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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia%27s%20Got%20Talent%20%28season%206%29 | Australia's Got Talent is an Australian reality television show, based on the original UK series, to find new talent. The sixth season aired on the Seven Network from 16 April 2012 until 25 July 2012. Dannii Minogue, Brian McFadden and Kyle Sandilands returned as judges, as well as Grant Denyer as host. The auditions took place from October–December 2011, and the filming of the show took place from February–March 2012. Todd McKenney was a guest judge at the Melbourne auditions, in the absence of Sandilands, and the second show of the finals showdown, in the absence of McFadden. This was Minogue and McFadden's final series as judges, as they were replaced by Dawn French, Geri Halliwell and season 5 contestant Timomatic in season 7.
Auditions
There are various options for auditioning, such as attending the correct venue on the correct day with the questionnaire (which can be found on the website or completed on audition day), sending a DVD in with the act on it, or applying online. The following list contains all of the cities, venues and dates of the auditions. Todd McKenney was a guest judge at the Melbourne auditions in the place of Kyle Sandilands.
Semi-finalists
Semi-final summary
The "Order" columns lists the order of appearance each act made for every episode.
Semi-final 1
Semi-final 2
Semi-final 3
Semi-final 4
Semi-final 5
Notes
1 Flair Riders performed outside the studio due to safety concerns. The judges did not have buzzers in the studio instead having "X" signs, no judges used them however.
Semi-final 6
Semi-final 7
Semi-final 8
Finals summary
The "Order" columns lists the order of appearance each act made for every episode.
Final showdown 1
Final showdown 2
Notes
McKenney replaced McFadden during his absence.
Grand Final
Ratings
Colour key:
– Highest rating episode and week during the series
– Lowest rating episode and week during the series
References
Australia's Got Talent
2012 Australian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicini%20di%20casa | Vicini di casa was an Italian sitcom aired on TV network Italia 1.
The comedy theme based in the everyday lives of an Italian most common melting pot, Italians of southern Italy origins (more traditional) living in a big modern city in northern Italy, namely Milan.
Cast
Silvio Orlando: Orlando Bauscia
Teo Teocoli: Teo Bauscia
Gene Gnocchi: Eugenio Tortelli
Gabriella Golia: Herself
Enzo Cannavale: Doorman
See also
List of Italian television series
References
External links
Italian television series
1991 Italian television series debuts
1992 Italian television series debuts
Italia 1 original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron%20Cook%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Dr. Byron Cook is an American computer science researcher at University College London. Byron's research interests include program analysis/verification, programming languages, theorem proving, logic, hardware design, and operating systems. Byron's recent work has been focused on the development of automatic tools for
Proving properties of biological models,
Termination and liveness proving, and
Discovering invariants regarding mutable data structures.
Awards and Prizes
In 2009, Cook won the Roger Needham Award. His public lecture was on "Proving that programs eventually do something good".
Cook was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineers in 2019.
References
External links
http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/b.cook/
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOKO%20Donau | SOKO Donau (in Germany SOKO Wien) is an Austrian crime drama television series produced by ORF in collaboration with the German network ZDF. It is the sixth spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113 (SOKO München since 2015), launched in 1978. The show, which debuted on 20 September 2005 in Austria and 18 October 2005 in Germany, focuses on a Viennese police team responsible for investigating crimes committed on the Danube (German: Donau) river and its tributaries. The boat team operates in and around Vienna as well as Lower and Upper Austria, sometimes travelling all the way to Bratislava.
Crossover
A crossover episode with Leipzig Homicide, titled "Der vierte Mann", was broadcast on ORF on 2 November 2019 and ZDF on 8 November 2019. The screenplay was based on a true story related to the Viennese political activist Rudolfine Steindling.
Cast and characters
Current
See also
List of Austrian television series
References
External links
Soko Wien at ZDF
ORF (broadcaster) original programming
Austrian crime television series
2005 Austrian television series debuts
2000s Austrian television series
2010s Austrian television series
Austrian television spin-offs
German-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOKO%20Kitzb%C3%BChel | SOKO Kitzbühel is an Austrian television series produced by ORF in collaboration with the German network ZDF. It is the third spin-off of the German crime series SOKO 5113 (SOKO München since 2015), launched in 1978. The show, which debuted on 15 November 2001 in Austria and 7 January 2003 in Germany, is set in the Tyrolean tourist centre of Kitzbühel. The last episode aired on 14 December 2021. "SOKO" is an abbreviation of the German word Sonderkommission, which means "special investigative team".
A follow-up series, SOKO Linz, began filming in May 2021.
Synopsis
The story is centered on police detectives Karin Kofler (until 2014), replaced by Nina Pokorny, and Lukas Roither. The team solves complicated murder cases in and around Kitzbühel, many of which involve members of the rich and powerful, common in the resort town. Kofler's father is an amateur detective who often joins the investigations.
Language
Produced primarily for a German market, the language spoken in the series is very close to High German, while in reality, Southern Bavarian is predominant in Tyrol, where Kitzbühel is located. Viennese German and some other Austrian dialects are also spoken in the series, but never the local one.
See also
List of Austrian television series
References
External links
Filming locations
Kitzbühel
ORF (broadcaster) original programming
Austrian crime television series
2001 Austrian television series debuts
2000s Austrian television series
German-language television shows
Austrian television spin-offs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisProt | DisProt is a manually curated biological database of intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) and regions (IDRs). DisProt annotations cover state information on the protein but also, when available, its state transitions, interactions and functional aspects of disorder detected by specific experimental methods. DisProt is hosted and maintained in the BioComputing UP laboratory (Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, University of Padua).
Website
The latest DisProt version, DisProt 9, includes more than 2300 protein entries and more than 4500 pieces of evidence of structural state, state transitions, interactions and functions, along with more than 2500 scientific publications annotated.
Biocuration in DisProt
DisProt entries are annotated by professional and community biocurators from experimental data published in scientific literature. The DisProt home page features examples of DisProt entries, i.e. p53 and Catenin beta-1, along with entries of proteins belonging to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, e.g. Nucleoprotein.
Thematic datasets
Starting 2020, DisProt releases ‘thematic datasets’ describing biological areas where IDPs are involved in and play a crucial role. All the entries belonging to these datasets are tagged with the name of the theme.
Unicellular toxins and antitoxins (DisProt release 2020_12)
Extracellular matrix proteins (DisProt release 2021_06)
Viral proteins (DisProt release 2021_12)
Model organism entries
In the DisProt home page model organisms are represented by an icon, the name of the species and the number of DisProt entries belonging to each specific organism. Entries from the following organisms are accessible from the DisProt home page under the ‘Organisms’ section and can be downloaded as single files: Homo sapiens, Mus musculus, Rattus norvegicus, Saccharomices cerevisiae, Escherichia coli, Arabidopsis thaliana, Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans.
DisProt versions and releases
DisProt versions and releases include changes to the website and to the manually curated content of the database.
DisProt 7 (2016): more than 800 protein entries and 1000 publications annotated. Each protein entry in DisProt is characterized by a DisProt identifier which takes the form of the prefix DP followed by a 5 digit protein identifier, e.g. DP00016 corresponds to the Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 1 protein. It featured a new web interface based on Angular.JS.
DisProt 8 (2019): more than 1400 protein entries and over 3000 disordered protein regions. DisProt 8 also introduced the concept of a stable DisProt region identifier. DisProt has been widely used to train machine learning (ML) methods to predict disordered regions in proteins. In addition, DisProt has been used to understand the properties of intrinsically unstructured proteins. DisProt 8 featured a new web interface and an extended API and a new annotation interface integrating text mining technologies.
DisProt 9 (2021): more than 2300 protein entries and more than |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYAC-TV | DYAC-TV channel 23, was the flagship station of Philippine all-sports and action television network ABS-CBN Sports and Action (S+A), a fully owned subsidiary of AMCARA Broadcasting Network. Its transmitter and broadcast facilities are located at Mt. Busay, Brgy. Babag 1, Cebu City.
Digital television
Digital channels
UHF Channel 37 (611.143 MHz)
UHF Channel 36 (605.143 MHz)
Note:
CINEMO!, YEY!, Knowledge Channel, DZMM TeleRadyo and KBO Channel, are exclusive channels to TV Plus, a digital set-top box manufactured by the network.
See also
ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN Sports and Action
DYCB-TV
MOR 97.1
DYAB
Studio 23 (the former name of ABS-CBN Sports and Action)
ABS-CBN Sports and Action stations
ABS-CBN Sports and Action stations
Television stations in Cebu City
Television channels and stations established in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Deep%20Space%20Network | The forerunner of the Deep Space Network was established in January 1958, when JPL, then under contract to the U.S. Army, deployed portable radio tracking stations in Nigeria, Singapore, and California to receive telemetry and plot the orbit of the Army-launched Explorer 1, the first successful U.S. satellite.
NASA (and the DSN by extension) was officially established on October 1, 1958, to consolidate the separately developing space-exploration programs of the US Army, US Navy, and US Air Force into one civilian organization.
Origin in the 1950s
On December 3, 1958, JPL was transferred from the US Army to NASA and given responsibility for the design and execution of lunar and planetary exploration programs using remotely controlled spacecraft.
Shortly after the transfer NASA established the concept of the Deep Space Instrumentation Facility (DSIF) as a separately managed and operated communications system that would accommodate all deep space missions, thereby avoiding the need for each flight project to acquire and operate its own specialized space communications network.
The coded doppler, ranging, and command (CODORAC) system developed by Eberhardt Rechtin, Richard Jaffe, and Walt Victor became the basis for much of the DSIF's electronics. Susan Finley was part of the team that built the network's software.
In order to support deep space missions around the clock it was necessary to establish a network of three stations separated by approximately 120 degrees of longitude so that as the Earth turned a spacecraft was always above the horizon of at least one station. To this end two overseas facilities with 26m antennas were established to complement the 26m antenna sites (DSIF 11 and 12) at Goldstone in California. (DSIF 13 at Goldstone was used for research and development.) The first overseas site was DSIF 41 at Island Lagoon near Woomera in Australia. It was operated by the Australian Department of Supply which ran the Woomera Rocket Range. The other, DSIF 51, was at Hartebeesthoek near Johannesburg in South Africa, operated by the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). These two stations were completed in 1961. Each DSIF station had transmit and receive capability at 960 MHz in the L-band of the radio spectrum, and could process telemetry. Telephone and teletype circuits linked the stations to a mission operations room at JPL. As missions became more numerous the operations room developed into the Space Flight Operations Facility (which was designated a national historic landmark in 1985), and the personnel and equipment common to all missions were incorporated into the DSIF which was renamed the Deep Space Network in 1963.
The DSN was given responsibility for its own research, development, and operation in support of all of its users. Under this concept, it has become a world leader in the development of low-noise receivers; large parabolic-dish antennas; tracking, telemetry, and command systems; digit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Rimini | The Rimini trolleybus system () forms part of the public transport network of the Province of Rimini, in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
The network consists of two trolleybus routes that connect the city centres of the coastal of Rimini and Riccione. In operation since 1939 (with subsequent termini modifications), route 11 runs along the principal seafront avenue from Rimini's railway station to Riccione Terme. In November 2019, the Metromare was launched as a bus rapid transit line running entirely on segregated tracks adjacent to the Bologna–Ancona railway between the railway stations of Rimini and Riccione. Metromare was temporarily served by buses until the arrival of its trolleybuses in October 2021. Both routes are operated by Start Romagna SpA.
History
Rimini–Riccione tramway
In 1877, a horse-drawn tram service was inaugurated connecting Rimini's city centre to the coast, replacing a previous horse-drawn omnibus service from 1844. The service ran from Piazza Cavour to a bathing complex at the site of the present-day Parco Federico Fellini. In July 1921, with a loan of 1.2 million lire from the local Cassa di Risparmio, the route was electrified and extended southwards along the principal seafront avenue to the site of the present-day Piazza Marvelli.
Further southern extensions followed to Miramare in 1925, and to Viale Ceccarini in Riccione's city centre on 26 June 1927, only now made possible by newly-built carriageable bridges over the Torrente Marano and Rio Melo. Entering Riccione, the trolleybuses left the principal seafront avenue at Viale Giuseppe Verdi, and entered the city centre along Viale Dante, the next road inland parallel to the coast. The tramway became a popular tourist attraction.
From July 1921 until April 1923, the municipal council managed the service; it then passed into the management of until April 1926, when it was replaced by the .
Conversion to trolleybuses
In the 1930s, it was decided to convert the tramway into a trolleybus line, supported by the fascist government's promulgation of trolleybuses. The line was constructed by Compagnia Generale di Elettricità, and its management was entrusted to of Florence until 1959. Tram services ceased on 15 January 1939.
The trolleybus line opened on 1 July 1939. The route had new termini: in Rimini, the central Piazza Giulio Cesare (renamed Piazza Tre Martiri in 1946); and in Riccione, Piazzale dei Giardini. Riccione's terminus was reconfigured shortly after its construction to bring trolleybuses to terminate on the 's mountain-facing side, thereby avoiding trolleybuses passing near the seaside and disturbing guests. The route was served by an initial fleet of two Fiat 635E and eight 656E CGE trolleybuses. The 635E trolleybuses were used for reinforcement runs between Piazza Giulio Cesare and Marina Centro.
The overhead wiring was removed during the Second World War, during which time bombing damaged the roads and directly hit two trolleybuses. Service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20aggregation | Online aggregation is a technique for improving the interactive behavior of database systems processing expensive analytical queries. Almost all database operations are performed in batch mode, i.e. the user issues a query and waits till the database has finished processing the entire query. On the contrary, using online aggregation, the user gets estimates of an aggregate query in an online fashion as soon as the query is issued. For example, if the final answer is 1000, after k seconds, the user gets the estimates in form of a confidence interval like [990, 1020] with 95% probability. This confidence keeps on shrinking as the system gets more and more samples.
Online aggregation was proposed in 1997 by Hellerstein, Haas and Wang for group-by aggregation queries over a single table. Later, the authors showed how to evaluate joins in an online fashion. In 2007, Jermaine et al. designed and implemented a prototype database system called Database-Online (or DBO) that computes group-by aggregate query over multiple tables in an online and more importantly in a scalable fashion. All the approaches for online aggregation use random sampling, which is non-trivial in a distributed environment due to inspection paradox of renewal reward theory. In 2011, Pansare et al. proposed a Bayesian model to deal with the inspection paradox and implemented online aggregation for a MapReduce-like environment.
References
Database theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDCO%20%28AM%29 | KDCO (1340 kHz) is a noncommercial AM radio station licensed to Denver, Colorado. The station is owned by El Sembrador Ministries and carries its ESNE Radio network, featuring Spanish-language Catholic radio programming.
History
KMYR and KDEN
The station was launched by Frederick W. Meyer, a wholesale grocer, in 1940 as KMYR. (The call sign represented Meyer's name.) It originally signed on with 250 watts of power. The station's sale in 1956 brought a call letter change to KDEN.
For a time in the 1970s and 80s, KDEN aired an all-news radio format. At first it used NBC Radio's "News and Information Service" (NIS). When that was discontinued, KDEN remained an NBC News network affiliate but it had its own schedule of local anchors delivering the news.
Radio AAHS
In December 1993, after an eight-month period off the air, 1340 AM became KKYD "Radio AAHS", the Denver outlet of the first nationwide network of radio programs for children. The downfall of Radio AAHS came when the Walt Disney Company established a competitor, Radio Disney.
After the sign-off of Radio AAHS in January 1998, Children's Broadcasting Corporation needed programming for its owned & operated former AAHS stations until it could find buyers for them. KKYD, along with the other nine CBC stations, became an outlet for "Beat Radio", which broadcast electronic dance music 12 hours a night.
Colorado Public Radio
This lasted until late October 1998. KKYD then switched to a Catholic radio format, which it aired until sale from the Catholic Radio Network to Colorado Public Radio. The announcement of CPR's purchase February 9, 2001, also mentioned plans to convert the station from commercial to non-commercial status.
In September 2000, CPR acquired the intellectual properties of then-classical station KVOD AM 1280, as that station was switching to another format. In March 2001, Colorado Public Radio put the classical music programming of KVOD on 90.1 FM, with KCFR's News/Talk/NPR programming moved to 1340 AM. On July 9, 2008, KCFR moved back to 90.1 FM, with KVOD moving to the newly acquired 88.1 FM frequency. The changes were made as CPR wanted to go FM-only by the end of the year. Until a buyer could be found for 1340, CPR continued to operate it as a simulcast of 90.1 KCFR.
On October 31, 2011, CPR launched "OpenAir" on 1340 AM, billing it "New Music from Colorado Public Radio." It has a broad-based format that focuses on current independent artists with a great deal of current Colorado talent. OpenAir also streams online at www.openaircpr.org. With the change, new KVOQ call letters were adopted.
Sports radio
On July 24, 2015, Colorado Public Radio announced that it would swap KVOQ to Victor Michael's Cedar Cove Broadcasting, Inc. in exchange for KRKY-FM. Michael also forgave $100,000 in debt as part of the swap. On July 27, 2015, KVOQ changed its format to all-sports, branded as "Mile High Sports". The previous OpenAir format is now heard on KVOQ 102.3.
On August 28, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9seau%20Libert%C3%A9-Qu%C3%A9bec | The Réseau Liberté-Québec (English: Québec Freedom Network) is a non-profit organization aiming to promote libertarian views and ideals in the Canadian province of Quebec. The group, founded during the summer of 2010 by Joanne Marcotte, Éric Duhaime, Roy Eappen, Gérard Laliberté, Ian Sénéchal and Guillaume Leduc, has been compared to the American conservative advocacy movement Tea Party.
References
Political movements in Canada
Politics of Quebec
Right-wing populism in Canada
2010 establishments in Quebec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accra%20Skytrain | Accra SkyTrain was projected as a fully automated, elevated light railway metro network for Accra, Greater Accra, Ghana. The proposed network would have five routes, four of which are radial routes that originate at a new terminal at the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange, and another route that loops around the city. The total track length across all routes would have been .
The announced system was going to use the Aeromovel technology and will have capacity to carry 10,000 passengers per hour per direction on each route.
In 2018 the Government of Ghana signed a MOU with AiSky Train Consortium of South Africa. Following completion of a feasibility study, in November 2019 the parties signed a build–operate–transfer concession agreement. The company will develop the system at an estimated cost of $2.6 billion. The government has said the project is a "100% private sector owned project" and is not government funded.
No work has commenced and the project has been delayed due to legal questions and the coronavirus pandemic. In February 2021 the government announced it was intending to proceed but was waiting for reports from the Attorney General before submitting legislation to the parliament. By November that year it was finally revealed that it would not be made.
2010 monorail proposal
Accra Monorail was a 2010 proposal for a monorail line with 16 stations for Accra. The project did not proceed passed the planning stage.
External References
AiSkyTrain Consortium homepage
References
Rail transport in Ghana
Railway lines in Ghana
Proposed transport infrastructure in Ghana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi%20Honey%20%E2%80%93%20I%27m%20Dead | Hi Honey – I'm Dead is a 1991 Fox Network made-for-TV film starring Curtis Armstrong and Catherine Hicks.
