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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%27s%20Got%20Talent%20%28season%205%29 | Australia's Got Talent is an Australian reality television show, based on the original UK series, claiming to find new talent. The fifth season premiered on the Seven Network on 3 May 2011 and ended on 2 August 2011, where singer Jack Vidgen was crowned the winner of Australia's Got Talent, while illusionist Cosentino became runner-up. Judges Dannii Minogue, Kyle Sandilands, and Brian McFadden returned for the series, as well as host Grant Denyer.
The producer auditions took place in 16 cities across Australia, and ran from October to December 2010. The successful acts from these auditions were then invited back for a second audition in front of the judges and a live audience. These auditions were held in February and March 2011 in four major cities, including one day in Gold Coast and Perth, two days in Sydney, and three days in Melbourne. From over 200 successful auditionees, only 48 acts were selected for the semi-finals. The six semi-final shows began on 31 May 2011 and ended on 5 July. Introduced, was a new format to the show where three acts from each semi-final would advance through to the next round. In previous years only two acts have made it through each semi-final.
One of the most notable performances was by Jack Vidgen, a 14-year-old singer who sang a rendition of Whitney Houston's "I Have Nothing" for his audition. His performance earned a standing ovation from both the judges and the audiences, and has received more than 1.5 million views on YouTube. Vidgen has since been dubbed Australia's answer to Justin Bieber, and has also attracted international and local interest. The show had also sparked controversy, with accusations of contestant Jordan Paris plagiarising other comedians' jokes in his audition, and reports of contestant Chooka Parker's incident backstage following his elimination from the show.
Auditions
The producer auditions took place in 16 cities, throughout New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory. These auditions began on 17 October 2010 and ended on 12 December 2010. The successful acts from the auditions were then invited to a second audition in front of the judges and a live audience. These auditions began in Gold Coast on 19 February 2011, followed by three days in Melbourne from 25 February 2011. They also took place in Sydney on 12–13 March 2011, and ended in Perth on 20 March 2011.
Semi-finalists
Semi-final summary
Buzzed out | Judges' vote |
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Semi-final 1
Semi-final 2
Semi-final 3
Semi-final 4
Semi-final 5
Semi-final 6
Notes
Due to the majority vote for Majestic, Minogue's voting intention was not revealed.
Due to complications, The Flying Lotahs had to perform outside the studio; the judges were required to be in person to view the performance, and used hand-carried signs in place of their buzzers, though they never used them.
Finals summary
The "Order" columns lists the order of appearance each act made for ever |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranacoleia | Paranacoleia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Species
Paranacoleia cuspidata Du & Li, 2008
Paranacoleia elegantula Du & Li, 2008
Paranacoleia lophophoralis (Hampson, 1912)
Paranacoleia lubrica Du & Li, 2008
References
Spilomelinae
Crambidae genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%27s%20Got%20Talent%20%28season%204%29 | Australia's Got Talent is an Australian reality television show, based on the original UK series, to find new talent. The fourth season premiered on the Seven Network on 13 April 2010 and ended on 15 June 2010. Radio DJ Kyle Sandilands and Irish singer Brian McFadden joined the judging panel as replacements for Tom Burlinson and Red Symons. Auditions took place throughout February 2010 and were held in the five major cities across Australia. The live shows began on 11 May 2010 and ended on 15 June 2010, where dance troupe Justice Crew were crowned the winners of the fourth season of Australia's Got Talent. They were awarded a prize of $250,000. Runner-up Cameron Henderson was awarded a runner-up prize of performing at the 2010 AFL Grand Final.
Judges
In January 2010, it was made known that the judging panel would undergo a new line-up to accommodate Minogue's pregnancy. Judge Red Symons was strongly tipped to return to the Nine Network to be part of the revived Hey Hey It's Saturday, while Tom Burlinson was rumoured to be dumped from the judging panel. Rumours then began to circulate that Kyle Sandilands and Brian McFadden would be the new judges. On 4 February 2010, Sandilands confirmed on his 2Day FM breakfast radio show that he would be a judge. A press release from the Seven Network on 17 February, confirmed McFadden would also join the new judging panel.
Auditions
Semi-finalists
Semi-final summary
Buzzed out | Judges' vote |
| |
Semi-final 1
Semi-final 2
Semi-final 3
Semi-final 4
Due to the majority vote for Cameron Henderson, Sandilands' voting intention was not revealed.
Final
Ratings
References
Australia's Got Talent
2010 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4Children | 4Children was a charity in the United Kingdom focusing on children and families. Formerly the National Out of School Alliance and then the Kids' Club Network, the organisation was formed in 1983 to promote and develop a concept of after-school provision following research conducted by the British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centre (BASSAC).
4Children ran 88 Sure Start Children's Centres across the country, 42 nurseries, 21 out of school clubs and provides services in 24 activity centres at Royal Air Force bases in partnership with the RAF Benevolent Fund.
History
National Out of School Alliance (1980-1987)
In 1980 a number of research and pilot projects set up during the International Year of the Child in 1979 led to the formation of the Out of School Project. The goal of this project was to support and encourage community-based out of school schemes and local authority provision in schools, youth clubs etc., by providing the necessary advice, information, training and research. In collaboration with the Thames Television Telethon which provided support to the new and existing local groups, this eventually led to the formation of the National Out of School Alliance. The Alliance became an independent organisation in 1983 and aimed to promote care and education of children during out of school hours and holidays.
The number of staff employed had doubled by 1989 and the Alliance published its Guidelines of Good Practice for Out of School Care – for which they received the 1989 Prince of Wales award.
Kids' Club Network 1990-1999
In 1990 the Alliance was re-registered as the Kids' Clubs Network. There were 300 kids' clubs in the UK, but the organisation estimated that a total of 25,000 clubs – one in every neighbourhood or near every primary school – were needed. A year later the first regional offices opened in Merseyside and Wales. By 1992, 10 regional development projects were operational and the number of kids' clubs had risen to 600, and in 1994 the 1000th kids' club was opened in Walsall. Kids' Clubs Network expanded rapidly in Wales and a Welsh Head Office was established in Cardiff. Tony Blair attended the opening of the 2000th Kids' Club at Sedgefield Out of School Fun Club. The first National Kids' Clubs Day was held on 7 June 1995. Over 600 delegates attended the 1998 Kids' Clubs Network's conference.
In 2000, Kids' Clubs Network set up the Childcare Commission – an independent inquiry into the future for childcare and family support. Chaired by the Harriet Harman MP, the Commission published its findings in January 2001.
4Children
In 2004 Kids' Clubs Network changed its name to 4Children. The newly named organisation was officially launched at the organisation's annual policy conference 'Tomorrow's World' at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster. The following year the charity announced plans to expand their work by running children's centres in partnership with local government. In 2005 4Chi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysteries%20of%20Chinatown | Mysteries of Chinatown is an American crime drama series that aired on the ABC television network from December 4, 1949 to October 23, 1950. Marvin Miller made his television debut in the series.
Cast
Marvin Miller as Dr. Yat Fu
Gloria Saunders as Ah Toy, niece of Dr. Fu
Cy Kendall (pilot only)
Spencer Chan as Lu Sung
Keye Luke
Ed MacDonald as Sgt. Cummings
William Blythe at Sgt. Hargrove
Robert Bice (played Dr. Yat Fu only in the pilot.)
Wong Artarne as Yee Wai, nephew of Dr. Fu
Bo Ling as Lo Sing
Plot
The series focused on Dr. Yat Fu (Miller), the proprietor of a herb and curio shop in San Francisco's Chinatown, and also an amateur sleuth. Fu helped police to solve crimes, usually being helped by his nephew and niece.
Episodes included "The Body in Drawing Room D" and "The Case of the Missing Alibi".
Production
Mysteries of Chinatown originated at an east Hollywood studio that ABC bought from Warner Bros. Episodes were broadcast live in Hollywood and recorded via kinescope to be sent to New York for later transmission to the rest of the United States. Ray Buffum was the producer, and Richard Goggin was the director. Rex Koury provided the music. The program was sustaining.
References
External links
Mysteries of Chinatown at IMDB
List of episodes at CTVA
American Broadcasting Company original programming
1949 American television series debuts
1950 American television series endings
1940s American television series
1950s American crime drama television series
Black-and-white American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Monitoring%20Plan | The Global Monitoring Plan (GMP) under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is a programme that enables collection of comparable monitoring data from all regions of the world to assess the effectiveness of the Stockholm Convention in minimizing human and environmental exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs). To know whether the levels of POPs are increasing or decreasing over time, information on environmental and human exposure levels of these chemicals should enable detection of trends. GMP looks at background levels of POPs at locations not influenced by local sources, such as ‘hot spots’. For human sampling, the focus is on the general population rather than on individuals who may have suffered high exposure to POPs.
Scope and implementation
The programme covers 22 POPs listed under the Stockholm Convention. It provides a harmonized framework for the collection of comparable measurement data in air, human milk and blood and other media. The monitoring plan provides guidance on how information is to be collected, analyzed, statistically treated, and reported.
Ambient air, and human milk and blood are used as core media for the sampling and analysis of POPs. Open ocean and coastal waters and large lakes serve as core media for sampling perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), its salts and perfluorooctane sulfonyl fluoride (PFOS-F).
Monitoring data under the GMP are derived from existing international and regional programmes and activities, existing national programmes and activities, and national or regional arrangements and through capacity-building activities. National data are mostly available in developed countries, while capacity building projects and partnerships support data collection in developing countries.
Air monitoring
Air monitoring data are indicators of environmental exposure to POPs. Ambient air is an important matrix because it has a very short response time to changes in atmospheric emissions. It is also an entry point into food chains and a medium of global transport of POPs loadings to the environment.
Biomonitoring
The objective of human monitoring within the GMP is to identify temporal and spatial trends in levels of POPs in humans. Biomonitoring under the GMP uses human milk and maternal blood as core media. Among human monitoring activities under the GMP, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) / World Health Organization (WHO) monitor human exposure over time in order to evaluate whether the Stockholm agreement is effective in reducing the release of these chemicals into the environment and ultimately human exposure. The surveys include human breast milk samples from a wide range of countries with large differences in food consumption patterns and environmental levels of POPs. In addition, maternal blood plasma is regularly monitored with standardized protocols such as the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP).
Awareness-raising
Human biomonitoring under the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGBT%20%28AM%29 | KGBT (1530 kHz, "TUDN Radio McAllen 1530 AM") is a Spanish-language AM radio station, licensed to Harlingen, Texas, and serving the Rio Grande Valley border area. It is owned by Latino Media Network; under a local marketing agreement, it is programmed by former owner TelevisaUnivision's Uforia Audio Network, and airs a Spanish language sports radio format, supplied by the TUDN Radio Network.
By day, KGBT is powered at 50,000 watts non-directional, the maximum for American commercial AM radio stations. Because 1530 AM is a clear channel frequency reserved for KFBK Sacramento and WCKY Cincinnati, KGBT reduces power at night to 10,000 watts to avoid interference. After sunset and during critical hours, it uses a directional antenna with a six-tower array. The transmitter is on Route 491 in Stockholm, Texas.
History
Early years of KGBS and KSOX
In 1941, McHenry Tichenor, former publisher of the Valley Morning Star newspaper, broke ground on a new radio station at a site known as Harbenito, between Harlingen and San Benito. The "Harbenito station", KGBS on 1240 kHz, signed on the air at dawn on August 20, 1941. It was the third radio station in the Valley. The station obtained a CBS radio affiliation in 1943, just two years after signing on.
Meanwhile, after several years of protests from the 1530 AM station in Cincinnati, the FCC approved the application of Roy Hofheinz to build a new station in Harlingen. The city would become the smallest in the country to host a 50,000-watt radio station, which finally went on air on December 1, 1951. KSOX was a Mutual Broadcasting System affiliate. Three thousand residents attended the station's open house to see a modern studio facility, a scaled-down version of his KTHT in Houston.
KGBS moves to 1530 and becomes KGBT
Two years later, effective September 1, 1953, KGBS bought the KSOX facilities and moved its entire intellectual unit there, including its CBS Radio affiliation. (The 1240 license was surrendered; the frequency was revived in 1957 using the KSOX call sign.) The Harbenito facilities were converted to television station KGBS-TV, which launched on October 4. On New Year's Day 1954, KGBS became KGBT, matching the TV station, which changed its call letters on December 9, 1953. The Tichenor group in the Valley was completed with KELT FM 96.9.
Into the 1960s, KGBT became a highly successful station in the market, particularly once it flipped to Spanish-language programming. In 1967, it commanded more than a 60 percent share of local radio listening just on the United States side of the border. In 1991, it still rated third in the market despite being on AM.
Univision ownership
The Tichenor family's media holdings, later renamed the Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation, were acquired by Univision in 2003 in a $3 billion merger, ending 62 years of Tichenor ownership of KGBS/KGBT.
KGBT was affiliated with the Univision America network from 2012 until its demise in mid-2015, when KGBT and several other fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%205 | iOS 5 is the fifth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc., being the successor to iOS 4. It was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 6, 2011, and was released on October 12, 2011. It was succeeded by iOS 6 on September 19, 2012.
iOS 5 revamped notifications, adding temporary banners that appear at the top of the screen and introducing the Notification Center, a central location for all recent notifications. iOS 5 also added iCloud, Apple's cloud storage service for synchronization of content and data across iCloud-enabled devices, and iMessage, Apple's instant messaging service. For the first time, software updates could be installed wirelessly, without requiring a computer and iTunes. iOS 5 also featured deep integration with Twitter, introduced multitasking gestures on iPads, and added an easily accessible camera shortcut from the lock screen.
iOS 5 was the subject of criticism for iPhone 4S users, as the initial release had poor battery life, failures of SIM cards, and echoes during phone calls. These problems were fixed in subsequent releases.
iOS 5 is the last version of iOS that supports the third-generation iPod Touch and first-generation iPad as its successor, iOS 6, drops support for both models.
History
Introduction and initial release
iOS 5 was introduced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June 6, 2011, with a beta version available for developers later that day.
iOS 5 was officially released on October 12, 2011.
System features
Notifications
In previous iOS versions, notifications popped up on the screen as dialog boxes, interrupting the current activity. In iOS 5, notifications are revamped, and show up as a temporary banner at the top of the screen. Recent notifications can also be accessed by pulling a "Notification Center" down from the top of the screen. Users who prefer the old notification system can keep it by choosing the appropriate option in the Settings menu.
iCloud
iOS 5 introduces iCloud, Apple's cloud storage service. The new service allows users to synchronize their music, pictures, videos, and application data across all of their iCloud-enabled devices for free.
Wireless updates
iOS 5 enables wireless system updates on supported devices, meaning a computer and iTunes aren't necessary to update devices. Both activation of new devices and updates can be done wirelessly.
Twitter integration
iOS 5 features deep Twitter integration. Users are able to sign in to Twitter directly from the Settings menu. Photos can be "tweeted" directly from the Photos or Camera apps, and users are also able to tweet from the Safari, YouTube, and Google Maps apps.
Multitasking
Multitasking gestures debut on iPad with the release of iOS 5. Multitasking allows users to jump between apps without double-tapping the home button or first going to the home screen. Multitasking gestures were only available on the iPad 2.
Keyboard
The iPad keyboard could b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20discovery | Information Discovery is a term used in the legal and corporate industry which refers to the steps involved in distilling a corporation's data corpus down to the most pertinent evidence pertaining to a court-related matter or compliance directive. The major information discovery steps include: managing the entire data collection in a manner to identify all pertinent evidence associated with the matter, targeting that information for collection (forensically or otherwise), processing and identification (culling) of relevant data, and processing for document hosting and legal document/information review.
Global organizations deal with legal discovery and disclosure request for electronically stored information “ESI” and paper documents on a regular basis. The massive emergence of evidence in electronic format, and the emergence of entirely new forms of evidence, present a number of cultural, practical, and legal challenges to both corporations and their law firms. Managing the massive amounts of information involved in a legal matter can sometimes be tedious and expensive.
Information Discovery although a similar term for manage document review (attorney document review, document review) and/or Electronic Discovery (e-Discovery, eDiscovery) is more encompassing to the entire process involved in identifying relevant information within a legal matter.
A number of software tools and service providers exist today that assist in and help facilitate the process of information discovery including early case assessment “ECA” tools, hosting platforms, cloud services, and managed document review firms. Corporations are also looking at ways to defray the expense associated with information discovery by looking at bringing solutions in-house or by insourcing through a third party service provider oftentimes requiring customization for the client involved.
References
Electronically Stored Information: The December 2006 Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Kenneth J. Withers, Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, Vol.4 (2), 171
See also
Knowledge discovery
Legal governance, risk management, and compliance
Early Case Assessment
External links
http://www.edrm.net/
http://www.acc.com/
http://www.thesedonaconference.org/content/miscFiles/TSCGlossary_12_07.pdf
Further reading
George L. Paul and Bruce H. Nearon (2006). "Meet the New Rules". The Discovery Revolution. American Bar Association. .
Ronald J. Hedges (2007). Discovery of Electronically Stored Information. BNA Books. .
Jonathan M. Redgrave (2007). The Sedona Principles 2007: Best Practices Recommendations & Principles for Addressing Electronic Document Production. BNA Books. .
Albert J. Marcella, Albert J. Marcella, Jr., Doug Menendez (2007). "Electronically stored information and cyber forensics". Cyber Forensics. CRC Press. .
Risk management in business
Disclosure
Corporate law |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20S.%20Montalbano | Michael S. Montalbano (28 April 1918 – 13 April 1989) was a computer scientist most noted for authoring "APL Blossom Time", a poem about the early days of the APL programming language, performed to the tune of The Battle of New Orleans. He published this poem and a few other articles under the pseudonym "J. C. L. Guest".
In 1974, he wrote a book called Decision Tables published by Science Research Associates.
References
External links
A Personal History of APL, October 1982
1918 births
1989 deaths
Computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Harper%20%28computer%20engineer%29 | John Harper (born 11 November 1937) is a retired computer engineer. He led a Computer Conservation Society/Bletchley Park team that rebuilt a working World War II electromechanical Bombe decryption device.
Life and career
Born in West Ealing, London he spent most of his career working for International Computers Limited working on machines such as the ICT 1500 and the ICL 1900 and 2900. By completing evening study he qualified for membership of the British Computer Society (BCS) and Institution of Electronic and Radio Engineers (IERE) including becoming a Chartered Engineer.
He was a member of the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee set up to organise events for the Alan Turing year, a centenary celebration of the life and work of Alan Turing in 2012.
Bombe Rebuild Project
John Harper, from 1995 to 2006, led a Computer Conservation Society team rebuilding a working World War II Bombe decryption device. On 6 September 2006, John Harper and the rebuild team first demonstrated the working Bombe in action.
On 24 March 2009 at Bletchley Park, John Harper was presented with the 49th Engineering Heritage Award by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers awarded to the BCS Computer Conversation Society for the conservation and restoration of the Bombe.
