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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane%20Saturday | Hurricane Saturday is a one-off programming block of a three-way, two-hour crossover event on NBC which involved three television sitcoms created by Susan Harris: The Golden Girls, Empty Nest and Nurses. The event depicts a fictional hurricane storming into the storylines of the three series set in Miami, Florida. The episodes aired back-to-back on Saturday, November 9, 1991 from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. EST.
Plot
The event begins on The Golden Girls one-hour episode "The Monkey Show" (season 7, episodes 8 and 9) as a hurricane threatens Miami, Dorothy discovers that ex-husband Stan is "moving on" with her sister Gloria, while Blanche and Rose host a telethon to save a lighthouse. Dorothy later catches Gloria with Stan in her bed, then learns that Sophia pushed Stan and Gloria together. As the storm intensifies, Dorothy and Sophia get into an argument and Sophia goes out into the hurricane. Carol Weston (from Empty Nest) is featured in the second part of the episode on a date with Stan's psychiatrist Dr. Halperin when he is called to the girls' house to help Stan with a problem.
The event continues on the Empty Nest episode "Windy" (season 4, episode 8) as Dr. Harry Weston and his daughters, Carol and Barbara, prepare to move to a new house when the hurricane hits and brings back a lot of memories for them. Meanwhile, Laverne's mother-in-law visits and Sophia Petrillo (from The Golden Girls) stops by to warn the Westons about the impending hurricane.
The event ends on the Nurses episode "Begone with the Wind" (season 1, episode 9) as chaos breaks out at the hospital during the hurricane – the kitchen is flooded, the phones are out and the roads are closed. When Rose Nylund (from The Golden Girls) shows up to help, she is immediately stuck with Julie and the duo are assigned to gathering food from the patients – food that they later give to Laverne Todd (from Empty Nest) for the pediatrics ward. When the news arrives that the roof collapsed in a burning building, Annie fears that her husband, a fireman, may have been killed; Sandy runs into a man (whom she dumped) with a broken leg; Hank and Gina get trapped in an elevator and share a romantic moment; two rival gangs start a knife-fight in front of the nurses' station (and threaten Rose) so it's Paco to the rescue.
Cast
Episodes
See also
Full Moon Over Miami – another crossover event involving three NBC sitcoms: The Golden Girls, Empty Nest and Nurses
Night of the Hurricane – a similar crossover event involving three Fox animated series: Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show
External links
The Golden Girls: "The Monkey Show" on IMDb
Empty Nest: "Windy" on IMDb
Nurses: "Begone with the Wind" on IMDb
The Golden Girls
Crossover television
1991 American television episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpathology | Cyberpathology refers to the phenomena that "individuals can become overly attached to their computers, computer games, or the Internet and spend inordinate amounts of time in front of their monitors". It may cause physical and psychological damages to the individual, for examples, insufficient amount of sleep, limited face-to-face interactions, and impacting on daily life activities.
Cyberpathology shares many of the same core symptoms of behavioral addictions, such as salience, mood modification, tolerance, withdrawal symptoms, conflict, and relapse.
Disorder categories
1. Computer and internet addiction
Cybersex
Online gambling
Online auctions
Online communications/Computer-mediated communication
2. Computer anxiety
In contrast to computer and Internet addiction, computer anxiety refers to "a state of heightened tension or a feeling of apprehensive expectation". Behavioral presentations of computer anxiety include: "(1) avoidance of computers and the general areas where computers are located; (2) excessive caution with computers; (3) negative remarks about computers; and (4) attempts to cut short the necessary use of computers". Computer anxiety is mainly assessed by self-report scales using Likert-type formats.
Age, gender, and computer experience are thought to be associated with computer anxiety. A meta-analysis based on studies published between 1990 and 1996 found that: (1) female university undergraduates are generally more anxious than male undergraduates, but the strength of this relationship is not conclusive; (2) instruments measuring computer anxiety are generally reliable, but not compatible with one another; and (3) computer anxiety is inversely related to computer experience, but the strength of this relationship remains inconclusive. However, Bozionelos found that the youngest sample with the presumably earliest exposure to computerization reported the highest computer anxiety scores and demonstrated the highest prevalence rates. Also, Wilfong found that computer experience did not have the largest significant relationship with computer anxiety.
3. Cybergenic stress syndrome
It is defined by Norman as "that constellation of interrelated emotional, physiological, and behavioral signs and symptoms that accompany frustration, irritation, and hostility which, although provoked by interaction with computer hardware, software, network, and related 'help' systems, results in aggression toward people or organizations to the ultimate detriment of the person affected."
4. Computer anger/rage
Computer anger is defined by Wilfong (2006, p. 1003) as "strong feelings of displeasure and negative cognitions in response to a perceived failure to perform a computer task." A similar term is computer rage, which is defined by Norman as "the physical bashing and verbal abuse of a computer or computer-related item." Wilfong (2006) found that computer self-efficacy beliefs had the largest significant relationship with both computer anxiety |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructing%20skill%20trees | Constructing skill trees (CST) is a hierarchical reinforcement learning algorithm which can build skill trees from a set of sample solution trajectories obtained from demonstration. CST uses an incremental MAP (maximum a posteriori) change point detection algorithm to segment each demonstration trajectory into skills and integrate the results into a skill tree. CST was introduced by George Konidaris, Scott Kuindersma, Andrew Barto and Roderic Grupen in 2010.
Algorithm
CST consists of mainly three parts;change point detection, alignment and merging. The main focus of CST is online change-point detection. The change-point detection algorithm is used to segment data into skills and uses the sum of discounted reward as the target regression variable. Each skill is assigned an appropriate abstraction. A particle filter is used to control the computational complexity of CST.
The change point detection algorithm is implemented as follows. The data for times and models with prior are given. The algorithm is assumed to be able to fit a segment from time to using model with the fit probability . A linear regression model with Gaussian noise is used to compute . The Gaussian noise prior has mean zero, and variance which follows . The prior for each weight follows .
The fit probability is computed by the following equation.
Then, CST compute the probability of the changepoint at time with model , and using a Viterbi algorithm.
The descriptions of the parameters and variables are as follows;
: a vector of m basis functions evaluated at state
: Gamma function
: The number of basis functions q has.
: an m by m matrix with on the diagonal and zeros elsewhere
The skill length is assumed to follow a Geometric distribution with parameter
: Expected skill length
Using the method above, CST can segment data into a skill chain. The time complexity of the change point detection is and storage size is , where is the number of particles, is the time of computing , and there are change points.
Next step is alignment. CST needs to align the component skills because the change-point does not occur in the exactly same places. Thus, when segmenting second trajectory after segmenting the first trajectory, it has a bias on the location of change point in the second trajectory. This bias follows a mixture of gaussians.
The last step is merging. CST merges skill chains into a skill tree. CST merges a pair of trajectory segments by allocating the same skill. All trajectories have the same goal and it merges two chains by starting at their final segments. If two segments are statistically similar, it merges them. This procedure is repeated until it fails to merge a pair of skill segments. are used to determine whether a pair of trajectories are modeled better as one skill or as two different skills.
Pseudocode
The following pseudocode describes the change point detection algorithm:
particles := [];
Process e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track%20gauge%20in%20Switzerland | Switzerland has an extensive network of metre gauge railways, many of which interchange traffic (most prominent is the Rhaetian Railway). They are concentrated in the more heavily mountainous areas. The Jungfrau terminates at the highest station in Europe. Dual gauge (combined metre- and standard gauge trackway) also exists in many areas. Also, nearly all street tramways in Switzerland have always been meter gauge.
Gauge Changing Trains
Since December 2022, / gauge changing trains have started operating between Lake Geneve and Interlaken Zweisimmen is the location of the gauge change. While the carriage gauge is changed, the locomotives do not change gauge and they have to be interchanged.
See also
Rail transport in Switzerland
References
Rail infrastructure in Switzerland
Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquiti | Ubiquiti Inc. (formerly Ubiquiti Networks, Inc.) is an American technology company founded in San Jose, California, in 2003. Now based in New York City, Ubiquiti manufactures and sells wireless data communication and wired products for enterprises and homes under multiple brand names. On October 13, 2011, Ubiquiti had its initial public offering (IPO) at 7.04 million shares, at $15 per share, raising $30.5 million.
Products
Ubiquiti's first product line was its "Super Range" mini-PCI radio card series, which was followed by other wireless products.
The company's Xtreme Range (XR) cards operated on non-standard IEEE 802.11 bands, which reduced the impact of congestion in the 2.4 GHz and 5.8 GHz bands. In August 2007 a group of Italian amateur radio operators set a distance world record for point-to-point links in the 5.8 GHz spectrum. Using two XR5 cards and a pair of 35 dBi dish antennas, the Italian team was able to establish a 304 km (about 188 mi) link at data rates between 4 and 5 Mbit/s.
The company (under its "Ubiquiti Labs" brand) also manufactures a home-oriented wireless mesh network router and access point combination device, as a consumer-level product called AmpliFi.
Brands
Ubiquiti product lines include UniFi, AmpliFi, EdgeMax, UISP, airMAX, airFiber, GigaBeam, and UFiber. The most common product line is UniFi which is focused on home, prosumer, business wired and wireless networking. EdgeMax is a product line dedicated to wired networking, containing only routers and switches. UISP, announced in 2020, is a range of products for internet service providers.
airMAX is a product line dedicated to creating point-to-point (PtP) and point-to-multi-point (PtMP) links between networks. airFiber and UFiber are used by wireless and fiber Internet service providers (ISP), respectively.
Software products
Ubiquiti develops a variety of software controllers for their various products including access points, routers, switches, cameras, and locks. These controllers manage all connected devices and provide a single point for configuration and administration. The software is included as part of UniFi OS, an operating system that runs on devices called UniFi OS Consoles (UniFi Dream Machine, Dream Router, Cloud Key). The UniFi Network controller can alternatively be installed on Linux, macOS, or Windows, while the other applications included with UniFi OS such as UniFi Protect and UniFi Access must be installed on a UniFi OS Console device.
WiFiman is an internet speed test and network analyzer tool that is integrated into most Ubiquiti products. It has mobile apps and a web version.
Security issues
U-Boot configuration extraction
In 2013, a security issue was discovered in the version of the U-Boot boot loader shipped on Ubiquiti's devices. It was possible to extract the plaintext configuration from the device without leaving a trace using Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) and an Ethernet cable, revealing information such as passwords |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clevo | Clevo () is a Taiwanese OEM/ODM computer manufacturer which produces laptop computers exclusively. They sell barebone laptops chassis (barebooks) to value-added resellers who build customized laptops for individual customers.
History
Clevo was founded in 1983 as Nan Tan Computer (NTC). In 1987, the company established its laptop computer business, with production starting in 1990. In 1992, NTC set up Clevo, a U.S. subsidiary which would distribute its laptops in the country. NTC later adopted the Clevo name for itself and first listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange in 1997. In 1999, Clevo merged with their subsidiary, Kapok, to increase efficiency. In August 2002, Clevo had built a new factory in Kunshan, China.
Background
Clevo has been ranked as fourth among Taiwanese exporters, marketing its products in over 50 countries. The company has also founded several service centers in Canada, Germany, Great Britain, China, Taiwan, South Korea and the United States. These centers serve various businesses, ranging in size from small to multinational, with a variety of product selections in either small or large quantities. Clevo focuses its business on designing, developing, manufacturing, and distributing electronic equipment and laptops.
Support
Some Clevo PCs use MXM upgradable video cards and replaceable desktop CPUs.
Customers
Clevo products are not sold to end users but to companies that configure them and sell them under their own brand.
Suppliers
Companies that use Clevo include:
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
Clevo x7200
References
Computer hardware companies
Companies established in 1983
Taiwanese companies established in 1983
Taiwanese brands
Computer companies established in 1983
Consumer electronics brands
Netbook manufacturers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa-Tor | Wa-Tor is a population dynamics simulation devised by A. K. Dewdney and presented in the December 1984 issue of Scientific American in a five-page article entitled "Computer Recreations: Sharks and fish wage an ecological war on the toroidal planet Wa-Tor".
Wa-Tor is usually implemented as a two-dimensional grid with three colours, one for fish, one for sharks and one for empty water. If a creature moves past the edge of the grid, it reappears on the opposite side. The sharks are predatory and eat the fish. Both sharks and fish live, move, reproduce and die in Wa-Tor according to the simple rules defined below. From these simple rules, complex emergent behavior can be seen to arise.
Predators and prey
The balance of this ecosystem is very delicate: the populations of two species can follow hugely different cycles depending on the given parameters (such as reproduction cycles and the time period in which a shark must eat to avoid starvation) as well as starting positions of each being. It may go from both species being endangered to an abundance of one or both.
When the prey are numerous, predators can reproduce rapidly. But this increase in turn increases the number of prey hunted and the population of the prey decreases. When the prey becomes rarer, predators begin to starve and die of starvation, decreasing their population and easing the hunting pressure on the prey. The prey (and in time predator) can then go back to rapidly reproducing as the cycle repeats itself.
Rules
For the fish
At each chronon, a fish moves randomly to one of the adjacent unoccupied squares. If there are no free squares, no movement takes place.
Once a fish has survived a certain number of chronons it may reproduce. This is done as it moves to a neighbouring square, leaving behind a new fish in its old position. Its reproduction time is also reset to zero.
For the sharks
At each chronon, a shark moves randomly to an adjacent square occupied by a fish. If there is none, the shark moves to a random adjacent unoccupied square. If there are no free squares, no movement takes place.
At each chronon, each shark is deprived of a unit of energy.
Upon reaching zero energy, a shark dies.
If a shark moves to a square occupied by a fish, it eats the fish and earns a certain amount of energy.
Once a shark has survived a certain number of chronons it may reproduce in exactly the same way as the fish.
Possible results
In the long run there are three possible scenarios in Wa-Tor:
A perfect balance between fish and sharks, which increase and decrease but never become extinct.
Disappearance of sharks.
Extinction of both species.
The first scenario can be very difficult to obtain, where a kind of equilibrium is achieved in which the two populations fluctuate periodically. In most cases, the amount of fish is reduced to an almost endangered state, then the shark population rapidly falls due to shortage of food. This allows the fish population to grow again until the shark populatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20Lake | Delta Lake may refer to:
Delta Lake (Software), an open-source storage framework that enables building a lakehouse architecture on huge volumes of data for any use case
Delta Lake (Teton County, Wyoming) in Grand Teton National Park
Delta Reservoir, a reservoir in New York also known as Delta Lake
Delta Lake State Park in New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20area%20network | A body area network (BAN), also referred to as a wireless body area network (WBAN) or a body sensor network (BSN) or a medical body area network (MBAN), is a wireless network of wearable computing devices. BAN devices may be embedded inside the body as implants or pills, may be surface-mounted on the body in a fixed position, or may be accompanied devices which humans can carry in different positions, such as in clothes pockets, by hand, or in various bags. While there is a trend toward the miniaturization of devices, in particular body area networks which consist of several miniaturized body sensor units (BSUs) together with a single body central unit (BCU), larger decimeter (tab and pad) sized smart devices still play an important role in terms of acting as a data hub or data gateway and providing a user interface to view and manage BAN applications, in-situ. The development of WBAN technology started around 1995 around the idea of using wireless personal area network (WPAN) technologies to implement communications on, near, and around the human body. About six years later, the term "BAN" came to refer to systems where communication is entirely within, on, and in the immediate proximity of a human body. A WBAN system can use WPAN wireless technologies as gateways to reach longer ranges. Through gateway devices, it is possible to connect the wearable devices on the human body to the internet. This way, medical professionals can access patient data online using the internet independent of the patient location.
Concept
The rapid growth in physiological sensors, low-power integrated circuits, and wireless communication has enabled a new generation of wireless sensor networks, now used for purposes such as monitoring traffic, crops, infrastructure, and health. The body area network field is an interdisciplinary area which could allow inexpensive and continuous health monitoring with real-time updates of medical records through the Internet. A number of intelligent physiological sensors can be integrated into a wearable wireless body area network, which can be used for computer-assisted rehabilitation or early detection of medical conditions. This area relies on the feasibility of implanting very small biosensors inside the human body that are comfortable and that don't impair normal activities. The implanted sensors in the human body will collect various physiological changes in order to monitor the patient's health status no matter their location. The information will be transmitted wirelessly to an external processing unit. This device will instantly transmit all information in real time to the doctors throughout the world. If an emergency is detected, the physicians will immediately inform the patient through the computer system by sending appropriate messages or alarms. Currently, the level of information provided and energy resources capable of powering the sensors are limiting. While the technology is still in its primitive stage it is being |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon%20Metcalf | Brandon Metcalf (born July 3, 1986) is an American record producer and entrepreneur. In 2005, he founded Destiny Collective, a network of businesses in the music and merchandising industries. He was originally a Seattle-based record producer but as of August 2012 is now based primarily out of Nashville.
History: Teenage years
Starting in the 6th grade, Metcalf was a paperboy. At age 13, he took savings from the paper route job and purchased a set of turntables after deciding he wanted to be a DJ. Adopting the nickname FADE, he spent his teenage years DJing at competitions, school dances, clubs, and weddings. He started his first official business at age 15 which was a wedding DJ business. At age 13 he wrote and recorded his own hip hop album, using beats he made on the computer and sampled from vinyl records. At age 16, he upgraded to Pro Tools software and recorded local acoustic projects out of his parents home.
Destiny Collective
At age 19, Brandon sold the DJ company, dropped out of Brigham Young University, and purchased a home to build a studio in. He started a new company called Destiny Collective to focus on artist development, record production, and merchandising. The parent corporation includes successful ventures shirtsforgreeks.com, specializing in collegiate and Greek apparel, and the newly launched Destiny Nashville, a recording studio and production company on music row.
Studio work
Brandon has worked in the studio as a producer, engineer, and/or mixer with bands and artists such as:
Jewel
Blues Traveler
Secondhand Serenade
Due West
The Classic Crime
Julia Sheer
Elenowen
Trent Dabbs
Brooke Waggoner
Veronica Ballestrini
Brooke Hogan
Stephen Jerzak
Daphne Loves Derby
The Real You
The Scene Aesthetic
He Is We
Danger Radio
A Change of Pace
Common Market
Anarbor
Artist vs Poet
Aside from his personal studio, he has worked on projects in studios throughout Seattle, Los Angeles, and Nashville. His production work has received positive reviews from music publications and websites such as absolutepunk.net.
Recognition
Brandon and his work has been featured on:
MTV
VH1
e!
USA
ABC
NBC
Rolling Stone
In addition, he has been featured in interviews in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, FOX, and ABC News.
References
External links
1986 births
Living people
Record producers from Washington (state)
Record producers from Tennessee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphallus%20turgidus | Microphallus turgidus is a widespread and locally common flatworm parasite in New Zealand lakes and streams. Multilocus allozyme genotype data show that Microphallus turgidus is a single outbred species with high levels of gene flow among South Island populations. Microphallus turgidus is commonly found in the abdominal muscles of grass shrimp.
Life cycle
Microphallus turgidus exclusively uses the snail Potamopyrgus antipodarum as the first intermediate host, a shrimp as the secondary intermediate host, and the final hosts are typically waterfowl. Embryonated Microphallus turgidus eggs are ingested from sediment and hatch in the snail's gut, penetrate the intestine, and migrate to the gonads and digestive gland. Following successful establishment, the parasite then undergoes asexual reproduction, replacing much of the host's reproductive tissue and digestive gland, which results in complete sterilization of the snail. The first visible parasite developmental stages (blastocercariae) are detectable after approximately 75 days post-exposure and metacercariae are common by 90 days post-exposure at 16 °C in the lab. The life cycle continues through a secondary intermediate host, such as the glass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio, and is completed when the shrimp infected by the metacercariae are consumed by waterfowl or mammals.
Host
Microphallus turgidus are more common in wild animals that live in salt marshes and are considered as definite host. The first intermediate host is the hydrobiid snail, on its immature form called a cercaria, it develops into snail. The most common is the second intermediate hosts, grass shrimp, Palaemonetes pugio. Metacercariae of the parasite usually encyst in grass shrimp abdominal muscle, and though adult P. pugio average only 2.9 cm in length, a shrimp can be infected with more than 100 parasites.
Symptoms / effects
Numerous reports of changes in the host behavior after the parasitic infection influenced the host-parasite survival, host predation, and parasite transmission. Parasite induced behavior changes include hyperactivity, sluggishness, fatigue, disorientation, altered habitat selection, and reduced predator avoidance. In fact, it is rare are to find a locality where the grass shrimp Palaemonetes pugio is not infected.
At certain shrimp collection sites, near all specimens of P. pugio are infected, some with more than 100 parasites. The intensity of infection varies from one locality to another and may be due, at least partially, to geographic differences in salinity. Heavily infected shrimp are more likely to be eaten by a predator than uninfected shrimp, have lower swimming stamina, and spend more time swimming and less time motionless in the presence of a predator. Thus, M. turgidus may increase the predation of P. pugio in the wild.
