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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TetGen | TetGen is a mesh generator developed by Hang Si which is designed to partition any 3D geometry into tetrahedrons by employing a form of Delaunay triangulation whose algorithm was developed by the author.
TetGen has since been incorporated into other software packages such as Mathematica and Gmsh.
Some improvements by speed in quality in Version 1.6 were introduced.
See also
Gmsh
Salome (software)
References
External links
Weierstrass Institute: Hang Si's personal homepage
Numerical analysis software for Linux
Cross-platform software
Mesh generators
Numerical analysis software for macOS
Numerical analysis software for Windows
Free mathematics software
Free software programmed in C++
Cross-platform free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20common%203D%20test%20models | This is a list of models and meshes commonly used in 3D computer graphics for testing and demonstrating rendering algorithms and visual effects. Their use is important for comparing results, similar to the way standard test images are used in image processing.
Modelled
Designed using CAD software; sorted by year of modelling.
Scanned
Includes photogrammetric methods; sorted by year of scanning.
Gallery
Notes
See also
Standard test image, a digital image file to test image processing and compression
Catmull's hand, one of the original 3D models
Sutherland's Volkswagen, another early 3D model
References
External links
Standard test models
The Stanford 3D Scanning Repository hosted by the Stanford University
Large Geometric Models Archive hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology
Other repositories
The Utah 3D Animation Repository, a small collection of animated 3D models
scene collection, by Physically Based Rendering Toolkit: a number of interesting scenes to render with global illumination
MGF Example Scenes, a small collection of some indoor 3D scenes
archive3D, a collection of 3D models
Hum3D, a collection of vehicle 3D models
3DBar, a collection of free 3D models
NASA 3D Models, NASA 3D models to use for educational or informational purposes
VRML Models from ORC Incorporated, 3D models in VRML format
3dRender.com: Lighting Challenges, regularly held lighting challenges, complete with scene and models for each challenge
MPI Informatics Building Model, a virtual reconstruction of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics building in Saarbrücken
Princeton shape-based 3D model search engine
Keenan's 3D Model Repository hosted by the Carnegie Mellon University
HeiCuBeDa Hilprecht – Heidelberg Cuneiform Benchmark Dataset for the Hilprecht Collection a collection of almost 2.000 cuneiform tablets for bulk-download acquired with a high-resolution 3D-scanner. Available under a CC BY license and quotable by digital object identifiers. Datasets cleaned using the GigaMesh Software Framework.
HeiCu3Da Hilprecht – Heidelberg Cuneiform 3D Database - Hilprecht Collection browsable version of HeiCuBeDa allowing to download and quote single 3D models.
3D graphics models
Test items |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie%20Jonas | Melanie Jonas is a fictional character from Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network. Created by former head writers Rick Draughon and Dena Higley, the role is portrayed by Molly Burnett. She originally arrived as the daughter of Trent Robbins and the sister of Max Brady; however, it was later revealed that she was the daughter of Carly Manning and Daniel Jonas.
For her work on Days of Our Lives as Melanie, Burnett was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series in both 2010 and 2012.
Casting
Melanie was created by head-writer Dena Higley and Rick Draughon. She is portrayed by actress Molly Burnett. Burnett first aired on July 31, 2008. Apart from Days of Our Lives, Burnett had previously appeared for one episode each on the NBC television series Life and Grey's Anatomy. On May 29, 2012, it was announced that Burnett was to depart Days of our Lives following her decision to quit the series due to her contract which expired that June. Burnett's exit aired on September 28, 2012.
Rumors of Burnett's return circulated in late 2014; the return was conformed by TV Guide Magazine. Burnett's return aired on November 21, 2014. In April 2015, rumors circulated that Burnett had wrapped up filming in and would exit the series, following her six-month stint. Burnett's exit was confirmed by the Soap Opera Network. Burnett's last air date was on June 2, 2015.
In December 2015, it was revealed that Burnett was returning to the show to facilitate the exit of Shawn Christian, she returned from January 13 to 28, 2016.
Development
Introduction and characterization
On July 31, 2008, Melanie was introduced as a sharp-tongued, quick-witted party girl who is well known for seducing men. Upon her debut, she is revealed as the daughter of Jane Layton and Trent Robbins, who is also the father of her half brother Max Brady. After finding a picture of a young girl that belongs to Trent, it is revealed that Melanie is Max Brady's sister. Max travels to Paris, France (where Melanie lives) and pays Melanie's debt to a man named Les. Quickly upon her introduction, Melanie reveals she has criminal tendencies, including using a wealthy French man to drain his bank account, stealing a teacher's wallet during grade school, and stealing a diamond bracelet from her friend Tiffany. She quickly makes enemies with Max's girlfriend Stephanie Johnson, who doesn't find Melanie's party girl attitude endearing.
After being released on bail and leaving Max behind, Melanie meets Nick Fallon, Max's friend and business partner, where the two instantly hit it off. Melanie convinces Tiffany to drop the charges against Max and Stephanie, with Max taking her on a date. Melanie soon moves to Salem after her brother returns to the United States. After moving to Salem, Trent uses Melanie to have a drink with a man who wants more out of her. Nick rushes to her aid, where he is shot and hospitalized. Trent is murdered and Nick is reveale |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HWW | HWW may refer to:
HWW Limited, an Australian data management company
Harzwasserwerke, a German water works and dam operator
Henry Wise Wood Senior High School, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
High wind warning
Hilton Worldwide, an American hospitality company
Hinterland Who's Who, a series of Canadian public service announcements
Holyoke Water Works, a public drinking water utility in Holyoke, Massachusetts
How Wood railway station, in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge%20routing | Edge routing may refer to:
Routing a moulding on the edge of a piece of timber or other material.
Network routing at the edge of a network (the routers concerned being called Edge routers):
By use of an edge routing protocol such as EBGP,
By other means. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joymax | Joymax is a South Korean video game developer. Joymax initially published games for the PC then expanded to other platforms (including mobile devices). Joymax runs a data center in the United Kingdom and a customer service center in the Philippines. They are the creators of Silkroad Online and Karma Online. They also hosted the English version of Digimon Masters until 2016.
In 2022, they were the eleventh largest company in South Korea's software and programming market sector by market capitalization.
Games
References
External links
Official English Website
Official Korean Website
South Korean companies established in 2004
Companies based in Seoul
Video game companies established in 2004
Video game companies of South Korea
Video game development companies
Video game publishers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuhito%20Namekawa | (born October 27, 1974) is a Japanese mixed martial artist who competes in the light heavyweight division. Namekawa made his mixed martial arts debut for Fighting Network RINGS in 1998. He fought in mainly shootfighting bouts until 1999 when RINGS introduced the King of King Rules and transitioned into a modern MMA promotion. Throughout his career, Namekawa has fought for organisations such as RINGS, Deep and Pride FC. His last fight to date was in 2008, with a professional mixed martial arts career spanning ten years. He also briefly competed in shoot style professional wrestling, exclusively for Kiyoshi Tamura's U-STYLE promotion.
Mixed martial arts career
Fighting Network RINGS (1998-2002)
Namekawa made his debut for RINGS on June 20, 1998, against Minoru Toyonaga, the bout ended in a draw. He then went on to submit Daniel Higgins and out point Ryuki Ueyama. Namekawa suffered his first loss on October 11, 1998, against Bakouri Gogitidze, he lost by submission. On October 23, 1998, Namekawa lost to Masayuki Naruse by submission at 4:50 of round 1. He ended the year with a draw against British fighter, Lee Hasdell. On January 23, 1999, Namekawa had a rematch with Hasdell, this time Hasdell was docked a point for an illegal punch. Namekawa won by decision.
On March 7, 1999, Namekawa had their third and final match, this time in Milton Keynes, England, at Night of the Samurai 3. Hasdell won by KO in 5:55 of round 1.
During the rest of 1999, Namekawa picked up victories over fighters, Troy Ittensohn, Ryuki Ueyama, Sara Umer and Minoru Toyonaga. Also losing to Wataru Sakata, Ryuki Ueyama and Koba Tkeshelashvili. The year 2000 was a bad year for Namekawa as he failed to pick up a single win, losing to, Willie Peeters, Chris Haseman, Alistair Overeem and Volk Han.
2001 would be the complete opposite to the previous year as Namekawa was victorious in 4 out of 5 fights. He defeated Takashi Sonoda, Wataru Imamura, Masutatsu Yano and Dexter Casey, all by submission. On October 20, 2001, Namekawa lost to Egidijus Valavicius by TKO.
Yasuhito Namekawa's final fight for RINGS was on February 15, 2002, on the final ever Rings event. He was submitted by Sam Nest at 4:53 of round 2.
Deep (2002-2004)
On March 30, 2002, Namekawa made his Deep debut at Deep - 4th Impact. He defeated Daisuke Watanabe by majority decision. He went on to win his next two fights in Deep with submission wins over Makoto Miyazawa and Yuki Ishikawa. On December 31, 2002, he lost to Wallid Ismail by decision at Inoki Bom-Ba-Ye 2002. Namekawa ended the year with a 3–1 record with Deep. He began 2003 with a draw with Osami Shibuya at Deep - 8th Impact. Namekawa did not fight again until January 22, 2004. He defeated Yusuke Imamura by TKO at Deep - 13th Impact.
Pride FC (2004)
On February 15, 2004, Namekawa made his Pride FC debut with a submission win over Egidijus Valavicius at Pride Bushido 2. He returned to Pride on October 14, 2004, he was defeated by Maurício Rua.
Return to De |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Platts%20%28Unitarian%29 | John Platts (1775–1837) was an English Unitarian minister and author, a compiler of reference works.
Life
He was born in Boston, Lincolnshire. For seven or eight years he officiated as a Calvinist minister there; but later he became a Unitarian, and acted as a Unitarian minister at Boston from 1805 to 1817. In 1817 he moved to Doncaster.
Platts supplemented his ministerial income by teaching and compiling educational works. He was also a Liberal activist, and humorous speaker. He died at Doncaster, after a long illness, on 19 June 1837. His widow died in 1851, leaving five daughters.
Works
In 1825 Platts published five volumes of A New Universal Biography, containing lives of eminent persons in all ages and countries, arranged in chronological order, with alphabetical index. This work, founded mainly on previous works by John Aikin and Alexander Chalmers, extended only to the end of the sixteenth century; the rest remained in manuscript form. In 1827 appeared, Platts's New Self-interpreting Testament, containing many thousands of various Readings and Parallel Passages collected from the most approved Translators and Biblical Critics. In the preface the author claims to have combined the merits of Francis Fox and Clement Cruttwell. Another edition, in 4 vols. appeared in 1830.
Platts also published:
‘Reflections on Materialism, Immaterialism, the Sleep of the Soul … and the Resurrection of the Body; being an Attempt to prove that the Resurrection commences at Death,’ Boston, 1813.
‘Letter to a Young Man, on his renouncing the Christian Religion and becoming a Deist,’ 1820.
‘The Literary and Scientific Class-book,’ &c., 1821; a selection was published by L. W. Leonard in 1826.
‘Elements of Ecclesiastical History’ [1821?]
‘The Book of Curiosities; … with an Appendix of entertaining and amusing Experiments and Recreations’, 1822; a seventh American edition appeared at Philadelphia in 1856.
‘The Female Mentor, or Ladies' Class-book; being a new Selection of 365 Reading Lessons,’ &c., Derby, 1823.
‘A Dictionary of English Synonymes’ (for the use of schools), 1825.
‘The Manners and Customs of all Nations’ (engravings), 1827.
References
Attribution
1775 births
1837 deaths
English Unitarians
English biographers
English male non-fiction writers
People from Boston, Lincolnshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overall%20nutritional%20quality%20index | The overall nutritional quality index was a nutritional rating system developed at the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center in 2008. A proprietary algorithm assigned foods a score between 1 and 100 intended to reflect the overall nutritional value a portion of the given food provided. The system was marketed commercially as NuVal by NuVal, LLC, a joint venture with Topco Associates. Over 1600 grocery stores in the United States placed NuVal scores on product shelf tags next to the price. The commercial product was discontinued in 2017 amid accusations of conflicts of interest and criticism of NuVal LLC's refusal to publish the algorithm. Either of which may have contributed to some inconsistencies in scoring where certain processed foods scored higher than, for instance, canned fruits and vegetables.
Description
The algorithm considers thirty nutrient factors, like the relative portions of vitamins, sugar, saturated fat, and trans fats and the quality of the protein and fat, and produces a score from one to 100. Higher scores represent greater overall nutritional value. However, the actual algorithm, including the relative weights of the nutrients, was never disclosed to the public.
Broccoli, blueberries, okra, oranges, and green beans were some foods that received the best score (100) while ice pops and soft drinks received the worst (1).
Selected NuVal Scores
See also
Nutrient density
References
External links
Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center
Nutrition
Rating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Powers is an American television series developed by Brian Michael Bendis and Charlie Huston for PlayStation Network. It is based on the comic book series of the same name by Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. The show depicts humans who have been granted special abilities, known as "Powers", that remain hidden until adulthood. The show centers around the character Christian Walker, who was once a hero that had the ability to fly and was known as Diamond.
The series was PlayStation Network's first venture into scripted original programming, and premiered on March 10, 2015, with the final episode of the first season being released on April 28, 2015. It was renewed for a second season of 10 episodes, which premiered on May 31, 2016, and was released through July 19, 2016. The series was canceled in August of the same year.
Overview
In a world where humans and superheroes called "Powers" co-exist, a former Power, Christian Walker, has reinvented himself as a homicide detective after his own powers were taken from him. He and his partner Deena Pilgrim work for the Powers Division of the Los Angeles Police Department, investigating crimes involving superhumans, who are at once crimefighting heroes and pop celebrities managed by specialized advertising agencies.
Cast
Main
Sharlto Copley as Christian Walker, formerly known as Diamond – a detective in the Powers Division. Christian was once an indestructable superhero with the ability to fly, and in his identity of Diamond was one of the most acclaimed heroes. However, his powers were later taken from him by his previous mentor, Wolfe. Now Christian uses his experience to help the Powers Division stop destructive Powers.
Susan Heyward as Deena Pilgrim – Christian's partner in the Powers Division. Her father is a successful retired policeman whom everyone admires.
Noah Taylor as Johnny Royalle (season 1) – another protégé of Wolfe, and former friend of Christian Walker. He owns the Here and Gone Club (which takes the name from his own motto) where younger Powers often gather. He has the power to teleport at will both himself and objects or people with which he's in contact. His power can prove extremely lethal when used to teleport away parts of a person's body, or the air in a room. Royalle recently synthesized a mysterious substance called Sway, which he plans to give to young Powers to help them enhance their abilities.
Olesya Rulin as Calista Secor – a wayward girl, possibly homeless. She is a "wannabe" as she hangs around Powers, believing her own powers will awaken someday. She intends to use her powers on her abusive father for hurting her mother. She befriends both Christian and Royalle.
Adam Godley as Captain Emile Cross – the head of Powers Division. He dislikes all Powers and often argues with Christian and Deena.
Max Fowler as Krispin Stockley – the teenage son of Christian's deceased former police partner. Krispin feels that the more unstable Powers should be held accountable for the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estap | Estap A.Ş. is a company based in Istanbul, Turkey, specializing in the electronic enclosures industry.
Company Overview
Estap A.S. specializes in enclosures for data communication equipment such racks, cabinets and accessories for networking, servers, datacenters, outdoor applications, industrial usage, telecommunication and fiber optic infrastructure.
Estap owns and operates its factory in Eskişehir and employs nearly 400 people. Estap is the largest manufacturer of enclosures for date communication equipment. Having 70% of its production to approximately 70 foreign countries as export-sales, Estap is ranked among the first 1000 export companies of Turkey.
Acquisition
Estap was acquired by Legrand Group on April 10, 2008.
References
External links
Estap Official Web Site
Legrand Group Official Web Site
Manufacturing companies based in Istanbul
Turkish brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RediATM | The rediATM network was an Australian ATM network originally operated and owned by Cuscal. On 14 August 2019, Cuscal sold the network to the Armaguard who subsequently closed the network by merging with its atmx network.
History
1982 – RediTeller ATM network launched to support Australian credit unions
2008 – Cuscal and its partners began rebranding RediTeller ATMs to rediATM
2009 – National Australia Bank joins the rediATM network, combining NAB's network of 1,700 ATMs with Cuscal's network of 1,400 ATMs
2010 – Bank of Queensland joins the rediATM network
2017 – Suncorp joins rediATM network
2018 – National Australia Bank announces it will discontinue using the rediATM network from 1 January 2019
2019 – Armaguard finalises Cuscal rediATM Scheme acquisition on 14 August 2019
2021 – Network was closed and merged with atmx
Partnered financial institutions (before network closure)
After a large number of members withdrawing over the years from the network, only the following financial institutions remained partners after the rediATM network closure:
Bank of Queensland
Broken Hill Community Credit Union
Central Murray Credit Union
Central West Credit Union
BNK Banking Corporation (Goldfields Money)
Goulburn Murray Credit Union
Horizon Bank
ME Bank
Orange Credit Union
Police Bank (NSW)
Police Credit Union (SA and NT)
Royal Automobile Club of Queensland
Bank WAW
Warwick Gympie Dalby Credit Union
References
External links
rediATM
Cuscal
Banking in Australia
Interbank networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comboni%20College%20of%20Science%20%26%20Technology | Comboni College for Science and Technology (CCST), originally Comboni College for Computer Science, is a private college in Khartoum, Sudan, established as a technical college since 2001. It goes back to the earlier school for boys, founded by Catholic priests from Italy in 1929.
History
Comboni College Khartoum was founded in 1929 as a boys school by Catholic priests associated with the mission of Bishop Daniele Comboni. It was managed by priests and monks, who arrived in Sudan to continue Comboni´s work in education. Since its beginning, the college catered to students both with an international background, but most of them were Sudanese children.
In 1999, parents asked the management to develop a post-secondary section. In 2001, this initiative led to the present Comboni College of Science and Technology (CCST) as a separate institution from the primary and secondary sections of Comboni College Khartoum.
Programs
Computer Science (CS)
Information Technology (IT)
English Language and Literature (Eng)
Education and Religious Studies
Short Courses in computer skills, languages, teaching methods and palliative care
See also
The Catholic University of South Sudan
References
External links
Education in Khartoum
Universities and colleges in Sudan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20FM%20Tamil%20Entertainment%20Awards | BIG Tamil Entertainment Award is an accolade presented by the Reliance Broadcast Network Limited under three broad categories: Television, Film, Arts. Part of the BIG Regional Entertainment Awards, the awards were presented first in 2011 for the best of 2010. The ceremony was held on 26 March 2011. The media partner was The Hindu and the broadcast partner was Vijay TV. The winners were elected by people's voting.
Ceremonies
Categories and Winners of 2011
Awards for Excellence in Art
Most Entertaining Classical Dancer of the Decade - Padma Subramanyam
Most Entertaining Bharathanatyam Dancer - Kamal Haasan
Awards for Excellence in Films
Most Entertaining Debut Actor - Vidharth for Mynaa
Most Entertaining Actor - Silambarasan for Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya
Most Entertaining Actress - Tamannaah for Paiyaa
Most Entertaining Director - Rajesh for Boss Engira Bhaskaran
Most Entertaining Film - Boss Engira Bhaskaran
Most Entertaining Villain - Venkatesh for Angaadi Theru
Most Entertaining Music Director - Yuvan Shankar Raja for Paiyaa
Most Entertaining Female Playback Singer - Chinmayi for Poove Poove from Siddu +2
Most Entertaining Male Playback Singer - Vijay Prakash for Hosanna from Vinnaithaandi Varuvaaya
Most Entertaining Lyricist - Na. Muthukumar
Awards for Excellence in Television
Most Entertaining Tele Serial - Thekkathi Ponnu from Kalaignar TV
Most Entertaining Television Actor - Sanjeev for Thirumathi Selvam from Sun TV
Most Entertaining Television Actress - Devayani for Kodi Mullai from Raj TV
Most Entertaining Television Villain (Male) - Venu Arvind for Arasi from Sun TV
Most Entertaining Television Villain (Female) - Brinda Das for Anandham from Sun TV
Most Entertaining Talk Show - Neeya Naana from Vijay TV
Most Entertaining Reality Show Host - Gopinath for Neeya Naana form Vijay TV
Most Entertaining Theatre Group - Koothu-P-Pattarai
Special Award
Entertainment Phenomenon - Rajinikanth
See also
List of Asian television awards
References
External links
Winners List
Tamil film awards
Indian television awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aero%20Engine%20Controls | Aero Engine Controls is the former name of Rolls-Royce Controls and Data Services. The company produces engine control software, electronic engine controls (EEC), fuel metering units (FMU), fuel pumps and engine actuators for a large number of common commercial and military aircraft. Together these parts comprise the control system for a jet engine, responsible for delivering the correct amount of fuel and maintaining engine safety.