Awards
Honorary Fellow, British Computer Society (2007)
Honorary Doctor of the University, Open University (2011)
References
British computer specialists
Bletchley Park people
Fellows of the British Computer Society
1937 births
English engineers
Living people
20th-century British engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XESTN-AM | XESTN-AM (1540 AM, "Universal") is a Spanish-language radio station in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico. It relays programming from XHRED-FM 88.1 in Mexico City. 1540 AM is a United States clear-channel frequency.
History
The first concession for XESTN was awarded on November 29, 1988, to Jesús D. González González of Grupo Multimedios. The station was originally daytime-only and licensed to Santa Catarina. It was transferred in 2000 to Radio Red, S.A. de C.V., though Radio Red programs had been airing on XESTN since at least 1994. In 2009, the station increased its daytime power to 5,000 watts.
On January 14, 2019, concurrent with a major reshuffling and the relaunch of XERC-FM Mexico City as talk station "Radio Centro 97.7", XESTN and XEDKR-AM Guadalajara began simulcasting that station instead of Radio Red.
As part of the launch of Radio Centro's TV station, XHFAMX-TDT, on October 31, 2019, Universal moved to XERC-FM and all the talk programming moved back to XHRED-FM, which took the same "La Octava", XEDKR-AM and XESTN-AM Monterrey began simulcasting that station.
References
External links
1988 establishments in Mexico
Adult hits radio stations
Grupo Radio Centro
Radio stations established in 1988
Radio stations in Monterrey
Spanish-language radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval%20Moves%3A%20Deadmund%27s%20Quest | Medieval Moves: Deadmund's Quest (Medieval Moves in Europe) is a 2011 action adventure video game developed by San Diego Studio and Zindagi Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment in November 2011 for PlayStation 3, which utilizes PlayStation Move. It was officially announced at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011 on June 5, 2011. The game is from the same team responsible for Sports Champions.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
2011 video games
Fantasy video games
Fantasy video games set in the Middle Ages
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 3-only games
PlayStation Move-compatible games
PlayStation Move-only games
San Diego Studio games
Single-player video games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games scored by David Bergeaud
Video games with stereoscopic 3D graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Transport%20and%20Communications%20%28Finland%29 | The Ministry of Transport and Communications (LVM, , ) is one of the twelve ministries which comprise the Finnish Government. LVM oversees Finland's transportation network and the country's communication services.
LVM's budget for 2018 is €3,362,555,000. The ministry employs 180 people.
Agencies within the ministry's administrative reach include the Finnish Transport Agency, Trafi, FICORA, and the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI). The ministry is in charge of several state-owned companies; the most notable of these is Finland's national public broadcasting company, Yle.
Key agencies and companies
Several agencies and state-owned companies operate under the Ministry of Transport and Communications, including:
Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency (Väylä): Responsible for the planning, development, and maintenance of Finland's transport infrastructure.
Finnish Transport and Communications Agency (Traficom): Regulates and supervises transport and communication services, as well as promotes traffic safety.
Finnish Meteorological Institute (Ilmatieteen laitos): Provides weather, climate, and environmental information for various sectors, including transport and communications.
VR Group: The state-owned railway company responsible for passenger and freight rail services in Finland.
Finavia: The state-owned company responsible for managing and developing Finland's airports and air traffic services.
The Ministry of Transport and Communications has been actively pursuing several initiatives to support digitalization and sustainability in Finland. These include the National Architecture for Digital Services (KaPA), the Digital Finland Framework, and the AuroraAI project, which aim to improve public services, foster digital innovation, and enhance the country's digital infrastructure.
History
The history goes back to 1892. Established in 1917, the Ministry of Transport and Communications has been an integral part of the Finnish government since the country gained independence. Over the years, the Ministry's responsibilities have evolved to reflect the changing needs and priorities of Finland's transport and communications sectors, including the growing importance of digitalization and environmental sustainability.
Digital development
The government started implementing e-government solutions in the early 2000s and has since pursued several digital development initiatives. Finland's digital strategy has evolved over time, focusing on different aspects of digitalization, such as improving public sector services, supporting innovation, and enhancing cybersecurity.
Key Initiatives
National Architecture for Digital Services (KaPA): Launched in 2013, KaPA aims to create a unified and secure digital infrastructure for the public sector. This initiative promotes the use of common services and interfaces, allowing organizations to share data more efficiently and securely.
Digital Finland Framework: Implemented in 2017, this framework outli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Harrington%20%28broadcaster%29 | Joe Harrington is an Irish presenter of radio employed by Dublin's Sunshine 106.8. He is a multi nominated award winning broadcaster who has vast experience in radio programming and management. His brother Paul Harrington won the Eurovision Song Contest 1994. He co-wrote a number of tracks on the Paul Harrington album What I'd Say. The album entered the Irish charts in the early nineties.
Career
He worked as a presenter with Ireland's first Independent National Broadcaster Century Radio, he then worked with Dublin's Rock 104 and subsequently FM104, he joined East Coast FM in 1994 as Head of Music and then became Programme Controller, a position he held until 2011.
In 2009, he joined with his brothers as "The Harrington Brothers" to record Molly Malone with The Official Leinster Supporters Group and the song became the Official Anthem for The Leinster Rugby Team. The song Molly Malone entered the Irish Charts in 2009 and was number one in the download charts. The Harrington Brothers performed Molly Malone live at The RDS Dublin just before Leinster played Edinburgh in the Heiniken Cup.
Harrington is a multi PPI Radio Award Nominee and in 2006 won the much coveted award for his lunch-time programme. He was nominated again in 2008 for his Drive Time. Show. He was also nominated for Best Music Presenter 2014 in The important ' People Awards for the 2014 PPI Radio Awards.
He was the first and only person to present a weekly programme dedicated to Elvis Presley on a National Radio Station ( Century Radio )
He also presented Elvis Extra which was one of the longest running programmes on Dublin's Sunshine 106.8
In 2011, Harrington was appointed General Manager of Dublin's Sunshine 106.8 to coincide with the station's new brand and programming. He also presents Mellow Moments Monday to Friday 7pm-1am.
In late 2016, Sunshine 106.8 in association with Sony Music Ireland, released an album entitled 'Sunshine presents Mellow Moments' 16 relaxing mellow songs selected from the show Mellow Moments presented by Joe Harrington.
References
External links
Joe Harrington – Home website
Joe Harrinton – Sunshine 106.8
Living people
Irish radio presenters
East Coast FM presenters
FM104 presenters
Year of birth missing (living people)
Broadcasters from County Dublin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Block%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of Australian reality television series The Block, titled The Block 2011, aired on the Nine Network. Scott Cam returned as host as did John McGrath & Neale Whitaker as judges and Shelley Craft joined the season as "Challenge Master". The season premiered on Monday, 20 June 2011 at 7:00 pm.
Unlike previous series, the fourth season was filmed in Melbourne rather than Sydney, with the four houses to be renovated located in the inner-city suburb of Richmond.
The season was ultimately won by Polly Porter and Warwick "Waz" Jones, who were the only couple to sell their property at auction.
The Block: Unlocked
The Block: Unlocked is a new format hosted by Shelley Craft which shares a personal insight into The Block transformations as the couples guide us through their completed rooms, it also includes behind the scenes footage and footage not seen on TV.
Contestants
Elimination rounds
Green: This couple won an elimination challenge and became a couple on the Block 2011.
Red: This couple failed to win an elimination challenge and did not become a Block couple.
Season Contestants
Score History
Scores
Summary
Judges' scores
Colour key:
Highest Score
Lowest Score
Results
Elimination week
Weeks
Auction
Reception
Ratings
Colour key:
– Highest rating episode and week during the series
– Lowest rating episode and week during the series
Notes:
Ratings data is from OzTAM and represents the live and same day average viewership from the 5 largest Australian metropolitan centres (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide).
Notes
The first week's average was incorrectly coded to include a repeat episode, resulting in a lower figure. Without this error, the average is 1.18 million, and is ranked 19th in the weekly Top 100 programs.
Due to a coding error for Australia's Got Talent, The Block was originally ranked third in nightly figures. With its adjusted figures, Australia's Got Talent was ranked first, therefore relegating The Block to fourth position.
Passed in at auction, not sold
References
2011 Australian television seasons
4 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Swedish%20films%20of%20the%202010s | This is a list of films produced in Sweden and in the Swedish language in the 2010s.
2010s
External links
Swedish film at the Internet Movie Database
2010s
Films
Lists of 2010s films
nl:Lijst van Zweedse films
zh:瑞典電影列表 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Broadband%20Networking | Microsoft Broadband Networking was a series of computer networking hardware products marketed by Microsoft from 2002 through 2004.
In July 2002 Microsoft product managers stated that home networking was too hard to use, and the company was developing products using the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11b standard (sold under the Wi-Fi name).
Products announced in September included the MN-500 wireless base station, MN-510 WiFi Universal Serial Bus (USB) network interface controller and MN-520 PC Card for laptop computers.
The MN-500 served as a wireless access point, a router, and included an Ethernet hub with four 10/100 Ethernet ports.
A five port Ethernet switch and Ethernet network interface controller cards were announced, along with kits.
Reviews noted the reasonable prices and simple interface, although the configuration software would sometimes fail.
One reviewer noted the 96-page book included with the base station.
It was one of the first products to enable Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) by default, which provided at least some level of privacy.
Software included a setup wizard, a broadband network utility (BNU) and an auto-update feature.
According to codes in the documentation, the initial MN-510 was developed by Accton Technology Corporation. Features were similar to products of SMC Networks, a subsidiary of Accton.
By January 2003 it was estimated the products were in the number two position in US retail sales for Wi-Fi products.
However market share declined by February when introduction of faster products based on IEEE 802.11g standards were delayed. Market leader Linksys was purchased by Cisco Systems in March. NetGear and D-Link also gained market share in 2003.
The MN-700 model supporting 802.11g was available in September.
A new PC card for 802.11g was also available. Reviews noted easy setup, but limited features compared to competitors.
Microsoft discontinued the line in May 2004.
References
External links
Routers (computing)
Wi-Fi
Ethernet
Microsoft hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20A%20De%20Jong | Kenneth Alan De Jong (born 1944) is an American computer scientist and professor emeritus at George Mason University. He is one of the pioneers in evolutionary computation.
Education and career
De Jong was a student of John Henry Holland at the University of Michigan, where he completed a Ph.D. in 1975 with a dissertation on genetic algorithms. He became a faculty member at George Mason University in 1984.
He is the author of the textbook Evolutionary Computation: A Unified Approach (MIT Press, 2006), and was the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Evolutionary Computation, which published its first volume in 1993.
Recognition
De Jong was the 2005 recipient of the Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is also the recipient of a lifetime achievement award of the Evolutionary Programming Society. He was a distinguished speaker of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014.
References
External links
Home page
Living people
American computer scientists
George Mason University faculty
1944 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Suda | Brian Suda (born 29 May 1979, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American informatician living in Reykjavík, Iceland.
Suda received a bachelor's degree in computer science from St. Louis University in 2001 and a master's degree in informatics from the University of Edinburgh in 2003. Much of his adult life has been spent abroad, first in Scotland and then in Iceland, where in 2008 he was one of three founders of Skólapúlsinn, a company that helps Icelandic schools measure the engagement, academic ability, and well-being of students.
Suda was an invited expert in the W3C's GRDDL working group in 2008, co-author of the hCard microformat specification, and in 2010 wrote a book, A Practical Guide to Designing with Data, published by Five Simple Steps. He has written for many online and print publications including A List Apart, Linux Format, Viðskiptablaðið, and SitePoint.
References
People from St. Louis
1979 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Saint Louis University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20former%20NTA%20Film%20Network%20affiliates%20in%20Canada | This is a list of former NTA Film Network affiliates in Canada. The NTA Film Network was an American television network or syndication service which operated from August 1956 to 1961, when the network's flagship station, WNTA-TV, was sold. Although NTA was based in the United States, many Canadian television stations aired NTA programs.
References
Canadian NTA Film Network affiliates
NTA Film Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living%20Computers%3A%20Museum%20%2B%20Labs | Living Computers: Museum + Labs (LCM+L) is a computer and technology museum located in the SoDo neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. LCM+L showcases vintage computers which provide interactive sessions, either through time-sharing operating systems or single-user interfaces. This gives users a chance to actually use the computers online or in-person in the museum. An expansion adds direct touch experiences with contemporary technologies such as self-driving cars, the internet of things, big data, and robotics. This puts today's computer technology in the context of how it is being used to tackle real-world issues. LCM+L also hosts a wide range of educational programs and events in their state-of-the art classroom and lab spaces.
According to an archived version of LCM's website, their goal is "to breathe life back into our machines so the public can experience what it was like to see them, hear them, and interact with them. We make our systems accessible by allowing people to come and interact with them, and by making them available over the Internet."
The current site similarly shares that "Living Computers: Museum + Labs provides a one-of-a-kind, hands-on experience with computer technology from the 1960s to the present. LCM+L honors the history of computing with the world’s largest collection of fully restored—and usable—supercomputers, mainframes, minicomputers and microcomputers."
As of October 2023, the museum is closed. The museum closed on May 27, 2020, initially due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
History
LCM+L (originally known as Living Computer Museum, and before that, PDPplanet.com) was founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, on January 9, 2006. Through PDPplanet, users were able to telnet into vintage devices and experience timesharing computing on equipment from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and XKL.
Users around the world can request a login through the LCM+L website and telnet into systems from XKL, DEC, IBM, Xerox Sigma, AT&T, and CDC.
Living Computer Museum opened to the public on October 25, 2012, and guests can now visit in person to interact with the collection of mainframes, minicomputers, microcomputers and peripherals the museum has on display. Various and changing exhibits in the museum show how much computers and technology have changed over the last 50 years and are changing still.
In 2013, Seattle Weekly voted the museum the "Best Geeky Museum" because it highlights "an essential part of Seattle binary history- the founding of Microsoft and its role in establishing Seattle as a tech-driven industry".
On November 18, 2016, the institution changed its name to Living Computers: Museum + Labs to reflect its enlarged goals of igniting curiosity through direct touch experiences with contemporary technologies as well as vintage computers.
Since the museum's 2020 closure, there have been no updates provided on its status or future.
Collections and exhibits
The collection consists of publicly donated items and P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affiliated%20New%20Thought%20Network | The Affiliated New Thought Network, or ANTN, based in La Mesa, California, is an organization of New Thought centers and individuals across the United States and internationally that was founded in 1992. Recognized as a cooperative fellowship, it is an intrafaith organization. Originally for independent Religious Science ministers, today it includes all forms of New Thought organizations and individuals who want to be affiliated.
Governance
The organization has a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer, educational liaison, and general members. Each member is allowed to vote within the organization, as long as they uphold New Thought ideals and beliefs.
Activities
One primary tool of ANTN is affirmative prayer. In addition to teaching about New Thought, the ANTN and its members provide support for a number of organizations committed to nonviolence.
Emerson Theological Institute
The Emerson Theological Institute or Emerson Institute is partnered with ANTN to provide Religious Studies degrees including bachelors, masters, and doctorates, and certificates for ministers. The Institute is accredited by the Accrediting Commission International for Schools, Colleges and Theological Seminaries. Barbara Marx Hubbard developed her popular "Gateway for Conscious Evolution" while creating a curriculum for the Institute.
The Emerson Institute ( emersoninstitute.edu ) offers a DSS Doctor of Spiritual Studies and a DRS Doctor of Religious Studies along with other doctorates and masters degree with a focus on New Thought and mental sciences. Many of the courses are focused on the history, teachings, metaphysics and ideas around a prosperity based spirituality focused on wholeness of body, mind and spirit.
References
External links
ANTN official website.
Religious organizations established in 1992
New Thought organizations
Religious Science
Organizations based in California
1992 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systrip | Systrip is a visual environment for the analysis of time-series data in the context of biological networks.
Systrip gathers bioinformatics and graph theoretical algorithms that can be assembled in different ways to help biologists in their visual mining process. It had been used to analyze various real biological data.
Presentation
Systrip is developed in C++ and is based on Tulip, an information visualization framework dedicated to the analysis and visualization of relational data.
The Model-View-Controller architecture of Tulip allows Systrip to support multiple and synchronized views. Any interaction on a view (e.g. selection of an element) implies the automatic update of all views displaying this data.
In addition to the algorithms and views developed specifically for Systrip, the Tulip plug-ins system allows Systrip users to access all its available plug-ins (plug-ins integrated in Tulip releases but also via Tulip plug-ins server).
Features
Input
Import and export metabolic network using the SBML format
Time-series data from CSV file
Import data from CSV file
Load and save state of a session
Structure manipulation
Pathways creation and removal
Elements removal
Sub-network creation and manipulation (Help user to focus on a small part of the network)
Visualization
Multiple kind of metabolic network representations (3D, force directed, biological convention preserving, hierarchical ...)
Visualization interaction tools (drawing, bends ...)
Animation of time-series data
Visualization of time-series in the context of the metabolic network
Data analysis views (histogram, spreadsheet, scatter plot, parallel coordinates)
3D molecular visualization
Analysis
Tulip graph analysis algorithms
Degree
Betweenness centrality
Eccentricity
Strahler
Network analysis algorithms
Choke points
Shortest path (dedicated to metabolic networks)
Scope selection
References
External links
Systrip home page
Tulip home page
SBML format home page
Science software for Windows
Linux software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offspring%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of Offspring, an Australian drama television series, began airing on 18 April 2012 on Network TEN. The season concluded after 13 episodes. Offspring is the story of the impossible loves of 30-something obstetrician Nina Proudman (Asher Keddie), and her fabulously messy family, as they navigate the chaos of modern life.
The season was released on DVD as a four disc set under the title of Offspring: The Complete Third Series on 1 August 2012.
Cast
Regular
Asher Keddie as Nina Proudman
Kat Stewart as Billie Proudman
Matthew Le Nevez as Patrick Reid
Deborah Mailman as Cherie Butterfield
Eddie Perfect as Mick Holland
Richard Davies as Jimmy Proudman
Linda Cropper as Geraldine Proudman
and John Waters as Darcy Proudman
Recurring
Jane Harber as Zara Perkich
Alicia Gardiner as Kim Akerholt
Lachy Hulme as Martin Clegg
Kate Atkinson as Renee
Henry and Jude Schimizzi Peart as Ray Proudman
Dan Spielman as Andrew Holland
Kate Jenkinson as Kate Reid
Matt Dyktynski as Tim
Jack Heanly as Ollie Harding
Kick Gurry as Adam
Guest starring
Alison Bell as Louise
Special guest starring
Gary McDonald as Phillip Noonan
Clare Bowditch as Rosanna Harding
Episodes
Reception
Ratings
References
2012 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific%20name | Specific name may refer to:
in Database management systems, a system-assigned name that is unique within a particular database
In taxonomy, either of these two meanings, each with its own set of rules:
Specific name (botany), the two-part (binomial) name of a plant species
Specific name (zoology), the second part (the species epithet) of the name of an animal species |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pylint | Pylint is a static code analysis tool for the Python programming language. It is named following a common convention in Python of a "py" prefix, and a nod to the C programming lint program. It follows the style recommended by PEP 8, the Python style guide. It is similar to Pychecker and Pyflakes, but includes the following features:
Checking the length of each line
Checking that variable names are well-formed according to the project's coding standard
Checking that declared interfaces are truly implemented.
