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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aulacocalyx | Aulacocalyx is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. It is found in tropical Africa.
Species
Aulacocalyx camerooniana Sonké & S.E.Dawson - Cameroon
Aulacocalyx caudata (Hiern) Keay - Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea
Aulacocalyx divergens (Hutch. & Dalziel) Keay - Ghana, Guinée, Liberia, Sierra Leone
Aulacocalyx jasminiflora Hook.f. - widespread from Liberia to Zambia
Aulacocalyx jasminiflora subsp. jasminiflora
Aulacocalyx jasminiflora subsp. kivuensis E.Figueiredo - eastern Zaire (Congo-Kinshasa)
Aulacocalyx lamprophylla K.Krause - Cameroon
Aulacocalyx laxiflora E.M.A.Petit - Tanzania, Zambia, Zaire (Congo-Kinshasa)
Aulacocalyx lujai De Wild. - Congo-Brazzaville, Zaire (Congo-Kinshasa)
Aulacocalyx mapiana (Hiern) Bridson & Figueiredo - Cameroon
Aulacocalyx pallens (Hiern) Bridson& Figueiredo - Gabon, São Tomé and Príncipe, Zaire (Congo-Kinshasa)
Aulacocalyx pallens subsp. letestui (Pellegr.) Figueiredo - Gabon, Zaire (Congo-Kinshasa)
Aulacocalyx pallens subsp. pallens - São Tomé and Príncipe
Aulacocalyx subulata (N.Hallé) Figueiredo - Gabon
Aulacocalyx subulata subsp. glabra Figueiredo
Aulacocalyx subulata subsp. subulata
Aulacocalyx talbotii (Wernham) Keay - Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo-Brazzaville
References
External links
Aulacocalyx in the World Checklist of Rubiaceae
Rubiaceae genera
Alberteae
Flora of Africa
Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Salzburg | The Salzburg trolleybus system forms part of the public transport network serving Salzburg, capital of the federal state of Salzburg in Austria. Opened on 1 October 1940, it replaced the .
One of only two such systems currently operating in Austria, the Salzburg trolleybus system is one of the largest trolleybus systems in western Europe. It presently carries 41 million passengers each year.
Together with the Salzburger Lokalbahn, the system is currently operated by , which markets it under the name StadtBus Salzburg. It is also integrated into the . Along with the Salzburg S-Bahn, it forms the backbone of the Salzburg's public transport network; the city's diesel bus network, operated by , plays only a minor role.
History
On 1 October 1940, the first trolleybus ran through the streets of Salzburg, on the Siegmundsplatz–Maxglan route, which is now part of line 1. A few days later, on 24 October 1940, the extension to Makartplatz followed, and on 10 November 1940, the line was further extended, to Salzburg Hauptbahnhof. On 16 February 1942, the ring lines M and L (Maxglan–Lehen–Hauptbahnhof–Zentrum–Maxglan) came into operation. In the following years, the Salzburg trolleybus system recorded rapid growth, but the tramway network was destroyed.
Until the merger in 2000 of the Salzburger Stadtwerke with the SAFE (Salzburger AG für Energiewirtschaft) to create the Salzburg AG, the Salzburg trolleybus system, and the local railway line to Lamprechtshausen, were operated by the Salzburger Stadtwerke - Verkehrsbetriebe. Some diesel bus lines also originally belonged to the company, but in the course of the 2000 merger these were transferred to Albus Salzburg.
Since 2000, therefore, the trolleybus and diesel bus services have been fully separated, both organisationally and operationally. It follows that Salzburg AG is one of the few transport companies worldwide that operates trolleybus lines, but no diesel bus lines.
In 2004, trolleybus line 1 was extended about from Messezentrum to Salzburgarena. Unusually, however, the new terminal was served only during events. At other times, power to the overhead lines in this area is switched off; the status of the overhead lines is displayed to the trolleybus drivers by means of a signal light.
On 1 October 2005, line 1 was extended from Europark to Kavaliershaus, via the EM-Stadion. On 11 December 2005, the extension of line 2 came into operation from the Hauptbahnhof to Obergnigl via Mirabellplatz and the Sterneckstraße.
A of overhead line from the Versorgungshausstraße (line 2) via the Fürbergstraße to the Fadingerstraße was built in the spring of 2006. Especially during events in the city centre, and during the UCI Road World Championships 2006, it has been used intensively. Since then, the trolleybuses of lines 2 and 4 have operated on and off over this route. This section was the basis for the later electrification of the former Albus line 20.
Also, until September 2006 the Gaswerkgasse / Igna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matheass | MatheAss (former Math-Assist) is a computer program for numerical solutions in school mathematics and functions in some points similar to Microsoft Mathematics. "MatheAss is widely spread in math classes" in Germany. For schools in the federal state of Hessen (Germany) exists a state license, which allows all secondary schools to use MatheAss
Its functionality is limited compared to other numerical programs, for example, MatheAss has no script language and does no symbolic computation. On the other side it is easy to use and offers the user fully worked out solutions, in which only the necessary quantities need to be entered. MatheAss covers the topics algebra, geometry, analysis, stochastics, and linear algebra.
After a precursor for the home computers, usual around 1980, MatheAss appeared in 1983 as a shareware version for the PC, so it was one of the first shareware programs on the German market. MatheAss is available on the manufacturer's website for download for various versions of the Windows operating system.
Since version 8.2 (released in February 2011) MatheAss again offers a context-sensitive help, which was supplemented in many places by showing mathematical examples and background information. The MatheAss help file can also be viewed online.
References
Educational math software
Mathematical tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20highways%20%28Italy%29 | The Strade Statali, abbreviated SS, is the Italian national network of state highways. The total length for the network is about .
The Italian state highway network are maintained by ANAS. From 1928 until 1946 state highways were maintained by AASS.
History
The first 137 state highways were created in 1928 with the establishment of Azienda Autonoma delle Strade Statali (AASS).
Types of highway
Nowadays, a state highway can be classified in more types, except Type A highway, which is reserved to motorways.
The same types also are used for regional roads, provincial roads and municipal roads.
Type B
Type B highway is a dual carriageway with at least two lanes for each direction, paved shoulder on the right, no cross-traffic and no at-grade intersections. In Italy are called strade extraurbane principali. Beginning of Type B highway is marked by a traffic sign.
Speed limit in Type B highways is .
Type C
Type C highway is a single carriageway road. In Italy are called strade extraurbane secondarie.
Speed limit in Type C highways is .
Type D
Type D highway is a dual carriageway urban road with sidewalk. In Italy are called strade urbane di scorrimento.
If Type D highway travels across an urban area with more than 10,000 people, it is maintained by comuni, instead of ANAS.
Speed limit in Type D highways is .
Type E
Type E highway is a single carriageway urban road with sidewalk. In Italy are called strade urbane di quartiere.
If Type E highway travels across an urban area with more than 10,000 people, it is maintained by comuni, instead of ANAS.
Speed limit in Type E highways is .
Type F
Type F highway is a road, which it cannot be classified as Type B, Type C, Type D and Type E. In Italy are called strade locali.
An example of Type F highway is an urban road without sidewalk.
If Type F highway travels across an urban area with more than 10,000 people, it is maintained by comuni, instead of ANAS.
Speed limit in Type F highways is . If Type F highway is an urban road, speed limit is .
Downgrading of state highways
From 1998, state highways of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol are maintained by South Tyrol or Trentino local governments.
From 2000, many state highways have been downgraded as regional road or provincial road. An example of downgraded state highway is SR 203, formerly SS.
See also
Transport in Italy
Other Italian roads
Autostrade of Italy
Regional road
Provincial road
Municipal road
External links
ANAS official site |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20Patterns%20Library | The Parallel Patterns Library is a Microsoft library designed for use by native C++ developers that provides features for multicore programming. It was first bundled with Visual Studio 2010. It resembles the C++ Standard Library in style and works well with the C++11 language feature, lambdas, also introduced with Visual Studio 2010.
For example, this sequential loop:
for (int x=0; x < width; ++x)
{
//Something parallelizable
}
Can be made into a parallel loop by replacing the for with a parallel_for:
#include <ppl.h>
// . . .
Concurrency::parallel_for (0, width, [=](int x)
{
//Something parallelizable
});
This still requires the developer to know that the loop is parallelizable, but all the other work is done by the library.
MSDN describes the Parallel Patterns Library as an "imperative programming model that promotes scalability and ease-of-use for developing concurrent applications." It uses the Concurrency Runtime for scheduling and resource management and provides generic, type-safe algorithms and containers for use in parallel applications.
References
Concurrent programming libraries
C++ libraries
Threads (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela%20Silva | Pamela Silva (born August 16, 1981) is a Peruvian-American six time Emmy award winning journalist and co-anchor of the Univision Network's weekday newsmagazine, "Primer Impacto" in Miami. (First Impact) one of the highest rating programs in the United States and in 12 Latin-American countries.
Since she joined the show in 2011, she has covered major national and international news stories; most recently, she reported on every angle of the terrorist attack at the Boston marathon, live from Boston.
Professional career
Silva began her career at Univision in 2003 as a public affairs coordinator and producer for the community affairs show "Miami Ahora" (Miami Now) at WLTV 23. She also worked as a guest reporter for Univision Network shows, "El Gordo y La Flaca" (The Fat man and The Skinny woman), "Despierta America" (Wake-Up America) and "Control."; as the Miami-based reporter for TeleFutura's "Escandalo TV" (ShowBiz TV) and as the station spokesperson for WAMI TeleFutura 69. Silva Conde was also the host of TeleFutura 69's first local newscast, "Noticias en Noventa" (News in 90), a 90-second daily segment that brought viewers highlights of local news. She was a professional cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins.
In 2005, Silva rejoined the Univision Miami affiliate news team as an entertainment anchor and reporter, soon became a substitute news anchor and was later named main anchor for the leading Spanish-language morning newscast in South Florida "Noticias 23 Al Amanecer" where she presented the news on a daily basis both WLTV Univision 23 and WAMI TeleFutura 69. Aside from her duties as a news anchor she also worked on special feature and investigative reports as a national correspondent for the investigative newsmagazine "Aqui y Ahora" with which she continues collaborating.
Recognition
In 2006 she won her first Emmy award for on-camera work, and in 2007 she received three additional Emmy awards for writing, news feature story, and human interest story. Two more Emmys followed: in 2009, for a feature story about Facebook, and in 2010 for Feature News Report. In addition, she was recognized as a Distinguished Alumni from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications by the Florida International University Alumni Association at Florida International University. In 2010 Silva won an Emmy award for Feature News Report. In 2013, she was chosen as one of People en Español's 50 most beautiful people. In May 2013 she was invited to co-host ABC Network's morning weekday talkshow The View. She was presented with the Leading Ladies of Entertainment accolade by the Latin Recording Academy in 2018.
Education
Silva graduated with honors from Florida International University with a degree in Broadcast Journalism and earned a graduate certificate in Bilingual Communications from St. Thomas University. In 2012 she received a Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Florida International University.
Organizations
She is a member of the Board of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Scott%20%28sociologist%29 | John Peter Scott (born 8 April 1949) is an English sociologist working on issues of economic and political sociology, social stratification, the history of sociology, and social network analysis. He is currently working independently, and has previously worked at the Universities of Strathclyde, Leicester, Essex, and Plymouth. He is a Fellow of the British Academy (elected 2007), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (elected 2005), and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (elected 2003). He has been a member of the British Sociological Association since 1970. In 2015 he became Chair of Section S4 of the British Academy. In 2016 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Essex University.
Early life and education
John Scott was born in Battersea, London, and spent most of his childhood in Feltham, Middlesex. He attended Cardinal Road Infant school, Hanworth Road Junior school and Hampton Grammar School. Following a repeat year to improve his A-level results he studied for a Bachelor of Science degree in sociology at Kingston College of Technology (now Kingston University) from 1968 to 1971.
He started a PhD in sociology at the London School of Economics under the supervision of John Westergaard and Percy Cohen. This work explored the relationships between the concepts of status and class, involving a detailed examination of the work of Talcott Parsons. After two years, Scott moved to Strathclyde University and completed his doctoral thesis in 1976.
Career
Scott was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, in 1972. Taking advantage of the Scottish location at a time of the North Sea oil boom and the debate over Scottish devolution, he began a project, with Michael Hughes, on the ownership and control of Scottish businesses and the involvement of economic elites in political power. An early paper from this project appeared in The Red Paper on Scotland, edited by future Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Scott was a member of the Quantitative Sociology Group of the British Sociological Association and, through this group, developed an interest in network analysis through contacts established with Barry Wellman, Joel Levine, Michael Schwartz, and Frans Stokman.
Moving to Leicester University in 1976, Scott extended his research into an international comparative study of economic networks, working with Stokman and Rolf Ziegler on a project reported in Networks of Corporate Power. He formed the Social Networks Study Group of the British Sociological Association, jointly with J. Clyde Mitchell, and began work that appeared in Social Network Analysis: A Handbook. He also undertook work on capitalist class formation that appeared in Who Rules Britain? At Leicester he was Head of Department from 1992 to 1994, succeeding Terry Johnson (and before him Joe Banks and Ilya Neustadt).
A move in 1994 to Essex University, the leading sociology Department in the UK, allowed Scott to develop wider interests in sociological theory and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Waltz | David Leigh Waltz (28 May 1943 – 22 March 2012) was a computer scientist who made significant contributions in several areas of artificial intelligence, including constraint satisfaction, case-based reasoning and the application of massively parallel computation to AI problems.
He held positions in academia and industry and at the time of his death, was a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University where he directed the Center for Computational Learning Systems.
Education
Waltz was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1943. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where, as a student of artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky, he was part of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and received S.B. (1965), M.S. (1968) and Ph.D. (1972) degrees, all in Electrical Engineering.
His Ph.D. dissertation on computer vision initiated the field of constraint propagation, which allowed a computer program to generate a detailed three-dimensional view of an object given a two dimensional drawing with shadows.
Career
Following his graduate work at MIT in 1972, Waltz became a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 1984 he joined Thinking Machines Corporation where he led the Knowledge Representation and Natural Language (KRNL) group. There, his access to massively parallel supercomputers enabled him to work on new methods for information retrieval involving comparisons to large amounts of data. With Craig Stanfill, he originated the field of memory-based reasoning branch of case-based reasoning. His research interests also included massively parallel information retrieval, data mining, learning and automatic classification with applications protein structure prediction, and natural language processing and machine learning applications applied to the electric power grid. While at Thinking Machines, Waltz was also a Professor of Computer Science at Brandeis University. In 1993 Waltz left Thinking Machines to join NEC Research Institute in Princeton, where he eventually rose to become President of NEC Research. Waltz joined Columbia University in 2003 as the Director of the Center for Computational Learning Systems.
Waltz served as president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) from 1997 to 1999 and is the former Chairman of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART). He was on the Advisory Board for IEEE Intelligent Systems, and the board of the Computing Community Consortium of the Computing Research Association, and National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer Science Advisory Board.
He was on the Army Research Lab Technical Advisory Board and the Advisory Board of the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, the Technical Advisory Board of Cork Constraint Computation Center (4C), Ireland, and served on recent external advisory boards for Rutgers University, Carnegie Mel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20A.%20Wasserman | Larry Alan Wasserman (born 1959) is a Canadian-American statistician and a professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science and the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University.
Biography
Wasserman received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1988 under the supervision of Robert Tibshirani.
He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1999 and the CRM-SSC Prize in 2002.
He was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1996, of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2004, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011. He was elected to National Academy of Sciences in May, 2016.
Selected works
Wasserman has written many research papers about nonparametric inference, asymptotic theory, causality, and applications of statistics to astrophysics, bioinformatics, and genetics. He has also written two advanced statistics textbooks, All of Statistics and All of Nonparametric Statistics.
2004. All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference. Springer-Verlag, New York.
won DeGroot Prize 2005.
2006. All of Nonparametric Statistics. Springer.
2013. Topological Inference. Reitz Lecture 2013.
Honors and awards
2016, Member of National Academy of Sciences
Wasserman was elected to National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievement in original research.
See also
Peer review
Computational thinking
References
External links
Wasserman's home page
Wasserman's Blog on Statistics and Machine Learning
Canadian statisticians
Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Fellows of the American Statistical Association
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Living people
University of Toronto alumni
Scientists from Ontario
21st-century Canadian mathematicians
1959 births
Mathematical statisticians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETV%20Ghana | e.tv Ghana also known as ETV Ghana is a free-to-air terrestrial television network broadcasting 24-hours a day from Accra since its launch in October 2009. As of December 2011 it will also commence terrestrial transmissions in Kumasi. Beyond Accra and Kumasi, it is available via satellite on First Digital TV and SMART TV. It is privately owned TV in Accra.
History
The TV station was born of a partnership between Global Media Alliance (GMA) and Sabido Group, parent company of e.tv, the largest English-medium channel in South Africa. e.tv Ghana operates under Global Media Alliance’s broadcasting company (GMABC).
Edward Boateng is the Chairman of the Board of Directors and renowned Ghanaian film and TV personality Jot Agyeman is e.tv Ghana’s Station Manager.
Programming
e.tv Ghana’s programming falls into six broad categories: entertainment; talkshows; sports; current affairs; drama; and movies. It also broadcasts special major one-off events, children’s programming and comedy shows.
e.tv Ghana has historically invested heavily in local talent and programming and supplements its local content with shows imported from South Africa and the United States. About 30-40% of its prime time programming is locally produced. Its local acquisitions are a mix of in-house shows and co-productions with local production companies. Locally produced shows include Awake, The Be Bold Show, 100 Degrees, Meet the Girls, The Late Night Celebrity Show and Sports Lounge. South African shows include the hit-soapies Rhythm City and Scandal! and international imports include How I Met Your Mother and WWE Wrestling.
News
e.tv Ghana has an in-house news production department that focuses on national and business news content for its website and local and international news stories for its television transmissions. The main nightly news programme is called Prime News and is fronted by Gideon Aryeequaye in a 20:00h slot. The main business news programme is fronted by Christal Jeanne and is called eBusiness Journal, airing prior to Prime News at 19:30h.
In addition to regular news updates broadcast during the day, e.tv Ghana also airs a daily news programme from parent station e.tv South Africa at 18:00h, eNCA.
References
External links
Television stations in Ghana
Ghanaian culture
Television channels and stations established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Flattisbury | Philip Flattisbury (fl. 1500), was an Irish compiler.
Flattisbury was from a prominent Irish family: members of the family, from the thirteenth century, held important positions as landowners in County Kildare, and occasionally filled legal offices under the English government there. Flattisbury appears to have been a retainer of Gearóid Mór FitzGerald, 8th Earl of Kildare, deputy-governor of Ireland under Henry VII and Henry VIII. In 1503 Flattisbury made for FitzGerald a compilation styled the Red Book of the Earls of Kildare. This volume consists mainly of documents connected with or bearing upon the lands and possessions of the Geraldine house of Kildare. This volume was sought for eagerly, but in vain, by the governmental agents at the time of the attainder of the heads of the house of Kildare in 1537. Formerly in the possession of the Duke of Leinster, the original manuscript was bought by Trinity College, Dublin in 1984, and has been edited by Gearóid MacNiocaill.
Flattisbury also transcribed for Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare, in 1517, a collection of Anglo-Irish annals in Latin, terminating in 1370 (linked by the DNB to the chronicles of John Pembridge). To them, he appended a few lines of additional matter at the end, with a brief panegyric on the Earl of Kildare. The manuscript bears the following title: Hic inferius sequuntur diversæ Cronicæ ad requisitionem nobilis et præpotentis domini, Geraldi filii Geraldi, deputati domini regis Hiberniæ, scriptæ per Philippum Flattisbury de Johnston juxta le Naas, anno Domini mdxvii. et anno regni Henrici Octavi ix. Edmund Campion, in his History of Ireland, written in 1571, and Richard Stanihurst, somewhat later, referred erroneously to Flattisbury as the author of the annals of which he was the transcriber. Stanihurst did not record the date of Flattisbury's death, but mentioned that it took place ‘at his town styled Johnstown,’ near Naas, in Kildare, and observes that he was a ‘worthy gentleman and a diligent antiquary.’ The original annals, from which Flattisbury transcribed, were printed for the first time in 1607 by William Camden, in his Britannia, from a manuscript lent to him by Lord Howard of Naworth Castle, and subsequently presented by Archbishop Laud to the Bodleian Library, where it is now preserved. A new edition from the manuscript used by Camden, and collated with fragments of an older one unknown to him, was published by John Thomas Gilbert, Flattisbury's DNB biographer, in the appendix to the Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin, Rolls Series, 1885.
References
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
15th-century births
16th-century deaths
15th-century Irish people
16th-century Irish writers
People of the Tudor period |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket%20features | Racket has been under active development as a vehicle for programming language research since the mid-1990s, and has accumulated many features over the years. This article describes and demonstrates some of these features. Note that one of Racket's main design goals is to accommodate creating new languages, both domain-specific languages and completely new languages.
Therefore, some of the following examples are in different languages, but they are all implemented in Racket. Please refer to the main article for more information.
The core Racket implementation is highly flexible. Even without using dialects, it can function as a full-featured scripting language, capable of running both with and without windows-native GUI, and capable of tasks from web server creation to graphics.
Runtime support
Garbage collection, tail calls, and space safety
Racket can use three different garbage collectors:
Originally, the conservative Boehm garbage collector was used. However, conservative collection is impractical for long-running processes such as a web server—such processes tend to slowly leak memory. In addition, there are pathological cases where a conservative collector leaks memory fast enough to make certain programs impossible to run. For example, when traversing an infinite list, a single conservative mistake of retaining a pointer leads to keeping the complete list in memory, quickly overflowing available memory. This collector is often referred to as "CGC" in the Racket community.
SenoraGC is an alternative conservative garbage collector that is intended mainly for debugging and memory tracing.
