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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSChanger | DNSChanger is a DNS hijacking Trojan. The work of an Estonian company known as Rove Digital, the malware-infected computers by modifying a computer's DNS entries to point toward its own rogue name servers, which then injected its own advertising into Web pages. At its peak, DNSChanger was estimated to have infected over four million computers, bringing in at least US$14 million in profits to its operator from fraudulent advertising revenue.
Both Windows and Mac OS X variants of DNSChanger were circulated, the latter taking the form of a related Trojan known as RSPlug. The FBI raided the malicious servers on November 8, 2011, but they kept the servers up after they capturing it to avoid affected users from losing Internet access until July 9, 2012.
Operation
DNSChanger was distributed as a drive-by download claiming to be a video codec needed to view content on a Web site, particularly appearing on rogue pornography sites. Once installed, the malware then modified the system's Domain Name System (DNS) configuration, pointing them to rogue name servers operated through affiliates of Rove Digital. These rogue name servers primarily substituted advertising on Web pages with advertising sold by Rove. Additionally, the rogue DNS server redirected links to certain Web sites to those of advertisers, such as, for example, redirecting the IRS Web site to that of a tax preparation company. The effects of DNSChanger could also spread itself to other computers within a LAN by mimicking a DHCP server, pointing other computers toward the rogue DNS servers. In its indictment against Rove, the United States Department of Justice also reported that the rogue servers had blocked access to update servers for antivirus software.
Shutdown and interim DNS servers
On October 1, 2011, as part of Operation Ghost Click (a collaborative investigation into the operation), the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced charges against six Estonian nationals and one Russian national connected to DNSChanger and Rove Digital for wire fraud, computer intrusion, and conspiracy. Estonian authorities made arrests, and the FBI seized servers connected to the malware located in the United States.
Due to concerns by FBI agents that users still infected by DNSChanger could lose Internet access if the rogue DNS servers were shut down entirely, a temporary court order was obtained to allow the Internet Systems Consortium to operate replacement servers, which would serve DNS requests from those who had not yet removed the infection, and to collect information on those still infected in order to promptly notify them about the presence of the malware. While the court order was set to expire on March 8, 2012, an extension was granted until July 9, 2012, due to concerns that there were still many infected computers. F-Secure estimated on July 4, 2012, that at least 300,000 computers were still infected with the DNSChanger malware, 70,000 of which were located in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude%20Delacroix | Claude Delacroix (born 1939) is a Belgian musician and radio presenter.
Delacroix has been a singer and hosted many programmes on the RTBF network, including Jeunesse 65.
He was the RTBF Belgian commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest which he did on seven occasions between the 1970 Contest and the 1993 Contest after 1993 Delacroix left the Eurovision after he was given a promotion to the head of Belgian radio. Jean-Pierre Hautier took over as commentator at the 1994 Contest. He was director of radio for RTBF in the 1990s and 2000s.
He later hosted the radio show Flash Back which is broadcast on La Première between Mondays and Fridays.
References
1948 births
Living people
Musicians from Brussels
Belgian radio presenters
Belgian television presenters
Eurovision commentators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galina%20Kofman | Galina Kofman is a computer scientist and business executive. She was the author of the Kerberos protocol for various IBM systems. Kofman also authored FTP for IBM VM/CMS and OS/2. She received two IBM CEO Outstanding Technical Achievements awards and holds a patent on grid applications. Kofman is an executive at Recyclebank, a green company that rewards people for recycling.
Career at IBM Research
While a researcher at Thomas Watson Research Center, Galina Kofman worked in the group of Barry Appelman, a significant Internet notable and the inventor of instant messaging. Kofman was active in Internet protocols development and specifically in TCP/IP since 1983 with her first project of RLSS, a remote login system that was a predecessor of Telnet at IBM. Appelman's group as a whole proved critical in IBM's early embrace of the Internet despite having a competing family of protocols, Systems Network Architecture. Kofman authored Kerberos for OS/2, VM/CMS and AIX. She also authored FTP client and server for VM/CMS and OS/2. Kofman also authored Network Time Protocol for various IBM operating systems. Kofman also was active in algorithms related to processing unstructured text. Kofman was the program manager and the main developer of IBM Magic system in 2006 According to Recyclebank press release, Galina Kofman received 2 IBM CEO Outstanding achievement awards, one in 1990 and another in 1992.
Career after IBM
Galina Kofman is currently an executive at Recyclebank, a green company.
References
Living people
Computer security specialists
OS/2 people
Russian computer programmers
Russian emigrants to the United States
Russian inventors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Russian businesspeople in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard%20Kleywegt | Gerard Jacob Kleywegt (born 5 June 1962, in Rozenburg) is a Dutch X-ray crystallographer and the former team leader of the Protein Data Bank in Europe at the EBI; a member of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank.
Education
Kleywegt obtained his PhD from the University of Utrecht in 1991.
Career
After his PhD, Kleywegt did postdoctoral research with Alwyn Jones at Uppsala University. before moving to the EBI.
Research
Kleywegt's research focuses on protein crystallography and the Protein Data Bank.
References
1962 births
Living people
Dutch biochemists
Crystallographers
Leiden University alumni
Utrecht University alumni
People from Rozenburg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliss%20%28band%29 | Gliss are a Danish/American duo currently splitting time between Berlin, Los Angeles and Copenhagen. The band consists of Victoria Cecilia (vocal, bass, programming, synths), Martin Klingman (vocals, guitar, drums, bass) and formerly David Reiss (guitar, bass).
Kick in Your Heart
Their first album " Kick in Your Heart" was discovered by Billy Corgan, who brought them to Europe to support his solo tour " Future Embrace". Following the tour he asked the band to be part of a Smashing Pumpkins tribute album, featuring bands such as Panic! at the Disco, Deftones and The Bravery. In 2007 he again asked the band to support him, this time for the re-formation of Smashing Pumpkins.
Love the Virgins
Their debut album Love the Virgins, was released in 2007 on UK label Tough Cookie. The single "Blue Sky" was the winner of "Fresh Meat" on Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show. This led to European support slots for Gliss with BRMC and Editors. Gliss released their album "Love The Virgins" in November 2006, following a UK tour with Orson. At one point, the tour was put in jeopardy when Gliss performed naked and subsequently featured in The Daily Star. The band guest starred in an episode of Night Calls with pornstar Jesse Jane on Playboy TV, after their infamous UK tour.
The track "Huh, What?" was featured in the MasterCard Priceless commercial "Vintage".
Devotion Implosion
Their second album Devotion Implosion was released in 2009 on Cordless/Rykodisc and was produced by the band themselves and mixed by Gareth Jones, (who has worked with Depeche Mode, Liars, Wire, Nick Cave and These New Puritans). The single "Gimme the Hit" was featured on MTV Subterranean. The band also did an in-studio performance on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic and were featured on Yahoo TV's The New Now following their national tour with The Warlocks, and in-studio performance and interview on Seattle's KEXP.
In 2009 the band did an In-studio interview on NME radio in London and Motor FM in Berlin during their tour with British band The Horrors.
The band is currently working on their 3rd album to be titled "Le Debut", which is a complete departure from their previous releases. Most recently Gliss toured the US with Scottish band Glasvegas and shortly thereafter landed a worldwide ad campaign for Calvin Klein's "Forbidden Euphoria".
Langsom Dans
Gliss completed recording the follow-up to Devotion Implosion in Los Angeles. It was mixed by Michael Patterson (Trent Reznor/NIN, Beck, Ladytron) and mastered by Henrik Jonsson (Lykke Li, The Knife). Experimenting with new sonics, atmospheres and voices, the album was described by KEXP as a collection of dreamy, melancholic pop songs. The album was released on January 22, 2013, via Modern Outsider.
Pale Reflections
Pale Reflections was released June 26, 2015. Carrying on after the 2013 departure of guitarist David Reiss, the duo of Victoria Cecilia and Martin Klingman released the album titled “Pale Reflections.” Cecilia emerged as the m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility%20mode | A compatibility mode is a software mechanism in which a software either emulates an older version of software, or mimics another operating system in order to allow older or incompatible software or files to remain compatible with the computer's newer hardware or software. Examples of the software using the mode are operating systems and Internet Explorer.
Operating systems
A compatibility mode in an operating system is a software mechanism in which a computer's operating system emulates an older processor, operating system, and/or hardware platform in order to allow older software to remain compatible with the computer's newer hardware or software.
This differs from a full-fledged emulator in that an emulator typically creates a virtual hardware architecture on the host system, rather than simply translating the older system's function calls into calls that the host system can understand.
Examples include Classic Mode in Mac OS X and compatibility mode in Microsoft Windows, which both allow applications designed for older versions of the operating system to run. Other examples include Wine to run Windows programs on Linux / OS X and Mono to run .NET programs on various Unix-like systems.
Internet Explorer
"Compatibility View" is a compatibility mode feature of the web browser Internet Explorer in version 8 and later. When active, Compatibility View forces IE to display the webpage in Quirks mode as if the page were being viewed in IE7. When compatibility view is not activated, IE is said to be running in native mode. In IE11, a user can turn on compatibility mode for a web site by clicking the Gears icon and clicking Compatibility View Settings.
IE8+
Internet Explorer 8 was promoted by Microsoft as having stricter adherence to W3C described web standards than Internet Explorer 7. As a result, as in every IE version before it, some percentage of web pages coded to the behavior of the older versions would break in IE8. This would have been a repetition of the situation with IE7 which, while having fixed bugs from IE6, broke pages that used the IE6-specific hacks to work around its non-compliance. This was especially a problem for offline HTML documents, which may not be updatable (e.g. stored on a read-only medium, such as a CD-ROM or DVD-ROM).
To avoid this situation, IE8 implemented a form of version targeting whereby a page could be authored to a specific version of a browser using the X-UA-Compatible declaration either as a meta element or in the HTTP headers.
In order to maintain backwards compatibility, sites can opt into IE7-like handling of content by inserting a specially created meta element into the web page that triggers compatibility mode in the browser, using:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
A newer version of the browser than the page was coded for would emulate the behavior of the older version, so that the assumptions the page made about the browser's behavior hold true.
Microsoft proposed t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuck | Zuck may refer to:
People
Hendrick Zuck, German footballer
Lenore Zuck, Israeli-American computer scientist
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO
Roy B. Zuck, American author
Tim Zuck, Canadian artist
Zuck Carlson, American football player
Places
Zuck, Ohio
Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport (ICAO code: ZUCK)
See also
Bertha Zück
Zucc (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Personal%20Computer%20XT | The IBM Personal Computer XT (model 5160, often shortened to PC/XT) is the second computer in the IBM Personal Computer line, released on March 8, 1983. Except for the addition of a built-in hard drive and extra expansion slots, it is very similar to the original IBM PC model 5150 from 1981.
Name
IBM did not specify an expanded form of "XT" on the machine, press releases, brochures or documentation, but some publications expanded the term as "eXtended Technology" or just "eXTended".
Features
The XT was regarded as an incremental improvement over the PC and a disappointment compared to the next-generation successor that some had anticipated. Compared to the original IBM PC, the XT has the following major differences:
The number of expansion slots is increased from five to eight
Base RAM is increased to at least 128 KB
2x32KB ROM ICs replace the previous 6x8KB ROM ICs
A 10 MB hard drive is included as standard equipment
PC DOS 2.0 is included
The 5-pin DIN for the cassette interface is removed
Otherwise the specifications are identical to the original PC.
Expansion slots
The number of expansion slots in the original IBM PC was a limiting factor for the product, since essential components (such as the video controller, disk controller and printer interface) each came as separate expansion cards and could quickly fill up all five available slots, requiring the user to swap cards in and out as tasks demanded. Some PC clones addressed this problem by integrating components into the motherboard to free up slots, while peripheral manufacturers produced products which integrated multiple functions into one card.
The XT addressed the problem by adding three extra expansion slots for a total of eight. While the slots themselves are identical to those in the original PC, the amount of physical space in the chassis differs, so two of the new slots (located behind the hard drive) cannot accept full-length cards. In addition, the spacing of the slots is narrower than in the original PC, making it impossible to install some multi-board cards.
Expansion unit
The 5161 is an expansion chassis using an identical case and power supply to the XT, but instead of a system board, provides a backplane with eight card slots. It connects to the main system unit using an Extender Card in the system unit and a Receiver Card in the Expansion Unit, connected by a custom cable. The 5161 shipped with a 10 MB hard drive, and had room for a second one.
The Expansion Unit can also contain extra memory, but the Extender card inserts wait states for memory in the Expansion Unit, so it may be preferable to install memory into the main system unit.
The 5161 can be connected to either an XT or to the earlier 5150 (the original IBM PC).
Other features
PC DOS 2.0 offers a 9-sector floppy disk format, providing 180K/360K (single- vs. dual-sided) capacity per disk, compared to the 160K/320K provided by the 8-sector format of previous releases.
The XT was not offered in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insecurity | Insecure may refer to:
Lack of security, in an objective sense:
Risk
Data security
Computer security
Food insecurity
Emotional insecurity, in psychology
Media
Insecure (TV series), a television series on HBO
InSecurity, a Canadian television sitcom
"Insecurity" (South Park), a 2012 episode of the animated sitcom South Park
Insecure (film), a 2014 French drama film
See also
InSec, internal security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20College%20Admission%20Test | The Medical College Admission Test (MCAT; ) is a computer-based standardized examination for prospective medical students (both Allopathic M.D. and Osteopathic D.O.) in the United States, Australia, Canada, and the Caribbean Islands. It is designed to assess problem solving, critical thinking, written analysis and knowledge of scientific concepts and principles. Before 2007, the exam was a paper-and-pencil test; since 2007, all administrations of the exam have been computer-based.
The most recent version of the exam was introduced in April 2015 and takes hours to complete. The test is scored in a range from 472 to 528. The MCAT is administered by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC).
History
Moss Test: 1928–1946
In the 1920s, dropout rates in US medical schools soared from 5% to 50%, leading to the development of a test that would measure readiness for medical school. Physician F. A. Moss and his colleagues developed the "Scholastic Aptitude Test for Medical Students" consisting of true-false and multiple choice questions divided into six to eight subtests. Topics tested included visual memory, memory for content, scientific vocabulary, scientific definitions, understanding of printed material, premedical information, and logical reasoning. The score scale varied from different test forms. Though it had been criticized at the time for testing only memorization ability and thus only readiness for the first two years of medical school, later scholars denied this. In addition to stricter medical school admission procedures and higher educational standards, the national dropout rate among freshman medical students decreased from 20% in 1925–1930 to 7% in 1946.
A simpler test: 1946–1962
Advancements in test measurement technology, including machine scoring of tests, and changed views regarding test scores and medical school readiness reflected the evolution of the test in this period. The test underwent three major changes. It now had only four sub tests, including verbal ability, quantitative ability, science achievement, and understanding modern society. Questions were all in multiple-choice format. Each subtest was given a single score, and the total score was derived from the sum of the scores from the subtests. The total score ranged from 200 to 800. The individual scores helped medical school admission committees to differentiate the individual abilities among their candidates. Admission committees, however, did not consider the "understanding modern society" section to be of great importance, even though it was created to reward those with broad liberal arts skills, which included knowledge of history, government, economics, and sociology. Committees placed greater emphasis on scores on the scientific achievement section as it was a better predictor of performance in medical school.
From 1946 to 1948, the test was called the "Professional School Aptitude Test" before finally changing its name to the "Medical College Admiss |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo%20Data%20Computer | The Torpedo Data Computer (TDC) was an early electromechanical analog computer used for torpedo fire-control on American submarines during World War II. Britain, Germany, and Japan also developed automated torpedo fire control equipment, but none were as advanced as the US Navy's TDC, as it was able to automatically track the target rather than simply offering an instantaneous firing solution. This unique capability of the TDC set the standard for submarine torpedo fire control during World War II.
Replacing the previously standard hand-held slide rule-type devices (known as the "banjo" and "is/was"), the TDC was designed to provide fire-control solutions for submarine torpedo firing against ships running on the surface (surface warships used a different computer).
The TDC was a rather bulky addition to the sub's conning tower and required two extra crewmen: one as an expert in its maintenance, the other as its actual operator. Despite these drawbacks, the use of the TDC was an important factor in the successful commerce raiding program conducted by American submarines during the Pacific campaign of World War II. Accounts of the American submarine campaign in the Pacific often cite the use of TDC. Some officers became highly skilled in its use, and the Navy set up a training school for operation of the device.
Two upgraded World War II-era U.S. Navy fleet submarines ( and ) with their TDCs continue to serve with Taiwan's navy and U.S. Nautical Museum staff are assisting them with maintaining their equipment. The museum also has a fully restored and functioning TDC from , docked in San Francisco.
Background
History
The problem of aiming a torpedo has occupied military engineers since Robert Whitehead developed the modern torpedo in the 1860s. These early torpedoes ran at a preset depth on a straight course (consequently they are frequently referred to as "straight runners"). This was the state of the art in torpedo guidance until the development of the homing torpedo during the latter part of World War II. The vast majority of submarine torpedoes during World War II were straight running, and these continued in use for many years after World War II. In fact, two World War II-era straight running torpedoes — fired by the British nuclear-powered submarine — sank in 1982.
During World War I, computing a target intercept course for a torpedo was a manual process where the fire control party was aided by various slide rules (the U.S. examples were the Mark VIII Angle Solver (colloquially called the "banjo", for its shape), and the "Is/Was" circular sliderule (Nasmith Director), for predicting where a target will be based on where it is now and was) or mechanical calculator/sights. These were often "woefully inaccurate", which helps explain why torpedo spreads were advised.
During World War II, Germany, Japan, and the United States each developed analog computers to automate the process of computing the required torpedo course.
In 1932, the B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling%20purchaser%20problem | The traveling purchaser problem (TPP) is an NP-hard problem studied in Operations research and theoretical computer science. Given a list of marketplaces, the cost of travelling between different marketplaces, and a list of available goods together with the price of each such good at each marketplace, the task is to find, for a given list of articles, the route with the minimum combined cost of purchases and traveling. The traveling salesman problem (TSP) is a special case of this problem.
Relation to traveling salesman problem (TSP)
The problem can be seen as a generalization of the traveling salesman problem, which can be viewed as the special case of TPP where each article is available at one market only and each market sells only one item. Since TSP is NP-hard, TPP is NP-hard.
Solving TPP
Approaches for solving the traveling purchaser problem include dynamic programming and tabu search algorithms.
See also
Vehicle routing problem
References
NP-complete problems
Travelling salesman problem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TruConnect | TruConnect, formally known as TruConnect Mobile, is an American mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) that sells mobile hotspots and smartphones, 3G/4G LTE mobile data plans and prepaid cell phone talk & text plans on T-Mobile’s network. TruConnect was the first prepaid broadband provider in the U.S. to offer a pay-as-you-go, portable Wi-Fi service plans. The only Lifeline provider (ETC) headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. TruConnect uses either Sprint or T-Mobile's network depending on location.
TruConnect was founded by Matthew Johnson and Nathan Johnson and provides wireless, residential and small business telecommunication services under the Sage Telecom, Telscape Communications and TruConnect Mobile brands.
History
In 2006, Matthew and Nathan Johnson acquire Telscape Communications, rebranding the company as TruConnect.
On August 4, 2014, D-Link and TruConnect partnered to offer internet for mobile users.
On April 29, 2015, Mobetize and TruConnect partnered to offer prepaid card services including bill payment, global prepaid airtime, and money transfers.
On April 29, 2015, TruConnect appeared as one of the fastest-growing wireless companies in the United States according to data from the Universal Service Administrative Company.
On May 11, 2015, EY announced that Matthew Johnson, Co-CEO, and Nathan Johnson, Co-CEO and chairman, were finalists for the Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 Awards Program in the Greater Los Angeles Area.
On May 21, 2015, TruConnect introduced its Forever DataSM through its Internet On The Go brand at Walmart.
On June 18, 2015, TruConnect and OTT TV service YipTV formed a joint-marketing agreement.
In October 2015, TruConnect announced its four new prepaid wireless plan options as well as new prepaid mobile data hotspot plans.
On March 30, 2016, TruConnect announces that its Chief Legal Counsel and VP of Strategy, Robert A. Yap, has been named the corporation's new president.
In July 2016, TruConnect begins offering free International Calling with their California Lifeline Plans.
In September 2016, TruConnect Communications, Inc. announces that it has formed TruConnect Technologies, LLC, a new unit that obtained the business, operating assets, and technology of WeFi, Inc.'s network operating activities. The company will be based in Los Angeles with an R&D innovation center in Tel Aviv.
In 2016, TruConnect led a buyout of TSG Capital to acquire Telscape Communications which rebranded to TruConnect. Under their leadership, TruConnect expanded by completing an acquisition of Sage Telecom, Inc. a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) focused on residential and small business consumers.
In early 2017, TruConnect joins with Quality One Wireless to offer leasing options for smartphones.
In April 2017, TruConnect launched its own text and dialer app, TruText.
In August 2018, TruConnect Extends into SaaS Business, Acquires FreedomPop's Proprietary Digital ETC Platform to Power Digital Acquisition Across ETC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinna%20Cortes | Corinna Cortes (born 31 March, 1961) is a Danish computer scientist known for her contributions to machine learning. She is a Vice President at Google Research in New York City. Cortes is an ACM Fellow and a recipient of the Paris Kanellakis Award for her work on theoretical foundations of support vector machines.
Early life and education
Corinna Cortes was born in 1961 in Denmark. Cortes received her Master of Science degree in physics from University of Copenhagen in 1989. She received her PhD in computer science from the University of Rochester in 1993 for research supervised by Randal C. Nelson.
Career and research
Cortes joined AT&T Bell Labs as a researcher in 1993. Since 2003, she has served as Vice President of Google Research, New York City, and since 2011, as adjunct professor at the UCPH Department of Computer Science. She is serves as an editorial board member of the journal Machine Learning.
Cortes' research covers a wide range of topics in machine learning, including support vector machines (SVM) and data mining. SVM is one of the most frequently used algorithms in machine learning, which is used in many practical applications, including medical diagnosis and weather forecasting. At AT&T, Cortes was a contributor to the design of Hancock programming language.
Awards and honors
In 2008, she jointly with Vladimir Vapnik received the Paris Kanellakis Award for the development of a highly effective algorithm for supervised learning known as support vector machines (SVM). She was named an ACM Fellow in 2023 for theoretical and practical contributions to machine learning, industrial leadership and service to the field.
Personal life
Corinna has two children and is also a competitive runner.
References
Living people
University of Copenhagen alumni
University of Rochester alumni
American computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Machine learning researchers
American women computer scientists
Google employees
Scientists at Bell Labs
21st-century American women
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
1961 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berdichevsky | Berdichevsky or Berdyczewski is a family name derived from the city of Berdichev, Ukraine. It may refer to:
Cecilia Berdichevsky, Argentinian computer scientist
, Jewish Hero of the Soviet Union
Micha Josef Berdyczewski (1865 — 1921), Ukrainian-born writer and journalist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chime.in | Chime.in was a social networking service and Web site launched in October 2011, operated and privately owned by UberMedia. Unlike most social networks, Chime.in is organized around subjects instead of people. The website is designed as a place to learn and share with other people who have similar interests. Chime.in lets users share content with others through a number of different mediums. It has a newsfeed, profile pages and a system for following other users.
