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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieringa | Wieringa is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Kees Wieringa, Dutch pianist, composer and television program maker
Roel Wieringa (born 1952), Dutch computer scientist
Tommy Wieringa, (born 1967), Dutch writer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20login | Social login is a form of single sign-on using existing information from a social networking service such as Facebook, Twitter or Google, to login to a third party website instead of creating a new login account specifically for that website. It is designed to simplify logins for end users as well as provide more reliable demographic information to web developers.
How social login works
Social login links accounts from one or more social networking services to a website, typically using either a plug-in or a widget. By selecting the desired social networking service, the user simply uses his or her login for that service to sign on to the website. This, in turn, negates the need for the end user to remember login information for multiple electronic commerce and other websites while providing site owners with uniform demographic information as provided by the social networking service. Many sites which offer social login also offer more traditional online registration for those who either desire it or who do not have an account with a compatible social networking service (and therefore would be precluded from creating an account with the website).
Application
Social login can be implemented strictly as an authentication system using standards such as OpenID or SAML. For consumer websites that offer social functionality to users, social login is often implemented using the OAuth standard. OAuth is a secure authorization protocol which is commonly used in conjunction with authentication to grant 3rd party applications a "session token" allowing them to make API calls to providers on the user's behalf. Sites using the social login in this manner typically offer social features such as commenting, sharing, reactions and gamification.
While social login can be extended to corporate websites, the majority of social networks and consumer-based identity providers allow self-asserted identities. For this reason, social login is generally not used for strict, highly secure applications such as those in banking or health.
Advantages of social login
Studies have shown that website registration forms are inefficient as many people provide false data, forget their login information for the site or simply decline to register in the first place. A study conducted in 2011 by Janrain and Blue Research found that 77 percent of consumers favored social login as a means of authentication over more traditional online registration methods. Additional benefits:
Targeted Content - Web sites can obtain a profile and social graph data in order to target personalized content to the user. This includes information such as name, email, hometown, interests, activities, and friends. However, this can create issues for privacy, and result in a narrowing of the variety of views and options available on the internet.
Multiple Identities - Users can log into websites with multiple social identities allowing them to better control their online identity.
Registration Data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finis%20Terrae%20University | Universidad Finis Terrae () (UFT) is a Chilean university. It is a private autonomous institution in Santiago de Chile owned by the Anahuac University Network.
References
External links
UFT website
Regnum Christi
Legion of Christ
Anahuac universities
Finis Terrae University
Universities in Chile
Universities in Santiago Metropolitan Region |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asferg%20Runestone | The Asferg Runestone, listed as DR 121 in the Rundata catalog, is a Viking Age memorial runestone found at Asferg, which is about northeast of Randers, Aarhus County, Region Midtjylland, Denmark.
Description
The inscription on DR 121, which is about in height and made of granite, consists of runic text in the younger futhark within a band that loops to form three rows of text. The inscription is classified as being carved in runestone style RAK, which is the classification for the oldest style where the text bands have straight ends without any attached beast or serpent heads. The runestone was discovered in 1795 at a barrow in Asferg, but was still reused as a paving stone near a local mill. Before the historic significance of runestones was understood, they were often reused as materials in the construction of churches, bridges, and roads. The stone was purchased by the Danish Antiquities Commission in 1810 and shipped to Copenhagen in 1825. Today it is displayed at the National Museum of Denmark.
The runic text, which is read boustrophedonically from the lower left, states that the stone was raised by a man named Þorgeirr in memory of his brother Múli. The text describes the deceased man Múli as being "a very good thegn" or "þegn". The term thegn was used in the late Viking Age in Sweden and Denmark to describe a class of retainer. About fifty memorial runestones described the deceased as being a thegn. Of these, the runic text on other sixteen runestones use the same Old Norse phrase harða goðan þegn or "a very good thegn", including Vg 59 in Norra Härene, Vg 62 in Ballstorp, Vg 102 in Håle gamla, Vg 113 in Lärkegape, Vg 115 in Stora Västölet, Vg 151 in Eggvena, Vg NOR1997;27 in Hols, DR 86 in Langå, DR 106 in Ørum, DR 115 in Randers, DR 123 in Glenstrup, DR 130 in Giver, DR 213 in Skovlænge, DR 278 in Västra Nöbbelöv, DR 294 in Baldringe, and DR 343 in Östra Herrestads. In addition, four inscriptions use a different word order, þegn harða goðan, include Vg 74 in Skolgården, Vg 152 in Håkansgården, Vg 157 in Storegården, and Vg 158 in Fänneslunda. The runemaster used a punctuation mark consisting of two dots (":") to separate each word of the text.
The stone is known locally as the Asferg-sten.
Inscription
Transliteration of the runes into Latin characters
: þurgiʀ : tuka : sun : risþi : stin : þonnsi : iftiʀ : mula : bruþr : ¶ sin : harþo : kuþru : þin :
Transcription into Old Norse
Þorgiʀ Toka sun resþi sten þænsi æftiʀ Mula, broþur sin, harþa goþan þægn.
Translation in English
Þorgeirr son of Tóki raised this stone in memory of Múli, his brother, a very good thegn.
References
Runestones in Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notational%20Velocity | Notational Velocity is a computer program for Mac OS X used for notetaking. It allows users to create notes using solely a computer keyboard and search them using incremental find. Other features include database encryption, basic text formatting, tags and spellcheck. In addition, users can synchronize notes with Simplenote and export to a variety of formats, including plain text, HTML and rich text. It has been recommended along with Simplenote as a solution for taking and syncing notes by both Wired and Lifehacker.
Notational Velocity hasn't seen any development activity since September 2011.
In 2013, Elastic Threads (David Halter) and Brett Terpstra created a fork of Notational Velocity with added functionality called nvALT. nvALT was last updated in 2017.
In 2019, Brett Terpstra and Fletcher Penney started working on a replacement for nvALT called nvUltra. As of 2023, nvUltra is available as a closed Beta release.
See also
Comparison of notetaking software
References
MacOS-only free software
Note-taking software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabola%20GNU/Linux-libre | Parabola GNU/Linux-libre is an operating system for the i686, x86-64 and ARMv7 architectures. It is based on many of the packages from Arch Linux and Arch Linux ARM, but distinguishes from the former by offering only free software. It includes the GNU operating system components common to many Linux distributions and the Linux-libre kernel instead of the generic Linux kernel. Parabola is listed by the Free Software Foundation as a completely free operating system, true to their Free System Distribution Guidelines.
Parabola uses a rolling release model like Arch, such that a regular system update is all that is needed to obtain the latest software. Development focuses on system simplicity, community involvement and use of the latest free software packages.
History
Parabola was originally proposed by members of the gNewSense IRC channel in 2009. Members of different Arch Linux communities, especially Spanish-speaking members, started the development and maintenance of the project software and documentation.
On May 20, 2011, the Parabola distribution was recognized as a completely free project by GNU, making it part of the FSF list of free distributions.
In February 2012 Dmitrij D. Czarkoff reviewed Parabola for OSNews. Czarkoff reported that on his test computer a number of hardware problems surfaced, due to lack of free firmware. He said
Czarkoff also criticized the lack of documentation available for Parabola. He concluded "The overall impression of the Parabola GNU/Linux user experience exactly matches the one of Arch: a system with easy and flexible installation and configuration process and good choice of free software packages. Though the lack of documentation spoils the user experience, the Arch Linux resources can be used to further configure and extend the distribution. If my hardware would allow, I would probably stick with Parabola."
Parabola used to have a mips64el port to provide support for the Chinese Loongson processor used in the Lemote Yeeloong laptop. It was discontinued due to a lack of resources and interest, and the final activity was seen in July 2014.
Robert Rijkhoff reviewed Parabola GNU/Linux for DistroWatch in September 2017.
Differences from Arch and Arch ARM
The project uses only 100% free software from the official Arch repositories for the i686 and x86-64 architectures and official Arch ARM repositories (except [alarm] and [aur]) for the ARMv7. It uses free replacements when possible, such as the Linux-libre kernel instead of the generic Linux kernel.
The filtering process removes around 700 software packages from the repositories that do not meet the requirements of the Free Software Definition for each architecture.
Social contract
Parabola has established a social contract. The Parabola Social Contract commits the project to the free software community (viewing itself as only competing against nonfree systems), free culture, democracy, and to follow Arch's philosophy. Under the covenant are include |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken%20Vow%20%28TV%20series%29 | Broken Vow is a 2012 Philippine television drama mystery series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Bianca King, Luis Alandy, Gabby Eigenmann and Rochelle Pangilinan. It premiered on February 6, 2012, on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Kung Aagawin Mo ang Langit. The series concluded on June 15, 2012, with a total of 93 episodes. It was replaced by Faithfully in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Bianca King as Melissa Santiago
Luis Alandy as Felix Rastro
Gabby Eigenmann as Roberto Sebastian
Rochelle Pangilinan as Rebecca Sta. Maria
Supporting cast
Celia Rodriguez as Ofelia "Amorcita" Rastro
Juan Rodrigo as Lucio Sebastian
Carmi Martin as Rosanna Sebastian
Melissa Mendez as Amor Santiago
Ervic Vijandre as David Sebastian-Sta. Maria
Marco Alcaraz as Michael Pascual
Matet de Leon as Amy
Jace Flores as Kenneth
Lou Sison as Sheila
Pancho Magno as Rico
Kryshee Grengia as Eva Marie Santiago
Guest cast
Ehra Madrigal as Rachel
Jenine Desiderio as Jenny
Dominic Roco as Wilson Ocampo
Kylie Padilla as Jenna Rastro-Santiago
Tonio Quiazon as Bryan Perez
Menggie Cobarubias as Mario Jimeno
Divina Valencia as Digina
Vaness del Moral as Ellen
Joyce Ching as Malou
Bodjie Pascua as Enrico
Robert Ortega as Erwin
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Broken Vow earned a 16.3% rating. While the final episode scored a 26.7% rating.
References
External links
2012 Philippine television series debuts
2012 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in Rio de Janeiro (city)
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyrhachis%20illaudata | Polyrhachis illaudata is a species of large ant found in Sri Lanka, India extending through Southeast Asia to the Philippines. The colonies have a single queen and nest within wood.
References
External links
AntWeb
Formicinae
Insects described in 1859
Hymenoptera of Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Climate%20Corporation | The Climate Corporation is a digital agriculture company that examines weather, soil and field data to help farmers determine potential yield-limiting factors in their fields.
History
The company was founded as WeatherBill in 2006 by two former Google employees, David Friedberg and Siraj Khaliq.
The company began as a startup focused on helping people and businesses manage and adapt to climate change, by providing weather insurance to ski resorts, large event venues, and farmers. In 2010, it decided to focus exclusively on agriculture, and launched the Total Weather Insurance Product in fall 2010 for corn and soybeans.
In late 2010 and early 2011, SV Angel invested in WeatherBill's Series B.
On October 11, 2011, WeatherBill changed its name to The Climate Corporation.
In June 2013, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency authorized the Climate Corporation to administer federal crop insurance policies for the 2014 crop year.
In October 2013, Monsanto announced that it was acquiring the company for approximately $1.1 billion.
In November 2013, the company launched Climate Basic and Climate Pro, a set of advisory tools for farmers utilizing data science to help farmers make optimal decisions.
In February 2014, the company announced it merged with Monsanto's Integrated Farming System and Precision Planting divisions. In February 2014, the company also acquired Solum, a soil testing company based in Ames, Iowa.
In December 2014, the company acquired 640 Labs, an agricultural technology startup based in Chicago. 640 Labs created the Drive device (later renamed the Fieldview Drive) that reads data from the CANBUS of tractors and connects to an iPad or iPhone.
In July 2015, the company sold its crop insurance business to AmTrust Financial Services, enabling The Climate Corporation to focus exclusively on its digital agriculture platform. Details of the agreement were not disclosed.
In September 2015, the company re-branded its Climate Basic and Climate Pro products as Climate FieldView.
In November 2015, the company signed a definitive agreement with John Deere to sell Precision Planting LLC.
In March 2016, the company announced data connectivity agreements with several agronomic retailers and retailer software systems through the use of APIs.
In May 2017, the agreement to sell Precision Planting LLC to John Deere was terminated. In August 2016, the U.S. Department of Justice had filed a lawsuit to block the sale, arguing the deal could make it more expensive for farmers to use fast, precise planting technology. Precision Planting CEO Michael Stern stated: "We just didn't see that there was a clear path going forward, that the DOJ was going to approve the transaction. We have a valuable business and people in limbo and it was just time to move on."
In June 2018, Bayer acquired Monsanto and Precision Planting with it.
Products
Formerly Climate Basic and Climate Pro, the Climate Corporation re-branded its product to Clim |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gaon%20Digital%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202012 | The Gaon Digital Chart of Gaon Music Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in South Korea. The data is collected by the Korea Music Content Association. It consists of a weekly chart, listed from Sunday to Saturday, and a monthly chart.
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
References
External links
Gaon Digital Chart
2012 singles
Korea, South singles
2012 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Gaon%20Album%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202012 | The Gaon Album Chart is a record chart that ranks the best-selling albums and EPs in South Korea. It is part of the Gaon Music Chart which launched in February 2010. The data for the chart is compiled by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korean Music Content Industry Association based on weekly and monthly physical albums and digital sales by six major distributors: LOEN Entertainment, S.M. Entertainment, Sony Music Korea, Warner Music Korea, Universal Music and Mnet Media.
Overall, Super Junior's Sexy, Free & Single album was Gaon Album Chart best selling album of 2012, selling 356,431 copies. Super Junior also sold South Korea best-selling album of 2012 with both standard Sexy, Free & Single and repackage SPY album selling a total of 480,622 units overall. The group won Album of The Year at 2012 Mnet Asian Music Awards, Album of The Year (3rd Quarter) at 2nd Gaon Chart Music Awards, Disk Daesang and Disk Bonsang at 27th Golden Disc Awards and Disk Bonsang at 22nd Seoul Music Awards.
Weekly charts
Monthly charts
Notes
References
External links
Gaon Charts - Official Website
2012
Korea, South albums
2012 in South Korean music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20V.%20Eleftheriades | George V. Eleftheriades is a researcher in the field of metamaterials. He has been endowed with a Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto and is a professor in the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering there. He has received notable awards for his achievements, is a fellow of the IEEE and the Royal Society of Canada.
Also, at the University of Toronto, he heads a group for research in novel electromagnetic materials. He has also contributed chapters to several books on antennas and transmission line theory that utilize metamaterials, along with other novel concepts, and is co-editor of one book in the same field. Eleftheriades is also the author and co-author of a significant volume of published research in peer reviewed journals.
Mr. Eleftheriades earned his Ph.D. and M.S.E.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1993 and 1989 respectively. He received a diploma (with distinction) in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in 1988.
Awards and recognitions
Eleftheriades was elected IEEE fellow "for contributions to conception, analysis and fabrication of electromagnetic materials and their applications."
He received the 2008 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, a Technical Field Award conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors.
In 2004, he was awarded the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Published works
Books
References
External links
George V. Eleftheriades
Negative-Refractive-Index Transmission-Line Metamaterials and Enabling Microwave Devices
Projects
Living people
Metamaterials scientists
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Fellow Members of the IEEE
American scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Microwave engineers
University of Michigan College of Engineering alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanran | Zanran is a search engine for data and statistics. Zanran's focus is on finding graphs, charts and tables on the Internet, which distinguishes it from other search engines such as Google, Bing, etc. Unlike a typical search engine, the results—graphs, tables, etc.—can be previewed by mouse-hovering over the thumbnails.
History
In 2006, the founders, Dr Yves Dassas and Jon Goldhill, started developing the technology that makes Zanran possible. A limited beta ran, starting in November 2010. The service was launched as a public beta version in May 2011.
Technology
Zanran has developed two technologies specifically for this application:
Image ‘classification’ is the ability for a computer to decide whether an image is a graph, a pie-chart etc. as opposed to a photograph or a cartoon. The Zanran algorithms work to over 95% accuracy. This is important because most images on the web are not graphs and otherwise there would be a large number of false positives.
Text extraction is the process of taking the most appropriate text to describe the graph. This contrasts with a normal search engine where an entire HTML page might be included.
These processes are the subject of Zanran's UK patent. The image processing in particular takes a great deal of computing power. Zanran runs on the Amazon cloud, and uses hundreds of machines at a time.
The service is English-language only as of December 2011.
The company
Zanran Ltd is based in London, UK. It was financed by the founders prior to a private angel investment round in March 2010.
Other data-search on the Internet
Other specialists in the data-search space include WolframAlpha, Infochimps, and Timetric.
References
External links
Official website
Internet search engines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Lucerne | The Lucerne trolleybus system () forms part of the public transport network of Lucerne, capital city of the canton of Lucerne, Switzerland. Opened in 1941, the system had replaced the Lucerne tramway network by 1961.
As of the end of 2013, the system consists of six lines, one of which leads across the city boundary into the neighbouring towns of Emmen, Horw and Kriens. It is currently operated by Verkehrsbetriebe Luzern (VBL), has a total route length of , and as of about 2011 was carrying 27 million passengers annually. The system is supplemented by various motor bus lines operated by the same transport company.
History
The system's individual trolleybus line sections went into service as follows:
Lines
The present system is made up of the following lines:
Lines 6 and 8 operate on the same overhead wires between Brüelstrasse and Schönbühl, so that on this section there are trolleybuses at 5-minute intervals during rush hour, and at 7.5-minute intervals at off-peak times. This combined section is described as double-line 6/8.
Fleet
As of 31 December 2013, the VBL trolleybus fleet had 20 rigid, 26 articulated, and three bi-articulated vehicles There were also 16 trailers that can be used in combination with the rigid buses.
In the 2010s, the Lucerne system was one of only two trolleybus systems worldwide, along with the Lausanne trolleybus system, that still operated trolleybuses towing passenger trailers. However, trailer use on the Lucerne system ended on 10 October 2017, following the delivery of more new articulated trolleybuses, and such usage also ended in Lausanne – the last trolleybus system in the world to use trailers – on 4 May 2021.
Type BGT 5-25 originally comprised 20 vehicles, nos. 181–200.
Of the 30 rigid versions of that type, the BT 5-25, to be acquired by the VBL, three vehicles had been retired by 2012: nos. 251, 255 and 256.
In 2014, ten vehicles from that series were sold to the Valparaíso trolleybus system, in Chile: Nos. 265, 266, 268–270, 272, 273, 275, 276, 278.
Depot
The Weinbergli depot is located on the route of lines 6, 7 and 8.
