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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo%20LeTV | Lenovo smart televisions use the Android operating system and are marketed as the "LeTV" in Mainland China.
Launch
In November 2011 Lenovo said it would soon unveil a smart television product called LeTV, expected for release in the first quarter of 2012. "The PC, communications and TV industries are currently undergoing a 'smart' transformation. In the future, users will have many smart devices and will desire an integrated experience of hardware, software and cloud services." Liu Jun, president of Lenovo's mobile-Internet and digital-home-business division. Lenovo unveiled its first smart TV at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The company said the set would be available for sale in Mainland China in April 2012. During a keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show, Paul Jacobs of Qualcomm asked Liu Jun, head of mobile products for Lenovo, to demonstrate the K91. Lenovo released the K91 in Mainland China on 8 May 2012. Lenovo opted to release its first smart television in China because it would be easier to negotiate deals for content in its home market.
Hardware
Lenovo's first smart TV, the LeTV, used the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. The LeTV features the ability to display 3D content, a face-recognition feature designed to help parents limit the time their children spend watching TV, and voice recognition. The LeTV will be offered in 42-inch and 55-inch screen sizes. The LeTV also allows smart phones and tablets to be used as remote controls. As the K91 is an Android-based device, it is capable of running hundreds of applications available for download online. Lenovo has created an app store dedicated specifically to the K91.
The LeTV uses a Qualcomm 8060 Snapdragon dual-core processor running at 1.5 GHz, 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of flash storage, and Android 4 ICS. The LeTV has a five-megapixel webcam built into its bezel. It has a remote and game controllers. The LeTV's remote features a microphone necessary for the TV's voice recognition functions and a track pad. The game controller has track pad, and embedded motion sensor.
In March 2014 Lenovo announced the S9 smart television. Nicknamed the "Terminator", the S9 is based on NVIDIA's powerful Tegra K1 chip. The 50-inch set has 4K resolution and runs a customised version of Android 4.2. The S9 makes use of a small removable module called a Smart Card. The Smart Card is about the size of a deck of cards, has a micro-USB port, a micro SD slot, and a proprietary 70-pin connector that plugs into the TV. The USB port and SD card slot are used for adding storage and accessories. The K1 processor resides in the Smart Card, allowing for future upgrades. The TV is controlled via a Bluetooth remote that connects to the Smart Card and works via two buttons and gesture control.
Content
Lenovo has established a joint venture called iSmarTV with SMG's BesTV to offer high-definition video for streaming to the LeTV. The service currently offers more than 300,000 hour |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20Console%20Time%20Sharing%20System | The Multiple Console Time Sharing System (MCTS) was an operating system developed by General Motors Research Laboratories in the 1970s for the Control Data Corporation STAR-100 supercomputer. MCTS was built to support GM's computer-aided design (CAD) applications.
MCTS was based on Multics.
See also
GM-NAA I/O
SHARE Operating System
Timeline of operating systems
References
Further reading
Discontinued operating systems
Multics-like
Proprietary operating systems
Time-sharing operating systems
Supercomputer operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival%20Island | Carnival Island is a motion-controlled party video game developed by Magic Pixel Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3, which utilizes PlayStation Move. It was announced at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011 on June 5, 2011. It is the first title by Magic Pixel Games, whose team previously worked on the Boom Blox series.
Reception
Carnival Island received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, where the game was ported for release on December 1, 2011 under the name , Famitsu gave it a score of one seven, one eight, and two sevens for a total of 29 out of 40.
References
External links
at PlayStation.com
at MagicPixelGames.com
2011 video games
Party video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 3-only games
PlayStation Move-compatible games
PlayStation Move-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set on fictional islands
Multiplayer and single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20History%20%28Canadian%20TV%20network%29 | This is a list of programs currently and formerly broadcast by Canadian television channel History and its former incarnation as History Television. This list is current as of September 2014.
Current programming
Acquired from History
Alone
American Pickers
American Restoration
Biker Battleground Phoenix
Counting Cars
The Hunt
Ice Road Truckers
Mountain Men
Pawn Stars
Pawnography
Swamp People
Texas Rising
Other programming
Airport: Below Zero
Auction House
Black Watch
BLK, An Origin Story
Canadian Pickers
Hardcore Heroes
History Erased
Ice Pilots NWT
Knightfall
Lost Car Rescue
Museum Secrets
Nazi Treasure Hunters
Restoration Garage
Six
Treasures Decoded
Vikings
Yukon Gold
Original films
Cheating Hitler: Surviving the Holocaust
The Real Inglorious Bastards
True Story
Former programming
0–9
10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America
12 O'Clock High
1916 Total War
21st Century War Machines
A
Aftermath
Airwars: Fire in the Skies
America: The Story of the U.S.
Ancestors In The Attic
Ancient Aliens
Ancient Discoveries
Ancient Weather
Ancients Behaving Badly
Anna Leonowens Getting to Know You
Antiques Roadshow (US)
Antiques Roadshow FYI (US)
Around the World in 80 Ways
Auschwitz: The Forgotten Evidence
Ax Men
B
Band of Brothers
Barbarians
Barbarians Rising
Battle 360°
Battle of Britain
Battle of Hood and Bismarck
The Battle of Jutland
Battlefield Britain
Battlefield Detectives
Battleships
Beast Legends
Betrayal
Beyond the Da Vinci Code
Big Timber
Blowdown
Bomb Hunters
The Bomber's Dream
The Bombing War
Brad Meltzer's Decoded
Breathing Fire: Battle of the Somme
Britain AD: King Arthur's Britain
C
Canadian Made
The Canadians
Carnivàle
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Chasing Mummies: The Amazing Adventures of Zahi Hawass
China Beach
Churchill: Man of Destiny
Cities of the Underworld
Conquest
Convoy: War of the Atlantic
Crime Stories
D
D-Day: Men and Machines
D-Day to Victory
Dambusters Fly Again
Deadly Arts
Deadwood
Death in the Bunker
Deep Wreck Mysteries
Devil's Brigade
Diana: The Night She Died
Diana's Legacy
Dispatches from the Front
Dive Detectives
Dogfight: Mystery of the Red Baron
Down East Dickering
Dual Suspects
Dust Up
E
The Egyptian Job
Einstein
Enchanted Summers
The English Club
Exhibit A
F
Finding the Fallen
Foyle's War
G
Ghost Towns
Great Canadian Lakes
The Great Stink
The Greatest Escapes of History
Greatest Tank Battles
H
Hairy Bikers
Halifax: The Story of a Bomber
History Bites
History Lands
History's Secrets
Hitler of the Andes
Hitler's Britain
Hitler's Sunken Secret
Hitler's War on America
Hitler's Women
Horizon: King Solomon's Tablet
I
Ice Road Truckers: Deadliest Roads
In Korea
Inside Lost Worlds
Inside the Mafia
J
JAG
Japan's Atomic Bomb
Japan's War in Colour
K
The Kennedys
L
The Last Dawn
Life After People
Lost Battlefields
The Lost Book of Nostradamus
Lost Inventions
Lost Worlds
M
MacAr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative%20electroencephalography | Quantitative electroencephalography (qEEG or QEEG) is a field concerned with the numerical analysis of electroencephalography (EEG) data and associated behavioral correlates.
Details
Techniques used in digital signal analysis are extended to the analysis of electroencephalography (EEG). These include wavelet analysis and Fourier analysis, with new focus on shared activity between rhythms including phase synchrony (coherence, phase lag) and magnitude synchrony (comodulation/correlation, and asymmetry).
The analog signal comprises a microvoltage time series of the EEG, sampled digitally and sampling rates adequate to over-sample the signal (using the Nyquist principle of exceeding twice the highest frequency being detected). Modern EEG amplifiers use adequate sampling to resolve the EEG across the traditional medical band from DC to 70 or 100 Hz, using sample rates of 250/256, 500/512, to over 1000 samples per second, depending on the intended application.
QEEG can be performed by open-source toolboxes such as EEGLAB or the Neurophysiological Biomarker Toolbox.
Several QEEG products have received Class 2 FDA medical device clearance and the method has received some medical acceptance for use in epilepsy patients. However QEEG has not been endorsed by the American Academy of Neurology or the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society.
Fourier analysis of EEG
The Fourier decomposes the EEG time series into a voltage by frequency spectral graph commonly called the "power spectrum", with power being the square of the EEG magnitude, and magnitude being the integral average of the amplitude of the EEG signal, measured from(+) peak-to-(-)peak), across the time sampled, or epoch. The epoch length determines the frequency resolution of the Fourier, with a 1-second epoch providing a 1 Hz resolution (plus/minus 0.5 Hz resolution), and a 4-second epoch providing ¼ Hz, or plus/minus 0.125 Hz resolution.
Where ξ = frequency
Wavelet analysis of EEG
A wavelet is a time-frequency transformation that allows analysis of EEG signals in the time extension that is not possible with Fourier analysis.
Where a = scaling; b = time
Uses
QEEG has been accepted for diagnostic evaluation in some areas, such as cerebro-vascular disorders, encephalopathy, dementia and epilepsy, though it remains yet to be accepted in other clinical areas, such as diagnosing mild traumatic brain injury or psychiatric disorders. The use of qEEG techniques in investigations in clinical and research settings are ongoing. QEEG has also been utilized to provide neurofeedback, which is a form of biofeedback, wherein electrical activity in the brain is monitored by a computer program, which is applied to modulate visual or auditory stimuli - These stimuli, in turn, are designed to be controlled by the user.
References
Electroencephalography
Quantitative spectral analysis of EEG in psychiatry revisited: drawing signs out of numbers in a clinical setting. Clin Neurophysiol. 2003 D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBR%20Open%20Building%20Research | In 2000 Paolo Brescia and Tommaso Principi established the collective OBR to investigate new ways of contemporary living, creating a design network among Milan, London and New York.
After working with Renzo Piano, Paolo and Tommaso have oriented the research of OBR towards the integration artifice-nature, to create sensitive architecture in perpetual change, stimulating the interaction between man and environment.
The team of OBR develops its design activity through public-private social programs, promoting – through architecture – the sense of community and the individual identities.
Today OBR is group open to different multidisciplinary contributors, cooperating with different universities, such as Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Aalto University, Academy of Architecture of Mumbai and Mimar Sinan Fine Art University.
Among the best known works by OBR are the Pythagoras Museum, the New Galleria Sabauda in Turin, the Milanofiori Residential Complex, the Children Hospital in Parma, the Galliera Hospital in Genoa, the Lido of Genoa, the Ex Cinema Roma, the Triennale di Milano Terrace.
The under construction projects by OBR include the Lehariya Cluster in Jaipur, the Jafza Traders Market in Dubai and the Multiuse Complex Ahmad Qasir in Teheran.
OBR's projects have been featured in Venice Biennale of Architecture, Royal Institute of British Architects in London, Bienal de Arquitetura of Brasilia, MAXXI in Rome and Triennale di Milano.
OBR has been awarded with the AR Award for Emerging Architecture at RIBA, the Plusform under 40, the Urbanpromo at the 11° Biennale di Venezia, the honourable mention for the Medaglia d'Oro all'Architettura Italiana, the Europe 40 Under 40 in Madrid, the Leaf Award overall winner in London, the WAN Residential Award, the Building Healthcare Award, the Inarch Award for Italian Architecture and the American Architecture Prize in New York.
Since 2004 OBR has been evolving its design parameters according to the environmental and energy certification LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) and since 2009 OBR is partner of the GBC (Green Building Council).
Biography
Arch. Paolo Brescia
Paolo Brescia was born in Chiavari on 6 July 1970.
After his degree in 1996 in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano, he started in 1998 his collaboration with Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
In 2000 he founded OBR Open Building Research with Tommaso Principi.
Since 2000 he is guest professor in several athenaeums lecturing at Faculty of Architecture of the Università degli Studi di Genova, Politecnico di Milano, Università di Trieste, Luiss, Sapienza Università di Roma, Kent State University, Mendrisio Academy of Architecture, Helsinki Aalto University, Academy of Architecture of Mumbai.
From 2004 to 2005 he was university professor in charge at the Faculty of Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Milano.
Arch. Tommaso Principi
Tommaso Principi was born Firenze on 20 May 1970.
Before his degree in 1999 in Architec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20computer%20clusters | The history of computer clusters is best captured by a footnote in Greg Pfister's In Search of Clusters: "Virtually every press release from DEC mentioning clusters says ‘DEC, who invented clusters...’. IBM did not invent them either. Customers invented clusters, as soon as they could not fit all their work on one computer, or needed a backup. The date of the first is unknown, but it would be surprising if it was not in the 1960s, or even late 1950s."
The formal engineering basis of cluster computing as a means of doing parallel work of any sort was arguably invented by Gene Amdahl of IBM, who in 1967 published what has come to be regarded as the seminal paper on parallel processing: Amdahl's Law. Amdahl's Law describes mathematically the speedup one can expect from parallelizing any given otherwise serially performed task on a parallel architecture. This article defined the engineering basis for both multiprocessor computing and cluster computing, where the primary differentiator is whether or not the interprocessor communications are supported "inside" the computer (on for example a customized internal communications bus or network) or "outside" the computer on a commodity network.
Consequently, the history of early computer clusters is more or less directly tied into the history of early networks, as one of the primary motivations for the development of a network was to link computing resources, creating a de facto computer cluster. Packet switching networks were conceptually invented by the RAND corporation in 1962. Using the concept of a packet switched network, the ARPANET project succeeded in creating in 1969 what was arguably the world's first commodity-network based computer cluster by linking four different computer centers (each of which was something of a "cluster" in its own right, but probably not a commodity cluster). The ARPANET project grew into the Internet—which can be thought of as "the mother of all computer clusters" (as the union of nearly all of the compute resources, including clusters, that happen to be connected). It also established the paradigm in use by all computer clusters in the world today—the use of packet-switched networks to perform interprocessor communications between processor (sets) located in otherwise disconnected frames.
The development of customer-built and research clusters proceeded hand in hand with that of both networks and the Unix operating system from the early 1970s, as both TCP/IP and the Xerox PARC project created and formalized protocols for network-based communications. The Hydra operating system was built for a cluster of DEC PDP-11 minicomputers called C.mmp at Carnegie Mellon University in 1971. However, it was not until circa 1983 that the protocols and tools for easily doing remote job distribution and file sharing were defined (largely within the context of BSD Unix, as implemented by Sun Microsystems) and hence became generally available commercially, along with a shared filesyste |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambarnath%20railway%20station | Ambarnath (also spelled Ambernath) is a railway station on the Central Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. It is an important terminus for local commuters.
Ambarnath is famous for its namesake Ambreshwar mandir, a temple dedicated to Shiva and therefore commonly known as Shivmandir. This temple was built in 1060 CE and is included in the small list of historically very important places in India by UNESCO.
As per 2011 census the population of Ambarnath was 254,003 but it has risen by 2016. The city is an important industrial hub M.I.D.C of Ambarnath has 162 large-scale manufacturing units with many international companies having their plants there.
The city of Ambarnath became notable when an ordnance factory was set up during the British rule. This factory produces ammunition for the Indian army along with shielded vehicles on a large scale.
Gallery
References
Kalyan-Lonavala rail line
Railway stations in Thane district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai CR railway division
Ambarnath |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badlapur%20railway%20station | Badlapur railway station is a railway station on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. It is built for the town of Badlapur. Loads of daily commuters commute from this station daily.