The moving memory manager (aka "3m") is a precise garbage collector, and it has been Racket's default collector since 2007. This collector is a generational one, and it supports memory accounting via custodians (see below). The collector is implemented as a C source transformer that is itself written in Racket. Therefore, the build process uses the conservative collector for bootstrapping.
Like all implementations in the Scheme family, Racket implements full tail call elimination. Racket takes this further: the language is made fully safe-for-space, via live variable analysis. This complements the precise garbage collector and in some cases, like in the implementation of Lazy Racket, the two features are crucial for proper execution. This is in addition to additional compiler optimizations such as lambda lifting and just-in-time compilation.
System interface and scripting
Racket's system interface includes asynchronous non-blocking I/O, green threads, synchronization channels, semaphores, sub-processes, and TCP sockets.
The following program starts an "echo server" on port 12345.
#lang racket
(define listener (tcp-listen 12345))
(let echo-server ()
;; create a TCP server
(define-values (in out) (tcp-accept listener))
;; handle an incoming connection in a (green) thread
(thread (λ () (copy-port in out) (close-output-port ou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare | Cloudflare, Inc., is an American company that provides content delivery network services, cloud cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, and ICANN-accredited domain registration services. Cloudflare's headquarters are located in San Francisco, California. According to The Hill, it is used by more than 20 percent of the Internet for its web security services
History
Cloudflare was founded in July 2009 by Matthew Prince, Lee Holloway, and Michelle Zatlyn. Prince and Holloway had previously collaborated on Project Honey Pot, a product of Unspam Technologies that served as some inspiration for the basis of Cloudflare. From 2009, the company was venture-capital funded. On August 15, 2019, Cloudflare submitted its S-1 filing for IPO on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock ticker NET. It opened for public trading on September 13, 2019 at $15 per share.
In 2020, Cloudflare co-founder and COO Michelle Zatlyn was named president, making her one of the few woman presidents of a publicly traded technology company in the U.S.
Cloudflare has acquired web-services and security companies, including StopTheHacker (Feb 2014), CryptoSeal (June 2014), Eager Platform Co. (December 2016), Neumob (November 2017), S2 Systems (January 2020), Linc (December 2020), Zaraz (December 2021), Vectrix (February 2022), and Area 1 Security (February 2022).
Since at least 2017, Cloudflare has been using a wall of lava lamps in their San Francisco headquarters as a source of randomness for encryption keys, alongside double pendulums in its London offices and a geiger counter in its Singapore offices. The lava lamp installation implements the Lavarand method, where a camera transforms the unpredictable shapes of the "lava" blobs into a digital image.
Cloudflare provided paid services to 162,086 customers.
Products
Cloudflare acts as a reverse proxy for web traffic. It supports web protocols including SPDY and HTTP/2, QUIC, and support for HTTP/2 Server Push. Cloudflare handles an average of 45 million HTTP requests per second.
Cloudflare provides DDoS mitigation services that protect customers from distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
In 2010, Cloudflare launched a content distribution network (CDN) service. TechCrunch wrote that its goal was to be "a CDN for the masses".
In 2017 Cloudflare launched Cloudflare Workers, a serverless computing platform for creating new applications, augmenting existing ones, without configuring or maintaining infrastructure. It has expanded to include Workers KV, a low-latency key-value data store; Cron Triggers, for scheduling Cron jobs; and additional tooling for developers to deploy and scale their code across the globe.
On September 25, 2019, Cloudflare released a freemium VPN service for mobile devices called WARP. A year later, beta support for macOS and Windows was released.
In April 2020, Cloudflare announced it was moving away from using reCAPTCHA in favor of hCaptcha.
Cloudflare One, the company's overarching SASE platf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20engineering | Cloud engineering is the application of engineering disciplines to cloud computing. It brings a systematic approach to concerns of commercialization, standardization, and governance of cloud computing applications. In practice, it leverages the methods and tools of engineering in conceiving, developing, operating and maintaining cloud computing systems and solutions. It is about the process of designing the systems necessary to leverage the power and economics of cloud resources to solve business problems.
Core features
Cloud engineering is a field of engineering that focuses on cloud services, such as "software as a service", "platform as a service", and "infrastructure as a service". It is a multidisciplinary method encompassing contributions from diverse areas such as systems engineering, software engineering, web engineering, performance engineering, information technology engineering, security engineering, platform engineering, service engineering, risk engineering, and quality engineering. The nature of commodity-like capabilities delivered by cloud services and the inherent challenges in this business model drive the need for cloud engineering as the core discipline.
Elements of Cloud Engineering include:
Foundation: the fundamental basics, concepts, guiding principles, and taxonomy
Implementation: the building blocks and practice guides for Cloud realization
Lifecycle: the end-to-end iteration of Cloud development and delivery
Management: the design-time and run-time Cloud management from multiple perspectives
Profession
The professionals who work in the field of cloud engineering are primarily cloud architects and engineers. The key skills possessed by cloud engineering professionals are:
Know the language of business and domain knowledge
Understand the conceptual, logical and physical architecture
Master various cloud technologies, frameworks, and platforms
Implement the solutions for quality of cloud services, e.g. HA, DR, scaling, performance
Work on the security at multiple levels
Develop applications for flexible deployment, provisioning, and management
Leverage open source packages and products
Apply agile and lean principles in design and construction
The demand for skills in advanced ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has rapidly expanded in recent years as business and society are being transformed by the emergence of Internet and Web as ubiquitous media for enabling knowledge-based global economy. This in turn has created a huge demand for networked-enabled parallel and distributed computing technologies that are changing the way we conduct science, operate business, and tackle challenging problems such as epidemic diseases and climate change.
Software
There are many platforms available for cloud engineering, enabling a variety of adaptive environments for architectural framework design, access point sharing, and data retrieval analytics. Platform virtualization is also available, allowing multimod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Jesse%20Kelly%20Show | The Jesse Kelly Show (formerly known as America Now and The Buck Sexton Show) is a three-hour early evening conservative talk radio show hosted by Jesse Kelly, and carried by Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia, Inc. It is broadcast live 6 to 9 p.m. Eastern Time on weekdays. The show mainly covers politics, and under former hosts, was intended as a broad-audience rundown of the day's news events, including entertainment topics. It airs on its affiliates either live or on tape delay, along with distribution through the iHeartRadio app and podcast providers.
Originally hosted by Andy Dean, America Now debuted on August 8, 2011. Joe Pagliarulo (known as "Joe Pags" and based at WOAI in San Antonio) replaced Dean as interim host beginning August 11, 2014. Pagliarulo ceded hosting duties to Meghan McCain (daughter of Senator John McCain) on July 15, 2015. McCain left the program on January 31, 2017, deciding to focus on television work instead.
Premiere Networks announced on February 1, 2017, that Buck Sexton would become the new host. He began hosting the show on February 6. The show has since become a more traditional conservative talk show during his run. In early 2018, the America Now title was removed, and the program was rebranded as The Buck Sexton Show, a title previously used on his radio program with a video simulcast for TheBlaze from 2014 until 2017. Sexton's video simulcast moved to The First TV in October 2019.
On May 27, 2021, Premiere Networks announced that Clay Travis would be teamed with Sexton, and that the two would take over the noon–3 p.m. ET timeslot on June 21, 2021, as The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. The new program serves as the official replacement for The Rush Limbaugh Show, following a transitional period after Limbaugh died on February 17.
On June 28, 2021, Jesse Kelly took over the timeslot under the title The Jesse Kelly Show. Since 2020, Kelly has been based at KPRC in Houston, a station owned by Premiere Networks parent company iHeartMedia, Inc. He had been in limited syndication through Key Networks.
In a December 2021 interview with Tucker Carlson, he criticized President Biden’s Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Christopher W. Grady further stating that "We don't need a military that's woman-friendly, that's gay-friendly" we need men "who want to sit on a throne of Chinese skulls."
References
External links
Official website
American talk radio programs
IHeartRadio digital channels
Conservative talk radio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE/ACM%20Transactions%20on%20Computational%20Biology%20and%20Bioinformatics | IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (abbreviated TCBB) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal. It is a joint publication of the IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. It is published in cooperation with the IEEE Control Systems Society.
The journal covers research related to:
algorithmic, mathematical, statistical, and computational methods used in bioinformatics and computational biology
development and testing of effective computer programs in bioinformatics
development and optimization of biological databases
biological results that are obtained from the use of these methods, programs, and databases
the field of systems biology
References
External links
Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics and computational biology journals
Bimonthly journals
Academic journals established in 2004
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulsoft%20Reports | Stimulsoft Company is a software manufacturer in the sphere of Business Intelligence, data analysis, and processing. It develops reporting tools for variety of platforms while keeping full compatibility between products. Stimulsoft Company provides software for Business Intelligence in the Reporting Tool category.
Stimulsoft Products
Stimulsoft offers solutions for creating and viewing reports across a variety of platforms and devices. Users of the Windows and macOS operating systems can employ independent apps as well as components for particular technologies.
Awards
SQL Server Magazine: A bronze medal winner of the “2008 Editor’s Best Awards”;
Component Source Top 100 Bestselling Publisher Award 2009-2010;
Component Source Top 100 Bestselling Publisher Award 2010-2011.
Component Source Top 100 Bestselling Publisher Award 2011-2012.
Component Source Top 100 Bestselling Publisher Award 2012-2013.
Component Source Top 100 Bestselling Publisher Award 2013-2014.
Component Source Top 100 Bestselling Publisher Award 2014-2015.
Component Source Top 100 Bestselling Publisher Award 2016.
Component Source Top 50 Bestselling Publisher Award 2017.
Component Source Top 50 Bestselling Publisher Award 2018.
The Tabby Awards /Business 2014 Winner.
Component Source Top 50 Bestselling Publisher Award 2022.
References
External links
Stimulsoft Reports official site
Reporting software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Tokyo%20Majin%20episodes | Tokyo Majin is a Japanese anime series, which premiered in Japan on the anime satellite TV network Animax. A large part of the Tokyo Majin Gakuen franchise, it is loosely based on a series of Japan-only video games, and is directed by Shinji Ishihira. The first season, originally aired on January 19, 2007, and ended on April 20, 2007. All of the episodes in the season are called the 'Dark Arts Chapters' (外法編 Gehou-hen). A second season, titled originally aired on July 27, 2007 to October 12, 2007. Its first five episodes are called the 'Martial Fist Chapters' (拳武編 Kenbu-hen), its next five episodes are called the 'Stars of Fate Chapters' (宿星編 Shukusei-hen), and the last two episodes are called 'Extra Chapters' (番外編 Bangai-hen). The 'Extra' episodes do not run in the chronological timeline of the story, but are flashbacks and fillers.
Funimation published the DVDs in 2 boxsets. The First boxset Tokyo Majin-Part One, Dark Arts Chapters. The Second boxset Tokyo Majin-Part Two, Martial Fist Chapters, which showed the two story arcs and two extras. American television network Chiller began airing the series as part of their Anime Wednesdays block on July 15, 2015.
Episode list
Season 1
Season 2
References
External links
Tokyo Majin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Winterthur | The Winterthur trolleybus system () forms part of the public transport network that serves Winterthur, in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland.
Opened on 28 December 1938, the system gradually replaced the Winterthur tramway network.
History
The individual line sections of the Winterthur trolleybus system went into operation as follows:
With the timetable change on 23 May 1982, the Rosenberg line (line 3) was separated from the Breite line (a new line 4). The latter line, which operated as a circle line, was converted back into a diesel bus service on 28 May 1995, and the last remaining traces of its overhead wires disappeared at the end of January 2010.
Meanwhile, in December 2006, lines 3 and 6 were merged into the present line 3.
Lines
The present system is made up of the following lines, all of them cross-city routes:
Fleet
Evolution
The Winterthur trolleybus system was operated initially by conventional length, two-axle vehicles. In 1957, the first five articulated trolleybuses were ordered. They entered service in 1959.
In 1997, Stadtbus Winterthur sold a few trolleybuses to the Romanian city of Timișoara. Other trolleybuses were sold in 1998 to the Bulgarian city of Ruse, and, a year later, to Burgas, also in Bulgaria.
In March 2004, an order for 10 articulated trolleybuses was placed with Solaris Bus & Coach. In November 2005, the first trolleybus in this order was delivered. By the end of 2005, all had entered service; they replaced the Saurer trolleybuses nos. 122–131.
Current fleet
See also
List of trolleybus systems in Switzerland
References
External links
Stadtbus Winterthur – history of public transport in Winterthur
Stadtbus Winterthur – trolleybus fleet
Winterthur public transport map
Transport in Winterthur
Winterthur
Winterthur
1938 establishments in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAW%20Video%20Mediatheque | SAW Video Media Art Centre is an artist-run-centre for artistic production, presentation, and programming of independent video and media arts. SAW Video is based out of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
The SAW Video Mediatheque was the first online archive for independent media arts in Canada, soft-launched in 2003, and released publicly in 2004. The archive featured 496 videos, streamed in full for free on the Web. The Mediatheque suffered a back-end server crash and lost its database in 2009.
The archive was relaunched October 1, 2011 and continues to showcase over 300 videos.
References
Video production companies
Companies based in Ottawa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str%C3%B6mgren%20integral | In mathematics and astrophysics, the Strömgren integral, introduced by while computing the Rosseland mean opacity, is the integral:
discussed applications of the Strömgren integral in astrophysics, and discussed how to compute it.
References
External links
Stromgren integral
Special functions
Astrophysics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny%20Kiriakis | Sonny Kiriakis is a fictional character from Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network. The role was originally portrayed by Freddie Smith. Sonny is the only biological child of Justin Kiriakis (Wally Kurth) and Adrienne Johnson Kiriakis (Judi Evans). Sonny's birth was announced in 1991. Developed under head writer Dena Higley, Sonny was introduced in 2011 by executive producers Ken Corday and Gary Tomlin as Justin and Adrienne's openly gay son – the show's first regular character to be openly gay. His major stories included a gay bashing storyline and the development of his romance with Will Horton (Chandler Massey) who is just coming to terms with his own sexuality. In 2014, Will (then portrayed by Guy Wilson) and Sonny marry, becoming the first male-male couple to legally marry in the history of American daytime television drama. Sonny is also known for his friendship and business dealings with Chad DiMera (Casey Deidrick, later Billy Flynn) – a friendship that nearly gets him killed when their sports website is taken over by an illegal gambling operation.
In 2014, the series introduced Sonny's closeted first love, the famous baseball player, Paul Narita (Christopher Sean) and a romantic triangle develops between Sonny, Paul, and Will (who also falls for Paul). The character of Sonny was momentarily written out of the show by his relocation to Paris in August 2015. Smith later briefly reappeared as Sonny in October 2015, before returning again as a regular in July 2016. In February 2020, the characters of Will and Sonny were written out, with Smith's last appearance as Sonny airing in September 2020. The characters were to return some time in the future. A year later, in September 2021, the role of Sonny was recast with Zach Tinker, who took over for the Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem one week limited series after Smith turned down the offer. Tinker would start appearing on the main series in March 2022; he exited in February of the following year, and returned in August in a guest capacity.
Sonny is one half of the show's first same-sex super couple, with Will Horton. The couple is commonly referred to by the portmanteaus "WilSon". Smith won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series in 2015, and earned a nomination for the same award in 2013.
Sonny's arrival on Days of Our Lives in 2011 began an era of storylines featuring gay characters in prominent roles on Days, and in 2012, the show won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Daily Drama, followed by successive wins in 2013, 2014, and 2015.
Storylines
Jackson Steven Kiriakis, known as Sonny, was born on August 7, 1991, in Texas as the only biological child of Justin and Adrienne Kiriakis. In 2007, Justin and Adrienne (off-screen) move Sonny and their three others sons—Alex, Joey and Victor—back to Salem where he enrolls in Salem High School. However, by January 2008, the family relocated again to Dubai. Justin returned to Salem in 2009, w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Romance | Data Romance is a Vancouver based electro-indie duo started by Ajay Bhattacharyya, instrumentalist-producer, and Amy Kirkpatrick, singer/lyricist. Showcasing the modern direction of electronic music, the duo signed to Street Quality Entertainment, the Canadian-based record label, releasing a self-titled EP of four songs in June 2011. Having toured with the IDentity Festival, Data Romance has released a single titled "The Deep", which has been featured in NME and Filter Magazines as well as the BBC Radio 1 program. The duo has been likened to The xx, Bat for Lashes, Lykke Li and Florence and the Machine. The pair are currently on indefinite hiatus.
History
Both Victoria natives, Ajay Bhattacharyya and Amy Kirkpatrick, aged 25 (in 2011), have been playing together since 2009. They first met at the Lucky Bar, home to a bustling and tight-knit community of musicians and fans, where Bhattacharyya filled in as a drummer for Kirkpatrick when she was touring her singer/songwriter act throughout coffee houses in Victoria. After both moving to Vancouver, Kirkpatrick worked as a lighting technician at many well-respected clubs in the city while Bhattacharyya studied sound design for film under Robert Grieve, with mentoring from Craig Berkey. As a musical duo, Bhattacharyya and Kirkpatrick called themselves Names, but later rebranded themselves Data Romance, a name which was derived from a song by Berlin techno icon Ellen Allien. Together, their work experiences have influenced their music and live performances, adding to the "soundtrack-like" vibe and highly visual live show.
Data Romance signed to Street Quality Entertainment in September 2010. The duo has put out all of its releases under the label's name. The first is an original soundtrack called "Life Cycles" released in January 2011. Their follow up EP, self-titled, released in June of the same year debuts their single (and music video), "The Deep". The EP and single have been featured on NME, Filter and Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 BBC program.
On September 18th, 2012, Data Romance released their first single, "Caves", along with a remix bundle on iTunes.
Data Romance released their first full-length album, "Other", on February 19, 2013.
After the debut album was released, Ajay Bhattacharyya worked as an independent songwriter and record producer under his own stage name Stint, away from the "Data Romance" project. His first major appearance was with Carly Rae Jepsen on the song "LA Hallucinations", which was released on Jepsen's 2015 studio album, entitled E-MO-TION. This sparked his collaboration with NAO on the song "Girlfriend", which was released off of her debut studio album, entitled For All We Know, and with AlunaGeorge on the songs "Jealous" and "Wanderlust", which were released off of the duo's second studio album, entitled I Remember. He then went on to produce majority of the tracks on Gallant's critically acclaimed debut album Ology.
Distribution Advancements
Data Romance show |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantarell%20%28typeface%29 | Cantarell is the default typeface supplied with the user interface of GNOME since version 3.0, replacing Bitstream Vera and DejaVu. The font was originated by Dave Crossland in 2009.
Operating systems that ship GNOME (version 3 and later versions) include this typeface family by default, such as Fedora Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux includes the font family in its Google Fonts directory, making the typeface available for use in Web sites. It is notably absent in Ubuntu which includes the Ubuntu typeface instead.
History
In 2009 the Cantarell fonts were initially designed by Dave Crossland during his studies of typeface design at the University of Reading. In 2010, the fonts were chosen by GNOME for use in its 3.0 release, and the font sources were moved to GNOME's Git repository. The fonts are maintained there, allowing contributions from a variety of designers including Jakub Steiner and Pooja Saxena. In 2013 Pooja Saxena joined the GNOME foundation's “Outreach Programme for Women” internship, and was tasked with improving the design and language support. In 2014 Pooja was given financial support by Google Fonts to extend the design to Devanagari, but due to unavoidable vertical metrics adjustments the family was published with a new name, Cambay.
In GNOME 3.28 (March 2018), the font was re-designed with two additional weights, light and extra bold.
Criticism
Cantarell initially received both criticism and support from the free software community. It was argued that GNOME's use of Cantarell reduced legibility in desktop applications, it was not kerned and has deformed glyphs. Other users enjoyed the design, calling it “stylish and beautiful, but most importantly, crisp and easy to read.” The initial release notes stated that it was designed for legibility on screens.
GNOME's choice was also criticized since Cantarell only supports some Latin languages, far fewer than the previously used DejaVu fonts. When the fonts were first published, Crossland invited others to extend the language support and this finally began in 2013 when Saxena began applying the design to the Cyrillic script.
Cantarell does not include native italics or oblique glyphs.
See also
Adwaita (design language) – design language of GNOME, which uses Cantarell as its default typeface
References
External links
Homepage cantarell.gnome.org (variable font)
Cantarell source code
Google Fonts Cantarell
Google Fonts Cambay
Humanist sans-serif typefaces
Open-source typefaces
GNOME
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Danish-UK%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce | The Danish-UK Chamber of Commerce (DUCC) was set up to enhance the Anglo-Danish marketplace through networking. The Royal Danish Embassy in London was one of the co-founders. To this day, the aim of the DUCC remains to promote trade and investment between Denmark and the UK by providing companies from both countries with a business forum in the UK.
Network
The Chamber first and foremost nurtures its immediate network of Members. The Members are students/trainees and individual professionals and corporate businesses ranging from small and medium-sized enterprises to large cooperations with a global business presence covering all industries. As of April 2013 the Corporate Member count is roughly 150, including Danes and Britons as well as other nationalities with an interest in British-Danish business. Among the Members are prestigious and well-known brands such as LEGO, Carlsberg and Danfoss.
With regular contact to key stakeholders in the private sphere and in the public sector, the Chamber enjoys an excellent relationship with an extended network of decision makers.
Events
The primary platform for the Chamber's activities is the 30-40 events hosted throughout the year. The events are wideranging from casual drinks receptions to business seminars to Dinners. Topics are carefully selected to be of interest to the British-Danish business community with prominent speakers from the worlds of business and politics are invited. The events provide Members and the extended network with opportunities of networking in both formal and informal settings.