Overview
Chime.in does not have the typical status updates that are seen on other social networks. Instead of statuses, it has “chimes.” "Chimes" are a cross between a Facebook status update and a blog post. "Chimes" can be about any topic and they can be up to 5,000 characters in length. Together, the "Chimes" make up topic based discussions that can include links, videos, polls, and photos. An individual "chime" displays a headline, the first few sentences of a post, a piece of multimedia, a profile picture, interest tags and options for liking, commenting and sharing. Chime.in automatically organizes shared media into "Chimeline" streams based on the topics they discuss. The "Chimeline" and "Chimes" contain threaded comments that include a Reddit or Digg style up or downvote system for surfacing the best comments to the top of a chime. Users and companies can also create communities on any subject.
Chime.in is unique compared to other developing social networks because users have the ability to post advertisements related to their network and in turn collect revenue. When a user creates a community, they can place advertisements and profit from them directly or let Chime.in populate their community with advertising and split the proceeds. Official site creation/purchase date: 16-Feb-2005 06:33:22 UTC (Can be verified with a who is search.) Official public beta launch date: October 18, 2011.
Closure
On September 3, 2013, UberMedia announced that all user accounts will "automatically be deleted as of September 12, 2013" due to Chime.in undergoing "renovations".
In explaining the reason for the "renovations", UberMedia stated "UberMedia has pivoted away from user generated content while we focus on a new mobile ad network as well as continue to develop applications. We're still developing plans, therefore it's too early to speculate on the timing and which form Chime.in will take."
No indication of when, or indeed if, Chime.in would return was given by UberMedia.
References
External links
Official Website
Similar Worlds
Defunct social networking services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odostomia%20pyxidata | Odostomia pyxidata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
References
External links
To World Register of Marine Species
pyxidata
Gastropods described in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odostomia%20rotundata | Odostomia rotundata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
Description
The shell has an ovate shape. Its length measures 2.3 mm. The 2 whorls of the protoconch form a depressed helicoid spire whose axis is at right angles to that of the succeeding turns. The four whorls of the teleoconch are well rounded, moderately contracted at the sutures, and very slightly shouldered at the summit. They are marked by five strong spiral keels on all the whorls between the sutures, excepting the first which has four and obsolete axial ribs on the first two. These axial ribs are best expressed near the summit of the whorls, scarcely reaching the suture, and rendering the spiral cords feebly tuberculate. On the body whorl the axial sculpture is reduced to numerous raised axial threads, like those between the cords on the base. The sutures are poorly defined. The base of the body whorl is well rounded. It is marked by six spiral cords of which the two anterior ones are a little weaker than the rest; separated by spaces which are a little narrower than the cords and crossed by numerous fine axial threads. The aperture is pyriform. The posterior angle is acute. The outer lip is thin, showing the external sculpture within. The columella is stout, curved, and provided with a weak
fold at its insertion. The parietal wall is covered with a thin callus.
Distribution
The type specimen was found in the Pacific Ocean off Mazatlán, Mexico.
References
External links
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To World Register of Marine Species
rotundata
Gastropods described in 1856 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie%20Thomas | Valerie L. Thomas (born February 8, 1943) is an American data scientist and inventor. She invented the illusion transmitter, for which she received a patent in 1980. She was responsible for developing the digital media formats that image processing systems used in the early years of NASA's Landsat program.
Early life and education
Thomas was born in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated from high school in 1961, during the era of integration. She attended Morgan State University, where she was one of two women majoring in physics. Thomas excelled in her mathematics and science courses at Morgan State University, graduating with a degree in physics with highest honors in 1964.
Career
Thomas began working for NASA as a data analyst in 1964. She developed real-time computer data systems to support satellite operations control centers (1964–1970). She oversaw the creation of the Landsat program (1970–1981), becoming an international expert in Landsat data products. Her participation in this program expanded upon the works of other NASA scientists in the pursuit of being able to visualize Earth from space.
In 1974, Thomas headed a team of approximately 50 people for the Large Area Crop Inventory Experiment (LACIE), a joint effort with the NASA Johnson Space Center, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. An unprecedented scientific project, LACIE demonstrated the feasibility of using space technology to automate the process of predicting wheat yield on a worldwide basis.
She attended an exhibition in 1976 that included an illusion of a light bulb that appeared to be lit, even though it had been removed from its socket. The illusion, which involved another light bulb and concave mirrors, inspired Thomas. Curious about how light and concave mirrors could be used in her work at NASA, she began her research in 1977. This involved creating an experiment in which she observed how the position of a concave mirror would affect the real object that is reflected. Using this technology, she would invent an optical device called the illusion transmitter. On October 21, 1980, she obtained the patent for the illusion transmitter, a device NASA continues to use today, and it's being adapted for use in surgery, as well as for televisions and video screens.
. Thomas became associate chief of the Space Science Data Operations Office at NASA. Thomas's invention has been depicted in a children's fictional book, television, and in video games.
In 1985, as the NSSDC Computer Facility manager, Thomas was responsible for a major consolidation and reconfiguration of two previously independent computer facilities, and infused them with new technology. She then served as the Space Physics Analysis Network (SPAN) project manager from 1986 to 1990 during a period when SPAN underwent a major reconfiguration and grew from a scientific network with approximately 100 computer nodes to one directly connecting approximat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB%2012%3A%20The%20Show | MLB 12: The Show is a Major League Baseball video game which was published by Sony Computer Entertainment and developed by San Diego Studio. The game was released on March 6, 2012 for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. It is also the second installment of the series to be compatible with PlayStation Move.
Adrián González, first baseman of the Boston Red Sox, was awarded the title of cover athlete after he batted .338 with 27 home runs and 117 runs batted in during the 2011 season. González is the third Red Sox player to be awarded the cover, the first being David Ortiz for MLB 06: The Show, and the second being Dustin Pedroia for MLB 09: The Show.
On January 23, 2012, it was reported that there would be a separate cover for Canadian buyers, with Toronto Blue Jays right fielder/third baseman José Bautista on the cover. Bautista batted .302 with 43 home runs and 103 runs batted in during the 2011 season.
This marks the first year where the game is not developed for the PlayStation 2 or PlayStation Portable. However, it's the first installment of the series on Sony's newer handheld, the PlayStation Vita.
A commercial for the game involves the city of Chicago celebrating after the Cubs win the World Series at Wrigley Field, ending the longest drought championship drought in MLB history of what it could've been 104 years, and then it is revealed that the moment is played out on the game itself. (Four years later, the real Cubs won the Series, but clinched on the road at Progressive Field in Cleveland, not in their home ballpark.)
Soundtrack
Reception
The game received "generally favorable reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
2012 video games
Major League Baseball video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Move-compatible games
PlayStation Vita games
Video games set in Canada
Video games set in the United States
Sports video games with career mode
12
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Maryland
San Diego Studio games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanelle%20Romero | Joanelle Romero is an American filmmaker and actress. Romero, who says she has a Native American identity, is the founder and president of Red Nation Television Network and Red Nation International Film Festival. Romero's film American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian was short-listed for an Academy Award in the Documentary Short Branch category.
In 2007, she was designated a Women's History Month honoree by the National Women's History Project.
Personal life
Romero was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1957. Her mother, actress Rita Rogers (1936–2012), was born Ida Mae Aragón in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Joanelle grew up in Los Angeles, California, and says she is "a citizen of Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache, Dinétah, Paiute Nations and is Spanish Sephardic." She states she is of Cheyenne descent.
Career
Romero was shortlisted for an Academy Award, for her documentary short, American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian, narrated by Ed Asner. Romero directed, produced, wrote and scored the music for the film that compares the Holocaust with the United States governments treatment of American Indians and the lasting effects on contemporary culture.
In 1991 Romero founded Spirit World Productions. She was inspired to create Spirit World Productions due to the lack of Native representation in the entertainment industry. Spirit World released American Holocaust: When It’s All Over I’ll Still Be Indian, a documentary film narrated by Ed Asner. Romero directed, produced, wrote and scored the music for the film that compares the Holocaust with the United States' government treatment of American Indians and the lasting effects on contemporary culture.
As an actress Romero has appeared in films including The Girl Called Hatter Fox (1977 TV movie based on the novel by Marilyn Harris), 1982's Barbarosa and Parasite, and ''Powwow Highway.
Romero founded the nonprofit organization Red Nation Celebration Institute (RNCI) in 1995.
In 2005 she received the Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award for "the vision to see the truth … and the courage to speak it". Romero started the first Native American Heritage Month in Los Angeles in November 2005, garnering her the title "The First Lady" of American Indian Heritage Month.
Romero has been a member of the American Film Academy since 2016.
Filmography
Film
Television
Video games
References
External links
American humanitarians
American people of Jewish descent
American people who self-identify as being of Native American descent
American filmmakers
American folk musicians
Actresses from Los Angeles
Actresses from Albuquerque, New Mexico
Living people
Musicians from Albuquerque, New Mexico
Activists from California
21st-century American women
1957 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20On%21%20TV | , also known as , is a Japanese music cable television network operated by , a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan, Inc. (SMEJ).
Its motto is We Believe in Music.
History
March 2, 1998 - M-On Entertainment, Inc. was founded by the Sony Music management as .
July 1, 1998 - SME TV, Inc. launched (portmanteau of view and music).
June 1, 2002 - Viewsic was launched on SKY PerfecTV! e2.
May 1, 2004 - Viewsic was relaunched as Music On! TV.
October 1, 2009 - Music On! TV was launched in high-definition television.
March 31, 2012 - Music On! TV, Inc. was merged with sister company Sony Magazines Co., Ltd., becoming M-On Entertainment, Inc. and launched its own website, www.m-on-ent.jp/.
Current Programming
Video Clips
AniOn! World
Visualism
Aa, Itoshi no Kayōkyoku
K-Pop Hits!
Saishin Saikyō! Utaeru Hits
M-On! Hits
J-Pop Ketteihan! Rekidai Saikyō Million Hits
Rekidai Karaoke Super Hits
Anokoro Hits!
Anokoro Drama Hits!
Music Chart
J-Pop Saikyō Countdown 20
J-Pop Saikyō Countdown 50
M-On! Countdown International
M-On! Countdown K
Kan-On! Countdown 10
M-On! Karaoke Countdown 20
M-On! Karaoke Countdown 50
Apple Music Countdown 20
Line Music Countdown 20
Tsutaya Rental CD Countdown 20
Ninki Kashi 20 by UtaMap
YouTube Japan Music Video Countdown 20
K-pop
Music Bank
Show Champion
SBS Inkigayo
Others
legato ~Tabisuru Ongaku Studio~
See also
Sony Music Entertainment Japan
MTV Japan - rival of M-On!
References
External links
M-On Entertainment, Inc.
M-On Entertainment
M-On Entertainment
Television stations in Japan
Television channels and stations established in 1998
M-On Entertainment
Music television channels
1998 establishments in Japan
Mass media companies based in Tokyo
Music organizations based in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20diagram%20software | A number of tools exist to generate computer network diagrams. Broadly, there are four types of tools that help create network maps and diagrams:
Hybrid tools
Network Mapping tools
Network Monitoring tools
Drawing tools
Network mapping and drawing software support IT systems managers to understand the hardware and software services on a network and how they are interconnected. Network maps and diagrams are a component of network documentation. They are required artifacts to better manage IT systems' uptime, performance, security risks, plan network changes and upgrades.
Hybrid tools
These tools have capabilities in common with drawing tools and network monitoring tools. They are more specialized than general drawing tools and provide network engineers and IT systems administrators a higher level of automation and the ability to develop more detailed network topologies and diagrams. Typical capabilities include but not limited to:
Displaying port / interface information on connections between devices on the maps
Visualizing VLANs / subnets
Visualizing virtual servers and storage
Visualizing flow of network traffic across devices and networks
Displaying WAN and LAN maps by location
Importing network configuration files to generate topologies automatically
Network mapping tools
These tools are specifically designed to generate automated network topology maps. These visual maps are automatically generated by scanning the network using network discovery protocols. Some of these tools integrate into documentation and monitoring tools. Typical capabilities include but not limited to:
Automatically scanning the network using SNMP, SSH, WMI, etc.
Scanning Windows and Unix servers
Scanning virtual hosts
Scanning routing protocols
Performing scheduled scans
Tracking changes to the network
Notifying users of changes to the network
Network monitoring tools
Some network monitoring tools generate visual maps by automatically scanning the network using network discovery protocols. The maps are ideally suited for viewing network monitoring status and issues visually. Typical capabilities include but not limited to:
Automatically scanning the network using SNMP, WMI, etc.
Scanning Windows and Unix servers
Scanning virtual hosts
Scanning routing protocols
Scanning connection speeds
Performing scheduled scans
Tracking changes to the network
Drawing tools
These tools help users to create network topology diagrams by adding icons to a canvas and using lines and connectors to draw linkages between nodes. This category of tools is similar to general drawing and paint tools. Typical capabilities include but not limited to:
Libraries of icons for devices
Ability to add shapes and annotations to maps
Ability to create free-form diagrams
List of network monitoring tools that generate network maps
Some notable tools (may not be an exhaustive list):
List of drawing tools
Some notable tools (may not be an exhaustive list):
See also
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click.to | click.to is an application software that integrates with the operating system clipboard to enhance copy and paste operations. It analyzes data stored on the clipboard and offers the user a choice of appropriate paste-destination programs or web pages from a context menu. click.to is a product of Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH, headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Extensions
Users and developers may customize functions and add search queries either through an embedded form or by the use of the click.to API.
System requirements
The following operating systems support click.to:
Apple:
Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard
Mac OS X v10.7 Lion (64-bit)
Microsoft:
Windows XP
Windows Vista (32- and 64-bit)
Windows 7 (32- and 64-bit)
Competitors
click.to is similar functionality of "accelerators" that can be installed as a browser extension for Internet Explorer. These also provide a context menu with speed-dial functions but run only within the browser (whereas click.to is fully integrated into the computer's operating system).
References
External links
Freeware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondapuram%2C%20Nellore%20district | Kondapuram is a Tehsil or Mandal in the Nellore district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
Demographics
According to 2011 census data, there is a population of 39,007 people of which 19,835 are male and 19,172 are female.
Infrastructure
Schools
Good education upto 10th class in both Telugu and English medium is in reach across the villages in the Kondapuram tehsil. There are public residential schools in Kondapuram with separate hostels for boys and girls.
Travel
There is no public transportation to the Kondapuram via villages Gottigundala, Gottigundala Palem, Uppuluru, Chintaladeevi. But you can visit Kondapuram via Erraballi.
Mail services
Indian post office services are available to the last home in this Tehsil. The private courier services and online retailer services are available.
Banking and Government services
There are mini banking service providers and Mee seva centers in the villages of this Mandal. There are Gram Panchayats for each village which are chaired by Village Revenue Officer.
Water
There is a well water supply system for the residents in most of the villages. Most of the people buy filtered water from the shops. In some villages, the public filtered water facility infrastructure is built, but the operations have not started yet.
There are water ponds, water gullies and water sheds.
Villages
There are about 27 villages under Kondapuram Tehsil or Mandal.
Social Issues
There are child marriages happening still in this area. Due to logistics problem and the Kondapuram police station is far from the villages it is getting difficult to stop child marriages.
Culture
Gottigundala village in this Tehsil is popular for the Kota Ankalamma Jatara (festival) and Poleramma Jatara celebrated every summer. People from across the district visit this festival. Animal sacrifices are offered in these festivals.
References
Villages in Nellore district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napatech | Napatech is a public company based in Denmark that develops and manufactures high speed network accelerators specifically designed for real-time network monitoring and analysis applications. The accelerators can be used in standard servers, allowing OEM vendors to build products using commercial off-the-shelf hardware. Examples of typical applications are network performance monitoring, test and measurement, security and optimization. Napatech's products are used in a variety of industries such as financial services, telecom, cloud and data center services, e-commerce and media, infrastructure and defense, as well as enterprise management and security.
The company, which is an OEM supplier with a base of over 140,000 ports deployed, enables network equipment manufacturers to provide visibility into the performance and operation of their customers' networks, applications and data services.
Napatech entered the Oslo Stock Exchange in December 2013.
History
Early days
Napatech was founded in January 2003 as a privately owned company by Jens Christophersen and Thomas Jørgensen, two Danish IT entrepreneurs who initially worked from an office at the Danish Technical University. They managed to raise US$320,000 for prototype development of their first, programmable 10GbE accelerator. Christophersen and Jørgensen had identified a problem with the unprecedented growth of data, and their idea was that since Internet traffic roughly doubles every year, the hardware itself could not keep up with the rate of data growth. They also saw and understood the need for monitoring the performance of a network in order to enable the optimization of it and its applications.
Napatech, which is itself a combination of the words 'Napa Valley' and 'Technology', was growing rapidly in 2003, and by August the company had five employees. By the end of 2003, the company announced the industry's first 10G programmable Ethernet accelerator based on the Virtex-II Pro FPGA. Soon after, the company set out to conquer Silicon Valley and established their first office in Mountain View, California.
Acquisitions
In February 2006, the company agreed to buy the IP and business assets from Xyratex, a move which helped raise the profile of Napatech vis-à-vis programmable network accelerators. Napatech successfully integrated the Ethernet adapter business from Xyratex, subsequently generating US$4 million in revenue, while an additional US$5 million in new capital was raised from Northzone and Ferd Venture.
Products
Napatech's product portfolio of network accelerators span speeds ranging from 1Gbit/s up to 100Gbit/s of speed with 1, 2 or 4-port variants. Its first product was an accelerator launched in December 2003 which supported 10Gbit/s network speeds. Up until the first quarter of 2014, the company has produced approximately 40+ different models of accelerators. Some of the most important features being the capture of all network data at full line rate, and guaranteed delivery o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telenovela%20Channel | Telenovela Channel (informally abbreviated TNC, stylized as TeleNovela Channel) is a telenovela-based cable channel in the Philippine network owned by Beginnings at Twenty Plus, Inc. with the partnership of Grupo Televisa. The channel operates non-stop 24/7.
It is the first and only telenovela channel in the Philippines. It aired its first test broadcast from August to September 2011; regular broadcast started on November 14, 2011. First in Asia, the channel will afford viewers the chance to watch their favorite TelevisaUnivision Mexico-produced Mexican telenovelas anytime of the day. The Telenovela Channel has been made possible through a partnership between Beginnings at Twenty Plus, Inc. and Grupo Televisa, which is the exclusive producer and international distributor of telenovelas for this channel.
Telenovela Channel is aired on Sky Cable Channel 81 and in more than 150 provincial cable television providers nationwide. On January 4, 2021, the channel aired on Cignal Channel 126 and as a separate feed from SkyCable removing blocktime programming called TV Shop Philippines which is not available on their feed as TV Shop Philippines airs its own 24 hour channel Exclusive for Cignal subscribers on Channel 32.
History
Beginning of the broadcast of telenovelas in the Philippines
During the 90s, The Philippines started to air Latin American telenovelas on free-to-air television networks including RPN 9 (since 1994 with La Traidora), ABS-CBN 2 (since 1996 with Maria Mercedes), ABC 5 (now TV5, since 1996 with Morena Clara), GMA 7 (since 1996 with Agujetas de color de rosa) and IBC 13 (since 2001 with Por un beso). The telenovelas aired on Philippine television, especially those produced in Mexico, were dubbed in Filipino and were shown in primetime and afternoon slots.
However, the late 2000s saw the dwindling popularity of the Latin American telenovelas.
Channel Launch and Initial Programming (2011-2013)
Beginnings at 20 Plus, Inc. launched a channel dedicated to Mexican telenovelas in 2011. Beginnings at 20 Plus, Inc. is a multi-media company that produces concerts, events and offers television production services as well. The company produced the dubbed Tagalog version of the Chinese historical drama series Judge Bao in 2007–2008, aired on ABC-5.
A landmark agreement between Beginnings at 20 Plus, Inc. and Mexican network Televisa marked the start of a new channel dedicated to telenovelas. On November 14, 2011, Telenovela Channel started its maiden broadcast with In the Name of Love, The Two Sides of Ana, Passion and La Madrastra. These telenovelas were dubbed in Tagalog and were aired in original Spanish audio as well until 2013 as the new telenovelas were dubbed in English.
The year 2012 saw the introduction of new telenovelas as well. These are A Woman's Word, Big Love, and Love Spell. The same year also marked the return of Marimar, this time on cable via this channel. With its aim to be a purely Filipino telenovela cable channel, S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20AMC | This is a list of television programs broadcast by AMC.
Current programming
Drama
Comedy
Unscripted
Docuseries
Variety
Co-productions
Acquired programming
Creepshow (2020)
Documentary Now! (2022)
Sherman's Showcase (2022)
BlackBerry (November 13, 2023)
Upcoming programming
Drama
Anthology
Miniseries
Unscripted
Reality
Co-productions
In development
Alan Wake
The Devil in Silver
Diligence
Good Night, and Good Luck
Max Headroom
A Message From the State
Neglected Murderesses
Queen of the Jungle
Seconds
They Can't Kill Us All
Untitled Anne Rice's Immortal Universe series
Untitled Bannerman series
Untitled Killing Eve spin-off
Former programming
Drama
Mad Men (2007–15)
Breaking Bad (2008–13)
Rubicon (2010)
The Walking Dead (2010–22)
The Killing (2011–13)
Hell on Wheels (2011–16)
Low Winter Sun (2013)
TURИ: Washington's Spies (2014–17)
Halt and Catch Fire (2014–17)
Better Call Saul (2015–22)
Into the Badlands (2015–19)
Preacher (2016–19)
Feed the Beast (2016)
The Son (2017–19)
Dietland (2018)
Lodge 49 (2018–19)
NOS4A2 (2019–20)
The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020–21)
Firebite (2021–22)
That Dirty Black Bag (2022)
61st Street (2022)
Moonhaven (2022)
Comedy
Remember WENN (1996–98)
The Lot (1999–2001)
Kevin Can F**k Himself (2021–2022)
Cooper's Bar (2022)
Anthology
The Terror (2018–19)
Dispatches from Elsewhere (2020)
Soulmates (2020)
Tales of the Walking Dead (2022)
Miniseries
Broken Trail (2006)
The Prisoner (2009)
Animation
Ultra City Smiths (2021)
Slippin' Jimmy (2022)
Pantheon (2022)
Unscripted
Docuseries
Movies That Shook the World (2005)
The Making of the Mob (2015–16)
The American West (2016)
Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics (2017)
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction (2018)
Eli Roth's History of Horror (2018–21)
True Terror with George Takei (2019)
Hip Hop: The Songs That Shook America (2019)
The Preppy Murders: Death in Central Park (2019)
You Are Here (2023)
Reality
The Movie Masters (1989–90)
Cinema Secrets (2001–03)
FilmFakers (2004)
Celebrity Charades (2005)
Comic Book Men (2012–18)
The Pitch (2012–13)
Small Town Security (2012–14)
Freakshow (2013–14)
Immortalized (2013)
Owner's Manual (2013)
Showville (2013)
Game of Arms (2014)
4th and Loud (2014)
Variety
DVD TV (2002–08)
Shootout (2003–08)
Talking Bad (2013)
Talking Saul (2016–22)
Talking Preacher (2016–17)
Geeking Out (2016)
Talking with Chris Hardwick (2017)
Unapologetic with Aisha Tyler (2018)
Friday Night In with The Morgans (2020)
Co-productions
Hustle (2006–12)
Humans (2015–18)
The Night Manager (2016)
Loaded (2017)
McMafia (2018)
The Little Drummer Girl (2018)
La Fortuna (2022)
Ragdoll (2022)
This Is Going to Hurt (2022)
Acquired programming
This Is Your Life (1988)
The Three Stooges (1998–2004; 2009)
Dallas (2007)
CSI: Miami (2012)
Rawhide (2012)
Orphan Black (2015–17)
M*A*S*H (2017)
Blue Planet II (2018)
Dynasties (2019–22)
Two and a Half Men (2019–22)
Killing Eve (2019–22)
A Discovery of Witches (2019–22)
Quiz (2020)
Seven Worlds, One P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantool | Tarantool is an in-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema, best used for creating high-performance applications. Two main parts of it are an in-memory database and a Lua application server.