See also
List of trolleybus systems in Switzerland
References
Notes
Further reading
External links
Trolleybus city: Luzern (Schweiz) (in German) as archived 2021 (information through 2015 only).
Trolleybus city: Luzern (Schweiz) (in English, but with less information) as archived 2021.
Transport in Lucerne
Lucerne
Lucerne
1941 establishments in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20shows%20set%20in%20Atlanta | Many television shows are filmed in Atlanta, set in Atlanta, or both:
Shot and/or set in metro Atlanta (partial list)
All American: Homecoming
Atlanta
Archer
Big Rich Atlanta on Style Network
Black Lightning, produced by The CW and aired on January 16, 2018
Class of 3000 on Cartoon Network
Chrisley Knows Best
Containment, produced by The CW and aired from April 19 through July 19, 2016
Devious Maids (set in Beverly Hills but filmed primarily at EUE Screen Gems in Atlanta)
Don't Be Tardy
Drop Dead Diva (set in Los Angeles but actually filmed around Peachtree City and Senoia)
Dynasty, 2017 continuation on CW of the 1980s series, with the story moved, and shot, in Atlanta.
Family Feud 2011-2012 season was recorded at the Atlanta Civic Center (host Steve Harvey is a local resident)
For Better or Worse, produced by Tyler Perry Studios
Franklin & Bash, a Williams Street production
Freaknik: The Musical, a Williams Street production
Good Eats, hosted by local resident Alton Brown
Halt and Catch Fire, set in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex but actually filmed in Atlanta
K. Michelle: My Life
Kenan
Let's Stay Together
Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta
Love, Victor
Married to Medicine, documents the wives of doctors in Atlanta
Mean Girls 2 was filmed in Atlanta in July 2010
Meet the Browns, produced by Tyler Perry Studios
Necessary Roughness (Set in Long Island but filmed in Atlanta, with football scenes filmed in the Georgia Dome)
Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin - Saturday morning nature show with Jeff Corwin airing on ABC
One Punk Under God (documentary)
Ozark, Netflix series, Lake Allatoona and Lake Lanier
Property Virgins on HGTV, with host Egypt Sherrod of V-103 (earlier seasons were from HGTV Canada)
Queer Eye on Netflix (Seasons 1 and 2)
Raising Dion on Netflix
Red Band Society on FOX
The Resident
Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta, in Sandy Springs
Say Yes to the Dress: Bridesmaids
Second Generation Wayans, on BET
Scream: Resurrection, third season of TV series based on the film series of the same name, also set in College Park, Georgia
Stranger Things, set in Indiana but shot in Atlanta, Georgia
T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle
Teen Wolf on MTV
Teenage Bounty Hunters
The Game, shot in Atlanta since moving to BET for the 2011 season - as of January 2012 the highest-rated ad-supported sitcom ever on cable
The Mo'Nique Show is filmed in Atlanta
The New Atlanta - an upcoming Bravo reality series set in Atlanta
The Real Housewives of Atlanta (series)
The Rickey Smiley Show on TV One
The Walking Dead, an AMC TV show recorded in and around Atlanta
Tyler Perry's House of Payne is filmed in Atlanta, and involves fictional firefighters working for the Atlanta Fire Department, produced by Tyler Perry Studios
Will Trent, TV series involving fictional special agents of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and detectives of the Atlanta Police Department
Individual episodes
Baggage Battles "Atlanta" episode, regarding trucking freight rather than the baggage of the world's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HanCinema | HanCinema is an independent South Korean movie and drama database created by Cédric Collemine during the summer of 2003 in Korea. It provides information related to Korean movies, television dramas, actors, and other related information. It is aimed at non-South Korean audiences.
See also
Internet Movie Database
Korean Movie Database
References
External links
South Korean film websites
Internet properties established in 2003
Online film databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20Institute%20for%20Scotland | The French Institute () in Edinburgh is a cultural centre promoting French language and French culture in Edinburgh and in Scotland and part of the wider Institut Français network around the world. It operates alongside the Institut français du Royaume-Uni in London and is administered by the French Foreign Ministry.
It is co-located with Edinburgh's French consulate on the city's Royal Mile. The Institute itself comprises a cultural department, a courses department and a media library. It also hosts the Education officer for Scotland.
History
The Auld Alliance, which is the beginning of the friendship between Scotland and France against England was signed in 1295. In 1942, the General de Gaulle said about this alliance it was the "oldest alliance in the world". Founded in 1946 by René Massigli, ambassador of France to the United Kingdom, the French Institute relocated from a row of townhouses in Randolph Crescent in Edinburgh's West End to Lothian Chambers in 2018.
Directors of the French Institute for Scotland
2010 - ... : Vincent Guérin
2008 - 2010 : Vacant
2006 - 2008 : Anne Laval
2003 - 2006 : Olga Poivre d'Arvor
2001 - 2003 : Ashok Adicéam
1997 - 2001 : Jean-Marc Terrasse
1993 - 1997 : Stéphane Crouzat
1987 - 1993 : Alain Bourdon
1978 - 1980 : Pierre Alexandre
1975 - 1978 : Michel Sciama
1970s : Henry Monteagle
1966 - 1969 : Georges Prudhomme
1960s : René Escande de Messières (c. 1957)
Activities
Cultural events
In 2011, for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the French Institute presented a show, 'Two Johnnies live upstairs', especially created for the building by the French compagny Mythos festival. This show has been selected as one of the highlights of 2011 by The Scotsman. The French Institute is also involved in the Edinburgh cultural life and is a partner of the Cameo, Edinburgh and hosts the office of the French Film festival UK.
Cultural events list
Exhibitions
Théâtre, cinéma, concerts...
The Media Library
Activities
The Media Library organises activities for kids in French. L'Oreille Musicale, workshop about French music is new from 2011. On November edition, l'Oreille musicale invited the Breton band Santa Cruz to speak about their musical tastes and influences. The library is open all week days and access is free. By contrast, only the French Institute members can borrow documents.
Collection
The media library contains over 10.000 documents, mainly in French, about a lot of different aspects of France and French culture. You can find documents about literature, art, history, geography, humanities and children's literature. A lot of references book are available, like dictionaries, encyclopaedias and travel guides. The novel collection contain many novels by Scottish authors translated in French (e.g. Robert Louis Stevenson, Ian Rankin and Val McDermid).
You can read or borrow newspapers like: Libération, Le Monde, Le Point, general-interest magazines: ELLE, Les Inrockuptibles and more specialised magazines like |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebox | A Chromebox is a small form-factor PC running Google's ChromeOS operating system. The first device debuted in May 2012.
History
Chromeboxes, like other ChromeOS devices including Chromebook laptops, primarily support web applications, thereby relying heavily on an Internet connection for both software functionality and data storage. That connection, via a local area network, can be wireless or through an Ethernet port.
The machines are classed as small form-factor PCs and typically feature a power switch and a set of connections to support a keyboard, pointing device and one or more monitors. Solid state drives are used for storage and only wireless printers are supported. The first Chromebox, released by Samsung on May 29, 2012, ran a dual-core Intel Celeron Processor 867 at 1.3 GHz, and featured six USB 2.0 ports and two DisplayPort++ slots compatible with HDMI, DVI, and VGA.
In February 2014, Google bundled an Intel Core i7 Chromebox with a business video conferencing package, 1080p high definition camera module, external microphone/speaker and remote control. This Chromebox for Meetings system retailed for $999 plus a $250 annual management fee, waived the first year—a cost thousands of dollars less than other unified videoconferencing systems, including those from Cisco and Polycom. The system employed a Google Hangouts-like interface for up to 15 participants, a dedicated URL for sharing screens, and management accounts for scheduling meetings. An updated system announced in November 2017 featured a 4K camera and a machine learning feature that automatically identifies and frames participants.
In March 2014, Asus established a new price at the low-end of the Chromebox market with a compact, 1.32 pound model that retailed at $179 and featured a Celeron CPU and four USB 3.0 ports. Yahoo Tech columnist David Pogue called the Asus device among the smallest, "least-expensive desktop computers ever sold", likening it to a Smart car. "You won’t be hauling lumber from Home Depot in it, but it’s a terrific deal—and most days, it’ll get you where you want to go." In May, Asus released a faster model with an Intel Core i3 processor. Hewlett-Packard entered the market in June with a Chromebox powered by an Intel Celeron processor, optionally bundling a keyboard and mouse. In August, Acer introduced two models that could stand vertically and provided some business-oriented features, including encryption and fast deletion of local data. In September, Dell entered the market with an entry-level machine, as well as Dell's implementation of the Google video conferencing system.
In August 2015, AOpen announced a family of Chromeboxes designed principally for driving the content of digital commercial signage. The models were ruggedized for on-site operation.
The capability to run Android apps with ChromeOS devices, introduced by Google in 2016 and realized by certain Chromebooks in 2017, seemed to bypass Chromeboxes until a cluster of new Chromebox off |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProcessWire | ProcessWire is a free and open source content management system (CMS), content management framework (CMF) and web application framework (WAF) written in the PHP programming language. It is distributed under the Mozilla Public License 2.0. ProcessWire is built around an API with usage and naming conventions similar to the JavaScript framework jQuery. The stated goal behind the API is to provide the level of accessibility and control to pages in a website that jQuery provides to the DOM. Content is managed either via the API or the web-based admin control panel. ProcessWire is largely used for development of web sites, web applications, services, content feeds and related applications.
Features
jQuery-styled API with comprehensive documentation
Graphical web-based installer
All fields are custom fields, indexed for find operations in the API
Can be bootstrapped from other PHP applications or command-line scripts
Interactive and API-based image manipulation functions
Drag-and-drop tree-based page list
Drag-and-drop file and image uploads and editing functions
Support for larger scale (100k+ page) installations
Use of string-based selectors for API calls
Role-based access control system
Core development emphasis on security
Markup agnostic output, leaving all output to the developer
Template files are PHP-based, with no template engine used by default
Output caching of entire pages or individual parts
Multi-language support with multi-language text fields and URLs
Modular plugin architecture and available 3rd party modules
Field and input types are themselves plugin modules
Hook system enabling most core functions to be hooked and altered
Fields and groups of fields are repeatable using built-in Repeater field types
Support for rich text editing using CKEditor
Audience
Before and during development of a website or application, the audience for ProcessWire consists largely of web developers and web designers. Within this audience, ProcessWire is used as both a development tool and a CMS.
Post-development the audience changes to individuals that manage content for web sites and applications, who typically are not web designer/developers. This audience uses ProcessWire primarily as a CMS to manage content.
History
ProcessWire has been in active development since 2003. From 2003 to 2007 it was developed under the name Dictator CMS. From 2007 to 2010 it was developed as ProcessWire 1.x. ProcessWire became an open source community project in 2010 and it is currently developed as ProcessWire 2.x and 3.x.
ProcessWire has had 8 significant version releases, and more than 100 minor version releases since the first open source release. Version 3.0 released in September 2016 is the second major version release.
Translations and community
ProcessWire has active, global end-user and developer communities. These communities have translated ProcessWire from English into their native languages, including: Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkmk | Checkmk is a software developed in Python and C++ for IT Infrastructure monitoring. It is used for the monitoring of servers, applications, networks, cloud infrastructures (public, private, hybrid), containers, storage, databases and environment sensors.
Checkmk is available in four editions: an open source edition (Checkmk Raw Edition), a commercial enterprise-grade edition (Checkmk Enterprise Edition), a commercial edition with advanced cloud monitoring features (Checkmk Cloud Edition), and an edition for managed services providers (Checkmk Managed Services Edition). These Checkmk Editions are available for a range of platforms, in particular for various versions of Debian, Ubuntu, SLES and Red Hat, and also as a Docker Image. In addition, physical appliances of various sizes as well as a virtual appliance are offered to simplify the administration of the underlying operating system through a graphical user interface and to enable high-availability solutions.
The agents used by Checkmk to collect data are available for 11 platforms, including Windows.
History
Checkmk originated in 2008 as an Agent-substituting shell script for Inetd, and was published in April 2009 under GPL. It was initially based on Nagios, and extended this with a number of new components. The open source edition (Checkmk Raw Edition) also continues to be based on the Nagios-core, and bundles this with additional open source components into a complete system.
Over many years, Checkmk's commercial editions have evolved into a self-contained monitoring system – one that has replaced all of the essential Nagios components with its own – including its very own monitoring core. The majority of the developments for the commercial editions, in particular all plug-ins, are also available into the Checkmk Raw Edition.
While in the past Checkmk was designed for monitoring large and heterogeneous on-premise environments, from version 1.5+ (1.5p12) it also supports the monitoring of AWS, Azure, Docker and Kubernetes services.
Checkmk is being developed by Checkmk GmbH in Munich, Germany. Until 16.04.2019 it operated under the name of Mathias Kettner GmbH, at which point the company was rebranded to tribe29 GmbH, while the product name "Check_MK" was also changed to "Checkmk". A subsequent rebranding took place on 14.04.2023, when the company has been renamed to Checkmk GmbH.
Checkmk GmbH follows an open core business model. The open source edition is available under different open source licenses – mostly GPLv2, while large parts of the commercial editions run under the proprietary "Checkmk Enterprise License".
The Product
Checkmk combines three types of IT monitoring:
Status-based monitoring, which records the "health" of a device or application, via thresholds.
Metric-based monitoring that enables the recording and analysis of time series graphs using a HTML5-based graphing system. An integration with Grafana is available as well.
Log-based and event-based monitoring, in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBC%20M | MBC M (formerly MBC Music) () is a South Korean specialty television channel owned by MBC Plus Media. The cable channel primarily broadcasts programming related to music.
The channel opened on February 1, 2012, with a new music program Show Champion.
The channel was re-branded on February 2, 2020 as MBC M. The company intends to make the brand more recognizable to the digital audience and build a synergy between television and new media.
Programs
These are MBC M's currently airing programs:
Reality programming
Astro Project
We Got Married (simulcast with MBC TV.)
Dad, Where Are You Going? (simulcast with MBC TV.)
Infinite Challenge (simulcast with MBC TV.)
Oh! My Skarf
Making of The Star
Kara Project
Secret no.1
Music and Lyrics
NC.A in Fukuoka
Idol School
Ailee's Vitamin
Younha's Come to My Home
Powder Room
Abbey Road
Gangnam Feel Dance School
One Fine Day (2013–present)
Shinee's One Fine Day (2013)
B1A4’s One Fine Day (2014)
VIXX's One Fine Day (2014)
Super Junior's One Fine Day (2015)
Girl's Day's One Fine Day (2015)
GFriend's One Fine Day (2015)
AOA's One Fine Day (2015)
B.A.P's One Fine Day (2016)
Seventeen's One Fine Day (2016-2017)
Gugudan Project - Extreme School Trip (2016)
B.I.G Project (2017)
Idol Tour (2017)
Seventeen Project: Debut Big Plan (2015)
Music programming
Show! Music Core (Simulcast with MBC-TV.)
I Music U (no commercial breaks)
I Music U 4 AM
I Music U 7 AM
I Music U 8 AM
I Music U 3 PM
I Music U 6 PM
I Music U 10 PM
I Music U Request
Daily Best K-pop
Show Champion (Simulcast live with MBC every1.)
All The K-pop
Music Talk Talk My Bling Bling MV
Old and New
KPOP Live
Music Magazine
Morning Pop
Music Scanner The Code
Hot Track
Live Clip
MP4
Shh!
Special programming
Super Show 5 - A reality television documentary on the South America leg of the tour narrated by member Kangin, broadcast, from 13 June 2013, for six weeks.
MelOn Music Awards (2010–2017, simulcast on MBC Every 1)
See also
Mnet
SBS M
References
External links
MBC Music Official Website
Music television channels
Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation television networks
Television channels in South Korea
Korean-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Music organizations based in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyfill%20%28programming%29 | In software development, a polyfill is code that implements a feature of the development environment that does not natively support the feature. Most often, it refers to a JavaScript library that implements an HTML5 or CSS web standard, either an established standard (supported by some browsers) on older browsers, or a proposed standard (not supported by any browsers) on existing browsers. Polyfills are also used in PHP and Python. Formally, "a polyfill is a shim for a browser API."
Polyfills allow web developers to use an API regardless of whether or not it is supported by a browser, and usually with minimal overhead. Typically they first check if a browser supports an API, and use it if available, otherwise using their own implementation. Polyfills themselves use other, more supported features, and thus different polyfills may be needed for different browsers. The term is also used as a verb: polyfilling is providing a polyfill for a feature.
Definition
The term is a neologism, coined by Remy Sharp, who required a word that meant "replicate an API using JavaScript (or Flash or whatever) if the browser doesn’t have it natively" while co-writing the book Introducing HTML5 in 2009. Formally, "a shim is a library that brings a new API to an older environment, using only the means of that environment." Polyfills exactly fit this definition; the term shim was also used for early polyfills. However, to Sharp shim connoted non-transparent APIs and workarounds, such as spacer GIFs for layout, sometimes known as shim.gif, and similar terms such as progressive enhancement and graceful degradation were not appropriate, so he invented a new term. The term is based on the multipurpose filling paste brand Polyfilla, a paste used to cover up cracks and holes in walls, and the meaning "fill in holes (in functionality) in many (poly-) ways." The word has since gained popularity, particularly due to its use by Paul Irish and in Modernizr documentation.
The distinction that Sharp makes is:
This distinction is not drawn by other authors. At times various other distinctions are drawn between shims, polyfills, and fallbacks, but there are no generally accepted distinctions: most consider polyfills a form of shim. The term polyfiller is also occasionally found.
Examples
core-js
core-js is one of the most popular JavaScript standard library polyfill. Includes polyfills for ECMAScript up to the latest version of the standard: promises, symbols, collections, iterators, typed arrays, many other features, ECMAScript proposals, some cross-platform WHATWG / W3C features and proposals like URL. You can load only required features or use it without global namespace pollution. It can be integrated with Babel, which allows it to automatically inject required core-js modules into your code.
HTML5 Shiv
In IE versions prior to 9, unknown HTML elements like and would be parsed as empty elements, breaking the page's nesting structure and making those elements impossible |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s%20Castles | America's Castles is a documentary television series that aired on A&E Network from 1994 to 2005. Through interviews, historic photos and newly shot footage, the program documents the mansions and summer homes of the high society of The Gilded Age. The series is narrated by Joe van Riper and many episodes feature architectural expert Richard Guy Wilson.
