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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity%20Social | SimCity Social is a defunct online social game for the Facebook social network where users create their own city and interact with cities of their Facebook friends. The game was developed by Playfish and published by Electronic Arts. The game was announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2012, during EA's press conference on June 4, 2012, and released on June 25, 2012.
On April 14, 2013, it was announced that the game would be shutting down. On June 14, 2013, SimCity Social and The Sims Social both ceased completely, with no possible access to the game. This was met with very negative response from players of both games.
Objective
Like its forebear, SimCity, the objective is to design and build a city without specific goals although in SimCity Social, optional goals are introduced in the form of quests.
Gameplay
This is a resource-based game. Players must collect various resources which are then consumed to develop or maintain the city. Development is performed by clicking directly on city buildings or surrounding undeveloped land, accessing a menu where resources can be purchased or manipulated (and some resources temporarily stored) or through a series of online dialogues that form quests. Some resources replenish over time while other resources are obtained for direct actions with buildings, visiting neighbors or requesting resources from them, or can be purchased with credit card or PayPal from the developer's online store.
Additional themed quests that are only available for a limited amount of time, such as a week or two, regularly appear. Completion of these quests unlock exclusive buildings not available at any other time. With new quests, new buildings and new collectibles are introduced.
Resources
Energy is a resource needed for many actions. It recovers at the rate of one energy every three minutes. It can be purchased as batteries which can be used to replenish energy later in the game. Energy can also be donated by other players (it does not reduce a donor's own energy resources), and can be earned by visiting neighboring cities and performing actions. Energy is fully replenished when a player reaches the next level of experience.
Diamonds are also earned on certain quests and every time the player (as mayor) increases a level of experience. Diamonds are required to purchase premium content, but can also be used to skip quests, collectible requirements, and wait time.
Simoleons are the in-game currency. They are accumulated mainly by interacting with businesses, but also from farms and student jobs.
Materials are used to build and upgrade many structures. They are accumulated by interacting with factories or sending trains from the station.
Fame develops as the player interacts with neighboring territories. Fame can be used for a variety of special purchases.
Experience (XP) appears as turquoise stars and builds a player's level. When experience reaches 100%, there is a reward of simoleons, one diamond, and full energy r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox%20%28app%29 | The Xbox app is an app for Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11, Android, iOS and Tizen. It acts as a companion app for Xbox video game consoles, providing access to Xbox network community features, remote control, as well as second screen functionality (formerly branded as SmartGlass) with selected games, applications, and content.
On Windows 10, the app additionally serves as a launcher for PC games installed on a device (including games obtained from Microsoft Store, Bethesda.net, Battle.net, Steam, GOG.com, Epic Games Store, Humble Bundle, Origin and Ubisoft Connect), provided access to the system's screen recording functions, and streaming of games from an Xbox One console on a local network.
During E3 2019, the existing version of the Xbox app for Windows 10 was renamed Xbox Console Companion, and a new Xbox app was introduced in beta. This app is more specifically oriented towards PC gaming, serving as a front-end to games distributed on Microsoft Store, and as the client for PC Game Pass.
Features
Through the app, users can access their activity feed, Xbox Live friends and messages, manage their party, watch saved Game DVR clips, browse OneGuide, and view their achievements. Some games and apps can provide second screen integration via the app, displaying supplemental content. The app can also be used as a remote control for the console.
The Windows 10 version of Xbox Console Companion allows users to stream games from an Xbox One console over a local network, and has the ability to view and edit Game DVR recordings from an Xbox One console. It also serves as a front-end for a PC version of Game DVR on supported hardware (Game DVR settings were moved to the Settings app on Windows 10 version 1703), and has a library display for games installed on the device, such as those obtained via Microsoft Store, Bethesda.net, Battle.net, Steam, GOG.com, Epic Games Store, Humble Bundle, Origin and Ubisoft Connect.
Support for Xbox Cloud Gaming as well as Remote Play from Xbox consoles was added to the app on September 14, 2021.
History
Xbox 360 SmartGlass was originally announced at E3 2012, for Windows 8, Android and iOS. Microsoft demonstrated use cases for the new app within both games and entertainment, including a minimap for Ascend: New Gods, a second screen experience for School of Rock with supplemental content, and Game of Thrones (with interactive maps and family tree diagrams). With the release of Xbox One in November 2013, Microsoft released an accompanying Xbox One SmartGlass app for Android, iOS, Windows 8.1, and Windows Phone, which contained more extensive functionality for controlling the console.
Windows 10 introduced a revamped version of SmartGlass referred to simply as Xbox, which notably added a library display for PC games, and the ability to stream games from an Xbox One console on a local network. On June 12, 2016, the mobile versions of the Xbox One Smartglass apps were updated for parity with the desktop version, and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20Gate%20Mahon | City Gate Mahon is an office and medical complex in Mahon, Cork, Ireland.
Office
Regus have offices in City Gate Mahon, as do Itron, Qualcomm, FireEye, Hedgeserv, Aruba Networks and E-Bridge Training.
Several technology companies, including SolarWinds, Big Fish Games and McAfee have their European or EMEA headquarters at City Gate. Quest Software also has one of their EMEA offices here.
The national headquarters of the Health Information and Quality Authority is also located at City Gate.
Medical
The Citygate Specialist Dental Clinic opened its dental hub at City Gate in February 2011 and offers specialist dental services. VHI Swiftcare also have an urgent-care clinic in City Gate Mahon.
The Mater Private Hospital also have a 75-bed private hospital facility in the development.
Retail
Retail space in City Gate Park, an extension to City Gate Mahon, is occupied by the furniture retailer DFS, together with Starbucks Coffee and a gym franchise of Energie Fitness.
References
Buildings and structures in Cork (city)
Office buildings in the Republic of Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20Chef%20Canada%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of the Canadian reality competition show Top Chef Canada was broadcast on Food Network in Canada. It is a Canadian spin-off of Bravo's hit show Top Chef. In the first season, 16 chefs competed against each other in weekly challenges. The program took place in Toronto. In the season finale that premiered on July 4, 2011, Dale MacKay was crowned Top Chef Canada.
Contestants
Sixteen chefs competed in season one. Names, ages, hometowns, and cities of residence (at time of filming) are from the Food Network Canada website. In the order eliminated:
Michael Stauffer, 30, Dundas, ON
Clayton Beadle, 26, Whistler, BC
Rebekah Pearse, 29, Calgary, AB
Steve Gonzales, 35, Toronto, ON
Derek Bocking, 30, Montreal, QC
Jamie Hertz, 31, Nelson, BC
Chris Kanka, 34, Toronto, ON
Patrick Wiese, 40, Toronto, ON
Todd Perrin, 40, Quidi Vidi Village, St. John's, NL
Darryl Crumb, 29, Winnipeg, MB
Andrea Nicholson, 28, Toronto, ON
Francois Gagnon, 32, Montreal, QC
Dustin Gallagher, 28, Toronto, ON
Connie DeSousa, 29, Calgary, AB
Rob Rossi, 27, Toronto, ON
Dale MacKay, 30, Saskatoon, SK
Contestant progress
: Eliminated by placing last in the Quickfire Challenge.
: Although in the bottom, Chris had won immunity in the quickfire challenge, so he was not eligible to be eliminated.
: Although in the bottom, Dustin had won immunity in the quickfire challenge, so he was not eligible to be eliminated.
: In the knife pull, Francois pulled "Hog Wild", guaranteeing immunity, while the Black Team finished the relay first and gained an extra hundred dollars in their budget.
(WINNER) The chef won the season and was crowned Top Chef.
(RUNNER-UP) The chef was a runner-up for the season.
(THIRD-PLACE) The chef placed third in the competition.
(WIN) The chef won that episode's Elimination Challenge.
(HIGH) The chef was selected as one of the top entries in the Elimination Challenge, but did not win.
(LOW) The chef was selected as one of the bottom entries in the Elimination Challenge, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The chef lost that week's Elimination Challenge and was out of the competition.
(IN) The chef neither won nor lost that week's Elimination Challenge. They also were not up to be eliminated.
Episodes
Each episode includes two challenges. The Quickfire Challenge is a short, simple challenge with a varying reward each week. In the initial episodes of the season, it usually guarantees the winner immunity from being sent home that week; however, in the latter stages, the Quickfire winner is given an advantage in the upcoming Elimination Challenge. It also has been made clear that Quickfire winners this season may receive other rewards, including cash prizes. The Elimination Challenge is a more complex challenge that determines who goes home. One or more judges join the show each week to evaluate both the Quickfire and Elimination challenges. Each week's elimination is announced in a segment called "Judges' Table." Each week of season one feat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20Chef%20Canada%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of the Canadian reality competition show Top Chef Canada was broadcast on Food Network in Canada. It is a Canadian spin-off of Bravo's hit show Top Chef. In the first season, 16 chefs competed against each other in weekly challenges. The program took place in Toronto.
Contestants
16 chefs competed in season two. Names, ages, hometowns, and cities of residence (at time of filming) are from the Food Network Canada website. In the order eliminated:
William Thompson, 30, Caledonia, ON (Hometown: Caledonia, ON)
Kunal Ghose, 39, Victoria, BC (Hometown: Victoria, BC)
Sarah Tsai, 30, Toronto, ON (Hometown: Taipei, Taiwan)
Sergio Mattoscio, 30, Montreal, QC (Hometown: Montreal, QC)
Joel Aubie, 27, Tofino, BC (Hometown: Bathurst, NB)
Gabriell Cruz, 25, Dundas, ON (Hometown: Hamilton, ON)
Elizabeth Rivasplata, 31, Toronto, ON (Hometown: Lima, Peru)
Curtis Luk, 28, Ottawa, ON (Hometown: Markham, ON)
Jimmy Stewart, 23, Whistler, British Columbia (Hometown: North Vancouver, BC)
Ryan Gallagher, 33, Toronto, ON (Hometown: Toronto, ON)
Trista Sheen, 29, Toronto, ON (Hometown: Toronto, ON)
Xavier Lacaze, 30, Calgary, AB (Hometown: Auch, France)
David Crystian, 37, Toronto, ON (Hometown: Toronto, ON)
Jonathan Korecki, 27, Ottawa, ON (Hometown: Caledon, ON)
Trevor Bird, 28, Vancouver, BC (Hometown: Montreal, QC)
Carl Heinrich, 26, Toronto, ON (Hometown: Sooke, BC)
Contestant progress
: Although she was in the bottom, Sarah was spared from elimination as she had immunity.
: Did not gain immunity.
: Eliminated by placing last in the quickfire challenge.
: Won comeback challenge and was allowed back into the final challenge.
(WINNER) The chef won the season and was crowned Top Chef.
(RUNNER-UP) The chef was a runner-up for the season.
(THIRD-PLACE) The chef placed third in the competition.
(FOURTH-PLACE) The chef placed fourth in the competition.
(WIN) The chef won that episode's Elimination Challenge.
(HIGH) The chef was selected as one of the top entries in the Elimination Challenge, but did not win.
(LOW) The chef was selected as one of the bottom entries in the Elimination Challenge, but was not eliminated.
(OUT) The chef lost that week's Elimination Challenge and was out of the competition.
(IN) The chef neither won nor lost that week's Elimination Challenge. They also were not up to be eliminated.
Episodes
The format of season two followed that of the first season and of the original American Top Chef. As before, each week features a guest judge or special guest, including Top Chef: Masters season two winner Chef Marcus Samuelsson, television handy-man Mike Holmes, Toronto Maple Leafs forward Colby Armstrong, actor Alan Thicke, Spencer "Spenny" Rice, and country musician Johnny Reid.
References
Canada, Season 2
2012 Canadian television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond%3A%20Two%20Souls | Beyond: Two Souls is an action-adventure video game developed by Quantic Dream and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was released on 8 October 2013 for the PlayStation 3, and rereleased for the PlayStation 4 on 24 November 2015. A Windows port self-published by Quantic Dream was released on 22 July 2019.
The game features Jodie Holmes, one of two player characters. The other is an incorporeal entity named Aiden: a separate soul linked to Jodie since birth. Jodie, portrayed by Elliot Page, possesses supernatural powers through her psychic link to Aiden, growing from adolescence to adulthood while learning to control Aiden and the powers they share. Willem Dafoe co-stars as Nathan Dawkins, a researcher in the Department of Paranormal Activity and Jodie's surrogate-father-figure. The actors in the game worked during the year-long project in Quantic Dream's Paris studio to perform on-set voice acting and motion-capture acting.
Beyond: Two Souls premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, the second time the festival had recognised a video game. David Cage, the writer and director, said that game development studios should provide "interactive storytelling" that can be played by everyone, including non-gamers. The game received polarised critical reception upon its release, and sold 2.8 million units by July 2018.
Gameplay
Beyond: Two Souls is action-adventure game, requiring the player to move and guide the character into interactions with objects and other non-player characters in the scene to progress the story. The player primarily controls Jodie through the in-game environments. At almost any time, however, the player (or second player during a two-player game) can switch to control Aiden instead. Aiden, as an incorporeal entity, exists permanently in noclip mode and can move through walls, ceilings, and other obstacles; however, he is limited to moving only within a certain radius around Jodie due to their spiritual tethering.
While playing as Jodie, the game includes interactive objects marked with a white dot, which can be interacted with by tilting the controller stick in its direction. If Jodie must perform a specific action, icons pop up on the screen to prompt the player to press and/or hold certain controller buttons. Conversation prompts float in the air, defaulting to a certain choice if too much time passes before selection. During action sequences, like chases or hand-to-hand combat, the cinematography moves into slow motion whilst Jodie performs the physical manoeuvre; during this time, the player must determine the direction Jodie is moving and push the controller stick in that direction to complete the action. Other sequences require real-time stealth, which has the player sneak Jodie through environments while coordinating certain actions with Aiden. Failing certain action sequences will alter the course of a chapter (and sometimes later chapters) and in some cases lead to the death of a non-playable character.
W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input/Output%20Supervisor%20Block | An Input/Output Supervisor Block (IOSB) is a data structure employed exclusively by the Start Input/Output interface of MVS/370 and successor IBM mainframe operating systems. The IOSB describes the I/O request and passes parameters to and receives responses from the Input/Output Supervisor (IOS).
An IOSB is always paired with a Service Request Block (SRB). The SRB schedules processor activity, as required, on any available processor in connection with the I/O request, although the I/O operation itself may have been initiated on another processor. This distinction allowed, for example, effective use of so-called "attached processors" (processors with no connected I/O devices), which were common in the early days of MVS/370, and in installations with requirements for more data processing power (e.g., processor accesses, also called CPU-bound applications), but perhaps not more I/O processing power (e.g., disk or tape accesses, also called I/O-bound applications).
IBM mainframe operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tompkins%E2%80%93Paige%20algorithm | The Tompkins–Paige algorithm is a computer algorithm for generating all permutations of a finite set of objects.
The method
Let P and c be arrays of length n with 1-based indexing (i.e. the first entry of an array has index 1). The algorithm for generating all n! permutations of the set {1, 2, ..., n} is given by the following pseudocode:
P ← [1, 2, ..., n];
yield P;
c ← [*, 1, ..., 1]; (the first entry of c is not used)
i ← 2;
while i ≤ n do
left-rotate the first i entries of P;
(e.g. left-rotating the first 4 entries of
[4, 2, 5, 3, 1] would give [2, 5, 3, 4, 1])
if c[i] < i then
c[i] ← c[i] + 1;
i ← 2;
yield P;
else
c[i] ← 1;
i ← i+1;
In the above pseudocode, the statement "yield P" means to output or record the set of permuted indices P. If the algorithm is implemented correctly, P will be yielded exactly n! times, each with a different set of permuted indices.
