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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali%20Brustofski | Allison "Ali" Brustofski (born October 4, 1993) is an American singer-songwriter from Oakland, New Jersey. She was a finalist on The CW television network's singing show, The Next: Fame Is at Your Doorstep in 2012, and the 2011 winner of New York's Z100 radio station's "Hometown Hero" competition, in which around 400 up-and-coming musicians participated. As a songwriter, Brustofski won the 2009 NYC Songwriters Circle's "Young Songwriter Award". On television, her original song "Rewind" was featured in two episodes of NBC's The Voice.
Brustofski is a successful YouTuber who performs cover versions of well-known artists like Katy Perry and David Guetta. As of October 2015, her YouTube channel had nearly 100 million total video views and more than a half a million subscribers. She released her first original EP DreamBig independently in 2013.
Music career
YouTube
After spending several years performing in musical theater and recording voiceovers, Ali Brustofski uploaded her 1st video to YouTube in December 2008. Up to June 2014, she has uploaded over 180 videos, including over 120 music videos.
Competitions and awards
NY Songwriters Circle
In November 2009, Brustofski won the NY Songwriters Circle "Young Songwriter Award" for her original song "Rewind" over 4,000 other entries.
MSG Varsity Talent Show
In April 2011, Ali Brustofski was chosen to be a contestant on the MSG Varsity Talent Show from hundreds of submissions. The television show was broadcast on Cablevision's MSG Varsity Network, and she reached the semi-finals.
Z100/State Farm Hometown Hero
In December 2011 Ali Brustofski won the Z100/State Farm Hometown Hero Competition. She was voted into the top 25 artists, and selected to be a top 5 finalist by a music industry A-List panel of judges. Brustofski performed at the 2011 Z100 Jingle Ball Coca-Cola All-Access Lounge in the Hammerstein Ballroom on September 12, 2011 along with The Script, Gym Class Heroes, Hot Chelle Rae, and Karmin.
The Next: Fame Is At Your Doorstep
In August 2012 Ali Brustofski was selected to appear on The Next: Fame Is at Your Doorstep, a nationally broadcast TV singing competition show which aired on The CW Network. She was mentored by Gloria Estefan, performed at The Paramount Theater, and won the New York episode of the show. Brustofski then worked with all four of the shows mentors: Gloria Estefan, Joe Jonas, Nelly and John Rich to prepare to perform in the semi-finals and finals episodes, broadcast from The Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles.
Recordings
Cover Songs
Ali Brustofski has recorded over 80 individual cover songs independently, which have been distributed by MudHutDigital.com, Keep Your Soul Records, and more. They include collaborations with Sabrina Carpenter, Katherine Hughes, Peter Hollens and Savannah Outen. Brustofski has also released two full albums of her cover songs: Cover to Cover,Vol. 1 and Cover to Cover, Vol. 2.
The Next: Performance
Brustofski recorded five studio versions of the co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Paterson%20%28disambiguation%29 | Michael Paterson may refer to:
Michael Paterson, New Zealand born rugby union player
Mike Paterson, British computer scientist
See also
Michael Patterson (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore%2064%20disk%20and%20tape%20emulation | Commodore 64 disk/tape emulation and data transfer comprises hardware and software for Commodore 64 disk & tape emulation and for data transfer between either Commodore 64 (C64), Commodore (1541) disk drive or Commodore (1530 Datasette) tape deck and newer computers.
There are a large variety of adapters for C64 disk/tape emulation and data transfer, and an even larger variety of compatible software. Many of the adapters interface with the original serial bus disk drive plug or the C2N tape. Others connect to either the user port or the cartridge expansion port using either standardized RS-232 interfaces or proprietary adapters. In combination with software (or firmware), the adapters can either fully support the original communication protocols, provide partial support or apply proprietary communication protocols. Different solutions allow for letting the C64 access programs stored on another computer or the Internet, and for accessing the C64 disk station and tape deck from other computers.
History
Some of the oldest adapters are the C64 user port to RS-232 converters. Those were standardized and originally designed to connect printers and other 3rd party hardware, including modems. Later, those adapters have also been adopted for disk drive emulation and even Internet connections. However, the most widespread adapters were probably the different disk drive and printer plug C64 serial bus to parallel port adapter that evolved for transferring data between disk drives and parallel port supplied computers. Because of hard timing requirements on the C64 side, those are unfortunately not applicable to laptops or multitasking operation systems. There also exist a more limited number of adapters for the C64 tape interface. While the data transfer over the user port is usually limited to 2.4 kbit/s, the C64 expansion port cartridge interface supports transfer rates of one to two magnitudes higher through proprietary protocols. There exist C64 expansion port adapters that support both hard disks, memory cards, USB-disks and Ethernet connections.
The software is typically open source, and so is most of the hardware designs. You can therefore build most of the hardware yourself, though they are usually also available from online shops.
Software for C64 disk & tape emulation
This section comprises software for emulating the 1541 disk drive or the Commodore 1530 Datasette tape deck on external computers, making them available to a physical Commodore 64.
.* no software required with C2N232, but with X1541 and PC64
.** a simple Basic version of the software on the C64 side is available for typing in to the C64 before the first use.
.*** The 1541 Ultimate II have special adapters to support TAPE emulation.
Software for PC to disk & tape transfer
This section comprises software for transferring files and images between the 1541 disk drive or the Commodore 1530 Datasette tape deck and an external computer different from the Commodore 64.
.*This soft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEX%20%28protocol%29 | DEX (data exchange) is a format for collecting audit and event data from vending machines.
DEX was introduced in the late 1980s by bottlers who provided product to vending machines. It was intended to improve auditing of vending machines, simplify inventory management. DEX records cash in/out, product movement and other audit data. The format was adopted as a standard by the National Automatic Merchandising Association Technology Committee after it was already in use by bottlers. It was included in NAMA VDI version 1.0, announced in 2009.
DEX improves route accounting
DEX, Direct Exchange, is a form of electronic data interchange, EDI, used by direct store delivery, DSD, distributors to electronically send their delivery information, invoices and or credit memos, to the retailer at the time of delivery. DEX has been around for many years and is used by all major grocery retailers as well as numerous smaller chains and convenience stores.
A DEX client can now run on popular mobile operating systems like Windows Mobile, Android and iOS, and allows a supplier to send Invoice detail to a retailer. At the dock physical adjustments are captured electronically. This is all facilitated using the 894 Delivery/Return Base Record and 895 Delivery/Return Acknowledgment or Adjustment transaction sets as detailed in the UCS Standards Manual, available from GS1 US, Inc.
In supporting DSD, UCS has two parts: DEX/UCS (Direct EXchange) linking the computers of supplier and retailer at the store backdoor, and NEX/UCS (Network EXchange) linking their office computers.
See also
DDCMP
References
Vending |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bill%20Cunningham%20Show | The Bill Cunningham Show is an American television tabloid talk show hosted by radio host Bill Cunningham which aired for four of its five seasons on The CW as part of that network's daytime hour. The Bill Cunningham Show, produced by ITV Studios America, debuted on September 19, 2011, and lasted until September 9, 2016. In the first season before the move to the CW, the program had limited distribution, airing only on Tribune Broadcasting owned stations, such as KAUT-TV—Oklahoma City, WGNT–Norfolk, and Raycom Media-owned WXIX-TV in Cunningham's hometown of Cincinnati.
In February 2012, The CW announced that the program would be distributed nationwide for the 2012–13 season, as part of the network's CW Daytime lineup; the series made its CW debut on September 17, 2012, replacing Dr. Drew's Lifechangers.
In November 2013, The Bill Cunningham Show was renewed for a fourth season.
On May 27, 2016, Cunningham announced that he would not sign a new contract, resulting in cancellation of the show. The Robert Irvine Show, hosted by Robert Irvine, replaced it on September 12, 2016.
Background
The series offers the traditional tabloid-style conflict-resolution format with Cunningham's conservative point of view on the subjects presented. An expert weighs in and comments with questions and comments from audience members. The hour-long show is taped in front of a live audience at NEP Broadcasting's Penn Studios. The show is produced by former Montel producer Kim Brechka.
Ratings
In New York City, where the show airs locally on CW affiliate WPIX, The Bill Cunningham Show averaged a 0.7 in adults 18–49 in January — better than any other talk show in the market, across all timeslots. On February 9, 2012, it won its time slot with a 1.2 rating in adults 25–54 (it also finished first in that time slot in the demo in Los Angeles and Dallas). During the second week of the February 2012 sweeps period (through February 9), airings of The Bill Cunningham Show on WPIX averaged a 1.4 household rating.
Cancellation
On May 27, 2016, Cunningham announced that he had opted not to sign a new contract to continue the show, citing a grinding taping schedule which included recording all episodes of the last season of the series between August and September 2015 before the season started, which kept him away from family in Cincinnati and disrupted the schedule for his WLW radio show. The new contract also included a non-negotiable three-year commitment that Cunningham was unable to agree to. The Robert Irvine Show, a talk show hosted by Food Network personality Robert Irvine, replaced it in September 2016.
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(archived version from 2018-03-21)
2010s American television talk shows
2011 American television series debuts
2016 American television series endings
English-language television shows
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
Television series by ITV Studios
Television series by Tribune Entertainment
The CW original |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-potato%20routing | In commercial network routing between autonomous systems which are interconnected in multiple locations, hot-potato routing is the practice of passing traffic off to another autonomous system as quickly as possible, thus using their network for wide-area transit. Cold-potato routing is the opposite, where the originating autonomous system internally forwards the packet until it is as near to the destination as possible.
Behaviors
Hot-potato routing is the normal behavior of most settlement-free peering agreements. Hot-potato routing has the effect that the network receiving the data bears the cost of carrying it between cities. When the traffic ratio (the ratio of traffic flowing in one direction to the traffic flowing in the other direction between peers) is reasonably even, this is considered fair, because the networks will share evenly in carrying traffic exchanged by their customers between cities. The marginal cost of carrying traffic between cities depends on how the network has purchased those links; some networks own dark fiber, which can be upgraded by merely replacing the equipment on each end of the fiber, and possibly the amplifiers along the path between cities. In other cases, the network has an agreement with a telco that allows for a specific amount of bandwidth, and upgrading involves paying more money to the telco.
Cold-potato routing, on the other hand, is more expensive to do, but keeps the traffic under the network administrator's control for longer, allowing operators of well-provisioned networks to offer a higher quality of service to their customers. It can also be preferred when connecting to content providers; if content providers use cold-potato routing, they may escape from paying for the cost of links between cities. Cold-potato routing is prone to misconfiguration as well as poor coordination between two networks. In such scenarios, packets can be routed further distances and can allow another autonomous system to manipulate routing in a network for various purposes. Cold-potato routing requires a level of trust between two networks that either side will not attempt to "cheat" the other. Some content networks favor the use of cold-potato routing (multi exit discriminator exchange/honoring) in order to deliver content from replicated server farms closer to the end-user.
Examples
Consider the case of two Internet service providers who both have global networks. Additionally, they have peering agreements in both Europe and in Asia, which allows them to exchange data packets destined for the other's network at either location. Now suppose a European customer of ISP A wants to transmit a data packet to an Asian customer of ISP B. ISP A will receive the packet in Europe and has to decide where to send the packet next. The first option is to hand off the packet to ISP B in Europe, and let ISP B carry the packet to Asia to be delivered to its destination. This is called hot-potato routing, since ISP A hands off th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20High%20Performance%20Computing%20Applications | The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the field of computer science. Its editors-in-chief are Jack J. Dongarra (University of Tennessee) and Bronis R. De Supinski (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory). It was established in 1987 and is published by SAGE Publications.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Academic Search Premier, Mechanical & Transportation Engineering Abstracts, Current Contents, Scopus, and the Science Citation Index Expanded. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2022 impact factor is 3.1.
References
External links
SAGE Publishing academic journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1987
Computer science journals
Quarterly journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMG-Z | OMG-Z is a zombie-themed action puzzle video game developed by UK-based studio Laughing Jackal. It was released as a PlayStation mini on the PlayStation Network in North America on 2 August 2011 and Europe on 3 August 2011.
Gameplay
Set in the fictional city of Redfield during a zombie apocalypse, the gameplay of OMG-Z focuses on causing chain reactions to eliminate the zombies. The player's weapons fire a 'zombie-exploding pathogen' which causes zombies to explode and those nearby to also explode in turn. Through the course of the game's 81 levels, the player is able to upgrade various abilities to improve their performance and achieve higher scores.
Zombies
There are five different types of zombies.
Normal - Explode when shot, affecting a small area
Fat - Explode when shot, affecting a larger area
Police - Fire one shot through anything in front of them
Acid - Melt into a puddle of acid that deals damage over time to other zombies
Soldiers - Fire three shots at random angles
Reception
Reviews of OMG-Z have been generally favourable with a Metacritic score of 89 out of 100, making it, as of 12 September 2011, the fourth highest scoring PSP game on the site. Kristan Reed of Eurogamer viewed OMG-Z as "a monstrously addictive quick-fire affair that utterly nails what on-the-go handheld gaming should be about." However, it has been noted by reviewers that releasing the game on the PlayStation mini format has limited the scope of the title and prevented the inclusion of features such as online leaderboards.
References
External links
OMG-Z Official Developer Page
2011 video games
Laughing Jackal games
Network
PlayStation Network games
Network
Network
Single-player video games
Video games about zombies
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetLogic%20Microsystems | NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. was a fabless semiconductor company that developed high performance products for data center, enterprise, wireless and wireline infrastructure networks. The company was founded in 1995 by Norman Godinho and Varad Srinivasan, became a public company on the NASDAQ exchange (ticker symbol: NETL) under the leadership of CEO Ronald Jankov in July 2004 and was acquired by Broadcom Corporation for $3.7 billion in February 2012.
Products
NetLogic’s product portfolio included knowledge-based processors, multi-core processors, content processors, network search engines, high-speed 10 and 40 Gigabit Ethernet PHYs, wireless base station digital front-end PHYs and low-power embedded processors. Its global customer base included Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems, Dell, Ericsson, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Huawei Technologies, Juniper Networks and Nokia-Siemens.
History
It was in October 2007 that NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. signed a definitive agreement to acquire the privately held Aeluros, Inc., which created interface technologies and semiconductor products. In December 2010 NetLogic began using an implementation system developed by Magma Design Automation Inc, which created chip design software.