Plot summary
Brad Stadler is a dishonest real estate developer who spends too much time at work. He cheats on his wife and has no time for son Josh's baseball games. God decides that Brad's time has come. After an accident at his construction site, he is given a new body and identity as Arnold Pischkin. A wisecracking angel named Ralph explains everything to Brad and that he must make up for his sins to go to heaven. Brad has to get used to his new life without money and good looks. He becomes the housekeeper for his widow and son. He becomes a better man by doing many good deeds.
Cast
Curtis Armstrong as Arnold Pischkin
Catherine Hicks as Carol Stadler
Kevin Conroy as Brad Stadler
Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Josh Stadler
Robert Briscoe Evans as Noel
Harvey Jason as Dr. Jahundi
Jerry Hardin as Cal
Paul Rodriguez as Ralph, the angel
Gregory Itzin as Phil
Carole Androsky as Wife Mourner
Andre Rosey Brown as Guard
Betty Carvalho as Maria
Wendy Cutler as Newsperson
Andy Goldberg as Caterer
External links
1991 television films
1991 films
Films directed by Alan Myerson
Fox network original films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenmoments | EigenMoments is a set of orthogonal, noise robust, invariant to rotation, scaling and translation and distribution sensitive moments. Their application can be found in signal processing and computer vision as descriptors of the signal or image. The descriptors can later be used for classification purposes.
It is obtained by performing orthogonalization, via eigen analysis on geometric moments.
Framework summary
EigenMoments are computed by performing eigen analysis on the moment space of an image by maximizing signal-to-noise ratio in the feature space in form of Rayleigh quotient.
This approach has several benefits in Image processing applications:
Dependency of moments in the moment space on the distribution of the images being transformed, ensures decorrelation of the final feature space after eigen analysis on the moment space.
The ability of EigenMoments to take into account distribution of the image makes it more versatile and adaptable for different genres.
Generated moment kernels are orthogonal and therefore analysis on the moment space becomes easier. Transformation with orthogonal moment kernels into moment space is analogous to projection of the image onto a number of orthogonal axes.
Nosiy components can be removed. This makes EigenMoments robust for classification applications.
Optimal information compaction can be obtained and therefore a few number of moments are needed to characterize the images.
Problem formulation
Assume that a signal vector is taken from a certain distribution having coorelation , i.e. where E[.] denotes expected value.
Dimension of signal space, n, is often too large to be useful for practical application such as pattern classification, we need to transform the signal space into a space with lower dimensionality.
This is performed by a two-step linear transformation:
where is the transformed signal, a fixed transformation matrix which transforms the signal into the moment space, and the transformation matrix which we are going to determine by maximizing the SNR of the feature space resided by . For the case of Geometric Moments, X would be the monomials. If , a full rank transformation would result, however usually we have and . This is specially the case when is of high dimensions.
Finding that maximizes the SNR of the feature space:
where N is the correlation matrix of the noise signal. The problem can thus be formulated as
subject to constraints:
where is the Kronecker delta.
It can be observed that this maximization is Rayleigh quotient by letting and and therefore can be written as:
,
Rayleigh quotient
Optimization of Rayleigh quotient has the form:
and and , both are symmetric and is positive definite and therefore invertible.
Scaling does not change the value of the object function and hence and additional scalar constraint can be imposed on and no solution would be lost when the objective function is optimized.
This constraint optimization problem can be sol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron%20Cook | Byron Cook may refer to:
Byron Cook (computer scientist), computer science researcher
Byron Cook (politician) (born 1954), Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives
See also
Cook (surname) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Ruskey | Frank Ruskey is a combinatorialist and computer scientist, and professor at the University of Victoria. His research involves algorithms for exhaustively listing discrete structures, combinatorial Gray codes, Venn and Euler diagrams, combinatorics on words, and enumerative combinatorics. Frank Ruskey is the author of the Combinatorial Object Server (COS), a website for information on and generation of combinatorial objects.
Selected publications
References
External links
Frank Ruskey's homepage
Combinatorial Object Server
Combinatorial Generation unpublished book on combinatorics
Combinatorialists
Academic staff of the University of Victoria
University of California, San Diego alumni
Canadian computer scientists
Canadian mathematicians
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble%20Showdown | Scrabble Showdown is an American game show created for the American cable network The Hub. The program was based on the board game Scrabble and was hosted by Justin Willman. It ran from September 3, 2011, to April 15, 2012.
Gameplay
Two teams consisting of a parent and a child compete for the grand prize of tickets for a trip to anywhere in the world. The teams compete in a total of four rounds; winning any of the first three rounds earns a prize and two "Bonus Scrabble Tiles," which provide an advantage in the final round. If a round ends in a tie, both teams are awarded the prize and one tile. The team that wins the final round wins the game and the trip.
In most episodes, mini-games are played in the first two rounds and Scrabble Flash in the third; however, some episodes reverse this order.
Rounds 1 and 2
One of the mini-games listed below is played in each round, varying from one episode to the next. The winner of a pre-game coin toss decides which team will play first in Round 1, and the winner of that round receives the same option for Round 2.
Scrabble Knockout
The team that goes first picks one of two categories, leaving the other for the opponents. A screen displays a word in the chosen category, with three extra letters inserted; however, the first and last letters are always correct. (E.g. BCUSPINEGSS for BUSINESS.) The parent must tell the child one incorrect letter at a time, and the child touches each letter to remove it. After all three incorrect letters have been removed, the parent must say the word in order to move on to the next one. Touching a correct letter causes the board to freeze; the child must then press a plunger to reset it and continue playing the same word.
The team's turn ends after five words have been solved or 60 seconds have elapsed, whichever comes first. If the opponents achieve a higher score or a faster time, they win the round; if not, the first team wins.
Scrabble Babble
The parent is shown a three-letter word with one missing letter, represented by a blank tile that can stand for any letter of his/her choosing. (E.g. C-A-blank could become CAT, CAR, CAN, etc.) He/she must think of a word and then describe it for the child to guess; if the child does so, a new word with one more letter is displayed, up to a maximum of seven on the fifth word. If the parent says any part of the word in play, it is thrown out and another word of the same length is played. If the parent says the entire word, the team's turn ends immediately.
The team's turn ends after five words have been solved or 60 seconds have elapsed, whichever comes first. If the opponents achieve a higher score or a faster time, they win the round; if not, the first team wins.
Scrabble Scream
All words used in this round are divided into two parts; the first part is always three letters, while the second is three to five letters. The two parts are separately scrambled, and one team member is shown the first part and must recite the letters i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20M.%20Mitchell | Tom Michael Mitchell (born August 9, 1951) is an American computer scientist and the Founders University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is a founder and former Chair of the Machine Learning Department at CMU. Mitchell is known for his contributions to the advancement of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience and is the author of the textbook Machine Learning. He is a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering since 2010. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Fellow and past President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. In October 2018, Mitchell was appointed as the Interim Dean of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon.
Early life and education
Mitchell was born in Blossburg, Pennsylvania and grew up in Upstate New York, in the town of Vestal. He received his bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University under the direction of Bruce G. Buchanan in 1979.
Career
Mitchell began his teaching career at Rutgers University in 1978. During his tenure at Rutgers, he held the positions of Assistant and Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. In 1986 he left Rutgers and joined Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh as a Professor. In 1999 he became the E. Fredkin Professor in the School of Computer Science. In 2006 Mitchell was appointed as the first Chair of the Machine Learning Department within the School of Computer Science. He became University Professor in 2009, and served as Interim Dean of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science during 2018-2019. Mitchell currently serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Allen Institute for AI and on the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute.
Honors and awards
He was elected into the United States National Academy of Engineering in 2010 "for pioneering contributions and leadership in the methods and applications of machine learning." He is also a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2008 and a Fellow the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) since 1990. In 2016 he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mitchell was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Dalhousie University in 2015 for his contributions to machine learning and to cognitive neuroscience, and the President's Medal from Stevens Institute of Technology in 2018. He is a recipient of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984.
Publications
Mitchell is a prolific author of scientific works on various topics in computer science, including machine learning, artificial intelligence, robotics, and cognitive neuroscience. He has authored hundreds of scientific articles. Mitchell published one of the first textbooks in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20substitution | In computing, process substitution is a form of inter-process communication that allows the input or output of a command to appear as a file. The command is substituted in-line, where a file name would normally occur, by the command shell. This allows programs that normally only accept files to directly read from or write to another program.
History
Process substitution was available as a compile-time option for ksh88, the 1988 version of the KornShell from Bell Labs. The rc shell provides the feature as "pipeline branching" in Version 10 Unix, released in 1990. The Bash shell provided process substitution no later than version 1.14, released in 1994.
Example
The following examples use KornShell syntax.
The Unix diff command normally accepts the names of two files to compare, or one file name and standard input. Process substitution allows one to compare the output of two programs directly:
$ diff <(sort file1) <(sort file2)
The <(command) expression tells the command interpreter to run command and make its output appear as a file. The command can be any arbitrarily complex shell command.
Without process substitution, the alternatives are:
Both alternatives are more cumbersome.
Process substitution can also be used to capture output that would normally go to a file, and redirect it to the input of a process. The Bash syntax for writing to a process is >(command). Here is an example using the tee, wc and gzip commands that counts the lines in a file with wc -l and compresses it with gzip in one pass:
$ tee >(wc -l >&2) < bigfile | gzip > bigfile.gz
Advantages
The main advantages of process substitution over its alternatives are:
Simplicity: The commands can be given in-line; there is no need to save temporary files or create named pipes first.
Performance: Reading directly from another process is often faster than having to write a temporary file to disk, then read it back in. This also saves disk space.
Parallelism: The substituted process can be running concurrently with the command reading its output or writing its input, taking advantage of multiprocessing to reduce the total time for the computation.
Mechanism
Under the hood, process substitution has two implementations. On systems which support /dev/fd (most Unix-like systems) it works by calling the pipe() system call, which returns a file descriptor $fd for a new anonymous pipe, then creating the string /dev/fd/$fd, and substitutes that on the command line. On systems without /dev/fd support, it calls mkfifo with a new temporary filename to create a named pipe, and substitutes this filename on the command line. To illustrate the steps involved, consider the following simple command substitution on a system with /dev/fd support:
$ diff file1 <(sort file2)
The steps the shell performs are:
Create a new anonymous pipe. This pipe will be accessible with something like /dev/fd/63; you can see it with a command like echo <(true).
Execute the substituted command in the bac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bade%20and%20Chote | Bade and Chote are a pair of animated characters that appear on interstitial programming segments titled Bakwaas Bandh Kar ["Stop the Nonsense"] on 9XM, the Indian music and movie channel.
Appearance and characteristics
Bade and Chote are shapeless alien-type characters who inhabit a non-specific Indian city. The characters are college buddies and spend their time in frivolous and humorous conversation about nothing. Their bizarre appearance and behavior was designed to provide an indication of the personality of 9XM at its launch as humorous and irreverent.
Media
In August 2010, 9XM entered into a licensing agreement to license the images of Bade and Chote and other animated characters for use in children's clothing and accessories. 9XM has also created online content on Facebook involving the characters. "Be a Star Papparazzi" gives players the opportunity to try to capture a virtual photo of Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan while trying to avoid the antics of Bade and Chote. The game offers a related "Can you think like Chote?" in which players are challenged to complete jokes in the style used on Bakwaas Bandh Kar. The characters also have their own Twitter accounts, tweeting about popular culture and entertainment. The daily turnover of consumer interaction on these platforms reflects their popularity
References
Fictional extraterrestrial characters
Animated duos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Kannada%20Kootas%20of%20America | Association of Kannada Kootas of America (, also referred to as AKKA) is a non-profit organization primarily aimed at networking for Kannadigas in the United States and Canada. It is incorporated in Florida. AKKA was founded in February 1998, after the World Kannada Sammelana in Phoenix, Arizona, where officebearers were elected. The organization organizes Kannada sammelanas (conferences) in the continent, the most recent one being held in Dallas, TX.
Advocacy and opinion
At the recent conference in Edison, the Putthige matha seer Sugunendrateertha Swamiji has praised AKKA for its efforts in maintaining the Kannada language in the American continent. However, at the same conference, some Kannada artistes and litterateurs were unhappy with basic facilities provided. and criticized the organizers. Following this reaction, the Government of Karnataka, which financially aids AKKA contemplated withdrawing aid.
Split
In 2009, 7 founder members of AKKA and others decided to break away from the organization and formed the North America Vishwa Kannada Association.
References
External links
AKKA website
Karnataka society
Kannada organizations in North America
1998 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B6dermanland%20Runic%20Inscription%20245 | Södermanland Runic Inscription 245 or Sö 245 is the Rundata catalog number for a Viking Age runestone fragment that is located in Tungelsta, which is about two kilometers west of Västerhaninge, Stockholm County, Sweden, which was in the historic province of Södermanland.
Description
The inscription on the fragment Sö 245, which is about 0.6 meters in height in the upright position, consists of runic text within a band and a depiction of a bird standing on what appears to be a cross. The depiction of the bird on the cross is very similar to that depicted on inscription Sö 270 in Tyresta, which has been interpreted as being a cock. Placed on a cross, the cock would be interpreted as a Christian symbol meaning rebirth and vigilance, similar to weathercocks that are on top of churches today. Based upon the similarity to Sö 270, Sö 245 is attributed to a runemaster named Halfdan, which has been normalized as Halvdan, who placed his signature on Sö 270. Several other inscriptions are attributed to Halvdan based upon stylistic analysis include Sö 235 in Västerby, Sö 237 in Fors, Sö 239 in Häringe, Sö 244 in Tuna, 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. The current location of Sö 245 is not considered to be the original location of the runestone. When Sö 245 was surveyed in 1910 it was suggested that other fragments of the runestone might be located in the walls of barns in local farms or in a nearby pile of rocks, but to date no other fragments of the Sö 245 runestone have been clearly identified.
Although there are runes visible within the runic band on the Sö 245 fragment that have been transliterated, an interpretation of the damaged text into Old Norse is not considered possible. Halvdan often used a punctuation mark consisting of two dots between each word in the runic text and three such marks are present in the fragmentary text of Sö 245.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
...ul : ma- : san : (b)-...
References
Runestones in Södermanland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergens%20Privatbank | Bergens Privatbank was a Norwegian commercial bank based in Bergen. It was established in 1855 and built a network of branches throughout the country. Jørgen Breder Faye was the first director and held the position until 1904. The bank merged with Bergens Kreditbank in 1975 to establish Bergen Bank.
References
Defunct banks of Norway
Companies based in Bergen
1975 disestablishments in Norway
Banks established in 1855
Banks disestablished in 1975
Norwegian companies established in 1855 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20control%20module | In automotive electronics, body control module or 'body computer' is a generic term for an electronic control unit responsible for monitoring and controlling various electronic accessories in a vehicle's body.
Typically in a car the BCM controls the power windows, power mirrors, air conditioning, immobilizer system, central locking, etc.
The BCM communicates with other on-board computers via the car's vehicle bus, and its main application is controlling load drivers – actuating relays that in turn perform actions in the vehicle such as locking the doors, flashing the turn signals (in older cars), or dimming the interior lighting.
References
Automotive Central Body Controller
Automotive electronics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rakesh%20Agrawal%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Rakesh Agrawal (हिन्दी - राकेश अग्रवाल) is a computer scientist who until recently was a Technical Fellow at the Microsoft Search Labs. Rakesh is well known for developing fundamental data mining concepts and technologies and pioneering key concepts in data privacy, including Hippocratic Database, Sovereign Information Sharing, and Privacy-Preserving Data Mining. IBM's commercial data mining product, Intelligent Miner, grew out of his work. His research has been incorporated into other IBM products, including DB2 Mining Extender, DB2 OLAP Server and WebSphere Commerce Server, and has influenced several other commercial and academic products, prototypes and applications. His other technical contributions include Polyglot object-oriented type system, Alert active database system, Ode (Object database and environment), Alpha (extension of relational databases with generalized transitive closure), Nest distributed system, transaction management, and database machines.
Prior to joining Microsoft in March 2006, Rakesh was an IBM Fellow and led the Quest group at the IBM Almaden Research Center. Earlier, he was with the Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill from 1983 to 1989. He also worked for three years at a leading Indian company, the Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1983. He also holds a B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from IIT-Roorkee, and a two-year Post Graduate Diploma in Industrial Engineering from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Bombay.
Research and papers
Rakesh has been granted more than 55 patents. He has published more than 150 research papers, many of them considered seminal. He has written the 1st as well as 2nd highest cited of all papers in the fields of databases and data mining (13th and 15th most cited across all computer science as of February 2007 in CiteSeer). Wikipedia lists one of his papers Fast algorithms for mining association rules co-authored with Ramakrishnan Srikant published on VLDB in 1994 as one of the most influential database papers. His papers have been cited more than 6500 times, with more than 15 of them receiving more than 100 citations each. He is the most cited author in the field of database systems. His work has been featured in the New York Times Year in Review, New York Times Science section, and several other publications.
References
External links
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Database researchers
IBM employees
IBM Fellows
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean%20Cat%20Alliance | The Andean Cat Alliance (Alianza Gato Andino - AGA) is a network of researchers and conservationists working to study and protect the Andean cat (Leopardus jacobita) and its habitat in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. It is partnered with the Wildlife Conservation Network, and has developed a strategic plan for conservation of the species.
Organization
AGA was founded in 1999, and comprises around 25 professional biologists and other scientists.
Andean cat
The Andean mountain cat (or Andean cat for short) is regarded as one of the most endangered wild cats in the world and perhaps the rarest South American wild cat. Very little is known about this species and there have been only 10 documented sightings in the last 25 years. The Alliance has managed to be the first to capture and radio-collar an Andean cat, and were also the first to obtain photographs by camera trap.
Programs
Geographic distribution
The Andean Cat Alliance uses camera trapping, DNA analysis of feces, and surveys of local inhabitants to confirm the andean cats presence. AGA has widened the cat's known range in Peru and Argentina and has helped to better understand its population density and genetic variability.
Education
The Andean Cat Alliance conducts training for park guards and local people to help them become local wildlife monitors so they may better contribute to protecting the andean cat and its habitat. Other activities include holding seminars and community festivals to both develop conservation strategies, and to raise awareness and learn the needs of the communities in each of the four range countries. AGA's publicity initiatives have included getting the Chilean government to associate the animal with the "Day of Native Fauna", marked annually on 5 November.
Conservation centers
The Alliance is building an EcoMuseo (“Ecological Museum”) in the “Centro Poblado Menor de Alto Perú,” a Peruvian village located in proximity to andean cat habitat. Working with the Small Wild Cat Conservation Foundation (SWCCF) it has established a conservation center in the Salar de Surire, Chile, where it aims to dissuade the local people from hunting the animal.
Increasing Protected Areas
One of the main goals of the Alliance is to work with governments to strengthen management of Andean cat habitat and promote new protected areas and corridors where needed.
Programs change from time to time. A current list can be found at the AGA website
See also
Wildlife Conservation Network
Conservation movement
References
External links
Andean Cat Alliance
International environmental organizations
Organizations established in 2004
Cat conservation organizations
Animal welfare organisations based in Bolivia
Animal welfare organisations based in Chile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guadalupe%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Guadalupe is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by the United States-based television network, Telemundo, in conjunction with Capitalvision International Corp. and Televisión Española (TVE), from 1993, starring Adela Noriega, Eduardo Yáñez and Zully Montero.