This algorithm is not the most efficient one among all existing permutation generation methods. Not only does it have to keep track of an auxiliary counting array (c), redundant permutations are also produced and ignored (because P is not yielded after left-rotation if c[i] ≥ i) in the course of generation. For instance, when n = 4, the algorithm will first yield P = [1,2,3,4] and then generate the other 23 permutations in 40 iterations (i.e. in 17 iterations, there are redundant permutations and P is not yielded). The following lists, in the order of generation, all 41 values of P, where the parenthesized ones are redundant:
P = 1234 c = *111 i=2
P = 2134 c = *211 i=2
P = (1234) c = *111 i=3
P = 2314 c = *121 i=2
P = 3214 c = *221 i=2
P = (2314) c = *121 i=3
P = 3124 c = *131 i=2
P = 1324 c = *231 i=2
P = (3124) c = *131 i=3
P = (1234) c = *111 i=4
P = 2341 c = *112 i=2
P = 3241 c = *212 i=2
P = (2341) c = *112 i=3
P = 3421 c = *122 i=2
P = 4321 c = *222 i=2
P = (3421) c = *122 i=3
P = 4231 c = *132 i=2
P = 2431 c = *232 i=2
P = (4231) c = *132 i=3
P = (2341) c = *112 i=4
P = 3412 c = *113 i=2
P = 4312 c = *213 i=2
P = (3412) c = *113 i=3
P = 4132 c = *123 i=2
P = 1432 c = *223 i=2
P = (4132) c = *123 i=3
P = 1342 c = *133 i=2
P = 3142 c = *233 i=2
P = (1342) c = *133 i=3
P = (3412) c = *113 i=4
P = 4123 c = *114 i=2
P = 1423 c = *214 i=2
P = (4123) c = *114 i=3
P = 1243 c = *124 i=2
P = 2143 c = *224 i=2
P = (1243) c = *124 i=3
P = 2413 c = *134 i=2
P = 4213 c = *234 i=2
P = (2413) c = *134 i=3
P = (4123) c = *114 i=4
P = (1234) c = *111 i=5
References
Combinatorial algorithms
Permutations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20passing%20in%20computer%20clusters | Message passing is an inherent element of all computer clusters. All computer clusters, ranging from homemade Beowulfs to some of the fastest supercomputers in the world, rely on message passing to coordinate the activities of the many nodes they encompass. Message passing in computer clusters built with commodity servers and switches is used by virtually every internet service.
Recently, the use of computer clusters with more than one thousand nodes has been spreading. As the number of nodes in a cluster increases, the rapid growth in the complexity of the communication subsystem makes message passing delays over the interconnect a serious performance issue in the execution of parallel programs.
Specific tools may be used to simulate, visualize and understand the performance of message passing on computer clusters. Before a large computer cluster is assembled, a trace-based simulator can use a small number of nodes to help predict the performance of message passing on larger configurations. Following test runs on a small number of nodes, the simulator reads the execution and message transfer log files and simulates the performance of the messaging subsystem when many more messages are exchanged between a much larger number of nodes.
Messages and computations
Approaches to message passing
Historically, the two typical approaches to communication between cluster nodes have been PVM, the Parallel Virtual Machine and MPI, the Message Passing Interface. However, MPI has now emerged as the de facto standard for message passing on computer clusters.
PVM predates MPI and was developed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory around 1989. It provides a set of software libraries that allow a computing node to act as a "parallel virtual machine". It provides run-time environment for message-passing, task and resource management, and fault notification and must be directly installed on every cluster node. PVM can be used by user programs written in C, C++, or Fortran, etc.
Unlike PVM, which has a concrete implementation, MPI is a specification rather than a specific set of libraries. The specification emerged in the early 1990 out of discussions between 40 organizations, the initial effort having been supported by ARPA and National Science Foundation. The design of MPI drew on various features available in commercial systems of the time. The MPI specifications then gave rise to specific implementations. MPI implementations typically use TCP/IP and socket connections. MPI is now a widely available communications model that enables parallel programs to be written in languages such as C, Fortran, Python, etc. The MPI specification has been implemented in systems such as MPICH and Open MPI.
Testing, evaluation and optimization
Computer clusters use a number of strategies for dealing with the distribution of processing over multiple nodes and the resulting communication overhead. Some computer clusters such as Tianhe-I use different processors for message |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk%20Ruder | Henryk Ruder was a Polish engineer, a long-time head and member of Warsaw-based Road Network Planning Bureau and member of the board of the "Autostrady Polskie" think-tank. A specialist in road and motorway network development, he co-authored the plan of Polish motorways network, most notably the location of A1, A2 and A4. He authored numerous works on road construction and development. In 1998 Ruder was posthumously awarded with Officer's Cross of Polonia Restituta.
References
Polish engineers
Year of death missing
Year of birth missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber%20of%20Computer%20Engineers%20of%20Turkey | Chamber of Computer Engineers of Turkey (, abbreviated BMO) was founded on 2 June 2012.
Formerly, the computer engineers in Turkey were the members of Chamber of Electrical Engineers of Turkey. But, on 9 March 2011 computer engineers decided to form their own chamber. The regulatory board announced that each year about 6,500 new CS engineers (including related undergraduate studies) graduate from the universities. During the general assembly of Union of chambers of Turkish engineers and architects (UCTEA) on the 2 June 2012, the request was approved. The chamber has become the 24th member of the union - UCTEA.
References
Engineering societies based in Turkey
2012 establishments in Turkey
Organizations established in 2012
Computer engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuluBebek | The BuluBebek virus is a computer worm that was first discovered on October 10, 2008. The virus is not exceptionally widespread, but rather has only infected small groups of computers. Related to the Kenshin, Doraemon, and Naturo viruses, the virus has infected computers in various parts of the world. It is written in a high level programming language, known as Visual Basic. The virus is only 53 KB in size and creates two files on the computers it infects, an EXE file and an INF file.
History
In order to prevent the computer user from recognizing the threat and removing it from the system, scripts are written to prevent the Task Manager from opening and to disable Registry Tools. Microsoft Visual Studio Debugging Tools are also targeted by these script, making it impossible for certain drivers to access this information. Unlike some more aggressive viruses, this worm is relatively benign for the computers it manages to infect.
Experts guess that the writers of this particular virus likely did so simply for the fun of it, as it serves next to no purpose for the author of the worm. The only effects of infection that will be evident to the computer user are that files and folders may be hidden from view. This can occur both on the computer system itself and any flash media used with the machine.
Computer infections
The BuluBebek virus is not spread on the Internet like many other viruses, by primarily is transmitted to other systems through flash media drives. For this reason, the virus has thankfully remained relatively uncommon. Systems that are infected will pass the worm on if they access or create files on a flash drive that is in turn used in another system. For this reason, it remains important for infected computer users to remove the offending files as quickly as possible.
Detection and removal
Fortunately, most major antivirus packages will recognize the BuluBebek virus if a full system scan is run. When this occurs, the Antivirus software will quarantine suspicious files and notify the computer user of the issue at hand. If the user wishes to do so, the BuluBebek virus can also be removed from the infected system manually.
In order to manually remove the virus, the computer user will need to disconnect from the Internet and temporarily disable System Restore. At this point, an alternative software program to Task Manager should be used to access the Running Process Memory. Here, the process can be killed permanently and specialized script can be entered to restore the registry to its original condition before the infection occurred on the machine.
See also
List of computer worms
List of antivirus software
References
External links
Virus Bulu Bebek Removal Guide
Computer worms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERPNext | ERPNext is a free and open-source integrated Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software developed by an Indian software company Frappe Technologies Pvt. Ltd. It is built on the MariaDB database system using Frappe, a Python based server-side framework.
ERPNext is a generic ERP software used by manufacturers, distributors and services companies. It includes modules like accounting, CRM, sales, purchasing, website, e-commerce, point of sale, manufacturing, warehouse, project management, inventory, and services. Also, it has domain specific modules like schools, healthcare, agriculture, and non-profit.
ERPNext is an alternative to NetSuite and QAD, and similar in function to Odoo (formerly OpenERP), Tryton and Openbravo. ERPNext was included in the ERP FrontRunners List by Gartner as a Pacesetters.
Core modules
ERPNext contains these modules:
Accounting
Asset management
Customer relationship management (CRM)
Human resource management (HRM)
Payroll
Project management
Purchasing
Sales management
Warehouse management system
Website
Industry modules
Manufacturing - Manufacturing
Point of sale (POS) - Retail
Student Information system - Education
Hospital Information system - Healthcare
Agriculture Management - Agriculture
Nonprofit Organization - Non Profit
Software license
ERPNext is released under the GPL-3.0-only license. Consequently, ERPNext does not require license fees as opposed to proprietary ERP vendors. In addition, as long as the terms of the licenses are adhered to, modification of the program is possible.
Architecture
ERPNext has a Model-View-Controller architecture with metadata modeling tools that add flexibility for users to adapt the software to unique purposes without the need for programming. Some attributes of the architecture are:
All objects in the ERP are DocTypes (not to be confused with HTML DocTypes) and the Views are generated directly in the browser.
Client interacts with the server via JSON data objects on a Representational state transfer (RESTful) supporting server.
There is ability to plug-in (event driven) code on the client and server side.
The underlying web app framework is called "Frappe Framework" and is maintained as a separate open source project. Frappe started as a web based metadata framework inspired from Protégé though it has evolved differently.
This architecture allows rapid application development (RAD).
Source code and documentation
ERPNext source code is hosted on GitHub, using the Git revision control system, and the contributions are also handled using GitHub.
A complete user manual is available at the project website.
Software as a service
ERPNext is available both on user hosting and as a Software as a service (SaaS) from their website. The product also received a funding of INR 10 crore ($1.3Million) from Zerodha and Rainmatter in June 2022.
Investment
In November 2020, Rainmatter incubator invested ₹10 crore ($1.3M) in Frappe Technologies PL, to support d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakapaka | Pakapaka is an Argentine television channel and website providing shows and original programming for children ages 2 to 12 and their families. Launched initially as a programming section in the Encuentro television channel on September 23, 2007, and later as a digital terrestrial television and FTA channel on September 17, 2010, although regular transmissions begun on September 9. It is operated by Argentina's Ministry of Education.
The word paka paka in Quechua language refers to the "hide and seek" game.
Programming
The channel transmits 24 hours a day. Its programming is divided in two blocks. The first one Ronda Pakapaka, aimed to 2 to 5 years old (preschoolers), contains the following programmes:
Los mundos de Uli
Medialuna y las noches mágicas
Molly (Die kleine Monsterin
Soli y Lu
Tincho
The second block, for children from 6 to 12 years old, contains the following programmes:
+ pelis
Biblioteca infinita
Cachorros de zoo
Cineclub Pakapaka
Cuentos muy, muy exagerados
El libro de la selva
En globo por el globo
Feria de variedades
Hostal Morrison
Kikirikí
La casa de la ciencia
Mi Genial y Fantástico Sasquatch
Notipakapaka
Pakapaka de película
Siesta Z
S.O.S. Mediadores
Stella y Sam
Un dibujo muy animado
Tinga Tinga Tales
Past programmes
Animapaka
Aquí estoy yo
Autoretrato
Caja rodante
Calibroscopio
Caracoles
Castle Farm
Cazurros al cuadrado
CienciaCierta
Cuentos de cachorros
Dale Qué
Scary Larry
El mundo de los ¿por qué?
El taller de historias
El show de Perico
Eva
Fun with Claude
Hailey y sus amigos
Horizontes
Hotel de zombis
Inventia
La asombrosa excursión de Zamba
Misión aventura
Moko
Ruby Buuu!
Teca en la tele
Todo sobre comadrejas
Veo Veo
¿Y ahora qué?
Yoko! Jakamoko! Toto!
Zapa Zapa
Zoé Kézako
References
External links
Television stations in Argentina
Commercial-free television networks
Children's television networks
Television channels and stations established in 2010
2010 establishments in Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%A9mie%20Zimmermann | Jérémie Zimmermann (born 1978) is a French computer science engineer and co-founder of the Paris-based La Quadrature du Net, a citizen advocacy group defending fundamental freedoms online as well as a co-founder of Hacking With Care, a "collective composed of hackers-activists, caregivers, artists, sociologist, growing quite literally by contact and affinity".
Life
He appeared with Julian Assange on Episode 8 and Episode 9 of The World Tomorrow, "Cypherpunks: 1/2".
He is a contributor to Julian Assange's 2012 book Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet along with Jacob Appelbaum and Andy Müller-Maguhn (OR Books, ).
Awards
He was awarded the 2012 EFF Pioneer Award, together with other persons and groups.
References
External links
; on the Fediverse
Hacking With Care
Wiki of Hacking With Care
Talk about Hacking with Care - „Tactical and ethical care for all“ at Chaos Computer Club Berlin (Video)
1978 births
Living people
French computer scientists
French activists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nili%20%28disambiguation%29 | Nili was a spy network.
Nili may also refer to:
Places
Nili District, Afghanistan
Nili, Afghanistan, the district's capital city
Nili Airport
Nili, Iran, a village
Nili, Mateh Binyamin, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank
People
Nili Abramski (born 1970), Israeli Olympic runner
Nili Block (born 1995), Israeli kickboxer
Nili Brosh (born 1988), Israeli guitarist
Nili Cohen (born 1947), Israeli legal scholar
Nili Drori (born 1960), Israeli Olympic fencer
Nili Rachel Scharf Gold (born 1948), Israeli-American professor of Hebrew literature
Nili Hadida, Israeli musician and member of Lilly Wood and the Prick
Nili Latu (born 1982), Tongan rugby player
Nilli Lavie, Israeli-British psychologist
Nili Lotan, Israeli fashion designer
Nili Natkho (1982–2004), Israeli basketball player
Nili Ohayon, stage name Onili, Israeli singer-songwriter
Nili Tal (born 1944), Israeli journalist and documentary filmmaker
Nili (footballer), Spanish footballer Francisco José Perdomo Borges (born 1994)
Muhammad Hussain Sadiqi Nili (1940–1990), jihadist leader in Afghanistan
Nasrullah Sadiqi Zada Nili (born 1966), Afghan politician
Other uses
Nili (subgroup), in the Taxonomy of Anopheles
See also
Nilly Drucker, Miss Israel 1986
Neeli, Pakistani actress
Neeli (film), 2018 Indian film
Neeli (TV series), Indian supernatural soap opera
Hebrew feminine given names
Feminine given names |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role%20of%20networks%20in%20electoral%20behavior | Networks in electoral behavior, as a part of political science, refers to the relevance of networks in forming citizens’ voting behavior at parliamentary, presidential or local elections. There are several theories emphasizing different factors which may shape citizens' voting behavior. Many influential theories ignore the possible influence of individuals' networks in forming vote choices and focus mainly on the effects of own political attitudes – such as party loyalties or party identification developed in childhood proposed by the Michigan model, or on the influence of rational calculations about the political parties’ ideological positions as proposed by spatial and valence theories. These theories offer models of electoral behavior in which individuals are not analyzed within their social networks and environments. In a more general context, some authors warn that the hypothesis testing done mainly based on sample surveys and focused on individuals’ attributes without looking at relational data (relations among individuals) seems to be a poor methodological instrument. However, models emphasizing the influence of individuals’ social networks in shaping their electoral choices have been also present in the literature from the very beginning.
Theories emphasizing the relevance of networks
There are three main (theoretical and empirical) approaches emphasizing the importance of networks in shaping electoral decisions: using surveys to measure actors’ (in this case voters’) attitudes (Columbia Studies), measuring collective patterns of social groups on an aggregate level as supplementary information (Contextual analysis) and focusing on interpersonal dynamics among individuals.
Columbia Studies
The relevance of networks in individuals' electoral choices was first identified by Lazarsfeld and his colleagues in The People's Choice: How the Voter Makes Up His Mind in a Presidential Campaign and in Voting: A Study of Opinion Formation in a Presidential Campaign. Their findings were mainly based on a survey gathered in 1940 in Erie County, Ohio and on a survey collected in 1948 in Elmira, New York. The model proposed by them is usually referred to as the model of Columbia Studies. Individuals' perception of the political world is conceptualized in network terms according to this model. The main argument of these books is that the interpersonal influence of their families, friends and co-workers form voters’ political views. Voters’ choices are shaped through interpersonal communication networks. These horizontal networks have a stronger effect on individuals’ political decisions than the opinions and viewpoints presented and framed in the media. Social categories – such as religion and class – may also explain individuals’ choices. A businessman with friends and co-workers from that class is more likely to vote for a Republican candidate than a blue-collar worker. The findings may be concluded in the following way: "they (voting decisions) are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy%20Buttignol | Rudy Buttignol (born June 18, 1951) is a Canadian television network executive and entrepreneur. Buttignol was the president and CEO of British Columbia's Knowledge Network, BC's public broadcaster, from 2007 until June 2022. He was also president of Canadian subscription television channel BBC Kids from 2011 until it ceased operations in 2018.