In 2011, NetLogic acquired Optichron for $22 million. From its IPO in 2004 through 2011, NetLogic grew at an annual rate of 39%, which was four to five times the average growth rate of semiconductor companies during that period. The company also enjoyed healthy profits, with gross profits in excess of 70% and net income in excess of 25% in 2011. NetLogic was one of the semiconductor industry's most innovative companies, having been granted more than 800 patents. The Global Semiconductor Alliance named NetLogic the Most Respected Emerging Public Semiconductor Company for three consecutive years, from 2009 to 2011.
On September 12, 2011, Broadcom Corporation agreed to buy NetLogic for $3.7 billion in cash. It was a 57% premium to NetLogic's closing price on September 9, 2011. NetLogic shareholders received $50 a share. It was Broadcom’s largest acquisition and its first acquisition of a publicly-traded company. The acquisition closed in February 2012. According to the publication SlashGear, Broadcom hoped to boost its chipset division with the acquisition of NetLogic.
NetLogic was headquartered in Santa Clara, California, hired approximately 800 employees worldwide, and reported revenue of $405.4 million for its fiscal year 2012, its last fiscal year as a standalone company.
References
External links
Broadcom
1995 establishments in California
2012 disestablishments in California
2012 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1995
American companies disestablished in 2012
Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq
Computer companies established in 1995
Computer companies disestablished in 2012
Corporate subsidiaries
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Defunct semiconductor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPOC%20%28AM%29 | KPOC (1420 AM) is a radio station running Salem Music Network's "Today's Christian Music" format. Licensed to Pocahontas, Arkansas, United States. The station is currently owned by Combined Media Group.
References
External links
POC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Catalogs | Google Catalogs was a shopping application for tablet computers, which was produced by Google in August 2011. Google Catalogs delivered virtual catalogs to users from merchants like Nordstrom, L.L. Bean, Macy's, Pottery Barn, and many more. Merchants were added through a process by which they submitted a form with information and a sample of their catalog, which was then reviewed by Google's editorial team. The application was noted as a "Greener Way to Shop", as the digitization of catalogs substituted for paper versions. Google announced the intent to discontinue the iPad app effective August 2013 and eventually shut down the project entirely in August 2015.
History
Google Catalog search was first conceptualized in December, 2001 as a search function on the web only. This was a free Google service. Catalog search was a major digitization project for Google, as thousands of merchant catalogs were scanned and made accessible to the public. Users were able to flip through pages of catalogs from a variety of industries, except those that focus on liquor, tobacco, firearms, or similar products. Google ended this service on the web in January, 2009 stating: "Catalog Search hasn't been as popular as some of our other products. So tomorrow, we're bidding it a fond farewell and focusing our efforts to bring more and more types of offline information such as magazines, newspapers and of course, books, online". On August 16, 2011 Google Catalogs was announced on Google's official blog, and was immediately available for download. Google created a short video as an overview of the features of the product. On October 1, 2012, Google made Google Catalogs available on the web.
User experience (UX)
The catalogs available on this application were grouped by several product categories, including Women's Fashion and Apparel, Jewelry, Beauty, Home, Men's Fashion and Apparel, Kids and Baby, and Gifts. After choosing a product category, users could select a specific catalog, which then brought them to the cover page of that catalog.
Shoppers using the iPad could flip through the catalog and tap on "hotspots" for the products in which they are interested, linking to the merchant's Web site for purchase. After clicking on a product of interest, a pop-up will appear for the user to read more about the product, which includes price, description, images, and title. This is also the page where users could send information about the product to others via email. For those who didn't want to purchase online, store locations can be found by loading the 'Find Nearby' option. Further exploration of the products was supported by features such as the ability to zoom in on products as well as being able to view tags to garner additional information. In addition, products could be marked as favorites, and then all of those that were previously marked could be viewed on the same page by clicking the Favorites button on the bottom of the screen. Users could also mark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith%20Data%20Systems%20Challenge%20Trophy | The Zenith Data Systems Challenge Trophy was an association football tournament, labelled as an unofficial World Club Championship and sponsored by Zenith Data Systems, that was played in the summer of 1989 in Miami, Florida. Opponents were Arsenal F.C., the English champion, and the Argentinian champion, Independiente.
Arsenal became the unofficial World Champion after a difficult 2-1 win at Joe Robbie Stadium. David Rocastle scored twice with the temporary equalizer by Carlos Alfaro Moreno for South-American players.
The Match
Played at the Joe Robbie Stadium, Miami, Florida, U.S.A.
06-08-1989 Arsenal F.C. (ENG) – Independiente (ARG) 2-1
Att: 10,042
Goals: David Rocastle, Alfaro Moreno, David Rocastle (penalty)
Yellow cards: O'Leary, Dixon, Caesar (Arsenal), Delgado, Monzon, Altamirano (Independiente)
Red cards: Monzon (Independiente), Caesar, Lewin (Arsenal, physiotherapist)
References
External links
Has a physio ever been sent off ?.Guardian.co.uk.
Out-of-sight Crowd Watches Arsenal Win First Zenith Cup.The Sun-Sentinel.
The Game Is Soccer, Not Politics. The Sun-Sentinel.
Defunct international club association football competitions in North America
Soccer in Florida
Challenge Trophy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectify | Connectify () is an American software company that develops networking software for consumers, professionals and companies. Connectify Hotspot is a virtual router software for Microsoft Windows, and Speedify is a mobile VPN service with channel bonding capabilities available for individuals, families and teams.
History
Connectify launched their first product, Connectify Hotspot, in October 2009. It can enable a Windows PC to serve as a router over Ethernet or Wi-Fi. Along with a Windows 7, 8 or 10 certified Wi-Fi device it can act as a wireless access point. This enables users to share files, printers, and Internet connections between multiple computing devices without the need for a separate physical access point or router.
Connectify spent the next two years improving the product, first making it free and ad-supported. In 2011, Connectify switched to a freemium commercial model which included premium features for paying customers. These features included extended support of 3G/4G mobile devices, fully customizable SSIDs and premium customer support.
In 2011, Connectify received funding from In-Q-Tel to begin developing a more powerful and secure remote networking platform and a connection-aggregation application. Connectify used this funding to develop the foundation of the application, and then in 2012 turned to the crowdfunding site Kickstarter to raise additional funding to develop Connectify Dispatch. Dispatch was a load balancer which could combine any number of Ethernet, Wi-Fi or mobile Internet connections.
In 2014, Connectify launched Speedify, a channel bonding application for PCs running Microsoft Windows and macOS. In January 2016, Speedify for Mobile was launched at CES, adding support for iOS and Android. In December 2016, Speedify added encryption on all supported platforms, turning it into a mobile virtual private network.
Connectify released other apps: Pingify (in 2017) - a mobile network diagnostics tool, and EdgeWise Connect (in 2019).
Products
Connectify Hotspot
Connectify Hotspot is a virtual router software application available for PCs running Windows 7 or a later version. It was launched in 2009 by Connectify and it has 3 main functions:
Wi-Fi hotspot - users can share the Internet connection from their PC through a Wi-Fi adapter. The free version of Connectify Hotspot only allows sharing of wired or Wi-Fi Internet via Wi-Fi. The paid versions allow users to share any type of Internet connection, including 4G / LTE. through Wi-Fi or Ethernet.
Wired router - users can share a computer's Wi-Fi connection via Ethernet. This functionality is only available in the paid versions of Connectify Hotspot.
Wi-Fi repeater - users can extend the range of a Wi-Fi network and bridge other devices on that network directly. This functionality is only available in the paid versions of Connectify Hotspot.
Starting with version 2017, Connectify Hotspot also incorporates a universal ad blocker for clients connecting to the Wi-Fi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeGuide | EyeGuide, Inc. is an American computer software and hardware company, located in Lubbock, Texas, United States, that currently designs and sells eye-controlled technologies for research and related markets. Previously, EyeGuide made the EyeGuide Tracker, an affordable and effective eye tracking device compatible for lab use. Following the success of the EyeGuide Tracker, the firm set out to make its tracker fully mobile: the EyeGuide Mobile Tracker.
EyeGuide or "EG" for short was developed so users can take the core EyeGuide technology and integrate it into other products such as football and military helmets, glasses, video game accessories, and medical equipment. In a first-person shooter game, for example, as the player's head moves, the avatar would move correspondingly on the screen—up, down, or side to side. As the player looks at a target, the avatar would focus in precisely on that target, resulting in faster, more natural, immersive game play. It is an intended stepping stone for augmented reality applications visualized and controlled directly via the eyes.
The company was founded in 2010 by Dr. Brian Still at Texas Tech University. EyeGuide was developed as an affordable alternative to other eye trackers for the Texas Tech University’s usability lab.
EyeGuide was selected in 2013 to be a finalist in the SXSW Interactive Accelerator Competition.
References
External links
Official website
Companies based in Lubbock, Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneesh%20Varma | Aneesh Varma is a London-based serial entrepreneur, inventor and angel investor. He is best known as the founder of Aire - a fintech company that pioneered usage of first-party data in credit scoring and underwriting. He previously co-founded FabriQate, which went on to be an HSBC Startup Star 2008 & 2009, LDA KC Award 2009, British Council YCE in 2009 and CF500 in 2010. He was featured on the Business Insider 35 under 35 Fintech list in 2018
Varma has been a vocal campaigner for financial inclusion. He was educated at Lehigh University, USA studying Engineering and a second degree in Quantitative Finance. He was recognised by the European Commission as one of 12 Entrepreneur of the Year nominees in 2014 and by the British Council as a Young Entrepreneur 2009 in the technology sector. In 2020 he was named the Technology Innovator of the Year in the Credit Sector
Life
Varma is considered a mathematical prodigy, at age 15 having achieved a perfect score on the Cambridge University course for Advanced Mathematics. He continued his mathematical focus at university, completing the entire PhD coursework during his bachelor's degree.
Varma is a Lehigh University Martindale Scholar from 2005, publishing his research on Hungary's transition to a market-based Financial System.
Career
Varma started his first business at 16 and was involved with startups in his university days. At age 21 he was hired into JPMorgan in New York working on transactions for Financial Technology industry including Visa, Synovus and other consumer finance lenders. He has since built 3 technology companies in the United Kingdom that have scaled overseas including accolades for their work in improving financial inclusion
Varma also serves on the Lehigh University Alumni Association (LUAA) board amongst other non-profit commitments.
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Living people
British businesspeople
Angel investors
JPMorgan Chase employees
Lehigh University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20A.%20Padlipsky | Michael A. Padlipsky, (May 9, 1939 – March 3, 2011), known as MAP or Mike, was an early member of the working group that developed the ARPANET networking protocols that underpin today's Internet, and an internetworking polemicist.
His book The Elements of Networking Style (& Other Essays & Animadversions of the Art of Intercomputer Networking) has been described as "A really vicious critique of the misguided ISO networking standards attempt, written when the 'OSI model' was trendy & lots of people were babbling about the sacred seven layers."
Professional life
Multics
Mike worked as part of the Multics development team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) Project MAC, latterly leading the network group there. He wrote 10 papers, 1 Multics Technical Bulletin, 82 Multics System Programmer's Manual sections. When internetworking of dissimilar computer types was begun under ARPA funding, Mike participated representing Multics.
Internetworking
Full participation in ARPANET technical discussions required current programming assignments on ARPANET. Mike summarized his own internetworking experience as follows:
Therefore, to combat that sort of brain surgery by transmission mechanics, I feel I should present my credentials. ... So, aside from having coined the term "Old Network Boy" — and being one — and indeed probably being the only person in the world who knew, worked with, and was even on friendly terms with Vint Cerf, Jon Postel, and Dave Clark before they got their respective doctorates, I was an active participant in the design of the ARPANET "Old" and "New" Telnet protocols, the File Transfer Protocol, and the first Graphics Protocol; I was the originator and a principal designer of "neted," a common editor command for the ARPANET; and I was the originator and a principal designer of the first Host-Front-End Protocol, not only for the ARPANET. I also implemented "Old" Telnet for Multics, did the integration and checkout of NCP and Telnet on 645 Multics — setting the one-month record for Development Machine Time in the process — and later served as the Multics Network Technical Liaison and Network and Graphics Group Leader, supervising the attachment of 6180 Multics to the ARPANET in the process. In recent years, I've tried to help the Government get some of its money's worth from contractors on any number of networks too depressing to mention both for the —————* [Name withheld to avoid the necessity of Corporate Review] Corporation, which now [Ed. 1983] employs me, and for the DoD's Protocol Standards Technical Panel.
While a member of the NWG, Mike wrote 20 RFCs.
Of these, RFCs 871–875 (Perspective on the ARPANET reference model, TCP-on-a-LAN, Illusion of vendor support, Critique of X.25, and Gateways, architectures, and heffalumps), together with his description of the milieu of early ARPANET internetworking discussions, And They Argued All Night. ... , were the most influential and formed the core of The Boo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20T.%20Williams | William Thomas Williams FAA OBE (18 April 1913 – 15 October 1995) was an English and Australian botanist and plant taxonomist, known for his work on algorithms for numerical taxonomy.
Biography
Williams was born 18 April 1913 in Fulham, London, England, the only child of a Welsh coal miner.
He went to the Stationers' Company's School in London and then to the Imperial College of Science and Technology, also in London, from which he earned a
bachelor's degree 1933, a PhD and diploma in 1940, and a D.Sc. in 1956. While studying for his PhD,
Williams taught at Imperial College from 1933 to 1936, and at Sir John Cass Technical College from 1936 to 1940.
During World War II, he served in the Royal Artillery, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, and Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He enlisted as a private (neglecting to inform the military about his degrees) but eventually reached the rank of major.
After the war, he became a lecturer at Bedford College for Women, where he stayed from 1946 to 1951. He then moved to the University of Southampton, where he was professor of botany and head of the department of botany from 1951 to 1965.
In 1965, Williams' former Southampton colleague Godfrey Lance invited him to visit the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Canberra, Australia. A year later, Williams moved to CSIRO himself, at the same time becoming an Australian citizen. He worked in CSIRO's Division of Computing Research in Canberra from 1966 to 1968, and then transferred to the Division of Tropical Pastures in Brisbane, where he worked from 1968 to 1973.
Williams retired from CSIRO in 1973, at which point he moved from Brisbane to Townsville. During his retirement he continued to work as a consultant for several institutions.
Research
Williams' early work was on plant physiology, and more specifically on leaf expansion and the function of the Stomata. However, while at Southampton he became interested in more mathematical and statistical research topics such as the spatial distribution of plants. At the same time, he began writing software for his statistical analysis, using the Ferranti Pegasus computer then available at Southampton's computer centre. The centre's director, Godfrey Lance, was later to become a regular research collaborator of Williams.
