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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Piece%20Grand%20Collection | One Piece Grand Collection is a social-network game by Namco Bandai. It has 1 million users.
Namco Bandai started work on the game with the goal of 10 Billion Yen in annual sales.
Gameplay revolves around collecting figurines and forming battle groups to defeat bosses.
References
Grand Collection
Bandai Namco games
2012 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Mobile games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiip | Kiip was a mobile advertising network. It was co-founded by Brian Wong, Courtney Guertin, and Amadeus Demarzi in 2010.
Instead of digital rewards, Kiip provided consumers with tangible rewards, like a bottle of water for every eight miles run by a user. Kiip's rewards platforms was designed for in-app engagement.
History
Wong, at 19, developed the idea for Kiip on an airplane, when he observed its passengers on their iPads. Many passengers were playing games, where the games' advertisements took up screen space that couldn't be used by the game itself. Wong hypothesized that instead, games could leverage moments of achievement—such as level ups and high scores—with a rewards program where advertisers could make consumer offers.
In July 2010, Wong teamed with Courtney Guertin and Amadeus Demarzi to found the company, Kiip raised $300,000 in seed capital from True Ventures, Vast Ventures, Paige Craig, Rohan Oza, Keith Belling, Joe Stump, and Chris Redlitz. In subsequent A and B rounds, Kiip has raised a total of $15.4 million from investors including Relay Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Interpublic Group, American Express Ventures, Digital Garage, Crosslink Capital, True Ventures, Venture51, Transmedia Capital, and Verizon Ventures. In 2016 they received a Series C round of $12 million, for a total of $32 million. In October 2017, Kiip expanded its mobile rewards platform to Amazon’s Fire TV.
Platform
The company said Kiip had about 75 million users per month across about 400 apps by 2013. The company had offices in San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Vancouver, London, Bogota, and Tokyo. Apps using Kiip include games and fitness apps such as RunKeeper. The company had also integrated its system with productivity apps, such as Any.do and Finish 2.0. Kiip is also integrated with the Yahoo! Japan app, which was the first time Yahoo! Japan has integrated a third-party service into its app. Clients included 7-Eleven, Amazon, American Apparel, Campbell's, Ford, Hasbro, Macy's, McDonald's, Mondelēz International (formerly Kraft Foods), Pepsi, Procter & Gamble, Sony Music, Unilever, Verizon and Wrigley.
The company's platform offered real-world rewards to mobile users. It used developer tool software called Kiip Neon. In 2014, Kiip formed a strategic partnership with IPG to release a mobile usage study.
Recognition
Kiip was listed by Fast Company as one of the 50 Most Innovative Companies in the world in 2013<ref>Harrison, Lindsay. Most Innovative Companies 2013. Fast Company”. February 11, 2013.</ref> and by Forbes'' as one of the "4 Hot Online Ad Companies". Kiip was also named to the Dow Jones' FasTech50 List.
Lawsuit settlement, bankruptcy and acquisition
In July 2019, Kiip agreed to a $1 million settlement of a class action lawsuit claiming that Kiip had violated the law by collecting and using person information about users without permission. Kiip admitted no wrongdoing when agreeing to the financial settlement.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20House%2C%20Your%20Money | My House, Your Money is a Cineflix produced realty reality programme that airs on W Network and HGTV US. My House, Your Money follows young individuals who are the hunt for their first home. However, they turn to family members for financial assistance, in which case, all family members weigh in on what home is best for the young individual.
Episodes
Episode 1 "Zochowski Family”
Episode 2 "Madigan Family”
Episode 3 "Hardman Family”
Episode 4 “The Posinelli’s”
Episode 5 "Saunders Family”
Episode 6 “Hyatt Family”
Episode 7 “Lewis Knowles”
Episode 8 “The Teeuwsen’s”
Episode 9 “The Javiers”
Episode 10 “The Arscotts”
Episode 11 “The Curbelo’s”
Episode 12 “The Lumbs”
Episode 13 "The Durands”
Episode 14 “The Avrahams”
Episode 15 "The Romms”
Episode 16 "Basinski Family”
References
Canadian reality television series
W Network original programming
Television series by Cineflix |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkCycle | LinkCycle is an American technology company that offers energy management software to manufacturing companies. LinkCycle uses data analysis techniques on available data streams to determine the energy usage for the production lines and machinery in a manufacturing facility. This "virtual audit" technique is a substitute for current time-consuming, manual techniques that give energy managers visibility into significant energy uses: (1) electricity meter devices and (2) energy audits. In 2013, LinkCycle participated in the Boston chapter of TechStars, a startup accelerator, and has been recognized by several publications for its potential to make energy management affordable and expedient for large manufacturers.
LinkCycle is currently based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Awards and endorsements
Prior to TechStars, the company received initial seed funding for its performance in three business plan competitions sponsored by MIT:
2011 LinkedData Prize, MIT 100k Entrepreneurship Competition (co-winner with two other companies)
2011 Deployment Category Winner, MIT Clean Energy Prize
2011 MIT Global Challenge Development Grant, MIT Global Challenge
The company has received endorsement from Tim Berners-Lee, who judged the 2011 LinkedData Prize competition and is a leading advocate of linked data applications. The U.S. Department of Energy, which sponsored the MIT Clean Energy Prize, said the start-up displayed a “combination of technical prowess and passion for problem-solving.”
References
External links
LinkCycle:
Environmental organizations based in Massachusetts
American companies established in 2010
Organizations based in San Francisco
Organizations based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
2010 establishments in Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie%20in%20A%20Mermaid%20Tale%202 | Barbie in A Mermaid Tale 2 is a 2012 computer-animated fantasy film directed by William Lau and produced by Mattel Entertainment (under the name of Barbie Entertainment) with Rainmaker Entertainment. It was first released to DVD on February 27, 2012, and later made its television debut on Nickelodeon on March 25, 2012. The twenty-second entry in the Barbie film series, it is a sequel to Barbie in A Mermaid Tale and marks the return of Kelly Sheridan as the voice of Barbie. The plot follows the story of Merliah Summers who travels to Australia for the ultimate surfing competition. But when an evil mermaid schemes to take over the ocean kingdom, she finds herself racing the clock to save the merfolk and finish the big surfing competition.
Official description
"Surf's up for Barbie as she returns as Merliah, the fun and fashionable surfing champion who's also a magical mermaid princess! In this exciting sea-quel, Merliah makes a splash when she heads to Australia for the ultimate surfing competition. When the evil mermaid Eris escapes from her whirlpool with plans to take over the throne of Oceana, Merliah and her sea friends dive in to stop her. It's a fresh new adventure where Merliah learns that anything is possible and she really can have the best of both worlds!"
Plot
A year after the events of the previous film, Merliah Summers is competing in the heats of an invitational surf-meet. Merliah wins first place, narrowly beating rival surfer, Kylie Morgan, though both get to compete in the finals in Australia.
Merliah uses her magical necklace to transform into a mermaid and tell her mother Queen Calissa the good news. Calissa is preparing for the Changing of Tides Ceremony to be held at the ancient city of Aquellia deep in the waters of New Zealand, which is performed every twenty years to make the next princess of Oceana an official member of the royal family and imbuing them with the power to spin Merillia. Calissa expects Merliah to attend, but the surfing competition is on exactly the same day, causing them to argue, after which they part ways.
In Australia, during the next round of the meet, Kylie beats Merliah when she deliberately brushes Merliah's surfboard and causes her to wipe out. Despite Kylie's win, Merliah's handstand maneuver attracts the attention of the crowd. That night, at a luau, Kylie is approached by a rainbowfish named Alistair who tells her that Merliah has powers that give her an advantage with surfing. Following Alistair's advice, Kylie steals the necklace, which Merliah has taken off for a photoshoot, puts it on and turns into a mermaid. Alistair then lures Kylie underwater to the deep trench where Eris is still trapped in a whirlpool. Snouts the sea lion, who witnessed Kylie's transformation, secretly follows them. Alistair and Eris trick Kylie into entering the whirlpool, taking Eris' place and freeing her.
Snouts returns to the surface to fetch Merliah. Merliah follows Snouts to the trench and frees Kylie from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Kiel | The Kiel tramway network () once formed part of the public transport system in Kiel, now in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Opened in 1881, the network lasted until 1985. Kiel tramway was the last tram system in Schleswig-Holstein.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
Further reading
External links
Kiel
Kiel
Transport in Kiel
1100 mm gauge railways in Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les%20Mis%C3%A9rables%20%28radio%20series%29 | Les Misérables is a seven-part radio series broadcast July 23 – September 3, 1937 (Fridays at 10 p.m. ET), on the Mutual Network. Orson Welles adapted Victor Hugo's 1862 novel, directed the series, and starred as Jean Valjean. The 22-year-old Welles developed the idea of telling stories with first-person narration on the series, which was his first job as a writer-director for radio.
Marking the radio debut of the Mercury Theatre, Welles's Les Misérables was described by biographer Simon Callow as "one of his earliest, finest and most serious achievements on radio". The production costarred Martin Gabel as Javert, Alice Frost as Fantine, and Virginia Nicolson, Welles's first wife, as the adult Cosette. The supporting cast included Ray Collins, Agnes Moorehead, Everett Sloane, Betty Garde, Hiram Sherman, Frank Readick, Richard Widmark, Richard Wilson and William Alland.
Episodes
See also
Adaptations of Les Misérables
References
External links
Les Misérables at the Internet Archive
1930s American radio programs
1937 radio programme debuts
1937 radio programme endings
American radio dramas
Les Misérables
Works based on Les Misérables
Mutual Broadcasting System programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20M%C3%BCnster | The Münster tramway network () once formed part of the public transport system in Münster, now in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Opened in 1901, the network lasted until 1954.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
References
External links
History of Münster
Munster
Transport in North Rhine-Westphalia
Metre gauge railways in Germany
Münster |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Hamburg | The Hamburg tramway network () once formed part of the public transport system in the city and federal state of Hamburg, Germany. Opened in 1866, the network lasted until 1978.
Overview
Hamburg's first tram service was with horsecars, beginning on 16 August 1866. Operation of steam-powered trams began on 13 May 1878 and continued until 1897, while horsecar service continued on some lines (with the last one surviving until 1922).
Electric tram service was introduced on 5 March 1894 and continued until 1978, with the system closing on 1 October 1978.
Proposed 21st century system
A similar style of transport, light rail, was to have been provided by the Hamburg Stadtbahn project, but following the Hamburg state election, 2011, the newly elected First Mayor of Hamburg, Olaf Scholz, announced that that project would not be going ahead.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Germany
Trams in Germany
Hamburg U-Bahn
Hamburg S-Bahn
Transport in Hamburg
References
Citations
Further reading
External links
Hamburg
Tram
Hamburg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xite | XITE is a Dutch interactive music video platform. Founded in the Netherlands with linear networks, interactive TV, and on-demand streaming services, XITE is now live in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland. In the United States, it is available on the Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and Roku streaming players as well as Comcast Xfinity and some Samsung TVs.
History
XITE was founded by entrepreneur Derk Nijssen in the late aughts. The company invested in the channel by technology start-up fund Henq Innovation Fund 1, United Broadcast Facilities (UBF) and Rebel Technologies (a joint venture between UBF and XITE for interactive applications in video on-demand). Base7 was used as the working name for the start of the Base7 transmitter. The home base was initially located in Rotterdam.
The station started broadcasting in 2008 via the digital packages from UPC and Caiway. At UPC, XITE replaced the canceled music channel TMF Nederland. As with the canceled music channel The Box, viewers could request video clips by phone (0900 number or text message) by means of a clip code. In September 2009, XITE came up with an on-demand system via the red button on the remote control. Since then, the viewer has been able to request clips in this way and he has been able to compile playlists by genre and view specials and interviews.
In February 2011, XITE started broadcasting in Belgium via the basic package of Telenet. XITE started broadcasting in Germany in September 2014. In 2016, the Personalized Music Television service was launched via Ooredoo in Qatar. In the same year, a 4K channel was offered via KPN, where music videos were shown in Ultra-HD. From May 2017, XITE 4K is also available in Canada.
Interactive music video TV app
Since December 2015, XITE offers an interactive TV app for users of Ziggo (Netherlands) and Ooredoo (Qatar). Currently, the TV app is rolled out to 100 million households globablly.
Xite Music
On 1 April 2019, Xite launched a digital music pay radio service on Ziggo in the Netherlands. It is a service that broadcast continuous streaming music and other forms of audio on multiple channel feeds. Xite Music replaced Stingray Music on Ziggo.
Linear channels
Mini Disco
Teen Party
Piratenplaten (Dutch pop music)
In De Kroeg ()
POP NL
Schlagerfest (German Schlager)
XITE Hits
Muziek Van Nu ()
Zeroes Heroes
Back 2 The 90s
80s Flashback
60s & 70s Fever
Gouwe Ouwe ()
Thuisorkest ()
Yoga Flow
Op De Koffie ()
Pure Focus
Mellow Beats
Take It Easy
Jazzy Dinner
LOVE.
Voel Je Goed ()
Sing-Along
Huisfeestje ()
All Out Dance
Workout!
Reggae Feels
Siempre Latino
Country Roads
Twist Again
Rock Legends
Rock On
Kneiterhard (Hardstyle)
Indie Wave
Sit Back & Jazz
Soul Baby
Straattaal (, Dutch hip hop)
Urban Vibes
Variable
Ziggo Dome
Logos
XITE Awards
Since 2013, XITE has been organising the XITE Awards every year. In addition to performances, awards are presented during the show for both best a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biritera | Biritera (International title: Diva) is a 2012 Philippine television drama musical series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Maryo J. de los Reyes, it stars Dennis Trillo, Angelika dela Cruz, Glaiza de Castro and Roseanne Magan in the title role. It premiered February 6, 2012 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Munting Heredera. The series concluded on May 18, 2012 with a total of 73 episodes. It was replaced by Luna Blanca in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dennis Trillo as Andrei Marcelino
Roseanne Magan as Roseanne Abigail Marcelino Fuentebella
Angelika Dela Cruz as Remedios "Remy" Kapitolyo Fuentebella
Glaiza de Castro as Mikaela / Mikmik
Supporting cast
Ryan Eigenmann as Dalton Dimaano
Yul Servo as Jerome Macapagal
Ces Quesada as Simang Kapitolyo
Rich Asuncion as Josephin Abesamis
Gwen Zamora as Iris
Neil Ryan Sese as Eric Fuentebella
Barbara Miguel as Darling
Sweet Ramos as Barbie Tamondong
Scarlet as Mrs. Mylene Tamondong
Guest cast
Jaya as Susie
Orlando Sol as Egay
Ken Chan as Popoy
Kiel Rodriguez as Miko
Patricia Ysmael as Beverly
Kim Rodriguez as Gwen
Hiro Magalona as Teofi
Jamaika Olivarez as Kleng Kleng
Nomer Limatog Jr. as Miguelito
Tanya Gomez as Krising
Mary Roldan as Cecile
Myra Carel as Bevs
Moi Scarlet as Mrs. Tamondong
Claudine Barretto as Carmela Abesamis
Jillian Ward as Louie May Imperial
Glenda Garcia as Marissa Marcelino
Rachelle Ann Go as Lara
Miguel Tanfelix as teen Andrei
Romano Vasquez as Lito
Bubbles Paraiso as herself
Gerald Pizzaras as Paco Arcega
Jan Marini as Mariel Arcega
Ernie Garcia as Mauro Fuentebella
Evangeline Pascual as Olivia Fuentebella
Bettina Carlos as Clarissa
Chinggay Riego as Darling's mother
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Biritera earned a 24.8% rating. While the final episode scored a 29.9% rating.
References
2012 Philippine television series debuts
2012 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine musical television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal%20Wave%20Records | Minimal Wave Records is a New York City-based independent record label founded by Veronica Vasicka in 2005. The label was launched "to create a network for synth wave enthusiasts and promote 80s electronic music via an online archive and vinyl releases. The label specializes in high-quality vinyl pressings of minimal synth and new wave artists worldwide."
Vasicka also curates Minimal Wave, a weekly Internet radio show broadcast on East Village Radio, for which she was the original director of programming. The weekly show was founded as Minimal-Electronik Plus, and was later renamed. Through vanity Web searches, artists discovered that selections from their cassette-only releases had been played on the show. Vasicka invited them to send her more music, and this led to the creation of the Minimal Wave label, as well as the sublabel Cititrax for newer material and house music.
Bibliography
Jed Lipinski, "Electronic Music's Own Archaeologist", New York Times, April 11, 2012.
References
American record labels
Record labels established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Idol%20%28season%2012%29 | The twelfth season of American Idol premiered on January 16, 2013, as part of the mid-season of the 2012–13 network television season. Ryan Seacrest returned as host. Randy Jackson returned for his twelfth season as judge and was joined by new judges Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, and Keith Urban, who replaced Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler.
On May 16, 2013, Candice Glover was crowned the winner, defeating Kree Harrison, who was the runner-up. In a series first, Glover's debut album, Music Speaks, was available for preorder immediately following the finale broadcast. Both Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj left after this season, having only served on the judges panel for one season, to focus on their music careers.
Changes from previous seasons
After a sharp drop in ratings during the eleventh season, Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly announced that the show would undergo "some creative tweaking" for the following season. After two seasons, judges Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler announced their exits from the series on July 12 and 13, 2012, respectively. On July 23, Mariah Carey was announced as a judge for the twelfth season. On September 16, returning judge Randy Jackson and new hires Nicki Minaj and Keith Urban were confirmed to also serve on the judges panel. On December 31, 2012, it was announced that Ryan Seacrest had signed on to remain the host for at least two more seasons.
Producer Nigel Lythgoe indicated on January 9, 2013, that during the Hollywood rounds, the men and women would perform on separate weeks, and be matched in equal number right up until the top 10 live shows. He also announced that there would be no Wild Cards. Instead, he instituted a brand new "sudden death" round in which the top 40 had to perform in front of a live audience, and then the judges would choose five out of the ten contestants per show to proceed to the top 20. The number of finalists was limited to ten for the first time since the first season.
This season also introduced the "SuperVote," where viewers were able to cast fifty votes at once online or through the new American Idol app, in addition to the regular voting methods. Voters were able to allocate any number of votes to one contestant or multiple contestants, for a total of fifty votes, across all online voting destinations.
This season also showcased an "Idol Update" segment by bringing back many American Idol alumni to perform or appear as guests in the audience. Alumni performers included Kelly Clarkson, Clay Aiken, Fantasia, Jennifer Hudson, Carrie Underwood, Katharine McPhee, Jordin Sparks, David Cook, Adam Lambert, Lee DeWyze, Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Phillip Phillips, Colton Dixon, and Jessica Sanchez.
Regional auditions
In an attempt to refresh the show's audition process, new means to audition were announced. First was the "American Idol Small Town Audition Bus Tour": a ten-town nationwide tour that gave hopefuls who couldn't make it to one of the large audition cities a cha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20DynamoDB | Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed proprietary NoSQL database offered by Amazon.com as part of the Amazon Web Services portfolio. DynamoDB offers a fast persistent Key-Value Datastore with built-in support for replication, autoscaling, encryption at rest, and on-demand backup among other features.
Background
Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon.com, provided a motivation for the project in his 2012 announcement. Amazon began as a decentralized network of services. Originally, services had direct access to each other's databases. When this became a bottleneck on engineering operations, services moved away from this direct access pattern in favor of public-facing APIs. Still, third-party relational database management systems struggled to handle Amazon's client base. This culminated during the 2004 holiday season, when several technologies failed under high traffic.
Engineers were normalizing these relational systems to reduce data redundancy, a design that optimizes for storage. The sacrifice: they stored a given "item" of data (e.g., the information pertaining to a product in a product database) over several relations, and it takes time to assemble disjoint parts for a query. Many of Amazon's services demanded mostly primary-key reads on their data, and with speed a top priority, putting these pieces together was extremely taxing.
Content with compromising storage efficiency, Amazon's response was Dynamo: a highly available key–value store built for internal use. Dynamo, it seemed, was everything their engineers needed, but adoption lagged. Amazon's developers opted for "just works" design patterns with S3 and SimpleDB. While these systems had noticeable design flaws, they did not demand the overhead of provisioning hardware and scaling and re-partitioning data. Amazon's next iteration of NoSQL technology, DynamoDB, automated these database management operations.
Overview
In DynamoDB, data is stored in Tables as items, and can be queried using indices. Items consist of a number of attributes which can belong to a number of data types, and are required to have a Key that is expected to be unique across the Table.
