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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20rostro%20de%20la%20venganza | El Rostro de la Venganza (Lit: The Face of Vengeance / English: Facing Destiny) is a Spanish-language telenovela produced by United States-based television network Telemundo Studios, Miami. David Chocarro, Elizabeth Gutiérrez and Cynthia Olavarria starred as the protagonist, with the special participation of Maritza Rodríguez, while Saúl Lisazo and Marlene Favela starred as the antagonists.
History
Telemundo announced a prime-time broadcast of El Rostro de la Venganza on May, as part of the 2012–2013 season. From June 23, 2012 to January 24, 2013, Telemundo aired El Rostro de la Venganza weeknights at 10:30pm/9:30c, following half-hour of Pablo Escobar: El Patrón del Mal. From January 28, 2013 and onwards, Telemundo aired one-hour episodes, replacing Pablo Escobar. The last episode was broadcast on April 12, with El Señor de los Cielos replacing it. As with most of its other telenovelas, the network broadcast English subtitles as closed captions on CC3.
Plot
El Rostro de la Venganza tells the story of Diego Mercader (Jorge Eduardo García), an 8-year-old boy, bullied and harassed in school by his classmates. He suffers a breakdown and is urged by unknown persons to shoot 7 of his colleagues, being given access to a gun from a lockroom. Accused of the mass murder, he enters a prison for psychological diseases.
Twenty years later, psychiatrist Antonia Villaroel (Maritza Rodríguez) obtains his liberation by legal means and with the support of a generous benefactor Ezequiel Alvarado (Saúl Lisazo).
Diego is being given a new identity, the one of Martín Méndez (David Chocarro) and tries to renew his life under the employment of Ezequiel. He is put as the personal bodyguard of his fiancée, Mariana (Elizabeth Gutiérrez), compromised in an outrageous relationship with his son, Luciano (Jonathan Islas).
He will find himself in a maze of intrigues and betrayal, sustained by Antonia's decision to find the truth about the murders and by Ezequiel's family. Later Mariana and Antonia are killed by Alicia and Alicia takes the lead role and it is later revealed that she is Eva Samaniego out for revenge.
Cast changes
The initial cast was announced to be Elizabeth Gutiérrez as Antonia, Iván Sánchez as Diego/Martín and Maritza Rodríguez as Mariana.
David Chocarro was originally to play Luciano Alvarado at the very beginning, nevertheless being rather proposed for the lead. The role of Luciano was given to the former leading actor Iván Sánchez, who was let out from the final production due to his constant discontent with the plot. Eventually, Jonathan Islas took the part.
Maritza Rodríguez and Elizabeth Gutiérrez exchanged roles; Rodríguez had been cast as Antonia, and Gutiérrez as Mariana.
After two weeks of broadcast, Gutiérrez announced she was leaving the production, thus letting the series without a female protagonist, as Rodríguez had only played a special role. The initial plot had to be changed, with her character getting killed halfway through.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actian%20Zen | Actian Zen (formerly Btrieve, later named Pervasive PSQL until version 13) is an ACID-compliant, Zero-DBA, Embedded, Nano-footprint, Multi-Model, Multi-Platform database management system (DBMS) developed originally by Pervasive Software, which was acquired by Actian Corporation in 2013.
It is optimized for embedding in applications and used in several different types of packaged software applications offered by independent software vendors (ISVs) and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). It is available for software as a service (SaaS) deployment due to a file-based architecture enabling partitioning of data for multitenancy needs.
Applications can store the data and the relationships in tables in a relational model (RDBMS) or store the data in a schema-less way with no fixed data model (key-value store).
Zen runs on system platforms that include Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Both 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Zen are available. Editions are also specifically designed for different computer networking deployment needs such as workgroup, client-server and highly virtualized environments including Cloud computing.
Uses and customers
Because Zen is used for embedded databases, and sold indirectly, it is not well known. Pervasive Software was acquired by Actian Corporation in 2013. Zen is embedded by OEMs like Sage, maestro* Technologies, ABACUS Research AG (Switzerland), and Unikum (Sweden) in packaged software applications that address the accounting, finance, retail, point-of-sale, entertainment, reservation system, and medical and pharmaceutical industry segments. “Users include Novell, Microsoft, PeachTree Software, Fair Isaac, Disney World, Radio Shack, Cardiff and others.” The accounting industry formed a large part of its market in 2007.
Historically, Zen served as a DBMS for small and medium enterprises.
DBMS architecture
Zen supports stand-alone, client-server, peer-to-peer and software-as-a-service (SaaS) architecture.
The central architecture of Zen consists of two database engines: (1) the storage engine, known as MicroKernel Database Engine (MKDE) and described by Pervasive Software as a transactional database engine and (2) the relational database engine, known as SQL Relational Database Engine (SRDE). Both engines can access the same data, but the methods of data access differ.
Micro Kernel Database Engine
Micro Kernel Database Engine, the transactional database engine, interacts directly with the data and does not require fixed data schema to access the data. It uses key-value store to store and access the data. Calls to the MKDE are made pro grammatically with Btrieve API rather than through the use of a query language; therefore, Zen does not have to parse the request. This places the Micro Kernel Database Engine in the category of NotOnlySQL databases. Low-level API calls and memory caching of data reduce the time required to manipulate data.
The MKDE operates in complete database transactions and guarante |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20Band%20Blitz | Rock Band Blitz is a rhythm game in the Rock Band series from Harmonix as a downloadable game for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network, released in August 2012. Unlike previous iterations of Rock Band, Blitz is not sold with any special instrument controllers, and was designed to use regular console controllers to match notes in a song, using gameplay mechanics similar to Harmonix' previous titles of Frequency, Amplitude, and Rock Band Unplugged. In addition to 25 songs that will ship with the game, the title is capable of using any songs the player has downloaded or exported for Rock Band 3. Due to music license expirations, the game was delisted from the PSN and Xbox Live storefronts on August 28, 2017.
Gameplay
Rock Band Blitz is a note-matching rhythm game fashioned similarly to Harmonix' previous titles, Frequency, Amplitude, and Rock Band Unplugged. The game presents up to five instrument lanes to the player corresponding to lead guitar, bass guitar, drums, vocals, and keyboard that run through the streets of the fictional "Rock City"; if a song does not include tracks for one or more of these instruments, they are not shown on the field. Each lane consists of a number of markers on the two sides of the lane, representing the notes played by that instrument in the song. Unlike other Rock Band games, there is only a single difficulty level.
Using a standard game console controller with customizable controls, the player uses the buttons to match these notes on one track at a time, scoring points for each successful note hit. Each note in a lane hit correctly will lead towards building the lane's specific scoring modifier, starting from 1x, up to a set level cap, initially 4x. Songs are broken down into sections with checkpoints; at these points, the game will increase the level cap up to 3x higher than the current lowest lane multiplier. For example, if the player reaches a checkpoint with four lanes at 8x and one lane at 6x, the multiplier cap will be raised 3x higher than the 6x, to 9x. Thus, the player is encouraged to play notes on all lanes to reach the current level cap across all lanes, as to reach higher scoring modifiers. When songs feature guitar, bass, drum, or keyboard solos, only that lane will show notes; at the following checkpoint, all lane multipliers will be increased based on the performance during the solo. If a lane does not have a significant number of notes between checkpoints, it automatically increased at these checkpoints. Playing series of notes consecutively will build a "Blitz" meter. When full, the player will move faster along the tracks until they miss a small number of notes, while gaining an additional scoring bonus. Upon completing a song, the player is rated on a 1 to 5-star system based on their total score, including 5 gold stars for very high scores, and is given a reward of both "cred", used to unlock power-ups (as described below), and coins which are used to buy the use of power-ups for a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc%20McStuffins | Doc McStuffins is an American preschool computer-animated educational children's television series created and executive produced by Chris Nee and produced by Brown Bag Films which aired on Disney Channel and Disney Junior from March 23, 2012, to April 18, 2020. The series centers on a girl who can "fix" toys, with help from her toy friends. It features songs written and composed by Kay Hanley and Michelle Lewis.
The series received positive reviews due to the series' concept and the main character, as well as its portrayal of African Americans (Nee stated in 2013 that Doc is African American, as proposed by Disney during her initial pitch, Nee initially only knowing she wanted a girl doctor) in a Disney series. Nee conceived the series as Cheers for preschoolers.
On November 16, 2016, Disney Junior renewed the series for a fifth season. On April 4, 2018, Lara Jill Miller, the voice of Lambie, stated that the series finale had been recorded and would premiere on April 18, 2020, ending the series' original run after five seasons, and there were no plans for the show to have a sixth season. Since the show ended, reruns continue to air on Disney Junior both locally and globally, as well as the show itself being made available on DisneyNOW and Disney+. On February 7, 2022, it was announced that the series would be celebrating its 10th anniversary in the form of an animated musical special, which was premiered on August 26, 2022.
Premise
The series chronicles freckled, seven-year-old (eight as of 2020 despite the cancellation) Dottie "Doc" McStuffins who decides she wants to become a doctor like her mother, a pediatrician. She practices for her dream job by fixing toys and dolls.
When she activates her magic stethoscope, she can create a variety of supernatural effects, including traveling through time. Her most regular use of it in the TV series is to cause toys, dolls, and stuffed animals to come to life. They are able to move, speak, sing songs, pick up things, hear, see, and smell odors, and she can interact with them. With help from her stuffed animals: Stuffy the Dragon; Hallie the Hippo; Lambie the Lamb; and Chilly the Snowman. Doc helps toys recover, or "feel better", by giving them check-ups and diagnosing their fictional illnesses with an encyclopedia called "The Big Book of Boo Boos" and another encyclopedia called "The Big Vet Book" for her toy pets when she's a veterinarian. In season four the Big Book of Boo Boos and The Big Vet Book go hi-tech in a tablet form.
Each 11-minute episode includes original songs. During ending credits in season 1, Doc gives advice to viewers about staying healthy. Seasons 1 and 2 have the original intro for the theme song, but in season 3, the spoken line by Doc at the end of the theme song was re-recorded with Doc's new voice. In season 3 Doc opens up a veterinary clinic for fixing toy pets in addition to the regular medical services that she provides for the other toys. In season 4, Doc's Grandma reve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%281988%29 | Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in that year, by order of first appearance. They were all introduced by the show's executive producer Alan Bateman who oversaw the serial before being succeeded by series producer Des Monaghan whose episodes first began airing in November. Sixteen of the original eighteen regular characters debuted in the pilot episode. The Fletcher family consisting of Frank Morgan, Tom and Pippa Fletcher, Carly Morris, Steven Matheson, Sally Keating and Lynn Davenport were introduced first. Summer Bay residents Alf Stewart, Floss and Neville McPhee, Bobby Simpson, Donald Fisher, Ailsa Hogan, Martin Dibble, Lance Smart and Matt Wilson also made their debuts. They were soon joined by Alf's daughter Roo and sister, Celia. In March, Lyn Collingwood arrived as Lance's mother, Colleen. The same month, Liddy Clark began playing Kerry Barlow and Amanda Newman-Phillips joined the cast as Narelle Smart. In April, Gerry Sont began playing Brett Macklin, a love interest for Roo. Barbara Stephens and Cornelia Frances arrived in June as Alf's other sisters Barbara Stewart and Morag Bellingham, respectively. July saw Simon Kay enter as Donald and Barbara's son Alan Fisher. Gavin Harrison began playing Revhead in August and was soon followed by John Morris as Philip Matheson. That month saw the serial's first birth Christopher Fletcher, son of the established Tom and Pippa. Another birth occurred in September, Martha Stewart, daughter of Roo and Brett. Sandie Lillingston joined the cast in the same episode as Brett's sister, Stacey and in November, George Leppard guested as Al Simpson.
Frank Morgan
Frank Morgan played by Alex Papps debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 17 January 1988 and appeared until 1989. Frank was the first character to appear, although a Police officer (Bruce Venables) spoke the first piece of dialogue. Frank was played by Bradley Pilato in the scene, which was set in 1978 as a young Frank tries to escape from the Police officer.
Papps' casting was announced ahead of the series debut. In 1991, Papps reprised the role for four weeks. Papps also returned for guest appearances in 2000 and 2002 respectively. Eamonn McCusker of The Digital Fix said that Frank was a "decent-but-dim sort of man" and thought that Frank made a habit of walking down the aisle. Papps was still recognised as Frank in public despite mainly playing the role in his teenage years.
Tom Fletcher
Tom Fletcher played by Roger Oakley debuted on-screen during the episode airing on 17 January 1988. Ruth Deller of television website Lowculture described patriarch Tom "One of the nicest dad characters in soap, ever". The Soap Show called Tom the "first patriarch of Home and Away."
Pippa Fletcher
Pippa Ross, played by Vanessa Downing made her first appearance in on 17 January 1988 in the serial's pilot. Down |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooded%20triplefin | The hooded triplefin (Helcogramma capidata) is a species of triplefin blenny in the genus Helcogramma. It was described by Richard Rosenblatt in 1960. This species is widespread in the western Pacific Ocean from the Mariana Islands east to Samoa, Fiji and Tonga; it has been recorded from Sabah too.
References
Hooded triplefin
Fish described in 1960 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage-first%20collector | The garbage-first collector (G1) is a garbage collection algorithm introduced in the Oracle HotSpot Java virtual machine (JVM) 6 and supported from 7 Update 4. It was planned to replace concurrent mark sweep collector (CMS) in JVM 7 and was made default in Java 9.
Garbage collector
Garbage-first (G1) collector is a server-style garbage collector, targeted for multiprocessors with large memories, that meets a soft real-time goal with high probability, while achieving high-throughput. G1 preferentially collects regions with the least amount of live data, or "garbage first". G1 is the long term replacement of CMS. Whole-heap operations, such as global marking, are performed concurrently with the application threads, to prevent interruptions proportional to heap or live-data size. Concurrent marking provides both collection completeness and identifies regions ripe for reclamation via compacting evacuation. This evacuation is performed in parallel on multiprocessors, to decrease pause times and increase throughput.
G1 was first introduced as an experimental option in Java SE 6 Update 14, where it can be enabled with the following two command-line parameters: -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions and -XX:+UseG1GC With JDK 7, G1 was planned to replace CMS in the Hotspot JVM. There are two major differences between CMS and G1. The first is that G1 is a compacting collector. G1 compacts sufficiently to completely avoid the use of fine-grain free lists for allocation, which considerably simplifies parts of the collector and mostly eliminates potential fragmentation issues. As well as compacting, G1 offers more predictable garbage collection pauses than the CMS collector and allows users to set their desired pause targets.
In Java 9 G1 was made the default garbage collector, in spite of Google counter proposing the well-known CMS as the standard, claiming the modified CMS it uses performs better than G1. Since then, Oracle has greatly improved G1's throughput, latency and memory footprint.
Related products
Guaranteed real-time behavior even with garbage collection requires a real-time garbage collector such as those that come with Sun's Java RTS or IBM’s WebSphere RT.
See also
Mark-compact algorithm
References
External links
Garbage-First Garbage collection
How does the Garbage-First Garbage Collector work?
JAVA GARBAGE COLLECTION HANDBOOK G1 – Garbage First
G1: One Garbage Collector To Rule Them All
1. Garbage First Overview
Memory management algorithms
Automatic memory management
Java virtual machine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coons%20patch | In mathematics, a Coons patch, is a type of surface patch or manifold parametrization used in computer graphics to smoothly join other surfaces together, and in computational mechanics applications, particularly in finite element method and boundary element method, to mesh problem domains into elements.
Coons patches are named after Steven Anson Coons, and date to 1967.
Bilinear blending
Given four space curves c0(s), c1(s), d0(t), d1(t) which meet at four corners c0(0) = d0(0), c0(1) = d1(0), c1(0) = d0(1), c1(1) = d1(1); linear interpolation can be used to interpolate between c0 and c1, that is
and between d0, d1
producing two ruled surfaces defined on the unit square.
The bilinear interpolation on the four corner points is another surface
A bilinearly blended Coons patch is the surface
Bicubic blending
Although the bilinear Coons patch exactly meets its four boundary curves, it does not necessarily have the same tangent plane at those curves as the surfaces to be joined, leading to creases in the joined surface along those curves. To fix this problem, the linear interpolation can be replaced with cubic Hermite splines with the weights chosen to match the partial derivatives at the corners. This forms a bicubically blended Coons patch.
See also
Surface
Atlas (topology)
Interpolation
References
Multivariate interpolation
Splines (mathematics) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor%20%28Unix%29 | On Unix, Plan 9, and Unix-like computer systems, factor is a utility for factoring an integer into its prime factors.
History
factor first appeared on 5th edition Research Unix in 1974, as a "user maintained" utility (section 6 of the manual). In the 7th edition in 1979, it was moved into the main "commands" section of the manual (section 1). From there, the factor utility was copied to all other variants of Unix, including commercial Unixes and BSD. In some variants of Unix, it is classified as a "game" more than a serious utility, and therefore documented in section 6.
A free software version of the factor utility was written for the GNU project by Paul Rubin, in 1986. It is now available on all Linux distributions as part of the GNU Core Utilities. In 2008, GNU factor started to use the GNU MP library for arbitrary-precision arithmetic, allowing it to factor integers of any size, not limited by the machine's native datatypes.
The command is available as a separate package for Microsoft Windows as part of the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of common GNU Unix-like utilities.
Syntax
factor [number]
The command can be used by supplying an integer value. Various projects, including simple ones such as printing prime numbers, are facilitated by using this command.
References
External links
GNU's factor manual page
FreeBSD's factor man page
Unix software
Plan 9 commands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art-Siadziba | Art Siadziba (bel. "Арт Сядзіба", eng. Art Headquarters) is an independent public cultural initiative in Belarus. It is a network of public open spaces (libraries, galleries) for independent events.
It was created with a similar spirit to the network of Las bibliotecas independientes en Cuba
Art-Siadziba (Minsk) is located in Minsk, in the factory building of "Horizont".
It is a legal registered organisation. Between December 2011 and April 2012 more than 60 different events were organized: political, public meetings, academic seminars and training sessions, informal conferences, press briefings, and concerts.
Founders
Among founders:
Stas Babaytsau
journalist, public activist Franak Viachorka
leader of Amaroka-Band Dzmitry Afanasiyenka
cultural manager Pavel Byelavus
singer Pyotr Klyuyeu
singer, hip-hop musician Vinsent
Belarusian artist Alyaksyey Marachkin
References
External links
Сядзіба Гарызонт, 34mag
Арт-Сядзіба. Творческое пространство в центре Минска
Culture of Belarus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion%20Global%20Business%20Solutions | Fusion Global Business Solutions, formerly Fusion Business Solutions, is a global leader in Service Management, helping businesses transform their operations with data-driven insights, scalable digital solutions, and measurable results. Fusion GBS has customers across EMEA, North America and APAC with its headquarters located in London, UK.
With their own software and world class vendors like BMC Software and Automation Anywhere, they will help to optimise and automate workflows, improve productivity and reduce costs. With global offices, the company is specialise in complex implementations and working in secure environments.
History
Fusion Global Business Solutions was founded in Feb 1998 as a subsidiary of Horizon Technology Group plc In July 2002 the company was subject to a management buyout led by then managing director Mark Lyttle and now operates as a private limited company. Fusion Business Solutions (UK) Ltd. is 87.5% owned by Fusion Global Ltd. which is 100% owned by Mark Lyttle.
Since 2016, John Mohan has been the CEO of Fusion GBS. John has led the growth of Fusion GBS through its expansion into North America, the establishment of Fusion in India, and M&A activities in Europe.
Timeline
In 2006 Fusion opened an offshore development center in Bulgaria and the company now employs a team of 100 worldwide.
In June 2008 Fusion was presented with an award at the BMC Partner Forum in Lisbon for generating the most BMC licence revenue in the EMEA region.
In December 2010 Fusion acquired Externus, a specialist Green IT business.
In 2016 Fusion was awarded as the Digital Service Management Partner of the Year (Nth EMEA).
In 2017 Fusion rebranded to Fusion Global Business Solutions. The new branding was designed to mirror the increase in global business and significant growth in the North American market.
In 2017 Fusion started a Salesforce practice in the UK to deliver Salesforce applications to large business and enterprise customers.
In 2017 Fusion opened an office in India and Fusion got a certification for Cyber Essentials Plus.
In 2018 Fusion is the award-winning BMC Software Elite Partner. Fusion is one of a select few BMC Elite Partners trusted to deliver solutions globally and one of the only partners in the world primarily focused on BMC Software. The multi-award-winning performance shows the consistent efforts to put customer’s outcomes first.