Featured homes
Agecroft Hall
Belcourt Castle
Biltmore Estate
Bishop's Palace (Galveston, Texas)
The Breakers
Cà d'Zan
Camp Pine Knot
Camp Uncas
Castillo Serralles (in 1996)
Casa Loma
Chapultepec Castle
Château-sur-Mer
Eagle's Nest
The Elms
Evergreen House
Fair Lane
Filoli
Fonthill Castle
Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
Glensheen Mansion
Great Camp Sagamore
Hearst Castle
Hempstead House/Falaise
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
Kykuit
Longwood
Longue Vue in New Orleans (Cotton Kings episode)
Lyndhurst
Mar-a-Lago
Marble House
Meadow Brook Hall
Nottoway Plantation
Oak Alley Plantation/Bon Sejour
Old Westbury Gardens
Parkwood Estate (Samuel McLaughlin home, Oshawa)
Ralston Hall
Rosalie Plantation
Rosecliff
Rosemount Museum
Sagamore Hill
Salisbury House
Scotty's Castle
Springwood Estate
Stan Hywet Hall
Stanton Hall
Taliesin
Taliesin West
Vanderbilt Mansion
Villa Vizcaya
Virginia House
Whitehall
The Winchester Mystery House
References
A&E (TV network) original programming
1994 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
1990s American documentary television series
2005 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Tablet%20P | The Sony Tablet P (former code name Sony S2) is a tablet computer that was manufactured by Sony as part of the Sony Tablet series.
Description
It was released as the Android version of the Sony Vaio P who also had a wide screen.
It has two touchscreen interoperating displays joined in a hinged clamshell layout, resembling the VAIO P series. It was released in November 2011, as the second available member of the Sony Tablet series. The suggested retail price is $599.
While the unique clamshell design allowed the device to fold in half and fit into a pocket, this feature resulted in the screen being split in half by a large, black hinge, which made playing games and reading awkward and is cited as the Tablet P's most serious flaw. The Tablet P was discontinued from Sony's American website by the end of 2012 and will not receive the update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean
It has received an upgrade to Android 4.0.4.
Indian Express listed the tablet in a history article about weird Sony products.
See also
Surface Duo
Dual-touchscreen
References
P
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20Framework | Robot Framework is a generic test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). It is a keyword-driven testing framework that uses tabular test data syntax.
History
The basic ideas for Robot Framework were shaped in Pekka Klärck's masters thesis in 2005. The first version was developed at Nokia Networks the same year. Version 2.0 was released as open source software June 24, 2008 and version 3.0.2 was released February 7, 2017.
The framework is written using the Python programming language and has an active community of contributors. It is released under Apache License 2.0 and can be downloaded from robotframework.org.
In 2020 survey it scored 8 among 12 test automation frameworks, with 3 % of respondents using it. In 2021 it had fallen to 18 among 22 with 2 % usage.
Description
Test cases are written using a keyword-testing methodology written in a tabular format. These tables can be written in plain text, tab-separated values (TSV), or reStructuredText (reST) formats files in any text editor or using the Robot Integrated Development Environment (RIDE). RIDE simplifies writing test cases by providing framework-specific code completion, syntax highlighting, etc.
Examples
The following test case implements a Hello, World! example:
*** Test Cases ***
Demo
Log Hello world
Log is a built-in keyword that logs the given parameter to the test report generated by Robot Framework.
With SeleniumLibrary, writing tests for web applications is very easy too:
*** Test Cases ***
Demo
Open Browser https://www.google.com ie
Input Text id=lst-ib Hollywood Celebrities
Click Button Google Search
This test opens a new Internet Explorer browser window with Google and performs an Internet search for "Hollywood Celebrities" by pressing the button "Google Search".
With Robot Framework Browser, automation can be done with Chromium, WebKit and Firefox.
*** Settings ***
Library Browser
*** Test Cases ***
Example Test
New Page https://playwright.dev
Get Text h1 == 🎭 Playwright
Add-ons
These libraries are best implemented in Python, but using Java or .NET is also possible.
Other languages such as Perl, JavaScript, and PHP can be used for libraries as well, using the documented remote library interface.
See also
Acceptance testing
Keyword-driven testing
Data-driven testing
Test-driven development
References
External links
Free software programmed in Python
Software testing
Free software testing tools
Software using the Apache license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidra%20Intersection | Sidra Intersection (styled SIDRA, previously called Sidra and aaSidra) is a software package used for intersection (junction), interchange and network capacity, level of service and performance analysis, and signalised intersection, interchange and network timing calculations by traffic design, operations and planning professionals.
History
First released in 1984, it has been under continuous development in response to user feedback. Version 6.0 released in April 2013 added network modelling capability and new vehicle movement classes. Version 7.0 released in April 2016 included new timing analysis methods for Common Control Groups (multiple intersections operating under one signal controller) and Network Cycle Time and Signal Offset calculations for signal coordination.
Version 9.0 released in May 2020 included improved network model processing efficiency and workflow efficiency through substantial user interface enhancements and model improvements.
The latest Version 9.1 introduced important traffic model enhancements and extensive user interface and model output improvements including network layout and roundabout layout enhancements, and customised reports and displays. The model enhancements include output by Movement Class, a new Variable Demand model, upstream delay and stop rate model for approach short lanes, the HCM Edition 6 Extended Roundabout Capacity Model and a combined pedestrian actuation and minor phase actuation method for signal timing calculations.
Sidra Intersection is a micro-analytical traffic evaluation tool that employs lane-by-lane and vehicle drive cycle models. It can be used to compare alternative treatments of individual intersections and networks of intersections involving signalised intersections (fixed-time/pretimed and actuated), roundabouts (not signalised), roundabouts with metering signals, fully signalised roundabouts, two-way stop and give-way (yield) sign control, all-way (4-way and 3-way) stop sign control, merging, single-point urban interchanges, traditional diamond and diverging diamond interchanges, basic freeway segments, signalised and unsignalised (zebra) midblock crossings for pedestrians, merging analysis and network modelling of these intersection and interchange types.
Sidra Intersection allows modelling of separate Movement Classes (Light Vehicles, Heavy Vehicles, Buses, Bicycles, Large Trucks, Light Rail/Trams and six User Classes) with different vehicle characteristics. These movements can be allocated to different lanes, lane segments and signal phases; for example for modelling bus priority lanes and signals.
In Australia and New Zealand, Sidra Intersection is endorsed by Austroads. In the US, Sidra Intersection is recognised by
the US Highway Capacity Manual, TRB/FHWA 2010 Roundabout Guide (NCHRP Report 672) and various roundabout guides.
Lane-based intersection and network analysis method
The lane-by-lane capacity and performance analysis method used by Sidra Intersection incl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINPACK%20benchmarks | The LINPACK Benchmarks are a measure of a system's floating-point computing power. Introduced by Jack Dongarra, they measure how fast a computer solves a dense n by n system of linear equations Ax = b, which is a common task in engineering.
The latest version of these benchmarks is used to build the TOP500 list, ranking the world's most powerful supercomputers.
The aim is to approximate how fast a computer will perform when solving real problems. It is a simplification, since no single computational task can reflect the overall performance of a computer system. Nevertheless, the LINPACK benchmark performance can provide a good correction over the peak performance provided by the manufacturer. The peak performance is the maximal theoretical performance a computer can achieve, calculated as the machine's frequency, in cycles per second, times the number of operations per cycle it can perform. The actual performance will always be lower than the peak performance. The performance of a computer is a complex issue that depends on many interconnected variables. The performance measured by the LINPACK benchmark consists of the number of 64-bit floating-point operations, generally additions and multiplications, a computer can perform per second, also known as FLOPS. However, a computer's performance when running actual applications is likely to be far behind the maximal performance it achieves running the appropriate LINPACK benchmark.
The name of these benchmarks comes from the LINPACK package, a collection of algebra Fortran subroutines widely used in the 1980s, and initially tightly linked to the LINPACK benchmark. The LINPACK package has since been replaced by other libraries.
History
The LINPACK benchmark report appeared first in 1979 as an appendix to the LINPACK user's manual.
LINPACK was designed to help users estimate the time required by their systems to solve a problem using the LINPACK package, by extrapolating the performance results obtained by 23 different computers solving a matrix problem of size 100.
This matrix size was chosen due to memory and CPU limitations at that time:
10,000 floating-point entries from -1 to 1 are randomly generated to fill in a general, dense matrix,
then, LU decomposition with partial pivoting is used for the timing.
Over the years, additional versions with different problem sizes, like matrices of order 300 and 1000, and constraints were released, allowing new optimization opportunities as hardware architectures started to implement matrix-vector and matrix-matrix operations.
Parallel processing was also introduced in the LINPACK Parallel benchmark in the late 1980s.
In 1991, the LINPACK was modified for
solving problems of arbitrary size, enabling high performance computers (HPC) to get near to their asymptotic performance.
Two years later this benchmark was used for measuring the performance of the first TOP500 list.
The benchmarks
LINPACK 100
LINPACK 100 is very similar to the original benchma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%20Farm%20Radio%20Network | The Michigan Farm Radio Network (MFRN) is a radio network that provides specialty programming geared toward farmers in Michigan. It is owned by Learfield Communications and is a sisters with the Michigan Radio Network.
The network began broadcasting from Howard Heath's farm house basement in 1970. Heath was the first recipient of Michigan Farm Bureau's "Agriculture Communicator of the Year Award" in 1975. He died in 1979.
Robert T. "Bob" Driscoll, who started his radio career at WLEW in Bad Axe, worked with Heath and later with his son Patrick T. "Pat" Driscoll. Under Bob's management, MFRN became the second largest regional farm radio network in the country. It grew into several sub-stations, and began broadcasting in its own station in Milan, Michigan in 1976. Pat Driscoll led the station for several years, until the Driscolls sold the network to Saga Communications in 2000.
Bob and Pat Driscoll were long-term members of the National Association of Farm Broadcasters and held seats on that organization's Board of Directors and its various committees. Bob was recognized by the Michigan Farm Bureau in 1981, 1983 and 1986 for his service to agriculture. Bob Driscoll died in 2001; in 2004, he was inducted posthumously into the Michigan Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
In 1993, Pat Driscoll was awarded the Michigan FFA Foundation "Distinguished Service Award", in recognition of the support given to the Michigan FFA Foundation and the Michigan Association of FFA. In 1996, he received the "Meritorious Service Award for Producer Communications" in Broadcast by the United Soybean Board; in the same year, the Michigan Veterinary Medical Association recognized him and the MFRN with its "MVMA Public Media Award" for promoting the importance of the veterinarian in animal agriculture. In 2000, he was named as an honorary member of the Michigan Association of Agriscience Educators. He was awarded an Oscar in Broadcasting for his leadership in reporting on the tuberculosis problem in Michigan's whitetail deer and its threat to Michigan agriculture.
As of 2005, Dennis Mellott was the President of Networks and General Manager, formerly vice-president and General Manager.
References
External links
Official Web Site
American radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data2map | data2map is a presentation mapping service provider based in Saalfelden am Steinernen Meer, Salzburg, Austria.
Company history
The privately owned company is owner managed and was founded in 1999 in Frankfurt, Germany by Manfred Guntz as meridian consult. In 2003 the company was renamed to data2map. In 2007 its head office moved to Salzburg, Austria.
data2map was registered by Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt, Munich, and became a Registered Trademark on October 20, 2005 (Reg. No. 304 59 255, Akz.: 304 59 255.2/42).
Product history
In the early 1990s, when desktop mapping and presentation graphics became accessible to the average office user, data2map hired software engineers and GIS-specialists to develop several vector-map series for easy customization by the end user. The prime objective was to enable office users and professional graphics artists to visualize geo-referenced information on pre-designed country- and world-maps within their favorite standard off-the-shelf software.
Modern Company
Today data2map offers specially optimized digital maps for customization by a wide range of clients in industries such as education, travel, television and gas and water. These maps allow the unrestricted use of all relevant functions of standard software for the creation and design of individual mapping presentations.
Product Range
Maps for PowerPoint: vector maps in the file format ppt or pptx, ready made Microsoft PowerPoint slides enabling customization of colours, text, symbols etc.;
Business Series: vector graphic maps in the file format .ai or fully editable pdf, recommended software Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape;
Professional Series: vector maps with cartographically very detailed borderlines, including topographic, infrastructural and population content. File formats .ai or fully editable pdf, recommended Software Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape. Topographic- and raster-maps, including satellite images, seamlessly fitting the respecting vector maps;
Digital flags of all countries and major international organizations, file format ppt, pptx, .ai or fully editable pdf, optimized for PowerPoint and Adobe Illustrator. This includes an add-on to Adobe Illustrator's Symbols Palette making the fully editable vector flags permanently available on Illustrator's desktop panel.
Standard map projections include Miller-, Robinson- and Mercator projection also Gall–Peters- or Hobo-Dyer projection. The digital maps and flags are available for immediate download through the Online-Map-Shop, e.g. world maps, continent- or country maps, post code- as well as topographic maps. All raster- and vector maps are fully editable. They can be customized and redesigned to suit individual requirements using standard software like MS PowerPoint or Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
References
External links
data2map - official site
data2map - about us
data2map - thematic maps
data2map - YouTube Video
Cartography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu%20and%20Bun | Lu and Bun () is a 2009 Vietnamese computer-animated comedy-adventure television series produced by Vietkite Media.
Plot
Lion Lu and rabbit Bun were friends, but they have characters and favourites which were different each other. So, there're many funny and dramatic situations which happened.
External links
Director Phùng Văn Hà : Vietnamese animation'll get up - Tuổi Trẻ Online // Webnesday, June 3, 2009 (08:13 ~ UTC+7)
2000s animated television series
Vietnamese computer-animated films
Vietnamese animated television series
Animated films about lions
Animated films about rabbits and hares
Animated television series about lions
Animated television series about rabbits and hares |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20Raymond%20Perrault | Charles Raymond Perrault is an artificial intelligence researcher and a Distinguished Computer Scientist at SRI International. He was a co-principal investigator of the CALO project, which is the predecessor for several AI technologies including Siri.
Education
Perrault received a bachelor of science in mathematics from McGill University and a Ph.D. in computer and communication sciences from the University of Michigan in 1975.
Career
Perrault was a faculty member of the University of Toronto from 1974 to 1983, rising from assistant to full professor.
He started at SRI International in 1983, and was the director of the Artificial Intelligence Center from 1987 to 2017. While at SRI, he was a co-principal investigator of the CALO project and is also a founder of the Center for the Study of Language and Information.
Memberships and awards
Perrault was the co-editor in chief of the journal Artificial Intelligence from 2001 to 2010, the president and a trustee of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence from 1992 to 2001, and was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1983.
In 1990, Perrault was named a founding fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and in 2018 of American Association for Advancement of Science In July 2011, he won the Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award from the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence.
References
External links
Raymond Perrault on LinkedIn
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Artificial intelligence researchers
SRI International people
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
McGill University Faculty of Science alumni
University of Michigan alumni
Presidents of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTV%20%28Taiwanese%20TV%20network%29 | CTV (formerly known as CTV Main Channel) is a free-to-air terrestrial television channel of the China Television company and is the second oldest free-to-air terrestrial television channel in the Republic of China (Taiwan) after TTV Main Channel.
History
It was established on September 3, 1968, test of transmission on October 10, 1969 and officially inaugurated by the 3rd Vice President of the Republic of China Yen Chia-kan on October 31, 1969.
Appearances
Test card
The testcard of CTV is Philips PM5544.
See also
Media of Taiwan
References
Television stations in Taiwan
Television channels and stations established in 1969 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Bern | The Bern trolleybus system () is part of the public transport network of Bern, the capital city of Switzerland. Opened in 1940, it combines with the Bern S-Bahn, the Bern tramway network and Bern's urban motorbus network to form an integrated all-four style scheme.
, the system consists of three lines, 35 stops, and a total route length of . It is operated by Städtische Verkehrsbetriebe Bern (SVB) (better known since 2000 by its trading name, Bernmobil), which also operates the tramway and motorbus networks. Like the other modes of public transport in the region, it is covered by the Tarifverbund Bern-Solothurn.
History
On 2 and 3 December 1939, the City of Bern's voters decided to introduce trolleybuses as a third form of urban public transport. The Bern trolleybus system went into operation on 29 October 1940 on line 12, between Bärengraben and Schosshalde, and served initially only as a tramway feeder. The body initially responsible for running the new trolleybus system was the Städtische Strassenbahn Bern (SSB), while Stadt-Omnibus Bern (SOB) ran the city's motor bus services. Only on 1 September 1947 did the two companies merge, to form Städtische Verkehrsbetriebe Bern (SVB).
On 22 January 1941, the then long trolleybus line 12 finally took over the Bahnhof Bern–Bärengraben section of tram line 8. On 5 July 1941, due to wartime fuel shortages, the long motor bus line to Bümpliz was converted into a trolleybus line. To avoid intersections between the trolleybus and tram lines, passengers using trolleybuses to travel into and out of the inner city had to change modes of transport at the Insel tram/bus stop.
On 9 May 1948, the Bümpliz line was converted back to motor bus operation. In 1961, the Bahnhof Bern–Länggasse motor bus line was electrified to become part of trolleybus line 12. Until 1959, this route had been a tram line, and had connected with trolleybus line 12 to the Schosshalde. On 24 September 1972, the voters said "yes" to a template for the electrification of three further motor bus routes:
Line 14 Bahnhof Bern–Bümpliz Unterführung–Gäbelbach on 27 October 1974;
Line 20 Bahnhof Bern–Bahnhof Wankdorf on 15 April 1975
Line 13 Bahnhof Bern–Bümpliz Unterführung (underpass)–Bümpliz on 28 July 1975.
Lines 13 and 14 were also extended in the course of electrification. Additionally, line 11 was opened on 18 May 1977, as a trolleybus line from Güterbahnhof (goods station) to Brückfeld. On 5 May 1992, this line was extended again, for nearly half a kilometre, to the new Neufeld P+R facility.
The most recent network expansion, opened on 20 June 2005, was an extension of line 12 of approximately , from Schosshalde to Zentrum Paul Klee. On 1 July of that year, the trolleybus system then shrank significantly, as lines 13 and 14 were temporarily converted to motor bus operation during the project Tram Bern-West, until 2010, when the tramway network took over the operation of these two western branches.
In 2010, the Bern tro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharon%20Wasserman | Aharon Wasserman (born December 11, 1986) is an entrepreneur and software designer. Currently he serves as the Vice President of Creative and Marketing for NGP VAN, the data company at the center of the Democratic Party's technology infrastructure. He co-founded NationalField, a company started on the 2008 Obama campaign to help monitor the daily activities of the sprawling grassroots effort with Justin Lewis and Edward Saatchi.