References
Molluscs described in 1958
Plagiorchiida
Parasites of molluscs
Parasites of birds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurocomputational%20speech%20processing | Neurocomputational speech processing is computer-simulation of speech production and speech perception by referring to the natural neuronal processes of speech production and speech perception, as they occur in the human nervous system (central nervous system and peripheral nervous system). This topic is based on neuroscience and computational neuroscience.
Overview
Neurocomputational models of speech processing are complex. They comprise at least a cognitive part, a motor part and a sensory part.
The cognitive or linguistic part of a neurocomputational model of speech processing comprises the neural activation or generation of a phonemic representation on the side of speech production (e.g. neurocomputational and extended version of the Levelt model developed by Ardi Roelofs: WEAVER++ as well as the neural activation or generation of an intention or meaning on the side of speech perception or speech comprehension.
The motor part of a neurocomputational model of speech processing starts with a phonemic representation of a speech item, activates a motor plan and ends with the articulation of that particular speech item (see also: articulatory phonetics).
The sensory part of a neurocomputational model of speech processing starts with an acoustic signal of a speech item (acoustic speech signal), generates an auditory representation for that signal and activates a phonemic representations for that speech item.
Neurocomputational speech processing topics
Neurocomputational speech processing is speech processing by artificial neural networks. Neural maps, mappings and pathways as described below, are model structures, i.e. important structures within artificial neural networks.
Neural maps
An artificial neural network can be separated in three types of neural maps, also called "layers":
input maps (in the case of speech processing: primary auditory map within the auditory cortex, primary somatosensory map within the somatosensory cortex),
output maps (primary motor map within the primary motor cortex), and
higher level cortical maps (also called "hidden layers").
The term "neural map" is favoured here over the term "neural layer", because a cortical neural map should be modeled as a 2D-map of interconnected neurons (e.g. like a self-organizing map; see also Fig. 1). Thus, each "model neuron" or "artificial neuron" within this 2D-map is physiologically represented by a cortical column since the cerebral cortex anatomically exhibits a layered structure.
Neural representations (neural states)
A neural representation within an artificial neural network is a temporarily activated (neural) state within a specific neural map. Each neural state is represented by a specific neural activation pattern. This activation pattern changes during speech processing (e.g. from syllable to syllable).
In the ACT model (see below), it is assumed that an auditory state can be represented by a "neural spectrogram" (see Fig. 2) within an auditory state map. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Saint-%C3%89tienne | The Saint-Étienne trolleybus system () forms part of the public transport network of the city and commune of Saint-Étienne, in the Rhône-Alpes region of the Great South East of France.
In operation since 1942, the system is one of only three operating trolleybus systems in France; the others are the Limoges system and the Lyon system. Today, the city is taking major steps to develop trolleybus transport. New battery trolleybuses Solaris T12 with ŠKODA electric equipment were purchased. In addition, the number of vehicles was increased compared to the original fleet so that electric traffic could be resumed on the M7 Michon - city center - Bellevue line. In the near future, trolleybuses will also return to the M6 line serving the Metare housing estate, where a trolley line is now being built again. In addition, the line will use the planned BRT corridor and the carrier will purchase articulated trolleybuses for it. These should also appear on the M4 line.
Services
The current Saint-Étienne trolleybus line is:
M3 : Cotonne – Hôtel de Ville – Terrenoire
M7 : Michon – Hôtel de Ville – Bellevue
Trolleybus fleet
, the Saint-Étienne trolleybus fleet consisted of the following types:
Solaris T12 (23 trolleybuses, nos. 131-153), entered service in 2019-2021
, the Saint-Étienne trolleybus fleet consisted of the following types:
Berliet ER100 (5 trolleybuses, nos. 427, 430, 433, 436, 438), entered service in 1981 (in storage).
Irisbus Cristalis ETB12 (11 trolleybuses, nos. 111-121), entered service in 2003.
See also
Gare de Saint-Étienne-Châteaucreux
List of trolleybus systems in France
Saint-Étienne tramway
References
External links
Images of the Saint-Étienne trolleybus system, at railfaneurope.net
This article is based upon a translation of the French language version as at December 2011.
Saint-Etienne
Saint-Etienne
Transport in Saint-Étienne
1942 establishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20at%20rest | Data at rest in information technology means data that is housed physically on computer data storage in any digital form (e.g. cloud storage, file hosting services, databases, data warehouses, spreadsheets, archives, tapes, off-site or cloud backups, mobile devices etc.). Data at rest includes both structured and unstructured data. This type of data is subject to threats from hackers and other malicious threats to gain access to the data digitally or physical theft of the data storage media. To prevent this data from being accessed, modified or stolen, organizations will often employ security protection measures such as password protection, data encryption, or a combination of both. The security options used for this type of data are broadly referred to as data at rest protection (DARP).
Data at rest is used as a complement to the terms data in use and data in transit which together define the three states of digital data (see Figure 1).
Alternative definition
There is some disagreement regarding the difference between data at rest and data in use. Data at rest generally refers to data stored in persistent storage (disk, tape) while data in use generally refers to data being processed by a computer central processing unit (CPU) or in random access memory (RAM, also referred to as main memory or simply memory).
Definitions include:
"...all data in computer storage while excluding data that is traversing a network or temporarily residing in computer memory to be read or updated."
"...all data in storage but excludes any data that frequently traverses the network or that which resides in temporary memory. Data at rest includes but is not limited to archived data, data which is not accessed or changed frequently, files stored on hard drives, USB thumb drives, files stored on backup tape and disks, and also files stored off-site or on a storage area network (SAN)."
Data in use has also been taken to mean “active data” in the context of being in a database or being manipulated by an application. For example, some enterprise encryption gateway solutions for the cloud claim to encrypt data at rest, data in transit and data in use.
While it is generally accepted that archive data (i.e. which never changes), regardless of its storage medium, is data at rest and active data subject to constant or frequent change is data in use. “Inactive data” could be taken to mean data which may change, but infrequently. The imprecise nature of terms such as “constant” and “frequent” means that some stored data cannot be comprehensively defined as either data at rest or in use. These definitions could be taken to assume that Data at Rest is a superset of data in use; however, data in use, subject to frequent change, has distinct processing requirements from data at rest, whether completely static or subject to occasional change.
The division of data at rest into the sub-categories "static" and "inconstant" addresses this distinction (see Figure 2)..
Concerns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlords%20%281990%20video%20game%29 | Warlords is a computer wargame released in 1990 for the Amiga and MS-DOS compatible operating systems, then in 1992 for Macintosh. It was designed by Steve Fawkner and developed by Strategic Studies Group. Warlords was followed by three sequels and several spinoffs. The game was based on designer Steve Fawkner's Dungeons & Dragons campaign.
Gameplay
Warlords featured eight different clans battling for the control of the mythical land of Illuria: Sirians, Storm Giants, Grey Dwarves, Orcs of Kor, Elvallie, Horse Lords, Selentines, and Lord Bane. Each clan could either be controlled by the computer or by a human player, allowing up to eight participants taking turns in hot seat play. Gameplay consisted of moving units, attacking opponent units or cities, adjusting production in cities, and moving hero units to explore ruins, temples, libraries, and to discover allies, relics, and other items. The goal of the game was to conquer the land of Illuria by capturing or razing at least two thirds of the cities in the land.
Reception
Warlords reached sales above 50,000 units.
Reviewers cited the basic sound and average graphics of the game, compensated by simple user interface and "high dollar-to-play value". Computer Gaming World favorably cited the sophisticated computer opponents, and concluded that the game "has everything to offer the strategy gamer who has a taste for a bit of the fantasy genre", especially those who enjoyed Empire or Reach for the Stars. The magazine named the game and Command HQ as its 1991 Wargames of the Year. In a 1993 survey of pre 20th-century strategy games the magazine gave the game three stars out of five, stating that it was "eminently playable".
Warlords was named the 67th best computer game ever by PC Gamer UK in 1997. The editors called it "one of the most revolutionary multi-player experiences of the Nineties."
Reviews
Amiga Action - May, 1991
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Mar, 1991
CU Amiga - May, 1991
Computer Gaming World - Apr, 1991
References
External links
Warlords at Amiga Hall of Light
Warlords at MobyGames
Review in Compute!
1990 video games
Amiga games
Classic Mac OS games
Computer wargames
DOS games
Multiplayer hotseat games
Strategic Studies Group games
Turn-based strategy video games
Video games developed in Australia
Warlords (video game series) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle%20computing | Jungle computing is a form of high performance computing that distributes computational work across cluster, grid and cloud computing.
The increasing complexity of the high performance computing environment has provided a range of choices beside traditional supercomputers and clusters. Scientists can now use grid and cloud infrastructures, in a variety of combinations along with traditional supercomputers - all connected via fast networks. And the emergence of many-core technologies such as GPUs, as well as supercomputers on chip within these environments has added to the complexity. Thus, high-performance computing can now use multiple diverse platforms and systems simultaneously, giving rise to the term "computing jungle".
See also
Heterogeneous computing
References
Supercomputing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difluoromethane%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on difluoromethane.
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20center%20services | Data center services encompass all of the services and facility-related components or activities that support the implementation, maintenance, operation, and enhancement of a data center, which is an environment that provides processing, storage, networking, management and the distribution of data within an enterprise.
Generally, data center services fall into two categories: services provided to a data center or services provided from a data center.
Support services
Support services for the data center can be generally defined as technical support, which provides assistance to help solve problems related to technology products. Technical support services for data centers help to address challenges with the servers, storage, software and networking equipment that constitute a data center, or the related processes involved in managing data center equipment. Data center support services can also include installing and configuring technical equipment. Careers in this industry include (1) Technical Support Analyst, (2) Help Desk Engineer or (3) Information Support Specialists.
Technical consulting services
Consulting and integration services provide expertise and input to help organizations make strategic decisions and systems integrations. Technical consulting services are one specific type of service that falls under the overall consulting services umbrella. Technical consulting services provide guidance and expertise on the application of technology. This can include selecting or designing new technology, redesigning existing technology, migrating existing technology to a new environment, or integrating new technology into existing technology. Examples of technical consulting services specific to data center services might include selecting a new data center location, consolidation, virtualization, automation, redesigning data centers for cloud computing, implementing storage arrays, or incorporating offsite storage services into an existing network.
Outsourcing services
IT outsourcing occurs when one company (the outsourcing customer) contracts with an outsourcing vendor to provide IT services that the customer would otherwise deliver in-house. Such IT services could be disaster recovery, data storage or other IT functions. Outsourcing services for the data center can range from hosting, managing and maintaining an entire data center to more discrete data center tasks such as upgrading servers or backing up data.
Application services
The definition of application services varies depending on the type of company offering the services. An application service provider is a large segment within application services that provides software-based services to other companies that access those services over a network. Examples of ASP services include Web hosting and e-mail hosting. Application services can also include any service that helps companies develop, integrate or manage applications for their own networks. Services in this category can |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland%20Runic%20Inscription%20171 | Uppland Runic Inscription 171 or U 171 is the Rundata catalog listing for a Viking Age memorial runestone that is located in Söderby, which is four kilometers west of Vaxholm, Stockholm County, Sweden, and in the historic province of Uppland.
Description
The inscription on U 171 consists of runic text in the younger futhark that is carved on a serpent that follows the edge of the triangular-shaped granite stone. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr4, 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 was carved by a runemaster who used the signature Fasti, with the runes for his signature line fasti risti runaʀ or "Fasti carved the runes" located outside of the serpent near its leg. Based on stylistic analysis, this runemaster is believed to have also created the nearby but now-lost runestone U 170 in Bogesund, where the runemaster's signature was recorded as being Fastulfr. As such, Fasti may be a nickname. On U 171, the runemaster used a word divider punctuation mark consisting of a single dot between each word that was carved on the serpent.
The runic text states that the stone was raised by a man named Gunni in memory of his son Eyndr and in memory of himself. It is believed that this stone is associated with three other nearby runestones that were raised by the same family, the others being U 166 and 167 in Östra Ryds and U 170 in Bogesund. There are over twenty other runestones where the sponsor of the stone stated that the stone was raised in memory of himself, including Sö 55 in Bjudby, U 127 in Danderyds, the now-lost U 149 in Hagby, U 164 and U 165 in Täby, U 194 in Väsby, U 212 in Vallentuna, U 261 in Fresta, U 308 in Ekeby, the now-lost U 345 in Yttergärde, U 433 in Husby-Ärlinghundra, U 734 in Linsunda, U 739 in Gådi, U 803 in Långtora, U 962 in Vaksala, U 1011 in Örby, U 1040 in Fasma, the now-lost U 1114 in Myrby, U 1181 in Lilla Runhällen, U Fv1958;250 in Sigtuna, Vs 17 in Råby, Vs 32 in Prästgården, and DR 212 in Tillitse. Of these, five stones known as the Jarlabanke Runestones were sponsored by the same person in memory of himself.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
kuni * lit * akua * stain * þi-a * iftiʀ * aunt * sun * sin * kuþan * auk * if(t)(i)- * s(i)(k) * sialfan * fasti risti runaʀ
Transcription into Old Norse
Gunni let haggva stæin þe[nn]a æftiʀ Øynd, sun sinn goðan, ok æfti[ʀ] sik sialfan. Fasti risti runaʀ.
Translation in English
Gunni had this stone cut in memory of Eyndr, his good son, and in memory of himself. Fasti carved the runes.
References
External links
Photograph of U 171 in 1970
Uppland Runic Inscription 0171 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk%20Railway | The Norfolk Railway was an early railway company that controlled a network of 94 miles around Norwich, England. It was formed in 1845 by the amalgamation of the Yarmouth and Norwich Railway opened in 1844, and the Norwich and Brandon Railway, not yet opened. These lines were built out of frustration that the Eastern Counties Railway line that was expected to connect Norwich to London failed to be completed. The Norfolk Railway also leased the Lowestoft Railway and Harbour company, and built a branch to Dereham and Fakenham, opened in 1846 and 1849 respectively.
It was successful in connecting Norwich to the emerging railway network, by connecting at Brandon with a line from London via Cambridge and also a line from the Midlands through Peterborough. However as a local line it was dependent on bigger partners, and it was threatened by new competing lines, so that its independence was always at risk. In 1848 it agreed with the larger Eastern Counties Railway that the ECR would operate its line, reducing the Norfolk Railway to a financial company only. In 1862 it amalgamated with other companies to form the Great Eastern Railway.
Its first lines, from Great Yarmouth to Norwich and Norwich to Brandon, continue in use at the present day as important regional routes, and although the Dereham and Fakenham branch closed to passengers in the 1960s, the majority of this line remains open as the Mid-Norfolk Railway.
Yarmouth and Norwich Railway
The merchants of Norwich had been gratified when the Eastern Counties Railway got its authorising Act in 1836 to build a line from London to their city and on to Great Yarmouth. The capital for the construction was £1.6 million, a huge amount at the time. The Eastern Counties Railway had grossly underestimated the cost of building its line, and it was running out of money. The people of Norwich were dismayed in April 1839, when the ECR announced that it would be unable to build any further than Colchester for the time being.
Throughout the remainder of that year and in 1840, a number of schemes were put forward and discussed; there were alternative routes, but they all met with the suspicion that large sums of money might be subscribed without the lines being completed. By now the Northern and Eastern Railway was in financial difficulty too; its original intention of connecting London to York was eventually reduced to a line from Stratford to Newport, Essex. Ambitious railway schemes in East Anglia were not held in high esteem, especially when their projected cost was quoted in millions of pounds.
On 21 January 1841, a meeting was held in Norwich to determine how to improve the transport links of Norwich. As a first step, a link to Yarmouth was planned. Yarmouth was the port for the City of Norwich, and at the same time a fashionable watering place, and would be useful, as coastwise shipping was an important transport medium for heavy materials, particularly coal, and the railway would enable minerals to be brou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biometric%20points | In order to identify a person, a security system has to compare personal characteristics with a database. A scan of a person's iris, fingerprint, face, or other distinguishing feature is created, and a series of biometric points are drawn at key locations in the scan. For example, in the case of a facial scan, biometric points might be placed at the tip of each ear lobe and in the corners of both eyes. Measurements taken between all the (possibly hundreds of) points of a scan are compiled and result in a numerical "score" (which can be quite large). This score is unique for every individual, but it can quickly and easily be compared to any compiled scores of the facial scans in the database to determine if there is a match.
Basic approach
For security systems using cameras, people recognition has become, in recent years, one of the most common forms of identification. The successful identification of an individual requires comparing an image of the individual to a database that contains the images of many people. However, comparing each image in its entirety, pixel by pixel, would be an extremely slow and expensive process. To solve this problem, biometrics are used. With biometrics, rather than comparing the entire image, biometric points are placed at key locations, measurements are taken between all the points, and the results are compiled into a "score." A score can be easily obtained from every image on file and stored in the database. When a new individual's image is obtained, the only requirement for successful identification is that the system needs to compile the score based on the image's biometrics and then to compare this new score to the scores in the database—an easy task for a modern computer or laptop.
The goal of a recognition system: given an image of an "unknown" person, to find a picture of the same person in a group of "known" or training images. The difficulty is ensuring that this process can be performed in real time. A biometric system identifies images or videos of people automatically. It can operate in two modes:
Verification or authentication of individuals: a person's current image is compared with a stored image of the person to be identified. The system confirms or denies the identity of the person.
ID or person recognition: the image of a stranger is compared with the images of known persons in the database to determine identity.
Biometrics
For the scientist, biometrics is the science of measuring physical properties of living beings and for the engineer it is the automated recognition of individuals based on their behavioural and biological characteristics.
By measuring an individual's suitable behavioural and biological characteristics in a recognition inquiry and comparing these data with the biometric reference data, which had been stored during a learning procedure, the identity of a specific user is determined.
Biometric characteristic
A biometric characteristic is biological or behavioural property |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20R.%20Taylor%20III | John R. Taylor III (born January 13, 1957) is an American computer game designer, serial entrepreneur and massively multiplayer online game pioneer. He is a co-founder (with his University of Virginia classmate Kelton Flinn) of the game company Kesmai, which they founded in 1981. In 2011, Taylor was awarded the Online Game Legend Award by the Computer Game Developers Association.
Game development and career history
Early career
In the late 1970s Taylor co-founded the Charlottesville, VA-based company Amber Electronics to design and build high end audio equipment for the consumer audiophile market. The business was sold and as of 2012, Amber Electronics operates in Australia.
After Amber Electronics, Taylor spent five years at General Electric’s Industrial Electronics Development Lab, where he developed test systems for Computer Numerical Controls and motion control systems for advanced robotics.
Founding of Kesmai
In 1981, along with Dr. Kelton Flinn, Taylor founded Kesmai, the oldest US online multiplayer game company.
The name Kesmai was generated from an auto-name generation program, while they were trying to name the island featured in Kesmai's first online role playing game. In 1982, the company was incorporated
and Taylor and Flinn decided to name the company Kesmai as well. Taylor and Dr. Flinn's efforts demonstrated the commercial viability of the online game industry.
Taylor was instrumental in pioneering the design of text-based MUDs and role-playing games as well as the first multiplayer flight simulation game with a graphical interface - Air Warrior.
He, along with Dr. Flinn also designed and developed a massively online gaming enabling technology called ARIES.
Taylor expanded the business into the publishing of third party online games via distribution agreements with U.S., Japanese and European online providers.
Kesmai's major titles include:
MegaWars III (1983) — MegaWars III was the first game Kesmai published for CompuServe in 1983. Ironically, the reason they wanted to go to CompuServe was to have enough computation power to do Island of Kesmai, but it proved too computationally expensive. Consequently, MegaWars III was developed. MegaWars III, was an adaptation of a game called "S". Another irony: Not one of the MegaWars games are related to each other except by name; the original was based on the old university mainframe game DECWAR.
Island of Kesmai (1985) — The rewrite of Flinn and Taylor's old text action adventure game went live at the end of 1985 after a long internal test cycle. It cost $6 an hour at 300 baud (the slow dial-up modems of the day), $12 for 1200 baud (the fast dial-up modems).
Stellar Warrior (1985) — This rewrite of Mega Wars III introduced substantially simplified game play to expand its potential audience, and debuted on the GEnie online service the same day that Islands of Kesmai went live on CompuServe.
Air Warrior (1986) — This game, offered on GEnie, is a key milestone in the history |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%20consistency | Strong consistency is one of the consistency models used in the domain of concurrent programming (e.g., in distributed shared memory, distributed transactions).
The protocol is said to support strong consistency if:
All accesses are seen by all parallel processes (or nodes, processors, etc.) in the same order (sequentially)
Therefore, only one consistent state can be observed, as opposed to weak consistency, where different parallel processes (or nodes, etc.) can perceive variables in different states.
See also
CAP theorem
References
Consistency models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright%20Light%20%28CIA%29 | Bright Light is the codename of one of the Central Intelligence Agency's network of black sites—clandestine interrogation centers.
