts): bring in the information from the neighboring elements. Naturally, the strain field has to satisfy certain conditions, and the standard Galerkin weak form needs to be modified accordingly to ensure the stability and convergence. A comprehensive review of S-FEM covering both methodology and applications can be found in ("Smoothed Finite Element Methods (S-FEM): An Overview and Recent Developments").
History
The development of S-FEM started from the works on meshfree methods, where the so-called weakened weak (W2) formulation based on the G space theory were developed. The W2 formulation offers possibilities for formulate various (uniformly) "soft" models that works well with triangular meshes. Because triangular mesh can be generated automatically, it becomes much easier in re-meshing and hence automation in modeling and simulation. In addition, W2 models can be made soft enough (in uniform fashion) to produce upper bound solutions (for force-driving problems). Together with stiff models (such as the fully compatible FEM models), one can conveniently bound the solution from both sides. This allows easy error estimation for generally complicated problems, as long as a triangular mesh can be generated. Typical W2 models are the Smoothed Point Interpolation Methods (or S-PIM). The S-PIM can be node-based (known as NS-PIM or LC-PIM), edge-based (ES-PIM), and cell-based (CS-PIM). The NS-PIM was developed using the so-called SCNI technique. It was then discovered that NS-PIM is capable of producing upper bound solution and volumetric locking free. The ES-PIM is found superior in accuracy, and CS-PIM behaves in between the NS-PIM and ES-PIM. Moreover, W2 formulations allow the use of polynomial and radial basis functions in the creation of shape functions (it accommodates the discontinuous displacement functions, as long as it is in G1 space), which opens further rooms for future developments.
The S-FEM is largely the linear version of S-PIM, but with most of the properties of the S-PIM and much simpler. It has also variations of NS-FEM, ES-FEM and CS-FEM. The major property of S-PIM can be found also in S-FEM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20language | In computer science, an action language is a language for specifying state transition systems, and is commonly used to create formal models of the effects of actions on the world. Action languages are commonly used in the artificial intelligence and robotics domains, where they describe how actions affect the states of systems over time, and may be used for automated planning.
Action languages fall into two classes: action description languages and action query languages. Examples of the former include STRIPS, PDDL, Language A (a generalization of STRIPS; the propositional part of Pednault's ADL), Language B (an extension of A adding indirect effects, distinguishing static and dynamic laws) and Language C (which adds indirect effects also, and does not assume that every fluent is automatically "inertial"). There are also the Action Query Languages P, Q and R. Several different algorithms exist for converting action languages, and in particular, action language C, to answer set programs. Since modern answer-set solvers make use of boolean SAT algorithms to very rapidly ascertain satisfiability, this implies that action languages can also enjoy the progress being made in the domain of boolean SAT solving.
Formal definition
All action languages supplement the definition of a state transition system with a set F of fluents, a set V of values that fluents may take, and a function mapping S × F to V, where S is the set of states of a state transition system.
See also
Linear temporal logic
GOLOG
Fluent calculus
Situation calculus
Event calculus
References
Programming language classification
Automated planning and scheduling
Transition systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Agency%20Network%20for%20Education%20in%20Emergencies | The Inter-agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) is an open global network of members working together to ensure all persons the right to quality and safe education in emergencies and post-crisis recovery. INEE members are from NGOs, UN agencies, donor agencies, governments, academic institutions, schools, and affected populations.
INEE Minimum Standards
The INEE Minimum Standards for Education: Preparedness, Response, Recovery are both a handbook and an expression of commitment that children, youth, and adults have a right to education during emergencies and fragile contexts, such as natural disasters and armed conflicts. The standards are founded on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Dakar 2000 Education for All goals and the Sphere Project’s Humanitarian Charter. The current edition of the handbook was published in 2010, following an extensive review and update of the original 2004 edition by thousands of individuals from more than 50 countries.
Network Spaces
INEE is a network of more than 16,000 individual members and 130 partner organizations in 190 countries. INEE members are practitioners working for national and international NGOs and UN agencies, ministry of education and other government personnel, donors, students, teachers, and researchers who voluntarily join in the work related to education in emergencies. INEE exists for and because of its members.
INEE maintains a core staff team, the INEE Secretariat, that represents the network, leads and supports network activities, and coordinates network processes, systems and projects. INEE Secretariat staff are hosted by INEE Steering Group member agencies, which not only helps to ensure promotion and institutionalization of education in emergencies within those agencies but is also cost-efficient.