Williams' most heavily cited research work, with Lance, makes the observation that five different hierarchical clustering strategies then in use could all be related to each other: all five use formulas for the distance between clusters that vary only in the weights of certain numerical coefficients. This unification allowed the coefficients to be chosen based on their effect on the overall clustering rather than, as had been done before, selecting the clustering strategy on an ad hoc basis.
Williams and Lance also introduced the Canberra distance, a form of Manhattan distance between pairs of points normalised by dividing by the total Manhattan distance of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther%20recursion | In computer programming, Walther recursion (named after Christoph Walther) is a method of analysing recursive functions that can determine if the function is definitely terminating, given finite inputs. It allows a more natural style of expressing computation than simply using primitive recursive functions.
Since the halting problem cannot be solved in general, there must still be programs that terminate, but which Walther recursion cannot prove to terminate. Walther recursion may be used in total functional languages in order to allow a more liberal style of showing primitive recursion.
See also
BlooP and FlooP
Termination analysis
Total Turing machine
References
Recursion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearest-neighbor%20chain%20algorithm | In the theory of cluster analysis, the nearest-neighbor chain algorithm is an algorithm that can speed up several methods for agglomerative hierarchical clustering. These are methods that take a collection of points as input, and create a hierarchy of clusters of points by repeatedly merging pairs of smaller clusters to form larger clusters. The clustering methods that the nearest-neighbor chain algorithm can be used for include Ward's method, complete-linkage clustering, and single-linkage clustering; these all work by repeatedly merging the closest two clusters but use different definitions of the distance between clusters. The cluster distances for which the nearest-neighbor chain algorithm works are called reducible and are characterized by a simple inequality among certain cluster distances.
The main idea of the algorithm is to find pairs of clusters to merge by following paths in the nearest neighbor graph of the clusters. Every such path will eventually terminate at a pair of clusters that are nearest neighbors of each other, and the algorithm chooses that pair of clusters as the pair to merge. In order to save work by re-using as much as possible of each path, the algorithm uses a stack data structure to keep track of each path that it follows. By following paths in this way, the nearest-neighbor chain algorithm merges its clusters in a different order than methods that always find and merge the closest pair of clusters. However, despite that difference, it always generates the same hierarchy of clusters.
The nearest-neighbor chain algorithm constructs a clustering in time proportional to the square of the number of points to be clustered. This is also proportional to the size of its input, when the input is provided in the form of an explicit distance matrix. The algorithm uses an amount of memory proportional to the number of points, when it is used for clustering methods such as Ward's method that allow constant-time calculation of the distance between clusters. However, for some other clustering methods it uses a larger amount of memory in an auxiliary data structure with which it keeps track of the distances between pairs of clusters.
Background
Many problems in data analysis concern clustering, grouping data items into clusters of closely related items. Hierarchical clustering is a version of cluster analysis in which the clusters form a hierarchy or tree-like structure rather than a strict partition of the data items. In some cases, this type of clustering may be performed as a way of performing cluster analysis at multiple different scales simultaneously. In others, the data to be analyzed naturally has an unknown tree structure and the goal is to recover that structure by performing the analysis. Both of these kinds of analysis can be seen, for instance, in the application of hierarchical clustering to biological taxonomy. In this application, different living things are grouped into clusters at different scales or levels of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaceGlat | FaceGlat () was a social networking service by Yaakov Swisa. The website caters to Haredi Jews. The website separates users by sex and screens comments and advertisements to prevent indecency. The website currently is available in English and Hebrew. Swisa said that he plans to add French and Russian versions. Swisa said that he considered having a system where men and women who are members of the same family would be allowed to friend each other, but decided against it because he believed it would result in impersonations and individuals using false identities.
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FaceGlat
Israeli social networking websites
Defunct social networking services
Jewish culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FilmCrave | FilmCrave is an online movie social network that allows users to write movie reviews, share movie lists, watch trailers and interact with other members. Founded by three college friends in February 2007, the site was launched in August 2007. FilmCrave is privately owned and funded by ImaJAN Media LLC, Missouri.
Rankings and lists
FilmCrave’s users rate movies on a 0.5 – 4 star scale. These ratings help to determine the overall "rankings" of movies. Users can also add movies to specific lists such as the "Top Movies of All time" and "Top Action Films". User rankings on these lists are factored into FilmCrave’s "Top Movie" lists. The site also features similar lists related to new DVD and Blu-ray releases.
Critical reception
Terrence Russell of VentureBeat says that FilmCrave has "made a name for itself as the social network for movie buffs". CNET's Don Reisinger lists FilmCrave as a social network for movie buffs where you can "find other members who might have similar movie tastes by comparing their reviews to yours." FilmCrave was listed as an alternative to Facebook by AOL's "Switched", as "FilmCrave's biggest appeal is its simplicity." Mashable has described FilmCrave as a "fun movie rating and review social site that rewards users for participation", selecting it for their "Best Niche and Miscellaneous Social Networks" award in 2007. The site took second place in the "Most Innovative" category in the 2008 StartupNation Home-Based 100 awards.
Syndication
Filmcrave launched an API web service in March 2009 that allows other movie websites to access the site's reviews, ratings, cast, plots and other movie data.
References
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American film review websites
Internet properties established in 2007
Online film databases
Social cataloging applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6WIND | 6WIND is a virtual networking software company delivering disaggregated and cloud-native solutions to CSPs and enterprises globally. The company is privately held and headquartered in the West Paris area, in Montigny-le-Bretonneux. 6WIND has a global presence with offices in the US and APAC. The company provides virtualized networking software which is deployed in bare-metal or in virtual machines on COTS servers in public & private clouds. Their solutions are disaggregated and containerized based on the cloud-native architecture.
History
6WIND was founded in 2000 as a spin-out from Thales Group (previously Thomson-CSF), a provider of electronics for aerospace, defense and security. A 3.75 million euro investment from Sofinnova Partners and others was announced in 2004, and 5 million euros in 2004. Partners include Red Hat, VMware and Wind River Systems. Equipment vendors that provide boards and systems utilizing 6WIND software include Emerson Network Power.
Other partners include: Kalray for data centers, Hewlett-Packard for acceleration technology on ProLiant servers, Dell, Canonical, Alcatel-Lucent for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
In April 2013, the company announced it would support an open-source software project for the Data Plane Development Kit from Intel. In early 2012, 6WIND introduced a mobile edition and cloud edition of 6WINDGate, for 4G mobile phone companies and cloud computing.
The company announced its Speed Series of packaged software in late 2014, marketed for network function virtualization (NFV). A product called 6WIND Virtual Accelerator allowing hypervisor scaling. A venture capital investment from Cisco Systems was announced in 2014. In 2015, the company announced its Turbo Router Turbo IPsec software.
In 2016 Radware said that their Aleon NG VA product used a product of the company along with OpenStack. That same year Mirantis announced integration with 6WIND for data centers and NFV.
The company promotes its performance by publishing performance tests.
In 2015 Light Reading mentioned that 6WIND software allowed Italian service provider NGI to build a router marketed for software-defined networking.
In August 2017, 6WIND announced a "replacement program" for Brocade users. 6WIND is based on DPDK traffic runs in the fast path outside of the Linux kernel, avoiding potential Linux kernel processing bottlenecks. This announcement has been followed by two articles from The Register and SDxCentral comparing 6WIND with dedicated equipment and explaining how the solution helped a Spanish ISP to become SDN ready.
In November 2022, 6WIND announced an strategic partnership with IP-Tribe in APAC.
See also
Packet processing
References
Software companies of France
Networking companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacert | Datacert, acquired by Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions is a computer software company that provides enterprise legal management software and services designed for legal departments. ELM Solutions is a component of Wolters Kluwer, a global information services company.
According to a 2008 ILTA survey of 460 legal billing professionals, 27.96% of respondents reported using a Wolters Kluwer ELM Solutions program (AIMS or ShareDocs) for electronic billing. ELM Solutions offerings are integrated into the Passport legal management suite, offered under the ELM Solutions brand.
History
1998 – Datacert was founded in Houston, Texas, by Eric Elfman. The company’s original product was an online document exchange where law firms would submit bills to corporate legal departments electronically.
2001 – Datacert acquired DigiContract, adding online document collaboration to its service offering portfolio.
2004 – Datacert was named one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States, placing No. 194 on the Inc. 500 list.
2005 – Datacert Europe Ltd. opened its headquarters in London.
2007 – Additional European offices were opened in Paris and Frankfurt. The company acquired Corprasoft, a matter management company
2008 – James Tallman was appointed President & CEO.
2009 – Datacert Europe expanded its presence with a new office in Basel, Switzerland.
2010 – Datacert opened offices in Toronto and acquired a software development and professional services center from Symcon Global Technologies, resulting in an additional office in Chennai, India. Datacert also launched its patent-pending technology platform, PassportTM.
2011 – Passport experiences industry adoption securing, among others, Fortune/Global Fortune No. 1, Walmart, as a platform client.
2014 – Datacert was acquired by Wolters Kluwer and merged with its Tymetrix subsidiary to create a new group ELM Solutions.
Offices
ELM Solutions is headquartered in Houston, Texas, and operates corporate offices throughout North America, EMEA, and APAC. The company’s EMEA headquarters are in London with three more European offices in Basel, Paris, and Frankfurt. ELM Solution’s APAC office is located in Chennai, India
References
External links
Metrocorpcounsel.com
ELM
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Enterprise Software
Legal Matter Management
Early Case Assessment
Risk Management
Regulatory compliance
Comparative
Contract
Business Intelligence
Legal hold
E-billing
Independent software vendor
Companies based in Houston |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tren%20Estrella | El tren Estrella (The Star Train) was a conventional overnight railway service provided in Spain by the national rail network operator RENFE until April 2015. Services left most major Spanish cities in the evening and usually arrived at their destination the following morning.
Overview
It was gradually replaced by the more modern (tilting) Trenhotel and the high speed AVE services
Tren Estrella offered the following classes of accommodation :
First Class Sleeper (but only in the line Bilbao - Malaga)
Preferred cabin (which may be shared, but single sex)
Bed Bunk in shared cabin
Reclining Seats
Tourist Seats
Services
Substituted services
Estrella Costa Brava: Madrid-Chamartín · Alcalá de Henares · Guadalajara · Sigüenza · Arcos de Jalón · Calatayud · Zaragoza-Delicias · Reus · Tarragona · Sant Vicenç de Calders · Barcelona-Sants · Granollers Centre · Caldes de Malavella · Girona · Flaçà · Figueres · Llançà · Portbou · Cerbère (Direct service cancelled between Madrid and Cerbère but there are about 30 daily high speed services between Madrid and Barcelona mainly serviced by AVE S-103)
Estrella Picasso:Bilbao-Abando · Miranda de Ebro · Burgos-Rosa de Lima · Valladolid-Campo Grande · Medina del campo · Ávila · Manzanares · Valdepeñas · Linares Baeza · Córdoba Central · Puente Genil · Bobadilla · Málaga-María Zambrano (Direct service cancelled)
Estrella Costa Vasca: Madrid - Bilbao / Hendaya (by Alvia S-130)
Estrella Costa Verde: Madrid - Gijón / Santander (by Alvia S-130)
Estrella del Estrecho: Madrid - Algeciras (by servicio Altaria T-VI)
Estrella Sol del Levante: Alicante - País Vasco, vía Valencia, Tarragona, Lérida, Zaragoza y Castejón de Ebro, ramas a Bilbao vía Miranda de Ebro e Irún vía Pamplona y San Sebastián (Direct service cancelled)
Estrella Naranco: Alicante - Gijón (by Alvia S-130)
Estrella Puerta del Sol: Madrid - París (by Trenhotel Francisco de Goya T-VI)
Estrella Guadiana: Madrid - Ciudad Real - Badajoz (by Regional Service S-592.2)
Estrella Ciudad Condal: Madrid - Barcelona (by S-103)
Estrella Costa de la Luz : Madrid - Cádiz / Huelva (by Alvia S-130)
Estrella Pirineos : Canfranc - Madrid / Valencia (Direct service cancelled)
Estrella Costa Cálida: Madrid - Cartagena (by Altaria T-IV)
Estrella Mar Menor : Barcelona - Cartagena (by Talgo T-VI)
Estrella Sierra Nevada : Madrid - Granada (by Altaria T-VI)
Estrella Costa de Almería : Madrid - Almería (by Talgo T-IV)
Estrella Alcazaba : Cádiz - Sevilla - Almería (Direct service cancelled)
Estrella Giralda : Madrid - Sevilla (by AVE S-100)
Estrella Media Luna : Irún / Portbou - Algeciras (Direct service cancelled)
Estrella Sol de Europa : Santander - Málaga (Direct service cancelled)
Estrella Costa del Sol : Madrid - Málaga (by servicio Ave S-102)
Estrella Gibralfaro : Barcelona - Málaga / Granada (by Trenhotel Alhambra T-VI but only to Granada)
Estrella Guadalquivir : Barcelona - Cádiz ( by a combinatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20Computer%20Magazine | Personal Computer Magazine, PCMagazine or PCM is a Dutch monthly magazine about personal computers
The first edition of PCM was issued in October 1983 by VNU Business Publications. Since November 2007 PCM is published by HUB Uitgevers. The magazine appears in a circulation of roughly 50.000 copies per month. The magazine is aimed at the beginning hobbyist and home user as well as experienced and business users. Generally the magazine covers Windows more than other platforms.
See also
Computer!Totaal
External links
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Monthly magazines published in the Netherlands
Computer magazines published in the Netherlands
Magazines established in 1983
Magazines published in Amsterdam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20Wide%20Area%20Network | A State Wide Area Network (SWAN) is one of the core infrastructure components under the National e-Governance Plan of the Government of India. The main purpose of this network is to create a dedicated Closed User Group (CUG) network and provide a secured and high speed connectivity for Government functioning and connecting State Headquarters, District Headquarters, Blocks Headquarters. The SWAN project, which forms a strategic component of the National eGovernance Plan, was approved in March 2005.
Introduction
SWAN is an approved scheme of Department of IT of Government of India claimed to bring speed, efficiency, reliability and accountability of Government-to-government functions. It is one of the core infrastructure components under NeGP and was planned as a converged backbone network for voice, video and data communications across each of the 29 States and 6 Union Territories. Common Service Centers (CSC) schemes would serve as the end delivery points. The Department of Information Technology, Government of India, is the nodal department for each SWAN implementation. The scheme was a “centralized initiative with decentralized implementation”. SWANs across the country are expected to cover at least 50000 departmental offices through 1 million (10 lacs) route kilometers of communication links.
Objectives
The SWAN aims to create a dedicated closed user group (CUG) network of minimum speed of 2 Mbit/s by connecting around 7500 points of presence (PoPs), providing data, voice & Video connectivity to more than 50,000 government offices.
