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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted%20geometries | Twisted geometries are discrete geometries that play a role in loop quantum gravity and spin foam models,
where they appear in the semiclassical limit of spin networks. A twisted geometry can be visualized as collections of polyhedra dual to the nodes of the spin network's graph.
Intrinsic and extrinsic curvatures are defined in a manner similar to Regge calculus, but with the generalisation of including a certain type of metric discontinuities: the face shared by two adjacent polyhedra has a unique area, but its shape can be different.
This is a consequence of the quantum geometry of spin networks: ordinary Regge calculus is "too rigid" to account for all the geometric degrees of freedom described by the semiclassical limit of a spin network.
The name twisted geometry captures the relation between these additional degrees of freedom and the off-shell presence of torsion in the theory, but also the fact that this classical description can be derived from Twistor theory, by assigning a pair of twistors to each link of the graph, and suitably constraining their helicities and incidence relations.
References
Loop quantum gravity
Physics beyond the Standard Model |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Thoms | Kevin Thoms (born July 4, 1979) is an American actor, perhaps best known for providing the voice for Lance in Cartoon Network's Sym-Bionic Titan. Prior to this role, he has been cast in many films and television series including Riding In Cars With Boys, Ed, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, as either main roles or minor roles. He has also had a few other voice roles in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Fusion Fall (as Lance), Aion, and other video game and animated series.
Filmography
References
1979 births
Living people
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male voice actors
Male actors from New York (state)
People from Long Island
People from Smithtown, New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talent%20supply%20chain%20management | Talent Supply Chain Management is a proactive management approach to securing and optimizing talent supply and services through all input channels (supplier network) to meet the human capital (workforce) needs of companies, enabling them to better produce, distribute and deliver their goods and services and meet their strategic objectives.
In practice, Talent Supply Chain Management integrates Managed Service Provider (MSP) expertise with workforce analytics also referred to as supply chain intelligence (including talent supply/demand dynamics, insight on talent motivations, and applied principles of supply chain management), to deliver access to quality talent at competitive rates and with minimized risk.
See also
Talent management
References
Supply chain management
Human resource management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River%20Trail%20%28JavaScript%20engine%29 | River Trail (also known as Parallel JavaScript) is an open-source software engine designed by Intel for executing JavaScript code using parallel computing on multi-core processors.
River Trail was announced at the Intel Developer Forum in September 2011, and demonstrated using a Firefox extension developed by Intel. Brendan Eich, the original author of JavaScript, promised that he would promote River Trail within Ecma International, saying "The demo shows a 15x speedup over serial JavaScript. It lights up the ridiculously parallel hardware in modern CPUs and GPUs, for audio, video, image processing, automated voice response, computer vision, 3D gaming, etc. – all written in memory-safe, clean, functional JavaScript, without threads and their data races and deadlocks." Because River Trail leverages Intel's OpenCL SDK it can exploit multiple CPU cores as well as data parallel instructions (ex. AVX, SSE) and the speedup can be greater than the CPU core count would imply.
A native implementation of River Trail in Firefox's SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine was announced in September 2012 and was added to nightly Firefox builds in April 2013. By January 2015, the code had been removed from Firefox.
Operation
To use the engine scripts uses a special API, based on three pillars: a type called ParallelArray, several methods of Prototype of ParallelArray, and elementary functions.
References
External links
Tour of the SpiderMonkey Parallel JS Implementation: Part 1; Part 2
InfoQ interview: Rick Hudson on Parallel JavaScript (RiverTrail)
Proposed Parallel EcmaScript API
mozilla.dev.tech.js-engine.rivertrail discussion group
RiverTrail source on GitHub
Intel software
JavaScript engines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalanj%20University | Dalanj University is a public university in Dalang, South Kordofan State, Sudan.
The Teachers college was established in 1995 AD. This was followed in 1999 by the Centre for Peace Studies, Computer Center and College of additional studies, which evolved into the Faculty of Community Development. The Graduate School was established in 2001.
As of September 2011, the university was a member in good standing of the Association of African Universities.
References
Universities and colleges in Sudan
Educational institutions established in 1995
South Kordofan
1995 establishments in Sudan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends%3A%20Mononoke%20Shima%20no%20Naki | is a 2011 Japanese computer-animated film that is loosely based on the Japanese children's novel Naita Aka Oni by Hirosuke Hamada. It is directed by Takashi Yamazaki and Ryuichi Yagi. The film's script was also written by Yamazaki. SMAP member Shingo Katori and actor Koichi Yamadera voiced characters in the film.
Voice cast
Shingo Katori as Naki
Kōichi Yamadera as Gunjō
You as Mikke
Seishiro Kato as Konaki
Frogman as Samurai
Sadao Abe as Gōyan
Production
Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki was first announced on 7 December 2010. It is directed by Takashi Yamazaki, who previously directed the 2010 film Space Battleship Yamato. Shingo Katori, Koichi Yamadera, You, Sadao Abe and Seishiro Kato were announced as the film's voice cast in the same announcement. This film is billed as a "3-D Computer Graphics (3DGC)" anime film. A 2-D version of the film will also be produced and release at the same time as the 3-D version.
The teaser and its official website for this film was launched on 20 August 2011. In the same announcement, its Japan release date was set on 17 December 2011.
Theme song
The theme song of Friends: Mononoke Shima no Naki is Smile, the theme song of the 1936 film Modern Times. This version of the song is sung by the Japanese singer MISIA.
Release
It was released in Japanese cinemas on 17 December 2011.
References
External links
2010s children's fantasy films
2011 anime films
2011 computer-animated films
2011 films
Films based on fantasy novels
Films based on Japanese novels
Films directed by Takashi Yamazaki
2010s Japanese-language films
Shirogumi
Films scored by Naoki Satō |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Ann%20Buckles | Mary Ann Buckles is widely credited as the first academic to research and speculate about the emotional and cultural impact of videogames.
Buckles' dissertation, "Interactive Fiction: The Computer Storygame ‘Adventure’", gained attention twenty years after Buckles presented it to the department of German literature at the University of California, San Diego. Espen Aarseth, a researcher based in Copenhagen, is credited with raising the profile of Buckles' dissertation, which Aarseth quotes frequently from in his own book, Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature.
Buckles left academia after completing her dissertation in 1985, writing one article for Byte Magazine about interactive fiction as literature in 1987, which was based on her dissertation. In it, she discusses how interactive fiction games such as Adventure can have deeper meanings for players, partially because they are responsible for making the choices, and partially because unlike linear printed texts, the number of possible variations on the "story" are quite large.
Buckles received her Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego. , she works as a massage therapist in San Diego, California and was interviewed for the interactive fiction documentary, Get Lamp. She is married to her husband, Jack, a computational biologist.
See also
Get Lamp
References
External links
20th-century births
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of California, San Diego alumni
Video game researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtney%20C.%20Radsch | Courtney C. Radsch (born 1979) is an American journalist, author and advocate for freedom of expression. She is the author of Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change and worked as the advocacy director for the Committee to Protect Journalists until 2021. She has written and been interviewed extensively about digital activism and social media in the Middle East since 2006.
Work
Dr. Radsch is an internationally recognized expert on social media, citizen journalism, and activism and is frequently invited to comment about new media and the Middle East. She has appeared on CNN, Al Jazeera, MSNBC among other international outlets. Radsch also appeared in the PBS Frontline documentary Revolution in Egypt. She is the author of Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt: Digital Dissidence and Political Change (Palgrave Macmillan 2016).
Radsch's work on cyberactivism in the Egypt and the Middle East has been widely published and she is frequently asked to speak on the subject. Radsch is one of the earliest proponents of the political impact of cyberactivism in the Middle East and analysts of Arab media. As early as 2006 Radsch was writing about the revolutionary impact of blogging and social media in Egypt; in 2006 she presented a paper entitled "The Revolution Will be Blogged: New Media Cultural Configurations" at a conference in Cairo. Radsch's Arab Media blog, started in 2006, is one of the longest-running blogs on the topic. Radsch is the author of several book chapters about cyberactivism, social media and the Middle East.
In Core the Commonplace she traced the development of cyberactivism in Egypt, arguing that there were three distinct phases in the development of blogging: experimentation, activism and diversification and that blogging was having a significant political impact. Her extensive ethnographic research on Egyptian cyberactivism provides a unique insight into the antecedents of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. In her chapter on the blogosphere and social media in a study by the Stimson Center, Seismic Shift: Understanding Change in the Middle East she argues that between 2005 and 2010 Middle Eastern blogs and social media showed rising dissatisfaction with the status quo, declining levels of fear and visible capability to mobilize large political protests.
Career
Radsch began working as a professional journalist in 2003 when she worked as a news editor at The Daily Star (Lebanon). She then worked for The New York Times in the Washington Bureau where she covered the 2004 elections, Abu Ghraib, politics and culture.
In 2005, Radsch left the Times to pursue a Ph.D. in international relations at American University, where her research focused on cyberactivism in Egypt. Her dissertation, Digital Dissidence and Political Change: Cyberactivism and Citizen Journalism in Egypt, provides the first scholarly examination of the development of the youth movement in Egypt and the role that techno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceSniffer | SpaceSniffer is a freeware computer disk space analyser from Uderzo Software for Microsoft Windows platforms. It uses a treemap to visualise disk usage.
History
Developed by Uderzo Software (run by Umberto Uderzo) in Italy, SpaceSniffer was first released in 2009.
Features
SpaceSniffer comes in a single edition that runs on the Windows operating platform (from Windows 2000). The executable file can be simply copied without requiring any other installation process.
It is free for all uses, but donations are suggested. No source code is available.
Notable features include:
A treemap represents how disk capacity is allocated.
Filters (based on file name, age, size, etc.) enable the user to focus the visualisation on files and folders of interest.
User-chosen colours can be associated to different file types.
NTFS Alternate Data Streams are supported.
commandline usage (non-graphical, console usage)
Reception
The application has been reviewed favourably by editors and users. PCWorld concluded its review by pronouncing it a “recommended download” and Freewaregenius.com called it “a very well made program that is simple, intuitive, elegant, and very useful”.
Reviewers and users have noted that the treemap presentation “can be a bit overwhelming at times” or “cluttered and more complex than necessary” but concluded that it was “effective”.
Similar programs
For Windows WinDirStat, SequoiaView
For KDE: KDirStat, which inspired WinDirStat
For GTK: GdMap
For Mac OS X: Disk Inventory X
References
External links
Product page on the publisher's web site
Disk usage analysis software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum%20SportsNet%20%28Los%20Angeles%29 | Spectrum SportsNet, formerly Time Warner Cable SportsNet (abbreviated as TWC SportsNet), is an American regional sports cable and satellite television network owned by Charter Communications through its acquisition of Time Warner Cable in May 2016, with the Los Angeles Lakers maintaining editorial control over the content, including team-assigned reporters and anchors, as well as team-related programming. The network is based near the Lakers' team headquarters in the Los Angeles suburb of El Segundo, California.
Spectrum SportsNet launched at 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time on October 1, 2012. Spectrum SportsNet serves the Los Angeles and San Diego metropolitan areas, the Coachella Valley, the Central Coast of California, Las Vegas, and Hawaii.
Lakers game broadcasts serve as the centerpiece for the network. Spectrum SportsNet has been the exclusive home of all Lakers games that are not televised nationally since the 2012–13 NBA season. Other sports events aired on the network include Los Angeles Galaxy soccer and Los Angeles Sparks basketball games.
Spectrum Deportes (formerly Time Warner Cable Deportes, abbreviated as TWC Deportes), which was the first Spanish language Regional Sports Network in the U.S. at launch, was shut down on August 15, 2018, citing a lack of viewership.
Game broadcasts are carried in high definition in English. A Spanish language audio track is provided for all Lakers and Galaxy games via the second audio program function available on most television sets and cable receiver boxes. A Korean language audio track has been provided via the second audio program from 2012 to 2018; as a result, Spectrum SportsNet was the first English-language television network to offer Asian-language play-by-play audio of sporting events.
On April 1, 2020, it was announced that along with its sister station (SportsNet LA), Spectrum SportsNet would be added to AT&T's streaming platforms (AT&T TV and AT&T TV NOW) joining DIRECTV and AT&T U-verse which already carried the channel. The channel was officially added to customers with the CHOICE package or higher on the morning of April 8, 2020.
History
Los Angeles Lakers
On February 14, 2011, the Lakers and Time Warner Cable signed a $3 billion, 20-year cable television agreement which took effect in the fall of 2012. The network televises every Laker game not designated for an exclusive broadcast by either ABC, ESPN or TNT. The new venture ended long-standing broadcast partnerships with KCAL-TV (channel 9), which (dating back to its days as KHJ-TV) had televised the Lakers' road games since the 1977–78 season; and with Fox Sports West (now Bally Sports West), which in all of its incarnations had broadcast the team's home games since the 1985–86 season. The Lakers joined a growing list of NBA franchises that have abandoned over-the-air local telecasts in favor of their games being available exclusively on cable and satellite. Besides live games, the network also feature a team news magazine program, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRS%20Computing | HRS Computing is an opensource scientific software which simulates the hyper Rayleigh scattering (HRS) in nonlinear optics.
The software is designed for researchers, and it is used to verify the agreement between theoretical models and experimental data.
Main features
From the physics point of view the software provides coefficients that are useful for the determination of the microscopic structure of composites, molecules, etc.
the dipolar and quadripolar coefficients
the depolarization factor
Using these coefficients, the software also provides:
the visualization of simulated polar graphics generated by HRS
molecular position and dipolar momentum in 3D
easy data and graphics export
External links
HRS Computing official site
Physics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson%20Hendricks | Edson C. Hendricks (May 22, 1945 - August 29, 2020), an IBM computer scientist, developed RSCS (later known as VNET), fundamental software that powered the world’s largest network (or network of networks) prior to the Internet and which directly influenced both Internet development and user acceptance of networking between independently managed organizations. Within IBM, the resulting network later became known as VNET and grew to 4000 nodes. In the academic community, VNET formed the base for BITNET which extended to 500 organizations and 3,000 nodes. VNET was also the networking design underpinning EARN in Europe, and NETNORTH in Canada.
Biography
Hendricks was born on May 22, 1945, in Lemoyne, Pennsylvania. He attended Herman Avenue Elementary School, Washington Heights Elementary School (both in Lemoyne, Pennsylvania, Lemoyne Middle School, and Cedar Cliff High School in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, all in the West Shore School District. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in June, 1967 with a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. He began graduate studies with networking pioneer J. C. R. Licklider, but, impressed by the groundbreaking computer work being done nearby at the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center (CSC), he joined their staff in March 1968.
Hendricks left the CSC in July 1977, joining the IBM San Jose Research Laboratory. In 1983, unable to convince IBM management to support his networking ideas for joining VNET and TCP/IP, he left IBM and worked as an independent consultant for several years. He then joined the Linkabit Corporation, and later became one of the very earliest employees at ViaSat in Carlsbad, California.
He now lives in San Diego, California.
Hendricks died on August 29, 2020, in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California.
Technological innovations
As an undergraduate, Hendricks visited the MIT student employment center, where he was offered the position of computer operator, running an IBM System/360 model 65 computer.
Hendricks was rapidly promoted to systems programmer. When IBM added a 2250 video display to the 360/65, Hendricks looked for a project to learn how to program it. Upstairs in the same building, Steve Russell had created “Spacewar!,” the first computer game, using a DEC PDP-1 computer. Hendricks wrote his own game, also named “Spacewar!,” which was the first computer video game to run on an IBM Computer. For several years, MIT used Hendricks version of “Spacewar!” at their Annual Open House, making it possibly the first video game ever to be seen (and played) by the general public.
At IBM, Hendricks worked with the team that had developed the world’s first virtual machine operating systems, CP/CMS. A key problem with this new software architecture was finding a way to expand the functions of the system without significantly increasing the size of the hypervisor (control program). Hendricks developed the concept of a service virtual machine, implemented in a simple commun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koomey%27s%20law | Koomey's law describes a trend in the history of computing hardware: for about a half-century, the number of computations per joule of energy dissipated doubled about every 1.57 years. Professor Jonathan Koomey described the trend in a 2010 paper in which he wrote that "at a fixed computing load, the amount of battery you need will fall by a factor of two every year and a half."
This trend had been remarkably stable since the 1950s (R2 of over 98%). But in 2011, Koomey re-examined this data and found that after 2000, the doubling slowed to about once every 2.6 years. This is related to the slowing of Moore's law, the ability to build smaller transistors; and the end around 2005 of Dennard scaling, the ability to build smaller transistors with constant power density.
"The difference between these two growth rates is substantial. A doubling every year and a half results in a 100-fold increase in efficiency every decade. A doubling every two and a half years yields just a 16-fold increase", Koomey wrote.
Implications
The implications of Koomey's law are that the amount of battery needed for a fixed computing load will fall by a factor of 100 every decade. As computing devices become smaller and more mobile, this trend may be even more important than improvements in raw processing power for many applications. Furthermore, energy costs are becoming an increasing factor in the economics of data centers, further increasing the importance of Koomey's law.
The slowing of Koomey's law has implications for energy use in information and communications technology. However, because computers do not run at peak output continuously, the effect of this slowing may not be seen for a decade or more. Koomey writes that "as with any exponential trend, this one will eventually end...in a decade or so, energy use will once again be dominated by the power consumed when a computer is active. And that active power will still be hostage to the physics behind the slowdown in Moore's Law."
History
Koomey was the lead author of the article in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing that first documented the trend. At about the same time, Koomey published a short piece about it in IEEE Spectrum.
It was further discussed in MIT Technology Review, and in a post by Erik Brynjolfsson on the "Economics of Information" blog, and at The Economist online.
The trend was previously known for digital signal processors, and it was then named "Gene's law". The name came from Gene Frantz, an electrical engineer at Texas Instruments. Frantz had documented that power dissipation in DSPs had been reduced by half every 18 months, over a 25-year period.
Slowing and end of Koomey's law
Latest studies indicate that Koomey's Law has slowed to doubling every 2.6 years. This rate is a statistical average over many technologies and many years, but there are exceptions. For example, in 2020 AMD reported that, since 2014, the company has managed to improve the efficiency of its mobile proce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Shizuoka | is a television network headquartered in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The station, which began broadcasting on December 24, 1968, is an affiliate of Fuji News Network and Fuji Network System.
History
The main station (JOQH-TV; channel 35) was founded on February 13, 1968, and began broadcasting on December 24 of that year. Sometime after the station's sign on, a satellite station (JORH-TV; channel 34) began broadcasting from Hamamatsu. On March 23, 2005, the station began testing its digital terrestrial transmissions, which would formally commence on November 1 of that year, together with SDT and SATV. JOQH-TV broadcast simultaneously in both analog and digital formats until July 24, 2011, when JORH-TV permanently ceased broadcasting.
Programs
Karakuri Samurai Sesshaawan 1
Teppen Sizuoka every weekday 15:50-16:50
Prime News Shizuoka
TV Terakoya
Syndicated shows from the TX Network
Why Did You Come to Japan?
Aikatsu Planet!
Girls × Heroine
Yo-kai Watch (Until 2018)
Future Card Buddyfight (Until 2015)
Inazuma Eleven (Until 2012)
Bleach (Until 2011)
External links
Official website
1968 establishments in Japan
Japanese-language television stations
Fuji News Network
Mass media in Shizuoka (city)
Television channels and stations established in 1968
Television stations in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Kassel | The Kassel tramway network is a network of tramways, forming part of the public transport system in Kassel, a city in the north of the federal state of Hesse, Germany. , the Kassel tram network is made up of seven regular tramlines.
Opened in 1877 as a steam tramway from Wilhelmshöhe the Königsplatz (Royal Square), the network has been operated since 1897 by Kasseler Verkehrs-Gesellschaft (KVG), and is integrated in the Nordhessischer Verkehrsverbund (NVV). The track gauge is . There existed also a narrow gauge network to the Hercules monument. The network was extended gradually into the surrounding area, partly as conventional tramways, and partly as a tram-train RegioTram network.
