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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainan%20Island%20shrew | The Hainan Island shrew (Crocidura wuchihensis) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae native to China and Vietnam. The IUCN has insufficient data to assess the level of population and its trend.
Distribution and habitat
The Hainan Island shrew is known from Hainan Island in China and from northern Vietnam where it is present on Mount Tay Con Linh II in Ha Giang Province. The exact extent of its distribution is unknown but it has been found in forests at altitudes of between .
References
Crocidura
Mammals described in 1966 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus%20Data | Abacus Data is a Canadian polling and market research firm based in Ottawa, Ontario. It was founded in August 2010, soon after its founder and chairman David Coletto graduated from the University of Calgary with a PhD in political science.
The company's surveys and political opinion polls are sometimes cited in Canadian news media, including The Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Toronto Star, and Sun Media newspapers.
In 2013, Bruce Anderson joined Abacus Data as Chairman, he stepped down at the end of 2022 and David Coletto has taken over as chairman.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Abacus Data led the Faster Together initiative to conduct market research about vaccine hesitancy and to promote acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines.
References
External links
Company website
Company blog
Market research companies of Canada
Companies based in Ottawa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL%3A2011 | SQL:2011 or ISO/IEC 9075:2011 (under the general title "Information technology – Database languages – SQL") is the seventh revision of the ISO (1987) and ANSI (1986) standard for the SQL database query language. It was formally adopted in December 2011. The standard consists of 9 parts which are described in detail in SQL.
The next version is SQL:2016.
New features
One of the main new features is improved support for temporal databases. Language enhancements for temporal data definition and manipulation include:
Time period definitions use two standard table columns as the start and end of a named time period, with closed set-open set semantics. This provides compatibility with existing data models, application code, and tools
Definition of application time period tables (elsewhere called valid time tables), using the annotation
Update and deletion of application time rows with automatic time period splitting
Temporal primary keys incorporating application time periods with optional non-overlapping constraints via the clause
Temporal referential integrity constraints for application time tables
Application time tables are queried using regular query syntax or using new temporal predicates for time periods including , , , , , , and (which are modified versions of Allen’s interval relations)
Definition of system-versioned tables (elsewhere called transaction time tables), using the annotation and modifier. System time periods are maintained automatically. Constraints for system-versioned tables are not required to be temporal and are only enforced on current rows
Syntax for time-sliced and sequenced queries on system time tables via the and clauses
Application time and system versioning can be used together to provide bitemporal tables
Support in database management systems
SAP HANA 2.0 SP03 supports system-versioned tables using the standard select syntax SAP HANA 2.0 SP04 adds (partial) support for application-time versioning
IBM DB2 version 10 claims to be the first database to have a conforming implementation of this feature in what they call "Time Travel Queries", although they use the alternative syntax .
Oracle Oracle 12c supports temporal functionality in compliance with SQL:2011. Versions 10g and 11g implement the time-sliced queries in what they call Flashback Queries, using the alternative syntax . Notably both of Oracle's implementations depend on the database transaction log and so only allow temporal queries against recent changes which are still being retained for backup.
Microsoft SQL Server (version 2016) implements temporal tables with .
MariaDB 10.3 implements system-versioned tables. MariaDB 10.4.3 added support for application-versioned tables.
PostgreSQL requires installation of the temporal_tables extension. Temporal Tables Extension supports the system-period temporal tables only, but does not follow the SQL:2011 design.
Ebean ORM supports History AS OF and VERSIONS BETWEEN queries on Postgr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybergeddon | Cybergeddon (from tech. cyber-, lit. "computer"; Hebrew: Megiddo, extracted from Har Megiddo ("mountain of final battle")) refers to cataclysm resulting from a large-scale sabotage of all computerized networks, systems and activities. It combines cyberterrorism, cyberwarfare, cybercrime, and hacktivism into scenarios of wide-scale internet disruption or economic collapse. Economic or industrial infrastructure could be targeted, such as banks or industrial control systems. Since 2012, the number of Internet-based attacks and their complexity has increased.
"Cybergeddon is a possibility," FireEye CEO Ashar Aziz explained in an interview with Bloomberg: "Attacks on critical infrastructures such as the power grid or financial institutions could wreak havoc not just on United States economy, but in fact, the world economy."
The Defense Technical Information Center cited nuclear electromagnetic pulse attacks as a part of the military action that may bring about cybergeddon.
References
Doomsday scenarios
Internet security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lingo%20Show | The Lingo Show is a British flash animated children's television series created by Nicole Seymour, produced by the BBC and animated by Dinamo Productions for BBC's CBeebies channel and programming block. The characters and many other elements were designed by Kate Sullivan. The show, which combines flash animation with live-action footage, is designed to introduce preschool kids to new languages. The programme, which ran for 2 series totalling 30 episodes, initially began as an interactive minisite on the CBeebies website, aired on CBeebies between 2012 and 2013.
Plot
The series revolves around a show bug host named Lingo and his crew of bugs, who each specialize in a different language. At the request of children, he travels across the world to perform a Big Bug Show using one of his performers. In each episode, the chosen performer searches around for props required for their show, as they introduce objects in their language, before they bring them back to Lingo so they can perform the show for the delighted preschool children.
There were also episodes which showed each bug's three best Big Bug Shows (their "Buggy Best Three", as Lingo says), and there would be one for each bug, in which, the bugs will teach the audience how the numbers one, two and three are said in their respective languages via song.
Characters
Main characters
The characters were designed by Kate Sullivan.
Lingo (voiced by Marc Silk): The ringmaster of the Big Bug Show. He is in charge of bringing his Big Bug Stage across the world to host the shows and often has wild ambitions as to what they can entail. Lingo is half ladybird and half butterfly.
Wèi (voiced by Lin Lin): A tiny little ant who is from China and speaks Mandarin. He is often seen wearing a pair of roller skates and a crash helmet.
Jargonaise (voiced by Aurelie Harp): A fabulous pink butterfly who is from France and speaks French.
Queso (voiced by Fran Canals): A charming and funny moth who is often seen carrying his instrument, the guitar. He's from Spain and speaks Spanish.
Lieb (voiced by Britta Gartner): An athletic tick who is from Germany and speaks German. She was added to the cast in season two.
Blodwen (voiced by Elen Rhys): A nurturing fuzzy green caterpillar wearing a pink hat with a daffodil on it who speaks in an opera singing voice. She comes from Wales and speaks Welsh.
Jaadoo (voiced by Bhasker Patel): A white green striped tick who is constantly seen riding a unicycle, and has magical powers. He is from Pakistan and speaks Urdu.
Kikli (voiced by Samir Fothergill): A yellow damselfly with a magic wand who giggles a lot. She is from India and speaks Punjabi.
Dyzio (voiced by Park Hae-Yeop): A sleepy brown stick insect who is from Poland and speaks Polish.
Subah (voiced by Park Shin-Yong): A sassy green woodlouse in a purple polka-dotted shell who is from Somalia and speaks Somali.
Minor characters
Bloozles: A group of small green worker bugs that helps Lingo in preparing for the Big Bug Sho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networking%20and%20Information%20Technology%20Research%20and%20Development | The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) program consists of a group of U.S. federal agencies to research and develop information technology (IT) capabilities to empower Federal missions; support U.S. science, engineering, and technology leadership; and bolster U.S. economic competitiveness.
Organization
The NITRD Program is managed by the NITRD Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council’s (NSTC) Committee on Technology and supported by the NITRD National Coordination Office (NCO).
Working Groups
NITRD Program’s member agencies coordinate their NITRD research activities and plans by Interagency Working Groups (IWGs). For each IWG, agency representatives meet to exchange information and collaborate on research plans and activities such as testbeds, workshops, and cooperative proposal solicitations.
Program Component Areas
The annual NITRD Supplement to the President’s Budget is organized by Program Component Areas (PCAs), where the PCAs are major subject areas for federal IT R&D. PCAs are intended to facilitate budgetary comparisons from year to year in each area. The PCA set evolves over time, reflecting changes in IT R&D activities at federal agencies and IT R&D priorities of the Administration. In its first annual report to Congress, the Supplement to the President’s Fiscal Year 1992 Budget, HPCC reported a FY 1991 base budget of $489 million, with eight federal agencies participating, and four R&D components. The FY 2019 NITRD Supplement to the President’s Budget reports to Congress an estimated budget of $5.2B billion across 24 Federal agencies and 11 R&D focus areas.
Participating agencies
The following federal agencies report their IT research budgets in the NITRD "crosscut" and provide proportional funding to support NITRD's operations:
Department of Commerce
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Department of Defense
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
National Security Agency (NSA)
Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and Service Research Organizations
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL)
Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Department of Energy
National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA)
Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (DOE/CESER)
Office of Science (DOE/SC)
Department of Health and Human Services
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)
Department of Homeland Security
Science and Technology Directorate (DHS S&T)
Department of the Interior
U.S. Geological Survey
Department of Justice
National Institute of Justice (NIJ)
Department of State
Department of State ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achas%20que%20Sabes%20Dan%C3%A7ar%3F | Achas que Sabes Dançar is a televised dance competition that was aired on Portugal's SIC network in spring and summer of 2010. It has a format similar to that of other shows in the international So You Think You Can Dance television franchise, of which it is the Portuguese iteration. The first season premiered in May 2010 and concluded in July with dancer Marco Ferreira announced winner and awarded a cash prize, a scholarship to a dance school in New York and the title “Portugal's Favorite dancer.” The show was hosted by Portuguese television personality João Manzarra. The second season premiered in January 2015 and was hosted by the actress and TV presenter Diana Chaves.
Winners
Season 1
Judges and Presenter
Contestants
Elimination Chart
Live Performance Shows
The live performance show (Gala) portion of the competition began on May 30, with a Top 20 dancers. As with other shows in the So You Think You Can Dance franchise, dancers were paired into couples for duet routines (in styles drawn at random) with home viewers casting votes by phone for their favorite couples and the six dancers from the three couples receiving the lowest number of votes subject to being the two dancers sent home that week by the judge decision. These six dancers are each afforded one more thirty second solo to help effect this decision.
1st Week (Top 20) – May 30, 2010
2nd Week (Top 18) – June 6, 2010
3rd Week (Top 16) – June 13, 2010
4th Week (Top 14) – June 20, 2010
5th Week (Top 12) – June 27, 2010
6th Week (Top 10) – July 4th, 2010
At this point in the competition new partners began to be assigned weekly, and voting was made by individual dancers rather than for couples. The judge's also lost their authority to choose who would be eliminated from the bottom dancers each week, with eliminations decided solely on viewer votes. Dance styles continued to be randomly assigned and all remaining dancers performed a solo each week, regardless of whether they were in the bottom dancers.
7th Week (Top 8) – July 11, 2010
8th Week (Top 6) – July 18, 2010
9th Week (Top 4/Grand Finale) - July 25, 2010
The Top Four Grand Finale featured the dancers coupled in every combination for duets as well as solo performances. Marco Ferreira was ultimately announced winner of the competition and “Portugal's Favorite Dancer.”
Season 2
Judges and Presenter
Contestants
Elimination Chart
Live Performance Shows
The live performance show (Gala) portion of the competition began on May 30, with a Top 20 dancers. As with other shows in the So You Think You Can Dance franchise, dancers were paired into couples for duet routines (in styles drawn at random) with home viewers casting votes by phone for their favorite couples and the six dancers from the three couples receiving the lowest number of votes subject to being the two dancers sent home that week by the judge decision. These six dancers are each afforded one more ten second solo to help effect this decision. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20v.%20Graham | United States v. Graham, 846 F. Supp. 2d 384 (D. Md. 2012), was a Maryland District Court case in which the Court held that historical cell site location data is not protected by the Fourth Amendment. Reacting to the precedent established by the recent Supreme Court case United States v. Jones in conjunction with the application of the third party doctrine, Judge Richard D. Bennett, found that "information voluntarily disclosed to a third party ceases to enjoy Fourth Amendment protection" because that information no longer belongs to the consumer, but rather to the telecommunications company that handles the transmissions records. The historical cell site location data is then not subject to the privacy protections afforded by the Fourth Amendment standard of probable cause, but rather to the Stored Communications Act, which governs the voluntary or compelled disclosure of stored electronic communications records.
A three judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the district court on the Fourth Amendment issue in August 2015, but the full court en banc upheld the district court in May 2016. Its validity has grave doubt after the Supreme Court of the United States decided Carpenter v. United States in 2018.
Background
With the increase in usage of cellular phones by the public, the government turned to the exploitation of cellular phone technology to track the movements of suspects. This phenomenon led to suits by defendants who claimed that use of such technology to track their movements amounted to an invasion of their privacy.
The courts were divided over whether such tracking amounted to intruding in a person's personal sphere. Some courts decided that such tracking to obtain cell site location data implicated the Fourth Amendment, and applied the 'probable cause' standard stipulated under the Fourth Amendment to such cases- In re Application of the United States [809 F. Supp. 2d 113 (E.D.N.Y. 2011)], In re Application of the United States [747 F. Supp. 2d 827 (S.D. Tex. 2010)]. These courts however also clarified that the Fourth Amendment is not implicated if the request for acquisition of cell site location information is for a short period of time.
Other cases were decided in favor of applying the 'specific and articulable facts' standard under the Stored Communications Act since the courts believed that such acquisition of historical cell site location data did not implicate the Fourth Amendment- United States v. Dye (N.D. Ohio Apr. 27, 2011), United States v. Velasquez (N.D. Cal Oct, 22, 2010), In re Application of the United States for Historical Cell Site Data, 724 F.3d 600 (5th Cir. 2013).
Facts
The Defendants, Aaron Graham and Eric Jordan, were charged for a series of armed robberies of commercial entities including a Burger King restaurant and a McDonald's restaurant in Baltimore, Maryland on February 5, 2011. Ten minutes after the McDonald's robbery, the defendants were found and arrested by the police an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapologo | Tapologo is a 2007 documentary film.
Synopsis
In Freedom Park, a squatter settlement in South Africa, a group of HIV-infected former sex-workers, created a network called Tapologo. They learned to nurse their community, transforming degradation into solidarity and squalor into hope. Catholic bishop Kevin Dowling participates in Tapologo, and raises doubts on the official doctrine of the Catholic Church regarding AIDS and sexuality in the African context.
References
2007 films
South African documentary films
2007 documentary films
Spanish documentary films
Documentary films about HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Religion and HIV/AIDS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20H.%20Eccleston | Charles H. Eccleston is a former employee of the United States Energy Department (DOE), and later the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) who was convicted for attempting to breach protected computer systems. Eccleston, a U.S. citizen who had been living in Davao City in the Philippines since 2011, was terminated from his employment at the NRC in 2010. He was detained by Philippine authorities in Manila, Philippines, on March 27, 2015, and deported to the United States to face U.S. criminal charges. He initially came to the attention of the FBI in 2013 after he entered a foreign embassy in Manila and offered to sell a list of over 5,000 e-mail accounts of all officials, engineers and employees of a U.S. government energy agency. He said that he was able to retrieve this information because he was an employee of a U.S. government agency, held a top secret security clearance and had access to the agency's network. He asked for $18,800 for the accounts, stating they were “top secret.” When asked what he would do if that foreign country was not interested in obtaining the U.S. government information he was offering, he stated he would offer the information to China, Iran or Venezuela, as he believed these countries would be interested in the information. On February 2, 2016, he pled guilty to one count of "attempted unauthorized access and intentional damage to a protected computer". In his guilty plea, he admitted scheming to cause damage to the computer network of the DOE through e-mails that he believed would deliver a computer virus to particular employees. He was incarcerated as inmate number 68974-112 and was released on July 15, 2016.
Eccleston is also an American author, consultant and lecturer in US National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Dr. Eccleston has received many awards including the National Association of Environmental Professional's (NAEP) Outstanding Achievement Award (2001), the NAEP's Outstanding Environmental Leadership Award (2010), and his college's Outstanding Alumni Award. He is listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in the World and Who’s Who in America as one of the leading authorities on preparing Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) and the NEPA. He has written 10 books and authored over 70 environmental and scientific publications. His books are used by professionals and in university curriculum. His recent works include: The EIS Book, NEPA and Environmental Planning, Global Environmental Policy, Inside Energy, and Preparing NEPA Environmental Assessments. He developed a suite of peer-reviewed tools and techniques for improving and streamlining NEPA. Many of these tools are used by government agencies and in legal cases:
Sufficiency Test: Tool for systematic determining "how much" information is sufficient to adequately describe a NEPA topic.
P-EIS Scoping (P-EIS) Tool: Method for determining the appropriate scope of a programmatic EIS.
Smithsonian Solution Tool: Systematic technique for determining how much an action c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidromia%20rotundata | Epidromia rotundata is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1869. It is found in the United States from Georgia to southern Florida. It is also recorded from Cuba and from xeric habitats in Mexico on the Yucatan Peninsula and on the west coast of Mexico.
The wingspan is 40–45 mm. The forewings are brown with a purplish tint. The hindwings are similar to the forewings in both color and pattern, but the outer margin is rounded. Adults are on wing from April to September.
References
Moths described in 1869
Calpinae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Can%20Dance%20%28French%20TV%20series%29 | You Can Dance is a French televised dance competition with a format based on the American show So You Think You Can Dance It airs on the NT1 television network and is hosted by Benjamin Castaldi. Premiering in early 2012, the show has aired one season. As with other shows in the international So You Think You Can Dance franchise, its competitors—young semi-professional dancers from a variety of stylistic backgrounds—compete for judge favor and at-home-viewer votes by attempting to master routines from different styles to avoid being cut as the rounds progress.
Season 1
The first season began casting and open auditions in late 2011 and premiered in February 2012. The judge's panel consisted of permanent members Nico Archambault, Julie Ferrier, and, Kamel Ouali as well as guest judges Matt Pokora, Sofia Essaidi, Fauve Hautot, and Shy'm. After the audition process, the judge's selected a Top 16 dancers to compete in the main "live show" portion of the competition.
Contestants
Male Contestants
Female Contestants
See also
Dance on television
References
2012 French television series debuts
France
French television series based on American television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module%20pattern | In software engineering, the module pattern is a design pattern used to implement the concept of software modules, defined by modular programming, in a programming language with incomplete direct support for the concept.
This pattern can be implemented in several ways depending on the host programming language, such as the singleton design pattern, object-oriented static members in a class and procedural global functions. In Python, the pattern is built into the language, and each .py file is automatically a module. The same applies to Ada, where the package can be considered a module (similar to a static class).
Definition & Structure
The module software design pattern provides the features and syntactic structure defined by the modular programming paradigm to programming languages that have incomplete support for the concept.
Concept
In software development, source code can be organized into components that accomplish a particular function or contain everything necessary to accomplish a particular task. Modular programming is one of those approaches.
The concept of a "module" is not fully supported in many common programming languages.
Features
In order to consider that a Singleton or any group of related code implements this pattern, the following features must be supplied:
A portion of the code must have global or public access and be designed for use as global/public code. Additional private or protected code can be executed by the main public code.
A module must have an initializer function that is equivalent to, or complementary to an object constructor method. This feature is not supported by regular namespaces.
A module must have a finalizer function that is equivalent to, or complementary to an object destructor method. This feature is not supported by regular namespaces.
Supporting members may require initialization/finalization code that is executed by the module's initializer/finalizer function.
Most members are functions that perform operations on elements external to the class, provided as arguments by calling functions. Such functions are "utilities", "tools" or "libraries".
Implementations
The semantics and syntax of each programming language may affect the implementation of this pattern.
Object-oriented programming languages
Java
Although Java supports the notion of a namespace, a reduced version of a module, some scenarios benefit from employing the design pattern instead of using namespaces.
The following example uses the singleton pattern.
Definition
package consoles;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintStream;
public final class MainModule {
private static MainModule singleton = null;
public InputStream input = null;
public PrintStream output = null;
public PrintStream error = null;
private MainModule() {
// does nothing on purpose !!!
}
// ...
public static MainModule getSingleton() {
if (MainModule.singleton == null) {
MainModule.singleton = new |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20model%20%28disambiguation%29 | The network model is a database model.
The term may also refer to:
Network topology
Packet generation model
Channel model
Døde Sønderborg |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro%20TV%20%28Ghana%29 | Metropolitan Entertainment Television is a Ghanaian free-to-air television channel. It was launched in 1997 and it is the second largest television network in the country.
Metro TV is a member of the Ignite Media Group, a part of the Jospong Group of Companies (JGC) which also contains Original TV and Original 91.9FM.
