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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterfile | Masterfile may refer to:
Masterfile (album), an album by Icehouse
MasterFILE, a database provided by EBSCO Information Services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Kenny | Deborah Kenny is an American educator, author of Born to Rise and the founder and Chief Executive of Harlem Village Academies, a network of charter schools in Harlem, New York.
Background
Kenny started the Harlem Village Academies charter schools shortly after her husband died of leukemia in 2001 as the founding principal of the flagship Harlem Village Academy. Previously, Kenny served as Group President of Sesame Street Publishing, and as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development of Time Warner's Parenting Group. She is a former classroom teacher with expertise in youth leadership training and curriculum development. In starting the schools, Kenny was heavily influenced by Jack Welch's approach to leadership and accountability.
Education
Kenny holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University in comparative international education, and a B.A. magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.
Work with Harlem Village Academies
Kenny is Chief Executive Officer Of Harlem Village Academies, a network of charter schools in Harlem. She has described an overemphasis on "The program elements…things like curriculum and class size and school size and longer day" and believes that none of these program elements are nearly as important as the quality of teaching in the schools. "If you had an amazing teacher who was passionate and given the freedom and support to teach well that was just 100 times more important than anything else," she stated.
Kenny believes that the emphasis on program elements is one of the main reasons it has been so hard to repeat the successes of good schools. "They were trying to replicate programs instead of trying to develop people." Instead, Kenny said, "I became obsessed with how to develop great teachers. You put all of your focus on finding great people, and you establish a culture that helps them constantly learn and grow and become better at what they do. You have to provide a community in the school that supports and respects teachers. And you have to give them the kind of freedom that allows their passion for teaching to flourish."
Some of the country's most powerful leaders in business, finance, media, and entertainment have become close with Kenny and involved with her work in Harlem, including Hugh Jackman, Barry Diller, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Bloomberg, Dick Parsons, John Legend, Jack Welch, Katie Couric, Leon Black, Steve Forbes, Jonathan Gray, and Edward Lewis. President George W. Bush visited the flagship Harlem Village Academy in 2007 calling it "a model of excellence."
Educational philosophy
Kenny's educational philosophy is built on her vision to create schools where she would be happy to send her own children. "I had five core things in mind for my kids, and that's what I want for our students. I wanted them to be wholesome in character. I wanted them to be compassionate and to see life as a responsibility to give something to the world. I wanted them to have a sophisticated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%26A%20Gang | The K&A Gang, currently known as the Northeast Philly Irish Mob, is a predominantly Irish American criminal network based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The K&A Gang was started following World War II and controlled the city's Irish-American criminal underworld for much of the late 20th century. The group was mainly a burglary ring for much of its early history, but shifted into loansharking, illegal gambling, racketeering, and ultimately drug trafficking in its later existence. The name K&A is derived from Kensington and Allegheny, the road intersection where the gang originally formed.
Domestically, the network is known to have ties to various criminal organizations in its surrounding area. They are known to have amicable ties to the La Cosa Nostra, namely the Scarfo crime family, but also the South Jersey faction of the New York City-based Genovese crime family, the local Greek mob, local Jewish-American gangsters, and various independent drug and hijacking gangs of various European ethnicities in the Greater Philadelphia area. They are also said to have ties to the Irish Republican Army and the larger Irish republican movement.
History
Beginnings as a burglary ring
From the post-war 1950s to the 1970s, members of the network were tied to burglaries and theft operations all along the East Coast. While most of their work was around the Philadelphia area, they ventured out from their turf since the group's inception. A favored target was the wealthy residential Jewish suburbs, which would be the livelihood of the group for many years. The crew was adamant about not carrying weapons with them while they burglarized. This was largely due to the liability of increased jail time if caught with a firearm. They also traded the cliché burglary attire for professional suits, while on the job, in case they were stopped. In those days, there was no overarching structure within the gang. It was horizontal in nature, there being several prominent "crew chiefs" who held influence.
Their reach even extended outside the boundaries of Philadelphia as they targeted other ventures. In North Carolina, several members were known as the "Hallmark Gang" and would collaborate with the Dixie Mafia. They are also allegedly responsible for the Pottsville Heist in 1959. George Holmes alleges that a showgirl named Lillian Reis and Vickie Mason(AKA, Viola Lorenzo) gave the gang the tip they needed to pilfer $478,000 in cash and jewelry from the home of John B. Rich. Lillian "Tiger Lil" Reis and Her good friend Vickie were well-known nightclub entrepreneurs and former showgirls who had ties to the gangsters.
Expansion into the methamphetamine trade
By the late 1970s, with the advent of modern home-security technologies, the burglary racket was no longer viable as a main source of income. With the rise of the drug culture of the 1980s, the group began to focus less on their signature brand of thievery and more towards traditional criminal schemes and the booming methamph |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian%E2%80%93Eulerian%20advection | In scientific visualization, Lagrangian–Eulerian advection is a technique mainly used for the visualization of unsteady flows. The computer graphics generated by the technique can help scientists visualize changes in velocity fields. This technique uses a hybrid Lagrangian and Eulerian specification of the flow field. It is a special case of a line integral convolution.
The method consists of using nearest-neighbour interpolation followed by an error correction mechanism. The Lagrangian specification is used during the integration to update the particle positions. The property of interest is advected in the Eulerian frame of reference. It was originally designed by Bruno Jobard and others for steady flows but was extended to unsteady flows.
The main idea is to create a white noise texture of the desired resolution, which is used as a base, on top of which the vector field can be applied. That means for every particle looking backward in the vector field to find out the new value for the cell it is contained in. Then looking forward – to calculate the new position of the particle in the cell.
In its application, the Lagrangian–Eulerian method can be accelerated using the GPUs used in common chipsets present in Nvidia and ATI Radeon graphics cards.
Ensuring that the moving texture always follows the velocity field of the fluid, while maintaining properties of the original texture, is key to avoid visual artifacts. A new method developed in 2009 improves the results of the previous one, running real-time.
See also
Lagrangian analysis
Lagrangian drifter
References
Numerical function drawing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted%20service%20manager | A trusted service manager (TSM) is a role in a near field communication ecosystem. It acts as a neutral broker that sets up business agreements and technical connections with mobile network operators, phone manufacturers or other entities controlling the secure element on mobile phones. The trusted service manager enables service providers to distribute and manage their contactless applications remotely by allowing access to the secure element in NFC-enabled handsets.
The term is a standardized name used by the GSM Association, the European Payments Council, and the NFC Forum.
Typical functions
End to end security
Activation and deactivation of services
Remote access to applications
Interconnect with Mobile Network Operators and Service providers
Application lifecycle management
Managing keys for a trusted execution environment
These functions can be performed by mobile network operators, service providers or third parties, and or part can be delegated by one party to another.
References
Mobile telecommunications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Yerevan | The Yerevan trolleybus system forms part of the public transport network in Yerevan, the capital city of Armenia. Since the closure of the Gyumri trolleybus system in 2005, it has been Armenia’s only trolleybus system.
History
Opened on 16 August 1949, the system was once much more extensive than it is today.
At its greatest extent, the system had 20 lines, operated by a total of 300 trolleybuses, the vast majority of which were either Czech made Škoda 9Tr or 14Tr units, or Soviet made ZiU-682 models.
In recent years, the system has shrunk, and most of the Soviet era trolleybuses have been replaced by newer vehicles.
Lines
As of 2011, the system was made up of the following lines: 1, 2, 9, 10 and 15. In July 2023, 2 new lines were introduced as new buses arrived to the fleet. Lines 2a and 10a are extended versions of lines 2 and 10, the lines continue without wires which was made possible with the new buses.
Fleet
The Yerevan trolleybus fleet still has a significant number of Škoda 14Tr units in service. The Škoda 9Trs and ZiU-682s have all been withdrawn.
The latest trolleybuses in the fleet are mostly Russian made LiAZ-5280 vehicles, and second hand Berliet ER100 trolleybuses originally used on the Lyon trolleybus system.
15 new Yutong trolleybuses joined the system in 2023.
There are also plans to buy an additional 15 new units.
Accident
On 16 September 1976, a trolleybus operating alongside Yerevan Lake went out of control and fell from the dam wall into the lake. The sound of this accident was heard by Shavarsh Karapetyan, a multi-champion finswimmer, who was training with his brother Kamo, also a finswimmer, by running alongside the lake.
The trolleybus lay at the bottom of the reservoir some 25 meters (80 ft) off the shore at a depth of 10 meters (33 ft). Karapetyan swam to it and, under conditions of almost zero visibility due to the silt rising from the bottom, broke the back window with his legs. The trolleybus was crowded, it carried 92 passengers and Karapetyan knew he had little time, spending some 30 to 35 seconds for each person he saved.
Karapetyan managed to rescue 20 people, but this was the end of his sports career: the combined effect of cold water and the multiple wounds he received left him lying unconscious for 45 days, with subsequent sepsis (due to the presence of raw sewage in the lake water) and lung complications preventing him from continuing his sports career.
See also
List of trolleybus systems
Transport in Armenia
Trolleybuses in former Soviet Union countries
Trolleybus usage by country
Yerevan Metro
References
Books
External links
The trolley-bus and Shavarsh Karapetyan
Transport in Yerevan
Yerevan
Yerevan
Transport disasters in 1976
Transport disasters in Armenia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghadames%20Museum | The Ghadames Museum is an archaeological museum located in Ghadames, Libya.
Data
With its multiple wings, the museum specializes in Berber history and area wildlife. It includes archaeological remains from Ghadames dating to the Roman period, when it was named Cydamus. There are some column bases of a Roman temple in a section of the Museum.
Columns of the Christian church of Cydamus still remain in the "Sīdī Badrī" Mosque (the oldest in Libya): one is expected to be moved inside the Ghadames Museum.
The museum is one of the most visited places in the city by the tourists.
See also
Cydamus
Capitoline Temple
List of museums in Libya
Treasury of Cyrene
References
Bibliography
Lafi (Nora) "Ghadamès cité-oasis entre empire ottoman et colonisation"" in Federico Cresti (ed.), La Libia tra Mediterraneo e mondo islamico, Giuffrè, pp. 55–70, 2006
Archaeological museums in Libya
Berber culture
Ghadames
Ethnic museums
Museums with year of establishment missing
Berber architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Virtual%20Aviation%20Organisation | International Virtual Aviation Organisation VZW (IVAO) is a non-profit association which operates a free-of-charge online flight-simulation network.
Following free registration users can connect to the IVAO Network (IVAN) either as a virtual air traffic controller or as a virtual pilot and engage and interact with each other in a massively multiplayer environment utilising real-world aviation procedures, phraseology and techniques.
Overview
IVAO, with more than 250,000 registered members, is one of the largest online flight simulation networks that allow users to act as either a virtual pilot or air traffic controller.
IVAO relies solely on software developed by its own staff of volunteers. Air Traffic Controllers can connect to the IVAO network using IVAO's radar client IvAc, or Aurora - The IVAO ATC Client, that emulates the interface of a modern, real-world air traffic control radar scope. Pilots can connect using their flight simulator and the built-in pilot client, IvAp or Altitude - The IVAO Pilot Client. All pilots and ATC thereby interact on a dedicated, one-world server environment that simulates world-wide air traffic on an "as real as it gets" basis.
While the largest part of IVAO's active membership is based in Europe, new divisions are continually being created to spread the network coverage world-wide.
IVAO logs all flight and controlling hours and offers its members to obtain virtual pilot and ATC ranks by undergoing training and passing theoretical and practical exams based around real-world aviation regulations and procedures. A fully integrated VA system offers virtual airlines the ability to operate on the IVAO Network even with fictional airline callsigns and liveries. Events and regular gatherings are organised on a daily basis by divisions or members. With approximately 8,000 connections per day and an average weekday peak between 700 and 1,500 simultaneous connections, IVAO reached its current simultaneous connection record during the annual "Crowded Skies" event on December 10, 2016, with 3,004 members flying or controlling at the same time. In the latest event of the same name, however, held in 2021, IVAO was far from reaching that number again followed by severe issues in their servers.
History
The first steps for setting up flight simulation in a massively-multiplayer online environment were taken with the creation of SquawkBox and ProController in the mid-1990s. These two programs were connected to FSD, a simple flight simulator multiplayer server, which allowed the evolution from a one-to-one (one ATC and one plane) environment to a many-to-many environment.
Using these programs, SATCO (now VATSIM) was the first large network to create an online air traffic simulation environment. On December 16, 1998, IVAO was founded when a group of people left SATCO to form a new network after management conflicts developed within the organisation.
In late 2005, another management conflict, this time within the IVAO organisatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Lantern%3A%20The%20Animated%20Series | Green Lantern: The Animated Series is an American computer-animated superhero television series based on the DC Comics superhero Green Lantern. The series aired on Cartoon Network, as part of their "DC Nation" television block. A one-hour sneak peek aired on November 11, 2011, it ran from March 17, 2012, until March 16, 2013. A special screening of the first episode was shown at New York Comic Con 2011 on October 15. This was the first Green Lantern television series and the first CGI DC/WB series. The series was cancelled after one season due to poor toy sales after the negative reception and poor box office performance of the live-action film.
Plot
The series focuses on the adventures of Hal Jordan, the Green Lantern of Sector 2814, and his partner Kilowog. Jordan steals a space ship controlled by Aya (an AI) and travels to "Frontier Space" together with Kilowog. This is the very edge of the Guardians of the Universe' territory, where Green Lanterns are being killed by the Red Lanterns. Atrocitus, their leader, wants revenge for the destruction of his world by the Manhunters, created by the Guardians, but who were also shut down by the Guardians. During their adventure, they meet a Red Lantern called Razer. They take him as a prisoner, but eventually adopt him as a teammate after he helps them defeat Atrocitus. Razer also falls in love with Aya, but after Atrocitus is defeated and Razer rejects her, and decides to eliminate all life in the universe.
At the end of season one, Jordan discovers that Aya is born out of a living being and that she is alive. He tries to convince her to end her universal genocide, but fails. Razer gets severely injured when he tries to kill Aya, as she defends herself by firing a laser beam. Hal convinces Aya that what she is doing is wrong and she saves the universe and heals Razer. However, in Aya's anger, she recreated the Manhunter army and downloaded a copy of herself into every single Manhunter. The only solution to shut them down is, in effect, a massive computer virus, that will also destroy Aya. Aya launches the virus and the Manhunters are shut down. However, she also destroys herself and she passes after saying goodbye to Razer.
Back on Oa, Razer cannot and will not believe that Aya is dead because she was not a complete robot after all, but alive; and a living being cannot be destroyed by a computer virus. He starts a galaxy-spanning search, in the hope to find her somewhere in the universe.
The Green Lantern Corps celebrates their victory. Meanwhile, a Blue Lantern ring follows Razer during his quest, but if he will receive it is left ambiguous.
Characters
Main characters
Hal Jordan / Green Lantern (voiced by Josh Keaton) – the main protagonist, Hal Jordan is the first human to become a Green Lantern, and is considered one of the best. He is an almost fearless and skilled Lantern. He has a history of disobeying orders and disregarding rules to achieve success. His superiors see him as a loose can |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything%20%26%20Everyone | Everything & Everyone is the second album by the English musical group Patrick & Eugene.
Track listing
Personnel
Patrick Dawes - percussion, drums, drum programming
Eugene Bezodis - vocals, saxophone, clarinet, flute, recorder, keyboards
Additional personnel
Dominic Bentham - double bass
Simon Eames - ukulele, banjo, keyboards, melodica, euphonium, trombone, bass guitar
Clive Jenner - drums
Jonathan "Stan" White - bass guitar
References
External links
Official website
2008 albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme%20Moody | Graeme Moody (August 1951 – 24 August 2011) was a New Zealand sports broadcaster. He worked for the Newstalk ZB and Radio Sport networks for 35 years covering a range of major events, including the Olympic Games, Rugby World Cups, Commonwealth Games and America's Cup yachting. Moody drowned in a surfing accident in Australia on 24 August 2011, one week after his 60th birthday.
References
External links
RadioSport profile
1951 births
2011 deaths
New Zealand broadcasters
Sports commentators
People educated at Wellington College (New Zealand)
Accidental deaths in New South Wales
Deaths by drowning in Australia
Place of birth missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana%20University%20School%20of%20Informatics | The Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering is an academic unit of Indiana University located on the Indiana University Bloomington (IUB) campus and on the Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus. On the Bloomington campus, the School consists of the Department of Informatics, the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Information and Library Science, and the Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering. On the Indianapolis campus, the School consist of the Department of Human-Centered Computing, the Department of BioHealth Informatics, and the Department of Library and Information Science.
Schoolwide programs include the BS in Informatics, MS in Bioinformatics, MS in Human-Computer Interaction, and PhD in Informatics. Bloomington-specific programs include the BS, MS, and PhD in Intelligent Systems Engineering; BS, MS, and PhD in Computer Science; MS in Informatics; MS in Secure Computing; Master of Library Science; Master of Information Science; and PhD in Information Science. Indianapolis-specific programs include the BS in Biomedical Informatics; BS in Health Information Management; BS in Media Arts and Science; BS/MS in Biomedical Informatics/Bioinformatics or Health Informatics; BS/MS in Health Information Management and Health Informatics; BS/MS in Informatics/Applied Data Science, Bioinformatics, Health Informatics, or HCI; BS/MS in HCI or Media Arts and Science; MS in Media Arts and Science; MS in Health Informatics; and Master of Library and Information Science. In addition, the School confers a number of undergraduate and PhD minors and undergraduate and graduate certificates.
The acceptance rate for the School was 55%, 1019 accepted out of 1861 applicants.
History
The School of Informatics was founded in 2000 as the first school of its kind in the United States. That fall, the first classes were offered on both campuses. Two years later, in 2002, the School hired its first full professor (Bill Aspray) and conferred its first degrees (22 students).
By the end of 2004, the School had buildings of its own – a former sorority house on the north side of the Bloomington campus, and the newly constructed Informatics and Communications Technology Complex (ICTC) building on the Indianapolis (IUPUI) campus. In 2005, the Department of Computer Science joined the School in Bloomington, significantly changing the research and course offerings of the five-year-old organization. At that time, the School had 1,500 students and had graduated 600 students.
In 2007, with the retirement of founding dean Mike Dunn, Bobby Schnabel, former vice provost/associate vice chancellor at the University of Colorado-Boulder, took over. Raj Acharya, the founding director and head of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Penn State University, replaced Schnabel in 2016. The School has continued to grow, with nearly 150 faculty, over 2,000 students, and multiple buildings between the t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHL%20FaceOff%2098 | NHL FaceOff 98 is a video game developed by Killer Game and published by Sony Computer Entertainment of America for the PlayStation. It's part of the NHL FaceOff series, and was the first installment to use polygonal players.
Reception
Reviews for NHL FaceOff 98 were wildly divergent, with critics expressing contradicting opinions on numerous aspects of the game. Kraig Kujawa and John Ricciardi of Electronic Gaming Monthly found the A.I. too easy even on the hardest setting, but their co-reviewer Kelly Rickards complained that it is frustratingly difficult. While GameSpots Jeff Gerstmann and GamePro said the on-ice sound effects were well done, Kujawa and IGNs early review both said they lack excitement and atmosphere. Though Next Generation said the game "doesn't control very well", and GameSpot and IGN found the control configuration overcomplicated and confusing even when icon passing is enabled, Kujawa and IGN actually praised the control as tight, responsive, and realistic. And though most reviews praised the lifelike animation of the players, GameSpot and GamePro complained at the stiff animation when the players are skating around (as opposed to shooting or checking).