Efficient Delivery : The network aims at increasing the efficiency of the government delivery mechanism and optimize the performance.
Reliable Connectivity: SWAN would provide reliable, vertical and horizontal connectivity within the State / UT administration and would facilitate electronic transactions between all the government departments.
To ensure desired quality of service (QoS) by the network operator and the bandwidth service provider, a third party audit (TPA) mechanism monitors the performance of each SWAN. The third party audit agency performs for five years from the date of final acceptance test of the network and primarily monitor the compliance of the service-level agreement (SLA) which the State / UT would enter with the Network Operator and also with the Bandwidth Service Provider.
History
Andhra Pradesh State Wide Area Network
First statewide network in the country APSWAN providing Voice, Video and Data services thereby enabling video-conferencing between the then united A.P. Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu and others in the Capital with district officials was conceived and implemented in 1999.
This was executed under BOOT Model with the duration of 5+ years by United Telecoms Limited in a record time. The Network connected the united Andhra Pradesh State Secretariat at Hyderabad with the Other Government offices across the state using leased lines.
The project was taken up by the Chand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banyeres%20del%20Pened%C3%A8s | Banyeres del Penedès is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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No Fem el CIM
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellvei | Bellvei is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Bisbal%20del%20Pened%C3%A8s | La Bisbal del Penedès is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Borges%20del%20Camp | Les Borges del Camp is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botarell | Botarell is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capafonts | Capafonts is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia. According to data of 2012 its population was of 121 inhabitants.
Also called Capafons, with traditional spelling, the place name derives from the Latin Capite fontium, "head of the fountains". A total of 53 fountains were recorded, most notably Font de la Llódriga, which never dried.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castellvell%20del%20Camp | Castellvell del Camp is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conesa%2C%20Tarragona | Conesa is a municipality and village in the comarca of Conca de Barberà in the province of Tarragona in Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duesaig%C3%BCes | Duesaigües is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Espluga%20de%20Francol%C3%AD | L'Espluga de Francolí is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For%C3%A8s | Forès is a municipality and village in the comarca of Conca de Barberà in the Province of Tarragona in Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Febr%C3%B3 | La Febró is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Lloar | El Lloar is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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Municipalities in Priorat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloren%C3%A7%20del%20Pened%C3%A8s | Llorenç del Penedès is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masdenverge | Masdenverge is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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Municipalities in Montsià |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Masroig | El Masroig is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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Municipalities in Priorat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montbri%C3%B3%20del%20Camp | Montbrió del Camp is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Montmell | El Montmell is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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Municipalities in Baix Penedès |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Morell | El Morell is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. The municipality has two exclaves to the west.
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Municipalities in Tarragonès
Populated places in Tarragonès |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Nou%20de%20Gai%C3%A0 | La Nou de Gaià is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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Populated places in Tarragonès |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Piles | Les Piles is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pira%2C%20Tarragona | Pira, Tarragona is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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Article in the Enciclopedia Catalana (in Catalan)
Municipalities in Conca de Barberà |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poboleda | Poboleda is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Pobla%20de%20Montorn%C3%A8s | La Pobla de Montornès is a village in the province of Tarragona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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Populated places in Tarragonès |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontils | Pontils is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porrera | Porrera is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riudecanyes | Riudecanyes is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riudecols | Riudecols is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa%20Oliva | Santa Oliva is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. The municipality includes an exclave to the north-west,
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savall%C3%A0%20del%20Comtat | Savallà del Comtat is a municipality and village in the comarca of Conca de Barberà in the province of Tarragona in Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torroja%20del%20Priorat | Torroja del Priorat is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallclara | Vallclara is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilanova%20d%27Escornalbou | Vilanova d'Escornalbou is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Vilella%20Alta | La Vilella Alta is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinyols%20i%20els%20Arcs | Vinyols i els Arcs is a village in the province of Tarragona and autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syndicate%20%282012%20video%20game%29 | Syndicate is a 2012 cyberpunk first-person shooter video game developed by Starbreeze Studios and published by Electronic Arts. The game was released for PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360 in February 2012.
Syndicate (2012) is a reboot of the Syndicate series of real-time tactics games developed by Bullfrog Productions. Set in the year 2069, the narrative revolves around Miles Kilo, a EuroCorp agent who must eliminate important personnel from rival corporations; in the process, he discovers the evil, secret practice used by EuroCorp to recruit agents. The game features a large variety of weapons; from standard pistols to the futuristic guns. Kilo is implanted with a computer chip that allows him to access the dataverse and can use hacking to defeat enemies and solve environmental puzzles.
Pre-production of Syndicate began in 2007. Electronic Arts approached Starbreeze Studios to revive the franchise because it was impressed with the quality of Starbreeze Studios' previous games and believed they could add "style" to the series. The game was returned to the drawing board after a year of development, and the co-operative multiplayer mode was added to the main game. The development team hoped the game would appeal to both newcomers and players of the original game; they maintained the theme of the original and drastically changed the gameplay. Richard K. Morgan was hired to write the story for the game.
Syndicate received mixed reviews from critics upon release. Critics praised the gameplay, style, graphics, art direction, artificial intelligence and the co-operative mode, but the game's story was criticized. The game was a commercial failure for the publisher. Its excessive violence led to the game being banned in Australia.
Gameplay
Unlike the original series of games, Syndicate is a first-person shooter set in 2069. Players assume control of Miles Kilo, an augmented agent working for EuroCorp in a corrupted, deceitful world in which corporations compete with each other for power. Players can run, jump, slide, hide behind covers, and carry two weapons and grenades to defeat enemies and bosses, who each have unique abilities. The game features 19 weapons, ranging from assault rifles, rocket launchers and machine pistols, to futuristic weapons such as laser rifles, Gauss Guns with bullets that can track enemies automatically, and Riotlance Dark Shooters that can paralyze enemies for a short time. Weapons can be customized and upgraded with 87 attachments and 25 upgrade options. These upgrades may alter the nature of these weapons, transforming standard ammunition to cover-penetrating ammunition. The game also features an "execution" mechanic, allowing players to perform melee takedowns.
Miles has a "DART-6" chip that grants him hacking and "breaching" abilities. Some enemies also have this type of chip, and Miles can interact with them. With the chips, objects, collectibles and enemies are automatically tagged and highlighted via augmented re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vess%20Quinlan | Vess Quinlan is an American cowboy poet, whose work has been published in many books and magazines, as well as on various online poetry databases. His writing is based on his real life experiences as a rancher.
Early life and education
Vess Quinlan was born in Eagle, Colorado on November 23, 1940, and is part of the fourth generation on both sides of his family to spend most of their lives working at raising livestock in rural Colorado. He also spent time in Pueblo.
His initial interest in poetry was sparked during a year-long bout with polio as a boy in 1951 at the age of 10 and he has been a contributor to Range Magazine since at least 1958. During his time confined to bed, he began reading and writing poetry of the Cowboy variety. At the age of 15, he ran away from home and worked as a ranch chore boy and cattle hand. Quinlan was one of the leading exponents of open form poetry in cowboy poetry, which influenced others such as Rod McQueary and Bill Jones to try open form poetry.
Cowboy poetry conventions
Until the 1980s, Cowboy poetry was an underrepresented aspect of the Western Lifestyle. That changed in January 1985, when the first Cowboy Poets gathering was held in Elko, Nevada, and the genre attained broader recognition. Quinlan attended the first Elko Gathering and has often been invited to perform at gatherings that developed in other states including the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. These conventions offer not only traditional poetry, but also cowboy music, which is not traditional country music and much more of the like.
Personal life
Quinlan lives in Alamosa, Colorado and has a daughter named Lisa who is also a poet.
See also
Baxter Black
Waddie Mitchell
Notes
1940 births
Living people
People from Pueblo, Colorado
American male poets
Poets from Colorado
20th-century American poets
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American poets
21st-century American male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizada | Vizada is a worldwide satellite communications service provider which operates stations that connect satellite communications to terrestrial telecommunications and IP networks. Vizada provides both mobile and fixed satellite telecommunications to markets including merchant shipping, defense and government, fishing and yachting, oil and gas, mining, and non-governmental organizations. The product offer covers maritime, land, and aeronautical services. In 2011, the Vizada Group was acquired by EADS, to be integrated as a subsidiary of Astrium.
History
Vizada has conducted acquisitions and reorganizations of several global telecommunications entities including France Telecom and Telenor, as well as vertically-specialized companies such as Sait Communications and TDCom.
1940s: The company was involved in maritime communications from World War II, when it began operating a network of radio communications in Europe.
1970s: Originally part of Norwegian operator Telenor, Vizada became the first to use satellites for domestic use.
1976: Eik Teleport, situated on the southwest coast of Norway, was established to provide communications to oil platforms in the North Sea.
1979: Creation of the International Maritime Satellite Organisation (Inmarsat) under the auspices of the United Nations and IMO with the contribution of France, Norway, and the US as founding members.
1991: The France Telecom group was the fifth largest shareholder in Inmarsat, the international maritime satellite provider. Telenor Satellite Services at Eik Teleport developed the Sealink Maritime VSAT solution to provide communications services between remote locations at sea and fleet management offices on shore.
1997: Creation of Taide Network (now Vizada Networks) in Holmestrand, Norway, from an academic project initiated at universities in Oslo, Norway, and Vilnius, Lithuania in the early 1990s. VSAT services operations were established in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Austria.
1999: Satellite services were split from Telenor core business into independent operating units: Telenor Satellite Services (maritime Inmarsat and fixed satellite services) and Telenor Satellite Network (VSAT networks). They would later form one single company.
2001–2002: France Telecom Mobile Satellite Communications acquired DT Mobile Satellite (Germany), Glocall (Netherlands), and TDcom (France).
2002: Telenor Satellite Services acquired Comsat Mobile Communications (USA) and Sait Communications, a leading maritime communications service provider which was renamed Marlink.
2007: Apax Partners acquired FTMSC and Telenor Satellite Services and formed Vizada.
2010: Vizada, through its subsidiary Marlink, received the Inmarsat 2010 partner award recognizing Vizada as a solutions innovator for the merchant shipping market.
2011: EADS acquired all assets of the Vizada Group for approximately US$1 billion for its Astrium Services business unit. The acquisition was concluded |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2%20Energy%20Solutions | P2 Energy Solutions provides financial and accounting management software, geospatial data, land asset management tools, well lifecycle management solutions, environmental, health & safety solutions and outsourcing services to both the upstream and mid-stream oil and gas sectors as well as the alternative energy sector.
Operating from its headquarters in Denver, Colorado, P2 also has offices in Houston, Texas; Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Fort Worth, Texas; San Antonio, Texas; Livingston, New Jersey; Tampa, Florida; Dubai, UAE; Tunis, Tunisia, Singapore and Perth, Australia.
P2 employs nearly 700 people and was a privately held portfolio company of Vista Equity Partners. On October 7, 2013 P2 Energy Solutions was acquired by a Boston-based private equity firm: Advent International.
History
P2 Energy Solutions was founded in 1999 as Energy Auction Exchange with an ambitious plan to use the Internet to bring efficiencies to many aspects of the upstream petroleum industry. The Company raised its seed capital in 1999, using the proceeds to acquire the Oil & Gas Asset Clearinghouse of Houston. The Clearinghouse operated an open outcry auction of fractional interests in oil & gas properties. Shortly after this acquisition, EAE re-branded itself as Petroleum Place with the goal of becoming the vertical industry Internet portal for the upstream petroleum industry.
In 2000, Petroleum Place raised approximately $100 million in two rounds of financing from venture capital groups and petroleum industry "strategic" investors. It filed an S-1 to register its shares for public offering in May 2000, but these plans were shelved because of the rapidly eroding interest in Internet IPO's.
Petroleum Place then went on a series of acquisitions beginning with Paradigm Technologies, developer of an accounting and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) product known as Excalibur, which served many mid-sized to large independent upstream petroleum companies. That transaction was followed in 2002 with the acquisition of Novistar, another upstream accounting software package which had previously been Oracle Energy. Petroleum Place created P2 Energy Solutions from its Paradigm business and merged it with Novistar.
P2’s most recent additions came in 2011, when Explorer Software Solutions, WellPoint Systems, and Beyond Compliance were acquired.
On June 4, 2013 P2 announced their intention to acquire Australian publicly listed company ISS Group, Limited. The completion of the acquisition scheme was publicized in August, 2013.
On April 22, 2014 P2 announced that the former SAP CEO: Léo Apotheker had been formally appointed to P2’s board of directors.
On November 13, 2014 P2 announced their intention to acquire Merrick Systems.
References
Software companies based in Colorado
Companies based in Denver
Software companies established in 1999
American companies established in 1999
1999 establishments in Colorado
Privately held companies based in Colorado |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Nardicio | Daniel Nardicio (born August 8, 1966, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American producer, nightlife impresario, entrepreneur, and co-creator of the social network Dlist.com.
Early life and education
Nardicio was born on August 8, 1966, into a working-class Italian American family. His uncle is Danny Nardico, the only boxer to beat Jake LaMotta.
At 17, Nardicio bounced around as an actor between San Francisco and Berlin before settling in New York City with his friend, cabaret singer Justin Vivian Bond. In 1990, Nardicio moved to Berlin where he worked as an opera singer and principal actor in such venues as the Bregenzer Festspiele and Theater des Westens. In 1995, he moved back to New York City to become an actor, only changing his mind after temping for a year and realizing: "As an actor you have no control over your career. I had to have more control over my life, so I went into nightlife."
Career
Nightlife promoter and Dlist
In 2002, Nardicio opened the now notorious Slide Bar on the Bowery, making it into one of NYC's top ten gay destinations (according to The Village Voices "Best Of" Issue, 2004).
At this time, he worked on various social media sites, including originating what would eventually become Dlist.com (from "Daniel's List", his original promotional email list), which at its peak was ranked the 6000th most popular site on the web. Nardicio created a weekly podcast called Dlist Radio that now has approximately 40,000 downloads on iTunes. In 2005, the podcast was voted as "Best Party Posing as An Internet Radio Show" by The Village Voices "Best Of" issue in 2008, and was tied with Kathy Griffin's Dlist TV show downloads for listeners.
Nearly a decade of substantial media work (including radio, Dlist.com, online TV, social networking, and parties) has led to Nardicio being best known as one of New York City's most well-known party promoters and nightlife fixtures. He is personally responsible for producing nearly 1000 events, including The Saint at Large, Peaches, Sandra Bernhard in Concert, and his longtime collaboration of events with punk singer Nina Hagen. Noize Magazine said about his events: "You haven’t done New York Nightlife until you’ve done Nardicio". He has thrown some of NYC's most talked about and scandalous events, such as his Night at The Playgirl Mansion parties and his notorious Tigerbeat the Slide. The nature of these parties has earned him the monikers "The Gay Hugh Hefner" by gay media source Next Magazine, and "Sleaze Impresario" by New York Magazine.