In 2018 Fusion acquire BSM Iberia.
In 2019 VIPCON (Germany) join Fusion. A company of Fusion Global Business Solution (UK) limited under the leadership of John Mohan as CEO. BMC’s two largest and most successful partners come together to create a leading global partner.
In 2020 Fusion partners with Automation Anywhere.
In 2021 Fusion GBS expands its market-leading technology partnerships with LogicMonitor.
Operations
Fusion GBS is a global leader in Service Management, helping businesses transform their operations with data-driven insights, scalable digital solutions, and mea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Bratko | Ivan Bratko may refer to:
Ivan Bratko (computer scientist) (born 1946), Slovene computer scientist and educator
Ivan Bratko (publisher) (1914–2001), Slovene partisan, officer and writer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20Implementation%20Language | LIL, the Little Implementation Language, was a system programming language during the early days of Unix history on PDP-11 machines. It was written by P. J. Plauger of Bell Labs.
LIL attempted to fill the gap between assemblers and machine-independent system implementation languages (such as the C programming language), by basically adding structured programming to the PDP-11 assembly language. LIL resembled PL360 with C-like flow control syntax.
The LIL compiler "lc" was part of Fifth Edition Unix (1974), but was dropped by Sixth Edition Unix (1975). Plauger left Bell Labs in the same year.
Plauger explains why LIL was abandoned in Bell Labs in favor of C:
... LIL is, however, a failure. Its stiffest competition at Bell Labs is the language C, which is higher level, and machine independent. Every time it looked like C was too expensive to use for a particular project, LIL was considered. But almost every time, it proved easier (and more rewarding) to improve C, or its runtime support, or the hardware, than to invest time in yet another language. ... A machine independent language is always superior -- even for writing machine dependent code (it's easier to find trained programmers) -- so long as the overhead can be endured. It is clear now that writing straightforward code and then measuring it is the formula for the best end product. At worst there will be 5-15 per cent overhead, which is seldom critical. Once system writers become mature enough to recognize this basic truth, they gravitate naturally toward machine independent SILs. ... it looks like the little implementation language is an idea whose time as come -- and gone.
See also
High-level assembler
References
External resources
LIL, The Little Implementation Language
LIL Reference Manual, June 19, 1974, Bell Labs Technical Memo: TM-74-1352-8.
Programming in LIL: A Tutorial, June 19, 1974, Bell Labs Technical Memo: TM-74-1352-6.
Fifth Edition Unix manuals, lc(6), the LIL compiler.
Unix history
Procedural programming languages
Systems programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling%20from%20Marigold | Wrestling from Marigold is an American sports program broadcast from the Marigold Arena in Chicago which aired on the DuMont Television Network from Saturday, September 17, 1949, until March 1955. The show lasted for either 90 or 120 minutes, usually on Saturdays at 9pm ET, and continued to be broadcast on WGN-TV as a non-network show until 1957.
Overview
The show was broadcast live by WGN from Marigold in Chicago, produced by National Wrestling Alliance promoter Fred Kohler, with play-by-play by Jack Brickhouse. Vince Lloyd served as the announcer. Lloyd also did live commercials for such products as Aero Shave. This was the last network TV broadcast of wrestling in the US until Saturday Night's Main Event on NBC in 1985.
Episode status
About 10 episodes of wrestling on DuMont are in the collection of the UCLA Film and Television Archive. Four are titled Pro Wrestling from Chicago and may be from this series. However, it is unclear if the others are from the Marigold in Chicago, or Wrestling from Columbia Park, or some other DuMont series.
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
Boxing From Jamaica Arena (September 1948 – 1949)
Amateur Boxing Fight Club (September 1949 – 1950)
Boxing From Eastern Parkway (May 1952-May 1954)
Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena (1954-1956) last series to air on the DuMont network
Saturday Night at the Garden (1950-1951)
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
List of DuMont and Paramount Television Network wrestling shows at UCLA Film and Television Archive list at Internet Archive blog
American professional wrestling television series
1949 American television series debuts
1955 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
Chicago television shows
Fred Kohler Enterprises
DuMont sports programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grossberg%20network | Grossberg network is an artificial neural network introduced by Stephen Grossberg. It is a self organizing, competitive network based on continuous time. Grossberg, a neuroscientist and a biomedical engineer, designed this network based on the human visual system.
Shunting model
The shunting model is one of Grossberg's neural network models, based on a Leaky integrator, described by the differential equation
,
where represents the activation level of a neuron, and represent the excitatory and inhibitory inputs to the neuron, and , , and are constants representing the leaky decay rate and the maximum and minimum activation levels.
At equilibrium (where ), the activation reaches the value
.
References
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted%20House%20%282004%20film%29 | Haunted House (also known as Haunted House Forever) is a 2004 4D computer animated short film that is shown in 4D cinemas. The short is a light-fright, non-violent adventure film.
Plot
Official Summary: You see the world from the eyes of a black cat that walks around in a moonlit night. Later the cat enters an old spooky house. Everything looks perfectly normal. But wait, did those toys actually move?
The short begins with a black cat approaching a large, dilapidated manor. Climbing up a tree it enters the attic and stops for a nap. It's awakened by an owl, which it follows as it encounters a nest of rats. Heading through the broken floorboards, the cat drops down into a bedroom, where it encounters a ghostly, skeletal skull. It then awakens a guard dog, which transforms into a ghostly demon. The demon dogs chase it down into the main atrium, where the cat retreats down the master staircase and finds refuge in a toy room, which some living toys welcome it. The cat explores the room, avoiding various toys that stalk it and try to cause it harm. At the windowsill, the cat sees an animate vine coming from the greenhouse outside the manor, and it inadvertently saves the cat from a group of dolls attempting to take it. The vine carries the cat down to the greenhouse, where it's almost eaten by a carnivorous plant monster, but makes it's escape. Traveling underground, the cat emerges into a graveyard, in which after seeing a particular grave the undead inhabitants start to come to life, with the ghost dog catching up to the cat and seemingly pass through it, which causes all of the ghosts and monsters disappear. Exiting the graveyard back at the front of the manor, the cat sees it's reflection and realizes that it's become a ghost too.
See also
4D film
Haunted Castle (2001 film)
References
External links
Official website
Official Trailer
2004 3D films
Amusement park films
Computer-animated short films
2004 films
2004 animated films
2004 short films
Films directed by Ben Stassen
4D films
Belgian animated films
3D animated short films
2000s English-language films
Animated films set in country houses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Glass | Google Glass, or simply Glass, is a brand of smart glasses developed and sold by Google. It was developed by X (previously Google X), with the mission of producing a ubiquitous computer. Google Glass displays information to the wearer using a head-up display. Wearers communicate with the Internet via natural language voice commands.
Google started selling a prototype of Google Glass to qualified "Glass Explorers" in the US on April 15, 2013, for a limited period for $1,500, before it became available to the public on May 15, 2014. It had an integral 5 megapixel still/720p video camera. The headset received a great deal of criticism amid concerns that its use could violate existing privacy laws.
On January 15, 2015, Google announced that it would stop producing the Google Glass prototype. The prototype was succeeded by two Enterprise Editions, whose sales were suspended on March 15, 2023.
Development
Google Glass was developed by Google X, the facility within Google devoted to technological advancements such as driverless cars.
The Google Glass prototype resembled standard eyeglasses with the lens replaced by a head-up display. In mid-2011, Google engineered a prototype that weighed ; by 2013 they were lighter than the average pair of sunglasses.
In April 2013, the Explorer Edition was made available to Google I/O developers in the United States for $1,500.
The product was publicly announced in April 2012. Sergey Brin wore a prototype of the Glass to an April 5, 2012, Foundation Fighting Blindness event in San Francisco. In May 2012, Google demonstrated for the first time how Google Glass could be used to shoot videos.
Google provided four prescription frame choices for $225 and free with the purchase of any new Glass unit. Google entered in a partnership with the Italian eyewear company Luxottica, owners of the Ray-Ban, Oakley, and other brands, to offer additional frame designs.
In June 2014, Nepal government adopted Google Glass for tackling poachers of wild animals and herbs of Chitwan International Park and other parks listed under World heritage sites.
In January 2015, Google ended the beta period of Glass (the "Google Glass Explorer" program).
Release date
In early 2013, interested potential Glass users were invited to use a Twitter message, with hashtag #IfIHadGlass, to qualify as an early user of the product. The qualifiers, dubbed "Glass Explorers" and numbering 8,000 individuals, were notified in March 2013, and were later invited to pay $1,500 and visit a Google office in Los Angeles, New York or San Francisco, to pick up their unit following "fitting" and training from Google Glass guides. On May 13, 2014, Google announced a move to a "more open beta", via its Google Plus page.
In February 2015, The New York Times reported that Google Glass was being redesigned by former Apple executive Tony Fadell, and that it would not be released until he deemed it to be "perfect".
In July 2017, it was announced that the second iterati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnussen%20model | Magnussen model is a popular method for computing reaction rates as a function of both mean concentrations and turbulence levels (Magnussen and Hjertager). Originally developed for combustion, it can also be used for liquid reactions by tuning some of its parameters. The model consists of rates calculated by two primary means. An Arrhenius, or kinetic rate, , for species in reaction , is governed by the local mean species concentrations and temperature in the following way:
This expression describes the rate at which species is consumed in reaction . The constants and , the Arrhenius pre-exponential factor and activation energy,
respectively, are adjusted for specific reactions, often as the result of experimental measurements. The stoichiometry for species in reaction is represented by the factor , and is positive or negative, depending upon whether the species serves as a product or reactant. The molecular weight of the species appears as the factor . The temperature, , appears in the exponential term and also as a factor in the rate expression, with an optional exponent, . Concentrations of other species, , involved in the reaction, , appear as factors with optional exponents associated with each. Other factors and terms not appearing in the equation, can be added to include effects such as the presence of non-reacting
species in the rate equation. Such so-called third-body reactions are typical of the effect of a catalyst on a reaction, for example. Many of the factors are often collected into a single rate constant, .
References
Magnussen, B. F., and B. H. Hjertager, “On Mathematical Mod-
els of Turbulent Combustion with Special Emphasis on Soot For-
mation and Combustion,” Proc. 16th Int. Symp. on Combustion,
The Combustion Institute, Pittsburgh, PA (1976).
Chemical engineer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashback%20%28Trojan%29 | OSX.FlashBack, also known as the Flashback Trojan, Fakeflash, or Trojan BackDoor.Flashback, is a Trojan horse affecting personal computer systems running Mac OS X. The first variant of Flashback was discovered by antivirus company Intego in September 2011.
Infection
According to the Russian antivirus company Dr. Web, a modified version of the "BackDoor.Flashback.39" variant of the Flashback Trojan had infected over 600,000 Mac computers, forming a botnet that included 274 bots located in Cupertino, California. The findings were confirmed one day later by another computer security firm, Kaspersky Lab. This variant of the malware was first detected in April 2012 by Finland-based computer security firm F-Secure. Dr. Web estimated that in early April 2012, 56.6% of infected computers were located within the United States, 19.8% in Canada, 12.8% in the United Kingdom and 6.1% in Australia.
Details
The original variant used a fake installer of Adobe Flash Player to install the malware, hence the name "Flashback".
A later variant targeted a Java vulnerability on Mac OS X. The system was infected after the user was redirected to a compromised bogus site, where JavaScript code caused an applet containing an exploit to load. An executable file was saved on the local machine, which was used to download and run malicious code from a remote location. The malware also switched between various servers for optimized load balancing. Each bot was given a unique ID that was sent to the control server. The trojan, however, would only infect the user visiting the infected web page, meaning other users on the computer were not infected unless their user accounts had been infected separately.
Resolution
Oracle, the company that develops Java, fixed the vulnerability exploited to install Flashback on February 14, 2012. However, at the time of Flashback's release, Apple maintained the Mac OS X version of Java and did not release an update containing the fix until April 3, 2012, after the flaw had already been exploited to install Flashback on 600,000 Macs. On April 12, 2015, the company issued a further update to remove the most common Flashback variants. The updated Java release was only made available for Mac OS X Lion and Mac OS X Snow Leopard; the removal utility was released for Intel versions of Mac OS X Leopard in addition to the two newer operating systems. Users of older operating systems were advised to disable Java. There are also some third party programs to detect and remove the Flashback trojan. Apple worked on a new process that would eventually lead to a release of a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) for Mac OS X at the same time it would be available for Windows, Linux, and Solaris users. As of January 9, 2014, about 22,000 Macs were still infected with the Flashback trojan.
See also
Mac Defender
Leap (computer worm)
References
External links
Apple Delays, Hackers Play April 12, 2012
MacOS malware
Trojan horses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Intelligence%20Sharing%20and%20Protection%20Act | The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA (112th Congress), (113th Congress), (114th Congress)) was a proposed law in the United States which would allow for the sharing of Internet traffic information between the U.S. government and technology and manufacturing companies. The stated aim of the bill is to help the U.S. government investigate cyber threats and ensure the security of networks against cyberattacks.
The legislation was introduced on November 30, 2011, by Representative Michael Rogers (R-MI) and 111 co-sponsors. It was passed in the House of Representatives on April 26, 2012, but was not passed by the U.S. Senate. President Barack Obama's advisers have argued that the bill lacks confidentiality and civil liberties safeguards, and the White House said he would veto it.
In February 2013, the House reintroduced the bill and it passed in the United States House of Representatives on April 18, 2013, but stalled and was not voted upon by the Senate. On July 10, 2014, a similar bill, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA), was introduced in the Senate.
In January 2015, the House reintroduced the bill again. The bill has been referred to the Committee on Intelligence, and as of February 2, 2015, to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations and Subcommittee on Constitution and Civil Justice to see if it will come to the House for a vote. In December 2015 a version of CISPA was hidden in the total federal budget.
CISPA had garnered favor from corporations and lobbying groups such as Microsoft, Facebook, AT&T, IBM, and the United States Chamber of Commerce, which look on it as a simple and effective means of sharing important cyber threat information with the government. It has however been criticized by advocates of Internet privacy and civil liberties, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, Free Press, Fight for the Future, and Avaaz.org, as well as various conservative and libertarian groups including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, TechFreedom, FreedomWorks, Americans for Limited Government, Liberty Coalition, and the American Conservative Union. Those groups argue CISPA contains too few limits on how and when the government may monitor a private individual's Internet browsing information. Additionally, they fear that such new powers could be used to spy on the general public rather than to pursue malicious hackers.
Some critics saw wording included in CISPA as a second attempt to protect intellectual property after the Stop Online Piracy Act was taken off the table by Congress after it met opposition. Intellectual property theft was initially listed in the bill as a possible cause for sharing Web traffic information with the government, though it was removed in subsequent drafts.
Content
CISPA is an amendment to the National Security Act of 1947, which does not currently contain provisions pertaining to cybercrime. It adds prov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granatin%20A | Granatin A is an ellagitannin found in the pericarp of Punica granatum (pomegranate). It is a weak carbonic anhydrase inhibitor.
References
External links
Granatin A at the Human Metabolome Database
Pomegranate ellagitannins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RLX%20Technologies | RLX Technologies was a computer company based in The Woodlands, Texas. Founded in 1999 by Christopher Hipp, one of the inventors of the blade server, and former Compaq employees, the company pioneered the use of blade servers, a compact, stripped-down computer server that includes all of the necessary components to operate as a computer while taking up minimal space on a standard 19-inch rack and minimizing power consumption. It became part of Hewlett-Packard in 2005.
History
RLX was first founded in 1999 as RocketLogix, Inc. with a connection to a Dallas-based investment firm, Cracken Harkey, Co. After convincing the firm that there was a need for a new efficient web server concept, they agreed to build an investment profile for RocketLogix. Former Compaq executives helped to raise money, including Rod Canion (founder and CEO of Compaq) and Robert W. Stearns (former Compaq SVP of Corporate Development, now at venture capitalist firm Sternhill Partners).
After development of their blade architecture, the company changed its name in 2001 to RLX Technologies. This change coincided with the company's move to the Woodlands. Former Compaq executives Gary Stimac and Michael S. Swavely became CEO and President of RLX, respectively.
In 2004 RLX decided to shift their focus away from hardware development and focus their efforts solely on their blade server management system, Control Tower. This shift was necessitated by a decline in the server market, largely due to the dotcom gloom.
Christopher Hipp and David Kirkeby applied for a patent on their design on July 20, 2000, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded patent 6411506 for a "High density web server chassis system and method" on June 25, 2002.
After 5 years of operation, RLX was bought by Hewlett-Packard in October 2005.
References
1999 establishments in Texas
2005 disestablishments in Texas
2005 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1999
American companies disestablished in 2005
Computer companies established in 1999
Computer companies disestablished in 2005
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct software companies of the United States
Hewlett-Packard acquisitions
Software companies established in 1999
Software companies disestablished in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeDi | NeDi is an open source software tool which discovers, maps and inventories network devices and tracks connected end-nodes. It contains a number of features in a GUI for managing enterprise networks. For example: MAC address mapping/tracking, traffic & error graphing, uptime monitoring, correlate collected syslog & trap messages with customizable notification, drawing network maps, extensive reporting features such as device software, PoE usage, disabled interfaces, link errors, switch usage and many more. Its modular architecture allows for integration with other tools. For example, Cacti graphs can be created purely based on discovered information. Due to NeDi's versatility things like printer resources can be monitored as well.
Features
Network Discovery, management & monitoring
Netflow & sFlow based traffic analysis
IT Inventory & lifecycle management
Network topology visualisation
Locate & Track Computers
Security audits & more
VM, DC management
Printer management
Backup Configs
IT Reports
History
Development started in 2001 at the Paul Scherrer Institute by Remo Rickli. It was released to the public under GPL2 in 2003. Over the next decade, NeDi grew up to be a reasonable network management suite with the help of its community and partners.
In 2014 Remo Rickli founded NeDi Consulting, providing commercial support and development around NeDi. Since then a major update is released every year (e.g. 1.5 in 2015).
Accessibility
Access to the latest version can be bought with support, on a yearly subscription basis. The last year's version is released to the public under GPL3. Some premium modules are not included in this free "community edition".
See also
RRDtool, Used for graphs
D3.js, Used for dynamic maps (interactive force directed graphs)
Leaflet (software), Used for geographic maps
Comparison of network monitoring systems
References
External links
Official website
Community forum
Youtube tutorials
Free network management software
Internet Protocol based network software
Network analyzers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Lopez%20%28businessman%29 | Danny Lopez (born 1974) is the CEO of cybersecurity firm Glasswall and a board member of Innovate Finance and Aquis Stock Exchange. Between 2011 and 2016 Lopez was the British Consul-General to New York and Director-General of the Department for Business and Trade in the United States and Canada.
Career
Lopez started his career at Barclays in 1996. During his ten years there he held a number of senior international positions, including Head of Global Inward Investment in London, Director of Business Banking in New York and Director of Business Development in India.
In 2006, Lopez joined the executive team at the Department for Business and Trade (formerly UK Trade & Investment), the UK government's foreign commercial arm. From 2009 to 2011 Lopez worked for Boris Johnson, then Mayor of London,and led the establishment of business and tourism agency London & Partners, becoming its inaugural CEO.
In 2011, the role of British Consul-General to New York was opened up to applicants outside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Lopez was confirmed as the successful candidate, becoming the youngest-ever holder of the position. As the senior British diplomat to New York for five years, he was responsible for promoting the UK's economic profile, foreign policy and national security priorities. In addition, Lopez led the Department for Business and Trade's presence across North America. During his tenure, Lopez hosted the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge during their visit to New York in December 2014. Lopez also actively promoted the expansion of high-tech US start-ups into the UK and facilitated collaboration between the tech industries of both countries.
In 2016, Lopez left his diplomatic position and returned to the private sector. He became the COO at technology company Blippar, a role he held for two years before stepping down in July 2018. In 2016, Lopez was appointed a special advisor to New York-based venture capital firm FinTech Collective and in 2017 he joined the board of Innovate Finance, the industry body that champions the UK's global fintech community. In 2019, Lopez was appointed CEO of award-winning cybersecurity firm Glasswall. In 2020, Lopez was appointed a Council Member and Trustee at the University of Essex, his alma mater.In 2021, Lopez joined the board of Aquis Stock Exchange.
