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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criosfera%201 | The Criosfera 1 is a Brazilian standalone research module for atmospheric data collection, prepared at the National Institute for Space Research (INPE) for the Brazilian Antarctic Program (PROANTAR).
Location
Inaugurated on 12 January 2012, the module is located on the plateau of the western Antarctica ice sheet, at 84°00' S–79°30' W, from the Union Glacier, from the geographical South Pole, and south of the Comandante Ferraz Brazilian Antarctic Base.
Expedition Criosfera 1
The expedition for the placement of the module was coordinated by Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) through Professor Jefferson Cardia Simões, director of the Centro Polar e Climático (CPC). The Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), was then represented by Professor Dr. Heitor Evangelista, responsible for the coordination of the project.
Measuring long, wide, high, and comprising a weight of , it was planned at above the ground to avoid snow accumulation, allowing so the passage of the winds. Among the scientific tasks developed by the staff are ice drilling, assembly and activation of the module, and the surveying of ice morphology and dynamics at the glacier.
Climate
Objective
The first Brazilian fully automatic data-collecting scientific module placed inside the Antarctic continent is intended for data collection concerning the analysis on reflexes of the pollutants generated in South America and in Antarctica. Data will be sent via satellite directly to the computers of the national institute (INPE).
See also
List of Antarctic research stations
List of Antarctic field camps
References
Outposts of Antarctica
Brazilian Antarctica
2012 establishments in Antarctica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Eisenstein | Bruce Eisenstein is an engineering educator serving as the Arthur J. Rowland Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He was formerly Interim Dean and Vice Dean of the College of Engineering at Drexel University. He has published nearly 50 papers in the areas of digital signal processing, pattern recognition, deconvolution, along with biomedical engineering. He also served as president of the IEEE in 2000.
Biography
Eisenstein received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1963 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He attended Drexel University as a master's degree student, obtaining his MSEE in 1965. He then attended the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated with a Ph.D. in 1970. Eisenstein then worked as a NASA/ASEE Fellow at Stanford University and the Ames Research Center, then as a Visiting Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at Princeton University under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation. He then returned to Drexel University in 1980 and was appointed Professor and Department Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He served in that capacity until 1995 at which time he was appointed the Arthur J. Rowland Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a position that he still holds. During his time at Drexel, he has served as associate dean of the graduate school, member of the Provost’s Blue Ribbon Committee on Priorities, the Faculty Senate Committee on Budget, Priorities and Development, the Provost’s Strategic Task Force on Enriching Undergraduate Education and is currently serving as the co-chair of the Middle States Accreditation Steering Committee. In 2011, following the resignation of the dean of the College of Engineering, Eisenstein took over as interim dean.
Activities with IEEE
Eisenstein served as 38th president of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers His other IEEE positions have included Chairman of the Philadelphia Section, IEEE Treasurer, Vice President for Technical Activities, Member of the Board of Directors, Director of Division VI: Engineering and the Human Environment and President of the Education Society.
Other professional activities
Bruce Eisenstein also works as an independent consultant and expert witness in the area of cellular telecommunications tower and antenna siting. He has been utilized as an expert by municipalities and citizen objector groups to review and comment on radio frequency testimony given by wireless service providers.
He also works as a consultant and expert witness for intellectual property and product liability cases. He is also a Professional Engineer registered in Pennsylvania.
Awards and honors
He was the 1976 recipient of the C. Holmes MacDonald Award of Eta Kappa Nu given to the Outstanding Young Electrical Engineering Educator. He is a former president of Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering honor society), and currently serves as a vice president. He has also served as the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20v.%20John%20%282010%29 | In United States v. John, 597 F.3d 263 (2010)
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit interpreted the term "exceeds authorized access" in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act 18 U.S.C. §1030(e)(6) and concluded that access to a computer may be exceeded if the purposes for which access has been given are exceeded.
In particular, the court ruled that an employee would exceed authorized access to a protected computer if he or she used that access to obtain or steal information as part of criminal scheme.
This case addresses the issue of the distinction between authorized access to information and subsequent use of information obtained through an authorized access for the purposes of CFAA.
Background
Dimetriace Eva Lavon John was employed as an account manager at Citigroup for approximately three years. She was authorized to access Citigroup's internal computer system, which contained customer account information, in the course of her official duties.
In September 2005, John provided Leland Riley, her half-brother, with customer account information pertaining to at least seventy-six corporate customer accounts of Citigroup customers. She collected the information from the internal computer system of Citigroup and provided it to Riley in the form of either scanned images of checks written by the account holders or printouts of computer screens, which contained detailed account information.
Riley and his co-conspirators used customer account information provided by John to incur fraudulent charges on four different customer accounts. The total amount of actually incurred fraudulent charges was $78,750.
John was found guilty by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas of:
conspiracy to commit access device fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371;
fraud in connection with an access device and aiding and abetting in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1029 (a)(5) and (2);
exceeding authorized access to a protected computer in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 1030(a)(2)(A) and (C).
John appealed the indictment to the Fifth Circuit. She argued that she was authorized to use Citigroup's internal computer system as an employee. John contended that Computer Fraud and Abuse Act does not prohibit unlawful use of material that she was allowed to access through authorized use of a computer.
Fifth Circuit Opinion
Exceeding authorized access to a protected computer
This case centers around the issue of whether an employee who was authorized to access an employer's internal computer system for the purposes of performance of her job duties should be charged for unlawful use of the information that she was authorized to access in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1030(e)(6).
As the Fifth Circuit analyzed the case, the crucial issue was whether "authorized access" or "authorization" may encompass limits placed on the use of information obtained by permitted access to a computer system and data available on that system.
§ 1030(e)(6) defines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunistic%20mesh | Opportunistic mesh (OPM) is a wireless networking technology that aims to provide reliable and cost-effective wireless bandwidth when used to build the networking infrastructure of large-scale wireless systems.
Technology
The OPM technology is based on the cognitive networking principles that are advanced from traditional wireless networking by the opportunistic utilization of both spectrum bandwidth and mesh station/radio availability. Traditional wireless networking assumes that those resources can be predetermined, and the protocol stacks from wire-line networks can be re-used. For example, in the traditional stack, the MAC (media access control) layer allocates spectrum resources to wireless links; and the network layer sets up a network routing path from source to destination based on the overall network topology. In large-scale wireless systems, the use of this stack results in a network that is unable to respond to volatile spectrum availability which can be typical in unlicensed bands where interference prevails. In addition, random station/radio availability is also often encountered due to the dynamic traffic load (congestion) and other factors such as radio failure. Bottlenecks along both wireless links and stations are created because the packet forwarding protocol cannot respond quickly to these changes.
By adopting the cross-layer architecture that merges network routing into wireless link and RF design, the OPM technology can create a dynamic (fluid) wireless network without predetermined topology and spectrum allocation. In the multi-hop wireless communications, every packet takes opportunistically available paths and spectrum in the wireless network on each hop. The network resource utilization can potentially reach its instantaneous maximum, in spite of volatile changes and demand placed on the network.
Application
Testing results show that the OPM wireless networks can achieve 5–10 times higher throughput (bandwidth) in multi-hop wireless communications and interference environments. The technology can have great applications in current and future smart wireless systems and infrastructures, including such as location/tracking networks, real-time sensor networks, smart vehicular networks, smart healthcare, smart agriculture, industrial controlling, broadband access and mobile social networking, surveillance, smart utilities, and emergency networks. The promoters and supporters of OPM claim that the technology may make wireless communications ultimately scalable and affordable; and once it potentially becomes ubiquitous, the commercial impact could be big as comparable to: 1) what packet-switched network technology (Internet) has brought to personal communications; 2) what mobile communication technology (cellular) has brought to telephony.
References
Wireless networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maricel%20Museum | The Maricel Museum is a museum located in the centre of Sitges; reopened after a major refurbishment in 2015.
The Maricel Museum is part of the Barcelona Provincial Council Local Museum Network.
Content
In 1969, the Barcelona Provincial Corporation bought the building of Maricel de Mar to house the heterogeneous collection belonging to Doctor Jesús Pérez-Rosales (Manila, 1896-Barcelona, 1989), a well known gynaecologist and enthusiastic collector. A year later the Museu Maricel was inaugurated.
Made up of more than 3 000 items of varying origin, the collection includes Romanesque murals (like the Christ Pantocrator from Santa Maria de Cap d'Aran, dated in the twelfth century), examples of Gothic painting on wood (amongst them two pieces from the altarpiece of Sant Pere de Cubells), Renaissance carvings and altarpieces, Modernista and Noucentista sculptures by Josep Llimona (Distress), Enric Clarasó head of Child Crying, Joan Rebull (Rest, Dawn and Gypsy Child), Josep Clarà, Josep Cañas and Pablo Gargallo (The Reaper), six allegorical murals by Josep M. Sert on the First World War, along with numerous pictures and items of furniture, precious metal, ceramics and porcelain.
Since 1995 the Museu Maricel has also housed the "Vila de Sitges" Collection of art, which occupies several rooms on the second floor. In them can be seen some fifty works by Sitges artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and by others who had close links with the town during the same period.
This art collection takes the visitor on an evocative tour of the last two centuries of Catalan painting, from Joaquim Espalter (born in Sitges in 1809) to Pere Pruna (who spent long periods here during the 1940s and 1950s).
The Luminist School of Sitges, which provided a bridge between Marià Fortuny and the Modernistes, is amply represented, with items by Felip Masó (amongst them the emblematic Saint Bartholomew Procession), Joaquim de Miró (The Malvasia Harvest), Josep Batlle i Amell, Arcadi Mas i Fondevila (The Corpus Christi Procession in Sitges), Joan Roig i Soler and Antoni Almirall.
There are also several works by Santiago Rusiñol, in particular Twilight, painted in Biniaraix (Majorca), and the portraits of local figures in Sitges such as Salvador Robert, Pere Forment and Lluís Magrans. There is an exceptional portrait by Ramon Casas of Charles Deering, the man who had the Maricel complex built at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Maternity, by the Sitges painter Joaquim Sunyer, opens the room devoted to Noucentisme, where one can also see canvases and drawings by Agustí Ferrer Pino, Josep Vidal and Josep M. Llopis de Casades, amongst others. The exhibition is completed with items by Artur Carbonell (Girl in Mourning), Guillem Bergnes (Rocks of Sant Sebastià), Alfred Sisquella and Pere Pruna (mentioned above).
Adjoining the "Vila de Sitges" Collection of Art is the Collection on Maritime themes put together by Emerencià Roig i Raventós (Sitges, 1881-Barcelona |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPCC | GPCC can refer to:
Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee
Global Precipitation Climatology Centre, a global meteorological data centre hosted at Deutscher Wetterdienst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%20Llopis%20Romanticism%20Museum | The Can Llopis Romanticism Museum () is a museum located in Neoclassical-style building in the centre of Sitges and is part of the Barcelona Provincial Council Local Museum Network.
History
The Museu Romàntic is located in the former Casa Llopis, built in 1793 outside the walls of the medieval town. For many years it was one of the most impressive stately homes in Sitges's new district. It was the home of several generations of the Llopis family, local people of seafaring origin who had climbed the social ladder thanks to the accumulation of land and the trade in wines and liquors.
Casa Llopis reached its greatest splendour during the second third of the nineteenth century, when the owner of the house was Bernardí Llopis i Pujol (1814-1891), one of the most influential and popular figures in nineteenth-century Sitges. At that time, the local post office was located on the ground floor of the mansion, as we can see from the letter box in the form of a lion with its mouth open next to the front door.
In 1935, the last heir of the family, the diplomat Manuel Llopis de Casades(1885-1935), bequeathed the family home to the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan Government) for conversion as a museum. The process was interrupted by the Civil War, until in 1943 the executors offered the bequest to the Provincial Deputation of Barcelona. After a series of repairs, the rooms on the main floor were opened to the public in 1949, followed later by the ground-floor rooms, the garden, the cellars and the library.
Displays
The sobriety of the decoration on the outside of the building contrasts with its colourful interior, which takes the visitors back in time to plunge into the everyday atmosphere of a well-to-do nineteenth-century family. In the different rooms on the main floor (the music room, the ballroom, the dining room, the bedrooms) are a succession of items of furniture of different styles, mural paintings, Meissen porcelain, Murano and Bohemian glass, musical instruments, clocks and numerous objects for personal use. In addiction, one can follow the development of the different lighting systems that existed in the nineteenth century, from oil lamps to the advent of gas lighting.
The first-floor gallery and the garden are the most attractive and evocative parts of the house. In the gallery can be seen two walls decorated with children's scenes and, on the paving, a "Bis Bis" from the Napoleonic era, a game consisting of forty-nine polychrome tiles, with which the Llopis family and their guests amused themselves.
The cellar, were the Llopis family made their famous Malvasia, also deserves special attention. Today the is the owner of the brand, and the vineyards bequeathed by the last heir of Casa Llopis, on condition that the institution should preserve the cultivation and the quality of Sitges Malvasia.
The second floor of the Museum Romàntic, which used to be the staff quarters, has since the 1970s housed the curious collection of dolls and toys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrassa%20Museum | The Terrassa Museum is a museum entity which encompasses all the municipally owned museums in the city of Terrassa. It belongs to the History Museum and Monument Network of Catalonia and the Barcelona Provincial Council Local Museum Network.
The Terrassa Museum has different areas, elements and collections related to the cultural heritage of Terrassa. It comprises the following sections:
Vallparadís monastery-castle
Vallparadís monastery-castle is the main section of the Terrassa museum. It was originally a defensive structure from the 12th century which was later converted into a monastery in the 14th-15th century. In 1959, it was opened to house the Municipal Art Museum and currently houses a permanent exhibition on the evolution of the territory and human settlement in Terrassa from the first Neolithic inhabitants to contemporary times.
Churches of Sant Pere
The monumental complex of the churches of Sant Pere encompasses the churches of Sant Pere, Santa Maria and Sant Miquel, which formed part of the old Èsgara diocese. In addition to the interesting architecture and archaeological remains on the site, there is also a notable collection of Gothic paintings, with masterpieces by Jaume Huguet, Lluís Borrassà and Jaume Cirera, among others.
Casa Alegre de Sagrera
Casa Alegre de Sagrera was the manor house of Joaquim de Sagrera, a textile manufacturer who worked at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries. The house, renovated by Modernisme architect Melcior Viñals, is a model example of an industrial middle-class dwelling of the time.
It houses a series of municipal museum collections, with works of art by Alexandre de Riquer or Joaquim Vancells, among many others, and an Oriental ceramics and porcelain collection. Of additional note are the rooms dedicated to writers Agustí Bartra and Ferran Canyameres and Terrassa artist Mateu Avellaneda.
Palace tower
The palace tower is all that remains of the Terrassa castle-palace. This castle keep, which was a prison until the start of the 19th century, was the only structure left standing when in 1891 the last owner of the castle decided to knock down all that remained of the building.
It was given to the town in 1994 and guided visits are given by appointment only. The original large windows and Gothic portals have been preserved and can be seen at Vallparadís castle.
Sant Francesc convent
The convent of Sant Francesc d’Assís (Saint Francis of Assisi), is a Baroque building dating back to the beginning of the 17th century. Today only the church, cloister and some adjoining areas remain. The cloister is the most emblematic space, with walls covered in polychrome ceramic panels (1671-1673), attributed to the master potter from Barcelona, Llorenç Passoles. The preserved sections of the convent were refurbished recently and today the cloister may be visited.
See also
Vallparadís Park
References
External links
Museum site
Local Museum Network site
Barcelona Provincial Council Loca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca%20n%27Amat | Ca n’Amat is a museum facility owned by the municipality of Viladecans (Baix Llobregat), which is part of the Barcelona Provincial Council Local Museum Network. The building is an example of the typical country home a well-to-do family would have in the 19th century, with elements connected to agricultural life, the basic activity in Viladecans in the 19th and part of the 20th centuries. Therefore, in the rooms and bedrooms of the owners, Isabelline Gothic and Art Nouveau furniture coexists with the kitchen and the storage silos inside the house and the wine presses on the patio. Periodically, the town council organises a series of leisure and cultural activities to get to know the history and heritage of the city, such as guided visits of the building, temporary exhibits and talks.
References
External links
Ca n'Amat page at town council site
Local Museum Network site
Viladecans Heritage information
Barcelona Provincial Council Local Museum Network
Viladecans
Historic house museums in Catalonia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%20v.%20Facebook%2C%20Inc. | Young v. Facebook, Inc., 790 F. Supp. 2d 1110, is a pro se internet law case in which the plaintiff sued the social network Facebook following the termination of her user account. In her original complaint, the plaintiff, Karen Beth Young, alleged violation of her First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, negligence, and fraud. In the U.S. District Court of Northern California, Facebook moved to dismiss the claim, and on October 25, 2010, presiding Judge Jeremy Fogel granted the motion to dismiss with leave to amend. Redirecting her complaint, Young alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act and related state laws on disability, as well as breach of contract and negligence. Again, Facebook moved to dismiss, and Judge Fogel dismissed the case without leave to amend.
Background
Karen Beth Young of Maryland created an account on Facebook in February 2010 in order to connect with friends, family, and strangers. Young's mother and sister were both fighting breast cancer at the time and Young created two pages to promote cancer awareness. She quickly amassed over 4,000 friends by sending friend invites to others supportive of the cancer cause and by receiving requests from strangers who were interested in and concerned about her cancer patient support efforts. Young then came across a page praying for the death of U.S. President Barack Obama, and she spoke out against the page. She was then subjected to "hatred, violence, discrimination, threats, pornography, kkk, violence and personal attacks ." In conjunction with her public opposition of the hate page and her allegedly "spammy" activity, her profile was disabled.
Young then traveled from Maryland to Facebook's headquarters in California and sought reactivation of her account. In testimony, she stated that she did not receive "human interaction" with a Facebook account representative at Facebook's offices, and had to provide a written message to a receptionist for forwarding to an unknown recipient. She filled out a complaint form and was not allowed to speak with a Facebook account representative. Later, she received Facebook email stating her account was reactivated, but she was not provided any opportunity to discuss her account details so she traveled back to Maryland. Shortly thereafter, Young again found her account disabled. According to Facebook, Young had engaged in activity that violated Facebook's statement of rights and responsibilities, although Young states she did nothing to prompt the second disabling of her account which resulted in permanent termination of her account. Young then drove back to California to file a lawsuit in the Northern District of California.
Original complaint and motion to dismiss
Young claimed six causes of action in her first complaint against Facebook; a violation of her First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights, a breach of contract, a breach of implie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man%20and%20the%20Ghostly%20Adventures | Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures, also known in Japan as is a computer-animated television series produced by 41 Entertainment, Arad Productions, a partnership between Sprite Animation Studios and OLM, Inc., and Bandai Namco Entertainment for Tokyo MX (stereo version), BS11 (stereo version) and Disney XD (bilingual version). Based on Bandai Namco's Pac-Man video game franchise, it is the second animated series to be based upon the game franchise, following the 1982 TV series. The show aired from June 15, 2013, to May 25, 2015, running for two seasons and 52 episodes.