He is credited with introducing international comic sensation Pam Ann to the United States. His Road Trip reality show pilot with Bianca Del Rio was an internet sensation in 2005 but was passed on by Logo TV as they "weren't interested in drag."
In the summer of 2012, he began his "Icon Series" with Liza Minnelli, who performed with actor and singer Alan Cumming on Fire Island, in the first ever pairing of the two Tony Award winners and stars of Cabaret. Since the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledger%20%28software%29 | Ledger is a command-line based double-entry bookkeeping application. Accounting data is stored in a plain text file, using a simple format, which the users prepare themselves using other tools. Ledger does not write or modify data, it only parses the input data and produces reports.
Reviews
Linux Weekly News editor Jonathan Corbet found Ledger to be a "powerful tool", particularly for generating reports, but that the software lacked many of the features necessary to scale to the needs of a small business. Joe Barr writing for Linux.com commented "If you're an MBA who groks Emacs and regular expressions, or a kernel hacker who appreciates tax deferred accruals, you'll love this application."
FLOSS Weekly interviewed John Wiegley in 2011. It noted reading of GnuCash files, scriptability, an Emacs interface and automated transactions as strong features as well as the Common Lisp port and the Haskell port of the system.
Ports
The Ledger system and file format have been quite influential, reimplemented in several other languages and inspiring similar tools. Actively developed ports include Abandon in Scala, Beancount in Python, and hledger in Haskell. Actively developed projects inspired by ledger include penny.
See also
Comparison of accounting software
External links
Ledger homepage
Ledger and Text based Accounting 2009 presentation by Russell Adams
References
Free accounting software
Free software programmed in C++
Cross-platform software
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20exhibition | An online exhibition, also referred to as a virtual exhibition, online gallery, cyber-exhibition, is an exhibition whose venue is cyberspace.
Museums and other organizations create online exhibitions for many reasons.
For example, an online exhibition may: expand on material presented at, or generate interest in, or create a durable online record of, a physical exhibition; save production costs (insurance, shipping, installation); solve conservation/preservation problems (e.g., handling of fragile or rare objects); reach lots more people: "Access to information is no longer restricted to those who can afford travel and museum visits, but is available to anyone who has access to a computer with an Internet connection.
Unlike physical exhibitions, online exhibitions are not restricted by time; they are not forced to open and close but may be available 24 hours a day.
In the nonprofit world, many museums, libraries, archives, universities, and other cultural organizations create online exhibitions. A database of such exhibitions is Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web.
Online exhibition organizers may use techniques such as marquee text, display advertisements, and in-event emails to engage patrons.
Various guides have been published to help organizations create effective online exhibitions.
The earliest museum with a physical existence to create a programme of substantial online exhibitions with high resolution images of artefacts was the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford, the first of which, The Measurers: a Flemish Image of Mathematics in the Sixteenth Century and an exhibition of early photographs, were published on 21 August 1995.
Examples of online exhibitions
International Museum of Women is an online-only museum that does not have a physical building and instead offers online exhibitions about women's issues globally as well as an online community. Online exhibitions include "Imagining Ourselves" (launched 2006) about women's identity, "Women, Power and Politics" (2008), and "Economica: Women and the Global Economy" (2009).
Tucson LGBTQ Museum is an online-only museum that does not have a physical building and instead offers online exhibitions about LGBTQ history. The online photographic, audio, video, text, and other historical exhibitions include exhibits from the 1700s to the present day. The effort began in the summer of 1967 and spanned almost 50 years.
International New Media Gallery (INMG) is an online museum specialising in moving image and screen-based art. The INMG is dedicated to exploring current debates and topics in art history: touching on areas such as migration, war, environmental activism and the internet itself. The gallery publishes extensive academic catalogues alongside its exhibitions. It also hosts spaces for discussion and debate, both online and offline.
Virtual Museum of Modern Nigerian Art – the VMMNA is the first of its kind in Africa. Hosted by the Pan-African University, Lagos, Ni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olena%20Fetisova | Olena Fetisova is the European Documentary Network and Ukrainian Association of Cinematographers member, 2009 Ukrainian State Film Award Winner, 2009 EAVE Graduate. Olena was born in Kyiv, Ukraine to a family of filmmakers, in 1964. Still lives in Kyiv.
Career
She graduated from the Moscow Film School VGIK, 1987. She has been working in the film industry without interruption ever since. In 2001, she founded the Interfilm Production Studio. Fetisova refused the State Award of Armenia in 2014 in protest of Armenian recognition of the “referendum” in Crimea.
In 2013, she was director, screenwriter and producer in Paradjanov.
In 2019 Fetisova participated in the Trans-Atlantic Partners, a joint initiative between Germany’s Erich Pommer Institute, the Canadian Media Producers Association, Telefilm Canada and the Canada Media Fund.
Filmography
References
1964 births
Living people
Film people from Kyiv
Ukrainian women film producers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Mendoza | The Mendoza trolleybus system () formed part of the public transport network in Mendoza, the capital city of Mendoza Province, Argentina. It is owned by the provincial government.
Opened in 1958, the system expanded to three routes by 1961 and remained relatively static in size and configuration until 1989, when a fourth route opened. Additional routes opened in 2004 and 2005, bringing the system to its maximum extent of six routes, which linked the city center with some of its metropolitan suburbs. However, one of the original routes (Villanueva) was suspended from 2005 to 2011, and consequently no more than five routes were operating concurrently during that period.
In the 2010s, the provincial government entity that had always operated the system, the Empresa Provincial de Transportes de Mendoza (EPTM), began to experience increasingly worsening financial problems, due in large part to difficulties in keeping its fleet of approximately 30-year-old trolleybuses operating reliably. Construction projects around the city, including work on the new Metrotranvía Mendoza light rail system, also disrupted trolleybus service, and the actual number of trolleybuses in service declined considerably.
At the end of 2016, the provincial legislature voted to dissolve EPTM entirely and replace it with a new company, the Sociedad de Transporte de Mendoza (STM), and this change was put into effect on 1 January 2017. All remaining trolleybus service was suspended on 4 May 2017. A plan to make the suspension a permanent closure gave way to one calling for retention of trolleybus service on one route, the Parque route (the system's very first route, dating to 1958), with the other five routes permanently closed. The suspension lasted 16 months, and trolleybus service resumed on the Parque route in January 2019. Service was discontinued again in February 2021.
History
20th century
The system traces its origins to law number 825, enacted in 1958 with the goal of making a trolleybus system one of the main means of transport in the city and the suburbs surrounding it.
On 14 February 1958, at the intersection of 9 de Julio and Necochea streets, Dr. Isidoro Bousquet formally opened Mendoza's trolleybus system. The first line to be put into service by the system's operator, the Empresa Provincial de Transportes de Mendoza (EPTM), was the "Parque" line, also known as line number 1. To this day, that line still follows the same route (9 de Julio, Colón, Arístides Villanueva, Boulogne Sur Mer, Jorge A. Calle, Perú and Godoy Cruz streets). The system's second line, "Villa Nueva", opened in February 1959 and the third, "Dorrego", in March 1961. Publicly, the routes were designated by names only, not numbers, and this practice continued until the mid-1990s and was revived in the 2010s.
21st century
The Mendoza trolleybus system was still expanding significantly as recently as the mid-2000s, with the construction of a long new line connecting Godoy Cruz with Las H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%20Major%20League%20Baseball%20draft | The 2012 Major League Baseball draft was held from June 4 through June 6, 2012, from Studio 42 of the MLB Network in Secaucus, New Jersey. The Houston Astros, with the first overall pick, selected Carlos Correa from the Puerto Rico Baseball Academy and High School.
Draft order
The draft order was determined by the 2011 Major League Baseball season standings. With the worst record in 2011, the Houston Astros received the first pick.
Also, teams can lose draft picks for signing certain free agents, while teams losing free agents will receive draft picks as compensation. The Elias Sports Bureau ranks all players based on performance over the past two seasons, with the top 20% being considered "Type A" and the next 20% considered "Type B". If a team offers a Type A free agent arbitration and he signs with another club, the player's former team obtains the new team's first- or second-round pick, depending on whether the new team is in the top 15 or bottom 15 in won-loss records in 2011, as well as a supplemental pick after the first round. If a team offers a Type B free agent arbitration and he signs with another club, the former team gets a supplemental pick after the first round.
The new Collective Bargaining Agreement between MLB and the MLBPA announced on November 22, modified the compensation required for certain Type A players. Six Type A players became modified Type A free agents, meaning a team signing one of them was not required to forfeit a draft pick, but the team losing them will receive a draft pick in the slot immediately before the pick they would have received had the player actually had Type A status. Five further Type A players became modified Type B free agents, with compensation equivalent to other Type B free agents.
First round
Supplemental first round
Compensation picks
Other notable selections
See also
List of first overall Major League Baseball draft picks
References
External links
Major League Baseball Draft Official Site
2012 Major League Baseball Draft at ESPN
Major League Baseball draft
Draft
Major League Baseball draft
Major League Baseball draft
Baseball in New Jersey
Events in New Jersey
Sports in Hudson County, New Jersey
Secaucus, New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPlant%20Collaborative | The iPlant Collaborative, renamed Cyverse in 2017, is a virtual organization created by a cooperative agreement funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to create cyberinfrastructure for the plant sciences (botany). The NSF compared cyberinfrastructure to physical infrastructure, "... the distributed computer, information and communication technologies combined with the personnel and integrating components that provide a long-term platform to empower the modern scientific research endeavor". In September 2013 it was announced that the National Science Foundation had renewed iPlant's funding for a second 5-year term with an expansion of scope to all non-human life science research.
The project develops computing systems and software that combine computing resources, like those of TeraGrid, and bioinformatics and computational biology software. Its goal is easier collaboration among researchers with improved data access and processing efficiency. Primarily centered in the United States, it collaborates internationally.
History
Biology is relying more and more on computers. Plant biology is changing with the rise of new technologies. With the advent of bioinformatics, computational biology, DNA sequencing, geographic information systems and others computers can greatly assist researchers who study plant life looking for solutions to challenges in medicine, biofuels, biodiversity, agriculture and problems like drought tolerance, plant breeding, and sustainable farming. Many of these problems cross traditional disciplines and facilitating collaboration between plant scientists of diverse backgrounds and specialties is necessary.
In 2006, the NSF solicited proposals to create "a new type of organization – a cyberinfrastructure collaborative for plant science" with a program titled "Plant Science Cyberinfrastructure Collaborative" (PSCIC) with Christopher Greer as program director. A proposal was accepted (adopting the convention of using the word "Collaborative" as a noun) and iPlant was officially created on February 1, 2008.
Funding was estimated as $10 million per year over five years.
Richard Jorgensen led the team through the proposal stage and was the principal investigator (PI) from 2008 to 2009. Gregory Andrews, Vicki Chandler, Sudha Ram and Lincoln Stein served as Co-Principal Investigators (Co-PIs) from 2008 to 2009. In late 2009, Stephen Goff was named PI and Daniel Stanzione was added as a Co-PI. As of May 2014, Co-PI Stanzione was replaced by 4 new Co-PIs: Doreen Ware at Cold Spring Harbor, Nirav Merchant and Eric Lyons at the University of Arizona, and Matthew Vaughn at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.
The iPlant project supports what has been called e-Science, which is a use of information systems technology that is being adopted by the research community in efforts such as the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), ELIXIR, and the Bamboo Technology Project that started in September 2010. iPl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nampo%20station%20%28Busan%20Metro%29 | Nampo Station (a.k.a. Nampodong Station) is a station of Busan Metro Line 1 in Nampo-dong, Jung District, Busan, South Korea.
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Busan Metro stations
Jung District, Busan
Railway stations opened in 1988
1988 establishments in South Korea
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWEI | WWEI (105.5 FM; "SportsRadio 105.5") is a radio station in Easthampton, Massachusetts, serving Springfield with a sports radio format. The station is owned by Audacy, Inc. Most programming is provided by Boston sister station WEEI-FM.
History
The 105.5 MHz frequency used by WWEI was originally allocated to Pittsfield, Massachusetts, where it signed on in October 1967 as WQRB-FM. It was co-owned with WBEC (1420 AM), though it offered its own programming; this was a middle-of-the-road format by 1972. The station became WBEC-FM in 1979, upon adopting an album-oriented rock format. During the 1980s, the station shifted to more of a contemporary hit radio format.
Vox Media acquired the WBEC stations in 2002. Two years later, to accommodate then-sister station WNYQ (now WQBK-FM)'s move to Malta, New York, Vox filed to move WBEC-FM to Easthampton in 2004. Vox then put the station up for sale, and after an unsuccessful attempt to sell it to Pamal Broadcasting, it was sold to Entercom in 2006. WBEC-FM signed off from Pittsfield that May, with the format and call letters moving to 95.9 FM (a former frequency of WUPE-FM) at that time. The current incarnation of the station signed on as WVEI-FM from Easthampton on October 26, 2006. The call letters were changed to WWEI on September 14, 2011.
On June 13, 2012, it was announced that WWEI would carry UMass Minutemen football and UMass Minutemen basketball games. In the event of conflicts with Boston Red Sox and Boston Celtics broadcasts, station manager David Oldread said "his station would prefer to keep UMass as the priority." As part of the deal, every Thursday at 7p.m., WWEI airs The Coaches Show hosted by UMass Football analyst Matt Goldstein (with interviews with head UMass Football coach and head UMass Basketball coach) over WEEI programming. Also, every Friday at 7p.m. during Springfield Falcons hockey season, WWEI airs The Old Time Hockey Show, which discusses the Falcons, the Boston Bruins, and the NHL.
WWEI formerly carried Fox Sports Radio in the overnight hours, even after parent station WEEI switched to ESPN Radio in 2009; at that time, ESPN programming was heard in Springfield on WHLL. At midnight on January 1, 2013, WWEI assumed the ESPN Radio affiliation, after WHLL switched to CBS Sports Radio.
2020 signal hijacking
During the 2020 United States Presidential Election, the station's signal received interference from a pirate radio station on the same frequency in Warren, looping a recording of a whispering voice that said "Don't be a chump, vote for Trump." As of November 4, 2020, attempts to contact the FCC were unsuccessful.