The INEE Steering Group sets goals and plans for the network, approves new working groups and task teams, and provides strategic guidance to the Secretariat staff. The INEE Steering Group is composed of ten organizational members, represented by senior professionals in the field of education in emergencies.
INEE Working Groups are formal groups of institutional members who work together to implement specific activities toward the achievement of the INEE Strategic Plan. Working Groups are composed of experts and practitioners from a variety of international organisations and institutions, and membership is gained through an application process.
INEE Language Communities are vibrant forums that foster collaborative resource development and knowledge-sharing among Arabic, French, Portuguese, and Spanish-speaking members of INEE. The INEE Language Communities collate and disseminate key resources in the relevant languages, and where gaps are identified, work to develop or translate new tools and case studies. The Language Communities also undertake advocacy and outreach in Arabic-speaking, Lusophone, Francophone and Hispanophone countries, raising awareness about the im |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile%20Service%20Engine | Versatile Service Engine is a second generation IP Multimedia Subsystem developed by Nortel Networks that is compliant with Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture specifications. Nortel's versatile service engine provides capability to telecommunication service provider to
offer global System for mobile communications and code-division multiple access services in both wireline and wireless mode.
History
The Versatile Service Engine is a joint effort of Nortel and Motorola. The aim of collaboration was to develop an Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture compliant platform for Nortel IP Multimedia Subsystem applications. Nortel joined the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group in 2002 and the work on Versatile Service Engine was started in 2004.
Architecture
A single versatile service engine frame consists of three shelves, each shelf having three slots.
A single slot can have many sub-slots staging a blade in it. Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture blades can be processors, switches, AMC carriers, etc. A typical shelf will contain one or more switch blades and several processor blades. The power supply and cooling fans are located in the back pane of the Versatile Service Engine.
Ericsson ownership
After Nortel Networks filed for bankruptcy protection in January 2009, Ericsson telecommunications then acquired the code-division multiple access and LTE based assets of then Canada's largest telecom equipment maker, hence taking the ownership of Versatile service engine.
References
External links
Official Nortel website
Computer networking
Computer buses
Telecommunications equipment
Nortel products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable%20Fuels%20Regulators%20Club | The Renewable Fuels Regulators Club (or REFUREC) is a network of governmental institutions that offers a pan-European platform for discussion, information exchange and tackling cross-border issues relating to the biofuels market in the European Union and beyond.
REFUREC was initiated in 2009 by the Renewable Fuels Agency, a UK Government non-departmental public body, created by the Department for Transport to implement the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation or RTFO.
Function
The Renewable Fuels Regulators Club was established to help address consistent implementation and regulation of the biofuels market. By facilitating and fostering stronger working relations between counterparts working in the field throughout Europe, REFUREC aims to minimise the regulatory burden of the new rules, and to maximise the overall effectiveness of the Renewables Directive.
Structure
REFUREC is an informal network, participation is voluntary and not binding. There are no membership fees involved. The network organises two till four formal meetings a year to share knowledge, ideas and strategies on how best to implement workable interpretations of the Renewables Directive across respective borders. The member states of the EU and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) have evolved different methods of regulating biofuel consumption. The different starting points, combined with the intrinsic subtleties and complexities of the legislation are what lead REFUREC to believe that this kind of close co-operation is key to successful implementation of the Renewables Directive.
In addition to formal meetings, REFUREC organises topic-specific ad-hoc meetings, facilitates internal working groups with interested member state organisations participating, and coordinates pan-European information exchange in between the formal meetings.
The administrative part is provided by an informal, rotating secretariat. April 2011 - June 2012, the Spanish Comisión Nacional de Energía (CNE) led on the secretariat work and successfully handed over in July 2012 to the Dutch Emissions Authority (Nederlandse Emissieautoriteit, Netherlands). October 2013 - September 2015, the Swedish Energy Agency coordinated the secretariat work. In October 2015, the Finnish Energy Authority took the lead and provided secretariat support for two years, before Orkustofnun, Iceland's National Energy Authority, took over until September 2019. Since October 2019, Ireland's National Oil Reserves Agency holds responsibility for two years.