DynamoDB Tables
A DynamoDB Table is a logical grouping of items, which represent the data stored in this Table. Given the NoSQL nature of DynamoDB, the Tables do not require that all items in a Table conform to some predefined schema.
DynamoDB Items
An Item in a DynamoDB is a set of attributes that can be uniquely identified in a Table. An Attribute is an atomic data entity that in itself is a Key-Value pair. The Key is always of String type, while the value can be of one of multiple data types.
An Item is uniquely identified in a Table using a subset of its attributes called Keys.
Keys In DynamoDB
A Primary Key is a set of attributes that uniquely identifies items in a DynamoDB Table. Creation of a DynamoDB Table requires definition of a Primary Key. Each item in a DynamoDB Table is required to have all of the attributes that const |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/360networks | 360networks, Inc. was a Canadian-based wholesale telecommunications carrier. The company developed many long-haul fiber optic communications network routes throughout North America, many along railroad rights of way, consisting of both dark fiber and lit fiber. These long-haul routes included Chicago to New Orleans, Chicago to Denver, Chicago to Detroit, Chicago to New York, Seattle to Los Angeles, and Denver to San Francisco. In 2011, the company was acquired by Zayo Group.
History
The company was founded as Pacific Fiber Link, L.L.C. on February 5, 1998 as a subsidiary of Ledcor Industries of Canada, a member of the Ledcor Group of Companies, owned by the Lede family. It commenced business operations on May 31, 1998.
As the fiber optic telecommunications industry boomed, one of the greatest impediments to rapid growth for the telecoms was the acquisition of the rights of way within which to lay the fiber optic cables. The Ledes came up with a solution to this problem and negotiated a deal with the Canadian National Railway to install the cable in the railroad's rights of way alongside the tracks. The company made significant contributions to the linear construction industry by inventing and patenting the Railplow, that is mounted on a flatbed railcar and used to rapidly excavate a trench alongside railroad tracks, install conduits used for housing fiber optic cables, then backfilling the trench and completing the construction and installation process within a very short span of time. This technology enabled 360networks to rapidly lay out a North American fiber optic network throughout Canada and the United States along and within numerous railroad rights of way. The patent for the Railplow was transferred to a subsidiary of the two companies and 360networks received a royalty-free, exclusive license for the use of the Railplow, giving it a significant advantage over some of its competitors that also utilized rail corridors.
Initially, the company focused on building a fiber optic route from Seattle to Sacramento. In 1999, it changed its name to Worldwide Fiber Networks, Inc. and its focus toward a global network.
In 2000, the company changed its name to 360networks Inc., and its United States entity to 360networks (USA)inc., to better describe its 360-degree focus on a global network. It hired Greg Maffei, the former chief financial officer of Microsoft, as its new chief executive officer of the company and received private equity investments from Michael Dell, Nathan Myhrvold, Liberty Media, and News Corp. During the dot-com bubble, on January 2, 2000, the company undertook its initial public offering, raising C$2.4 billion (US$1.45 billion) and giving the company a market capitalization of C$20.6 billion. and its stock was traded on the NASDAQ in the United States under the ticker TSIX, and on the Toronto Stock Exchange in Canada under the ticker, TSX.
In May 2000, the company acquired 1 million square feet of space to house computer n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Stem%20Cell%20Foundation | The Irish Stem Cell Foundation is Ireland's National Stem Cell Research Organisation. A Member of the International Consortium of Stem Cell Networks, the foundation is committed to the pursuit of international cooperation, collaboration and excellence in the stem cell field.
Background
The Irish Stem Cell Foundation is a non-profit organization. It was established in Dublin in October 2009, and is composed of doctors, researchers, patient advocates, science communicators, solicitors, teachers and students.
The foundation's objectives are described as:
Accelerate Stem Cell Research to cure major illnesses and injury.
Provide a focus on education in all areas of stem cell research and therapy.
Establish a forum to promote, foster and exchange accurate information on the progress of stem cell research to all interested parties.
It also seeks to have appropriate legislation and improve current governance to make Irish Medical Research more competitive internationally and to educate and thus reduce risk to the Irish patient.
The Chief Scientific Officer of the Foundation is Dr Stephen Sullivan
The Chief Medical Officer of the Foundation is Professor Orla Hardiman.
The foundation has engaged the international and domestic media on the topic of stem cell tourism, where patients are scammed by unregulated clinics making medically and scientifically unsubstantiated claims to patients over the internet. Such experimental protocols endanger patients' lives and harm the reputation of legitimate stem cell research and clinical trials (which are tightly regulated).
The foundation agrees with the Irish Council Of Bioethics and the Irish Committee for Assisted Human Reproduction that Irish stem cell research needs a strong, transparent ethical and legislative structure. In 2010, the Foundation issued a public policy document on embryonic stem cell research.
In 2012 the Irish Stem Cell Foundation hosted its second conference, the Irish Stem Cell Summit, in Dublin. The Summit focused on the underdevelopment of Irish policy and law pertaining to stem cells, and the detrimental effect this has on the quality of research in the area, as well as the damage this is doing to public trust, international investment and collaboration.
In 2013, the Foundation led a campaign with other Irish medical research charities to question the wisdom of abolishing Ireland's independent Chief Scientific Adviser. More recently, the Foundation joined with the Wellcome Trust and the Royal Society of Medicine in the UK to urge the European Parliament to maintain funding for European stem cell research.
The Irish Stem Cell Foundation is not affiliated with the lobby group calling itself 'The Adult Stem Cell Foundation of Ireland'. The Irish Stem Cell Foundation supports all types of stem cell research governed by an open and transparent ethics structure. This position is consistent with those formulated by several other Irish groups including The Commission for Assisted Human |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Mind%20Is%20a%20Terrible%20Thing%20to%20Read | A Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Read is a mystery novel written by William Rabkin in January, 2009. It is based on the USA Network television series Psych. It has all of the same characters Shawn Spencer, Burton Guster, Henry Spencer, Juliet O'Hara, Carlton Lassiter, and Karen Vick. The book is the first one of the five-part series written by Rabkin. The book also begins with a flashback to Shawn's childhood where his father, Henry, attempts to train his son to follow in his steps.
Shawn and Gus are approached by an old high-school classmate, Dallas Steele, who wants Shawn to use his psychic skills to predict new investments. However, when the investments all turn out to be busts, Dallas reveals he set the two up to fail, thinking it is worth the loss of millions of dollars just to publicly prove Shawn is a fake. Before he can expose Shawn, however, Dallas is killed by a crazed stalker of Shawn's who insists Shawn sent her a psychic message to kill, forcing Shawn to work to clear his name without giving away his secret.
2009 American novels
Novels based on television series
Psych |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keter%20Torah | Keter Torah (also spelled Keser Torah or Kesser Torah) (, lit., "Crown of Torah") may refer to:
Keser Torah Radomsk – a yeshiva network founded by the fourth Radomsker Rebbe
Kesser Torah College – a Jewish day school in Sydney, Australia
Yeshiva Kesser Torah – a yeshiva and synagogue in Queens, New York
Keter Torah – a commentary on the Torah by Aaron ben Elijah
Keter Torah – a poem by Isaachar Bär ben Judah Carmoly |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conus%20compressus | Conus compressus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Conidae, the cone snails and their allies.
The database WoRMS lists this species only tentatively, as it may be a synonym for a northern form of Conus anemone. As there are conservation implications, a precautionary approach should be taken, and C. compressus is here tentatively listed as a valid species. The real C. compressus has a distribution restricted from Geraldton to Shark Bay, but in recent years the name has been mistakenly applied to a tall-spired form of anemone from South Australia.
Like all cone snail species, these snails are predatory and venomous. They are capable of "stinging" humans, therefore live ones should be handled carefully or not at all.
Description
The size of the shell varies between 25 mm and 67 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Southern Australia.
References
Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de M. 1810. Suite des espèces du genre Cône. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Paris 15: 263-286, 422-442
Sowerby, G.B. 1866. Monograph of the genus Conus. pp. 328-329 in Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. London : Sowerby, G.B. Vol. 3.
Tomlin, J.R. le B. 1937. Catalogue of Recent and Fossil Cones. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 22: 205-333
Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218
Puillandre N., Duda T.F., Meyer C., Olivera B.M. & Bouchet P. (2015). One, four or 100 genera? A new classification of the cone snails. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81: 1-23
External links
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To World Register of Marine Species
Cone Shells - Knights of the Sea
Gastropods of Australia
compressus
Gastropods described in 1866 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ninjago%20episodes | Ninjago (previously known as Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu until 2019) is a computer-animated television series. The show was produced by Wil Film ApS from the pilot episodes until the tenth season and by WildBrain Studios for the last five seasons. It is distributed by The Lego Group. It was created to coincide with the Lego Ninjago construction toys, and centres on the fictional world of Ninjago, telling the story of a group of teenage ninja and their battles against the forces of evil.
The pilot episodes were aired in January 2011, coinciding with the launch of the Lego Ninjago toy line. Their popularity led to the commissioning of the first two full seasons (Rise of the Snakes and Legacy of the Green Ninja), which each consisted of 13 episodes. The first season aired on 2 December 2011. Both the Lego theme and the TV series had an intended shelf life of three years, so it was expected that the second season would be the last. However, after feedback from fans, it was soon revived and it continued for ten more years. In 2017, a film adaptation of the series, The Lego Ninjago Movie, was released. In the eighth season of the show in 2018, the animation software of the show was updated and new character designs and aesthetics were adopted from the film. Despite these aesthetic changes, the eighth season continued the story of the previous seasons instead of the film's rebooted storyline. With the release of the eleventh season in 2019, the show dropped the "Masters of Spinjitzu" subtitle and switched from a 22-minute format to an 11-minute running time. In total, 15 seasons were produced, along with two pilot episodes, several mini movies, a special, a four-episode miniseries, and a theme park movie.
Series overview
Episodes
Pilot episodes (2011)
The pilot episodes exist in 2 versions, a two-episode version, titled "Way of the Ninja" (which combines "Way of the Ninja" and "The Golden Weapon") and "King of Shadows" (which combines "King of Shadows" and "Weapons of Destiny"), respectively, each about 22 minutes long, as well as a four-episode version, each about 11 minutes long, which is listed here. Each region has a different version.
Season 1: Rise of the Snakes (2011–12)
Season 2: Legacy of the Green Ninja (2012)
Season 3: Rebooted (2014)
Season 4: Tournament of Elements (2015)
Season 5: Possession (2015)
Season 6: Skybound (2016)
Special: Day of the Departed (2016)
Season 7: Hands of Time (2017)
Season 8: Sons of Garmadon (2018)
Season 9: Hunted (2018)
Season 10: March of the Oni (2019)
Season 11: Secrets of the Forbidden Spinjitzu (2019–20)
Season 12: Prime Empire (2020)
Season 13: Master of the Mountain (2020)
Miniseries: The Island (2021)
Season 14: Seabound (2021)
Season 15: Crystalized (2022)
Mini movies
Webisodes (2011)
These mini movies were released in 2011 and show the lives of the ninja between the pilot episodes and the first season. They also show how Lord Garmadon was banished to the Underworld and then man |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lui%20Kim-man | Kim Man Lui (雷剑文), also known as Kimman Lui, is an author of software engineering, and financial speculation books. He is the Chief Operations Officer of Marvel Web Services and a lecturer with the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has authored over 20 publications and written content for over 30 journals.
Lui performed an experiment in pair programming which confirmed that "novice–novice pairs against novice solos" show greater productivity gains than "expert–expert pairs against expert solos" (i.e., novices have more to learn that experts). His books challenge the status quo regarding the development of software and financial speculation.
Personal background
Kim Man Lui was born in Hong Kong and studied in Taiwan and South Africa. In 1992, Lui earned his bachelor's degree in engineering from Tamkang University and in 1995, he earned his master's degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2006, he earned his doctorate from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Professional background
Lui is the Chief Operations Officer of Marvel Web Services. He has additionally held a number of IT positions in the commercial sector of Hong Kong and China. He was involved in the setup of a software center that adopts agile development in China. In 2004, he was involved in the open source development of Miranda IM.
From 2006 to 2008, he served as assistant professor at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In 2007, he developed a metasearch engine, in which the results are displayed on a China map.
Lui's research interests include software engineering and finance. He has published five software engineering books, including one focusing on Agile software development. While his books are generally written in Chinese, his book Software Development Rhythms was initially printed in English and later translated for Chinese readers. He provided translation for author Kent Beck and the second edition of his book, Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change.
, Lui latest publication is Truth Among Lies: Positive and Negative Cases of Technical Analysis, which focuses on stock market speculation in China. In this publication, he criticised other Chinese authors about their investment books, stating that they have misled the public in China. His criticism was ill-received and considered unprofessional, due to unspoken agreements not to challenge other authors.
Published works
Books
CMM: Software Development Process Management and Improvement, (CMM: ) Tsinghua University Press, 2002.
Facts and Fictions in Extreme Programming Practices, (Chinese Title: ) Electronics Industry Publishing Company, 2005.
Software Development Rhythms, Wiley-Interscience, 2008.
Software Development Rhythms, (Chinese Title:) (Translated In Chinese by Yangyan et al.) Electronics Industry Publishing Company, 2010.
Truth Among Lies: Positive and Negative Cases of Technical Analysis, (Chinese Title:) China Economic Publishing House, 2012.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta%20Hacker%20Cup | Meta Hacker Cup (formerly known as Facebook Hacker Cup) is an annual international programming competition hosted and administered by Meta Platforms. The competition began in 2011 as a means to identify top engineering talent for potential employment at Meta Platforms. The competition consists of a set of algorithmic problems which must be solved in a fixed amount of time. Competitors may use any programming language and development environment to write their solutions.
Facebook Hacker Cup is part of a circuit of annual international programming contests that included Google Code Jam, Topcoder Open, and the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. It has been featured in articles from Bloomberg and Stack Overflow.
Past winners
The 2020 Hacker Cup Finals and the 2021 Hacker Cup Finals were held in an online format in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Results by country
See also
Google Code Jam
Online judge
Topcoder Open
References
External links
Facebook Hacker Cup
Programming contests
Facebook
2011 establishments
Meta Platforms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emac%20%28disambiguation%29 | Emac, Emacs or similar may refer to:-
eMac, a now-discontinued Macintosh desktop computer made by Apple Inc.
Emergency Management Assistance Compact, a mutual aid agreement between states and territories of the United States, enabling resource sharing during natural and man-made disasters
Extended metal atom chains (EMACs), molecules that consist of a linear string of directly bonded metal atoms, surrounded by organic ligands
Emacs, a family of text editors
EMAC, ethernet media access control
EMAC, Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation, land council for the Eastern Maar people in Victoria, Australia
See also
Emax (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basho%20Technologies | Basho Technologies was a distributed systems' company that developed a key-value NoSQL database technology, Riak, and an object storage system built upon the Riak platform, called Riak CS.
Technology and products
Basho was the developer of Riak, an open source distributed database that offers high availability, fault tolerance, operation simplicity and scalability. Riak Enterprise was a commercial version of the database offered by Basho, the project's sponsor, with advanced multi-data center replication and enterprise support.
Riak is a key value store system that can collect unstructured data and store it as objects in buckets that can then be queried. It's also highly scalable, able to distribute itself over a server cluster and add new servers as needed, while maintaining its own high availability. Riak is written in Erlang, a language that gives a system built-in support for distribution across a server cluster, fault tolerance, and an ability to absorb new hardware being added to the cluster without disrupting operations.
Following the demise of Basho, the company assets were purchased by Bet365 and previously closed source components such as riak_repl (multi-data-centre replication) were released as open-source on github.com.
Basho also offered Riak Cloud Storage (CS), an open source multi-tenant cloud storage database, built on the Riak platform, which integrated with private clouds and public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). It can be used by enterprises to power internal private clouds and by startups with an Amazon-compatible API for their own download service. Riak CS includes large object support, S3-compatible API and authentication, multi-tenancy and per-user reporting, an operational model for adding capacity, and a visual interface for monitoring and metrics.
Releases and updates
Riak 1.0 was released in September 2011 and featured secondary indexes, Riak Pipe, Riak Search integration, Lager, and LevelDB support. Riak 1.1 was released in early 2012 and included numerous changes to Riak Core, a new ownership claim algorithm, Riak KV improvements and MapReduce improvements. In August 2012, Riak 1.2 was released. Riak Enterprise 1.2 added SSL encryption, better balancing and more granular control of replication across multiple data centers.
In March 2013, Basho released portions of Riak CS code as open source. Basho also announced the commercial version of Riak CS Enterprise, adding multi-datacenter replication, monitoring tools, and 24x7 support. Riak 1.4 featured PN-Counters, which was the database's first distributed data type, PN-Counters are eventually consistent and can be incremented and decremented on any node across the cluster. It has a compact binary data format that reduces storage overheads connected with small objects or large bucket names. Riak CS 1.4 provides compatibility with OpenStack, OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) and Ceph object stores with increased scalability. Riak 2.0 was released in Sept |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace.gr | Hackerspace.gr ('hsgr') is a hackerspace in Athens, Greece, established in 2011. It operates as a cultural center, computer laboratory and meeting place (with free wireless access). Hackerspace.gr promotes creative coding and hardware hacking through its variety of activities. According to its website: "Hackerspace.gr is a physical space dedicated to creative code and hardware hacking, in Athens".
Vision
Hackerspace.gr vision is inspired by the Open Source philosophy. The main values, according to its vision page, are Excellence, Sharing, Consensus, and Do-ocracy. It is a self-funded community, through a membership fee, individual donations and supporters. Every year Hackerspace.gr publishes its annual financial balance titled "The cost of Hacking".
Events
It organizes workshops, lectures, entertainment and informational events. The events calendar lists several events weekly. Furthermore, hackerspace.gr is open for visitors as long as any of the administrators are in the premises.
Projects
Hackerspace.gr is an incubator place for many projects. Currently there is an OpenROV Taskforce on Hackerspace.gr. Verese community, a project participating on Mozilla WebFWD, is hosting its regular meetings at Hackerspace.gr. Ardupad was also incubated at Hackerspace.gr. A USB drop is located in the central area of the hackerspace. A custom open hardware delta 3D printer design, Anadelta is developed to cover its members need for a large 3D printer.
Services
Hackerspace provides several online services to its members, visitors, and the general public. In particular some of its members are running an instance of the etherpad lite collaborative editor, a diaspora pod and a Jabber/XMPP service.
Mobile Hackerspace
Hackerspace.gr usually deploys its geodesic dome in order to establish a mobile hackerspace when a large number of its members participate in events and venues that are away from its physical location providing tools, equipment and free of charge services for attendees.
Libre Space Foundation
hackerspace.gr is utilized as the headquarters of Libre Space Foundation, an open space technologies non-profit, as its laboratory and main working space. Libre Space Foundation shares its testing and manufacturing equipment with hackerspace.gr's users and visitors.
Libre Space Foundation has deployed its first SatNOGS ground station on the rooftop of hackerspace.gr and has used its machine, and electronics facilities for the manufacture, integration and initial testing of UPSat the first open source satellite, and also the first satellite made in Greece.
References
External links
Hackerspaces
Cultural centers
Culture in Athens
Computer clubs in Greece
DIY culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20Wireless%20Mesh%20Protocol | The Hybrid Wireless Mesh Protocol (HWMP), part of IEEE 802.11s, is a basic routing protocol for a wireless mesh network. It is based on AODV (RFC 3561) and tree-based routing. It relies on a Peer Link Management protocol by which each Mesh Point discovers and tracks neighboring nodes. If any of these are connected to a wired backhaul, there is no need for HWMP, which selects paths from those assembled by compiling all mesh point peers into one composite map.
The HWMP protocol is hybrid, because it consists of a proactive tree-based hierarchical routing protocol, and an on-demand logic, based on the Ad-hoc On Demand Vector protocol (AODV). In contradiction with classic IP based (ISO level 3) routing, the HWMP protocol is based on ISO level 2 (based on MAC addresses).
HWMP is intended to displace proprietary protocols used by vendors like Meraki for the same purpose, permitting peer participation by open source router firmware. The open source implementation of 802.11s (open80211s) has been integrated to the Linux kernel by Cozybit Inc. FreeBSD supports HWMP starting with FreeBSD 8.0.
References
IEEE 802.11
Network protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20radio%20stations%20in%20Baja%20California | This is a list of the radio stations in Baja California, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, location, ownership, names, and programming formats. Pirate radio stations have not been included in the list.