In 2022, following a highly publicized diversity audit of the Knowledge Network, Buttignol was dismissed from his position as president and CEO.
Early life
Rudy Buttignol was born in 1951 in Pordenone, Italy to Nelda (Caterina) and Marino Buttignol. In 1955 at the age of four, Buttignol and his mother boarded the MS Vulcania and immigrated to Canada via Pier 21 in Halifax. In Toronto, they were reunited with Marino Buttignol, who had immigrated in 1954 to work for Canadian National Railway laying rail in northern Alberta. Buttignol was raised and educated in Toronto. From 1971 to 1975, he attended York University, Faculty of Fine Arts, where he studied film under James Beveridge, Louis de Rochemont 111 and Terence Macartney-Filgate.
Career
Buttignol's career spans more than four decades. At the beginning of his career, he worked as an independent producer, director, writer and editor of documentary and children's programs, and later as a commissioning editor, television programmer, and broadcast executive. He has been called "Canadian broadcasting and documentary guru" and "friend of the auteur in Canada and abroad". Buttignol is acknowledged for his roles developing Canadian cultural policy related to documentary film funding and broadcasting and advancing the creative documentary genre in Canada and on the world stage. Rudy Buttignol originated the idea behind the 2014 television series Emergency Room: Life + Death at VGH. He stressed the distinction between the genre of the series, which is a documentary, and that of reality-based entertainment.
From 1975 to 1993, Buttignol worked as an independent filmmaker creating film and video works. His early documentaries were about an Italian dairy (The Dairy (1977), a Canadian artist (Jack Bush (1979), a pop history of neon lights (Neon, an Electric Memoir (1984), an Apollo-era astronaut who became an artist (Allan Bean: Art Off This Earth (1990), and the early history of the Russian space program (Soviet Space: The Secret Designer (1992).
In 1993, Buttignol began work as a public broadcaster when he joined TVOntario as commissioning editor and creative head of independent production. From 2000 to 2006, he was TVOntario's creative head of network programming, green lighting commissions such as:
Genie Award-winning Champagne Safari (1995) by George Ungar
Gemini Award-winning Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows (1998) by Paul Jay
Emmy Award-winning Let it come down: The Life of Paul Bowles (1999) by Jennifer Baichwal
The Corporation (2003) by Joel Bakan, Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott
Multiple Gemini Award-winning Dying at Grace (2004) by Allan King |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Network%20for%20Advanced%20Management | The Global Network for Advanced Management is a collaboration of graduate schools of business that seeks to foster intellectual ties among business schools, students and deans from both economically strong regions and those on the horizon of economic development. It was founded by a consortium of 21 schools and launched on April 27, 2012. The Global Network has since expanded to include 31 member schools.
Objectives
The Global Network for Advanced Management was founded on the premise that enterprises need leaders who understand how markets and organizations work in increasingly diverse and complex contexts. The network provides an organizational structure to facilitate connections among faculty, students, and alumni from diverse regions, cultures, and economies in different phases of development. Chief goals are the exchange of ideas, collaboration on data collection, and the promotion of research in areas of interest to global commerce. Member schools share course materials, including case studies that incorporate specialized regional expertise.
Activities
The Global Network is a platform for innovation, hosting programs that include Global Network Weeks, which give students at network schools the opportunity to travel to another Network school for a one-week intensive mini-course that takes advantage of localized expertise; Global Network Courses, online graduate-level business courses that connect students at member schools in group project work; and Global Network cases, teaching materials that examine business challenges from the points of view of at least two Global Network regions.
In January 2014, as part of the “Business + Society: Leadership in an Increasingly Complex World,” conference, which marked the opening of Edward P. Evans Hall, the new home for the Yale School of Management, deans and directors from nine Global Network schools discussed the skills they believed critical to leaders with moderator Margaret Warner in a panel entitled "Preparing Leaders for a Flatter World." Faculty, deans, and students from three network schools participated in "Bank of Ireland: A Raw Case Study" with American investor Wilbur Ross.
As of 2023, more than 14,500 students have participated in a Global Network Week and more than 6,500 have taken one of the Small Network Online Courses (SNOCs). More than 5,000 students from 20 of the member schools have participated in the Global Virtual Teams course.
Members
The network includes graduate management schools on six continents:
EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST, AFRICA
ESMT Berlin, Germany
HEC Paris, France
IE Business School, Spain
IMD, Switzerland
Koç University Graduate School of Business, Turkey
Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, Nigeria
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
SDA Bocconi School of Management, Bocconi University, Italy
Strathmore Business School, Kenya
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Ir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska%20Satellite%20Facility | The Alaska Satellite Facility is a data processing facility and satellite-tracking ground station within the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The facility’s mission is to make remote-sensing data accessible Its work is central to polar processes research including wetlands, glaciers, sea ice, climate change, permafrost, flooding and land cover such as changes in the Amazon rainforest.
History
The Alaska Satellite Facility began as a single-purpose receiving station known as the Alaska Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Facility located in the Geophysical Institute (GI) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The interest in space-borne SAR observations began in the U.S. with the success of the Seasat mission in 1978. (There is information below under "Data Center" about the facility's 2013 release of newly processed Seasat SAR data.) After Seasat’s premature demise, scientists from the federally funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Geophysical Institute developed the concept of a ground station in Fairbanks, Alaska, to receive data from foreign satellites.
In 1986, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory requested and approved a quotation for the integration of a receiving ground station, the Alaska SAR Facility, at UAF. The Alaska SAR Facility was marked at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 24, 1991. Later that year, the facility began down-linking European Remote Sensing Satellite-1 (ERS-1) data. The expected data volume for the station was 45 minutes total from ERS-1, JERS-1 and RADARSAT. In the operations stage, data flow rapidly increased due to changing requirements from flight agencies and government sponsors, and storage of online data and demand for SAR data was expected to rapidly exceed capacity. The Satellite-Tracking Ground Station launched in 1990, and in 1994 a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between NASA and UAF formed the ASF Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC). The facility was renamed the Alaska Satellite Facility in 2003.
The ASF DAAC is one of 12 DAACs funded by NASA to support earth observations from ground-based, in-situ, airborne, and space borne sensors. The ASF DAAC processes, distributes, and archives data products as assigned by NASA. The ASF DAAC archive now offers more than a dozen synthetic aperture radar (SAR) datasets. Tasking and missions have been added or deleted from the MOA when deemed appropriate by NASA program managers, Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) personnel, and ASF management.
NASA, on behalf of the Canadian Space Agency, launched RADARSAT-1 in November 1995. At this point, ASF was handling data from the original three satellite missions that spurred the science community into envisioning this facility. The launch of ADEOS-1 resulted in ASF simultaneously supporting four active missions until the loss of the two Japanese missions (ADEOS-1 in 1996 and JERS-1 in 1998), and the deactivation of ERS-1 with the launch of ERS-2 in 1996. In November 2002, the National Oceanic and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%20City%20Metro%20Line%2012 | Line 12, also known as the Golden Line from its color on the system map, is a partially closed rapid transit line of the Mexico City Metro network. It travels along the boroughs of Benito Juárez, Iztapalapa and Tláhuac in southwestern, central-southern and southeastern Mexico City, serving twenty stations. The line was inaugurated on 30 October 2012, going from Tláhuac to Mixcoac station. In 2016, work to expand it to Observatorio station started. All the stations are accessible to people with disabilities as they have elevators, tactile pavings and braille signage plates.
Line 12 was built by Mexican construction company Empresas ICA in association with Alstom Mexicana and Grupo Carso. It runs at grade, overground and underground levels. The interchange stations are Mixcoac (Line 7), Zapata (Line 3), Ermita (Line 2) and Atlalilco (Line 8), and when completed, Observatorio (Line 1). The line connects with other transport systems in the city, including the trolleybus and the Metrobús systems. In 2019, Line 12 had a total ridership of 134,900,367 passengers, averaging 369,590 passengers per day.
Since its planning, the line underwent several modifications in its layout and characteristics. It was originally planned as a mostly subway line that would operate with rubber-tired trains. Also, the line would not operate primarily along Tláhuac Avenue. However, due to time and budget constraints the project underwent modifications after its announcement, and it became a combined under- and overground line with steel-tired trains running elevated along Tláhuac Avenue. Subsidence was reported on several columns along the elevated section before testings with trains started. From the onset of service, problems on the line were still reported especially on the elevated part of the line. In early 2014, operations were halted on that section and they were resumed until late 2015. The elevated track later suffered the impact of a earthquake in September 2017. In May 2021, a portion of the line's overpass collapsed while a train was on it. 26 people were killed and line operations had to be suspended. Preliminary investigations have suggested that the bridge had a deficient and questionable construction. On January 15, 2023, the section from Mixcoac to Atlalilco reopened for service.
History
Origins
In the 1980s, the Comisión de Vialidad y Transporte Urbano (COVITUR), an organization of the Federal District Department, presented a plan for the Mexico City Metro based on several studies and reports related to the rapid growth of the city and its demand for public transportation. On the 1985 Metro Master Plan (Spanish: Programa Maestro del Metro de 1985), COVITUR considered a metro line that would run on the southern part of Mexico City from west to east and it designated as Line 12. It would run from Santa Lucía, in Álvaro Obregón, to Canal de Garay, in Iztapalapa (near Constitución de 1917 station). It would have had seventeen stations and a length of an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murugappa%20Polytechnic%20College | Murugappa Polytechnic College is a government-aided institution, the college is located in Avadi, Chennai, India. Diploma programmes Civil Engineering and Computer Engineering courses offered include Electrical &
Electronics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering etc.
Courses Offered
Diploma Programmes
Civil Engineering
Computer Engineering
Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Electronics & Communication Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering (Tool & Die)
Electronics (Robotics)
Infrastructure
Hi-Tech Center
Library
Cricket Ground
Volleyball Court
Football Court
Ball badminton Court
Table tennis
Carrom Board
Chessboard
Shuttle Badminton Court
Tennikoit Court
8 Station Multi Gym
National Social Service
National Cadet Corps
References
External links
Universities and colleges in Chennai
Universities and colleges established in 1957
1957 establishments in Madras State |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcode%20%28disambiguation%29 | Transcode is a direct digital-to-digital data conversion process.
Transcode may also refer to:
Transcode (character encoding), an IBM 6-bit data transmission code |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrayina%20maye%20talant | Ukrayina maye talant (; ) is a Ukrainian reality television series on the STB television network, and part of the global British Got Talent series. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, sketch artists, comedians, and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top prize of ₴1,000,000. The show debuted in April 2009. The three judges Vladyslav Yama, Slava Frolova and Ihor Kondratiuk joined host Oksana Marchenko. Contestants Kseniya Simonova and Anastasia Sokolova were revealed by this show. The show is now in its sixth season with two new judges: Hector Jimenez-Bravo and Viacheslav Uzelkov.
Rules of the show
Participants may enter of any age and residence. Organizers of the show browse thousands of rooms to choose the best numbers that will fight for the title of the most talented person in Ukraine and 1 million prize in USD. Voting is determined by SMS. Viewers can send messages over the news release (in the semifinals), or in the finals during the week, and vote for the names of 10 finalists. Check count of votes are obtained and confirmed by the international auditing company Ernst & Young .
Seasons overview
Season 1 (2009)
The first season of Ukraine's Got Talent began in April 2009 and ended shortly afterwards. The judges were Vladyslav Yama, Slava Frolova and Ihor Kondratyuk, and it was broadcast on STB. The first season was won by artist Kseniya Simonova, for sand animation. Dmytro Khaladzhi, a world-record gymnast, refused to participate in the final duet in favor of Art Van, one of ten finalists of the season.
Season 2 (2010)
The second season began in 2010, and concluded with Olena Kovtun as the winner.
Season 3 (2011)
The third season began in 2011, and concluded with Vitaliy Luzkar as the winner.
Season 4 (2012)
The fourth season began in 2012, and concluded with a singer known as Aida Nikolaichuk. The composer Evgeny Khmara was a finalist in the competition.
Season 5 (2013)
The fifth season began in 2013, and concluded with a folk group "Lisapetnyi Batalyon" as the winner.
Second runner up was Anastasia Sokolova, an athlete who perfected pole dancing routines.
Season 6 (2014)
The sixth season began March 7, 2014 with new judges: Hector Jimenez-Bravo and Viacheslav Uzelkov. The winners were acrobatic members of the Dudnik family.
Season 7 (2015)
The winner was singer Sayid Dzhurdi Abd Allakh of Syria.
Season 8 (2016)
The winner was 2-year-old regional geographer Arina Shuhalevych.
Season 9 (2017)
The winner was 5-year-old singer Veronika Morsʹka.
Season 10 (2021)
The winner was singer Artem Fesko.
Ratings
The first season of Ukraine's Got Talent garnered as many as 11 million viewers, most of whom were in the age group 13–49.
References
External links
Official Website
Official Website of STB
Got Talent
Ukrainian reality television series
Non-British television series based on British television series
STB (TV channel) original programming
Television shows filmed in Ukraine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20scientific%20computing | The following is a timeline of scientific computing, also known as computational science.
Before modern computers
18th century
Simpson rediscovers Simpson's rule, a century after Johannes Kepler (who derived it in 1615 after seeing it used for wine barrels).
1733 – The French naturalist Comte de Buffon poses his needle problem.
Euler comes up with a simple numerical method for integrands.
19th century
First formulation of Gram-Schmidt orthogonalisation by Laplace, to be further improved decades later.
Babbage in 1822, began work on a machine made to compute/calculate values of polynomial functions automatically by using the method of finite differences. This was eventually called the Difference engine.
Lovelace's note G on the Analytical Engine (1842) describes an algorithm for generating Bernoulli numbers. It is considered the first algorithm ever specifically tailored for implementation on a computer, and thus the first-ever computer programme. The engine was never completed, however, so her code was never tested.
Adams-Bashforth method published.
In applied mathematics, Jacobi develops technique for solving numerical equations.
Gauss Seidel first published.
To help with computing tides, Harmonic Analyser is built in 1886.
1900s (decade)
1900 – Runge’s work followed by Martin Kutta to invent the Runge-Kutta method for approximating integration for differential equations.
1910s (decade)
1910 – A-M Cholesky creates a matrix decomposition scheme.
Richardson extrapolation introduced.
1920s
1922 – Lewis Fry Richardson introduces numerical weather forecasting by manual calculation, using methods originally developed by Vilhelm Bjerknes as early as 1895.
1926 – Grete Hermann publishes foundational paper for computer algebra, which established the existence of algorithms (including complexity bounds) for many of the basic problems of abstract algebra, such as ideal membership for polynomial rings.
1926 Adams-Moulton method.
1927 – Douglas Hartree creates what is later known as the Hartree–Fock method, the first ab initio quantum chemistry methods. However, manual solutions of the Hartree–Fock equations for a medium-sized atom were laborious and small molecules required computational resources far beyond what was available before 1950.
1930s
This decade marks the first major strides to a modern computer, and hence the start of the modern era.
Fermi's Rome physics research group (informal name I ragazzi di Via Panisperna) develop statistical algorithms based on Comte de Buffon's work, that would later become the foundation of the Monte Carlo method. See also FERMIAC.
Shannon explains how to use electric circuits to do Boolean algebra in "A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits"
John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry create the first electronic non-programmable, digital computing device, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer, from 1937-42.
Complex number calculator created by Stibitz.
1940s
1947 – Metropolis algorith |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangoma%2C%20South%20Africa | Zanghoma is a small village in Greater Tzaneen Local Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa.
Notable people includes Academician Dr. Professor Abraham Manase, who is a senior Data Management Analyst and currently teaches at Westcliff University in California, USA.
Principal Lucas Mokoena, Political activist and writer Shaun Mhlanga, Vongani Khumalo and Endlani Mlambo.
Zanghoma village is famous for being a Christian village.