History
The company was originally part of Lucas Industries, responsible for producing fuel systems for aircraft. From 1938 the company produced fueling systems for World War II aircraft. In August 1996 the company was merged, along with the rest of Lucas Industries, with the North American Varity Corporation to form LucasVarity. In 1999 LucasVarity was acquired by TRW for $6.6bn, which sold the Lucas Aerospace section of the company to Goodrich Corporation for $1.5bn in 2002.
In 2008 Rolls-Royce was the second largest producer of aircraft engines worldwide behind General Electric and ahead of Pratt & Whitney. As the focus for engine efficiency shifts towards sophisticated engine control techniques, Rolls-Royce found it could potentially fall behind its competitors as the only one of the three companies to outsource these key components. Rolls-Royce and the Goodrich Corporation saw an opportunity for partnership, combining the existing manufacturing capability of Goodrich with the expertise of Rolls-Royce.
The Rolls-Royce Goodrich engine controls joint venture was announced on 14 August 2008 and agreement between the two companies was made on 22 December 2008 to form 'Rolls-Royce Goodrich Engine Control Systems Limited' with the trading company name of Aero Engine Controls. In the formation of Aero Engine Controls both companies contributed over £14m in assets and cash to the joint venture, with Rolls-Royce making a cash payment to the Goodrich Corporation of $100m.
Following the acquisition of Goodrich by United Technologies Corporation in July 2012, Rolls-Royce announced it would purchase Goodrich's 50% share of Aero Engine Controls. The purchase was completed on 10 December 2012 and Aero Engine Controls is now wholly owned by Rolls-Royce Plc. and is part of the Rolls-Royce Group.
In 2014 Aero Engine Controls was merged with Optimized Systems and Solutions (OSyS) to form Rolls-Royce Control and Data Services.
Locations
Birmingham, UK
Aero Engine Controls has one combined manufacturing and engineering site in Birmingham, and employs ~1100 employees.
Derby, UK
This is a systems and software engineering site and employs ~300 engineers.
Belfast, UK
This is a software engineering centre.
Indianapolis, USA
Although the Indianapolis branch is part of Aero Engine Controls the company, it is a separate legal entity with its own board of directors. This allows Aero Engine Controls to participate in large classified US defence contracts, which it would otherwise be unable to do for reasons of national security.
The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert%20Pohlmann | Norbert Pohlmann (born 20 March 1960) is a computer scientist and a professor at the . He is also chairman of the board of the IT security association TeleTrusT.
Career
Born in Ratingen, Pohlmann studied electrical engineering from 1981 to 1985, specialising in computer science. He wrote his doctoral thesis on "Possibilities and Limitations of Firewall Systems".
He was managing director at KryptoKom, a company for information security and communication technology, from 1988 to 1999. After a merger with Utimaco Safeware AG, he was a member of the company's board from 1999 to 2003. Since 2003, Pohlmann has been professor in the computer science department for distributed systems and information security, and director of the institute for internet security, at the , a university of applied science.
Pohlmann was one of the founders of the IT security association TeleTrusT, which has established reliable conditions for trustworthy application of information and communication technologies. He has been member of the board since 1994, and chairman of the board since April 1998. Pohlmann was one of the initiators of the Information Security Solutions Europe (ISSE) and chairman of the ISSE program committee of the ISSE conference.
He is also a member of the board of eco (Association of the Internet Industry) as well as a member of the academic council of the GDD, the German association for data protection and data security. He was a member of the permanent stakeholders' group of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) from 2005 to 2010.
In the summer term 2013, Pohlmann was a visiting professor at Stanford University.
Awards
Rudolf-Thoma Prize of VDE (Association for Electrical, Electronic & Information Technology) for the best final grade in the graduation year 1985
1997 City of Aachen's Prize for Innovation and Technology for his scientific and entrepreneurial performance.
2011 Professor of the Year in the category "Engineering / Informatics", awarded by the German students magazine Unicum.
Publications
Firewall Architecture for the Enterprise, John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, USA, 2002 .
Firewall-Systeme - Sicherheit für Internet und Intranet, E-Mail-Security, Virtual Private Network, Intrusion Detection System, Personal Firewalls MITP-Verlag, Bonn 2003 .
Virtual Private Network (VPN) MITP-Verlag, Bonn 2003
Der IT-Sicherheitsleitfaden MITP-Verlag, Bonn 2006
Sicher im Internet: Tipps und Tricks für das digitale Leben'' orell füssli Verlag, Zürich 2010
References
External links
CV Norbert Pohlmann
Books by Pohlmann as PDF
Institute for Internet Security (Institut für Internetsicherheit an der Westfälischen Hochschule)
German computer scientists
People from Ratingen
1960 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambarella%20Inc. | Ambarella, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor design company, focusing on low-power, high-definition (HD) and Ultra HD video compression, image processing, and computer vision processors. Ambarella's products are used in a wide variety of human and computer vision applications, including video security, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), electronic mirror, drive recorder, driver and in-cabin monitoring, autonomous driving, and robotics applications. Ambarella's system on chips (SoCs) are designed to deliver a combination of video compression, image processing, and computer vision performance with low-power operation to enable cameras to extract data from high-resolution video streams.
History
Ambarella was founded in 2004 by Feng-Ming (Fermi) Wang and Les Kohn with the goal of developing high-definition H.264 video encoders for the professional broadcast market. Soon after, Ambarella applied this same technology to consumer video and security IP camera markets, focusing on the development of low-power, compression-efficient chips capable of producing high-quality imagery in challenging lighting and high-motion environments.
Over the next decade, Ambarella chips appeared in a number of consumer camera products, including the GoPro Hero (up until the Hero 5 series), the Dropcam by Nest, Garmin automotive dash cams and the DJI Phantom series of drones.
Technology
In January 2022, Ambarella announced its new Artificial Intelligence Image Signal Processor. This AI-based ISP technology is “capable of recording 8K video or four 4K video streams” and “enhances color imagining and applies HDR in ultra-low light conditions.”
Acquisitions and partnerships
In July 2015, Ambarella acquired VisLab, a pioneer in perception systems and autonomous vehicle research founded by Professor Alberto Broggi. VisLab has a history of developing computer vision and intelligent control systems for automotive and commercial applications, including ADAS and autonomous vehicles. Subsequent generations of Ambarella SoCs incorporated VisLab perception technologies at the hardware level, with the goal of targeting automotive OEM camera designs across all of SAE’s six levels of driving automation (ranging from fully manual to fully automated or “steering wheel optional”).
In November 2021, the company purchased Oculii, a software development company focused on improving “the resolution of radars in self-driving cars and autonomous vehicles."
In June 2022, Ambarella Inc. and Inceptio Technology announced their partnership. Incepto chose four of Ambarella's CVflow SoCs for its automotive-grade central computing platform. Ambarella’s SoCs technology provides simultaneous power processing for “seven 8MP cameras, including AI compute, for surround camera perception and front ADAS safety features like collision avoidance.
In November 2022, Ambarella and elnfochips partnered to design a new line of AI camera products.
In January 2023, Ambarella and Continental announced |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1100%20series | 1100 series may refer to:
Japanese train types
Hankyu 1100 series EMU operated by Hankyu Corporation between 1956 and 1989
Izuhakone 1100 series EMU operated by the Izuhakone Railway
Computing
UNIVAC 1100 series, the earlier transistorized computer line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20learning | Deep learning is the subset of machine learning methods which are based on artificial neural networks with representation learning. The adjective "deep" in deep learning refers to the use of multiple layers in the network. Methods used can be either supervised, semi-supervised or unsupervised.
Deep-learning architectures such as deep neural networks, deep belief networks, deep reinforcement learning, recurrent neural networks, convolutional neural networks and transformers have been applied to fields including computer vision, speech recognition, natural language processing, machine translation, bioinformatics, drug design, medical image analysis, climate science, material inspection and board game programs, where they have produced results comparable to and in some cases surpassing human expert performance.
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) were inspired by information processing and distributed communication nodes in biological systems. ANNs have various differences from biological brains. Specifically, artificial neural networks tend to be static and symbolic, while the biological brain of most living organisms is dynamic (plastic) and analog.
Definition
Deep learning is a class of machine learning algorithms that uses multiple layers to progressively extract higher-level features from the raw input. For example, in image processing, lower layers may identify edges, while higher layers may identify the concepts relevant to a human such as digits or letters or faces.
From another angle to view deep learning, deep learning refers to "computer-simulate" or "automate" human learning processes from a source (e.g., an image of dogs) to a learned object (dogs). Therefore, a notion coined as "deeper" learning or "deepest" learning makes sense. The deepest learning refers to the fully automatic learning from a source to a final learned object. A deeper learning thus refers to a mixed learning process: a human learning process from a source to a learned semi-object, followed by a computer learning process from the human learned semi-object to a final learned object.
Overview
Most modern deep learning models are based on multi-layered artificial neural networks such as convolutional neural networks and transformers, although they can also include propositional formulas or latent variables organized layer-wise in deep generative models such as the nodes in deep belief networks and deep Boltzmann machines.
In deep learning, each level learns to transform its input data into a slightly more abstract and composite representation. In an image recognition application, the raw input may be a matrix of pixels; the first representational layer may abstract the pixels and encode edges; the second layer may compose and encode arrangements of edges; the third layer may encode a nose and eyes; and the fourth layer may recognize that the image contains a face. Importantly, a deep learning process can learn which features to optimally place in which level on it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution%20management%20system | A distribution management system (DMS) is a collection of applications designed to monitor and control the electric power distribution networks efficiently and reliably. It acts as a decision support system to assist the control room and field operating personnel with the monitoring and control of the electric distribution system. Improving the reliability and quality of service in terms of reducing power outages, minimizing outage time, maintaining acceptable frequency and voltage levels are the key deliverables of a DMS.
In recent years, utilization of electrical energy increased exponentially and customer requirement and quality definitions of power were changed enormously. As electric energy became an essential part of daily life, its optimal usage and reliability became important. Real-time network view and dynamic decisions have become instrumental for optimizing resources and managing demands, leading to the need for distribution management systems in large-scale electrical networks.
Overview
Most distribution utilities have been comprehensively using IT solutions through their Outage Management System (OMS) that makes use of other systems like Customer Information System (CIS), Geographical Information System (GIS) and Interactive Voice Response System (IVRS). An outage management system has a network component/connectivity model of the distribution system. By combining the locations of outage calls from customers with knowledge of the locations of the protection devices (such as circuit breakers) on the network, a rule engine is used to predict the locations of outages. Based on this, restoration activities are charted out and the crew is dispatched for the same.
In parallel with this, distribution utilities began to roll out Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, initially only at their higher voltage substations. Over time, use of SCADA has progressively extended downwards to sites at lower voltage levels.
DMSs access real-time data and provide all information on a single console at the control centre in an integrated manner.
Their development varied across different geographic territories. In the US, for example, DMSs typically grew by taking
Outage Management Systems to the next level, automating the complete sequences and providing an end to end, integrated view of the entire distribution spectrum. In the UK, by contrast, the much denser and more meshed network topologies, combined with stronger Health & Safety regulation, had led to early centralisation of high-voltage switching operations, initially using paper records and schematic diagrams printed onto large wallboards which were 'dressed' with magnetic symbols to show the current running states. There, DMSs grew initially from SCADA systems as these were expanded to allow these centralised control and safety management procedures to be managed electronically. These DMSs required even more detailed component/connectivity models and schematics than t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamer%20%C5%9Eahin | Tamer Şahin (born August 10, 1981 in İzmir, Turkey) is a Turkish white hat hacker.
Overview
Şahin's interest in computers started when he was 13 years old.
Sahin worked on the philosophy of Ethical Hacking and concentrated on institutionalizing his professional life.
He has consulted on various cases concerning cyber security at both national and international level. He used his talent as an Ethical Hacker to detect the vulnerabilities of numerous computer systems and developed defense strategies for some of the leading organizations in the private sector and also public institutions.
The New York Times journalist and US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency advisor Nicole Perlroth, referred in her best seller book "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends", to Tamer Sahin and described him as "the first person in the world who found and sold a Zero Day vulnerability" He began selling computer vulnerabilities to iDefense shortly after their bug bounty program was established, ultimately selling over 50 bugs and exploits.
After all of these, he has emphasized on his own professional business life and his studies on information security still go on. He has published nearly 50 security announcements on various sources.
His life experience has been handled as projects at Istanbul Technical University, Işık University (Istanbul), Bilkent University (Ankara) and the American Collegiate Institute (Izmir). His studies and social reflections of them have been analysed with documents and presentations as lesson scopes.
Şahin lectures about being a ethical hacker and its philosophy at universities and he gives consultant services to firms (information security contracts stay always confidential) about information security. He wrote about his experiences in the book “Hacker’in Akli” (Eng: Hacker’s Mind), published by "Dogan Kitap". The book made three editions, was on the bestseller list for a month. It is listed in the archives of the Library of Congress Washington DC, Princeton University, Columbia University, Harvard University, Library of Grand National Assembly of Turkey, Patrick Henry College, Salem College, Birmingham-Southern College. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics, Department of International Relations.
Media
A documentary film was made by Coskun Aral and his team about Şahin's life and hackers. Şahin writes columns for the technology magazines T3 and Digital Age.
References
External links
Official website
1981 births
Living people
People associated with computer security
People from İzmir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSS%20Infotech | GSS Infotech (formerly "GSS America") was established in 1999, as an Information technology company headquartered in Hyderabad, India. The company provides services related to cloud computing, remote infrastructure management, virtualization, application management, and other services.
GSS Infotech has offices in Connecticut, New Jersey and Hyderabad.
History
GSS Infotech was formed in 1999 as "GSS America". On 10 March 2011, the company was renamed "GSS Infotech". GSS Infotech offers services primarily to telecommunication, banking and financial services, insurance, healthcare, retail, and government organizations. In 2006, the company established a Global Delivery Center in Hyderabad, India and became a CMMI Level 5 company in 2011.
In November 2010, GSS America Infotech Ltd. acquired US based companies with revenues of $30 million to increase its portfolio.
In GSS Infotech's annual meeting in December 2010, the company passed the resolution to raise around Rs 337.50 crore ($75 million) by means of foreign currency convertible bonds, American Depository Receipts or other instruments.
Revenue
GSS Infotech net profit rose by 0.40% to Rs 2.50 crore in the quarter ended December 2010 as against Rs 2.49 crore during the previous quarter ended December 2009. The sales increased by 71.88% to Rs 17.79 crore in the quarter ended December 2010 in contrast to Rs 10.35 crore during the previous quarter ended December 2009.
GSS Infotech net profit rose by 70.73% to Rs 2.80 crore in the quarter that ended March 2011 as against Rs 1.64 crore during the previous quarter.
Acquisitions
In 2006, GSS Infotech acquired Infospectrum Consulting Inc, a business service management (BSM) solution provider based out of Illinois, USA.
In 2008, GSS Infotech acquired System Dynamix Corporation, an IT consulting and software development company based in Connecticut, USA
In 2009, GSS Infotech acquired ATEC Group, an infrastructure technology solution provider based out of New York, USA.
In 2010, GSS Infotech acquired Veloce
In 2019, GSS Infotech acquired Nexii Labs
In 2021, GSS Infotech acquired Polimerras.
Recognition
Forbes' list of Asia's 200 Best Under $1 Billion 2008
Forbes' list of Asia's 200 Best Under $1 Billion 2009
Forbes' list of Asia's 200 Best Under $1 Billion 2010
References
External links
Information technology companies of India
Companies based in Hyderabad, India
Software companies of India
Indian companies established in 1999
1999 establishments in Andhra Pradesh
Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India
Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripley%27s%20Believe%20It%20or%20Not%21%20%28Philippine%20TV%20program%29 | Ripley's Believe It or Not! is a 2008 Philippine television informative show broadcast by GMA Network. The show is based on the early 2000s American series of the same name. Hosted by Chris Tiu, it premiered on August 18, 2008. The show concluded on September 22, 2010.
References
2008 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television series based on American television series
Philippine television shows
Ripley's Believe It or Not! television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGNAL%20%28programming%20language%29 | SIGNAL is a programming language based on synchronized data-flow (flows + synchronization): a process is a set of equations on elementary flows describing both data and control.
The SIGNAL formal model provides the capability to describe systems with several clocks (polychronous systems) as relational specifications. Relations are useful as partial specifications and as specifications of non-deterministic devices (for instance a non-deterministic bus) or external processes (for instance an unsafe car driver).
Using SIGNAL allows one to specify an application, to design an architecture, to refine detailed components down to RTOS or hardware description. The SIGNAL model supports a design methodology which goes from specification to implementation, from abstraction to concretization, from synchrony to asynchrony.
SIGNAL has been mainly developed in INRIAEspresso team since the 1980s, at the same time as similar programming languages, Esterel and Lustre.
A brief history
The SIGNAL language was first designed for signal processing applications in the beginning of the 1980s. It has been proposed to answer the demand of new domain-specific language for the design of signal processing applications, adopting a dataflow and block-diagram style with array and sliding window operators. P. Le Guernic, A. Benveniste, and T. Gautier have been in charge of the language definition. The first paper on SIGNAL was published in 1982, while the first complete description of SIGNAL appeared in the PhD thesis of T. Gautier. The symbolic representation of SIGNAL via z/3z (over [-1,0,1]) has been introduced in 1986. A full compiler of SIGNAL based on the clock calculus on hierarchy of Boolean clocks, was described by L. Besnard in his PhD thesis in 1992. The clock calculus has been improved later by T. Amagbegnon with the proposition of arborescent canonical forms.
During the 1990s, the application domain of the SIGNAL language has been extended into general embedded and real-time systems. The relation-oriented specification style enabled the increasing construction of the systems, and also led to the design considering multi-clocked systems, compared to the original single-clock-based implementation of Esterel and Lustre. Moreover, the design and implementation of distributed embedded systems were also taken into account in SIGNAL. The corresponding research includes the optimization methods proposed by B. Chéron, the clustering models defined by B. Le Goff, the abstraction and separate compilation formalized by O. Maffeïs, and the implementation of distributed programs developed by P. Aubry.
The Polychrony Toolsets
The Polychrony toolset is an open-source development environment for critical/embedded systems based on SIGNAL, a real-time polychronous data-flow language. It provides a unified model-driven environment to perform design exploration by using top-down and bottom-up design methodologies formally supported by design model transformations from specificat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley%20buses%20in%20Vancouver | The Vancouver trolley bus system forms part of the TransLink public transport network serving Metro Vancouver in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Opened in 1948, the system was originally owned and operated by the British Columbia Electric Railway. By 1954, Vancouver had the largest trolley bus fleet in Canada, with 327 units, and the fleet grew to an all-time peak of 352 in early 1957. There were 19 routes by 1955 and a peak of 20 by the second quarter of 1957. The last route to open in the 1950s was the only express trolley bus service that ever existed in Canada. Several, mostly short, extensions to the system were constructed in the 1980s and later.
The trolley bus system presently comprises 13 routes and is managed by the Coast Mountain Bus Company, a subsidiary of TransLink. It uses a fleet of 262 trolley buses, of which 74 are articulated vehicles. It has the second-largest trolley bus fleet in Canada and the U.S.