It is also equipped with the Pyreverse module that allows UML diagrams to be generated from Python code.
It can be used as a stand-alone program, but also integrates with IDEs such as Eclipse with PyDev, Spyder and Visual Studio Code, and editors such as Atom, GNU Emacs and Vim.
It has received favourable reviews.
References
External links
Free software
Python (programming language) development tools
Static program analysis tools
Software testing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinner%20or%20Saint%20%28TV%20series%29 | Sinner or Saint is a 2011 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Don Michael Perez, it stars Dennis Trillo, Bianca King, Alessandra De Rossi and Polo Ravales. It premiered on June 13, 2011 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Nita Negrita. The series concluded on October 7, 2011 with a total of 84 episodes. It was replaced by Ikaw Lang ang Mamahalin in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dennis Trillo as Raul Marcelo
Bianca King as Noemi Manansala
Alessandra De Rossi as Corrine Quisumbing
Polo Ravales as Alvin
Supporting cast
Divina Valencia as Doña Faustina
Matthew Mendoza as Armand
Timmy Cruz as Sally
Jenine Desiderio as Celeste
Derrick Monasterio as Santi
Joey Paras as Gerdo "Gigi" Mana
Kim Rodriguez as Lourdes
Djanin Cruz as Ikang
Glenda Garcia as Tiling
Dexter Doria as Yvette
Archie Adamos as Tiago
Jay Gonzaga as Albert
Gretchen Espina as Sarah
Eunice Lagusad as Chona
Guest cast
Daniella Amable as young Noemi
Miguel Tanfelix as young Raul
Chanda Romero as Racquel
Production
Actress Iza Calzado was initially hired for the series, for the role of Noemi Manansala. She was later replaced by Bianca King.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Sinner or Saint earned a 13.6% rating.
While the final episode scored a 21.6% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20acquisition%20of%20lexicon | Automatic acquisition of lexicon is a computerized process used for the development of a complex morphological lexicon of a language. The lexicon is essential for the NLP (Natural language processing), as well as a prerequisite to any wide-coverage parser.
The two main requirements represent raw corpus and the morphological description of the language. The aim is to provide lemmas that will serve to the explanation of all the words that occur within the corpus. For the achievement of a quality lexicon it is necessary to manually validate the
generated lemmas and iterate the whole process several times.
The process is focused on the open word classes (e.g. nouns, adjectives, verbs). Closed classes (e.g. prepositions, pronouns, numerals) are excluded.
This method is applicable to the languages with a rich morphology, such as Slovak, Russian or Croatian.
Applied to Slovak, being an inflectional language, the automatic acquisition focuses on the inflectional morphology as well as on the derivational morphology. This fact enables the users to find out the information about derivational relations (e.g. adjectivizations, prefixes) in the lexicon. For example, Slovak word korpusový is an adjectivization of korpus (eng. corpus).
Three-step loop
Conformably to Benoît Sagot, there are three stages involved in the acquisition of lemmas:
1. Generation and inflection
2. Ranking
3. Manual validation
The more iteration will be performed, the more accurate lexicon will be obtained. For each iteration are essential the information given by a manual validator.
Generation and inflection
Firstly, all words which represent the closed word classes (pronouns, prepositions, numerals) are manually excluded from the given corpus. Number of their occurrences in the corpus is provided.
Then the automatic generation comes, when the hypothetical lemmas according to the morphological description of a language are created. Generated lemmas are consequently being inflected, so that all of their inflected forms are built. Obtained forms are associated with the corresponding lemma and a morphological tag.
Ranking
There was created a probabilistic model, represented by a fix-point algorithm, to rank the hypothetical lemmas generated in the first step. Best ranked lemmas are expected to be ideally all correct, whereas the least ranked tend to be incorrect.
Manual validation
Correctness of the best- ranked lemmas created in the previous step are checked by the manual validator, who should be a native speaker.
Lemmas are at this stage divided into three categories:
- valid lemmas, appended to lexicon
- erroneous lemmas generated by valid forms ( later associated to another lemmas)
- erroneous lemmas generated by invalid forms (these need to be excluded)
Future development
Automatic acquisition, in comparison to a purely manual development of the lexicons, seems to be promising, considering the future development, because of the short validation time needed and the rela |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCOS | NCOS is the graphical user interface-based operating system developed for use in Oracle Corporation's Network Computers, which are discontinued. It was adapted by Acorn Computers from its own , which was originally developed for their range of Archimedes desktop computers. It shares with the same 4 MB ROM size and suitability for use with TV displays.
In 1999, Pace acquired the set-top box (STB) division of Acorn Computers, this being a component in the disposal of assets around the takeover of Acorn by MSDW Investment Holdings. This gave Pace the rights to use and develop NCOS. RISCOS Ltd later announced Embedded RISC OS, which was to have similarities with NCOS.
Development
NCOS originated in connection with the Network Computer project. It was used on various STB products. It branched from RISC OS 3.60 and was called RISC OS 3.61 before being named after Network Computer Operating System. It was merged back into the HEAD whilst at Pace, where it was known as and RO-STB.
Features
NCOS was designed in accord with the Network Computer Reference Profile and thus supports internet standards of the time. Being closely based on , it can also run many of that operating system's applications. Reporting on the launch of the Network Computer in 1996, it was noted that NCOS was essentially the same as RISC OS but with some features removed, such as "support for local file systems", whereas other features such as network support had been added to ROM. The actual differences involved the absence of "modules significant to the operation and networking" of existing RISC OS versions, including the Filer, TaskManager and Pinboard modules, plus a range of networking modules. The use of files stored on a server and accessed using the Network File System (NFS) also imposed restrictions on the files used by applications, with recommended techniques for the deployment of applications involving the transfer of files over NFS from RISC OS clients or the use of archives in the largely Acorn-specific Spark format, with these being unpacked on the server using an appropriate tool.
See also
Network operating system
RISC OS character set
References
Acorn Computers operating systems
ARM operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza%20of%20the%20Americas%20%28Dallas%29 | Plaza of the Americas is a major commercial complex in the City Center District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA). It is adjacent to DART's Pearl Station and connected to the Dallas Pedestrian Network. The complex features several amenities connected by an enclosed . skylighted atrium which rises 13 stories above the lowest level:
Plaza of the Americas I-South Tower (25-story office tower)
Plaza of the Americas II-North Tower (25-story office tower)
Univision Center (26-story office tower)
416-room Dallas Marriott City Center (originally the Plaza of the Americas Hotel until 1995, then Le Meridien Dallas until 2003, then The Westin Dallas City Center until 2010)
of meeting space
2 levels of retail surrounding an indoor park
1,000 space parking garage
2010 Energy Star
History
The $100 million Plaza of the Americas, announced in 1977, was one of the first mixed-use developments in Dallas designed around an enclosed atrium. The design featured dark gray glass cladding for twin office towers contrasted with poured in place concrete for the hotel and garage. Construction on the site began in 1978 and finished in 1980.
In 1983 an additional office building, the 26-story Univision Center (formerly Plaza of the Americas III and Allianz Financial Centre), was constructed across Crockett Street and connected to the complex. An additional parking garage was added in 1984. Through an agreement with the city the developers received tax-exempt bond financing in exchange for a promise to develop 100 units of housing above the garage within 5 years. A fourth 26-story building, Plaza of the Americas IV, was also planned across Crockett Street. In 1989 plans changed to increase the building to 42-stories, but the structure was never built.
The complex became a hub of the Dallas Pedestrian Network when skybridges connected Plaza of the Americas to Bryan Tower, Sheraton Dallas Hotel and Chase Tower. The complex was sold and renovated in 1990.
Over the years Plaza of the Americas has hosted many events including prominent sculpture shows, conventions and the Texas Open Squash Tournament.
See also
List of buildings and structures in Dallas, Texas
References
External links
Plaza of the Americas | Buildings | EMPORIS Emporis Building Listing
Dallas Marriott City Center
Office buildings completed in 1980
Skyscraper office buildings in Dallas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orkan%20Telhan | Orkan Telhan (born 1976 in Oberhausen, West Germany) is the Chief Information and Data Officer at Ecovative and the board president of Biodesign Challenge. Telhan was Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Emerging Design Practices in the School of Design at The University of Pennsylvania.
Telhan holds a PhD in Design and Computation from MIT's Department of Architecture. He was part of the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Laboratory and a researcher at the MIT Design Laboratory. He studied Media Arts at the University at Buffalo and theories of media and representation, visual studies and Graphic Design at Bilkent University.
His individual and collaborative work has been exhibited internationally in venues including the Istanbul Biennial (2013, 2023), Istanbul Design Biennial (2012 2016), Milano Design Week, Vienna Design Week, the Armory Show 2015 Special Projects, Ars Electronica, ISEA, LABoral, ArchiLab, Architectural Association, The Architectural League of New York, MIT Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center, and the Design Museum, London.
In 2016, Telhan's design monograph "Designature: The Nature of Signatures in Art and Design" was published from Revolver Publishing, Berlin.
Telhan was a co-founder of Biorealize Inc., a biotech company specialized in making next generation tools to make it easier to design with biology.
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20121111001330/http://www.orkantelhan.info/
Interdisciplinary artists
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Living people
1976 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer%20value%20model | Within customer relationship management, a customer value model (CVM) is a data-driven representation of the worth, in monetary terms, of what a company is doing or could do for its customers. Customer value models are tools used primarily in B2B markets where the choice of a given product, service, or offering is based primarily upon the amount of customer value created. Customer value is defined as value = benefits minus price. Thus, customer benefits are quantified in a CVM; product features and capabilities are translated into dollars. Customer value models are different from customer lifetime value models, which seek to quantify the value of a customer to its suppliers.
Firms using customer value models
Many firms have been reported to use customer value models, including General Electric, Alcoa, W.W. Grainger, Qualcomm, Sonoco, BT Industries Group, Rockwell Automation, and Akzo Nobel.
Uses of customer value models
New product and service development and refinement: The dialog and customer immersion that is part of a CVM is used to discover and determine which potential product features and functionality would create the most value for customers. This on-site interaction can be used to frame and define those features and functionality. Often a key is to focus on product or service capabilities rather than on features. Successful CVM efforts change the basis of the customer-supplier product conversation away from features and functions and toward problems, benefits, and value.
Sales tools: CVMs can serve as a quantified statement of value and benefits for a customer that is used by the vendor sales staff to both sell into a new account, as well as to reaffirm and validate value created for current customers as a means to retain and grow current customer. CVMs also can help firms to determine the more rational promotion cost.
Customer value model methods
There are several methods and approaches used to create customer value models. All of these approaches appear to depend on substantial customer interaction and on-site interviews and observations of customers' challenges related to the product or service being valued. The CVMs are of varying complexity. One consulting firm has found it useful to reverse-engineer customer P&Ls (profit and loss statements) to establish a clear connection between the product benefits and the customer bottom-line.
References
Value |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothman%20Healthcare | Rothman Healthcare Corporation provides Electronic Health Record (EHR) solutions for hospital application platforms. The company offers software for visualizing patient data and generating patient health scores.
History
The Rothman Index is named in honor of Florence Rothman. In 2003, Rothman underwent an operation to replace a heart valve at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. Although her health initially improved after the operation, it gradually worsened until she died 10 days after the operation. Her sons, Michael and Steven Rothman, determined that it was the overall system of care that failed her by not detecting her gradual health deterioration. Their solution was to develop a simple measure of a patient’s overall condition that can be plotted versus time to show a doctor or a nurse whether a patient is recovering or deteriorating. They worked with Sarasota Memorial Hospital by analyzing thousands of patient records in the Electronic Health Record to develop the Rothman Index.
The Rothman Index
The Rothman Index captures data found in a hospital's electronic health record and displays the progression of a patient's health over time. The Rothman Index generates a regularly updated health score synthesizing routine vital signs, nursing assessments, and lab results, for display in a user-friendly graphical format, summarizing thousands of pages of patient data at a glance. The Rothman Index simplifies the tracking of patient progress and detects subtle declines in health. Rapid response teams, physicians, and nurses have the ability to see multiple patient graphs simultaneously. This allows for earlier interventions and a summarized understanding of a whole unit.
The Rothman Index solution has been contracted by Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Blessing Hospital, Orlando Health, The Methodist Hospital System in Houston, Yale – New Haven Hospital, Shannon Health in Texas and Shands HealthCare & the University of Florida as well as other hospitals.
Rothman Healthcare becomes Pera Health Inc.
In 2011, Rothman Healthcare became Pera Health, Inc.
References
Medical technology companies of the United Kingdom
Electronic health record software companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StreetGames | StreetGames is one of the UK's leading 'sport for development' charities. Through their work with a network of over 1,400 trusted local community organisations, StreetGames addresses some of the most pressing issues faced by young people growing up in underserved communities, including poor mental health, food poverty, crime and lack of employment opportunities.
At the core of StreetGames' approach to transform young people’s lives is Doorstep Sport, an evidence-based delivery approach underpinned by the '5 rights': sport delivered at the right time, the right place, in the right style, by the right people and at the right price. Doorstep Sport offers fun, informal sport and physical activity opportunities delivered by trusted community organisations in low-income, underserved neighbourhoods. It provides an exciting and varied sports offer to young people, improving motivation and encouraging them to develop long-term sporting habits.
StreetGames is registered as a charity with the Charity Commission (registered charity number 1113542) and as a company limited by guarantee with the Registrar of Companies (registered company number 5384487).
Background
StreetGames was founded in 2007 by Jane Ashworth, who received an OBE from the Queen in 2011 for her services to the industry. The founding of the charity was inspired by the success of joint work conducted by The FA, Football Foundation and other agencies working within underserved communities.
Since that time, young people and projects across the UK have benefitted from StreetGames' Doorstep Sport programme. Additional successes have included the female-focused Us Girls programme, launched in 2011, and the Fit and Fed campaign, which tackles issues of holiday hunger, inactivity and isolation.
In 2022, StreetGames launched a new 10-year strategy which lays out a road map to expand Doorstep Sport provision throughout the country and grow opportunities for young people in underserved communities to participate in sport.
StreetGames was one of the seven charities nominated by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to receive donations in lieu of wedding presents when the couple married on 19 May 2018.
References
External links
Sports organisations of the United Kingdom
Social welfare charities based in the United Kingdom
Sports organizations established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Critics%27%20Choice%20Television%20Awards | The inaugural Critics' Choice Television Awards ceremony, presented by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA), honored the best in primetime television programming from June 1, 2010, to May 31, 2011, and was held on June 20, 2011, at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was live-streamed on VH1's website and was televised on ReelzChannel in an edited format two days after the ceremony occurred. Cat Deeley served as the host of the ceremony. The winners were announced on June 20, 2011. Danny DeVito received the Critics' Choice Television Icon Award.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface:
Shows with multiple wins
The following shows received multiple awards:
Shows with multiple nominations
The following shows received multiple nominations:
References
2011 television awards
2011 in American television
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June 2011 events in the United States
2011 in Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludovic%20Millet | Ludovic Millet (born September 1, 1985) is a French Savate kickboxer, famous for his boxing skills. He is French Champion in Savate and kickboxing and he is the World Kickboxing Network (W.K.N.) World Full Contact Champion.
Biography and career
Biography
Ludovic Millet, 25 years old, is French Savate and Kickboxing Elite Champion and the W.K.N. World Full Contact Champion. He is an elite athlete, but also a person with many qualities, particularly endearing.
Millet resides in Meaux, France, and trains at CS Meaux AP. His trainer is Abderaman Hamouri. He shares his time between training and working as an educator/sports instructor in his hometown. In 2011 he won two important French tournaments in K-1 Rules.
He challenged Yasuhiro Kido for his Krush -70 kg title at Krush.23 on October 8, 2012 in Tokyo, and lost via unanimous decision (30-26, 30-26, 30-26).
He defended his ISKA World Super Welterweight (-69.5 kg/153.2 lb) Oriental Championship against Johann Fauveau in Meaux, France, on January 19, 2013, winning on points.
He lost to Philippe Salmon on points at FK-ONE in Paris, France, on April 20, 2013.
Titles and achievements
Professional
2012 K1 ISKA World Champion (70 kg)
2011 Explosion Fight Night Volume 04 Tournament Champion (71 kg)
2011 Young Guns 2 Tournament Champion (71 kg)
2010 W.K.N. World Full Contact Champion (72.600 kg)
2009 Savate World Champion (70 kg)
2009 French Savate Elite Champion
2008 K1 Survivor Tournament Runner Up
2008 Savate European Champion
2008 French Savate Elite Champion
2006 French Kickboxing Class A Champion
Amateur
2006 W.A.K.O. European Championships in Skopje, Macedonia -71 kg (Low-Kick)
Kickboxing record
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| 2012-12 || Win ||align=left| Kevin Suzanne || La Nuit Du Kickboxing || Saint-Jean-de-Braye, France || KO || 2 ||
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| 2012-04-28 || Loss ||align=left| Bakari Tounkara || Gala international de boxe thaï & K1 rules || Bagnolet, France || TKO (Doctor Stoppage) || 3 ||
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| 2012-01-21 || Win ||align=left| Tim Thomas || Championnat du Monde ISKA || Meaux, France || Decision || 5 || 3:00
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bla%20Bla | BLA BLA is an interactive animated film for computer created for by with Montreal studio AATOAA, and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. The online work has been described as exploring "the principles of human communication," and follows Morisset's collaborations with Arcade Fire on Neon Bible, considered the first interactive music video.
The characters in BLA BLA were designed by Caroline Robert using stop-motion puppetry and traditional animation as well as computer animation methods such as ActionScript animation and real-time 3D mapping. The work is designed to be principally non-linear, with users constructing the story through point-and-click choices.
The music by composer Philippe Lambert and characters' speech was broken into short clips and distributed randomly throughout the programming, which was created by Édouard Lanctôt-Benoit. As an added bonus, BLA BLA users can also access classic NFB animated films, including works by Ryan Larkin, René Jodoin and Michèle Cournoyer and Norman McLaren. BLA BLA was produced for the NFB by Hugues Sweeney.
The work stands apart in its emphasis on achieving an emotional response in the viewer/actor. "I wanted to create moods and generate emotions through an interactive piece," Morriset says. "It's quite hard to do dramatic crescendos on a website… I thought it would be an interesting challenge."
BLA BLA was featured in spring 2012 at a month-long live interactive presentation in Paris.
It wasn't that popular at that time.
Awards
In March 2012, BLA BLA received the SXSW Interactive Art Award as well as the Entertainment Award in the Communication Arts Interactive Competition. In May 2012, it received the Webby Award for best web art.