The one point most critics agreed upon was that NHL FaceOff 98 came in second to NHL 98. The Electric Playgrounds Tommy Tallarico (whose studio had done the sound for the game) was an exception, calling it the best hockey game of the season and giving it a 9.7, while co-host Victor Lucas gave it a 9 and also said NHL 98 was better. GamePro summarized, "A roster of strong improvements nicely tunes up this year's outing, but NHL '98 still outclasses it in almost every category." Next Generation stated that "The gameplay features and stats are nearly identical to all of the other hockey games coming out, but NHL Face Off is a game that doesn't have enough life or personality of its own to separate itself from the pack, meaning once again that it's the second-best hockey game on PlayStation." Kujawa likewise concluded that "NHL Face Off 98 is a great hockey game, but only good enough to rank second best to EA's NHL 98." Gerstmann gave a more dismal assessment, calling the game "simply average".
Notes
References
External links
1997 video games
NHL FaceOff
PlayStation (console) games
PlayStation (console)-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Joy%20of%20Sets | The Joy of Sets is an Australian comedy television series looking at the elements used to construct television shows. The show was originally broadcast weekly by the Nine Network, premiering on 20 September 2011.
The show was written and hosted by comedians Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee, and produced by Zapruder's Other Films, the production company owned by Andrew Denton. Martin and Kavalee previously worked together in 2006 and 2007 hosting the popular Australian radio program Get This.
Outline
The premise of The Joy of Sets was to have each episode focus on one element of television production. The first episode, for example, focused on opening credits of television shows, while the episode's title referred to the term used in the entertainment industry for credits, "selling the meat".
The show was filmed in front of a studio audience at Technology Park, Alexandria, Sydney, however it did not screen live-to-air.
Prior to its production, it was stated that the show would offer "a unique take on television – the good, the bad and the gloriously misguided". While this led to early comparisons with another popular Zapruder production, The Gruen Transfer, the release of The Joy of Sets revealed it to have a completely different structure and content.
Each episode of the show employed various methods to explain the techniques used, including discussion and banter between hosts Martin and Kavalee, video clips from classic and contemporary free-to-air and pay TV programs, a celebrity guest related to the topic of that week's episode, re-enactments by the hosts and guests, and audience participation.
Warwick Capper appeared as a guest in each episode, making an unexpected cameo appearance dressed only in gold hotpants during one or more of the re-enactments. A regular segment in each episode was a quiz called "Not on my network", where a member of the audience had to identify which of three unlikely options had actually been a real television program; this included a gift shop featuring a different attendant each episode, usually a former gift shop host from an old Australian television game show, and different tacky television memorabilia each program as possible prizes. Another regular part of the program was Martin announcing that the show would conclude with a special feature under the end credits, only to have Kavalee remind him that the show had no end credits, which would be met with an angry outburst by Martin or an invited guest just as the episode faded off air.
Episodes
The first episode aired nationally in Australia at 9:00 pm on Tuesday, 20 September 2011, and featured guests Warwick Capper and Peter Phelps. The first season was scheduled for eight episodes. The first four episodes remained in the 9:00 pm timeslot, however, from the fifth episode, the program was screened in the 10:30 pm Tuesday slot.
Reception
The Joy of Sets achieved good ratings for their debut episode on 20 September 2011, achieving an audience of over 1.1 million |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigensystem%20realization%20algorithm | The Eigensystem realization algorithm (ERA) is a system identification technique popular in civil engineering, in particular in structural health monitoring. ERA can be used as a modal analysis technique and generates a system realization using the time domain response (multi-)input and (multi-)output data. The ERA was proposed by Juang and Pappa and has been used for system identification of aerospace structures such as the Galileo spacecraft, turbines, civil structures and many other type of systems.
Uses in structural engineering
In structural engineering the ERA is used to identify natural frequencies, mode shapes and damping ratios. The ERA is commonly used in conjunction with the Natural Excitation Technique (NExT) to identify modal parameters from ambient vibration. The technique has been applied to buildings, bridges, and many other type of structural systems. In the area of structural health monitoring the ERA and other modal identification techniques play an important role in developing a model of the structure from experimental data. The state space representation, or the modal parameters are used for further analysis and identify possible damage in structures.
Algorithm
It is recommended to review the concepts of State-space representation and vibration before studying the ERA. Given pulse response data form the Hankel matrix
where is the pulse response at time step . Next, perform a singular value decomposition of , i.e. . Then choose only the rows and columns corresponding to physical modes to form the matrices . Then the discrete time system realization can be given by:
To generate the system states where is the matrix of eigenvectors for .
Example
Consider a single degree of freedom (SDOF) system with stiffness , mass , and damping . The equation of motion for this SDOF is
where is the displacement of the mass and is time. The continuous state-space representation of this system is
where represent the states of the system corresponding to the displacement and velocity of the SDOF. Note that the states are usually denoted by . However, here is used for the SDOF displacement.
See also
Frequency domain decomposition
Stochastic subspace identification
ERA/DC
References
Systems theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo%20Sherpa | Sherpa is a cloud storage platform developed by Yahoo!. It is a hosted, distributed, and geographically replicated key-value data store. The service is a NoSQL system that has been developed by Yahoo!, to address the scalability, availability, and latency needs of the conglomerate’s websites. Sherpa has abilities such as elastic growth, multi-tenancy, global footprint for local low-latency access, asynchronous replication, representational state transfer (REST) based web service APIs, novel per-record consistency knobs, high availability, compression, secondary indexes, and record-level replication.
Architecture
Sherpa is a multi-tenant system. An application can store data in a table, which is a collection of records. A table is shared into smaller pieces called tablets. Data is shared based on the hash value of the key, or range partitioned. Tablets are stored on nodes referred to as storage units. A software routing layer keeps track of mapping between applications tablets and storage units. Applications send requests to the router, which forwards them to the correct storage unit based on the tablet map. Clients can get, set, delete, and scan records via unique record primary keys.
Data model
Sherpa's data model is a key-value store where data is stored as JSON blobs. Data is organized in tables where primary key uniqueness can be enforced, but other than that, there are no fixed schemas. It supports single-table scans with predicates. Customers can choose a variety of table types: distributed hash table, distributed ordered table, and mastered and merging tables. Application-specific access patterns determine the suitability of each table type. Query patterns affect key definition.
Features
Scalability
Sherpa scales by partitioning data: data partitions are called tablets. Each customer-defined table is partitioned into tablets. Thus, tablets are both units of work assignment and tenancy. Each tablet contains a range of records. Sherpa can scale to very large numbers of tables, tablets and records.
Elasticity
The system scales horizontally as newer machines are added, with no downtime to applications. Other elasticity operations include data partition assignment, reassignment and splitting.
Fault-tolerance
Data is automatically replicated to multiple nodes for fault tolerance. Replication across multiple data centers is supported. Single-node failure is transparent to the applications. Sherpa relies on a reliable transaction message bus for replicating transactions. This message bus guarantees at-least-once delivery of transaction messages.
Tunable consistency
Sherpa supports different levels of consistency, ranging from per-record timeline consistency where all writes are serialized to a master copy, to eventual consistency.
Selective record replication
Replication granularity occurs at the levels of records and tables.
Backup
The Backup feature allows multiple old copies of the full table to be saved in offline storage. Fro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write%20%28system%20call%29 | The write is one of the most basic routines provided by a Unix-like operating system kernel. It writes data from a buffer declared by the user to a given device, such as a file. This is the primary way to output data from a program by directly using a system call. The destination is identified by a numeric code. The data to be written, for instance a piece of text, is defined by a pointer and a size, given in number of bytes.
write thus takes three arguments:
The file code (file descriptor or fd).
The pointer to a buffer where the data is stored (buf).
The number of bytes to write from the buffer (nbytes).
POSIX usage
The write call interface is standardized by the POSIX specification. Data is written to a file by calling the write function. The function prototype is:
ssize_t write(int fildes, const void *buf, size_t nbyte);
In above syntax, ssize_t is a typedef. It is a signed data type defined in stddef.h. Note that write() does not return an unsigned value; it returns -1 if an error occurs so it must return a signed value.
The write function returns the number of bytes successfully written into the file, which may at times be less than the specified nbytes. It returns -1 if an exceptional condition is encountered, see section on errors below.
See also
fwrite
getchar
fprintf
read (system call)
sync (Unix)
References
External links
POSIX write
C POSIX library
System calls |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easyswap | Easyswap is a Switzerland-based on-line local exchange trading system (LETS) platform featuring geolocation data as well as a complementary currency.
History
Easyswap began as an initiative of the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, to reduce social problems such as long-term unemployment and social exclusion.
A working group, made up of welfare recipients recruited by the city's social services department, came up with the idea of a web-based project modeled on local exchange trading systems (LETS). Their project was to serve two purposes: promote social inclusion by nurturing contacts between different societal groups and encourage the sustainable consumption of consumer goods.
Administered by an eponymous non profit association, easyswap.org was officially launched in October, 2008.
In August 2011, a version of the easyswap platform was developed for the University of Lausanne.
The Swap
The swap is a virtual, complementary currency in use on the easyswap platform. The swap has a "theoretical value" of one Swiss franc and cannot be bought or sold using any other currency. Its value is determined by individual members who are free to set their own prices.
Swap 'n' roll
The easyswap platform uses an open source technology based on PHP5 Zend Framework developed and maintained by Swap 'n' roll.
Other open source LETS platforms include Cyclos, WebLETS and Cclite.
References
External links
Official website
Internet geolocation
Alternative currencies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20cell%20sites | Mobile cell sites are infrastructures transportable on trucks, allowing fast and easy installation in restricted spaces. Their use is strategic for the rapid expansion of cellular networks putting into service point-to-point radio connections as well as supporting sudden increases in mobile traffic in the case of extraordinary events (trade fairs, sports events, concerts, emergencies, catastrophic events, etc.). Mobile cell sites are also used by law enforcement organizations to gather intelligence. Mobile cell sites require neither civil works nor foundations, just minimal requirements like commercial power and grounding. The mobile units have been designed to be a temporary solution, but if requested, they can be transformed into permanent stations.
Different kinds of mobile cell sites
There are several different kinds of mobile cell sites, every one of which has different usage characteristics.
Rapid-deployment units (RDU)
RDUs are mobile radio base stations transportable on trucks. Their use is strategic for the rapid expansion of cellular networks.
A rapid deployment flanged pole is a mobile radio base station infrastructure transportable on a truck, allowing fast and easy installation in restricted spaces. The antenna supporting pole, with a climbing ladder up to the summit, is fixed to the main base frame and is composed of cylindrical flanged sections integrated by two or three sets of guys with a standard height of up to 30 meters. The flanged pole mobile station, installable in eight hours, does not require civil work or foundations, and is complete, including lateral ballast concrete weights and a working platform in checkered plate.
A radio station kit is an integrated radio base station RDU in which the equipment housing is a special 20" container equipped to contain, during transportation, all the station infrastructure, assembly accessories, radiant systems, storage batteries, and electrical and radio equipment. It is a structure which can be quickly and easily transported and assembled on site, without the need of civil works or foundations and suitable for any environment.
A rapid deployment compact kitstat is a flanged pole RDU which allows easy and fast erection in narrow sites, without any need of foundation or civil works. The antenna supporting structure, supplied complete with climbing ladder and anchored to the steelwork base frame, is a flanged pole composed of tubular flanged sections with a height of up to 30 m and two or three steel guys.
A quickrawland with polygonal pole is an RDU which allows an easy and fast erection in narrow sites, without any need of foundation or civil works. It is provided with a polygonal pole with a height of up to 30 m; it has a climbing ladder with a rigid anchor line (EN353-1) and a vertical fixing system for feeders and service cables.
Cell on wheels
Cells on wheels (COW), or site on wheels, are telecom infrastructures, placed on trailer approved for road use, towed by heavy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dept.%20of%20Computer%20Science%2C%20University%20of%20Delhi | The Department of Computer Science, University of Delhi is a department in the University of Delhi under the Faculty of Mathematical Science, set up in 1981.
Courses
The department started the three years Master of Computer Applications (MCA) program in 1982, which was among the first such programs in India. The department started M.Sc. Computer Science course in 2004.
Besides these the department has research interests in Computer Science and offers a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) program. The university conducts a postgraduate Diploma in Computer Applications (PGDCA) program through its constituent colleges. Emphasis is laid not only on the theoretical concepts but also on practical experience and industry interaction.
Few classroom projects
MCA
Apart from classroom teaching, students take up case studies, presentations and small projects. Following are some projects/assignments taken up by the students:
Implementation of Unix Shell
Implementation of Chat Server.
Simulation of machine language code and implementation of assembler.
Simulation of the basic file system on Linux.
Simulation of Sliding Window Protocols
Go-Back N Protocol
Selective Repeat Protocol.
Simulation of a two-pass assembler.
Projects designed, documented and coded using SDLC
Share tracker system.
Computerized health care system.
Websites on tourism, online FIR, online book store, online examination, social networking, online shipping management system, digital library system.
Research and implementation of cryptographic algorithms
Design and implementation of new approach for searching in encrypted data using Bloom Filter.
Analysis and implementation of security algorithms in Cloud Computing.
Malware and keylogger design.
Software and hardware implementation of Smart Home System.
Misuse, detection and prevention of Advance Spamming techniques.
Design and security analysis of chaotic encryption.
Analysis of risks, techniques, and corporate usage of Web 2.0 technologies.
Implementation of homomorphic encryption algorithms.
Regional language encryption and translation.
Implementation of elliptic curve cryptography.
Design and implementation of self synchronizing stream ciphers.
M.Sc. Computer Science
As part of the curriculum students give presentations, group projects and programming assignments. The following are some of the projects/assignments taken up by the students:
Implementation of robot task assignment given resources using MATLAB.
Jade programming for agent communication.
Implementation of DES encryption and decryption algorithm.
Application of genetic algorithm in 8-queens problem.
Implementation of K-means, FP-Tree, BIRCH and DBSCAN algorithm using C++.
Generating all strong association rules from a set of given frequent item sets of transactions.
Implementation of DBMS.
Data preprocessing and KDD (Knowledge Discovery and Data mining) using WEKA and C4.5.
Implementation of clustering techniques on output of fuzzy C-means algorithm as initial input using MATLA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20maximum%20intensity%20projection | In scientific visualization, a local maximum intensity projection (LMIP, Local MIP) or Closest Vessel Projection (CVP) is a volume rendering method for 3D data, that is proposed as an improvement to the maximum intensity projection (MIP). Where the MIP projects the maximum intensity that falls in the way of parallel rays traced from the viewpoint, LMIP takes the first local maximum value, that is above a certain threshold.
Local maximum intensity projection has been proposed as in visualization of data from computerized tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. It also can be used to extract a 3-dimensional vascular network from the data from a knife-edge scanning microscope at a significantly reduced computational demand (65% reduced).
Footnotes
Visualization (graphics) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20and%20usage%20monitoring%20systems | Health and usage monitoring systems (HUMS) is a generic term given to activities that utilize data collection and analysis techniques to help ensure availability, reliability and safety of vehicles. Activities similar to, or sometimes used interchangeably with, HUMS include condition-based maintenance (CBM) and operational data recording (ODR). This term HUMS is often used in reference to airborne craft and in particular rotor-craft – the term is cited as being introduced by the offshore oil industry after a commercial Chinook crashed in the North Sea, killing all but one passenger and one crew member in 1986.
HUMS technology and regulation continues to be developed.
HUMS are now used not only for safety but for a number of other reasons including
Maintenance: reduced mission aborts, fewer instances of aircraft on ground (AOG), simplified logistics for fleet deployment
Cost: “maintain as you fly” maintenance flights are not required. Performing repairs when the damage is minor increases the aircraft mean time before failure (MTBF) and decreases the mean time to repair (MTTR)
Operational: improved flight safety, mission reliability and effectiveness
Performance: improved aircraft performance and reduced fuel consumption
Recent advances in the technology include predictive algorithms providing Remaining Useful Life estimates of components and automated wireless data transfer from the aircraft via WiFi or Cellular.
References
External links
United Electronic Industries
BAE Systems
GE Aviation
GPMS Foresight
Maintenance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUCS | DUCS or Ducs may refer to:
DUCS (software) or Display Unit Control System, a local teleprocessing package
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Delhi
From duc
Ducs d'Angers, a French ice hockey team
Ducs de Dijon, a French ice hockey team
Ducs de Longueuil, a Canadian junior baseball team
Ducs Decazes, a French nobleman
See also
DUC (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Seattle | The Seattle trolleybus system forms part of the public transportation network in the city of Seattle, Washington, operated by King County Metro. Originally opened on April 28, 1940, the network consists of 15 routes, with 174 trolleybuses operating on of two-way parallel overhead lines. As of , the system carries riders on an average of trips per weekday, comprising about 18 percent of King County Metro's total daily ridership. At present in Seattle, a very common alternative term for trolleybus is trolley.
Of the four trolleybus systems currently operating in the U.S., the Seattle system is the second largest (by ridership and fleet size), after the San Francisco system.
History
From tracks to tires
The first trolleybus to operate on Seattle's streets was in 1937. It was brought to the city for a demonstration to gain public support for a plan to replace the debt-ridden streetcar and cable car system with a "trackless trolley" system. The demonstration was a success, but still reeling from the impacts of the Great Depression, Seattle voters rejected the plan in a municipal election on March 9, 1937.
In 1939, Seattle received a federal loan that allowed the city to retire the debts from the streetcar and cable car system. Management of system was turned over to an independent commission and renamed the Seattle Transit System (STS). The commission immediately began construction on overhead wire and ordered 235 new trolleybuses, the first of which started arriving in March 1940.
The first trolleybus went into revenue service April 28, 1940, on route 13 which ran along 19th Avenue in Capitol Hill (which is still served by trolleybuses today on route 12). The system expanded again during World War II, when the Office of Defense Transportation gave Seattle more trolleybuses to meet increased wartime transportation demands, bringing the fleet to 307 coaches. Ridership reached an all-time high 130 million riders in 1944. After the war, ridership on the trolleybus system declined as many American families began purchasing automobiles.
An uncertain future
The city's aging trolleybuses were spiffed up, and the overhead wire expanded in 1962 to serve the World's Fair, but citywide the Seattle Transit System was increasingly abandoning the trolley routes. One year later in 1963, the commission retired 175 trolleybuses and tore down the overhead wire in the north end of the city and West Seattle. A group of citizens protested the abandonment of the trolley routes with an initiative to voters in 1964, but it failed at the polls.
By the end of the 1960s, the trolleybus system had been reduced to just 59 coaches operating on 30 miles of overhead wire. Seattle Transit System management defended the move claiming cost savings from using diesel-powered buses, the high cost of electrifying new routes and the lack of any new trolley coaches on the market. Under fire from the public, the commission ordered an independent study. That study contradicted the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Engine%20Forum | T-Engine Forum is a non-profit organization which develops an open standard for real time embedded system development and to develop ubiquitous computing environment. They develop open specifications for ITRON, T-Kernel and ubiquitous ID architecture. The chair of T-Engine Forum is Dr. Ken Sakamura.
History
In 1984 TRON Project was started by Prof. Dr. Ken Sakamura of the University of Tokyo. The project's goal was to design an open RTOS kernel. The TRON framework defines a complete architecture for the different computing units. ITRON became the most popular TRON architecture. ITRON specification promotion was done by the various companies which sell the commercial implementations. In 2002, T-Engine forum was formed to provide an open source RTOS implementation based on ITRON specification known as T-Kernel. The TRON Project was integrated into T-Engine Forum in 2010. Its activities have been taken over and continued by T-Engine.
Organisation
As of July, 2011 there are 266 members in T-Engine forum. Executive committee members includes Japanese companies like Fujitsu, Hitachi, NTT DoCoMo and Denso. A-level members who are involved in design and development of specifications for T-Engine and T-Kernel, or of Ubiquitous ID technology includes companies likes NEC and Yamaha Corporation. B-level members who are involved in development of product using T-Engine specification and T-Kernel includes companies like ARM, Freescale, MIPS Technologies, Mitsubishi, Robert Bosch GmbH, Sony Corporation, Toshiba and Xilinx. The supporting members and academic members involved with the forum includes many universities like University of Tokyo, Japan and Dalian Maritime University, China.