Danny speaks regularly on platforms across the world on trends in cybersecurity; geopolitics and the intersection of market disrupting technologies and government policy; building a cybersecurity culture; and how boards and executive teams should manage cyber risk.
In May 2022 Lopez received the Freedom of the City of London at a ceremony held at Guildhall, the ceremonial and administrative centre of the City of London.
Personal life
Born in England to José Antonio and Elizabeth, and brought up in Spain, Lopez was educated at the Marists School of Zaragoza. Fluent in both English and Spanish, he holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in economics and a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timestamping%20%28computing%29 | In computing, timestamping refers to the use of an electronic timestamp to provide a temporal order among a set of events.
Timestamping techniques are used in a variety of computing fields, from network management and computer security to concurrency control. For instance, a heartbeat network uses timestamping to monitor the nodes on a high availability computer cluster.
Timestamping computer files (updating the timestamp in the per-file metadata every time a file is modified) makes it possible to use efficient build automation tools.
See also
Trusted timestamping
Timestamp-based concurrency control
Lamport timestamp
References
Computer network security
Concurrency control
Transaction processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nourishing%20USA | Nourishing USA is a United States-based non-profit organization. It consists of a nationwide network of more than 9500 community advocates and food rescue organizations that serves in the United States as well as Puerto Rico. The organization supports approximately 500 local charitable agencies operating including pantries, soup kitchens, senior center's and emergency shelters. The current CEO Simon Hancock was appointed in January 2013. Past CEO Gina Keatley, is a 2011 CNN Hero. Nourishing USA was known as Nourishing NYC until September 2010
History
In September 2010, Nourishing USA was featured on NBC San Diego at the Classy Awards, named the nationwide Charity of the Year.
In October 2010, FedEx partnered with Nourishing USA as the official sponsor of environmentally friendly shipping for all the anti-hunger advocacy kits mailed in 2010 and 2011. FedEx Express, a subsidiary of FedEx Corp uses it gasoline-electric hybrid vehicles from Azure Dynamics Corporation to deliver the kits. Most of the new FedEx gasoline-electric vehicles are in service at a Bronx, N.Y., station, making it the first FedEx all-hybrid facility with about 100 trucks.
In September 2010, the organization name was changed from Nourishing NYC to Nourishing USA. The new name conveys the mission—providing nutrition for all—and will be supported through expansive public outreach campaigns that will raise awareness and create action to stop malnourishment in low-income America.
In August 2009, Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA) announced that Nourishing USA had been chosen as Client for the Biennial Design Ideas Competition Program. The Harlem Edge/Cultivating Connections competition explored the redevelopment of the decommissioned Department of Sanitation marine transfer station located in the Hudson River at 135th Street. The site offered the opportunity to engage the local Harlem community with the waterfront, and echoes recent efforts by New York City to reclaim the waterfront for non-industrial use, as included Department of City Planning in its Vision 2020, the Comprehensive Waterfront Action Plan for New York City.
Network programs
Nourishing USA works to connect community advocates across the country with the necessary tools and motivation to make the growth of local fresh produce free and accessible, so we can all combat the growing problem of poverty and obesity. The national office produces nutritional and culinary educational tools that spotlight aspects of malnourishment and provides information on hunger, poverty and the programs that serve vulnerable Americans.
Nourishing USA has received national attention from being featured on Dr. Oz Show in 2011, BBC World News and has been chosen as the Post Foods Charity of Choice, 2010. Nourishing USA's mission is to offer nutrition for all. In 2010 Nourishing USA helped to distribute over 25,000 pounds of fresh produce to in-need families in supermarket deserts. In addition, Nourishing USA collaborated wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APCA | APCA may refer to:
Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm
Agrupación de Comandos Anfibios (Amphibious Commandos Group), a special operations force of the Argentine Marine Corps
Arthur – Pieman Conservation Area, in Tasmania, Australia
Associação Paulista de Críticos de Arte, arts award organization based in São Paulo, Brazil
Australian Payments Clearing Association |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JsPHP | JsPHP is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to make the PHP application programming interface (API) available in JavaScript environments. It was started by Kevin van Zonneveld as php.js and released as an open-source project in 2008. In late 2011 John Elliot forked the php.js project to JsPHP and released a web-based collaborative integrated development environment (IDE) at www.jsphp.com in an effort to rejuvenate and breathe new life into the project, and as an excuse to develop a content management system (CMS) with features for software developers, such as unit testing and benchmarking.
JsPHP is free, open source software, dual-licensed under the MIT License or the GNU General Public License, Version 2. JsPHP is designed to provide a familiar and powerful programming interface for JavaScript programmers with a background in, or integrating with, PHP. JsPHP is a useful supplement to other JavaScript libraries and can be used in Ajax applications and dynamic web pages and web applications.
Etymology
The 'js' in JsPHP is short for JavaScript and the 'PHP' stands for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. As with many software projects the name JsPHP was taken because a domain name, www.jsphp.com, was available; and the name is otherwise concise and descriptive.
Features
JsPHP has support for the vast majority of the PHP API, including functions for array, math, class/object manipulation, date and time, error handling and logging, filesystem, function handling, JSON, regular expressions, streams, strings, tokenization, URLs and XML.
Including the library
The JsPHP library is only available in custom packages. This means a software developer selects the functions they need and a JsPHP library file is compiled with the selected functions and their dependencies. Functions are also available for individual download. Downloads can be in one of two classes, either "production code" (which has been specifically flagged as fit for release) and "development code" (which is the latest available code in the repository).
Developing at www.jsphp.com
The JsPHP library is developed at www.jsphp.com, which provides a CMS and IDE for development and testing of the software. Of particular note are the built-in code editing, unit testing and benchmarking facilities. The unit testing facility is built on the QUnit library, part of the jQuery project.
See also
Comparison of JavaScript frameworks
jQuery UI
jQuery Mobile
References
External links
Upstream source
ProgClub, the project administrators
JavaScript libraries
Ajax (programming)
Software using the MIT license
2011 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichler%20Network | The Eichler Network is an American company that produces the quarterly CA-Modern print magazine, a website, and weekly email news articles about mid-century modern (MCM) architecture and design in California. It also publishes a directory of contractors and other service providers who focus on modern home preservation and improvement. Both the Eichler Network and CA-Modern were founded by Marty Arbunich, first as the quarterly Eichler Network print newsletter in 1993, then as the 36-page, full-color magazine since 2006.
Central to the Eichler Network's mission is the preservation of Eichler homes and other mid-century modern homes, which are notable and highly valued as representative of modern design principles promoted by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright and others. The Eichler Network has been recognized for its work in preserving the unique character of mid-century modern homes, having been featured in the New York Times and in Preservation, The Magazine for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Eichler Network has also partnered with the Los Angeles Conservancy in its mission to preserve Southern California's mid-century modern legacy.
In 2012, the Eichler Network and its magazine CA-Modern became part of the national conversation surrounding the life of Apple innovator Steve Jobs, who as a child lived in a mid-century modern home.
The Eichler Network mails its magazine free to property addresses of owners of Eichler homes in Northern California and Streng homes in the Sacramento area. Eichler homes are primarily in Northern California but there are approximately 600 in Southern California (and three in upstate New York). The Eichler Network earns revenue by selling advertising to contractors, real estate agents and other firms that focus on mid-century modern homes. All contractors are vetted by the Eichler Network.
The Eichler Network’s website provides an archive with original content and hundreds of articles from the magazine, including pieces on home improvement, profiles of modern designers and artists, and nostalgic features on music and arts, with a focus on the mid-century. The site includes homes for sale, service providers, a readers forum (Chatterbox Lounge) on such topics as home maintenance and a rec room for reader recommendations on companies and products.
Over the years the Eichler Network has increased its focus on the aesthetics and historical value of Eichler and other mid-century modern homes. It "counsels a new generation on taking care of quirky, aging Modernist houses," according to the New York Times. The Eichler Network held a conference on the subject in 2002, and Marty Arbunich co-authored the 2002 book, Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream, with architect Paul Adamson. The Eichler Network, in conjunction with the Historic Quest committee, also spearheaded the successful effort to place the first two Eichler neighborhoods in the Bay Area on the National Register for Historic Places in 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGN%20Sports | WGN Sports (originally known as WGN-TV Sports from 1948 to 1993) was the programming division of WGN-TV (channel 9), an independent television station located in Chicago, Illinois, United States—which is owned by the Nexstar Media Group—that was responsible for all sports broadcasts on the station, some of which were previously also broadcast on its former national superstation feed, WGN America (now news and entertainment channel NewsNation).
At various points between the station's founding in 1948 until 2019, WGN Sports produced telecasts from several of Chicago's major professional sports teams, most notably the Chicago Cubs (MLB), Chicago White Sox (MLB), Chicago Bulls (NBA) and Chicago Blackhawks (NHL). Since the inception of the sports programming unit, the station had produced ancillary pre-game and post-game shows for most of its sporting events, including The Lead-Off Man (pre-game) and The Tenth Inning (post-game) for its Cubs and White Sox baseball telecasts and BullsEye for its telecasts of Bulls basketball games. In addition to those shown over WGN-TV within the Chicago market, game telecasts produced by the station were also syndicated to television stations in other parts of Illinois as well as portions of Indiana and Iowa that are within the respective broadcast territories of the contracted teams.
WGN-TV wound down its broadcasts of team-based sports programming between March and September 2019, beginning with the conclusion of Bulls and Blackhawks game coverage that spring, as the four professional teams prepared to make their game telecasts cable-exclusive (with the Cubs planning to move their telecasts to Marquee Sports Network upon its launch on February 22, 2020, and the Bulls, Blackhawks and White Sox relegating their local television broadcasts to existing regional sports network partner NBC Sports Chicago beginning with the Bulls' 2019–20 preseason schedule), thereby ending the Chicago market's distinction as the only remaining American media market to regularly offer over-the-air telecasts of sporting events from NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball teams. Amidst this hiatus, in February 2020, Chicago Fire FC (MLS) announced a multi-year agreement with WGN-TV to transfer their over-the-air telecasts to the station beginning with its 2020 season, returning regular sporting events to the station after a seven-month lag. WGN-TV's final sports broadcast was the October 9 matchup between the Fire and the New England Revolution, as a result of Apple TV reaching an exclusive 10-year worldwide broadcast deal with MLS.
History
Throughout its history, WGN-TV has had a long-standing association with Chicago sports. The station has been noted for being one of a handful of commercial television stations in the United States—and, from the early 2000s until 2019, the only such station—to maintain a substantial schedule of locally originated telecasts from multiple major professional sports franchises. WGN is also among the few local t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20things%20named%20after%20Arthur%20Cayley | Arthur Cayley (1821 – 1895) is the eponym of all the things listed below.
Cayley absolute
Cayley algebra
Cayley computer algebra system
Cayley diagrams – used for finding cognate linkages in mechanical engineering
Cayley graph
Cayley numbers
Cayley plane
Cayley table
Cayley transform
Cayleyan
Cayley–Bacharach theorem
Cayley–Dickson construction
Cayley–Hamilton theorem in linear algebra
Cayley–Klein metric
Cayley–Klein model of hyperbolic geometry
Cayley–Menger determinant
Cayley–Purser algorithm
Cayley's formula
Cayley's hyperdeterminant
Cayley's mousetrap — a card game
Cayley's nodal cubic surface
Cayley normal 2-complement theorem
Cayley's ruled cubic surface
Cayley's sextic
Cayley's theorem
Cayley's Ω process
Chasles–Cayley–Brill formula
Grassmann–Cayley algebra
The crater Cayley on the Moon
Cayley, Arthur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nivis | Nivis, LLC is a company that designs and manufactures wireless sensor networks for smart grid and industrial process automation. Target applications include process monitoring, environmental monitoring, power management, security, and the internet of things. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, with additional offices in Romania, where much of its technology is developed. The company's product portfolio consists of standards-based wireless communications systems, including radio nodes, routers, management software and a software stack for native communications. Nivis hardware is operated by open source software.
Company history
Nivis was founded in 1998 and purchased in 1999 by the Lupton Group / Lyndhurst Foundation, a Chattanooga, Tennessee based foundation formed by Cartter Lupton who was the son of John Thomas Lupton.
Nivis deployed its first product, a 900MHz proprietary mesh network for environmental monitoring, in 2002. This system consisted of gateways connected in a mesh network communicating over satellite/GPRS with a Network Operations Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Between 2003 and 2006, Nivis deployed 900 MHz Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) proprietary mesh technology with partner in Automatic Meter Reading (AMR).
In 2008, Nivis moved to standards-based technology. The company deployed Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS), 802.15.4 2.4 GHz mesh technology, with partner for an intelligent street light controller. That year, Nivis launched an evaluation kit based on the ISA100.11a standard. Shortly after, Cisco and Nivis demonstrated a 6LoWPAN sensor network and in October the company signed a joint development agreement with Freescale.
In 2009, Nivis launched an ISA100.11a development kit consisting of gateway and end devices, and an ISA 100.11a Wireless Demonstration Project In Operation. In 2010 the Nivis ISA100.11a stack was successfully tested for compliance by the Wireless Compliance Institute (WCI).
In 2011, Nivis launched the WirelessHART development kit. later that year the company was awarded Nivis awarded the FIPS-197 Security Certification for Industrial Wireless Solutions utilizing Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 128 for encryption. Subsequently, Nivis launched a smart objects networking platform, using 6LoWPAN, 802.15.4g and 802.15.4e, at IPSO Alliance press conference in Santa Clara, CA.
In 2012, Nivis was the only company that supports both the ISA100.11a and WirelessHART standards with a single device; by 2015 the company had several competitors in this field.
Technology
Nivis has specialized in wireless mesh network research and technology, in which no device or connection can be a single point of failure. The technology has several advantages: it uses an architecture which supports a variety of network topologies, allowing the user to choose one appropriate for a specific environments. At start up, devices automatically organize themselves into a multi-hop, layered network, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoological%20Museum%20Amsterdam | The Zoological Museum Amsterdam (ZMA) was a natural history museum located close to Oosterpark in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was part of the Faculty of Science, Mathematics and Computer Science (Science) of the University of Amsterdam.
It was one of the two major natural history museums in the Netherlands. The total collection included approximately 13 million objects and was used mainly for scientific purposes. In addition to the museum function of the management and conservation of collections and exhibition, it was also a major scientific and (university) education function. At the Aquarium Building Artis Department organized exhibitions around the theme of human nature. The museum was divided into three sections - Vertebrates, Invertebrates and Entomology - and two departments, Exhibitions and Biodiversity Informatics.
In 2011, the collection of the Zoological Museum was merged into that of Naturalis and the National Herbarium of the Netherlands in NCB Naturalis (Dutch Centre for Biodiversity), launched on 26 January 2010. To highlight the move, the Naturalis museum has an exhibition on "Naturalia, circus animals to scientific object", in which objects from the collection of the ZMA are displayed, between 14 October 2011 and 19 August 2012.
References
External links
Zoological Museum Amsterdam
Defunct museums in the Netherlands
Museums in Amsterdam
Natural History Museum, London
Natural history museums in the Netherlands
University of Amsterdam
University museums in the Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signaling%20Gateway%20%28website%29 | Signaling Gateway is a web portal dedicated to signaling pathways powered by the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego. It was initiated by a collaboration between the Alliance for Cellular Signaling and Nature. A primary feature is the Molecule Pages database.
Molecule Pages Database (online database journal)
Signaling Gateway Molecule Pages is a database containing "essential information on more than 8000 mammalian proteins (Mouse and Human) involved in cellular signaling."
The content of molecule pages is authored by invited experts and is peer-reviewed. The published pages are citable by digital object identifiers (DOIs). All data in the Molecule Pages are freely available to the public.
Data can be exported to PDF, XML, BioPAX/SBPAX and SBML.
MIRIAM Registry Details.
Some Published Molecule Pages
References
External links
Signaling Gateway Molecule Pages
Cell biology
Cell signaling
Neurochemistry
Signal transduction
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel%20Avengers%20Alliance | Marvel Avengers Alliance was a turn-based social-network game developed by American studio Offbeat Creations and published by Playdom on March 1, 2012. It is based on characters and storylines published by Marvel Comics, and written by Alex Irvine. The game was available as an Adobe Flash application via the social-networking website Facebook. It launched in Facebook at March 1, 2012. It was initially released as promotion for the 2012 Marvel Studios crossover film The Avengers. It won the award for Best Social Game on the G4tv.com Video Game Awards 2012.
It was made available on iOS and Android devices on 13 June 2013. The servers running on Playdom's website were announced to be discontinued, but the game continued to be available via Facebook. Disney shut down the game on September 30, 2016.
Gameplay
Players take control of an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and can fully customize the agent by gaining experience, leveling up, and equipping their agents with various weapons and uniforms obtained within the game. The player can also team up with two out of the current 166 available Marvel heroes in the game, each with their unique skills and abilities. While some heroes are locked and can only be recruited on some occasions, most of them are available for general recruitment, and can be bought with 'Command Points', one of the currency that appears in the game.
Gameplay itself consists of turn-based fights that pit the player's agent and heroes against one or more waves of three or fewer enemies, with each character having unique attacks. There are six character classes: blaster, bruiser, scrapper, infiltrator, tactician and generalist. The first five classes have a specific strength and a specific weakness to one of the other classes, in a rock-paper-scissors style. Blasters have guaranteed critical hits against bruisers and ignore their defense stats. Bruisers increase their statistics when they attack or are attacked by scrappers. Scrappers have a second automatic attack (follow-up attack) against infiltrators. Infiltrators gain the ability to counter enemies' attacks after attacking or being attacked by tacticians, while the latter gain an extra turn when they attack or are attacked by blasters. The generalist class has no special strengths or weaknesses against other classes. Some playable heroes can switch classes during the game, and a character class may be changed with alternate costumes. The player has access to uniforms of all the classes.
Collections
Collections are a feature used to recruit new characters to your team, most of whom were previously Villains. It was first unveiled as part of Special Operations - Cry Havok.
Collections can be completed by opening Lockboxes to collect Comic Book Covers. Collecting all eight unique Covers of the Collection will unlock the Hero.
Player Vs. Player (PVP)
For a limited time, Player Vs. Player (PVP) tournaments are available where the players fight to reach different tiers (Silver, Gold, Diamond |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi%20Logrippo | Luigi Logrippo is a Professor of Computer Science at the Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO). He is the principal researcher of the LOTOS group at the University Of Ottawa. Currently luigi participates in LARSI.
Research areas
Formal methods in security, privacy and governance including:
Formal specification, formal design, validation, verification, testing
Security: Enterprise data security; Access control models and methods
Legal conformance, privacy
Normative systems:
Formal methods in telecom software engineering:
Process algebras, LOTOS and E-LOTOS languages
Feature interaction problem
Biography
Logrippo was born in Italy, received a "laurea" in law from the University of Rome in 1961. Until 1967, he worked with Olivetti, Olivetti-Bull, General Electric, and Siemens as a programmer and systems analyst. From 1967 to 1969 he worked as a research associate at the Institute for Computer Studies. He obtained a MSc in Computer Science from University of Manitoba in 1969. Luigi obtained a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Waterloo in 1974. From 1973 to 2002 I have been with the University of Ottawa, first in the Department of Computer Science and then in the School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE). Luigi was Chair of the Computer Science Department from 1991 to 1997 and Administrative Director of SITE in 1997/98. He had sabbaticals at Bell Northern Research (which became Nortel), at the University of Twente (NL) and at the University of Stirling (Scotland).
Lorgippo retired from the University of Ottawa and since July 1, 2002 he is currently a professor at the nearby Université du Québec en Outaouais, Département d'informatique et ingénierie.
Selected publications
Hemanth Khambhammettu, Sofiene Boulares, Kamel Adi, Luigi Logrippo. A Framework for Threat Assessment in Access Control Systems. To appear in the Proc. of SEC 2012, the 2012 IFIP International Information Security and Privacy Conference, Heraklion, June 4–6.
Bernard Stepien, Hemanth Khambhammettu, Kamel Adi, Luigi Logrippo. CatBAC: A Generic Framework for Designing and Validating Hybrid Access Control Models. To appear in the Proc. of SFCS 2012, the First IEEE International Workshop on Security and Forensics in Communication Systems, Ottawa, June 10–15, 2012
Yacine Bouzida, Luigi Logrippo, Sergei Mankovski. Concrete and Abstract Based Access Control. To appear in the International Journal of Information Security, Springer. The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com. Int. J. Inf. Secur. DOI 10.1007/s10207-011-0138-1. Published online 14 July 2011.