References
Populated places in the Greater Tzaneen Local Municipality
1990 establishments in South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd%20Critics%27%20Choice%20Television%20Awards | The 2nd Critics' Choice Television Awards ceremony, presented by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA), honored the best in primetime television programming from June 1, 2011, until May 31, 2012, and was held on June 18, 2012, at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, California. The nominations were announced on June 5, 2012.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface:
Shows with multiple wins
The following shows received multiple awards:
Shows with multiple nominations
The following shows received multiple nominations:
References
2012 television awards
2012 in American television
002
2012 in Los Angeles
June 2012 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Rush%20Hour%20Triple%20M | The Rush Hour is the brand name applied to a number of Australian sport and comedy-themed radio shows across the Triple M network. In 2022, as part of Triple M's new drive timeslot strategy, which involved replacing Molloy with local "Rush Hour" shows in the major markets, the show returned to an expanded 2 hour (including breaks), mostly live-to-air format from 4 pm to 6 pm weekdays.
Melbourne
The Melbourne edition is co-hosted by former cricketer James Brayshaw and former AFL footballer Billy Brownless on Triple M Melbourne and simulcast to sister stations around Victoria as well as interstate. The show has typically aired in the late afternoon time slot on weekdays, currently (as of 2022) from 4 pm to 6 pm. Daily podcasts of each show are made available as well as show content being shared on social media pages and on the Triple M website.
History
The show commenced in April 2010, initially only airing Tuesday to Thursday each week, with Dave 'Higgo' Higgins anchoring the show. Numerous Triple M talent have anchored the show throughout the years, including ‘Dangerous’ Dave Williams and Digby Gillings, before Ryan ‘Rabs’ Warren took over the role in 2018.
Regular guests that visit the show from time to time have included Wayne Carey, Damien Barrett, Jason Dunstall, Danny Frawley, Brian Taylor, Chris Judd, Nathan Brown and Brigitte "Top Flight" Duclos "Todd from Barwon Heads" makes brief appearances, makes fun of Bill and hangs up before he can respond.
In 2011, the show was expanded to run from Monday to Friday, after Roy and HG's departure freed up time slot space. Over the years the length of the show and the airtime has been changed, with various time slots consisting of 3 pm to 5 pm, 4 pm to 5 pm as well as 4 pm to 6 pm. In 2018, the show moved to a 2 pm to 4 pm time slot, to accommodate the new Kennedy Molloy show, which airs from 4 pm to 6 pm. The 2020 and 2021 seasons saw the show shortened to 60 minutes and move to the 6 pm – 7 pm time slot, with the show being pre-recorded earlier in the day.
Regular segments
The show centers around several regular segments, current events discussion (especially involving sports) and celebrity interviews (usually AFL footballers, past and present.)
Billy's All Sports Report
After introductions, the show jumps into its first regular segment (which Billy affectionately calls a "wrappy"), which features a condensed report of all the major sports news that has occurred since the previous show went to air.
Topics Brownless / Brayshaw
JB or Billy comes up with a question or topic of discussion, and invites listeners to call in and give answers or tell their story, with prizes being given to the best responses. Billy is known for usually ending his topic questions with "...unusual?!" e.g. "What have you eaten, unusual?!"
Billy's Bake
A segment where Billy rants about an issue that has been annoying him of late. The rant is usually full of profanities and is presented in an exaggerated manner. Was more |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20solution%20%28linear%20programming%29 | In linear programming, a discipline within applied mathematics, a basic solution is any solution of a linear programming problem satisfying certain specified technical conditions.
For a polyhedron and a vector , is a basic solution if:
All the equality constraints defining are active at
Of all the constraints that are active at that vector, at least of them must be linearly independent. Note that this also means that at least constraints must be active at that vector.
A constraint is active for a particular solution if it is satisfied at equality for that solution.
A basic solution that satisfies all the constraints defining (or, in other words, one that lies within ) is called a basic feasible solution.
References
Linear programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medanta | Global Health Limited, d/b/a Medanta, is an Indian for-profit private hospital network based in Gurgaon, India. The chain was started in 2009 by cardiac surgeon Naresh Trehan and Sunil Sachdeva.
History
In 2004, cardiac surgeon Naresh Trehan began working on Medanta, along with Sunil Sachdeva, after leaving Escorts Heart Institute. In June 2006, Avenue Capital Group invested in the venture.
In 2009, Medanta launched its first hospital, Medanta - The Medicity in Gurgaon, a 1250-bed super-specialty hospital spread over 43 acres which was built at a cost of about .
In 2013, private equity firm Carlyle Group acquired Avenue Capital Group's 27% stake in Medanta for , valuing the company at . In 2015, Singapore-based Temasek Holdings purchased Punj Lloyd's 17.74% stake in the company.
In 2015, Medanta launched a 160-bed hospital in Indore. Later that year, Medanta acquired the Abdur Razzaque Ansari Memorial Weavers' Hospital on the outskirts of Ranchi from Apollo Hospitals.
In 2018, Medanta opened a 200-bed hospital in Sri Ganganagar. In 2019, Medanta began operations of a 1000-bed, multi-specialty hospital in Lucknow called Medanta Avadh, which was constructed at a cost of . In 2019, it was reported that Manipal Hospitals had agreed to acquire Medanta for . However, the deal was called off later that year.
In 2021, Medanta inaugurated the 500-bed Jay Prabha Medanta Super Specialty Hospital in Patna. In November 2022, Medanta launched its initial public offering.
Rankings
India rankings
Medanta-The Medicity: 2nd rank, India's Best Hospital 2020 by Newsweek.
Medanta-The Medicity: 2nd rank, India's Best Hospital 2021 by Newsweek.
Medanta-The Medicity: 2nd rank, Best All India Multi Speciality Hospital Ranking 2022 by Outlook (Indian magazine).
Medanta-The Medicity: 2nd rank, Best Cardiology Multi Speciality Hospital Ranking 2022 by The Times of India.
Global rankings
Medanta-The Medicity: 132nd rank, World's Best Hospital 2022 by Newsweek.
Medanta Group Of Hospitals
Medanta Group has following hospitals :
Jay Prabha Medanta Super Specialty Hospital, Patna
Medanta Super Speciality Hospital, Lucknow
Medanta Super Speciality Hospital, Indore
Medanta Abdur Razzaque Ansari Memorial Weavers’ Hospital, Ranchi
Medanta Mediclinic, DLF Cybercity, Gurugram
Controversies
In 2012, a donor died during the liver transplantation operation despite the fact that a pre-operation medical report clearly stated that donor's liver "was not ideal for donation."
In April 2013, the former Chief Justice of India J. S. Verma died from multiple organ failure at Medanta-The Medicity Hospital. The family of Jurist Verma alleged that he died due to medical negligence. Later, in 2014, the hospital and its team of doctors got the clean chit from the Delhi Medical Council.
In 2014, a Junior doctor employed at Medanta Medicity in Gurgaon was apprehended on allegations of sexual assault and harassment against his sister.
In 2018, a report was published in The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winners%20%26%20Losers%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of the television drama series Winners & Losers aired from 26 June to 27 November 2012 on the Seven Network in Australia. It replaced Packed to the Rafters while the series was on hiatus. Season two follows the lives of Jenny, Bec, Sophie and Frances three months on from the events of the first season. Filming for the season began in August 2011 and creator of the show, Bevan Lee stated that viewers would see big changes for the girls. The main cast members all returned, while Anne Phelan joined them as Gross family matriarch Nanna Dot.
Production
On 5 July 2011, it was announced that Seven had renewed Winners & Losers for a second season to air in 2012. Filming for the second season began on 23 August 2011 and completed on 5 April 2012. Bevan Lee, the creator of Winners & Losers, told the Herald Sun's Colin Vickery that viewers would see big changes in the new season. He said "We turn the girls' lives on their heads in a pretty major way in the final episode (of series one). That will give us a new launching pad for season two." Zoe Tuckwell-Smith told a TV Week reporter that the new season would see the girls get different individual storylines. Tuckwell-Smith added that she had filmed limited scenes with Melissa Bergland, who plays Bec's best friend, Jenny. Of her character's journey, Bergland revealed "Jenny is falling in love and getting everything she ever wanted ... and then ruining her life! She's doing everything in two years that everyone else has done over 10. She's 28 next season, and she's catching up." The actress commented that Winners & Losers felt like it had grown up a bit. The season began airing on 26 June 2012 in the 8:30 pm timeslot on Tuesdays.
Cast
Main
Melissa Bergland as Jenny Gross
Virginia Gay as Frances James
Zoe Tuckwell-Smith as Bec O'Connor
Melanie Vallejo as Sophie Wong
Damien Bodie as Jonathan Kurtiss (20 episodes)
Blair McDonough as Matt O'Connor
Stephen Phillips as Zach Armstrong (19 episodes)
Tom Wren as Doug Graham
Denise Scott as Trish Gross
Francis Greenslade as Brian Gross
Sarah Grace as Bridget Fitzpatrick (16 episodes)
Jack Pearson as Patrick Gross
Tom Hobbs as Flynn Johnson (7 episodes)
Recurring
Anne Phelan as Dot Gross (17 episodes)
PiaGrace Moon as Jasmine Patterson (16 episodes)
Paul Moore as Wes Fitzpatrick (15 episodes)
Mike Smith as Callum Gilbert (12 episodes)
Michala Banas as Tiffany Turner (11 episodes)
Nick Simpson-Deeks as Rhys Mitchell (10 episodes)
Peta Sergeant as Cat Johnson (8 episodes)
Nell Feeney as Carolyn Gilbert (6 episodes)
Carmen Duncan as Prof. Kerry Green (6 episodes)
Luke Arnold as Lachie Clarke (6 episodes)
Matt Levett as Spencer Campbell (5 episodes)
Andrew Blackman as Tom Shields (5 episodes)
Lara Robinson as Tilly Young (5 episodes)
Guest
Natalie Saleeba as Claire Armstrong (4 episodes)
Thomas Lacey as Ollie Masters (4 episodes)
Greg Stone as Steve Gilbert (3 episodes)
Julie Forsyth as Marjorie Felton (3 episodes)
Br |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopper%20%28DVR%29 | Hopper is a line of digital video recording (DVR) set-top boxes offered by the U.S. direct-broadcast satellite television provider Dish Network. First introduced at Consumer Electronics Show in January 2012, the Hopper was released in March 2012 as a component of the provider's whole-home DVR system, which networks the main Hopper unit with smaller "Joey" set-top boxes to form a client-server architecture.
The Hopper is primarily distinguished by its "Primetime Anytime" functionality, which automatically records primetime programming off the four major U.S. television networks, while a later software update added "AutoHop", which allows commercials to automatically be removed from these recordings. The following year at the Consumer Electronics Show, Dish Network introduced an updated version known as Hopper with Sling, which integrates Slingbox place-shifting technology directly into the box.
Both versions of the Hopper were met with universal praise by technology publications, particularly surrounding its "PrimeTime Anytime" functionality, the AutoHop feature, integration with smartphones and tablets, and the addition of built-in place-shifting to its second iteration. However, despite the positive reception, the Hopper became the subject of a copyright lawsuit filed by major U.S. broadcasters shortly after its release, who questioned the legality of the AutoHop feature by considering it to be an attack on their business model. Although unsuccessful in its lawsuits against Dish Network, ABC (Disney), CBS and Fox Broadcasting Company have since used carriage agreements and other settlements to impose requirements for AutoHop to be disabled on their respective primetime programs for a period after their original air date.
The Hopper with Sling model was the subject of a related controversy when its "Best in Show" award at CES was vetoed by CBS—whose website CNET issued the award on behalf of CES organizers, because it was a party of active litigation with Dish Network. Due to the conflict of interest and its opinion of the device as being "pro-innovation and pro-consumer", CES organizers removed CNET from the "Best in Show" program, and reinstated the award. After a lawsuit which shut down Aereo (a service that allowed users to rent an antenna from a centralized location to watch over-the-air television online) as an unauthorized "public performance" of copyrighted television programming, Fox argued in court that the place-shifting functionality of Hopper with Sling was "virtually identical" and thus also a violation. However, its claim was rejected by the court.
Specifications
The Hopper is powered by a Broadcom 7420 system-on-chip, and contains a 2-terabyte hard drive; part of the drive is reserved for automatic recordings and video on demand content. The Hopper contains three satellite tuners, and can be networked with up to 3 smaller set-top boxes, known as a Joey, as clients for whole-home DVR access; they are attached to the main Hopp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Cryptography%2C%20Telecommunications%20and%20Computer%20Science | The Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science () or IKSI (ИКСИ) is a research institute within the Academy of the Federal Security Service of Russia, which trains specialists in areas such as the transfer, protection and processing of information. The key specialist training areas are cryptography, applied mathematics, information technology and digital technology, electrical engineering, radio technology and communications.
Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Institute was known as The Technical Faculty of the KGB Higher School.
History
The institute began its history in 1949 when a resolution by the Politburo created the Higher School of Cryptographers, and a closed department was created under the Mechanics-Mathematics Faculty of Moscow State University by a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Later they united to become the technical faculty of the Dzerzhinsky Higher School of the KGB.
The institute comprises faculties of applied mathematics, specialised engineering and information security, departments of natural science, special skills, and English language. The institute also runs an evening physics and maths school, an ex-budgetary Scientific Research Laboratory while the Academy has provision for post-graduate military courses, MA and PhD dissertation boards.
Specialties
Department of Applied Mathematics
Cryptography
Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Automation of information and analytical processes
Faculty of Special Technology Information, security telecommunications systems and electronic systems
Faculty of Information Security
Notable alumni
Eugene Kaspersky – cybersecurity expert
See also
FBI Academy
National Intelligence University
Mercyhurst University Institute for Intelligence Studies
References
External links
Institute of Cryptography, Telecommunications and Computer Science in the FSB Academy Official Website
Federal Security Service
Universities and colleges established in 1949
Intelligence analysis
Intelligence education
Universities and institutes established in the Soviet Union
1949 establishments in the Soviet Union
KGB
Communications in the Soviet Union
Telecommunication education |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZyNOS | ZyNOS is the proprietary operating system used on network devices made by Zyxel Communications. The name is a contraction of Zyxel and Network Operating System (NOS).
History
Zyxel first introduced ZyNOS in 1998.
Versions
Zyxel released ZyNOS version 4.0 for their GS2200 series 24 and 48 port ethernet switches in April, 2012. It appears that versions differ between Zyxel products.
Access methods
Web and/or command-line interface (CLI) depending on the device. Web access is accomplished by connecting an Ethernet cable between a PC and an open port on the device and entering the IP address of the device into the Web browser. An RS-232 serial console port is provided on some devices for CLI access, which is accomplished by using SSH or telnet.
CLI command types
Listed below are the categories that the CLI commands are grouped by.
system-related commands
exit command
Ethernet-related commands
WAN-related commands
WLAN-related commands
IP-related commands
PPP-related commands
bridge-related commands
RADIUS-related commands
802.1x-related commands
firewall-related commands
configuration-related commands
SMT-related commands.
Web Configurator
The Web Configurator is divided into the following categories:
basic settings
advanced application
IP application
management
Security advisories
As of January 2014 a ZyNOS ROM-0 vulnerability has been identified. This vulnerability allowed attacker to download router's configuration (ROM-0 file) without any type of authentication required. Such configuration file can be later decompressed to expose router's administrator password, ISP password, wireless password etc.
, Danish computer security company Secunia reports no unpatched advisories or vulnerabilities on ZyNOS version 4.x.
, Secunia reports seven advisories and six vulnerabilities on ZyNOS version 3.x. Five advisories are unpatched; Secunia rates the most severe unpatched advisory as less critical.
, a DNS vulnerability has been found in certain ZyNOS firmware versions. The versions that are affected have not been narrowed down. The attack can be done from a remote location regardless if the user interface is accessible from the outside of a LAN.
References
Network operating systems
Proprietary operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%20Dance%20%28video%20game%29 | Everybody Dance (also known as DanceStar Party in Europe) is a 2011 competitive dance game developed by London Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is a spin-off of the game SingStar Dance, which was also developed by London Studio. Like that game, this game utilizes the PlayStation Move controller for dancing.