Summary
Ezequiel Zambrano is a powerful businessman from Miami who has a love affair with his maid and leaves her pregnant. In fear that her boss is going to force her to do an abortion, she runs away and when her child is born she names her Guadalupe. Guadalupe's mother dies when giving birth and the child is raised by another family, without knowing who her real father is. Guadalupe grows up into a beautiful young lady of good sentiments and high hopes: to find her real family and the man of her dreams.
The family of Alfredo, the Mendoza's, was killed when he was a little boy. Only his aunt Olivia and him survived the massacre. When they discover that the murders were ordered by the Zambrano family with the purpose of getting a hold of their family's fortune, they make an oath to destroy all the members of the Zambrano family. Twenty years later, Alfredo now a successful lawyer, under a false identity, manages to become the assistant of the cold and ambitious Luisa Zambrano, sister of Ezequiel Zambrano. Luisa is the person that actually ordered the murders of the family Mendoza and of her own brother, Ezequiel.
Cast
External links
1993 telenovelas
1993 American television series debuts
1994 American television series endings
Telemundo telenovelas
Televisión Española telenovelas
Spanish-language American telenovelas
American television series based on Venezuelan television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Star%20Computers | North Star Computers Inc. (later styled as NorthStar) was an American computer company based in Berkeley, California existing between June 1976 (when according to popular rumor it was formed as "Kentucky Fried Computers") and 1989. Originally a mail order business for IMSAI computers, it soon developed into a major player in the early microcomputer market, becoming first known for their low-cost floppy disk system for S-100 bus machines, and later for their own S-100 bus computers running either the CP/M operating system or North Star's own proprietary operating system, NSDOS. North Star BASIC was a common dialect of the popular BASIC programming language. They later expanded their lineup with dual-CPU machines able to run MS-DOS, and a server version running either DOS or Novell NetWare.
While initially successful, North Star's sales suffered from the company's adherence to hard sector floppy drives which made software difficult to port onto North Star machines. It was no longer a significant factor in the industry by the time less-expensive CP/M computers with built-in displays (and soft-sectored drives), such as the Osborne and the Kaypro, were released. Sales slowed during the growth of the PC market.
History
The company was formed by Mark Greenberg and Charles Grant, who started Kentucky Fried Computer to handle retail and mail order sales of IMSAI computers in Berkeley in June 1976. According to one source, a lawsuit from Kentucky Fried Chicken led to the name change.
FPB
North Star's first product was the Floating Point Board, an S-100 bus card that implemented a floating point coprocessor for 8080-based machines. The company later added RAM boards and Z80A processor cards to their lineup.
Micro-Disk System (1976)
North Star's next product was a hard sectored floppy disk system based on a 5-inch Shugart Associates SA-400 mechanism with 89 kB capacity. This was coupled with a S-100 bus controller and ROM that included bootstrap code and shipped with North Star DOS and North Star BASIC. The MDS system cost US$699 and could be plugged into any S-100 bus machine, and was one of the earliest disk systems affordable for the average hobbyist. With the North Star installed, startup went from a lengthy process of manually entering a "loader" program through front-panel switches, to simply setting the run address to E800 on the address switches and flicking the RUN switch.
North Star later updated the disk drive to support double-density disks with 180 kB, and later still double-sided, double-density disks with 360 kB of storage. However, the double-density product was pre-announced and sales of the original single-density, single-sided model ended overnight. The sudden loss of income almost bankrupted the company, and is used as an example of the Osborne effect in action.
North Star Horizon (1977)
The Horizon was an 8-bit Zilog Z80A-based computer, typically with to of RAM. It had one or two single-sided single or double density hard sec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/91kt.com | 91kt.com is a joint venture between Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific and Netdragon. The site serves as an official website of Cartoon Network in China. It has Flash games and bulletin boards, and has television series available as a video on demand service.
In the People's Republic of China, Cartoon Network has a dedicated TV channel, and also its original series are broadcast on terrestrial TV channels, notably, The Powerpuff Girls broadcast on China Central Television.
List of Cartoon Network programming on China TV stations
List of Cartoon Network shows on China video platforms
Former: Courage the Cowardly Dog (Tencent Video), Dexter Laboratory (Youku/Le.com), Codename: Kids Next Door, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy (Le.com)
Coming Soon: Apple and Onion (苹果与洋葱)
Notes: Some programs available with Simplified Chinese subtitles such as We Bare Bears, Unikitty!, Summer Camp Island, etc.
References
External links
Cartoon Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonplus | Anonplus was a social networking service developed by Anonymous.
History
It was announced in July 2011, after Anonymous was banned from Google+ and all other Google sites. The site was intended to be an open source and anonymous networking platform. Edward Moyer of CNET noted that at the time of its launch the site featured "often-awkward writing" and "amateurish typography and site design."
According to an anonymous interview in Digital Trends, the project was not an official project of Anonymous as the developers' had distanced themselves from the group, despite close ties.
On 21 July 2011, Anonplus was hacked by a rival group of hackers, apparently based in Turkey. AnonPlus's main webpage was replaced with an image of a dog wearing a suit, mocking the more normal Anonymous logo, and messages in Turkish and English. Three days later, it was defaced a second time by the rival hacking group Syrian Electronic Army. On August 8, 2011, another cyberattack was carried out against the site in retaliation for Anonymous' attack on the Syrian Ministry of Defense. Citizen Lab connected the attack to the Syrian Electronic Army, who had a history of attacking organizations critical of the Syrian government.
The social networking site has since been abandoned. The website was updated 13 November 2011 with a press release which mentioned that the project had entered an invite-only beta phase. According to this document, the project entered this beta phase on 5 November 2011. The document also explained that it had become a goal of the project to target censorship. Since that point, the domain has expired and no mention has been made of the project on any social media outlets.
References
External links
Official forum
Social information processing
Defunct social networking services
Cyberattacks
Internet-related activism
Internet-based activism
Internet properties established in 2011
Anonymous (hacker group) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20job | In computer science, a pilot job is a type of multilevel scheduling, in which a resource is acquired by an application so that the application can schedule work into that resource directly, rather than going through a local job scheduler, which might lead to queue waits for each work unit. This term comes from the Condor High-Throughput Computing System, in which Condor GlideIns provides this functionality. Other examples of pilot jobs are: the BigJob implemented in SAGA, Swift Coasters as part of the Swift parallel scripting system, the Falkon lightweight task execution framework, and HTCaaS.
Pilot jobs are most often used on systems that have queues, as part of their purpose is, in some sense, to avoid multiple waits in these queues. These are most often found in parallel computing systems, but pilot jobs are usually part of a distributed application, and are many times associated with Many-task computing.
References
External links
Condor Project home page
The SAGA Research Group at OGF
SAGA BigJob
The Swift Project home page
HTCaaS home page
Parallel computing
Distributed computing
Grid computing
Job scheduling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumb-shift%20keyboard | The is a keyboard design for inputting Japanese sentences on word processors and computers. It was invented by Fujitsu in the late 1970s and released in 1980 as a feature of the line of Japanese word processors the company sold, named OASYS, to make Japanese input easier, faster and more natural. It is popular among people who input large quantities of Japanese sentences, such as writers, playwrights, lawyers and so on, because of its ease of use and speed. The rights regarding the use of this design were transferred to Nihongo Nyuuryoku Consortium (Japanese Input Consortium), a technology sharing cooperative of interested companies, in 1989. It is referred to as an example of keyboard layout in Japanese Industrial Standards.
Background
Inputting Japanese sentences with computers
When word processors for the Japanese language developed in the late 1970s, one of the most difficult tasks was how to input Japanese sentences. Since the Japanese writing system uses three character-sets (hiragana, katakana and kanji), with a large number of individual characters (about 80 for hiragana and katakana, and thousands for kanji), it is not possible to accommodate all these on standard keyboards. Kanji posed the greatest challenge, and developers tried various methods, such as handwriting recognition, large tablet-type input devices, assigning multiple key-codes to each character and so on, but the method called kana-kanji transformation became the primary input method. It works by inputting transliteration, either in kana or by using Latin characters (rōmaji), and the dictionary in the computer changes the input sequences into kanji. The program that accomplishes this task is called an input method editor.
Conventional keyboard input methods for Japanese
There were basically two methods: one is to use Roman alphabet and the other hiragana. In the former (called romaji-kana system), QWERTY is commonly used. In the latter (called JIS kana system), hiragana characters are placed on the keys but since the number of hiragana is large, not only the common character keys but also the top number keys are used. In addition to that, some characters must be input using shift keys, just as the upper case characters in English.
Problems with conventional methods
Although the abovementioned methods have the advantage of compatibility with widely-available keyboards, there are drawbacks.
The conventional Japanese keyboard layout is considered by some to be unsuitable for Japanese input. In the JIS kana system, as has been mentioned earlier, some characters are placed far up in the numbers row, making the possibility of typing error higher. The input of numbers is also a problem because some characters share the key positions with numbers.
With romaji input methods, the number of keystrokes increases compared to kana input methods, as most kana require at least two keystrokes to input with romaji, compared to a single keystroke for direct kana input. On average, th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilesfay%20Technology%20Group | Ilesfay Technology Group LLC was a technology firm that provided cloud based replication and data delivery solutions. Ilesfay was venture-backed, with the lead investor being CincyTechUSA. The firm announced via their website that they had been acquired by San Francisco-based Autodesk, Inc. in 2014.
Intellectual property
On August 15, 2012, Ilesfay received US patent #8,244,831 titled Method for the Preemptive Creation of Binary Delta Information within a Computer Network for their cloud-based delta encoding/binary differencing methods.
On March 26, 2013, Ilesfay received US patent #8,407,315 titled Method for Horizontal Scale Delta Encoding.
On November 26, 2013, Ilesfay received US patent #8,595,187 titled Serialization for Delta Encoding.
Investors
Early angel investors in Ilesfay included Cincinnati Reds owner Bob Castellini.
PointToCloud
PointToCloud represents the Ilesfay file management and distribution architecture. This architecture defines a cloud-based distribution system that enables delivery of unstructured data without traditional leased line, point-to-point network connectivity. The architecture enables location-independent network participation and consistent connectivity.
Location
Ilesfay's replication services ran in six geographically distributed regions within Amazon AWS: California, Virginia, Brazil, Ireland, Singapore and Tokyo.
References
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Technology companies established in 2009
Technology companies disestablished in 2014
Software companies established in 2009
Software companies disestablished in 2014
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Defunct software companies of the United States
Defunct technology companies of the United States
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American companies disestablished in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrolina%20%28company%29 | Petrolina (Holdings) Public Limited is the largest Cypriot oil company dealing in a wide range of petroleum operations.
It is based in Larnaca. As of 2017, it had a nationwide retail network of 100 gas stations. It supplies and markets motor, industrial, domestic, marine and aviation fuels.
History
Petrolina was established in 1959 by Nikos, Takis, Kallis, Kikis and Nakis Lefkaritis. It was the first Cypriot oil company.
Petrolina went public in December 2000 listing on the Cyprus Stock Exchange.
In 2003, the company bought out Total Aviation with its two storage tanks in Vasilikos and started the process of moving its fuel terminals from Larnaca to Vasilikos (the process should be completed in 2021).
In 2018, the turnover was €394.2 mln (up from €391.5 mln in 2017) and after-tax profits rose from €4.2 mln in 2017 to €4.3 mln.
The company’s founder Kikis Lefkaritis died on November 30, 2020.
See also
Cyprus Stock Exchange
References
Non-renewable resource companies established in 1959
Energy companies established in 1959
Oil and gas companies of Cyprus
1959 establishments in Cyprus
Larnaca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%203.0 | Health 3.0 is a health-related extension of the concept of Web 3.0 whereby the users' interface with the data and information available on the web is personalized to optimize their experience. This is based on the concept of the Semantic Web, wherein websites' data is accessible for sorting in order to tailor the presentation of information based on user preferences. Health 3.0 will use such data access to enable individuals to better retrieve and contribute to personalized health-related information within networked electronic health records, and social networking resources.
Health 3.0 has also been described as the idea of semantically organizing electronic health records to create an Open Healthcare Information Architecture. Health care could also make use of social media, and incorporate virtual tools for enhanced interactions between health care providers and consumers/patients.
Goals
Improved access to health related information on the web via semantic and networked resources will facilitate an improved understanding of health issues with the goal of increasing patient self-management, preventative care and enhancing health professional expertise.
Health 3.0 will foster the creation and maintenance of supportive virtual communities within which individuals can help one another understand, cope with, and manage common health-related issues.
Personalized social networking resources can also serve as a medium for health professionals to improve individuals' access to healthcare expertise, and to facilitate health professional-to-many-patients communication with the goal of improved acceptance, understanding and adherence to best therapeutic options.
"Digital healing" has been described as a goal of health 3.0. It involves patients obtaining reassurance, support, and validation from others via social media.
Health 3.0 is recommended to be able to gather imparted data through web-based technologies. Consumers and experts are to be connected by virtual reasoning tools – an expert system. The expert system that can use the collected information through the web-based technologies represent health 3.0.
The current situation
Social networking is a popular and powerful tool for engaging patients in their health care. These virtual communities provide a real-time resource for obtaining health-related knowledge and counselling. Pew Internet and American Life Project report that greater than 90% of young adults and nearly three quarters of all Americans access the internet on a regular basis. Greater than 60% of online adults regularly access social networking resources. In addition, 80% of internet users search for health-related information. Definitive evidence of health benefit from interaction with health-related virtual communities is currently lacking as further research needs to be performed.
Challenges
Many local communities face challenges implementing a Public Health 3.0 model. Public Health at a local level has been unable to integrate i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq%20Portable%20386 | The Compaq Portable 386 is a computer released by Compaq Computer Corporation in 1987. It was equipped with a Intel 80386 CPU, RAM, ROM, floppy, hard disk drive, priced at respectively, and a gas-plasma display.
Early versions of the Compaq Portable 386 were sold with the Compaq Portable III case and badges. A differing screen bezel stating "386/20" was the only externally visible change.
Network General resold a customized version of the Compaq Portable 386 as the "Sniffer" Network Analyzer.
Technical data in detail
CPU and FPU
The Portable 386 got its name due to the socketed Intel 386DX CPU with 20MHz. There is also an additional socket for a 20MHz 387 FPU option, which was not included in the basic configuration of the Portable. Since the whole system bus runs with CPU frequency, there is no way to improve the CPU performance by installing a 386DX CPU with more than 20MHz other than the rare Cyrix 486DRx2 20/40 which has a multiplicator of 2 for the frequency while being still pinout compatible with the 386 socket.
Memory
The mainboard can take up to four proprietary 512KB SIMMs which were called SC-RAM in the Portable manual. Additionally, there was an expansion slot inside the Portable which allowed to expand the memory by another 8MB alongside the 2MB on the mainboard by:
Installing the so-called 32bit Memory-/Modem board expansion offers a socket for another expansion card which has 4MB (8×512 KB 80 ns) of memory and another expansion socket installed on which the user can install a 3rd expansion card with another 4MB (again 8×512 KB 80 ns) of RAM. These RAM expansion cards were available through Compaq or third party manufacturers, such as Kingston Technology.
Graphics card
The graphics card can be configured between CGA and MDA emulation mode whereas the CGA mode is mandatory for using Microsoft Windows' Compaq Plasma Driver and graphic capabilities in general. The internal CGA graphics card is able to display a resolution up to 640x400 pixels with a color depth of 2 bits (monochrome), which was first seen in the AT&T 6300 built by Olivetti, surpassing the original IBM standard by 200 pixels in height while remaining fully CGA compatible elsewhere.
The internal gas plasma display is able to display 640x400 pixels with up to 16 shades of gray and is connected to the graphics card via a proprietary connector. Users can install a better graphics card via the Compaq Expansion Unit (See below), but the factory-installed monitor was unable to take advantage of it.
Hard disk
The Portable offers two drive bays for 5.25" half-height drives where one is reserved for the hard disk and the other one for the internal floppy disk drive. Compaq originally offered a 40MB and 100MB hard disk option. Quite common back in the days, the BIOS of the Compaq only offers to select preconfigured hard disk configurations like Type 17 for 40MB or 42 for 504MB. There is no detailed information about the underlying CHS configuration of thes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testing%20high-performance%20computing%20applications | High performance computing applications run on massively parallel supercomputers consist of concurrent programs designed using multi-threaded, multi-process models. The applications may consist of various constructs (threads, local processes, distributed processes, etc.) with varying degree of parallelism. Although high performance concurrent programs use similar design patterns, models and principles as that of sequential programs, unlike sequential programs, they typically demonstrate non-deterministic behavior. The probability of bugs increases with the number of interactions between the various parallel constructs. Race conditions, data races, deadlocks, missed signals and live lock are common error types.
Challenges
Parallel programs can be divided into two general categories: explicitly and implicitly parallel. Using parallel language constructs defined for process creation, communication and synchronization make an application explicitly parallel. Using a tool or parallelizing compiler to convert a serial program into a parallel one, makes it implicitly parallel. Both categories are equally bug-prone.
Heisenbugs
Concurrent applications should execute correctly on every possible thread schedule in the underlying operating system. However, traditional testing methods detect few bugs, chiefly because of the Heisenbugs problem. A Heisenbug is an error that changes or disappears when an attempt is made to isolate and probe them via debugger, by adding some constructs such as synchronization requests or delay statements.
Non-repeatability
Another issue is caused due to the unpredictable behavior of the scheduler. Differences in system load influence scheduler behavior. This behavior cannot be changed manually. To counter this indeterminism, the program must be executed many times under various execution environments. Still, it is not guaranteed that a bug can be reproduced. Most of the time, the program runs correctly, and the bug is visible only when specific conditions are matched. As a result, non-repeatability of the concurrent programs is a major source of roadblock for detecting error. As an example, consider the following.
Clearly, this has a problem of causing deadlocks. Yet, it may cause deadlock in some runs of the program while in others, it may run successfully.
Probe effect
Probe effect is seen in parallel programs when delay-statements are inserted in parallel programs facing synchronization problems. This effect, like Heisenbugs, alters behavior changes that may obscure problems. Detecting the source of a probe effect is a great challenge in testing parallel applications.The main difference between Probe effect and Heisenbugs is that Heisenbugs are seen when additional delay statements and/or synchronization requests are added to the concurrent application during testing, while probe effect is seen when the developer adds delay statements to concurrent applications with poor synchronization.
Testing strategies
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RiT%20Technologies | RiT Technologies Ltd. is a publicly traded company, headquartered in Israel, that provides clients with advanced network management systems. Its shares are traded on the NASDAQ Capital Market.
History
RiT Technologies was founded in 1989 by Ofer Bengal, who recruited brothers Yehuda and Zohar Zisapel as chief investors in the company. RiT's first product was an electrical connector, which competed with AMP Incorporated for market share. Their next product was PatchView, a network computer cable infrastructure management system. In 1997 RiT began marketing PairView, a system for monitoring and managing copper-wire telephone networks. Shares of RiT Technologies debuted on the NASDAQ Global Market in July 1997 and were transferred to the NASDAQ Capital Market in January 2004.