Various games and merchandise were produced based on the series, including two video games and several mobile apps.
Production
A pilot trailer produced by Arad Productions was shown at E3 2010, alongside the announcement of Pac-Man Party for the Wii. The pilot explained the basic plot of the show, and visually was mostly identical to the final product. The end of the pilot features a homage to the "Coffee Break" scenes in the original arcade game. Avi Arad explained in an interview that they made Pac-Man a high-schooler in order to tell stories about being a teenager, and that they also wanted to explore Pac-Man and Pac-Land's backstory. The trailer and Pac-Man Party also debuted a new design for Pac-Man that would be used for most Pac-Man media and merchandise during the show's run.
In September 2011, 41 Entertainment was named worldwide distributor of the series except in Japan, where Bandai Namco would handle distribution. The series was titutively titled PAC-MAN 3D at the time. Avi Arad said in the press release that Pac-Man was one of his all-time favorite characters, and that the show's ghosts would come in all shapes and sizes. Following this announcement, 41 Entertainment would announce global distribution deals with various partners. The animation was done by Sprite Animation Studios in partnership with OLM, Inc., who handled the production process, from storyboard to delivery. While Arad came up with the basic plot-line for the show, the final product was directed by Motonori Sakakibara.
In some territories, the second half of season 2 was distributed as season 3.
The show ended on a cliffhanger in 2015, with 52 episodes produced in total.
Overview
The series takes place on the planet known as Pac-World, and its Netherworld. The show sees Pac-Man and his best friends Spiral and Cylindria attend Maze School, a boarding school located within the city of Pacopolis. They help to protect citizens from the threat of ghosts after the seal that locked up the Netherworld was accidentally opened by Pac at the time he was avoiding the school bully Skeebo. Ghosts are able to possess Pac-Worlder bodies although only for a time limit of a few minutes unless aided by Dr. Buttocks technology. Victims of possession usually are apparent by a red-eyed glow although this too can be prevented with Buttocks technology.
Pac-Man also has four friendly ghosts (Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Cl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegall | Stegall may refer to:
People
Caleb Stegall (born 1971), American attorney and writer
Casey Stegall (born 1979), network correspondent for Fox News Channel, based in Los Angeles
Keith Stegall (born 1955), American country music recording artist and record producer
Milt Stegall (born 1970), retired professional gridiron football player
Red Steagall or Red Stegall (born 1938), American actor, musician, poet, and stage performer
Sarah Stegall, contributor to SFScope, an online trade journal devoted to entertainment news
Places
Stegall, Arkansas, unincorporated community in Jackson County, Arkansas, United States
See also
Glass–Steagall Legislation
STEGAL
Stagg Hall
Steggall
Steagall |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Russian%20films%20of%202012 | A list of films produced in Russia in 2012 (see 2012 in film).
Film releases
See also
2012 in film
2012 in Russia
References
External links
Russian films of 2012 at the Internet Movie Database
2012
Fil
Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20v.%20Ivanov | United States v. Ivanov was an American court case addressing subject-matter jurisdiction for computer crimes performed by Internet users outside of the United States against American businesses and infrastructure. In trial court, Aleksey Vladimirovich Ivanov of Chelyabinsk, Russia was indicted for conspiracy, computer fraud, extortion, and possession of illegal access devices; all crimes committed against the Online Information Bureau (OIB) whose business and infrastructure were based in Vernon, Connecticut.
Ivanov moved to dismiss the indictment, claiming that the court lacked subject-matter jurisdiction, arguing that "because he was physically located in Russia when the offenses were committed, he can not be charged with violations of United States law." The court denied Ivanov's motion, "first, because the intended and actual detrimental effects of Ivanov's actions in Russia occurred within the United States, and second, because each of the statutes under which Ivanov was charged with a substantive offense was intended by Congress to apply extraterritorially."
In a later ruling, Ivanov pleaded guilty to several crimes, including computer intrusion and computer fraud, and was sentenced to 48 months in prison followed by 3 months of supervised release.
Background
Unlawful access and FBI capture
Ivanov attracted FBI attention in the Fall of 1999, when internet service provider (ISP) Speakeasy discovered their network had been compromised and informed the Seattle branch of the FBI. In early 2000, OIB also detected an attack and notified the FBI in Connecticut. Between late 1999 and early 2000, other large Internet corporations including CD Universe, Yahoo, and eBay also experienced similar attacks to Speakeasy and OIB. Computer forensics determined the Internet traffic for all attacks originated from the same machine in Russia. After linking his online alias "subbsta" and his resume, the FBI determined Ivanov's identity and initiated a sting operation to lure him to the United States for arrest.
The FBI constructed a false computer security company, Invita, in Seattle, Washington and invited Ivanov to interview for a position on November 10, 2000. Ivanov's interview involved hacking an FBI controlled honeypot. While Ivanov was hacking the FBI honeypot, all keystrokes and network traffic were recorded as potential evidence. In addition, the FBI made video and audio recordings of the entire interview process. After Ivanov successfully gained access to the FBI honeypot, he was arrested. The FBI used the recorded keystrokes and network traffic log to access the intermediary computers Ivanov used in Russia.
When the FBI accessed Ivanov's machines, they found folders with data corresponding to the companies he had remotely attacked. Over 2.3 GB of data was recovered from Ivanov's machines, including the tools used to gain illegal access and scripts that referenced companies that had been attacked.
Attack on OIB
Ivanov obtained superuser (roo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhala%20input%20methods | Sinhala input methods are ways of writing the Sinhala language, spoken primarily in Sri Lanka, using a computer. Sinhala input methods can be broadly classified into two main groups: ones based on typewriter keyboard layouts, and ones that are meant to be typed on QWERTY keyboards using an input method, known as "Singlish".
Wijesekara keyboard
The Wijesekara keyboard is the standard typewriter keyboard for the Sinhala script. This keyboard layout was first created and approved by the government of Sri Lanka in 1964.
In 2004, it was given the SLS standards as the Sri Lanka Sinhala Character Code for Information Interchange, SLS 1134 : 2004.
Implementations
The first standards compliant Sinhala Keyboard for Apple iOS was created by Bhagya Silva. This implementation featured a copyrighted custom layout that was based on SLS 1134:2004 optimised for mobile keyboards.
Virtual Keyboards
The first Sinhala virtual keyboard is Helakuru. Helakuru was developed by Bhasha Lanka (Pvt) Ltd for Android and iOS devices. It was first released on Android in 2011 and in 2015 it was released on App Store also. In 2019, Apple allowed Sinhala to be a keyboard layout and an iPhone language to boost Apple product sales in Sri Lanka.
References
Data interchange standards
Digital typography
Encodings of Asian languages
Keyboard layouts
Sinhala language
Sinhala script |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20Sherpas | Cloud Sherpas was a cloud computing advisory and technology services company. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, it was acquired by Accenture in 2015.
History
Cloud Sherpas was founded by Michael Cohn, Eran Gil, and David Hoff in May 2008. Cloud Sherpas was a Google Enterprise partner and reseller and implementation partner for Google Apps from 2010 to 2015.
In March 2012, led by a $20 million investment by Columbia Capital, Cloud Sherpas merged with GlobalOne, a Salesforce.com partner. The combined entity went forward with the name Cloud Sherpas, which became a platform upon which additional cloud advisory boutiques and brokerage firms were later added. Global One was founded by John Orrock, Dennis Wall, and Toan Huynh. In 2013, Cloud Sherpas ranked No. 68 on the Inc magazine Hire Power Awards 2013 list. According to Inc, the firm created over 50,000 jobs in a span of 18 months.
Other notable Cloud Sherpas acquisitions include:
Omnetic (June 2011): A San Francisco-based Google Apps provider.
WaveAdept (July 2011): A New Zealand-based Google Apps provider.
Beloit Solutions Group: (July 2011): A Google Apps cloud services provider from Kansas.
Devnet (July 2011): A Google Apps reseller headquartered in Brisbane.
CloudTrigger (December 2012): A California-based consultancy focused on implementation and customization of cloud based CRM.
Innoveer Solutions (January 2013): A customer relationship management software provider with a particular emphasis on Salesforce.
Navigis (January 2013): Provider of ServiceNow integration services.
Stoneburn (2013): Provider of Google Apps resale and integration services in UK.
Notable recognition
Cloud Sherpas appeared three times on the Inc.500 list of fastest-growing privately held companies in the United States. It ranked No. 142 in 2013, No. 458 in 2014 and No. 379 in 2015.
Cloud Sherpas won the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s Pacesetter Award three times, earning the top spot in 2014. Chris Arroyo, CFO of Cloud Sherpas, was also honored by the Atlanta Business Chronicle in 2014, winning CFO Of The Year in the medium-sized private company category.
The Atlanta Business Chronicle ranked Cloud Sherpas No. 33 on its Best Places to Work list in 2011.
CRN Magazine has featured Cloud Sherpas on its Solution Provider 500 list twice (No. 236 in 2013 and No. 160 in 2014). In 2013, Cloud Sherpas also earned the top spot on the CRN Fast Growth 150, followed by a No. 4 spot in 2014.
See also
Comparison of office suites
Comparison of email clients
Online office suite
References
External links
Information technology consulting firms of the United States
Companies based in Atlanta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%20Netanyahu | Nathan S. Netanyahu (; born 28 November 1951) is an Israeli computer scientist and a professor of computer science at Bar-Ilan University.
Netanyahu is the son of mathematician Elisha Netanyahu and Supreme Court of Israel justice Shoshana Netanyahu, the nephew of historian Benzion Netanyahu, and the cousin of current Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. He did his graduate studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, earning a Ph.D. in 1992 under the supervision of David Mount and Azriel Rosenfeld.
Netanyahu has co-authored highly cited research papers on nearest neighbor search and
k-means clustering. He has published many papers on computer chess, was the local organizer of the 12th World Computer Chess Championship in 2004, and was program co-chair for the 4th International Conference on Computers and Games, colocated with the WCCC. Another frequent topic in his research is image registration.
References
External links
Publications on DBLP
1951 births
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli people of Polish-Jewish descent
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Academic staff of Bar-Ilan University
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
Living people
Netanyahu family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landmap | Landmap was a service based at the University of Manchester, England, which provided UK academia with a free-of-charge spatial data download service, using Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards for maximum interoperability, which was enhanced and supported by a range of teaching and learning materials. The service was hosted at the Mimas datacentre from 2007 until 2013, and was funded by the government via Jisc.
The spatial data and the learning materials are primarily for students, lecturers and researchers and can be accessed only through Shibboleth or Athens or similar UK university/institution authentication.
End of service
Jisc funding for the Landmap service terminated on 31 December 2013.
The Landmap data purchased by Jisc have been transferred to NERC's Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) and can be accessed from there. The Learning Zone hosted by Landmap can be accessed on the Landmap Legacy site.
History
The Landmap Project began late 1999 as a joint project between Mimas, UCL Department of Geomatic Engineering, and other project partners. The project produced orthorectified satellite image mosaics of Landsat, SPOT and ERS radar data and a high resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for the British Isles. The DEM was quality assured using a Kinematic Global Positioning Survey (KGPS). The outputs of the Landmap Project were provided as a basic download service to the UK and Irish academic community.
The Landmap Service followed a JISC subscription-based model for service cost recovery between August 2004 and July 2007. In 2005 Landmap obtained an agreement with the European Space Agency to provide ENVISAT Advanced Synthetic Radar (ASAR) data to the UK academic community through the Category 1 Project 'Monitoring the UK with ENVISAT ASAR and MERIS'. During this time a pre-processing chain was developed to provide orthorectified GeoTIFF ASAR data and to deliver this data through the Landmap website. In 2007 Landmap presented the work done as part of the Category 1 Project at the biannual ESA Fringe Workshop. In 2006 the Image Processing Course for Erdas, ENVI, IDRISI Kilimanjaro and PCI Geomatica was released onto the Landmap website. The course materials were authored by IS Limited and access was protected using Athens.
The Landmap service was awarded five years' funding by Jisc from 1 August 2007, which removed the subscription element of the service and allowed for a modest budget for data acquisition and some e-learning content creation. This allowed all members of the academic community to obtain spatial data from the service free of charge, making the size and quantity of users for an academic institution irrelevant in terms of accessing spatial data.
New data acquisitions included the Cities Revealed datasets provided by The GeoInformation Group and colour infrared data from Bluesky. During this time there was also an agreement with Infoterra for tasking the TopSat satellite with requests by the UK academic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kith%20and%20Kin%20Pro | Kith and Kin Pro is genealogy software for computers running Microsoft Windows. The program aids family historians by storing, querying and documenting family history. Developed by SpanSoft, Scotland, the software is distributed as shareware with a free trial period of 30 days.
Features
Unique, whole-tree display allows instant access to the data in any part of the family tree. Multi-layering feature splits the list of families into a more easily managed display for large trees. The software imports and exports GEDCOM files and exports Web pages. Data searches can be carried out using simple criteria or SQL statements.
History
The immediate predecessor of Kith and Kin Pro was the software "Kith and Kin", a Windows 3.1 program developed by Nick Hunter and released as shareware in 1993. "Kith and Kin" was one of the first Windows genealogy programs to be produced. To avoid confusion with the older DOS software "Kith and Kin" developed by Coherent Software, Australia, the program was marketed as "Of that Ilk" in Australia and New Zealand only. "Of that Ilk Pro" V1 and V2 were released as the Australia and New Zealand versions of Kith and Kin Pro V1 and V2 but the name was dropped with the release of Kith and Kin Pro V3.
Kith and Kin Pro version 1 was released in January 1999.
Kith and Kin Pro version 2 was released on 10 September 2002.
Kith and Kin Pro version 3 was released on 10 May 2009.
Data format
Kith and Kin Pro stores data in a multi-file, relational database using the built-in DBISAM engine. Data can also be imported and exported as GEDCOM files.
References
External links
Windows-only genealogy software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadron%20Production%20Experiment | HARP, the Hadron Production Experiment, also referred to as the PS214 experiment, at the Proton Synchrotron was a physics experiment at CERN that took data from 2000 through 2002. Its goal was to systematically study hadron production on a wide variety of nuclear targets. The data is used to help predict neutrino fluxes at experiments such as MiniBooNE and K2K, to understand the atmospheric neutrino flux, and to tune Monte Carlo simulations of particle production.
Experimental design
Protons of 1.5 to 15 GeV were directed at targets ranging from hydrogen to lead. Using about 300 different beam/target configurations, 420 million events were recorded.
Analysis and results
Analysis of HARP data has been carried out by two independent groups, the second group calling itself HARP-CDP for "HARP-CERN-Dubna-Protvino". This group split from the main collaboration over "a deep split of opinion over quality of work, working methods, and professional ethics"
References
External links
HARP website at CERN
HARP experiment record on INSPIRE-HEP
Particle experiments
CERN experiments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Cape%20Town | The Cape Town trolleybus system was part of the public transport network in Cape Town, South Africa, for nearly 30 years in the mid-twentieth century. The trolleybuses on the system were always referred to by English-speaking locals as "Trackless trams", and even the systems's stops were marked "Trackless Tram Stop".
See also
History of Cape Town
List of trolleybus systems
References
Further reading
External links
Springbok Bus Roots: the Trackless Trams
Transport in Cape Town
Cape Town
Cape Town |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Durban | The Durban trolleybus system was part of the public transport network in Durban, South Africa, for more than 30 years in the mid-20th century.
According to several sources, the Durban system was the first such system worldwide to experience an accident involving an overturned trolleybus. Thirty seven people were injured in that accident, which occurred on 5 March 1941.
Durban's trolleybuses were also unique in being fitted with fishing rod racks at the back.
See also
History of Durban
List of trolleybus systems
References
Further reading
External links
Transport in Durban
Durban
Durban |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie%20Monster%20%28computer%20program%29 | Cookie Monster was a program created in 1969 for several computer operating systems. The program was named after an obnoxious cartoon bear advertising cereal, but later became associated with the Muppet Cookie Monster. It started out as a way for computer users at Brown University to annoy their fellow students by manually sending messages blocking computer processes and demanding cookies until the user of the ransomed computer typed “cookie”. Though it is often called a virus, it does not self-replicate and spread, and so is considered a proto-virus, or simply malware instead. It is unrelated to the HTTP cookie.
When C.D. Tavares heard the idea at MIT, he decided to automate it. Since then, the program has been shared on different operating systems.
The automated program ran on PDP series minicomputers and was later replicated for Atari in two strains, called Cookie Monster Virus A and B. The only difference is that Virus B can survive a system reset if the system is not completely powered down. The Atari version has the same function as the original program, but this time pops up automatically in regular intervals, and sometimes appears ever more frequent as the program is "fed" more cookies. In order to remove the program completely, the user must type in "Oreo". In one version of the program, the demand for cookies would flash on the screen ever more rapidly until it would suddenly stop and print “I didn’t want a cookie anyway,” and then desist.
The program inspired the movie Hackers to include a fictitious "Cookie Monster Virus" that "ate" the system data of a Gibson supercomputer. It was stopped (presumably only temporarily) when the system administrator typed "cookie".
References
Computer viruses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behind%20the%20Mike | Behind the Mike was a Blue Network (NBC) radio series hosted by Graham McNamee, spotlighting behind-the-scenes stories in radio broadcasting. The sustaining show aired Sundays at 4:30 p.m. ET from September 15, 1940, to April 19, 1942.
The program featured interviews with on-air personalities and announcers, musicians and other performers, composers, the creators of sound-effects, producers, engineers and other technicians involved in radio production. As many as six stories were covered in each broadcast, and questions from listeners were answered in the "Correspondence Corner" segment. Music was provided by Ernie Watson and his orchestra.
After McNamee's death May 9, 1942, the name of the series changed to This is the Truth, then Nothing But the Truth and continued until June 7, 1942.
Another program with the title Behind the Mike ran on CBS Radio during the 1931–32 season.
References
External links
Behind the Mike at the Internet Archive
1940s American radio programs
American talk radio programs
NBC Blue Network radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany%27s%20Next%20Topmodel%20%28season%207%29 | Germany's Next Topmodel, Cycle 7 is the seventh season of the show that was aired on the German television network ProSieben. The show started airing on 23 February 2012. As in the last preceding years, a preselection was done and open castings were not part of the show. The first episode started with 50 semifinalists.
As in cycle 6, the judging panel consists of Thomas Hayo and fashion designer Thomas Rath. The winner of the competition was 17-year-old Luisa Hartema from Leer.
Fourth placer Kasia Lenhardt committed suicide in 2021.