References
External links
Introducing BLA BLA, a new interactive tale by Vincent Morisset, NFB.ca blog post
Bla Bla press kit
Vincent Morisset website
Caroline Robert website
Philippe Lambert website
Interactive films
Web animation
National Film Board of Canada animated short films
Quebec websites
Webby Award winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCFF | CCFF can stand for:
Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Common Compiler Feedback Format
Le Congrès de la Culture Française en Floride, an academic competition for students of French held in Orlando, Florida
The letters "C C F F" occur at the four count in SMPTE Universal Leader |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Compiler%20Feedback%20Format | The Common Compiler Feedback Format is an XML schema defined by The Portland Group for use in benchmarking and debugging optimizing compilers. It is available under an open source license for use by other entities, in an attempt to allow the standardization of similar functionality across multiple compiler tools.
References
Compiling tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKTV | AKTV (pronounced "active", officially branded as AKTV on IBC) was the primetime sports programming block in the Philippines. Owned and operated by TV5, it occupied the 5:00 to 11:00pm timeslot of IBC; weekend coverage usually began at 11:00 am to 11:00 pm. It started on June 5, 2011, and it ended in May 2013 due to high airtime costs and low ratings.
History
IBC signed a blocktime agreement with TV5's sports division Sports5 to air live sports coverage via its new programming block AKTV. It was launched on June 5, 2011, with the AKTV Run held outside SM Mall of Asia in Bay City, Pasay.
Cancellation
However, on April 11, 2013, TV5 announced that the blocktime agreement with IBC would not be renewed, meaning AKTV would cease broadcasting in May 2013. The move was due to high cost and low ratings given by IBC to air over the channel. Broadcasts of the NCAA basketball tournament, and the United Football League were moved to AksyonTV/5 Plus, although Sports5 (now One Sports)-produced PBA games continue to air in the channel until October. IBC, later signed another blocktime agreement with Asian Television Content Corporation, to air a new set of primetime programs under ATC@IBC, which is set to aired on June 2, 2014. Until August 31, 2014, the ATC@IBC primetime block was cancelled due to poor ratings and loss of advertisers' support. It is later noted that, despite the expiration of blocktime agreement, TV5 continues to use IBC-13's Broadcast City facilities for sports events including its 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup coverage; as MediaQuest Holdings is a possible bidder for the privatization of IBC-13. However, MediaQuest could not join the privatization bid due to ownership rules and regulations that MediaQuest owns TV5 and AksyonTV.
Programming
Final Sports specials/coverage
AIBA European Continental Championships
AIBA Junior World Championships
Australian Open (2012, 2013)
ATP World Master Tours
BWF Grand Prix
F1 Grand Prix
Wimbledon Championship
World 10-Ball Championship
World Sumo Challenge
Smart Ultimate All-Star Weekend (July 2011)
2011 William Jones Cup
Bundesliga
Barclays Premier League
2011 PBA Draft
FIBA Americas Championship 2011
2011 Eurobasket FIBA Europe Championship
PartyPoker.com World Cup of Pool
FIBA Asia Champions Cup 2011
2011 FIBA Asia Championship
2011 LBC Ronda Pilipinas
2011 Southeast Asian Games
La Liga
2012 London Olympics
2012 William Jones Cup
PBA Dream Game 2012 (February 2012)
Aliwan Fiesta 2012
RHB Singapore Cup
UEFA Euro 2012
4th FIBA Asia Cup
2012 DFL-Supercup
2012 AFF Suzuki Cup (November–December 2012)
Former
PBA on AKTV (2011–2013)
Shakey's V-League (2012–2013)
LBC United Football League (2011–2013)
Pacific Xtreme Combat (2011–2013)
PBA D-League (2011–2013)
NCAA on AKTV (2012–2013)
The Main Event (produced by Viva Sports) (2008–2013)
Bigtime Bakbakan (2011–2013)
Fight Quest (2011–2013)
Fight Sports Knockouts (2011–2013)
Fight Sports Greatest Classics (2011–2013)
Fight Sports World Championship Kick |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song%20%28KAIST%29%20%E2%80%93%20Iyengar%20%28LSU%29%20MobiCon%20Middleware%20Computing%20Platform | MobiCon is a middleware computing platform centered on developing energy efficient human activity applications developed by the Korean Advanced Institute of Technology (KAIST), and Louisiana State University. MobiCon revolutionizes sensor networks by determining which sensors would be active for the application rather than sensing all sensors at the same time. Depending on application demand, the MobiCon platform selects which resource optimization plan to execute in order to ensure that all applications receive resources they need in the most efficient manner.
Technology
MobiCon is an initial attempt to provide an active resource orchestration system, recognizing the personal-area-network-scale sensor-rich mobile platform as a common underlying computing platform. Mobicon records human activity via predicates (e.g. "location == 'library') connected by logical operators that run for a specified amount of time.
Rationale
The central challenge around MobiCon is simultaneously supporting numerous applications using very limited resources. Furthermore, these available resources dynamically change due to their wearable forms and the user’s mobility. Also, resource usage by running applications or environmental factors such as interference continuously affects the resource availability.
These challenges require system level support. Each application must efficiently share the limited resources. Without system-level support, however, each individual application has an extremely limited view of the existence or resource uses of other applications, and further cannot negotiate with the concurrent applications for coordinated and efficient resource utilization. MobiCon helps applications share resources and processing by seamlessly adapting the applications to dynamic resource availability by resolving resource contention between applications or selecting the best processing plan according to the resource availability at that time. The MobiCon Middleware Computing Platform can seamlessly adapt the resources committed to each application so that all system resources can be used the most efficiently.
Design
MobiCon prepares multiple alternative resource use plans that process a high-level context from applications resulting from the diversity of semantic translation. MobiCon supports multiple context-aware applications to extend run time and balancing resource usage in environments with highly limited yet dynamic resources. At runtime, MobiCon dynamically chooses which resource plan to execute based on the resource needs of the applications in real time.
Prototype
MobiCon was tested by a team of Researchers including Seungwoo Kang and S. Sitharama Iyengar on two platforms – standard C/C++ over Linux and open C/C++ over S60 SDK and Symbian OS.
The prototype processor included eight featured extraction using kiss_fft, a fast Fourier transform library to derive frequency-domain features while also providing a recognition module that implemented a decisio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Shine%20Talent%20Camp | Promil Pre-school i-Shine Talent Camp is a Philippine television reality based talent show broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on June 12, 2011. The show concluded on August 9, 2014 with a total of 29 episodes and 4 seasons.
It features kids ages from four to seven years old. For seasons 2 to 4, the prizes were Php 500,000 and a contract with Star Magic. While Php 200,000 and a contract with GMA Artist Center in the first season.
Hosts
Dimples Romana
Karylle
Xian Lim
Matteo Guidicelli
Paolo Contis
Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski
Jillian Ward
Winners
Sean Samonte
Lucas Magallano
Yesha Camile
Esang de Torres
Sean Hayden Bermudez
Alliyah Umandal
Seth Levi Salada
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of i-Shine Talent Camp earned an 8.8% rating. While the final episode broadcast by GMA Network scored an 11.4% rating.
References
External links
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2014 Philippine television series endings
ABS-CBN original programming
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DV8%20Defenders | DV8 Defenders is an American amateur soccer team based in Redwood City, California, United States. Founded in 1997, the team plays in Region IV of the United States Adult Soccer Association, a network of amateur leagues at the fifth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid.
The team plays its home games at Bechet Field in Red Morton Community Park. The team's colors are navy blue, black and white.
History
DV8 were formed in 1999, and have competed in the Peninsula Soccer League (PSL), the top amateur league in the Bay Area in Northern California. Since joining the league the team won the PSL Cup Championship in 2004, enjoyed a perfect 2006-07 campaign on their way to their first Peninsula Soccer League championship, and have also won competitions such as the Soccer United League in 2010.
DV8 entered the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup for the first time in 2011, and qualified for the tournament proper at the first attempt, topping their qualifying group that included Albuquerque Metro SC from New Mexico and local rivals SF Italian AC. DV8 is one of the most known teams in the bay area and is considered the most active high level soccer team in the area. DV8 also has former professional players active on roster and has had players on the roster that are now playing professionally.
Players
Nor Cal League/Open cup 2014
Notable players
Javier Hill Ayala
Hunberto Alvarez
Luke Sassano
Paul Moran
Paulo Ferreira-Mendes
Pedro Ferreira-Mendes
Bryan Little
Head coaches
Tono Aspinall (2010-2012)
Jake Morrison 2012–present
Stadia
Port Royal Park; Foster City, California (2004–2008)
Fiesta Meadows Park; San Mateo, California (2004–2005) 2 games
Stadium at San Mateo High School; San Mateo, California (2005–2009) 8 games
McGarvey Field; Redwood City, California (2008–present)
Andrew Hill Park; San Jose, California (2008) 1 game
Mayfield Soccer Complex; Palo Alto, California (2008) 1 game
Bechet Field in Red Morton Community Park; Redwood City, California (2009–present)
References
External links
Official site
Soccer clubs in the San Francisco Bay Area |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20lab | Media lab is a term used for several types of spaces and organizations that work in the fields of art, technology, and new media. It can refer to:
Media lab, another term for a computer lab or media production studio
University media labs
MIT Media Lab, an academic institution at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Médialab, a Sciences Po research center based in Paris, France
Media Lab Europe, European partner of the MIT Media Lab based in Dublin, Ireland
Media Lab Helsinki, a digital design studio in Aalto University
Other organizations
Medialab-Prado, a Madrilenian citizen project about digital commons
CFC Media Lab, part of the Canadian Film Centre
Medialab Technology, a French post-production company
MediaLab AI, Inc., a holding company of websites including Imgur, Kik Messenger, Whisper, Amino |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gukje%20Cyber%20University | Gukje Cyber University is a private university located in Paldal-gu, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea.
Notable people
Choi Whee-sung, R&B singer, record producer, and musical theatre actor.
Kang Dae-sung, actor and vocalist of Kpop boy-group Bigbang
Kang Seung-yoon, singer-songwriter, dancer, record producer, actor, and leader and vocalist of Kpop boy group Winner
Kwon Ji-yong, singer-songwriter, rapper, record producer, entrepreneur and fashion icon, and leader of Kpop boy group Bigbang
External links
Gukje Cyber University
References
Universities and colleges in Suwon
Private universities and colleges in South Korea
Universities and colleges established in 2003
2003 establishments in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%20%28system%20call%29 | In modern POSIX compliant operating systems, a program that needs to access data from a file stored in a file system uses the read system call. The file is identified by a file descriptor that is normally obtained from a previous call to open. This system call reads in data in bytes, the number of which is specified by the caller, from the file and stores then into a buffer supplied by the calling process.
The read system call takes three arguments:
The file descriptor of the file.
the buffer where the read data is to be stored and
the number of bytes to be read from the file.
POSIX usage
The read system call interface is standardized by the POSIX specification. Data from a file is read by calling the read function:
ssize_t read(int fd, void *buf, size_t count);
The value returned is the number of bytes read (zero indicates end of file) and the file position is advanced by this number. It is not an error if this number is smaller than the number of bytes requested; this may happen for example because fewer bytes are actually available right now (maybe because we were close to end-of-file, or because we are reading from a pipe, or from a terminal), or because the system call was interrupted by a signal.
Alternatively, -1 is returned when an error occurs, in such a case errno is set appropriately and further it is left unspecified whether the file position (if any) changes.
See also
write (system call)
References
POSIX read
External links
C POSIX library
System calls |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol%20%28format%29 | sol is a file format for representing solutions of mathematical programming problems. It is often used in conjunction with the nl format to return solutions from the solvers. Initially this format has been invented for connecting solvers to AMPL but then it has been adopted by other systems such as FortSP for interacting with external solvers.
The sol format is low-level and is designed for compactness not for readability. It has both binary and textual representation.
Many solvers such as CPLEX and MOSEK can produce files in this format either directly or through special driver programs.
The AMPL Solver Library (ASL) which allows among other things to read and write the sol files is open-source. It is used in many solvers to implement AMPL connection.
AMPL/MP Library contains an NL writer and SOL reader.
See also
nl (format) – a file format for presenting mathematical programming problems
References
Mathematical optimization software
Computer file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20generating%20process | In statistics and in empirical sciences, a data generating process is a process in the real world that "generates" the data one is interested in. Usually, scholars do not know the real data generating model. However, it is assumed that those real models have observable consequences. Those consequences are the distributions of the data in the population. Those distributors or models can be represented via mathematical functions. There are many functions of data distribution. For example, normal distribution, Bernoulli distribution, Poisson distribution, etc.
References
Probability distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri%20Alon | Uri Alon (Hebrew: אורי אלון; born 1969) is a Professor and Systems Biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His highly cited research investigates gene expression, network motifs and the design principles of biological networks in Escherichia coli and other organisms using both computational biology and traditional experimental wet laboratory techniques.
Education
Alon earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Career
After having his interest in biology sparked, Alon headed to Princeton University for his postdoctoral work in experimental biology. He returned to the Weizmann Institute as a professor.
Alon features in several popular videos on YouTube such as Sunday at the Lab (with Michael Elowitz) and How to Give a Good Talk. As of 2011, he is the author of the most highly bookmarked scientific paper on CiteULike How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem and How to Build a Motivated Research Group.
In 2021 he was appointed visiting professor in the bioengineering department of Stanford University.
Research
Uri Alon significantly contributed to our understanding of gene regulatory networks and generalized the term network motif in 2002.
Together with his team, he reunited different theories of endocrine feedback loops by introducing the closely related concepts of dynamical compensation and autoimmune surveillance of hypersecreting mutants (ASHM). The theories are able to explain a plethora of phenomena ranging from circannual endocrine rhythms over type 2 diabetes and other common endocrine disorders to alcohol addiction and age-related diseases.
Awards
In 2004 Alon was awarded the Overton Prize for "outstanding accomplishment by a scientist in the early to mid stage of his or her career" by the International Society for Computational Biology. Alon has also been awarded:
Moore Fellowship, California Institute of Technology (2000)
EMBO Young Investigator Award (2001)
IBM Faculty Award (2003)
Minerva Junior Research Group on Biological Computation (2003)
Morris L. Levinson Award in Biology (2003)
Teva Founders Prize (2005)
European Molecular Biology Organization membership (2007),
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellow 2009
HFSP Nakasone Award (2014)
References
External links
1969 births
Living people
Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization
Academic staff of Weizmann Institute of Science
Overton Prize winners
Israeli bioinformaticians
Systems biologists
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent
Israeli physicists
Network scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LulzRaft | LulzRaft is the name of a computer hacker group or individual that gained international attention in 2011 due to a series of high-profile attacks on Canadian websites. Their targets have included the Conservative Party of Canada and Husky Energy.
On June 7, 2011, LulzRaft claimed responsibility for a hacking into the Conservative Party of Canada website and posting a false story about Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The hackers posted an alert on the site claiming that Harper had choked on a hash brown while eating breakfast and was airlifted to Toronto General Hospital. The story fooled many, including Canadian MP Christopher Alexander, who spread the story on Twitter. A spokesman for the Prime Minister soon denied the story.
LulzRaft again targeted the Conservative Party on June 8, taking responsibility for a successful breach of a database containing information about the party's donors. The information accessed by the group including the names of donors as well as their home and e-mail addresses. LulzRaft later stated that the party had "terrible security" and that for the intrusion it used very basic methods. LulzRaft also apparently hacked into the website of Husky Energy on the same day. They inserted a notice promising free gas to users who used the coupon code "hash-browns", claiming that it was a gesture of goodwill intended to placate conservatives who were offended by their previous attacks.
Though some commentators have speculated that the group is motivated by a dislike of the Conservative party, LulzRaft has stated that they are a non-partisan group with a general dislike of politicians. It is unknown whether the group is linked with LulzSec, although some media reports have included speculation that LulzRaft's attacks were inspired due to the copycat effect.
See also
References
External links
Cyberattacks
Hacker groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Visentin | David Visentin is a Canadian actor, realtor and commentator. He is best known for his role as a co-host of W Network's and HGTV's Love It or List It, with co-host Hilary Farr.
Career
Visentin started his career in 1987 working as an agent for Country Living Realty in Barrie, Ontario, while working alongside his father Nick Visentin. David worked on the housing market while discovering new potential homes for numerous clients for over 25 years.
Love It or List It
Visentin auditioned for co-hosting duties for Love It or List It and was signed on by Big Coat Productions (now Big Coat Media) as one of the hosts with Farr as his competitor. Visentin's role in the show is to convince home owners to leave or "list" their home, while Farr attempts to renovate the homeowner's home at an agreed budget. Visentin does this by showing them a series of homes that could sway them to leave. In an interview with People magazine, both Visentin and Farr agreed "that their good-natured bickering is what has contributed to their series' success."
Other roles
Aside from his role on Love it or List it, Visentin has also served either as a guest or contributor on various morning news or talk show programs including The Marilyn Denis Show, Harry, The Kelly Clarkson Show and The Today Show. Visentin also joined Fox News Radio as a guest discussing the effects of the COVID 19 pandemic and the major shifts on the housing market and renovations.
He also contributes for various news services and publications such as the Canadian Press. and Time magazine.
Filmography
Television
Radio and Podcasts
Personal life
Visentin is of Italian and Jewish descent and currently resides in Barrie, Ontario, with his wife and son.
References
External links
David Visentin at the Internet Movie Database
1965 births
Living people
Canadian real estate agents
Canadian television hosts
Businesspeople from Toronto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar%27s%20Oasis | Oscar's Oasis (known as in French and in Welsh) is a computer-animated comedy television series consisting of 78 7-minute episodes. It was produced by TeamTO and Tuba Entertainment, in association with Boutique Filmes, Cake Entertainment, and Synergy Media with the participation of TF1, in coproduction with Canal+ Family, Télétoon+, Cartoon Network and TV Cultura, EBS, BENEX, and Carrimages 5, and the support of National Center of Cinematography and the moving image (CNC), the Rhône-Alpes Region, the Poitou-Charentes region and Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA). Although the series contains no dialogue, it features the voices of Marie Facundo, Sly Johnson, Martial Le Minoux and Jérémy Prevost.
Originally, the series started out as a short simply called, Oasis, which then later became a series that was called Ooohhh Asis, and was composed of seven one-minute-and-a-half episodes, which were broadcast on 26 March 2008 from TF1. Oscar's Oasis debuted in its new format at the 2010 MIPTV Media Market. The series premiered on Canal+ and Canal+ Family in September 2010, and was broadcast on TF1 since late summer 2011. In July 2011, the series was released on Nintendo 3DS in 3D. The show started airing on Gulli on July 2, 2019.
