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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Willette | Jeff Willette (born April 29, 1971, in Big Rapids, Michigan) is an American computer graphics 3D animator. In 2008, Willette 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 Matthew Hackett, Sean Andrew Faden, and Denis Gauthier; and in 2010 he was nominated for a Visual Effects Society Award in the category of Outstanding Compositing in a Broadcast Program or Commercial.
His numerous film and television credits for visual effects and computer animation includes:
A Little Bit of Heaven (2011)
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Surf's Up (2007)
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (2005)
Carnivàle (2003)
Cast Away (2000)
What Lies Beneath (2000)
In 2017, Jeff joined Venice, CA - based boutique Timber as Digital Effects Supervisor.
References
External links
1971 births
Living people
People from Big Rapids, Michigan
American animators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low%20molecular-mass%20organic%20gelators | Low molecular-mass organic gelators (LMOGs) are the monomeric sub-unit which form self-assembled fibrillar networks (SAFINs) that entrap solvent between the strands. SAFINs arise from the formation of strong non-covalent interactions between LMOG monomeric sub-units. As SAFINs are forming, the long fibers become intertwined and trap solvent molecules. Once solvent molecules are entrapped within the network, they are immobilized by surface tension effects. The stability of a gel is dependent on the equilibrium between the assembled network and the dissolved gelators. One characteristic of an LMOG, that demonstrates its stability, is its ability to contain an organic solvent at the boiling point of that solvent due to extensive solvent-fibrillar interactions.
Gels self-assemble through non-covalent interactions such as π-stacking, hydrogen-bonding, or Van der Waals interactions to form volume-filling 3D networks. Self-assembly is key to gel formation and dependent upon reversible bond formation.
The propensity of a low molecular weight molecule to form LMOGs is classified by its Minimum Gelation Concentration (MGC). The MGC is the lowest possible gelator concentration needed to form a stable gel. A lower MGC is desired to minimize the amount of gelator material needed to form gels. Super gelators have a MGC of less than 1 wt%.
Background and significance
LMOGs were first reported in the 1930s, but advances in the field were more often than not discoveries of chance; as there existed little theoretical understanding of gel formation. During this time LMOGs found applications in thickening lubricants, printing inks, and napalm. Interest in the field dwindled for several decades until the mid-1990s when Hanabusa, Shinkai, and Hamilton designed numerous LMOGs which form thermoreversible intermolecular amide-carbonyl hydrogen bonds. The LMOGs developed by Hanabusa et al. were suitable for forming hard gels, including gels with chloroform, which had been resistant to gelation prior to their discovery. These new LMOGs were rationally designed and represented the first time that scientists had been able to discover new LMOGs based on supramolecular principles. From these earliest studies and screening numerous compounds, it was determined that for thermoreversible gels based on the amide-carbonyl hydrogen bond, amino acid structure, enantiopurity, hydrophilic-lypophilic ratio, and increasing peptide substitution greatly affected the gelling ability of various new compounds.
The aforementioned principles that developed in this field's infancy have proved successful in allowing researchers to tune LMOGs for different functions. Today, LMOGs have been extensively studied for their unique properties. This newfound functional diversity has led to a wide range of possible applications for LMOGs in agriculture, drug delivery, pollutant/heavy metal remediation, luminescent devices, and chemical sensing.
Gel formation and morphology
The majority of LMOG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean%20Andrew%20Faden | Sean Andrew Faden (born July 23, 1973) is a computer graphics animator. In 2003 he was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Special Effects for his work on the film xXx, and in 2008, he 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 Matthew Hackett, Jeff Willette, and actor Denis Gauthier). In 2021, he was nominated for an Academy Award on VFX work in Mulan.
His numerous film and television credits for visual effects and computer animation includes:
Moon Knight (2022)
Mulan (2020)
Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
A Little Bit of Heaven (2011)
Gulliver's Travels (2011)
Let Me In (2010)
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010)
Terminator Salvation (2009)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Eye (2008)
Apocalypto (2006)
Deja Vu (2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Domino (2005)
Sky High (2005)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
The Amityville Horror (2005)
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
National Treasure (2004)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
xXx (2002)
The Time Machine (2002)
Stormrider (2001)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Red Planet (2000)
Supernova (2000)
Fight Club (1999)
Godzilla (1998)
Titanic (1997)
References
External links
1973 births
Living people
American animators
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanchthon%20Circle | The Melanchthon Circle was a 16th-century Lutheran intellectual network centred on the University of Wittenberg in Germany and its leading theologian Philip Melanchthon. It was identified as significant for its interests in natural philosophy by Lynn Thorndike, in a chapter "The Circle of Melanchthon" in his multi-volume History of Magic and Experimental Science. Among this circle were found many of the most important early proponents of the heliocentric model of Copernicus. They included Caspar Peucer who became Melanchthon's son-in-law, Erasmus Reinhold, and Georg Joachim Rheticus. Patronage came from Albert, Duke of Prussia.
Melanchthon's views in natural philosophy
In lecturing on the Librorum de judiciis astrologicis of Ptolemy in 1535–36, Melanchthon expressed to students his interest in Greek mathematics, astronomy and astrology. He considered that a purposeful God had reasons to exhibit comets and eclipses. He was the first to print a paraphrased edition of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos in Basel, 1554. Natural philosophy, in his view, was directly linked to Providence, a point of view that was influential in curriculum change after the Protestant Reformation in Germany. In the period 1536–9 he was involved in three academic innovations: the refoundation of Wittenberg along Protestant lines, the reorganisation at Tübingen, and the foundation of the University of Leipzig.
Network around Melanchthon
The "Circle" was constituted in various ways: collegial and master–student relationships, compliments and favours, and career help. Typically humanist demonstrative methods, based around publications, were frequently seen. Rheticus became a great giver of books.
Before receiving a call to Wittenberg, Melanchthon had taught at the University of Tübingen. There he had been tutored in astrology by Johannes Stöffler. The network included Simon Grynaeus who remained at Tübingen; Melanchthon dedicated to him his 1531 edition of the De sphaera mundi. Melanchthon advocated astrology often: in 1531 in defending to Joachim Camerarius the work of the court astrologer Johann Carion, which he would later develop into a Lutheran historical chronicle; in a dedication to Luca Gaurico for a 1532 work by Camerarius on portents; in 1535 in an introduction to Jacob Milich's edition of Georg von Peuerbach's Planets, used again in 1542 with Reinhold's edition with a poem by Stigelius (Johannes Stigel); in 1537 in a lecture printed with his edition of the Rudimenta of Alfraganus, stating the necessity of astrology for physicians. Gaurico reciprocated, in 1540 printing eclipse observations from Melanchthon and his circle in a partial edition of Lorenzo Bonincontri.
Hieronymus Wolf, a philologist, passed through Wittenberg in the 1540s and was helped by Melanchthon. Stifelius (Michael Stiefel) had a preface for his 1543 arithmetic book; he had predicted the end of the world in 1533, had lost his living as minister in consequence, and had been found another by Melanchthon. Ot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBS%20Gyeongin%20TV | OBS Gyeongin TV is a South Korean free-to-air television station covering Gyeonggi Province, Incheon and Seoul. It is the only regional television network in operation, that is not affiliated with any national broadcast network.
History
At the time of launch, OBS Gyeongin TV Ltd. was owned by the following companies:
Young-An Hat Company (22.64%)
Media Will (12.43%)
KD Group (12.30%)
Officially, "OBS" does not stand for anything. However, as the channel's first president explained, the "O" could mean "One", "Our", "Open", "Oasis" and "Opportunity".
On August 25, 2022, OBS requested a permit for a radio station, operating on the former FM frequency of the Gyeonggi Broadcasting Corporation. The station, as OBS Radio, opened on March 30, 2023.
Gallery
References
Further reading
(Korean) (August 1, 2011) . Accessed September 2011.
(Korean) (March 21, 2011) "Seoulseo see Kyung-TV ... KCC, offshore permit retransmission." Asia Economy. Accessed September 2011.
(Korean) (May 20, 2010) "Times-OBS Kyung-business agreement." Kyung-Times. Accessed September 2011.
External links
Television channels in South Korea
Mass media companies of South Korea
Mass media in Gyeonggi Province
Bucheon
Television channels and stations established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi%20of%20Nachtigal | Mimi of Nachtigal, or Mimi-N, is a language of Chad that is attested only in a word list labelled "Mimi" that was collected ca. 1870 by Gustav Nachtigal. Nachtigal's data was subsequently published by Lukas & Voelckers (1938).
Classification
Joseph Greenberg (1960) classified it as a Maban language, though a distant one. Subsequent researchers have supported a remote relationship, though there is little data to go on.
Basic vocabulary
The more stable of Mimi-N and Mimi-D's attested vocabulary is as follows:
See also
Mimi of Decorse
Mimi of Nachtigal word list (Wiktionary)
References
Maban languages
Languages of Chad
Languages attested from the 1870s
Extinct languages of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krunk%20UAV | Krunk (Armenian: Կռունկ; 'crane') is an Armenian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in service with the Armed Forces of Armenia. It is intended for close reconnaissance, transmitting real-time video data (visual or infrared) or taking higher resolution still images.
The Krunk was demonstrated for the first time on September 21, 2011 during a military parade dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the independence of Armenia.
The name refers to range of different models. Latest ones are Krunk-9 and Krunk-11.
Specifications
Crew: 0 (unmanned)
Capacity: 60 kg (132 lb)
Max speed kmh: 150 km/h (82 knots, 95 mph)
Endurance: 5 hours
Ceiling: 4500 m (13,150 ft)
Max ceiling: 5400 m (15,770 ft)
Length: 3.8 m (12 ft) (5 m (16 ft) with the wings spread out)
Service
- Armed Forces of Armenia
- Artsakh Defense Army
See also
Category: Unmanned aerial vehicles of Armenia
References
Armenian inventions
Unmanned military aircraft of Armenia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EmailTray | EmailTray is a lightweight email client for the Microsoft Windows operating system. EmailTray was developed by Internet Promotion Agency S.A., a software development d.
EmailTray 2.0 was publicly released on October 7, 2010, as a free desktop email client. It supports multiple accounts using the standard POP3/SMTP or IMAP protocols, with or without SSL.
EmailTray combines features of a simple email client and an email notifier that alerts users to the new email messages that EmailTray considers important.
History
EmailTray originated as SenderOK, an email productivity plug-in for Microsoft Outlook. The main features of SenderOK were email sorting and desktop notification about new prioritized email messages.
Apart from email sorting, the SenderOK plug-in also offered a social feature: the photo business cards of email senders were displayed along with their email messages. The business card information was retrieved from a proprietary social network hosted at SenderOK.com. In case an email sender had no SenderOK profile filled in, the SenderOK plug-in used information from the LinkedIn and Facebook social networks.
In October 2010, SenderOK was released as a standalone email client and was rebranded as EmailTray.
Basic features
EmailTray is an email program that runs in the taskbar area of a Windows PC. The program goes active when a user gets new email messages that EmailTray considers important. At any time the program can be opened and used as a fully functional email client.
Protocols and Webmail services supported by EmailTray are: POP3, IMAP and SMTP, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail and AOL Mail accounts. All passwords from user's email accounts are stored locally.
EmailTray lets users read and compose new messages in plain text or HTML, view attachments and attach files to messages. Users can also forward email messages, reply to emails and create an unlimited number of custom signatures that can be used in new messages and email replies.
EmailTray users can create custom rules based on the sender name and sender email address data, email subject contents and recipient data. An EmailTray user can set a sender's priority to Top Priority or Low Priority, assign colors to all messages that conform to a rule, or perform other actions like archiving or moving messages to the Spam folder.
To help users manage their emails, EmailTray provides the option to sort emails by date and email account, filter messages by sender and perform instant search through the emails of all tracked accounts.
Advanced features
Being a simple email client, EmailTray does not offer an electronic calendar, address book, or feed reader options. EmailTray differs from other email clients mainly because of its email management features such as email sorting by priority, as well as alerts about new priority messages. The program offers password protection of the user's mail data.
Email sorting and prioritizing
EmailTray analyzes a user's email habits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Stockholm | The Stockholm tramway network forms part of the public transport system in Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden.
Beginning with horse trams in 1877, the Stockholm tram network reached its largest extent in 1946. Many of the former suburban tram lines became parts of the Stockholm Metro between the years 1950-1964. In September 1967, in conjunction with the Swedish switch from left-hand to right-hand traffic, the last parts of the once large inner city street running tram network were closed. What little remained of the former network following 1967 were isolated suburban feeder lines to the Metro.
However, in 1991 a long heritage line opened to the recreational area Djurgården; and in 2000, the non-radial half-circle line Tvärbanan opened with articulated low floor vehicles connecting an inner ring of Metro and commuter rail stations just outside the inner city proper, with subsequent extensions in 2003 and 2014; and in 2010 the heritage line was extended and converted to a regular service line.
History
The first tramway in Stockholm was opened on 10 July 1877 and was drawn by horses. A tramline run on steam-power opened in 1887. Stockholm's tram network was converted to electrical propulsion 1901-1905. An extensive network formed in the early 20th century. Trams were effectively replaced by the Stockholm Metro from 1950 onwards, and most tram lines were closed down by September 1967 due to the effect of Dagen H and replaced with buses (especially those in Stockholm proper), with the exception of two suburban tram lines, Lidingöbanan and Nockebybanan.
In 1991, one tram line, Djurgårdslinjen, was reopened as a heritage and tourist line. Since 2000, two more tram lines have been built, Tvärbanan (line 22), a peripheral line linking the southeastern suburb of Sickla with the northwestern suburb of Solna, and an extension of Djurgårdslinjen into the inner city Spårväg City (line 7). The Tvärbana was extended in 2013, and will be further extended in the future.
Current service
As of January 2023, the following lines provide service in the Stockholm metropolitan area:
While all tramlines run on standard gauge track and use the same overhead voltage (750 V DC), the cab signalling system for Lidingöbanan is different from the one for Tvärbanan, making rolling stock incompatible. The other tramlines (Nockeby and City/Djurgården) have no cab signalling requirement.
Gallery
See also
Stockholm metro
Public transport in Stockholm
List of town tramway systems in Europe
External links
AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik
AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik
Tram.se - Stockholm tramway lines
Track plan of the Stockholm tram system)
SL site with maps of lines
Rail transport in Stockholm
Stockholm
Stockholm
1877 establishments in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Mobile%20%28disambiguation%29 | Open Mobile is a mobile network operator offering mobile phone services exclusively in Puerto Rico
OpenMobile is a mobile network operator offering mobile phone services exclusively in The Netherlands
Open Mobile may also refer to:
Open Mobile Terminal Platform, a former industry forum in the wireless services area
Open Mobile Alliance, a standards body which develops open standards for the mobile phone industry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMNET | FEMNET, also called the African Women's Development and Communication Network, is an organization established in 1988 to promote women's development in Africa.
FEMNET helps non-government organizations share information and approaches on women's development, equality and other human rights.
Activities
FEMNET was originally set up in 1988 by national women's networks to co-ordinate African preparations for the Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing, China, in 1995.
The organization is based in Nairobi, Kenya.
FEMNET has worked with the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, the World Conference against Racism and the African Union (AU).
Areas of focus with the AU have included the protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa of the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, the Economic, Social and Cultural Council and the New Partnership for African Development.
FEMNET ran its first gender-training workshop in 1990 in Kenya, working with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The workshop helped to train trainers, and FEMNET refined the approach and developed material based on results. FEMNET ran training sessions in the 1993–1999 period in Swaziland, Zambia, the United States and Malawi. They were supported by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), UNICEF and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
FEMNET ran Train the Trainers sessions in 2000 for partner organizations in South Africa, Uganda and Ghana.
Gender-based trainers have worked in many other countries in Africa.
FEMNET has found that it is critical to involve men in the fight for gender equality. Male gender trainers have had great influence in introducing gender awareness in sectors such as developmental research where gender concerns had previously been neglected.
It was assumed that raising awareness of gender issues would be extremely difficult in Swaziland, with its strongly patriarchal traditions.
In fact, as a result of FEMNET assistance through UNFPA, high-level policymakers became sensitized to gender issues and measures to address gender concerns were included in key national plans.
Malawi, where FEMNET has worked with UNFPA and UNICEF, has been another country where great progress has been made in training and sensitizing political leader, agencies, and other organizations.
In July 2008, FEMNET coordinated the official launch in Nairobi of the United Nations' Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign in Africa. As of 2010, FEMNET was active through membership and local organizations in more than 37 African countries.
Former executive directors
Njoki Wainaina, founder
Lynne Muthoni Wanyeki
Dinah Musindarwezo
Former chairpeople
Sara Hlupekile Longwe, winner of the 2003 Africa Prize for Leadership.
Mama Koite Doumbia, winner of the 2011 FAMEDEV Gender Award.
References
Women's rights in Africa
Women's organisations based in Kenya
Organisations ba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Rasch | Mark D. Rasch (born August 2, 1958) is an American attorney and author, working in the areas of corporate and government cybersecurity, privacy and incident response. He is the former Chief Security Evangelist for Verizon Communications after having been Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and Chief Privacy and Data Security Officer for SAIC. From 1983 to 1992, Rasch worked at the U.S. Department of Justice within the Criminal Division's Fraud Section. Rasch earned a J.D. in 1983 from State University of New York at Buffalo and is a 1976 graduate of the Bronx High School of Science.
He prosecuted Robert Tappan Morris in the case of United States v. Morris (1991). He was an amicus curiae related to data encryption in Bernstein v. United States, and prosecuted Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, and organized crime figures in New York
associated with the Gambino crime family He also helped uncover the individual responsible for the so-called "Craigslist murder" in Boston.
Rasch has been a regular contributor to Security Current and SecurityFocus and Security Boulevard on issues related to law and technology and is a regular contributor to Wired Magazine. He was also a longtime columnist for Storefront Backtalk, a now-defunct publication that tracked global retail technology. He has appeared on or been quoted by MSNBC, Fox News, The New York Times, Forbes, PBS, The Washington Post, NPR and other national and international media.
Books
Notes and references
1958 births
American lawyers
Living people
People associated with computer security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20%28disambiguation%29 | In computer technology and telecommunications, the term online refers to a state of having connectivity.
Online may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Films
On Line (2002 film), American drama film
On Line (2015 film), Chinese science fiction action film
Music
Online (album), a 2001 album by the Latvian rock band Brainstorm
"Online" (Brainstorm song)
"Online" (Brad Paisley song), 2007 song recorded by American country music artist Brad Paisley
"Online", a 2006 song by Gnarls Barkley from St. Elsewhere
Periodicals
Online (magazine), magazine for information systems first published in 1977
Computing and technology
.online, a generic top-level domain
Online algorithm, an algorithm which doesn't require the whole input from the start
Online analytical processing, an approach to answer multi-dimensional analytical (MDA) queries swiftly
Online machine learning, a method of machine learning in which data becomes available in a sequential order
Online SAS, French cloud computing and hosting company
Other uses
One Nevada Transmission Line (ONLine), proposed electrical power line in Nevada
See also
Offline (disambiguation)
Online storage (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon%20Phi | Xeon Phi was a series of x86 manycore processors designed and made by Intel. It was intended for use in supercomputers, servers, and high-end workstations. Its architecture allowed use of standard programming languages and application programming interfaces (APIs) such as OpenMP.
Xeon Phi launched in 2010. Since it was originally based on an earlier GPU design (codenamed "Larrabee") by Intel that was cancelled in 2009, it shared application areas with GPUs. The main difference between Xeon Phi and a GPGPU like Nvidia Tesla was that Xeon Phi, with an x86-compatible core, could, with less modification, run software that was originally targeted to a standard x86 CPU.
Initially in the form of PCIe-based add-on cards, a second-generation product, codenamed Knights Landing, was announced in June 2013. These second-generation chips could be used as a standalone CPU, rather than just as an add-in card.
In June 2013, the Tianhe-2 supercomputer at the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou (NSCC-GZ) was announced as the world's fastest supercomputer (, it is ). It used Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors and Ivy Bridge-EP Xeon processors to achieve 33.86 petaFLOPS.
The Xeon Phi product line directly competed with Nvidia's Tesla and AMD Radeon Instinct lines of deep learning and GPGPU cards. It was discontinued due to a lack of demand and Intel's problems with its 10nm node.
History
Background
The Larrabee microarchitecture (in development since 2006) introduced very wide (512-bit) SIMD units to a x86 architecture based processor design, extended to a cache-coherent multiprocessor system connected via a ring bus to memory; each core was capable of four-way multithreading. Due to the design being intended for GPU as well as general purpose computing, the Larrabee chips also included specialised hardware for texture sampling. The project to produce a retail GPU product directly from the Larrabee research project was terminated in May 2010.