Trains
Some of the trains that run from Badlapur are:
Mumbai CST–Pandharpur Fast Passenger
Mumbai CST–Bijapur Fast Passenger
Sainagar Shirdi–Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Fast Passenger (via Daund)
Badlapur–Mumbai CST
Badlapur–Thane
Gallery
References
Railway stations in Thane district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai CR railway division
Kalyan-Lonavala rail line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vangani%20railway%20station | Vangani is a railway station on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
On local time of 17:03, April 17, 2021, a visually impaired mother took a 6-years old child, who had goes off edge of platform and fallen on the tracks when an express train approaching, a railway worker named Mayur Shelkhe rush to save the child from tracks only a 2-3 seconds before a train passing and station staff flagging to order the train to stop, both railway worker and the child are safely climbed to the platform while risking their life, and the train stops for a while, recorded by many CCTV cameras, the Ministry of Railway in India has praised Mayur Shelkhe's good Samaritan and awarded with Rs 50,000 in cash
Gallery
References
Railway stations in Thane district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai CR railway division
Kalyan-Lonavala rail line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelu%20railway%20station | Shelu is a railway station on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
Gallery
References
Railway stations in Raigad district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai CR railway division
Kalyan-Lonavala rail line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neral%20Junction%20railway%20station | Neral Junction is a railway station on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network located in the town of Neral. It is a junction railway station between Kalyan - Karjat section of Central railway connecting Mumbai and Pune. It is the starting point of the narrow gauge Matheran Hill Railway connecting the hill station of Matheran.
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Railway stations in Raigad district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai CR railway division
Kalyan-Lonavala rail line
Railway junction stations in Maharashtra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karjat%20railway%20station | Karjat (station code: KJT/S for South (local)) is a railway station on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. Karjat is a major rail terminus, connected via local trains to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus Mumbai, and
Regular shuttle trains run between Karjat and Pune. Located about halfway between Mumbai and Pune, the town is a famous stop to buy Vada pav, (a popular potato savoury originated from here) when travelling by train between the two cities. Almost all long distance and all short-distance trains halt here.
A new broad-gauge railway has started between Karjat and and harbour railway line now stands extended up to Karjat.
Karjat has a bus terminal near railway station in Bhisegaon. It is well connected to other cities in and around state by Maharashtra state owned passenger buses.
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Railway stations in Raigad district
Karjat-Panvel rail line
Karjat-Khopoli rail line
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Kalyan-Lonavala rail line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palasdari%20railway%20station | Palasdari (formerly Padusdhurree, station code: PDI) is a railway station on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
It is also on Karjat–Lonavala line. On Khopoli route Kelavli is the next station.
Railway stations in Raigad district
Karjat-Khopoli rail line
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Kalyan-Lonavala rail line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahad%20railway%20station | Shahad is a railway station on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network, in western India. It is located on the route between Kalyan and Ambivli.
Shahad is located on the Kasara Line, next to Kalyan. The railway route that comes up to Kalyan from Mumbai CST bifurcates, where one route goes towards Ambernath, Ulhasnagar Badlapur, Karjat, and Pune. The other line goes towards Shahad, Titwala, Asangaon, Kasara, and Nasik. Shahad is located on the Nasik route, next station from Kalyan.
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Railway stations in Thane district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai CR railway division
Kalyan-Igatpuri rail line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambivli%20railway%20station | Ambivli railway station is a railway station on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network, in western India. It is located on the route between Kalyan and Kasara. Shahad is the previous stop and Titwala is the next stop.
Trains
Some of the trains that run from Ambivli are:
Only local trains run on this station with frequency of approximately 75 pairs of trains for up and down which includes 2 pair of AC local from Titwala to CSMT.
References
Railway stations in Thane district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai CR railway division
Transport in Kalyan-Dombivli
Kalyan-Igatpuri rail line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khadavli%20railway%20station | Khadavli is a railway station on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. Titwala is the previous stop and Vasind is the next stop.
References
Railway stations in Thane district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai CR railway division
Kalyan-Igatpuri rail line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasind%20railway%20station | Vasind is a railway station on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. Khadavli is the previous stop and is the next stop.
References
Railway stations in Thane district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai CR railway division
Kalyan-Igatpuri rail line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khardi%20railway%20station | Khardi is a railway station on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. Thansit is the previous stop and Umbermali is the next stop. All suburban services terminating at, and departing from, Kasara, halt at this station.
Railway stations in Thane district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai CR railway division
Kalyan-Igatpuri rail line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasara%20railway%20station | Kasara (station code: KSRA/N for North (local)) is a railway station on the Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. It is the final stop in the north-east sector of the Central Line.
Background
Kasara was called Kassarah during the British Raj. For outstation trains, it is a technical halt, where bankers (generally WAG-5 or WAG-7) are attached behind the trains to enable it to cross the tough and high gradient Kasara Ghat. Earlier the station was electrified with a DC 1.5 kV traction system, but on 19 February 2006, it was changed to an AC 25 kV 50 Hz system.
Services
It takes up to 162 minutes for slow local suburban trains to reach Kasara from Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus whereas the fast locals take 136 mins.
Connections
MSRTC BUS and Shared taxis to , Jawahar, Mokhada, Rajur, and Akole are also available from the station.
Connections
References
External links
Railway stations in Thane district
Kalyan-Igatpuri rail line
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toniann%20Pitassi | Toniann Pitassi is a Canadian-American mathematician and computer scientist specializing in computational complexity theory. She is currently Jeffrey L. and Brenda Bleustein Professor of Engineering at Columbia University and was Bell Research Chair at the University of Toronto.
Academic career
A native of Pittsburgh, Pitassi earned bachelor's and master's degrees at Pennsylvania State University before moving to the University of Toronto for her doctoral studies; she earned her PhD in 1992 from Toronto under the supervision of Stephen Cook. After postdoctoral studies at the University of California, San Diego and faculty positions at the University of Pittsburgh and University of Arizona, she returned to Toronto in 2001, and was a professor in the University of Toronto Department of Computer Science and University of Toronto Department of Mathematics until 2021, when she joined the faculty of Columbia University.
She was an invited speaker at International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin in 1998. She was the program chair for the 2012 Symposium on Theory of Computing. From September through December 2017, she was a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study.
Research
Pitassi's research has largely focused on proof complexity, a branch of computational complexity theory that seeks upper and lower bounds on the lengths of mathematical proofs of logical propositions within various formalized proof systems. The goal of this study is to use these bounds to understand both the time complexity of proof-finding procedures, and the relative strengths of different proof systems.
Research contributions that she has made in this area include exponential lower bounds for Frege proofs of the pigeonhole principle, exponential lower bounds for the cutting-plane method applied to propositions derived from the maximum clique problem, exponential lower bounds for resolution proofs of dense random 3-satisfiability instances, and subexponential upper bounds for the same dense random instances using the Davis–Putnam algorithm. With Paul Beame, she also wrote a survey of proof complexity.
Recognition
Pitassi was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to research and education in the fields of computational and proof complexity".
Pitassi was also the recipient of the EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science) Award in 2021 for her "fundamental and wide-ranging contributions to computational complexity".
She was named to the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
Selected publications
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References
Living people
Canadian women mathematicians
Canadian women computer scientists
Canadian computer scientists
University of Toronto alumni
Pennsylvania State University faculty
University of Pittsburgh faculty
University of Arizona faculty
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Theoretical computer scientists
Fellows of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juchandra%20railway%20station | Juchandra is a Railway Station in Naigaon East on the Vasai Road-DivaJn.-Panvel Rail Route of Central Railway of the Mumbai Suburban Railway Network.
Juchandra is a Rail Station after Kaman Road Rail Station in the South and before Vasai Road Rail Station in the North. Juchandra Railway Station is closely connected to Western Railway as well through Naigaon Railway Station. Naigaon and Juchandra Rail Stations are well connected by Road through Naigaon-Juchandra Link Road.
Juchandra Itself is a Part of Greater Naigaon.
Railway stations in Palghar district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai CR railway division
Transport in Vasai-Virar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaman%20Road%20railway%20station | Kaman Road is a Railway Station in Naigaon East on the Vasai Road–Diva–Panvel Rail Route of the Central Line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
Kaman Road is the next Railway Station after Kharbao Railway Station in the South & before Juchandra Railway Station in the North.
Kaman Road Railway Station is situated in the area of Navghar also called Sasunavghar in the Eastern part of Naigaon, Maharashtra, India. This Railway Station is easily accessible by road from Naigaon East Railway Station (Western Line) & Juchandra Railway Station -[located in Naigaon East] (Central Line).
Kaman Road Railway Station is beneficial for the people residing in Navghar area of Naigaon East to travel towards Diva Jn. & Panvel Rail Stations in the South & Vasai Road Rail Station in the North.
Kaman Road is a Railway Station located near National Highway 48
Railway stations in Palghar district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai CR railway division
Transport in Vasai-Virar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray%20Brava | Stingray Brava (formerly Brava) was a cultural television channel originated in the Netherlands, owned by the Stingray Group in Canada. The programming consisted of opera, ballet, and concertos. Productions were recorded in opera houses such as the Royal Opera House, the Teatro Real, and La Scala. The productions consisted of stage performances such as La bohème, Otello, Aida, Swan Lake, Tosca, Zoroastre and Così fan tutte.
History
Brava was founded by Jur Bron and Gerard Ardesch. The pan-European Brava HDTV (now Stingray Brava Europe) was launched in 2006, and Brava NL (now Stingray Brava Dutch), which is broadcast in Dutch and focuses on Dutch contents, began on 1 July 2009. Brava was co-owned by Strengholt BV between 23 December 2011 and 31 July 2015.
On 25 November 2010, Brava launched Brava 3D, which showcased stereoscopic 3D television content across Europe as a Free-to-air channel on the Astra 3B satellite. The channel, however, was closed down on 1 August 2012.
The Canadian company Stingray Group took over Brava on 31 July 2015. Followed by Cultuur 7 in Flanders in October 2015, which merged with Brava on 1 December 2015. Both versions of Brava (all of which simplified names to Brava in 2014) were renamed as Stingray Brava at the end of 2016.
The Stingray Brava brand was abolished on 1 March 2019, in favour of Stingray Classica. Stingray acquired Classica brand and channels from Unitel in Germany in 2017.
Versions
Stingray Brava Europe Launched as Brava HDTV in 2007, it rebranded as Brava HD in 2013, before simplifying its name as Brava in 2014. This version was available in English and French across Europe. This version was closed down on 1 March 2019, and it was effectively replaced by an existing pan-European version of Stingray Classica.
Stingray Brava Dutch Launched on 1 July 2009 as Brava NL, the Dutch version was renamed as Brava NL Klassiek in May 2013. It simplified its name as Brava in 2014. On 1 December 2015, the Dutch version of Brava replaced Cultuur 7 in Belgium (which Stingray acquired earlier in October 2015) in its former channel slot; Cultuur 7's programmes were integrated into the new Brava's schedule. This version was rebranded as Stingray Classica on 1 March 2019.
See also
Stingray Djazz: formerly Djazz TV, also operated by Brava Group, acquired together with Brava by Stingray in 2015
Stingray Classica: a similar television channel, originated from Germany, acquired by Stingray in 2017
Television in the Netherlands
Digital television in the Netherlands
References
External links
Classical music television channels
Defunct television channels in the Netherlands
Defunct television channels in Belgium
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2019
B
Music television channels
Music organisations based in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Oranje | TV Oranje (English: TV Orange) is a Dutch music television channel aimed at the Dutch market which launched on 5 October 2005. The programming consists mainly of music videos and music programs in the Dutch language. The main music genres are Nederpop and Levenslied. The channel was founded by Jur Bron and Gerard Ardesch and officially owned by their company TV Digitaal BV. Since 12 May 2016 it is part of MuziekKiosk.
See also
Television in the Netherlands
Digital television in the Netherlands
References
External links
www.tvoranje.nl
Television channels in the Netherlands
Television channels in Flanders
Television channels in Belgium
Television channels and stations established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SchlagerTV | SchlagerTV is a Schlager music television channel aimed at the European and North-American markets which launched in January, 2009. The programming consists mainly of music videos and music programs in the German language. The main music genre is the popular Schlager music genre from Germany and Austria. The channel is founded by Jur Bron and Gerard Ardesch and officially owned by their company TV Digitaal BV. In December 2011, the Brava TV Group announced that Strengholt BV became co-owner of SchlagerTV, though sister channel TV Oranje remains solely owned by TV Digitaal BV. Since 12 May 2016 it is part of MuziekKiosk.
See also
Television in the Netherlands
Digital television in the Netherlands
References
External links
www.schlagertv.nl
Television channels in the Netherlands
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Mass media in Naarden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20A.%20Langos | Bruce A. Langos is an American technology executive.
Career
Langos joined NCR Corporation in 1976. From 1996 to 2005, he was vice president of the Teradata division of NCR. In 2005, he became senior vice president of global operations and company officer for NCR and served in that position until becoming chief operating officer of Teradata after the spin-off in 2007 until 2016. From 2016 through 2019 Langos at the request of the Sheriff of Montgomery County, Ohio was requested to establish a Criminal Intelligence Center for data sharing amongst the 29 law enforcement organizations in the county. Langos became Executive Director of the Center. In late 2019 Langos became the President of RG Properties/Enterprises a privately held real estate investment, development, and asset management company headquartered in Dayton, Ohio.
Langos holds a seat on Ohio Third Frontier, the state's commission for the economic development of technology and research companies. He was also the Chairman of the Board of the Dayton Development Coalition, and the Chairman of the Humane Society Board of Greater Dayton. Langos also serves on the Board of Trustees for Wright State University.
References
Living people
Corporate executives
Teradata
NCR Corporation people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts%20Green%20High%20Performance%20Computing%20Center | Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) is an intercollegiate high-performance computing facility located in Holyoke, Massachusetts, connected to that city's municipal fiber grid and powered by Holyoke Gas and Electric via the and Dam. MGHPCC is a joint venture of Boston University, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, and the University of Massachusetts system; the facility holds the capacity for hundreds of thousands of cores in clusters provided by its affiliates. For example, as of 2016 one cluster used by UMass contained a network of 14,376 cores, both Intel and AMD, and more than 1.1 petabytes of on-site storage on an FDR Infiniband network. The facility maintains capacity for regular expansion, with key partners investing capability upgrades in the current building and more than 4 acres of additional undeveloped space.
History
The Center was first planned in early 2009 in joint discussions between MIT and UMass, with UMass President Jack M. Wilson being a key proponent of the project, and its eventual founding chair. Boston University, Northeastern, and Harvard joined the planning process soon thereafter. Holyoke was selected as the location on June 11, 2009. The specific site was announced on August 9, 2010; a century ago the site had housed a textile mill. Ground was broken on October 5, 2011. The topping off ceremony occurred on November 29, 2011. The facility was completed in November 2012.
Funding
Funding for the construction of the facility came first and foremost from the five university partners. The state of Massachusetts pledged $25 million toward associated costs. Additional support came from Cisco Systems, and EMC Corporation. The U.S. Department of Commerce spent $2.1 million on hydroelectric infrastructure improvements to support the center and similar businesses in the city's Innovation District.
Infrastructure
Holyoke Gas and Electric partnered with the consortium to do the site selection and to contract for the provision of green power from their hydroelectric facilities. Between 2011-2013, Holyoke Gas and Electric constructed the new North Canal Substation located on Water Street which provides the electrical service for the computer center via two dedicated 34.5 kV feeders directly from the substation's 34.5 kV bus. The MGHPCC shares the 34.5 kV bus exclusively with the Hadley Falls Hydro Electric station, the largest of HG&E's hydro facilities, which creates a direct power path to the computing center from the Hadley Falls plant. Two 115 kV/34.5 kV transformers at the substation connect the bus to the transmission system and provide electricity from the grid to the computing center when the hydro plant is offline or generating less power than the computing center is using. These transformers also function to deliver excess power to the grid when the Hadley Falls station is producing more output than what the computing center is using.
Holyoke's municipal fiber optic network would also play a dec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie%20Wehner | Stephanie Dorothea Christine Wehner (born 8 May 1977 in Würzburg) is a German physicist and computer scientist.