See also
TRON Project
ITRON
T-Kernel
References
External links
, TRON
The Most Popular Operating System in the World
Ken Sakamura
ITRON Project Archive
Introducing the μT-Kernel
Information about T-Engine, T-Kernel and μT-Kernel Programming
TRON project
Standards organizations in Japan
Science and technology in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur%20Revolution | Dinosaur Revolution is a four-part American nature documentary produced by Creative Differences. It utilizes computer-generated imagery to portray dinosaurs and other animals from the Mesozoic era. The program was originally aired on the Discovery Channel and Science.
Dinosaur Revolution was released to mixed reviews, with some citing the poor quality of its animation and a lack of seriousness in its tone. It was, however, praised for its educational content and general energy.
Background and production history
Production of the series began in spring of 2009 (after several months of pre-production) and took three years in total. The series was built around several short- and long-form stories taking place in a number of distinct environments spanning the Mesozoic era. Originally titled Reign of the Dinosaurs, the series was intended not as a documentary, but as a six-hour series of fictional narratives based loosely on the comic book Age of Reptiles by Ricardo Delgado, and employing no narration. Each episode was to be instead followed by one of a companion series, called Science of Reign of the Dinosaurs, which would feature scientists explaining the basis for the preceding story, and pointing out which parts were speculative or imaginary. Due to cuts and changes in marketing strategy by the network and production company, the series was eventually renamed Dinosaur Revolution, and divided into a more traditional format inter-cut with "talking heads," or brief explanations from scientists. The series was also cut from the planned six hours to four. Of the four finished episodes, the first was originally planned to feature the Triassic Chinle Formation of the southwestern United States, and to include Coelophysis, Placerias and Postosuchus in the storyline. However, during production the sequence was changed to the older Ischigualasto Formation of Argentina, and the featured animals changed to Eoraptor, Ischigualastia and Saurosuchus. For this reason, the Ischigualastia model remained anatomically based on Placerias. Scenes featuring Cryolophosaurus and Glacialisaurus were shot in Tenerife. The second episode, titled "The Watering Hole," was originally intended to highlight the Jurassic Morrison Formation of western North America, which has been featured in numerous dinosaur documentaries. At the suggestion of science consultant Tom Holtz, the setting was changed to the contemporary Lourinhã Formation of Portugal, and like the first episode, some species were swapped for equivalents in the new location. This resulted in televised appearances of dinosaurs such as Draconyx. Similarly, the Cretaceous Mongolia sequence (which took place during the third episode) was set in the Wulansuhai Formation rather than the near-contemporary, and more familiar, Djadochta Formation. Therefore, it featured the first film appearances of the species Velociraptor osmolskae and Protoceratops hellenikorhinus in place of the more well-known V. mongoliensis and P. an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffles%20%28machine%20learning%29 | Waffles is a collection of command-line tools for performing machine learning operations developed at Brigham Young University. These tools are written in C++, and are available under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
Description
The Waffles machine learning toolkit contains command-line tools for performing various operations related to machine learning, data mining, and predictive modeling. The primary focus of Waffles is to provide tools that are simple to use in scripted experiments or processes. For example, the supervised learning algorithms included in Waffles are all designed to support multi-dimensional labels, classification and regression, automatically impute missing values, and automatically apply necessary filters to transform the data to a type that the algorithm can support, such that arbitrary learning algorithms can be used with arbitrary data sets. Many other machine learning toolkits provide similar functionality, but require the user to explicitly configure data filters and transformations to make it compatible with a particular learning algorithm. The algorithms provided in Waffles also have the ability to automatically tune their own parameters (with the cost of additional computational overhead).
Because Waffles is designed for script-ability, it deliberately avoids presenting its tools in a graphical environment. It does, however, include a graphical "wizard" tool that guides the user to generate a command that will perform a desired task. This wizard does not actually perform the operation, but requires the user to paste the command that it generates into a command terminal or a script. The idea motivating this design is to prevent the user from becoming "locked in" to a graphical interface.
All of the Waffles tools are implemented as thin wrappers around functionality in a C++ class library. This makes it possible to convert scripted processes into native applications with minimal effort.
Waffles was first released as an open source project in 2005. Since that time, it has been developed at Brigham Young University, with a new version having been released approximately every 6–9 months. Waffles is not an acronym—the toolkit was named after the food for historical reasons.
Advantages
Some of the advantages of Waffles in contrast with other popular open source machine learning toolkits include:
Waffles automatically takes care of many issues related to data format in order to simplify its tools.
Because it is implemented in C++, many of its algorithms are particularly fast. Also, the lack of dependency on any virtual machine makes it easier to deploy in conjunction with other applications.
The functionality included in Waffles is very broad, including algorithms for dimensionality reduction, collaborative filtering, visualization, clustering, supervised learning, optimization, linear algebra, data transformation, image and signal processing, policy learning, and sparse matrix operations.
Disadvantages
Altho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20H.%20Bratton | Benjamin H. Bratton (born 1968) is an American Philosopher of Technology known for his work spanning social theory, computer science, design, artificial intelligence, and for his writing on the geopolitical implications of what he terms "planetary scale computation".
He is Professor of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and author and editor of numerous books and essays He is Director of Antikythera, a private research program studying the future of planetary computation.
Early life
Bratton was born in Los Angeles, California in 1968 and holds a PhD in the sociology of technology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Career
Since 2009, he is Professor of Visual Arts at University of California, San Diego. Since 2014, he has been Professor of Philosophy of Design at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. From 2019-22 he was visiting professor at NYU Shanghai. Prior to teaching at UCSD, Bratton taught at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles from 2001 to 2010 and is now a distinguished visiting professor. He taught in the Department of Design Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 2003 to 2008. He founded University of California, San Diego's Speculative Design undergraduate major.
In 2016, he succeeded Rem Koolhaas as program director of the Strelka Institute, a Moscow-based think tank and post-graduate program in architecture, media, and design. He directed two three-year programs, The New Normal and The Terraforming. At the outbreak of the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine the institute indefinitely suspended all programs in protest.
As of 2022, Bratton is the Director of a new research program on the speculative philosophy of computation called Antikythera, incubated by the Berggruen Institute with support from One Project.
Publications
The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World
In 2021, Verso Books published Bratton's book on the COVID-19 pandemic based on his essay "18 Lessons for Quarantine Urbanism". The book argues that the pandemic demonstrates on ongoing crisis of governance in the West, and that technological capacity to respond to planetary crises outstrips the social and cultural capacity for collective self-organization. The book discusses concepts of the epidemiological view of society, cultural controversies over masks, and points toward a positive biopolitics in sharp contrast with the work of Giorgio Agamben.
The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty
The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty was published by MIT Press in late 2015. The book challenges traditional ideas of sovereignty centered around the nation-state and develops a theory of geopolitics that accounts for sovereignty in terms of planetary-scale computation at various scales. Its two core arguments are that planetary-scale computation “distorts and deforms traditional Westphalian logics of political geography” and creates new territo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20journalist%20organizations | Canadian Journalist Organizations exist to advance issues important to the industry and facilitate networking and education. Registered associations include Canadian Association of Journalists, and the International Association of Independent Journalists Inc. The Canadian Journalism Foundation offers awards for outstanding journalism and J-talks programs to foster dialog. The Association of Electronic Journalists also gives awards while for print media News Media Canada focuses on the interests of Canadian (especially community) newspapers.
List of Canadian journalist organisations
Canadian Association of Journalists
Professional Hockey Writers Association
Journalists for Human Rights
International Association of Independent Journalists Inc.
Journalists for Human Rights
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
References
Canadian journalism organizations
Establishments in Canada
History of journalism |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KVH%20Co.%20Ltd. | KVH Co., Ltd., previously known as KVH Telecom, was founded by Fidelity Investments in 1999 as an Asia-Pacific IT/communications service provider. Through its facility-based optical fiber networks, data centers, and cloud services platform, KVH is an information delivery platform providing integrated IT and communication solutions to enterprise businesses. KVH serves media, manufacturing, carrier, and financial services as its key customer segments, and offers all customers bilingual support in Japanese and English.
KVH specializes in operating and developing low-latency networks for the financial services industry, and provides low-latency connectivity to all major Japanese exchanges. KVH's fiber backbone features a flat network hierarchy with few media converters and network devices making it the lowest latency network in metropolitan Japan.
Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, KVH also has points of presence (PoPs) in Osaka, Hong Kong, Singapore, Chicago, New York, Sydney, Seoul, and Busan, and partner networks in Europe and the Asia Pacific region.
Edward (Ted) Higase was appointed KVH president, chief executive officer and representative director on May 16, 2012.
On November 12, 2014, Colt, a London-based Telecom firm, announced the acquisition of KVH and now KVH is part of Colt Group S.A. With this acquisition, combined KVH and colt (or the Colt Group ) now operates in 28 countries across Europe, Asia and the U.S. with metropolitan area networks in 47 major cities and connections into over 200 cities globally.
History
After being established by Fidelity Investments in April, 1999, KVH began constructing its own low latency, fiber optic networks in Tokyo and Osaka. Following the dot-com crisis of 2000, KVH was one of the few foreign-owned carriers that continued to invest and do business in Japan.
In 2001, KVH introduced the first 2.4 Gbit/s leased line Services to Japan and opened its first data center in Osaka. The following year, KVH opened its second data center in Japan and first in Tokyo, KVH Tokyo Data Center 1 (TDC1). TDC1 was the second largest data center in Tokyo and was accompanied by the launch of KVH's ethernet services, voice TDM services, and co-location and data center operational services within the same year.
Since then, KVH has been expanding its portfolio of services as well as its presence across the Asia-Pacific region. Today, KVH's network extends beyond Japan and connects to Chicago, Singapore, and Hong Kong. In February 2011, KVH opened Tokyo Data Center 2 (TDC2), which is located in Inzai City, Chiba. In 2012, KVH (Singapore) Pte Ltd., KVH Services LLC, KVH Hong Kong Ltd., and KVH Korea Ltd. were established. In March 2013, KVH launched Japan’s first 100G metro Ethernet network service. In April 2013, KVH expanded its business further into Asia Pacific and launched two data centers in Hong Kong and Singapore, KVH Hong Kong Data Center 1 (HKDC1) and KVH Singapore Data Center 1 (SGDC1), and a 10-site cloud plat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datana%20ministra | Datana ministra, the yellownecked caterpillar, is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in southern Canada and the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, in the south-west it ranges to California.
The wingspan is about 42 mm. There is one generation per year.
The larvae feed on Malus, Quercus, Betula and Salix species. Young larvae skeletonise the leaves of their host plant. Later, they feed on all of the leaf except the leaf stalk. They feed in groups. The larvae are yellowish and black striped and covered with fine, white hairs. The head is black. Full-grown larvae are about 50 mm long. Mature larvae drop to the soil to pupate underground, where they spend the winter.
Subspecies
Datana ministra ministra
Datana ministra californica Dyar, 1890
Gallery
References
Moths described in 1773
Notodontidae
Moths of North America
Taxa named by Dru Drury |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image-based%20flow%20visualization | In scientific visualization, image-based flow visualization (or visualisation) is a computer modelling technique developed by Jarke van Wijk to visualize two dimensional flows of liquids such as water and air, like the wind movement of a tornado. Compared with integration techniques it has the advantage of producing a whole image at every step, as the technique relies upon graphical computing methods for frame-by-frame capture of the model of advective transport of a decaying dye. It is a method from the texture advection family.
Principle
The core idea is to create a noise texture on a regular grid and then bend this grid according to the flow (the vector field). The bent grid is then sampled at the original grid locations. Thus, the output is a version of the noise, that is displaced according to the flow.
The advantage of this approach is that it can be accelerated on modern graphics hardware, thus allowing for real-time or almost real-time simulation of 2D flow data. This is particularly handy if one wants to visualise multiple scaled versions of the vector field to first gain an overview and then concentrate on the details.
References
External links
Website of Jarke van Wijk with demo software and pictures
Scientific visualization
Numerical function drawing
Fluid dynamics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber%20%28processor%29 | The Amber processor core is an ARM architecture-compatible 32-bit reduced instruction set computing (RISC) processor. It is open source, hosted on the OpenCores website, and is part of a movement to develop a library of open source hardware projects.
Overview
The Amber core is fully compatible with the ARMv2a instruction set and is thus supported by the GNU toolchain. This older version of the ARM instruction set is supported because it is not covered by patents, and so can be implemented with no license from ARM Holdings, unlike some prior open source projects (e.g., nnARM). The cores were developed in Verilog 2001 and are optimized for field-programmable gate array (FPGA) synthesis. For example, there is no reset logic: all registers are reset as part of FPGA initialization. The Amber project provides a complete embedded field-programmable gate array (FPGA) system incorporating the Amber core and several peripherals, including universal asynchronous receiver/transmitters (UARTs), timers, and an Ethernet MAC.
The Amber project provides two versions of the core. Both cores implement the same instruction set architecture (ISA) and are fully software compatible.
The Amber 23 has a 3-stage pipeline, a unified instruction and data cache, a Wishbone interface, and is capable of 0.75 DMIPS (Dhrystone) per MHz. The Amber 23 core is a very small 32-bit core that performs well. Register-based instructions execute in one cycle, except for those involving multiplication. Load and store instructions require three cycles. The core's pipeline is stalled either when a cache miss occurs, or when the core performs a Wishbone access.
The Amber 25 has a 5-stage pipeline, separate data and instruction caches, a Wishbone interface, and is capable of 1.0 DMIPS per MHz. The Amber 25 core provides 30 to 40% better performance than the Amber 23 core and is 30 to 40% larger. Register-based instructions execute in one cycle, except for instructions involving multiplication, or complex shift operations. Load and store instructions also execute in one cycle unless there is a register conflict with a following instruction. The core's pipeline is stalled when a cache miss occurs in either cache, when an instruction conflict is detected, when a complex shift is executed, or when the core performs a Wishbone access.
Both cores have been verified by booting a Linux 2.4 kernel. Versions of the Linux kernel from the 2.4 branch and earlier contain configurations for the supported ISA. Versions of the Linux kernel 2.6 and later do not explicitly support the ARM v2a ISA and so need more modifications to run. The cores do not contain a memory management unit (MMU) so they can only run a non-virtual memory variant of Linux, such as μClinux.
See also
Acorn Computers
Further reading
For a description of the ARMv2a ISA, see Archimedes Operating System: A Dabhand Guide, or Acorn RISC Machine Family Data Manual.
References
External links
Amber Core Specification
Marsohod B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urodeta | Urodeta is a genus of moths of the family Elachistidae. The genus was originally assigned to the family Momphidae.
Species
Urodeta absidata Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
Urodeta acerba Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
Urodeta acinacella J. de Prins & Sruoga, 2012
Urodeta aculeata Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
Urodeta bucera Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
Urodeta crenata Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
Urodeta cuspidis Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
Urodeta falciferella (Sruoga & De Prins, 2009) (previously in Perittia)
Urodeta faro Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
Urodeta gnoma (Sruoga & De Prins, 2009) (previously in Perittia)
Urodeta hibernella (Staudinger 1859)
Urodeta inusta Kaila, 2011
Urodeta maculata (Mey, 2007) (previously in Phthinostoma)
Urodeta noreikai Sruoga & De Prins, 2013
Urodeta quadrifida J. de Prins & Sruoga, 2012
Urodeta spatulata (Sruoga & De Prins, 2009) (previously in Perittia)
Urodeta taeniata (Mey, 2007) (previously in Phthinostoma)
Urodeta talea Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
Urodeta tantilla (Sruoga & De Prins, 2009) (previously in Perittia)
Urodeta tortuosa Sruoga & J. de Prins, 2011
Urodeta trilobata J. de Prins & Sruoga, 2012
References
, 2011: Elachistine Moths of Australia: Lepidoptera, Gelechioidea, Elachistidae.
, 2011: New species of Elachistinae (Lepidoptera: Elachistidae) from Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Zootaxa 3008: 1-32. Abstract: .
Elachistidae
Moth genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomczyk | Tomczyk is a Polish surname, and may refer to:
Dominik Tomczyk (born 1974), Polish basketball player
Martin Tomczyk (born 1981), German racing driver
Michael Tomczyk, computing pioneer
Paweł Tomczyk (born 1998), Polish footballer
Ryszard Tomczyk (born 1959), Polish politician and historian
Ryszard Tomczyk (boxer), Polish boxer
Stanisława Tomczyk, Polish Spiritualist medium
Polish-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Dayton | The Dayton trolleybus system forms part of the public transportation network serving Dayton, in the state of Ohio, United States. Opened on April 23, 1933, it presently comprises five lines, and is operated by the Greater Dayton Regional Transit Authority, with a fleet of 45 trolleybuses. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of .
One of only five such systems still operating in the U.S. in the 2000s (and one of only four after the summer 2023 closure of the Boston system) and the only one in a city without a subway, light rail, or streetcar system, the Dayton trolley bus system is the current manifestation of an electric transit service that has been operated continuously in Dayton since 1888—longer than in any other city in the United States. By the 1970s, Dayton was already the smallest U.S. city still operating a trolley bus system. For both of these reasons, the city's trolley buses are locally considered an icon of Dayton.
History
The first electric trolley bus (ETB) service in Ohio began operation in Dayton, on April 23, 1933, when the Salem Avenue-Lorain Avenue line was converted from streetcars to trolley coaches — or trolley buses, as they are most commonly known today. Electric streetcar service in Dayton had started in 1888, and it continued through to, and indeed beyond, the start of trolley bus service. The last streetcar line in Dayton, City Railway's route 1-Third Street, was converted to trolley buses on September 28, 1947. Today, and already the case by the 1980s, Dayton's trolley bus system is the second-oldest in the Western Hemisphere (which in 2011 totals 18 systems), exceeded in longevity only by the Philadelphia trolley bus system, which opened on October 14, 1923.
The first trolley bus line in Dayton was opened by the Dayton Street Railway company (DSR). The impetus for the decision to adopt trolley buses was a 1932 fire at the company's carbarn (maintenance and storage facility), which gutted the building and destroyed 16 streetcars and two gas buses. After studying trolley coach systems then operating in other small cities, DSR placed an order with the J. G. Brill Company for 12 trolley buses, and these inaugurated service on the city's first ETB line in April 1933. However, the Dayton Street Railway was only the first of several companies to operate trolley bus service in Dayton, some of which operated concurrently and shared overhead wires on some sections, mainly in downtown.
In the late 19th century, it was common in the United States for cities to be served by multiple different streetcar companies, each company typically operating a few lines. However, via mergers, acquisitions and sometimes bankruptcy the number of operating companies gradually declined to just one or two in each city. By 1930, most U.S. cities had just one company providing all urban transit service. Dayton was unusual in having multiple transit companies in operation through to the World War II era. In 1933 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buried%20Treasure%20%28TV%20program%29 | Buried Treasure is an American appraisal reality television program that debuted on the Fox network on August 24, 2011. The show is hosted by two professional appraisers, Leigh and Leslie Keno of Antiques Roadshow notability, who travel to people's houses in search of valuable items to appraise and sell for their owners. The show often features home owners who are in need of money, due to illness or other financial difficulties, that would evoke emotion in the audience. The premiere of the show attracted only 3.6 million viewers, while a competing show, Pawn Stars, typically receives twice as many viewers each week. It was not renewed for a second season.