Chairmanship
2012–present Louis de Courcy Wheeler
2000 - 2012 Per Troen
Council members
Louis Wheeler (Chairman)
Ulrick Walther (Treasurer)
Benedikte Malling Bech
Brent Cheshire
Conny Kalcher
Dennis Englund
Hans Christian Iversen
Helle Sejersen Myrthue
Henrik Skourup Hansen
References
External links
Official Website
Chambers of commerce in the United Kingdom
Denmark–United Kingdom relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi%20Funds | Delphi Funds is a Norwegian mutual funds manager, established in the mid-1980s as a market analysis and data processing firm. By 1995 the company had shifted its activities to mutual fund- and equity management, and was acquired by the Storebrand group in 2000. Delphi Funds was merged with Storebrand Fondene in 2002 to become part of the Storebrand Asset Management subsidiary.
By 2019, Delphi Funds manages five actively managed unconstrained and concentrated long-only mutual funds: Delphi Global, Delphi Europe, Delphi Nordic, Delphi Norge, and Delphi Kombinasjon.
Delphi Global, Delphi Europe, and Delphi Nordic obtained a marketing licence for Finland and the Netherlands in 2012. In 2018, Iceland was added. These marketing licences mean that Delphi funds are now offered to private and institutional investors in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and the Netherlands. Outside home market Norway, Delphi Funds only offer their services to institutional clients, including fund platforms.
References
External links
http://www.delphifunds.com/
Investment management companies of Norway
1995 establishments in Norway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine%20Yaroshevich | Josephine Yaroshevich (born 1946 in Kharkiv, USSR) is a painter and pioneer in the field of Computer Art.
Biography
Josephine Yaroshevich was born in Kharkiv to a Jewish family, and grew up in Odesa. She studied art at Odesa with well-known painters Lev Mejberg and Zoy Ivnitzkaia. She also studied at the Moscow Art Academy under the guidance of professor Volia Nikolatvich Liahov. She taught at the Stroganoff Academy and Polygraphists Institute, and worked at the famous Taganka Theater, both in Moscow. There, she was associated with Nonconformists Group. The origins of her art stem from the Russian Avant-garde; Kandinsky, Malevich, El Lissitzky and Scriabin influenced her spiritual and aesthetic development.
She has resided in Jerusalem since 1973. Here, she taught at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, and worked at the Israel Museum, the Rockefeller Museum and the Hebrew University.
Yaroshevich's paintings have a vibrant and changing quality. Artist is constantly in search for new expression and media. Her creativity is free from standard and cliché. She uses traditional oil painting as well as the utmost new digital media. Her works are distinguished by high level of visual culture and colorist excellence. She is constantly looking for new ways and methods of artistic expression, using the traditional painting along with ultra modern by digital means.
She has worked with computer since 1975; when she began working at the Art and Science Department at the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem with Vladimir Bonachech. Then, for the first time, a huge colored digital board, connected to a computer, was exhibited at the National Museum in Jerusalem. Yaroshevich exhibits all over the world: in Israel, the United States, Canada, Russia, England, France, Germany, Japan and China. Her works are in museums in Jersey City, Haifa and Montgeron, as well as in the collections of Senator Henry Jackson, Dan Hamilton, famous collector Alexander Glaser and many others. In 2010, "Music in Color" was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai and the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
List of J. Yaroshevich Solo exhibitions
2010, February - "Music in Color". Israel Museum. Jerusalem, Israel
2007 - September–October - Art House of Quality, Jerusalem, Israel
2006, December - Gallery of the Palace of the Nations, Jerusalem, Israel
2006 - June - Back Center, Hi-Tech Cultural Center. Jerusalem, Israel
2002 – Shonka Gallery. Jerusalem, Israel
2000 – University Gallery. Beit Belgia. Jerusalem, Israel
1999 – Interamerican House. Jerusalem, Israel
1997 – City Gallery. Odesa, Ukraine
1995 – Intellectuals club. Kyiv, Ukraine
1992 – Srudborove. Warsaw. Poland
1987 – Azorean Gallery. Emek Israel, Israel
1979 – Hutzot ha Yozer, Jerusalem, Israel
1974 – Genia Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
List of J. Yaroshevich Group exhibitions
2009.12 - 2010.1 - МОМА (Museum of Modern Art) Animamix, Shanghai, China
2008, June, July – Jubilee 60 year Israel, 40 Year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASSAIL | WASSAIL is an open-source software platform for educational assessment, designed primarily for academic libraries. It is used to “systematically track, store and analyze assessment data to measure and improve student learning.” Since its inception in 2003 the software has been adopted by dozens of academic libraries, including those at the Miami University, the University of Kansas, Red Deer College, and Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. The name is an acronym for “Web-based Augustana Student Survey Assessment of Information Literacy,” reflecting its origins and ongoing development at the Augustana Faculty of the University of Alberta.
WASSAIL 3.0 is a database-driven, web-based application employing PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and AJAX. WASSAIL facilitates the development and storage of question banks; the generation of online (or paper) surveys and tests from those question banks; and the accumulation and storage of question responses. Its most powerful feature is the ability to create and generate reports. These reports typically measure the impact of information literacy instruction on student learning and on specific demographics (discipline, year, gender, etc.).
Recognition
WASSAIL's developers were awarded the 2010 Instruction Section Innovation Award from the Association of College and Research Libraries.
References
External links
WASSAIL 3.0. Augustana Faculty Library, University of Alberta. Retrieved July 25, 2011.
Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. Association of College & Research Libraries. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
Instruction Section Innovation Award. Association of College & Research Libraries. Retrieved August 16, 2011.
Educational assessment and evaluation
Assessment software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heresy%3A%20Kingdom%20Come | Heresy: Kingdom Come is an out-of-print collectible card game (CCG) developed and published by Last Unicorn Games (LUG) in September 1995. The game was based on religion-themed fantasy in a cyberpunk setting.
Publication history
The base set, released in 1995, consisted of 374 cards. An expansion called Project Demiurge with 90 cards was planned for a June 1996 release, but as a result of poor sales, no expansion sets were ever published. The company delayed the release dependent upon "sufficient orders from distributors."
Setting
The theme of Heresy was the continuation of the War in Heaven between angels and demons in a futuristic cyberpunk setting. The premise is that the barriers (known in the game as the Mirror, Shroud, or Veil) between the physical realm (the Wilds), the digital realm (the Matrix), and the spiritual realm (Heaven) have grown thin, and fallen angels on Earth are trying to use the Matrix (cyberspace) to open a portal to ascend back into Heaven. Meanwhile, Earth is torn by conflict between not just the aforementioned angels and demons, but also human governments, corporations, criminal organizations, artificial intelligences, hackers, and cybernetically-enhanced humans.
Gameplay
Players alternate turns. Each type of card is associated with one of eight convictions: Acquisition, Devotion, Evolution, Preservation, Rebellion, Stagnation, Technology, and Tradition. There are six types of cards:
Location cards can be turned sideways to generate either aura or tau:
Aura is always associated with one of the eight convictions, and it is used to play non-Location cards of the same conviction.
Tau is collected to make progress toward winning the game.
Character cards represent individuals. They remain on the board after being played and can engage in combat.
Aleph cards represent artifacts. Like characters, alephs remain on the board after being played.
Enhancement cards attach to other cards, most often characters, for various effects.
Celestial Power cards are one-time effects. They can only be played during the player's turn and are discarded after being played.
Miracle cards are one-time effects like celestial powers, but can be played at any time, not just during the player's turn.
A player wins once he or she has generated enough tau to open a portal with which to ascend to Heaven.
Card size
While the vast majority of CCGs adhered to the standard ISO 216 B8 card size of 2.5" x 3.5", popularized by playing cards and the pioneering CCG Magic: The Gathering, Heresy was notable for instead using oversized cards with a much greater height. The similarity of the height to that of tarot cards emphasized the magical and mystical themes of the card game. The greater card size also allowed for larger art. On the other hand, the greater size was criticized for rendering the cards unable to fit in standard-sized card sleeves, as well as making shuffling difficult.
Art
The larger card size showcased art by such well-known artis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Freeman%20Gilbert | James Freeman Gilbert (August 9, 1931 – August 15, 2014) was an American geophysicist, best known for his work with George E. Backus on inverting geophysical data, and also for his role in establishing an international network of long-period seismometers.
Gilbert was born in Vincennes, Indiana. A 1949 graduate of Lawrenceburg High School (Kentucky), his undergraduate and graduate degrees were earned from MIT (B.S., 1953, and Ph.D. in geophysics, 1956), and he continued at MIT as a postdoctoral fellow until 1957, when he moved to the University of California, Los Angeles. At UCLA he was an assistant, then associate, professor, but left to take an appointment as
a senior researcher at Texas Instruments. In 1961, he was recruited by Walter Munk to the Institute of Geophysics and
Planetary Physics (IGPP) at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, also becoming a professor of geophysics at the University of California, San Diego. He remained at UCSD through the remainder of his career, and became an emeritus professor.
In his later years, Gilbert enjoyed extensive world travel with his wife, Sally Gilbert. He died due to complications resulting from a car accident in Southern Oregon on August 15, 2014. He was 83 years old.
Contributions
Gilbert was among the first to recognize that the free oscillations of the Earth (so-called bell-ringing modes) could be measured immediately following large earthquakes, and could be used to produce structural models of the inner earth. In collaboration with Adam Dziewonski, he applied these ideas first to seismic records from the 1964 Alaska earthquake and then to records from the 1970 Colombia earthquake. In this context he and Backus developed robust methods for inverting seismic data.
By the early 1970s it was clear that better data from long-period seismometers was needed for this kind of work.
Gilbert convinced geophysicist/philanthropist Cecil Green to fund a network of seismometers designed to provide data for global studies of the Earth. The first of 40 stations of this International Deployment of Accelerometers (IDA) array (the acronym also commemorating co-philanthropist Ida Green) was installed in 1974, and it continues in operation to this day.
Awards
Gilbert had received many honors, including the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1981; the William Bowie Medal of American Geophysical Union in 1999; and the Harry Fielding Reid Medal of the Seismological Society of America in 2004. In 1990, Freeman was awarded the Balzan Prize for Geophysics (solid earth) for his outstanding contribution to our knowledge of the Earth’s deep interior.
See also
Backus–Gilbert method
List of geophysicists
References
External links
J. Freeman Gilbert Biography
Project IDA (International Deployment of Accelerometers)
1981 The Gold Medal (A) The Society's highest honour
1985 The Arthur L. Day Medal
1990 Balzan Prize Winner
J. Freeman Gilbert Receives 1999 William Bowie Medal
2004 The Harry Fi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Edward%20Backus | George Edward Backus (born May 24, 1930) is an American geophysicist, best known for his work with J. Freeman Gilbert on inverse methods for geophysical data. He is also notably credited with advancing the dynamo theory on the origin of the Earth's magnetic field.
Born in Chicago, Backus did his undergraduate and graduate training at the University of Chicago, receiving a M.S. in mathematics in 1950 and a Ph.D. in physics in 1956. During 1957–1958 he worked as a physicist in Project Matterhorn in Princeton, then moving to MIT for two years as assistant professor of mathematics. In 1960 he moved to Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the associated University of California, San Diego where he has spent the rest of his career. Backus was professor of geophysics until 1994, and subsequently a research professor of geophysics.
Backus is the winner of many awards, including the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1986) and the John Adam Fleming Medal of the American Geophysical Union (1986), and he was elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union (1967) and of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1963 and 1970). He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Académie des Sciences of France.
See also
Backus–Gilbert method
List of geophysicists
References
External links
Scripps Institution of Oceanography – Profile page on George Backus
1930 births
Living people
American geophysicists
Linear algebraists
University of Chicago alumni
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Fellows of the American Geophysical Union
Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance%3A%20Burning%20Skies | Resistance: Burning Skies is a first-person shooter video game for the PlayStation Vita, part of the Resistance series. The game was developed by Nihilistic Software and published by Sony Computer Entertainment in May 2012. It was announced in August 2011 at Gamescom. In the game, players control the character of Tom Riley, a firefighter who fights against an enemy called the Chimera during their invasion of the United States.
Premise
On August 14, 1951, one month after the liberation of the United Kingdom, the Chimera invade the East Coast of the United States. New York fireman Tom Riley is caught in the middle of the conflict. In spite of the fact that he fights against the Chimera, he only has a desire to find and rescue his family caught in the middle of the invasion.
Plot
The story begins with Tom Riley, along with Engine 174, driving through Staten Island. They arrive at a power station that is in flames. They enter the station and Tom is separated from his fellow firemen after accidentally falling into the lower levels of the station through a broken floor. As Tom works his way back up, he sees one of the firemen being attacked and killed by Longlegs. Tom is forced to fight his way out of the station and rescue one of his fellow firemen.
Once outside, Tom learns that the Chimeran invasion is in full swing. Riley then makes his way through the city, eventually picking up a broadcast asking him to assist with the evacuation. Tom follows the directions given by the broadcast, eventually meeting up with a woman named Ellie Martinez, the leader of the self-titled "Minutemen". With the support of Ellie and her ally Mac, Tom fights his way to a highway bridge where Tom reunites with his wife, Natalie, and daughter, Rachel.
Tom sends his family to safety, promising to find them. As more Chimera show up, Riley is forced to stay behind with Ellie to buy the survivors some time. Along the way, Tom and Ellie come across a mysterious shipment in a military truck called Gray Tech, which demonstrates the capabilities of upgrading their weapons. It is revealed that the shipment was being sent to Richard Gorrell. They are again attacked by Chimeran ground forces but Tom and Ellie defeat them. Before they could leave the highway however, an Executioner attacks them. Tom and Ellie are able to destroy the Executioner and escape from bombardment of Spires and Crawlers.
They make their way to a military base in Bayonne, New Jersey, where Ellie introduces Tom to her ally Colonel George Amherst, who notifies Tom that his family has been sent to a Protection Camp in Union City. Immediately after, the Chimera ambush the base. Riley assists in fending off the attack, which includes saving a wounded soldier, and killing a gargantuan Chimeran creature called the Abomination.
As Tom and Ellie progress towards Ellis Island, they sight some Chimeran reinforcements traveling along the George Washington Bridge. Ellie calls in an air strike in an effort to eliminate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking%20with%20Dinosaurs%20%28film%29 | Walking with Dinosaurs is a 2013 live-action/computer-animated family film about dinosaurs set in the Late Cretaceous period, years ago. The production features computer-animated dinosaurs in live-action settings with actors John Leguizamo, Justin Long, Tiya Sircar, and Skyler Stone providing voice-overs for the main characters. It was directed by Neil Nightingale and Barry Cook from a screenplay by John Collee. In the film, an underdog dinosaur named Patchi must find his courage to become the leader of his herd as well as become a hero for the ages.
The film was produced by BBC Earth and Evergreen Films and was titled after the BBC's 1999 television documentary miniseries of the same name. The film, with a budget of , was one of the largest independent productions at the time. It was financed by Reliance Big Entertainment and IM Global instead of a major studio. The majority of distribution rights were eventually sold to 20th Century Fox. The crew filmed footage on location in the U.S. state of Alaska and in New Zealand, which were chosen for their similarities to the dinosaurs' surroundings millions of years ago. Animal Logic designed computer-animated dinosaurs and added them to the live-action backdrop. Though the film was originally going to lack narration or dialogue, 20th Century Fox executives decided to add voiceovers, believing it would connect audiences to the characters.
Walking with Dinosaurs premiered on 2013 at the Dubai International Film Festival. It was released in cinemas in 2D and 3D on 2013. Critics commended the film's visual effects, but derided its subpar storyline and the juvenile quality of the voiceover performances. The film grossed million in the United States and Canada and in other territories for a worldwide total of . The Hollywood Reporter stated the film's global box office performance was disappointing in context of the production budget and marketing costs.
Plot
A paleontologist named Zack takes his nephew Ricky and his niece Jade on a fossil hunt in Alaska while their parents are on vacation in Europe. While alone, Ricky encounters an anthropomorphic raven named Alex, who then transforms into a prehistoric ancestor, Alexornis. Alex tells Ricky of a story set in the Late Cretaceous period, 70 million years ago, about his best friend Patchi. Patchi is the youngest and smallest in a litter of Pachyrhinosaurus hatchlings and is often bullied by his older brother Scowler. Their father Bulldust is the leader of the herd. Alex, who is Patchi's mentor, protector, and teacher, tries to help Patchi impress a female Pachyrhinosaurus named Juniper, but her herd migrates south without him. Patchi is also attacked by a troodontid, which attempts to eat him, but he is saved by his dad, resulting in Patchi having a hole in his frill as an injury which Alex claims that Patchi is "destined for greatness".
Later, Bulldust moves his herd south as well, but when they try to pass through a forest, they are forced to fle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Geneva | The Geneva tramway network () is a network of tramways forming the core element of the public transport system in Geneva, Switzerland. It is operated by Transports Publics Genevois (TPG), and is supplemented by the Geneva trolleybus system and the Geneva bus system.
Opened in 1862, the network had grown sufficiently by 1920 to serve large parts of the surrounding countryside. However, by 1960 it had contracted to just one line. Since 1995, it has been greatly expanded. It presently has five tram lines, and further expansions are planned. The network extends into France, with line 17 going to Annemasse, making Geneva one of the only cities in the world with a tram system that crosses an international border (the only others being Strasbourg, between France and Germany, and Basel, between France, Germany and Switzerland).
History
Rise and fall (1862–1976)
Geneva's and Switzerland's first trams ran on 19 June 1862, with the opening of a horsecar tramway between Place Neuve and Carouge. In 1889, a steam tramway was opened, and in 1894 Geneva's first electric tram entered service. Finally, in 1899, the Compagnie Genevoise des Tramways Électriques (CGTE), predecessor of the TPG, was inaugurated.
The CGTE set itself the goal of unifying the various systems. All lines were electrified and converted to a uniform metre gauge.
For nearly three months in 1904, the CGTE also operated the steepest adhesion railway in Switzerland. The incline reached 11.8%, but the dangers posed by such steep inclines brought about the swift demise of this line.
In the 1920s, the city and the canton had a large network of urban and suburban tramways. As of 1923, a total of of tramways had been built. The network extended into the countryside, and even across the border into France.
In 1925, the CGTE began to convert its interurban lines to bus operation. This process continued in the city centre, where the lines were partly replaced by trolleybuses. By 1969, the network had shrunk to just one long tramway, which was served by line 12 (Moillesulaz–Carouge). The good technical condition of the tramcars and the fact that they had not yet been written off, led to the provisional retention of the last tramway.
In the 1970s, concepts were developed to connect the relatively large suburban communities of Meyrin and Onex to the remaining tramway once again, with an appropriately modern light railway. However, all of these ideas, and also the investments necessary for the maintenance of the remaining infrastructure in the medium term, exceeded the abilities of the privately owned CGTE. A popular initiative demanding the nationalization of the CGTE was then adopted, and on 1 January 1977 the CGTE was transformed into the TPG, an autonomous government agency of the canton of Geneva.
Renaissance (1977–1992)
In 1978, the tracks of the last remaining tramway were renewed under the auspices of the "new" TPG. Planning of the proposed new lines was addressed. However, it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%20Dieng-Kuntz | Rose Dieng-Kuntz (1956–2008) was a Senegalese computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence. She was the first African woman to enroll in the École polytechnique.
Life and career
Her area of specialization for her PhD was the specification of parallelism. She worked for the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA) in France, a French national research institution focusing on computer science, control theory and applied mathematics, where her research specialization was on the sharing of knowledge over the World Wide Web.
She died in 2008 after a long illness. Her death received national media coverage. France's Minister of Higher Education and Research, Valérie Pécresse, expressed sadness, and released a statement announcing the death of Rose Dieng Kuntz: "France and the world of science have just lost a visionary mind and an immense talent".
Her last research focused on knowledge management and the semantic Web. She was active in reaching out to students, and female students in particular, about her passion for science. In her words:
Awards and distinctions
Irène Joliot-Curie Prize in 2005
Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur in 2006.
Publications (selected)
(ed., in collaboration with Heinz Jürgen Müller), Computational conflicts : conflict modeling for distributed intelligent systems, 2000
Designing cooperative systems : the use of theories and models, 2000
(ed., in collaboration with Nada Mata), Knowledge management and organizational memories, 2002
(ed., in collaboration with Parisa Ghodous and Geilson Loureiro), Leading the Web in concurrent engineering : next generation concurrent engineering
See also
Bibliography
Pierre Le Hir, « Rose Dieng. Un cerveau sans frontières », Le Monde, 12 janvier 2006
External links
Portrait a profile of Rose Dieng-Kuntz on the Website of INRIA.
Rose Dieng-Kuntz : savoir, mémoire et partage
Hommage à Rose Dieng (avec article revue des anciens X polytechniciens), site Fondation C.Génial
Biography of Rose Dieng-Kuntz
References
1956 births
2008 deaths
Senegalese women computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
20th-century women scientists
Senegalese expatriates in France
École Polytechnique alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall.fm | Wall.fm is an online service for people to build and host social networking services, powered by Oxwall software. Wall.fm allows users over 18 years old to register a free account and create custom social networking websites. The site creation process does not involve any coding, and consists of only two steps.
The distinctive Wall.fm features are user roles (member access permissions), customizable themes, activity newsfeed, website/profile/content privacy, monetization pack. One of its main competitive advantages is that the service is built on an open source platform, which means a certain degree of freedom for site owners.
Wall.fm offers three plans: Starter, Pro and Ultimate. Plans offer different feature sets, disk space and bandwidth, individual support and vendor's branding removal. Every plan offers free trial.
History
Wall.fm was launched as WackWall in February 2010. The second version of WackWall, which was later renamed to Wall.fm, was powered by OpenWack software that eventually evolved into Oxwall. Wall.fm exited beta in October 2010, and started introducing paid plans and changes to free accounts, such as displaying the vendor's ads across the free plan sites, and including a site monetization pack into Ultimate plan features. On May 15, 2011 Wall.fm updated their Terms of Use limiting the use of the service to persons over 18 years old, and introducing regulations for sites intended for use by children under 13 years old. On February 27, 2012 Wall.fm announced significant changes in their pricing policy and user account interface, making subscription plans more affordable although limited in disk space/bandwidth, and site account management more user-friendly. As of May 2011, over 3000 sites are built with Wall.fm service each month.