Synopsis
Oscar is a lizard living in a non-specific desert that has features from several different real deserts, like the Sahara, Kalahari Desert, and North American deserts. An asphalt concrete highway runs through the area, used from time to time by various cargo trucks. Oscar is generally searching for food or water; he sometimes discovers liquid, in bottles or elsewhere, but is usually frustrated from recovering it for drink. An oasis supplies the only fresh water in the area, but its thick population of irascible and hungry crocodiles renders it inaccessible. At considerable personal risk (lizard is a delicacy for chickens), Oscar occasionally manages to steal an egg from a nearby hen coop, and he sometimes explores one of the piles of trash that litter the parched landscape. The Trio, which involves Buck, a vulture; Harchi, a hyena; & Popy, a fennec fox, inhabit a derelict school bus situated on a neighboring hill, but they mostly race about on a cast-off warehouse or grocery cart powered by Harchi and directed by Popy. Like Oscar, the trio constantly search for food and water - often competing with him, sometimes abusing him as a means, but occasionally cooperating with him when it suits their purpose. The main characters often find themselves falling off cliffs a la Wile E. Coyote chasing the Road Runner, wherein the law of gravity is briefly suspended while the character comes to realize their imminent doom.
Characters
Main characters
The four main characters are:
Oscar (voiced by Marie Facundo) is the main character of the show. He is a gecko that is always getting into trouble with the trio – Buck, Harchi and Popy – and the chickens too. Oscar is always trying to catch flies and find some water, but most of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20link%20connector | The data link connector (DLC) is the multi-pin diagnostic connection port for automobiles, trucks, and motorcycles used to interface a scan tool with the control modules of a given vehicle and access on-board diagnostics and live data streams.
Prior to 1996, many OBD-I data link connector's were in the engine compartment, usually near the fuse block. Also, prior to 1996, there was no standardization for these connectors, and each manufacturer had its own shape with a unique pin arrangement. After 1996, many manufacturers retained their proprietary connectors in addition to the OBD-II interface, because OBD-II ports are only required to transmit emission-related codes and data.
J1708 is a DLC used on heavy duty vehicles.
OBD-II diagnostic connector
The OBD-II DLC (post-1996 vehicles) is usually located under the instrument panel on the driver side, though there are several exceptions. The SAE J1962 specification provides for two standardized hardware interfaces, called type A and type B. Both are female, 16-pin (2x8), D-shaped connectors, and both have a groove between the two rows of pins. But type B has the groove interrupted in the middle, so it isn't possible to plug a type A male connector into a type B socket. It is possible, however, to mate a type B male plug in a type A female socket.
The type A connector is used for vehicles that use 12V supply voltage, whereas type B is used for 24V vehicles and it is required to mark the front of the D-shaped area in blue color.
The OBD-II connector is required to be within of the steering wheel or somewhere within reach of the driver.
See also
On-board diagnostics
OBD-II PIDs – list of data readable with a scan tool
ELM327 – common integrated circuit inside scan tools
OBDuino – onboard computer made with Arduino that has the scan tool functions
References
Automotive electronics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passthrough%20device | A passthrough device is used in conjunction with a computer to reprogram vehicle control modules through the OBD-II/CANbus port. Each manufacturer has their own type, but SAE International standardized the J-2534 universal requirements in 2004, requiring all manufacturers to allow vehicles sold in the United States of America and Europe to accept powertrain reprogramming through specific universal parameters.
References
Automotive electronics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillarys%20Blinds | Hillarys is a manufacturer and retailer of made-to-measure window blinds, window shutters, curtains, and awnings. It sells via a network of approximately 1200 self-employed advisers across Great Britain and Ireland. The company’s head office is in Nottingham, England, while manufacturing facilities are located in Nottingham and Washington, Tyne and Wear. Approximately 1500 people are employed by the company in roles including sales and marketing, ICT, customer services, manufacturing, warehousing and distribution.
History
Early history
The company was established in 1971 by Tony Hillary. He originally made blinds in a converted garage at his home in Nottingham. As well as selling and fitting the blinds, Tony Hillary looked after advertising and manufacturing. Initially only two products Venetian blinds and vertical blinds were available. In 1974, roller blinds were introduced to the range.
The company grew steadily over the following years and in 1978 production moved to a factory, where 100 people were employed. Four shops were opened in Nottingham, Leicester, Workington and Spennymoor.
In 1982, a second factory opened in Washington, Tyne and Wear, making blinds for customers in the north of England and Scotland. 1000 blinds per week were now being produced and sold.
During the 1980s, Austrian and festoon blinds were added to the range of products. These were discontinued in the early 1990s. Curtains were also introduced – they remained in the range for 20 years before being discontinued.
In 1985, a new factory and head office opened in Nottingham. The following year, company sales reached £10million a year. By 1990, 5000 blinds were being made each week.
During the 1990s, more shops opened throughout the UK, bringing the total number of outlets to 18. The Hillarys product range increased again with the introduction of roman blinds and wooden blinds. Pleated blinds were also launched, reflecting the increased popularity of conservatories. Awnings for the outside of the home were added to the range in 1996.
Recent history
By 2000, 20,000 blinds were being produced each week. Tony Hillary sold Hillarys to a management buyout team backed by Close Brothers Private Equity.
Under the new management team, the marketing strategy changed. The company updated its logo and advertising tactics. The customer services team at head office was strengthened, as well as the structure of the sales team.
In 2002, 1000 people were employed by the company and sales reached £70 million.
To mark the opening of a new manufacturing facility in Washington, Tyne and Wear, in 2003, Hillarys manufactured the world’s largest vertical blind. It measured 20.1 metres wide and 8.3 metres tall, which is 75 times larger than the average blind manufactured by Hillarys.
In 2004, Hillarys announced a second management buyout, backed by Change Capital Partners.
In 2005, a programme to close the Hillarys shops took place. Woodweave blinds were introduced into the range. In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s%20See%20%281955%20TV%20series%29 | Let's See is an American game show that aired on the ABC Network on Thursday nights from July 14, 1955 to August 25, 1955.
Premise
Filmed at Atlantic City Convention Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the series featured panelists attempting to discover through indirect questions what attractions contestants had seen in Atlantic City. The program was sponsored by the Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce.
Host
John Reed King
References
1955 American television series debuts
1955 American television series endings
American Broadcasting Company original programming
Television shows set in New Jersey
Television shows filmed in New Jersey
1950s American game shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Bhutan | There is no rail transport in Bhutan.
Bhutan and India signed a memorandum of understanding in January 2005 to connect Bhutan with the Indian Railways network with 5 new routes in Bhutan, additionally Indian Military has also identified more routes to compliment India-China Border Roads (ICBR) & negate
Siliguri Corridor geostrategic vulnerability, all of which will be built in broad gauge.
Note: Rail lines listed west to east.
See also
Transport in Bhutan
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20function | Free Function may refer to
an Uninterpreted function in mathematics,
a non-member function in the C++ programming language. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigfatradio.com | Bigfatradio.com was an Australian internet only radio station by the Interactive Media Network. It starting webcasting in 2000 around 19 April. It ceased webcasting about six months later. It used proprietary web page streaming technology so that the end user was able to view pages sent from the studio.
The station featured many ex Triple J staff including Michael Tunn, Angela Catterns, Andy Glitre, Helen Razer, Ian Rogerson and Debbie Spillane. Therefore, the station had a strong Triple J influence.
It was believed that using well known radio personalities would increase the popularity and also help it to expand
The station featured Angela Catterns as a Presenter and host of Daily Crunch programme as well as John Carroll as a music director and scheduler and Ian Rogerson as the creative director.
The station was forced to close due to a lack of funding available. Bruce Robson, the stations marketing director, mainly blamed this to bad timing as the station was introduced, shortly after the demise of other internet sites such as K-Grind and Spike and therefore investors were not as willing to invest as before
Chris Gilbey, co-founder of BigFatRadio and chief executive officer of parent company InterActive Media Network, said the concept was "perhaps a little ahead and a little behind the game'", as such an exact attempt at a radio station had not been attempted before however they were not expecting the ending it had received.
The domain name has since been sold and reused.
References
Internet radio stations in Australia
Defunct radio stations in Australia
Radio stations established in 2000
2000 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koutetsu%20no%20Kishi%202%3A%20Sabaku%20no%20Rommel%20Shougun | is a Japan-exclusive video game that was released for the Super Famicom in 1994, and to the Windows operating system in 2002.
The Super Famicom version of this video game is a sequel to Koutetsu no Kishi and a prequel to Koutetsu no Kishi 3: Gekitotsu Europe Sensen.
Gameplay
Players can either compete in a military campaign, a practice mode, or even construct their own ideal battlefield. Taking place mostly in the North African theatre of World War II, Mode 7 graphics help to provide a transition from battlefield to battlefield. While participating in the military campaign, the player gets promoted from lieutenant to captain and ends the campaign as a captain.
The campaign mode in this game takes place in a time period spanning from April 1941 (when the German Panzer tanks arrive in North Africa) to July 1945 (that assumes that the Battle of Berlin has been delayed by the player's action in the North African Campaign). Once in the battlefield, the pieces are viewed from a top-down perspective, with an option tab that allows for variations like difficulty level and the presence of video game background music to be altered. Each unit has a variety of offense, defense, hit rate, and agility ratings that reflect its historical successes and/or shortcomings on the battlefield. Being successful in destroying units allows the commander of each unit to earn a series of German Crosses (in both gold and silver). Killing approximately 28 units results in that particular unit being promoted to the rank of warrant officer.
The primary objective in the campaign mode is to help Field Marshal Erwin Rommel capture the headquarters for the Allied forces in Cairo while preventing the Axis forces' headquarters from suffering the same fate. After the end of the game, the screen shows how many people were killed and how many people survived on the player's side. A survival rate is also shown in percentage in order to track the number of people that remained alive after the end of the campaign. While the Allied forces in this game are mostly Anglo-American, there are also troops from other Allied countries like France and the Soviet Union. Troops from Nazi-friendly nations like Fascist Italy and the Empire of Japan show up on some missions in the Windows version as auxiliary support for the main German troops.
See also
SNES Mouse
List of World War II video games
References
1994 video games
Asmik Ace Entertainment games
General Support games
Japan-exclusive video games
Koutetsu no Kishi series
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Windows games
Top-down video games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Akihiko Mori
World War II video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference%20on%20Information%20and%20Knowledge%20Management | The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM, pronounced ) is an annual computer science research conference dedicated to information management (IM) and knowledge management (KM). Since the first event in 1992, the conference has evolved into one of the major forums for research on database management, information retrieval, and knowledge management. The conference is noted for its interdisciplinarity, as it brings together communities that otherwise often publish at separate venues. Recent editions have attracted well beyond 500 participants. In addition to the main research program, the conference also features a number of workshops, tutorials, and industry presentations.
For many years, the conference was held in the USA. Since 2005, venues in other countries have been selected as well.
Locations
1992: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
1993: Washington, D.C., USA
1994: Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA
1995: Baltimore, Maryland, USA,
1996: Rockville, Maryland, USA
1997: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
1998: Bethesda, Maryland, USA
1999: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
2000: Washington, D.C., USA
2001: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2002: McLean, Virginia, USA
2003: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
2004: Washington, D.C., USA
2005: Bremen, Germany
2006: Arlington, Virginia, USA
2007: Lisbon, Portugal
2008: Napa Valley, California, USA
2009: Hong Kong, China
2010: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2011: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
2016: Indianapolis, USA
2017: Singapore, Singapore
2018: Turin, Italy
2019: Beijing, China
2020: Galway, Ireland
2021: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia (Online)
2022: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2023: Birmingham, UK
2024: Boise, Idaho, USA
See also
SIGIR Conference
References
External links
Computer science conferences
Association for Computing Machinery conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Powerpuff%20Girls%20soundtracks | The following is a list of soundtracks from the animated television series The Powerpuff Girls, created by Craig McCracken, which ran on Cartoon Network from November 18, 1998, to March 25, 2005. The releases include 2000's Heroes & Villains, 2001's The City of Soundsville, and 2003's Power Pop. All three albums were released by Rhino Entertainment.
Heroes & Villains
Produced by Mark Mothersbaugh and Bob Casale of Devo, The Powerpuff Girls: Heroes & Villains: Music Inspired by The Powerpuff Girls was released on July 18, 2000, on CD and audio cassette. The songs are connected by spoken interludes (recorded by the show's voice cast) to form a loose storyline in which the girls mobilize to stop Mojo Jojo from destroying Townsville. Each band wrote a song about a character, each of them based on "an assignment regarding which part of the story their song would illustrate." Craig McCracken said: "I love these bands, and listening to their work inspires my work. Each song on the album focuses on a different aspect of The Powerpuff Girls, and together they tell a story. From Townsville in danger to the day finally being saved". Although David Byrne recorded a song titled "Buttercup, Blossom, and Bubbles Say" along with his daughter Malu, who wrote the lyrics, the track was left out of the album.
The New York Times journalist Ann Powers praised the pop album's original songs, saying, "The precocious sound these bands cultivate has never had a more appropriate niche." Heather Phares of the All Music Guide called the album "appropriately hip and funny" and stated that it is "much more than just a 'music inspired by' marketing piece." Meanwhile, David Wild of Rolling Stone gave it 3 out of 5 stars, saying that "it's the indie-ish mix of acts that makes Heroes and Villains such a tuneful, trippy blast," highlighting The Apples in Stereo's "Signal in the Sky (Let's Go)" as a "propulsive, bubblegum-delicious" song that "nearly steal[s] the show." Additionally, the album topped Billboards children's music chart for six weeks upon its debut.
Track Listing
The City of SoundsvilleThe City of Soundsville: Music from The Powerpuff Girls was released on September 18, 2001, on CD, audio cassette, and vinyl record. Heather Phares of the All Music Guide was quite pleased with the soundtrack, calling it "a complete delight" and "without a doubt one of the coolest children's albums in recent memory."
The album consists of instrumental remixes that represent key elements of the series, including the girls, several villains and supporting characters, and the city of Townsville itself. Samples of lines spoken by the characters are interspersed throughout each track.
Track Listing
Power PopThe Powerpuff Girls: Power Pop was released on August 12, 2003, on CD and audio cassette. Despite positive reviews of the formerly released albums, the album earned a negative review from AllMusic's Heather Phares, who regarded Power Pop as a "big disappointment", saying "it's espe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Balls%20document%20leak | The Ed Balls document leak was a political controversy in the United Kingdom that arose on 9 June 2011. It was based on a database of 55 private documents leaked by The Daily Telegraph that purported to show that Ed Balls played a central role in a plot, launched two months after the 2005 general election dubbed "Project Volvo", to oust Tony Blair as prime minister and replace him with Gordon Brown. The files included private letters between Blair and Brown, and also purported to show that the government went ahead with plans to increase public spending, despite receiving advice to the contrary.
The day following the revelations Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell sanctioned an investigation into the leaking of the papers, after receiving a complaint from Balls, who maintained that the documents referred only to attempts made by him and agreed with by Blair and Brown, "to ensure a 'stable and orderly transition'" between the two Labour politicians.
Background
In May 2009 The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph published details of MPs' expenses. This led to a number of high-profile resignations from both the ruling Labour administration and the Conservative opposition. The release of the 66 documents in June 2011 was the second time in recent history that the Telegraph Group had made available to the public documents that could be potentially damaging to political figures.
Balls had been a key figure in New Labour's economic reform agenda. However, he and Brown had differed from the Blairites in being more keen to stress their roots in Labour party intellectual traditions such as Fabianism and the co-operative movement, in addition to taking a modernising approach when it came to policy.
The files
On the evening of 9 July 2011 The Daily Telegraph published the first set of files, consisting of more than 30 documents, which allegedly showed that Balls, and to some extent Ed Miliband and Douglas Alexander, had played a "key role" in undermining Tony Blair in the wake of the 2005 New Labour general election win, "in a plot codenamed Project Volvo". The cache of documents also appeared to reveal in handwritten notes made by Brown his negative feelings towards Blair; material which had previously only been the subject of considerable media speculation.
The following day, 10 July, the newspaper released a further 19 documents "obtained from the personal files of Mr Balls" which purportedly provided evidence that Brown took decisions to press ahead with increased public spending, despite receiving advice that "any increase in taxpayer expenditure should only be in line with inflation". Another memorandum appeared to show that Brown and Balls were warned "that plans to scrap the 10p tax rate would hit millions of poorer Britons and pensioners."
Denial of allegations
Balls maintained both before and after the documents were leaked that he had not been part of a campaign to replace Blair with Brown. In July 2010, Balls dismissed as "total, abso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%20and%20weak%20typing | In computer programming, one of the many ways that programming languages are colloquially classified is whether the language's type system makes it strongly typed or weakly typed (loosely typed). However, there is no precise technical definition of what the terms mean and different authors disagree about the implied meaning of the terms and the relative rankings of the "strength" of the type systems of mainstream programming languages. For this reason, writers who wish to write unambiguously about type systems often eschew the terms "strong typing" and "weak typing" in favor of specific expressions such as "type safety".
Generally, a strongly typed language has stricter typing rules at compile time, which implies that errors and exceptions are more likely to happen during compilation. Most of these rules affect variable assignment, function return values, procedure arguments and function calling. Dynamically typed languages (where type checking happens at run time) can also be strongly typed. In dynamically typed languages, values, rather than variables, have types.
A weakly typed language has looser typing rules and may produce unpredictable or even erroneous results or may perform implicit type conversion at runtime. Advocates of dynamically typed (generally "weakly typed") languages find such concerns to be overblown and believe that static typing actually introduces an exponentially larger set of problems and inefficiencies. A different but related concept is latent typing.
History
In 1974, B. Liskov and S. Zilles defined a strongly-typed language as one in which "whenever an object is passed from a calling function to a called function, its type must be compatible with the type declared in the called function."
In 1977, K. Jackson wrote, "In a strongly typed language each data area will have a distinct type and each process will state its communication requirements in terms of these types."
Definitions of "strong" or "weak"
A number of different language design decisions have been referred to as evidence of "strong" or "weak" typing. Many of these are more accurately understood as the presence or absence of type safety, memory safety, static type-checking, or dynamic type-checking.
"Strong typing" generally refers to use of programming language types in order to both capture invariants of the code, and ensure its correctness, and definitely exclude certain classes of programming errors. Thus there are many "strong typing" disciplines used to achieve these goals.
Implicit type conversions and "type punning"
Some programming languages make it easy to use a value of one type as if it were a value of another type. This is sometimes described as "weak typing".
For example, Aahz Maruch observes that "Coercion occurs when you have a statically typed language and you use the syntactic features of the language to force the usage of one type as if it were a different type (consider the common use of void* in C). Coercion is usually a symptom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Computing%20Architecture | Network Computing Architecture may refer to:
Network Computing Architecture, protocol created by Apollo Computer in their Network Computing System
Network Computing Architecture, three-tier architecture by Oracle Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Eastland%20Television | Great Eastland Television (GET) was a network of affiliated country television stations servicing northern New South Wales and South East Queensland from 1975 to 1987. The system combined three pairs of television stations in the Darling and Southern Downs regions of Queensland and the New England, Manning River and North Coast regions of northern New South Wales.
