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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallography%20Open%20Database | The Crystallography Open Database (COD) is a database of crystal structures. Unlike similar crystallography databases, the database is entirely open-access, with registered users able to contribute published and unpublished structures of small molecules and small to medium-sized unit cell crystals to the database. As of May 2016, the database has more than 360,000 entries. The database has various contributors, and contains Crystallographic Information Files as defined by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). There are currently five sites worldwide that mirror this database. The 3D structures of compounds can be converted to input files for 3D printers.
See also
Crystallography
Crystallographic database
References
External links
http://www.crystallography.net
http://cod.ibt.lt/
https://archive.today/20130714225104/http://cod.ensicaen.fr/
http://qiserver.ugr.es/cod/
http://nanocrystallography.org
http://nanocrystallography.research.pdx.edu/search/codmirror/
http://nanocrystallography.research.pdx.edu
https://crystallography.io/
Crystallographic databases
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAC-PAD%201 | The PAC-PAD 1 is the first version of an Android tablet computer developed by the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Kamra in collaboration with Hong Kong based INNAVTEK International. A succeeding model is being developed with cell phone network data connectivity.
INNAVTEK also provides electronics for the jet fighters that Pakistan Aeronautical Complex assembles. Shortly after the release of the PAC-PAD 1, its sister tablet PAC-PAD Takhti 7 was announced. The Takhti 7 has double the RAM and CPU speed of the PAD 1 and uses the latest Android IceCream Sandwich operating system.
Features
Processor: 1 GHz ARM11
Operating System: Android OS 2.3
Memory: 256 MB RAM
Storage: Card Extendible 4GB, 32GB, SD/TF support
Flash: 2/4/8/16GB
Dimensions: Height: 192 mm, Width: 128 mm, Depth: 13 mm
Weight: 385 grams
Display: 7", 16:9 Touch screen Capacitive TFT display
Camera: 0.3 MP
Connectivity: Wi-Fi: 802.11 b/g
USB: USB 2.0
HDMI: HDMI standard port mini port, support for HDMI 1.3, supports full screen output to HDMI devices
Content Formats Supported MP3, WMA, AAC, 3GP, WAV, JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF, AVI, MKV, WMV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPG, FLV
Miscellaneous G-sensor, Internal 3d acceleration, 3.5mm Earphone Jack
Browsers: Opera, UCWeb, Skyfire, Dolphin
Software & Games: Word, Excel, Powerpoint, 3D games can be supported by internal 3D acceleration
Supported Audio Formats: MP3, WMA, AAC, WAV
Supported video Formats: AVI, MKV, WMV, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPG, FLV
Supported Image Formats: JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF highest support 4096 x4096
Other Supported Formats: PDF, TXT
Supported Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Chinese Simple, Chinese traditional.
Sensor: G_Sensor
Supports online games, online video streaming, online TV, online radio
See also
Android (operating system)
References
External links
Official website
PAC-PAD 1 Tablet by Pakistan Aeronautical Complex and INNAVTEK
From Kamra To Karachi
Pakistan's first homegrown android tablet
News Report regarding release of PAC PAD-1
Pakistan Aeronautical Complex products
Tablet computers introduced in 2012
Android (operating system) devices
Information technology in Pakistan
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oric | Oric was the name used by UK-based Tangerine Computer Systems for a series of 6502-based home computers sold in the 1980s, primarily in Europe.
With the success of the ZX Spectrum from Sinclair Research, Tangerine's backers suggested a home computer and Tangerine formed Oric Products International Ltd to develop the Oric-1. The computer was introduced in 1982. During 1983, approximately 160,000 Oric-1 computers were sold in the UK, plus another 50,000 in France (where it was the year's top-selling machine). This resulted in Oric being acquired and given funding for a successor model, the 1984 Oric Atmos.
Oric was bought by Eureka, which produced the less successful Oric Telestrat (1986). Oric was dissolved the year the Telestrat was released. Eastern European legal clones of Oric machines were produced into the 1990s.
Models
Oric-1
Based on a 1 MHz MOS Technology 6502 CPU, the Oric-1 came in 16 KB or 48 KB RAM variants for £129 and £169 respectively, matching the models available for the popular ZX Spectrum and undercutting the price of the 48 KB version of the Spectrum by a few pounds. The circuit design requires 8 memory chips, one chip per data line of the CPU. Due to the sizing of readily available memory chips the 48 KB model has 8 * 8 KB (64 KBit) chips, making a total of 64 KB. As released only 48 KB is available to the user, with the top 16 KB of memory overlaid by the BASIC ROM;
The optional disc drive unit contains some additional hardware that allows it to enable or disable the ROM, effectively adding 16 KB of RAM to the machine. This additional memory is used by the system to store the Oric DOS software. Both Oric-1 versions have a 16 KB ROM containing the operating system and a modified BASIC interpreter.
The Oric-1 has a sound chip, the programmable General Instrument AY-3-8910.
Two graphics modes are handled by a semi-custom ASIC (HSC 10017 ULA) which also manages the interface between the processor and memory. The two modes are a "LORES" (low resolution) text mode (though the character set can be redefined to produce graphics) with 28 rows of 40 characters and a "HIRES" (high resolution) mode with 200 rows of 240 pixels above three lines of text. Like the Spectrum, the Oric-1 suffers from attribute clash–albeit to a much lesser degree in HIRES mode, since 2 different colours can be defined for each 6x1 block of 6 pixels,
The system has a built-in television RF modulator as well as RGB output. A standard audio tape recorder can be used for external storage. There is a Centronics compatible printer interface.
Technical details
CPU: MOS 6502 @ 1 MHz
Operating system: Tangerine/Microsoft Extended Basic v1.0
ROM: 16 KB
RAM: 16 KB / 48 KB
Sound: AY-3-8912
Graphics: 40×28 text characters/ 240×200 pixels, 8 colours
Storage: tape recorder, 300 and 2400 baud
Input: integrated keyboard
Connectivity: Tape recorder I/O, Centronics compatible printer port, RGB video out, RF out, expansion port
Voltage: 9 V
Power consumptio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence%20%28formal%20languages%29 | In formal language theory, weak equivalence of two grammars means they generate the same set of strings, i.e. that the formal language they generate is the same. In compiler theory the notion is distinguished from strong (or structural) equivalence, which additionally means that the two parse trees are reasonably similar in that the same semantic interpretation can be assigned to both.
Vijay-Shanker and Weir (1994) demonstrates that Linear Indexed Grammars, Combinatory Categorial Grammars, Tree-adjoining Grammars, and Head Grammars are weakly equivalent formalisms, in that they all define the same string languages.
On the other hand, if two grammars generate the same set of derivation trees (or more generally, the same set of abstract syntactic objects), then the two grammars are strongly equivalent. Chomsky (1963) introduces the notion of strong equivalence, and argues that only strong equivalence is relevant when comparing grammar formalisms. Kornai and Pullum (1990) and Miller (1994) offer a refined notion of strong equivalence that allows for isomorphic relationships between the syntactic analyses given by different formalisms. Yoshinaga, Miyao, and Tsujii (2002) offers a proof that for any LTAG formalism, there is a strongly equivalent HPSG one.
Context-free grammar example
As an example, consider the following two context-free grammars, given in Backus-Naur form:
<expression> ::= <expression> "+" <expression> | <expression> "-" <expression>
| <expression> "*" <expression> | <expression> "/" <expression>
| "x" | "y" | "z" | "1" | "2" | "3" | "(" <expression> ")"
<expression> ::= <term> | <expression> "+" <term> | <expression> "-" <term>
<term> ::= <factor> | <term> "*" <factor> | <term> "/" <factor>
<factor> ::= "x" | "y" | "z" | "1" | "2" | "3" | "(" <expression> ")"
Both grammars generate the same set of strings, viz. the set of all arithmetical expressions that can be built from the variables "x", "y", "z", the constants "1", "2", "3", the operators "+", "-", "*", "/", and parentheses "(" and ")".
However, a concrete syntax tree of the second grammar always reflects the usual order of operations, while a tree from the first grammar need not.
For the example string "1+2*3", the right part of the picture shows its unique parse tree with the second grammar; evaluating this tree in postfix order will yield the proper value, 7.
In contrast, the left picture part shows one of the parse trees for that string with the first grammar; evaluating it in postfix order will yield 9.
Since the second grammar cannot generate a tree corresponding to the left picture part, while the first grammar can, both grammars are not strongly equivalent.
Generative capacity
In linguistics, the weak generative capacity of a grammar is defined as the set of all strings generated by it, while a grammar's strong generative capacity refers to the set of "structural descriptions" generated b |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main%20Line%20%28Sri%20Lanka%29 | The Main Line is a major railway line in the rail network of Sri Lanka and considered by many to be one of the most scenic train journeys in all of Asia. The line begins at Colombo Fort and winds through the Sri Lankan hill country to reach Badulla.
Route definition
The Main Line starts from Colombo and runs east and north past the rapidly developing centres of Ragama, Gampaha, Veyangoda, and Polgahawela.
At Rambukkana, the Main Line begins its steep climb into the hills of the upcountry. Between Balana and Kadugannawa, the track clings to the side of sheer cliffs, offering passengers views of Batalegala ('Bible' Rock).
From Peradeniya Junction, a branch line reaches Kandy and Matale.
The Main Line then continues its climb through tea country, connecting local market centres at Gampola, Nawalapitiya, and Hatton before reaching Nanu Oya. This is the connection to the former colonial resort of Nuwara Eliya, known for its temperate climate, classic hotels, and British-style gardens. The Main Line continues its ascent to the summit at Pattipola, above sea level, before descending past Bandarawela to Badulla. In the upcountry, passengers can view the tea gardens, mountains and valleys, cascading torrents and waterfalls.
History
The first segment of the Main line was opened in 1864, with the construction of the line from Colombo to Ambepussa, to the east. This was the first rail line in the country. The first train ran on 27 December 1864. The line was officially opened for traffic on 2 October 1865. The main reason for building a railway system in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) was to transport tea and coffee from the hill country to Colombo.
The Main Line was extended in stages with service to Kandy beginning in 1867, to Nawalapitiya in 1874, to Nanu Oya in 1885, to Bandarawela in 1894, and to Badulla in 1924.
Till 1953, the Main line operated with steam locomotives. In the 1950s, service was enhanced with diesel locomotives, under the leadership of B. D. Rampala. Various types of diesel locomotives were added to the service.
In 2011, ExpoRail and Rajadhani Express began operating a premium section on trains on the Main Line. These services were launched to improve rail transport's appeal to the public. Sri Lanka Railways also began importing new diesel-multiple units to replace the aging rolling stock previously used on the line. Built by China's CSR Corporation Limited, the new S12 trainsets are designed to work on the steep gradients of the hill country. The commuter rail portion of the line, within the Colombo metropolitan area, is planned to be electrified, though no ground work has started.
Operators and service providers
Sri Lanka Railways operates most passenger services on the Main Line. Sri Lanka Railways' most notable services on the line includes the Udarata Menike, Podi Menike, Tikiri Menike, and Senkadagala Menike.
ExpoRail and Rajadhani Express operate premium services on the Main Line. They run premium carriages attach |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyair | Spyair (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese rock band from Nagoya, formed in 2005. The band currently consists of Yuji "UZ" Nakai (guitar, programming), Kenji "Momiken" Momiyama (bass guitar, leader), Kenta Sasabe (drums) and Yosuke (vocals). The band's name was determined in one shot by the members, which came from the word spyware, a type of computer virus.
History
The band was formed in 2005 and produced and released a number of materials themselves up until 2009 when they signed with the indie label U-Project. While with U-Project, they released the singles "Japanication" and "Kanjō Discord" before signing a major record deal with Sony Music in 2010. Their major debut single, "Liar," was released on August 11 and was used as the theme song for the drama Hammer Session!. Their second major single, "Last Moment," was released on December 1 and was used as the 25th ending song for the anime Bleach.
Spyair's indies debut single "Japanication" was re-released on March 16, 2011, followed by their fourth major single, "Samurai Heart (Some Like It Hot!!)," on June 8, which was used as the 17th ending song to the anime Gin Tama. In early 2012, the single "My World" was used as the second ending song for Mobile Suit Gundam AGE. The single "0 Game (Love Game)" was used as an official soundtrack for the 2012 film The Amazing Spider-Man in Japan. They also provided the theme song for the second Gin Tama movie, "Genjō Destruction". Their eighth major single "Naked" was released on September 5 and was followed by the announcement of the band's second album, Just Do It, which features 12 tracks including their last three singles.
In October, DJ Enzel☆ announced that he would be leaving the band after their Nippon Budokan concert on December 18. The single "Wendy: It's You" was used as the theme song for the drama Koi Suru Hae Onna, which started airing in November. On December 18, the band successfully held their first live concert at the Nippon Budokan, performing a total of 21 songs including their latest singles. This concert was Enzel's last performance with the group. After the concert, they announced a new single, "Sakura Mitsutsuki," set for release on March 13, 2013. It was used as the 13th opening song for Gin Tama for the month of January.
Spyair's third studio album, Million, was released on August 7. On September 23, it was released by JPU Records in Europe, where the CD only version included three bonus tracks: "Last Moment," "Samurai Heart (Some Like It Hot!!)" and "My World." In October, the single "Just One Life" was used as the first opening song of the anime Samurai Flamenco. Their next single "Imagination" was released on April 30, 2014, and served as the first opening song of the anime Haikyū!!. The single "Firestarter," released on July 22, 2015, was used as the theme song for the drama The Last Cop. In October, Spyair contributed with the first opening song of the second season of Haikyū!!, "I'm a Believer", and a year later, their |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Railway%20Museum%20%28Portugal%29 | The National Railway Museum of Portugal () has its headquarters and main base in the town of Entroncamento, which is also a major hub of the Portuguese rail network and the location of railway workshops. Smaller museums are located in other towns around the country.
The museum at Entroncamento was opened on 18 May 2007. It is open daily (except Mondays) from 10.00 to 16.00.
See also
Comboios de Portugal
History of rail transport in Portugal
Narrow gauge railways in Portugal
List of National Railway Museums
References
External links
Museum information on CP's official website
National Railway Museum Foundation (FMNF), Portugal
CP official website: timeline of Portuguese railway history
National railway museums
National museums of Portugal
Transport museums in Portugal
Museums in Santarém District |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meru%20Networks | Meru Networks was a supplier of wireless local area networks (WLANs) to healthcare, enterprise, hospitality, K-12 education, higher education, and other markets. Founded in 2002 and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States, the company made its initial public offering in March 2010, and was acquired by Fortinet in May 2015.
History
Meru Networks was founded in 2002 to address issues with legacy wireless networking architectures that support two separate access networks: a wired network for business-specific applications and a wireless network for casual use. This causes problems ranging from co-channel interference to the inability of micro-cellular systems to scale up. Meru Networks develops and markets a virtualized wireless LAN solution that enables enterprises to migrate applications from wired networks to wireless networks and become what Meru refers to as the "All-wireless enterprise." The company uses an approach to wireless networking that employs virtualization technology to create a self-monitoring wireless network that provides access to applications, improved application performance, and a greater ability to run converged applications, such as voice, video and data, over a wireless network.
The company’s current products address the IEEE 802.11ac and 802.11n wireless networking standards, The company focuses on a “Virtual Cell” approach to Wi-Fi. Under a single service assurance platform, it aggregates access points and the controller needed to manage them. This simplifies the management of access points, cuts the number of access points needed on a wireless network, and eliminates bandwidth contention issues.
In 2011, the company was awarded ITP Technology Best Wireless Solution and was listed as a Health Management Technology Coolest Products.
Timeline
February 2002: Meru Networks founded by Dr. Vaduvur Bharghavan, Srinath Sarang, Sung-Wook Han, Joe Epstein,
June 2005: Company receives $12 million in Series C funding
May 2006: Company receives $25M in Series D funding
January 2007: Company receives $27.6M in unattributed funding
January 2009: Company adds Ihab Abu-Hakima as President and CEO
April 2009: Company receives $30M in Series E funding
August 2009: Company receives an additional $57M in Series E funding
March 2010: Company goes public with stock symbol NASDAQ:MERU
May 2011: Dr. Vaduvur Bharghavan founds another company, becomes Advisory CTO
March 2012: Bami Bastani appointed as President and CEO
May 2015: Fortinet acquires Meru Networks
Main Products and Services
Software
Meru System Director Operating SystemRuns on all Meru controllers and access points, implementing its virtualized wireless LAN technology. As an operating system, System Director runs other applications to deal with the specific requirements of the enterprise. Each application module is integrated with System Director, using its low-level control over the radio frequencies.
Meru Identity ManagerAllows businesses to prov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maeil%20Broadcasting%20Network | Maeil Broadcasting Network, Inc. (MBN) (주식회사 매일방송) is a South Korean cable TV network operated by the Maeil Business Newspaper.
History
Initially founded on September 23, 1993, as Maeil Business TV, the station's name was later changed to Maeil Broadcasting Network in March 2011. The station was operated as a news channel until December 1, 2011, at which point it transitioned into a generalist cable TV channel, launching MBN general programming alongside JTBC, Channel A, and TV Chosun.
Chronology
1990s
On September 23, 1993 the company was founded under the name Maeil Business TV. It launched the cable industry's first successful satellite transmission on December 6, 1994. On March 1, 1995, it began broadcasting for 15 hours per day, and on January 1, 1996, it began broadcasting 24 hours per day.
2000s
November 13, 2000, marked the day of the network's first digital broadcast.
Daily Stock TV (MBNs) securities in the MK TV (MKS) changed the channel name to its current SBS CNBC. Satellite TV channel providers were selected on June 4, 2001. On December 28, 2001, MK Securities TV (MKS) provisionally suspended broadcasting. The network came to an agreement with Korea Digital Satellite Broadcasting (now the KT Sky Life) and signed a program supply agreement on September 27, 2001.
2002 April 30: USA CNBC and the business cooperation contract, plus MBN - CNBC to the channel name and logo Change
2005 July 1: MBN CNBC channel name is changed to the reduction in the MBN
In July 2008, a state-of-the-art digital news production system began operation with the opening of a new news studio. On October 5, 2009, MBN began broadcasting in HD and began transmission from Sky Life to Cable TV on October 12.
2010s
In March 2011 the network was renamed the Maeil Broadcasting Network Ltd. The MBN DMB radio stations were shut down in September 2011.
Programs
Dramas
What's Up (December 3, 2011 – February 5, 2012)
Come, Come, Absolutely Come (December 5, 2011 – March 2, 2012)
Vampire Idol (December 5, 2011 – March 30, 2012)
Bolder By the Day (December 3, 2011 – April 1, 2012)
Knock (August 10, 2012)
Tears of Heaven (October 11, 2014 – January 3, 2015)
It's Okay Because I Am A Mom (September 28–29, 2015)
High-End Crush (November 14, 2015 – January 17, 2016)
Yeonnam-dong 539 (January 10 – March 28, 2018)
Rich Man (May 14 – June 28, 2018, with Dramax)
Witch's Love (July 25 – August 30, 2018)
Devilish Charm (September 5 – October 25, 2018, with Dramax)
Love Alert (October 31 – December 20, 2018, with Dramax)
Best Chicken (January 2 – February 7, 2019, with Dramax)
Loss Time Life (February 13–14, 2019)
Level Up (July 10 – August 15, 2019, with Dramax)
Graceful Family (August 21 – October 17, 2019, with Dramax)
My Dangerous Wife (October 5 – November 24, 2020)
Bossam: Steal the Fate (May 1 – July 4, 2021)
The Driver (February 2, 2022)
Sponsor (February 23 – April 6, 2022)
Perfect Marriage Revenge (October 28, 2023 – present)
You and Me (October |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorway%20Company%20in%20the%20Republic%20of%20Slovenia | The Motorway Company in the Republic of Slovenia (, DARS) is a joint-stock company in Slovenia that operates and maintains the Slovenian motorway network and the related infrastructure. It was established by the Republic of Slovenia as a public enterprise on 11 November 1993, and was entered in the companies' register on 7 December 1993. On 1 January 2004, it became a joint-stock company, 100% owned by the Republic of Slovenia. Its head office is located in Celje, and a branch office in Ljubljana. Since 16 October 2009 until 27 June 2012, Mateja Duhovnik was the chairwoman of the management board. Due to having failed to act with due diligence, she has been dismissed and temporarily replaced by Matjaž Knez. The company supervises the Slovenian motorways and highways from five centres, located in Ljubljana, Vransko, Kozina, Maribor, and Hrušica
References
External links
Road transport in Slovenia
Highways in Slovenia
Transport operators of Slovenia
Transport companies established in 1993
Companies based in Celje
Road operators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith%20Marakovits | Meredith Marakovits (born July 22, 1983) is an American sports reporter. She is the clubhouse reporter for the YES Network, where she reports on the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball for the network’s Yankees game telecasts, pre-game and post-game shows, and the Yankees' Batting Practice Today show. Marakovits also appears on the network's special Yankees programming and contributes to the YESNetwork.com web site.