Tarantool maintains data in memory and ensures crash resistance with write-ahead logging and snapshotting. It includes a Lua interpreter and interactive console, but also accepts connections from programs in several other languages.
History
Mail.Ru, one of the largest Internet companies in Russia, started the project in 2008 as part of the development of Moy Mir (My World) social network. In 2010 for a project head it hired a former technical lead from MySQL. Open-source contributors have been active especially in the area of external-language connectors for C, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and node.js.
Tarantool became part of the Mail.Ru backbone, used for dynamic content such as user sessions, unsent instant messages, task queues, and a caching layer for traditional relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
By 2014 Tarantool had also been adopted by the social network services Badoo and Odnoklassniki (the latter is affiliated with Mail.Ru since 2010).
Properties
All data is maintained in memory (RAM), with data persistence ensured by write-ahead logging and snapshotting, and for those reasons some industry observers have compared Tarantool to Membase.
Replication is asynchronous and failover (getting one Tarantool server to take over from another) is possible either from a replica server or from a "hot standby" server.
There are no locks. Tarantool uses Lua-style coroutines and asynchronous I/O. The result is that application programs or stored procedures must be written with cooperative multitasking in mind, rather than the more popular preemptive multitasking.
For database storage the basic unit is a tuple. Tuples in tuple sets handle the same role as rows in tables for relational databases. Tuples have an arbitrary number of fields, and fields do not need names. Every tuple in a database has one (unique not null) primary key and one or more secondary keys, which are enabled for immediate lookup via indexes. Supported index types are B-tree, hash, bitmap, and R-tree (spatial).
Fields in a tuple are type-agnostic or can have specific numeric or string data types. Users may insert, update, delete, or select if they have been granted appropriate privileges.
In 2017 Tarantool introduced an optional on-disk storage engine which allows databases larger than memory size.
In 2019 Tarantool introduced an optional SQL interface which complies with most of the mandatory features of the official SQL standard.
Distribution
Tarantool comes as part of the official distributions for some Linux distros such as Debian, Fedora or Ubuntu. The Tarantool organization also supplies downloads for other Linux distributions, OS X, and FreeBSD. Tarantool can be extended with modules installed using LuaRocks, and it includes its own selection of e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya%20Zhitomirskiy | Ilya Zhitomirskiy (12 October 1989 – 12 November 2011) was an American software developer and entrepreneur. Zhitomirskiy was a co-founder and developer of the Diaspora social network and the Diaspora free software that powers it.
Biography
Early life
Zhitomirskiy was born on 12 October 1989, in Moscow, Soviet Union, to Alexei Medovikov and Inna Zhitomirskaya. Both his father and maternal grandfather are mathematicians. In 2000, his family emigrated to the United States, eventually settling outside Philadelphia, where he graduated from Lower Merion High School in 2007. Zhitomirskiy first attended Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in Acton, Massachusetts. He then studied mathematics, economics and computer science at Tulane University, University of Maryland, and New York University. In his free time, Zhitomirskiy unicycled and was a competitive ballroom dancer.
Diaspora
At NYU, he studied computer science at The Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, where he met the three friends with whom he founded diaspora*, a social networking service, in 2010. The project was conceived after the founders had attended a lecture by Columbia Law School professor and free software activist Eben Moglen in February 2010 about the threat to privacy posed by commercial Internet services. According to Moglen, Zhitomirskiy was "immensely talented" and "the most idealistic of the group... He had a choice between graduate school and this project, and he chose to do the project because he wanted to do something with his time that would make freedom".
Death
On the evening of 12 November 2011, Zhitomirskiy was found dead in his San Francisco home by police responding to calls about a suspected suicide. An autopsy report from the Medical Examiner's office formally ruled the death as a suicide in April 2012. He died from an intentional inert gas asphyxiation using helium. While press reports questioned whether the pressure of working on Diaspora had led to his suicide, Diaspora co-founder Maxwell Salzberg disagreed. Salzberg stated, "Yes, I agree that being a startup founder is stressful. But it wasn’t the stress of work that killed Ilya. He had his own issues. He was sick." Zhitomirskiy’s mother, Inna Zhitomirskiy, did not comment on reports of his history of mental illness, but she did say on his participation in Diaspora, "I strongly believe that if Ilya did not start this project and stayed in school, he would be well and alive today."
The Village Voice said that Zhitomirskiy was "often described as the most idealistic and privacy-conscious member of the group" and declared his death "a devastating setback" for Diaspora.
References
External links
.
Personal Website on GitHub
1989 births
2011 suicides
2011 deaths
21st-century American businesspeople
American computer programmers
American technology company founders
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni
Free software programmers
Lower Merion High School alumni
Russian emigrants to the Un |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Center%20for%20Supercomputing%20Applications%20%28Bulgaria%29 | The National Center for Supercomputing Applications () is a research institution located in Sofia, Bulgaria.
It was established in 2008 with the aim of promoting and regulating high-performance processing operations of scientific information.
The NCSA works in affiliation with scientists and researchers from the Sofia University, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Technical and Medical universities in Sofia, as well as other organizations. The center is under the jurisdiction of the State Agency for Information Technology and Communications (SAITC).
When established, the center operated the only supercomputer in the Balkan region, an IBM Blue Gene/P, which was among the most powerful supercomputers in the world according to TOP500 until November 2009. It has two racks with 2,048 850 MHz processors with 8,192 cores. The system is to be upgraded with additional I/O nodes and disk space in the near future.
The supercomputer was switched off in 2015.
References
External links
Institutes of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Information technology in Bulgaria
Supercomputer sites
Sofia University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hardware%20and%20software%20that%20supports%20FLAC | This is a list of computer hardware and software which supports FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec), a file format designed for lossless compression of digital audio.
Hardware support
Car devices
Alpine CDE-163BT
Alpine UTE-62BT
Citroën DS5
Hyundai Ioniq
Hyundai Kona
Kenwood KMM-100U
Peugeot 208 Blue Lion
Pioneer Avic-4100 -> 8100NEX
Pioneer DEH-X8700BH
Power Acoustik PD-622NB
Renault Espace
SEAT León
Sony MEX-N5100BT
Sony MEX-XB100BT
Sony XAV-AX1000
Tesla Models S/X/3/Y
DJ players
Pioneer CDJ-2000nexus2
Pioneer CDJ-TOUR1
Pioneer XDJ-1000mk2
Pioneer CDJ-3000
Pioneer XDJ-RX3
Pioneer XDJ-XZ (After firmware vers. 1.10)
Portable stereo / boombox
Active speakers
Fenda F&D A140X, F&D A180X
Logitech Z607 5.1
Home audio AV receivers / amplifiers
Bang and Olufsen BeoSound 5
Denon AVR-1612, AVR-2313, AVR-3310, AVR-3808, AVR-4308, AVR-4310, AVR-4311, AVR-4520A, AVR-4810, AVR-5308, AVP-A1HDCI, AVR-X1000, AVR-X2000, AVR-X3000, AVR-X4000, NP-720AE*Escient
Onkyo TX-8050, TX-SR309, TX-SR333, TX-NR535, TX-NR626, TX-NR636, TX-NR737, TX-NR838, TX-NR1030, TX-NR3030
Pioneer SC-05, SC-07, SC-25, SC-27, SC-35, SC-37, SC-09TX, X-HM76B, XC-HM86
Sonos 16-bit max.
Sony's High-Res Audio Players
Yamaha RX-A1000/A2000/A3000 AV Receiver, RX-V477, RX-V671, RX-V673 (RX-V773, RX-V671, RX-V673 – up to 96 kHz streaming and 192 kHz external link) AV Receivers, RX-V773, RX-V795, RX-V1067, RX-V2065 AV Receiver, RX-V2067, RX-V3067 AV Receivers
Home media servers and clients
Cambridge Audio CXN Network Player | Azur 851N Network Player
Dvico TVIX HD M-6500, N1 (cafe), HD M-6600A/N Plus, HD M-7000
Linn Klimax DS, Renew DS, Akurate DS, Majik DS and Sneaky Music DS
Logitech Squeezebox and Transporter network music players from Logitech. Current products decode natively, old v1 units transcode to PCM on the server. (discontinued)
Naim Audio HDX Hard Disk Player, NaimUniti, UnitiQute, DAC, NDX, UnitiServe
Meridian Sooloos
Pixel Magic Systems' HD Mediabox (with firmware 1.3.4 or higher)
PS Audio Perfect Wave DAC + Bridge (Digital-to-Analog Converter/Digital Streamer)
Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ HD, HDTV Network Media Player STAJ100
T+A Music Player
Western Digital WD TV HD based
Portable handheld players
Colorfly C3, C4, C10, C200
Creative Zen X-Fi 2
FiiO X Series
iAudio (Cowon): A2, A3, 6, 7, F2, O2, M3, M5, X5, U3, U5, D2, D2+, S9, J3, X7 native support with newer firmware.
iriver E200, E150, E100, E50, E30, Lplayer, SPINN, T8.
Meizu M6 Mini Player, M3 Music Card
PonoPlayer
Rio Karma
Samsung YP-U5 USB stick portable player
Sandisk Clip Sport
SanDisk Sansa Fuze, Clip (with updated firmware), Clip+, Fuze+, Clip Zip
Teclast T29, T39, C260, C280, C290
Transcend MP860, MP870
TRAXMOD Open source, open hardware portable MMC/SD player
Trekstor Vibez
VEDIA A10, B6
Smartphones and tablets
Archos 5 Internet Tablet
Archos Internet Media Tablets
Nokia N900, Nokia N9
BlackBerry Playbook Tablet, BlackBerry 10 smartphones
Most Android devices with a compati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape%20from%20Planet%20Earth | Escape from Planet Earth is a 2013 computer-animated comedy-adventure science fiction film produced by Rainmaker Entertainment and distributed by The Weinstein Company in the United States and Entertainment One in Canada, directed by Cal Brunker (in his feature-length directorial debut), with a screenplay which he co-wrote with Bob Barlen, and features an ensemble voice cast that includes Rob Corddry, Brendan Fraser, Sarah Jessica Parker, William Shatner, Jessica Alba, Jane Lynch, Craig Robinson, George Lopez, Sofía Vergara, Steve Zahn, Chris Parnell, Jonathan Morgan Heit, and Ricky Gervais. The film was released on February 15, 2013. Escape from Planet Earth received negative reviews from critics and grossed $74.6 million on a budget of $40 million.
Plot
On Planet Baab, reckless astronaut and glory hog Scorch Supernova works at the organization BASA with his nerdy older brother Gary, who assists him on missions from BASA Headquarters. One day, Gary receives a message from the head of BASA, Lena, that Scorch will be sent to the "Dark Planet" (the Baabians' name for Earth) due to an SOS call. Gary opposes the idea, but Scorch accepts without his approval, leading to an argument between them causing Gary to quit his job out of frustration. Gary goes home to his wife Kira and adventure-hungry son Kip, only to find out that Scorch has already gone to the Dark Planet, via live TV.
Scorch arrives on Earth and finds a 7-Eleven convenience store, where he is ambushed by the US Army, led by General William T. Shanker, and is taken to Area 51. Witnessing this, Kip wants to go rescue Scorch, but Gary discourages him, upsetting Kip. That night, Gary goes to Kip's room to apologize only to find that Kip has escaped. He rushes to BASA with Kira and arrives in time to cancel a launch sequence at the last second and save Kip. Gary, having a change of heart, re-activates the sequence so he can rescue Scorch himself. Gary then arrives at the same 7-Eleven that Scorch arrived at earlier and is shortly captured by Shanker's men, taking him to Area 51 as well.
Gary is taken to Shanker's office where he is quickly removed after he receives an incoming call from Lena, who is revealed to be Shanker's girlfriend, as she has sent him the most powerful energy source in the galaxy, known as "blubonium", via Scorch’s robotic suit, not knowing Shanker only uses her to get the source. Gary is placed in a cell hall where he meets other aliens that were captured: a mouse-like alien named Doc, a cyclops-like alien named Io, and a slug-like alien named Thurman, who tell Gary that various human technology has been invented by them for Shanker to rip off and sell in exchange for their undetermined release from Area 51. Gary reunites with Scorch, but is again annoyed by his arrogance. Meanwhile, Lena captures Kira, who stayed at BASA and tried contacting Gary on his rescue mission, while revealing her plan to give Shanker a lifetime supply of blubonium.
In the cafeteria, Gary and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fame%20for%2015 | Fame for 15 is an American television series that aired on The Nashville Network from October 22, 2001 to November 10, 2001.
Overview
The series profiled regular individuals who made headlines or were newsmakers for a brief time. People covered include Donato Dalyrmple, the fisherman who rescued Elián González, Scott O'Grady, Jim Morris, Darva Conger, John Wayne Bobbitt, Ellie Nesler, Divine Brown, Tommie Smith, George Holliday, the man who filmed the Rodney King video, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire winner John Carpenter.
References
External links
Fame for 15 on IMDb
2001 American television series debuts
2001 American television series endings
The Nashville Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenACC | OpenACC (for open accelerators) is a programming standard for parallel computing developed by Cray, CAPS, Nvidia and PGI. The standard is designed to simplify parallel programming of heterogeneous CPU/GPU systems.
As in OpenMP, the programmer can annotate C, C++ and Fortran source code to identify the areas that should be accelerated using compiler directives and additional functions. Like OpenMP 4.0 and newer, OpenACC can target both the CPU and GPU architectures and launch computational code on them.
OpenACC members have worked as members of the OpenMP standard group to merge into OpenMP specification to create a common specification which extends OpenMP to support accelerators in a future release of OpenMP. These efforts resulted in a technical report for comment and discussion timed to include the annual Supercomputing Conference (November 2012, Salt Lake City) and to address non-Nvidia accelerator support with input from hardware vendors who participate in OpenMP.
At ISC’12 OpenACC was demonstrated to work on Nvidia, AMD and Intel accelerators, without performance data.
On November 12, 2012, at the SC12 conference, a draft of the OpenACC version 2.0 specification was presented. New suggested capabilities include new controls over data movement (such as better handling of unstructured data and improvements in support for non-contiguous memory), and support for explicit function calls and separate compilation (allowing the creation and reuse of libraries of accelerated code). OpenACC 2.0 was officially released in June 2013.
Version 2.5 of the specification was released in October 2015, while version 2.6 was released in November 2017. The latest version of specification, version 2.7, was released in November 2018.
Compiler support
Support of OpenACC is available in commercial compilers from PGI (from version 12.6), and (for Cray hardware only) Cray.
OpenUH is an Open64 based open source OpenACC compiler supporting C and FORTRAN, developed by HPCTools group from University of Houston.
OpenARC is an open source C compiler developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to support all features in the OpenACC 1.0 specification. An experimental open source compiler, accULL, is developed by the University of La Laguna (C language only).
Omni Compiler is an open source compiler developed at HPCS Laboratory. of University of Tsukuba and Programming Environment Research Team of RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan, supported OpenACC, and combining XcalableMP and OpenACC.
IPMACC is an open source C compiler developed by University of Victoria that translates OpenACC to CUDA, OpenCL, and ISPC. Currently, only following directives are supported: data, kernels, loop, and cache.
GCC support for OpenACC was slow in coming. A GPU-targeting implementation from Samsung was announced in September 2013; this translated OpenACC 1.1-annotated code to OpenCL. The announcement of a "real" implementation followed two months later, this time from NVID |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Performance%20Optimized%20Datacenter | The HP Performance Optimized Datacenter (POD) is a range of three modular data centers manufactured by HP.
Housed in purpose-built modules of standard shipping container form-factor of either 20 feet or 40 feet in length the data centers are shipped preconfigured with racks, cabling and equipment for power and cooling. They can support technologies from HP or third parties. The claimed capacity is the equivalent of up to 10,000 square feet of typical data center capacity depending on the model.
Depending on the model, they use either chilled water cooling or a combination of direct expansion air cooling.
HP POD 20c and 40c
The POD 40c was launched in 2008. This 40-foot modular data center has a maximum power capacity up to 27 kW per rack. The POD 40c supports 3,500 compute nodes or 12,000 LFF hard drives. HP has claimed this offers the computing equivalent of 4,000 square foot of traditional data center space.
The POD 20c was launched in 2010. This modular data center is housed in a 20-foot container. This version houses 10 industry-standard 50U racks of hardware. The POD uses an efficient cooling design of variable speed fans, hot and cold aisle containment and close coupled cooling to maximize capacity and efficiency. The POD 20c can operate at a Power Usage Effectiveness of 1.25. PODs can maintain cold aisle temperatures higher than typical brick and mortar data centers. The temperature of the cold aisle in traditional data centers is typically 68 to 72 degrees, whereas the POD can efficiently operate at temperatures in this range up to 90 degrees.
Both the 20c and the 40c are water-cooled. The benefit of water cooling is higher capacity and less power usage than traditional air-cooled systems.
HP POD 240a
The HP POD 240a was launched in June 2011. It can be configured with two rows of 44 extra height 50U racks that could house 4,400 server nodes of typical size, or 7,040 server nodes of the densest size. HP claimed that the typical brick and mortar data center required to house this equipment would be 10,000 square feet of floor space.
HP claims "near-perfect" Energy efficiency for the POD 240a, which it nicknames the "EcoPOD". HP says it has recorded estimated Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) ratios of 1.05 to 1.4, depending on IT load and location. The perfect efficiency would be a Power usage effectiveness (PUE) of 1.0.
The POD 240a has a refrigerant-based air cooled HVAC system with air-side economization When the ambient air conditions are cool enough, the 240a uses economizer or free air mode—where outside air can be taken in and circulated inside the modular data center to cool the IT equipment.
Customers
In September 2013, eBay announced that they were "deploying the world’s largest modular data center, with 44 rack positions and 1.4Megawatts of power" using HP EcoPODs.
See also
Google Modular Data Center
HP Flexible Data Center
IBM Portable Modular Data Center
Sun Modular Data Center
References
External links
HP Perf |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branchiostoma%20lanceolatum | Branchiostoma lanceolatum, the European lancelet or Mediterranean amphioxus, is a lancelet in the subphylum Cephalochordata. It is a marine invertebrate with a notochord but no backbone and is used as a model organism to study the evolutionary development of vertebrates.
Anatomy
Branchiostoma lanceolatum has an elongated body, flattened laterally and pointed at both ends. A stiffening rod of tightly packed cells, the notochord, extends the whole length of the body. Unlike vertebrates, the notochord persists in the adult, in form of simple dorsal neural tube slightly thickened in the anterior part (the cerebral vesicle). Above it is a nerve cord with a single frontal eye. The mouth is on the underside of the body and is surrounded by a tuft of 20 or 30 cirri or slender sensory appendages. The gut runs just below the notochord from the mouth to the anus, in front of the tail. There is a flap-like, vertical fin surrounding the pointed tail. Gas exchange takes place as water passes through gill slits in the mid region, and segmented gonads lie just behind these. The animal is pearly white and semi-transparent which enables the internal organs to be seen from outside. Its appearance is similar to a "primitive fish". It can grow up to 6 cm (2.5 in) long.
Distribution and habitat
Branchiostoma lanceolatum is found in shallow seas in the north-east Atlantic Ocean, from 67°N in Norway south to the Mediterranean Sea and east to the Black Sea. Its range has expanded through the Suez Canal to the northerly parts of the Indian Ocean and the coasts of East Africa. It burrows in soft substrates such as sand, gravel and shell fragments and is quite particular as to the size of the particles. It occurs from the low tide mark down to about 40 metres (130 ft).
Biology
In the North Sea, breeding takes place in June and July. The mature adult Branchiostoma lanceolatum, aged 2 to 3 years, congregate in masses on the sea floor. Individuals are either male or female and spawn once a year. The eggs are laid and fertilisation takes place externally. The early larval stages take place in the substrate but a little later, the larvae become pelagic. They are elongated and flattened laterally and have a swollen region around the gill slits. These slits number 6 to 19, the number increasing as the larva passes through its various stages. The larvae have a vertical daily migration. Each evening they rise to near the surface of the sea and in the morning they sink through the water column, feeding on phytoplankton, copepods and detritus as they descend. While in these surface waters they drift with the current. The larval stage lasts for up to 200 days.
Toll-like receptors (TLR's) act as important mediators of the inflammatory pathways for creating an innate immune response in chordates. Data has demonstrated evidence that amphioxus TLRs maintained a similar framework as it pertains to protein structure, while also demonstrating similar features to TLRs of invertebrates desp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CastleVille | CastleVille is a defunct social network game made by Zynga's Dallas studio and was released in November 2011. It combined a number of elements from the company's other "Ville" range of games. On launch it had received a million "likes" on Facebook. By the end of its first month, it had become the fifth most popular game on Facebook with 26.5 million players. The game was a freemium game, meaning there is no cost to play but players have the option of purchasing premium content.
Zynga created a sequel called CastleVille Legends in early 2013.
CastleVille shut down on 30 April 2016.
Gameplay
Set in a medieval world, the game allows players to build their land up with castle elements, and craft armor, art and trade items. The objective is to explore the unknown land around the starting territory and expand the player's empire into it. The character's avatar can be customized, and the world features peasants, pirates, princesses and Vikings. A new reputation system was developed to encourage players to be social within the game in order to unlock new items and actions such as trading.
Production
The game was produced by Zynga Dallas, (formerly known as Bonfire Studios), which was purchased by Zynga in October 2010 for an undisclosed sum. It is the Dallas studio's first release under Zynga management, and the first social game to feature its own orchestral and choir soundtrack. Originally announced in October 2011, it was launched in seventeen languages. It was released a couple of weeks prior to Zynga's stock market launch.
The production team's aim was to take the best elements of the other Zynga "Ville" games and combine them into one package. Storytelling features were brought from The Pioneer Trail (formerly known as FrontierVille), while CityVille and FarmVille provided the inspiration for city building and self-expression, respectively. The game's Creative Director, Bill Jackson, said that it was aimed to be a deep online game like World of Warcraft.
Reception
At launch in November 2011, an official page on Facebook for CastleVille had already received a million "likes". It had gained five million players by 21 November, compared to the top rated game, CityVille, which had only reached 3.2 million players after five days. Within a month, CastleVille was ranked #5 on the most popular Facebook games, having accumulated 26.5 million players. Its entry into the top twenty games came at a cost to its own creators: CastleVille forced an older Zynga game, The Pioneer Trail, out of the list.
Jon Swartz previewed the game for USA Today, thought the game had similarities in design to the Shrek franchise, but described it as Zynga's crown jewel. Andrew Webster, reviewing CastleVille for Gamezebo, said that the release wouldn't "revolutionize social gaming", but because of "arguably the best visual and audio experience on Facebook", it was still one of the best games on Facebook. He gave the game four and a half stars of five.
References
External |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic%20Book%20Men | Comic Book Men is an American reality television series which aired on the AMC network from 2012 to 2018. It is set at Kevin Smith's comic book shop, Jay and Silent Bob's Secret Stash, in Red Bank, New Jersey.
Production history
Filmmaker Kevin Smith was drawn to television through his love of podcasting, through which he says he realized his true calling: telling stories with words rather than pictures. His website, SModcast.com, features a number of podcasts, including I Sell Comics!, hosted by Mike Zapcic and Ming Chen, and Tell 'Em Steve-Dave!, co-hosted by Walt Flanagan and Bryan Johnson. The latter was the inspiration for Comic Book Men. Brian Quinn, the third co-host of Tell 'Em Steve-Dave!, was unable to be featured in the series due to the conditions of his contract for the TruTV series Impractical Jokers.