Notes
References
Baja California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensembl%20Genomes | Ensembl Genomes is a scientific project to provide genome-scale data from non-vertebrate species.
The project is run by the European Bioinformatics Institute, and was launched in 2009 using the Ensembl technology. The main objective of the Ensembl Genomes database is to complement the main Ensembl
database by introducing five additional web pages to include genome data for bacteria, fungi, invertebrate metazoa, plants, and protists. For each of the domains, the Ensembl tools are available for manipulation, analysis and visualization of genome data. Most Ensembl Genomes data is stored in MySQL relational databases and can be accessed by the Ensembl REST interface, the Perl API, Biomart or online.
Ensembl Genomes is an open project, and most of the code, tools, and data are available to the public. Ensembl and Ensembl Genomes software uses an Apache 2.0 license license.
Displaying genomic data
The key feature of Ensembl Genomes is its graphical interface, which allows users to scroll through a genome and observe the relative location of features such as conceptual annotation (e.g. genes, SNP loci), sequence patterns (e.g. repeats) and experimental data (e.g. sequences and external sequence features mapped onto the genome). Graphical views are available for varying levels of resolution from an entire karyotype, down to the sequence of a single exon. Information for a genome is spread over four tabs, a species page, a ‘Location’ tab, a ‘Gene’ tab and a ‘Transcript’ tab, each providing information at a higher resolution.
Searching for a particular species using Ensembl Genomes redirects to the species page. Often, a brief description of the species is provided, as well as links to further information and statistics about the genome, the graphical interface and some of the tools available.
A karyotype is available for some species in Ensembl Genomes. If the karyotype is available there will be a link to it in the Gene Assembly section of the species page. Alternatively if users are in the ‘Location’ tab they can also view the karyotype by selecting ‘Whole genome’ in the left-hand menu. Users can click on a location within the karyotype to zoom in to one specific chromosome or a genomic region. This will open the ‘Location’ Tab.
In the 'Location' tab, users can browse genes, variations, sequence conservation, and other types of annotation along the genome. The 'Region in detail' is highly configurable and scalable, and users can choose what they want to see by clicking on the 'Configure this page' button at the bottom of the left-hand menu. By adding and removing tracks users will be able to select the type of data they want to have included in the displays. Data from the following categories can be easily added or removed from this 'Location' tab view: 'Sequence and assembly', 'Genes and transcripts', 'mRNA and protein alignments', 'Other DNA alignments', 'Germline variation', 'Comparative genomics', among others. Users can also change the disp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AH12 | Asian Highway 12 (AH12) is a route of the Asian Highway Network, with a length of 1,195 km (747 miles) that runs from AH3 in Nateuy, Laos, through Muang Xay, Luang Prabang, Vang Vieng, Vientiane, Nong Khai, Udon Thani, Khon Kaen, Nakhon Ratchasima, and Saraburi until its terminus at AH1 in Nong Khae District, Saraburi Province, Thailand.
The highway has been in use since 8 April 1994. Its US$30 million cost was financed by Laos and Thailand, apart from the First Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge, funded by the Australian government as development aid for Laos.
Sections
Laos
: Nateuy–Vientiane
Route 450: Vientiane–Thanaleng (Vientiane Prefecture), First Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge
Thailand
(Mittraphap Road): Nong Khai–Saraburi
(Phahonyothin Road): Saraburi–Hin Kong, Nong Khae District
References
Roads in Laos
Highways in Thailand
Asian Highway Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitocracy | Fitocracy is an online game and social network that aims to use gamification to help users improve their fitness. It has received coverage from mainstream media sources.
History
Fitocracy was founded by Dick Talens and Brian Wang. Both were self-described computer nerds who had succeeded in improving their own fitness and decided that game mechanics could help others to do the same.
Fitocracy launched in February 2011, using an invite system to control new user signups. Invite codes were initially distributed through sites such as Reddit.
In November 2011, the site introduced advertising, along with a paid option, known as Fitocracy Hero, which was ad-free and offered additional features. By then, Fitocracy claimed to have 120,000 users and a waiting list of a further 120,000.
In January 2012, Fitocracy began a partnership with Red Bull in which the site would be used to host the Red Bull Fitness Challenge.
By the end of January 2012, Fitocracy claimed a user base of 230,000 registered members.
In March 2012, Fitocracy launched an app for iOS devices.
In January 2013, Fitocracy launched an app for Android.
In March 2013, Fitocracy reached one million users and announced a collaboration with Arnold Schwarzenegger, which challenges users to exercise for 15 minutes per day.
In August 2014, Fitocracy was listed as one of Time Best Websites of 2014.
Fitocracy was acquired in 2016 by an unnamed buyer.
In October 2017 it was announced that Fitocracy had reached 12.5 million active users.
Game
Fitocracy users log their exercise activity by selecting from a collection of activities such as weight lifting or running and entering details such as weight lifted or distance run. Points are awarded based on the estimated fitness benefit of each activity. Users must reach points thresholds in order to level up.
Quests and achievements
The site presents users with quests to perform for additional points, typically consisting of a set of related activities. Particularly significant fitness milestones are recognized with achievement badges.
Social networking
In addition to the game, Fitocracy also provides a social network which enables users to follow other users, view and comment on their workouts and join groups for specific interests.
Reception
Fitocracy was initially covered by technology and gaming focused media, such as TechCrunch, Slate, Lifehacker, Kotaku, and Destructoid. As it grew, it was covered by more mainstream media, including Popular Mechanics, The New York Observer, CNN, The New York Times and The Globe and Mail.
2012 Shorty Awards
Fitocracy was nominated in the 2012 Shorty Awards. Although it received the most votes in its category, Social Fitness, it was not selected as the winner by the judges.
References
External links
American social networking websites
Gamification |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%282012%29 | Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in 2012, by order of first appearance. The 25th season of Home and Away began airing from 23 January 2012. Until mid-April, characters are introduced by the soap's executive producer, Cameron Welsh. Thereafter, they are introduced by his successor, Lucy Addario. January also saw Peter Phelps debut as Alan Henderson. Henrietta Brown arrived in February, while Christy Clarke began appearing from March. Melissa Gregg and Lottie Ryan made their first appearances in April. Jett James, Natalie Davison and Danny Braxton made their debuts in May. Kyle Bennett and Tim Graham arrived in August, while Tamara Kingsley, Lisa Flemming, Adam Sharpe and his son, Jamie Sharpe, began appearing from October.
Alan Henderson
Alan Henderson, played by Peter Phelps, made his first on screen appearance on 23 January 2012. The character and casting was announced on 22 December 2011. Alan is the father of Stu Henderson (Brenton Thwaites). Phelps was reunited with Robert Mammone (Sid Walker), who he previously worked with on Stingers. Mammone said "Peter and I have known each other for 20 years. It's like a school reunion when you work with actors that you've worked with before for a long time. It's been lots of fun."
Alan is visiting his son in the hospital, when he runs into Sid Walker, the man who beat Stu up for physically abusing his daughter. Alan confronts Sid and threatens to beat him up. Sid apologises and tells Alan that there has been too much violence already. Alan agrees and walks away. Alan later confronts Sasha Bezmel (Demi Harman) about sending naked pictures to boys and her accusations against Stu. Sid drags Alan away and they have a physical confrontation. Alan comes to the Walker's home and offers Sid a deal; drop the charges against Stu or have the police arrest him for assaulting him at the hospital. Alan later catches Stu with Sasha and he hits his son. When Stu is found dead, Alan is questioned by the police over his behaviour towards his son. Alan tells them to ask Dexter Walker (Charles Cottier) and Xavier Austin (David Jones-Roberts) about Stu, as they were looking for him shortly before he died. Alan and his wife Margaret (Susan Prior) attend a memorial service for Stu at the school. Alan goes to Angelo's for a drink and he collapses in front on Sid. Alan is taken to the hospital and Sid gets his heart restarted. Alan tells Dexter that he has regrets and later takes back his complaint against Sid, allowing him to get his job back. Alan collapses again and is brought into the hospital. Sid believes Alan's medication may be wrong and gains permission from him to go to his house and look at it. Sid later realises Margaret has been poisoning Alan and she is arrested. When Alan learns of the news he decides to leave the hospital and knocks over a nurse when she tries to stop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarthCam | EarthCam, Inc., based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, United States, provides webcam content, technology and services. Founded in 1996, EarthCam.com is a network of scenic webcams offering a complete searchable database of views of places around the world.
As the company grew, EarthCam expanded beyond building its network of tourism cameras and extended its reach into other industries by developing and delivering technology for many applications in verticals including construction, transportation, and surveillance. Expanding beyond the pages of its main site, EarthCam.com, EarthCam's network of websites has grown to include WebCamStore.com, EarthCamMobile.com, and most notably EarthCam.net, a site for businesses and organizations to purchase webcams and EarthCam's proprietary software to manage their camera networks. Mobile applications for accessing EarthCam's live webcams and for clients to control their private cameras are available for Apple Inc. or Android (operating system) devices.
EarthCam and other live webcam services have a huge impact on entertainment and business, allowing for online "travel," meetings, and easy access to knowledge. Virtual travel also became possible with webcams located at major worldwide tourist attractions such as London's Abbey Road, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach, Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles and the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign".
History
Brian Cury, CEO and founder of EarthCam, Inc., launched EarthCam.com in 1996 to build a network of webcams offering views of destinations throughout the world.
In 1999 it was claimed 20 people per day were adding their webcams to the website. By 2006 the website was a Webby Award Winner in the Tourism category. It is viewed by fans in 192 countries and ranks among the top 1% of all websites, according to Alexa.com.
One of the first highly publicised events that EarthCam produced, labelled "Webcast of the Century", featured celebrations from around the world at the turn of the new millennium on New Year's Eve 1999 / New Year's Day 2000. 100 cameras were located across the world, taking pictures every 30 seconds, viewed using an interactive world map on EarthCam.com.
In October 2011 EarthCam built and installed the 'TorchCams', custom camera systems that generate live video and widescreen images, giving visitors panoramic views from the Statue of Liberty torch, the location that has been closed to the public since 1916. The five cameras were donated to the National Park Service by EarthCam, Inc.
In May 2015, EarthCam announced that it had chosen Davis Brody Bond - Architect of the 9/11 Memorial Museum - to design its new 10-acre campus in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
To ring in the new year in 2017, EarthCam installed 4K live streaming video cameras in Times Square in order to broadcast the first-ever 4K stream of the Times Square celebration live on YouTube. Through the years, EarthCam’s streaming video quality has evolv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo%20Network | The Nintendo Network is Nintendo's online service which provides online functionality for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U systems and their compatible games. Announced on January 26, 2012, at an investors' conference, it is Nintendo's second online service after Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Former president of Nintendo Satoru Iwata said, "Unlike Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection, which has been focused upon specific functionalities and concepts, we are aiming to establish a platform where various services available through the network for our consumers shall be connected via Nintendo Network service so that the company can make comprehensive proposals to consumers."
On October 4, 2023, Nintendo announced the discontinuation of the service by early April 2024.
The Nintendo Switch only uses the subscription-based Nintendo Switch Online service instead of using Nintendo Network as its online platform, although active Nintendo Network IDs could still be linked to the Nintendo Switch via Nintendo Accounts.
History
Pre-announcement
On January 20, 2012, an image of Theatrhythm Final Fantasys box art was released showing a "Nintendo Network" icon in the corner of the box. It was speculated that "Nintendo Network" was a rebranding of the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
Announcement
Nintendo officially announced Nintendo Network on January 26, 2012. Nintendo stated that Nintendo Network will be an entirely new unified network system as opposed to a rebranding of Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. Nintendo stated that the Nintendo Network will provide the infrastructure for online multiplayer (through universal friend codes on the Nintendo 3DS and a user account system on the Wii U), SpotPass, and the Nintendo eShop. During the Pre-E3 Nintendo Direct, Nintendo clarified that Nintendo Network would be the basis for Nintendo's new social network known as Miiverse. Nintendo Network will provide the network infrastructure for the Nintendo 3DS, for the Wii U, and was initially planned for future Nintendo platforms.
Discontinuation
On October 4, 2023, Nintendo announced the discontinuation of the Nintendo Network service for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS by April 2024, which will shutdown online play features and SpotPass. Some online services, such as Pokémon Bank and Poké Transporter and third-party games not using Nintendo Network will continue to function though may also end in the future.
Certain features including Miiverse, Wii U Chat, and Nintendo TVii (Japan only) previously shutdown on November 7, 2017, and the Nintendo eShop for these systems closed on March 27, 2023. However, it is possible to still redownload previously purchased content from the Nintendo eShop until further notice.
Notes
NNID on 3DS – support for Nintendo eShop free downloads and Miiverse (sign-up/login only)
Swapnote/Nintendo Letter Box – currently used for local messaging only since SpotPass was disabled for the app globally as of October 31, 2013. As of November 2016, the app was succeeded by Sw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MundoMax | MundoMax (; originally known as MundoFox from August 13, 2012 to July 28, 2015) was an American Spanish-language terrestrial television network that was owned by RCN Televisión. The network broadcast programs aimed at Hispanic and Latino American audiences throughout the United States – featuring a mix of telenovelas and other serialized dramas, reality television series, game shows, and feature films (both Spanish-dubbed versions of American films and imported films produced in Spanish-speaking countries).
Headquartered in Los Angeles, MundoMax had been headed since its inception in its pre-July 2015 existence as a joint venture between RCN and U.S.-based Fox Entertainment Group (which originally operated the network through its Fox International Channels division) by network president Jose Molina.
History
As MundoFox
MundoMax traces its origins to the announcement by Fox International Channels and RCN Televisión that the two companies would jointly launch a new Spanish language television network in the United States under the MundoFox brand on January 23, 2012. Hernán López, president and CEO of Fox International Channels, said that the network would cater to "an increasing demand for quality Spanish-language content in the U.S. from both viewers and advertisers." According to 2010 United States Census data, among the 309 million people living in the U.S., 50 million of them were of some form of Hispanic and Latino heritage (totaling 16% of the total population); advertising revenue from the Hispanic/Latino market made up $3.6 billion of the $80 billion (or 4.5% of all ad revenue) in the total domestic market in 2011. López noted that the Fox Broadcasting Company saw "similar dynamics in play" when News Corporation (the corporate parent of Fox International Channels at the time of the announcement) launched the network in October 1986 against established English language networks ABC, NBC and CBS; MundoFox, he added, would seek to replicate Fox's early years while launching against established Spanish language networks Univision, Telemundo, and TeleFutura.
MundoFox commenced programming with a soft launch on some of its charter affiliates on August 1, 2012; the network's formal launch occurred twelve days later on August 13. Until it rebranding as MundoMax, MundoFox was headquartered with 21st Century Fox's other U.S. television operations in Los Angeles, California.
Relaunch as MundoMax
On July 16, 2015, 21st Century Fox announced that it had sold its stake in MundoFox to RCN Televisión, giving the Colombian private broadcaster full ownership of the network. Fox International Channels president Herman Lopez stated that the company was "proud of having started MundoFox with RCN and are confident that they will realize all of the potential of the network."
On July 28, 2015, RCN announced that it would rebrand the network as MundoMax effective that day; the name change and new imaging package was fully implemented on-air two weeks later o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SANM | SANM may refer to:
Storage area network management
CA Spectrum Alarm Notification Manager |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BYKdb | The Bacterial protein tyrosine-kinase database (BYKdb) is a specialized database of computer-annotated bacterial tyrosine-kinases that share no resemblance with their eukaryotic counterparts.
See also
Tyrosine-kinases
References
External links
http://bykdb.ibcp.fr
Biological databases
Protein kinases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comedy%20Central%20%28Indian%20TV%20channel%29 | Comedy Central is an Indian pay television channel owned by Viacom18. The channel is geared for mature audiences and carries comedy programming in the form of both original and syndicated series, as well as stand-up comedy specials.
Despite the name, it mainly airs series from Warner Bros. Television while Comedy Central originals are rarely aired. It also continues to use the 2011 logo of Comedy Central.
History
Comedy Central launched in India on 23 January 2012, the product of a joint venture between Viacom and TV18. To promote the then new channel and nudge viewers its way the group organised a live event featuring British comedian Russell Brand who performed in a three-city tour of New Delhi, Bangalore, and Mumbai, the biggest markets for English programming in India.
The channel was rebranded in 2015 with a new look, exclusively made for the Indian version of Comedy Central and a new slogan.
Comedy Central HD
Comedy Central HD was launched on 1 July 2015 to provide the 1080i HDTV simultaneous feed
Broadcast ban
Comedy Central was prohibited from broadcasting in India for 10 days, from 25 May until 4 June 2012, after an inter-ministerial committee (IMC) set up by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting found that two of its shows that aired in 2012, carried "obscene dialogues and vulgar words" that "offend good taste", violating several provisions of the Cable Television Networks Rules, 1994. The provisions of the law include "no programme should be carried in the cable service which offends against good taste or decency; no programme should be carried which contains anything obscene, defamatory, deliberate, false and suggestive innuendos and half truths". It also states that "no programme should be carried which denigrates women through the depiction in any manner of the figure of woman, her form or body or any part thereof in such a way as to have the effect of being indecent or derogatory to women or is likely to injure the public morality". The incidents in question involved an episode of Stand Up Club where an unnamed stand-up performed an act with "obscene dialogues and vulgar words derogatory to women" aired on 26 May 2012, and an episode of the French hidden camera prank show PopCorn TV aired on 4 July 2012, where one of the crew members was shown standing opposite a wall, in a shop holding a pair of fake legs against his thighs in his hands and making suggestive movements similar to having sex. Comedy Central apologised for the broadcast, blaming it on an "unintentional genuine error".
The network appealed the ban in the Delhi High Court, but a single judge bench upheld the ban stating that the penalty prohibiting the broadcast of the channel for 10 days could not be considered as "excessive, harsh or unreasonable".
Viewers were presented with a simple black screen for the duration of the ban. The ministry's decision to directly issue a show-cause notice and, later, order a blackout raised serious concern in the Indian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20research%20networking%20tools%20and%20research%20profiling%20systems | Research networking (RN) is about using tools to identify, locate and use research and scholarly information about people and resources. Research networking tools (RN tools) serve as knowledge management systems for the research enterprise. RN tools connect institution-level/enterprise systems, national research networks, publicly available research data (e.g., grants and publications), and restricted/proprietary data by harvesting information from disparate sources into compiled profiles for faculty, investigators, scholars, clinicians, community partners and facilities. RN tools facilitate collaboration and team science to address research challenges through the rapid discovery and recommendation of researchers, expertise and resources.
RN tools differ from search engines like Google in that RN tools access information in databases and other data not limited to web pages. They also differ from social networking systems in that they represent a compendium of data ingested from authoritative and verifiable sources rather than predominantly individually-posted information, making RN tools more reliable. Yet, RN tools have sufficient flexibility to allow for profile editing. RN tools provide resources to bolster human connections: they can make non-intuitive matches, do not depend on serendipity and do not have a propensity to return only to previously identified collaborations/collaborators. RN tools generally have associated analytical capabilities that enable evaluation of collaboration and cross-disciplinary research/scholarly activity, especially over time.
RN tools and research profiling systems can help researchers gain recognition. Active promotion of scholarship is an aspect of the publication cycle. Commercial and non-profit services help researchers increase visibility and recognition. Digital researcher services enhance discoverability, shareability and citability of scholarship. According to Shanks and Arlitsch, digital researcher services fall into three categories:
Author/Researcher Identification—these services provide infrastructure that may be used in the other two categories, such as unique identifiers and name disambiguation.
Academic and Professional Networking—most succinctly described as “social networking for academics,” these services focus on connecting users based on research interest, affiliation, geography or other variables.
Reference and Citation Management—these tools and services include some of the functionality and features of other categories, although their primary focus is on management of citations that a researcher compiles for use within a publication or for sharing with other researchers.
Importantly, data harvested into RN tools can be repurposed, especially if available as Linked Open Data (RDF triples). These RN tools enhance research support activities by providing data for customized, web pages, CV/biosketch generation and data tables for grant proposals.
General
Data sources, ingest and exp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality%20Fighters | Reality Fighters is a PlayStation Vita augmented reality video game developed by Novarama, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment.
Reality Fighters is a fighting game in which players can take photos of themselves and, using the game's editing tools, become a video game character. The game boasts over eight trillion unique fighter combinations, which can be used in solo and online play. Reality Fighters is a PlayStation Vita launch title.