Another contemporary Intel research project implementing x86 architecture on a many-multicore processor was the 'Single-chip Cloud Computer' (prototype introduced 2009), a design mimicking a cloud computing computer datacentre on a single chip with multiple independent cores: the prototype design included 48 cores per chip with hardware support for selective frequency and voltage control of cores to maximize energy efficiency, and incorporated a mesh network for inter-chip messaging. The design lacked cache-coherent cores and focused on principles that would allow the design to scale to many more cores.
The Teraflops Research Chip (prototype unveiled 2007) is an experimental 80-core chip with two floating-point units per core, implementing a 96-bit VLIW architecture instead of the x86 architecture. The project investigated intercore communication methods, per-chip power management, and achieved 1.01 TFLOPS at 3.16 GHz consuming 62 W of power.
Knights Ferry
Intel's Many Integrated Core (MIC) prototype board, named Knigh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroeconomic%20data%20in%20the%20eurozone%20countries | The key macroeconomic data in the eurozone countries are:
General government net debt / Percent of GDP;
General government net lending/borrowing / Percent of GDP;
inflation rate;
gross domestic product (real GDP);
unemployment.
Chronology
Year 1998
Year 1999
Year 2000
Year 2001
Year 2002
Year 2003
Year 2004
Year 2005
Year 2006
Year 2007
Year 2008
Year 2009
Year 2010
Year 2011
External links
International Monetary Fund, Home page – Countries
International Monetary Fund, Home page – UME
International Monetary Fund – Debt/% of GDP
International Monetary Fund – Deficit/% of GDP
International Monetary Fund – Inflation)
International Monetary Fund – Real GDP
International Monetary Fund – Unemployment
Eurozone
Currency unions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank%20You%20Lord | Thank You Lord is a contemporary worship music album recorded by Don Moen. The album was released on April 6, 2004, by Integrity Music, Hosanna! Music, Christian Broadcasting Network, Epic Records, and Sony Music Entertainment. On March 5, 2005, was recognized by Billboard Magazine, charting No. 15 on the Top Christian Albums and No. 22 on the Heatseekers.
Recording
Thank You Lord was recorded on October 3, 2003, during a live worship service at Regent University, located in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The school was founded by the American televangelist Pat Robertson, president and founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network. The recording featured worship leader, Don Moen, along with the Kingdom Choir of Tide Water and the Brentwood Baptist Church Worship Choir. This would be the final full-length live recording Moen would do for Integrity Music and the last full-length live recording he would do as an artist until 2016's "God Will Make a Way: A Worship Musical."
Track listing
"This Is Your House" – 4:35
"Arise" – 6:01
"Thank You Lord" – 5:59
"Creator King" – 4:59
"Throne of Praise" – 6:37
"Rescue" – 5:58
"I Need Thee Every Hour" – 2:19
"At The Foot of the Cross (Ashes To Beauty)" – 5:14
"Mi Corazon" – 5:02
"Worthy of Praises" – 5:14
"Jesus You Are My Healer" – 7:00
"All To You" / "I Surrender All" – 5:46
"Wonderful Magnificent God" – 5:33
"When It's All Been Said and Done" – 3:30
Credits
Producer
David Hamilton – producer
Executive Producers
Don Moen – Executive producer
Gordon P. Robertson – Executive producer for CBN
Chris Thomason – Executive producer, A&R
Worship leader
Don Moen – Worship leader
Vocals
Leanne Albrecht – vocals
Travis Cottrell – vocals
Rachel Robinson – vocals
Maribeth Johnson – vocals
Mandisa – vocals
Drew Cline – vocals
Scott Griffiths – assistant vocals
Musicians
Mark Baldwin – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, guitar (nylon string)
Raymond Boyd – drums
Skip Cleavinger – whistle, Uilleann pipes
Tom Hemby – acoustic guitar, mandolin, electric guitar
David Hamilton – keyboards
Blair Masters – keyboards, Hammond organ
Don Moen – piano, fiddle
Matt Pierson – bass
References
Don Moen live albums
2004 live albums
Epic Records albums
Columbia Records albums
2004 video albums
Live video albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%27s%20technique | In theoretical computer science, Baker's technique is a method for designing polynomial-time approximation schemes (PTASs) for problems on planar graphs. It is named after Brenda Baker, who announced it in a 1983 conference and published it in the Journal of the ACM in 1994.
The idea for Baker's technique is to break the graph into layers, such that the problem can be solved optimally on each layer, then combine the solutions from each layer in a reasonable way that will result in a feasible solution. This technique has given PTASs for the following problems: subgraph isomorphism, maximum independent set, minimum vertex cover, minimum dominating set, minimum edge dominating set, maximum triangle matching, and many others.
The bidimensionality theory of Erik Demaine, Fedor Fomin, Hajiaghayi, and Dimitrios Thilikos and its offshoot simplifying decompositions (,) generalizes and greatly expands the applicability of Baker's technique
for a vast set of problems on planar graphs and more generally graphs excluding a fixed minor, such as bounded genus graphs, as well as to other classes of graphs not closed under taking minors such as the 1-planar graphs.
Example of technique
The example that we will use to demonstrate Baker's technique is the maximum weight independent set problem.
Algorithm
INDEPENDENT-SET(, , )
Choose an arbitrary vertex
find the breadth-first search levels for rooted at :
for
find the components of after deleting
for
compute , the maximum-weight independent set of
let be the solution of maximum weight among
return
Notice that the above algorithm is feasible because each is the union of disjoint independent sets.
Dynamic programming
Dynamic programming is used when we compute the maximum-weight independent set for each . This dynamic program works because each is a -outerplanar graph. Many NP-complete problems can be solved with dynamic programming on -outerplanar graphs. Baker's technique can be interpreted as covering the given planar graphs with subgraphs of this type, finding the solution to each subgraph using dynamic programming, and gluing the solutions together.
References
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1983 in computing
Planar graphs
Approximation algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Njoki%20Wainaina | Njoki Wainaina is a gender and development consultant from Kenya. She was the first executive director of the African Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET), formed in 1988.
Career
Wainaina became involved in gender and development work in the early 1970s, and since then has been a leader in the women's movement in Kenya.
She attended global meetings of the World Conference on Women in Mexico City (1975), Nairobi (1985) and Beijing (1995).
Wainaina helped to pioneer FEMNET in the late 1970s.
At FEMNET she coordinated and integrated gender concerns in the programs of development agencies in Kenya.
She has campaigned for male support in eliminating discrimination against women, particularly gender-based violence.
When she retired from FEMNET she was succeeded by Lynne Muthoni Wanyeki, a radical feminist in her early thirties.
As of 2010 Wainaina was almost 70, a wife, mother and grandmother, still active both in business and as a gender consultant.
Views
Wainaina says that gender training involves challenging centuries-old structures, challenging power relations at the personal, family, community and national levels. She says "it can be a very threatening exercise".
She has said of her work "Women's leadership is the most political work. First of all, we are fighting for rights. We are fighting for something somebody else has [that belongs to us]. So we have to fight them, persuade them. Trick them. So it is so political, You need to be very confident to just be able to continue and to say you know, yes, I understand what you are saying, but ... and to be able to keep your head and not get angry".
Wainaina is founder of Men for Gender Equality Now, a Kenyan NGO.
She has explained of her work with men "There are many women today who feel that working with men and boys is diluting, diverting and trivializing our struggle. Many hold the view that because men and boys are the beneficiaries of male privilege and discrimination against women and girls, they can never understand our struggle. Many doubt that men and boys can commit to changes that would mean them losing the privileges they now enjoy. But, as understandings of gender, its social construction, maculinities, femininities and their impact on all deepen, it becomes clear that males have reasons to want to change as well and that gender equality would also benefit them. Work with men and boys for gender equality is only one of the many strategies that must be combined to tackle the ever-growing problems of inequality, injustice and oppression".
Wainaina has pointed out "The focus on the girl child since the Beijing Conference has particularly challenged men to look at the boy child. In several countries in Africa, gender programs are targeting boys because of the recognition that boys too suffer certain gender specific problems, especially arising from their socialization. There is, for example, growing concern that while girls have been overburdened with family responsibil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20Sullivan%20County%20Public%20Health%20Network | The Greater Sullivan County Public Health Network (GSCPHN) is a collaborative of municipalities and health and human service agencies in the greater Sullivan County region. The GSCPHN is one of 15 public health regions in the state of New Hampshire in the United States. The Greater Sullivan County Public Health Network strives to increase planning and collaboration across municipal boundaries and health and safety sectors.
Background
The state of New Hampshire does not have county health departments. Rather, the state is geographically divided into 15 public health regions. Together these 15 public health regions comprise the New Hampshire Public Health Network system.
The Greater Sullivan County Public Health Network is housed by the Sullivan County government and is financed under an agreement with the New Hampshire Department of Health & Human Services - Division of Public Health Services with funds provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Greater Sullivan County Public Health Network is bordered by the Greater Monadnock Public Health Network to the south, the Upper Valley Public Health Network to the north, and the Franklin/Bristol Public Health Network and Greater Concord Public Health Network to the east.
Service area
The Greater Sullivan County Public Health Network serves 15 municipalities in New Hampshire: Acworth, Charlestown, Claremont, Croydon, Goshen, Langdon, Lempster, New London, Newbury, Newport, Springfield, Sunapee, Sutton, Unity, and Wilmot. The combined population of these municipalities is around 30,000 people.
Mission
The mission of the Greater Sullivan County Public Health Network is to work closely with regional partners to create consistent public health messages and programs, and to ensure that the region is prepared for health emergencies. The GSCPHN is committed to helping people live healthier lives - in accordance with the Sullivan County mission "All Day, Every Day, We Make Life Better."
Regional partners
The Greater Sullivan County Regional Coordination Committee (RCC) is a collaborative group of town officials, health officers, fire department personnel, police officers, subject matter experts, schools, faith-based organizations and non-profit organizations from the Greater Sullivan region. The RCC includes representatives from each of the 15 towns that the GSCPHN serves. Additional partners include representatives from organizations and agencies that serve the citizens of the Sullivan County region: Sullivan County, Sullivan County Nursing Home, Valley Regional Hospital, New London Hospital, Connecticut Valley Home Care, Lake Sunapee Region VNA and Hospice, SAU #6 Claremont School District, SAU #43 Newport School District, SAU #60 Fall Mountain Regional School District, SAU #85 Sunapee School District, Newton-Bartlett Funeral Home, the American Red Cross, Golden Cross Ambulance Service, the New Hampshire Department of Health & Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20processing | In digital communications networks, packet processing refers to the wide variety of algorithms that are applied to a packet of data or information as it moves through the various network elements of a communications network. With the increased performance of network interfaces, there is a corresponding need for faster packet processing.
There are two broad classes of packet processing algorithms that align with the standardized network subdivision of control plane and data plane. The algorithms are applied to either:
Control information contained in a packet which is used to transfer the packet safely and efficiently from origin to destination
or
The data content (frequently called the payload) of the packet which is used to provide some content-specific transformation or take a content-driven action.
Within any network enabled device (e.g. router, switch, network element or terminal such as a computer or smartphone) it is the packet processing subsystem that manages the traversal of the multi-layered network or protocol stack from the lower, physical and network layers all the way through to the application layer.
History
The history of packet processing is the history of the Internet and packet switching. Packet processing milestones include:
1962–1968: Early research into packet switching
1969: 1st two nodes of ARPANET connected; 15 sites connected by end of 1971 with email as a new application
1973: Packet switched voice connections over ARPANET with Network Voice Protocol. File Transfer Protocol (FTP) specified
1974: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) specified
1979: VoIP – NVP running on early versions of IP
1981: IP and TCP standardized
1982: TCP/IP standardized
1991: World Wide Web (WWW) released by CERN, authored by Tim Berners-Lee
1998: IPv6 first published
Historical references and timeline can be found in the External Resources section below.
Communications models
For networks to succeed it is necessary to have a unifying standard for which defines the architecture of networking systems. The fundamental requirement for such a standard is to provide a framework that enables the hardware and software manufacturers around the world to develop networking technologies that will work together and to harness their cumulative investment capabilities to move the state of networking forward.
In the 1970s, two organizations, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee (CCITT, now called the International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) each initiated projects with the goal of developing international networking standards. In 1983, these efforts were merged and in 1984 the standard, called The Basic Reference Model for Open Systems Interconnection, was published by ISO and as standard X.200 by the ITU-T.
The OSI Model is a 7 layer model describing how a network operating system works. A layered model has many benefits including the ability |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%203%20%28Poland%29 | National road 3 () is a route belonging to the Polish national road network. The highway connects the northwestern and southwestern regions of Poland, running from Świnoujście at the German border to Jakuszyce at the Czech border, traversing through the West Pomeranian, Lubusz and Lower Silesian voivodeships. National road 3 is a component of European highway E65.
National road 3 is currently being upgraded to express road S3, with the older highway being classified as a gmina road running parallel or near the completed sections of the modern expressway.
Major cities and towns along the route
Świnoujście (road 93)
Goleniów (road 6)
Szczecin (road 6, 10)
Myślibórz (road 26)
Gorzów Wielkopolski (road 22)
Skwierzyna (road 24)
Świebodzin (road 2)
Sulechów (road 32)
Zielona Góra (road 32)
Drożów (road 12)
Lubin (road 36)
Legnica (road 4, 94)
Bolków (road 5)
Jelenia Góra (road 30)
Jakuszyce, border with Czech Republic
03 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulon%20language | Kulon (occasionally rendered Kulun) is an extinct language of the Taiwanese aboriginal people that belonged to the Austronesian language family. Very little data is available for Kulon; the primary source is the 60 pages of Tsuchida (1985). Li (2008) follows Tsuchida in linking Kulon with Saisiyat, while Blust (1999) proposes it was more closely related to Pazeh.
References
Formosan languages
Languages of Taiwan
Extinct languages of Asia
Languages extinct in the 2010s
2010s disestablishments in Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual%20Core | "Mutual Core" is a song recorded by Icelandic singer Björk for her seventh studio album Biophilia (2011). It was written and produced by Björk herself, while programming and beats were made in collaboration with Matthew Herbert and the English dubstep band 16bit. "Mutual Core" is an uptempo experimental song. Its music includes Pipe organ, electronica-tinged sounds and features the Choir Graduale Nobili, the choir featured on Biophilia. The song's lyrics are a metaphor for human relationships, compared to the structure of the Earth and Plate tectonics. The song was well received by contemporary music critics, who praised its production and beats, moreover appreciating Björk's voice on the track.
As with all the songs on Biophilia, an app was made for the song, which features a video game in which the player have to move geological layers as an accordion to play chords. Though the song wasn't released as a single, a music video was produced, directed by Andrew Thomas Huang. The video was critically applauded and received further attention when it got projected for one month in Times Square in 2013, and then across the 7 continents. Björk promoted the song by performing it throughout her Biophilia Tour.
Three remixes by Matthew Herbert, 16bit and These New Puritans were released as part of Biophilia Remix Series. The Matthew Herbert's and the These New Puritans remixes were later included on bastards (2012). In July 2012, the online music store Beatport announced a fan contest in which "Mutual Core" had to be remixed, to be released afterwards on a remix package.
Background
At the end of 2010, Björk confirmed she was working on a new album. In an interview published on Fréttablaðið, the singer stated that the project was midway through the completion and that she hoped to go on tour before the end of 2011. The project was officialised in March 2011, with the announcement of Björk performance at Manchester International Festival. The project, called Biophilia, comprises a series of live performances, a new website, a documentary and a series of apps, besides the release as a music album which is partly composed on an iPad. The Biophilia Tour was said to be touring eight cities for three years and to be including a series of workshops for children in collaboration with local schools. The first details about "Mutual Core" came regarding its app, which was described to allow users to "arrange geological layers to form chords".
"Mutual Core" was written and produced by Björk, while the beat of the song was made in collaboration with Matthew Herbert and 16bit. The song was engineered by Damian Taylor and Sveinn Kjartansson, with mixing provided by Taylor and Björk. "Mutual Core"'s lyrics were inspired by human relationships and by Björk's family decisions, who had to decide where her daughter, Ísadóra, would go to school between New York City and Reykjavík. Björk felt that the song is "the most personal [on the album] for me". David Fricke of Rollin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANU%20College%20of%20Engineering%2C%20Computing%20and%20Cybernetics | The ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics is a constituent body of the Australian National University, comprising the School of Computing, School of Engineering, and School of Cybernetics. The College has roughly 150 academic staff, 100 general staff, 200 higher degree research students, and 1,000 undergraduate students.
History
The Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering (RSISE) was established on 1 January 1994. RSISE resulted from the merger of the Department of Systems Engineering (1981) and the Computer Sciences Laboratory (1988), both of which were part of the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering (RSPhysSE). The Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) was established in 1993, and the Research School joined in 2004 to form a single institute that would become ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) on 1 January 2006. In October 2022, the College was renamed to ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics.
Student life
The ANU Computer Science Students Association (ANU CSSA) caters to the needs of IT, Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSIT) students. The organisation had existed since at least 1995, and was relaunched in 2011 and was allocated with a common room located in the Computer Science & Information Technology Building at ANU.
The ANU Engineering Students Association (ANU ESA) caters to the needs of Engineering students.
References
External links
ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science
Australian National University
1994 establishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20asset%20modelling | Integrated asset modelling (IAM) is the generic term used in the oil industry for computer modelling of both the subsurface and the surface elements of a field development. Historically the reservoir has always been modelled separately from the surface network and the facilities. In order to capture the interaction between those two or more standalone models, several time-consuming iterations were required. For example, a change in the water breakthrough leads to a change in the deliverability of the surface network which in turn leads to a production acceleration or deceleration in the reservoir. In order to go through this lengthy process more quickly, the industry has slowly been adopting a more integrated approach which captures the constraints imposed by the infrastructure on the network immediately.
Basis
As the aim of an IAM is to provide a production forecast which honours both the physical realities of the reservoir and the infrastructure it needs to contain the following elements;
A pressure network
A subsurface saturation model
An availability model
A constraint manager
A production optimisation algorithm
Some but not all models also contain an economics and risk model component so that the IAM can be used for economic evaluation.
IAM vs. IPM
The term Integrated Asset Modeling was first used by British Petroleum (BP). Historically the terms Integrated Production Modeling and Integrated Asset Modeling have been used interchangeably. The modern use of Integrated Production Modeling was coined when Petroleum Experts Ltd. joined their MBAL modeling software with their GAP and Prosper modeling software to form an Integrated Production Model.
Benefits of Integrated Asset Modelling
Having an IAM built of an asset or future project offers several advantages;
Faster runtimes which allow scenario analysis and Monte Carlo analysis
Insight in the interactions between various components of a development
An answer in economic rather than recovery terms (not always available)
Difficulties of Integrated Asset Modelling
By its very nature an IAM requires a multi disciplinary approach. Most companies are too compartmentalised for this to be easy, as a result of this an integrated approach has the following drawbacks;
More difficult to spot errors
Requires constant communication between various departments, ownership is either vague or too much part of one silo.
The biggest barrier to adoption of IAM is frequently the resistance of reservoir engineers to any simplification of the subsurface. This argument is sometimes valid, sometimes not, see below.
Appropriate use of IAM
As with any other software because of the inherent limitations in any virtual model use of an IAM is only appropriate during various stages of a project life. There are no hard and fast rules for this as there are a variety of software packages on the market which offer very accurate modelling of a very small scope to very rough modelling of a very large scope and anything |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens%20International%20Corporation | Sapiens International Corporation is a publicly traded company, headquartered in Israel, that develops computer software for the insurance industry,
Sapiens' shares are traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market and on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. As of July 2022, the company has a market cap of $1.39 billion.
History
Sapiens grew out of an initiative, dubbed DB1, undertaken by a group of scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science during the 1970s to develop a novel object-oriented application generator for use with mainframe computers. One of the driving forces behind the initiative was Tsvi Misinai, a graduate of the Technion, who in 1972 spearheaded the project. He teamed up with Shai Sole, Shmuel Timor and Eli Raban. By the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Weizmann team, partnered with a local Israeli company, Advanced Automated Applications (AAA, which was founded by Tuvi Orbach).
In 1984, the Weizmann team established its own company, which was later merged with AAA and joined by entrepreneurs Ron Zuckerman and Shaul Shani. The company severed itself from the Weizmann Institute and was incorporated under its new name: Sapiens.
In 1992, shares of Sapiens began trading on the NASDAQ exchange. By 1993, Sapiens had 900 workers employed at 33 branches around the world and a market cap of $340 million.
During the latter half of the 1990s, Sapiens focused on developing a business rules technology (eMerge) and legacy modernization products and services. The company was involved in updating information systems to deal with the Year 2000 problem and to adapt systems to the changeover to the new single European currency (the Euro). In 1999, Sapiens' annual revenues reached $91 million.
Refocusing on Insurance Software
In 2001, Dan Goldstein, then Chairman of The Formula Group, assumed the role of Chairman of Sapiens and supervised its recovery. The company decided to focus solely on developing software for the insurance industry.