Episode
References
External links
Fox Broadcasting Company original programming
2010s American reality television series
2011 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
Antiques television series
Television series by ITV Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laeborg%20Runestone | The Læborg or Laeborg Runestone, listed as DR 26 in the Rundata catalog, is a Viking Age memorial runestone located outside of the village hall or Forsamlinghus in Læborg, which is about 3 kilometers north of Vejen, Denmark. The stone includes two depictions of the hammer of the Norse pagan god Thor.
Description
The inscription on DR 26 consists of two lines of runic text designated as lines A and B in the younger futhark written in boustrophedon fashion on the granite stone, which is 2.36 meters in height. After each line is a depiction of a hammer, which has been interpreted as being Thor's hammer Mjöllnir. Thor's hammer was used on several memorial runestones in Sweden and Denmark, perhaps as a parallel to or a pagan reaction to the use of the cross by Christians. Other surviving runestones or inscriptions depicting Thor's hammer include runestones U 1161 in Altuna, Sö 86 in Åby, Sö 111 in Stenkvista, Vg 113 in Bjärby, Öl 1 in Karlevi, DR 48 in Skjern, DR 120 in Spentrup, and DR 331 in Gårdstånga. The depiction of the hammers on DR 26 are very similar to the hammer on DR 48. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style RAK, which is considered to be the oldest style. This is the classification for runic text bands with straight ends that do not have any attached serpent or beast heads. The stone was noted by Ole Worm as having been discovered around 1638 in a field north of Læborg. A portion of the top of the stone is damaged. A small fragment of the stone was discovered in 1888 and is inserted into the top of the B line of the text.
The runic text states that the stone was raised by a man named Tófi in memory of a woman named Þyrvé, which is normalized as Thyrve and sometimes as Thorvi. Thyrve is described as being his trutnik, a word meaning the wife or descendant of a trutin or "lord," which is transcribed into Old Norse as drotning and often translated as "lady." This same word is also used on DR 134 in Ravnkilde and translated as "lady." Tófi and Thyrve are also associated with Danish runestone DR 29 in Bække, which records that Tófi created a mound in honor of Thyrve, and DR 40 in Randbøl is a stone raised by Tófi in memory of his assistant named Þorgunnr. Thyrve was a common name of the period, and a different woman of that name is recorded on the Danish runestone DR 97 in Ålum. Because DR 26 is dated based upon stylistic and linguistic analysis from 900 to 950 C.E., it may also be possible that the Thyrve of DR 26 might also be the same woman that is recorded on DR 41 and DR 42 in Jelling, which describe a Thyra who is the wife of king Gorm the Old. If these Thyrve are the same woman, then the runestones may be a record of a dispute regarding inheritance between two competing Danish families. However, most scholars believe that it is more likely that DR 26 along with DR 29 refer to a different woman with the same name than the Thyra noted on the Jelling Stones DR 41 and DR 42.
The stone is known locally as the L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan%20Gregg | Brendan Gregg is a computer engineer known for his work on computing performance. He works for Intel, and previously worked at Netflix, Sun Microsystems, Oracle Corporation, and Joyent. He was born in Newcastle, New South Wales and graduated from the University of Newcastle, Australia.
In November, 2013, he was awarded the LISA Outstanding Achievement Award "For contributions to the field of system administration, particularly groundbreaking work in systems performance analysis methodologies." He investigates and writes about Linux performance on his blog.
Contributions
Gregg has developed various methodologies for performance analysis, notably the USE Method methodology (short for Utilization Saturation and Errors Method).
He has also created visualization types to aid performance analysis, including latency heat maps, utilization heat maps, subsecond offset heat maps, and flame graphs.
His tools are included in multiple operating systems and products, and are in use by companies worldwide. He pioneered eBPF as an observability technology, including authoring many advanced eBPF tracing tools to provide unique insights into system behavior. As a kernel engineer, he developed the ZFS L2ARC: A pioneering file system performance technology. He has also developed and delivered professional training courses on computer performance.
Gregg has authored hundreds of articles about systems performance and multiple technical books, including Systems Performance 2nd Edition (2020) and BPF Performance Tools (2019), both in the Addison-Wesley professional computing series. His prior books were on Solaris performance and DTrace, and were published by Prentice Hall. His books are recommended or required reading at major technology companies.
Gregg was previously known as the leading expert on using DTrace and the creator of the DTraceToolkit,. He is also the star of the Shouting in the Data Center viral video.
Publications
References
External links
Patents
Living people
Australian computer scientists
Computer programmers
Solaris people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Goes%20Gaga | "Lisa Goes Gaga" is the twenty-second and final episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 20, 2012. In the episode, American singer-songwriter Lady Gaga makes a visit to Springfield, where all of its residents are in a state of depression. Lisa Simpson is arguably the most depressed person in the city, prompting Gaga to go out of her way to teach Lisa the meaning of happiness.
The episode was written by Tim Long and directed by Matthew Schofield. Gaga guest-starred in the episode, portraying an animated version of herself. A fan of the show, she was brought on by showrunner Al Jean, who wrote a script after James L. Brooks saw an interview of her on 60 Minutes. The design team conceived eighteen outfits to complement Gaga's eccentric persona, which satirized several of her outfits including her meat dress. Recording sessions for "Lisa Goes Gaga" took place in Los Angeles, California over four days in August 2011.
Critical responses to the episode were mixed to negative; critics looked down upon the episode's concept and general execution. According to the Nielsen ratings, the installment attained 4.79 million American viewers upon its original airing, making it notable as the lowest rated episode of The Simpsons up to that point.
Plot
Lady Gaga passes through Springfield via train while on her way to a concert. Seeing how low the city's self-esteem is, she takes it upon herself to cheer up the whole city. However, no one in town is more depressed than Lisa, who was voted as the most unpopular student by her peers. Lisa tries to reverse her status as one of the least popular girls in school by ghostwriting positive things about herself on the school blog under the heading "Truth Teller".
When Bart finds out her secret and reveals it to the school, her social ranking plummets to a new low until a psychic force tells Lady Gaga that Lisa needs her help immediately. After much soul searching and yelling at Lady Gaga for trying to help, Lisa realizes that her outburst helped her because she is finally expressing her anger instead of bottling it up inside her, in effect making Lady Gaga's mission successful. Lisa catches Lady Gaga just before she leaves town to apologize, and after being forgiven she and Lady Gaga perform a duet together. With Lady Gaga's assistance, Lisa and the entire town of Springfield realize that being oneself is better than being like anyone else. Just as Lady Gaga's train begins to leave again, Moe runs up to her and asks if she can help him as well, but Lady Gaga declines, stating that she's not that good. As Moe turns and walks across the train track, a second train hits him.
Production
In August 2011, it first was revealed that Lady Gaga would make a guest appearance on the show as herself. Producer James L. Brooks viewed Gaga's interview with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes, which prompted Al Jean to writ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniteGraph | InfiniteGraph is a distributed graph database implemented in Java and C++ and is from a class of NOSQL ("Not Only SQL") database technologies that focus on graph data structures. Developers use InfiniteGraph to find useful and often hidden relationships in highly connected, complex big data sets. InfiniteGraph is cross-platform, scalable, cloud-enabled, and is designed to handle very high throughput.
InfiniteGraph can easily and efficiently perform queries that are difficult to perform, such as finding all paths or the shortest path between two items. InfiniteGraph is suited for applications and services that solve graph problems in operational environments. InfiniteGraphs "DO" query language enables both value-based queries as well as complex graph queries. InfiniteGraph goes beyond graph databases to also support complex object queries.
Adoption is seen in federal government, telecommunications, healthcare, cyber security, manufacturing, finance, and networking applications.
History
InfiniteGraph is produced and supported by Objectivity, Inc., a company that develops database management technologies for large-scale, distributed data management and relationship analytics. The new InfiniteGraph was released in May 2021.
Features
API/Protocols: Java, core C++, REST API
Graph Model: Labeled directed multigraph. An edge is a first-class entity with an identity independent of the vertices it connects..
Concurrency: Update locking on subgraphs, concurrent non-blocking ingest.
Consistency: Flexible (from ACID to relaxed).
Distribution: Lock server and 64-bit object IDs support dynamic addressing space (with each federation capable of managing up to 65,535 individual databases and 10^24 bytes (one quadrillion gigabytes, or a yottabyte) of physical addressing space).
Processing: Multi-threaded.
Query Methods: "DO" Query Language, Traverser and graph navigation API, predicate language qualification, path pattern matching.
Parallel query support
Visualization: InfiniteGraph "Studio."
Schema: Supports schema-full plus provides a mechanism for attaching side data.
Transactions: Fully ACID.
Source: Proprietary, with open-source extensions, integrated components, and third-party connectors.
Platforms: Windows and Linux
References
External links
Data analysis software
Proprietary database management systems
Graph databases
Distributed data stores
NoSQL products
Structured storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistaken%20Identity%20%28TV%20series%29 | Mistaken Identity is a 2011 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Starring Lovi Poe and Rocco Nacino, it premiered on July 23, 2011, on the network's Saturday morning line up. The series concluded on August 27, 2011, with a total of 6 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Lovi Poe as Ada
Rocco Nacino as Sinag
Supporting cast
Karel Marquez as Princess Violeta
Luis Alandy as Prince Kali
Gloria Diaz as Queen Mercedes
Jace Flores as Apostol
Izzy Trazona as Mermina
Miguel Tanfelix as Nathan
Andrea Torres as Celia
Evangeline Pascual as Queen Merlinda
G. Toengi as Miranda
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Mistaken Identity earned a 14.2% rating. While the final episode scored a 6.5% rating in Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings.
References
External links
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadion%20FK%20%C5%98ezuz%20D%C4%9B%C4%8D%C3%ADn | Stadion FK Řezuz Děčín is a football stadium in Děčín, Czech Republic. It is the home stadium of FK Řezuz Děčín.
External links
Photo gallery and data at Erlebnis-stadion.de
Football venues in the Czech Republic
Sport in Děčín |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abanayop | Abanayop is a village on the Gabon-Equatorial Guinea border. It lies along the N5 road (Gabon). On Google Maps the village is shown within the territory of Gabon, but on most database websites it is listed as a settlement within Equatorial Guinea.
References
Populated places in Centro Sur
Populated places in Woleu-Ntem Province
Equatorial Guinea–Gabon border crossings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medi%20%28disambiguation%29 | Medi may refer to:
Medi, India, a village
33376 Medi, an asteroid
Maedi or Medi, an ancient Thracian or Illyrian tribe
Médi 1, a commercial Moroccan radio network
See also
Médis, a French commune |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steward%20Health%20Care%20System | Steward Health Care is the largest physician-owned private for-profit health care network in the United States and attends to 2.2 million people during more than twelve million physician and hospital visits annually. Headquartered in Dallas, Steward's integrated health care model employs 40,000 people at thirty-three hospitals and hundreds of urgent care, skilled nursing, and primary and specialty care medical practice locations across eight states. Steward Health Care is led by CEO Ralph de la Torre, a Cuban-American physician, engineer and cardiac surgeon.
History
Steward Health Care was started by Ralph de la Torre, when Caritas Christi Health Care system was sold to the private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management in 2010; after the transaction, Caritas was converted to a for-profit company and renamed Steward Health Care.
In June 2020, Steward became the nation's largest physician-owned health care system, after Steward physicians acquired a 90 percent controlling interest in the company.
The company covers approximately three million full-risk patients through its integrated care network, hospitals, managed care and health insurance services in Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas.
In September 2016, The Boston Globe reported Steward Health Care System had made a deal to expand its operations. Steward lined up $1.25 billion from a real estate investment firm that will help the Boston-based company finance a national expansion, pay off debt, and return money to the private equity firm that bought it in 2010. Steward said Medical Properties Trust would buy all of its hospital properties for $1.2 billion, lease the properties back to Steward, and pay $50 million for a five percent equity stake in the company. The deal became final in September, 2017.
In February 2017, Steward Health Care acquired eight hospitals from Community Health Systems, including three hospitals in Ohio, two in Pennsylvania and three in Florida.
In May 2017, Steward announced a proposed merger with Iasis Healthcare, headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee, making Steward the largest private for-profit hospital operator in the United States. The merger made Steward the parent organization to thirty six hospitals across ten states, with revenues of nearly $8 billion.
In October 2017, Steward completed its acquisition of eighteen Iasis Healthcare hospitals in a deal that was reportedly for $2 billion.
In February 2018, Steward announced that its top management will move to Dallas, Texas from Boston.
In August 2021, Steward closed a $1.1 billion deal to acquire five South Florida hospitals from Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare.
In April 2022, Steward acquired the former Miami Medical Center property from Nicklaus Children’s Health System.
In May 2023, Steward completed the sale of its five Utah hospitals to CommonSpririt Health.
Business model
Steward intended to become a low-price leader in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemenyi%20test | In statistics, the Nemenyi test is a post-hoc test intended to find the groups of data that differ after a global statistical test (such as the Friedman test) has rejected the null hypothesis that the performance of the comparisons on the groups of data is similar. The test makes pair-wise tests of performance.
The test is named after Peter Nemenyi.
The test is sometimes referred to as the "Nemenyi–Damico–Wolfe test", when regarding one-sided multiple comparisons of "treatments" versus "control", but it can also be referred to as the "Wilcoxon–Nemenyi–McDonald–Thompson test", when regarding two-sided multiple comparisons of "treatments" versus "treatments".
See also
Tukey's range test
References
Statistical tests
Nonparametric statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Ashgabat | The Ashgabat trolleybus system formed part of the public transport network in Ashgabat, the capital city of Turkmenistan. It was the only trolleybus system ever in that country.
History
Opened on 19 October 1964, the system was operated during the Soviet era by various Soviet-built trolleybuses, which by 2011 had all been withdrawn. The system closed at the end of 2011, with the last day of service being 31 December 2011.
Lines
In 2011, its final year of operation, the system was made up of the following seven lines: 1, 2, 2A, 3, 5, 7 and 8.
Fleet
In 2011, the Ashgabat trolleybus fleet was made up exclusively of Škoda 14TrM trolleybuses, introduced to the fleet in 2000 and financed by the World Bank.
See also
List of trolleybus systems
Trolleybuses in former Soviet Union countries
References
External links
Transport in Ashgabat
Ashgabat
Ashgabat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AusStage | AusStage: The Australian Live Performance Database is an online database which records information about live performances in Australia, providing records of productions from the first recorded performance in Australia (1789, by convicts) up until the present day. The only repository of Australian performing arts in the world, it is managed by a consortium of universities, government agencies, industry organisations and arts institutions, and mostly funded by the Australian Research Council. Created in 2000, the database contained more than 250,000 records by 2018.
History
The AusStage project was instigated by the Australasian Drama Studies Association in 1999, with Flinders University in South Australia leading the project, funded by a grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC). Other collaborating universities were La Trobe University (Vic), University of Queensland, University of New South Wales, University of Western Australia, University of New England (NSW), Newcastle University, and Queensland University of Technology. In addition, the Australia Council, the Performing Arts Special Interest Group, and industry representative Playbox Theatre Company, Melbourne (later Malthouse) were initial collaborators. A prototype version of the database, known as The Event Database (TED), built for the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust by Joh Hartog and Julie Holledge (of Flinders) was launched in October 2002.
The purpose was to address a gap in accessible information about events and resources in the area of Australian theatre, drama and performance studies, by creating an online database of events in Australia, with indexes to access it, and also to provide a type of online catalog, or directory, of research resources of many types held across the country. The plan was to first combine existing data from the participating universities, and then expand over time, allowing for further data to be input.
In Phase 2, from 2003 to 2005, the project was expanded, with more funding from ARC and Curtin University joining the group. The database was reorganised and the interface improved, but the main effort was put into data entry, with the number of entries expanding from 7,000 to 35,000.
The project continued through several more phases, which included sub-projects on specific aspects, funded by various sources. In Phase 6 (2017-2018), the aim has been to build a visual interface, using new visualisation technologies and focusing on venues. During Phase 7 (2021-2022), AusStage focused on improving the user interface, adapting the schema to support policy analysis, and using VR to popularise performing arts research.
Partners and collaborators
, partners in the project are the Association of Performing Arts Collections (APAC), Flinders University, University of Queensland, Deakin University, Griffith University, University of Melbourne, Edith Cowan University, La Trobe University, Monash University, QUT, the University of Newcastle, UNSW, Univer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersoft%20%28video%20game%20company%29 | Cybersoft, Inc. was an American video game publisher, which was a subsidiary of GameTek. It was designed to publish games for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The GameTek name would be used on Sega Genesis titles, in a similar structure to THQ, with Malibu Games, and Acclaim Entertainment with their LJN label.
Video games
Super NES
Adventures of Yogi Bear (1994)
Air Cavalry (1995)
Brutal: Paws of Fury (1994)
Carrier Aces (1995)
Full Throttle: All-American Racing (1995)
Spectre VR (1994)
References
External links
Defunct video game companies of the United States
Video game publishers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais%20metro%20station | Beaux-Arts (Fine arts) is the largest station in the Charleroi Metro network, located in Charleroi downtown, in fare zone 1. Because of its situation on a slope, the station terminates on a viaduct at one end (toward Ouest and Piges), and in a tunnel at the other end (toward Waterloo).
The station has two street entrances leading to a mezzanine level where ticket counters and shops are located. Platforms are accessible from the mezzanine through escalators and stairs.
The station has one lateral platform that used to serve former lines 88 and 89 to Anderlues, and one central platform that currently serves all lines. A third platform, not accessible to passengers, is used to exhibit old Charleroi trams.
One particularity of the station is a reversing loop for light rail vehicles entering the station from the west (from Piges or Ouest). It is used by lines M2 and M3, leaving the central loop on their way to Anderlues and Gosseiles, respectively, to enter and leave the station from the same side, thus needing to execute a U-turn. To do so, vehicles first pass through the station on a track not linked to any platform, then enter a loop shaped tunnel to end up in the station again, but from the other side.
The name of the station comes from the nearby Palais des Beaux-Arts (Fine arts palace), a music/theatre venue.
Nearby points of interest
Palais des Beaux-Arts (Fine arts palace), a music/theatre venue.
Charleroi Expo, main exhibition hall in Charleroi.
Charleroi belfry
Charleroi city hall.
Transfers
The Beaux-Arts Pre-metro station is connected to one of two major bus stations in Charleroi (the other being Charleroi-Central). As such, numerous bus transfer options are available.
Railway stations in Belgium opened in the 1980s
Railway stations opened in 1983
1983 establishments in Belgium
Charleroi Metro stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptotic%20decider | In scientific visualization the asymptotic decider is an algorithm developed by Nielson and Hamann in 1991 that creates isosurfaces from a given scalar field. It was proposed as an improvement to the marching cubes algorithm, which can produce some "bad" topology, but can also be considered an algorithm in its own right.
Principle
The algorithm first divides the scalar field into uniform cubes. It draws topologically correct contours on the sides (interface) of the cubes. These contours can then be connected to polygons and triangulated. The triangles of all cubes form the isosurfaces and are thus the output of the algorithm. Sometimes there is more than one way to connect adjacent constructs. This algorithm describes a method for resolving these ambiguous configurations in a consistent manner.
Ambiguous cases often occur if diagonally opposing points are found on the same side of the isoline, but on a different side to the other points in the square (for 2D systems) or cube (for 3D systems). In a 2D case this means that there are two possibilities. If we suppose that we mark the corners as positive if their value is greater than that of the isoline, or negative if it is less, then either the positive corners are separated by two isolines, or the positive corners are in the main section of the square and the negative corners are separated by two isolines. The correct situation depends on the value at the asymptote of the isolines. Isolines are hyperbolae which can be described using the following formula:
where is the normalised distance in the square from the left-hand side, and is the normalised distance in the square from the bottom. The values and are therefore the coordinates of the asymptotes, and is the value at the position . This point ought to belong to the section which contains two corners. Therefore, if is greater than the value of the isoline the positive corners are in the main section of the square and the negative corners are separated by two isolines, and if is less than the value of isoline the negative corners are in the main section of the square and the positive corners are separated by two isolines. A similar solution is used the 3D version.