Early life and education
Wasserman was born to Keith Wasserman and Betsy Riley-Wasserman in Bridgeton, New Jersey. He studied political science at the New Brunswick campus of Rutgers University, but left before graduation to devote himself full-time to Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign. Despite rumors that he is the nephew of the chair of the Democratic National Committee, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Wasserman has stated that they are not related.
Career
While working for the Obama campaign, Aharon attained the position of deputy field director in Georgia and regional field director in Ohio. His duties put him into contact with fellow volunteers, Justin Lewis and Edward Saatchi. Sharing a frustration with the cumbersome task of tallying voter registration and keeping track of other campaign data, the three created a software platform that allowed them to more easily manage communications within their teams. The system quickly became popular and was eventually adopted in multiple branches of the campaign, leading to its present commercial form, NationalField. Wasserman served as the company's president and chief product officer until its acquisition by NGP VAN. In 2011, he and the other co-founders were named in Forbes magazine's 30 Under 30.
On November 14, 2014, NationalField was acquired by NGP VAN.
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21st-century American businesspeople
Living people
People from Bridgeton, New Jersey
Friends Select School alumni
Rutgers University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangu%20%28disambiguation%29 | Pangu is the creator god in Chinese mythology.
Pangu may also refer to:
Pangu, Nepal, village in Nepal
Pangu utility, computer graphics utility
Pangu Team, an iOS jailbreaking team
Pangu Party, a political party in Papua New Guinea
China
Pangu Township, Fujian (; zh), subdivision of Yongtai County, Fujian
Pangu Township, Hebei (; zh), subdivision of Qing County, Hebei
Pangu, Heilongjiang (; zh), town in and subdivision of Tahe County, Heilongjiang
Pangu Township, Henan (; zh), a township of Biyang County, Henan
Pangu Township, Hunan (; zh), a township of Yuanling County, Hunan
Pangu, Jiangxi (; zh), town in and subdivision of Jishui County, Jiangxi
See also
Ban Gu, Chinese historian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXBC-AM | DXBC (693 AM) RMN Butuan is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located along I. Elloso St., Brgy. Imadejas, Butuan. Established on August 17, 1955, DXBC is the pioneer AM station in the city.
References
Radio stations in Butuan
Radio stations established in 1955
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXIC-AM | DXIC (711 AM) RMN Iligan is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio is located at the 4/F, Mejia Bldg., Roxas cor. Aguinaldo St., Iligan, while its transmitter is located at Brgy. Del Carmen, Iligan. Established as the second RMN station after DXCC in Cagayan de Oro, DXIC is the pioneer AM station in the city.
References
Radio stations in Iligan
Radio stations established in 1953
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXMB-AM | DXMB (648 AM) RMN Malaybalay is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located at Purok 2, Brgy. San Jose, Malaybalay.
References
Radio stations in Bukidnon
Radio stations established in 1980
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXMD | DXMD (927 AM) RMN General Santos is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located along National Hi-way, Brgy. Obrero, General Santos.
References
Radio stations established in 1978
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations in General Santos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXKR-AM | DXKR (639 AM) RMN Koronadal is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. Its studio and transmitter are located along Gen. Santos Dr., Koronadal.
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Radio stations in South Cotabato
Radio stations established in 1978 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXRS-AM | DXRS (918 AM) RMN Surigao is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio are located at the RMN Bldg., Rizal St., Surigao City, while the transmitter is located in Brgy. Sabang, Surigao City
In December 2021, the station went off the air after its transmitter was damaged by Typhoon Odette. The following month, several of its programs returned on air, this time on its sister station 94.1 iFM under the interim RMN iFM surigao. In late September 2023, it returned on air after the installation of its new transmitter in Brgy. Sabang.
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Radio stations in Surigao del Norte
Radio stations established in 1970
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXMY | DXMY (90.9 FM) RMN Cotabato is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio is located along Esteros Hi-way, Brgy. Rosary Heights 10, Cotabato City, and its transmitter is located at No. 20 Cando St., Brgy. Tamontaka II, Cotabato City.
The station went off the air on November 5, 2020, due to the technical upgrades and the relocation of its transmitter from Rosary Heights 10 to Tamontaka II. On May 31, 2021, DXMY went back on air, this time on 90.9 FM under the name RMN iFM Cotabato.
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Radio stations in Cotabato City
Radio stations established in 1971
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXDR-AM | DXDR (981 AM) RMN Dipolog is a radio station owned and operated by Radio Mindanao Network. Its studio and transmitter are located at RMN Broadcast Center, National Highway, Brgy. Turno, Dipolog. The station also airs a handful of programs from RMN Cebu.
History
In 1981, as part of its massive expansion program initiated in 1978, Radio Mindanao Network commenced its AM broadcasting operations in Dipolog under the call sign DXDR. This move was the second RMN AM station opened in Zamboanga Peninsula after DXRZ of Zamboanga City in 1961, and the second AM station to operate in the city after RPN DXKD Radyo Ronda. Its launching was done the same year as DXPR RMN Pagadian.
References
Radio Mindanao Network
Radio stations in Zamboanga del Norte
Radio stations established in 1981
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXRZ | DXRZ (900 AM) RMN Zamboanga is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located at the Zamaveco Bldg., Pilar St., Zamboanga City.
Prior to the station's acquisition by RMN in 1992, DXRZ was originally owned by UM Broadcasting Network. It was known as Radyo Agong in the 90s and 2000s.
References
Radio stations established in 1961
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations in Zamboanga City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYHB | DYHB (747 AM) RMN Bacolod is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio is located at RMN Broadcast Center, 17th Lacson St., Bacolod, while its transmitter is located at Sitio Aning, Brgy. Pahanocoy, Bacolod.
References
Radio stations established in 1964
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines
Radio stations in Bacolod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYVR | DYVR (657 AM) RMN Roxas is a radio station owned and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. The station's studio and transmitter are located at Brgy. Punta Tabuc, Roxas, Capiz.
DYVR closely competed on the number one spot against Bombo Radyo, which went on air in the early 1990s.
References
Radio stations in Capiz
Radio stations established in 1980
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Scholefield | Guy Hardy Scholefield (17 June 1877 – 19 July 1963) was a New Zealand journalist, historian, archivist, librarian and editor, known primarily as the compiler of the 1940 version of the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography.
Early life
Scholefield was born in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 17 June 1877. His father, John Hoick Scholefield, was an accountant. Marion, , was his mother. After his father's death in 1885, the family relocated to Milton, where he received his secondary education at Tokomairiro District High School.
Professional life
Scholefield started work at 16 at the Bruce Herald as compositor and journalist. He then became a clerk at the Bruce Woollen Manufacturing Company, but produced material for print publications on the side. He moved to Wellington in 1899 and joined The New Zealand Times, where he enjoyed much journalistic freedom working on biographies of notable New Zealanders. He was admitted to the parliamentary press gallery in 1901.
Scholefield then undertook part-time study at Victoria University College. When he transferred his studies to Christchurch to continue at Canterbury College, he became associate editor of The Press; he held that latter role in 1903 and 1904. Returning to Wellington, he became chief of staff at The New Zealand Times in 1907. In the following year, he worked on the inaugural edition of Who's who in New Zealand and the western Pacific alongside Emil Schwabe. In 1908, he became the London correspondent for the New Zealand Associated Press, where he stayed until 1919. During WWI, he worked as a war correspondent in Europe and founded a newspaper for New Zealand expatriates resident in the United Kingdom. He studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1915, and a Doctor of Science in 1919.
Scholefield was the second chief parliamentary librarian (May 1926 – March 1948) and succeeded Charles Wilson.
In the 1919 King's Birthday Honours, Scholefield was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his services as a war correspondent. He was appointed as a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1948 New Year Honours, in recognition of his services as parliamentary librarian and national archivist.
Family
On 17 June 1908, Scholefield married Adela Lucy Stapylton Bree at St Paul's Cathedral in Wellington. They left for London later that same month. The Scholefields had two sons and one daughter. He died in Wellington on 19 July 1963.
Bibliography
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1877 births
1963 deaths
New Zealand librarians
20th-century New Zealand historians
New Zealand editors
New Zealand magazine editors
New Zealand journalists
Writers from Dunedin
Encyclopedists
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New Zealand Officers of the Order of the British Empire
New Zealand Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Mobile%20Czech%20Republic | T-Mobile Czech Republic, a.s. is a Czech wireless network operator, owned by the German telecommunications provider Deutsche Telekom. T-Mobile is the largest mobile phone network operator in the Czech Republic. As of 31 December 2014, six million customers were using T-Mobile services.
History
T-Mobile has been operating in the Czech market since 1996 as RadioMobil (joint venture of Ceske Radiokomunikace and Deutsche Telekom) providing network named Paegas.
T-Mobile Czech Republic a.s. operates a public mobile communications network on the GSM, UMTS and LTE standard. On 19 October 2005, T-Mobile was the first operator in the Czech Republic to launch this third-generation technology. In 2011 O2 Czech Republic and T-Mobile Czech Republic signed an agreement on sharing their 2G, 3G and LTE networks.
References
External links
Deutsche Telekom
Mobile phone companies of the Czech Republic
Telecommunications companies established in 1996
1996 establishments in the Czech Republic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecureDataRecovery | Secure Data Recovery Services provides data recovery and digital forensics services for a range of storage media, including laptop and desktop computer storage drives, HDD, SSD, RAID arrays, mobile devices, legacy storage systems, digital cameras, flash USB drives, and flash memory cards.
History
Secure Data Recovery Services began operations in 2007 with the establishment of its first lab facility in Los Angeles, California. Additional labs in Cleveland, Ohio and Toronto, Ontario in Canada, soon followed, each with Class 10 ISO 4 cleanrooms and advanced data security standards and certifications. The company now provides professional data recovery services to companies and organizations around the world.
Secure Data Recovery began offering digital forensics services in 2014, and the company added new products and services including several do-it-yourself Windows-based data recovery software solutions in 2016.
Secure Data Recovery Services maintains more than 250 business partnerships across North America, including the B&H Photo NYC Superstore in downtown Manhattan.
Security certifications and practices
Secure Data Recovery Services undergoes audits and evaluations to maintain a range of professional certifications and to ensure compliance with specific federal and international regulations. All data handling practices within Secure Data Recovery labs are SSAE 18 Type II SOC 1, 2, and 3 audited to verify the safe handling of sensitive or protected information.
Data recovery operations take place in a Class 10 ISO 4 cleanroom, which reduces the risk of damage to sensitive internal drive components from airborne dust or other small particulates. Cleanrooms come in different ratings depending on the industry. Class 100 ISO 5 facilities permit 100 particles per square foot and are commonly used for manufacturing applications in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. Class 10 ISO cleanrooms filter air to no more than 10 particles per square foot. This cleanroom rating is generally given to manufacturers of semiconductors and other sensitive electronics technology.
Secure Data Recovery Services transfers recovered data on portable devices that are FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated, a U.S. government computer security standard used to approve cryptographic modules. Secure Data Recovery Services is a member of the General Services Administration (GSA) schedule for approved government contractors, and the company provides data recovery services for local, state, and federal government agencies, as well as for all branches of the U.S. military.
Secure Data Recovery Services complies with the EU/U.S. Privacy Shield Framework administered and reviewed by TRUSTe to ensure privacy protection for the exchange of personal data for commercial purposes between the European Union and the United States. They also maintain compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) for all customer transactions to ensure the safe handling, st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeUndelete | FreeUndelete is a freeware data recovery software utility, running under Microsoft Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003 and 2000. FreeUndelete supports NTFS and FAT file systems.
The program allows users to recover files that have been permanently deleted from Windows Recycle Bin. It can work with a variety of fixed and removable media, typically hard drives. FreeUndelete has been successfully used to recover digital photos from SD cards.
FreeUndelete takes advantage of the fact that file deletion is just a minor state change in the system file index. It finds the area(s) where the file contents are located on the disk, then re-creates the index entry to undelete the file.
See also
Undeletion
File deletion
Data recovery
References
External links
FreeUndelete Official Webpage
Hard Disk Data Recovery Myths
Data recovery software
2004 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor%20Who%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who began on 2 September 1967 with the first story of season 5 The Tomb of the Cybermen and ended on 1 June 1968 with The Wheel in Space. Only 22 out of 40 episodes are held in the BBC archives; 18 remain missing. As a result, only 2 serials exist entirely. However, The Abominable Snowmen, The Ice Warriors, The Web of Fear, and Fury from the Deep have had their missing episodes reconstructed using animation.
Casting
Main cast
Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor
Frazer Hines as Jamie McCrimmon
Deborah Watling as Victoria Waterfield
Wendy Padbury as Zoe Heriot
Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines and Deborah Watling appear as The Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield respectively. Deborah Watling departs in the penultimate story Fury from the Deep. Wendy Padbury makes her debut as Zoe Heriot in the season finale, The Wheel in Space.
Guest stars
Jack Watling makes his first and last appearances in the series as Professor Edward Travers in the serials The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear. Watling would go on to reprise his role of Travers thirty years on in the spin-off direct-to-video film Downtime.
Michael Kilgarriff makes his first appearance as the Cyber-Controller in The Tomb of the Cybermen. Kilgarriff would reprise the role eighteen years later in Attack of the Cybermen (1985).
The Web of Fear introduced Nicholas Courtney as Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart. He appeared next in the next season's The Invasion, and became a regular supporting character in season 7 – season 13. He made subsequent appearances in season 20 and season 26.
Serials
Victor Pemberton was script editor for The Tomb of the Cybermen, with Peter Bryant as producer. After this Bryant resumed his role as script editor with Innes Lloyd as producer until The Web of Fear where Bryant took over as producer and Derrick Sherwin replaced Bryant as script editor. The Enemy of the World was the last serial seen under Head of Drama and creator Sydney Newman, who left the BBC after his contract expired in 1967.
Two serials, The Tomb of the Cybermen and The Enemy of the World, are complete in the BBC's archives; these are also the only complete serials from the first two seasons of Patrick Troughton's tenure as the Doctor. The two missing episodes from The Ice Warriors have been recreated in animated form for the DVD release of that story, in a similar fashion to Season 6's The Invasion. The Web of Fear was first released on DVD in 2014 with a Telesnap reconstruction of its missing third episode. On 16 August 2021, a Special Edition DVD/Blu-ray was released in with the missing episode now animated.
Fury from the Deep is the most recent serial that is completely missing, with no episodes in the archives. All other serials in this season are at the very least partially preserved. Fury has also, however, received an animated recreation of all six episodes for a Blu-ray and DVD release.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Knight%20Sword | is a side-scrolling platform game co-developed by Grasshopper Manufacture and Digital Reality. It was released in North America on the PlayStation 3 via the PlayStation Network on December 11, 2012 and on Xbox 360 via Xbox Live Arcade on December 12, 2012.
Gameplay
Black Knight Sword is a side-scrolling platform game. Players control a character who takes on the identity of the Black Knight and his sword on their quest to defeat the White Princess. The game features a theater styled backdrop whereupon the character remains static as the backdrops change place to give the player a feeling of movement.
The player has a magical sword used to dispatch foes, and the game also features elements of platforming. Hearts can be collected from fallen enemies, which in turn can be used in various in-game shops to purchase equipment and upgrades.
Plot
The game begins with a narrator stating "The wormwood sways back and forth, embracing the wind", as stage curtains open to reveal the set of a play, and the player character, Grahame Wormwood, having committed suicide by hanging himself in an empty bedroom. He sways back and forth to free himself from the noose around his neck, and what lies in front of him on the floor is a black suit of armor impaled with a sword, and a small, doll-like female character, known as Black Hellebore hovering above it. Black Hellebore then seems to inhabit the sword by phasing inside of it, and Grahame pulls the sword from the suit of armor. The black suit of armor then binds itself to Wormwood, as the play continues with Wormwood (now as the Black Knight), with the help of Black Hellebore, progressing through stage sets filled with hostile creatures, whom are often disembodied heads, other grotesque monstrosities, and wild animals.
The stage play is separated into and presented in 5 acts, with each act prefacing itself with fairy tale-like scenarios involving animals and their deaths. The animals in these stories serve as each act's finale. For example, one tale tells of a spider that saved a princess from entrapment, only to have been killed by her unassuming father upon her return. This spider then serves as the act's finale, with the Black Knight engaging it in battle. The narrator often tells the audience to "beware" before these encounters occur, and applauds the Black Knight when he defeats these creatures. This theme of Wormwood having to make his way past animals with seemingly unfortunate pasts continues until the play reaches its final act, which is prefaced with a story about two constantly bickering sisters. The story states that God disapproved of their arguing so much that He trapped the two inside of their own fairy tale, where they could bicker for the rest of eternity.
As the Black Knight makes his way to act 5's finale, the narrator (seemingly addressing the Black Knight himself) starts to question if he even remembers all the ones he's killed and loved. As color progressively fades from the set, the narrat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%201905 | IEEE 1905.1 is an IEEE standard which defines a network enabler for home networking supporting both wireless and wireline technologies: IEEE 802.11 (marketed under the Wi-Fi trademark), IEEE 1901 (HomePlug, HD-PLC) power-line networking, IEEE 802.3 Ethernet and Multimedia over Coax (MoCA).
The IEEE P1905.1 working group had its first meeting in December 2010 to begin development of convergence digital home network specifications. Around 30 organizations participated in the group and achieved approval of the draft P1905.1 standard in January 2013 with final approval and publication by IEEE-SA in April 2013.
The IEEE 1905.1 Standard Working Group is sponsored by the IEEE power-line communication standards committee (PLCSC).
From about 2013 to 2015, a program called nVoy certified related products. It is not to be confused with the Pogo Mobile and nVoy device of the same name nor various networked devices named Envoy.
Vendors (such as Qualcomm and Broadcom) endorsed the certification regime. Consumer-level lists of features and benefits of IEEE 1905 are also the responsibility of nVoy certifiers.
Description
The standard includes setup, configuration and operation of home networking devices using heterogeneous technologies. Using multiple interface types (Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Powerline and MoCA) enables better coverage for both mobile and fixed devices.
Standardizing the use of multiple networking technologies to transmit data to a single device in a transparent manner enables powerful use cases in home networks:
Increase the capacity by load balancing different streams over different links.
Increase robustness of transmissions by switching streams from one link to another in case of link degradation.
Better integrate consumer appliances with limited network connectivity (power line only) and high end network devices (typically Ethernet only) into a common network accessible via 802.11ac and .11n for appliance control and media streaming purposes
Unify device certification under one regime for all major networking protocols (nVoy - see below)
Generally reduce the number of different devices required and permit storage, processing and user interface functions to migrate to purpose-specific peripherals on a 2 to 5 gigabit networked "bus" or backbone.