The location of the site, in Bucharest, Romania, was confirmed in an exclusive report from the Associated Press on December 8, 2011.
Some of the most important captives in the high value detainee program, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the September 11 attacks, were held there. Other sites in the CIA's network were in isolated locations. The Bucharest site was housed within the campus of the Romanian National Registry Office for Classified Information, explaining the need for high security.
The cells the captive were held in were mounted on springs, to keep the captives off balance. According to ABC News captives were subjected to "enhanced interrogation techniques" in the Bucharest site, but were not subjected to the controversial technique of waterboarding.
Authorization from the Romanian government
Romanian President Ion Iliescu claimed in a Der Spiegel interview that he approved just the use of the location, without knowing the details about the secret prison. The U.S. government requested at the end of 2002/beginning of 2003 a building for the CIA and Iliescu approved it, appointing presidential adviser Ioan Talpeș in charge of the details.
Talpeș said that he understood that the situation could "become dangerous", so he told the CIA that the Romanian government did not want to know anything regarding how the building was being used.
These statements contradict the result of a 2008 investigation by the Romanian Parliament, which concluded that no CIA prisons existed in Romania.
References
Black sites
Buildings and structures in Bucharest
Counterterrorism in the United States
Detention centers for extrajudicial prisoners of the United States
Government buildings in Romania
Prisons in Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Tiller | Bill Tiller is an American computer game designer, writer, and artist. At LucasArts, he was the lead artist and art director of The Dig, the lead background artist on The Curse of Monkey Island, and the lead artist on Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. He created the games A Vampyre Story and Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island for Autumn Moon Entertainment, a studio he co-founded with Mike Kirchoff in 2002. He worked as a game designer on the iOS title Perils of Man.
Career
Bill Tiller was hired by LucasArts adventure games by Collette Michaud in 1992 as an animator for Brian Moriarty's version of The Dig. He stayed with the project through all of its incarnations, and was ultimately the lead artist and art director on the final version of the game. He was the lead background artist of The Curse of Monkey Island, and the lead artist of Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine. In 2001, he left LucasArts to work at ArenaNet.
In 2002, co-founded Autumn Moon Entertainment to develop his own adventure games. Their first release was A Vampyre Story in 2008, followed by Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island in 2009. Due to financial issues with the publisher of the Autumn Moon games, Crimson Cow, Tiller has maintained a freelance career in the industry. His royalty checks from his work on Snuggle Truck has allowed Tiller to keep working on his own adventure games. Before the success of Snuggle Truck, Tiller served as the art director for MunkyFun, which is itself a studio founded by a number of ex-LucasArts developers. In 2013, Tiller started a crowdfunding effort for an episodic, independent prequel to the A Vampyre Story saga called A Vampyre Story: Year One. The Kickstarter campaign was unsuccessful, however, the game remains in development. In 2013, Tiller collaborated with IF Games in Switzerland as one of the game designers for the 3D adventure Perils of Man, which saw release in 2014. In August 2014, Bill Tiller began a Kickstarter campaign for a spin-off of Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island titled Duke Grabowski: Mighty Swashbuckler!.
Games
1993: Star Wars: Rebel Assault, artist (LucasArts)
1994: Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, artist (LucasArts)
1994: Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures, artist (LucasArts)
1995: Full Throttle, artist (LucasArts)
1995: The Dig, lead artist, art director (LucasArts)
1997: Outlaws, artist (LucasArts)
1997: The Curse of Monkey Island, lead background artist (LucasArts)
1999: Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, lead artist (LucasArts)
2002: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Art Director (Stormfront Studios)
2008: A Vampyre Story, project leader, artist, writer (Autumn Moon Entertainment)
2009: Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island, project leader, artist, writer (Autumn Moon Entertainment)
2011: Bounty Bots, Art Director (Munky Fun)
2011: Snuggle Truck, artist (Owlchemy Labs)
2013: Jack Lumber, artist (Owlchemy Labs)
2014: Perils of Man, game designer (IF Games)
2015: Skylanders: Imaginators, Senior Concept Artist (Activ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel%20%28filling%20stations%20operator%29 | Parallel-M LTD is one of the leading operators in Ukraine's oil wholesale and retail markets. The company has been operating at the Ukrainian market of petroleum products since 1995. Its network consists of 80 filling stations under TM Parallel (75 filling stations in Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk Oblasts) and Gefest trade mark (4 filling stations in Kirovohrad, Zaporizhia Oblast and Crimea), and one station under TM PitStop in Donetsk.
History
The history of the company began in 1995 with the construction of gas station "Nafta" in Donetsk and purchasing the petroleum depot in Kuteynikovo village. During 1996–2003, 7 more gas stations in Donetsk and Makiivka were opened. In February 2003 a contract with Mažeikių Nafta (Lithuania) was signed for high-quality fuel supplies. Parallel and Mažeikių Nafta signed an exclusive agreement of sale of gasoline Ventus 98 and Ventus 95 in September 2003 and of fuels Ventus Diesel and Ventus 92 in 2004.
In 2005, the company introduced its loyalty program, called CarteBlanche. In 2006 the company opened its first mini-market (convenience store) under TM ZZZIP!! at the gas stations and established its own quality laboratory. In 2007, seven more gas stations of the new format were opened in Donetsk and Makiivka. In 2007, the quality control laboratory of Parallel-M Ltd won the 4th all-Ukrainian competition of goods quality "100 Best Goods of Ukraine" in the nomination "Laboratory testing services for oil products" and the company started selling gasoline and Perfekt diesel fuel.
In 2008, five more filling stations were opened. Perfekt gasoline from "Parallel" was awarded during the final round of the all-Ukrainian contest "100 Best Goods of Ukraine". The same year Parallel became the official partner of FC Shakhtar Donetsk.
In 2009, 47 gas filling stations under TM Gefest and one station under TM PitStop passed into Parallel management. As a result of this transaction, the number of objects controlled by Parallel increased from 20 to 68, and geographical coverage expanded from one to eight regions of Ukraine, staying mainly in the eastern and central regions of the country. In 2010 the company conducted rebranding of 29 stations under TM Gefest into the Parallel network in Donetsk Oblast. Two gas stations in Donetsk were reconstructed, three new filling stations in Luhansk and one hand car wash in Makiivka were opened.
Management
The authorized capital of Parallel-M LTD is controlled by Parallel Nafta LTD, a subsidiary of System Capital Management. Yelena Khiliyenko is the CEO of Parallel-M LTD.
Business
Business of Parallel-M LTD includes: retail sale of light oil and related products, small- and large wholesale sale of petroleum products, storage and transportation of petroleum products, services, accredited laboratory for quality control of fuels and lubricants.
As of 11 October 2011 the company has in command the following assets:
filling stations under TM Parallel – 70
filling stat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olog | The theory of ologs is an attempt to provide a rigorous mathematical framework for knowledge representation, construction of scientific models and data storage using category theory, linguistic and graphical tools. Ologs were introduced in 2012 by David Spivak and Robert Kent.
Etymology
The term "olog" is short for "ontology log". "Ontology" derives from onto-, from the Greek ὤν, ὄντος "being; that which is", present participle of the verb εἰμί "be", and -λογία, -logia: science, study, theory.
Mathematical formalism
An olog for a given domain is a category whose objects are boxes labeled with phrases (more specifically, singular indefinite noun phrases) relevant to the domain, and whose morphisms are directed arrows between the boxes, labeled with verb phrases also relevant to the domain. These noun and verb phrases combine to form sentences that express relationships between objects in the domain.
In every olog, the objects exist within a target category. Unless otherwise specified, the target category is taken to be , the category of sets and functions.
The boxes in the above diagram represent objects of . For example, the box containing the phrase "an amino acid" represents the set of all amino acids, and the box containing the phrase "a side chain" represents the set of all side chains. The arrow labeled "has" that points from "an amino acid" to "a side chain" represents the function that maps each amino acid to its unique side chain.
Another target category that can be used is the Kleisli category of the power set monad. Given an , is then the power set of A. The natural transformation maps to the singleton , and the natural transformation maps a set of sets to its union. The Kleisli category is the category with the objects matching those in , and morphisms that establish binary relations. Given a morphism , and given and , we define the morphism by saying that whenever . The verb phrases used with this target category would need to make sense with objects that are subsets: for example, "is related to" or "is greater than".
Another possible target category is the Kleisli category of probability distributions, called the Giry monad. This provides a generalization of Markov decision processes.
Ologs and databases
An olog can also be viewed as a database schema. Every box (object of ) in the olog is a table and the arrows (morphisms) emanating from the box are columns in . The assignment of a particular instance to an object of is done through a functor . In the example above, the box "an amino acid" will be represented as a table whose number of rows is equal to the number of types of amino acids and whose number of columns is three, one column for each arrow emanating from that box.
Relations between ologs
"Communication" between different ologs which in practice can be communication between different models or world-views is done using functors. Spivak coins the notions of a 'meaningful' and 'strongly meaningful' functo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard%20Year-End%20Hot%20100%20singles%20of%202011 | Billboard publishes annual lists of songs based on chart performance over the course of a year based on Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems and SoundScan information. For 2011, the list of the top 100 Billboard Hot 100 Year-End songs was published on December 9, calculated with data from December 4, 2010 to November 26, 2011. At the number one position was Adele's "Rolling in the Deep", which stayed atop the Hot 100 for seven consecutive weeks, and in the top thirty for most of the year.
See also
2011 in American music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2011
List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 2011
References
United States Hot 100 Year-End
Lists of Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen%20Yang%20%28TV%20host%29 | Chen Yang () is a Chinese TV and radio personality, born in Guangzhou on 30 July 1954.
He had worked for Radio Guangdong, Radio Foshan, Guangdong TV, HKSTV and the Guangzhou Broadcasting Network, and had a column in Southern Metropolis Daily and Yangcheng Evening News. However, since his contract with HKSTV expired August 2012, his TV show was handed over to other hosts. He also was one of the torchbearers of the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay in Guangzhou.
References
Chen's Column(in Chinese)
1954 births
Living people
Chinese columnists
Media critics
Writers from Guangzhou
Chinese television presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaz%C3%B4nia-1 | The Amazônia-1 or SSR-1 (in Portuguese: Satélite de Sensoriamento Remoto-1), is the first Earth observation satellite developed by Brazil, helped by Argentina's INVAP, who provided the main computer, attitude controls and sensors, and the training of Brazilian engineers, and launched at 04:54:00 UTC (10:24:00 IST) on 28 February 2021.
Operations will be joint with the China–Brazil Earth Resources Satellite program (CBERS-4) satellite.
Background
In the early 1990s, the design of SSR (Satélite de Sensoriamento Remoto) satellites, Amazônia-1 precursor, was revised and Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) technicians proposed replacing the polar orbit by an equatorial orbit, and this proposal was accepted. That made sense at that time as Brazil already had polar orbit coverage with the CBERS satellites. SSR-1 suffered several delays, either by lack of resources, or bid disputes. The effective start only occurred in 2001, when a contract was signed for the development of a multi-mission platform specifically, at the time, for this purpose.
In 2001, a joint study between the INPE and German Aerospace Center (DLR) was published, found that most of the SSR-1 requirements can be met by two sensors: the Camera VIS / NIR and other MIR. However, with the publication PNAE=(?) review in 2005, the SSR-1 ceased to be a priority.
Update
Between September and October 2012, a structural model of the Amazônia-1 satellite was subjected to a series of vibration test.
In the latest review of the PNAE, published in January 2013, the Amazônia-1 resurfaced with the same name, and even successors were planned (Amazon-1B in 2017 and Amazon-2 in 2018). However, with polar orbit as a design feature, the release dates of these satellites can not be met. The Amazônia-1 schedule is already delayed by two years.
The satellite was originally supposed to launch on a Brazilian VLS-1 rocket, but the program was cancelled.
The satellite was successfully launched on 28 February 2021 aboard ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C51) from the First Launch Pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre. The cost of launch was nearly USD 26 million.
Post-launch
On March 2, 2021, journalist and science communicator Salvador Nogueira reported that according to trackers in the United States, the satellite may be tipping over in its orbit, but that the situation wasn't irreversible. This occurred after the satellite was put into "mission mode," which triggered a safety program where the satellite was in an attitude that ensured its solar panels were exposed to the Sun. The journalist later posted on Twitter that the situation may be due to the satellite's release and that it had already been resolved, but is awaiting word from INPE. Later Clezio di Nardin, INPE's director, confirmed that the satellite operates normally and is going through the qualification phase, which will last until March 15. The position of Clezio di Nardin and of Marcos Pontes, Minister of Science, was |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobb%27e%20Says | Bobb'e Says is a live-action clip series hosted by Bobb'e J. Thompson that aired on Cartoon Network from August 19, 2009, to September 23, 2009. In the series Thompson provided commentary about video clips that aired as part of the episode. It was part of the CN Real block, and premiered the same day as another series, Dude, What Would Happen. Bobb'e Says is Cartoon Network's shortest lived live-action series along with BrainRush, both only running for six episodes.
Episodes
Season 1 (2009)
References
External links
Cartoon Network original programming
2009 American television series debuts
2009 American television series endings
2000s American black television series
2000s American video clip television series
English-language television shows
Television series about teenagers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20802.15.6 | The IEEE 802.15.6 standard is the latest international standard for Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN).
WBAN supports a variety of real-time health monitoring and consumer electronics applications. The latest international standard for WBAN is the IEEE 802.15.6 standard which aims to provide an international standard for low power, short range, and extremely reliable wireless communication within the surrounding area of the human body, supporting a vast range of data rates for different applications. Short-range, wireless communications in the vicinity of, or inside, a human body (but not limited to humans) are specified in this standard. It uses existing industrial scientific medical (ISM) bands as well as frequency bands approved by national medical and/or regulatory authorities. Support for quality of service (QoS), extremely low power, and data rates up to 10 Mbps is required while simultaneously complying with strict non-interference guidelines where needed. This standard considers effects on portable antennas due to the presence of a person (varying with male, female, skinny, heavy, etc.), radiation pattern shaping to minimize the specific absorption rate (SAR) into the body, and changes in characteristics as a result of the user motions.
Security
The Usama standard aims to provide the confidentiality, authentication, integrity, privacy protection, and replay defense. All nodes and hubs must choose three security levels: unsecured communication (level 0), authentication but no encryption (level 1), and authentication and encryption (level 2). During the security association process, a node and a hub need to jointly select a suitable security level. In unicast communication, a pre-shared or a new MK is activated. A Pairwise Temporal Key (PTK) is then generated that is used only once per session. In multicast communication, a Group Temporal Key (GTK) is generated that is shared with the corresponding group. All nodes and hubs in a WBAN have to go through certain stages at the MAC layer before data exchange.
A security association is a procedure to identify a node and a hub to each other, to establish a new Master Key (MK) shared between them, or to activate an existing MK pre-shared between them. The security association in the IEEE 802.15.6 standard is based on four key agreement protocols that have security problems. There are some interesting proposals in the published academic literature which resolve the security and privacy problems of the current security association procedures of IEEE 802.15.6 in a suitable manner, however, the fact that such proposals have yet not being included with in the standard by IEEE is incomprehensible.
See also
Body Area Network
IEEE 802.15
References
IEEE 802 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Platforms | T-Platforms was a Russian supercomputer company. Their main competitor was RSC Group.
Founded in 2002, T-Platforms Group was headquartered in Moscow, Russia with regional offices in Hanover, Germany, Hong Kong, China and Taipei, Taiwan. The company has implemented more than 300 integrated projects, six of which were included in the Top500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. T-Platforms owns patents on a number of supercomputer technologies and electronic components. T-Platforms’ solutions are used for fundamental and applied research in various fields of science, including life sciences, physics, chemistry and mathematics, as well as for calculation-intensive tasks in engineering, computer graphics and many other disciplines. In 2011, HPCWire named Vsevolod Opanasenko, CEO of T-Platforms, one of 12 most famous and respected people of the global HPC community.
In November 2011, the 33,072 processor Lomonosov supercomputer in Moscow developed by T-Platforms ranked number 18 in the world, and the fastest in Russia. It placed 3rd in Europe. In October 2012, T-Platforms delivered its first supercomputer in the US to the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SBU).
T-Platforms is part of the plan of the Russian government to focus on larger supercomputers by 2020.
In April 2013, the United States Department of Commerce added T-Platforms to their "list of organizations and individuals acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States", preventing the company from buying computer chips produced anywhere in the world if the factories producing them use American technology. The decision was based on US concerns that T-Platforms work includes "the development of computer systems for military end-users, and the production of computers for nuclear research".
T-Platforms was delisted from the list in December 2013/January 2014, after removal request from the company. On March 31, 2022 the company was once again added to the US Government SDN list in an effort to limit the capacity of Russian Aerospace, Marine and Electronics sectors for the war against Ukraine. In August 2023, the company declared bankruptcy.
See also
Supercomputing in Europe
References
Companies based in Moscow
Companies established in 2002
Russian brands
Supercomputing
Technology companies of Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20High%20Fructose%20Adventures%20of%20Annoying%20Orange | The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange is an American live-action/animated television series created by Tom Sheppard and Dane Boedigheimer for Cartoon Network. Based on the characters from the web series Annoying Orange, created by Boedigheimer and Spencer Grove, it was produced by Annoying Orange, Inc., The Collective, and 14th Hour Productions. A preview aired on May 28, 2012, and the official premiere was on June 11, 2012. The show ended on March 17, 2014, with two seasons and sixty episodes, with a total of thirty episodes per season.
The series also featured many well-known guest stars such as Mark Hamill, Slash, Kendall Jenner, Jim Parsons, Carly Rae Jepsen, Carlos Alazraqui, Jim Belushi, Matt Bomer, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Rainn Wilson, Seth Green, George Takei, among others.
Plot
The show follows the lives of Orange and his friends: the sarcastic Pear, the sassy Passion Fruit, the tiny Midget Apple, the eccentric Marshmallow, the unlucky Apple, the elderly Grandpa Lemon, and the sometimes antagonistic Grapefruit. The show diverges from the YouTube series in that the Fruit Gang lives on a fruit stand in a supermarket called "Dane Boe's" (a reference to the creator Dane Boedigheimer) rather than in Dane Boedigheimer's kitchen.
A reoccurring character from the Annoying Orange YouTube series called Nerville (played by internet personality Toby Turner) now runs the supermarket (mainly as the janitor), and is the only human who can talk to the fruit.
Episodes
Characters
Main
Orange (voiced by Dane Boedigheimer) – The main protagonist of the series. He is annoying, obnoxious, and partial to terrible puns. But deep down, Orange always means well, even though his boredom often drags his friends into ridiculous adventures. The series shows another side of Orange that differs from his YouTube persona and casts him as a wacky hero.
Pear (voiced by Dane Boedigheimer) – Pear is Orange's best friend, and he often stands as the sole voice of reason in the fruit stand.
Passion Fruit (voiced by Justine Ezarik) – Often referred to as "Passion", she is adorable, pragmatic, and smart. She has a crush on Orange, which is no secret, except to Orange, who sometimes remains completely oblivious.
Midget Apple/Little Apple (voiced by Dane Boedigheimer) – A small apple with a scrappy demeanor. He prefers to be called "Little Apple", and a running gag is that he will correct anyone who calls him "Midget Apple".
Marshmallow (voiced by Dane Boedigheimer) – Marshmallow is a cute, eternally upbeat, and cheerful marshmallow.
Grapefruit (voiced by Bob Jennings) – Grapefruit is a hulking man-boy who thinks of himself as "large and in charge". He believes he is in a rivalry with Orange for Passion Fruit's affection, but she has no interest in him.
Apple (voiced by Harland Williams) – Apple is an insecure and pessimistic criticizer who rarely joins Orange's adventures for fear he will get bruised, though he usually ends up even worse off just by staying b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP%20Afaria | SAP Afaria is a mobile device management software product. It helps large organizations connect mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers to the company network, and to simplify the information technology (IT) tasks associated with buying, deploying, securing and maintaining such devices.
History
XcelleNet originally developed the product that would eventually become Afaria, releasing the first version, called SessionXpress, in 1997. It was the first product of the company’s Net-Essentials product suite, and allowed system administrators to remotely manage client systems, including disks, files and sessions. XcelleNet renamed the product to RemoteWare Express later that same year (1997), to CONNECT:Manage in 1999, and finally to Afaria in 2000.
Sterling Commerce acquired XcelleNet in 1998, renaming the software CONNECT:Manage (and the group Sterling Commerce Managed Systems Division), but then divested itself a year later. XcelleNet, Inc. became an independent, privately held company in February 2000, and released version 3.5 of the product in May 2000, as Afaria for Handhelds, and version 4.0 in June 2000 as Afaria.
Network Computing magazine awarded its Editors Choice award to Afaria version 3.4 in July 2000, and version 4.51 in February 2002.