Roni Al-Dor joined Sapiens as president and CEO in November 2005. Previously, he served for nine years as president of TTI Telecom after serving as vice president for three years.
Sapiens acquired Harcase, a Canada-based software company, developer of policy administration suite for Property and Casualty Insurance, in 2010.
In 2011, Goldstein executed a three-way corporate merger between Sapiens and two subsidiaries of Formula Vision – Formula Insurance Solutions (FIS) and IDIT.
Additional Acquisitions
Sapiens has aggressively executed upon its merger and acquisition (M&A) strategy to expand its product portfolio, enter new markets and acquire technical expertise and skilled human resources.
Sapiens acquired IBEXI Solutions, an India-based provider of insurance business and technology in Asia Pacific, in March 2015.
In July 2015, Sapiens Acquired Insseco, an Insurance Software Provider in Poland for $9.1 Million.
In June 2016, Sapiens acquired Maximum Processing, a North American P&C solution provider that ser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Mainz | The Mainz tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Mainz, the capital city of the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Opened in 1883, the network has been operated since 2001 by the (MVG), and is integrated in the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV).
Lines
, the Mainz tramway network has the following five lines:
Since Autumn 2016, the "Mainzelbahn" has been transporting passengers from Hauptbahnhof West (main station, west entrance) via University and Marienborn to Lerchenberg, and offers a fast connection between the main station and the University as well as the headquarters of ZDF ("Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen", a public television channel in Germany) in the district of Lerchenberg. Further, a new line is planned. The "Zollhafen Tram" links the new Zollhafen residential area with the tram network. To operate the new lines, the MVG ordered 10 Variotrams from Stadler Rail.
Rolling stock
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
External links
Mainz
Transport in Mainz
Metre gauge railways in Germany
600 V DC railway electrification
Mainz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPadOS | iPadOS is a mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc. for its iPad line of tablet computers. It was originally forked from iOS, the operating system used by Apple's iPhones, and given a new name to reflect the diverging features of the two product lines, particularly the iPad's multitasking capabilities. It was introduced as iPadOS 13 in 2019, reflecting its status as the successor to iOS 12 for the iPad, at the company's 2019 Worldwide Developers Conference.
iPadOS was first released to the public on September 24, 2019. Major versions of iPadOS are released annually. The current stable version, iPadOS 17, was released to the public on September 18, 2023.
History
The first iPad was released on January 10, 2010, and ran iPhone OS 3.2, which added support for the larger device to the operating system, previously only used on the iPhone and its smaller counterpart, the iPod Touch. This shared operating system was rebranded as "iOS" with the release of iOS 4.
The operating system initially had rough feature parity running on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad, with variations in user interface depending on screen size, and minor differences in the selection of apps included. However, over time, the variant of iOS for the iPad incorporated a growing set of differentiating features, such as picture-in-picture, the ability to display multiple running apps simultaneously (both introduced with iOS 9 in 2015), drag and drop, and a dock that more closely resembled the dock from macOS than the one on the iPhone (added in 2017 with iOS 11). Standard iPad apps were increasingly designed to support the optional use of a physical keyboard.
To emphasize the different feature set available on the iPad, and to signal their intention to develop the platforms in divergent directions, at WWDC 2019, Apple announced that the variant of iOS that runs on the iPad would be rebranded as "iPadOS". The new naming strategy began with iPadOS 13.1, in 2019.
On June 22, 2020, at WWDC 2020, Apple announced iPadOS 14, with compact designs for search, Siri, and calls, improved app designs, handwriting recognition, better AR features, enhanced privacy protections, and app widgets. iPadOS 14 was released to the public on September 16, 2020.
On June 7, 2021, at WWDC 2021, iPadOS 15 was announced with widgets on the Home Screen and App Library, the same features that came to iPhone with iOS 14 in 2020. The update also brought stricter privacy measurements with Safari such as IP Address blocking so other websites cannot see it. iPadOS 15 was released to the public on September 20, 2021.
On June 6, 2022, at WWDC 2022, iPadOS 16 was announced with a Weather app and Stage Manager, along with most of the features included in iOS 16, excluding a customizable lock screen.
On June 5, 2023, at WWDC 2023, Apple announced iPadOS 17 with support for widgets for the lock screen, a feature originally launched with iOS 16, along with the majority of features announced included in iOS 17. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH5 | Asian Highway 5 (AH5) is an east-west route of the Asian Highway Network, running 10,380 km (6,450 miles) from Shanghai, China via Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia to the border between Turkey and Bulgaria west of Istanbul where it connects to AH1 and E80.
China
4,815 km
: Shanghai - Wuxi - Nanjing
: Nanjing - Hefei - Lu'an - Huangchuan - Xinyang - Nanyang - Xixia - Lantian Baqiao - Xi'an
: Xi'an - Baoji - Tianshui - Dingxi - Lanzhou - Wuwei - Zhangye - Jiayuguan - Guazhou - Kumul - Turfan - Turfan - Ürümqi - Kuytun - Khorgas
Kazakhstan
: Khorgos - Koktal - Shonzhy - Almaty - Kaskelen - Kenen
(Branch): Kenen - Korday - Border of Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan
ЭМ-01 Road: Border of Kazakhstan - Bishkek
ЭМ-02 Road: Bishkek Bypass
ЭМ-04 Road: Bishkek - Kara-Balta
ЭМ-03 Road: Kara-Balta - Chaldovar
Kazakhstan
:Chaldovar - Merke
: Merke - Taraz - Shymkent - Zhibek Zholy
Uzbekistan
677 km
: Border of Kazakhstan - G‘ishtko‘prik - Tashkent - Chinoz - Sirdaryo
: Sirdaryo - Oqoltin
: Oqoltin - Sardoba
: Sardoba - Jizzax - Samarkand
: Samarkand - Navoi - Bukhara - Olot - Border of Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan
1227 km
Farap - Turkmenabat - Mary - Tejen - Ashgabat - Serdar - Turkmenbashi
Gap
Caspian Sea
Azerbaijan
515 km
M2 Highway: Baku - Alat - Gazi Mammed - Ganja - Qazax - Qirmizi Korpu
Georgia
489 km
: Red Bridge - Rustavi
: Rustavi - Tbilisi
: Tbilisi - Senaki
: Senaki - Poti - Batumi - Sarpi
Turkey
960 km
: Sarp - Trabzon - Samsun
: Samsun - Merzifon
: Merzifon - Gerede
: Gerede - Istanbul
: Istanbul
: Istanbul - Edirne - Kapikule (, )
References
Asian Highway Network
Roads in China
Roads in Kazakhstan
Roads in Uzbekistan
Roads in Turkmenistan
Roads in Azerbaijan
Roads in Georgia (country)
Roads in Turkey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20disk%20%28disambiguation%29 | Electronic disk may refer to:
Solid-state drive, a data storage device functionally similar to a hard disk drive but using flash memory
Capacitance Electronic Disc, an obsolete consumer video playback format developed by RCA
Television Electronic Disc, a discontinued video recording format |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender%20Equality%20Architecture%20Reform | The Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) campaign was a network of over 300 women's, human rights and social justice groups around the world.
The GEAR campaign urged UN Member States and the UN Secretariat to move swiftly forward to create a new UN gender equality entity. GEAR also urges the UN to set up a transparent process now for recruiting the best qualified Under Secretary-General to head this agency. The United Nations must move without further delay to implement changes that it has repeatedly recognized as critical to fulfilling its mandate of working for gender equality as a crucial component of development, human rights, peace, and security.
Background
In 2006, former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan convened a High-Level Panel to explore how the UN system could be strengthened in terms of coherence and coordination in the areas of development, humanitarian affairs and the environment. After women from around the world pressured the UN to better address gender equality in the reform process, Kofi Annan asked the Panel to include gender equality as its mandate. The Panel's report included recommendations on strengthening the gender equality architecture (GEA), and was endorsed by the current Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon in March 2007.
Campaign
In March 2007, the Women's Environment & Development Organization (WEDO), together with the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) convened a meeting of 50 women activists from around the world, to develop a comprehensive and multi-faceted strategy for global, regional and national action to gain the UN General Assembly's approval of a stronger and single, fully resourced women's entity at the UN. As a result of that meeting and the continued need for women's collaborative advocacy on this issue, WEDO and the CWGL, along with hundreds of activists spanning all regions, launched the Gender Equality Architecture Reform (GEAR) Campaign in February 2008, to mobilize women's groups and allies to push for the adoption of the new UN entity for gender equality and women's empowerment.
Regional groups such as the African Women's Development and Communication Network were mobilized to support the campaign.
On June 14, 2010, Charlotte Bunch, on behalf of the GEAR Campaign, spoke at the UN Millennium Development Goals Informal Interactive Hearings. The audience at these hearings included the UN General Assembly, civil society organizations and the private sector.
Bunch spoke about the urgency in establishing the new gender entity and articulated the linkages between gender equality, human rights and the MDGs in an effort to address the gaps on the ground in implementing promises that have been made by governments and the UN.
The meeting was convened in order to provide input to the preparatory process for the "MDG summit" (High-level Plenary Meeting) on September 20–22, 2010.
Results
On June 30, 2010, the United Nations General Assembly resolution wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Gera | The Gera tramway network is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Gera, a city in the federal state of Thuringia, Germany.
Opened in 1883, the network is operated by Geraer Verkehrsbetrieb GmbH (GVB), and integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Mittelthüringen (VMT).
Lines
, the network consisted of the following lines:
During peak times, line 1 operates at 10-minute intervals, line 2 20 minutes, and line 3 Monday-Friday 5 minutes (7½ minutes on holidays), 10 minutes at weekends. Off peak only lines 1 and 3 run at 30-minute intervals. In the evenings only line 3 runs, taking 70 minutes for a return trip.
For major events in the , such as the Hofwiesenparkfest, line 5 runs Lusan-Brüte – Heinrichstraße – Untermhaus 15 minutes either side of lines 1 and 3, reducing to 15 minutes the off-peak service interval between Lusan, the most heavily populated part of Gera, and Untermhaus.
Rolling stock
The current fleet consists of:
22 KT4D (built in 1981–1983 and 1990)
6 KTNF8 (built in 1990)
12 low-floor trams (built in 2006–2008 by Alstom LHB)
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Track plan of the Gera tram system
Gera
Gera
Transport in Thuringia
Metre gauge railways in Germany
Gera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Ulm | The Ulm tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Ulm, a city in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Opened in 1897, the network is currently operated by Stadtwerke Ulm/Neu-Ulm GmbH (SWU), and integrated in the Donau-Iller-Nahverkehrsverbund (DING).
Lines
On December 8th 2018, a second main line was added to the former single tram line that had been left of the former network since 1964.
Rolling stock
Currently, SWU has ten Combino NGT 6 UL trams and twelve Avenio M NGT 6 UL trams, both types manufactured by Siemens Mobility. All trams use a 1000 mm gauge.
Combino trams
In 2003, the previous fleet of GT4 trams was replaced with eight Combino NGT 6 UL vehicles. Two more trams were delivered in 2008 to service the extended Line 1.
Fleet Numbers:
41 – Albrecht Berblinger
42 – Agathe Streicher
43 – Albert Einstein
44 – Max Eyth
45 – Otl Aicher
46 – Johannes Kepler
47 – Jörg Syrlin
48 – Sophie Scholl
49 – Hans Scholl
50 – Resi Weglein
Avenio trams
For the newly built Line 2, SWU invited tenders for twelve more vehicles.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
External links
Stadtwerke Ulm/Neu-Ulm GmbH – official site
Tram line maps for Ulm
Ulm
Transport in Ulm
Metre gauge railways in Germany
Ulm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20D%C3%BCsseldorf | The Düsseldorf tramway network () is a network of tramways serving Düsseldorf, the capital city of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In combination with the Düsseldorf Stadtbahn and Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn, it forms the backbone of the public transport system in Düsseldorf.
The tramway network is currently operated by Rheinbahn AG, and is integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR). , its seven tram lines ran over of route, serving 178 stops.
History
In 1876, the first horse-drawn tram line opened in Düsseldorf operated by the Belgian entrepreneur Leopold Boyaert. It joined Castle Square with the Bergisch-Märkischen station and the concert hall.
In 1896, the first electric tram ran in Düsseldorf, and the full conversion of the system to electricity continued through 1900.
Lines
, seven tram lines running on of route, operate in the city of Düsseldorf and in portions of the urban areas of Neuss:
After finishing work at the Wehrhahlinie, many of the tram lines (703, 712, 713 and 715) have been moved to the new Stadtbahn service.
Rolling stock
The current tram fleet consists of low-floor trams which are good for wheelchair accessibility.
In the media
A version of the Tramway is playable in the German simulator LOTUS as paid-DLC with the map set in 1981 with tram lines 76, 710, 705,715 from Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof to Krefeld* and Hoterheide.
*map doesn't yet continue on to Krefeld Hbf yet as of 1/AUG/2022.
See also
Düsseldorf Stadtbahn
Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
Rhein-Ruhr Stadtbahn
Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Rheinbahn - official site
Rheinbahn - official site
Düsseldorf network map (pdf)
Dusseldorf
Transport in Düsseldorf
Dusseldorf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable%20Modular%20Data%20Center | The Portable Modular Data Center (PMDC) is a portable data center solution built into a 20, 40, or 53-foot intermodal container (shipping container). It can be stored easily and then deployed when needed to augment traditional data centers or provide backup functionality in the event of a disaster.
A PMDC provides network connections in disaster areas when traditional power and connectivity resources have been impacted. Generally, PMDCs come with modules for power generation (diesel generator), Servers, and other computing resources. There are cooling units to control the massive amounts of heat that high-density computing resources generate, and internet connectivity resources (often satellite uplinks).
Portability
The Portable Modular Data Center is either fully or partially loaded with computer equipment can be transported using standard shipping methods. The PMDC is weather-resistant and insulated and can be placed in environments like the tundra or the desert.
See also
Shipping container architecture
References
External links
IBM Portable Modular Data Center Homepage
IBM server computers
Intermodal containers
Data centers
Modular datacenter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Chi | Ed Huai-Hsin Chi () (born ) is a Taiwanese American computer scientist and research scientist at Google, known for his early work in applying the theory of information scent to predict usability of websites.
Biography
Born and raised in Taipei, Taiwan, Chi moved to Minnesota in the 9th grade. He obtained his BA in 1994, his MA in 1996 and his PhD in 1999, all at the University of Minnesota.
After his MA graduation, Chi worked as a research scientist at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) from 1997 to 2011. He started as an intern and was officially hired in 1999. From 1999-2007, he worked in the User Interface Research Group, during which time he was promoted to senior research scientist in 2005. He became area manager of the Augmented Social Group in 2007. In 2011, he left PARC and became a research scientist at Google, reporting directly to Peter Norvig in the areas of human-computer interaction and social computing. In 2017, he was promoted to principal scientist at Google.
In his spare time, Chi is an avid Taekwondo martial artist, photographer, and snowboarder. He is married and has one daughter.
Work
Chi specializes in social computing and human-computer interaction. He has developed a computer system that predicts usability of Websites based on the theory of information scent, a theory by Peter Pirolli and Stuart Card that pioneered ways of understanding how people search for information online. He is also known for his work on information visualization and authored the book A Framework for Visualizing Information, which describes approaches to make information visualization systems easier to develop through the use of reference models. His recent research has analyzed social behavior in large sociotechnical systems like Wikipedia, Twitter, and Digg, among other social software platforms. He has published over 80 academic articles, and he has over 20 patents. His top 9 publications have over 200 citations each.
"A Framework for Information Visualization Spreadsheets"
Chi's dissertation, titled, "A Framework for Information Visualization Spreadsheets", was chaired by John T. Riedl. The dissertation was an early example of the power of small multiples in information visualizations. During this time, he was awarded a University of Minnesota Graduate School Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, Research Contribution Award, Doctoral Dissertation Award, and Best Teaching Award.
Academic work
Chi has chaired top conferences and publishes regularly in top-tier academic conferences in computer science and human-computer interaction related fields. His work has been covered in various newspapers and magazines around the world, including The Economist, Time, Los Angeles Times, Technology Review, and Wired.
While at PARC, Chi published a paper analyzing edits to Wikipedia, looking at content contributed vs the author's edit count.
In 2012, Chi served as the technical program co-chair for CHI, the most prestigious academic conference in the field |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20matrix | In numerical mathematics, hierarchical matrices (H-matrices)
are used as data-sparse approximations of non-sparse matrices. While a sparse matrix of dimension can be represented efficiently in units of storage by storing only its non-zero entries, a non-sparse matrix would require units of storage, and using this type of matrices for large problems would therefore be prohibitively expensive in terms of storage and computing time. Hierarchical matrices provide an approximation requiring only units of storage, where is a parameter controlling the accuracy of the approximation. In typical applications, e.g., when discretizing integral equations,
preconditioning the resulting systems of linear equations,
or solving elliptic partial differential equations, a rank proportional to with a small constant is sufficient to ensure an accuracy of . Compared to many other data-sparse representations of non-sparse matrices, hierarchical matrices offer a major advantage: the results of matrix arithmetic operations like matrix multiplication, factorization or inversion can be approximated in operations, where
Basic idea
Hierarchical matrices rely on local low-rank approximations:
let be index sets, and let denote the matrix we have to approximate.
In many applications (see above), we can find subsets such that
can be approximated by a rank- matrix. This approximation can be represented in factorized form with factors
.
While the standard representation of the matrix requires units of storage,
the factorized representation requires only units. If is not too large, the storage requirements are reduced significantly.
In order to approximate the entire matrix , it is split into a family of submatrices. Large submatrices are stored in factorized representation, while small submatrices are stored in standard representation in order to improve efficiency.
Low-rank matrices are closely related to degenerate expansions used in panel clustering and the fast multipole method
to approximate integral operators. In this sense, hierarchical matrices can be considered the algebraic counterparts of these techniques.
Application to integral operators
Hierarchical matrices are successfully used to treat integral equations, e.g., the single and double layer potential operators
appearing in the boundary element method. A typical operator has the form
The Galerkin method leads to matrix entries of the form
where and are families of finite element basis functions.
If the kernel function is sufficiently smooth, we can approximate it by polynomial interpolation to obtain
where is the family of interpolation points and
is the corresponding family of Lagrange polynomials.
Replacing by yields an approximation
with the coefficients
If we choose and use the same interpolation points for all , we obtain
.
Obviously, any other approximation separating the variables and , e.g., the multipole expansion,
would also allow us to split the doubl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilat%20Satellite%20Networks | Gilat Satellite Networks is a public company headquartered in Israel that develops and sells VSAT satellite ground stations and related equipment. Its shares are traded on the NASDAQ Global Select Market and on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
History
Gilat Satellite Networks was founded in 1987 by brothers Joshua and Amiram Levinberg, Yoel Gat, Shlomo Tirosh, Arik Keshet, and Gideon Kaplan. In its early days, Gilat struggled to compete with larger and better-established companies the likes of EchoStar.
In 1998, Gilat was involved in founding Global Village Telecom (GVT), a company that built a satellite-based phone network for remote locations in South America using the VSAT technology that was developed by Gilat. During 1998 and 1999 GVT won tenders to build rural phone networks in Colombia, Chile and Peru.
In 2000, Gilat introduced an innovation involving VSAT technology allowing remote locations, such as the Havasupai Reservation in Arizona and rural communities in Brazil, to access the internet at high speeds. In February 2000, Gilat and Microsoft announced that they are co-developing a two-way satellite broadband service for consumer purposes. The satellite service delivered Internet connections at speeds of up to 1.5 Mbps and did not require a second telephone line. A new company, Gilat-To-Home, was established to deliver the broadband two-way satellite service and Microsoft took an initial 26 percent stake in the company with an investment of US$50 million. In September 2000, Gilat-To-Home changed its name to StarBand Communications and received an investment of $50 million from EchoStar, who received an equity stake of 32 percent in StarBand.
In 2011, Gilat announced the creation of a new division, headed by Brigadier General (Res.) Moshe Tamir, expanding its presence in the U.S. defense market.
Strategic acquisitions
Products
SkyEdge, SkyEdge II and NetEdge
MLT-1000 ruggedized spread-spectrum satellite modem
See also
TA BlueTech Index
List of Israeli companies quoted on the Nasdaq
Board Of director: chief executive officer Meir Shamir
References
Telecommunications companies of Israel
Telecommunications companies established in 1987
Companies listed on the Nasdaq
Companies listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange
1987 establishments in Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krache%20language | Krache (Krachi, Krakye) is a Guang language spoken by 58,000 in Ghana.
References
External links
ComparaLex, database with Krache word list
Guang languages
Languages of Ghana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Hoberman | David Elliot Hoberman (born September 19, 1952) is an American film and television producer, best known as the co-creator and executive producer of the USA Network television series Monk, and the founder and co-owner of Mandeville Films. He has produced over 40 films in his career, including the 2010 drama film The Fighter, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Early life
Hoberman was born on September 19, 1952, the son of radio executive Ben Hoberman (1922–2014) and his wife Jacklyn (née Kanter; 1922–2013). Hoberman has an older brother, Thomas (Tom), an entertainment lawyer, and a younger sister, Joan (Joanie). He is from a Jewish family.