References
External links
WEI
Sports radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1967
1967 establishments in Massachusetts
Mass media in Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Audacy, Inc. radio stations
CBS Sports Radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6dermanland%20Runic%20Inscription%20226 | Södermanland Runic Inscription 226 or Sö 226 is the Rundata catalog listing for a Viking Age memorial runestone located in Norra Stutby, which is about eight kilometers north of Sorunda, Stockholm County, Sweden, which was in the historic province of Södermanland.
Description
The inscription on Sö 226 consists of runic text in the younger futhark that is carved on a serpent that circles along the outline of the stone, which is about 1.8 meters in height. A figure of a horse is in inside the serpent at the top of the stone. The horse, which is clearly a stallion as indicated by the phallus, is depicted with crossed legs to indicate powerlessness. The combination of symbols of fertility and powerlessness on the horse may indicate regeneration or salvation. Several other Scandinavian runestones include depictions of horses, including DR 96 in Ålum, N 61 in Alstad, Sö 101 in Ramsundsberget, Sö 239 in Häringe, Sö 327 in Göksten, U 375 in Vidbo, U 488 in Harg, U 599 in Hanunda, U 691 in Söderby, U 855 in Böksta, U 901 in Håmö, U 935 at the Uppsala Cathedral, and U 1003 in Frötuna. The inscription on Sö 226 is classified as being carved in runestone style Fp, which is the classification for runic text bands with attached serpent or beast heads that are depicted as seen from above. The inscription based on stylistic analysis is attributed to a runemaster named Amunde, who signed inscriptions on the now-lost Sö 215 in Sorunda, Sö 223 in Trollsta, Sö 268 in Söderby, and the now-lost Sö 271 in Täckeråker.
The runic text states that the stone was raised by four men named Bjôrn, Vébjôrn, Hrafni, and Ketilbjôrn in memory of their father Geirbjôrn. The names of three of the brothers share the common name element bjôrn, which is Old Norse for "bear," with their father. A common practice at that time in Scandinavia was the repeating one of the name elements from a parent's name in the names of the children to show the family connection. The missing portion of the damaged runic text was reconstructed as the words ræistu stæin or "raised the stone" based upon similar wording on other inscriptions.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
+ biairn + auk + uibiarn × auk: hrafni + auk + ketilbiarn + r---(t)(u) × (s)[t]ain☃☃: at + kairbirn faþur
Transcription into Old Norse
Biarn ok Vibiarn ok Hrafni ok Kætilbiarn r[æis]tu stæin at Gæiʀbiarn, faður [sinn].
Translation in English
Bjôrn and Vébjôrn and Hrafni and Ketilbjôrn raised the stone in memory of Geirbjôrn, their father.
References
Runestones in Södermanland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20All%20in%20the%20Game%20%28game%20show%29 | It's all in the game was a Dutch TV game show for students of the NCRV which ran from 1985 till 1988. The show centered on home computer games. Several of the games were developed by Radarsoft.
Presenters
Hans Brian (1985-1987)
Henk Mouwe (1987-1988)
Commentator
Herman Kuiphof (1986-1987)
Directors
René Stokvis (1985,1987)
John van de Rest (1986)
Fred Hilberdink (1988)
External links
It's all in the game on the Beeld en Geluid wiki
1985 Dutch television series debuts
1988 Dutch television series endings
Dutch game shows
1980s game shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSCS | Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem or RSCS is a subsystem ("virtual machine" in VM terminology) of IBM's VM/370 operating system which accepts files transmitted to it from local or remote system and users and transmits them to destination local or remote users and systems. RSCS also transmits commands and messages among users and systems.
RSCS is the software that powered the world’s largest network (or network of networks) prior to the Internet and directly influenced both internet development and user acceptance of networking between independently managed organizations. RSCS was developed by Edson Hendricks and T.C. Hartmann. Both as an IBM product and as an IBM internal network, it later became known as VNET. The network interfaces continued to be called the RSCS compatible protocols and were used to interconnect with IBM systems other than VM systems (typically MVS) and non-IBM computers.
The history of this program, and its influence on IBM and the IBM user community, is described in contemporaneous accounts and interviews by Melinda Varian. Technical goals and innovations are described by Creasy and by Hendricks and Hartmann in seminal papers. Among academic users, the same software was employed by BITNET and related networks worldwide.
Background
RSCS arose because people throughout IBM recognized a need to exchange files. Hendricks’s solution was CPREMOTE, which he completed by mid-1969. CPREMOTE was the first example of a “service virtual machine” and was motivated partly by the desire to prove the usefulness of that concept.
In 1971, Norman L. Rasmussen, Manager of IBM’s Cambridge Scientific Center (CSC), asked Hendricks to find a way for the CSC machine to communicate with machines at IBM’s other Scientific Centers. CPREMOTE had taught Hendricks so much about how a communications facility would be used and what function was needed in such a facility, that he decided to discard it and begin again with a new design. After additional iterations, based on feedback from real users and contributed suggestions and code from around the company, Hendricks and Tim Hartmann, of the IBM Technology Data Center in Poughkeepsie, NY, produced RSCS, which went into operation within IBM in 1973.
The first version of RSCS distributed outside of IBM (1975) was not a complete networking package. It included uncalled subroutines for functions such as store-and-forward that were included in the IBM internal version. The store-and-forward function was added in the VNET PRPQ, first for files, and then for messages and commands.
Once those capabilities were added, “the network began to grow like crazy.” Although at first the IBM network depended on people going to their computer room and dialing a phone, it soon began to acquire leased lines.
At SHARE XLVI, in February, 1976, Hendricks and Hartmann reported that the network, which was now beginning to be called VNET, spanned the continent and connected 50 systems. By SHARE 52, in March, 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Halcon | Mount Halcon () and () is the highest mountain in the island of Mindoro in the Philippines, according to the new data release by Oriental Mindoro peakvisor as of 2022, it has an elevation of above sea level, higher than the previous estimates data at . It is the 23rd-highest peak in the Philippines and 37th-highest peak of an island on Earth. Its steep slopes have earned it the reputation of being one of the most difficult and technically most challenging mountains to climb in the Philippines. The first documented ascent was made in 1906 by American botanist Elmer Drew Merrill and a party of forestry and military personnel.
Inhabitants
Mount Halcon is home to the indigenous Alangan Mangyans.
Flora and fauna
Its thick vegetation contains much flora and fauna, including the critically endangered Mindoro bleeding-heart which is endemic to the area, and the stick insect Conlephasma enigma, which was first described in 2012.
History
The mountain was also the location of a possible World War II Japanese holdout. Isao Miyazawa found evidence that his comrade Captain Fumio Nakahara was living there in 1957. Another search in 1977 was called off due to Miyazawa contracting malaria. In 1980, Miyazawa found Nakahara's hut, and the natives talked to him extensively about the foreigner. However, Nakahara himself has never been spotted.
See also
List of Ultras of the Philippines
List of islands by highest point
References
"The Last Last Soldier?," TIME, January 13, 1975
"Still fighting, 35 years after V-J day," Finger Lakes Times. April 10, 1980, p. 1.
External links
"Philippine Mountains" Peaklist.org
"Mount Halcon, Philippines" on Peakbagger
Halcon
Landforms of Oriental Mindoro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STANAG%206022 | STANAG 6022 – Adoption of a Standard Gridded Data Meteorological Message is a NATO Standardization Agreement for gridded meteorological data for operational use in Artillery fire control systems, NBC Automated Warning, Reporting and Prediction Systems (NBC AWRAPS), and various computer-based Battlefield (or Tactical) Decision Aids (BDAs). The message format is referred to as METGM.
Utility
STANAG 6022 is the latest step in artillery meteorological messaging, which provides for gridded meteorological data. This means that instead of using a single Radiosonde ascent capturing local data over a short time period, and circulating that information using older formats, such as the Standard Computer Meteorological message (METCM) under STANAG 4082, it provides a grid of data in four dimensions – vertical, two horizontal and time. The METGM is compiled from many data sources in Weather Analysis Centres (WACs). The data is no longer directly human readable in ASCII text, like METCM was, and thus it can not be distributed by voice. Data communications are used transfer the METGM to a fire control computer. A METGM approach can thus reduce or remove the need for local data acquisition for some communities.
The format allows meteorological data to be published for a grid of any defined size / resolution containing only those parameters specifically requested by users. Thus, it can be used to pass data sets varying from coarse resolution, single-parameter data through to very high resolution, multi-parameter data depending upon specific data requirements and communications capabilities.
The area of coverage for Artillery usage can be scaled based on the mobility of the underlying forces and the range of the howitzers. A particular benefit of this approach is that it provides data that is more representative of the wider meteorological conditions and appropriate data will be used along the trajectory as range is increasing in modern artillery weapon platforms. Products within the NATO Armaments Meteorological Kernel (NAMK) project under the SG2 Shareable (Fire Control) Software Suite (S4) can be used to process compliant METGM messages.
It can also potentially be used, instead of Standard Target Acquisition Meteorological message (METTA) under STANAG 4140, with Sound ranging systems or in support of Chemical Biological, Radiological and Nuclear calculations for downwind hazards and plume prediction by tools such as the Joint Effects Model (JEM).
Custodianship and edition
The custodian of this STANAG is MILMET, formerly BMWG, within NATO. The final copy was Edition 2, dated 22 March 2010. Implementation of METGM is often accomplished by adoption of components of the SG2 Shareable (Fire Control) Software Suite (S4). This STANAG was cancelled and superseded by STANAG 6015 Ed 5, which is a cover STANAG for the NATO Meteorological and Oceanographic Codes Manual (AMETOCP-4) Volume I and II, both of which were promulgated at Ed A Ver. 1 on 24 May 2019.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20power%20infrastructure%20on%20Bornholm | Bornholm is connected to the Swedish grid through the Bornholm Cable. The distribution network is owned by Bornholms Energi & Forsyning, formerly Østkraft.
Rønne Power Station
Rønne Power Station has two steam units, one oil-fired with a generation capacity of 25 MW inaugurated in 1974, and a second one, which can be fired either with oil or coal. It was inaugurated in 1995 and has a generation capacity of 37 MW.
Power grid of Bornholm
The power grid of Bornholm consists of a 60 kV-ring line connecting the substations Hasle, Olsker, Østerlars, Dalslunde, Bodilsker, Aakirkeby, Rønne-Syd, Rønne Power Station, Viadukten, Snorrebakken. Apart from the section between Ronne-Syd and Snorrebakken, it is an overhead line. From this ring line several 60 kV lines branch, which are all implemented as underground cables. These are the branch to Allinge starting at Olsker, that to Gudhjem starting at Østerlars, a branch to Svaneke starting at Dalslunde, a branch to Svaneke via Nexo starting at Bodilsker, a branch to Poulsker starting at Bodilker. A further branch to Westhaven starts at Rønne Power Station. A further connection built as underground cable connects Hasle substation with Rønne-Nord, Viadukten and Ronne-South.
Technical data of 60 kV Substations of Bornholm
References
Bornholm
Electric power infrastructure in Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20states%20and%20union%20territories%20of%20India%20by%20sex%20ratio | Sex ratio is used to describe the ratio of females to males in a population. In India, the sex ratio has been estimated via a number of methods and data sets including the decennial censuses, the National Family Health Surveys (NFHS), the Civil Registration System, the Sample Registration System and the Health Management Information System. In 2014, the ratio of female births per 1000 male births varied from 887 to 918 using these estimates. According to the NFHS-4 (2015–16) sex ratio of the total population (females per 1,000 males) was 991 (with an urban ratio of 956 and a rural ratio of 1,009).
In 2011–2013, it was revealed through a population census with the Sample Registration System (SRS) that the sex ratio of India was 909 females per 1000 of males. It has skewed downwards from then, recording 900 females in 2013–2015 and 896 in 2015–17 per 1000 of males. Furthermore, that survey conducted with the SRS also showed Chhattisgarh as the highest sex ratio at 961, while Haryana was recorded the lowest at 831.
The male-skew in India's sex ratio has increased since the early 20th century. In 1901 there were 3.2 million fewer women than men in India, but by the 2001 Census the disparity had increased by more than a factor of 10, to 35 million. This increase has been variously attributed to female infanticide, selective abortions (aided by increasing access to prenatal sex discernment procedures), and female child neglect. It has been suggested that the motivation for this selection against female children is due to the lower status and perceived usefulness of women in India's patriarchal society.
Ranking of states and union territories
In the table below, the rank numbers represented by 'S' are for states while 'UT' are for union territories. The data in the table is based on the population census of 2001 and 2011.
Notes
See also
Gender Development Index
List of countries by sex ratio
Child sex ratio
List of countries by Social Progress Index
International rankings of India
Women in India
Female infanticide in India
Female foeticide in India
References
Bibliography
Further reading
(2011 figures)
Demographics of India
Lists of subdivisions of India
India, sex ratio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubixx%20HD | Cubixx HD is a puzzle game developed by UK-based studio Laughing Jackal released on the PlayStation Network in Europe on August 17, 2011 and September 20, 2011 in North America. It is the HD sequel to Cubixx, a 2009 PlayStation mini title.
Gameplay
The gameplay of Cubixx HD is based upon the classic arcade game Qix. The player controls a robot that fires a laser at a cube with the objective of erasing its sides. A variety of enemies and power-ups become available as the player progresses.
Reception
Reviews of Cubixx HD have been generally favorable with a Metacritic score of 77 out of 100, with Kristan Reed of Eurogamer praising the title as the best reinvention of its antecedent Qix and Joel Gregory of PlayStation Official Magazine (UK) calling it "one of the most
gloriously addictive, knuckle-bitingly frustrating strategy experiences you can have on PSN."
References
External links
2011 video games
Ghostlight games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Windows games
Laughing Jackal games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption%20in%20Indonesia | While hard data on corruption is difficult to collect, corruption in Indonesia is clearly seen through public opinion, collated through surveys as well as observation of how each system runs.
Transparency International's 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index, which scored 180 countries on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"), gave Indonesia a score of 34. When ranked by score, Indonesia ranked 110th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked 180th is perceived to have the most corrupt public sector. For comparison, the best score was 90 (ranked 1), the worst score was 12 (ranked 180), and the average score was 43.
There are two key areas in the public sector in which corruption in Indonesia can be found. These are the justice and civil service sectors. Corruption within the justice sector is seen by its ineffectiveness to enforce laws, failure to uphold justice, hence undermining the rule of law. The areas of corruption within this sector include the police and the courts. In the 2008 Public Sector Integrity Survey, the Supreme Court ranked the lowest in integrity in comparison to the other public services in Indonesia. The courts were viewed to make decisions unfairly and have high unofficial costs.