Launch of new premises
In October 2020, a new office which is located in North Ridge, was commissioned by the President, Nana Akufo-Addo. It is a four floor building that has space for offices and houses six (6) fully furnished studios.
References
Television stations in Ghana
Mass media in Accra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Informatics%20Society | The German Informatics Society (GI) () is a German professional society for computer science, with around 20,000 personal and 250 corporate members. It is the biggest organized representation of its kind in the German-speaking world.
History
The German Informatics Society was founded in Bonn, Germany, on September 16, 1969. Initially aimed primarily at researchers, it expanded in the mid-1970s to include computer science professionals, and in 1978 it founded its journal Informatik Spektrum to reach this broader audience.
The Deutsche Informatik-Akademie in Bonn was founded in 1987 by the German Informatics Society in order to provide seminars and continuing education for computer science professionals. In 1990, the German Informatics Society contributed to the founding of the International Conference and Research Center for Computer Science (renamed since as the Leibniz Center for Informatics) at Dagstuhl; since its founding, Schloss Dagstuhl has become a major center for international academic workshops.
In 1983, the German Informatics Society became a member society of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), taking over the role of representing Germany from the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Rechenanlagen. In 1989, it joined the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies.
Activities
The main activity of the association is to support the professional development of its members in every aspect of the rapidly changing field of informatics. In order to realise this aim the German Informatics Society maintains a large number of committees, special interest groups, and working groups in the field of theory of computation, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, software engineering, human computer interaction, databases, technical informatics, graphics and information visualisation, business informatics, legal aspects of computing, computer science education, social computing, and computer security.
Up to now, the GI runs more than 30 local groups in cooperation with the German chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. Other important GI activities include raising public awareness of informatics, including its benefits and risks. Lobbying activities have been organised by the office in Berlin since 2013. Additionally, the GI runs programmes designed for young people and women to foster interest in informatics.
In addition to the Informatik Spektrum, which is the journal of the society, most of the society's special interest groups maintain their own journals. Overall the society has approximately 40 regular publications, and it sponsors a similar number of conferences and events annually. Many of these conferences have their proceedings published in the GI's book series, Lecture Notes in Informatics, which also publishes Ph.D. thesis abstracts and research monographs.
Every two years, the German Informatics Society awards the Konrad Zuse Medal to an outstanding German computer science research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad%20Zuse%20Medal | The Konrad Zuse Medal for Services to Computer Science is the highest award of the (German Computer Science Society), given every two years to one or sometimes two leading German computer scientists. It is named after German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse.
Note that a different medal with the same name is also given out by the Zentralverband des Deutschen Baugewerbes (Central Association of German Construction).
Recipients
Source: Gesellschaft für Informatik
1987: Heinz Billing
1989: Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann
1989: Robert Piloty
1991:
1993: Carl Adam Petri
1995: Kurt Mehlhorn
1997: José Luis Encarnação
1999: Günter Hotz
2001: Theo Härder
2003: Thomas Lengauer
2006: Ingo Wegener
2007: Manfred Broy
2009: Reinhard Wilhelm
2011: Fritz-Rudolf Güntsch
2011: Volker Strassen
2013: Markus Gross
2015: Arndt Bode
2017: Johannes Buchmann
2019: Dorothea Wagner
2021: Gerhard Weikum
See also
List of computer science awards
List of prizes named after people
References
1987 establishments in Germany
Awards established in 1987
Computer science awards
German science and technology awards
Lists of computer scientists
Lists of German people
Medal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E017 | E 017 is a European B class road in Russia, connecting the cities Yelabuga – Ufa.
Route
:Yelabuga - Ufa
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
International E-road network
European routes in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20route%20E331 | E331 is a European B class road in Germany, connecting the cities Dortmund – Kassel
Dortmund, Kassel
External links
UN Economic Commission for Europe: Overall Map of E-road Network (2007)
331 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambros%20Speiser | Ambrosius Paul Speiser (13 November 1922, in Basel – 10 May 2003, in Aarau) was a Swiss engineer and scientist. He led the development of the first Swiss computer.
Speiser studied electrotechnology at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), where in 1948 he earned his diplom in communications engineering. In 1949, Eduard Stiefel sent Heinz Rutishauser and Speiser to study in Harvard under Howard H. Aiken and in Princeton under John von Neumann; Rutishauser and Speiser became acquainted with the Harvard Mark III and the IAS machine. In 1950, the Institut für angewandte Mathematik (Institute for Applied Mathematics, founded in 1948) of ETH could acquire the Zuse Z4, but there were no other commercially available electronic computers which were suitable for scientific applications. This led the Swiss to the idea of developing their own computer. Under Speiser's technical direction between 1950 and 1955, Switzerland's first electronic calculating machine, ERMETH, originated.
Speiser earned his doctorate and habilitation during the development of ERMETH, but began an industrial career when he joined IBM in 1955. From 1956 to 1966 he was the director of IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon. In 1966 he left IBM to become the director of research for Brown, Boveri & Cie in order to develop the company's research center in Dättwil. He also served as the second president of the International Federation for Information Processing from 1965 to 1968.
In 1962 ETH made Speiser a full professor. For years, he taught one of the first courses in computer science at the ETH. In 1986 ETH honored him with an honorary doctorate for his pioneering work at the frontier of informatics. The Schweizerische Akademie der Technischen Wissenschaften chose Speiser on 1987 as president of its executive committee and upon his resignation in 1993 made him an honorary member. Speiser was also a member of the Schweizerischen Schulrats, member of the board of trustees of the Schweizerischer Nationalfonds, and from 1983 to 1988 president of Vororts (now Economiesuisse).
Works
Ambros P. Speiser: Entwurf eines elektronischen Rechengerätes unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Erfordernis eines minimalen Materialaufwandes bei gegebener mathematischer Leistungsfähigkeit. Dissertation ETH Zürich, 1950.
Heinz Rutishauser, Ambros Paul Speiser, Eduard Stiefel: Programmgesteuerte digitale Rechengeräte (Elektronische Rechenmaschinen). Basel: Birkhäuser, 1951.
Ambros P. Speiser: Ueber die Zukunft der Technik. Eine weltweite Betrachtung. Referat und Diskussion der 33. Sitzung der Studiengruppe Energieperspektiven, Baden, 28. Januar 1988.
References
External links
Evelyn Boesch Trüeb: Speiser, Ambros. Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (in German).
ETH Zürich: Biographie
Porträt des Monats der ETH-Bibliothek
20th-century Swiss engineers
ETH Zurich alumni
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
1922 births
2003 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia%20University | The Multimedia University (; abbreviated as MMU), is a private research university in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. Founded in 1997, it is the first private university within Malaysia and is a member of The Alliance of Government Linked Universities (GLU).
In 1996, the government of Malaysia initiated efforts to liberalize the country's higher education sector and engage the private education industry in advancing human capital development. Consequently, the Ministry of Education sought an established private entity to spearhead the pilot project for the establishment of a university. In October 1996, Telekom Malaysia was granted the distinction by the Ministry of Education to establish Malaysia's inaugural private university. This decision underscored the government's confidence in Telekom Malaysia's capacity to lead the privatization of higher education. Building upon the foundation of the existing ITTM campuses operated by Telekom Malaysia, the company accepted the invitation, resulting in the establishment of Universiti Telekom in Melaka.
The university is structured across two primary campuses: the main campus in Cyberjaya and the Melaka campus. At the Cyberjaya campus, there are seven faculties, each dedicated to specific academic disciplines. Meanwhile, the Melaka campus comprises four faculty divisions. Coordinating the graduate studies across both campuses is The Institute for Postgraduate Studies (IPS), which collaborates closely with the various faculties to facilitate advanced academic programs and research initiatives. Additionally, under the purview of the Center for Diploma Programs division, MMU offers diploma programs tailored to each faculty's expertise.
History
In 1994, Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM), established the Institute of Telecommunication and Information Technology (ITTM) in Taiping, Perak. The first campus was established on TM's former northern region office where the first batch of 42 students were selected to undergo an experimental two-year telecommunication engineering diploma program. In 1996, with the academic success of the first two batches, TM was invited by the Ministry of Education to set up the first private university in Malaysia. ITTM was granted university status and renamed itself to Universiti Telekom.
In 1997, The Malacca campus was set up in the Ayer Keroh town. The setting up of the campus involved redeveloping and repurposing of the former TM southern region office. TM was offered by the Government of Malaysia to establish a university in MSC Malaysia (abbreviation of Multimedia Super Corridor) to catalyse the MSC program. A campus was set up in Cyberjaya and opened on 8 July 1999. The relationship between the Cyberjaya campus and the MSC is intended to be similar to the relationship between Stanford University and Silicon Valley. As a result, the university changed its name from Universiti Telekom to Multimedia University.
In 2013, MMU established a third campus in Iskandar Puteri, Johor, specializi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothea%20Wagner | Dorothea Wagner (born 1957) is a German computer scientist, known for her research in graph drawing, route planning, and social network analysis. She heads the Institute of Theoretical Informatics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Biography
Wagner did her undergraduate studies at RWTH Aachen University, graduating in 1983, and then continued at RWTH Aachen for her graduate studies, earning a Ph.D. in 1986 under the supervision of Rolf Möhring and Walter Oberschelp.
She then earned her habilitation at the Berlin Institute of Technology in 1992. She stayed at the Berlin Institute of Technology as an assistant professor, also taking a temporary position at the University of Halle-Wittenberg in 1993, before becoming a full professor at the University of Konstanz in 1994. In 2003, she moved to Karlsruhe.
Since 2007 she is vice president of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
She is one of five editors-in-chief of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms, published by Elsevier, and editor-in-chief of the OpenAccess Series in Informatics book series published by Schloss Dagstuhl. She has been program committee chair or co-chair of the 10th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments (ALENEX'2008), 14th International Symposium on Graph Drawing (GD'2006), 2nd Workshop on Algorithmic Methods and Models for Optimization of Railways (ATMOS'2002), 26th International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science (WG'2000), and 4th Workshop on Algorithm Engineering (WAE'2000), and been on the editorial boards and program committees of many more computer science journals and conferences.
In 2019 Wagner was one of three candidates for the position as president of the DFG; after a year-long selection process, the position eventually went to Katja Becker.
Awards and honors
In 2008 she was elected as a fellow of the Gesellschaft für Informatik. In 2012 she received a Google Focused Research Award together with Hannah Bast and Peter Sanders for the project “Next-Generation Route Planning“. She is a member of the Academia Europaea.
In 2019 she was awarded the Konrad Zuse Medal.
Selected publications
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References
1957 births
Living people
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
RWTH Aachen University alumni
Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin
Academic staff of the University of Konstanz
Academic staff of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Graph drawing people
German women academics
Members of Academia Europaea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Lee%20Tu | Joan Lee Tu (b. 1981) is a Canadian linguist, data scientist, and medical student. Her Master of Arts thesis entitled What does txting do 2 language: The influences of exposure to messaging and print media on acceptability constraints (2011) made a notable contribution to the academic literature on text messaging. The thesis used acceptability judgment tasks to test a relationship between exposure to text messaging and word acceptance. It received international media attention.
Lee's lesser known works include the paper The opacity of s-irregular verbs in Korean: Confronting Optimality Theory approaches (2011) which was written in 2005, and later published in the Calgary Papers in Linguistics. Lee also presented the paper The distribution of Turkish articles: Implications for L2 English at the Linguistic Society of America 2006 Summer Meeting in East Lansing, Michigan.
References
External links
Video of interview, Andrea MacLean, CTV Calgary Morning Live, March 14, 2012
Frequency vs. Dictionary, Joan Lee, November 14, 2012
Living people
Linguists from Canada
1981 births
Women linguists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20Road%207 | Radial Road 7 is a network of roads in Metro Manila, connecting the cities of Manila, Quezon City and Caloocan, as well as San Jose del Monte and the municipality of Norzagaray in the province of Bulacan. The road is one of 10 radial roads in Metro Manila that connect the City of Manila with various provinces.
Route description
Lerma Street
Lerma Street is an 8-lane road connecting Quezon Boulevard (R-8) and España Boulevard in Sampaloc, Manila.
España Boulevard
España Boulevard is an 8-lane road starting from the junction of Lerma Avenue and Nicanor Reyes Street, ending in the Mabuhay Rotonda (otherwise known as Welcome Rotonda) in Quezon City. It passes through the northernmost areas of the University Belt, including the University of Santo Tomas and Ramon Magsaysay High School. Past RMHS, it passes through the mostly residential and commercial area of Sampaloc.
Quezon Avenue
Quezon Avenue starts from the Mabuhay Rotunda and ends in the Elliptical Road. It is one of the most important thoroughfares of Quezon City. It runs through the center of the city, lined with palm trees, government buildings, and nightclubs. It uses an interchange system on most of its intersections. This road used to be one of the most comfortable roads in the area, but had been extremely prone to heavy traffic since the construction of the G. Araneta Avenue Underpass.
Elliptical Road
Elliptical Road is an 8-lane roundabout that circumscribes Quezon City Memorial Circle. R-7 continues at Commonwealth Avenue.
Commonwealth Avenue
Commonwealth Avenue starts from Elliptical Road as an 18-lane highway, the widest road in the Philippines. It ends with a junction with the Quirino Highway.
Quirino Highway
R-7 becomes the Quirino Highway and passes through barangays Kaligayahan, Pasong Putik Proper, and Greater Lagro in Quezon City. This is the portion of R-7 that enters the city of San Jose Del Monte in Bulacan via North Caloocan.
Villarama Road
Also known as the San Jose Del Monte–Norzagaray Road, Quirino Highway becomes this road after crossing Dr. E. Roquero Avenue in San Jose del Monte. This is the last segment of the Radial Road 7, which ends with a junction with Angat–Norzagaray Road in Norzagaray.
Future
Metro Rail Transit Line 7, which will run along R-7 along Commonwealth and Quirino Avenues through Regalado Highway, is under construction.
The future North Luzon East Expressway will also be a part of Radial Road 7 when its construction is finalized.
See also
List of roads in Metro Manila
References
Routes in Metro Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20computers | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to computers:
Computers – programmable machines designed to automatically carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations. The sequences of operations can be changed readily, allowing computers to solve more than one kind of problem.
What type of thing is a computer?
Computers can be described as all of the following:
Tools –
Machines –
Business machines –
Systems –
Types of computers
Mainframe computer –
Super computer –
Midrange computer –
Personal computer –
Desktop computer –
Microcomputer –
Mobile computer and mobile device –
Smartphone –
Tablet computer –
Laptop –
Computer appliance –
Business machine –
Information appliance –
Smartphone –
Smart TV –
Computer architecture
Computer architecture –
Computer components
Motherboard –
Processor –
Graphics processor –
RAM –
ROM –
Floppy disk –
Hard drive –
Input devices –
Keyboard –
Keyboard technology –
Projection keyboard –
Roll-up keyboard
Virtual keyboard –
Wireless keyboard –
Mouse –
Computer performance
Computer performance by orders of magnitude
Computing
See: Outline of computing
Computer science
See: Outline of computer science
History of computers
History of computing hardware
Analog computers
History of computer components
Punched cards
History of general purpose CPUs
History of the floppy disk
History of personal computers
Computers and culture
Social media
memes
Computer industry
Computer manufacturing
List of computer hardware manufacturers
Hewlett-Packard
Toshiba
Dell
Apple
Acer
Asus
Computer engineering
See: Outline of computer engineering
Software industry
Personal computers
Microsoft
Apple
Linux
Business computers
IBM
Oracle
Internet
Google
Facebook
Yahoo!
AOL
eBay
PayPal
Software development
Software development –
List of software development philosophies
Programming language
Software engineering
See: Outline of software engineering
Computer organizations
Users' group (list)
Computer publications
Computer magazines –
See List of computer magazines
Online –
CNET
ZDNet
Wired.com
Wired.co.uk
Huffington Post
Techcrunch
Engadget
News Corp
All things D
Persons influential in computers
List of pioneers in computer science
Charles Babbage
Alan Turing
Grace Hopper
Thomas J. Watson
Thomas Watson, Jr.
Bill Gates
Paul Allen
Steve Jobs
Steve Wozniak
Robert Noyce
Andrew Grove
Linus Torvalds
See also
Outline of computer engineering
Outline of computer programming
Outline of computer science
Outline of computer security
Outline of computer vision
Outline of computing
References
External links
outline
Computers
Computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20computing | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to computing:
Computing – activity of using and improving computer hardware and computer software.
Branches of computing
Computer science (see also Outline of computer science)
Information technology – refers to the application (esp in businesses and other organisations) of computer science, that is, its use by mankind (see also Outline of information technology)
Information systems – refers to the study of the application of IT to business processes
Computer engineering (see also Outline of computer engineering)
Software engineering (see also Outline of software engineering)
Computer science
Computer science – (outline)
Computer science
Theory of computation
Scientific computing
Metacomputing
Autonomic computing
Computers
See information processor for a high-level block diagram.
Computer
Computer hardware
History of computing hardware
Processor design
Computer network
Computer performance by orders of magnitude
Instruction-level taxonomies
After the commoditization of memory, attention turned to optimizing CPU performance at the instruction level. Various methods of speeding up the fetch-execute cycle include:
designing instruction set architectures with simpler, faster instructions: RISC as opposed to CISC
Superscalar instruction execution
VLIW architectures, which make parallelism explicit
Software
Software engineering
Computer programming
Computational
Software patent
Firmware
System software
Device drivers
Operating systems
Utilities
Application Software
Databases
Geographic information system
Spreadsheet
Word processor
Programming languages
interpreters
Compilers
Assemblers
Speech recognition
Speech synthesis
History of computing
History of computing
History of computing hardware from the tally stick to the quantum computer
History of computer science
History of computer animation
History of computer graphics
History of computer networking
History of computer vision
Punched card
Unit record equipment
IBM 700/7000 series
IBM 1400 series
IBM System/360
History of IBM magnetic disk drives
Business computing
Accounting software
Computer-aided design
Computer-aided manufacturing
Computer-aided dispatch
Customer relationship management
Data warehouse
Decision support system
Electronic data processing
Enterprise resource planning
Geographic information system
Hospital information system
Human resource management system
Management information system
Material requirements planning
Product Lifecycle Management
Strategic enterprise management
Supply chain management
Utility Computing
Human factors
Accessible computing
Computer-induced medical problems
Computer user satisfaction
Human-computer interaction (outline)
Human-centered computing
Computer network
Wired and wireless computer network
Types
Wide area network
Metropolitan area network
City Area Network
Village Area Network
Local area network
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoit%20Michel | Benoit Michel (born 1950) is a Belgian engineer. He is the author or co-author of more than 20 technical books on microcomputing, cinema, and stereoscopy.
Biography
Michel received his degree in civil engineering from Université de Liège, Belgium, 1976 .
Professional history
Michel co-founded “Neurones”, one of the first 3D cartoon studios in Europe in 1989. After that, he switched to R&D project management in telecommunications, human-machine interaction, digital cinema, and multimedia and is now at the University of Louvain, successively managing the SIMILAR network of excellence on multimodal interfaces, the EDCINE project on enhanced digital cinema, the 3D Media research project focusing on stereoscopic and 3D imaging. He is now working on a medical imaging project called "InVivo/IGT" improving the way 3D images are driving proton therapy machines to cure cancer.
He is a member of the editorial board of ERCIM News, and is working as a consultant for the European Commission, the TWIST cluster of Walloon companies and various private companies and he is the editor of the free “StereoscopyNews” newsletter. He is co-founder of The European Spaceward Association, a non-profit association with a goal to preserve and improve life on earth by going into space.
Bibliography
Programmes internes du Commodore PET/CBM (ed B.C.M.)
Le livre du VIC (ed B.C.M.)
Le livre du 64 (ed B.C.M.)
Le livre de l'AmigaBasic (ed P.S.I.)
PC, XT, AT: Maintenance et améliorations (ed B.C.M.)
Le livre du Pick (ed B.C.M.)
Clefs pour Amiga (ed P.S.I.)
Personnalisez votre MS-DOS (ed B.C.M.)