Ownership
In September 2008, Moscow-based Stins Coman Inc., RiT's distributor in the Russian Federation, acquired a majority stake of 59.1% in the company, after having acquired 7% and then an additional 34.9% of RiT's outstanding shares earlier in the year.
See also
Structured cabling
List of Israeli companies quoted on the Nasdaq
References
External links
Patents of Ofer Bengal – PatentBuddy.com
Stins Coman Corporation
Software companies of Israel
Companies established in 1989
Companies based in Tel Aviv
1989 establishments in Israel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial%20Secrecy%20Index | The Financial Secrecy Index (FSI) is a report published by the advocacy organization Tax Justice Network (TJN) which ranks countries by financial secrecy indicators, weighted by the economic flows of each country.
It looks at how wealthy individuals and criminals can hide and launder money using the country's legal and financial systems. Automatic information interchange and beneficial ownership registration were among the ranking criteria. According to TJN, an estimated US$21 to US$32 trillion in untaxed or minimally taxed private financial wealth is held in secrecy jurisdictions (tax havens) around the world. Yet, the report attracted criticism of its veracity and the numbers quoted for glaring material errors and misstatements: most of the offshore financial centres referred to do not have any secrecy laws; large sectors of the monies flowing through OFCs are indeed taxed monies or are reported ofr tax purposes via CRS and FATCA.
The report claims to be a measure of each jurisdiction's contribution to the worldwide financial secrecy using qualitative and quantitative data.
To create a secrecy score for each jurisdiction, qualitative data based on laws, regulations, cooperation with information exchange mechanisms, and other verified data sources is used. Many of the assumptions and premises are misleading or incorrect. Even TJN's founders had so much difficulty with the fundamentally misleading reports coming out that they resigned.
The secrecy countries with the highest rankings are said to be less transparent in the operations they host, less engaged in sharing information with other national authorities, and less compliant with international money-laundering laws. A secrecy jurisdiction is more appealing for channeling illegal money flows and hiding criminal and corrupt activities due to its lack of openness and unwillingness to engage in efficient information exchange.
After that, quantitative data is used to generate a global scale weighting for each jurisdiction based on its percentage of global offshore financial services activity. They did this by using publicly available data on each jurisdiction's international financial services trade. They employ the International Monetary Fund approach to extrapolate from stock measures to obtain flow estimates when incomplete data is required. The jurisdictions with the highest weighting are those that play the most important role in the market for non-resident financial services.
A jurisdiction with a substantial proportion of the offshore financial sector but low opacity may earn the same overall ranking as a smaller but more secretive jurisdiction. The rating takes into account not only which countries are the most secretive, but also magnitude (the amount to which a jurisdiction's secrecy is likely to have a worldwide impact).
Confusion
While related to tax havens, the FSI is not a list of tax havens per se, and it does not attempt to estimate actual taxes avoided or profits shifted, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYEC-TV | DYEC-TV, channel 22, was the flagship station of Philippine sports television network ABS-CBN Sports and Action, a fully owned subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation. Its transmitter and studios are located at the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Center, Lacson Street, Bacolod City and transmitter is located at Aquino Drive, Bacolod City.
On May 5, 2020, S+A Bacolod went off-air, together with ABS-CBN and MOR, due to cease-and-desist order from the National Telecommunications Commission after its legislative franchise expired the previous day.
References
See also
ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN Sports and Action
Studio 23 (the former name of ABS-CBN Sports and Action)
ABS-CBN Sports and Action stations
ABS-CBN Sports and Action stations
Television stations in Bacolod
Television channels and stations established in 1996
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikaw%20Lang%20ang%20Mamahalin%20%282011%20TV%20series%29 | (International title: Only You / ) is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is a remake of the 2001 Philippine television series of the same title. Directed by Roderick Lindayag, it stars Barbie Forteza, Joshua Dionisio, Kristofer Martin and Joyce Ching. It premiered on October 10, 2011 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Sinner or Saint. The series concluded on February 10, 2012 with a total of 90 episodes. It was replaced by The Good Daughter in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Mylene and Clarissa are cousins and best friends. When a landslide strikes their community, Mylene suffers from amnesia. Clarissa later ends up in a slum area and grows up under the care of a family of crooks. While Mylene lives as Katherine, with the woman who saved her from the landslide. Clarissa meets Ferdinand, and mistakes her for being his missing daughter for she is wearing the necklace that Mylene gave to her. Seeing this as an opportunity to live a comfortable life, Clarissa pretends to be Mylene.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Barbie Forteza as Katherine Morales / Mylene Avelino Fuentebella
Joshua Dionisio as Charles Ballesteros
Kristofer Martin as Jepoy Dimaculangan
Joyce Ching as Clarissa Delos Angeles / Clarissa Fuentebella
Supporting cast
Gardo Versoza as Ferdinand Fuentebella
Sheryl Cruz as Amara Luna
Tanya Garcia as Lilian Avelino-Fuentebella
Ehra Madrigal as Katrina
Matet de Leon as Ising Somera
Ernie Garcia as Badong
Maricar de Mesa as Helena
Karla Estrada as Loida
Shirley Fuentes as Raquel
Victor Aliwalas as Rommel
Ella Cruz as Britney
Carmen Soriano as Corazon
Joko Diaz as Berto
Kier Legaspi as Joel
Teejay Marquez as Victor
Cara Eriguel as Josie
Chunggay Riego as Mayordoma
Tess Bomb as Tessie
Guest cast
Sarah Lahbati as young Amara
Bianca King as young Katrina
Diva Montelaba as young Lilian
Elmo Magalona as young Ferdinand
Julia Joan Chua as young Clarissa
Gianna Cutler as young Mylene
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 15.9% rating. While the final episode scored a 22.2% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2012 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Philippine television series based on Philippine television series
Television series reboots
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC%209000%20series | The UNIVAC 9000 series (9200, 9300, 9400, 9700) is a discontinued line of computers introduced by Sperry Rand in the mid-1960s to compete with the low end of the IBM System/360 series. The 9200 and 9300 (which differ only in CPU speed) implement the same restricted 16-bit subset of the System/360 instruction set as the IBM 360/20, while the UNIVAC 9400 implements a subset of the full 32-bit System/360 instruction set. The 9400 was roughly equivalent to the IBM 360/30.
In 1972, UNIVAC stopped development of its 9000 series systems, in favor of hardware acquired from RCA, now called UNIVAC Series 90.
Hardware
The 9000 series uses monolithic integrated circuits for logic and plated-wire memory; the latter functions somewhat like core memory but uses a non-destructive read. Since the 9000 series was intended as direct competitors to IBM, they use 80-column cards and EBCDIC character encoding.
The UNIVAC 9200 was marketed as a functional replacement for the 1004 and as a direct competitor to the IBM 360/20. The printer-processor is one cabinet, the power supply and memory another and the card reader and optional card punch make an 'L' shaped configuration. Memory is 8 KB expandable to 32 KB. The 9200 II and 9300 II models, introduced in 1969, are extensions of the original 9200 and 9300 systems.
The printer differs from earlier UNIVAC printers, being similar to IBM's "bar printer" of the same era. It uses an oscillating-type bar instead of the drums that had been used until this point, and runs at speeds up to 300 lines per minute.
As Sperry moved into the 1970s, they expanded the 9000 family with the introduction of the 9700 system in 1971. The 9700 was said to be three to five as powerful as the 9400, twice as powerful as the IBM System/360 Model 50, and less costly than the IBM System/370 Model 145.
Software
The 9200 and 9300 run the Minimum Operating System. The 9400 and 9480 run a real memory operating system called OS/4. A new operating system for the 9700, called OS/7 was under development, but was discontinued in 1975.
References
External links
Operational Univac 9400 in the German computer history museum technikum29
UNIVAC mainframe computers
16-bit computers
32-bit computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer%20Library | The Polymer Library, formerly Rapra Abstracts, is a searchable database of research on plastics, rubbers, polymeric composites, and adhesives. It includes abstracts from over 450 journals, as well as company literature, data sheets, and patents. The index covers end-use applications and commercial and legal implications, as well as basic research for academic and corporate scientists. The Library is aggregated by EBSCO, ProQuest, and STN.
Its literature coverage goes back to 1972. It was originally published by RAPRA, formerly the Rubber and Plastics Research Association, and was published by Smithers Information Ltd. until June 2018. As off August 2018 the publication is continued by WTI-Frankfurt-digital GmbH i.G..
References
External links
Polymer Library
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Commercial digital libraries
German digital libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing%20performance | The performance data for landing an aircraft can be obtained from the aircraft's flight manual or pilot's operating handbook. It will state the distance required to bring the aircraft to a stop under ideal conditions, assuming the aircraft crosses the runway threshold at a height of 50 ft, at the correct speed. The actual landing performance of an aircraft is affected by many variables which must be taken into account.
Factors affecting landing performance
Weight
The weight of an aircraft is one of the basic factors that determines the landing distance required by an aircraft. An increase in weight increases the stall speed of the aircraft. Stall is a reduction in the lift coefficient generated by a wing as angle of attack increases. Therefore, the minimum approach speed increases as the aircraft's weight increases. The kinetic energy () that has to be overcome to stop an aircraft is a function of the mass of the aircraft and the square of its speed at touchdown. The kinetic energy increases significantly as an aircraft's weight increases, and the brakes have to absorb this greater energy, increasing the landing roll of the aircraft.
Density altitude
A decrease in density of air results in decrease in both aircraft and Engine performance. High elevation airports are characterized by low pressure and high ambient temperatures. The True Airspeed (TAS) will be higher than the Indicated airspeed indicated by the Airspeed indicator to the pilot in air of low density. This increase in TAS leads to greater touchdown speed hence increases the landing roll. More energy has to be absorbed by the brakes thus demanding the need of a longer runway. An increased density altitude means a longer landing distance.
Headwinds and tailwinds
The headwind reduces the landing distance for an aircraft. Landing into a headwind reduces the ground speed (GS) for the same true airspeed (TAS). This is beneficial to pilots as well as Air traffic controllers (ATC). An aircraft landing into a headwind will require less runway and will be able to vacate the runway sooner. If the headwind decreases near the ground, there is a decrease in the airspeed of the aircraft and it will tend to sink and possibly undershoot the aiming point.
Tailwind increases the ground speed of an aircraft for the same TAS and thus a longer runway distance will be required for an aircraft to land. Landing in a tailwind situation could lead to the aircraft overshooting the runway and colliding with objects or terrain.
Runway surface
Runway conditions affect take off and landing performance of an aircraft. The runway may be made up of concrete, asphalt, gravel or grass. An important safety concern at airports is the contamination of the runways due to ice, snow, water, rubber deposits etc. The landing distance required by an aircraft is much more in case of low friction runways which do not facilitate effective braking to occur. Aquaplaning is a phenomenon in which directional control is lost bec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Sheymov | Victor Ivanovich Sheymov (9 May 1946, Moscow — 18 October 2019, Vienna (Va.)) was a Russian computer security expert, author and patent holder of computer security innovations. A former intelligence official with the rank of major in the Soviet KGB, Sheymov defected to the United States in May 1980, choosing to come out of hiding a decade later.
Since becoming a US citizen, Sheymov was active in the computer security industry as the CEO of Invicta Networks, a Northern Virginia-based developer of advanced cyber-security technologies. He also published two memoirs, Tower of Secrets and "Tiebreaker," about his experiences in the KGB and life in the United States, as well as "Cyberspace and Security," and "Party Gold"—a novel that described the search for a vast sum of money spirited out of the USSR at the time of the Soviet Union's collapse.
Early life
Sheymov was born to a well-educated family, his father an engineer; his mother a doctor specializing in cardiology. He graduated from Moscow State Technical University in 1970, and then worked as a physicist in the Soviet space weapons program.
He was assigned to the KGB, serving in a variety of technical roles in the Eighth Chief Directorate.
Career in intelligence
The Eighth Chief Directorate was responsible for ciphers and communications intercepts. In 1974 Sheymov was posted to the headquarters of the First Chief Directorate in Yasenevo, just outside Moscow, which oversaw all KGB foreign intelligence operations. He served as a communications watch officer, monitoring all incoming KGB message traffic from around the world. Among his responsibilities was helping prepare the daily intelligence summary for members of the Politburo. In 1976 Sheymov was assigned to work on communications security, including such problems as code-breaking and counterespionage. At the time of his defection, Sheymov was responsible for the oversight of all KGB cipher communications.
Although he was successful in his career, Sheymov was increasingly unhappy with life in the Soviet Union as he rose through the ranks of the KGB. Disillusioned with the system, he eventually decided he would have to defect. According to Sheymov, his work with the KGB had allowed him to see the gap between Communist rhetoric and reality; the nature of his job allowing him information available to only a select few.
Defection
In May 1980 Sheymov, his wife Olga, and his five-year-old daughter, Elena, were spirited out of Moscow by officials from the Central Intelligence Agency. Because he had been careful not to leave any evidence of preparation the KGB suspected he and his family had been murdered on a trip out of town. As a result, the KGB leadership was totally unaware of his presence in the United States. The timing was also fortunate – with counterintelligence efforts focused on the upcoming Olympic Games, Sheymov, dressed as an airline pilot, was easily able to avoid detection. His wife and daughter were hidden in a container place |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20Appraisal%20Dataset | Uniform Appraisal Dataset is a component of the Uniform Mortgage Data Program, an initiative undertaken by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (together known as the GSEs) under the direction of the Federal Housing Finance Agency in the United States in order to comprehensively standardize mortgage loan data so that loans may be processed more efficiently.
UAD specifically focuses on real estate appraisals and consists of a set of standard rules for classifying appraisal data, and a standard set of abbreviations to use in most common types of appraisal reports. It also specifies a new XML electronic format for delivering appraisals, based on the MISMO standard (with specific extensions added.)
Previously, appraisals lacked a comprehensive standard and thus varied widely in the terminology and abbreviations used, thereby occasionally causing confusion and delays during appraisal analysis for mortgage processing. UAD is an attempt to remedy that situation.
The GSEs have mandated that all appraisals submitted to them starting on 9/1/2011 must be in UAD format.
External links
Official UAD Website
Official UMDP Website
Mortgage industry of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enjoying%20Everyday%20Life | Enjoying Everyday Life is an American Christian television and radio series hosted by Joyce Meyer and airing in syndication on numerous broadcast and cable television networks and on radio stations. Enjoying Everyday Life broadcasts worldwide to a potential audience of 4.5 billion people.
In 1993, her husband Dave suggested that they start a television ministry. Initially airing on superstation WGN-TV in Chicago and Black Entertainment Television (BET), her program, now called Enjoying Everyday Life, is still on the air today (WGNA, KHCE).
Episodes
40 Things the Word Does for You - Parts 1 and 2
Abide in Christ - John 15 Bible Study
Agreeing with God
Are You Resisting the Devil? - Parts 1 and 2
The Basics of Life: Water, Food and Hope
Battle Strategies to Renew Your Mind - Parts 1 and 2
The Beauty of Generosity - Parts 1 and 2
The Believer's Authority
Blessed, Broken and Given - Parts 1 and 2
Book of James Bible Study - Parts 1 through 8
Breaking Free - Parts 1 and 2
Breaking Free of Wilderness Mindsets - Parts 1 and 2
Characteristics of a Perfect Heart - Parts 1 and 2
Check Your Motives - Parts 1 and 2
Classrooms of Hope
Dare to Believe - Parts 1 and 2
Defeating Giants - Parts 1 through 4
Developing the Character Habits
Developing Discipline and Self-Control - Parts 1 and 2
Do What You Know To Do
Don't Be Led by Your Head - Parts 1 and 2
Embracing Every Season of your Life - Parts 1 and 2
Ephesians Bible Study - Parts 1 through 4
Ephesians 1 Bible Study
Ephesians 2 Bible Study
Ephesians 4 Bible Study - Parts 1 and 2
Ephesians 5 Bible Study
Ephesians 6 Bible Study - Parts 1 and 2
Establishing Boundaries - Parts 1 and 2
Every Day Trust and Belief in God's Word - Parts 1 and 2
Facing the Storms of Life
Faithfulness - Parts 1 and 2
Finding Freedowm Through Facing Truth - Parts 1 and 2
Five Ways to De-Stress - Parts 1 and 2
Galatians Bible Study - Parts 1 through 4
Get Your Hopes Up
God Our Healer
God, What Do You Want Me to Do? - Parts 1 and 2
Godly Wisdom for Your Finances - Parts 1 and 2
Grace for Difficult Situations - Parts 1 and 2
Grief and Loneliness - Parts 1 through 4
Has Your Get Up and Go Got Up and Gone? - Parts 1 and 2
Having a Conversation with God
Having a Patient Attitude
Healing of the Soul - Parts 1 and 2
The Heart of Israel
Help for the Uptight - Parts 1 and 2
Hope for Life
How Faith Works - Parts 1 and 2
How to Overcome Disappointment and Discouragement - Parts 1 and 2
How to Stand Strong in Every Season of Life - Parts 1 and 2
How to Win Your Battles - Parts 1 and 2
How Your Mind Affects Your Outlook on Life - Parts 1 and 2
How Your Mind Affects the World Around You - Parts 1 and 2
I Will Not Fear - Parts 1 and 2
I'm Saved! Now What?
Impulsive Behavior - Parts 1 and 2
Interrupting Satan's Plan
It's Time to Flip Your Switch - Parts 1 and 2
It's Time to Push - Parts 1 and 2
Judgment and Criticism - Parts 1 and 2
Keys to Breakthrough - Parts 1 through 4
The Law of Gradual Growth - Parts 1 and 2
Let God Fight Your Battles - Parts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Rock%20Band%20Network%202.0%20songs | The Rock Band Network in the music video game Rock Band 3 supports downloadable songs for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions through the consoles' respective online services. The Rock Band Network Store became publicly available on March 4, 2010 for all Xbox 360 players in selected countries (US, Canada, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and Singapore). Rock Band Network songs are available on the PlayStation 3 in five song intervals through their own Rock Band Network Store on April 22, 2010. Rock Band Network songs are exclusive to the Xbox 360 for 30 days, after which a selection of songs are made available on the PlayStation 3. No Rock Band Network 2.0 songs have been released for the Wii in accordance with the discontinued service of Rock Band Network 1.0 for the Wii.
With the release of Rock Band Network 2.0, creators were able to add songs with harmony vocals, standard and pro mode keyboard tracks, and pro drum tracks. Support for pro guitar and bass was not included in RBN 2.0 due to the complexity of authoring such tracks and the small base of pro guitar users/testers.
On February 13, 2013, Harmonix announced that RBN ports to the PlayStation 3 are scheduled to end on April 2, 2013 along with regular DLC releases. Harmonix initially planned to continue to support the backend tools powering the RBN for the Xbox 360; however, support for the RBN officially ended in September 2014 due to numerous technical issues as well as the company devoting resources to other projects.
Pricing
Prices for Rock Band Network songs are set by the parties involved with authoring and submitting the song, and can be set at either US$1.00, $1.99, or $2.99. The artist retains 30% of this cost, with the remaining 70% of each sale split between Harmonix and Microsoft (although the exact ratios of that distribution are unknown).