Sybase acquired XcelleNet in 2004. In 2012, Sybase Afaria became SAP Afaria, following the acquisition of Sybase by SAP.
Market intelligence firm International Data Corporation (IDC) first recognized Afaria as the leader in mobile device management in June 2001, and has continued to do so every year since, through 2011. In 2011, Gartner identified Afaria as one of the top mobile device management platforms in the first Gartner Magic Quadrant report on the mobile device management market.
In the Gartner Quadrant for MDM of June 2014 SAP Afaria is in the Challengers Quadrant.
Version 7.0 SP7: Released October 2015 (as SAP Afaria SP7)
Version 7.0 SP6: Released September 2015 (as SAP Afaria SP6)
Version 7.0 SP5: Released August 2014 (as SAP Afaria SP5)
Version 7.0 SP4: Released December 2013 (as SAP Afaria SP4)
Version 7.0 SP2: Released December 2012 (as SAP Afaria SP2)
Version 7.0: Released April 2012 (as SAP Afaria)
Version 6.6: Released September 2010
Version 6.5: Released November 2009
Version 6.0: Released December 2008
Version 5.0: Released November 2003
Version 4.0: Released June 2000 (as Afaria)
Version 3.5: Released May 2000 (as Afaria for Handhelds)
Version 3.0: Released October 1999
Version 2.0: Released February 1999 (as CONNECT:Manage)
Version 1.2: Released October 1997 (as RemoteWare Express)
Version 1.0: Released February 1997 (as SessionXpress)
Design features
SAP Afaria uses a session-based approach when it communicates with mobile devices in the field. This allows it to circumvent issues related to intermittent connections caused by roaming devices that might lose their network connectivity during a data transmission in progress.
SAP Afaria organizes its |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20applications%20of%20bifurcation%20theory | Biological applications of bifurcation theory provide a framework for understanding the behavior of biological networks modeled as dynamical systems. In the context of a biological system, bifurcation theory describes how small changes in an input parameter can cause a bifurcation or qualitative change in the behavior of the system. The ability to make dramatic change in system output is often essential to organism function, and bifurcations are therefore ubiquitous in biological networks such as the switches of the cell cycle.
Biological networks and dynamical systems
Biological networks originate from evolution and therefore have less standardized components and potentially more complex interactions than networks designed by humans, such as electrical networks. At the cellular level, components of a network can include a large variety of proteins, many of which differ between organisms. Network interactions occur when one or more proteins affect the function of another through transcription, translation, translocation, phosphorylation, or other mechanisms. These interactions either activate or inhibit the action of the target protein in some way. While humans build networks with a concern for simplicity and order, biological networks acquire redundancy and complexity over the course of evolution. Therefore, it can be impossible to predict the quantitative behavior of a biological network from knowledge of its organization. Similarly, it is impossible to describe its organization purely from its behavior, though behavior can indicate the presence of certain network motifs.
However, with knowledge of network interactions and a set of parameters for the proteins and protein interactions (usually obtained through empirical research), it is often possible to construct a model of the network as a dynamical system. In general, for n proteins, the dynamical system takes the following form where x is typically protein concentration:
These systems are often very difficult to solve, so modeling of networks as a linear dynamical systems is easier. Linear systems contain no products between xs and are always solvable.
They have the following form for all i:
Unfortunately, biological systems are often nonlinear and therefore need nonlinear models.
Input/output motifs
Despite the great potential complexity and diversity of biological networks, all first-order network behavior generalizes to one of four possible input-output motifs: hyperbolic or Michaelis–Menten, ultra-sensitive, bistable, and bistable irreversible (a bistability where negative and therefore biologically impossible input is needed to return from a state of high output). Examples of each in biological contexts can be found on their respective pages.
Ultrasensitive, bistable, and irreversibly bistable networks all show qualitative change in network behavior around certain parameter values – these are their bifurcation points.
Basic bifurcations in the presence of error
Nonlinear d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandel%20Junction%20railway%20station | Bandel Junction railway station is one of the junction stations of the Kolkata Suburban Railway network, India. It is situated on the Howrah–Bandel–Barddhaman main line in Hooghly district with an approximate distance from Howrah railway station. The station is operated by the Howrah railway division. There are seven platforms (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7) at Bandel Junction station. However, platform number 6 can accommodate only the 9-coach EMU trains so most of the 9-coach Bandel–Naihati locals depart from that platform. Bandel station is also connected to the Sealdah railway division by the Bandel–Naihati line.
See also
Bandel
Howrah railway station
Kolkata Suburban Railway
Sealdah
References
External links
Railway stations in India opened in 1854
Railway junction stations in West Bengal
Railway stations in Hooghly district
Kolkata Suburban Railway stations
Howrah railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%20the%20Korean%20Broadcasting%20System | This is a list of programmes broadcast on South Korean terrestrial television channels KBS1 and KBS2 of Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) network.
Dramas
KBS prime-time flagship dramas are broadcast on KBS2 at 21:50, generally with two series airing simultaneously, with each series airing on two consecutive nights: Monday–Tuesday and Wednesday–Thursday; and on KBS1 at 20:30 every weekdays and at 20:40 on Saturdays, following the weekend edition of KBS News 9.
KBS2 Monday–Tuesday
For further details see Korean-language article: KBS2 월화 드라마
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
KBS2 Wednesday–Thursday
For further details see Korean-language article: KBS2 수목 드라마
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
KBS2 Friday–Saturday
For further details see Korean-language article: KBS2 금토 드라마
The Producers (프로듀사; 2015)
Hit the Top (최고의 한방; 2017)
Strongest Deliveryman (최강 배달꾼; 2017)
Confession Couple (고백부부; 2017)
Friday
For further details see Korean-language article: KBS2 금요 드라마
Hi! School: Love On (하이스쿨 – 러브온; 2014)
Spy (스파이; 2015)
Orange Marmalade (오렌지 마멀레이드; 2015)
Imitation (이미테이션; 2021)
KBS2 Saturday–Sunday
For further details see Korean-language article: KBS2 주말 드라마
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
KBS1 Saturday–Sunday
For further details see Korean-language article: KBS1 대하드라마
Inspired by Taiga drama from NHK of Japan, historical dramas began to air in 1981 with Daemyeong, a story about Hyojong of Joseon. The series usually airs about 50 minutes every Saturday and Sunday at 21:40.
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
KBS Daily dramas
KBS1 Monday–Friday (20:30)
KBS2 Monday–Friday (18:50)
Unstoppable Marriage (못말리는 결혼; 2007–2008)
KBS2 Monday–Friday (19:50)
KBS Drama specials
KBS2 Saturday anthology (23:15)
KBS2 Sunday anthology (23:15)
KBS Morning dramas
KBS Morning Drama is a TV slot that aired dramas at 9 am from Monday to Friday at KBS 2TV. Due to poor ratings, the slot was abolished twice, from October 7, 1991, to October 3, 1992, for about one year, and from October 10, 1994, to March 1, 1996, for about one year and four months. On November 4, 2011, it was abolished again after the end of , and TV Novel's Dear My Sister aired on the time slot instead. Following the end of Through the Waves and the TV Novel series, this time slot has been revived again with Lady Cha Dal-rae's Lover airing on 2018, 7 years following the discontinuation. This time slot has been quickly cancelled again and replaced by reruns of KBS1's daily dramas.
KBS Teen dramas
School (학교; 1999–2002)
Sharp (반올림#; 2003–2007)
Andante (안단테; 2017–2018)
KBS TV Novel series
KBS1 Monday–Saturday (08:00)
KBS2 Monday–Friday (09:00)
Animations
Demetan Croaker, The Boy Frog (개구리 왕눈이; 1982-1983, 1986)
Bumpety Boo (꼬마자동차 붕붕; 1985-1987)
Pastel Yumi, the Magic Idol (꽃나라 요술봉; 1987)
Dooly the Little Dinosaur (아기공룡 둘리; 1987-1988, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2006)
Yeongsimi (영심이; 1990)
Fly Superboard (날아라 슈퍼보드; 1991, 1998, 2001)
Kori, The Son of Wizard (마법사의 아들 코리; 1993)
Dragon Quest: L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Gruffalo%27s%20Child%20%28film%29 | The Gruffalo's Child is a 2011 short computer animated television film based on the 2004 picture book of the same name written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler. A sequel to The Gruffalo, the film was shown on Christmas Day 2011 in the United Kingdom, exactly two years after the debut of the first film.
Directed by Johannes Weiland and Uwe Heidschotter, the film was produced by Michael Rose and Martin Pope of Magic Light Pictures, London, in association with Studio Soi in Ludwigsburg, Germany. In June 2013, the film was given the Award for Best TV Special at the 8th Festival of European Animated Feature Films and TV Specials. It was nominated for the British Academy Children's Award for Animation in 2012.
Plot
In a snowy wood, the daughter squirrel shows her brother footprints in the snow, telling him they are the Gruffalo's. The son squirrel tells their mother. However, the Mother Squirrel says the footprints are too small to be a Gruffalo and tells her children the story of the Gruffalo's child.
The story begins with the Gruffalo's daughter attempting to follow a hedgehog into the deep dark wood. The Gruffalo however forbids it, and tells her about the time he met the mouse. He can not remember what the mouse looks like and describes him as a monster, calling him "the big bad mouse", and his daughter imagines the mouse to be just as her father depicts him.
That night, however, the Gruffalo's daughter decides to explore the deep dark world and find the big bad mouse. On her journey, she follows footprints and meets the animals from the previous story (first the snake, then the owl, and finally the fox), who tell her where to find the mouse. She finally decides that the monster does not exist and that the animals and her father tricked her. She notices the mouse and when she threatens to eat him, he manipulates her to let him show her the monster is real. He makes a scary shadow in the moonlight on the branch of a hazel tree. The Gruffalo's child believes the shadow to be the big bad mouse and runs out of the forest in fear, with the mouse following her. In the Gruffalo cave, she is now comfortable at her father's side and the mouse watches over them.
When the Mother Squirrel finishes the story, her daughter reveals that she made the Gruffalo footprints to prank her brother and they go to play.
Voice cast
Helena Bonham Carter as Mother Squirrel/Narrator
Shirley Henderson as The Gruffalo's Child
Robbie Coltrane as The Gruffalo
James Corden as Mouse
Tom Wilkinson as Fox
John Hurt as Owl
Rob Brydon as Snake
Sam Lewis as First Little Squirrel
Phoebe Givron-Taylor as Second Little Squirrel
References
External links
Magic Light Pictures
2011 films
2011 short films
2011 television films
2011 computer-animated films
2010s children's films
2010s animated short films
British children's films
British computer-animated films
British animated short films
British animated television films
German children's films
German |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20affection | The economy of affection is a term introduced by Göran Hydén to describe a network of interactions, communications and support among certain peasant groups in parts of East Africa. These groups, identified in terms of their relationship to structure, are united by kinship, community, religion or other affinities. The functional purposes of this economy of affection involves survival, social maintenance, and development.
The kind of personal relationships and dependencies which form the basis for a subsistence economy in East Africa have been superseded by commercial or government services in the developed world. But in such sub-Saharan African villages, as studied by Hydén, their economies have not yet been 'captured' by capitalism and their peasantry remains unproletarianised. The key issue here for Hydén is that the "social values" of the market are still underdeveloped. The East African peasantry still is able to 'choose' to operate at least partially in the traditional morality-based economy and the true market system. This then explains why a rational response to market incentives might strengthen his position in the economy of affection.
Tony Waters believes that Hydén's model of the uncaptured peasantry can be used to describe other peasant situations such as North America's European frontier in the early 19th century, and Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. The concept was popularised at China Agricultural University by Evans Tekuro Muki, Deborah Nakirijja, Victoria Harding, Tymon Mphaka and Lesego Khunuou
References
Rural community development
International development in Africa
Rural economics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%20Kevin%20Kelly | L. Kevin Kelly is currently the Chief Executive of Halo Privacy, a cyber security organization that focuses on digital security for high profile individuals and Fortune 500 companies.
Early life and career
Kevin was raised in Virginia and received a Bachelor of Science from George Mason University and an MBA from Duke University, for which he is now proudly serving on the Board of Advisors for the Fuqua School of Business. Kevin has lived and worked all over the world, including Tokyo, London, New York, and now Chicago, where he resides with his four children.
Kevin began what would become his pivotal role in leadership consultancy at the executive search firm, Heidrick & Struggles. Kelly joined the Heidrick & Struggles' Tokyo office in 1997. He later served as regional managing partner of Asia Pacific and then Europe, the Middle East, and Africa from 2001 to 2006. He became chief executive officer in 2006.
Throughout his career, he has focused on the challenges of leadership and has authored three books on the subject: “CEO-The Low Down on the Top Job” (2008); “Top Jobs – How They are Different and What You Need to Succeed” (2009); and “Leading in Turbulent Times” (2010).
After Heidrick & Struggles, Kevin became the President and CEO of Asia Pulp and Paper NA.
References
Fuqua School of Business alumni
George Mason University alumni
Living people
American chief executives
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Tropical%20Albums%20number%20ones%20from%20the%202000s | The Billboard Tropical Albums chart, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information in regard to tropical music. The data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores, Internet sales (both physical and digital) and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Number one albums
Key
– Best-selling Latin album of the year
References
General
For information about every week of this chart, follow this link; in the chart date section select a date and the top ten positions for the week selected will appear on screen, including the number-one album, which is shown in the table above. For albums that charted between January 1, 2000 and July 19, 2003, see this link
Specific
Tropical 2000s
United States Tropical Albums
2000s in Latin music
Tropical music albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Tropical%20Albums%20number%20ones%20from%20the%202010s | The Billboard Tropical Albums chart, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information in regard to tropical music. The data is compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores, Internet sales (both physical and digital) and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Number one albums
Key
– Best-selling Tropical album of the year
References
General
For information about every week of this chart, follow this link; in the chart date section select a date and the top ten positions for the week selected will appear on screen, including the number-one album, which is shown in the table above.
Specific
Tropical 2010s
United States Tropical Albums
2010s in Latin music
Tropical music albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20perception | Active perception is the selecting of behaviors to increase information from the flow of data those behaviors produce in a particular environment. In other words, to understand the world, we move around and explore it—sampling the world through our senses to construct an understanding (perception) of the environment on the basis of that behavior (action). Within the construct of active perception, interpretation of sensory data is inherently inseparable from the behaviors required to capture that data. Action and perception are tightly coupled. This has been developed most comprehensively with respect to vision (active vision) where an agent (animal, robot, human, camera mount) changes position to improve the view of a specific object, or where an agent uses movement to perceive the environment (e.g., a robot avoiding obstacles).
By a more formal definition, active perception is:
"...a study of Modeling and Control strategies for perception. By modeling we mean models of sensors, processing modules and their interaction. We distinguish local models from global models by their extent of application in space and time. The local models represent procedures and parameters such as optical distortions of the lens, focal lens, spatial resolution, band-pass filter, etc. The global models on the other hand characterize the overall performance and make predictions on how the individual modules interact. The control strategies are formulated as a search of such sequence of steps that would minimize a loss function while one is seeking the most information. Examples are shown as the existence proof of the proposed theory on obtaining range from focus and sterolvergence on 2-0 segmentation of an image and 3-0 shape parametrization".
The theory of optical flow derives from concepts of active perception, and while optical flow is now typically considered a vector representation of motion captured by a vision sensor (camera), it was originally described in terms of active perception. The behavior of the agent (animal, robot, human) in the world generates a flow of data over the visual sensor (camera, eye), which is sampled by the sensor and interpreted into a percept of the environment by the agent, through some computation. On the basis of this percept the agent selects another behavior that generates more data flow. Thus optical flow is the data flow carried by light from the environment to the vision sensor as a result of movement in the environment.
A related but narrower definition of active perception represents perception and action within the brain as the same thing. It states that when a person sees an action, it internally translates into, and is understood within the context of, a possible action. This supports the capability in people and animals of learning what to do based on what they see others doing.
Ecological Psychology
Active perception is part of the broader field of ecological psychology. Ecological psychology (and theories of ecol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN%20Arabic | Cable News Network Arabic (known as CNN Arabic, ) is a news website located in Dubai launched on 19 January 2002. Part of the CNN network, it provides international news in the Arabic language, with continuous updates on regional and international developments.
The CNN Arabic website is managed by several professional and experienced Arab journalists. The website consists of a number of sections, including world news, Middle East, science and technology, business, entertainment, and sports, in addition to special reports and videos.
The website provides a number of additional services such as a free email feed of breaking news, and breaking news via SMS. The website includes information about CNN network and advertising on television and the different websites.
Controversies
During the 2019 constitutional referendum in Egypt which would extend the presidential terms limit, CNN Arabic started a poll allowing people to vote whether they endorse or oppose the referendum. According to Amr Waked, an Egyptian actor and a political dissident, the votes in the CNN Arabic poll was going normal until 14:42 to 14:57 the poll results rapidly changed. He accused the CNN Arabic of manipulating the poll results in favour of the Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
See also
Gulf News
Nabd
References
External links
2002 establishments in the United Arab Emirates
CNN
Internet properties established in 2002
Mass media in Dubai
Turner Broadcasting System Arabic
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quackdown | Quackdown is a South Africa-based website aimed at exposing fraudulent and untested medical treatments. It hosts the "Quackbase" database of untested medical claims and publishes articles on quackery.
Quackdown is a joint project of the Treatment Action Campaign, Community Media Trust and several individuals. It was originally edited by Nathan Geffen, Marcus Low and Catherine Tomlinson, but since December 2012 Catherine Tomlinson is no longer an editor of Quackdown.
In October 2012, the South African medicine company Solal Technologies filed a defamation lawsuit against Kevin Charleston due to a Quackdown article he published that denounces the company's magazine Health Intelligence for quackery and pseudoscience.
As of 2022 the website appears to be inactive as the Quackbase database was last updated in 2012 and the most recent article on the website dated from 2014. In addition, their twitter account, @quackbase, has not been active since 2012.
References
External links
Quackdown website
Scientific skepticism mass media
Internet properties established in 2011
Medical websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich%20Neuwirth | Erich Neuwirth (born October 17, 1948) is a professor emeritus of statistics and computer science at the University of Vienna.
Research
Neuwirth studied Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Vienna and received the doctorate in 1974. He started teaching at the University of Vienna in 1969 and was promoted to professor in 1987. He was employed at the Department for Statistics and Decision Support Systems at the faculty of mathematics and the faculty of computer science.
He was a visiting professor at the Northeastern University (Boston) and the National Institute of Multimedia Education in Makuhari (Japan).
The main areas of his research are election analysis and forecasts, combinatorics, mathematics and music and spreadsheets as tools for mathematical understanding. Another important research area is the PISA studies. He investigated the statistical analysis of the PISA studies 2003 and recognized significant errors. Due to his findings the results of the studies were corrected.
Other
Erich Neuwirth developed the statconn Server and R package RExcel. with Thomas Baier. The statconn server combines R and Scilab with Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice. RExcel is an add-in for Microsoft Excel, which allows the use of R within Excel.
Awards
Neuwirth won the European Academic Software Award 1996 for STIMM.
This project later became the book (+ Multimedia CD) Musical Temperament mentioned in the Books section.
Books
Erich Neuwirth: Musical Temperaments, Springer, Wien (January 1998),
Erich Neuwirth, Ivo Ponocny und Wilfried Grossmann: PISA 2000 und PISA 2003: Vertiefende Analysen und Beiträge zur Methodik, Leykam (June 2006),
Erich Neuwirth, Deane Arganbright: The Active Modeler: Mathematical Modeling with Microsoft Excel, Duxbury,
Erich Neuwirth, Richard M. Heiberger: R Through Excel: A Spreadsheet Interface for Statistics, Data Analysis, and Graphics, Springer,
References
External links
Sunsite
Homepage of Erich Neuwirth
Neuwirth - Faculty of Computer Science
Date of birth missing (living people)
1948 births
Living people
Austrian statisticians
Academic staff of the University of Vienna
R (programming language) people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia%20Mitsopoulos | Nadia Mitsopoulos (1971) is an Australian journalist.
She currently presents the Mornings program on ABC Radio Perth.
Career
Mitsopoulos began her journalism career in 1991 with Golden West Network based in Albany, Western Australia. She joined Network Ten in 1993 and, after a stint with Associated Press Television News in London, moved to STW in Perth in 1998. Mitsopolous was with STW for 13 years, working mainly as the station's state political reporter.
In 2011, she joined the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
In January 2019, Mitsopoulos began co-presenting, with Russell Woolf, the weekday Breakfast program on ABC Radio Perth. She moved to the Mornings program in January 2021.
Mitsopoulos is on the board of Lifeline.
Personal life
Mitsopoulos is married and has two children.
References
Living people
Australian journalists
Australian radio presenters
Australian women journalists
Australian women radio presenters
1971 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%20q-flats | In data mining and machine learning, -flats algorithm is an iterative method which aims to partition observations into clusters where each cluster is close to a -flat, where is a given integer.