Logrippo, L. From e-business to e-laws and e-judgments: 4,000 years of experience. CYBERLAWS 2011, Proc. of the Second International Conference on Technical and Legal Aspects of the e-Society, Guadeloupe, Feb 2011, 22-28.
Slimani, N., Khambhammettu, H., Adi, K., Logrippo, L. UACML: Unified Access Control Modeling Language. In: New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), 2011 4th IFIP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coursera | Coursera Inc. () is a U.S.-based massive open online course provider founded in 2012 by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. Coursera works with universities and other organizations to offer online courses, certifications, and degrees in a variety of subjects. In 2023 more than 275+ universities and companies offer more than 4,000 courses through Coursera.
History
Coursera was founded in 2012 by Stanford University computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller. Ng and Koller started offering their Stanford courses online in fall 2011, and soon after left Stanford to launch Coursera. Princeton, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Pennsylvania were the first universities to offer content on the platform.
In 2014 Coursera received both the Webby Winner (Websites and Mobile Sites
Education 2014) and the People's Voice Winner (Websites and Mobile Sites Education) awards.
In March 2021, Coursera filed for an IPO. The nine-year-old company brought in roughly $293 million in revenue for the fiscal year ended December 31 — a 59% growth rate from 2019, according to the filing. Net losses widened by roughly $20 million yearly, reaching $66.8 million in 2020. Coursera spent $107 million on marketing in 2020.
Finances
Coursera's revenues rose from $184 million in 2019 to $294 million in 2020. To date, Coursera has not made a profit. The company lost $66 million in 2020 as it ramped up marketing and advertising.
For the first quarter of 2021, Coursera reported revenue of $88.4 million, up 64% from a year earlier, with a net loss of $18.7 million, or $13.4 million on a non-GAAP basis. Coursera said consumer revenue was $51.9 million, up 61%, while enterprise revenue was $24.5 million, up 63%, and degree programs had revenue of $12 million, up 81%.
For the third quarter of 2021, Coursera reported revenue of $109.9 million, up 33% from $82.7 million a year ago. Gross profit was $67.7 million or 61.6% of revenue. Net loss was $(32.5) million or (29.5)% of revenue.
Coursera has never made a profit.
Funding
The startup raised an initial $16 million funding round backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and New Enterprise Associates. In 2013, GSV led the Series B investment, which totaled $63 million. In 2015, NEA led the Series C round of venture funding, which totaled more than $60 million. In 2017, the company raised $64 million from its existing investors in a Series D round of funding. In 2019, the company raised $103 million in Series E round of funding from the SEEK Group, Future Fund and NEA. The company reached valuation of $1 billion+ in 2019. In July 2020, the company announced it had raised $130 million in Series F funding and updated its valuation to $2.5 billion.
Business model
In September 2013, it announced it had earned $1 million in revenue through the sale of verified certificates that authenticate successful course completion. Coursera first rolled out a series of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983%20Emmy%20Awards | 1983 Emmy Awards may refer to:
35th Primetime Emmy Awards, the 1983 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring primetime programming
10th Daytime Emmy Awards, the 1983 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring daytime programming
11th International Emmy Awards, the 1983 Emmy Awards ceremony honoring international programming
Emmy Award ceremonies by year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Tamil%20Association | British Tamil Association (BTA) is a Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora group in the United Kingdom. The VIGIL Network, in its October 2006 report LTTE "Tamil Tigers" and its UK-wide network, described the organization as "LTTE's de facto headquarters in London".
According to a 2006 Human Rights Watch report titled "Funding the Final War: LTTE Intimidation and Extortion in the Tamil Diaspora", the group acted as a front organization for the LTTE: a separatist militant organization, which waged a war against Sri Lankan state. The charitable group solicited funds to assist civilians affected by the war, but on most occasions, a significant amount of the funds raised were channeled to the LTTE for its military operations. And on a number of occasions, BTA had extorted money from Tamil people living in western countries by threatening the safety of their relatives back in Vanni, the northern part of Sri Lanka.
In June 2007, the founder of BTA, Krishanthakumar alias Shanthan was arrested by Metropolitan Police Service. In April 2009, he was found guilty of supplying bomb-making equipment for the LTTE and receiving documents for the purpose of terrorism. BTA is the successor to the United Tamil Organisation, which was proscribed in 2001.
See also
Tamils Rehabilitation Organisation
World Tamil Movement
References
External links
Western Govts watch while LTTE front organizations swindle their citizens
Folly of LTTE front British Tamil Forum
Tamil British
Diaspora organisations in the United Kingdom
Overseas Tamil organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle%20Quest | Castle Quest may refer to:
Castlequest, a 1986 video game for the Famicom/NES consoles and MSX computer
Castle Quest (1985 video game), a 1985 video game for the BBC Micro
Castle Quest (1993 video game), a 1993 video game for the Game Boy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Doc%20McStuffins%20episodes | Doc McStuffins is an American educational computer-animated children's television series produced by Brown Bag Films. It was created and executive produced by Chris Nee and premiered on March 23, 2012, on Disney Channel and Disney Junior. The series is about a girl who can "fix" toys, with help from her toy friends. It features songs written and composed by Kay Hanley and Michelle Lewis.
On April 14, 2015, the series was renewed for a fourth season by Disney Junior, which premiered on July 29, 2016.
On November 16, 2016, Doc McStuffins was renewed for a fifth and final season by Disney Junior, which premiered on October 26, 2018.
The series finale aired on April 18, 2020.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2012–13)
Doc, Lambie, and Stuffy were present in all episodes in this season.
Chilly was absent from 11 episodes: "Knight Time", "Run Down Race Car", "Tea Party Tantrum", "Blast Off", "Arcade Escapade", "Stuck Up", "All Washed Up", "Wrap It Up", "Get Set to Get Wet", "To Squeak, or Not to Squeak", and "Brontosaurus Breath".
Hallie was absent from 4 episodes: "Arcade Escapade", "Stuck Up", "Get Set to Get Wet", and "To Squeak, or Not to Squeak".
Season 2 (2013–15)
Doc, Lambie, and Stuffy were present in all episodes in this season.
Chilly was absent from 1 episode: "Don't Knock the Noggin".
Hallie was absent from 2 episodes: "Don't Knock the Noggin" and "The Doctor Will See You Now".
Doc starts a mobile clinic
Doc starts a vet clinic at the end of the season
Season 3 (2015–16)
Doc, Lambie, Stuffy, and Hallie were present in all episodes in this season.
Chilly was absent from 1 episode: "Slip n' Slide".
Season 4: Toy Hospital (2016–18)
Doc, Lambie, Stuffy, Hallie, and Chilly were present in all episodes in this season.
Note: This is the last season to feature two 11-minute stories.
Season 5: Pet Rescue (2018–20)
Doc, Lambie, Stuffy, Hallie and Chilly were present in all episodes in this season.
Note: Like other Disney Junior shows from the time, the episode title cards have been discontinued, but the titles are still heard. Also, the series no longer features two 11-minute stories. This is also the show's final season.
Special (2022)
The Doc Files
The Doc Files is a spin-off series to Doc McStuffins. Doc takes an in-depth look at specific cases and diagnoses after the clinic doors close for the day. The series debuted in the US on Disney Junior and Disney Channel on July 22, 2013.
Each episode opens with Doc pulling a toy patient's chart and recalling how she solved the case. The flashback sequences are done in 2D animation, while the beginning and end are done in the same CGI as the main Doc McStuffins episodes.
Shorts
Doc Toy Hospital: Pet Rescue
Doc Toy Hospital: Baby
Doc Toy Hospital: Arctic Rescue
Doc McStuffins: The Doc and Bella Are In!
DJ Melodies
Doc to the Rescue May 18, 2015
Welcome to the Family June 15, 2015
References
External links
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumardubi | Kumardhubi is an inhabited place in the Dhanbad district of Jharkhand state, India.
Geography
Location
Kumardubi is not identified as a separate place/ mouza in the 2011 census data, As per the map of Nirsa CD Block on page 132 of District Census Handbook, Dhanbad Kumardubi seems to be included in Chirkunda, but it is not clear.
Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the area. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full-screen map.
Overview
The region shown in the map is a part of the undulating uplands bustling with coalmines. While the Damodar flows along the southern boundary, the Barakar flows along the eastern boundary. Both the rivers form the boundary with West Bengal.
Panchet Dam and Maithon Dam, along their reservoirs, are prominently visible in the map. The entire area is covered in Nirsa (community development block). In Nirsa CD block 69% of the population live in rural areas and 31% live in urban areas. The official website of the district has announced the formation of two new CD blocks – Egarkund and Kaliasole, possibly carved out of Nirsa CD block. As of July 2019, there is no further information about the new CD blocks. BCCL operates Chanch/ Victoria Area partially within the region shown in the map. ECL operates Mugma Area fully within the region shown in the map.
Attractions
There are two must-visit places near Kumardhubi. First, Maithon Dam and second, Panchet Dam. Maithon dam was specially designed for flood control and generates 60,000 kW of electric power. There is an underground power station, the first of its kind in the whole of South East Asia.
Economy
Industry
Kumardhubi is the heart of coal belt, which gives rise to a number of Industrial opportunities in the area. Kumardubi is known for the manufacturing of 'Fire Bricks', as fire clay is found here in large quantity. There are a number of small manufacturing units, which are indulged in making 'stone chips crusher'.
The area is also known for its British-era metal casting company "Kumardhubi Metal Casting and Engineering Limited (KMCEL)" that produced track sections used in underground mines and employed around 850 workers at the time of its closure in 1995.
Originally owned by Bird Company during the British era, Kumardhubi Engineering Works was taken over by the Bengal government and run till 1979, after which it was taken over by Bihar State Industrial Development Corporation. It was renamed Kumardhubi Metal Casting and Engineering Limited in 1983 with the BSIDC and Tata Steel jointly running it till 1995. At the time, Tata Steel owned 49 per cent stake while BSIDC remained the majority partner with 51 per cent stake.
Another manufacturing industry that brings interest in this area is, McNally Bharat Engineering Company Ltd. (MBE) which is one of the leading Engineering Companies in India. MBECL, the parent company of MSEL, started its business from this place in 1961. The Kumardhubi unit is an integrated |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20Soccer%20%28video%20game%29 | is a Japan-exclusive soccer video game for the Family Computer, which was released in 1990.
References
1990 video games
Association football video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Tokuma Shoten games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20O%27Higgins%20Norman | James O'Higgins Norman PC, MStJ, FRSA holds the UNESCO Chair on Tackling Bullying in Schools and Cyberspace at Dublin City University. He is the director of the National Anti-Bullying Research and Resource Centre, and a member of the Government of Ireland Advisory Council on Online Safety.
Background
O'Higgins Norman was born in Dublin, Ireland, and grew up in Glasnevin where he attended St Kevins College secondary school. He has said that he is a descendant of Chilean independence leader Bernardo O'Higgins.
Education
His undergraduate studies included philosophy, psychology and sociology and he has an honours degree in Divinity from Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Rome, 1994), as well as a Higher Diploma in Education from University College Dublin (1996) and a Master's degree in Education from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth (1999). He also studied Family Law at the Law Society of Ireland (2008) and was awarded a Doctorate from UCL Institute of Education, London (2006).
Career
In 2000, he took up a position as a lecturer in the Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin, Ireland, where he led research on pastoral care in second level schools. While there he authored the book entitled Ethos and Education in Ireland (2003) (New York: Peter Lang) in which he argued that the Catholic Church had a majority share in the control and management of schools in Ireland and that the church and state would need to reconsider this position in the light of the emerging diversity in Irish society. These views were upheld in 2006 when Archbishop Martin of Dublin called on the state to consider alternative patrons for schools and in 2011 when Ruairí Quinn, Minister for Education and Skills, established a special commission to examine how some schools could be transferred from the patronage of the Catholic Church to other bodies.
In 2003, he was awarded a research grant to examine homophobic bullying in Irish second-level schools. Between 2004 and 2008 he published several reports and two books revealing the extent of the issue in Ireland. In 2005 he became an associate professor at the School of Education Studies in Dublin City University where his research led to the launch in October 2006 of the "Making Our Schools Safe" campaign by the Department of Education and Science. His work on bullying also informed debate in Dáil Éireann and was quoted in a session of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education. In May 2012 he was invited to participate in the National Anti-Bullying Forum sponsored by the Government of Ireland at the Department of Education and Skills.
He also extended his work on bullying to include research on cyberbullying, and his research on bullying and education was published in journals including the British Journal of Educational Management, Administration and Leadership.
In 2010 he co-edited the International Handbook on Education for Spirituality, Care and Wellbeing (Netherlands: Springer). In addition to his |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom%20%28South%20Korean%20TV%20series%29 | Phantom () is a 2012 South Korean television series, starring So Ji-sub, Lee Yeon-hee, Um Ki-joon, Kwak Do-won, and Song Ha-yoon. The police procedural tackles crimes and clues in the cyber world, weaving a massive, twist-filled mystery of murders, identity switches, corruption and conspiracy.
It aired on SBS TV from May 30 to August 9, 2012 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes.
Plot
Kim Woo-hyun is the only son of a prominent police officer. Determined to make his own mark, he breezes through the police academy, and along the way racks up accolades, top of the class honors, a lot of praise and perhaps envy from his colleagues. Assigned to the cyber investigations unit, Detective Kim finds himself entrenched in an intense cat and mouse game with faceless enemies in the cyber world. Tirelessly hunting a hacker named Hades, he traces the hacker's location to an apartment building and arrives just in time to witness an actress fall to her death from the high-rise.
What appears initially to be a suicide case reveals a trail of crime and conspiracy as Hades broadcasts a video clip showing a perpetrator pushing the actress to her death. Suspected to be the perpetrator, Hades is hunted down by Woo-hyun, who finds out that Hades is in fact his past roommate in the police academy, Park Ki-young. Ki-young escapes, and later infiltrates the police headquarters in search of an important evidence proving his innocence. He is caught by Yoo Kang-mi, with whom he watches a video titled 'Phantom' that reveals a murder linking right back to Woo-hyun. Ki-young once again escapes, but calls Woo-hyun to meet up with him in an abandoned factory. The factory explodes, and one died while the other suffered severe burns. In a mistaken identity, Ki-young is sent to the hospital for treatment. Ki-young recovers and assumes Woo-hyun's identity, working together with Kang-mi to defeat the enigmatic nemesis and do justice for his friend's sacrifice.
Cast
Main characters
So Ji-sub - Kim Woo-hyun / Park Ki-young
Lee Yeon-hee - Yoo Kang-mi
Um Ki-joon - Jo Hyun-min
Kwak Do-won - Kwon Hyuk-joo
Song Ha-yoon - Choi Seung-yeon
Cyber Investigation Team
Kwon Hae-hyo - Han Young-seok
G.O - Lee Tae-kyun
Im Ji-kyu - Byun Sang-woo
Baek Seung-hyeon - Kang Eun-jin
Bae Min-hee - Lee Hye-ram
Supporting characters
Choi Jung-woo - Shin Kyung-soo
Jang Hyun-sung - Jeon Jae-wook
Yoon Ji-hye - Goo Yeon-joo
Jung Dong-hwan - Kim Seok-joon
Lee Tae-woo - Kim Seon-woo
Jung Moon-sung - Yeom Jae-hee
Myung Gye-nam - Jo Kyung-shin
Lee Jae-yoon - Jo Jae-min
Park Ji-il - Director Moon
Lee Ki-young - Im Chi-hyun
Lee Won-keun - Kwon Do-young
Guest appearances
Choi Daniel - Park Gi-young / Hades (ep 1-2, 6)
Esom - Shin Hyo-jung (ep 1)
Kim Sung-oh - Shin Hyo-jung's fan (ep 1)
Lee Joon - passerby (ep 1)
Jung Da-hye - Jung So-eun (ep 3)
Kang Sung-min - Yang Seung-jae (ep 3-4)
Kwak Ji-min - Kwon Eun-sol (ep 7)
Han Bo-bae - Kwak Ji-soo (ep 7-8)
Ha Seung-ri - Jung Mi-young (ep 7-8)
K |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makapiling%20Kang%20Muli | (International title: Together Again / ) is a 2012 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Ricky Davao, it stars Richard Gutierrez and Carla Abellana. It premiered on June 4, 2012 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Legacy. The series concluded on September 7, 2012 with a total of 70 episodes. It was replaced by Aso ni San Roque in its timeslot.
It was originally titled as Rancho Paradiso.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Richard Gutierrez as Martín Caballero-De La Rosa-Silvestre
Carla Abellana as Leilani Angeles
Supporting cast
Mark Anthony Fernandez as Luisito "Louie" Valencia
Sarah Lahbati as Graciela Montes
Gloria Romero as Soledad Vda. de Silvestre-Caballero
Rio Locsin as Mara Silvestre-Valencia
Phillip Salvador as Amadeo Perez
Mark Gil as Roman Valencia
Robert Arevalo as Florentino "Tino" Caballero
TJ Trinidad as Javier Lagdameo
John Lapus as George
Janine Gutierrez as Lynley Valencia
Benedict Campos as Keiffer Angeles
Guest cast
Lance Lucido as kid Martin Caballero
Miguel Tanfelix as young Martin Caballero
Anna Vicente as young Leilani Angeles
Ronald de Santos as young Luisito "Louie" Valencia
Jennylyn Mercado as young Mara Silvestre-Valencia
Gabby Eigenmann as young Roman Valencia
Jestoni Alarcon as Serafín Angeles
Lani Mercado as Nelia Angeles
James Blanco as Emilio dela Rosa
Dex Quindoza as Buboy
Carmen Soriano as Claring Perez
Lito Legaspi as a governor
Bearwin Meily as Dexter
Rita Avila as Olivia
Yassi Pressman as Vanessa
Rocco Nacino as Ferdinand
Rocky Gutierrez as Brando
Ramon Christopher as Bartolome
Bela Padilla as Amber
Paolo Paraiso as Bodjie
Vaness del Moral as Salve
Rosemarie Sarita as George's mother
Carmi Martin as Helga
Nathalie Hart as Monina
Lester Llansang as Hans
Andrew Schimmer as Kyle Dancel
Marc Justine Alvarez as Macmac
Sheree Bautista as Ara
Mike Lloren as Rodriguez
Robert Ortega as Durano
Production
The producer of the show hires the veteran and award-winning actor/director, Ricky Davao to handle the series. This television series is also Davao's second primetime directorial project under GMA Network. Prior to this series, Davao has been megged a string of shows in quick succession: Grazilda [as second unit director] (2010), Sisid (2011), Kung Aagawin Mo ang Langit (2011) and Kokak (2011).
Davao is confident that the series can establish supremacy on primetime television as it boasts quality in terms of story and performance. He further stated:
Casting
The series' producer cast two of the network's primetime royalties, Richard Gutierrez and Carla Abellana as Martin Caballero and Leilani Angeles, respectively, the two main protagonists of the series. The former expresses his gratitude on doing this project. For him, this drama is one of the biggest milestones in his career and a "something new" for him [the actor is associated with his top-rated fantasy-adventure series like Mulawin, Sugo, Captain Barbell, Lupin, Kaman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longmire%20%28TV%20series%29 | Longmire is an American neo-Western crime drama television series that premiered on June 3, 2012, on the A&E network, developed by John Coveny and Hunt Baldwin. The series is based on the Walt Longmire Mysteries series of novels by Craig Johnson. It centers on Walt Longmire, a sheriff in fictional Absaroka County, Wyoming. He is assisted by staff, friends, and his daughter in investigating major crimes within his jurisdiction.
Longmire became the "highest-rated original drama series" on A&E; however, the network announced in August 2014 that it would not renew the series after the third season. Warner Horizon Television offered it to other networks and Netflix picked it up, starting with season four. Netflix released the sixth and final season on November 17, 2017. All episodes are available for streaming via Netflix in the United States.
Plot
Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor) is the sheriff of fictional Absaroka County. Sheriff Longmire's longtime friend Henry Standing Bear (Lou Diamond Phillips), a Cheyenne, provides insight to and sometimes aids in dealing with tribal police. (The Indian reservation has its own police force, which has authority within the reservation boundaries, except for capital crimes.) As the series progresses, the friends deal with gambling at a casino on the reservation, competing jurisdictional authority for protecting people and prosecuting crimes, and other issues of contemporary Native American life.