Evidence of corruption within the civil service comes from surveys conducted within the sector. Some surveys found out that almost half were found to have received bribes. Civil servants themselves admit to corruption.
In January 2012, it was reported that Indonesia has lost as much as Rp 2.13 trillion (US$238.6 million) to corruption in 2011. A study conducted by Indonesia Corruption Watch, a non-profit organization co-ordinated by Danang Widoyoko, said that embezzlement accounted for most of the money lost and that “government investment was the sector most prone to graft.”
Companies are concerned about red tape and widespread extortion in the process of obtaining licences and permits, and they often faced demand for irregular fees or concessions based on personal relationships when obtaining government contracts. Companies have also reported regular demand for cash payments and expectations for gifts and special treatments by Indonesian officials.
Economic and social costs
Corruption is an important development challenge that poses economic and social costs in Indonesia. Interference in public laws and policies for the sake of personal or private gain has weakened the competitiveness of Indonesia.
About one-quarter of ministries suffer from budgetary diversions in Indonesia. Households spent approximately 1% while enterprises spent at least 5% of monthly company revenue on unofficial payments. Social costs due to corruption in Indonesia include the weakening of government institutions and the rule of law. Increases in crime due to smuggling and extortion involve the institutions that are supposed to be protecting citizens. The people who suffer most are the poor as they are pressured to finance payments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EUROGEO-European%20Association%20of%20Geographers | EUROGEO is a European scientific society, which networks geographers. It is an international non-governmental organisation. Since 1987 EUROGEO has been a participative member of the Conference of International NGOs of the Council of Europe. The association is involved in national and international activities and projects in geography including those related to education and training. It is a not profit organisation, which aims to develop, support and promote policies designed to advance the status of geography; establish and promote cross-border cooperation; promote education and training in geography from a European perspective and represent nationally and internationally the views of its members.
EUROGEO activities include organising events, producing publications, supporting geographers in their jobs and careers, the teaching of geographical sciences, identifying and promoting good practise, co-operating with the European Union, Council of Europe, European Commission and other relevant organisations; lobbying at global, European and where relevant national level, providing a forum for the discussion of matters of common interest to geographers, giving advice on geography and making recommendations to policy makers.
History
Origin
EUROGEO was first established in 1979 under the name of European Standing Conference of Geography Teachers Association (ESCGTA). In the beginning it was an association of associations. In 1994, when other European countries became members, the association took the name of its bulletin, EUROGEO: European Network of Geography Teachers´ Associations. The principal aims of that organisation were to advise and promote the European dimension in geographical education and teaching about the countries of Europe as a contribution towards the development of a European dimension in education. Members were geography teacher associations and geographical associations from around Europe. Presidents of these associations or their representatives attended the bi-annual meetings that were originally organised and funded by the European Commission in Brussels.
First activities
EUROGEO was led by a small committee of volunteers headed by Henk Meier representing the Dutch Geographical Association (KNAG). In between each of these conferences a EUROGEO bulletin was published.
Twentieth century
In 1987 EUROGEO applied for and was accepted as an international NGO with representation at the Council of Europe. Since this time representatives from the association have participated in NGO meetings in Strasbourg, being the voice of geography and geographers there. In 2003 the status of EUROGEO, along with other NGOs, was reviewed and the association became a fully participating NGO at the Council of Europe.
In 1999 a successful application was made by EUROGEO for a European Minerva Project (Euro.Geo) to produce materials that promote European citizenship through the use of ICT in teaching geography in school education. The project was co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivona | Ivona or Ивoна is a Slavic variant of the female given name Yvonne. It is the name of:
Ivona Bogoje (born 1976), Croatian female basketball player
Ivona Brandić (born 1977), Bosnian-Austrian computer scientist
Ivona Březinová (born 1964), Czech writer
Ivona Dadić (born 1993), Bosnian-Austrian track and field athlete
Ivona Fialková (born 1994), Slovak biathlete
Ivona Horvat (born 1973), Croatian tennis player
Ivona Jerković (born 1984), Serbian women's basketball player
Ivona Juka, Croatian and Montenegrin film director
Ivona Matić (born 1986), Croatian female basketball player
Ivona Pavićević (born 1996), Montenegrin handball player
See also
Amazon Echo, which uses voice recognition technology from Polish firm Ivona |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebert%20test | The Ebert test gauges whether a computer-based synthesized voice can tell a joke with sufficient skill to cause people to laugh. It was proposed by film critic Roger Ebert at the 2011 TED conference as a challenge to software developers to have a computerized voice master the inflections, delivery, timing, and intonations of a speaking human. The test is similar to the Turing test proposed by Alan Turing in 1950 as a way to gauge a computer's ability to exhibit intelligent behavior by generating performance indistinguishable from a human being.
Ebert lost his voice after surgery to treat cancer. He employed a Scottish company called CereProc, which custom-tailors text-to-speech software for voiceless customers who record their voices at length before losing them, and mined tapes and DVD commentaries featuring Ebert to create a voice that sounded more like his own voice. He first publicly used the voice they devised for him in his March 2, 2010, appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
References
External links
Roger Ebert's appearance at TED conference 2011
Speech synthesis
Tests
Roger Ebert
Laughter
Siskel and Ebert |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSBC%20TV | SSBC TV (South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation Television) is a public television network in South Sudan which is owned and operated by the South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation.
SSBC TV broadcasts in English and Juba Arabic and can also be viewed on Satellite. The network runs a few small local TV stations in Aweil, Wau, Malakal and Rumbek. South Africa, China and Japan provided equipment and training for SSBC TV staff.
SSBC TV transmits via the Arabsat Badr-4 and Arabsat-5C satellite. SSBC TV broadcast hours are:
9:00 – 0:00 (Juba Time)
7:00 – 22:00 (UTC)
History
The chain began under the direction of self-government of South Sudan (made following a peace agreement in 2005) December 18, 2010 via satellite. After several months of its first issue, she was faced with a big problem: pay for transmission via Arabsat Badr 6 and Arab communications satellites ... because of the independence of this country. Useful to know that each country must pay rent for Arabsat to broadcast all its channels. However, the newly created Southern Sudan has not done since the beginning of the year, the channel is broadcast through the rent of his republic mother. The chain may be interrupted its broadcast programs from the satellite.
See also
Ebony TV
Media of South Sudan
Television in South Sudan
References
External links
Southern Sudan Television (SSTV) on Facebook
Television stations in South Sudan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDOS | MDOS may refer to:
Micropolis MDOS, an operating system for Z80 S-100 bus machines in the 1970s
Motorola Disk Operating System for the M6800 based EXORciser development system in the 1970s
Motorola Disk Operating System, also the underlying basis of the QDOS operating system of the Fairlight CMI digital sampling synthesizer series
MIDAS (operating system) (originally named MDOS, and also known as M-DOS or My DOS), an 8-bit operating system for 8080/Z80, developed by Microsoft's Marc McDonald in 1979
Myarc Disk Operating System (aka MDOS), an operating system emulating the TI-99/4A for the Geneve 9640 in 1987
MS-DOS 4.0 (multitasking), a multitasking operating system
Multitasking DOS sub-system in IBM OS/2, e.g. C:\OS2\MDOS\
Multiuser DOS (aka DR MDOS), a DOS- and CP/M compatible 32-bit protected mode operating system for 386 machines developed by Digital Research / Novell in the 1990s
Multiuser DOS Federation, an industry alliance in the 1990s
See also
DOS (disambiguation)
MOS (disambiguation)
Wordmark Systems MyDOS, an operating system for 8-bit Atari homecomputers by Wordmark Systems in the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20%28Ringer%29 | "Pilot" is the pilot episode of the American television drama Ringer, which originally aired on The CW Television Network on September 13, 2011. The episode was written by Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder and directed by Richard Shepard. The episode achieved 2.84 million viewers on its initial broadcast; reaching a three-year high for The CW in the Tuesday 9:00pm time slot.
Plot
After attending a Narcotics Anonymous meeting, Bridget Kelly (Sarah Michelle Gellar) returns to the motel with FBI Agent Victor Machado (Nestor Carbonell). Despite being assured of her safety (she is a witness to a mob-style murder), she knocks out Agent Machado's partner Jimmy, takes his gun and runs away. She goes to New York City and meet with her estranged twin sister, Siobhan Martin. Bridget and Siobhan go to Siobhan's weekend house in the Hamptons. Bridget begins to apologize to Siobhan about an incident involving someone named Sean, but Siobhan insists that she is already forgiven and now needs only to forgive herself. They go out on a boat ride where Bridget falls asleep, waking to find Siobhan's ring in a pill bottle and Siobhan herself missing. Having been told by her that most people in her life don't know Siobhan has a sister, Bridget assumes Siobhan's identity to avoid both the mob and the FBI. She tells this only to her NA sponsor Malcolm Ward (Mike Colter) that her sister is dead and what she has done. During their phone conversation, she notices a man on the street watching her.
The next day, Siobhan's friend, Gemma (Tara Summers), calls and tells that they were supposed to meet at Siobhan's loft that Gemma was helping renovate. When they meet, Gemma mentions her fear that her husband, Henry Butler (Kristoffer Polaha), is having an affair. Later that evening Bridget (as Siobhan) attends a fundraising gala with her (Siobhan's) husband, Andrew Martin (Ioan Gruffudd), who has recently returned from London. She sees the man who was watching her earlier, and tries to avoid him. To her surprise, when they meet, he gives her a kiss. It is revealed that the man is Henry, Gemma's husband, and that Siobhan was the one having an affair with him. Bridget-as-Siobhan refuses his advances.
Bridget attends an NA meeting in New York and comes home to find Siobhan's stepdaughter, Juliet (Zoey Deutch), home from boarding school and having sex with her boyfriend. Bridget-as-Siobhan worries because Juliet has apparently gone through her drawer (where she kept the gun she stole) and took a scarf, using it as a blindfold. Bridget checks and sees the gun still there, so she hides it in one of the newspapers used in the under-renovation loft. Gemma sees her there (but not the gun). Bridget-as-Siobhan is later questioned by Victor Machado concerning Bridget's whereabouts. Bridget-as-Siobhan manages to maintain composure and avoids detection. Meanwhile, Malcolm walks out of a building, where the mob sees him.
Bridget-as-Siobhan asks Henry to avoid her, and in the process, tells |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinge%20loss | In machine learning, the hinge loss is a loss function used for training classifiers. The hinge loss is used for "maximum-margin" classification, most notably for support vector machines (SVMs).
For an intended output and a classifier score , the hinge loss of the prediction is defined as
Note that should be the "raw" output of the classifier's decision function, not the predicted class label. For instance, in linear SVMs, , where are the parameters of the hyperplane and is the input variable(s).
When and have the same sign (meaning predicts the right class) and , the hinge loss . When they have opposite signs, increases linearly with , and similarly if , even if it has the same sign (correct prediction, but not by enough margin).
Extensions
While binary SVMs are commonly extended to multiclass classification in a one-vs.-all or one-vs.-one fashion,
it is also possible to extend the hinge loss itself for such an end. Several different variations of multiclass hinge loss have been proposed. For example, Crammer and Singer
defined it for a linear classifier as
Where is the target label, and are the model parameters.
Weston and Watkins provided a similar definition, but with a sum rather than a max:
In structured prediction, the hinge loss can be further extended to structured output spaces. Structured SVMs with margin rescaling use the following variant, where denotes the SVM's parameters, the SVM's predictions, the joint feature function, and the Hamming loss:
Optimization
The hinge loss is a convex function, so many of the usual convex optimizers used in machine learning can work with it. It is not differentiable, but has a subgradient with respect to model parameters of a linear SVM with score function that is given by
However, since the derivative of the hinge loss at is undefined, smoothed versions may be preferred for optimization, such as Rennie and Srebro's
or the quadratically smoothed
suggested by Zhang. The modified Huber loss is a special case of this loss function with , specifically .
See also
References
Loss functions
Support vector machines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYAN-TV | DYAN-TV (channel 29) is a television station in Metro Cebu, Philippines, serving as the Visayas flagship of the One Sports network. It is owned by Nation Broadcasting Corporation; TV5 Network, Inc., which owns TV5 outlet DYET-TV (channel 21), operates the station under an airtime lease agreement. Both stations share studios at the TV5 Complex, Capitol Road, Camp Marina, Brgy. Kalunasan, Cebu City, while DYAN-TV's analog and digital transmitters are located atop Mount Busay.
See also
One Sports
List of One Sports stations
One Sports (TV channel) stations
Television stations in Cebu City
Television channels and stations established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Shoup%20%28programmer%29 | Richard Shoup (July 30, 1943 – July 18, 2015) was an American computer scientist and entrepreneur, mainly known from his pioneering work on computer graphics and animation. Originally from Gibsonia, Pennsylvania, he last resided in San Jose, California.
He earned a B.S.E.E. and a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. His Ph.D. thesis was the first to explore programmable logic and reconfigurable hardware, now widely used in computers and consumer electronics.
In 1973, while working as one of the first employees at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, he built SuperPaint, one of the first image editing programs. Future Pixar cofounder Alvy Ray Smith contributed to program development as an independent contractor.
Although he had been directly recruited by Robert Taylor following the collapse of the Berkeley Computer Corporation, Shoup's interests in video graphics and color, pixel-based imaging clashed with the office of the future research program cultivated by Taylor and Butler Lampson, ultimately precipitating his departure from Xerox. In 1979, he co-founded Aurora Systems, a company that was an early producer of digital animation hardware and software. He received a special Emmy Award (shared with Xerox) in 1983 and an Academy Scientific Engineering Award (shared with Smith and Thomas Porter) in 1998 for his work on SuperPaint.
From 2000 until his death, he was an associate at the Boundary Institute for the Study of Foundations, a nonprofit organization involved in research into physical sciences and parapsychology.
An avid musician in his spare time, Shoup played jazz trombone for many years in various big bands throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
Shoup died from lung cancer on July 18, 2015.
References
1943 births
2015 deaths
American computer scientists
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Scientists at PARC (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffles%20Medical%20Group | Raffles Medical Group (RMG), () is a private healthcare provider in Asia, operating medical facilities in thirteen cities in Singapore, China, Japan, Vietnam and Cambodia.
RMG has a network of clinics with family physicians, specialists and dental surgeons and owns Raffles Hospital, a tertiary care hospital in Singapore, which accommodates surgical centres, medical laboratories and 24 specialist centres in various areas like Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Cardiology, Oncology and Orthopaedics.
RMG's medical practice is based on the Group Practice Model.
RMG has its own consumer healthcare division which develops and distributes nutraceuticals, supplements, vitamins and medical diagnostic equipment.