It is a generalization of the -means algorithm. In -means algorithm, clusters are formed in the way that each cluster is close to one point, which is a -flat.
-flats algorithm gives better clustering result than -means algorithm
for some data set.
Description
Problem formulation
Given a set of observations where each observation is an n-dimensional real vector, -flats algorithm aims to partition observation points by generating -flats that minimize the sum of the squares of distances of each observation to a nearest -flat.
A -flat is a subset of that is congruent to . For example, a
-flat is a point; a -flat is a line; a -flat is a plane; a -flat is a hyperplane. -flat can be characterized by the solution set of a linear system of equations: , where , .
Denote a partition of as . The problem can be formulated as
where is the projection of onto . Note that is the distance from to .
Algorithm
The algorithm is similar to the k-means algorithm (i.e. Lloyd's algorithm) in that it alternates between cluster assignment and cluster update. In specific, the algorithm starts with an initial set of -flats , and proceeds by alternating between the following two steps:
Cluster Assignment (given -flats, assign each point to closest -flat): the -th cluster is updated as
Cluster Update (given cluster assignment, update the -flats): For , let with rows corresponding to all assigned to cluster . Set to be the matrix whose columns are the orthonormal eigenvectors corresponding to the least eigenvalues of and .
Stop whenever the assignments no longer change.
The cluster assignment step uses the following fact: given a -flat and a vector , where , the distance from to the -flat is
The key part of this algorithm is how to update the cluster, i.e. given points, how to find a -flat that minimizes the sum of squares of distances of each point to the -flat. Mathematically, this problem is: given solve the quadratic optimization problem
where is given, and .
The problem can be solved using Lagrangian multiplier method and the solution is as given in the cluster update step.
It can be shown that the algorithm will terminate in a finite number of iterations (no more than the total number of possible assignments, which is bounded by ). In addition, the algorithm will terminate at a point that the overall objective cannot be decreased either by a different assignment or by defining new cluster planes for these clusters (such point is called "locally optimal" in the references).
This convergence result is a consequence of the fact that can be solved exactly.
The same convergence result holds for -means algorithm because the cluster update problem can be solved exactly.
Relation to other machine learning methods
-means algorithm
-flats al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infini%20%28disambiguation%29 | Infini is a 2015 science fiction film.
Infini may also refer to:
Infini (album), Voivod album
Infini (CRS), a Japanese computer reservations system
See also
Infinity (disambiguation)
Ẽfini, brand of Japanese car producer Mazda |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infini%20%28CRS%29 | Infini is a computer reservations system based in Japan which provides its services in the Japanese market. It was created in 1990 by All Nippon Airways and Abacus (GDS) who currently own 100% of Infini. It utilises technology from Sabre Holdings to provide booking and ticketing capabilities to travel agencies in Japan.
See also
Airline reservations system
References
External links
Infini corporate website
Computer reservation systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axess%20%28CRS%29 | Axess (アクセス国際ネットワーク) is a computer reservations system based in Japan which provides its services in the Japanese market. It originated as the IT department of Japan Airlines called Jalinfotech. In 1991 it was established as an independent company it began to be marketed to travel agencies in Japan. In 1995 Axess partnered with Sabre Holdings in order to provide travel agencies in Japan with booking and ticketing capabilities for a wider range of international airlines.
On April 23, 2012, Travelport, the business services provider to the global travel industry, announced a long-term agreement with AXESS International Network, the leading Japanese GDS owned by Japan Airlines (JAL). Under the new agreement, AXESS will be hosted by Travelport in its Atlanta data center as a partition of the Travelport global distribution system. The new upgraded AXESS GDS system, which will provide enhanced functionality to connected travel agency users, will be implemented by 2013.
By adopting Travelport's technology infrastructure, the AXESS GDS system will be enhanced with improved connectivity to airlines and a significant increase in the range of fares, shopping, hotel and car rental capabilities available for use by Japanese travel agencies and corporations.
AXESS confirmed it had selected Travelport as its partner due to the two companies' mutual alignment on strategic thinking and saw the agreement as a significant step forward in reinforcing AXESS's position as the GDS of choice in the Japanese travel industry.
JAL-affiliated AXESS International Network announced on October 2, 2019, that its operating GDS 'AXESS' will terminate its services on March 31, 2021
See also
Airline reservations system
Japan Airlines
Travelport
References
External links
Computer reservation systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egor%20%28software%29 | Egor (also called Egor the Animator) was an early computer animation program for making animations in Java released by Sausage Software on February 6, 1996, as the first commercial Java applet. The software allowed for the creation of animated graphics with sounds to be deployed as a java applet for use through a web browser. Egor featured a user-friendly interface, tutorials, and sample images and designed for use by non programmers with minimal knowledge of HTML. The software is named after Igor, the mad scientist.
Egor used non-standard HTML tags which were meant to be used with Netscape 2.
Egor was designed for use with Netscape as Internet Explorer did not fully support java at the time.
Egor is no longer supported or sold by Sausage Software.
Features
The program allowed creation of animations by specifying a sequence of images. The animations could have sounds associated with them. Egor also supported uploading files.
The program created java animations for Netscape 2.
Reception
Egor had mixed reception. It was described as "fast and flexible" though it suffered from bugs as the JAVA SDK was not stable at the time. Egor had 5 cows from Tucows.
Versions
Egor was a 32-bit application written for Windows 95 released in February 6, 1996. Fourthnet, the European distributor for HotDog, began marketing all of Sausage Software's software including Egor in June 1996. Version 3 was released on September 10, 1996 and allowed for multiple sprites, sprite collision, and mouse over events. The 32-bit edition originally sold for with the upgrade price being .
When purchased on a CD-ROM, Egor was bundled with a trial edition of Hot Dog Professional, Paint Shop Pro, Sound Gadget Pro, the EarthLink Network TotalAccess membership kit and the Netscape Navigator browser.
Egor was also available at Tucows. Download versions came with a 14-day evaluation period.
Notes
Books
References
Further reading
Animation software
1996 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deriche%20edge%20detector | Deriche edge detector is an edge detection operator developed by Rachid Deriche in 1987. It is a multistep algorithm used to obtain an optimal result of edge detection in a discrete two-dimensional image. This algorithm is based on John F. Canny's work related to the edge detection (Canny's edge detector) and his criteria for optimal edge detection:
Detection quality – all existing edges should be marked and no false detection should occur.
Accuracy - the marked edges should be as close to the edges in the real image as possible.
Unambiguity - a given edge in the image should only be marked once. No multiple responses to one edge in the real image should occur.
For this reason, this algorithm is often referred to as Canny-Deriche detector.
Differences between Canny and Deriche edge detector
Deriche edge detector, like Canny edge detector, consists of the following 4 steps:
Smoothing
Calculation of magnitude and gradient direction
Non-maximum suppression
Hysteresis thresholding (using two thresholds)
The essential difference is in the implementation of the first two steps of the algorithm. Unlike the Canny edge detector, Deriche edge detector uses the IIR filter in the form:
The filter optimizes the Canny criteria. As is evident from the preceding formula, the most effective filter is obtained when the value of approaches 0. Such filter then uses the formula:
The advantage of such a filter is that it can be adapted to the characteristics of the processed image using only one parameter. If the value of α is small (usually between 0.25 and 0.5), it results in better detection. On the other hand, better localization is achieved when the parameter has a higher value (around 2 or 3). For most of the normal cases parameter value of around 1 is recommended.
Using the IIR filter makes sense especially in cases where the processed image is noisy or a large amount of smoothing is required (which leads to large convolution kernel for FIR filter). In these cases, the Deriche detector has considerable advantage over the Canny detector, because it is able to process images in a short constant time independent of the desired amount of smoothing.
Deriche detector implementation
It is possible to separate the process of obtaining the value of a two-dimensional Deriche filter into two parts. In first part, image array is passed in the horizontal direction from left to right according to the following formula:
and from right to left according to the formula:
The result of the computation is then stored into temporary two-dimensional array:
The second step of the algorithm is very similar to the first one. The two-dimensional array from the previous step is used as the input. It is then passed in the vertical direction from top to bottom and bottom-up according to the following formulas:
The description of the algorithm implies that the processed rows and columns are independent of each other. As a result, the solution ba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade%20secrets%20in%20Canada | In Canada, trade secrets are generally considered to include information set out, contained or embodied in, but not limited to, a formula, pattern, plan, compilation, computer program, method, technique, process, product, device or mechanism; it may be information of any sort; an idea of a scientific nature, or of a literary nature, as long as they grant an economical advantage to the business and improve its value. Additionally, there must be some element of secrecy. Matters of public knowledge or of general knowledge in an industry cannot be the subject-matter of a trade secret.
Purpose
Trade secrets are a type of intellectual property that consists of certain information, expertise or knowhow that has been developed or acquired by firms. This knowledge frequently gives firms their competitive edge in the market and it has to be kept as a secret.
In Canada any information that a firm or its employees produces or acquires for the purpose of the firm's business can constitute confidential information that courts are willing to protect. All that is required is that the creator of the information “has used his brain and thus produced a result which can be produced by somebody who goes through the same process”.
According to Seager v. Copydex Ltd, courts will even act to protect a comparatively underdeveloped idea from misappropriation. However, information may stop being confidential and confident may be released from its obligations of confidence if the information subject to confidence is later publicly disclosed by the confider or a third party.
Trade Secrets vs. Confidential Information
With one exception in the field of employer-employee relations, there is no recognized distinction in Canada between the rights and remedies afforded to trade secrets as opposed to mere confidential information. In the field of employer-employee relationships, the British case Faccenda Chicken Ltd. v. Fowler, which has been cited with approval by several Canadian courts, has drawn a distinction between the two.
Allocation of powers under the Constitution
Under the Constitution Act 1867, the exclusive Legislative Authority of the Parliament of Canada extends to most areas of intellectual property such as patents, trademarks and copyrights; whereas the provincial government has exclusive authority to legislate on matters related to property and civil rights. The federal Parliament also has exclusive jurisdiction to create offences under its criminal law power.
At one time, the federal Trade-marks Act prohibited anyone from "do[ing] any other act or adopt[ing] any other business practice contrary to honest industrial or commercial usage in Canada," which was considered to include the taking of trade secrets. However, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in MacDonald v. Vapor Canada Ltd. that the provisions encroached on the provinces' authority over property and civil rights and could not be upheld under the federal trade and commerce power. Therefore, the re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachael%20vs.%20Guy%3A%20Celebrity%20Cook-Off | Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off is an American cooking competition series that premiered on Food Network on January 1, 2012. The series pits Team Captains Rachael Ray and Guy Fieri against each other in determining who is the best cooking mentor toward their team of four celebrities. Each week, one celebrity will be eliminated, with the "last star standing" winning a $50,000.00 cash donation toward their charity. The series premiere earned 3.524 million viewers, and a rating of 1.1; it ranked 3rd overall in the cable ratings that night. The second season premiered on January 6, 2013, the third season on January 13, 2014.
Season One
Participating celebrities
In the premiere episode, Guy & Rachael played "roshambo" to determine who would pick first for their teams. Guy won (paper beating rock) and chose first. Here are how the teams were chosen, and what charity each celebrity was supporting:
Celebrity progress
(WIN) The celebrity won the series.
(RUNNER-UP) The celebrity was the runner-up of the series.
(WIN) The celebrity won the task.
(IN) The celebrity lost the task but was not in the bottom two.
(LOW) The celebrity competed in and won the cook-off to advance to the next round.
(OUT) The celebrity lost that week's cook-off and was eliminated from the competition.
Episodes
Episode One: Celebrity Food Festival
As described above, the teams are chosen and given their first task: supply food for the first ever Celebrity Cook-Off Food Festival, to be attended by 150 people. Each person is given a token to give to the celebrity who, in their opinion, made the best dish. The team with the most tokens wins the task and is safe from elimination. The two members of the losing team with the least tokens will have a 10-minute "secret ingredient" cook-off to determine who advances and who is eliminated (similar to the "Secret Ingredient Showdown" in the 2011 The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs competition).
Each team had a 90-minute brainstorming session with their coach to determine the overall theme for their dishes, then was given two hours to cook their dishes before serving them to the Festival-goers.
Team Rachael's food theme: "Hot in the City" (Spicy Foods)
Team Guy's food theme: Mexican Foods
Winning team: Team Guy
Bottom 2 Cook-Off Participants: Aaron Carter and Taylor Dayne
Elimination Cook-Off Secret Ingredient: Shrimp
Advanced: Taylor Dayne
Eliminated: Aaron Carter
Episode Two: Let Them Eat Cake
The contestants make desserts judged by 13 pastry students and instructors. Each of the 13-student panel would grade the contestants' dishes on four different scores.
Winning team: Tie (Each team received 26 points out of a maximum of 52)
Bottom 2 Cook-Off Participants: Alyssa Campanella and Summer Sanders (Due to the tie, the team captains were chosen for the cook-off.)
Elimination Cook-Off Assignment: Salad
Advanced: Summer Sanders
Eliminated: Alyssa Campanella
Episode Three: Chopping Block
The remaining six have one-on-one battles, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S.%20Fleet%20Cyber%20Command | The U.S. Fleet Cyber Command is an operating force of the United States Navy responsible for the Navy's information network operations, offensive and defensive cyber operations, space operations and signals intelligence. It was created in January 2010 "to deter and defeat aggression and to ensure freedom of action to achieve military objectives in and through cyberspace". U.S. Tenth Fleet was simultaneously reactivated as its force provider. Since it was founded, the command has grown into an operational force composed of more than 16,000 active and reserve sailors and civilians organized into 27 active commands, 40 Cyber Mission Force units, and 27 reserve commands around the world.
Organization
U.S. Fleet Cyber Command serves as the Navy component command to U.S. Cyber Command, and the Navy's Service Cryptologic Component commander under the National Security Agency and Central Security Service. U.S. Fleet Cyber Command also reports directly to the Chief of Naval Operations as an Echelon II command and is responsible for Navy information network operations, offensive and defensive cyberspace operations, space operations and signals intelligence.
Headquartered at Fort George Meade, Maryland, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command exercises operational control of globally-deployed Cyber Mission Forces (CMF) through a task force structure aligned to the U.S. Tenth Fleet. U.S. Fleet Cyber Command is also designated as the Joint Force Headquarters-Cyber to U.S. Pacific Command and U.S. Southern Command for the development, oversight, planning and execution of full spectrum cyber operations aligned with other traditional warfighting lines of operation.
History
U.S. Fleet Cyber Command's roots are in the namesake of its force provider, U.S. Tenth Fleet, which was organized in 1943 to coordinate the allied response to the German U-boat threat and ensure access to the shipping lanes of the Atlantic.
Today, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and the modern U.S. Tenth Fleet ensure the Navy and the Nation have access to systems in the cyber domain.
The creation of U.S. Cyber Command and U.S. Fleet Cyber Command
Department of Defense cyber operations came together under a single organization on 1 October 2000, when U.S. Space Command (USSPACECOM) formally took control of the Department of Defense computer network attack activities from the Joint Staff. USSPACECOM was eventually dissolved and some its functions merged into the reorganized U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) 1 October 2002.
Navy Cyber operations were originally the responsibility of Naval Computer and Telecommunications Command, Naval Security Group and Naval Space Command, which were combined with 20 other commands into the Naval Network Warfare Command (NETWARCOM) in 2002 to unify network operations, offensive and defensive cyberspace operations, space operations and cryptologic/signals intelligences.
In 2005, with the alignment of Naval Security Group, NETWARCOM brought the former Naval Security Group Ac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembl%C3%A9e%20des%20francophones%20fonctionnaires%20des%20organisations%20internationales | The Assemblée des francophones fonctionnaires des organisations internationales (AFFOI), French for the Assembly of French speaking international civil servants, is a global network of French-speaking international civil servants.
The Assembly was founded in The Hague in 2007 by representatives of the United Nations (UN), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the European Space Agency (ESA), Europol and Eurojust, it is now represented in 57 international organisations.
The objective of the AFFOI is to defend linguistic, cultural and conceptual diversity in the functioning of international organisations.
The AFFOI has offices in cities with high density of international organisations -The Hague, New York City, Washington, Geneva, Luxembourg, Brussels, Addis Ababa. Its headquarters are located in The Hague, Netherlands.
History
The Convention which created the Assembly of French speaking international civil servants was signed on March 21, 2007 by Judge Bruno Cotte from the ICC, Judge Ronny Abraham from the ICJ, Patrice Palanque, Director at OIAC, Dominique Hoppe, President of AFIF-PB, Michel Quillé, Director of Europol, Gérard Loubens, General Prosecutor at Eurojust, and Jean Jacques Dordain, General Secretary of ESA.
Between 2007 and 2010, the Assembly progressively extended to almost all international organisations implemented in Europe.
Beginning 2011 the AFFOI has published its manifesto, and created the "AFFOI for the youth". a special unit that supports French speaking new graduates who want to work for an international organisation. In February 2011, the AFFOI became the fifth official operator of francophonie. next to TV5 MONDE, Université Senghor, the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie and the Association internationale des maires francophones. It is also the representative of the Assemblée parlementaire de la Francophonie (APF), for all matters related to international organisations.
Worldwide
The AFFOI's headquarters are in the Hague. Regional offices have been established in Paris, New York, Brussels, Washington, Luxembourg, Geneva, Addis Ababa and Montreal.
References
External links
Francophonia's official website
Association internationale des maires francophones
Association internationale des parlementaires francophones
Francophonie
Intergovernmental organizations established by treaty
Organizations established in 2007
Organisations based in The Hague
Rijswijk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahim%20Junction%20railway%20station | Mahim Junction ([maːɦiːm]; station code: MM) is a railway station on the Western line and Harbour Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. It serves the last town of the Mumbai city : Mahim.
History
The original Mahim station belonged to the GIP Railway (today's Central Railway), and the company began services to the station all the way back in 1853, when it started India's first passenger train service from Bori Bunder (in Bombay) to Tannah (now, Thane). The original station was located near the Mandvi (Custom House) near where the Mahim Causeway starts.There were two routes: one from Bori Bunder to Tannah, and the other from Bori Bunder to Mahim. The Mahim route diverged from the main line only near Sion, with the only intermediate station being Byculla, as referring to a timetable published in a Bombay Times (today's Times of India) report published on 8th April 1853. It took 40 mins to travel each way by the service. It was speculated in a report, that the railways would transform Mahim from a simple fishing village, to a port of importance.
During times of water crisis, the GIPR would run water trains. In fact a separate water committee was formed. Soon, a joint venture was proposed by the committee in 1855 with GIP Railway. This would help create a wooden reservoir at Mahim station. Water would be drawn from tanks at Mahim, and poured in this reservoir. It could hold enough water to fill one train, with each train carrying an average of 10,000 gallons (37854.12 L). 24 water trains ran between Bombay and other localities in the time frame between 2 and 9 June 1854 to bring in water to the city. Of this, 21 had run to and fro from Mahim.
The Mahim station of GIPR was lost with time, and a Mahim station was built later by the BB&CI Railway (today's Western Railway) which arrived in the city a decade later. The first station building was completed in 1869. Much later, the Mahim-Wadala Link to the Bombay Port Trust Railway was opened on 11 August 1914.
After this, tracks between Mahim and Bandra station were quadrupled, opening to freight traffic in May 1917, and to passenger traffic in October 1920. In March 1922, in an effort to relieve local tracks between Mahim and Dadar station, the intermediate tracks too were quadrupled. Further, to suffice the demand for better local service, tracks between Parel North Cabin and Mahim were quadrupled temporarily, opening for passenger traffic in May 1922. With all this, the humble two platform Mahim station, consisting of just two up-down main lines, and another branching line beside the Island platform, turned into a large station with four lines, and even goods sidings.
References
Railway stations in Mumbai City district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai WR railway division
Railway junction stations in Maharashtra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandra%20railway%20station | Bandra (/bæːndra/; station code: B for Suburban services and BA for Indian Railways) is a railway station on the Western Line and Harbour Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. It serves the Bandra suburban area and the commercial area of Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC). Bandra Terminus is near to Bandra railway station and serves interstate traffic on the Western Railway.
The station is a Grade-I heritage structure. The other 4 railway stations on Mumbai's heritage list include Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus, Western Railways Headquarters Building (Churchgate), Byculla railway station and Reay Road railway station.
All fast and slow commuter trains have a halt at this station. Bandra is also directly connected to Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus through Harbour Line via . BEST buses are also available from Bandra Terminus bus stand or Bandra (West) bus stand; both being very close to the railway station. Auto rickshaws are also available.
History
Three buildings were completed in February 1867 for the BB&CI railway at Bandora. They were to accommodate the slaughterhouse designed by the then Municipal Engineer, Russel Aitkens. There were two buildings to store mutton, and one for storing beef. These were located nearly 100 yards South-West of Bandra station. The slaughter houses were shifted from Bori Bunder (near the Bori Bunder station) since they offended passengers. Bombay's first Municipal Commissioner Arthur Crawford, relocated these to Bandra. A meat train was commenced by the BB&CI railway, but it was discontinued in January 1879. In 1888, it had two platforms.