Meetings
The inaugural meeting was held on 4 February 2010 in London, and was attended by representatives from the UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, and the European Commission. To date, further workshops have been held in Brussels, Bonn, Madrid, The Hague, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Stockholm, Valletta, Dublin, Oslo, Luxembourg, Paris, Bratislava, Helsinki, Vienna, Tallinn, Reykjavik, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITC%20Luigi%20Paolini | The Technical Institute Luigi Paolini, often referred to simply as il Paolini, is an Italian secondary school offering diplomas in administration, finance, marketing, accounting, computer programming, and international relations, as well as surveying.
Unified with the Professional Institute Cassiano da Imola, it forms a bigger institute, called "Paolini Cassiano"
See also
Education in Italy
Notes
External links
http://www.paolinicassiano.gov.it/ - Official school website
Secondary schools in Italy
Schools in Emilia-Romagna
Imola |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil%20Bernstein | Philip Alan Bernstein is a computer scientist specializing in database research in the Database Group of Microsoft Research. Bernstein is also an affiliate professor at the University of Washington and frequent committee member or chair of conferences such as VLDB and SIGMOD. He won the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award in 1994, and in 2011 with Jayant Madhavan and Erhard Rahm the VLDB 10 Year Best Paper Award for their VLDB 2001 paper "Generic Schema Matching with Cupid".
Bernstein was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for contributions to transaction-processing and database systems. He is also an elected Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He is a charter member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences (2008) and served on their board of directors from 2012 to 2018.
References
External links
Phil Bernstein MSR page
DBLP Publications Server
Database researchers
American computer scientists
Microsoft employees
Microsoft Research people
Living people
University of Toronto alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papo%20%26%20Yo | Papo & Yo is a fantasy adventure video game, released on August 14, 2012 on the PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Network and since April 18, 2013 on Microsoft Windows through Steam. It was released on January 7, 2014 on OS X and Linux through the Humble Indie Bundle X, and on July 1, 2015 via Steam. The game involves a young Brazilian boy Quico who, while hiding from his abusive, alcoholic father, finds himself taken to a dream-like favela, and meeting a normally docile creature, Monster. The player, as Quico, can interact with Monster and manipulate the buildings of the favela in unique ways, such as by stacking individual shacks on each other, to complete puzzles and progress in the game. Papo & Yo was designed by Vander Caballero, who created the story based on his own past in dealing with an abusive, alcoholic father.
Gameplay
The game takes place in an unspecified Brazilian favela which the player has to navigate. The player takes on the role of Quico, a young boy who has run away from his home to escape his abusive and alcoholic father. Quico has the ability to turn the environment into a magical and dream-like world. For example, tugging a glowing thread can pull a stairway out of the side of a building, lifting a cardboard box can cause an entire building to come unmoored from its foundations, shacks can sprout legs and scuttle into place to provide a handy bridge. According to Ars Technica's website "there's a sense of childlike imagination at play in the way the game adds a layer of magic into the rundown world, and it's likely to make you look at your own surroundings a little differently after you play".
One of the key elements of the game is Monster, a giant that Quico discovers while navigating through the slums. Monster at first appears to be very kind and helpful. He can be made to hold down pressure plates and his belly can be used as a super-trampoline to reach rooftops. Monster has an addiction for eating frogs and if he eats one he becomes a fiery, raging beast that will damage anything around him, even Quico if he cannot get away quickly enough. The player can use a fruit to calm him.
Plot
Quico is a young Brazilian boy that has been abused by his alcoholic father. While hiding in his closet during one of his father's drunken rages, clutching his favorite toy, a robot doll named Lula, Quico discovers a strange chalk mark on the wall, and touching it, finds himself taken to a dream-like world. There, a young girl named Alejandra initially sees Quico as a threat, but comes to be a guide. Lula also becomes animated and helps guide Quico through the world.
Quico eventually comes upon a giant lumbering creature, simply known as Monster. Alejandra and Lula warn Quico about the dangers of Monster, but Quico finds the creature docile and playful. However, when Monster eats a frog, it becomes enraged, chasing after Quico until he can calm it with a rotten fruit. They proceed through the dream world, but during one episode when |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%20Bosco%20Community%20College%2C%20Dindigul | Don Bosco Community College is a technical skill training institute in West Marianathapuram, near Dindigul, Tamil Nadu, India, founded in 2003. It provides diploma programmes in Tailoring, Computer, Kindergarten Teacher, House Electrician, Welding and Two wheeler mechanism to the target group of poor, marginalized, dropout youth and rural women. The institute is run by the Salesian Priests of Tiruchy Salesian Province. The community college is affiliated to Tamil Nadu Open University (TNOU).