NJ.com reported in July 2011 that AMC was interested in the TV show that was being developed by Smith, which was set at Smith's store, and described as "Pawn Stars for geeks". The series would be part of AMC network's active entry into reality television. AMC decided to pick up the show to follow The Walking Dead. The working title was Secret Stash, before it was finalized as Comic Book Men.
The first season ran for six one-hour episodes, the premiere of which aired on February 12, 2012, following the return of The Walking Deads second season.
On May 9, AMC announced that Comic Book Men was renewed for a second season of 16 half-hour episodes. Season 2 premiered October 14, 2012, initially following the third season of The Walking Dead with its first 8 episodes; the second 8 episodes spearheaded AMC's new "Real Original Thursdays" lineup along with two new series, Freakshow and Immortalized. On its new night, it initially aired at 9:00 PM EST (with repeats at 10:30PM and 12:00 Midnight EST), but after a month was moved to 10:00PM EST with a repeat episode airing at 10:30 PM (and repeats of both episodes at 1:00AM and 1:30AM EST, respectively)
AMC commissioned a third season in April 2013. Season 3 premiered October 13, 2013, following the third season of Talking Dead.
A fourth season was commissioned in March 2014. It was also announced that guest cast member Robert Bruce would be the focus of a companion series that will follow him as he searches for collectibles at sales, auctions and flea markets across the country. AMC announced in October 2014 they were cancelling all unscripted shows except for Comic Book Men and Talking Dead and, as a result, Bruce's show did not progress past the pilot stage.
Season five was confirmed on June 7, 2015, premiered on October 18, 2015, and ran through 2016.
In May 2016, Smith confirmed that the series was renewed for a sixth season. It began on October 23, 2016.
A seventh season was confirmed in May 2017 by Kevin Smith.
On June 24, 2018, Kevin Smith confirmed the show was cancelled.
Cast
Kevin Smith – The owner of the store, and a filmmaker and author whose films include Clerks, Chas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Automation | Computer Automation, Inc. was a computer manufacturer founded by David H. Methvin in 1968, based originally in Newport Beach, California, United States. It opened a sales, support and repair arm in the UK in 1972, based at Hertford House, Maple Cross, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. Later relocated to Suite 2 Milfield House, Croxley Centre, Croxley Green, Watford, Hertfordshire.
In 1981 they moved the corporate offices to Boulder, Colorado, manufacturing and sales remained in California. In 1985 the offices moved to Irvine, California.
Finally in 1990 they moved to Richardson, Texas. They had previously opened a manufacturing and engineering development facility there in 1978 as a way to escape high California tax and labor rates.
The first products were the Computer Automation PDC 404 and PDC 808 "Programmed Digital Controllers". The PDC 808 announced circa July 1969 was designed for control, monitoring and/or data logging applications. It featured 4K 8-bit core memory expandable to 16K with DTL logic circuits.
In 1969, CA announced full production of the Model 816, a 16-bit general purpose computer using TTL integrated circuits for logic and a 3D core memory.
In 1971, CA introduced the Alpha 8, an eight-bit machine, and Alpha 16 which merely doubled up this concept to make a 16-bit machine. Both were built using DTL and TTL devices. The processor for the Alpha 8 and Alpha 16 each comprised three full sized circuit boards about 18 inches square, then there were the memory options, 4k, 8k and rarely 16k magnetic core full cards. There were number of options for data input, paper tape via a board called the utility controller which could also be used to drive other devices such as printers, etc. There was a magnetic tape controller which was a full card and a Winchester interface disk controller which was two full cards with a circuit board jumper which interlinked the two cards. The programmers console had a row of toggle switches for data entry of bootstrap routines, etc. Two chassis were available, standard and jumbo with separate power supplies. There were a variety of other cards available for various forms of input/output and process control, relay cards, dual teletype cards, etc.
In 1973, the LSI-1 was announced, a single board low-cost 16-bit computer. To achieve the ambitious goals, the company ventured into development of full-custom LSI chips: a 4-bit slice arithmetic logic unit and 3-chip control unit. The control unit was based on programmable logic arrays (PLA). The control unit PLA transformed the machine instructions and events into series of microinstructions to operate the ALU and related functions. The concept was conceived by Ken Gorman and was designed by Gorman and Roy Blacksher. Although the design was proven in the lab using first iteration chips, a disastrous processing error by chip foundry National Semiconductor during a bug-fix iteration caused a six-month schedule slip from which the project could not recover. T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackaday | Hackaday is a hardware hacking website. It was founded in 2004 as a web magazine. Since 2014, Hackaday also hosts a community database of open-source hardware designs.
History
Hackaday was founded in 2004 by Phillip Torrone as a web magazine for Engadget, devoted to publishing and archiving "the best hacks, mods and DIY projects from around web". Hackaday was since split from Engadget and its former parent company Weblogs, Inc. by its at the time owner Jason Calacanis. In 2007 Computerworld magazine ranked Hackaday #10 on their list of the top 15 geek blog sites.
Hackaday.io started as a project hosting site in 2014 under the name of Hackaday Projects. It allows users to upload open-source hardware designs. As of 2015, it had grown into a social network of 100,000 members.
In 2015, Hackaday's owner, Supplyframe, acquired the hardware marketplace Tindie.
In 2021, Hackaday's owner, Supplyframe, was acquired by Siemens.
See also
Instructables
Thingiverse
TorrentFreak
References
External links
Hackaday.io, Hackaday's online community
Online magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 2004
Technology websites
Magazines published in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferential%20theory%20of%20learning | Inferential Theory of Learning (ITL) is an area of machine learning which describes inferential processes performed by learning agents. ITL has been continuously developed by Ryszard S. Michalski, starting in the 1980s. The first known publication of ITL was in 1983. In the ITL learning process is viewed as a search (inference) through hypotheses space guided by a specific goal. The results of learning need to be stored. Stored information will later be used by the learner for future inferences. Inferences are split into multiple categories including conclusive, deduction, and induction. In order for an inference to be considered complete it was required that all categories must be taken into account. This is how the ITL varies from other machine learning theories like Computational Learning Theory and Statistical Learning Theory; which both use singular forms of inference.
Usage
The most relevant published usage of ITL was in scientific journal published in 2012 and used ITL as a way to describe how agent-based learning works. According to the journal "The Inferential Theory of Learning (ITL) provides an elegant way of describing learning processes by agents".
References
Further reading
Ryszard S. Michalski, Jaime G. Carbonell, Tom M. Mitchell (1983), Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, Tioga Publishing Company, .
Ryszard S. Michalski, Jaime G. Carbonell, Tom M. Mitchell (1986), Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, Volume II, Morgan Kaufmann, .
Yves Kodratoff, Ryszard S. Michalski (1990), Machine Learning: An Artificial Intelligence Approach, Volume III, Morgan Kaufmann, .
Ryszard S. Michalski, George Tecuci (1994), Machine Learning: A Multistrategy Approach, Volume IV, Morgan Kaufmann, .
Naidenova, X. (Ed.),(2009), Machine Learning Methods for Commonsense Reasoning Processes: Interactive Models: Interactive Models, IGI Global,.
Cybernetics
Learning
Machine learning |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island%20algorithm | The island algorithm is an algorithm for performing inference on hidden Markov models, or their generalization, dynamic Bayesian networks.
It calculates the marginal distribution for each unobserved node, conditional on any observed nodes.
The island algorithm is a modification of belief propagation.
It trades smaller memory usage for longer running time: while belief propagation takes O(n) time and O(n) memory, the island algorithm takes O(n log n) time and O(log n) memory. On a computer with an unlimited number of processors, this can be reduced to O(n) total time, while still taking only O(log n) memory.
The algorithm
For simplicity, we describe the algorithm on hidden Markov models. It can be easily generalized to dynamic Bayesian networks by using a junction tree.
Belief propagation involves sending a message from the first node to the second, then using this message to compute a message from the second node to the third, and so on until the last node (node N). Independently, it performs the same procedure starting at node N and going in reverse order. The i-th message depends on the (i-1)-th, but the messages going in opposite directions do not depend on one another. The messages coming from both sides are required to calculate the marginal distribution for a node. In normal belief propagation, all messages are stored, which takes O(n) memory.
The island begins by passing messages as usual, but it throws away the i-th message after sending the (i+1)-th one.
When the two message-passing procedures meet in the middle, the algorithm recurses on each half of the chain.
Since the chain is divided in two at each recursive step, the depth of the recursion is log(N). Since every message must be passed again at each level of depth, the algorithm takes O(n log n) time on a single processor. Two messages must be stored at each recursive step, so the algorithm uses O(log n) space.
Given log(N) processors, algorithm can be run in O(n) time by using a separate processor to do each recursive step (thus taking N/2 + N/4 + N/8 ... = N time on a single processor).
References
Bioinformatics algorithms
Hidden Markov models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Action%20Network | Christian Action Network or CAN is a Christian activist organization founded by Martin Mawyer in 1990. The organization states that its "primary goals are to protect America’s religious and moral heritage through educational efforts."
The group has advocated on a number of issues, including actions against the National Endowment for the Arts, battles regarding First Amendment to the United States Constitution issues, and the Islamic community center to be built near the World Trade Center site in New York. The group has been described as part of the counter-jihad movement, and has been identified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an anti-Muslim hate group.
History
The Christian Action Network was founded in 1990 with the goal to inform the public about issues which it believes affect "traditional Christian family values."
According to the company's website, founder Martin Mawyer began a journalism career in 1979 in Washington D.C. covering religious issues for the daily news service Religion Today and as a correspondent for Moody Monthly, an American religious magazine published by the Moody Bible Institute. Mawyer went on to become the editor of Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority Report, a news publication of the Moral Majority, where he served from 1980 to 1988.
Action against the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
In 1993 CAN conducted several protests of the funding of what it called obscenity by the NEA. In July Mawyer's group hand-delivered letters to 114 freshman members of Congress and Republican congressional leaders urging them to abolish the NEA on the basis of a concurrent art exhibit at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art. The show "Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire" featured images of excrement and homoerotic acts.
On July 29 the group set up a photography show at the U.S. Capitol that featured sexually explicit photographs by Joel-Peter Witkin, an artist funded by NEA grants. The exhibit was abruptly banned from the Capitol before it could publicly open and was then closed down by House Speaker Tom Foley after 15 minutes at a second location.
The following September, CAN distributed 15-minute video tapes to President Bill Clinton and members of Congress that contained clips of pornographic films that the group said had the "stamp of approval" of the NEA. The 15-minute tapes contained excerpts from three films shown at the Pittsburgh International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in July 1991, which Mawyer said had been funded by NEA grants. An NEA spokeswoman disputed that the funding had supported those specific films.
Defense of lawsuit by Federal Election Commission
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) accused CAN in 1995 of violating the Federal Election Campaign Act by running television commercials prior to the 1992 presidential election that asserted Democratic candidate Bill Clinton supported job quotas for homosexuals as a kind of Affirmative Action. The commercials aired in 25 cities. In 1995 the U.S. Distr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20Is%20Not%20Blind | Love Is Not Blind () is a 2011 Chinese romantic comedy film directed by Teng Huatao. The film was adapted from an online novel written by Bao Jingjing which has been popular among cyber users since its appearance. Due to the popularity of the source, Teng adapted the novel into a movie, which was said to be prepared specially for Nov.11—the Singles' Day in China. The film became a major commercial success in China, considering its low budget. Now Teng is considering adapting the novel into a TV play.
Plot
Huang Xiaoxian, a 27-year-old woman who lives in Beijing, breaks up with her boyfriend of 7 years after witnessing him on a date with her best friend in a shopping mall. Heart-broken and depressed, Xiaoxian mopes around at work and nearly gets fired for screwing up a big assignment. With the surprising help from a colleague she usually loathes, Xiaoxian gradually heals, starts to see more truly of herself, and finds love from someone who has always been there for her.
Cast
Bai Baihe as Huang Xiaoxian
Wen Zhang as Wang Xiaojian (Wang Yiyang)
Zhang Jiayi as Da Laowang
Guo Jingfei as Lu Ran
Wang Yaoqing as Wei Yiran
Zhang Zixuan as Li Ke
Cao Cuifen as Aunt Zhang
Wei Zongwan as Uncle Chen
Hai Qing as Aunt Zhang (youth)
Liao Fan as Uncle Chen (youth)
Li Nian as Cello teacher
Jiao Junyan as Feng Jiaqi
Theme song
Love Song, sung by Chen Shanni, with lyrics and music by her as well, was first included in Chen's album Later, we all cried in 2004.
Accolades and nominations
49th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
Best Actress Nomination - Hehe Bai
Best New Actress - Zixuan Zhang
Best Soundtrack Nomination - Chaoyang Lin, Wei Ding
Best Cinematography Nomination - Dun Cao
Best Adapted Screenplay - Jingjing Bao
References
2011 films
2011 romantic comedy films
Chinese romantic comedy films
Films based on Chinese novels
Films directed by Teng Huatao
2010s Mandarin-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSJI | KSJI (91.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Christian Contemporary format. Licensed to St. Joseph, Missouri, the station is an owned and operated affiliate of Spirit FM, a network of 22 Christian music stations all over Missouri.
References
External links
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
SJI
Radio stations established in 2010
2010 establishments in Missouri
University of Northwestern – St. Paul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOFM%20%28FM%29 | WOFM (89.1 MHz) is a non-commercial, non-profit Christian FM radio station in the Knoxville, Tennessee area.
WYLV began in February 1993 broadcasting on 89.1 FM with programming from the Morning Star network. In September 1999, the station changed to a local format with onsite staff and DJs.
On January 1, 2011, WOEZ became an affiliate of the Air 1 network after being sold to Educational Media Foundation. Later in January, the WYLV call letters were moved to the 88.3 frequency, as an affiliate of the K-LOVE network. At that time, Air1 moved to WOFM, which had been WYLV.
External links
Air1 radio stations
Alcoa, Tennessee
Radio stations established in 1993
1993 establishments in Tennessee
Educational Media Foundation radio stations
OFM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GermaNet | GermaNet is a semantic network for the German language. It relates nouns, verbs, and adjectives semantically by grouping lexical units that express the same concept into synsets and by defining semantic relations between these synsets. GermaNet is free for academic use, after signing a license. GermaNet has much in common with the English WordNet and can be viewed as an on-line thesaurus or a light-weight ontology. GermaNet has been developed and maintained at the University of Tübingen since 1997 within the research group for General and Computational Linguistics. It has been integrated into the EuroWordNet, a multilingual lexical-semantic database.
Database
Contents
GermaNet partitions the lexical space into a set of concepts that are interlinked by semantic relations. A semantic concept is modeled by a synset. A synset is a set of words (called lexical units) where all the words are taken to have the same or almost the same meaning. Thus, a synset is a set of synonyms grouped under one definition, or "gloss".
In addition to the gloss, synsets are labeled with their syntactic function and accompanied by example sentences for each distinct meaning in the synset. Just as in WordNet, for each word category the semantic space is divided into a number of semantic fields closely related to major nodes in the semantic network: Ort, or "location", Körper, or "body", etc.
As of version 15.0 (release May 2020), GermaNet contains:
Synsets: 144113
Lexical Units: 185000
Literals: 169521
Conceptual Relations: 157921
Lexical Relations (synonymy excluded): 12203
Split Compounds: 98905
Interlingual Index (ILI) Records: 28564
Wiktionary Sense Descriptions: 29548
Format
All GermaNet data is stored in a PostgreSQL relational database. The database schema follows the internal structure of GermaNet: there are tables to store synsets, lexical units, conceptual and lexical relations, etc. GermaNet data is distributed both in this database format and as XML files. In the XML data, two types of files, one for synsets and the other for relations, represent all data available in the GermaNet database.
Interfaces
There are software libraries and APIs available for Java, Python, JavaScript, and Perl. These programs are distributed under free-software licenses and provide easy access to all information in various versions of GermaNet.
GermaNet Rover is an on-line application that can be used to search for synsets in GermaNet, explore the data associated with them, and calculate the semantic similarity of pairs of synsets. It features visualizations of the hypernym relation and advanced filtering options for synset searching.
Licenses
GermaNet 15.0 (released May 2020) can be distributed under one of the following types of license agreements:
Academic Research License Agreement: for the purpose of research at academic institutions. There is no license fee for academic use. Licenses are not given to individual students, and those seeking a license are req |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991%E2%80%9392%20Full%20Members%27%20Cup | The 1991–92 Full Members' Cup, known as the Zenith Data Systems Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 7th and final staging of a knock-out competition for English football clubs in the First and Second Division. The winners were Nottingham Forest and the runners-up were Southampton.
The competition began on 1 October 1991 and ended with the final on 29 March 1992 at the Wembley Stadium. The competition was then cancelled after seven seasons, when the Premier League arose from the old Football League First Division and reduced the Football League to three divisions.
In the first round, there were two sections: North and South. In the following rounds each section gradually eliminates teams in knock-out fashion until each has a winning finalist. At this point, the two winning finalists face each other in the combined final for the honour of the trophy.
Liverpool, Arsenal, Manchester United, Tottenham and Sunderland opted out of this competition.
First round
Northern Section
Southern Section
Second round
Northern Section
Southern Section
Third round
Northern Section
Southern Section
Area semi-finals
Northern Section
Southern Section
Area finals
Northern Area final
Nottingham Forest beat Leicester City 3–1 on aggregate.
Southern Area final
Southampton beat Chelsea 5–1 on aggregate.
Final
External links
When Saturday Comes - Article on the Full Members' Cup
Full Members' Cup
Full |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton%20Academy%20of%20the%20Sacred%20Heart | Princeton Academy of the Sacred Heart is an independent school for boys in Kindergarten through Grade 8. Located in Princeton, New Jersey the school is part of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools.
The school is divided into two sections: a Lower School (Kindergarten through Grade 4) and a Middle School (Grade 5 through Grade 8). As of the 2012–13 school year, the school had an enrollment of 219 students and 27 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 8:1.
Princeton Academy has been accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools since 2003. It is overseen by the New Jersey Department of Education and is a member of the Network of the Sacred Heart Schools, the National Association of Independent Schools, the New Jersey Association of Independent Schools, the Association of Delaware Valley Independent Schools, the International Boys' Schools Coalition (IBSC), the Council for Spiritual and Ethical Education, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, and the Educational Records Bureau.
Mission
Princeton Academy's mission is to develop young men with active and creative minds, a sense of understanding and compassion for others, and the courage to act on their beliefs. The school stresses the total development of each child: spiritual, moral, intellectual, social, emotional, and physical.
The school's philosophy is rooted in the tradition of the Society of the Sacred Heart, which educates children to become leaders of a just society by adhering to the following five goals:
A personal and active faith in God
A deep respect for intellectual values
A social awareness which impels to action
The building of community as a Christian value
Personal growth in an atmosphere of wise freedom
Academics
The instruction at Princeton Academy is designed to build on skills and knowledge gained in the preceding grades, in a way both developmentally appropriate and progressively challenging.
Lower School curriculum
Language Arts
The foundation of the Princeton Academy language arts curriculum is the belief that language arts are integral to the learning process of any subject at any level. Boys at Princeton Academy have ample opportunity and time to read and write independently, as well as to experience excellent modeling of reading and writing. The Junior Great Books program assists in reinforcing high-level comprehension skills. The Lower School also employs Word Journeys and Words Their Way, developmental spelling and phonics programs based on the philosophy that understanding of the printed word occurs in clear stages. Instruction is designed to meet the specific needs of each boy. Handwriting Without Tears meets the fine motor needs of boys through its clear, simple letter formation and interactive learning style.
Science and mathematics
Everyday Math emphasizes a balance between learning concepts, skills, and problem solving. In each grade level, content is divided into six strands: numb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Serbinis | Michael Serbinis is a Canadian entrepreneur, engineer and angel investor based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
While a student, Serbinis worked for Microsoft on advanced routing algorithms.
He later helped found the cloud-based document storage network company DocSpace. In December 2009, Serbinis co-founded Kobo Inc., a digital reading company. In 2014, Serbinis launched League, a digital health and wellness benefits platform. Along with being a co-founder, he also serves as Chief Executive Officer.
Career
At age 19, Serbinis entered the Ontario Engineering Competition. His entry in the competition was a frictionless motor operated by a new generation of software code that mimicked genetic coding. Because the software constantly evolved, the motor was able to hover effortlessly above a magnetic bearing without crashing. One of the judges, Ken Nickerson, who was an executive at Microsoft at the time decided to give Serbinis a summer job with the company.
Zip2 and Kobo
Serbinis worked alongside Elon Musk at Zip2. Zip2 primarily provided and licensed online city guide software to newspapers. It was eventually sold to Altavista for $300 million.
Serbinis then helped found a cloud-based document storage network company called DocSpace. Two years after DocSpace was launched, San Francisco-based Critical Path Inc. agreed to acquire it for $530 million.
In 2001, Serbinis was appointed Chief Technology Officer of Critical Path.
In 2009, Serbinis co-founded Kobo Inc., a digital reading company. In January 2012, Kobo was acquired by Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten for $315 million.
League Inc.
In 2014 Serbinis launched League Inc., a digital health and wellness platform. Along with being a co-founder, Serbinis also serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman. In 2016, League raised a US$25 million Series A. In June 2017, League expanded its platform into the US. In July 2018, League raised a US$41.7 million Series B.
References
External links
1973 births
Businesspeople in online retailing
Businesspeople from Ontario
Canadian people of Greek descent
Canadian technology chief executives
Chief information officers
Chief technology officers
Indigo Books and Music people
Kobo Inc.
Living people
People from Hamilton, Ontario
Queen's University at Kingston alumni
Rakuten
University of Toronto alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20processing%20unit | A data processing unit (DPU) is a programmable computer processor that tightly integrates a general-purpose CPU with network interface hardware. Sometimes they are called "IPUs" (for "infrastructure processing unit") or "SmartNICs". They can be used in place of traditional NICs to relieve the main CPU of complex networking responsibilities and other "infrastructural" duties; although their features vary, they may be used to perform encryption/decryption, serve as a firewall, handle TCP/IP, process HTTP requests, or even function as a hypervisor or storage controller. These devices can be attractive to cloud computing providers whose servers might otherwise spend a significant amount of CPU time on these tasks, cutting into the cycles they can provide to guests.
See also
Compute Express Link (CXL)
References
Electronics
Data processing
Artificial intelligence
Application-specific integrated circuits
Hardware acceleration
Digital electronics
Electronic design
Electronic design automation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%E2%80%9391%20Full%20Members%27%20Cup | The 1990–91 Full Members' Cup, known as the Zenith Data Systems Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 6th staging of a knock-out competition for English football clubs in the First and Second Division. The winners were Crystal Palace and the runners-up were Everton.
The competition began on 20 November 1990 and ended with the final on 7 April 1991 at the Wembley Stadium.
In the first round, there were two sections: North and South. In the following rounds each section gradually eliminates teams in knock-out fashion until each has a winning finalist. At this point, the two winning finalists face each other in the combined final for the honour of the trophy.
Arsenal, Liverpool. Tottenham, Manchester United & Aston Villa opted out of this competition.
First round
Northern Section
Southern Section
Second round
Northern Section
Southern Section
Third round
Northern Section
Southern Section
Area semi-finals
Northern Section
Southern Section
Area finals
Northern Area final
Everton beat Leeds United 6–4 on aggregate.
Southern Area final
Crystal Palace beat Norwich City 3–1 on aggregate.
Final
Notes
External links
When Saturday Comes Article on the Full Members' Cup
Full Results
Full Members' Cup
1990–91 in English football |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday%20Freedom | Saturday Freedom (; literally Declaration of Freedom Saturday) was a South Korean reality-variety show shown on the KBS2 network, which competes directly against MBC's We Got Married and Infinite Challenge, and SBS' Star Junior Show Bungeoppang and Star King. The lineup ended on March 31, 2012, with Immortal Songs 2 becoming a separate program and Invincible Youth 2 moving into the time slot.