Early life
Marakovits was born in Walnutport, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley. She attended Allentown Central Catholic High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania and earned a scholarship to play volleyball at the NCAA Division I level at La Salle University in Philadelphia. She graduated from La Salle in 2005.
Career
Marakovits began her career in Allentown, Pennsylvania with Service Electric, where she was the pre-game, post-game host and sideline reporter covering the Lehigh Valley IronPigs, the Triple-A affiliate of the Philadelphia Phillies. Marakovits also worked as a sideline reporter for Service Electric's college football, indoor football, and college basketball broadcasts.
Marakovits later worked in the Philadelphia broadcast market with 97.5 The Fanatic, where she covered the Philadelphia Phillies, and with Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, where she covered the Philadelphia 76ers until 2012. She also has worked in the New York City media market as an anchor and program contributor for SportsNet New York, as a contributor for WFAN "The Fan" radio, and as a fill-in anchor for NBC Sports Boston.
In 2012, Marakovits succeeded Kim Jones as the New York Yankees clubhouse reporter for the YES Network. Marakovits worked as a Field level reporter for TBS MLB Tuesday starting in 2022.
References
External links
1983 births
Living people
Allentown Central Catholic High School alumni
Major League Baseball broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
College football announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
American sports journalists
Sports commentators
SportsNet New York people
La Salle University alumni
YES Network
People from Northampton County, Pennsylvania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B/CX | C++/CX (C++ component extensions) is a language projection for Microsoft's Windows Runtime platform. It takes the form of a language extension for C++ compilers, and it enables C++ programmers to write programs that call Windows Runtime (WinRT) APIs. C++/CX is superseded by the C++/WinRT language projection, which is not an extension to the C++ language; rather, it's an entirely standard modern ISO C++17 header-file-based library.
The language extensions borrow syntax from C++/CLI but target the Windows Runtime Universal Windows Platform native code instead of the Common Language Runtime and managed code. It brings a set of syntax and library abstractions that project COM's WRL subset-based WinRT programming model in a way that is intuitive to C++/CLI managed extensions' coders.
It is possible to call the Windows Runtime from native ISO C++ via the lower level Windows Runtime C++ Template Library (WRL). However, WRL is also superseded by C++/WinRT.
Extension syntax
C++/CX introduces syntax extensions for programming for the Windows Runtime. The overall non platform-specific syntax is compatible with the C++11 standard.
Objects
WinRT objects are created, or activated, using ref new and assigned to variables declared with the ^ (hat) notation inherited from C++/CLI.
Foo^ foo = ref new Foo();
A WinRT variable is simply a pair of a pointer to virtual method table and pointer to the object's internal data.
Reference counting
A WinRT object is reference counted and thus handles similarly to ordinary C++ objects enclosed in shared_ptrs. An object will be deleted when there are no remaining references that lead to it.
There is no garbage collection involved. Nevertheless, the keyword gcnew has been reserved for possible future use.
Classes
Runtime classes
There are special kinds of runtime classes that may contain component extension constructs. These are simply referred to as ref classes because they are declared using ref class.
public ref class MyClass
{
};
Partial classes
C++/CX introduces the concept of partial classes. The feature allows a single class definition to be split across multiple files, mainly to enable the XAML graphical user interface design tools to auto-generate code in a separate file in order not to break the logic written by the developer. The parts are later merged at compilation.
.NET languages like C# have had this feature for many years. Partial classes have not yet made it into the C++ standard and cannot therefore be used, even in C++20.
A file that is generated and updated by the GUI-designer, and thus should not be modified by the programmer. Note the keyword partial.
// foo.private.h
#pragma once
partial ref class foo
{
private:
int id_;
Platform::String^ name_;
};
The file where the programmer writes user-interface logic. The header in which the compiler-generated part of the class is defined is imported. Note that the keyword partial is not necessary.
// foo.public.h
#pragma once
#include "fo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRIPDB | SCRIPDB is a database of chemical structures associated to patents.
References
External links
http://dcv.uhnres.utoronto.ca/SCRIPDB.
Biological databases
Patent law
Public records |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20process%20of%20law | Electronic process of law or Electronic lawsuit is an up-to-date phenomenon, concerning the use of computer programs in courts and public departments in sue activities. It is a theme of worldwide scope. In Portugal, it is known as the concept of processo eletrônico. In India, known as Electronic Judicial Resource Management. In France, it is called Dématerialisation du processus judiciaire. It is a polissemic expression related to interdisciplinarity between the information technologies and branches of law that govern the lawsuits that take place in departments of public administration; more specifically, the control, follow-up, searches and practices of juridical acts helped by computer systems. Its universal definition can be found in various sources.
Internationally
Internationally, there is, in Virginia State, the Records Managements System. In Pakistan, the Court Automation. In England, the Legal Case Management Software There are sources of compared legislation about the matter, but it is certain that this phenomenon takes places in United States, Europe and also in Latin America.
Meanings of the expression
In a wide sense, it is the use of computers and specific software for the activities in process of law, relative to management, legislation or jurisdiction. In a strict sense, it is a kind of management of the process of law in which media have the format of electronic files (text, pictures and audiovisual elements).
The Brazilian phenomenon
(in Portuguese)
(in english)
Public economy
The electronic process of law has been referred as recurrently as a necessary phenomenon to lower the costs of the public finances, dealing with direct mechanisms, as well as indirect ones like the consequences of the gains with accelerating the lawsuits. These waited cause-effect relation and the best form to achieve them are object of discussions in the Public powers and in the social networks.
References
See also
Lawsuit
Judicial power
Virtual world
Audiovisual
Public administration
Lawsuits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti%20Lane | Yeti Lane are a French rock band from Paris, formed in 2008 and consisting of Ben Pleng (vocals/guitars/keyboards/programming) and Charlie B (drums/percussion/keyboards/programming).
History
The members of the band were originally in the quartet Cyann & Ben. When singer Cyann quit the band early in 2008, the remaining three members renamed themselves Yeti Lane and guitarist/keyboard player Ben Pleng took over on vocals. The name comes from records by two of their favourite groups, Yeti by Amon Düül II and "Penny Lane" by the Beatles. Their eponymous debut album was released in France in 2009, and in the UK the following year. Shortly after the album's release, Loïc Carron (aka LoAc) also left the band, leaving Pleng and Charlie Boyer (aka Charlie B) to carry on as a duo. The band altered their musical direction, moving away from indie pop to a more experimental "shoegazing" psychedelic rock sound. The first release from the duo was the Twice EP, released in May 2010 and featuring a re-recorded version of the track on their debut album. Their second full-length album, The Echo Show, was released on 5 March 2012, and their third full-length album, L'Aurore, was released on 4 March 2016.
Discography
Albums
Yeti Lane (2009 in Europe, 2010 in the UK)
The Echo Show (2012)
L'Aurore (2016)
EPs
Twice (2010)
Singles
"Lonesome George" (2009)
"First-Rate Pretender" (2010)
Compilations
Stoned - Psych Versions of the Rolling Stones (2015) with the song "Sway"
References
External links
Official website
MySpace site
French alternative rock groups
French indie rock groups
Musical groups from Paris |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northside%20Hospital%20System | The Northside Hospital System (Northside) is a hospital network in the Atlanta area of Georgia in the United States. Its specialties include oncology, gynecology, neurology, orthopedic surgery, and gastroenterology.
Northside operates five hospitals across the metro area: Northside Hospital Atlanta, Northside Hospital Cherokee, Northside Hospital Duluth, Northside Hospital Forsyth, and Northside Hospital Gwinnett.
History
Northside Hospital purchased Baptist Medical Center in Cumming, Georgia in 2002, which was renamed Northside Hospital Forsyth. Northside Medical Midtown opened in Atlanta in November 2018.
References
External links
Official website
Sandy Springs, Georgia
Hospitals in Georgia (U.S. state)
Hospital buildings completed in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Movies%20%28Portuguese%20TV%20channel%29 | Fox Movies is a Portuguese pay television movie channel owned by The Walt Disney Company Portugal. It was launched on 1 July 2011.
Programming
The channel airs the most recent and successful movies in many genres including drama, comedy, science fiction, action and horror. Programming during the summer slate included hits such as X-Men and The Queen.
Following Disney's acquisition of the Fox Networks Group in 2019, the channel began to promote certain events around releases on Disney+ or theatrical releases from Disney. Such examples include airings from Predator and Predator 2 to promote the release of Prey on Disney+, and airings of the Indiana Jones films to promote the release of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny in theaters.
References
External links
Official website
Movie channels in Portugal
Fox Networks Group
Portugal
Television stations in Portugal
Portuguese-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avner%20Magen | Avner Magen (March 30, 1968 – May 29, 2010) was an associate professor of computer science at the University of Toronto whose research focused on the theory of metric embeddings, discrete geometry and computational geometry. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2002, under the supervision of Nati Linial. He held a postdoctoral fellowship at NEC Research in Princeton, New Jersey, from 2000 until 2002. He joined the University of Toronto in 2002, first as a postdoctoral fellow, and then as an assistant professor in 2004. He was promoted to associate professor in 2009.
His major contributions include an algorithm for approximating the weight of the Euclidean minimum spanning tree in sublinear time, and finding a tight integrality gap for the vertex cover problem using the Frankl–Rödl graphs. He proved with his coauthors essentially that a huge class of semidefinite programming algorithms for the famous vertex cover problem will not achieve a solution of value less than the value of the optimal solution times a factor of two. With Nati Linial and Michael Saks, he showed how to embed trees into Euclidean metrics with low distortion. And in a later result, he showed how to do JL-style embeddings that preserved not only distances, but also higher order volumes.
He died in a climbing accident in Alaska on May 29, 2010, along with good friend Andrew Herzenberg, leaving behind three children, Noa, Ofri, and Roy, and a wife, Ayelet.
References
External links
Avner Magen's home page at University of Toronto.
1968 births
2010 deaths
Mountaineering deaths
Canadian computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Computer Science & Engineering alumni
Academic staff of the University of Toronto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20feature%20learning | Geometric feature learning is a technique combining machine learning and computer vision to solve visual tasks. The main goal of this method is to find a set of representative features of geometric form to represent an object by collecting geometric features from images and learning them using efficient machine learning methods. Humans solve visual tasks and can give fast response to the environment by extracting perceptual information from what they see. Researchers simulate humans' ability of recognizing objects to solve computer vision problems. For example, M. Mata et al.(2002) applied feature learning techniques to the mobile robot navigation tasks in order to avoid obstacles. They used genetic algorithms for learning features and recognizing objects (figures). Geometric feature learning methods can not only solve recognition problems but also predict subsequent actions by analyzing a set of sequential input sensory images, usually some extracting features of images. Through learning, some hypothesis of the next action are given and according to the probability of each hypothesis give a most probable action. This technique is widely used in the area of artificial intelligence.
Introduction
Geometric feature learning methods extract distinctive geometric features from images. Geometric features are features of objects constructed by a set of geometric elements like points, lines, curves or surfaces. These features can be corner features, edge features, Blobs, Ridges, salient points image texture and so on, which can be detected by feature detection methods.
Geometric features
Primitive features
Corners: Corners are a very simple but significant feature of objects. Especially, Complex objects usually have different corner features with each other. Corners of an object can be extracted through Corner detection. Cho and Dunn used a different way to define a corner by the distance and angle between two straight line segments. This is a new way by defining features as a parameterized composition of several components.
Edges: Edges are one-dimensional structure features of an image. They represent the boundary of different image regions. The outline of an object can be easily detected by finding the edge using the technique of edge detection.
Blobs: Blobs represent regions of images, which can be detected using blob detection method.
Ridges: From a practical viewpoint, a ridge can be thought of as a one-dimensional curve that represents an axis of symmetry. Ridges detection method-see ridge detection
salient points-see Kadir–Brady saliency detector
image texture
Compound features
Geometric composition
Geometric component feature is a combination of several primitive features and it always consists more than 2 primitive features like edges, corners or blobs. Extracting geometric feature vector at location x can be computed according to the reference point, which is shown below:
x means the location of the location of features, means t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remo%203D | Remo 3D is a 3D computer graphics software specialized in creating 3D models for realtime visualization. As opposed to many other 3D modeling products that are primarily intended for rendering. Remo 3D focuses on supporting realtime features like full control of the model scene graph, and modification of features like degrees-of-freedom nodes (DOF), levels-of-detail (LOD), switches, etc. Remo 3D's primary file format is OpenFlight and it allows for importing from and exporting to different file formats. This makes Remo 3D suitable for creating realtime 3D models intended for use in virtual reality software, simulators and computer games.
The product is developed by the Swedish company Remograph, and it has been on the market since 2005. It has users worldwide, both private and governmental, in defence and civil industries.
Remo 3D has been described in several independent articles, for instance at the vr-news and modsim sites, as well as in the Defence Management Journal
Remo 3D is developed using OpenSceneGraph, FLTK and scriptable using the Lua programming language.
References
3D graphics software
Lua (programming language)-scriptable software
3D computer graphics software for Linux
Proprietary commercial software for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanan%20Ibrahim | Hanan Ibrahim (, ) is a Somali social activist. She is the Chairperson of the Barnet Muslim Women's Network, among other organizations.
Early years
Ibrahim grew up in Somalia. She is a mother of three children and a Muslim. After the outbreak of the civil war in her native country, she moved to the United Kingdom in 1998.
Career
In a professional capacity, Ibrahim worked with the Women Interfaith Network, Sisters against Violent Extremism, the African SANG and the Women's Federation for World Peace.
While in London, she founded the Somali Family Support Group (SFSG), a non-governmental organization catering to the UK's Somali and larger Horn African community. The SFSG promotes inter-faith dialogue and understanding, and advocates for greater female participation in various issues. It also offers a variety of social services, including a family advice center, health awareness drives, job-search assistance and skill acquisition workshops.
She serves as the Chairperson for the Barnet Muslim Women's Network. In 2008, she became a member of the SAVE UK Advisory Board, a Women Without Borders initiative. Ibrahim is also part of various other organizations and panels. The latter include the governmental National Muslim Women Advisory Group and the National Community Forum, a consultative body for the Department of Communities.
Based on her knowledge and experience in law, Ibrahim was also in 2011 appointed by the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia to the Committee of Experts (CoE) tasked with preparing the country's new draft constitution.
Awards
For her contributions to society, Ibrahim was presented in 2004 with the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service. She received the Ambassador For Peace Award in 2009.
In 2010, she won the London Borough of Barnet Civic Award and the Community Engagement Award from HAYA - Somali Organization in London. That year, she was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her community work with the SFSG.
References
External links
SAVE UK Advisory Board - Hanan Ibrahim
People from the London Borough of Barnet
Living people
Ethnic Somali people
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Somalian activists
Somalian women activists
Somalian expatriates in the United Kingdom
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Date of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Somalian women politicians
21st-century Somalian politicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maplet | A maplet or maplet arrow (symbol: ↦, commonly pronounced "maps to") is a symbol consisting of a vertical line with a rightward-facing arrow. It is used in mathematics and in computer science to denote functions (the expression x ↦ y is also called a maplet). One example of use of the maplet is in Z notation, a formal specification language used in software development.
In the Unicode character set, the maplet is at the point U+21A6.
See also
Arrow notation – e.g., , also known as map
References
Mathematical symbols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diva%20Communications | Diva Communications, Inc. is an programming and production company based in New York City. It specializes in production of film that explores social justice issues through a faith-based and humanistic lens. Founded by Dr. Debra Gonsher Vinik in 1985, Diva Communications has produced 20 documentaries, multiple short-from videos, and video series for use in the broadcast, cable, internet, and marketing industries. Diva Communications has won Emmy Awards for 6 of these films.
History
Debra Gonsher Vinik started Diva Communications in 1985 after stints at Bravo, CBS and Twentieth Century Fox. The company initially made production deals with Orion Pictures and Fox Hills Video, and produced a series of home video offerings which included How to Read a Woman Like a Book, How to Become the Love of His Life, Bizarre Sports Incredible Feats, and Get Rich Quick By Beating the Odds.
In 1995, the company merged with David Vinik's Davideo Productions. Diva's first film production after the merger was Embracing Judaism: Reaching In, Reaching Out, Reaching Up. It resulted in the book Embracing Judaism: Narratives of Personal Faith published by Jason Aronson. Since then the company has written, created, filmed and edited 19 documentaries, all of which have aired on major television outlets and screened in film festivals worldwide. These films address such subjects as community and inclusion for persons with disabilities, hunger in America, intimate partner violence, healthcare and immigration and refugees.
Diva Communications won an Emmy Award for Beauty of Their Dreams., which aired on ABC affiliated stations in April through July 2016, and focused on the role of people of faith advocating for girls' education worldwide.
The company's 2017 documentary is Brightness of Noon: The Intersect of Faith, Immigration and Refugees - Part 1 which chronicles people of various faiths defending the rights of undocumented immigrants, asylees and refugees. The film premiered on ABC affiliated stations in February 2018 and ran through April. It focused on the works of faith leaders such as the Rev. John Fife, who helped create the Sanctuary Movement in the '80s; Rabbi Marisa James of New York City's Beit Simchat Torah, whose congregation has accompanied immigrants to court hearings; and the Rev. Jim Rigby whose Austin Sanctuary Network has provided shelter and protection to undocumented immigrants facing deportation.
Brightness of Noon- Part 2, narrated by actress and activist Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill, Chicago PD), shares the compassionate response of the majority of major faith-based institutions toward asylum seekers and refugees – a response that cares, nurtures, educates, often providing sanctuary for those living in fear of returning to their homelands. It was awarded a NY Emmy in 2019 and is scheduled to air again on ABC affiliated stations starting February 14, 2021.
Diva Communications also produces video content for web and mobile apps. In 2010, the company be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20Object%20Database%20Access | Simple Object Database Access, also known as S.O.D.A. or SODA, is an API for database queries.
Database APIs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapHook | MapHook is a location-based journal and social networking application that is operated by MapHook Inc., a software applications development firm based in Dulles, Virginia.
MapHook combines GPS and mapping technologies to allow users to create geo-tagged digital memories about events, locations, and activities. These geo-tagged "hooks" contain user reviews, anecdotal information, available business details, and user-created images pertaining to the selected location. These hooks are then published per user specifications to the public or select individuals. MapHook also displays points of interest that relate to Wikipedia articles, Groupon offers, or Yelp reviews within a user's selected vicinities.
History
MapHook was launched in July 2010.
In August 2010, the “Gulf Caravan ,” an advocacy group from St. Louis, MO, selected MapHook to help create awareness about the businesses impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
In April 2011, MapHook joined with Groupon and began displaying regional Groupon offerings by user location.
In August 2011, MapHook added the ability to attach YouTube videos to "hooks." MapHook also introduced the "Groups" concept, which allowed for the creation of user communities with user-set levels of privacy. MapHook also connected with Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ in order to merge with other social networking platforms.
In September 2011, MapHook partnered with ThinkGeek and their “Timmy the Monkey Sticker Map Project,” which documents the global reach of ThinkGeek customers by using MapHook.
In March 2012, MapHook partnered with the World Wildlife Fund and their "Tigers or Toilet Paper" project, which aims to draw closer attention to the deforestation and ruin of the Sumatran tiger’s habitat by having users create hooks to spread awareness about the paper products being sold in their area.
In April 2012, MapHook and the World Wildlife Fund teamed together again for Earth Hour, which took place in 2012 on March 31. As part of the Earth Hour MapHook Project, the World Wildlife Fund asked Earth Hour participants to post hooks on MapHook in order to chart participation and share experiences.
Recognition
Upon its release in July 2010, MapHook received recognition in a number of online and paper-based publications:
On July 19, 2010, MapHook was included in Gizmodo's "This Week's Best Apps" list.
On July 20, 2010, MapHook was recognized by TIME's Techland section as its "App of the Week."
On July 29, 2010, MapHook made the NY Times "Quick Calls" list.
References
External links
MapHook website
Mobile social software
IOS software
Geosocial networking
Wireless locating |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planzet | is a 2010 Japanese computer animated film written and directed by Jun Awazu.
Plot
In 2047, an unknown, alien life-form, codenamed FOS, attacks Earth, destroying the world's major cities in one fell swoop. The survivors unite to fight back, and three years later they erect a world shield, the Diffuser, to stop further invasions. Now in 2053, a last, desperate counterattack is being mounted against the FOS. Taishi Akejima, a soldier in the Planetary Defense Forces Alliance, would like nothing better than a shot at the aliens responsible for his father's death six years ago. However, the new offensive requires a powerful weapon to be deployed and the Diffuser to be disabled, leaving the entire planet terribly vulnerable once more. Will humanity regain the stars or lose everything in the final, ultimate gamble?