For service providers and carriers
Service providers seek to address growth in network traffic resulting from more devices in more rooms and high-bandwidth latency-straining trends such as IPTV, Video on demand, multi-room DVR and device to device media shifting. 1905.1 upgrades the network to a backbone to improve existing deployments (for instance, ending streaming delays from in-home devices) and enabling new whole-home products and services. Some example features/benefits include:
Self-install Common setup procedures for adding devices to a network simplifies network setup for consumers; Reduces call volumes and truck rolls.
Advanced diagnostics Network monitors itself to maintain rel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy%20Eyeballs | Happy Eyeballs (also called Fast Fallback) is an algorithm published by the IETF that makes dual-stack applications (those that understand both IPv4 and IPv6) more responsive to users by attempting to connect using both IPv4 and IPv6 at the same time (preferring IPv6), thus minimizing common problems experienced by users with imperfect IPv6 connections or setups. The name "happy eyeballs" derives from the term "eyeball" to describe endpoints which represent human Internet end-users, as opposed to servers.
Happy Eyeballs is designed to address the problem that many IPv6 networks are unreachable from parts of the Internet, and applications trying to reach those networks will appear unresponsive, thus frustrating users. Happy Eyeballs solves this problem by determining which transport would be better used for a particular connection by trying them both in parallel. An application that uses a Happy Eyeballs algorithm checks both IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity (with a preference for IPv6) and uses the first connection that is returned. The addresses are often chosen from the DNS with a round-robin algorithm.
Implementations of Happy Eyeballs stacks exist in Google's Chrome web browser, Opera 12.10, Firefox version 13, OS X, cURL and OpenBSD.
Happy Eyeball testing was part of World IPv6 Day in 2011.
The Happy Eyeballs algorithm may be extended for choosing between types of transport protocols as well, such as TCP and SCTP, but development is still in an experimental phase.
See also
IPv6 deployment
References
IPv6 transition technologies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon%20%28desktop%20environment%29 | Cinnamon is a free and open-source desktop environment for Linux and Unix-like operating systems, deriving from GNOME 3 but following traditional desktop metaphor conventions.
The development of Cinnamon began by the Linux Mint team as a reaction to the April 2011 release of GNOME 3 in which the conventional desktop metaphor of GNOME 2 was abandoned in favor of GNOME Shell. Following several attempts to extend GNOME 3 such that it would suit the Linux Mint design goals, the Mint developers forked several GNOME 3 components to build an independent desktop environment. Separation from GNOME was completed in Cinnamon 2.0, which was released in October 2013. Applets and desklets are no longer compatible with GNOME 3.
As the distinguishing factor of Linux Mint, Cinnamon has generally received favorable coverage by the press, in particular for its ease of use and gentle learning curve. With respect to its conservative design model, Cinnamon is similar to the Xfce, MATE, GNOME 2 (and GNOME Flashback) desktop environments.
History
Like several other desktop environments based on GNOME, including Canonical's Unity, Cinnamon was a product of dissatisfaction with GNOME team's abandonment of a traditional desktop experience in April 2011. Until then, GNOME (i.e. GNOME 2) had included the traditional desktop metaphor, but in GNOME 3 this was replaced with GNOME Shell, which lacked a taskbar-like panel and other basic features of a conventional desktop. The elimination of these elementary features was unacceptable to the developers of distributions such as Mint and Ubuntu, which are addressed to users who want interfaces that they would immediately be comfortable with.
To overcome these differences, the Linux Mint team initially set out to develop extensions for the GNOME Shell to replace the abandoned features. The results of this effort were the "Mint GNOME Shell Extensions" (MGSE). Meanwhile, the MATE desktop environment had also been forked from GNOME 2. Linux Mint 12, released in November 2011, subsequently included both, thereby giving users a choice of either GNOME 3-with-MGSE or a traditional GNOME 2 desktop.
However, even with MGSE, GNOME 3 was still largely missing the comforts of GNOME 2 and was not well received by the user community. At the time, some of the missing features could not be replaced by extensions, and it seemed that extensions would not be viable in the long run. Moreover, the GNOME developers were not amenable to the needs of the Mint developers. To give the Mint developers finer control over the development process, GNOME Shell was forked as "Project Cinnamon" in January 2012.
Gradually, various core applications were adapted by the Mint developers. Beginning with version 1.2, released in January 2012, Cinnamon's window manager is Muffin, which was originally a fork of GNOME 3's Mutter. Similarly, since September 2012 (version 1.6 onwards), Cinnamon includes the Nemo file manager which was forked from Nautilus. Cinnamon-Cont |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG%20Optimus%20LTE | The LG Optimus LTE is one of the first released 4G LTE smartphones running under the Android operating system that is manufactured by LG. It was first released on October 10, 2011 in South Korea.
Variants
LG Nitro HD
The LG Nitro HD (LG P930) is U.S. variant of the LG Optimus LTE for AT&T. It was released on December 4, 2011. At the time of release, it was the only 4G phone on AT&T to feature a true HD, 1280×720 AH-IPS display. An OS update to Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, was released on July 31, 2012.
LG Spectrum
The LG Spectrum (LG VS920) is U.S. variant of the LG Optimus LTE for Verizon Wireless. It was released on January 19, 2012. An OS update to Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, was released on November, 2012.
Optimus LTE L-01D
The Optimus LTE L-01D is Japanese variant of the LG Optimus LTE for NTT docomo. It was released on December 15, 2011. This variant includes several additional features such as 1seg terrestrial television and FeliCa (Wallet Mobile).
LG Optimus True HD LTE
The LG Optimus True HD LTE(LG-P936) is among other countries in Europe and Asia the name of the German edition of the LG Optimus LTE for Vodafone. In Germany it was presented to the public for the first time at the end of April 2012 in Düsseldorf. In Sweden, Portugal, Singapore and Hong Kong the Optimus True HD LTE was also sold from the end of April.
See also
LG Optimus
References
Android (operating system) devices
LG Electronics smartphones
Mobile phones introduced in 2011
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine%20Media%20Corporation | Nine Media Corporation (formerly known as Solar Television Network, Inc. or STVNI) is a Filipino-based media company. Formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of Solar Entertainment Corporation (SEC), a multimedia television and film company of the Tieng family, it is now solely owned by the ALC Group of Companies of the late Amb. Antonio Cabangon Chua. Nine Media is currently an affiliate of Aliw Broadcasting Corporation. Its headquarters are located at the Ground Floor of the Worldwide Corporate Center, Epifanio de los Santos Avenue corner Shaw Boulevard, Mandaluyong, sharing with its former parent Solar Entertainment.
It owns and operates its sole television property CNN Philippines, as well as the 34% controlling share of Radio Philippines Network (RPN). The company is named after its flagship television station in Metro Manila.
History
TV channel
Solar Entertainment launched Solar TV in the early 2000s, which was later renamed to Solar USA and then to USA. USA was split into two channels, Jack TV and Crime/Suspense, in 2005.
Solar TV launched last November 29, 2009, on Radio Philippines Network (RPN), then owned by the Philippine Government Communications Group, at 11:00am (Solar Entertainment already has an airtime lease agreement with RPN in 2007). Its programming grid primarily includes American programs, and local sports and lifestyle content. On October 31, 2010, it changed some of its programming content to English/Tagalog.
Broadcast company
Solar TV morphed as Solar Television Network, Inc. (STVNI) on January 5, 2010, as the corporate television arm of Solar Entertainment Corporation, serving as blocktimer of Solar Entertainment's channels to free-to-air broadcasting networks. STVNI later represents Solar Entertainment to acquire 34% of RPN's shares from the Philippine government as part of RPN/IBC privatization in 2011. The new company launched an all talk/news channel Talk TV on March 2, 2011, co-owned by Solar TV itself and SBN while ETC replaced Solar TV on RPN. Talk TV would later change its name to Solar News Channel on October 30, 2012.
In the last quarter of 2011, Solar TV launched its own news division Solar News. The programs produced by the new division were manned by former ANC personalities including Jing Magsaysay, Pia Hontiveros, Nancy Irlanda, Claire Celdran and Mai Rodriguez.
In November 2013, San Miguel Corp. President and COO Ramon S. Ang personally tried to acquire the majority stake of STVNI from the Tiengs. Despite the new development, he would settle instead for a minority share of STVNI in September 2014.
In the third quarter of 2014, Solar Entertainment chair Wilson Tieng announced that the ALC Group of Companies of former Ambassador Antonio Cabangon-Chua, took over STVNI, as well as its majority stake on RPN. Tieng and (RPN president) Robert Rivera were both resigned as chairman and president, respectively. The selloff of STVNI was also caused by Solar Entertainment's loss of revenue after investing in RPN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh%20Sit%21 | Oh Sit! is an hour-long game show competition series that premiered on September 27, 2012, on The CW. The series, according to the network, was a "high-octane musical chairs competition". Despite low ratings during its run, on September 26, 2012, Oh Sit! was renewed for a ten-episode second season, which premiered on Monday, April 15, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. Eastern/7:00 p.m. Central and concluded on December 19, 2013.
Development
It was announced in September 2011 that The CW in conjunction with Gurin Company and 405 Productions was developing a musical chairs–like game show, Extreme Musical Chairs, that would change the format of the popular game into an extreme multiple round competition. The show was to increase to programming appeal beyond young females. Phil Gurin, who also produced ABC's Shark Tank and The Singing Bee.
Production
The CW ordered ten episodes of Oh Sit!, with the premiere on August 15, 2012 with another episode the next night. On September 26, 2012, Oh Sit! was renewed for a 10-episode second season premiering on Monday, April 15, 2013 and ended on June 24, 2013.
Format
The format is a competitive music chair game where contestants would race through 5 rounds of obstacle courses to reach a chair with eliminations complete with music. The winning contestant would get a cash prize.
Each episode begins with 6 males and 6 females. There are 3 obstacles and 3 bridges in each round. Contestants lap around the track and accumulate a bank for each obstacle completed before the music stops. The dollar values for each obstacle increases with each round. After the music stops they must cross a bridge without falling in the water to claim a chair. Each chair is worth a random amount of money which is added to their bank. The highest chair value is worth $5,000 in rounds 1 and 2, and $10,000 in rounds 3 and 4. In the first round, 2 competitors are eliminated for not finding a chair and 1 is eliminated for having the lowest banked score of the round. In the next 3 rounds, 1 is eliminated for not getting a chair and 1 for having the lowest bank of the round. Contact is allowed, but contestants cannot: grab above the neck, push with the intention to harm another contestant, or push from behind unless the contestant is on a bridge. If any contestant(s) that advanced was found to have broken a rule, that contestant(s) will be disqualified. If any contestants are disqualified, or quit the game between rounds (either voluntarily or due to injury), the last eliminated contestant(s), provided they're medically cleared, will be brought back into the game. If not enough eliminated contestants can return to replace any removed contestants, a reserve will replace the remaining contestant. 3 competitors advance to the final round called "Chair Mountain". Before tackling Chair Mountain, the contestants get 1 final run around the track, with obstacles being worth $1,500 each in both seasons. Typically the winner accumulates a bank between $15,000 an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Canal%209%20Norway | List of programs broadcast by Canal 9
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTL%20Lounge | RTL Lounge is a Dutch pay television channel dedicated to drama and lifestyle programmes.
It is operated by RTL Nederland and launched on 2 October 2009.
Programming
Domestic
Goede tijden, slechte tijden (reruns)
Imported
Baywatch
The Bold and the Beautiful
Everybody Loves Raymond
Previous logos
References
External links
Official site
RTL Nederland
Television channels in the Netherlands
Television channels and stations established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20National%20Seismograph%20Network | The Canadian National Seismograph Network is a network of seismographs to detect earthquakes across Canada. It is operated by the Geological Survey of Canada and consists of over 60 low-gain seismographs and over 100 high-gain seismographs. It was started in 1975.
References
Sources
Seismology of Canada
Seismological observatories, organisations and projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining%20%28disambiguation%29 | Mining is the extraction of geological materials from the Earth.
Mining may also refer to:
Mining, Austria, a municipality in Upper Austria
Mining (military), a siege tactic
Data mining, the process of extracting knowledge from a data set
Social media mining, extracting data from social media
Mining (cryptocurrency), the allocation of processing power for cryptocurrency transactions with the expectation of a reward
Bitcoin mining see Bitcoin network
Mianning, the Daoguang Emperor, eighth emperor of the Manchurian Qing dynasty
See also
Mine (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOVO7 | The NOVO7 is a series of Android tablet computers manufactured by the Chinese company Ainol Electronics. The "7" represents the size of the tablet's screen (7 inches); Ainol's other products include the Novo 5 and Novo 8.
History
The first tablets in the Novo 7 line were the Novo 7 Basic and Novo 7 Advanced, released in early 2011. Unlike most competing tablets, the Novo 7 Basic used a MIPS based CPU (1 GHz Ingenic JZ4770 XBurst), while the Advanced had a more common ARM CPU. Both had 800x480 pixel touch screens and were launched with Android 2.2, although the company later released updates to Android 3 and Android 4.
The company released the Novo 7 Paladin in late 2011, which became the world's first Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) tablet. Its specifications were similar to the Novo 7 Basic, having a 7-inch touch screen, 1 GHz MIPS processor, 512 MB RAM, 8 to 16 GB of internal flash storage, external microSDHC slot, miniUSB, and Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n). Two more tablets, the Aurora and the Elf, were added to the selection soon afterwards, both using ARM CPUs.
Ainol's latest Novo 7 tablets are the Tornado, Mars, Elf II and Aurora II. These all have ARM processors, 8GB of internal storage (Elf II also has 16 GB model and all Aurora II – 16 GB) and 7 inch screens. The main difference between the models is the CPU speed and screen resolution. The Tornado has a 1 GHz single-core processor and an 800x480 screen, the Mars has the same processor but a 1024x600 pixel screen, and the Elf II/Aurora II has a dual-core 1.5 GHz processor (currently limited to 1.32 GHz) with a 1024x600 screen.
All Novo 7 models have been budget based tablets, having lower specifications than other tablets released at the same time but also a cheaper price. They all have supported Wi-Fi, but none of them have had built-in 3G support.
In August 2012, Ainol released a new flagship tablet, the Novo 7 Fire / Flame. The Novo 7 Fire / Flame includes a high-resolution 1280×800 IPS display with a 5-point capacitive multi-touch screen, along with full HD 1080p support. It has 16 GB memory / 1 GB RAM, an Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, official access to Google Play (Google Market) and a 1.5 GHz AMLogic ARM 2nd generation Cortex-A9 based dual-core CPU. In terms of external interface, it contains a micro SD storage card slot, an HDMI port, a micro-USB port, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth wireless connection, and 3G access through an external dongle USB device. It has two cameras: a 5 MP rear-facing camera with AF and auto flash, and a 2 MP front-facing webcam. It also provides for hardware accelerated Flash (access to Flash-based video), features a 3-axis gravity sensor, and contains a 5000 mAh battery.
In September 2012, Ainol announced the release of the Novo 7 Crystal with the latest Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean. The tablet is set to be made available, for shipment, on 28 September. Novo7 Crystal matches and surpasses the specifications of the Novo 7 Elf II and looks to replace |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telugu%20Association%20of%20North%20America | Telugu Association of North America (also referred to as TANA) is a non-profit organization and is one of oldest Indo-American national level organisation primarily for networking of Telugu people in North America. Anjaiah Chowdary Lavu is the President of TANA and Niranjan Srungavarapu is the Executive-Vice President for the 2021-2023 term. Dr. Hanumaiah Bandla is the Chairperson of the Board of Directors. Venkata Ramana Yarlagadda is the Chairman of TANA Foundation.
External links
TANA News on Telugu Community News portal
TANA Help line for Telugu People
TANA Help line for Women
References
Telugu society
Telugu American
Non-profit organizations based in the United States
Telugu organizations in North America
1977 establishments in New York (state)
International Telugu Associations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG%20Extravert | The LG Extravert is a basic phone made by LG Electronics and was carried by Verizon Wireless. It runs on the Brew MP mobile operating system. The phone is distinctive for having a sliding QWERTY keyboard. It was introduced around early 2012. It is a successor to the wildly successful LG Cosmos, specifically the Cosmos Touch.
There is a successor model, the LG Extravert 2, which has been discontinued.
References
Extravert
Verizon Wireless |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ainol | Shenzhen Ainol Electronics Co., Ltd. () was a Chinese consumer electronics manufacturing and distribution company headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. It specialises in Android Tablet Computers and Phablets. The company principally sells its products under the Ainol brand, but also offers OEM production under other brand names. The company was founded in 2004. Its slogan is "Enjoy life. Enjoy ainol".
Products
In December 2011 Ainol launched the world's first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet called NOVO7 and was marketed with the brand name Ainovo for the United States, Europe and worldwide market.
The Ainol NOVO10 Hero II tablet released in 2012 is a quad-core ARM Cortex-A5 system based on the Actions Semiconductor ATM7029 (also called gs702a) SoC, and a 10.1 inch display.
Introductions for 2014 include the "Numy" product line of Phablets with 3G.
References
External links
Official Ainol website (English)
Ainol Fanpage on Facebook (English)
Chinese companies established in 2004
Electronics companies of China
Manufacturing companies based in Shenzhen
Electronics companies established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulheres%20Ricas | Mulheres Ricas (Portuguese for Rich Women) was a Brazilian reality television show that aired on the Band television network. It premiered on 2 January 2012 and ran for two seasons until its cancellation in 2013.
Cast
Episodes
Season 1 (2012)
Season 2 (2013)
* Each point represents 60.000 households in São Paulo. All numbers are provided by IBOPE.
References
External links
2012 Brazilian television series debuts
2013 Brazilian television series endings
Brazilian reality television series
Mass media portrayals of the upper class
Portuguese-language television shows
The Real Housewives spin-offs
Rede Bandeirantes original programming
Television shows set in São Paulo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Zhu | Sun Zhu (1711–1778) was a Qing scholar. He was also known as Hengtang Tuishi ("Retired Master of Hengtang") and was the original compiler and editor of the anthology Three Hundred Tang Poems, a popular compilation of Tang poetry, partly designed as a study aid for students. An enduring classic, Sun Zhu's version has often been reprinted, often in revised or re-edited editions.
Biography
Dissatisfied with the anthology Poems by a Thousand Masters (Qianjiashi ) compiled by Liu Kezhuang in the late Southern Song dynasty and influenced by Ming Dynasty poetry anthologies, Sun selected the poems for a new anthology, based upon their popularity and educational value. His collection has been popular ever since, and can be found in many Chinese households. For centuries, elementary students memorized the poems and used them to learn to read and write. The collection includes selections of most major forms of Tang poetry of the shi form, which is considered to be the main poetic type. Major poets whose works appear in Sun Zhu's anthology include Du Fu, Li Bai, Wang Wei, Li Shangyin, Meng Haoran, and Bai Juyi.