See also
Isosurface
Marching cubes
References
Notes
Bibliography
Abstract.
Further reading
Visualization (graphics) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquad | Aquad (an abbreviation of Analysis of Qualitative Data) is open source computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS). It supports analysis of text, audio, video, and graphical data.
Features
Aquad provides functions for content analysis, including:
Text search: looking for segments in texts
Classifying: labeling text, audio, image, and videos data
Writing memos (annotation): inserting annotations linked to parts or whole texts, audios, photos, or videos
Word analysis: counting words according to criteria
Retrieval by file name, code, keyword, or content: Retrieval of segments according to criteria
Tabular analysis: constructing tables combining criteria and arranging data in rows and columns
Construction of linkage hypotheses: looking for relationships across data
Comparison of cases/files: contrasting coding across files
Sequential analysis: objective hermeneutics
Comparison of cases by Boolean analysis: critical features and identification of "types" as introduced by Charles Ragin.
Export data: quantitative software as R, SPSS, and PSPP for statistical analysis.
Data context
Data can be directly analyzed on the screen (one-step) or outside (two-steps). One-step allows on-screen coding with digitized data. Two-steps allows the user to enter codes on the screen, keeping the documents on the desk or in other means such as cameras, TVs, etc. For instance, two-steps allows the analysis of recordings, diaries, incunabula, or objects without transcribing, taking photos, or scanning them.
Comparison of cases/files by Boolean analysis
Aquad allows comparison of cases/files by "logical minimization", by using its own algorithm and the R package qualitative comparative analysis to determine implicants .
Versions
The latest available version is Aquad 8, which is available in German, English, and Spanish. Version 7 is also available for download.
See also
Case study
Qualitative economics
Qualitative marketing research
Qualitative psychological research
Qualitative research
References
Huber, G. L. & Gürtler, L. (2013) AQUAD 7. Manual: The Analysis of Qualitative data. Tübingen: Ingeborg Huber Verlag. Download
Ragin, C. C. (1989) The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Google Books
External links
Official manual
Spanish Association for the Advance of Qualitative Research (2018). AQUAD 7: programa análisis de datos de acceso abierto. Asociación Española para el Avance de la Investigación Cualitativa.
Feliz Murias, T. (2012). Análisis de contenido de la comunicación asíncrona en la formación universitaria (Content analysis of asynchronous communication in the university training).Revista de Educación, 358, Mayo-agosto 2012, pp. 282-309.
Gil Flores, J. (Director) (2007). El tratamiento de datos en investigación cualitativa con AQUAD (Data processing in qualitative research). Universidad de Sevilla.
López Regalado, O. ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kune%20%28software%29 | Kune was a free/open source distributed social network focused on collaboration rather than just on communication. That is, it focused on online real-time collaborative editing, decentralized social networking and web publishing, while focusing on workgroups rather than just on individuals. It aimed to allow for the creation of online spaces for collaborative work where organizations and individuals can build projects online, coordinate common agendas, set up virtual meetings, publish on the web, and join organizations with similar interests. It had a special focus on Free Culture and social movements needs. Kune was a project of the Comunes Collective. The project seems abandoned since 2017, with no new commits, blog entries or site activity.
Technical details
Kune was programmed using the Java-based GWT in the client-side, integrating Apache Wave (formerly Google Wave) and using mainly the open protocols XMPP and Wave Federation Protocol. GWT Java sources on the client side generates obfuscated and deeply optimized JavaScript conforming a single page application. Wave extensions (gadgets, bots) run on top of Kune (as in Facebook apps) and can be programmed in Java+GWT, JavaScript or Python.
The last version was under development since 2007 until 2017. The code was hosted in the GIT of Gitorious, with a development site and its main node maintained by the Comunes Collective.
Kune is 100% free software and was built only using free software. Its software is licensed under the Affero GPL license, while the art is under a Creative Commons BY-SA.
Philosophy
Kune was born in order to face a growing concern from the community behind it. Nowadays, groups (a group of friends, activists, a NGO, a small start-up) that need to work together typically will use multiple free (like beer) commercial centralized for-profit services (e.g. Google Docs, Google Groups, Facebook, Wordpress.com, Dropbox, Flickr, eBay ...) in order to communicate and collaborate online. However, "If you're not paying for it, you're the product". In order to avoid that, such groups of users may ask a technical expert to build them mailing lists, a webpage and maybe to set up an etherpad. However, technicians are needed for any new list (as they cannot configure e.g. GNU Mailman), configuration change, etc., creating a strong dependency and ultimately a bottleneck.
Kune aims to cover all those needs of groups to communicate and collaborate, in a usable way and thus without depending on technical experts. It aims to be a free/libre web service (and thus in the cloud), but decentralized as email, so a user can choose the server they want and still interoperate transparently with the rest.
Opposite to most distributed social networks, this software focuses on collaboration and building, not only on communication and sharing. Thus, Kune does not aim to ultimately replace Facebook, but also all the above-mentioned commercial services. Kune has a strong focus on the construction of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytechnic%20Society%20%28Norway%29 | The Polytechnic Society () is a Norwegian member network that inspires a science-based and sustainable development, through technology and interdisciplinary partnerships. It was founded in 1852 in Christiania (now: Oslo). The organisation was originally a members club gathering people with ambitions to influence the development of natural sciences, technology and modern industry.
The Polytechnic Society published a periodical, Polyteknisk Tidsskrift ("Polytechnic Journal"), from 1854. The periodical was merged with Teknisk Ukeblad in 1883.
The Polytechnic Society is independent, interdisciplinary and non-commercial, with 2,000 private, corporate and organizational members, 6,000 subscribers to newsletters and followers in social media as well as 4,000 listeners to the podcast #PolyPod. The organisation is funded by its members. HM The King Harald and HRH the Crown Prince Haakon are honorary members, and HM The King grants the Polytechnic Society's president and Secretary-General audience at the Royal Palace twice a year.
Activities
The activity of the Polytechnic Society are based on knowledge sharing, and include physical seminars, roundtables and other networking events that take place in Rosenkrantz' gate 7 in Oslo. The activities are organised by a number of professional networks in the organisation, addressing a range of topics within technology and society. The activities are free for members, and non-members pay a fee.
Digital activities
The Polytechnic Society also organises digital meetings (webinars). These are available free for members, and for non-members that pay a fee. In addition, the society publishes the podcast #PolyPod, which is available online for both members and non-members.
Structure
The Board
The supreme body of the Polytechnic Society is the Board. The Board consists of the President Silvija Seres, Vice President Ingrid Stange, and board members Hans M. Borchgrevink, Alfhild Skogsfjord, Kristin Vinje, Egil Boyum, Fredrik Winther and Nils Øveraas.
Secretary General
Mette Vågnes Eriksen is the Secretary General and the general manager of the Polytechnic Society.
The Election Committee
The Election Committee makes recommendations for members of the Board and the management board, and consists of Ingvild Myhre (chair), Fredrik Evjen, Hilde Nagell and Hege Marie Norheim. The Board, The management board and the Election Committee is appointed by the General Assembly.
The Management Board
The management board is the advisory body of the Polytechnic Society. It consists of 50 representatives from business, civil society and academia, including all chairs of the professional networks.
Professional Networks
The Polytechnic Society offers a range of professional networks for specific subject matters, in which each one of them is governed by a boardappointed by the members of the network. Members of the Polytechnic Society have access to all the activities organized by all the networks.
The professional networks
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRANSFAC | TRANSFAC (TRANScription FACtor database) is a manually curated database of eukaryotic transcription factors, their genomic binding sites and DNA binding profiles. The contents of the database can be used to predict potential transcription factor binding sites.
Introduction
The origin of the database was an early data collection published 1988. The first version that was released under the name TRANSFAC was developed at the former German National Research Centre for Biotechnology and designed for local installation (now: Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research). In one of the first publicly funded bioinformatics projects, launched in 1993, TRANSFAC developed into a resource that became available on the Internet.
In 1997, TRANSFAC was transferred to a newly established company, BIOBASE, in order to secure long-term financing of the database. Since then, the most up-to-date version has to be licensed, whereas older versions are free for non-commercial users. Since July 2016, TRANSFAC is maintained and distributed by geneXplain GmbH, Wolfenbüttel, Germany.
Content and features
The content of the database is organized in a way that it is centered around the interaction between transcription factors (TFs) and their DNA binding sites (TFBS). TFs are described with regard to their structural and functional features, extracted from the original scientific literature. They are classified to families, classes and superclasses according to the features of their DNA binding domains.
Binding of a TF to a genomic site is documented by specifying the localization of the site, its sequence and the experimental method applied. All sites that refer to one TF, or a group of closely related TFs, are aligned and used to construct a position-specific scoring matrix (PSSM), or count matrix. Many matrices of the TRANSFAC matrix library have been constructed by a team of curators, others were taken from scientific publications.
Applications
The TRANSFAC database can be used as an encyclopedia of eukaryotic transcription factors. The target sequences and the regulated genes can be listed for each TF, which can be used as benchmark for TFBS recognition tools or as training sets for new transcription factor binding sites (TFBS) recognition algorithms. The TF classification enables to analyze such data sets with regard to the properties of the DNA-binding domains. Another application is to retrieve all TFs that regulate a given (set of) gene(s). In the context of systems-biological studies, the TF-target gene relations documented in TRANSFAC were used to construct and analyze transcription regulatory networks.
By far the most frequent use of TRANSFAC is the computational prediction of potential TFBS. A number of algorithms exist which either use the individual binding sites or the matrix library for this purpose:
Patch – analyzes sequence similarities with the binding sites documented in TRANSFAC; it is provided along with the database.
SiteSeer – analyzes sequence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Charleroi%20Metro%20stations | The following is the list of the 49 stations (25 premetro stations, and 24 tram stops) of the Charleroi Metro in Belgium, and includes all stations in the Charleroi area network, as well as tram stops that are also served by premetro lines. It also includes 4 unopened stations on the unfinished line to Châtelet that will be renewed and extended.
Central loop
The "central loop" of the Charleroi Metro is grade separated (except in the vicinity of Tirou) and thus is the portion of the network that effectively operates as an almost fully metro-standards rapid transit system. There are 9 stations on the central loop, and these are served by all four Charleroi Metro lines:
Anderlues line: Lines M1 & M2
The following 10 stations (including one station that also serves the M3 line) and 6 tram stops are found on the M1 and M2 lines of the Charleroi Metro:
Gosselies line: Line M3
The following 18 tram stops and the Piges premetro station which is also served by the M1 and M2 lines are found on just the M3 line:
Gilly line: Line M4
The following 6 stations are found on the M4 line of the Charleroi Metro:
Châtelet line: Line M5: Not completed
The following 4 stations are found on the unfinished line to Châtelet. These out-of-service stations were completed in late 1980s but never opened for service. There were 4 more stations planned (construction of some of them started but did not finish) but the line has been abandoned, and the surface building of the Centennaire station was demolished in 2010s (while the underground structure still remains intact). In early 2021 a decision was made to finish and open the line (see for more details).
See also
List of Charleroi Metro former lines
References
Sources for opening dates:
Charleroi Metro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20the%20Z80 | Programming the Z80 is a seminal computer programming text, written by Rodnay Zaks and first published in 1979 by Sybex. It is designed as both an educational text to teach programming techniques of elementary to intermediate level using assembly language, and as a self-contained reference book. It covers more general concepts, such as information representation and data structures, and describes in detail topics specific to the Zilog Z80 microprocessor, such as its internal hardware organisation and instruction set. The book is considered an indispensable reference guide by many Z80 programmers. It was also published by RadioShack with the title How To Program The Z80. In 1983, Sybex published a companion volume, Z80 Applications written by James W. Coffron.
Contents
Preface
Basic Concepts
Z80 Hardware Organization
Basic Programming Techniques
The Z80 Instruction Set
Addressing Techniques
Input/Output Techniques
Input/Output Devices
Application Examples
Data Structures
Program Development
Conclusion
Appendices
A. Hexadecimal Conversion Table
B. ASCII Conversion Table
C. Relative Branch Tables
D. Decimal to BCD Conversion
E. Z80 Instruction Codes
F. Z80 to 8080 Equivalence
G. 8080 to Z80 Equivalence
External links
PDF, RadioShack edition
Computer programming books
1979 non-fiction books
Z80 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20cTAKES | Apache cTAKES: clinical Text Analysis and Knowledge Extraction System is an open-source Natural Language Processing (NLP) system that extracts clinical information from electronic health record unstructured text. It processes clinical notes, identifying types of clinical named entities — drugs, diseases/disorders, signs/symptoms, anatomical sites and procedures. Each named entity has attributes for the text span, the ontology mapping code, context (family history of, current, unrelated to patient), and negated/not negated.
cTAKES was built using the UIMA Unstructured Information Management Architecture framework and OpenNLP natural language processing toolkit.
Components
Components of cTAKES are specifically trained for the clinical domain, and create rich linguistic and semantic annotations that can be utilized by clinical decision support systems and clinical research.
These components include:
Named Section identifier
Sentence boundary detector
Rule-based tokenizer
Formatted list identifier
Normalizer
Context dependent tokenizer
Part-of-speech tagger
Phrasal chunker
Dictionary lookup annotator
Context annotator
Negation detector
Uncertainty detector
Subject detector
Dependency parser
patient smoking status identifier
Drug mention annotator
History
Development of cTAKES began at the Mayo Clinic in 2006. The development team, led by Dr. Guergana Savova and Dr. Christopher Chute, included physicians, computer scientists and software engineers. After its deployment, cTAKES became an integral part of Mayo's clinical data management infrastructure, processing more than 80 million clinical notes.
When Dr. Savova's moved to Boston Children's Hospital in early 2010, the core development team grew to include members there. Further external collaborations include:
University of Colorado
Brandeis University
University of Pittsburgh
University of California at San Diego
Such collaborations have extended cTAKES' capabilities into other areas such as Temporal Reasoning, Clinical Question Answering, and coreference resolution for the clinical domain.
In 2010, cTAKES was adopted by the i2b2 program and is a central component of the SHARP Area 4.
In 2013, cTAKES released their first release as an Apache incubator project: cTAKES 3.0.
In March 2013, cTAKES became an Apache Top Level Project (TLP).
See also
OpenNLP
UIMA
Electronic Health Record
Unified Medical Language System
References
External links
cTAKES Official Website
Apache cTAKES Project Information page from ASF
Abstract (JAMIA)
Open Health Natural Language Processing (OHNLP) Consortium
Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) Program
SHARP Area 4 - Secondary Use of EHR Data
The Automated Retrieval Console (ARC)
Health Information Text Extraction (HITEx)) was developed as part of the i2b2 project. It is a rule-based NLP pipeline based on the GATE framework developed by Informatics for Integrating Biology and the Bedside.
Computational Langu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Grid%20Computing | The Journal of Grid Computing is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2010 impact factor of 1.556. The editors-in-chief are Péter Kacsuk (MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary, and the University of Westminster) and Ian Foster (Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, Illinois, USA)
Scope
The Journal of Grid Computing covers research on technologies for collaborative work, information sharing and problem solving, and topics most commonly covered include protocols, middleware, services, security, discovery, sharing, and scaling.
References
External links
Computer science journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 2003
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20Players%27%20Tennis | Top Players' Tennis (called in Japan and Four Players' Tennis in Europe) is a tennis video game developed by Home Data for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It was released in Japan in 1989 and North America in 1990 by Asmik and Europe in 1992 by Nintendo.
The game cover prominently features tennis champions Chris Evert and Ivan Lendl, both of whom are former number 1 ranked singles players.
Gameplay
In single-player mode, the player may compete in the four Grand Slams: the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and the US Open. To compete in the Grand Slams, the player must first win the qualifying tournament, the Asmik Open.
With a multiplayer console accessory such as the NES Satellite or NES Four Score, Top Players' Tennis accommodates up to four simultaneous players. Singles, doubles, or mixed doubles are all available for play.
See also
Tennis (1984)
Jimmy Connors Tennis (1993)
List of Family Computer games
List of Nintendo Entertainment System games
External links
1989 video games
Magical Company games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Tennis video games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set in London
Video games set in Australia
Video games set in Paris
Video games set in New York City
Melbourne in fiction
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield%20Network | Battlefield Network is a 2000 Hong Kong television drama produced by ATV and starring Sunny Chan, Wayne Lai, Astrid Chan and Berg Ng. It was aired on ATV Home from 18 December 2000 to 16 March 2001 with one part airing from 18 December 2000 to 9 February 2001 from 8:30PM to 9:30PM and the rest from 12 February to 16 March 2001 from 10PM to 11PM.
Synopsis
The series is a depiction of Hong Kong's television and movie industries from 1970s to roughly the late 1990s.
The main character, Fong Siu Long (Sunny Chan) wanted to work with his brother Fong Siu Keung (Wayne Lai) in a television station called Red Strings Television (RSTV, the in-universe stand-in for the real life Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB)), but wound up working for Media Television (MTV, the in-universe stand-in for the now defunct Asia Television) instead. From there, the two brothers, along with the family, will experience the ups and downs of life, as well as changes in Hong Kong's TV industry.
Cast
Fong Family
Sunny Chan as Fong Siu Long (方紹龍): reportedly a depiction of a former ATV worker who eventually became one of the station's Vice Presidents. He wound up working for MTV, after trying, without success, to work at RSTV. He worked his way up from his starting job as a Production Assistant, and eventually became a high-level executive at the station he has worked for all his life.
Wayne Lai as Fong Siu Keung (方紹強): reportedly a depiction of film director Wong Jing. He worked at RSTV, and later became a movie director.
Lai Ka-ka as Fong Sze-man (方思雯): Siu Long and Siu Keung's sister. She later developed a career as an actress specializing in action movies.
as Fong Yuen (方元): Siu Long and Siu Keung's father.
Paw Hee-ching as Chow Ping (周萍): Siu Long and Siu Keung's mother.
Media Television
Berg Ng as Fok Wai Lhung (霍偉良): reportedly a composite character consisting of several former ATV producers. He was a senior producer at Media Television. He later became a movie director, wound up in jail, and returned to the TV industry after he was released from prison.
Simon Chui as Lee Pak-tin (利伯天): Worked at MTV as an executive. He was later recruited to Goodwill Television (the in-universe stand-in for the defunct Commercial Television), and later returned to Media Television.
Emotion Cheung as Cheung Kan-ming (張近明): a production assistant at MTV. He later had a career as a movie director, but was killed by triad members.
Karen Chan as Ann Wan (溫飛霞): A production assistant that later married Siu Long. Died in a car accident in Australia.
Kwan Kin as Chiu Tai Chung (趙大昌): reportedly a depiction of businessman Deacon Chiu, he bought Media Television, and renamed it Global Television (寰宇電視). Like the real life counterpart, Tai Cheung is known for being a miserly person.
David Lau as Lee Fu (李富): A businessman who, after meeting Siu Long in Australia and hearing about the thrills of working in television, decided to buy MTV (by then renamed Global Television) outright. He renamed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Federation%20of%20Digital%20Seismograph%20Networks | The International Federation of Digital Seismograph Networks, or FDSN, is a global organization consisting of groups that install and maintain digital, broadband seismic recorders either nationally or globally. Any organizations operating more than one broadband station is eligible for membership. Members agree to coordinate station siting and provide free and open data. This cooperation helps scientists all over the world to further the advancement of earth science and particularly the study of global seismic activity. FDSN is a participant in the Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS.