She is the Roadmap Leader of the Quantum Internet and Networked Computing initiative at QuTech, Delft University of Technology. She is also known for introducing the noisy-storage model in quantum cryptography. Wehner's research focuses mainly on quantum cryptography and quantum communications.
Wehner, together with Jonathan Oppenheim, discovered that the amount of non-locality in quantum mechanics is limited by the uncertainty principle.
Education and early life
She studied at the University of Amsterdam and obtained her Ph.D. at CWI. Following this she moved to Caltech as a postdoctoral researcher (under John Preskill).
Wehner was involved in computer security, for example kernel rootkits, and worked as a professional hacker.
Research
From 2010 to 2014, Wehner was an assistant professor and later associate professor at the department of computer science at the National University of Singapore and a Principal Investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies. In 2014, she started as associate professor at QuTech, Delft University of Technology and as of 2016 she is Antoni van Leeuwenhoek professor at the Delft University of Technology.
QCRYPT conference
In 2011, Wehner and others founded the QCRYPT conference series. The latest conference was organised in the Shanghai International Conference Center, Shanghai.
Quantum Internet Alliance
Stephanie Wehner is the coordinator of the Quantum Internet Alliance which was awarded ten million Euros in October 2018 by the European Commission. Commenting on the award, Wehner said: "This grant allows us to speed up in order to keep Europe at the front of this fascinating field of research and technology development”.
Publications
Her publications include:
Oppenheim, Jonathan, and Stephanie Wehner. "The uncertainty principle determines the nonlocality of quantum mechanics." Science 330.6007 (2010): 1072–1074.
Hensen, Bas, et al. "Loophole-free Bell inequality violation using electron spins separated by 1.3 kilometres." Nature526.7575 (2015): 682.
Awards
Ammodo Science Award in 2019
References
1977 births
21st-century German physicists
21st-century German women scientists
Academic staff of the Delft University of Technology
German computer criminals
German computer scientists
German women physicists
Living people
Scientists from Würzburg
University of Amsterdam alumni
German women computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic%20Publishing | Mosaic Publishing was a computer games company founded in 1983 by Vicky Carne, who had previously worked with magazine publisher Haymarket and with Sinclair-Brown, an imprint started by Clive Sinclair and Patrick Brown. Mosaic published a series of best-selling games around licensed product including The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole (based on the similarly named novel by Sue Townsend), Yes, Prime Minister (based on the television series of the same name), The Saga of Erik the Viking, a number of sci-fi titles, and the first soap computer game based on The Archers.
References
Defunct video game companies of the United Kingdom
Video game companies established in 1983 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-12-ZB-TV | D-12-ZB-TV (channel 12) is a television station in Batangas City, Philippines, airing programming from the GMA network. It is owned and operated by the network's namesake corporate parent alongside GTV outlet DZDK-TV (channel 26). Both stations maintain studios at the PNG Bldg., P. Burgos St. cor. Rizal Ave., Batangas City, while D-12-ZB-TV's transmitter is located atop Mt. Banoy.
In 2021, GMA Batangas started planning to upgrade as a new originating TV station. In 2022, GMA revealed the name of the flagship Filipino-language newscast of GMA Batangas, which it had launched on February 14, 2022, entitled "Balitang Southern Tagalog".
GMA TV-12 Batangas programs
Balitang Southern Tagalog
Word of God Network
Digital television
Digital channels
D-12-ZB-TV's digital signal operates on UHF channel 32 (581.143 MHz) and broadcasts on the following subchannels:
Rebroadcasters
D-12-ZB-TV's programming is relayed to the following stations across the Southern Tagalog.
Current Personalities
Ivy Kristina Saunar-Gasang, Anchor and News Editor of Balitang Southern Tagalog
Ace Medrano, Co-Anchor of Balitang Southern Tagalog and Also as Full Time National Anchor of Regional TV News.
Andrew Bernardo, News Producer, Senior Desk Manager, and Correspondent of Balitang Southern Tagalog
Paul Hernandez, News Producer and Correspondent of Balitang Southern Tagalog
Denise Hannah Mei Abante, News Producer and Correspondent of Balitang Southern Tagalog
Veblen Reynes, News Producer and Correspondent of Balitang Southern Tagalog
Former
Ilonah Riego-Manalo (News Producer and Correspondent)
Lorenzo Ilagan (News Producer and Correspondent)
Russel Simorio (News Producer and Correspondent, temporary for a month, returned to One North Central Luzon)
Mark Lavarro (Senior Desk Manager and Part-time Correspondent)
Area of coverage
Batangas
Laguna
Cavite
Rizal
Portion of Quezon
Portion of Oriental Mindoro
Portion of Marinduque
Portion of Romblon
See also
List of GMA Network stations
References
GMA Network stations
Television stations in Batangas
Television stations in the Philippines
Television channels and stations established in 1983
Digital television stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minicraft | Minicraft is a 2D top-down action game designed and programmed by Markus Persson, the creator of Minecraft, for a Ludum Dare, a 48-hour game programming competition. The game was released on December 19, 2011.
Gameplay
Similar to Minecraft, the player roams an infinite world and must find resources, fight enemies, and build a home. The goal of the game is to kill the Air Wizard, the boss of the game. It is also stated in the official description, in line with the theme, that "the goal of the game is to kill the only other sentient being in the world, making sure you’ll be alone forever". The game is set in a top down perspective, and according to Alec Meer from Rock, Paper, Shotgun – the game has a touch of Zelda to it.
Development
Minicraft was developed by Minecraft creator Markus Persson in 48 hours as a part of the 22nd Ludum Dare competition, which requires game developers that enter the contest to make a game in 48 hours based on a theme that is released just before the time starts. For this Ludum Dare, the theme was "Alone". During the 48 hours, Persson also livestreamed his coding of the game and made blog entries on the Ludum Dare website for significant milestones he reached. Minicraft competed against 891 other games, with the judging based on nine categories, some of which include "innovation, fun, graphics, audio, humor and mood". The voting for best game was determined by the Ludum Dare community and the time for voting ended on January 9, 2012.
Sequel
Persson tweeted on December 26, 2011, that he was working on Minicraft 2, but planned to change that interim title. When asked what type of direction the game would be going in, Persson responded, "action roguelike with crafting and modifiable terrain." On January 1, 2012, Persson announced via Twitter that the new title for the sequel to Minicraft was to be MiniTale. He also obtained "the .com and .net" URLs with the title to host the game on.
Minicraft+
Notch released the source code under Ludum Dare’s rules, but under no license. Instead he asked that players modding the game call it something else. Over the weeks that followed many mods came out for the game, but seeing that Notch had moved on to other projects, Minicraft+ was born. Minicraft+ is a modded version of Minicraft that adds many more features to the original version.
Reception
The game was commonly likened to the early The Legend of Zelda games, with reviewers like Rock, Paper, Shotgun writer Alec Meer adding, "It's a good (and compulsive) time, and impressively complete for a mere 48 hours of crunch".
Boing Boing reviewer Rob Beschizza critiqued the game saying, "A spectacular achievement in just a few hours of coding, Minicraft casts the same spell as the real thing. It does, however, suffer from shallowness and grind. There's not much to do except plow through the process of emptying each level in search of better ores."
VentureBeat writer Dan Crawley commented on the gathering system, saying, "A simple but |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Garcia%20%28government%20official%29 | Greg Garcia is a cyber security professional and former Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
In 2006 U.S. President George W. Bush appointed Garcia as the nation's first Assistant Secretary for Cyber Security and Telecommunications for the United States Department of Homeland Security. As assistant secretary, Garcia led the National Cyber Security Division, the National Communications System and the Office of Emergency Communications. According to Federal Computer Week, many experts believed Garcia "successfully championed cybersecurity in his first year, boosting its relevance in the DHS hierarchy and government", however, some critics were concerned cybersecurity efforts weren't substantive enough.
After leaving the government, Garcia was employed as a cybersecurity and identity management partnership executive for Bank of America.
As of 2017, Garcia was executive vice-president at Signal Group, a public affairs consultancy. He has also been employed as director of global government relations at 3Com.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
United States Department of Homeland Security officials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202012%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Singles Chart ranks the best-performing singles in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2012, seventeen singles claimed the top spot, including LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It", which started its peak position in late 2011. Seventeen acts achieved their first number-one single in Australia, either as a lead or featured artist: Foster the People, Sia, Gym Class Heroes, Neon Hitch, Fun, Janelle Monáe, Carly Rae Jepsen, Karise Eden, Justice Crew, Lupe Fiasco, Psy, Swedish House Mafia, John Martin, Samantha Jade, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and Wanz.
Fun and Flo Rida earned two number-one songs during the year. Flo Rida's "Whistle" was the longest-running number-one single of 2012, having topped the ARIA Singles Chart for eight weeks. Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop" each topped the chart for five consecutive weeks, while Flo Rida's "Wild Ones", Psy's "Gangnam Style" and Guy Sebastian's "Battle Scars" all stayed at number one for six consecutive weeks. Sebastian is the only Australian male artist in the chart's history to achieve six number-one singles.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2012 in music
List of number-one albums of 2012 (Australia)
List of top 25 singles for 2012 in Australia
List of top 10 singles for 2012 in Australia
References
Number-one singles
Australia
2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20albums%20of%202012%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Albums Chart ranks the best-performing albums and extended plays in Australia. Its data, published by the Australian Recording Industry Association, is based collectively on each album and EP's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2012, twenty-two albums claimed the top spot, including Adele's 21 and Michael Bublé's Christmas, both of which started their peak positions in 2011. Ten acts achieved their first number-one album in Australia: Foster the People, Lana Del Rey, One Direction, Keith Urban, The Temper Trap, John Mayer, Karise Eden, Ed Sheeran, Birdy and The Amity Affliction.
One Direction earned two number-one albums during the year for Up All Night and Take Me Home. Taylor Swift's Red topped the charts for three consecutive weeks becoming her second number-one album on the chart. 21 was the longest-running number-one album of 2012, having topped the ARIA Albums Chart for nine weeks. Eden's My Journey topped the chart for six consecutive weeks, while Michael Bublé's Christmas, One Direction's Up All Night and Pink's The Truth About Love each spent five weeks at the number-one spot.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2012 in music
List of number-one singles of 2012 (Australia)
References
2012
Australia Albums
2012 in Australian music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy%20Operational%20Global%20Atmospheric%20Prediction%20System%20Model | Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System Model (NOGAPS) is a global numerical weather prediction computer model run by Fleet Numerical. This mathematical model is run four times a day and produces weather forecasts. Along with the ECMWF's Integrated Forecast System (IFS), the Canadian Global Environmental Multiscale Model (GEM) it is one of several synoptic scale medium-range models in general use.
References
External links
NOGAPS Portal
Weather prediction
Numerical climate and weather models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navy%20Operational%20Global%20Atmospheric%20Prediction%20System | The Navy Operational Global Atmospheric Prediction System (NOGAPS) is a global numerical weather prediction computer model run by the United States Navy's Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center. This mathematical model was run four times a day and produced weather forecasts. The NOGAPS was replaced by the NAVGEM in February 2013.
References
External links
FNMOC Portal
Naval meteorology
Numerical climate and weather models
Weather prediction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiDi | Wireless Display (WiDi) is technology developed by Intel that enables users to stream music, movies, photos, videos and apps without cables from a compatible computer to a compatible HDTV or through the use of an adapter with other HDTVs or computer monitors. Intel WiDi supports HD 1080p video quality, 5.1 surround sound, and low latency for interacting with applications sent to the TV from a PC.
Using the Intel WiDi Widget, users can perform different functions simultaneously on their PC and TV such as checking email on the PC while streaming a movie to the TV from the same device.
WiDi development was discontinued in 2015 in favor of Miracast, a standard developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance and natively supported by Windows 8.1 and later. In Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system, the built-in Wireless Display is called Project, which can be used to mirror the device's display to a TV if it supports Miracast.
Version history
2010 - WiDi 1.0 - Supports 720p
2011 - WiDi 2.0 - Supports 1080p
2012 - WiDi 3.0 - Supports 1080p @ 60 FPS
September 2012 - WiDi 3.5 - Supports Windows 8, touch functionality, 1080p output, 3D content, HDCP2, Blu-ray, and USB devices and Miracast.
2013 - WiDi 4.0
2014 - WiDi 4.1
2014 - WiDi 4.2 - 5 GHz Wi-Fi support (with compatible receiver)
2015 - WiDi 5.1 - Supports 4k - Ultra HD displays
2015 - WiDi 6.0
October 2015 - The marketing and development of WiDi applications was discontinued by Intel, who said that this was because the Miracast standard was natively supported in Windows for wireless display.
Miracast
The Miracast standard is supported in Intel Wireless Display versions 3.5 through 6.0, when it was discontinued. After this development, Intel recommended that business users utilize Intel Unite as a platform for collaboration. Miracast was included in Android 4.2 smart phones through Android 7, and on Windows 8.1 and 10. It can stream on TVs, projectors, and media players.
See also
AirPlay
Chromecast
Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA)
DisplayLink
Google Cast
Matter Casting
Mobile High-Definition Link - MHL
SlimPort (Mobility DisplayPort), also known as MyDP
Ultra-wideband
Wireless HDMI:
WiGig
WirelessHD
Wireless Home Digital Interface
Wi-Fi Direct
References
External links
WiDi at Intel.com
The Main Wireless HDMI Transmission Protocols and Their Typical Products Comparison of different wireless HDMI transmission protocols at Portablehifi.com
Computer display standards
Intel products
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi Direct
Wireless display technologies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20X2-01 | The Nokia X2-01 is a low-cost feature phone with a Nokia S40 mobile operating system released under the X-series line of phones by Nokia. It features a full QWERTY keyboard. It is being advertised as an entry-level messaging and Music phone. It's similar to the Nokia X2-00, only differences are that it has a QWERTY keyboard, the display is landscape and has a downgraded VGA camera with no flash.
Features
Nokia X2-01 is a basic phone with installed extra features of Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat where users can set up email and chat accounts directly from the device. The X2-01 also has a VGA camera, 2.4-inch (61 mm) screen, and support for up to 8 GB of storage on a MicroSD card.
The phone is available in various colours: black-titanium, black-red, black-azure, white silver, white-pink. (Availability of some colours depends on the region).
Specifications
General
2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
Announced: 2010, November
Status: Available. Released 2011, January
Body
Dimensions: 119.4 x 59.8 x 14.3 mm, 86.6 cc
Weight: 107.5 g
Keyboard: QWERTY
Dedicated music key
Display
Type: TFT, 256K colors
Size: 320 x 240 pixels, 2.4" (61 mm) (~167 ppi pixel density)
Sound
Alert types: Vibration, Polyphonic(64), WAV, MP3 ringtones
Loudspeaker: Yes
3.5 mm jack: Yes
Dedicated music key
Cameras
Primary: VGA, 640 x 480 pixels
Video: Yes, QVGA@24 fps
Secondary: No
Features
Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email
Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML (Opera Mini)
Radio: Stereo FM radio with RDS
Games: Yes plus downloadable
GPS: No
Java: Yes, MIDP 2.1
Colors: Red, Deep Grey, Silver, Lilac, And Azure, white
MP4/H.264/H.263/WMV video player
MP3/WAV/WMA/AAC audio player
Organizer
Voice memo, and ability to keep track of notes
Predictive text input
Battery
Battery: Standard battery, Li-Ion 1020 (BL-5C)
Stand-by: Up to 480 h
Talk time: Up to 4 h 30 min
X2-01
Mobile phones introduced in 2011
Mobile phones with user-replaceable battery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasig | Jasig is a non-profit US organization founded by a group of university IT personnel in late 1999 with the stated goal of creating open source computer programs for use in higher education environments, mostly written in the Java programming language. Jasig, “a federation of higher ed institutions interested in open source”, is registered as a US 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The name Jasig is an acronym for Java in Administration Special Interest Group. The founders of Jasig included Carl Jacobson from University of Delaware, David Koehler from Princeton, Bernie Gleason from Boston College, Ted Dodds at the University of British Columbia, Jeffrey Gozdieski and Art Pasquinelli from Sun Microsystems.