The international destinations for this cycle were set in Phuket, Los Angeles, New York City, San Diego, Tahiti, Cancún and Paris.
Contestants
(ages stated are at start of contest)
Episode summaries
Summaries
Results table
The contestant quit the competition
The contestant was immune from elimination
The contestant won the wall of fame photo
The contestant was in danger of elimination
The contestant was eliminated
The contestant won the competition
Photo shoot guide
Episode 2 photo shoot: Bikini shots in Thailand
Episode 4 photo shoot: Girl's night out with Heidi Klum
Episode 5 photo shoot: Beauty shot with reptiles
Episode 6 photo shoot: Suspended in the air
Episode 7 photo shoot: Stage diving rock stars
Episode 8 photo shoot: Jungle warriors
Episode 9 photo shoot: Jumping outside a burning house
Episode 10 photo shoot: Flying parachutes couture
Episode 11 video shoot: High end fashion film
Episode 12 photo shoot: Animal body paint
Episode 13 photo shoot: Mermaids
Episode 14 photo shoot: Underwater romance
Episode 15 photo shoot: Surprised photo shoot
External links
Germany's Next Topmodel
2012 German television seasons
Television shows filmed in Thailand
Television shows filmed in California
Television shows filmed in New York City
Television shows filmed in French Polynesia
Television shows filmed in Mexico
Television shows filmed in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20languages%20used%20in%20most%20popular%20websites | One thing the most visited websites have in common is that they are dynamic websites. Their development typically involves server-side coding, client-side coding and database technology. The programming languages applied to deliver dynamic web content, however, vary vastly between sites.
*data on programming languages is based on:
HTTP Header information
Request for file types
Citations from reliable sources
See also
Comparison of programming languages
List of programming languages
TIOBE index
"Hello, World!" program
References
Software comparisons
Web development |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Cooper%20%28media%20executive%29 | Ben Cooper is a British journalist, radio producer and media executive. He was the final Controller of Radio 1, BBC Radio 1Xtra and BBC Asian Network from 2011 to 2020, replacing Andy Parfitt, after which the position was abolished and replaced by Heads of Stations. He was replaced at Radio 1 by Aled Haydn Jones.
Career
Cooper started his career at BBC Hereford & Worcester. He also worked as a journalist at Three Counties Radio before becoming a producer at Radio 1. After a brief stint at Capital Radio as an executive producer, Cooper returned to Radio 1 where he became Head of Mainstream, then later Head of Programmes between 2006 and 2009, where he brought Vernon Kay to the network. He was appointed the station's Deputy Controller in 2009 and oversaw a major restructuring of programming, which included introducing Fearne Cotton and Greg James as weekday presenters. He became Acting Controller in July 2011 following Andy Parfitt's decision to step down as Controller, and was appointed as Controller with immediate effect on 28 October 2011.
As controller of Radio 1, 1Xtra and Asian Network, Cooper has overseen the development of Live Lounge, Radio 1's Teen Awards and Radio 1's Big Weekend. He is responsible for the overall leadership and editorial content of the three stations, whose reach is a combined weekly audience of over 12 million on radio, 10 million social users, and 14 million weekly video viewers.
Cooper was instrumental in the removal of Chris Moyles from the station and the installation of Nick Grimshaw in the breakfast slot as part of Radio 1's move towards a younger listenership and the ultimate shedding of over a million listeners
In April 2013, Cooper banned the single "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead" from being played in full on Radio 1, once it had achieved number 2 status in the British pop charts, following the death of former PM, Margaret Thatcher.
Cooper joined Bauer Radio in 2020, and was promoted to chief content and music office in 2021. His arrival at coincides with a number of high-profile personnel moves from BBC Radio to Bauer.
See also
Radio 1 Madonna controversy
References
BBC Radio 1 controllers
Living people
British radio journalists
British radio personalities
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idle%20Thumbs | Idle Thumbs is a video game culture website and podcast network founded in 2004.
It features a weekly video game podcast of the same name hosted by former and current video game journalists and developers Chris Remo (Campo Santo, formerly Double Fine Productions), Nick Breckon (Telltale Games), Jake Rodkin and Sean Vanaman (Campo Santo, formerly Telltale Games), and James Spafford (Double Fine Productions, formerly Media Molecule).
Other podcasts hosted by the site include Three Moves Ahead, a strategy game podcast hosted by Troy Goodfellow and Rob Zacny; the Idle Book Club, discussing a selection of modern and classic literature; Terminal7, a Netrunner podcast hosted by Nels Anderson and Jesse Turner; Tone Control, where former "Thumb" regular Steve Gaynor interviews notable video game developers; Idle Weekend, a sister podcast to Idle Thumbs hosted by Danielle Riendeau and Rob Zacny; Important if True where hosts Chris Remo, Jake Rodkin, and Nick Breckon discuss a variety of societal oddities; Something True, a historical podcast about strange stories hosted by Alex Ashby and Duncan Fyfe; DOTA Today, about the trials and travails of Lords Management while playing Dota 2; and Every Game in This City, a podcast about playing well together in different cities around the world. The network has also launched a series of television viewing podcasts such as Twin Peaks Rewatch, The End of Mad Men, and True Detective Weekly.
The current run of the Idle Thumbs podcast and related announcements were the result of a successful Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign that concluded in March 2012. The campaign reached its $30,000 goal within two hours and concluded with a funding total of $136,924.
History
The site was an outlet for game news and op-ed pieces from 2004 until a hiatus in 2007. Three former staff writers, Chris Remo (then-Editor at Large for Gamasutra), Nick Breckon (then of Shacknews), and Jake Rodkin (then of Telltale Games), revived the site as a podcast in late 2008. The show was unstructured in format, with each host discussing recent games played and musing about game design. They were frequently joined by Steve Gaynor (then of 2K Marin) who would replace Nick Breckon after the latter's move to Bethesda Softworks. This second incarnation of the podcast also often featured Sean Vanaman of Telltale Games, who eventually became a core member. The podcast officially ended in mid-2010 after Remo took a job at Boston-based Irrational Games, with the show's then-final episode recorded live at the 2010 Penny Arcade Expo.
Kickstarter campaign
In February 2012—following Remo's return to San Francisco—Remo, Rodkin, and Vanaman started a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to raise $30,000 to revive the podcast in a more stable manner. They collaborated with Blendo Games to develop the sequel to Gravity Bone entitled Thirty Flights of Loving, which would be offered as a reward to backers. Remo composed the game's original soundtrack. The campaign met i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million%20Dollar%20Neighbourhood | Million Dollar Neighbourhood is a Canadian documentary television series on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The series debuted on January 22, 2012.
Premise
For the show, a group of 100 families work to increase their total net worth by $1 million in 10 weeks. On each episode, the group awards one family $10,000. If the overall goal is reached, one individual wins $100,000.
Episodes
Season 1: 2012
Season 2: 2013
References
2012 Canadian television series debuts
2013 Canadian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television shows filmed in Vancouver
Television series by Force Four Entertainment
2010s Canadian reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Bohannon | John Bohannon is an American science journalist and scientist who is Director of Science at Primer, an artificial intelligence company headquartered in San Francisco, California. He is known for his career prior to Primer as a science journalist and Harvard University biologist, most notably with his "Gonzo Scientist" online series at Science Magazine and his creation of the annual "Dance Your PhD" contest. His investigative journalism work includes:
critiquing the Lancet surveys of Iraq War casualties (2006)
uncovering serious problems with the peer review process at a large number of journals that charge fees to authors (2013)
showing how uncritical mass media can be of claims made in fake scientific papers (2015)
Bohannon is involved in the effective altruism movement. In July 2015 he became a member of Giving What We Can, an organization whose members pledge to give at least 10% of their income to effective charities.
Education
Bohannon completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in molecular biology at the University of Oxford in 2002, supervised by Paul Rainey. His doctoral thesis investigated the role of an operon in the adaptive evolution of populations of the bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens and was supervised by Paul Rainey.
Career and research
Bohannon is Director of Science at Primer, a San Francisco, California, company that develops and sells artificial intelligence technology, started by his friend Sean Gourley. Before joining Primer, Bohannon was a contributing correspondent for Science Magazine and also wrote for Discover Magazine, Wired, The Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, and other publications.
Investigative science reporting
Bohannon has frequently reported on the intersections of science and war. He received a Reuters environmental journalism award in 2006 for his reporting on the water crisis in Gaza. In that year he also critiqued the Lancet surveys of Iraq War casualties. After embedding in southern Afghanistan in 2010, he was the first journalist to convince the US military to voluntarily release civilian casualty data.
Two of his later journalism projects are described below.
"Who's Afraid of Peer Review?"
In September 2013, Bohannon submitted a fake and very flawed scientific article to a large number of fee-charging open-access publishers, revealing that less than 40% were living up to their promise of rigorously peer-reviewing what is published. The spoof paper was accepted by 157 of the 255 open-access journals (61.6%) that said they would review it. This approach was criticized by some commentators, as well as by some publishers of fee charging journals, who complained that his sting only targeted one type of open-access journal and no subscription-based journals, damaging the reputation of the open access movement.
Intentionally misleading chocolate study
Under the pseudonym Johannes Bohannon, John Bohannon wrote a paper"Chocolate with high Cocoa content as a weight-loss accelerator"detailing a del |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compression%20of%20genomic%20sequencing%20data | High-throughput sequencing technologies have led to a dramatic decline of genome sequencing costs and to an astonishingly rapid accumulation of genomic data. These technologies are enabling ambitious genome sequencing endeavours, such as the 1000 Genomes Project and 1001 (Arabidopsis thaliana) Genomes Project. The storage and transfer of the tremendous amount of genomic data have become a mainstream problem, motivating the development of high-performance compression tools designed specifically for genomic data. A recent surge of interest in the development of novel algorithms and tools for storing and managing genomic re-sequencing data emphasizes the growing demand for efficient methods for genomic data compression.
General concepts
While standard data compression tools (e.g., zip and rar) are being used to compress sequence data (e.g., GenBank flat file database), this approach has been criticized to be extravagant because genomic sequences often contain repetitive content (e.g., microsatellite sequences) or many sequences exhibit high levels of similarity (e.g., multiple genome sequences from the same species). Additionally, the statistical and information-theoretic properties of genomic sequences can potentially be exploited for compressing sequencing data.
Base variants
With the availability of a reference template, only differences (e.g., single nucleotide substitutions and insertions/deletions) need to be recorded, thereby greatly reducing the amount of information to be stored. The notion of relative compression is obvious especially in genome re-sequencing projects where the aim is to discover variations in individual genomes. The use of a reference single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) map, such as dbSNP, can be used to further improve the number of variants for storage.
Relative genomic coordinates
Another useful idea is to store relative genomic coordinates in lieu of absolute coordinates. For example, representing sequence variant bases in the format ‘Position1Base1Position2Base2…’, ‘123C125T130G’ can be shortened to ‘0C2T5G’, where the integers represent intervals between the variants. The cost is the modest arithmetic calculation required to recover the absolute coordinates plus the storage of the correction factor (‘123’ in this example).
Prior information about the genomes
Further reduction can be achieved if all possible positions of substitutions in a pool of genome sequences are known in advance. For instance, if all locations of SNPs in a human population are known, then there is no need to record variant coordinate information (e.g., ‘123C125T130G’ can be abridged to ‘CTG’). This approach, however, is rarely appropriate because such information is usually incomplete or unavailable.
Encoding genomic coordinates
Encoding schemes are used to convert coordinate integers into binary form to provide additional compression gains. Encoding designs, such as the Golomb code and the Huffman code, have been incorporated into ge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DWAR-FM | DWAR (103.9 FM) RMN Palawan is an FM radio station owned by Romeo Servando's Rolin Broadcasting Enterprises and operated by the Radio Mindanao Network. Its main studio and transmitter are located along BM Rd., Bgy. San Manuel, Puerto Princesa, with repeaters located in various towns in Palawan.
Gerry Ortega, the pro-environment journalist slain last 2011, had a program in this station.
References
Radio stations in Puerto Princesa
News and talk radio stations in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam%20Nisan | Noam Nisan (; born June 20, 1961) is an Israeli computer scientist, a professor of computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is known for his research in computational complexity theory and algorithmic game theory.
Biography
Nisan did his undergraduate studies at the Hebrew University, graduating in 1984. He went to the University of California, Berkeley for graduate school, and received a Ph.D. in 1988 under the supervision of Richard Karp. After postdoctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he joined the Hebrew University faculty in 1990.
Selected publications
Nisan is the author of Using Hard Problems to Create Pseudorandom Generators (MIT Press, ACM Distinguished Dissertation Series, 1992), co-author with Eyal Kushilevitz of the book Communication Complexity (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and co-author with Shimon Schocken of The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles (The MIT Press, 2005). In 2007 he co-edited the book Algorithmic Game Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
He has written highly cited papers on mechanism design,
combinatorial auctions,
the computational complexity of pseudorandom number generators, and interactive proof systems,
among other topics.
Awards and honors
Nisan won an ACM Distinguished Dissertation Award for his Ph.D. thesis, on pseudorandom number generators. He won the Michael Bruno Memorial Award in 2004. In 2012 he won the Gödel Prize, shared with five other recipients, for his work with Amir Ronen in which he coined the phrase "algorithmic mechanism design" and presented many applications of this type of problem within computer science.
He won the Knuth Prize in 2016 "for fundamental and lasting contributions to theoretical computer science in areas including communication complexity, pseudorandom number generators, interactive proofs, and algorithmic game theory".
In 2018 he won the Rothschild Prize and the EATCS Award for "his decisive influence on a range of areas in computational complexity theory and for algorithmic mechanism design, an elegant and rigorous computational theory that aptly informs economics".
References
External links
Home page at the Hebrew University
Citations on Google Scholar
1961 births
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gödel Prize laureates
Knuth Prize laureates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turin%E2%80%93Lyon%20high-speed%20railway | The Turin–Lyon high-speed railway is an international rail line under construction between the cities of Turin and Lyon. It is intended to link the Italian and French high-speed rail networks and will be long.
The core of the project is its international section, which will cross the Alps through the Mont d'Ambin Base Tunnel between the Susa Valley in Piedmont and Maurienne in Savoie.
At , that tunnel will be the longest rail tunnel in the world, ahead of the Gotthard Base Tunnel. The estimated total cost of the line is €25 billion, of which €8 billion is for the international section. The latter is the only part of the line where work has started.
Like the Swiss NRLA project, the line has twin aims of transferring freight traffic across the Alps from trucks to rail to reduce CO2 emissions and local air pollution and of providing faster passenger transport to reduce air traffic. The new line will considerably shorten the journey times, and its reduced gradients and much wider curves compared to the existing line will also allow heavy freight trains to transit between the two countries at and with much reduced energy costs. In spite of the name often used by media, the line is not high-speed under the definition used by the European Commission: its design speed of is 12% below the threshold used by the commission to define high-speed railways. The line is therefore part instead of the TEN-T Trans-European conventional rail network within its "Mediterranean Corridor"—previously "Corridor 6". The European Union funds 40% of the tunnel costs, and has indicated its willingness to increase its contribution to 55%, as well as to help fund its French accesses if those go beyond mere adaptations of the existing infrastructure.
The project has been criticized for its cost, because traffic (both by motorway and by rail) was decreasing when the project was decided, for potential environmental risks during the construction of the tunnel, and because airplanes will still, after including time to and from the airport and through security, be slightly faster over the full Milan–Paris route. A 2012 report by the French Court of Audit questioned the realism of the costs estimates and traffic forecasts. Opposition to the project is mostly organised under the loose banner of the No TAV movement.
Civil engineering work started in 2002 with the construction of access points and geological reconnaissance tunneling.
A gallery tunneled between 2016 and 2019 from Saint-Martin-de-la-Porte towards Italy was presented as reconnaissance work, but it was dug at the position of the south tube of the tunnel and at its final diameter. It effectively represents the first 8% of the final tunnel length. As of 2021, the expected completion date for the base tunnel was 2032.
Pre-construction studies
The merits of the new line were the subject of heated debate, primarily in Italy. After a 2005 attempt to start reconnaissance work near Susa resulted in violent confrontati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Johannesburg | The Johannesburg trolleybus system was part of the public transport network in Johannesburg, South Africa, for nearly 50 years in the mid-twentieth century.
History
Opened on , the system gradually supplemented the Johannesburg tramway network.
The system eventually partially replaced the tramway network, which lasted for several more decades until its closure on . However, the system itself has since been closed, on .
See also
James Hall Transport Museum
History of Johannesburg
List of trolleybus systems
References
Further reading
Broken link
External links
Flickr image of a Johannesburg trolleybus, 1968
Flickr image of a Johannesburg trolleybus, 1984
Transport in Johannesburg
Johannesburg
Johannesburg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Pretoria | The Pretoria trolleybus system was part of the public transport network in Pretoria, South Africa, for more than 30 years in the mid-twentieth century. The trolleybus system was opened in 1939 and was closed in 1972, lasting for over 32 years.
See also
History of Pretoria
List of trolleybus systems
References
Further reading
External links
Flickr image of Pretoria trolleybuses in the city centre, 1969
Flickr image of a Pretoria trolleybus in the suburbs, 1989
Transport in Pretoria
Pretoria
Pretoria
History of Pretoria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock%20and%20vibration%20data%20logger | A shock data logger or vibration data logger is a measurement instrument that is capable of autonomously recording shocks or vibrations over a defined period of time. Digital data is usually in the form of acceleration and time. The shock and vibration data can be retrieved (or transmitted), viewed and evaluated after it has been recorded.
In contrast with a shock data logger, a shock detector is used to indicate whether or not the threshold of specified shock has occurred.
Functions
A logger comprises sensors such as accelerometers, storage media, a processor and power supply. The sensors measure and store shocks either as the entire waveform, summary data, or an indication of whether a threshold value was observed . Some devices have accelerometers built into the unit while others can use external accelerometers. The processor processes the measured data and saves it on the storage media together with the associated measurement times. This allows the measurement data to be retrieved after the measurements have been completed, either directly on the logger or via an interface to a computer. Some have an RFID interface.
Software is used to present the measured data in the form of tables or graphs and provides functions for the evaluation of the measurement data.
The shock and vibration data is either recorded continuously over a defined time period or on an event-driven basis where the recording of data is determined by certain criteria. Employing such an event-based measurement method allows the recording of specific shocks that exceed a critical length of time or strength. Some have wireless capability such as Bluetooth transmissions to smartphones.
Acceleration loggers usually use non-volatile storage media for recording the measurement data. These may be hard disc drives or EEPROMs for instance. Such devices will not lose the data when the device is powered down. This also means that the measured data will remain stored in the event of a power failure.