Data specification
The FDSN goals related to station siting and instrumentation are to provide stations with good geographic distribution, recording data with 24 bits of resolution in continuous time series with at least a 20 sample per second sampling rate. The FDSN was also instrumental in development of a universal standard for distribution of broadband waveform data and related parametric information (QuakeML). The Standard for Exchange of Earthquake Data (SEED) format is the result of that effort.
See also
Seismology
IRIS Consortium
External links
FDSN – Official website
SEED, Chapter 1 – the Standard for the Exchange of Earthquake Data manual
Seismological observatories, organisations and projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JNT | JNT may refer to:
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (disambiguation), in Indian cities
JNT Association, later JANET, computer network
Junctionless nanowire transistor
Windows Journal file extension
John Nathan-Turner, former Doctor Who producer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael%20Dyll | Rafael Dyll is a German composer, arranger and sound designer for computer and video games.
Until 2006, he was mainly involved in retro-themed video game remix CDs and productions, such as Remix64 and Revival ST. His first commercial work was composing the music for the independent Neo Geo console game Last Hope, developed by NG:DEV.TEAM.
After receiving generally positive reviews for his compositions, he began working on several video game scores and set up his audio production service called soniQfactory. Featuring a wide array of electronic trance sounds, 8-Bit video game style samples, break beats and symphonic elements, his work has a distinct video game approach with by a growing fanbase.
Between 2009 and 2010, he has mainly worked on the PlayStation Network shmup series Söldner-X developed by SideQuest Studios, releasing a total of 4 soundtrack albums to accompany the 3 games in the series. In 2010, after receiving generally positive reviews from the video game press, he was nominated in the category `Best Contemporary/Alternative Score" for his work on Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype by SquareEnixMusic and gamemusic.net.
Since 2009, he has also been working as a sound effect designer on various titles and providing voice-over recording for game developers. Departing from his trademark electronic sound, he has composed the score for the SRPG fantasy game Rainbow Moon to be released on the PlayStation 3 and is also working on various iPhone/iOS projects and as yet unannounced games.
Video Game References
Rafael Dyll has provided music, sound effects and/or voice over to the following games to date:
Ghost Blade HD
Rainbow Moon
Neo XYX
Gunlord
The Last Chapter
Fast Striker (Voice SFX engineering)
Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype
Last Hope: Pink Bullets
Söldner-X: Himmelsstürmer
Last Hope
Discography
Rafael Dyll's CD/album discography:
2015: Ghost Blade Soundscape Collection
2013: NEO XYX Soundtrack
2012: Gunlord Soundtrack
2011: The Last Chapter Tracks
2010: Söldner-X 2: Final Soundtrack
2009: Söldner-X Complete Soundtrack
2009: Last Hope Complete Soundtrack
2008: Söldner-X Original Soundtrack
2006: Last Hope Soundtrack
2005: Revival ST
2003: Remix 64 Vol 2: Into Eternity
References
External links
soniQ factory - music and audio service for games, http://www.soniqfactory.de/
Rafael Dyll discography at vgmdb, http://vgmdb.net/artist/1636
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Video game composers
German composers
German music arrangers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile%20University%20of%20Nigeria | Nile University of Nigeria (NILE) is a private multidisciplinary university established in 2009 and located in Abuja, Nigeria. It is a member of the Honoris United Universities Network and accredited by the National Universities Commission. Currently, it has six faculties and a School of Postgraduate Studies offering 34 undergraduate programs and 47 postgraduate programs.
In addition to its standard academic programs, Nile University of Nigeria—through its Centre for Lifelong Learning (CELL)— offers short, on-demand, professional courses that are tailored to the needs of the participants.
In 2020, Nile University joined the Honoris United Universities network becoming one of the 14 member Universities alongside ESPRIT and Université Mundiapolis.
In March 2021, Nile University accepted to partner with the Ministry of Science and Technology in the production of the COVID-19 vaccine.
History
Nile University, founded in 2009 and sited on a 113-hectare campus got acquired in July 2020 by Actis Capital backed Honoris United Universities becoming one of its member universities alongside educational institutions in countries of Tunisia (IMSET), Morocco (EMSI), Mauritius (Honoris Educational Network), South Africa (Mancosa, Regent Business School) Zimbabwe and Zambia. Nigeria is also the education group's first entry into West Africa. At the time of formation, NILE had three faculties (Arts & Social Sciences, Engineering, and Natural & Applied Sciences) and 93 students. In June 2021, the University's logo was changed
The university as a result of structural changes in administration, changes its logo in 21 June 2021.
In a bid to restructure the face of the institution, in June 21, 2021 the University changed it logo to mirror the objectives.
Academics
The university currently offers undergraduate and postgraduate programs across 6 faculties:
Faculty of Engineering
Computer Engineering (BEng, PGD, MEng)
Electrical and Electronics Engineering (BEng, PGD, MEng, PhD)
Civil Engineering (BEng, PGD, MEng)
Petroleum and Gas Engineering (BEng, PGD, MEng)
Chemical Engineering (BEng)
Mechanical Engineering (BEng)
Mechatronics Engineering (BEng)
Architecture (BSc)
Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences
Software Engineering (BSc)
Information Technology (BSc)
Biology (BSc, PGD, MSc)
Biotechnology (BSc)
Biochemistry (BSc)
Microbiology (BSc)
Computer Science (BSc, PGD, MSc, PhD)
Cyber Security (BSc)
Analytical Chemistry (MSc)
Industrial Chemistry (BSc, MSc, PhD)
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Economics (BSc, PGD, MSc, MPhil, PhD)
Financial Economics (MSc)
Financial Economics (MFE)
English Language and Communication Studies (BSc, MA)
Political Science and International Relations (BSc)
International Relations and Diplomacy (PGD, MSc, PhD)
International Relations (MIR)
Political Science (PGD, MSc, PhD)
Peace, Conflict and Strategic Studies (PGD, MSc, MPhil, PhD)
Mass Communication (BSc)
Criminology and Security Studies (BS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python%20Tools%20for%20Visual%20Studio | Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) is a free and open-source plug-in for versions of Visual Studio up to VS 2015 providing support for programming in Python. Since VS 2017, it is integrated in VS and called Python Support in Visual Studio. It supports IntelliSense, debugging, profiling, MPI cluster debugging, mixed C++/Python debugging, and more. It is released under the Apache License 2.0, and is developed primarily by Microsoft.
The first version was on March 8, 2011. The latest version for VS 2015 is 2.2.6.
See also
List of Python software
R Tools for Visual Studio
References
External links
Integrated development environments
Microsoft free software
Python (programming language) software
Software using the Apache license
2011 software
Windows-only free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional%20services%20network | Professional services networks are business networks of independent firms who come together to provide professional services to clients through an organized framework. They are notably found in law and accounting. Any profession that operates in one location, but has clients in multiple locations, may provide potential members for a professional network. This entry focuses on accounting, legal, multidisciplinary and specialty practice networks. According to statistics from 2010, members of these networks employ more than one million professionals and staff and have cumulative annual revenues that exceed $200 billion.
The accounting networks developed first to meet the US Securities and Exchange Commission's requirement for public company audits. They include the well-known accounting networks like PwC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young and KPMG (also known as the Big 4 Audit Firms) as well as more than 30 other accounting networks and associations. They are highly structured entities.
The law firm network developed in the late 1980s. They include legal and law firm based multidisciplinary networks like Lex Mundi, Alliott Group, World Services Group, TerraLex, Meritas, IR Global and the State Capital Group.
There are more than 175 known networks in law, 40 in accounting, and 20 specialty networks. Individual networks have revenues exceeding $20 billion.
Recognizing a network – the disclaimer
Every network from accounting networks like PwC and KPMG to law firm networks like Lex Mundi, Multilaw, and multidisciplinary networks like World Services Group (WSG) uses a "network disclaimer". A network disclaimer states that the network members are independent firms that do not practice jointly and are not responsible for the negligence of each other. It further states that generally the network does not practice a profession or otherwise provide services to clients of the network's members. This independence is the foundation of both network operations and governance.
Why a network rather than a company
A major factor influencing the need for networks is the globalization of the economy. Supply and demand are no longer local but global. The price of commodities is affected by the weather halfway across the world or by demand in developing countries. Production takes place wherever the assets and human resources can most effectively deploy. Professional services providers must be able to reach out globally to represent their clients everywhere in the world. Networks are the practical and cost-effective method to accomplish these objectives. Members of networks have access to other members who understand the local economic, legal and political factors.
From a theoretical point of view, networks are an effective model of enhancing services. The members and the networks are different parts of the resource equation for providing members quality, reliable, local and global services. There is no real limit of what can be accomplished through a network when the n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20G.%20Masters | Michael G. Masters is the National Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Secure Community Network. He previously served as Senior Vice President of The Soufan Group and Executive Director of the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management for Cook County, Illinois. He also serves on the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security’s Faith Based Security and Communications Advisory Committee, as the Vice-Chair of the Secretary’s Homeland Security Advisory Council’s Grants Review Task Force and on the Secretary’s Homeland Security Advisory Council’s Foreign Fighter Task Force.
Early life and education
Masters was born on November 14, 1978, in Chicago, Illinois. A Truman and a Gates Cambridge Trust Scholar, Masters received his Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Michigan, and a Master of Philosophy degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School where he was managing editor of the Harvard International Law Journal.
Masters holds the rank of captain in the United States Marine Corps.
Career
Early career
He served as an assistant to Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley for public safety during which time he oversaw public safety policy and operations for the City of Chicago and as a liaison to the Chicago Police and Fire Departments and the Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications.
He then served as the Chief of Staff of the Chicago Police Department, during which time he oversaw enhancements to training and equipment and the implementation of performance management metrics and accountability systems.
He has also worked with the Washington D.C.-based Partnership for Public Service, a nonpartisan, organization dedicated to revitalizing the federal civil service, and with the United States Attorney’s office, also in Washington, D.C. He has engaged in development work on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. During the 2000 presidential election cycle, Masters was a member of United States Vice President Al Gore’s national advance team.
Cook County Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
As Executive Director of the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management for Cook County, Illinois, Masters was responsible for coordinating and maintaining the homeland security and emergency management system across Cook County, involving both first responder and public sector agencies as well as partners in the private, non-profit and academic sectors.
During his tenure, the department implemented a federally grant funded training and exercise programs, reaching over 9200 first responders annually. The Department also created the Cook County Incident Command Center (CCICC), complete with a 24/7 Duty Desk that gathers and disseminates information, compiles daily situation reports and sends situation awareness updates on a daily basis on everything ranging from inte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Fordyce%20Mavor | William Fordyce Mavor (1 August 1758 – 29 December 1837) was a Scottish teacher, priest and compiler of educational books, many of which passed through numerous editions. He also invented a system of shorthand, which he explained in a treatise entitled 'Universal Stenography’, first published in 1779. He is buried in the church at Woodstock, Oxfordshire, where there is a commemorative plaque.
Life
William Fordyce Mavor was born in New Deer, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In 1775 he became an assistant at a school in Burford, Oxfordshire, and he later taught at Woodstock. After providing writing tuition to the children of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough, he obtained a title for holy orders in 1781. Eight years later, he obtained the vicarage of Hurley, Berkshire, which he retained until his death, and was awarded an LL.D (Law) degree by University of Aberdeen. Subsequently, thanks to the Duke, he became rector of Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, which he exchanged in 1810 for the rectory of Bladon-with-Woodstock. He became headmaster of Woodstock Grammar School in July 1810.
Mavor was first elected mayor of Woodstock in 1808, and went on to hold mayoral office in the town 10 times.
Published works
Mavor is perhaps best remembered for The English Spelling Book, first published in 1801 and with many later editions. His other writings are:
The Springs of Parnassus, or Poetic Miscellanies, 1779.
Poetical Cheltenham Guide, 1781.
The Geographical Magazine, 2 vols., 1781, published under the name of Martyn.
Dictionary of Natural History, 2 vols., 1784, issued under the same pseudonym.
Elegy to the Memory of Captain James King London 1785.
Blenheim, a poem, to which is added a Blenheim Guide, 1787.
New Description of Blenheim, 1789 (many subsequent editions). A French version appeared in 1791.
Vindiciæ Landavenses, or Strictures on the Bishop of Landaff's Charge (addressed to Bishop Richard Watson), 1792.
Poems, 1793.
Appendix to the Eton Latin Grammar, 1796.
The Youth's Miscellany, or a Father's Gift to his Children, 1797 (reprinted in 2 vols. 1805 and 1814).
Historical Account of the most celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries from the time of Columbus to the present period, 25 vols. 1798–1802.
The British Tourists, or Traveller's Pocket Companion through England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland,’ 6 vols. 1798–1800, a series of tours by various authors. The third edition of 1809 contained a reprint, with alterations and omissions, of Mavor's Tour in Wales in 1805, which had been published anonymously by Sir Richard Phillips in 1806.
The British Nepos, or … Lives of Illustrious Britons, 1798 (many editions).
Elements of Natural History, 1799.
The Young Gentleman's and Lady's Magazine, 2 vols., 1799.
Natural History, London, 1800 (2nd edit. 1801).
The Lady's and Gentleman's Botanical Pocket Book, 1800.
Select Lives of Plutarch, abridged, 1800.
The Modern Traveller, with illustrative notes, 4 vols., 1800.
Classical English Poetry for the use of young pe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Escudero | Al Escudero (born ) is a computer game designer.
Career
Escudero is mostly self-taught in computers and gaming. He ran a bulletin board system, Castle Amber, beginning in 1986. In the early 1990s Escudero and Kris Hatlelid co-wrote The Majic Realm, a game played primarily through a bulletin board system that they owned, ICE Online, based in Burnaby, Canada.
Games
Deathlord (1987)
Dungeon Masters Assistant Volume 2: Characters & Treasures (1991)
Renegade Legion: Interceptor (1991)
Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace (1992)
Dark Sun: Shattered Lands (1993)
Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse (1994)
007: Nightfire (2002)
007: Agent Under Fire (2002)
007: Everything or Nothing (2004)
The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction (2005)
Dungeon Siege: Throne of Agony (2006)
References
1960s births
Living people
Dungeons & Dragons video game designers
Place of birth missing (living people)
Video game designers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamzoo | Streamzoo was a photo and video sharing social networking service that came with photo enhancement functionality. The mobile app was compatible with the Apple iPhone and Android-Smartphones, but site users could also access their accounts online.
Streamzoo was taken offline and off of the Apple iPhone and Android-Smartphones on March 21, 2014. All photos were deleted from the server and cannot be retrieved.
Background
Streamzoo was launched in February 2011 by Phonezoo Communications, Inc., a company founded by Ram Ramkumar and Manish Vaidya, and funded by venture capitalist Tim Draper of DFJ Ventures, Inc. In September 2011, industry guru Robert Scoble wrote a tweet opining that "These guys have a better camera much better than Instagram". Streamzoo launched v2.0 of the product in late 2011. Streamzoo became the first cross-platform (iOS, Android & web) based photo sharing social network to offer the ability to collect badges as rewards for contributing photos to specific "streams".
Streamzoo shut down, with all services stopping on March 21, 2014.
See also
List of open source Android applications
Photo sharing
References
External links
Official Site
BuyLikes.net Instagram vs. Streamzoo: It’s Not What You Think
Imageboards
American photography websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar | DigiNotar was a Dutch certificate authority owned by VASCO Data Security International, Inc.
Overview
On September 3, 2011, after it had become clear that a security breach had resulted in the fraudulent issuing of certificates, the Dutch government took over operational management of DigiNotar's systems. That same month, the company was declared bankrupt.
An investigation into the hacking by Dutch-government appointed Fox-IT consultancy identified 300,000 Iranian Gmail users as the main target of the hack (targeted subsequently using man-in-the-middle attacks), and suspected that the Iranian government was behind the hack. While nobody has been charged with the break-in and compromise of the certificates (), cryptographer Bruce Schneier says the attack may have been "either the work of the NSA, or exploited by the NSA." However, this has been disputed, with others saying the NSA had only detected a foreign intelligence service using the fake certificates. The hack has also been claimed by the so-called Comodohacker, allegedly a 21-year-old Iranian student, who also claimed to have hacked four other certificate authorities, including Comodo, a claim found plausible by F-Secure, although not fully explaining how it led to the subsequent "widescale interception of Iranian citizens".
After more than 500 fake DigiNotar certificates were found, major web browser makers reacted by blacklisting all DigiNotar certificates. The scale of the incident was used by some organizations like
ENISA and AccessNow.org to call for a deeper reform of HTTPS in order to remove the weakest link possibility that a single compromised CA can affect that many users.
Company
DigiNotar's main activity was as a certificate authority, issuing two types of certificate. First, they issued certificates under their own name (where the root CA was "DigiNotar Root CA"). Entrust certificates were not issued since July 2010, but some were still valid up to July 2013. Secondly, they issued certificates for the Dutch government's PKIoverheid ("PKIgovernment") program. This issuance was via two intermediate certificates, each of which chained up to one of the two "Staat der Nederlanden" root CAs. National and local Dutch authorities and organisations offering services for the government who want to use certificates for secure internet communication can request such a certificate. Some of the most-used electronic services offered by Dutch governments used certificates from DigiNotar. Examples were the authentication infrastructure DigiD and the central car-registration organisation (RDW).
DigiNotar's root certificates were removed from the trusted-root lists of all major web browsers and consumer operating systems on or around August 29, 2011; the "Staat der Nederlanden" roots were initially kept because they were not believed to be compromised. However, they have since been revoked.
History
DigiNotar was originally set up in 1998 by the Dutch notary Dick Batenburg from Beverwi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachana%20circumdata | Rachana circumdata is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae first described by Heinz G. Schroeder, Colin G. Treadaway and Hisakazu Hayashi in 1978. It is found on Marinduque in the Philippines.
Subspecies
Rachana circumdata circumdata Schroeder, Treadaway & H. Hayashi, [1981] (Luzon, Camiguin de Luzon, Marinduque and Mindoro Islands)
Rachana circumdata panayensis Schroeder, Treadaway & H. Hayashi, [1981] (Cebu, Panay and Negros Islands)
References
Schröder, Heinz; Treadaway, Colin G. & Hayashi, Hisakazu (1981). "Zur Kenntnis philippinischer Lycaenidae (Lep.)". Entomologische Zeitschrift. 24: 265–269.
Treadaway, C. G. (1995). "Checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera)" Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo. Suppl. 14: 7–118.
Treadaway, Colin G. & Schröder, Heinz G. (2012). "Revised checklist of the butterflies of the Philippine Islands (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera)". Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo. Suppl. 20: 1-64.
Butterflies described in 1981
Iolaini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features%20new%20to%20Windows%208 | The transition from Windows 7 to Windows 8 introduced a number of new features across various aspects of the operating system. These include a greater focus on optimizing the operating system for touchscreen-based devices (such as tablets) and cloud computing.
Development platform
Language and standards support
Windows 8 introduces the new Windows Runtime (WinRT) platform, which can be used to create a new type of application officially known as Windows Store apps and commonly called Metro-style apps. Such apps run within a secure sandbox and share data with other apps through common APIs. WinRT, being a COM-based API, allows for the use of various programming languages to code apps, including C++, C++/CX, C#, Visual Basic .NET, or HTML5 and JavaScript. Metro-style apps are packaged and distributed via APPX, a new file format for package management. Unlike desktop applications, Metro-style apps can be sideloaded, subject to licensing conditions. Windows 8.1 Update allows for sideloading apps on all Windows 8.1 Pro devices joined to an Active Directory domain.
In Windows 8 up to two apps may snap to the side of a widescreen display to allow multi-tasking, forming a sidebar that separates the apps. In Windows 8.1, apps can continually be resized to the desired width. Snapped apps may occupy half of the screen. Large screens allow up to four apps to be snapped. Upon launching an app, Windows allows the user to pick which snapped view the app should open into.