Season one
Walt's adult daughter Cady (Cassidy Freeman) is concerned that her father has been stuck since the death of her mother. While preparing to run for re-election, Walt has delegated most police duties to deputies Branch Connally (Bailey Chase) and "The Ferg" (Adam Bartley). Branch has also entered the election, to unseat Longmire, and he is secretly dating Cady. Victoria "Vic" Moretti (Katee Sackhoff), a transplanted Philadelphia homicide detective, arrived in Wyoming six months prior and works as one of Walt's deputies.
In random flashback scenes, Walt and Henry travel separately to Denver, Colorado, where Walt attacks someone in a meth house. Denver Police Homicide Detective Fales (Charles S. Dutton) later comes to Wyoming to talk to Walt and Cady about Cady's mother's death. Cady is shocked to learn her mother was murdered, as Walt had told her she died of cancer. Fales tells Walt they found the murder suspect buried in a shallow grave. Walt denies killing the man, but Detective Fales suspects that if Walt did not commit the murder, then Henry did.
Season two
Cady goes to Denver to speak to Detective Fales, who gives her the details of her mother's murder and informs her the suspected murderer has also been killed. When Fales questions her, she says that her father confides in Henry Standing Bear, inadvertently giving Fales a new target of investigation. Henry tells Walt that he killed the murderer because Walt was unable to do so. Vic encounters Ed Gorski (Lee Tergesen), a retired cop from Philadelphia. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Lafore | Robert W. Lafore (born March 11, 1938) is a computer programmer, systems analyst and entrepreneur. He coined the term "interactive fiction", and was an early software developer in this field.
Career
Lafore worked as a systems analyst for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In the early days of microcomputing, he wrote programs in BASIC for the TRS-80 and founded his own software company.
Lafore has written a number of text adventure games, for which he coined the term "interactive fiction", for the company Adventure International.
Lafore has authored a number of books on the subject of computer programming, including Soul of CP/M., and Assembly Language Primer for the IBM PC and XT. Later books included C++ Interactive Course, Object-Oriented Programming in C++, Turbo C Programming for the IBM, and C Programming Using Turbo C++. At one time he was an editor for the Waite Group publishers.
References
External links
http://www.informit.com/authors/bio.aspx?a=E8178A8C-D171-4B68-A507-127DE6FF7B9C
http://www.pearsoned.co.in/web/authors/3304/Robert_Lafore.aspx
1938 births
Living people
American computer programmers
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday%20Night%20at%20the%20Garden | Saturday Night at the Garden was an American sports series broadcast by the DuMont Television Network from October 7, 1950, to March 31, 1951. The program aired sports, primarily basketball, horse show, rodeo, and boxing live from Madison Square Garden in New York City. The program aired Saturday nights at 9pm ET and was 120 to 150 minutes long. The series was hosted by sportscaster Curt Gowdy and long time boxing blow-by-blow announcer Don Dunphy .
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist. Some episodes may exist under the title Boxing With Dennis James at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1950-51 United States network television schedule
Boxing From Jamaica Arena (September 1948 – 1949)
Amateur Boxing Fight Club (September 1949 – 1950)
Boxing From Sunnyside Gardens (September 1949 – 1950)
Wrestling From Marigold (September 1949 – 1955)
Boxing From Eastern Parkway (May 1952-May 1954)
Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena (1954-1956)
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1950 American television series debuts
1951 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
American sports television series
English-language television shows
Lost television shows
Boxing television series
DuMont sports programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famous%20Fights%20from%20Madison%20Square%20Garden | Famous Fights from Madison Square Garden is a TV sports series broadcast by the DuMont Television Network from September 15, 1952 to December 22, 1952. The program aired famous past boxing matches at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The program aired Monday nights at 9:45pm ET, was 15 minutes long, and was preceded by another 15-minute show Football Sidelines.
Jimmy Powers provided commentaries on the telecasts, which preceded bouts from Eastern Parkway Arena in Brooklyn. The program was sponsored by Adam Hats and originated at WABD.
Syndication
In 1953, a revised version of Famous Fights from Madison Square Garden with "all new footage" was offered for syndication. It was produced by Winik Films, Incorporated, and distributed by Du Mont Film Syndication Department. In 1954, Winik took control of distribution of the series. Also in 1954, the series took second place in the sports division of Billboard magazine's Second Annual TV Film Awards.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1952-53 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
Famous Fights From Madison Square Garden at IMDB
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1952 American television series debuts
1952 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
Boxing television series
DuMont sports programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing%20from%20Eastern%20Parkway | Boxing from Eastern Parkway was an American sports program broadcast by the DuMont Television Network from May 1952 to May 1954. The program aired boxing matches from Eastern Parkway Arena in Brooklyn, New York. The program aired Monday nights at 10pm ET and was 90 to 120 minutes long. During the 1953-1954 season, the program aired Mondays at 9pm ET.
Episode status
The UCLA Film and Television Archive has about 30 episodes in its collection, dating from December 1952 to October 1953.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1952-53 United States network television schedule
1953-54 United States network television schedule
Boxing From Jamaica Arena (September 1948 – 1949)
Amateur Boxing Fight Club (September 1949 – 1950)
Wrestling From Marigold (September 1949 – 1955)
Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena (1954-1956)
Saturday Night at the Garden (1950-1951)
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
Brief history of Eastern Parkway Arena
1952 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings
American sports television series
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows
Boxing television series
DuMont sports programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing%20from%20Jamaica%20Arena | Boxing From Jamaica Arena is a TV sports series broadcast by the DuMont Television Network from 1946 to 1949. The program aired boxing from Jamaica Arena in Queens, New York. The program aired on Monday and Wednesday nights at 9pm ET and was 90 to 120 minutes long. An earlier program of the same name had aired on NBC from July 8, 1940 until May 18, 1942.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist. Some episodes may exist under the umbrella title Boxing With Dennis James at the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1948-49 United States network television schedule
Amateur Boxing Fight Club (September 1949 – 1950)
Wrestling From Marigold (September 1949 – 1955)
Boxing From Eastern Parkway (May 1952-May 1954)
Boxing From St. Nicholas Arena (1954-1956)
Saturday Night at the Garden (1950-1951)
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1946 American television series debuts
1949 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
Lost television shows
Boxing television series
DuMont sports programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard%20Fischer%20%28professor%29 | Gerhard Fischer (born July 2, 1945) is a German-born computer scientist who is Professor of Computer Science, a Fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science, and the founder and director of the Center for LifeLong Learning & Design at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Awards and honors
Inducted into the SIGCHI Academy in 2007 for introducing visionary, long-lasting research themes to CHI by creatively combining European and American research traditions
Elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2009 for “contributions to human-computer interaction and computer-mediated lifelong learning.”
Awarded the RIGO Award from the ACM Special Interest Group on Design of Communication (SIGDOC) in 2012 for research on new conceptual frameworks and new media
Appointed “honorary doctor” at the IT Faculty, University of Gothenburg, Sweden in 2015
References
External links
Home Page
List of Publications
Living people
German computer scientists
American computer scientists
University of Hamburg alumni
Heidelberg University alumni
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
1945 births
Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waagenoceras | Waagenoceras is a genus of cephalopods first recorded in the early Permian Period. It has been described as a 'fast-moving nektonic carnivore' by the Paleobiology Database. They have been found in Canada, mainly in British Columbia, though the overwhelming majority have been found in Texas, United States and others in Mexico. Others have been found in China, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Oman, Russian Federation, and Tunisia.
Species
Waagenoceras dieneri
Waagenoceras mojsisovicsi
Waagenoceras nikitini
Waagenoceras obliquum
Waagenoceras richardsoni
Waagenoceras girtyi
Waagenoceras stachei
References
Goniatitida genera
Cyclolobaceae
Permian animals of North America
Paleozoic life of British Columbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicographically%20minimal%20string%20rotation | In computer science, the lexicographically minimal string rotation or lexicographically least circular substring is the problem of finding the rotation of a string possessing the lowest lexicographical order of all such rotations. For example, the lexicographically minimal rotation of "bbaaccaadd" would be "aaccaaddbb". It is possible for a string to have multiple lexicographically minimal rotations, but for most applications this does not matter as the rotations must be equivalent. Finding the lexicographically minimal rotation is useful as a way of normalizing strings. If the strings represent potentially isomorphic structures such as graphs, normalizing in this way allows for simple equality checking.
A common implementation trick when dealing with circular strings is to concatenate the string to itself instead of having to perform modular arithmetic on the string indices.
Algorithms
The Naive Algorithm
The naive algorithm for finding the lexicographically minimal rotation of a string is to iterate through successive rotations while keeping track of the most lexicographically minimal rotation encountered. If the string is of length , this algorithm runs in time in the worst case.
Booth's Algorithm
An efficient algorithm was proposed by Booth (1980).
The algorithm uses a modified preprocessing function from the Knuth–Morris–Pratt string search algorithm. The failure function for the string is computed as normal, but the string is rotated during the computation so some indices must be computed more than once as they wrap around. Once all indices of the failure function have been successfully computed without the string rotating again, the minimal lexicographical rotation is known to be found and its starting index is returned. The correctness of the algorithm is somewhat difficult to understand, but it is easy to implement.
def least_rotation(s: str) -> int:
"""Booth's lexicographically minimal string rotation algorithm."""
n = len(s)
f = [-1] * (2 * n)
k = 0
for j in range(1, 2 * n):
i = f[j - k - 1]
while i != -1 and s[j % n] != s[(k + i + 1) % n]:
if s[j % n] < s[(k + i + 1) % n]:
k = j - i - 1
i = f[i]
if i == -1 and s[j % n] != s[(k + i + 1) % n]:
if s[j % n] < s[(k + i + 1) % n]:
k = j
f[j - k] = -1
else:
f[j - k] = i + 1
return k
Of interest is that removing all lines of code which modify the value of results in the original Knuth-Morris-Pratt preprocessing function, as (representing the rotation) will remain zero. Booth's algorithm runs in time, where is the length of the string. The algorithm performs at most comparisons in the worst case, and requires auxiliary memory of length to hold the failure function table.
Shiloach's Fast Canonization Algorithm
Shiloach (1981)
proposed an algorithm improving on Booth's result in terms of performance. It was observed that if there are eq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20Sidelines | Football Sidelines is a TV sports program broadcast on the DuMont Television Network from October 6 to December 22, 1952 and hosted by Harry Wismer. The program was 15 minutes long, and aired on Mondays at 9:30pm ET, followed by Famous Fights From Madison Square Garden at 9:45pm.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1952-53 United States network television schedule
Football This Week
Pro Football Highlights
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
Football Sidelines at IMDB
DuMont historical website
1952 American television series debuts
1952 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
National Football League on television
Lost television shows
DuMont sports programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football%20This%20Week | Football This Week is a TV sports program broadcast on the DuMont Television Network. The 15-minute program aired on Thursdays at 10:45 pm ET from October 11 to December 6, 1951.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1951-52 United States network television schedule
Football Sidelines
Pro Football Highlights
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
Football This Week at IMDB
DuMont historical website
1951 American television series debuts
1951 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
National Football League on television
Lost television shows
DuMont sports programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%2021%20Jump%20Street%20episodes | 21 Jump Street is an American police procedural crime drama television series that aired on the Fox Network and in first run syndication from April 12, 1987, to April 27, 1991, with a total of 103 episodes. The series focuses on a squad of youthful-looking undercover police officers investigating crimes in high schools, colleges, and other teenage venues.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1987)
Season 2 (1987–88)
Season 3 (1988–89)
Season 4 (1989–90)
Season 5 (1990–91)
References
External links
episodes
Lists of American crime drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparsh%20%28software%29 | 'SPARSH' is a novel interaction method to transfer data between digital devices by touch gestures. Sparsh prototype system is designed and developed by Pranav Mistry, Suranga Nanayakkara of the MIT Media Lab. Sparsh lets the user touch whatever data item he or she wants to copy from a device. At that moment, the data item is conceptually saved in the user. Next, the user touches the other device he or she wants to paste/pass the saved content into. Sparsh uses touch-based interactions as indications for what to copy and where to pass it. Technically, the actual transfer of media happens via the information cloud. The user authentication is achieved by face recognition, fingerprint detection or username-password combination. Sparsh lets the user conceptually transfer media (pictures, text, video, links) from one digital device to one's body and pass it to the other digital device by simple touch gestures. At present, Sparsh system support Android and Windows platform.
References
External links
Sparsh homepage
Sparsh video demonstration
User interfaces
MIT Media Lab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon%20%28TV%20series%29 | Pentagon, aka Pentagon Washington, was a public affairs TV series broadcast by the DuMont Television Network from May 6, 1951, to November 24, 1952. The series aired Sundays at 8:30pm ET.
Episode status
Only the final episode from November 24, 1952, exists. This episode is held in the J. Fred MacDonald collection at the Library of Congress.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1951-52 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
Pentagon (TV series) at IMDB
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1951 American television series debuts
1952 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont news programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20the%20Cossack | Peter VI (also referred to as the Cossack; ) was Prince of Moldavia between August 1592 and 25 October 1592.
His nickname comes from his good relation with the Zaporozhian Cossacks.
The data about his origin are uncertain. It is believed that he was the son of Alexandru Lăpuşneanu.
Peter Cossack was killed on 25 October 1592 by strangulation.
References
Monarchs of Moldavia
House of Bogdan-Mușat
16th-century Romanian people
1592 deaths
16th-century murdered monarchs
Year of birth unknown
Murder in 1592
Deaths by strangulation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salstat | Salstat is a free software application for the statistical analysis of numeric data with an emphasis on ease-of-use. Using both a graphical user interface and command line interface, it can perform all sorts of analyses including descriptive statistics and a range of inferential tests (both parametric and nonparametric). It is written in the Python language and works on any platform that supports Python, NumPy, SciPy, and wxPython. In June 2012, it had received at least 38,000 downloads from its Sourceforge site and spawned a 'son-of' program called Salstat Statistics Package 2. Some of the code was adopted by the PCMDI program for climate analysis and CDAT, both linked to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.
Current status
The most recent release was in 2003 but it is being updated by Mark Livingstone.
References
Free statistical software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikidata | Wikidata is a collaboratively edited multilingual knowledge graph hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is a common source of open data that Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia, and anyone else, can use under the CC0 public domain license. Wikidata is a wiki powered by the software MediaWiki, including its extension for semi-structured data, the Wikibase.
Concept
Wikidata is a document-oriented database, focused on items, which represent any kind of topic, concept, or object. Each item is allocated a unique, persistent identifier, a positive integer prefixed with the upper-case letter Q, known as a "QID". This enables the basic information required to identify the topic that the item covers to be translated without favouring any language.
Examples of items include , , , , and .
Item labels need not be unique. For example, there are two items named "Elvis Presley": , which represents the American singer and actor, and , which represents his self-titled album. However, the combination of a label and its description must be unique. To avoid ambiguity, an item's unique identifier (QID) is therefore linked to this combination.
Main parts
Fundamentally, an item consists of:
An identifier (the QID), related to a label and a description.
Optionally, multiple aliases and some number of statements (and their properties and values).
Statements
Statements are how any information known about an item is recorded in Wikidata. Formally, they consist of key–value pairs, which match a property (such as "author", or "publication date") with one or more entity values (such as "Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" or "1902"). For example, the informal English statement "milk is white" would be encoded by a statement pairing the property with the value under the item .
Statements may map a property to more than one value. For example, the "occupation" property for Marie Curie could be linked with the values "physicist" and "chemist", to reflect the fact that she engaged in both occupations.
Values may take on many types including other Wikidata items, strings, numbers, or media files. Properties prescribe what types of values they may be paired with. For example, the property may only be paired with values of type "URL".
Optionally, qualifiers can be used to refine the meaning of a statement by providing additional information. For example, a "population" statement could be modified with a qualifier such as "point in time (P585): 2011" (as its own key-value pair). Values in the statements may also be annotated with references, pointing to a source backing up the statement's content. As with statements, all qualifiers and references are property–value pairs.
Properties
Each property has a numeric identifier prefixed with a capital P and a page on Wikidata with optional label, description, aliases, and statements. As such, there are properties with the sole purpose of describing other properties, such as .
Properties may also define more complex rules about |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20Oriented%20Architecture | In software engineering, a Library Oriented Architecture (LOA) is a set of principles and methodologies for designing and developing software in the form of reusable software libraries constrained in a specific ontology domain. LOA provides one of the many alternate methodologies that enable the further exposure of software through a service-oriented architecture. Library orientation dictates the ontological boundaries of a library that exposes business functionality through a set of public APIs. Library Oriented Architecture further promotes practices similar to Modular Programming, and encourages the maintenance of internal libraries and modules with independent internal open-source life-cycles. This approach promotes good software engineering principles and patterns such as separation of concerns and designing to interfaces as opposed to implementations.
Principles
Three principles rule Library Oriented Architecture frameworks:
A software library implementation and subject area expertise must be constrained to only one ontology domain.
A software library that needs to use concepts and artifacts from a different ontology domain than the one it belongs to, must interface and reuse the library corresponding to that specific ontology domain.
All domain specific software libraries must be maintained and supported with separate life-cycles.
Benefits
Library Oriented Architecture may provide different process improvements to existing software engineering practices and software development life-cycle. Some tangible benefits from its adoption are:
Simplify configuration management of distributed systems.
Build highly reliable software systems because of the inherent properties and constraints of the LOA principles.
Information Systems built using LOA are technology-independent. These systems can easily replace or swap entire libraries and domain implementations with localized impact and minimal upstream ripple effect.
Increase the Maintainability Index of your distributed systems and integration repositories.
Minimize the risk of high coupling, this can be more evident on large enterprise systems.
Bring developers up to speed orders of magnitude more quickly than a traditional system. Move developers and teams across libraries and domain ontologies and collaborate seamlessly.
Spot bugs and zero-in on the problem almost instantly. There is something to be said about the amount of time a developer spends debugging.
Maximization of the Bus Factor of the software engineering team.
See also
Ontology (information science)
Service-oriented architecture
Distributed system
Modular programming
Software library
Software design pattern
Writing Elegant Code and the Maintainability Index
Code Metrics – Maintainability Index
References
Software architecture
Enterprise application integration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONTV | ONTV or variant may refer to:
ON TV (TV network), now-defunct American UHF subscription television service
ONTV Nigeria, a Lagos-based channel
On E, formerly known as ON TV, an Egyptian digital television channel launched in 2009
CHCH-DT, a station in Canada that used the branding "ONtv" during the 1990s
"On TV", a song by the Buggles from the 1981 album Adventures in Modern Recording
...on TV or ...on Television, British TV programme
See also
TVOntario |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAST%20network | The BLAST network is a plan for a frequent rapid transit system in the city of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The system is planned to include five routes, with two light rail transit (LRT) lines, and three bus rapid transit (BRT) lines.
Background
In 1981, during Bill Davis's Progressive Conservative administration, the Province of Ontario offered to finance the construction of a light metro in Hamilton from Lloyd D. Jackson Square to the Lime Ridge Mall. The line would have employed the ICTS platform used in the Scarborough RT in Toronto and the Expo Line in Vancouver. The plan, however, faced significant local opposition, and Hamilton-Wentworth Council rejected the proposal. The plan called for an elevated trackone of the elements that triggered opposition, with residents suggesting commuters would be invading their privacy by looking down on their back-yards and in their second floor windows.
BLAST was conceived as part of the city's 2007 transportation master plan. It was later incorporated by Metrolinx as part of its regional transportation plan, The Big Move. The B-Line LRT and A-Line were among the plan's prioritized transit expansion projects and were funded by the Government of Ontario in May 2015.
By 2019, Hamilton and Metrolinx were preparing to build the B-Line (Hamilton LRT). Land acquisition and building demolition for a line from McMaster University to Eastgate Square had started. On December 16, 2019, the Government of Ontario announced it was cancelling its funding for the BLAST system's B-Line LRT, due to cost overruns. The provincial Ministry of Infrastructure noted that provincial funds originally planned for the Hamilton LRT project would be redistributed to other transportation infrastructure projects, with consultation with a newly formed Hamilton Transportation Task Force and Hamilton's city council. On April 9, 2020, the Hamilton Transportation Task Force released the report, suggested that the city need a "higher order transit project", and it could be either LRT on B-Line or BRT on both B-Line and A-Line.
On February 9, 2021, the province reversed its decision and reinstated the project as the Hamilton LRT.
Proposed lines
The B-Line LRT and A-Line BRT are the top transit priorities for the City of Hamilton and were originally scheduled for completion in 2024.