Cast
In the different language versions, some of the character's names were changed.
Taishi Akejima
Character name: Taishi Akejima (Japanese), Hiroshi Akishima (English), Hiroshi (French)
, Tony Marot (French)
Koyomi Akejima
Character name: Koyomi Akejima (Japanese), Koyomi Akishima (English), Koyomi (French)
, Jennifer Fauveau (French)
Kōshirō Akejima
Character name: Kōshirō Akejima (Japanese), Koshiro Akishima (English), Kôshiro (French)
, Marc Brétonnière (French)
Ken Tazaki
, Jochen Haegele (French)
Kaori Sagawa
, Magali Rosenzweig (French)
Yūra Yoshizawa
, Virginie Ledieu (French)
Commissioner Yoshizawa
Character name: Commissioner Yoshizawa (Japanese), Area Commander Yoshizawa (English), Seiji (French)
, Frédéric Souterelle (French)
Nakamura
Voiced by: Greg Ayres (English), Grégory Laisné (French)
Narrator
, Bruno Meyere (French)
Music
The ending theme is "Ryūgū no Tsukai" (竜宮の使い) by Chitose Hajime.
Home media
The film was released on Blu-Ray in 2012.
References
External links
Sentai Filmwork's Official Planzet Website
2010 anime films
2010 films
Fiction set in 2053
2010s science fiction films
Japanese computer-animated films
Japanese science fiction films
Mecha anime and manga
Sentai Filmworks
CoMix Wave Films films
Films set in the 2050s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidnet | Liquidnet is a global institutional investment network that connects asset managers with liquidity. Liquidnet trades in 46 equity markets for over 1000 institutional investment firms who collectively manage US$33 trillion in equity and fixed income assets.
Liquidnet is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Boston, Dublin, London, San Francisco, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and Toronto.
History
Liquidnet was founded in April 2001 by Seth Merrin as a wholesale electronic marketplace where institutional investors could anonymously trade large blocks of stocks.
Merrin estimated that the network needed at least 100 buy side firms live on Day One to create a critical mass. This number was revised to 75, but the company ultimately launched with only 38 institutions. In 2002, Liquidnet Europe launched with nine member firms, with Liquidnet Asia launching with 26 member firms in 2007, bringing its global reach to 28 markets.
Merrin describes his company as “creating marketplaces that enable institutions to trade in size with the efficiency that they sorely need.” In the U.S., Liquidnet's average execution size of 50,000 shares is 200 times the size of the 250-share average traded in all lit and dark venues. Liquidnet's average execution in international equities is reportedly 100 times larger than the average.
Liquidnet has an Equity Capital Markets and Issuer Services group which leverages its community of institutional investors to determine institutional demand for a stock.
In January 2010, Liquidnet announced a strategic investment in OTR Global LLC, a securities research and brokerage firm.
In October 2011, Liquidnet launched a private shares market. As part of Liquidnet's equity capital markets division, the Private Shares group works with institutional investors and companies looking to trade private shares.
In July 2011, SIX Swiss Exchange and Liquidnet launched a platform for non-displayed equity block trading. The platform allows SIX Swiss Exchange members and Liquidnet's buy side members to execute large block trades.
In March 2014, Liquidnet acquired bond trading platform Vega-Chi, with trading facilities for high yield bonds and convertible bonds.
In May 2017, Liquidnet acquired OTAS Technologies, a market-leading analytics platform that delivers actionable market intelligence and context directly to institutional traders and portfolio managers.
In May 2019, Liquidnet acquired RSRCHXchange, a marketplace and aggregator for institutional research to help embed a new level of research and analytics into the investment process.
In June 2019, Liquidnet acquired Prattle, a provider of automated investment research solutions for portfolio managers, research analysts, and other financial professionals.
In February 2020, founder Seth Merrin stepped down as CEO of Liquidnet. Company President Brian Conroy has been selected as his successor.
In September and October 2020, TP ICAP announced plans to acquire Liquidnet. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextual%20image%20classification | Contextual image classification, a topic of pattern recognition in computer vision, is an approach of classification based on contextual information in images. "Contextual" means this approach is focusing on the relationship of the nearby pixels, which is also called neighbourhood. The goal of this approach is to classify the images by using the contextual information.
Introduction
Similar as processing language, a single word may have multiple meanings unless the context is provided, and the patterns within the sentences are the only informative segments we care about. For images, the principle is same. Find out the patterns and associate proper meanings to them.
As the image illustrated below, if only a small portion of the image is shown, it is very difficult to tell what the image is about.
Even try another portion of the image, it is still difficult to classify the image.
However, if we increase the contextual of the image, then it makes more sense to recognize.
As the full images shows below, almost everyone can classify it easily.
During the procedure of segmentation, the methods which do not use the contextual information are sensitive to noise and variations, thus the result of segmentation will contain a great deal of misclassified regions, and often these regions are small (e.g., one pixel).
Compared to other techniques, this approach is robust to noise and substantial variations for it takes the continuity of the segments into account.
Several methods of this approach will be described below.
Applications
Functioning as a post-processing filter to a labelled image
This approach is very effective against small regions caused by noise. And these small regions are usually formed by few pixels or one pixel. The most probable label is assigned to these regions.
However, there is a drawback of this method. The small regions also can be formed by correct regions rather than noise, and in this case the method is actually making the classification worse.
This approach is widely used in remote sensing applications.
Improving the post-processing classification
This is a two-stage classification process:
For each pixel, label the pixel and form a new feature vector for it.
Use the new feature vector and combine the contextual information to assign the final label to the
Merging the pixels in earlier stages
Instead of using single pixels, the neighbour pixels can be merged into homogeneous regions benefiting from contextual information. And provide these regions to classifier.
Acquiring pixel feature from neighbourhood
The original spectral data can be enriched by adding the contextual information carried by the neighbour pixels, or even replaced in some occasions. This kind of pre-processing methods are widely used in textured image recognition. The typical approaches include mean values, variances, texture description, etc.
Combining spectral and spatial information
The classifier uses the grey level and pixel neighbourhood |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Google%20Play%20edition%20devices | The Google Play edition devices (GPE) is a series of consumer mobile devices sanctioned by Google that run the Android operating system. Unlike the standard versions of Android on these devices, which have received "skins" from the original equipment manufacturer, such as Samsung One UI or HTC Sense, they run a "stock" version of Android, without any manufacturer or wireless carrier modifications, making them essentially like Google Nexus and Google Pixel devices in terms of software but they do not carry the Google Nexus branding, nor does their hardware differ from that of the original devices upon which the Play editions are based. Because of this, the software includes slight, under-the-hood changes to function on the original manufacturer's hardware.
These devices are carrier unlocked and GSM-based, and have been offered exclusively through Google's Play Store. Updates for these devices are delivered by Google (bypassing carriers), but are supplied by the original device manufacturer.
Although the updates are not supplied directly by Google, as is the case with the products from the Nexus line, these devices receive Android updates at nearly the same time as Nexus products.
In January 2015, Google stopped selling their final Google Play edition phone. While Google never officially announced the end of the program, it has been superseded by the similar Android One program. As of 2019, manufacturers of Android One devices include Xiaomi, HMD Global (Nokia) and Lenovo (Motorola).
Phones
Samsung Galaxy S4 – At the Google I/O 2013 keynote, it was announced that a special edition of the Samsung Galaxy S4 would be released in the United States through Google Play on June 26, 2013. Unlike normal versions of the S4 (which ship with Samsung's TouchWiz interface and software), the phone will ship with a stock build of Android 4.2.2 with Google-supplied updates, similarly to Nexus devices. The price of the Google Edition is $649, and sold exclusively through the Google Play Store. On August 5, 2014 the device was retired.
HTC One – On May 30, 2013, HTC announced that a similar version of the HTC One with stock Android in place of HTC Sense would be released on the same day. The price of the Google Edition is $599, and sold exclusively through the Google Play Store. On March 26, 2014 the price was dropped $100 to $499 and eventually retired on May 19, 2014
Sony Xperia Z Ultra – On December 10, 2013 a Google Play edition of Sony Xperia Z Ultra phone was announced, dropping the Xperia branding, priced at $649, and sold exclusively through the Google Play Store. On April 29, 2014 the price was dropped $200 to $449, before being retired in July 2014.
Motorola Moto G – On January 14, 2014 Google announced and released a Google Edition of the widely popular Motorola Moto G. At the same price as the normal Motorola Moto G ($179 for 8 GB and $199 for 16 GB) however it receives updates from Google and not Motorola. The phone was retired in January 2015.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLS%20on%20NBC | The MLS on NBC is the branding used for broadcasts of Major League Soccer (MLS) games produced by NBC Sports, the sports division of the NBC television network in the United States, and broadcast on NBC and NBCSN from 2012 to 2014.
Contract overview
On January 5, 2012, NBC Sports signed a three-year contract with Major League Soccer to nationally televise 40 matches per year, which would primarily air on the NBC Sports Network (now NBCSN), beginning with the 2012 season. All NBC telecasts included pre-game and post-game coverage, with the network intending to promote its games during broadcasts of its other major sports properties, such as the Olympics. More specifically as part of the new deal, NBC would carry three regular season and two playoff matches (the first time since 2002 that that many MLS games were to be broadcast on English-language network television), as well as 38 regular season and three playoff matches on sister channel NBCSN; both networks also aired matches featuring the United States men's national soccer team (with two games airing on each network).
NBC Sports took over the Major League Soccer rights from Fox Soccer and Fox Deportes. Previous deals with U.S. partners ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Deportes and Galavisión continued in 2012, as did with Canadian partners TSN, TSN2 and GolTV.
Performance
NBC Sports' ratings for MLS improved greatly due to the increased presence of NBCSN (fueled by their NHL television package), with average ratings for the games jumping 122% for the inaugural season of the contract in 2012. Yet still, several games ranked at or near the bottom of the ratings among sporting event and entertainment telecasts, whereas ESPN's MLS coverage – which was railed by fans as being inferior to NBC's – had higher viewership, attributed to the greater availability of ESPN and ESPN2 nationally.
NBC and NBCSN's MLS telecasts during the 2013 season averaged 115,000 viewers per game, a steep drop from 2012. Looking to capitalize on further soccer opportunities, NBC Sports acquired the rights to the Premier League from Fox Soccer in 2012, in time for the 2013–14 Premier League season. Speculation abounded on if MLS was to be treated by the sports division secondarily to the Premier League, which has a greater U.S. audience than the domestic league, placing MLS' future with NBC in doubt.
In 2014, negotiations broke down between NBC and MLS on a new television contract. The league instead signed an agreement with Fox Sports to serve as its U.S. broadcast partner, beginning with the 2015 season in a shared rights deal with ESPN.
NBC also operates a blog, ProSoccerTalk, which ran news headlines from Major League Soccer and other international soccer leagues. With NBC acquiring the broadcast television rights to the Premier League in 2013, significantly more coverage of the English top-flight was added to the site.
On-air staff
Commentators
Ron Burke – alternate studio host
JP Dellacamera – alternate play-by-play
Bria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons%20of%20Anarchy%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of the American television drama series Sons of Anarchy premiered on September 3, 2008, and concluded on November 26, 2008, after 13 episodes aired on cable network FX. It is also the only season to air on Wednesdays before the show moved to Tuesdays for the remainder of its run. Created by Kurt Sutter, it is about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in California's Central Valley. The show centers on protagonist Jackson "Jax" Teller (Charlie Hunnam), the vice president of the motorcycle club, who begins questioning the club and himself.
Sons of Anarchy is the story of the Teller-Morrow family of Charming, California, as well as other members of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original (SAMCRO), their families, various Charming townspeople, allied and rival gangs, associates, and law agencies that undermine or support SAMCRO's legal and illegal enterprises.
Plot
The series begins with the destruction of a warehouse the club uses to store and assemble guns, which is their main source of income, by a rival MC right before the overdose of Jax's Methamphetamine-addicted, pregnant ex-wife Wendy. An emergency C-section is performed, and their son Abel is delivered ten weeks prematurely. Jax finds his father's memoirs when he visits a storage unit to collect some old baby clothes. John Teller, Jax's father, was one of the founders of SAMCRO, and the book describes his trials with and hopes for the club. Jax's mother, Gemma Teller-Morrow, is now married to the President of SAMCRO, Clay Morrow. Jax's best friend Opie has just been released from prison for serving time for a club-related crime. The first season deals with Jax trying to reconcile things happening to the club with what he reads in his father's memoirs, Opie trying to take a lesser role in the club, and local and federal law enforcement trying to shut down SAMCRO.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Charlie Hunnam as Jackson "Jax" Teller, a disillusioned club member who is Vice President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club Redwood Original in Charming. He discovers a written diary by his late father John that makes him question his life and the club.
Katey Sagal as Gemma Teller Morrow, Jax's mother and the queen of Charming. She is the matriarch of the club through her marriage to President Clay Morrow.
Mark Boone Junior as Robert "Bobby Elvis" Munson, the Secretary and a former Vice President of SAMCRO, in Charming.
Kim Coates as Alexander "Tig" Trager, a former Sergeant-at-Arms at the club.
Tommy Flanagan as Filip "Chibs" Telford, a club member from Glasgow, Scotland. He is SAMCRO's connection with the IRA.
Johnny Lewis as Kip "Half Sack" Epps, a prospect (prospective member) of the club, who often gets hazed by the club and is given undesirable tasks.
Maggie Siff as Dr. Tara Knowles Jax's high-school sweetheart. She performs successful surgery on his premature child Abel.
Ron Perlman as Claren |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons%20of%20Anarchy%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of the American television drama series Sons of Anarchy premiered on September 8, 2009, and concluded on December 1, 2009, after 13 episodes aired on cable network FX. Created by Kurt Sutter, it is about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in California's Central Valley. The show centers on protagonist Jackson "Jax" Teller (Charlie Hunnam), the vice president of the club, who begins questioning himself.
Sons of Anarchy is the story of the Teller-Morrow family of Charming, California, as well as other members of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original (SAMCRO), their families, various Charming townspeople, allied and rival gangs, associates, and law agencies that undermine or support SAMCRO's legal and illegal enterprises.
Introduced in this season are white separatists called the League of American Nationalists (LOAN). LOAN arrives in Charming with leader Ethan Zobelle and Zobelle's enforcer, A.J. Weston, seeking to drive SAMCRO out of Charming.
Plot
White separatists called the League of American Nationalists (LOAN) arrive in Charming. LOAN's leader Ethan Zobelle and Zobelle's enforcer, A.J. Weston, seek to drive the Sons of Anarchy from Charming. To send a message to SAMCRO, Zobelle orchestrates to have Gemma kidnapped and gang raped by Weston and two others. Due to the improper handling of an internal problem, the rift between Clay and Jax continues to widen as Jax challenges most of Clay's decisions and comes to a head when a lone car bomb nearly kills another member of SAMCRO. The second season sees SAMCRO battling LOAN for control of Charming, Jax and Clay veering further apart in their individual visions for the club, and evading the ever-present threat of the ATF.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Charlie Hunnam as Jackson "Jax" Teller, a disillusioned club member who is the Vice President of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club Redwood Original in Charming. He discovers a written diary by his late father John that makes him question his life and the club. He is at odds with club President and stepfather Clay Morrow.
Katey Sagal as Gemma Teller Morrow, Jax's mother and the queen of Charming. She is the matriarch of the club. She is married to Clay
Mark Boone Junior as Robert "Bobby Elvis" Munson
Kim Coates as Alex "Tig" Trager
Tommy Flanagan as Filip "Chibs" Telford
Ryan Hurst as Harry "Opie" Winston
Johnny Lewis as Kip "Half Sack" Epps
William Lucking as Piermont "Piney" Winston
Theo Rossi as Juan-Carlos "Juice" Ortiz
Maggie Siff as Tara Knowles
Ron Perlman as Clarence "Clay" Morrow
Special guest cast
Adam Arkin as Ethan Zobelle
Ally Walker as Agent June Stahl
Tom Everett Scott as Rosen
Recurring cast
Dayton Callie as Wayne Unser
Henry Rollins as A.J. Weston
Taylor Sheridan as Deputy Chief David Hale
Winter Ave Zoli as Lyla Dvorak
Callard Harris as Edmond Hayes
Jamie McShane as Cameron Hayes
Sarah Jones as Polly Zo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons%20of%20Anarchy%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of the American television drama series Sons of Anarchy premiered on September 7, 2010, and concluded on November 30, 2010, after 13 episodes aired on cable network FX. Created by Kurt Sutter, it is about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in California's Central Valley. The show centers on protagonist Jackson "Jax" Teller (Charlie Hunnam), the then–vice president of the club, who begins questioning the club and himself in the aftermath of his infant son's abduction.
Season three attracted an average of 4.9 million viewers per week, making it FX's highest rated series ever at the time, surpassing FX's other hits The Shield, Nip/Tuck, and Rescue Me.
Sons of Anarchy is the story of the Teller-Morrow family of Charming, California, as well as other members of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original (SAMCRO), their families, various Charming townspeople, allied and rival gangs, associates, and law agencies that undermine or support SAMCRO's legal and illegal enterprises.
In 2018, Universo announced the season 3 premiere of Sons of Anarchy in Español on 29 October 2018.
Plot
Gemma has been hiding in Rogue River, Oregon with Tig at the home of Gemma's father, Nate (Hal Holbrook), who suffers from dementia. Gemma struggles when she takes Nate to his new assisted living home, and he pleads to be taken back to his house. She returns to Charming to reunite with her grandson, unaware he has been kidnapped. The return of A.T.F. agent Stahl twists the facts about the murder of Donna, Stahl attempts to make a deal with Jax behind the club's back. Father Kellan Ashby's sister, Maureen, contacts Gemma at Ashby's request and tells her Abel is safe in Belfast. Upon learning of her grandson's abduction, Gemma suffers a cardiac arrhythmia and collapses in the Teller-Morrow lot. After the club returns from Northern Ireland and brings home Abel, agent Stahl double crosses Jax and tells the club about the side deal Jax made with her, unaware that Jax and the club had it planned all along knowing Stahl would back out of the deal. Jax, Clay, Bobby, Tig, Juice and Happy are hauled away to jail. While Opie, Chibs, Piney, and the Prospects are all en route following Stahl. Chibs finally gets revenge on Jimmy by killing him and Opie kills Stahl as revenge for the death of his wife, Donna.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Charlie Hunnam as Jackson "Jax" Teller
Katey Sagal as Gemma Teller Morrow
Ron Perlman as Clarence "Clay" Morrow
Mark Boone Junior as Robert "Bobby Elvis" Munson
Dayton Callie as Wayne Unser
Kim Coates as Alex "Tig" Trager
Tommy Flanagan as Filip "Chibs" Telford
Ryan Hurst as Harry "Opie" Winston
William Lucking as Piermont "Piney" Winston
Theo Rossi as Juan-Carlos "Juice" Ortiz
Maggie Siff as Dr. Tara Knowles
Special guest cast
Paula Malcomson as Maureen Ashby
Ally Walker as Agent June Stahl
Kenny Johnson as Herman Kozik
Mitch Pileggi as Ernest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons%20of%20Anarchy%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of the American television drama series Sons of Anarchy premiered on September 6, 2011, and concluded on December 6, 2011, after 14 episodes aired on cable network FX. Created by Kurt Sutter, it is about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in California's Central Valley. The show centers on protagonist Jackson "Jax" Teller (Charlie Hunnam), the then–vice president of the club, and is first shown as the new president here, who begins questioning the club and himself.
It is the longest season of Sons of Anarchy and the only season to have 14 episodes, as every other season had 13 episodes.
The season premiere ("Out") was written by series creator and executive producer Kurt Sutter and was one of the highest-rated telecasts in FX's history.
Sons of Anarchy is the story of the Teller-Morrow family of Charming, California, as well as other members of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original (SAMCRO), their families, various Charming townspeople, allied and rival gangs, associates, and law agencies that undermine or support SAMCRO's legal and illegal enterprises.
Plot
After the deaths of Agent Stahl and Jimmy O’Phelan, the imprisoned SAMCRO members leave the penitentiary after their 14-month stay and are met by Lieutenant Eli Roosevelt of the San Joaquin Sheriff's Department, the new law enforcement presence in Charming. They also discover Hale has become the mayor. US Attorney Lincoln Potter seeks Lieutenant Roosevelt's help to build a RICO case against SAMCRO.
Cast and characters
Sons of Anarchy is the story of the Teller-Morrow family of Charming, California, as well as the other members of Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original (SAMCRO), their families, various Charming townspeople, allied and rival gangs, associates, and law agencies that undermine or support SAMCRO's legal and illegal enterprises.