The main building adjoining the platform no.1 was too completed that year.
Bandora station (today's Bandra station) is mentioned as one of the stations where the first Regular Suburban rail service (commenced on 12 April 1867) halted.
After GIP Railway (today's Central Railway) closed its Mahim Branch (see Mahim Railway station), a joint railway service started between GIPR's Bori Bunder station and Bandora station. There is an interesting anecdote about this service, as reported by The Bombay Gazette of 14 June 1867. The story went that the timings of this joint service interfered with GIPR's own Callian Train (Callian was the old name for Kalyan). The traffic managers of both rail companies agreed upon 9 a.m as the time of departure for that joint train from Bandora. However, later the GIPR traffic manager changed the timings of their Callian train to 15 minutes earlier, the result being, both the trains met at Dadur (Dadar). This led to dispute and whistle of both trains with one another for the right of way at the Parell junction (Parel). The points man would then either allow the Bandora train, or the Callian train first. The Callian train would stop at every station, meaning that when it was allowed first, the Bandora train would also be stopped at some station before (as the writer reported humorously, in the "pleasant" steaming weather), delaying it by 12-15 min |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20Rail%20Network | Community rail in Britain is the support of railway lines and stations by local organisations, usually through community rail partnerships (CRPs) comprising railway operators, local councils, and other community organisations, and rail user groups (RUGs). Community railways are managed to fit local circumstances recognising the need to increase revenue, reduce costs, increase community involvement and support social and economic development. The Community Rail Network (CRN), formerly known as the Association of Community Rail Partnerships (ACoRP), supports its fifty or so member CRPs and also offers assistance to voluntary station friends groups that support their local stations through the station adoption scheme. Since 2005 the Department for Transport has formally designated a number of railway lines as community rail schemes in order to recognise the need for different, more appropriate standards than are applied to main line railway routes, and therefore make them more cost effective.
Community Rail Partnerships and Rail User Groups
Station Friends
International members
DHR India Support Group
Nenagh Rail Partnership
Washington Area Rail Passengers Association
Reciprocal membership
The Association of Community Rail Partnerships has reciprocal membership with:
Campaign for Better Transport
Community Transport Association
Development Trusts Association
Heritage Railway Association
Sustrans
Transform Scotland
Designated Lines
The Department for Transport announced a pilot project in 2005 under their Community Rail Development Strategy, with the intention of having seven differing lines (Abbey Line, Esk Valley Line, Looe Valley Line, Penistone Line, Poacher Line, St Ives Bay Line, and Tamar Valley Line) test out different types of community rail schemes. The aims of these schemes are to:
establish the contribution of Community Rail Development in achieving locally set objectives such as reducing road congestion and increasing accessibility
establish the costs for the line and services
establish the effectiveness of different methods for reducing the net financial loss of Community Rail lines by increasing revenue and reducing costs where practicable
Designation does not physically separate a line from the rest of the network or remove it from either Network Rail or franchise operation. It is not generally intended to be used as a mechanism to reopen lines or create "microfranchises", although these options may be investigated on some routes.
In addition each line has a remit agreed in a route prospectus which gives more detailed aims and objectives for each scheme, such as infrastructure improvements, new ticketing arrangements, or cooperation with other local transport operators.
The DfT has identified about fifty routes in England and Wales that would benefit from designation, covering 10% of Network Rail and some 390 stations. Some routes will only be designated as community rail services (rather than community rail li |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Awesome | Network Awesome was an online TV broadcasting outlet launched by electronic musician Jason Forrest and co-founder Greg Sadetsky on January 1, 2011.
Network Awesome also includes a magazine with the goal of providing commentary and analysis of the featured content via daily articles. The magazine is syndicated by Huffington Post and DigBoston.
Since August 23, 2018 the site is inactive and no longer allows access to the site's content, showing a "stay tuned!" message on the homepage.
As of November 25, 2020 the site is completely inaccessible.
Notes
External links
Official website
Network Awesome magazine
"Network Awesome is here to remind us what television was like before it sucked" Denver Westword, July 20, 2011
"Network Awesome is like TV Land for the Online set" Gigaom.com, February 10, 2011
"Geeked: Network Awesome" Digboston.com, January 27, 2011
"Behind Network Awesome - An interview with Jason Forrest" Mediageek.net, August 29, 2011
"Network Awesome's Women of Punk week: Trashing of the Troubadour" Los Angeles Times, July 22, 2011
"No Wave" "Dangerous Minds," 2012
Internet television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFN%20Munich | The AFN Munich was a radio station of the American Forces Network of the United States Army, operating from Munich, Bavaria, from 1945 to 1992. The station carried the nickname "The voice of Southern Bavaria".
The station was the first AFN station to operate in occupied Germany.
History
In April 1945, towards the end of World War II, Munich was occupied by the 7th US Army. Radio broadcasts for the United States armed forces were, at the time, made from the United Kingdom and France. In July 1945, transmissions began from occupied Germany too.
On 10 July 1945, the AFN Munich commenced broadcasting as the first AFN station in Germany. It operated from a villa in the Kaulbachstraße that had previously belonged to Adolf Wagner, Nazi Gauleiter of the Gau München-Oberbayern. The first broadcast, made by Major Bob Light, began with the following sentence:
Light's first broadcast was incorrect as the 3rd US Army had taken over control over Munich the previous night, a fact Light had missed. General George S. Patton, commander of the 3rd Army, was furious about the mistake, demanding that the responsible person be court martialed. Patton, not a friend of the American Forces Network in the first place, was shaving at the time and cut himself on hearing the broadcast. Light was surrounded by Military Police on Patton's order but managed to convince them of his innocence and returned to AFN Paris before the end of the day.
The station, broadcasting with one of the strongest signals in Germany, could be received in the northern parts of the country. It enjoyed immense popularity with young Germans too, as it allowed them to listen to Jazz and Blues, outlawed during the Third Reich, and later to Rock 'n' Roll and Country music. It also helped Germans learn English in order to be able to understand the broadcasts.
The station had many high-profile visitors, including Jimmy Carter, Freddie Mercury, Lou Gramm, John Glenn, Huey Lewis and The News, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Scorpions, Bruce Hornsby, Molly Hatchet, The Gap Band, and John McCain.
In 1963, the station changed its frequencies, moving from 1106 to 1045 kHz on the mediumwave AM band, and from 101.2 to 102.4 MHz on the FM band.
In 1973 a study was carried out that recommended closing down the station if US forces in the region were significantly reduced. In 1982 it was suggested that the station should relocate from number 15 Kaulbachstraße to number 45, into a building formerly utilised by the Bundeswehr. The cost for the alterations to the new location were covered by the Bavarian government, and AFN Munich started broadcasting from number 45 on 12 November 1984. The villa at number 15, home of the station for almost 40 years, was returned to the Bavarian government.
AFN Munich stayed at its new location for a much shorter time than at the old one. The end of the Cold War and the reduction of US forces in Europe, with the closure of some of their Munich facilities, meant the end of the station. On 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRMS%20%28AM%29 | WRMS (790 AM) is a radio station licensed to Beardstown, Illinois, United States. The station is currently owned by Covenant Network.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSub | WebSub (formerly PubSubHubbub) is an open protocol for distributed publish–subscribe communication on the Internet. Initially designed to extend the Atom (and RSS) protocols for data feeds, the protocol can be applied to any data type (e.g. HTML, text, pictures, audio, video) as long as it is accessible via HTTP. Its main purpose is to provide real-time notifications of changes, which improves upon the typical situation where a client periodically polls the feed server at some arbitrary interval. In this way, WebSub provides pushed HTTP notifications without requiring clients to spend resources on polling for changes.
In October 2017, PubSubHubbub was renamed to WebSub for simplicity and clarity.
, the WebSub protocol has been adopted by the W3C as a Recommendation.
Protocol
Under WebSub, there is an ecosystem of publishers, subscribers, and hubs.
A subscriber first retrieves content from an HTTP resource (URL) by requesting it from the webserver. The subscriber then inspects the contents of the response, and if it references a hub, the subscriber can subscribe to that resource's URL (it's called a 'topic' by the spec) on that hub. The subscriber needs to run a web accessible server so that hubs can directly notify it when any of its subscribed topics have updated, using a webhook mechanism.
Publishers expose their content with the inclusion of hub references in the HTTP headers. They post notifications to those referenced hubs whenever they publish something. Thus, when a publication event occurs, the publisher calls its hubs and the hubs call their subscribers.
WebSub includes a simple verification of intent mechanism in order to prevent abusive subscriptions, and a validation mechanism allows for subscriptions to private or protected web resources. When the subscriber sends the subscription request to the hub, the subscriber address and a code needs to be included. The hub immediately sends a verification message to the subscriber with the URL of the topic and the above code. The subscription request will only be accepted if the subscriber sends a positive response to the verification request of the hub.
In order to provide a secure chain, subscribers should share a secret with the hub, which will be used by the hub to compute an HMAC key that will be sent to the subscriber. The latter can then easily verify the origin by comparing the supplied signature with a similarly computed signature on their end.
Usage
WebSub is used to push content by many websites, including all blogs served by Blogger and WordPress.com, news sites including CNN and Fox News, and social networks like diaspora*, Mastodon, MySpace or Medium.com.
Subscribing services (“feed readers”) include Flipboard, Feedly, NewsBlur, among other popular options.
Community Hosted hub providers include pubsubhubbub.appspot.com (operated by Google), pubsubhubbub.superfeedr.com (operated by Superfeedr), and websubhub.com.
Superfeedr provides a detailed PubSubHubbub guide for i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth%20%28American%20Horror%20Story%29 | "Birth" is the eleventh episode of the first season of the television series American Horror Story, which premiered on the network FX on December 14, 2011. The episode was written by Tim Minear and directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. This episode is rated TV-MA (LV).
The episode was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie.
In this episode, Vivien (Connie Britton) gives birth and her daughter Violet (Taissa Farmiga) learn that Tate (Evan Peters) is the biological father to one of her new siblings. Kate Mara and Zachary Quinto guest star as Hayden McClaine and Chad Warwick, respectively.
Plot
Tate cannot promise Vivien's baby to Nora, who Tate treats as his mother ever since she saved him from the Infantata and taught him how to make the ghosts leave him alone, for fear of revealing to Violet that he raped her mother, but Nora is resolved to take the child anyway. Ben picks up Vivien to take her from the ward to her flight to Florida, not understanding why Violet refuses to leave with him. The doctor tells Vivien and Ben that one of the twins is ready to be born imminently.
In the house, Violet and Tate realize Chad and Patrick are planning to take the twins. Violet asks Constance for help, who confronts Chad and says he can have Ben's child, but her grandson is her own. Chad realizes that Tate fathered one of the twins. Constance and Violet enlist the help of Billie Dean, who teaches Violet a banishment spell.
Violet tells Ben that she is dead and can't leave the house, and urges him to take Vivien away from the house and its ghosts before she gives birth, but Ben doesn't believe her. Meanwhile, Vivien goes into labor in the car and Constance appears, and takes her into the house. The power goes out and ghosts destroy their car, forcing Ben and Vivien to have the babies there. Dr. Charles Montgomery handles the delivery.
Violet recites the banishment spell, but realizes it doesn't work. Chad tells her that Tate killed him and Patrick and also raped Vivien.
Vivien gives birth, with the first twin being stillborn, and Dr. Montgomery hands it to Nora. Constance takes the second twin to wash it. Vivien begins to postpartum hemorrhage due to the larger child. Violet appears and urges her to let go and join her in the afterlife. Ben, unaware of Violet's presence, urges Vivien to live. Vivien dies and Ben finds himself alone.
Violet confronts Tate, revealing that she knows everything he has done and she forces him to remember the school massacre, and then asks why he raped her mother. Tate attempts to plead for her forgiveness, but Violet angrily lashes out at him by saying "Go away". As he leaves, Violet becomes emotionally devastated and heartbroken, but Vivien's ghost appears and comforts her daughter to calm her down.
Production
The episode was written by consulting producer Tim Minear, while Alfonso Gomez-Rejon directed.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, series c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedsider | Bedsider.org (Bedsider) is a free birth control support network for women ages 18–29. The network is operated by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy; a research based non-profit, non-partisan organization located in Washington, D.C. Launched on November 2011, its goal is to help women find the method of birth control that’s right for them and learn how to use it consistently and effectively. The campaign is developed in partnership with IDEO, a global innovation and design firm and Carbon Five, a development firm in San Francisco.
Bedsider provides users with tools to explore and compare all available methods of contraception, to set up birth control or appointment reminders, and to view videos of young men and women’s personal experiences with various methods of contraception. Bedsider also offers a weekly column on sex, love, and life as well as a series of animated shorts that debunk myths about birth control. In addition, Bedsider provides the latest news on contraception and allows website visitors to type in their zip code to find the closest locations that provide contraception over the counter. Bedsider is also mobile and can be used on an iPhone or an Android device.
History
On November 10, 2011, the Ad Council launched a major marketing campaign in support of the Bedsider program. The ads and PSAs created by the ad council address pressing social issues through multiple media outlets. These ads can be found on Bedsider.org, but will also be used on television and in newspapers and other publications in order to further promote Bedsider as a tool for young women around the country.
Honors and press coverage
Bedsider has received awards for its design and layout, and acceptance by media outlets such as the Associated Press and CNN. Additionally, Bedsider has also garnered the support of many medical and public health groups. All medical content found on Bedsider was developed with the assistance of many experts who are a part of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy’s Medical Advisory Committee.
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Birth control
Internet properties established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupled%20pattern%20learner | Coupled Pattern Learner (CPL) is a machine learning algorithm which couples the semi-supervised learning of categories and relations to forestall the problem of semantic drift associated with boot-strap learning methods.
Coupled Pattern Learner
Semi-supervised learning approaches using a small number of labeled examples with many unlabeled examples are usually unreliable as they produce an internally consistent, but incorrect set of extractions. CPL solves this problem by simultaneously learning classifiers for many different categories and relations in the presence of an ontology defining constraints that couple the training of these classifiers. It was introduced by Andrew Carlson, Justin Betteridge, Estevam R. Hruschka Jr. and Tom M. Mitchell in 2009.
CPL overview
CPL is an approach to semi-supervised learning that yields more accurate results by coupling the training of many information extractors. Basic idea behind CPL is that semi-supervised training of a single type of extractor such as ‘coach’ is much more difficult than simultaneously training many extractors that cover a variety of inter-related entity and relation types. Using prior knowledge about the relationships between these different entities and relations CPL makes unlabeled data as a useful constraint during training. For e.g., ‘coach(x)’ implies ‘person(x)’ and ‘not sport(x)’.
CPL description
Coupling of predicates
CPL primarily relies on the notion of coupling the learning of multiple functions so as to constrain the semi-supervised learning problem. CPL constrains the learned function in two ways.
Sharing among same-arity predicates according to logical relations
Relation argument type-checking
Sharing among same-arity predicates
Each predicate P in the ontology has a list of other same-arity predicates with which P is mutually exclusive. If A is mutually exclusive with predicate B, A’s positive instances and patterns become negative instances and negative patterns for B. For example, if ‘city’, having an instance ‘Boston’ and a pattern ‘mayor of arg1’, is mutually exclusive with ‘scientist’, then ‘Boston’ and ‘mayor of arg1’ will become a negative instance and a negative pattern respectively for ‘scientist.’ Further, Some categories are declared to be a subset of another category. For e.g., ‘athlete’ is a subset of ‘person’.
Relation argument type-checking
This is a type checking information used to couple the learning of relations and categories. For example, the arguments of the ‘ceoOf’ relation are declared to be of the categories ‘person’ and ‘company’. CPL does not promote a pair of noun phrases as an instance of a relation unless the two noun phrases are classified as belonging to the correct argument types.
Algorithm description
Following is a quick summary of the CPL algorithm.
Input: An ontology O, and a text corpus C
Output: Trusted instances/patterns for each predicate
for i=1,2,...,∞ do
foreach predicate p in O do
EXTRACT can |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vile%20Parle%20railway%20station | Vile Parle (station code: VLP) is a railway station on the Western line and Harbour line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. It serves the Vile Parle locality.
In July 2013, Vile Parle became the first station on the Western line, and second on the Mumbai Suburban Railway (after Thane railway station), to have an escalator. It cost .
Vile Parle railway station has 6 platforms (2 – Harbour Line, 2 – Main Line, 2 – Fast train platforms although fast trains don't stop here). In addition, it has a parallel line that is generally used for trains bound to and from Bandra Terminus.
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References
Railway stations in Mumbai Suburban district
2008 Mumbai attacks
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai WR railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malad%20railway%20station | Malad (Pronunciation: [maːlaːɖ]; station code: MDD) is a railway station on the Western line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. It serves the suburb of Malad.
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Railway stations in Mumbai Suburban district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai WR railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kandivli%20railway%20station | Kandivali (Pronunciation: [kaːn̪d̪iʋəliː]; formerly Khandolee, station code: KLE) is a railway station on the Western line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. It serves the Kandivli neighbourhood of Mumbai, India. All slow local trains temporarily halt between Kandivali and Borivali for a few seconds for signaling purposes, which commuters call an imaginary station named Thambevali.
In 2020, during the COVID-19 crisis, Children's Academy along with Project Mumbai undertook a beautification project for Kandivali railway station. Murals of Mandala art were drawn onto the walls of the station. Covid warriors were artistically portrayed on Platform 4.
History
Kandivali was one of the oldest stations in Mumbai, opened back in 1907. It was then known as Khandolee, and is said to have been mainly used to transport the stones and rocks for the Reclamation scheme in Southernmost Bombay. It was made, essentially to service the quarries. The hillock 'Paran' located east of the station, was quarried to provide this material. Subsequently, a railway workshop, and worker quarters were also built.
Platforms
Platform 1 caters mostly to Borivali, Bhayandar, Vasai Road, Nalla Sopara and Virar bound slow trains.
Platform 2 caters to Andheri, Bandra, Dadar and Churchgate bound slow and semi fast trains.
Platform 3 is very less used and caters to Bhayandar bound slow trains.
Platform 4 is also very less used and mostly caters to Churchgate bound semi fast trains and Andheri bound slow trains. It is also used by a Bhayandar bound fast train which has a halt at Kandivali.
Redevelopment Plan
Redevelopmet plans have been introduced to revamp the 18 stations of Central and Western line under the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP)-3A. Among these stations, Kandivali station is one of the 6 stations which are opted for the early redevelopment plans. The Mumbai Railway Vikas Corporation (MRVC) is slated to enhance station facilities, initiate the construction of Foot Over Bridges (FOBs), elevated decks, interconnecting pathways through FOBs and skywalks, while also fostering the creation of green spaces and other enhancements.
The work at stations will be similar as Andheri, Borivali, and Goregaon, where the primary objectives were to sort out the congestion and facilitating the efficient dispersion of passengers at an ease experience.
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Railway stations in India opened in 1907
Railway stations in Mumbai Suburban district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borivali%20railway%20station | Borivali (station code: BO (suburban)/BVI (mainline)) is a railway station on the Western line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network and an outbound station. It serves the suburban of Borivali.
The Borivali Railway Station is a terminus for all slow, semi-fast and fast trains on the Mumbai Suburban Railway system. It also serves as the final city-limit stop for all mail and express trains on Western Railway before leaving Mumbai. As of Oct 2022, the plans to extend the Harbour Line to Borivali, and expansion plans are in full steam, with the survey for land acquisition being completed.
Borivali is used by almost 2.87 lakhs (287,000) passengers every day and is the busiest station on the western suburban line of Mumbai. The number of passengers using Borivali is much higher compared to other stations because many commuters from adjoining stations go there to catch a train as it is impossible to board a local train from stations such as Dahisar, Kandivali or Malad.
History
Borivali is mentioned as one of the stations where the first regular suburban train service of BB&CI halted. Then, it was known as 'Berewla'. This train service was inaugurated between Bombay Backbay station and Viraur on April 12, 1867.
The Station was remodeled in 1913. The remodeling diagrams of the station were published in a BB&CI Magazine dated Dec 1923.
The Magazine (see pg 6, 11)
1913 Remodeling of Borivali
In the Diagrams, the original layout of the station (before 1913 remodeling) shows a two platform station, each platform on the west and east. In the diagram, the one on the west is labelled 'Down Platform' while the east one has an un-understandable label, resembling 'Up or UD'. Between them were the Up and Down main lines. Another separate line was located to the East of the Down Platform. The station appears to have at least one siding, to the North of the Down Platform. The station also had two cabins, named 'Cabin A' and 'Cabin B', located on the east of the main lines.