History
Programs prior to Saturday Freedom featured a similar title. Declaration of Freedom Today is Saturday (자유선언 오늘은 토요일) began airing on October 17, 1998, and aired until April 28, 2001. Beginning on May 5, 2001, Show Everyone's Saturday (쇼 여러분의 토요일) aired, then on November 10, 2001 Declaration of Freedom Saturday Big Operation (자유선언 토요대작전) took over and aired until November 1, 2003, which at this time KBS's Saturday lineup program was cancelled. It was revived on April 25, 2009, as Invincible Saturday (천하무적 토요일) and aired until December 25, 2010, and KBS's Saturday lineup program was cancelled once again. It was revived again as Saturday Freedom on June 4, 2011. On September 10, 2011, Saturday Freedom divided into two parts, Part 1 airing at 5:15PM KST and Part 2 airing at 6:15PM KST, in an effort to boost ratings.
Broadcasting Times
June 4–11, 2011 (17:35 - 19:55 ; 2 hours 20 minutes)
June 18 – September 3, 2011 (17:50 - 19:55 ; 2 hour 5 minutes)
September 10, 2011 – March 31, 2012 (17:15 - 19:55 ; 2 hours 40 minutes)
September 10, 2011 – March 31, 2012 (17:15 - 18:15 ; 1 hour ; Part 1)
September 10, 2011 – March 31, 2012 (18:15 - 19:55 ; 1 hour 40 minutes ; Part 2)
Segments
Birth of a Family
Aired: November 12, 2011 – March 31, 2012
Starring: Lee Hwi-jae, Kim Byung-man, Boom, No Woo-jin, Hyuna (4Minute), G.NA, Yim Si-wan (ZE:A).
Birth of a Family (Korean: 가족의 탄생) was an "animal communion variety" program and was first broadcast on November 12, 2011.
The program is divided into two corners, Let's Live Together (같이 삽시다) and Birth of a Family (가족의 탄생). Let's Live Together features Lee Hwi-jae and Kim Byung-man as rare animals visit their home. Birth of a Family features idol groups living with and becoming the family of abandoned dogs, and helping them find new owners. Infinite and A Pink were the first groups of idols and were replaced with Hyuna of 4Minute, G.NA, and Siwan of ZE:A in March.
Immortal Songs 2
Aired: June 4, 2011 - March 31, 2012 (in Saturday Freedom. Airs today as stand-alone program.)
Starring: Shin Dong-yup, Eun Ji-won, Moon Hee-joon.
Immortal Songs 2: Singing the Legend (Korean: 불후의 명곡 II - 전설을 노래하다; Romanized: Bulhueui Myeonggok II - Jeonseoleul Noraehada) is a music competition program and began airing on June 4, 2011. It is a revival of Immortal Songs, and features idol singers performing songs of legendary singers. The singers perform in front of an audience who vote for who they believe best presented the classic songs. It now airs as a separate program, as Immortal Songs 2: Singing the Legend, in the same time sl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%E2%80%9390%20Full%20Members%27%20Cup | The 1989–90 Full Members' Cup, known as the Zenith Data Systems Cup for sponsorship reasons, was the 5th staging of a knock-out competition for English football clubs in the First and Second Division. The winners were Chelsea and the runners-up were Middlesbrough.
The competition began on 7 November 1989 and ended with the final on 25 March 1990 at the Wembley Stadium.
In the first round, there were two sections: North and South. In the following rounds each section gradually eliminates teams in knock-out fashion until each has a winning finalist. At this point, the two winning finalists face each other in the combined final for the honour of the trophy.
Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham, Manchester United, Everton, Southampton & Queens Park Rangers opted out of this competition.
First round
Northern Section
Southern Section
Second round
Northern Section
Southern Section
Third round
Northern Section
Southern Section
Area semi-finals
Northern Section
Southern Section
Area finals
Northern Area final
Middlesbrough beat Aston Villa 4–2 on aggregate.
Southern Area final
Chelsea beat Crystal Palace 4–0 on aggregate.
Final
Notes
External links
When Saturday Comes Article on the Full Members' Cup
Full Members' Cup
Full |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20of%20Excellence%20for%20Functional%20Biomaterials | The Network of Excellence for Functional Biomaterials (NFB) is a multidisciplinary research centre which hosts over sixty biologists, chemists, scientists, engineers and clinicians. It is based at the National University of Ireland, Galway, and is directed by Professor Abhay Pandit.
NFB specialises in the development of biomaterials platforms with focus on clinical targets in the areas of musculoskeletal and cardiovascular reconstruction, neural regeneration, soft tissue repair and ophthalmic applications, and is continuously developing functional biomaterials for innovative therapeutic solutions. Functionality for these forms is achieved through custom chemistries which facilitate the attachment of surface tethered moieties or encapsulated therapeutic factors including drugs, genes, cells, growth factors, hormones and other active agents to specific target sites.
While the NFB was initially established in 2003, the centre was incorporated into a Strategic Research Cluster (SRC) in 2007 with funding from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) to establish collaborative partnerships with national and international universities and industries.
NFB is continuously developing new technologies for use in gene delivery and drug delivery using a wide range of clinically relevant materials including naturally occurring biopolymers such as collagen, elastin, hyaluronic acid and chitosan; synthetic polymers, such as polyethylene glycol (PEG), poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA), poly(lactic acid) (PLA), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), polydioxanone (PDO), polycaprolactone (PCL); as well as metals, alloys, and ceramics. NFB's researchers employ a range of nanotechnologies and micro-fabrication technologies (bottom-up or top-down) to create complex structures with topographical cues to be used as scaffolds for tissue engineering applications. State-of-the-art facilities are available to evaluate the bulk, surface and biological properties of the produced biomaterials.
Clinical targets
Research activities include prototype development of biomaterials from nano- to micro-scale to deliver therapeutics and diagnostics platforms. Biomaterial platforms at NFB include: scaffolds with instructive biophysical signals, functional nanoparticles, hyper-branched polymers and cell-sheet technologies. The focus is on the use of biomaterials to address key clinical targets as follows:
Intervertebral disc regeneration
Degeneration of intervertebral disc (IVD) is the main cause of neck and low back pain. The IVD is composed of a gelatinous nucleus pulposus (NP) centre and several surrounding coaxial lamellae that form the inner and outer anulus fibrosus. This unique structural feature allows the IVD to constrain motion at high loads and provide flexibility at low loads. While factors such as abnormal mechanical stresses, biochemical imbalances and nutritional and genetic deficiencies are all reported to play a role in disc degeneration, the natural aging process is also characterise |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20Science%20Computer%20Review | Social Science Computer Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the use of computers in the field of social science, including artificial intelligence, computer simulation, and electronic modelling. The founding editors-in-chief were G. Garson (North Carolina State University) and Ronald Anderson (University of Minnesota). The current editor-in-chief (from 2020) is Stephen M. Lyon (Aga Khan University). It was established in 1983 and is published by SAGE Publications in association with the Social Science Computing Association.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 3.253, ranking it 20th out of 105 journals in the category "Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications", 2nd out of 98 journals in the category "Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary", and 14th out of 88 journals in the category "Information Science & Library Science".
References
External links
SAGE Publishing academic journals
English-language journals
Multidisciplinary social science journals
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 1983 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer%20literal | In computer science, an integer literal is a kind of literal for an integer whose value is directly represented in source code. For example, in the assignment statement x = 1, the string 1 is an integer literal indicating the value 1, while in the statement x = 0x10 the string 0x10 is an integer literal indicating the value 16, which is represented by 10 in hexadecimal (indicated by the 0x prefix).
By contrast, in x = cos(0), the expression cos(0) evaluates to 1 (as the cosine of 0), but the value 1 is not literally included in the source code. More simply, in x = 2 + 2, the expression 2 + 2 evaluates to 4, but the value 4 is not literally included. Further, in x = "1" the "1" is a string literal, not an integer literal, because it is in quotes. The value of the string is 1, which happens to be an integer string, but this is semantic analysis of the string literal – at the syntactic level "1" is simply a string, no different from "foo".
Parsing
Recognizing a string (sequence of characters in the source code) as an integer literal is part of the lexical analysis (lexing) phase, while evaluating the literal to its value is part of the semantic analysis phase. Within the lexer and phrase grammar, the token class is often denoted integer, with the lowercase indicating a lexical-level token class, as opposed to phrase-level production rule (such as ListOfIntegers). Once a string has been lexed (tokenized) as an integer literal, its value cannot be determined syntactically (it is just an integer), and evaluation of its value becomes a semantic question.
Integer literals are generally lexed with regular expressions, as in Python.
Evaluation
As with other literals, integer literals are generally evaluated at compile time, as part of the semantic analysis phase. In some cases this semantic analysis is done in the lexer, immediately on recognition of an integer literal, while in other cases this is deferred until the parsing stage, or until after the parse tree has been completely constructed. For example, on recognizing the string 0x10 the lexer could immediately evaluate this to 16 and store that (a token of type integer and value 16), or defer evaluation and instead record a token of type integer and value 0x10.
Once literals have been evaluated, further semantic analysis in the form of constant folding is possible, meaning that literal expressions involving literal values can be evaluated at the compile phase. For example, in the statement x = 2 + 2 after the literals have been evaluated and the expression 2 + 2 has been parsed, it can then be evaluated to 4, though the value 4 does not itself appear as a literal.
Affixes
Integer literals frequently have prefixes indicating base, and less frequently suffixes indicating type. For example, in C++ 0x10ULL indicates the value 16 (because hexadecimal) as an unsigned long long integer.
Common prefixes include:
0x or 0X for hexadecimal (base 16);
0, 0o or 0O for octal (base 8);
0b or 0B for binary ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork%20Particle | Fork Particle is a computer graphics visual effects modeling and software development kit (SDK) developed and sold by Fork Particle, Inc. Fork Particle uses its real time particle system technology to simulate visual effects or particle effects such as CGI explosions, fire, rain, smoke, dust, etc. Fork Particle is used in video games and visual simulation software such as a flight simulator. It has been licensed to game developers for Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
Notable Fork Particle licensees include Ubisoft, Trickstar Games, Firaxis Games, ZeniMax Online Studios, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, LEGO, and Sony. Video games that have utilized Fork Particle’s technology include Elder Scrolls Online, Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth, Rocksmith 2014 Edition, Empire Earth III, LEGO Universe, Splosion Man, Sid Meier's Civilization V and Sid Meier's Civilization VI.
Fork Particle SDK
Fork Particle's real time technology component or particle engine is meant to be integrated and used with a video game engine or computer graphics engine. Particle effects are authored by VFX artists or designers using Fork Particle’s effects modeling tool and then brought into the user’s 3D computer graphics environment or 2D computer graphics environment where these particle effects are simulated by Fork Particle’s engine in real time and displayed by the user application’s graphics engine.
The Fork Particle SDK includes these components: real time particle engine (Fork Runtime SDK), particle editor or modeling tool (Fork Particle Studio), live update for in application particle effects editing (Fork Live Tuner), and particle effects definitions batch file exporter.
Technology Partners
Fork Particle also includes incorporation or integrations with partner technologies:
Microsoft Xbox 360
Microsoft Xbox One
Sony PlayStation 3
Sony PlayStation 4
Havok Physics
Havok Vision Engine
Emergent Gamebryo LightSpeed
Perforce SCM
Autodesk FBX
NVidia PhysX
Android
Apple
Intel (Multi-core processor support)
References
External links
Official website (archived) – news, updates, screenshots, and information about Fork Particle
Develop Online feature article on Fork Particle – “Particle effects middleware Fork Particle is all about making the most of your game’s big events…”
Develop Magazine feature article on Fork Particle – “TOOLS SPOTLIGHT” (page 50-51)
Firaxis Civilization V news article – “Firaxis Using Fork Particle Toolset For Civ V's Visual Effects” by Eric Caoili
3D graphics software
Middleware for video games
Software development kits
Virtual reality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20animation | A medical animation is a short educational film, usually based around a physiological or surgical topic, that is rendered using 3D computer graphics. While it may be intended for an array of audiences, the medical animation is most commonly utilized as an instructional tool for medical professionals or their patients.
Early medical animations were limited to basic wire-frame models because of low processor speed. However, rapid evolution in microprocessor design and computer memory has led to animations that are significantly more intricate.
The medical animation may be viewed as a standalone visualization, or in combination with other sensory input devices, such as head-mounted displays, stereoscopic lenses, haptic gloves, interactive workstations, or Cave Automatic Virtual Environments (CAVEs).
History
Though evolved from the field of realistic medical illustrations (such as those created by Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius in the 16th century), medical animations are also indebted to motion picture technology and computer-generated imagery.
The term medical animation predates the advent of computer-generated graphics by approximately three decades. Though the first computer animation was created at Bell Telephone Labs in 1963, the phrase "medical animation" appears in scholarly contexts as early as 1932 in the Journal of Biological Photography. As discussed by Clarke and Hoshall, the term referred to two-dimensional illustrated motion pictures produced for inclusion in films screened for medical students.
The creation of the computer-generated medical animation began in earnest in the early 1970s. The first description of the use of 3D computer graphics for a medical purpose can be found in an issue of the journal Science, dated 1975. Its authors, a team of researchers from the Departments of Chemistry and of Biochemistry and Biophysics at Texas A&M University, described the potential uses of medical animation for visualizing complex macromolecules.
By the late 1980s, the medical animation had become a distinct modality of physiological and surgical instruction. By that point, researchers had suggested that the 3D medical animations could illustrate physiological, molecular or anatomical concepts that might otherwise be infeasible.
Today's medical animation industry comprises one facet of the non-entertainment computer animation industry, which has annual revenues of $15 billion per year worldwide.
Applications
Patient Education
A growing trend among medical animation studios is the creation of clips focused on explaining surgical procedures or pharmaceutical mechanisms of action in terms simple enough for a layperson to understand. These animations may be found on hospital websites, in doctor's office workstations, online health websites, or via medical animation studios themselves. Such animations may also appear on television shows, OTT platforms and other popular entertainment venues as a way to educate an audience on a medical |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier%20cloud | In cloud computing, a carrier cloud is a class of cloud that integrates wide area networks (WAN) and other attributes of communications service providers’ carrier grade networks to enable the deployment of highly complex applications in the cloud. In contrast, classic cloud computing focuses on the data centre, and does not address the network connecting data centres and cloud users. This may result in unpredictable response times and security issues when business critical data are transferred over the Internet.
History
The advent of virtualization technology, cost-effective computing hardware, and ubiquitous Internet connectivity have enabled the first wave of cloud services starting in the early years of the 21st century.
But many businesses and other organizations hesitated to move more demanding applications, from on-premises dedicated hardware to private or public clouds. As a response, communications service providers started in the 2010/2011 time frame to develop carrier clouds that address perceived weaknesses in existing cloud services. Cited weaknesses vary but often include possible downtime, security issues, high cost of custom software and data transfer, inflexibility of some cloud apps, poor customer and nonfulfillment of service level agreements (SLAs).
Characteristics
To enable the deployment of time-sensitive and business critical applications in the cloud, the carrier cloud is designed to match or even exceed the characteristics of on-premises deployments. Therefore, the carrier cloud is characterized by some or all of the following items:
Configurable, elastic network performance: Typical cloud computing solutions use the best effort public Internet to connect cloud users and data centres. This approach provides instant connectivity but does not offer control over network capacities, latencies, and jitter. Carrier clouds address these gaps with content delivery networks and/or dedicated virtual private networks (VPN) at OSI layers 1 (optical wavelengths), 2 (data link layer), and 3 (network layer). These VPNs can be configured to offer the desired performance parameters and exhibit the same type of elasticity for the network that regular clouds provide for servers and storage. To achieve the requested performance parameters, such as low latency, cloud applications can be (automatically) allocated to distributed data centres that are close enough to the cloud users.
Automatic resource placement: For a cloud with multiple data centres, information about both the data centre and the connecting network is relevant for a decision of where to place cloud images and storage volumes. For this decision, carrier clouds can obtain relevant information about the network, e.g., using the Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) protocol.
High level of security and governance: Cloud application providers are subject to general and domain specific security, privacy, and governance requirements and regulations, such as the Europea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana%20Ron | Dana Ron Goldreich (; b. 1964) is a computer scientist, a professor of electrical engineering at the Tel Aviv University, Israel. Prof. Ron is one of the pioneers of research in property testing, and a leading researcher in that area.
Professional career
Dana Ron obtained her B.A. (1987) and M.A. (1989) in computer science from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her Ph.D. (1995), also from the Hebrew University, was in the area of machine learning. Between the years 1995-97 she was an NSF post-doctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was a Bunting fellow in 1997/8, and the Radcliffe fellow at Harvard University in 2003/4. Her research interests include sublinear-time algorithms (in particular property testing), randomized algorithms, and computational learning theory.
She is married to Oded Goldreich, who is also a computer scientist at the Weizmann Institute, and has collaborated with Goldreich on approximation algorithms.
Works
Books
D. Ron. Algorithmic and Analysis Techniques in Property Testing, Foundations and Trends in Theoretical Computer Science: vol. 5, no. 2, pages 73–205, 2009.
D. Ron. Property Testing: A Learning Theory Perspective, Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning: vol. 1, no. 3, pages 307–402, 2008.
Selected publications
N. Alon, S. Dar, M. Parnas, and D. Ron, Testing of Clustering. SIAM Review, vol. 46, no. 2, pages 285–308, 2004.
O. Goldreich, S. Goldwasser and D. Ron, Property Testing and its connection to Learning and Approximation. Journal of the ACM, vol. 45, no. 4, pages 653–750, July 1998.
D. Ron, Y. Singer, and N. Tishby, The Power of Amnesia: Learning Probabilistic Automata with Variable Memory Length. Machine Learning, vol. 25, no. 2, pages 117–149, 1996.
References
External links
Home page of Dana Ron
1964 births
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Israeli women computer scientists
Academic staff of Tel Aviv University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly%27s%20Full%20House | Beverly's Full House is an American reality documentary television series that debuted March 31, 2012, on the Oprah Winfrey Network with 388,000 total viewers.
Overview
The series follows the family life of supermodel Beverly Johnson as she tries to bring three generations of her fragmented family together under one roof: her own home in the resort city of Palm Springs, California.
Cast
Beverly Johnson
Anansa Sims
David Patterson
Robert Dupont
Nikki Haskell
Brian Maillian
Episodes
References
2010s American reality television series
2012 American television series debuts
2012 American television series endings
Oprah Winfrey Network original programming
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Palm Springs, California
Television series by Good Clean Fun (production company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Buchbinder | Susan Buchbinder (born 1959) is an American physician who is best known for her work in HIV prevention and as a researcher in the HIV Vaccine Trials Network. In 2011, she was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is Clinical Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco.
Early life and education
Buchbinder graduated from Brown University and UCSF School of Medicine. Her residency in general primary care was at San Francisco General Hospital.
Professional history
Buchbinder serves as the research director on HIV for the San Francisco Department of Public Health. She is on the HIV and AIDS editorial board of Medscape.
Buchbinder was an investigator in the iPrEx study.
References
External links
profile at the UCSF Medical Center
profile at the HIV Vaccine Trials Network
Living people
HIV/AIDS researchers
American public health doctors
Women public health doctors
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
University of California, San Francisco alumni
Brown University alumni
1959 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirHop%20Communications | AirHop Communications is a privately funded American corporation based in San Diego, CA. AirHop develops radio access network (RAN) software that addresses the installation, operation and performance challenges of multi-layer deployments of small cells in 3G and 4G networks. AirHop's customers are typically base station equipment vendors for wireless network operators.
Technology
AirHop holds 20 patent applications for its eSON™ self-organizing network (SON) software. eSON enables carriers to build a 3G or 4G LTE heterogeneous network (“het-net”) to augment existing macro base stations. Many carriers are using small cells and self-organizing networks to fill in gaps in 3G and 4G networks due to signal attenuation and add capacity.
The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) defined a SON specification to allow base stations to discover each other when inserted into a network and to adjust their radio frequency (RF) signal strength to avoid overlap and interference. AirHop was founded to extend this technology beyond initial network start-up to also provide ongoing interference management and spectrum reuse. This gives carriers the ability to both initialize the network and ongoing RAN intelligence to adjust signal levels as small cells come online and overlap with each other. eSON also optimizes spectrum reuse (spectral efficiency), enabling macrocells and small cells to share the same spectrum without interference (communication).
History
AirHop was founded in 2007 by three engineers in charge of 3G research and development at Texas Instruments. They foresaw that the present wireless network infrastructure would have to change as part of the move to 4G technologies to support mobile broadband. They left TI in October 2007 to begin developing SON software.
The company announced a $1 million investment in September 2009 and added several wireless industry executives to its management team. AirHop showcased the first of its 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) solutions by running an HD video transmission demonstration on Texas Instruments’ TCI1648x DSP at CTIA – The Wireless Association in March 2009. In November 2009, the company announced its first product, eSON, and in February 2010, AirHop partnered with Continuous Computing and picoChip at Mobile World Congress 2010 to demonstrate a reference design for eSON based on picoChip's High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) platform. In October 2010, AirHop and picoChip announced the integration of eSON with picoChip's 3G PC302 evolved HSPA (HSPA+) platform. AirHop and Argela demonstrated eSON on a commercial 3G femtocell at Mobile World Congress in February 2011 and its first 4G/LTE customer was announced in May with the introduction of Wazco's Metrostorm .
Industry recognition
AirHop has received industry recognition for its technology. The company was named to Light Reading Mobile's list of Top Ten Startups to Watch in 2011, was named a FierceWireless Fierce 15 Top Wireless Company for 2010 and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents%20%28House%29 | "Parents" is the sixth episode of the eighth season of the American television medical drama series House and the 161st overall episode of the series. It aired on Fox Network in the United States on November 14, 2011.
Plot
Ben Parker, a patient who wishes to follow in his father's footsteps as an entertainer, is admitted with partial paralysis. As they look for a bone marrow match, the team discovers a disturbing family secret. Meanwhile, House looks for creative ways to remove his ankle monitor so that he can attend a boxing match in Atlantic City. John Scurti plays a patient convinced he is suffering from diabetes. Taub faces a major decision when his ex-wife Rachel announces she plans on moving across country with their daughter.
Jennifer Crystal Foley and Zena Grey return to the series.
Reception
The A.V. Club gave this episode a C+ rating. It was watched by 6.63 million viewers.
References
External links
"Parents" at Fox.com
Medical review of "Parents"
House (season 8) episodes
2011 American television episodes
Television episodes directed by Greg Yaitanes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML%20transformation%20language | An XML transformation language is a programming language designed specifically to transform an input XML document into an output document which satisfies some specific goal.
There are two special cases of transformation:
XML to XML: the output document is an XML document.
XML to Data: the output document is a byte stream.
XML to XML
As XML to XML transformation outputs an XML document, XML to XML transformation chains form XML pipelines.
XML to Data
The XML (EXtensible Markup Language) to Data transformation contains some important cases. The most notable one is XML to HTML (HyperText Markup Language), as an HTML document is not an XML document.
SGML origins
The earliest transformation languages predate the advent of XML as an SGML profile, and thus accept input in arbitrary SGML rather than specifically XML. These include the SGML-to-SGML link process definition (LPD) format defined as part of the SGML standard itself; in SGML (but not XML), the LPD file can be referenced from the document itself by a declaration, similarly to the declaration used for a DTD. Other such transformation languages, addressing some of the deficiencies of LPDs, include Document Style Semantics and Specification Language (DSSSL) and OmniMark. Newer transformation languages tend to target XML specifically, and thus only accept XML, not arbitrary SGML.