Jasig developed uPortal, a portal framework for higher education; Bedework, an enterprise calendar system; CAS, an authentication system and single sign-on service; and “2-3-98” to help raise awareness and adoption of open-source.
Licensing policy
All the software sponsored by Jasig is open source, released under the Apache license.
Community model
Jasig utilizes a community model based on three classes of membership:
institutional members
partners
affiliates
Each type of membership assumes a different role in the organization. Institutional members tend to be colleges or universities that use Jasig commissioned software. Partners tend to be commercial entities who have some vested interest in Jasig software. Affiliates are similar to partners, but have a lower level of commitment to the organization.
Partners
Jasig has worked with a variety of commercial entities in the development and support of its various technologies and software.
Unicon:
Offers an Open Source Cooperative Support Program for Central Authentication Service (CAS).
Unicon is a Jasig contributor and offers services for uPortal in the areas of deployment, customization, integration, and general support for education organizations.
Software projects
Jasig sponsors four main software projects, and one community project:
uMobile: delivers educational content to mobile devices.
uPortal: an enterprise portal framework.
CAS (Central Authentication Service): allows students and faculty to sign into multiple websites with a single sign on.
Bedework: a calendaring system.
The 2-3-98 Project: a community project that assists college faculty and staff in moving proprietary systems to open source alternatives.
Funding
Jasig's primary means of funding are through membership fees, sponsorships, and donations. The organization also relies on volunteers to assist in other non-monetary ways such as writing computer programs, writing documentation etc.
Activities
Jasig holds an annual conference spotlighting open source in education. This annual event often coincides with other conferences dedicated to the development and adoption of not only open source applications, but technology generally.
Merger with Sakai Foundation
In 2010, Jasig entered into talks with the Sakai Fou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Portuguese%20by%20net%20worth | This is a list of the wealthiest Portuguese people by net worth. It is primarily based on data from The World's Billionaires publication by Forbes magazine, as well as other sources.
List of wealthiest people
See also
The World's Billionaires
List of countries by the number of billionaires
References
Lists of people by wealth
Net worth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Gordon%20Grainger | Roy Gordon Grainger (born 19 February 1962) is a New Zealand physicist. He is head of the Earth Observation Data Group in the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Sub-Department at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow in Physics at St Hugh's College, Oxford.
Education
Grainger was educated at Auckland Grammar School before attending the University of Auckland to read physics. He gained a Doctorate in Atmospheric Physics on the subject of remote sensing of cloud properties, where his supervisor was Stuart Bradley. The title of his doctoral thesis was The calculation of cloud parameters from AVHRR data. He worked for a short time in UV research at the New Zealand Meteorological Service before taking up a post-doctoral position in the Physics Department in Oxford, where his research was focused on measurement of stratospheric aerosols using the ISAMS satellite instrument designed at Oxford.
In 1998, he returned to New Zealand to accept a Lectureship at the University of Canterbury, where he conducted new instrumental work to measure aerosol properties.
Research
Grainger is the Principal Investigator of the Optimal Retrieval of Aerosol and Cloud (ORAC) project, which is a community code to optimally estimate aerosol and cloud properties from satellite imagery, and was principally responsible for starting this project.
The Earth Observation Data Group which he heads is primarily interested in atmospheric trace gases and clouds (especially with regard to processes which control climate), and conducts satellite studies of atmospheric aerosols.
Personal life
Grainger lives in Oxford, England, and is the great-grandson of Alfred Henry Grainger, after whom Grainger Falls is named.
References
External links
Homepage at St Hugh's College, University of Oxford
Homepage at the Atmospheric Physics Department, Oxford
Atmospheric scientists
Academics of the University of Oxford
Fellows of St Hugh's College, Oxford
New Zealand scientists
Living people
1962 births
People educated at Auckland Grammar School
University of Auckland alumni
Academic staff of the University of Canterbury
People from Thames, New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZSoft%20Uninstaller | ZSoft Uninstaller is a freeware software utility from ZSoft Software for the Microsoft Windows operating system. When programs are deleted using the default program uninstaller, it may leave behind some files and registry entries. ZSoft Uninstaller offers a way to completely delete the remaining data by taking a snapshot from the hard drive and registry before and after installing the program.
Features
ZSoft Uninstaller's main feature is to remove unnecessary files and registry entries left behind after uninstalling a program. It begins by analyzing the hard drive and registry before the program is installed. The user is then asked to install the program that they want to analyze. After the program is installed, ZSoft Uninstaller will reanalyze the same hard drive and registry, and compare the differences of the pre-installation with the post-installation. Each difference will be logged and the user can return at any time to delete the program and all of the files that were installed.
ZSoft Uninstaller also provides several other built-in features:
Temp File Finder: Searches through a given directory and lists any temporary files found.
Empty Folders Finder: Scans a directory for empty folders.
Startup Manager: List all startup programs that are located in the Startup group, Win.ini load= and run=, and the registry.
Badware Finder/Searcher: Searches for badware from a previous installation or by name.
Uninstall External Application: Any program not listed or on an external disk will be searched using keywords and the associated entries can be selected for deletion.
Delete registry entries from programs no longer installed.
ZSoft Uninstaller fully supports the following languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, and Valencian.
See also
Uninstaller
AppZapper
IObit Uninstaller
Revo Uninstaller
Windows Installer
Windows Installer CleanUp Utility
References
External links
Windows-only freeware
Uninstallers for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible%20Collection | The Bible Collection is a series of films produced for the TNT television network, starting with Abraham in April 1994 and ending with Thomas in April 2001. The Bible Collection consists of a 27-part miniseries in 17 volumes.
The series grew out of an earlier series of Old Testament films produced by the Italian company Five Mile River Films in the 1990s.
Films
The films, originally aired as standalone television movies or as short miniseries, have been gathered and released in a numbered collection, with the secondary series title Close to Jesus on installments covering events during the lifetime of Jesus. The order of the collection may vary slightly from the order in which the films were originally produced.
The Bible Collection Vol.01 Jesus (1999)
The Bible Collection Vol.02 Jacob (1994)
The Bible Collection Vol.03 Moses (1995)
The Bible Collection Vol.04 Samson and Delilah (1996)
The Bible Collection Vol.05 David (1997)
The Bible Collection Vol.06 Joseph (1995)
The Bible Collection Vol.07 Abraham (1993)
The Bible Collection Vol.08 Jeremiah (1998)
The Bible Collection Vol.09 Solomon (1997)
The Bible Collection Vol.10 (2000)
The Bible Collection Vol.11 Esther (1999)
The Bible Collection Vol.12 The Apocalypse (2000)
The Bible Collection Vol.13 Genesis (1994)
The Bible Collection Vol.14 (2000)
The Bible Collection Vol.15 Judas (2001)
The Bible Collection Vol.16 Thomas (2001)
The Bible Collection Vol.17 Joseph of Nazareth (2000)
See also
List of films based on the Bible
References
Print sources
Bible |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Fribourg | The Fribourg trolleybus system () forms part of the public transport network in Fribourg, capital of the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. The system also serves the neighbouring municipalities of Villars-sur-Glâne and Givisiez, using one line in each case.
History
The current system is the second of two trolleybus systems to operate in Fribourg. The first opened on 4 January 1912 and connected the town with Farvagny. The solitary route, long, was largely rural, and the fleet comprised just three vehicles. It closed on 21 May 1932. It was the first trolleybus system in Switzerland and was the country's only such service for its entire 20-year existence. The Lausanne trolleybus system opened a few months after closure of the Fribourg–Farvagny line.
The second Fribourg trolleybus system opened on 31 January 1949 and gradually replaced the Fribourg tramway network, the last line of which closed on 31 March 1965.
The individual line sections of the Fribourg trolleybus system went into operation as follows:
Lines
The present system is made up of the following cross-city routes, including dual-mode line 1:
Fleet
Retired fleet
In the past, at one time or another the trolleybus fleet has included two-axle vehicles made by several different manufacturers, including Vétra-Renault, Vétra-Berliet, Saurer, Henschel and Volvo. All of these were purchased new except for the four Henschels (nos. 43–46), which came secondhand from the Giessen, Germany, trolleybus system (in whose fleet they had been nos. 19–22). The first articulated vehicles were purchased in 1988–89. Numbered 101–112, they were Hess-bodied Volvos with ABB electrical equipment, and they were also dual-mode. They used their diesel engines to operate unwired extensions – sections not equipped with overhead wires – of trolleybus route 2, beyond Moncor to Les Biches and Les Dailles. In 2005, the route section to Les Dailles was fitted with trolleybus wiring, allowing trolleybuses to serve route 2 entirely in electric mode, except for certain weekday trips to Les Biches, which section remained unwired.
Current fleet
A total of 21 vehicles is available to operate trolleybus services in Fribourg, all of them low-floor articulated buses:
See also
List of trolleybus systems in Switzerland
References
Notes
Books
External links
Transport in Fribourg
Fribourg
Fribourg
1912 establishments in Switzerland
1949 establishments in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Austria | This is a list of town tramway systems in Austria. It includes all tram systems in Austria, past and present; cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
See also
List of town tramway systems – parent article
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
References
Bibliography
Books and periodicals shown in List of town tramway systems
Tram
Austria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Poland | This is a list of town tramway systems in Poland. It includes all tram systems in Poland, past and present; cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
See also
List of town tramway systems – parent article
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
References
Books, periodicals and external links
Tram
Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Sweden | This is a list of town tramway systems in Sweden. It includes all tram systems in Sweden, past and present; cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
As at 2016, there were plans for new systems in several Swedish cities: Helsingborg, Jönköping, Linköping, Lund, Malmö, and Uppsala. The Lund tramway opened on 13 December 2020. None of the other systems have scheduled construction start dates.
See also
List of town tramway systems – parent article
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
References
Tramways
Sweden
sv: Spårväg i Sverige |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Norway | This is a list of town tramway systems in Norway. It includes all tram systems in Norway, past and present; cities with currently operating systems are indicated in bold. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
See also
List of town tramway systems – parent article
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
References
Bibliography
Books, Periodicals and External Links
Tramways
Norway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Fisher%20%28agent%29 | Paul Fisher is an American modelling agent. He has represented Naomi Campbell, Carol Alt, and Stephanie Seymour. He hosts Remodeled on The CW Television Network, and the Dutch TV series I Can Make You A Supermodel on channel RTL5.
In 1987, Fisher founded It Models in a complex in Hollywood's Photo District with friend and business associate Omar Albertto, (who ran the Men's Division, Omar's Men) backed by renowned Model Agent/Supermodel Louise Despointes who also owned Name in NYC and City in Paris at the time she backed Paul and Omar. Together, the three began a very influential, lucrative run in the fashion industry. According to the LA Times, the agencies's combined gross revenue was over $15,000,000 annually.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American television hosts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon%20Sonic | Nickelodeon Sonic (formerly Sonic-Nickelodeon) is an Indian children's pay television channel operated by Viacom18 as part of the Nickelodeon India network.
After on the air, Sonic became the fourth most watched channel across all genres with TRP in December 2020.
History
Viacom18 launched the channel in December 2011. When it launched, the channel mostly aired action shows like Power Rangers, Kung Fu Panda and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. On 3 May 2016, the channel was rebranded with the tag line "Destination of high decibel comedy and action", and was given a new logo.
Since the rebrand, the channel has shifted its focus to comedy and started producing some original local shows.
Sonic Nickelodeon began broadcasting in Bengali, Malayalam, Marathi, and Gujarati languages from 2 December 2019.
Programming
References
External links
Sonic
Nickelodeon India
Nicktoons (TV network)
Children's television channels in India
English-language television stations in India
Television stations in Mumbai
Indian animation
Television channels and stations established in 2011
2011 establishments in India
Hindi-language television channels in India
Viacom 18 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20La%20Chaux-de-Fonds | The La Chaux-de-Fonds trolleybus system () forms part of the public transport network in La Chaux-de-Fonds, in the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Opened in 1949, the system gradually replaced the La Chaux-de-Fonds tramway network. Since 2005, it has been operated by Transports régionaux neuchâtelois (TRN, written "trn" in the authority's own marketing materials). It is supplemented by several bus lines operated by the same authority.
In April 2011, TRN announced that it wanted to replace the trolleybuses in La Chaux-de-Fonds by 2014 with hybrid buses, sparking vigorous protests. All trolleybus service has been suspended since May 2014, initially because of a major project to rebuild the square in front of the railway station, including relocation of the bus terminal. After a period of some years in which it was unclear whether the system would ever reopen, in 2021 it was announced that a reopening by 2023 is planned.
History
The system was opened on 23 December 1949. Its initial operating company was the Compagnie des Transports en commun, La Chaux-de-Fonds (TN). The system's first trolleybus line was the long Centenaire–Hôpital route, which had previously been served by trams. On 16 June 1950, the last remaining tram line was replaced by trolleybuses.
On 13 November 1954, La Chaux-de-Fonds' only conventional bus line, which had been operating since 1948, was converted into a trolleybus line. That left the trolleybus system as the town's only form of public transport.
In 1960, the system was transformed into a network of three cross-city lines. These were designated as 1–2, 4–5 and 6–7, to reflect the names of their termini. Each line was operated at 12-minute intervals, with services being at 6-minute intervals during peak times. In 1975, diesel bus route 9, which had been opened in 1966, was converted to trolleybus operation, and the following year the line to terminal 6 was extended.
On 28 May 1990, the line to terminus 7 was converted to diesel operation, and simultaneously a new line numbering scheme was introduced. The remaining trolleybus lines were renumbered as lines 1 and 4. In 1995, following the construction of a new depot, line 2 reverted to a trolleybus line. Two years later, on 1 November 1997, trolleybuses were reintroduced to line 4, after that line had been operated by diesel buses for several years. Line 4 was also given a short extension, to Eplatures.
Following a merger in 2005, Transports régionaux neuchâtelois (TRN) assumed responsibility for trolleybus operations.
In April 2011, TRN announced that it wanted to replace the trolleybuses in La Chaux-de-Fonds by 2014 with hybrid buses, sparking vigorous protests. Two main reasons were given for TRN's decision: the many road work sites in the city hinder the circulation of trolleybuses, and the forthcoming redevelopment of the Place de la Gare would require an investment of 2.5 million Swiss francs just to move the overhead wires as part of the relocation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IdeaPad%20tablets | The IdeaPad tablets from Lenovo were a brand of consumer-oriented tablet computers designed for home use or entertainment, as opposed to the business-focused ThinkPad Tablet series. Devices sold in certain countries, such as China, India and New Zealand, were sold under the LePad brand, similar to the LePhone series of smartphones. IdeaPad-branded tablets have been produced with the Android and Windows operating systems.
The IdeaPad brand has been gradually phased out in recent years, being replaced by the general "Tab" brand for Android devices and the "Miix" brand for Windows devices, with the exception of several distinctive hardware lines such as the Yoga series.
2014
Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 Pro
The Yoga Tablet 2 Pro is 13-inch tablet with a built-in projector. It has a 9,600 mAh battery that Lenovo claims will last up to 15 hours of continuous use. Its display has a resolution of 2,560 pixels by 1,440 pixels. 32 gigabytes of built-in storage come standard but can be expanded to 64 gigabytes with a microSD card.
The Yoga Tablet 2 Pro, like previous Yoga tablets, has a thin body with a thick cylindrical base. The thick base is designed to make holding the device in portrait mode more comfortable. The device's projector is mounted here. The projector has a resolution of 854 pixels by 480 pixels. Sound is provided by stereo speakers and a subwoofer but-in to the base.
A10
The Lenovo A10 tablet is a 10.1-inch tablet computer that runs Android.