A sequel, Everybody Dance 2 (DanceStar Party Hits in Europe) was released in 2012, and a second sequel, Everybody Dance 3, was released in 2013 exclusively in Latin America. That year, Sony Competitive Entertainment also released Everybody Dance Digital (DanceStar Digital in Europe), an otherwise free-to-play title which contained no pre-included songs; songs were instead purchased in Packs ("Mixes" in Europe) of four, much in the same manner as DLC songs in the three main games (there was also a Demo Pack which could be purchased for free).
Reception
Everybody Dance received mixed reviews from critics upon release. On Metacritic, the game holds a score of 66/100 based on 5 reviews.
References
External links
Official website
Song list
2011 video games
Dance video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 3-only games
PlayStation Move-compatible games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
PlayStation Move-only games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
London Studio games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WxPHP | wxPHP (for wxWidgets for PHP) is an extension the programming language PHP that wraps the wxWidgets library, which allows writing cross-platform software desktop applications that make use of the native graphical components available to the different platforms. It supports the three major operating systems: Windows, Linux, and macOS by using PHP. Applications are written in PHP, which is an interpreted language. Thus, it needs no intermediate compiling step to run an application, if the PHP interpreter has the extension available.
History
Near 2003, a group of enthusiastic people began writing on mailing lists and forums presenting the idea of a PHP extension that wrapped the wxWidgets library in a similar way to what PHP-GTK does for GTK+. A SourceForge project was created and many people joined in an effort to move the cause forward and make it a reality. Despite the will of the project members, no progress was made, until Mário Soares decided to join. After the join, the first commits occurred to the Concurrent Versions System (CVS) repository on SourceForge. The first commits consisted of wrapping the class, wxFrame, and some other basic controls, this is when wxPHP first saw the light. Inspired by wrapper generators like Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator (SWIG), development was begun for a simple code generator that read the output of GCCXML ran over wxWidgets and transformed into a serialized PHP array. This helped save much time on the monotonous task of writing the same code repeatedly for each class and its methods. After having some basic functions and controls, an application was written using wxPHP, to assist the code generator on the selection of class methods that it could handle correctly.
In August 2011, Jefferson González wrote an email to the maintainer then, offering to make a website to boost wxPHP presence and attract more people and contributors. When the website was up and running, he began working with the wxPHP source code. Later, he decided to enable more methods and classes, discovering on the way that many features were unsupported by the code generator and extension. After several emails, the prior developer had the idea to parse the XML output generated by Doxygen from the wxWidget documentation. He undertook the work and began improving the code generator until it was rewritten, adding missing documentation and many features that would enable adding more wxWidgets functions.
Present
, wxPHP supports around 400 wxWidgets classes and thousands of methods, making it usable to develop a desktop commercial application. The project source code is now hosted on GitHub. A reference generator was written that serves as the documentation of the functions supported by the wxPHP extension. Also an interface generator has been written to get code completion on integrated development environments (IDEs) like NetBeans and Eclipse. Planning is underway to rewrite the code generator yet again using a modular and object- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20Seoige | Marcus Seoige (; born 1976) is an Irish actor. He was born on Inis Mór (where the family would spend each summer), but raised in Athlone. At university he studied Fine Art and computer animation but became involved in acting via Martial arts and medieval weapons stunt fighting. This led to him choreographing fight sequences and stunts for TV and film such as King Arthur, with Clive Owen and Keira Knightley.
Work as an extra led to an audition for TG4's soap opera, Ros na Rún, which won him the part of 'love-rat' Johnny Stapelton.
He has also appeared in the TG4 drama Seacht and in TV3's adaptation of Ken Bruen's Jack Taylor novels, with Nora Jane Noone.
External links
http://archive.galwayindependent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24145&Itemid=91
http://rosnarun.com/index.php?option=com_contact&view=contact&id=104&Itemid=438
http://www.herald.ie/lifestyle/femme/we-always-have-a-great-laugh-2431394.html
http://www.rte.ie/ten/2010/0401/rosnarun.html
1976 births
Irish male film actors
Irish male television actors
Actors from County Galway
Living people
Actors from County Westmeath
People from Athlone
People from the Aran Islands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Billi | Sir Billi (also known as Guardian of the Highlands) is a 2012 British computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Sascha Hartmann and written by his wife Tessa Hartmann, based on an original story they developed together. Produced by Billi Productions, the film stars the voices of Sean Connery, Alan Cumming, Patrick Doyle and Kieron Elliott. Set in the Scottish Highlands, the film follows Sir Billi, an elderly veterinarian who, with the help from his friend Gordon the Goat and the townspeople of Catterness, embarks on an adventure to rescue a beaver named Bessie Boo, while also helping her escape from a corrupt police officer. The film is Scotland's first computer-animated feature film. Connery had actually retired in 2006, but eventually joined the film's cast as a favour to the Hartmanns.
Since Connery served the role of the title character, the film makes numerous references to the James Bond films, even down to parodying the opening sequence of The Spy Who Loved Me. It was Connery's first film role since The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), also his final role before his retirement in 2012 and death in 2020. The film was originally released on April 13, 2012 by Shoreline Entertainment, premiering at the Sonoma International Film Festival, and was re-released theatrically on September 13, 2013.
The film was critically panned for its incoherent plot, ugly character designs, sexist content, lackluster animation and crude humour, with many considering the film to be a sour note for Sean Connery to end his career on. The film was also a box office disappointment as it only earned $15,838.
Not only was it considered to be one of the worst animated films of all time, but there were some critics who went as far to compare it to Foodfight! in terms of quality.
Plot
Sir William “Billi” Sedgewick works as veterinarian and resides with Gordon, a goat who behaves as a dog, outside the small town of Catterness, located within the Scottish Highlands. On orders of the Scottish government, beavers have become illegal in Scotland and are to be sent to Norway. During one such removal, a lorry carrying a large group of beavers is involved in an accident, letting loose some of the beavers. The officers in charge of the operation, McKenzie and McTavish, manage to recapture most of the beavers, but one escapes. The escapee, Bessie Boo, is subsequently adopted by a family of rabbits. McKenzie, posing as a police officer, mounts an obsessive search for Bessie.
Five years pass as McKenzie continues his search for Bessie. Meanwhile, Bessie and the rabbits partake in a tobogganing race. Bessie's adoptive brother, named Wee Dave, and their mother fall into a river due to the former's carelessness, leading Bessie to attempt to rescue them. Billi, Gordon, and Billi's grandson, Jake, are driving towards Catterness when another rabbit alerts them of the problem. Billi organises a deputation in the town square before noticing McKenzie acting strangely |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telekom%20Innovation%20Laboratories | T-Labs, formerly known as "Telekom Innovation Laboratories", is the R&D unit of Deutsche Telekom. T-Labs current research areas are: Future Networks, Spatial Computing and Decentralized Systems.
History
T-Labs were founded in 2004 as the central research and development institute of Deutsche Telekom under the direction of Manfred Jeronim.
At the same time, T-Labs are also a so-called affiliated institute of Berlin Institute of Technology (TU Berlin), meaning that T-Labs is a privately organized entity that is closely integrated in the teaching and research activities conducted at TU Berlin. This concept promotes intensive collaboration between research and industry. Experts, entrepreneurs and researchers work together on innovations intended for real-world application scenarios and on disruptive technologies in the area of information and communications technology.
T-Labs follow a consistent Open Innovation approach and are themselves an innovation as an affiliated institute and thus pioneered a new form of research and development. In a report for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), T-Labs have been presented as a benchmark example of modern innovation management.
At the beginning, 25 Deutsche Telekom employees and about 50 scientists from many countries worked at the T-Labs. Peter Möckel took over the management from November 2004 to 2011. Under his leadership, several professorships were established at the TU Berlin.In 2008, 100 other telecom experts were integrated into the T-Labs and further scientists were hired in parallel. First companies were founded.
Heinrich Arnold was responsible for the reorientation of Telekom Laboratories to more application and implementation-oriented topics. In the course of this reorientation, he took over the management of T-Labs from 2011 until 2016. During this period the foundations were laid for three new business units in the area of cloud computing, smart home and mobile payment for and within Deutsche Telekom. In addition, further focus areas with the topics of health, energy, Machine to machine and media were established. As a result, a number of cross-industrial projects have been carried out for the digital industry, such as in the port of Hamburg in 2012 with industrial partners such as SAP SE, Adidas, Claas, Osram, Siemens, KUKA and Trumpf.
Under the leadership of Heinrich Arnold, about 20 new spin-offs were founded, among others Trust2Core, SureNow, Litedesk, Motionlogic, Benocs, Soundcall, Zimory, Bitplaces, Schaltzeit as well as the digital cloud-based telecommunications service immmr (2016).
In 2016, the EU-Labs programme were found together with the TU-Berlin, to expand the international collaboration. The first institution within this strategy was established at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. The new professorship "Data science and Engineering" has its focus on the evaluation of economic and environmental relevant data with the help from mobile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia%20Pacific%20Adaptation%20Network | Asia Pacific Adaptation Network (APAN) is a regional program that works with governments and organizations to share knowledge about adapting to climate change and to support implementation of adaptation measures.
APAN was set up in October 2009 by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), as part of the Global Adaptation Network (GAN). APAN is considered a key mobilizer of adaptation knowledge in Asia and the Pacific.
APAN works collaboratively with organizations including the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), the Regional Resource Centre for Asia and the Pacific (RRC.AP) at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN).
Structure of APAN
The Regional Hub (RH) is co-hosted by the Asian Institute of Technology – UNEP Regional Resource Centre for Asia-Pacific (AIT- UNEP RRC.AP) and the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) in Bangkok, Thailand. The Regional Hub is the implementing body of the Network at the regional level (where relevant).
The Network has five Sub-Regional Nodes (SRNs) covering five sub-regions in Asia-Pacific. SRNs are organisations whose key functions are to lead the implementation of the sub-regional activities of the Network in collaboration with the RH and national implementing partners. As of 2011, APAN's three Thematic Nodes (TNs) focused on water, agriculture and mountains to reflect priorities of the region and were composed of organizations with specific expertise on their respective thematic areas.
Activities
The key purpose of APAN is to enhance the resilience and sustainability of human systems, ecosystems and economies in the face of climate change, by increasing access to knowledge, finance and technology, so that key actors can design and implement adaptation policies, strategies, plans and measures. This approach involves various areas of support:
Knowledge generation, sharing and exchange of adaptation-related information, including good practices and databases at all levels.
Building capacity of national, sub-regional and regional actors under the guidance of the Steering Committee with support from the sub-regional nodes and thematic nodes through meetings, seminars, workshops and trainings.
Supporting access to adaptation-related finance and technologies.
Identification of needs, gaps in knowledge and priority areas through at regional, sub-regional and national levels.
Building connections and collaboration through networks, initiatives, centers of excellence, donors, governments and other institutions.
Activities outcomes and publications
Publications of APAN are made available online, describing the knowledge gained by its activities in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzouri%20%28TV%20series%29 | Zanzouri is an Israeli television series from cable network yes, set in Yavne. It stars Yuval Semo as Pini Zanzouri.
Plot
Pinhas "Pini" Zanzouri lives in Yavne, a town in central Israel, with his wife and two children. Zanzouri is an average Israeli citizen with an average job, who comes home and passes his evenings watching TV .
On his 40th birthday, Zanzouri's life changes forever when his father comes to him with two revelations: that all the men in his family have died in their 40th year, and that he is adopted. Accepting that he has a year to live, Zanzouri decides to fulfill all his dreams and fantasies.
Main cast
Yuval Semo as Pini Zanzouri – a driving teacher by profession, Zanzouri is conservative, petty, rude, childish, inflexible, obsessive and miserly, but also soft and tender inside. He constantly expresses regret for his choices in life, including his wedding at age 17.
Irit Kaplan as Hanny Zanzouri - a kindergarten assistant. Very competitive, she has an obsession with cleanliness. She is loud and very physical, traits which are embarrassing to Pini.
External links
Official website
Yes (Israel) original programming
Comedy-drama television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohd%20Noor%20Amin | Datuk Mohd Noor Amin bin Mohd Noor Khan has been the Chairman of the International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats since its establishment 2008. Datuk Amin heads the world's largest United Nations (UN) backed public-private partnership against cyber threats. In May 2011, Amin along with Hamadoun Toure was successful in the appointment of IMPACT as UN's cybersecurity executing arm by UN specialised agency – International Telecommunication Union (ITU). As Chairman of IMPACT, he guides the organisation and its stakeholders (international organisations and member states) to enhance the global community's capacity to prevent, defend against and respond to cyber threats.
In 2000, Datuk Amin acquired an ICT software company, Ascendsys, and became its non-executive chairman. Ascendsys is Southeast Asia's leading managed security services (‘MSS’) company.
In the area of foreign relations, Datuk Amin became the founding Secretary-General of the Malaysia-U.S. Friendship Council, headquartered in Washington D.C. The Council was established in 2002 and was sponsored by leading Malaysian companies to provide advice on matters relating to bilateral relationship between the two countries. In 2004, he was appointed by the President of the Republic of Guatemala to serve as the nation's honorary envoy to Malaysia.
Biography
Datuk Amin was born in 1969 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Amin is an English trained barrister and has been admitted to the English Bar at Gray's Inn and to the Malaysian Bar. He holds a Masters in Commercial and Corporate Law from King's College, University of London (U.K.). Upon completing his education, he returned to Malaysia in 1994 and began his law pupillage at Malaysia's law firm, Zaid Ibrahim & Co. In 1995, he was admitted to the Malaysian Bar as an Advocate & Solicitor. He also served as personal legal counsel to two previous Malaysian Prime Ministers and served as general counsel to Malaysia's ruling party. In 2001, he married Shariza binti Tan Sri Kamaruzzaman, and they have a daughter, Nor Amira Suraiya.
Upon the commendation of the Malaysian Prime Minister Dato' Sri Haji Mohammad Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak, the thirteenth King of Malaysia His Majesty Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin in 2009 bestowed Datuk Amin the 'Panglima Jasa Negara' (PJN) award, he was this youngest recipient of this Federal Award. The PJN Award carries with it the honorific title 'Datuk'.
References
1969 births
Living people
Malaysian people of Malay descent
Malaysian Muslims
Businesspeople from Kuala Lumpur
Alumni of King's College London
Commanders of the Order of Meritorious Service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venkatesan | Venkatesan is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
Venkatesan Devarajan (born 1973), Indian boxer
Venkatesan Guruswami (born 1976), Indian computer scientist
Loganatha Venkatesan (1974–2001), Indian foreign worker and murderer executed in Singapore
Surname
L. Venkatesan, Indian politician
Madhavi Venkatesan, American economist
P. R. S. Venkatesan, Indian politician
Rani Venkatesan, Indian politician
Rose Venkatesan (born 1980), Indian television personality
S. Venkatesan (born 1970), Indian writer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%20LinkedIn%20hack | The 2012 LinkedIn hack refers to the computer hacking of LinkedIn on June 5, 2012. Passwords for nearly 6.5 million user accounts were stolen. Yevgeniy Nikulin was convicted of the crime and sentenced to 88 months in prison.
Owners of the hacked accounts were unable to access their accounts. LinkedIn said, in an official statement, that they would email members with instructions on how they could reset their passwords. In May 2016, LinkedIn discovered an additional 100 million email addresses and passwords that had been compromised from the same 2012 breach.
History
The hack
The social networking website LinkedIn was hacked on June 5, 2012, and passwords for nearly 6.5 million user accounts were stolen by Russian cybercriminals. Owners of the hacked accounts were no longer able to access their accounts, and the website repeatedly encouraged its users to change their passwords after the incident. Vicente Silveira, the director of LinkedIn, confirmed, on behalf of the company, that the website was hacked in its official blog. He also said that the holders of the compromised accounts would find their passwords were no longer valid on the website.
In May 2016, LinkedIn discovered an additional 100 million email addresses and hashed passwords that claimed to be additional data from the same 2012 breach. In response, LinkedIn invalidated the passwords of all users that had not changed their passwords since 2012.
Leak
A collection containing data about more than 700 million users, believed to have been scraped from LinkedIn, was leaked online in September, 2021 in form of a torrent file after hackers previously tried to sell it earlier in June, 2021.