Career
Beginnings
Hoberman began his showbiz career with a mailroom job at the American Broadcasting Company, and later joined Norman Lear's Tandem Productions. In 1985, he joined the Walt Disney Studios as a film executive, and before that, he served as a talent agent at the International Creative Management. He was president of the Motion Picture Group at Disney, and was responsible for production of all feature films under Walt Disney, Touchstone, and Hollywood Pictures.
Mandeville Films
Hoberman founded Mandeville Films, an independent production company, in 1995. In 2002, along with business partner Todd Lieberman (a former Mandeville employee), Hoberman re-formed Mandeville Films and Television at Disney, after spending three years at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Since 2002, Mandeville has produced a number of films with Disney, such as Bringing Down the House, Raising Helen, The Last Shot, The Shaggy Dog, Eight Below, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, and The Muppets.
He was the producer of Disney's live-action picture Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and the first ever stop-motion animated full-length feature, The Nightmare Before Christmas, which was produced by Tim Burton.
Monk
Hoberman, along with Andy Breckman, was the co-creator of the American comedy-drama detective mystery television series, Monk, and the protagonist of the series, Adrian Monk.
Monk was originally envisioned as a "more goofy and physical" Inspector Clouseau type of character. However, Hoberman came up with the idea of a detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder. This was inspired by his own bout with self-diagnosed obsessive-compulsive disorder; in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette interview, he stated: "Like Monk, I couldn't walk on cracks and had to touch poles. I have no idea why – but if I didn't do these things, something terrible would happen."
Personal life
Hoberman was previously married to Tia Hoberman (née Yousse), with whom he has 3 children. He is a board member of the Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation and recently joined the Anxiety Disorder Association of America. He has been a visiting assistant professor with UCLA, and was a former board member of the Los Angeles Free Clinic. On October 4, 2011, David Hoberman was selected to be one of the Board of Trustees for Suffolk University in Boston, Massac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Gotha | The Gotha tramway network is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Gotha, a city in the federal state of Thuringia, Germany.
The network was opened in 1894 with an electrified system implemented by Union-Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft. It is currently operated by Thüringerwaldbahn und Straßenbahn Gotha GmbH (TWSB), and integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Mittelthüringen (VMT).
Lines
Notes:
* The headway figure for line 1 takes into account the services on line 4.
Since the timetable change on 13 December 2009, there has been only one pair of line 4 trains each day via Krankenhaus. At other times, travellers to/from Krankenhaus must change to line 1 in Sundhausen.
The old line 3 linked the Huttenstraße with Hauptfriedhof with one intermediate stop, and was shut down on 30 June 1985. From 1 June 1985 to 1991, a SEV line 3 led from the old Busbahnhof to Hauptfriedhof. Today, this route is operated on Monday to Saturday by city bus line F and the evening line, on Monday to Friday by city bus line E, and on Sundays by city bus line B.
The branch line in Waltershausen formerly belonging to line 4 (between Waltershausen Bahnhof and Waltershausen-Gleisdreieck) has operated since August 2007 as line 6.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
External links
Track plan of the Gotha tram system
Official website
Gotha
Gotha
Transport in Thuringia
Metre gauge railways in Germany
Gotha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Prisoner%20episodes | Prisoner (known internationally as Prisoner: Cell Block H and Caged Women) is an Australian soap opera created by Reg Watson, and was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation for Network Ten. The series was set primarily within the fictional Wentworth Detention Centre, and filmed at Network Ten Studios Melbourne, located in the suburb of Nunawading.
The airdates listed below are from ATV0/10 Australia, in Melbourne, the series' regional network.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1979)
Season 2 (1980)
Season 3 (1981)
Season 4 (1982)
Season 5 (1983)
In Brisbane, following Val Lehman's resignation, TVQ-0 cancelled the series after episode 400 was aired
Season 6 (1984)
Season 7 (1985)
Season 8 (1986)
External links
Fan site with detailed episode guides www.wwwentworth.co.uk
Lists of Australian drama television series episodes
Lists of LGBT-related television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Nordhausen | The Nordhausen tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Nordhausen, a city in the federal state of Thuringia, Germany.
Opened in 1900, the network is currently operated by Stadtwerke Nordhausen, and has three lines, including one linking Nordhausen with nearby Ilfeld, running as a tram-train on the tracks belonging to the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways.
Tram-train
Nordhausen also practices a unique model of tram-train operation, in which dual-power railcars operate using electric power in the town, and change to diesel-electric to operate on the Harzer Schmalspurbahn (HSB) line to Ilfeld.
On HSB’s centenary in September 1999, HSB and Stadtwerke Nordhausen signed a declaration of intent for the development, and work began in 2002. A track was built connecting the Bahnhofsvorplatz tram stop along Oskar-Cohn-Straße to the Harzquerbahn sidings at Nordhausen Nord station.
Since the HSB is not electrified, new dual-power vehicles had to be procured. On 3 June 2000, as part of the centenary celebrations of the Nordhausen tram, the first such vehicle was presented. Dubbed the Twino, it was a GT4 railcar fitted with a five-cylinder passenger car diesel engine, and was used for practical testing of dual-power operation. The municipal utilities bought three DuoCombino trams, fitted with BMW M67 3.9-litre twin-turbocharged V8 engines.
On 1 May 2004, route 10 was launched. It follows the course of route 1 from the Südharz Klinikum hospital through Nordhausen town centre to the station forecourt, and then along the Harzquerbahn track to Ilfeld Neanderklinik, a distance of 11.4 km.
Lines
Since 2004, Nordhausen has had the following three tram lines:
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
External links
Nordhausen, Thuringia
Nordhausen
Transport in Thuringia
Metre gauge railways in Germany
Nordhausen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Jena | The Jena tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Jena, a city in the federal state of Thuringia, Germany.
Opened in 1901, the network is currently operated by , and is integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Mittelthüringen (VMT). It has five lines in operation.
Lines
On 17 December 2009, a new network of lines was introduced to coincide with the opening of the new Göschwitz–Burgau line. Since December 2017 all lines are also operated in the evening/overnight.
Lines 1 and 4 operate in fliegende Wechsel (flying exchange): i.e., at Lobeda-West all trams arriving on one of these lines departs on the other.
Rolling stock
The fleet of the Jena tram network consists of 33 Adtranz GT6M trams, and five Solaris Tramino trams. In 2019, Jenaer Nahverkehr and the City of Jena announced preparations for an invitation of tenders for new trams, which are due to be delivered from 2022. Stadler won the tender for an order of 24 vehicles in August 2020, composed of 16 42-meter long seven-section trams and 8 32-meter long five-section trams. The first vehicle was delivered on 5 May 2023.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
Jena
Jena
Transport in Thuringia
Metre gauge railways in Germany
Jena |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on caffeine.
References
Chemical data pages
Caffeine
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6dermanland%20Runic%20Inscription%20239 | Södermanland Runic Inscription 239 or Sö 239 is the Rundata catalog listing for a Viking Age memorial runestone fragment that is located in Häringe, which is about one kilometer east of Landfjärden, Stockholm County, Sweden, which is in the historic province of Södermanland.
Description
The damaged inscription on Sö 239, which is missing its upper section, is 1.4 meters in height and consists of runic text in the younger futhark that is carved on a serpent along the outer edge of the stone with a rider on a horse depicted in the center of the inscription. Several other Scandinavian runestones include depictions of horses, including DR 96 in Ålum, N 61 in Alstad, Sö 101 in Ramsundsberget, Sö 226 in Norra Stutby, Sö 327 in Göksten, U 375 in Vidbo, U 488 in Harg, U 599 in Hanunda, U 691 in Söderby, U 855 in Böksta, U 901 in Håmö, U 935 at the Uppsala Cathedral, and U 1003 in Frötuna. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr3, which is also known as Urnes style. This runestone style is characterized by slim and stylized animals that are interwoven into tight patterns, with the animal heads typically seen in profile with slender almond-shaped eyes and upwardly curled appendages on the noses and the necks. Based on stylistic analysis, Sö 239 has been attributed to a runemaster with the normalized name of Halvdan, who was active in the mid-11th century in Södermanland and signed the inscription Sö 270 in Tyresta. Over fifteen other runestones have been attributed to him, including Sö 235 in Västerby, Sö 237 in Fors, Sö 244 in Tuna, Sö 245 in Tungelsta, the now-lost Sö 247 in Ålsta, Sö 252 in Säby, Sö 256 in Älby, Sö 262 in Blista, Sö 269 in Söderby Malm, Sö 272 in Upp-Norrby, Sö 274 in Södersluss, Sö 290 in Farsta, Sö 292 in Bröta, Sö 297 in Uppinge, Sö 298 in Uringe Malm, and Sö 301 in Ågesta Bro. Sö 239 was noted in the early 1800s, and was found during an inspection in 1865 with the inscription side face-down. The stone was erected in 1897 east of the entrance to the Häringe slott, a Swedish castle.
The remaining runic text on this fragment, which appears to follow the memorial formula typical on runestones of this period, suggests that the sponsor of the runestone was a man named Bjôrn who raised the stone in memory of his brother Ulfr. Similar to his other inscriptions, Halvdan used a word divider punctuation mark between each word of the surviving text.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
biarn * li(t) ... ...- * ul- -(o)(r)oþur * sen *
Transcription into Old Norse
Biorn let ... ... Ul[f, b]roður senn.
Translation in English
Bjôrn had ... ... Ulfr, his brother.
References
Runestones in Södermanland
11th-century inscriptions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber-utopianism | Cyber-utopianism or web-utopianism or digital utopianism or utopian internet is a subcategory of technological utopianism and the belief that online communication helps bring about a more decentralized, democratic, and libertarian society. The desired values may also be privacy and anonymity, freedom of expression, access to culture and information or also socialist ideals leading to digital socialism.
Origins
The Californian Ideology is a set of beliefs combining bohemian and anti-authoritarian attitudes from the counterculture of the 1960s with techno-utopianism and support for neoliberal economic policies. These beliefs are thought by some to have been characteristic of the culture of the IT industry in Silicon Valley and the West Coast of the United States during the dot-com boom of the 1990s. Adam Curtis connects it to Ayn Rand's Objectivist philosophy in the film All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (TV series). Such an ideology of digital utopianism fueled the first generation of Internet pioneers.
Examples
Political usage
One of the first initiatives associated with digital technologies and utopianism was the Chilean Project Cybersyn. Project Cybersyn was an attempt of cybernetic governance for implementation of socialist ideals. The book Towards a New Socialism argues against the perception of digital socialism as a utopia. Digital socialism can be categorized as a real utopian project.
Cyber socialism is a name used for the practise of file sharing as a violation of intellectual property rights and whose legalisation was not expected - a utopia.
Cyber-utopianism serves as a base for cyber-populism. Electronic democracy as suggested and practised by Pirate Parties is being seen to be an idea motivated by cyber-utopianism. In Italy, the Five Star Movement extensively uses cyber-utopian rhetoric, promising direct democracy and better environmental regulations through the Web. In this case, they used the wonder or digital sublime associated with digital technologies to develop their political vision.
Cognate utopias
Cyber-utopianism has been considered a derivative of extropianism, in which the ultimate goal is to upload human consciousness to the internet. Ray Kurzweil, especially in The Age of Spiritual Machines, writes about a form of cyber-utopianism known as the Singularity; wherein, technological advancement will be so rapid that life will become experientially different, incomprehensible, and advanced.
Hospitality exchange services
Hospitality exchange services (HospEx) are social networking services where hosts offer homestays for free. They are a gift economy and are shaped by altruism and are examples of cyber-utopianism.
Criticism
The existence of this belief has been documented since the beginning of the internet. The bursting of the dot-com bubble diminished the majority-utopian views of cyberspace; however, modern day "cyber skeptics" continue to exist. They believe in the idea that internet censorship and cy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepared%20statement | In database management systems (DBMS), a prepared statement, parameterized statement, or parameterized query is a feature where the database pre-compiles SQL code and stores the results, separating it from data. Benefits of prepared statements are:
efficiency, because they can be used repeatedly without re-compiling
security, by reducing or eliminating SQL injection attacks
A prepared statement takes the form of a pre-compiled template into which constant values are substituted during each execution, and typically use SQL DML statements such as INSERT, SELECT, or UPDATE.
A common workflow for prepared statements is:
Prepare: The application creates the statement template and sends it to the DBMS. Certain values are left unspecified, called parameters, placeholders or bind variables (labelled "?" below):
Compile: The DBMS compiles (parses, optimizes and translates) the statement template, and stores the result without executing it.
Execute: The application supplies (or binds) values for the parameters of the statement template, and the DBMS executes the statement (possibly returning a result). The application may request the DBMS to execute the statement many times with different values. In the above example, the application might supply the values "bike" for the first parameter and "10900" for the second parameter, and then later the values "shoes" and "7400".
The alternative to a prepared statement is calling SQL directly from the application source code in a way that combines code and data. The direct equivalent to the above example is:
INSERT INTO products (name, price) VALUES ("bike", "10900");
Not all optimization can be performed at the time the statement template is compiled, for two reasons: the best plan may depend on the specific values of the parameters, and the best plan may change as tables and indexes change over time.
On the other hand, if a query is executed only once, server-side prepared statements can be slower because of the additional round-trip to the server. Implementation limitations may also lead to performance penalties; for example, some versions of MySQL did not cache results of prepared queries.
A stored procedure, which is also precompiled and stored on the server for later execution, has similar advantages. Unlike a stored procedure, a prepared statement is not normally written in a procedural language and cannot use or modify variables or use control flow structures, relying instead on the declarative database query language. Due to their simplicity and client-side emulation, prepared statements are more portable across vendors.
Software support
Major DBMSs, including SQLite, MySQL, Oracle, IBM Db2, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL support prepared statements. Prepared statements are normally executed through a non-SQL binary protocol for efficiency and protection from SQL injection, but with some DBMSs such as MySQL prepared statements are also available using a SQL syntax for debugging purpose |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozo%20Sugiyama | was a Japanese computer scientist and graph drawing researcher.
Biography
Sugiyama was born on September 17, 1945, in Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
He did both his undergraduate and graduate studies at Nagoya University, earning a doctorate in 1974. He then worked for Fujitsu until 1997, when he became a professor at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. At JAIST, he became a center director in 1998, dean in 2000, and vice president in 2008. He died on June 10, 2011.
In the 1990s, Sugiyama also served as one of the directors of the Information Processing Society of Japan.
Research
Sugiyama is best known for his work with Tagawa and Toda introducing layered graph drawing, now also known as Sugiyama-style graph drawing. Sugiyama also wrote highly cited papers on other topics in graph drawing including maintenance of the "mental map" when a drawing is modified, drawings that simultaneously display both the adjacencies between vertices in a graph and a hierarchical structure on the same vertices, and the control of edge orientations in force-based algorithms.
Books
Sugiyama was the author of several books on graph drawing and knowledge engineering. His book Graph drawing and applications for software and knowledge engineers (World Scientific, Series on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 11, 2002, ) is a translation into English of a 1992 Japanese book that was the first book in any language on the subject of graph drawing. His book Knowledge Science (with Atsushi Shimojima and Akiya Nagata) was also translated into Korean (BADA Publishing, 2005).
References
1945 births
2011 deaths
People from Gifu Prefecture
Japanese computer scientists
Graph drawing people
Nagoya University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%20NCAA%20Division%20I%20FCS%20football%20rankings |
The Sports Network Poll
The Coaches Poll
Preseason polls
Various publications release their preseason top 25 months before the season commences.
References
Rankings
NCAA Division I FCS football rankings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash%20Cab%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29 | Cash Cab is an Australian music trivia game show hosted by James Kerley, except for the third season, where he was replaced by Charlie Pickering while Kerley hosted Network 10 dating show Taken Out. It is part of the global Cash Cab franchise that originated in the United Kingdom. The first two seasons of the series were filmed in Melbourne, with the third being based in Perth and the fourth based in the Gold Coast. The programme airs on the Australian subscription television music channel, Channel V.
A parody of this show has appeared on Balls of Steel Australia which is also hosted by Kerley.
Format
Contestants are asked several trivia questions (mainly music questions) in various verbal, audio and video based questions for the duration of their taxi trip. After being asked 5 questions, players are asked to choose The Loot or the Boot. Contestants have the opportunity to keep "the loot" they have won so far, or trade it all, depending on how many questions they answered correctly, for what is in "the boot". Boot prizes may be worth substantially more or substantially less than their current winnings. By choosing "the boot," the contestant's winnings are reset to $0 and the prize is theirs to keep, even if they use up their three strikes. On rare occasions, the host may give an opportunity to the contestant to win some of their money back by doing a 30-second dare relating to their substantially less valuable "boot" prize. Contestants are entitled to two lifelines, or "Shout Outs", one 30 second phone call to a friend on the phone (a "Mobile Shout-Out") or to ask a passer-by off the street (a "Street Shout-Out") that they are travelling on. When contestants reach their destination, they are asked if they want to "Double or Nothing" in which they can choose to walk away with what cash they have won, or to sit and watch a video clip and be asked an observation-based question. If they answer correctly, they walk away with double the winnings of the trip. If they get it wrong, they walk away with nothing.
References
Musical game shows
Cash Cab
2000s Australian game shows
2010s Australian game shows
2007 Australian television series debuts
2014 Australian television series endings
Australian television series based on British television series
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Gold Coast, Queensland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marko%20%C4%8Calasan | Marko Ćalasan (Macedonian: Марко Чаласан; ) (born 24 July 2000) is a Macedonian computer systems prodigy. He is noted for being the youngest Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator at the age of eight and the youngest certified computer systems engineer at the age of nine.
Biography
Marko Ćalasan was born in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. He first made headlines in the United States in May 2010 when CNN's i-List did a story on him. He is from the city of Skopje, Macedonia. Marko currently holds 12 Microsoft certificates and 1 Cisco certificate: MCP, MCDST, MCSA, MCSE, MCTS, MCITP: Server Administrator, MCITP: Enterprise Administrator, CCENT...
He received his first certificate at the age of 6. He is the youngest person to ever receive the MCSA certificate, Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator which he received at the age of eight. Beating the record set by M Lavinashree, who received her MCSA certificate at the age nine; and Micah Berkley, who received his at age 13.
Marko then went on to studying for the MCSE exam and was also the youngest person to receive the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Certificate as well. He teaches computer basics to children eight to eleven in his former elementary school. In addition to being skilled with computers Marko is fluent in three languages and is working on his fourth. The Macedonian government has reached out to help give Marko some assistance in furthering his potential. Nikola Gruevski, the former prime minister of Macedonia gave him an IT lab to help him further his learning.
He wrote a book for the pre-installation, installation and post-installation process of Windows 7. The book consists of 305 pages. The Ministry of Education in Macedonia has bought the rights for the book and now it will give it to the schools for free.
He has Montenegrin Serb roots.
Early childhood
Marko displayed excellent cognitive abilities at a very early age and was able to read and write by the age of two. At the age of seven, Professor Elena Achkovska-Leshkovska from the Institute of Psychology tested Marko. Her findings showed that his brain operated much higher than other children his age. She also found that he had very high emotional and social cognitive abilities, which is something not usually found in gifted kids such as Marko.
Family
His mother Radica ćalasan and father Milan Ćalasan run a computer school for children. They also plan to write a book on how to teach young children about computers. This will all be based on Marko's progress in computers as a child.
Microsoft and Cisco certificates
MCP – Microsoft Certified Professional
MCDST- Microsoft Certified Desktop Support Technician
MCSA – Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
MCSE – Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer Server 2003
MCTS - Windows 7, Configuring - Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist Server 2008 Active Directory
MCS Associate Windows Server 2008
MCITP - Server Administrator on Windows Server 2008
MCITP - Ente |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Most%20Extreme | The Most Extreme is a documentary television series on the American cable television network Animal Planet. It first aired on July 7, 2002. Each episode focuses on a specific animal feature, such as strength, speed, behavior, anatomy, or diet, and examines and ranks ten animals that portray extreme or unusual examples of that quality. Along with each animal on the countdown, each episode presents a computer-animated segment which compares the animal's ability with something equivalent in humans, followed by an interview segment with people who share some common trait. Old, often public domain, cartoons, movie clips and trailers are often included.
Episodes
The show was narrated by Adam J. Harrington. On Animal Planet, the episodes were also announced by Simon Arnstein.
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
References
External links
2002 American television series debuts
2007 American television series endings
Animal Planet original programming
English-language television shows
Television series about animals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20T-carrier%20and%20E-carrier%20systems | The DS designations are used in connection with the North American hierarchy only. Strictly speaking, a DS1 is the data carried on a T1 circuit, and likewise for a DS3 and a T3, but in practice the terms are used interchangeably.