Overview of shock measurement
Shocks and impacts are often described by the peak acceleration expressed in g-s (sometimes called g-forces). The form of the shock pulse and particularly the pulse duration are equally important. For example, a short 1 ms 300 g shock has little damage potential and is not usually of interest but a 20 ms 300 g shock might be critical. Use of shock response spectrum analysis is also useful.
The mounting location also affects the response of most shock detectors. A shock on a rigid item such as a sports helmet or a rigid package might respond to a field shock with a jagged shock pulse which, without proper filtering is difficult to characterize. A shock on a cushioned item usually has a smoother shock pulse., and thus more consistent responses from shock detector.
Shocks are vector quantities with the direction of the shock often being important to the item of interest.
A shock data logger can be evaluated:
separately in a laboratory physical test, p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force%20Four%20Entertainment | Force Four Entertainment is a Canadian film and television production company based in Vancouver.
Force Four Entertainment produces a variety of programming, including lifestyle, documentary, and scripted entertainment. Original productions include Million Dollar Neighbourhood and Murder She Solved (OWN Canada), Urban Suburban (HGTV), and The Cupcake Girls (W Network).
History
Force Four Entertainment was founded in 1983. On August 28, 2014, the company was acquired by Ontario-based Entertainment One. Partners Rob Bromley, John Richie, and Gillian Lowrey joined eOne as part of the deal.
List of television series and films produced and distributed by Force Four Entertainment
Keeping Canada Safe
Keeping Canada Alive
Chuck and Danny's Road Trip
Tricked
Border Security: America's Front Line
Battle Cats
Urban Suburban
Border Security: Canada's Front Line
The Cupcake Girls
Murder She Solved
Tube Tales: TV's Real Stories
Six Degrees of TV
65 Redroses
Manhattan Matchmaker
The Bachelor Canada
Million Dollar Neighbourhood
Family Cook Off
Murder She Solved: True Crime
Playing for Keeps
Human Cargo
The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess
Murder Unveiled
Jinnah on Crime: Pizza 911
Jinnah on Crime: White Knight, Black Widow
Village on a Diet
Tube Tales: TV's Real Stories
The Shopping Bags
Making It Big
You, Me & the Kids
Adventures in Parenting
Wakanheja
Art Zone
Frank Mahovlich: The Big M
Terry Fox: A Dream as Big as Our Country
Better Ask Nellie: Nellie Cournoyea
Family Drew: The Molson Family
Brothers: The Phil and Tony Esposito Story
Silken Laumann: Flying on Water
Emily Carr: A Woman of All Sorts
Lynn Johnston: Lynn's Looking Glass
Christine Silverberg: Top Cop
Rick Hansen: Never Give Up On Your Dreams
Today Is a Good Day: Remembering Chief Dan George
Carbon Hunters
End of an Era
Toxic Legacies
Grizzlies of the Canadian Rockies
Crocophiles
Corrie Crazy: Canada Loves Coronation Street
Brothel Project
FASD: Finding Hope
Rock and Roll Kid
Making Waves
The Ties That Bind
Fall Out
Without God
Sing Out
Welcome Back to Molly's Reach
Wanderings: A Journey to Connect
From Grief to Action
Innocent Tricks
Broken Words
Love, Culture and the Kitchen Sink
Laughing Through the Pain
Seed (TV series)
The Audience
References
External links
Official website
Entertainment One
Television production companies of Canada
Companies based in Vancouver
Film production companies of Canada
Cinema of British Columbia
Mass media companies established in 1983
1983 establishments in British Columbia
2014 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STANAG%204082 | STANAG 4082 - Adoption of a Standard Artillery Computer Meteorological Message (METCM) is a NATO Standardization Agreement to provide meteorological information for External ballistics. The information consists of virtual temperature, pressure, and wind speed/direction.
The custodian of this STANAG is the MILMET panel, formerly BMWG, within NATO Headquarters. The Edition 2 of this STANAG was promulgated 28 May 1969. Edition 3 was cancelled in May 2019 and is superseded by STANAG 6015 .
For a description of how STANAG 4082 relates to other STANAGs in the areas of ballistics and meteorology please see the following preview (also shown in slide 4 of the following presentation).
References
4082 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Walter%20Compton%20News | The Walter Compton News is an American television news series that aired from 1947 to 1948 on the DuMont Television Network Monday through Friday from 6:45 pm to 7 pm ET.
Broadcast history
The Walter Compton News premiered on DuMont station WTTG on June 16, 1947, then on the DuMont network on August 25, 1947, but was reportedly off the air by January 1948. This show had seasoned radio broadcaster and executive Walter Compton (1912-1959) reading news from a script with the occasional use of slides. Beginning on November 17, General Electric became a sponsor of The Walter Compton News. In 1942, Compton had been host of Quiz of Two Cities, aired by Mutual Radio on WOL-AM in Washington DC, and on WFBR in Baltimore. The program is notable for having been "the first news series on a television network to originate from Washington."
Premiering in January 1948, Camera Headlines was a second attempt by DuMont to present a TV news program, this time using newsreel film footage. Camera Headlines alternated with I.N.S. Telenews.
It may also have been the first nightly television newscast to appear over a network, although it is possible that a television simulcast of Lowell Thomas's NBC Blue Radio Network newscast in 1940 and 1941 may have been seen, at least occasionally, on W2XB Schenectady and/or W3XE Philadelphia, but records are also quite sketchy.
Episode status
As with many DuMont programs, no episodes of The Walter Compton News are known to survive. Kinescopes were not available until the fall of 1947, and were used sparingly in the early years. Little else is known about the series, even though it aired on a major United States television network.
See also
Camera Headlines
I.N.S. Telenews
DuMont Evening News
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
Television news in the United States
1947-48 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
Website with picture of Walter Compton in Washington Post (March 15, 1942)
DuMont Television Network original programming
1947 American television series debuts
1948 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
1940s American television news shows
Lost television shows
DuMont news programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20E.%20Savage | John Edmund Savage is an American computer scientist and An Wang Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Brown University. At his retirement in 2019, Savage was one of the longest-serving faculty members in Brown's history.
Savage earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965, under the supervision of Irwin M. Jacobs. After leaving MIT, he worked briefly for Bell Laboratories before joining the Brown faculty in 1967. He is the author of the book Models of Computation: Exploring the Power of Computing (Addison-Wesley, 1998). In 1979 he and Andries Van Dam co-founded Brown's Computer Science program. Savage served as the department's second chair from 1985 to 1991.
Savage was named an ACM Fellow for "fundamental contributions to theoretical computer science, information theory, and VLSI design, analysis and synthesis". He is a life fellow of the IEEE, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
He was appointed as An Wang professor in 2011.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Brown University faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%208%20editions | Windows 8, a major release of the Microsoft Windows operating system, was available in four different editions: Windows 8 (Core), Pro, Enterprise, and RT. Only Windows 8 (Core) and Pro were widely available at retailers. The other editions focus on other markets, such as embedded systems or enterprise. All editions support 32-bit IA-32 CPUs and x64 CPUs.
Editions
Windows 8 (also sometimes referred to as Windows 8 (Core) to distinguish from the OS itself) is the basic edition of Windows for the IA-32 and x64 architectures. This edition contains features aimed at the home market segment and provides all of the basic new Windows 8 features.
Windows 8 Pro is comparable to Windows 7 Professional and Ultimate and is targeted towards enthusiasts and business users; it includes all the features of Windows 8. Additional features include the ability to receive Remote Desktop connections, the ability to participate in a Windows Server domain, Encrypting File System, Hyper-V, and Virtual Hard Disk Booting, Group Policy as well as BitLocker and BitLocker To Go. Windows Media Center functionality is available only for Windows 8 Pro as a separate software package.
Windows 8 Enterprise provides all the features in Windows 8 Pro (except the ability to install the Windows Media Center add-on), with additional features to assist with IT organization (see table below). This edition is available to Software Assurance customers, as well as MSDN and Technet Professional subscribers, and was released on 16 August 2012.
Windows RT is only available pre-installed on ARM-based devices such as tablet PCs. It includes touch-optimized desktop versions of the basic set of Office 2013 applications to users—Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote, and supports device encryption capabilities. Several business-focused features such as Group Policy and domain support are not included.
Software for Windows RT can be either downloaded from Windows Store or sideloaded, although sideloading on Windows RT must first be enabled by purchasing additional licenses through Microsoft volume licensing outlet. Desktop software that run on previous versions of Windows cannot be run on Windows RT as Windows Store apps are based on Windows Runtime API which differs from the traditional apps. According to CNET, these essential differences may raise the question of whether Windows RT is an edition of Windows: in a conversation with Mozilla, Microsoft deputy general counsel David Heiner was reported to have said Windows RT "isn't Windows anymore." Mozilla general counsel, however, dismissed the assertion on the basis that Windows RT has the same user interface, application programming interface and update mechanism.
Unlike Windows Vista and Windows 7, there are no Home Basic, Home Premium, or Ultimate editions.
Regional restrictions and variations
All mentioned editions have the ability to use language packs, enabling multiple user interface languages. (This functionality was pre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion%20of%20validity | Illusion of validity is a cognitive bias in which a person overestimates their ability to interpret and predict accurately the outcome when analyzing a set of data, in particular when the data analyzed show a very consistent pattern—that is, when the data "tell" a coherent story.
This effect persists even when the person is aware of all the factors that limit the accuracy of their predictions, that is when the data and/or methods used to judge them lead to highly fallible predictions.
Daniel Kahneman, Paul Slovic, and Amos Tversky explain the illusion as follows: "people often predict by selecting the output...that is most representative of the input....The confidence they have in their prediction depends primarily on the degree of representativeness...with little or no regard for the factors that limit predictive accuracy. Thus, people express great confidence in the prediction that a person is a librarian when given a description of his personality which matches the stereotype of librarians, even if the description is scanty, unreliable, or outdated. The unwarranted confidence which is produced by a good fit between the predicted outcome and the input information may be called the illusion of validity."
Consistent patterns may be observed when input variables are highly redundant or correlated, which may increase subjective confidence. However, a number of highly correlated inputs should not increase confidence much more than only one of the inputs; instead higher confidence should be merited when a number of highly independent inputs show a consistent pattern.
Discovery and description
This bias was first described by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman in their 1973 paper "On the Psychology of Prediction".
In a 2011 article, Kahneman recounted the story of his discovery of the illusion of validity. After completing an undergraduate psychology degree and spending a year as an infantry officer in the Israeli Army, he was assigned to the army's Psychology Branch, where he helped evaluate candidates for officer training using a test called the Leaderless Group Challenge. Candidates were taken to an obstacle field and assigned a group task so that Kahneman and his fellow evaluators could discern their individual leadership qualities or lack thereof.
But although Kahneman and his colleagues emerged from the exercise with very clear judgments as to who was and wasn't a potential leader, their forecasts proved "largely useless" in the long term. Comparing their original evaluations of candidates with the judgments of their officer-training school commanders months later, Kahneman and his colleagues found that their own "ability to predict performance at the school was negligible. Our forecasts were better than blind guesses, but not by much."
Yet when asked to again to assess yet another group of candidates, their judgments were as clear as before. "The dismal truth about the quality of our predictions," recalled Kahneman, "had no effect whatsoev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il%20va%20pleuvoir%20sur%20Conakry | Il va pleuvoir sur Conakry is a 2007 French film.
Synopsis
BB works as a political cartoonist at a liberal newspaper and is in love with the boss' lovely, talented computer scientist daughter, Kesso. But his choice meets with stiff opposition from his strict Muslim father Karamako, who is the guardian of the ancestral tradition of their village as well as imam of Conakry. Karamako's dream inspired insistence that BB go to Saudi Arabia to study to become an imam, against the young man's wishes, further complicates the relationship, especially when Kesso becomes pregnant with BB's child.
Awards
Ouidah (Benín) 2008
Verona 2007
Tübingen-Stuttgart 2007
Songes d'une nuit DV 2007
FESPACO 2007
References
2007 films
French drama films
Guinean drama films
2000s French films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny%20Lee | Johnny Lee may refer to:
Johnny Lee (actor) (1898–1965), American singer, dancer, voice actor and actor
Johnny Lee (computer scientist), American computer scientist
Johnny Lee (singer), (born 1946), American country singer
See also
John Lee (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Bederson | Benjamin Bederson is a Computer Science professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, a member of the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab, and a co-founder of Zumobi.
His father was Benjamin Bederson, Sr., a Professor of Physics Emeritus, New York University.
Biography
Ben Bederson received a B.S. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1986. Bederson received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1987 and 1992 from New York University where he researched Zooming User Interface.
Bederson became inducted into the Association for Computing Machinery's CHI Academy as a Distinguished Scientist in 2012 and became an ACM Distinguished Scientist in 2011. In 2010 he and Allison Druin won the SIGCHI Social Impact Award for developing the International Children's Digital Library.
Bederson was an expert witness for Samsung in Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to discuss prior art.
Publications
A selection:
2008. Voting Technology and the Not-So-Simple Act of Casting a Ballot; with Herrnson, P.S., Niemi, R.G., Hanmer, M.J., Conrad, F.G., Traugott, M.; Brookings Institution Press.
References
Human–computer interaction
Human–computer interaction researchers
Living people
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
New York University alumni
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20rijksmonuments%20in%20Bloemendaal%20%28town%29 | The town of Bloemendaal has 125 listings in the register of rijksmonuments.
List
|}
References
Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed KICH Rijksmonumenten Dataset
Bloemendaal
Bloemendaal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan%20Kluay%202 | Khan Kluay 2 (; ) is a 2009 Thai 3D computer-animated dark fantasy and action-adventure film, directed by Taweelap Srivuthivong and released in 2009. It is the sequel to Khan Kluay and follows the further adventures of the war elephant of King Naresuan the Great. It is set during the war between Ayutthaya and Hanthawaddy. Its theme is the need to protect family and country. In 2011,it was re dubbed into Hindi as Jumbo 2: The return of the big elephant and released on 21 October around Diwali time in India but received negative comments. The dubbing studio was Sound and Vision studio, India.
Voice cast
Taweelap Srivuthivong as Nga Nil
Ann Thongprasom as Chaba-Kaew
Attaporn Teemakorn as Khan Kluay
Nonzee Nimibutr as Nanda Bayin
Varuth Waratham as Jid Rid
Voice Cast (Hindi Version)
Karan Trivedi as Jayveer Singh aka Jumbo
Mohini Bhoj as Sonia Singh, Jumbo's wife
Rajesh Kava as Dildar Yadav
Amar Babaria as Prince Vikramaditya
Vinod Kulkarni as Mahakaal,the sorcerer
Yash Parekh as Neil
Julie Tejwani as Rasgulla / Hariya
Pooja Punjabi as Pinki
Ashar Shaikh as Khabri
Tanya Sinha as Luv Singh / Kush Singh, Jumbo's twin son
Sanket Mhatre as the thin soldier and a Shauryagarh soldier
Ajay Singhal as the mahout/king of shauryagarh/the fat soldier
English version
In 2016, Grindstone Entertainment Group produced an English dubbed version of the movie known as Elephant Kingdom, which was released on DVD via Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The first Khan Kluay film was dubbed into English by the Weinstein Company under the name The Blue Elephant. The English version of the second film lacks any ties to the first Khan Kluay film in the writing. Consequently, there are numerous changes in the English version compared to the original film and even the first Khan Kluay film. For example, all the voices in the original are replaced by new actors in the English version, with Cary Elwes replacing Jeremy Redleaf as Khan Kluay, Alexa PenaVega replacing Miranda Cosgrove as Chaba-Kaew, Garrett Clayton replacing Martin Short as Jai, while Patrick Warburton voiced Nanda Bayin. The names of the characters are also changed, Khan Kluay's name is changed to Rok, Chaba-Kaew's name is changed to Melody, and Jai's name is changed to Wingman. This version of the movie can also be found on YouTube.
References
External links
2009 films
2000s children's animated films
2009 animated films
Thai children's films
Films set in the 1500s
Thai animated films
Thai 3D films
Thai-language films
Sahamongkol Film International films
Animated films set in the 16th century
Animated films set in Asia
Films set in Thailand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kannadada%20Kotyadhipati | Kannadada Kotyadhipati () is an Indian Kannada language quiz game show, produced by BIG Synergy.
Background
After a series of fresh ideas in reality and fiction shows the Star Network's Kannada general entertainment channel Asianet Suvarna has announced yet another path breaking reality show - Kannadada Kotyadhipati based on the most popular reality show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. The show which is meant for a common Kannadiga is one for the biggest reality shows in Kannada television offering the prize money of Rs 1 crore. The format and the rules for the edition of Kannadada Kotyadhipati will be same as the first edition of KBC. The show will be anchored by the actor Puneeth Rajkumar. Making his debut as an anchor for the first time on television Puneet Rajkumar expressed, "I am excited about being the anchor of this show which will give me an opportunity to interact closely with the common people. The format of the show is unique as this gives the common people an opportunity to use their knowledge and change their lives. Kannadada Kotyadhipati is produced by Big Synergy the same production house as KBC."
According to the Business Head of Suvarna, Anup Chandrasekharan, "The Star Network originally brought in KBC to India and made it the most popular reality show in the country. We at Suvarna have the best ingredients to make Kannadada Kotiyadipati a successful show."
There is only one 1 Crore winner till now: Hussain Basha in the second season of the show.
Rules
The contestants must undergo an initial round of "Fastest Finger First", in which the host introduces the ten contestants of the episode and asks them all the same question. The contestants must then arrange the answers in the order described in the question. The contestant that places the four options in the correct order in the fastest time gets the chance to go on the hotseat.
Lifelines
A contestant can use a lifeline when he/she is undecided about which answer is correct. A lifeline can only be used once. The current lifelines in Kannadada Kotyadhipati:
Audience Poll: If the contestant uses this lifeline, it will result in the host repeating the question to the audience. The studio audience get 30 seconds to answer the question. Audience members use touch pads to designate what they believe the correct answer to be. After the audience have chosen their choices, the results are displayed to the contestant in percentages in bar-graph format and also shown on the monitors screens of the host and contestant, as well as the TV viewers.
Phone a Friend: If the contestant uses this lifeline, the contestant is allowed to call one of the three pre-arranged friends, who all have to provide their phone numbers in advance. The host usually starts off by talking to the contestant's friend and introduces him/her to the viewers. After the introduction, the host hands the phone call over to the contestant who then immediately has 30 seconds to ask and hope for a reply from their frien |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Maternal%20Pediatric%20Adolescent%20AIDS%20Clinical%20Trials%20Group | The International Maternal Pediatric Adolescent AIDS Clinical Trials Group, known as IMPAACT, is a United States-based research network which studies HIV and AIDS in infant, pediatric, adolescent and pregnant women populations. It is a member of the Office of HIV/AIDS Network Coordination research group.
Research
In 2012 IMPAACT published a study which found no link between the use of HIV medication and psychiatric illness in adolescents.