Reaction
Internet security experts said that the passwords were easy to unscramble because of LinkedIn's failure to use a salt when hashing them, which is considered an insecure practice because it allows attackers to quickly reverse the scrambling process using existing standard rainbow tables, pre-made lists of matching scrambled and unscrambled passwords. Another issue that sparked controversy was the iOS app provided by LinkedIn, which grabs personal names, emails, and notes from a mobile calendar without the user's approval. Security experts working for Skycure Security said that the application collects a user's personal data and sends it to the LinkedIn server. LinkedIn claimed the permission for this feature is user-granted, and the information is sent securely using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. The company added that it had never stored or shared that information with a third party.
Rep. Mary Bono Mack of the United States Congress commented on the incident, "How many times is this going to happen before Congress finally wakes up and takes action? This latest incident once again brings into sharp focus the need to pass data protection legislation." Senator Patrick Leahy said, "Reports of another major data breach should give pause to American consumers who, now more than ever |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability%20distribution%20fitting | Probability distribution fitting or simply distribution fitting is the fitting of a probability distribution to a series of data concerning the repeated measurement of a variable phenomenon.
The aim of distribution fitting is to predict the probability or to forecast the frequency of occurrence of the magnitude of the phenomenon in a certain interval.
There are many probability distributions (see list of probability distributions) of which some can be fitted more closely to the observed frequency of the data than others, depending on the characteristics of the phenomenon and of the distribution. The distribution giving a close fit is supposed to lead to good predictions.
In distribution fitting, therefore, one needs to select a distribution that suits the data well.
Selection of distribution
The selection of the appropriate distribution depends on the presence or absence of symmetry of the data set with respect to the central tendency.
Symmetrical distributions
When the data are symmetrically distributed around the mean while the frequency of occurrence of data farther away from the mean diminishes, one may for example select the normal distribution, the logistic distribution, or the Student's t-distribution. The first two are very similar, while the last, with one degree of freedom, has "heavier tails" meaning that the values farther away from the mean occur relatively more often (i.e. the kurtosis is higher). The Cauchy distribution is also symmetric.
Skew distributions to the right
When the larger values tend to be farther away from the mean than the smaller values, one has a skew distribution to the right (i.e. there is positive skewness), one may for example select the log-normal distribution (i.e. the log values of the data are normally distributed), the log-logistic distribution (i.e. the log values of the data follow a logistic distribution), the Gumbel distribution, the exponential distribution, the Pareto distribution, the Weibull distribution, the Burr distribution, or the Fréchet distribution. The last four distributions are bounded to the left.
Skew distributions to the left
When the smaller values tend to be farther away from the mean than the larger values, one has a skew distribution to the left (i.e. there is negative skewness), one may for example select the square-normal distribution (i.e. the normal distribution applied to the square of the data values), the inverted (mirrored) Gumbel distribution, the Dagum distribution (mirrored Burr distribution), or the Gompertz distribution, which is bounded to the left.
Techniques of fitting
The following techniques of distribution fitting exist:
Parametric methods, by which the parameters of the distribution are calculated from the data series. The parametric methods are:
Method of moments
Maximum spacing estimation
Method of L-moments
Maximum likelihood method
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth%20against%20Racism%20in%20Europe | Youth against Racism in Europe (YRE) is an anti-racist organisation founded by the Committee for a Workers' International (the international network of the Militant tendency) it campaigns among young people in 16 countries in Europe. YRE was launched by an international demonstration of 40,000 people against racism, in Brussels in October 1992.
It was a wave of racist attacks in Germany and the success of the Blokbuster Belgian youth movement, opposing the far-right Vlaams Blok, which convinced the Committee for a Workers' International, to work to launch an international youth organization along the same lines.
In 1994, YRE organised an anti-racist camp in Germany of 1,500 young people from all over Europe.
The charity Show Racism the Red Card, founded by Ged Grebby, was inspired by his work and involvement with YRE, particularly the concept of educational packs for schools.
Britain
In the UK, YRE was launched in 1992, at a time of rising racist violence and electoral support for the far right. YRE was formed by Militant Labour as an alternative to the rival Socialist Workers Party (UK)'s Anti-Nazi League (ANL), relaunched the previous year, and the Socialist Action-favoured Anti-Racist Alliance, was founded a few months earlier in 1991, the black activists involved offering the SWP seats on its steering committee, which they refused.
In Britain, YRE's activity has focused around opposition to the British National Party. In 1987 the BNP moved its headquarters to Welling, in south east London. In the next six years there were four racially motivated murders in south-east London, including that of Stephen Lawrence in April 1993. The following month, on a demonstration called by YRE and others, including Panther, the black socialist organisation, over 8,000 people marched past the BNP headquarters in protest at the murders and the far-right party's presence in the area. Subsequent larger demonstrations were called, co-organised by YRE, numbering 60,000 and 50,000 respectively. A demonstration in October that year met with heavy police presence, leading to violent clashes between police and protesters.
In 2010, the group was at the centre of controversy over undercover policing in Britain, following revelations that YRE had been infiltrated by the Metropolitan Police and accusations that the police sought to discredit the anti-racism movement through the use of agent provocateur tactics.
France
YRE launched in France in 1993, with a month-long speaking tour by one of the founders of Panther UK. The speaking tour took place against the background of the recently released Malcolm X film and drew parallels between the US civil rights struggles and the continuing need for black youth to continue to organise today. YRE gained considerable popularity amongst French youth through notable campaigns in defence of immigrants without working papers and the rights of girls wearing the hijab in Mantes-la-Jolie. YRE's participation in an anti-deportatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable%20topology | Computable topology is a discipline in mathematics that studies the topological and algebraic structure of computation. Computable topology is not to be confused with algorithmic or computational topology, which studies the application of computation to topology.
Topology of lambda calculus
As shown by Alan Turing and Alonzo Church, the λ-calculus is strong enough to describe all mechanically computable functions (see Church–Turing thesis). Lambda-calculus is thus effectively a programming language, from which other languages can be built. For this reason when considering the topology of computation it is common to focus on the topology of λ-calculus. Note that this is not necessarily a complete description of the topology of computation, since functions which are equivalent in the Church-Turing sense may still have different topologies.
The topology of λ-calculus is the Scott topology, and when restricted to continuous functions the type free λ-calculus amounts to a topological space reliant on the tree topology. Both the Scott and Tree topologies exhibit continuity with respect to the binary operators of application ( f applied to a = fa ) and abstraction ((λx.t(x))a = t(a)) with a modular equivalence relation based on a congruency. The λ-algebra describing the algebraic structure of the lambda-calculus is found to be an extension of the combinatory algebra, with an element introduced to accommodate abstraction.
Type free λ-calculus treats functions as rules and does not differentiate functions and the objects which they are applied to, meaning λ-calculus is type free. A by-product of type free λ-calculus is an effective computability equivalent to general recursion and Turing machines. The set of λ-terms can be considered a functional topology in which a function space can be embedded, meaning λ mappings within the space X are such that λ:X → X. Introduced November 1969, Dana Scott's untyped set theoretic model constructed a proper topology for any λ-calculus model whose function space is limited to continuous functions. The result of a Scott continuous λ-calculus topology is a function space built upon a programming semantic allowing fixed point combinatorics, such as the Y combinator, and data types. By 1971, λ-calculus was equipped to define any sequential computation and could be easily adapted to parallel computations. The reducibility of all computations to λ-calculus allows these λ-topological properties to become adopted by all programming languages.
Computational algebra from λ-calculus algebra
Based on the operators within lambda calculus, application and abstraction, it is possible to develop an algebra whose group structure uses application and abstraction as binary operators. Application is defined as an operation between lambda terms producing a λ-term, e.g. the application of λ onto the lambda term a produces the lambda term λa. Abstraction incorporates undefined variables by denoting λx.t(x) as the function assigning the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndiePlex | IndiePlex is an American premium television network which features independent motion pictures. It is a spinoff of MoviePlex and is owned by Starz Inc. The headquarters of IndiePlex and its sister channels MoviePlex and RetroPlex are located on the Meridian International Business Center complex in Meridian, Colorado.
On April 5, 2016, Starz was rebranded and added all the Encore channels to its moniker, therefore increasing the Starz channel lineup to 14 Starz movie channels. Its main channel was rebranded "Starz Encore" and carries reruns of Starz originals in addition to films.
On June 30, 2016, Lionsgate agreed to acquire Starz Inc. for $4.4 billion in cash and stock.
Carriage
IndiePlex is available nationally on Dish Network and regionally on select cable systems such as TWC Channel 621 SD only. IndiePlex and RetroPlex are currently available on Dish Network, Comcast, Atlantic Broadband and Verizon FiOS. Retroplex and Indieplex also launched simulcast in 1080i high definition on Dish Network on February 11, 2010.
The channel competes directly with SundanceTV and IFC, both of which broadcast independently produced or filmed features.
References
External links
Movie channels
Starz Entertainment Group
Television channels and stations established in 2006 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Keikyu%20Corporation%20stations | List of Keikyu Corporation stations lists stations on the Keikyu network, including station location (ward or city), opening date, design (underground, at-grade, or elevated), and daily ridership.
Summary
There are a total of 73 "unique" stations (i.e., counting stations served by multiple lines only once) on the Keikyu network, or 77 total stations if each station on each line counts as one station.
In general, the reported daily ridership is the total of faregate entries and exits at each station. For "interface" stations that allow for through-servicing and transfers with other railways without exiting the station's paid area (namely, Sengakuji), the daily ridership also includes cross-company passengers on through-servicing trains (as part of trackage rights agreements) or transferring from other railways' trains without passing through faregates. At faregate-controlled interchanges with other railways, additional data is also provided on passengers transferring from other railways, and at junction stations on the Keikyu network (e.g., Keikyū Kamata or Horinouchi), data is also provided on the total passenger volume exchanged between the main line and branch line.
Opening dates are given in standard Japanese date format (YYYY.MM.DD).
Stations
References
Keikyu Corporation stations
Keikyu Corporation stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where%20Is%20My%20Heart%3F | Where is My Heart? is a platform video game developed by Danish studios Schulenburg Software and Die Gute Fabrik. It was released as a PlayStation mini on the PlayStation Network in North America on November 8, 2011 and Europe on November 16, 2011.
On March 2, 2012, Die Gute Fabrik announced plans to release the game for Windows, macOS, and Linux in the spring of 2012, a date which was pushed back, eventually seeing the Windows and macOS versions released on May 29, 2014, with the Linux version "still on the way…".
Story
Where is My Heart? tells the story of a family of three monsters who find themselves lost in the forest after setting out to find their home (a tree) after it mysteriously floats away one day. Elements of familial struggle and working together are sprinkled throughout.
Gameplay
The game starts out as any platformer might, but soon the image breaks into frames of varying sizes, often shuffling them. The player must then try to navigate their way through the level, by piecing together where their character appears to be in any given frame, as well as collecting hearts or figuring out other puzzles that might feature in a level. The player is able to switch between one of the three monster characters at will, each of them having a special ability that can aid in solving a level.
Development
The idea for the game was derived from Die Gute Fabrik designer Bernhard Schulenburg's memories of being lost in the woods as a child while on a hike with his parents. The game is also an homage to platformers of the 1980s and '90s, and its story and art direction are inspired by "German fairytales, the mythical creatures of Central Europe, and Japanese pictogram aesthetics."
Reception
The PSP version received "favorable" reviews, while the PC version received above-average reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
GameZone reviewer David Sanchez gave applause to the gameplay and art direction, proclaiming the PSP version "...a wonderful experience that's both a work of art and proper homage to classic game design...one of the most genius gameplay formats seen in a platformer in a long time." Brendon Keogh of Edge praised the ingenuity in the separated frames mechanic, stating, "A less skilled developer could easily abuse such a novel device, but the restrained, careful design of Where is my Heart? ensures the game lasts just long enough to get the most out of its mechanic without succumbing to padding." Christian Donlan of Eurogamer also commended the design as "...a concept so ingenious, I'm stunned I've never seen it before."
Conversely, David Wolinsky of The A.V. Club found the same PSP version interesting but somewhat repetitive, saying, "A bit one-note. It's an incredibly interesting note, but still, there isn't much variation as you work your way through all 26 levels." The major complaint of IGNs Ryan Clements was simply that the game's play-through time is too short, recommending the same PSP version wit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euriphene%20rotundata | Euriphene rotundata is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Uele).
References
Butterflies described in 1920
Euriphene
Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Butterflies of Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra%20Annenberg | Sandra Annenberg (born 5 June 1968, in São Paulo) is a Brazilian newscaster.
Since 1982, Sandra has worked for Globo TV, the largest commercial TV network in Brazil, with over 150 million Portuguese speaking viewers in more than 130 countries.
Sandra was anchor and executive editor at the “Jornal Hoje” (“Today”) lunchtime news, the second most viewed news bulletin in Brazil until September 2019. Since then, Annenberg is the newscaster of the prestigious weekly news-documentary show "Globo Repórter", aired every Friday evening to one of the largest audiences in Brazil.
After a successful early career as an actress, she went back to college for a Journalism degree at Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas, FMU, in São Paulo.
She has been assigned to cover many important national and international events like FIFA's World Cups in Germany-2006, South Africa-2010, Brazil-2014 and Russia-2018. She also covered the Atlanta-96 Olympic Games.
Awarded best anchorwoman in Brazil several times, she is widely recognized as one of the main TV journalists in the country.
TV news
São Paulo Já (1991-1993);
Fantástico (1993-1996);
SPTV 1ª Edição (1996-1997 and 2001–2003);
Jornal da Globo (1997-1998);
Jornal Nacional (1998);
Jornal Hoje (1998-1999 and 2003–2019);
Como Será? (since 2014);
London Correspondent, from 2000 to 2002
Globo Repórter ( since September 2019)
As a relief presenter
Fantástico (1997-1999);
Jornal da Globo (1991-1996 and 1999–2000);
Jornal Nacional (1996-2000, 2002-2011 and since 2013)
Jornal Hoje (since 2013)
Notes
External links
https://memoriaglobo.globo.com/perfil/sandra-annenberg/noticia/sandra-annenberg.ghtml
Official Jornal Hoje Website
1968 births
Living people
People from São Paulo
University of São Paulo alumni
Brazilian television presenters
Brazilian television journalists
Brazilian women journalists
Brazilian Jews
Women television journalists
Brazilian women television presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakishima%20Beacons | The are a network of eighteen observation platforms and beacons dating to the early Edo period and located in the Sakishima Islands, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Erected in 1644 by the government of the Ryūkyū Kingdom at the instigation of the Satsuma overlords, at a time of international tension during the transition between the Ming and the Qing Dynasties of China, the beacons were responsible for monitoring and reporting on maritime traffic, with a view to restricting foreign vessels in accordance with the Tokugawa policy of sakoku, i.e. national seclusion. After an initial survey by the Council for the Protection of Cultural Properties in 1993, due to uncertainties over land rights and difficulties of coordination between the involved municipalities, it was not until 2007 that they were jointly designated an Historic Site.
Locations
There are eight beacons in the Miyako Islands and ten in the Yaeyama Islands. Of those in the Miyako Islands, five are within the city of Miyakojima (on the islands of Miyakojima, Ikema, and Kurima), and three in the village of Tarama (on the islands of Tarama and Minna). Of those in the Yaeyama Islands, two are within the city of Ishigaki (on the island of Ishigaki), seven in the town of Taketomi (on the islands of Taketomi, Kuroshima, Upper and Lower Aragusuku, Hateruma, Kohamajima, and Hatoma), and one in the town of Yonaguni (on the island of Yonaguni).
Operations
Records suggest that the beacon near Cape Hirakubo on Ishigaki was at one point manned by a team of four, who also slept on the site. A different signal may have been given depending upon the origin of the ships. A restaged beacon relay in November 2007 saw an attempt to pass signals along two routes: (1) Hateruma-Aragukusu (Shimoji)-Aragusuku (Kamiji)-Kuroshima-Taketomi-Ishigaki; and (2) Hatoma-Kohamajima-Taketomi-Ishigaki. Along both routes the initial signal could not be seen from the next observation platform, due to rain; after restarting from the second station, both signals were successfully relayed to Ishigaki; in some instances it took up to ten minutes from the signal being observed for a fire to be lit sufficient for the smoke to be seen at the next station; the exercise highlighted the difficulty in transmitting signals by such a method in times of inclement weather and poor visibility.