History
Following a formal opening ceremony on 13 August 1948, regular service on Vancouver's first trolley bus routes began on 16 August 1948, operated by the British Columbia Electric Railway (BCER). Two routes opened on that day, 6 Fraser and 15 Cambie, and routes 5 Robson and 8 Davie followed later the same year. All of these first routes had been conversions of streetcar lines except for the Cambie route. Conversion of several more streetcar and motor bus routes quickly followed, and by 1953, the trolley bus system had 16 routes. Three more trolley bus lines were created in 1955, when the last streetcar line, Hastings, closed and was replaced by the 14 Hastings trolley bus route and two branches, routes 16 Renfrew and 24 Nanaimo. In May 1957, BCER introduced an express trolley bus route, 34 Hastings Express (which had first been created as a diesel bus route, one year earlier), which was the only express trolley bus service in Canada. For that service, a section of East Hastings Street, between Main Street and Kootenay Loop, was equipped with two additional sets of overhead wires for use by express trips only, and trolley buses ran non-stop in both directions along that section. The addition of route 34 brought the network to what was, for several years, its maximum extent, with the following 21 routes (all of which were designated by route names, rather than destinations, and numbers):
3 Main
4 W. Fourth
5 Robson
6 Fraser
7 Dunbar
8 Davie
9 Broadway
10 Tenth
11 Stanley Park
12 Powell
14 Hastings
15 Cambie
16 Renfrew
17 Oak
18 Arbutus
19 Kingsway
20 Granville
24 Nanaimo
25 Victoria
34 Hastings Express
41 41st Avenue
The service was provided by CCF–Brill trolley buses, with 82 model T44 vehicles acquired in 1947 and 1948, and 245 of the larger model T48 (and variants T48A and T48SP) acquired between 1949 and 1954. With the delivery of the last new Brill trolley bus, in January 1954, Vancouver had the largest trolley bus fleet in Canada at 327 units. The fleet later included 25 1947-buil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunjunz | Dunjunz is an action game made for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron home computers and released by Bug-Byte in 1987. It is essentially a clone of the popular video game Gauntlet where players controlled fantasy characters from a top down view. Unlike Gauntlet, each of the characters is given their own viewport onto the dungeon and can explore independently.
Gameplay
Up to four players are able to play simultaneously, sharing the keyboard to control their characters (ranger, wizard, barbarian, and female warrior). Each player views their character's progress via one of four viewports that divide the screen. As their character leaves a room, the viewport changes to show the new room.
The objective is to reach the exit on each level, or the chalice on level 25, avoiding or killing enemies, collecting treasure and upgrades, and opening doors with the appropriate keys. Additionally, items of food can be collected to restore health, potions can be used to either increase or diminish health, and crucifixes will reanimate the most recently killed character, making it possible for players knocked out of the game to rejoin the action. If at least one character leaves the current level via the exit then all characters will be restored on the next level, but those that died will return with their initial attributes.
As in Gauntlet, each of the characters starts with their own particular strengths and weaknesses. For example, the barbarian can initially fire only one axe at a time, but it carries the maximum amount of damage a projectile can have. During the course of the game, the characters will achieve parity in armour, damage and number of projectiles. However, only the ranger and wizard are able to cast a spell to destroy all enemies on screen, and the per-use cost of this in health is fixed throughout the game.
On the Acorn Electron, a screen mode with a reduced colour palette was used, enabling the game to run as quickly as the BBC Micro version. Graphical niceties, such as the character status displays and the exit animations, are not present in this version. As with other Electron games, sound effects are limited by the capabilities of the Electron but are generally similar to those of the BBC Micro version. The BBC Micro disk version also includes a level editor that allows existing levels to be edited and new levels to be created.
Reception
Computer Gamer awarded this "very playable" game an overall score of 75%.
Sources
"Super dungeon", James Riddell, Electron User June 1987 (web copy of article text).
External links
Dunjunz at the Museum of Computer Adventure Game History
1987 video games
Action games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron-only games
Fantasy video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games featuring female protagonists
Bug-Byte Software games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapleStory%20Adventures | MapleStory Adventures was a free-to-play, 2D, side-scrolling social network game developed by the South Korean company Nexon for Facebook and launched in July 2011. MapleStory Adventures was a simplified version of MapleStory’s basic gameplay and included creating an avatar, fighting monsters and completing quests. Although the gameplay was altered for the social networking conventions and includes freemium content, the main storyline of the game remains the same. MapleStory Adventures was free to play, but players had the option of purchasing premium content. On July 31, 2013, the game was shut down and removed from Facebook.
Gameplay
MapleStory Adventures was a 2D scrolling social network game on Facebook. At the start of the game, players must create a customizable avatar and select a class. Players may choose to play as either a Warrior, a Magician, and, as of 8th March 2012, a bowman/woman or thief. During the game, players may move anywhere they wish across a 2D side scrolling representation of “Maple World.” The game was composed of “quests,” which usually consisted of killing a certain number of monsters and collecting various items that drop from their corpses. Players would receive some quests automatically, and others could be obtained by clicking on various NPCs (Non-Player Characters). By clicking on a monster, the player delivers strikes which will cause the monster a certain amount of damage, dependent upon the player’s level and the equipment they wield. Each strike costs a certain amount of energy, drawn from a pool that slowly replenishes in real time. Also, the energy bar will decrease as you take damage from monsters. As players level up, this energy gauge will grow.
Levels and skills
When a player kills a monster, various items may drop from the corpse. These include blue stars, which may be collected to increase a player’s experience level, quest items, collection items, gold coins, and “mystery boxes.” As a player's level increases, they can purchase better weapons, as well as challenge stronger monsters, obtain more crafting cauldrons, and more. As a player’s experience level rises, their power increases and they may use gold coins to purchase various skills. For higher-leveled skills, players will also need to obtain Skill Permits. Skill permits are available from monster drops and also from your friends. These skills can then be used to kill more difficult monsters in order to acquire better treasures.
Equipment and items
As a player levels up, they will have the opportunity to use gold coins to purchase various pieces of equipment that increase their attack power in the game. They may also purchase items that have purely cosmetic rare value. Other items that drop from monsters may be part of a “game collection.” Collections may be turned in for extra energy or other prizes at the shop. Monster collections, which are filled up as you slay more and more of those monsters allow you to get special powers over that monste |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epi%20Map | Epi Map is a module that displays geographic maps with data from Epi Info. Epi Map is built around the Esri MapObjects software. Epi Map displays shapefiles containing the geographic boundaries layered with data results from the Analysis module.
Epi Map is designed to show data from Epi Info 2000 files by relating data fields to SHAPE files containing the geographic boundaries. Shapefiles also can contain data on population or other variables, and can therefore provide numeric data that become part of the display either as numerator or denominator.
See also
Free statistical software
Geographic information system
Geospatial analysis
List of geographic information systems software
Cartogram
CrimeStat
ArcView
MapInfo
References
External links
Epi Info
Epi Info Community of Users
Epi Info Community Portal
Cartogram Central
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Public-domain software
Science software for Windows
Data analysis software
Geographic information systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Raveendra | Muthyala Stephen Raveendra (ముత్యాల స్టీఫెన్ రవీంద్ర ) (born 14 February 1973) is the present Police commissioner of Cyberabad Metropolitan Police since from 25 August 2021. He was earlier, Inspector General of Police of West Zone (Hyderabad and Nizamabad Ranges) also holding full additional charge as Deputy Inspector General of Police (Hyderabad Range)
Raveendra is a 1999 batch Regular Recruit (52RR) of the Indian Police Service who got trained at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad, India and was inducted into the IPS on 20 September 1999. Raveendra was the West Zone Deputy Commissioner of Police, Hyderabad City Police. and was DIG in the elite special forces of Greyhounds. In 2015, Raveendra was a resource person at the Strategic Gaming Exercise on Left Wing Extremism held by the United Service Institution, New Delhi.
Early life, schooling and collegiate studies
Officer Raveendra is the son of an illustrious Police Officer DSP M. B. Ranjit who earlier retired as the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Asifnagar Division, Hyderabad City Police. Raveendra was schooled at St. Paul's High School, Little Flower Junior College and Nizam College, all in Hyderabad. He passed out of Nizam College in 1994 and then entered the portals of Department of Zoology at the University College of Science, Osmania University. There were learned Entomologists comprising Professors S.S.Thakur, B. Julius Divakar, P. Judson, B. Kishen Rao and others. Stephen was enthused by Entomology and specialized in it and passed out of the learned portals of the University in 1996.
After post-graduate studies at Department of Zoology, Osmania University where he received a gold medal in Zoology, he cleared the Union Public Service Commission entrance and opted for IPS and underwent training at the Sardar Vallabhai Patel National Police Academy, Hyderabad.
Career
Raveendra's initial posting was in Warangal District where he was groomed by Damodar Gautam Sawang, then the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Warangal Range. Incidentally, Noel Swaranjit Sen happened to be the Director General and Inspector General of Police of Andhra Pradesh when Raveendra was in Warangal District. The colleagueship of Swaranjit-Sawang-Stephen helped in containing the terrorist tactics of Naxalites.
In the past sometime in 2019, it was indicated that Stephen Raveendra has been tipped to be the new Intelligence Chief of Andhra Pradesh w.e.f 30 May. Moves by the incumbent Chief Minister, Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy to his neighbouring counterpart, K. Chandrashekar Rao point towards this direction and steps seem to have been made at the Centre to quickly move the files and get the Officer on deputation from Telangana to Andhra Pradesh.
Achievements
So far in Raveendra's career he has encountered Naxalism (as SP-in-Warangal), Factionalism (as SP-in-Anantapur), Corruption (as SP-in-Karimnagar), Regionalism (as DCP-in-East Zone) and eradicated drugs from Hyderabad city. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Thunderbolt%20Display | The Apple Thunderbolt Display is a 27-inch flat panel computer monitor developed and sold by Apple Inc. from July 2011 to June 2016. Originally priced at $999, it replaced the 27-inch Apple LED Cinema Display. New to the Thunderbolt Display was the switch from Mini DisplayPort and USB to a single Thunderbolt connector for data and DisplayPort. The Thunderbolt Display also added a Gigabit Ethernet port and FireWire 800 port. The monitor is not compatible with computers without Thunderbolt, including but not limited to, desktop PCs without a Thunderbolt port, Macs released before 2011, the 2012 Mac Pro and the single USB-C Retina MacBook. Devices with Thunderbolt 3 (such as MacBooks released after 2016) can use the display with an adapter.
The Thunderbolt Display was discontinued in June 2016, and replaced by LG UltraFine displays developed with LG on the consumer end, while the Pro Display XDR succeeded it in 2019 as Apple's professional display. In 2022, the Apple Studio Display was released as the first Apple-branded consumer display since its discontinuation.
Overview
Like its predecessor, the 27-inch LED Cinema Display, the resolution is 2560×1440 pixels in a 16:9 aspect ratio. It is aluminum and glass, resembling the contemporary ranges of iMac and MacBook Pro unibody designs. The display features a built-in 720p FaceTime HD camera (replacing the iSight in the previous model), microphone, and stereo speaker system with subwoofer (2.1 channel). An octopus cable with Thunderbolt and MagSafe is permanently attached to the back of the display for data and charging MacBooks, respectively. On the rear of the display is a Thunderbolt port, a FireWire 800 port, three USB 2.0 ports, and a Gigabit Ethernet port.
The Thunderbolt port allows for the possibility of daisy chaining Thunderbolt Displays from a supported Mac, or connecting other devices that have Thunderbolt ports, such as external hard drives and video capture devices. In July 2012, Apple began including a MagSafe to MagSafe 2 adaptor in the box.
Discontinuation and successors
On June 23, 2016, Apple announced through a statement of discontinuing all stand-alone displays. Apple subsequently worked with LG to design the Thunderbolt 3-enabled UltraFine line, consisting of 4K and 5K displays, which were the only displays sold by Apple from 2016 to 2019. In December 2019, Apple released the Pro Display XDR, the first Apple-branded display since the Thunderbolt Display's discontinuation. In March 2022, Apple released the Apple Studio Display, the first Apple-branded consumer display since the Thunderbolt Display's discontinuation, which similarly includes integrated speakers and a webcam.
Backward and forward compatibility
The Thunderbolt Display drops compatibility with all previous standards, including VGA, DVI, and DisplayPort. It is not compatible with computers that do not have a Thunderbolt port, including pre-2011 Macs and the vast majority of desktop PCs. The 12-inch Retina MacBoo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%20differences%20in%20social%20capital | Sex differences in social capital are debated differences between men and women's ability to achieve their aims through social constructs such as trust, norms and networks. Social capital is often seen as the missing link in development. Social networks facilitate access to resources and protect the commons, whilst co-operation makes markets work more efficiently. Social capital has been thought of as women's capital as whereas there are gendered barriers to accessing economic capital, women's role in family, and community ensures that they have strong networks. There is potential that the concept can help to bring women's unpaid 'community and household labour', vital to survival and development, to the attention of economists. However, research analysing social capital from a gendered perspective is rare, and the notable exceptions are very critical.
To summarise the debate, it is argued that communitarian theories of social capital naturalise the labour that women put into maintaining social networks and take advantage of rather than valorise their work in the community and family. Communitarian theories of social capital are the most prominent in development literature (mostly inspired by Putnam's 1994 work) and it is assumed that an increase in social capital is inherently good and can support political participation and market efficiency. Social capital is increased by building and fortifying the traditions and norms that underpin reciprocity, co-operation and trust. Whilst this could be seen to valorise the feminised role in maintaining these norms and traditions that is overlooked by development theories based on increasing GDP and getting the prices right, it could also be argued to ossify patriarchal traditions and norms and rely on women's naturalised, unpaid labour in the household and community.
Assuming that social capital is inherently good overlooks hierarchies, power dynamics and difference within 'communities' and groups, and that norms can be downward levelling as well as supportive. A Marxist approach, inspired by the work of Pierre Bourdieu (Bourdieu 1985), can bring out the 'downside' to social capital, and is argued to be crucial if the concept of social capital is to valorise rather than exploit women's labour. Network theorists define social capital as 'aggregate of the actual or potential resources which are linked to possession of a durable network' (Bourdieu, 1985: 248), allowing the relationship between social networks and economic resources to be examined, and potentially exploitative or restrictive traditions, norms and relationships to be identified.
Other critics claim that the concept of social capital is wholly inappropriate to the feminist project. Rather than being trapped in a paradigm that feminists have sought to problematise, gendered critiques of value and the economy would do better to draw on the work of Foucault than Bourdieu (Adkins 2005), or focus on economic diversity rather than how soci |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stathis%20Zachos | Stathis K. Zachos (; born 1947 in Athens) is a mathematician, logician and theoretical computer scientist.
Biography
Zachos received his PhD from the ETHZ (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) in Mathematics (and Computer Science), 1978. He has held the posts of professor in Computer Science at UCSB, CUNY and NTUA and Adjunct professor at ETHZ. He has worked as a researcher at MIT, Brown-Boveri.
Stathis has published research papers in several areas of Computer Science. His work on Randomized Complexity Classes, Arthur–Merlin Games, and Interactive Proof Systems has been very influential in proving important theorems and is cited in main textbooks of computational complexity. One of his important contributions, using Interactive Proof Systems and Probabilistic Quantifiers, is that the Graph Isomorphism Problem is not likely to be NP-complete (joint with R. Boppana, J. Hastad). Graph Isomorphism is one of the very few celebrated problems in NP that have not been shown yet to be either NP-Complete or in P. Zachos's most influential work was introducing and proving properties of the class Parity-P (with Christos Papadimitriou). He also introduced Probabilistic Quantifiers and Alternations of Probabilistic Quantifiers to uniformly describe various Complexity Classes as well as Interactive Proof Systems and Probabilistic Games.
His current interests include Probabilistic and Functional Complexity Classes, Combinatory Algebras as a foundation to Theory of Computations, the interconnections of Cryptographic Techniques and Computational Complexity as well as Algorithms for Graph Problems. He has co-organized International Conferences: STOC '87 (and programming committee of STOC '01), ICALP, CiE (Computability in Europe), PLS, ASL (Association for Symbolic Logic) European Summer Meeting, ACAC (Athens Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity) and NYCAC (New York Colloquium on Algorithms and Complexity).
He is the brother of theoretical physicist Cosmas Zachos.
See also
List of Greek mathematicians
References
External links
Profile at the National Technical University of Athens
1947 births
Greek computer scientists
Scientists from Athens
Living people
Greek mathematicians
Greek logicians
ETH Zurich alumni
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
City University of New York faculty
Academic staff of the National Technical University of Athens
Theoretical computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.988 | ITU-T Recommendation G.988 defines a management and control interface for optical network units (ONU). It comprises one recommendation:
Recommendation ITU-T G.988 specifies the optical network unit (ONU) management and control interface (OMCI) for optical access networks.
Recommendation ITU-T G.988 specifies the managed entities (MEs) of a protocol-independent management information base (MIB) that models the exchange of information between an optical line termination (OLT) and an ONU. In addition, it covers the ONU management and control channel, protocol and detailed messages.
G.988, ONU management and control interface (OMCI) specification, 2010.
References
ITU-T recommendations
ITU-T G Series Recommendations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.992.4 | ITU G.992.4 is a standard for splitterless ADSL2 with data rate mandatory capability reduced to 1.536 Mbit/s downstream and 512 kbit/s upstream. It is also referred to as G.lite.bis.
See also
ADSL
ADSL2+
List of interface bit rates
References
External links
ITU-T Recommendation G.992.4 : Splitterless asymmetric digital subscriber line transceivers 2 (splitterless ADSL2)
Digital subscriber line
ITU-T G Series Recommendations
ITU-T recommendations
Telecommunications-related introductions in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outerra | Outerra is a Slovak computer software company best known for its middleware 3D planetary graphics engine, called Outerra engine, in development since 2008. The engine renders high-quality terrain, terrain texturing, flora and water flow normal maps using relatively sparse and highly compressed data through fractal processing and other types of procedural generation. The game Anteworld uses real world data to create a virtual replica of planet Earth.
Features
Features of the engine and its tech-demo Anteworld include:
Fractal refinement of preexisting terrain data
Support of vector-based data, such as roads
Seamless transitioning from outer space to planet surface
Chromium browser integration
Land vehicle physics and JSBSim flight dynamics model library for aircraft physics
Unlimited visibility
Dynamic and adjustable time flow
FreeTrack support
FBX importer and export of models in self-installing OTX format
Oculus Rift support
Anteworld
The developers of Outerra in 2012 released an alpha tech-demo for the engine called Anteworld (the name comes from the Latin prefix Ante-, meaning prior-to in time - "A world that was") that consists of a digital replica of the whole planet Earth at a 1:1 scale. The virtual world can be explored in a free-camera mode as well as in vehicles such as planes, boats and cars. It also features a first person walking mode. For the mirror world real world data was used - ingame the user can blend in an embedded Google Maps of real Earth that is synchronized with the current camera position. Since June 2013 Anteworld provides support for Oculus Rift. Furthermore, user-made objects such as houses and vehicles can be spawned and used in the sandbox game. While the tech-demo is free some features require an upgrade to the $15 full version. An accompanying novella that is loosely tied to the game written by C. Shawn Smith is planned as well.
Middle-Earth DEM Project
In 2013 a separate non-profit motivated group of hobbyists released a first version of terrain data of Middle-Earth compiled for Outerra. The goal of this digital elevation model project, which was launched by Oshyan Greene and Carl Lingard in 2006, is what they summarize as a "living, breathing Middle Earth" - a highly detailed model which includes rivers, vegetation, buildings, roads and subterranean features. The sources for the maps include Tolkien's maps (such as the ones in The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion), Strachey's Journeys of Frodo, Fonstad's The Atlas of Middle-earth, the locations used in Peter Jackson's movies as well as fan made maps.
Virtual Mars
In February 2014 the developers announced ongoing development, which was planned since October 2009, to add another planet to the two already existing ones (Earth and the fictional Middle-Earth) – Mars. Additionally in 2014 they stated that "ultimately the whole solar system should be accessible" in a single game on Twitter.
TitanIM
TitanIM (Titan Integrated Military) is an Ou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector%20Monsegur | Hector Xavier Monsegur (born 1983), known also by the online pseudonym Sabu (pronounced Sə'buː, Sæ'buː), is an American computer hacker and co-founder of the hacking group LulzSec. Monsegur became an informant for the FBI, working with the agency for over ten months to aid them in identifying the other hackers from LulzSec and related groups while facing a sentence of 124 years in prison. LulzSec intervened in the affairs of organizations such as News Corporation, Stratfor, UK and American law enforcement bodies and Irish political party Fine Gael.
Sabu featured prominently in the group's published IRC chats, and claimed to support the "Free Topiary" campaign. The Economist referred to Sabu as one of LulzSec's six core members.
Biography
Hector Monsegur was born in Puerto Rico to a 16 year old father who raised him with his 40 year old grandmother. Following the arrest of his father and his aunt for selling heroin, Monsegur moved to the Riis Houses (also known as "the projects") in New York City with his grandmother.
At a young age Monsegur became interested in computers. An early experience with hacking was at age 14 when a Puerto Rician person was accidentally killed by the Marine Corps when they started bombing outside the test range on the island of Vieques. In response Monsegur defaced various websites with messages protesting the US government's treatment of Puerto Ricans. On one site he included the line "Hello, I am Sabu, no one special for now."
While attending Washington Irving High School, Monsegur was reprimanded by a security guard for bringing a screwdriver to school to help fix their computer system. Feeling insulted he sent several complaints to the school administration, his complaints were deemed "threatening" and he was expelled. He would not go onto receive any further education after this incident.