Gameplay
The gameplay of Reality Fighters takes the classic fighting game mechanics and brings them to a wider, more mainstream focus.
To begin with, the player takes a photo of the face using the front or rear camera. Using face detection technology, the game can then recreate a character with the player's likeness. The game lets players choose the character's gender and body shape, and wear over 400 pieces of clothing. The game also allows players to choose among 15 fighting styles and over 50 weapons. Fighting styles, weapons and clothes choice affect gameplay, by unlocking new combos or modifying the damage or armor of specific body parts. For example, a helmet will better protect the head, and a pair of boots will boost kicking ability.
Reality Fighters offers two control settings. In one, the game can be played via buttons alone, with a classic control method. In the other, the game can be played via front and rear touch, which allow the player to perform all combos in a more accessible way. There are six different game modes, namely Story Mode, Survivor, Quick Fight, Time Attack, Online versus, and Boss mode. The game also supports social features of the PS Vita like online leaderboards, friend lists, or NEAR. Players can pose and take photos of their characters.
The battle interface shows a portrait of the fighter accompanied by the character's healthbar. Under the healthbar is the character's "EX Meter". When this meter is completely blue, the player can use a certain special move with the triangle button. When it is orange, the same thing happens, but this time, the player can use an even stronger move with the circle button.
See also
Invizimals, a PlayStation Portable video game by Novarama which also uses Augmented Reality.
The Eye of Judgment, a PlayStation 3 video trading card game which uses the PlayStation Eye for similar augmented reality effects.
Start the Party!, a PlayStation 3 party game using the PlayStation Move and Eye for augmented reality mini-games.
Photo Dojo, a fighting game for the Nintendo DSi with a similar concept.
References
External links
Reality Fighters Japanese trailer
Official website
2012 video games
Augmented reality games
Fighting games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Novarama games
PlayStation Vita games
PlayStation Vita-only games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Video games developed in Spain
Video games with gender-selectable protagonists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBilib | iBilib is a Philippine television informative show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Chris Tiu and Moymoy Palaboy, it premiered on January 29, 2012.
Premise
The show features scientific experiments and showcases scientific facts and theories surrounding everyday events presented in a similar manner as seen on Japan's science television show Wonders of Horus.
Hosts
Chris Tiu
Moymoy Palaboy
Recurring hosts
Angel Guardian
Chariz Solomon
Joyce Ching
Ayra Mariano
Jan Manual
Ashley Ortega
Heart Evangelista
Alodia Gosiengfiao
Solenn Heussaff
Devon Seron
Kyline Alcantara
Therese Malvar
Thea Tolentino
Isabelle Daza
Shaira Diaz
Production
Principal photography was halted in March 2020 due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The show resumed its programming on September 27, 2020.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of iBilib earned a 19% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2012 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television shows
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Good%20Daughter | The Good Daughter is a 2012 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mike Tuviera, it stars Kylie Padilla in the title role. It premiered on February 13, 2012 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Ikaw Lang ang Mamahalin. The series concluded on June 1, 2012 with a total of 78 episodes. It was replaced by Kasalanan Bang Ibigin Ka? in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Kylie Padilla as Bea Emmanuel Atilano Guevarra
Supporting cast
Rocco Nacino as Darwin Alejandro Reyes
Alicia Mayer as Sharon Alejandro-Reyes
Raymond Bagatsing as Rico Guevarra
LJ Reyes as Francesca "Frances" Alejandro Reyes
Max Collins as Ziri Claustro
Luz Valdez as Lourdes Atilano
Ervic Vijandre as Mario Escobar
Dion Ignacio as Paul Noche
Angeli Nicole Sanoy as Julia Alejandro Guevarra
Guest cast
Glydel Mercado as Tina Atilano-Guevarra
Lito Legaspi as Miguel Guevarra
Chinggoy Alonzo as Manuel
Daniella Amable as young Bea
Jerould Aceron as young Darwin
Joni Macnab as young Frances
Maricel Morales as Chesca
Kevin Santos as Arnold
Froilan Sales as Alex
Dionne de Guzman as Nania
Charito Alvear as Fe
Alvin Aragon as Mervin
Benedict Campos as Hans
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of The Good Daughter earned an 18.3% rating. While the final episode scored a 28.2% 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 the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUDN%20%28United%20States%20TV%20channel%29 | TUDN (pronounced tu-de-ene; formerly called Univision Deportes Network (abbr. UDN) is an American Spanish language sports channel. Owned by TelevisaUnivision, it is an extension of the company's sports division of the same name, with TUDN the acronym of TelevisaUnivision Deportes Network. It launched on April 7, 2012, along with Univision Tlnovelas and FOROtv.
The network's main properties include major soccer events in the Americas, including per-team coverage of Liga MX, the Copa América, and CONCACAF's Champions League and Gold Cup events. In 2018-19, it also became the Spanish rightsholder of the UEFA Champions League. The channel has ties with the Mexican sports channel of the same name, sharing some of its programming. In 2019, it was announced that TDN and UDN would jointly relaunch as TUDN—signifying a greater amount of collaboration between the two channels.
As of February 2015, approximately 39.7 million households (34.1% of those with television) receive the channel. Univision stated per Nielsen ratings that TUDN was the sixth-highest rated U.S. sports channel in 2019 in terms of average primetime viewership.
History
In May 2011, Univision Communications announced three new cable television channels to strengthen its position in the Latino market and diversify revenues, including one dedicated to soccer and other sports. It signed a deal with the Dish Network in January 2012 to carry the channels via satellite. The channel dedicated to sports was named Univision Deportes Network. On May 11, 2012, AT&T U-verse signed a carriage agreement with Univision Communications to carry the channel, along with Univision Tlnovelas.
The channel had an output agreement to carry selected programming from Televisa Deportes Network (TDN); the network was branded as Univision TDN during these programs.
At launch, it offered a secondary network known as Univision Deportes Network Dos airing repeats of matches and studio programming, which was exclusively carried by Dish, but is currently defunct.
In May 2019, it was announced that both Televisa Deportes Network and Univision Deportes Network would be jointly rebranded as TUDN. Univision Deportes Network officially rebranded as TUDN on July 20, 2019. The new branding is an abbreviation of both names ("Televisa Univision Deportes Network"), but the first two letters are also pronounced as the Spanish adjective "tu" (your), allowing the name to also be read as "Tu Deportes Network" ("Your sports network").
TUDN is a multi-platform brand, and has a closer collaboration between the American and Mexican channels, allowing for expanded studio programming in the morning and daytime hours (to bolster its expansion into European soccer with its recent acquisition of UEFA rights, and existing content such as Liga MX soccer).
In 2022, TUDN launched a sister channel on the Vix streaming app, Zona TUDN.
Programming
The network's signature program is Univision Deportes Fútbol Club, an hour-long sports update |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univision%20Tlnovelas | Univision tlnovelas is a Spanish language American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting telenovelas. It is owned by TelevisaUnivision. The channel launched on March 1, 2012.
History
Univision tlnovelas was announced in May 2011 as part of three new cable channels launched by Univision Communications. Univision Communications reached its first pay TV deal with the Dish Network to carry the channels in January 2012. Univision tlnovelas began broadcasting on March 1, 2012. On May 11, 2012, AT&T U-verse signed a carriage agreement with Univision Communications to carry the channel, along with Univision Deportes Network.
DirecTV began carrying the channel in March 2013.
Programming
Programming for Univision Tlnovelas is filled by Televisa's telenovela library, including telenovelas which have previously never aired in the United States.
Carriage disputes
Univision tlnovelas, along with sister channels Univision, UniMás, Galavisión and Univision Deportes Network were dropped by AT&T U-verse on March 4, 2016, because of a carriage dispute. This did not affect DirecTV customers (also owned by U-verse owner AT&T). They were returned to the lineup on March 24, 2016.
See also
Tlnovelas
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Spanish-language television networks in the United States
Univision
Classic television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elachista%20cordata | Elachista cordata is a moth of the family Elachistidae that is found in Cameroon.
The wingspan is . The forewing ground colour is white, the base of the costa and the dorsum with a narrow irregular dark brown blotch, sometimes tinged with ochreous. The hindwings are brownish grey. Adults have been recorded in early May.
Etymology
The species name is derived from the Latin cordatus (meaning heart shaped) and refers to the shape of the gnathos.
References
cordata
Moths described in 2011
Endemic fauna of Cameroon
Moths of Africa
Insects of Cameroon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urodeta%20absidata | Urodeta absidata is a moth of the family Elachistidae. It is found in Cameroon.
The wingspan is 6-6.8 mm. The thorax, tegula and forewing are grey brown, mottled with blackish brown tipped scales. The hindwings are brownish grey. Adults have been recorded in early May and early December.
Etymology
The species name is derived from the Latin absidatus (meaning arched) and refers to the arched inner processes of valvae.
References
Endemic fauna of Cameroon
Elachistidae
Moths described in 2011
Insects of Cameroon
Moths of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnodal | Gnodal was a computer networking company headquartered in Bristol, UK. The company designed and sold network switches for datacenter, high-performance computing and high-frequency trading environments. Gnodal's products were based on its own Peta ASIC, which was the basis of a family of 1RU and 2RU 10 Gigabit Ethernet low latency switches, including the GS7200 switch. Gnodal's products ran a Linux-based network operating system, GnoS OS), which was based on Aricent's ISS product.
Corporate history
Gnodal was founded in March 2007 by Fred Homewood, Tony Ford, Jon Beecroft, David Hewson and Ed Turner (all
formerly of Quadrics), Matt Hatch joined the founding group in July 2007. The company was funded by this group until April 2008, then receiving £1.1m seed funding from Adrian Beecroft (former
CIO of Apax Partners), NESTA, South West Ventures Fund and Finance South West Growth Fund
(both managed at the time by YFM). Will Leonard (formerly at Xyratex) was appointed as a non-executive director and chairman by the investors at this time.
Dawn Capital (an ECF) joined the other funds in an A round of unspecified size completed in July 2009.
On 1 September 2010, Eddie Minshull joined the company as chairman, replacing Will Leonard. At the time Minshull was also CEO of MLLTelecom and was formerly EVP of Worldwide Field Operations for Juniper Networks.
In 2011, Gnodal launched its first products at Interop in Las Vegas, May 2011. Also in 2011, Mike Cartwright joined the company as CFO.
In March 2012, Bob Fernander joined the company, replacing Fred Homewood as CEO. Fred took the role of full-time CTO after Bob's appointment.
At the Interop trade show in May 2012 Gnodal won Best of Interop, for networking with its 72 port 40GbE switch in Las Vegas. At 2RU for 72x 40GbE ports, this switch was the most dense at the time.
In March 2013, Beb Fernander left Gnodal and Eddie Minshull was appointed Executive Chairman, in a significant reorganisation that included a major reduction in staffing levels. Unconfirmed rumours indicated that Fernander had failed to close a required funding round.
A 36 port 40GbE switch, the GS0036, was introduced by Gnodal in May 2013 at Interop in Las Vegas.
On 4 October 2013 Gnodal Limited, the UK operating company, went into Administration with BDO being appointed as the Administrator.
On 1 November 2013 Cray announced the acquisition of the Gnodal intellectual property and team in Europe, with Gnodal ceasing trading as a result. All the remaining founders, Jon Beecroft, Tony Ford, David Hewson, Fred Homewood, Ed Turner and employees joined Cray on that date.
Technology
Low Latency ASIC
Gnodal's technology was implemented in their own low latency ASIC and customised software stack. This used a number of techniques (patented and commercial secret) to implement a multi-path Ethernet switching system based on multiple, co-operating ASICs without loops, delivering low end-to-end latency with intra packet load balancing de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Food%20Network%20Challenge%20episodes | This is the list of the episodes for the American cooking television series and competition Food Network Challenge, broadcast on Food Network.
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Season 7
Season 8
Season 9
Season 10
Season 11
Season 12
Season 13
Food Network Challenge
Food Network Challenge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnshire%20InterConnect | Lincolnshire InterConnect is a rural bus network in the county of Lincolnshire in the east of England.
A number of InterConnect-branded interurban bus routes with fixed timetables are complemented by demand-responsive, flexible CallConnect minibuses, on which journeys must be booked in advance. Many of the InterConnect services are provided by Stagecoach in Lincolnshire; CallConnect services are run by a variety of operators including TransportConnect Ltd who are a wholly owned company of Lincolnshire County Council.
InterConnect was first established in 1999, when the existing RoadCar "Connect 6" Lincoln–Skegness bus (introduced in 1998 as part of Route 6's rebrand) was rebranded and its service frequency increased. CallConnect was established in 2001. The network and its services are subsidised by Lincolnshire County Council. Some services were scaled back in 2011–2012, following cuts to local government funding, and reductions in the Bus Service Operators Grant fuel duty subsidy.
List of InterConnect routes
Current routes
The various models of double-decker bus used by Stagecoach in Lincolnshire for its InterConnect services are painted in a special purple-and-gold livery which is different from the standard Stagecoach colour scheme. Some buses formerly had route-specific numbered branding, in particular the flagship InterConnect 6 service, and a "Coastal Connect" brand used on the routes serving towns and villages on the Lincolnshire coast. Buses from the other InterConnect operators tend to carry that operator's standard paint scheme. All the InterConnect branded bus routes have hourly services throughout the day Monday to Saturday (with the exception of Interconnect 505; that runs up to every 30 minutes and the 37 which runs every 2 hours) with some services running on Sundays and Bank Holidays too (but on a reduced timetable).
Former routes
CallConnect services
There are two kinds of CallConnect services – entirely demand-responsive 'dial-a-ride' services which serve an area with no fixed route or timetable, and semi-flexible services which run to a timetable but which deviate off the route to serve smaller villages. Journeys on CallConnect must be booked in advance over the telephone or online. CallConnect buses are designed to meet the fixed InterConnect services at designated 'interchange' points in the larger towns and villages.
Through ticketing is available between some InterConnect routes and CallConnect services, and vice versa. Through ticketing is also available between CallConnect buses in the Sleaford & Metheringham area, and East Midlands Trains rail services from Sleaford and Metheringham railway stations on the Peterborough to Lincoln Line.
In 2011, Lincolnshire County Council reported a 23.5% increase in usage of CallConnect compared to the previous year.
CallConnect areas
CallConnect services operate in 14 named areas across Lincolnshire (and extending into neighbouring counties) – only the city of Lincoln and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20and%20the%20Cuckoo-Clock%20Heart | Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart is a 2013 French 3D computer-animated musical fantasy film based on the novel La Mécanique du cœur written by musician Mathias Malzieu, and the concept album by the French rock band Dionysos, of which Malzieu is the frontman. The music of the film was entirely composed by Dionysos.
The original French language version, Jack et la mécanique du cœur, which translates literally as Jack and the Mechanic of the Heart, was released in October 2013, with English, German, Finnish, and Spanish-language versions following in 2014.
Summary
In Edinburgh, Scotland 1874, Jack is born on the coldest day ever. Due to the extreme cold, he is born with a frozen heart that will not beat. The attendant midwife Madeleine saves his life by replacing his heart with a fragile but working cuckoo clock. She then advises him of three rules to prevent his untimely death: he must never play with the hands of the clock, lose his temper, or fall in love. Jack's mother, for reasons known only to her, quickly decides her child would be better raised by Madeleine and departs, leaving Jack. Madeleine, incapable of bearing children of her own, raises and loves him as her own.
On Jack's tenth birthday, Madeleine repeats the three rules before taking him into town for the first time. He meets a girl in town named Miss Acacia and becomes infatuated with her. After starting school shortly afterward, he also meets Joe, a bully who is in love with Miss Acacia as well. Jealous, the older boy and his gang of students torment Jack for the next four years. During an assault from Joe, the cuckoo of Jack's clock heart gouges Joe's eye, and Jack runs home believing he had murdered Joe. Madeleine, believing Jack to be a fugitive, helps him to escape.
Jack only wants to see Miss Acacia again and eventually meets up with Georges Méliès, a magician attempting to operate an early film camera. Georges helps repair his heart and agrees to join Jack in the search for Miss Acacia. They proceed to Andalusia, Spain in search of her.
After a long journey, they arrive at a circus in Andalusia. Jack finds Miss Acacia but Georges advises him against revealing his identity to her. He proceeds to befriend her and foolishly avoids sharing his feelings. She hints that her heart belongs to someone from her past. It turns out that Jack was that person from her past. Jack eventually finds a way to reveal himself and gives a key to Miss Acacia which can be used to wind his heart.
Before Jack and Miss Acacia could run away together, Joe, the bully from Jack's past, shows up. He had been looking for an opportunity to further punish Jack and explains to her the three rules of Jack's cuckoo clock heart in an attempt to sabotage them. Miss Acacia, after talking with Joe, decides she doesn't want to risk being the cause of death of Jack by allowing him to fall in love. She rejects him and leaves with Joe. Jack, after being rejected, tears at the screws of his heart.
In the carriage wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foremost%20%28software%29 | Foremost is a forensic data recovery program for Linux. Foremost is used to recover files using their headers, footers, and data structures through a process known as file carving. Although written for law enforcement use, the program and its source code are freely available and can be used as a general data recovery tool.
History
Foremost was created in March 2001 to duplicate the functionality of the DOS program CarvThis for use on the Linux platform.
Foremost was originally written by Special Agents Kris Kendall and Jesse Kornblum of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations. In 2005, the program was modified by Nick Mikus, a research associate at the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research as part of a master's thesis. These modifications included improvements to Foremost's accuracy and extraction rates.
Functionality
Foremost is designed to ignore the type of underlying filesystem and directly read and copy portions of the drive into the computer's memory. It takes these portions one segment at a time, and using a process known as file carving searches this memory for a file header type that matches the ones found in Foremost's configuration file. When a match is found, it writes that header and the data following it into a file, stopping when either a footer is found, or until the file size limit is reached.
Foremost is used from the command-line interface, with no graphical user interface option available. It is able to recover specific filetypes, including jpg, gif, png, bmp, avi, exe, mpg, wav, riff, wmv, mov, pdf, ole, doc, zip, rar, htm, and cpp. There is a configuration file (usually found at ) which can be used to define additional file types.
Foremost can be used to recover data from image files, or directly from hard drives that use the ext3, NTFS, or FAT filesystems. Foremost can also be used via a computer to recover data from iPhones.
See also
List of free and open source software packages
References
Linux software
Command-line software
Free data recovery software
Public-domain software with source code
Digital forensics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmex | Firmex is a cloud-based Virtual data room service provider headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Virtual data rooms facilitate secure document sharing across corporate firewalls. They are used for highly confidential or complex transactions seen with M&A, Corporate Finance, and Procurement, as well as Regulatory compliance and Governance processes.
History
In 2004, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg, a Toronto-based international business law firm, contracted Version 5.1 to develop the Davies Deal Room, online virtual data room software designed to facilitate legal transactions and M&A transactions. This project was commercialized by Version 5.1 in 2006 as Firmex Inc.
From 2007 to 2008, Firmex raised a total of $4.4 million from angel investors. By the end of 2009, the company had licensed 500 customers running over 2,500 transactions a year.
In 2011, Firmex reached a customer milestone of 1,000. During 2012, the company's workforce grew by 25 percent.
In 2014, Firmex was named No. 13 in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50.
In 2015 Firmex was a Deloitte Fast 500 winner.
In 2016, Novacap, a Montreal-based Private Equity Fund, acquired a majority interest in Firmex. Firmex's customers started over 12000 virtual data rooms.
In 2018, Firmex expanded its European operations, opening an office in London, England.
In 2019, VERTU Capital, a Toronto-based Private Equity Fund, BDC Capital and Firmex management acquired Firmex.
In 2019, Firmex was awarded the 2019 Stevie Awards for Customer Service.
In 2020, Firmex was awarded as one of Canada's Most Admired Corporate Cultures.
References
External links
Firmex website
File hosting
File sharing services
Cloud applications
Technology companies of Canada
Companies based in Toronto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImportGenius | ImportGenius (stylized as ImportGenius.com, sometimes incorrectly credited as Import Genius, and formally known as Trade Data Services, Inc.) is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based company that specializes in trade data. It was founded by Michael Kanko, David Petersen, and Ryan Petersen.
The company organizes and maintains a database of hundreds of millions of shipping manifests and customs records from government agencies and private companies around the world. It currently covers 18 territories from North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. ImportGenius employs machine-learning tools to identify customs patterns, scan regulatory documents and translate languages.