Programmation Windows en Visual BASIC (ed. Dunod Tech, 1992)
Digital cinema : Revolution or Evolution (in 'Film Journal International', Aug 2001)
Similar Dreams 'Multimodal interfaces in our future life' (chapter 8 only) (ed. PUL, 2005)
Beyond DCI: The integration of object oriented 3D sound into the Digital Cinema (conference paper presented at NEM Summit 2008)
3DTV Le futur de la télévision stéréoscopique, avec J-F. Nivart, R. Roberts et V. Breuls de Tiecken, ed. TWIST
La Stéréoscopie Numérique (ed Eyrolles, 2011, )
La Voiture Électrique (ed Now Future, 2018, )
The electric car here and now (ed Now Future, 2019, )
References
Living people
People from Liège
Belgian male writers
Belgian technology writers
1950 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sarah%20Millican%20Television%20Programme | The Sarah Millican Television Programme is a British comedic television show hosted by comedian Sarah Millican. The show's central theme is a comical review of television programming (particularly British television). Each edition features as a topic a different genre of television; Millican would lampoon the topic genre in monologue segments that were intercut with jocular interviews of celebrities known for work within that genre. Three series of the show were broadcast between early 2012 and late 2013. A pilot episode was filmed on 25 May 2011, but never broadcast.
Filmed at Dock10, MediaCityUK in Salford in late 2011, the show was a co-production between So Television and Millican's own company, Chopsy Productions.
Episodes
Series 1
Christmas Special 2012
A Christmas special was announced after series 1 had finished.
Series 2
On 27 April 2012, it was announced that BBC Two had ordered a second series of the show, due to start on 15 January 2013.
Series 3
Series 3 began on Tuesday 24 September 2013, along with extended 40-minute repeats entitled "The Sarah Millican Slightly Longer Television Programme".
Christmas Special 2013
DVD release
A "Best of Series 1 and 2" DVD was released on 11 November 2013 by 4DVD. However, Series 3 and its Christmas special have never been released on DVD.
References
External links
2012 British television series debuts
2013 British television series endings
2010s British comedy television series
BBC television comedy
British stand-up comedy television series
English-language television shows
Television series by ITV Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dup%20%28system%20call%29 | In Unix-like operating systems, (short for "duplicate") and system calls create a copy of a given file descriptor. This new descriptor actually does not behave like a copy, but like an alias of the old one.
C library POSIX definition
The dup and dup2 calls are standardized by the POSIX specification. Similar(following the logic) to pointers, the new file description is merely an alias to the old one, with both file descriptors being capable of being used interchangeably. Both file descriptors in a dup() system call refer to the same open file description which means they share file offset and file status flags; Similar but not identical to the logic used in pointers, shallow or deep copying or references, changes to the offset on one of the file descriptors changes it for the other file descriptor. When using dup(), the two file descriptors don't share the same file descriptor flags. In the calling process the lowest numbered unused file descriptor will be used for the new file descriptor number. When using the dup2() system call it performs the same task as dup() with the exception of using the file descriptor number specified in the newfd variable of the call, in that newfd is adjusted to refer to the oldfd file description. The last system call in this family of functions is dup3(), which is the same as dup2() except that if oldfd equals newfd the system call fails with error EINVAL and the caller can force the close-on-exec flag to be set by specifying O_CLOEXEC in flags. dup3() was formally added to Linux kernel version 2.6.27 (glibc support is available on version 2.9 and above).
int dup (int oldfd);
int dup2 (int oldfd, int newfd);
The former allocates the first available descriptor, just like open() behaves; an alternative way to duplicate a file descriptor to an unspecified place is the fcntl system call with F_DUPFD command.
The latter places the copy into newfd. If newfd is open, it is closed first.
dup2 for input/output redirection
Unix shells use for input/output redirection. Along with pipe(), it is a tool on which Unix pipes rely.
The following example uses pipe() and dup() in order to connect two separate processes (program1 and program2) using Unix pipes:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
/* function prototypes */
void die(const char*);
int main(int argc, char **argv) {
int pdes[2];
pid_t child;
if(pipe(pdes) == -1)
die("pipe()");
child = fork();
if(child == (pid_t)(-1))
die("fork()"); /* fork failed */
if(child == (pid_t)0) {
/* child process */
close(1); /* close stdout */
if(dup(pdes[1]) == -1)
die("dup()");
/* now stdout and pdes[1] are equivalent (dup returns lowest free descriptor) */
if((execlp("program1", "program1", "arg1", NULL)) == -1)
die("execlp()");
_exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
} else {
/* parent process */
close(0); /* close stdin */
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TreeDraw | TreeDraw is a genealogy program for computers running Microsoft Windows. The program is a chart editor which aids family historians in creating and printing family trees. Developed by SpanSoft, Scotland, the software is distributed as shareware with a free trial period.
Features
TreeDraw is essentially a vector graphics editor which creates various styles of family tree charts using data imported from external sources such as GEDCOM files or Kith and Kin Pro databases. The program allows user manipulation of the imported charts using features common to most drawing programs such as element repositioning and scaling.
File formats
The program stores data in .TDR (TreeDraw chart) files, TreeDraw's native format. A freeware .TDR file viewer is available. TreeDraw will import data from GEDCOM files or from Kith and Kin Pro databases. The program also exports Adobe PDF files.
History
The program was first developed by Nick Hunter as a Windows 3.1 program and released as shareware in 1994. In 2001 the first TreeDraw Legacy Edition was released, a special edition of the program which imports data directly from Legacy Family Tree data files.
TreeDraw version 1 was released in October 1994.
TreeDraw version 2 was released in March 2001.
TreeDraw Legacy Edition version 2 was released in April 2001 (there was no V1 of this edition).
TreeDraw version 3 was released on 26 April 2009.
TreeDraw Legacy Edition version 3 was released on 26 April 2009.
TreeDraw version 4 was released on 2 January 2012.
TreeDraw Legacy Edition version 4 was released on 8 May 2013.
Awards
TreeDraw V1 received the PC Plus Value Award in the October 1996 edition of PC Plus Magazine.
References
External links
Windows-only genealogy software
Products introduced in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20ABS-CBN%20News%20Channel | The following is a list of programs broadcast by ABS-CBN News Channel. The channel primarily broadcasts programming relating to news, business, politics, and public affairs, along with other magazine religious and documentary-style programs. The network also airs programming sourced from ABS-CBN, ABS-CBN Regional, TeleRadyo Serbisyo, Jeepney TV and The Filipino Channel.
Current programs
News
ANC Headlines (1999–present)
ANC Breaking News
ANC Live (2001–present)
ANC Presents
Dateline Philippines (1996–present)
Dateline Philippines Saturday with Rica Lazo
ANC Rundown (2019–present)
Top Story (2002–present)
Top Story Saturday
The World Tonight (simulcast on Kapamilya Channel) (1996–present)
The World Tonight Saturday
TV Patrol (simulcast on A2Z, DWPM, Kapamilya Channel and TeleRadyo Serbisyo) (1996–2000, 2006–2015, 2020–present)
TV Patrol Weekend Business
Market Edge (2015–present)
Business Outlook (2023–present)
Business Roadshow (2023–present)
Insights with April Lee Tan (2020–present)
Talk
Headstart with Karen Davila (2010–present)
Hot Copy (2010–present)
Documentary/specials
ANC Documentary Hour (2015–present)
Infotainment
Rev+ (2017–present)
Lifestyle
At the Moment (2022–present)
Executive Class (2005–present)
Graceful Living (2016–present)
Modern Living TV (2014–present)
Philippine Reality TV (2008–present)
State of the Art (2018–present)
LSS: The Martin Nievera Show (2018–present)
Show Me the Market (2018–present)
The Art Show (2018–present)
The Wine Show (2018–present)
Booze Traveler (2018–present) (also broadcast on Travel TV)
Chasing Flavors with Claude Tayag (2018–present)
At The Table (2018–present)
Travel
#BecomingFilipino: Your Travel Blog (2016–present)
Asian Air Safari (2006–present)
Galing Pook (2013–present)
Religious
Feast TV (2010–present) (also aired on IBC) (Produced by Shepherd's Voice Radio and Television Foundation, Inc.)
The Word Exposed with Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle (2011–present) (also aired on TV Maria and SolarFlix) (Produced by Jesuit Communications)
Misa sa Veritas (2020–present) (also aired on TV5, One PH, 92.3 Radyo5 TRUE FM, DZRH and DZRH TV, ) (also broadcast on Veritas 846)
Television programs from TFC
Adobo Nation (2008–present)
TFC News: Europe & Middle East (2018–present)
Citizen Pinoy (2004–present) Juan EU Konek (2014–present)
Television programs from Metro Channel
Casa Daza (also broadcast/aired on Metro Channel)
Dreamcatchers (also broadcast/aired on Metro Channel)
Previously aired programs
ABS-CBN Headlines (2000–2003)
ABS-CBN Insider (2003–2006)
After the Fact (2021–2022)
Balitang America (2002–2021)
Ako Ang Simula (2011–2013)
Bandila (2006–2014)
Business Nightly (2000–2020)
The Bottomline with Boy Abunda (2009–2020)
Beyond Politics with Lynda Jumilla (2013–2019)
Breakfast (1999–2001)
Cash Flow sourced from CNBC Asia (2007–2016)
CHInoyTV (2017–2020)
CNTV News (from CNTV) (2021)
The Correspondents ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAMP%20Simulation%20Software%20for%20Modelling%20Reliability%2C%20Availability%20and%20Maintainability | RAMP Simulation Software for Modelling Reliability, Availability and Maintainability (RAM) is a computer software application developed by WS Atkins specifically for the assessment of the reliability, availability, maintainability and productivity characteristics of complex systems that would otherwise prove too difficult, cost too much or take too long to study analytically. The name RAMP is an acronym standing for Reliability, Availability and Maintainability of Process systems.
RAMP models reliability using failure probability distributions for system elements, as well as accounting for common mode failures. RAMP models availability using logistic repair delays caused by shortages of spare parts or manpower, and their associated resource conditions defined for system elements. RAMP models maintainability using repair probability distributions for system elements, as well as preventive maintenance data and fixed logistic delays between failure detection and repair commencement.
RAMP consists of two parts:
RAMP Model Builder. A front-end interactive graphical user interface (GUI).
RAMP Model Processor. A back-end discrete-event simulation that employs the Monte Carlo method.
RAMP Model Builder
The RAMP Model Builder enables the user to create a block diagram describing the dependency of the process being modelled on the state of individual elements in the system.
Elements
Elements are the basic building blocks of a system modelled in RAMP and can have user-specified failure and repair characteristics in the form probability distributions, typically of Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) values respectively, chosen from the following:
Weibull: Defined by scale and shape parameters (or optionally 50th and 95th percentiles for repairs).
Negative exponential: Defined by mean average.
Lognormal: Defined by median average and dispersion (or optionally 50th and 95th percentiles for repairs).
Fixed (Uniform): Defined by a maximum time to failure or repair.
Empirical (user-defined): Defined by a multiplier.
Elements can represent any part of a system from a specific failure mode of a minor component (e.g. isolation valve fails open) to major subsystems (e.g. compressor or power turbine failure) depending on the level and detail of the analysis required.
Deterministic elements
RAMP allows the user to define deterministic elements which are failure free and/or are unrepairable. These elements may be used to represent parameters of the process (e.g. purity of feedstock or production demand at a particular time) or where necessary in the modelling logic (e.g. to provide conversion factors).
Q values
Each element of the model has a user-defined process 'q value' representing a parameter of interest (e.g. mass flow, generation capacity etc.). Each element is considered to be either operating or not operating and has associated performance values q = Q or q = 0 respectively. The interpretation of each 'q v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristopher%20Moore | Cristopher David Moore, known as Cris Moore, (born March 12, 1968 in New Brunswick, New Jersey) is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and physicist. He is resident faculty at the Santa Fe Institute, and was formerly a full professor at the University of New Mexico.
Biography
Moore did his undergraduate studies at Northwestern University, graduating in 1986. He earned his Ph.D. in 1991 from Cornell University under the supervision of Philip Holmes. After postdoctoral studies at the Santa Fe Institute, he joined the institute as a research faculty member in 1998, and moved to the University of New Mexico in 2000 as an assistant professor. He received tenure there in 2005. In 2007 he became a research professor at the Santa Fe Institute again, while retaining his University of New Mexico affiliation, and in 2008 he was promoted to full professor at UNM. His primary appointment was in the Department of Computer Science, with a joint appointment in the UNM Department of Physics and Astronomy. In 2012, Moore left the University of New Mexico and became full-time resident faculty at the Santa Fe Institute.
Moore has also served on the Santa Fe, New Mexico city council from 1994 to 2002, affiliated with the Green Party of New Mexico.
Research
In 1993, Moore found a novel solution to the three-body problem, showing that it is possible in Newtonian mechanics for three equal-mass bodies to follow each other around a shared orbit along a figure-eight shaped curve. Moore's results were found through numerical computations, and they were made mathematically rigorous in 2000 by Alain Chenciner and Richard Montgomery and shown computationally to be stable by Carlès Simo. Later researchers showed that similar solutions to the three-body problem are also possible under general relativity, Einstein's more accurate description of the effects of gravitation on moving bodies. After his original work on the problem, Moore collaborated with Michael Nauenberg to find many complex orbits for systems of more than three bodies, including one system in which twelve bodies trace out the four equatorial cycles of a cuboctahedron.
In 2001, Moore and John M. Robson showed that the problem of tiling one polyomino with copies of another is NP-complete.
Moore has also been active in the field of network science, with many notable publications in the field. In work with Aaron Clauset, David Kempe, and Dimitris Achlioptas, Moore showed that the appearance of power laws in the degree distribution of networks can be illusory: network models such as the Erdős–Rényi model, whose degree distribution does not obey a power law, may nevertheless appear to exhibit one when measured using traceroute-like tools. In work with Clauset and Mark Newman, Moore developed a probabilistic model of hierarchical clustering for complex networks, and showed that their model predicts clustering robustly in the face of changes to the link structure of the network.
Other topics in Moore's re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20normalization | Color normalization is a topic in computer vision concerned with artificial color vision and object recognition. In general, the distribution of color values in an image depends on the illumination, which may vary depending on lighting conditions, cameras, and other factors. Color normalization allows for object recognition techniques based on color to compensate for these variations.
Main concepts
Color constancy
Color constancy is a feature of the human internal model of perception, which provides humans with the ability to assign a relatively constant color to objects even under different illumination conditions. This is helpful for object recognition as well as identification of light sources in an environment. For example, humans see an object approximately as the same color when the sun is bright or when the sun is dim.
Applications
Color normalization has been used for object recognition on color images in the field of robotics, bioinformatics and general artificial intelligence, when it is important to remove all intensity values from the image while preserving color values. One example is in case of a scene shot by a surveillance camera over the day, where it is important to remove shadows or lighting changes on same color pixels and recognize the people that passed. Another example is automated screening tools used for the detection of diabetic retinopathy as well as molecular diagnosis of cancer states, where it is important to include color information during classification.
Known issues
The main issue about certain applications of color normalization is that the end result looks unnatural or too distant from the original colors. In cases where there is a subtle variation between important aspects, this can be problematic. More specifically, the side effect can be that pixels become divergent and not reflect the actual color value of the image.
A way of combating this issue is to use color normalization in combination with thresholding to correctly and consistently segment a colored image.
Transformations and algorithms
There is a vast array of different transformations and algorithms for achieving color normalization and a limited list is presented here. The performance of an algorithm is dependent on the task and one algorithm which performs better than another in one task might perform worse in another (no free lunch theorem). Additionally, the choice of the algorithm depends on the preferences of the user for the end-result, e.g. they may want a more natural-looking color image.
Grey world
The grey world normalization makes the assumption that changes in the lighting spectrum can be modelled by three constant factors applied to the red, green and blue channels of color. More specifically, a change in illuminated color can be modelled as a scaling α, β and γ in the R, G and B color channels and as such the grey world algorithm is invariant to illumination color variations. Therefore, a constancy solution can be achieved |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truro%20Daily%20News | The Truro News is a weekly newspaper in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada, covering Colchester County.
The paper is currently owned by SaltWire Network, and is sisters with The News in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia and the Cape Breton Post.
See also
List of newspapers in Canada
References
External links
SaltWire Network publications
Truro, Nova Scotia
Daily newspapers published in Nova Scotia
Newspapers established in 1891
1891 establishments in Nova Scotia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Latham | William Latham may refer to:
William Latham (computer scientist) (born 1961), British computer artist
William P. Latham (1917–2004), American composer
William H. Latham (1903–1987), engineer with the New York Power Authority
William H. Latham (icebreaker), a 1987 icebreaker on the Niagara River, named after the above
See also
Bill Latham (disambiguation)
Latham, William |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRC | OpenRC is a dependency-based init system for Unix-like computer operating systems. It was created by Roy Marples, a NetBSD developer who was also active in the Gentoo project. It became more broadly adopted as an init system outside of Gentoo following the decision by some Linux distributions not to adopt systemd.
Adoption
OpenRC is the default init system and/or process supervisor for:
Alpine Linux
Funtoo
Gentoo Linux
Hyperbola GNU/Linux-libre
Maemo Leste
Nitrux
OpenRC is an available init system and/or process supervisor for:
Artix Linux (some consider it the default)
Devuan
Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
Design
OpenRC is made up of several modular components, the main ones being an init (optional), the core dependency management system and a daemon supervisor (optional). It is written in C and POSIX-compliant shell, making it usable on BSD and Linux systems.
The core part of OpenRC handles dependency management and init script parsing. OpenRC works by scanning the runlevels, building a dependency graph, then starting the needed service scripts. It exits once the scripts have been started. By default, OpenRC uses a modified version of start-stop-daemon for daemon management.
Init scripts share similarities with scripts used in sysvinit, but offer several features to simplify their creation. Scripts are assumed to have , and ; and the system uses variables already declared to create the default functions. The depend function is used to declare dependencies to other services that would be done with LSB headers in sysvinit. Configuration and mechanism are separated with configuration files in the conf.d directory and init files in the init.d directory.
Openrc-init first appeared in version 0.25 as an optional replacement for . This can replace Gentoo Linux's default init system, sysvinit.
Supervise-daemon first appeared in version 0.21 giving OpenRC supervision capabilities. It can be enabled in the init script for supervise-daemon to start and monitor a daemon. Several other daemon supervisors are supported, including runit and s6.
Features
Portable between Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD
Parallel service startup (off by default)
Dependency-based boot-up
Process segregation through cgroups
Per-service resource limits (ulimit)
Separation of code and configuration (init.d / conf.d)
Extensible startup scripts
Stateful init scripts (is it started already?)
Complex init scripts to start multiple components (Samba [smbd and nmbd], NFS [nfsd, portmap, etc.])
Automatic dependency calculation and service ordering
Modular architecture and separation of optional components (cron, syslog)
Expressive and flexible network handling (including VPN, bridges, etc.)
Verbose debug mode
References
Software using the BSD license
Unix process- and task-management-related software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy%20Warnow | Tandy Warnow is an American computer scientist and Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She is known for her work on the reconstruction of evolutionary trees, both in biology and in historical linguistics, and also for multiple sequence alignment methods.
Biography
Warnow did both her undergraduate and graduate studies in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a bachelor's degree in 1984 and a PhD in 1991 under the supervision of Eugene Lawler. The other members of her dissertation committee were Richard Karp, Manuel Blum, Dan Gusfield, and David Gale.
Research and career
After postdoctoral research at the University of Southern California from 1991–1992 (postdoctoral supervisors Michael Waterman and Simon Tavare) and at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque from 1992–1993, she took a faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania, where she remained until moving in 1999 to the University of Texas. In 2014, Warnow joined the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC), where she is the Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering and Associate Head of the Department of Computer Science. Warnow has courtesy appointments in the Departments of Animal Biology, Bioengineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Entomology, Mathematics, Plant Biology, and Statistics.
In 1995, research by Warnow, Donald Ringe, and Ann Taylor at the University of Pennsylvania based on perfect phylogeny computations provided a comprehensive theory for the timing of the early subdivisions in the Indo-European languages. Their computations lent support to the Indo-Hittite hypothesis according to which the first of these subdivisions to separate from the rest of the Indo-European languages were the Anatolian languages. Their results also support the Graeco-Armenian hypothesis, according to which the Armenian language and Greek language form a subfamily of Indo-European. They fit the Germanic languages into the evolutionary tree of Indo-European languages, previously considered problematic, by hypothesizing that the Proto-Germanic language was closely related to the Balto-Slavic languages but then became modified by westward migrations of the Germanic tribes which led them into contact with Italic and Celtic speakers. This perfect phylogeny approach was later extended by Warnow and colleagues to allow for undetected borrowing between languages, so that language evolution is modelled with a network rather than a tree.