The 2017 Metrolinx Regional Transportation Plan outlines a proposed regional transportation network for service by 2041. It includes four priority bus routes and an LRT to run on the north portion of the A-Line. BRT and LRT transit lines included in Metrolinx's 2017 Regional Transportation Plan includes:
References
External links
Light Rail Transit: City of Hamilton project page
Hamilton LRT: Metrolinx project page
BCA Consultation boards
Transport in Hamilton, Ontario
Passenger rail transport in Hamilton, Ontario
Proposed public transport in the Greater Toronto Area
Light rail in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Hastie | Trevor John Hastie (born 27 June 1953) is an American statistician and computer scientist. He is currently serving as the John A. Overdeck Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Professor of Statistics at Stanford University. Hastie is known for his contributions to applied statistics, especially in the field of machine learning, data mining, and bioinformatics. He has authored several popular books in statistical learning, including The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction. Hastie has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Mathematics by the ISI Web of Knowledge.
Education and career
Hastie was born on 27 June 1953 in South Africa. He received his B.S. in statistics from the Rhodes University in 1976 and master's degree from University of Cape Town in 1979. Hastie joined the doctoral program at Stanford University in 1980 and received his Ph.D. in 1984 under the supervision of Werner Stuetzle. His dissertation was "Principal Curves and Surfaces".
Hastie began his professional career in 1977 with the South African Medical Research Council. After receiving his master's degree in 1979, he spent a year interning at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, the Johnson Space Center in Houston, and the Biomath department at Oxford University. After receiving his doctoral degree from Stanford, Hastie returned to South Africa to work with his former employer South African Medical Research Council. He returned to United States in 1986 and joined the AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey and remained there for nine years. He joined Stanford University in 1994 as Associate Professor in Statistics and Biostatistics. He was promoted to full Professor in 1999. During the period 2006–2009, he was the chair of the Department of Statistics at Stanford University. In 2013 he was named the John A. Overdeck Professor of Mathematical Sciences.
Awards and honors
Hastie is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society since 1979. He is also an elected Fellow of several professional and scholarly societies, including the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association, and the South African Statistical Society. He is a recipient of 'Myrto Lefkopolou Distinguished Lectureship' award of Biostatistics Department at the Harvard School of Public Health. In 2018, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2019 Hastie became a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Publications
Hastie is a prolific author of scientific works on various topics in applied statistics, including statistical learning, data mining, statistical computing, and bioinformatics. He along with his collaborators has authored about 125 scientific articles. Many of Hastie's scientific articles were coauthored by his longtime collaborator, Robert Tibshirani. Hastie has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Mathematics by the ISI Web of Knowledge. He has coautho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leggo%20My%20Meg-O | "Leggo My Meg-O" is the twentieth episode in the tenth season of the American animated television series Family Guy. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 6, 2012. In this episode, Meg travels to Paris with her friend Ruth after being treated badly in school, but her exciting adventure comes to a halt when she gets kidnapped. Brian and Stewie embark on an action-packed mission to find her before it is too late. This plot is a parody of the film Taken.
This episode was written by Brian Scully and directed by John Holmquist. It received mixed reviews from critics for its storyline and cultural references. It was viewed by 5.64 million U.S. viewers in its original airing, according to Nielsen ratings. The episode's guest stars were Omid Abtahi, Bill English, Ralph Garman, Mark Hentemann, Jerry Lambert, Rachael MacFarlane, Natasha Melnick, Kim Parks, Julius Sharpe, Danny Smith, Alec Sulkin, Fred Tatasciore, John Viener, and Lisa Wilhoit.
Plot
After being assaulted with dodgeballs by Connie D'Amico and other girls during gym class, Meg talks to her friend Ruth about how much she hates being at school and wonders if she can tolerate the rest of the semester. She then learns that Ruth is going to spend a semester in Paris and is invited to join her in the program. Using the money she has saved from part-time jobs, Meg is able to enroll in the program. The family sees her leave as she enters the airport. Once she and Ruth land in Paris, they meet a man who offers to share a cab with them as they go to their apartment. When the two of them arrive at the apartment, a group of men arrive and kidnap Ruth while Meg is talking to Peter on the phone. When she tells Peter what she witnessed, he tells her to hide under the bed. She complies, but the men find her and take her away. After Peter talks to the kidnappers, offering them a pittance to save Meg, one of them tells him "Drakkar Noir" before hanging up.
The Griffins call the FBI to retrieve Meg, but the FBI are unable to take action unless Meg has been missing for 96 hours, by which time it may already be too late. Concerned by the idiocy of the family and the government, Brian and Stewie get to Paris themselves to take matters into their own hands and save Meg. They find out where the men took Meg, who is about to be sold as a sex slave. At the auction, Stewie dresses up as a slave and Brian dresses as an Arab to get in, and Stewie is sold to Brian (for $500,000). However, Brian cannot afford to pay for Stewie, and the guard uncovers their disguises. They are chained to a pipe downstairs, but Brian breaks free and overpowers the guard. They then follow Meg and her captors to a yacht traveling down the River Seine. On board, Meg is delivered to an Arab emir waiting in the master stateroom. After Meg refuses to be his sex slave, the emir reveals he bought her not to be a sex slave but to be his son's wife. The king introduces his teenage son Faisal, the young prince of the k |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salts%20Healthcare%20Ltd | Salts Healthcare is one of the UK's oldest family-run manufacturing companies, based in Aston, Birmingham. It manufactures ostomy and orthotic products.
Salts Healthcare has a network of customer care centres that provide home delivery of all stoma and incontinence products. These centres also provide advisors and stoma care nurses to support their prescription customers.
History of Salts Healthcare
Brothers John and William Salt started out as apprentice locksmiths in Wolverhampton in the early 1700s. Using the skills gained from his apprenticeship, John Salt became a well established surgeons' instrument maker and cutler. He handed the business over to his son William Salt in 1755 who had been learning the family trade as a journeyman with Mr. La Roche in Silver Street London.
Manufacturing surgeons' instruments remained the focus of the business but because surgeons' instruments are not replaced often, Salts
started manufacturing new medical devices. After William's death in 1793 the business was passed onto Richard Salt who in the 1800s relocated the factory to larger premises in Dale End, Birmingham. Richard Salt opened a second site in Coleshill Street. The death of Richard forced quite a remarkable change in the business, with Sarah (Richard's wife) taking control for a short while. She then handed the business over to Thomas Partridge Salt. Thomas died at the age of 45 during a Cholera epidemic.
In 1845 the business was once again moved to bigger premises by Mary and Thomas Partridge II, to Bull Street. During this period the factory was moved to Cherry Street. By the end of the 19th century, trade in Birmingham was improving and so was the Salts' business, achieving the Royal Seal of Approval and becoming in 1845 Cutlers to Her Majesty. Still focusing on surgeons' instruments and truss manufacture in 1863 Salts was granted the Royal Warrant to become Cutlers to the Emperor of the French in 1867. In that same year Salts was awarded an Honorable Mention at the Paris Universal Exhibition.
The business now being led by Thomas Partridge II along with Ashton T. Salt was manufacturing a wide range of appliances and attending to various conditions, from amputations to back complaints. Thomas Partridge II, being an expert in his field even published the books: A practical treatise on rupture: Its Causes, Management and Cure, and Various Mechanical Contrivances Employed for its Relief, and A Treatise on Deformities and Debilities of the Lower Extremities.
Manufacturing surgical instruments and anatomical mechanicians left Salts relatively unaffected by the economic depression of 1866–1868, being able to cease cutlery manufacture in the last quarter of the 19th century, to focus on the manufacture of Orthopedic devices. This led to the patent of the Orthonemic Truss. Demand for medical products continued to grow into the early 20th century and with the outbreak of World War One Salts found itself manufacturing artificial limbs for serviceman in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YS%20MegaBasic | YS MegaBasic is a BASIC programming language interpreter for the 1982 Sinclair Research ZX Spectrum microcomputer, written by Mike Leaman. The interpreter was available by mail-order from Your Spectrum magazine, hence the name "YS MegaBasic".
When loaded it left the user 22K of usable memory. YS MegaBasic allowed keywords to be spelled out letter-for-letter, which was quicker if the user had fitted a full-size full-travel keyboard to their machine, a very popular modification for serious users. This also removed the necessity for memorising the sometimes arcane key combinations necessary to enter less-commonly-used Sinclair BASIC keywords. It also featured three different font sizes, user definable keys, copy-and-paste, a Sinclair QL-like windowing system, sprites and sound effects.
New commands added by YS MegaBasic:
Releases
YSMegaBasic V1.0 - 1984
YSMegaBasic V1.1 - 1984
YSMegaBasic V1.1 Sprite Designer - 1984
YSMegaBasic V3.0 - 1985
YSMegaBasic V4.0 - 1985
References
BASIC extensions
ZX Spectrum software
BASIC interpreters
BASIC programming language family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearStory | ClearStory Ltd is a British independent television production company. Founded in 2010 by the film-makers Russell Barnes and Molly Milton, it produces factual programming, often in the history and science genres, and has explored provocative social issues through documentary formats, sparking controversies.
The company's credits include Dawkins: Sex, Death & the Meaning of Life for Channel 4, Men of the Thames for London Live, Long Shadow for BBC2 and World War Two: 1945 & the Wheelchair President BBC Four.
In 2011, ClearStory produced Gypsy Blood, an award-winning observational documentary, directed by photographer Leo Maguire about gypsy fathers and sons for the True Stories strand on Channel 4. Broadcast in January 2012, the film won critical praise but also drew complaints from animal rights activists for its depiction of alleged animal cruelty perpetrated by some of the film's characters. In March 2012, Ofcom dropped these complaints, stating they did not raise issues that warranted investigation.
In 2013, ClearStory produced Sex Box, a one-hour formatted studio show broadcast on Channel 4 as part of its Real Sex season. In Sex Box, couples had sex in a specially constructed box in a TV studio, then emerged to talk about what happened and their sex lives more generally with agony aunt Mariella Frostrup and a panel of experts – Phillip Hodson, Tracey Cox and Dan Savage. The programme received mainly negative reviews. Its second series aired in 2016, bringing the show to a total of 11 episodes. Sex Box has been syndicated to several territories, including America where it was broadcast in 2015 on WE tv channel.
In 2016, Channel 5 broadcast Battlefield Recovery, ClearStory's series exploring the history of World War Two's Eastern Front. The series follows the work of authorised volunteers who excavate soldiers still left behind in the fields and forests of Latvia and Poland to bury them with honour in official cemeteries. The series previously sparked controversy amongst some archaeologists when it was launched by the National Geographic Channel in 2014 as ‘Nazi War Diggers’. In 2016, archaeologists complained about the Channel 5 broadcast but Ofcom dismissed these complaints following broadcast of the series and stated: ‘The series dealt effectively with potential audience concerns about the contributors’ methods. It made clear that the specific practices adopted were undertaken within recognised protocols. Scenes that featured human remains were dealt with sensitively, and the contributors appeared visibly moved by their discoveries.’
In 2017, ClearStory produced a one-off documentary, Damien Hirst by Harry Hill, for Sky Arts' Passions strand. The film, an affectionate parody of an arts documentary presented by comedian Harry Hill, was broadcast to coincide with Hirst's controversial show at the Venice Biennale, Treasures of the Wreck of the Unbelievable.
ClearStory's Great Village Green Crusade starred Red Dwarf actor Robert Llewellyn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Minnesota%20Radio%20Talking%20Book%20Network | The Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network was the world's first radio reading service for the blind; the first on-air date was January 2, 1969. The purpose of a radio reading service is to make current print material available, through the medium of a radio, to those who cannot read it because of a physical condition such as blindness, visual disability, dyslexia, or strokes. In 1969, there were no other options available to blind and visually impaired people.
The Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network, at that time called the Radio Talking Book, was started as a side-channel radio on KSJR-FM, itself fairly new at the time. KSJR began January 22, 1967, as the classical radio station belonging to St. John's University, and was called MER, Minnesota Educational Radio. In 1974, the station's name was changed to Minnesota Public Radio, MPR.
In 1967 and 1968, conversations took place between Father Colman Barry, OSB, president of St. John's University, William Kling, manager of the station, and C. Stanley Potter, Director of the State Services for the Blind from 1948 to 1985.
It was decided to place the Radio Talking Book as part of the Hamm Recording Project, which was begun by the Hamm Foundation in 1953 as a public-private partnership in association with Minnesota State Services for the Blind. In 1953, the purpose of the Hamm Recording Project was to make textbooks, Minnesota magazines and Minnesota authors available in an audio format for people who were blind and visually impaired. By 1969, the Hamm Recording Project was known as the Communication Center, was also providing Braille for Minnesotans, and had expanded their volunteer base considerably. It seemed an obvious location for the Radio Talking Book.
With the assistance of Communication Center engineer Robert Watson, a closed circuit radio was designed that would pick up only the signal of the new Radio Talking Book, and the station began. The initial schedule had the Minneapolis Tribune newspaper read live on the air for two hours each morning, the Saint Paul Dispatch read for two hours each evening, and the remainder of the hours of the day were filled with programming from just over 20 magazines and a wide variety of books which were read serially.
By the present day, that programming is two hours of the combined Minneapolis and Saint Paul papers in the morning, two hours of the New York Times in the evening, 11 hours per day of programming from serialized current-copyright books, and programming from over 300 periodicals. The programming is interrupted in six smaller Minnesota cities where teams of volunteers read local newspapers on the air. The programming is carried on satellite where it is picked up by many other radio reading services across the hemisphere, and it is streamed on the Internet. Copies of all books recorded by the Minnesota Radio Talking Book Network are also made available to blind, visually impaired, and other print disabled Americans through the Minnesota Braille |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas%20Heritage%20Trails%20System | Arkansas Heritage Trails System is a network of four historic trails within the state of Arkansas. The heritage trails system was established by the Arkansas General Assembly on March 31, 2009. Roadways included in the system are Arkansas Department of Transportation (ArDOT) as well as county roads. The program emphasizes cooperation among the Arkansas Department of Heritage, the Department of Parks and Tourism, and the Department of Transportation.
Butterfield Trail
Memphis to Fort Smith Route (with two separate routes through Little Rock)
Fort Smith to Missouri Route
Southwest Trail
Southwest Trail Route
Trail of Tears
Bell Route
Benge Route
Northern Route
Seminole Route
Chickasaw Route
Muscogee Route
Choctaw Route
Civil War Trail
Cabell's Route to Fayetteville
Camden Expedition Route
Confederate Approaches to Helena
Fagan's Approach Route
Marmaduke's Approach Route
Price, McRae and Parson's Approach Route
Walker's Approach Route
Confederate Approaches to Pine Bluff
Monroe and Thompson's Approach Route
Newton's Approach Route
Greene's Approach Route
Little Rock Campaign
Steele's Approach Route
Davidson's Approach Route
Pea Ridge Campaign
Confederate Advance Route
Sigel's Retreat Route
Ford Road Route
Bentonville Detour Route
Telegraph Road Route
Confederate Retreat Route, Alvin Seamster Road between Elkhorn Tavern and US 62
Curtis's Movements Route
Steele's Movements Route
Prairie Grove Campaign Route
Hindman's Approach Route
Herron's Approach Route
Blunt's Approach Route
Price Raid Route
See also
Historic trails and roads in the United States
References
External links
Government
Historic Routes & Heritage Trails at Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism
General information
Arkansas Heritage Trails System at Encyclopedia of Arkansas History & Culture
2009 establishments in Arkansas
Trail of Tears |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland%20%28game%20character%29 | Roland was a game character developed in 1984 by Alan Sugar, CEO of Amstrad, and Jose Luis Dominguez, a Spanish game designer. The character was named for Roland Perry, a computer engineer who worked for Amstrad. The idea was to have one recognizable character in a number of different computer games in a bid to have the Amstrad CPC compete with the ZX Spectrum and the Commodore 64.
Games in the Roland-series
1984: Roland Ahoy! (by Computersmith)
1984: Roland on the Ropes (by Indescomp) - A copy of the Spanish game Fred. Roland had to collect bullets, treasures and maps while climbing ropes to get out of a tomb/pyramid. Some villains can be destroyed (skeletons, bats, mummies) while some can only be forced to change direction (ghosts) and some have to be jumped over (dripping poison, rats, scorpions). When the game ends, the end music is the Funeral March. The game was released for the Spectrum and the Commodore as well, and was later remade for the PC.
1984: Roland in the Caves (by Indescomp) - A copy of the Spanish game Bugaboo (The Flea).
1984: Roland Goes Digging (by Gem Software for Amsoft) - a Space Panic clone. Roland navigates around a series of platforms and dispatches aliens by digging holes to trap them in.
1984: Roland Goes Square Bashing (by Durell) - a logic puzzle game.
1984: Roland on the Run (by Epicsoft) - a Frogger clone.
1985: Roland in Time (by Gem Software) - a more colourful clone of Manic Miner/Jet Set Willy with some overt homages to Doctor Who.
1985: Roland in Space (by Gem Software) - a sequel to Roland In Time. Again, a more colourful clone of the Miner Willy games with homages to Doctor Who.
There was also a type-in game and instructional series, Roland Takes a Running Jump, published in Amstrad's official magazine, Amstrad Computer User, from November 1985 to March 1986.
References
Amstrad CPC games
Video games developed in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Network%2C%20Inc. | The Network Inc. is a technology and services company that develops and delivers integrated GRC solutions designed to help organizations mitigate risk and promote organizational compliance. The Network's solutions are based on proprietary SaaS-based technology. The company uses the phrase "Protect, Detect, Correct" to describe its solutions to enable global enterprises and institutions manage risks posed by fraud and unethical conduct.
The Network current client base includes approximately 3,400 global organizations across a wide variety of industries, representing almost 27 million employees worldwide.
History
The Network was founded in 1982 by Ralph Childs, a former FBI Special Agent, who implemented the first 24/7 anonymous reporting system to allow employees to bring unethical and illegal activities to their employers’ attention without fear of reprisal. Childs, then principal of security consulting firm Childs Associates, incorporated the new venture under the name National Business Crime Information Network, Inc., which soon became known by the shortened name, The Network. Soon thereafter, the company realized the need to make all employees more aware of organizational ethics programs and initiated a series of awareness and communications products (″Prevention SystemSM″), as well as ethics training materials to meet these requirements.
NetClaim
In the mid-1990s, The Network expanded its hotline reporting system to include claims reporting for worker compensation and other similar issues. The system it developed to manage claims reporting, NetClaim, remains a viable part of the company’s market mix.
Incident management
In 2005, the company developed its Case Management system (now known as Incident Management), which streamlined the incident and issue management process for corporate investigators and case managers. In May 2010, an enhanced version of the software was released as a replacement to the legacy system.
Product development
In 2011, the company expanded its existing ethics and compliance training offerings with interactive web-based training offerings. That same year, the company introduced an enhanced version of its platform-level Reporting & Analytics engine.
In April 2012, the company released its Policy Management solution, which enables organizations to use platform-level collaboration tools to create, distribute and manage company policies, track employee attestation, and know which version of a policy was in effect at any given time. In 2013, the company introduced a companion product to the Incident Management solution, CAPA/Remediation, designed to manage investigative follow-up and remedial tasks, as well as a Compliance Management solution designed for compliance risk assessment and employee survey management.
In February 2013, a research firm (GRC 20/20 Research) awarded a Technology Innovator Award to The Network for the company's Integrated GRC Suite, a SaaS-based GRC system designed to deliver seamless na |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Trinity%20Broadcasting%20Network%20affiliates | This is a list of affiliates of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, a religious television network founded by Paul and Jan Crouch. All stations listed here are owned and operated directly by TBN or owned by TBN subsidiary Community Educational Television, unless otherwise noted. Most of the stations also carry programming from TBN Inspire, Positiv, TBN Enlace USA, and Smile on separate subchannels.
Affiliates
Notes:
1) Stations indicated by two plus signs ("++") are stations that were signed on by TBN or a TBN subsidiary.
2) Stations indicated by two asterisks ("**") represent a station owned by Community Educational Television, a TBN subsidiary.
Bold O&O stations by Trinity Broadcasting Network.
References
External links
Official website
Religious television
Trinity Broadcasting Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Lloyd%20%28lexicographer%29 | Nicholas Lloyd (1630–1680) was an English cleric and academic, best known as a historical compiler for his Dictionarium Historicum.