The data provided by ImportGenius are sourced from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and similar agencies from other countries. US data are obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and is considered public record. Data from other countries and territories, on the other hand, are legally obtained proprietary data.
Subscribers of ImportGenius can search through their database to analyze import and export activities at a granular level, identifying the origin and destination, entities involved for individual shipments, and other essential details for every shipment.
History
In May 2008, ImportGenius, through its analysis of electronic customs clearance data, identified that Apple and its logistics partners have imported 188 ocean containers of a product type that was never declared on shipping manifests before. This gave them an insight into Apple's launch of the iPhone 3G before it was officially revealed by Steve Jobs at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June 2008.
In October 2017, ImportGenius joined Panjiva, another trade data company, in a lawsuit against the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Department of Treasury filed at the Southern District of New York. They claimed that the CBP is in violation of Section 431 of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 by not making public the manifests of aircraft entering the United States, which contain information about their cargo and origin. However, the district court and the appeals court ruled in favor of the government, finding that section 431 only applies to waterborne vessels and not aircraft.
In March 2023, ImportGenius data was cited by Politico in their report about China North Industries sending 1,000 CQ-A rifles to Russia between June and December 2022; and DJI sending 12 shipments of drone parts to Russia, routing the shipments through the United Arab Emirates. The trade research team at ImportGenius also Identified a number of Chinese companies exporting key components for body armor, such as high-density polyethylene, and aramid to , a supplier of body armor for the Russian Armed Forces.
In July 2023, ImportGenius shared data to Politico demonstrating that a Rostov-on-Don–based import company imported more than US$60 Million of potential dual-use equipment, including drones from |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chef%20Boy%20Logro%3A%20Kusina%20Master | Chef Boy Logro Master: ( Boy Logro Kitchen Master: Secret of the Expert) is a Philippine television cooking show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Boy Logro, it premiered on January 2, 2012 on the network's morning line up. The show concluded on May 9, 2014 with a total of 618 episodes. It was replaced by Basta Every Day Happy in its timeslot.
Overview
Chef Boy Logro: Kusina Master is a 30-minute cooking show that features a step-by-step cooking guide and unfold excellent kitchen skills and unravel secrets to make cooking and food preparation effortless and fun. Every week, there will be a celebrity guest co-host that will assist Chef Boy in preparing different dishes. At the end of every episode, Chef Boy will give an assignment to viewers on what they need to buy or prepare for next episode.
Because of the success in ratings game, Chef Boy Logro: Kusina Master extended time from 15 minutes to 30 minutes on its second season. It also added a new segment named "Master Express" where Chef Boy is challenged to make a dish as fast as five minutes. Later, on July 9, 2012, as the show celebrated its 3rd season and its success in ratings game, GMA Network announced the extension of its airtime, from 30 minutes to 45 minutes.
On its third season, the show presented another segment called "Turo Tours" wherein the show went around Metro Manila and some provinces with a six-wheeler mobile kitchen-studio. The said segment aims to bring the show closer to its audience by giving them a chance to witness the chef's actual cooking and taping sessions plus treat them to a free taste of every dish that the chef concocts in the show. The truck is robotically programmed to self-assemble and disassemble with the press of a button and is loaded with a working kitchen and built-in audio and lighting equipment. It also carries its own power supply, which powers its robotic stage and roof assembly. Apart from "Turo Tours", several other segments were introduced like "Market Basket Challenge", "Cook-along" and "Master Fiesta Dish".
The fourth season introduced another segment called "Kusina Master for the Day". The segment featured a chef that is known for his or her own signature dish. This dish may be a masterpiece in his personal kitchen or a specialty in an establishment. The "Kusina Master for the Day" also shares his/her success story to inspire the viewers. Another segment was introduced, "Ininit to Eat it" (lit. Re-heat it to eat it) wherein Chef Boy Logro prepares new recipes from left-over food.
On the sixth season, the show launches another segment called "Kusina Master's Collegiate Cooking Challenge" wherein culinary students all over the country pitted against each other in a cooking match and other challenges.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings, the pilot episode of Chef Boy Logro: Master earned a 9.1% rating. While the final episode scored a 9.1% rating in Mega Manila household televis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/690th%20Cyberspace%20Operations%20Group | The 690th Cyberspace Operations Group, at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, is a United States Air Force group operating the Cyber Security and Control System weapon system. The group was established 1 April 1991 as the 6900 Communications-Computer Group. The group was redesignated the Air Intelligence Agency Intelligence Systems Group on 1 October 1993. It was redesignated again as the 690th Information Operations Group on 1 Oct 1997. On 5 July 2006, the group was again re-designated as the 690th Network Support Group.
The group is responsible for operating and maintaining the Air Force's global enterprise network. 690th COG was moved under the 688th Cyberspace Wing in 2018.
Component units
The group is composed of six squadrons and two detachments located around the world.
83d Network Operations Squadron
561st Network Operations Squadron
690th Cyberspace Operations Squadron
690th Intelligence Support Squadron
690th Network Support Squadron
691st Cyberspace Operations Squadron
Mission
Operate, sustain and defend the Air Force information network by employing the Cyberspace Security and Control System weapon system to assure global cyber supremacy, enforce network standards and develop Airmen as cyber warriors.
Lineage
Established 1 April 1991 as the 6900th Communications-Computer Group
Redesignated Air Intelligence Agency Intelligence Systems Group on 1 October 1993
Redesignated 690th Information Operations Group on 1 October 1997
Redesignated 690th Network Support Group on 5 July 2006
Components
83rd Network Operations Squadron, August 2009 – present
Langley Air Force Base, Virginia
561st Network Operations Squadron ("Gryphons"), August 2009 – present
Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
690th Computer Systems Squadron (later 690th Network Support Squadron), 1 October 1997 – present
690th Information Operations Squadron, 1 October 1997 – 1 August 2000
690th Intelligence Support Squadron, 1 October 1997 – present
690th Cyberspace Operations Squadron, 8 January 2015 – present
Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii
691st Cyberspace Operations Squadron, 4 March 2016 – present
Ramstein Air Base, Germany
Assignments
Electronic Security Command (later Air Force Intelligence Command, Air Intelligence Agency), 1 April 1991
Eighth Air Force, 1 February 2001
67th Information Operations Wing (later 67 Network Warfare Wing), 5 Nov 2001 – present
See also
List of cyber warfare forces
References
External links
Twenty-Fourth Air Force (AFSPC) fact sheet
Communications groups of the United States Air Force
Information operations units and formations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead%20%26%20Buried%20%28House%29 | "Dead & Buried" is the seventh episode of the eighth season of the American television medical drama series House and the 162nd overall episode of the series. It aired on Fox Network in the United States on November 21, 2011.
Synopsis
A 14-year-old patient is admitted with what appears to just be severe teenage angst, but the team grows concerned over her increasingly worsening symptoms. However, despite Foreman's objections, House is instead obsessed with solving the case of a deceased four-year-old, landing in serious trouble. Meanwhile, Park tries to get Chase to admit the reason behind his recent obsession with grooming.
Plot
House and most of his team are discussing a case when Foreman comes in with another case. He tells House the patient presented with idiopathic anaphylactic shock and it has stumped three doctors. However, House tells Foreman the case he's working on started with an asymptomatic patient whose kidneys were fried within a year but stumped four doctors, including a department chair from Harvard Medical School. They go back and forth until House says his patient is four and consistently at death's door. Foreman concedes and goes to leave when Adams lets it slip that House's patient has been dead for five years. Foreman gives House the file. After Foreman leaves, Taub notes that if House sticks with the dead boy, not only is the living patient likely to die, but House will be going back to jail and his team will be fired. House hands Taub the file for the live patient and walks off with the file for the dead one.
The team starts discussing the case when Chase comes back from the dentist. Park is looking for a new dentist and asks Chase who he saw, but Chase just comes up with a generic last name and Park wonders why he can't remember the name of the dentist he just saw. Chase tries to alibi himself, but Park notices he has a fresh manicure and wonders why he lied about going to the dentist. He says he lied to avoid talking to his colleagues about where he was. Taub and Adams try to do a differential, but Park wants to know why Chase is embarrassed about having had a manicure when he's the type of guy who gets his hair cut frequently and obviously doesn't mind people knowing his grooming habits. Chase cuts Park short by suggesting they do more comprehensive drug tests and getting the patient's mother out of the room before they ask her about drugs again.
Adams asks the patient, Iris, but she denies any drug use. Adams starts doing a medical history. However, Taub talks to the patient's mother, who admits because Iris is so moody, she gives her diazepam and tells her it's Vitamin C. Taub realizes diazepam explains all the patient's symptoms. He reassures the mother all they have to do is keep her off the drugs and she will be fine. However, Iris starts vomiting. Taub realizes they're probably wrong about the diazepam.
House goes to see Wilson for help with the dead boy's case, but Wilson tells him that if Foreman finds out, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWF | DWF may refer to:
Design Web Format, in computing
Dreamworld Wildlife Foundation
Dudh Sagar Water Falls railway station, Goa
DWF Group, a legal firm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Li | Susan Li (born May 1, 1985) is a TV journalist who works for American television channel Fox Business Network.
Early life and education
Li was born in China and grew up in Toronto, Canada. Her mentor was her mother, who raised a family on her own in Canada after emigrating from China. She graduated from the University of Toronto with a degree in economics. Fluent in English, she also speaks Cantonese and Mandarin.
Career
CBC
Li began her career at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where she contributed in various roles including associate producer and freelance reporter for both radio and television.
Bloomberg Television
Li joined Bloomberg Television in 2006 as host of the channel's first primetime evening newscast in the Asia-Pacific region, Asia Business Tonight. She started hosting Bloomberg Edge and Morning Call in 2010. She hosted the First Up with Susan Li morning business show, where she focused on market openings across Asia, interviewed business leaders, and reported on top news stories from across the globe. Li also hosted Asia Stars, which had the distinction of largely being filmed onboard Hong Kong's famous Star Ferry as it crossed Victoria Harbour. She was also a co-host of Asia Edge, which featured more extensive interviews and news coverage.
In 2008, she was nominated for the Best News Anchor award at the Asian Television Awards. In 2012 at the 17th Asian Television Awards, First Up won the Best News Programme Award, for which she as host was “Highly Commended” as Best Anchor.
As part of Bloomberg International's global programming, Li was seen around the world. During her time at the channel, she interviewed a wide range of business and government leaders, including Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Baidu CEO Robin Li, author Malcolm Gladwell, BlackRock Chairman and CEO Larry Fink and, and American casino developer Steve Wynn. She reported on and covered events such as the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the Shanghai World Expo, the Chinese stock market bubble, and the Global Financial Crisis.
CNBC Asia
In 2014, Li joined CNBC Asia as co-anchor of Asia Squawk Box. Li also hosted First Class - CNBC International's luxury travel show. At the APEC Summit in Beijing in 2014, Li held the session on stage after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and before US President Barack Obama's address. Asia Squawk Box was named the Best News Program at the Asian Television Awards in 2015 with Li as co-host. In May 2014, she interviewed Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram and Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda at the Asian Development Bank's annual meeting in Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan. Li has also covered the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland.
CNBC Europe
On September 2015, Li left CNBC Asia to join its London-based sister network CNBC Europe. She was a co-anchor of Worldwide Exchange along with Wilfred Frost (son of the late David Frost) through 31 December 2015. She last co-hosted the show from London and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge%20Information%20Systems | Bridge Information Systems was a financial news and data provider that was acquired by Reuters Group in September 2001.
History
The origins of Bridge date to 1974, when the original company was founded in St. Louis by investment analysts through acquisition of a computer firm from Dean Witter & Co. Principal founder Charles A. Lebens thought that the development of new time-sensitive investments and financial industry deregulation would create a market for up-to-date financial information. In March 1995, Bridge was acquired by private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe. "Global Financial Information Corp." was the entity formed from Bridge and several other companies combined by Welsh, but the entire concern named "Bridge Information Systems" in September 1996. It also moved its headquarters to New York.
Bridge's acquisition of ten companies starting in 1996 under new CEO Tom Wendel, starting with Knight Ridder Financial News for $275 million, created significant debt burdens for the company. Bridge also bought the Telerate unit of Dow Jones & Company in 1998 in return for $150 million of preferred stock.
As of May 2000 the company had 5,000 employees (a ten-fold growth from five years prior); half were located in the United States, and six hundred reporters were spread over 100 countries. One thousand employees were located at the company's headquarters in New York, and 800 were in St. Louis (its original headquarters).
Unable to meet its ongoing debt obligations, Bridge filed for bankruptcy in February 2001. The purchase of the company by Reuters was finalized by the end of September.
References
Defunct financial data vendors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Byerley%20%28journalist%29 | Thomas Byerley (1789–1826), also known by the pseudonyms of Reuben Percy and Stephen Collet, was an English journalist and compiler of the Percy Anecdotes.
Life
He was born in Brompton, North Yorkshire, England in 1789 and was the brother of Sir John Byerley. Becoming a writer, he was editor of the Literary Chronicle, and assistant editor of The Star newspaper. He was also editor of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, from 1823 until his death, on 28 July 1826.
Works
Under the pseudonym of Stephen Collet, Byerley published Relics of Literature, London, 1823, 8vo, a collection of miscellanies, including a long article, reprinted in 1875, on graphology. He is best known for The Percy Anecdotes, 20 vols., London, 1821–3, 12mo. These volumes, which came out in forty-four monthly parts, were supposedly written by "Sholto and Reuben Percy, brothers of the Benedictine monastery of Mount Benger". Reuben Percy was Byerley, and Sholto Percy was Joseph Clinton Robertson. The name of the collection was taken from the Percy coffee-house in Rathbone Place in Fitzrovia, where Byerley and Robertson used to meet. The Anecdotes were reprinted in 2 vols. in the Chandos Library with a preface by John Timbs. The "Brothers Percy" also compiled London, or Interesting Memorials of its Rise, Progress, and Present State, 3 vols., London, 1823.
References
Attribution
1826 deaths
English male journalists
1789 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diva%20%28TV%20network%29 | Diva, formerly Diva Universal, is a woman-based entertainment channel owned by Universal Networks International.
The list of Diva channels includes:
Diva (Asia TV channel) defunct
Diva Universal (Philippines) defunct
Diva Universal (Bulgaria) defunct
Diva Universal (Italy) defunct
Diva (Romania) currently
Diva Universal (Russia) defunct
Diva (Adria) (Serbia/Croatia/Slovenia) currently
See also
Syfy Universal
13th Street Universal
Universal Channel
Studio Universal
Diva TV
Hallmark Channel (International)
Hallmark Channel
NBCUniversal networks
Women's interest channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20O%27Rahilly | Helen O'Rahilly is an Irish television producer and executive who has worked for RTÉ, the BBC and in commercial broadcasting. She has also worked on a range of factual programming, both as an independent producer, and at the BBC, and was RTÉ's first female Director of Television Production. She later became Director of Digital Television for the BBC, the Corporation's first Channels Executive for BBCi and a deputy Controller of BBC One.
She is a descendant of The O'Rahilly.
Career
O'Rahilly's career started in RTÉ as a researcher in 1986, she then took several roles in the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 before being appointed Editor of BBC One's Watchdog and its accompanying programme Weekend Watchdog in November 1997 and held the position until May 1999. She took over at Watchdog as ten of the UK's largest companies established a pressure group to discuss how to deal with complaints about the series. From Summer 1999 to February 2000 she was Director of Television Production at RTÉ, becoming the first woman to hold that position, but she soon moved back to the BBC to take up the role of Creative Director for Digital Channels in the BBC’s General Factual department. There she was responsible for bringing several series to television, including Rock Shrines and Clive Anderson’s Conspiracies. In November 2001 she was appointed as the first Channels Executive for BBCi, a job which required her to liaise with the directors of the various BBC channels in order to facilitate links between Television commissioning and the BBC’s Interactive Television team.
She later became deputy controller on BBC One. In 2010 she returned to Dublin to address the first "Women on Air" conference at the city's National Library, offering an insight into the television industry from a female perspective.
Criticisms of RTÉ
In May 2011, she launched a scathing attack on RTÉ's flagship programme, The Late Late Show amid criticism that standards on the programme had slipped since Ryan Tubridy took over as presenter in 2009. In an online blog, O'Rahilly wrote, "If I was back in charge of RTÉ, you wouldn’t see this utter shite on Friday night".
In January 2015, following Health Minister Leo Varadkar's public coming out on RTÉ Radio, O'Rahilly referred to her own, very different, experiences at RTÉ, commenting on Twitter: "The list of RTE homophobes would give you chills … all happy to be such in 2000 not now in 2015. Maybe it's time to go public with the 'great and the good' who caused heartache and misery to so many gay people? … I am sick to death of RTE now being the benign channel of acceptance of homosexuality when it was a bastion of creaking, ancient codes. It was fine to be a woman Director at RTE….just not a GAY one! Once they found out I was a big Gayer, RTE wasn't that happy about having me on screen or on public forums …."
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Irish LGBT people
21st-century Irish LGBT people
Living people
BBC e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton%20Corporation%20Tramways | Brighton Corporation Tramways operated an electric tramway service in Brighton between 1901 and 1939.
History
Brighton Corporation Tramways operated an extensive network of routes in the first four decades of the 20th century. The first route to operate, from 25 November 1901, ran from the main terminus at the Aquarium (outside Brighton Pier) to Lewes Road, a major route to the north-east; other routes were quickly established, so that by 1904 its full extent had been established. The routes were as follows:
Routes B and D formed a loop that took approximately 30 minutes to navigate. Route B ran clockwise (via Beaconsfield Road first, then returning via Ditchling Road). A depot serving the whole network was established on Lewes Road, a short distance before the terminus; Brighton & Hove now uses the building as its central Brighton depot.
Closure
Improvements in motor bus and trolleybus technology meant that by the 1930s, the tram system found it difficult to compete, and most of the network was replaced by the Brighton trolleybus system or motor bus routes in 1939. The last tram arrived at Lewes Road depot in the early hours of 1 September 1939 – at about the same time Germany invaded Poland, and ignited the conflict that became World War II.
Distinctive timber shelters were built at many stops in the early years of the network. Some of these are still standing today at Ditchling Road (Florence Place), Queen's Park Road (Pepperpot), and Dyke Road (reservoir). Another found reuse as the Aquarium Station of the Volk's Electric Railway. One is preserved at the Stanmer Rural Museum, and two at the Chalkpits Museum at Amberley.
The depot was in Lewes Road at , and is now used as the Brighton Buses depot. The windows are still etched with 'Brighton Corporation Tramways'.
Preserved tramcar
Tramcar number 53 survives, and a society has been established for its restoration. The Society is now in possession of Works Car number 1, which will be restored next.
See also
Transport in Brighton and Hove
References
External links
Brighton Corporation Tramways on the British Tramway Company Badges and Buttons website.
Tram transport in England
History of Brighton and Hove
3 ft 6 in gauge railways in England
Transport in Brighton and Hove
Brighton |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20135 | Port 135 may refer to:
in computing — Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), a framework and toolkit for developing client/server applications
in Internet — Remote procedure call (RPC), a communication process that allows for executing a subroutine or procedure in another address space |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Z%C3%BCrich | The Zürich trolleybus system () is part of the public transport network of Zürich, Switzerland. Opened in 1939, it combines the Zürich S-Bahn, the Zürich tramway network and Zürich's urban motorbus network to form an integrated all-four style scheme.
, the system consists of six lines and a total route length of . It is operated by Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich (VBZ), which also operates the tramway and motorbus networks. Like the other modes of public transport in the region, it is covered by the Zürcher Verkehrsverbund.
History
The Zürich trolleybus system was opened on 27 May 1939, by the then Städtische Strassenbahn Zürich ("Zurich Municipal Tramway") (St. St. Z.). It was the third modern trolleybus system to be opened in Switzerland, after the Lausanne system and Winterthur system, respectively. Initially, trolleybus routes were created on new routings intended to complement, rather than compete with, the city's existing tram network.
De facto, the new system's initial operator was the legally independent transport company Autobusbetrieb der Städtischen Strassenbahn Zürich ("Bus Operation of the Zürich Municipal Tramway"). This company had been founded in 1927 as Kraftwagenbetrieb der Städtischen Strassenbahn Zürich ("Motor Vehicle Operator of the Zürich Municipal Tramway") and had been renamed in 1935. Only in March 1949 did the two companies merge, to form the Verkehrsbetriebe der Stadt Zürich, which, since 1978, has been known as Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich.