About
As of 2010, IMPAACT consisted of 39 domestic and 34 international clinical research sites.
References
External links
HIV/AIDS organizations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20CalDAV%20and%20CardDAV%20implementations | A comparison of CalDAV and CardDAV implementations offers two overviews of client and server computer software implementations of the CalDAV and CardDAV protocols.
Client implementations
There are more clients, mentioned for completeness:
For the command line: Vdirsyncer (for WebDAV) + Khal (for calendaring) or + Khard (for contacts)
Apple's iCal and Calendar
For Windows and Mac eM Client
Windows built in-support (kind of)
For the Web: Kronolith
For Android: CalDAV Sync, CardDAV Sync, iCal Import/Export CalDAV
Server implementations
The table is missing Kopano, Kerio Connect and Scalix, which are mentioned here for completeness.
See also
CalDAV
CardDAV
References
Calendaring standards
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Servers (computing)
Network software comparisons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Network%20for%20Strategic%20Initiatives%20in%20Global%20HIV%20Trials | The International Network for Strategic Initiatives in Global HIV Trials, known as INSIGHT, is a United States-based organization which promotes HIV/AIDS research internationally. It is a member of a larger HIV research consortium called HANC. The goal of INSIGHT's research is to identify best practices for managing the AIDS epidemic.
About
INSIGHT was founded in 2006 along with other HANC organizations. INSIGHT coordinates research in 100 clinical sites in 20 countries.
Insight also conducts observational studies of flu epidemics.
References
External links
HIV/AIDS organizations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sriram%20College%20of%20Arts%20and%20Science | Sriram College of Arts and Science () is a college in Perumalpattu, Tiruvallur Dt., Tamil Nadu, India. Science and arts courses offered include BSc (Bachelor of Science), BCA (Bachelor of Computer Application), MSc (Master of Science), M.S.W, B.Com. and B.B.A.
References
External links
Arts colleges in India
Colleges affiliated to University of Madras
Education in Tiruvallur district
Educational institutions established in 1998
1998 establishments in Tamil Nadu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Cape%20Town | Cape Town, South Africa, has had two tramway networks forming part of its public transport arrangements. Both networks are now long closed.
History
The first of the two networks to be established was a horsecar network, which was opened on . In around 1896, it was converted to electrical operation. From , it was gradually replaced by trolleybuses, which were always referred to by English-speaking locals as "Trackless trams". It was finally closed on .
The other network, opened in , was an interurban tramway linking Burnside Road in Cape Town with Camps Bay and Sea Point. It was powered by electricity, and was in operation until .
See also
History of Cape Town
List of town tramway systems in Africa
Rail transport in South Africa
Transport in Cape Town
Trolleybuses in Cape Town
References
Notes
Further reading
External links
Camps Bay Tramways – a description of the line from Cape Town to Camps Bay and Sea Point
Passenger rail transport in South Africa
Tram transport in South Africa
Transport in Cape Town
Cape Town |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.Fill | Dr.Fill is a computer program that solves American-style crossword puzzles. It was developed by Matt Ginsberg and described by Ginsberg in an article in the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. Ginsberg claims in that article that Dr.Fill is among the top fifty crossword solvers in the world.
As described by Ginsberg, Dr.Fill works by converting a crossword to a weighted constraint satisfaction problem and then attempting to maximize the probability that the fill is correct. Probabilities for individual words or phrases in the puzzle are computed using relatively simple statistical techniques based on features such as previous appearances of the clue, number of Google hits for the fill, and so on. In doing this, Dr.Fill is attempting to solve a problem similar to that tackled by the Jeopardy!-playing program Watson; Dr.Fill runs on a laptop instead of a supercomputer and Ginsberg remarks that Watson is far more effective than Dr.Fill at solving this portion of the problem. Instead of computational horsepower, Dr.Fill relies on the constraints provided by crossing words to refine its answers.
A variety of techniques from artificial intelligence are applied to attempt to find the most likely fill. These include a small amount of lookahead, limited discrepancy search, and postprocessing. Ginsberg remarks that postprocessing was chosen over branch and bound because the two techniques are mutually incompatible and postprocessing was found to be more effective in this domain.
Dr.Fill participated in the 2012 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, finishing 141st of approximately 650 entrants with a total score of just over 10,000 points. The appearance led to a variety of descriptions of Dr.Fill in the popular press, including The Economist, the San Francisco Chronicle and Gizmodo. A description of Dr.Fill appeared on the front page of the March 17, 2012 New York Times.
Dr.Fill's score in 2013 improved to 10,550, which would have earned it 92nd place. Videos of the program solving the problems from the tournament are available on YouTube. The score in 2014 improved further to 10,790, which would have tied for 67th place. A video of the program solving the first six puzzles from that tournament, together with a talk given by Ginsberg describing its performance, can be found on YouTube.
Dr.Fill has largely continued to improve since the 2014 event. In 2015, it scored 10,920 points and finished in 55th place. In 2016, it scored 11,205 points and finished in 41st place. In 2017, it scored 11,795 and finished in 11th place. In 2018, it scored 10,740 points, dropping to 78th place. Dr.Fill returned to "form" in 2019, once again scoring 11,795 and finishing in 14th place.
The 2020 ACPT was cancelled due to COVID-19, and Dr.Fill participated as a non-competitor in the Boswords tournament instead. The program outperformed the humans, scoring 11,218 points (fast solves with a total of one mistake) while the best scoring human scored 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20intelligence | Outline of intelligence may refer to:
Outline of human intelligence
Outline of artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Durban | The Durban tramway network formed part of the public transport system in Durban, South Africa, for nearly 70 years until the end of the 1940s.
History
Opened in , the Durban tramway network was operated initially by horsecars. From , the network was converted to electrical power. Beginning on , it was gradually replaced by the Durban trolleybus system, which was opened on that day. The tramway network was finally closed on .
See also
History of Durban
List of town tramway systems in Africa
Rail transport in South Africa
Trolleybuses in Durban
References
Notes
Further reading
External links
Passenger rail transport in South Africa
Durban
Transport in Durban
Durban |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Schildkraut%20Presents | Joseph Schildkraut Presents is an anthology television series that originally aired on the DuMont Television Network starring stage and screen actor Joseph Schildkraut.
Broadcast history
The series aired from October 28, 1953, to January 21, 1954. The series originally aired Wednesdays at 8:30pm ET, and moved to Thursdays at 8pm ET for the last three airdates, January 7, 14, and 21. The original contract with DuMont called for 26 episodes, with Schildkraut hosting all 26, and acting in 14 episodes. The series was cancelled after 13 episodes had aired.
This series is often confused with Personal Appearance Theatre which aired on ABC in the 1951–52 season and on which Schildkraut was also featured. The UCLA Film and Television Archive has some episodes of this earlier series.
Episode status
The UCLA Film and Television Archive lists seven episodes in its collection. However, only one (November 18, 1953) is from the DuMont series. The others are from the earlier ABC series Personal Appearance Theatre (1951–52), which also starred Schildkraut, and which may have also aired on DuMont stations.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1953-54 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
Joseph Schildkraut Presents at IMDb
Joseph Schildkraut Presents at CTVA
Personal Appearance Theatre at IMDb
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1953 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings
1950s American anthology television series
Black-and-white American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20in%20Town%20%28video%20game%29 | New In Town was a life-simulation social network game developed by Digital Chocolate that "allows players to customize an avatar and take another shot at life after high school, choosing a career and establishing themselves in a fictional city." The game's genre is similar to popular The Sims series but with a time mechanics based gameplay that is more reminiscent of legacy titles such as Jones in the Fast Lane.
Gameplay
The player's goal is to "find a life, love and gainful employment in the big city". The gameplay is based on time mechanics: everything the player's character—their avatar—does costs a certain number of time units to complete. This includes moving around the city, purchasing items, hanging out with friends or working. When the player runs out of time units, the current game day is over and the avatar must sleep.
If the avatar’s happiness level is too low or hungry, a penalty to the time units available for the next day is levied. Happiness can be restored by eating food (which only has to be done once per day in order to stave off the hunger penalty), shopping, socializing with friends or attending fun activities such as going to the movies. Happiness drops while working or studying, though both are necessary: working provides the player with money, while studying increases skill levels, certain levels of which are necessary to secure higher-paying jobs.
References
External links
Official web site
2012 video games
Browser-based multiplayer online games
Inactive multiplayer online games
Digital Chocolate games
Facebook games
Life simulation games
Social casual games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20French%20films%20of%202012 | A list of films produced in France in 2012.
Notes
External links
2012 in France
2012 in French television
French films of 2012 at the Internet Movie Database
French films of 2012 at Cinema-francais.fr
List of 2012 box office number-one films in France
French
2012
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panel%20Quiz%20Attack%2025 | is a game show airing once weekly on the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation network in Japan. The program first aired on April 6, 1975.
It was announced on July 7, 2021, that the show will be ending its 46-year run on September 26, 2021.
However, on January 18, 2022, a new one-hour format of the series was announced for the new cable network, BS Next. Titled "Panel Quiz Attack 25 NEXT," it is expected to premiere March 27, 2022. In addition, Shosuke Tanihara is expected to reprise his position as host.
Master of Ceremony
Kiyoshi Kodama (April 6, 1975 - April 10, 2011)
Yasuyuki Urakawa (April 17, 2011 - March 29, 2015)
Shosuke Tanihara (April 5, 2015 - September 26, 2021)
Gameplay
Four contestants, each designated by a different color (red, green, white, and blue), compete. The game is played on a grid of twenty-five numbered boxes in a manner similar to the game Reversi.
The first question is a puzzle that is shown on the video screen; the first player to buzz in with the correct answer is awarded the center #13 box. After this, the contestants are introduced. From this point on, players are referred to by their designated color (in Japanese, red is "aka," green is "midori," white is "shiro," and blue is "ao").
From that point on, questions may take any of several forms, including general trivia, an audio question, or a video or picture question or puzzle. Players may buzz in at any time after the announcer begins reading the question. Buzzing in with the correct answer allows the player to capture one of the boxes on the game board. In addition, if by capturing a box, a player brackets one or more boxes held by opposing players, whether in the same row, column, or diagonal, the player steals those boxes.
When capturing a box, players must:
Make a capture that will steal a box from an opponent
Failing that, make a capture that will set up a steal on another correct answer.
Failing both of the above, capture a box that touches at least one other box held by any player.
Any time a contestant answers a question incorrectly, other than on the first question or any puzzle, that player is locked out from answering for two questions (originally three). If a question was answered incorrectly, play ends on that question, and a new question is asked; on a puzzle, play continues until someone answers correctly. (Players who are locked out must stand up from their chair and step away from their buzzers.)
Attack Chance
After twenty boxes are filled on the board, a bell rings, which signals the start of an "Attack Chance." The contestant who gives the next correct answer after the Attack Chance is announced captures a box as usual, then "attacks" any box held by an opponent. The box that is attacked is turned yellow, and can then be captured by any contestant as normal. If the contestant that won the Attack Chance is the only one with territory on the board, he or she must then attack his or her own box.
End of the Game
The game ends when the boar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimble%20Storage | Nimble Storage, founded in 2008, is a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise. It specializes in producing hardware and software products for data storage, particularly data storage arrays that utilize the iSCSI and Fibre Channel protocols, and includes data backup and data protection features.
History
Nimble Storage was established in January 2008 by Varun Mehta and Umesh Maheshwari. In July 2010, the company announced its first product, the CS200 series hybrid arrays, at Tech Field Day.
In September 2012, Nimble Storage secured $40.7 million in funding from both original and new investors, including Artis Capital Management and GGV Capital.
Varun Mehta served as the chief executive until March 2011 when he became the vice president of engineering. Suresh Vasudevan assumed the role of CEO, and Umesh Maheshwari became the chief technology officer.
In October 2013, the company filed for its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange and subsequently went public on December 13, 2013, under the ticker symbol NMBL.
Throughout its history, Nimble Storage introduced various product updates and expansions. In June 2014, the company announced the CS700 Series Arrays and an All-Flash Shelf, along with its Adaptive Flash technology. In November 2014, Nimble Storage released arrays supporting the Fibre Channel protocol.
In July 2015, the company announced updates to the Adaptive Flash platform, including Nimble SmartSecure (software-based encryption), all-flash service levels, REST APIs, InfoSight-VMVision per-VM monitoring, and integrated data protection. Nimble Storage also achieved Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 Certification for the Adaptive Flash platform in August 2015.
The company experienced significant growth and recognition, ranking sixth on Deloitte's list of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and energy tech companies in North America in November 2015.
On February 23, 2016, Nimble Storage unveiled the Predictive All Flash Array series, combining fast flash performance with InfoSight Predictive Analytics. This was followed by the introduction of the AF-1000 Series All Flash array and updated CS-Series Adaptive Flash array portfolio on August 10, 2016.
On October 17, 2016, Nimble Storage formed a strategic partnership with Lenovo, resulting in the ThinkAgile CX Series solution.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced the acquisition of Nimble Storage for approximately $1.09 billion in cash on March 7, 2017. The acquisition was finalized on April 5, 2017.
Products
All Flash Arrays
Nimble Storage's AF-Series arrays utilize flash performance as well as InfoSight Predictive Analytics. The AF-Series has product lines for data centers with different configurations based on the desired workload. The product lines are AF1000, AF3000, AF5000, AF7000, and AF9000.
Adaptive Flash Arrays
The Nimble CS-Series iSCSI and Fibre Channel storage array has 4 product lines for data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime%20Salt%20Lake | Anime Salt Lake was an anime convention held during March at the Salt Lake Community College Redwood Campus in Taylorsville, Utah.
Programming
The convention featured an artists’ alley, dealers room, fan discussion panels, live-action roleplaying (LARPing), panels, screenings, and video game contests.
History
The convention was founded by Dana Graham (ParenthesisX) and Christopher R Wilcox (Kurizu204) the president and vice president of the SLCC Japanese Club. After the first successful year the convention was run under the supervision of the Japanese club Dana Graham went on to create Verses Versus Productions LLC that continued to produce Anime Salt Lake, Salt Fest (Salt Lakes first Video Gaming Convention) and Crystal Mountain Pony Con.
Event history
References
Defunct anime conventions
Recurring events established in 2012
2012 establishments in Utah
Annual events in Utah
Festivals in Utah |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20R.%20Burch | Michael Ray Burch (born February 19, 1958) is an American poet.
Life
Michael R. Burch (born February 19, 1958) is an American computer company executive, poet, columnist, essayist and editor who lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Also a peace activist, he is the author of the Burch-Elberry Peace Initiative, which has been published online by United Progressives and the National Forum of India. On October 21, 2010, Burch presented the Burch-Elberry Peace Initiative to Aziz Mekouar, the Moroccan Ambassador to the United States, at a reception held in the Grand Ballroom of Nashville's Vanderbilt Plaza hotel. Burch was also one of the featured speakers at a Freedom Walk for Palestinians held on October 10, 2009, in Nashville.
Burch has been very active in the poetry movements known as New Formalism and Neo-Romanticism. When Kevin N. Roberts founded and launched the poetry journal Romantics Quarterly, he selected five poems by Burch to lead off the premier issue (Winter 2001), and Burch had three or more poems in each of the first eight issues. Burch also encouraged contemporary formalists he had published, such as Richard Moore, Rhina Espaillat, Jack Butler, Annie Finch, A. E. Stallings and Harvey Stanbrough to contribute to Romantics Quarterly. After Romantics Quarterly ceased publication, Burch published a number of the journal's best poems through his literary website The HyperTexts , which has been online for two decades and according to Google Analytics has received more than 9.8 million page views since 2010. In addition to the poets named above, Burch has also published Jared Carter, R. S. Gwynn, Julie Kane, X. J. Kennedy, Jan Schreiber, Tom Merrill, Joseph S. Salemi and other formalist poets of note.
Burch's poems, essays, articles, and letters have appeared in publications such as TIME, USA Today, Writer's Digest, Writer's Journal, Writer's Gazette, The Lyric, Light Quarterly, Measure, Poet Lore, The Raintown Review, Trinacria, Ancient Cypress Press, The New Formalist, and hundreds of other literary journals. He had a weekly column in Nashville's City Paper, for three years until it folded in 2013. He is an editor and publisher of Holocaust, Hiroshima, Trail of Tears, Darfur and Nakba poetry. He has also translated poetry from Old English and other languages into modern English. Poets translated by Burch include Basho, Bertolt Brecht, Robert Burns, William Dunbar, Allama Iqbal, Ono no Komachi, Miklós Radnóti, Rainer Maria Rilke, Renée Vivien and Sappho.
Burch is married to Elizabeth Harris Burch, a singer and actress; they have a son, Jeremy Michael Burch, who is a musician, singer and actor.
Awards
Michael R. Burch has five Pushcart Prize nominations, from The Aurorean, Romantics Quarterly, The Raintown Review, Trinacria, and Victorian Violet Press. His poem "Ordinary Love" won the 2001 Algernon Charles Swinburne Poetry Award. Altogether, he has won seven poetry contests and received awards in 42 writing contests.
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Published works
Book |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road%20Development%20Authority | The Road Development Authority (commonly abbreviated as RDA); (; ) is the premier highway authority in Sri Lanka and is responsible for the maintenance and development of the National Highway Network, comprising the trunk (A class) and main roads and the planning, design and construction of new highways, bridges and expressways to augment the existing network in the country.
The RDA plans the future road network while conducting feasibility studies before major projects and post-evaluations after completion to ensure adequate economic returns.
See also
Highway museum complex, Kiribathkumbura
External links
Road Development Authority
Expressway Operation Maintenance and Management Division
1971 establishments in Ceylon
Government agencies established in 1971
Road authorities
Transport organisations based in Sri Lanka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser%20security | Browser security is the application of Internet security to web browsers in order to protect networked data and computer systems from breaches of privacy or malware. Security exploits of browsers often use JavaScript, sometimes with cross-site scripting (XSS) with a secondary payload using Adobe Flash. Security exploits can also take advantage of vulnerabilities (security holes) that are commonly exploited in all browsers (including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Microsoft Internet Explorer, and Safari).
Security
Web browsers can be breached in one or more of the following ways:
Operating system is breached and malware is reading/modifying the browser memory space in privilege mode
Operating system has a malware running as a background process, which is reading/modifying the browser memory space in privileged mode
Main browser executable can be hacked
Browser components may be hacked
Browser plugins can be hacked
Browser network communications could be intercepted outside the machine
The browser may not be aware of any of the breaches above and may show user a safe connection is made.