In 2010, following the death of his grandmother, he became the foster parent to his two female cousins whom he was unable to support financially, so he began hacking. Committing mostly credit card fraud, he targeted large corporate bank accounts. Although he was at first only interested in hacking for profit, over time he became interested in hacktivism, and this renewed interest coincided with the rise of the political hacker group Anonymous, which he joined under the moniker "Sabu".
Although Anonymous does not have any formal leadership structure, the direction of the collective tended to be steered by a small number of members with a high amount of technical skill and domineering personalities. Sabu quickly established himself as one of these members and he became both a well known individual within the community and a name often associated with Anonymous by the media.
Sabu became the leader of a new hacking group formed from six Anonymous members. This new group was named, Lulz Security (or LulzSec for short). LulzSec did do some hacks with political motives but most of the hacks done by LulzSec were primarily motivated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidera%20Networks | Sidera Networks is a New York Citybased, privately held, United States owned, telecommunications company that provides fiber optic-based network solutions to the carrier, financial services, education, healthcare, government, legal services and media industries. The company was acquired by Lightower Fiber Networks on April 11, 2013.
Services
Sidera Networks’ suite of facilities-based services includes:
Ethernet
SONET
Wavelength
Internet Access
Colocation
Custom Private Optical Network
Dark Fiber Solutions
Central Office Access
Managed Services including Network Operations Center, Managed Router and Remote Hands services
History and acquisitions
Sidera Networks began as RCN Corporation, a publicly traded telecommunications company, based out of Herndon, VA. RCN Corporation was founded in 1993 by developer David McCourt and Peter Kiewit Sons' Inc.
In 1998, RCN Corporation became one of the ten largest Internet service providers in the country after acquiring Virginia-based Erols Internet, Inc. and Boston-based UltraNet Communications to strengthen the data side of its business. That same year, RCN acquired Interport Communications in New York City and Springfield, Massachusetts-based JavaNet, Inc., which linked high schools and colleges to the Internet.
In March 2006, RCN Corporation created the subsidiary, RCN Business Solutions, with the acquisition of Con Edison Communications (CEC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Edison Inc. RCN Business Solutions also built and operated its own fiber optic network in New York City. This network leveraged the electric utility rights of way.
After acquiring NEON Communications in November 2007, RCN Business Solutions became RCN Metro Optical Networks, providing telecommunication services to enterprises and carrier customers. Founded in 1989 as FiveCom, NEON owned and operated a fiber optic network in twelve Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states and was a wholesale service provider of high bandwidth transport services to service providers and Fortune 100 companies.
In September 2010, RCN Metro Optical Networks re-launched as Sidera Networks. The change was a result of ABRY Partners, LLC’s acquisition of RCN Corporation on August 26, 2010.
Later that year, Sidera Networks made two additional acquisitions. In November 2010, Sidera acquired Cross Connect Solutions, Inc. a Philadelphia-based colocation provider, adding of colocation space to Sidera's existing portfolio. In December 2010, Sidera Networks acquired Long Island Fiber Exchange] (LIFE), adding of fiber and 550 lit buildings to its footprint.
On December 27, 2012, Sidera announced that it would merge with Lightower Fiber Networks in a transaction valued at over $2 billion led by Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based investment firm. Pamlico Capital, a significant Lightower investor, and ABRY Partners, a significant Sidera investor, will remain as investors in the new company. The combined company was led by then Lightower CEO, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20business%20desktops | HP Inc. targets their line of business desktop computers for use in the corporate, government, and education markets. HP operate their business desktops on minimum 12-month product cycle. Their major competitors are- Dell OptiPlex, Acer Veriton, and Lenovo ThinkCentre.
HP's market share for their business line of desktops in 2010 was estimated to be 18.7 percent in 2022.
HP's business desktops are available as number of brand names including HP Business, HP Pro, HP Elite.
Models
Pro Series (Entry Level)
HP's entry-level business desktops typically include 2 memory slots, as opposed to 4 in the higher tier ranges, thus limiting the maximum amount of RAM that can be installed. Units typically use lower tier motherboards with cheaper and less feature-rich chipsets.
Advanced/Pro Series
Elite Series
TWR - Tower
(C)MT - (Convertible) Minitower
ST - Slim Tower
SFF - Small Form Factor
US(DT) - Ultra-slim (Desktop)
DM - Desktop Mini
AIO - All-in-One
Z series (workstation)
References
See also
List of Hewlett-Packard products
Business desktops
Lists of computer hardware
Computer-related introductions in 2003
Business desktop computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyday%20Gourmet%20with%20Justine%20Schofield | Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield is an Australian television cooking show, that is hosted by former MasterChef contestant Justine Schofield. It was first broadcast on Network Ten in 2011. The show is directed towards the home-cooked meals and features recipes ranging from simple to the more complex. It regularly features guests, including chefs, food specialists and other former Masterchef contestants. The series also screens on Lifestyle Food.
Episodes
Series 1 (2011)
This is a list of episodes for Series 1 of Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield:
Guest Chefs
Guest chefs on the show include:
Adam Swanson, Chef, Zucca, Adelaide
Callum Hann, MasterChef Series 2 Top 24 Callum's Kitchen
Colin Fassnidge, Chef, Four In Hand, Sydney
Dominique Rizzo, Chef www.dominiquerizzo.com
Lola Berry, Nutritionist www.lolaberry.com
Lucy Kelly, Senior Food Editor, Ask Lucy, Weight Watchers Australasia
Pablo Canamasas, Oil Production Technical Manager, Boundary Bend Limited (Cobram Estate)
Sam Herde, The Vegetable Connection
Scott Pickett, Chef, The Point Albert Park, Melbourne
Skye Craig, Dessert Maniac, Wild Sugar
Tom Niall, Butcher, The Organic Meat Specialist, South Melbourne
References
External links
Recipes
Official Facebook Page
Australian cooking television series
Network 10 original programming
2011 Australian television series debuts
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberbullying | Cyberbullying or cyberharassment is a form of bullying or harassment using electronic means. Cyberbullying and cyberharassment are also known as online bullying. It has become increasingly common, especially among teenagers and adolescents, due to the communication technology advancements and young people's increased use of such technologies. Cyberbullying is when someone, typically a teenager, bullies or harasses others on the internet and other digital spaces, particularly on social media sites.
Tactics
Harmful bullying behavior can include posting rumors, threats, sexual remarks, a victims' personal information, or hate speech. Bullying or harassment can be identified by repeated behavior and an intent to harm.
Overview
Cyberbullying is in many cases an extension of already existing traditional bullying. Students who are bullied via the Internet have, in most cases, also been bullied in other more traditional ways before (e.g., physically or verbally). There are few students who are bullied exclusively over the Internet; these cyber victims are often physically stronger students, which causes bullies to prefer online confrontations over face-to-face contact at school.
Awareness in the United States has risen in the 2010s, due in part to high-profile cases. Several US states and other countries have passed laws to combat cyberbullying. Some are designed to specifically target teen cyberbullying, while others extend from the scope of physical harassment. In cases of adult cyberharassment, these reports are usually filed beginning with local police. The laws differ by area or state.
Research has demonstrated a number of serious consequences of cyberbullying victimisation. Specific statistics on the negative effects of cyberbullying differ by country and other demographics. Some researchers point out there could be some way to use modern computer techniques to determine and stopping cyberbullying.
Other research has suggested an uptick in cyberbullying during the COVID-19 pandemic when many youth and adults were quarantined at home and, as a consequence, online more often than before the pandemic. For example, a study of adults published in the Journal of Social Psychology identified statistically significant increases in pro-cyberbullying attitudes as well as in cyberbullying offending behavior. However, another study involving over 6,500 Canadian youth in grades 4–12 did not find higher rates of cyberbullying involvement. The authors speculated that this might be a result of closer monitoring and involvement of online activities by parents while their children were at home.
Internet trolling is a common form of bullying that takes place in an online community (such as online gaming or social media) in order to elicit a reaction or disruption, or simply just for someone's own personal amusement. Cyberstalking is another form of bullying or harassment that uses electronic communications to stalk a victim; this may pose a credible threat to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaLifeBase | SeaLifeBase is a global online database of information about marine life. It aims to provide key information on the taxonomy, distribution and ecology of all marine species in the world apart from finfish. SeaLifeBase is in partnership with the WorldFish Center in Malaysia and the UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia. Daniel Pauly is the principal investigator and it is coordinated by Maria Lourdes D. Palomares. , it included descriptions of 85,000 species, 59,400 common names, 15,500 pictures, and references to 39,300 works in the scientific literature. SeaLifeBase complements FishBase, which provides parallel information for finfish.
History
The origins of SeaLifeBase go back to the 1970s, when the fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly found himself struggling to test a hypothesis on how the growing ability of fish was affected by the size of their gills. Hypotheses, such as this one, could be tested only if large amounts of empirical data were available. At the time, fisheries management used analytical models which required estimates for fish growth and mortality. Pauly believed that the only practical way fisheries managers could access the volume of data they needed was to assemble all the data available in the published literature into some central repository. This would mean that when a new hypothesis needs to be tested, the available data will already be there in a validated and accessible form, and there will be no need create a new dataset and then have to validate it. Pauly recruited Rainer Froese, and the beginnings of a software database along these lines was encoded in 1988. This database, initially confined to tropical fish, became the prototype for FishBase. FishBase was extended to cover all finfish, and is now the largest online database for fish in the world.
Given FishBase's success, there was naturally a demand for a database covering forms of aquatic life other than finfish. This resulted, in 2006, in the birth of SeaLifeBase. The long-term goal of the project is develop an information system modelled on FishBase, but including all forms of aquatic life, both marine and freshwater, apart from the finfish which FishBase specialises in. Altogether, there are about are 300,000 known species in this category
See also
LarvalBase
List of online encyclopedias
Notes
References
Christensen V, CJ Walters, R Ahrens, J Alder, J Buszowski, LB Christensen, WWL Cheung, J Dunne, R Froese, V Karpouzi, K Kaschner, K Kearney, S Lai, V Lam, MLD Palomares, A Peters-Mason, C Piroddia, JL Sarmiento, J Steenbeek, R Sumaila, R Watson, D Zeller and D Pauly (2009) Database-driven models of the world's Large Marine Ecosystems Ecological Modelling, 220(17): 1984–1996.
Palomares, M.L.D., N. Bailly and D. Pauly (2009) FishBase, SeaLifeBase and database-driven ecosystem modeling p. 156–158. In: M.L.D. Palomares, L. Morissette, A. Cisnero-Montemayor, D. Varkey, M. Coll and C. Piroddi (eds.) Ecopath 25 Years C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20the%20News%20Corporation%20scandal | The News Corporation scandal involves phone, voicemail, and computer hacking that were allegedly committed over a number of years. The scandal began in the United Kingdom, where the News International phone hacking scandal has to date resulted in the closure of the News of the World newspaper and the resignation of a number of senior members of the Metropolitan Police force.
Pre-2010
2010 - 4 July 2011
After 4 July 2011
Leveson inquiry has first hearing.
. The Leveson Inquiry provides background, scope, and procedural plans for the inquiry.
Investigations
2003 - Operation Motorman
2003 - Operation Glade
2003 - House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport investigation into privacy and media intrusion
2006 - Hayman investigation into Royal Family phone hacking conducted by Metropolitan Police's Specialist Operations directorate.
2009 - John Yates review of 2006 Hayman investigation
2011 - Operation Weeting, Investigation conducted by Scotland Yard's Specialist Crime Directorate
2011 - Operation Elveden, Metropolitan Police investigation being led by Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers
2011 - House of Commons Select Committee on Culture, Media and Sport investigation
June 2011 - Operation Tuleta
July 2011 - Leveson Inquiry
July 2011 - US Department of Justice investigation
References
See also
CTB v News Group Newspapers
Mosley v News Group Newspapers Limited
Sheridan v News International
Journalism in the United Kingdom
News Corporation scandal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potomac%20Riverkeeper | Potomac Riverkeeper Network is an environmental, registered non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to protecting the Potomac River and its tributaries. As a "riverkeeper" organization, it is a member of the umbrella organization Waterkeeper Alliance.
History
Potomac Riverkeeper Network, a member of the Waterkeeper Alliance, based in Washington, DC was established in 2000 by principals from other environmental organizations, including: the Potomac Conservancy, Piedmont Environmental Council, Audubon Naturalist Society, and Sierra Club. The goal was to create a strong advocate for the Potomac Watershed--which includes the Potomac River, Shenandoah River, and Upper Potomac River--and enforce existing federal and state laws governing the Potomac watershed and protecting it from exploitation. The President Emeritus, Ed Merrifield, was hired in 2003 and Jeff Kelble was hired as the Shenandoah Riverkeeper in 2006. In 2014, Brent Walls became the Upper Potomac Riverkeeper, adding a third formal Riverkeeper program to Potomac Riverkeeper, Inc.. in 2014, Jeff Kelble became President of the organization, leaving behind his former role as the Shenandoah Riverkeeper. In 2015, Mark Frondorf joined the organization as the new Shenandoah Riverkeeper, as well as Dean Naujoks as the new Potomac Riverkeeper. The three Riverkeeper branches call home to Potomac Riverkeeper Network, although operating within their specific regions.
Potomac Riverkeeper is a member of the Waterkeeper Alliance, one of the fastest growing environmental organizations in the world. The Waterkeeper movement began on New York's Hudson River in 1966 when commercial and recreational fishermen united to save the river. The early successes of Hudson Riverkeeper spurred an explosive growth of similar grassroots programs across the globe.
Mission statement
Potomac Riverkeeper's mission is to stop pollution and to restore clean water in the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers and tributaries through enforcement and community engagement.
Current work
In addition to its dedication to monitoring and enforcement of point source and non-point source pollution, Potomac Riverkeeper currently focuses on four main issues:
Major Polluters
Agricultural Pollution
Resource Extraction
Storm Water
Sewage
Water Quality Standards
Shenandoah Riverkeeper and Upper Potomac Riverkeeper
In 2006, Potomac Riverkeeper, Inc. added a second Riverkeeper program for the Shenandoah River. The Shenandoah River is the largest river that flows into the Potomac River. Shenandoah Riverkeeper uses community action and enforcement to protect and restore water quality in the Shenandoah Valley for people, fish, and aquatic life.
Jeff Kelble, the Shenandoah Riverkeeper, patrols the water, educates the community, and advocates for a healthier Shenandoah River. Jeff knows how an unhealthy river can hurt the local economy and the health of the local residents. In 2005, after fish kills ruined his fishing guide bu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense%20subgraph | In graph theory and computer science, a dense subgraph is a subgraph with many edges per vertex. This is formalized as follows: let be an undirected graph and let be a subgraph of . Then the density of is defined to be:
The densest subgraph problem is that of finding a subgraph of maximum density. The density of the maximally dense subgraph of a graph is sometimes referred to as its subgraph density. In 1984, Andrew V. Goldberg developed a polynomial time algorithm to find the maximum density subgraph using a max flow technique. This has been improved by Gallo, Grigoriadis and Tarjan in 1989 to run in time. A simple LP for finding the optimal solution was given by Charikar in 2000.
Subgraph density is asymptotic to the related notion of arboricity and to graph degeneracy.
Densest subgraph
There are many variations on the densest subgraph problem. One of them is the densest subgraph problem, where the objective is to find the maximum density subgraph on exactly vertices. This problem generalizes the clique problem and is thus NP-hard in general graphs. There exists a polynomial algorithm approximating the densest subgraph within a ratio of for every , while it does not admit an -approximation in polynomial time unless the exponential time hypothesis is false. Under a weaker assumption that , no PTAS exists for the problem.
The problem remains NP-hard in bipartite graphs and chordal graphs but is polynomial for trees and split graphs. It is open whether the problem is NP-hard or polynomial in (proper) interval graphs and planar graphs; however, a variation of the problem in which the subgraph is required to be connected is NP-hard in planar graphs.
Densest at most subgraph
The objective of the densest at most problem is to find the maximum density subgraph on at most vertices. Anderson and Chellapilla showed that if there exists an -approximation for this problem then that will lead to an -approximation for the densest subgraph problem.
Densest at least subgraph
The densest at least problem is defined similarly to the densest at most subgraph problem. The problem is NP-complete, but admits 2-approximation in polynomial time. Moreover, there is some evidence that this approximation algorithm is essentially the best possible: assuming the small set expansion hypothesis (a computational complexity assumption closely related to the unique games conjecture), then it is NP-hard to approximate the problem to within factor for every constant .
-clique densest subgraph
Charalampos Tsourakakis introduced the -clique densest subgraph problem. This variation of the densest subgraph problem aims to maximize the average number of induced cliques , where is the set of -cliques induced by . Notice that the densest subgraph problem is obtained as a special case for . This generalization provides an empirically successful poly-time approach for extracting large near-cliques from large-scale real-world networks.
Locally top- densest subgrap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti%20Markup%20Language | Graffiti Markup Language (GML) is an XML-based file format that stores graffiti motion data that was created by Jamie Wilkinson, Chris Sugrue, Theo Watson and Evan Roth. Popular applications such as Graffiti Analysis, EyeWriter and Mozilla's Firefox MarkUp implement GML. GML is the product of collaboration between artists, hackers, and programmers, and may be used to replicate graffiti using robots.
GML won an Open Web Award in 2011.
References
Further reading
XML markup languages
Graffiti and unauthorised signage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Datang%20Youxia%20Zhuan%20characters | The following is a list of characters from the wuxia novel Datang Youxia Zhuan by Liang Yusheng.
Main characters
Tie Mole () is Tie Kunlun's son and Dou Lingkan's godson. He joins Han Zhifen and Han Zhan in helping Xin Tianxiong and his volunteer army fight the rebels.
Nan Jiyun (), nicknamed "Nan Ba" (), is a famous martial artist from Weizhou. He dies in the Battle of Suiyang.
Xia Lingshuang () is Leng Xuemei's daughter. Her biological father is actually Huangfu Hua, but she never knew the truth because her mother refused to tell her. She is highly skilled in swordplay and appears to help the other protagonists in the nick of time when they encounter trouble. She marries Nan Jiyun and gives birth to a pair of twin boys, and is said to be pregnant with a third child near the end of the novel. After surviving the Battle of Suiyang, she dedicates the rest of her life to raising her children and Duan Keye.
Wang Yanyu () is Wang Botong's daughter. She has a crush on Tie Mole and saves him from death a few times. Tie Mole initially sees her as an enemy because she had killed his godfather. However, he is reluctant to kill her later as he gradually develops romantic feelings for her through their various encounters.
Han Zhifen () is Han Zhan's daughter who inherits her father's powerful dianxue techniques. She falls in love with Tie Mole and marries him eventually.
Duan Guizhang () is a famous swordsman from Youzhou. In his younger days, he had offended An Lushan and had been forced to go into hiding after An Lushan rose to power. By chance, he meets Tie Mole and passes his skills to him. Duan Guizhang dies in the Battle of Suiyang.
Dou Xianniang () is the younger sister of the five Dou brothers and Duan Guizhang's wife. Her prowess in martial arts complement her husband's swordsmanship. She is severely injured during the Battle of Suiyang. Before her death, she entrusts her son to Xia Lingshuang's care and tells him about his fiancée, Shi Ruomei.
Tang Empire
Imperial clan
Li Longji (), better known as Emperor Xuanzong () is the ruler of the Tang Empire. He becomes Retired Emperor after his son usurps his throne. He holds a grudge against Tie Mole because of the latter's involvement in Consort Yang's death at Mawei courier station, so he summons Tie Mole to meet him in private and pretends to offer him wine, which is spiked with poison. Tie Mole refuses to drink and escapes from Mawei after fighting his way out. The emperor denounces him a traitor and orders his arrest.
Li Heng () is the ambitious crown prince. He declares himself emperor after gaining power and becomes historically known as Emperor Suzong ().
Princess Changle () is Emperor Xuanzong's daughter. She was trained in swordsmanship by Gongsun Daniang. Her father often keeps her close to his side as a bodyguard. She develops a crush on Tie Mole after he saves her and her father from assassins.
Yang Guozhong and associates
Yang Yuhuan (), better known as Consort Yang (), is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Hansmeyer | Michael Hansmeyer is a post-modern architect who utilizes algorithmic architecture techniques, generative art mentalities, and CAD software to generate complex structures. He is currently based in the CAAD group at ETH's architecture department in Zurich. He holds an MBA degree from INSEAD as well as a Master of Architecture degree from Columbia University. He previously worked with McKinsey & Company, J.P. Morgan, and at Herzog & de Meuron architects.