The first Zürich trolleybus route was Bezirksgebäude (Limmatplatz) to Bucheggplatz, and is now part of line 32. Between its opening in 1946 and 1956, line C, latterly known as line 34, was isolated from the rest of the system. During that period, vehicle replacement on that line was carried out using a so-called Bügelwagen ("current collector") on tram tracks.
In the 1950s, the city's trams began to be seen as inflexible and susceptible to the growing traffic congestion in the city streets. One proposed solution was the conversion of the less busy lines to trolleybus routes, and the first step in this direction was the conversion, between 1954 and 1958, of tram route 1, and an outer portion of tram route 2, into trolleybus route 31. However no further conversions of tram routes to trolleybuses have taken place.
With the introduction of the 2014 timetable, routes 33 and 72 swapped their south-western termini, with the 33 running from Bahnhof Tiefenbrunnen to Triemli and the 72 running from Milchbuck to Morgental.
Line 83 (Milchbuck – Altstetten) was converted from a bus route in 2015. The section from Milchbuck to Hardplatz uses overhead power; from Hardplatz to Altstetten, the trolleybuses run on battery.
In August 2017, trolleybus route 31 was permanently cut back from Schlieren to Altstetten (Farbhof), in preparation for the construction of the Limmattal light rail line. Once the first phase of this new line is completed, tram route 2 will be extended over it from Farbhof to Schlie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive%20programming | Competitive programming is a mind sport involving participants trying to program according to provided specifications. The contests are usually held over the Internet or a local network. Contestants are referred to as sport programmers. Competitive programming is recognized and supported by several multinational software and Internet companies, such as Google and Facebook.
A programming competition generally involves the host presenting a set of logical or mathematical problems, also known as puzzles or challenges, to the contestants (who can vary in number from tens or even hundreds to several thousand). Contestants are required to write computer programs capable of solving these problems. Judging is based mostly upon number of problems solved and time spent on writing successful solutions, but may also include other factors (quality of output produced, execution time, memory usage, program size, etc.).
History
One of the oldest contests known is the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) which originated in the 1970s and has grown to include 88 countries in its 2011 edition.
From 1990 to 1994, Owen Astrachan, Vivek Khera and David Kotz ran one of the first distributed, internet-based programming contests inspired by the ICPC.
Interest in competitive programming has grown extensively since 2000 to tens of thousands of participants (see Notable competitions), and is strongly connected to the growth of the Internet, which facilitates holding international contests online, eliminating geographical problems.
Overview
The aim of competitive programming is to write source code of computer programs which are able to solve given problems. A vast majority of problems appearing in programming contests are mathematical or logical in nature. Typical such tasks belong to one of the following categories: combinatorics, number theory, graph theory, algorithmic game theory, computational geometry, string analysis and data structures. Problems related to constraint programming and artificial intelligence are also popular in certain competitions.
Irrespective of the problem category, the process of solving a problem can be divided into two broad steps: constructing an efficient algorithm, and implementing the algorithm in a suitable programming language (the set of programming languages allowed varies from contest to contest). These are the two most commonly tested skills in programming competitions.
In most contests, the judging is done automatically by host machines, commonly known as judges. Every solution submitted by a contestant is run on the judge against a set of (usually secret) test cases. Normally, contest problems have an all-or-none marking system, meaning that a solution is "Accepted" only if it produces satisfactory results on all test cases run by the judge, and is rejected otherwise. However, some contest problems may allow for partial scoring, depending on the number of test cases passed, the quality of the results, or some |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20singles%20of%202012%20%28Spain%29 | This lists the singles that reached number one on the Spanish Promusicae sales and airplay charts in 2012. Total sales correspond to the data sent by regular contributors to sales volumes and by digital distributors. There is a two-day difference between the reporting period from sales outlets and from radio stations. For example, the report period for the first full week of 2012 ended on January 8 for sales and on January 6 for airplay.
Chart history
References
Spain
Number-one singles
2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters%20Market%20Data%20System | Reuters Market Data System (RMDS) is an open market data platform provided by Thomson Reuters. RMDS is used to transport, integrate and manage financial data from stock exchanges and other data sources to end users (such as a bank or enterprise) using multicast or broadcast technology. The underlying protocols are called Reuters Reliable Control Protocol (RRCP) and the Reuters Reliable Messaging Protocol (RRMP)
Features
The last version of RMDS, version 6, included Reuters Wire Format (RWF) as a major improvement to Marketfeed (MF) used in RMDS version 5 and prior technologies like Triarch, TIB Market Data Distribution System (TIB).
Major components of the platform include Market Data Hub (MDH) and the Point-to-Point Server (P2PS). These components configured together create a basic RMDS deployment. RMDS was commonly used to feed clients such Reuters' analysis and trading platform Reuters 3000 Xtra.
This platform has been replaced by Thomson Reuters Enterprise Platform for Real-Time (TREP-RT), colloquially known as TREP.
References
External links
RMDS Product website
RMDS Support website
Reuters
Thomson Reuters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends%20of%20Abe | The Friends of Abe, Inc. (FOA) was a support and networking group for politically conservative members of the film industry in Hollywood. The organization was formed in 2004 by actor Gary Sinise.
History
Screenwriter Lionel Chetwynd helped organize the group. "Friends of Abe" is a reference to "friends of Bill", which is how members of Alcoholics Anonymous sometimes identify themselves, and "friends of Dorothy" (a euphemism for LGBT people), while "Abe" refers to Abraham Lincoln. As of January 2012, the organization had more than 1,800 members. In addition to Sinise, Pat Boone, Jon Voight, Kelsey Grammer, Kevin Sorbo, and Scott Baio have stated that they are members of the organization. The organization strongly protects its list of members for whom it maintained a secure private website, abespal.com. Sinise later withdrew from the leadership and Hollywood producer Jeremy Boreing became executive director.
The group met monthly to hear guest speakers. It has hosted a number of Republican politicians at its events, including Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, Paul Ryan, Rick Santorum, John Boehner, and Thaddeus McCotter. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia received reimbursement for giving a speech at a FOA fundraiser in 2012. Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, Michael Steele and Mark Levin have also met with Friends of Abe, as have political operatives Frank Luntz and Karl Rove.
Friends of Abe spent three years trying to get tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status for their organization. The tax status is reserved for organizations that do not engage in any partisan activity. IRS officials have questioned whether the organization's promotion of presidential candidates during its events constituted political campaign support, an activity forbidden for tax-exempt organizations. During the application process, FOA refused IRS demands to provide it with access to the part of its website that includes its list of members since such access is not required by federal law. The tax-exempt status was granted in March 2014.
Dole CEO David H. Murdock has hosted FOA's annual gatherings at his 1,300-acre estate, Ventura Farms.
In April 2016 it was announced by executive director Boreing that "Effective immediately, we are going to begin to wind down the 501 c3 organization, bring the Sustaining Membership dues to an end, and do away with the costly infrastructure and the abespal.com website ... because we have been successful in creating a community that extends far beyond our events, people just don't feel as much of a need to show up for every speaker or bar night, and fewer people pay the dues that help us maintain that large infrastructure."
A rival group with the same name was founded in 2017, partly due to conservative divisions over Donald Trump.
See also
Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals
Hollywood Congress of Republicans
References
Community organizations
Organizations established in 2004
Organizations based in California
Conservative or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TicketNetwork | TicketNetwork is an online marketplace that provides an outlet for buyers and sellers of tickets to live entertainment events. The company was founded in 2002 by ticket broker Don Vaccaro and software developer Doug Kruse. It operates several retail sites and partners with large name brand travel and media companies.
In 2015, TicketNetwork signed an exclusive agreement with ATBS to provide Private Label Websites to their Private Label Affiliates.
Operations
TicketNetwork operates under a model similar to eBay, where tickets are listed on the company's marketplace, but transactions are handled by the individual seller. Buyers are charged a service fee for tickets purchased, plus a delivery fee, depending on the method of delivery, location, and time until the event. Once the tickets are available, the seller ships them directly to the buyer. Sellers are able to list and manage tickets on the marketplace via the TicketNetwork Point of Sale software.
Properties
TicketNetwork operates several retail websites such as TicketNetwork.com and TicketLiquidator.com. It also sponsors an annual trade show called Ticket Summit, which attracts resellers and other ticket industry figures. Additionally, the company operates the Better Ticketing Association, a website containing information and resources for the ticket resale industry. TicketNetwork also sells the tickets uploaded to their marketplace with their Private Label Program which has created controversy.
Green Initiative
TicketNetwork's campus features several amenities tied to the company's "Green Initiative." A community garden covers substantial acreage of the company headquarters campus in Connecticut. It produces fruit, vegetables, and herbs that are regularly made available for staff to take home, as well as being used in the company cafeteria. There is also an animal sanctuary on the campus, which is home to several llamas, goats, gees, chickens, and pigs as of spring 2020.
In the spring of 2019, construction was completed on a 1.4MW solar system on the roof of the headquarters building. The array, which features 4,365 solar panels, is one of the largest of its kind in Connecticut and produces energy offsetting an estimated 68% of the building's electrical use.
Covid-19 Pandemic Response
In the wake of the sudden shutdown of live events during the COVID-19 pandemic, TicketNetwork rapidly enacted cost-cutting measures in order to ensure the company's continued operation through the crisis. Customers holding tickets to cancelled events were given the option of vouchers good towards future event purchases, and senior staff members unanimously agreed to a pay cut, allowing the business to avoid large layoffs despite the precipitous drop-off in sales revenue.
Controversies
The ability for any seller to list tickets at any time has resulted in litigation. In 2009 New Jersey's then-Attorney General Anne Milgram filed a lawsuit against several parties, including TicketNetwork, for allegedly se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare%20Diseases%20Clinical%20Research%20Network | The Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN) is an initiative of the US Office of Rare Diseases Research (ORDR). RDCRN is funded by the ORDR, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences and collaborating institute centers. The RDCRN is designed to advance medical research on rare diseases by providing support for clinical studies and facilitating collaboration, study enrollment and data sharing. Through the RDCRN consortia, physician scientists and their multidisciplinary teams work together with patient advocacy groups to study more than 200 rare diseases at sites across the nation.
Established by Congress under the Rare Diseases Act in 2002, the RDCRN has included more than 350 sites in the United States and more than 50 in 22 other countries. To date, they have encompassed 237 research protocols and included more than 56,000 participants in studies ranging from immune system disorders and rare cancers to heart and lung disorders, brain development diseases and more.
History
The following is a timeline of the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network:
As a result of the Rare Diseases Act of 2002, on February 27, 2003, the ORDR (in conjunction with the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), the General Clinical Research Consortium (GCRC) Program, and other NIH Institutes) requested applications for a Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network.
On November 3, 2003, the NIH established the Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network with a Data Technology Coordinating Center and the first Rare Disease Clinical Research Consortia (RDCRCs). The founding members of the RDCRN were:
Rare Disease Clinical Research Center for New Therapies and New Diagnostics, Principal Investigator: Dr. Arthur L. Beaudet (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX)
Vasculitis Clinical Research Network, Principal Investigator: Dr. Peter A. Merkel (University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA)
Rare Lung Diseases Consortium, Principal Investigator: Dr. Bruce C. Trapnell (Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH)
Rare Diseases Clinical Research Center for Urea Cycle Disorders, Principal Investigator: Dr. Mark L. Batshaw (Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC)
Bone Marrow Failure Clinical Research Center, Principal Investigator: Dr. Jaroslaw P. Maciejewski (The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH)
Nervous System Channelopathies Pathogenesis and Treatment, Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert C. Griggs (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY)
The Natural History of Rare Genetic Steroid Disorders, Principal Investigator: Dr. Maria New (Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY)
The Data and Technology Coordinating Center, Principal Investigator: Dr. Jeffrey P. Krischer (H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL)
On February 8, 2009, the ORDR partnered with 10 other NIH Institutes to release two requests for resubmissions for the RDCRN.
On October 5, 2009, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpooling.com | carpooling.com was a carpooling service that connected drivers and passengers so they can share a ride. It was Europe's largest carpooling network. In 2015, it was acquired and folded into BlaBlaCar.
History
carpooling.com started as a student project, and was established in Munich, Germany in 2001 by the three founders Stefan Weber, Matthias Siedler and Dr. Michael Reinicke. The intention of the original website, mitfahrgelegenheit.de, was to enable people with limited budget to travel, while addressing their concern for the environment. By sharing a ride, people could save gas and money, reduce auto emissions and meet new friends.
In 2003 already, through word of mouth, mitfahrgelegenheit.de became the largest carpooling site in Germany and by 2008, the founders decided to focus on it full-time. As the popularity of the platform grew, the business began to generate revenue through key partnerships (i. e. with German automobile club ADAC, Deutsche Bahn, ProSiebenSat.1 etc.) and advertising.
The site was then launched in Austria and Switzerland, the German-speaking neighboring countries. In 2009, following a venture capital investment from Earlybird Venture Capital, the company expanded to France, Italy, Poland, Greece, the United Kingdom, Spain, and Greece.
In 2011, the company re-branded as carpooling.com and hired Markus Barnikel, a former Yahoo! senior executive as its new CEO in November 2011. The economic crisis, mobile technology, rising environmental awareness and the emerging trend of collaborative consumption continued to fuel the growth of carpooling in Europe.
In 2012, carpooling.com became a global leader in ridesharing with 1 million people transported each month across 40 countries in Europe. The site teamed up with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and innovative cities wishing to implement sustainable mobility solutions. In July 2012, the German automobile manufacturer Daimler AG invested $10 million in carpooling.com. This was to help the company prepare its launch in the United States, where carpooling seemed to be making a comeback.
In 2013, the company launched a partnership with Uber.
The company was sold to its competitor BlaBlaCar in April 2015 for an undisclosed amount.
Features
Carpooling.com enabled drivers to offer available seats online and passengers to find a ride. People could select the users that they want to ride with, how much space and comfort they needed, where they wanted to meet and what they were willing to pay.
People could also book and pay for a seat online and drivers and passengers could rate each other after a ride.
The service could be accessed from a computer, a mobile phone (iPhone, Android) or Facebook. It was available in seven languages and localized in 9 countries. The site also offered rides on train, bus and planes to give passengers a link to their final destination.
See also
Sustainable transport
References
Defunct online companies
Defunct websites
Transport in M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20America%201987 | Miss America 1987, the 60th Miss America pageant, was held at the Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey on September 13, 1986 on NBC Network.
Although an entry representing the city of Memphis had been victorious in the pageant of 1947, Kellye Cash became the first woman with the title Miss Tennessee to win the crown. She is a great-niece of the singer Johnny Cash.
Results
Order of announcements
Top 10
Awards
Preliminary awards
Non-finalist awards
Judges
Theodore Bikel
Bernard J Dobroski
Dody Goodman
Sam Haskell
Bernard A Maguire
Liliane Montevecchi
Dee Dee Wood
Shirley Cothran
Contestants
References
External links
Miss America official website
1987
1986 in the United States
1987 beauty pageants
1986 in New Jersey
September 1986 events in the United States
Events in Atlantic City, New Jersey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wily | Wily or WILY could refer to:
Computing and technology
Wily (text editor), a text editor for Unix computer systems
Wily Technology, American software company
Ubuntu 15.10, the version of Ubuntu released in October 2015 with code name Wily Werewolf
Arts, entertainment, and media
WILY, a radio station (1210 AM) licensed to Centralia, Illinois, United States
Dr. Wily, a video game character
WWNL, a radio station (1080 AM) licensed to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, known as WILY 1947 to 1957
People
Wily Mo Peña (born 1982), Dominican baseball player
Wily Peralta (born 1989), Dominican baseball player
See also
Willy (disambiguation)
Wiley (disambiguation)
Wyle (disambiguation)
Wylie (disambiguation)
Wyllie
Wylye (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Koomey | Jonathan Koomey is a researcher who identified a long-term trend in energy-efficiency of computing that has come to be known as Koomey's law. From 1984 to 2003, Dr. Koomey was at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he founded and led the End-Use Forecasting group, and has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, Yale University, and the University of California, Berkeley. He has also been a lecturer and a consulting professor at Stanford and a lecturer at UC Berkeley. He is a graduate of Harvard University (A.B) and University of California at Berkeley (M.S. and Ph.D). His research focuses on the economics of greenhouse gas emissions and the effects of information technology on resource use. He has also published extensively on critical thinking skills and business analytics.
See also
Winning the Oil Endgame
Works
Koomey, Jonathan. 2017. Turning Numbers into Knowledge: Mastering the Art of Problem Solving. 3rd ed. El Dorado Hills, CA: Analytics Press.
Koomey, Jonathan. 2008. Worldwide electricity used in data centers. Environmental Research Letters. vol. 3, no. 034008. September 23.
Koomey, Jonathan G., Stephen Berard, Marla Sanchez, and Henry Wong. 2011. Implications of Historical Trends in the Electrical Efficiency of Computing. IEEE Annals of the History of Computing. vol. 33, no. 3. July–September. pp. 46–54.
Koomey, Jonathan G. 2012. Cold Cash, Cool Climate: Science-Based Advice for Ecological Entrepreneurs. El Dorado Hills, CA: Analytics Press.
Koomey, Jonathan, Zachary Schmidt, Holmes Hummel, and John Weyant. 2019. "Inside the Black Box: Understanding Key Drivers of Global Emission Scenarios." Environmental Modeling and Software. vol. 111, no. 1. January. pp. 268-281.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Stanford University School of Engineering faculty
Harvard University alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard%20Thalheim | Bernhard Karl Thalheim (born 10 March 1952 in Radebeul) is a German computer scientist and professor of information systems engineering at the University of Kiel in Kiel, Germany. He is known for his work on conceptual modeling and its theoretical foundational contributions.
Biography
Born in Radebeul (near Dresden), Germany, Thalheim received his M.Sc. in mathematics and computer science in 1975 at the Dresden University of Technology, his PhD in discrete mathematics in 1979 at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, and his habilitation in theoretical computer science in 1985 at the Dresden University of Technology.
From 1986-89, he was an associate professor at the Dresden University of Technology. In 1989 he moved to the University of Rostock, where he was professor until 1993. From 1993 to 2003 he was dean and full professor at the Brandenburg Technical University, and since 2003 he is professor at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität of Kiel. Thalheim has been visiting professor at the Kuwait University; at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria; at the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences; and at Massey University at Palmerston North, New Zealand.
Thalheim has received a number of awards for his achievements in information systems engineering. He was honored in 2005 as the Kolmogorov Professor h.c. at Lomonosov Moscow State University, on 22 October 2008, received the Peter P. Chen Award of Elsevier for Entity–relationship model research, is the founder of the German Chapter of DAMA, international Vice-Chair of the steering committee of the FoIKS conferences, Member of steering committees of conferences, e.g. ER, ADBIS, ASM, NLDB Editor of Data and Knowledge Engineering and other journals, and member of the advisory board of Dataport.
Work
Conceptual modeling
The foundational contributions to conceptual modeling theory and Science of Conceptual Modeling of Thalheim can be found at multiple levels and abstractions, such as:
Higher Order Extended ER model,
Dependencies in relational databases and
Handbook of Conceptual Modeling, Chapter 4
With this work Thalheim contributed to the formalization and theoretical underpinning of conceptual modeling.
His ideas about conceptual modeling foundations and theory have been applied in field as:
Semantics in databases for generalized functional dependencies for user-friendly database designing,
Co-design as a holistic approach for collaboration and corporation in design of information systems applications,
Micro, meso and macro levels of users work leading to the development of collaboration frameworks for distributed Web information systems,
Conceptualization of theories in various application areas for the foundation of content management systems,
Model suites as the design theory and foundation of multi-model engineering for handling information system models and their evolution complexities,
Business process modeling and notations beyond business |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper%20West%20Side%20Story | "Upper West Side Story" is the 12th episode of the third season of the American comedy-drama television series White Collar, and the 42nd episode overall. It was first broadcast on USA Network in the United States on January 24, 2012. The episode was directed by Russell Lee Fine and written by Alexandra McNally and Jim Campolongo.
The episode features several themes of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and contains various allusions to Shakespearean and Victorian-era literature. After a student (Graham Phillips) at a prestigious prep school approaches Peter Burke and Neal Caffrey about missing scholarship funds, they begin investigating the father (Dylan Baker) of the boy's crush (Elizabeth Gillies).
According to the Nielsen ratings system, an estimated 3.472 million household viewers watched the original broadcast of the episode, with 1.1 million in the 18–49 demographic. "Upper West Side Story" received positive reviews.