As of January 2013, Wall.fm only offers free site registration by invites.
Features
Wall.fm provides all the basic functionality required to build a social website: user roles, photo/video sharing, chat, blogs, forum, groups, events, activity stream. It supports site/profile/content privacy, and allows for a certain degree of site pages customization by users and administrator, as well as general design alteration via CSS styles. Wall.fm also has site monetization features available with Pro and Ultimate plans: user credits, membership levels, and payment providers. Because features are developed as plugin extensions, they can be easily enabled/disabled via the admin dashboard.
Wall.fm for education
Granular control over user roles and permissions along with privacy settings and a simplified network creation process makes Wall.fm attractive for online educators. The changes in Wall.fm Terms of Use are also intended to make the service more education-friendly.
Support and community
Wall.fm staff provide free support via public discussion boards. Wall.fm community members can find answers to frequently asked questions, report bugs and problems, and post feature suggestions. Pro and Ultimat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Biggest%20Loser%20Australia%20%28season%207%29 | The seventh season of the Australian version of the original NBC reality television series The Biggest Loser, known as The Biggest Loser Australia: Singles, premiered on 23 January 2012 on Network Ten. All four trainers from the previous season (Michelle Bridges, Shannan Ponton, Steve Willis (The Commando) and Tiffiny Hall) returned with Hayley Lewis also returning as host. The season featured contestants competing as teams of four, as with the previous season, but split by age and gender, with Shannan training the under 30 males, The Commando the over 30 males, Tiffiny the under 30 females and Michelle the over 30 females. Season 6 was won by Margie Cummins.
The season was announced during the Season 6 finale on 2 May 2011 and was confirmed at the Network TEN 2012 Program Launch on 17 August 2011, originally announced as a second "Families" installment, until rebranded as "Singles" with an emphasis on 'romance'.
Production and filming on the season began on 14 November 2011.
Host and personalities
Host: Hayley Lewis has returned for her third season as host.
Trainers: Shannan Ponton, Michelle Bridges, Steve Willis ("The Commando") and Tiffiny Hall all trained in the 2011 season have returned in this year (2012)
Game variations
Singles: All contestants this season are single, and feel their weight has held them back from a love life.
Team Division: The contestants are divided into four teams of four by age and gender, with Shannan training the under 30 males, The Commando the over 30 males, Tiffiny the under 30 females and Michelle the over 30 females.
Schedule: For the first three weeks, the show retains its four night a week schedule, but the nights changed to Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. However, from the fourth week onwards, a Friday night show was added, consisting of unseen footage and catch-ups with the latest eliminated contestant. From Week 10, the schedule shifts forward by one day, so the week begins being shown on a Sunday instead of a Monday.
The Walk: The Walk returns from its two-year break, and the power of the walk becomes the prize for winning the Contest.
Schedule
Weeks 1–3
Monday: Conclusion of Major Challenge, Weigh In and Elimination
Tuesday: The Contest and the Walk
Wednesday: Conclusion of The Walk and Temptation
Thursday: Conclusion of Temptation and Beginning of Major Challenge
Weeks 4–9
Monday: Conclusion of Major Challenge, Weigh In and Elimination
Tuesday: The Contest and the Walk
Wednesday: Conclusion of The Walk and Temptation
Thursday: Conclusion of Temptation and Beginning of Major Challenge
Friday: Behind the scenes
Weeks 10–15
Sunday: Weigh-in
Monday: The Contest and the Walk
Tuesday: Conclusion of The Walk and Temptation
Wednesday: Conclusion of Temptation and Beginning of Major Challenge
Thursday: Behind the scenes
Teams
Contestants
There is slated to be four teams of four, totaling up to 16 contestants.
Weigh-Ins
Contestants
Below the Yellow Line
Below the Yellow Line and Week's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaArchive%20Cooperative | The MetaArchive Cooperative is an international digital preservation network composed of libraries, archives, and other memory institutions. As of August 2011, the MetaArchive preservation network is composed of 24 secure servers (referred to as “caches”) in four countries with a collective capacity of over 300TB. Forty-eight institutions are actively preserving their digital collections in the network.
The MetaArchive Cooperative preserves a wide variety of data types and many genres of content, including electronic theses and dissertations, digital newspapers, archival content such as photograph collections and A/V materials, business/e-records, and datasets. The network is “dark,” meaning access is limited to the content owner/contributor. It is also format-agnostic, meaning that each content contributor may determine what formats it wishes to preserve.
History
MetaArchive was founded in 2004, when six southeastern University libraries (Auburn University, Florida State University, Emory University, the Georgia Tech Library, University of Louisville, and Virginia Tech) came together to collaboratively explore creating a digital preservation solution that they could own and manage for themselves. With backing from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), they used the LOCKSS software to build one of the world’s first operational digital preservation networks. In 2006, these six institutions created an organizational model to enable the project to transition into a sustainable program hosted not by any single member institution, but rather by the Educopia Institute, a 501(c)3 organization that was launched for this purpose. In 2007, the MetaArchive Cooperative began expanding with the addition of new members.
How it works
MetaArchive enables memory institutions (libraries, archives, museums, historical societies, etc.) to embed both the technical infrastructure and the knowledge that they need to preserve their digital content within their own institutions.
Each member institution hosts a server, or “cache”, within the network. All of these caches are united into a closed network using the LOCKSS software. Content is prepared by members as “submission information packages” (SIPs), (see OAIS for more information) and each of these SIPs is replicated seven times and ingested and preserved as AIPs (“archival information packages”) in seven geographically separate caches by member institutions. The network regularly compares these seven AIPs to ensure that nothing about them degrades or changes. If the network detects a change in an AIP, the cache containing the damaged copy re-ingests the source SIP if it is still available; if the source SIP is unavailable, it ingests a copy of the AIP from another cache.
Services
MetaArchive’s services include data preparation, replication, geographical distribution, bit integrity checking, versioning, security, restricted viewing, and content restoration. When ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9mi%20Despr%C3%A9s | Rémi Després (born January 16, 1943) is a French engineer and entrepreneur known for his contributions on data networking.
Education
In 1961–1963, Rémi Després attended École Polytechnique of Paris, of which he holds an Engineer degree.
At UC Berkeley, he received a master's degree in 1967, and a Ph.D degree in 1969, both in the EECS Department.
Career
From 1963 to 1971 at CNET and UC Berkeley, he specialized in programming languages and time-sharing operating systems.
From 1971 to 1980, Rémi Després was in charge of R&D of the French PTT on packet switching. He was one of the leading "innovators who worked across the boundaries of computers and communications" in the 1970s. As such, he introduced the concept of "graceful saturated operation", which was referenced by Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf in their seminal 1974 paper on internetworking, "A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication". He named and formalized the concept of virtual circuits and, with his team at CNET, he validated it on the RCP experimental network. He then successfully submitted for the X.25 Recommendation of CCITT, the standard of public data networks of the 1970s–1980s. He was the first Chief Technical Officer in charge of the French TRANSPAC network whose X.25 service has been operational from 1978 to 2011.
After working one year for Cap Gemini Sogeti, and four years for SESA, in 1985 Rémi Després founded the LAN and Frame-Relay-products enterprise RCE, a company acquired in 1996 by the CS Group. In 1998, he founded a second startup, StreamCore SA, specialised in quality of service management in TCP/IP, the Internet technology. When Streamcore SA was terminated in 2003, its StreamGroomer products were taken over by a new company, Streamcore Systems SA.
Since 2003, Rémi Després has been working as an independent researcher and consultant, mainly contributing to IETF to facilitate deployment of IPv6, the protocol that had become necessary to extend the number of customer addresses of the Internet. In particular, he invented and promoted 6rd, a mechanism whereby Free, an Internet Service Provider, deployed IPv6 service several years before similar network operators, and in only five weeks. Another notable contribution concerned 4rd, a technology to maintain a residual IPv4 service across IPv6-only networks. He also proposed a mechanism for Internet Service Providers to assign IPv6 addresses into customer sites that still have IPv4-only residential gateways, with the distinctive feature that IPv6 traffic between devices of a same site remains within this site. In 2011, Rémi Després and Alexandre Cassen received the Itojun Service Award of the Internet Society for their IPv6 work.
See also
History of the Internet
Internet in France
Louis Pouzin
Protocol Wars
References
1943 births
Living people
French computer scientists
École Polytechnique alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Internet pioneers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20People | Shooting People is an international social network for independent filmmakers that was founded in 1998 by Cath Le Couteur and Jess Search, in which members share resources and knowledge to get their films made and seen.
Dedicated to the support and promotion of independent filmmaking, the company acts as an umbrella and partner for a variety of film organizations, publishing seven daily bulletins across all sectors of the industry.
Additional activities include hosting the Independent Film Calendar, regular panel discussions, screenings, a Mobile Cinema and publication of "The Shooting People Shorts Directory". In 2009 Shooting People launched "Film of the Month" where active patrons in the organisation watch and review films made by members. Patrons include Mike Figgis, Nick Cave, Michael Winterbottom, Matt Groening, Sally Potter, Asif Kapadia, Kevin Smith, Drake Doremus, John Waters, Christine Vachon, Werner Herzog, and Danny Boyle.
In 2010, the full list of films available on the International Space Station came to the attention of Shooting People. Concerned that the only off-world film library was consumed by mainstream American films, they conducted a poll and wrote to NASA with some more varied suggestions from members. NASA responded that individual films were selected by its crew members and that the list would be forwarded to the crew office.
Work
Shooting People encourages and facilitates independent filmmaking through a range of services. Over 200 productions are cast and crewed every week through a production system that allows members to post and apply for projects and jobs. Directories dedicated to film financing, training and competitions are updated daily. Film forums for members to share their advice and expertise. Shooting People have also commissioned filmmakers for projects headed by Puma (Films for Peace), Bombay Sapphire and Channel 4 (Random Acts). Notable filmmakers have come through Shooting People, such as Oscar-nominated director Orlando von Einsiedel Virunga (film), Ainslie Henderson (BAFTA winning for The Making of Longbird), Jack Thorne (This Is England '86, This Is England '88, The Scouting Book for Boys).
Fee-Based Service
In January 2001, a low subscription fee was introduced. The funding model worked and Shooting People has remained a subscription service, independently funded and supported by its members ever since. In 2003 they launched in NYC, where there are over 10,000 members.
Reception
Shooting People emerged at a time when significant changes in Digital Cinematography made it easier to get films made. In 2002, The Times wrote: "Shooting People is helping to fuel a major grassroots revival in low-budget independent cinema."
References
External links
shootingpeople.org
Social networking websites
Film organisations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Interface | Open Interface was an early cross-platform graphical user interface toolkit by Neuron Data. Released in March 1991, Open Interface featured a WYSIWYG editor and supported DOS, Macintosh, OS/2, VMS, Microsoft Windows 3.0, and other platforms. The toolkit made use of widgets and produced ANSI C code.
The product was well received and considered an industry standard at the time.
Neuron Data sold the rights to the product to HCL where it continues its life under the Presenter5 name.
Awards
X Journal 1995 Editor's Choice Award
References
Widget toolkits
Cross-platform software
Application programming interfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taleo | Taleo Corporation was a publicly traded database vendor based in Dublin, California, which was acquired by Oracle in 2012. Taleo's product offerings primarily focus on talent acquisition (recruitment), performance management, learning and development, and compensation management. These capabilities combine to provide what Taleo calls "Talent Intelligence" — an enhanced level of insight into candidates and employees. Taleo sells its Human resource management system (HRMS / HRIS) products entirely via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, in which all software and information resides in data centers operated and secured by Taleo.
On February 9, 2012, Oracle Corporation acquired Taleo Corporation for $1.9 billion.
Oracle Corporation continues to use the Taleo software name for its talent-management software suite. As of December 2013, Taleo software had over 20 million users.
History
Taleo has its roots in Canada, where in 1996 Martin Ouellet established Viasite, a French-language job-board for candidates and employers. Ouellet and Louis Têtu soon began working with Fortune 500 companies interested in developing online approaches to recruiting that incorporated the efficiencies of supply-chain management processes.
Viasite was later renamed Recruitsoft, Inc. In 1999, Recruitsoft registered as a Delaware corporation with headquarters in San Francisco, California, and launched Recruiter WebTop, an online hiring management system. Global expansion followed, and by 2001 the company had secured customer relationships with large enterprises including Hewlett Packard, Dow Chemical, Agilent, Hasbro, American Airlines, United Airlines, Deloitte&Touche, Bombardier Aerospace and Transportation, MetLife, Cabletron Systems, and Sutter Health.
Recruitsoft, Inc. changed its name to Taleo Corporation in March 2004. As the talent-management market matured, Taleo added products and capabilities, integrating recruiting with performance management in 2008, adding compensation management in 2009, and including learning and talent development in 2010. , Taleo made solutions available in 187 countries and in 31 languages.
In August 2011, Taleo reported it had more than 5,000 customers ranging from small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to large global enterprises, including nearly half of the Fortune 100.
R&D
Taleo operated R&D facilities in Quebec City, Canada; Kraków, Poland; and Jacksonville, Fla., with additional development staff in its Dublin, Calif., headquarters and other locations. Taleo's fiscal 2010 R&D investment was approximately $41 million. Jason Blessing was Taleo's Executive Vice President of Products & Technology.
Acquisitions
In addition to its own R&D efforts, Taleo expanded its product offerings through the acquisition of third-party solutions, talent and intellectual property:
October 2003, White Amber
added contingent workforce management to the Taleo Enterprise platform
April 2005, Recruitforce.com
became the foundation of Taleo Busi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasta%20Runestone | The Nasta Runestone, listed as Nä 34 in the Rundata catalog, is a Viking Age memorial runestone located in Nasta, which is 3 kilometers northwest of Glanshammar, Örebro County, Sweden, which was in the historic province of Närke.
Description
The inscription on Nä 34 consists of runic text in the younger futhark within a runic text band that arches around the edge of the stone, and a depiction of a beast and an intertwined serpent and a facial mask. The inscription on this granite stone, which is 2.25 meters in height, is classified as perhaps being carved in runestone style Pr3, which is also known as Urnes style. This is the classification for runic bands with beast or serpent heads depicted in profile with almond shaped eyes. The question regarding the proper classification for Nä 34 is that the runic text band has no attached beast or serpent heads, but the depiction of the serpent and beast depicted have some characteristics typical of the Urnes style. The facial mask on this stone, which is just under the arch of the text band, is a common motif and is found on several other Scandinavian runestones including DR 62 in Sjelle, DR 66 in Århus, DR 81 in Skjern, DR 258 in Bösarp, the now-lost DR 286 in Hunnestad, DR 314 in Lund, DR 335 in Västra Strö, Vg 106 in Lassegården, Sö 86 in Åby ägor, Sö 112 in Kolunda, Sö 167 in Landshammar, Sö 367 in Släbro, U 508 in Gillberga, U 670 in Rölunda, U 678 in Skokloster, U 824 in Holms, U 1034 in Tensta, and U 1150 in Björklinge, and on the Sjellebro Stone. The stone was noted as being on a pile of rocks during the initial survey of Swedish runestones in the 1600s by Johannes Bureus. As it was near a main road, the stone was raised in 1672 by Johan Hadorph for the Eriksgata of king Charles XI. It was noted that local people in the 1700s sometimes bit the stone as a cure for toothaches and left pins or nails on the stone as offerings for good crops. In 1952 the stone was moved six meters from the south side to the north side of the road.
The runic text states that the stone was raised as a memorial by a woman named Þórheiðr for her son named Lyðbjôrn, who is described in Old Norse as being nytan, which is a rare word that is translated as "capable" but may mean "bright and cheerful." The text is very worn and was somewhat damaged in the 1840s when a farmer attempted to "improve" the inscription.
The stone is known locally as the Nastastenen or, since it is the only runestone in the Rinkaby synod, as the Rinkabystenen.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
: þureiþ : lit : raisa : stein : eftir : lyþbyurn : sun sin : nutan :
Transcription into Old Norse
Þorhæiðr let ræisa stæin æftiʀ Lyðbiorn, sun sinn nytan.
Translation in English
Þórheiðr had the stone raised in memory of Lyðbjôrn, her capable son.
References
External links
Photograph in 1995 - Swedish National Heritage Board
Runestones in Närke |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Lockyer | Paul James Lockyer (27 April 1950 – 18 August 2011) was an Australian television journalist for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the Nine Network who was known for his reporting on rural and regional Australia. Lockyer and two colleagues died in a helicopter accident while on assignment filming a story about Lake Eyre, South Australia.
Early years and background
Lockyer was the younger of two sons of Nona and Norman Lockyer. He was born and grew up on a farm near Corrigin, about east of Perth. He later boarded at Aquinas College in Perth where he played hockey.
Career
In 1969 at age 19, Lockyer became a cadet journalist with the Perth office of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), before moving to Sydney and then Canberra in the mid-1970s. In 1979 Lockyer became an ABC correspondent in Port Moresby and then Jakarta before a three-year posting in Bangkok. It was during this period that he reported on events following the Vietnam War and the Khmer Rouge killing fields. He was posted to Washington, D.C. where as ABC correspondent during the Reagan administration he covered Central and North America. Lockyer later returned to Asia, taking up a posting in ABC's Singapore office and reporting on the trial and subsequent execution of Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers on drug trafficking charges. Lockyer was nominated for a Gold Walkley award for his coverage of the trial and execution.
In 1988 he joined the Nine Network in Sydney. Lockyer's reporting on a drought in eastern Australia in 1994 for A Current Affair was credited for inspiring the Farmhand Appeal. He worked across a range of programs for the network including Sunday, Midday, and the Wide World of Sports.
After returning to the ABC in 1999, Lockyer won a Logie Award for Most Outstanding News Reporter in 2001 for his daily coverage of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. He later led ABC TV News coverage of the 2004 Athens Olympics and reported on the 2008 Beijing Olympics for the 7.30 Report. In 2005, Lockyer was the presenter for the ABC television news in Western Australia.
However, it was his coverage of rural stories that he was most passionate about. Lockyer's was the first news team to report from Grantham in the Lockyer Valley in the aftermath of the 2010–2011 Queensland floods; for the first 24 hours he was the only reporter on the ground in Grantham. Lockyer also provided in depth coverage of the impact of Cyclone Yasi. Lockyer was awarded the Centenary Medal in 2003 for his coverage of rural issues, particularly the extensive drought and he was twice awarded the NSW Farmers' Association Mackellar Media prize for coverage of rural issues. Lockyer reported the 2006 rescue of two miners from Tasmania's Beaconsfield gold mine.
Lockyer's final story was an interview with Bob Lasseter, who is searching for Lasseter's Reef. Bob Lasseter is the son of Harold Lasseter, the man who claimed to have originally found the gold deposit. The story was broadcast on 7.30, on 29 Au |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime%20Text | Sublime Text is a shareware text and source code editor available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It natively supports many programming languages and markup languages. Users can customize it with themes and expand its functionality with plugins, typically community-built and maintained under free-software licenses. To facilitate plugins, Sublime Text features a Python API. The editor utilizes minimal interface and contains features for programmers including configurable syntax highlighting, code folding, search-and-replace supporting regular-expressions, terminal output window, and more. It is proprietary software, but a free evaluation version is available.
Features
The following is a list of features of Sublime Text:
"Goto Anything", quick navigation to project files, symbols, or lines
"Command palette" uses adaptive matching for quick keyboard invocation of arbitrary commands
Simultaneous editing: simultaneously make the same interactive changes to multiple selected areas
Python-based plugin API
Project-specific preferences
Extensive customizability via JSON settings files, including project-specific and platform-specific settings
Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux) and Supportive Plugins for cross-platform
Compatible with many language grammars from TextMate
Version history
Version 1
Sublime Text 1.0 was released on 18 January 2008 as an application for the Windows operating system. It supports tabs and side-by-side view of files.
Version 2
Sublime Text 2.0.2 was released on 8 July 2013. Changes from the first version of the software, as promoted on the official Sublime blog, include Retina display support and "Quick Skip Next" functionality.
Themes
Sublime Text contains 23 visual themes, with the option to download and configure additional themes via third-party plugins.
The minimap feature shows a reduced overview of the entire file in the top-right corner of the screen. The portion of the file visible in the main editor pane is highlighted and clicking or dragging in this view scrolls the editor through the file.
Panels, groups and screen modes
Screen modes include: showing up to four files at once in panels, a full-screen and distraction-free mode to show one file without interface menus around it.
Column selection and multi-select editing
With this feature a user can select entire text columns at once or place more than one cursor in the text. This allows simultaneous editing. The cursors behave as if each of them was the only one in the text, moving independently in the same manner. Including to move by one character, by line, by words, and by subwords (CamelCase, hyphen or underscore delimited), and move to beginning/end of line. This allows editing complex repetitive structures without the use of macros or regular expressions.
Auto-completion
Sublime Text suggests completing entries as the user is typing, informed by the programing language of the current file. It also auto-completes variable names assigned |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EVGA%20Corporation | EVGA Corporation is an American computer hardware company that produces motherboards, gaming laptops, power supplies, All-In-One Liquid Coolers, computer cases, and gaming mice. Founded on April 13, 1999, its headquarters are in Brea, California. EVGA also produced Nvidia-GPU-based video cards until 2022.
Products
EVGA products include motherboards, power supply units, and related accessories. EVGA initially made graphics cards, dating back to the RIVA TNT2 in 1999. Some of their graphics card models included the SC, SSC, Classified, Kingpin (Stylized K|NGP|N), and FTW editions (as well as special KO editions in the past). In September 2022, the company ended its relationship with NVIDIA and also stopped manufacturing graphics cards.