The community college was upgraded to College of Arts and Science and was shifted to Keela Eral, Thoothukudi District, in the year 2012. Now it is known as Don Bosco College of Arts and Science, Keela Eral. It has six undergraduate degree programmes and a post graduate degree programme now.
Contact Address
Don Bosco Community College,
Malapatty Road,
Thottanuthu Post,
Dindigul - 624 005,
Tamil Nadu,
References
External links
www.donboscodgl.org
Salesian schools
Vocational education in India
Catholic universities and colleges in India
Colleges in Tamil Nadu
Education in Dindigul district
Educational institutions established in 2003
2003 establishments in Tamil Nadu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KindWords | KindWords is a word processor for the Amiga computer. It allows for capturing of text, changing of text formatting, printing and many other aspects of desktop publishing.
References
See also
Amiga software
Word processors
1987 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTDigg | BTDigg is the first Mainline DHT search engine. It participated in the BitTorrent DHT network, supporting the network and making correspondence between magnet links and a few torrent attributes (name, size, list of files) which are indexed and inserted into a database. For end users, BTDigg provides a full-text database search via a Web interface. The web part of its search system retrieved proper information by a user's text query. The Web search supported queries in European and Asian languages. The project name was an acronym of BitTorrent Digger (in this context, digger means a treasure-hunter). It went offline in June 2016, reportedly due to index spam. The site returned later in 2016 at a dot-com domain, went offline again, and is now online. The btdig.com site has its torrent crawler's source code listed on GitHub, dhtcrawler2.
Features
BTDigg was created as a DHT search engine for free content for the BitTorrent network. The web part of the BTDigg search system provides magnet links and partial torrent information (name, list of files, size) from the database. The returned results are based on a user's text query. BTDigg's DHT search engine links two subjects that are partial information from a torrent and a magnet link, similar to the process of linking the content of a web page with a page URL. BTDigg also provides API for third-party applications.
BTDigg Web interface supports English, Russian, Portuguese languages. Users can customize search results by choosing proper sort order in the web interface. Additional features are search API, API popularity, plugins for μTorrent and qBittorrent clients, Web browser OpenSearch plugin (for Internet Explorer, Google Chrome). API popularity gives a picture of changing popularity for a torrent in the BitTorrent DHT network.
History of BTDigg
BTDigg was founded by Nina Evseenko in January 2011. The site is also available via the I2P network and Tor. In March–April 2011, several new features were introduced, among them web plugin to search with one click, qBittorrent plugin, showing torrent info-hash as QR code picture, torrent fakes and duplicates detection, and charts of the popular torrents in soft real-time. In 2012, the website started to support SSL connections.
Advantages and disadvantages
BTDigg provides decentralization of torrent index database creation, and the ability to show distributed ratings provided by users via μTorrent. There is no guarantee about content because BTDigg does not analyze nor store content. BTDigg is not a tracker because it does not participate in nor coordinate the BitTorrent swarm. It is not a BitTorrent Index because it does not store and does not maintain a static list of torrents.
References
BitTorrent websites
Internet properties established in 2011
Internet search engines
Tor onion services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robust%20random%20early%20detection | Robust random early detection (RRED) is a queueing discipline for a network scheduler. The existing random early detection (RED) algorithm and its variants are found vulnerable to emerging attacks, especially the Low-rate Denial-of-Service attacks (LDoS). Experiments have confirmed that the existing RED-like algorithms are notably vulnerable under LDoS attacks due to the oscillating TCP queue size caused by the attacks.
The Robust RED (RRED) algorithm was proposed to improve the TCP throughput against LDoS attacks. The basic idea behind the RRED is to detect and filter out attack packets before a normal RED algorithm is applied to incoming flows. RRED algorithm can significantly improve the performance of TCP under Low-rate denial-of-service attacks.
The design of Robust RED (RRED)
A detection and filter block is added in front of a regular RED block on a router. The basic idea behind the RRED is to detect and filter out LDoS attack packets from incoming flows before they feed to the RED algorithm. How to distinguish an attacking packet from normal TCP packets is critical in the RRED design.