History
In the summer of 1870 a horse-drawn omnibus line opened as part of an industrial exhibition from 1 June to 5 October 1870.
The growth of the city made it attractive to operate a steam tram which was opened in 1877 by the English company "Jay & Comp. London". With the first two steam locomotives and four passenger cars they brought visitors to the Royal Palace in Wilhelmshöhe.
Soon other vehicles, including locomotives made by Henschel, were added to the rolling stock. The Kassel steam train is considered to be the first tramway in Germany not pulled by horses. In 1881 the company was taken over by another company from Berlin which invested in its electrification in 1897.
The "Hercules Rail" was operated separately until 1927 bringing tourists to the Hercules monument.
System
Tram lines
, the Kassel tram network is made up of seven regular and one additional tramline.
RegioTram
In addition, Kassel is served by the three lines of the RegioTram system.
Rolling stock
Historic fleet
Until 1900 54 railcars were ordered at Van Zypen & Charlier and Crede. From 1955 to 1958 the railcar types "260", "261-288 (2 +2 Tw)" designed by Duewag and built in Kassel were put in service. They were in regular service until 1991. Ten vehicles were given to Gorzow in Poland and later scrapped, one of them went to the Warsaw tram friends. Other presented railcars are in two Dutch railway museums one in Hanover and one in Kassel. The next generation 301-317 and 351-366 was produced by Wegmann in Kassel in the 1960s and in service until 2003. Some of them still exist but are not in regular service any more.
Current fleet
417-422 (N8C): 16 units produced in 1981 and 6 in 1986 by Duewag - 401-416 sold to ZTM Gdańsk - 417, 419, 422 transported to Gdańzk in 2019 - only 3 operational units remaining in Cassel - 418, 420, 421
451–475 (NGT6C): 15 units produced from 1990 to 1991 and 10 in 1994 by Duewag
601–622 (8ENGTW): 22 units delivered by Bombardier from 1999 to 2000
631–640 (8ZNGTW): 10 units delivered by Bombardier in 2001 and 2003
651-672 (NGT8): 22 units delivered by Bombardier from 2011 to 2013
See also
Kassel RegioTram
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
Inline references
Bibliography
External links
Kasseler Verkeh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address%20plus%20Port | The Address plus Port (A+P) within the network layer communications protocol for Internet networking is an experimental approach to the IPv4 address shortage. It is a technique for sharing single IPv4 addresses among several users without using stateful network address translation in the carrier network.
Normal routing uses the IPv4 address only to identify which host an Internet Protocol packet is destined for. A+P uses the destination Transmission Control Protocol or User Datagram Protocol port in addition to the Internet Protocol address to extend the range of available host addresses. Each host is assigned a unique range of ports which they set as the source port in outbound packets and which they use to receive inbound traffic.
A+P is a stateless alternative to conventional stateful network address translation as the A+P gateway does not need to keep track of every Transmission Control Protocol or User Datagram Protocol flow. However, it does require A+P aware software at the end-point, capable of limiting the range of port numbers used for originating connections to its allocated range, either in the end host, or, in the more common likely scenario, in the customer premises equipment own local NAT44 implementation.
See also
IPv4 Residual Deployment (4rd) (implements stateless A+P)
Mapping of Address and Port
References
IPv4
Routing software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambaram%20railway%20station | Tambaram, is one of the railway terminals of the Chennai Beach–Tambaram section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It is situated at a distance of from the centre of Tambaram and located from Chennai Beach station. It is one of the fastest-growing railway hubs outside Chennai Central in the southern direction. Every day, on an average, around 3,50,000 commuters use the station. About 500 suburban electric trains operate from Tambaram, including those between Chennai Beach and Chengalpattu and Kancheepuram. Further, more than 25 express trains, including those bound for Howrah and other places in the northern India, pass through the town. It is also the third busiest station in the city (after Chennai Central and Chennai Egmore). It is one of the four railway terminals within Chennai City. The daily ticket sales at Tambaram fetch 1 million, half of which comes from suburban travellers. It is the second most revenue-generating station in Chennai after Moore Market Complex. A total of 52 trains pass through the station.
Tambaram Railway Station divides Tambaram into East Tambaram and West Tambaram. It has two entrances, namely, the West Tambaram entrance on the GST Road and the East Tambaram entrance on Velachery Road (opposite MCC College). There are nine platforms in the station. Platforms 1-4 are used for suburban trains between Chengalpattu and Chennai Beach and platforms between 5 and 9 are used by the suburban electric trains between Chennai Beach and Chengalpattu and Tirumalpur and also long-distance express trains. Most of the suburban electric train services originating from Tambaram to Beach and Chengalpattu leave from the first two platforms. There is a foot overbridge connecting East and West Tambaram with access to all platforms. In 2008, Southern Railway started building an additional platform at the westernmost side of the railway station, making Platform No.1 a double-discharge platform, a design that helps commuters to alight on either side of the train, similar to the one at Park railway station, where the passengers could alight on the western side for quicker access to Chennai Central.
History
The lines at the station were one of the first in Chennai to be electrified. They were energised on 1.5 kV DC in 1931 with the electrification of the Chennai Beach–Tambaram section, and the third line in the section was electrified on 15 January 1965. The lines further south from the station, up to Chengalpattu, were electrified on 9 January 1965. On 15 January 1967, all the lines were converted to 25 kV AC.
Traffic
Every day, 160 train services are operated between Chennai Beach and Tambaram, 70 between Tambaram and Chengalpet and 16 between Tambaram and Kancheepuram.
Ticket sales at Tambaram Station are the highest on the suburban sector. Monthly sales of tickets, which stood at 0.712 million in November 2010, went up to 0.75 million in November 2011, when the state government hiked bus fares. It shot up to 0.837 million in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%20series | F series may refer to:
Ford F series – trucks
Fujifilm FinePix F series – cameras
Mack F series – trucks
Sony Vaio F series – laptop computers
Sony Walkman F series – portable media players
Sony Ericsson F series – a series of cell phones
QI (F series) – the sixth series of the TV quiz show QI
Waco F series – biplanes
See also
E series (disambiguation)
G series (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDEF | The Standard Data Exchange Format (SDEF) provides a proprietary protocol to exchange project planning and progress data between scheduling systems and project management software. It is used by the United States Army Corps of Engineers USACE (or Corps Of Engineers, COE) in their project management and network analysis systems (NAS). The USACE publications library includes the exact SDEF specification in PDF format.
References
External links
Using Microsoft Project, you'll need another program (free) to create SDEF file, download from GeoComputer. You can also use web-based services such as SDEFSchedulePro to create your SDEF file quickly.
Project management software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiree%20Ortiz | Desiree Ortiz is a Venezuelan television host. Currently hosting "Show Business", on air in fourteen countries through the Venevisión network, Venevisión Plus and Mega TV.
Venevision (Ruge Manía) and Fox Sports were part of the journalist's early work.
Early life
She lived and worked in Spain, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Argentina and the United States. After commuting between Los Angeles and Miami, she settled down in the United States. In 2006, she acted as host for SKY Latin America's coverage of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, leading to her image being broadcast across the region.
She has also acted as hostess for Fashion TV in Bogotá, Colombia, covered the Mar del Plata music festivals in Argentina for On DirecTV, Mexico's TV Azteca's Sports, Univision's Control, France-Cannes Festival and The Fox Sports Awards.
Desiree has been featured in advertising campaigns for Miu Miu, 7 Up, Telefónica Movistar, Ferrero Rocher, EFE Ice Cream, Fiz, Mulco, Colgate (toothpaste), Armandeus hair stylists among others. Desiree currently is the host of Latin Angel Special, a television show dedicated to the beauty of women, gastronomy and tourism.
References
Living people
Actresses from Caracas
Universidad Santa María (Venezuela) alumni
Venezuelan female models
Venezuelan television presenters
Venezuelan women journalists
Venezuelan women television presenters
1981 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20South%20Park%20guest%20stars | South Park is an American animated television series created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the Comedy Central television network. Throughout the series, various celebrities have been impersonated (poorly) by the show's creators. However numerous celebrities have guest-starred in the following episodes.
Season 1
Episode 4: "Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride"
George Clooney as Sparky
Episode 10: "Damien (South Park)"
Michael Buffer as himself
Episode 11: "Tom's Rhinoplasty"
Natasha Henstridge (credited as "The Chick from Species" in the opening credits) as Ms. Ellen
Episode 12: "Mecha-Streisand"
Robert Smith as himself
Episode 13: "Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut"
Jay Leno as Mr. Kitty
Season 2
Episode 7: "City on the Edge of Forever"
Henry Winkler as the Kid-Eating Monster
Jay Leno as himself
Brent Musburger as Scuzzlebutt's leg
Episode 8: "Summer Sucks"
Jonathan Katz as Dr. Katz
Episode 14: "Chef Aid"
Joe Strummer as himself
Rancid as themselves
Ozzy Osbourne as himself
Ween as themselves
Primus as themselves
Elton John as himself
Meat Loaf as himself
Rick James as himself
DMX as himself
Devo as themselves
Season 3
Episode 1: "Rainforest Shmainforest"
Jennifer Aniston as Miss Stevens
Episode 10: "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery"
Korn (Jonathan Davis, James Shaffer, Brian Welch, Reginald Arvizu, David Silveria) as themselves
Season 4
Episode 1: "The Tooth Fairy's Tats 2000"
Richard Belzer as Loogie
Episode 6: "Cherokee Hair Tampons"
Cheech Marin as Carlos Ramirez
Tommy Chong as Chief Running Pinto
Episode 12: "Trapper Keeper"
Kief Davidson (credited as Keef Davidson) as Kindergarteners
Episode 13: "Helen Keller! The Musical"
Kief Davidson (credited as Keef Davidson) as Kindergarteners
Episode 14: "Pip"
Malcolm McDowell as narrator ("A British Person")
Episode 17: "A Very Crappy Christmas"
Louis Price (credited as Lewis Price) as Cornwallis' singing voice
Season 5
Episode 4: "Scott Tenorman Must Die"
Radiohead as themselves
Season 7
Episode 4: "I'm a Little Bit Country"
Norman Lear as Benjamin Franklin
Season 8
Episode 4: "You Got F'd in the A"
Yao Ming as Yao
Season 9
Episode 3: "Wing"
Wing as herself
Episode 4: "The Losing Edge"
Diedrich Bader as Bat Dad
Episode 10: "Follow That Egg!"
Jonathan Kimmel as Jakarta
Season 10
Episode 1: "The Return of Chef"
Peter Serafinowicz as Darth Chef
Episode 3: "Cartoon Wars Part 1"
Jonathan Kimmel as Peter Griffin
Episode 4: "Cartoon Wars Part 2"
Jonathan Kimmel as Peter Griffin
Episode 10: "Miss Teacher Bangs a Boy"
Kathryn Howell as Miss Stevenson
Season 13
Episode 5: "Fishsticks"
Jonathan Kimmel as Jimmy Kimmel
Season 14
Episode 9: "It's a Jersey Thing"
Robert Amstler as Arnold Schwarzenegger
Season 15
Episode 7: "You're Getting Old"
Bill Hader as farmer #2
Episode 13: "A History Channel Thanksgiving"
Patrick Lander as Duncan Everton / Donald T Brown
Season 16
Episode 6: "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining"
Michael Zazari |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Migration%20Network | The European Migration Network (EMN) is an EU funded network, set up with the aim of providing up-to-date, objective, reliable and comparable information on migration and asylum for Institutions of the European Union, plus authorities and institutions of the Member States of the European Union, in order to inform policymaking. The EMN also serves to provide the wider public with such information. The EMN was established by the Council of the European Union Decision 2008/381/EC adopted on 14 May 2008.
Objectives
The need for Member States to exchange information on all aspects of migration, and to contribute to a common asylum and immigration policy was initially proposed by the Laeken European Council in 2001 and reinforced through the Thessaloniki European Council in 2003, the year the EMN was launched as a pilot project. The Hague Programme reinforced the need for common analysis of migratory phenomena, and the successor Stockholm Programme contains many elements for the better comparability and exchange of information between Member States across the wide range of asylum and migration policy developments. Within this context, the EMN was established in 2008.
Network structure and organisation
The EMN is co-ordinated by the European Commission under the responsibility of the Directorate for Migration and Home Affairs, and in co-operation with National Contact Points (EMN NCPs) appointed in each Member State, and Norway, by their national government. The EMN NCPs consist of Ministries of Interior and of Justice, plus Research Institutes, Non-Governmental Organisations, and the national offices of an International Organisation. Each EMN NCP in turn co-ordinates a national network of relevant stakeholder organisations. The EMN is overseen by a Steering Board, chaired by the commission and including one representative from the Member States participating in the adoption of Council Decision 2008/381/EC plus, with observer status, representatives from the European Parliament, Frontex, Fundamental Rights Agency, European Asylum Support Office and the EU Anti-Trafficking Coordinator.
Reports, studies and other outputs
The EMN produces Annual Policy Reports and Studies and Policy Briefs (EMN Informs) on policy-relevant asylum and migration themes. The Reports and Studies are based on information held or collected by network members in the Member States, rather than primary research, which is then synthesised to provide a comparative perspective at the EU level. The EMN also has an Ad Hoc Query system for use by EMN members and has developed an EMN Asylum and Migration Glossary with the aim to incorporate this into the Inter-Active Terminology for Europe (IATE). The EMN also provides regular updates on political developments at EU level and in Member States, latest available migration and international protection statistics; and news of its own and other relevant outputs through its regular EMN Bulletin.
Since 2009, the EMN has contributed to the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64th%20Primetime%20Emmy%20Awards | The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards, honoring the best in prime time television programming from June 1, 2011 until May 31, 2012, were held on Sunday, September 23, 2012 at the Nokia Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, California. ABC televised the ceremony in the United States. Comedian and late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel hosted the Primetime Emmys for the first time. Kimmel and Kerry Washington announced the nominations on July 19, 2012. Nick Offerman was originally scheduled to co-announce the nominations, but had to cancel due to travel delays. The Creative Arts Emmy Awards ceremony was held on September 15 and was televised on September 22, 2012 on ReelzChannel.
The award for Outstanding Drama Series went to Showtime crime drama Homeland, the first for that network, and which broke Mad Mens four-year hold on the award; while the Outstanding Comedy Series award went for the third year in a row to ABC's Modern Family. This was the first ceremony that none of the four major American broadcasting TV networks were nominated in the categories of Outstanding Drama Series, Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. For Britain, the ceremony was noted for the successes of actors Damian Lewis of Homeland and Maggie Smith of Downton Abbey.
Of the latter, Dame Maggie not only was PBS' first win in her category, she had won the previous year, for the same role in another category. Hers was also the first win in a major acting category for a Drama Series for PBS since 1975.
Mad Men set a new record for the largest "shutout" in Emmy history, receiving nominations for 17 awards and winning none. This broke the previous record of 16 nominations without a win, set by Northern Exposure in 1993 and The Larry Sanders Show in 1997. This record was broken by The Handmaid's Tale in 2021, which did not win any of its 21 nominations that year.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold:
Programs
Acting
Lead performances
Supporting performances
Hosting
Directing
Writing
Most major nominations
Most major awards
Notes
Presenters
The awards were presented by the following:
In Memoriam
Before the recorded segment, Ron Howard presented a tribute to Andy Griffith.
The people tributed in the segment included:
Marvin Hamlisch
Davy Jones
Hal Kanter
Richard Dawson
Jim Paratore
Lee Rich
Sherman Hemsley
Phyllis Diller
William Asher
Celeste Holm
Michael Clarke Duncan
Lupe Ontiveros
James Farentino
Irving Fein
Heavy D
Chad Everett
Don Cornelius
Robert Hegyes
Ron Palillo
Robert Easton
Andy Rooney
John Rich
Michele O'Callaghan
Steve Jobs
Gil Cates
Bob Henry
Al Freeman Jr.
Patrice O'Neal
Whitney Houston
Ben Gazzara
Donna Summer
Tony Scott
Kathryn Joosten
Paul Bogart
William Windom
Norman Felton
Frank Pierson
Mike Wallace
Ernest Borgnine
Harry Morgan
Dick Clark
Televised ceremony ratings
The ceremony, which was televised by ABC on September 23, 2012, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-bit%20computing | In computer architecture, 1-bit integers or other data units are those that are (1/8 octet) wide. Also, 1-bit central processing unit (CPU) and arithmetic logic unit (ALU) architectures are those that are based on registers of that size.
There are no computers or microcontrollers of any kind that are exclusively 1-bit for all registers and address buses. A 1-bit register can only store 21 different values, i.e. 0 or 1 (off or on, respectively). This is very restrictive and therefore not enough for a program counter which, on modern systems, is implemented in an on-chip register, but is not implemented on-chip in some 1-bit systems. Opcodes for at least one 1-bit processor architecture were 4-bit and the address bus was 8-bit.
While 1-bit computing is mostly obsolete, 1-bit serial communication is still used in modern computers, that are otherwise e.g. 64-bit, and thus also have much larger buses.
While 1-bit CPUs are obsolete, the first carbon nanotube computer from 2013 is a 1-bit one-instruction set computer (and has only 178 transistors; since it has only one instruction though it can emulate 20 MIPS instructions).
1-bit
A serial computer processes data a single bit at a time. For example, the PDP-8/S was a 12-bit computer using a 1-bit ALU, processing the 12 bits serially.
An example of a 1-bit computer built from discrete logic SSI chips is the Wang 500 (1970/1971) calculator as well as the Wang 1200 (1971/1972) word processor series developed by Wang Laboratories.
An example of a 1-bit architecture that was marketed as a CPU is the Motorola MC14500B Industrial Control Unit (ICU), introduced in 1977 and manufactured at least up into the mid 1990s. Its manual states:
One of the computers known to be based on this CPU was the WDR 1-bit computer. A typical sequence of instructions from a program for a 1-bit architecture might be:
load digital input 1 into a 1-bit register;
OR the value in the 1-bit register with input 2, leaving the result in the register;
write the value in the 1-bit register to output 1.
This architecture was considered superior for programs making decisions rather than performing arithmetic computations, for ladder logic as well as for serial data processing.
There are also several design studies for 1-bit architectures in academia, and corresponding 1-bit logic can also be found in programming.
Other examples of 1-bit architectures are programmable logic controllers (PLCs), programmed in instruction list (IL).
Several early massively parallel computers used 1-bit architectures for the processors as well. Examples include the May 1983 Goodyear MPP and the 1985 Connection Machine. By using a 1-bit architecture for the individual processors a very large array (e.g. the Connection Machine had 65,536 processors) could be constructed with the chip technology available at the time. In this case the slow computation of a 1-bit processor was traded off against the large number of processors.
1-bit CPUs can now be c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjeev%20Goyal | Sanjeev Goyal FBA is an Indian-British economist, best known for his pioneering research on networks.
He is currently Arthur C. Pigou Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He received a BA (Honours, 1983) from Delhi University and an MA (1989) and PhD (1990) from Cornell University, all in economics. His book, Connections: an introduction to the economics of networks, was published by Princeton University Press in 2007; his second book, Networks: An Economics Approach, was published by MIT Press in 2023.
Sanjeev Goyal is a Fellow of the British Academy and Fellow of the Econometric Society. He was the founding Director of the Cambridge-INET Institute (2012–2014) and Chair of the Cambridge Economics Faculty (2014–2018).
References
V. Bala and S. Goyal (1998), Learning From Neighbors, Review of Economic Studies.
V. Bala and S. Goyal (2000), A Non-Cooperative Model of Network Formation, Econometrica.
S. Goyal and J.L. Moraga (2001), R&D Networks, RAND Journal.
S. Goyal and S. Joshi (2003), Networks of Collaboration in Oligopoly, Games and Econ Beh.
S. Goyal and F. Vega-Redondo (2005), Network formation and social coordination, Games and Econ Beh..
S.Goyal, M. vd Leij and J-L Moraga (2006), Economics: An Emerging Small World, Journal of Political Economy.