Life
The son of George Lloyd, rector of Wonston, Hampshire, he was born in the parsonage-house there on 28 May 1630, and educated at home by his father till 1643, when he was admitted a chorister of Winchester College. He became a scholar of Winchester in 1644, and remained there till September 1651. He entered Hart Hall, Oxford, 13 May 1652, was admitted a scholar of Wadham College on 20 October 1653, proceeded B.A. 16 January 1656, was elected to a fellowship at Wadham 30 June 1656, and commenced M.A. 6 July 1658. He was appointed lecturer at St. Martin's (Carfax), Oxford, in Lent 1664, and was rector of the parish from 1665 to 1670. In July 1665 he was appointed university rhetoric reader, and he was twice elected sub-warden of Wadham College (1666 and 1670).
In 1665, when Walter Blandford, Warden of Wadham College, became Bishop of Oxford, he chose Lloyd as his chaplain; and when Blandford was translated to the see of Worcester, in 1671, Lloyd accompanied him. The bishop eventually presented him to the rectory of St. Mary, Newington Butts, Surrey. He was formally inducted 28 April 1673; but did not take up residence there till August 1677.
Lloyd died at Newington Butts on 27 November 1680, and was buried in the chancel of his church without any memorial.
Works
Lloyd published a Dictionarium Historicum, Oxford, 1670, based on the dictionaries of Charles Estienne, and Philippus Ferrarius (Filippo Ferrari). He then enlarged and remodelled this encyclopædic work, which was republished.
John Aubrey said he had seen several manuscripts written by Lloyd. Some are in Rawlinson collection of manuscripts in the Bodleian Library.
References
Attribution
1630 births
1680 deaths
17th-century English Anglican priests
Fellows of Wadham College, Oxford
English lexicographers
People from the City of Winchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gier | Gier may refer to:
Gier (river), a river in France
Aqueduct of the Gier, an ancient Roman aqueduct
Greed (Jelinek novel) or , a 2000 novel by Elfriede Jelinek
GIER, a 1961 computer made by Regnecentralen
People with the surname
Jack de Gier (born 1968), Dutch retired football striker
Kerstin Gier (born 1966), German author
Markus Gier (born 1970), Swiss competition rower and Olympic champion
Michael Gier (born 1967), Swiss competition rower and Olympic champion
Rob Gier (born 1981), English–Filipino footballer
Surnames from nicknames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sins%20of%20a%20Dark%20Age | Sins of a Dark Age was a dark fantasy multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) video game developed by Ironclad Games, and published by Ironclad Games and Steam for Microsoft Windows operating systems. The game launched as a free to play title on Steam on May 8, 2015. The game features a comprehensive storyline set in a dark fantasy world. Sins of a Dark Age ceased further development on June 30, 2015 due to not being sustainable with its current player base, and the servers were shut down on March 30, 2016.
See also
Sins of a Solar Empire
References
External links
Fantasy video games
Games for Windows
Multiplayer online battle arena games
Multiplayer video games
Real-time strategy video games
Video games developed in Canada
Cancelled Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petersburg%20Animation%20Studio | Computer Animation Studio, Petersburg () is a Saint Petersburg-based Russian studio which produces animated films.
Filmography
KikoRiki (Smešariki) (2003-2023)
Teeth, Tail and Ears (Зубы, хвост и уши) (Since 2010) KikoRiki: Team Invincible (Смешарики. Начало) (2011)
Chinti (2011)
KikoRiki: Legend of the Golden Dragon (2016)
BabyRiki (2017-present)
KikoRiki: Deja Vu (2018)
Finnick (2022)
Agent Chekhov'' (2025)
See also
History of Russian animation
List of animated feature films
External links
References
Russian animation studios
Mass media companies established in 2003
Companies based in Saint Petersburg
Film production companies of Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLAM%20%28audio%20software%29 | CLAM (C++ Library for Audio and Music) is an open-source framework for research and application development in the audio and music domain. It is based on the concept of data-processing modules linked into a network. Modules can perform complex audio signal analysis, transformations and synthesis. CLAM also provides a uniform interface to common tasks within audio applications, such as accessing audio devices and audio files. CLAM serves as a library for C++ application development, but a graphical interface also allows full applications to be built without coding. It won the 2006 ACM Multimedia Open Source Competition.
References
Audio libraries
C++ libraries
Software using the GPL license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Shire%20%28TV%20series%29 | The Shire was an Australian reality-drama series that played on Network Ten in Australia and Hulu in the United States. It debuted on Ten on 16 July 2012. The series followed the lives of 15 people, that work, live or play in and around Sydney's Sutherland Shire. The series has been described as "dramality" by Ten, a combination of drama with prompting and light scripting. The Shire was created and produced by Shine Australia. Modelled on the American TV show The Hills, the production company describe the series as a reality show version of soap opera Home and Away. The final episode was shown on Monday 10 September 2012.
Cast
Simon, radio announcer, Mitch's friend
Gabrielle, direct sales assistant, Mitch's girlfriend
Michelle, Mitch's mum
Sophie, ultrasound cavitation manager
Vernesa, shop assistant
Kerry, bar/beauty salon manager
Tegan, singing teacher and waitress
Matt, recruitment consultant, Kerry's boyfriend
Folksy, Spock's friend
Beckaa, student
Tony, financier, Beckaa's father
Kris and Stace, Beckaa's best friends
Joel "Rif-Raf", rapper
Megan, stripper
Nikee, pole dancer
Michael, bricklayer, Nickee's manager
Michelka, personal assistant
Reception
The first episode of The Shire received a mixed response. TV blogger Steven Molk wrote "As a first episode, The Shire ticked all the boxes. It established the characters well (in that we all know what to expect from them in future episodes), set out the premise of the show quickly and offered tidbits of insight into the relationships between the key players." Pedestrian TV's review was favourable noting, "While Sophie and Vernesa are frontrunners as my early favourites, I was also quite taken with the character Rif-Raf... Reality television is a genre that shouldn't be confused with documentary television... I think The Shire is just great."
John Birmingham of the Brisbane Times also gave a favourable review, "Lest you judge me, before I have a chance to get judgey, just let me say I loved this TV train wreck. I loved it like a diabetic loves that last, choc-dipped fudge brownie that sends him hurtling towards surgery for the emergency amputation of his gangrenous toes." A less favourable review was given by Michael Idato of The Sydney Morning Herald, "Does Ten have a hit on its hands? The answer is nearly, but not quite. It needs to be doing modest business on the good side of the million-viewer watermark for that. But it's a noisy nearly-hit, and in a room where everyone's talking, silence is death. The fact that most people will kick the show doesn't mean much; the "reality" genre is engineered to create conversation, not adoration. And a hater, in commercial terms, is probably worth one and a half genuine fans."
According to the official OzTAM ratings data the premiere episode of The Shire received 941,000 (1.01M with +7 data) viewers while the second episode grew to 1.06M. The total viewers for the third episode decreased due to the scheduling of the London Olympic Games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulu%20%28company%29 | Mulu was an online social network enabling users to share product recommendations and direct a percentage of the resulting revenue to themselves or a charity of their choosing. Users can share their own recommendations or browse recommendations from other users, including celebrities. Purchases made based on mulu recommendations benefit either the user who made the recommendation or the charity of their choosing. Users can choose from charities that include Greenpeace, Doctors without Borders, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and the Lance Armstrong Foundation. In February 2012, Mulu was included in Mashable's list of "10 Hot Startups Changing the Face of Retail". Mulu was nominated for a Webby Award in the Fashion category on 10 April 2012, alongside Vogue.com and The New York Times.
History
Work on Mulu began in September, 2011, and the site was launched in beta at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, in March, 2012. Mulu Founder Amaryllis Fox credited a background in the nonprofit sector and an epiphany at a Philip Glass concert in Edinburgh, Scotland, for the original idea. In April, 2012, Mulu was nominated for a Webby Award in the Fashion category, alongside Vogue.com and The New York Times.
Usage
Visitors to Mulu can browse the recommendations of other users and celebrities without joining the site. When they click through to purchase an item from an online retailer, the retailer sends a portion of the resulting revenue back to Mulu, which distributes it to the recommending user or the charity of his or her choice. Visitors can sign up for a Mulu account using their email address or Facebook account. Once a Mulu user, they are able to create their own recommendations by using Mulu to navigate to the webpage of any online retailer or by installing a bookmarklet to their browser and navigating to a retailer's page outside of Mulu.
Users are also able to ask and answer questions about products, fashion, interiors, tech, home improvement, books, crafts, and any other product that can be bought online. Answers are search engine optimized to appear in search engine results.
Mulu announced plans to release an iOS app in 2012.
Business
Mulu's business model is centered around splitting affiliate revenue with users and users' charities. In February, 2012, Forbes highlighted this model as a transparent alternative to other social sharing sites collecting affiliate revenue without disclosing or splitting with users.
Mulu founder and CEO Amaryllis Fox described Mulu's mission as: "We're trying to use peoples' good taste in gadgets, books or shoes to help build health clinics in Sudan." Fox is a veteran of aid work along the Thai-Burmese border.
References
American social networking websites
Defunct social networking services
American review websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNIZ | KNIZ (90.1 FM) is a variety formatted radio station in Gallup, New Mexico.
The station's programming includes music programs of various formats, including classical, jazz, Native American music, along with progressive news programming from Pacifica Radio.
The station was assigned the KNIZ call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on July 14, 2009.
See also
List of community radio stations in the United States
References
External links
KNIZ official website
Native American radio
NIZ
Community radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrenza | Carrenza, was a cloud-computing company based in London, United Kingdom. The company was acquired by Six Degrees in 2016.
Operations
Carrenza was a UK-based IT company that provides Cloud computing technologies. It offered a range of public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud services, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), enterprise application integration and system integration. Carrenza partnered with several enterprise IT providers and was an accredited VMware Enterprise Service Partner and HP (Hewlett-Packard) Cloud Agile Partner.
The company was based on Commercial Street, in the heart of the East London Tech City district, which is host to a large number of technology companies.
History
Carrenza was formed in 2001 as a consultancy by chief executive and founder Dan Sutherland. It began trading in 2004 and launched its first enterprise cloud computing platform in 2006, becoming one of the first companies in Europe to provide this type of hosting service.
In 2009, it formed a partnership with Comic Relief and its affiliated campaigns Red Nose Day Sport Relief to provide IT infrastructure services to the charity, an arrangement that has won industry recognition.
In 2013 it launched its first overseas services, with a mainland Europe cloud node based in Amsterdam.
Partnerships and customers
Carrenza had formed partnerships with a range of IT providers. It was one of the first companies in Europe to become a HP Cloud Agile partner., using HP blade servers and HP 3PAR SAN technology to power its cloud computing services. The company's products also use VMware vCloud IaaS tools and it is taking part in the VMware lighthouse initiative helping develop the next generation of VMware products and services.
Other technology companies that Carrenza has worked closely with include Cisco, for enterprise security and loadblancing services, and Oracle. The company was the first to deploy Oracle Database 11g stretched RAC in production.
It has also won two Oracle partner awards, including a Special Recognition award for its work with Comic Relief. The company has also been recognised by the UK IT Industry, receiving awards in 2009 for Community Project of the Year and in 2010 for best small business project for its Monopoly City Streets Work.
Other companies that have partnered with Carrenza for their cloud-based IT services include Age UK, Haymarket Media Group, the World Wide Fund for Nature, Royal Bank of Scotland, eBay and Cineworld.
Accreditations
Carrenza's services are accredited for their compliance with several key international IT security and quality standards. These include:
ISO27001:2005, Information Security Management System for all Carrenza services.
UK Government G-Cloud, Carrenza has been awarded a place on the UK government's G-Cloud iii framework as an Infrastructure as a Service provider.
See also
Cloud computing
Infrastructure as a service
Platform as a service
Public cloud
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load%E2%80%93store%20unit | In computer engineering, a load–store unit (LSU) is a specialized execution unit responsible for executing all load and store instructions, generating virtual addresses of load and store operations and loading data from memory or storing it back to memory from registers.
The load–store unit usually includes a queue which acts as a waiting area for memory instructions, and the unit itself operates independently of other processor units.
Load–store units may also be used in vector processing, and in such cases the term "load–store vector" may be used.
Some load–store units are also capable of executing simple fixed-point and/or integer operations.
See also
Address-generation unit
Arithmetic–logic unit
Floating-point unit
Load–store architecture
References
Computer architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentation%20framework | In artificial intelligence and related fields, an argumentation framework is a way to deal with contentious information and draw conclusions from it using formalized arguments.
In an abstract argumentation framework, entry-level information is a set of abstract arguments that, for instance, represent data or a proposition. Conflicts between arguments are represented by a binary relation on the set of arguments. In concrete terms, you represent an argumentation framework with a directed graph such that the nodes are the arguments, and the arrows represent the attack relation.
There exist some extensions of the Dung's framework, like the logic-based argumentation frameworks or the value-based argumentation frameworks.
Abstract argumentation frameworks
Formal framework
Abstract argumentation frameworks, also called argumentation frameworks à la Dung, are defined formally as a pair:
A set of abstract elements called arguments, denoted
A binary relation on , called attack relation, denoted
For instance, the argumentation system with and contains four arguments ( and ) and three attacks ( attacks , attacks and attacks ).
Dung defines some notions :
an argument is acceptable with respect to if and only if defends , that is such that such that ,
a set of arguments is conflict-free if there is no attack between its arguments, formally : ,
a set of arguments is admissible if and only if it is conflict-free and all its arguments are acceptable with respect to .
Different semantics of acceptance
Extensions
To decide if an argument can be accepted or not, or if several arguments can be accepted together, Dung defines several semantics of acceptance that allows, given an argumentation system, sets of arguments (called extensions) to be computed. For instance, given ,
is a complete extension of only if it is an admissible set and every acceptable argument with respect to belongs to ,
is a preferred extension of only if it is a maximal element (with respect to the set-theoretical inclusion) among the admissible sets with respect to ,
is a stable extension of only if it is a conflict-free set that attacks every argument that does not belong in (formally, such that ,
is the (unique) grounded extension of only if it is the smallest element (with respect to set inclusion) among the complete extensions of .
There exists some inclusions between the sets of extensions built with these semantics :
Every stable extension is preferred,
Every preferred extension is complete,
The grounded extension is complete,
If the system is well-founded (there exists no infinite sequence such that ), all these semantics coincide—only one extension is grounded, stable, preferred, and complete.
Some other semantics have been defined.
One introduce the notation to note the set of -extensions of the system .
In the case of the system in the figure above, for every Dung's semantic—the system is well-founded. That explains why the semanti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gassmann%27s%20equation | The Gassmann equation, first described by Fritz Gassmann, is used in geophysics and its relations are receiving more attention as seismic data are increasingly used for reservoir monitoring. The Gassmann equation is the most common way of performing a fluid substitution model from one known parameter.
Procedure
These formulations are from Avseth et al. (2006).
Given an initial set of velocities and densities, , , and corresponding to a rock with an initial set of fluids, you can compute the velocities and densities of the rock with another set of fluid. Often these velocities are measured from well logs, but might also come from a theoretical model.
Step 1: Extract the dynamic bulk and shear moduli from , , and :
Step 2: Apply Gassmann's relation, of the following form, to transform the saturated bulk modulus:
where and are the rock bulk moduli saturated with fluid 1 and fluid 2, and are the bulk moduli of the fluids themselves, and is the rock's porosity.
Step 3: Leave the shear modulus unchanged (rigidity is independent of fluid type):
Step 4: Correct the bulk density for the change in fluid:
Step 5: recompute the fluid substituted velocities
Rearranging for Ksat
Given
Let
and
then
Or, expanded
Assumptions
Load induced pore pressure is homogeneous and identical in all pores
This assumption imply that shear modulus of the saturated rock is the same as the shear modulus of the dry rock, .
Porosity does not change with different saturating fluids
Gassmann fluid substitution requires that the porosity remain constant. The assumption being that, all other things being equal, different saturating fluids should not affect the porosity of the rock. This does not take into account diagenetic processes, such as cementation or dissolution, that vary with changing geochemical conditions in the pores. For example, quartz cement is more likely to precipitate in water-filled pores than it is in hydrocarbon-filled ones (Worden and Morad, 2000). So the same rock may have different porosity in different locations due to the local water saturation.
Frequency effects are negligible in the measurements
Gassmann's equations are essentially the lower frequency limit of Biot's more general equations of motion for poroelastic materials. At seismic frequencies (10–100 Hz), the error in using Gassmann's equation may be negligible. However, when constraining the necessary parameters with sonic measurements at logging frequencies (~20 kHz), this assumption may be violated. A better option, yet more computationally intense, would be to use Biot's frequency-dependent equation to calculate the fluid substitution effects. If the output from this process will be integrated with seismic data, the obtained elastic parameters must also be corrected for dispersion effects.
Rock frame is not altered by the saturating fluid
Gassmann's equations assumes no chemical interactions between the fluids and the solids.
References
Geophysics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA22 | Rna22 is a pattern-based algorithm for the discovery of microRNA target sites and the corresponding heteroduplexes.
The algorithm is conceptually distinct from other methods for predicting microRNA:mRNA heteroduplexes in that it does not use experimentally validated heteroduplexes for training, instead relying only on the sequences of
known mature miRNAs that are found in the public databases. The key idea of rna22 is that the reverse complement of any salient sequence features that one can identify in mature microRNA sequences (using pattern discovery techniques) should allow one to identify candidate microRNA target sites in a sequence of interest: rna22 makes use of the Teiresias algorithm to discover such salient features. Once a candidate microRNA target site has been located, the targeting microRNA can be identified with the help of any of several algorithms able to compute RNA:RNA heteroduplexes. A new version (v2.0) of the algorithm is now available: v2.0-beta adds probability estimates to each prediction, gives users the ability to choose the sensitivity/specificity settings on-the-fly, is significantly faster than the original, and can be accessed through http://cm.jefferson.edu/rna22/Interactive/.
Rna22 neither relies on nor imposes any cross-organism conservation constraints to filter out unlikely candidates; this gives it the ability to discover microRNA binding sites that may not be conserved in phylogenetically proximal organisms. Also, as mentioned above, rna22 can identify putative microRNA binding sites without needing to know the identity of the targeting microRNA. A notable property of rna22 is that it does not require the presence of the exact reverse complement of a microRNA's seed in a putative target permitting bulges and G:U wobbles in the seed region of the heteroduplex. Lastly, the algorithm has been shown to achieve high signal-to-noise ratio.
Use of rna22 led to the discovery of "non-canonical" microRNA targets in the coding regions of the mouse Nanog, Oct4 and Sox2. Most of these targets are not conserved in the human orthologues of these three transcription factors even though they reside in the coding region of the corresponding mRNAs. Moreover, most of these targets contain G:U wobbles, one or more bulges, or both, in the seed region of the heteroduplex. In addition to coding regions, rna22 has helped discover non-canonical targets in 3'UTRs.
A recent study examined the problem of non-canonical miRNA targets using molecular dynamics simulations of the crystal structure of the Argonaute-miRNA:mRNA ternary complex. The study found that several kinds of modifications, including combinations of multiple G:U wobbles and mismatches in the seed region, are admissible and result in only minor structural fluctuations that do not affect the stability of the ternary complex. The study also showed that the findings of the molecular dynamics simulation are supported by HITS-CLIP (CLIP-seq) data. These results suggest that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20capacity | In quantum information theory, the classical capacity of a quantum channel is the maximum rate at which classical data can be sent over it error-free in the limit of many uses of the channel. Holevo, Schumacher, and Westmoreland proved the following least upper bound on the classical capacity of any quantum channel :
where is a classical-quantum state of the following form:
is a probability distribution, and each is a density operator that can be input to the channel .
Achievability using sequential decoding
We briefly review the HSW coding theorem (the
statement of the achievability of the Holevo information rate for
communicating classical data over a quantum channel). We first review the
minimal amount of quantum mechanics needed for the theorem. We then cover
quantum typicality, and finally we prove the theorem using a recent sequential
decoding technique.
Review of quantum mechanics
In order to prove the HSW coding theorem, we really just need a few basic
things from quantum mechanics. First, a quantum state is a unit trace,
positive operator known as a density operator. Usually, we denote it
by , , , etc. The simplest model for a quantum channel
is known as a classical-quantum channel:
The meaning of the above notation is that inputting the classical letter
at the transmitting end leads to a quantum state at the receiving
end. It is the task of the receiver to perform a measurement to determine the
input of the sender. If it is true that the states are perfectly
distinguishable from one another (i.e., if they have orthogonal supports such
that for ), then the channel is a noiseless channel. We are interested in situations
for which this is not the case. If it is true that the states all
commute with one another, then this is effectively identical to the situation
for a classical channel, so we are also not interested in these situations.