Whenever a browser communicates with a website, the website, as part of that communication, collects some information about the browser (in order to process the formatting of the page to be delivered, if nothing else). If malicious code has been inserted into the website's content, or in a worst-case scenario, if that website has been specifically designed to host malicious code, then vulnerabilities specific to a particular browser can allow this malicious code to run processes within the browser application in unintended ways (and remember, one of the bits of information that a website collects from a browser communication is the browser's identity- allowing specific vulnerabilities to be exploited). Once an attacker is able to run processes on the visitor's machine, then exploiting known security vulnerabilities can allow the attacker to gain privileged access (if the browser isn't already running with privileged access) to the "infected" system in order to perform an even greater variety of malicious processes and activities on the machine or even the victim's whole network.
Breaches of web browser security are usually for the purpose of bypassing protections to display pop-up advertising collecting personally identifiable information (PII) for either Internet marketing or identity theft, website tracking or web analytics about a user against their will using tools such as web bugs, Clickjacking, Likejacking (where Facebook's like button is targeted), HTTP cookies, zombie cookies or Flash cookies (Local Shared Objects or LSOs); installing adware, viruses, spyware such as Trojan horses (to gain access to users' personal computers via cracking) or other malware including online banking theft using man-in-the-browser attacks.
In depth study of vulnerabilities in Chromium web-browser indicates that, Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) and Imprope |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Network%20for%20Accreditation%20of%20Engineering%20Education | The European Network for Accreditation of Engineering Education (ENAEE) was established in 2006 as an organization to promote quality in engineering education across Europe and beyond. It is rooted in the Bologna process which aims to build the European Higher Education Area. Membership of ENAEE is open to all bodies concerned with educational and professional standards in engineering. Such bodies may include accreditation and quality assurance agencies, professional organisations, associations of higher education institutions, employers’ associations, and engineering student bodies and their associations.
Mission and activities
ENAEE is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to serve the public and society through the promotion and advancement of engineering education in Europe and abroad. ENAEE aims at building a pan-European framework for the accreditation of engineering education programmes, to enhance the quality of engineering graduates, to facilitate the mobility of professional engineers and to promote quality and innovation in engineering education.
To achieve these goals, ENAEE has established and regularly updates the EUR-ACE label Framework Standards and Guidelines (EAFSG) as a set of quality standards for the outcomes of the engineering degree programmes, the training institutions and the accreditation agencies. EAFSG's are intended to be applied to all branches of engineering and to qualify graduates to enter the engineering profession and to have their qualifications recognised throughout the area.
ENAEE has established the EUR-ACE label for engineering degree programmes which fulfil the EAFSG standards requirements for student workload, programme outcomes and programme management; as of mid-2019, more than 2 000 EUR-ACE labels have been awarded at Bachelor and Master Level within the European Higher Education Area and beyond>.
ENAEE does not accredit directly engineering degree programmes; after evaluation of their policies and procedures, it authorizes accreditation and quality assurance agencies to award the EUR-ACE label to the engineering degree programmes which these agencies accredit. As of mid-2019, 15 agencies are authorized by ENAEE. They signed a Mutual Recognition Agreement, known as the EUR-ACE Accord, whereby they accept each other's accreditation decisions in respect of bachelor's and master's degree programmes.
As of end 2018, more than 2 000 EUR-ACE labels were awarded to engineering degree programmes in 300 universities and other higher education institutions, in countries both within and outside of Europe.
EUR-ACE framework standards and Guidelines
In 2006, ENAEE set the standards (ESG) which assure the quality of engineering degree programmes in both Europe and internationally ; to accommodate the different historic traditions of engineering teaching within different countries, the framework does not focus on the study programme contents, but specifies the outcomes of the accredited programmes.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CINA-FM | CINA-FM (102.3 MHz) is a radio station broadcasting a mixture of English-language and ethnic/multilingual music and programming in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
The station broadcasts with an antenna aimed toward the northwest and southeast, to protect nearby stations on the same frequency: CHST-FM in London; WGRT in Port Huron, Michigan; WPOS-FM in Toledo, Ohio and WFXN-FM in Galion, Ohio. In consequence, the coverage area reaches out to ethnic communities in both Windsor and Detroit, Michigan.
History
In 2008, Neeti P. Ray, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated, received approval in part from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to operate a new ethnic FM radio station (CJNR-FM) to serve Windsor at 95.9 MHz. However, the 95.9 MHz frequency was awarded to Blackburn Radio's CJWF-FM which launched in November 2009.
In 2009, the Commission approved the application by the CBC to convert CBC Radio One outlet CBE from 1550 kHz to 97.5 MHz, making their plans to install a nested transmitter at 102.3 obsolete. As a result, the 102.3 MHz frequency became available by September 2011.
On December 13, 2011, Ray filed an application to allow CJNR-FM to operate at 102.3 MHz; this was approved on March 2, 2012.
The station launched on September 6, 2012, having changed its callsign to CINA-FM (after Mississauga/Toronto sister station CINA AM).
Programming
CINA FM's airs programming in a variety of language including: Arabic, Assyrian, Cantonese, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish and Ukrainian.
80% of the daily programming is in Arabic.
References
External links
Radio CINA
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Radio stations established in 2012
2012 establishments in Ontario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clover%20%281997%20film%29 | Clover is a 1997 American made-for-television drama film that first aired on USA Network starring Elizabeth McGovern, Ernie Hudson, Zelda Harris and Beatrice Winde based on Dori Sanders' bestselling 1990 novel Clover.
Plot
White Sara Kate (McGovern) marries Gaten Hill (Hudson), a black widowed father. Shortly after their wedding, Gaten dies in an auto crash. So Sara has to take care of Gaten's daughter, Clover (Harris). Problem is, she and Clover have not exactly bonded and several of Gaten's friends and relatives object to her being Clover's guardian.
External links
1997 television films
1997 films
1997 drama films
Films based on American novels
USA Network original films
Films directed by Jud Taylor
American drama television films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20Communication%20Model | Process Communication Model may refer to:
Concepts in the field of concurrent computing, a form of computing in which several computations are executing during overlapping time periods – concurrently – instead of sequentially
The work of Taibi Kahler on human personality and communication styles in the field of Psychology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOCY-LD | KOCY-LD (channel 48) is a low-power television station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, affiliated with the Spanish-language Estrella TV network. It is owned by locally based Tyler Media Group alongside Woodward-licensed Univision affiliate KUOK (channel 36) and Shawnee-licensed Telemundo affiliate KTUZ-TV (channel 30). The three stations share studios near Southeast 51st Street and Shields Boulevard in southern Oklahoma City, where KOCY-LD's transmitter is also located.
Even though KOCY-LD broadcasts a digital signal of its own, its broadcast radius only covers the immediate Oklahoma City area. Therefore, in order to extend its reach, KOCY-LD is simulcast in high definition on the third digital subchannel of KTUZ-TV (UHF channel 29.5, mapped as virtual channel 48.1) from its transmitter near 86th Street and Ridgeway Road (south of Britton Road) in northeast Oklahoma City.
History
The station first signed on the air in 1989 as K69EK, broadcasting on UHF channel 69 as an Independent station. In 1995, the station joined The WB upon the network's launch until 1996. From the mid-1990s until 2000, the station carried programming from LeSea Broadcasting-owned general entertainment/religious network World Harvest Television; for the next two years afterward, it ran religious programming from The Shepherd's Chapel Network. It then switched to a music video format as an affiliate of MTV2 from 2002 to 2004.
After being acquired by Equity Broadcasting Corporation, the station became a Univision affiliate on May 8, 2004, as one of three Oklahoma-licensed translator stations of the then six-station two-state network "Univision Arkansas-Oklahoma", with Woodward-based KUOK (channel 35) as its Oklahoma flagship. KUOK, K69EK and three low-power stations that Equity also acquired to become KUOK's translators (KCHM-LP channel 36, now KUOK-CD; Sulphur-based KOKT-LP channel 20; and KUTU-CA channel 25 in Tulsa), originally relayed Univision programming across portions of Oklahoma via a simulcast from then-sister station KLRA-LP (channel 58) in Little Rock, Arkansas. Prior to this, Univision was only receivable via local cable providers such as Cox Communications, which carried its programming from the Spanish language network's national feed; that feed was eventually replaced by a direct-from-studio fiber optic feed of KUOK (whose schedule now mirrors the national feed outside of local advertising, news inserts and occasional paid programming substitutions, and provided improved reception of the station throughout the market than that receivable over-the-air prior to the digital transition).
In the first months of operation, the Univision Oklahoma stations ran a direct simulcast from KLRA-LP including local commercials from the Little Rock area that were inserted by that station during national commercial breaks and its station identification slides (the Oklahoma City repeaters identified through text-only IDs placed at the bottom of the screen during th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy%20Terbush | Randy Terbush is the CTO of Lifeguard Health Networks, a next generation mobile health management network. Randy founded Covalent Technologies one of the early companies involved in Web Server software. Randy was later the CTO of Enterprise Technology Architecture and Strategy at Automatic Data Processing, the largest payroll processing company in the world.
A long time participant in Open-source software development, Randy is recognized as one of the eight co-founders of the Apache Software Foundation. In 1999, this group was awarded the ACM Software System Award. In 2001–2002, Randy also participated as a Director of the Open Source Development Labs, which was dissolved and succeeded by the Linux Foundation.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Businesspeople in information technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A1bio%20Kon | Fabio Kon is an ex-member of Open Source Initiative and a full professor of the department of computer science of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He is the primary contact for the University of São Paulo FLOSS Competence Center.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Brazilian computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of São Paulo
Members of the Open Source Initiative board of directors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re%20Atlantic%20Computer%20Systems%20plc%20%28No%201%29 | Re Atlantic Computer Systems plc (No 1) [1990] EWCA Civ 20 is a UK insolvency law case concerning the administration procedure when a company is unable to repay its debts.
Facts
Atlantic Computer Systems plc, recently taken over by British and Commonwealth Holdings, had hired a set of computers. It went into insolvency. The company lending the computers attempted to repossess them. The administrators argued this was impermissible.
Judgment
The Court of Appeal held that the computers could not be repossessed directly. The landlords and hire purchase sellers could not get money as an expense of administrative receivership either, because ‘the lessor or owner of goods has his remedies.’ Nicholls LJ gave guidance on exercising security rights against companies in administration. Referring to the old s 11, he said the following.
See also
UK insolvency law
Soden v British and Commonwealth Holdings plc [1998] AC 298, misrepresentation claims of shareholders were not the same as claims by shareholders, and so not subordinated to the claims of other creditors.
Notes
References
L Sealy and S Worthington, Cases and Materials in Company Law (9th edn OUP 2010)
R Goode, Principles of Corporate Insolvency Law (4th edn Sweet & Maxwell 2011)
United Kingdom insolvency case law
1990 in United Kingdom case law
Court of Appeal (England and Wales) cases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Port%20Elizabeth | The Port Elizabeth tramway network formed part of the public transport system in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, for nearly 70 years until the end of the 1940s.
History
Opened in , the Port Elizabeth tramway network was operated initially by horsecars. From , the network was converted to electrical power. It was closed on .
See also
History of Port Elizabeth
List of town tramway systems in Africa
Rail transport in South Africa
References
Notes
Further reading
External links
Passenger rail transport in South Africa
Port Elizabeth
Transport in Port Elizabeth
Port Elizabeth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zsef%20Gy%C3%B6rk%C3%B6s | József Györkös (born April 18, 1961) is a Slovenian university professor and former politician. He graduated from the University of Maribor and has a PhD in computer science. He is part time professor at that university, with a research interest in the information society and media convergence. For several years Györkös was a state secretary (deputy minister) in the government of Republic of Slovenia. He grew up as a member of the Hungarian community in the multicultural environment of the city of Lendava/Lendva, Slovenia. From November 1, 2014, to October 29, 2019, he was Director of the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS), and acting Director from 30 October 2019 to 29 April 2020.
After graduation, his work first focused on software development methodologies, and then on quality systems and decision theories; in the last decade, his research has concentrated on the information society and media convergence. Some references for his scientific work can be found as follows: A search in COBISS shows 416 publications with his name since 1986. He was co-editor in the Springer Verlag book on re-engineering or information systems. He was guest editor of Informatica Journal on Media in Information Society.
Between 2001 and 2004 under Prime Minister Janez Drnovšek, followed by Anton Rop, and Minister Pavel Gantar, Györkös was the State Secretary at the Ministry of Information Society.
He was a delegate of Slovenia to the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, 2003 and participant of PrepComs for the WSIS Tunis 2005, and he participated at the Internet governance forum in Egypt in 2009. He was also representing Slovenia in the Regional Commonwealth of Communications (RCC).
From November 22, 2008, until June 22, 2011, in the government of Prime Minister Borut Pahor, and under minister Gregor Golobič, he was the state secretary at the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, including the portfolio of information society. As such he was responsible for:
Introduction of a new model of financing the higher education aimed to increase the autonomy and predictable financing of the higher education institutions.
Preparation of two national strategies (Audacious Slovenia) for the next decade of research and higher education. .
Coordination of the analog to digital switchover process for digital terrestrial television in 2010.
He was a co-signer of an initiative for public discussion of ACTA.
In January 2013 he was appointed a member and the chair of CAF – CONNECT Advisory Forum for ICT Research and Innovation. The main task of the advisory groups is to give consistent and consolidated advice to the commission (Directorate General for Communications, Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT)) services during the preparation of the Horizon 2020 work programme, regarding the relevant challenge/part of the Specific Programme. Since November 2017 he is a member of Science Europe Governing Board.
References
1961 births
Living peo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPad%20%283rd%20generation%29 | The iPad (3rd generation) (marketed as The new iPad, colloquially referred to as the iPad 3) is a tablet computer, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. The third device in the iPad line of tablets, it added a Retina Display, the new Apple A5X chip with a quad-core graphics processor, a 5-megapixel camera, HD 1080p video recording, voice dictation, and support for LTE networks in North America. It shipped with iOS 5, which also provides a platform for audio-visual media, including electronic books, periodicals, films, music, computer games, presentations and web browsing.
Six variations of the third-generation iPad were offered, compared to nine in the United States and Canada, although some countries had only the Wi-Fi only model. Each variation was available with black or white front glass panels, with options for 16, 32, or 64 GB of storage. In North America, connectivity options were Wi-Fi only, Wi-Fi + 4G (LTE) on Verizon, AT&T, Telus, Rogers, or Bell. For the rest of the world outside North America, connectivity options are Wi-Fi only (on the Wi-Fi model) or Wi-Fi + 3G (on the Wi-Fi + Cellular model), with the latter unavailable in some countries, as 4G (LTE) connectivity for the device is not available outside North America. The Wi-Fi + Cellular model includes GPS capability.
Initially, the cellular version was titled and marketed worldwide as the "Wi-Fi + 4G" model, but due to regional differences in classification of 4G (LTE) connectivity outside of North America, Apple later rebranded and altered their marketing to call this the "Wi-Fi + Cellular" model.
The tablet was released in ten countries on March 16, 2012. It gained mostly positive reviews, earning praise for its Retina display, processor and 4G (LTE) capabilities. However, controversy arose when the LTE incompatibilities became known. Three million units were sold in the first three days.
After only seven months (221 days) of official availability, the third-generation iPad was discontinued on October 23, 2012, following the announcement of the fourth-generation iPad. The third-generation iPad had the shortest lifespan of any iOS product. It was also the last iPad to support the 30-pin dock connector, as the fourth-generation to ninth-generation iPad use the Lightning connector.
History
Speculation about the product began shortly after Apple released the iPad 2, which featured front and back cameras as well as a dual-core Apple A5 processor. Speculation increased after news of a 2,048-by-1,536 pixel screen leaked.
During this time, the tablet was called the "iPad 3", a colloquial name sometimes still used after the release. On February 9, 2012, John Paczkowski of All Things Digital stated that "Apple’s not holding an event in February—strange, unusual or otherwise. But it is holding one in March—to launch its next iPad."
Another common rumor at the time was that the tablet would have an Apple A6 processor.
On February 29, 2012, Apple announced a media event scheduled for Ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumferential%20Road%204 | Circumferential Road 4 (C-4), informally known as the C-4 Road, is a network of roads and bridges that all together form the fourth beltway of Metro Manila in the Philippines. Spanning some , it connects the cities of Caloocan, Makati, Malabon, Mandaluyong, Navotas, Pasay, Quezon City, and San Juan.
Route description
C-4 Road
The section of C-4 Road is simply known as such from R-10 at the Bangkulasi Bridge over Tullahan River in Navotas to Paterio Aquino Avenue (Letre Road) at the boundary of Malabon and Caloocan.
Gen. San Miguel Street
After passing Paterio Aquino Avenue (Letre Road), C-4 becomes General San Miguel Street, a four-lane road in Caloocan.
Samson Road
After passing the junction with Marcelo H. Del Pilar and A. Mabini Streets in Caloocan, C-4 becomes Samson Road. Also called "Caloocan Road" and "Monumento Avenue", it is a main road in Caloocan with four lanes, running up to the roundabout at Monumento, a monument to Andrés Bonifacio.
Epifanio de los Santos Avenue
EDSA is a 10-lane highway that utilizes interchanges and grade separations. EDSA forms the majority portion of the Circumferential Road 4 (C-4) in Metro Manila, passing through the cities of Caloocan, Quezon City, San Juan, Mandaluyong, Makati, and Pasay. The C-4 segment of EDSA starts at Monumento in Caloocan and ends at the intersection with Roxas Boulevard (R-1) in Pasay.
Intersections
See also
List of roads in Metro Manila
Notes
References
Routes in Metro Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbone%20Connect | Backbone Connect is a London-based internet service provider. Its services include cyber security, cloud computing, connectivity, communication and voice, wide area networks, internet access and colocation services to businesses in the UK, Europe and North America. It also provides resilient digital infrastructure for commercial property assets and long-term IT support for tenants.
The company was founded in 2008 by the founders and Managing Directors Mike Cullen and David McLeod. In September 2011, it became the UK Data Centre partner for US based Hexagrid. Backbone Connect also achieved notability after becoming a European Level3 Communications Partner in 2010.
The company operates its services out of several tier III data centres in the UK including Level3 datacentres in London, Global Switch 1 and 2 in the Docklands area of London and others in the UK.
References
Internet technology companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense%20%28programming%29 | Sense is an educational programming environment created by The Open University (OU) in the United Kingdom. It uses a drag-and-drop programming environment designed to teach students the fundamentals of computer programming, using different shape and colour "blocks" selected from a palette of available commands, meaning that the student needs no prior experience of programming nor need to learn a syntax. It is based on the Scratch programming language developed by the MIT Media Lab, and uses .sb files like Scratch but the two pieces of software cannot use each other's files.
The Sense programming environment is designed to work in conjunction with the SenseBoard, a specialised piece of hardware which connects to a user's computer via a USB connection. The SenseBoard has different input types such as sensors for infrared, light, sound (microphone), and temperature (thermometer), and outputs such as a motor and light emitting diodes (LEDs).