See also
List of Three Hundred Tang Poems poets
Quantangshi
Classical Chinese poetry
Notes
References
Wu, John C. H. (1972). The Four Seasons of Tang Poetry. Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle.
Yu, Pauline (2002). "Chinese Poetry and Its Institutions", in Hsiang Lectures on Chinese Poetry, Volume 2, Grace S. Fong, editor. Montreal: Center for East Asian Research, McGill University.
External links
www.zhongwen.com
Book editors
Qing dynasty poets
1711 births
1778 deaths
Writers from Wuxi
Chinese poetry anthologists
Poets from Jiangsu
18th-century Chinese writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile%20Laboratory%20Aid | The Versatile Laboratory Aid (VELA) is a 4-channel data logging tool that was created as part of a joint venture by Ashley Clarke, Keith Jones and David Binney of Leeds University and Educational Electronics. The VELA was designed to be used as a stand-alone data logger that could be used out in the field and it could then be taken back to the laboratory where it could be connected to a chart printer, oscilloscope or microcomputer for data analysis purposes.
The VELA was designed and built with the intention that it would be used in schools and Universities to monitor Physics and Chemistry experiments as it could be attached to all manner or analogue probes and sensors such as pH meters, temperature sensors, light gates, Signal generator and microphones. Each of the VELA's four channels can be independently set to record voltages in the ranges of +/–250mV, +/–2.5V and +/–25V allowing a range of different input devices to be connected simultaneously.
The basic VELA carries a single 4KB EPROM (ISL1 or ISL1*) which contains the basic input and output routines that handle the keyboard input and 8-digit LED display output together with seventeen user selectable programs which range from a 4-channel digital volt meter to a random event monitor which could be used with a Geiger Counter Probe to measure and log radiation levels from a source material.
In total, the VELA could record a maximum of 4096 data points either from one channel or split equally between the four channels depending on the selected monitoring program. In later versions of the VELA firmware (ISL1*), the number of data points was reduced by 7 bytes per data channel as these bytes were reserved for storing channel and program configuration data when transferring data to a microcomputer.
Hardware specifications
The VELA went through at least two hardware revisions going from the Mark I to Mark II and subsequently the VELA PLUS but the ISL ROMs remained compatible between all three devices although the Mark I VELA required a daughter board to carry the extra ROMs that were developed after the VELA's initial release.
Mark I Specifications
The VELA Mark I was based around the Motorola MC6802 central processor and carried 4KB of RAM. It shipped with the original ISL1 ROM fitted and has space for a further 2 ROMs to be fitted on board. The PCB of the Mark I was split into two parts which connected to each other through a ribbon cable. The ROMs were generally shipped on 2732 EPROM chips and they could be sent back to Educational Electronics to be updated with enhanced firmware when it became available.
Mark II Specifications
The VELA Mark II was a refinement to the Mark I design and was based on the same processor and hardware. The Mark II PCB was condensed onto a single board and carried space for a further three EPROM's to be fitted in addition to the ISL1* EPROM that it shipped with. There were modifications to the connectors on the VELA Mark II with the addition of a 5V 70mA outp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostock%20S-Bahn | The Rostock S-Bahn () is a S-Bahn (suburban railway) network in Rostock in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It consists of three lines with a total length of about 90 km. Line S1 runs from Rostock Hauptbahnhof (main station) to Warnemünde within the Rostock urban area. S-Bahn operations started on 28 September 1974. Later, the lines to the north-east to the port (Seehafen) of Rostock and to the south to the town of Güstrow via Schwaan were included in the S-Bahn network. The line to the port was discontinued in 2012, but at same time the line to Güstrow via Laage was included as line S3 of the S-Bahn. Until 2014 the rolling stock mainly consisted of push–pull trains with Waggonbau Görlitz double-deck coaches. Since then all lines have been operated with new Bombardier Talent 2 railcars.
Lines
Line S1 runs west of the Unterwarnow from Warnemünde through the built-up areas of Lichtenhagen, Lütten Klein, Evershagen and through the industrial areas of Marienehe and Bramow between Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt and Hansaviertel to Rostock Hauptbahnhof, located in the south of the Steintor-Vorstadt. This line runs over part of the Lloyd Railway.
Line S2 also begins in Warnemünde and follows the route of the line S1, but continues through the Hauptbahnhof through the southern suburbs of Rostock. It crosses the Warnow at Schwaan and continues to Güstrow. This line runs over parts of the Lloyd Railway and the Bad Kleinen–Rostock railway and over the Güstrow–Schwaan railway.
Line S3 also begins in Warnemünde and follows the Lloyd Railway in a southerly direction via Laage and the Priemerburg–Plaaz railway to Güstrow.
Route layout
History
There has long been dense suburban traffic on the line between Rostock Hauptbahnhof and the seaside resort of Warnemünde. The route has been favoured since 1923 by cheap day return fares. The temporary suspension of these fares in 1953 led to protests by the workers of the Warnow shipyard, so a few weeks later the old fares were restored. Construction of new housing developments along this section began to strengthen the importance of this route in the 1960s.
The existing line via Schmarl was considered to be too far away from the oldest and largest of these development areas, Lütten Klein, although more new housing estates were planned on the line. In the 1960s, a route to the west of the urban motorway to Warnemünde was considered initially, but these plans were not pursued because of the high construction costs. Instead, construction began in 1968 on a line on the east side of the motorway. First, a branch line was opened on 12 July 1970 from Bramow to Lütten Klein to connect the residential area with the city centre and the port area. From Bramow to Evershagen the line ran next to the main line to Warnemünde in the position of the former second track. On this day a simplified fare system also went into force, borrowing from the fare structures of other urban railways. A trip from Rostock to Warnemunde cos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage%20Bionetworks | Sage Bionetworks is a nonprofit organization in Seattle that promotes open science and patient engagement in the research process. It is led by Luca Foschini. It was co-founded by Stephen Friend and Eric Schadt.
Open science
Sage Bionetworks is notable for being an early advocate of open science. The company operates a software platform for collaborative data analysis called Synapse that allows researchers to work together on data curation and computational modeling asynchronously in a manner inspired by GitHub. Synapse also serves as the software infrastructure for running computational challenges. Sage is also developing a citizen-science platform called Bridge.
Research
The bulk of Sage's scientific results emerge from cancer and neurosciences, with notable contributions to the Cancer Genome Atlas Pan-Cancer project. Another Sage initiative, The Resilience Project describes itself as a search for individuals who have genetic changes expected to cause severe illness but who remain perfectly healthy. The hope is to yield insight into factors that protect these individuals from disease. In 2019 Sage Bionetworks has joined Open-AD Drug Discovery Center, which aims to find new Alzheimer's drugs. “This project stitches together open science approaches in computational and experimental research,” Sage president Dr. Lara Mangravite said in a statement.
History
Sage Bionetworks was founded in 2009 as a spinout of Merck & Co., who released software, hardware, intellectual property, and staff connected to its Rosetta Inpharmatics unit. A donation from Quintiles provided early funding.
In March 2011 Sage partnered with CHDI Foundation to develop computer simulations for studying Huntington's disease. At the same time Sage also announced a partnership with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company wherein Sage would do research to identify biological targets for central nervous system diseases.
In February 2013, Sage Bionetworks partnered with the Dialogue on Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods (DREAM) project to provide expertise and infrastructure for DREAM Challenges on the Synapse.org platform.
In September 2019, Sage announced a partnership with Cornell Tech, the University of California, San Francisco, Open mHealth and The Commons Project to develop an electronic health data management program called CommonHealth. The program would use Health Level Seven International standards for compatibility with both Apple Health and a similar app on Android devices.
See also
The Resilience Project
References
External links
Sage Bionetworks
Synapse
DREAM Challenges
Open science
Seattle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Forum%20International | Pacific Forum is a Honolulu-based foreign policy research institute focused on the Indo-Pacific. Founded in 1975, the Pacific forum collaborates with a network of research institutes from around the Pacific Rim, drawing on Asian perspectives and disseminating project findings and recommendations to global leaders, governments, and members of the public. Pacific Forum is non partisan and does not engage in classified work.
History
Pacific Forum was founded in 1975 with a mission of establishing “a Forum in the Pacific under the auspices of the private sector for a continuing trans-Pacific private dialogue and consultation among the developing and developed countries of the Pacific area.”
Pacific Forum’s founder, Lloyd R. Vasey (1917-2018), retired from the US Navy as a Rear Admiral in 1972 after serving as chief strategist (J-5) for US Pacific Command under Admiral John S. McCain Jr.
From 1989 to 2018, Pacific Forum was an affiliate of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. During the 1989 merger, Pacific Forum retained its name, board, independent program agenda, and funding responsibility. In 2018, Pacific Forum became a fully independent research institute with a full-time staff of 12, a rotating resident research fellow cohort of approximately 5-8 people, and an annual budget of approximately $2.8 million.
Regional Engagement Program
The Pacific Forum’s Regional Engagement Program conducts outreach efforts to scholars and the public at large in Japan, South Korea, and Australia on various foreign and security policy issues in the Indo-Pacific. The Regional Engagement Program also focuses on nonproliferation in the Indo-Pacific, including in Myanmar.
Strategic Stability Program
The Pacific Forum promotes strategic stability in the region primarily through a series of Track 1.5 dialogues focused on affirming US commitments to its alliance partners and maintaining a strategic balance in the Indo-Pacific.
Security Cooperation Program
The Pacific Forum’s program on security cooperation in the Indo-Pacific is organized around its membership in the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP). Pacific Forum is one of the founding institutions of the CSCAP and manages its US member committee. The security cooperation program assesses and promotes security cooperation relating to the proliferation and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction, strategic trade controls, maritime security, counter-terrorism, transnational crime, and cyber security.
Young Leaders Program
The Young Leaders Program was established in 2004 to train young professionals in international policy affairs at an early juncture in their careers. Currently, the organization’s network of Young Leaders consists of more than 1,000 members from 56 countries.
Publications
Pacific Forum produces three regular publications from the organization’s own research as well as by external authors. These publications include:
Comparative Connections (h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMDB | HMDB may refer to
Historical Marker Database
Human Metabolome Database |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wages%20for%20housework | The International Wages for Housework Campaign (IWFHC) is a grassroots women's network campaigning for recognition and payment for all caring work, in the home and outside. It was started in 1972 by Mariarosa Dalla Costa, Silvia Federici, Brigitte Galtier, and Selma James who first put forward the demand for wages for housework. At the third National Women's Liberation Conference in Manchester, England, the IWFHC states that they begin with those with least power internationally – unwaged workers in the home (mothers, housewives, domestic workers denied pay), and unwaged subsistence farmers and workers on the land and in the community. They consider the demand for wages for unwaged caring work to be also a perspective and a way of organizing from the bottom up, of autonomous sectors working together to end the power relations among them.
History
Creation: 1970s
Wages for housework was one of the six demands in Women, the Unions and Work or What Is Not to Be Done, which James presented as a paper to the third National Women's Liberation Conference. The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, which James co-authored with Mariarosa Dalla Costa, which opened the "domestic labour debate" and became a women's movement classic, was published soon after Women, the Unions and Work. The first edition of Power of Women did not come out for wages for housework; its third edition, in 1975, did.
After the Manchester conference, James with three or four other women formed the Power of Women Collective in London and Bristol to campaign for wages for housework. It was reconstituted as the Wages for Housework Campaign in 1975, based in London, Bristol, Cambridge and later Manchester.
In 1974, the Wages for Housework Campaign started in Italy. A number of groups calling themselves Salario al Lavoro Domestico (Wages for Housework) formed in various Italian cities. To celebrate, one of the founding members, Mariarosa Dalla Costa, gave a speech entitled "A General Strike" in Mestre, Italy. In this speech she talks about how no strike before has ever been a general strike before, but instead, only a strike for male workers. In Padua, Italy, a group called Lotta Feminista, formed by Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Silvia Federici, adopted the idea of Wages for Housework.
Between 1974 and 1976, three autonomous organizations formed within the Wages for Housework Campaign in the UK, US and Canada: Wages Due Lesbians (now Queer Strike), the English Collective of Prostitutes and Black Women for Wages for Housework, co-founded by Margaret Prescod (now Women of Colour in the Global Women's Strike). Black Women for Wages for Housework focused on specific issues of Black and third world women, including calling for reparations for "slavery, imperialism and neo-colonialism,". Wages Due Lesbians called for wages for housework along with extra wages for lesbians for "the additional physical and emotional housework of surviving in a hostile and prejudiced society, reco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networked%20Transport%20of%20RTCM%20via%20Internet%20Protocol | The Networked Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol (NTRIP) is a protocol for streaming differential GPS (DGPS) corrections over the Internet for real-time kinematic positioning.
NTRIP is a generic, stateless protocol based on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP/1.1 and is enhanced for GNSS data streams.
The specification is standardized by the Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services (RTCM).
NTRIP was developed by the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) and the Dortmund University Department of Computer Science. Ntrip was released in September 2004. The 2011 version of the protocol is version 2.0.
NTRIP used to be an open standard protocol but it is not available freely (as of 2020). There is an open source implementation available from software.rtcm-ntrip.org from where the protocol can be reverse-engineered.
References
Global Positioning System |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaboAnalyst | MetaboAnalyst is a set of online tools for metabolomic data analysis and interpretation, created by members of the Wishart Research Group at the University of Alberta. It was first released in May 2009 and version 2.0 was released in January 2012. MetaboAnalyst provides a variety of analysis methods that have been tailored for metabolomic data. These methods include metabolomic data processing, normalization, multivariate statistical analysis, and data annotation. The current version is focused on biomarker discovery and classification.
MetaboAnalyst supports a wide variety of data input types commonly generated by metabolomic studies including GC/LC-MS raw spectra, MS/NMR peak lists, NMR/MS peak intensity table, NMR/MS spectral bins, and metabolite concentrations.
MetaboAnalyst has four modules:
Data processing
Statistical analysis (one-factor, two-factor, and time-series data)
Functional enrichment analysis
Metabolic pathway analysis
The table below summarizes the main features of each functional module.
MetaboAnalyst generates a PDF report that includes a written record of each analysis step and displays results in graphical and tabular format. Users can also download processed data files and PNG image files.
MetaboAnalyst is part of a suite of metabolomics databases that also includes Human Metabolome Database (HMDB), DrugBank, Toxin and Toxin-Target Database, and The Small Molecule Pathway Database. The HMDB has over 7900 human metabolites and roughly 7200 associated DNA and protein sequences, that are linked to these metabolite entries. While DrugBank includes information on 6707 drugs and 4228 non-redundant drug targets, enzymes, transporters, and carriers, T3DB houses over 2900 common toxins and environmental pollutants. The suite is rounded out by SMPDB with its pathway diagrams for more than 350 human metabolic and disease pathways.
See also
MetaboAnalyst Website
Metabolite Set Enrichment Analysis
MetPA
Metabolome
Metabolomics
References
Data analysis software
Metabolomic databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%20Improvement%20Area | Nature Improvement Areas (NIAs) are a network of large scale initiatives in the landscape of England to improve ecological connectivity and improve biodiversity.
They were launched in 2012.
At 2015, the NIAs covered 47,000 acres of England in total, achieved at a total cost of £7.5 million. At spring 2015, the NIAs had also added a further 13,500 acres beyond the initial 2012 areas, as well as a total of 335 miles of new footpaths for public access.
History
The NIAs form part of the UK Government's response to Sir John Lawton's 2010 report "Making Space for Nature". They were then implemented via the Natural Environment White Paper, the first natural environment government White Paper in 20 years. In October 2011 a competition was launched by DEFRA to select twelve pilot sites for NIAs, and in response seventy-six entries were made. On 27 February 2012 the final list of 12 Nature Improvement Areas was announced. The NIAs were launched in 2012 they run with the aid of Local Nature Partnerships and around 11,000 local volunteers.
List of Nature Improvement Areas
The first twelve Nature Improvement Areas in England are:
Birmingham and Black Country Living Landscapes
Includes urban, wetland, river and heath habitats. It will create heathland on brownfield sites and 40 hectares of new native woodland;
Dark Peak
Includes moorland and woodland in the north of the Peak District National Park. It will restore habitats such as upland heathland and create 210 hectares of native woodland, such as that at Burbage Brook;
Dearne Valley Green Heart
Mostly on farmland and former mining settlements with woodland and wetland. It will restore the River Don floodplain and create new wetlands and woodlands
Greater Thames Marshes
Includes agricultural marsh and urban habitats. It will create and enhance grazing marsh, salt marsh and mudflat habitats;
Humberhead Levels
Straddling Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, it is mainly wetland, lowland and peat habitats. It will create or restore at least 1,427 hectares of wetland habitat;
Marlborough Downs
This is predominantly a farmer-led partnership looking to restore chalk and grassland habitats and increase the numbers of farmland birds as well as creating a network of traditional clay-lined dewponds to act as wildlife havens;
Meres and Mosses of the Marches
Incorporates wetlands, peat bogs and ponds in Cheshire. It will aim to reduce diffuse pollution by working with farmers, improve peatlands and restore wildlife areas around the River Perry;
Morecambe Bay Limestones and Wetlands
The most northerly NIA, this consists of limestone, wetland and grassland habitats. It will restore coast and freshwater wetlands and create 200 hectares of woodland, planting 10,000 native trees and develop habitat for six species;
Nene Valley
Within the River Nene regional park, this project will work with farmers to restore habitats and restore tributaries and reaches of the River Nene;
Northern Dev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20distribution | A system distribution is a collection of software designed to be installed into a computer and may refer to:
Guix System Distribution, intertwined with cross-platform package manager GNU Guix
Berkeley Software Distribution
Linux distribution |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Lecce | The Lecce trolleybus system () forms part of the public transport network of the city and comune of Lecce, in the Apulia region, southern Italy.
Opened in January 2012, the system comprises three routes, of which one is a circular (loop) route with different route numbers for the two directions. The last of the three routes opened in June 2014.
History
The network was made possible thanks to state funding authorised by the law 211 of 26 February 1992 (Interventions in the field of mass rapid transport systems). The tender for its construction was won by a consortium made up of , Van Hool NV, Imet Spa and Vossloh Kiepe GmbH.