S. Goyal and F. Vega-Redondo (2007), Structural Holes in Social networks, Journal of Economic Theory.
A. Galeotti and S. Goyal (2009), Influencing and influencers: a theory of strategic diffusion, RAND Journal.
A. Galeotti, S. Goyal, M. Jackson, F. Vega-Redondo, L. Yariv (2010), Network Games, Review of Economic Studies.
A. Galeotti and S. Goyal (2010), The Law of the Few, American Economic Review.
S. Goyal and M. Kearns (2012), Competitive Contagion in Networks, Symposium on the Theory of Computing.
L. Ductor, M.Fafchamps, S. Goyal and M. v.d.Leij (2014), Social Networks & Research Output, Rev of Econ and Stats.
S. Goyal and A. Vigier (2014), Attack, defence and contagion in networks, Review of Economic Studies.
M. Dziubinski and S. Goyal (2016), How do you defend a network?, Theoretical Economics.
J. Gagnon and S. Goyal (2017), Networks, markets and inequality, American Economic Review
P. Dasgupta and S. Goyal (2019), Narrow Identities, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.
A. Galeotti, B. Golub and S. Goyal (2020), Targeting Interventions in Networks, Econometrica.
L. Ductor, S. Goyal and A. Prummer (2023), Gender and Collaboration, Review of Econ. and Stats.
External links
Goyal's official page;
Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge
Fellows of the British Academy
Fellows of the Econometric Society
Cornell University alumni
20th-century Indian economists
Hindu College, Delhi alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Berkun | Scott Berkun is an American author and speaker.
Berkun studied computer science, philosophy, and design at Carnegie Mellon University. He worked at Microsoft from 1994 to 2003 on Internet Explorer 1.0 to 5.0, Windows, MSN, and in roles including usability engineer, lead program manager, and UI design evangelist. He left Microsoft in 2003 with the goal of filling his bookshelf with books he has written.
He has written three best-selling books: Making things happen, The Myths of Innovation, and Confessions of a Public Speaker.
He taught creative thinking at the University of Washington, led an NYC architecture tour at the GEL conference, and his work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and on National Public Radio. Berkun makes a living speaking at events and teaching seminars around the world on topics including leading teams, managing projects, and creative thinking.
In 2008 he received the Jolt Award for Productivity Winner for his book The Myths of Innovation.
Bibliography
The Art of Project Management,
Making things happen,
The Myths of Innovation,
Confessions of a Public Speaker,
Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds,
The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work,
The Ghost of My Father
How Design Makes the World
References
External links
Scott Berkun web page.
Author page at O'Reilly Media
Living people
Writers from Seattle
American technology writers
American male bloggers
American bloggers
O'Reilly writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American non-fiction writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20XIV%20Storage%20System | The IBM XIV Storage System was a line of cabinet-size disk storage servers. The system is a collection of modules, each of which is an independent computer with its own memory, interconnections, disk drives, and other subcomponents, laid out in a grid and connected together in parallel using either InfiniBand (third generation systems) or Ethernet (second generation systems) connections. Each module has an x86 CPU and runs a software platform consisting largely of a modified Linux kernel and other open source software.
Description
Traditional storage systems distribute a volume across a subset of disk drives in a clustered fashion. The XIV storage system distributes volumes across all modules in 1 MiB chunks (partitions) so that all of the modules' resources are used evenly. For robustness, each logical partition is stored in at least two copies on separate modules, so that if a part of a disk drive, an entire disk drive, or an entire module fails, the data is still available.
One can increase the system storage capacity by adding additional modules. When one adds a module, the system automatically redistributes previously stored data to make optimal use of its I/O capacity. Depending on the model and disk type chosen when the machine is ordered, one system can be configured for storage capacity from 27 TB to 324 TB.
The XIV software features include remote mirroring, thin provisioning, quality of service controls, LDAP authentication support, VMware support, differential, writable snapshots, online volume migration between two XIV systems and encryption protecting data at rest.
The IBM XIV management GUI is a software package that can be installed on operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS.
An XIV Mobile Dashboard available for Android or iOS.
History
The IBM XIV Storage System was developed in 2002 by an Israeli start-up company funded and headed by engineer and businessman Moshe Yanai. They delivered their first system to a customer in 2005. Their product was called Nextra.
In December 2007, the IBM Corporation acquired XIV, renaming the product the IBM XIV Storage System. The first IBM version of the product was launched publicly on September 8, 2008. Unofficially within IBM this product is called Generation 2 of the XIV.
The differences between Gen1 and Gen2 were not architectural, they were mainly physical. New disks were introduced, new controllers, new interconnects, improved management, additional software functions.
In September 2011, IBM announced larger disk drives, changing the inter-connectivity layer to use InfiniBand rather than Ethernet.
In 2012-2013 IBM added the support of SSD devices and 10GbE host connectivity.
See also
IBM storage
IBM DS8000 series
References
External links
IBM Redbooks that contain information on IBM XIV
Official IBM Information page on XIV
Data storage
IBM storage servers
Mergers and acquisitions of Israeli companies
Israeli inventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20Privacy%20Guard | Android Privacy Guard (APG) is a free and open-source app for the Android operating system that provides strong, user-based encryption which is compatible with the Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) programs. This allows users to encrypt, decrypt, digitally sign, and verify signatures for text, emails, and other files.
The application allows the user to store the credentials of other users with whom they interact, and to encrypt files such that only a specified user can decrypt them. In the same manner, if a file is received from another user and its credentials are saved, the receiver can verify the authenticity of that file and decrypt it if necessary.
The specific implementation in APG relies on the Spongy Castle APIs.
APG has not been updated since March 2014 and is no longer under active development. The development has been picked up by OpenKeychain.
Reception
After its initial release in June 2010, it has gained a strong following with over 2000 reviews and over 100,000 installs from the Google Play store. Several tutorials have been written which instruct new users in how to set up APG on an Android phone. These tutorials generally reference APGs interaction with the K-9 Mail Android e-mail client.
OpenKeychain
Between December 2010 and October 2013 no new version of APG was released. In the light of the global surveillance disclosures this lack of development was viewed critically by the community. In September 2013 a fork of APG was released, version 2.1 of OpenKeychain. Some of the new features and improvements were subsequently merged back to APG. However, this process stopped in March 2014, while the OpenKeychain project continued to release new versions. As of February 2016 the development of OpenKeychain is more active than that of APG. Notable features of OpenKeychain include a modern user interface, support for NFC and the YubiKey NEO.
References
External links
GitHub repository
Software reviews and tutorials
Guardian Project: Lockdown your mobile email
Setting up from scratch
Free and open-source Android software
OpenPGP
Cryptographic software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Services%20Group | World Services Group (WSG) is a global multidisciplinary professional services network composed of independent law, accounting and investment banking firms. It ranks as one of the largest among the more than 200 professional service networks in the world. WSG members are independent law, accounting and investment banking firms. According to the organization's website , WSG was formed in 2002 as a multidisciplinary network comprising over 120 member firms in 150 jurisdictions and 23,000 professionals. Its global headquarters are located in the Houston, Texas.
Governance
WSG is a global professional services network of independent firms who represent their own individual client. In WSG, like most of these organizations member firms are highly vetted and are required to be top tier firms. WSG is governed by a board of directors consisting of representatives from each region and from the various services that the members provide. WSG operates and is managed by a staff out of Houston, Texas.
Officers
Herman H. Raspé, Patterson Belknap - Chair
Anastasia Campbell, Graham Thompson - Chair Elect
André Vautour, Lavery - Secretary
David Gutierrez, BLP -Treasurer
Stefan Erhag, Delphi - Chair Emeritus
Maricarmen Trujillo, World Services Group - Chief Operating Officer
Directors
The directors are representative of their industry and regions.
Bashir Ahmed, Afridi & Angell (Legal - United Arab Emirates)
Rafael Calvo Salinero, Garrigues (Legal - Spain)
Paul Carlyle, Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP (Legal - Scotland)
Jesus Colunga, Basham, Ringe y Correa, S.C. (Legal - Mexico)
Matthew P. Fisher, Hanson Bridgett (Legal - San Francisco, CA, USA)
Bonnie L. Dixon, Atsumi & Sakai (Legal - Japan)
Shahira Khaled, Al Kamel Law Office (Legal - Egypt)
Xiaoming Li, Han Kun Law Offices (Legal - China)
Jaime Robledo Vasquez, Brigard Urrutia (Legal - Columbia)
Martin Simovart, Cobalt (Legal - Estonia)
Global structure
WSG is divided into six regions: Africa and Middle East, Asia Pacific, Caribbean, Europe, Latin America, and North America. Each region has a regional Council consisting of five WSG member representatives. All WSG members are recognized as leading independent firms in their region by the top ranking publications and awards including, Members regularly rank in Chambers and Partners, Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers, Legal 500, International Financial Law Review 1000 and other rating organizations.
See also
Umbrella organization
Business networking
Organizational Studies
Professional services networks
References
Professional networks
International law organizations
International organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODB%2B%2B | ODB++ is a proprietary CAD-to-CAM data exchange format used in the design and manufacture of electronic devices. Its purpose is to exchange printed circuit board design information between design and manufacturing and between design tools from different EDA/ECAD vendors. It was originally developed by Valor Computerized Systems, Ltd. (acquired in 2010 by Mentor Graphics which was later acquired by Siemens in 2016) as the job description format for their CAM system.
ODB stands for open database, but its openness is disputed, as discussed below. The '++' suffix, evocative of C++, was added in 1997 with the addition of component descriptions. There are two versions of ODB++: the original (now controlled by Mentor) and an XML version called ODB++(X) that Valor developed and donated to the IPC organization in an attempt to merge GenCAM (IPC-2511) and ODB++ into Offspring (IPC-2581).
Introduction
Inside almost every electronic device is a PCB onto which the semiconductor and other components are mechanically and electrically connected by soldering. These PCBs are designed using a computer-aided design (CAD) system. To physically realize the design, the computerized design information must be transferred to a photolithographic computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) system. Since the CAD and CAM systems are generally produced by different companies, they have to agree on a CAD-to-CAM data exchange format to transfer the data. ODB++ is one such file format for performing this transfer. Other formats are compared and contrasted below. After the bare board is manufactured, the electronic components are placed and soldered, for example by SMT placement equipment and wave or reflow soldering.
File structure
When in use, ODB++ data is stored in a hierarchy of files and file folders. However, for transmission it is convenient to use common operating system commands that create a single, compressed file that preserves the hierarchy information. For example, on Unix and commands can be used. In ODB++(X), the database is contained in a single XML file by default.
ODB++ covers the specification of not only conductor layer artwork and drill data, but also material stack up, netlist with test points, component bill of materials, component placement, fabrication data, and dimension data.
History
Valor was founded in 1992 and it released ODB in 1995. It added the ++ suffix when component names were added in 1997. The XML version was developed beginning 2000, and ended in 2008 with the donation to IPC. Valor was acquired by Mentor in 2010.
The ODB++ data format was expanded in 2020 and was designed to facilitate communication between designer and manufacturer by use of a digital twin. The format was renamed the ODB++ Family and was split into three connected format uses.
ODB++Design: Created using typical EDA software, used for design for manufacturing, fabrication, test and assembly analysis (DFx), as well as being the single carrier of design data to electronic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoHo%20%28New%20Zealand%20TV%20channel%29 | SoHo is a premium entertainment channel in New Zealand available on Sky Network Television. The channel mainly broadcasts popular shows from American cable networks Showtime, AMC, Starz, HBO and FX, which are themselves not available in New Zealand. It also broadcasts shows from Britain, especially from the BBC, and also broadcasts films.
Services
There is also a SoHo channel in Australia, which launched on 20 August 2012.
A sister channel, SoHo2 launched on 7 November 2018.
SoHo2 was closed on 16 March 2021 and all the content was moved to the SoHo channel.
Content
In 2022, SoHo will distribute the Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon alongside Sky's streaming service Neon.
References
External links
Television channels in New Zealand
Television channels and stations established in 2011
English-language television stations in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shwetak%20Patel | Shwetak Naran Patel is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known for his work on developing novel sensing solutions and ubiquitous computing. He is the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Endowed Professor at the University of Washington in Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering, where he joined in 2008. His technology start-up company on energy sensing, Zensi, was acquired by Belkin International, Inc. in 2010. He was named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. In 2016, He was elected as an ACM Fellow for contributions to sustainability sensing, low-power wireless sensing and mobile health and received Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). He was named the recipient of the 2018 ACM Prize in Computing for contributions to creative and practical sensing systems for sustainability and health.
Early life and career
Shwetak Patel was born on December 9, 1981 in Selma, Alabama, though he was raised in Birmingham, Alabama. He attended Jefferson County International Baccalaureate School for high school in Birmingham, graduating in 2000. He received his B.S. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003, and then continued on to receive his Ph.D. in computer science in 2008 under the advisement of Dr. Gregory Abowd. He started as an assistant professor at the University of Washington in 2008, where he remains today. In July 2013, he was promoted to associate professor, and then in July 2014 was named the Washington Research Foundation Endowed Professor.
Professional career
Patel’s research is broadly in the areas of ubiquitous computing, human-computer interaction, and user interface software and technology. He has published over 50 articles since 2003 and has received numerous best paper awards. Patel focuses on developing easy-to-deploy sensing technologies, activity recognition, and applications for energy monitoring. He also has developed novel interaction techniques for mobile devices, mobile sensing systems, and wireless sensor platforms, many of which in collaboration with Microsoft Research, where is also a visiting researcher. Dr. Patel's primary research has been in building low-cost and easy-to-deploy sensing systems, which he calls Infrastructure Mediated Sensing. These approaches leverage utility infrastructures in a home to support whole-house sensing.
Patel co-founded a company called Zensi, Inc., while he was a graduate student at Georgia Tech. Zensi was a demand-side energy monitoring solutions provider. In 2010, Zensi was acquired by Belkin, Inc in 2010 for an undisclosed sum. This acquisition resulted in numerous awards for Patel, including making the cover of Seattle Business magazine, newsmaker of the year by TechFlash, and was named one of the top 10 start up stories of 2010 by TechFlash.
Patel has also received international recognition for his work, including the MacArthur Fellowship in 2011, the MIT Technology Review TR-35 award in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reev%20Robledo | Reev Robledo is a music composer, songwriter, teacher and author. He has written various TV themes for networks ABS-CBN, GMA, TV5, JackTV, Velvet Channel, My Movie Channel and Balls. His first commercially released song "Paano Ang Pasko" won Best Christmas Recording in the 11th Awit Awards. In 2014, his first novel, Gitarista, won the Filipino Readers' Choice Awards for fiction in English.
TV themes
ABS-CBN
Rated K (2011)
ABS-CBN News Channel station ID (2010)
Krusada (2010)
Probe Profiles (2009)
KNN Kabataan News Network (2006)
TV5
Unang Tikim (2014)
Bigtime (2014)
Kaya (2014)
Good Morning Club (2012)
Pilipinas News (2012)
Rescue 5 (2012)
T3: Reload (2011)
Alagang Kapatid (2011)
Balitang 60 (2011))
Balitaang Tapat (2011)
Journo (2010)
Kidztown (2001)
My Movie Channel
My Movie Channel station ID (2014)
Jack TV
JackTV station ID (2011)
Velvet Channel
Velvet Channel station ID (2012)
Balls TV
Balls (TV channel) station ID (2014)
GMA
Txtube (2005)
Fanatxt (2005)
I-Witness (2002)
Partners Mel and Jay (2002)
Books
The Legend of The Cram (2014)
Gitarista (2013)
Musicals
The Testimonies (2009)
Shepherd King, The Story of David (2006)
External links
Official Website
Best Christmas Song 11th Awit Awards
Gitarista: Winner Fiction in English, Filipino Readers' Choice Awards 2014
Reev Robledo's Goodreads Author Page
Reev's Vimeo Channel
Earth Hour Philippines Theme Song Composer "If We Try"
Notable Manila Science Alumni
Living people
Filipino composers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Editors%20Network | The Global Editors Network (GEN) was an international association of over 6,000 editors-in-chief and media executives with the mission of fostering digital innovation in newsrooms all over the world. GEN had three main programmes: Editors Lab, the Data Journalism Awards, Startups for News, as well as an upcoming hub for the international data journalism community. The organisation’s flagship event, the GEN Summit, gathered over 830 participants from 70 countries. The GEN newsletter was read weekly by more than 13,800 subscribers. It is a non-profit, non-governmental association.
Its goal was to empower newsroom leaders to innovate by breaking down the barriers between traditional and new media. GEN also strived to demonstrate the value of data journalism so that information can be gathered and shared to define an open journalism model for the future, and create new journalistic concepts and tools.
The GEN Community was launched in September 2014. The GEN Community website enabled people to connect, share, compare, collaborate on new media projects. Prototypes from the Editors Lab program and the Data Journalism Awards were also featured on the GEN Community. There were more than 1,600 projects and 3,900 members on the GEN Community. The GEN Community was supported by the Open Society Foundations.
GEN was established to respond to the increasing risks journalism faces, as media must be relevant and constantly innovate. Its role was to gather editors with different knowledge sets and to start a dialogue with engineers, developers and digital innovators. Its founding members were leading editors and top executives at The Washington Post, El País, BBC, Le Monde, Aftenposten, The Guardian, Clarìn, and many other media brands worldwide. It was a nonprofit organisation, financed through grants, membership, participation to the annual GEN Summit, sponsorship and donations.
The Global Editors Network announced on 7 November 2019 that it would cease its activities due to a lack of sustainable finances.
Mission
GEN's objective was to promote newsroom innovation, foster new storytelling methods, and define the future of journalism by empowering editors-in-chief and senior news executives when working with publishers, media owners and news suppliers, as the delivery of news migrated to digital platforms. Editors on all platforms were confronted with the same challenges in news production. It was more obvious every day that they are members of the same community, all driven by a journalistic imperative and a common goal: how to invent tomorrow's journalism and to make it sustainable.
The senior news executives who founded the Global Editors Network (GEN) were convinced that news producers and newsrooms across all platforms – print, broadcast, online, mobile and wire services – face comparable challenges. The association encouraged multilateral cooperation and collaborated with media development bodies and international journalism associations.
Activities |
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Rodenberger Aue is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It flows into the Westaue near Hagenburg.
Tributaries
In brackets: origin Deister, Süntel or Bückeberg
Flöttenbach (Deister)
Eimbeckhäuser Dorfbach (Deister)
Walterbach or Waltershagener Bach (Deister)
Hülseder Bach (Süntel)
Meinser Bach (Süntel)
Riesbach (Bückeberg)
Pohler Bach (Süntel)
Altenhäger Bach (Deister)
Blumenhäger Bach (Deister)
Schlierbach (Deister)
Salzbach (Bückeberg)
Ackersbeeke (Deister)
Rodebach (Deister)
Rieper Flahbach (Bückeberg)
See also
List of rivers of Lower Saxony
References
Rivers of Lower Saxony
Rivers of Germany |
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Westaue is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It springs from the confluence of the Rodenberger Aue and the Sachsenhäger Aue. It flows into the Leine north of Wunstorf.
See also
List of rivers of Lower Saxony
References
Rivers of Lower Saxony
Rivers of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsch%20Klasse | Deutsch Klasse is a German television series.
See also
List of German television series
2003 German television series debuts
German-language education television programming
Das Erste original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkCentre%20A%20series | The A Series desktops are part of Lenovo’s ThinkCentre product line. Formerly an IBM brand, Lenovo acquired the ThinkCentre desktop brand following its purchase of IBM’s Personal Computing Division (PCD) in 2005. The first desktop in the A Series was the ThinkCentre A50p. Lenovo has released A Series desktops in multiple form factors, ranging from traditional tower, to small form factor, and all-in-ones (AIOs).