List of beacons
See also
Dejima
List of Historic Sites of Japan (Okinawa)
References
Sakishima Islands
History of Okinawa Prefecture
1640s establishments in Japan
Historic Sites of Japan
Coastal fortifications
Beacons
Ishigaki, Okinawa
Miyakojima, Okinawa
Taketomi, Okinawa
Tarama, Okinawa
Yonaguni, Okinawa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CS40 | CS40 may refer to:
Cordata CS40, a computer design of the 1980s
CS 40, a Canadian sailboat design of the 1980s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UK%20Rock%20%26%20Metal%20Singles%20Chart%20number%20ones%20of%202012 | The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2012, there were 14 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls, which spent the first nine weeks of the year atop the chart. The final number-one single of the year was "The World Is Ugly", the third release from My Chemical Romance's compilation Conventional Weapons.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2012 was "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls, which spent 23 weeks at number one across ten different spells. Linkin Park spent nine weeks at number one with "Burn It Down" (seven weeks) and "What I've Done" (two weeks), while You Me at Six were number one for five weeks with "The Swarm" (four weeks) and "Reckless" (one week). "Back in Black" by AC/DC was number one for five non consecutive weeks in 2012, "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence spent three weeks atop the chart in two spells, and "45" by The Gaslight Anthem was number one for two weeks in 2012.
Chart history
See also
2012 in British music
List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2012
References
External links
Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1
2012 in British music
United Kingdom Rock and Metal Singles
2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delhi%20Food%20Banking%20Network | Delhi Food Banking Network is a food bank system based in Delhi, India.
The populations being serviced by the Delhi FoodBank include school programs, charitable hospitals, orphanages, the destitute, beggars, homeless, faith based organisations and many others.
The Foodbank operates by matching food from donors to those that need this the most.
See also
List of food banks
Notes
References
Food banks
Organisations based in Delhi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t%20Drink%20the%20Water%20%28TV%20series%29 | Don't Drink the Water is a British sitcom television series produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network. The series was created by Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe (who wrote almost every episode) and is a spin-off from their long running sitcom On the Buses. The storyline follows Cyril Blake (Stephen Lewis) living in Spain with his sister Dorothy (Pat Coombs) after his retirement from the Luxton & District Traction Company. Thirteen episodes were broadcast over two series from 27 July 1974 to 6 December 1975.
Episode list
Series 1
Series 2
DVD releases
Network originally included the first episode of Don't Drink the Water as an extra feature on the seventh series DVD of On the Buses, which was released on 13 November 2006. All thirteen episodes were released on a two-disc DVD by Network on 1 November 2010. All thirteen episodes were also released in a box-set on 19 September 2011 along with all seven series of On the Buses and all three film spin-offs of that series.
References
External links
1970s British sitcoms
1974 British television series debuts
1975 British television series endings
British television spin-offs
English-language television shows
ITV sitcoms
London Weekend Television shows
On the Buses
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows set in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%20Don%27t%20Tell | Men Don't Tell is a 1993 American made-for-television drama film starring Peter Strauss and Judith Light. It was directed by Harry Winer. The film first aired on CBS network on Sunday, March 14, 1993.
The film was based on the true story of a loving husband who is terrorized by the violent behavior of his wife.
Background
The original broadcast of Men Don't Tell was seen in 18.3 million homes, ranking third among the week's prime time broadcast, behind ABC's Home Improvement and CBS's 60 Minutes. After the original airing, the film was never rebroadcast on over-the-air television, reportedly because it incurred the wrath of several women's groups. However, the film was later shown a number of times on cable's Lifetime network. In 1994, Peter Strauss was nominated for a Golden Globe award for "Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV".
In the book Abused Men: The Hidden Side of Domestic Violence by Philip W. Cook, the film's producer Nancy Bein was interviewed about the film, which she believed the reaction of the film was the greatest of all relating issues to abused men. Bein stated: "I decided to do this movie because a friend, who is a psychologist, told me about a client who was a police officer and who had been a victim of domestic violence."
In relation to the script writing, Bein said: "We made a very conscious effort to make sure the man was very masculine, because a number of people when they heard about the subject felt that the man must be very wimpy." Speaking of the film's casting, she stated: "Judith Light said yes immediately. Peter Strauss was our second choice. Our first choice was an actor who said he was very offended that we sent him the script. He was angry at his agent for soliciting the script and forwarding it to him for him to read. Peter Strauss, a very bright man, accepted and did a very good job."
Speaking of the reception, Bein stated: "CBS was very high on the movie. They saw it as very high concept because it was one movie that hadn't been done before. They turned out to be right, as it did very well. It did very well overseas as well. It was one of the highest-rated movies of the year. Out of some 300 two-hour movies, I think it was rated number four, so it did extremely well. A lot of the reaction was that people turned it on with the idea of just to watch a few minutes but ended up being compelled to watch the whole movie and feeling very differently by the time it was finished."
Plot
Ed MacAffrey, a loving husband and father, is terrorized by the violent behavior of his wife, Laura. He tolerates this not only because he loves her and is concerned over the welfare of his children, but also because men are traditionally regarded as weaklings if they allow themselves to be battered by their wives. After one of Laura's destructive tantrums brings the attention of the police, Ed is suspected of being the aggressor. Finally, Laura goes too far when she physically assaults the c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raja%20Choudhury | Raja Choudhury (born Ranjit Choudhury, 11 June 1964) is a National Film Award (India) winning documentary film maker, architect, public speaker, spiritual teacher on The Shift Network, and designer of multimedia installations and events and Web sites, some of which have received Webby Awards. He produces international documentary films on Indian wisdom, history and consciousness. Films he has made include Spirituality in the Modern World, I Believe:Universal Values for a Global Society, The Modern Mystic, The Quantum Indians, Yoga: Aligning to the Source and most recently India's official global film celebrating the International Day of Yoga entitled Yoga Harmony with Nature which was released on 21 June 2015. He is currently producing a new film with WTTW Chicago PBS called America's First Guru on Swami Vivekananda and the arrival of Yoga and Hinduism into the popular American conversation in 1893. Raja is on the faculty of The Shift Network online teaching subjects on Indian Wisdom. Raja is also a teacher at A Thousand Suns Academy teaching advanced programs and workshops in Indian wisdom and meditation.
Early life
Raja Choudhury was born in Ibadan, Nigeria to Indian parents Sukumar and Manjusri Choudhury on 11 June 1964. His father was a UN expert on deputation to the WHO from India. He grew up in Nigeria and then Freetown, Sierra Leone where he attended the Sierra Leone Grammar School. At 16 he moved to Canada and studied at the University of Waterloo. He went on to study architecture at the AA School of Architecture in 1984 in London, UK where he graduated in 1992. At the AA he started the Computer Graphics Unit before graduating bringing CAD and 3D modelling to the school for the first time. At the AA he studied with architects Ron Herron and Ranulph Glanville and cybernetics expert Gordon Pask.
Early Career in Digital Media
In 1993 Choudhury, Mudimo Okondo, and Emma Westecott founded Zone UK, a digital design company in London. Choudhury designed the VID Zone Kiosk Network at Tower Records and HMV stores in London. The kiosk was described as "The Best Public Demo of Multimedia Ever" by Design Technology Magazine. In 1995 the team at Zone launched the UK's first CDROM Music & Lifestyle Magazine UnZip with IPC Magazines which was awarded a Milia D’Or at Mipcom in Cannes in 1996. Zone was the first company in the UK to introduce kiosk and the Internet into music stores, night clubs and university bars. In 1997 Zone installed multimedia kiosks in 10 London universities, providing the MeTV Network for students. Choudhury moved to New York City in 1998 and designed the FastTake Video Kiosk Network, the online launches of Softbank, NetValue and BT Conferencing, and became creative director for agencies Cohn & Wolfe and Converseon. In 2007 he designed Websites Webby Honorees in 2008: OurWeddingDay.com and CBCWorldwide.com. In 2008 he produced India's first multimedia broadband kiosk entertainment network for Coca-Cola called the Dilli Dil Se Ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrike%20Sattler | Ulrike M. Sattler is a professor of computer science in the information management group of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester and a visiting professor at the University of Oslo.
Education
Sattler completed her PhD in 1998 under the supervision of Franz Baader at RWTH Aachen University in Germany.
Career and research
Sattler moved to the University of Manchester as senior lecturer in 2003, was promoted to reader in 2006 and then to professor in 2007. Sattler's research focuses on logic to support knowledge representation including description logic, Dynamic logic and Modal logic. She is also investigating the inference problems, complexity theory and decision procedures associated with knowledge representation. This research has been important in the development of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and its use in bioinformatics and molecular biology.
Sattler's research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). She is the co-author of the textbook An Introduction to Description Logic with Ian Horrocks, Franz Baader and Carsten Lutz.
Academic service
Sattler serves as editor of the Journal of Logic and Computation, on the editorial board of the Journal of Automated Reasoning, and a chair for various conferences including the International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR).
Awards and honours
Sattler was elected a member of the Academia Europaea (MAE) in 2014. She was co-recipient with and Matthew Horridge of the best paper prize at the International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) in 2008 which subsequently won the in 2018 for the highest impact paper from the ISWC proceedings ten years prior.
References
Academics of the University of Manchester
Members of Academia Europaea
People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Living people
German computer scientists
German women computer scientists
German logicians
German philosophers
Semantic Web people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lensman%20%281984%20film%29 | Lensman: Secret of the Lens, known in Japan as , is a 1984 Japanese animated film based on the Lensman novels by E. E. Smith. Most of the CGI sequences were created by the Japan Computer Graphics Lab (JCGL). It was dubbed into English and released in the United States in 1990.
Plot
The story is about a farm boy named Kimball "Kim" Kinnison. From a dying Lensman of the Galactic Patrol, Kinnison receives a particular Lens. It contains information that would enable the Galactic Patrol to face a weapon created by the Boskone Empire. A non-human species, the Arisians, created the Lenses in order to stand up to the evil Eddorians. Through their Lenses, Lensman minds are merged with the cosmic consciousness of Arisia. Opposing the Patrol is Lord Helmuth, a Boskone leader and drug lord, who would stop at nothing to get his hands on the Lens.
The Boskone blow up the agricultural planet Mqueie where Kim lives with his father, Gary ("Ken" in the Harmony Gold dub). Now a humble farmer, Gary is one of the founders of the Galactic Patrol. If he hadn't lost an arm in battle, Gary would have been a Lensman himself. Having always dreamt of becoming a Lensman, Gary sacrifices his own life to secure Kim's escape from the pursuing Boskone fleet.
Kim escapes the Boskone with his horned and bearded near-human friend Van Buskirk. Through the movie's events, Kim also meets Clarissa MacDougall, a nurse and technician working with the Galactic Patrol. Like Gary, she cannot explain how the Lens could be transferred from the dying man to Kim.
Through the tutelage of a flying alien green dragon hero named Worsel, Kim gradually realizes the Lens's power, which provides the key to Helmuth's defeat. He transmits the formula to the Galactic Patrol fleet, knowing that their planned attack against Helmuth would fail without the answer.
Voice cast
Reception
The movie received a mixed reception.
The GURPS supplement for Lensman references the film.
References
External links
Lensman (SF Shinseki Lensman) at Moria.co.nz
1984 anime films
Adventure anime and manga
Films based on American novels
1980s Japanese-language films
American animated science fiction films
Lensman series
Tatsunoko Production
Madhouse (company)
Science fiction anime and manga
Toho animated films
1984 directorial debut films
1984 films
Films directed by Yoshiaki Kawajiri
1980s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Boyd%20%28animator%29 | Paul G. Boyd (September 30, 1967 – August 13, 2007) was an American-born Canadian animator. He was a member of a.k.a. Cartoon, the production team for Cartoon Network's Ed, Edd, and Eddy, as a title sequence animator and director. He began his career working for International Rocketship on two Gary Larson specials. During his career he taught at Vancouver Film School and worked at many animation studios in Vancouver. His work directing for Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show!, along with co-director Moose Pagen, was nominated for an Annie Award in 2001.
Early history
Boyd was born September 30, 1967, in Pasadena, California. He grew up in the west side of Vancouver, British Columbia, and attended Lord Byng Secondary School. He attended University of British Columbia and Concordia University in Montreal. Before joining a.k.a. Cartoon, he showed an unusual gift for expression in the visual arts in his youth. For the last 15 years of his life, he had a successful career as an animator, and was employed by a number of animation studios in Vancouver. He was passionate about his work and it was highly regarded.
Career
According to the animation industry website Cartoon Brew, other than Ed, Edd, and Eddy, Boyd also worked for Aaagh! It's the Mr. Hell Show! and provided animation for Gary Larson's Tales from the Far Side and the Flash animation television series ¡Mucha Lucha! An incomplete list of his animation credits can be found on IMDb. During the 1990s he taught many young animators at the Vancouver Film School. A prize in his honour for the top student in Classical Animation at the Vancouver Film School is funded by his family and presented three times per year. At the time of Boyd's death he was working at the Global Mechanic studio. His last completed work was on two animated advertisements for the Alberta Government.
Illness and murder
While in his 20s, Boyd was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, an illness for which he received constant and usually effective treatment. He lived with this illness for almost 20 years. He was shot and killed on August 13, 2007, by a police officer, Lee Chipperfield, in Vancouver. A video recorded by tourists showed Boyd being shot nine times after wielding what was believed to be a bicycle chain, but other witnesses state it was a chain of paperclips, at officers who came to respond to a disturbance involving him. The ninth shot that struck Boyd was fired as he was on the ground, resembling an execution. Chipperfield was not rewarded with paid suspension and had to return to work the next day. The use of force was criticized by many of Boyd's colleagues and relatives.
Investigation
The fatal shooting incident was investigated by the Vancouver Police Department and their findings passed on to the Criminal Justice Branch of BC which decided not to prosecute Chipperfield. After a Coroner's Inquest in December 2010 revealed many details which did not figure in the Criminal Justice Branch report, a complaint was filed by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen%E2%80%93Tartu%20school | Copenhagen–Tartu school of biosemiotics is a loose network of scholars working within the discipline of biosemiotics at the University of Tartu and the University of Copenhagen.
History
The school has been instrumental in developing biosemiotics as a new perspective on the study of life, in the biological and environmental sciences. Notable semioticians working in the Copenhagen–Tartu school are: Kalevi Kull, Jesper Hoffmeyer, Claus Emmeche, Frederik Stjernfelt, Søren Brier, Peeter Torop, Timo Maran, Mihhail Lotman.
Occasionally also the name 'Tartu–Bloomington–Copenhagen school' has been used, as having succeeded the earlier Tartu–Moscow school.
The biosemiotic co-work between the Tartu and Copenhagen groups was established in early 1990s. In 2001, Tartu and Copenhagen scholars inaugurated the annual international conferences for biosemiotic research known as the Gatherings in Biosemiotics, later organised by the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies.
The School values the classical works of Jakob von Uexküll and Juri Lotman as well as those of Charles Sanders Peirce.
Key texts
Emmeche, Claus; Kull, Kalevi (eds.) 2011. Towards a Semiotic Biology: Life is the Action of Signs. London: Imperial College Press.
Hoffmeyer Jesper 2008. Biosemiotics: An Examination into the Signs of Life and the Life of Signs. Scranton, University of Scranton Press.
Kull, Kalevi; Deacon, Terrence; Emmeche, Claus; Hoffmeyer, Jesper; Stjernfelt, Frederik 2009. Theses on biosemiotics: Prolegomena to a theoretical biology. Biological Theory: Integrating Development, Evolution, and Cognition 4(2): 167–173.
Kull, Kalevi; Emmeche, Claus; Favareau, Donald 2008. Biosemiotic questions. Biosemiotics 1(1): 41–55.
See also
Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School
References
Schools of linguistics
Semiotics organizations
University of Copenhagen
University of Tartu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZQGame | Shenzhen Zhongqingbaowang Interaction Network Co Ltd or ZQGame is a Chinese company that makes massively multiplayer online games as well as other browser games and mobile games. Prior a subsidiary of a company that makes servers, it was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2010. In 2013, ZQGame announced a joint venture with Shanda located in the Shanghai Pilot Free-Trade Zone.