In 2009, Warnow and her colleagues released their SATé software for co-estimating biological multiple sequence alignments and evolutionary trees. Their software is based less strongly on firm mathematical principles than some previous co-estimation methods (such as BAli-Phy), but is significantly faster, allowing the fast construction of highly accurate trees and alignments for thousands of species. In comparison, the slow performance of previou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%20Sa%C3%AFd%20Ouma | Mohamed Saïd Ouma is a film director and screenwriter who has been responsible for production and a programming assistant for the International African Film Festival of Africa and the Islands (FIFAI) in the city of Port à l'Ile in Réunion Island since 2004.
Before that he worked as a journalist in England for several years.
FIFAI is organized by Alain Gili and Mohamed Said Ouma.
The festival honors productions that are often ignored on the African continent, and also honors works made in the islands.
His 2007 documentary film Le Mythe de la cinquième île (The myth of the fifth island) explores how an immigrant from the Comoros islands adjusts to living in Coldharbour Lane in Brixton, London with men from Croatia and Sicily, girls from Spain and Norway.
The short sequel, Matso, épilogue du mythe de la cinquième île is a political documentary about illegal migration between the Comoros Island and Mayotte.
Filmography
References
Living people
People from Réunion
Film directors from Réunion
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DestiNet.eu | DestiNet.eu is a Knowledge Networking portal for Sustainable Tourism and Responsible Tourism.
DestiNet was started in 2002 by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the Network Evolution for Sustainable Tourism (NEST).
The World Tourism Organization (WTO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) became partners in 2006.
ECOTRANS has been the executive body since 2005. (ECOTRANS - founded in 1993 - is a non-profit organisation based in Saarbrücken, Germany. It is a European network of experts and organisations in tourism, environment and regional development).
QualityCoast is one of the organisation in the Ecotrans-network. It is dedicated to sustainable tourism in coastal regions and relates its members to DestiNet.
External links
DestiNet.eu
Sustainable tourism
Tourism in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REX%20OS | The REX Operating System (Real-time Executive Operating System) is a real-time operating system (RTOS) developed by Qualcomm for the ARM processor based mobile phone Dual-Mode Subscriber Station (DMSS) or Advanced Mode Subscriber Software (AMSS) development. As of 2007, most Korean cell phones ran on REX.
REX is a combination of two operating systems: L4Ka::Pistachio embedded microkernel and Iguana, with extensive modifications and extensions by Qualcomm and HTC.
Originally developed for the Intel 80186, it was then ported to ARM, and x86 architectures are no longer supported. REX is not POSIX compliant or open-source software and requires a proprietary software license from Qualcomm for use.
It seems not to be actively developed or marketed as of 2012, but is used in currently or recently sold low end cell phones, typically for use by pay-as-you-go customers, like the Samsung SPH-M300.
Features
REX is an RTOS with the following features:
Preemptive multitasking
Task management
Task synchronization
Exclusive lock
Timer
Interrupt management
Uses less than 5K of ROM
REX provides no memory protection features but does have memory management abilities.
References
External links
Iguana
L4 Based Operating Systems
NICTA L4-embedded Kernel
Qualcomm Corporate Site
Qualcomm software
Smartphone operating systems
Real-time operating systems
Embedded operating systems
Microkernel-based operating systems
Mobile operating systems
ARM operating systems
Microkernels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20George%20Town%2C%20Penang | The George Town trolleybus system was part of the public transport network in George Town, on the island of Penang (part of Malaysia since 1963), for more than 35 years in the mid-20th century.
Opened in 1924, the system gradually replaced the George Town tramway network. It lasted until mid-1961, when it was closed and replaced by a network of motor bus routes. At its peak, the system had four routes.
History
In 1923 a 24-seat Brush bodied Clough, Smith trolleybus was ordered as an experiment, entering service in 1925 on the Magazine Road to Jetty via Chulia Street service. It was followed by a 22-seat Strachans & Brown bodied Thornycroft. In 1926 three trolleybuses were purchased from Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies, who supplied another five in March 1929. Two existing Thornycroft motor buses were converted to trolleybuses in 1929 and 1931, respectively.
In 1934, two nine-seater trolleybuses were purchased specifically for the one mile Penang Hill Railway service from Lower station to the Air Itam main road. A further 18 Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies trolleybuses were delivered in 1935/36. Six more followed in 1938-1940.
By the end of the Japanese occupation of Malaya, the entire fleet was out of service. All were gradually returned to service between 1946 and 1950 except two that were too badly damaged. In the 1950s the original fleet was replaced by 26 Sunbeams and five 1935 built AEC 664T double-deckers purchased second-hand from London. The network closed on 31 July 1961.
Fleet
See also
History of Malaysia
List of trolleybus systems
Transport in Penang
References
External links
David Bradley Online – Georgetown Trolleybus Fleet
George Town
History of George Town, Penang
Transport in Penang
Trolleybus transport in Malaysia
1924 establishments in British Malaya
1961 disestablishments in Malaya |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20districts%20of%20Himachal%20Pradesh%20by%20population | The total geographical area of Himachal Pradesh is . Population density is rounded to the nearest integer.
As per census data 2011, the total population of Himachal Pradesh is 200
This is a list of the population of the Districts of Himachal Pradesh.
Districts by population |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOLLx8 | Digital One Line Link (DOLLx8) is a technology architecture that consists of data communication protocol, synchronous serial data bus and a communication system for embedded systems and electronics. DOLLx8 use ASCII characters in its data protocol, differential signaling in the bus system, where the communication consists of an active long-distance technology based on system logic where handling of the communication is done automatically by the microcontroller and its internal embedded Real-time operating system (RTOS) and software.
A traditional local area network (LAN) is based on Ethernet, a network system used in personal computers where one PC is able to talk to another PCs. In embedded systems, RS-232 TTL (Transistor-Transistor Logic) has dominated the market over a longer period of time as the most common communication standard that also works as an internal embedded network system. With the use of MAX 232 integrated circuit (IC), the RS-232 TTL may connect to an external RS-232 connection where the immediate advantage of using MAX 232 is that there is no need of using positive and negative power supply. It is also possible to connect to USB via RS-232 to USB converter, and even if the original standard for RS-232 was basically a point-to-point system for the serial port on PCs, it is still possible to use RS-232 in small local area network using micro-controller and source code to control the signals and data transmission.
A DOLLx8 embedded network uses its own specific interface system named DOLLx8 Dataport that via DOLLx8 eMaster unit connects to external RS-232 and from there to USB directly, but requires the installation of a separate DOLLx8 driver. DOLLx8 runs on its own internal clock system that allows the DOLLx8 Dataport bus speed to be independent of the RS-232 baud speed set on the PC side, and can thus be determined by the user. With DOLLx8, USB works as a virtual communication port and can be set to a maximum speed of 128,000 kbps.
MISOLIMA
MISOLIMA is a registered trademark of FIKO Software Co., Ltd. and are being used for all products from FIKO Software which also includes products other than software, electronics and embedded systems. One such product-range is MISOLIMA Home and Offices that is ready-built modular houses supplied with DOLLx8 technologies such as home automation, solar cells and GSM alarm. MISOLIMA accounts for most of the product developments in cooperation with other companies that use DOLLx8 technologies, where MISOLIMA gets grants from the National Innovation Agency in the development of DOLLx8 for Android.
MISOLIMA established Thailand's first foreign owned software and technology park in Chiang Mai in 2001/2002 with approvals from the Thailand Board of Investment under the name Cyber Media Park for e-Gravity (CMPEG)" where the name was later on changed to MISOLIMA Software and Technology Park (MSTP). MSTP consists of 11 400 square meters (122 708 square feet) land area with main building of 1 600 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talcher%20Autonomous%20College | Talcher Autonomous College, Talcher, is a degree college offering instruction in Arts, Science and Commerce.
it also offers Vocational Education in two trades and Elective subjects in Computer Science and Bio-Technology.
History
The college was founded as a Tutorial College in 1969, in a rented building overlooking the river Brahmani. It subsequently got approval and University affiliation for Intermediate in Arts (IA) from the session 1970-71, The IGNOU authorities has chosen Talcher Autonomous College as a Special study Center in the year 2005 considering the demand of the local people.
References
External links
Department of Higher Education, Odisha
Autonomous Colleges of Odisha
Universities and colleges in Odisha
Angul district
Educational institutions established in 1969
1969 establishments in Orissa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Family%20Recipe%20Rocks | My Family Recipe Rocks is a television cooking show hosted by Joey Fatone. The show is produced for Live Well Network by Executive Producer Jeff Aiello for Fresno, California ABC O&O station KFSN-TV.
The show
In each episode, Host, Joey Fatone visits a different American city to meet someone known in their community for a signature recipe. He and the show's crew spend a day in the person's kitchen and Fatone helps the cook prepare the recipe for his/her friends and family and share stories and family memories pertaining to the recipe and the cook's family.
Episodes
References
2010s American cooking television series
2012 American television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Cartoon%20Network%20%28Latin%20America%29 | This is a list of programs broadcast by Cartoon Network (Latin American TV channel).
Current programming
Original programming from Cartoon Network Studios
Apple & Onion (May 1, 2018)
Ben 10 (April 10, 2017)
Clarence (August 4, 2014)
Craig of the Creek (June 16, 2018)
Steven Universe (April 7, 2014)
Summer Camp Island
Uncle Grandpa (January 2, 2014)
We Baby Bears (January 2, 2022)
We Bare Bears (August 24, 2015)
Original programming from Warner Bros. Animation
Jellystone!
Looney Tunes Cartoons
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? (November 7, 2019)
Teen Titans Go! (September 2, 2013)
Tom and Jerry in New York
Unikitty! (February 12, 2018)
Animaniacs (2020 TV series)
My Adventures with Superman
Original programming from Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe
The Amazing World of Gumball (September 4, 2011)
Acquired programming
Barbie: It Takes Two (May 16, 2022)
Total DramaRama (May 10, 2019)
Local shows
These shows were produced in the countries covered by Cartoon Network Latin America.
Another Week in Cartoon (May 4, 2015)
Any Malu Show (May 4, 2020)
Jorel's Brother (February 2, 2015)
Juaco vs. Paco (June 7, 2021) (exclusive for Colombia and Venezuela)
Monica's Gang (June 27, 2004)
Las Aventuras de Papelucho (September 24, 2021)
Ninjin (September 4, 2019)
Oswaldo (October 11, 2017)
The (Sur)real World of Any Malu (March 16, 2019)
Turma da Mônica Jovem (November 7, 2019)
Toontubers (July 23, 2016)
Villainous (October 29, 2021)
The Real World of Any Malu (April 28, 2023)
Cartoonito shows
Batwheels
Bugs Bunny Builders
Lucas the Spider
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go
References
See also
List of programs broadcast by Cartoonito (Latin America)
List of programs broadcast by Discovery Kids (Latin America)
Cartoon Network
Cartoon_Network-related_lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race%20engineer | A race engineer is a motorsport team member who analyses data to achieve the best performance from the vehicle and driver. The race engineer communicates with the team's data analyst, mechanics, and driver, both between and during races. Off the race track, the race engineer analyses historical data to determine the initial set-up for the next race event or test. The race engineer's duties also include hands-on management of the vehicle mechanics, organization of the testing schedule, and assurance of compliance with regulations. The race engineer seeks to make these activities occur as seamlessly as possible for the driver. Race engineers almost always have an academic degree in engineering or a related field.
A good race engineer must have good people skills. To be effective, the race engineer must have a good working relationship with not only the driver but also the rest of the team, both at and away from the track. Many times the race engineer is also "the face" of the team for the media; this is especially true during the race while the driver is inaccessible. This makes the race engineer's media skills a priority.
History
The role of the race engineer on racing teams has grown in importance since the adoption of on-board sensors that collect performance data. The race engineer's job is to evaluate the vehicle's performance gathered from both telemetry and the driver's feedback. The race engineer then seeks to improve performance with regard to the driver's desires by adjusting suspension, engine calibrations, aerodynamics, and other variables which affect the vehicle's performance on the race track.
Travel
Race engineers tend to travel extensively, especially during the racing season of their motorsport teams. At the highest level of professional motorsports, international travel is common. Offseason travel for race engineers is usually for testing, training, and visiting vendors.
See also
Automotive aerodynamics
Automotive engineering
Control theory
Mechanical engineering
References
External links
The Race Engineer
Unusual Journeys: Racing Around with Formula One
Tips for a Career in Motorsports Engineering
Engineering occupations
Motorsport people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency%20domain%20decomposition | The frequency domain decomposition (FDD) is an output-only system identification technique popular in civil engineering, in particular in structural health monitoring. As an output-only algorithm, it is useful when the input data is unknown. FDD is a modal analysis technique which generates a system realization using the frequency response given (multi-)output data.
Algorithm
Estimate the power spectral density matrix at discrete frequencies .
Do a singular value decomposition of the power spectral density, i.e. where is a unitary matrix holding the singular vectors , is the diagonal matrix holding the singular values .
For an degree of freedom system, then pick the dominating peaks in the power spectral density using whichever technique you wish (or manually). These peaks correspond to the mode shapes.
Using the mode shapes, an input-output system realization can be written.
See also
Eigensystem realization algorithm - an input/output identification technique
References
Systems theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moti%20Yung | Mordechai M. "Moti" Yung is a cryptographer and computer scientist known for his work on cryptovirology and kleptography.
Career
Yung earned his PhD from Columbia University in 1988 under the supervision of Zvi Galil. In the past, he worked at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, CertCo, RSA Laboratories, and Google. In 2016, Yung moved from Google to Snap Inc. Yung is currently a research scientist at Google.
Yung is an adjunct senior research faculty member at Columbia University, and has co-advised PhD students including Gödel Prize winner Matthew K. Franklin, Jonathan Katz, and Aggelos Kiayias.
Research
Yung research covers primarily the area of cryptography and its applications to information security and data privacy. He has worked on defining and implementing malicious (offensive) cryptography: cryptovirology and kleptography, and on various other foundational and applied fields of cryptographic research, including: user and entity electronic authentication,
information-theoretic security, secure multi-party computation, threshold cryptosystems,
and zero-knowledge proofs,
Cryptovirology
In 1996, Adam L. Young and Yung coined the term cryptovirology to denote the use of cryptography as an attack weapon via computer viruses and other malware in contrast to its traditional protective role. In particular, they described the first instances of ransomware using public-key cryptography.
Kleptography
In 1996, Adam L. Young and Yung introduced the notion of kleptography to show how cryptography could be used to attack host cryptosystems where the malicious resulting system with the embedded cryptologic tool in it resists reverse-engineering and cannot be detected by interacting with the host cryptosystem, as an argument against cryptographic systems and devices given by an external body as "black boxes" as was the Clipper chip and the Capstone program.
After the 2013 Snowden affair, the NIST was believed to have mounted the first kleptographic attack against the American Federal Information Processing Standard detailing the Dual EC DRBG, essentially exploiting the repeated discrete logarithm based "kleptogram" introduced by Young and Yung.
Awards
In 2010 he was the annual Distinguished Lecturer of the International Association for Cryptologic Research at Eurocrypt.
In 2013 he became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
In 2014 he received the ESORICS (European Symposium on Research in Computer Security) Outstanding Research Award.
In 2014 he became a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research.
In 2014 he received the ACM's SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award.
In 2015 he became an IEEE fellow.
In 2017 Yung became a fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science.
In 2018 Yung received the W. Wallace McDowell Award by the IEEE Computer Society.
In 2020 Yung received the Public Key Cryptography Conference's Test of Time Award for his 1998 paper on the security of ElGamal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapezoidal%20rule%20%28differential%20equations%29 | In numerical analysis and scientific computing, the trapezoidal rule is a numerical method to solve ordinary differential equations derived from the trapezoidal rule for computing integrals. The trapezoidal rule is an implicit second-order method, which can be considered as both a Runge–Kutta method and a linear multistep method.
Method
Suppose that we want to solve the differential equation
The trapezoidal rule is given by the formula
where is the step size.
This is an implicit method: the value appears on both sides of the equation, and to actually calculate it, we have to solve an equation which will usually be nonlinear. One possible method for solving this equation is Newton's method. We can use the Euler method to get a fairly good estimate for the solution, which can be used as the initial guess of Newton's method. Cutting short, using only the guess from Eulers method is equivalent to performing Heun's method.
Motivation
Integrating the differential equation from to , we find that
The trapezoidal rule states that the integral on the right-hand side can be approximated as
Now combine both formulas and use that and to get the trapezoidal rule for solving ordinary differential equations.
Error analysis
It follows from the error analysis of the trapezoidal rule for quadrature that the local truncation error of the trapezoidal rule for solving differential equations can be bounded as:
Thus, the trapezoidal rule is a second-order method. This result can be used to show that the global error is as the step size tends to zero (see big O notation for the meaning of this).
Stability
The region of absolute stability for the trapezoidal rule is
This includes the left-half plane, so the trapezoidal rule is A-stable. The second Dahlquist barrier states that the trapezoidal rule is the most accurate amongst the A-stable linear multistep methods. More precisely, a linear multistep method that is A-stable has at most order two, and the error constant of a second-order A-stable linear multistep method cannot be better than the error constant of the trapezoidal rule.
In fact, the region of absolute stability for the trapezoidal rule is precisely the left-half plane. This means that if the trapezoidal rule is applied to the linear test equation y''' = λy'', the numerical solution decays to zero if and only if the exact solution does.
Notes
References
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See also
Crank–Nicolson method
Runge–Kutta methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumferential%20Road%202 | Circumferential Road 2 (C-2), informally known as the C-2 Road, is a network of roads and bridges that all together form the second beltway of Metro Manila in the Philippines. Spanning some , it connects the districts of Tondo, Santa Cruz, Sampaloc, San Miguel, Santa Mesa, Paco, Pandacan, and Malate in Manila.
The entire route is also designated as National Route 140 (N140) of the Philippine highway network.
History
The development of a major road network in Manila was first conceived in the Metropolitan Thoroughfare Plan of 1945, predicting that the metropolis in the 1940s will expand further to the shorelines of Laguna de Bay. The plan proposed the laying of circumferential roads 1 to 6 and radial roads 1 to 10.
Since roads were already existing, the concept was to just connect short road segments to form C-2. To be joined are Calle Capulong, Calle Tayuman, Governor Forbes, Calle Nagtahan found north of the Pasig River, and Calle Canonigo in the south bank of the Pasig. The Nagtahan Bridge, the widest bridge crossing of the Pasig River until it was surpassed by the Guadalupe Bridge in 1963, connected these two sections.
Older roads dates back to the early 19th century, under the Spanish rule. Calle Canonigo (now Quirino Avenue Extension) was laid out to connect Plaza Dilao and Paco railroad station to Calle Isaac Peral (now United Nations Avenue). The road perpendicular to Canonigo leading to the Pasig River was a narrow street called Calle Luengo in Pandacan.
A 1934 map of Manila by the YMCA shows Calle Tayuman starts at Calle Sande (now Nicolas Zamora Street) and Calle Juan Luna and ends near the San Lazaro Hippodrome. The road then connects to Calle Governor Forbes (now Lacson Avenue) which stretched until Calle Lealtad (now Fajardo). Calle Nagtahan connects the Santa Mesa Rotonda up to the Pasig River. South of the river, only Calle Canonigo was existing. Harrison Boulevard (now Quirino Avenue) was then built during the Commonwealth period to connect Calle Herrán (now Pedro Gil Street) to Dewey Boulevard (now Roxas Boulevard). Eventually, Calle Luengo was extended to Calle Herran.
Route description
Capulong Street
Also known as the C-2 Road, Capulong Street starts from Mel Lopez Boulevard, a part of Radial Road 10 (R-10), and ends in Juan Luna Street. It is the main thoroughfare of the district of Tondo in Manila.
Tayuman Street
Tayuman Street is a four-lane main thoroughfare of the districts of Tondo and Santa Cruz. It starts from the Juan Luna Street and ends in a junction with Lacson Avenue. The entire road is considered as a part of the C-2 Road.
Lacson Avenue
Formerly known as Governor Forbes Avenue, the C-2 segment of Lacson Avenue starts from the junction of Tayuman and Consuelo Streets in Santa Cruz and ends at Nagtahan Interchange, skirting the old San Lazaro Hippodrome.
Nagtahan Street
Nagtahan Street connects the Nagtahan Interchange with Mabini Bridge (Nagtahan Bridge).
Quirino Avenue
Quirino Avenue starts at |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alo%2C%20Da%21 | Alo, Da! (Bulgarian: Ало, Да!, meaning "Hello, Yes?") is a Bulgarian mobile virtual network operator, operated by the Trud and 24 Chasa newspapers. The company advertises itself as offering free access to the mobile webpages of the two newspapers.