The first of 12 Van Hool trolleybuses on order was delivered on 30 March 2007, and the first overhead wiring was installed during the same month. The operator, SGM Lecce, ceremonially 'opened' the network in the presence of the then-mayor, Adriana Poli Bortone, and ran an inaugural tour. However, a series of bureaucratic problems delayed the actual completion of the system and its opening for service. Delivery of additional trolleybuses began around the end of October 2007.
On 31 March 2010, SGM appointed a director of trolleybus operations, a move that facilitated commencement of procedures for driver training. Still, by October 2010 only a few test runs had taken place.
The system was finally opened on 12 January 2012, but only one route (29) initially. At the time of the system's opening, four of the twelve vehicles on orderall of which had been completed by the end of 2007were still being stored at the Van Hool factory in Belgium.
On 2 February 2013, the second line was opened, a loop route numbered 31 in the clockwise direction and 30 in the counterclockwise direction, with a headway of 40 minutes. The third route, 27, opened on 15 June 2014, connecting the city centre with Ecotekne. A large loop at the route's outer end is not equipped with overhead wiring, and the trolleybuses cover it using their diesel engines.
Trolleybuses do not operate on any route on Sundays.
In June 2022, the routes were renumbered, with route 27 becoming S13, route 29 becoming M1, and circular 30/31 (counterclockwise/clockwise) becoming C3 and C2, respectively.
Lines
The Lecce trolleybus lines are as follows:
M1 (formerly 29): City Terminal (on Via Porta d'Europa) – city centre – Lecce railway station
C2/C3 (formerly 31/30), named Circolare destra and Circolare sinistra (clockwise circular and counterclockwise circular), with layover point at Porta Napoli
S13 (ex-27): City Terminal – Ecotekne-Fiorini
Fleet
The Lecce trolleybus fleet comprises 12 Van Hool A330T 12 m dual-mode rigid buses, built in 2006–2007, each fitted with both electric traction motors and a euro 4 diesel engine.
See also
List of trolleybus systems in Italy
References
Notes
External links
Trolleybus city: Lecce (Italy) at Trolleymotion (German, with automated translation to English and other languages available on-site)
Lecce
Lecce
Transport in Apulia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Own%20Media | My Own Media is an international editorial network of Isi Holding Group, founded by Francesco Costa and Gianluca Luciano in 2000 under the name of Stranieri in Italia. Over the years, the company has created editorial offices and 16 foreign language newspapers, with a monthly circulation of more than 300,000 copies; mainly free press, but also newspapers sold at newsstands. Some examples of editorial products: 'Gazeta Romaneasca', published in Romanian with an average circulation of 10,000 copies per week; 'Nasz Swiat' and 'Bota Shqiptare', fortnightly magazines in Polish and Albanian, on newsstands with 8,000 and 14,000 copies per month, respectively. To date, the printing of these magazines has been completely replaced by web portals. In 2012, the group launched the start-up Migreat by opening new offices in London. Today, My Own Media is based in London and is focused on providing the latest news on immigration policies and relevant legislation. The company is currently headed by Italian manager Stefano Camilloni.
My Own Media publishes fourteen web portals in ten different languages.
See also
Ethnic media
Foreign-born population of the United Kingdom
References
External links
Newspaper companies of England
Companies established in 2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitland%2C%20Cape%20Town | Maitland is a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa.
Maitland is situated along a number of important transport networks connecting the Cape Town city bowl to the rest of the city. The most important being the railway line that runs through the middle of the suburb and the N1 that is situated on its northern boundary. The area has always been an important transport hub for the city.
In 1845 one of the first roads from Stellenbosch through the Maitland area was completed. This effectively connected Cape Town to the rest of Africa as at the time the dunes of the Cape Flats prevented much traffic between the two locations. The suburb is named after Sir Peregrine Maitland who was governor of the Cape in the mid 1840s.
Geography
Maitland lies to the north of Pinelands, south of Brooklyn, east of Salt River
History
During the Second Anglo-Boer War Maitland was the site of a major British cavalry camp, where troops and horses recovered from the voyage from Britain.
Demography
The 2011 census recorded the population of Maitland as consisting of 9,782 people. 49.9% described themselves as "Coloured", 1.9% as "Indian or Asian", 41.1% as "Black African", 2.6% as "White" and 4.0% as "Other". 58.0% spoke English as their first language, 16.5% spoke Afrikaans, 3.8% spoke Xhosa, 1.0% spoke Zulu and 20.7% .
Local schools
Maitland High School
Holy Cross High School
Koeberg Primary school
In popular culture
The Standard Hotel located in Maitland was featured in the 2012 film Safe House. It features as one of the "seedy hotels" that the main protagonists seek refuge in.
The shrine of a well known Muslim Sufi saint i.e. Hazarat Khawaja Sayed Mehboob Ali Sha (R.A) is situated at the Maitland Cemetery gate 4A is also a source of blessings and unity of many communities. The shrine that still attracts thousands of devotees from all around the world.
References
Suburbs of Cape Town |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blyth%20Education | Blyth Academy is a Canadian private education company founded in 1977 by Sam Blyth and is now part of the Globeducate network. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Blyth Academy is a chain of private secondary schools and academic credit programs in Canada and abroad. Primarily located throughout Ontario, Blyth Academy also has schools in the United States, Florence (Italy) and Qatar, in addition to an online program and study-abroad programs that offer academic credit. In 2018, Blyth Academy founder Sam Blyth sold the organization.
Background
Blyth Academy is a private company based in Toronto, Ontario, that runs a chain of private secondary schools with campuses throughout Ontario. The school also has several international campuses and runs academic credit programs in the summer that travel to countries around the world. Founded in 1977 by Sam Blyth, Blyth Academy describes its schools as experiential learning programs with small class sizes. Blyth Academy has fourteen campuses throughout the province of Ontario. A U.S. campus opened in 2015 in Washington, D.C., and a Qatar campus opened in 2016. Blyth also offers an online program and study abroad options for academic credit. The Blyth Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholarship is an annual undergraduate scholarship awarded to Canadian high school graduates to attend Cambridge University in England.
Blyth Academy
Ontario campuses
Blyth Academy is a private, co-ed, preparatory school for intermediate and secondary education that provides full-time, night school, summer school, and private courses for students in grades 4-12 (dependent on campus). The academy has seven campuses in Ontario: Mississauga, Etobicoke, Downsview Park, Lawrence Park, Burlington, Ottawa, and Whitby. The academy operates on a four-term academic year, in which students take two courses per term with three two-hour periods per day. Class sizes are typically small; an average of ten students.
Educational partners include the Art Gallery of Ontario, Royal Ontario Museum, Gardiner Museum, Toronto International Film Festival, Outward Bound Canada, and Don Valley Brick Works.
Scholarships and bursaries are available for full-time students who are in need of financial aid.
Online Programs
In 2014, Blyth Academy launched an asynchronous online program called Blyth Academy Online. The online programs offers 160 Ontario Secondary School Diploma courses. Students can enroll in a full course load or take a single course to earn single credits at a time.
In 2020, Blyth Academy launched a synchronous, teacher-led virtual school called Blyth Academy Orbit. Blyth Academy Orbit provides full-time, part-time, night school, summer school and private courses for students in grades 7-12. Virtual classes are offered on the same schedule as in-person learning options. Classes sizes are typically small; an average of ten students.
Blyth Academy Qatar
In September 2016, Blyth Academy opened its first campus in Qatar. The school received complet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC%20Computer%20Inquiries | In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission Computer Inquiries were a trio of interrelated FCC Inquiries focused on problems posed by the convergence of regulated telephony with unregulated computing services. These Computer Inquiries created rules and requirements designed to prevent cross subsidization, discrimination, and anti-competitive behavior from companies such as Bell Operating Companies (BOCs) to enter the enhanced services market.
Background
In the 1960s, The Federal Communications Commission ("FCC" or "Commission") awoke to the reality of powerful computers running communications networks, and communications networks over which humans interacted with really powerful computers. In 1966, the FCC was interested in the difference between computers that facilitate communications and computers with which people communicate. The Commission had to make a decision on whether both of these types of computers should be regulated as a basic phone service. "The task before the Commission was the nature and extent of the regulatory jurisdiction to be applied to data processing services; and whether, under what circumstances, and subject to what conditions or safeguards, common carriers should be permitted to engage in data processing." To answer these questions, the Commission launched the first Computer Inquiry.
Computer I
In the 1960s the FCC faced a problem with existing regulated communication networks, such as AT&T who offered basic communication service. Companies such as AT&T had found a way to add computers to the ends of these existing networks by layering protocols on top of the network to achieve data processing. These enhancements if left unregulated threatened growth of these services. In 1970, the FCC made its first attempt at dividing the computer world into two categories: computers that ran communication networks and computers at the end of telephone lines that people interacted. "The division was technological, focused on computer processing, attempting to divide the difference between circuit or message switching and data processing." This division by the Commission were either called "pure communications" or "pure data processing."
Pure Communications/Pure Data Processing/Hybrid cases
If a message is sent from one location to another and it does not change, the FCC defined it as Pure Communication. On the other hand, if a changes or processing happen at the end of phone line the FCC defined it as Pure Data Processing. In pure data processing the computer processes the information and determines if it is a circuit or message-switching. Also, in pure data processing the computer processes the information by using storing, retrieving, sorting, merging or calculating data functions based on how the computer is programmed. Some computer processing, however, use both pure communication and pure data processing. The FCC was not too sure how to handle these situations and created a third category known as hybrid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making%20History%20II%3A%20The%20War%20of%20the%20World | Making History II: The War of the World is a World War II grand strategy computer game released in June 2010 by developer Muzzy Lane Software. Making History II is the successor to Making History: The Calm & The Storm and gives players the ability to take full control of any world nation, colonies, regions, cities, and military units during the time leading up to and during the Second World War. In 2016, along with the other games in the series, Making History II was sold to Factus Games.
Gameplay
In Making History II players are able to control any nation starting from the years preceding World War II and beyond. The game includes multiple scenarios which begin the player at the following dates: 1933, 1936, and 1939 with each scenario created to realistically reflect historical situations of that time. Other starting dates are playable using mods created with the game editor. Multiplayer games can be conducted via LAN, or using the company's website, which offers a multiplayer service that saves and runs games in the cloud, allowing asymmetrical gameplay. A game update in January 2014 added a fourth scenario that begins in 1944.
Reception
Making History II was met with very low ratings on average at its initial launch. Many of the reviews mention that the game gives the user an information overload due to the amount of information to be processed and the cumbersome GUI which the player is forced to use. In addition to the previous issues, the game also had a fair share of bugs and crashes which only further discouraged proper game play.
In response to the amount of negative criticism aimed at the game, Making History II'''s developer, Muzzy Lane, has responded and over the course of 6 months created numerous patches to bring the game up to a playable state. Due to the release of a buggy and "incomplete" game, most of the early negative reviews are based on the earliest adaptations of the game while a few reviewers are giving Making History II a second look. Making History II seems to garner a majority of positive reviews in these second looks and later revisions, and was nominated for "Strategy Game of the Year" by Game Industry News. A Mac version was released in 2011, and a game editor was added in the spring of 2012.
Reviews
Daniel Shannon of GameSpot, who rated the game a 4/10 said, "the game is plagued by performance issues, uninspiring combat, and an insane depiction of international relations. On the bright side, numerous updates for the game have been released in the past few weeks that have improved performance and crushed numerous bugs, so Making History II might one day be a functional game."Larry Levandowski of Arm Chair General gave the game a 75/100 rating, claiming "All-in-all, Making History II is a welcome addition to the pantheon of WWII grand-strategy games. It's fun, easy to play and has enough depth for even the most campaign-hardened strategy gamer. MHII is the kind of game where you start to play after dinner, an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRefine | OpenRefine is an open-source desktop application for data cleanup and transformation to other formats, an activity commonly known as data wrangling. It is similar to spreadsheet applications, and can handle spreadsheet file formats such as CSV, but it behaves more like a database.
It operates on rows of data which have cells under columns, similar to the manner in which relational database tables operate. OpenRefine projects consist of one table, whose rows can be filtered using facets that define criteria (for example, showing rows where a given column is not empty).
Unlike spreadsheets, most operations in OpenRefine are done on all visible rows, for example, the transformation of all cells in all rows under one column, or the creation of a new column based on existing data. Actions performed on a dataset are stored the project and can be 'replayed' on other datasets. Formulas are not stored in cells, but are used to transform the data. Transformation is done only once. Formula expressions can be written in General Refine Expression Language (GREL), in Jython (i.e., Python), and in Clojure.
The program operates as a local web app: it starts a web server and opens the default browser to 127.0.0.1:3333.
Uses
Cleaning messy data: for example if working with a text file with some semi-structured data, it can be edited using transformations, facets and clustering to make the data cleanly structured.
Transformation of data: converting values to other formats, normalizing and denormalizing.
Parsing data from web sites: OpenRefine has a URL fetch feature and jsoup HTML parser and DOM engine.
Adding data to dataset by fetching it from web services (i.e. returning JSON). For example, can be used for geocoding addresses to geographic coordinates.
Aligning to Wikidata (formerly Freebase): this involves reconciliation — mapping string values in cells to entities in Wikidata.
Supported formats
Import is supported from following formats:
TSV, CSV
Text file with custom separators or columns split by fixed width
XML
RDF triples (RDF/XML and Notation3 serialization formats)
JSON
Google Spreadsheets
If input data is in a non-standard text format, it can be imported as whole lines, without splitting into columns, and then columns extracted later with OpenRefine's tools. Archived and compressed files are supported (.zip, .tar.gz, .tgz, .tar.bz2, .gz, or .bz2) and Refine can download input files from a URL. To use web pages as input, it is possible to import a list of URLs and then invoke a URL fetch function.
Export is supported in following formats:
TSV
CSV
Microsoft Excel
HTML table
Google Spreadsheets
Templating exporter: it is possible to define custom template for outputting data, for example as MediaWiki table.
Whole OpenRefine projects in native format can be exported as a .tar.gz archive.
Development
OpenRefine started life as Freebase Gridworks, developed by Metaweb and has been available as open source since January 2010. O |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PotPlayer | PotPlayer is a multimedia software player developed for the Microsoft Windows operating system by South Korean Internet company Kakao (formerly Daum Communications). It competes with other popular Windows media players such as VLC media player, mpv (media player), GOM Player, KMPlayer, SMPlayer and Media Player Classic. PotPlayer's reception has been positive with reviewers complimenting its wide range of settings and customizations, its lightweight nature and its support for a large variety of media formats.
LifeHacker observed that PotPlayer's quantity of options was one of its biggest weaknesses—"It has many different settings[,] which unfortunately makes wading through the checkbox-laden settings menu kind of a pain"—and that its options menu was "confusing".
In 2019, some versions of PotPlayer began to be bundled with third-party software, causing concerns from its user community; however, the installers allowed users to opt-out before the extra software was installed. The player also started showing ads in its lower right-hand corner.
See also
K-Multimedia Player (also by Kang Yong-Huee)
Comparison of video player software
References
External links
Windows media players
Windows-only freeware
Media players
Kakao |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethmia%20flavicaudata | Ethmia flavicaudata is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It is found in southern Mexico.
The length of the forewings is about . The ground color of the forewings is whitish, mostly replaced by brownish black. The ground color of the hindwings is semitranslucent whitish at the base, becoming brown in the apical area and at the margins. Adults are on wing in April, May and July.
References
Moths described in 1912
flavicaudata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish%20Academic%20Network%20and%20Information%20Center | The 'Turkish Academic Network and Information Center (), shortly ULAKBIM, was founded as a research and development facility institute of Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) in Bilkent, Çankaya of Ankara, Turkey in 1996.
ULAKBIM's main objectives have been set as operating a high speed computer network, enabling interaction within the institutional elements of the national innovation system, and providing information technology support and information services to help scientific production. ULAKBIM aims at providing technological facilities such as computer networks, information technology support, and information and document delivery services, to meet the information requirements of universities and research institutions, and to increase the efficiency and productivity of their end users.
Since February 1998, ULAKBIM consists of National Academic Network (, ULAKNET) Unit, which undertakes the task of formation and operation of research and education network infrastructure in Turkey, and Cahit Arf Information Center (), which provides information and document supply services nationwide. The center has issued a circular demanding the dismissal of any signatory of the a petition by the Academics for Peace who is assigned to an editorial board of a journal.
References
External links
Turkish Academic Network and Information Center, Official website
TÜBİTAK, Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
Internet in Turkey
National research and education networks
Organizations established in 1996
1996 establishments in Turkey
Organizations based in Ankara
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20the%20Shade%20of%20Trees | In the Shade of Trees () is a 2011 Vietnamese computer-animated comedy-adventure film produced by Colory Animation Studio.
Cast
Đoàn Trần Anh Tú as Mouse
Đỗ Thị Minh Thư as Frog
External links
Vietnamese children's films
2010s children's comedy films
2011 animated films
2011 films
V
Vietnamese computer-animated films
Vietnamese animated films
2011 3D films
3D animated films
2010s children's animated films
2011 comedy films
2010s Vietnamese-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-difference%20estimator | In statistics and econometrics, the first-difference (FD) estimator is an estimator used to address the problem of omitted variables with panel data. It is consistent under the assumptions of the fixed effects model. In certain situations it can be more efficient than the standard fixed effects (or "within") estimator.
The estimator requires data on a dependent variable, , and independent variables, , for a set of individual units and time periods . The estimator is obtained by running a pooled ordinary least squares (OLS) estimation for a regression of on .
Derivation
The FD estimator avoids bias due to some unobserved, time-invariant variable , using the repeated observations over time:
Differencing the equations, gives:
which removes the unobserved .
The FD estimator is then obtained by using the differenced terms for x and u in OLS:
Where and , are notation for matrices of relevant variables. Note that the rank condition must be met for to be invertible () where is the number of regressors.
Let and define analogously. If , by the Central limit theorem, Law of large numbers, and Slutsky's theorem, the estimator is distributed normally with asymptotic variance of .
Under the assumption of homoskedasticity and no serial correlation, mathematically that, , the asymptotic variance can be estimated with
where is given by
and .
Properties
To be unbiased, the fixed estimator (FE) requires strict exogeneity, . The first difference estimator is also unbiased under this assumption. Under the weaker assumption that , the FD estimator is consistent. Note that this assumption is less restrictive than the assumption of strict exogeneity which is required for consistency using the FE estimator when T is fixed. If T goes to infinity, then both FE and FD are consistent with the weaker assumption of contemporaneous exogeneity.
Relation to fixed effects estimator
For , the FD and fixed effects estimators are numerically equivalent.
Under the assumption of homoscedasticity and no serial correlation in , the FE estimator is more efficient than the FD estimator. This is because the FD estimator induces no serial correlation when differencing the errors. If follows a random walk, however, the FD estimator is more efficient as are serially uncorrelated.