The term "Metro-style apps" referred to "Metro", a design language prominently used by Windows 8 and other recent Microsoft products. Reports surfaced that Microsoft employees were told to stop using the term due to potential trademark issues with an unspecified partner. A Microsoft spokesperson however, denied these reports and stated that "Metro-style" was merely a codename for the new application platform.
Windows 8 introduces APIs to support near field communication (NFC) on Windows 8 devices, allowing functionality like launching URLs/applications and sharing of information between devices via NFC.
Windows Store
Windows Store is a digital distribution platform built into Windows 8, which in a manner similar to Apple's App Store and Google Play, allows for the distribution and purchase of apps designed for Windows 8. Developers will still be able to advertise desktop software through Windows Store as well. To ensure that they are secure and of a high quality, Windows Store will be the only means of distributing WinRT-based apps for consumer-oriented versions of Windows 8.
In Windows 8.1, Windows Store features a redesigned interface with improved app discovery and recommendations and offers automatic updates for apps.
Shell and user interface
Windows 8 features a redesigned user interface built upon the Metro design language, with optimizations for touchscreens.
Metro-style apps can either run in a full-screen environment, or be snapped to the side of a screen alongside another |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20slave%20port | A parallel slave port (PSP) is an interface found on some PIC microcontrollers. It allows 8-bit asynchronous bidirectional data transfer between the PIC and external devices, such as other microcontrollers or personal computers.
References
Microcontrollers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mount | E-mount or E mount may refer to:
Sony E-mount (part of α (Alpha), Handycam, NXCAM, XDCAM, Cyber-shot and SmartShot families), a fully electronic bayonet lens mount for mirrorless digital system cameras introduced by Sony in 2010
Hasselblad E-mount, the same camera mount since 2013
Carl Zeiss E-mount (ZA), lenses designed for E-mount cameras
See also
Mount E (), Kameda, Oshima, Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan; a stratovolcano
EF-mount
A-mount (disambiguation)
E (disambiguation)
Lens mounts
E-mount cameras
E-mount lenses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted%20projection%20pursuit | Targeted projection pursuit is a type of statistical technique used for exploratory data analysis, information visualization, and feature selection. It allows the user to interactively explore very complex data (typically having tens to hundreds of attributes) to find features or patterns of potential interest.
Conventional, or 'blind', projection pursuit, finds the most "interesting" possible projections in multidimensional data, using a search algorithm that optimizes some fixed criterion of "interestingness" – such as deviation from a normal distribution. In contrast, targeted projection pursuit allows the user to explore the space of projections by manipulating data points directly in an interactive scatter plot.
Targeted projection pursuit has found applications in DNA microarray data analysis, protein sequence analysis, graph layout and digital signal processing. It is available as a package for the WEKA machine learning toolkit.
References
Further reading
Joe Faith (2007) "Targeted Projection Pursuit for Interactive Exploration of High-Dimensional Data Sets", Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Information Visualisation
External links
imDEV free Excel add-in for targeted projection pursuits using feature selection coupled with PLS and PLS-DA
Targeted Projection Pursuit project page
Statistical charts and diagrams |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.LI.CE | A.LI.CE is a 2000 Japanese 3D CG science fiction comedy-drama anime film directed by Kenichi Maejima. It was the first ever anime to be entirely computer-animated.
Plot
In the year 2000, shortly after her best friend's sudden suicide, a Japanese schoolgirl named Alice wins a competition to be the youngest person ever to be sent into space, on a semi-commercial space airline. However, something goes wrong during the flight, and the shuttle crashes, killing all on board except for Alice and the stewardess robot, SS1X. Finding themselves in a desolate, snowy landscape, they set out to find help.
A young man named Yuan aids them, and reveals that they are in Lapland, the year is 2030, and the world's population is only one billion. At first he does not believe their claims to be from 30 years in the past. Yuan helps Alice and SS1X avoid the army which appears and begins pursuing her. Together they find enough old newspapers to discover what has happened in the years they have missed. A dictator known as Nero, and his computer named SS10X, have apparently been systematically capturing people and removing them to concentration camps, thus erasing all but one billion people. Most towns are empty and technology is old and decaying.
It is revealed that the pursuing army is the Liberation Army, who directly oppose Nero. Alice, Yuan, and SS1X are captured and taken to the army's centre of operations. There, it is revealed that there is a mysterious connection between Alice and Nero's computer, and that, as a result, only Alice is able to hack into the computer and disable Nero's security systems. The Liberation Army plan to disable all the security and storm Nero's base to assassinate him and end his dictatorship. Alice agrees to hack the computer for the Liberation Army, despite being warned that it will be at great risk to herself. She uses a virtual reality device to float through the workings of the computer, disabling much of its workings but causing her mind great pain. With the automated security turned off, the Liberation Army sends all their troops to Nero's base for their final assault.
Yuan and SS1X, meanwhile, escape from their imprisonment and race to stop Alice from hacking any further before she causes herself serious harm. Alice, aware that her connection to Nero's computer, SS10X, is not a coincidence, says that she feels she needs to finally meet Nero. They all travel to Nero's base, narrowly avoiding the security systems which are just beginning to reactivate. The entirety of the Liberation Army are killed by the security robots, except for its leader, Kaspar.
Kaspar reveals that it was he who sabotaged Alice's space flight by replacing her space shuttle with a duplicate which contained a hidden time machine but was otherwise identical to the original. Kaspar had realised that Nero was the only person other than Kaspar himself potentially capable of building a time machine of his own, so he brought the only person compatible with Ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20Highways%20in%20Minnesota |
Mainline highways
Special routes
See also
References
External links
MnDOT Roadway Data
The Unofficial Minnesota Highways Page, by Steve Riner
Twin Cities Highways, by Adam Froehlig
U.S. Highways
es:Anexo:Carreteras estatales de Minnesota#Rutas federales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia%20Global%20Centers%2C%20East%20Asia | Columbia Global Centers | Beijing is a research facility established by Columbia University in Beijing, China, and is a part of the Columbia Global Centers network. Founded in March 2009, it aims to facilitate Columbia University with research and other events throughout the region. Xiaobo Lü, professor of political science at Barnard College and former director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia, served as the first Director of the East Asia center, followed by Chinese economist Geng Xiao.
Major programs
The Summer Palace Dialogue
The Summer Palace Dialogue (SPD) is an annual economic conference that brings together leading economists and minister level decision makers from both China and America for two days of debate about issues and concerns that affect both sides. It was founded by former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and current Chairman of AEA Investors Admiral Bill Owens and Vice Minister Liu He of the Chinese Central Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs, and is currently co-hosted by the Chinese Economist 50 Forum and Columbia Global Centeres | Beijing. The Summer Palace dialog is currently planning its 3rd annual conference which is scheduled to take place during mid September. Past years' Dialogues have centered on the global financial crisis and U.S.-China cooperation on climate change.
The Urban China Initiative
The Urban China Initiative (UCI) is a non-profit research project launched by Tsinghua University, McKinsey & Company, and Columbia Global Centers | Beijing. It aimes to establish a think-tank in Beijing to help China meet the challenges of urbanization.
The Initiative for Policy Dialogue
The Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) is an annual conference co-organized by the Initiative for Policy Dialogue of Columbia University, and the Central University of Finance and Economics. Participants include Nobel Laureate and Columbia University Professor Joseph Stiglitz. During October 2009, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing assisted Initiative For Policy Dialogue in organizing a conference in Beijing with The China Task Force, a collaborative research project of IPD with several Chinese and British universities.
The International Healthcare Leadership Conference Series
The International Healthcare Leadership (IHL) Conference Series is an annual conference co-organized by International Health Leadership of Columbia University, Columbia Global Centers | Beijing, and China CEO magazine in an effort to design and implement educational programs in healthcare management and policy for Chinese government officials and health care executives. In July 2011, the IHL and its partners hosted an event at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Beijing on multidrug-resistant organisms, and how effective hospital management policy can help treat and prevent its spread.
Internship programs
Columbia Global Centers | Beijing explores and identifies internship and summer opportunities at local universities, organiz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Mercer%20%28writer%29 | David Mercer (born 1976) is a technical writer of programming, web development and business books.
Mercer has contributed editorially to a number of titles for the open source community, including books on Linux and Perl. He has also written books on PHP and Web technology.
His technical books are sold worldwide and have been translated into French, German, Polish, Greek and Spanish. His book on Drupal 6 was reviewed on Slashdot and went on to become a best seller. Mercer's books have also become recommended reading at higher learning institutes like MIT.
He maintains an online business blog to provide supplementary skills and knowledge for his readership.
Published Titles
References
External links
SME Pals – Author homepage
Wiley
Drupal.org
GoodReads
Acquia Interview
1976 births
Living people
American business writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting%20network | An accounting network or accounting association is a professional services network whose principal purpose is to provide members resources to assist the clients around the world and hence reduce the uncertainty by bringing together a greater number of resources to work on a problem. The networks and associations operate independently of the independent members. The largest accounting networks are known as the Big Four.
The Big Four
History of accounting networks and associations
Foundations
Accounting networks were created to meet a specific need. “The accounting profession in the U.S. was built upon a state-established monopoly for audits of financial statements.” Accounting networks arose out of the necessity for public American companies to have audited financial statements for the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). For over 70 years, the SEC has continually sought for greater coordination and consistent quality in audits everywhere in the world. Networks were the logical model to address these requirements. They expanded outside of the United States since financial results had to be audited wherever a company conducted business. In the US, the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board's (PCAOB) regulations provide for inspection of non-United States firms. Without a network with common standards and internal means of communications, conducting the required audits would not be possible.
There were other profession-based factors which favored the growth of accounting networks. As a result of competition for the audit work, consolidation was inevitable. These include the fact that a network can establish a brand. A brand establishes the credibility of the network and allows the individual members to charge more. Creating a brand is very difficult when all of the members of a network are providing essentially the same services.
Being a network member establishes that the firm is part of a large group. Additionally, the larger the firm, the more likely it will be invited to render auditing engagements. A large organized network allows for spreading the costs to price competitively. Ultimately, size is the only real means of differentiation that is readily available on accounting firms to assure clients that they can do international work.
Networks also reflect the clients’ needs for seamless worldwide services because they are more efficient and cost-effective. From the perspective of the accounting firm, a global regulated organization with consistently applied standards significantly reduced the risk. However, increasing the size of the networks can enhance legal liability risks and quality control issues that have not been resolved.
With these factors in play, some networks continued to grow; others remained in a stasis position. Individual members of networks began to offer other services related to accounting. These services included forensic accounting, business appraisals, employee benefits planning, strategic planning, a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrontDoor | FrontDoor was one of the most popular mailers in the FidoNet-compatible networks in the 1990s, acting as the physical representation of the written network node connection and mail handling standards. It was an MS-DOS-based product (also available as shareware) written by Joaquim Homrighausen (alias JoHo). The FrontDoor system contained a Mailer, an Editor, a Terminal, a serial port device driver and configuration utilities. FrontDoor was first released in 1986.
The task of mailers, the main task of the first FrontDoor release, was to accept a phone call for a BBS / FidoNet node system; differentiating between human and machine calls (sending the humans to the BBS while handling all other cases) and if the other end supported the same protocol started a conversation about handling whatever packets had to be exchanged, and calling external programs to handle the traffic.
Originally FrontDoor was a small utility to handle incoming calls, written in 1986. Peter Adenauer of AMS Applied Micro Systems, Inc. of Miami, Florida asked Homrighausen in 1987 to leave his job at Ericsson and come to the USA and start developing a commercial product based on FrontDoor with Peter Stewart. After several adventurous clashes between the programmers and the company and realising that there wasn't a useful product even after a long development the people parted: Homrighausen went to Australia with the version 1.99c source code while Stewart got the same code which has been used as the basis of InterMail software.
FrontDoor continued its life as shareware as well as a commercial product; the current versions are 2.26 (DOS+OS/2 shareware) and 2.32.mL (DOS+OS/2 multiline commercial). Joaquim Homrighausen attempted a "revival" of sorts of the project in 2014, but was prevented from continuing due to rehab from an injury. In August 2017, he once again began reviving the product, some 30+ years after the first release. As of September 2017, it is still unclear as to which platforms the re-booted FrontDoor project will run on.
Technical aspects
FrontDoor runs under DOS and OS/2 as well as under most DOS-based multi-tasking environment (like Windows, DESQview, DoubleDOS, and more).
File transfer protocols supported by FrontDoor are Zmodem, Zmodem/CRC32, Telink, SEAlink, SEAlink Overdrive, and Xmodem/CRC.
Technical specifications
FrontDoor consists of:
a Mailer,
an Editor,
a Terminal (TTY, VT-52, VT-100, ANSI X3.64 and AVATAR/0+; IEMSI profiles to login),
a serial port device driver, and
configuration utilities (FDSETUP, FDNC, etc.)
FrontDoor features:
Support for DOS-based multitasking environments (DR Multiuser DOS, Novell NetWare, LANtastic, POWERLan, MS LAN Manager, DESQview, PC/MOS-386, DoubleDOS, OS/2, Windows 3.xx, Windows 95/98/ME, Windows XP)
The ability to handle a virtually unlimited amount of destinations, names and phone numbers (theoretically 1.2 x 1020 entries)
The file transfer protocols ZModem/CRC32, ZModem, Telink, SEAlink Overdrive, SEA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen%20Voices%2C%20Buried%20Secrets | Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets is an American true crime television series on the Investigation Discovery Network. The program is different from other true-crime series because the murders are portrayed from the omniscient point-of-view of the victim using "fictionalized dialogue". While the all-seeing narrator knows who was responsible, the series allows viewers to piece together who is the culprit based on clues from investigators, family and friends as each story unfolds. Stolen Voices, Buried Secrets has been compared to the 2009 film The Lovely Bones in which a 13-year-old girl is murdered and views from heaven as her family copes with the tragedy. The program is known as I Was Murdered in the United Kingdom, and at the beginning of the third season, which began airing in 2013, the show adopted that title.
The series ran for three seasons, ending in September 2012.
Episode Guide
Season 1
"Daddy's Princess" - Ali Kemp, a lifeguard from Leawood, Kansas, was found strangled to death in a poolhouse pump room in June 2002. After years of investigating the crime, a billboard gives police a tip pointing to a killer across the country in Connecticut.
"Checkmate" - Ellen Robb was a wife and mother who was beaten to death in her Wayne, Pennsylvania home in December 2006. Her murder appears to be a robbery gone wrong, but evidence leads police to suspect her economics professor husband, Rafael Robb.
"Cold As Ice" - Denise Huber disappeared after a Morrissey concert in Inglewood, California in June 1991. The case of her disappearance went cold for three years, until a discovery in a Ryder truck in Prescott, Arizona leads police to her killer.
"Closing Time" - Jerry Monroe was found shot to death in his Louisville, Kentucky bar in June 2002. Police initially suspect he was killed in a random robbery, but his family suspects that his murder was the work of his wife Vicki and her adult son Leslie.
"La Muerta" - Sophia Martinez was a young high-school student who was killed in March 2000 after withdrawing money from an ATM. Her body was later found in the El Paso, Texas desert. A surveillance camera and a confession to a friend's girlfriend seal the fate of William Berkley.
"A Mother's Love" - Debi Whitlock was a young mother who was killed at her Modesto, California home in March 1988. Her mother leads the crusade to find her killer. Nine years after the murder, a drug informant comes forward to police with information on who killed Debi.
"In the Name of Love" - Avis Banks was a daycare worker from Ridgeland, Mississippi and a mother-to-be. In November 2006, she was found slain in her garage. Her fiancé is initially the prime suspect, but his mistress and co-worker Carla Hughes turns out to be the real perpetrator.
"Bad Karma" - Michael Dojaquez was a yoga instructor and married father of three. When he is shot to death on his porch in September 2003, the town of Tucson, Arizona is shocked. In their investigation, police d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WatchESPN | WatchESPN was a branding of the Internet television website and mobile application operated by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which operates the network, through its 80% controlling ownership interest) and Hearst Corporation (which holds the remaining 20% interest).
The service provides streaming simulcasts of ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, ESPN Deportes, ACC Network, Longhorn Network, SEC Network, ESPN Goal Line and ESPN Buzzer Beater for select cable television subscribers in the United States; it also serves as the exclusive platform for broadcasts from ESPN3, which until 2011, had operated as a separate website with a similar functionality to WatchESPN. The service is only available to subscribers of participating cable, IPTV and satellite television providers, and was not offered as a standalone internet-only subscription service available to those who do not have a pay television subscription.
On July 1, 2019, ESPN officially discontinued the WatchESPN app and branding, redirecting users to the ESPN app (which had been updated in 2015 to add integrated streaming functionality) and ESPN.com streaming.
Since the launch of the over-the-top companion service ESPN+ in 2018, ESPN has increasingly preferred paywalling new or renewed content acquisitions on that service instead of ESPN3. It is a standalone subscription product and does not require a separate television subscription.
History
As ESPN Networks
WatchESPN originally launched on October 25, 2010, when Time Warner Cable became the first cable television provider to offer ESPN Networks, which provided subscribers to ESPN an online simulcast of the channel through a dedicated website. Bright House Networks (for which Time Warner Cable handles distribution agreements) began offering ESPN Networks on November 22, 2010. On January 25, 2011, ESPN Networks added streaming simulcast feeds of ESPN2 and ESPNU, as well as out-of-market sports packages ESPN Goal Line and ESPN Buzzer Beater to the website, accessible only to subscribers of those services. Verizon FiOS began providing access to streams on the ESPN Networks website on February 17, 2011.
As WatchESPN
On April 7, 2011, ESPN released a mobile app called WatchESPN on the App Store for Apple devices, using the same subscriber authentication functionality to allow access to simulcasts of the available ESPN channels on the service via the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch; the app was released on the Android Market (now Google Play) on May 9, 2011. The ESPN Networks website was subsequently rebranded under the WatchESPN name on August 31, 2011 (the "Watch" brand was then applied to other TV Everywhere applications for television networks owned by ESPN co-owner Disney–ABC Television Group since the launch of the service, including those for ABC, Disney Channel/XD/Junior and Freeform; this shifted to the new brandings of "Disney NOW", "The ABC App" and "The Freeform App" in 2018). On May 8, 2012, Comcast began allowin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20horse%20breeds%20in%20DAD-IS | This is a list of all the horse breeds in the DAD-IS, the Domestic Animal Diversity Information System, a database of the FAO. There are about 4150 horse breed entries, reported by almost 200 countries, not all of which have horses. The breed names are those held in the database, and thus reflect the diversity between the various reporting countries; intentionally, no attempt has been made to link, unify, rationalise or translate them. One spelling error has been corrected.
The list can be sorted by country, which offers no advantage over the database itself. The default sort order is alphabetical by breed, which allows the geographical range of a breed such as the Morgan to be seen. It is also text-searchable, which may help find all entries for, say, the Mérens.
Breeds in the database
The fourth version of the DAD-IS was launched on 21 November 2017 and the horse breeds listed in it were:
References
horse breeds
Horse breeds
H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal%20data%20type | Some programming languages (or compilers for them) provide a built-in (primitive) or library decimal data type to represent non-repeating decimal fractions like 0.3 and -1.17 without rounding, and to do arithmetic on them. Examples are the decimal.Decimal type of Python, and analogous types provided by other languages.
Rationale
Fractional numbers are supported on most programming languages as floating-point numbers or fixed-point numbers. However, such representations typically restrict the denominator to a power of two. Most decimal fractions (or most fractions in general) cannot be represented exactly as a fraction with a denominator that is a power of two. For example, the simple decimal fraction 0.3 (3/10) might be represented as 5404319552844595/18014398509481984 (0.299999999999999988897769...). This inexactness causes many problems that are familiar to experienced programmers. For example, the expression 0.1 * 7 == 0.7 might counterintuitively evaluate to false in some systems, due to the inexactness of the representation of decimals.