Official website
Mobile virtual network operators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuaJIT | LuaJIT is a tracing just-in-time compiler for the Lua programming language. Mike Pall, a primary maintainer of the project had resigned in 2015, resorting only to occasional patching to the future 2.1 version.
History
The LuaJIT project was started in 2005 by developer Mike Pall, released under the MIT open source license.
The second major release of the compiler, 2.0.0, featured major performance increases.
The latest release, 2.0.5 is released in 2017. However, Mike Pall, the creator and maintainer recommends using the tip of the v2.1 branch, and does not believe in releases.
Notable users
CERN, for their Methodical Accelerator Design 'next-generation' software for describing and simulating particle accelerators
OpenResty, a fork of nginx with Lua scripting
Kong, a web API gateway
Cloudflare, who use LuaJIT in their web application firewall service
Performance
LuaJIT is often the fastest Lua runtime. LuaJIT has also been named the fastest implementation of a dynamic programming language.
LuaJIT includes a Foreign Function Interface compatible with C data structures. Its use is encouraged for numerical computation.
Tracing
LuaJIT is a tracing just-in-time compiler. LuaJIT chooses loops and function calls as trace anchors to begin recording possible hot paths. Function calls will require twice as many invocations to begin recording as a loop. Once LuaJIT begins recording, all control flow, including jumps and calls, are inlined to form a linear trace. All executed bytecode instructions are stored and incrementally converted into LuaJIT's Static single-assignment Intermediate representation. LuaJIT's trace compiler is often capable of inlining and removing dispatches from object orientation, operators, and type modifications.
Internal representation
LuaJIT uses two types of internal representation. A stack-based bytecode is used for the interpreter, and a static-single assignment form is used for the just-in-time compiler. The interpreter bytecode is frequently patched by the JIT compiler, often to begin executing a compiled trace or to mark a segment of bytecode for causing too many trace aborts.
-- Loop with if-statement
local x = 0
for i=1,1e4 do
x = x + 11
if i%10 == 0 then -- if-statement
x = x + 22
end
x = x + 33
end
---- TRACE 1 start Ex.lua:5
---- TRACE 1 IR
0001 int SLOAD #2 CI
0002 > num SLOAD #1 T
0003 num ADD 0002 +11
0004 int MOD 0001 +10
0005 > int NE 0004 +0
0006 + num ADD 0003 +33
0007 + int ADD 0001 +1
0008 > int LE 0007 +10000
0009 ------ LOOP ------------
0010 num ADD 0006 +11
0011 int MOD 0007 +10
0012 > int NE 0011 +0
0013 + num ADD 0010 +33
0014 + int ADD 0007 +1
0015 > int LE 0014 +10000
0016 int PHI 0007 0014
0017 num PHI 0006 0013
---- TRACE 1 stop -> loop
---- TRACE 2 start 1/4 Ex.lua:8
---- TRACE 2 IR
0001 num SLOAD #1 PI
0002 int SLOAD #2 PI
0003 num ADD 0001 +22
0004 num ADD 0003 +33
0005 int ADD 0002 +1
0006 > int LE 0005 +10000
0007 num CONV 0005 num.int
---- TRACE 2 stop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niles%20Pierce | Niles A. Pierce is an American mathematician, bioengineer, and professor at the California Institute of Technology. He is a leading researcher in the fields of molecular programming and dynamic nucleic acid nanotechnology. His research is focused on kinetically controlled DNA and RNA self-assembly. Pierce is working on applications in bioimaging.
Pierce graduated as the Valedictorian of the Princeton University class of 1993 with a BSE in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. He then attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, an achievement repeated nine years later by his sister Lillian Pierce. He completed a DPhil in Applied Mathematics in 1997. He joined the faculty of the California Institute of Technology in 2000.
Works
Resources
NUPACK is a growing software suite for the analysis and design of nucleic acid structures, devices, and systems.
Molecular Technologies develops and supports programmable molecular technologies for reading out and regulating the state of endogenous biological circuitry.
Startup Company
Molecular Instruments, Inc. designs and synthesizes molecular kits for multiplexed quantitative bioimaging in academic research, drug development, and clinical diagnostics.
References
External links
Living people
California Institute of Technology faculty
American bioengineers
DNA nanotechnology people
American Rhodes Scholars
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Princeton University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abell%201795 | Abell 1795 is a galaxy cluster in the Abell catalogue.
Black holes
In January 2014, scientists using data collected by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other telescopes reported they had found evidence of a new supermassive black hole candidate disrupting a star in a dwarf galaxy in the Abell 1795 cluster.
See also
Abell catalogue
List of Abell clusters
References
1795
Galaxy clusters
Abell richness class 2
Boötes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intendix | intendiX is a commercial brain-computer interface (BCI) environment. It is a personal BCI that anyone can use without technical training or outside support at home or in a hospital. Users can control any smart home device such as a television, music player, air conditioner and light. intendiX can control other devices as well, such as mobile robots or games.
intendiX was introduced in 2009 by Guger Technologies OG.
While intendiX has been used as an assistive technology by persons with severe disabilities, performance may be worse among users with disabilities due to fatigue, visual deficits, or impaired concentration, attention, or memory. Most people can use intendiX to spell five to ten characters per minute within about ten minutes of training.
Description
intendiX can rely on P300 waves p and SSVEP. Both of these are very well established paradigms in BCI research, Research articles have shown that nearly all people with a healthy visual system can use these types of BCIs. Both of these approaches require the user to pay attention to a specific region of the monitor.
In a P300 BCI, different items on the monitor (such as letters) flash while the user is instructed to silently count each time a target item flashes. The BCI can identify the target item by determining which flashes elicited brain signals reflecting attention to that item. One of the most distinct such signals is the P300, hence the name. BCIs that rely on steady state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) instead rely on items that flicker instead of flash. The user focuses on one of the flickering items, producing SSVEP activity at the same frequency as that item. SSVEP signals are often found at harmonics of the stimulation frequency as well, which most SSVEP BCIs (including intendiX) exploit to improve performance. Therefore, a BCI can determine the target item by identifying the peak frequencies in the user's visual areas, which can only correspond to one of the many items on the monitor.
intendiX components
The intendiX system requires four components:
sensors that detect brain activity;
signal processing algorithms that identify relevant brain signals in real time;
a device or application where the output signal is sent; and an
operating environment that connects these components to each other and mediate interaction with the user. (Wolpaw et al., 2002; Allison et al., 2007, 2012; Wolpaw and Wolpaw, 2012).
Sensors: The first intendiX system, released in 2009, allowed users to work with either passive or active electrodes. While both of these electrodes require electrode gel, like conventional electrodes, the active electrodes do not require skin preparation and are more robust to external noise. This is because active electrodes feature amplifiers and other electronics within each electrode, whereas passive electrodes first send brain signals along cables before amplification. In 2010, g.tec introduced the Sahara dry electrode, which does not require gel.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perihelion%20%28disambiguation%29 | Perihelion is the point of closest approach to the Sun of a body orbiting the Sun.
Perihelion may also refer to:
Perihelion: The Prophecy, a 1993 role-playing video game for the Amiga computer
Perihelion Software, a British software company
Isaac Asimov's Robot City: Perihelion, a 1988 novel by William F. Wu
Perihelion, a short story by Dan Abnett for the Warhammer 40,000 universe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam%20City%20%28company%29 | Jam City, Inc. (formerly MindJolt and Social Gaming Network) is an American video game developer based in Culver City, California. The company was founded in 2010 by Chris DeWolfe, Colin Digiaro, Aber Whitcomb, and Josh Yguado. Jam City has nine studios located in the United States, Canada, South America, and Europe. As of 2021, it employs 825 people. Netmarble is the largest shareholder in Jam City. As of 2021, Jam City's games have 31 million monthly active users and 1.3 billion total downloads.
History
Jam City was founded by the Myspace co-founders Chris DeWolfe, Colin Digiaro and Aber Whitcomb, and former 20th Century Fox executive Josh Yguado. The company launched in 2010 when the co-founders raised from Austin Ventures for their business, then called Platform G. Platform G acquired MindJolt, a social gaming platform founded by Richard Fields, in March 2010 and took its name. Fields remained with the company to lead strategy. The new MindJolt acquired Social Gaming Network (or SGN) and Hallpass Media in April 2011, which added mobile games to the company's portfolio. MindJolt renamed as SGN in March 2012. In June 2013, SGN acquired Mob Science, a developer of social games known for Legends: Rise of a Hero. The company launched the game Panda Pop in 2013, which would later become one of the highest-grossing mobile games. The match-3 puzzle game Cookie Jam launched in 2014. Cookie Jam was named Facebook's game of the year with more than 100 million downloads and 5 million active players at the time. Cookie Jam was also among the 20 highest-grossing mobile games for Google Play and the App Store.
In the wake of Cookie Jams success, the South Korean mobile game company Netmarble invested in SGN in July 2015, becoming SGN's largest shareholder; this was one of the largest investments in mobile gaming since 2013. By the time of Netmarble's investment, SGN games had been downloaded 500 million times. Following Netmarble's investment, SGN bought the developers Fat Rascal Games and Kiwi Inc. in late 2015, followed by TinyCo in July 2016. The latter acquisition raised SGN's staff count from 125 to 400. Mobile entertainment games that TinyCo had created include Family Guy: The Quest for Stuff and Marvel Avengers Academy. SGN rebranded as Jam City in September 2016, the same year Genies & Gems, a match-3 puzzle game, was launched.
On April 25, 2018, Jam City released Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, a mobile game based on J. K. Rowling's Wizarding World franchise. Within its first day, the game was ranked first on the App Store's free-to-play category and reached tenth place on the list of top-grossing games across categories. It was the fastest of Jam City's games to reach $100 million in revenue, generating in its first year. By October 2019, it had been downloaded 54.6 million times. The game was nominated for Best Breakthrough Game during the 2019 Google Play Awards.
Jam City bought the intellectual property, management, and development team |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadim%20Kobeissi | Nadim Kobeissi (; born 28 September 1990) is a French-Lebanese computer science researcher specialized in applied cryptography. He is the author of Cryptocat, an open-source encrypted web chat client. Kobeissi is also known for speaking publicly against Internet censorship and Internet surveillance.
Early life and education
Kobeissi was born in Beirut, Lebanon. He studied at the Lebanese American University in Beirut from 2008 to 2009, and graduated with a degree in philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada in 2013.
Kobeissi was a Ph.D. student in applied cryptography at Inria in Paris. from 2015 to 2018.
In 2018 and 2019 he was adjunct professor of computer science at New York University's Paris campus teaching a course on computer security. In 2021 Kobeissi was naturalized French Citizen. Kobeissi is fluent in Arabic, French, and English and is based in Paris.
Research
Kobeissi is the primary author of Cryptocat. The project was discontinued in 2019.
In 2015, Kobeissi became active in researching formal verification for cryptographic protocols. In December 2018, he defended his Ph.D. thesis, "Formal Verification for Real-World Cryptographic Protocols and Implementations. (Vérification formelle des protocoles et des implementations cryptographiques).".
Activism
In 2010, Kobeissi was an early supporter of US army whistleblower Chelsea Manning. He organized a march through Montreal in December that year in support of WikiLeaks, ran a WikiLeaks mirror site, and defended WikiLeaks on various Canadian news publications. During 2011 and 2012, Kobeissi hosted CHOMP.FM, a radio program on Internet activism that ran weekly on Montreal's CKUT-FM radio station. The show included guests from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), security researcher Bruce Schneier, and journalist Glenn Greenwald.
In 2013, Kobeissi led an effort known as the Skype Open Letter which brought together more than forty organizations, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Reporters Without Borders, and the Open Technology Institute, calling on Microsoft and Skype to release transparency reports regarding Skype monitoring and surveillance. The effort was successful, and Microsoft released its first transparency report shortly after the letter was published.
Entrepreneurship
In 2017, Kobeissi founded Symbolic Software, which offers security audits for company infrastructure, software code, and cryptographic protocols.
In January 2021, a tweet by Kobeissi about his plans to design a form of "decentralized social media" immediately sparked the interest of several investors and led to the creation of Capsule Social, Inc. a startup whose mission is to build a truly decentralized social media platform to foster free speech, making it more resilient to censorship and control.
References
External links
Capsule Social, Inc.
Symbolic Software
Personal website
Techcrunch article about Capsule Social
1990 births
Living people
Cryptographers
Computer sec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Open%20Communication | The Open Communication Universities Debating Network (/ ) was founded in 1997 in Belgrade. Founded by both professors and students, it was established as an organization which promotes civic discourse, non-violent communication, critical thinking, argumentative presentation of ideas, public speaking as a form of free speech and the use of parliamentary debate as an educational and promotional tool.
Working with students
Preserving the same goals, Open Communication has been working in three University centers (Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš) and now has more than 150 active members out of over 850 students that passed its parliamentary debate training program. It currently encompasses 5 debate clubs, among which the Belgrade Law School Debate Club was formed first in 1997. The Club has been functioning since its foundation even during the times when its activities were banned. During that period the Law School Debate Club organized its activities as part of the Alternative Academic Network and Belgrade Open School. However, since the democratic changes in Serbia in 2000, the Law School Debate Club has continuously received generous financial and institutional support from the School of Law.
International recognition
Open Communication is a recognized member of International Debate Education Association (IDEA) and the Serbian representative in the European Universities Debating Council, currently holding the office of Vice President, and it successfully cooperates with numerous international, regional and local organizations through international tournaments and seminars.
Goals
The primary goals and activities of this organization include:
promoting debate through faculty-based clubs;
organizing seminars, debate tournaments and debate academies;
organizing expert lectures, panel discussions and public debates;
pursuing all forms of tolerant, rational and open communication to promote it as political and educational means, as well as a powerful tool for civil initiative and action.
Organizing public debates has been one of the priorities of Open Communication for the last several years. Raising public awareness is one of the crucial aims of our organization, as well as educating students and the society as a whole that peaceful communication through arguments is more efficient, more creative and will bring them closer to their goals.
Regional activities
Open Communication is also active in promoting debating around the region. Trainers who are members of the network have held workshops in Austria, Hungary, North Macedonia and Montenegro over the past year.
External links
Official Web Site: Open Communication
Official Web Site: Belgrade Open
Debating
1997 establishments in Serbia
Organizations established in 1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TagLib | TagLib is a free library for reading and editing metadata embedded into audio files.
It is capable of reading and editing all relevant metadata formats for audio files, including APEv2, ID3 and Vorbis comment. It can find tags in a number of different formats (.mp3, .ogg, .spx, .mpc, .ape, .flac, .wv, .tta, .wma, .m4a/m4b/m4p/mp4/3g2, .wav, .aif[f], .opus (since version 1.9)). Unicode is supported. Language bindings exist for the programming languages C (minimal), Perl, Python, and Ruby.
TagLib is developed in C++ and has no runtime dependencies on other software.
The library is distributed as Free Software under the terms of either the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) or the Mozilla Public License (MPL). It is platform independent and officially supports several Unix-like operating systems (such as Linux and OS X), and Windows. Installation on popular Linux distributions is possible using the default package sources, and even pre-installed in popular desktop systems.
TagLib is the base for the "Tagging" capability for a number of media players, including Amarok and VLC media player, however, it is used by the last.fm or the file manager GNOME Commander as well.
Development began in 2002 and version 1.0 was released on January 22, 2004.
References
Bibliography
External links
Official website
Free multimedia software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wombat%20%28operating%20system%29 | In computing, Wombat is an operating system, a high-performance virtualised Linux embedded operating system marketed by Open Kernel Labs, a spin-off of National ICT Australia's (now NICTA) Embedded, Real Time, Operating System Program.
Wombat is a de-privileged (paravirtualised) Linux running on an L4 and IGUANA system. It is optimized for embedded systems.
See also
L4Linux
References
External links
Wombat: A portable user-mode Linux for embedded systems (presentation slides)
Virtualised os: wombat
Iguana
L4 Based Operating Systems
L4.Sec Microkernel Specification
NICTA L4-embedded Kernel
Real-time operating systems
Embedded operating systems
Microkernel-based operating systems
ARM operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhash%20Suri | Subhash Suri (born July 7, 1960) is an Indian-American computer scientist, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is known for his research in computational geometry, computer networks, and algorithmic game theory.
Biography
Suri did his undergraduate studies at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, graduating in 1981. He then worked as a programmer in India before beginning his graduate studies in 1984 at Johns Hopkins University, where he earned a Ph.D. in computer science in 1987 under the supervision of Joseph O'Rourke. He was a member of the technical staff at Bellcore until 1994, when he returned to academia as an associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis. He moved to a full professorship at UCSB in 2000.
He was program committee chair for the 7th Annual International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation in 1996, and program committee co-chair for the 18th ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry in 2002.
Selected publications
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Awards and honors
Suri was elected as a fellow of the IEEE in 2009, of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2010, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011.
References
External links
Home page at UCSB
1960 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Indian computer scientists
20th-century Indian mathematicians
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Washington University in St. Louis faculty
University of California, Santa Barbara 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/Eli%20Shamir | Eliahu (Eli) Shamir () is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, the Jean and Helene Alfassa Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Biography
Shamir earned his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1963, under the supervision of Shmuel Agmon. After briefly holding faculty positions at the University of California, Berkeley and Northwestern University, he returned to the Hebrew University in 1966, and was promoted to full professor in 1972.
Contributions
Shamir was one of the discoverers of the pumping lemma for context-free languages. He did research in partial differential equations, automata theory, random graphs, computational learning theory, and computational linguistics. He was (with Michael O. Rabin) one of the founders of the computer science program at the Hebrew University.
Awards and honors
He was given his named chair in 1987, and in 2002 a workshop on learning and formal verification was held in his honor at Neve Ilan, Israel.
Selected publications
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References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli mathematicians
Theoretical computer scientists
Graph theorists
Einstein Institute of Mathematics alumni
University of California, Berkeley faculty
Northwestern University faculty
Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Celebrity%20Apprentice%20Australia | The Celebrity Apprentice Australia is an Australian reality television series which aired on the Nine Network. Based on NBC's The Apprentice, it first aired on 24 October 2011 and originally featured Mark Bouris, the founder and chairman of Wizard Home Loans and Yellow Brick Road, as the chief executive officer (CEO).
In July 2020, Nine reportedly commissioned Warner Brothers Australia, current owners of the franchise, to make a new season of The Celebrity Apprentice for 2021, with former series CEO Mark Bouris not returning. In September 2020, Nine confirmed at their yearly upfronts that the series will officially return in 2021 with British business magnate and The Apprentice UK host and CEO, Lord Alan Sugar leading the series, along with the reveal of Michelle Bridges, Michael "Wippa" Wipfli and Olivia Vivian as some of the competing celebrities. On 12 October, Nine announced the full list of celebrities competing in the season. In the same month, Josh Gibson and Scherri-Lee Biggs were also announced as competing celebrities. The season premiered on 23 May 2021.
In September 2021, the series was renewed for a sixth season with Alan Sugar returning as CEO, and revealing Turia Pitt and Will & Woody as some of the competing celebrities. On 17 October 2021, Nine announced the full list of celebrities competing in the season.
In September 2022, the series was cancelled for a second time by Nine and won’t return in 2023.
Timeline of personalities
Series overview
Teams by season
Seasons
Season 1 (2011)
A celebrity version of the series began to air on the Nine Network on 24 October 2011. It was won by comedian Julia Morris, who beat choreographer and So You Think You Can Dance Australia judge Jason Coleman in the final Boardroom.
Season 2 (2012)
The second season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia began to air on the Nine Network on 18 April 2012. It was eventually won by television and music industry personality Ian Dickson, who beat reality star Nathan Jolliffe in the final Boardroom.
Season 3 (2013)
The third season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia began to air on the Nine Network on 30 April 2013. It was won by Olympic Gold Champion Stephanie Rice, who beat fellow olympian John Steffensen in the final Boardroom.
Season 4 (2015)
The fourth season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia began airing on the Nine Network on 16 September 2015, following a one-year absence. Kerri-Anne Kennerley and Shelley Barrett replace Dane Bouris and Deborah Thomas as advisors. This season ends with Sophie Monk reigning supreme and defeating former Big Brother champion Tim Dormer in the final Boardroom.
Season 5 (2021)
The fifth season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia began airing on the Nine Network on 23 May 2021, following a six-year absence. The winning celebrity will receive $100,000 for their chosen charity. The season was won by Shaynna Blaze, who beat fellow celebrity Ross Noble in the final Boardroom.