Complete list of available songs
The following songs have been released to the Rock Band Network 2.0. New songs are initially released exclusively for Xbox Live. 30 days after their initial release, songs are eligible to be brought over to the PlayStation 3. Dates listed are the initial release of songs on Xbox Live. Starting March 4, 2010, all downloadable songs are available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Sweden, and Singapore, unless noted. All songs are capable of being changed or removed at any time.
References
External links
Official Rock Band Network song list - Additional information for all songs featured in the Rock Band Network.
Songs // Rock Band
Rock Band Network 2.0
Network 2.0
Rock Band Network 2.0 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JoMei%20Chang | JoMei Chang is a computer scientist and technology business executive in Silicon Valley and China.
Chang was named a leading CEO by Fortune Magazine and an Entrepreneur of the Year by BusinessWeek.
Life
Born circa 1952 in Taiwan, Chang was accepted into the National Chiao Tung University where she received a B.S. in Electric Engineering in 1974.
Chang graduated from Purdue University with a M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Database Management. In 2004, Purdue University honored her with the Outstanding Electrical & Computer Engineer Award.
After Purdue, Chang joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a research scientist, one of the first female researchers in the computer science laboratory.
Chang co-patented a protocol for reliable multicast with Nicholas F. Maxemchuk.
Her often-cited papers were published in 1984.
Chang joined Sun Microsystems in 1984 as an engineer in the Network File System group.
In 1986 Chang became a member of the founding team at Teknekron Software Systems (renamed TIBCO Software), where she served as vice president and general manager. Chang invented the first digital trader workstation, for real-time financial information.
Vitria
In October 1994 Chang and her husband Dale Skeen founded Vitria Technology to do business process management and enterprise application integration.
Chang and Skeen provided initial funding for Vitria, along with Robert M. Halperin. Additional venture capital in subsequent rounds came from Brentwood Associates, Sutter Hill Ventures and Weston Presidio Capital.
Vitria filed for their initial public offering (IPO) in June 1999 during the dot-com bubble. The stock shares were listed on the Nasdaq exchange under the symbol "VITR" on September 16, raising about $50 million.
For the year 1999, the company reported a net loss of about $16 million on revenues of about $31.5 million.
Vitria was headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
For the year 2002, net loss was $91.6 million on revenues of about $97 million. Lawsuits were filed and consolidated into Kideys, et al., v. Vitria Technology, Inc., et al., Case No. 01-CV-10092 alleging misrepresentations around the IPO. The company defended itself and offered settlement.
On June 18, 2003, the Vitria board approved a settlement.
In December 2003, Chang resigned as chief executive of Vitria (but remained chair of the board). The Beijing, China, operations of Vitria were sold to ChiLin LLC, which she owned, for about $1.5 million.
In April 2004 the name was changed to QilinSoft.
It aimed to introduce integration and BPM technology to China.
In September 2006, Chang with Skeen proposed privatization of Vitria for about $67 million.
After some objections, the transaction closed in March 2007.
She returned as CEO in July 2007.
It said it would focus on operational intelligence.
Her residences were shown on the HGTV cable-television network.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer businesspeople
Purdue Un |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq%20Portable%20486 | The Compaq Portable 486 is a computer released by Compaq Computer Corporation in 1991. It was the last portable computer/"luggable" released under the Compaq Portable series of computers.
The computer was released in several models with different hard disk configurations and in two screen types, a cheaper monochrome version and a more expensive active matrix color version, known as the Compaq Portable 486c. The street price with a was for the monochrome version and for the active matrix color version. For a model with a , the price was for the monochrome version and US$10,999 for the active matrix color version, available after May 1992.
Both versions are equipped with a socketed Intel 80486DX CPU, DRAM (72-pin SIMM), floppy, (P-ATA), and SCSI port for CD-ROM or tape. On the front of the unit there two dials underneath the PC-speaker to adjust the brightness of the screen and the volume of the PC-speaker. The PC-speaker in the Compaq Portable 486 is unique in that there is a audio input jack on the side of the unit to allow a third party ISA sound card to pass through its audio output to the PC speaker.
Compaq released two versions of the Compaq Portable 486 with a faster, Intel 80486DX2 CPU, named the Compaq Portable 486/66 for the monochrome version and the Compaq Portable 486/66c for the color version.
Compaq worked with Network General which released branded versions of the Compaq Portable 486 as "Network Sniffers".
A case-modified version of the colour screen variant with replaced internals was used as a prop in the 1995 film Hackers. With its internals replaced by those of a Macintosh laptop, it served as the character Dade Murphy's (Aliases: Zero Cool and Crash Override) primary computer for the first half of the film.
Environmental limits are:
Temperature operating , nonoperating
Relative humidity (noncondensing) Operating , Nonoperating
Maximum unpressurized altitude operating , nonoperating
Shock , , half sine (nonoperating Vibration, Operating , , octave/min sweep Nonoperating , , octave/min sweep
References
486 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beware%20the%20Batman | Beware the Batman is an American computer-animated television series based on the DC Comics superhero Batman. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment, the series premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network on July 13, 2013 as part of the DC Nation programming block, replacing Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
The series was pulled from Cartoon Network's schedule four months after its premiere, without official explanation. After being put on hiatus, the remaining episodes of the series began to air on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block, from July 27 to September 28, 2014, with a total of twenty-six episodes having aired altogether. The series then premiered in Canada on October 11, 2013, on Teletoon and was cancelled after its twenty-sixth episode.
Premise
In Gotham City during Bruce Wayne (voiced by Anthony Ruivivar)'s early years as Batman, following his initial period of battling organized crime. Over the course of the series, he hones his combative skills with the assistance of his butler Alfred Pennyworth (voiced by JB Blanc), who introduces Bruce to his goddaughter Yamashiro Tatsu (Sumalee Montano), a martial artist and swordmistress hired to act as his bodyguard, as well as Batman's partner under the codename of Katana.
Characters
Crime-fighting vigilante Batman teams up with swordmistress Katana and his ex-secret agent butler Alfred Pennyworth to face the criminal underworld of Gotham, led by Anarky, Magpie, Ra's al Ghul, Tobias Whale, Phosphorus Rex, Professor Pyg, Mister Toad, Lady Shiva, Key, Killer Croc and Humpty Dumpty. In particular, Anarky was originally intended to be the main villain.
While the developers allowed license themselves to stylize the characters' appearances, the series' villains were particularly designed to be "over-the-top".
Production
Development
After the previous Batman series, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, ended in November 2011, a new series featuring the DC Comics superhero immediately went into production, in order for Batman to return to a more "serious tone". With Batman receiving a new sidekick, Outsiders member Katana, executive producer Sam Register commented that "Katana is gonna be his new Robin, but not necessarily". The series was produced in 3D computer animation, similar to the animation style of the earlier DC series Green Lantern: The Animated Series.
In the wake of the 2012 Aurora, Colorado shooting, which occurred during a screening of the Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, the series' content was altered to make the firearms depicted in the series look less realistic. In addition, initial announcements for the series were accompanied with promotional art unintended for public release, which depicted Alfred as a gun-toting butler fighting alongside Batman. Fans of the Batman mythos were upset by this, arguing against Alfred's participation in Batman's exploits and his use of deadly firearms as against Batman's principles. In response to fan criticism, seri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blendr | Blendr was an online dating application based on geosocial networking for Android, iOS and Facebook. It is designed to connect like-minded people near to each other. It was created by Joel Simkhai and patterned after his previous app Grindr which is instead aimed at gay men. Blendr claims to be "powered by" Badoo but largely appears to be the same service. As of 2022, it had 200 million users worldwide and requires users to be over the age of 18.
On 31 October 2022 Blendr ceased activity in all territories worldwide. A statement on the Blendr website stated that all user data would be deleted by 30 November 2022 and the website would go offline from 7 December 2022.
Description
The application combines GPS location sensing with a social networking framework, to provide users with the opportunity to meet people who are near to each other. The application can also be used to communicate with people in real time about a location, such as getting information about the current status of a local restaurant, or for determining whether a club currently holds people that the user might want to meet. Users must be over the age of 18.
Users provide a photograph and basic information about their interests (though they are not required to give out their actual name or other personal details), and then are able to browse other people who are nearby to their present location. In order to protect the privacy of its users, the application only provides a rough estimate of the user's location, and also allows users to limit themselves to contact to people who meet their self-defined criteria. Simkhai specifically designed Blendr to be less focused on casual sexual encounters than Grindr, intending it to be a tool for meeting new people who share common interests from business to hobbies and relationships of all types. The company has strict rules forbidding the use of nudity, pictures or written descriptions of sexual acts, and racist statements or other hate speech.
Platforms
Blendr was available through the website, or for iOS devices through the iTunes app store and for Android through Google Play. As of September 2012, the application was free and supported by advertising, with a subscription option for increased functionality.
History
Blendr was announced to the press at SXSW on March 14, 2011, under the code name Project Amicus. The name "Blendr" was ultimately revealed when the app launched in the iTunes app store on September 8, 2011.
On 31 October 2022 Blendr ceased activity in all territories worldwide. A statement on the Blendr website stated that all user data would be deleted by 30 November 2022 and the website would go offline from 7 December 2022.
See also
Comparison of online dating services
Timeline of online dating services
References
iOS software
Geosocial networking
Meta Platforms applications
Mobile social software
LGBT-related websites
2011 software
Android (operating system) software
Online dating applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20Drawing | Delta Drawing Learning Program, later retitled Delta Drawing Today, is a turtle graphics drawing program developed by Computer Access Corporation, and published by Spinnaker Software in 1983.
Delta Drawing was intended for children age 4 to 14. It features a functional programming language for executing scripted drawing and painting instructions. Spinnaker sought to improve on the educational value of Logo, an earlier educational programming language that could also program turtle graphics.
Power Industries LP of Newton, Massachusetts later acquired Delta Drawing Learning Program and continued its development. They released the new version, Delta Drawing Today v4.0, in 1990, and eventually a Spanish-language edition: Delta Drawing Today Version Español.
See also
KTurtle
NetLogo
References
Further reading
Links
- Delta Drawing Learning Program Manual (Atari 400/800/XL)
1983 software
Apple II software
Atari 8-bit family software
Commodore 64 software
VIC-20 software
DOS software
Educational programming languages
Proprietary software
Software for children
Vector graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%20Deep%20Space%20Network | The Soviet Deep Space Network (or Russian Deep Space Network) is a network of large antennas and communication facilities that support interplanetary spacecraft missions, and radio and radar astronomy observations for the exploration of the Solar System and the universe during Soviet times. It was built to support the space missions of the Soviet Union. Similar networks are run by the USA, China, Europe, Japan, and India.
As of present, the Deep Space Network is maintained by Russia.
History
The first Soviet space communications network had 13 stations and was designed to track Earth orbiting satellites, not deep space probes.
Interplanetary missions require larger antennas, more powerful transmitters, and more sensitive receivers, and an effort was started in 1959 to support the planned 1960 launch of the Venera series of missions to Venus and the Mars program of spacecraft to Mars. The selected design consisted of eight 16-meter dishes placed on two hulls of diesel submarines, welded together and laid down on the railway bridge trusses. These trusses were mounted on bearings from battleship gun turrets. Three such antennas were built: the two North stations for receiving, and the south station a few kilometers away for transmitting.
In 1978, these antennas were augmented by the 70-meter antennas at Yevpatoria and Ussuriisk. Construction on a third antenna at Suffa, Uzbekistan was halted with the collapse of the Soviet Union. As of 16 October 2018, the Director of the radio observatory, Gennady Shanin, announced that a two-year "roadmap" for completing construction had been agreed to by Russia and Uzbekistan.
Facilities
There were three main antennas in the Russian Deep Space Network:
A 70 meter antenna at Yevpatoria, in Crimea, Ukraine
A 64-meter antenna at Bear Lakes, near Moscow, Russia
A 70 meter antenna at Ussuriisk, in Primorsky Krai, Russia
A Suffa RT-70 meter antenna in Uzbekistan was never completed.
Missions
Some of the Soviet space program missions that have communicated by the Soviet DSN include:
Venera 11 and Venera 12
Venera 13, Venera 14, Venera 15, Venera 16
Vega program
Astron
Phobos program
Granat
Interball
Spektr-R
Fobos-Grunt (in 2011)
References
Deep Space Network
Space program of the Soviet Union
Telemetry
Space program of Russia
ru:Научно-измерительный пункт |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MICKEY | In cryptography, Mutual Irregular Clocking KEYstream generator (MICKEY) is a stream cipher algorithm developed by Steve Babbage and Matthew Dodd. The cipher is designed to be used in hardware platforms with limited resources, and was one of the three ciphers accepted into Profile 2 of the eSTREAM portfolio. The algorithm is not patented and is free for any use.
Structure
The cipher maps an 80-bit key and a variable length initialization vector (0 to 80 bits) to a keystream with a maximum length of 240 bits.
Keystream Generation
The keystream generator makes use of two registers R and S (100 bits each). The registers are updated in a non-linear manner using the control variables: INPUT BIT R, INPUT BIT S, CONTROL BIT R, CONTROL BIT S. As referred to earlier, any implementation of the cipher contains flip-flops for the R, S registers and the 4 control variables. Furthermore, there must be 7 flip-flops for the counter register to keep track of the number of rounds in the Preclock stage. The keystream production stage in MICKEY 2.0 is preceded by the three stages:- IV Loading, Key Loading and Preclock. Initially the R, S registers are initialized to the all zero state.
Difference with Trivium
Unlike Trivium, MICKEY 2.0 does not allow direct loading of Key and IV bits on to the state register. As mentioned earlier, initially the R, S registers are initialized to the all zero state. Then a variable length IV and the 80 bit Key is used to update the state by successively executing CLOCK KG routine.
Protection in Scan Chain
MICKEY 2.0 can be protected by an XOR-CHAIN structure. The attacker has the following advantages:
He knows the algorithm of MICKEY 2.0
He can use Initial Vectors of his own choice.
The key remains secret.
He can SCAN-IN and SCAN-OUT vectors as per his choice.
To hide the mapping between the scan cells and the actual variables of a cipher is what drove
the previous single-feedback and Double-Feedback XOR-Chain schemes. As this is also falling prey
to cryptanalysis, as shown in the previous section, we move towards a further secure architecture,
named as random XOR-Chain (rXOR-Chain) structure.
Countermeasure for MICKEY
The Flipped-Scan countermeasure technique to protect scan-chains was proposed earlier.
This involved placing inverters at random points in the scan-chain. Security stemmed from the fact that an adversary could not guess the number and positions of the inverters. This technique was cryptanalyzed using a RESET attack. It was shown that if all flip-flops in the scan-chain are initially RESET, then the positions of the inverters can be completely determined by the
0 → 1 and 1 → 0 transitions in the scanned-out vector. As an alternative, the XOR-CHAIN based countermeasure was proposed. The technique involves placing XOR gates at random points of the chain. Security again stems from the fact that an adversary is unable to guess the number and positions of the XOR gates.
Uses in DFT
Scan-based DFT is the most widely u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20and%20Bronze%20Software%20Labs | Orange and Bronze Software Labs (O&B) is a privately owned computer software development company based in the Philippines. The company delivers software consulting, product engineering, and IT training services with a focus on Java software development. O&B specializes in developing and deploying web applications using Java-based frameworks and technologies such as Spring (framework), Grails (framework), Hibernate (Java), Google Maps API, Google App Engine, and Android.
O&B develops software using the Agile software development methods. The company is the first Philippine-based SpringSource partner (now VMware vFabric) and listed as a Grails framework development company.
O&B is also an authorized reseller of the Pentaho Business Intelligence Suite.
History
Orange and Bronze was founded in July 2005 by Calen Martin Legaspi and Renato "Butch" Landingin.
The company started as a two-man consulting firm doing software training for local software companies. Their clients eventually hired them as software consultants, before the company ventured into offshore software development projects. This led to partnerships with Google, SpringSource and Pentaho.
As of March 2011, Orange and Bronze's headcount is at 90 employees.
Founders
Calen Martin Legaspi is the co-founder and CEO of Orange and Bronze Software Labs. He co-founded PinoyJUG, or the Association of Philippine Java Developers. He is currently part of the Technology Council for the Philippine Software Industry Association (PSIA) as Director for Technology. He is also the official representative to the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Technical Committee on Computer Science.
Renato "Butch" Landingin is Calen Legaspi's co-founder. He serves as the company's Chief Technology Officer. Butch Landingin is the author of Squishdot, which is described as "a web based news publishing and discussion product that allows you to handle threaded discussions with a minimum of configuration and day-to-day management by building a web-based news site."
Services
O&B offers software consulting and offshore product development services with a focus on Enterprise Java and Agile software development.
O&B is also listed as a Google Enterprise Partner in the Philippines. The company's Google Apps implementations include nationwide change management training and deployment of 600,000 licenses for a government institution, and migration from a legacy system for the Department of Finance and for the largest Filipino software firm - Pointwest Technologies.
The company also offers software training classes in the Philippines, with courses that include Java Bootcamp, Spring and Hibernate Framework training, Groovy and Grails training, Apache Struts training, JavaServer Faces training, Enterprise Architecture, Agile with Scrum (development) and XP training, and Android training through its O&B University program.
Incubation
Through the company’s technopreneurship program, O&B incubated the Google Maps-based rea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20population%20centres%20in%20Alberta | A population centre, in Canadian census data, is a populated place, or a cluster of interrelated populated places, which meet the demographic characteristics of an urban area. A population centre has a population of at least 1,000 and a population density of no fewer than 400 people per square kilometre.
Population centres are not the same thing as urban municipalities. For example, the city of St. Albert is legally separate from Edmonton, but they are part of the same population centre.
The term was introduced in the Canada 2011 Census; prior to that, Statistics Canada used the term urban area.
As of the 2006 Census of Canada, the Province of Alberta had 107 urban areas with a cumulative population of 2,699,851 and an average population of 25,232. In the 2011 census, Statistics Canada listed 109 population centres in the province. This number increased to 122 in the Canada 2016 Census.
List
The below table is a list of those population centres in Alberta from the 2021 Census of Population as designated, named, and delineated by Statistics Canada.
Retired population centres
The following is a list of communities were once designated as population centres by Statistics Canada, but were retired after their populations dropped below 1,000 people. Some of them have since surpassed the minimum population threshold of 1,000 yet have not been reintroduced as population centres.
Smoky Lake (retired after 2016)
Spirit River (retired after 2016)
Retired urban areas
The following is a list of communities were once designated as urban areas by Statistics Canada, but were retired after their populations dropped below 1,000 people. Some of them have since surpassed the minimum population threshold of 1,000 yet have not been reintroduced as population centres.