Plot
Neal (Matt Bomer) and Peter (Tim DeKay) are approached by Evan Leary (Graham Phillips), a student at the prestigious Manhattan Preparatory Academy. Evan explains that he believes the money from his scholarship fund was embezzled by a rich investor by the name of Andy Woods (Dylan Baker). Peter quickly takes the case, realizing that Woods is already believed to be associated with a major cartel.
Peter visits the school under the guise of the parent of a potential student. Neal is to pose as his assistant, but he instead takes on the role of a substitute English teacher after learning that both Evan and Woods' 15-year-old daughter Chloe (Elizabeth Gillies), are in the class. Woods soon discovers that Peter may not be who he says he is after learning that he lied about his hotel arrangements; Peter covers for this by admitting that he spent the night with his mistress. Later, Neal tells Mozzie (Willie Garson) about Evan's silent attraction to Chloe, and that he plans to set them up using a sonnet.
Peter discovers that Woods may be working with Graham Slater (John Rothman), the school's headmaster, in order to embezzle the funds. The following day, at the school, Neal sees Slater drop an envelope into Chloe's locker. In order to check the contents of the envelope, Peter pulls the fire alarm. Neal finds the school's quarterly finance report inside.
Chloe later asks Neal to tutor her at home; he accepts and invites Evan to come as well. Woods invites Peter to dinner the same night, and asks that he bring his mistress along as well. Diana (Marsha Thomason), posing as Peter's mistress, accompanies Peter, and, while there, stages a quarrel. Peter, feigning frustration, opens a door to exit, setting off an alarm in the process. Woods turns the alarm off; this allows Neal to easily break into his office and clone Woods' hard drive. Chloe follows Neal into her father's office and accidentally pocket dials Woods. Realizing something is wrong, Woods goes downstairs to his office and discovers Neal with Chloe. Evan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krogsta%20Runestone | The Krogsta Runestone is a runestone designated as U 1125 in the Rundata catalog.
The stone is located in Krogsta near , in Uppsala Municipality, Sweden, in the historic province of Uppland. It was first described by Johannes Bureus in 1594.
Stone
The runestone is granite, tall, and dated to 549–725. Four fragments presumed to be associated with the stone surround it. It is located in a former cemetery and was described by Johannes Bureus in 1594 and by in his Monumenta Uplandica in the mid-17th century.
Inscription and decoration
Alongside a drawing of a man with outstretched hands, it bears an Elder Futhark inscription, reading mwsïeij (uninterpretable). On the right face is an additional sïainaz, probably for Proto-Norse stainaz "stone". The inscription has been interpreted as a "spelling lesson", distinguishing vocalic and consonantal forms for the semi-vowels j and w, and as magical.
The drawing has been described as "naively formed"; the man's gesture of upraised arms with fingers outspread has been interpreted as indicating prayer and as warding off danger, and related to figures on bronze horse mounts from the cemetery at Marchélepot and runestone U Fv1946;258 at in Täby Municipality, which is dated to c. 1000.
See also
List of runestones
References
Further reading
Düwel, Klaus (2001). Runenkunde. 3rd ed. Stuttgart, Weimar: J.B. Metzler
Ohlmarks, Åke (1978). 100 Svenska Runinskrifter. Borås: Bokförlaget Plus
External links
Elder Futhark inscriptions
Runestones in Uppland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khumba | Khumba is a 2013 South African computer-animated comedy film directed and co-produced by Anthony Silverston and written by Silverston and Raffaella Delle Donne. The film stars the voices of Jake T. Austin, Steve Buscemi, Loretta Devine, Laurence Fishburne, Richard E. Grant, AnnaSophia Robb,
Anika Noni Rose, Catherine Tate, Ben Vereen, and Liam Neeson. It is the second movie made by Triggerfish Animation Studios and is distributed by Millennium Entertainment in the US. The International distribution rights are being licensed by Cinema Management Group. The film is about Khumba, a zebra who is half-striped like a quagga and blamed for the lack of rain by the rest of his insular, abusive, superstitious herd, except his dad, mom and Tombi. He embarks on a quest to earn his stripes.
The film was dedicated in memory of The Quagga Breeding Project founder Reinhold Rau, who died on February 11 2006. Rau was known for efforts to use selective-breeding to recreate the extinct quagga, a close relative of the plains zebra. The film premiered at the TIFF on September 8 2013, and was released on 25 October 2013 by Indigenous Film Distribution. Khumba received mixed reviews from critics and was a box office disappointment, only grossing $28.4 million worldwide against a $20 million budget.
Plot
In South Africa within the Great Karoo, a half-striped zebra named Khumba is born into an insular isolated herd of all-striped zebras where he's raised by his sick mother Lungisa and his father & the herd's leader, Seko. Rumors that the strange foal is cursed spread and before long he is blamed for the drought that sets into the Great Karoo. As he matures, Khumba is picked on and remains ostracized by most of the herd with the exception of Tombi, a young female zebra friend close in age - whom Khumba has a crush on - and uncomfortable in the herd due to her tomboyish manners.
When a mystical African mantis appears to Khumba, he draws a map to what could be interpreted as either water or stripes between it. Khumba jeopardizes the herd and gets into trouble when he attempts to admit several gemsbok into the watering-hole enclosure when their wise elderly healer needs water. A murderous African leopard, Phango, warns Mkhulu that he and the herd can't stay in their enclosure forever. Seko berates and scolds Khumba for putting the herd at risk and for the next week, he'll drink half of his rations. Lungisa tells the story of how a white horse got its stripes by swimming in a magic river and other horses wanted to have stripes like him, making the zebra we know today. Shortly after, Lungisa succumbs to her disease and dies. Then, Khumba leaves the confines of his home knowing that he cannot survive in the herd where it is viewed as only "half-a-zebra."
Khumba ventures beyond the fence and once outside, encounters an opportunistic African wild dog named Skalk who nearly leads him to his doom when Skalk's pack try to eat him, even though he tries persuading his pack not to. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXtremeDB | eXtremeDB is a high-performance, low-latency, ACID-compliant embedded database management system using an in-memory database system (IMDS) architecture and designed to be linked into C/C++ based programs. It works on Windows, Linux, and other real-time and embedded operating systems.
History
eXtremeDB was introduced in 2001 by McObject LLC, targeting embedded systems running in resource-constrained environments (i.e. with limited random-access memory and relatively low-powered central processing units). eXtreme DB has a small code size, only about 150KB. It has native C language application programming interface and available source code. eXtremeDB has high degree of portability to support the varied processors and operating systems used in embedded systems. Early deployments by customers included integration in digital TV set-top boxes, manufacturing and industrial control systems, and telecom/networking devices. eXtremeDB emerged to manage what industry analysts, and McObject, portray as significant growth in the amount of data managed on such devices.
Later editions targeted the high-performance non-embedded software market, including capital markets applications (algorithmic trading, order matching engines) and real-time caching for Web-based applications, including social networks and e-commerce.
Product features
Core eXtremeDB engine
eXtremeDB supports the following features across its product family.
Application programming interfaces
A type-safe, native, navigational C/C++ API
SQL ODBC/JDBC API (included in eXtremeSQL edition)
Native C# (.NET) API
Java Native Interface (JNI)
Python
Database indexes
B-tree
R-tree
Radix tree or Patricia trie
k-d tree
Hash table
Trigram index
Custom indexes
Concurrency mechanisms
eXtremeDB supports multiple concurrent users, offering ACID-compliant transactions (as defined by Jim Gray) using either of two transaction managers: a multiple-reader, single writer (MURSIW) locking mechanism, or multiversion concurrency control (MVCC) transaction manager (optimistic non-locking model).
Supported data types
eXtremeDB can work with virtually all C language data types including complex types including structures, arrays, vectors, and BLOBs. Unicode is supported.
Security
Page-level cyclic redundancy checking (CRC)
AES encryption
Secure Sockets Layer
Optional features
Distributed database management abilities
The eXtremeDB high availability edition supports both synchronous (2-safe) and asynchronous (1-safe) database replication, with automatic failover. eXtremeDB Cluster edition provides for shared-nothing database clustering. eXtremeDB also supports distributed query processing, in which the database is partitioned horizontally and the DBMS distributes query processing across multiple servers, CPUs, and/or CPU cores. eXtremeDB supports heterogeneous client platforms (e.g. a mix of Windows, Linux , and RTOSs) with its clustering and high availability features. A single partitioned d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catpac | Catpac is a computer program that analyzes text samples to identify key concepts contained within the sample. It was conceived chiefly by Richard Holmes, a Michigan State computer programmer and Dr. Joseph Woelfel, a University at Albany and University at Buffalo sociologist for the analysis of attitude formation and change in the sociological context. Contributions by Rob Zimmelman, an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Albany, from 1981 to 1984 on the Univac 1100 mainframe, included the inclusion of the CATPAC software in the Galileo*Telegal system, text-labeling and porting of CATPAC output for the Galileo system of paired-comparison conceptual visualization. CATPAC and the Galileo system are still in commercial use today, and with recent data capture and visualization contributions, continues to grow. Contributions by other students at the university resulted in the software that is still in commercial use today. It uses text files as input and produces output such as word and alphabetical frequencies as well as various types of cluster analysis.
Design
Catpac is a self-organizing, i.e. unsupervised, interactive activation and competition (IAC) artificial neural network used for text analysis. The program generates a multidimensional scalar output organizing words throughout the text by creating a weighted word-by-word matrix that establishes the eigenvector centralities of concepts. The word-by-word matrix represents the relationship between one word and the occurrence of another. Catpac identifies important words and patterns based on the organization of the text. This process mimics the connections between neurons in a human brain, strengthening connections through conditioning to generate a pattern of similarities among all words within a body of text.
Use
Catpac has been used in commercial studies, in academic scholarship to investigate massive textual data sets, as a strong semantic network analysis tool, for longitudinal analyses, for multilingual analyses, as a predictor of media usage and as a powerful content analysis tool.
Availability
Catpac, conceived as an improvement to simple word-count software more than 30 years ago, is currently available in windows 32 bit format.
References
External links
Bibliography of research using Catpac
Data analysis software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Network%20Global%20Indexes | S-Network Global Indexes, Inc. is a publisher and developer of proprietary and custom indexes. Founded in 1997, S-Network specializes in smart beta and thematic indexes that serve as the basis for ETFs.
Starting in 2006, S-Network began publishing specialty indexes covering sub-sectors and investment themes including the Alternative Energy, Automotive, Nuclear Energy,Space Poliwogg Medical Breakthroughs, Gaming, Maritime, Infrastructure, Hard Assets and Emerging Markets sectors.
In 2014, Thomson Reuters partnered with S-Network to develop a new family of environmental, social and corporate governance indices. On July 20, 2017, the index family was rebranded the Thomson Reuters/S-Network ESG Best Practices Ratings & Indices, reflecting changes to the methodology.
S-Network indexes have been licensed to a number of financial intermediaries in the US and Europe and serve as the basis for ETFs, Structured Products, mutual funds and UITs. S-Network indexes are also used for benchmarking and passive asset management purposes.
References
Financial services companies established in 2006
Indexes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20cloaking | Network cloaking is an attempt to provide wireless security by hiding the network name (service set identifier) from being broadcast publicly. Many routers come with this option as a standard feature in the setup menu accessed via a web browser.
Network cloaking may stop inexperienced users from gaining access to a network but should otherwise be considered a minimal security measure. Network cloaking is less effective than static WEP (which itself is vulnerable, see Wired Equivalent Privacy).
More secure forms of wireless security include WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) and preferably WPA2. WEP, WPA, WPA2, and other encryption technologies can be used in conjunction with hiding the SSID.
Advantages
Minimal security benefit
Hiding the network name may prevent less technically inclined people from connecting to the network, but will not deter a determined adversary. The use of WPA or WPA2 is recommended instead. Hiding the SSID removes it from beacon frames, but this is only one of several ways an SSID can be discovered. When one chooses to hide the network name from the router's setup page, that only sets the SSID in the beacon frame to null, but there remain four other ways that the SSID is transmitted. In fact, hiding broadcast of the SSID on the router may cause the Network interface controller (NIC) to constantly disclose the SSID, even when out of range.
Usability improvement
Hiding the network name improves the experience of users connecting to wireless networks in dense areas. When the network is not intended for public use and does not broadcast its SSID, it will not appear in a list of available networks on clients. This simplifies the choice for users.
Organizations may decide to cloak the Wi-Fi SSID intended to be used by employees and pre-configured on corporate devices while keep networks intended for visitors (i.e., “Guest networks”) broadcasting SSID. This way, authorized users will connect to the corporate network as pre-configured while visitors will only see the “Guest network” and will be less confused about what SSID to use.
Disadvantages
False sense of security
Although network cloaking may add a small sense of security, it is common for people not to realize just how easy it is to discover hidden networks. Because of the various ways an SSID is broadcast, network cloaking is not considered a security measure. Using encryption, preferably WPA or WPA2, is more secure. Even WEP, while weak and vulnerable, provides more security than hiding the SSID. There are many programs that are able to scan for wireless networks, including hidden ones, and display their information such as IP addresses, SSIDs, and encryption types. These programs are capable of "sniffing" out any wireless networks in range by essentially eavesdropping and analyzing network traffic and packets to gather information about those specific networks. The reason these programs can sniff out the hidden networks is because when the SSID is transmitted in t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConoServer | ConoServer is a database of toxins that are expressed by the predatory sea snails in the family Conidae, the cone snails. These toxins are known as conotoxins or conopeptides. The toxins are of importance to medical research. A notable feature of these peptides is their high specificity and affinity towards human ion channels, receptors and transporters of the nervous system. This makes conopeptides an interesting resource for the physiological studies of neuroreceptors and promising drug leads.
See also
Conidae
Conus
References
External links
http://www.conoserver.org
Biological databases
Protein toxins
Conidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy%20Willems | Eddy Willems (born 1962), is a Belgian computer security expert and author of security blogs and books, active in international computer security organizations and as a speaker at information security-related events.
Career
Eddy Willems has been a security evangelist at German security software specialist G Data Software since the beginning of 2010. He is involved in anti-malware and security research, consultancy, training and communication programs with press, resellers and end-users, as a security evangelist.
He started his career as a systems analyst in 1984, and while working at an insurance company he was challenged in 1989 by a Trojan incident, in fact a very early version of ‘ransomware’ malware, the AIDS Trojan Horse. His system got infected by inserting a (5.25’’) floppy with ‘aids/HIV’-related information (a questionnaire), resulting in a lock down of his system and a request to pay $189. Figuring out how to get around this malware kindled Eddy Willems’ interest in computer viruses and resulted in a well received solution for this Trojan malware. Furthermore, it kick started his anti-virus and anti-malware career. Ever since, Eddy Willems compiles and maintains a reference library on the subject of viruses and malware.
Eddy Willems developed his career as security specialist initially at an insurance company (De Vaderlandsche – today part of P&V), followed by an added value distributor of security products (anti-virus expert at NOXS - a Westcon Group company) and at security software specialist Kaspersky Lab (Benelux, security evangelist).
As his expertise grew, Eddy Willems joined international computer security organizations. In 1991, he became a founding father of EICAR (the European Institute for Computer Anti-Virus Research). In 1995, he joined Joe Wells’ Virus Wildlist, reporting for Belgium, Luxembourg & for EICAR Europe. In May 2005, he became a board member of EICAR, as director of Press and Information. In 2009, he took up the position of director for Security AV Industry Relationships. In 2010, Eddy Willems became a member and PR officer of AMTSO, the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization, joining its board in May 2012.
In Belgium, Eddy Willems was a member of the first government initiated e-security team, on the website of the telecom regulator BIPT-IBPT. In 2015, he joined the board of LSEC – Leaders in Security, an association grouping security companies active in Belgium and EU.
Eddy Willems is active on the speakers circuit, with presentations for companies and consumers, as well as at conferences (see Publications section).
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He has been asked for comments and opinions by radio and TV-stations, both international (CNN, Al Jazeera) and national (Belgium: VRT, VTM), and national newspapers (De Standaard, De Morgen). Eddy Willems regularly publishes opinions in ict-magazines, as Data News (Belgium) and ZDnet.be.
Education
IHRB 1982-1984, computer sciences
Vrije Universiteit Brussel 1980-1982, computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20network%20protocols | This is a list of articles that list different types or classifications of communication protocols used in computer networks.
See also
List of network buses
List of network scientists
Outline of computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mater%20Academy | Mater Academy is a non-profit charter management organization based in Florida. They have a network of 49 schools in Florida and Nevada. Mater partners with Academica, a for-profit education management organization.
Origins
In 1968, Mother Margarita Miranda began Centro Mater as a childcare facility in Little Havana, a poor immigrant neighborhood of Miami, Florida. Translated from Latin it means, "Center Mother". It was successful and flourished. As a teenager, Fernando Zulueta had volunteered at the center and understood their situation. In 1996, the Florida Legislature authorized charter schools as part of the state's K-12 public education system.
One year after starting the Somerset Academy in Miramar, Florida he founded the not-for-profit Mater Academy. The following year, Zulueta incorporated the For-profit education school management company Academica. Mater Academy was successful and spread around Hialeah, Florida. There were 14 Mater Academy schools in 2010 with over 6,300 students. Enrollment increased to 13,380 in 2015.
Operations
There were twenty-three employees of Mater Academy Inc making six figure salaries in 2020.
Awards & Rankings
Mater Academy Charter High School in Hialeah Gardens, Florida won a silver medal award from U.S. News & World Report in 2008 and 2009. They were also ranked the 41st best high school in Florida for 2021.
Mater Performing Arts and Entertainment Academy in Hialeah Gardens, Florida was ranked the 31st best high school in Florida for 2021.
Mater Academy East Charter High School in Miami was ranked the 32nd best high school in Florida for 2021.
Mater Academy Lakes High School in Hialeah Gardens, Florida was ranked the 62nd best high school in Florida for 2021.
Sports Leadership of Miami Charter High School in Little Havana (formerly Sports Leadership and Management/SLAM) was ranked the 486th best high school in Florida for 2021.
References
External links
Mater Academy Schools
Charter schools in the United States
Charter management organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clytra%20rotundata | Clytra rotundata is a species of leaf beetle in the subfamily Cryptocephalinae, that is native to Cyprus.
References
Beetles described in 1961
Clytrini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Latin%20Pop%20Albums%20from%20the%201990s | Latin Pop Albums is a record chart published in Billboard magazine that features Latin music sales information. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores, Internet sales (both physical and digital) and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
Below is the list of albums that reached number one on the Latin Pop Albums chart during the 1990s. Until July 17, 1993, charts were posted bi-weekly.
Number one albums
Key
– Best-selling Latin pop album of the year
References
General
For information about each week of this chart, follow this link; select a date to view the top albums for that particular week}}
Specific
Pop 1990s
United States Latin Pop Albums
1990s
1990s in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon%20Health%20Network | Horizon Health Network is one of two health authorities in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, the other being Vitalité Health Network.
Horizon Health Network delivers medical care on behalf of the Government of New Brunswick to the central and southern portions of the province through 12 hospitals and 28 health centres/clinics while providing a variety of programs and services.
Horizon Health Network is headquartered in Fredericton, New Brunswick.
Hospitals
Horizon Health Network operates the following hospitals:
Charlotte County Hospital (St. Stephen, NB)
Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital (Fredericton, NB)
Grand Manan Hospital (North Head, NB on Grand Manan Island)
Hotel-Dieu of St. Joseph (Perth-Andover, NB)
Miramichi Regional Hospital (Miramichi, NB)
Oromocto Public Hospital (Oromocto, NB)
Sackville Memorial Hospital (Sackville, NB)
Saint John Regional Hospital (Saint John, NB)
St. Joseph's Hospital (Saint John, NB)
Sussex Health Centre (Sussex, NB)
The Moncton Hospital (Moncton, NB)
Upper River Valley Hospital (Waterville, NB)
Former health authorities
Horizon Health Network was established by the provincial government effective September 1, 2008 through the dissolution and merger of the following health authorities:
South-East Regional Health Authority
River Valley Health
Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation
Miramichi Regional Health Authority
Quick facts
Horizon Health serves the province of New Brunswick but through inter-provincial agreements, also provides referral services for part of northeastern Nova Scotia (Cumberland County) as well as Prince Edward Island
One of the largest employers in New Brunswick
A $1 billion plus organization
Approximately 13,000 staff members and 1,000 physicians
Over 100 facilities, clinics and offices
3,500 volunteers, auxiliary and alumnae members
20 foundations
19 auxiliaries and alumnae
Statistics (2010–2011)
Number of:
medical residents - 300
hospitals - 12
hospital beds - 1,600
admissions - 55,000 (acute, rehab and chronic)
inpatient days - 580,000 (acute, rehab and chronic)
surgeries completed per year - 45,000
births - 5,400
References
External links
Health regions of New Brunswick
Companies based in Fredericton
Crown corporations of New Brunswick
Organizations established in 2008
2008 establishments in New Brunswick |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalit%C3%A9%20Health%20Network | Vitalité Health Network is one of two health authorities in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, the other being Horizon Health Network.