Initially, its motherboards were limited to NVIDIA reference designs and expanded to non-reference designs based on NVIDIA chipsets until NVIDIA exited the motherboard market around 2009. EVGA motherboards began using Intel chipsets starting with the announcement of the "X58 SLI" in November 2008, which was a motherboard supporting 3-way SLI. In March 2009 EVGA released the "X58 Classified" (E759) that increased the PCI Express (PCIe) capabilities by adding more physical slots and added an NVIDIA NF200 bridging chip that increased the electronic PCIe lanes available, as well as other overclocking features.
Exit from GPU Partnerships and Manufacturing
On September 16, 2022, EVGA announced that it would be exiting the GPU business and terminating its partnership with Nvidia. At the time of the announcement, GPU sales accounted for close to 80% of EVGA's gross revenue. EVGA's CEO, Andrew Han, explained that the company did not have an interest in becoming an add-in board partner for other GPU vendors, such as AMD or Intel, nor did EVGA plan to sell to another company. EVGA planned to continue to sell remaining RTX 30-series stock through the end of 2022 to complete the exit from the NVIDIA partnership. Han further explained that NVIDIA's conduct with its business partners was causing it to be difficult to maintain a consistent profit margin and thus the company would instead focus on other products with higher margins such as power supply units.
Significant Product Launches
In September 2009, EVGA released a motherboard (XL-ATX form factor) that allows up to four GPUs to run in a 4-way SLI configuration. The first graphics processing unit to support 4-way SLI was the EVGA GTX 285 Classified; more recent GPUs like the GTX 980 also support 4-way SLI. The company released a dual-socket motherboard based on the Intel 5520 chip set with overclocking features. Named Classified SR-2, this motherboard supports dual Socket LGA 1366 Xeon-based Intel CPUs and 4-way SLI. It was the first HPTX form factor motherboard.
In August 2010, EVGA released the Classified SR-2 power supply with 1200 watts of power at 6 +12 volts.
In May 2011, EVGA entered the CPU air cooler market with the introduction of the Super clock CPU cooler. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireman%20Sam%3A%20The%20Great%20Fire%20of%20Pontypandy | Fireman Sam: The Great Fire of Pontypandy is a 2009 computer-animated film, based on the CGI series Fireman Sam. Directed by Jerry Hibbert, produced by Margo Merchant and written by Dave Ingham, it stars the voice cast of Steve Kynman, David Carling, Su Douglas and Tegwen Tucker. The film introduced a new character Chief Fire Officer Boyce, a Chief Officer who hails from Newtown, and a new location the Lighthouse. In the film, Norman, Derek, Sarah, James and Dilys go pioneering with Trevor Evans in the forest. Norman and Derek attempt to light a campfire to cook sausages by rubbing sticks together. They are called away, not realising that the fire has caught, and this leads to the "Great Fire of Pontypandy" that the townspeople evacuated Pontypanty. It was released on 9 November 2009 by HIT Entertainment.
Plot
In a stormy night, Charlie Jones is working in the lighthouse. But the wind causes him and the lighthouse door to blow over, leaving Charlie clinging onto the railings of the Lighthouse. Eventually, Fireman Sam and Elvis Cridlington save him and manage to replace the broken lighthouse light as well. One month later, Sam is given an award by Chief Fire Officer Boyce, who offers him a promotion to head the rapid response service in Newtown. Sam promises to think about it until the end of the day, which is soon interrupted by a call informing them that Mike Flood has fallen off the boathouse roof and into the sea. As Sam is passing by Trevor Evans in his bus, he tells Sam that Trevor is going to take the Pontypandy Pioneers camping in the forest, who warns that the campfires are not allowed due to the very hot temperatures and the forest being too dry. Meanwhile, Dilys Price has invited Derek on a camping trip with the other Pontypandy Pioneers. As they leave, Norman sneaks some sausages into his bag, who refused to eat bugs and berries.
At the Flood's house, Helen and Mandy are having trouble getting their car to work due to Mike's other works, with the former suggesting they go and find the Pioneers on foot instead, as they were all planning to spend family time together. Back on the camping trip, Trevor sets up a mantrap to trap something, but after not finding anything, he leaves it without deactivating the trap. As Helen and Mandy are trying to find the campsite, Helen steps into the mantrap that Trevor set up minutes earlier. Sam and Penny Morris leave the station, but as Elvis and Radar are already there, Helen is rescued. Back at the Fire Station, Boyce tells Elvis how brave Station Officer Steele was fighting a fire, and this gets Elvis thinking on how to be a true hero like everyone else has been. Steele himself is informed by Sam about the Pioneers Camping Trip, and that the hot weather could set a small spark of fire into a massive flame in seconds. Sam and Elvis set up signs to warn about it, while Trevor and the Pioneers get along ahead with their walk. Upon finishing setting up the Fire signs, Elvis soon discovers that Sam may |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evry | EVRY A/S was a Norwegian information technology company that supplies services relating to computing, including operation, outsourcing, and online banking. The company is headquartered in Oslo. It was established through a merger between EDB Business Partner and ErgoGroup in 2010 and has 10,000 employees at 135 offices in 16 countries.
In June 2019, Tieto paid EUR 1.2 Bn for the acquisition of EVRY. The new company was named TietoEVRY, and had over 24,000 employees.
History
EDB ErgoGroup ASA was formed in 2010 with the merger of EDB Business Partner and ErgoGroup. Telenor owned most of the shares of ErgoGroup. The company subsequently changed its name to EVRY ASA in April 2012.
In August 2014, EVRY announced that it was initiating a process to investigate strategic opportunities. This was motivated by their assessment of the IT sector in the Nordic countries. In March 2015, Apax Partners became the majority owner of the company, a new board was appointed and it decided to apply for a de-listing from the stock exchange. On 29 October 2015, the company was delisted from the Oslo Stock Exchange.
In August 2015, following the loss of a contract with Norwegian bank DNB, EVRY announced it would lay off 500–550 workers in Norway and Sweden to increase profits, saving NOK 400–500 million (about US$50–60 million). In October 2015, it announced the transfer of a further 600 employees to IBM in an outsourcing deal worth US$1 billion.
On 13 December 2018, Handelsbanken and EVRY entered into an agreement for the delivery of next-generation core banking and payment services in Finland. The agreement represents a total contract value of approximately NOK 650 million and runs for a period of eight years.
In 2019, it was announced that Evry would merge with Tieto. The merged company TietoEVRY began operations on 2 January 2020.
EVRY India
EVRY acquired Span Infotech, an Indian IT company, which was renamed EVRY India to be coherent with its parent company. EVRY India is a software services company headquartered in Bangalore and Chandigarh and a provider of IT and software product development services to customers based in America and Europe region, operating in banking and financial services, insurance, healthcare, retail and logistics industries.
In 2016, EVRY announced it would double the manpower at its Indian subsidiary, then at 600 in Mohali and 1,500 in Bengaluru, over three years, investing INR 1–1.25 billion.
In December 2017, the company opened a new branch in Bangalore, at Global Village Tech Park.
References
Software companies of Norway
Software companies of Sweden
Companies based in Oslo
Norwegian companies established in 2010
International information technology consulting firms
Multinational companies
Outsourcing companies
Apax Partners companies
Norwegian brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Buss | Samuel R. (Sam) Buss is an American computer scientist and mathematician who has made major contributions to the fields of mathematical logic, complexity theory and proof complexity. He is currently a professor at the University of California, San Diego, Department of Computer Science and Department of Mathematics.
Biography
Buss received his bachelor's degree in 1979 from the Emory University, and his master's degree and Ph.D. from Princeton University, respectively in 1983 and 1985. He joined the University of California, Berkeley, mathematics department in 1986 as a Lecturer, and stayed there until 1988. Buss joined the faculty of University of California, San Diego, Computer Science and Mathematics Departments in 1988 as an assistant professor, where he was promoted to Professor in 1993.
In 2019, Buss gave the Gödel Lecture titled Totality, provability and feasibility.
Research
Buss is considered one of the forefathers of bounded arithmetic and proof complexity.
During his PhD, Buss worked in bounded arithmetic. He received his PhD in 1985. He introduced bounded arithmetic in his thesis and gave a nice proof theoretic characterization of polynomial time computation. His thesis is one of the main references in the area of bounded arithmetic. He is also author/editor of several books in mathematical logic and computer science.
Buss proved in 1983 that the Boolean Formula Evaluation problem is in ALogTime, a major result in complexity theory.
His main research areas are mathematical logic, complexity theory and proof complexity. Other areas which he has contributed to include bounded arithmetic, bounded reverse mathematics, and lower bounds in propositional proof systems.
References
External links
Home page of Samuel R. Buss
The Boolean formula value problem is in ALOGTIME
Bounded arithmetic
Handbook of Proof Theory
3D Computer Graphics: A mathematical approach with OpenGL
Living people
American computer scientists
Emory University alumni
Princeton University alumni
University of California, San Diego faculty
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncada | Syncada is a global financial supply chain network that offers business-to-business payments in the cloud under the software as a service (SaaS) model.
A joint venture between Visa and U.S. Bancorp, Syncada launched in July 2009. U.S. Bank was Syncada's first bank customer. Commerce Bank was the second to join the network in 2010. In March 2011, Citibank became the third bank to use the network.
US Bank has bought back the shares of Syncada from Visa and Syncada is being functionalized within US Bank Corporate Payments Group.
History
Syncada's creation stems from PowerTrack, an online platform for invoice processing, payment and trade financing, launched by U.S. Bancorp in 1997. In 2009, U.S. Bancorp divested PowerTrack
Management
In January 2010, Syncada named Kurt Schneiber Chief Executive Officer. He joined from Fortent, an anti-money-laundering software provider, where he was president. He received recognition as one of Treasury & Risk's most-influential people in finance for 2011. Schneiber also has prior experience at Citi. In September, it named Kay LaBare Chief Information Officer.
References
External links
U.S. Bancorp
Financial services companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Bern | The Bern tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Bern, the capital city of Switzerland. In operation since 1890, it presently has five lines, one of which incorporates the .
The trams on the network run on track. Initially, they were powered by compressed air, but from 1894, the air trams were supplemented by steam trams. Since 1901, the trams have been powered by electricity, at 600 V DC.
The network is operated by a public transport corporation, the Städtische Verkehrsbetriebe Bern (SVB), which, since 2000, has marketed itself mainly under the trading name Bernmobil. The SVB also operates most of Bern's motor buses, and the Bern trolleybus system. Like the other public transport services in the region, the tramway network is part of the , which is equivalent to a passenger transport executive or transit district.
History
Pneumatic trams
On 18 July 1889, the Eidgenössische Amt für Verkehr (Confederate Office of Transport) (EAV) granted the (Bernese Tramway Company) (BTG) an 80-year concession for the operation of tramways in Bern.
Construction of a tramway began immediately, and the first line was opened on 1 October 1890.
Services were operated by compressed air-powered vehicles, known colloquially as Lufttrams (air trams), according to the system developed by the Parisian engineer Louis Mékarski.
The first line, designated as line I, ran from the Bärengraben (bear pits), which was also the location of the depot, to the Bremgartenfriedhof, via Bern railway station. At each terminus, there was a turntable to turn the vehicles.
During the winter months, the compressed air pipes often froze, and this would lead to several days of service interruptions.
Steam tramway
In light of the problems the BTG was experiencing with operating the pneumatic trams, and also Bern's challenging topography, the residents of the city voted in favour of using steam trams to operate line II. This line, opened in 1894, ran from Länggasse to Wabern, via the railway station, the Mattenhofquartier (Eigerplatz) and Weissenbühl.
The depot for the steam trams was in the Mattenhofquartier. Bern's main tram depot is still located there.
The new steam tram line ousted Bern's horse buses from the city centre; from then onwards, the horse buses operated a new connection from Wabern to Belp-Steinbach. Meanwhile, plans were developed to extend the steam tramway to Kehrsatz and Belp.
A coalition of political and economic interests in various neighbouring communities then vehemently campaigned for the construction of a steam-driven interurban tramway from Bern to Worb. Such a tramway would allow connections at Gümligen with the standard gauge railways to Bern, Thun and Emmental. The BTG assisted with planning and cost calculations, and applied on behalf of the coalition for the required concession, which was issued by the EAV on 23 December 1896.
The opening of the long Bern to Worb tramway took place on 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBC%20every1 | MBC every1 () is a South Korean pay television network, specialising in entertainment-related variety programming. It is a subsidiary of MBC Plus.
History
MBC every1 started in October 15, 2007 to air dramas and variety shows and replace the channel MBC MOVIES.
DMB service started from 2008.
Programs
These are MBC every1's currently airing programs:
TV series
Please Don't Date Him
Variety Show
Weekly Idol
Idol Show
Star Show 360
Video Star
Showtime
Special programming
Melon Music Awards (2010–2017, simulcast on MBC Music)
References
External links
Official Website
Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation television networks
Television channels in South Korea
Korean-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBC%20Sports%2B | MBC Sports+ (MBC 스포츠+, 엠비씨 스포츠 플러스) is a South Korean pay television network, which is well known for its sports broadcasting.
Contents
This is one of the Korean pay television channels that specialise in broadcasting sports. It is a subsidiary of the MBC Plus.
External links
Official Website
Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation television networks
Television channels in South Korea
Korean-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2001
Sports television networks in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBC%20Life | MBC Life (formerly known as Alice TV) was a South Korean non-'free-to-air' television network, which aired programming documentary for life cultures.
Contents
This is one of the Korean cable television channels that specialize in broadcasting documentary-related life cultures. Was a subsidiary of the MBC Plus Media.
Defunct television channels
Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation television networks
Television channels in South Korea
Korean-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SBS%20Medianet | SBS Medianet () is a South Korean company by SBS Media Holdings, producing media, broadcast and telecommunication products for non free-to-air networks, including Skylife and 'Cable TV'(KCTA) service providers.
Television networks
SBS Plus - drama and entertainment programs
SBS F!L - lifestyle type of entertainment programs
SBS Sports - sport (both professional and amateur)
SBS Biz - business and news
SBS funE - entertainment and variety programs
SBS Golf - golf
SBS Golf 2 - golf
SBS M - music
See also
Economy of South Korea
List of South Korean companies
Communications in South Korea
External links
SBS Medianet (Korean)
Seoul Broadcasting System television networks
Korean-language television stations
Broadcasting companies of South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBS%20N | KBS N Co., Ltd. () is a South Korean company owned by the Korean Broadcasting System, producing media, broadcast and telecommunication products for non free-to-air networks used under permission registered due to KBS in 1996, including Skylife and Cable TV(KCTA) service providers.
History
Television networks
KBS Drama - drama's channel. Launched in 2002.
KBS Joy - entertainment's channel. Launched in 2006.
KBS N Sports - sports's channel. Launched in 2002.
KBS Story - woman's channel. Launched in 2013.
KBS Kids - children's channel. Launched in 2012.
KBS Life - culture's channel. Launched in 2005.
KBS N Plus - Life is a entertainment channel. Launched in 2017.
See also
List of South Korean companies
Communications in South Korea
External links
© KBS N (Korean)
Korean Broadcasting System subsidiaries
Broadcasting companies of South Korea
Sports television networks in South Korea
Mass media companies established in 2001
Television channels and stations established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise%20social%20graph | An enterprise social graph is a representation of the extended social network of a business, encompassing relationships among its employees, vendors, partners, customers, and the public. With the advent of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 technologies a company can monitor and act on these relationships in real-time. Given the number of relationships and the volume of associated data, algorithmic approaches are used to focus attention on changes that are deemed relevant.
Origin
The term was first popularized in a 2010 Forbes article, to describe the multi-relational nature of enterprise-centric networks that are now at least partially observable at scale. The enterprise social graph integrates representations of the various social networks in which the enterprise is embedded into a unified graph representation. Given the online context of many of the relationships, social interactions often comprise direct communication along with interactions around digital artifacts. Therefore, the enterprise social graph codifies not only relationships among individuals but also individual-object interaction patterns. This definition follows Facebook's and Google's concept of a social graph that explicitly includes the objects with which individuals interact in a network.
Examples of these relationship patterns can include authorship, sharing or sending information, management or other social hierarchy, bookmarking, and other gestural signals that describe a relationship between two or more nodes. Additional representational challenges arise with the need to capture interaction dynamics and their changing social context over time, and as such, representational choices vary based ultimately on the analytic questions that are of interest.
Besides being a specialized type of social graph, the enterprise social graph is related to network science and graph theory.
Applications
Changes in how people connect, share, accomplish tasks through online social networks, combined with the growth of ambient public information relevant to an enterprise, contribute to the dynamism and increasing complexity of enterprise social graphs. Whereas meetings, phone calls, or email have been the traditional media for these exchanges, increasingly collaboration and conversation occurs via online social media. As Kogut and Zander point out, the more tacit knowledge is, the more difficult and expensive it is to transmit, since the costs of codifying and teaching will rise as tacitness increases. The consumerization of social business software enables simpler and more cost-effective ways making relationships and tacit knowledge both observable and actionable.
From an internal enterprise perspective, understanding the enterprise social graph can provide greater awareness of internal dynamics, organizational and information flow inefficiencies, information seeking and expert identification, or exposing opportunities for new valued connections. From an external perspective, it can provide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ejidatarios%20de%20Bonfil | Club Deportivo Ejidatarios de Bonfil is a Mexican football club that plays in the Tercera División de México. The club is based in Cancún, Mexico.
See also
Football in Mexico
External links
Official Page
References
Football clubs in Quintana Roo
Sports clubs and teams in Cancún
2009 establishments in Mexico
Association football clubs established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20Fry%20%28film%29 | Small Fry is a 2011 American computer-animated short film written and directed by Angus MacLane. It was shown in theaters with The Muppets on November 23, 2011.
Small Fry is the second short in the Toy Story Toons series, based on the characters from the Toy Story feature films. The short involves Buzz getting trapped at a fast food restaurant, where there is a support group for discarded kids' meal toys from over the years, with a kids' meal toy version of Buzz taking his place.
Plot
One night at fast-food chicken restaurant Poultry Palace, Bonnie is disappointed to receive a Zurg belt buckle as her kids' meal toy, as the restaurant ran out of Mini Buzz Lightyear toys. In a nearby display cabinet, a Mini Buzz Lightyear complains to a Mini Zurg that they will never be played with, but Mini Zurg prefers to stay.
After eating dinner, Bonnie goes to play in the ball pit with Rex and Buzz Lightyear, whom she brought along. Seizing a chance to be played with, Mini Buzz sneaks out of the display cabinet, climbs into the ball pit, and pulls Buzz under the balls to take his place. Bonnie's mother packs the toys in her bag, unaware that Mini Buzz was not the real Buzz.
Mini Buzz successfully fools Rex into thinking he is the real Buzz and that he was shrunk by the plastic in the ball pit, though when they return home, the other toys instantly realize he is an imposter. Meanwhile, Buzz emerges from the balls and discovers he was left behind at the restaurant, which is now closed.
While trying to escape, Buzz discovers a storage room where a support group for abandoned fast food toys is being held, led by a mermaid toy named Neptuna.
The support group thinks Buzz is another victim of abandonment and he is forced to take part in the meeting. During a reenactment therapy session, Buzz meets Gary Grappling Hook, a toy grappling hook and a member of the group, and he uses him to escape. Back at Bonnie's house, the other toys demand Mini Buzz to reveal Buzz's whereabouts, and then begin devising a plan to break into Poultry Palace and save him.
However, Buzz soon finds his way home and returns, confronting Mini Buzz about his behavior. Mini Buzz is then seen at the support group opening up to the others, with Buzz now accompanying him as his sponsor. In a post-credits scene, Mini Zurg is left with the electronic belt buckle as his sole companion, much to his delight.
Voice cast
Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear
Teddy Newton as Mini Buzz Lightyear
Tom Hanks as Woody
Joan Cusack as Jessie
Estelle Harris as Mrs. Potato Head
Wallace Shawn as Rex
John Ratzenberger as Hamm
Jane Lynch as Neptuna
Angus MacLane as T-Bone, Super Pirate, Kangaroo Canoe, Funky Monk, Gary Grappling Hook
Timothy Dalton as Mr. Pricklepants
Peter Sohn as Recycle Ben
Emily Hahn as Bonnie
Lori Alan as Bonnie's mom, Tae-Kwon Doe
Josh Cooley as Cashier, Lizard Wizard
Jess Harnell as Mini Zurg, Vlad the Engineer
Bret Parker as DJ Blu-Jay
Emily Forbes as Roxy Boxy
Kitt Hirasaki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEL%20Networks | WEL Networks Limited is an electricity distribution company, serving the northern and central Waikato region of New Zealand. WEL is the sixth largest electricity distribution company in New Zealand, with 100,142 connections and of lines and underground cables. The company is 100% owned by the WEL Energy Trust.
History
WEL was formed when legislation in 1988 amalgamated the Central Waikato Electric Power Board with Hamilton City Council's Electricity Division from 1989 to form Waikato Electricity Limited. After amalgamation, ownership of WEL was vested in the Waikato Electricity Authority (WEA). WEA formed WEL Energy Trust in 1993, with the first election in June, so that the community could have some ownership of WEL. In 1992 a third of WEL was sold to Utilicorp for almost $40m, a third retained for the Trust and a third given to customers. The Electricity Industry Reform Act 1998 forced WEL to sell its retail business. It sold to the State owned (but later bought as NGC by Vector Limited) Natural Gas Corporation for $89.9m. The Trust then bought back all WEL's shares to become its sole owner. In 2001 WEL was renamed WEL Networks Ltd.
After the Trust's 2003 elections it reduced grants given to community groups and started paying discounts to customers. By 2014 the Trust had paid over $240 million to customers in discounts, but had also invested over $60 million in community and energy efficiency grants. In 2014–15, over $2m was paid in grants.