There are other data rates in use, e.g., military systems that operate at six and eight times the DS1 rate. At least one manufacturer has a commercial system that operates at 90 Mbit/s, twice the DS3 rate. New systems, which take advantage of the high data rates offered by optical communications links, are also deployed or are under development. Higher data rates are now often achieved by using synchronous optical networking (SONET) or synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH).
A DS3 is delivered native on a copper trunk. DS3 may be converted to an optical fiber run when needing longer distances between termination points. When a DS3 is delivered over fiber it is still an analog type trunk connection at the termination points. When delivering data over an OC3 or greater SONET is used. A DS3 transported over SONET is encapsulated in a STS-1 SONET channel. An OC-3 SONET link contains three STS-1s, and therefore may carry three DS3s. Likewise, OC-12, OC-48, and OC-192 may carry 12, 48, and 192 DS3s respectively.
Multiplexing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Totally%20Fun%20Thing%20That%20Bart%20Will%20Never%20Do%20Again | "A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again" is the nineteenth 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 April 29, 2012. In the episode, the Simpson family goes on a cruise after being convinced by a bored Bart. He enjoys himself on the vacation until Rowan Priddis, the director of the cruise, performs a song called "Enjoy It While You Can" that makes him realize the cruise is soon to be over and he has to return to his boring life. Bart decides to trick the crew and the passengers on the ship that the world is coming to an end back on land because of a pandemic and that the ship therefore has to stay out at sea. He manages to do this with the help of a large television screen, on which he displays a scene from the film The Pandora Strain that features a general named William Sullivan warning humanity about a deadly virus.
Treat Williams guest starred in the episode as film character William Sullivan, while Steve Coogan made a guest appearance as the cruise director Rowan Priddis. "Enjoy It While You Can" was produced for the episode by Broadway composer Robert Lopez, who also co-wrote the song with the writers of The Simpsons. Other songs played in the episode include "Boy from School" by Hot Chip and "Winter's Love" by Animal Collective.
Since airing, "A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again" has received generally positive reviews from television critics, being praised for showing an emotional side of Bart. Around five million viewers tuned in to watch the episode during its original US broadcast.
Plot
After another boring week in his life, Bart sees a commercial on television for a fun cruise and begs Homer and Marge for a family vacation. They tell him that the family is low on cash, so Bart chooses to sell everything he owns to fund the vacation himself. He comes up well short of the needed amount, so Marge and Lisa help by selling one valuable item apiece. Together the three have enough money to book the family into an economy cabin; once the cruise starts, though, a series of free upgrades places them in a deluxe cabin. They enjoy the wide range of activities onboard, but Bart's spirits sink when he hears the cruise director, Rowan Priddis, sing a song to the passengers telling them to enjoy the rest of the cruise while they can before they go back to their normal lives. Bart fears that the remainder of his life will be painfully boring and decides to make the vacation last forever.
Later, a huge onboard television screen displays an emergency message from a military officer, warning the crew and passengers about a deadly virus that has started to spread on the mainland. He says that all ships must remain at sea to ensure that humanity survives. The message is actually taken from a movie in the Simpson cabin's DVD library, set up by Bart to broadcast all over the ship. He also disables communications with t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20RISC%20OS%20bundled%20applications | A number of bundled applications are delivered with purchased versions of the operating system. Some are provided in ROM or pre-installed on hard disk or equivalent, with others being supplied on removable media such as SD card.
Such applications vary between versions.
RISC OS bundled applications
Typically bundled with the OS
Bundled with specific hardware, including optional software packs
References
RISC OS software
RISC OS bundled applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlgoSec | AlgoSec is a network security software company based in New Jersey in the United States. The organization provides software for network security policy management, also known as firewall policy management.
The company's products are designed to automate the management and enforcement of security policies across firewalls, routers, virtual private networks (VPNs), and related security devices. They are intended to manage the configuration of their security systems, identify vulnerabilities, test the systems against their security policies, and ensure compliance to regulations such as PCI-DSS and Sarbanes-Oxley.
History
AlgoSec's core technology was developed in 2001 by Prof. Avishai Wool and his team of researchers at Bell Laboratories. Wool and Yuval Baron founded AlgoSec in November 2004. At that time, the company was headquartered in Reston, Virginia.
In 2010, AlgoSec moved its headquarters and North American sales office to Roswell, Georgia (Atlanta area). In 2012, AlgoSec moved its headquarters to Ridgefield Park, New Jersey. Today, in addition to its Boston office, AlgoSec has sales offices in London and Singapore, and a Research and Development Center in Petah Tikva, Israel and London.
Products
AlgoSec delivers its products both as standalone modules and via an integrated suite, the AlgoSec Security Management Suite, which includes:
AlgoSec Firewall Analyzer: automates the auditing and analysis of firewalls, routers, VPNs and other security devices
AlgoSec FireFlow: automates security change management workflow
AlgoSec CloudFlow: offers visibility and management of public cloud assets
AlgoSec AppViz: visualizes and analyses network applications
References
External links
PeerSpot review
Help Net Security Article
Computer security companies
Computer security software companies
Software companies of Israel
Companies based in Bergen County, New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge%20Tech%20Corp | Edge Tech Corp (ETC) is a US-based manufacturer and supplier of computer memory upgrades, including DRAM, solid-state drives, USB flash drives, memory cards, and hard disk drives. Edge Tech is headquartered in Ada, Oklahoma and maintains sales, marketing and eCommerce facilities in Addison, Texas.
History
Peripheral Outlet was formed in 1986 by 14-year-old Jeff Thompson, with $2,500 he had saved from his paper route in Ada, Oklahoma. Thompson was named Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 1994 by the U.S. Small Business Administration, and profiled in Fortune magazine.
Other family members were employed in the business, including brother Ryan Thompson who later founded another company.
By 1996 the company's sales had increased by 650% and was named to the Inc. magazine 500 list of the fastest growing private companies.
Peripheral Outlet incorporated and became Peripheral Enhancements Corporation (PECO).
In 1998 PECO acquired the NewerRam division of Newer Technology and opened offices in Dallas, Texas.
In 1999 PECO obtained ISO 9001 certification.
Peripheral Enhancements Corporation became EDGE Tech Corporation in 2004. It moved to new office space in Ada in 2006. It was named one of the best places to work for small companies in Dallas in 2009.
References
External links
NewerTech website
1986 establishments in Oklahoma
Ada, Oklahoma
Computer companies established in 1986
Computer memory companies
Electronics companies of the United States
Manufacturing companies based in Oklahoma
Privately held companies based in Oklahoma
Computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance%20for%20Clinical%20Trials%20in%20Oncology | The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology is a national clinical trials network sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) that consists of about 10,000 cancer specialists at hospitals, medical centers, and community clinics across the United States and Canada. The Alliance develops and conducts clinical trials with promising new cancer therapies, and utilizes scientific research to develop treatment and prevention strategies for cancer, as well as researching methods to alleviate side effects of cancer and cancer treatments.
The Alliance seeks to reduce the impact of cancer on people by uniting a broad community of scientists and clinicians from many disciplines, committed to discovering, validating and disseminating effective strategies for the prevention and treatment of cancer. The Alliance conducts trials in the following disease and modality areas: breast, gastrointestinal (GI), genitourinary (GU), leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, neuro-oncology, respiratory, experimental therapeutics (rare cancers), cancer control and transplant.
The Alliance was formed by the merger of three legacy clinical trials groups: the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group (ACOSOG), the Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB), and the North Central Cancer Treatment Group (NCCTG). The merger was completed in 2014.
References
External links
Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology website
Cancer organizations based in the United States
Clinical trial organizations
Research and development in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20road%204%20%28Poland%29 | National road 4 (, abbreviated as DK4) is a route belonging to the Polish national road network. The highway connects the southern regions of Poland. It runs from Jędrzychowice near Zgorzelec at the German border to Korczowa at the Ukrainian border, as the A4 motorway. National road 4 is a component of European highway E40.
The A4 motorway has been completed in July 2016, therefore entire former road 4 has been renumbered as national route 94.
Major cities and towns along the route
Zgorzelec (road 30, 94)
Legnica (road 3)
Kostomłoty (road 5)
Bielany Wrocławskie (road 5, 35)
Opole
Gliwice (motorway A1, 44, 78, 408)
Katowice (road 81, 86)
Mysłowice (expressway S1)
Chrzanów (road 79)
Kraków (road 7, 44, 94)
Targowisko (road 75)
Brzesko (road 75)
Tarnów (road 73)
Pilzno (road 73)
Rzeszów (road 9, 19, road 97)
Jarosław (road 94)
Radymno (road 77)
Korczowa, border with Ukraine
04 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20Fire | The Amazon Fire, formerly called the Kindle Fire, is a line of tablet computers developed by Amazon. Built with Quanta Computer, the Kindle Fire was first released in November 2011, featuring a color 7-inch multi-touch display with IPS technology and running on Fire OS, an Android-based operating system. The Kindle Fire HD followed in September 2012, and the Kindle Fire HDX in September 2013. In September 2014, when the fourth generation was introduced, the name "Kindle" was dropped. In later generations, the Fire tablet is also able to convert into a Smart speaker turning on the "Show Mode" options, which the primary interaction will be by voice command through Alexa.
History
The Kindle Fire—which includes access to the Amazon Appstore, streaming movies and TV shows, and the Kindle Store for e-books—was released to consumers in the United States on November 14, 2011, after being announced on September 28.
The original Kindle Fire retailed for in 2011.
Estimates of the device's initial bill of materials cost ranged from $150 to $202. Amazon's business strategy was stated in 2011 as making money through sales of digital content on the Fire, rather than through sales of the device itself.
On September 6, 2012, the Kindle Fire was upgraded to the second generation, and its price was reduced to , RAM upgraded to 1 GB and processor clock speed upgraded to 1.2 GHz. On September 7, 2012, upgrades to the device were announced with consumer availability to those European countries with a localised version of Amazon's website (United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain).
, the Kindle Fire was the second best selling tablet after Apple's iPad, with about 7 million units sold according to estimates by Forrester Research and Amazon's tablets were the fourth best selling.
The Fire tablet line was not updated until 2015; Amazon only released Fire HD and Fire HDX tablets during that time. In 2015 Amazon made a full refresh of their tablet family where they brought the range down market as a series of budget focused devices, returning to the lower-spec Fire line and cancelling the HDX line.
In September 2015, Amazon announced the release of the Fire 7, priced at for the 8GB version that displays advertisements on the lock screen. it was the lowest-priced Amazon tablet. In June 2016, its price was dropped briefly to . This fifth generation tablet introduced a micro SD card slot for extra storage.
A slightly improved Fire 7 was released in June 2017, keeping the US$49.99 price point.
An upgraded model of Fire 7 was announced in May 2019, with a scheduled release in June 2019 and keeping the US$49.99 price point.
In 2022, Amazon released a significantly updated model of the Fire 7. New features to the basic Fire line are USB-C, Fire OS 8, a 2 MP front camera, a larger 10-hour life capable battery, and a significantly faster SoC with twice the RAM and storage of the previous generation. Though the tablet still features budget hardware Amazon incre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden%20algebra | Hidden algebra provides a formal semantics for use in the field of software engineering, especially for concurrent distributed object systems. It supports correctness proofs.
Hidden algebra was studied by Joseph Goguen. It handles features of large software-based systems, including concurrency, distribution, nondeterminism, and local states. It also handled object-oriented features like classes, subclasses (inheritance), attributes, and methods. Hidden algebra generalizes process algebra and transition system approaches.
References
External links
Hidden Algebra Tutorial
Abstract algebra
Universal algebra
Logical calculi
Concurrent computing
Distributed computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure%20%28British%20TV%20series%29 | Exposure is a current affairs strand, broadcast in the United Kingdom on the ITV network. The programme comprises long-form films, investigating and exploring domestic and foreign topics. Episodes are produced both by independent production companies and in-house by ITV Studios. The average budget for a single edition is between £150,000 and £200,000.
The series was commissioned by Peter Fincham, ITV's Director of Television, and is a sister show to year-round current affairs strand Tonight. It made its debut on Monday 26 September 2011 – airing at 22.40, directly after ITV News at Ten. Since its launch, the programme has usually occupied this near-peak slot, but has also been shown as late as 23.10. On 3 March 2015, it made its only appearance to date in primetime, airing at 21.00.
The series was broadcast on Mondays in 2011 and Wednesdays in 2012. The 2013 series was billed as an eight-episode run (the longest to date), with five of the editions airing on consecutive Thursdays in their traditional autumn slots and the remaining three being broadcast as standalone episodes between February and July 2014.
In January 2014 it was announced that ITV would no longer air episodes in a series block, instead spreading them throughout the year. Independent producers expressed concern that this would result in fewer editions, but ITV said the changes allowed for a more flexible approach regarding delivery deadlines, which are often complicated by the need for legal clearance before broadcast.
The three standalone editions aired in early-mid 2014 as part of series 3 from 2013 effectively meant that there was no 2014 series of the strand. The programme began its first non-series run in January 2015.
Promotional trailers for individual editions are rare, but the strand itself featured in a promo for ITV's news and current affairs coverage (along with ITV News, Tonight and The Agenda) in late 2012.
Episodes
Series 1 (2011)
Series 2 (2012)
Series 3 (2013)
Occasional episodes
References
External links
2011 British television series debuts
2010s British television series
2020s British television series
British television news shows
Current affairs shows
English-language television shows
International Emmy Awards Current Affairs & News winners
ITV news shows
ITV (TV network) original programming
Jimmy Savile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVAnswer | TV Answer is the wireless communications company founded in 1986 that invented IVDS (Interactive Video and Data Services), a nationwide wireless multimedia platform including television, data, and digital voice services. TVAnswer is currently known as EON Corporation.
History
In the late 1980s, TV Answer applied for and was later allocated special spectrum (218-219 MHz) by the Federal Communications Commission for its proposed service; however, the FCC denied the company’s request for a nationwide license and instead offered hundreds of regional and metropolitan licenses by lottery and auction. TV Answer's management team and board of directors, which included Hewlett Packard director George A. Keyworth and former FCC director Mark Fowler, directed the company’s engineers to file a series of domestic and international patents for its interactive video technologies and related network architecture. Recognizing that its advancements were applicable beyond interactive television, the company changed its name in 1993 to EON Corporation to mark the broader focus of its business initiatives. As EON Corporation, the company worked to establish a nationwide infrastructure for two-way data and messaging services. The applications ranged from advanced meter reading (the smart grid) to inventory monitoring and control of remote assets such as vending machines. TV Answer was featured prominently on national television and in the national media.
Currently
Since 2008, the company has been actively licensing its wireless technologies to the communications and smart grid industries. The company continues to invest in developing wireless technology and sourcing applications across multiple industries.
References
Telecommunications companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeds%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of Weeds, an American dark comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan, premiered on August 8, 2005, on the premium cable network Showtime. The principal cast consisted of Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins, Tonye Patano, Romany Malco, Justin Kirk, Hunter Parrish, Alexander Gould, and Kevin Nealon. The season had ten episodes, and its initial airing concluded on October 10, 2005. Season one focuses on Nancy Botwin (Parker), a single mother living in the suburban town of Agrestic, who begins dealing marijuana in an effort to maintain her family's upper middle class lifestyle following the death of her husband.
Episodes
Cast
Main cast
Mary-Louise Parker as Nancy Botwin, a single mother and marijuana dealer
Elizabeth Perkins as Celia Hodes, Botwin's self-centered neighbor
Tonye Patano as Heylia James, Botwin's hardheaded drug supplier
Romany Malco as Conrad Shepard, Botwin's initial supplier and James's nephew
Justin Kirk as Andrew "Andy" Botwin, Botwin's carefree brother-in-law
Hunter Parrish as Silas Botwin, the eldest Botwin child
Alexander Gould as Shane Botwin, the youngest Botwin child
Kevin Nealon as Doug Wilson, Botwin's irresponsible accountant
Recurring cast
Andy Milder as Dean Hodes, Hodes's unfaithful husband
Renée Victor as Lupita, the Botwin family's maid
Indigo as Vaneeta James, James's daughter and employee
Shoshannah Stern as Silas Botwin's deaf girlfriend
Tressa DiFiglia as Maggie, the Agrestic PTA chairman
Allie Grant as Isabelle Hodes, Hodes's youngest daughter
Becky Thyre as Pam Gruber, an Agrestic PTA member
Shawn Schepps as Alison, an Agrestic PTA member
Becky Thyre as Pam Gruber, an Agrestic PTA member
Maulik Pancholy as Sanjay Patel, a college student who Botwin employees
Vincent Laresca as Alejandro, Botwin's rival dealer
Martin Donovan as Peter Scottson, Botwin's DEA agent boyfriend
David Doty as Principal Dodge, the principal of Agrestic Elementary
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Judah Botwin, Botwin's late-husband
Tyrone Mitchell as Keeyon James, James's son and employee
Haley Hudson as Quinn Hodes, Hodes's eldest daughter
Daryl Sabara as Tim Scottson, Scottson's son
Justin Chatwin as Josh Wilson, Wilson's son
Craig X. Rubin as Craig X, a marijuana dispensary employee
Reception
Viewership
Weeds debuted to 538,000 U.S. viewers, which was modest in comparison to the viewership of Showtime's other television series.
Critical response
The season received generally positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the first season of Weeds received 79%. The site's critics consensus reads: “Weeds is a cheeky comedy with dark, humorous, and sometimes outrageous moments centered around a talented female-led cast including Emmy winner Mary-Louise Parker.” On Metacritic, the first season received a 70 out of 100, indicating generally favorable reviews. Gillian Flynn of Entertainment Weekly spoke highly of Parker and Nealon's performances, and praised the acting of Perkin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeds%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of Weeds premiered on June 8, 2009, on the television cable network Showtime, and consisted of 13 episodes, attracted 1.2 million viewers, with a rerun on the same night adding another 500,000 viewers for a cumulative 1.7 million. The season finale episode premiered on Monday, August 31, 2009, averaging 1.3 million viewers, up versus season 4's finale that averaged 1 million.
Plot
Esteban spares Nancy after learning of her pregnancy. He has bodyguards assigned to her, and he forces Nancy to undergo a test to confirm the baby is his. Anxious for Shane's safety, Nancy initially has Andy send Shane to her sister, Jill Price-Grey (Jennifer Jason Leigh). However, Jill returns with Shane and Andy after Shane discovers her and Andy having sex. Silas draws up a new plan to start a legal medical marijuana business with Doug, which Nancy funds. When Nancy's initial bodyguard goes missing, Ignacio serves as her new bodyguard; Shane witnesses violence at the hands of Ignacio, who helps Shane and Isabelle steal from a teacher who stole Shane's pot.
Quinn's attempt to extort money for Celia's return to her friends and family fails miserably, since none of them are willing to pay any ransom. Returning to Ren Mar, Celia ends up squatting in Nancy's garage. Meanwhile, Andy wants Nancy to have an abortion and flee with him, suggesting that she will never be free if she has a baby with Esteban. However, Nancy ultimately decides for her and Shane to move in with Esteban.
Six months later, Esteban proposes to Nancy and she accepts, but Pilar (Kate del Castillo), a powerful woman in Mexican politics, forces Esteban to break off the engagement. Cesar arranges a birthing room in the house, so there will be no record of the baby's birth. With Andy's aid, Nancy escapes Esteban's house and appeals to her obstetrician, Dr. Audra Kitson (Alanis Morissette), who delivers the baby at the hospital; Andy later begins a relationship with Audra. To protect his political career, Esteban does not sign the birth certificate, while Nancy moves back in with Andy, who agrees to sign the certificate. He also convinces Nancy to give the baby a Bris, to Esteban's dismay.
Esteban, wanting to see his son, again asks Nancy to marry him. Simultaneously, an assassin trying to shoot Nancy misses and hits Shane in the left shoulder. When confronted by Nancy, Cesar admits to being an informant for Pilar, who ordered the hit; however, the execution was not completed because Cesar could not bring himself to perform it. Nancy keeps the betrayal from Esteban in exchange for getting to shoot Cesar in the arm. Esteban finds himself replaced as a candidate for governor, but with encouragement from Nancy, he runs as an independent.
Silas' medical marijuana shop is raided by the police, and he and Doug lose all of their pot in the process; they turn to Dean to help reclaim it. Meanwhile, Celia gets a job as a home sales representative for a cosmetics company, but unable to sell the m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeds%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth season of Weeds premiered on August 16, 2010, on the television cable network Showtime, and consisted of 13 episodes.
Plot
After Shane kills Pilar, the Botwin family flees north. Andy joins them after Audra breaks off their relationship. Unable to enter Canada without the baby's birth certificate, Nancy, Andy, Silas, Shane, and Stevie assume new identities as "The Newmans" (as Nathalie, Randy, Mike, Shawn, and Avi, respectively) and settle in Seattle, Washington.