The stations involved in the network were:
DDQ-10 and DDQ-5a Toowoomba/Darling Downs
SDQ-4 Southern Downs
NRN-11 Coffs Harbour
RTN-8 Lismore
NEN-9 Tamworth
ECN-8 Taree
All the stations were independently owned of each other, but shared common programming and branding. The stations were branded as GET (channel number), for example, DDQ/SDQ was known as GET 10-4-5a. The network was formed as a response to rising programming costs incurred by regional stations in the 1970s.
The network was dismantled in the mid to late 1980s, although by the close of the decade, NRN/RTN and DDQ/SDQ were co-owned and at one point, DDQ's operations were to be largely based out of Coffs Harbour, before becoming part of the RTQ licence in the regional Queensland market.
Today, they are now affiliated with metropolitan networks as part of larger ownership groups. DDQ/SDQ and NRN/RTN are now relays of WIN Television's Queensland and Northern New South Wales licences respectively (DDQ and SDQ have since merged into RTQ), and NEN and ECN are now the Prime7 station in the same market. The RTN and ECN call-signs were replaced with those of NRN and NEN respectively.
See also
Regional television in Australia
References
Defunct television channels in Australia
Television stations in Queensland
Television stations in New South Wales
1975 establishments in Australia
1987 disestablishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Picciolini | Christian Marco Picciolini (born November 3, 1973) is an American former extremist who is the founder of the Free Radicals Project, a global network working to prevent extremism and help people disengage from hate movements. He is the author of a memoir, Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead, which details his time as a leader of the white power movement in the U.S. An updated version of the story was published in 2017, titled White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement--and How I Got Out. His book Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism (2020) looks at how extremists recruit the vulnerable to their causes.
Early life and education
Picciolini was born and raised in Blue Island, Illinois, the son of Italian immigrants. His father was a hair salon owner and his mother is a restaurant owner. At age 14 in 1987, Picciolini was recruited to join the Chicago Area Skinheads (CASH) by the group's founder, Clark Martell. Two years later, after Martell had gone to prison for a second time, Picciolini became the group's leader at age 16. He facilitated a merger between CASH and the Hammerskins, a more violent and well-organized white supremacist skinhead organization.
He would go on to head the white supremacist punk band, White American Youth (W.A.Y.) and, eventually, a hate rock band called Final Solution. Final Solution was the first American white power skinhead group to perform in Europe. The concert was held in a former cathedral in Weimar, Germany, attended by 4,000 people, and was made up of several other white supremacist bands. In 1994, Picciolini opened a record store called Chaos Records where he primarily sold white power music. He officially renounced ties to the American neo-Nazi movement in 1996 at the age of 22.
Picciolini attended DePaul University later in life, earning a degree in international business and international relations.
Career
Picciolini founded another, non-racist punk rock band called Random55 after leaving the white power movement. The band toured with Joan Jett in the mid-1990s. In 1999, Picciolini began working for IBM. He eventually left IBM to start his own record label, Sinister Muse. Sinister Muse is part of the broader entertainment firm Goldmill Group. Picciolini managed Flatfoot 56, a Celtic punk band from Chicago and The Briggs, a Los Angeles punk band.
After graduating from DePaul University, Picciolini spent time writing his personal memoirs about his experience as a youth involved in the early American white power skinhead scene. In 2010, he co-founded Life After Hate, a peace advocacy and counter-extremism consulting group, with former neo-Nazi, Arno Michaelis. That same year, he took over as the executive producer and general manager of JBTV, a music-themed television program and entertainment media network based in Chicago. Picciolini is responsible for changing the show's basic format, securing a national distribution deal with NBC, and earnin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleophora%20pallidata | Coleophora pallidata is a moth of the family Coleophoridae. It is found in Iran.
References
pallidata
Moths described in 1959
Insects of Iran
Moths of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood%20411 | Hollywood 411 is an entertainment news and gossip television show that originally premiered on August 12, 2005, but later started on January 14, 2008, on the TV Guide Network and is hosted by Chris Harrison. The show was previously hosted by Madison Michele with guest hosts Marc Istook, Tanika Ray, and Rosanna Tavarez. The show includes celebrity interviews and previews of TV shows and movies.
References
External links
2005 American television series debuts
Entertainment news shows in the United States
Pop (American TV channel) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operabase | Operabase is an online global database for audiences and professionals. It lists details on opera performances, opera houses and companies, and performers as well as their agents. It was founded in 1996 by English software engineer and opera lover Mike Gibb. Initially a hobby site, it became his full-time occupation after three years. Opera magazine describes the Operabase website as "the most comprehensive source of data on operatic activity". Gibb sold Operabase to Truelinked in 2018. The company was then bought by Arts Consolidated (headquartered in Denmark) and relaunched in 2021. The management team is led by Ulrike Köstinger (Chief Executive Officer) and other members of the management team are Bharani Setlur (Chief Product Officer), Trine Guldmann (Chief Finance Officer) and Peter Palludan (Chief Technology Officer).
History
Early expansion
By its tenth anniversary, in 2006, the site received "about 10,000 visitors a day to the public site, who look at over four million pages a month between them. Of these, fewer than half use English, 17% use German, 12% Italian, 10% French, 9% Spanish." In autumn of that year the British magazine Opera Now reported that "Operabase has taken on the Herculean task of making [the site] available to every European Union citizen in their own language – not only the 21 (as at January 2007) official languages of the EU, but Catalan, Icelandic and Norwegian as well." As of November 2012, the free public area of the site is available in 22 languages, and includes 37,000 performances, 40,000 artists, 700 opera companies, festivals and theatres, and the contact details and rosters of 400 artist managers.
Seven years after the public site was launched, a professional site followed and within three years, "200 opera houses from the Met to La Scala" were subscribers. The initial service offering for the 750 euro annual subscription fee had increased artist information and an opera casting tool. The casting tool was used for researching singers for a given role, but was particularly valued for finding replacement singers when there were emergency cancellations. The tool could not only put forward the names of all of the singers who had sung that role, but the artist schedules could be used to find if they were available, and the artists management and contact information could be used to make contact.
Recent developments
In 2019, Arts Consolidated ApS, a Danish company specialising in performing arts, acquired Operabase. The relaunch of Operabase meant constructing a site as a Service-Orientated Architecture (SOA) that “provides a flexible interface that responds to the needs of individual users.”
Public website
The database was operated by Gibb and Muriel Denzler. As has been noted by Gibb and Denzler in an article on the website of Opera Europa (the European opera service organisation similar to those which exist in the US and Canada, Opera America and Opera.ca) they provide specialised services to opera profe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie%20Lane | Zombie Lane is a social network game developed by Digital Chocolate's Helsinki-based studio and released on Facebook and Google+ in 2011. In late 2011, it was released on the iOS App Store. Players must rebuild their shattered neighbourhoods after their destruction by a zombie apocalypse. The game was praised by reviewers for its graphics and gameplay. By July 2014, the Facebook version had over 2.2 million likes, and as of April 2014 it has been licensed to RockYou while the developers from Digital Chocolate were hired to continue to work on the game.
Gameplay
Gameplay centers on farming and rebuilding the destroyed neighborhood, with the game beginning at the end of the world. The player's character has lost their spouse and dog, who need to be located, and the dilapidated shack which used to be their home is the only building left standing. The player is given advice by a character called Rob the Rent-a-Cop, and must deal with the encroaching zombies as well as restore the neighborhood. The player begins with a shovel as their only weapon, but in time can create makeshift weapons from collected objects and obtain firearms.
Rubble and debris litters the game area, and must be cleared before the player can plant crops, which in turn can be converted into food which restores energy. Combat involves clicking on zombies in order to attack them. Should the player be attacked by a zombie their character will be momentarily stunned, no other penalties are incurred. Enemies become more difficult to defeat as the game progresses. When enemies are defeated they disappear, despite the game's setting combat is slapstick in nature rather than overtly violent. Zombies drop items when defeated, with different types of zombies dropping different items. The door-to-door salesman zombies drop sporting goods, whereas zombies that were formerly shop employees drop household goods.
The game's plot is minimal, instead tasks are given in order to achieve overarching goals such as locating the player's spouse. These tasks can involve defeating a set number of opponents within a time limit, or producing crops, and will either be single challenges or connected to the larger goals.
As the player progresses, they access additional play areas some of which have a more linear plot progression.
Reception
Zombie Lane was praised by reviewers in terms of its graphics and gameplay. Gamezebo's Andrew Webster stated "Zombie Lane sports smooth and charming 3D visuals, with distinct characters and solid animation. The soundtrack, too, has a very fitting horror crossed with comedy vibe." He compared the game to FrontierVille, stating "The core game may not be all that original, but Zombie Lane still feels like a fresh experience." Seattle Post-Intelligencer writer Josh Sprague Stated "..it’s actually a lot of fun to pump lead into some zombies while you’re waiting for your strawberries to ripen. The visuals are fresh and carry a joe six-pack charm..".
References
External link |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Reference%20Station | Virtual Reference Station (VRS) networks use real-time kinematic (RTK) solutions to provide high-accuracy, RTK Global Navigation Satellite Systems.
To reach centimeter-level – or even better – accuracy of positioning typically requires precise dual-frequency carrier phase observations. Furthermore, these observations are usually processed using a differential GNSS (DGNSS) algorithm, such as real time kinematic (RTK) or post-processing (PP). Regardless of the specific differential algorithm, however, implicit in the process is an assumption that the quality of the reference station data is consistent with the desired level of positioning accuracy.
The virtual reference station (VRS) concept can help to satisfy this requirement using a network of reference stations. As a quick review, a typical DGNSS setup consists of a single reference station from which the raw data (or corrections) are sent to the rover receiver (i.e., the user). The user then forms the carrier phase differences (or corrects their raw data) and performs the data processing using the differential corrections.
In contrast, GNSS network architectures often make use of multiple reference stations. This approach allows a more precise modeling of distance-dependent systematic errors principally caused by ionospheric and tropospheric refractions, and satellite orbit errors. More specifically, a GNSS network decreases the dependence of the error budget on the distance of nearest antenna.
References
https://gisresources.com/virtual-reference-station/ - What is Virtual Reference station (VRS) by GIS Resources
Kinematics
Satellite navigation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Broadband%20Network | The National Broadband Network (NBN) is an Australian national wholesale open-access data network. It includes wired and radio communication components rolled out and operated by NBN Co, a government-owned corporation. Internet service providers, known under NBN as retail service providers or RSPs, contract with NBN to access the data network and sell fixed Internet access to end users.
Rationales for this national telecommunications infrastructure project included replacing the existing copper cable telephony network that is approaching end of life, and the rapidly growing demand for Internet access. As initially proposed by the Rudd government in 2009, wired connections would have provided up to 100 Mbit/s (later increased to 1000 Mbit/s), although this was decreased to a minimum of 25 Mbit/s in 2013 after the election of the Abbott government.
As the largest infrastructure project in Australia's history, NBN was the subject of significant political contention and has been an issue in federal elections. The Liberal government initially stated that the "Multi-Technology Mix" (MTM) would be completed by 2016, however this was changed after the election to 2019 and then again to 2020. The project cost jumped from the Liberal Party's estimated $29.5 billion before the 2013 federal election, to $46–56 billion afterwards. In 2016 NBN Co. said it was on target for $49 billion, but by late 2018 the estimated final cost was $51 billion.
History
2007
A fast broadband initiative was announced in the run-up to the 2007 federal election by the Labor opposition with an estimated cost of including a government contribution of $4.7 billion that would be raised in part by selling the Federal Government's remaining shares in Telstra.
The Labor Party Rudd government was elected on 24 November 2007 and initial planning commenced.
The NBN was originally to deliver its wholesale service through fibre to the node (FTTN) and reach approximately 98% of premises in Australia by . A new satellite network would be built to reach the rest of the country.
2008
An initial request for proposal (RFP) to build the NBN was issued but not executed. Organisations lodging compliant proposals were neither able to meet the requirements nor able to raise the necessary capital. A non-compliant proposal was received from Telstra and they were excluded from consideration.
2009
The Rudd government announced it would bypass the existing copper network by constructing a new national network combining fibre to the premises (FTTP), fixed wireless and satellite technologies. The first Rudd government had proposed to develop a modern optical fibre telecommunications network to provide broadband access to 93% of the Australian population at 100 Mbit/s, with those areas and people outside the network footprint to be provided broadband access through fixed wireless and geosynchronous telecommunications satellite.
The cost estimate rose to $43 billion and later revised to $37.4 billion. T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaya%20Games | is a video game brand. Masaya was initially established by Japanese entertainment company Nippon Computer Systems (NCS) in 1984 to take part in the video game market. The brand name was transferred to Extreme in November 2014.
Video games
PC-8801
Elthlead (1987)
PC Engine
Gaia no Monshou (1988)
Moto Roader (1989)
Kaizō Chōjin Shubibinman (1989)
Ganbare! Golf Boys (1989)
Energy (1989)
Double Dungeons (1989)
ROM ROM Stadium (CD-ROM², 1989)
Gaiflame (1990)
Hisou Kihei χserd (1990)
Nazo no Masquerade (1990)
Sol Bianca (CD-ROM², 1990)
Kickball (1990)
Ranma ½ (CD-ROM², 1990)
Wallaby!! (1990)
Cyber City Oedo 808: Attribute of the Beast (CD-ROM², 1991)
Moto Roader II (1991)
L-Dis (CD-ROM², 1991)
Shockman (1991)
Dragon Egg (1991)
Ranma ½: Toraware no Hanayome (CD-ROM², 1991)
Kaizō Chōjin Shubibinman 3: Ikai no Princess (CD-ROM², 1992)
Mamono Hunter Yōko: Makai kara no Tenkōsei (CD-ROM², 1992)
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross 2036 (Super CD-ROM², 1992)
Ranma ½: Datou, Ganso Musabetsu Kakutou-ryuu! (Super CD-ROM², 1992)
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Eternal Love Song (Super CD-ROM², 1992)
Moto Roader MC (Super CD-ROM², 1992)
Cho Aniki (Super CD-ROM², 1992)
Mamono Hunter Yōko: Tooki Yobigoe (Super CD-ROM², 1993)
Langrisser: The Descendants of Light (Super CD-ROM², 1993)
Ai Cho Aniki (Super CD-ROM², 1995)
Sega Genesis
Shove It! ...The Warehouse Game (1990)
Target Earth (1990)
Hellfire (1990)
Trampoline Terror! (1990)
Star Cruiser (1990)
Gynoug (1991)
Mamono Hunter Yōko: Dai 7 no Keishō (1991)
Warsong (1991)
Sorcerer's Kingdom (1992)
Gley Lancer (1992)
Vixen 357 (1992)
Ranma ½: Byakuran Aika (Mega-CD, 1992)
Langrisser II (1994)
Game Boy
After Burst (1990)
Winner's Horse (1991)
Janken Man (1991)
Prince of Persia (1992)
Battletoads (1994)
Zen-Nippon Pro Wrestling Jet (1994)
Game Gear
Head Buster (1991)
NES
Battletoads (1991)
Double Moon Densetsu (1992)
Super NES
Prince of Persia (1992)
Cybernator (1992)
Ranma ½: Hard Battle (1992)
Zen Nippon Pro Wrestling (1993)
Zen-Nippon Pro Wrestling Dash: Sekai Saikyō Tag (1993)
Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (1994)
Araiguma Rascal: Raccoon Rascal (1994)
Zen-Nippon Pro Wrestling: Fight da Pon! (1994)
Bike Daisuki! Hashiriya Kon – Rider's Spirits (1994)
Power of the Hired (1994)
Zen-Nippon Pro Wrestling 2: 3–4 Budōkan (1995)
Der Langrisser (1995)
Cho Aniki Bakuretsu Ranto-hen (1995)
Kaizou Choujin Schbibinman Zero (1997)
Ring Ni Kakero (1998)
PC-FX
Der Langrisser FX (1996)
Playstation
Cho Aniki: Kyuukyoku Muteki Ginga Saikyou Otoko (1995)
Langrisser I & II (1997)
Dream Generation: Koi ka? Shigoto ka!?... (1998)
Arubarea no Otome ~Uruwashi no Seishikitachi~ (1998)
Langrisser IV & V Final Edition (1999)
Assault Suits Valken 2 (1999)
Sega Saturn
Cho Aniki: Kyuukyoku Muteki Ginga Saikyou Otoko (1996)
Langrisser III (1996)
Assault Suit Leynos 2 (1997)
Langrisser IV (1997)
Langrisser: Dramatic Edition (1998)
Langrisser V: The End of Legend (1998)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLEZ | Klez is a computer worm that propagates via e-mail, first appeared in October 2001.
KLEZ or Klez may also refer to:
KLBL, a radio station (101.5 FM) in Malvern, Arkansas, United States, assigned call sign KLEZ 2003–2009
KPWA, a radio station (93.5 FM) in Bismarck, Arkansas, United States, assigned call sign KLEZ 2009–2011
See also
KlezKamp, a yearly Klezmer music and Yiddish culture festival, New York State, 1984–2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FabFi | FabFi is an open-source, city-scale, wireless mesh networking system. It is an inexpensive framework for sharing wireless internet from a central provider across a town or city. It was developed originally by FabLab, Jalalabad to provide high-speed internet to parts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. It is also designed for high performance across multiple hops.
Background
In January 2009, the Jalalabad FabLab wanted to bring high-speed internet to a village, hospital, university, and an NGO in the city. It used this low-cost design, building on a system designed to track sheep in Norway. The system could be easily extended to other villages and towns, and was designed to work consistently through heavy rain, smog, and trees.
Community members who used the fab lab received training and experience with the system for a month, after which they were given control and maintenance of it. Many locations began to join the initial nodes, expanding the mesh over the coming months. The longest link in the system was set up early on, between the FabLab and the water tower at the public hospital in Jalalabad.
FabFi around the world
Afghanistan
Jalalabad has 45 remote FabFi nodes, with the longest link spanning 6 km. The total data throughput is 11.5Mbit/s. The system is extensible by anyone without getting central permission, simply by adding a node and pointing it in the right direction.
The materials needed to make an endpoint link are $60US, and are available locally. An endpoint node that provides 360-degree coverage of the area near it might use more hardware and cost closer to $150US.
Additional sites in Afghanistan are being considered.
Kenya
Kenya has 50 remote FabFi nodes deployed across three sites. The longest link among them is 3.5 km. The data throughput across roughly 2.5 km, with up to 6 hops, exceeds 30Mbit/s.
This system is designed to get Wi-Fi directly to people's homes, and manages users and billing - a feature not yet rolled back into the global codebase or that used in Afghanistan.
Future sites and testbeds
As of , FabFi systems were being tested in the United States.
External links
A technical summary of how FabFi works
FabFi code wiki
How to build: a server | nodes | reflectors
References
Wireless Internet service providers
Jalalabad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giesbrecht | Giesbrecht is the surname of the following people
Gordon Giesbrecht, Canadian psychologist
Helmut Giesbrecht (1943-2020), Canadian politician in British Columbia
Mark Giesbrecht, Canadian computer scientist
Wilhelm Giesbrecht (1854-1913), Prussian zoologist
Andrea Giesbrecht, Canadian criminal
Russian Mennonite surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nook%20Simple%20Touch | The Nook Simple Touch (also called the Nook Touch) is the second generation Nook e-reader developed by Barnes & Noble. It features an 600x800 E Ink screen with a touchscreen that uses a network of infrared beams slightly above the screen surface. The device also has wireless connectivity via Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n and a micro USB port for charging and connecting to a computer.