WEL Networks formed a joint venture in 2010 with Waipa Networks and Crown Fibre Holdings to establish Ultra-fast Fibre Limited, a company that owns and operates the fibre network in Hamilton, New Plymouth, Tauranga, and Whanganui. In 2016, WEL and Waipa Networks paid $189 million to take 100% control of the Ultra-Fast Fibre company. In 2020, WEL and Waipa Networks sold their interest in Ultra-fast Fibre to Japanese-owned First State Investments for $854 million.
In 2022, the company announced the construction of New Zealand's first utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS), to be located at Huntly. The system is rated at 35 MW, and is capable of storing energy equivalent to the daily demand of over 2000 homes.
Distribution network
WEL's distribution area covers the Hamilton City and the majority of the Waikato District, including the towns of Ngāruawāhia, Huntly, Te Kauwhata and Raglan. The distribution network is supplied from the national grid at three grid exit points (GXPs): Hamilton (Ruakura Road), Te Kowhai, and Huntly. WEL Networks uses 33,000 volts for subtransmission and 11,000 volts for distribution. As is standard in New Zealand, electricity is delivered to homes at 230/400 volts (phase-to-neutral/phase-to-phase).
Statistics
Regulation
As a natural monopoly electricity lines business, WEL Networks is subject to regulation under the Commerce Act 1986. However, as WEL Networks is 100% owned by a consumer trust, it is not subject to price-quality regulation, but is subject to Inf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-Man | C-Man may refer to:
The Coastal-Marine Automated Network, a meteorological observation network along the coastal United States
C-Man (film), a 1949 American film directed by Joseph Lerner |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Lausanne | The Lausanne trolleybus system () forms part of the public transport network of Lausanne, in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. The system has been in operation since 1932 and is the third-oldest surviving trolleybus system in the world, after those of Shanghai and Philadelphia.
Today, the system is the largest in Switzerland; it is supplemented by the Lausanne Metro, and by various conventional bus routes.
The system is operated by Transports publics de la région lausannoise (TL) – formerly Tramways Lausannois – and comprises 10 trolleybus lines, serving not only Lausanne, but also the neighbouring municipalities of Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lutry, Paudex, Prilly, Pully and Renens. Following some line closures, the system no longer serves Cugy, Epalinges and Froideville.
History
Opened on 2 October 1932, the Lausanne system was only the second trolleybus system to open in Switzerland, preceded by the rural Fribourg–Farvagny trolleybus system. That line closed earlier in 1932. The Lausanne system was therefore the country's only trolleybus system at the time of its opening, and it retained this distinction until the opening of the Winterthur trolleybus system, in 1938.
The Lausanne system's first line was between Lausanne railway station and Ouchy. In 1938–1939, a number of additional lines were opened, and between 1938 and 1964 the system gradually replaced the Lausanne tramway network.
On 9 April 1951, the tram line to Montheron was replaced by a trolleybus line. On 7 January 1964, trolleybus line 7 replaced tram line 9, which had been closed the previous day. By that year, there were 10 trolleybus lines in Lausanne.
On 1 June 1969, a suburban trolleybus line to Le Chalet-à-Gobet was launched. On 3 June 1973, line 5 was extended to Epalinges, and on 1 June 1975, an extension of line 9 was opened to Lutry. On 2 June 1991, an extension was built to Bourdonnette, after which line 2 was discontinued. A day later, line 15 was extended to Coudraie.
Lines
Today, the network has 10 lines:
Since December 2009, line 8 has operated via Bellevaux to Grand-Mont, but the TL began the long extension of the overhead wire only in early 2011. Until completion of the extension in December 2011, every second service on this line was operated by articulated conventional buses - the extension was initially operated only every 20 minutes.
Some of the catenary masts used in constructing the extension of line 8 were recycled masts from the former interurban line 20 to Montheron. This line was powered by electricity until 1993; the catenary was dismantled in 1998.
Fleet
Retired fleet and heritage vehicles
Upon its opening in 1932, the Lausanne system had just three trolleybuses, manufactured by FBW / SWS and fitted with electrical equipment by BBC. Two of these trolleybuses were rebuilt in 1964, and one of the rebuilt vehicles remains in existence to this day. In the second half of the 1930s, a further 32 trolleybuses were added to the fleet. Also manu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20T.%20Corbett | Albert T. Corbett is an associate research professor emeritus of human–computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon University. He is widely known for his role in the development of the Cognitive Tutor software, leading to one article with over 1,000 citations. Along with John Robert Anderson, he developed the Bayesian Knowledge Tracing algorithm, which is used in Cognitive Tutor software. This work has been particularly influential in the educational data mining community—over half of the EDM conference papers published in 2011 and 2012 cited Bayesian Knowledge-Tracing.
Corbett studied psychology at Brown University, and obtained a doctorate in psychology from the University of Oregon. His doctoral advisor was Wayne Wickelgren.
See also
Cognitive Tutor
Learning sciences
ACT-R
John Robert Anderson (psychologist)
Kenneth Koedinger
Current Papers
Corbett, A.T. and Anderson, J.R. (2001). Locus of feedback control in computer-based tutoring: Impact on learning rate, achievement and attitudes. Proceedings of ACM CHI'2001 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 245–252.
Corbett, A.T., McLaughlin, M.S., Scarpinatto, K.C. and Hadley, W.S. (2000). Analyzing and Generating Mathematical Models: An Algebra II Cognitive Tutor Design Study. Intelligent tutoring systems: Proceedings of the Fifth international conference, ITS'2000, 314–323.
Corbett, A.T. and Trask, H. (2000). Instructional interventions in computer-based tutoring: Differential impact on learning time and accuracy. Proceedings of ACM CHI'2000 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 97–104.
Baker R.S., Corbett A.T., Koedinger K.R. (2002) The Resilience of Overgeneralization of Knowledge about Data Representations. Presented at American Educational Research Association Conference
Baker R.S., Corbett A.T., Koedinger K.R. (2001) Toward a Model of Learning Data Representations. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society Conference, 45–50.
Mathan, S., Koedinger, K.R., Corbett, A., & Hyndman, A. (2000). Effective strategies for bridging gulfs between users and computer systems. In Proceedings of HCI-Aero 2000: International Conference on Human Computer Interaction in Aeronautics. (pp. 197–202). Toulouse, France.
Corbett, A.T., McLaughlin, M.S. and Scarpinatto, K.C. (2000). Modeling student knowledge: Cognitive tutors in high school and college. User modeling and user-adapted interaction, 10, 81–108.
References
American cognitive scientists
American educational psychologists
Living people
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Human-Computer Interaction Institute faculty
University of Oregon alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
Brown University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV3%20News%20%40%206 | TV3 News @ 6 was the flagship evening news programme on the Irish television network TV3. It was produced by the TV3 News division.
The TV3 News @ 6, presented by main newscasters Alan Cantwell and Gráinne Seoige, was a sixty-minute news programme covering Irish national and international news stories, broadcast at 6:00pm from Monday to Friday.
At weekends the main evening bulletin also aired at 6:00pm but was reduced to thirty minutes.
History
TV3 News @ 6 was the first programme broadcast by TV3 on opening night on 20 September 1998. The news programme provided a comprehensive view of the day's main international and national news stories and was in direct competition with RTÉ News: Six One. This period of direct rivalry with RTÉ only lasted for a year as poor ratings, due to the strength of the competition from RTÉ, resulted in TV3 deciding to break up the hour-long programme. Because of this two new programmes – First Edition at 5:30pm and TV3 News @ 7 – were launched. Both programmes were still fronted by Cantwell and Seoige, while First Edition became Ireland's first early evening news programme.
Newscasters
Main newscaster
References
Irish television news shows
Virgin Media Television (Ireland) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Biel/Bienne | The Biel/Bienne trolleybus system (; ) is part of the public transport network of the bilingual city of Biel/Bienne, in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. The system also serves the neighbouring municipality of Nidau.
Opened on 19 October 1940, the system gradually replaced the Biel/Bienne tramway network.
Lines
The present system is made up of the following lines:
Fleet
See also
List of trolleybus systems in Switzerland
References
External links
Trolleybus city : Biel/Bienne on www.trolleymotion.com
Transport in Biel/Bienne
Biel Bienne
Biel Bienne
1940 establishments in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Edition%20%28TV%20series%29 | First Edition was the early evening news programme on the Irish television network TV3. It was produced by the TV3 News division.
First Edition, presented by main newscasters Alan Cantwell and Colette Fitzpatrick, was a thirty-minute news programme covering Irish national and international news stories, broadcast at 5:30pm from Monday to Sunday.
History
When TV3 launched on 20 September 1998 its early evening news programme was called TV3 News @ 6. It provided a comprehensive view of the day's main international and national news stories, was presented by Alan Cantwell and Gráinne Seoige and was in direct competition with RTÉ News: Six One. This period of direct rivalry with RTÉ only lasted for a year as TV3 decided to break up the hour-long programme. As a result of this two new programmes – First Edition at 5:30pm and TV3 News @ 7 – were launched. Both programmes were still fronted by Cantwell and Seoige, while First Edition became Ireland's first early evening news programme.
On 19 March 2001 First Edition was relaunched as TV3 News at 5.30 with Cantwell and Seoige still remaining at the helm.
Newscasters
Main newscaster
References
Irish television news shows
Virgin Media Television (Ireland) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV3%20News%20%40%207 | TV3 News @ 7 is the second early evening news programme on the Irish television network TV3. It was produced by the TV3 News division.
The TV3 News @ 7, presented by main newscasters Alan Cantwell and Colette Fitzpatrick, was a thirty-minute news programme covering Irish national and international news stories, broadcast at 7:00pm from Monday to Friday.
History
When TV3 launched on 20 September 1998 its early evening news programme was called TV3 News @ 6. It provided a comprehensive view of the day's main international and national news stories, was presented by Alan Cantwell and Gráinne Seoige and was in direct competition with RTÉ News: Six One. This period of direct rivalry with RTÉ only lasted for a year as TV3 decided to break up the hour-long programme. As a result of this two new programmes - First Edition at 5:30pm and TV3 News @ 7 - were launched. Both programmes were still fronted by Cantwell and Seoige, while First Edition became Ireland's first early evening news programme.
In January 2001 the TV3 News @ 7 was dropped and the TV3 News at 6.30 was launched with Cantwell and Seoige still remaining at the helm.
Newscasters
Main newscaster
References
Irish television news shows
Virgin Media Television (Ireland) original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PelicanHPC | PelicanHPC is an operating system based on Debian Live, which provides a rapid means of setting up a high performance computer cluster.
PelicanHPC was formerly known as ParallelKNOPPIX.
Versions
References
External links
Operating system distributions bootable from read-only media
KDE
Concurrent computing
Parallel computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Rubicon%20%28police%20investigation%29 | Operation Rubicon was a Scottish police investigation into allegations of phone hacking, breach of data protection and perjury.
The operation was initiated by a complaint from Tommy Sheridan's family solicitor, Aamer Anwar, including allegations of perjury, phone hacking and breach of data protection.
The operation was a major investigation, led by Detective Superintendent John McSporran. The Herald has reported that 50 officers are assigned to the case
The investigation detained Andy Coulson on 30 May 2012 and charged him with perjury.
On 3 June 2015, Coulson was formally acquitted after a judge dismissed the case against him. All other cases investigated by Operation Rubicon were dropped without coming to trial.
Background
On 16 December 2007, Sheridan was charged with perjury following a defamation case against the News of the World. On 23 December 2010, a jury found him guilty of perjury and on 26 January 2011 he was sentenced to 3 years in prison.
See also
Tommy Sheridan
HM Advocate v Sheridan and Sheridan
Operation Weeting
Operation Elveden
Operation Tuleta
Operation Motorman (ICO investigation)
Metropolitan police role in phone hacking scandal
News media phone hacking scandal
Phone hacking scandal reference lists
References
External links
Statement by Defend Tommy Sheridan Campaign
Defend Tommy Sheridan Campaign Web Site
News International phone hacking scandal
Rubicon
2011 establishments in Scotland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gecko%20Gear | Gecko Gear is an Australian design and manufacturing company specializing in iPod, iPad and iPhone accessories as well as other computer related products. It maintains warehouses in Melbourne and in Shenzhen, China, but keeps design operations in Melbourne in order to maintain focus on quality control of the final product. The company has expanded from Australia to the European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern markets. The brand is also sold in Radio Shack stores in the United States.
References
Manufacturing companies based in Melbourne
Manufacturing companies established in 2004
Australian companies established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Folding%40home%20cores | The distributed-computing project Folding@home uses scientific computer programs, referred to as "cores" or "fahcores", to perform calculations. Folding@home's cores are based on modified and optimized versions of molecular simulation programs for calculation, including TINKER, GROMACS, AMBER, CPMD, SHARPEN, ProtoMol and Desmond. These variants are each given an arbitrary identifier (Core xx). While the same core can be used by various versions of the client, separating the core from the client enables the scientific methods to be updated automatically as needed without a client update.
Active cores
These cores listed below are currently used by the project.
GROMACS
Core a7
Available for Windows, Linux, and macOS, use Advanced Vector Extensions if available, for a significant speed improvement.
Core a8
Available for Windows, Linux, macOS and ARM, uses Gromacs 2020.5
GPU
Cores for the Graphics Processing Unit use the graphics chip of modern video cards to do molecular dynamics. The GPU Gromacs core is not a true port of Gromacs, but rather key elements from Gromacs were taken and enhanced for GPU capabilities.
GPU3
These are the third generation GPU cores, and are based on OpenMM, Pande Group's own open library for molecular simulation. Although based on the GPU2 code, this adds stability and new capabilities.
core 22
v0.0.18 Available to Windows and Linux for AMD and NVIDIA GPUs using OpenCL and CUDA, if available. It uses OpenMM 7.4.2
v0.0.20 Available to Windows and Linux for AMD and NVIDIA GPUs using OpenCL and CUDA, if available. It uses OpenMM 7.7.0, which provides performance improvements and many new science features
Inactive cores
These cores are not currently used by the project, as they are either retired due to becoming obsolete, or are not yet ready for general release.
TINKER
TINKER is a computer software application for molecular dynamics simulation with a complete and general package for molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics, with some special features for biopolymers.
Tinker core (Core 65)
An unoptimized uniprocessor core, this was officially retired as the AMBER and Gromacs cores perform the same tasks much faster. This core was available for Windows, Linux, and Macs.
GROMACS
GroGPU (Core 10)
Available for ATI series 1xxx GPUs running under Windows. Although mostly Gromacs based, parts of the core were rewritten. This core was retired as of June 6, 2008 due to a move to the second generation of the GPU clients.
Gro-SMP (Core a1)
Available for Windows x86, Mac x86, and Linux x86/64 clients, this was the first generation of the SMP variant, and used MPI for Inter-process communication. This core was retired due to a move to a thread-based SMP2 client.
GroCVS (Core a2)
Available only to x86 Macs and x86/64 Linux, this core is very similar to Core a1, as it uses much of the same core base, including use of MPI. However, this core utilizes more recent Gromacs code, and supports more features such as extra-lar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster%20hypothesis | In machine learning and information retrieval, the cluster hypothesis is an assumption about the nature of the data handled in those fields, which takes various forms. In information retrieval, it states that documents that are clustered together "behave similarly with respect to relevance to information needs". In terms of classification, it states that if points are in the same cluster, they are likely to be of the same class. There may be multiple clusters forming a single class.
Information retrieval
The cluster hypothesis was formulated first by van Rijsbergen: "closely associated documents
tend to be relevant to the same requests". Thus, theoretically, a search engine could try to locate only the appropriate cluster for a query, and then allow users to browse through this cluster. Although experiments showed that the cluster hypothesis as such holds, exploiting it for retrieval did not lead to satisfying results.
Machine learning
The cluster assumption is assumed in many machine learning algorithms such as the k-nearest neighbor classification algorithm and the k-means clustering algorithm. As the word "likely" appears in the definition, there is no clear border differentiating whether the assumption does hold or does not hold. In contrast the amount of adherence of data to this assumption can be quantitatively measured.
Properties
The cluster assumption is equivalent to the Low density separation assumption which states that the decision boundary should lie on a low-density region. To prove this, suppose the decision boundary crosses one of the clusters. Then this cluster will contain points from two different classes, therefore it is violated on this cluster.
Notes
Data modeling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArpON | ArpON (ARP handler inspection) is a computer software project to improve network security. It has attracted interest among network managers and academic researchers and is frequently cited as a means of protecting against ARP-based attacks.
Motivation
The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) has many security issues. These include the Man In The Middle (MITM) attack through the ARP Spoofing, ARP Cache Poisoning, Denial of Service and ARP Poison Routing attacks.
Solution
ArpON is a Host-based solution that make the ARP standardized protocol secure in order to avoid the Man In The Middle (MITM) attack through the ARP spoofing, ARP cache poisoning or ARP poison routing attack.
This is possible using three kinds of anti ARP spoofing techniques:
SARPI (Static ARP Inspection) for the statically configured networks without DHCP;
DARPI (Dynamic ARP Inspection) for the dynamically configured networks with DHCP;
HARPI (Hybrid ARP Inspection) for the statically and dynamically configured networks with DHCP.
The goal of ArpON is therefore to provide a secure and efficient network daemon that provides the SARPI, DARPI and HARPI anti ARP spoofing technique, thus making the ARP standardized protocol secure from any foreign intrusion.
See also
Arpwatch
Arping
References
External links
Official documentation
Network analyzers
Computer security software
Unix network-related software
Unix security software
Free security software
Free network management software
Free network-related software
Linux security software
Linux network-related software
Free software programmed in C
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biel/Bienne%20railway%20station | Biel/Bienne railway station (; ) serves the bilingual municipality of Biel/Bienne, in the canton of Bern, Switzerland.
It is a major railway junction on the Swiss railways network. It lies on one of the two busiest major railway lines between the northeastern (St. Gallen/Zurich) and southwestern Switzerland (Geneva); the other goes via Bern. An InterCity between St. Gallen and Genève-Aéroport only takes 4:17h with one of its tilting train compositions (in 2019). The other major line is between Basel and Lausanne/Geneva; via Delémont it also connects the canton of Jura with the Swiss railway network. And third, it also connects the French-speaking part of canton of Bern (the Bernese Jura) and La Chaux-de-Fonds (NE) in the west with Bern in the east.
All trains of these lines meet in Biel/Bienne at a quarter after and a quarter before o'clock in a half an hour frequency according to the Swiss-wide applied clock-face scheduling, so that seamless changes of just a few (2–5) minutes between trains of all these lines are easily possible.
It is located in the center of Biel/Bienne and is therefore part of the fare zone 300 of the libero (fare network).
Biel/Bienne's railway station is the thirteenth busiest station in Switzerland with 52,100 passengers per working day (in 2016).
Services
Long-distance
The following long-distance trains call at Biel/Bienne:
InterCity:
half-hourly service over the Jura Foot line to Geneva Airport or Lausanne and Zürich Hauptbahnhof or Rorschach.
hourly service over the Basel–Biel/Bienne line to Basel SBB.
InterRegio: half-hourly service over the Biel/Bienne–Bern line to Bern.
Regional
The following regional trains call at Biel/Bienne:
RegioExpress:
hourly service over the Basel–Biel/Bienne line from Biel/Bienne to Meroux (in France).
hourly service over the Biel/Bienne–La Chaux-de-Fonds line to La Chaux-de-Fonds.
Regio:
hourly to half-hourly service over the Jura Foot line to Neuchâtel.
half-hourly service over the Biel–Täuffelen–Ins line to Ins.
hourly service over the Biel/Bienne–La Chaux-de-Fonds line to La Chaux-de-Fonds and via Sonceboz-Sombeval.
S-Bahn
The following Bern S-Bahn trains call at Biel/Bienne:
: half-hourly service over the Biel/Bienne–Bern line to Belp.
: half-hourly service to , with every other train continuing from Solothurn to .
: rush-hour service over the Biel/Bienne–Bern line to Belp.
See also
History of rail transport in Switzerland
Rail transport in Switzerland
Notes
References
External links
Railway stations in Switzerland opened in 1923
Railway stations in the canton of Bern
Swiss Federal Railways stations
Transport in Biel/Bienne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L40 | L40 may refer to:
IBM PS/2 L40 SX, a portable computer
, a destroyer of the Royal Navy
Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L40
New Flyer L40, a Canadian bus
Orličan L-40 Meta Sokol, a Czechoslovakian sports and touring aircraft
Pentax Optio L40, a digital camera
Toyota Paseo (L40), a subcompact car
Toyota Tercel (L40), a subcompact car |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium%20Eve%3A%20Celebrate%202000 | Millennium Eve: Celebrate 2000 was RTÉ's coverage of the end-of-millennium celebrations from 31 December 1999 into 1 January 2000. Part of the 2000 Today programming in Ireland, a series of well-known broadcasters presented various stages of the nineteen-hour broadcast.
Development
2000 Today was conceived as part of the Millennium celebrations, given the numerical significance of the change from 1999 to 2000.
The programme was produced and televised by an international consortium of 60 broadcasters, including RTÉ and headed by the BBC in the United Kingdom and WGBH in the United States. The BBC provided the production hub for receiving and distributing the 78 international satellite feeds required for this broadcast.
Production
RTÉ launched their millennium eve programming on 30 November 1999. At the time the programme was described as the largest, single television show in Irish history. Up to 5,000 staff worked on the 2000 Today project worldwide, with 500 workers based at the RTÉ Television Centre. In all three television studios were utilised while four outside satellite units, forty cameras in twenty Irish locations worked to pull together an array of images from around both the country and globe. As part of a Reconciliation 2000 theme RTÉ and BBC Northern Ireland co-operated on several events during the broadcast.
Programming
The first midnight celebrations in the South Pacific and reports from Jerusalem and Nazareth featured.