Nancy, Andy, and Silas take menial jobs as scab labor at a local hotel, where Nancy discovers the resident drug dealer is also on strike. Sensing an opportunity, Nancy seeks out a local distributor and, lacking money to buy marijuana, instead buys the seller's trimmings and produces hashish using the hotel's laundry equipment. Back in southern California, Esteban tasks Cesar and Ignacio with finding Nancy and bringing back Stevie. While looking for clues at the Ren Mar house, they encounter Doug and coerce him into helping find the Botwins.
Nancy and Andy are questioned by police officers about unpaid parking tickets linked to the stolen license plates on Andy's minivan. Nancy convinces Silas to steal his girlfriend's car, and the family flees again. Cesar and Ignacio receive a phone call from Doug about the location of Andy's van; they travel to Seattle and search for clues in the van. At their motel, Nancy spots Doug tied up in the back of Cesar's car. Panicked, Nancy attempts to gather the family: a series of events transpires, culminating with Shane calling his mother to tell her he has been kidnapped by Cesar and Ignacio.
Cesar negotiates a trade with Nancy: Shane for Stevie. Despite agreeing, Nancy meets Cesar with a crossbow, and shoots Cesar in the leg. She receives a phone call from Ignacio, who unintentionally tells her about his run-in with the rest of her family at a local diner. When Nancy arrives at the diner, she attempts to negotiate with Ignacio by holding a gun under the table. Ignacio calls her bluff – Shane then takes the gun, and Ignacio reluctantly folds to Shane. The Botwin family (and Doug) continue to flee; they purchase a used RV and travel to an out-of-the-way trailer park. Nancy goes to a local bar and has sex with the married bartender. When it is revealed that the bartender's wife is a neighbor, the Botwins are subsequently chased out of town.
In Colorado, the family continues to bargain for the trimmings of other dealers' weed. When Stevie's feces are an abnormal color, Nancy visits a pediatrician. The doctor says Stevie is fine, but suggests the baby may not be bonding with Nancy, and that the baby's lifestyle could be a factor, making Nancy rethink their way of life.
The group travels to Nancy's hometown, Dearborn, Michigan, where they stay with Nancy's former high school teacher, Mr. Schiff (Richard Dreyfuss), with whom she had a sexual relationship from the age of 14. Silas discovers that Judah is not his biological father, but that his |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weeds%20%28season%207%29 | The seventh season of Weeds premiered on June 27, 2011, on the television cable network Showtime and consisted of 13 episodes. As the season picks up, Nancy has spent three years in prison and now lives in a strictly monitored halfway house in New York City, where the family meet after they have spent three years in Denmark.
Plot
Three years after Nancy's arrest, Nancy is released from jail and is transferred to a New York City halfway house; Esteban had died in prison; the Botwins are residing in Copenhagen, and they return to New York City to visit Nancy. Jill, who has been raising Stevie to believe Nancy is his aunt, wants custody of Stevie. With the help of Jill's husband, Nancy reunites with Stevie at a planetarium, but he seems to have only a mild attachment to her. Doug reunites with an old college friend, who gets him hired at a venture capital firm. Shane begins taking criminal justice classes and befriends a NYPD detective, Det. Mitch Ouellette.
In California, Nancy attempts to obtain pot from Heylia, who is cultivating a massive field of Conrad's MILF weed; Dean has moved in with Heylia to assist her with legal advice. Heylia provides Nancy with MILF weed, in exchange for Silas' labor to harvest the current crop. Andy pitches an idea for a motorized bike; Shane provides Andy with financial backing to open the business and use it as a cover for Nancy's operation. Nancy, meanwhile, begins an affair with Demetri, the pot-dealing brother of Zoya, her cellmate in prison. Zoya is released from jail and discovers the affair.
Meanwhile, the SEC begins an investigation on Doug's firm for hiding funds. In exchange for an early release from the halfway house, Nancy becomes an informant for the SEC. Wearing a wire, she goes on a "date" with Chuck, the company's CEO; Zoya interrupts and spills information about Nancy's drug business, spurring Nancy to muffle her mic. Wanting to get rid of Zoya, Nancy informs Chuck about her wire, and he flees; Nancy then sets fire to his home in an attempt to frame Zoya for arson. Fearing new criminal charges, Zoya flees to Vermont. The SEC agents threaten to throw Nancy back in jail, but Doug blackmails them into letting Nancy go. With Zoya out of the picture, Nancy begins her drug business, using Doug's corporate position to give herself leverage against their main competition, Pouncy House Party Rentals.
Shane hands Nancy a police report on Pouncy House; preoccupied, she leaves the file on the counter. Silas has sex with Emma, Pouncy House's manager, though he does not know of her true occupation. Emma steals valuable information from Silas and raids Andy's office. Silas and Emma eventually agree to a merger, but Nancy informs Ouellette about Emma's involvement with Pouncy House; Ouellette leads a police raid. Upon realizing that Nancy reported Pouncy House to eliminate their competition, Ouellette is infuriated, as the Botwins used the NYPD as their drug muscle. Following the raid, Silas furiously ends his |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Hicks%20%28broadcast%20journalist%29 | George Francis Hicks (August 26, 1905 – March 17, 1965) was an American announcer and broadcast journalist. He was a noted war correspondent, first with NBC and then with the Blue Network.
Early years
Hicks was born in Tacoma, Washington, the son of Iowa-born dentist Dr. Archie Greenwood Hicks and Grace Mildred (Mackay) Hicks. He graduated from Stadium High School and George Washington University after attending several other colleges. While at Stadium, Hicks took a news writing course.
Career
Hicks applied at Tacoma radio station KMO after graduation but was turned down. In fall 1928, he went to Washington, D.C. to enter the Foreign Service School at Georgetown University, but was hired by radio station WRC several weeks later on October 15 that year. He was the announcer on a program called "Half Hours With the Senate," which was broadcast on the NBC network. He was transferred to NBC in New York on November 25, 1929. By 1931, he had broadcast such celebrities as Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Albert Einstein, Mary Pickford and Maurice Chevalier, and covered such events as the arrival of Admiral Byrd from the South Pole, the Poughkeepsie Regatta, World Series baseball games with Graham McNamee, the Lipton yacht races and the arrival of the Graf Zeppelin at Lakehurst, New Jersey on its around-the-world trip.
On December 27, 1934, NBC's Hicks interviewed Charles E. Apgar, a New Jersey radio amateur who made some of the first recordings of radio broadcasts during 1913–1915, including recordings of German spy messages during World War I.
While based in London during World War II in 1942, he conducted a series of interviews aired on the Blue Network of servicemen from different countries telling of the horrors of war. Hicks recorded an on-the-scene report of the Normandy landings from the USS Ancon. It was broadcast on the night of June 6, 1944 over the American networks via a pool feed. During the broadcast there were sounds of heavy bombardment. His voice was described as "modest" and "incapable of false drama" and was considered particularly well suited for covering the landings. The New York World-Telegram called his broadcast "The greatest recording yet to come out of the war."
On Christmas Day that year, Hicks was one of a number of newsmen injured when a Nazi bomb wrecked a small hotel in Belgium where they were staying.
Hicks was also an announcer on Jack Benny's radio programme for Canada Dry Ginger Ale, his final broadcast being on October 26, 1932 as the show changed networks from NBC to CBS. He appeared on the "Shower of Stars" TV show of February 13, 1958 celebrating Benny's "40th" birthday. Another programme on which he announced was Death Valley Days. On a 1939 broadcast, he relived the days of his grandfather Frank Hicks, who journeyed from New York to California in 1879 in a search for gold.
After the war he was associated with the "United States Steel Hour" television program for 10 years. He toured steel mills to d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar%20Computing%20Research%20Institute | The Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) in Doha, Qatar, is a nonprofit multidisciplinary computing research institute founded by the Qatar Foundation (QF) for Education, Science and Community Development in 2010. It is primarily funded by the Qatar Foundation, a private, non-profit organization that is supporting Qatar on its journey from carbon economy to knowledge economy.
Background
QCRI is one of the three national research institutes under Qatar Foundation and specializes in applied computing research. Its research fall into two main categories: core computing and multidisciplinary computing. Within core computing, QCRI specializes in internet computing (with an emphasis on cloud computing and social networking), data analysis, and advanced computer hardware design. Within multidisciplinary computing, QCRI is focused on Arabic language technologies, high performance computing, and bioinformatics.
QCRI has offices in the HBKU Research Complex, in Doha's Education City. QCRI has a staff of 90+ employees.
Origins
QCRI grew out of a series of meetings held by the Qatari Arab Joint Committee (QAJC) analyzing the needs of Qatar. The group found that Qatar Foundation funded basic computing research at academic institutions worldwide through Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) and that it incubated the development of new commercial computing products through Qatar Science and Technology Park (QSTP), but it lacked a research organization focused on computing grand challenges that address national priorities for growth and development.
QCRI was established in 2010 with a mandate to tackle large-scale computing challenges relevant to the needs of Qatari stakeholders. The stakeholders include Qatari industry, Qatar’s government, and Qatari society.
Specifically, QCRI’s customers include the petroleum industry, the telecommunications industry, the healthcare industry, and the media industry. The petroleum industry needs advanced computer modeling to assist in the extraction and movement of petroleum products. The telecommunications and datacenter industries need the most advanced research in computing networks, broadband, and other forms of advanced computing infrastructure. The healthcare industry needs efficient and secure management of electronic patient records, clinical information systems, and data interoperability protocols for the exchange and sharing of data. The media industry needs solutions for the cataloging and retrieval of vast amounts of content generated through audio and video, and it needs Arabic language technology solutions to digitize and publish the vast Arabic language corpora. QCRI also works closely with both the basic research institutes in Qatar, including the Education City Universities on their most promising basic research findings. It also will work closely with QSTP to identify the most viable commercial applications of QCRI’s research.
Activities
Research topics investigated by the QCRI include Arabic lang |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast-broadcast%20single-frequency%20network | Multimedia Broadcast multicast service Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) is a communication channel defined in the fourth-generation cellular networking standard called Long-Term Evolution (LTE). The transmission mode is intended as a further improvement of the efficiency of the enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (eMBMS) service, which can deliver services such as mobile TV using the LTE infrastructure, and is expected to compete with dedicated mobile/handheld TV broadcast systems such as DVB-H and DVB-SH. This enables network operators to offer mobile TV without the need for additional expensive licensed spectrum and without requiring new infrastructure and end-user devices.
The eMBMS service can offer many more TV programs in a specific radio frequency spectrum as compared to traditional terrestrial TV broadcasting, since it is based on the principles of Interactive Multicast, where TV content only is transmitted in where there currently are viewers. The eMBMS service also provides better system spectral efficiency than video-on-demand over traditional cellular unicasting services, since in eMBMS, each TV program is only transmitted once in each cell, even if there are several viewers of that program in the same cell. The MBSFN transmission mode further improves the spectral efficiency, since it is based on the principles of Dynamic single frequency networks (DSFN). This implies that it dynamically forms single-frequency networks (SFNs), i.e. groups of adjacent base stations that send the same signal simultaneously on the same frequency sub-carriers, when there are mobile TV viewers of the same TV program content in the adjacent cells. The LTE OFDMA downlink modulation and multiple access scheme eliminates self-interference caused by the SFN:s. Efficient TV transmission using similar combinations of Interactive multicast (IP Multicast) and DSFN has also been suggested for the DVB-T2 and DVB-H systems.
MBMS and mobile TV was a failure in 3G systems, and was offered by very few mobile operators, partly because of its limited peak bit rates and capacity, not allowing standard TV video quality, something that LTE with eMBMS does not suffer from.
Technical details
LTE's Enhanced Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services (E-MBMS) provides transport features for sending the same content information to all the users in a cell (broadcast) or to a given set of users (subscribers) in a cell (multicast) using a subset of the available radio resources with the remaining available to support transmissions towards a particular user (so-called unicast services). It must not be confused with IP-level broadcast or multicast, which offer no sharing of resources on the radio access level. In E-MBMS it is possible to either use a single eNode-B or multiple eNode-Bs for transmission to multiple UEs. MBSFN is the definition for the latter.
MBSFN is a transmission mode which exploits LTE's OFDM radio interface to send multicast or broadcast data as a m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITK%20method | Methodology to evaluate complexity and cost of developing and maintaining application software for creating information systems (Method CETIN) - this is an algorithmic model assessment value software, developed by a consortium of Kazakh IT companies: Kazakhstan Association of IT-companies Company System Studies "Factor" and JSC "National Information Technologies.
Method allows assessment of complexity and cost of development of [software] in the early stages and is based on an assessment of the functional size of software.
History
The first edition of the Kazakh techniques appeared in 1994 as in "Methods of assessing complexity of information systems of the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan". The principal method was based on the standardization work on a project (the creation of the queue system, the development and implementation of the project functional complex tasks, linking projects, project monitoring, the use of a PC for debugging and commissioning). The disadvantages were the methods use the principle of a cascade model of the software lifecycle and experience of a single developer.
In 2005 in NIT with Research Institute of Economy and Informatization of transport, telecommunications have developed a "methodology to assess the complexity and cost of developing and maintaining information systems." The method was based on 2005 edition of evaluating the functional size of a model of UML-diagrams of the information system, assessment of functional complexity of the size and development time estimates based on the model COCOMO. The main drawback of techniques, from whom she has not received Shirokova distribution is that technique was not adopted as a single regulatory document cost estimates for public IP razrabokti organmov. Another drawback was the lack of research on the collection of statistical databases based on IT development in Kazakhstan to confirm the partial adjustment factors.
In early 2010 and were re-work continued to refine techniques. Then at the second congress of IT-companies of Kazakhstan in the report Gabbasov M Pustovoitenko V have been identified requirements for the new version of the Methodology.
Work continued on methods companies JSC "National Information Technologies, Kazakhstan Association of IT-companies and Company System Studies "Factor". Reworked version techniques presented in August 2011 as well.
Order assessing complexity of software development
Procedure for evaluating the development of middleware complexity represented by the following steps:
1. Evaluation of the functional size of the developed IP;
2. Assessment of the basic design complexity of the PES;
3. Determining the values of correction factors labor development and maintenance of fire suppression;
4. Calculation of complexity, taking into account the development of the PES adjustment factors;
5. Estimation of the development of middleware;
6. Adjustment of labor in developing middleware reduction of development;
7 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichole%20Pinkard | Nichole Pinkard is an American computer scientist and associate professor of learning sciences and faculty director of the Office of Community Education Partnerships (OCEP) in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern. She is helping lead a collaboration with Apple and the Chicago Public School system to teach computer programming to teachers.
She was formerly an associate professor of computing and digital media at DePaul University, and the co-founder of the Digital Youth Network with Akili Lee, a "hybrid digital literacy program." She is involved with multiple projects related to digital learning.
Pinkard has served as the Director of Innovation for the University of Chicago's Urban Education Institute (UEI), and as chief technology officer and director of the Information Infrastructure System (IIS) project at the Center for Urban School Improvement (USI) at the University of Chicago. In 2010, she received the Common Sense Media Award for Outstanding Commitment to Creativity and Youth.
Education
Pinkard holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, an M.S. in Computer Science from Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University.
Career
Pinkard is an associate professor in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. She is also the faculty director of the Office Community Education Partnership. Previously, Pinkard was an associate professor at DePaul University in the College of Computing and Digital Media. Her research is focused on the design and use of pedagogical-based social networks, new media literacy learning outcomes, ecological models of learning and developing pathways for urban youth.
Digital Youth Network
Pinkard founded the Digital Youth Network (DYN) in 2006, at the University of Chicago's Urban Education Institute. The project is designed to support "organizations, educators and researchers in learning best practices to help develop our youths’ technical, creative, and analytical skills." The DYN model begins with sixth to eighth-grade education and focuses on mandatory in-school media arts classes and optional after-school programs. The model is designed to expose youth to multi-media outlets and forms of expression. A high school program follows, which is designed to help students to develop independent strengths.
The program has partnered with several schools in Chicago, with several other Chicago-area organizations. In 2010, DYN partnered with LISC/Chicago and the Smart Communities Program to develop a program called Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (B-TOP), which focused on expanding DYN into new communities including Auburn-Gresham, Chicago Lawn, Englewood, Pilsen, and Humboldt Park.
DYN has received grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Other projects
Pinkard was also a co-founder of YOUmedia, a public learning space for teens that immerses st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Computer | Founded by Alex Vasilevsky, Virtual Computer was a venture-backed software company in the Boston area that produces desktop virtualization products, which combine centralized management with local execution on a hypervisor running on PCs. By running the workload on the PC, Virtual Computer enables companies to have centralized management without servers, storage, and networking required for server-hosted VDI.
History
Virtual Computer was founded in November 2007 by Alex Vasilevsky. Highland Capital Partners and Flybridge Capital Partners invested $20 million in funding. It was acquired by Citrix in May 2012.
Partnerships
In March 2011, Virtual Computer announced its collaboration with Lenovo to optimize Virtual Computer's NxTop client virtualization and management solution on Lenovo's business-oriented systems. These include select models of Lenovo's ThinkCentre A and M series desktops and ThinkPad T and X series laptops.
Virtual Computer's NxTop desktop virtualization solution is compatible with the previous three generations of Intel Core vPro processor family, including the Intel Core vPro i3, i5, and i7 processors, as well as all platforms with Intel Virtualization Technology.
Product
Virtual Computer's product is the NxTop® Enterprise. It released the fourth version 4 of its client hypervisor, NxTop®4 Enterprise, in August 2011. NxTop combines a centralized management system with an enhanced Xen-based client hypervisor to create a single platform for any combination of local desktops, remote VDI sessions, and server- and cloud-based applications. NxTop provides IT control of the end-point through advanced management capabilities in NxTop Center.
Virtual Computer's core technologies include a managed client-hypervisor that runs on a bare-metal PC across a wide set of hardware platforms; a layering technology that pulls apart applications, profiles, and data so they can be managed independently; and a mechanism to tightly integrate a centralized management system with a type-1 managed hypervisor running on end-user PCs.
References
External links
Virtual Computer Official Website
Virtual Computer uses virtualisation to manage laptops
Client-side virtualization goes bare metal
Virtual Computer collaborates with Lenovo-NxTop the industry’s best enterprise-class type 1 client hypervisor?
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allrecipes.com | Allrecipes.com, Inc. is a food-focused online social networking service headquartered in Seattle, Washington. The company was founded by fellow University of Washington archaeology graduate students Tim Hunt, Carl Lipo, Mark Madsen, Dan Shepherd, Michael Pfeffer, and David Quinn.
History
Allrecipes.com was founded in 1997 after co-founders Hunt and Shepherd had trouble finding their favorite cookie recipes on the Internet. The recipe sharing and cooking community website began as an offshoot of one of Seattle's first web companies, Emergent Media. The company's original website was CookieRecipe.com. After Cookierecipe, came Cakerecipe.com, Chickenrecipe.com, Pierecipe.com, Beefrecipe.com. After launching 38 different domains, the company consolidated all its websites into Allrecipes.com.
The core of the small founding team consisted of Yann Oehl, Kala Kushnik, Ursula Dalzell, and Sydny Carter. In 1999, Allrecipes.com hired Bill Moore, a former Starbucks executive, as its CEO. In 2006, Reader's Digest purchased Allrecipes.com for $66 million.
Reader's Digest sold the company to the Meredith Corporation in 2012 for $175 million.
Website
The recipes on the website are posted by members of the Allrecipes.com community and then copyedited by staff. Members of the community can also rate and review recipes, as well as add photos of the finished dish. Recipes are categorized by season, type (such as appetizer or dessert), and ingredients. Search functionality supports requiring and excluding specific ingredients. Other categories include methods (such as grilling or baking), occasions, and cooking style. There is support for finding meal ideas for specific holidays.
As of March 2023, the app for smartphones is no longer available or supported. Allrecipes.com was available for iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, and Android users. Allrecipes.com's app for smartphones, Dinner Spinner, allowed users to access the site and its user-uploaded content while on the go. In 2011, Alison Sherwood of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel rated the site as one of her "five favorite food apps." The app allows users to search recipes and include specifications in their search (such as type of meal, nutrition, key ingredients, and time needed to prepare the dish). Recipes could be saved and easily shared on Twitter and Facebook.
In September 2015, Allrecipes.com launched a revamped website as part of a broader transformation into a social networking service for food lovers. The September 2015 website relaunch was met with broad criticism, with the most common grievance being the perceived decrease in usability.
Meredith closed 14 international Allrecipes domains on October 16, 2018.
References
External links
Social media companies of the United States
American cooking websites
IAC (company)
Social cataloging applications
Internet properties established in 1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xaitment | xaitment is a German-based company that develops and sells artificial intelligence (AI) software to video game developers and simulation developers. The company was founded in 2004 by Dr. Andreas Gerber, and is a spin-off of the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, or DFKI. xaitment has its main office in Quierschied, Germany, and field offices in San Francisco and China.