2010
A70
The A70 was released by Lenovo in 2010 with the following specifications:
Processor: 2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E7500
RAM: Up to 4 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 SDRAM
Storage: Up to 500 GB
Optical Drive: DVD reader/writer
Graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500
Form Factor: Small form factor
A70z
The ThinkCentre A70z was an all-in-one (AIO) desktop released by Lenovo in 2010. The AIO offered the following specifications:
Processor: 2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E7500
RAM: 2GB
Graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X4500
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (32-bit)
Engadget reported that the A70z was easy to set up and offered a 35-second boot time, in-line with Lenovo's claims. The A70z was capable of handling high-definition video and running Adobe Photoshop with ease, making it suitable for everyday business use. However, the presence of the integrated graphics card prevented 3D gaming on the desktop.
The ThinkCentre A70z received positive reviews from Inc., Desktop Review, and Hardware Central. Inc. ranked the ThinkCentre A70z third on its list of ‘Best New Business Desktops’. Desktop Review listed the A70z desktop on its list of ‘Top 10 Desktops for Back to School’. Hardware Central awarded the desktop 12 out of 15 stars, with 4 of 5 stars for features, performance, and value respectively.
A58
Announced in March 2010, the ThinkCentre A58 desktop was equipped with the Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 processor with a speed of 2.5 GHz,
up to a Core 2 quad q9x50. 3 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, a 250 GB 7200 RPM SATA hard disk drive up to 1 TB 7200 RPM and an 160 GB 10,000 RPM drive, Integrated HD audio with a built-in mono speaker, Intel GMA 4500 integrated graphics, Microsoft Windows Vista Business, 6 USB2.0 ports, 2 PS/2 inputs, and 2 headphone and microphone audio jacks with line out. Desktop Review listed the pros of the desktop as being the build quality, legacy ports, and power saving software. The cons were listed as wasted internal space, the absence of card readers, and the limited port selection.
2007
A55
PC World indicated that the ThinkCentre A55 small form factor desktop, announced in January 2007, was a “pure business PC.". The desktop incorporated a mid-range processor, the Intel E6300 Core 2 Duo with a speed of 1.83 GHz, and offered a maximum of 4 GB of DDR2 667 MHz RAM on 2 DIMM slots. PC World noted that the desktop scored 89 on its World Bench 5 test, indicating that it could run most software packages available at the time with ease.
A61e
The ThinkCentre A61e desktop was announced in September 2007 a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das%20Geheimnis%20meiner%20Familie | Das Geheimnis meiner Familie is a German television series. It is aired in Germany's Das Erste and its sister network, EinsFestival, including its localized networks such as WDR and SWR Fernsehen. It is also aired in 3sat, a network which shared by both German, Austrian and Swiss broadcasters such as ZDF, ARD, ORF and SRG SSR. It is a German adaptation of the UK TV series Who Do You Think You Are?
People featured in the series
Christine Neubauer, 14 April 2008.
See also
List of German television series
References
External links
2008 German television series debuts
2008 German television series endings
German-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der%20Hausgeist | Der Hausgeist ("The House Spirit") is a German comedy television series that aired on the ZDF network from September 13, 1991, to February 3, 1993. It starred Susanne Uhlen, Stefan Behrens, Volker Lechtenbrink, Ursela Monn, Gabi Heinecke and Hans-Werner Bussinger.
See also
List of German television series
External links
1991 German television series debuts
1993 German television series endings
German comedy television series
German fantasy television series
German supernatural television series
German-language television shows
ZDF original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich%20heirate%20eine%20Familie | Ich heirate eine Familie (I am marrying a family) is a television series that aired from 1983 to 1986 on German television network ZDF. 14 episodes were produced.
Curth Flatow wrote the screenplays, while all episodes were directed by Peter Weck. The show's music is composed by Alain Goraguer.
The divorced Angelika "Angie" Graf (Thekla Carola Wied) lives with her three children, teenage daughter Tanja (Julia Biedermann) and younger sons Markus and Tom, in West Berlin, where she runs a small children's boutique.
Her friends Sybille "Bille" (Maria Sebaldt) and Alfons Vonhoff (Herbert Bötticher) are convinced that Angie needs a new man in her life. Thus, they try to pair her off with Vienna-born commercial artist Werner Schumann (Peter Weck), a divorcee himself, who is watched over by his curious and jealous housekeeper Mrs. Raabe (Bruni Löbel).
Bille and Alfons' idea first does not work out when Werner unexpectedly shows up with his current girlfriend at the party they organize to bring Angie and Werner together.
However, Angie and Werner get to know each other and end up secretly dating, but Werner does not know about Angie's children at first.
The screenplay includes strong, ironic dialogues and ensures some slapstick, above all the character of Werner with his Viennesse charm is a pillar of the story.
In contrast to Schumanns' happy relationship is the dysfunctional marriage of Bille and Alfons.
Flatow processed autobiographical experiences in his script after himself marrying a woman with several children. The role of Werner was originally given to Harald Juhnke with Peter Weck only directing, but Juhnke's alcoholism caused the producers to cast Weck as leading character.
External links
1983 German television series debuts
1986 German television series endings
ZDF original programming
German-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoNaLu | JoNaLu is a 2010 German computer-animated children's television series. The main characters are a male mouse named Jo, a female mouse named Naya, and a male ladybug named Ludwig (nicknamed Lu).
See also
List of German television series
References
External links
2010 German television series debuts
2010s German animated television series
German television series with live action and animation
German children's animated television series
German-language television shows
Computer-animated television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20%26%20Perry | Nick & Perry (also known as Les Marchien) is an animated television series created by Udo Beissel for Cartoon Network. It is about two alien dogs, Nick and Perry, who crash land on Earth and try to blend in with normal dogs, while hiding their alien secret from the people. The series stars Rolf Berg and Daniel Werner as the titular characters, Nick and Perry. The program originally ran from 2000 to 2001, broadcasting 52 episodes over two seasons.
Premise
Nick and Perry, the title characters of the series, are two alien dogs, who crash-landed from their planet Dogmas, to planet Earth. They have to disguise themselves as regular dogs, to prevent their secret from coming out, or else they will be sold to science. Perry and Nick study Earth culture throughout the series while also trying to find a way home, with Perry interested in the functions and workings of Earth culture, and Nick looking at the bright side of things.
Characters
Nick is a tall, orange dog with a proud stature. He is very fascinated in Earth life, especially television, and his love interest, Sofia. He is lazy, loves pleasure, and is very optimistic, not having a bad thought about anyone. Unlike other dogs, he is a vegetarian. He is not too smart compared to his friend, Perry, although the two can work together well.
Perry is a small, blue dog resembling a beagle. He is highly intelligent, and is extraordinarily talented in technology and can build highly complex apparatus out of simple human objects. The easy-going Nick often causes him a lot of trouble, especially when he messes up his return plans. Despite this, they are friends, and they both work well together.
Lucy is a little girl who wanted nothing more than a dog for her birthday. When a UFO crashed overnight in her garden and the normally upright and talking dog manners Nick and Perry had to disguise themselves as earth dogs, she thought they were a gift from her father. Lucy is a very bright, adventurous only child.
Frank is a history professor and a single father. When Lucy thinks the two dog manners are a present from him, he can't bring himself to disappoint her and keeps Nick and Perry. Frank is often a little absent-minded and gullible.
Mr. Smith is Frank and Lucy's spiteful neighbor and a part-time UFO hunter who tries to catch Nick and Perry in non-dog behavior and then sell them to science.
Production
The series was produced in 1998 and 1999 under the direction of Tony Barnes by Ellipse Animation, TFC Trickompany Filmproduktion and Victory 16. Film Production. Danny Chang composed the music.
It was first broadcast on October 25, 2000 by M6 Métropole Télévision in France. In Germany, the series was shown on September 11, 2001 to September 27, 2001 on Ki.Ka.
See also
List of German television series
External links
2000s French animated television series
2000s German animated television series
French children's animated comic science fiction television series
German children's animated comedy television se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan%C3%A8te%20N%C3%A9mo | Planète Némo is a German television series.
See also
List of German television series
1998 German television series debuts
French-language education television programming
Das Erste original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playtime%20%28TV%20series%29 | Playtime (Sprachkurs) is a German television series.
See also
List of German television series
1980s German television series
English-language education television programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die%20Rosenheim-Cops | is a German television series set in Chiemgau, mainly in Rosenheim. It is produced by the Bavaria Film GmbH for the ZDF public TV network.
The cost per episode is estimated at 425,000 euros.
Concept
The series' main overall focus lies on the contrasting personalities of a rustic Upper Bavarian small town inspector and his frequently replaced city slicker colleague, who has usually been transferred to the town for mostly incomprehensible reasons. Despite all differences, the new colleague is always warmly received and quickly integrated into the team.
The small town inspector Korbinian Hofer was played by Joseph Hannesschläger, who died in January 2020.
Each episode usually starts with the discovery of a body. This is communicated to the investigators by the secretary Mrs. Stockl with the words "Es gabat a Leich!" (Bavarian dialect for "There is a dead body").
Due to the show's lighthearted nature, it is customary for episodes to feature a comedic side plot, which runs parallel to the central storyline and is usually resolved right after the main plot's conclusion. These side stories are almost always in no way connected to the murder investigation the main story commonly consists of and may feature any kind of potentially humorous scenario, from an unexpected lottery win to more general events like comedic occurrences at the police office or on a farm. This kind of general writing scheme is exceedingly characteristic for early-evening crime shows on German public television.
Participating actors and actresses include: Marlene Morreis.
See also
List of German television series
References
External links
German crime television series
2000s German police procedural television series
2010s German police procedural television series
2020s German police procedural television series
Television shows set in Bavaria
2002 German television series debuts
2010s German television series
German-language television shows
ZDF original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCE | KCE may refer to:
Kinetic capillary electrophoresis
King Country Energy, a New Zealand electricity company
Konami Computer Entertainment, Japan
Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viens%20jouer%20avec%20nous | Viens jouer avec nous is a German television series.
See also
List of German television series
French-language education television programming
1983 German television series debuts
1983 German television series endings
German television shows featuring puppetry
Das Erste original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20von%20gestern | Western von gestern (lit.: "Yesterday's Western") was a West German movie showcase series that aired on the ZDF network from May 1978 to July 1986.
Concept
Western von gestern was the collective showcase title for a number of American black-and-white Western films and serials from the 1930s to the 1950s. The adaptation script was written by Joe Hembus and Eydo von Hadeln, and the music (which featured original soundtracks, rather than using the originals' musical scores) was composed by Fred Strittmatter and Quirin Amper Jr..
The featured list includes Zorro's Black Whip and several early films with John Wayne, Al St. John (in his popular role as "Fuzzy Jones"), Buster Crabbe and Roy Rogers (Days of Jesse James). However, to accommodate the German TV format, many of the films and serials were edited from their usual 60-minute down to 25-minute features or divided into episodes of similar length. A total of 155 episodes were aired.
One of the show's particularly striking features was the use of Justus D. Barnes' iconic shooting scene from the silent film western The Great Train Robbery - with additionally inserted sound effects - for its intro and final credit sequences.
See also
List of German television series
References
External links
Western von Gestern website
Motion picture television series
1978 German television series debuts
1986 German television series endings
1970s Western (genre) television series
German-language television shows
ZDF original programming
1980s Western (genre) television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clara%20%28TV%20series%29 | Clara is a German television series.
See also
List of German television series
External links
1993 German television series debuts
1993 German television series endings
ZDF original programming
German children's television series
Television series about horses
German-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkCentre%20M%20series | The M-series of desktops are part of Lenovo's ThinkCentre product line. Formerly an IBM brand, Lenovo acquired the ThinkCentre desktop brand following its purchase of IBM's Personal Computing Division (PCD) in 2005. Following its acquisition of IBM's PCD, Lenovo has released M-series desktops in multiple form factors, ranging from traditional tower, to small form factor, and all-in-ones (AIOs).
2003
In 2003, IBM redesigned and re-launched their ThinkCentre product line. The first desktop released was an M-series desktop – the M50.
M50
The first desktop in IBM's redesigned ThinkCentre line was the M50, announced in 2003. The desktop offered the following specifications:
Processor: Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz
RAM: 256 MB PC2700 DDR
Storage: 40 GB 7200 RPM
Graphics: Intel Extreme 2 (integrated, 64MB of shared video RAM)
Optical drive: 48x CD-ROM
Audio: SoundMAX Cadenza audio without speakers
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Professional
USB ports: eight USB 2.0 Ports
While the desktop was made available as a consumer PC, it was more suited to a corporate environment, with the limited storage and graphics capabilities.
2005
The ThinkCentre desktop released by Lenovo in 2005, following its acquisition of IBM's PCD was the M52.
M52
The ThinkCentre M52 desktop was announced in May 2005 following Lenovo's acquisition of IBM's Personal Computing Division. PC World called the M52 desktop, "A corporate machine for the security conscious business user looking for stability and reliability". The M52 desktop was equipped with a 3 GHz Pentium 4 processors, an 80 GB hard disk drive, up to 4 GB of RAM, eight USB 2.0 ports, two serial ports, a Gigabit Ethernet connection, VGA output, and a chassis that did not require tools to open − a toolless chassis.
2006
The ThinkCentre M55, M55p, and M55e were announced by Lenovo in September 2006.
M55
The ThinkCentre M55 received a positive review from PC World, with the reviewer stating that "The Lenovo ThinkCentre M55 9BM is a compact and quiet business PC that keeps maintenance simple and makes upgrades easy. Its design and functions are well-suited to an office environment and we think it's a good choice for any business searching for a uniformed PC roll-out."
The desktop offered the following specifications:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 1.86 GHz
RAM: 1 GB of DDR2
Storage: 80 GB
Despite the fact that the desktop was capable of handling Windows Vista Business, it was preloaded with Windows XP. While the chassis was similar to previous ThinkCentre desktops, it was made smaller to fit better in office spaces.
M55p
The ThinkCentre M55p desktop offered the following specifications:
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
RAM: 1 GB PC2-5300 DDR2
Storage: 160 GB 7200 rpm SATA
Graphics: Intel GMA 3000 Integrated Graphics (256 MB shared video RAM)
Audio: Intel HD Audio
Optical drive: 16x Dual Layer DVD reader/writer
USB ports: ten USB 2.0 ports
Operating System: Windows XP Professional
It was described by About.com as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias%20%28SQL%29 | An alias is a feature of SQL that is supported by most, if not all, relational database management systems (RDBMSs). Aliases provide users with the ability to reduce the amount of code required for a query, and to make queries simpler to understand. In addition, aliasing is required when doing self joins (i.e. joining a table with itself.)
In SQL, you can alias tables and columns. A table alias is called a correlation name, according to the SQL standard. A programmer can use an alias to temporarily assign another name to a table or column for the duration of the current SELECT query. Assigning an alias does not actually rename the column or table. This is often useful when either tables or their columns have very long or complex names. An alias name could be anything, but usually it is kept short. For example, it might be common to use a table alias such as "pi" for a table named "price_information".
The general syntax of an alias is SELECT * FROM table_name [AS] alias_name. Note that the AS keyword is completely optional and is usually kept for readability purposes. Here is some sample data that the queries below will be referencing:
Using a table alias:
SELECT D.DepartmentName FROM Department AS D
We can also write the same query like this (Note that the AS clause is omitted this time):
SELECT D.DepartmentName FROM Department D
A column alias is similar:
SELECT d.DepartmentId AS Id, d.DepartmentName AS Name FROM Department d
In the returned result sets, the data shown above would be returned, with the only exception being "DepartmentID" would show up as "Id", and "DepartmentName" would show up as "Name".
Also, if only one table is being selected and the query is not using table joins, it is permissible to omit the table name or table alias from the column name in the SELECT statement. Example as follows:
SELECT DepartmentId AS Id, DepartmentName AS Name FROM Department d
Some systems, such as Postgres and Presto, support specifying column aliases together with table aliases. E.g.
SELECT D.Id FROM Department AS D(Id)
would produce the same result set as before. In this syntax it is permissible to omit aliases for some column names. In the example, an alias was provided for DepartmentId, but omitted for DepartmentName. Columns with unspecified aliases will be left unaliased. This syntax is often used with expressions that do not produce useful table and column names, such as VALUES and UNNEST. As an example, one may conveniently test the above SQL statements without creating an actual Departments table by using expressions such as
WITH Department(DepartmentId, DepartmentName) AS (VALUES (1, 'HR'), (2, 'IT'))
SELECT DepartmentId AS Id, DepartmentName AS Name FROM Department d;
References
SQL
Articles with example SQL code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4ME | 4ME was a digital advertorial datacasting service that launched on 18 September 2011 by Prime Media Group and Brand New Media. It was formerly available to homes in the Prime7/GWN7 viewing area on channel 64, and the Seven-owned viewing area on channel 74 unless you were in an overlap market like the Sunshine Coast, in that case 4ME was both on channel 64 and 74. The channel was closed at midnight on 30 April 2016 in Prime regional areas after Brand New Media entered administration due to business troubles. 4ME later ceased broadcasting in Seven-owned areas on 19 May 2016.
As a datacasting channel, the content on the channel was regulated, it did consist of mostly information, and the scope for entertainment was limited. It showed mainly Australian made informational programs and infomercials, and as a datacasting service, it was prohibited from broadcasting programs that were wholly or substantially infotainment or lifestyle programs longer than 10 minutes.
History
When launched in regional areas on 18 September 2011, the channel was known as Television 4. On 7 November 2011, it was announced that the channel would expand into metropolitan areas and Regional Queensland via the Seven Network. Seven started test broadcasts of the channel on 1 December 2011. The channel changed to the name of TV4ME, when it was introduced to metropolitan areas in December 2011. It changed its name again, this time to 4ME, in 2013. A notable program on the channel was Psychic TV. The program returned in January 2016 after a bullying campaign in December 2015.
On 29 April 2016, Brand New Media, joint owner of 4ME alongside Prime Media Group, called in administrators after being hit with a series of "perfect storms" throughout its business interests. Prime announced that they will not renew the contract 4ME and LCN 64 on Prime-owned stations was re-purposed as an additional feed of Prime's other datacast channel ishop TV at midnight on 30 April 2016. 4ME went off the air on Seven-owned stations on 19 May 2016 and was replaced with a placeholder card notifying viewers that the channel was unavailable. The channel was removed from the Seven multiplex on 26 May 2016.
See also
List of digital television channels in Australia
References
Prime Media Group
Seven Network
Defunct television channels in Australia
Digital terrestrial television in Australia
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2016
English-language television stations in Australia
2011 establishments in Australia
2016 disestablishments in Australia
Home shopping television stations in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCC%20Group | NCC Group is an information assurance firm headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom. Its service areas cover software escrow and verification, cyber security consulting and managed services. NCC Group claims over 15,000 clients worldwide. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange.
History
NCC Group was formed in June 1999, when the National Computing Centre sold its commercial divisions to its existing management team supported by private equity firm ECI Ventures. This new company was named NCC Services Ltd and was renamed NCC Group Ltd in May 2000. In 2000, Rob Cotton was hired as finance director and subsequently took responsibility for the Group's escrow division. In 2003 he led a secondary management buyout and became chief executive of NCC Group Ltd. This valued the Group at £30 million and was supported by Barclays Private Equity.
On 12 July 2004 NCC Group was admitted to trading on AIM, with the flotation raising £38.1 million before expenses. After rapid expansion, in July 2007 the Group made the move to the London Stock Exchange's main market.
In August 2020 training materials, from NCC Group, a founding member of the cyber security certification body CREST, including practical examination “cheat sheets” for the CREST CCT INF and CCT APP examinations were leaked on to the GitHub and Dropbox platforms. The leaked documents described internal training procedures involving “cloned examination rigs” and offered step by step walkthroughs of CREST examinations. Due to the breach of exam integrity CREST suspended practical examinations and in a statement said it "will be appointing an independent investigative panel.”