Ratings
The Millennium Eve: Celebrate 2000 schedule reached 75 per cent of the people of Ireland, the equivalent of 2.6 million viewers. At midnight 74 per cent of the available audience were watching RTÉ One.
References
1999 Irish television series debuts
2000 Irish television series endings
New Year's television specials
RTÉ original programming
Turn of the third millennium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainware | Brainware was an American software company that marketed Automatic identification and data capture and data extraction products. The company was acquired by Hyland Software in 2017. Brainware originally spun out of Dulles-based SER Solutions Inc. in February 2006 when SER was acquired by The Gores Group LLC. From February 2006 to March 2012, Brainware's majority owner was San Francisco-based private equity firm Vista Equity Partners.
History
On March 5, 2012, Lexmark International announced it had acquired the company for a cash price of approximately $148 million. The company was added to Lexmark's Perceptive Software division.
On July 10, 2017, Hyland Software finalized its acquisition of the Perceptive Business Unit of Lexmark International, Inc. All enterprise software business assets in the Perceptive business unit, including Perceptive Content (formerly ImageNow), Perceptive Intelligent Capture (formerly Brainware), Acuo VNA, PACSGEAR, Claron, Nolij, Saperion, Pallas Athena, ISYS and Twistage, now operate under Hyland's portfolio of products.
Brainware was headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia, USA, with sales, support, professional services and R&D offices in London, UK; Kirchzarten, Germany; and Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The company had partnerships with most major enterprise software providers, including Oracle, SAP and Microsoft, and said its software integrated with most available enterprise content management platforms. Brainware also partnered with a number of hardware providers, including Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu and OPEX.
Brainware's core solution, Distiller, "disrupted the data capture industry by using contextual document data to deliver higher automated processing than earlier technology" said Henry Ijams, Managing Director and Founder, PayStream Advisors. Brainware was awarded a Technology Excellence Award by PayStream Advisors and their Advisory Board to honor those providers who are delivering industry leading solutions.
Brainware said its software "could relieve a company of 60 percent to 80 percent of the work of manually keying in information from unstructured documents," and serviced companies such as NEC, Mayo Clinic, Bechtel, Royal Dutch Shell, and Rabobank.
In a 2011 comparison report, Real Story Group classifies Brainware as a "Capture Solutions" vendor, competing directly with Kofax and ReadSoft.
Brainware and its customers were profiled in publications including Profit Online, Business Finance, imageSource, Managing Automation, Industryweek, Treasury & Risk and others. The company's enterprise search technology has been profiled by InfoWorld.
See also
Document processing
Remittance advice
Digital mailroom
Automatic identification and data capture
References
External links
2017 mergers and acquisitions
Optical character recognition
Defunct software companies of the United States
Financial software companies
Companies based in Virginia
Financial data analysis
Lexmark
Software companies established in 2006
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaniopsis | Glaniopsis is a small genus of loaches endemic to the island of Borneo.
Species
There are currently four recognized species in this genus:
Glaniopsis denudata T. R. Roberts, 1982
Glaniopsis gossei T. R. Roberts, 1982
Glaniopsis hanitschi Boulenger, 1899
Glaniopsis multiradiata T. R. Roberts, 1982
References
Gastromyzontidae
Fish of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Mauro | Jeff Mauro (born July 24, 1978) is the co-host of the Food Network series The Kitchen and host of Sandwich King and $24 in 24. Prior to this, he was the winner of the seventh season of the Food Network Star competition. Mauro, who is originally from Oak Park, Illinois, incorporates local Chicago restaurants into the context of his show.
During Food Network Star, where fifteen contestants competed for an opportunity to have their own cooking show, Mauro concentrated on sandwiches throughout the competition. The judges on the show noted Mauro's humor and likable persona, which are focal points of his personality on Sandwich King.
Mauro rejected criticisms that there wasn't enough to say about sandwiches to fill out a season, noting that any hand-held "meal" could be classified as a sandwich. In 2012, Mauro was nominated for a Daytime Emmy award for his show Sandwich King on the Food Network Channel. The award eventually went to Bobby Flay for his show Bobby Flay's Barbecue Addiction.
In January 2014, Mauro became a co-host on the Food Network series The Kitchen along with Sunny Anderson, Katie Lee, Marcela Valladolid and Geoffrey Zakarian.
Mauro graduated from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, in 2000, where he studied radio and television.
In January 2021 he began hosting Kitchen Crash on Food Network, an update of Gordon Elliott's Door Knock Dinners.
In 2022, Mauro co-hosted Season 24 of Worst Cooks in America, coaching a team of 1990’s celebrities against a team led by fellow co-host Anne Burrell, who won the contest with her "recruit" Tracey Gold.
References
External links
1978 births
Living people
American television chefs
American male chefs
Bradley University alumni
Food Network chefs
Food Network Star winners
Chefs from Chicago
People from Elmwood Park, Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foma%20%28software%29 | Foma is a free and open source finite-state toolkit created and maintained by Mans Hulden. It includes a compiler, programming language, and C library for constructing finite-state automata and transducers (FST's) for various uses, most typically Natural Language Processing uses such as morphological analysis.
Foma can replace the proprietary Xerox Finite State Toolkit for compiling and running FST's written in the lexc and xfst formalisms. The speed is comparable with the Xerox tools for most lexicons, although Foma can be 3 or 4 times slower for very large lexicons (e.g. >100,000 words). Foma is also one of the possible backends of the free and open source Helsinki Finite State Toolkit (where other backends provide support for further formalisms).
There are several FOSS morphologies written in lexc/xfst compatible with foma, e.g. for the Sámi, Cornish, Faroese, Finnish, Komi, Mari, Udmurt, Buriat, Greenlandic language and Iñupiaq languages.
See also
HFST - The Helsinki Finite State Toolkit
SFST - The Stuttgart Finite State Toolkit (an HFST backend)
OpenFST (an HFST backend supporting weighted FST's)
lttoolbox
XFST - The Xerox Finite State Toolkit
External links
https://fomafst.github.io/ - homepage
http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Foma - foma information on the Apertium wiki
http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/kieliteknologia/tutkimus/hfst/ - HFST home page
Notes
References
Free software
Cross-platform software
Finite automata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Graz | The Graz tramway network is a network of tramways forming an important part of the public transport system in Graz, which is both the capital city of the federal state of Styria, Austria, and the second largest city in Austria.
In operation since 1878, the network presently has six daytime lines, and five evening and Sunday lines. , the Graz tram network ran on an almost of route, and served 53.56 million passengers. It is operated by the Graz Linien division of Holding Graz, the city owned utility company who also operate the city's bus network and the Schlossbergbahn funicular railway. The trams form part of the styrian integrated fare system which covers all modes of public transport in Graz and Styria.
The Tramway Museum Graz, at the terminus of line 1 in Mariatrost, holds many exhibits relating to the system.
History
The first trams to run in Graz were horse trams in private ownership, with service commencing in 1878. The lines were electrified from 1899. In 1939, the tram network was acquired by the city.
In 1941, the narrow gauge electric railway that had linked Graz with the suburb of Mariatrost since 1898, was converted to standard gauge and became part of the tram network. The resulting long outer section of tram route 1 still retains many light railway features, with its off-street routing and long stretches of single track.
The Graz tram network reached a peak in 1950. Growing car ownership, and the growth of residential areas in outer reaches of the city not served by the trams, lead to a fall in tram usage and eventually, after 1950, the closure of several tram routes. The city introduced trolleybuses in 1941 to serve the outer areas of the city, but these were replaced by motor buses by 1967.
In the 1990s, with the city's narrow central streets proving ill-suited to large quantities of private car traffic, the city adopted a policy of improving and expanding public transport, with modernisation and extension of the tramway. The area around Jakominiplatz was developed as the main tram and city bus interchange from 1995, whilst extensions to Puntigam, Liebenau/Murpark and St Peter followed in 2006 and 2007.
In 2001, Graz was the launch customer for the Bombardier Transportation's Cityrunner design, with the acquisition of 18 long five-section trams. These were the city's first 100% low-floor trams, although the concept was introduced in 1999 by the fitting of new low-floor centre sections to 12 existing trams.
In 2007, Graz ordered 45 Stadler Variobahn trams for delivery between 2009 and 2015. These vehicles proved controversial, with complaints over noise and vibration levels. Initially confined to the north–south axis lines 4 and 5, the trams started operating on the east–west axis in 2013, after modifications and imposition of a speed limit.
In 2012, new tram tunnels were built to serve the city's main railway station (Graz Hauptbahnhof), which was previously the terminus of two tram lines and some distance from the m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Network%20for%20Training%20Economic%20Research | The European Network for Training in Economic Research (ENTER) is an exchange programme for graduate students in Economics.
Studying abroad
Besides studying at their home university, graduate students can do one or two exchange semesters at the participating Economic departments in the network. Among those are the leading European Economic departments.
ENTER programme
The idea of the ENTER programme is to foster economic research and amplify the interaction between young researchers and supervisors from different institutions. Additionally, to the supervision by professors of their home university, ENTER participants profit from interchanging with researchers of the host university as well. Thus, they access a much larger body of fellows.
The ENTER network allows its Ph.D. students to join a partner institution and follow either the coursework of the first year or the thesis-writing phase. In order to obtain an ENTER degree, the student has to join the partner institution for at least one term. Moreover, the network allows master students to obtain a double degree. The ENTER Research Master programmes in Brussels, Madrid, Mannheim, Stockholm and Toulouse are two-year programme (120 ECTS credits) that rely on a common set of core courses in the first year and optional courses in the second year. In the second year, the student specializes in field courses and writes his master thesis. All courses are given in English. Participation is based on academic excellence and requires applying at the individual faculty.
Yearly held meetings called "Jamborees" focus on the presentation of current topics in Economics by ENTER participants. Furthermore, they should foster the links between junior and senior researchers of the same field. The ENTER Jamboree 2011 took place in Tilburg and 2010 in Touluse.
From March 1, 2011 Richard Blundell (UCL, London), Torsten Persson (University of Stockholm) and Jean Tirole (Université de Toulouse I) agreed to form the new scientific committee at ENTER. The first president was Jean Tirole with Maurizio Zanardi as Director. Torsten Persson served as the second president for two years from 1 March 2013. Previous president Jean Tirole as well as Richard Blundell continued as the member of Scientific Committee.
Participants
Participants are
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (Spain),
Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium),
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain),
University of Stockholm (Sweden),
Université Toulouse 1 Capitole (France),
University of Mannheim (Germany),
University College London (United Kingdom),
Tilburg University (Netherlands)
and Stockholm School of Economics. (Sweden)
References
External links
Enter Network
Student exchange
College and university associations and consortia in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Miskolc | Trams in Miskolc is an important part of the public transport network serving Miskolc, Hungary. In operation since 1897, the network presently has one full tramline and two tramlines that run only on weekends.
History
The need for public transport in Miskolc arose in the second half of the 19th century. The newly built railway line and its station were, at that time, far from the city proper, and even further from the ironworks of the neighbouring town Diósgyőr. The plans for the first tram line were finished in 1895.
The first tram line opened on July 10, 1897 and had eight stops (including the termini) between Tiszai railway station and St. Anne's Church. This route still forms part of both of the current lines. Miskolc was the fourth Hungarian city to have a tram line built, after Budapest (1887), Pozsony (now Bratislava) (1895) and Szombathely (earlier in 1897); it was the second city to have a standard gauge tramway as the ones in Pozsony and Szombathely were narrow gauge.
Due to the success of the east-west line, a north-south line was built before the end of 1897 between Búza tér (the main market of the city) and People's Garden (a popular leisure park). This was extended to the neighbouring village of Hejőcsaba in 1910.
It was only in the early 20th century that the east-west line was extended to reach Diósgyőr. Traffic on the line between St. Anne's Church and Diósgyőr started in 1904. Permission was granted for it to operate not as a city railway but as a suburban railway as it went beyond the administrative border of Miskolc. It was also operated by a different company, the Miskolc-Diósgyőr Municipal Railway Company (MDV Rt.) while the Tiszai station–St. Anne's Church line was operated by the Electric Company of Miskolc (MVV Rt.) This arrangement required passengers to change cars at the church; the resulting inconvenience was solved in 1906 when the two lines were united and management of the Diósgyőr line was taken over by MVV.
Until 1947, the tram operator also ensured the supply of electricity to Miskolc.
After World War II, the city boundaries were shifted further out from the centre; Miskolc became the second largest city in the People's Republic of Hungary. Heavy industry became important, and public housing was built, adding patronage to the tram and bus lines, the main task of which was delivering workers to factories.
In 1954, MVV was merged with the company responsible for the bus service, under the name Mass Transport Company of Miskolc (MKV). The north-south line was lifted in 1960, as it could not handle the traffic as effectively as bus routes after new residential areas had been developed. In 1964, the Tiszai station–Diósgyőr line was reconstructed as a double-track line (until then it was single-track).
Network evolution
During its history the network has had these lines:
Line 1 (Tiszai station–Felső-Majláth) 1897–
Started service between Tiszai station and St. Anna square in 1897
Merged with Diósgyőr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20Monadnock%20Public%20Health%20Network | The Greater Monadnock Public Health Network (GMPHN) is a community health and safety collaborative which works to enhance and improve public health-related services. Formerly known as the Cheshire Public Health Network, the GMPHN is one of 15 public health regions in the state of New Hampshire. The Greater Monadnock Public Health Network strives to increase planning and collaboration across municipal boundaries and health and safety sectors.
About
The state of New Hampshire does not have county health departments. Rather, the state is geographically divided into 15 public health regions. Together these 15 public health regions comprise the New Hampshire Public Health Network system.
The Greater Monadnock Public Health Network is housed by Cheshire Medical Center and in collaboration with Cheshire County is financed under an agreement with the New Hampshire Department of Health & Human Services - Division of Public Health Services with funds provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Greater Monadnock Public Health Network is bordered by the Greater Sullivan County Public Health Network to the north, and the Greater Concord Public Health Network, Greater Manchester Public Health Network, and Greater Nashua Public Health Network to the east.
Service area
The Greater Monadnock Public Health Network serves 33 municipalities in the Monadnock region (all of Cheshire County and the 10 westernmost towns in Hillsborough County). The municipalities are Alstead, Antrim, Bennington, Chesterfield, Dublin, Fitzwilliam, Francestown, Gilsum, Greenfield, Greenville, Hancock, Harrisville, Hinsdale, Jaffrey, Keene, Marlborough, Marlow, Nelson, New Ipswich, Peterborough, Richmond, Rindge, Roxbury, Sharon, Stoddard, Sullivan, Surry, Swanzey, Temple, Troy, Walpole, Westmoreland, and Winchester.
Mission
The mission of the Greater Monadnock Public Health Network is to:
Coordinate regional health and safety services among local government, health and social service agencies, businesses, hospitals, schools, first responders, faith-based organizations and emergency preparedness and response initiatives;
Continually assess resources to inventory strengths and gaps;
Identify needs and promote wise use of existing resources;
Advance and improve resources via technical assistance, educational programs, trainings, exercises, and drills; and
Create and test models for public health emergencies, and maintain the region’s public health emergency preparedness and response plans.
Regional partners
Over 50 municipalities, agencies, and organizations comprise the membership of the GMPHN’s Regional Coordinating Committee. Key partners include representatives from each of the municipalities, including selectmen, town managers/administrators, emergency management directors, health officers, fire and police personnel, school nurses, and human service directors.
Additional partners include representatives from organizations and agencies that serve t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland%20Runic%20Inscription%20896 | Uppland Runic Inscription 896 or U 896 is the Rundata catalog listing for a Viking Age memorial runestone originally located at Håga in the historic province of Uppland, Sweden, but is now at the Universitetsparken ("University Park") of Uppsala University.
Description
The inscription on U 896 consists of runic text in the younger futhark within a text band along the edge of a tall and narrow runestone, which is made of granite and is 1.7 meters in height, with a second text band within the first on the left side. Two crosses are enclosed by the text bands. The bottom portion of the stone is missing. The inscription is tentatively classified due to its damage as being carved in runestone style Pr1, which is also known as Ringerike style. Inscriptions with this classification have runic text bands with attached serpent or beast heads depicted in profile. In 1867 this runestone, along with U 489 from Morby and U 1011 from Örby, was exhibited in the Exposition Universelle in Paris. When it was returned to Sweden, the stone was raised at Uppsala University.
The runic text, which is missing in one section of the damaged runestone, states that the stone was raised in memory of a man probably named Eyndar, and was probably sponsored by the man's parents. The text states that the deceased died i hvitavadhum, an Old Norse phrase which is usually translated as meaning "in christening robes." Other runestones using this phrase include the now-lost U 243 in Molnby, U 364 in Gådersta, U 613 in Torsätra, U 699 in Amnö, U 1036 in Tensta, and U Fv1973;194 at the Uppsala Cathedral. The text also indicates that the deceased probably died in Denmark. Other inscriptions mentioning Denmark include Öl 1 in Karlevi, Sö Fv1948;289 in Aspa bro, U 699 in Amnö, DR 41 and DR 42 in Jelling, DR 133 in Skivum, and N 239 in Stangeland.
The text also states in the inner text band that Reð runaʀ Øpiʀ or that "Öpir arranged the runes." The runemaster Öpir, which is the normalized name, was active in the Uppland region from the late 11th to the early 12th centuries. The same phrase is also used on U 940 in Torget by Öpir, and other inscriptions stating that they were arranged include U 913 in Brunnby and U 961 in Vaksala. U 896 and U 940 are stylistically unlike any of the other inscriptions signed by Öpir, and it has been suggested that these two inscriptions along with U 1022 represent works from the beginning of Öpir's career.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
... [l]itu raisa stain + fir ' ont * iy--m + sun + sain + tauþr + fita+faþum ' i tai'ma... ... riþ runaʀ ubiʀ
Transcription into Old Norse
... letu ræisa stæin fyr and Øy[nda]ʀ(?), sun sinn, dauðr [i] hvitavaðum i Danma[rku](?) ... Reð runaʀ Øpiʀ.
Translation in English
... had the stone raised for the spirit of Eyndar(?), their son, (who) died in christening robes in Denmark(?) ... Öpir arranged the runes.
References
Uppland Runic Inscription 0896 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Data%20Learn%20the%20Language | A Data Learn the Language is the third studio album by American post-rock band The Mercury Program, released in 2002 on Tiger Style Records. Allmusic called it "consistently melodic, rhythmically varied, and unfailingly listenable."
Track listing
References
2002 albums
The Mercury Program albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Larsen | Samuel Peter Acosta Larsen (born August 28, 1991) is an American actor and singer. On August 21, 2011, Larsen won the reality competition program The Glee Project on the Oxygen network, which led to his having a recurring role as Joe Hart on the Fox television show Glee. Larsen was also a member of the band Bridges I Burn.
He is pursuing his solo career, and released his debut EP, Vices, on October 27, 2014.
Life and career
Larsen was born in San Francisco, to Henrik and Lupe Acosta Larsen. His father is from Denmark and his mother from Mexico. Larsen has an older brother, Manolo Acosta, and a sister named Morgan. As a young boy, Larsen played drums, bass, guitar and keyboards. He graduated from Murrieta Valley High School in 2009. In his sophomore year, he became vocalist and guitarist of the school band 15 North and the band performed in festivals.
In 2010, Larsen auditioned in season 9 of American Idol but was cut after making it to Hollywood, failing to make it to the semi-finals. After doing some runway modeling for fashion designer Ashton Michael, he met his soon-to-be bandmate Skip Arnold during a runway show, moved to Los Angeles busking and applied to The Glee Project. Meanwhile, Larsen and Skip Arnold formed the band "Bridges I Burn" and soon a third member, Salvatore Spinelli, joined them. Larsen writes and performs most of his music. He spent some time touring with the rock band Palaye Royale in 2017–2018. He auditioned for the role of Sam Evans on Glee but did not get the part, which went to Chord Overstreet.
His first Glee appearance was on the thirteenth episode of the third season, titled "Heart", as Joe Hart, a formerly home-schooled Christian. During that episode he performed in two songs: Gym Class Heroes' "Stereo Hearts", and a mashup of The Association's "Cherish" and Madonna's "Cherish". Although his prize for having won The Glee Project was seven episodes, he appeared in each of the final ten episodes of Glee third season. In addition, he appeared as a mentor for The Glee Project second season, appeared in 12 episodes in Glee fourth season, and appeared twice in the final season.
In July 2018, Larsen was cast as Zed Evans in the film adaptation of Anna Todd's bestselling novel After. The film was released on 12 April 2019. Larsen plays the role again in its 2020 sequel After We Collided.
Discography
Pocket Love (2012)
3 Blind Costumes (2013)
Vices - EP (2014)
Education - Single (2016)
You Should Know (2016)
Blue - Single (2017)
Filmography
Television
Film
2023
Shoulder Dance (film)
Shawn
References
External links
Bridges I Burn Facebook page
Bridges I Burn YouTube page
1991 births
Living people
Participants in American reality television series
Reality casting show winners
American male television actors
21st-century American male actors
American people of Danish descent
American male actors of Mexican descent
21st-century American singers
21st-century American male singers
Fencers at the 2023 Pan Amer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microelectromechanical%20system%20oscillator | Microelectromechanical system oscillators (MEMS oscillators) are devices that generate highly stable reference frequencies (used to sequence electronic systems, manage data transfer, define radio frequencies, and measure elapsed time) to measure time. The core technologies used in MEMS oscillators have been in development since the mid-1960s, but have only been sufficiently advanced for commercial applications since 2006. MEMS oscillators incorporate MEMS resonators, which are microelectromechanical structures that define stable frequencies. MEMS clock generators are MEMS timing devices with multiple outputs for systems that need more than a single reference frequency. MEMS oscillators are a valid alternative to older, more established quartz crystal oscillators, offering better resilience against vibration and mechanical shock, and reliability with respect to temperature variation.