2012
IdeaTab Lynx
The Lenovo IdeaTab Lynx was released in the United States in December 2012. The Lynx tablet sold for $599 and its Accutype keyboard base was priced at $149. The Lynx is an 11.6-inch tablet. The Lynx without the dock is 11.85 inches by 7.4 inches by 0.37 inches and weighs 1.41 pounds. This is approximately the same weight and thickness as the third generation Apple iPad. The keyboard dock weighs 1.45 pounds for a total 2.86 pounds. The Lynx runs the full-version of Windows 8 as opposed to Windows RT. The Lynx uses a 1.8 GHz dual-core Clovertrail Intel Atom Z2760 processor, 2GB of memory, and either 32GB or 64GB of eMMC flash storage. The 11.6-inch in-plane switching display has a resolution of 1,366 x 768 resolution and supports five-point capacitive multitouch. Micro-USB and micro-HDMI ports and a microSD card slot are on Lynx table. The keyboard dock has two standard USB 2.0 ports. The Lynx also has Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi networking, stereo speakers, dual microphones, a 2-megapixel front-facing webcam.
In its review of the Lynx, CNET wrote: "The real question is, how will the Lynx stand out? One answer might be its weight. Despite its 11.6-inch screen, the tablet felt shockingly light when we held it at Lenovo's launch event. Although Lenovo says it's 1.44 pounds, the Lynx's tablet portion is closer in feel to a Kindle than an iPad, but with a larger display than either. The keyboard dock takes away from the Lynx's airiness, of course, although the two at least feel solidl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Portugal | This is a list of town tramway systems in Portugal. It includes all tram systems in Portugal, past and present; cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
See also
Trams in Portugal
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
References
Bibliography
Books and periodicals shown in List of town tramway systems
Portugal
Tram |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland%20Runic%20Inscription%20130 | Uppland Runic Inscription 130 or U 130 is the Rundata catalog listing for a Viking Age memorial runic inscription which is located at Nora, which is in Danderyd, Stockholm County, Sweden, and in the historic province of Uppland. The runic text directly refers to an estate held in an allodial title.
Description
The inscription on U 130 consists of runic text in the younger futhark that is carved on a serpent that forms a circle. A cross is in the center of the inscription. The inscription, which is on a rock-face and is 1.9 meters tall by 1.54 meters wide, 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. This stone is considered to be a "good example" of an inscription in style Pr4. Based upon stylistic analysis, the inscription has been attributed to a runemaster with the normalized name of Åsmund Kåresson. Åsmund was active in the first half of the 11th century in Uppland.
The runic text states that the inscription was a memorial sponsored by a man named Bjôrn in memory of his brother Óleifr, who died as a result of some form of betrayal. The brother's death took place in Finnheiðr or Finnveden, which is a former district in Småland. Other runestones that mention Finnveden include Sm 35 in Replösa and Sm 52 in Forsheda allmänning. U 130 is also a public record which resolves the legal issue of the inheritance of a farm located in Elgjastaðir or the modern village of Älgesta in Husby-Ärlinghundra parish, which the text states was held through an allodial title by Bjôrn as the family inheritance from his father Finnviðr. Under an allodial right, a member of a family had first rights to purchase a farm, and if the farm was sold to a stranger a family member could within a certain number of years redeem the property at the original sale price plus the cost of any improvements. It has been suggested that the inscription at Nora means that the two brothers owned two farms, one at Nora and the other thirty kilometers north at Älgesta. The runes suno on the stone, which translate as "sons at," follow the rule that double letters are represented with only a single letter, even if one of the two letters are at the end of one word and the second is at the beginning of the next word. The transliteration of the runic text for these words, suno| |o, shows word divisions and a separate o-rune for each of the two words.
The inscription is known locally as the Norahällen. Bjôrn, the sponsor of U 130, would later raise another runestone, U 433 which was found at the church in Husby-Ärlinghundra, in memory of himself.
Inscription
Runes
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
biurn ' finuiþaʀ sun lit ' haukua ' hili þisa ' aftiʀ ulaif bruþur sin ' hon uarþ suikuin o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Serbia | This is a list of town tramway systems in Serbia. It includes all tram systems in Serbia, past and present; cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
See also
List of town tramway systems – parent article
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
References
Books, Periodicals and External Links
Serbia
Tram |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Greece | This is a list of town tramway systems in Greece. It includes all tram systems in Greece, past and present; cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
See also
List of town tramway systems – parent article
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
References
Books, Periodicals and External Links
Specific
Tram
Greece |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Hungary | This is a list of town tramway systems in Hungary. It includes all tram systems in Hungary, past and present; cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
See also
List of town tramway systems – parent article
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
References
Books, Periodicals and External Links
Tram
Hungary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Croatia | This is a list of town tramway systems in Croatia. It includes all tram systems in Croatia, past and present; cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
References
Tram
Crotia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Denmark | This is a list of town tramway systems in Denmark. It includes all tram systems in Denmark, past and present; cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
See also
List of town tramway systems – parent article
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
References
Tram
Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekoparty | The Ekoparty is an annual computer security conference that brings together a variety of people interested in information security. The Briefings take place regularly in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
History
Ekoparty was founded in 2001 by Juan Pablo Daniel Borgna, Leonardo Pigner, Federico Kirschbaum, Jerónimo Basaldúa and Francisco Müller Amato. In addition to the talks, Ekoparty has different activities like workshops, wargames, Wardriving, Lockpicking challenges, and forensics challenges.
See also
Hacker conference
DEF CON
Black Hat Briefings
Chaos Communication Congress
References
External links
Ekoparty homepage
Beyond DEFCON, 15 Must see Hacking Conferences
Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS at Ekoparty
Computer security conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20the%20Republic%20of%20Ireland | This is a list of town tramway systems in Ireland. It includes all tram systems in Ireland, past and present; cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
See also
List of town tramway systems – parent article
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
References
Books, Periodicals and External Links
Ireland
Tram |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20town%20tramway%20systems%20in%20Finland | This is a list of town tramway systems in Finland. It includes all tram systems in Finland, past and present; cities with currently operating systems, and those systems themselves, are indicated in bold and blue background colored rows. The use of the diamond (♦) symbol indicates where there were (or are) two or more independent tram systems operating concurrently within a single metropolitan area. Those tram systems that operated on other than standard gauge track (where known) are indicated in the 'Notes' column.
, the Tampere light rail is in service and two systems are under construction: Jokeri light rail and the Crown Bridges.
In addition, further research is being conducted on Turku light rail.
There are also early-stage plans of a new tramway in the city of Vantaa.
Note: The city of Tampere formerly operated a trolleybus system (1948–1976). The city of Helsinki also had a one-line trolleybus system (1949-74 and 1979-85) in addition to trams.
See also
Trams in Finland
List of town tramway systems in Europe
List of tram and light rail transit systems
List of metro systems
References
Bibliography
Books, Periodicals and External Links
Tram
Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Management%20Admission%20Test | Common Management Admission Test (CMAT) is an online computer-based test conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), India. It is a national-level admission test for facilitating institutions to select suitable students for admission in all management programmes approved by AICTE.
The first edition of CMAT was conducted in 2012.
In 2014, the first CMAT was conducted between 20 February and 24 February. Around 1.2 Lakh Candidates participated in the test. The Results were declared on 14 March 2014.
History
By 2011, there were a number of entrance exams for management programmes in India. These included CAT, JMET, XAT, Gitam SAT, NMAT, SNAP, MAT, state-specific exams, exams conducted by management associations of MBA institutes and exams conducted by private colleges. AICTE launched CMAT to reduce the burden (physical, mental and financial stress) of students in attending to multiple examinations.
Till 2015, CMAT was held twice in a year but last year the practice was abolished as AICTE decided to hold the exam once a year on the third Sunday of January.
Some of leading Business Schools have decided to keep out from CMAT, the reason given was "late announcement" by AICTE. But still quite a number of colleges accept their score.
Format
CMAT is a three-hour test. In 2012, it was conducted in a period of nine days (20–28 February) in two shifts at 61 locations in all over India.
The better of two scores will be used for admission for 2014-15
The question paper comprises four sections:
Quantitative technique
Logical reasoning
Language comprehension
General Awareness
There are 25 questions in each section. While each correct answer carries four marks, each wrong answer will carry one negative marking.
AICTE has now decided to conduct CMAT in Foreign Countries for facilitating eligible NRIs/PIOs and foreign nationals to appear in CMAT for seeking admission in institutions in India following CMAT merit list for 2014-15 under special provisions defined in AICTE Approval Process and against all vacancies left after completion of centralized admission in management institutions.
CMAT Eligibility
AICTE has certified the qualification criteria to appear for CMAT, which must be fulfilled by every one of the applicants interested in taking this test. It must be guaranteed that the applicants must fulfill the qualification conditions of CMAT, before filling the application form. Non-fulfillment of the same may lead to disqualification of the candidate regardless of the stage of admission an applicant will be. The qualification standards are as under:
The candidate should be an Indian citizen and can apply for the test irrespective of his or her age.
He/she should have a Graduation degree in any discipline from a recognized University or Institute.
Additionally, last year pursuing students of Graduate courses whose results will be announced before beginning of admissions for the academic year 2017-18 were also qualified to apply.
No |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20singles%20of%202012 | The highest-selling singles in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Weekly Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each singles' weekly physical sales.
Chart history
References
See also
2012 in music
2012 in Japanese music
Japan Oricon
Lists of number-one songs in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20albums%20of%202012 | The highest-selling albums and mini-albums in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Weekly Chart, published by Oricon Style magazine. The data is compiled by Oricon based on each album's weekly physical sales.
Chart history
See also
2012 in music
References
Number-one albums
Japan
2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premio%20Lo%20Nuestro%202012 | Premio Lo Nuestro 2012 was held on Thursday February 16, 2012 at the American Airlines Arena and was broadcast live on the Univision Network. The nominees were announced on December 1, 2011, during a live televised show "Gala de Nominados", hosted by Raúl De Molina and Lili Estefan from El Gordo y la Flaca on Univision Network.
Special awards
Lifetime Achievement Award (Premio Lo Nuestro a la Excelencia)
Pepe Aguilar
Special Career Achievement Award (Trayectoria Artista del año)
Don Francisco
Nominees and winners
General
Pop
Rock
Tropical
Regional Mexican
Urban
Video
References
External links
official Site Premio Lo Nuestro
Official list of nominations
Lo Nuestro Awards by year
2012 music awards
2012 in Florida
2012 in Latin music
2010s in Miami |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Beloved | My Beloved is a 2012 Philippine television drama romance fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Dominic Zapata and Lore Reyes, it stars Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera. It premiered on February 13, 2012 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Doubles Showdown. The series concluded on June 8, 2012 with a total of 83 episodes. It was replaced by One True Love in its timeslot.
Production
Principal photography commenced on October 4, 2011, with Dingdong Dantes and Rhian Ramos cast in the lead roles. Ramos later left the role. On December 16, Marian Rivera was cast as Ramos' replacement.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dingdong Dantes as Benjamin "Benjie" Castor / Arlan
Marian Rivera as Sharina Quijano-Castor
Supporting cast
Katrina Halili as Emilia "Emmie" Montecastro
Mikael Daez as Nelson De Guia
Jennica Garcia as Monica Quijano
Carl Guevara as Junic Tablante
Louise delos Reyes as Grace Velasco
Alden Richards as Rico Castor
Paolo Contis as Geronimo "Gimo" Magtoto
Nova Villa as Inggay Castor
Chanda Romero as Elsa Quijano
Saab Magalona as Ginella Quijano
Ynna Asistio as Lyzette
Gianna Cutler as Pepay
Reika Suzuki as Sunshine
Recurring cast
Marky Lopez as Tikyo
Djanin Cruz as Lucy
Andrea Torres as Dessa
James Ronald Obeso as Michael
Rodfil Obeso as Jackson
Frank Magalona as Ronald
John Hall as Joryl
Fabio Ide as Rowan
Jay Gonzaga as Mikal
Guest cast
John Arcilla as Romeo Quijano
Sharmaine Arnaiz as Perla Quijano-Castor
Cris Villanueva as Crisanto Castor
Janine Gutierrez as Joanne Ledesma
Nathalie Hart as Trixie Montemayor
Veyda Inoval as Sunshine Castor / Sunshine Magtoto
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of My Beloved earned a 30.3% rating. While the final episode scored a 26.1% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2012 Philippine television series debuts
2012 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu%20Ping | Fu Ping may refer to:
Fu-Ping, or Fubing system, local militia system existing in China between 6th century and 8th century
Ping Fu (born 1958), Chinese-American computer scientist and businesswoman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Movies%20%28Southeast%20Asian%20TV%20channel%29 | Fox Movies (formerly Star Movies; and Fox Movies Premium) was a Southeast Asian movie network owned by Fox Networks Group Asia Pacific, subsidiaries of International Operations unit of The Walt Disney Company.
With the launch of Disney+ Hotstar/Disney+ across Asia, several first-run films from Disney-owned properties were removed in favour of re-runs, including Marvel films that were produced by other studios. Indonesian feed was the first to be affected from September 1, 2020, before Singapore and Malaysia from February 1, 2021. The change was affected in most of available feeds across Asia, before the channel shutdown that was announced.
History
As Fox Movies Premium and Fox Movies
On 1 January 2012, Star Movies was rebranded to Fox Movies Premium and FOX Movies Premium HD, available in Hong Kong and selected Southeast Asian countries. In India, China, Middle East and North Africa, Taiwan and the Philippines (SD only), the Star Movies brand remained.
On 10 June 2017, Fox Movies Premium in Southeast Asia & Star Movies in the Philippines, relaunched as Fox Movies, all coinciding the premiere of the 2016 film X-Men Apocalypse.
On November 1, 2017, Star Movies Vietnam was rebranded as Fox Movies Vietnam.
On January 18, 2018, Star Movies Taiwan was rebranded as Fox Movies Taiwan, yet Star Movies HD Taiwan remains the original name.
Fox Movies Asia
Fox Movies Asia (formerly known as Fox Movies Premium) was transmitted in Southeast Asia. It was the only advertisement free version of Fox Movies and, unlike other versions of Fox Movies, this version also spent minimal time promoting its own upcoming movies. The channel did not air promotions of movies classified as unsuitable for people aged under eighteen until 8 pm (or 9 pm for Malaysia). This channel broadcast 24 hours a day. 5.1 Dolby Surround sound was available and applicable on the HD channel.
Fox Movies Philippines
On June 10, 2017, in line with its Southeast Asian counterpart (Fox Movies Premium), Star Movies in the Philippines was rebranded as Fox Movies. Like its predecessor, it also has English subtitles daily, as well as local advertisements when the movie is taking a break (its HD counterpart, however, does not because of the HD channel formerly using its Asian feed (Fox Movies Premium) and Fox Movies Asia feed). The channel typically broadcasts action, comedy, animation and horror/suspense films every day and drama films on early morning.
On June 12, 2017, the HD channel was converted into Philippine feed during independence day of the Philippines while the Asia feed will continue to broadcast via live streaming on a subscription-based FOX+ which is available to Cignal, Globe, Smart and PLDT Home subscribers and with Chinese subtitles on their movies (along with Fox Family Movies and Fox Action Movies) which was later removed and replaced by Fox Sports including (2 & 3).
On January 1, 2020, FOX Movies Philippines, along with its Philippine-based operating channels: Fox Life, FOX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC%20Sports%20Group | NBC Sports Group is a division of NBCUniversal that is responsible for NBC Sports' media properties, encompassing the NBC television network's sports division as well as day-to-day operation of the company's sports-oriented cable networks and other properties such as NBC Sports Radio.