Main cast
Charlie Hunnam as Jackson "Jax" Teller
Katey Sagal as Gemma Teller Morrow
Mark Boone Junior as Robert "Bobby Elvis" Munson
Dayton Callie as Wayne Unser
Kim Coates as Alex "Tig" Trager
Tommy Flanagan as Filip "Chibs" Telford
Ryan Hurst as Harry "Opie" Winston
William Lucking as Piermont "Piney" Winston
Theo Rossi as Juan-Carlos "Juice" Ortiz
Maggie Siff as Tara Knowles-Teller
Ron Perlman as Clarence "Clay" Morrow
Special guest cast
Rockmond Dunbar as Lieutenant Eli Roosevelt
Ray McKinnon as Assistant U.S. Attorney Lincoln Potter
Danny Trejo as Romero "Romeo" Parada
Kenny Johnson as Herman Kozik
Drea de Matteo as Wendy Case
Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Vivica
David Hasselhoff as Dondo
Sonny Barger as Lenny "The Pimp" Janowitz
Recurring cast
Christopher Douglas Reed as Philip "Filthy Phil" Russell
Emilio Rivera as Marcus Alvarez
David LaBrava as Happy Lowman
Benito Martinez as Luis Torres
David Rees Snell as Agent Grad Nicholas
Michael Marisi Ornstein as Chuck Marstein
Winter Ave Zoli as Lyla Wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons%20of%20Anarchy%20%28season%205%29 | The fifth season of the American television drama series Sons of Anarchy premiered on September 11, 2012, and concluded on December 4, 2012, after 13 episodes aired on cable network FX. Created by Kurt Sutter, it is about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in California's Central Valley. The show centers on protagonist Jackson "Jax" Teller (Charlie Hunnam), the president of the club, who begins questioning the club and himself after the deaths of several SAMCRO members at the hand of former club president, Clay Morrow (Ron Perlman).
The premiere ("Sovereign"), directed by series executive producer and principal director Paris Barclay and written by series creator and executive producer Kurt Sutter, was one of the highest-rated telecasts in FX's history.
Sons of Anarchy is the story of the Teller-Morrow family of Charming, California, as well as other members of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original (SAMCRO), their families, various Charming townspeople, allied and rival gangs, associates, and law agencies that undermine or support SAMCRO's legal and illegal enterprises.
Plot
In retaliation for the death of Veronica Pope (Laroy's girlfriend, who was also the daughter of powerful Oakland kingpin Damon Pope), the Niners attack SAMCRO and ambush a cargo shipment. With the death of Piney Winston and the growing conflict between the Niners and SAMCRO, along with several home invasions targeting people linked to the Club, Jax is forced to meet with Damon Pope, to face a new threat unlike anything SAMCRO has ever faced.
Cast and characters
Sons of Anarchy is the story of the Teller-Morrow family of Charming, California, as well as the other members of Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original (SAMCRO), their families, various Charming townspeople, allied and rival gangs, associates, and law agencies that undermine or support SAMCRO's legal and illegal enterprises.
Main cast
Charlie Hunnam as Jackson "Jax" Teller
Katey Sagal as Gemma Teller Morrow
Mark Boone Junior as Robert "Bobby Elvis" Munson
Dayton Callie as Wayne Unser
Kim Coates as Alex "Tig" Trager
Tommy Flanagan as Filip "Chibs" Telford
Ryan Hurst as Harry "Opie" Winston
Theo Rossi as Juan-Carlos "Juice" Ortiz
Maggie Siff as Tara Knowles-Teller
Ron Perlman as Clarence "Clay" Morrow
Special guest cast
Jimmy Smits as Nero Padilla
Rockmond Dunbar as Lieutenant Eli Roosevelt
Harold Perrineau as Damon Pope
Benito Martinez as Luis Torres
Danny Trejo as Romero "Romeo" Parada
Drea de Matteo as Wendy Case
Donal Logue as Lee Toric
Walton Goggins as Venus Van Dam
Sonny Barger as Lenny "The Pimp" Janowitz
Recurring cast
David LaBrava as Happy Lowman
Christopher Douglas Reed as Philip "Filthy Phil" Russell
Chuck Zito as Frankie Diamonds
Michael Marisi Ornstein as Chuck Marstein
Winter Ave Zoli as Lyla Winston
Chris Browning as GoGo
Kurt Yaeger as Greg "The Peg"
Wanda De |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sons%20of%20Anarchy%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth and penultimate season of the American television drama series Sons of Anarchy premiered on September 10, 2013, and concluded on December 10, 2013, after 13 episodes aired on cable network FX. Created by Kurt Sutter, it is about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in California's Central Valley. The show centers on protagonist Jackson "Jax" Teller (Charlie Hunnam), the president of the club, who begins questioning the club and himself.
The season finale was the second-most watched episode of the season and the most-watched finale in the series history.
Sons of Anarchy is the story of the Teller-Morrow family of Charming, California, as well as other members of the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original (SAMCRO), their families, various Charming townspeople, allied and rival gangs, associates, and law agencies that undermine or support SAMCRO's legal and illegal enterprises.
Plot
Following the arrest of Tara and Clay, Jax struggles to hold SAMCRO together while Tara is imprisoned. Toric approaches both Tara and Clay and offers them deals in exchange for giving up SAMCRO; both initially refuse, but Clay later relents when confronted with being thrown into the prison's general population and assuredly being killed by inmates paid off by Damon Pope's men as a retaliation for Pope's murder. Juice returns to Charming after helping Bobby relocate after stepping down as VP, which angers Chibs, who doesn't believe Juice has been punished enough for talking to cops and later beats him.
Cast and characters
Sons of Anarchy is the story of the Teller-Morrow family of Charming, California, as well as the other members of Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club, Redwood Original (SAMCRO), their families, various Charming townspeople, allied and rival gangs, associates, and law agencies that undermine or support SAMCRO's legal and illegal enterprises.
Main cast
Charlie Hunnam as Jackson "Jax" Teller
Katey Sagal as Gemma Teller Morrow
Mark Boone Junior as Robert "Bobby Elvis" Munson
Dayton Callie as Wayne Unser
Kim Coates as Alex "Tig" Trager
Tommy Flanagan as Filip "Chibs" Telford
Theo Rossi as Juan-Carlos "Juice" Ortiz
Maggie Siff as Tara Knowles-Teller
Ron Perlman as Clarence "Clay" Morrow
Jimmy Smits as Nero Padilla
Special guest cast
CCH Pounder as Tyne Patterson
Drea de Matteo as Wendy Case
Rockmond Dunbar as Lieutenant Eli Roosevelt
Peter Weller as Charles Barosky
Donal Logue as Lee Toric
Walton Goggins as Venus Van Dam
Mitch Pileggi as Ernest Darby
Robert Patrick as Les Packer
Recurring cast
David LaBrava as Happy Lowman
Niko Nicotera as George "Ratboy" Skogstrom
Michael Marisi Ornstein as Chuck Marstein
Robin Weigert as Ally Lowen
LaMonicca Garret as Sgt. Cane
Timothy V. Murphy as Gallen O'Shay
Reynaldo Gallegos as Fiasco
Kim Dickens as Collette Jane
Billy Brown as August Marks
Douglas Bennett as Orlin West
Rusty Coones as Rane Q |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyRobots | MyRobots is an online social network for robots and smart objects. The site claims robots can benefit from being connected to other robots in the same way humans use social networks to interact and collaborate with other humans. The robots reportedly share their sensor information, giving insight on their perspective of their current state.
History
MyRobots has been launched by RobotShop in December 2011. MyRobots is one of the first Cloud Robotics initiative. Cloud robotics happens when robots are connected to the Internet. Then, by doing so, robots become augmented with more capacity and intelligence. The cloud lets them communicate with other machines and serve their human operators better. Connected robots equal augmented robots. By collaborating with other machines and humans, robots transcend their physical limitations and become more useful and capable, since they can delegate parts of their tasks to more suitable parties.
MyRobots API
MyRobots provides a Restful API. All internet enabled devices and robots can connect via the API.
Most important keywords used in the MyRobots API:
Channel or Robot - The name for where data can be inserted or retrieved within the MyRobots API, identified by a numerical Channel ID.
Field - One of eight specific locations for data inside of a channel, identified by a number between 1 and 8. It can store numeric data from sensors or alphanumeric strings from serial devices or RFID readers.
Status - A short status message to augment the data stored in a channel.
Location - The latitude, longitude, and elevation of where data is being sent from.
Feed - The collective name for the data stored inside a channel, which may be any combination of field data, status updates, and location info.
Write API Key – A 16 digit code that allows an application to write data to a channel.
Read API Key – A 16 digit code that allows an application to read the data stored in a channel.
Alerts - Robots can react to certain conditions by using alerts.
MyRobots Connect
The MyRobots Connect is a Serial-to-Ethernet gateway that connects directly to MyRobots Data Engine. It's an Open-source Hardware (OSHW) module that uses a Microchip PIC18F67J60 to run a TCP-IP stack. It relays the serial commands received by an included XBee module using an Open Serial Protocol. The MyRobots Connect receives serial data and messages using the wireless XBee module and sends them to the MyRobot servers using a standard internet connection.
The MyRobots Connect uses DHCP so connecting it to a router is a simple matter of plugging a network cable; no configuration required.
See also
Robot
Robotics
Cloud robotics
References
External links
MyRobots official web site
RobotShop official web site
MyRobots API
MyRobots Compatible Hardware
French social networking websites
Robotics projects
Cloud robotics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20D.%20Medina | Manuel D. "Manny" Medina is "one of South Florida's most successful tech entrepreneurs", noted for selling his Terremark data services company in 2012 to Verizon Communications for $1.4 billion.
Early life
Medina was born in Matanzas, Cuba, and left in 1965, when he was 13. His parents left Cuba because of the extensive political changes in the country, and moved to Miami. Manny Medina went to school there and took an early interest in business. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Florida Atlantic University in 1974.
Career
Medina was the chairman of the board, president, and CEO of Terremark. He also holds the position of chairman and CEO of Medina Capital Partners, an investment firm focused on funding technology companies developing new products for the private and public sectors. In addition, he is a managing partner of Communication Investors Group, one of their investors. Medina has more than 30 years of experience as a businessman in areas including technology, finance, international business, and government contracting.
In his early career, Medina worked as certified public accountant with Price Waterhouse. Later, in 1980, he started his own company, Terremark, and served as chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer until 2011, when the company was acquired by Verizon Communications for $1.4billion, out of which he would receive about $83 million from his 4.4 million shares, almost 7 percent of the company.
In 2014, Medina Capital raised an additional $185M fund. Medina Capital has invested in the following companies:
Brainspace
Catbird
Cryptzone
Easy Solutions
References
External links
Interview with Manny Medina in 7 parts
Living people
1955 births
Cuban emigrants to the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeuctophlebia%20squalidata | Zeuctophlebia squalidata is a species of moth of the family Geometridae first described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is found in Australia.
References
Moths described in 1863
Oenochrominae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnectBot | ConnectBot is an open-source Secure Shell client for the Android operating system. It lets users securely log in remotely to servers that run a secure shell daemon. This allows the user to enter commands from their Android device and have the commands run on the remote server instead of the local android device. It uses the standard encryption used by SSH2 to keep any commands and data that are transmitted from being eavesdropped by any potential listeners across the network.
Features
It supports login with a username and password to any arbitrary server on the local network or internet
Supports connections based on a public/private keypair instead of username/password for increased security
Allows frequently accessed hosts to be saved in a menu, so that they can quickly be re-connected to
Once the connection has been made with the remote server, the program presents the user with a terminal where input and output can be sent/received just as if the user were sitting in front of a terminal on the actual server.
Reception
ConnectBot is the most popular Secure Shell client available for the Android operating system, with over 1,000,000 downloads and more than 43,000 ratings on Google Play with an average rating of 4.5/5.
Products based on ConnectBot
Georgia SoftWorks (GSW) ConnectBot on Google Play. Adds commercial mass deployment features including network licensing, configuration from a MS Windows server, version updates from LAN, strong security algorithms not using SHA-1.
See also
Comparison of SSH clients
Secure Shell
External links
Official website
IRC channel:
ConnectBot at Google Play
References
Free and open-source Android software
Secure Shell
Software using the Apache license
Free software programmed in Java (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickhull | Quickhull is a method of computing the convex hull of a finite set of points in n-dimensional space. It uses a divide and conquer approach similar to that of quicksort, from which its name derives. Its worst case time complexity for 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional space is , but when the input precision is restricted to bits, its worst case time complexity is conjectured to be , where is the number of input points and is the number of processed points (up to ).
N-dimensional Quickhull was invented in 1996 by C. Bradford Barber, David P. Dobkin, and Hannu Huhdanpaa. It was an extension of Jonathan Scott Greenfield's 1990 planar Quickhull algorithm, although the 1996 authors did not know of his methods. Instead, Barber et al. describe it as a deterministic variant of Clarkson and Shor's 1989 algorithm.
Algorithm
The 2-dimensional algorithm can be broken down into the following steps:
Find the points with minimum and maximum x coordinates, as these will always be part of the convex hull. If many points with the same minimum/maximum x exist, use the ones with the minimum/maximum y, respectively.
Use the line formed by the two points to divide the set into two subsets of points, which will be processed recursively. We next describe how to determine the part of the hull above the line; the part of the hull below the line can be determined similarly.
Determine the point above the line with the maximum distance from the line. This point forms a triangle with the two points on the line.
The points lying inside of that triangle cannot be part of the convex hull and can therefore be ignored in the next steps.
Recursively repeat the previous two steps on the two lines formed by the two new sides of the triangle.
Continue until no more points are left, the recursion has come to an end and the points selected constitute the convex hull.
The problem is more complex in the higher-dimensional case, as the hull is built from many facets; the data structure needs to account for that and record the line/plane/hyperplane (ridge) shared by neighboring facets too. For d dimensions:
Pick d + 1 points from the set that do not share a plane or a hyperplane. This forms an initial hull with facets Fs[].
For each F in Fs[], find all unassigned points that are "above" it; i.e., pointing away from the center of the hull, and assign them to an "outside" set F.O associated with F. The algorithm maintains the invariant that every point that has not been added to the hull but could potentially be a vertex of it is assigned to exactly one outside set.
For each F with a non-empty F.O:
Find the point p in F.O with the maximum distance from F and add it to the hull. Note that p will not necessarily be a vertex of the final hull, as it might be removed later.
Create a visible set V and initialize it to F. Extend V in all directions for neighboring facets Fv until no further facets are visible from p. Fv being visible from p means that p is above Fv.
The boundary of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbot | Orbot is a free proxy app that provides anonymity on the Internet for users of the Android and iOS operating systems. It allows traffic from apps such as web browsers, email clients, map programs, and others to be routed via the Tor network.
This tool is used to keep the communications of users anonymous and hidden from governments and third parties that might be monitoring their internet traffic.
Reception
In 2014 Orbot was discussed in detail in an article on "reporting securely from an Android device".
In January 2016, Lisa Vaas of NakedSecurity by Sophos described plans to use Tor, including with Orbot on Android, to connect to Facebook.
In July 2021, Tech Radar named Orbot one of 8 "Best privacy apps for Android in 2021" but warned of slower speeds.
In July 2021 Android Authority discussed Tor Browser and Orbot in brief reviews of "15 best Android browsers".
In November 2021, John Leyden of The Daily Swig described collaboration between the Tor Project and the Guardian Project to develop Orbot for censorship circumvention for any application on a device, but warned Orbot does not remove identifying information from app traffic.
In February 2022, Andrew Orr of the Mac Observer wrote about using Orbot on iOS.
In April 2022, Shubham Agarwal of Laptop magazine, in a detailed review of Tor, recommended installing Orbot on Android phones to use Tor.
In July 2022, Laiba Mohsin of PhoneWorld.com described Orbot as a simple way to access the Dark Web on mobile.
In October 2022, Damir Mujezinovic of MakeUseOf described Orbot as a "flagship" product for both iOS and Android to use the Tor network, and said it "will not make you completely anonymous, but it can certainly help bypass certain geographical restrictions," In November 2022, Mujezinovic wrote a detailed guide to using Orbot on iOS or Android.
In January 2023, Ramces Red of MakeTechEasier.com wrote instructions for using the Tor network with Orbot for a mobile Monero wallet.
References
Further reading
Free and open-source Android software
Free software programmed in Java (programming language)
Tor (anonymity network) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Blackett%20Wilson | Leslie Blackett Wilson (born 1930) was chair of Computing Science at the University of Stirling, appointed on August, 1979. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the Computing Laboratory of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He joined the Computing Laboratory in 1964. Before that, since 1951, he was a Senior Scientific Officer at the Naval Construction Research Establishment at Dunfermline.
He has written four books in computer science and combinatorics. His book Comparative Programming Languages was regarded among the major textbooks on programming languages and has received positive reviews since its first edition. This book was translated into French in its second edition. As a researcher, he is best known for his contributions to extensions of the stable marriage problem.
He was the doctoral advisor of Jayme Luiz Szwarcfiter.
Education
Leslie Blackett Wilson got a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Durham University in 1951 and a D.Sc. degree from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1980.
Books
. Translated into French.
References
1930 births
British computer scientists
Living people
Alumni of King's College, Newcastle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CGTN%20America | CGTN America is a channel of China Global Television Network (CGTN), the international division of the state-owned media organization China Central Television (CCTV), the headquarters of which is in Beijing, China. It is one of six international language news channels run by CGTN, under the control of the Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party. CGTN America is headquartered at 1099 New York Avenue NW, Suite 200 in Washington, D.C., and manages bureaus in New York City, Washington, D.C., as well as spanning coverage in North and South America. CGTN America began broadcasting in the United States on 6 February 2012, replacing the former English language CCTV-9 in the region.
CGTN America employs American, Chinese, and other international journalists and produces U.S.-based programs with a focus on Asia for CGTN. It maintains a separate schedule of programs each day from noon to 7 p.m. MST (7 p.m. to 2 a.m. GMT), and like its African counterpart, it simulcasts CGTN International at all other times. CGTN America's director general is Ma Jing, with veteran Asia journalist Jim Laurie as executive consultant.
Observers have noted that the "aim [of CGTN] is to influence public opinion overseas in order to nudge foreign governments into making policies favourable towards China's Communist party" through subtle means. Researchers Thomas Fearon and Usha M. Rodrigues argued that CGTN has a "dichotomous role as a credible media competing for audience attention on the world stage, and a vital government propaganda organ domestically." According to James Palmer at Foreign Policy, the contrasting aims of RT (formerly Russia Today) and CGTN, "mirrors wider strategies: Moscow wants chaos it can exploit, while Beijing wants a stable world order—on its terms".
In 2018, the United States Department of Justice directed CGTN America and Xinhua News Agency to register as foreign agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), which CGTN America did on 1 February 2019 while Xinhua did not register. In 2020, the United States Department of State designated CGTN and its parent company, CCTV, as well as Xinhua, as foreign missions, requiring them to submit lists of all employees and to seek approval to buy any property.
Production team
Anchoring team
DC: Mike Walter, Anand Naidoo, Asieh Namdar, Elaine Reyes, Rachelle Akuffo, Susan E. Roberts, | Phillip TK Yin (former anchor),
North America correspondents
US
DC: Wang Guan, Jim Spellman, Sean Callebs.
Foreign state agent registration
CGTN America initially claimed that it had "editorial independence from any state direction or control". This claim was debunked by The New York Times reporter Paul Mozur in interviews with "current and former CGTN employees [who] say CCTV editors in Beijing often dictated plans for covering China. American employees sometimes pushed back, they said, and Ms. Ma allowed some flexibility when Beijing's orders didn't specifically forbid or dictate content. But three |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINAS | MINAS is a database of metal ions in nucleic acids.
References
External links
http://www.minas.uzh.ch
Biological databases
Biochemistry
Inorganic chemistry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%20Midtvest | TV Midtvest is one of eight regional TV-stations in the TV 2 network in Denmark, covering the Central and Western Jutland. The station was founded in 1989. TV Midtvest is broadcasting from Holstebro. The regional TV 2 stations are given the time slots 18.20-18.25 and 19.30-20.00 every day of the week.
Television stations in Denmark
Mass media in Holstebro
Television channels and stations established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV%202/Nord | TV 2/Nord is one of eight regional TV-stations in the TV 2 network in Denmark, covering the Northern parts of Jutland. The station was founded the 1. April 1989 and are broadcasting from Aabybro.
Television stations in Denmark
Television channels and stations established in 1989
Mass media in Aabybro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual%20BCI%20Research%20Award | The BCI Award is an annual award for innovative research in the field of brain-computer interfaces. It is organized by the BCI Award Foundation. The prize is $3000 for first, $2000 for second, and $1000 for third place. The prizes are provided by g.tec medical engineering, Cortec, Intheon and IEEE Brain.. Christoph Guger and Dean Krusienski are the chairmen of the Foundation.