So, the situation in which we are interested is that in which the states
have overlapping support and are non-commutative.
The most general way to describe a quantum measurement is with a
positive operator-valued measure (POVM). We usually denote the elements of a POVM as
. These operators should satisfy
positivity and completeness in order to form a valid POVM:
The probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics states that if someone
measures a quantum state using a measurement device corresponding to
the POVM , then the probability for obtaining outcome is equal to
and the post-measurement state is
if the person measuring obtains outcome . These rules are sufficient for us
to consider classical communication schemes over cq channels.
Quantum typicality
The reader can find a good review of this topic in the article about the typical subspace.
Gentle operator lemma
The following lemma is important for our proofs. It
demonstrates that a measurement that succeeds with high probability on average
does not disturb the state too much on average:
Lemma: [Winter] Given an
ensemble |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Centre%20Specialist%20Group | The Data Centre Specialist Group (abbreviated as DCSG) is a Specialist Group (SG) of the British Computer Society (BCS). It was founded by Zahl Limbuwala, (also the CEO of Romonet) and held its first meeting in 2007.
The Data Centre SG intends to raise awareness and knowledge of the issues, opportunities and best practices within the field of data centres, thus building credibility as a body of expertise that can act as a source of authoritative information.
It aims to provide an avenue for the non-commercial assessment and dissemination of new technologies and practices and permit enhancement of the communication of requirements and capabilities between data centre professionals and their users.
The group organises a number of regular and ad-hoc events and meetings each year to cover relevant topics and provide for discussion and debate on data centre topics for its members, also working with other BCS Specialist Groups and Branches to cross-fertilise knowledge and experience. It has published several White Papers which are made available on the Group's website.
References
External links
BCS website on the Data Centre Specialist Group
BCS Specialist Groups
British Computer Society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20science | Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics, scientific computing, scientific methods, processes, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge and insights from noisy, structured, and unstructured data.
Data science also integrates domain knowledge from the underlying application domain (e.g., natural sciences, information technology, and medicine). Data science is multifaceted and can be described as a science, a research paradigm, a research method, a discipline, a workflow, and a profession.
Data science is a "concept to unify statistics, data analysis, informatics, and their related methods" to "understand and analyze actual phenomena" with data. It uses techniques and theories drawn from many fields within the context of mathematics, statistics, computer science, information science, and domain knowledge. However, data science is different from computer science and information science. Turing Award winner Jim Gray imagined data science as a "fourth paradigm" of science (empirical, theoretical, computational, and now data-driven) and asserted that "everything about science is changing because of the impact of information technology" and the data deluge.
A data scientist is a professional who creates programming code and combines it with statistical knowledge to create insights from data.
Foundations
Data science is an interdisciplinary field focused on extracting knowledge from typically large data sets and applying the knowledge and insights from that data to solve problems in a wide range of application domains. The field encompasses preparing data for analysis, formulating data science problems, analyzing data, developing data-driven solutions, and presenting findings to inform high-level decisions in a broad range of application domains. As such, it incorporates skills from computer science, statistics, information science, mathematics, data visualization, information visualization, data sonification, data integration, graphic design, complex systems, communication and business. Statistician Nathan Yau, drawing on Ben Fry, also links data science to human–computer interaction: users should be able to intuitively control and explore data. In 2015, the American Statistical Association identified database management, statistics and machine learning, and distributed and parallel systems as the three emerging foundational professional communities.
Relationship to statistics
Many statisticians, including Nate Silver, have argued that data science is not a new field, but rather another name for statistics. Others argue that data science is distinct from statistics because it focuses on problems and techniques unique to digital data. Vasant Dhar writes that statistics emphasizes quantitative data and description. In contrast, data science deals with quantitative and qualitative data (e.g., from images, text, sensors, transactions, customer information, etc.) and emphasizes prediction and action. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Economy%20Coalition | The New Economy Coalition (NEC) is an American nonprofit organization based in Boston, Massachusetts, formerly known as the New Economics Institute. It is a network of over 200 organizations based in the US and Canada working for "a future where people, communities, and ecosystems thrive...where capital (wealth and the means of creating it) is a tool of the people, not the other way around." as part of what it describes as the New Economy movement.
History
New Economics Institute
Shortly after the start of the financial crisis in 2008, leaders from both New Economics Foundation (NEF) and the E. F. Schumacher Society recognized the need for an organization that could help bring systemic economic alternatives into the mainstream in North America. They collaborated to create a new organization called the New Economics Institute.
New Economics Network
The New Economics Network was created by Sarah Stranahan in 2009 as a loose network of about two hundred organizations working for the new economy. In a lecture for the National Council for Science and the Environment Gus Speth said the organisation wanted to create a sustainable and caring economy.
Rename and merger
In March 2012, Bob Massie became the president of the New Economics Institute. In 2013, the New Economics Institute merged with the New Economy Network and became the New Economy Coalition. Also in that year, Dave Pruett writing for the Huffington Post described the organization as one of two "leading the way toward economic viability". Massie stepped down from being the coalition's president in October 2014. Farhad Ebrahimi served as intern director until May 2015 when Jonathan Rosenthal, a co-founder of the worker cooperative Equal Exchange was hired by a board and staff committee.
Policy
New Economy movement
The New Economy movement is often referred to as just 'new economy'. Proponents of the theory claim that it is based on the assumption that people and the planet should come first, and that it is human well-being, not economic growth, which should be prioritized. It draws on an aggregate of alternative economic thought that challenges the fundamental assumptions of mainstream neoclassical and Keynesian economics. Some of the approaches it includes are: ecological economics, solidarity economy, commons, degrowth, regenerative design, systems thinking and Buddhist economics.
Gar Alperovitz described the New Economy movement as “... a far-ranging coming together of organizations, projects, activists, theorists and ordinary citizens committed to rebuilding the American political-economic system from the ground up." In 2009, Sarah van Gelder wrote, “The new economy is about increasing quality of life, improving health, and restoring the environment."
Focus
The NEC focuses on issues in the United States and Canada and organizes there, although it does work in partnership with similar networks around the world. Writing for The Guardian Jo Confino noted the NEC's approach of getti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aventuras%20en%20el%20mundo%20del%20futuro | Aventuras en el mundo del futuro (English: Adventures in the World of the Future) is an Argentinian webcomic organized by the educational social network Aula365 Speedy. It received a Guinness World Record in 2011 for "most contributors to a comic book".
This webcomic was produced through Aula365 Speedy, a social learning network and a technological education project launched by Competir and Telefónica. The project to create the webcomic was followed by 200,000 readers. The story consists of 21 chapters, produced over 28 weeks from April to October 2011. The webcomic was also adapted to print: according to a Yahoo report, Guinness officials required it to be printed to qualify for the record and 400,000 copies were printed.
Participation
All those registered on Aula365 were invited to suggest different plot points for each episode. Each week, users voted on the proposals and the ones receiving the most votes became the starting point of the next episode.
There were over 8,000 proposals submitted by 3,800 people on how to continue the different episodes, with contributions coming from 76 different countries and about half coming from children. More than 16,000 votes were cast during the project and suggestions from 80 people were selected.
Founder of Aula365 Pablo Aritizabal described the project as “collaborative intelligence”.
Guinness world record
Adventures in the World of the Future received the Guinness World Record for "most contributors to a comic book". It was declared to have 81 contributors (only submitters whose ideas were included were counted), which broke the previous record held by Kapow! Comic Con, which had 62 authors. The award was presented on 8 November 2011 in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Pablo Aristizabal, founder of Aula365, representing all the users who made this new record possible, and to Andrés Tahta, marketing manager of Speedy.
Aula365's comic no longer holds the record. As of 2019, Guinness World Records identify The Perilous Plights of Peter Pumpkinhead as the most contributors to a comic book, with 141 artists.
Plot
Adventures in the World of the Future begins at a school with one character forgetting about his biology experiment, for which he had been heating a meteorite extract for a week. When he gets to the lab, the experiment has turned into a portal to the future. Children, being curious by nature, enter the portal and find the future looks different. Society is going through a period of ignorance, caused by an evil scientist, who intends to obtain power and domination through fear. Through different adventures, the children find a way to let the rest of the society know about the scientist's plans. With the help of an old acquaintance, they solve the conflict, bringing truth to the world.
The different topics the webcomic dealt with were meant to integrate the fun of reading a webcomic with several school-related topics. Some of those topics are the school in the future, experiments, life in space, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeuristicLab | HeuristicLab is a software environment for heuristic and evolutionary algorithms, developed by members of the Heuristic and Evolutionary Algorithm Laboratory (HEAL) at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, in Hagenberg im Mühlkreis.
HeuristicLab has a strong focus on providing a graphical user interface so that users are not required to have comprehensive programming skills to adjust and extend the algorithms for a particular problem. In HeuristicLab algorithms are represented as operator graphs and changing or rearranging operators can be done by drag-and-drop without actually writing code. The software thereby tries to shift algorithm development capability from the software engineer to the user and practitioner. Developers can still extend the functionality on code level and can use HeuristicLab's plug-in mechanism that allows them to integrate custom algorithms, solution representations or optimization problems.
History
Development on HeuristicLab was started in 2002 by Stefan Wagner and Michael Affenzeller. The main motivation for the development of HeuristicLab was to build a paradigm-independent, flexible, extensible, and comfortable environment for heuristic optimization on top of a state-of-the-art programming environment and by using modern programming concepts. As the Microsoft .NET framework seemed to fulfill this requirements it was chosen as the development environment and C# as programming language.
The first officially available version of HeuristicLab was 1.0 released in 2004 with an improved version 1.1 released in 2005. Development on the next version of HeuristicLab started in the same year. Among many things it was decided that HeuristicLab 2.0 should provide an entirely new user experience and lift the burden of programming off of the user. Therefore, HeuristicLab 2.0 was the first version featuring graphical tools for creating algorithms, however due to the complexity of the user interface HeuristicLab 2.0 was never released to the public. In the summer of 2007 it was decided that a new iteration of HeuristicLab was needed which should combine the usability of version 1.1 with the algorithm modeling concepts of version 2.0. HeuristicLab 3.0 was released internally in the beginning of 2008. In the next 2 years HeuristicLab was gradually improved which led to the release of version 3.3 in summer 2010 as open source software.
Features
Algorithm Designer
One of the features that distinguishes HeuristicLab from many other metaheuristic software frameworks is the algorithm designer. HeuristicLab allows to model algorithms in a graphical way without having to write any source code. Algorithms in HeuristicLab are a composition of operators which are chained together. This sequence of operators is called the operator graph and can be viewed and edited for any algorithm in HeuristicLab. HeuristicLab also offers a so called Programmable Operator that can include source code which can be written from within Heuristi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis%20Batten%20Page | Ellis Batten “Bo” Page Ed.D. (April 29, 1924 – May 17, 2005) is widely acknowledged as the father of automated essay scoring, a multi-disciplinary field exploring computer evaluation and scoring of student writing, particularly essays. Page's development of and pioneering work with Project Essay Grade (PEG) software in the mid-1960s set the stage for the practical application of computer essay scoring technology following the microcomputer revolution of the 1990s.
Background
Page was born in San Diego, CA. He was a United States Marine Corps veteran, he graduated from Pomona College (Claremont, CA), and he taught high school English while pursuing his master's degree in English at San Diego State University (1955). He received his Ed.D. degree in educational psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1958.
Page served as a professor of education and psychology for several academic institutions before joining the University of Connecticut (Storrs) in 1962 as Professor of Educational Psychology and Director, Bureau of Educational Research. It was during his tenure there (in late 1964) that Page began the development of PEG software, inspired by the convergence of computational linguistics, artificial intelligence technology, and his own experience as a high school English teacher.
Research
Page's research earned him a number of academic appointments including Visiting Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1967–68) and Visiting Professor of Experimental Design at Harvard University (1968–69). Fluent in Spanish, Page also lectured extensively on issues and trends in educational psychology in Spain and South America.
Page published more than 250 research articles, technical reports and papers. He was president of the American Psychological Association’s Division of Educational Psychology (1976–77) and a founding editor of the division's journal, Educational Psychologist. Page also served as president of the American Educational Research Association (1979–80) and contributed to the editorial review boards of several other publications, including the Journal of Educational Measurement of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME).
Products
In 1979, Page joined the faculty of Duke University as Professor of Educational Psychology and Research and remained there until 2002. During his tenure, Page renewed his development and research in automated scoring and, in 1993, formed Tru-Judge, Inc., anticipating the potential for commercial applications of the software. In 2002, and in declining health, Page retired from Duke University and sold the intellectual property assets of Tru-Judge to Measurement Incorporated, an educational assessment company specializing in the development and scoring of large-scale assessments.
References
Further reading
Page, Ellis Batten (1967). The imminence of grading essays by computer. Phi Delta Kappan, 47, 238–243.
Page, Ellis Batten, and Dieter H. Paulus (1968). The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena%20Ramos | Elena Ramos is a fictional character and one of the primary female leads in the primetime soap opera Dallas on the TNT network, an updated version of the original series of the same name that aired on CBS from 1978 to 1991. Elena is portrayed by Jordana Brewster, and has appeared on the show since its pilot episode, which first aired on June 13, 2012. Dallas follows the trials and tribulations of the wealthy Ewing oil family living in Dallas, Texas.
Casting and creation
Casting
On January 29, 2011, Jordana Brewster was the first non-original cast member to sign on for the series continuation. Nellie Andreeva described the role: "The project — written by Cynthia Cidre and Warner Horizon — centres on feuding cousins John Ross Ewing III and Christopher Ewing, the offspring of brothers J.R. and Bobby Ewing, respectively, as they clash over the future of the Ewing dynasty. Brewster will play Elena, the daughter of the ranch’s cook, who is locked in a love triangle with Christopher and John". On February 1, 2011, it was announced that actor Josh Henderson had signed on to play Elena's love interest, John Ross Ewing III.
When asked about both her character and the show, Brewster said: "You know, I'm on the third season now of the original Dallas. It's just so much fun to watch. When I saw our pilot, I got so emotional when the theme song came on. It's like you're a part of something so iconic. I just hope the fans of the original series like watching the new generation interact with Bobby and J.R. Ewing and Sue Ellen. It's kind of like what happens with Fast and the Furious, you get to pick up where characters left off and you get to see them evolve. There is still family drama playing out, there are those who still care about money more than anything and those who care about the family more than anything. There are those age-old themes that are so much fun to watch play out. I'm in a love triangle between John Ross Jr. (Josh Henderson) and Christopher (Jesse Metcalfe). I grew up with the boys on the ranch, so I'm very familiar with their antics. It's a really fun, juicy role to play. I'm also an engineer."
Storylines
Elena Ramos grew up on Southfork Ranch with John Ross and Christopher. She is the cook's daughter and moved to Dallas from Mexico with her parents when she was 8 years old. The three children were close, but Christopher had her heart, and they became engaged after dating in graduate school. However, Pamela Rebecca Barnes (posing as Rebecca Sutter) ended their engagement by sending an email, pretending it was from Christopher, telling Elena not to show up at their wedding because he was done with her. Christopher, believing Elena has ditched him, is heartbroken and eventually seeks comfort in Pamela Rebecca, marrying her.
Elena ends up dating Christopher's cousin and arch-enemy, John Ross. Based on information John Ross digs up, Elena and Christopher learn they were set up, but when Pamela announces she is pregnant with Christopher's |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20Arone | Geoffrey Arone is an American blockchain investor and advisor.
Career
Arone is currently a partner at Arrington XRP Capital, a hedge fund focused on crypto assets and blockchain tech. He has invested in more than 50 cryptocurrency companies since 2017. Previously, he was Chief Product Officer at Whitepages. Prior to that, he was Chief Scientist of Experian, which acquired SafetyWeb in May 2011. Arone co-founded SafetyWeb in June 2009 and raised ~ $8 million from Battery Ventures and First Round Capital. SafetyWeb is a cloud-based personal security company whose products include SafetyWeb Family and myID.
Prior to SafetyWeb, Arone was the CEO and co-founder of DanceJam with MC Hammer and Anthony Young. While running DanceJam, Arone raised two rounds of venture capital and sold the company to Grind Networks in 2009.
In late 2004, Arone co-founded Flock, the first web browser with social network integration, with Bart Decrem and Anthony Young. In all, Flock raised ~ $28 million from Bessemer Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, and Fidelity Ventures. Nearly 6 years and 14 million downloads later, Flock was acquired by Zynga.
Education
Arone has also held product positions at RealNetworks, Informatica, and Oracle. He holds a Sc.B. in Neural Science from Brown University and his PhD work was also in Neural Science. He earned an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American businesspeople
Place of birth missing (living people)
MIT Sloan School of Management alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweets%20for%20My%20Sweet | Tweets for My Sweet is a 2012 Philippine television situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Uro dela Cruz, it stars Marian Rivera. It premiered on May 6, 2012. The series concluded on August 19, 2012 with a total 16 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Marian Rivera as Megan "Meg" Reyes
Supporting cast
Barbie Forteza as Adele Reyes
Sheena Halili as Lily Montecarlo
Nova Villa as Anita Domina Berciles / Domina delos Santos
Roderick Paulate as JB Mercado
Elmo Magalona as Dino Mercado
Boy Logro as Boy Reyes
Mikey Bustos as Dexter Matibag
Recurring cast
AJ Dee as Areil
Alessandra de Rossi as London
Kevin Santos as Inoy
Betong Sumaya as Justin B.
Ryzza Mae Dizon as Illuminada
Glaiza de Castro as Kimberly
Jean Garcia as Eleanor
Mike Tan as Marco
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Tweets for My Sweet earned a 16.6% rating. While the final episode scored a 14.6% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2012 Philippine television series debuts
2012 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television sitcoms
Television series set in restaurants
Television shows set in Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined%20linear%20congruential%20generator | A combined linear congruential generator (CLCG) is a pseudo-random number generator algorithm based on combining two or more linear congruential generators (LCG). A traditional LCG has a period which is inadequate for complex system simulation. By combining two or more LCGs, random numbers with a longer period and better statistical properties can be created.
The algorithm is defined as:
where:
is the "modulus" of the first LCG
is the ith input from the jth LCG
is the ith generated random integer
with:
where is a uniformly distributed random number between 0 and 1.
Derivation
If Wi,1, Wi,2, ..., Wi,k are any independent, discrete, random-variables and one of them is uniformly distributed from 0 to m1 − 2, then Zi is uniformly distributed between 0 and m1 − 2, where:
Let Xi,1, Xi,2, ..., Xi,k be outputs from k LCGs. If Wi,j is defined as Xi,j − 1, then Wi,j will be approximately uniformly distributed from 0 to mj − 1. The coefficient "(−1)j−1" implicitly performs the subtraction of one from Xi,j.
Properties
The CLCG provides an efficient way to calculate pseudo-random numbers. The LCG algorithm is computationally inexpensive to use. The results of multiple LCG algorithms are combined through the CLCG algorithm to create pseudo-random numbers with a longer period than is achievable with the LCG method by itself.
The period of a CLCG is the least common multiple of the periods of the individual generators, which are one less than the moduli. Since all the moduli are odd primes, the periods are even and thus share at least a common divisor of 2, but if the moduli are chosen so that 2 is the greatest common divisor of each pair, this will result in a period of:
Example
The following is an example algorithm designed for use in 32-bit computers:
LCGs are used with the following properties:
The CLCG algorithm is set up as follows:
1. The seed for the first LCG, , should be selected in the range of [1, 2147483562].
The seed for the second LCG, , should be selected in the range of [1, 2147483398].
Set:
2. The two LCGs are evaluated as follows:
3. The CLCG equation is solved as shown below:
4. Calculate the random number:
5. Increment the counter (i = i + 1) then return to step 2 and repeat.
The maximum period of the two LCGs used is calculated using the formula:.
This equates to 2.1×109 for the two LCGs used.
This CLCG shown in this example has a maximum period of:
This represents a tremendous improvement over the period of the individual LCGs. It can be seen that the combined method increases the period by 9 orders of magnitude.
Surprisingly the period of this CLCG may not be sufficient for all applications. Other algorithms using the CLCG method have been used to create pseudo-random number generators with periods as long as 3×1057.
See also
Linear congruential generator
Wichmann–Hill, a specific combined LCG proposed in 1982
References
External links
An overview of use and testing of pseudo-random numbe |
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