Sense and the SenseBoard are primarily used as part of the OU's My Digital Life (TU100) module, but is also used to a lesser degree on other modules. Sense was trialed in London schools in late 2012.
References
External links
Visual programming languages
Educational programming languages
Pedagogic integrated development environments
2008 software
Smalltalk programming language family
Open University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana%20Streinu | Ileana Streinu is a Romanian-American computer scientist and mathematician, the Charles N. Clark Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Smith College in Massachusetts. She is known for her research in computational geometry, and in particular for her work on kinematics and structural rigidity.
Biography
Streinu did her undergraduate studies at the University of Bucharest in Romania. She earned two doctorates in 1994, one in mathematics and computer science from the University of Bucharest under the supervision of Solomon Marcus and one in computer science from Rutgers University under the supervision of William L. Steiger. She joined the Smith computer science department in 1994, was given a joint appointment in mathematics in 2005, and became the Charles N. Clark Professor in 2009. She also holds an adjunct professorship in the computer science department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
At Smith, Streinu is director of the Biomathematical Sciences Concentration and has been the co-PI on a million-dollar grant shared between four schools to support this activity.
Awards and honors
In 2006, Streinu won the Grigore Moisil Award of the Romanian Academy for her work with Ciprian Borcea using complex algebraic geometry to show that every minimally rigid graph with fixed edge lengths has at most 4n different embeddings into the Euclidean plane, where n denotes the number of distinct vertices of the graph.
In 2010, Streinu won the David P. Robbins Prize of the American Mathematical Society for her combinatorial solution to the carpenter's rule problem. In this problem, one is given an arbitrary simple polygon with flexible vertices and rigid edges, and must show that it can be manipulated into a convex shape without ever introducing any self-crossings. Streinu's solution augments the input to form a pointed pseudotriangulation, removes one convex hull edge from this graph, and shows that this edge removal provides a single degree of freedom allowing the polygon to be made more convex one step at a time.
In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Selected publications
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References
External links
Web site at Smith College
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Romanian emigrants to the United States
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
Romanian computer scientists
Romanian women computer scientists
20th-century Romanian mathematicians
American women computer scientists
American women mathematicians
University of Bucharest alumni
Rutgers University alumni
Smith College faculty
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
21st-century Romanian mathematicians
20th-century American women
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termbase |
In terminology management
In terminology management, a termbase, or term base (a contraction of terminology and database), is a database consisting of concept-oriented terminological entries (or ‘concepts’) and related information, usually in multilingual format. Entries may include any of the following additional information:
a definition;
source or context of the term;
subject area, domain, or industry;
grammatical information (verb, noun, etc.);
notes;
usage label (figurative, American English, formal, etc.);
author (‘created by’),
creation/modification date (‘created/modified at’);
verification status (‘verified’ or ‘approved’ terms), and
an ID.
A termbase allows for the systematic management of approved or verified terms and is a powerful tool for promoting consistency in terminology.
In computer science
In a broader sense, "term base" in computer science is used to designate any resource that provides terminology information. In addition to term bases in the terminological sense, this includes knowledge graphs and ontologies.
See also
Translation memory
Glossary
Dictionary
Controlled vocabulary
References
Wright, Sue Ellen & Budin, Gerhard. Handbook of terminology management (Volume 2): Application-oriented terminology management. John Benjamins Publishing Company, 9 Mar 2001.
External links
Terminology Management from the SDL Translationzone.com website
What is a Termbase? from the Multiterm.com website
What is a termbase? from the WebWordSystem website
Applied linguistics
Computer-assisted translation
Lexicography
Terminology
Translation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%20Wasserman | Anthony "Tony" I. Wasserman, is an American computer scientist. He is a member of the board of directors of the Open Source Initiative, was a professor of the Practice in Software Management at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, and is executive director of the CMU Center for Open Source Investigation. He has been a SkyDeck accelerator program advisor at University of California, Berkeley since 2021.
As a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley campus, Wasserman taught classes in software product definition, software product strategy, and open source software. He is a frequent speaker at Open Source conferences around the world including the Open World Forum. He was the general chair of the tenth international conference on Open Source systems, OSS2014, in Costa Rica.
After serving as a Professor of Medical Information Science at the University of California, San Francisco and as a Lecturer in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley, Wasserman founded and was CEO of Interactive Development Environments (IDE), a computer-aided software engineering company that was one of the first 100 dotcoms (no. 78), from 1983-1993 (7), and as Chair from 1983-1996. He then became vice president of Bluestone Software before its acquisition by Hewlett Packard, leading the development of early mobile applications.
In 1996 he was elected as a fellow of the IEEE "for contributions to software engineering, including the development of computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools". In the same year he also was selected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for technical and professional contributions to the field of software engineering".
Academic research
Wasserman's academic research focused on two projects: the User Software Engineering (USE) project, begun at the University of California, San Francisco, in 1975 and the Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI), begun at Carnegie Mellon University, Silicon Valley, in 2005. The focus of the User Software Engineering project was "user-centered design, combined with techniques for software engineering, in order to produce systems that are reliable, easy to use, and well adapted to user needs." The focus of the COSI work is evaluation and adoption of open source software by businesses and organizations, originally the Business Readiness Rating, now OSSpal. Wasserman earned his A.B. degree at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1966 with a double major in Mathematics and Physics, and earned his Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1970.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
University of California, Berkeley faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Members of the Open Source Initiative board of directors
University of California, San Francisco faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political%20Animals%20%28miniseries%29 | Political Animals is a six-episode American comedy drama miniseries created by Greg Berlanti. The series aired in the United States on USA Network from July 15 through August 19, 2012. Sigourney Weaver portrays Elaine Barrish, a divorced former First Lady and Governor of Illinois, as well as the current Secretary of State. Weaver and the show's production team acknowledge that the lead character has some similarities to Hillary Clinton. They say that the premise of the show is "very much about all families who have been in the White House, the price they've paid for being there and the fact that those same families will often try or continue to try to get back into the White House again."
While it was speculated that the miniseries would lead into a full season, on November 2, 2012, USA Network announced their decision to stick with their initial plan of producing it as a miniseries.
Overview
Elaine Barrish's husband Bud Hammond was a popular President of the United States during the 1990s despite his extramarital affairs. After leaving the White House, Elaine Barrish was elected Governor of Illinois and ran for the Democratic nomination for President, but lost to Paul Garcetti. The night Barrish conceded the nomination, she asked her husband for a divorce. Two years later, as Garcetti's Secretary of State, Barrish deals with State Department issues while trying to keep her family together.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Sigourney Weaver as Elaine Barrish, the recently divorced Secretary of State and former First Lady and Governor of Illinois who fights various political opponents.
Carla Gugino as Susan Berg, a reporter who has spent much time trying to undermine Elaine, but eventually becomes an unlikely ally.
James Wolk as Douglas Hammond, Elaine's son, Chief of Staff, and T.J.'s twin brother.
Sebastian Stan as Thomas James "T.J." Hammond, Elaine's openly gay son, and Douglas' twin brother.
Brittany Ishibashi as Anne Ogami, Doug's fiancée.
Ellen Burstyn as Margaret Barrish, Elaine's mother and a former showgirl in Las Vegas.
Ciarán Hinds as Donald "Bud" Hammond, the former President and Governor of North Carolina, and Elaine's ex-husband.
Recurring cast
Adrian Pasdar as Paul Garcetti, the current President who defeated Elaine in the presidential primaries but later appointed her Secretary of State. He is described as "a smart man who uses every resource at his disposal to his advantage".
Dylan Baker as Fred Collier, the two-faced Vice President and former Director of Central Intelligence who is hiding some secrets.
Roger Bart as Barry Harris, the White House Chief of Staff and Elaine's former campaign manager for her presidential campaign.
Dan Futterman as Alex Davies, editor of the Washington Globe and Susan Berg's former boyfriend.
Meghann Fahy as Georgia Gibbons, an ambitious young blogger who works with Susan Berg.
LaMonica Garrett as Agent Clark, a Diplomatic Security Service agent charged with protecting Elaine.
Linda Po |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knockout%20%28web%20framework%29 | Knockout is a standalone JavaScript implementation of the Model–View–ViewModel pattern with templates. The underlying principles are therefore:
a clear separation between domain data, view components and data to be displayed
the presence of a clearly defined layer of specialized code to manage the relationships between the view components
The latter leverages the native event management features of the JavaScript language.
These features streamline and simplify the specification of complex relationships between view components, which in turn make the display more responsive and the user experience richer.
Knockout was developed and is maintained as an open source project by Steve Sanderson.
Features
Knockout includes the following features:
Declarative bindings
Automatic UI refresh (when the data model's state changes, the UI updates automatically)
Dependency tracking Templating (contains a dedicated template engine, but other templating engines can be used)
Example
In this example, two text boxes are bound to observable variables on a data model. The "full name" display is bound to a dependent observable, whose value is computed in terms of the observables. When either text box is edited, the "full name" display is automatically updated, with no explicit event handling.
View Model (JavaScript)
function ViewModel() {
this.firstName = ko.observable("");
this.lastName = ko.observable("");
this.fullName = ko.computed(
function() { return this.firstName() + " " + this.lastName(); },
this);
}
ko.applyBindings(new ViewModel());
References
External links
Rich web application frameworks
Ajax (programming)
JavaScript libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Can%27t%20See%20%27Round%20Corners%20%28TV%20series%29 | You Can't See 'Round Corners is an Australian drama and military TV series that aired on the Seven Network for 26 episodes from 28 June 1967 based on the 1947 novel by Jon Cleary, updated to be set during the Vietnam War. It was directed by David Cahill and shot around Sydney in black and white, and was adapted into a film version in 1969.
Cast
Main
Ken Shorter as Frankie McCoy
Lyndall Barbour as Mrs. McCoy
Rowena Wallace as Margie Harris
Judith Fisher as Peg Clancy
Carmen Duncan as Myra Neilson
Slim DeGrey as Mick Patterson
Guest cast
Reg Evans as Ern McCauliffe (3 episodes)
Garry McDonald as Young Man (1 episode)
Tom Oliver
Diana Perryman
Production
Jim Oswin of ATN-7 asked Richard Lane if he knew of an Australian novel to adapt. Lane suggested Jon Cleary's You Can't See Round Corners which was a favourite of Lane's wife, updated to the Vietnam War. Oswin agreed. The novel was set in Paddington but Lane thought that suburb had changed so much by the 1960s he relocated it to Newtown. Lane wrote the first 17 scripts and was consultant on the last nine.
This was Rowena Wallace's first professional dramatic TV series. She was recommended by Barry Creyton who was originally going to play the role of Frankie McCoy, the role that went to Ken Shorter.
The series garnered controversy on release because of a scene where Frankie, an army deserter, runs his hand up Margie's skirt. Wallace says she had no idea Shorter was going to do this, which is why her reaction was so authentic. Many stations around Australia cut the scene.
The majority of episodes were written by Richard Lane. Peter Weir worked on the show as a production assistant.
Reception
The show was generally well received.
See also
List of television plays broadcast on ATN-7
References
External links
You Can't See 'Round Corners (TV series) at IMDb
You Can't See 'Round Corners (TV series) at National Film and Sound Archive
You Can't See 'Round Corners TV series at AustLit
Seven Network original programming
1960s Australian drama television series
1967 Australian television series debuts
1967 Australian television series endings
Black-and-white Australian television shows
Works by Richard Lane |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenLisp | OpenLisp is a programming language in the Lisp family developed by Christian Jullien from Eligis. It conforms to the international standard for ISLISP published jointly by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), ISO/IEC 13816:1997(E), revised to ISO/IEC 13816:2007(E).
Written in the programming languages C and Lisp, it runs on most common operating systems. OpenLisp is designated an ISLISP implementation, but also contains many Common Lisp-compatible extensions (hashtable, readtable, package, defstruct, sequences, rational numbers) and other libraries (network socket, regular expression, XML, Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), SQL, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)).
OpenLisp includes an interpreter associated to a read–eval–print loop (REPL), a Lisp Assembly Program (LAP) and a backend compiler for the language C.
Goals
The main goal of this Lisp version is to implement a fully compliant ISLISP system (when launched with --islisp flag, it is strictly restricted to ISO/IEC 13816:2007(E) specification). The secondary goal is to provide a complete embeddable Lisp system linkable to C/C++ or Java (via Java Native Interface (JNI)). A callback mechanism is used to communicate with the external program. Other goals are to be usable as scripting language or glue language and to produce standalone program executables.
License
Despite its name, OpenLisp is proprietary software. Its interpreter is available free of charge for any noncommercial use.
User interface
OpenLisp mainly runs in console mode: cmd.exe on Microsoft Windows, and terminal emulator on Unix-based systems.
;; OpenLisp v11.x.y (Build: XXXX) by C. Jullien [Jan 01 20xx - 10:49:13]
;; Copyright (c) Eligis - 1988-20xx.
;; System 'sysname' (64-bit, 8 CPU) on 'hostname', ASCII.
;; God thank you, OpenLisp is back again!
? (fib 20)
;; elapsed time = 0.003s, (0 gc).
= 6765
? _
Alternate solutions include running OpenLisp from Emacs via setting up Emacs inferior-lisp-mode, or using an integrated development environment (IDE) which supports OpenLisp syntax. LispIDE by DaanSystems does so natively.
Technology
Memory manager
Internally, OpenLisp uses virtual memory to allocate and extend objects automatically. Small objects of the same type are allocated using a Bibop (BIg Bag Of Pages) memory organization. Large objects use a proxy which point to the real object in Lisp heap. The conservative garbage collection is a mark and sweep with coalescing heap (sweep phase can be configured to use threads).
Data types
OpenLisp uses tagged architecture (4 bits tag on 32-bit, 5 bits tag on 64-bit) for fast type checking (small integer, float, symbol, cons, string, vector). Small integers (28 bits on 32-bit, 59 bits on 64-bit) are unboxed, large (32/64-bit) integers are boxed. As required by ISLISP, arbitrary-precision arithmetic (bignums) are also implemented. Characters (hence strings) are either 8-bit ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Monty | Jean C. Monty (born 1947) is a Canadian business executive and philanthropist. He was the CEO of Nortel Networks from 1993 to 1997 and the chairman and CEO of BCE from 1997 to 2002. He is credited with having successfully led BCE from a traditional phone company into a multifaceted internet and media provider in the early 2000s.
Early life and education
Monty was born and raised in Montreal in 1947.
He studied at College Sainte-Marie of Montreal and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, completed a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Western Ontario and completed a Master of Business Administration from the Chicago Booth School of Business.
Career
Monty began his career at Bell Canada in 1974 and held multiple positions in the company. In 1993, he became President and CEO of Nortel Networks. He retired from BCE in 2002, after having served as Chairman and CEO.
Monty has served on various corporate boards including Bombardier, Alcatel Lucent and Fiera Capital.
Personal life
In 1994, Monty was awarded the Order of Canada for his leadership in the telecommunications industry and his involvement in the community.
Monty is married to Jocelyne Monty.
References
1947 births
Living people
Canadian chief executives
People of Bell Canada
University of Western Ontario alumni
University of Chicago alumni
Businesspeople from Montreal
French Quebecers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sargon%20III | Sargon III is a computer chess software. It is a sequel to Sargon II.
Gameplay
Sargon III allots a time budget based on which level of play is chosen. It has nine levels, each of which can be played in hard or easy mode. It has an average response time of five seconds per move on the lowest level, and an unlimited amount of time on the highest level. Players can take back moves, ask for help, or force the computer's move. It features a 2-D display. It recreates 107 great chess matches for players to study.
Development
Sargon III was a complete rewrite from scratch. Instead of an exchange evaluator, this version used a capture search algorithm. Also included was a chess opening repertoire. This third version was written originally for the 6502 assembler and was commercially published by Hayden Software in 1983. Apple contacted the Spracklens and, after a port for 68000 assembly, Sargon III was the first third-party executable software for the Macintosh.
Reception
Video magazine listed Sargon III third on its list of best-selling video games in February 1985, and fourth on the best-seller list in March 1985, with II Computing listing the game second on its list of top Apple II games in October–November of the same year.
PC Magazine rated Sargon III 13.5 points out of 18. The reviewer criticized the "too abstractly drawn" pieces but praised the game's speed and skill, describing himself as "not a bad player" but only winning 10% of games at the lowest difficulty level.
Softalk said "Just the fact that Sargon III plays faster would be enough for many of the dedicated Sargon fans. But the extra added attractions figure to make this version irresistible."
Ted Salamone for Commodore Microcomputers said "Sargon III is one of the best Commodore 64 chess programs available. It is suitable for everyone from raw recruits on up."
Steve Panak for ANALOG Computing said "although Sargon III is an excellent program, its price makes it a best buy only for the chess enthusiast who desires a complete library."
James Delson for Family Computing said "All this flexibility makes Sargon III a great and patient opponent, and a fine tutor, as well."
John Krause for Compute!'s Gazette said "This sequel to the popular Sargon II chess program is an even tougher opponent and adds a smorgasbord of features."
Rod Lawton for ACE said "Sargon is easy enough to use, as versatile as any – but in terms of visual appeal is somewhere back in the Dark Ages."
David Morganstein for InCider said "This latest version is the most sophisticated of their efforts."
Further reading
Jeux & Stratégie HS #3
References
External links
Review in GAMES magazine
1983 video games
Amiga games
Apple II games
Atari 8-bit family games
Atari ST games
Chess software
Classic Mac OS games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Hayden Software games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Sargon (chess)
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Observatory%20of%20Economic%20Complexity | The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) is a data visualization site for international trade data created by the Macro Connections group at the MIT Media Lab. The goal of the observatory is to distribute international trade data in a visual form. At present the observatory serves more than 20 million interactive visualizations, connecting hundreds of countries to their export destinations and to the products that they trade.
Source data
The Observatory of Economic Complexity combines a number of international trade data sets, including data from Feenstra, Lipset, Deng, Ma, and Mo's World Trade Flows: 1962-2000 dataset, cleaned and made compatible through a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) project and HS4 aggregated from the HS6 classification cleaned by the BACI team at Centre d'Etudes Prospectives et d'Informations Internationales (CEPII). The dataset contains exports and imports both by country of origin and by destination. Products are disaggregated according to the Standard International Trade Classification at the four-digit level (SITC-4) and the Harmonized System at the four digit level (HS-4).
Currently, data is available from 1962 through 2021.
Visualizations
Tree Maps
Products, represented by rectangles, are drawn from the 775 individual product classes found in the Standardized International Trade Code at the four-digit level (SITC-4). The rectangle's color corresponds to the 34 product communities found in the Product Space and other visualizations from The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Product Exports Treemaps in The Observatory of Economic Complexity graphically represent product's share of a nation's trade (imports or exports). The larger the size of the rectangle, the larger the product's share of that country's imports or exports.