Products
xaitment currently sells two AI software modules: xaitMap and xaitControl. xaitMap provides runtime libraries and graphical tools for navigation mesh generation (also called NavMesh generation), pathfinding, dynamic collision avoidance, and individual and crowd movement. xaitControl is a finite-state machine for game logic and character behavior modeling that also includes a real-time debugger. On January 11, 2012, xaitment announced that it making its source code for these modules available to "all current and future US and European licensees".
On February 22, 2012 xaitment released two new plug-ins, xaitMap and xaitControl for the Unity Game Engine.
The full versions are available for PC (Windows and Linux), PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii. The pathfinding plug-in is available with a Windows dev environment, but can deployed on iOS, Mac, Android and the Unity Web Player.
Partners
xaitment's AI software is currently integrated into the Unity game engine, Havok's Vision Engine, Bohemia Interactive's VBS2 Simulation Engine, GameBase's Gamebryo game engine.
Customers
xaitment sells its AI software products to video game developers and military and civil simulation developers. Current customers include Tencent, gamania, TML Studios, Emobi Games, IP Keys and others. A full list of customers can be found on xaitment's website.
References
External links
xaitment.com
Applications of artificial intelligence
Software companies of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film%20Garden | Film Garden Entertainment, more commonly known as Film Garden, is a TV production company that produced TV programs for Discovery Health Channel (now Oprah Winfrey Network) and WE tv such as Platinum Weddings, which spawned a spin-off, Amazing Wedding Cakes and A Wedding Story. Film Garden Entertainment specializes in reality and documentary programs.
References
Television production companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed%20K.%20Elmagarmid | Dr Ahmed K. Elmagarmid (born 1954) is a computer scientist, academic and executive. He is the founding executive director of Qatar Computing Research Institute, a national research institute under Hamad bin Khalifa University, a member of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. Since his appointment in 2010, Elmagarmid has focused on large-scale computing challenges that address national priorities for growth and development of Qatar. The computer research community, especially the database research recognizes the important role he has played at international level by creating data-centric research institution like QCRI and building it into an internationally reputed research institute.
At QCRI, Elmagarmid started the Qatar Computing Research Institute-CSAIL research collaboration with MIT in 2012 with the objective of exchange of expertise between QCRI and MIT-CSAIL scientists and joint knowledge creation. Building up on the Artificial Intelligence (AI) expertise developed through this QCRI-CSAIL collaboration and various other AI projects at QCRI, he started a new center for AI within the institute. Under Elmagarmid's oversight and leadership, Qatar Center for AI (QCAI) has produced a blueprint for the "National AI Strategy for Qatar". Realizing the potential of AI and data science to impact all aspects of life and society, Elmagarmid has been promoting the transformation of higher education towards more AI/data science based education.
Before joining the Qatar Foundation, Elmagarmid held a number of posts in academia and industry. He was an associate then a full Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University, where he was involved in teaching and research for 22 years, and a director of the Purdue Cyber Center.
He served as a Chief Scientist for Hewlett-Packard's office of Strategy and Technology. He also has worked with or consulted for Telcordia Technologies (formerly known as Bell Communications Research), Bellcore, IBM, CSC, Harris Corporation, D. H. Brown and Associates, MCC, Bell Northern Research, Molecular Design Labs, SOGEI (Italy) and UniSql.
Elmagarmid serves as the Vice Chair of the IT Executive Committee of Sidra Medical and Research Center and is on the board of directors at MEEZA. He is a member of the executive committee of Kasra (formerly MENAPOST) and Qatar National Library. He is a founding member of the Qatar Genome Project Committee as well as the Sidra External Scientific Advisory Council.
Elmagarmid is a recipient of the Presidential Young Investigator Award from US President Ronald Reagan. He is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow and an AAAS Fellow. The University of Dayton and Ohio State University have both named him among their distinguished alumni. He has chaired and served on several program committees and editorial boards.
He has also authored six books and more than 180 papers, and has run several well-funded research programs.
Early life and education
Ahmed K. Elmagarmid was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquasar | Aquasar is a supercomputer (a high-performance computer) prototype created by IBM Labs in collaboration with ETH Zurich in Zürich, Switzerland and ETH Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland. While most supercomputers use air as their coolant of choice, the Aquasar uses hot water to achieve its great computing efficiency. Along with using hot water as the main coolant, an air-cooled section is also included to be used to compare the cooling efficiency of both coolants. The comparison could later be used to help improve the hot water coolant's performance. The research program was first termed to be: "Direct use of waste heat from liquid-cooled supercomputers: the path to energy saving, emission-high performance computers and data centers." The waste heat produced by the cooling system is able to be recycled back in the building's heating system, potentially saving money. Beginning in 2009, the three-year collaborative project was introduced and developed in the interest of saving energy and being environmentally-safe while delivering top-tier performance.
History
Development
The Aquasar supercomputer first came in to use at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich) in 2010. ETH Zurich is one of two schools that is a part of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology with the other school being ETH Lausanne. High energy efficiency, environmentally friendly computing, and high computing performance were a few of the main interests in the development of the Aquasar. A key part of being environmentally friendly was the focus of attempting to lower the output of carbon dioxide emissions. 50% of an air-cooled data center's energy consumption and carbon pollution actually comes from the cooling system of the data centers rather than from the actual computing process. The creation of the Aquasar started in 2009. It was a part of IBM's First-Of-A-Kind (FOAK) program (a program encouraging IBM researchers and clients to develop potential new technologies to assist with real world problems in business). One other supercomputer would later use the same idea of a hot water coolant in their developments, the SuperMUC supercomputer. Future development of more powerful supercomputers also explored the possibilities of using on-chip cooling as their main cooling source to achieve greater computer efficiency.
Further Exploration of Hot Water Coolant
An academic paper written in 2018 explored the many possibilities for developing new Exascale computing (a higher scale performance of supercomputing). Exascale supercomputers will be needed in future computing which means high energy efficiency and high cooling efficiency are needed out of these supercomputers to achieve peak performance. The scientists looked to the possibility of "on-chip" cooling, inspired because of the Aquasar supercomputer.
Cooling
The Aquasar supercomputer employs "on-chip" cooling. It uses a unique method that uses mic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20Information%20Science%20in%20Economics | The Applied Information Science in Economics (Прикладная информатика в Экономике) or Applied Computer Science in Economics is a professional qualification generally awarded in Russian Federation. The degree inherited from the U.S.S.R. education system also known as Specialist degree. The degree is awarded after five years of full-time study and includes several internships, course-works, thesis writing and defense.
The degree has similarities with German Magister Artium or Diplom degree. However, due to the Bologna Process number of such degrees are declining.
Degree focuses on applying mathematical methods in economics involving maximum information technology. It is very close to applied mathematics, but includes also major part of computer science.
List of specialty codes in the education system
080801 - Applied computer science in economics
351400 - Applied computer science
Fields of activity
Organization and management;
Project design;
Experimental research;
Marketing;
Consulting;
Operational and Maintenance.
Major
Information Science and Programming.
High Level Methods of Information Science and Programming.
Information Technologies in Economics.
Computer Systems, Networks and Telecommunications Services.
Operational Environments, Systems and Shells.
Architecture and Design of Information Systems for Companies.
Data Bases.
Information security.
Information Management.
Imitative Simulation.
See also
Specialist degree
Academic degree
Master's degree
Education in Russia
Information science
Computer science
References
Information science
Economics education
Academic degrees |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen | Tizen () is a Linux-based mobile operating system backed by the Linux Foundation, developed and used primarily by Samsung Electronics.
The project was originally conceived as an HTML5-based platform for mobile devices to succeed MeeGo. Samsung merged its previous Linux-based OS effort, Bada, into Tizen, and has since used it primarily on platforms such as wearable devices and smart TVs.
Much of Tizen is open source software, although the software development kit contains proprietary components owned by Samsung, and portions of the OS are licensed under the Flora License, a derivative of the Apache License 2.0 that grants a patent license only to "Tizen certified platforms".
In May 2021, Google announced that Samsung would partner with the company on integrating Tizen features with its Android-derived Wear OS, and committed to use it on future wearables, leaving Tizen to be mainly developed for Samsung Smart TV.
History
The project was initiated as mobile Linux and was launched by Intel in July 2007, in April 2009 the operating system had managed to updated to version 2.0 which the core was based on Fedora. However, on the same month, Intel turned Moblin over to the Linux Foundation for future development. Eventually, the operating system was merged with Nokia Maemo, a Debian based Linux distro, into MeeGo which mainly developed by Nokia, Intel and Linux Foundation.
In 2011, after Nokia abandoned the project, Linux Foundation initiated the Tizen project as a successor to MeeGo, another Linux-based mobile operating system, with its main backer Intel joining Samsung Electronics, as well as Access Co., NEC Casio, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile, SK Telecom, Telefónica, and Vodafone as commercial partners. Tizen would be designed to use HTML5 apps, and target mobile and embedded platforms such as netbooks, smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, and in-car entertainment systems. U.S. carrier Sprint Corporation (which was a backer of MeeGo) joined the Tizen Association in May 2012. On September 16, 2012, Automotive Grade Linux announced its intent to use Tizen as the basis of its reference distribution.
In January 2013, Samsung announced its intent to release multiple Tizen-based phones that year. In February 2013, Samsung merged its Bada operating system into Tizen.
In October 2013, the first Tizen tablet was shipped by Systena. The tablet was part of a development kit exclusive to Japan.
In 2014, Samsung released the Gear 2 smartwatch that used a Tizen-based operating system as opposed to Android.
On May 14, 2014, it was announced that Tizen would ship with Qt. This project was abandoned in January 2017.
On February 21, 2016, Samsung announced the Samsung Connect Auto, a connected car solution offering diagnostic, Wi-Fi, and other car-connected services. The device plugs directly into the OBD-II port underneath the steering wheel.
On November 16, 2016, Samsung said they would be collaborating with Microsoft to bring .NET Core support to Tizen.
Acc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brodal%20queue | In computer science, the Brodal queue is a heap/priority queue structure with very low worst case time bounds: for insertion, find-minimum, meld (merge two queues) and decrease-key and for delete-minimum and general deletion. They are the first heap variant to achieve these bounds without resorting to amortization of operational costs. Brodal queues are named after their inventor Gerth Stølting Brodal.
While having better asymptotic bounds than other priority queue structures, they are, in the words of Brodal himself, "quite complicated" and "[not] applicable in practice." Brodal and Okasaki describe a persistent (purely functional) version of Brodal queues.
Summary of running times
References
Heaps (data structures) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20MacDonald%20%28computer%20programmer%29 | Peter MacDonald is a Canadian software engineer, best known as the creator of Softlanding Linux System (SLS), widely regarded as the first complete Linux distribution. Some of his work served as a foundation of Wine. He also created the Tcl web browser BrowseX, and the PDQI suite of Tcl utilities.
Current projects include Jsish, an embeddable javascript interpreter with builtin type-checking.
Biography
Peter Charles MacDonald was born in Victoria, British Columbia on June 28, 1957. He graduated from the Computer Science program of the University of Victoria with a BSc (1989) and MSc (1996, master's thesis: Decomposing the Linux Kernel into Dynamically Loadable Modules).
SLS
MacDonald co-developed early features of the Linux kernel in the early 1990s, including shared libraries, pseudo terminals, the select call and virtual consoles. He announced Softlanding Linux System (SLS), the first standalone Linux install, for testing in August 1992 (on 15 floppy disks), and for general release in October 1992 (recommending at least 10 MB of disk space).
SLS became popular, but also drew criticism. MacDonald was criticized for trying to make money on free software, but defended by Linus Torvalds. Two of the early Linux distributions were made specifically in reaction to SLS, Ian Murdock's Debian to compensate for SLS's bugs, and Patrick Volkerding's Slackware to include installer patches which weren't added to SLS, and which MacDonald wouldn't allow Volkerding to distribute independently.
Other software
The initial 1993 Wine Windows compatibility layer was based on Tcl/Tk windowing functions MacDonald wrote (though later rewritten as direct Xlib calls).
MacDonald founded BrowseX Systems in 1999, and put out version 1.0 of BrowseX, an open source Tcl-based cross-platform web browser, meant to be smaller and faster than Netscape. The last update of BrowseX was in 2003; the company was renamed to PDQ Interfaces Inc., and put out a set of various TCL based utilities.
Jsish: a javascript interpreter with builtin sqlite, json, websocket, and zvfs support.
References
1957 births
Living people
Linux people
Free software programmers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle%20Studios | Triangle Studios is a mid-sized computer game development company based in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, founded in 2005. It has developed several games for the PC, the Nintendo DS and iOS. On March 2, 2010, the company opened a new branch office in Dallas, Texas. They participated in the Tokyo Game Show in 2008 as a part of the Holland Pavilion, in order to establish connections with Japanese publishers and enter the Asian gaming market.
Games
Triangle Studios initial focus was the development of games for the Nintendo DS:
Stratego: Next Edition
K3 en het IJsprinsesje
Plop en de Pinguïn
Eén tegen 100
10 voor Taal
Pluk van de Petteflet
Denksport Varia
Winter's Tail
Think Kids 2
My Virtual Tutor: Pre-K to Kindergarten
My Virtual Tutor: Kindergarten to First Grade
My Virtual Tutor: First Grade to Second Grade
Suske en Wiske: De Texas Rakkers
Calvin Tucker's Redneck Racing
Triangle Studios developed a game about the historical figure Pier Gerlofs Donia titled Cross of the Dutchman.The game received "mixed or average reviews" per Metacritic, with an average score of 59 out of 100. Together with 'It came from space and ate our brains' this makes up Triangle Studios original IP's. In June 2011, Triangle Studios released the "Visit McKinney Texas" app at the behest of the McKinney Convention & Visitors Bureau, which "provides information and links to city restaurants, hotels, attractions, and the city's social media feeds".
Awards
2009 Young Entrepreneur Award
References
External links
Triangle Studios Official Site
Video game companies established in 2005
Video game development companies
Video game companies of the Netherlands
Dutch companies established in 2005
Companies based in Friesland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Clancey | William J. Clancey (born 1952) is an American computer scientist who specializes in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. He has worked in computing in a wide range of sectors, including medicine, education, and finance, and had performed research that brings together cognitive and social science to study work practices and examine the design of agent systems. Clancey has been described as having developed “some of the earliest artificial intelligence programs for explanation, the critiquing method of consultation, tutorial discourse, and student modeling,” and his research has been described as including “work practice modeling, distributed multiagent systems, and the ethnography of field science.” He has also participated in Mars Exploration Rover mission operations, “simulation of a day-in-the-life of the ISS, knowledge management for future launch vehicles, and developing flight systems that make automation more transparent.” Clancey’s work on "heuristic classification" and "model construction operators" is regarded as having been influential in the design of expert systems and instructional programs.
Clancey was chief scientist for Human-Centered Computing at NASA Ames Research Center, Intelligent Systems Division from 1998-2013, where he managed the Work Systems Design & Evaluation Group. During this intergovernmental personnel assignment as a civil servant, he was also employed at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in Pensacola, where he holds the title of senior research scientist.
Early life and education
William J. Clancey was born and grew up in New Jersey. He was a Boy Scout and rose to the rank of Eagle Scout.
In an eighth-grade commencement address entitled “Humanity's Next Great Adventure,” given at a school in San Mateo, California, in 2002, Clancey recalled his own school years, when he “always got extra credit in eighth grade science, answering quiz questions about the latest Gemini two-person launches, getting us ready for the first trip to the moon in three years. I used to read these stories in the New York Times--absorbing every word. And of course when Star Trek began on TV in September, I watched the first episode and haven't missed any in 36 years. So space travel was on my mind as I sat at MY eighth grade graduation, and it's probably no coincidence that I work for NASA today.”
He graduating as valedictorian from East Brunswick High School, earning honors in biology. He majored in Mathematical Sciences at Rice University in Houston, where in connection with his interest in cognition he took courses in a range of fields, including philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, religion, and sociology. He has said that at Rice “I went through the catalog and took every course that mentioned 'knowledge' or 'cognition,' regardless of the department.” He would later write that “The courses that had the greatest influence on my later work were 'The philosophy of knowledge' (Konstantin Kolenda), 'Langu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lopinga | Lopinga is a genus of butterflies of the family Nymphalidae. Lopinga achine, a threatened species classified as vulnerable in Swedish Red data book (Ehnström et al., 1993) This butterfly frequents glades in partly open oak woodland where female egg-laying butterflies would glade by host plants and lay their eggs. Suggesting that Lopinga achine has specific habitat requirements that can only be met with the glades that female butterflies prefer to lay their eggs.
Species
Lopinga achine (Scopoli, 1763) – woodland brown
Lopinga catena (Leech, 1890) West China
Lopinga deidamia (Eversmann, 1851) China
Lopinga kasumi (Yoshino, 1995) Taipaishan, Shannxi, China
Lopinga dumetorum (Oberthür, 1890) China
Lopinga eckweileri Görgner, 1990 China, Sichuan, Nanping
Lopinga fulvescens (Alphéraky, 1889) China
Lopinga gerdae Nordström, 1934 China
Lopinga lehmanni (Forster, 1980) China
Lopinga nemorum (Oberthür, 1890) China
References
Lopinga, Tree of Life
"Lopinga Moore, 1893" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Satyrini
Butterfly genera
Taxa named by Frederic Moore
Bergman, K. (1999). Habitat utilization by Lopinga achine (Nymphalidae: Satyrinae) larvae and ovipositing females: implications for conservation. Animal Conservation, 88(1), 69-74. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rosie%20Show | The Rosie Show is an American evening television talk show starring and produced by Rosie O'Donnell, airing on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. The first episode premiered on October 10, 2011, on the stage that was formerly home to The Oprah Winfrey Show at Harpo Studios in Chicago. It was announced on March 6, 2012 that the show would be moving to New York in the near future. On March 16, 2012, OWN announced that The Rosie Show would be canceled after only one season and ninety-four episodes due to low ratings, with the final episode airing on Thursday March 29, 2012.
Synopsis
The show covered current events, highlighted hometown heroes and newsmakers, showcased art, discussed important issues and celebrated children. The daily show also featured comedy and game segments (a staple of Rosie's first talk show) as well as celebrity guests and performances by recording artists, both well-known and up-and-coming performers.
Original format
The original format was utilized in shows airing between October 10, 2011 and January 23, 2012.
Opening
Each show opens with Rosie emerging from backstage and welcoming her audience. During the first segment, she combines a free-flow of stand-up comedy, questions from the audience, and a recap of the daily news headlines. Rosie often also uses this time to chat with her show announcer, Hollee Chanel, and the leader of her house band, Katreese Barnes (similar to how she would open The Rosie O'Donnell Show with a conversation with John McDaniel).
As of January 17, 2012, former announcer Chanel has been promoted to special correspondent, working on human interest stories and interviews for various production pieces for the show. Google Pete, a regular on her past XM Radio show Rosie Radio, has taken the role of the new announcer and Rosie uses the opening of her program to chat about the news headlines with Pete and answer viewer questions posted on Twitter.
Music
The Rosie Show infuses music into every episode- whether it be performances by musical guests, Rosie's spontaneous musical numbers (sometimes accompanied by her "Broadway Boys"), or the soundtrack provided by her house band, led by Katreese Barnes (a former Saturday Night Live musical director). Sometimes special musical guests will sit in and accompany the band.
As of January 17, 2012, Katreese Barnes and the house band are no longer seen on the set on a regular basis. Rosie has stated that Barnes is now working behind the scenes on song parodies for the show.
Game show segments
Some shows close with a game segment, where audience members face off against each other to win a prize. Game segments have included: The Ro Game, Build That Tune, and Odd Man Out. At the end of the game, the loser is forced to take the "Walk of Shame," while the winner is showered with confetti.
One-on-One format
January 24, 2012 saw the beginning of a new format for The Rosie Show with Kathy Griffin's One-On-One interview. No longer is there a studio audience or a regular pat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Broadcasting%20Network | People's Television Network may refer to:
National Broadcasting Network (Lebanon), the official television of the Lebanese Amal Movement
National Broadcasting Network (Trinidad and Tobago)
People's Television Network, formerly National Broadcasting Network (Philippines) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda%20Avey | Linda Avey (née Bahnson) is an American biologist and entrepreneur. She is known for co-founding 23andMe, a consumer genetic data company.
Early life
Avey was born in 1960, in South Dakota, United States. She attended Augustana University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in biology in 1982.
Early career
Avey began her scientific career in 1982 at University of California, Irvine as a staff research associate. In 1985 she moved into various sales and business development in the fields of biopharmaceutical and academic research based in San Francisco, Boston, San Diego, and Washington, DC. She worked for Perlegen Sciences (2003-2005), coordinating the world's first genome-wide association studies, and for Affymetrix on the translational medicine team (2005-2006) with the goal of identifying genetic markers for diagnostic tests She also held positions at Spotfire, Chemdex, Applied Biosystems, PerSeptive Biosystems, Molecular Dynamics, and Waters Corporation.