Group history
The unit has its origins in Comcast Sports Group, a division which oversaw Comcast's Golf Channel and Versus cable networks, as well as the regional sports network chain Comcast SportsNet. In February 2011, Comcast completed its acquisition of a majority stake in NBC Universal. Following the acquisition, plans were unveiled for the three networks to be subsumed by the NBC network's existing division NBC Sports, under the title NBC Sports Group, with Dick Ebersol as chairman. Mark Lazarus, formerly the head of Turner Entertainment Group, was named president of NBC Sports Cable Group. Comcast Sports Group president Jon Litner assumed the role of president of Comcast SportsNet and Versus, while former NBC Sports executive vice president Mike McCarley was named president of Golf Channel. John Miller was named executive vice president of NBC Sports and Versus.
In May 2011, Lazarus took over for Ebersol as chairman of the group. In June 2011, NBC Sports Group purchased back the Alli Sports share held by MTV Networks Music Group in June 2011 and previously sold by NBC Sports to them in 2008. On January 1, 2012, Versus was renamed NBC Sports Network.
On December 9, 2012, Yahoo and the NBC Sports Group announced a content and promotional deal combining Yahoo Sports’ original reporting expertise, coverage of big events, Rivals’ college content and popular fantasy sports products with NBC Sports Group's growing digital assets, and significant television promotion and integration.
On March 18, 2013, nearly all of the operations for NBC Sports and NBCSN began to be based out of a purpose-built facility in Stamford, Connecticut. The move was made mainly to take advantage of tax credits given by the state of Connecticut, which NBC has taken advantage of previously with the daytime talk shows of its sister broadcast syndication division.
Telemundo Deportes, a dedicated Hispanic sports production unit, was also announced by Joe Uva, Chairman of NBCUniversal Hispanic Group, and chairman Mark Lazarus at May 2015 Upfronts. Telemundo Deportes was also in process of moving to the NBC Sports Group facility in Stamford.
NBC Sports Group formed NBC Sports Films in 2015 for long form sports documentaries for the sports group's platforms. The first film was Center of Attention: The Unreal Life of Derek Sanderson which was broadcast on NBC Sports Network June 8 after Game 3 of the 2015 Stanley Cup Finals.
On October 22, 2015, it was announced that Universal Sports Network would close down on November 16, 2015, and that NBC Sports would inherit the network's portfolio of sports rights for its own networks and channels. The Group launched two channels just for the 2016 Oly |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Server%202012 | Windows Server 2012, codenamed "Windows Server 8", is the sixth version of the Windows Server operating system by Microsoft, as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. It is the server version of Windows based on Windows 8 and succeeds Windows Server 2008 R2, which is derived from the Windows 7 codebase, released nearly three years earlier. Two pre-release versions, a developer preview and a beta version, were released during development. The software was officially launched on September 4, 2012, which was the month before the release of Windows 8. It was succeeded by Windows Server 2012 R2 in 2013. Mainstream support for Windows Server 2012 ended on October 9, 2018, and extended support ended on October 10, 2023. Windows Server 2012 is eligible for the paid Extended Security Updates (ESU) program, which offers continued security updates until October 13, 2026.
Windows Server 2012 removed support for Itanium and processors without PAE, SSE2 and NX. Four editions were released. Various features were added or improved over Windows Server 2008 R2 (with many placing an emphasis on cloud computing), such as an updated version of Hyper-V, an IP address management role, a new version of Windows Task Manager, and ReFS, a new file system. Windows Server 2012 received generally good reviews in spite of having included the same controversial Metro-based user interface seen in Windows 8, which includes the Charms Bar for quick access to settings in the desktop environment.
Windows Server 2012 is the final version of Windows Server that supports processors without CMPXCHG16b, PrefetchW, LAHF and SAHF. Its successor, Windows Server 2012 R2, requires a processor with CMPXCHG16b, PrefetchW, LAHF and SAHF in any supported architecture.
As of April 2017, 35% of servers were running Windows Server 2012, surpassing usage share of Windows Server 2008.
History
Windows Server 2012, codenamed "Windows Server 8", is the fifth release of Windows Server family of operating systems developed concurrently with Windows 8.
Microsoft introduced Windows Server 2012 and its developer preview in the BUILD 2011 conference on September 9, 2011. However, unlike Windows 8, the developer preview of Windows Server 2012 was only made available to MSDN subscribers. It included a graphical user interface (GUI) based on Metro design language and a new Server Manager, a graphical application used for server management. On February 16, 2012, Microsoft released an update for developer preview build that extended its expiry date from April 8, 2012 to January 15, 2013.
Before Windows Server 2012 was finalized, two test builds were made public. A public beta version of Windows Server 2012 was released along with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on February 29, 2012. On April 17, 2012, Microsoft revealed "Windows Server 2012" as the final name for the operating system. The release candidate of Windows Server 2012 was released on May 31, 2012, along with the Windows 8 Release Previ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alias%20method | In computing, the alias method is a family of efficient algorithms for sampling from a discrete probability distribution, published in 1974 by A. J. Walker. That is, it returns integer values according to some arbitrary probability distribution . The algorithms typically use or preprocessing time, after which random values can be drawn from the distribution in time.
Operation
Internally, the algorithm consults two tables, a probability table and an alias table (for ). To generate a random outcome, a fair dice is rolled to determine an index into the two tables. Based on the probability stored at that index, a biased coin is then flipped, and the outcome of the flip is used to choose between a result of and .
More concretely, the algorithm operates as follows:
Generate a uniform random variate .
Let and . (This makes uniformly distributed on and uniformly distributed on .)
If , return . This is the biased coin flip.
Otherwise, return .
An alternative formulation of the probability table, proposed by Marsaglia et al. as the "square histogram" method, uses the condition in the third step (where ) instead of computing .
Table generation
The distribution may be padded with additional probabilities to increase to a convenient value, such as a power of two.
To generate the table, first initialize . While doing this, divide the table entries into three categories:
The "overfull" group, where ,
The "underfull" group, where and has not been initialized, and
The "exactly full" group, where or has been initialized.
If , the corresponding value will never be consulted and is unimportant, but a value of is sensible.
As long as not all table entries are exactly full, repeat the following steps:
Arbitrarily choose an overfull entry and an underfull entry . (If one of these exists, the other must, as well.)
Allocate the unused space in entry to outcome , by setting .
Remove the allocated space from entry by changing .
Entry is now exactly full.
Assign entry to the appropriate category based on the new value of .
Each iteration moves at least one entry to the "exactly full" category (and the last moves two), so the procedure is guaranteed to terminate after at most iterations. Each iteration can be done in time, so the table can be set up in time.
Vose points out that floating-point rounding errors may cause the guarantee referred to in step 1 to be violated. If one category empties before the other, the remaining entries may have set to 1 with negligible error. The solution accounting for floating point is sometimes called the Walker-Vose method or the Vose alias method.
The Alias structure is not unique.
As the lookup procedure is slightly faster if (because does not need to be consulted), one goal during table generation is to maximize the sum of the . Doing this optimally turns out to be NP hard, but a greedy algorithm comes reasonably close: rob from the richest and give to the poorest. That is, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encryption%20by%20date | This is a timeline of the public releases or introductions of computer encryption algorithms.
References
Horst Feistel. Block Cipher Cryptographic System, US Patent 3,798,359. Filed June 30, 1971. (IBM)
Joe Kilian and Phillip Rogaway, How to protect DES against exhaustive key search (PostScript), Advances in Cryptology – Crypto '96, Springer-Verlag (1996), pp. 252–267.
Ingrid Schaumuller-Bichl, Zur Analyse des Data Encryption Standard und Synthese Verwandter Chiffriersysteme, Ph.D. Thesis, Linz university, May 1981. (In German).
History of cryptography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWCW | WWCW (channel 21) is a television station licensed to Lynchburg, Virginia, United States, serving as the CW outlet for the Roanoke–Lynchburg market. It is owned and operated by network majority owner Nexstar Media Group alongside Roanoke-licensed Fox affiliate WFXR (channel 27). Both stations share studios at the Valleypointe office park on Valleypointe Parkway in northeastern Roanoke County; WWCW operates an advertising sales office on Airport Road, along Lynchburg's southwestern border with Campbell County. The station's transmitter is located on Thaxton Mountain in unincorporated central Bedford County. WFXR broadcasts WWCW's CW programming from its transmitter on Poor Mountain in Roanoke County as one of its subchannels and vice versa.
The construction permit for channel 21 in Lynchburg was awarded to communications consultant James E. Price in 1982, but Price sold the station to several different investor groups before Lynchburg–Roanoke Television Partners, led by Thomas F. Carney, built the station. WJPR began broadcasting on March 23, 1986, as an independent station, adding affiliation with Fox in October 1986. The market proved unable to bear both WJPR and Roanoke's WVFT (channel 27), which had gone on the air later that year, due to insufficient advertising revenue and signal issues; in November 1988, WJPR filed for bankruptcy protection. In 1990, Henry A. Ash of Tampa, Florida, acquired both stations out of bankruptcy, receiving a federal waiver to own the combination. On August 20, 1990, they began simulcasting as "Fox 21/27", the Fox affiliate for the market; WJPR had been airing Fox programming since October 1986.
WVFT and WJPR were acquired in 1993 by Grant Communications, and WVFT changed its call sign to WFXR-TV. Under Grant, the stations began airing a local newscast produced by WSLS-TV and also acquired The WB and later The CW affiliation in the market, which was initially aired in overnight hours and then on a local cable channel. With the conversion to digital broadcasting, the Fox and CW services were broadcast as subchannels in both Roanoke and Lynchburg, with channel 21 recognized as the originating station for The CW. Nexstar acquired WFXR and WWCW in 2013 and moved them into new, larger studios two years later, allowing them to begin producing their own news programming.
History
Early years
Channel 21 at Lynchburg picked up no interest until communications consultant James E. Price of Chattanooga, Tennessee, applied for the channel in 1982 under the name Lynchburg Television Associates. The construction permit was awarded in November 1982, took the call sign WJPR, and then was sold to a new investor group led by Price. The permit changed hands two more times before the station was launched, first to Carney Communications of Virginia—owned by Thomas F. Carney of Bal Harbour, Florida—and then to a partnership led by Carney known as Lynchburg–Roanoke Television Partners. One of the partners in the firm was Ralph Renick, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWZA | DWZA is a callsign of two different broadcast stations:
DWZA-TV, an ABS-CBN station in Botolan, Zambales
DWZA-TV (GMA), a GMA Network station in Malilipot, Albay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhiwandi%20Road%20railway%20station | Bhiwandi Road is a railway station in Mumbai, India, on the Vasai Road–Diva–Panvel route of the Central Railway, of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. The Bhiwandi station lies on the Vasai–Diva corridor, between the Western Line and Central line. A Mainline (MEMU) service runs from to Vasai. Computerised reservation services has been installed at this station obviating the need to go to Kalyan to for tickets.
The platforms at Bhiwandi railway station are very spacious. There are 5 platforms. The trains towards & Diva halt at platform 1, 2 or 3 and the train moving towards Vasai halt at platform 4 or 5.
There was a necessity for a suburban rail line for Bhiwandi. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority started to construct the Thane–Kalyan Line 5 through Bhiwandi.
History
In British times, sweet sugarcane was spread from saltbunder road to Bhiwandi. In this area railway was stopped by the British for transporting salt by freight.
Train statistics
Number of halting trains :51
Number of originating trains :0
Number of terminating trains :0
Major trains
61002-Dombivli-Boisar MEMU
69164-Dahanu Road–Pavel MEMU
69165-Panvel–Vasai Road MEMU
61003-Vasai Road–Diva MEMU
61004-Diva–Vasai Road MEMU
61005-Vasai Road–Diva MEMU
61006-Diva–Vasai Road MEMU
61007-Vasai Road–Diva MEMU
61008-Diva–Vasai Road MEMU
61009-Vasai Road–Diva MEMU
61021-Vasai Diva MEMU Not on Sunday & Saturday
61022-Diva–Vasai MEMU Not on Sunday & Saturday
69166-Vasai Road–Panvel MEMU
69167-Panvel–Vasai Road MEMU
69168-Vasai–Panvel MEMU
69161-Panvel–Dahanu Road MEMU
19201–Secunderabad Porbandar Weekly Express
19202–Secunderabad Express
17017–Secunderabad Express
17018-Rajkot Express
16613-Coimbatore Express
19311-Pune–Indore Express
19312-Indore–Pune Express
22943-Pune–Indore SF Express
22944-Indore–Pune SF Express
16506-Gandhidham Express
16507-KSR Bengaluru Express
165335-Nagercoil Weekly Express
16336-Gandhidham Express
16333-Thiruvananthapuram Express
16337-Okha–Ernakulam- Express
16338-Ernakulam–Okha Express
11049-SCSMT Kolhapur Express
11050-Ahmedabad Express
16505-KSR Bengaluru Express
16507-KSR Bengaluru Express
16508-Jodhpur Express
16531-KSR Bengaluru Express
16532-Ajmer Garib Nawaz Express
11087-Veraval–Pune Express
11088-Pune–Veraval Express
11089-Pune Express
11090-Bhagat Ki Kothi Express
11092-Pune–Bhuj Express
11095-Pune Ahimsa Express
11096-Ahmedabad Ahimsa Express
16209-Ajmer–Myusuru Express
16210-Mysuru–Ajmer Express
Facilities
The platforms are well sheltered. The station is well connected by auto. It provides parking facilities. Smart card-based booking is also installed in the station.
References
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai WR railway division
Railway stations in Thane district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dativali%20railway%20station | Dativali is a railway station on the Vasai Road–Diva–Panvel–Roha route of the Central Line, of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
Railway stations in Thane district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai CR railway division
Diva-Panvel rail line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilaje%20railway%20station | Nilaje is a railway station on the Vasai–Diva–Panvel–Roha route of the Central Line, of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
The surrounding nearby villages and its distance from Nilje are Ghesar 0.4 km, Vadavli Kh 1.6 km, Hedutane 2.5 km, Gharivali 2.6 km, Usarghar 2.8 km, Sandap 3.7 km, Bhopar 4.9 km, Davdi 6.0 km, Rohan 6.5 km, Golvali 6.6 km, Pisvali 8.3 km, Mharal 12.4 km, Nandivli Tarfe Ambernath 12.6 km.
Surrounding areas include CasaRio, CasaRio Gold, Lodha Heaven, Casabella, Casabella Gold, Lodha Golflink & CasaPasio which is a part of Palava City developed by Lodha Builders.
Nilaje has a post office which is located in the heart of the village. Nilaje post office serves the surrounding areas such as Kolegoan, Ghesar, Katai, and other nearby areas.
This station is linked up to 2 junctions- Kopar & Diva. Trains towards Vasai cross Kopar while other trains cross Diva. Train schedule is given below. Served by both Passenger & MEMU Trains this station offers an easy connectivity to South Mumbai via Central / Western Lines. The Southern line joins with Panvel Junction. Demands are currently on for launching EMU services. There are 3 platforms, all 3 are electrified.
Now with the UTS Mobile App tickets can be booked without queue.
First Train to Diva is at 0512 & last train is 1933
First Train from Diva is at 0625 & last train is 00:30
There are 13 services in both directions daily- services are provided by Konkan Railway, Central railway & Western railway The station is also linked by a KDMC midi bus service to Ghansoli
Gallery
Railway stations in India opened in 1966
Railway stations in Thane district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai CR railway division
Diva-Panvel rail line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navde%20Road%20railway%20station | Navade Road is a railway station on the Vasai Road–Diva–Panvel–Roha route of the Central Line, of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network. Navade node is a small node developed by CIDCO with single point access to the node. It is like a small township with 165 plots and approx 80-90 buildings. It's a part of Navi Mumbai city. Construction in this area is in developing stage and good properties are available. It has got good transportation facility from Panvel via six seater rickshaw and 73 numbered route of NMMT bus, KDMT bus nos. 20 & 70, and from CBD Belapur, NMMT bus nos. 71 and 72. There is also an auto rickshaw stand in Navade. It has close proximity to Kharghar node of CIDCO with Navade village falling in Kharghar sec 45. Also close proximity to Kalamboli. D Mart is 1 km from Navade node and Reliance Smart 0.5 km. Navi Mumbai Metro line 1 phase 2 will be passing through Navade road and shall have interconnection with Navade railway station. Panvel–Virar local train which is approved from the government and the work is expected to start soon.