MEMS timing devices
Resonators
MEMS resonators are small electromechanical structures that vibrate at high frequencies. They are used for timing references, signal filtering, mass sensing, biological sensing, motion sensing, and other diverse applications. This article concerns their application in frequency and timing references.
For frequency and timing references, MEMS resonators are attached to electronic circuits, often called sustaining amplifiers, to drive them in continuous motion. In most cases these circuits are located near the resonators and in the same physical package. In addition to driving the resonators, these circuits produce output signals for downstream electronics.
Oscillators
By convention, the term oscillators usually denotes integrated circuits (ICs) that supply single output frequencies. MEMS oscillators include MEMS resonators, sustaining amps, and additional electronics to set or adjust their output frequencies. These circuits often include phase locked loops (PLLs) that produce selectable or programmable output frequencies from the upstream MEMS reference frequencies.
MEMS oscillators are commonly available as 4- or 6-pin ICs that conform to printed circuit board (PCB) solder footprints previously standardized for quartz crystal oscillators.
Clock generators
The term clock generator usually denotes a timing IC with multiple outputs. Following this custom, MEMS clock generators are multi-output MEMS timing devices. These are used to supply timing signals in complex electronic systems that require multiple frequencies or clock phases. For example, most computers require independent clocks for processor timing, disk I/O, serial I/O, video generation, Ethernet I/O, audio conversion, and other functions.
Clock generators are usually specialised for their applications, including the number and selection of frequencies, various auxiliary features, and package configurations. They often include multiple PLLs to generate multiple output frequencies or phases.
Real-time clocks
MEMS Real-time clocks (RTCs) are ICs that track time of day and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbas%20El%20Gamal | Abbas El Gamal (born May 30, 1950) is an Egyptian-American electrical engineer, educator and entrepreneur. He is best known for his contributions to network information theory, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and CMOS imaging sensors and systems. He is the Hitachi America Professor of Engineering at Stanford University. He has founded, co-founded and served on the board of directors and technical advisory boards of several semiconductor, EDA, and biotechnology startup companies.
Biography
He was born on May 30, 1950, in Cairo, Egypt.
Education
El Gamal received his B.Sc. Honors degree from Cairo University in 1972. From Stanford, he earned an M.S. in electrical engineering in 1975, an M.S. in statistics in 1977 and his Ph.D. in 1978.
Academic career
El Gamal was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering from 1978 to 1980. He has been on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering since 1981. He was director of the Information Systems Laboratory from 2004 to 2009. From 2012 to 2017 he was chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
In his primary field, network information theory, El Gamal studies the absolute performance limits of communication and computing networks and develops algorithms and protocols to achieve these limits. He published highly cited papers on several classical problems in the field and co-authored its first textbook, Network Information Theory.
Likewise, he was a pioneer in the development of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)—a type of integrated circuit that can be electrically reconfigured to implement differing functions. He holds key patents and wrote several highly cited papers on basic architecture and design of FPGAs and pioneered the use of FPGAs in teaching digital system design.
El Gamal was also a key figure in the development of CMOS image sensors, the technology widely used today in cell phone and digital cameras. He started the industrially funded Programmable Digital Camera project, which helped spur several key innovations in the field and funded several PhD students who became leaders in the image sensor industry and research. He also developed an award-winning course on the topic.
Business
In 1984, El Gamal joined LSI as director of its newly formed Systems Research Laboratory, which evolved into the company's very successful Consumer Product Division.
In 1986, he cofounded Actel – only the second FPGA company in the world – where he made several key inventions in FPGA architecture and held multiple posts, including that of chief scientist until 1990. Actel was acquired by Microsemi in 2010.
In 1990, he founded Silicon Architects – one of the first silicon IP companies in the world – holding multiple posts, including that of chief technical officer until its acquisition by Synopsys in 1995, where he was a vice president until 1997.
In 1998, El Gamal co-founded Pixim, Inc., a fabless semiconductor company that develop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAC%20Network%20on%20Development%20Evaluation | The DAC Network on Development Evaluation is a subsidiary body of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC). Its purpose is to increase the effectiveness of international development programmes by supporting robust, informed and independent evaluation.
The Network brings together evaluation managers and specialists from OECD development cooperation agencies and multilateral development institutions. Members include evaluation departments in the development co-operation agencies of all 29 DAC members, as well as the evaluation units of eight multilateral development banks and institutions.
Function
The DAC Evaluation Network develops guidance and standards for practical application and promotes joint work among donor agencies and partners. It also hosts the DAC Evaluation Resource Centre (DEReC), a user-friendly online database containing a significant number of evaluation reports by all major bilateral donors and seven multilateral institutions. Its work is supported by a secretariat, housed in the Development Co-operation Directorate of the OECD in Paris, France.
The aims and objectives of the Network are:
To improve evaluation policy and delivery by sharing good practice and by collaborating on joint studies, reports and guidance documents;
To improve aid effectiveness by supporting the development of operational and policy lessons;
To facilitate collaboration on joint and multi-donor evaluations and synthesis studies;
To enhance evaluation capacity development in developing countries for increased transparency, accountability and development effectiveness;
To help the evaluation community, make a vital contribution to development outcomes.
References
DAC Network on Development Evaluation website: www.oecd.org/dac/evaluation
International development agencies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orna%20Berry | Orna Berry (; born December 19, 1949), is an Israeli computer scientist, high-tech entrepreneur, and senior executive in the Israeli science and technology industries. In 1996, Berry became the first woman to serve as chief scientist and head of the industrial R&D operation of the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour. She was awarded the "Yekirat Hanegev" award from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 2012.
Currently, Berry serves as director of technology in the office of the CTO at Google Cloud.
Early life and education
Orna Berry was born in Jerusalem to Raisa and Yoash Tsiddon (Chatto) and was raised and educated in Tel Aviv. In 1967, she drafted into the Israeli Air Force, where she served as an officer for the flying school until 1970, terminating her military service as a lieutenant.
Berry received a BA from Haifa University in statistics and mathematics in 1975 and an MA in statistics and operations research from Tel Aviv University. She then enrolled at the University of Southern California (USC), where she received a PhD in computer science in 1986. During this time, she obtained a fellowship from the RAND Corporation.
Berry's academic research illustrated how distributed simulation programs could be accelerated via asynchronous distributed computations and was published in 1986. Berry was diagnosed with dyslexia, something which she says influenced her decision to choose a career in science.
Career
Research and development
After graduating, Berry began working at System Development Corporation, later Burroughs and Unisys. It was here that she began her work in Local area networking (LAN).
She decided to return to Israel in 1987 to work for the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory where she was involved with hardware simulations on different Intel chip architectures. In 1989, she joined Fibronics and led projects relating to bridging Token Ring and FDDI LANs.
Ornet Data Communication Technologies
In 1993, Berry co-founded Ornet Data Communication Technologies, which developed scalable and efficient Ethernet switches.
While fundraising for Ornet, Berry served as a technical manager of an industrial project at Elbit Systems, and consulted for Intel. In September 1995, Ornet was acquired by Siemens. This was the first acquisition of an Israeli start-up by a European conglomerate.
Public service
In late 1996, Berry joined the government. She was officially nominated as the chief scientist and director of the Industrial Research and Development Administration in January 1997. She was the first, and , is still the only woman to hold this post.
While serving in this office, she was the chairperson of the BIRD Foundation which helps foster relationships between US and Israeli companies focused on R&D. She negotiated the Israeli government's participation in the European Fifth Framework Program for R&D, and chaired ISERD, the governmental organization responsible for the country's participation in the program. She also chaired the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA%20ShootOut%20%2797 | NBA ShootOut '97 (Total NBA '97 in Europe) is a sports video game developed by SCE Studios Soho and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for the PlayStation in 1997. It is the second installment of the NBA ShootOut series. The cover features Eddie Jones of the Los Angeles Lakers.
Gameplay
ShootOut 97 features rosters from the 1996–97 NBA season. However, the game does not include Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and Shaquille O'Neal, as they were replaced with custom players named "Roster Guard", "Roster Forward" and "Roster Center" respectively.
Reception
Most critics hailed NBA ShootOut '97 as a dramatic improvement over the original. Kraig Kujawa and Dean Hager of Electronic Gaming Monthly praised the faster game speed and new icon passing system. Kujawa wrote a longer review of the game for GameSpot, in which he additionally complimented the authentic NBA sounds and visuals and criticized the small play book. GamePro gave it a 3.5 out of 5 in sound and a perfect 5.0 in every other category (graphics, control, and fun factor), saying that it "shakes up the basketball world, cooking the court with spectacular, slam-dunkin' gameplay and the most realistic five-on-five hoops action ever brought to the 32-bit arena." Like Kujawa and Hager, they highly approved of the icon passing system. A Next Generation critic called the game "the first true basketball simulation for a console", elaborating that unlike previous basketball video games, the statistics have a significant impact on how players perform in actual gameplay. He also commented positively on the icon passing, but said the game was not as fun as NBA In the Zone 2 due to the controls, explaining that "the game has an almost clinical feel, almost as if the player isn't really affecting the outcome of plays."
The game held an 87%, based on five reviews, on the review aggregation website GameRankings. In Japan, where the game was released under the name , on June 27, 1997, Famitsu gave it a score of 27 out of 40.
References
External links
1997 video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
National Basketball Association video games
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Team Soho games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games scored by Richard Joseph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Ulaanbaatar | The Ulaanbaatar trolleybus system forms part of the public transport network in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. It is Mongolia's only trolleybus system.
History
Opened on 29 October 1987, the system was originally operated by about 40 ZiU-9 type trolleybuses, imported from the then Soviet Union. Since 2007, newer trolleybuses have joined the fleet.
Lines
The system is made up of the following lines: 2, 4 and 5.
Fleet
The ZiU-9 type trolleybuses continue to be the mainstay of the fleet. In 2007, they were joined by several Hyundai Aero City 540 vehicles, converted from diesel power using electrical equipment removed from some of the ZiU-9s. A small number of additional ZiU trolleybuses, and two AKSM trolleybuses, have also been added to the fleet.
Due to their strength, the trolleybuses have been nicknamed "goat carts" by Ulaanbaatar residents.
See also
List of trolleybus systems
References
External links
Transport in Ulaanbaatar
Ulan Bator
Ulan Bator |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTPd | PTPd is an open source implementation of the Precision Time Protocol for Unix-like computers.
Derivatives
PTPd is a complete, BSD licensed, open source code implementation of the IEEE 1588-2008 PTP specification. Currently only Unix-like computers can run the software, but this essentially means that FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OSX, Minix3 and QNX computers can participate in PTP networks. PTPd can act as a master on a system with an external time source, such as a GPS card, or NTP running as a client.
ptpd2 was intended to be a complete open source implementation of the IEEE 1588-2008 (PTPv2) PTP specification. The project was abandoned in March 2011.
ptpv2d is GPL re-licensed open source code of IEEE 1588 version 1, version 2 and IEEE 802.1AS including hardware timestamping for Freescale MPC831x family of processors.
Accuracy
PTPd accuracy depends on how IEEE 1588 packets are timestamped on the participating machines. When IEEE 1588 packets are timestamped in software, interrupt latency, OS scheduling, and other software issues reduce the accuracy of the acquired timestamps, and therefore, the accuracy of time synchronization. The presence of hardware-assisted timestamping makes it possible to acquire more precise send and receive timestamps. A test in 2010 on an Intel Gigabit network card noted offset converging to varying between around 1–100 microseconds in a pure software implementation, and to around a microsecond when using hardware-assisted PTP.
See also
List of PTP implementations
References
External links
Network time-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Investigative%20Project%20on%20Terrorism | The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) is a non-profit research group founded by Steven Emerson in 1995. IPT has been called a prominent part of the "Islamophobia network" within the United States and a "leading source of anti-Muslim racism" and noted for its record of selective reporting and poor scholarship.
History
IPT maintains a data center that includes archival information relating to the past activities of known Islamic terrorist groups. They also investigate suspected funding activities and networks of Islamic extremists in the US and abroad. IPT obtains information from a variety of sources, including "websites, list-serves, publications, informants, undercover recordings, government records, court documents, and so on". IPT has provided useful evidence to law enforcement and government agencies, and occasionally provides testimonial evidence during special committee hearings of the US Congress.
In April 2006, Emerson organized The Investigative Project on Terrorism Foundation as a nonprofit organization and serves as its executive director. In January 2007, the IRS granted the organization tax-exempt status. The organization's nonprofit status received a great deal of scrutiny from critics. According to an article published in the Tennessean by Bob Smietana, allegations of ties between the newly organized charity, and Emerson's for-profit company, SAE, were brought to the attention of the IRS. It was alleged that the foundation's tax-free dollars were being funneled to Emerson's production company in violation of the law. A spokesperson for Emerson's SAE Productions said the approach had already been vetted by the group's lawyers and declared legal, that it was set up that way for security reasons, and he further explained that Emerson does not take any profits from SAE Productions. No formal charges were made, or disciplinary actions taken against Emerson. The foundation maintained its nonprofit status.
Indictments and trial evidence
According to an article in the Middle East Forum's Middle East Quarterly, "the IPT has access to information and intelligence to which the government is not privy, and has been instrumental in shutting down more than a dozen Islamic charitable terrorist and nonviolent front-groups since 2001."
In the 2007 and 2008 Holy Land Foundation Trials - prosecution relied on evidence produced by IPT, one of the three groups responsible for much of the analysis of exhibits and the links from Holy Land Foundation (HLF) to Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), and the extended MB network. On May 27, 2009, in federal court in Dallas, "U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis sentenced the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) and five of its leaders following their convictions by a federal jury in November 2008 on charges of providing material support to Hamas, a designated foreign terrorist organization." As a result of IPT's vast archives on the activities of Hamas front groups in the Unit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masao%20Kanamitsu | Masao Kanamitsu (November 6, 1943, in Kumamoto, Japan – August 17, 2011, in Del Mar, California) was a Japanese and American atmospheric scientist working in the field of data assimilation. His research greatly influenced global and regional climate change studies including development of breakthrough reanalysis and downscaling datasets and weather forecasting studies. He was the co-author of one of the most cited geophysics paper in his time.
Kanamitsu was born in 1943 and was raised in Sapporo. He did his B.S. and M. Sc. in 1968 at Hokkaido University, Japan and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in 1975 at Florida State University. He was one of the large group of Japanese scientists who after the World War II greatly contributed to the development of the dynamic meteorology in the US and in the World including Syukuro Manabe, Taroh Matsuno, Kikuro Miyakoda, and Akio Arakawa. He served as a Forecaster at the Japan Meteorological Agency, as a leader of the Global Modeling Branch, Development Division, and later as an Acting Chief of the Prediction Branch at the Climate Prediction Center of the National Meteorological Center. In 2001 he moved to Scripps Institution of Oceanography where he worked for the rest of his life. He had a group of young researchers working with him.
Kanamitsu was instrumental in creating one of the most successful datasets used in global change studies - the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis for which he received a Group Gold Medal from the Department of Commerce in 1997. His 1996 reanalysis paper is one of the most celebrated papers in atmospheric science and geosciences - at the time of his death this paper was cited 7985 times.
His publications
report ambitious, multiyear in making, and extensive project to develop regional-scale climate change dataset based on the NCEP–NCAR reanalysis for the period 1948–2005. This downscaling paved the way for local scale understanding of climate changes. In Dynamical Downscaling of Global Analysis and Simulation over the Northern Hemisphere he worked out a problem of how to produce meteorological dataset such as winds, pressures, or temperature on fine scale (say every 10 km) if the measurements are performed every 200 km. This led to a concept of dynamical downscaling of climate analysis using regional models.
He served as an editor for the Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan (1980–1985) and the Monthly Weather Review (1991–1993). He was active scientifically to the end of his very productive life. At the time of his death he was a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography where in relatively short time of about 10 years he wrote 35 papers. Kanamitsu was survived by his wife Mariko and his daughter Tomoko. He enjoyed hiking in various mountain ranges around Japan, United States and Europe. He loved dogs. He received Meteorological Society of Japan award in 1983. He was known as Kana among his friends.
Notes and references
American meteorologists
2011 deaths
1943 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Voice%20of%20Youth | The Voice of Youth (tVoY) is a youth network spread across 151 countries.
History
tVoY was initiated by a student of National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan (NUST) in June, 2010 to cultivate relations with youth belonging to different strata of life. But behind this obvious reason, there lies a deeper visionary objective – that is to create a forum where the youth of Pakistan could mingle and enrich one other by their perceptions and views.
Social media as an alternate form of media has brought the conflict zones of the world into limelight. With the vision of a peaceful society, one of the goals of tVoY is also to speak to millions about resolution of conflicts, their nature and root causes.
Considering the swift spread of the concept of e-Journalism and online access to information, tVoY ultimately aims to connect all the actors of communication ecosystem through the use of digital technology and by granting the right to express heterogeneous views for homogeneity.
Mission
To cultivate relations with youth belonging to different strata of life, providing all with a platform to freely pursue their individuality for collective progression.
Goals
• Lend youth a voice to express their ideas, opinions and aspirations for themselves and their community
• Help groom youth’s perspective by presenting many views on popular social issues, thus garnering acceptance, tolerance and broad-mindedness in them
• Highlight youth voices from conflict zones
• Electronically preserve Urdu and regional languages for future generations
• Connect young people all around the world
Blog
tVoY started out as blog for NUSTians on June 26, 2010. It later expanded for the student community at large in August, 2010.
Only tVoY's official representatives can post at the blog.
Network
tVoY has a core team of 11 young talents. It also has approximately 1000 representatives from about 75 educational institutes of Pakistan. The first batch of interns was recruited in August 2011.
Acclaim
tVoY has received critical acclaim from many Pakistani newspapers, journals and online publications. Prominent among them are Pakistan Observer, The Nation, The News and Dawn.
Partners
tVoY has partnered with many national and international youth-led events, organizations and societies.
References
External links
the Voice of Youth on Facebook
Mass media in Pakistan
Youth-led media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide%20in%20Canada | According to the latest available data, Statistics Canada estimates 4,157 suicides took place in Canada in 2017, making it the 9th leading cause of death, between Alzheimer's disease (8th) and cirrhosis and other liver diseases (10th). In 2009, there were an estimated 3,890 suicide deaths.
According to Statistics Canada, in the period from 1950 to 2009, males died by suicide at a rate three times that of women. The much higher rate of male suicide is a long-term pattern in Canada. At all points in time over the past 60 years, males have had higher rates of suicide than females.
During 1999–2003, the suicide rate among Nunavut males aged 15 to 19 was estimated to exceed 800 per 100,000 population, compared to around 14 for the general Canadian male population in that age group.
Suicide rate over time
Rates of suicide in Canada have been fairly constant since the 1920s, averaging annually around twenty (males) and five (females) per 100,000 population, ranging from lows of 14 (males, 1944) and 4 (females, 1925, 1963) to peaks of 27 (males, 1977, 1982) and 10 (females, 1973). During the 2000s, Canada ranked 34th-highest overall among 107 nations' suicide rates.
Demographics and locations
Canada's incidence of suicide – deaths caused by intentional self-harm divided by total deaths from all causes – averaged over the period from 2000 to 2007 for both sexes, was highest in the northern territory of Nunavut, and highest across the country within the age group from 45 to 49 years.
By region and gender
Canadian males experience two periods over their lives when they are most likely to die by suicide—in their late forties, and past the age of ninety—for females there is a single peak, in their early fifties. The peak male rates are 53% above the average for all ages, while for females, the peak is 72% greater.
With 86.5 suicides per 100,000 population in 2006, males' rates over the age of 74 in Russia exceed by threefold Canadian males' rate among the same age cohort. However, Nunavut males of all ages exceeded the elderly Russian male rate by 30%. During 2000–2007, there were between 13 and 25 male suicides recorded annually in the Nunavut territory, accounting for between 16% and 30% of total annual mortality.
In Nunavut, suicide among Inuit is 10 times higher than the Canadian suicide rate. In 2019, Nunavut's suicide rate was reported to be the highest in the world.
By age group
Among Canadians aged 15 to 24, suicide ranked second among the most common causes of death during 2003–2007, accounting for one-fifth of total mortality. In the 45 to 54 age group, its rank was fourth over these years, the cause of 6 per cent of all deaths.
Military
An internal study of suicide rates among Canadian Forces staff deployed over the period 1995 to 2008 found the rate for males in the Regular Forces to be approximately 20% lower than that among the general population of the same age.
However, mortality analysis of 2,800 former Canadian Forces perso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just%20Mobile | Just Mobile (stylised as JUST Mobile) was a prepay mobile virtual network operator in Ireland which operated on the Vodafone Ireland network. It was founded in October 2010 and ceased operating 10 months later, in August 2011.
History
Founded by Donal Lawless and Stuart Kelly, the company was funded by the founders and a BES fund managed by Powerscourt Capital Partners, an investment firm led by Irish entrepreneur Seán Melly. Melly was also chairman of Just Mobile. The company was incorporated in 2007, and launched to customers in October 2010. Upon launch, it created approximately 25 jobs, with plans to create up to 70 jobs in its first two years. Under its Just Cause scheme, the company made charitable donations of 5% of the value of every top-up.
Closure
In August 2011, the company announced that it had failed to acquire the required funding to continue operating. On 2 August 2011, the Commission for Communications Regulation announced that Just Mobile would cease operations gradually, until final closure on 19 August 2011.
References
Mobile virtual network operators
Telecommunications companies of the Republic of Ireland
Telecommunications in the Republic of Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathiramangalam | Kathiramangalam is a village in the
Thiruvidaimarudur revenue block of Thanjavur district,
Tamil Nadu, India.
Demographics
As per the 2017 electoral data, Kathiramangalam had a total population of 788 with 400 males and 388 females. Out of the total population
373 people were literate.
References
Villages in Thanjavur district |
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