In 2017 the awards were made during the Graz Brain-Computer Interface Conference at the Institute of Neural Engineering of Graz University of Technology in Graz, Austria.
Past winners
The following list presents the first-place winners of the Annual BCI Research Award:
2010: Cuntai Guan, Kai Keng Ang, Karen Sui Geok Chua and Beng Ti Ang
"Motor imagery-based Brain-Computer Interface robotic rehabilitation for stroke"
2011: Moritz Grosse-Wentrup and Bernhard Schölkopf
"What are the neuro-physiological causes of performance variations in brain-computer interfacing?"
2012: Surjo R. Soekadar and Niels Birbaumer
"Improving Efficacy of Ipsilesional Brain-Computer Interface Training in Neurorehabilitation of Chronic Stroke"
2013: M. C. Dadarlat, J. E. O'Doherty, P. N. Sabes
"A learning-based approach to artificial sensory feedback: intracortical microstimulation replaces and augments vision"
2014: Katsuhiko Hamada, Hiromu Mori, Hiroyuki Shinoda, Tomasz M. Rutkowski
"Airborne Ultrasonic Tactile Display BCI"
2015: Guy Hotson, David P McMullen, Matthew S. Fifer, Matthew S. Johannes, Kapil D. Katyal, Matthew P. Para, Robert Armiger, William S. Anderson, Nitish V. Thakor, Brock A. Wester, Nathan E. Crone
"Individual Finger Control of the Modular Prosthetic Limb using High-Density Electrocorticography in a Human Subject"
2016: Gaurav Sharma, Nick Annetta, Dave Friedenberg, Marcie Bockbrader, Ammar Shaikhouni, W. Mysiw, Chad Bouton, Ali Rezai
"An Implanted BCI for Real-Time Cortical Control of Functional Wrist and Finger Movements in a Human with Quadriplegia"
2017: S. Aliakbaryhosseinabadi, E. N. Kamavuako, N. Jiang, D. Farina, N. Mrachacz-Kersting
"Online adaptive brain-computer interface with attention variations"
2018: Abidemi Bolu Ajiboye, Francis R. Willett, Daniel R. Young, William D. Memberg, Brian A. Murphy, Jonathan P. Miller, Benjamin L. Walter, Jennifer A. Sweet, Harry A. Hoyen, Michael W. Keith, Paul Hunter Peckham, John D. Simeral, John P. Donoghue, Leigh R. Hochberg, Robert F. Kirsch
"Restoring Functional Reach-to-Grasp in a Person with Chronic Tetraplegia using Implanted Functional Electrical Stimulation and Intracortical Brain-Computer Interfaces"
2019: Sergey D. Stavisky, Francis R. Willett, Paymon Rezaii, Leigh R. Hochberg, Krishna V. Shenoy, Jaimie M. Henderson
"Decoding speech from intracortical multielectrode arrays in dorsal motor cortex"
2020: Francis R. Willett, Donald T. Avansino, Leigh Hochberg, Jaimie Henderson, Krishna V. Shenoy
"A High-Performance Handwriting BCI"
2021: Thomas Oxley, Nicholas Opie
"Stentrode, a component of the Synchron bra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleware | Middleware is a type of computer software that provides services to software applications beyond those available from the operating system. It can be described as "software glue".
Middleware makes it easier for software developers to implement communication and input/output, so they can focus on the specific purpose of their application. It gained popularity in the 1980s as a solution to the problem of how to link newer applications to older legacy systems, although the term had been in use since 1968.
In distributed applications
The term is most commonly used for software that enables communication and management of data in distributed applications. An IETF workshop in 2000 defined middleware as "those services found above the transport (i.e. over TCP/IP) layer set of services but below the application environment" (i.e. below application-level APIs). In this more specific sense middleware can be described as the dash ("-") in client-server, or the -to- in peer-to-peer. Middleware includes web servers, application servers, content management systems, and similar tools that support application development and delivery.
ObjectWeb defines middleware as: "The software layer that lies between the operating system and applications on each side of a distributed computing system in a network." Services that can be regarded as middleware include enterprise application integration, data integration, message oriented middleware (MOM), object request brokers (ORBs), and the enterprise service bus (ESB).
Database access services are often characterised as middleware. Some of them are language specific implementations and support heterogeneous features and other related communication features. Examples of database-oriented middleware include ODBC, JDBC and transaction processing monitors.
Distributed computing system middleware can loosely be divided into two categories—those that provide human-time services (such as web request servicing) and those that perform in machine-time. This latter middleware is somewhat standardized through the Service Availability Forum and is commonly used in complex, embedded systems within telecom, defence and aerospace industries.
Usage of middleware
Many definitions exist regarding the categorization of middleware specifying either on the field that it is used or the application module it serves. In recent bibliography, the main categories of middleware are the following:
Transactional: Processing of multiple synchronous/ asynchronous transactions, serving as a cluster of associated requests from distributed systems such as bank transactions or credit card payments.
Message-oriented: Message queue and message passing architectures, which support synchronous/asynchronous communication.
Procedural: Remote and local architectures to connect, pass, and retrieve software responses of asynchronous systems communications such as a call operation.
Object-oriented: Similar to procedural middleware, however, this type of middle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan%20%28supercomputer%29 | Titan or OLCF-3 was a supercomputer built by Cray at Oak Ridge National Laboratory for use in a variety of science projects. Titan was an upgrade of Jaguar, a previous supercomputer at Oak Ridge, that uses graphics processing units (GPUs) in addition to conventional central processing units (CPUs). Titan was the first such hybrid to perform over 10 petaFLOPS. The upgrade began in October 2011, commenced stability testing in October 2012 and it became available to researchers in early 2013. The initial cost of the upgrade was US$60 million, funded primarily by the United States Department of Energy.
Titan was eclipsed at Oak Ridge by Summit in 2019, which was built by IBM and features fewer nodes with much greater GPU capability per node as well as local per-node non-volatile caching of file data from the system's parallel file system.
Titan employed AMD Opteron CPUs in conjunction with Nvidia Tesla GPUs to improve energy efficiency while providing an order of magnitude increase in computational power over Jaguar. It used 18,688 CPUs paired with an equal number of GPUs to perform at a theoretical peak of 27 petaFLOPS; in the LINPACK benchmark used to rank supercomputers' speed, it performed at 17.59 petaFLOPS. This was enough to take first place in the November 2012 list by the TOP500 organization, but Tianhe-2 overtook it on the June 2013 list.
Titan was available for any scientific purpose; access depends on the importance of the project and its potential to exploit the hybrid architecture. Any selected programs must also be executable on other supercomputers to avoid sole dependence on Titan. Six vanguard programs were the first selected. They dealt mostly with molecular scale physics or climate models, while 25 others were queued behind them. The inclusion of GPUs compelled authors to alter their programs. The modifications typically increased the degree of parallelism, given that GPUs offer many more simultaneous threads than CPUs. The changes often yield greater performance even on CPU-only machines.
History
Plans to create a supercomputer capable of 20 petaFLOPS at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) originated as far back as 2005, when Jaguar was built. Titan will itself be replaced by an approximately 200 petaFLOPS system in 2016 as part of ORNL's plan to operate an exascale (1000 petaFLOPS to 1 exaFLOPS) machine by 2020. The initial plan to build a new 15,000 square meter (160,000 ft2) building for Titan, was discarded in favor of using Jaguar's existing infrastructure. The precise system architecture was not finalized until 2010, although a deal with Nvidia to supply the GPUs was signed in 2009. Titan was first announced at the private ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference (SC10) on November 16, 2010, and was publicly announced on October 11, 2011, as the first phase of the Titan upgrade began.
Jaguar had received various upgrades since its creation. It began with the Cray XT3 pl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D/CAS | D/CAS (Data/CASsette), also known as a streamer cassette, is a now-obsolete data backup technology that used an upgraded version of the common audio cassette tape and a specialized tape drive derived from an audio tape transport. Holding anywhere from 200 KB to 600 MB (in 1990), it was superseded by newer data backup formats such as Travan, QIC, DDS, and LTO.
Streamer cassettes look almost like a standard audio cassette, with the addition of a notch about one quarter inch wide and deep, situated slightly off-center at the top edge of the cassette. They also have a reusable write-protect tab on one side of the top edge, with the other side having either only an open rectangular hole, or no hole at all. Data was recorded across four tracks in a serpentine manner across the whole width of the tape, much like newer formats such as QIC or Travan, making them single-sided.
Streamer cassettes can be used in an audio cassette deck, but the formulation of tape they contain is optimized only for full-saturation square wave digital data, resulting in audio recordings made on them having very poor audio quality and a large amount of noise and distortion.
See also
Magnetic tape data storage
Sources
Museum of Obsolete Media's page on streamer cassettes
Backup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariq%20Krim | Tariq Krim (born October 25, 1972, in Paris) is a French entrepreneur, creator of Netvibes and the founder of Jolicloud, a personal cloud content computing platform and Joli OS, a free operating system based on the Jolicloud platform. In 2008, he was the first French national named by the MIT Technology Review as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. He was appointed Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters) by the French Minister of Culture in 2011.
Early years
Tariq Krim spent his childhood in the historic area of Paris, Le Marais. His father was an economist and his mother a teacher. Passionate about computers from an early age (he was given his first computer at 10, and created his first Minitel server at 12 years old), Krim went on to study physics at the University of Paris VII and obtained his post-graduate degree from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications (ENST).
Career
Journalism
In 1994, after meeting with Jean-Francois Bizot, Krim became a writer for Novamag and wrote articles about cyberculture. He continued his career in journalism for the financial daily La Tribune. First based in Paris, then in California (he opened the newspaper's Silicon Valley branch), Krim published various articles on the Internet industry.
Entrepreneurship
In 1999, Krim decided to move on from writing about internet innovation. That year, he founded what would become L8Rmedia, a consulting and publishing company specializing in digital media. Its first branch was in San Francisco; he later expanded to Paris. Its main online publication, GenerationMP3 (formerly "MPTrois.com"), attracts 1.5 million readers per month. and pioneered the use of participatory journalism in France.
In 2005, Krim created Netvibes with Florent Frémont, a developer friend. The personalized dashboard publishing platform claims over 10 million users worldwide, half of whom are in the United States.
In 2008, Krim left as the head of the company to create Jolicloud in 2009, co-founded with Romain Huet, the company's CTO. Their vision was to combine cloud technology with a simple user interface. Krim first developed Joli OS, a free operating system, which enabled users to optimise low-cost devices or recycle older computers. In 2012, Jolicloud launched an HTML5-based cloud platform. Jolicloud is backed by $4.2 million in venture capital funding from Atomico Ventures, formed by Kazaa and Skype founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis, and Mangrove Capital Partners.
Mentoring
In 2008, Krim co-founded ISAI, "the French tech entrepreneurs' fund", which provides seed capital for web and mobile technology startups. ISAI's co-founders are all members of France's digerati: Orianne Garcia, founder of Terrafemina.com; Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, founder of PriceMinister; Ouriel Ohayon, founder of TechCrunch France and AppsFire; Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, CEO of Virgin Mobile; and Stéphane Treppoz, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20animated%20programming%20blocks | The following is a list of current and former programming blocks airing animated television programs.
Current
United States
Canada
Animation Rules
Teletoon at Night
The Zone
The Zone Weekend
Australia
Animation Domination
Animation Fixation
Animation Salvation
Adult Swim
United Kingdom
Adult Swim
Japan
Animeism
Noitamina
+Ultra
Ireland
Adult Swim
Spain
Boing
Former
United States
References
Animated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programming%20blocks%20by%20name | The following is a list of television programming blocks.
0–9
4Kids TV
120% Cartoon Network
A
ABC Daytime
ABC Kids (United States)
ABC Kids (Australia)
ABC's Wide World of Entertainment
ABC 4 Kids
ACME Night
Action Pack
Adult Swim
Adult Swim (Australia)
Adult Swim (UK & Ireland)
AKTV
Animation Domination
Animation Domination (Australia)
Animation Fixation
Animation Salvation
The Animation Station
Anime Complex
Anime Current
Aussie Gold
Animation Rules
B
Belajar dari Rumah
Big Fun Weeknights
Bionix
BKN
Book TV
C
Cartoon Quest
Cartoonito
CBBC
CBS Block Party
CBS Daytime
CBS Kidshow
Chispavision
CITV
CNN Newsroom
Comedytime Saturday
Cookie Jar Kids Network
Cookie Jar Toons
Cookie Jar TV
Crimetime After Primetime
Crimetime Saturday
Cúla 4
The CW Daytime
The CW4Kids
Cyw
D
Discovery Kids on NBC
The Disney Afternoon
Disney Channel Saturday Mornings
Disney Junior
Disney's One Too
F
FoxBox
Fox Kids
Fred Flintstone and Friends
Friday Night Stand-Up with Greg Giraldo
Fully Baked on FX
The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
G
Galamiguitos
Get Real!
Giorgiomania
Good Night Show
Gotta See Saturdays
H
Hanna–Barbera's World of Super Adventure
J
Jetix
K
Kids' CBC
Kids' WB
Kids' WB Australia
L
La Piñata Loca (Univision)
Limbo
LittleBe
Litton's Weekend Adventure
Lose Control
M
The Marvel Action Hour
Marvel Action Universe
Mi Tele
MiTelemundo
Mixy
Milkshake!
Mornings on Ten
Musical Mornings with Coo
Must See TV
MSNBC Reports
N
NBC Daytime
NBC Kids
Nick: The Smart Place to Play
Nick in the Afternoon
Nick Jr.
NickMom
NickRewind
Nickelodeon en Telemundo
Nickelodeon on CBS
Nickelodeon Splat!
Nickel-O-Zone
Nick Studio 10
Nick at Nite
NoitaminA
O
Operation Prime Time
P
PBS Kids
PBS Kids Go!
Pillow Head Hour
Planeta U
Platavision
PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch
Playhouse Disney
Q
Qubo
Qubo Night Owl
R
Ready Set Learn
The Rudy and Gogo World Famous Cartoon Show
Rage
S
S.C.I.F.I. World
Saturday Disney
Saturday Supercade
Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics
SNICK
Stwnsh
Sunny Side Up Show
Super Hero Time
Super Sunday
Super Fun Saturdays
T
TEENick
TeenNick (UK & Ireland)
Telemundo Infantil
Telemundo Kids
Telemuñequitos
Teletoon at Night
TGIF
The CW4Kids
TNBC
Tom and Jerry's Funhouse on TBS
Too Funny To Sleep
Toon Disney
Tickle U
Toonami
Toonami (Australia)
Toonami (Pakistan)
Toonin' Saturdays
Toonturama
Toonturama Junior
Toonzai
The Trifect
Tube Time
TVOKids
U
UPN Kids
USA Action Extreme Team
USA Cartoon Express
Univision y Los Niños
Univision Infantiles
V
Vortexx
W
Wiggly Waffle
What a Cartoon!
Y
Yogi's Space Race
YTV Jr.
Z
The Zone
¡
¡De Cabeza! (Univision)
See also
Block programming
List of animated programming blocks
List of Disney TV programming blocks
List of programming blocks by Cartoon Network (Philippines)
References
Name |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAPAAL%20Model%20Checker | TAPAAL is a tool for modelling, simulation and verification of Timed-Arc Petri nets developed at Department of Computer Science at Aalborg University in Denmark and it is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms.
Timed-Arc Petri Net (TAPN) is a time extension of the classical Petri net model (a commonly used graphical model of distributed computations introduced by Carl Adam Petri in his dissertation in 1962). The time extension considered in TAPN allows for explicit treatment of real-time, which is associated with the tokens in the net (each tokens has its own age) and arcs from places to transitions are labelled by time intervals that restrict the age of tokens that can be used in order to fire the respective transition. In TAPAAL tool a further extension of this model with age invariants with transport arcs (which are more expressive than for example previously considered read-arcs) and with inhibitor arcs is implemented.
The TAPAAL tool offers a graphical editor for drawing TAPN models, simulator for experimenting with the designed nets and a verification environment that automatically answers logical queries formulated in a subset of CTL logic (essentially EF, EG, AF, AG formulae without nesting). It also allows the user to check whether a given net is k-bounded for a given number k. TAPAAL is equipped with its own verification engines distributed together with TAPAAL (one for continuous time and one for discrete time ). Optionally, the user can automatically translate TAPAAL models
into UPPAAL and rely on the UPPAAL verification engine.
External links
TAPAAL website, download
DES unit, Deptment of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark
TAPAAL: Editor, Simulator and Verifier of Timed-Arc Petri Nets by J. Byg, K.Y. Jørgensen and J. Srba, ATVA'09, Springer
An Efficient Translation of Timed-Arc Petri Nets to Networks of Timed Automata by J. Byg, K.Y. Jørgensen and J. Srba, ICFEM'09, Springer
A Framework for Relating Timed Transition Systems and Preserving TCTL Model Checking by L. Jacobsen, M. Jacobsen, M.H. Møller and J. Srba, EPEW'10, Springer
Verification of Timed-Arc Petri Nets by L. Jacobsen, M. Jacobsen, M.H. Møller and J. Srba, SOFSEM'11, Springer
References
Model checkers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20DCS%20vendors | This is a list of departure control system vendors.
Res2 (iPort DCS)
ABB Ltd
ACCELaero
Amadeus
Emerson Electric Co.
General Electric Co.
Hitit Computer Services
Honeywell International Inc.
Invensys
John Keells IT
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Siemens
SITA
Travel Technology Interactive
Yokogawa Electric Corporation
References
Airport infrastructure |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B%20AMP | C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP) is a native programming model that contains elements that span the C++ programming language and its runtime library. It provides an easy way to write programs that compile and execute on data-parallel hardware, such as graphics cards (GPUs).
Beginning with Visual Studio 2022 (version 17.0), C++ AMP is declared as deprecated, indicating its end of support beyond Visual Studio 2022.
C++ AMP is a library implemented on DirectX 11 and an open specification from Microsoft for implementing data parallelism directly in C++. It is intended to make programming GPUs easy for the developer by supporting a range of expertise from none (in which case the system does its best) to being more finely controllable, but still portable. In Microsoft's implementation, code that cannot be run on GPUs will fall back onto one or more CPUs instead and use SSE instructions. The Microsoft implementation is included in Visual Studio 2012, including debugger and profiler support.
The initial C++ AMP release from Microsoft requires at least Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. As C++ AMP is an open specification it is expected that in time implementations outside Microsoft will appear; one early example of this is Shevlin Park, Intel's experimental implementation of C++ AMP on Clang/LLVM and OpenCL.
On November 12, 2013 the HSA Foundation announced a C++ AMP compiler that outputs to OpenCL, Standard Portable Intermediate Representation (SPIR), and HSA Intermediate Language (HSAIL) supporting the current C++ AMP specification. The source is available at https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/hcc. C++ AMP support is considered obsolete and the current ROCm 1.9 series will be the last to support it.
The basic concepts behind C++AMP, like using C++ classes to express parallel and heterogeneous programming features, have been inspirational to the SYCL standard.
Features
Microsoft added the restrict(amp) feature, which can be applied to any function (including lambdas) to declare that the function can be executed on a C++ AMP accelerator. The compiler will automatically generate a compute kernel, saving the boilerplate of management and having to use a separate language. The restrict keyword instructs the compiler to statically check that the function uses only those language features that are supported by most GPUs, for example, void myFunc() restrict(amp) {…}
Microsoft or other implementer of the open C++ AMP specification could add other restrict specifiers for other purposes, including for purposes that are unrelated to C++ AMP.
Beyond the new language feature, the rest of C++ AMP is available through the <amp.h> header file in the concurrency namespace. The key C++ AMP classes are: array (container for data on an accelerator), array_view (wrapper for data), index (N-dimensional point), extent (N-dimensional size), accelerator (computational resource, such as a GPU, on which to allocate memory and execute), and accelerator_v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto%20Central%20LHIN | The Toronto Central LHIN is one of fourteen Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs) in the Canadian province of Ontario.
The Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network is a community-based, non-profit organization funded by the Government of Ontario through the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
Services
Toronto Central LHIN plans, funds and coordinates the following operational public health care services to a population of approximately 1.15 million people:
Hospitals
West Park Healthcare Centre
Providence Healthcare
Baycrest Hospital
Hospital for Sick Children
Mount Sinai Hospital
Bridgepoint Hospital
Runnymede Healthcare Centre
Toronto Grace Health Centre
St. Michael's Hospital
Michael Garron Hospital
Women's College Hospital
St. Joseph's Health Centre
Toronto General Hospital
Toronto Western Hospital
Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Long-Term Care Homes
Home and Community Care (Formally Community Care Access Centres (CCAC))
Community Support Service Agencies
Mental Health and Addiction Agencies
Community Health Centres (CHCs)
Geographic area
Toronto Central LHIN services a region focused on the centre of the City of Toronto. Neighbourhoods served include:
Area 1 West: Etobicoke / High Park
Area 2 North West: Davenport / Bloor
Area 3 South West: West downtown / Parkdale
Area 4 North Central: Midtown / Leaside / North Riverdale / Forest Hill
Area 5 South East: East downtown / South Riverdale
Area 6 East: Old East York / East End / The Beach
Area 7 North East: Flemingdon / Thorncliffe / Crescent Town / Oakridge
Budget
The Toronto Central LHIN has an annual budget of approximately $4.2 billion.
External links
Toronto Central LHIN
References
Health regions of Ontario
Health in Toronto |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QDA%20Miner | QDA Miner is mixed methods and qualitative data analysis software developed by Provalis Research. The program was designed to assist researchers in managing, coding and analyzing qualitative data.
QDA Miner was first released in 2004 after being developed by Normand Peladeau. The latest version 6 was released in September, 2020. QDA Miner is widely used for qualitative research. It is used by market researchers, survey companies, government, education researchers, crime and fraud detection experts, journalists and others.
The data typically used with this qualitative research software comes from (among others), journal articles, script from TV or radio news, social media (such as Facebook, Twitter or reviews from websites), interviews or focus group transcripts and open-ended questions from surveys.
Release history
QDA Miner 1: January 2004
QDA Miner 2: June 2006
QDA Miner 3: October 2007
QDA Miner 4: December 2011
QDA Miner 4 Lite: November 2012, a free variant of QDA Miner with reduced functionality
QDA Miner 5: December 2016
QDA Miner 6: September 2020
Features of QDA Miner 6
New Grid mode for coding shorter responses
Quotation Matrices
Enhanced annotation feature
Word frequency analysis and interactive word cloud
Importation of Nexis UNI and Factiva Files
Improved Importation of Excel, CSV and TSV files
Deviation Table
Export Results to Tableau Software
Numerical Transformation
Binning
Support of Missing Values
Silhouette plot
Date transformation
Improved code filtering feature
Donut, Radar, 100% Stacked Bar and Area Charts
Ordering of series in comparison charts
Color Coding of items in Correspondence Plot
Improved Bubble Chart
Link Analysis Buffer
New Table Format and Table Editor
Several new options and interface improvements have been made to existing dialog boxes (code color selection, graphic options, etc.), management and analysis features.
Features of QDA Miner 5
Import different formats of documents and images: PDF, Word, Excel, HTML, RTF, SPSS files, JPEG, etc.
Import data from Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, RSS feeds within the software
Import from directly reference managers tools and emails
Perform GIS mapping with qualitative data
Text retrieval tools: Keyword Retrieval, Query-by-Example, Cluster Extraction.
Statistical functions: Coding frequencies, cluster analysis, coding sequences, coding by variables.
Visualization tools: multidimensional scaling, heatmaps, correspondence analysis graphic, proximity plot.
GeoTagging (GIS) and Time-Tagging tools
Report manager tool to store queries and analysis results, tables and graphs, research notes and quotes.
References
QDA software
Science software for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP-type%20problem | In the study of algorithms, an LP-type problem (also called a generalized linear program) is an optimization problem that shares certain properties with low-dimensional linear programs and that may be solved by similar algorithms. LP-type problems include many important optimization problems that are not themselves linear programs, such as the problem of finding the smallest circle containing a given set of planar points. They may be solved by a combination of randomized algorithms in an amount of time that is linear in the number of elements defining the problem, and subexponential in the dimension of the problem.
Definition
LP-type problems were defined by as problems in which one is given as input a finite set of elements, and a function that maps subsets of to values from a totally ordered set. The function is required to satisfy two key properties:
Monotonicity: for every two sets , f(A) ≤ f(B) ≤ f(S).
Locality: for every two sets and every element in , if , then .
A basis of an LP-type problem is a set with the property that every proper subset of has a smaller value of than itself, and the dimension (or combinatorial dimension) of an LP-type problem is defined to be the maximum cardinality of a basis.
It is assumed that an optimization algorithm may evaluate the function only on sets that are themselves bases or that are formed by adding a single element to a basis. Alternatively, the algorithm may be restricted to two primitive operations: a violation test that determines, for a basis and an element whether , and a basis computation that (with the same inputs) finds a basis of }. The task for the algorithm to perform is to evaluate by only using these restricted evaluations or primitives.
Examples and applications
A linear program may be defined by a system of non-negative real variables, subject to linear inequality constraints, together with a non-negative linear objective function to be minimized. This may be placed into the framework of LP-type problems by letting be the set of constraints, and defining (for a subset of the constraints) to be the minimum objective function value of the smaller linear program defined by . With suitable general position assumptions (in order to prevent multiple solution points having the same optimal objective function value), this satisfies the monotonicity and locality requirements of an LP-type problem, and has combinatorial dimension equal to the number of variables. Similarly, an integer program (consisting of a collection of linear constraints and a linear objective function, as in a linear program, but with the additional restriction that the variables must take on only integer values) satisfies both the monotonicity and locality properties of an LP-type problem, with the same general position assumptions as for linear programs. Theorems of and show that, for an integer program with variables, the combinatorial dimension is at most .
Many natural optimization problems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypsopygia%20datames | Hypsopygia datames is a species of snout moth in the genus Hypsopygia. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1900. It is found in Mexico.
References
Moths described in 1900
Pyralini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Entertainment%20Network | Sony Entertainment Network (SEN) was a digital media delivery service operated by Sony. SEN provided access to services, including PlayStation Network for games, Video Unlimited for film and television, Music Unlimited for music, and PlayMemories for photographs and videos. On 28 January 2015, the Sony Entertainment Network was superseded by the PlayStation Network.
History
Sony Entertainment Network was first introduced on 31 August 2011 by the president of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. The new platform for Sony users was announced at the IFA tradeshow in Berlin. Sony Network Entertainment was the original name for the network until 2011, where Sony decided to create the Sony Entertainment Network platform as a way for the community to access digital entertainment. With the new name, also came new logos for the different services on the Sony Entertainment Network. Qriocity services was used by Sony as the video and music downloading platform; it was renamed Video Unlimited and Music Unlimited in 2011. This allowed Sony to expand the Music Unlimited service into Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium by the end of 2011.
During 2012, the Sony Entertainment Network was released to the community and was available on Sony's different devices. Instead of using a web-serviced browser in their Bravia Televisions, it was decided by Sony to integrate the Music and Video Unlimited into the TV's home menu. The interface was purposely created for the Sony Entertainment Network and make is more accessible for users to access the services that Sony Entertainment Network offered.
On 28 January 2015, the Sony Entertainment Network, along with its Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited services, were fully absorbed into the PlayStation Network, succeeding SEN as Sony's leading entertainment service brand. Following this, Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited were rebranded as PlayStation Music and PlayStation Video, respectively.
On 25 January 2016, Sony merged Computer Entertainment and Network Entertainment International into one business unit, Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Services
Video Unlimited
Video Unlimited allowed users to purchase or rent videos. Purchases and rentals could be made online through the Sony Entertainment Network store, through the PlayStation Store on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita, through the Video Unlimited store on many Sony Blu-ray disc players and Bravia TVs or via an Xperia smartphone and tablet app. The services provided customers with an easy and accessible way to watch and discover new movies and TV. Through the wide range of options that Video Unlimited has, a user could choose from new movies, classic movies or to keep up with a TV series. The use of logging in enabled the customer to easily choose and watch videos from anywhere, on devices that are compatible with Video Unlimited. Video Unlimited was later replaced by PlayStation Video.
Music Unlimited
Music Unlimited was a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20Kohonen%20self-organizing%20map | In artificial neural networks, a hybrid Kohonen self-organizing map is a type of self-organizing map (SOM) named for the Finnish professor Teuvo Kohonen, where the network architecture consists of an input layer fully connected to a 2–D SOM or Kohonen layer.
The output from the Kohonen layer, which is the winning neuron, feeds into a hidden layer and finally into an output layer. In other words, the Kohonen SOM is the front–end, while the hidden and output layer of a multilayer perceptron is the back–end of the
hybrid Kohonen SOM. The hybrid Kohonen SOM was first applied to machine vision systems for image classification and recognition.
Hybrid Kohonen SOM has been used in weather prediction and especially in forecasting stock prices, which has made a challenging task considerably easier. It is fast and efficient with less classification error, hence is a better predictor, when compared to Kohonen SOM and backpropagation networks.
References
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation%20Video | PlayStation Video (formerly known as Video Unlimited) was an online film and television program distribution service that first was offered by Sony Entertainment Network in February 2010.
On behalf of studios such as Sony Pictures, 20th Century Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, Universal Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Paramount Pictures, and Lionsgate, Video Unlimited distributed television episodes and new release films as well as a variety of older movies. In November 2010, Video Unlimited began distributing online content in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain and later expanded into Japan, Canada, and Australia as well. Their redistribution content could be accessed through personal computers and other devices such as Sony Blu-ray players, PlayStation consoles, Xperia smartphones and Sony tablets, Bravia televisions and some portable music players.
On March 2, 2021, Sony announced that it would discontinue offering new purchases and rentals of movies and TV shows through PlayStation Video on August 31. PlayStation said that movie purchases prior to that date would still be viewable to owners via the PlayStation Store.
See also
PlayStation Vue
References
Video
Defunct video on demand services
Subscription video on demand services
Computer-related introductions in 2010
Companies disestablished due to the COVID-19 pandemic
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20in%20Atlanta | Atlanta's transportation system is a complex infrastructure of several systems, including 47.6 miles of heavy rail, 91 bus transit routes, 1,600 licensed taxis, a comprehensive network of freeways, the world's busiest airport and over 45 miles of bike paths.
The city began as a railroad town, and remains a major rail junction and home of major classification yards for Norfolk Southern and CSX. Amtrak provides the only remaining passenger service via its daily Crescent service to cities between New Orleans and New York.
Atlanta's subway system, operated by MARTA, is the eighth-busiest in the United States. The rail system is complemented by MARTA's bus system, the 14th-largest in the country.
A 2011 Brookings Institution study placed Atlanta 91st of 100 metro areas for transit accessibility. Reliance on cars has resulted in heavy traffic and has helped make Atlanta one of the more polluted cities in the country. The Clean Air Campaign was created in 1996 to help reduce pollution in metro Atlanta. Since 2008, Metro Atlanta has ranked at or near the top of lists of longest average commute times and worst traffic in the country.
Background
History
The history of Atlanta's transportation system began in 1836, when the state of Georgia decided to build a railroad to the Midwest and chose Atlanta to be the Terminus. Between 1845 and 1854 rail lines arrived from four different directions and Atlanta became a transportation hub of the Southeast. In 1871 horse-cars began to be used in the city but Electric Streetcars arrived in 1889. by 1926, passenger service peaked at 96,794,273 people per year. The introduction of Trackless trolleys in 1937 led to the gradual decline and eventual end of electric street car service. The last streetcar was run in 1949 by Georgia Power, only Trolleys and Buses were left.
During the period when the system was at its maximum size trolley-buses carried 80 percent of all transit riders By the end of 1949 Atlanta had a fleet of 453 trolleybuses, the largest in the United States, and it retained this distinction until 1952, when it was surpassed by Chicago. Since the 1920s Georgia Power had been losing money and ridership, and during a five-week-long transit strike the company began looking for buyers. Clement Evans, Granger Hansell and Inman Brandon with Leland Anderson formed the Atlanta Transit Company and purchased the transportation properties on June 23, 1950
In late 1962 Atlanta Transit decided to phase out all trolleybus service the next year, to avoid the expense of having to string new overhead wires when extending service to new areas. There were 39 trolleybus routes at the end of 1962. Another reason cited was the anticipated high cost and difficulty of obtaining new trolleybuses to replace ATC's large fleet, which ranged in age from 14 to 17 years. Since 1959, when Marmon-Herrington ceased production of trolleybuses, no manufacturer in North America was still making the electric vehicles (a situation whic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InSoft%20Inc. | InSoft Inc. was an American developer of network-based communications software and multimedia software founded in 1992 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The company’s applications included Communique, which is used for desktop collaboration and videoconferencing.
InSoft has been called a pioneer in the desktop videoconferencing market, and is credited with developing the first generation of Internet media streaming and VoIP/collaborative software applications that would later be developed into NetscapeConference and NetscapeMedia Server. These, in turn, would provide the groundwork for the Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) standard. RTSP is used to control incoming data when streaming video. The company was sold to Netscape Communications on April 25, 1996.
History
Company founders Daniel Harple and Richard Pizzarro met in 1990 while employed as computer engineers at AMP Incorporated in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Their jobs were introducing computer-aided design systems and networked workstations to the manufacturing company. The pair wanted to create a way to let engineers working together on a design speak to and look at one another without leaving their desks over a real time video network requiring only "regular computers and cheap, desktop cameras".
Harple and Pizarro worked on their idea after hours, creating improvised labs in spare bedrooms, and connecting borrowed workstations with streams of cable. After some months, they succeeded in creating a piece of software which allowed real time, face to face collaboration over a computer network,similar to other experimental systems at the time.
The two men left AMP to co-found InSoft Inc. in 1992, with Harple acting as Chairman and CEO and Pizzarro as Chief Engineer and Vice President. Because they believed the solution to videoconferencing was in software alone, they named the new company InSoft. Money to start up the company came from family and friends, and also from the Pittsburgh-based venture capitalist Adams Capital Management, which raised funds from Philadelphia Ventures, New Enterprise Associates of Baltimore, Edison Venture Fund of Harrisburg and Newbridge Networks of Canada.
In 1992, SunWorld magazine praised InSoft's Communique product as a "killer app" for Sun, calling it "the next logical step in improving computers as communications devices". The product's could run on any high-end workstation powered by virtually any chip through most any type of existing network. Within two years, industry magazines were referring to the company as a "pioneer in the desktop videoconferencing market" The company's software was adopted by manufacturers like IBM, Hewlett Packard and others. An industry marketer wrote that InSoft had positioned itself as "a mandatory checklist item" among computer giants."
A 1994 issue of VARBusiness magazine described InSoft as pursuing "a new software model" completely independent of the compression hardware and network type that analysts predicted would |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally%20Sports%20San%20Diego | Bally Sports San Diego is an American regional sports network owned as a joint venture between Diamond Sports Group (itself a 50-50 joint venture between the Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios), and operates as an affiliate of Bally Sports. Prior to the team parting ways with the network in 2023, the San Diego Padres owned a 20% stake. It was launched on March 17, 2012.
The channel broadcasts local coverage of sports events within the San Diego market. Bally Sports San Diego is available on cable providers throughout San Diego County, neighboring Imperial County, as well as the Palm Springs Area and Las Vegas Valleys, Southern Arizona and Hawaii; it is also available nationwide on satellite via DirecTV. Within the San Diego market, Cox Communications and Spectrum provided an alternate Spanish play-by-play feed during Padres games via a second audio program feed from the team's Spanish radio network.
History
The network was established after Fox Sports Networks reached a 20-year broadcast agreement for the regional cable television rights to carry games from the San Diego Padres Major League Baseball franchise, displacing previous rights holder 4SD, a local cable channel owned by Cox Communications. Henry S. Ford, an executive who previously ran operations at Fox's regional sports networks in Detroit and Ohio, was appointed as president and general manager of Fox Sports San Diego.
Fox Sports San Diego launched on March 17, 2012, with a San Diego Padres spring training game against the Kansas City Royals. The network started operations with a minimal presence and no dedicated editing facilities or studio; during its first season, Padres game broadcasts were produced from a high-definition production truck inherited from 4SD. Pre-game and post-game shows were also produced from the same truck, and broadcast from a semi-permanent stage in the "Park at the Park" area of Petco Park, using a set inspired by a similar staging used by Fox for major sports events televised nationally. Resources have been shared with other FSN outlets; editing facilities were initially based out of Los Angeles, and master control is co-located alongside Fox's other regional sports networks at a facility near Houston, Texas.
On December 14, 2017, as part of a merger between both companies, The Walt Disney Company announced plans to acquire all 22 regional Fox Sports networks from 21st Century Fox, including the company's 80% stake in Fox Sports San Diego. However, on June 27, 2018, the Justice Department ordered their divestment under antitrust grounds, citing Disney's ownership of ESPN. On May 3, 2019, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios (through their joint venture, Diamond Holdings) bought Fox Sports Networks from The Walt Disney Company for $10.6 billion. The deal closed on August 22, 2019. On November 17, 2020, Sinclair announced an agreement with casino operator Bally's Corporation to serve as a new naming rights partner for the FSN |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID3%20%28disambiguation%29 | ID3 is a metadata format for MP3 audio files.
ID3 or ID-3 may also refer to:
ID3 algorithm, an algorithm for constructing decision trees
ID3 (gene), a human protein
ID-3 format, a standard size for identification cards defined by ISO/IEC 7810
ID3, a post-dubstep/glitch artist
Volkswagen ID.3, a battery electric car by the German manufacturer Volkswagen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%20TV | 10 TV may refer to:
10TV, an Indian news television channel
Digi24, a Romanian news television channel
WBNS-TV, an American television channel
Network 10, formerly known as 10 TV Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Edwards%20%28Los%20Angeles%20politician%29 | James Edwards was a member of the Los Angeles, California, Common Council—the legislative arm of that city— in 1860–61 and was its president for part of that term.
References
Data is from Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials,1850-1938, compiled under direction of Municipal Reference Library, City Hall, Los Angeles (March 1938, reprinted 1966). "Prepared ... as a report on Project No. SA 3123-5703-6077-8121-9900 conducted under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration."
Politicians from Los Angeles
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage%20Mutant%20Ninja%20Turtles%20%282012%20TV%20series%29 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, known as Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for its 2017 fifth and final season, is an American computer-animated television series developed by Ciro Nieli, Joshua Sternin, and Jennifer Ventimilia. It is the third animated series in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. The series aired on Nickelodeon in the United States from September 28, 2012, to November 12, 2017. It was produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio and LowBar Productions. Bardel Entertainment handled layout and CG animation services. The series begins with the Turtles emerging from their sewer home for the first time, using their ninjutsu training to fight enemies in present-day New York City.
The series was first announced in October 2009, following the news that Nickelodeon's parent company Viacom had acquired the rights to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. The show was created to reach a core audience of boys aged 6 to 11; it was one half of Nickelodeon's strategy to reboot two established brands for new viewers, coinciding with Nickelodeon Animation Studio's development of new Winx Club episodes for girls.
During the months leading to its premiere, Nickelodeon and Playmates Toys released lines of merchandise featuring the new character designs. The two-part premiere took place on September 28 and September 29, 2012, reaching 3.9 million viewers. The debut ratings were the highest for a Nickelodeon animated series since 2009, leading to a second season pickup in October 2012. Three more seasons followed; the fifth and final season was rebranded as Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and did not fully air on Nickelodeon, as episodes 115–121 premiered on its sister channel Nicktoons.
Plot
Season 1
Ninjutsu master Hamato Yoshi (Splinter) is carrying his four pet turtles through the streets of Manhattan when he encounters members of an alien race called the Kraang. During an altercation with these aliens, Yoshi and the turtles are exposed to the Kraang's chemical, called mutagen, which causes organic beings to undergo major physical transformations. Yoshi takes on characteristics of a brown rat and the turtles take on human characteristics. Yoshi retreats to the New York City sewers where he raises the four turtles as his sons and imparts to them his knowledge of ninjutsu.
Now teenagers, the turtles (Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo) venture to the surface for the first time and learn that the Kraang are using the mutagen as part of their plan to take over New York City. They befriend the teenage April O'Neil after she and her psychologist father Kirby are abducted by the Kraang. Donatello, who has developed a crush on April, is able to rescue her. While Kirby remains a prisoner of the Kraang, April becomes an ally of the turtles, who try to help her locate her father. April is also trained by Splinter to be a kunoichi, a female ninja.
After learning of Splinter's and the turtles' presence in New York, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%20Were%20They%20Thinking%3F | What Were They Thinking? is a Canadian documentary television series, which debuted in 2005 on The Comedy Network. Hosted by Sean Cullen, the series profiled the various quirky roadside attractions that towns and cities have erected in their quest to attract notice by building the "world's biggest" example of some random, often ridiculous, thing.
Cullen won a Gemini Award for best host in a lifestyle, practical information or performing arts program at the 21st Gemini Awards in 2006.