RMG is a member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network.
History
Founding
In 1976, the group's founders, Dr Loo Choon Yong and Dr Alfred Loh, opened their first two clinics in Singapore's Central Business District with the aim of providing medical services to corporate clients. By 1989, this had grown to five clinics and it was then that the two friends decided to incorporate their clinics into a medical practice group. Expanding after its incorporation, RMG moved into Singapore's HDB heartlands with their first neighbourhood clinic in 1993. The first of these areas included Telok Blangah, Bishan, Ang Mo Kio, Siglap, Tampines, Pasir Ris and Bedok.
In 1990, RMG tendered and obtained a contract with the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore to provide medical services to the passengers transiting through Changi International Airport as well as airport workers. This also marked RMG's first 24-hour clinic.
Patients of Raffles Medical Clinics that required specialist care were initially referred to the public hospitals or private specialists. In 1991, RMG appointed specialists in its medical staff. The Group consolidated its specialist service in 1993 with the opening of Raffles SurgiCentre at No. 182 Clemenceau Avenue – the first free-standing day surgery centre at Southeast Asia. It had four operating theatres, 28 recovery beds and two beds in intensive care unit.
By 1996, the network of clinics had grown to 30 branches covering most parts of Singapore. When Raffles SurgiCentre saw a lack of space for further expansion, Dr Loo began looking for a site to build a hospital. They eventually settled on Blanco Court, a commercial building at the intersection of North Bridge Road and Ophir Road. Construction works to convert it into a hospital began in 1999. This culminated in the opening of the 380-bed Raffles Hospital on 31 March 2001. It consists of 24 different specialist centres which provides specialist services such as obstetrics and gynaecology, cardiology, oncology and orthopaedics.
Today, the Group is present in Singapore, China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Japan. The Group runs a network of 106 multi-disciplinary clinics across Singapore and medical centres in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Osaka. Raffles Medical Group also has representative offices in Indonesia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Man%20in%20the%20Blue%20Flannel%20Pants | "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants" is the seventh episode of the twenty-third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 27, 2011, and was seen by around 5.6 million people during this broadcast. In the episode, Homer becomes an account manager for Mr. Burns after successfully hosting a viral marketing event for Krusty the Clown. Meanwhile, Lisa is teaching Bart how to read classic novels like Little Women. Homer's new job affects his family as he becomes more distant and in the end he has to choose between his family or his new job. The episode's title references The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit.
The episode was written by Jeff Westbrook and directed by Steven Dean Moore. It functions mainly as a parody of the television show Mad Men, and features the guest voices of Mad Men actor John Slattery and creator Matthew Weiner. Critics found the episode to be average in quality, receiving criticism for the wasted opportunities with the Mad Men parody.
Plot
Krusty the Clown is about to perform a stunt when his agents mention that there is trouble with Krusty's own brand of vodka, Absolut Krusty. To make it popular, the agents insist that Krusty hold a tastemaker party at the home of a Springfield trendsetter. At the party, the adults are having a fantastic time until Mr. Burns arrives and frightens the guests. Homer ends up saving the party by singing karaoke with Burns. Based on the party's success, Burns promotes Homer to "Accounts Man" for the Springfield Nuclear Plant.
Robert Marlow, a seasoned account veteran, takes Homer under his wing and shows Homer what the high life is like in the corner office. The job changes Homer into a sad individual, who drinks in the dark and complains about the meaninglessness of his job. When Homer's long hours at the office become the norm and Homer becomes distant from his family, a family vacation with Marge and the children help him realize that family always comes before work. Meanwhile, Lisa introduces Bart to a new literary world, which sparks his interest in reading classic novels. In the beginning, Bart struggles with reading and suggests that he should just get a job where he does not have to read. Lisa insists and Bart eventually learns to read properly. When the bullies watch him reading a classic novel at school, they force him to read Little Women to them.
Meanwhile, both Marge and Burns want Homer to go on the same rafting trip. Homer starts with being on his family's raft, and then swims back and forth between that and Burns' raft. Marge discovers that he has double-booked the weekend while both rafts float near a waterfall, and is upset that he chose to do work on a family outing. Homer can only save one raft, and he saves the one containing his family. As Burns and the nuclear regulators are about to go over the waterfall, Marlow rides up on a jetski and carries Burns to safety, while the regulators fall ov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ten-Per-Cent%20Solution | "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" is the eighth 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 December 4, 2011. In the episode, Krusty the Clown becomes depressed after getting fired from his television show for being unpopular with children. The Simpson family encourages him to make a comeback, suggesting that he seek help from an agent they met earlier at a television museum. This agent turns out to be Annie Dubinsky, who was Krusty's first agent and former girlfriend. Krusty left her when he became successful but now he begs her to take him as a client again. She accepts and together they are able to get him back on television, hosting a show for adults that features his clown tricks. However, Annie soon begins to interfere too much, which frustrates the network executives.
The episode, which contains parodies of films such as The King's Speech, The Social Network, and Black Swan, was written by cast member Dan Castellaneta and his wife Deb Lacusta. Comedian and actress Joan Rivers, who was a big fan of The Simpsons, guest starred as the character Annie. Other guest performances in the episode came from Kevin Dillon and Janeane Garofalo as themselves and Jackie Mason as Krusty's father. Reception of "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" from television critics has been mixed, with praise directed at Rivers' appearance and the development of Krusty's character. The episode was criticized by the Parents Television Council for containing sexual dialogue. During its original American broadcast, the episode was seen by approximately nine million people.
Plot
During an episode of The Krusty the Clown Show, three Itchy & Scratchy cartoons are shown. This angers Krusty, the host of the show, since he thinks he should be the star of the show and not the Itchy and Scratchy characters. Meanwhile, the Simpsons visit a television museum that is soon to be closed. After a while, they come to an exhibit displaying The Adventures of Fatso Flanagan, which is one of Homer's favorite television shows. There, the family is approached by Annie Dubinsky, the agent of the actor who played Fatso Flanagan. They start chatting and become acquainted. At the Channel 6 studios, during a board meeting, Krusty is fired because "Today's children are uncomfortable with a clown whose every reference they have to look up on Wikipedia", and because Itchy and Scratchy are shown to be more popular with the children. Krusty goes to his current agent, hoping to get a new job, but the agent drops him since he got fired.
After the Simpsons have left the museum, they head for Krusty Burger where they discover Krusty crying in a ball pit. Krusty is encouraged by them into making a comeback, and they inform him that they met an agent that can help him out. However, when they all go to Annie's office, Annie instantly recognizes Krusty and angrily slams the door before he gets a chance to enter. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20Who%20%28season%2022%29 | The twenty-second season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 5 January 1985 and ended on 30 March 1985. It opened with the serial Attack of the Cybermen and ended with the serial Revelation of the Daleks. The season returned to the traditional Saturday transmission for the first time since Season 18, but for the first and only time in the classic series' first run it featured 45-minute episodes in its entirety. During transmission, BBC One controller Michael Grade announced an 18-month hiatus for the series, partly citing the violence depicted in the stories of the season. John Nathan-Turner produced the series, with Eric Saward script editing.
Casting
Main cast
Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor
Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown
Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor
Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon
Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant continue their roles as the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown.
Patrick Troughton and Frazer Hines return to play the Second Doctor and his companion Jamie McCrimmon in The Two Doctors. Their last on-screen appearance was (briefly in the case of Hines) The Five Doctors in 1983.
Recurring actors
Anthony Ainley as The Master
Kate O'Mara as the Rani
Terry Molloy as Davros
Anthony Ainley returns in The Mark of the Rani as The Master.
Kate O'Mara makes her first appearance as the Rani in The Mark of the Rani.
Terry Molloy returns to play Davros in Revelation of the Daleks and also played Russell in Attack of the Cybermen.
Guest stars
Maurice Colbourne returned as Lytton from the story Resurrection of the Daleks in Attack of the Cybermen.
David Banks makes his third of four appearances as a Cyber-leader in Attack of the Cybermen.
Michael Kilgarriff reprises his role of the Cyber-Controller from The Tomb of the Cybermen (1967).
Serials
The series moved back to once-weekly Saturday broadcasts. All episodes were 45 minutes long, though they also exist in 25-minute versions. Although there were now only 13 episodes in the season, the total running time remained approximately the same as in previous seasons since the episodes were almost twice as long.
Supplemental episodes
A specially written segment produced for the BBC children's programme Jim'll Fix It featuring Colin Baker in character as the Sixth Doctor. It was broadcast on 23 February 1985. It is not generally considered to be canonical by Doctor Who fans (although a book in the Big Finish Short Trips series nevertheless features a sequel to it).
Home media
VHS releases
DVD and Blu-ray releases
In print
References
Bibliography
1985 British television seasons
Season 22
Season 22
22 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-local%20variable | In programming language theory, a non-local variable is a variable that is not defined in the local scope. While the term can refer to global variables, it is primarily used in the context of nested and anonymous functions where some variables can be in neither the local nor the global scope.
In Lua they are called the upvalues of the function.
Examples
Nested functions
In the Python 3 example that follows there is a nested function inner defined in the scope of another function outer. The variable x is local to outer, but non-local to inner (nor is it global):
def outer():
x = 1
def inner():
nonlocal x
x += 1
print(x)
return inner
In Javascript, the locality of a variable is determined by the closest var statement for this variable. In the following example, x is local to outer as it contains a var x statement, while inner doesn't. Therefore, x is non-local to inner:
function outer() {
var x = 1;
function inner() {
x += 1;
console.log(x);
}
return inner;
}
Anonymous functions
In the Haskell example that follows the variable c is non-local in the anonymous function \x -> x + c:
outer = let c = 1 in map (\x -> x + c) [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Implementation issues
Non-local variables are the primary reason it is difficult to support nested, anonymous, higher-order and thereby first-class functions in a programming language.
If the nested function or functions are (mutually) recursive, it becomes hard for the compiler to know exactly where on the call stack the non-local variable was allocated, as the frame pointer only points to the local variable of the nested function itself and there can be an arbitrary number of activation records on the stack in between. This is generally solved using access links or display registers.
If the nested function is passed as an argument to a higher-order function a closure needs to be built in order to locate the non-local variables. If the nested function is returned as a result from its outer function (or stored in a variable) the non-local variables will no longer be available on the stack. They need to be heap allocated instead, and their lifetime extends beyond the lifetime of the outer function that declared and allocated them. This generally requires garbage-collection.
Notes
References
Aho, Lam, Sethi, and Ullman. "7.3 Access to Nonlocal Data on the Stack". Compilers: Principles, Techniques, & Tools. Second edition.
Programming language theory
Variable (computer science) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddleja%20cuspidata | Buddleja cuspidata is a species endemic to Madagascar, where it grows along river banks. The species was first named and described by Baker in 1895.
Description
Buddleja cuspidata is a shrub 3–4 m in height, with brown tomentose branchlets, obscurely quadrangular. The opposite, thinly coriaceous leaves' blades are ovate or elliptic, 9–20 cm long by 4–9 cm wide, acuminate at the apex, decurrent into the petiole, sparsely pubescent above, brown tomentose beneath; the margins serrate-dentate to crenate-dentate. The narrow yellow inflorescences are axillary and spicate, 3–15 cm long by 1–1.5 cm wide; the corollas 7.5–8.5 mm long.
Buddleja cuspidata is considered closely allied to B. axillaris and B. sphaerocalyx.
Cultivation
Buddleja cuspidata is not known to be in cultivation.
References
cuspidata
Flora of Madagascar
Flora of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Allan | Duncan Iain Allan known as Duncan 'Data' Allan (born 14 October 1991, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian-born Kenyan cricketer. An all-rounder and outstanding fielder, he was one of the greatest future and talented prospect for his national team, Kenya.
Along with Seren Waters, Allan is expected to be part of the team that pulls Kenya from their prolonged slump following the brilliant 2003 Cricket World Cup campaign. However, he did not play any major cricket since 2014.
Under-19 career
Allan was a consistent performer in the Under-19 circuit, including the African continental tournaments, the ICC U-19 World Cup Qualifier and the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He has contributed with both bat and ball, thus becoming the role of an "all-rounder".
In the 2011 Under-19 World Cup Qualifier, Allan performed brilliantly with the bat and the ball in Kenya's otherwise hugely disappointing campaign: they failed to qualify for the tournament proper after finishing second from the bottom. However, Allan was a huge success story, finishing with 14 wickets with his medium pace and joint second highest run-scorer with 455 runs including two centuries, and winning the Player of the Tournament award. This prompted ESPN Cricinfo Magazine to pronounce him "a ray of hope in a Kenya side that doesn't had too much to smile about".
Domestic career
Allan had played domestic cricket in tournaments like the East African Cup, the East Africa Elite League, the East African Premier League and the Sahara Elite League. He has played for Kenya Elite Team and has been playing for Kongonis in the Nairobi Club Ground since 2010.
Allan currently gaining a lot of recognition from Queensland selectors with his all-round success playing for the South Brisbane Magpies.
International
Consistent and all-round performances in the Under-19 Level earned Allan a Cricket Kenya central contract in September 2011.
He was selected and made his international debut in the limited-overs match against Netherlands at Voorburg on 12 September 2011. He scored 27 off 44 balls on debut and took a wicket (of Tom de Grooth), while giving away 29 runs from 7 overs, currently his best-bowling figures in international level. The Dutch won by two wickets with one over spare.
In the next ODI, Allan scored just eight off 28 balls. In five overs, he gave away 22 runs while taking the wicket of Stephan Myburgh. Netherlands won by four wickets with 30 balls spare.
References
1991 births
Living people
Sportsmen from Queensland
Kenya One Day International cricketers
Kenyan cricketers
Kenya Twenty20 International cricketers
Cricketers from Brisbane |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurant%20Weill | Laurant Weill, whose first name is sometimes spelled 'Laurent' is an entrepreneur and a pioneer of the microcomputer and video game industry in France and later on new interactive digital experiences.
In 1983 he co-founded with Marc Bayle the first French videogame company, Loriciel, which has quickly become one of the leading publishers of video games for personal computers in France. He participated in the creation of many companies such as Loriciel, Microids, Evolution, Broderbund France.
In 1994 Weill founded Visiware. He has become a world leader in interactive television. Visiware has also many other activities (PlayinStar, PlayAlong, LeStudio). In 2014 Weill created SYNC a spin off Visiware who is providing interactive 2nd screen platforms to enrich mobile experiences and advertising revenues. He invented and patented a new technology solution Sync2AD to synchronize Mobile with TV and radio.
References
External links
abandonware-france.org
Interview of Laurant Weill (2007)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
French video game designers |
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