Architectural design projects
"Subdivided Columns – A New Order (2010)"
Columns of incredible complexity and symmetry, the prototypes are made from a steel core with a facade of ABS plastic so that they can be used in an outdoors setting and are load bearing. “[The columns] are an attempt to incorporate tools and technologies that can expand the scope of what is possible and what is imaginable and in the best case to create something that is not yet imaginable,” says Michael Hansmeyer in a 2011 article.
"Voxel-based Geometries (2009)"
"['Voxel-based Geometries'] simulates chemical interactions between substances contained in the voxels. This process has been associated with pattern formation not only on a number of organisms, but also in the fields of geology and ecology."
"Platonic Solids (2008)"
"The Platonic Solids project explores how a purely operations-based geometric process can generate complex form."
"Subdivided Pavilions (2006)"
"The aim of this project is to use a very simple process to generate heterogenous, complex output. A simple process has the advantage of more control; its output is easier to predict and can therefore be more easily refined through subsequent parameter adjustments."
"L-Systems in Architecture (2003)"
L-Systems in architecture applies Lindenmayer's L-system to mimic organic growth which is then adapted to architectural design requirements.
References
External links
21st-century architects
Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARD-Hauptstadtstudio | ARD-Hauptstadtstudio (ARD Capital Studio) is a television studio in Berlin operated jointly by the members of the federal broadcasting network ARD. Located at Wilhelmstrasse in the Mitte area close to the centre of Germany's federal government, it is used by ARD members and outlets for broadcasts from the capital. Some programmes, for example the weekly political TV show Bericht aus Berlin, are broadcast from the studio.
The studios were opened on 16 April 1999, when the federal government moved from Bonn to Berlin.
References
Television studios
Buildings and structures in Mitte
Hauptstadtstudio
Office buildings completed in 1999
1999 establishments in Germany
Radio stations in Berlin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujiwara%20no%20Otsugu | was a Japanese statesman, courtier, politician and editor during the Heian period. He is credited as one of the collaborative compilers of the Nihon Kōki.
Career at court
He was a minister during the reigns of Emperor Saga, Emperor Junna and Emperor Ninmyō.
788 (Enryaku 7, 2nd month): He received his first court rank.
825 (Tenchō 2): From the rank of Dainagon, Otsugu was raised to the position of Udaijin (Minister of the Right).
832 (Tenchō 9): Otsugu was named Sadaijin (Minister of the Left).
837 (Jōwa 3): Otsugu asked to resign due to the poor state of the imperial treasury, which he blamed on an excess of officials and overly lavish dining, and an insufficient knowledge of Yin and yang.
843 (Jōwa 10): Work was completed on the multi-volume Nihon Kōki; and Otsugu was a significant contributor.
Genealogy
Otsugu's father was Fujiwara no Momokawa.
Notes
References
Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 58053128
Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Annales des empereurs du Japon (Nihon Odai Ichiran). Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691
773 births
843 deaths
Fujiwara clan
People of Heian-period Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%2014%29 | Season fourteen of Dancing with the Stars premiered on March 19, 2012, on the ABC network.
Starting the week of April 16, and for the next two weeks after that, the bottom two couples competed in a dance duel. Both couples performed at the same time, at which point the judges decided who would be eliminated that week.
Green Bay Packers wide receiver Donald Driver and Peta Murgatroyd won the competition over British classical singer Katherine Jenkins and Mark Ballas, who finished second, and Cuban-American Telenovela star William Levy and Cheryl Burke, who finished third.
This season introduced "Ballroom Battles" where Cheryl Burke, Mark Ballas, Louis van Amstel, Lacey Schwimmer, Karina Smirnoff, and Tony Dovolani trained a pair of amateur dancers to compete against other amateur couples. The teams of Burke, Dovolani, and van Amstel competed in the final stage by performing a jive. Burke's team were named the champions by the judges with Dovolani's and van Amstel's teams taking second and third places respectively.
Cast
Couples
This season featured twelve celebrity contestants. Two new professionals were added to the dance troupe: Henry Byalikov and Emma Slater. They joined Sharna Burgess, Kiki Nyemchek, Oksana Dmytrenko, and Sasha Farber.
Host and judges
Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke Charvet returned as co-hosts, while Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli returned as judges. The Harold Wheeler orchestra and singers provided the music throughout the season.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1: First Dances
Couples performed either the cha-cha-cha or foxtrot, and are listed in the order they performed.
Week 2: First Elimination
Couples performed either the jive or quickstep, and are listed in the order they performed.
Week 3: Most Memorable Year Week
Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 4: Rock Week
Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 5: Latin Week
Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Judges' votes to save
Carrie Ann: Jaleel & Kym
Len: Jaleel & Kym
Bruno: Jaleel & Kym
Week 6: Motown Week
Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Judges' votes to save
Carrie Ann: Gladys & Tristan
Len: Roshon & Chelsie
Bruno: Roshon & Chelsie
Week 7: Classical Week
Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Judges' votes to rescue
Carrie Ann: Roshon & Chelsie
Len: Roshon & Chelsie
Bruno: Roshon & Chelsie
Week 8: Trio Week
All six couples chose one professional who was either previously eliminated or participated in the dance troupe to perform with them in their Latin routine. Two couples were eliminated at the end of the night. Couples are listed in the order they performe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suits%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of the American legal comedy-drama Suits originally aired on USA Network in the United States between June 23, 2011 and September 8, 2011. The season was produced by Hypnotic Films & Television and Universal Cable Productions, and the executive producers were Doug Liman, David Bartis and series creator Aaron Korsh.
The series revolves around corporate lawyer Harvey Specter and his associate attorney Mike Ross, the latter practicing without a law degree. The season had six series regulars playing employees at the fictional Pearson Hardman law firm in Manhattan: Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Rick Hoffman, Meghan Markle, Sarah Rafferty, and Gina Torres.
Production
On April 5, 2010, USA announced that it was developing seven new pilots for its 2010–2011 television season, including A Legal Mind, which would later become Suits. The premiere was written by Aaron Korsh, and David Bartis and Gene Klein served as executive producers. It was later announced on May 17, 2010 that USA ordered a ninety-minute cast-contingent pilot for the series. The network later picked up A Legal Mind on January 19, 2011 and ordered eleven one-hour episodes in addition to the 90-minute pilot.
Creator Aaron Korsh, whose Notes from the Underbelly sitcom was canceled during the 2007–2008 Writers' Strike, wrote a spec script intended to be a "half-hour Entourage-type based on my experiences working on Wall Street." He later realized that the project should have hour-long episodes. Korsh and his agent took the script to several production companies and wanted to give the script to Universal Media Studios. However, Korsh found it odd that the studio did not want to sell the script to NBC, the network the studio typically worked with. Korsh's agent convinced USA Network executive Alex Sepiol that although the series was neither a procedural nor what the network typically did, he would like the characters. Sepiol approved of the script, and by then, Hypnotic Films & Television signed on to the project. The team pitched the script to USA, which bought the script after the pitch. Korsh did not pitch it to anyone else. When rewriting the script, Korsh made only small changes to the first half-hour, up to when Mike is hired. Originally, Mike did not take LSATs for others and only pretends to have attended Harvard, as opposed to pretending he attended Harvard and has a law degree. Korsh noted that there is no degree or test needed to work on Wall Street and be a mathematical genius, unlike the bar examination in law. He decided to "embrace" this difference and change the premise.
The pilot episode was filmed in New York City, where the series is set. The rest of the series is filmed in Toronto, where the sets are built to be identical to the New York law offices seen in the pilot.
To promote the series debut, USA had an advance screening of the pilot on June 2, 2011 at the Hudson River Park and distributed free Häagen-Dazs Sundaes cones at the v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Renovators | The Renovators is an Australian competitive reality renovation show that premiered on Network Ten on 24 July 2011. The basic premise consists of 26 contestants who initially compete to become the head renovators of six run-down houses in the suburbs of Sydney, with challenges and eliminations taking place whilst the renovations are in progress. The last remaining contestant responsible for the property that has made the most profit when sold at auction wins the series.
Network Ten announced in August 2011 that it had commissioned a second season of the series, but indicated that it would modify the program's format to address poor ratings.
Contestants
There are 26 contestants in this season, competing initially as 26 individuals, then as 6 teams of 4.
Colour Key
Challenge Elimination Chart
Colour Key
In Week 10, all teams were announced cash prize winners based on their bathrooms. The 60's Suburban came in 1st, with a $30 000 cash prize, and The Inner City Terrace and The Half Done House coming 2nd and 3rd, and receiving $20 000 and $15 000 respectively. All other teams received $10 000
This money was won on a weekly challenge.
Ratings
Colour key:
– Highest rating during the series
– Lowest rating during the series
– Finals week
International
References
Network 10 original programming
2011 Australian television series debuts
2011 Australian television series endings
2010s Australian reality television series
Home renovation television series
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LarvalBase | LarvalBase is a global online database of information about fish eggs, larvae and fry. It includes detailed data on the identification of very young fish and the rearing of fish species important for fisheries and aquaculture. , it included descriptions of 2,228 species, 4,229 pictures, and references to 4,513 works in the scientific literature. The database is under the supervision of Bernd Ueberschaer at the Leibniz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel, Germany.
LarvalBase is an offshoot of, and follows the same format as FishBase, a comprehensive online database about finfish. Whereas FishBase is a database about adult finfish, LarvalBase is a database about the juvenile stages of fish. Juvenile fish often feed differently and occupy different habitats than the adults do. LarvalBase complements FishBase by providing information about these early stages of life.
LarvalBase aims to include all the key data on finfish larvae, with an emphasis on standardising the data, making it easy to extract and combine data with other data, and offering powerful presentation tools. It draws on the traditional primary sources found in papers, books and reports, gray literature and unpublished but reliable data from sources such as practicing aquaculturists. The data includes information such as identification keys, morphometrics, broodstock, spawning and nursery behaviour, prey and predators, and growth stages and rates. It also includes information of specific interest to aquaculturists, such as how long it takes egg to hatch, diagrams charting changes in anatomy at different larval stages, analysis of larval diets, and techniques for rearing fish fry.
Background
It can be difficult for fisheries, aquaculture and hatchery scientists and managers to get the information they need on the species that concern them, because the relevant facts can be scattered and buried across numerous journal articles, reports, newsletters and other sources. It can be particularly difficult for people in developing countries who need such information. An answer to this situation is to consolidate all the available information, drawn from the global sources, into an easily accessed database. The database will be particularly useful if the data has also been standardised and validated. It was with such considerations that the FishBase project was born in 1988. FishBase is now the world's main
database on finfish with over 30 million hits a month. However, FishBase does not include detailed information on fish eggs and juvenile fish. In 1998 the LarvalBase project was launched to remedy this.
See also
List of online encyclopedias
SeaLifeBase
Notes
References
LarvalBase . Presentation at conference, "Aqualex, A Multilingual Glossary In Support Of Multimedia And Online Products And Programmes Related To Fisheries And Aquaculture", May 10–12, 2001, Agriculture University of Szczecin, Poland.
Biological Information Systems IFM-GEOMAR, Retrieved 28 July 2011.
Ueberschär, Bernd |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture%20Inside | CultureInside is a non-profit free social networking site for the artistic community. Founded by Gila and Dominique Paris in 2008, it has offices in Luxembourg and New York City (United States). They frequently use the network to organize online exhibitions, as well as international exhibits in the United States and European Union. In April 2009 they received the label Creativity and Innovation in the European Year 2009.
Founding
The site was founded without external funding or capital a by close group of art and web professionals which included Gila Paris and Dominique Paris. After a research and beta phase starting in November 2007, the site was launched in 2008.
Overview
The site is fully in French, German, and English, with Spanish translations pending as of March 2009. Its purpose is to serve as an artist's initiative and a free online social network for the international arts community. The site is designed for emerging and mid-career artists, buyers, collectors, galleries, curators, museums, and art schools to interact as a community. Members of the public interested in art are encouraged to join as well. Different artist e-spaces can be linked together to create friends and group networks.
Operations
Gila and Dominique Paris are based in Luxembourg, as is site's main office, which is at Rue Basse, 77 L-7307 Steinsel. In 2008 they began working with close friend and curator Frank Shifreen to open an office in New York City at 290 Elizabeth Street, #1R.
In 2010 PRO Services, a professional service for the website's artists that works in connection with an art eCommerce complement, was fully integrated into the platform. The service supports an "Art Market Place" where artists can sell original artwork and take orders for "Fine Art Prints" upon demand on museum quality paper. Both the PRO Services and the eCommerce aspects are operated by the privately owned company GATE C Sàrl in Luxembourg.
The site's stated goal is to focus on the Grand Region of the European Union, focusing on supporting and integrating cultural efforts in the EU Member States. Dominique and Gila Paris, founding members, have served as CultureInside board members since November 2007.
Exhibitions
Since its inception, CultureInside has used its social platform to organize and curate several exhibits and competitions, with winners premiering their work in high-class galleries and museums through the United States and Europe.
ROOTED (June 2009)
Frank Shifreen and Gila Paris worked through CultureInside to organize ROOTED, an exhibition. The theme was an "investigation...of the term rooted", with proposals to be submitted in a CultureInside online gallery to be looked over by a curatorial committee. The five winners had their work physically exhibited at the Luxembourg gallery the Galerie Clairefontaine, while the other 25 finalists had their worked selected for an online show and catalog. Winners were Brad Carlile of the United States, Adam Martinakis of Greece, Neboj |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idol%20series%20in%20Arab%20World | Arab World has two adaptations of the singing competition Pop Idol under two different titles and on two different networks:
Super Star سوبر ستار, which was aired between 2003 and 2008 on Future Television
Arab Idol, which premiered in December 2011 on MBC 1
Idols (franchise)
Television series by Fremantle (company)
Lebanese television series
2000s Lebanese television series
2010s Lebanese television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo%20and%20the%20Cyber%20Chase%20%28video%20game%29 | Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase is a Scooby-Doo video game based on the Warner Brothers film Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase. The game was released for the PlayStation and Game Boy Advance in 2001. The PlayStation version became a "Greatest Hits" title in 2003.
Plot
Scooby-Doo and the gang find themselves in cyberspace. A new villain called the Phantom Virus must be stopped. Scooby and Shaggy must go through various levels to defeat him and his evil villains. Along the way they collect Scooby Snacks for points, Scooby and Shaggy coins for extra chances, Scooby dog tags for checkpoints, hamburgers for health/energy, and pies for weapons. Fred, Daphne, and Velma help Scooby and Shaggy to overcome obstacles by giving them important game playing moves and tips via Velma's handheld communication device.
Gameplay
PlayStation version
The player controls Scooby-Doo and Shaggy in a 3D environment. The player defeats bosses, and tracks down Scooby snacks and other pick-ups. The main goal of the game is to defeat the Phantom Virus, a computer virus that has been terrorizing video games. The game consists of 7 stages and 21 levels in total. Each stage consists of two normal levels and a boss level. The player controls Scooby Doo in stages one, four, six, and seven and Shaggy in stages two, three, and five.
Stage One is called "Classic Japan" and the boss of this stage is a Japanese samurai.
Stage Two is called "Ancient Rome" and the boss of this stage is a lion and several gladiators who throw spears.
Stage Three is called "Arctic Circle" and the boss of this stage is the Phantom Virus, riding a snowball blowing polar bear.
Stage Four is called "Prehistoric Jungle" and the boss of this stage is a ferocious T-Rex.
Stage Five is called "The Big City" and the boss of this stage is Charlie the Robot from the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Foul Play in Funland".
Stage Six is called "Egypt" and the boss of this stage is the Phantom Virus and several mummies.
Stage Seven is called "Amusement Park" and it is the last stage in the game. Just like in the movie, this contains the final and hardest level of the game. The final boss is the Phantom Virus.
Game Boy Advance version
The Game Boy Advance version features six levels and uses a password feature rather than a save feature.
Reception
GameRankings gave the PlayStation version a score of 61.67% and the Game Boy Advance version a score of 60%.
Jennifer Beam of AllGame, who praised the PlayStation version for its sound effects and voice acting, wrote, "Relatively decent 3D graphics enhance this game, but almost every area has a level where shadows are indistinguishable from pitfalls."
Hilary Goldstein of IGN reviewed the Game Boy Advance version. Goldstein praised the animation and the music but criticized the sound effects and the password feature, as well as the ending for not having enough "Scooby flavor," writing that, "No masks are removed and Velma doesn't spout off some long-winded explanati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20%28Vietnamese%20TV%20channel%29 | MTV Vietnam was a music channel owned by Paramount Networks EMEAA, a division of Paramount Global and UTV Corporation, a division of BHD Group and was under management of Vietnam Television until 2015 when IMC became the manager of MTV Vietnam. The network featured domestic and international pop music along with music news features and limited reality television programming subtitled into Vietnamese.
MTV Vietnam ceased its broadcasting at the end of 2022.
Shows
Exclusive shows
MTV Thích mê (Most Wanted)
MTV Chart Attack
Bước Nhảy Xì-tin (X-tyle Dance Move)
Giải thưởng video ca nhạc Việt Nam (Vietnam Video Music Awards)
Vietnam's Got Talent
MTV Tìm kiếm VJ
MTV Now
It's Your MTV
Star @ MTV
MTV WOW
Thần tượng đột kích (School Attack)
MTV News
MTV Cover
MTV @ The Movies
International shows with Vietnamese subtitles
My Super Sweet 16
MTV Cribs
Shibuhara Girls
Paris Hilton's British Best Friend
Jersey Shore
The Hard Times of RJ Berger
Video Music Awards
Europe Music Awards
Catfish
Underemployed
The Inbetweeners
The L.A. Complex
Young and Married
Washington Heights
Ridiculousness
Pimp My Ride with Xzibit
Geordie Shore: The Reunion
BIGBANG Alive Around The World
Geordie Shore
MTV Movie Awards
Pranked
Availability
HTVC
Hanoicab
K+
VTVcab
myTV (IPTV)
FPT (IPTV)
See also
MTV (Music Television)
MTV Networks Asia Pacific
MTV Southeast Asia
References
External links
List of television channels in Vietnam
MTV Vietnam's Official Site
MTV Vietnam at Facebook
MTV Vietnam - Shutdown (January 1, 2023)
MTV
Television companies of Vietnam
Defunct television channels
2011 establishments in Vietnam
Television channels and stations established in 2011
2022 disestablishments in Vietnam
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2022
Music organizations based in Vietnam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACSI%20College-Iloilo |
History
It was founded as Associated Computer Systems Institute in 1984 with its first campus at Luna, La Paz, Iloilo City. At first it offered diploma courses in computer. It changed its name to ACSI Business and Computer School, Inc, and moved to a new location at the City Proper of Iloilo.
In 2008 the college offered two CHED programs: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Bachelor of Science in Computer Systems. Following that, it changed its name to ACSI College. It caters both courses accredited by Technical Education and Skills Development Authority and Commission on Higher Education of the Philippines in information technology, hospitality management, health sciences, business and short term courses.
Academic programs
ACSI College has various programs in bachelor's and non-bachelor's degrees. The college is under and accredited by CHED (Commission on Higher Education) and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA). ACSI is a CHED Certified Higher Education Institution.
ACSI College Iloilo offers courses in regular and night classes.
Information technology
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Bachelor of Science in Information Systems
Associate in Computer Technology (TESDA Recognized)
Hospitality
Hotel and Restaurant Services (NC IV)
Health sciences
Caregiver Program/Caregiver Course (NC II)
Short term courses
AutoCAD
Adobe Photoshop CS3, CS4, CS5 & CS6
Microsoft Office Word 2007 & 2010
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 & 2010
Microsoft Office Groove 2007 & 2010
Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 & 2010
Microsoft Office OneNote 2007 & 2010
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 & 2010
Microsoft Office Publisher 2007 & 2010
Microsoft Office Access 2007 & 2010
Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 & 2010
Student organizations
Rotaract Club of ACSI(Rotary Club of Midtown Iloilo): The ACSI College Iloilo chapter of Rotary International
ACSI IT Society: An organization exclusively for IT (Information Technology)/computer courses students.
References
Universities and colleges in Iloilo City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri%20Lankans%20in%20Singapore | Ceylonese / Sri Lankans in Singapore consist mainly of Singaporeans of Sri Lankan origin whose ancestors came to Singapore before the independence of the island. With respect to ethnic group data in Singapore, Ceylonese / Sri Lankans were classified under Others up to 1970, whereupon they are classified as Indians.