References
External links
Official website (archived)
English-language television shows
2005 Canadian television series debuts
2005 Canadian television series endings
2000s Canadian documentary television series
2000s Canadian comedy television series
CTV Comedy Channel original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision%20TV%20Network | Vision TV Network is a television channel distribution service provided by Vision247 Ltd in the United Kingdom. The service carries around 35 channels in English and other languages, streamed from the internet and accessed via Freeview channel 264, EE TV boxes, mobile apps or the web.
History
When Vision TV was launched in 2012, it provided viewers in the UK with access to a package of foreign TV channels. Viewers had to subscribe online in order to watch pay TV channels on the Vision TV Network, which were delivered through data channels (110, 111 and 112) on Freeview HD set-top boxes, and later to Roku players. As an IPTV service, the network also allowed two-way interactivity to enable functionality such as voting, commerce and targeted advertising.
The service initially broadcast French, Greek, Polish and Turkish channels. In August 2012, Muslim and Arabic-language channels were added. In March 2015, a Portuguese package called 'My Portuguese' was added, which included Benfica TV. In September 2015 the service became available on the web, as well as EETV set-top boxes. In November 2015, iOS and Android apps were launched.
The UK pay-TV service closed down on 30 April 2019 and was no longer available on Roku or mobile devices, though a separate package of free channels continued to stream online and via Freeview.
Visiontv. on Freeview
In addition to the subscription package of foreign language television channels on Roku/Now TV and Android devices, Vision247 launched a second service via Freeview channel 264. Now branded as VisionTV (styled as Visiontv.), this free-to-view streaming service features a number of English-language channels with news and religious programming from around the world.
At the end of 2020, Visiontv. launched their own channel VTC (Vision TV Channel, styled as vtc. ) as part of their entertainment channels line-up and added Newsmax TV and Syria TV to their news channels.
Vision247 and Mondo Globo on Freeview
As well as their own streaming portal, Vision247 Limited has teamed up with Canadian firm Mondo Globo to secure a more permanent channel position in the streaming area of Freeview for a number of Arabic channels. This has included a slot on Freeview channel 272 for Asharq News and channel 273 for MBC's Al Arabiya and Al Hadath services.
Freeview channel line-up
The channel line-up, as of October 2022, on the Freeview visiontv. streaming service is as follows:
Arise News
Arise Play (formally Live360)
Al Araby Television
Al Araby2
Best Direct
Brit Asia TV (An ex-Channelbox service)
British Muslim TV
Channel 7 (formally GNTV)
Daystar
DW English
Edgy TV (broadcasting programmes from FTV.com)
eSports24.tv
Faith World TV
France 24 French (also broadcasting via Channelbox)
Good News TV
Islam Channel
Iran International
JML
Newsmax
NTAI
Propeller TV
Revelation
Sharjah TV
Sikh Channel
SportyStuffTV
Supreme Master TV.com
Syria TV
Sum TV
That's TV (only available via Vision TV on Freeview ch264, not through the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted%204%3A%20A%20Thief%27s%20End | Uncharted 4: A Thief's End is a 2016 action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the fourth main entry in the Uncharted series. Set several years after the events of Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, players control Nathan Drake, a former treasure hunter coaxed out of retirement by his presumed-dead brother Samuel. With Nathan's longtime partner, Victor Sullivan, they search for clues to the location of Henry Avery's long-lost treasure. A Thief's End is played from a third-person perspective, and incorporates platformer elements. Players solve puzzles and use firearms, melee combat, and stealth to combat enemies. In the online multiplayer mode, up to ten players engage in co-operative and competitive modes.
Development of Uncharted 4 began in 2011, soon after the release of Uncharted 3. It was led by creative director Amy Hennig and game director Justin Richmond. Development was hampered in 2014 due to Hennig and Richmond's departure from Naughty Dog; they were replaced by Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley. The team sought to incorporate elements of open-world gameplay, with larger levels to encourage free-roaming exploration and combat. The relationship between Nathan and Elena was central, and Naughty Dog attempted to humanize them more than in previous games. A Thief's End was released in May 2016 for the PlayStation 4. It was the first Naughty Dog game developed specifically for the PlayStation 4. The team took advantage of the hardware to process larger dynamic environments.
Following its announcement in November 2013, A Thief's End was widely anticipated. The game was acclaimed by critics, who praised its gameplay, narrative, emotional depth, visuals, and multiplayer, with several reviewers finding the game a worthy conclusion to Nathan's story. Considered one of the greatest video games ever made, it won year-end accolades, including Game of the Year awards from several gaming publications, critics, and award ceremonies. With over 15million copies sold, it is the highest-selling Uncharted game and one of the best-selling PlayStation 4 games. A standalone expansion, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, was released in 2017. A remastered version, alongside The Lost Legacy as part of the Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection, was released in January 2022 for PlayStation 5 and October 2022 for Windows.
Gameplay
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End is an action-adventure game played from a third-person perspective, with platforming elements. Players traverse several environments, moving through locations including towns, buildings, and wilderness to advance through the game's story. Players use firearms, melee combat, and stealth to combat hostile enemies. For most of the game, players control Nathan Drake—a treasure hunter who is physically adept and can jump, sprint, climb, swim, scale narrow ledges and walls, swing with a rope, use a grappling hook and perform other acrobatic actions. Players also drive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellpadding | Cellpadding (along with cellspacing) is a term used in the computer language HTML which stands for Hypertext Markup Language. When used in conjunction with the table element, it specifies the amount of space between the border of a table cell and its contents.
Cellpadding is an attribute of an individual cell in a table, so each cell in a table can have its own cellpadding value. The cellpadding attribute was added to version 2.0 of the HTML language in 1996.
Space between text and borders is an important element of web page design, because it improves the readability of text and visual appeal of graphics in table cells. Cellpadding makes this possible, and web design experts emphasize the importance of carefully selecting the cellpadding values. The same effect can be accomplished in CSS.
Presentational HTML elements such as cellpadding are becoming obsolete, as more and more web designers move to the use of CSS and other newer methods of creating web pages, available in HTML versions 5 and newer. One reason for this is that, although cellpadding makes reading easier for sighted users, text-to-speech software for non-sighted users has difficulty in interpreting complex table data. However, because visual spacing of text in tables is still important, developers of these newer methods continue to use the term "cellpadding" or "cell padding" to describe whatever process is used to provide it.
References
HTML |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Friend | Stephen H. Friend is co-founder and director of Sage Bionetworks.
Formerly Senior Vice-President at Merck & Co. Friend co-founded Rosetta Inpharmatics with Leland H. Hartwell and Leroy Hood in 1996. Much of his research has focused on cancer.
Friend has also held faculty positions at Harvard Medical School and at Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, his Ph.D. in biochemistry and his M.D. from Indiana University.
Recognition
Friend is named an Ashoka Fellow by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public in 2011.
Selected bibliography
References
External links
TED talk with Stephen Friend
Living people
American scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Ashoka Fellows
Ashoka USA Fellows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/780th%20Military%20Intelligence%20Brigade%20%28United%20States%29 | The 780th Military Intelligence Brigade conducts cyberspace operations to deliver effects in support of Army and Joint requirements. The 780th MI BDE is the only offensive cyberspace operations brigade in the U.S. Army.
Task Force Echo (TFE), a unit composed of U.S. Army National Guard (ARNG) Soldiers, was established on August 15, 2017. The 11th Cyber Battalion (11th CYB) activated on October 16, 2022.
See also
Military Intelligence Corps (United States Army)
United States Army Intelligence and Security Command
United States Army Cyber Command
Battlefield surveillance brigades in the United States Army – the United States Army is currently reorganizing its intelligence formations into Battlefield Surveillance Brigades (BfSB).
References
Military intelligence brigades of the United States Army |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiLog | HiLog is a programming logic with higher-order syntax, which allows arbitrary terms to appear in predicate and function positions. However, the model theory of HiLog is first-order. Although syntactically HiLog strictly extends first order logic, HiLog can be embedded into this logic.
HiLog was first described in 1989. It was later extended in the direction of many-sorted logic.
The XSB system parses HiLog syntax, but the integration of HiLog into XSB is only partial. In particular, HiLog is not integrated with the XSB module system. A full implementation of HiLog is available in the Flora-2 system.
It has been shown that HiLog can be embedded into first-order logic through a fairly simple transformation. For instance, p(X)(Y,Z(V)(W)) gets embedded as the following first-order term: apply(p(X),Y,apply(apply(Z,V),W)).
The Framework for Logic-Based Dialects (RIF-FLD) of the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) is largely based on the ideas underlying HiLog and F-logic.
Examples
In all the examples below, capitalized symbols denote variables and the comma denotes logical conjunction, as in most logic programming languages. The first and the second examples show that variables can appear in predicate positions. Predicates can even be complex terms, such as closure(P) or maplist(F) below. The third example shows that variables can also appear in place of atomic formulas, while the fourth example illustrates the use of variables in place of function symbols. The first example defines a generic transitive closure operator, which can be applied to an arbitrary binary predicate. The second example is similar. It defines a LISP-like mapping operator, which applies to an arbitrary binary predicate. The third example shows that the Prolog meta-predicate call/1 can be expressed in HiLog in a natural way and without the use of extra-logical features. The last example defines a predicate that traverses arbitrary binary trees represented as first-order terms.
closure(P)(X,Y) <- P(X,Y).
closure(P)(X,Y) <- P(X,Z), closure(P)(Z,Y).
maplist(F)([],[]).
maplist(F)([X|R],[Y|Z]) <- F(X,Y), maplist(F)(R,Z).
call(X) <- X.
traverse(X(L,R)) <- traverse(L), traverse(R).
References
Further reading
Logic programming languages
Declarative programming languages
Knowledge representation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emo%20Welzl | Emmerich (Emo) Welzl (born 4 August 1958 in Linz, Austria) is a computer scientist known for his research in computational geometry. He is a professor in the Institute for Theoretical Computer Science at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
Biography
Welzl was born on 4 August 1958 in Linz, Austria. He studied at the Graz University of Technology receiving a Diplom in Applied Mathematics in 1981 and a doctorate in 1983 under the supervision of Hermann Maurer. Following postdoctoral studies at Leiden University, he became a professor at the Free University of Berlin in 1987 at age 28 and was the youngest professor in Germany. Since 1996 he has been professor of Computer Science at the ETH Zurich.
Welzl is a member of multiple journal editorial boards, and has been program chair for the Symposium on Computational Geometry in 1995, one of the tracks of the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming in 2000, and one of the tracks of the European Symposium on Algorithms in 2007.
Research
Much of Welzl's research has been in computational geometry. With David Haussler, he showed that machinery from computational learning theory including ε-nets and VC dimension could be useful in geometric problems such as the development of space-efficient range searching data structures. He devised linear time randomized algorithms for the smallest circle problem and for low-dimensional linear programming, and developed the combinatorial framework of LP-type problems that generalizes both of these problems. Other highly cited research publications by Welzl and his co-authors describe algorithms for constructing visibility graphs and using them to find shortest paths among obstacles in the plane, test whether two point sets can be mapped to each other by a combination of a geometric transformation and a small perturbation, and pioneer the use of space-filling curves for range query data structures.
Awards and honors
Welzl won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 1995. He was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin in 1998. He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 1998,
as a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2005, of the Academia Europaea in 2006, and of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2007.
References
External links
Home page at ETH Zurich
1958 births
Living people
Austrian computer scientists
Swiss computer scientists
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Academic staff of the Free University of Berlin
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Members of Academia Europaea
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welzl | Welzl is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Emo Welzl (born 1958), Austrian-Swiss computer scientist
Jan Eskymo Welzl (1868–1948), Moravian explorer
Kurt Welzl (born 1954), Austrian footballer
German-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo%20Protestant%20Evangelical%20Church | The Kosovo Protestant Evangelical Church () (KPEC) is a Protestant church network based in Pristina, Kosovo. It is one of the four protected major religions in the Kosovo Law of Religious Freedoms. Between 10,000 and 15,000 Kosovar Albanians follow this church, 6,000 in Pristina alone. There are 42 churches in all of Kosovo.
Government authorities see Evangelical Church as encompassing all Protestants. Figures in 2020 suggested that 0.61% of the country's populations was Protestant (just over 12,000 people.
History and development
The Kosovo Protestant church (and the Albanian Protestant Church) was founded by Gjerasim Qiriazi but there were Protestant efforts previously. The British and Foreign Bible Society was a Protestant-based institution targeting the Ottoman Empire. There was a minor Protestant reformation in the Balkans after the Cyrniea war in 1856 after the Ottoman Turks had to give up. Albania was the sole country in the entire Ottoman Empire to take in the reform beliefs. The first Albanian to convert to Protestantism was Kostandin Kristoforidhi, who did so in 1856. Gjerasim Qiriazi also converted and became the first Albanian ordained Protestant minister.
By 1882, however, the Albanian Evangelical Church family grew up to 36 believers. The first Protestant church was born in Manastir. In that year, prayers and sermons were conducted in the Albanian language.
In 1890, a second church was opened in Korça, led by the newly Christian Gjerasim Qiriazi. Qiriazi was also the head of the first national society within Albania named "Evangelical Brotherhood". As a result, Gjerasim Qiriazi is considered the father of the Kosovo Protestant Evangelical Church.
The church was officially inaugurated on June 16, 1985, by the leadership of Artur Krasniqi. There is a church in downtown Pristina, that was built after the church was inaugurated in 1985. Since 1999, after the Kosovo War, more Kosovo Albanians have been converting to the church. Currently, about 15,000 Kosovar Albanians follow this church, most of them have converted. 2,000 of them regularly attend church. There is about 6,000 followers in Pristina alone.
Organization
Local Protestant churches carry different names, either by its functional or by its organizing structure make the formal religious community which is called The "Kosova Protestant Evangelical Church" (KPEC). KPEC has an ecclesiological structure in the organization of its decision-making and executive bodies. The KPEC church hierarchy is formed in that way so it is doctrinally biblical and practically functional. At the local level, Evangelicals respect the autonomy of local churches in self-governing its everyday church affairs. However, at the national level, KPEC bodies are: Assembly (Synod), Council of Ministers (Presbytery) and the Chairman.
General Assembly
The KPEC General Assembly is the highest decision-making body in KPEC. The KPEC General Assembly, which gathers once a year, is represented by represent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Sony%20Entertainment%20Television | This is the list of original programming currently and formerly broadcast by the Indian television channel Sony Entertainment Television (SET) in India.
Current broadcasts
Former broadcasts
Acquired series
Anthology series
Comedy series
Drama series
Horror/supernatural series
Mythological series
Reality/non-scripted programming
Hindi dubbed shows
Animated series
Specials
See also
List of programmes broadcast by Sony SAB
Sony Pal
References
Sony TV
S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wild%20and%20the%20Innocent%20%28Millennium%29 | "'The Wild and the Innocent" is the tenth episode of the first season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on January 10, 1997. The episode was written by Jorge Zamacona, and directed by Thomas J. Wright. "The Wild and the Innocent" featured guest appearances by Heather McComb and Jeffrey Donovan.
Forensic profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), a member of the private investigative organisation Millennium Group, is following the trail of a murderous couple who are trying to track down a child that had been sold to another family.
"The Wild and the Innocent" makes reference to Ernest Renan, and featured several actors who would later appear in related series. The episode received mixed reviews, and has been compared to the works of Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy.
Plot
Twenty-year-old Maddie Haskel (Heather McComb), attends her mother's funeral in Joplin, Missouri, and returns to the family home afterwards. There, Jim Gilroy (John Pyper-Ferguson) attempts to rape her, but he is beaten unconscious by Haskel's boyfriend, Bobby Webber (Jeffrey Donovan). Webber and Haskel drive off with Gilroy hostage in the trunk of the car, but are later stopped by a state trooper. When the trooper notices noise coming from the car's trunk, he is shot dead by Webber.
Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn), a member of the private investigative organization the Millennium Group, informs his friend and fellow Group member Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) about the Missouri shooting. Records for the car show it to be registered to Gilroy, but Watts points out that Gilroy is simply an alias, and the man is actually Jake Waterson, a serial rapist who murdered three women several years earlier before disappearing. Searching Waterson's address—Haskel's family home—for clues, Black and Watts find the word "angel" carved into a television, but do not know what it means. Black also views footage taken by the trooper's dashboard camera, realizing that Waterson is not the shooter, but is unable to identify Webber.
Elsewhere, Webber savagely beats Waterson, repeatedly asking him "where is he?". Webber and Haskel then break into a farmhouse, confronting the family with the same question. When they do not answer, Webber kills them both before realizing that Waterson had given him the address as a decoy. Webber threatens to kill Waterson unless he tells him the truth. Waterson complies, but is locked in the car's trunk again, and the car is pushed into a lake. Webber and Haskel steal the dead couple's car, and drive off.
Waterson's submerged car is recovered by police before he drowns, and he is charged with the earlier rapes and murders. However, he refuses to reveal anything about the state trooper's shooting. Black reads several letters found in Haskel's home, written to her father but never posted, and deduces that "Angel" is Haskel's son. Waterson's bank account reveals a $7,000 deposit shortly after Angel's birth—Black r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20Carbon%20Column%20Observing%20Network | The Total Carbon Column Observing Network (TCCON) is a global network of instruments that measure the amount of carbon dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide, nitrous oxide and other trace gases in the Earth's atmosphere. The TCCON ( ) began in 2004 with the installation of the first instrument in Park Falls, Wisconsin, USA, and has since grown to 23 operational instruments worldwide, with 7 former sites.
The TCCON is designed to investigate several things, including the flow (or flux) of carbon between the atmosphere, land, and ocean (the so-called carbon budget or carbon cycle). This is achieved by measuring the atmospheric mass of carbon (the airborne fraction). The TCCON measurements have improved the scientific community's understanding of the carbon cycle, and urban greenhouse gas emissions.
The TCCON supports several satellite instruments by providing an independent measurement to compare (or validate) the satellite measurements of the atmosphere over the TCCON site locations. The TCCON provides the primary measurement validation dataset for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) mission, and has been used to validate other space-based measurements of carbon dioxide.
History
The TCCON was established partly because of modeling errors between mixing efficiency between the PBL and the free troposphere. Because TCCON measurements are of the entire column of atmosphere above a site (PBL and free troposphere are simultaneously measured) the measurements are an improvement over the traditional in situ near surface measurements in this regard. TCCON has improved the CO2 mass gradient measurements between the northern and southern hemispheres.
The first annual TCCON meeting was in San Francisco, California in 2005. Every year a meeting is held in a location that rotates between North America, the Western Pacific, and Europe hosted by a participating institution. In 2015 the meeting was held at the University of Toronto.
Measurement technique
The main instrument at each TCCON site is a Bruker IFS 125HR (HR for high resolution, ~0.02 cm−1) or occasionally 120HR Fourier transform spectrometer. Sunlight is directed into the spectrometer by solar tracking mirrors and other optics. The spectrometers measure the absorption of direct sunlight by atmospheric trace gases primarily in the near infrared region. This remote sensing technique produces a precise and accurate measurement of the total column abundance of the trace gas. The main limitation to this technique is that measurements can not be recorded when it is not sunny (i.e. there are no measurements available at nighttime or when there is heavy cloud cover).
Participating sites and Institutions
Current TCCON sites are located in the United States, China, Canada, Germany, Poland, France, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Réunion, and Ascension Island. A former site was in Brazil. Sites can change when an instrument needs to be moved to a new location.
TCCON members collaborate from a va |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta%E2%80%93Sicily%20interconnector | The Malta–Sicily interconnector is the submarine power cable which connects the power grid of Malta with the Italian Transmission Network managed by Terna, which is part of the European grid.
Technical characteristics
The long subsea cable starts at Magħtab, Qalet Marku in Malta and it runs to Marina di Ragusa in Sicily, Italy.
From there it is connected to the Ragusa substation, which is of the Italian TSO Terna, via a underground cable.
The cable and 132/220 kV substation in Malta is provided by Nexans. The cable has capacity of 200 MW and it uses 220 kV high voltage alternating current. The interconnector is operated by Enemalta, the Maltese power company. In the 2014 the cable was laid in the sea by the ship C/S Nexans Skagerrak of the Company Nexans. The interconnector became operational in March 2015. The project cost €182 million.
Economic impact
The cable allows Malta to exchange electricity with the Italian power market, i.e. the island can both import and export electricity from Italy through the interconnector.
The creation of this subsea cable ended Malta's previous electricity's isolation and diversified its mix of energy sources. In February 2015, European Commission underlined that Malta's interconnection level would go from 0% to approximately 35% with the new interconnector.
Problems
In December 2019 power outages in Malta were being caused by a failure of the interconnector cable having been damaged by a ship's anchor. In 2019 the interconnector supplied 23.1% of generated power.