Although all decimal fractions are fractions, and thus it is possible to use a rational data type to represent it exactly, it may be more convenient in many situations to consider only non-repeating decimal fractions (fractions whose denominator is a power of ten). For example, fractional units of currency worldwide are mostly based on a denominator that is a power of ten. Also, most fractional measurements in science are reported as decimal fractions, as opposed to fractions with any other system of denominators.
A decimal data type could be implemented as either a floating-point number or as a fixed-point number. In the fixed-point case, the denominator would be set to a fixed power of ten. In the floating-point case, a variable exponent would represent the power of ten to which the mantissa of the number is multiplied.
Languages that support a rational data type usually allow the construction of such a value from two integers, instead of a base-2 floating-point number, due to the loss of exactness the latter would cause. Usually the basic arithmetic operations ('+', '−', '×', '/', integer powers) and comparisons ('=', '<', '>', '≤') would be extended to act on them — either natively or through operator overloading facilities provided by the language. These operations may be translated by the compiler into a sequence of integer machine instructions, or into library calls. Support may also extend to other operations, such as formatting, rounding to an integer or floating point value, etc..
An example of this is 123.456
Standard formats
IEEE 754 specifies three standard floating-point decimal data types of different precision:
Decimal32 floating-point format
Decimal64 floating-point format
Decimal128 floating-point format
Language support
C# has a built-in data type 'decimal', consisting of 128-bit resulting in 28-29 significant digits. It has an approximate Range of (-7.9 x 10^28 to 7.9 x 10^2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hairpin | The Hairpin was a women's website in The Awl network. It was founded in 2010 by Edith Zimmerman. It ceased publication at the end of January 2018.
From 2013 to 2014, The Hairpin was edited by Emma Carmichael, with Jia Tolentino as contributing editor. Haley Mlotek was editor at The Hairpin from 2014 to 2015, with Jazmine Hughes as contributing editor, followed by Alexandra Molotkow. The site went on hiatus briefly but was revived in 2016 when Sylvia Killingsworth left The New Yorker to become editor of both The Awl and The Hairpin.
Carmichael described her role as the first new editor at The Hairpin after Zimmerman stepped down in 2013 as "really hard; Edith created a perfectly formed product in The Hairpin and her voice was...The Hairpin".
The Hairpin had been home to several recurring features including Jia Tolentino's "Interview With a Virgin", Jolie Kerr's "Ask A Clean Person", former This American Life producer Jane Marie's makeup tutorial series "How To Be A Girl" and Lindsay King-Miller's advice column "Ask A Queer Chick".
Glen Weldon discussed the demise of The Hairpin as being in response to the decline in advertisement-driven website revenue, making a difficult situation for independent publishers.
References
External links
Internet properties established in 2010
Internet properties disestablished in 2018
2010 establishments in New York City
2018 disestablishments in New York (state)
American women's websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F700 | F700 may refers to:
Compaq Presario F700, a notebook computer
Mercedes-Benz F700, a concept car
Samsung SGH-F700, a mobile phone |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picker%20Sisters | Picker Sisters is an American reality television show airing on the Lifetime network. The series premiered on August 2, 2011.
Premise
The series follows Tracy Hutson and Tanya McQueen, who travel around the United States in search of antiques and rare collectibles for their home decor store in Los Angeles.
Episodes
See also
American Pickers, a series with a similar premise on History.
Canadian Pickers, a series with a similar premise based in Canada
Aussie Pickers, a similar TV series featuring two pickers in Australia on the A&E Australia channel.
References
External links
Picker Sisters - official site on myLifetime.com
2010s American reality television series
2011 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
Lifetime (TV network) original programming
English-language television shows
Antiques television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangled%20Ever%20After | Tangled Ever After is a 2012 six-minute American computer-animated short film written and directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, serving as a follow-up to the 2010 Walt Disney Animation Studios film Tangled. It premiered in theaters on January 13, 2012, before the 3D theatrical re-release of Beauty and the Beast, and on Disney Channel followed by the premiere of The Princess and the Frog on March 23, 2013. The short was later, in fall 2013, included as a bonus feature on the Diamond Edition of Cinderella, and was also released three years later, on the Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection Blu-ray on August 18, 2016. The short is also available as a stand-alone download on iTunes.
The story of the short, counting also the TV series produced 5 years later (otherwise it would take place just after the original film as originally intended), picks up approximately two years after the events of Tangled, explored throughout Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, from the television film, Tangled: Before Ever After to the three-part series finale, "Plus est en Vous". In the short, the kingdom prepares for the royal wedding of Rapunzel and Eugene Fitzherbert. However, chameleon Pascal and horse Maximus lose the wedding rings, triggering a frenzied search to retrieve them.
Greno and Howard started the film after popular demand. Among the film's voice actors are Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi and Matt Nolan.
Plot
On Rapunzel's and Eugene's wedding day, Pascal and Maximus are the ring bearers and are spreading the flowers. When the priest starts talking, one of the flowers falls and Maximus sniffs it and he sneezes causing the rings to be launched outside of the castle. While in shock, the priest asks them for the rings, only to find them gone. The Queen complains that it was her grandmother's wedding rings and one of the guards says that the kingdom is lost. This causes a lot of chaos around the kingdom and explosions start to happen, but it was revealed to be Maximus' daydream. With more time, they go after the rings only to be launched in two directions.
One of them lands in a pot of soup and Pascal goes after it. When coming out, he causes chaos around the tables and finally retrieves the ring, only to find his tongue stuck in ice. Meanwhile, Maximus runs after the other ring, but he runs into shoes, make-up, hats and dresses and he is now dressed as a lady. A male horse mistakes Maximus for a female and falls in love with him, but he kicks him and goes after the ring. Pascal finally gets his tongue off the ice, but he lands on a waiter's foot, causing him to drop the lintels on the ice and it launches into the air. Maximus manages to retrieve the other ring, but the ice sculpture lands on a catapult he is sitting on and is launched into the air and passes the windows where the ceremony is. He lands in a carriage and goes after the ring.
Meanwhile, Pascal goes after the ring and it lands on a girl's lantern. He chases after it, only for him to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAVeL%20network | RAVeL or in (in ) is a Walloon initiative aimed at creating a network of itineraries reserved for pedestrians, cyclists, horse riders and people with reduced mobility, initiated at the end of the 1980s and connecting major cities and secondary municipalities of Wallonia through over of pathways.
The network makes use of towpaths on river banks and disused railway or vicinal tramway lines. Old railway lines have been leased by the Government of Wallonia for 99 years using emphyteutic lease contracts. Where necessary, new paths are created to link independent parts of the network together.
History
Before World War II, Belgium had the world's densest railway network, with around of railway and vicinal tramway tracks. Large parts of this network were disused after the war, with the development of road infrastructure and the preference for private cars. Concurrently, towing paths along rivers were made obsolete by new, motorized boats.
In 1977, the Belgian Ministry of Public Works bought a large section of former SNCB line 142 between Hoegaarden and Eghezée, and converted a first section (in Jodoigne) into a pedestrian/cyclist path in 1985.
During the same period, other similar conversions of old railway lines are carried out in various parts of Belgium. The RAVeL project was initiated in 1995 and the first section opened in 1996, between Rochefort and Villers-sur-Lesse. The project has the benefit of coordinating the various conversions to form a coherent, Wallonia wide network.
A 4 December 1997 ministerial order, aimed at classifying Walloon public roads into functional categories, provides an official status to the RAVeL network. At the end of 2004, the network spans on of paths, and more than at the end of 2008. By 2022 there were over 45 marked local routes extending to more than .
Characteristics
Asphalt or concrete paths wherever possible
Renovation of bridges, tunnels and other infrastructure along the paths
Creation of access points such as stairs and ramps
Creation of rest areas along the paths
Secure road crossings
Specific signage
Network structure
The RAVeL network is divided into:
A backbone of five long distance itineraries (), numbered from 1 to 5.
A set of local, shorter sections (), generally named after the number of the former railway line they follow.
Additionally, sections earmarked for RAVeL conversion, with basic equipment but not yet to RAVeL standard, are labelled Pré-RAVeL.
The RAVeL is connected to similar networks in adjacent regions (Flanders and Brussels) and countries (France, Luxembourg, Germany and Netherlands).
References
External links
Official site (French)
Official map (French)
Tourist attractions in Wallonia
National cycling route networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Medical%20Record | The Virtual Medical Record (vMR) is a simplified, standardised electronic health record data model designed to support interfacing to clinical decision support (CDS) systems. vMR is compatible with Service-oriented Architecture (SOA) of CDS.
The project is sponsored by HL7.
References
Standards for electronic health records |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Hero%3A%20108%20episodes | This is a list of episodes from Hero: 108, an animated series created by Yang-Ming Tarng for Cartoon Network.
Note: All the episodes are directed by Trevor Wall and Pongo Kuo; John Fountain co-directed instead nine episodes, and are: "Elephant Castle", "Liger Castle", "Camel Castle", "Parrot Castle", "Turtle Cannon Competition", "Pandaffe Castle", "Eagle Castle", "Baboon Castle", and "Folk Game Competition".
Series overview
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Episodes
Season 1 (2010)
Season 2 (2012)
External links
Hero: 108 (Cartoon Network series)
Hero: 108 (Cartoon Network series) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher%20order%20message | A higher order message (HOM) in a computer programming language is a form of higher-order programming that allows messages that have other messages as arguments. The concept was introduced at MacHack 2003 by Marcel Weiher and presented in a more complete form in 2005 by Marcel Weiher and Stéphane Ducasse. Loops can be written without naming the collections looped over, higher order messages can be viewed as a form of point-free or tacit programming.
Examples
In ordinary Smalltalk code, without using HOM, obtaining a collection of the employees that have a salary of 1000 would be achieved with the following code:
salaried := employees select: [ :each | each hasSalary: 1000 ]
However, using HOM, it can be expressed as follows:
salaried := employees select hasSalary: 1000.
Here, select is a higher order message, and hasSalary: is understood to be called on the select message itself, rather than on its result. The Smalltalk language was not modified to implement this feature. Instead, select returns a message that reifies the select send, which then interprets the hasSalary: message.
Another example is the use of future message sends in the Croquet Project:
(cube future:1000) addRotationAroundY:10.
In this example, the future: message causes the addRotationARoundY: message to be sent to the cube object after 1 second.
Adoption
The reference implementation in Objective-C leverages the trait that in Objective-C, objects that don't understand a message sent to them, still get it delivered in a special hook method, called forward:. Higher order messaging was implemented in a number of languages that share this feature including Ruby and Smalltalk.
ECMAScript Harmony's Proxies documentation specifically mentions higher order messages as an application for their Catchall Proxies.
Similar concepts in other languages
The programming language J distinguishes between verbs and adverbs. Adverbs modify the functioning of verbs. This is similar to higher order messages (the adverbs) modifying the messages that follow (the verbs). In the Croquet example above, the addRotationAroundY:. message is still sent and has its normal meaning, but its delivery is modified by the future:1000 message, it will be sent sometime in the future.
References
Programming paradigms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Santos | The Santos trolleybus system forms part of the public transport network in Santos, a municipality in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Opened on 12 August 1963, it presently comprises only one line, and, along with the two São Paulo metropolitan area trolleybus systems, is one of only three trolleybus systems still operating in Brazil.
History
Beginnings
Initially, only a few trolleybus lines were opened in Santos. They were operated by a batch of Fiat-Alfa Romeo vehicles and equipment based in the Port of Santos during the first year of operation of the service.
At that time, trams were still circulating in Santos. Due to the technical characteristics of the trolley, the then SMTC (Serviço Municipal de Transportes Coletivos) (English: Municipal Collective Transport Service) installed trolleybus lines in streets and avenues where there were no tram lines, apart from some inevitable exceptions.
Although both the trams and trolley buses were powered by direct current electricity, the voltage of the two systems was different: the trolleybuses used two overhead wires: the positive and negative, whereas the tram network used only one wire, the positive pole, with the rails as the negative pole. In many narrow streets, it was not technically feasible to operate trams and trolleybuses together, because a large amount of wiring would be necessary.
Thus, the first trolleybus lines generally covered the streets and avenues where there were no trams. However, there were some points where trolleybuses and trams operated together. These included Bartolomeu de Gusmão Avenue between Osvaldo Cruz Street and Conselheiro Nébias Avenue; Washington Luiz Avenue, between Martim Francisco Street and Dr. Carvalho de Mendonça; Praça da Independência, and several other places where there was the crossing of the overhead wires.
Growth
Santos's first trolleybus line, opened on 12 August 1963, was line 5, which linked Rua Martim Afonso with Praça Visconde de Itaboraí, via Avenida Washington Luiz. Almost a year later, on 3 August 1964, a second line, line 53, was added to the system. Nicknamed O Trólebus do Orquidário (English: The Trolleybuses of Orchids), it also followed Avenida Washington Luiz, but proceeded towards the end of the famous tourist spot, at José Menino.
On 5 March 1965, a third line was opened, line 54. Once again, it ran along Avenida Washington Luiz, but this time was bound for Ferry Boat.
On 21 October 1966, line 8 was opened. Its route included that of three tram lines (5, 8 and 15), and was bound for the Macuco, via Mercado. Shortly afterwards, on 1 December 1966, trams stopped running in Avenida Conselheiro Nébias. Following the removal of the tramway wiring, that avenue then became the central terminus of the trolleybus system, with overhead trolleybus wires, new lighting, and asphalt paving.
In early 1967, Avenida Conselheiro Nébias had its trolleybus overhead wires installed, initially to Avenida Afonso Pena. On 26 January 1967, t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Governmental%20Research | The Center for Governmental Research, Inc. (CGR) is a non-profit corporation delivering data support, management consulting and implementation assistance to governments, educational institutions, foundations and non-profit organizations. Headquartered in Rochester, New York, it was founded by George Eastman in 1915 as the Rochester Bureau of Municipal Research to provide research and guidance to its home city's government and community institutions. Over the decades, CGR has grown from a bureau focused on the needs of one city into an organization with broader reach.
Today, CGR serves communities throughout the northeastern United States. Its major practice areas are government management and education, public finance and economics, health and human services, and community data and information management. It is an industry expert in working with communities on issues of municipal efficiency, economic and fiscal impact, public service delivery and local government restructuring, including evaluating the impacts of potential municipal consolidation. It served as project manager for the 2013 municipal consolidation of Princeton, New Jersey, one of the largest municipal restructurings in New Jersey in almost a century.Via Governing Magazine It also developed the voter-approved plan in Seneca Falls, New York, resulting in the largest village dissolution in New York history. Via CBS News
CGR's president and CEO is Erika Rosenberg
Its past president and chief executive officer was Dr. Joseph Stefko.
Expertise / Practice Areas
Government and Education
Management reviews; Operational analysis; Efficiency studies; Budget analysis; Budgetary planning; Restructuring, shared services and consolidation; Central business office design; GIS mapping; Community planning; Policy and program implementation support; Strategic planning; Service re-engineering; Police, fire and EMS studies; Emergency services planning; Program evaluation; Policy design and analysis; Public engagement and facilitation; Change management; Organizational capacity building
Public Finance and Economics
Fiscal distress strategy; Economic impact analysis; Fiscal impact modeling; Cost-benefit analysis; Regional economic studies; Land use impact analysis; Economic development studies. CGR also offers economic development agencies a proprietary Economic Impact Analysis product that delivers targeted economic impact analysis for proposed development projects.
Health and Human Services
Community health assessments (CHA); Public nursing home operational reviews; Public health services analysis; Veterans services analysis; Criminal justice services analysis; Child and family services analysis; Community needs assessments; Service re-engineering; Program evaluation; Policy design and analysis; Strategic planning
Nonprofits and Communities
Community indicators tools; Vital indicators data management; Census data analysis; Civic project data support; Service gap analysis; Program evaluatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldera%20%28company%29 | Caldera was a US-based software company founded in 1994 to develop Linux- and DOS-based operating system products.
Caldera
Caldera, Inc. was a Canopy-funded software company founded in October 1994 and incorporated on 25 January 1995 by former Novell employees Bryan Wayne Sparks, Ransom H. Love and others to develop the Caldera Network Desktop (CND) and later create a Linux distribution named OpenLinux (COL). The company was originally based in Provo and later in Orem, Utah, USA.
Their first product in 1995 was Caldera Network Desktop, which was based on Red Hat Linux and Novell's Corsair Internet Desktop. It also included LISA (Linux Installation and System Administration), which had been developed by the German Linux Support Team (LST) for their own Linux distribution.
The newer OpenLinux distribution was based on LST Power Linux, a Slackware-derived distribution that had been maintained by LST since 1993 and the first to come with a Linux 2.0 kernel.
Looking for a DOS operating system to bundle with their OpenLinux distribution, Caldera, backed up by The Canopy Group as their largest investor, acquired Novell DOS 7 and other Digital Research assets from Novell on 23 July 1996. The deal consisted of a direct payment of as well as percentual royalties for any revenues derived from DR-DOS to Novell. Caldera filed the Caldera v. Microsoft antitrust lawsuit the same day. This lawsuit related to Caldera's claims of monopolization, illegal tying, exclusive dealing, and tortious interference by Microsoft. An example was that certain beta versions of Windows 3.1 produced technically groundless "non-fatal" fake error messages when installing and running them on DR DOS 6.0 due to a check known as AARD code in order to create fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) and destroy DR DOS' reputation. Another example was bundling and artificially tying MS-DOS 7 and Windows 4 into a single product (Windows 95) in order to eliminate competition. Caldera later demonstrated that it would have been beneficial for DOS and Windows users to have a choice between MS-DOS and DR-DOS feature-wise, and that it was technically possible to run Windows 4 on DR-DOS 7 simply by faking some new, unnecessarily complex but functionally non-essential internal interfaces through WinGlue.
See Microsoft litigation#Caldera v Microsoft.
Since Digital Research's CP/M and MP/M had no commercial value for Caldera, they offered various binaries and sources for download on their site and allowed the redistribution and modification of more collected CP/M files through Tim Olmstead's independent "The Unofficial CP/M Web site" since 1997, for as long as they did not contain any DOS technology.
Caldera, Inc. supported the Linux-port of Star Division's StarOffice 3.1 with ca. in order to offer the product with their OpenLinux distribution in 1997.
While active, Caldera, Inc. created a number of subsidiaries:
Caldera UK
Under the direction of Roger Alan Gross as General Manager of Caldera' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Operational%20Art%20of%20War%20II%3A%20Modern%20Battles%201956%E2%80%932000 | The Operational Art of War II: Modern Battles 1956–2000 is a 1999 computer wargame developed and published by TalonSoft. It is the second game in the Operational Art of War series.
Development
The Operation Art of War II was developed by TalonSoft as a sequel to its earlier game The Operational Art of War Vol. 1: 1939–1955.
Reception
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In the United States, The Operational Art of War Volume II sold 1,298 copies during 1999.The Operational Art of War II won the 1999 Charles Roberts Award for "Best 20th Century Era Computer Wargame". The editors of PC Gamer US nominated The Operational Art of War Volume II for their 1999 "Best Wargame" award, although it lost to Close Combat III: The Russian Front. They wrote that "no serious wargaming library should be without a copy" of Volume II. Computer Gaming World also nominated The Operational Art of War Volume II as 1999's "Wargame of the Year", a prize ultimately given to Sid Meier's Antietam! The editors noted it as a step down from the first game. CNET Gamecenter nominated Modern Battles for its "Best Turn-Based Strategy Game" award, which went to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri''.
References
External links
The Operational Art of War II: Modern Battles 1956-2000
1999 video games
Computer wargames
TalonSoft games
Windows games
Windows-only games
Video games developed in the United States |
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