There are many prominent buildings like Devdrishti, Dev Aashirwad, Neelkamal, Keshav Garden, Laxmi Kalash CHS etc. Navade colony is on NH4 highway and connects to Sion Panvel Expressway via Taloja link road. Usually there is heavy traffic of trailers and trucks due to JNPT, oil refineries as well as, nearby MIDC area, but once the NH4 road widening and flyover is completed and proposed service roads are constructed, much lighter traffic is expected.
There is also smell problem from nearby Taloja MIDC for which Navade and Kharghar/Kalamboli residents are fighting. Nearby Kasadi river is passing through Navade node but this river has contaminated water and the aqua life is totally dead due to careless attitude of the factories in Taloja MIDC.
Recently CIDCO had started to construct a holding pond in Navade near Devdrishti apartment but left it half done after some works. The internal roads have been in too poor state waiting for the awarded contractor to start construction work.
CIDCO has developed a beautiful garden with children play area with slides and other equipments. Although small, this garden is having a jogging track, benches and lush green lawn. Unlike other CIDCO nodes. There is an indoor playzone and family entertainment zone named "Happy Town." recently open in Navade where families can spend their time instead of going far for malls. There are plots reserved for Police station, market, temple and post office but is not at all developed from CIDCO. Every Thursday and Saturday there is market which sells vegetables, household items, clothes, bags, shoes etc.
Almost all types of shops are opened in Navade node and it is self contained with very less dependency of travelling to other nodes.
Also there is one 6 bed full-fledged hospital Anand Hospital in Navade apart from various clinics.
Heavy vehicles and trailers are parked illegally at the internal roadside for which government should take acti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamboli%20railway%20station | Kalamboli is a railway station on the Vasai Road–Diva–Panvel–Roha route of the Central Line, of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
References
Railway stations in India opened in 1966
Railway stations in Raigad district
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai CR railway division
Diva-Panvel rail line |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panvel%20railway%20station | Panvel railway station (station code: PL /PNVL ) is a railway station on the Harbour Line and Central line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
The station inter-connects to the proposed Navi Mumbai International Airport. Panvel station was originally opened as a rail freight transport in 1962, for limited service to Diva railway station. Regular commuter service began in 1964 for passengers headed to .
Inbound and outbound trains shares a twelve-car platform on the inbound track, requiring Panvel passengers to embark or debark from the forthcoming coaches of outbound trains or the rear coaches of inbound trains. Panvel also serves a parallel route for which is known as the Panvel–Karjat route. The route has been set up for cargo services travelling from Karjat} to Navi Mumbai. An in-development terminus of the station had been proposed in 2007.
The Navi Mumbai Municipal Transport buses from the station run in both Old and New Panvel. it is expected to increase ridership at Old Panvel from 94% total daily boardings and alightings. After the success of the bus services, NMMT proposed to expand the bus services from the station.
It handles 2 Rajdhani Express
12431/12432 Thiruvananthapuram Rajdhani Express
22413/22414 Madgaon Rajdhani Express
History
Inauguration
The station was introduced as the Panvel–Diva railway line, serving as rail freight transport in 1962 and was used for cargo services. The Indian Railways ministry had commissioned the independent commuter railway services in 1964. In addition, a number of development activities have been conducted, including track expansions, electrification of the coaches and addition of long-route express trains.
Proposed terminus development
In 2007, the Central Railways ministries had proposed to develop a terminus, serving the inbound and outbound long distance express trains. According to the general manager, V. K. Kaul, it was announced that the project will be developed with an expenditure of . City and Industrial Development Corporation (CIDCO) stated that the corporation also has a two-thirds of expenditure on the project and the CR has the major expenditure plan. However, in 2015 the project was re-announced with a total expenditure of from the CR ministries. The CR ministries also stated that the development of the terminus will be completed in 2018. The terminus also consists two separate platforms for the express trains.
Services and further development
CIDCO corridor project
CIDCO has implemented a six-corridor railway project including the Mankhurd–Belapur–Panvel Railway Line and Panvel/Belapur–Uran Railway Line. The project will be developed with an expenditure on a ratio of 67:33; from Indian Railways and from CIDCO, covering a length of and occupying 900 hectares of land.
The Mankhurd–Belapur–Panvel Railway Corridor Line was first commissioned on 25 January 1995 as a single line connecting to Khandeshwar station from Belapur station. The line was subsequently expanded |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20200%20number-one%20albums%20of%202012 | The highest-selling albums and EPs in the United States are ranked in the Billboard 200, which is published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen Soundscan based on each album's weekly physical and digital sales. In 2012, a total of 32 albums claimed the top position of the chart. One of which, Canadian singer Michael Bublé's album Christmas started its peak in late 2011.
Adele's album 21 was the longest-running number-one album of the year for the second time, staying atop the chart for eleven non-consecutive weeks. Red by Taylor Swift had the second-most weeks at number one with five. Other albums with extended chart runs include Babel by Mumford & Sons, Tuskegee by Lionel Richie, Blown Away by Carrie Underwood, Born and Raised by John Mayer and Uncaged by Zac Brown Band; each spent two weeks on the top position. Throughout 2012, only one act achieved multiple number-one albums on the chart: One Direction with Up All Night and Take Me Home. Swift's album Red sold 1.21 million copies in its first week, making it the album with the highest weekly sales in 2012. 21 was the biggest-selling album of 2012, with 4,410,000 copies sold.
Chart history
See also
2012 in music
List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2012 (U.S.)
References
2012
United States Albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20digital%20songs%20of%202012%20%28U.S.%29 | The highest-selling digital singles in the United States are ranked in the Hot Digital Songs chart, published by Billboard magazine. The data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based on each single's weekly digital sales, which combines sales of different versions of a single for a summarized figure.
Chart history
See also
2012 in music
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of 2012
References
United States Digital Songs
2012
Number-one digital songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBAG%20Class%20430 | The Class 430 EMU is an electric railcar for S-Bahn commuter networks in Germany, jointly developed by Bombardier and Alstom. The first trains went into service in 2012, replacing the Class 420 EMUs of the Stuttgart S-Bahn.
Deployment
Stuttgart
In February 2009 it was announced that the 90 remaining Class 420 EMUs would be replaced by 83 newly developed Class 430 EMUs. This would be the first use of Class 430s in Germany. In May 2009, DB Regio ordered 83 trains, which are expected to be delivered between February and December 2012. DB has an option to order another 83 units. In December 2010, the option was increased from 83 to 166 units for the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn (see below). In October 2011, the Transport Committee of the Stuttgart Region decided to order 4 more Class 430s to cover additional services.
Rhine-Ruhr
In December 2009, the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr announced that the Class 430 would be used, with deliveries to be completed by the end of 2012. This would give 116 vehicles total of both Class 422 and Class 430. In April 2011, it was announced that orders for additional vehicles had been canceled, due to the upcoming tender of lines S5 and S8. On those lines, the existing locomotive-hauled trains will be replaced by Class 422, rather than Class 430.
Rhine-Main
In November 2011, the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund announced that after the successful tender of the S-Bahn network, Class 430 would replace the current Class 420 at the 2014/2015 timetable change. This is part of the contract between the Verkehrsverbund and DB. In December 2011, DB and Bombardier announced that DB had ordered 90 vehicles. In early 2014, these trains will be used for testing and training purposes in the Frankfurt area.
Technology and equipment
The walk-through multiple units of Class 430 are similar to those of the Class 422. They have an air-conditioned passenger area, and have gap bridging to prevent entry and exit accidents. The vehicles for Stuttgart are equipped with 16 surveillance cameras per train, glass shelves, and LED lighting. They offer eight screens in each train which only display information about the next station. If the supporting data is available, by 2013 they will also be able to display information about connections.
The Class 430 has lower noise at startup than the Class 423 used in Stuttgart. It also has less energy consumption than the Class 420.
Each train will have a length of - longer than the Class 423, but shorter than the Class 422. The cab meets the EN 15227 standard (requirements for crashworthiness for railway vehicle bodies) and is therefore longer than that of the corresponding Class 423. The Class 430 is shorter than the class 422 because in the middle car, a single row of seats replaced a double row, allowing the car to be shorter. This was required because trains must fit alongside a platform; with three units coupled together, the Class 430 will have a length of . The trains have magnetic track brakes. T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Hot%20100%20number%20ones%20of%202012 | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs of the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay. Throughout 2012, a total of 12 singles claimed the number-one position. Although 13 singles topped the chart, singer Rihanna's "We Found Love", featuring Calvin Harris, had previously spent eight weeks atop the chart in late 2011, and thus excluded.
In 2012, six acts achieved their first US number-one single, either as a lead artist or a featured guest: Fun, Janelle Monáe, Gotye, Kimbra, Carly Rae Jepsen and Taylor Swift. Two collaboration singles topped the chart, "We Are Young" and "Somebody That I Used to Know". Throughout the year, no musical acts achieved multiple number-one singles. Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know", featuring Kimbra, became the year's biggest-selling single, topping the Billboard Year-End Hot 100.
Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" and Maroon 5's "One More Night" tied for the longest-running number-one single of the year, both spending nine consecutive weeks atop the chart. Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" was the second longest-running one, topping the Hot 100 for eight consecutive weeks. Both Fun's "We Are Young and Bruno Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven" spent a total of six weeks at number one, while Rihanna's "Diamonds", Kelly Clarkson's "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)" and Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together", tied with three weeks atop the chart. "Diamonds" is Rihanna's twelfth Hot 100 number-one single, tying her with Madonna and The Supremes as the artists with the fifth-most number ones in the chart's history.
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2012 in American music
List of Billboard number-one singles
List of Billboard Hot 100 top 10 singles in 2012
Notes
A Rihanna achieved two number-one singles in 2012, "We Found Love" and "Diamonds". However, the former was excluded from the count because it previously topped the Hot 100 in late 2011.
B "Locked Out of Heaven" spent two weeks atop the Hot 100 in 2012 and four weeks in 2013. Combined, the single peaked at number one on the chart for a total of six weeks.
References
External links
Hot 100 chart at Billboard
United States Hot 100
2012
Hot 100 number-one singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke%E2%80%93Fisher%20error%20repair | Burke–Fisher error repair is a technique used in compilers of computer programming languages to enhance error feedback to the programmer.
Background
When a compiler encounters an error when parsing a computer program it may be the first error of many. Hence it is better for the compiler to continue parsing, and output all errors it finds, rather than report one error and halt.
Burke–Fisher error repair attempts to continue parsing by 'backing up' to 'k' parse tokens before the error point, and attempting to substitute all possible tokens into all positions from that point to the point where the error was detected. This procedure is adopted because the point at which an error is detected may not be the point of the actual input error. For instance, the string 'Look up below' might be detected as invalid when 'below' is encountered, but the true error might be that 'up' has been written where 'down' was intended.
If 'k' is set to '4' and an error is encountered 100 tokens into the program, the compiler will attempt to substitute all possible strings of tokens between points 96 and 100 tokens into the program. If it finds some combination that parses without error and allows it to continue it will do so, reporting other errors as it goes. Usually the compiler will not produce a compiled program even if it manages to parse the entire input text after 'fixing' an error, as the newly 'fixed' program may not be what the programmer intended.
References
Software testing
Compiler construction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longo%20Ma%C3%AF | The Longo Maï Co-operatives are a network of agricultural co-operatives with an anti-capitalist ideological focus. Founded in 1973 in Limans, France, the network has spread in Europe and to Central America.
History
Following the events of May 68, groups of students from Austria and Switzerland who held anarchist ideologies collaborated to raise funds to allow them to buy land upon which to start to farm collectively. In 1973, they purchased 270 hectares of land at Limans near Forcalquier.
The community's ideological leader was Roland Perrot, a military deserter from the war in Algeria. Perrot knew Jean Giono and had experienced the free commune in Contadour in the 1930s. The ideological focus of the community is anti-militarist, pacifist, anti-capitalist, and egalitarian. Activities focus upon self-sufficiency, community life, craft and agricultural production, the joint management of energy, water, and respect for the environment.
Longo Maï has been involved with various international solidarity efforts with a particular focus on resistance against dictatorships.
Facilities
The ten Longo Mai co-operatives operate in a network:
In France:
Limans
Briançon, Saint-Chaffrey (Hautes-Alpes) which processes 12 to 15 tons of wool a year
Mas de Granier, the village of Caphan at Saint-Martin-de-Crau (Bouches-du-Rhone);
Treyne, Chanéac, Upper Ardèche (twenty adults and twelve children in 1999)
Cabrery, wine and olive trees
In other countries:
Ulenkrug, Mecklenburg, Germany;
Hof Stopar Eisenkappel in Carinthia, Austria (17 hectares plus 25 hectares leased, breeding sheep)
Montois farm in the Swiss Jura (12 ha geese and sheep)
Uzhgorod, Transcarpathia, Ukraine, with a French school in the 1990s
Finca Sonador in Costa Rica
The head office of the cooperative is in Basel, from which are organised campaigns to collect donations (about five million francs a year in the 1990s).
The cooperative also has media operations
Radio Free Radio Zinzine: Founded in 1981 and named after the hill in Limans on which the community was founded. It is affiliated to the European Federation of Free Radio
a news agency, l'Agence Indépendante d'information (AIM), which has a hundred contributing journalists
le journal Archipel, Journal of the European Civic Forum
It also publishes some books.
See also
Coopératives Longo Maï - from Wikipedia France
La coopérative Européenne Longo Mai de Limans
References
External links
Agricultural cooperatives
Agriculture in society
Cooperatives in Switzerland
Agriculture companies of France
Cooperatives in France
Companies based in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20File%20Format | Universal File Format is a file format originally developed by the Structural Dynamics Research Corporation (SDRC) to standardize data transfer between computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided test (CAT) software packages.
References
An overview of UF Formats from SDRL website.
A tutorial from NI website.
Computer file formats
Computer-aided design software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Life%20Design | Digital Life Design (DLD) is a global conference network, organized by Munich-based DLD Media, a company of Hubert Burda Media.
In 2005, Stephanie Czerny founded DLD as an annual conference scheme. The main purpose of DLD is to bring together business, creative and social leaders, as well as investors and opinion formers, to exchange ideas and get inspired. Since its first gathering, DLD hosted events in New York City, Beijing, San Francisco, London, Moscow, New Delhi, Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong, Tel Aviv and Munich.
DLD Conference is referred to by the Economist as one of Europe's leading conferences on innovation. New-media site Sifted, backed by the Financial Times, recently ranked the event platform as one of "Europe's best tech conferences".
The company's flagship conference, DLD Munich, hosts over 1000 guests from more than 50 countries. The three-day event always takes place in January, right before the World Economic Forum in Davos. DLD's motto, Connect the Unexpected, brings people together from various fields and interests, addressing a wide range of topics such as technology, arts, science and politics, and talking about the future and its implications on today's life.
Past speakers include Mark Zuckerberg, Lady Gaga, Yoko Ono, Jimmy Wales, Maria Ressa, Kai-Fu Lee, Francis Kéré, Satya Nadella, Zaha Hadid, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Scott Galloway, Sheryl Sandberg, Margrethe Vestager, Emmanuel Macron and many more.
Background
Stephanie Czerny is the event platform's co-founder and managing director, chaired by Hubert Burda and Yossi Vardi.
After bringing DLD Conference to life in 2005, DLD Media GmbH has been founded as a subsidiary of Hubert Burda Media to expand the brand. Steffi Czerny and Co-Founder Marcel Reichart were named its managing directors. Since then, the company has steadily grown and is now offering various conferences besides DLD Munich around the globe, as well as salons, dinners, lectures, hikes and other events.