Existing languages
XSLT: XSLT is the best known XML transformation language. The XSLT 1.0 W3C recommendation was published in 1999 together with XPath 1.0, and it has been widely implemented since then. XSLT 2.0 has become a W3C recommendation since January 2007 and implementations of the specification like Saxon 8 are already available.
XQuery: XQuery is a full functional language, despite having "query" in the name. It is a de facto standard used by Microsoft, Oracle, DB2, MarkLogic, etc., is the foundation for the XRX web programming model, and has a W3C recommendation for versions 1.0. XQuery is not written in XML itself like XSLT is, so its syntax is much lighter. The language is based on XPath 2.0. XQuery programs cannot have side-effects, just like XSLT and provides almost the same capabilities (for instance: declaring variables and functions, iterating over sequences, using W3C schema types), even though the program syntax are quite different. XQuery is logic driven, using FOR, WHERE and function composition (e.g. fn:concat("", generate-body(), "")). In contrast, XSLT is data-driven (push processing model) where certain conditions of the input document trigger the execution of templates rather than the code executing in the order in which it is written.
XProc: XProc is an XML Pipeline language. The XProc 1.0 W3C Recommendation was published in May 2010.
XML document transform: Is a Microsoft standard for performing simple transforms on XML documents. Primarily for creating IIS Web.config files (Config Transforms), other implementations allow it to be used for generic config files as build time (Slow C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NanoHTTPD | NanoHttpd is an open-source, small-footprint web server that is suitable for embedding in applications, written in the Java programming language. The source code consists of a single .java file. It can be used as a library component in developing other software (such as measurement, science, and database applications) or as a standalone ad-hoc style HTTP daemon for serving files.
NanoHttpd is available in two "flavors" - one utilizing up-to-date Java features and one strictly conforming to Java 1.1. Due to independence from Java features beyond JDK 1.1, NanoHttpd is suited for embedded application development. NanoHttpd has been used to build, for example, Android software.
The original version, released in 2003, only included simple HTTP 1.0 features, but the software has since been extended to support some more advanced techniques such as HTTP 'keep-alive' connections, full REST style HTTP Methods, HTML5 video streaming or HTTP uploading through multipart extensions.
Current version includes WebSocket and experimental HTTPS support.
See also
Embedded HTTP server
Comparison of web server software
thttpd
References
External links
Free web server software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Security%20Database | National Security Database is reportedly an official accreditation program in India, awarded to information respected cybersecurity experts with proven skills to protect the country's National Critical Infrastructure and economy.
Under the program, reportedly developed by the Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC), in support with the Government of India, professionals can apply for the program by clearing a technical lab examination and psychometric test. Program alumni reportedly become instrumental in a pool of ethical defence-testing hackers tasked with fixing the weakness of organizational systems in case of large cyberattacks.
History
The project was conceived after the 2008 Mumbai attacks to protect India's National Critical Infrastructure and Cyberspace. The program was founded by Rajshekhar Murthy, under a non-profit section 25 company, 'Information Sharing and Analysis Center', supported by the highly specialised technical intelligence agency NTRO, run under the Government of India.
Earlier, the program was announced as a pilot at the International Malware Conference, MalCon, in 2010 in Mumbai, where Indian Government officials reportedly asked Indian hackers to learn Chinese.
Program launch
The program was released on 26 November, the same date as of the 2008 Mumbai Attacks, at the International Malware Conference, MalCon, at JW Marriott, Mumbai. The program was inaugurated by Shri Sachin pilot, Minister of State in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology.
Access restrictions
The empanelment in the database can only be applied by Indian citizens, and limited access is available to the Industry to benefit from a list of credible experts. However, most of the database access is restricted to supporting Indian government organisations.
Debate
The program is largely believed to identify professional, ethical hackers and security experts by the government of India to protect its critical infrastructure and cyberspace. IT Minister Kapil Sibal has reportedly expressed the need for a community of ethical hackers.
Alok Vijayant, director of the information dominance group at the National Technical Research Organisation, quoted in an interview with India's top weekly magazine Outlook, that NSD should not be “trivialised” by describing it as just a group of hackers. “Supported by the government and the industry, NSD is a good initiative since it will provide a ready-aid database of the most credible security professionals. This is more so because information security is a domain where individuals have the skills, not companies, to move from one firm to another regularly..
Official support to the project
NSD is officially endorsed by the multiple Indian Government organisations, such as CERT-IN and NTRO, for the stated National objectives with recognition of the foundation and declared support for the work being done. The collaboration is open, and all supporting organisations who need to access the database can |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirna%20station | Pirna station is the largest railway station in the town of Pirna in the German state of Saxony. The station is integrated into the network of the Dresden S-Bahn. It is also the starting point of a Regionalbahn service and a Regional-Express stop.
Passenger operations
Old station
The first Pirna station was opened on 1 August 1848 together with the first section of Děčín–Dresden-Neustadt railway (Elbe Valley Railway). The station was close to Pirna's Altstadt (old town) not far from the monastery church of St. Henry (Heinrich). The station building was built in the Neoclassical architectural style with Romanesque elements. It originally had two main sections, connected by a hallway, and a covered main platform.
Only a few years after its opening the station reached capacity because of increasing traffic. Due to its suburban location no room was available for expansion. It was difficult for trains to cross and for locomotives to be re-supplied with water at the site. The upgrading of railway facilities at this location was difficult.
The first bridge of the Elbe in Pirna (now called the Stadtbrücke—"town bridge") was built in 1875 to the west of the former station as part of the Kamenz–Pirna railway. A new Pirna station was opened on 15 October 1875 at the intersection of the Kamenz–Pirna railway and the Elbe Valley Railway. The old station was closed on 18 October 1875. During the bombing of the Pirna Elb Bridge in 1945, the old station building was partially destroyed. The track maintenance branch was housed in the building until 1998. During this period, the building was also used for residential purposes. At present, the listed building stands empty. The old Pirna station is the oldest preserved station building of the Saxon-Bohemian Railway (Sächsisch-Böhmischen Eisenbahn).
New station
The new station was opened on 15 October 1875 in the district of Westvorstadt. The architecture of the building was inspired by the old station. It consists of two main buildings connected by an intermediate structure. The eastern building faces the station forecourt and forms the actual station building. This is on an island between rail tracks. The tracks of the Elbe Valley Railway run to the north of the building (platform 3, next to the station building, and tracks 1 and 2 on an island platform) and the Pirna–Großcotta railway runs south of the building through platform 4, formerly the starting point for trains to Kamenz, Bad Gottleuba and Großcotta . South of platform 4 there was platform 5, which is now disused, which could only be reached by crossing the track from platform 4 at ground level.
Between October 1996 and July 2001, the northern platforms (main platform and island platform) on the Dresden–Děčín railway were rebuilt with a length of 172 metres (island platforms 1 and 2) and 146 metres (main platform 3). At the same time, the Pirna–Coswig S-Bahn line received a separate pair of tracks, which begins in Pirna and currently (2015) ends at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-class%20Melbourne%20tram | The E-class trams are three-section, four-bogie articulated trams that were first introduced to the Melbourne tram network in 2013, built at the Dandenong rolling stock factory of Bombardier Transportation (later Alstom) with the propulsion systems and bogies coming from Bombardier/Alstom factories in Germany.
The E-class is part of the Tram Procurement Program, a Public Transport Victoria project aimed at increasing capacity and reliability of the tram network through the introduction of new trams, creation of new depot space, and upgrades to existing infrastructure. In September 2010, 50 were ordered with an option to purchase a further 100. In May 2015, a further 20 were ordered, followed by additional orders for 10 in May 2017, September 2018 and May 2019, taking the total to 100.
The first tram was delivered in June 2013 and, after testing, entered service on route 96 on 4 November 2013.
History
E1-class
In July 2009, the Victorian Government called for expressions of interest for the construction of 50 new trams. The expression of interest stipulated that the trams had to be low floor, to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act, that 40% of the total contract was to be local content, and that the first were to enter service in 2012.
In October 2009, Alstom and Bombardier were shortlisted to bid for the contract. The invitation to tender stated the contract had been declared a strategic project, requiring a minimum 25% local manufacturing content, and 50% local content over the life of the contract, with 150 jobs expected to be created.
In September 2010, Bombardier was awarded a contract for 50 Flexity Swift low-floor trams, including maintenance to 2017. The contract included an option for a further 100 vehicles. They were to be built at Bombardier's Dandenong factory with aesthetic design by Bombardier's Brisbane-based Industrial Design team, with propulsion systems and bogies coming from Bombardier’s German factories in Mannheim and Siegen respectively. They were the first trams built in Australia in 12 years, and the first locally built Melbourne trams since the delivery of the last B-class in 1994.
A two-thirds mock up was produced for design input, and was unveiled on 24 August 2011; it was displayed at the 2011 Royal Melbourne Show. A seven-month delay in delivery was announced in August 2012, with Bombardier stating that design complexity had slowed down construction, and the E-class would be operating from July 2013, with the last tram to be delivered in 2018.
The first E-class tram arrived at the Preston Workshops of Yarra Trams on 28 June 2013, to begin final testing, and was publicly unveiled on 1 July 2013. Testing started in mid-July 2013, and by September 2013 there were two E-class trams at Preston Workshops undergoing non-passenger testing in preparation for introduction to service in late 2013. Two E-class trams entered service on route 96 on 4 November 2013 after an unveiling at Southbank Depot, with a furt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellan%20Data%20and%20Mapping%20Strategies |
Company History and Services
Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies, now called Magellan Strategies, is a survey research, data mining and campaign consulting firm located in Louisville, Colorado. The company's clients include Republican Party candidates, conservative political organizations, non-profit organizations, trade associations, businesses and local governments. The firm was founded in November 2006. Using quantitative and qualitative survey research methods, the firm helps Republican candidates, conservative organizations, trade associations and governments better understand voter opinion. In addition to survey research, the company provides predictive voter modeling, voter data analysis and campaign consulting services. Magellan is a member of the Marketing Research Association, the American Association for Public Opinion Research, and the American Association of Political Consultants. Some of the firm's clients include the Republican National Committee and Americans for Prosperity.
Survey Weighting Methodology
Magellan Strategies maintains and uses a national database of registered voters to determine their survey sampling weights by gender, age group, party registration and race. The firm does take into account past exit polling for a state or district when determining final survey weighting, but the principals of the firm consider exit polling data secondary and much less accurate than aggregated vote history from a complete and accurate voter registration database with solid vote history.
Public Polling & Media References
2017 References
Magellan Strategies was referenced in a Vail Daily article regarding survey research into support for public housing.
Magellan Strategies was referenced in a Colorado Independent article regarding why Donald Trump lost Colorado.
2016 Election Cycle
Magellan Strategies staff was interviewed about the 2016 election in Colorado by FOX 31 Denver.
Magellan Strategies data on Colorado millennial voters was referenced in an article in the Colorado Springs Gazette.
Magellan Strategies Colorado surveys were referenced regarding Amendment 71 in a Colorado Independent article.
Magellan Strategies Colorado early voting report is referenced in a U.S. News & World Report article about millennial voters.
Magellan Strategies staff was interviewed by Megan Verlee of Colorado Public Radio regarding Colorado mail ballot returns.
Magellan Strategies Colorado mail ballot return reports are cited in an article in the Los Angeles Times about early voting.
Magellan Strategies survey of likely 2016 voters in Colorado regarding ColoradoCare and Amendment 69 was referenced in The Wall Street Journal.
Magellan Strategies Staff is interviewed by The New York Times for an article regarding 2016 election and state legislative races.
Magellan Strategies staff is interviewed by the Summit Daily newspaper regarding Colorado voter registration and voter turnout trends.
Magellan Strategies survey is referen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Daisy%20Wheel%20Printer | The Apple Daisy Wheel Printer is a daisy wheel printer manufactured by Qume and sold by Apple Computer, Inc. in the 1980s. It utilized the ASCII character set and used continuous form paper, or with an optional feeder, cut sheet paper. The printer included several different 130-character "daisy" print wheels (e.g., Courier, Prestige Elite, Gothic, Executive) in English, French, German, and other languages. These 130-character print wheels are unique to the Apple DWP; the standard Qume printwheel has 96 characters.
It could be used with the Lisa system, Apple III system, and Apple IIe or Apple II Plus system if the Super Serial Interface Card was installed.
When used with the Lisa, the printer could produce simple graphics by microstepping the print head and using the period, pipe ( | ), and slash characters. The period is reinforced with brass to prevent it wearing out.
This printer is also referred to as the Apple Letter Quality printer.
References
Apple Inc. printers
Apple Inc. peripherals
Daisy wheel printers
Discontinued Apple Inc. products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallgrass%20Technologies | Tallgrass Technologies Corporation was an American computer hardware company that was the first to offer a hard disk drive product for the IBM PC in 1981. Tallgrass was a Kansas City based microcomputer hardware and software company founded in December 1980 by David M. Allen. The hard disk drive product was initially sold in Computerland stores, alongside the original IBM PC. Tallgrass added tape-backup systems to its product line in 1982.
Tallgrass was significant in the history of the PC because IBM shipped its PCs for almost two years without any hard-drive option. The IBM name attracted the makers of larger, professional software products that required a hard-drive's speed and capacity. The early availability of the Tallgrass hard-drives enabled those software products to make earlier entrances into the PC market. The parallel introductions, of the IBM PC with the Tallgrass hard-drive, catalyzed the growth of the PC market compared to what it would have been without the hard-drive option.
Tallgrass was one of Seagate's earliest customers, initially purchasing ST-506 drives from Shugart Technology before the name changed to Seagate. The Tallgrass product was designed around the ST-506 hard drive, which required a separate controller between the drive and the computer (unlike hard drives today.) Tallgrass also briefly bought ST-506 drives from Seagate's licensee, Texas Instruments. Later, Tallgrass bought most of its drives from Miniscribe and for a while was Miniscribe's largest customer.
History
While at a previous employer, Allen had developed a floppy disk controller and, in early 1980, a prototype hard disk controller. Both used an unusual, all-digital phase-locked loop data-separator that he patented. Both controller designs used GCR-encoding, which supported slightly higher linear densities and enabled higher storage capacities than conventional MFM. During a recession, in December 1980 Allen left that employer to form Tallgrass, with his former employer's permission to take the controller designs and another employee, a programmer, with him. Tallgrass' initial revenue stream in 1981 was provided by a contract with SofTech Microsystems for development of the 68000 interpreter for the UCSD Pascal software system. Allen had previously written the 6809 interpreter for UCSD Pascal, before starting Tallgrass.
By the spring of 1981 the hard disk controller design was complete. Tallgrass initially tried marketing Allen's unorthodox hard disk controller alone, to system manufacturers. In mid-1981 it was decided to instead market a complete, external hard-disk subsystem (hard-drive + controller) to computer dealers. Tallgrass first developed subsystems for the Xerox 820 computer, for an Alpha Microsystems computer, and was working on an Apple IIe version when IBM announced the PC in August 1981.
A partner in the local, Lenexa, Kansas Computerland store, Jim Fricke, gave Allen access to their IBM PC demonstrator when it arrived on a F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-memory%20processing | In computer science, in-memory processing (PIM) is a computer architecture for processing data stored in an in-memory database. In-memory processing improves the power usage and performance of moving data between the processor and the main memory. Older systems have been based on disk storage and relational databases using Structured Query Language, which are increasingly regarded as inadequate to meet business intelligence (BI) needs. Because stored data is accessed much more quickly when it is placed in random-access memory (RAM) or flash memory, in-memory processing allows data to be analyzed in real time, enabling faster reporting and decision-making in business.
Disk-based business intelligence
Data structures
With disk-based technology, data is loaded on to the computer's hard disk in the form of multiple tables and multi-dimensional structures against which queries are run. Disk-based technologies are relational database management systems (RDBMS), often based on the structured query language (SQL), such as SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle and many others. RDBMS are designed for the requirements of transactional processing. Using a database that supports insertions and updates as well as performing aggregations, joins (typical in BI solutions) are typically very slow. Another drawback is that SQL is designed to efficiently fetch rows of data, while BI queries usually involve fetching of partial rows of data involving heavy calculations.
To improve query performance, multidimensional databases or OLAP cubes - also called multidimensional online analytical processing (MOLAP) - are constructed. Designing a cube is an elaborate and lengthy process, and changing the cube's structure to adapt to dynamically changing business needs may be cumbersome. Cubes are pre-populated with data to answer specific queries and although they increase performance, they are still not suitable for answering ad-hoc queries.
Information technology (IT) staff spend substantial development time on optimizing databases, constructing indexes and aggregates, designing cubes and star schemas, data modeling, and query analysis.
Processing speed
Reading data from the hard disk is much slower (possibly hundreds of times) when compared to reading the same data from RAM. Especially when analyzing large volumes of data, performance is severely degraded. Though SQL is a very powerful tool, complex queries take a relatively long time to execute and often result in bringing down the performance of transactional processing. In order to obtain results within an acceptable response time, many data warehouses have been designed to pre-calculate summaries and answer specific queries only. Optimized aggregation algorithms are needed to increase performance.
In-memory processing tools
Memory processing can be accomplished via traditional databases such as Oracle, IBM Db2 or Microsoft SQL Server or via NoSQL offerings such as in-memory data grid like Hazelcast, Infinispan, Oracle Coheren |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine-Ruhr%20Stadtbahn | The Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn () is an umbrella system of all of the Stadtbahn (light rail) lines included in the integrated public transport network of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR), which covers the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area in western Germany. It does not include the Cologne and Bonn Stadtbahn systems, which are integrated in the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS).
History
At the beginning of the 1960s, road traffic in the Rhine-Ruhr area increased like in other German metropolitan areas. Existing trams were regarded as obstacles for car-oriented cities. Therefore, these trams should be relocated to underground sections below city centers (as Stadtbahn lines) if they were not replaced by bus lines.
The cities of Bochum, Castrop-Rauxel, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Herne, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Oberhausen, Recklinghausen and Wattenscheid founded the Stadtbahngesellschaft Ruhr in 1969 for coordinating the plans to transform tram routes into Stadtbahn routes. Düsseldorf and Hattingen joined in 1972; since then, the cooperation has been called Stadtbahngesellschaft Rhein-Ruhr. Witten joined in 1981, Recklinghausen left in 1982.
Original Stadtbahn plans proposed upgrading up to 300 kilometers of tram lines step by step. Most of these proposed lines were planned in north-south direction and would have branched off of a main line that would have run more or less east-west. Due to financial constraints and the downturn of the economy in the region, many sections or the originally planned system have not been built. As a result, there are isolated standard gauge Stadtbahn lines inside of metre gauge tram systems – one example would be the U35 line in Bochum.
Component systems
There are five Stadtbahn systems that make up the Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn (their operating companies are shown in parentheses):
Bochum Stadtbahn (BOGESTRA) – 1 line
Dortmund Stadtbahn (Dortmunder Stadtwerke (DSW21)) – 8 lines
Duisburg Stadtbahn ( (DVG)) – 1 line
Düsseldorf Stadtbahn (Rheinbahn) – 11 lines
Essen Stadtbahn (Ruhrbahn) – 3 lines
Lines
, there are 23 lines altogether in the Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn:
Infrastructure
All plans included the following standards:
intersection-free alignment, in city centres preferred to be underground, in the outskirts also above surface
high-level platforms for easy access (in contrast to former low-floor platforms or even access from street level)
European standard gauge ()
Cross-platform interchanges were planned wherever useful and possible. All Stadtbahn lines have been electrified with overhead catenary and are powered with direct current like former trams.
However, most of Rhine-Ruhr tram lines still use metre gauge (). Combined Stadtbahn and tram tracks use three-rail tracks (Essen) or even four-rail tracks (Krefeld). Some sections in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Bochum und Essen were constructed with metre gauge and temporary integrated into the network, being able to be converted easily to standard gauge at a later |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royapuram%20railway%20station | Royapuram railway station (station code: RPM) is a railway station at Royapuram, on the Chennai Beach–Walajapet section of the Chennai Suburban Railway network in Chennai, India. It is the second oldest railway station currently operational in India after Howrah railway station situated in Howrah, West Bengal (the original structures of the two older stations, Bombay and , are no longer operational) and the first railway station of South India. The first train of South India started operating in June 1856 from Royapuram railway station. The station also remained the headquarters of the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway till 1922, when the headquarters was shifted to Egmore. Since the original structures of Bombay and Thane stations no longer exist, Royapuram station remains the oldest railway station in the entire subcontinent.
Owing to lack of maintenance, Royapuram railway station building was degraded to a dilapidated condition over the decades. One end of the station, which was formerly used as a military platform, became a playground with most of the area covered with overgrown scrub vegetation. The other end of the station is being used for the transport of goods trains and the platform adjacent the main building is utilised for passenger trains. In 2005, the building was refurbished at an estimated cost of 3.5 million and was re-opened to the public on 2 October 2005 by the then union minister of state for railways, R. Velu. It is the oldest surviving railway station structures of the Indian Railways, as well as the Indian subcontinent.
The Justice Padmanabhan committee, constituted by the Tamil Nadu state government, has identified the station as among the 800 heritage structures. As per the city's list of heritage structures, the station is under the Grade I category.
History
Royapuram railway station is the place from where the laying down of the second railway line of the South Asia commenced in 1853. The idea of a railway in South India long predated any other railway lines in the Indian subcontinent when a railway line for Madras was proposed in 1832. In the early 1840s, about 15 years after Stephenson's steam engine undertook that historic Stockton–Darlington journey with its passenger coach, laying of a railway line in South India was discussed in London. In 1845, the Madras Railway Company was formed and the plan was still under discussion. Four years later, the Great India Peninsula Company was formed in 1849, which built a 21-mile-long route from Bori Bunder (later the Victoria Terminus) in Bombay to Thane, becoming India's first railway line opened for traffic on 16 April 1853. With the Madras Railway Company reconstituting itself in 1849, the plans for a railway line in the south was revived further to the efforts by the mercantile community of Madras Presidency, which lobbied for rail connectivity. Work on the southern line began in 1853 and the railway line was extended from Royapuram (Madras) to Arcot, then titular |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlin%20%28query%20language%29 | Gremlin is a graph traversal language and virtual machine developed by Apache TinkerPop of the Apache Software Foundation. Gremlin works for both OLTP-based graph databases as well as OLAP-based graph processors. Gremlin's automata and functional language foundation enable Gremlin to naturally support: imperative and declarative querying; host language agnosticism; user-defined domain specific languages; an extensible compiler/optimizer, single- and multi-machine execution models; hybrid depth- and breadth-first evaluation with Turing completeness.
As an explanatory analogy, Apache TinkerPop and Gremlin are to graph databases what the JDBC and SQL are to relational databases. Likewise, the Gremlin traversal machine is to graph computing as what the Java virtual machine is to general purpose computing.
History
2009-10-30 the project is born, and immediately named "TinkerPop"
2009-12-25 v0.1 is the first release
2011-05-21 v1.0 is released
2012-05-24 v2.0 is released
2015-01-16 TinkerPop becomes an Apache Incubator project
2015-07-09 v3.0.0-incubating is released
2016-05-23 Apache TinkerPop becomes a top-level project
2016-07-18 v3.1.3 and v3.2.1 are first releases as Apache TinkerPop
2017-12-17 v3.3.1 is released
2018-05-08 v3.3.3 is released
2019-08-05 v3.4.3 is released
2020-02-20 v3.4.6 is released
Vendor integration
Gremlin is an Apache2-licensed graph traversal language that can be used by graph system vendors. There are typically two types of graph system vendors: OLTP graph databases and OLAP graph processors. The table below outlines those graph vendors that support Gremlin.