Within a benign TCP flow, the sender will delay sending new packets if loss is detected (e.g., a packet is dropped). Consequently, a packet is suspected to be an attacking packet if it is sent within a short-range after a packet is dropped. This is the basic idea of the detection algorithm of Robust RED (RRED).
Algorithm of the Robust RED (RRED)
algorithm RRED-ENQUE(pkt)
01 f ← RRED-FLOWHASH(pkt)
02 Tmax ← MAX(Flow[f].T1, T2)
03 if pkt.arrivaltime is within [Tmax, Tmax+T*] then
04 reduce local indicator by 1 for each bin corresponding to f
05 else
06 increase local indicator by 1 for each bin of f
07 Flow[f].I ← maximum of local indicators from bins of f
08 if Flow[f].I ≥ 0 then
09 RED-ENQUE(pkt) // pass pkt to the RED block
10 if RED drops pkt then
11 T2 ← pkt.arrivaltime
12 else
13 Flow[f].T1 ← pkt.arrivaltime
14 drop(pkt)
15 return
f.T1 is the arrival time of the last packet from flow f that is dropped by the detection and filter block.
T2 is the arrival time of the last packet from any flow that is dropped by the random early detection (RED) block.
Tmax = max(f.T1, T2).
T* is a short time period, which is empirically chosen to be 10 ms in a default RRED algorithm.
The simulation code of the Robust RED (RRED)
The simulation code of the RRED algorithm is published as an active queue management and denial-of-service attack (AQM&DoS) simulation platform. The AQM&DoS Simulation Platform is able to simulate a variety of DoS attacks (Distributed DoS, Spoofing DoS, Low-rate DoS, etc.) and active queue management (AQM) algorithms (RED, RRED, SFB, etc.). It automatically calculates and records the average throughput of normal TCP flows before and after DoS attacks to facilitate the analysis of the impact of DoS attacks on normal TCP flows and AQM a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon%20Danielsson | Jón Danielsson (born 17. October 1963) is an icelandic economist and author teaching at the London School of Economics. Danielssons work focuses on artificial intelligence, risk forecasting, international finance, cryptocurrencies, and systemic causes of financial instability. He has written several books on finance and risk analysis, and is active in both domestic and international policy debates on financial regualtion.
Danielsson received his PhD in economics from Duke University in 1991, and began working at the LSE in 1997, after working for the Bank of Japan and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In 2012, he was named director of the LSE's Systemic Risk Centre (SRC), which conducts research on financial crises and risk as well as financial regulation.
Career
Danielsson's research areas include systemic risk, artificial intelligence, cryptocurrencies, financial risk, hedge funds, financial regulations, market volatility, liquidity, models of extreme market movements, and microstructure of foreign exchange markets. He has written extensively on the post-crash situation in Iceland.
In 2012, he became director of the Systemic Risk Centre (SRC) at the London School of Economics, which was set up to study the risks that may trigger another financial crisis and to develop tools to help policymakers and financial institutions become better prepared. The Centre is funded by ESRC with an annual budget of £1 million.
Illusion of control
Danielsson published a book with Yale University Press in 2022 titled Illusion of control where he challenges to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to fail.
Artificial intelligence and systemic risk
Danielsson, with co-authors, has been studying how artificial intelligence affects financial stability and systemic risk, finding that while AI is likely to make most risk management and micro prudential regulations cheaper and more efficient, systemic risk is set to rise. The reason is that AI makes the problem of procyclicality, manipulation and optimization against the system worse than the current human centered set up. They have a recent published paper on the topic, Artificial Intelligence and Systemic Risk and a blog Artificial intelligence as a central banker
Central bank reaction to COVID-19 and moral hazard
Danielsson, with co-authors, has been studying how central bank reaction to Covid-19, such as macro prudential relaxation, liquidity injections and FX swaps were perceived by the financial markets. They find that the policy interventions were successful in the short term calming of financial markets, but raise serious questions about long-term moral hazard, see, The Calming of Short-Term Market Fears and Its Long-Term Consequences: The Central Banks’ Dilemma.
The drivers of financial crises
Danielsson and co-authors have studied the problem of how risk affects the likelihood of crises, mot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skout | SKOUT is the developer of a location-based social networking and dating application and website. SKOUT was one of the first dating and mobile people discovery applications to emphasize generalized user location. SKOUT is available on both iOS and Android operating systems. Other SKOUT properties include Nixter, a nightlife app, and Fuse, an ephemeral group messaging app. SKOUT reported that over 500 million connections were made using its app in 2013.