Sites
See also
Energy in Malta
Energy in Italy
List of high voltage underground and submarine cables
References
External links
Track of Malta–Sicily interconnector on Sicily
Electric power infrastructure in Malta
Electric power infrastructure in Italy
Italy–Malta relations
Naxxar
Ragusa, Sicily
High-voltage transmission lines
Energy infrastructure completed in 2015
2015 establishments in Italy
2015 establishments in Malta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back9Network | Back9Network was a 24/7 golf lifestyle cable television network and media company based in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. It was developed as an alternative to traditional media's focus on professional golf tournament coverage. Back9Network.com, the online clubhouse for Back9Network, delivered editorial and original content on golf lifestyle. The linear television channel broadcast for six months on DirecTV before closing due to undercapitalization. The company later shed its television assets in bankruptcy reorganization.
History
Back9Network was founded in 2010, first launched online in April 2012, and re-launched its website in January 2013. The network raised private equity from a number of shareholders and received a $5 million loan from the state of Connecticut (which closed in March 2013). In September 2014, Back9Network launched on DirecTV in 20 million TV households. Ahmad Rashad was among Back9's most prominent names.
On February 23, 2015, the channel suspended operations due to a lack of funding, owing $5 million to the state of Connecticut as well as millions more to other creditors. It went through $40 million in capital, and 85 jobs were lost in two rounds of layoffs. In December 2015, the company filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 and exited bankruptcy in July 2016 under the name Swing by Swing, primarily focused around a mobile app.
References
Golf on television
Television channels and stations established in 2014
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2015
Sports television networks in the United States
Defunct television networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From%20Spain%20with%20Love%20with%20Annie%20Sibonney | From Spain With Love with Annie Sibonney is a Canadian reality television series, which aired on Food Network in Canada and the Cooking Channel in the United States. Produced by Shaftesbury Films, the series premiered in 2011.
Hosted by Toronto-based broadcaster and culinary tour operator Annie Sibonney, the series profiles the cuisine of Spain.
The series also aired on Food Network in Europe, LifeStyle Food in Australia, Asian Food Channel in Southeast Asia and Fox Life India.
After the end of the program's run, Sibonney created the new series One Night Stand with Annie Sibonney.
Restaurants featured
Chikito
Cinc Sentits
El fogón de Trifón
References
External links
2011 Canadian television series debuts
2011 Canadian television series endings
2010s Canadian reality television series
Canadian travel television series
Food travelogue television series
English-language television shows
Television series by Shaftesbury Films
Food Network (Canadian TV channel) original programming
Television shows filmed in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterogeneous%20earliest%20finish%20time | Heterogeneous earliest finish time (or HEFT) is a heuristic to schedule a set of dependent tasks onto a network of heterogenous workers taking communication time into account.
For inputs HEFT takes a set of tasks, represented as a directed acyclic graph, a set of workers, the times to execute each task on each worker, and the times to communicate the results from each job to each of its children between each pair of workers. It descends from list scheduling algorithms.
Algorithm
HEFT executes in two phases.
Prioritizing tasks
In the first phase each task is given a priority. The priority of each task is usually designated to be its "upward rank" which is defined recursively as follows
where represents the task, is an average computation cost of job i among all the processor, is the set of all jobs that immediately depend on task , and is the average communication cost of the variables transferred between jobs and between all pairs of workers. Note that the computation of depends on the computation of the rank of all its children. The upward rank is meant to represent the expected distance of any task from the end of the computation. For averaged quantities like different averages may provide different results.
Assigning tasks to workers
In the second phase tasks are assigned to workers. Now that all tasks are prioritized we consider and schedule each one, starting with the highest priority. The task with the highest priority for which all dependent tasks have finished is scheduled on the worker which will result in the earliest finish time of that task. This finish time depends on the communication time to send all necessary inputs to the worker, the computation time of the task on the worker, and the time when that processor becomes available (it may be busy with another task). HEFT uses an insertion-based policy that fills sufficiently sized gaps between already scheduled tasks.
Discussion
HEFT is well respected among heuristic algorithms for this problem. But in complex situations it can easily fail to find the optimal scheduling. HEFT is essentially a greedy algorithm and incapable of making short-term sacrifices for long term benefits. Some improved algorithms based on HEFT look ahead to better estimate the quality of a scheduling decision can be used to trade run-time for scheduling performance.
Code
A Python implementation of HEFT is available on github
A C++ implementation of HEFT is available on github
References
Scheduling algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer%20Iconia%206120 | The Acer Iconia Tab 6120 is a touch screen tablet computer made by Acer and unveiled on 23 November 2010. The Iconia was first announced at an Acer press conference in New York City on 23 November 2010.
The device was released in January 2011 in the United States, and earlier in Europe, though the exact dates are not known. In Europe, it is priced at €1500 and £1500, while the price in the US was not set at the time of its release.
Design and software
It is constructed out of a pair of LCD screens, attached with a hinge in the manner of a traditional laptop, but with a screen replacing the keyboard. The device weighs and is equipped with Windows 7, and a proprietary Acer operating system for the touchscreen interface. The Iconia is also to operate Acer programs for accessing multimedia and other content, including Alive, a program for downloading content such as music, videos and application, and Clear.Fi, designed to enable content to be shared among multiple devices over the internet.
Specifications
Acer Iconia is equipped with a 640GB hard drive, and has four gigabytes of RAM. Its processor is an Intel Core i5-480M unit, running at 2.67 GHz. There are two USB 2.0 ports, a single USB 3.0 port, and a HDMI-out port. A 1.3 megapixel webcam, Wi-Fi n and Bluetooth connectivity are also provided.
Reviews
Initial reactions to the device were mixed, with both CNET and Engadget commenting positively on Iconia's touch-screen software, though the keyboard was criticized and some features were considered to be "perhaps an unnecessary visual gloss." The screens were said to be glossy and prone to glare, though clear in good conditions.
Alternate Operating System
Linux
The integrated GPU is well-supported starting with the 3.1 version of the Linux kernel. Before that, one might need to disable the Kernel Mode Setting.
Proper support of the second screen was integrated in the 3.2-rc6 version of the Linux kernel, making it available for the 3.2 release in December 2011.
See also
Acer Tablet
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer
Motorola Xoom
T-Mobile G-Slate
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
Dual-touchscreen
References
Iconia 6120
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20BiteTV | The following is a list of programs that were broadcast by BiteTV.
Final programming
Around the Next Bend
Battle Cats
Billy on the Street
Bob and Margaret
Brickleberry
Caution: May Contain Nuts
Comedy Bar (TV series)
Cops
Destination Fear
Free-Loading
Halifax Comedy Festival
Hollywood Hillbillies
The IT Crowd
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Keith Barry: Brain Hacker
Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town
Little Mosque on the Prairie
TheLonleyFrankie
Maury
Park Bench
Party Down South
Penn & Teller: Fool Us
Race to the Scene
The Ron James Show
Ryan Long Is Challenged
S.O.S.: Save Our Skins
Trailer Park Boys
Warren United
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Winnipeg Comedy Festival
The Yukin’ Funny Comedy Show
Earlier programming
Arrested Development
Comics Without Borders
The Cutting Room
Duck Quacks Don't Echo
E-Town
Extras
Felt Up
Guidance
Mission Hill
Happy Tree Friends
Just for Laughs
The Inbetweeners
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Kenny vs. Spenny
Made in Canada
MADtv
The Mighty Boosh
Moone Boy
Mr. Show
Mumbai Calling
Ooops!
Papillon
The Peter Serafinowicz Show
Portlandia
Pure Toonacy
Race to the Scene
Stand Up & Bite Me
Stand-Up Sit-Down
Stand Up With Bite
Walk on the Wild Side
The Wrong Coast
The Wrong Mans
This Hour Has 22 Minutes
References
BiteTV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maghera%20transmission%20site | The Maghera transmission site is situated on a 400m hill () located at Killanena in the East of County Clare, Ireland. It is home to one of 2RN's network of radio and television transmitters.
History
The Maghera television transmitter first went on air in February 1963 on low power before becoming fully operational on 10 September 1963. It was one of Telefís Éireann's original five main transmitters, the others being Mullaghanish, Kippure, Truskmore and Mount Leinster. The transmitter originally carried the 625 line television service on VHF Channel B (Band I), changing to Channel E (Band III) in 1999, with UHF channels being added in 1996 (TG4) and 1999 (TV3). When it was operating on Channel B certain atmospheric conditions during the summer months could cause interference from a transmitter on similar frequencies in Spain, this resulted in viewers in the south west of Ireland occasionally seeing bullfights on their television. In 1966 the new RTÉ Radio FM service started broadcasting from the site with more FM radio stations added over the years.
The original 147.5 metre mast that was erected in 1962 was replaced in 2011 with a 160 metre tall cable-stayed steel lattice mast that would enhance its service area for the start of digital terrestrial television (DTT) broadcasting. All analogue television transmissions from the site ended on 24 October 2012, and since then the Irish digital television service Saorview, has been broadcast from the site in addition to six national FM radio networks and a number of local radio services. Maghera's service area is the West of Ireland, covering counties Clare and Galway, as well as parts of counties Limerick, Kerry, Cork, Tipperary and Mayo.
Transmissions
Digital television
FM radio
Maghera relay transmitters
Relay transmitters at the site include:
References
Transmitter sites in Ireland
Buildings and structures in County Clare
1962 establishments in Ireland
Towers completed in 1962
Radio masts and towers in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20Social%20Networking%20Protocol | The Distributed Social Networking Protocol (DSNP) allows everyone to collaborate to create one social network that is decentralized, like email.
It is an open technology that supports private communications in a manner that users of modern social networks have come to expect. The current version of the protocol is 0.6, though the project has been discontinued. The leading author is Adrian Thurston.
See also
Distributed social network
References
External links
DSNP: Distributed Social Networking Protocol
Mailing list archive
GitHub repository
Social networks
Distributed computing architecture
Social networking services
Open formats
Application layer protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSNP | DSNP may refer to:
Distributed Social Networking Protocol (discontinued)
Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (Project Liberty) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textfiles | Textfiles may refer to:
Text files, computer files of text
textfiles.com, an archive of text files |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave%20Morin | Dave Morin (born 14 October 1980) is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known for founding Slow Ventures and the social network Path. A former manager at Facebook, he co-created the Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect.
In 2020, Morin started Offline Ventures, a VC firm that uses a subscription funding model. He is a member of the board of directors for the United States Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA), Eventbrite, and Dwell Media.
Early life
Morin grew up in Helena, Montana. Morin skied for the northern division of the U.S. Junior Olympic team. He attended the University of Colorado Boulder where he received a B.A. in Economics in 2003. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity.
Career
Morin began his career at Apple in 2003 where he assumed positions in marketing. In 2006, Morin left Apple and joined Facebook as senior platform manager. Morin co-created Facebook Platform, a software environment allowing third-party developers to create applications within Facebook, and Facebook Connect, a technology for Facebook members to connect their profile data and authentication credentials to external web sites. In 2010, Morin left Facebook to co-found Path. Morin has helped to raise capital for startups such as Hipcamp through AngelList. He had also founded the venture capital firm, Slow Ventures. It is based in San Francisco. Path announced its termination of service on 17 September 2018 and later confirmed that as of 18 October 2018, existing users will no longer be able to access the Path service.
Politics
In 2013, Morin and several technological innovators, creators, or business owners launched Fwd.us, a Silicon Valley-based 501(c)(4) lobbying group.
Personal life
Morin lives in Mill Valley, California with his wife Brit Morin and their two sons.
References
Living people
American computer specialists
University of Colorado Boulder alumni
People from Helena, Montana
American technology chief executives
American technology company founders
American corporate directors
Apple Inc. employees
Facebook employees
21st-century American businesspeople
Businesspeople from Montana
1980 births
21st-century American inventors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betong%20Sumaya | Alberto Sermonia Sumaya Jr. (born November 21, 1975), popularly known as Betong Sumaya, is a Filipino comedian, actor, and former production assistant for GMA Network, where he is also a part of the network's talent agency.
Sumaya participated in the GMA reality show Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Doubles Showdown (2011), where he also became the eventual victor. He appears in GMA's longtime-running gag show Bubble Gang. He became one of the presenters of the longest running noontime show in the Philippines, Eat Bulaga! in 2023.
Career
Born and raised in Antipolo; he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Filipino and a minor in mass communication from the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. He joined the Probe Team as a production assistant and rose to ranks as an executive producer for several GMA News and Public Affairs programs. Sumaya reprised his role as Antonietta in various GMA TV shows such as CelebriTV, Celebrity Bluff and Wowowin; with Boobay and Donita Nose.
Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Doubles Showdown
Sumaya was named as the second Celebrity Sole Survivor in the season, Survivor Philippines: Celebrity Doubles Showdown. The live announcement was held at the GMA Network Studio hosted by Richard Gutierrez on February 10. Betong made it to the Top 3 along with fellow castaways, Mara Yokohama and Stef Prescott.
Eat Bulaga!
In 2023, after Tito Sotto, Vic Sotto, and Joey De Leon (also known as TVJ) along with their co-hosts resigned due to a dispute with TAPE Inc. on May 31, Sumaya was tapped as one of the new hosts of the newly recreated Eat Bulaga! when the show returned live on June 5.
Filmography
Film
Television
TV specials
Awards and recognitions
References
External links
Sparkle GMA Artist Center profile
1975 births
Living people
Actors from Antipolo
Male actors from Rizal
Tagalog people
Polytechnic University of the Philippines alumni
GMA Network (company) people
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs people
Participants in Philippine reality television series
Survivor (franchise) winners
Survivor Philippines contestants
Reality show winners
GMA Network personalities
Filipino male television actors
Filipino male film actors
Filipino male comedians
Filipino television presenters
Filipino television variety show hosts
GMA Music artists
Filipino sketch comedians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20Transactions%20Zambia | Mobile Transactions Zambia Ltd (MT) is an enterprise launched in 2009 that aims to give its customers access to various financial services using mobile technology and a country-wide network of agents.
Structure
MT is a start-up business based in Lusaka, Zambia. Although it keeps in mind its initial social goals of reducing transaction costs and providing a secure payment method to enlarge and facilitate access to the market and is closely connected with development sector organizations, government agencies and microfinance institutions, it has evolved into a for-profit organisation.
MT's CEO, Mike Quinn, who completed an MBA at the University of Oxford in 2008, considers himself as an 'entrepreneur with a good conscience'. He runs the company as a normal business, as far as fundraising and investment decisions are concerned. The Grassroot Business Fund (GBF), a non-profit venture capital firm, provided MT its initial financing as well as legal assistance, and MT is soon to carry out an equity funding.
Principle of operation
MT's service is based on a nationwide network of over 200 agents, which it plans to expand to other Sub-Saharan countries.
Money transfers
The sender gives an amount of cash, inclusive of a small transaction fee, to a local MT agent. They must confirm the destination town and enter a PIN code on the agent's phone, in exchange of a receipt. The recipient must provide the transaction reference number and the PIN code to get the cash from their local agent.
This system has been improved to provide payment services from a MT Client to either a bank or a MT account (the payment must be cashed at a MT agent). MT also offers electronic vouchers services.
Positive effects on development
Zambia's banking system imposes high fees on customers and only includes a minor part of the population. Therefore, as only 2 Zambians out of 10 own a bank account, MT intends to develop the cashless system to render financial transactions easier, faster and safer than with cash and paper money.
A more direct connection between the sender and the recipient lowers transaction costs and suppresses expensive and time wasting intermediaries. NGOs wishing to send money, companies that used to pay thousands of employees under the surveillance of armed guards and farmers who get paid more quickly and transparently, benefit from it. Besides, people feel safer as their money is stored electronically.
MT's financial products and services may have a positive effect on the overall development of the country. First, it spurs the enrichment of each individuals through the commissions earned by its agents and the nationwide increase in exchanges. Electronic money can connect socially or geographically marginalized people to the markets. Second, mobile accounts can be used to buy phone credit, pay school fees, order fertilizer or a machine. Lastly, the recording of electronic payments lets customers follow their accounting history, encouraging them to spend |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%20B.%20Downey | Allen Benjamin Downey (born May 11, 1967) is an American computer scientist who is currently working as a Staff Scientist at DrivenData. He was a former Professor of Computer Science at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.
Biography
Downey received in 1989 his BS and in 1990 his MA, both in civil engineering, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his PhD in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1997.
He started his career as research fellow in the San Diego Supercomputer Center in 1995. In 1997 he became assistant professor of computer science at Colby College, and in 2000 at Wellesley College. He was research fellow at Boston University in 2002 and professor of computer science at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering since 2003. In 2009-2010 he was also visiting scientist at Google Inc.
Textbook publications
Downey has published the following textbooks, which are also freely available online from Green Tea Press under the GNU Free Documentation License:
Think Data Structures: Algorithms and Information Retrieval in Java , Green Tea Press, July 7, 2017.
Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics in Python, Green Tea Press, September 2013.
Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling, O’Reilly Media, March 2012.
Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers, O’Reilly Media, June 2011.
Complexity and Computation, Green Tea Press, August 2011.
Think Java: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Green Tea Press, June 2011.
Python for Software Design, Cambridge University Press, March 2009.
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: C++ Version, CreateSpace, March 2009.
Learning Perl the Hard Way, CreateSpace, March 2009.
The Little Book of Semaphores, CreateSpace, March 2009.
Think Python: An Introduction to Software Design, CreateSpace, February 2009.
Physical Modeling in MATLAB, Green Tea Press, January 2008.
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python, Green Tea Press, January 2002.
References
External links
Downey's personal website
Green Tea Press - Website for Downey's free textbooks
Recording of Downey's lecture on software synchronization and free textbooks at Northeastern University
Github - Allen Downey
Living people
American computer scientists
Colby College faculty
Computer science writers
1967 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20database%20management%20systems | Lists of database management systems provide indexes and/or comparisons of different types of database management system.
They include:
List of relational database management systems, for database management systems based on the relational model.
Comparison of object database management systems, showing what fundamental object database features are implemented natively
Document-oriented database, for storing, retrieving and managing document-oriented information
List of column-oriented DBMSes that store data tables by column rather than by row
List of in-memory databases, which primarily rely on main memory for computer data storage
See :Category:Database management systems for a complete lists of articles about database management systems. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle%20Daza | Isabelle Diaz Daza-Semblat (; born March 6, 1988) is a Filipino actress, television host and model. She is the daughter of Miss Universe 1969 titleholder, Gloria Diaz. She was a member of GMA Network's roster of young talents and was introduced to the mass media entertainment audiences during a dance number on the noontime show Party Pilipinas on April 17, 2011. On November 24, 2014, Daza transferred to ABS-CBN and signed a two-year exclusive contract. She gained recognition for her role in the drama series Tubig at Langis.
Early life
Isabelle Daza is the daughter of Gloria Diaz, the Miss Universe 1969 titleholder, and Gabriel "Bong" Daza III, a restaurateur and former Makati city councilor. Her grandmother is chef Nora Daza. She has an older brother and a younger sister, Ava. Her parents separated when she was seven years old; however, they remained good friends.
In 2010, she earned her bachelor's degree in early childhood education from De La Salle University.
Career
Daza started her career in 2005 as a print and ramp model. After graduating from De La Salle University, she worked as a preschool teacher. She signed a contract with GMA Network Center with her manager, Leo Domingez, and made her debut on Party Pilipinas. In an interview with The Philippine Star, Daza admits that she is still trying to "figure out" her career in acting and she is continuously taking workshops, but her main interest is in hosting. Her first attempt in TV hosting was on a game show with boxing champion Manny Pacquiao, entitled Show Me Da Manny (later renamed Manny Many Prizes.) On August 2, 2011, Daza was launched as the New Face of Sophie Paris Philippines. In late December 2011, Daza joined the longest-running noontime show Eat Bulaga! where she later became a regular co-host.
In 2014, Daza signed a two-year exclusive contract with ABS-CBN. She appeared in the 2015 fantasy drama series Nathaniel starring Marco Masa. She eventually became popular for her major role as Clara in the 2016 melodrama series Tubig at Langis with Cristine Reyes and Zanjoe Marudo. Later on, Daza continues to collaborate with Marudo in the 2018 romantic comedy series Playhouse (with Angelica Panganiban and JJ Quilantang) and for an episode in the drama anthology Maalaala Mo Kaya.
Personal life
In February 2016, Daza confirmed her engagement with French businessman Adrien Semblat, her boyfriend for seven years. The couple married on September 10, 2016 at the San Francesco Church in Tuscany, Italy. The wedding was officiated by Daza's uncle Fr. Fidel Orendain. Accordingly, it was her godfather, former senator Bongbong Marcos, who walked her down the aisle on her wedding day. Marcos was the bestfriend of her father, Gabriel "Bong" Daza III, who had died on July 14 that year.
On April 1, 2018, Daza gave birth to her first child. In December 2020, Daza announced that she and Semblat were expecting their second child. Her second child was born on 9 April 2021.
As of 2020, Daza and her fam |
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