Season 6 (2022)
The sixth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G3%20%28company%29 | G3, or the Good Governance Group, is a strategic advisory consultancy which specialises in providing advice on risk mitigation, governance, cyber security and regulatory compliance.
History
The company was set up in 2004 by two former senior executives from Kroll Inc. For a period of time it was owned by Kinnevik and it was then subject to a management buyout.
In 2011, it was reported that the company was linked to an incident involving Adam Werritty, that led to the resignation of former UK Secretary of State for Defence Liam Fox.
In 2012, it was reported that the Group had received £1.5 million from the government of Bahrain for "a media campaign to support the Kingdom of Bahrain's stance before the international community", during the Bahraini uprising.
In June 2012, Proven acquired Palmer Legal Technologies, a provider of e-discovery and digital forensics services to litigation and dispute resolution teams involved in commercial litigation, internal compliance reviews and regulatory investigations.
Background
The firm has offices in London and New York City and works with multinational corporations and financial institutions on dispute resolution, regulation and compliance, cyber security, reputation management, integrity due diligence and corporate social responsibility.
The company also provides intelligence for businesses, such as competitor analysis and cyber security, including for the defence contractor BAE Systems. The company was reported to be worth £20 million in 2011.
Services
Strategic advice - Advice on commercial, geographic or political considerations in M&A transactions or expansion into new business sectors or territories
Integrity due diligence – Pre-transactional due diligence on public or private entities or individuals to assess suitability of potential business partners
Political and business risk management – Advice on challenging emerging or developed markets focused on anticipating and interpreting political, legal or regulatory events, trends or decisions that could affect business interests
Dispute resolution – support to businesses engaged in complex, high value cases in multiple global jurisdictions, involving fraud, corruption, internal and regulatory investigations, asset profiling, and anti-bribery/corruption compliance
E-disclosure and digital forensics – specialist e-disclosure, regulatory investigation and digital forensic services that include data mapping and collection
Information and cyber security – advice on the optimisation of information security strategies and systems to enhance business opportunities and protect critical information infrastructure, including cyber security, digital investigations and online reputation
Reputational intelligence – advice on the management and safeguarding of reputations
Advisers
Helen Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke
Jacques Battistella – former roles in leading international firms like Matra, Aerospatiale and EADS. He is a member of the scien |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Cartoon%20Network%20%28Southeast%20Asia%29 | This is a list of television programs currently rerunning and formerly on Cartoon Network Asia since it was launched on October 6, 1994.
Current programming
Cartoon Network Originals
Acquired programming
50/50 Heroes
Grizzy and the Lemmings
Lego Dreamzzz
Mechamato
Maca & Roni (shorts)
Mighty Mike
Mr. Bean: The Animated Series
Ninjago: Dragons Rising
Power Rangers (exclusive to Cartoon Network Philippines)
Talking Tom & Friends (hiatus)
Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go (exclusive to Cartoon Network Philippines)
Tobot: Galaxy Detectives (exclusive to Cartoon Network Philippines)
Former programming
Original programming from Cartoon Network Studios
Apple & Onion (25 January 2019 – 1 July 2022)
Ben 10 (2005)
Ben 10: Omniverse
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
Camp Lazlo
Chowder (6 April 2009 – August 2023)
Clarence (5 January 2015 – 1 January 2022)
Class of 3000
Codename: Kids Next Door
Courage the Cowardly Dog
Cow and Chicken
Dexter's Laboratory
Ed, Edd n Eddy
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (moved to Boomerang)
Generator Rex
Grim & Evil
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
I Am Weasel
Johnny Bravo
Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart (14 December 2019 – August 2021)
Megas XLR
Mighty Magiswords (13 March 2017 – 1 January 2022)
Mike, Lu & Og
Mixels
My Gym Partner's a Monkey
OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes (20 January 2018 – 1 January 2022)
Over the Garden Wall
Samurai Jack
Sheep in the Big City
Steven Universe Future (2020–2021)
Squirrel Boy
The Fungies! (14 November 2020 – 2022)
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
The Life and Times of Juniper Lee
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack
The Powerpuff Girls (1998) (moved to Boomerang)
Time Squad
Uncle Grandpa (5 May 2014 – 1 January 2022)
Victor & Valentino (25 August 2019 – 14 September 2022)
What A Cartoon!
Original programming from Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe
Elliott from Earth (2021)
Original programming from Hanna-Barbera
2 Stupid Dogs
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo
The Addams Family
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo
The All New Popeye Show
Cattanooga Cats
Fantastic Four
Fantastic Max
Fish Police
The Flintstones
The Flintstone Kids
Godzilla
Hong Kong Phooey
Jabberjaw
The Jetsons
Jonny Quest
Josie & the Pussycats
Monchhichis
Paddington Bear
The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
Richie Rich
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1979)
Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo (1980)
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Snooper and Blabber
Speed Buggy
Squiddly Diddly
Swat Kats
The Tom and Jerry Show (1975)
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
The New Scooby-Doo Mysteries
The New Shmoo
The Pirates of Dark Water
ThunderCats
Tom and Jerry
Tom & Jerry Kids
Top Cat
Wally Gator
Yogi's Treasure Hunt
Original programming from Warner Bros. Animation
The Batman
Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!
Duck Dodgers
DC Super Hero Girls (16 November 2019 – 28 October 2022)
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses (2022)
Justice League Unlimited
Justice League
Krypto the Superdog
Looney Tunes
Mucha Lucha!
New Looney Tunes
Ozzy & Drix
The Road Runner Show
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
Stat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Celebrity%20Apprentice%20Australia%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia began airing on 18 April 2012 on the Nine Network. The series was commissioned in late 2011 following the popularity of the first celebrity season, and will be the third edition of The Apprentice Australia overall. The official cast was announced in January 2012, with filming beginning on 15 January 2012. Mark Bouris returned as CEO, with his son Dane replacing Brad Seymour as boardroom advisor, alongside Deborah Thomas. TV personality Ian "Dicko" Dickson was the celebrity winner, defeating reality star Nathan Jolliffe in the final boardroom.
Candidates
Following the success of the first series it was reported that many Australian celebrities had expressed interest in participating in a second series of the show. Reports regarding the participation of Chopper Read, Nikki Webster, Kris Smith, Julie Goodwin and Stephen Belafonte as candidates failed to eventuate, with media reporting in early January 2012 that David Hasselhoff was set to appear in the series alongside former MasterChef Australia contestant Marion Grasby and The Amazing Race Australia winner Nathan Jolliffe, as well as other expected candidates including Ian Dickson and former Australian rules footballer Jason Akermanis. These celebrities were all confirmed as candidates on 16 January 2012, with the full line-up of participants also consisting of Patti Newton, Charlotte Dawson, Lauryn Eagle, Vince Sorrenti, Fiona O'Loughlin, Ben Dark and Tania Zaetta. It has also been confirmed that Hasselhoff will be raising money for Surf Life Saving Australia, while Newton and Dawson's chosen charities are SIDS for Kids and the Smile Foundation respectively.
Weekly results
The candidate was on the losing team.
The candidate won the competition and was named the Celebrity Apprentice.
The candidate won as project manager on his/her team.
The candidate lost as project manager on his/her team.
The candidate was brought to the final boardroom.
The candidate was fired.
The candidate lost as project manager and was fired.
The candidate quit the competition.
Tasks
Unlike last season, the show aired 2 episodes a week and each episode had the challenge and the boardroom.
Task 1
Airdate: 18 April 2012 (Task & Boardroom)
Fortune's Project manager: Tania Zaetta
Platinum's Project manager: David Hasselhoff
Task: To create and operate a celebrity dog washing and pampering experience.
Winning team: Platinum
Reasons for victory: Team Platinum focused more on corporate dollars and high end donations. The price for a dog wash was set at $500, in order to earn more money whilst washing less dogs. David Hasslehoff was also able to promote the event and draw larger crowds.
Losing team: Fortune
Reasons for loss: Despite many team members bringing in large donations, they did not bring in as much as the men. Additionally, the women set their wash prices much lower, as to not turn away the general public, a strategy that backfired, leaving them with mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile%20Networks |
Introduction
Agile Networks was founded in 2011 following a management buyout of the operations of Telindus in Ireland. The new company acquired the assets, staff and customer base from Telindus following similar management buyouts for other Telindus entities in Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Germany and Italy. The new entity secured funding support from Fingal County Enterprise Board, the local council where Agile Networks has its head office based in Blanchardstown, Dublin 15. In 2017 Agile Networks merged with Plannet21 to create a new IT group targeting revenues of €100M.
Customer Base
Agile Networks' customer base includes technology companies like Digiweb, Hutchison 3G, and IAC Search and Media; public sector bodies like HEAnet, HSE, and DCU; and large enterprises like Abbott Laboratories, Analog Devices, and Aviva Stadium. Given the company is focused on complex networks it tends to focus on technology led customers and large international organisations based in Ireland. The company's best known project is the development of a 100MB broadband network which was officially completed in December 2014. This network connects all 780 secondary schools in Ireland, ultimately connecting up every post-primary student predominantly funded by the Department of Education and Skills.
Awards
The company has received the following awards to date:
In all cases the judges cited Agile Networks operational model, technical capabilities, and growing list of clients as evidence of success in the marketplace.
Vendor Accreditations
Agile Networks holds the following accreditation from international networking vendors.
References
External links
Official website
Networking companies
Information technology companies of Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Aeroper%C3%BA%20destinations | This list includes domestic and international destinations once served by Aeroperú, the flag carrier airline of Peru from 1973 to 1999. Besides a multitude of domestic routes, the network with its hub at Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport spanned throughout Latin America. At times, cities in the United States were served, too, as well as regional routes out of El Dorado International Airport in Colombia.
References
Lists of airline destinations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan%20Research%20Network | Saskatchewan Research Network Incorporated (SRNET) is a research and education network providing networking service support education, research and innovation in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. SRNET is member-driven and is a not-for-profit member of Canada's National Research and Education Network, which provides dedicated high speed network access to institutions and companies across Canada. SRNet also provides members access to CANARIE, a dedicated network that links similar research networks. The network also interconnects high performance computing resources within the province. SRNET's members link in to 112 international advanced networks in over 80 countries. Membership is open to all research, education and innovation organizations and institutions in Saskatchewan.
Their primary office is located in Regina, Saskatchewan, in the IT Building at Innovation Place research park.
History
Originally established in the early 1980s as a network to connect the University of Saskatchewan and University of Regina library systems together; it later expanded to be part of NetNorth with interconnects with BETNet in the United States and EARN in Europe. In 1989 the organization evolved into the operator of Sask*net, providing Internet based access to research organizations in the Province.
In 2006, SRnet expanded beyond its original base in Saskatoon and Regina to also include Prince Albert and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
In the past SRnet operated networking research laboratories in Saskatoon and Regina.
Members
SRNET has 11 members in Saskatchewan:
Federal Members
National Research Council Canada – Plant Biotechnology Institute – Saskatoon
Natural Resources Canada – Prince Albert Satellite Station
Agriculture and Agri Food Canada – Saskatoon Research Centre
Canadian Space Agency – Saskatoon
Provincial Members
Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools
Saskatchewan Opportunities Corporation Innovation Place and Prince Albert Forestry Centre
Saskatchewan Polytechnic including: Saskatoon Campus, Moose Jaw Campus, Regina Campus, Prince Albert Campus
Saskatchewan Research Council – 51st Lab – Saskatoon
University of Regina
University of Saskatchewan
CNET Learning VPN
References
Organizations based in Regina, Saskatchewan
Academic computer network organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soin%20Medical%20Center | Soin Medical Center is a full-service hospital located in Beavercreek, Ohio, United States, next to the Mall at Fairfield Commons. It is part of the Kettering Health network. The medical center is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association's Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program.
History
Ground was broken on the hospital in November 2009, at a cost of $135 million. Soin Medical Center was built in response to Dayton, Ohio's rapidly growing suburbs and to serve some of its more profitable customers. It is the only hospital in a 10-mile radius which is home to more than 131,000 residents. The hospital was named after Indu and Raj Soin, philanthropists who have donated a large, undisclosed sum of money towards the project.
Soin Medical Center opened its doors on February 22, 2012. It features 80 beds and was designed for expansion up to 300. Current hospital services include emergency care, general surgery, orthopedic care, cardiac care, a birthing center, critical care, medical imaging and diagnostic services. The hospital is intended to serve the healthcare needs of nearby Wright Patterson Air Force Base and Wright State University, and to satisfy their anticipated population and development growth.
In July 2013 Soin Medical Center completed the addition of 31 beds to the hospital's fourth floor to meet the demand for surgical services.
See also
List of Seventh-day Adventist hospitals
List of hospitals in Ohio
References
External links
Kettering Health
Hospital buildings completed in 2012
Hospitals in Dayton, Ohio
Buildings and structures in Greene County, Ohio
Beavercreek, Ohio
2012 establishments in Ohio
Kettering Health
Trauma centers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier%20Media | Glacier Media is a Canadian business information and media products company. It provides news, market information and sector-specific data within North America and internationally.
Glacier is headquartered in Vancouver. Its primary operations are in Canada as well as London, England. It is publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The company provides news, data and analysis in a range of business sectors. These sectors include: Agriculture, Energy, Mining, Real Estate and Environmental Risk. Glacier also owns community newspapers and websites in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Key areas of operation
Glacier provides business information to several industries.
Agriculture
Glacier's provides information to farmers regarding technology and techniques to produce crops and rear livestock. The division is called Glacier FarmMedia. It includes publications such as The Western Producer, Manitoba Co-operator, Grainews, Alberta Farmer Express, Canadian Cattlemen and Le Bulletin des agriculteurs. Daily futures market data and commentary is also provided. The division includes an outdoor events business as well as weather information gathered from more than 1,000 weather stations in western Canada. Its weather business focuses on solutions in agro-meteorology, mathematical modelling, database management and internet-based program delivery. Teams are situated primarily in Manitoba and Saskatchewan.
Energy
Glacier provides company and asset information primarily for Canada's energy industry. It also provides globally-oriented energy data for markets outside of Canada. Its energy division is called JWN Energy Group. Publications include the Daily Oil Bulletin and Oilweek magazine. Canadian operating and asset data is part of the Canoils brand of data products. More globally focused energy data is provided under the Evaluate Energy brand. Glacier Media has a joint venture partnership with Portcullis Public Affairs. In 2016, they jointly created UK Energy Strategies Ltd. Teams are situated in Calgary, Edmonton, London (UK) and India.
Mining
Mining business information is provided to mine operators, exploration and prospecting companies, mine developers and mining investors. Glacier’s Resource Innovation Group division (formerly InfoMine) gathers news content and mining data, as well as related publications and software, on-line learning courses, career notices and conference information. Glacier produces two mining publications: The Northern Miner, which has been published for more than 100 years, and the Canadian Mining Journal. Also produced by Glacier is MINING.com—an online provider of global mining news and opinion.
Real Estate
Glacier's real estate information division provides real estate listings information for British Columbia via its REW.ca portal. It also publishes Real Estate Weekly, a newspaper focused on new and resale residential home listings in Metro Vancouver, and Western Investor, a monthly commercial real estate n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumo%20Logic | Sumo Logic, Inc. is a cloud-based machine data analytics company focusing on security, operations and BI use-cases. It provides log management and analytics services that use machine-generated big data. Sumo Logic was founded in April 2010 by ArcSight veterans Kumar Saurabh and Christian Beedgen, and is headquartered in Redwood City, California.
On September 17, 2020, Sumo Logic debuted on the NASDAQ stock exchange in its initial public offering as a public company. Sumo Logic's service is powered by patent-pending Elastic Log Processing, LogReduce, and Push Analytics technologies. Sumo Logic was taken private by investment firm Francisco Partners in May 2023. Francisco Partners acquired the company for $1.7 billion.
History
Sumo Logic was founded in 2010 by a technical leadership team with expertise in log management, scalable systems, Big Data and security.
Ramin Sayar, formerly of VMware, is Sumo Logic's CEO since December 2014.
Previously, Vance Loiselle, formerly of BladeLogic, was CEO between May 2012 and December 2014.
In June 2012, Sumo Logic announced Sumo Logic Free, a freemium full functionality edition of its analytical solution that is deployed on Amazon Web Services, and in August 2012, the company announced Sumo Logic for VMware, which allows enterprises to search, visualize and analyze all VMware logs in real time so they can monitor and detect events within VMware virtual environments.
In 2016, Sumo Logic launched a data analytics platform that unifies logs and metrics to analyze structured metrics data and unstructured log data in real-time through graphical, interactive dashboards.
At the AWS 2017 conference, Sumo Logic presented its machine data analytics service which combines analytics of Docker and Kubernetes. The service streamlines data ingestion for Sumo Logic's machine data analytics service hosted on Amazon Web Services.
In 2018, Sumo Logic announced the expansion of integrations with the Google Cloud Platform, releasing integrations with GCP applications, and an integration with TensorFlow. In September 2018, Sumo Logic announced the addition of a cloud SIEM solution to its machine data analytics platform.
In April 2019, Sumo Logic launched a bidirectional integration for Atlassian’s OpsGenie incident alert service. This integration gives users the ability to create and analyze the alerts and incident data. As of May 2019, the company has collected VC funding totaling $345 million.
In 2021 it was revealed that Sumo Logic, along with other vendors, had a kickback agreement with Michael Kail, a former Netflix vice president of IT operations convicted of fraud for receiving bribes from vendors. According to the US Department of Justice, he "became an advisor and received options for shares in the company Sumo Logic" and "authorized and signed on behalf of Netflix a vendor agreement between Netflix and Sumo Logic". On 4th May 2021, the US Department of Justice announced that Michael Kail had been convicted on a n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20%28Body%20of%20Proof%29 | "Pilot" is the pilot episode of the medical drama Body of Proof. It premiered on the ABC network in the United States on March 29, 2011. The episode was directed by Nelson McCormick and written by series creator Christopher Murphey. "Pilot" introduces the lead character of Megan Hunt, a former neurosurgeon turned medical examiner, portrayed by Dana Delany. In the episode, a female jogger is found dead in Schuylkill River and Megan teams up with medical investigator Peter Dunlop (Nicholas Bishop) to investigate her whereabouts before her murder. Meanwhile, Megan spends the day trying to solve a personal problem concerning her daughter's birthday.
"Pilot" was filmed in Providence, Rhode Island during April 2010. The episode achieved 13.942 million viewers upon its first broadcast in the United States, making it the second most watched series premiere of the 2010–11 television season. It also gave UK crime channel Alibi their biggest ever television audience. "Pilot" received mixed reviews from critics, who thought the show seemed bland. However, most critics praised Delany and the supporting cast's performances.
Plot
Megan Hunt (Dana Delany) was once a top neurosurgeon, until she was involved in a car accident leaving her with paresthesia. The condition caused Megan to kill a patient during an operation, thus ending her career. She then became a medical examiner under the supervision of Kate Murphy (Jeri Ryan). Angela Swanson (Heather Arthur) is found dead in the local river, so Peter Dunlop (Nicholas Bishop) calls Megan to investigate. At the crime scene, Peter and Megan meet detectives Bud Morris (John Carroll Lynch) and Samantha Baker (Sonja Sohn), who suspect that her death was accidental. Megan, along with her new colleagues Ethan Gross (Geoffrey Arend) and Curtis Brumfield (Windell Middlebrooks) examine the body at the crime lab. Megan, Bud and Samantha speak with Angela's parents Mr. and Mrs. Swanson (Bruce MacVittie and Nancy Villone) who tell them that they thought she was having a relationship with someone she was working with. Bud and Samantha begin to suspect Angela's ex-boyfriend Tom Hanson (Joe Sikora). He was wrongly convicted of pushing Angela down a flight of stairs during a fight, leaving her in a coma, when it is quickly revealed by Hanson that Angela tripped all by herself, but due to post coma memory loss, she was later unable to back Hanson's story. Megan questions Tom, much to Bud and Samantha's annoyance, where he states she fell down the stairs. Tom is arrested, but later dropped as a suspect.
Megan goes along with Bud and Samantha to question Bradford Paige (Sam Robards), the head of the law firm where Angela worked. Megan's questions anger Bradford and Bud forces her to leave. Megan discovers that Angela gave a client some evidence, which meant that they would win their court case. Megan suspects that Bradford may have found out about this and could have been angry. Megan runs tests on Angela's stomach contents and lea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratton%20%28financial%20services%29 | Stratton Finance is one of Australia's largest car and asset finance brokers, with offices in most Australian capital cities and a national network of franchises.