Bellevue (retired after 1991 census)
Castor (retired after 1991)
Coronation (retired after 1991)
Lake Louise (retired after 2001 census)
McLennan (retired after 1986)
See also
List of the largest population centres in Canada
List of census agglomerations in Alberta
List of census divisions of Alberta
List of cities in Alberta
List of communities in Alberta
List of designated places in Alberta
List of hamlets in Alberta
List of municipalities in Alberta
List of towns in Alberta
List of villages in Alberta
References
Population centres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20coraz%C3%B3n%20abierto%20%28Mexican%20TV%20series%29 | A Corazón Abierto is a Mexican telenovela produced by RCN Television in collaboration with Vista Production (first season only) and Disney Media Network Latin America. Based on Shonda Rhimes' Grey's Anatomy, it is adapted and supervised by Colombian writer, Fernando Gaitán. It marks the return of Sergio Basañez as a protagonist with the presentation of Iliana Fox as a protagonist. It also marks the return of Angélica Aragón to the television screen after 8 years of abstinence, since El Regreso, Juan David Burns as producer, and Raul Quintanilla as director. It was originally planned to air on Azteca 7, but was changed to Azteca 13, replacing Emperatriz, on 9 November 2011. It was filmed in Colombia for eight months, from February to October 2011. In December 2011, Azteca 13 executives extended the novela for another 58 episodes, making a total of 138 episodes. 2012 episodes are filmed in Mexico, instead of Colombia. Elisa Salinas replaced her husband, Juan David Burns, as the producer in the second season. Filming of the second season ended on 17 April. Due to successful public reception, the producers plans for another season. The executives of Azteca discussed with Disney Media Networks for a third season, but later cancelled the idea.
Cast
Main cast
Supporting cast
Season 1
Special guest star
Recurring cast
Supporting cast
Hermes Camelo
Estefany Escobar
Alfredo Barrero - Gomez
Harold Fonseca
Claudia Rocio Mora
Martha Silva
Andres Felipe Moreno - Armando
Lisbet Cepeda
Mauricio Sarmento
Nini Pabon
Walter Moreno
Luz Estrada
Liz Barbosa
Angela Duarte
Rodrigo Marulanda
Shirley Marulanda
Lucho Velasco
Sebastian Ospina
Mabel Bohorquez
Rosmery Cardenas
Camila Bruges
Emma Carolina Cruz
Isabella Grimaldo
Molly Quevedo
Andres Bermudez
Juliana Galviz
Jacky Aristizabal
Mario Calderon
Valentina Carrasco
Johnny Forero
Rodolfo Ordonez
Giovanny Guzman
Ricardo Riveros
Karem Escobar
julio Pachon
Angelo valotta
Manuel Busquets
Maria Eugenia Penagos
Julian Beltran
Alberto Cadeno
Francisco Perez
Shirley Martinez
Edward Zuniga
Nicolas Gomez
Carlos penagos
Anderson Otalvaro
Yeimily Medrano
maria Isabel Bernal
Johan Mendez
Rodolfo Silva
Juan David Galindo
Wilkins Rodriguez
Cristina Ruiz
Linda Patino
Piero Gomez
Diego Camacho
Gerardo Calero
Bernardo Garcia
Alieta Montero
Jonathan Santamaria
Andrea Naranjo
Bernardo Garcia
Alieta Montero
Claudia Cadavid
Lorena Tovar
Season 2
Special guest star
Supporting cast
Upcoming guest stars
Cristóbal Orellana
Luis Carlos
Cristian Iker Rosas
Casting
The role of Maria Alejandra was actually given to Edith González, but was replaced by Adriana Louvier, and eventually Iliana Fox. Later, Gonzalez stars in Cielo Rojo, and Louvier in Emperatriz. Most cast and crews have worked together in other telenovelas produced by Azteca such as Cuando seas mía (Fernando Gaitan, Elisa Salinas, Juan David Burns, Sergio Basanez, Iliana Fox, Rodrigo Abed, Rodrigo Cachero, and Alejandro Lukini) and La duda (Jose Carlos Rodriguez, Fabiana Per |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weightless%20%28wireless%20communications%29 | Weightless was a set of low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) wireless technology specifications for exchanging data between a base station and many of machines around it.
History
Cambridge Wireless held an event at the Moller Centre in Cambridge, United Kingdom on September 30, 2011. Neul, Landis+Gyr, Cable & Wireless, and ARM Holdings provided presentations. The Weightless Special Interest Group promoted the technology (SIG), announced on December 7, 2012. The group was led by William Webb, a professor at Cambridge and a founder of the company Neul. A subsequent event was held in September 2013, when version 1.0 was published.
The name Weightless was chosen to reflect the intention at a low overhead per transmission for devices that need to communicate just a low amounts of data. The Weightless logo appears in uppercase letters with the 'W' appearing in the top-right corner of a light blue box with a solid blue line above it.
In September 2014, Neul was acquired by Huawei for an estimated $25 million. By 2015, the company Nwave Technologies announced deployments in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Esbjerg, Denmark. However, observers noted no products on the market. A company called Ubiik, based in Taiwan, announced pre-orders in 2017.
Implementation
Weightless-N uses a differential binary phase shift keying (DBPSK) digital modulation scheme to transmit within narrow frequency bands using a frequency hopping algorithm for interference mitigation and enhanced security. It provides encryption and implicit authentication using a shared secret key regime to encode transmitted information via a 128-bit AES algorithm. The technology supports mobility with the network automatically routing terminal messages to the correct destination. Multiple networks, typically operated by different companies, are enabled and can be co-located. Each base station queries a central database to determine which network the terminal is registered to decode and route data accordingly.
Weightless-W uses time-division duplex operation with frequency hopping and variable spreading factors to increase range and accommodate low-power devices in frequency bands, or channels, within the terrestrial television broadcast band. Channels used by a nearby television transmitter are identified and left unaffected, while channels not being used for broadcasting television can be allocated for use by Weightless devices.
A network of base stations communicates with the Internet, or a private network, to pass information from devices to a computer system; and data back to the devices. The downlink to devices uses time slots (TDMA), and the uplink to the base station is divided into sub-channels so that several devices can communicate with the base station.
Initially, there were three published Weightless connectivity standards Weightless-P, Weightless-N, and Weightless-W. Weightless-N was an uplink-only LPWAN technology. Weightless W was designed to operate in the TV whitespace. Weightles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Posts%20and%20Communications | The Ministry of Posts and Communications or Youchuanbu () was a late Qing dynasty ministry responsible for mail and telecommunications and for the Chinese rail network.
It was established in 1906 through the unification of the Imperial Railroad of North China and other railroads with the postal administration and the recently nationalized Imperial Chinese Telegraph Administration.
In 1908, it founded the Bank of Communications to redeem the Beijing–Hankou Railway from its Belgian concessionaires. The bank was also intended to unify funding for steamship lines, railways, and telegraph and postal facilities. After the establishment of the Central Bank of China in 1928, the Bank of Communications was used to fund general industrial development.
After the 1911 revolution gave its name to the Communications Clique during the Warlord Era.
See also
History of rail transport in China
Postage stamps and postal history of China
References
Government of the Qing dynasty
China
China
History of rail transport in China
Postal history of China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assago%20Milanofiori%20Forum%20%28Milan%20Metro%29 | Milanofiori Forum is a station on Line 2 of the Milan Metro, in the southern suburb of Assago. The line here runs beside Autostrada A7, and it is the southernmost station of the network. The station was opened on 20 February 2011 as the terminus of a two-station extension from Famagosta.
The station serves the nearby Assago Forum, an indoor arena. The station can get very crowded after concerts and other events at the Forum.
References
Line 2 (Milan Metro) stations
Railway stations in Italy opened in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusi%20Brij | Rusi Brij (17 November 1955 – 20 May 2009) was an Indian business executive and entrepreneur. He was executive director of Satyam Computers, and CEO and vice-chairman of Hexaware Technologies. In 2003, he was named by Bain & Co. as one of India's hottest dealmakers in software. Rusi was well known and respected for his amicable mannerism, mentoring skills, people-oriented approach and a fine collection of vintage wines.
Rusi began his career with Living Media Limited, the leading magazine publishing house in India, where he was instrumental in setting up the first Market Research Unit in the publishing industry. He was the product manager for India Today, and also conceptualized and launched the Computers Today magazine. He entered the IT industry in 1986 when he joined Sonata Software, Bangalore.
He had over 25 years of varied experience in diverse portfolios ranging from M & A, International Business Development, Sales & Marketing, Project Management and Corporate Planning. His experience also included a long tenure with Satyam Computer Services Ltd. culminating in his appointment to executive director and EVP. He was widely known as a marketing-whiz at Satyam, where he once turned a $2 million deal into $20 million, the biggest deal of its kind in the Indian software industry at the time. He was instrumental in acquiring some of their largest customers, setting up many of their international operations, and also serving as chairman on several of their joint ventures, with Fortune 500 firms such as GE, IBM and the Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe.
He left Satyam in 2001 to join beleaguered Mumbai, India based Hexaware Technologies. The merger of Aptech Inc., a software training firm with Hexaware, a software development firm, had been slammed by Indian analysts. Morgan Stanley, while calling the venture "undoubtedly attractive", noted the uncertainty and volatility in the stock price as a major reason to be cautious. Prior to his joining Hexaware, the merger announcement had sent the stock tumbling from Rs. 450 per share to Rs. 90. 5 out of the 6 subsidiaries of the company were making a loss, and revenues seemed stalled at $52 million. By 2007, revenues had crossed $250 million, with year-on-year growth consistently over 35%.
While at Hexaware, he guided the company into key markets including PeopleSoft, Travel & Transportation, and Financial Services. He principally focused on business strategy, M&A, leadership development, and investor relations. In 2004, he was elevated to vice-chairman of the board. Under his tenure, Hexaware grew from a small BPO outfit to one of the top 20 software companies in India. It was also ranked as the fastest growing mid-size company in India. By 2005, the company was listed at number 11 on NASSCOM's Top 20 Indian software firms.
In 2005, Hexaware faced problems after PeopleSoft, a key client, was acquired by Oracle. Hexaware was amongst the top five vendors of PeopleSoft and had set up operations under a Build-Op |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confluence%20%28company%29 | Confluence (Confluence Technologies) is a software firm that provides back-office automation systems to the investment management industry. The company was founded in 1991, and aims to lead the "DataTech evolution" with "a vision ... [of] instantaneously transforming data into knowledge and delivering it to the world." According to the company's website, Confluence technology is in use by eight of the top 10 global service
providers, and all of the top 10 global asset managers have business processes automated through Confluence.
Confluence is headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2017 it moved into new headquarters in Nova Place, located in Pittsburgh's Allegheny Center neighborhood. Confluence lists other international locations in Cape Town, Frankfurt, Ho Chi Minh City, London, Luxembourg, Milan, Montreal, Paris, Sydney and Toronto.
Confluence was founded in 1991 by Mike Schiller and Mark Evans. Schiller left the company in 1997 and Evans currently serves as Chairman, CEO and President of the company.
Confluence is privately owned. In 2018, TA Associates completed a majority investment in Confluence. As part of the transaction, Polaris Venture Partners sold its stake in the company.
Products and services
The Confluence platform features regulatory reporting, investor communications, and performance and analytics solutions and supports a wide array of
fund types – including mutual funds, ETFs, alternative investments, institutional portfolios and UCITS funds.
Partnerships
In 2018, MSCI announced that it is adjusting its data and analytics for integration with Confluence's Regulatory Reporting.
As of 2018, ICE Data Services and Confluence are partnering to help asset managers comply with SEC Regulations, with ICE Data Services focusing on market data and analytics, and Confluence applying its Regulatory Reporting platform.
Growth and acquisitions
Confluence acquired California-based data management company, Data Agent, an alternative investment industry data and reporting solutions leader, in 2013.
In December 2014, Confluence announced the acquisition of Belgium-based data solutions provider, Orfival, increasing the breadth of Confluence offerings with new capability in performance risk analytics and attribution.
In October 2019, Confluence acquired UK portfolio analytics company StatPro for £161.1 million.
Awards and recognition
In 2016 and 2017, Confluence won the "Best Use of Agile Methodology" at the American Financial Technology Awards (AFTAs).
In 2017, Confluence was awarded the "Best Data Management Solution" at the 2017 Mutual Fund Service and Technology Awards.
References
Companies based in Pittsburgh
Software companies established in 1991
1991 establishments in Pennsylvania
Software companies based in Pennsylvania
2018 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Standard%20Snowboard%20Show | The Standard Snowboard Show is an American sports documentary television series airing on the Big Ten Network, Fox Sports Net, and various other members of the Fox Cable Networks. It is filmed at numerous snowboarding sites worldwide including Canada and New Zealand.
Each action-fortified episode takes viewers into the most dangerous and spectacular locations where big mountain experts conquer avalanche-prone descents around the globe. A driving score matches stunning cinematography and an entertaining format, which mixes in compelling profiles and feature segments, all focusing on the exciting world of freestyle and big mountain snowboarding.
External links
http://www.billabonggirls-usa.com/blog-post/1554/the-standard-snowboard-show--starring-jamie-anderson--jenny-jones
2003 American television series debuts
2000s American documentary television series
2010s American documentary television series
American sports television series
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR%20Outdoors | NASCAR Outdoors is an outdoors television series sponsored by the National Association of Stock Car Racing (NASCAR) first broadcast on the Outdoor Life Network on April 4, 2004. Outdoor Channel began to broadcast the series in 2011, under the title Realtree's NASCAR Outdoors.
External links
2004 American television series debuts
American sports television series
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Best%20and%20Worst%20of%20Tred%20Barta | The Best and Worst of Tred Barta is a reality television series hosted by Tred Barta which began airing on the Outdoor Life Network on November 5, 2004.
External links
2004 American television series debuts
2000s American reality television series
2010s American reality television series
American sports television series
English-language television shows
2012 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davide%20Sangiorgi | Davide Sangiorgi is an Italian professor of computer science at the University of Bologna.
He has previously held research positions at the University of Edinburgh and at Inria.
He has received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Robin Milner in 1993.
He has had visiting positions at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI, Amsterdam), University of Cambridge, University of Oxford.
His research interests are in the fields of concurrent systems, semantics and verification techniques.
He is a member, and past chairman, of IFIP Working Group 2.2 on the formal description of programming concepts, and a member of Academia Europaea. He is the head of the Research Team FOCUS, a joint laboratory between the University of Bologna and INRIA.
External links
Davide Sangiorgi's home page
Curriculum vitae
References
Living people
1931 births
Italian computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Academic staff of the University of Bologna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC/104%20Consortium | The PC/104 Consortium is a technology consortium that was established in February 1992 by 12 companies, all sharing a vision of adapting desktop computer technology for embedded applications. Based on the technologies of a IBM PC-based single-board computer developed by American company Ampro in 1987, the PC/104 Consortium has since had a positive effect on the embedded computer marketplace and now includes over 50 member companies. The PC/104 Consortium's technological philosophy is to support legacy technology while developing new solutions for the future. Longevity is a requirement for embedded systems and one of the hallmarks of PC/104 technology.
Adopted specifications
PC/104 – based on Industry Standard Architecture (ISA)
PC/104-Plus – based on Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) and ISA
PCI-104 – based on PCI
PCI/104-Express – based on PCI Express (PCIe) and PCI
PCIe/104 – based on PCIe
EBX – based on PCI and ISA
EBX Express – based on PCIe and PCI
EPIC – based on PCI and ISA
EPIC Express – based on PCIe and PCI
Notes
Technology consortia
Organizations established in 1992
External links |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciobrama%20macrocephalus | Luciobrama macrocephalus, the long spiky-head carp, is a species of cyprinid fish that is found in China and Vietnam. It is the only member of its genus, and is classified as data deficient by the IUCN. It is found in rivers and lakes. Larger fish, over live nearer the bottom and the smaller specimens are found higher in the water column. They are partially migratory. It has not been recorded from its spawning sites since 1988.
References
Cyprinid fish of Asia
Freshwater fish of China
Fish described in 1803 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Mix | Sony MIX was an Indian pay television music channel owned by Sony Pictures Networks that broadcast Hindi-language music videos. It was launched on 1 September 2011. After more than eight years of broadcasting, the sudden decision to close one of the popular channel had many viewers expressing their dismay on social media. Sony Pictures Networks India decided to shut the broadcasting operations of Sony Mix from 31 March 2020 at 12:00 M.N. onwards from all leading DTH & MSO platforms.
Audience Music Awards
The channel launched its own music awards in 2018, named Audience Music Awards to honour the artists of the Indian music industry.
References
External links
Official website
Sony Pictures Networks India
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2020
Television stations in Mumbai
Defunct television channels in India
2011 establishments in Maharashtra
Indian companies established in 2011
Indian companies disestablished in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second%20screen | A second screen involves the use of a computing device to provide a different viewing experience for content on another device.
The term commonly refers to the use of such devices to provide interactive features, like posts on social media platforms that take input from the audience during a broadcast, such as a television program. This type of technology is designed to keep the audience engaged with whatever they are watching and has been found to support social television and generate an online conversation around specific content. It is a type of screen casting technology that allows a smartphone or tablet to display its contents on another screen. A second screen can also refer to having multiple monitors connected to a computer.
Analysis
Several studies show a tendency to use another device while watching television such as a tablet or smartphone. Other studies distinguish a higher percentage of comments or posts on social networks about the content that is being watched (Nielsen ratings).
Besides keeping the audience engaged (via polling, chatting, providing additional information about content and participants, etc.) and generating revenue via advertising, a second screen can be used as a metering solution to get information about the audience. Being more far-reaching and inexpensive, a second screen may replace people meters in the future.
One trend hampering the growth of second screens is that many shows are creating their own applications for them. It is considered impractical to expect users to download multiple applications and switch between them for each channel or show.
Conference and business meeting organizers may also incorporate second screens to deepen audience engagement. According to "2014 Trend Tracker", the second screen phenomenon is a significant and growing trend. "Attendees are so glued to their devices, even while watching a live presentation (or at home, on television) that marketers are supplying them with a simultaneous engagement tool they can access on that device," says Robin Stanley, VP-design and creative at GES. "Software tools allow conference session presenters to share slides and presentations in real-time, so attendees can follow on with their device in hand." Second screen technology at conferences can be an integral part of the event experience by allowing conference attendees to engage with the speaker and other participants.
Applications
Many applications designed for the second screen give another form of interactivity to the user and another way to sell advertising content. Second screening may also involve applications not formally connected to the primary entertainment. Some examples include:
TV programs broadcasting live tweets and comments.
Synchronization of audio-visual content via web advertising.
Applications that extend the content information.
Shows that add content exclusively for the second screen to their websites.
Applications that synchronize the content being viewed t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viso | Viso may refer to:
E. J. Viso (born 1985), Venezuelan racing driver
Monte Viso, mountain in Italy
El Viso, city in Spain
Computing
Virtual ISO, i.e. constructed in memory from a bunch of files on the host for a virtual machine running over it. A VISO is just the recipe describing how to go about this using a syntax vaguely similar to mkisofs and genisoimage.
See also
Vișeu, a river in Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Draper%20%28disambiguation%29 | John Draper may refer to:
John Draper (1943–), American computer hacker and phone phreaker who used the pseudonym "Captain Crunch"
John Christopher Draper (1835–1885), American chemist, a son of John William Draper and brother of Henry Draper
John William Draper (1811–1882), American (English-born) scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian and photographer
John Draper (MP for New Shoreham), 1413–1416, MP for New Shoreham (UK Parliament constituency)
John Draper (MP for Rochester), in 1420, MP for Rochester (UK Parliament constituency)
John Draper (motorcyclist) (1939–2002), English professional motorcycle racer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20journalism | Data journalism or data-driven journalism (DDJ) is journalism based on the filtering and analysis of large data sets for the purpose of creating or elevating a news story.