Vitalité Health Network delivers medical care on behalf of the Government of New Brunswick's Department of Health to the northern and southeastern portions of the province through 11 hospitals and 30 health centres/clinics and provides a variety of programs and services.
Vitalité Health Network is headquartered in Bathurst, New Brunswick.
Hospitals
Vitalité Health Network operates the following hospitals:
Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre (Moncton, NB)
Chaleur Regional Hospital (Bathurst, NB)
Hôpital de l'Enfant-Jésus (Caraquet, NB)
Tracadie-Sheila Hospital (Tracadie–Sheila, NB)
Campbellton Regional Hospital (Campbellton, NB)
Restigouche Hospital Centre (Campbellton, NB)
St. Joseph Community Health Centre (Dalhousie, NB)
Edmundston Regional Hospital (Edmundston, NB)
Grand Falls General Hospital (Grand Falls, NB)
Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Joseph de Saint-Quentin (Saint-Quentin, NB)
Stella-Maris-De-Kent Hospital (Sainte-Anne-de-Kent, NB)
Former health authorities
Vitalité Health Network was established by the provincial government effective September 1, 2008 through the dissolution and merger of the following health authorities:
Beauséjour Regional Health Authority
Acadie-Bathurst Health Authority
Restigouche Health Authority
Regional Health Authority 4
Quick facts
Vitalité Health serves the province of New Brunswick but through inter-provincial and international agreements, also provides referral services for part of northeastern Maine (Aroostook County) as well as Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula (through hospitals in Edmundston and Campbellton)
One of the largest employers in New Brunswick
Annual budget approximately $660 million
Approximately 7,600 staff members and 470 physicians
Over 70 facilities, clinics and offices
1,200 volunteers, auxiliary and alumnae members
9 foundations
Statistics (2013 - 2014)
Number of:
beds 1,197
patient days 387,476
surgeries 20,798
emergency room visits 249,041
births 1,780
Extra-Mural Program visits 182, 638
References
External links
Vitalité Health Network - web site
Bathurst, New Brunswick
Health regions of New Brunswick
Crown corporations of New Brunswick |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Association%20of%20GSA%20Networks | The National Association of GSA Networks is a nationwide federation of state-level gay–straight alliance networks. It was created in 2005 through Gay–Straight Alliance Network (GSA Network), a California non-profit organization that organizes gay–straight alliances in public and private schools in the state.
Member GSA networks
Center for Artistic Revolution (Arkansas)
Alabama Safe Schools Coalition c/o Equality Alabama
Wingspan (Arizona)
GSA Network
Colorado Gay–Straight Alliance Network and One Colorado
True Colors (Connecticut)
Florida Gay Straight Alliance Network c/o Equality Florida
Georgia Safe Schools Coalition
Supporting and Mentoring Youth Advocates and Leaders (SMYAL) (District of Columbia)
Illinois GSA Network and Illinois Safe Schools Alliance
Indiana Youth Group
Iowa Pride Network
Louisville Youth Group (Kentucky)
GLSEN Southern Maine
Massachusetts GSA Network c/o Massachusetts Commission on GLBT Youth
Out For Good (Minnesota)
Mississippi Safe Schools Coalition
Missouri GSA Network (Missouri)
HiTOPS (New Jersey)
New Mexico GSA Network
Long Island Gay and Lesbian Youth (New York)
LGBT Center of Raleigh (North Carolina)
Kaleidoscope Youth Center (Ohio)
Oregon Safe Schools and Communities Coalition and Oregon Gay Straight Alliance Network
Ally Safe Schools and Mazzoni Center (Pennsylvania)
Youth Pride Rhode Island
SC Equality (South Carolina)
Eastern Tennessee GLSEN Chapter (Tennessee)
Texas GSA Network
Utah QSA Network
Outright Vermont
GLSEN Richmond (Virginia)
Washington GSA Network and GLSEN Washington Chapter
GSA For Safe Schools (Wisconsin)
Initiatives
Gay–Straight Alliance Network holds both a GSA Advocacy & Youth Leadership Academy (GAYLA) and Queer Youth Advocacy Day (QYAD) each year.
The National Association holds an annual National Gathering for GSAs and Safe school coalitions.
Website
National Association of GSA Networks
LGBT youth organizations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikie%20Wars%3A%20Brothers%20in%20Arms | Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms is a six-part Australian drama miniseries about bikie gang violence, screened on Network Ten on 15 May 2012. Bikie Wars is based on the book Brothers in Arms by Lindsay Simpson and Sandra Harvey. The screenplay was written by Greg Haddrick, Roger Simpson and Jo Martino. It is directed by Peter Andrikidis. Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms cost A$6,000,000 to make.
Premise
The six-episode series dramatises the story of the Milperra massacre, when the Bandidos and the Comanchero motorcycle clubs went to war on Father's Day, Sunday 2 September 1984. The massacre had its beginnings after a group of Comancheros broke away and formed the first Bandidos Motorcycle Club chapter in Australia. This resulted in intense rivalry between the two chapters. At a public swap meet at the Viking Tavern at Milperra, New South Wales, a brief but violent battle ensued with seven people shot dead, including a 14-year-old innocent female bystander. A further 28 people were wounded with 20 requiring hospitalisation.
Each episode starts with a quote stated by Justice Adrian Roden when the clubs went before the New South Wales Supreme Court; "As patriotism can lead to jingoism and mateship can lead to cronyism, so bikie club loyalty can lead to bikie club war."
Cast
Bandidos
Callan Mulvey as Snoddy
Maeve Dermody as Lee (Snoddy's girlfriend)
Damian Walshe-Howling as Chopper (Vice President of the Bandidos)
Anthony Hayes as Caesar (Sgt-at-Arms of the Bandidos)
Luke Hemsworth as Shadow
Fletcher Humphrys as Bull
Sam Parsonson as Junior
Aaron Fa'aoso as Roo
Richard Sutherland as Davo
Peter Flaherty as Lard
Comanchero
Matt Nable as Jock Ross (President and self-proclaimed 'Supreme Commander' of the Comancheros)
Susie Porter as Vanessa (Jock's wife)
Richard Cawthorne as Foggy (Vice President of the Comancheros)
Jeremy Lindsay Taylor as Leroy (Sgt-at-Arms of the Comancheros)
Luke Ford as Snow
Nathaniel Dean as Kraut
Todd Lasance as Kiddo
Manu Bennett as Sunshine
Trent Baines as Sparra
Pier Carthew as Dog
Episodes
Reception
Ratings
The premiere episode won its timeslot with 1.26 million viewers based on the overnight numbers, peaking at 1.43 million viewers.
Reviews
The New Zealand critic Craig Nicholson praised Brothers In Arms as a "chilling" mini-series that was similar to the Underbelly series. Nicholosn wrote: "Like Underbelly, Bikie Wars is the almost unbelievable story of a "war" that really happened." The Australian critic Steve Molk praised the acting, music and realism of the mini-series. Molk wrote: "Incredible performances from Mulvey and Nable led a very strong male-heavy cast that, despite bikies often being portrayed as one-dimensional thugs, delivered layered characters and intense performances...Special mentions to Susie Porter as Jock’s wife Vanessa and Maeve Dermody as Snoddy’s girl Lee – two very determined and strong women of their own right." Molk felt that: "One of the few negatives about the series was af |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walang%20Hanggan | Walang Hanggan may refer to:
Walang Hanggan (2003 TV series), a Philippine telenovela aired on GMA Network, starring Valerie Concepcion and Oyo Boy Sotto
Walang Hanggan (2012 TV series), a Philippine telenovela aired on ABS-CBN, starring Coco Martin and Julia Montes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Foster%20discography | David Foster has been credited with composing, producing, arranging, performing, programming numerous singles and albums.
Albums
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilation albums
Soundtrack albums
Video works
Singles
Production credits
Songs
Foster has been credited with composing (only for first released version, not include cover version except performed or produced by Foster himself), producing, arranging, performing on the following songs: (not include sampling)
References
Foster, David |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen%20Zamora | Gwenaelle Tasha Mae Agnese-Semerád better known as Gwen Zamora (born August 10, 1990) is a Filipina-French actress, model and former dancer in the Philippines. She was previously under GMA Network for six years until switching management to Viva Artists Agency and she now does freelance projects with both ABS-CBN and GMA Network.
Biography
Zamora was born in Australia to Italian-French dad and Filipino-Vietnamese mom. She spent her life in Australia, China and Thailand before moved to the Philippines when she was 14, Zamora has enrolled in Digital Filmmaking at the De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde. At 19, she has traveled the world and has lived in different countries because of her father.
Zamora joined GMA Network, playing Cinderella in the evening teleserye, Grazilda. She also starred in the film Si Agimat at si Enteng Kabisote a film produced by GMA Films.
She appeared in Alakdana and in the television series Machete in January 2011, which was followed by Biritera and My Beloved.
Zamora joined in a GMA Christmas reality show, Puso ng Pasko: Artista Challenge in December 2010 and stars in the GMA horror comedy anthology, Spooky Nights Presents: Snow White Lady and the Seven Ghost and Spooky Nights Presents: Panata which premiered in 2011.
On August 15, 2019, Zamora gave birth to their first child with basketball player David Semerád. They were married in France on February 13, 2021.
2010–present
GMA Network (2010–2016)
She signed a three-year exclusive contract with GMA Network and starred in its several programs.
Zamora played Faye Kabisote, an Engkantada Princess, in the 2010 Official Entry to the Metro Manila Film Festival, Si Agimat at si Enteng Kabisote. The movie is top-billed by Vic Sotto and Sen. Bong Revilla.
ABS-CBN and GMA-7 (2016–present)
She appeared on ABS-CBN's Be My Lady as Sophia Elizalde, her first show out of GMA Network while also a freelancer and then performed in ASAP. She made her return to Kapuso channel though was not visible on any of the teleseryes produced by the network and just appeared in non-drama soap programs though had a role in Dear Uge. Zamora staged a Kapamilya comeback and appeared on comedy-gag show Banana Sundae and a special participation role as the young version of Divina played by veteran actress, Pilar Pilapil, in Nang Ngumiti ang Langit, which also marks her return to television dramas.
Talent
Zamora has already appeared in numerous programs from Grazilda to Alakdana; and she already had her first co-starring role in a movie opposite Vic Sotto.
FHM
In 2011, she was voted as FHM Philippines' Sexiest Woman in the World Rank 42.
Filmography
Television
Film
Music video appearances
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Gwen Zamora at the www.gmanetwork.com
Gwen Zamora Official Website at the gwensterofficial.webs.com
Gwen Zamora PEP.com.ph at PEP.com.ph
1990 births
Living people
Filipino television actresses
Filipino film actresses
Filipino child actresses
Filipi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball%20IQ | Baseball IQ is an American television game show airing on the cable channel MLB Network. The show debuted on January 24, 2012, and its first season ended on February 23, 2012, with the season championship. The show is hosted by MLB Network anchor Matt Vasgersian. The show's focus is baseball trivia.
Format
The show features 32 contestants (each of whom works for one of the 30 Major League Baseball teams as well as one from MLB.com and one from the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum) in a bracket-style tournament for up to USD 45,000 for their teams' designated charities. Each episode's winner receives USD 5,000 for the charity and the season champion receives USD 25,000 for the charity. The season runner-up's charity receives USD 15,000.
Gameplay
The gameplay starts with the "Lead-off Home Run" question. The player who buzzes in gets the chance to answer. If the player is correct, they score the first run and control of a board with 8 categories to be used in the first 8 rounds ("innings"8 or 9 "innings" per episode). If the player who buzzes in is incorrect, their opponent gets the first run and control of the board. For the first 8 innings, the player in control picks a category and the subject of a list-based question is given. Players alternate giving answers in the category until one either gives an incorrect answer, repeats a previously given answer, or runs out of time trying to come up with an answer. At that point, the other player wins the inning and is given the option to use their one "Big Inning" (each player in each episode gets one) and gives four more answers to earn 2 runs. However if the player uses their Big Inning and fails to get 4 correct answers, he loses the amount of runs he was awarded in the inning. The number of runs for winning the inning outright is determined by how deep the players went in the inning. After 8 innings, if one player is ahead of his opponent by more runs than can be scored in the ninth inning, the "mercy rule" goes into effect and no ninth inning is played.
In the ninth inning, the two players would bid on the number of correct answers they can give in the final category. If the player who wins the bidding gives the number of correct answers that they bid would score the runs and, if they bid enough, would win the game. If the ninth inning ends in a tie, one more buzz-in question is asked. If the player who buzzes in gets the answer correct, they get the run, win the game, and advance in the tournament. The other player scores and wins if the buzz-in player answers incorrectly.
The first tournament was won by Shane Demmitt, representing the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, who defeated Ben Baumer, representing the New York Mets, in the final round.
Contestants
External links
Official website with most recently updated bracket
MLB Network original programming
2012 American television series debuts
2010s American game shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiparty%20communication%20complexity | In theoretical computer science, multiparty communication complexity is the study of communication complexity in the setting where there are more than 2 players.
In the traditional two–party communication game, introduced by , two players, P1 and P2 attempt to compute a Boolean function
Player P1 knows the value of x2, P2 knows the value of x1, but Pi does not know the value of xi, for i = 1, 2.
In other words, the players know the other's variables, but not their own. The minimum number of bits that must be communicated by the players to compute f is the communication complexity of f, denoted by κ(f).
The multiparty communication game, defined in 1983, is a powerful generalization of the 2–party case: Here the players know all the others' input, except their own. Because of this property, sometimes this model is called "numbers on the forehead" model, since if the players were seated around a round table, each wearing their own input on the forehead, then every player would see all the others' input, except their own.
The formal definition is as follows: players: intend to compute a Boolean function
On set of variables there is a fixed partition of classes , and player knows every variable, except those in , for . The players have unlimited computational power, and they communicate with the help of a blackboard, viewed by all players.
The aim is to compute ), such that at the end of the computation, every player knows this value. The cost of the computation is the number of bits written onto the blackboard for the given input and partition . The cost of a multiparty protocol is the maximum number of bits communicated for any from the set {0,1}n and the given partition . The -party communication complexity, of a function , with respect to partition , is the minimum of costs of those -party protocols which compute . The -party symmetric communication complexity of is defined as
where the maximum is taken over all k-partitions of set .
Upper and lower bounds
For a general upper bound both for two and more players, let us suppose that A1 is one of the smallest classes of the partition A1,A2,...,Ak. Then P1 can compute any Boolean function of S with |A1| + 1 bits of communication: P2 writes down the |A1| bits of A1 on the blackboard, P1 reads it, and computes and announces the value . So, the following can be written:
The Generalized Inner Product function (GIP) is defined as follows:
Let be -bit vectors, and let be the times matrix, with columns as the vectors. Then is the number of the all-1 rows of matrix , taken modulo 2. In other words, if the vectors correspond to the characteristic vectors of subsets of an element base-set, then GIP corresponds to the parity of the intersection of these subsets.
It was shown that
with a constant c > 0.
An upper bound on the multiparty communication complexity of GIP shows that
with a constant c > 0.
For a general Boolean function f, one can bound |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Lyon | The Lyon trolleybus system () is part of the public transport network of the city and commune of Lyon, France. Opened in 1935, it combines with the Lyon Metro, the Lyon tramway network and Lyon's urban motorbus network to form an integrated system.
Lyon was one of the first cities in France to experience trolleybuses. It is the ("capital of the French trolleybus"). In 1961, the Lyon trolleybus system had the largest number of trolleybuses ever to operate simultaneously in France (370 vehicles). In the 21st century, it has been a leader in the development of new trolley buses.
The system is owned by SYTRAL, and, like most of the rest of the four managed transportation systems, is operated by Keolis Lyon on behalf of Transports en commun lyonnais (TCL). Since 2006, it has been expanded by the electrification of two major new lines (C1 and C2). , the system consisted of nine lines.
Lines
The Lyon trolleybus system is presently made up of the following lines:
All of these lines, except line S6, offer a high level of service, and operate 7 days a week from 5 am to midnight, with frequent services on weekdays from 7.00 am to 8.00 pm (usually every 8 to 10 minutes, at most every 12 minutes). They provide an attractive and permanent service throughout the year, including during school holiday periods.
Lines C1 to C3 are equipped with a signal priority system, dedicated lanes for almost their entire routes, and high-capacity bus shelters fitted with ticket distributors.
The principle of these three lines dates back to 2006, and the creation of ("Cristalis strong lines"), designated by the letter C. Cristalis was a model of trolleybus built by Irisbus. The principle was extended on 29 August 2011 to 23 other lines, some operated by trolleybuses, and the rest by motorbuses. The letter "C" has been retained a designator of these lines, but no longer has any other meaning.
Fleet
, the Lyon trolleybus fleet stood at 131 vehicles, of which 76 were rigid buses and 55 articulated buses:
See also
List of trolleybus systems in France
References
External links
Transport in Lyon
Lyon
Lyon
1935 establishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metegol | Metegol (Spanish for table football; also known in English as Underdogs in the United States, The Unbeatables in the United Kingdom and sometimes as Foosball) is a 2013 computer-animated comedy film co-written, produced, directed and edited by Juan J. Campanella. The film is loosely based on the short story Memorias de un wing derecho (Memoirs of a Right Winger) by Argentine writer Roberto Fontanarrosa. Gaston Gorali, co-writer and producer of the film, and Eduardo Sacheri (who had previously worked with Campanella for the classic film The Secret in Their Eyes) developed the screenplay with Campanella.
The film is an Argentinean-Spanish production, and was released by Universal Pictures International Entertainment in Argentina on 18 July 2013, setting an all-time record for an Argentine film opening at the box-office. Costing $21 million, the film is the most expensive Argentine film of all time, and the most expensive Latin American animated feature ever. In 2014, The Weinstein Company acquired the rights to distribute the film in North America. After numerous delays, including an August 2015 theatrical release that was scrapped last minute, the North American English-language version was released on DVD in July 2016. The film was available on Netflix in the United States in June 2016.
The film received mixed reviews upon its international release; it has a 67% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 14 reviews, while scoring a 38% weighted average score on Metacritic, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".
In the American version, the film features the voices of Ariana Grande, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Morrison, Eugenio Derbez, Taran Killam, Shawn Mendes, Katie Holmes, Brooklyn Beckham, Bobby Moynihan, Bella Thorne, John Leguizamo, and Mel Brooks. Whereas, the UK version features the voices of Rupert Grint, Ralf Little, Anthony Head, Rob Brydon, Peter Serafinowicz and Darren Boyd.
Plot
A father who is putting his son to sleep narrates him a story, beginning by telling him to use his imagination while listening.
Many years ago, Amadeo, a timid boy and the best table football player around, was working in a bar in a small and quiet town. He loved Laura, a girl he met in the bar, but she did not know. While showing Laura the table football table, a bully named Grosso arrives and challenges Amadeo to a game in front of Laura. Although Amadeo refuses to play at first, he is victorious, and everyone at the bar applauds. Outside of the bar, Grosso encounters a manager who offers to take him on.
Seven years later, Amadeo's simple routine falls apart when Grosso becomes the best football player in the world, and returns to the small town to avenge the only defeat in his life. Now that he is famous, Grosso announces that he has purchased the whole village (as the town's mayor escapes in a helicopter), and builds a gigantic football stadium, although he is more interested in owning the table football table where he lost to Amadeo and destroyi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCALD | The structured computer-aided logic design (SCALD) software was a computer aided design system developed for building the S-1 computer. It used the Stanford University Drawing System (SUDS), and it was developed by Thomas M. McWilliams and Lawrence Curtis Widdoes, Jr. The work led to the start of the Valid Logic Systems company (briefly known as SCALD Corporation) in 1981, which was purchased by Cadence Design in 1991.
McWilliams and Widdoes won the W. Wallace McDowell Award in 1984 for the SCALD methodology.
See also
Static timing analysis
References
Electronic design automation
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
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