Stratton Finance offers business and personal finance for a range of different types of assets including cars, boats and caravans, truck and heavy vehicles, business equipment and machinery as well as a range of insurance products. Stratton Finance has served over 100,000 Australians since 1998 with their asset finance, and has a staff of over 200 people Australia wide.
Stratton Finance is an Australian Finance Broker, accredited by over 50 lenders and insurers, some with exclusive agency.
History
Stratton Finance was first established by Rob Chaloner in 1998 as a specialist motor finance broker. The business initially relied on referrals from a Melbourne-based Land Rover dealership, but rapidly began attracting word of mouth referrals and a number of finance consultants were employed to meet the growing demand.
In 2002, Stratton Finance launched www.strattonfinance.com.au, and in 2009 launched the first Stratton Finance franchise. In 2014, Stratton Finance became part of the Carsales network when Carsales.com Ltd bought a 50.1% share in the business. In 2015, Stratton Finance acquired All About Finance, which became its marine & leisure division. In 2019 Carsales announced its intended divestment of the business, and in 2020, a team led by Founder Rob Chaloner acquired Carsales Ltd's shareholding.
Stratton Finance was announced best loan provider and car loan provider for 2023, achieving the honor three years in a row, and establishing the business as one of the leading car and asset brokers in Australia.
Products and services
As a finance broker, Stratton Finance offers clients a range of finance products, including Finance lease, Commercial Hire Purchase, Chattel mortgage, Novated lease, Fully Maintained Novated Lease, Consumer Loan and Personal Loans. While predominantly focused on vehicle finance, Stratton Finance also offers finance for a range of different types of assets, including cars, boats and caravans, truck and heavy vehicles, business equipment and machinery.
Additionally, in 2012 Stratton Finance invested in its new car buying service, carconnect, utilising a national dealer network to source vehicles for customers at fleet prices.
Stratton Finance consultants and accredited franchisees represent over 30 finance companies, including major lenders Alphera Financial Services, Macquarie Leasing, Esanda (ANZ), Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), GE Money, and Liberty Financial Services.
Franchising program
Stratton Finance has company-owned offices in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane, and a franchise network which operates in metropolitan and regional areas around Australia.
The franchise program provides independent finance brokers with the opportunity to develop their own local business with the support and recognition of a large, established industry brand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20semantics%20%28computing%29 | In computing and parallel processing, memory semantics refers to the process logic used to control access to shared memory locations, or at a higher level to shared variables in the presence of multiple threads or processors.
Memory semantics may also be defined for transactional memory, where issues related to the interaction of transactions and locks, and user-level actions need to be defined and specified.
See also
Consistency model
References
Consistency models
Transaction processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20compression | In proof theory, an area of mathematical logic, proof compression is the problem of algorithmically compressing formal proofs. The developed algorithms can be used to improve the proofs generated by automated theorem proving tools such as SAT solvers, SMT-solvers, first-order theorem provers and proof assistants.
Problem Representation
In propositional logic a resolution proof of a clause from a set of clauses C is a directed acyclic graph (DAG): the input nodes are axiom inferences (without premises) whose conclusions are elements of C, the resolvent nodes are resolution inferences, and the proof has a node with conclusion .
The DAG contains an edge from a node to a node if and only if a premise of is the conclusion of . In this case, is a child of , and is a parent of . A node with no children is a root.
A proof compression algorithm will try to create a new DAG with fewer nodes that represents a valid proof of or, in some cases, a valid proof of a subset of .
A simple example
Let's take a resolution proof for the clause from the set of clauses
Here we can see:
and are input nodes.
The node has a pivot ,
left resolved literal
right resolved literal
conclusion is the clause
premises are the conclusion of nodes and (its parents)
The DAG would be
and are parents of
is a child of and
is a root of the proof
A (resolution) refutation of C is a resolution proof of from C. It is a common given a node , to refer to the clause or ’s clause meaning the conclusion clause of , and (sub)proof meaning the (sub)proof having as its only root.
In some works can be found an algebraic representation of resolution inferences. The resolvent of and with pivot can be denoted as . When the pivot is uniquely defined or irrelevant, we omit it and write simply . In this way, the set of clauses can be seen as an algebra with a commutative operator; and terms in the corresponding term algebra denote resolution proofs in a notation style that is more compact and more convenient for describing resolution proofs than the usual graph notation.
In our last example the notation of the DAG would be or simply
We can identify .
Compression algorithms
Algorithms for compression of sequent calculus proofs include cut introduction and cut elimination.
Algorithms for compression of propositional resolution proofs include
RecycleUnits,
RecyclePivots,
RecyclePivotsWithIntersection,
LowerUnits,
LowerUnivalents,
Split,
Reduce&Reconstruct, and Subsumption.
Notes
Proof theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heng%20Li | Heng Li is a Chinese bioinformatics scientist. He is an associate professor at the department of Biomedical Informatics of Harvard Medical School and the department of Data Science of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. He was previously a research scientist working at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts with David Reich and David Altshuler. Li's work has made several important contributions in the field of next generation sequencing.
Education
Li majored in physics at Nanjing University from 1997 to 2001. He received his PhD from the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2006. His thesis, titled "Constructing the TreeFam database", was supervised by Wei-Mou Zheng.
Research
Li was involved in a number of projects while working at the Beijing Genomics Institute from 2002 to 2006. These included studying rice finishing, silkworm sequencing, and genetic variation in chickens.
From 2006 to 2009, Li worked on a postdoctoral research fellowship with Richard M. Durbin at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. During this time, Li made several important contributions to the field of next generation sequencing (NGS) through the development of software such as the SAMtools NGS utilities, the Burrows–Wheeler aligner (BWA), MAQ, TreeSoft and TreeFam.
Li joined the Broad Institute in 2009, working in the core faculty lab of David Altshuler, which investigates the discovery and understanding of the genetic causes of disease.
As of December 2018, Li's papers on SAMtools and BWA (sequence alignment using the Burrows–Wheeler transform) have both been cited over 16,000 times.
Awards
In 2012, Li won the Benjamin Franklin award in bioinformatics. Li became the fourth former member of Richard Durbin's lab to win the award, following Sean Eddy, Ewan Birney and Alex Bateman.
Personal
Li lives in Boston with his wife and daughter.
References
Living people
Chinese bioinformaticians
Year of birth missing (living people)
Harvard Medical School faculty
21st-century Chinese scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20Reading | Light Reading Inc. is a telecommunications industry information company based in New York City. Its activities include publishing, data analysis, market research, and events management.
History
The company was founded in 2000 by Stephen Saunders and was bought by UBM for $33 million in 2005, becoming part of the UBM subsidiary CMP Media. Saunders remained as CEO and launched Internet Evolution later in 2005.
Light Reading's market research arm, Heavy Reading, bought Pyramid Research in August 2008.
Light Reading also had its India publication, Light Reading India. The site had been covering the Indian telecom ecosystem from 2011 till January 2015. It was shut down when UBI India stopped its operations.
In August 2013, Light Reading migrated to UBM's DeusM community platform. In February 2014, Stephen Saunders reacquired Light Reading from UBM, with UBM retaining a "significant minority stake" in the company. Future plans for the company were said to include "bulking up the staff and changing up its media pricing"—according to Saunders, "with much of the overhead that a larger corporate structure imposes now gone, he will apply that savings to expanding staff and infrastructure as well as adjusting customer pricing downward."
In 2016, Light Reading was acquired by Informa.
Big Telecom Event
In June 2014, Light Reading launched an annual summit for the telecommunications industry, the Big Telecom Event (BTE). The event was held in Chicago, and gathered "important figures in the industry together to discuss progress, problems, and what’s on the horizon as technology continues to develop at a rapid pace." Unusually, for an industry convention, the event included no exhibitors and no show floor; rather, "BTE provided an 'Innovation Zone' where more than 60 companies gave hands-on demos in turnkey booths."
Awards
Among awards won by Light Reading are:
2014 Ava Digital Awards: gold award, business-to-business website category.
2014 Hermes Creative Awards: platinum award for infographic work in the Web Element: Other category, and four gold awards.
2014 Apex Awards: three awards of excellence in the Technical & Technology Writing, Best Resdesigns, and Identity and Graphic Standards categories.
References
External links
Indian website
Light Reading on Bloomberg BusinessWeek
Light Reading on YouTube
Companies established in 2000
Market research companies of the United States
Mass media companies based in New York City
Publishing companies of the United States
Telecommunications companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Reid%20%28author%29 | Robert H. "Rob" Reid (born October 2, 1966) is an American author and entrepreneur. He is the author of two cyberthriller novels, Year Zero: A Novel, and After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley, as well as a non-fiction book, Architects of the Web, about the rise of the internet business. Reid is the founder of Listen.com Inc., which created the Rhapsody digital music service.
Early life
Robert Reid was born in New York City, and grew up in Darien, Connecticut. As an undergraduate at Stanford University he studied Arabic and International Relations. He also has an MBA from Harvard. In 1994, Reid moved to Silicon Valley to work for Silicon Graphics, where he managed the company's relations with Netscape.
Career
Writing
After Silicon Graphics, Reid became a venture capitalist. He continued to write as well, for places such as Wired, including a 1997 cover story about online video.
In 1995, Reid wrote Year One, which was an examination of student life, as a student at Harvard Business School. The paperback was released by Avon the following year, in the wake of positive reviews from Business Week and others.
Reid wrote Architects of the Web, a book about the Silicon Valley, in 1997. It chronicled the rise of the Internet as a commercial medium as well as then rising entrepreneurs like Marc Andreessen of Netscape, Jerry Yang of Yahoo and Rob Glaser of RealNetworks. It was positively reviewed and later released in paperback in 1999.
In July 2012, Random House/Del Rey published Year Zero, a work of science fiction. The plot revolves around alien cultures coming into contact with Earth music. The resulting fines and penalties from copyright infringement have bankrupted the whole universe. Humans suddenly own everything—and the aliens are not amused.
In August 2017, Random House/Del Rey published After On: A Novel of Silicon Valley, a cyberthriller also rooted in science fiction. The plot involves the rise of a superintelligent AI and involves elements concerning data privacy and government intrusion, post-Tinder romance, nihilistic terrorism, artificial consciousness, and synthetic biology.
Business and lecturing
Reid was the sole founder of the online music company Listen.com, where he served as CEO and as Executive chairman. In 2001, Listen.com launched Rhapsody, an unlimited music streaming service for $9.99 a month—the first licensed service of its kind. In 2003, the company was acquired by RealNetworks, where Reid remained as a company vice president. Later, MTV purchased Rhapsody from RealNetworks for $230 million.
In March 1999, Reid became the founding outside board member of IGN Entertainment. IGN went public in March of the following year and was acquired by News Corp in September 2005 for $650MM.
In March 2012, Reid gave a main-stage TED talk called "The $8 Billion iPod." He explained his idea of "copyright math." The talk satirized the information provided by entertainment lobbyists and lawyers to indicate losses accrued by the entert |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHK%20FM%20Broadcast | is a Japanese radio station operated by the public broadcaster, NHK. Its programming output, which consists of classical music, jazz, rock, Japanese pop music, folk, news bulletins and talk is broadly similar to the BBC's Radio 3, CBC Music and RRI Programa 2.
Frequencies
82.5MHz Tokyo (Power: 10kW)
86.0MHz Aomori (Power: 3kW)
85.3MHz Fukushima (Power: 1kW)
88.1MHz Osaka (Power: 10kW)
82.3MHz Niigata (Power: 1kW)
86.7MHz Akita (Power: 1kW)
See also
NHK
External links
FM
Radio in Japan
Publicly funded broadcasters
Radio stations established in 1969
1969 establishments in Japan
Japanese radio networks
Classical music radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kejora%20dan%20Bintang | Kejora dan Bintang (Kejora and Bintang) is an Indonesian TV serial that was aired on RCTI. It was produced video productions house public distributor company network by SinemArt directed by Erlanda Gunawan.
Cast
Alyssa Soebandono as Kejora
Rachel Amanda as Bintang
Baim Wong as Erlangga
Lucky Perdana as Fitra
Eva Anindhita as Janet
Mathias Muchus as Ryan
Cut Keke as Hanifah
Mieke Wijaya as Gautama
Adipati Dolken as Anantha
Lia Kartika as Kartika
Ana Pinem as Minah
Rio Reifan as Joel
Mayang Yuditia as Lenna
Vonny Cornelia as Sukma
Atiq Rachman as Rahman
Liza Mayang as Anita
Adipati Koesmadji
Synopsis
Kejora (Alyssa Soebandono) is a 19-year-old girl who has everything. She is pretty, cheerful, optimistic, and rich. She went to school in Japan. Mr Ryan (Mathias Muchus), her father, is a well-known businessman in Jakarta. Her mother has died. Kejora has a younger sister named Bintang (Amanda) (15 years) who has autism. However, Bintang is very good at playing the piano. Ryan is then remarried to Hanifa (Cut Keke), a widow with one child named Janet (Eva Anindita).
One day, while Kejora is flying back to Jakarta, her suitcase gets switched up with Erlangga's (Baim Wong), the grandson of Gautama (Mieke Wijaya), a rich, yet a very stubborn and needy woman. What Kejora doesn't know is that Erlangga is in fact the boyfriend of Janet, her stepsister.
Mr. Ryan on the other hand is facing a huge financial crisis in his company. He always hides the fact that he is facing bankruptcy from his daughters.
Secretly, Kejora has a boyfriend named Joel (Rio Reifan), who is very materialistic. Joel has a brother named Fitra (Lucky Perdana) who admires Kejora.
One day, when going to get a loan, Ryan was robbed. During the robbery, an accident happens and one of the robberies is killed on the fire. Ryan then gets an idea that if he pretended to be killed in this accident, his family will get a huge insurance settlement and be out of this financial crisis. He pretends to be killed. Kejora was devastated by the news. After Ryan's death, Kejora's relationship with Hanifa is becoming very tense. Until one day Hanifa throws Kejora and Bintang out of their father's house.
External links
Kejora dan Bintang
Indonesian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alisa%20%28TV%20series%29 | Alisa is an Indonesian soap opera television series that was aired on RCTI from December 20, 2008 to April 23, 2009. It was produced by video productions house public distributor company network SinemArt, and directed by Desiana Larasati.
Cast
Alyssa Soebandono as Alyssa
Alyssa Soebandono (native name)
Alisa (given name)
Icha (stage name)
Alyssa (other names)
Christian Sugiono as Evan
Nia Ramadhani as Natasha
Ali Syakieb as Eric
Marcel Chandrawinata as Nono
Didi Riyadi as Freisco
Farish as Ardy
Marcella Simon as Marcella
Hanna Hasyim as Laksmi
Riyanto RA as Sarwana
Frans Tumbuan as Henri
Shinta Muin as Lela
Ana Pinem as Noor
Ivanka Suwandi as Fiah
Tengku Firmansyah as Sanjaya
Jody (given name)
Jay (stage name)
Sanjaya (other names)
Donna Harun as Sophia
Cindy Fatika Sari as Riska
Adjie Pangestu as Denny
Rima Melati as Rima
Mieke Widjaya as Larasati
Olla Ramlan as Evan's Aunt
Plot
Alisa (Alyssa Soebandono) and Evan (Christian Sugiono) met in an unpleasant circumstance. Alisa, a beverage Sales Promotion Girl, bumped into Evan and knocked him down while casing a guy who stole her merchandise. Evan was furious. His suit was all wet, while at that time he was in a rush to meet a prospective client.
But destiny brought them back together. Alisa turns out to be one of Evan's student. Because of the bad first impression, both Alisa and Evan could never get along. They were always arguing. Alisa couldn't stand Evan's arrogant, playboy, rude, and degrading attitude towards people who are under his social status. Evan on the other hand, despised Alisa's know it all attitude, pride rebellious and no-respect behavior.
Alisa is a simple girl. She was forced to work odd jobs to pay for her daily expenses, as well as her father's medication. Alisa also worked as Natashass (Nia Ramadhani) washer. Natasha happened to be Evan's girlfriend, his main woman among all the ladies who surrounded him.
After a long and winding journey and time, Evan and Alisa, in the end, couldn't deny the feeling deep down inside that they were actually in love. They began dating and were preparing to tie the knot.
But, suddenly, a shocking truth emerged. Turns out, Evan and Alisa were siblings. Alisa was in fact the daughter of Henri, Evan's father, through an affair. The wedding had to be called off, Both were devastated.
How did the love story go? Will Evan and Alisa be together in the end? Or will they get back together with their previous lovers
??
External links
Alisa
Indonesian television soap operas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanah%20dalam%20Cinta | Amanah dalam Cinta (Amanah in Love) is an Indonesian TV serial that was aired on RCTI. It was produced video productions house public distributor company network by SinemArt directed by Indrayanto Kurniawan.
Cast
Julie Estelle as Julie
Christian Sugiono as Milo
Ali Syakieb as Dhika
Alice Norin as Alya
Kevin Andrean as Wisnu
Nessa Sadin as Diandra
Rudy Salam as Prayogo
Rowiena Sahertian as Diana
Lily SP as Murni
Synopsis
Julie is a brave, cheerful girl with a very attractive personality. Although sometimes she can be a bit mischievous, she is so lovable. With her adorable personality she easily gets out of punishments when she does something wrong. Julie lives with her uncle, Ahmad, and aunt, Murni's family. Ahmad is a very possessive and controlling person who decides for Julie all the important decision in Julie's life, such as where she should go to school and to whom she should marry.
Julie decides to move to Jakarta after being persuaded by Radit. He tells her that Jakarta is the place to study and pursue her dream to become a famous chef. He steals Julie's money when they are on a bus on their way to Jakarta. She does not know what to do. While in deep sadness, the bus she rides gets into an accident. A married couple in the bus, Arvino and Meetha, ask for Julie's help to introduce Vino, their son, to their big family in Jakarta. Julie accepts their request. Julie and Vino are the only survivors of the bus accident.
External links
Amanah dalam Cinta
Indonesian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQLBuddy | SQL Buddy is an open-source web-based application coded mainly with PHP, it was primarily used to control both MySQL, and SQLite databases through a web browser. The project was well regarded for its easy installation process, and the friendly user interface it offered.
The application was also regarded for operating in a Cross platform manner, which means that users were able to use the application to manage their databases on more than an Operating system, like Linux, Windows operating system, and MacOS.
Unfortunately though, the development of SQL Buddy has stopped, with version 1.3.3 being the last version released, on January 18, 2011.
References
Web applications
Free software programmed in PHP
MySQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundee%20and%20District%20Tramways | Dundee and District Tramways operated a tramway service in Dundee between 1877 and 1899.
History
The idea for a public tramway network in Dundee was pioneered by the Dundee Tramway and Omnibus Company, and was authorised by the Dundee Tramways Act of 1872. However, they did not build the tramway themselves; instead it was built by the Police Commissioners, who then leased it to the Dundee and District Tramway Company, which had been set up in August 1877 to operate the system. It was built to the standard gauge of and designed for horse-drawn trams. Probably because the Act specified that the system had to be built in five years, and the deadline was rapidly approaching in 1877, the company hired two tramcars from Edinburgh Street Tramways and three from Glasgow Tramway and Omnibus Company in order to allow the service to begin on 30 August 1877. The tramway was long, and was the first part of a larger system authorised by the Act of Parliament. The trams were all open-topped, double deck vehicles, and were numbered 1A to 5A. Two trams were then purchased from Glasgow, which were numbered 6A and 7A, and this allowed the hired vehicles 4A and 5A to be returned. In December 1877, hiring of the Edinburgh cars ceased, as the company received three new tramcars, built by Glasgow Tramway and Omnibus Company, which reused the numbers 3A to 5A.
The tramway began at Windsor Street, and ran along Perth Road, Nethergate, High Street and Reform Street to reach the main post office in Euclid Crescent. This route was double track throughout. Work on extending the system began in 1878, and on 24 December 1879, two additional sections were added. The first was from Perth Road to West Park Road, some of single track, while the second was a double track branch, running northwards up Lochee Road to the village of Lochee, where a permanent depot for the tramcars was built. In order to service the extra mileage, five new trams were built by T Swinton and Sons of Dundee. They were mounted on Eades reversible trucks, allowing the body to be pivoted through 180 degrees when the tram reached a terminus. For reasons that were not recorded, they were numbered with Roman numerals, becoming numbers CI, CVIII, CIX, CX and CXI.