Colonial period
The Jaffna Tamils are predominantly large in number among the people who went to Singapore and Malaya in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Ever since their arrival in Singapore, they were identifying themselves "Ceylonese". They dominated the bureaucracy in Singapore as the British preferred employing the Ceylonese as bureaucrats in many of their Asian colonies. Ceylonese Tamils made up an overwhelming majority in the civil service of British Malaya and Singapore prior to independence.
In 1909, the Ceylon Tamils, who had grown in number to about 300 families, formed the Singapore Ceylon Tamils’ Association (SCTA). Sri Lankans in Singapore and Malaysia formed the 'Lanka Regiment' of the Indian National Army, directly under Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
Former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew once said:
Some Ceylonese-founded institutions from the colonial era still exist. The Sri Senpaga Vinayagar Temple was founded by Ceylonese Tamils on the appropriately named Ceylon Road. Ceylon Sports Club was established in 1928 at its current premises along Balester Road and continues to function as not only a sports club but a social and charitable institution.
Post-Independence
In recent years, many Sri Lankans have been coming to Singapore. Sri Lankan domestic workers form a large number of the 150,000 maids in Singapore. Many students from Sri Lanka have also been coming to Singapore for further education. On July 31, 2010, the Singapore Ceylon Tamils' Association marked its 100th anniversary.
Notable Singaporeans of Sri Lankan descent
Politics
S. Rajaratnam - Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore from 1980–85. Regarded as one of the founding fathers of independent Singapore
Tharman Shanmugaratnam - current President of Singapore
Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam - Leader of the Workers' Party of Singapore from 1971 to 2001
Kenneth Jeyaretnam - Current Secretary-General (leader) of the Reform Party in Singapore
Vincent Wijeysingha - Current Assistant Treasurer of the Singapore Democratic Party
Law
K. S. Rajah - Senior Counsel and former Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Singapore
Philip Jeyaretnam - Lawyer
Eugene Thuraisingam - Human rights lawyer
Education
Lloyd Fernando - Malaysian author and professor at the University of Malaya in the English Department
Rohan Gunaratna - International terrorism expert
Shan Ratnam - Professor and head of the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the National University Hospital of Singapore
Arts
Jacintha Abisheganaden - Singer and actress; father is Sri Lankan Tamil
Natalie Hennedige - theatre director and dramatist; father is Sinhalese
Neila Sathyaling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo%20Video | Nintendo Video is a video on demand service for the Nintendo 3DS which streams hand-picked 3D and 2D video content from CollegeHumor, Aardman Animations, Blue Man Group, Channel Frederator Network, and other studios.
History
Previously, the service was available as a separate app that utilized SpotPass, downloading videos to the console's SD card via Wi-Fi Internet access for offline viewing.
The Nintendo Video app launched in Australia, Europe, and Japan on July 13, 2011, with initial videos including Oscar's Oasis and Magic Tricks for the Nintendo 3DS. The app became available in North America a few days later on July 21, 2011.
In 2012, Nintendo created a joint venture for Nintendo Video Original Series and distributed their first Original Series for Nintendo Video, Threediots.
New content could be automatically downloaded via SpotPass, replacing the old content.
Since June 29, 2015, the app is no longer functional and videos can no longer be downloaded. In the following month, the Nintendo eShop offered most of the videos for streaming on demand, with a total of 164 videos available. However, the Nintendo eShop closed its doors on March 27, 2023, and this, too, is no longer an option for viewing the app's exiled content.
Content
Since June 2015, many of the shows listed below can be viewed on-demand via the Nintendo eShop in North America, permanently categorized under Nintendo Video. As of August 2019, a total of 164 videos are available on the eShop. Users had to enter in their date of birth before watching content that was considered too mature.
Shows
Music videos
Movie trailers
Due to the promotional nature of film trailers, it may not be possible for any to return in any form.
Shutdown
On February 27, 2014, Nintendo Australia announced they are terminating the service in the Oceanian region (Australia and New Zealand) as of March 31, 2014. Nintendo of Europe also announced on the same day that they would be terminating the Nintendo Video service on the same date. Nintendo also announced the end of the service on that date, ending it on March 31, 2014 as well.
On June 5, 2015, Nintendo of America sent out a SpotPass notification to all of the app's active users informing them that the app was being phased out in favor of an eponymous category on the Nintendo eShop's main page (already available at the time) where users can watch most past videos as well as future ones.
To replace the Nintendo Video feature, a few months after the My Nintendo service released, videos for permanent download became a common reward that could be bought with My Nintendo coins. Videos would commonly make returns due to popularity or stay longer due to positive fan reception. EShop for 3DS shut down on March 27, 2023, making the remaining videos unwatchable.
See also
Game Boy Advance Video
Nintendo Channel
Wii no Ma
Notes
References
External links
Nintendo Network
Products and services discontinued in 2015
Defunct video on demand servi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20K.%20Pritchard | Jonathan Karl Pritchard is an English-born professor of genetics at Stanford University, best known for his development of the STRUCTURE algorithm for studying population structure and his work on human genetic variation and evolution. His research interests lie in the study of human evolution, in particular in understanding the association between genetic variation among human individuals and human traits.
Education
Pritchard's family moved to the US when he was a teenager. He studied biology and mathematics at Pennsylvania State University, and then went on to graduate studies in biology at Stanford University under the supervision of Marc Feldman, finishing in 1998.
Career
Pritchard conducted postdoctoral research with Peter Donnelly at the University of Oxford. It was there that he developed STRUCTURE, a widely used computer program for determining population structure and estimating individual admixture. In 2001, he moved to the University of Chicago. He was promoted from Assistant Professor to Full Professor in 2006. He stayed there until moving to Stanford in 2013. He was awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator position in 2008.
Awards and honours
Pritchard was a recipient of the 2013 Edward Novitski Prize from the Genetics Society of America and the 2002 Mitchell Prize from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.
Personal life
Pritchard ran track and cross country for Pennsylvania State University from 1989 to 1994. In part because of his running experience, he appeared in the 1998 movie Without Limits portraying David Bedford, an English distance runner who participated in the 1972 Munich Olympics. As a result of his appearance in Without Limits and his publication of ″Population Growth of Human Y Chromosomes: A study of Y Chromosome Microsatellites″ with Marcus Feldman, he has an Erdős–Bacon number of 6.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Howard Hughes Medical Investigators
English emigrants to the United States
21st-century American biologists
American geneticists
Population geneticists
Eberly College of Science alumni
Stanford University alumni
University of Chicago faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashorn%20%28JavaScript%20engine%29 | Nashorn is a JavaScript engine developed in the Java programming language originally by Oracle and later by the OpenJDK Community. It relies on the support for dynamically typed languages on the Java Platform (JSR 292) (a concept first realized in the experimental Da Vinci Machine and a standard part of Java 7 and later.) Nashorn has been included with Java 8 through JDK 14.
History
The project was announced first at the JVM language summit in July 2011, and then confirmed at JavaOne in October 2011.
On November 21, 2012, Oracle formally announced the open sourcing of the Nashorn source on the OpenJDK repository. The project aim will be to allow embedding JavaScript in Java applications via JSR-223 and to develop standalone JavaScript applications. On December 21, 2012, Oracle announced Nashorn source was publicly released in the OpenJDK repository.
It provides a 100% support of ECMAScript 5.1. It was the first JavaScript implementation to achieve 100% pass rate on the ECMAScript 5.1 test suite.
With the release of Java 11, Nashorn was deprecated citing challenges to maintenance, and has been removed from JDK 15 onwards.
Nashorn development continues on GitHub as a standalone OpenJDK project and the separate release can be used in Java projects from Java 11 and up.
Name
Nashorn ("nahss-horn") is the German translation of rhinoceros, a play on words on Rhino, the name of a JavaScript engine implemented in Java and provided by Mozilla Foundation. The latter gets its name from the animal on the cover of the JavaScript book from O'Reilly Media.
Performance
According to Oracle benchmarks, Nashorn performance is several orders of magnitude faster than the alternative Rhino JavaScript engine.
See also
List of ECMAScript engines
References
External links
JVM programming languages
JavaScript engines
Cross-platform software
Software using the GPL linking exception
Oracle software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20MINA | Apache MINA (Multipurpose Infrastructure for Network Applications) is an open source Java network application framework. MINA can be used to create scalable, high performance network applications. MINA provides unified APIs for various transports like TCP, UDP, serial communication. It also makes it easy to make an implementation of custom transport type. MINA provides both high-level and low-level network APIs.
A user application interacts with MINA APIs, shielding the user application from low level I/O details. MINA internally uses I/O APIs to perform the actual I/O functions. This makes it easy for the users to concentrate on the application logic and leave the I/O handling to Apache MINA.
Advantages
Unified APIs for various transports (TCP/UDP etc.)
Provides high/low level APIs
Customizable Thread Model
Easy Unit Testing using Mock Objects
Integration with DI frameworks like Spring, Google Guice, picocontainer
JMX Manageability
Tooling
Graphical tools such as Eclipse IDE, IntelliJ IDEA can be used.
Alternatives
Grizzly
Netty 4
QuickServer
xSocket
See also
Application server
Apache Camel
Enterprise messaging system
Message-oriented middleware
Service-oriented architecture
Event-driven SOA
References
External links
MINA
Java platform
Message-oriented middleware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Pich%C3%A9 | Jean Piché (born 1951 in Trois-Rivières, Quebec) is a Canadian composer and video artist.
Piché studied electroacoustic and computer music at Simon Fraser University with Barry Truax and at the Institute of Sonology in the Netherlands. He has taught electroacoustic composition in the Faculty of Music at the University of Montreal since 1988. Since the early 1990s, Piché has focused on the creation of hybrid compositions involving abstract moving images which he calls "videomusic". As a software developer, Piché is the author of a Csound frontend called Cecilia, and the Tam Tam suite for the One Laptop Per Child project’s XO computer.
Though Piché has worked in multi-channel environments, his focus resides in "expanding" sound boundaries by using video. Piché's students are known to explore visual space (visual sound in space) through sound installations. These types of performance installations often consist of re-configurable walls, 3D, movable objects, and other structures. Frustrated by the "bounds" of the screen, Piché attempted to "multiply" screens to expand the "space" of the image. In doing so, Piché attempted to produce individual experiences in each extended screen.
External links
Biography on the Canadian Music Centre website.
Biography and programme notes on CIRMMT website for 3 December 2008 concert at McGill University in Montréal.
1951 births
Canadian composers
Canadian male composers
French Quebecers
Electroacoustic music composers
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9raud%20S%C3%A9nizergues | Géraud Sénizergues (born 9 March 1957) is a French computer scientist at the University of Bordeaux.
He is known for his contributions to automata theory, combinatorial group theory and abstract rewriting systems.
He received his Ph.D. (Doctorat d'état en Informatique) from the Université Paris Diderot (Paris 7) in 1987 under the direction of Jean-Michel Autebert.
With Yuri Matiyasevich he obtained results about the Post correspondence problem. He won the 2002 Gödel Prize "for proving that equivalence of deterministic pushdown automata is decidable". In 2003 he was awarded with the Gay-Lussac Humboldt Prize.
References
External links
Homepage
Living people
French computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Bordeaux
Gödel Prize laureates
1957 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Moshe%20Rabinowicz | David Moshe Rabinowicz (1906-1942) was a rabbi who was the rosh yeshiva (dean) of Kibbutz Govoha and the Keser Torah network. He was murdered by Nazis during the Holocaust.
Biography
Rabinowicz was the son of Nosson Nachum Hakohen Rabinowicz the rebbe of Krimilov, and grandson of the second Radomsker rebbe, Avraham Yissachar Dov Rabinowicz. He married Reizel, the only daughter of his first cousin Shlomo Chanoch Rabinowicz who was the fourth Radomsker rebbe.
Rosh Yeshiva
Rabinowicz headed Kibbutz Govoha, which his father established in Sosnowiec exclusively for high-level students and married students. He also served as rosh yeshiva of the entire Keser Torah network, which had 36 Keser Torah yeshivas enrolling over 4,000 students in Poland by the start of World War II, when they were disbanded after the German invasion of Poland in 1939, after which most of their students were murdered in the Holocaust.
World War II, death, and legacy
Rabinowicz was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto, where he continued to teach.
He, his wife Reizel, and their infant son, were murdered by the Nazis on 1 August 1942.
His students included Shlomo Zev Zweigenhaft.
Written works
In 1989 a collection of his writing were published in a book entitled "Toras Ha'olos".
In 2015, another book consisting of a collection of his writings was published. The book is titled "Zichron Kohen".
References
Polish Orthodox rabbis
20th-century Polish rabbis
People from Sosnowiec
People who died in the Warsaw Ghetto
1906 births
1942 deaths
Polish civilians killed in World War II |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin | Kotlin may refer to:
Kotlin, Greater Poland Voivodeship, a village in west-central Poland
Kotlin Island, a Russian island near the head of the Gulf of Finland
Kotlin (programming language), a general-purpose programming language
Kotlin-class destroyer, a class of destroyers built for the Soviet Navy
Kotlin, a brand of fruit and vegetable products made by Agros Nova, a Polish company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre%20Dame%20Educational%20Association | Notre Dame Educational Association, Inc. (NDEA) is a network of Notre Dame Schools in the Philippines, under the patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary, owned and administered by:
History
It had its beginnings in 1941 when the Oblates Fathers, who had been asked by the Church to take over the ministry for the people of the then empire province of Cotabato, as well as the Sulu Archipelago, founded a school in Midsayap, which they named Notre Dame on the suggestion of Fr. Joseph Boyd, OMI. Hence, in July 1941, Notre Dame Academy, now known as Notre Dame of Midsayap College, in Midsayap opened its doors. It was the first Notre Dame school, which grew to over 190 and form the Notre Dame Educational Association.
After the war, communities of migrants from elsewhere in the Philippines, mainly the Ilocos region and the Visayan islands, settled in various parts of the empire province. The national government then was only able to provide elementary education opportunities for such communities, but the migrants saw the need for more schooling for their young ones beyond the elementary level. The Oblate Fathers and the other religious congregations, who came to the empire province to minister mainly to the spiritual needs of the migrants who were mostly Catholic, responded by opening secondary schools and, where feasible, colleges in these communities. This was also done in the Sulu Archipelago as the native populace began to realize the value of formal education. In all instances, the name given to the schools so founded was also Notre Dame. Further emphasizing this early spirit of oneness was the use of a common school uniform for the students and the same school hymn.
Thus begun the commitment to serve the educational needs of the region and its younger educational needs of the region and its younger generations under the banner and inspiration of Notre Dame. In the 1950s they worked together to hold annual athletic competitions, the Notre Dame Meets, which was at that time one of the biggest event in the region.
In 1962 the Superintendent of Catholic schools in the diocese (which then included both the empire province of Cotabato and the Sulu archipelago) directed the heads of the various Notre Dame schools to have a series of meetings to discuss common needs and problems and ways in which they can cooperatively meet these.
The most popular Notre Dame schools are Notre Dame of Dadiangas University, Notre Dame of Marbel University, Notre Dame University and Notre Dame of Greater Manila.
References
College and university associations and consortia in the Philippines
Associations of schools
Educational institutions established in 1963
1963 establishments in the Philippines
Marist Brothers schools
Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holos%20Krainy | Holos Krainy (in Ukrainian Голос країни; meaning The Voice of the Country) is a Ukrainian reality talent show that premiered on the 1+1 network on 22 May 2011. Holos Krainy is part of the international syndication The Voice based on the reality singing competition launched in the Netherlands as The Voice of Holland, created by Dutch television producer John de Mol. It was the second international adaptation of the programme, after the American version.
There is also a children version of the same show, Holos. Dity.
Format
The Voice is a reality television series that features four coaches looking for a talented new artist, who could become a global superstar. The show's concept is indicated by its title: the coaches do not judge the artists by their looks, personalities, stage presence, or dance routines—only their vocal ability. It is this aspect that differentiates The Voice from other reality television series such as The X Factor, and Ukraine's Got Talent. The competitors are split into four teams, which are mentored by the coaches who in turn choose songs for their artists to perform. There is no specific age range and anyone can audition; if a coach likes what they hear, a button press allows their chair to spin around and face the performer, signifying that they would like to mentor them. If more than one does so, then the artist selects a coach. However, if no coach turns around then the artist is sent home.
There are five different stages: producers' auditions, Blind auditions, Battle phase, Knockout stage, and live shows.
The Blind Auditions
After the preliminary casting, which is directed by the show's music producer, the selected contestants advance to the next round - the "Blind Auditions". As part of the "blind auditions", four mentors select participants for their team without seeing them, sitting with their backs to the stage and hearing only their voices. If an artist's vocal impresses one of the coaches, while the music is playing, he turns his chair towards the stage. If one coach turns to the vocalist, then the participant automatically becomes part of his/her team, if there are several, the participant chooses which team to join. Each coach needs to recruit 14 artists in their teams for the first six seasons. In season 7, coaches' teams were raised to 16 per team. In season 13, coaches need to recruit only 10 artists in their teams.
In season 8, the rules change: a participant who has not deployed a single chair immediately leaves the stage, but this is canceled in the following season. In season 9, a "block" is introduced: a coach has the right to "block" one of the other coaches once in the entire duration of the blind auditions, that is, to prevent one coach from getting an artist into his/her team. The coaches are allowed to use it once in the entire blind auditions. Starting from season 11, the block button was removed.
The Battle Rounds
The coach divides their members into pairs. The coach provides each duet wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Rich%20Texas | Big Rich Texas is an American reality television series on the Style Network that premiered on July 17, 2011. The show is filmed in the Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas. The series follows five wealthy Texas women and their daughters. The first season of the show premiered on July 17, 2011 following a spin off from the show Dallas Divas and Daughters that originally aired in 2009 on Bravo TV and The Style Network. The second season debuted February 19, 2012 with new cast members: Deaynni, Amber and Shaye Hatley. In 2014 Season 4 was green lit and ready for production. The network negotiated bringing back Pamela Martin-Duarte and a new cast, with co star Bon Blossman and her daughter Whitney moving on to Whitney's Having a Baby. Subsequently Big Rich Texas season 4 was put on hold due to the decision by NBC Universal to replace the Style Network with the Esquire Network in order to increase their much needed programming for men. 3000 jobs were cut out at Style due to the network changes.
Cast
Pamela Martin Duarte and her daughter Hannah Duarte
Connie Dieb and her daughter Grace Dieb
Leslie Birkland and her goddaughter Kalyn Braun
Melissa Poe and her daughter Maddie Poe
Bonnie Blossman and her daughter Whitney Whatley
DeAynni Hatley and her daughters Amber and Shaye Hatley
Cynthia Davis and her daughter Alex Davis
Wendy Walker and her daughter Nikki Walker
Timeline of cast members
Main cast (appears in opening credits)
Secondary cast (appears in green screen confessional segments, reunion segments and/or in end credits alongside the main cast)
Guest cast (appears in a guest role or cameo)
Episodes
Season 1 (2011)
Season 2 (2012)
Season 3 (2012-13)
Season 4: Whitney's Having a Baby (2014)
References
2010s American reality television series
2011 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
Television shows set in Dallas
English-language television shows
Style Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald%20%28programming%20language%29 | Emerald is a distributed, object-oriented programming language developed in the 1980s by Andrew P. Black, Norman C. Hutchinson, Eric B. Jul, and Henry M. Levy, in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Washington.
A simple Emerald program can create an object and move it around the system:
const Kilroy ← object Kilroy
process
const origin ← locate self
const up ← origin.getActiveNodes
for e in up
const there ← e.getTheNode
move self to there
end for
move self to origin
end process
end Kilroy
Emerald was designed to support high performance distribution, location, and high performance of objects, to simplify distributed programming, to exploit information hiding, and to be a small language.
References
External links
Emerald project on Sourcefourge, including Eclipse plugin
Object-oriented programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Film%20Commissioners%20International | Association of Film Commissioners International (AFCI) is worldwide network of more than 360 commissions from 40 countries on every continent except Antarctica. The AFCI represents trained, experienced and professional Film Commissioners and their offices and staff, sets standards and provides professional education, offers training and business services in the field of Film Commissioning, and provides regular marketing and network opportunities in Hollywood and around the world for Film Commissions.
History
The AFCI was founded in 1975 to serve the growing needs of on-location film and television production. Originally, the AFCI was formed by a small group of film commissioners who wanted to share information and learn from one another's experiences. The AFCI incorporated in Washington, D.C. in 1983. Since then, the AFCI has expanded into a worldwide network of more than 360 commissions from 40 countries on every continent except Antarctica.