SKOUT uses a cellphone's global positioning system to help users to find other users within a general radius of one another. SKOUT does not identify a user's precise location, and users can choose to opt out of the location-tracking features of the app. GPS location is only enabled in the adult community. While searching for people, users can view the profile and recent activities of others that they find interesting. The application also allows users to instant message or send virtual gifts to one another. The company segregates its adult and teen communities. SKOUT is available in 189 countries and 16 languages.
History
The service was founded as a mobile web social network in 2007 by Christian Wiklund and Niklas Lindstrom. The two, Skout's chief executive officer and chief technology officer respectively, relaunched the network in 2009 as a dating and people discovery application and website after recognizing over 80% of the site's users were using it as a dating platform. SKOUT launched its iOS application in February 2009 at the 2009 DEMO conference. At the time, SKOUT was available for users on non-iOS mobile internet devices through its website. Skout's Android app launched in August 2010.
SKOUT raised $22 million in venture capital from Andreessen Horowitz in April 2012. Prior to this investment, SKOUT had raised a collective $4.6 million in angel investment. In June 2012, SKOUT suspended its service for minors, after three separate incidents in which minors were allegedly raped by adults posing as teenagers. It later resumed its services for teenagers in July 2012 with after introducing additional safety measures.
SKOUT announced a travel feature that allows users to meet people in another city while traveling in 2013. SKOUT Travel is a premium paid feature. Another feature available on SKOUT is "Shake to Chat." Shake to Chat connects users to others who are shaking their phones at the same time. User profiles are anonymous for 40 seconds after the Shake to Chat conversation begins. In 2015, SKOUT launched Interested? - it uses the ‘Meet People’ search settings and instantly matches Skouters who share similar interests. SKOUT extended its services from 14 languages to 16 languages including Malay and Vietnamese in 2016.
In May 2014, the company acquired Nixter, a nightlife app which allows users to find nightlife events, buy tickets, and see guest lists for events in New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. SKOUT launched Fuse, an app that gives users tools to construct their own |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo%20File%20%28ASCII%29 | The Turbo File devices from ASCII Corporation are external storage devices for saved game data on various Nintendo consoles. They have been sold only in Japan, and are mainly supported by ASCII's own games. The first one was designed primarily to allow players transfer data between the Wizardry games released on the Famicom (and later Game Boy and Super Famicom).
Turbofile
Turbofile is for the Famicom, and was released in 1986. It contains 8 kilobytes of battery-backed SRAM. It connects to the Famicom's 15-pin controller expansion port.
It is supported by:
Best Play Pro Yakyuu (1988) ASCII (J)
Best Play Pro Yakyuu '90 (1990) (J)
Best Play Pro Yakyuu II (1990) (J)
Best Play Pro Yakyuu Special (1992) (J)
Castle Excellent (1986) ASCII (J) (early access method without filename) (also supports the Famicom Data Recorder)
Derby Stallion - Zenkoku Ban (1992) Sonobe Hiroyuki/ASCII (J)
Downtown - Nekketsu Monogatari (1989) Technos Japan Corp (J)
Dungeon Kid (1990) Quest/Pixel (J)
Fleet Commander (1988) ASCII (J)
Haja no Fuuin (1986) ASCII/KGD (J)
Itadaki Street - Watashi no Mise ni Yottette (1990) ASCII (J)
Ninja Rahoi! (J)
Wizardry - Legacy of Llylgamyn (1989) (J)
Wizardry - Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (1987) (J)
Wizardry - The Knight of Diamonds (1990) (J)
Turbo File II
The Turbo File II was designed for the Famicom. Same as Turbo File, but contains 32 Kbytes battery-backed SRAM, divided into 4 slots of 8 Kbytes, the slots are selectable via a 4-position switch.
Turbo File Adapter
Turbo File Adapter is for the Super Famicom, and was released around 1992. It allows to connect a Turbo File or Turbo File II to Super Famicom consoles. Aside from the pin-conversion (15pin Famicom to 7pin Super Famicom controller port), the device contains some electronics to add a SNES-controller ID code, and a more complicated transmission protocol for entering the data transfer mode.