All events are by invitation only. However, those interested can apply via the company's website.
Until 2018, the conference's venue was the listed bank building at Kardinal-Faulhaber-Straße 1 (HVB Forum). In 2019, DLD Munich took place at Alte Kongresshalle for the first time.
All talks and sessions can be watched over a live stream.
Each year the slogan of the conference accordingly changes to the dominant theme.
Aenne Burda Award
In memory of his mother's entrepreneurial and social commitment, Hubert Burda established the Aenne Burda Award for creative leadership, honoring women with visionary ideas.
Past laureates have been:
Media coverage
DLD is covered and attended every year by over 180 international journalists from opinion forming media such as The New York Times, Economist, Guardian, Fast Company, Fortune, Financial Times, FAZ, FOCUS, Spiegel, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Thomson Reuters, Getty, Deutsche Welle, AllThingsD, Huffington Post and TechCrunch.
References
International conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Geneva | The Geneva trolleybus system () forms part of the public transport network in Geneva, Switzerland. It is the second largest trolleybus system in Switzerland, after the Lausanne system.
Opened in 1942, the system supplements the Geneva tramway network. It is operated by Transports publics genevois (TPG), and currently also serves the neighbouring municipalities of Bernex, Cologny, Confignon, Le Grand-Saconnex, Lancy, Meyrin, Onex and Vernier.
History
Geneva's first trolleybus line, inaugurated on 11 September 1942, linked Champel with Le Petit-Saconnex, replacing the former tram line. Like the tramway network, it was operated by the Compagnie Genevoise des Tramways Électriques (CGTE). In subsequent years, other tram lines were closed and replaced with trolleybus lines:
in 1950, line 4;
in 1959, line 6;
in 1961, line 2.
Additionally, two trolleybus lines replaced former bus lines:
in 1950, line 7 to Aïre;
in 1959, line 33 to Cointrin.
In 1971, line 4 was closed. In 1976, the name of the operator, CGTE, was changed to Transports Publics Genevois (TPG). On 25 September 1989, line 5 was merged into line 6. For more than a decade, some services on the extended line 6 were operated by conventional buses (fully trolleybus line 26 was supporting it till Châtelaine), but on 24 June 2001 the line reverted to operation solely by trolleybuses.
Lines
Since the reorganisation of Geneva's tram and trolleybus lines on 11 December 2011, the trolleybus lines have been as follows:
Fleet
Current fleet
Geneva's present trolleybus fleet consists of 94 articulated and ten bi-articulated vehicles:
Past fleet
The following table summarises Geneva's former trolleybuses:
A number of Geneva's former trolleybuses, fleet nos. 32, 96, 602–605, 607, 611–613, 615–617, 621, 643 and 644, were exported to Chile in the early 1990s. Some of these exported vehicles remained in service on the Valparaíso trolleybus system for many more years, the last two being withdrawn in 2013 and 2014.
The unique NAW/Hess bi-articulated vehicle, fleet no. 721, was created in autumn 2003, by adding a third body section to the 1993-built fleet no. 709 of type BGT-N. It was the first Swiss bi-articulated trolleybus and served as a prototype for the production vehicles of type BGGT-N2C. All of the bi-articulated vehicles are used on line 10.
See also
List of trolleybus systems in Switzerland
Trams in Geneva
References
Specific
General
External links
Geneva
Geneva
Transport in Geneva
1942 establishments in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand%20page | A brand page (also known as a page or fan page), in online social networking parlance, is a profile on a social networking website which is considered distinct from an actual user profile in that it is created and managed by at least one other registered user as a representation of a non-personal online identity. This feature is most used to represent the brands of organizations associated with, properties owned by, or general interests favored by a user of the hosting network.
While also being potentially manageable by more than one registered user, pages are distinguished from groups in that pages are usually designed for the managers to direct messages and posts to subscribing users (akin to a newsletter or blog) and promote a brand, while groups are usually and historically formed for discussion purposes.
History
Prior to 2007, only a few websites made use of non-personal profile pages. Last.fm, established in 2002, used its music recommendation service to automatically generate "artist pages" which serve as portals for biographies, events and artist-related playlists. This approach, however, is not explicitly controlled by artists or music groups because of the automatic nature of artist pages; pages, for example, could be created from erroneous misspellings and miscredits of works which are accepted as-is by the Audioscrobbler recommendation service used by Last.fm. Furthermore, Last.fm has never advertised itself as a social networking service, despite accruing myriad social features since 2002.
The most high-profile usage of this model is Facebook's Pages (formerly known as "Fan Page" until 2010) feature, launched in 2007; one could "be a fan of" a page until April 2010, when the parlance was replaced with "Like". Foursquare, a location-oriented social networking site, launched its "Brands" feature allowing for the creation of specialized brand pages in January 2010 (with Intel being the first user), but they did not become "self-serve" (controllable by individuals employed by page brand owners) until August 2011. LinkedIn, an enterprise-oriented social networking service, launched "Company Pages" in November 2010. Google+, the current social networking service operated by Google, launched its own "Pages" feature in October 2011. On November 19, 2012, Amazon announced Amazon Pages giving brands self-service control over their presence on the site. On 8 December, Twitter announced that it would roll out "brand pages" as part of a major user interface redesign in 2012.
Features
Increasingly, brand pages make use of the following features:
Header banners
The ability to post blogs or replies on the brand page in the name of the brand page
The ability to administer multiple pages
Photos
Video
Maps (including the physical location of the page)
Subscribers
Other apps
Twitter made use of header banners in their launch of brand pages, and Facebook made use of "cover photos" in their re-design of brand pages in March 2011.
Uses
Organ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory%20Aristarchis | Gregory "Ligor" Aristarchis ( Grigorios Aristarchis; ; 1843–1914), also known as Aristarchi Bey, was an Ottoman diplomat of Phanariote Greek ethnicity, compiler of a corpus of Ottoman legislation.
Education and career
Originally a provincial jurist, he became the director of foreign correspondence of Crete beginning in 1861, and then from 1867 the Smyrna (Izmir) directeur politique ("political director") and vice-governor.
He served as Ottoman Minister in Washington from 1873 to 1883 with Alexandros Mavrogenis. The Ottoman government dismissed him from his post. Sinan Kuneralp, author of "Ottoman Diplomatic and Consular Personnel in the United States of America, 1867-1917," argued that his relationship with Midhat Pasha was the "more likely" reason why he was fired, while the official accusation was that Aristarchis misused money from a weapons deal. After 1883 he lived in Paris where he worked as advisor to Alfred Nobel. After the fall of Abdul Hamid II he served as an Ottoman envoy to the Netherlands, where he died.
Works
He compiled Législation ottomane, ou Recueil des lois, règlements, ordonnances, traités, capitulations et autres documents officiels de l´Empire ottoman, one of the first collections of the Ottoman Law in 7 volumes in French language, while Demetrius Nicolaides edited them. Aristarchis is named in most volumes, except for 6–7, which, according to Strauss, "seem to have been edited solely by Demetrius Nicolaides". The collection was intended for foreigners living in the empire, including employees of foreign ministries. Strauss described it as the "best-known example of" a collection of Ottoman laws.
Personal life
Strauss wrote that Aristarchis was a "popular figure" in the United States, and Kuneralp wrote that in his youth he "was a dashing young bachelor known for his many feminine conquests." He appeared as the main character in a novel by Henry James.
See also
Ottoman Empire-United States relations
Works
Aristarchi Gregoire bey (1873, 1874, 1878, 1881) Legislation ottomane, ou Recueil des lois, reglements, ordonnances, traités, capitulations et autres documents officiels de l'Émpire Ottoman. Constantinople: Imprimerie, Frères Nicolaides (in French)
National Library of France (BnF) Gallica: volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7
Also at University of Crete
Also at HeinOnline
References
Further reading
Info page
Greeks from the Ottoman Empire
1914 deaths
Ambassadors of the Ottoman Empire to the United States
1843 births
19th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire
19th-century diplomats
20th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire
20th-century diplomats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronium | The Electronium, created by Raymond Scott, is an early combined electronic synthesizer and algorithmic composition / generative music machine.
Its place in history is unusual, because while in intention it is analogous to the digital algorithmic composition systems that would follow it, it was implemented entirely as an analog electronic machine.
Development was begun in 1959, with a workable unit by 1969. Scott, however, never ceased to modify and further develop the device by the time of his death in 1994.
It was one of the very few electronic creations of Scott to be sold to a customer, as he was normally highly secretive about his devices. A single Electronium machine was sold to Motown Records, following a 1969 meeting between Scott and Motown's Berry Gordy. The initial contract required that Scott visited Motown for three months to teach staff how the machine is used. This culminated in the 1971 hiring of Scott to serve as director of Motown's electronic music and research department in Los Angeles, California, a position that Scott held until 1977. No Motown recordings using Scott's electronic inventions have yet been publicly identified.
Guy Costa, Head of Operations and Chief Engineer at Motown from 1969 to 1987, said about Scott's hiring:
Scott later said he "spent 11 years and close to a million dollars developing the Electronium."
Much remains to be discovered about the machine's functionality, since detailed documentation on its workings are not currently available, and the single remaining machine is not in working order.
In a patent application, Scott wrote that "The entire system is based on the concept of Artistic Collaboration Between Man and Machine, (…) The new structures being directed into the machine are unpredictable in their details, and hence the results are a kind of duet between the composer and the machine."
Adding to the difficulty of defining what the Electronium was and how it worked is the fact that it was never finished. Scott continued to develop it during his employment at Motown, and after his dismissal there he carried on working on the machine, stopping only when his deteriorating health abruptly halted him from carrying on, after his first of several strokes.
The Electronium is currently owned by Devo's co-founder and lead singer Mark Mothersbaugh, who has initiated efforts towards its restoration. In 2017, Brian Kehew began working on the restoration of the Electronium, in an effort partially financed by Gotye.
See also
Electronic musical instrument
References
External links
Official Raymond Scott website
Website for "Deconstructing Dad" documentary
Video showing the Electronium, discussion starts at 1:37.
Synthesizers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme%20Ruler%20%28video%20game%29 | Supreme Ruler is a computer strategy game in which a player controls a region's government and attempts to conquer a fictional world of fragmented states. The game simulates raising funds through taxes and spending on agriculture, government services, and the military. Up to 9 regions play at once, either human hotseat or AI controlled, and all actions are resolved simultaneously at the end of each turn. The design of Supreme Ruler was influenced by earlier nation-state simulations such as Sumer, though the concept is taken further with the addition of multiplayer, military battles, and a more sophisticated design.
The game was created by George Geczy and produced and published by JMG Software International, released for the TRS-80 microcomputer system in October 1982. An updated and expanded version, Supreme Ruler Plus, was released in May 1983.
Legacy
The original Supreme Ruler games were the inspiration for George Geczy and David Thompson to create a modern version for Microsoft Windows. This project began in January 2000 with the formation of BattleGoat Studios and culminated with the release of Supreme Ruler 2010 in May 2005, followed by sequels Supreme Ruler 2020 in June 2008, Supreme Ruler Cold War in July 2011, Supreme Ruler 1936 in May 2014, Supreme Ruler Ultimate in October 2014, and Supreme Ruler The Great War in August 2017.
References
External links
Supreme Ruler official website
SupremeWiki
1982 video games
Government simulation video games
TRS-80 games
TRS-80-only games
Video games developed in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC%2062443 | IEC 62443 is an international series of standards that address cybersecurity for operational technology in automation and control systems. The standard is divided into different sections and describes both technical and process-related aspects of automation and control systems cybersecurity.
It divides the cybersecurity topics by stakeholder category / roles including:
the operator,
the service providers (service providers for integration and for maintenance)
the component/system manufacturers.
The different roles each follow a risk-based approach to prevent and manage security risks in their activities.
History
As an international standard, the IEC 62443 family of standards is the result of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards creation process where all national committees involved agree upon a common standard. Multiple organizations and committees submitted input to the IEC working groups and helped shape the IEC 62443 family of standard.
Starting in 2002, the International Society of Automation (ISA), a professional automation engineering society and ANSI-accredited standards development organization (SDO) established the Industrial Automation and Control System Security standards committee (ISA99). The ISA99 committee developed a multi-part series of standards and technical reports about Industrial Automation and Control System (IACS) cyber security. These work products were submitted by ISA for approval and then published as North American ANSI standards. The ISA standards documents originally referred to as ANSI/ISA-99 or ISA99 standards were renumbered to be the ANSI/ISA-62443 series in 2010. The content of this series was submitted to and used by the IEC working groups.
In parallel, the German engineering associations VDI and VDE released the VDI/VDE 2182 guidelines in 2011. The guidelines describe how to handle information security in industrial automation environments and were also submitted to and used by the IEC working groups.
In 2021, the IEC approved the IEC 62443 family of standards as 'horizontal standards'. This means that when sector specific standards for operational technology are being developed by subject matter experts, the IEC 62443 standards must be used at the foundation for requirements addressing cybersecurity in those standards. This approach serves to avoid the proliferation of partial and/or conflicting requirements for addressing cybersecurity of operational technology across industry sectors where the same or similar technology or products are deployed at operating sites.
Structure
IEC 62443 Industrial communication networks - Network and system security series of standards is organized into four parts:
General: This part covers topics that are common to the entire series.
Policies and Procedures: This part focuses on methods and processes associated with IACS security.
System: This part is about requirements at the system level.
Components and Requirements: This pa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Sullivan%20%28filmmaker%29 | Michael Sullivan is an American film maker who has numerous film and television credits as a writer, director, and producer. He was the president of entertainment for the United Paramount Network (UPN) from 1994 – 1997.
Sullivan began his career at ABC in 1976 and by the early 80s was named director of comedy development. He left the network in 1983 for Warner Bros. TV, where he became executive producer of the sitcom "Growing Pains". In 1993, he formed Michael Sullivan Productions, an independent firm; but in 1994 joined UPN where he helped launch the hit series Star Trek: Voyager. He remained at UPN until 1997. He then returned to being an independent producer.
Having served on the advisory board of Paulist Productions, Sullivan became president in 2018.
References
External links
American documentary filmmakers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sint%C3%A9grations | Désintégrations, for 17 musical instruments and computer generated tape (1982–83) is a musical composition of spectral music by Tristan Murail, commissioned for IRCAM, Paris. The piece is more discontinuous than Murail's earlier composition Gondwana, owing in part to the use of dramatic silences throughout and particularly in the 6th section. According to Julian Anderson,
Curtis Roads has said that "three compositions produced in the 1980s stand as good examples of compositional manipulation of analysis data: Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco (1981) by Jonathan Harvey, Désintegrations (1983, Salabert Trajectoires) by Tristan Murail, and Digital Moonscapes (1985, CBS/Sony) by Wendy Carlos."
The piece has been recorded by the Ensemble l'Itinéraire.
See also
Synchronisms
Sources
External links
"Tristan Murail: Gondwana; Désintégrations; Time and Again", AllMusic.com.
Chamber music compositions
Computer music compositions
Spectral music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Luck | Michael Luck may refer to:
Michael Laucke (born 1947), Canadian classical and flamenco guitarist
Michael Luck (computer scientist), British computer scientist
Micheal Luck (born 1982), Australian professional rugby league player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katla%20Geopark | Katla Geopark is the first Geopark to be designated in Iceland, having gained membership of both the European Geoparks Network and the UNESCO-assisted Global Network of National Geoparks in 2011.
Amongst others, it includes the volcanoes Katla and Eyjafjallajökull, the latter renowned for the disruption which its eruption in 2010 caused to European air travel.
External links
official website of Katla Geopark
official website of the European Geoparks Network
References
Geoparks in Europe
Protected areas of Iceland
Global Geoparks Network members |
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