Data journalism reflects the increased role of numerical data in the production and distribution of information in the digital era. It involves a blending of journalism with other fields such as data visualization, computer science, and statistics, "an overlapping set of competencies drawn from disparate fields".
Data journalism has been widely used to unite several concepts and link them to journalism. Some see these as levels or stages leading from the simpler to the more complex uses of new technologies in the journalistic process.
Many data-driven stories begin with newly available resources such as open source software, open access publishing and open data, while others are products of public records requests or leaked materials. This approach to journalism builds on older practices, most notably on computer-assisted reporting (CAR) a label used mainly in the US for decades. Other labels for partially similar approaches are "precision journalism", based on a book by Philipp Meyer, published in 1972, where he advocated the use of techniques from social sciences in researching stories. Data-driven journalism has a wider approach. At the core the process builds on the growing availability of open data that is freely available online and analyzed with open source tools. Data-driven journalism strives to reach new levels of service for the public, helping the general public or specific groups or individuals to understand patterns and make decisions based on the findings. As such, data driven journalism might help to put journalists into a role relevant for society in a new way.
Telling stories based on the data is the primary goal. The findings from data can be transformed into any form of journalistic writing. Visualizations can be used to create a clear understanding of a complex situation. Furthermore, elements of storytelling can be used to illustrate what the findings actually mean, from the perspective of someone who is affected by a development. This connection between data and story can be viewed as a "new arc" trying to span the gap between developments that are relevant, but poorly understood, to a story that is verifiable, trustworthy, relevant and easy to remember.
Definitions
Veglis and Bratsas defined data journalism as "the process of extracting useful information from data, writing articles based on the information, and embedding visualizations (interacting in some cases) in the articles that help readers understand the significance of the story or allow them to pinpoint data that relate to them"
Antonopoulos and Karyotakis define the practice of data journalism as "a way of enhancing reporting and news writing with the use and examination of statistics in order to provide a deeper insight into a news story and to highlight relevant data. One trend in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card%20Verifiable%20Certificate | Card Verifiable Certificates (CVC) are digital certificates that are designed to be processed by devices with limited computing power such as smart cards. This is achieved by using simple type–length–value (TLV) encoding with fixed fields. Fixed fields means that each field in the certificate is of fixed, or maximum, length and each field comes in a well defined order. This makes parsing easy, in contrast to asn.1 parsing which requires more processing and has to keep fields in memory while parsing nested content.
CVC is used by the third generation ePassports implementing Extended Access Control (EAC).
There are open source implementations for processing EAC/CVC certificates:
EJBCA
JMRTD
References
Public-key cryptography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devita%20Saraf | Devita Saraf is the founder, chairman and CEO of Vu Televisions.
Early life
Saraf was born in Mumbai, India. Her father, Rajkumar Saraf, was chairman of Zenith Computers. She attended Queen Mary School, Mumbai. She later attended the H.R. College of Commerce and Economics and the University of Southern California, where she received a BA in business administration.
Career
She founded the company at the age of 24 after completing her bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California. She has also studied management of technology at the University of California, Berkeley, and game theory and strategic thinking at the London School of Economics. She is also pursuing the OPM program at Harvard Business School.
Zenith
Saraf started her career at age 16, under the guidance of her father at Zenith Computers, and was named director of marketing when she was 21. In 2006 Saraf went from being the head of marketing to CEO.
Vu Technologies
At age 24, Saraf started Vu Technologies, which sells high-end LED TVs. While Zenith was mass technology focused, Vu sells innovative luxury items. Vu came out with a 4K HD Iconium Series televisions in October 2015. In October 2014, the Bombay High Court sealed the premises of the Andheri-based office of Vu Technologies after it fraudulently showed 200 employees in their affidavit but only 32 were found on premises in a visit and in the muster roll for September–October 2014.
Others
Saraf has been a National Co-Chair and Executive Committee Member in the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Young Leaders Forum. She was also the founder and Chair of the Young Bombay Forum which was part of Bombay Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She is the member of Mensa, an international society for people with high IQ.
She was also a columnist for The Wall Street Journal. In 2017, Saraf bought a full page ad in the Times of India newspaper, where she congratulated Donald Trump on becoming President of the United States. The ad attracted mixed reviews on social media.
Controversy
The High Court of Bombay in a case filed by The Bank of New York Mellon, convicted her father, and the promoters of Zenith Infotech of siphoning company funds to personnel accounts and has directed the Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction Government of India (BIFR) to act in accordance with its regulations.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) accused Zenith Infotech Limited and its six promoters of fraudulent removal of funds to personnel accounts without notice to shareholders, and as of 25 March 2013, SEBI prevented the promoters from accessing the securities market or trading in securities in any manner. The named six promoters included by SEBI are Saraf; her father Rajkumar Saraf; Akash Kumar Saraf; Vijayrani Saraf; VU Technologies; and Zenith Technologies.
Books
Speaker
References
Living people
Indian women chief executives
Marshall School of Business |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHOM | KHOM (100.9 FM) is an American radio station licensed to serve Salem, the county seat of Fulton County, Arkansas. As of July 31, 2013, the station is owned by E-Communications, LLC.
Programming
KHOM broadcasts a classic hits format to the greater West Plains, Missouri, area. Until the 2011 sale, this station had aired a country music format of some sort since its establishment in 1977, most recently the "Real Country" format from Cumulus Media Networks branded as "K-Home 100.9". From the 2011 sale until July 31, 2013, the station aired a sports radio format provided by ESPN.
History
The station, then known by the call sign "KSAR", began regular broadcast operations in September 1977. Owned and operated by the Salem Broadcasting Company (with Ronald E. Plumee as company owner and president), KSAR originally broadcast a contemporary country music format with 2,500 watts of effective radiated power on a frequency of 95.9 MHz.
In May 1983, Salem Broadcasting reached an agreement to sell KSAR to Mountain Home Broadcasting Corporation. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the deal on June 30, 1983, and the transaction was formally consummated on August 9, 1983. The new owners continued the station's contemporary country format.
Mountain Home Broadcasting Corporation agreed to sell KSAR to James & Ruth Bragg, doing business as Salem Broadcasting, in October 1987. The FCC approved the sale on December 4, 1987, and the transaction was formally consummated on December 16, 1987. The next month, James & Ruth Bragg applied to the FCC to transfer the station's broadcast license to a new corporation they owned, Bragg Broadcasting Incorporated. The FCC approved the transfer on January 28, 1988, and the formal consummation was filed on February 18, 1988. The Braggs maintained the country format but with a full service lean, adding daily farm programming and at least 20 hours of news and information programming per week.
In April 1997, KSAR applied to the FCC to switch broadcast frequencies from 95.9 to 100.9 MHz and upgrade its licensed facilities from broadcast class A to class C2. This shift would allow the station to increase its effective radiated power from 2,500 watts to 50,000 watts, greatly increasing its coverage area. The FCC granted a construction permit to make the necessary changes on August 7, 1997, with a scheduled expiration of December 21, 2000. With construction and testing completed in September 2000, the station applied for a new broadcast license to cover these changes. The FCC granted the new license to operate on the new frequency at the higher power on March 8, 2001.
In October 1999, Bragg Broadcasting Inc. filed an application to transfer KSAR to the Mountain Lakes Broadcasting Corporation. The FCC approved the transfer on December 14, 1999, and the move was formally consummated on March 1, 2000. The next day, the new licensee had the FCC change the station's call sign to "KHOM".
Along with sister station KBMV-FM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthy%20Appetite%20with%20Ellie%20Krieger | Healthy Appetite with Ellie Krieger is a television series on Food Network airing since 2006 and hosted by Ellie Krieger.
References
External links
2006 American television series debuts
2010s American television series
Food Network original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madatapa%20Lake |
Madatapa Lake () is a lake in the Samtskhe-Javakheti region of southeastern Georgia, near the border with Armenia, north of Bavra. Covering an area of at an elevation of , the lake is noted for its Paravan race of common carp and has been considered as a commercial fishing production site. It is found in one of the most earthquake-prone areas of the Caucasus. A shallow lake, it, along with Khanchali Lake, is one of the most important in the country for breeding and staging waterbirds, including the endangered Dalmatian pelican. Since 2020 it has been designated as a protected Ramsar site.
The villages of Zhdanovakani, Epremovka, Troitskoye and Sameba lie around the lake. Biketi Lake lies to the north.
See also
Madatapa Managed Reserve
Javakheti Plateau
References
Lakes of Georgia (country)
Ramsar sites in Georgia (country)
Geography of Samtskhe–Javakheti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biketi%20Lake | Biketi Lake () is a small lake in Samtskhe-Javakheti, southeastern Georgia. It is located north of Madatapa Lake.
References
Lakes of Georgia (country)
Geography of Samtskhe–Javakheti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saghamo%20Lake |
Saghamo Lake () is a lake of Samtskhe-Javakheti, southeastern Georgia, just south of Gandzani. It covers an area of 458 hectares. It is located north of Madatapa Lake and Biketi Lake. The village of Saghamo lies on its eastern bank.
References
Lakes of Georgia (country)
Geography of Samtskhe–Javakheti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim%20%281999%20film%29 | Victim () is a 1999 Hong Kong thriller film directed and co-written by Ringo Lam. The film stars Tony Leung Ka-fai, Lau Ching-wan and Amy Kwok and is about a computer programmer named Ma who is found in a haunted hotel by a cop. The programmer begins to terrify his girlfriend Amy Fu, which leads the cops to think that Ma is covering up some larger crime.
On its release in Hong Kong theatres, the film's ending was changed for 50% of the film prints due to an argument between Ringo Lam and producer Joe Ma. It was nominated for several year-end awards in Asia and was included as a Film of Merit by the 6th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards.
Plot
Ma (Lau Ching-wan) is kidnapped in a parking structure. His girlfriend Amy Fu (Amy Kwok) informs the police that though he had been jobless for a while and had a lot of debt, he was not a bad man. Police detective Pit (Tony Leung Ka-fai) later discovers Ma beaten, bloodied, and dangling upside down from the ceiling of an old abandoned hotel. The hotel in question is said to be haunted from murder-suicide of the original owner and his wife. On returning home, Ma starts terrifying Amy by behaving like the famous ghost of the hotel. The police begin to suspect that Ma's possession might be a ruse to hide something other crimes that are happening.
Cast
Lau Ching-wan as Manson Ma
Tony Leung Ka-fai as Detective Pit Kwan
Amy Kwok as Amy Fu
Wayne Lai as Detective Bee Ting
Collin Chou as Shing
Hui Shiu-hung as Detective Yee
Emily Kwan as Detective Po
Joe Ma Tak-chung
Joe Ma Wai-ho
Joe Lee as Uncle Kwai
David Lee as Detective David
Chiu Yun-huen as Mr. Lai
Chung King-fai as Chairman Lee
Kong Foo-keung as Detective
Suki Kwan as Grace Kwan
Law Wai-kai
Raymond Tsang as Security Guard Hon
Wong Wa-wo as Security Guard Wong
Release
Victim was released in Hong Kong on 16 October 1999. Two versions of Victim were released in Hong Kong due to arguments between director Ringo Lam and producer Joe Ma. 50% of the prints released contained an extra shot in the final scene that clarified the question of whether or not the character of Ma was possessed by a ghost. The other 50% reflected the original script, which left this plot element unanswered. The film grossed HK$3,915,929.
Reception
Variety gave a mixed review, stating that the film was at its best with drew "some remarkable playing from its cast" while the ghost story elements were "the weakest". A negative review came from the San Francisco Chronicle, who referred to the film "as ridiculous as it is tepid. Only late in the second half of this almost-two-hour - way too long! - cat-and-mouse game does the film catch fire."
Awards and nominations
See also
Hong Kong films of 1999
List of thriller films of the 1990s
Notes
External links
Hong Kong Cinemagic entry
1999 films
1990s heist films
1999 action thriller films
Haunted house films
Hong Kong heist films
Hong Kong action thriller films
Police detective films
Films directed by Ringo Lam
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers%3A%20Fall%20of%20Cybertron | Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is a third-person shooter video game based on the Transformers franchise, developed by High Moon Studios and published by Activision. It is the sequel to the 2010 video game Transformers: War for Cybertron, and directly follows the events of that game, as the Autobots struggle to defeat their Decepticon foes in a civil war for their home planet of Cybertron. The game was released on August 21, 2012, in North America and on August 24, 2012, in Europe for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. In 2016, it was released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on August 8, in Australia and on August 9, in North America. Mercenary Technology developed the game's Windows version, while Fun Labs developed the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions.
Set as the prequel to Transformers: Prime, the game tells the story of the Transformers, fictional robotic life forms, and the final days of conflict on their home planet of Cybertron. An origins subplot for the Dinobots is also told, reimagined from the Transformers: Generation 1 continuity. Other subplots also tell an adapted story for several characters. Some of the voice cast from the 1984 series The Transformers return to reprise their roles, including Peter Cullen as Autobot leader Optimus Prime and Gregg Berger as Grimlock. Other actors return to reprise their roles from Transformers: War for Cybertron.
Fall of Cybertron received generally favorable reviews from critics. Critics generally felt that the game was true to the Transformers franchise and provided good fan service, but some thought that the story pace slowed at times. Gameplay was mostly praised, but some reviewers cited the removal of War for Cybertrons cooperative campaign as a low point. Graphics and audio also received broadly positive comments. A spin-off, Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark, which is partially set between War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron, was released in June 2014. Later, following the expiration of the licensing deal between Activision and Hasbro, the game title was delisted from digital storefronts.
Gameplay
Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, like its predecessor Transformers: War for Cybertron, is a third-person shooter. Players can control each transformer in both its robot and vehicle forms. Instead of a traditional health system, the game features a system similar to the Halo series of video games. The player character has both a regenerating shield and health, the latter of which can be replenished by a health pack. The weapon selection in Fall of Cybertron is expanded, with new weapons that can take on very significant upgrades, including one that allows a weapon to fire up to 75% faster. These are purchased through Teletran 1 kiosks found throughout the game.
Every character has been given their own unique ability. For example, Jazz can fire a grappling hook to reach high or distant places, Optimus Prime can command the massive Metroplex, and the Combaticons have the abil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20V.%20Andree | Richard Vernon Andree (16 December 1919 – 8 May 1987) was an American mathematician and computer scientist.
Andree taught at the University of Oklahoma for 37 years, and served as a professor emeritus there until his death. He and his wife, Josephine, founded the Mu Alpha Theta mathematics honor society. Andree wrote a book on abstract algebra entitled Selections From Modern Abstract Algebra which was first published in 1958. He also wrote and published at his own expense numerous puzzle books and enjoyed cryptography. Andree and his students developed the ALPS programming language for the Bendix G-15 computer.
For several years in the late 1960s and thru the 1970s, Andree ran a summer school for high school teachers in Oklahoma to expose them to computers. Teachers would come from around the state and take short courses in programming in FORTRAN or BASIC. He also held evening and night computer study labs for local business owners wanting an exposure to computers and how they could use them in their business.
Andree was influential in the national collegiate mathematical organization Pi Mu Epsilon, having served as President, Secretary-Treasurer, and editor of their Journal. The Richard V. Andree Awards are given by the organization to undergraduates whose articles in the Pi Mu Epsilon Journal have been judged as containing the best content for the year.
References
External links
Data from the Information Age Education
1919 births
1987 deaths
Writers from Michigan
20th-century American mathematicians
American computer scientists
Place of birth missing
University of Oklahoma faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhabdastrella | Rhabdastrella is a genus of marine sponges belonging to the family of Ancorinidae.
Species
Rhabdastrella actinosa (Lévi, 1964)
Rhabdastrella aurora (Hentschel, 1909)
Rhabdastrella cordata Wiedenmayer, 1989
Rhabdastrella cribriporosa (Dendy, 1916)
Rhabdastrella distincta (Thiele, 1900)
Rhabdastrella fibrosa Hechtel, 1983
Rhabdastrella globostellata (Carter, 1883)
Rhabdastrella intermedia Wiedenmayer, 1989
Rhabdastrella membranacea (Hentschel, 1909)
Rhabdastrella oxytoxa (Thomas, 1973)
Rhabdastrella primitiva (Burton, 1926)
Rhabdastrella providentiae (Dendy, 1916)
Rhabdastrella reticulata (Carter, 1883)
Rhabdastrella rowi (Dendy, 1916)
Rhabdastrella spinosa (Lévi, 1967)
Rhabdastrella sterrastraea (Row, 1911)
Rhabdastrella trichophora (Lévi e Lévi, 1989)
Rhabdastrella virgula Boury-Esnault, 1973
Rhabdastrella wondoensis (Sim & Kim, 1995)
References
Tetractinellida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20St.%20Clair | Chris St. Clair (born in or around 1960) is a Canadian weather presenter who, until his retirement, was the host of Saturday and Sunday morning and early afternoon broadcasts on The Weather Network. As he has said on the show, he grew up in Halifax. For The Weather Network, St. Clair also hosted WeatherWise, a segment where he explained different weather phenomena. He is the station's longest-serving host, having joined the station in 1994. St. Clair retired from The Weather Network on Saturday, July 25, 2021, after 27 years.
He attended Acadia University
, and is a former commercial airline pilot. His books, ‘Weather Permitting, 25 Years Of Ice Storms, Hurricanes, Wildfires & Extreme Climate Change In Canada’ was published by Simon & Schuster in 2022. Canada’s Weather: The Climate that Shapes a Nation was published in 2009.
St. Clair appeared on The Mercer Report on CBC Television, that first aired on January 25, 2011.
References
External links
The Weather Network biography
Canada's Weather: The Climate that Shapes a Nation
Acadia University alumni
Living people
Canadian television meteorologists
Canadian non-fiction writers
Commercial aviators
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls%20Action%20Foundation | Girls Action Foundation provides funds and training to over 100 girls’ programs in communities across Canada. It also offers programs, research and support to a network of over 300 partnering organizations and projects, reaching over 60,000 Canadian girls and young women annually, particularly in under-represented communities including Northern, racialised, low-income, Aboriginal and immigrant communities.
Working in partnership
Girls Action Foundation collaborates with several national and international organizations that work with girls and young women, including Canadian Women's Foundation, G(irls)20 Summit, Girls and Women, J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University, Status of Women Canada, YWCA Canada, and over 300 network member organizations.
The Light a Spark Campaign was launched in 2011 to encourage accomplished women to motivate and inspire the next generation. More than 64 Canadian women took part in the initiative as mentors, spokeswomen or fundraisers, including musicians Melissa Auf der Maur and Jenny Salgado, environmentalist Severn Cullis-Suzuki, triathlete Tereza Macel, social justice activist Judy Rebick, writers Lillian Allen and Kim Thúy Ly, and journalist Isabelle Racicot.
Services
Girls Action Foundation provides spaces for girls to speak out, build skills and create action on issues that are important and real to them. Its local girls’ programs address violence prevention, health promotion, media literacy and leadership and its national leadership program offers long-term investment and support to young women who are changemakers in their communities.
By providing publications, resources and practical support, Girls Action fosters learning, connections and collaborations. Its programs include coaching, training and networking opportunities that help develop community initiatives and girls’ programs.
Programs and projects
•Amplify
A national training program for girls’ program providers that involves designing programs, creating empowering spaces for marginalized girls, developing workshops and facilitation skills, as well as deepening understanding of popular education and building community support, while sharing resources, challenges and strategies.