It is supported by:
Ardy Lightfoot (1993)
Derby Stallion II (1994)
Derby Stallion III (1995) (supports both TFII and STF modes)
Derby Stallion 96 (1996) (supports both TFII and STF modes, plus Satellaview mini FLASH cartridges)
Derby Stallion 98 (NP) (1998) (supports both TFII and STF modes)
Down the World: Mervil's Ambition (1994)
Kakinoki Shogi (1995)
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together (1995) (supports both TFII and STF modes)
Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom (1992) (Japanese version only - the Turbo File hardware detection is made non-functional in the US-version).
Turbo File Twin
Turbo File Twin is for the Super Famicom, and was released around 1995. It contains 160 kilobytes of battery-backed SRAM. 4×8 kilobytes are used in the four TFII-modes (emulating a Turbo File II with Turbo File Adapter), and the remaining 128 kilobytes are used for a new SNES-specific "STF" mode. The STF mode is supported by:
Bahamut Lagoon (1996) Square
Daisenryaku Expert WWII: War in Europe (1996) SystemSoftAlpha/ASCII Corp (JP)
Dark Law: Meaning of Death (1997) ASCII (JP)
Derby Stallion III |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin%20Cassadine | Valentin Cassadine is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network. The character was initially conceived in 2009 by head writer Robert Guza Jr., as a previously unknown member of the wealthy Cassadine family looking to wreak havoc on both the Cassadine and Spencer families. However, initial plans for the character's introduction were delayed and completely abandoned by 2010. In 2016, it was announced that All My Children alumnus James Patrick Stuart had joined the cast in the mystery role of Theo – who is revealed to be Valentin. Valentin is known for being the most evil of the Cassadine sons, having been disowned by his father at a very young age. At one point, he poisons his mother Helena (Constance Towers).
Stuart's performance has been met with critical acclaim, having garnered him three consecutive Daytime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Storylines
In October 2009, a deathly ill Helena Cassadine (Constance Towers) confides in her longtime enemy Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary) that she needs his help to fend off her evil stepson Valentin. According to Helena, the illegitimate Valentin had been disowned by his father Mikkos (John Colicos) upon his birth, denying him the privileges of being a Cassadine.
Helena contacts Valentin hoping to use him against her rebellious grandson, Nikolas (Tyler Christopher) but instead, Valentin overpowers Helena taking over the family's private island in Greece and Nicholas slowly poisoning Helena. Valentin's henchmen try to keep Helena and Luke from escaping only for Nikolas to come to her rescue. She warns everyone Nicholas has promised to destroy not only the Cassadines, but also the Spencers. Mikkos's daughter Alexis Davis (Nancy Lee Grahn) reveals she had only heard of her brother's treachery toward their father specifically, but Alexis had come to believe the never before seen Valentin was only a front for Helena and her schemes.
Luke later accuses Helena of having had Valentin murdered. She admits she thought Valentin had indeed died before realizing he is actually alive and well. Much like Luke and Alexis, Nikolas believes Valentin is long dead and Helena is just using the threat of Valentin to manipulate him.
In July 2016, fisherman Theo Hart claims to have been trapped on Cassadine Island due to bad weather. Jason (Billy Miller) and Sam (Kelly Monaco) agree to let him stay. Theo feigns surprise at Nikolas (Nick Stabile) also being on the island, and explains they met briefly when Nikolas was a teenager. Theo announces his plans to leave the island when the storm clears only to return and take several hostages at gun point and reveal himself to be Valentin.
He then separates Nikolas and Ava Jerome (Maura West) from the group, demanding he sign over his entire fortune in exchange for Valentin sparing the lives of his friends and family. When Valentin threatens to kill Ava anyway, a struggle ens |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA%20%28disambiguation%29 | DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is a research agency of the US Government.
DARPA may also refer to:
DARPA Quantum Network, the first quantum key distribution network
DARPANET, aka ARPANET, the first operational packet switching network of a set that came to compose the global Internet
DARPA Agent Markup Language, focused on the creation of machine-readable representations for the Web
DARPA Falcon Project
DARPA Grand Challenge, a prize competition for driverless vehicles
DARPA Grand Challenge (2007), third driverless car competition
DARPA Network Challenge, a prize competition for exploring the roles the Internet and social networking play in the real-time communications
DARPA Silent Talk, aka Brain–computer interface, a direct communication pathway between the brain and an external device
Darpa, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
Darpa (butterfly), a genus of skipper butterfly
See also
Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA) |
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