Acquisitions
NCC Group has expanded through a mixture of organic growth and acquisitions:
2006 Recall Total Information Management's escrow division
2006 Source Harbor
2007 Secure Test
2007 Site Confidence
2008 Escrow Europe
2008 Next Generation Security Software (NGS)
2010 iSEC Partners Inc
2010 SDLC Solutions
2010 Meridian Services International
2011 Axzona Ltd
2011 Escrow Associates
2012 Matasano Security
2012 Intrepidus Group
2014 FortConsult A/S
2015 Open Registry Group
2015 Accumuli
2015 Fox-IT
2016 Payment Software Company, Inc.
2016 VSR, Inc.
2021 Iron Mountain's Intellectual Property Management business
2022 Adelard LLP
.secure
In 2012 NCC Group announced the investment of £6 million over 15 months in a wholly owned subsidiary, Artemis Internet. This was used to apply for a new .secure generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) and develop an associated security programme. The application was subsequently abandoned and .secure was assigned to a different applicant.
.trust
In 2014 NCC Group acquired the right to operate the generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) .trust from Deutsche Post.
References
External links
Companies based in Manchester
Information technology audit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barebox | Barebox is a primary boot loader used in embedded devices. It is free software under the GPL-2.0-only license. It is available for a number of different computer architectures, including ARM, x86, MIPS and RISC-V.
History
The Barebox project began in July 2007 as u-boot-v2, as it was derived from Das U-Boot, but with heavier borrowings from Linux like similar utilities and with a more Linux-like coding style.
See also
Das U-Boot
Comparison of boot loaders
References
External links
ELCE2009 slides
ELCE2012 slides
Firmware
Software related to embedded Linux
Free boot loaders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20News%20One | Jewish News One, or JN1, was an international news network covering world news with a focus on Judaism-related events. The channel was of Ukrainian - Belgian origin. Its primary mission was to report Jewish and Israeli current affairs without bias, and according to its co-founding producer, Alexander Zanzer, JN1 could accomplish this because it is an independent, non-profit organisation which does not depend on any nation, government, or political party. Their slogan was Informing Opinion, Expanding horizons. JN1 began broadcasting on 21 September 2011, and organisers called it the first global 24/7 Jewish news channel. JN1 was more commonly referred to as the "Jewish al Jazeera". It was closed in April 2014, being replaced by Ukraine News One. As of April 2015 JN1.tv has become part of JewishNews.com
History
Background
JN1 was not affiliated with and receives no funding from the government of Israel. The network was owned by Ukrainian billionaires Igor Kolomoisky and Vadim Rabinovich, president and vice-president respectively of the European Jewish Union (EJU), a Brussels-based umbrella body of Jewish communities and organisations in Europe. They have reportedly invested $50 million USD in the channel. Both businessmen are prominent philanthropists in the international Jewish community, financing civil society events in Israel and Ukraine. They decided to launch a TV news network because, according to executive producer Alexander Zanzer, "they now want to do something that resonates on an international level."
Launch
Satellite broadcasting officially began in Europe on 21 September 2011. However, the network had been operating for some time before this date, with their first YouTube channel uploading video as early as 7 September 2011. Shortly after the 21st, satellite coverage was expanded to North America and Eurasia.
A channel presentation event, or launch party, was held in Brussels, Belgium on 21 September 2011. One of the owners, Vadim Rabinovitch, symbolically released dozens of balloons bearing the channel logo into the sky to mark what he called "an historic day".
Alleged deprivement of ownership
Co-owner Vadim Rabinovich wrote to the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine on 21 January 2012 ""A senior official from the current government visited Rabynovych on January 17 and, threatening harassment, including physical violence, demanded that the JN1 television channel be transferred to them within a week". Rabinovich did not believe that the visit by this official was authorized, and "believes that what is happening is the individual racketeering of a single representative of the system of government".
Closure and transformation into UN1, followed by becoming part of JewishNews.com
In April 2014, JN1 was shut down and replaced by a Ukrainian news network called Ukraine News One (styled UN1) broadcasting on the channel previously used by JN1.
According to Variety, this new network was “a Ukrainian network with a propaganda slan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDS2 | RDS2 is a Canadian French language discretionary sports specialty channel, acting as the secondary feed of French language television network Réseau des sports, owned by CTV Specialty Television Inc. The channel was launched on October 7, 2011, to coincide with the start of the 2011 MLB post-season; its launch night programming included coverage of the Division Series and a documentary on the Montreal Expos.
As with its English-language equivalent TSN2, it is a secondary outlet for programming that cannot be aired on the main network, and operates under the same Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) licence as RDS itself.
External links
Bell Media Press Release: RDS2 Launches Nationally on Friday, Oct. 7
Bell Media Press Release: RDS2 Launches on Vidéotron Tomorrow
Bell Media networks
Digital cable television networks in Canada
CTV Sports
French-language television networks in Canada
Sports television networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2011
The Sports Network
Category C services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FxStat%20Group | FxStat Group or FxStat, is an online social networking service in financial services headquartered in United Kingdom, London and the name FxStat comes from a combination of Forex and Statistics. FxStat was founded in April 2010 and focusing on the foreign exchange market, Stock market, and Commodity market. The focus was initially on social networking only, but later expanded to trading statement track record assessment, following successful traders portfolio, copying top performing traders, reading news, and sharing trades through a single platform to FxStat Group, Facebook, and Twitter.
In 2011, FxStat Group mixed social networking service and Trade (financial instrument) nowadays called Social trading that allows a real-time copy trading the top performing Trader (finance) automatically with full control and transparency.
The site is available in 12 languages, including English, French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, Farsi, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, and Urdu .
History
FxStat Group (BVI) was founded in April 2010 by Sarmad Daneshmand and Bander Alweshaigri as a track record assessment and performance page provider for the traders under the name FX Stat (an abbreviation for Forex Statistics ). In 2013, expanded to Jordan and currently has offices in UK (London), Saudi Arabia (Riyadh), Jordan (Amman).
FX STAT Ltd UK is regulated and authorized by The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).
Products and services
Social trading platforms
In April 2011, FxStat launched its first social trading platform Tradebook, a paid service offering automatic real-time trading through signal providers. where started being used by FXCC, Cysec regulated broker Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission
Users can set their account to follow other member's trades and automatically execute them, becoming signal followers. In order to get FxStat's approval as signal providers, traders' accounts have to be proven real accounts and with a positive trading results history. These experienced investors are chosen by their followers using the analytics and performance comparison features. Users are still able to set their own trading rules while following a provider, like trading on a fixed lot, maximum open trades or maximum open orders, stop loss or maximum floating loss.
Later that year, in October 2011, FxStat launched Managed book platform. Managed book allows investors finding the best market leaders signal providers to copy automatically in real-time without paying per transaction commission. Instead, paying a success fee based on high water mark. where Managed book started being used by Varengold Bank FX in Germany.
FxStat covers over 1,000 brokers worldwide. In July 2011, broker FXOpen announced the integration of FxStat Tradebook in its platform.
See also
References
External links
Financial services companies established in 2010
Foreign exchange companies
British social networking websites
British companies established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PixL | PixL is an independent American television channel that broadcasts commercial-free films and miniseries targeted at families. The network debuted on December 7, 2010 on the Dish Network satellite system. Sky Angel added the channel on June 27, 2011.
References
External links
PixL HD
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Commercial-free television networks
Movie channels
Television networks in the United States
Christian television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JN1 | JN1 may refer to:
Jewish News One or JN1, a Jewish and Israeli current affairs news network
Jodi Number One, a TV reality dance show broadcast in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic%20Broadcasting%20System | Traffic Broadcasting System (TBS) (, ) is a South Korean television and radio network about traffic in Seoul Capital Area.
This TV Station is run by Seoul Metropolitan Government and televises general news, information, documentaries, and sports about Seoul.
Especially, K League football matches with FC Seoul are very popular among viewers.
See also
KBS Radio 1
KBS Radio 2
EBS FM
MBC FM4U
CBS Music FM
EBS 1TV
Far East Broadcasting Company
External links
Official Website
tbs Sports YouTube
tbs Football Facebook
Publicly funded broadcasters
Mass media companies of South Korea
Radio stations established in 1990
Radio stations in South Korea
Television channels and stations established in 2005
State media |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20Who%20%28season%2012%29 | The twelfth season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 28 December 1974 with Tom Baker's first serial Robot, and ended with Revenge of the Cybermen on 10 May 1975.
This is the first season to feature Tom Baker as the fourth incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in his TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on the outside. He is accompanied by companions Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen), continuing from season eleven, and Harry Sullivan (Ian Marter), who joins in this season. With Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks having both departed along with Jon Pertwee, new producer Philip Hinchcliffe and new script editor Robert Holmes worked on this series. Holmes had previously written for the programme.
Casting
Main cast
Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor
Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith
Ian Marter as Harry Sullivan
During production of season eleven, it was known that Jon Pertwee would be leaving his role as the Third Doctor and that a new Fourth Doctor would need to be cast for the part. Tom Baker was an out-of-work actor, working in construction at the time. Baker had been a television and film actor, having major parts in several films including The Vault of Horror (1973) and as the main antagonist in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad the same year. He had written to Bill Slater, the Head of Serials at the BBC, asking for work. Slater suggested Baker to Doctor Who producer Barry Letts who had been looking to fill the part. Letts had been the producer of the series since the early Pertwee serials in 1970. He had seen Baker's work in The Golden Voyage of Sinbad and hired him for the part. Baker would continue in his role as the Doctor for seven seasons, longer than any other actor to play the part.
Elisabeth Sladen returned to play the role of companion Sarah Jane Smith throughout the season. Ian Marter joined the cast as Harry Sullivan. The character was created before Baker was cast; there had been discussion of casting an older actor as the Doctor, and so Harry was created as a younger character to handle the action scenes.
Recurring cast
Nicholas Courtney as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
John Levene as Warrant Officer Benton
Nicholas Courtney and John Levene reprised their roles as the Brigadier and Warrant Officer Benton respectively in the first serial, Robot. Courtney had begun his role in the Second Doctor story The Web of Fear (1968), where the character was a colonel. Levene had begun in Second Doctor story The Invasion (1968), replacing another actor. Both were members of the military organization United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT). They, along with Sladen, would be the transition cast to carry through from the Third Doctor to the Fourth Doctor, though Robot is the only UNIT story for the twelfth season.
Serials
After Robot, all the serials in this season continue directly one after the other, tracing one single problematic voyage of the TARDI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRefIndex | iRefIndex provides an index of protein interactions available in a number of primary interaction databases including BIND, BioGRID, CORUM, DIP, HPRD, InnateDB, IntAct, MatrixDB, MINT, MPact, MPIDB, MPPI and OPHID.
References
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnadata%20Group | Magnadata Group, also known as Magnadata International, was a printing company based in Boston in Lincolnshire, specialising in the development and manufacture of security and access control media including magnetic smart tickets and tags. It was placed into administration in 2015, and was subsequently sold to Paragon Group.
History
Norprint
Norcros was founded on 29 May 1956. The name Norcros came from Normanby, North Lincolnshire, home of Normanby Hall. A Director of the company was John Vincent Sheffield, former High Sheriff of Lincolnshire from 1944-5, and great-uncle of the wife of David Cameron. Other members of the Sheffield family - Edmund and George - were directors.
Norprint International was based on Norfolk Street in Boston. It had a division on Valley Road in Dovercourt on the Essex coast with 550 staff. Norprint also made ticket printing machines. Norprint claimed to be Europe's largest producer of industrial and retail labelling systems, and the largest in the world outside of America.
In early 1968 it helped to start the I'm Backing Britain campaign, by running off the promotional stickers for free. Before the days of barcodes in supermarkets, Norprint made hand-held price labellers, used by the main supermarkets; these were made in Harwich.
In April 1989 it received a Queen's Award for Technological Achievement for its magnetic striped and encoded tickets and payment tokens.
Norprint produced tickets for airlines and the London Underground. It was owned by Norcros plc.
On 25 June 1998 Norcros put Norprint up for sale. In July 1998 Norprint was bought by a management buyout (MBO) for £7.9 million. After the buyout it was known as Norprint Labelling Systems.
In 2005 it developed the Nortag, a small inconspicuous RFID label on products to combat shoplifting, which won The Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation (Technology) in April 2005. It is known as electronic article surveillance (EAS). The Nortag took seven years to develop.
Magnadata
In February 2006 Magnadata, also based in Boston, bought Norprint from administration. At the time Norprint had 226 staff and Magnadata had 193. Magnadata's customers included the London Underground, New York Metro, Sydney Rail Authority, Royal Mail, TNT, Manchester City Football Club, and the Ryder Cup organisation.
UK train tickets
In 1987 Magnadata was the first company to produce magnetic strip tickets for British Rail. For this it received the Queen’s Award for Technology in 1989; it was the first printing company to receive this award.
In August 2010 it was awarded a £24 million contract to produce 750 million magnetic strip train tickets a year in the UK for the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC).
Administration
In 2015 Magnadata was placed into administration and was acquired by Paragon Group, becoming part of its BemroseBooth Paragon subsidiary. Norprint, which was a subsidiary of Magnadata, was not acquired by Paragon Group and was closed.
Location
The compa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina%20%28TV%20series%29 | Cristina is an Italian television series.
See also
List of Italian television series
External links
Italian television series
Italia 1 original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSG | WSG or wsg may refer to:
World Services Group, a global multidisciplinary professional services network
WSG, the IATA code for Washington County Airport, Pennsylvania, United States
WSG, the ICAO code for Wasaya Airways, Ontario, Canada
wsg, the ISO 639-3 code for Adilabad Gondi language, Gondwana, India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Spain | Trams in Spain go back to an animal-drawn Madrid tramway network, which opened in 1871. Steam tramway traction started in Spain in 1879, and electric trams first operated in 1899.
Spanish tramway networks were dismantled in the 1960s and 1970s, but have gradually been reintroduced since 1994. At present, there are plans to add 13 new Spanish tram networks to the nine currently operating.
History
The history of tramways in Spain began with animal-drawn trams in the nineteenth century, in Madrid (1871), Barcelona and Bilbao (1872), Valencia (1876), Valladolid (1881), Zaragoza (1885), Sevilla (1887) and Palma de Mallorca (1891).
In 1879, the Madrid-Leganés tramway began working with steam traction, and in 1899 the first electrified line ran. In Barcelona, steam traction was introduced in 1877 (at Sant Andreu), and the first electrified line in 1899.
The first Spanish city to introduce an electric tram service was Bilbao, with the line Bilbao-Santurtzi, electrified in 1896 and managed by a predecessor of the current Transportes Colectivos. Steam trams began running in Valencia in 1892 and the first line was electrified in 1900. In Zaragoza, the Torrero line was electrified in 1902, and electric trams came to Palma de Mallorca in 1916. Valladolid network was totally electrified in 1911.
In many other cities, trams were common through much of the twentieth century. However, they were dismantled in the 1960s and 1970s, on the basis that they obstructed traffic on the streets of large cities. Then, in the late twentieth century, they were once again considered and, in some cities, began running again.
Today's tramway networks
Valencia was the first Spanish city to reintroduce the tram, in 1994. The success of the modern tramway network in Valencia led to the extension of its lines on three occasions.
After Valencia came Bilbao (2002), Alicante (2003), Barcelona (2004) and, in October 2006, the inauguration of the long Vélez-Málaga Tram (which linked Vélez-Málaga with the coastal part of Torre del Mar).
These lines were followed by the Metro Ligero de Madrid (2007), in the Madrid neighborhoods of Sanchinarro and las Tablas (ML-1), and linking the capital with Boadilla del Monte, Alcorcón and Pozuelo de Alarcón (ML2, ML3). Parla Tram (ML-4) was also inaugurated in 2007.
Then came Seville, where a tramway network named MetroCentro has been running since spring 2007, Tenerife (2007), Murcia (2007), and Vitoria (2008).
In Zaragoza, the commercial service began on 19 April 2011. The Jaén Tram opened in 2011 but was closed a few weeks after service began. After numerous delays, the Granada Metro opened in 2017 and the Cádiz opened in 26 October 2022.
Projects
In Spain, 13 tram networks are currently planned to be added to the nine already operating.
New projects, in Cordoba, Jerez, Palma, Tarragona and Toledo, total in length and two billion euros in investment. Active construction on the Tranvía Metropolitano de Alcalá de Guadaíra has be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Association%20for%20Digital%20Humanities | The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH), formerly known as the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), is a digital humanities organisation founded in London in 1973. Its purpose is to promote the advancement of education in the digital humanities through the development and use of computational methods in research and teaching in the Humanities and related disciplines, especially literary and linguistic computing. In 2005, the Association joined the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).
History
A precursor for the later following annual conferences of the association was a meeting on literary and linguistic computing organized by Roy Wisbey and Michael Farringdon at the University of Cambridge in March, 1970. The year after the second conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1972, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing was founded at a meeting at King's College, London (1973). Together with the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing sponsored and organized the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) in 1987.
In December 2011 the Association's name was changed to the European Association for Digital Humanities, while keeping the allc.org domain name. The change to 'EADH' was made in 2013.
Conference
The first conferences of the association were held annually until 1988, when a protocol was agreed with the Association for Computing in the Humanities for co-sponsorship of joint international conferences. The venue for these joint conferences alternated between Europe and North America. The first one took place in 1989 at the University of Toronto in Canada. After the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations had been formed in 2005, the first joint conference with the new name “Digital Humanities” was held at the Sorbonne in Paris, France, in 2006.
Journals
Initially, EADH published its own Bulletin three times a year; its journal twice yearly from 1980 to 1985. Afterwards, bulletin and journal were merged in order to become Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC) in 1986. Literary and Linguistic Computing is a peer-reviewed, international journal that publishes texts "on all aspects of computing and information technology applied to literature and language research and teaching."
Membership of the association is by subscription to LLC. As of December 2010 there were 314 individual subscribers to Literary and Linguistic Computing.
Associated organisations
Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO)
Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH)
Society for Digital Humanities /Société pour l'études des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI)
Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd)
References
External links
eadh.org
Digital humanities
Information technology organizations based in Europe
1973 establishments in the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbiscript | urbiscript is a programming language for robotics. It features syntactic support for concurrency and event-based programming. It is a prototype-based object-oriented scripting language. It is dynamic: name resolution is performed during the program execution (late binding); slots (member variables) can be added/removed at runtime, and even prototypes (superclasses) of an object can be changed at runtime.
Memory management is performed by reference counting.
Tightly bound to the Urbi platform it supports seamless integration of C++/Java components.
Syntax and semantics
Inspiration
From the syntactical point of view, urbiscript belongs to the C-family of programming languages.
Its prototype-based object-oriented design was influenced by the Self and the Io programming languages.
It is designed to program, but also interact with robots; as such, it is influenced by Unix shells and other languages that provide a read-eval-print loop style interactive toplevel. However, contrary to others, there is no prompt for user input but answers from the system are prefixed by a timestamp (in milliseconds) between square brackets:
1 + 1; sleep(1s); 1 + 2 * 3;
[00005420] 2
[00006420] 7
Sequential statements and control flow
urbiscript statements include (among others):
The if statement, which conditionally executes a block of code, along with else.
The traditional for statement, as in C which iterates over an iterable object, capturing each element to a local variable for use by the attached block.
Another for statement, which iterates over an iterable object, capturing each element to a local variable for use by the attached block.
The while statement, which executes a block of code as long as its condition is true.
The try statement, which allows exceptions thrown in its attached code block to be caught and handled by catch clauses. An optional else clause is run if no exception was thrown. Clean-up code can be guaranteed to be run in every case when given in a finally-clause.
The assert statement, used during debugging to check for conditions that ought to apply. urbiscript also feature assert blocks, which can be used to factor several assert statements.