An example from Benin in 2009 is shown on the right.
Additional visual representations include
Stacked Area Charts
The Product Space
Predictive Tools
Maps
Rings
D3plus is the underlying engine responsible for generating all of the visualization used on the site. D3plus is an open source (MIT license) JavaScript library built on top of D3.js by Alexander Simoes and Dave Landry. It is also used on other visualization themed sites such as DataViva and Pantheon.
See also
Complexity economics
Economic Complexity Index
List of countries by economic complexity
References
External links
International trade
Complexity economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology publications
Economics websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milner%20Award | The Royal Society Milner Award, formally the Royal Society Milner Award and Lecture, is awarded annually by the Royal Society, a London-based learned society, for "outstanding achievement in computer science by a European researcher". The award is supported by Microsoft Research and is named in honour of Robin Milner, a prolific pioneer in computer science who, among other contributions, designed LCF and the programming language ML.
Recipients should be active researchers in computer science who are either European or have resided in Europe for at least 12 months prior to their nomination. Winners receive a bronze medal and a personal prize of £5,000 and are invited to deliver a public lecture on their research at the Society. The Council of the Royal Society chooses recipients on the recommendation of the Milner Award Committee. The Committee is made up of Fellows of the Royal Society, Members of the Académie des sciences (France), and Members of Leopoldina (Germany).
Preceding the Milner Award was the Royal Society and Académie des sciences Microsoft Award, which rewarded scientists in Europe for advancements in science using computational methods. It lasted from 2006 to 2009 until it was replaced by the current award. The ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award is a similar award rewarded for "outstanding contributions by young investigators in the area of programming languages".
Recipients
The inaugural winner Gordon Plotkin received his prize in 2012 but delivered his public lecture in 2013, the same year as Serge Abiteboul. In 2018, Marta Kwiatkowska became the first female recipient of the award. Although the 2019 recipient Eugene Myers is American, he moved to Dresden, Germany, in 2012 to become a director of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, thus meeting the criteria for a researcher who is European or has lived in Europe for at least 12 months. Due to infection control measures taken because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 lecture was held as a Zoom webinar.
See also
List of computer science awards
References
External links
Awards of the Royal Society
Computer science awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20protection%20network | A content protection network (also called content protection system or web content protection) is a term for anti-web scraping services provided through a cloud infrastructure. A content protection network is claimed to be a technology that protects websites from unwanted web scraping, web harvesting, blog scraping, data harvesting, and other forms of access to data published through the World Wide Web. A good content protection network will use various algorithms, checks, and validations to distinguish between desirable search engine web crawlers and human beings on the one hand, and Internet bots and automated agents that perform unwanted access on the other hand.
A few web application firewalls have begun to implement limited bot detection capabilities.
History
The protection of copyrighted content has a long tradition, but technical tricks and mechanisms are more recent developments. For example, maps have sometimes been drawn with deliberate mistakes to protect the authors' copyright if someone else copies the map without permission. In 1998, a system called SiteShield eased the fears of theft and illicit re-use expressed by content providers who publish copyright-protected images on their websites. A research report published in November 2000 by IBM was one of the first to document a working system for web content protection, called WebGuard.
Around 2002, several companies in the music recording industry had been issuing non-standard compact discs with deliberate errors burned into them, as copy protection measures. Google also notably installed an automated system to help detect and block YouTube video uploads with content that entail copyright infringement.
However, as individuals and enterprises engaged in computer crime have become more skilled and sophisticated, they erode the effectiveness of established perimeter-based security controls. The response is more pervasive use of data encryption technologies. Forrester Research asserted in 2011 that there is an industry-wide "drive toward consolidated content security platforms", and they predict in 2012 that "proliferating malware threats will require better threat intelligence". Forrester also asserts that content protection networks (especially in the form of software as a service, or SaaS) enable companies to protect against both e-mail and web-borne theft of content. In some web applications, security is defined by URL patterns that identify protected content. For example, using the web.xml security-constraint element, content could be assigned values of NONE, INTEGRAL, and CONFIDENTIAL to describe the necessary transport guarantees.
See also
Digital rights management
Internet security
Web harvesting
Web scraping
References
Internet terminology
Web technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr.%20Dobb%27s%20Excellence%20in%20Programming%20Award | The Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming Award was an annual prize given to individuals who, in the opinion of the editors of Dr. Dobb's Journal, "made significant contributions to the advancement of software development." The Excellence in Programming Award includes a $1,000 prize that was donated in the award winner's name to a charity of the winner's choice.
The award was launched in 1995 in the print edition of Dr. Dobb's Journal and was given each year until 2009. In his March 1995 article introducing the awards, then editor-in-chief Jonathan Erickson wrote that the award was intended to recognize "achievement and excellence in the field of computer programming." Erickson explained that the winners were "selected by a special editorial committee" of the magazine.
Because Dr. Dobb's serves an audience of software developers, the Excellence in Programming Award is specifically intended to recognize resources for programmers: languages, code libraries, tutorial books, and so on. Developers of shrinkwrap software intended for retail sale, custom software for corporate use, embedded software, or general-purpose applications were not considered for the award.
The Excellence in Programming Award was intended to recognize individual contributions. Dr. Dobb's sponsors a different award, the Jolt Awards, for companies that produce tools for programmers.
Recipients
2013
No award listed as of Feb 3, 2014.
2012
Ward Cunningham
2010 - 11
No award.
2009
Scott Meyers, author of Effective C++, () More Effective C++ () and Effective STL (). Dr. Dobb's editor Jonathan Erickson identified Meyers as "one of the world's foremost experts on C++ software development," noting that in addition to his best-selling books, the writer provided training and consulting services to clients, developed a tutorial CD for C++ programmers, served as consulting editor for Addison Wesley's Effective Software Development Series, and wrote for numerous magazines. "A programmer since 1972," Erickson wrote, Meyers "holds an M.S. in computer science from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from Brown University."
2008
Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language. Dr. Dobb's editor-at-large Michael Swaine wrote that C++ creator Bjarne Stroustrup was "someone whose values, efforts, and achievements are an inspiration to all programmers." Swaine continued: "Through his proclivity for putting theory into practice, his vision in matching the tool to the need, his respect for the intelligence and opinions of the working programmer, and his tireless work in advancing the art and science of software development, Bjarne Stroustrup most assuredly serves as a model for excellence in programming."
2007
Grady Booch, for contributions to object-oriented programming, software architecture, and modeling. Grady Booch, wrote Dr. Dobb's editor-at-large Michael Swaine, "is someone whose work is familiar to every serious programmer." Swaine noted that Booch had achieved intern |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insider%20movement | In Christian missiology, an insider movement is a group or network of people from a non-Christian religion who consider themselves followers of Jesus while remaining relationally, culturally and socially a part of the religious community of their birth. Though members of insider movements do not typically join Christian churches in their area or region, they may see themselves as part of the wider Body of Christ. It has been observed that as members of these groups follow Jesus and the Bible, they personally reject, reinterpret, or modify the non-biblical beliefs found in their religious communities. This process makes them different in some ways from their co-religionists, yet when groups can faithfully follow Jesus without formally disassociating themselves from their religious communities, insider movements can occur. Such movements have been observed among a number of religious groups, most notably among Jews, Muslims and Hindus.
Since the 1990s there has been considerable debate among students of missiology as to whether there can truly be faithful followers of Jesus who remain vitally within their former religious culture. Many observers of insider movements have concluded in the affirmative based largely upon their personal relationships with these followers of Jesus. Critics of insider movements are extremely skeptical that persons or groups can effectively reject or modify non-Biblical beliefs and practices within their cultural/religious communities due to the strong social and spiritual pressure of those communities. Therefore, critics believe that any attempt to stay within a non-Christian religious community will lead to a blending of religious beliefs that is syncretistic, untenable, or heretical. (See essentialist view of world religions below).
Definitions
Lewis (2007) offers the following widely used definition of an insider movement:
An insider movement is any movement to faith in Christ where (a) the gospel flows through pre-existing communities and social networks, and where (b) believing families, as valid expressions of the Body of Christ, remain inside their socio-religious communities, retaining their identity as members of that community while living under the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the authority of the Bible.
Higgins’ (2004) definition is similar to that of Lewis:
A growing number of families, individuals, clans, and/or friendship-webs becoming faithful disciples of Jesus within the culture of their people group, including their religious culture. This faithful discipleship will express itself in culturally appropriate communities of believers who will also continue to live within as much of their culture, including the religious life of the culture, as is biblically faithful. The Holy Spirit, through the Word and through His people will also begin to transform His people and their culture, religious life and worldview.
The emergence of insider movements as a social phenomenon
The Bible describes Jesus as pre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Association%20of%20Eye%20Hospitals | The World Association of Eye Hospitals (WAEH) is an international network of eye hospitals, founded in 2007 in Rotterdam. It advocates ophthalmology practice through social outreach and by providing information on eye care and health care administration.
Activities
Exchange information and knowledge
Exchange of personnel to enhance international network and exchange of best practice
Stimulate international scientific cooperation between members
Admission criteria (full member)
The admission criteria include specialising at an eye hospital or eye department, with at least 5 sub-specialities (cornea, glaucoma, cataract, retina, pediatric, neuro, oculoplastics and uveitis), having carried out at least 5000 operations, possessing research and resident training programs, provision of community services, primary care and emergency service, and meeting international and nation quality standards.
References
International medical and health organizations
Eye hospitals
Ophthalmology organizations
Hospital networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Offutt | Jeff Offutt is a professor of Software Engineering at George Mason University. His primary interests are software testing and analysis, web software engineering, and software evolution and change-impact analysis.
He is the author of Introduction to Software Testing with Paul Ammann published by Cambridge University Press. He is the editor-in-chief of Software Testing, Verification and Reliability with Robert M. Hierons. He also helped create the IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification, and Reliability and was the first chair of its steering committee.
In 2019, Offutt received the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, the highest honor for faculty at Virginia's public and private colleges and universities. The award recognizes accomplishments in teaching, research, and public service. He won the Teaching Excellence Award, Teaching with Technology, from George Mason University in 2013.
Offutt is known for many fundamental contributions to the field of software testing, in particular mutation testing, model-based testing,
bypass testing of web applications, and automatic test data generation.
Dr. Offutt received his undergraduate degree in mathematics and data processing in 1982 (double major) from Morehead State University, and master's (1985) and PhD (1988) in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was on the faculty of Clemson University before joining George Mason in 1992.
He is the son of Andrew J. Offutt and brother of Chris Offutt. He is married to Jian and has three children, Stephanie, Joyce, and Andrew.
References
External links
Google Scholar page
STVR website
ICST Steering Committee website
Living people
American software engineers
George Mason University faculty
Georgia Tech alumni
1961 births
Engineering academics
Software testing people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantic%20Brain | Gigantic Brain is an American experimental music project composed of John Brown, formed in the early 2000s in Virginia. Gigantic Brain is known to be one of the original pioneers of the cybergrind subgenre of grindcore. The project's genre-defying style has changed dramatically throughout the years. Originally exhibiting a grindcore style, the group has more recently ventured into post-metal, ambient, industrial and sometimes drone.
Biography
Gigantic Brain began as a one-man drum-machine powered electronic grindcore and post-metal project created by John Brown. It is noted for being vastly different from the majority of electronic grindcore bands, due to the various musical textures and very dense sound, often inspired by dark science fiction and futuristic concepts. In 2012, after a two-year hiatus from the project, Gigantic Brain became a duo with the addition of producer and multi-instrumentalist Mastin Simmons.
In 2003, Gigantic Brain released a split 10" with Umbrella on Crucificados Pelo Sistema. By the end of 2003, Gigantic Brain had recorded material for a split with Gånglîå and a full-length album, which was to be entitled Our Bovine Destroyers. Unfortunately, neither would see their own formal releases, but, in 2004, Gigantic Brain released the massive 63 track The Invasion Discography on Razorback Records, which included, amongst other material, all the tracks that were to be used on those two releases. The album received critical acclaim and was met with praise throughout the grindcore community due to the professionality of the material.
Two digital albums and a digital EP were released in 2009 (World, I Swallow 16 Red Planets, Betelgeuse, respectively), which were a departure from the cybergrind sound, instead consisting of more ambient material and minimalist electronic influences, with some tracks retaining the powerful drive drawn from the project's grindcore roots. In 2010, the album They Did This to Me was released, continuing this mixture of influences.
After a two-year hiatus from the project, Mastin Simmons was brought into the fold and there was the announcement of a new Gigantic Brain album which would feature a "heavily updated" version of their production values and style. At the time, the album was stated to be released sometime in 2013 or early 2014. On November 7, 2013, Gigantic Brain began releasing singles (Our Dam, Brunette) leading up to the release of their upcoming album, each featuring two new songs from that session. On February 19, 2016, much later than originally stated, Gigantic Brain announced the release of their new self-titled album.
At one time, all of the Gigantic Brain releases were available for free download on their MySpace website. In September 2011, the band's back catalog was re-released and is currently available to stream from Grindcore Karaoke.
Discography
Studio albums
The Invasion Discography CD / Digital Album (Razorback Records, 2004 / Grindcore Karaoke, 2011)
I Swallow 16 Red P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army%20Attack | Army Attack was a social networking strategy video game developed by Digital Chocolate's Helsinki-based studio. In Army Attack, the world has been attacked by the evil Crimson Empire, and the player's mission is to build military alliances for their army with other players to reclaim it. In 2012, for the Academy of Interactive Arts & Science's 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, Army Attack was nominated for "Social Networking Game of the Year." According to App Data, in 2011, Army Attack was one of the top 5 Facebook Player vs. Player Games.
Army Attack features two gaming modes: 1) Player vs. Non-Player (PvNP): 'Liberating City & Villages' and 2) Player vs. Player (PvP): 'Versus Mode'.
This game was officially closed down on 4 November 2016.
PvNP: "Liberating City & Villages"
In the PvNP: "Liberating City & Villages" mode, the main objective for players is to reconquer lands captured by the evil Crimson Empire, and, in doing so, to build up their own military and resources by building structures. The player must also launch attacks against non-player characters and accomplish other objectives to complete the single-player campaign.
PvP: "Versus Mode"
In PvP mode, called "Versus," Army Attack players battle each other to increase strategic and tactical skills. On an Army Attack strategy map that is stylized for this type of play, players select their military units beforehand; the player clicks a unit, then dispatches it on the map. If the player's unit is in range of another player's unit, then an attack may be ordered.
In "Versus" mode, a weekly tournament is held amongst players where they can compete for some exclusive in-game rewards.
References
External links
Digital Chocolate, Army Attack
Digital Chocolate Forums
2011 video games
Browser-based multiplayer online games
Inactive multiplayer online games
Digital Chocolate games
Facebook games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Strategy video games
Video games developed in Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koala%20Kid | Koala Kid (also known as Outback or The Outback) () in South Korea) is a 2012 computer-animated action comedy film directed by Kyung Ho Lee and released on January 12, 2012. The English dub cast consists of Rob Schneider, Bret McKenzie, Frank Welker, Yvonne Strahovski, Alan Cumming, Tim Curry, and Chris Edgerly.
Plot
In Australia, a white koala named Johnny is teased about his color, so he joins a traveling circus with the help of Hamish the Tasmanian Devil, and Higgens the spider monkey photographer. He is disappointed that he is part of the freak show instead of the main acts in the big tent. The top act is "Wild Bushman" who takes all the audience from the freak show. Johnny checks out the show and accidentally becomes part of it, and The Wild Bushman saves him.
While traveling to a new location, their wagon train car becomes unattached and crashes in "The Outback". On their quest to go to the next location of the traveling circus, "Precipice Lake", they come upon a billabong. They witness from their cliff location a pack of dingos, Blacktooth, Loki, Cutter, and Butch, as well as their thylacine ally Hex, chasing a bilby but is rescued by a kangaroo named Mac, a wombat army, and Miranda, a vine-swinging female koala talented at throwing a boomerang. A vulture named Boris reveals that the Saltwater crocodile Bog intends to take over the billabong. When their rescue goes wrong, and the dingos threaten to take over, Johnny then escapes and lides down the cliff and ends up rolling on top of a boulder, chasing the dingos away. Hamish introduces the now-famous white koala as "Koala Kid". Miranda is unimpressed, but Johnny watches her from a tree as she practices. When noticed, Miranda breaks the branch he is on with her boomerang and complains about him watching in secret. He tries to lie out of that accusation but ends up suggesting he is an expert at the boomerang and is proven wrong when offered to try it himself.
Hamish plans to take photos of Johnny doing heroic stuff and make him famous as Koala Kid, so when they get back to the circus, they can get in the main act rather than the freak show and earn Hamish more money. Bog is not impressed with his gang getting chased by a koala, so he orders them to capture Koala Kid. In the chase, Miranda's younger sister Charlotte gets covered with cosmetic powder and mistaken for the Koala Kid resulting in her getting kidnapped. The billabong residents plan to rescue Charlotte but must cross the dangerous "Bungle Bungles" on their way to Precipice Lake, while at the same time, Johnny is almost devoured by the mulga snakes Monty and Merlin. This convinces Hamish to go along with Johnny's conscience and join the team to rescue Charlotte.
Johnny accidentally saves the day a few times during the trip, but Miranda is still not impressed. The two fall into a sinkhole and tell the rest of them to go on ahead. A giant monitor lizard befriends Johnny and names her Bull, he and miranda as they ride it out of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%20of%20Weed | Price of Weed (or priceofweed.com) is a user-generated database of marijuana prices. Users may submit prices and quantities for transactions, and their location is geolocated in order to generate a price index for states and cities. While user-generated prices have no inherent check on accuracy, the criminal status of marijuana in many countries means a formal price index may be difficult to construct.
In August 2011, Matthew Zook, a professor of geography at the University of Kentucky, generated a detailed heatmap using data from the site. The map was included in an issue of Wired and drew attention to Price of Weed from Barry Ritholtz's Big Picture and Flowing Data. In 2014, Allen B. Downey, a professor from Olin College, utilized data from Price of Weed in his book Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers (Second Edition). In May 2015, Frank Bi of Forbes published a piece title All 50 States Ranked By The Cost Of Weed. In June 2015, The Washington Post generated a detailed infographic portraying pricing data from 8 major US cities. This marks the first data shared publicly portraying a time series of data by city from Price of Weed. In August 2015, Mingshu Wang from The Department of Geography at University of Georgia generated a detailed graphic portraying the crowdsourced data from The Price of Weed. In October 2016, David Floyd of Investopedia published an infographic in a post titled What Does Weed Cost in Your State?
References
External links
Gawker comment on Price of Weed
Graspreise in Deutschland (in German)
A breakdown of neighborhood specific prices in Los Angeles
Draft academic paper based on the data used to build the heatmap
Online databases
American websites
Cannabis websites |
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