Traversal examples
The following examples of Gremlin queries and responses in a Gremlin-Groovy environment are relative to a graph representation of the MovieLens dataset. The dataset includes users who rate movies. Users each have one occupation, and each movie has one or more categories associated with it. The MovieLens graph schema is detailed below.
user--rated[stars:0-5]-->movie
user--occupation-->occupation
movie--category-->category
Simple traversals
gremlin> g.V().label().groupCount()
==>[occupation:21, movie:3883, category:18, user:6040]
gremlin> g.V().hasLabel('movie').values('year').min()
==>1919
gremlin> g.V().has('movie','name','Die Hard').inE('rated').values('stars').mean()
==>4.121848739495798
Projection traversals
gremlin> g.V().hasLabel('category').as('a','b').
select('a','b').
by('name').
by(inE('category').count())
==>[a:Animation, b:105]
==>[a:Children's, b:251]
==>[a:Comedy, b:1200]
==>[a:Adventure, b:283]
==>[a:Fantasy, b:68]
==>[a:Romance, b:471]
==>[a:Drama, b:1603]
==>[a:Action, b:503]
==>[a:Crime, b:211]
==>[a:Thriller, b:492]
==>[a:Horror, b:343]
==>[a:Sci-Fi, b:276]
==>[a:Documentary, b:127]
==>[a:War, b:143]
==>[a:Musical, b:114]
==>[a:Mystery, b:106]
==>[a:Film-Noir, b:44]
==>[a:Western, b:68]
gremlin> g.V().hasLabel('movie').as('a','b').
where(inE('rated').count( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Ericsson%20Xperia%20arc%20S | The Sony Ericsson Xperia arc S (Xperia LT18i) is a high-end smartphone developed by Sony Ericsson running Google's operating system Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread). It is an upgraded version of the Sony Xperia Arc. It is the last phone announced to carry the Sony Ericsson brand, although Sony Ericsson Xperia active was the last phone completed before Sony bought Ericsson's stake in the joint-venture.
Unveiled on August 31, 2011 at Sony’s press conference in conjunction with IFA in Berlin, Germany and scheduled for release in October, it was released in October 2011. The device's primary improvements over its predecessor are a 1.4 GHz Scorpion Snapdragon CPU and 14.4Mbit/s HSDPA, compared to the same model at 1.0 GHz and 7.2Mbit/s HSDPA in the Arc. Aside from the CPU speed upgrade and HSDPA speed upgrade, additional hardware remains unchanged.
The Xperia arc S, along the Xperia Mini Pro, would not be receiving an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update, as Sony Mobile Communications officially confirmed via their Facebook page on July 26, 2012. However, this statement was then retracted and Sony has issued a new statement stating they are investigating the possibility of software upgrades for the two devices. However, as of December 2015, the upgrade has not materialised.
Hardware
The Arc S features a capacitive touchscreen display of 4.2 inches and is equipped with an 8.1-megapixel camera with Exmor R for low-light capture. The camera supports 720p high definition video.
The device ships with an 8 GB microSD card for user storage and is expandable up to 32 GB (SDHC) or 64 GB (SDXC).
It comes in several colours: "Pure White", "Midnight Blue", "Misty Silver", "Gloss Black", "Sakura Pink".
Camera and video
8.1-megapixel camera with LED flash and auto focus
Sony's Exmor™ R for mobile CMOS sensor
16x smart zoom
f/2.4 Aperture
HD video recording (720p), up to 30 frames per second
3D Sweep Panorama
Image playback, supported formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WBMP
Image capture, supported format: JPEG
Video playback and recording, supported formats: 3GPP, MP4
Accelerated Adobe Flash Video
Connectivity and communication
USB High speed 2.0 and Micro USB support
Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi hotspot functionality
HDMI support
DLNA certified
Synchronisation via Exchange ActiveSync, Google Sync and Facebook
aGPS
WebKit web browser with pan and zoom
Bluetooth technology
Memory
Internal phone storage: up to 2 GB
RAM: 512 MB
Expansion slot: microSD, up to 64 Gb
Networks
GSM GPRS/EDGE 850 MHz, 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 1900 MHz
UMTS HSPA 900 MHz, 2100 MHz (Global except Americas)
UMTS HSPA 800 MHz, 850 MHz, 1900 MHz, 2100 MHz (Americas)
Entertainment
TrackID music recognition
xLOUD Experience – audio filter technology from Sony
FM Radio with RDS
3.5 mm audio jack for headphones
Audio playback, supported formats: MP3, 3GPP, MP4, SMF, WAV, OTA, Ogg Vorbis
Audio recording, supported formats: 3GPP, MP4, AMR
3D and motion gaming
Timescape with Twitter integrated
Facebook inside Xperia 2.0
S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Doran%20%28journalist%29 | Matt Doran (born 22 December 1982) is an Australian journalist. Doran is currently co-host of Weekend Sunrise with Monique Wright. Previously he has been a reporter for the Seven Network's flagship public affairs program, Sunday Night and a reporter and presenter at Network Ten.
Career
Doran graduated from Melbourne University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Media and Communications (enriched Journalism major).
Throughout 2006, he worked as a police reporter with Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper, covering fires, floods, the gangland war and CBD shootings. In the four years prior, he held a position as an awarded reporter and senior editor across a number of mastheads within News Ltd's Leader newspaper group.
Network Ten
Following this, Doran worked for several years as a general news reporter and then police reporter for Network Ten in Melbourne and Adelaide. Doran played a key role in Network Ten's coverage of a series of natural disasters, including the devastating Christchurch earthquakes, the deadly Pike River mine explosion in New Zealand's West, the Christmas Island boat tragedy and the tsunami which obliterated North-East Japan.
In October 2011, Doran was appointed presenter of Ten News at Five: Weekend with Natarsha Belling, but left the bulletin when it changed to a single-presenter format with only Belling in November 2012. He continued to be a fill-in presenter and a senior reporter with Ten News.
In November 2013, Doran was appointed presenter of Ten Eyewitness News Early and Ten Eyewitness News Morning. In January 2014, Hermione Kitson replaced Doran on Ten Eyewitness News Early. He continued to present Ten Eyewitness News Morning until the bulletin was cancelled in May 2014 due to cost-cutting measures, and Doran returned to reporting.
In May 2015, Doran resigned from Network Ten after nearly eight years with the network.
Seven Network
In March 2017, Doran joined the Seven Network as a reporter on its flagship public affairs program, Sunday Night. One of his interviewees was former The Sullivans actress, Susan Hannaford, whose Beverley Hills lifestyle surprised many viewers.
In October 2019, it was announced that Doran will replace Basil Zempilas as co-host of Weekend Sunrise from October 12. He had previously been an intermittent fill-in host on the show, and also regularly fills in for David Koch on Sunrise and Larry Emdur on The Morning Show.
In November 2021, Doran was suspended by the Seven Network for two weeks after failing to adequately prepare for an interview with British singer Adele.
Other
In 2015, Doran moved to Los Angeles and was appointed host of Crime Watch Daily, a daily syndicated true crime news program.
In February 2017, Doran was appointed host of the third season of Crimes that Shook Australia on Foxtel's crime and investigation channel, exploring some of Australia's most shocking crimes with interviews and dramatic reconstructions.
Personal life
Doran attended and graduated from St Kevin's Colle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek%20Express | Vivek Express is a chain of express trains on the Indian Railways network. These trains were announced in the Railway Budget of 2011-12 by the then Railway Minister. These trains were started to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda, to be held in 2013. One of the Vivek Express trains, the one from to Kanyakumari, is the longest route on the Indian Railways network, in terms of distance and time, and is currently the 24th longest in the world.
List of Vivek Express Trains
As of July 2013, there are 4 pairs of Vivek Express trains
Dibrugarh - Kanyakumari Vivek Express
This Biweekly Superfast train, numbered 22503/22504, is currently the longest train route in the Indian Subcontinent. It joins Dibrugarh in Assam, North-East India to Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu which is the southernmost tip of Indian mainland. It covers a total of 4234 km from Dibrugarh to Kanyakumari. It takes 79 hours to cover this distance with 57 intermediate stoppages.
Okha - Tuticorin Vivek Express
This too, is a weekly train, numbered 19567/19568. It connects Okha, Gujarat (which is the westernmost tip of India) to Thoothukudi, the "Pearl City", in Tamil Nadu in South India. This train covers 3043 km in 54:25 hours. It travels through the states of Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
This train is also religiously important, as it joins two places of religious significance, namely Lord Krishna's Dwarka and Rameswaram, which lies close to Thoothukudi.
The train covers important cities en route, namely Rajkot, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Surat, Mumbai Vasai Road, Kalyan, Pune, Gulbarga, Adoni, Bangalore (Krishnarajapuram), Salem, Karur and Madurai.
Bandra Terminus Jammu Tawi Vivek Express
This train seeks its origin from Bandra Terminus, one of the main stations in Mumbai. This train, 19027/19028, like other Vivek Expresses, is also a weekly train from Bandra Terminus, Mumbai to Jammu Tawi in North India. However, unlike other typical North Indian trains, this train bypasses New Delhi or Delhi NCR. It goes via Surat, Vadodara, Ahmedabad, Mehsana, Abu Road, Jodhpur, Degana, Sujangarh, Churu, Sadulpur, Hisar, Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Chakki Bank, thus bypassing Delhi NCR.
Santragachi - Mangalore Central Vivek Express
The 22851/22852 Vivek Express links Santragachhi, a town in the vicinity of Howrah, Kolkata in West Bengal to Mangalore Central in Karnataka. This is also a weekly train, which comes under the Superfast category of the Indian Railways, unlike other Vivek Expresses. This train passes through the states of West Bengal, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Karnataka. Important cities en route are Odisha {Bhubaneswar, Brahmapur}, Andhra Pradesh {Vizianagaram, Visakhapatnam, Rajahmundry, Eluru, Vijayawada, Nellore, Tirupati}, Tamil Nadu {Salem, Erode, Tiruppur, Coimbatore}, Kerala {Palakkad, Tirur, Kozhikode, Kannur and Kasaragod}.
Route maps
Future plans
Owing to the positive response to Vivek Express trains |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verve%20%28operating%20system%29 | Verve is a research operating system developed by Microsoft Research. Verve is verified end-to-end for type safety and memory safety.
Because of their complexity, a holy grail of software verification has been to verify properties of operating systems. Operating systems are usually written in low-level languages, such as C, that provide very few guarantees. The Singularity project took the approach of writing an operating system in C#, a type-safe, memory-safe language. A weakness of this approach is that operating systems necessarily need to call lower-level code to, for instance, move the stack pointer. Verve addresses this problem by partitioning the operating system into verified assembly language that is required to be low-level and a trusted interface to rest of the operating system, written in C#. There is a trusted specification that guarantees the low-level assembly code does not modify the heap and that the high-level C# code does not modify the stacks.
Verve consists of a small Nucleus, which acts as a minimal hardware abstraction layer, and a Kernel, which uses primitives provided by the Nucleus to expose a more traditional interface to applications. All components of the system other than the Nucleus are written in managed code C# and compiled by Bartok (originally developed for the Singularity project) into typed assembly language (TAL), which is verified by a TAL checker.
The Nucleus implements a memory allocator and garbage collection, support for stack switching, and managing interrupt handlers.
It is written in BoogiePL, which serves as input to MSR's Boogie verifier, which proves the Nucleus correct using the Z3 Theorem Prover satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) automated theorem prover (solver). The Nucleus relies on the Kernel to implement threads, scheduling, synchronization, and to provide most interrupt handlers. Even though the Kernel is not formally verified, so, for example, a bug in scheduling could cause the system to hang, it cannot violate type or memory safety, and thus cannot directly cause undefined behavior. If it attempts to make invalid requests to the Nucleus, formal verification guarantees that the Nucleus handles the situation in a controlled manner.
Verve's trusted computing base (TCB) is limited to: Boogie/Z3 for verifying the Nucleus's correctness; BoogieASM for translating it into x86 assembly; the BoogiePL specification of how the Nucleus should behave; the TAL verifier; the assembler and linker; and the bootloader. Notably, neither the C# compiler/runtime nor the Bartok compiler are part of the TCB.
References
Safe to the Last Instruction: Automated Verification of a Type-Safe Operating System, Jean Yang and Chris Hawblitzel. Programming Language Design and Implementation, 2010.
Safe to the Last Instruction: Automated Verification of a Type-Safe Operating System, Jean Yang and Chris Hawblitzel. CACM Research Highlight. Communications of the ACM, September 2010.
Technical Perspective: Safety |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RUSTA | The Network of Universities of Science and Technology of the Countries of Africa south of the Sahara () or RUSTA is a network of private institutions of higher education and research whose headquarters is located in Abidjan, the economic capital of Côte d'Ivoire.
History
Founded in 2009, the RUSTA consists of universities and institutes of higher education located in sub-Saharan Africa who have come together to pool their capacities for teaching and scientific research.
The board of the RUSTA is currently chaired by Frederic Dohou.
Missions
The RUSTA tasks:
Promote academic and scientific excellence by building a common policy on university education and scientific research,
Make available to member institutions of financial, human and material resources for their development,
Train future leaders of institutions and organizations capable of meeting the challenges socio-economic of the African continent,
Promote international cooperation.
Members
The RUSTA consists of institutions located in West Africa, including:
Higher Institute of Technology of Ivory Coast (IST-CI)
University of Science and Technology of Ivory Coast (UST-CI)
University of Science and Technology of Togo (UST-TG)
University of Science and Technology of Benin (USTB)
International Center for Distance Learning (CIFAD)
Consortium for the Management of Basic and Applied Research in Africa south of the Sahara (COMREFAS)
Regional incubator for West Africa (IRAO)
Etc.
External links
Official website
References
College and university associations and consortia in Africa
Educational institutions established in 2009
2009 establishments in Ivory Coast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20533 | The IBM 533 Input-Output Unit, announced on July 2, 1953, was a punched card reader and punch that served as the primary input-output unit for the IBM 650 computer. It had two independent card paths, one for reading and one for punching. IBM cards were fed face down, 12-edge first. All 80 columns could be read and punched by the computer as numeric data, but alphanumeric reading was severely limited on the basic 650 and require special control panel wiring.
The 533 could punch 100 cards per minute and had a set of read brushes downstream from the punch station that were used to verify proper punching. The card reader was similar to that on the IBM 402 accounting machine and could read 200 cards per minute. The 533 was controlled by a plugboard control panel, typical of IBM unit record equipment of the time. p. 19 ff
A lower performance (and presumably cheaper) model, the IBM 537, was introduced September 4, 1956. It had a single card path for reading and punching and operated at 155 cards per minute. On January 12, 1959, IBM introduced two faster 650 peripherals, the IBM 543 Card Reader and the IBM 544 Card Punch. Both operated at up to 250 cards per minute.
All were withdrawn on August 18, 1969.
References
IBM vacuum tube computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tool%20management | Tool management is needed in metalworking so that the information regarding the tools on hand can be uniformly organized and integrated. The information is stored in a database and is registered and applied using tool management. Tool data management consists of specific data fields, graphics and parameters that are essential in production, as opposed to managing general production equipment.
Unlike hand tools, a tool in numerically (digitally) controlled machines is composed of several parts, such as the cutting tool (which may be one piece or comprise a body plus indexable inserts), a collet, and a toolholder with a machine taper. Putting the parts together accurately into an assembly is required to achieve error-free production.
Processing a part with a CNC (computer numerically controlled) machining operation requires several tool assemblies that are documented in a list. Each component, each assembly and each list has an identifier under which the specifications are found. Tool management is divided into documentation (master data) and logistics (transaction data). The documentation includes information needed for a trouble-free and a comprehensible production process. Spare parts, experiences in production and the corresponding data can be managed. Several functions are available to manage, process, print and combine with other applications.
Logistics deals with demand planning, supplies and tool location. This includes, on one hand, the location in the warehouse and the purchasing of individual parts with the corresponding consumption report. It also allows for the planning and coordination of the movements of the assemblies within the shop floor.
In the decades of the 2000s and 2010s, tool management has increasingly moved toward a universal, industry-standard, machine-readable format for encoding tooling information, which makes possible better software, greater automation, and better simulation. ISO 13399 (Cutting tool data representation and exchange) "is an international standard designed to give industry a common language to describe cutting tool products in a digital format."
Master data
Master data describes tools' geometric characteristics, composition and usage. The information is divided into specifications and usage instructions. Master data describes the tool in its qualitative aspects, but does not provide quantities and locations.
Components
The components are individual elements that can be combined into an assembly. Components are purchased as a unit and stored in a tool room. Cutting components (e.g. inserts) wear out during use and therefore must be purchased and replaced periodically. Non-cutting components (e.g. collets) are practically unlimited. They are often acquired together with a new machine. (Clamping equipment is handled like non-cutting components.)
Header data is uniformly structured and contains information such as name, supplier product code and a unique item number. Each component is assigned |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20controllability | Network controllability concerns the structural controllability of a network. Controllability describes our ability to guide a dynamical system from any initial state to any desired final state in finite time, with a suitable choice of inputs. This definition agrees well with our intuitive notion of control. The controllability of general directed and weighted complex networks has recently been the subject of intense study by a number of groups in wide variety of networks, worldwide. Recent studies by Sharma et al. on multi-type biological networks (gene–gene, miRNA–gene, and protein–protein interaction networks) identified control targets in phenotypically characterized Osteosarcoma showing important role of genes and proteins responsible for maintaining tumor microenvironment.
Background
Consider the canonical linear time-invariant dynamics on a complex network
where the vector captures the state of a system of nodes at time . The
matrix describes the system's wiring diagram and the interaction strength between the components. The matrix identifies the nodes controlled by an outside controller. The system is controlled through the time dependent input vector that the controller imposes on the system. To identify the minimum number of driver nodes, denoted by , whose control is sufficient to fully control the system's dynamics, Liu et al. attempted to combine the tools from structural control theory, graph theory and statistical physics. They showed that the minimum number of inputs or driver nodes needed to maintain full control of the network is determined by the maximum-cardinality matching in the network. From this result, an analytical framework, based on the in–out degree distribution, was developed to predict for scale-free and Erdős–Rényi random graphs. However, more recently it has been demonstrated that network controllability (and other structure-only methods that use exclusively the connectivity of a graph, , to simplify the underlying dynamics), both undershoot and overshoot the number and which sets of driver nodes best control network dynamics, highlighting the importance of redundancy (e.g. canalization) and non-linear dynamics in determining control.
It is also notable that Liu's et al. formulation would predict same values of for a chain graph and for a weak densely connected graph. Obviously, both these graphs have very different in and out degree distributions. A recent unpublished work questions whether degree, which is a purely local measure in networks, would completely describe controllability and whether even slightly distant nodes would have no role in deciding network controllability. Indeed, for many real-word networks, namely, food webs, neuronal and metabolic networks, the mismatch in values of and calculated by Liu et al. is notable. If controllability is decided mainly by degree, why are and so different for many real world networks? They argued (arXiv:1203.5161v1) that this might be due to t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HICIT%20in%20Shorouk%20Academy | The Higher Institute Of Computer Science & Information Technology () in El Shorouk City is officially licensed by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Arab Republic of Egypt. The Higher Institute of Computer & Information Technology in El Shorouk was granted its original accreditation according to the decree of the Supreme Council of Universities No. 79 on June 5, 2004.
Academic study
Academic fields
Data analytics
Data warehousing
Data mining
Software engineering
Cloud computing
System analysis
System design
Management information systems
Programming and SE development
Academic degrees
The Higher Institute of Computer Science provide the Egyptian Bachelors in computer science that is equal to the Egyptian Bachelors in computer science provided by Egyptian universities.
Testing centers
Prometic testing center
In March 2008 an agreement between the Institute and Prometric company was signed, these agreement give the institute the right to start his own testing center that provides all Microsoft exams as well as sun and Apple.
ICDL testing center
In January 2010 another agreement between the Institute and UNESCO, was signed, these agreement give the institute the right to start his own testing center that provide the International ICDL and the Egyptian version of ICDL.
Student activities
Microsoft student partners
2011 MSPs
GDG Shorouk
Formerly known as Shorouk GTUG (Google Technology User Group) is the Google Developers Group in shorouk academy, founded in 2011 by the following students of HICIT:
Ahmed Mahmoud
Ahmed Farid
Ashraf Hesham
Nasser Ali
References
External links
Shorouk GTUG Official Facebook Page
Meahope Official Facebook Page
Universities in Egypt
Education in Cairo
Educational institutions established in 2004
2004 establishments in Egypt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata%20repository | A metadata repository is a database created to store metadata. Metadata is information about the structures that contain the actual data. Metadata is often said to be "data about data", but this is misleading. Data profiles are an example of actual "data about data". Metadata adds one layer of abstraction to this definition– it is data about the structures that contain data. Metadata may describe the structure of any data, of any subject, stored in any format.
A well-designed metadata repository typically contains data far beyond simple definitions of the various data structures. Typical repositories store dozens to hundreds of separate pieces of information about each data structure.
Comparing the metadata of a couple data items - one digital and one physical - clarify what metadata is:
First, digital: For data stored in a database one may have a table called "Patient" with many columns, each containing data which describes a different attribute of each patient. One of these columns may be named "Patient_Last_Name". What is some of the metadata about the column that contains the actual surnames of patients in the database? We have already used two items: the name of the column that contains the data (Patient_Last_Name) and the name of the table that contains the column (Patient). Other metadata might include the maximum length of last name that may be entered, whether or not last name is required (can we have a patient without Patient_Last_Name?), and whether the database converts any surnames entered in lower case to upper case. Metadata of a security nature may show the restrictions which limit who may view these names.
Second, physical: For data stored in a brick and mortar library, one have many volumes and may have various media, including books. Metadata about books would include ISBN, Binding_Type, Page_Count, Author, etc. Within Binding_Type, metadata would include possible bindings, material, etc.
This contextual information of business data include meaning and content, policies that govern, technical attributes, specifications that transform, and programs that manipulate.
Definition
The metadata repository is responsible for physically storing and cataloging metadata. Data in a metadata repository should be generic, integrated, current, and historical:
Generic Meta model should store the metadata by generic terms instead of storing it by an applications-specific defined way, so that if your data base standard changes from one product to another the physical meta model of the metadata repository would not need to change.
Integration of the metadata repository allows all business areas' metadata to be in an integrated fashion: Covering all domains and subject areas of the organization.
current and historicalThe metadata repository should have accessible current and historical metadata. Metadata repositories used to be referred to as a data dictionary.
With the transition of needs for the metadata usage for business intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnie%27s%20Bow-Toons | Minnie's Bow-Toons is an American computer-animated preschool television series from Disney Television Animation. The series aired from November 14, 2011, to January 22, 2016, on Disney Junior, as a short-form series targeted at preschool girls, as well as the spin-off from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. The series is based on the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode "Minnie's Bow-tique". In both the episode and its spin-off, Minnie opens the same boutique from the former - this time with bows and bow-ties.
Minnie's Bow-Toons introduced the new character Cuckoo-Loca, as well as Minnie's twin nieces formally in animation, Millie and Melody Mouse (starting with the episode "Trouble Times Two").
Minnie's Bow-Toons was followed by a revival of the series, entitled Minnie's Bow-Toons: Party Palace Pals, which was released on April 3, 2021, on Disney Junior's YouTube channel and later aired its first episode on April 5 on Disney Channel, this time in the style of Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures.
Premise
After the events of the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode "Minnie's Bow-tique", this TV series is about the adventures of Minnie Mouse and her friend Daisy Duck as they run Minnie's Bow-tique, a speciality shop stocked only with colorful bows and bow-ties. Minnie ends all the Season 1 episodes saying, "There's no business like bow business!."