Actually, contrary to most C-like languages and despite what the syntax suggests, statements "have a value", and therefore are expressions, provided they are embedded in braces:
var status = { if (closed) "closed" else "open" };
var pass = { try { foo } catch { false } else { true } };
Concurrent statements and control flow
In urbiscript, some control-flow constructs come in several "flavors": two types of sequential composition, and two types of concurrent composition. Under the hood, concurrency is implemented using coroutines.
Statement composition
Like in C, the semicolon denotes sequential composition: a;b stands for "run statement a then run statement b. Other tasks may be run between a and b. Another statement separator, pipe, denotes "tight sequential composition": no |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munir%20Ahmed%20Shakir | Munir Ahmed Shakir (also spelled Muneer Shakir or Munir Shakar) (1967? – 14 August 2011) was an online journalist for the Online News Network and was also a TV correspondent for Sabzbaat, also known as Sabzbagh, a Baluch television station.
Early life
He was an activist and was murdered in Khuzdar, Pakistan, where there was an ongoing insurgency. Four other journalists had died in Balochistan in the last year as the violence there has escalated and journalists have been targeted. The killing of Baloch journalists, like Shakir, is one of the drivers behind Pakistan's high murder rate for journalists in 2010 and 2011.
Death
Baloch Separatist organisation had stopped journalist from covering their activities. Muneer Ahmed Shakir was shot dead after he had covered a protest organized by Baloch separatist group. According to police, Shakir was heading towards his home when armed men on motorbikes attacked him. He was injured in the attack and was shifted to a civil hospital where he succumbed to his wounds. Dawn News claim that Muneer Ahmed Shakir had received more than two bullet and he died on spot.
President of Balochistan union of journalist and Quetta press club condemn the attacked and demanded immediate arrest of the perpetrators.
Impact
According to Reporters Without Borders, Munir Ahmed Shakir was the seventh journalist to be killed in Balochistan, but the organisation only reports journalist who have been independently confirmed to have been killed while reporting. He is the fourth journalist to die in Bolochistan since 2010. The Rural Media Network has reported that he was the 13th journalist killed throughout all of Pakistan through the first 8 months of 2011. According to Irshad Mastoi, journalism in Baluchistan was becoming "an endangered profession" because nationalists have threatened reporters who cover government activities.
Reactions
Irina Bokova, the director-general of UNESCO, said: "I condemn the killing of Munir Shakar. It is essential that the perpetrators of this crime be brought to justice as soon as possible. Journalists must be provided with reasonable conditions of security if they are to exercise the basic human right of freedom of expression and provide people with the independent information they require to exercise their democratic rights responsibly."
Impunity in Pakistan makes it too easy to kill journalists and get away with it. Zohra Yusuf, chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, said: "The sharp rise in killings and other forms of violence against journalists is linked directly to the fact that in almost all cases in the last few years, where journalists have been killed or attacked on account of their work, the culprits remain unidentified and unpunished."
Rupert Colville, a representative of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, said: "None of the cases [of journalists killed in 2010 and 2011] have been fully or satisfactorily investigated. In Baluchistan alone, there were disturb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20waveform | The Flow waveform for the human respiratory system in lung ventilators, is the shape of air flow that is blown into the patient's airways. Computer technology allows the practitioner to select particular flow patterns, along with volume and pressure settings, in order to achieve the best patient outcomes and reduce complications experienced while on a mechanical ventilator.
Description
Modern lung ventilators are able to generate three basic wave forms of flow: squared waveform, descending waveform, and sinusoidal waveform. A square waveform pattern is found on most mechanical ventilators, old and new, and achieves a constant flow.
During the inspiration phase, the flow rate rises to a predetermined level and remains constant, thus giving the appearance of a square wave form. This produces the shortest inspiratory time compared to other flow patterns. A decelerating flow waveform pattern, also known as descending ramp, achieves the highest level of flow at the start of a breath, when patient flow demand is often greatest.
See also
Artificial ventilation
Respiratory therapy
List of ventilator manufacturers
References
Fluid dynamics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20West%20Block | The West Block is a Canadian news and political affairs television series that debuted on November 6, 2011 on the Global Television Network. The name of the program is taken from the West Block of Parliament Hill.
The series follows a Sunday morning talk show format. The series was hosted by Tom Clark from 2011 until his retirement from journalism in 2016, and then by Vassy Kapelos in 2017 and 2018 until she left the network to become host of CBC News Network's Power & Politics. On June 25, 2018 Mercedes Stephenson, previously the host of Power Play on CTV News Channel, was named Global's Ottawa bureau chief and host of The West Block.
Global Sunday, a previous Sunday public affairs show from Global, aired from 2001 to 2005.
References
External links
2010s Canadian television news shows
Global Television Network original programming
2011 Canadian television series debuts
Television shows filmed in Ottawa
2010s Canadian television talk shows
2020s Canadian television talk shows
Television series by Corus Entertainment
Canadian Sunday morning talk shows
2020s Canadian television news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronal%20the%20Barbarian | Ronal the Barbarian (Danish: Ronal Barbaren) is a 2011 Danish 3D adult computer-animated fantasy comedy film co-directed by Thorbjørn Christoffersen, Kresten Vestbjerg Andersen and Philip Einstein Lipski, and their third cinema feature.
The film parodies the barbarians and other stereotypes of the sword and sorcery fiction, role-playing games and films such as Conan the Barbarian and the Dungeons & Dragons class, with nods towards the 1980s fantasy boom and its association with traditional heavy metal. It was released in Denmark on September 29, 2011, and was a box office bomb, grossing only $2 million against a budget of $3 million.
Plot
In the land of Metalonia, the demon Zaal is defeated by Kron, the world's mightiest hero. As Kron dies, a hundred warriors drink his blood to gain his strength, becoming the first Barbarians.
10,000 years later, the barbarian clan are the strongest and bravest clan in the world, except for Ronal, a weak but intelligent barbarian who cannot swing an axe or fight. Ronal opts to be the clan's lookout, a relatively easy job as no one dares to attack them. As the barbarians feast, Ronal spots an army led by the evil Lord Volcazar. He attempts to blow the warning horn but his lungs are too weak and the barbarians are taken by surprise. Ronal's uncle Gundar is killed and all the other barbarians are captured. The only two left behind are Ronal and Aliberth, a travelling bard in training.
Ronal travels to an oracle for help and Aliberth decides to accompany him. The oracle reveals that Volcazar wears a magical suit of armour and the only weapon capable of killing him is the sword Kron used to destroy Zaal, which must be wielded by a fearless warrior. Volcazar's sorcerer attempts to resurrect Zaal using the captured barbarians' blood, but the spell fails as one barbarian is missing: Ronal. Volcazar sends his army to find him.
Ronal and Aliberth search for Elvengard, the elven kingdom, to find a library containing the entire world's wisdom, hopefully including the location of Kron's sword. Suddenly, they are confronted by a young shield-maiden named Zandra who beats up any warrior who attempts to challenge her. Ronal tearfully begs Zandra to spare his life, and she reluctantly agrees as he is not a worthy challenger. Aliberth suggests she could be the fearless warrior the oracle spoke of and Zandra agrees to help save the barbarians. They travel towards a village where an elf lives, Elric, an effeminate elven archer, who agrees to guide them. Zandra is challenged by a strong warrior but Ronal's attempt to avoid a fight leads to him duelling instead. He is saved by the arrival of Volcazar's soldiers and they flee in the chaos.
Elric leads them to the gate of the elven kingdom, a dangerous stone passageway. Ronal insists on going around instead, angering the spirits guarding the gate who set off a trap, almost crushing them. Zandra angrily criticizes Ronal for avoiding problems instead of solving them. Ronal decides t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con-Nichiwa | Con-Nichiwa is an annual anime convention held during April at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Tucson – Reid Park in Tucson, Arizona.
Programming
The convention typically offers a cosplay cafe, cosplay parade, J-Fashion show, maid cafe, masquerade, panels, and vendors.
History
The convention moved from the Holiday Inn Palo Verde to the Tucson Convention Center in 2014 due to growth. Con-Nichiwa shared the Tucson Convention Center with a Bernie Sanders 2016 election campaign event. Con-Nichiwa 2020 was moved from June to November due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but was later cancelled.
Event history
References
External links
Con-Nichiwa official website
Anime conventions in the United States
Recurring events established in 2010
Annual events in Arizona
Festivals in Tucson, Arizona
Tourist attractions in Tucson, Arizona
2010 establishments in Arizona
Conventions in Arizona |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIAID%20ChemDB | The ChemDB HIV, Opportunistic Infection and Tuberculosis Therapeutics Database is a publicly available tool developed by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to compile preclinical data on small molecules with potential therapeutic action against HIV/AIDS and related opportunistic infections.
Characteristics and content
Since 1989, the ChemDB has been updated with information extracted from peer-reviewed published literature, conference proceedings and patents. Data are compiled on compound structure, chemical properties, biological activity (e.g. targeted protein, IC50, EC50, Cytotoxicity, TI, Ki, and or MIC), and reference details (e.g. Author, Journal).
The ChemDB web interface supports searching of biological, textual and chemical data using Oracle Text, the Accelrys Direct chemical search engine, and ChemAxon’s Marvin tools. These tools allow web users to search the database by comparing the degree of similarity or flexibility match to chemical structures that have either been uploaded or drawn. Additional Boolean searches can be combined with structure search to include other fields on interest, including target organism or Lipinski score. In addition to the publicly available web interface, whole database downloads can be obtained by the scientific research community. The database is used frequently in peer-reviewed scientific research.
Opportunistic pathogens
Opportunistic pathogens included in this database are:
SIV
FIV
Human cytomegalovirus (HCMV)
Epstein–Barr virus
Herpes simplex virus 1
Herpes simplex virus 2
Kaposi sarcoma virus
Hepatitis A virus
Hepatitis B virus
Hepatitis C virus
Mycobacterium spp.
Pneumocystis carinni
Cryptococcus spp.
Candida spp.
Aspergillus spp.
Microsporidia
Toxoplasma gondii
Cryptosporidium parvum
Leishmania spp.
Plasmodium spp.
References
External links
NIAID ChemDB
Biological databases
Chemical databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q101%20%28internet%20radio%29 | Q101 Chicago is a former commercial internet radio station based in Chicago, Illinois, that operated from June 2011 to April 2022. Owned by Broadcast Barter Radio Networks, the station streamed a modern rock format promoted as a "continuation" of "Q101," the intellectual property and related trademarks of Chicago-licensed terrestrial radio station WKQX (101.1 FM) between 1992 and 2011 (divested from then-station owner Emmis Communications in July 2011). While this station reverted to a modern rock format in 2014 following a subsequent ownership change, it opted to brand instead as "101WKQX".
Q101 Chicago ceased operations after current WKQX owner Cumulus Media repurchased the brand and all related assets in April 2022, restoring the "Q101" brand onto WKQX on May 3, 2022.
History
On June 21, 2011, WKQX (101.1 FM) and sister station WLUP (97.9 FM) were sold by then-owner Emmis Communications to Merlin Media, who had plans to launch an all-news station on WKQX's frequency. That July 14, the day before Merlin was to take over both stations via a local marketing agreement, Emmis divested the intellectual property of "Q101" – the name, history from 1992 to 2011, logos, social media profiles, trademarks and domain name – to Broadcast Barter Radio Networks, headed by Matt Dubiel and Mike Noonan. Consequently, the Internet stream of WKQX ceased as a stream of the station at midnight and began programming separately as a new streaming service, initially without DJs or commercials, under the "Q101.com" name. Thus, July 15, 2011, can be regarded as the "start date" for the current "Q101 Chicago."
Upon taking over WKQX, Merlin Media changed the station's callsign to WWWN, then to WIQI; the WKQX calls were "parked" on a then-silent radio station in Watseka, Illinois owned by Merlin Media's CEO. Then, on April 30, 2012, Merlin Media began leasing WLFM-LP, a low-power analog television channel broadcasting on analog channel 6 but whose aural power is receivable at 87.7 MHz, changed the callsign to WKQX-LP and launched a modern rock format of their own as "Q87.7." At the same time, the operators of "Q101 Chicago" began a simulcast of their audio stream at various times on WJJG (1530 AM), an AM radio station licensed to operate during the daytime hours managed by Matt Dubiel, one of the people behind BBRN. BBRN then filed a trademark infringement suit against Merlin Media following the launch of "Q87.7"; the case would be settled out of court.
WIQI and WLUP were taken over by Cumulus Media in a local marketing agreement announced on January 3, 2014; the modern rock format heard on "Q87.7" would be moved over to WIQI, which concurrently changed back to the WKQX callsign. After a month-long simulcast period with WKQX-LP with oblique "101.1 FM" branding, WKQX was relaunched as "101WKQX" on February 17, 2014, with no connection to "Q101 Chicago" and would not use the "Q101" moniker.
On April 18, 2022, current WKQX owner Cumulus Media announced it had acquired all |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising%20Hope%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of the American television series Raising Hope premiered on September 21, 2010 and concluded on May 17, 2011 on the Fox Television Network. The show aired on Tuesday at 9:00 pm ET. The season consisted of 22 episodes and averaged 6.40 million viewers.
Cast
Main cast
Lucas Neff as Jimmy Chance
Martha Plimpton as Virginia Chance
Garret Dillahunt as Burt Chance
Shannon Woodward as Sabrina Collins
Recurring cast
Baylie and Rylie Cregut as Hope Chance (born Princess Beyonce Carlyle)
Cloris Leachman as Barbara June "Maw Maw" Thompson
Gregg Binkley as Barney Hughes
Kate Micucci as Shelley
Todd Giebenhain as Frank Marolla
Ray Santiago as Javier
Jermaine Williams as Marcus
Bijou Phillips as Lucy Carlyle
Dan Coscino as Dancin' Dan
Carla Jimenez as Rosa Flores
Ryan Doom as Wyatt Gill
Lou Wagner as Wally Phipps
Skyler Stone as Mike Chance
Eddie Steeples as Tyler, the Gas Man
Tichina Arnold as Sylvia
Recurring cast in flashback
Kelly Heyer as teenage Virginia
Cameron Moulene as teenage Burt
Laura Avey as teenage Delilah
Trace Garcia as 3-year-old Jimmy (credited as Trace!)
Mason Cook as 8-year-old Jimmy
Desiree Cooper as 8-year-old Virginia
Guest cast
Linda Gehringer as Louise Thompson
Greg Germann as Dale Carlyle
Valerie Mahaffey as Margine Carlyle
Jason Lee as Smokey Floyd
Brandon T. Jackson as Justin
Phill Lewis as Donovan
Amy Sedaris as Delilah
J.K. Simmons as Bruce Chance
Jerry Van Dyke as Mel
Ethan Suplee as Andrew
Jaime Pressly as Donna
Malcolm Barrett as Howdy's west manager
Production
In June 2009, FOX announced it had booked a put pilot commitment with show creator Greg Garcia. Michael Fresco signed on to direct the pilot in September 2009, which was originally titled Keep Hope Alive.
Fox green-lit the pilot to series with an order in mid-May 2010. On May 17, 2010, Fox announced at the upfront presentation that the series, with the new title Raising Hope, was included in its 2010-11 television schedule and set for a fall 2010 premiere.
On October 6, 2010, Fox ordered 9 more episodes of the first season, bringing the first season to 22 episodes.
Episodes
DVD release
The complete first season of Raising Hope was released on DVD in region 1 on September 20, 2011, in region 2 on February 20, 2012 and in region 4 on September 21, 2011. The DVD set includes all 22 episodes of season one. Special features include Commentary Track on the Pilot episode, the Unaired Network Pilot, "Adorable Stars: Meet the Hopes", "Moments with Mrs. Chance", "Taking Chances: Shooting the Season Finale", Gag Reel, and Deleted and Extended Scenes.
The extended cut of the season finale, "Don't Vote for This Episode", includes a cliffhanger that was ultimately removed - Lucy returning, having not actually died in the pilot episode, to take Hope away. The character would have then been killed for good in the second season premiere. This plot was later used for the final two episodes of the second season.
Ratin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20%28programming%20language%29 | The pan configuration language allows the definition of machine configuration information and an associated
schema with a simple, human-accessible syntax. A pan language compiler transforms the configuration
information contained within a set of pan templates to a machine-friendly XML or JSON format.
The pan language is used within the Quattor toolkit to define the desired configuration for one or
more machines. The language is primarily a declarative language where elements in a hierarchical
tree are set to particular values. The pan syntax is human-friendly and fairly simple, yet allows system
administrators to simultaneously set configuration values, define an overall configuration schema, and
validate the final configuration against the schema.
Implementation
The compiler panc serves as the de facto reference implementation of the language and is implemented in Java, though at present it is not possible to execute the compiler with OpenJDK.
A configuration is defined by a set of files, called templates, written in the pan language.
These templates define simultaneously the configuration parameters, the configuration schema, and
validation functions. Each template is named and is contained in a file having the same name.
The syntax of a template file is simple:
[ object | declaration | unique | structure ] template template-name;
[ statement … ]
These files may contain comments that start with the hash sign ('#') and terminate with the next new line
or end of file.
Types
There are five primitive, atomic types in the pan language:
boolean
long
double
string
link
There are two primitive collection types:
list (an ordered list/array of elements)
nlist (Named list associates a string key with a value, similar to hashes, dictionaries or associative arrays)
Users can create new types built up from the primitive types with optional validation functions to enforce specific constraints for particular fields.
Template types
There are five different types of templates that are identified by the template modifier:
Ordinary templates
An ordinary template uses no template modifier in the declaration. These templates may contain any
pan statement, but statements must operate only on absolute paths.
Object templates
Object templates can be thought of as the root of each generated XML configuration profile. The pan compiler will generate an XML profile for each processed object template. In all other respects, they are the same as ordinary templates.
Declaration templates
These templates may contain only those pan statements that do not modify the machine profile.
A declaration template will only be executed once for each processed object template no matter how many times it is included.
Unique templates
A template defined with the unique modifier behaves like an ordinary template except that it will only be included once for each processed object template.
Structure templates
Structure templates are a convenient alternative for crea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibes%20%28video%20game%29 | Vibes is a rhythm action video game developed by UK-based studio Laughing Jackal. It was released as a PlayStation mini on the PlayStation Network in North America on June 8, 2010 and Europe on June 9, 2010.
Gameplay
The gameplay of Vibes is typical of rhythm action games. The player is required to press buttons in a sequence dictated on the screen. By successfully timing button presses, the player scores. In Vibes, the player controls a customizable pointer and has to press the corresponding button as it approaches, in addition to having the correct direction.
List of music tracks
Sonic Boom Six – Back 2 Skool (Punk)
Craig Taro Gold – Itsuka (J-Pop)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Flight of the Bumblebee/ William Tell medley (Classical)
RedCloud – Traveling Circus (Hip Hop)
The Words – FAG (Indie)
Fake Elegance – Hello (Pop)
Minimalist Orchestra – Flicker (D&B)
Jamsons Nook – Sway (Rock/Indie)
Acidman – Tekno (Techno)
Soundtrap – Secret Lover (main mix) (Electro)
The Jancee Pornick Casino – Dom Perignon Blues (Psychobilly)
Spit at Stars – Innocent Breathing (Alternative rock)
Papa Ross – Tiririri (Latin)
Reception
Reviews of Vibes have been mixed, with Metacritic score of 72, whilst Kristan Reed of Eurogamer states that "developer Laughing Jackal seems to know exactly what buttons to press to get its audience nodding along appreciatively", PlayStation Official Magazine (UK) criticized the title's lack of artists such as Lady Gaga or Crystal Castles.
References
External links
Vibes Official Developer Page
2010 video games
Laughing Jackal games
Music video games
Network
PlayStation Network games
Network
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacDonald%20Sembereka | Reverend MacDonald Sembereka is a Malawian reverend, civil and human rights activist. He is the acting national coordinator of the Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC), a network of 91 local civil society and non-governmental organizations. He has been at the forefront of coordinating the nationwide protests in Malawi that began July 20, 2011. In May 2021, it was revealed that he had been appointed to serve at Malawi's Mission at the United Nations in New York. His appointment was widely seen as a reward for his role in the nationwide demonstrations which contributed to the sanctioning of fresh presidential elections by Malawi's high court. Other members of the HRDC were also appointed to various Missions abroad, a move widely seen as an attempt to silence the human rights group. Sembereka is widely known for his controversial lifestyle which is widely viewed as unusual for a reverend. He also served as the Executive Director of Malawi Network of Religious Leaders Living with HIV/AIDS (MANERELA).