In April 2012, Barnes & Noble introduced a Simple Touch Reader with "GlowLight" LED technology. On 30 October 2013, Barnes & Noble released the Nook Glowlight, which replaced the Simple Touch with Glowlight. The Simple Touch was still sold until late February 2014, when it was discontinued.
Reception
Since its release on 25 May 2011, the Nook Simple Touch has received generally positive reviews. The summary of a PC Magazine review observed: "Thanks to plenty of upgrades and a laser-sharp focus on the reading experience, the second-gen Barnes & Noble Nook Touch Reader is our new Editors' Choice for ebook readers." Laptop Magazine termed it "the best E Ink eReader on the market right now". An MSNBC critic favored the Nook Simple Touch over the Kindle Touch, citing the Nook's superior user interface and an "over two months" battery life versus the Kindle's "up to two months".
Engadget initially expressed confusion over the device's name and dubbed the device the "Nook Wi-Fi" in its review.
Use of additional Android applications
As an Android device, the Nook Simple Touch can be modified to run Android applications (including those obtained via Google Play) through a process called rooting, which grants users root access to the Nook Simple Touch's file system. Doing so voids the device's warranty in some jurisdictions, although it can often be restored to (non-rooted) factory defaults for warranty claims.
Other modifications
The Nook Simple Touch is somewhat limited due to the slow processor and the E ink screen. These issues have been overcome via a custom kernel, which overclocks the processor and enables multitouch. The slow refresh rate and flashing screen were overcome by an app called NoRefresh (or Fastmode), which increases refresh rate by reverting to 1-bit depth (black and white, no greyscale).
Another limitation has been the lack of audio. The Nook Simple Touch has no external speakers or headphone ports. This has been overcome with more kernel modifications.
Various custom operating systems (or ROMs) have also been developed, such as the 1337 ROM. These ROMs are similar to the stock OS, but have been modified with several of the tweaks listed above.
See also
Comparison of e-book readers
Comparison of tablet computers
References
External links
Barnes and Noble Nook Touch on xda-developers
Barnes & Noble
Android (operating system) devices
Dedicated ebook devices
Products introduced in 2011
Foxconn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milenio%20Televisi%C3%B3n | Milenio Televisión is a Mexican television cable news channel owned by Grupo Multimedios. The news programming uses the resources of the Milenio newspaper, one of the largest in the country. Programming is 24 hours a day, through news, analysis and specialized programs. The channel is available in various pay TV systems throughout Mexico and the US, and on the internet. Milenio has also been available on the second digital subchannels of Multimedios television stations, as well as those of XHIJ-TDT and XHILA-TDT.
The network produces newscasts specifically for Los Angeles called Noticias 22 Milenio. The newscasts air weekdays from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m., daily from 7 to 8 p.m. and daily from 10 to 11:30 PM (Pacific Time). on KWHY-TV 22.
During 2012, Milenio Television began broadcasting on Digital Television on 12.2 of XHAW-TDT; until 2015 it moved to 12.2 of XHSAW-TDT. In 2017, it changes to channel 13.2. In February 2018, due to the change of XHAW-TDT from 12.1 to 6.1, XHSAW-TDT returns to 12.1 and Milenio Television in 12.2.
In 2016, Milenio Televisión's open signal increased when it received authorization from the IFT to be transmitted as part of the multiprogramming of the main channel in the cities of: Torreón, León, Nuevo Laredo, Ciudad Victoria, Tampico and Matamoros.
As a result of the IFT-6 tender, Multimedia won frequencies in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Durango, Ciudad Juarez and Monclova, Milenio Televisión is available at stations in those cities.
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Milenio Televisión
24-hour television news channels in Mexico
Grupo Multimedios
Spanish-language television stations in Mexico
2008 establishments in Mexico
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Fletcher | Ron Fletcher (May 29, 1921 – December 6, 2011) was an American Pilates Master Teacher, an author and a Martha Graham dancer. He was also a Broadway stage, network television, cabaret and International Ice Capades choreographer. He is identified as a “Pilates Elder”—a “first-generation teacher” who studied directly under Joseph and Clara Pilates.
Originally referred to Joseph Pilates by fellow dancer for treatment of a chronic knee injury, Fletcher was schooled in the principles of Body Contrology (the name Pilates gave to his fitness and conditioning method) by Joseph and Clara Pilates, with whom he studied in their New York City studio at 939 8th Avenue, on and off from 1948 until one year after Joseph Pilates’ death in 1967.
Career
Following his turn with the Martha Graham Company, Fletcher was cast by Japanese choreographer Yeichi Nimura, alongside Yul Brynner and Mary Martin, in the role of Imperial Attendant (142 performances) in Nimura’s 1946 Broadway and London productions of The Lute Song. Following his professional dance career, Fletcher’s principal avocation, and that for which he became widely known in the entertainment industry, was choreography.
Fletcher worked from the late 1940s until 1971 as a theater, network television, nightclub stage, film and International Ice Capades choreographer. He set dance numbers in New York City for Broadway musicals including 1951’s long-running “Top Banana” (350 performances) as well as for Radio City Music Hall, Roxy Theatre, Latin Quarter and Copacabana stage dance/musical productions. In television’s early days in New York City he worked as both dancer and choreographer for the prime-time television studio production of the “NBC All Star Revue” where his featured dance partner was Tallulah Bankhead.
Between 1954 and 1967 Fletcher choreographed shows in Chicago at Chez Paris; in San Francisco at Le Club; and in New Orleans at the Beverly Club. He was also lead choreographer in Paris at the Le Lido for four years where, among other things, he and long-time collaborator, Donn Arden, created “Gala” a show which included skaters on a tank of ice on stage. During that period, Fletcher also choreographed the large-scale Italian production of the 1965 musical “Il Diplomatico” at Teatro Milano as well as the 1954 film version of “Top Banana” and 1961’s comedy “Snow White and the Three Stooges.”
The use of ice skaters in a dance number drew on Fletcher’s experience, continuous from 1954 to 1967, as lead choreographer for the International Ice Capades. During his tenure, featured performers included US figure skating champion Donna Atwood, and world skating champion, Alena Vrzanova, better known as Aja Zanova, who claimed, it was Ron Fletcher who “made me a star.”
Each year, after setting choreography for the Ice Capades’ season, Fletcher regularly choreographed shows in Las Vegas at the Desert Inn, Moulin Rouge, Latin Quarter, The Dunes and The Flamingo hotels for the likes of Pearl Bailey, Vic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20best-selling%20music%20artists%20in%20Finland | These are the lists of the music artists that have the highest certified record sales in Finland (and/or sales explicitly confirmed by Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland in their database). The lists consist of albums and singles (vinyl, CD, digital) and music DVDs, certified or confirmed by Musiikkituottajat.
Musiikkituottajat deals in sales of digital and physical albums and singles and music DVDs. Excepting some sales figures of uncertified records given by Musiikkituottajat from the 2000s, these best-seller lists are largely based on total accumulated certifications given per artist and therefore may not reflect the true physical and digital sales obtained by these artists,—that is, the combined sales of uncertified records before the 2000s, those uncertified in and after the 2000s and certified sales of all time. Since the release of the October 3, 2007, Singles Chart, digital downloads of tracks have been included in the singles sales figures.
These lists exclude certifications of recordings by artists in collaboration with others as part of a single artist's total.
All musical entities
Soloists
Bands
Male soloists
Female soloists
Notes
A When the certified records were released, Morissette had only the Canadian citizenship.
See also
List of best-selling music artists
List of best-selling albums in Finland
List of best-selling singles in Finland
References
Finnish music
Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%20Mashreq%20International%20Road%20Network | The Arab Mashreq international Road Network is an international road network between the primarily Arab countries of the Mashriq (Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Kuwait, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman and Yemen). In addition, part of the network passes through Israel, which is not a party to the agreement that created it as well as non-Arab parts of the region. The network is a result of the 2001 Agreement on International Roads in the Arab Mashreq, a United Nations multilateral treaty that entered into force in 2003 and has been ratified by 13 of the 14 (all except Israel) countries that the network serves.
Route List
See also
Other intercontinental highway systems:
Asian Highway Network
International E-road network
Trans-African Highway network
References
International road networks
United Nations Economic and Social Council
Road transport in Asia
Transport in the Middle East
Road transport in the Middle East |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XDP | XDP may refer to:
eXpress Data Path, high-performance data path merged into the Linux kernel
XML Data Package, XML file format created by Adobe Systems in 2003
X-linked dystonia parkinsonism, rare x-linked progressive movement disorder |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel%20A.%20Pevzner | Pavel Arkadevich Pevzner () is the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science and director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry at University of California, San Diego. He serves on the editorial board of PLoS Computational Biology and he is a member of the Genome Institute of Singapore scientific advisory board.
Education
Pevzner received his Ph.D. in mathematics and physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology while working for the Russian Research Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms (NII Genetika). In 1990, he joined Michael Waterman's laboratory in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Southern California for two years as a postdoctoral research associate.
Career and research
Pevzner is interested in new approaches to teaching computational molecular biology at both undergraduate and graduate level, serving as a founding instructor for the bioinformatics specialization on Coursera and having written several books on bioinformatics and computational biology.
In 1992, Pevzner took the position of associate professor at Pennsylvania State University.
In 1995, Pevzner moved back to the University of Southern California as a professor of mathematics, computer science, and molecular biology. Since 2000, he has been the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego and he is the director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry.
Books
Computational Molecular Biology, MIT Press, 2000
An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms, MIT Press, 2004 (co-authored with Neil Jones)
Bioinformatics for Biologists, Cambridge University Press, 2011 (co-edited with Ron Shamir)
Bioinformatics Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach, Active Learning Publishers, 2014 (co-authored with Phillip Compeau)
Awards and honors
NSF Young Investigator Award (1994, 1995)
HHMI Professor award (2006) from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute
UCSD Chancellor Associates Award for Excellence in Research (2007)
ACM Fellow (2010), for contribution to algorithms for genome rearrangements, DNA sequencing, and proteomics
Honoris causa degree (2011) from Simon Fraser University
ISCB Fellow (2012)
ISCB Senior Scientist Award (2017)
ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award (2018)
References
Russian bioinformaticians
Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Living people
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology alumni
University of California, San Diego faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Russian mathematicians
21st-century Russian mathematicians
20th-century Russian physicists
21st-century Russian physicists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier%20Biobase | Elsevier BIOBASE is a bibliographic database covering all topics pertaining to biological research throughout the world. It was established in the 1950s in print format as Current Awareness in Biological Sciences. Temporal coverage is from 1994 to the present. The database has over 4.1 million records as of December 2008. More than 300,000 records are added annually and 84% contain an abstract. It is updated weekly.
Coverage
Coverage of the biological sciences is derived from 1,900 journals. Subjects are indexed by titles, authors, abstracts, bibliographic details and authors' addresses. This database covers the following disciplines:
Access points
Access points on the internet are DataStar, DIALOG, DIMDI, and STN.
Former titles
This database continues:
International Abstracts of Biological Sciences ()
It also continues in part:
Current Advances in Neuroscience ()
Current Advances in Cell & Developmental Biology ()
References
External links
Biological databases
Microbiology literature
Biotechnology databases
Ecological data
Environmental science databases
Internet properties established in 1994
1954 establishments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand%20sensing | Demand sensing is a forecasting method that uses artificial intelligence and real-time data capture to create a forecast of demand based on the current realities of the supply chain. Traditionally, forecasting accuracy was based on time series techniques which create a forecast based on prior sales history and draws on several years of data to provide insights into predictable seasonal patterns. Demand sensing uses a broader range of demand signals, (including current data from the supply chain) and different mathematics to create a forecast that responds to real-world events such as market shifts, weather changes, natural disasters and changes in consumer buying behavior.
References
Demand
Supply chain analytics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playroom%20%28TV%20series%29 | Playroom, also known as Brill's Playroom or Hubert Brill's Playroom, is an American television series that aired on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network on Fridays at 7 p.m. (Eastern time) from January 9 to May 28, 1948.
The host, Brooklyn-born Hubert Brill, was a member of the Society of American Magicians and known for playing a minor role in the movie Out Of The Past (1947), which immediately preceded his run on Playroom.
Sponsor magazine described the program as a family variety show featuring "talented guests from the entertainment world."
Playroom was a "sustaining" feature on the DuMont network, attracting no sponsors during its brief run.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
1948 American television series debuts
1948 American television series endings
1940s American children's television series
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20D.%20Lazowska | Edward D. "Ed" Lazowska is an American computer scientist. He is a Professor, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair emeritus, in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington.
Scholarship
Lazowska’s research and teaching concern the design, implementation, and analysis of high-performance computing and communication systems, and, more recently, the techniques and technologies of data-intensive science.
He co-authored the definitive textbook on computer system performance analysis using queuing network models, contributed to several early object-oriented distributed systems, and co-developed widely used approaches to kernel and system design in areas such as thread management, high-performance local and remote communication, load sharing, cluster computing, and the effective use of the underlying architecture by the operating system.
From 2008 to 2017 he served as the Founding Director of the University of Washington eScience Institute, one of three partners (along with Berkeley and New York University) in the Data Science Environments effort sponsored by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Leadership
Lazowska chaired the Computing Research Association from 1997 to 2001, the NSF CISE Advisory Committee from 1998 to 1999, the DARPA Information Science And Technology Study Group from 2004 to 2006, the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (co-chair with Marc Benioff) from 2003 to 2005, and the Working Group of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology to review the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program in 2010 (co-chair with David E. Shaw).
From 2007 to 2013 he served as Founding Chair of the Computing Community Consortium, a national effort to engage the computing research community in fundamental research motivated by tackling societal challenges.
He served as Chair of University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering from 1993 to 2001, a period during which that program consolidated its reputation as one of the top computer science programs in the nation and the world.
A long-time advocate for increasing participation in the field, Lazowska has served on the Executive Advisory Council of the National Center for Women & Information Technology, on the National Academies Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and on the National Academies study committee on the Impacts of Sexual Harassment in Academia.
Civic Engagement
Lazowska has served as a board member or technical advisor for a number of technology companies, venture firms, and technology-oriented civic organizations, including the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Research, Madrona Venture Group, the Washington Technology Industry Association, and the Technology Alliance.
Students
Lazowska has mentored many dozens of graduate students and many hundreds of undergraduate students. Among |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SceneTap | SceneTap, previously known as BarTabbers, was a data analytics, marketing services, and mobile application company launched in 2010. SceneTap started in Chicago, Illinois, and is currently based in Austin, Texas. The tool allows end users to view real-time data on crowd sizes, gender ratios, and the average age of patrons in a given location. In addition, it allows establishments to post live coupons and specials for users to purchase.
Application and Website
SceneTap offers an administrative platform to operators of establishments, allowing operators to view reports and charts on their customers. Data is fed to its mobile application and website allowing users to view data on social venues such as bars, lounges, and coffee shops. The current network is primarily based in Chicago, IL, Bloomington, IN, and Austin, with expansion areas including Boston, Columbus, Ohio, New York, and Miami. The service most recently launched in San Francisco on Friday, May 18, 2012.
The mobile application and website also provide "real-time" specials on food and drink to end users, which are submitted by each establishment.
In late 2013, SceneTap Board of Directors restructured the company for a merger with BarVision, which continues today.
Controversy
Media pundits and privacy advocates have raised questions around the technologies SceneTap utilizes to collect its information, particularly since it collects demographic information from people without their consent. The company points out its use of facial detection technology, which analyzes facial features to determine gender and approximate age - rather than attempting to collect personalized information or make an identification of that person.
In addition, the company maintains that its data collection is less intrusive to personal privacy than credit card transactions or identification scanners.
References
External links
Companies based in Chicago
Advertising industry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Zwillinger | Marc Zwillinger is the founder and managing member of the Washington, D.C. based data privacy and information security law firm ZwillGen. Zwillinger has been active in the field of Internet law on issues such as encryption, data security, government access to user data, data breaches, and fantasy sports.
Career
Marc Zwillinger founded Zwillinger Genetski LLP (now ZwillGen PLLC), a boutique law firm specializing in data protection & information security, in March 2010. Prior to founding ZwillGen, Zwillinger was a partner at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal in the firm's Internet, Communications & Data Protection Group where he had created the Internet, Communications and Data Protection Practice Group (originally called Information Security and Anti-Piracy). Zwillinger worked for the United States Department of Justice in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section as a trial attorney from 1997-2000. Before entering the DOJ, Zwillinger was a litigation associate for Kirkland & Ellis from 1995-1997. Zwillinger started his career clerking for the Honorable Mark L. Wolf of the United States District Court, District of Massachusetts from 1994-1995.
Education
Marc earned his bachelor's degree from Tufts University in 1991, and received his law degree graduating magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1994.
Work with Apple
Zwillinger has represented Apple in several cases, including those brought under the 18th century All Writs Act involving government access to user data. In 2015, Zwillinger, representing Apple, contested unlocking an iPhone 5S belonging to a defendant accused of selling drugs in New York. Most notably, in 2016, Zwillinger represented Apple in the Apple vs San Bernardino case where the government tried to compel Apple to unlock the personal iPhone recovered from one of the terrorists in the San Bernardino attack. The case itself was later dropped.
Work with Yahoo
In 2008 Zwillinger represented Yahoo! over the government's efforts to force Yahoo! to comply with "surveillance orders and other types of legal process in national security investigations." Of the experience, Zwillinger said that he was proud to be one of the "lawyers who represented Yahoo in its historic challenge to the government's surveillance program in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC") and the Foreign Intelligence Court of Review ("FISCR")."
Service
Zwillinger is one of five amici curiae appointed to serve to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ("FISC"); a position stipulated under the USA Freedom Act. Amici serve staggered terms, with Zwillinger slated to serve a four-year term.
Awards
From 2007 through 2015, Zwillinger has been ranked in Chambers & Partners USA as a leading lawyer in his field of Privacy & Data Security.
References
External links
Lawyers who have represented the United States government
1969 births
Living people
Tufts University alumni
Harvard Law School alumni
People associated with Kirkland & Ellis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCKK | WCKK (96.7 FM, "Kicks 96") is an American radio station licensed to serve Walnut Grove, Mississippi. The station's broadcast license is held by Boswell Media, LLC.
Programming
WCKK broadcasts a country music format. The morning show, "The Morning House Party," features Eric Matthews, Lora Beckham, and news with Dave Ingram. Kicks 96 can be heard from Starkville to Jackson and from Winona to Meridian. Eric Matthews left the Morning House Party after a successful 13 years with WCKK moving back to his hometown of Elyria, Ohio. Award winning Mississippi newscaster Dave Ingram died in 2016.