In Season 3, Minnie, Daisy and Cuckoo-Loca open a pet grooming salon adjacent to the Bow-tique. In Season 4, Minnie, Daisy and Cuckoo-Loca go on international trips, visiting cities like London, Venice and Tokyo. In Season 6, Minnie, Daisy and Cuckoo-Loca start a new party planning business.
Cast
Main
Russi Taylor as Minnie Mouse (Season 1-5) and Bow-Bot
Kaitlyn Robrock as Minnie Mouse (Season 6–present) and Clara Cluck
Tress MacNeille as Daisy Duck, Chip, Penelope Poodle, Animal Trainer, Mrs. Porkins, the Queen of England
Nika Futterman as Cuckoo-Loca, Paparazzi Reporter, and Baby Oinky
Recurring
April Winchell as Clarabelle Cow
Frank Welker as Figaro, Pizza Restaurant Diner #2, Gilbert the Guinee Pig
Avalon Robbins as Millie Mouse and Melody Mouse (Season 1-5)
Vivian Vencer and Stella Edwards as Millie and Melody Mouse respectively (Season 6-7)
Bret Iwan as Mickey Mouse
Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck
Bill Farmer as Goofy, Pluto, Penguini the Magnificent, Singing Ghosts, Delivery Men, Hot Dog Vendor at the Pet Adoption, Luigi the Pizza Shop Owner, Kabuki Theater Manager, TV Announcer, and Mr. Gander
Dee Bradley Baker as Gus Goose, Wormy
Corey Burton as Ludwig von Drake, Dale
Max Charles as Joey Beaver (Season 1–5)
Jecobi Swain as Joey Beaver (Season 6–7)
Ariel Winter as Roxie Squirrel
Leslie Uggams as Nana Beaver
Andrea Libman as Trixie the Goat
Daniel Ross as Donald Duck (Archive Footage only)
Carlos Alazraqui as Panchito Pistoles
Grace Kaufman as Chloe Bunny, Posey Bear, Emmy Mouse
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2011–12)
Season 2 (2012–13)
Season 3 (2013–14)
Season 4 (2014–15)
Season 5 (2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne%20Condon | Anne Elizabeth Condon, is an Irish-Canadian computer scientist, professor, and former head of the Computer Science Department of the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on computational complexity theory, DNA computing, and bioinformatics. She has also held the NSERC/General Motors Canada Chair for Women in Science and Engineering (CWSE) from 2004 to 2009, and has worked to improve the success of women in the sciences and engineering.
Biography
Condon did her undergraduate studies at University College Cork, earning a bachelor's degree in 1982. She moved to the University of Washington for her graduate studies, receiving her doctorate in 1987 under the supervision of Richard E. Ladner. She then joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and remained there until her 1999 move to UBC.
Personal life
Condon is an avid triathlete, finishing 7th in her age-group (F55-59) during Ironman Canada 2019 and finishing 1st in her age group (F60-64) for Ironman Ireland 2022 in an impressive 12:10 hours timeframe. At the Ironman Hawaii 2022 she finished 18th in her age group (F60-64) with a time of 13:39. At the Ironman 70.3 Championship 2022, she finished 8th in her age group with a time of 5:55.
Awards and honors
Condon won an ACM Distinguished Dissertation award (honorable mention) for her thesis research. In 2010, the Association for Computing Machinery named her an ACM Fellow for contributions to complexity theory and leadership in advancing women in computing. In the same year, she also won the A. Nico Habermann Award of the Computing Research Association for "long-standing and impactful service toward the goal of increasing the participation of women in computer science research." She is also
a winner of the University College Cork Distinguished Alumna
Award, the University of Washington CSE Alumni
Achievement Award.,
and the 2012 University of Washington College of Engineering Diamond
Award for Distinguished Achievement in Academia. She was the 2014 winner of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Technical Leadership ABIE Award
Condon was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2012.
Publications
M. Andronescu, A. Condon, D.H. Turner, and D.H. Mathews. The Determination of RNA folding nearest neighbor parameters, Methods in Molecular Biology, 1097:45-70, 2014.
B. Rastegari, A. Condon, N. Immorlica, R. Irving, and K. Leyton-Brown. Reasoning about optimal stable matchings under partial information, The Fifteenth ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC), 431–448, 2014.
H. Jabbari and A. Condon. A fast and robust iterative algorithm for prediction of RNA pseudoknotted secondary structures BMC Bioinformatics, 15:147, 2014.
A. Condon, J. Manuch and C. Thachuk, The complexity of string partitioning, Journal of Discrete Algorithms, 32:24-43, 2015. Preliminary version appeared in the 23rd Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching, Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7354 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous%20system%20network%20models | Network of human nervous system comprises nodes (for example, neurons) that are connected by links (for example, synapses). The connectivity may be viewed anatomically, functionally, or electrophysiologically. These are presented in several Wikipedia articles that include Connectionism (a.k.a. Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP)), Biological neural network, Artificial neural network (a.k.a. Neural network), Computational neuroscience, as well as in several books by Ascoli, G. A. (2002), Sterratt, D., Graham, B., Gillies, A., & Willshaw, D. (2011), Gerstner, W., & Kistler, W. (2002), and Rumelhart, J. L., McClelland, J. L., and PDP Research Group (1986) among others. The focus of this article is a comprehensive view of modeling a neural network (technically neuronal network based on neuron model). Once an approach based on the perspective and connectivity is chosen, the models are developed at microscopic (ion and neuron), mesoscopic (functional or population), or macroscopic (system) levels. Computational modeling refers to models that are developed using computing tools.
Introduction
The nervous system consists networks made up of neurons and synapses connected to and controlling tissues as well as impacting human thoughts and behavior. In modeling neural networks of the nervous system one has to consider many factors. The brain and the neural network should be considered as an integrated and self-contained firmware system that includes hardware (organs), software (programs), memory (short term and long term), database (centralized and distributed), and a complex network of active elements (such as neurons, synapses, and tissues) and passive elements (such as parts of visual and auditory system) that carry information within and in-and-out of the body.
Why does one want to model the brain and neural network? Although highly sophisticated computer systems have been developed and used in all walks of life, they are nowhere close to the human system in hardware and software capabilities. So, scientists have been at work to understand the human operation system and try to simulate its functionalities. In order to accomplish this, one needs to model its components and functions and validate its performance with real life. Computational models of a well simulated nervous system enable learning the nervous system and apply it to real life problem solutions.
What is brain and what is neural network? Section 2.1 addresses the former question from an evolutionary perspective. The answer to the second question is based on the neural doctrine proposed by Ramon y Cajal (1894). He hypothesized that the elementary biological unit is an active cell, called neuron, and the human machine is run by a vast network that connects these neurons, called neural (or neuronal) network. The neural network is integrated with the human organs to form the human machine comprising the nervous system.
Innumerable number of models of various aspects of the nervous system h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia%20Kavraki | Lydia E. Kavraki () is a Greek-American computer scientist, the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science, a professor of bioengineering, electrical and computer engineering, and mechanical engineering at Rice University. She is also the director of the Ken Kennedy Institute at Rice University. She is known for her work on robotics/AI and bioinformatics/computational biology and in particular for the probabilistic roadmap method for robot motion planning and biomolecular configuration analysis.
Biography
Kavraki was born in Heraklion and did her undergraduate studies at the University of Crete. She then moved to Stanford University for her graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in 1995 under the supervision of Jean-Claude Latombe.
Awards and honors
In 2000, Kavraki won the Grace Murray Hopper Award for her work on probabilistic roadmaps. In 2002, Popular Science magazine listed her in their "Brilliant 10" awards, and in the same year MIT Technology Review listed her in their annual list of 35 innovators under the age of 35.
In 2010, she was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to robotic motion planning and its application to computational biology." She is also a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a fellow of IEEE, a fellow of AIMBE and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2015, she was the winner of the ABIE Award for Technical Leadership from the Anita Borg Institute. In 2017, Kavraki was honored with the ACM Athena Lecturer award from the Association for Computing Machinery, which celebrates women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to the field of Computer Science. In 2020, she was awarded the ACM IEEE Allen Newell Award.
Kavraki is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (formerly Institute of Medicine (IoM)), the Academy of Athens, the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST), the Academia Europaea, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Greek computer scientists
Greek emigrants to the United States
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
Greek women computer scientists
University of Crete alumni
Stanford University alumni
Rice University faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Members of Academia Europaea
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Women systems scientists
Scientists from Heraklion
American women academics
21st-century American women
Members of the National Academy of Medicine
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricky%20Business%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Tricky Business is an Australian television drama series first broadcast on the Nine Network on 14 May 2012. Filmed in and around Wollongong and Sydney, the program is produced by Screentime with the assistance of Screen Australia. The Nine Network ordered 13 episodes. The series premiered in New Zealand on 4 September 2012 on TV3.
Synopsis
This drama series focuses on a family that runs a debt collection business. Jim and Claire retired debt collectors leave their business in the hands of their eldest daughter Kate, who also runs the business with her partner Rick, her younger sister Lily and family friend Chad. Kate receives an out of the blue proposal from Rick, leaving her to say no, and soon be caught up in a new romance with rival debt collector Matt.
Cast
Season 1 regular cast list from the pilot episode.
Lincoln Lewis did not appear after episode 8, however still remains credited on the show.
Recurring cast
Ratings
The first episode of Tricky Business was due to air at 9:30pm on 14 May 2012, however, The Voice Australia ran over its time slot by 12 minutes. Michael Bodey from The Australian reported Tricky Business was tempered by The Voice's lead-in. It lost almost one million viewers in the first five minutes and averaged between 700–900,000 for the last half-hour of its broadcast. Overall, the episode pulled in an average of 1.16 million viewers.
Home media
On 26 July 2012, Ezy DVD Australia released information of Tricky Business. The DVD will be released on 16 August 2012, in a 3 disc set, with special features including;
Shane Bourne : Introduces the Family
Behind The Scenes
No international release has been confirmed at this stage.
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Nine Network original programming
2010s Australian drama television series
2012 Australian television series debuts
2012 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in New South Wales
2010s Australian crime television series
English-language television shows
Television series by Screentime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27The%20All-Species%20Living%20Tree%27%20Project | The All-Species Living Tree' Project is a collaboration between various academic groups/institutes, such as ARB, SILVA rRNA database project, and LPSN, with the aim of assembling a database of 16S rRNA sequences of all validly published species of Bacteria and Archaea. At one stage, 23S sequences were also collected, but this has since stopped.
Currently there are over 10,950 species in the aligned dataset and several more are being added either as new species are discovered or species that are not represented in the database are sequenced. Initially the latter group consisted of 7% of species.
Similar (and more recent) projects include the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea (GEBA), which focused on whole genome sequencing of bacteria and archaea.
Tree
The tree was created by maximum likelihood analysis without bootstrap: consequently accuracy is traded off for size and many phylum level clades are not correctly resolved (such as the Firmicutes). (Eukaryotes not present in analysis). This phylogeny is a summary of the 16S rRNA based LTP_01_2022 and contains all type species with validly published names up to January 2022.
See also
Branching order of bacterial phyla (Woese, 1987)
Branching order of bacterial phyla (Gupta, 2001)
Branching order of bacterial phyla (Cavalier-Smith, 2002)
Branching order of bacterial phyla (Rappe and Giovanoni, 2003)
Branching order of bacterial phyla (Battistuzzi et al., 2004)
Branching order of bacterial phyla (Ciccarelli et al., 2006)
Branching order of bacterial phyla (Genome Taxonomy Database, 2018)
Bacterial phyla
List of Archaea genera
List of bacteria genera
List of bacterial orders
LPSN, list of accepted bacterial and archaeal names
References
External links
http://www.arb-silva.de/projects/living-tree/
Bacteria
Bacteriology
Microbiology
Taxonomy (biology)
Systems of bacterial taxonomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Hum%20TV | Hum TV is a commercial broadcast television network owned by Hum Entertainment Television. Headquartered on I. I. Chundrigar Road in Karachi, the network is one of the major channels in Pakistan in terms of viewership. The following is a list of all television programming that the network has broadcast since it began its TV operations in January 2005.
Current programming
Note: Titles are listed in alphabetical order.
Feudal
Jhok Sarkar
Namak Haram
Romance
Ishq Murshid
Rah-e-Junoon
Tragedy
Fareb
Nijaat
Fitna
Rang Badlay Zindagi
Social issue
Neem
Upcoming programming
Zulm
Former programming
Anthology series
Choti Choti Batain
Kitni Girhain Baqi Hain
Kitni Girhain Baqi Hain! Phir Se
Kitni Girhain Baqi Hain (Season 3)
Shareek-e-Hayat
Sasural Ke Rang Anokhay
Ustani Jee
Horror or supernatural series
Belapur Ki Dayan
Chalawa
Mehboob Aapke Qadmon Main
Woh
Woh Dubara
Comedy series
Bus Yunhi
Coke Kahani
Couples
Chand Pe Dastak
Chand Tara
Chupke Chupke
Dramay Baziyan
Dhol Bajnay Laga
Extras - The Mango People
Fairy Tale
Fun Khana
Halka Na Lo
Hum Tum
Jadugaryan
Joru Ka Ghulam
Kaala Doriya
Love Ke Liye
Mannchalay
Mahi Aye Ga
Mithu Aur Aapa
Mohabbat Jaye Bhar Mein
Mr. Shamim
Namak Paray
One Way Ticket
Paristan
Phir Chand Pe Dastak
Raju Rocket
Resham Gali Ki Husna
Suno Chanda
Suno Chanda 2
Tanaa Banaa
Uff Meri Family
Zerooos
Drama series
Aahista Aahista
Aakhir Kab Tak
Aangan
Aashti
Aatish
Abro
Adhi Gawahi
Agar
Aik Pal
Aik Thi Misaal
Aisay Jalay Jiya
Aitebaar
Akbari Asghari
Akhri Barish
Alif Allah Aur Insaan
Alvida
Anaa
Aseerzadi
Aye Zindagi
Baandi
Badi Aapa
Badshah Begum
Bakhtawar
Band Khirkiyan
Bebaak
Bebasi
Be Adab
Bharam
Bikhray Hain Hum
Bilqees Kaur
Bin Roye
Bisaat
Bisaat e Dil
Bunty I Love You
Chaudween Ka Chand
Choti Si Zindagi
Daagh-e-Dil
Daasi
Daldal
Dar Si Jati Hai Sila
Dastaan
Dayar-e-Dil
Deewana
Deewar-e-Shab
De Ijazat
De Ijazat Jo Tu
Dharkan
Dil Banjaara
Dil Ruba
Digest Writer
Dil-e-Beqarar
Dil-e-Jaanam
Dil-e-Muztar
Dil Ka Kia Rung Karun
Dil Tanha Tanha
Dobara
Do Saal Ki Aurat
Dulhan
Durr-e-Shahwar
Ehd-e-Wafa
Ek Tamanna Lahasil Si
Firaaq
Gul-e-Rana
Gumrah
Halki Si Khalish
Hasrat
Hatheli
Humnasheen
Humsafar
Hum Kahan Ke Sachay Thay
Ibn-e-Hawwa
Inkaar
Ishq E Laa
Ishq Gumshuda
Ishq Junoon Deewangi
Ishq Mein Teray
Ishq Tamasha
Ishq Zahe Naseeb
Izteraab
Jaal
Janam Jali
Jhoot
Jia Na Jaye
Jo Tu Chahey
Juda Huway Kuch Is Tarhan
Jugnoo
Kaali Ghatain
Kacha Dhaga
Kadoorat
Kahani Raima Aur Manahil Ki
Kahi Unkahi
Kaisay Tum Se Kahoon
Kaisi Aurat Hoon Main
Kankar
Karb
Kashf
Kathputli
Khaas
Khamoshi
Khamoshiyan
Khoya Khoya Chand
Khwab Saraye
Ki Jaana Main Kaun
Kisay Apna Kahein
Kisay Chahoon
Kitna Satatay Ho
Kuch Na Kaho
Laa
Laaj
Laapata
Lagaao
Lamhay
Maan
Maana Ka Gharana
Maat
Madiha Maliha
Mah-e-Tamaam
Main Abdul Qadir Hoon
Main Haar Nahi Manoun Gi
Main Maa Nahi Banna Chahti
Main Khayal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20410%20Color%20Plotter | The Apple 410 Color Plotter (OEM Yokogawa's YEW PL-1000) is a color plotter printer that was sold by Apple Computer, Inc. from 1983 to 1988. The colors came in either water- or oil-based inks.
The printer could be connected to an Apple II (with an installed Super Serial Card) or Apple III computer.
Commands
eagle.def entry
[YEWPL]
Type = PenPlotter
Long = "Yokogawa PL 1000 plotter"
Init = "IP 0;IW 0,0,380,250; IP 1;\n"
Reset = "MA 0,0\n"
Width = 16
Height = 12
ResX = 254
ResY = 254
PenSelect = "PS %u\n"
PenSpeed = "PV %1.0f\n"
Move = "MA %d,%d\n"
Draw = "DA %d,%d\n"
PenCircleRxCxCy = "AC %d,%d,%d\n"
References
External links
Reviving the Apple 410 Color Plotter NYC Resistor
Apple Inc. printers
Apple II peripherals
Products introduced in 1983
Products and services discontinued in 1988
Discontinued Apple Inc. products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%A4llsta%20Runestone | The Grällsta Runestone, listed as Västmanland Runic Inscription 27 or Vs 27 in the Rundata catalog, is a Viking Age memorial runestone located in Grällsta, which is about nine kilometers northeast of Ransta, Västmanland County, Sweden, which was in the historic province of Västmanland. A second runestone that has been designated as Västmanland Runic Inscription 28 or Vs 28 was once located in Grällsta, but it is now considered to be lost.
Description
The inscription on Vs 27 consists of runic text in the younger futhark on a serpent that encircles a cross. The inscription, which is 1.75 meters in height and on a granite stone, is classified as probably being carved in runestone style Pr5, which is also known as Urnes style. This runestone style is characterized by slim and stylized animals that are interwoven into tight patterns. The animal heads are typically seen in profile with slender almond-shaped eyes and upwardly curled appendages on the noses and the necks. The inscription based on stylistic analysis is attributed to a runemaster with the normalized name of Litle, who signed the inscriptions on inscription Vs 20 in Prästgården (Romfartuna synod) and possibly Vs 28. Other inscriptions attributed to Litle based on stylistic analysis include Vs 17 in Råby, Vs 22 in Ulvsta, and Vs 32 in Prästgården (Västerfärnebo synod).
The runic text states that the stone was raised by two brothers named Þorbjôrn and Ingifastr in memory of their father Sigþorn, who is stated as having died while on a voyage. This runestone belongs to a group of inscriptions that make a public announcement of a death that occurred while traveling, perhaps to allow property to be distributed as inheritance. Other inscriptions making such a general statement of a non-local death include Sö 49 in Ene, Sö 217 in Berga, Sm 48 in Torp, U 258 in Fresta, the now-lost U 349 in Odenslunda, the now-lost U 363 in Gådersta, U 948 in Danmarks, Vs 22 in Ulvsta, Nä 29 in Apelboda, DR 330 in Gårdstånga, and DR 379 in Ny Larsker. It has been suggested that the joint listing of the brothers may indicate that they held the inheritance from their father jointly and without dividing it into separate households.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
þurbiorn ok : ikifastr : lit * resa : ytiʀ ¤ sihþorn × faþur : sin × hon × toþr × [i] faru × litli × risti × runiʀ
Transcription into Old Norse
Þorbiorn ok Ingifastr letu ræisa æftiʀ Sigþorn, faður sinn. Hann [varð] dauðr i faru. Litli risti runiʀ.
Translation in English
Þorbjôrn and Ingifastr had (the stone) raised in memory of Sigþorn, their father. He died on a voyage. Litli carved the runes.
Vs 28
A second runestone was noted as being located in Grällsta, but it has been considered to be lost since around 1800. The inscription has been given the Rundata listing of Vs 28 and is considered to have been a runestone fragment. Records indicate that the damaged text stated that someone ordered a bridge to be constructed. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%201 | France 1 may refer to:
FR-1 (satellite), a French satellite also known as France 1
France 1 (ship) a weather ship preserved at La Rochelle
Outre-Mer 1ère, a France Télévisions network
TF1, French TV network privatized in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20dynamic%20programming | Differential dynamic programming (DDP) is an optimal control algorithm of the trajectory optimization class. The algorithm was introduced in 1966 by Mayne and subsequently analysed in Jacobson and Mayne's eponymous book. The algorithm uses locally-quadratic models of the dynamics and cost functions, and displays quadratic convergence. It is closely related to Pantoja's step-wise Newton's method.
Finite-horizon discrete-time problems
The dynamics
describe the evolution of the state given the control from time to time . The total cost is the sum of running costs and final cost , incurred when starting from state and applying the control sequence until the horizon is reached:
where , and the for are given by . The solution of the optimal control problem is the minimizing control sequence
Trajectory optimization means finding for a particular , rather than for all possible initial states.
Dynamic programming
Let be the partial control sequence and define the cost-to-go as the partial sum of costs from to :
The optimal cost-to-go or value function at time is the cost-to-go given the minimizing control sequence:
Setting , the dynamic programming principle reduces the minimization over an entire sequence of controls to a sequence of minimizations over a single control, proceeding backwards in time:
This is the Bellman equation.
Differential dynamic programming
DDP proceeds by iteratively performing a backward pass on the nominal trajectory to generate a new control sequence, and then a forward-pass to compute and evaluate a new nominal trajectory. We begin with the backward pass. If
is the argument of the operator in , let be the variation of this quantity around the -th pair:
and expand to second order
The notation used here is a variant of the notation of Morimoto where subscripts denote differentiation in denominator layout.
Dropping the index for readability, primes denoting the next time-step , the expansion coefficients are
The last terms in the last three equations denote contraction of a vector with a tensor. Minimizing the quadratic approximation with respect to we have
giving an open-loop term and a feedback gain term . Plugging the result back into , we now have a quadratic model of the value at time :
Recursively computing the local quadratic models of and the control modifications , from down to , constitutes the backward pass. As above, the Value is initialized with . Once the backward pass is completed, a forward pass computes a new trajectory:
The backward passes and forward passes are iterated until convergence.
Regularization and line-search
Differential dynamic programming is a second-order algorithm like Newton's method. It therefore takes large steps toward the minimum and often requires regularization and/or line-search to achieve convergence
. Regularization in the DDP context means ensuring that the matrix in is positive definite. Line-search in DDP amounts to scaling the open- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway%201985 | Norway 1985 is a computer wargame published in October 1985 by Strategic Simulations. Developed by Roger Keating, it was the fourth in the "When Superpowers Collide" series.
Summary
The game simulates NATO forces in Norway during the summer of 1985. The player may choose to play either the NATO or Soviet forces, and can play in turns against another human component or against the computer.
Reception
Computer Gaming World in 1986 stated that Norway 1985s simplified rules compared to its predecessors accurately reflected the changes of arctic combat, and made it the most suitable for those new to the series. The magazine concluded that although those familiar with the older games "will have to adjust your expectations ... If you can do this, you will find a good game here".
Reviews
The V.I.P. of Gaming Magazine #5 (Sept./Oct., 1986)
See also
Germany 1985
RDF 1985
Baltic 1985: Corridor to Berlin
References
External links
Images of Norway 1985 box and manual from C64Sets.com
1985 video games
Alternate history video games
Apple II games
Cold War video games
Commodore 64 games
Computer wargames
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Strategic Simulations games
Video games developed in Australia
Video games set in Norway |
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