In 2012 Sembereka left his position as coorindator of HRCC as President Joyce Banda appointed him to a new role as Special Assistant on Non-Governmental Organisations for the Presidents Office. In 2014 Sembereka was replaced as Special Assistant on Non-Governmental Organisations by Mabvuto Bamusi. This coincided with President Joyce Banda leaving office and being replaced by Peter Mutharika whose brother and previous President Bingu wa Mutharika was strongly criticised by Sembereka.
Sembereka is a member of the COMPASS (Coalition on Minority Protection Against Sexual Stigma) coalition and has worked to decriminalise laws against homosexuality in Malawi.
Arson Attacks
He was the target of an arson attack on 10 September 2011 following a similar arson attack at the office of Rafiq Hajat's Institute for Policy Interaction on 3 September 2011. His house was set on fire by petrol bomb. This arson incident came days before the nationwide protests on September 21st, 2011.
References
Malawian human rights activists
Malawian Christians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20lines%20in%20North%20Korea | North Korea has a railway system consisting of an extensive network of standard-gauge lines and a smaller network of narrow-gauge lines; the latter are to be found around the country, but the most important lines are in the northern part of the country. All railways in North Korea are operated by the state-owned Korean State Railway.
Lines whose names are in italics are closed.
Standard gauge
Trunk lines
Hambuk Line: Ch'ŏngjin Ch'ŏngnyŏn (P'yŏngra Line) – Rajin (P'yŏngra Line), (Rajin–Hongŭi dual gauge standard () and Russian ())
Hoeryŏng Colliery Line: Hoeryŏng (km 89.5 Hambuk Line) – Yusŏn,
Sech'ŏn Line: Sinhakp'o (km 104.3 Hambuk Line) – Chungbong,
Tongp'o Line: Chongsŏng (km 139.0 Hambuk Line) – Tongp'o,
Sŏngp'yŏng Line: Kangalli (km 147.2 Hambuk Line) - Sŏngp'yŏng, (closed)
Namyanggukkyŏng Line: Namyang (km 165.9 Hambuk Line) – Gukkyŏng (→ Tumen, China), (to Tumen)
Kogŏnwŏn Line: Singŏn (km 234.3 Hambuk Line) – Kogŏnwŏn,
Ch'undu Line: Songhak (km 255.0 Hambuk Line) - Ch'undu
Hoeam Line: Haksong (km 258.1 Hambuk line) – Obong,
Hongŭi Line: Hongŭi (km 285.6 Hambuk Line) – Tumangang (→ Khasan, Russia), , dual gauge standard () and Russian ()
Sŭngri Line: Sŏnbong (km 309.9 Hambuk Line) – Sŭngri,
Kangwŏn Line: Kowŏn (P'yŏngra Line) – P'yŏnggang,
Ch'ŏnnae Line: Ryongdam (km 12.1 Kangwŏn Line) – Ch'ŏnnae,
Munch'ŏnhang Line: Okp'yŏng (km 22.0 Kangwŏn Line) – Koam,
Songdowŏn Line: Segil (km 36.5 Kangwŏn Line) – Songdowŏn, est.
Wŏnsanhang Line: Kalma (km 46.1 Kangwŏn Line) – Wŏnsanhang,
Kŭmgangsan Line: Ch'ŏrwŏn (km 167.6 Kangwŏn Line) – Ch'angdo, (closed)
Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line: Anbyŏn (Kangwŏn Line) – Kŭmgangsan Ch'ŏngnyŏn – Kamho (→ Chejin, ROK), (to Kamho)
Manp'o Line: Sunch'ŏn (P'yŏngra Line) – Manp'o Ch'ŏngnyŏn (Pukpu Line) (→ Ji'an, China, (to Manp'o)
Taegak Line: Ch'ŏndong (km 32.6 Manp'o Line) – Taegak,
Choyang Colliery Line: Kaech'ŏn (km 38.9 Manp'o Line) – Choyang Colliery,
Chunhyŏk Line: Kaech'ŏn (km 38.9 Manp'o Line) – Chunhyŏngri,
Pongch'ŏn Colliery Line: Pongch'ŏn (km 49.9 Manp'o Line) – Pongch'ŏn Colliery,
Kaech'ŏn Colliery Line: Chajak (km 54.0 Manp'o Line) – Chŏnjin,
Ryong'am Line: Kujang Ch'ŏngnyŏn (km 63.0 Manp'o Line) – Ryong'am,
Ryongmun Colliery Line: Ŏryong (km 68.5 Manp'o Line) – Ryongmun Colliery,
Ch'up'yŏng Line: Hŭich'ŏn Ch'ŏngnyŏn (km 109.8 Manp'o Line) – P'ungsan-dong,
Unha Line: Manp'o Ch'ŏngnyŏn (Pukpu Line) (km 299.8 Manp'o Line) – Unha,
Paektusan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line: Kilju Ch'ŏngnyŏn (P'yŏngra Line) – Hyesan Ch'ŏngnyŏn (Paengmu Line),
Osich'ŏn Line: Taeoch'ŏn (km 124.6 Paektusan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line) – Osich'ŏn, est. (closed)
Samjiyŏn Line: Wiyŏn Ch'ŏngnyŏn (km 137.1 Paektusan Ch'ŏngnyŏn Line) – Motka,
P'yŏngbu Line: P'yŏngyang (P'yŏngnam & P'yŏngŭi Lines) – Kaesŏng – P'anmun (→ Torasan, ROK), (to P'anmun)
Rangrang Line: Ryŏkp'o (km 10.5 P'yŏngbu Line) – Rangrang Station,
Songrim Line: Hwangju (km 36.5 P'yŏngbu Line) – Songrim Hwamul,
Pongsan Line: Pon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avaya%20VSP%207000%20Series | Avaya Virtual Services Platform 7000 Series or VSP 7000 is a set standalone/stackable switches, used in enterprise data networks, and data centers, manufactured by Avaya. This product is primarily offered to satisfy the Top-of-Rack (ToR) role for server farms and virtualized data centers. It supports Avaya's extended Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) implementation "Fabric Connect", and is future-ready for Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB) – IEEE 802.1Qbg, and Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). The system incorporates fifth generation application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) chips with redundant and hot-swappable power supplies, fans, and expansion modules. The VSP 7000's unique architecture allows it to be meshedfully or partiallywith like devices, creating a high-capacity, low-latency network of up to 500 units, supporting up to 16,000 ports of 10GbE supported by a virtual backplane of up to 280 Tbit/s
History
In November 2010, Avaya introduced its Virtual Enterprise Network Architecture (VENA) and in May 2011 this Switch, featuring 24 ports of fixed 10 Gigabit Ethernet was released as part of the VENA strategy. The VSP 7000 is future-ready for 40GbE and 100GbE by virtue of the Media Dependent Adapter (MDA) slot on the front panel, enabling in-service deployment of high-speed connections. The Switch is also future-ready for storage area networking. The company gained the foundational technology for the VENA strategy through its $915 million acquisition of Nortel Enterprise Solutions business unit in December 2009. The Switch supports 24 fixed ports 1 or 10 Gigabit via SFP+ sockets, either front-to-back or back-to-front cooling, field replaceable fan trays, and field replaceable redundant AC or DC power supplies. The Application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) technology allows the MDA to support additional 10GbE ports (8-port SFP+ and 10GBASE-T currently available, increasing port density to 32 ports), with future 40GbE (2-port), and 100GbE (1-port) planned. The VSP 7000 Series also futures integrated rear-mounted 'Fabric Interconnect' interfaces (four) that deliversper Switch640 Gbit/s aggregate (320 Gbit/s full-duplex) of bandwidth for Switch-to-Switch connectivity; Avaya market this technology as 'Distributed Top-of-Rack' (DToR). Recently added to the system is a Virtual Provisioning Service (VPS) that helps managers track and manage, provision and troubleshoot their virtual machine environments. The VPS technology works with VMware's VCenter (part of vSphere) to automate configuration changes. In September 2011 the system was reported as installed in the first US-based LEAP Center.
Models
7024XLS
The 7024XLS model supports 24 fixed ports of 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ and is designed to also support 40 Gigabit Ethernet, 100 Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel via the MDA (Media Dependent Adapter) slot.
1.280 Gbit/s switching fabric bandwidth
Dedicated rear-panel 'Fabric Interconnect' ports supporting up to 640 Gbit/s of aggregate virtu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8tracks.com | 8tracks.com is an internet radio and social networking website revolving around the concept of streaming user-curated playlists consisting of at least 8 tracks. Users create free accounts and can browse the site and listen to other user-created mixes, as well as create their mixes. The site also has a subscription-based service, 8tracks Plus, although this is currently only available to listeners based in the United States and Canada.
8tracks is recognized on Time magazine's 2011 incarnation of its "50 Best Websites" List. 8tracks also received positive press in Wired, CNET, and Business Insider.
Citing difficulties with funding and maintaining royalty payments, 8tracks ceased its services on 31 December 2019. However, on 19 April 2020, 8tracks relaunched under the new ownership and operation of BackBeat Inc.
History
One of Porter's significant influences for the project was Napster, more specifically its "Hotlist" feature, which allowed users to add other users to their "hot list," consequently giving them access to that user's entire library. Also, after having spent three years before business school in London, Porter was fascinated by the social nature of the city's electronic music scene, in which DJs gained cult-like followings and augmented their following primarily through peer referral. Based on these concepts, Porter drafted a business plan entitled "Sampled & Sorted," now the name of his blog, and garnered some initial attention for the project from venture capital firms. However, given his relative inexperience in the business world, Porter joined Live365, gained an understanding of their business model, their strengths and weaknesses and was able to refine his original proposition. With the rise of Web 2.0, Porter finally decided to found 8tracks in Fall 2006, and after compiling a preliminary team, was able to launch the site on August 8, 2008.
In November 2011, 8tracks made its debut in the Android Market, launching with more than 300,000 mixes. An Android 2.1 or higher device is required to use the app, but Market stats reveal over 10,000 downloads within days of release.
Between 2011 and 2015, there was also a list of tracks from SoundCloud provided by 8tracks for DJs to add to their mix.
In April 2013, 8tracks made its debut in the Windows 8 App Store. Any Windows 8 Pro or RT device, including desktop PCs and tablets was able to access the app.
In early 2016, 8tracks was required to stop offering streaming music via its app outside of the United States and Canada and instead started to use YouTube videos.
While initially, 8tracks did not feature commercial interruption during playlists, they adopted them in 2018, to remove their listening cap. Users were able to bypass these ads by buying a subscription service, 8tracks plus. The cost was $25 for a six-month subscription.
On 26 December 2019, 8tracks announced in a blog post that they intended to cease operations at the end of the year due to a lack of revenue and a l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20I%20Wet%20Your%20Mother | "How I Wet Your Mother" is the sixteenth 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 March 11, 2012. In the episode, a traumatic incident causes Homer to repeatedly wet the bed. As it worsens, his family, with the help of Professor Frink, successfully manage to infiltrate his dreams to get to its subconscious source. The episode name is a pun on How I Met Your Mother.
The episode was co-written by Billy Kimball and Ian Maxtone-Graham and has received positive reviews from critics.
Plot
Waylon Smithers enters a storage cupboard in the power plant and accidentally leaves the door open. Homer, seeing this as an opportunity to steal supplies, tells everyone to come and help themselves, and every employee steals something. However, Homer then sees Mr. Burns approaching and hurries away from the plant, leaving his fellow employees to get all the blame. Homer is thought to be the only one who did not steal anything and gets a day off, which he spends going fishing with Bart. The next night, Homer wets the bed while asleep. When he wets the bed again the following night, he thinks that karma may be the reason, so he apologizes to all of his fellow employees with a free barbecue for everyone. That night, Homer wets the bed again and gets angry over a wasted act of kindness. He buys a bedwetting alarm that will warn him when he is about to urinate in his sleep. This machine, however, wakes up the entire family, and he must explain his predicament to them. Homer then starts wearing Confidence Man Adult Diapers, which are a turn-off to Marge, and she goes for a walk. She bumps into Professor Frink, who reveals that he has invented a machine that can be used to enter other people's dreams. They plug in Homer while he is asleep and the family enters his dream in which he is skiing down a snowy mountain. There, they meet Death, who is dragging a coffin that reads "Marriage." After falling off a cliff while pursuing Death, and faced with Frink's warning that their death in the dream world could kill them in real life, they use the dream machine to enter Bart's dream to prolong their time. In this dream, the family is drawn in their original style from The Tracey Ullman Show, with Homer using his original Walter Matthau-style voice. Family therapist B.F. Sherwood tells them to open the coffin. When it is opened, the room starts to fill with fish, so the family use the machine to go to the next dream, which is Lisa's, but when they find that they are on an Elizabethan stage show, they immediately change dreams again, much to Lisa's protests of being ignored, going back into Homer's.
Homer's newest dream depicts a city made of his greatest desires. After exploring the dream, Homer decides he wants to stay in it forever. At this point, Chief Wiggum, Eddie, and Lou enter the Simpsons' home to try to get the dream machine from Frink, ignoring his warnings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSC%20Sim | HSC Sim is a process simulator based on the HSC Chemistry software and databases. It has been implemented as a module to HSC Chemistry 7.0 in 2007 and can be used primarily for static process simulation. HSC stands for H ([enthalpy]), S ([entropy]) and Cp([heat capacity]).
Applications
HSC Sim has been primarily developed for the use in the mining and mineral industry, though other use such as modelling of biochemical and organic chemistry processes is possible as well.
In mineral industry the simulator is used for process operator training as an OTS (operator training simulator).
References
Outotec
HSC Chemistry webpage
Training Simulator for Flotation Process Operators
Simulation software
Chemical engineering software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20Operating%20System | Business Operating System may refer to:
Business Operating System (software), a cross-platform operating system originally produced for Intel 8080 and Motorola 6800 computers
Business Operating System (management), a standard, enterprise-wide collection of business processes used in companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20operating%20system%20%28management%29 | The term business operating system (BOS) refers to standard, enterprise-wide collection of business processes used in many diversified industrial companies. The definition has also been extended to include the common structure, principles and practices necessary to drive the organization.
Diversified industrial companies like Ingersoll Rand, Honeywell, and Danaher have adopted a standard, common collection of business processes and/or business process improvement methodologies which they use to manage strategy development and execution. In the case of Danaher, the business system is a core part of the company's culture and is seen as one of the key drivers of corporate performance.
The objectives of such systems are to ensure daily work is focused on the organisation's strategic objectives and is done in the most efficient way. The systems deal with the questions "why" (purpose of the work), "what" (specific objectives of the work) and "how" (the processes used to do the work). The Toyota Production System is focused on both how to make cars, and how to improve the way cars are made. A third objective can also be added, which is to improve the business system itself by identifying or improving the component tools and techniques.
Terminology
Terms used to describe such systems include:
XPS - meaning “Company-specific Production System" with the X standing in place of the company name
Business System
Management Operating System
Examples of business operating systems
Toyota's Toyota Production System (TPS) is one of the earliest examples, developed between 1948 and 1975
Danaher is well known for its Danaher Business System (DBS)
Fortive (a company that split from Danaher in 2016) has the Fortive Business System (FBS) which is derived from the DBS
Ingersoll Rand established the Ingersoll Rand business operating system (BOS) to describe the six enterprise focus areas and its process improvement method (Lean Six Sigma).
Honeywell has the Honeywell Operating System (HOS)
United Technologies has the Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Operating System
Magellan Operating System (Magellan Aerospace)
List of common features
Many of business operating systems share common features. This is because the systems are derived from other known systems, and from established methods and practices for business management. The following is a list of features that appear in several systems.
Hoshin Kanri, a strategic planning methodology developed by Yoji Akao, used to create goals, assign them measurable milestones, and assess progress against those milestones (Hoshin Kanri is also referred to as Policy Deployment or X-Matrix)
Standard work - the best and most reliable methods and sequences for each work process which is used as the basis for sustaining improvements
Process improvement methodologies: Lean, Six Sigma, and Kaizen are popular approaches incorporated in business systems
Just-in-time manufacturing
Gemba walks
Jidoka - "automatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IdeaCentre%20Q%20series | The Lenovo IdeaCentre Q series are a line of nettop computers meant primarily for home and personal use. The Q Series nettops are described by the manufacturer as being multimedia-oriented nettops. Comparing the size to a typical paperback book, Lenovo describes the Q Series nettops as the smallest desktops in production. The general features of the Q Series desktops are the small size, low energy requirements, ability to play HD video, and low noise levels.
These nettops are designed to be extremely compact processing units. A nettop is a desktop computer that uses the same (or similar) components found in netbook PCs. The first nettop in the IdeaCentre Q series was the Q100, launched in 2009.
2010
The only nettop released in 2010 in the IdeaCentre Q series was the Q150.
Q150
Released in 2010, the IdeaCentre Q150 was a nettop like its predecessors: the Q100 and the Q110. In its review of the nettop, SlashGear described it as “a great little media PC that serves up high definition content with minimal fuss.”
The single core Intel Atom processor found in 2009's Q-series nettops was replaced by the Intel Atom D510 processor, with two cores at 1.66 GHz. The nettop also included 2GB DDR2 RAM, a 500GB hard disk drive, and NVIDIA Nvidia Ion 2 graphics with support for DirectX 10.
Unlike its predecessors, the Q150 also included Wi-Fi b/g/n. Ports on the nettop were available for HDMI, VGA, two USB, Ethernet, and audio input and output. A stand was provided to support the nettop, and a VESA mount was provided as an alternative, so the nettop could be kept behind a TV or a monitor.
PCMag received the Q150 positively, calling it “one of the smallest full-featured PCs” and saying, “The Lenovo IdeaCentre Q150 is designed to be dropped on a desk or bolted behind an HDTV. It's one of the best web video/photo/music media consumption devices out there, once you've hooked up to a big screen.” PCMag gave the nettop a rating of four out of five stars as well as an Editor's Choice award.
2009
The IdeaCentre Q-series nettops released by Lenovo in 2009 were the Q100, Q110, and the Q700.
Q100
The Q100 nettop was slightly larger than a typical external hard disk drive, with a plastic stand to allow it to remain upright. The nettop was equipped with a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N230 processor, which was designed for low power consumption rather than processing power. The nettop also included 1GB of DDR2-667 RAM, and a 160GB hard disk drive. While the storage space was limited, PCWorld indicated that this was common in other, similar nettops, citing the Acer Aspire Revo 3610 and the MSI Wind Nettop CS120 as examples. While the nettop had four USB ports and a Gigabit Ethernet port there was no optical drive, and a mouse and keyboard were not included in the price. The Q100 could support a single VGA monitor. In its review of the nettop, PCWorld gave the PC one of five stars and indicated that it made a netbook seem like a better option.
Q110
Like the Q100, the Q110 nettop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency%20network | The dependency network approach provides a system level analysis of the activity and topology of directed networks. The approach extracts causal topological relations between the network's nodes (when the network structure is analyzed), and provides an important step towards inference of causal activity relations between the network nodes (when analyzing the network activity). This methodology has originally been introduced for the study of financial data, it has been extended and applied to other systems, such as the immune system, and semantic networks.
In the case of network activity, the analysis is based on partial correlations, which are becoming ever more widely used to investigate complex systems. In simple words, the partial (or residual) correlation is a measure of the effect (or contribution) of a given node, say j, on the correlations between another pair of nodes, say i and k. Using this concept, the dependency of one node on another node is calculated for the entire network. This results in a directed weighted adjacency matrix of a fully connected network. Once the adjacency matrix has been constructed, different algorithms can be used to construct the network, such as a threshold network, Minimal Spanning Tree (MST), Planar Maximally Filtered Graph (PMFG), and others.