Members
Members of the AFCI are Film Commissions from around the world. A film commission is a purpose-built organization or department set up by an interested city, county, state / province or federal government with the specific mandate of promoting and developing filming activity within the jurisdiction. The primary goal of any film commission is to attract film and video production to an area in order to accrue locally realized benefits from hiring local crews and talent, renting local equipment, using hotel rooms, rental cars, catering services, or any number of goods and services supplied on location. In other words, Film Offices attract Film & TV productions to their locations, and then ensure that the location capitalizes on that production activity.
Member Film Commissions have typically been established by cities, counties, states / provinces or federal governments, and are generally operated and funded by various agencies of government, such as the governor's office, the mayor's office, chambers of commerce, convention and visitors’ bureaus, tourism offices and business and economic development departments.
Member Snap Shot
Criteria for AFCI Membership
In order to be considered "qualified", Film Commissions must meet the following standards.
Be endorsed and supported as the film commission for a defined geographic area, by the respective national, state, provincial or local government.
Provide core services without fee.
Avoid conflicts of interest between the official duties and services of the film commission office and the private financial interests of the film commissioner and film commission employees.
Provide full film liaison and location services, and location scouting upon request.
Provide service and support from the initial contact to the close of production, including on-call problem solving.
Act as liaison between the Industry and all levels and units of government.
Complete an AFCI training program within eighteen (18) months of the approval of interim membership for new |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Orleans%20Film%20Society | The New Orleans Film Society (NOFS) is a nonprofit arts organization located in New Orleans, Louisiana. The organization presents and exhibits year-round film programming and events in addition to the annual New Orleans Film Festival.
The New Orleans Film Society was founded in 1989. The film festival has grown into a major showcase of local, regional, national, and international films. In addition to the annual Festival each autumn, the NOFS hosts special events throughout the year: the French Film Festival, Moonlight Movies, Film-o-Rama, the New Orleans International Children's Film Festival, and other events designed to benefit local film audiences, artists, and professionals. The NOFS also partners with local organizations to present monthly film series — at the Contemporary Arts Center, Chalmette Movies, the New Orleans Museum of Art, and Ashé Cultural Arts Center. Throughout the year, the NOFS reaches approximately 20,000 people through its programming.
References
External links
Film organizations in the United States
Culture of New Orleans |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20for%20Nothing%3F | All for Nothing? is a Canadian real estate and design television series that aired on the W Network. The series was produced by Mountain Road Productions and was based in Ottawa and its surrounding areas. The first season premiered on October 7, 2010, comprising 13 one-hour episodes and has since aired on Casa. It also aired on the Ion Life channel in the United States.
In early 2011, the series was renewed for a second season of 26 episodes and Mark Burnett International (MBI) obtained the worldwide distribution and format rights. The second season premiered on W Network on January 3, 2012.
Synopsis
A real estate and home renovation series, "All for Nothing?" is out to prove that you do not need to spend money to make your home sale ready. Each week, two households compete to improve their design-deficient homes, without budgets. The seller with the highest increase in value at the end of two weeks wins the commission-free listing services of realtor and host, Paul Rushforth. During renovations, homeowners get guidance from Paul and designer, Penny Southam, to help get them through mishaps.
Hosts
Paul Rushforth
Rushforth is the resident real estate expert and co-host for All for Nothing?. He began his real estate career seven years before the start of the shaw. He is the CEO/owner of Paul Rushforth Real Estate. He is also the host of a weekly radio show, "Open House – The Real Estate and Mortgage Show". He lives in Ottawa with his wife and three children.
Penny Southam
Southam is the resident designer and co-host for All for Nothing?. She is an interior designer, specializing in architecture and custom homes. She is the principal of Southam Design Inc. and has been a contributing writer for Style at Home, Canadian Architecture & Design and the Ottawa Citizen. She lives in Ottawa with her children.
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Awards
On August 4, 2011, All for Nothing? was nominated for a Gemini Award in the Best Reality Program or Series category, alongside Dragons' Den (Canada) (CBC), Conviction Kitchen (CityTV), CheF*OFF (Food Network Canada) and Best. Trip. Ever. (Discovery Channel). The series also won awards two years in a row at the New York Festivals, having won a Finalist Certificate in 2011 and a Bronze World Medal in 2012, both in the Real Estate/Home Improvement category.
All for Nothing? was nominated for a Golden Sheaf Award at the 2012 Yorkton Film Festival in the Lifestyle Programs category for episode 11 of season 1, "Mother & Daughter vs. Husband & Wife".
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| New York Festivals, Category: Real Estate/Home Improvement - Episode 11 "Mother & Daughter vs. Husband & Wife"
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| All for Nothing?
| Summit Awards (SCA), Category: Editing/Effects - MC Gagnon "Episode 18 "Pat & Sue vs. Tracey & Angie"
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| All for Nothing?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landreth | Landreth is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bill Landreth (born 1963), American computer hacker
Chris Landreth (born 1961), Canadian film maker
Larry Landreth (born 1955), Canadian baseball player
Molly Landreth, American freelance photographer and artist
Orian Landreth (1904–1996), American football coach
S. Floyd Landreth (1885–1977), American senator of Virginia
Sonny Landreth (born 1951), American musician
The Bros. Landreth, Canadian musicians
See also
Landreth Glacier, Antarctica
David Landreth School, historic school building
D. Landreth Seed Company, oldest seed company in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20Demazure | Michel Demazure (; born 2 March 1937) is a French mathematician. He made contributions in the fields of abstract algebra, algebraic geometry, and computer vision, and participated in the Nicolas Bourbaki collective. He has also been president of the French Mathematical Society and directed two French science museums.
Biography
In the 1960s, Demazure was a student of Alexandre Grothendieck, and, together with Grothendieck, he ran and edited the Séminaire de Géométrie Algébrique du Bois Marie on group schemes at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques near Paris from 1962 to 1964. Demazure obtained his doctorate from the Université de Paris in 1965 under Grothendieck's supervision, with a dissertation entitled Schémas en groupes réductifs. He was maître de conférence at Strasbourg University (1964–1966), and then university professor at Paris-Sud in Orsay (1966–1976) and the École Polytechnique in Palaiseau (1976–1999). From approximately 1965 to 1985, he was also one of the core members of the Bourbaki group, a group of French mathematicians writing under the collective pseudonym Nicolas Bourbaki.
In 1988 Demazure was the president of the Société Mathématique de France.
From 1991 to 1998, he was the director of the Palais de la Découverte in Paris and, from 1998 to 2002, the chairman of the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in La Villette, two major science museums in France; in taking these positions, he changed places with Jean Audouze, who was at La Villette from 1993 to 1996, and became director of the Palais de la Découverte on Demazure's departure. Demazure also chairs the regional advisory committee of research for Languedoc-Roussillon.
Research contributions
In SGA3, Demazure introduced the definition of a root datum, a generalization of root systems for reductive groups that is central to the notion of Langlands duality. A 1970 paper of Demazure on subgroups of the Cremona group has been later recognized as the beginning of the study of toric varieties.
The Demazure character formula and Demazure modules and Demazure conjecture are named after Demazure, who wrote about them in 1974. Demazure modules are submodules of a finite-dimensional representation of a semisimple Lie algebra, and the Demazure character formula is an extension of the Weyl character formula to these modules. Demazure's work in this area was marred by a dependence on a false lemma in an earlier paper (also by Demazure); the flaw was pointed out by Victor Kac, and subsequent research clarified the conditions under which the formula remains valid.
Later in his career, Demazure's research emphasis shifted from pure mathematics to more computational problems, involving the application of algebraic geometry to image reconstruction problems in computer vision. The Kruppa–Demazure theorem, stemming from this work, shows that if a scene consisting of five points is viewed from two cameras with unknown positions but known focal lengths then, in general, there will be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Applied%20Mathematics%20and%20Computer%20Science | The International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science is a peer-reviewed quarterly scientific journal published since 1991 by the University of Zielona Góra in partnership with De Gruyter Poland and Lubuskie Scientific Society, under the auspices of the Committee on Automatic Control and Robotics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The editor-in-chief is Józef Korbicz. The journal covers various fields related to control theory, applied mathematics, scientific computing, and computer science.
Indexing and abstracting
The journal is abstracted and indexed, e.g., in:
The full list of indexing services is available on the journal's website.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 2.157.
References
External links
Computer science journals
Mathematics journals
English-language journals
Open access journals
Academic journals established in 1991
Quarterly journals
Polish Academy of Sciences academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoologischer%20Anzeiger | Zoologischer Anzeiger – A Journal of Comparative Zoology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal specialising in the field of comparative zoology. It is included in a number of bibliographic databases:
Animal Breeding Abstracts
Bio-Control News and Information
Biological Abstracts
BIOSIS
CAB Abstracts
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Chemical Abstracts
Current Advances in Ecological and Environmental Sciences
Current Contents, Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
Ecological Abstracts
Elsevier BIOBASE / Current Awareness in Biological Sciences
Elsevier GEO Abstracts
Fisheries Review
Geo Abstracts
GEOBASE
Helminthological Abstracts
Index Veterinarius
NISC - National Information Services Corporation
Oceanographic Literature Review
Referativnyi Zhurnal
Research Alert
Science Citation Index
SciExpanded
SciSearch
Scopus
Veterinary Bulletin
Wildlife Review
Zoological Record
References
External links
Publications established in 1878
Zoology journals
Quarterly journals
Elsevier academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Peacebuilding%20Liaison%20Office | European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO) is the independent civil society platform of European NGOs, NGO networks and think tanks which are committed to peacebuilding, and the prevention of violent conflict.
Mission statement
The organisation's mission is: 'to influence European policymakers to take more active and effective approach in securing peace and nonviolent forms of conflict resolution in all regions of the world'.
Key people
Sonya Reines-Djivanides has been the executive director since June 2015.
Policy objectives
Its policy objectives are:
To ensure that conflict prevention and peacebuilding are prominent within the policies and structures of EU external affairs.
To secure increased resources for conflict prevention and peacebuilding.
To integrate peacebuilding into EU development policy, programmes and approaches.
To strengthen the implementation of a gender-sensitive approach in EU policy and practice which enables the EU to be more inclusive and effective in promoting peace.
To promote peacebuilding in EU response to specific conflicts.
Activities
EPLO aims to realise its mission by channelling civil society analysis into EU policy-making. Its activities include:
Analysis of EU policies
Joint advocacy work
Facilitating dialogue between civil society peacebuilding organisations and EU policymakers (EU officials, Member States' representatives and MEPs)
Policy areas
EPLO's policy work is organised in the following working groups and ad hoc groups:
Peacebuilding and EU Institutions and Policies (website)
Funding for Peacebuilding (website)
Peacebuilding and Development (website)
Gender, Peace and Security (website)
European Investment Bank, Trade and Conflict (website)
EU Support for Peace Processes (website)
Middle East and North Africa (website)
EU-Africa Relations (website)
EU Accession and Peacebuilding (website)
Civil Society Dialogue Network (CSDN)
The Civil Society Dialogue Network (CSDN) is a mechanism for dialogue between civil society and EU policy-makers on issues related to peace and conflict. The project is co-financed by the European Union and EPLO, and managed by EPLO in co-operation with the European Commission and the European External Action Service.
Launched in 2010, the CSDN aims at strengthening EU and civil society capacity to anticipate, analyse, prevent and respond to threats to stability and human development posed by violent conflict and crisis. A third phase of the project began in April 2017 and will last until 2020.
CSDN events take the form of dialogue meetings which bring together relevant civil society actors and EU policy-makers. They take place in Brussels, EU Member States and conflict-affected countries with EU presence.
Academic Friends of EPLO
Academic Friends of EPLO is an informal network of academics working on peacebuilding and conflict issues, and/or the role of the EU in peacebuilding worldwide. The purpose of the network is to connect practitioners and advoca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priem | Priem is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Cees Priem (born 1950), Dutch professional road bicycle racer
Curtis Priem, American computer scientist
Tristan Priem (born 1976), Australian racing cyclist
See also
Prime (surname) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken%20Mora | Kenneth Oscar Mora (born December 17, 1960) is an American graphic novel publisher, screenplay writer, director, producer, and voice actor. In film, he is best known for creating the computer-animated shorts entitled Magnum Farce: (2009, 2011) and the mixed-media Your Face Global Jam (2017). In publishing, Mora is creator/producer of the serialized Comic Book and subsequent Graphic Novel biography of Caravaggio Caravaggio: A Light Before The Darkness (2015,2019). Mora is also executive producer of Adventures in Plymptoons (2012) the official biographical documentary of animator Bill Plympton, and associate producer of Revengeance (2017) the feature animated film by Plympton and Jim Lujan.
Early life
Mora was born in Hollywood, the youngest of two siblings. His father, Oscar Mora, is a native of Costa Rica, Central America. His mother, Betty Paulina Wood y Meza, was also a native of Costa Rica, and emigrated to the United States in 1957. His parents met in Los Angeles. The couple were married in April 1959 and were divorced in September 1961.
An avid comic book fan since childhood, when his father bought him How To Draw Comics The Marvel Way, Mora began his relationship with art and storytelling.
Education and early career
After graduating from North High School (Torrance) in 1979, Mora studied variously at El Camino College, worked a variety of jobs, often two at once, and later continued his studies at DeVry University, Santa Monica College, and various private non-accredited learning institutions.
In 1984, with the release of the Apple Macintosh personal computer, Mora began his parallel development of computer and artistic skills. After receiving a layoff from Hughes Spacecraft, in El Segundo, CA, he work freelance with his graphic designer with MacTemps (now Aquent) and was ultimately hired away to the post of Art Director at The Verity Group, a management consulting firm in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles.
In 1995 Mora returned to Santa Monica College to major in Art and Art History, and under the advisement of artist/professor Ronn Davis, transfer to University of Southern California (USC Roski School of Fine Arts) in 1997. At USC he earned his BFA, graduating with distinction with the class of 1999, where he shared speaking honors at the commencement ceremony during the tenure of then dean, Ruth Weisberg.
Career in entertainment industry
In 2003 Mora's first screenplay A Light Before The Darkness, based on the volatile Baroque-era artist Caravaggio won several screenwriting competition awards, gained him representation via the Jack Scagnetti literary and talent agency, and an option from Buzzmedia Network for the feature film to be directed by Heinrich Dams.
By the time rights to A Light Before The Darkness reverted to him, he had completed his second and third screenplays, Magnum Farce, and Ms. Valkyrie. After several near-misses with production of Magnum Farce, he established his own sole-proprietorship production company Bella Fe Fi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nohoch%20Che%CA%BCen | Nohoch Cheʼen, also commonly known as Caves Branch, is an archaeological reserve in Belize, consisting of a network of limestone caves.
References
Caves of Belize
Maya sites in Belize
Parks in Belize
Protected areas established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox%20OS | Firefox OS (project name: Boot to Gecko, also known as B2G) is a discontinued open-source operating system made for smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, and dongles designed by Mozilla and external contributors. It is based on the rendering engine of the Firefox web browser, Gecko, and on the Linux kernel. It was first commercially released in 2014.
Firefox OS was designed to provide a complete, community-based alternative operating system, for running web applications directly or those installed from an application marketplace. The applications use open standards and approaches such as JavaScript and HTML5, a robust privilege model, and open web APIs that can communicate directly with hardware, e.g. cellphone hardware. As such, Mozilla with Firefox OS competed with commercially developed operating systems such as Apple's iOS, Google's Android, Microsoft's Windows Phone, BlackBerry's BlackBerry 10, Samsung's/Linux Foundation's Tizen, and Jolla's Sailfish OS. In December 2015, Mozilla announced it would stop development of new Firefox OS smartphones and, in September 2016, announced the end of development. Successors to Firefox OS include the discontinued B2G OS and Acadine Technologies' H5OS as well as KaiOS Technologies' KaiOS and Panasonic's My Home Screen.
History
Firefox OS was publicly demonstrated in February 2012, on Android-compatible smartphones. By December 16, 2014, fourteen operators in 28 countries throughout the world offered Firefox OS phones.
On December 8, 2015, Mozilla announced that it would stop sales of Firefox OS smartphones through carriers. Mozilla later announced that Firefox OS smartphones would be discontinued by May 2016, as the development of "Firefox OS for smartphones" would cease after the release of version 2.6. Around the same time, it was reported that Acadine Technologies, a startup founded by Li Gong (former president of Mozilla Corporation) with various other former Mozilla staff among its employees, would take over the mission of developing carrier partnerships, for its own Firefox OS derivative H5OS.
In January 2016, Mozilla announced that Firefox OS would power Panasonic's UHD TVs (as previously announced Firefox OS "would pivot to connected devices"). In September 2016, Mozilla announced that work on Firefox OS had ceased, and that all B2G-related code would be removed from mozilla-central.
Project inception and roll-out
Commencement of project
On July 25, 2011, Andreas Gal, Director of Research at Mozilla Corporation, announced the "Boot to Gecko" Project (B2G) on the mozilla.dev.platform mailing list. The project proposal was to "pursue the goal of building a complete, standalone operating system for the open web" in order to "find the gaps that keep web developers from being able to build apps that are in every way the equals of native apps built for the iPhone, Android, and Windows Phone 7." The announcement identified these work areas: new web APIs to expose device and OS capabilities suc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson%20MO6 | The Thomson MO6 was a Motorola 6809E-based computer introduced in France in 1986. It was intended as the successor to the Thomson MO5 and featured 128 KB of RAM, a 40×25 text display, and a new built-in Microsoft BASIC interpreter (BASIC 128). It retained compatibility with its predecessor, while incorporating the same technology as the TO8.
Graphic abilities were expanded compared to the MO5, by the use of the Thomson EF9369 graphics chip. The 16 colour palette could be defined from a total of 4096 and extra video modes were available:
320 x 200 x 16 colours (2 colour per 8x1 pixels restraint)
640 x 200 x 2 colours
320 x 200 x 4 colours (no restraints)
160 x 200 x 16 colours (no restraints)
320 x 200 x 3 colours and one transparency level
320 x 200 x 2 colours (allows shifting between two screen pages)
160 x 200 x 5 colours with 3 transparency levels
In Italy it was sold by Olivetti with little aesthetic changes, and named Olivetti Prodest PC128.
21 games were released for the MO6. The machine was available until January 1989.
Bibliography
References
External links
DCMOTO: PC emulator for Thomson MO5, MO5E, MO5NR, MO6, T9000, TO7, TO7/70, TO8, TO8D, TO9, TO9+ and Olivetti Prodest PC128. Comprehensive software and documentation are also available.
Personal computers
6809-based home computers
Thomson computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded%20C | Embedded C is a set of language extensions for the C programming language by the C Standards Committee to address commonality issues that exist between C extensions for different embedded systems.
Embedded C programming typically requires nonstandard extensions to the C language in order to support enhanced microprocessor features such as fixed-point arithmetic, multiple distinct memory banks, and basic I/O operations. The C Standards Committee produced a Technical Report, most recently revised in 2008 and reviewed in 2013, providing a common standard for all implementations to adhere to. It includes a number of features not available in normal C, such as fixed-point arithmetic, named address spaces and basic I/O hardware addressing. Embedded C uses most of the syntax and semantics of standard C, e.g., main() function, variable definition, datatype declaration, conditional statements (if, switch case), loops (while, for), functions, arrays and strings, structures and union, bit operations, macros, etc.
References
C (programming language)
C programming language family
Embedded systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Router | Router may refer to:
Router (computing), a computer networking device
Router (woodworking), a rotating cutting tool
Router plane, a woodworking hand plane
See also
Rooter (disambiguation)
Route (disambiguation)
Routing (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense%20Worldwide | Sense Worldwide is a London-based co-creation consultancy. In 1999 it started the Sense Network, described as ‘one of the earliest web-based communities’. It was one of the first commercial practitioners of co-creation and Extreme User Research. It has influenced the development of Nike Sportswear and Habbo Hotel among many others. It has received funding from NESTA. Nesta named Sense Worldwide alongside Lego and Google as one of the 'Open 100' companies that pioneered open innovation.
The Sense Network
The Sense Network has 5,000+ members in over 1,000 cities. Membership attracts radical thinkers, extreme users, creative outliers, misfits, rebels and the crazy ones.
Chief spin-doctor and strategist for Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell wrote in Winners: And How They Succeed about Sense Worldwide saying “their approach to innovation is to bring in ‘oddballs, freaks, kids, the marginalised, to find out how they’re thinking”.
Sense Worldwide’s innovative approach and how to make a creative leap from analytical thinking to breakthrough thinking was covered in the book Dream Teams by Shane Snow.