Further expansion took place on 19 June 1880, when routes from the post office to Morgan Hospital and to Baxter Park opened, both running along Victoria Road. This brought the total mileage to Again, more trams were needed, and T Swinton built two new vehicles, which were slightly smaller than the original batch, and were numbered CXII and CXIII. A third new car was added in 1882, for which the builder was unknown, and which carried the number 2. Finally, in 1883, two single deck cars with open tops were bought for summer workings, and were numbered 14 and 15. Discovery of the remains of car 2 have confirmed that it was built by G F Milnes of Birkenhead.
In 1880 the company had experimented with a Dickinson steam powered combined car, but in 188 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio%20Pestrin%20Farina | Silvio Pestrin Farina (Buenos Aires, 1975) is an Argentinian businessman and systems developer. He is the creator of FictionCity, an online social network founded in Buenos Aires for artists.
Professional life
Pestrin Farina studied computer engineering at the University of Belgrano in 1992. In 1998, he started his career at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as a Java and Visual Basic language developer. In 1999, he became involved in the founding of Patagon.com, one of the world's first online banks, which was later sold to Banco Santander Central Hispano for $705 million.
FictionCity.net
In 2009, Pestrin Farina founded FictionCity, a social networking site for artists and companies searching for artistic talent. The project was completed over fourteen months with an initial investment of $1 million. The site officially launched in January 2011. Within sixty days of launching, the website's value grew to over $18 million. The Director of CIO América Marcelo Lozano described the growth as "Un Hubble para descubrir nuevas estrellas (a telescope to discover new stars)". Later that year, Farina was described as one of the three most innovative recent digital entrepreneurs to come out of Argentina. The site has over 150,000 users in 31 countries, been translated into twelve languages, and expanded to open offices in Santiago, São Paulo, Miami, Mexico City, and Barcelona.
References
Living people
Argentine businesspeople
1975 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budan%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Budan's theorem is a theorem for bounding the number of real roots of a polynomial in an interval, and computing the parity of this number. It was published in 1807 by François Budan de Boislaurent.
A similar theorem was published independently by Joseph Fourier in 1820. Each of these theorems is a corollary of the other. Fourier's statement appears more often in the literature of 19th century and has been referred to as Fourier's, Budan–Fourier, Fourier–Budan, and even Budan's theorem
Budan's original formulation is used in fast modern algorithms for real-root isolation of polynomials.
Sign variation
Let be a finite sequence of real numbers. A sign variation or sign change in the sequence is a pair of indices such that and either or for all such that .
In other words, a sign variation occurs in the sequence at each place where the signs change, when ignoring zeros.
For studying the real roots of a polynomial, the number of sign variations of several sequences may be used. For Budan's theorem, it is the sequence of the coefficients. For the Fourier's theorem, it is the sequence of values of the successive derivatives at a point. For Sturm's theorem it is the sequence of values at a point of the Sturm sequence.
Descartes' rule of signs
All results described in this article are based on Descartes' rule of signs.
If is a univariate polynomial with real coefficients, let us denote by the number of its positive real roots, counted with their multiplicity, and by the number of sign variations in the sequence of its coefficients. Descartes's rule of signs asserts that
is a nonnegative even integer.
In particular, if , then one has .
Budan's statement
Given a univariate polynomial with real coefficients, let us denote by the number of real roots, counted with their multiplicities, of in a half-open interval (with real numbers). Let us denote also by the number of sign variations in the sequence of the coefficients of the polynomial . In particular, one has with the notation of the preceding section.
Budan's theorem is the following:
is a nonnegative even integer.
As is non negative, this implies
This is a generalization of Descartes' rule of signs, as, if one chooses sufficiently large, it is larger than all real roots of , and all the coefficients of are positive, that is Thus and which makes Descartes' rule of signs a special case of Budan's theorem.
As for Descartes' rule of signs, if one has This means that, if one has a "zero-root test" and a "one-root test".
Examples
1. Given the polynomial and the open interval , one has
Thus, and Budan's theorem asserts that the polynomial has either two or zero real roots in the open interval
2. With the same polynomial one has
Thus, and Budan's theorem asserts that the polynomial has no real root in the open interval This is an example of the use of Budan's theorem as a zero-root test.
Fourier's statement
Fourier's theorem on polyno |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigma%20Action%20Network | Stigma Action Network (SAN) is an international network focused on research, education and advocacy concerning HIV stigma and discrimination reduction.
History
The concept of an international network to encourage reduction efforts for HIV stigma and discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS came of a meeting convened by MAC AIDS Fund (MAF) and the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) in November, 2008 that brought 58 individuals with HIV and other affected populations, implementers and program designers, advocates, researchers, donors and trainers together. Participants analyzed best practices to reduce HIV stigma and discrimination, identified obstacles and opportunities for a cohesive response, and agreed upon the inception of a global network. On the outcomes of a working group meeting in 2009, a budget and business plan were developed with MAF awarding a grant for support for the first year of network planning and development. As a result, the SAN was formed.
Launched in 2010 at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna, SAN is a collaborative undertaking which aims to establish and augment research, program, and advocacy strategies for reducing HIV stigma worldwide, including mobilizing those invested or interested, delivering program and policy solutions, and maximizing investments in HIV services and programs.
Research has attested to the concept that reducing stigma and discrimination is critical to the success of HIV care, treatment and prevention efforts. Stigma – and fear of being stigmatized – increase the probability that people avoid taking an HIV test, disclosing their serostatus to partners or potential partners, requesting care and adhering to treatment. As such, HIV-related stigma and discrimination remain a hindrance to the global response to HIV.
Focus
Specific areas of focus are care and treatment, discrimination and legal issues, faith-based organizations, community members, healthcare workers, measurement, people living with HIV, prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), counseling and testing, injection drug users, sex workers, men who have sex with men, transgender individuals, women, children and youth and the intersection of multiple stigmas.
Regions
Stigma-related HIV journal articles, reports, toolkits, surveys and communication and training materials are divided and searchable by geographic location. They are listed by continent, UN subregion and country with an extensive library of downloadable material.
Sponsors
The Stigma Action Network is currently sponsored by the MAC AIDS Fund, Research Triangle Institute, USAID through the Health Policy Project, and the World Bank. Past support has been received from UNAIDS and the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
References
External links
Stigma Action Network
HIV/AIDS organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic%20Landucci | Dominic Landucci is an American professional aquanaut with the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). He served as the Network Analyst at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Aquarius Reef Base, the world's only undersea research laboratory.
Early life and army career
Landucci was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and grew up in Albany, Oregon, graduating from high school in 1986. He subsequently enlisted in the United States Army, where he specialized in communications. Landucci underwent basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. He later served at Fort Gordon, Georgia and with the 3rd Infantry Division in Kitzingen, Germany. Landucci joined NOAA's National Undersea Research Center (NURC) in 1993.
Aquarius
Landucci serves as the Network Analyst and Network Administrator at Aquarius Reef Base for NURC. As the person in charge of Aquarius' computer network, Landucci has introduced improvements in broadband access for researchers aboard Aquarius. To that end, Landucci assisted in the attachment of Orthogon Systems antennas onto an offshore buoy in heavy seas. Landucci commented, "We now have a better learning environment. Without the hassle of inadequate technology to deal with, the scientists conducting experiments within Aquarius, as well as the receivers of data at the land-based office, can focus all their efforts on their mission and the important data being gathered." He instituted a "hoot and holler" voice system linking the habitat and the onshore Watch Desk, where safety instruments are monitored during Aquarius missions.
In 2006, when Aquarius received the InfoWorld 100 award for innovative use of wireless solutions, Landucci commented, "By using OS-Gemini, we overcame tremendous challenges, such as rough seas, great distances and unpredictable weather, to deploy a reliable connection between our land base and the Aquarius laboratory at the bottom of the ocean." NURC also received a CIO 100 award for information technology innovation in 2006. Landucci received a Staff Award of Excellence from UNCW in August 2006. Landucci has used webcams inside and outside Aquarius to transmit live video and audio to classrooms around the United States.
Landucci has taken part as a habitat technician in two of the NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) missions, a series of NASA-NOAA missions which use Aquarius as an analog environment for space exploration. Landucci served as a habitat technician during the following missions:
NEEMO 10: July 22–28, 2006
NEEMO 12: May 7–18, 2007
During the NEEMO 12 mission, Landucci assisted with the computer technology aspects of a telesurgery demonstration for the American Telemedicine Association meeting in Nashville, Tennessee.
References
External links
Dominic's Website
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American underwater divers
Aquanauts
People from Albany, Oregon
United States Army soldiers
University of North Carolina at Wilmingt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Trance%20presents%20ELT%20Trance | Cyber Trance presents ELT Trance is the first trance music remix album by Japanese duo Every Little Thing. It was released simultaneously with the house remixes compilation The Remixes III: Mix Rice Plantation on February 27, 2002, by Avex Trance. The album contains remixes of tracks from their first four studio albums from Everlasting to 4 Force.
All the remixes included in the album are edit versions. As of 2014, the original extended or alternate versions of the tracks remain unreleased, except for Airwave's "Fragile", Svenson & Gielen's "Dear My Friend" extended club versions, and DJ Balloon's "Shapes of Love" dub mix version, which were included in Avex's miscellaneous compilations.
Track listing
Personnel
Audio mastering: Hiroyuki Hosaka
A&R: Nobby Uno
Assistant Direction: Hidetomo Yoneda, Tomohiro Kinukawa
Coordination In Europe: Satoshi Uetake
Coordination: Akiko Inoue, Cooney Kotani, Naoko Miura
Executive Supervisor: Shinji Hayashi
Special Coordination: Tom Yoda
Supervisor: Hidemi Arasaki, Katsuro Oshita, Shig Fujita
Chart positions
References
External links
CYBER TRANCE Presents ELT TRANCE information at Avex Network.
CYBER TRANCE Presents ELT TRANCE information at Oricon.
CYBER TRANCE Presents ELT TRANCE information at Mora.jp (song length)
Every Little Thing (band) albums
2002 remix albums |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery%20Footprint | Slavery Footprint is a survey that asks and responds to the question, “How Many Slaves Work For You?”. Users input data about their consumer spending habits, then the survey calculates the user's participation in modern-day slavery as quantified by their consumption of items created by forced labor and child labor.
The creators of Slavery Footprint researched the supply chains of 400 consumer products to determine the likely number of slaves it takes to make each of those products. The purpose of the survey is to increase awareness of forced labor and child labor and engage the public in taking steps toward addressing the use of forced labor, by encouraging users to advocate with strategic actions in the marketplace.
External links
http://slaveryfootprint.org
References
Organizations that combat human trafficking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KROH | KROH (91.1 FM) is a non-commercial radio station broadcasting Traditional Christian music and spoken/teaching programming. Licensed to Port Townsend, Washington, United States, the station is currently owned by Olympic Media, Inc. Studios are located in leased space on the upper level of the Better Living Center, 1505 Franklin Street, which also houses a Community Clothing Bank, seasonal soup kitchen and educational center. The transmitter is located at the Maynard Peak Comm Site, which is part of an "antenna farm" atop Blyn Mountain at 2100'. Transmitter and studio facilities are equipped with emergency-generators to ensure operations when commercial power fails. KROH's signal reaches as far west as portions of Port Angeles, northeast to Bellingham and Concrete, north into portions of Vancouver, B.C., south to Poulsbo/Silverdale and southeast to portions of the Seattle metro depending upon terrain and adjacent-channel influences (varies). World-wide coverage is accomplished via streaming audio accessible at www.radioofhope.org/listen. 202 countries thus far.
References
External links
ROH
Port Townsend, Washington |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gable%20CAD | Gable CAD, or Gable 4D Series, was a British architectural computer-aided design package initially developed in the early 1980s.
History
Gable CAD was developed at the University of Sheffield in the mid-1980s under the leadership of Professor Bryan Lawson. It was spun out into Gable CAD Systems Limited (incorporated in 1984) and retained links with the university until its demise in 1996 when a court order was made for compulsory winding up.
An early building information modeling application, Gable CAD was an advanced 2D and 3D design package with different modules, and was operated via a Windows-style interface and mouse running on UNIX. It was possible to create detailed 3D models and then generate 2D drawings or rendered visualisations from the data.
The assets of the company were acquired by Auxer in 1997 and aimed to complete the conversion of Gable CAD to Windows NT but this does not appear to have ever been released.
References
Computer-aided design software
Data modeling
Building information modeling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%20Road%20%28TV%20series%29 | Rocky Road is an American situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the Superstation WTBS cable network from September 3, 1984 to March 13, 1987. Produced by Arthur Annecharico, the series follows three young siblings who run a beach-front ice cream parlor, and aired Monday nights as part of WTBS' line-up of original "family programming", which also included Down to Earth and Safe at Home. During its three-season run, the series underwent several cast changes and starred Maylo McCaslin, Desiree Boschetti, Georg Olden, Lilly Moon, and Marcianne Warman.
Premise
The series centers on the three young Stuart siblings who live and work in a Pismo Beach boardwalk ice cream parlor that they inherit from their recently deceased parents. The Stuart kids – Jessica, the 22-year-old eldest and legal guardian of her two younger siblings; Robbie, the 17-year-old middle sibling and self-appointed "idea man"; and Cindi, the 12-year-old youngest sibling – somehow find a way keep the struggling ice cream parlor afloat with the help (and interference) of their neighbors on the beach.
Jessica struggles to keep the family together while balancing a life of her own. Robbie is a typical teenager whose "bright ideas" have a tendency to backfire. And Cindi consistently finds adventures amidst a world of eccentric adults. Suzie Quartermain, the boardwalk's young lifeguard, is a fun-loving "party girl" whose antics always keep things interesting. Sandy Bradshaw, the boardwalk's police officer, is a bumbling young rookie who often finds himself in some mix-up. Lucas Buchanan, who owns the boardwalk's bait shop, watches over the Stuart kids and reminisces about the escapades of his younger days, before eventually selling the bait shop to retired Marine officer, Frank Wilson, Sr. and his teenage son, Frank, Jr.
Characters
Jessica Stuart (Maylo McCaslin, season 1; Desiree Boschetti, seasons 2–3)
Robbie Stuart (Georg Olden)
Cindi Stuart (Lilly Moon, season 1; Marcianne Warman, seasons 2–3)
Suzie Quartermain (Kelly Ann Conn)
Sandy Bradshaw (Jim Menza, seasons 1–2)
Lucas Buchanan (Lewis Arquette, seasons 1–2)
Frank Wilson, Sr. (Fred Morsell, season 3)
Frank Wilson, Jr. (Joey Green, season 3)
Production
Rocky Road was created by Arthur Annecharico and was produced by his production company The Arthur Company for TBS. An attempt at producing sitcoms on a budget, each episode of Rocky Road was estimated to cost $100,000 to produce, approximately ¼ the cost of network sitcoms of the time. The series was filmed at Hollywood Center Studios in Los Angeles, California and premiered in its 7:05 pm time-slot on September 3, 1984 as part of TBS's Monday night line-up of its original shows Down to Earth (airing at 6:05 pm) and Safe at Home (airing at 6:35 pm) which, at the time, were both also produced by The Arthur Company.
The theme song was penned and performed by melodic rocker Guthrie Govan.
Episodes
Season 1 (1984)
Season 2 (1985–86)
Season 3 (1986–87)
Award |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet%20Your%20Congress | Meet Your Congress was a public affairs TV series on NBC and on the DuMont Television Network. The show premiered on NBC on July 1, 1949, airing Saturdays at 8pm ET. The DuMont series aired from July 8, 1953, until July 4, 1954.
Moderator Blair Moody (1902-1954), who hosted the radio and TV versions from 1946 to 1952, died of pneumonia and heart problems on July 20, 1954.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
Production
Moody produced the Dumont version of the program, and Vic Guidice was the director. The show originated in Washington on Wednesdays from 9:30 to 10 p.m. Eastern Time. It was sustaining.
Critical response
A review of the July 8, 1953, episode in the trade publication Variety said that Meet Your Congress seemed to be "a promising package designed for the politically conscious citizenry." It also commended Moody's objective approach as the moderator.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1949-50 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
Meet Your Congress at IMDB
DuMont historical website
NBC original programming
DuMont Television Network original programming
1949 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont news programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africadoc | Africadoc is a network of documentary filmmakers and associations in Africa organized by Ardèche Images and since 2012 by Docmonde. It includes associations in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Republic of the Congo, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal and Togo. Some of the associations run workshops in documentary writing and production.
Origins
Africadoc was founded in 2002, initially expanding within French-speaking African countries.
Africadoc 2005 was launched in Saint-Louis, Senegal at the end of 2004.
With support from UNESCO, fourteen young African documentary writers and producers were given coaching and assistance in launching projects in their West and Central African countries.
The project included arranging meetings with about sixty partners from European and North and South American television channels, foundations and institutions.
According to Rosa Gonzalez of UNESCO, the ultimate aim of the project is "to build the fabric of a creative network of professionals involved in documentary-making, which can become financially sustainable and then cater to the needs of African television channels for local content".
Activities
To promote documentaries, Africadoc Burkina organizes Les Rencontres Sobaté in Ouagadougou and Africadoc Cameroon organizes Images en Live in Yaoundé.
Les Rencontres Sobaté means "Meetings for convincing" in the Bwamu language, perhaps for convincing young people to get into directing documentaries.
The meetings include screenings and discussions of documentaries, classes on aspects such as writing and debates on training, professionalism and finance.
The Images en Live (Live Images) festival follows workshops and production projects, and screens a selection of new documentaries from the region.
The event has been supported by the Goethe Institute, Cervantes Institute and the French Cultural Centre in Yaoundé.
In April 2010 a 12-day Africadoc workshop for South African authors and filmmakers was organized by the National Film and Video Foundation in Johannesburg.
In November 2011 Africadoc Benin organized BeninDocs – International Festival of First Documentary Film, entirely devoted to first films created by young filmmakers.
BeninDocs would include screenings at three locations in Paris, France, one in Cotonou two in Porto-Novo.
Africadoc Senegal provides an annual meeting and training programme for screenwriters from all Central and West African countries called 'Tënk'.
The program includes teaching how to create a screenplay and how to find and work with an independent producer.
References
Documentary film organizations
Organizations established in 2002
Mass media in Africa
2004 establishments in Senegal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Social%20Network%20Song | "The Social Network Song (OH OH - Uh - OH OH)" (originally titled "Facebook Uh, Oh, Oh (A Satirical Song)") is a song by singer Valentina Monetta which was the Sammarinese entrant at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. At the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 the song finished in 14th place in the first semi-final with 31 points, although it did not qualify for the final, this was their best result since their début in the 2008. "The Social Network Song" was the 20th Eurovision entrant produced by Ralph Siegel.
Background
"Facebook Uh, Oh, Oh (A Satirical Song)" was chosen internally by the San Marino broadcaster SMRTV to represent San Marino at the Eurovision Song Contest 2012.
On 18 March 2012, a few days after the song was announced, the EBU deemed that the song contained an unreasonable commercial message for Facebook, which resulted in the lyrics' disqualification; according to the Eurovision Rule 1.2.2.g, commercial messages within songs are not allowed. San Marino was given the option of submitting a new song, or revising the lyrics to remove any references to Facebook, no later than 12:00 CET on 23 March 2012.
On 22 March 2012, SMRTV announced that the song and its lyrics has been revised with a new title, "The Social Network Song (OH OH – Uh - OH OH)", with mostly the same lyrics, except without directly mentioning Facebook.
Music video
The music video for the song premiered on 17 March 2012, during a special programme from SMRTV, who presented the song. The video was then made available on YouTube, on Monetta's official channel.
In the video, Monetta, styled more like a teenager than a mature woman, "can be seen dancing around her computer in a bedroom with cheesy thought bubbles popping up above her head."
Following a re-submission of the song, a new music video for the song was released on 23 March 2012, which featured the new version of the song.
Reception
The song received mixed to negative reviews. Forbes.com writer Ewan Spence described San Marino's entry as "the most cringe-worthy Eurovision song in many years. Composer Ralph Siegel, who's behind nineteen previous Eurovision songs in his career, should know better."
At Eurovision
Monetta was drawn to perform the song in 11th place in the first semi-final, and finished that semi-final in 14th place with 31 points. Despite its failure to advance to the final, the entry was San Marino's best placing at Eurovision.
Monetta performed in blue leather trousers and jacket, with a silvery top and matching heels. The set was lit by blue spotlights. The background singers wore a variety of costumes and, except for a female guitar player, were all carrying mobile phones. During the performance speech bubbles with "oh" and "uh" – referencing the song's subtitle – were flashed in the background by LEDs.
References
External links
Eurovision songs of 2012
Eurovision songs of San Marino
Valentina Monetta songs
2012 songs
Songs written by Ralph Siegel |
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