The Revised Layout shows some improvements made; notably, the addition of a new siding line, and the categorization of the Eastern platform as an Island platform. The Siding Line on the west was shifted closer to the down platform, just as the B Cabin was shifted closer to the new Island platform. The number of Track Change points was also increased.
(For the diagrams, visit the above Pdf)
Platforms
For the convenience of the passengers Western Railway has decided to change the platform numbers of Borivali station. The platforms have now been numbered from west to east to maintain uniformity. Changes will be effective from 4 June 2017.
As of July 2011, there are 9 platforms at the station and as of 4 June 2017 after renumbering of platform number the trains that these platforms handle are as follows:
1st - Caters to Churchgate bound trains
2nd - Caters to Churchgate bound trains
3rd - Caters to both Churchgate bound and Virar bound Trains
4th - Caters predominantly to Churchgate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahisar%20railway%20station | Dahisar (station code: DIC) is a railway station on the Western line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. Dahisar station is the last station within the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation limits. The area around the station has heavy traffic and is congested.
With the construction of the railway line connecting Dahisar to the city of Mumbai in 1867, came the first lot of migrants, the people from Sindhudurg region of Konkan. These migrants established the first planned residential areas of Dahisar - Maratha Colony in Dahisar East and Mhatre Wadi in the West. The Railway authorities wanted to name the Railhead at Dahisar as Mount Poinsur, but the locals opposed this move and forced the authorities to name it as Dahisar. Currently, it has 4 platforms with 2 for Slow line (Up and Down) and 2 for fast line (Up and Down). All platforms can handle 15-coach Suburban trains.
The station was originally named Mount Poinsur, after the locality of the Our Lady of Immaculate Conception Church in Borivali. Due to demands from local residents who referred to the area as Dahisar, the Railways agreed to rename the station.
Connectivity
Dahisar East
Dahisar station mostly serves the areas of Ghartanpada, Rawalpada, Kokanipada, Ovaripada, Anand Nagar, Shailendra Nagar, Vaishali Nagar, Parbat Nagar, Dahisar Check Naka, Ketki pada etc. Auto Rikshaw services (individually and sharing both) are available to the above-mentioned areas. Since the road leading to Dahisar station is narrow, no buses directly ply till the entrance of Dahisar station. Only one bus route (route 696, towards Diamond Industries) had been started directly serving the railway station but discontinued due to low patronage.
Bharucha road or a skywalk above it connects the station entrance to SV Road near Canara Bank (distance 360m) and from there, buses plying to Mira road (701,703,710), Bhayander (709,710), Dahisar Check Naka, Western Park Mira road (705), Borivali East, Kandivali East (701), Samta Nagar Kandivali (703), Goregaon Dindoshi (705), Bandra (225), Shivajinagar Mankhurd via Aarey Colony, Powai, Vikhroli, Ghatkopar (489) are available.
Dahisar West
LT road runs parallel to railway line and also immediately outside station entrance. It mostly serves the areas of Dahisar Bridge, Kandarpada, Nava gaon, St. Francis school etc. Skywalk connects the areas of Gomant Nagar/Dahisar Phatak and Dahisar Bridge. Buses are available to Borivali Station West (205,208), Jogeshwari West (205), Dahisar Bridge (204) and Saraswati complex/Anand Nagar Dahisar East (208).
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Railway stations in Mumbai Suburban district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai WR railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen%20Whiz | Kitchen Whiz is an Australian children's cooking game show on the Nine Network and 9Go!. Children test their skills in the kitchen by completing fun challenges with a partner in a short amount of time. The team who has the most points by the end of the episode goes home with prizes ranging from experiences to cooking appliances.
The series began airing on 21 February 2011, presented by Beau Walker aka Nitro with Andy Trieu as the ninja. In 2013, the show returned with a new host Alice Zaslavsky and a focus on education and interactive media with the release of a Kitchen Whiz Digital App.
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External links
Kitchen Whiz website
Nine Network original programming
9Go! original programming
Australian children's game shows
Australian children's television series
Australian cooking television series
2011 Australian television series debuts
2015 Australian television series endings
2010s Australian game shows
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhayandar%20railway%20station | Bhayandar (station code: BY) is a railway station on the Western line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
It is located in the northern most end of the Salsette island, which separates the satellite cities of Vasai Virar from Western Suburbs of Mumbai and Mumbai City District. The following station is & the preceding station is . The next major railway station towards town side is Borivali and the major station towards outer edge of the far flung satellite cities of Mumbai Metropolitan Region Areas is Vasai Road. It has six platforms in present where 4 and 6 are for trains going towards Churchgate and 1 and 5 for trains going towards Virar/Dahanu Road. Here platforms 2 and 3 are used for Bhayandar locals towards BY-Churchgate, BY-Dadar, BY-Bandra, BY-Andheri, BY-Borivali. The station has witnessed escalators recently. A skywalk serving the commuters to Bhayandar directly to east and west is made recently. Trains serve the station 22 hours a day every day; the headway between trains is five minutes during peak periods, with less frequent service at other times. Bhayandar station is also served by three bus services including BEST Transport and MBMT Transport which serves the other areas in the Western Suburbs and Mumbai City District, and TMT Transport buses, serving the areas of Thane and Navi Mumbai.
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Transport in Mira-Bhayandar
Railway stations in Thane district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai WR railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naigaon%20railway%20station | Naigaon is a railway station on the Western Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway Network.
Neighbourhood station to Naigaon in the south is Bhayandar. Platforms 2 & 4 operate Trains towards Churchgate side whereas Platforms 1 & 3 operate Trains towards Virar side.
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Railway stations in Palghar district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai WR railway division
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nallasopara%20railway%20station | Nalla Sopara (station code NSP) is a railway station on the Western line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network, serving the town of Nala Sopara.
Nalla Sopara is one of the busiest railway stations in Mumbai. The trains passing through this railway station, travel towards Churchgate in the south and Dahanu Road in the north.
Nalla Sopara station has five footover bridges, all of which are featured with an escalator. Nalla Sopara ranks second busiest railway platform after Andheri.
History
In 2011, Nalla Sopara alone recorded a 25% increase in first-class commuters from the previous year.
Western Railways widened the platforms at the station in 2012. It created more space on the narrow fast-train platform 4 at Nalla Sopara, as well as at , which is linked to the skywalk. The project cost about 72 lacs and the construction was completed in July 2012.
The extra space on platforms helped the railway deal with increased number of passengers due to longer trains, wider bridges and new skywalks. The new bridge was built to provide passengers with another means of walking from platform to platform.
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Railway stations in Palghar district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai WR railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virar%20railway%20station | Virar (Marathi pronunciation: [ʋiɾaːɾ]; station code: VR) is a railway station on the Western line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. Virar is a terminus station.
It is around one and a half hours away by train from . Virar is a very crowded area, among other adjacent stations like Vasai Road because it is a major tourist spot. It used to be the only railway station to have services to other stations in Palghar District(in which the city of Virar itself is located), Saphale, Palghar, Dahanu and distant southern cities of Gujarat like Vapi, Surat etc. Since 2013 however, the Western Railway zone Suburban network has been extended up to Dahanu.
History
Virar was the northernmost station on the first regular suburban train service of the erstwhile BB&CI railway (today's Western Railway), that commenced on 12 April 1867 (from Bombay Backbay to Viraur). Then, it was spelt as 'Viraur'. Hence it might be concluded that the station itself was constructed sometime in mid 1860s.
The station was remodeled along with Borivali after or in 1913, similarly to how Borivali was the same year. The old layout of the station was again quite similar to that of Borivali's, having two platforms, Down and Island. The Down platform was located in the West, catering trains toward Saphale, while the Island platform was located in East, catering the up line trains toward Nallasopara, and another branching platform line. The station then had two cabins (A and B) both located South and North of the Down platform respectively.
A BB&CI Magazine from 1923. Visit pg 11 for diagrams of Virar stn. before and after the remodeling-
After the remodeling, the number and size of the branching lines was increased. The platform line alongside the Island platform was made longer, while another siding was added beside it. The number of track change points was also increased, the 'A cabin' was shifted further southward, along some other changes made to the layout.
After the remodeling, the number and size of several branching lines was increased. One more siding line were added on the east side, while the existing platform line was extended. The number of track change points was increased, while the A cabin was shifted further South, among other changes.
Station layout
All station design by Rupesh Kumar of ICT 5 of the 8 platforms at Virar are laid out side by side. Platform 3T & 4T are constructed a few meters north of platform 2 & handle the local trains travelling between Dahanu Road and Virar. Platform no. 1 at Virar is constructed approximately 200 meters South of Platform 2 similar to platform 3 at .
Platforms 2 & 3 are terminal platforms and handle the local trains moving in the up direction. It can handle only 12-coach rakes
Platform 4–5 & 3T handle outstation trains that have a halt at Virar along with the local trains to and fro Dahanu. It can handle 22-coach rakes.
Platform 1 is a dedicated platform to handle local trains that start/terminate at Virar. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaitarna%20railway%20station | Vaitarna is a railway station on the Western line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
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Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai WR railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saphale%20railway%20station | Saphale railway station is a railway station at Saphale on the Western Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
Trains
The following trains halt at Saphale railway station in both directions:
19215/16 Mumbai Central - Porbandar Saurashtra Express
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Railway stations in Palghar district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai WR railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelve%20Road%20railway%20station | Kelve Road is a railway station on the Western line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. Kelve Road is located in Palghar district of Maharashtra state in Konkan division. Kelve Road railway station is between the Virar-Dahanu local train service. All Dahanu Road bound local trains from Mumbai Western Rail route halt at this station. This is the third station after Virar moving towards Dahanu Road.
kelve road is very popular for there clean beaches and dam.
Many tourist visiting here throughout the year to see the beaches and dams.
kelwa beach is 2 km distance away from kelve railway station.
Railway stations in Palghar district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai WR railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umroli%20railway%20station | Umroli is a railway station on the Western line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. It a station that falls between Palghar and Boisar. All Dahanu bound local trains halt at Umroli Road Station. Area is getting developed at a very fast rate as it falls in vicinity of Boisar and Palghar.
Railway stations in Palghar district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai WR railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boisar%20railway%20station | Boisar railway station is a railway station on the Western line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. It is also a terminus for the Boisar - Vasai Road line.
The Station is the main mode of transportation for population here. In the last decade five new local train trains were introduced for route Dahanu Road to Virar/Churchgate and two for route Bhiwandi to Boisar. Many express trains stop at the station. The Mumbai to Ahmadabad bullet train will pass through the station.
It is very busy station between dahanu-virar .
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Railway stations in Palghar district
Mumbai WR railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vangaon%20railway%20station | Vangaon is a railway station on the Western line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
Trains
The following trains halt at Vangaon railway station in both directions:
19023/24 Mumbai Central - Firozpur Janata Express
All passenger trains (non express) in both directions halt at vangaon station .
Mumbai suburban local trains extended their service beyond virar station up to Dahanu road station from 16 April 2013. All local trains halt at Vangaon station.
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Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai WR railway division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cityscape%20Global | Cityscape Global is the world's largest property development networking exhibition and conference. It is a trade show for the real estate industry in Saudi Arabia. Over 150 local, regional and international real estate firms exhibit their projects and services at the Riyadh International Convention and Exhibition Center. The event is organised by Informa Exhibitions and has sister events in other locations, including Cityscape Abu Dhabi, Cityscape Egypt and Cityscape Riyadh.
Awards
Cityscape Awards
The Awards reward architecture and design from the emerging regions of the Persian Gulf States, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Asia (excluding Japan, New Zealand and Australia) and recognizes Architects and their project designs, performance, vision and achievement in the key areas of architecture.
Award Categories
Commercial Project Award
Mixed Use Project Award
Leisure & Tourism Project Award
Residential Project Award
Winner - Varyap - 2014
Winner - Experion Developers - 2013
Retail Project Award
Sustainability Project Award
Retail City Awards
The Awards recognize achievements that have contributed to the growth and development of the retail industry.
References
Events in Dubai
Trade fairs in the United Arab Emirates
Recurring events established in 2002
2002 establishments in the United Arab Emirates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkStation | The ThinkStation is a line of professional workstations from Lenovo. They are designed to be used for high-end computing and CAD tasks and primarily compete with other enterprise workstation lines, such as Dell's Precision, HP's Z line, and Apple's Mac Pro line.
2023
Lenovo launched a new P-series family of ThinkStation in May 2023. The top-of-the-range, ThinkStation PX, is powered by two 4th Generation Xeon Scalable 'Sapphire Rapids' processors, with up to 120 cores in total. Additionally, it supports up to four Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada Lovelace graphics cards, each with 48GB of GDDR6 memory onboard. The high-end ThinkStation P7 is powered by Intel's Xeon W-3400-series processor with up to 56 cores and up to three Nvidia RTX 6000 Ada Lovelace graphics boards. The relatively compact ThinkStation P5 with Intel's Xeon W-2400-series CPU features up to 24 cores as well as up to two Nvidia RTX A6000 Ampere-based graphics cards with 48GB of memory that can be connected using NVLink. The updated ThinkStations have a baseboard management controller and can be serviced remotely.
2022
P360
Lenovo launched ThinkStation P360 Tower Workstation model. It is powered by 12th generation Intel Core processors and NVIDIA professional graphics support & VR-ready option. The model is eco-certified and built with sustainable materials. The prices for the model started at $1,049.00.
2021
P350
P350 is the successor of model P340, with the -generation of Intel Core CPUs and PCI Express 4.0.
2020
P340
P340 is the successor of model P330, with the -generation of Intel CPUs.
2019
Lenovo on May 7, 2019 introduced upgraded versions of its ThinkStation P720 and ThinkStation P920 workstations. The new workstations are based on up to two Intel Xeon scalable Cascade Lake processors featuring up to 28 cores per socket and running at up to 4.4 GHz. The CPUs are paired with up to 384 GB or 2 TB of DDR4-2933 memory on P720 or P920 respectively, as well as multiple NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 or Quadro GV100 graphics cards. Both machines support several NVMe/PCIe SSDs (either in M.2 form-factor or on a special PCIe 3.0 x16 Quad M.2 adapter) as well as up to 60 TB of HDD capacity.
2018
P330
Lenovo described the P330, available in three form factors, as "entry-level workstations." As the middle digit of the model number implied, these replacements for the 320 series represented a new generation of architecture and design language. The P330 series was available with -generation (Coffee Lake) processors, including Xeon E Workstation CPUs.
2017
P520/P520c
Lenovo announced both of the P520 models in November 2017. The main notable difference beside versions are the number of RAM slots (8 slots with maximum of a 256 GB RAM in the P520 vs. 4 slots/128 GB in the P520c).
P720/P920
A mid/high-end dual-socket solution. Official specs:
Processors: 2x
RAM: 384 GB / 1 (or 2) TB (LRDIMM/RDIMM) ECC, DDR4-2666 (12 / 16 slots)
PSU: 850 W / 1400 W proprietary
2016
P310
The ThinkStation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magisto | Magisto is a technology company founded in 2009 to provide artificial intelligence (AI) technology for video editing. It produces an online video editor of the same name (both as a web application and a mobile app) for automated video editing and production aimed at consumers and businesses. The company was acquired by Vimeo in 2019 for an estimated US$200 million.
Technology
Magisto was founded by Dr. Oren Boiman, a computer scientist that graduated from Tel Aviv University followed by graduate work in computer vision at the Weizmann Institute of Science. Boiman developed a number of patent-pending image analysis technologies that analyze unedited videos to identify the most interesting parts. The system recognizes faces, animals, landscapes, action sequences, movements and other important content within the video, as well as analyzing speech and audio. These scenes are then edited together, along with music and effects.
Automatic video editing
Automated video editing products have emerged to make video editing easier for a broader consumer market. Muvee Technologies introduced autoProducer, the first PC-based automatic video editing platform, in 2001. Other solutions, including Sony's MovieShaker and Roxio Cinematic, followed in 2002. As smartphones and consumer video recording devices become more prevalent the need for an easier video solution has led to a renewed interest in automatic video editing.
Music
The Magisto app contains a library of music. The music, largely by independent artists, is sorted by mood and is licensed for in-app use.
History
Magisto was founded in 2009 as SightEra (LTD) by Dr. Oren Boiman (CEO) and Dr. Alex Rav-Acha (CTO). Boiman, frustrated with the amount of time it took editing together videos of his daughter, wanted an easier to use application to capture and share videos.
Magisto was launched publicly on September 20, 2011, as a video editing software web application through which users could upload unedited video footage, choose a title and soundtrack and have their video edited for them automatically. On the following day Magisto was added to YouTube Create's collection of video production applications.
The Magisto iPhone app was launched publicly at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. At CES, the company was also awarded the 2012 CES Mobile App Showdown. On August 28, 2012, Magisto launched the Android app on Google Play. On September 13, 2012, Magisto launched a Google Chrome App and announced Google Drive integration.
On March 7, 2013, Magisto claimed 5 million users. Google listed Magisto as an "Editors’ Choice" on its list of "Best Apps of 2013". In September 2013, the company claimed that 10 million users had downloaded the App.
In February 2014, Magisto claimed that they had 20 million users, with 2 million new users per month. The company also confirmed investment from a Russian internet company, Mail.Ru Group. In September 2014 Magisto rolled out a new featur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CatEye | , better known by its brand name CatEye, is a Japanese company. It is a manufacturer of cycle computers, lights, reflectors, toe clips, bottle cages and other accessories which sell worldwide. The company was founded in 1954 in Osaka, Japan and developed the first flashing bicycle light in 1964, and other innovations that it first introduced into the marketplace include flashing LED headlamps. It released its first cycle computer in 1981.
As of 2015 it employs 202 people. While the company's head office and design teams are in Japan, today many components are manufactured in its Chinese factories and subsidiaries.
References
External links
Cycle parts manufacturers
Sporting goods manufacturers of Japan
Manufacturing companies established in 1954
1954 establishments in Japan
Japanese brands
Manufacturing companies based in Osaka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfiniDB | InfiniDB (formerly Calpont Corporation) was a database management software company based in Frisco, Texas. The company developed InfiniDB, a scalable, software-only columnar database management system for analytic applications.
InfiniDB is a scalable database built for big data analytics, business intelligence, data warehousing and other read-intensive applications. InfiniDB's column-store architecture enables very quick load and query times. Its massive parallel processing (MPP) technology scales with any type of storage hardware.
In 2014, The company raised $7.5 million in a new round of funding led by McDonnell Ventures.
Columnar databases
By storing and managing data based on columns rather than rows, column-oriented architecture overcomes query limitations that exist in traditional row-based RDBMS. Only the necessary columns in a query are accessed, reducing I/O activities by skipping unneeded columns.
InfiniDB is accessed through a MySQL interface. It then parallelizes queries and executes in a MapReduce fashion (similar in concept to the methodology used by Apache Hadoop). Each thread within the distributed architecture operates independently, avoiding thread-to-thread or node-to-node communication that can cripple scaling.
InfiniDB is used to enable performance-intensive analytic applications. Customers include Bandwidth.com, Tucows, Warner Music Group, Genus, Aviation Software International, Caring Bridge, Navigant Consulting and 1&1 Internet.
InfiniDB resellers included SkySQL (including many former MySQL employees) and KK Ashisuto in Japan.
Variants and forks
On October 16, 2013, the company announced that InfiniDB would be licensed under the General Public License v. 2. The open source variants of InfiniDB databases are: InfiniDB Standard Edition and InfiniDB for the Cloud including InfiniDB for Apache Hadoop.
MariaDB Corporation announced on April 5, 2016 the release of its first big data analytics engine, MariaDB ColumnStore. It is based both on a fork of InfiniDB and open-source community contributions. ColumnStore supports use cases including real-time, batch and algorithmic.
Bankruptcy
On October 1, 2014, InfiniDB ceased operations and filed for bankruptcy protection in US Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District of Texas. Existing customers may be able to receive support from other companies, notably MariaDB.
References
American companies established in 2000
American companies disestablished in 2014
Computer companies established in 2000
Computer companies disestablished in 2014
Data warehousing products
Proprietary database management systems
Free database management systems
MySQL
MariaDB
Free system software
Software companies based in Texas
Cloud infrastructure
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPSJ-CD | WPSJ-CD, (channel 8) is a low-power Class A television station affiliated with the Visión Latina Spanish-language television network serving Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, that is licensed to Hammonton, New Jersey. The station is owned by HC2 Holdings, with a transmitter located in Waterford Township, New Jersey.
Founded as W08CC in 1986 by Paul Engle, the station is one of the oldest low-power TV stations in New Jersey. For 25 years, it provided a mix of local interest and syndicated programs. After being sold in 2012, it has primarily carried Spanish-language programming services, including MundoFox/MundoMax and Azteca América.