Importance
The partial correlation based dependency network is a class of correlation network, capable of uncovering hidden relationships between its nodes.
This original methodology was first presented at the end of 2010, published in PLoS ONE. They quantitatively uncovered hidden information about the underlying structure of the U.S. stock market, information that was not present in the standard correlation networks. One of the main results of this work is that for the investigated time period (2001–2003), the structure of the network is dominated by companies belonging to the financial sector, which are the hubs in the dependency network. Thus, they were able for the first time to quantitatively show the dependency relationships between the different economic sectors. Following this work, the dependency network methodology has been applied to the study of the immune system, and semantic networks. As such, this methodology is applicable to any complex system.
Overview
To be more specific, the partial correlations of the pair, given j is the correlations between them after proper subtraction of the correlations between i and j and between k and j. Defined this way, the difference between the correlations and the partial correlations provides a measure of the influence of node j on the correlation. Therefore, we define the influence of node j on node i, or the dependency of node i on node j − D(i,j), to be the sum of the influence of node j on the correlations of node i with all other nodes.
In the case of network topology, the analysis is based on the effect of node deletion on the shortest paths between the network nodes. More specifically, we define the influ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IdeaCentre | The Lenovo IdeaCentre is a line of consumer-oriented desktop computers designed, developed and marketed by Lenovo. The first IdeaCentre desktop, the IdeaCentre K210, was announced by Lenovo on June 30, 2008 as a consumer-focussed alternative to the business-oriented ThinkCentre and ThinkStation brandnames acquired from IBM. While the IdeaCentre line consists entirely of desktops, they share a common design language with the IdeaPad line of laptops and hybrids. One such feature is Veriface facial recognition technology.
Product series
A Series
Lenovo's IdeaCentre A Series is a line of all-in-one desktops designed primarily for home use.
B Series
The IdeaCentre B Series all-in-one desktops from Lenovo were first launched in 2010. Like other desktops in the IdeaCentre product line, the B Series desktops were designed for home users. The first model in the series was the B500.
K Series
The 'IdeaCentre K Series desktops from Lenovo are described by the manufacturer as being gaming-oriented desktops. Typical features on the desktops include mid-range to high-end processors, discrete graphics cards, multiple hard disk drives, multiple RAM DIMMS, multiple USB ports, and multiple optical disk drives. The K Series desktops also come with a physical switch on the CPU that allows users to shift between different levels of processing power. For example, the K330 offered red for high performance, blue for moderate performance, and green for less processing- and resource-intensive tasks.
The IdeaCentre K Series desktops were originally part of the Lenovo 3000 line of products. This series consisted of budget-friendly computers – both laptops and desktops. In 2008, the Lenovo 3000 series was moved by Lenovo into its ‘Idea’ line of products. The Lenovo 3000 K100 desktop was replaced by the IdeaCentre K210. The IdeaCentre line was described as having improved in term of design, while retaining the low price that was characteristic of the Lenovo 3000 line.
Q Series
The IdeaCentre Q Series PCs from Lenovo are a series of nettops meant primarily for home and personal use. The Q Series nettops are described by the manufacturer as being multimedia-oriented nettops. Comparing the size to a typical paperback book, Lenovo describes the Q Series nettops as the smallest desktops in production. The general features of the Q Series desktops are the small size, low energy requirements, ability to play HD video, and low noise levels.
These nettops are designed to be extremely compact processing units. A nettop is a desktop computer that uses the same (or similar) components found in netbook PCs. The first nettop in the IdeaCentre Q series was the Q100, launched in 2009.
Y Series
Y900 Razer Edition
Lenovo's Y900 Razer Edition gaming PC is the result of a partnership announced with Razer in November 2015. Lenovo equipped its existing IdeaCenter Y900 model with Razer's Chroma Full Spectrum lighting. The two companies say it is the first of many planned joint projects. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartonnage%20%28band%29 | Cartonnage is a Czech electronic music band formed in 2001 in Prague. It is made up of Vanda Choco (vocals/synthesizers) and Armin Effenberger (production/programming/synthesizers).
Their debut album, CD1, released in 2004, was nominated by Expres Radio for the Golden Ear award and by Óčko for the Discovery of the Year award. Four songs from the album were used in the soundtrack to Dan Svátek's movie Close to Heaven.
Their musical success continued with the 2007 single "Patisserie" and their second album, the critically acclaimed Curiously Connected, which was released in 2008.
Cartonnage were once again nominated for the TV Óčko awards as well as an Anděl Award.
In 2008, Cartonnage collaborated with Moby on a vocal edit of the track "257.zero" from his album Last Night.
Their third album, I'm Not Your Computer, was released in 2011.
In 2012, Cartonnage supported Duran Duran on their All You Need Is Now world tour.
Discography
Albums
CD1 (2004)
Curiously Connected (2008)
I'm Not Your Computer (2011)
Singles
"Patisserie" (2007)
References
Czech electronic music groups
Musical groups established in 2001
2001 establishments in the Czech Republic
Czech musical duos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arriva%20Cristina | Arriva Cristina is an Italian television series.
See also
List of Italian television series
External links
Italian television series
Italia 1 original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20Cardona | Manuel Cardona Castro (7 September 1934 – 2 July 2014) was a condensed matter physicist. According to the ISI Citations web database, Cardona was one of the eight most cited physicists since 1970. He specialized in solid state physics. Cardona's main interests were in the fields of: Raman scattering (and other optical spectroscopies) as applied to semiconductor microstructures, materials with tailor-made isotopic compositions, and high Tc superconductors, particularly investigations of electronic and vibronic excitations in the normal and superconducting state.
Academic career
Cardona was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1934. After obtaining a Masters in physics in 1955 from University of Barcelona Cardona was awarded a fellowship to work as a graduate student at Harvard University starting in 1956. At Harvard he began investigations of the dielectric properties of semiconductors, in particular germanium and silicon. With this work as a thesis he received a PhD in Applied Physics at Harvard. From 1959 till 1961 he continued similar work on III-V semiconductors at the RCA Laboratories in Zurich, Switzerland. In 1961 he moved to the RCA Labs in Princeton, NJ, where he continued work on the optical properties of semiconductors and started investigations of the microwave properties of superconductors. In 1964 he became a member of the Physics Faculty of Brown University (Providence, RI). In June–September 1965 he taught at the University of Buenos Aires under the auspices of the Ford Foundation. In 1971 he moved to Stuttgart, Germany as a founding director of the then-recently created Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. Concomitantly he became scientific Member of the Max Planck Society, where he became emeritus in 2000.
From 1992 to 2004, Cardona served as chief editor of Solid State Communications.
Distinctions and honors
Besides receiving over at least 61 awards during his career, Cardona held eleven honorary doctorates. Some notable honors include:
1964 American Physical Society, Fellow
1982 Narcís Monturiol Medal, Government of Catalonia
1984 Frank Isakson Prize, American Physical Society
1984 Fellow, Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science
1984 Corresponding Member, Royal Academy of Sciences of Barcelona
1987 Member, National Academy of Sciences of the USA
1987 Grand Cross of Alfonso X el Sabio, Spain
1988 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research, named after the Crown Prince of Spain
1991 Member, Academia Europaea
1994 Max Planck Research Prize, shared with E. E. Haller, Berkeley
1995 Corresponding Member, Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences
1997 John Wheatley Award, American Physical Society
1999 Ernst Mach Medal, Prague
2001 Nevill Mott Medal and Prize
2003 Matteucci Medal by the Accademia nazionale delle scienze, Italy
2009 Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
2011 Vernadsky Gold Medal of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
2012 Paul Klemens Award, Phonons Conference, Ann Arbor, MI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengoku%20%282011%20video%20game%29 | Sengoku: Way of the Warrior is a grand strategy computer game developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive.
Plot and gameplay
In this game, the player assumes the role of a Japanese noble in 1467. The title means "warring states" and refers to the Sengoku era. The gameplay is similar to Crusader Kings II, another Paradox game. Nobles hold titles giving them an income from their demesne and their vassals. Relationships are based on character traits and situation. Soldiers and fleets are levied from your vassals according to how much they like the player. Mercenaries and hired retinues supplement their levies. Hostages are held to confirm peace treaties.
Reception
The game received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
The game was criticized by WarGamer for its lack of missions and the lack of a flexible starting date, atypical for a Paradox game.
See also
List of Paradox Interactive games
References
External links
2011 video games
Government simulation video games
Grand strategy video games
MacOS games
Paradox Interactive games
Real-time strategy video games
Video games about samurai
Sengoku video games
Video games developed in Sweden
Video games with historical settings
Windows games
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20holography | Functional Holography (FH) is a method of analysis designed to extract the maximum amount of functional information about the dynamical network as a whole unit.
Itay Baruchi and his Ph.D. supervisor, Eshel Ben-Jacob, introduced the Functional Holography (FH) methodology. The FH analysis was devised to study the dynamics of task performing dynamical networks (such as brain activity and neural networks, and gene networks or recorded data of dynamics system such as stock market parameters or biological chips activities).
The new approach is based on the realization that task-performing networks follow some underlying principles that should be reflected and therefore be detected in their activity. Where the analysis is designed to decipher the existence of simple causal motives that are expected to be embedded in the observed complex activity of the networks are noticeable. Many studies have applied the FH analysis to modeled and real networks or complex data (such as recorded brain activity, gene microarray data, antigen microarray data and even financial data) the characteristic geometrical and topological features are deciphered in the complex activity.
History
The Functional Holography analysis method was first introduced in 2004 by Itai Baruchi and Eshel Ben-Jacob, for analysis of recorded human brain activity. The term hologram stands for “whole”—holo in Greek, plus “information” or “message”—gram in Greek.
In a holographic photography, the information describing a 3D object is encoded on a two-dimensional photographic film, ready to be regenerated into a holographic image or hologram. A characteristic feature is the “whole in every part” nature of the process—a small part of the photographic film can generate the whole picture, but with fewer details. Another property is high tolerance to noise and high robustness to lesion: even with many imperfections or with several pixels removed, the image of the object as a whole is still retained in the hologram. To magnify a part of the original 3D object, one needs to produce a new photographic film for the part to be magnified. Another related feature is the holographic superposition—when illuminated together (placed side by side), two holograms can generate a superposition of the corresponding two 3D objects. Superposition of objects can also be made by imprinting the images of the two (or more) 3D objects on the same holographic film. These and other special features of hologram are due to the way the information is encoded on the films—not a direct projection of the picture in real space but in the correlations between the pixels. These are converted back to a picture in three dimensions by proper illumination.
The above properties of holograms guided the development and are the rationale behind the functional holography method presented here. The term “functional” is to indicate that the analysis is in the space of functional correlations that serve the analogue role to the long-range corr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe%20Inc.%20v.%20Cyber%20Promotions%2C%20Inc. | CompuServe Inc. v. Cyber Promotions, Inc. was a ruling by the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio in 1997 that set an early precedent for granting online service providers the right to prevent commercial enterprises from sending unsolicited email advertising – also known as spam – to its subscribers. It was one of the first cases to apply United States tort law (Restatement (Second) of Torts §217 and §218) to restrict spamming on computer networks. The court held that Cyber Promotions' intentional use of CompuServe's proprietary servers to send unsolicited email was an actionable trespass to chattels and granted a preliminary injunction preventing the spammer from sending unsolicited advertisements to any email address maintained by CompuServe.
Background
In 1997 the Plaintiff, CompuServe Inc., was one of the largest commercial online service providers in the United States. Similar to America Online, CompuServe provided its subscribers with access to content both within its own proprietary network as well providing a gateway, like a simple ISP, to the Internet at large. One of the primary roles taken on by CompuServe was that of an email service provider.
The Defendant, Cyber Promotions, Inc., was an online direct email marketing company, headed by founder and CEO Sanford Wallace. Cyber Promotions was "in the business of sending unsolicited e-mail advertisements [spam] on behalf of themselves and their clients to hundreds of thousands of Internet users, many of whom [were] CompuServe subscribers". As a result of these efforts (as well as others), Sanford Wallace came to be known as "Spamford" Wallace.
In the months leading up to the case, CompuServe subscribers complained to the company about the large amount of spam they were receiving (from Cyber Promotions and other mass emailers). Many threatened to discontinue their subscriptions unless CompuServe took preventative measures to block the spam. As a result, CompuServe introduced a set of email filters on its servers to block incoming spam and prevent the spam's delivery to subscribers. In response, Cyber Promotions took measures to circumvent CompuServe's filters, such as disguising the origin of their messages, allowing its unsolicited email messages to reach their destination.
On October 24, 1996, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio issued a temporary restraining order against Cyber Promotions, preventing them from:
Using CompuServe accounts or CompuServe's equipment or support services to send or receive electronic mail or messages or in connection with the sending or receiving of electronic mail or messages.
Inserting any false reference to a CompuServe account or CompuServe equipment in any electronic message sent by Cyber Promotions.
Falsely representing or causing their electronic mail or messages to bear the representation that any electronic mail or message sent by Cyber Promotions was sent by or originated from C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20link | Red link may refer to:
Red Link Communications, an ISP in Myanmar
Red Sex Link, a cross-breed of chicken
A link to a red node in the red–black tree data structure
Red Link, one of the four Links from the game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords
A red link in a wiki, a link to a non-existent page, see |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20Film%20Festival%20Downtown | New York Film Festival Downtown was a New York-based film festival founded by Tessa Hughes-Freeland and Ela Troyano in 1984.
Known for its independent and "positively avante-garde" programming, the festival came to prominence in the East Village art scene. The New York Film Festival Downtown ran for five years, ending in 1988.
1984
Judgment Day (Directed by: Manuel Delanda)
Between Two Fires (Directed by: Bradley Eros)
Blind Love (Directed by: Aline Mare)
Bargain Slide Show (Directed by: David Schmiddlapp)
Confidential (Directed by: Joseph Nechvatal)
Bored (Directed by: Karen Luna)
Chant Chant Amour Amour (Directed by: Haoui Montaug)
Sur Reel Selections (Directed by: Sur Rodney Sur)
Soul City (Directed by: M. Henry Jones)
Go go girl (Directed by: M. Henry Jones)
Someplace in Nowhere (Directed by: Joe Coleman)
Home Move of Warhol Shooting Unreleased Movie (Directed by: Taylor Mead)
Blue Pleasure (Directed by: FrAnco Marinai)
David Crocker as Venus (Directed by: Ela Troyano)
Pompeii: New York Pt. 1: Pier Caresses (Directed by: Ivan Galietti)
Slides (Directed by: Christof Kohlhofer)
Electric Pencil Performance #13 (Directed by: Dragan Ilic)
Show of Force - Blood Boy (Directed by: Richard Kern & Brian Moran)
No Guilt (Directed by: Nick Zedd)
Contortionist (Directed by: Greer Lankton)
Bandits (Directed by: Joey Ahlbum)
Invasion of the Amazons (Continued Erosion) (Directed by: Penelope Wehrli)
Joker (Directed by: Tessa Hughes-Freeland)
August 13th 1961 (Directed by: Kiki Smith)
City Maze (Directed by: Jane Dickson)
The Specialist (Directed by: Scott B.)
The Deadly Art of Survival (Directed by: Charlie Ahearn)
Not Quite Love (Directed by: David Schmiddlapp)
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (Directed by: Nan Goldin)
Exotic Landlordism of Crab Lagoon (Directed by: Jack Smith)
Dagmar Poisoned the Pizza (Directed by: Anthony Chase)
Teddy Foot Beach Grov. (Directed by: Nile Southern & Phoebe Legere)
Priapic Violations (Directed by: Uzi Parnes with Carmelita Tropicana)
Poppo at 8BC (Directed by: Tessa Hughes-Freeland)
Portrait of Glenn Branca, Symphony #4 (Directed by: Arlene Schloss)
Kate Mannheim and Jack Smith (Directed by: Dan Ochiva)
A Walled City Documentary (Directed by: David West)
Mares (Directed by: Alex Steyermark)
Excerpts from Bubble People (Directed by: Ela Troyano)
This Object (Directed by: Jacob Burckhardt)
1985
Slide Performance (Directed by: Stephen Holman & Torture Chorus)
The Ballad of Sexual Dependency (Directed by: Nan Goldin)
Pyrotechnics (Directed by: Erotic Psyche)
The Outsiders (Directed by: Dan Ochiva)
Fall In A Faint (Directed by: Sokhi Wagner)
Last Nights (Directed by: Sandy Tate & Gretchen Bender)
Spectre Woman - On the Road (Directed by: Ellen Fisher, Mary Schultz, Tone Blevins & John Van Wagner)
Work At Nine (Directed by: Julius Klein)
Frankie Teardrop (Directed by: Edit Deak & Walter Robinson)
Spills & Thrills (Directed by: Sur Rodney Sur)
The Agent (Directed by: Mary Belli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TopFIND | TopFIND is the Termini oriented protein Function Inferred Database (TopFIND) is an integrated knowledgebase focused on protein termini, their formation by proteases and functional implications. It contains information about the processing and the processing state of proteins and functional implications thereof derived from research literature, contributions by the scientific community and biological databases.
Background
Among the most fundamental characteristics of a protein are the N- and C-termini defining the start and end of the polypeptide chain. While genetically encoded, protein termini isoforms are also often generated during translation, following which, termini are highly dynamic, being frequently trimmed at their ends by a large array of exopeptidases. Neo-termini can also be generated by endopeptidases after precise and limited proteolysis, termed processing. Necessary for the maturation of many proteins, processing can also occur afterwards, often resulting in dramatic functional consequences. Aberrant proteolysis can cause wide range of diseases like arthritis or cancer. Hence, proteolytic generation of pleiotrophic stable forms of proteins, the universal susceptibility of proteins to proteolysis, and its irreversibility, distinguishes proteolysis from many highly studied posttranslational modifications. Proteases are tightly interconnected in the protease web and their aberrant activity in disease can lead to diagnostic fragment profiles with characteristic protein termini. Following proteolysis, the newly formed protein termini can be further modified, a process that affects protein function and stability.
Knowledgebase content
TopFIND is a resource for comprehensive coverage of protein N- and C-termini discovered by all available in silico, in vitro as well as in vivo methodologies. It makes use of existing knowledge by seamless integration of data from UniProt and MEROPS and provides access to new data from community submission and manual literature curating. It renders modifications of protein termini, such as acetylation and citrullination, easily accessible and searchable and provides the means to identify and analyse extend and distribution of terminal modifications across a protein. Since its inception TopFIND has been expanded to further species.
Data access
The data is presented to the user with a strong emphasis on the relation to curated background information and underlying evidence that led to the observation of a terminus, its modification or proteolytic cleavage. In brief the protein information, its domain structure, protein termini, terminus modifications and proteolytic processing of and by other proteins is listed. All information is accompanied by metadata like its original source, method of identification, confidence measurement or related publication. A positional cross correlation evaluation matches termini and cleavage sites with protein features (such as amino acid variants) and domains to highlight po |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Hackett | Matthew Hackett is an American computer graphics animator. In 2008, Hackett was nominated for a Visual Effects Society Award in the category of Outstanding Animated Character in a Live Action Broadcast Program or Commercial (shared with Jeff Willette, Sean Andrew Faden, and actor Denis Gauthier. Hackett is featured within the 2001 documentary short The Making of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.
Filmography
The Purge: Election Year (2016)
The DUFF (2015)
Project Almanac (2015)
Let's Be Cops (2014)
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Let Me In (2010)
I'm Here (2010)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Apocalypto (2006)
Deja Vu (2006)
The Amityville Horror (2005)
Sky High (2005)
National Treasure (2004)
I, Robot (2004)
Final Flight of the Osiris (2003)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
Godzilla (1998)
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Computer animation people
American animators
Place of birth missing (living people) |
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