•Art Attack
After school arts program for 14- to 17-year-old girls in the Montreal area. Combines popular education and media arts-based activities where the girls explore themes related to body image, self-esteem, violence, dating, pop culture, the media, and more.
•Bridge Project
A national collaboration to support young women's civic engagement, created to fill a gap in resources and programming that responds to the realities and issues facing immigrant and refugee girls and young women.
•ELLE
A national 5-day leadership program for young women between 16 and 25 years of age that includes training, networking opportunities, long-term mentorship program and Leadership Capacity Grants. Through capacity building, peer learni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toor%20%28Unix%29 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:toor (Unix)}}
Toor, the word "root" spelled backwards, is an alternative superuser account in Unix-like operating systems, particularly BSD and variants.
Purpose
In Unix, it is traditional to keep the root filesystem as small as reasonably possible, moving larger programs and rapidly changing data to other, optional parts of the system. This increases the likelihood that the system can be brought to a semi-usable state in the case of a partial system failure. It also means that the superuser account, necessary for repairing a broken system, should not depend on any programs outside of this small core. To this end, the root account is often configured with a shell which is small, efficient, and dependable, but awkward for daily use.
The toor account is intended as a solution to this problem. It is identical to root, but is configured to use a different, more featureful shell.
Alternately, toor may be configured with the emergency shell, allowing root the freedom to use the featureful one.
Implementation
In a Unix-like system, each user has a user ID number, which is what the kernel uses to distinguish users and to manage user permissions. User ID #0 is reserved as the superuser account, and is given permission to do anything on the system.
Users log in by username, not by ID number, and a user's choice of login shell is also managed by name. This separation between name and number allows a given user ID to be associated with more than one username, each having its own shell.
Security considerations
The presence of a 'toor' account (or the presence of more than one account with a user ID of 0) triggers a warning in many security auditing systems. This is valuable, since if the system administrator did not intend for a second superuser account, then it may mean that the system has been compromised.
It may be argued that even an intentional 'toor' account is a security risk, since it provides a second point of attack for someone trying to illicitly gain superuser privileges on the system. However, if passwords are chosen and guarded carefully, the risk increase is minimal.
For example, NetBSD ships with a disabled 'toor' account, meaning that there is no password with which one can log into the system as 'toor'. This is not a security risk in itself, though it may generate security warnings as previously described. However, if the system is compromised, an administrator may be less likely to notice the enabling of a disabled account than the creation of a new one, especially if they have become accustomed to ignoring warnings about 'toor' from their (arguably misconfigured) security program.
References
System administration
Operating system security
Unix |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelitek | Intelitek is a privately held technology education company focused on STEM education, Robotics, Programming and technology training for machining, manufacturing, industrial maintenance and more. Based in Derry, New Hampshire, the company was established in 1982 and in July 2001 adopted the name Intelitek, Inc. A subsidiary of Israeli firm, Robogroup T.E.K. Ltd., the company has customers in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia, in the fields of secondary education, colleges and universities, and industrial training centers. Intelitek offers educational engineering and technology systems for instruction in STEM education, engineering, robotics, advanced manufacturing, automation, industrial maintenance, oil and gas, process control, and agriculture.
One of Intelitek's latest releases is an online learning environment, to learn how to program virtual and real robots within the STEM pathways.
Installations and sponsorships
In 2002, Intelitek provided a $350,000 grant to Gilbert High School, installing a state-of-the-art robotics lab in the school's former wood shop. This was the first such high school robotics lab in the state of Arizona.
In 2007, the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Sergei Ivanov, visited the Ufa State Aviation Technical University to tour an educational "Technopark" stocked with sophisticated equipment. One of the key features of the facility was a mini-CNC lathe purchased from Intelitek. The Technopark was Russia's only facility to have this level of equipment.
Intelitek was a supporting sponsor of the 2011 VEX Robotics Competition World Championship. And the company's executives also serve as mentors to students in a high school's "Project Lead The Way" program in the headquarters' area.
References
Companies based in New Hampshire
Companies established in 1982
Educational robots
Robotics companies of the United States
1982 establishments in New Hampshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXFH-TV | DXFH-TV, channel 23, was the flagship station of Philippine television network ABS-CBN Sports and Action (S+A), a fully owned subsidiary of AMCARA Broadcasting Network. The station's studios and transmitter are located at the ABS-CBN Broadcast Center, San Jose Road, Zamboanga City.
On May 5, 2020, S+A Zambaoanga went off-air, together with ABS-CBN and MOR, due to cease-and-desist order from the National Telecommunications Commission after its legislative franchise expired the previous day.
See also
S+A stations
DXFH-FM
DXLL-TV
References
ABS-CBN Sports and Action stations
Television channels and stations established in 1997
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXAB-TV | DXAB-TV, channel 21, was the flagship station of Philippine sports television network ABS-CBN Sports and Action (S+A), a fully owned subsidiary of AMCARA Broadcasting Network. Its studio and transmitter are located at the ABS-CBN Broadcast Complex, Broadcast Ave., Shrine Hills, Matina, Davao City.
On May 5, 2020, S+A Davao went off-air, due to cease and desist order from the National Telecommunications Commission, together with ABS-CBN and MOR after its legislative franchise expired on May 4.
See also
ABS-CBN
ABS-CBN Sports and Action
DXAS-TV
DXRR
DXAB
Studio 23 (the former name of ABS-CBN Sports and Action)
ABS-CBN Sports and Action stations
ABS-CBN Sports and Action stations
Television stations in Davao City
Television channels and stations established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy%20Visualization%20Metadata | Astronomy Visualization Metadata (AVM) is a standard for tagging digital astronomical images stored in formats such as JPEG, GIF, PNG and TIFF. The AVM standard extends the concept of Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) headers to include useful astronomical information about the subject of the image as well as the telescope used to take the image. This ensures that relevant information is transferred with the image when it is shared with others. AVM could be considered analogous to the FITS headers associated with raw astronomical data files.
The standard was proposed by the Virtual Astronomy Multimedia Project, part of the IAU Commission 55 and the International Virtual Observatory Alliance. It reached version 1.1 on May 14, 2008. The standard is currently used to tag images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, Herschel Space Observatory, Spitzer Space Telescope, ESA/Hubble and the European Southern Observatory. Software packages such as PinpointWCS, FITS Liberator and Microsoft WorldWide Telescope have implemented the standard.
The metadata include information about the creator of the image, the content (including description and subject category), the method of observation (including facility, instrument and spectral information), the World Coordinate System (WCS) position in the sky, and the publisher of the image.
AVM was conceived by Robert Hurt, Lars Lindberg Christensen, and Adrienne Gauthier.
Metadata Categories
The Astronomy Visualization Metadata standard defines a taxonomy for astronomical objects. The main categories are:
Planet
Interplanetary Body
Star
Nebula
Galaxy
Cosmology
Sky Phenomenon
Technology
People
References
Digital photography
Metadata
Computational astronomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology%20specialist | An IT specialist, computer professional, or an IT professional may be:
a person working in the field of information technology;
a person who has undergone training in a computer-field-related colleges, universities and computer institutes; or
a person who has proven extensive knowledge in the area of computing.
Technology specialist
Job titles for a computer professional include:
computer incident responder
computer repair technician
computer scientist
database administrator
digital forensics analyst
firewall administrator
information technology consultant
intrusion detection system analyst
network administrator
programmer (also known as a software engineer)
system administrator
systems analyst
web developer
See also
List of computer occupations
References
How to become it specialist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intorel | Visionic is a network management computer system and network monitoring software application produced by Intorel.
In 2002, Intorel launched the first version of later to become its flagship product - Visionic.
References
Intorel...Visionic 5 Is Visionary In A Centralized System, satnews.com, January 24, 2013
A Case In Point: M&C in Myanmar - Intorel’s Visionic M&C system: SatMagazine, satmagazine.com, November 6, 2012.
Intorel has rolled out Visionic version 4.2, a monitoring and control solution for the broadcast and satellite industry, satellitetoday.com, February 20, 2009.
CASE STUDY - The COTS Benefit — Intorel's Visionic : SatMagazine, satmagazine.com, September 7, 2008.
Intorel announces new Visionic Updates with launch of Version 3.55 satellite monitoring and control system by Duncan Burford, September 17, 2007.
Intorel launches new version of pioneering Visionic 'click and drag' monitoring and control system for broadcasters by Tom Bandenburg, creativemac.digitalmedianet.com, April 12, 2007.
Pals uses the Visionic Universal M&C system developed by Intorel (www.intorel.com ), pals.com, November 14, 2006.
The whole system is controlled by the Visionic monitoring & control system, hiltron-communications.com.com.
External links
Intorel homepage
System administration
Computer network analysis
Network performance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruchi%20Sanghvi | Ruchi Sanghvi (born 20 January 1982) is an Indian computer engineer and businesswoman. She was the first female engineer hired by Facebook. In late 2010, she quit Facebook and in 2011, she started her own company Cove, with two other co-founders. The company was sold to Dropbox in 2012 and Sanghvi joined Dropbox as VP of Operations. She left Dropbox in October 2013.
In 2016, Sanghvi established South Park Commons, a residential and professional tech space that functions similarly to a hackerspace.
Early life and education
Sanghvi was raised in Pune, India. When she was young, she intended to join her father's business after completing her studies. Sanghvi pursued her bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
Career
Facebook
After graduating from Carnegie Mellon University in 2004, Sanghvi initially planned to work in New York City, but says that she was horrified by the small cubicle size. She decided instead to move to Silicon Valley where her former CMU colleague Aditya Agarwal, whom she was dating, worked. She got a job at the Oracle Corporation.
In 2005, Sanghvi and Agarwal both started working at Facebook. Sanghvi was Facebook's first female engineer.
Sanghvi was one of the main people working on the first version of Facebook's News Feed product, first launched in September 2006, and she wrote the blog post announcing its launch. The original news feed was an algorithmically generated and constantly refreshing summary of updates about the activities of one's friends. The concept was relatively new at the time, with Twitter having launched only a few months in advance.
The News Feed feature was greeted with a lot of pushback and criticism, including some that was directed personally at Sanghvi. The criticism was dealt with through the introduction of new privacy controls in terms of what personal data would appear in friends' news feeds. These privacy controls were coded in a hectic 48-hour coding session by Sanghvi and other Facebook engineers including Chris Cox and Andrew Bosworth, and announced in a contrite blog post by Facebook's principal founder Mark Zuckerberg.
In 2006, Sanghvi became the product lead for Facebook Platform.
Cove and Dropbox
In late 2010, Sanghvi left Facebook and in 2011, co-founded a stealth collaboration startup called Cove along with Aditya Agarwal. In February 2012, Dropbox, the file synchronization and backup service company, announced that it had acquired Cove and that Sanghvi and Agarwal would be joining Dropbox. Sanghvi later became the Vice President of Operations at Dropbox, managing product, marketing, communications and other functions. In October 2013, Sanghvi left Dropbox, but continued to retain an advisory role at the company.
South Park Commons
In 2015, Sanghvi founded South Park Commons (SPC), a technical community and co-working space located in the South Park neighborhood of San Francisco. The community describes itself as an "a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Heart%2C%20She%20Holler | The Heart, She Holler is an American horror comedy television series created by Vernon Chatman and John Lee for Cartoon Network's nighttime programming block Adult Swim. The series premiered on November 6, 2011 and ended on December 11, 2014, with a total of 28 episodes over the course of 3 seasons.
Plot
The series, described as "Southern Gothic drama" and "an inside-out blend of soap opera and politically incorrect surrealist comedy", is about the long-hidden and isolated son of the Heartshe dynasty (Patton Oswalt) returning to run the town and being locked in conflict with sisters Hurshe (Kristen Schaal and Amy Sedaris) and Hambrosia (Heather Lawless).
Characters
The Heartshe family
Hurlan Heartshe (Patton Oswalt) – Secret son of Hoss Heartshe, hidden away "since the minute he was born" in a cave, where he lived for 40 years without any human contact, nor ever seeing the light of day, until he is brought out to run the town of Heartshe Holler. Of his character, Oswalt said "I thought of Kaspar Hauser. That was my model – lethally nonjudgmental of the world to himself, that he trusts everything's going to be awesome." In season 3, Hurlan is killed by the townspeople.
Hurshe Heartshe (Kristen Schaal – season 1; Amy Sedaris – season 2–3) – Psychotic, vindictive, oversexed sister to Hurlan and Hambrosia. Endlessly plotting to take over the town from Hurlan. It is established in Season 2 that Hurshe was actually married, but her husband is in jail; they had a son and a daughter but she did not bother naming them and keeps them in a secret compartment under her bed, echoing the childhood of their uncle Hurlan.
Hambrosia Heartshe (Heather Lawless) – Hurlan's other sister, who possesses telekinetic and mind-reading powers. She is also trying to take over the town and/or kill her sister. Very religious and married to the town sheriff, she was "born without lady parts", although she carries on an affair with severed ectoplasmic hands.
Sheriff (Joseph Sikora – season 1–2; Scott Adsit – season 3) – The corrupt, generally incompetent sheriff of Heartshe Holler, he is married to Hambrosia and in love with her sister Hurshe after seeing her hang herself.
"Boss" Hoss Heartshe (Jonathan Hadary) – The leader, founder, and owner of the Town of Heartshe Holler who died at the beginning of the series after working tirelessly on his extensive video will in which he leaves Hurlan his fortune and full control of the Holler. He appears in every episode through this video will, which he uses to teach and guide Hurlan. He is resurrected in the last episode of the first season when his corpse and living will are posthumously sentenced to "re-death" in the electric chair, but is deceased again in the following seasons which take place in an alternate reality.
"Meemaw" Virginia Dare (Judith Anna Roberts) The matriarch of Heartshe Holler, and the bearer of the curse of Heartshe, being unable to diethough Boss Hoss reveals at the end of Season 1 that the real secret |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20G.%20Shanks | Thomas G. Shanks (born April 9, 1942 in Lima, Ohio) is an American computer programmer, author, and time zone history researcher.
Work
While working for a San Diego based astrological computing company as programmer and research director, Shanks did extensive research in the field of worldwide time zone and daylight saving time history. He published the results of this research in the two volumes The American Atlas and The International Atlas. Shanks' published data are quoted frequently in the public domain IANA time zone database.
References
1942 births
Living people
American computer programmers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20color%20models%20in%20computer%20graphics | This article provides introductory information about the RGB, HSV, and HSL color models from a computer graphics (Web page, image) perspective. An introduction to colors is also provided to support the main discussion.
Basics of color
Primary colors and hue
First, "color" refers to the human brain's subjective interpretation of combinations of a narrow band of wavelengths of light. For this reason, the definition of "color" is not based on a strict set of physical phenomena. Therefore, even basic concepts like "primary colors" are not clearly defined. For example, traditional "Painter's Colors" use red, blue, and yellow as the primary colors, "Printer's Colors" use cyan, yellow, and magenta, and "Light Colors" use red, green, and blue. "Light colors", more formally known as additive colors, are formed by combining red, green, and blue light. This article refers to additive colors and refers to red, green, and blue as the primary colors.
Hue is a term describing a pure color, that is, a color not modified by tinting or shading (see below). In additive colors, hues are formed by combining two primary colors. When two primary colors are combined in equal intensities, the result is a "secondary color".
Color wheel
A color wheel is a tool that provides a visual representation of the relationships between all possible hues. The primary colors are arranged around a circle at equal (120 degree) intervals. (Warning: Color wheels frequently depict "Painter's Colors" primary colors, which leads to a different set of hues than additive colors.) The illustration shows a simple color wheel based on the additive colors. Note that the position (top, right) of the starting color, typically red, is arbitrary, as is the order of green and blue (clockwise, counter-clockwise). The illustration also shows the secondary colors, yellow, cyan, and magenta, located halfway between (60 degrees) the primary colors.
Complementary color
The complement of a hue is the hue that is opposite it (180 degrees) on the color wheel. Using additive colors, mixing a hue and its complement in equal amounts produces white.
Tints and shades
The following discussion uses an illustration involving three projectors pointing to the same spot on a screen. Each projector is capable of generating one hue. The "intensities" of each projector are "matched" and can be equally adjusted from zero to full. (Note: "Intensity" is used here in the same sense as the RGB color model. The subject of matching, or "gamma correction", is beyond the level of this article.)
A shade is produced by "dimming" a hue. Painters refer to this as "adding black". In our illustration, one projector is set to full intensity, a second is set to some intensity between zero and full, and third is set to zero. "Dimming" is accomplished by decreasing each projector's intensity setting to the same fraction of its start setting.
In the shade example, with any fully shaded hue, that all three projectors are set to zero |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan%20Music%20Stars | Pakistan Music Stars is a music reality television show by ARY Digital Network which is aired every Sunday at 9:00pm on ARY Digital.
Synopsis
This show is different from the music reality shows happened in the past. The format of this show is there will be six teams led by six prominent members of the Pakistan Music Industry who compete against one another for the title of the "Ultimate Pop Sensation". Each singer will have four local singers in their teams and work together the entire show. After round encounters between these six teams only four will advance to the semi-finals and only two to the Grand Finale.
The show is hosted by Nouman Javaid & VJ Anoushey Ashraf.
Auditions
The candidates for this show were called in for auditions in July 2011 by the organizers. Over three hundred people auditioned, but only twenty-six got in.
Team selections
Out of those twenty-six candidates, twenty-four of them were selected via balloting done by the captains, while two candidates were rejected.
Format
The format of this show is different from the past music reality shows of Pakistan. Out of the six professionals leading their teams of four local celebrities, two of them will compete against one another, while the rest of the four will judge the performances along with the audience. The toss of the coin determines who will perform first or give the chance to perform first to the other.
The show comprises four different segments in which teams will compete against one another to score the maximum points.
The segments of this show are as follows:
Ikkay Pe Ikka
Aar Ya Paar
Awaz Ka Jadoo
Zarra Hut Kay
Ikkay Pe Ikka
In this segment, one team member from each performs two songs. Both the local talents from each team take turns to perform. Then after their performance, their score is decided by the audience and the four judges by voting from one to ten. After the first performances from both sides comes the second performance.
Aar Ya Paar
Aar Ya Paar is duet round in which one member from each team perform a duet while they are judged individually by the audience & the judges.
Awaz Ka Jadoo
In this round, one member from each team takes turns to perform a song which demonstrates their talent. After that, the audience and judges hand out the points.
Zara Hut Kay
In this round, the team captains perform a medley with their entire team, then the audience votes on their favourite.
Judges
There are six judges, but only four judge each episode, while the remaining two appear as the team captains. The judges are Fariha Pervez, Sheraz Uppal, Haroon (singer) Rashid, Faakhir Mehmood, Rahim Shah, and Rameez Mukhtar (Fuzön).
Haroon (singer) joined & replaced Ahmed Jahanzeb, who was unavailable for the show.
Participating contestants
Twenty-six contestants were selected after the auditions for the main event. The names of the contestants are:
Ali Raza (Karachi)
Nauman Shafi (Karachi)
Nazia (Karachi)
Shaz Khan (Karachi)
Waqas Azeem (Karachi)
Wajeeh Uddin (Karachi)
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