History
Engle ownership
WPSJ signed on the air June 14, 1986, as W08CC (sometimes rendered "WOCC-TV"), the first low-power TV station in New Jersey. W08CC was built by Paul Engle, who owned South Jersey Television, Inc., alongside his wife Sandra. Engle won the station by buying out eight competing applicants; the original format included local talk shows and sports programming. The station continued to offer such local programming through the 1990s, even as local cable systems shut it out of their lineups. However, in 1992, it was added to the primary cable system in Vineland; at that time, it debuted a simulcast of the morning show of local radio station WBSS and a show on Vineland issues.
At the station's height in 2005, it took in $400,000 in ad revenue and a percentage of sales on the Shop At Home Network, which it aired in overnight time slots. Then, in 2006, income dropped to more than half after the FCC moved WPSJ from channel 8 to a weaker channel 24. This move reduced its potential viewership from 3.5 million to just 150,000. Engle considered shuttering the station, but he opted to persist. The bet paid off in 2007 when the FCC granted WPSJ the right to use virtual channel 8 and build a digital signal. Engle made an investment of $150,000 to convert to digital transmission, and the station's potential audience grew to almost six million viewers.
Sale to Prime Time Partners, LLC
On December 19, 2012, Engle Broadcasting of Cedar Brook, New Jersey sold WPSJ-CD to WPSJ-CD Station, LLC, a subsidiary of Doral, Florida-based Prime Time Partners. Earlier that year, an asset purchase agreement had been signed, as had a time brokerage agreement effective August 1. Two weeks later, the station changed programming to the new MundoFox Spanish-language network; Prime Time also owned stations in Boston and Tampa that converted to the service.
Meanwhile, in June 2013, WPSJ relocated from channel 51 to channel 38 as part of a 2012 settlement with WPHA-CD, which moved from channel 38 to 24.
MundoFox, which had changed its name to MundoMax after Fox withdrew from the venture, closed on December 1, 2016. By then, WPSJ-CD was airing a series of other national digital multicast television networks on its subchannels.
HC2 ownership
Prime Time Partners sold WPSJ-CD for $1.7 million to HC2 Holdings in 2018. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC-Community%20Access%20Network | The DC Community Access Network (District of Columbia Community Access Network) (DC-CAN) is a planned 100 gigabit network funded by the city of Washington, D.C. which will make broadband internet access available to universities, businesses, and resellers. It bypasses the monopoly held by telecommunications companies over the middle mile.
References
Broadband
Internet in the United States
Telecommunications in the United States
Network access
Communications in Washington, D.C. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Speed%20vendor%20Feed | High Speed Vendor Feed (HSVF) is the market data vendor protocol of the electronic Sola Trading platform that is used for the dissemination of market data for options, futures, forwards and other exchange-listed derivative securities for five major derivative exchanges globally.
History
, the exchanges using the protocol include the following:
Boston Options Exchange (BOX),
Montreal Exchange(MX)
Turquoise (trading platform), Derivatives, a multilateral trading facility for trading of IOB Russian (formerly EDX) and Pan European Derivatives
Oslo Børs (Derivatives only) on the Oslo Stock Exchange,
IDEM (Italian Derivatives Equity Market) on Borsa Italiana.
The HSVF protocol is part Sola Trading Solutions which was both designed and developed by The Montreal Exchange (Bourse de Montréal) which from May 2008 became a fully owned subsidiary of the TMX Group.
Protocol definition
HSVF parses and broadcasts all of its market data in 4 major Sub categories:
default Messages for Equity, ETF and Index options
F Messages for futures
B Messages for North American Options on Futures
S Messages for all Derivative Strategies including Spreads, Strips, Straddles, Strangles, Combos, and User defined Complex orders.
The basic List of Messages that are available across all HSVF broadcasts are:
Trades (C, CF, CB, CS)
Request for Quotes (D, DF, DB, DS)
Quotes (F, FF, FB, FS)
Market Depth (H, HF, HB, HS)
Trade Cancel (bust) (I, IF, IB, IS)
Instrument Key (J, JF, JB, JS)
Instrument Summary (N, NF, NB, NS)
Beginning of Instrument Summary (Q, QF, QB, QS)
Various exchanges uses the following global Identifiers: Q = Montreal Exchange, B = Boston Options Exchange, E = Turquoise (trading platform) (Derivatives), O = Oslo Børs, I = IDEM (Italian Derivatives Equity Market) on Borsa Italiana.
References
External links
SOLA Homepage
HSVF Specifications Canada
HSVF Specifications London-Norway
HSVF Specifications Italy
HSVF Specifications US
Financial markets
Electronic trading systems
Futures markets
Derivatives (finance) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20ABC%20Spark | This is a list of current and former television series broadcast by ABC Spark, a specialty channel based on the U.S. cable channel Freeform.
Current programming
Original shows from Freeform
Baby Daddy
Melissa & Joey
Praise Petey
Grown-ish
Good Trouble
10 Things I Hate About You
Syndicated
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Black-ish
Bless this Mess
Last Man Standing
Nancy Drew
Man with a Plan
Everybody Hates Chris
Reign
Beauty and the Beast
The Hardy Boys
Former programming
Acquired from Freeform
Becoming Us
Beverly Hills Nannies
Beyond
The Bold Type
Bunheads
Chasing Life
Cheer Squad
Cloak & Dagger
Dancing Fools
Dead of Summer
Everything's Gonna Be Okay
Fallen
Family Game Night
Greek
The Fosters
Freak Out
Huge
Jane by Design
Job or No Job
Kevin from Work
Lincoln Heights
Love Trip: Paris
The Lying Game
The Middleman
Make It or Break It
Monica the Medium
Motherland: Fort Salem
Mystery Girls
Next Step Realty: NYC
The Nine Lives of Chloe King
Party of Five
Recovery Road
Roommates
Siren
Startup U
State of Georgia
Stitchers
Switched at Birth
Truth & Iliza
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
Twisted
The Vineyard
The Watchful Eye
Young & Hungry
Other acquired programming
8 Simple Rules
America's Funniest Home Videos (Season 6–8)
America's Funniest Home Videos (seasons 11–25)
Boy Meets World
Blossom
Cache Craze
Cash Mob
Celebrity Damage Control
Celebrity Legacies
Charmed
Come Date With Me
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior
Da Vinci's Inquest
Deal with It
ER Vets
Extreme Babysitting
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
Extra
Family Matters
Full House
The Funny Pit
Ghost Whisperer
Happy Endings
Home Improvement
How To Be Indie
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution
Just for Laughs: Gags
Kaya
Less Than Perfect
Life with Boys
Lizzie McGuire
Love Trap
Lady Jewelpet
Malibu Country
The Middle
Mr. Young
My House Your Money
My Wife and Kids
Mysterious Ways
Mystery Hunters
One of Us Is Lying
Open Heart
Pet Heroes
Pick a Puppy
Princess
Private Eyes
Ransom
Rookie Blue
Ride
Rules of Engagement
Say Yes to the Dress Canada
Scrubs
Shannon and Sophie
Smallville
Splatalot
Student Bodies
Supernatural
That's So Raven
That's So Weird!
Trophy Wife
Ugly Betty
Undercover High
The Vampire Diaries
Wheels That Fail
Wipeout
Wipeout Canada
Working the Engels
References
External links
ABCSpark.ca
ABC Spark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokumei%20Sentai%20Go-Busters | is Japanese tokusatsu drama and the 36th entry in Toei Company's Super Sentai metaseries, following Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. Its theme is based on spy movies and cyber technology and premiered on February 26, 2012 on TV Asahi, joining Kamen Rider Fourze and then Kamen Rider Wizard as a program featured in TV Asahi's Super Hero Time programming block.
Some of the villains are designed by Yutaka Izubuchi; marking his return to Super Sentai character design after 1986's Choushinsei Flashman.
Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters began airing in South Korea in 2013 as Power Rangers Go-Busters.
In the United States, Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters was adapted as Power Rangers Beast Morphers; the first episode premiered on March 2, 2019. Beast Morphers was to be produced by Saban Brands but, on July 2, 2018, Hasbro would acquire all of the former company's entertainment assets, including the Power Rangers franchise.
Plot
Thirteen years ago in the calendar, the computer controlling the newly discovered energy source called was infected by a virus that caused it to create the evil energy being known as Messiah who wishes to take over mankind and create a world made for machines. Though sent into Hyper Space by the scientists' sacrifice, Messiah's actions established the formation of the Energy Management Center's Special Ops Unit from three children who were caught in the crossfire, the Go-Busters, and their Buddyroids. In the present, 2012 NCE, a mysterious figure named Enter leads a group called Vaglass on incursions to gather enough Enetron to bring Messiah back. However, training for this day, the Go-Busters and their Buddyroids are deployed to combat Vaglass's Metaroids and Megazords to protect the city's Enetron from them. Later joined by Masato Jin and his Buddyroid Beet J. Stag, the Go-Busters' resolve is strengthened once they learn the true nature of their enemy and the horrors that would result should Messiah enter their world.
Episodes
Each episode of Go-Busters is called a "Mission".
Production
On September 2, 2011, Toei applied for trademarks on the title to be used on various products. The Japan Patent Office approved these trademarks on September 29, 2011.
Films
The Go-Busters make their debut appearance as a cameo in Kaizoku Sentai Gokaigers third film Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger vs. Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie.
Super Hero Taisen
is a film celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Super Hero Time programming block on TV Asahi, featuring a crossover between the characters of the Kamen Rider and Super Sentai Series. The cast of Go-Busters participate in the film, along with the cast of Kamen Rider Decade, Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger and Kamen Rider Fourze. The event of the movie takes place between Mission 8 and 9.
Protect the Tokyo Enetower!
is the main theatrical release for Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters where the Go-Busters must help protect the Tokyo Enetower along with the help of Tokyo Tower's mascot character . It is set to be released on Augus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAPIEnet | RAPIEnet (Real-time Automation Protocols for Industrial Ethernet) is Korea's first Ethernet international standard for real-time data transmission.
An Ethernet-based industrial networking protocol developed in-house by LSIS guarantees real-time transmission and is registered as an international standard. (IEC 61158-3-21: 2010, IEC 61158-4-21: 2010, IEC 61158-5-21: 2010, IEC 61158-6-21: 2010, IEC 61784-2: 2010, IEC 62439-7)
An embedded Ethernet switch with two ports enables the network expansion in a daisy chain without the need for an additional external switch, easy installation and wiring reduction.
With 100Mbit/s/1Gbit/s transmission speed, electrical and optical media can be used together.
Supports transmission modes such as Unicast, Multicast and Broadcast.
Supports "Store & Forward”and “Cut Through” switching.
Acquired Standards
International Standards
IEC 61158-3-21: 2010, Industrial communication networks - Fieldbus specifications - Part 3-21: Data-link layer service definition - Type 21 elements.
IEC 61158-4-21: 2010, Industrial communication networks - Fieldbus specifications - Part 4-21: Data-link layer protocol specification - Type 21 elements.
IEC 61158-5-21: 2010, Industrial communication networks - Fieldbus specifications - Part 5-21: Application layer service definition - Type 21 elements.
IEC 61158-6-21: 2010, Industrial communication networks - Fieldbus specifications - Part 6-21: Application layer protocol specification - Type 21 elements.
IEC 61784-2: 2010, Industrial communication networks - Profiles - Part 2: Additional fieldbus profiles for real-time networks based on ISO/IEC 8802-3.
IEC 62439-7, Industrial communication networks - High availability automation networks - Part 7: Ring-based Redundancy Protocol (RRP)
RAPIEnet Technology
Protocol Stack Structure
Embedded dual port switch motion
An embedded hardware-based switch is adopted for real-time data transmission.
With the full-duplex communication support, each node has dual link routes in a ring topology.
Frame Format
RAPIEnet Ether type: 0x88FE
Topology
Recovery System
With an embedded switch and full-duplex, it has dual link routes and communication fault tolerance, enabling fast recovery capabilities.
- Recovery time < 10 ms
Transmits signal from Device 1 to Device 3.
A fault occurs between Device 2 and Device 3.
Notify the fault from Device 2 to Device 1.
Transmits signal back from Device 1 to Device 3.
Flexible Hybrid Structure
Fiber Optics/Copper Media
- Copper: Low installation costs with relatively big noise.
- Optics: High installation costs with low noise and relatively long wiring.
Simple and efficient wiring is available by combining the features of two wires that have advantages and disadvantages.
System Diagram Using RAPIEnet
Others
Other international standards in process
IEC 61784-5-17, Industrial communication networks - Profiles - Part 5-17: Installation of fieldbuses - Installation profiles for CPF 17 (to be registered as an IEC |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regal%20Shocker | Regal Shocker is the maker of the paranormal revival of the iconic reality horror-action show of the 1980s, originally offered by Regal Entertainment and aired on GMA Network and then moved to IBC 13. It is a Filipino horror / thriller television series offered by TV5 together with Regal Entertainment and airs every Saturday after Wil Time Bigtime and before The Jose and Wally Show Starring Vic Sotto. It premiered on November 5, 2011 with the episode entitled Elevator led by Gabby Concepcion and Niña Jose.
About Regal Shocker
The Regal Shocker anthology plays with various horror subgenres such as classic monsters, quiet/creepy horror, psychological horror, supernatural, dark fantasy, creatures from lower mythology, horror-action-comedy and so much more.
Armed with the expertise of local writers and directors who have had experience working on the horror-action genre, Regal Shocker employs a roller coaster of scare tactics to ignite fear and pounce on the viewers' emotions with hair-raising, spine-tingling, heart-pounding stories that Filipinos love to watch.
See also
List of programs broadcast by TV5
References
External links
Official TV5
Philippine anthology television series
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2012 Philippine television series endings
TV5 (Philippine TV network) original programming
Filipino-language television shows
Television series by Regal Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold%20alignment | Manifold alignment is a class of machine learning algorithms that produce projections between sets of data, given that the original data sets lie on a common manifold. The concept was first introduced as such by Ham, Lee, and Saul in 2003, adding a manifold constraint to the general problem of correlating sets of high-dimensional vectors.
Overview
Manifold alignment assumes that disparate data sets produced by similar generating processes will share a similar underlying manifold representation. By learning projections from each original space to the shared manifold, correspondences are recovered and knowledge from one domain can be transferred to another. Most manifold alignment techniques consider only two data sets, but the concept extends to arbitrarily many initial data sets.
Consider the case of aligning two data sets, and , with and .
Manifold alignment algorithms attempt to project both and into a new d-dimensional space such that the projections both minimize distance between corresponding points and preserve the local manifold structure of the original data. The projection functions are denoted:
Let represent the binary correspondence matrix between points in and :
Let and represent pointwise similarities within data sets. This is usually encoded as the heat kernel of the adjacency matrix of a k-nearest neighbor graph.
Finally, introduce a coefficient , which can be tuned to adjust the weight of the 'preserve manifold structure' goal, versus the 'minimize corresponding point distances' goal.
With these definitions in place, the loss function for manifold alignment can be written:
Solving this optimization problem is equivalent to solving a generalized eigenvalue problem using the graph laplacian of the joint matrix, G:
Inter-data correspondences
The algorithm described above requires full pairwise correspondence information between input data sets; a supervised learning paradigm. However, this information is usually difficult or impossible to obtain in real world applications. Recent work has extended the core manifold alignment algorithm to semi-supervised
, unsupervised
, and multiple-instance
settings.
One-step vs. two-step alignment
The algorithm described above performs a "one-step" alignment, finding embeddings for both data sets at the same time. A similar effect can also be achieved with "two-step" alignments
, following a slightly modified procedure:
Project each input data set to a lower-dimensional space independently, using any of a variety of dimension reduction algorithms.
Perform linear manifold alignment on the embedded data, holding the first data set fixed, mapping each additional data set onto the first's manifold. This approach has the benefit of decomposing the required computation, which lowers memory overhead and allows parallel implementations.
Instance-level vs. feature-level projections
Manifold alignment can be used to find linear (feature-level) projections, or nonlinear (instance-leve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Engineering | Open Engineering is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal, covering all aspects of engineering, from electrical and computer engineering, civil and environmental, mechanical, and aerospace engineering, to materials science. The editor-in-chief is William F. Ritter (University of Delaware).
The journal was established in 2011 as the Central European Journal of Engineering. It was co-published by Springer Science+Business Media and Versita (since 2012 part of Walter de Gruyter). By the end of 2014 the journal was moved completely to the De Gruyter imprint, obtaining its current title and switching to full open access.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Astrophysics Data System, Chemical Abstracts Service, and Scopus.
References
External links
Engineering journals
Academic journals established in 2011
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
De Gruyter academic journals
Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyient | Cyient (formerly Infotech Enterprises Limited) is a Global multinational technology company that is focused on engineering, manufacturing, data analytics, networks and operations. Infotech Enterprises Ltd. was established in 1991 in Hyderabad. Infotech Enterprises was re-branded as Cyient in 2014 and was featured among the top 30 outsourcing companies in the world in 2018.
History
Cyient was established as Infotech Enterprises Ltd. in 1991 in Hyderabad by B. V. R. Mohan Reddy. In 1995, the company received its first ISO 9002 certification from BVQi London for its conversion services. Infotech Enterprises started its operations as a private limited to provide engineering service to global markets. It encountered a strong resistance to the very concept of engineering outsourcing, but found immediate opportunity in the GIS arena. Cyient became a public limited company in 1997, had an IPO of equity shares at ₹ 20/- per share and listed in all major stock exchanges in India. Around 1999, it signed a breakthrough contract to provide GIS conversion and consultation mapping services worth US$5.5 million to US based Analytical Surveys, Inc. Within the same year, the company acquired Cartographic Sciences from Analytical Surveys, Inc. In June 1999, the company acquired Dataview Solutions Limited, a UK based GIS Software Company. The company continued to pursue engineering services, and finally got a major breakthrough with a leading aircraft engine manufacturer in the year 2000 for engineering services.
In 2000, Cyient announced the acquisition of a German company, Advanced Graphics Software GmbH (AGS), a mechanical engineering software and services company specialising in 3D CAD/CAM. In 2002, Infotech announced a strategic business relationship with the Pratt & Whitney division of United Technologies Corporation, a Fortune 100 company. Pratt & Whitney were to participate with up to ~18% equity stake in Infotech, demonstrating long-term partnering intent and endorsing Infotech's business competence. In 2005, Infotech acquired Tele Atlas India Pvt Ltd. Tele Atlas parent company joined as a strategic partner with preferential allotment of shares. Cyient's founder, B V R Mohan Reddy, was elected Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Southern Region in 2008. On January 15, 2010, Daxcon was acquired by Infotech Enterprises America, Inc; a wholly owned subsidiary of Infotech Enterprises Limited, India. In March 2013, Cyient became public with its own initial public offering (IPO).
Infotech Enterprises Limited adopted the Cyient name in 2014. On May 7, 2014, Cyient Limited, formerly known as Infotech Enterprises Limited, officially announced its new name based on approval from a shareholders' vote. The process of determining the new identity, bearing connotations to the words client and science, while Cyient referencing Infotech Enterprises, involved various brand specialists, and the new name was tested in 17 languages. After changing its nam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-identification | De-identification is the process used to prevent someone's personal identity from being revealed. For example, data produced during human subject research might be de-identified to preserve the privacy of research participants. Biological data may be de-identified in order to comply with HIPAA regulations that define and stipulate patient privacy laws.
When applied to metadata or general data about identification, the process is also known as data anonymization. Common strategies include deleting or masking personal identifiers, such as personal name, and suppressing or generalizing quasi-identifiers, such as date of birth. The reverse process of using de-identified data to identify individuals is known as data re-identification. Successful re-identifications cast doubt on de-identification's effectiveness. A systematic review of fourteen distinct re-identification attacks found "a high re-identification rate […] dominated by small-scale studies on data that was not de-identified according to existing standards".
De-identification is adopted as one of the main approaches toward data privacy protection. It is commonly used in fields of communications, multimedia, biometrics, big data, cloud computing, data mining, internet, social networks, and audio–video surveillance.
Examples
In designing surveys
When surveys are conducted, such as a census, they collect information about a specific group of people. To encourage participation and to protect the privacy of survey respondents, the researchers attempt to design the survey in a way that when people participate in a survey, it will not be possible to match any participant's individual response(s) with any data published.
Before using information
When an online shopping website wants to know its users' preferences and shopping habits, it decides to retrieve customers' data from its database and do analysis on them. The personal data information include personal identifiers which were collected directly when customers created their accounts. The website needs to pre-handle the data through de-identification techniques before analyzing data records to avoid violating their customers' privacy.
Anonymization
Anonymization refers to irreversibly severing a data set from the identity of the data contributor in a study to prevent any future re-identification, even by the study organizers under any condition. De-identification may also include preserving identifying information which can only be re-linked by a trusted party in certain situations. There is a debate in the technology community on whether data that can be re-linked, even by a trusted party, should ever be considered de-identified.
Techniques
Common strategies of de-identification are masking personal identifiers and generalizing quasi-identifiers. Pseudonymization is the main technique used to mask personal identifiers from data records and k-anonymization is usually adopted for generalizing quasi-identifiers.
Pseudonymization
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