Professor Patrick Reinmoeller of Cranfield University and Alessandro Giudici of Cass have written two academic papers about the scientific validity of this approach, titled 'Transforming the Rules of Innovation (A) & (B).
Co-creation
Sense Worldwide has used co-creation in its work from its inception. Its work in this area has caused it to be listed as one of the NESTA Open 100. It has also pioneered the commercial use of extreme user research, building on the Lead User ideas of MIT's Eric von Hippel
Sense Worldwide introduced co-creation techniques to Nike and continues to work with Nike’s running, sportswear and football businesses. It authored the Discovery Channel report into the lives of young men in Europe, and it contributes to the Economist Intelligence Unit's reports and the Harvard Business Review
Sense Worldwide’s recent rebranding of the Young Vic Theatre in London resulted in the abandonment of its sit-anywhere policy and its new strapline, “It’s a big world in here”
In partnership with Sense Worldwide The Sense Network has worked on over 500 projects for large multi-national brands. One example is the creation of General Electric’s Opal Nugget Ice Maker, in which water sommeliers and expert cocktail makers were enlisted to co-create concepts. The Indiegogo campaign raised more than $2.7M making it the 9th most backed project on the platform in 2015.
Sense Worldwide in popular culture
No Wax
In London in 2003 Sense Worldwide launched the first iPod DJ night with NoWax. There was no DJ. Instead dancers took turns to play floor-filling music in the night club. Resources for the event were open sourced, and NoWax nights have been staged in cities from Derby to Singapore and Tokyo.
I Heart My Chair
In 2007 the Sense Network was asked to photograph and write about their favourite place to sit. The resulting book, I Heart my Chair, was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary%20Lipton | Zachary Lipton (born 1985) is a machine learning researcher and jazz saxophonist from New Rochelle, New York. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Machine Learning and Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon University, where he runs the Approximately Correct Machine Intelligence (ACMI) lab. Previously, he completed his undergraduate studies at Columbia University and a PhD in Computer Science at University of California, San Diego. He is the grandson of Issachar Miron, the composer of the popular song Tzena, Tzena, Tzena.
Discography
First Steps (2007)
References
External links
Official site
ACMI Lab website
1985 births
21st-century American saxophonists
American jazz saxophonists
American male saxophonists
Jazz musicians from New York (state)
Jewish American musicians
Jewish jazz musicians
Living people
Musicians from New Rochelle, New York
21st-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
21st-century American Jews
Columbia College (New York) alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techinline | Techinline FixMe.IT is an application for remote support, remote control, desktop sharing, remote training, and file transfer between computers. The application operates with the Microsoft Windows operating system.
Product
How it works
FixMe.IT offers two desktop applications: Expert and Client. To start a new remote support session, the expert directs a remote user to the FixMe.IT website in order to download the Client application and obtain a unique session ID. The expert can then use the ID provided by the remote user to connect to their computer via the Expert application.
Features
FixMe.IT can be used to access both on-demand and unattended machines
The local expert can chat with the remote client, view and control the client’s desktop.
The expert may reboot the remote machine and the connection will be restored automatically.
Files can be transferred between machines by means of copy-and-paste and drag-and-drop methods.
The application can be integrated into any website, and the interface can be customized by adding a company logo, text, and fonts.
Other features include session recording, reporting, and multi-monitor support.
Licensing policy
Techinline FixMe.IT is commercial software that uses a subscription-based licensing model. Two types of subscription plans are available: monthly or yearly. Both plans allow an unlimited number of concurrent sessions and access up to 150 unattended computers.
See also
Comparison of remote desktop software
Remote desktop software
References
External links
Techinline website
Remote desktop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medcities | Medcities is a network of Mediterranean coastal cities created in Barcelona in 1991 at the initiative of the Mediterranean Technical Assistance Programmes (METAP). The METAP, whose objective is environmental improvement in the Mediterranean region, was established in 1990 by the World Bank, the European Investment Bank and the United Nations Development Programme.
The goals of the network are to strengthen the environmental management capability of local administration, through decentralised activities involving technical assistance, and also to reinforce awareness of interdependence and common responsibility regarding the policies of urban environmental conservation in the Mediterranean basin.
History
The creation of Medcities was a consequence of METAP's objective of strengthening decentralised actions involving technical assistance as the best means of promoting awareness of urban environmental problems and making those actions into a vehicle for empowering municipalities in developing countries in respect of management of urban environmental issues. Medcities continues offering this support. Afterwards, Medcities has extended its activities from the initial local environment to the wider local sustainable development field.
Objectives
The Medcities network is a tool to strengthen the environmental and sustainable development management capability of local administration, but it is also useful in order to identify the domains where a common activation could be the most useful means to improve the regional environmental conditions.
The goals of the Medcities Network are the following:
- to reinforce the awareness of interdependence and common responsibility regarding the policies of urban environmental conservation in the Mediterranean basin;
- to strengthen the role and the means (institutional, financial and technical capability) of municipalities in the implementation of local sustainable development policies;
- to develop awareness and involvement of citizens and consumers on urban sustainable development;
- to set up a direct cooperation policy in order to implement the partnership between coastal Mediterranean cities.
Members
The network originally comprised one city in each country, with a preference for cities other than the capital. Then an accord was subsequently reached expanding possible membership to two cities per country, and including Jordan.
Medcities includes today 27 cities from Mediterranean countries:
- Aleppo
- Alexandria
- Ancona
- Ashdod
- Barcelona
- Benghazi
- Dubrovnik
- El Mina
- Gaza
- Grand Lyon
- Izmir
- Larnaca
- Latakia
- Limassol
- Marseille
- Oran
- Rome
- Sfax
- Silifke
- Sousse
- Tangier
- Tetouan
- Thessaloniki
- Tirana
- Tripoli
- Zarqa
- Mersin
Organisation
General Assembly: it is the supreme body of the Association, and it is composed of all its members. It must be convened at least one every three years, and it gives a ruling on the items on the agenda proposed by the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company85 | Company85 is a subsidiary of Telstra and performs IT consultancy in IT transformation, service management, workspace, cloud integration, data management, and security and privacy. It was formed in 2010 following a management buyout from Symantec. Company85 is based in the City of London, UK.
History
Company85 was originally established as Company-i, a professional IT services firm based in the City of London, United Kingdom. In 2006 Company-i was acquired by Symantec and became the UK and EMEA consulting arm of Symantec Global Services. The acquisition was driven by Symantec’s wish to deepen its risk management services capability.
Following Symantec’s decision in 2010 to move to a channel-based consultancy delivery model, the business again became independently owned and managed, with Adrian Spink as CEO, Stephen Watterson as services director and Bill Trim as sales director. All three had been with the company since its time as Company-i.
In 2017, Telstra acquired Company85 saying that, "the acquisition was aligned to Telstra’s strategy to grow its technology services business internationally and would significantly enhance Telstra’s service offering for UK and European based business and government customers."
Services
Company85 provides advisory, programme management and managed services in cyber security, storage, backup, and data centre transformation. It was Symantec's first Data Protection Delivery Provider to be appointed in the UK. and has since expanded its technology alliances with EMC, HDS, Proofpoint and others.
Acquisition of XOR
On 2 August 2013 Company85 acquired XOR, a provider of specialist consultancy, integration and support services to the UK IT channel. XOR had been a specialist supplier of workspace transformation services that had been named one of the UK's fastest-growing tech firms in 2012.
See also
Company-i
References
External links
Companies House information
British companies established in 2010
ICT service providers
Telecommunications companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Restaurant%20Adventures%20of%20Caroline%20%26%20Dave | The Restaurant Adventures of Caroline & Dave is a 13-part docudrama Canadian television series which premiered on January 6, 2010, on the W Network. Produced by Mountain Road Productions, the series follows neophyte restaurateurs and couple, Caroline Ishii and Dave Loan as they struggle to realize their dream of opening ZenKitchen, a vegetarian restaurant situated in Ottawa’s trendy Chinatown.
Episodes are currently airing on OWN Canada Fridays at 3PM ET (Eastern Time Zone).
Synopsis
In this year-long journey things rarely go smoothly for Caroline and Dave as the couple find themselves on a rollercoaster ride of real estate troubles, money woes, AWOL contractors, fires in the kitchen and staffing problems. Each has given up a successful career, putting their life savings, relationship and sanity on the line in order to share their passion for vegetarian cuisine, which rapidly takes the Zen out of ZenKitchen. Will building a dream restaurant push their relationship beyond the limits?
Hosts Bios
Caroline Ishii developed a passion for food and cooking as a child. Through her mother's influence she learned traditional Japanese cooking. As her food pallet cultivated, so did her development and belief in holistic approaches to wellness which led her to the practices of Yoga and Meditation. In Dave she found a kindred spirit sharing the dream of opening a restaurant. With Dave's encouragement, she enrolled in the Professional Chef Training Program with New York City's famed Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts. After completing her studies and with some of the best natural food chefs in NYC and San Francisco, Caroline returned to Ottawa to open ZenKitchen. She is a member of various food organizations such as The National Capital Vegetarian Association, Just Food Ottawa, and The Toronto Vegetarian Association.
David Loan grew up surrounded by the fruit orchards, family farms and vineyards of the Niagara Peninsula. Cooking became a fast hobby at a young age for Dave as his parents introduced him to two different yet influential approaches to food; his mother being the exquisite baker and his father being the culinary experimenter. In 1996, he met Caroline at a leap year party. A shared passion for cooking and eating nurtured their relationship and sparked the vision of owning a restaurant. Five years later, Dave committed to vegetarianism and has not looked back since. Dining experiences at high end vegan restaurants influenced his and Caroline's decision to open ZenKitchen creating their unique approach to vegan cooking. Dave's background as a political organizer lends strength to the management side of the business allowing Caroline to focus on the food. Dave is currently studying for his sommelier certification.
Episodes
Awards
|-
| 2010
| The Restaurant Adventures of Caroline & Dave
| Gemini Award, Category: Best Original Music for a Lifestyle/Practical Information or Reality Program or Series - David Burns "Episode 12 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii%20U%20GamePad | The Wii U GamePad is the standard game controller for Nintendo's Wii U home video game console. Incorporating features from tablet computers, the GamePad has traditional input methods (such as buttons, dual analog sticks, and a D-pad), touchscreen controls, and motion controls. The touchscreen can be used to supplement a game by providing alternate, second screen functionality or an asymmetric view of a scenario in a game. The screen can also be used to play a game strictly on the GamePad screen without the use of a television display. Conversely, non-gaming functions can be assigned to it as well, such as using it as a television remote.
The development of the Wii U GamePad began alongside of the main Wii U console, beginning in 2009. The Wii U GamePad can be used in conjunction with other controllers compatible with the console, such as the Wii Remote Plus, Nunchuk, Wii Balance Board, and the more conventional Wii U Pro Controller.
Response to the Wii U GamePad was mixed. Critics praised the comfortable feel of the GamePad, but criticized the battery life, and misuse of the GamePad in games.
History
During development of the Wii console, video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto incorporated the functionality of mobile phones, controllers, and automotive navigation systems while designing the Wii Remote, eventually producing a prototype that resembled a cell phone. Another design featured both an analog stick and a touchscreen, but Nintendo rejected the idea of a touchscreen on the controller, "since the portable console and living-room console would have been exactly the same".
Nintendo's development team had determined that the Wii's notification light did not provide enough information to be useful beyond whether it had received content or not. With the complexity of modern televisions, Miyamoto believed that a monitor separate from the console would provide an easier way to check on the console's status without needing to use the television. Its operation as a supplemental display was also inspired by similar displays found at karaoke establishments in Japan, which show song information and allows its users to select their next song.
Satoru Iwata explained that the controller's design is intended to allow players to "see games in a different way," a concept referred to as "asymmetric gaming" during Nintendo's E3 2012 press conference. With the Wii U's Miiverse social networking functionality, Iwata also likened the controller's screen to a "social window", which can allow users to remain connected even if they are not playing. Gyroscopic capabilities were added by the team specifically to aid in aiming for first and third person shooter games.
The Nintendo EAD development team created two controller prototypes: a monitor with two Wii Remotes glued to the sides, and a display attached to a Wii Zapper. In a prototype shown at E3, the controller had featured circle pads similar to those of the Nintendo 3DS. On May 19, 2012, a photograph of a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic%20Network%20for%20Interdisciplinary%20Environmental%20Studies | The Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) is a research network for environmental studies based primarily in the humanities. By organizing regular conferences, symposia and workshops, NIES aims to create opportunities for researchers in the Nordic countries who address environmental questions to exchange ideas and develop their work in various interdisciplinary contexts. Fields represented by members of the network include Ecocriticism, Environmental history, Environmental philosophy, Science and Technology Studies, Art history, Media studies, Ecological economics, Human Geography, Cultural studies, Anthropology, Archeology, Sustainability studies, Education for Sustainability and Landscape studies.
NIES is responsible for organizing and editing the research series Studies in the Environmental Humanities (SEH) published by Rodopi.
Formed in 2007, NIES was originally a cooperation among small academic groups in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Today, it includes more than 100 researchers from all the Nordic countries. The network actively sponsors a wide range of educational initiatives, research projects and public outreach activities and is a key partner in pan-European and other international initiatives to build capacity and foster theoretical advancement in the Environmental Humanities. Since January 2011, the network's primary anchoring institution is Mid Sweden University in Sundsvall, Sweden. National anchoring institutions include University of Turku, University of Oslo, University of Iceland, Uppsala University and University of Southern Denmark. The network's current phase of operations (2011–2015) is supported by NordForsk.
References
External links
miun.se
rodopi.nl
Research institutes in Sweden
Environmental science
Environmental studies organizations
Nordic organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level%20Studios | Level Studios (stylized as LEVEL Studios), is an integrated digital agency within the Publicis network. Headquartered in San Jose, California, the company has additional offices in San Francisco and San Luis Obispo. The company delivers integrated marketing and product development for global brands.
History
Level was founded in 1995 as Web Associates (WA) by Dave Dahl and Mark Tuttle, with offices in Santa Barbara, California, which relocated to San Luis Obispo, California in 1998. It was the first external web agency for both Hewlett-Packard (1996) and Apple Inc. (1997), and has had multi-year relationship with both companies. In 1996, Lucent Technologies hired the firm to make their first corporate website and an online CMS (1997) for their domestic and international sales offices.
Tom Adamski was CEO from 2002 until 2012. The agency opened a second office in San Jose in 2007. In 2008, it rebranded as LEVEL Studios (LEVEL) and opened a third office in Los Angeles, CA. On November 20, 2014 Daniel Connolly was named the new CEO.
In September 2010, Rosetta (at the time the nation’s largest digital and direct interactive agency) acquired Level. In July 2011, Publicis Groupe (now Publicis) completed their acquisition of Rosetta and Level Studios.
References
External links
Publicis Groupe
Advertising agencies of the United States
Companies based in San Jose, California
Companies established in 1995
1995 establishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aanval | Aanval is a commercial SIEM product designed specifically for use with Snort, Suricata, and Syslog data. Aanval has been in active development since 2003 and remains one of the longest running Snort capable SIEM products in the industry. Aanval is Dutch for "attack".
History
Aanval was created by Loyal Moses in 2003 but was not publicly made available until March 2004 where it was released under the private commercial license C1-RA1008. Throughout the lifecycle of the software it has also been referred to as OpenAanval or ComAanval in addition to Aanval.
Aanval's had provided AJAX style security event monitoring and reporting from a web-browser. Since Aanval's creation, it has developed into an intrusion detection, correlation and threat management console with a specific focus on normalizing Snort, Suricata, and Syslog data.
Several information security related books have been published that include details and references to Aanval, including "Linux Server Security, Second Edition" by O'Reilly Media, "Security Log Management" by O'Reilly Media, "Snort: IDS and IPS Toolkit" by O'Reilly Media and in 2010 "Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook, Fourth Edition" by O'Reilly Media.
See also
Snort
Intrusion detection system (IDS)
Intrusion prevention system (IPS)
Network intrusion detection system (NIDS)
Sguil
References
External links
Aanval wiki
Snort homepage
OISF homepage
Computer security software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COPASI | COPASI (COmplex PAthway SImulator) is an open-source software application for creating and solving mathematical models of biological processes such as metabolic networks, cell-signaling pathways, regulatory networks, infectious diseases, and many others.
History
COPASI is based on the Gepasi simulation software that was developed in the early 1990s by Pedro Mendes. The initial development of COPASI was funded by the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, and the Klaus Tschira Foundation. Current development efforts are supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the BBSRC, and the German Ministry of Education.
Development team
COPASI is the result of an international collaboration between the University of Manchester (UK), the University of Heidelberg (Germany), and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (USA). The project principal investigators are Pedro Mendes and Ursula Kummer. The chief software architects are Stefan Hoops and Sven Sahle.
Features
COPASI includes features to define models of biological processes, simulate and analyze these models, generate analysis reports, and import/export models in SBML format.
Model definition: Models are defined as chemical reactions between molecular species. The dynamics of the model is determined by Rate law associated with individual reactions. Models can also include compartments, events, and other global variables that can help specify the dynamics of the system.
Tasks: Tasks are different types of analysis that can be performed on a model. They include steady-state analysis, stoichiometric analysis, time course simulation using deterministic and stochastic simulation algorithms, metabolic control analysis, computation of Lyapunov exponent, time scale separation, parameter scans, optimization, and parameter estimation.
Importing and Exporting: COPASI can read models in SBML format as well as in Gepasi format. COPASI can write models in several different formats including the SBML, source code in the C programming language, Berkeley Madonna files, and XPPAUT files.
See also
List of systems biology modeling software
References
External links
COPASI home page
Mendes group,
Department Modeling of Biological Processes, Heidelberg University
Systems biology
Ordinary differential equations
Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Software using the Artistic license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20O | Big O or The Big O may refer to:
Fiction
The Big O, a 1999 Japanese animated TV series
Mathematics and computing
Big Omega function (disambiguation), various arithmetic functions in number theory
Big O notation, asymptotic behavior in mathematics and computing
Time complexity in computer science, whose functions are commonly expressed in big O notation
People
Omar Gooding (born 1976), American actor, rapper, voice artist and comedian
Oliver Miller (born 1970), former professional basketball player
Takashi Nagasaki (born 1958), Japanese author
Barack Obama (born 1961), 44th President of the United States
Roy Orbison (1936–1988), American singer-songwriter
Glenn Ordway (born 1951), Boston-area sports radio host
Otis Redding (1941–1967), American soul singer-songwriter and record producer
Oscar Robertson (born 1938), former professional basketball player
Oscar Santana, American radio personality
Oprah Winfrey (born 1954), American television host, producer and philanthropist
Oscar McInerney (born 1994), Australian rules footballer
Structures and venues
Big O (Ferris wheel), the world's largest centerless Ferris wheel, in Japan
Big "O", a structure on Skinner Butte in Eugene, Oregon, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
Olympic Stadium (Montreal), Quebec, Canada; the main venue of the 1976 Summer Olympics
Ontario Motor Speedway, California, USA; former superspeedway racecar track
Other uses
Omega (Ω), a Greek letter, whose name translates literally as "great O"
Big O Tires, a tire retailer in the United States and Canada
The Big O (album), by Roy Orbison
Big Orange Chorus, a barbershop men's chorus in Jacksonville, Florida
See also
Bigo (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahiram%20ng%20Isang%20Ina | (International title: Lend Me a Mom / ) is a 2011 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Joel Lamangan, it stars Bea Binene and Carmina Villarroel. It premiered on August 15, 2011 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Blusang Itim. The series concluded on November 11, 2011 with a total of 65 episodes. It was replaced by Kokak in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Carmina Villarroel as Emily Martinez
Bea Binene as Bernadette "Berna" Martinez
Supporting cast
Martin Delos Santos as Andoy Martinez
Jake Vargas as Luke Velasco
Maxene Magalona as Andrea Martinez
Marco Alcaraz as Ryan Perez
Antonio Aquitania as Johnny Velasco
Bubbles Paraiso as Eloisa Delos Santos
Chynna Ortaleza as Sophia
Jim Pebengco as Karyo
Tony Mabesa as Carlos
Rita Iringan as Nenet
Shyr Valdez as Veron
Mike Magat as Egay
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 14.4% rating. While the final episode scored a 21.7% rating.
References
External links
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic%20Fox%20%28disambiguation%29 | Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus) is an animal native to Arctic regions.
Arctic Fox may also refer to:
Arcticfox, a first person action computer game
Operation Arctic Fox, a joint Finnish-German offensive during World War II |
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