See also
Factor analysis
Panel analysis
References
Estimator
Latent variable models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20HGTV%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | This is a list of programs currently, formerly, and soon to be broadcast by HGTV Canada. It includes both original programming created for the network, and programming acquired from other sources including HGTV US.
A
The Antonio Treatment
B
Backyard Builds
Bang for Your Buck
The Block
Build a New Life in the Country
Buy Herself
Buy Me
C
Canada's Handyman Challenge
Colin and Justin's Home Heist
Cowboy Builders
D
Debbie Travis' Facelift
Deck Wars
Decked Out
The Decorating Adventures of Ambrose Price
Design Inc.
Design Interns
Design Rivals
Designer Guys
Designer Superstar Challenge
Disaster DIY
E
The Expandables
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition
F
Family Home Overhaul
The Fix
Fixer Upper
Flipping Out
For Rent
Four Houses
G
Gut Job
H
Handyman Superstar Challenge
HGTV's Top 10
Hidden Potential
Holmes and Holmes
Holmes Inspection
Holmes on Homes
Home by Novogratz
Home to...
Home to Win
House Hunters
House Hunters International
House of Bryan
How Not to Decorate
I
I Wrecked My House
Income Property
Island of Bryan
J
Junk Brothers
Just Ask Jon Eakes
K
Kitchen Cousins
Kitchen Equipped
L
Leave It to Bryan
Location, Location, Location
M
Making it Home with Kortney and Kenny
Massive Moves
May the Best House Win
Million Dollar Contractor
Mission: Organization
My First Place
N
Neat
O
Open House Overhaul
P
Property Ladder
Property Shop
Property Virgins
Pure Design
R
Real Estate Intervention
Real Renos
Relocation, Relocation
Restaurant Makeover
Rock Solid Builds
Room Service
Rooms That Rock
S
Sarah's House
Save My Reno
Selling LA
Selling New York
The Stagers
Summer Home
T
Tackle My Reno
Timber Kings
Top Design
Tough As Nails
Turf War
U
The Unsellables
Unusually Thicke
Urban Suburban
W
Weekend Warriors
World's Greenest Homes
Worst to First
Y
Yard Crashers
References
HGTV Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I%20preprocessor | The PL/I preprocessor is the preprocessor for the PL/I computer programming language. The preprocessor interprets a subset of the full PL/I language to perform source file inclusion, conditional compilation, and macro expansion.
The preprocessor language has a PL/I-like syntax with preprocessor statements and preprocessor procedures prefixed with a percent symbol (%). Listing-control statements, which supply formatting commands for the compiler listing, are usually considered preprocessor statements and also begin with %. Preprocessor statements are imbedded in and operate on input text. The input text is normally a PL/I program, but is agnostic to the grammar of PL/I, so the preprocessor can also be used independently to process other kinds of text files.
The preprocessor is not specified as part of standard PL/I, but most PL/I implementations accept the language of the IBM preprocessor.
Including files
The %INCLUDE preprocessor statement is used to include the text of another file, which may also contain preprocessor directives. The latest IBM compilers also provide an %XINCLUDE directive, which has the effect of including the specified file only if it has not already been included.
%INSCAN and %XINSCAN operate similarly, except that the name of the file to be included is specified by a preprocessor expression.
Listing control
Listing control statements provide instructions for formatting both the listing generated by the preprocessor and the listing generated by the compiler.
causes the printing of listings of the following text to be started or resumed.
causes the printing of the listings of the following text to be suppressed.
causes a new page to be started in the listings.
causes n lines to be skipped in the listings. If n is omitted the default is one line.
, save and restore the current status of / on a pushdown stack and restore it, respectively.
Preprocessor operation
The preprocessor operates by scanning the input text and recognizing declared preprocessor names, also called preprocessor identifiers. The text is copied to the preprocessor output with the preprocessor names replaced with their current values. The name may represent a call to a preprocessor procedure (macro). Replacement text may be rescanned by the preprocessor for possible additional replacement.
Preprocessor data types
Preprocessor data may be declared to be CHARACTER, a character string with no maximum length, or FIXED an integer number of up to five decimal digits. A preprocessor builtin is a predefined procedure operating on preprocessor data. A preprocessor expression is an expression consisting only of preprocessor names, references to preprocessor procedures or builtins, and decimal or character constants. There are no BIT variables, but a BIT result may be obtained by comparison. The expression in %IF evaluates to BIT. All PL/I operators are allowed except exponentiation.
Preprocessor statements
establishes an identifier as a preprocessor v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Integrated%20Trade%20Solution | The World Integrated Trade Solution (WITS) is a trade software provided by the World Bank for users to query several international trade databases.
WITS allows the user to query trade statistics (export, import, re-exports and re-imports) from the UN's repository of official international trade statistics and relevant analytical tables (UN COMTRADE), tariff and non-tariff measures data from UNCTAD trade analysis and information system, tariff and bound tariff information from WTO's integrated data base for applied tariffs and imports, and from the WTO's consolidated tariff schedules database for the bound duties of all WTO members. WITS also has a module called global preferential trade agreement to search and browse free trade agreements. It also has modules to calculate several trade indicators and perform tariff cut simulation.
WITS has multiple sections, including summary trade statistics by country on total exports, imports, export/import partners, top product groups exported/imported, top exporters and importers in the World, derived analytical databases, and a WITS application allowing the user to use the underlying data to generate custom trade statistics and indicators and tariff cut simulations.
Summary trade statistics by country
The trade data for each country is divided into four sections. The first section is the country profile summary, and provides summary of the key indicators in trade, tariffs, trade indicators, top export and import partners of the country, and top exported products. The next section is by trading partner and provides the top export or import partners of the country with the trade value, partner share. The final section is by product group, providing details of exports and imports of the country by various standard product groups like by HS sector, SITC revision 2 standard product groups, and UNCTAD's stages of processing.
Advanced analysis
The second section of WITS allows users to perform advanced analysis and select their own set of country and country groups, product and product groups, bulk download data, analyze trade competitiveness of countries and perform tariff cut simulation. The trade outcomes module provides a flexible array of options. These options include the selection of countries of interest, product classifications, the usage of reported or mirrored data, and the years of the analysis. In addition, users can also create ad-hoc country and product groups or—when relevant—investigate specific trading partners. It is also possible to generate only a subset of indicators and get comparative data on peer countries. The user's guideline document provides specific details for these options.
As an alternative to the indicator by indicator analysis, the software offers a built-in set of choices that the user can automatically employ to generate the set of indicators by section for the country and the year of choice. The output is data for each indicator along with a companion visualization.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAD%20Corporation | was a Japanese manufacturer of video arcade games that was founded and headquartered in Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, Japan. It was founded by former employees of the company Data East and was named after its founder and owner name Tadashi "TAD" Yokoyama. They are best known for their first video arcade game, the 1988 shooting gallery-type Cabal, as well as their second one, the 1989 run 'n' gun-style platformer Toki (known in Japan as JuJu Densetsu). In Japan, Taito, Tecmo and Sammy assisted TAD in distributing their arcade titles, while Fabtek distributed every arcade title of TAD's internationally with permission (who were also known for internationally distributing arcade titles by Seibu Kaihatsu with permission). TAD Corporation also licensed its titles for arcade-to-console conversions to other companies such as Ocean Software, Milton Bradley, Rare, Taito and Sega; however, only Cabal and Toki received home conversions. After the release of their last two arcade titles both in 1992: the beat 'em up Legionnaire, and the run 'n gun Heated Barrel; TAD Corporation quietly abandoned its production on February 5, 1993. After ending its business, members were traded to Mitchell Corporation.
Games by TAD Corporation
Exzisus (1987, worldwide distribution only. Developed by Taito)
Cabal (1988)
JuJu Densetsu (Japan) / Toki (U.S.) (1989)
Blood Bros. (1990)
Legionnaire (1992)
Heated Barrel (1992)
References
Amusement companies of Japan
Video game companies disestablished in 1993
Software companies based in Tokyo
Defunct video game companies of Japan
Video game development companies
Mitaka, Tokyo
Video game companies established in 1988
Japanese companies established in 1988
Japanese companies disestablished in 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Varna | The trolleybus system forms part of the public transport network of Varna, the third most populous city in Bulgaria.
History
The system was opened on January 1, 1986; it was the 4th network to open in Bulgaria after Sofia, Plovdiv and just a few months earlier Pleven.
Initially the network expanded rapidly, reaching its peak of 8 lines at some point. First the city received 15 new trolleybus Skoda 14TR and 3 used Skoda 9TR from Sofia and Plovdiv, the latter ones were used for training purposes. The following years the city received 15 more new Skoda 14TR and 36 new articulated DAC-Chavdar.
In 1999 the city bought 3 used Skoda 14TR (one of them modernized) from Czechia.
In 2003 the city bought 5 used Skoda 15TR from Czechia to replace the already out of service DAC-Chavdar vehicles. Additional 4 used Skoda 15 TR were bought from Czechia and Slovakia in 2007.
In 2017 all Skoda 15TR were taken out of service due to a fire that burnt down one of them.
In 2014 along with 3 other cities Varna was granted money through a European Union program to purchase 30 new trolleybuses Skoda Solaris 26TR which replaced all remaining Skoda 14TR (Two units were kept to be used for training purposes).
==Lines==
Current routes:
Previous routes
Fleet
Current fleet
Former fleet
See also
Asparuhov most
List of trolleybus systems
References
External links
Transport in Varna, Bulgaria
Varna
Varna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20Media%20Language%20Learning | Social media language learning is a method of language acquisition that uses socially constructed Web 2.0 platforms such as wikis, blogs, and social networks to facilitate learning of the target language. Social media is used by language educators and individual learners that wish to communicate in the target language in a natural environment that allows multimodal communication, ease of sharing, and possibilities for feedback from peers and educators.
Proponents of social media language learning are likely to support the theory of language socialization developed by linguistic anthropologists Elinor Ochs and Bambi Schieffelin which claims that language learning is interwoven with cultural interaction and is mediated by linguistic and other symbolic activity. Social media provides an environment that allows users to weave their goal of language acquisition with culturally relevant interactions through a wide array of available platforms that are often categorized as formal for classroom use and informal for personal use.
Formal use
Educators can integrate social media tools into their existing pedagogy. Online environments used by education professionals include course management systems, wikis, blogs, virtual worlds, and more. Pedagogical use of social media in a language classroom can take a myriad of forms, such as classroom blogs to discuss culturally relevant topics in the target language, social media apps with specialized platforms for classroom use, learning environments developed specifically for schools, and much more.
Indigenous Language Classrooms
For Indigenous languages that are vulnerable and critically endangered, social media among other digital technologies can offer access to supportive communities, experienced educators, and other learning opportunities. Through pedagogical use of social media, educators and learners are given the opportunity to engage with Indigenous communities around the world, access a myriad of resources not previously available, and engage in their education in a new medium. Social media language learning is especially pertinent for the Indigenous language classroom because being surrounded by and engaging in meaning conversations aligns with Indigenous cultural values of community. However, classroom-based Indigenous language revitalization efforts have been criticized for failure to promote use and transmission of the language outside of an educational context.
Informal use
Social media is employed by language learners outside of traditional learning environments. Informal language learning through social media can occur through personal social network use, language learning apps with a social component, online gaming, fan communities, and more.
Language Learning Apps
There are a myriad of language learning websites and apps that rely on social interaction between learners or have a social component. These resources have varying levels of social media elements. One example of an app with a low |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random%20coordinate%20descent | Randomized (Block) Coordinate Descent Method is an optimization algorithm popularized by Nesterov (2010) and Richtárik and Takáč (2011). The first analysis of this method, when applied to the problem of minimizing a smooth convex function, was performed by Nesterov (2010). In Nesterov's analysis the method needs to be applied to a quadratic perturbation of the original function with an unknown scaling factor. Richtárik and Takáč (2011) give iteration complexity bounds which do not require this, i.e., the method is applied to the objective function directly. Furthermore, they generalize the setting to the problem of minimizing a composite function, i.e., sum of a smooth convex and a (possibly nonsmooth) convex block-separable function:
where is decomposed into blocks of variables/coordinates: and are (simple) convex functions.
Example (block decomposition): If and , one may choose and .
Example (block-separable regularizers):
, where and is the standard Euclidean norm.
Algorithm
Consider the optimization problem
where is a convex and smooth function.
Smoothness: By smoothness we mean the following: we assume
the gradient of is coordinate-wise Lipschitz continuous
with constants . That is, we assume that
for all and , where denotes the partial derivative with respect to variable .
Nesterov, and Richtarik and Takac showed that the following algorithm converges to the optimal point:
Input: //starting point
Output:
set x := x_0
for k := 1, ... do
choose coordinate , uniformly at random
update
end for
Convergence rate
Since the iterates of this algorithm are random vectors, a complexity result would give a bound on the number of iterations needed for the method to output an approximate solution with high probability. It was shown in that if
,
where ,
is an optimal solution (),
is a confidence level and is target accuracy,
then .
Example on particular function
The following Figure shows
how develops during iterations, in principle.
The problem is
Extension to block coordinate setting
One can naturally extend this algorithm not only just to coordinates, but to blocks of coordinates. Assume that we have space . This space has 5 coordinate directions, concretely
in which Random Coordinate Descent Method can move. However, one can group some coordinate directions into blocks and we can have instead of those 5 coordinate directions 3 block coordinate directions (see image).
See also
Coordinate descent
Gradient descent
Mathematical optimization
References
Gradient methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEARnet | NEARnet (New England Academic and Research Network) was an innovative high-speed regional network for education, research and development, established in 1988 by a consortium led by Boston University, Harvard University, and MIT. It was a precursor to the commercial internet, formed after DARPA announced plans to dismantle the ARPANET. ARPANET then accounted for 71 of the consortium's 258 host connections.
Special services and facilities, such as the Connection Machine, the Massachusetts Microelectronics Center, and library catalogs, were made available over NEARnet. By 1990, NEARnet had 40 members.
Technology
NEARnet was linked to NSFNet via the John von Neumann Center supercomputer center and extended its backbone using the world's first fixed wireless internet technology, then referred to as, "LAN extension over microwave". The tech was developed and provided by wireless pioneer and Cambridge neighbor, Microwave Bypass.
The microwave was a core technology, which met the highest internet speed of 10Mbps and helped to fund the network by eliminating recurring transmission charges. It consisted of an analog 23GHz, licensed, point-to-point microwave link, modified for a 10MHz baseband carrier and mated to an 802.3 Ethernet transceiver/microwave interface ("EtherWave Transceiver"). The EtherWave then connected network segments and backbones through Cisco routers. Smaller, more remote NEARnet members joined the network through T1 leased lines.
On July 1, 1993, NEARnet operations were assumed by BBN Systems and Technologies under contract to MIT. Ultimately, the internet prevailed and NEARnet disbanded.
Further reading
References
History of the Internet
Boston University
Internet in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Plovdiv | The Plovdiv trolleybus system () was a part of the public transport network of the city and municipality of Plovdiv, the second most populous city in Bulgaria.
Opened in December 1955, the system had waxed and waned in size over time. As of the beginning of 2012, it was made up of only one route. There are current disputes between the operator and the municipality regarding the validity of the trolleybus contract. Gradski Transport Plovdiv is still the operator of this type of transport, despite the numerous infractions of the contract since 2010. In October 2012, because the operator is a private company, the city lost the opportunity to acquire 65 mln lv EU funding for purchasing approximately 100 brand-new trolleybuses. The system was officially closed on 1 October 2012 although some trolleybuses continued operation for a few more weeks. Currently there is no trolleybus movement and the municipality has issued an order for dismantling the overhead network.
Services
The sole Plovdiv trolleybus line was:
3 ТК "Марица" (TC "Maritza") – ЕАЗ (EAZ)
Fleet
, the Plovdiv trolleybus fleet had 47 trolleybuses:
ZiU-9 - 2 units;
Škoda 14Tr - 23 units;
Škoda 9Tr - 1 units;
Van Hool AG280T - 11 units (ex-Ghent trolleybus system – imported 2009);
Saurer / Hess GT560 - 10 units (ex-St. Gallen trolleybus system – imported 2009).
See also
Plovdiv Central railway station
List of trolleybus systems
References
External links
Plovdiv
Plovdiv
Plovdiv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted%20survey%20information%20collection | Computer-assisted survey information collection (CASIC) refers to a variety of survey modes that were enabled by the introduction of computer technology. The first CASIC modes were interviewer-administered, while later on computerized self-administered questionnaires (CSAQ) appeared. It was coined in 1990 as a catch-all term for survey technologies that have expanded over time.
Modes
The most common modes of computer-assisted survey information collection, ranked by the extent of interviewer involvement, are:
CATI (Computer-assisted telephone interviewing) is the initial CASIC mode where a remotely present interviewer calls respondents by phone and enters the answers into a computerized questionnaire.
CAPI (Computer-assisted personal interviewing) was enabled by the introduction of portable computers where a physically present interviewer brings the computer with the questionnaire to the respondent and enters the answers into it.
CASI (Computer-assisted self-interviewing) is similar to CAPI but the respondent enters the answers on a computer of a physically present interviewer. Questions can also be presented in the form of audio (audio-CASI) or video clips (video-CASI).
CAVI (Computer-assisted video interviewing) is similar to CATI but the communication between a remotely present interviewer and the respondent is established via video chat.
Disk by mail includes a floppy or optical disk that is sent to the respondent. The interviewer is not present.
Touch-tone data entry (TDE) means that the respondent enters the answers by pressing the appropriate numeric keys on a telephone handset. The interviewer is not present.
Interactive voice response (IVR) includes a wide range of approaches for voice communication with a computer using the telephone. Modern speech recognition enabled IVR systems allow the respondent to provide complex answers through the telephone that are automatically recorded as text. The interviewer is not present.
Internet surveys include a variety of survey modes (e.g. mail, web) where the most widely used are web surveys. The interviewer is not present.
Virtual interviewer surveys are usually carried out via the Internet, where some kind of virtual interviewer introduces the questions to the respondent. Future technological developments will enable increased virtualization and interviewers will probably become completely computerized virtual characters. The interviewer is not present.
Benefits
Benefits of CASIC include:
Reduced time and costs for data input
Elimination of errors during data transcription
Implementation of advanced features, such as automatic skips and branching, randomization of questions and response options, control of answer validity, and inclusion of multimedia elements
Increased sense of privacy for the respondent
Reduced cost of research
Higher data quality due to the absence of interviewer-related bias.
See also
Comparison of survey software
References
Survey methodology |
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