23andMe and later career
In March 2006 Avey, Anne Wojcicki, and Paul Cusenza founded 23andMe, the world's first consumer genetic data company. Avey left the company in 2009. Cusenza had left the company in 2007.
In 2009, Avey launched the Brainstorm Research Foundation, focused on accelerating research on the prevention and alleviation of Alzheimer's disease.
In 2011, Avey co-founded Curious, Inc. with Heather Anne Halpert and Mitsu Hadeishi. The company was focused on building an online data aggregator of sensors, wearables, trackers, apps, social media, biometrics, and other personal data.
In 2018 Avey and Aneil Mallavarapu, PhD, focused on building automation tools for the Indian clinical market through their start-up Precisely, Inc.
Avey is an advisor to Verily Life Sciences and is on the Board of Fellows at Stanford Medical School.
References
21st-century American biologists
American women company founders
Living people
1960 births
American technology company founders
American women biologists
Augustana University alumni
Businesspeople from South Dakota
Scientists from South Dakota
21st-century American women scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20open-source%20mobile%20phones | This is a list of mobile phones with open-source operating systems.
Scope of the list
Cellular modem and other firmware
Some hardware components used in phones require drivers (or firmware) to run. For many components, only proprietary drivers are available (open source phones usually seek components with open drivers.) If firmware is not updatable and does not have control over any other part of the phone, it might be considered equivalent to part of the hardware. However, these conditions do not hold for cellular modems.
, all available mobile phones have a proprietary baseband chip (GSM module, cellular modem), except for the Necuno, which has no such chip and communicates by peer-to-peer VOIP. The modem is usually integrated with the system-on-a-chip and the memory. This presents security concerns; baseband attacks can read and alter data on the phone remotely.
The Librem 5 mobile segregates the modem from the system and memory, making it a separate module, a configuration rare in modern cellphones. There is an open-source baseband project, OsmocomBB.
Operating system: middleware and user interface
Generally, the phones included on this list contain copyleft software other than the Linux kernel, and minimal closed-source component drivers (see section above).
Android-based devices do not appear on this list because of the heavy use of proprietary components, particularly drivers and applications.
There are numerous versions of Android which seek to replace the proprietary components, such as LineageOS (successor to the now-defunct Cyanogenmod) and Replicant, that can be installed on a large number of phones after-market. There are also devices using Ubuntu Touch and Droidian which are using GNU/Linux and Android hardware adaptation layer Halium. Phones natively running these are included.
There are multiple projects to implement mainline Linux on mobile phones. Mobian is an open-source project focusing on Debian GNU/Linux on mobile devices. postmarketOS is based on the Alpine Linux. Arch Linux ARM based Manjaro is focusing on PinePhone hardware.
WebOS (LG Electronics,) was initially available only under a proprietary license but the source code was later released under a free permissive license by HP. Open WebOS will not run on all WebOS devices. LuneOS is Halium based fork of WebOS.
Firefox OS was released under a permissive MIT license but its KaiOS successor is proprietary; the former is included.
All Maemo, Meego and Sailfish OS devices running open Maemo Leste or Mer middleware are included. Tizen devices are not included.
Open QTMoko/OpenMoko phones of Qt Extended are included to the list.
Note that it is often possible to install a wide variety of open-source operating systems on any open-source phone; the higher-level software is designed to be largely interchangeable and independent of the hardware.
Devices with formal support
Devices with 3rd party support
Distributions for existing phones
postmarketOS, Ubports, and KD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleena%20MVNE | Teleena is based in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands. Teleena offers managed mobile service solutions to mobile network operators (MNOs), cable companies, mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) retail brands and other enterprises throughout the world. Teleena also provides its mobile services to device manufacturers (OEMs), machine-to-machine (M2M/IoT), Cloud and content service providers, as well as (global) enterprises. Since October 2018, Teleena is owned by Tata Communications and also operates under this name.
Company history
Teleena was founded in 2007 by two former Scarlet managers: Timo Smit and Michiel van der Pant, and investor and former founder of Versatel (sold in 2005 to Tele2), Marc van der Heijden. The company has built its own mobile core network (Oracle, Nokia Siemens, Cisco) that is connected to the Radio Access Network of Vodafone in The Netherlands. Vodafone was the last of the three Dutch Mobile Network Operators (MNO) to enter into the mobile wholesale services. In 2008, Teleena signed an agreement with Surinamese MNO Telesur and in 2010 Teleena signed an MVNE agreement with Vodafone in the United Kingdom. The company hosts over a dozen MVNOs in the two countries. In October 2018, Teleena was acquired by Tata communications.
References
Telecommunications companies of the Netherlands
Telecommunications companies of the United Kingdom
Dutch companies established in 2007
2007 establishments in the Netherlands
Companies based in Utrecht (province)
Nieuwegein |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trimprob | The TRIMprob (Tissue Resonance InterferoMeter Probe) is a portable system for non-invasive diagnosis of biological diseases invented by Italian physicist Clarbruno Vedruccio. It consists of a computer-controlled radio frequency interferometer detecting differences in electromagnetic properties in cancerous tissue.
History
The discovery in 1992 of the TRIMprob came almost accidentally during the development of a land mine detector. At that time Vedruccio suffered from a severe attack of gastritis, and as he was approaching a probe for the detection of high frequencies radio waves, he noticed a drop in the signal corresponding to 930-940 MHz. He immediately realized that his state of health had an influence on the probe that by chance was tuned on that specific range of radio frequencies. As a consequence of this initial work, three radio waves(465 MHz, 930 MHz, 1395 MHz) that showed interaction with diseased tissues were identified. The device was initially patented in 1995 as a medical equipment for the treatment of diseases according to alternative medicine paradigms. In a successive patent of 1999 the device is more precisely characterized and presented as an "Electromagnetic analyzer of anisotropy in chemical organized systems" and thus as a means of powerful preventive diagnostics in the medical field. In 2003 the defense electronics company Galileo Avionica (now Selex Galileo), started the production of the TRIMprob under license. The production from Galileo Avionica stopped abruptly in 2007. This latest event reached the Italian Senate in 2011, when a senator raised a parliamentary inquiry regarding the ceased production. In 2013, a company located in Faenza re-started the production of the TRIMprob.
Scientific evidence
The device has been shown to have a high accuracy rate for the early diagnosis of cancer.
References
See also
Tricorder X Prize
Medical tricorder
ESO-MED 8G
Medical equipment
Italian inventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turf%20War | Turf War is an American reality television series. A spinoff from the Yard Crashers series, Turf War began on March 8, 2010 on the DIY Network. Season two began on April 11, 2011.
The original host of the series was Ahmed Hassan. He was replaced at the end of 2011 by contractor Matt Blashaw.
References
External links
2010 American television series debuts
2010s American reality television series
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20of%20Information%20requests%20to%20the%20Climatic%20Research%20Unit | Freedom of Information requests to the Climatic Research Unit featured in press discussions of disputes over access to data from instrumental temperature records, particularly during the Climatic Research Unit email controversy which began in November 2009.
The UK Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) came into effect in 2005, and FOI requests were made to the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) for the raw data from weather stations used in developing instrumental temperature record datasets, for copies of agreements under which the raw data was obtained from meteorology institutions, and also for email correspondence relating to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fourth Assessment Report.
In many cases the raw data which CRU had obtained from National Meteorological Organisations was subject to restrictions on redistribution: on 12 August 2009 CRU announced that they were seeking permission to waive these restrictions, and on 24 November 2009 the university stated that over 95% of the CRU climate data set had already been available for several years, with the remainder to be released when permissions were obtained. In a decision announced on 27 July 2011 the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) required release of raw data even though permissions had not been obtained or in one instance had been refused, and on 27 July 2011 CRU announced release of the raw instrumental data not already in the public domain, with the exception of Poland which was outside the area covered by the FOIA request.
A 2008 FOI request by David Holland for emails discussing work on the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report was refused by the university. In November 2009 he alleged that CRU emails posted online discussed deleting the emails he had requested: in January 2010 the Deputy Information Commissioner told a journalist that this indicated an offence under section 77 of the FOIA, but prosecution was time-barred by statute of limitations. Newspapers misrepresented this as a decision in relation to raw data, and the issue was discussed by the House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee inquiry, which found there had been a lack of openness. The ICO decision published on 7 July 2010 stated that this potential offence had not been investigated as it was time-barred. As Holland was content not to proceed with his complaint against the university, no further action was needed, but the ICO would "consider whether further action is appropriate to secure future compliance."
In September 2011 the ICO issued new guidance to universities. This described exceptions and exemptions to protect research, including allowance for internal exchange of views between academics and researchers free from external scrutiny, as well as commending actively disclosing information when it is in the public interest.
FOIA requests for raw climate data
From 1978 onwards, the Climatic Research Unit developed its gridded CRUTEM data set of land a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Omnia%20W | The Samsung Omnia W (also known as the Samsung Focus Flash and GT-I8350) is a slate device running Windows Phone operating system 7.5. The launch of the phone was first announced on September 26, 2011 and was subsequently released later that year. The phone is manufactured by Samsung. The device features Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 SoC clocked at 1.4 GHz (with an Adreno 205 GPU), 3.7-inch Super AMOLED screen (protected by Corning Gorilla Glass) with a resolution of 480 x 800 and 8 GB of internal storage.
Reception
Early evaluations have been favorable. One of the best (and least expensive) Windows Phone 7 devices available, according to PC World. If you have been looking for a good smartphone on a budget then this is the phone for you". The Verge rated it at a 7.1 out of 10, touting its design, software, and performance, while suffering through poor call quality and camera performance. Engadget praises the "unassuming phone", concluding that "You'll make some sacrifices on the camera, storage and battery fronts, but if you can live with that the Focus is a veritable steal".
See also
Windows Phone
References
Windows Phone devices
Samsung smartphones
Mobile phones introduced in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Music%20Network | The Music Network (TMN) is an Australian music magazine launched as a in 1994 by John Woodruff. It was printed weekly until March 2013, when it went fully online. In 2017 it was acquired by Jake Challenor, who served as its publisher and editor. In February 2022 The Music Network was acquired by The Brag Media, with Poppy Reid serving as editor-in-chief.
History
The Music Network was founded by John Woodruff in May 1994, initially as a paper-based publication for the Australian music industry. This included record labels, media networks, music and DVD retailers, radio and television programmers and music directors, sales representatives, artist managers, music publishers and concert promoters. In January 2009, the magazine was sold to the music marketing and publishing group Peer Group Media, which is under the ownership of Adam Zammit, who replaced Woodruff as the new owner of The Music Network.
In 2009 the magazine was sold to Peer Group Media, owned by Adam Zammit. After the sale, its website re-launched on 8 June 2009, with a new design, logo and layout, under managing editor Jade Harley. In March 2009, former Future Entertainment general manager Jade Harley, became the magazine's new managing editor. In September of that year it was publishing the "TopSwaps" chart, which monitored the number of songs downloaded from file-sharing sites each week.
TMN printed a total of 927 issues before the magazine ceasing to print their weekly magazine in March 2013, going fully online. However owners Peer Group Media continued to print Sydney street magazine The Brag at that time.
In 2017, TMN was acquired by Jake Challenor, who served as its publisher and editor.
In 2019 The Music Network began operating the "TMN Country Hot 50" chart in co-operation with Radio Monitor. The chart included airplay data and published a new chart every Friday morning. This replaced the previous "TMN Country Airplay Chart", and is "the most comprehensive country airplay chart in the history of Australian radio".
In February 2022, The Brag Media purchased TMN, with Challenor joining The Brag Media as executive editor, B2B. In February 2023 Challenor departed Brag and set up a new PR agency, Sound Story.
Ownership and people
The Music Network is published by The Brag Media, with Poppy Reid serving as editor-in-chief of the whole group.<ref name=about2023>{{cite web | title=About | website=The Music Network | date=21 February 2023 | url=https://themusicnetwork.com/about/ | access-date=13 September 2023|quote=Poppy is the Editor-in-chief of Australia's largest independent entertainment media company, The Brag Media, which includes Rolling Stone AU/NZ, Variety Australia, Tone Deaf, The Brag, The Industry Observer and The Music Network under its umbrella.}}</ref>
Content The Music Network'' features the latest music news, radio airplay charts and statistics, music sales data for both physical and digital releases, tour and live event information, interviews with local |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healing%20Heroes%20Network | Healing Heroes Network was a nonprofit organization providing financial assistance to veterans injured in the line of duty while in Iraq or Afghanistan on or after September 11, 2001.
Services Provided
Welcome Home, Hero Program
In late 2012, Healing Heroes Network received a community grant for the Welcome Home, Hero Program from the Mike Alstott Family Foundation through a Facebook voting contest. Welcome Home, Hero provides short-term financial assistance to wounded military veterans and their families to help meet their basic needs.
Tablets For Heroes Program
Provides free tablet computers to wounded Veterans who served in Iraq or Afghanistan, who sustained traumatic brain injuries (TBI) or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Our tablets come pre-loaded with a variety of apps and programs. These programs help Veterans rebuild hand-eye coordination, improve spatial skills, and foster cognitive development. The tablets can also be used for traditional internet applications, such as email, searching for employment, scheduling doctor's appointments and staying in touch with friends and family members.
Healing Heroes Program
Providing financial assistance for medical treatments and therapy services not offered by the VA or other government agencies. They work closely with several medical professionals through the Healing Heroes Network. These professionals provide medical care and therapy treatments to wounded Veterans.
Tax Filings
2012 Form 990 - Shows revenue of $1,661,079 with only $376,157 (22.65%) going toward Program Service expenses and more than $294,387 of that went to advertising, promotions, compensation, and salaries leaving less than 5% for their core services.
2013 Form 990 - Shows revenue of $2,544,356 with only $397,093 (15.61%) going toward Program Service expenses and more than $302,206 of that went to advertising, promotions, compensation, and salaries leaving less than 4% for their core services.
2014 Form 990 - Shows revenue of $2,645,183 with only $742,655 (28.08%) going toward Program Service expenses and more than $573,721 of that went to advertising, promotions, compensation, and salaries leaving less than 7% for their core services.
History
Healing Heroes Network was founded in 2008. Healing Heroes was developed to help service member with suffering posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injuries.
" In late 2008 he founded Healing Heroes Network as a national charity, headquartered in Palm Harbor, Florida, to fill the gaps left in the VA benefits system.
In 2009, Healing Heroes received its official 501(c)(3) nonprofit status.
Campaigns
Get The Bikes
In August 2011, Healing Heroes Network began its Harleys for Heroes Sweepstakes. Participants donate for chances to win two Harley-Davidson motorcycles, a 2011 Fat Boy Lo and a 2011 Streetglide, as well as a year's worth of gasoline. The drawing was held on December 1, 2011. The winner was announced December 8, 2011, as Valerie Snider f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Atallah | Mikhail Jibrayil (Mike) Atallah is a Lebanese American computer scientist, a distinguished professor of computer science at Purdue University.
Biography
Atallah received his bachelor's degree from the American University of Beirut in 1975. He then moved to Johns Hopkins University for his graduate studies, earning a master's degree in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1982 under the supervision of S. Rao Kosaraju. Since that time he has been a member of the Purdue University faculty.
In 2001, Atallah co-founded Arxan Technologies, Inc., a provider of internet anti-piracy and anti-tampering software, and in 2007, he became its chief technology officer.
Research
Atallah has published over 200 papers on topics in algorithms and computer security.
Atallah's thesis work was on the subject of parallel algorithms, and he continued working in that area as a faculty member.
Algorithmic research by Atallah includes papers on parallel and dynamic computational geometry, finding the symmetries of geometric figures, divide and conquer algorithms, and efficient parallel computations of the Levenshtein distance between pairs of strings. With his student Marina Blanton, Atallah is the editor of the Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook (CRC Press, 2nd ed., 2009, ).
Atallah's more recent research has been in the area of computer security. His work in this area has included techniques for text-based digital watermarking. and the addition of multiple guard points within software as an anti-piracy measure.
Awards and honors
In 2006, Atallah was elected as a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for his "contributions to parallel and distributed computation". He has also been a fellow of the IEEE since 1997.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Computer security academics
American University of Beirut alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Purdue University faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB%20International | MLB International is a division of Major League Baseball primarily responsible for international broadcasts of games. In partnership with DirecTV and MLB Network, it produces and syndicates the All-Star Game, and the World Series, as well as the Caribbean Series, the Australian Baseball League Championship Series and the World Baseball Classic to broadcasters in over 200 countries, and the American Forces Network for U.S. military troops abroad. It previously broadcast the NLCS and ALCS, alternating between the two each year. MLB International broadcasts content that shows baseball in a local context, e.g. sneaker shopping in Japan or baseball games in India, and explains concepts and rules of baseball to viewers who may not be familiar with the sport.
Commentators
From until and again starting in 2010, Gary Thorne served as the play-by-play man for the World Series on Armed Forces Radio and MLB International.
Dave O'Brien provided commentary for MLB International's coverage of the World Series from 2004 until 2009. O'Brien teamed with his usual ESPN partner Rick Sutcliffe on broadcasts of the World Series and the American League Championship Series for MLB International.
From 1996 to 2002, and 2010-2014, MLB International broadcast the League Championship Series alternately, with the American League Championship Series in even-numbered years and the National League Championship Series in odd-numbered years.
Since 2015, production of the MLB International broadcasts has been assumed by the MLB Network. Matt Vasgersian (formerly of ESPN Sunday Night Baseball and today part of Fox Sports) in addition to the MLB Network, also current play-by-play television announcer for the Los Angeles Angels (AL) and former play-by-play television announcer for the San Diego Padres (NL)) has served as the play-by-play commentator; for the 2016 World Series onward, he was joined by Buck Martinez (play-by-play analyst of the Toronto Blue Jays for Sportsnet—which has carried the world feeds due to his involvement, and former color commentator for TBS) on color. Since 2018, with Matt now with ESPN part-time in addition to his MLB Network duties, Buck was joined for the All-Star Game duties by former Sunday Night Baseball voice Dan Shulman (who calls play-by-play on selected Blue Jays games on Sportsnet with Martinez on color).
In 2021, MLB Network's Scott Braun assumed the post as the main play-by-play announcer for MLB International's broadcasts. He was replaced in 2022 by Jason Benetti (NBC Sports Chicago) for the English-language international MLB All-Star Game coverage and Dave Flemming (NBC Sports Bay Area, KNBR) for the global World Series coverage.
Commentator pairings
Gary Thorne and Ken Singleton (All-Star Game, League Championship Series and the World Series, 1996–2003)
Dave O'Brien and Rick Sutcliffe (All-Star Game, ALCS and the World Series, 2004–2009)
Gary Thorne and Rick Sutcliffe (All-Star Game, League Championship Series and the World Seri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20Exchange%20System | The Community Exchange System (CES) is an internet-based global trading network which allows participants to buy and sell goods and services without using a national currency. It may be described as a type of local exchange trading system (LETS) network based on free software. While it can be used as an alternative to traditional currencies such as the Australian dollar or euro or South African rand, the Community Exchange System is a complementary currency in the sense that it functions alongside established currencies.
The CES name was coined by an online web service which started in 2003 in Cape Town, South Africa, as the Cape Town Talent Exchange (CTTE). From there it spread to 99 countries, with the biggest take-up in Australia, where CES Australia was founded in 2011. This original CES takes the idea of LETS and similar systems a step further by providing the means for inter-community trading; it is a global network of communities using non-monetary exchange systems.
The CES is international in scope. It does not have printed money or coins but uses computer technology to serve as an "online money and banking system" or alternative exchange system and as a marketplace. It is an advance from an arrangement in which either one good or service is exchanged for another good or service, or commonly called barter, since it uses a digital unit of value (not the same as a digital currency).
Background
While money typically takes the form of a national currency such as dollars or euros, there have long been other types of "currencies" ranging from simple IOU notes––in which one person declares a debt to a second person in a written document––to more sophisticated programs such as frequent-flyer programs in which points are accumulated in a side-system as a result of purchases. Some communities, typically remote ones, have instituted what is sometimes called a community currency, sometimes with paper notes, such as the Totnes pound in the town of Totnes in the United Kingdom; the idea was to promote local commerce and to "keep money circulating within the town's local economy," according to one report.
The advent of internet technology made alternative (aka complementary) currencies more viable, as databases can keep account of credits and facilitate trading.
History
A system called the Cape Town Talent Exchange (CTTE) was started in February 2003 in Cape Town by Ashoka fellow Tim Jenkin (also known for a daring prison escape during the apartheid era) and former maths and science teacher and chemical engineer Don Northcott.
The abstract unit of currency (unit of account/value) was called the "Talent", but there were no physical bills or coins made. The purpose was to bring the advantages of a trading network to destitute persons who were unable to get credit or loans using traditional national currencies, as well as assist marginalised communities within the city of Cape Town, such as Khayelitsha, to become self-sustaining. The initial desig |
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