Stance Bingham, a 30-year radio veteran, became the new host of "The Morning House Party" in July 2017. The new show line-up features news with Mina Mooney, "Minute with the Mayor" segment with Philadelphia, MS Mayor James Young, and live updates with WTOK-TV Philadelphia Bureau Reporter Ashleigh Fortenberry.
History
In October 2009, Johnny Boswell Radio, LLC applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for a construction permit for a new broadcast radio station. The FCC granted this permit on November 16, 2010, with a scheduled expiration date of November 16, 2013. The new station was assigned call sign "WCKK" on December 3, 2010. After construction and testing were completed in June 2011, the station was granted its broadcast license on November 30, 2011.
References
External links
WCKK official website
CKK
Country radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2011
Leake County, Mississippi
2011 establishments in Mississippi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail%20%28company%29 | Suzhou Snail Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (), doing business as Snail (), is a Chinese video game company and a Virtual Network Operator headquartered in Suzhou, China, which has branches Snail Games and Snail Mobile. Its division, Snail USA, is responsible for bringing Snail Games products to audiences in North America, South America & Europe. With a focus on free-to-play online games, Snail Games acts as a developer and publisher of original IP across multiple genres and distribution channels, including massively multiplayer online (MMOs), real-time strategy (RTS), and casual games. Its global registered user base has reached over 70 million accounts, largely driven by its independent games portal Woniu.com. The U.S. operation anticipated the launch of its portal for Western audiences in Q2 2011, PlaySnail.com, to further drive its efforts abroad.
History
Snail was founded by Shi Hai in Suzhou, China, and became established as Suzhou Electronic Co., Ltd. in October 2014. The company is one of the first online game developers in China. With over 1,500 employees, Snail has a global presence, with offices in China (Suzhou and Shanghai), Taiwan, Russia and the US, and has localized its games into more than 20 languages.
Snail Games has received numerous awards over the past decade, including the “China Cultural Games Overseas Development Award” 4 years in a row, the “China Top 10 Game Provider” 3 years in a row, and over 30 additional prestigious awards from government, industry, media, and player communities around the world.
Games
The Snail Games portfolio includes: Dark and Light, Fear the Night, Voyage Century Online, Heroes of Gaia (Castle of Heroes), Ministry of War (Terra Militaris), Age of Wushu, PixARK and more.
The Snail Games portfolio is most known for being the publishers behind Ark Survival Evolved. A franchise that has exceeded 25 million units sold.
Notes
References
Snail Games USA Announces Closed Beta Registration for The Chosen pc.ign.com, June 3, 2011
Snail Games launches Ministry of War massively.joystiq.com, November 17, 2010
Snail Games USA Announces Closed Beta Registration for The Chosen Hacktoman.in, June 6, 2011
Snail Games USA Launches New Payment Channel with Go Cash Game Card Partnership gamasutra.com, August 4, 2010
Snail Games Opens US HQ next-gen.biz, April 1, 2010
GameDuell, Snail Games USA, OMGPOP and The9 Choose Offerpal Media for Virtual Currency Monetization blog.tapjoy.com, June 10, 2010
Snail Games USA Announces Ministry of War Partnership with Kongregate mpogd.com, August 2, 2010
Snail Games Usa Announces Closed Beta Registration For The Chosen gameinatrix.com, June 3, 2011
About Snail snailgame.net, 2008
Snail Games USA Acquired Studio Wildcard, Developer of ARK, In December, 2015 mmos.com, December, 2015
External links
Snail USA
Woniu.com
Woniu.com
Video game companies of the United States
Video game companies established in 2014
Snail Games
Video game companies of China
Video game develop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XEDA-FM | XEDA-FM is a radio station in Mexico City owned by Grupo Imagen. XEDA-FM is the flagship station of the Imagen Radio news/talk network which is available to other Mexican cities through Imagen's owned-and-operated stations and affiliates.
XEDA-FM broadcasts in HD.
History
In 1968, Publicistas, S.A., received the concession to sign on XEDA-FM 90.5 in Mexico City, and was later acquired by Grupo Imagen, who branded the station as "Radio Imagen" airing contemporary music. In 1992, it adopted a Top 40 format as "Pulsar FM". In 2000, it became a talk station, simply known as "Imagen 90.5" and soon forming a national network. It still retains some musical programming in the overnight hours.
Affiliates owned by Grupo Imagen
XHKOK-FM 88.9 MHz - Acapulco, Guerrero
XHQOO-FM 90.7 MHz - Cancún, Quintana Roo
XHCHI-FM 97.3 MHz - Chihuahua, Chihuahua
XHPCPG-FM 98.1 MHz - Chilpancingo, Guerrero
XEDA-FM 90.5 MHz - México City
XHCC-FM 89.3 MHz - Colima, Colima
XHSC-FM 93.9 MHz - Guadalajara, Jalisco
XHHLL-FM 90.7 MHz - Hermosillo, Sonora
XHCCCT-FM 94.1 MHz - Mérida, Yucatán
XHCMS-FM 105.5 MHz - Mexicali, Baja California
XHMN-FM 107.7 MHz - Monterrey, Nuevo León
XHTLN-FM 94.1 MHz - Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas
XHOLA-FM 105.1 MHz - Puebla, Puebla
XHOZ-FM 94.7 MHz - Querétaro, Queretaro
XHRP-FM 94.7 MHz - Saltillo, Coahuila
XHEPO-FM 103.1 MHz - San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosi
XHMIG-FM 105.9 MHz - San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
XHMDR-FM 103.1 MHz - Tampico, Tamaulipas
XHLTN-FM 104.5 MHz - Tijuana, Baja California
XHEN-FM 100.3 MHz - Torreón, Coahuila
XHQRV-FM 92.5 MHz - Veracruz, Veracruz
References
External links
imagenradio.com.mx
Radio stations established in 1962
Radio stations in Mexico City
Grupo Imagen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Gio | Samsung Galaxy Gio (GT-S5660) is a smartphone manufactured by Samsung and running the Android operating system.
It was announced at the 2011 Mobile World Congress as one of four low-end Samsung smartphones, along with Galaxy Ace, Galaxy Fit and Galaxy Mini.
The Galaxy Gio phone made its Canadian debut in August 2011. Initially available to Bell Canada, the Gio was soon made available at Virgin Mobile Canada and Solo Mobile. Starting in December 2011, Galaxy Gio was also made available in the United States as Samsung Repp on U.S. Cellular.
Features
Hardware
Galaxy Gio has a HVGA multi-touch, capacitive touchscreen, a 3.2-megapixel camera with auto focus, and an 800 MHz Qualcomm MSM7227 & MSM7627(Us Cellular) Turbo (ARMv6), 278 MB RAM, 158 Mb internal storage, 3G HSPA+, an FM radio with RDS support, GPS, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, and a 1350 mAh battery. In addition to the phone's internal memory, the device has a MicroSD card slot, and comes with 2 Gb MicroSD card (as new). With that phone, the bundled MicroSD card is the main location for storage of apps and user-generated data, such as photos and multimedia.
Software
Galaxy Gio originally came with Android 2.2 "Froyo", with Samsung's TouchWiz user interface.
In early August 2011, Samsung officially rolled out the 2.3 "Gingerbread" update via Kies. In September 2011, Samsung rolled out an update in the Netherlands marked "PDA:KPS PHONE:KPA CSC:KP1 (XEN)".
Users can also upgrade to Android 2.3.6 "Gingerbread" via Samsung Kies, and , Android 2.3.4 and 2.3.6 had come preinstalled on many Gios sold throughout the world.
Changes associated with the 2.3.6 update include a new lockscreen, a new phone icon, the blue-glow scrolling effect, and a few other cosmetic changes related to the system UI.
Samsung has not made Android 4.1 available for Gio due to its less powerful hardware, though users can upgrade via Root and ClockworkMod Recovery. MaclawStudio has also made available a bugless and stable port of the AOSP-ROM – both 4.0.x Ice Cream Sandwich and 4.1 Jelly Bean.
Because the native Android browser is outdated, modern websites can be visited with Firefox for Android by Mozilla. As the Galaxy Gio phone contains a central processor based on ARMv6 architecture, then the most recent Firefox version for ARMv6 devices is 31.3.0esr, released on 17 October 2015. Mozilla have since ceased development for this CPU architecture. The primary method to reduce Firefox resource usage is to install the NoScript Anywhere addon.
See also
List of Android devices
Galaxy Nexus
References
External links
How to root the Samsung Galaxy Gio S5660
Wiki explaining the status of CyanogenMod for Samsung Galaxy Gio (german)
S5660
Samsung smartphones
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduced in 2011
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20chain | A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms (such as grass or algae which produce their own food via photosynthesis) and ending at an apex predator species (like grizzly bears or killer whales), detritivores (like earthworms or woodlice), or decomposer species (such as fungi or bacteria). A food chain also shows how organisms are related to each other by the food they eat. Each level of a food chain represents a different trophic level. A food chain differs from a food web because the complex network of different animals' feeding relations are aggregated and the chain only follows a direct, linear pathway of one animal at a time. Natural interconnections between food chains make it a food web.
The concepts of food chains and food webs were introduced by Charles Elton.
A common metric used to quantify food web trophic structure is food chain length. In its simplest form, the length of a chain is the number of links between a trophic consumer and the base of the web. The mean chain length of an entire web is the arithmetic average of the lengths of all chains in the food web. The food chain is an energy source diagram. The food chain begins with a producer, which is eaten by a primary consumer. The primary consumer may be eaten by a secondary consumer, which in turn may be consumed by a tertiary consumer. The tertiary consumers may sometimes become prey to the top predators known as the quaternary consumers. For example, a food chain might start with a green plant as the producer, which is eaten by a snail, the primary consumer. The snail might then be the prey of a secondary consumer such as a frog, which itself may be eaten by a tertiary consumer such as a snake which in turn may be consumed by an eagle.
Food chains are very important for the survival of most species. When only one element is removed from the food chain it can result in extinction of a species in some cases. The foundation of the food chain consists of primary producers. Primary producers, or autotrophs, utilize energy derived from either sunlight or inorganic chemical compounds to create complex organic compounds, whereas species at higher trophic levels cannot and so must consume producers or other life that itself consumes producers. Because the sun's light is necessary for photosynthesis, most life could not exist if the sun disappeared. Even so, it has recently been discovered that there are some forms of life, chemotrophs, that appear to gain all their metabolic energy from chemosynthesis driven by hydrothermal vents, thus showing that some life may not require solar energy to thrive.
Decomposers, which feed on dead animals, break down the organic compounds into simple nutrients that are returned to the soil. These are the simple nutrients that plants require to create organic compounds. It is estimated that there are more than 100,000 different decomposers in existence.
Many food webs have a keystone species. A keystone sp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaiian%20Vacation | Toy Story Toons: Hawaiian Vacation is a 2011 American computer-animated short film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Gary Rydstrom. The first entry in the Toy Story Toons series, the short features characters from the Toy Story films and takes place after the events of Toy Story 3. It premiered in theaters with Pixar's Cars 2, and was included on the film's home video release.
Plot
Three months after the events of Toy Story 3, it is Bonnie's winter break from school, and she is going on vacation to Hawaii with her family. The toys are excited to have a week of relaxation, but Ken and Barbie reveal themselves to have stowed away in Bonnie's backpack, hoping to join her in Hawaii. Bonnie leaves them in her room, however, much to Ken's horror and disappointment when he realizes they are not going to Hawaii. Barbie reveals to Woody that Ken planned to have their first kiss on a beach at sunset, basing it off of an image on a Hawaii travel brochure. This inspires Woody, Buzz, and the rest of Bonnie's toys to recreate their own version of Hawaii for the two. After various adventures in "Hawaii", Ken and Barbie share their first kiss in the snow at sunset, recreating the scene from the brochure. However, the two step off the edge of the porch without realizing it and end up buried in the snow.
In a post-credits scene, the other toys are trying to free them from a block of ice by using a hairdryer to melt it. Buzz describes the experience as the "best vacation ever", which Woody agrees with as Mr. Potato Head tries chiseling the ice with a screwdriver.
Voice cast
Tom Hanks as Woody
Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear
Joan Cusack as Jessie
Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head
Estelle Harris as Mrs. Potato Head
Wallace Shawn as Rex
John Ratzenberger as Hamm
Blake Clark as Slinky Dog
Jeff Pidgeon as Aliens
Jodi Benson as Barbie
Michael Keaton as Ken
Emily Hahn as Bonnie
Lori Alan as Bonnie's mom
Timothy Dalton as Mr. Pricklepants
Jeff Garlin as Buttercup
Kristen Schaal as Trixie
Bonnie Hunt as Dolly
Bud Luckey as Chuckles
Zoe Levin as Peas-in-a-Pod
Angus MacLane as Captain Zip
Axel Geddes as Rexing Ball
Javier Fernández-Peña as Spanish Buzz
Production
The film was announced in June 2010 by Lee Unkrich who said, "We have announced we're going to do a short film in front of Cars 2 that uses the Toy Story characters. We're going to keep them alive; they're not going away forever." The short film's title and plot were later revealed on February 17, 2011.
Reception
Charlie McCollum of Mercury News called it a "delightful snippet of life" that is "crisp, funny and sweet."
Home media
On November 1, 2011, Hawaiian Vacation was released as a bonus feature on the Cars 2 DVD and Blu-ray. As of July 2012, Hawaiian Vacation is available as a digital purchase on Amazon Video and iTunes Store. The short was released on November 13, 2012, on the DVD and Blu-ray of Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 2. The short was also released on the To |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20Ring%20Road | The Regional Ring Road is a proposed ring road around the city of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It is a 4 lane, road, planned on strengthening the existing road network and by adding new stretches wherever linkages were found missing. National Highways Authority of India has included Regional Ring road in the pan-India Bharatmala Pariyojana Phase-2. It helps connect the districts around city of Hyderabad. It helps in linking major national highways like NH 65, NH 44, NH 163, NH 765.
Major towns proposed to be connected by RRR
The major towns and villages are in Rangareddy, Bhuvanagiri, Siddipet and Sangareddi districts.
The project will be developed in two portions:
Northern half with a length of approx. 164 km is estimated to cost Rs. 9,500-crore and will connect Sangareddy, Narsapur, Toopran, Gajwel, Pragnapur, and Bhuvanagiri
Southern half with a length of approx. 182 km is estimated to cost Rs. 6,480-crore and will connect Bhuvanagiri, Choutuppal, Ibrahimpatnam, Kandukur, Amangal, Chevella, Shankarpally and Sangareddy.
Bhuvanagiri, Telangana
Valigonda
Sangem
Choutuppal
Samsthan Narayanapur
Shivannaguda
Marrigudem
Mall-Kurmapally
Nagilla
Amangal
Keshampet
Shadnagar
Shabad
Chevalla
Nawabpet
Sangareddy
Doulthabad
Narsapur
Shivampet
Toopran
Nacharam
Gajwel
Jagdevpur
M.Turkapally
Draft
In the first draft proposal, it was proposed as Peripheral Ring Road (PRR) but the ring road has been renamed as RRR-triple R, covering 330 km.
See also
Unified Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Hyderabad (India)
Outer Ring Road, Hyderabad
Inner Ring Road, Hyderabad
Radial Roads, Hyderabad (India)
Elevated Expressways in Hyderabad
Intermediate Ring Road, Hyderabad (India)
Peripheral Ring Road
Satellite Town Ring Road
List of longest ring roads
References
External links
Move over RRR on its way
Roads in Hyderabad, India
Ring roads in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20Life%20of%20the%20American%20Teenager%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of The Secret Life of the American Teenager, an American television series created by Brenda Hampton, debuted on the ABC Family television network on Monday, June 13, 2011, at 8:00 PM. During its third season's hiatus, ABC Family announced on January 10, 2011, that the show would be renewed for a fourth season. The fourth season premiered on June 13, 2011, one week after the season 3 finale. The second half of the season premiered on March 26, 2012. On February 2, 2012, ABC Family announced that Secret Life was being renewed for a fifth and final season.
Main cast
Shailene Woodley as Amy Juergens
Kenny Baumann as Ben Boykewich
Mark Derwin as George Juergens
India Eisley as Ashley Juergens
Greg Finley as Jack Pappas
Daren Kagasoff as Ricky Underwood
Megan Park as Grace Bowman
Francia Raisa as Adrian Lee
Steven R. Schirripa as Leo Boykewich
Molly Ringwald as Anne Juergens
Episodes
References
External links
Official website
2011 American television seasons
4
2012 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Teremba | Fort Teremba is a former fort and a prison located near Moindou in New Caledonia, which came to be set up to house prisoners and the supervisory staff. The prisoners were brought to build road network Canala-Bourail-Boulouparis. It overlooks Teremba Bay (Uarai Bay), opposite the mouth of the La Foa River, 124 kilometres north of Noumea.
The fort was further strengthened following the revolt by Kanak people against the French Colonial rule, in 1878, when they had besieged the prison. The fort was closed in 1898.
History
The construction of a military fort and a prison along the Bay Uarai began in 1871 at the request of the Governor Eugène Gaultier de la Richerie and sent a contingent of twenty-five convicts, with two supervisors and three policemen. The fort was built by the convict labour. The camp was renamed Fort Téremba by reference to the island Téremba which is in the middle of the bay. A small town was set around the camp, with a registry office, a library, a church, a school, post office, a telegraph, a market place and a wharf. After construction of the fort, while men were incarcerated at the newly built Fort Teremba, women prisoners were kept at a prison at Fonwhary (also Panwhary) 6 km away to the north of La Foa. At a time, the prison housed 200 prisoners in the shacks (built with "cob stones") outside the fort walls, who were engaged in building roads, bridges and buildings.
The Kanak revolt started at La Foa, the "gendarmes" inside the fort were killed, and the revolt spread further south. However, the fort was never taken and at the time it was still in very good condition. After the revolt of 1878, the military fort was redesigned and strengthened to serve as bunkers and possible refuge. To counter the power of the colonial administration, the governor Pallu de la Barrière subsequently decided to employ the convicts in the construction of roads and infrastructure. In 1885, the fort came under the control of the prison administration. However, the fort was abandoned in 1897–98 as deportations came to an end.
By 1906, the fort had fallen into neglect; one author commenting in this year talked of the "repulsive-looking barracks, so grim and grotesque, and smelling so damp and fusty". Having long been neglected, Fort Téremba was finally restored by the action of the local Association Marguerite in 1984 who have set up the "Heritage Interpretation Center, and military prison in New Caledonia" spread over 11 ha site. The municipality have bought the site in 1987. The main building was reconstructed and houses a permanent exhibition on the history of the fort. The watchtower, a high stone wall and a guillotine are moot witness to the history of the fort. The circular tower of the fort provides nice vistas of Teremba Bay and the neighbourhood. The fort is approached from RT1 road, 14 km west of La Foa and then along a path of about 3 km to reach the fort.
In 1989 the site was classified as a historical monument. Every year, a l |
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