Some of the company's browser MMO games, including Shadowland Online, are available to play outside of China published on Kabam and Kongregate.
As at 8 November 2016, the company is the constituents of SZSE Component Index but not in SZSE 300 Index, making the company was ranked between the 301st to 500th by free float adjusted market capitalization.
ZQGame Global
ZQGame Global the global publishing subsidiary of ZQGame was founded in 2011 with headquarters in El Segundo, California, US, and offices in South Korea and Taiwan. ZQGame Global publishes mobile games for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems.
Mobile titles published by ZQGame Global
Mobile titles soon to be released
References
Chinese companies established in 2008
Civilian-run enterprises of China
Companies based in Shenzhen
Companies listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange
Video game companies established in 2008
Video game companies of China
Video game development companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-PC%20era | The Post-PC era was a market trend observed during the late 2000s and early 2010s involving a decline in the sales of personal computers (PCs) in favor of post-PC devices; which include mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers as well as other mobile computers such as wearable and ubiquitous ones. These devices emphasize portability and connectivity, including the use of cloud-based services, more focused "apps" to perform tasks, and the ability to synchronize information between multiple devices seamlessly.
The term was first coined by MIT scientist David D. Clark. While both Microsoft's and Apple's former CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Jobs also predicted a shift towards mobile devices as the primary method of computing, as a complement to the PC, Jobs popularized the term "post-PC" in 2007 (the launch of the first iPhone), and in 2011 launched iCloud, a service enabling Apple's product line to synchronize data with PCs through cloud services, freeing their iOS devices from dependency on a PC.
Towards the middle of the 2010s, media sources began to question the existence of the post-PC era, at least as conventionally defined, stating that the so-called post-PC devices are just other portable forms of PCs joining traditional desktop PCs which still have their own operation areas and evolve. For example, gaming PCs are often considered still popular for many users.
History
The term "post PC" was first used by David D. Clark in 1999; considering the future of computing to be "inevitably heterogeneous" and a "network full of services". Clark described a world where "everything" would be able to connect to the internet (including watches and toasters), computing would primarily be done through information appliances, and data would be stored by centralized hosting services instead of on physical disks.
In a 1999 op-ed piece for Newsweek, Microsoft's CEO Bill Gates predicted a landscape he dubbed "PC Plus", where personal computers would be used alongside devices which would seamlessly synchronize data (such as calendar events, files, e-mails, etc.) from a PC for easier accessibility from where a user would need it. At Macworld Expo in 2001, not long after the dot-com bubble burst and amidst industry-wide angst over the future of the PC, Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs announced a strategy seeing a PC (specifically, the Macintosh) serving as a "digital hub" for future mobile devices (such as its iPod MP3 player). Jobs stated that "We don't think the PC is dying at all. We don't think the PC is moving from the center at all. We think it's evolving. Just like it has since it was invented in 1975 and '76."
At an interview alongside Bill Gates at the 5th All Things Digital conference in 2007, Steve Jobs further described a concept similar to Gates' "PC Plus" known as a "post-PC device"; "a category of devices that aren't as general purpose, that are really more focused on specific functions, whether they're phones or iPods or Zunes or wha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-League%20Fighting%20Soccer | is a Japan-exclusive soccer simulation video game for the Game Boy and Family Computer.
The Game Boy version (released almost 5 months before the start of the inaugural season of the J.League) was the first title officially licensed by the J.League.
See also
List of J.League licensed video games
References
External links
J-League Fighting Soccer at Giant Bomb
J-League Fighting Soccer (Game Boy) at GB no Game Seiha Shimasho
J-League Fighting Soccer (Game Boy) at GameFAQs
J-League Fighting Soccer (Family Computer) at GameFAQs
J-League Fighting Soccer at MobyGames
1992 video games
1993 video games
Information Global Service games
J.League licensed video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Game Boy games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Video games set in 1993
Sports video games set in Japan
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan
Graphic Research games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD%20Cryptographic%20Framework | The OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework (OCF) is a service virtualization layer for the uniform management of cryptographic hardware by an operating system. It is part of the OpenBSD Project, having been included in the operating system since OpenBSD 2.8 (December, 2000). Like other OpenBSD projects such as OpenSSH, it has been ported to other systems based on Berkeley Unix such as FreeBSD and NetBSD, and to Solaris and Linux. One of the Linux ports is supported by Intel for use with its proprietary cryptographic software and hardware to provide hardware-accelerated SSL encryption for the open source Apache HTTP Server.
Background
Cryptography is computationally intensive and is used in many different contexts. Software implementations often serve as a bottleneck to information flow or increase network latency. Specialist hardware such as cryptographic accelerators can mitigate the bottleneck problem by introducing parallelism. Certain kinds of hardware, hardware random number generators, can also produce randomness more reliably than a pseudo-random software algorithm by exploiting the entropy of natural events.
Unlike graphics applications such as games and film processing where similar hardware accelerators are in common use and have strong operating system support, the use of hardware in cryptography has had relatively low uptake. By the late 1990s, there was a need for a uniform operating system layer to mediate between cryptographic hardware and application software that used it. The lack of this layer led to the production of applications that were hard-coded to work with one or a very small range of cryptographic accelerators.
The OpenBSD Project, which has a history of integrating strong, carefully audited cryptography into its operating system's core, produced a framework for the provision of cryptographic hardware acceleration as an operating system service.
/dev/crypto
Application-level support is provided through the pseudo-device , which provides access to the hardware drivers through a standard ioctl interface. This simplifies the writing of applications and removes the need for the application programmer to understand the operational details of the actual hardware that will be used. was removed in OpenBSD 5.7, having been superseded by the suite of syscalls.
Implications for other subsystems
The OpenBSD implementation of IPsec, the packet-level encryption protocol, was altered so that packets can be decoded in batches, which improves throughput. One rationale for this is to maximize efficiency of hardware usage—larger batches reduce the bus transmission overhead—but in practice the IPsec developers have found that this strategy improves the efficiency even of software implementations.
Many Intel firmware hubs on i386 motherboards provide a hardware random number generator, and where possible this facility is used to provide entropy in IPsec.
Because OpenSSL uses the OCF, systems with hardware that supports the RSA, DH, or DS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD%20Livebox | The AMD LiveBox is an announced mini-desktop computer that was revealed at Computex 2012. It features a 1 GHz AMD C-60 processor, 1 GB of RAM, a Samsung 64 GB SSD, and Radeon 6200 graphics. With respect to connectivity, it will come with two USB 2.0 ports, a Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI, SD card slot, SIM slot (with support for quad band 3G) and Bluetooth 4.0. There will be no need for any external power brick to power this device as it has its own built in power adapter. There is no WI-FI connectivity in the currently announced model and it is unknown whether there will be a version with such capabilities. It is comparable in size, usability and design as the Intel NUC. There has been no price or release date on the system, and no further details released on the topic. It is uncommon to see such a product being produced by AMD since the company hasn't played much of a role in the mini desktop scene.
Since it is using an x86 based chip, it is capable of running Windows 7 which is also the operating system that it will come preinstalled with. It will also be able to support users wanting to upgrade to Windows 8 without any problems.
Practical uses
The AMD LiveBox, with its small form factor, is being pushed towards basic users and the company also hopes it will grow adoption within school computer labs. It also has the capabilities of being an HTPC (Home theater PC) with its small form factor, HDMI out and the ability to run Windows OS as well as any other x86 based OS. With its small form factor and ease the ability to easily set it up, it will also work very well for developers as a machine to develop and test on.
Reception
Many people are happy and excited for the device to be released, however consumers are worried about the price that it will be released for. Users believe that having Windows coming preinstalled on the device will unnecessarily raise the price of the product. Since the device is a great device to be used as an HTPC many consumers want a version without Windows preinstalled so the price will be lower and they can install Ubuntu or XBMC on it to use as a home media device.
References
External links
ChipLoco
Engadget
Computers
AMD products |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian%20Research%20Institute%20for%20Artificial%20Intelligence | The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (German: Österreichisches Forschungsinstitut für Artificial Intelligence - OFAI) is an Austrian non-profit contract research institute. OFAI is a research institute of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies (Österreichische Studiengesellschaft fuer Kybernetik - OSGK), a registered scientific society founded in 1969.
History
The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence was founded in 1984 with support from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research. Since its inception, OFAI has been headed by its director, Prof. Robert Trappl.
Research
Currently, 28 specialists, mainly computer scientists and linguists, all graduates from universities, work as employees at OFAI, plus 9 scientists, mainly professors at universities, on a contractual base. OFAI basic and applied research is performed in several areas of Artificial Intelligence, most notably:
Language Technology
Interaction Technologies
Neural Computation and Robotics
Intelligent Music Processing and Machine Learning
Intelligent Software Agents and New Media
AI and Society.
External links
Official website of the institute
References
Research institutes in Austria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Asha%20311 | The Nokia Asha 311 is a "Full Touch" smartphone powered by Nokia's Series 40 operating system. It was announced at Bangkok by Nokia along with two others Asha Full Touch phones - the Nokia Asha 305 and 306. The 311 is considered to be the flagship of the Asha Full Touch family. Its main features are the Full Touch capacitive touchscreen, the pentaband 3G radio, SIP VoIP over 3G and Wi-Fi and the ability to play games. Nokia Asha 311 is available in a number of languages depending on which territory it is marketed for.
History and availability
The Nokia Asha 311 was announced at Bangkok by Nokia. It was made available 3Q in 2012 globally. The phone was sold at a price of €92 subject to taxes and subsidies.
See also
List of Nokia products
Comparison of smartphones
References
External links
Press Release
Device specifications
Nokia smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%20M.%20Ramsay | Allan M. Ramsay is a Professor of Formal Linguistics in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester.
Education
Ramsay's undergraduate degree was in Logic and Mathematics from the University of Sussex. After completing a Master of Science degree in Logic from the University of London, he returned to Sussex to complete a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. Prior to working at UMIST and the University of Manchester, he was Professor of Artificial Intelligence at University College Dublin.
Research
Ramsay's research focuses on Natural language processing, including morphology and syntax. He has published papers on the analysis of free word order languages, particularly morphology of the Arabic language, which poses a number of specific problems. Some of this research has been funded by the EPSRC.
References
Academics of the University of Manchester
People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Linguists from England
Living people
Alumni of the University of London
Alumni of the University of Sussex
1953 births
Natural language processing researchers
Computational linguistics researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETILive | SETILive was an online project of Zooniverse that utilized live participants to analyze radio telescope data in real time to recognize patterns to find extraterrestrial intelligences (ETI's). The project ceased live operations on 12 October 2014, but still allows archival analysis.
Project
The project was launched in February 2012 as part of Jill Tarter's 2009 TED Prize Wish. SETILive uses data provided by the Allen Telescope Array and presents it visually so that the public can collectively search for radio signals. The project focuses on radio frequencies that automated detection systems ignore due to the prevalence of man-made noise. Jill Tarter hopes that human analysts will be able to detect low signal-to-noise transmissions which confuse computers. The telescope scans the zone between a known star and a known planet where liquid water is possible. This is called the habitable zone. The website displays one to three different scans of an area of space. Its energy is measured and put into a waterfall display. Users must identify the areas of high energy—signals—by making two points through which a line is drawn. Users classify signals as: broken, continuous, or parallel. Users then must classify the signal as: erratic, wide, or narrow. Many of the signals are just satellites that give off energy.
Decoys
The makers of SETILive intentionally put some false positives in. Sometimes, when a user clicks "done", a red line would identify the simulated ETI signal.
See also
Drake equation
Radio astronomy
SETI
Zooniverse projects:
References
External links
Search for extraterrestrial intelligence
Astronomy websites
Astronomy projects
Human-based computation
Citizen science
Internet properties established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Pera | Robert J. Pera (born March 10, 1978) is the founder of Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. a global communications technology company that Pera took public in 2011. In October 2012, Pera also became the owner of the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association. At the age of 36, Pera earned a spot on Forbes list of the 10 youngest billionaires in the world.
Early life and education
Pera established his first computer services company while attending high school. That company provided networking and database services to local businesses. Pera also played on his high school's basketball team until a heart condition, which has long since been resolved, kept him home for a year. After high school, Pera attended the University of California, San Diego, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and a B.A. in Japanese Language. He stayed on at UC San Diego and completed his master's in electrical engineering with an emphasis on Digital Communications and Circuit Design.
Career
Apple
After graduation, Pera, who admired Steve Jobs, secured a job at Apple Inc., where he tested the company's Wi-Fi devices to ensure compliance with Federal Communications Commission standards for electromagnetic emissions. While working at Apple, Pera noticed that the power sources that Apple's Wi-Fi devices used to throw signals were far below FCC limits. Boosting their power, he reasoned, could increase their transmission range to over dozens of miles, which could facilitate Internet access in areas that telephone and cable companies do not reach. When his bosses at Apple ignored his idea, Pera decided to build his own low-cost, high-performance Wi-Fi module. For the next year, Pera spent his nights and weekends in his apartment testing prototypes. By early 2005 he was ready to start his own business and he left Apple to form Ubiquiti Networks.
Ubiquiti Networks
Pera founded Ubiquiti Networks in March 2005 using $30,000 of personal savings and credit card debt. Ubiquiti's early products utilized existing Wi-Fi technology to wirelessly deliver the Internet to underserved areas (e.g., rural areas and emerging markets) lacking the infrastructure to access the Internet through traditional avenues such as phone lines and cable lines. The company has since successfully branched out into other product lines such as wireless access points, security cameras and traditional networking equipment (e.g., switches and routers).
Memphis Grizzlies
On June 11, 2012, sources told ESPN.com that Michael Heisley had an agreement in principle to sell the Memphis Grizzlies to Robert Pera. The official sale of the Memphis Grizzlies to Pera was approved on October 25, 2012. The Grizzlies made the NBA playoffs in the two seasons before Pera purchased the team and made the playoffs during the first five seasons of his tenure as owner. In the first year of Pera's ownership, the Grizzlies won a club record 56 games and made its first-ever appearance in the Western Con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20paintings%20by%20%C3%89douard%20Manet | This is a list of some of the more well-known paintings of French artist Édouard Manet (1832–1883).
List
External links
Manet overview pages at museum web sites with collection databases:
Art Institute of Chicago
Barnes Foundation
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo
Foundation E.G. Bührle
Guggenheim
J. Paul Getty Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Musee d'Orsay
Museu de Arte de São Paulo
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Gallery, London
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Victoria
National Museum Cardiff
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Google Art Project
Manet, Edouard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RailNetEurope | RailNetEurope (RNE) is a non-profit organization working to increase the accessibility, quality and efficiency of the European rail network throughout Europe. There are currently 37 and/or who are members of RNE.
History
RailNetEurope was founded in January 2004. Its first accomplishment was the launch and the signing of a co-operation agreement on joint marketing of international freight train paths at InnoTrans in Berlin in September 2002.
Aims
The aim of the association is to provide support to Railway Undertakings (RUs) in their international activities (both for freight and passengers) and to increase the efficiency of the Infrastructure Managers’ processes.
Members of RailNetEurope are working on the harmonization of international rail transport conditions and procedures in the field of international rail infrastructure management, whilst introducing a corporate approach to promote the European railway business for the benefit of the entire rail industry across Europe.
One-Stop-Shop principle
RNE members strive to act as a single European Rail Infrastructure Company in the field of international rail traffic. This is embedded in the One-Stop-Shop (OSS) principle, whereby various international products and services are handled at a single point of contact for the entire international route. Thus, RNE has established a network of OSS representatives, one for each rail infrastructure, who are the personal contact points for all customer care issues.
Tasks
The tasks of the organization are carried out by standing working groups and ad hoc project groups coordinated by the RNE Joint Office, which is based in Vienna, Austria.
RNE provides support to its members as regards compliance with the European legal framework. A good example of this is the development of harmonized international processes, templates and guidelines. Many of these services can now assist the IMs with fulfilling requirements imposed by a new European Union Regulation: Regulation (EU) No 913/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2010 concerning a European rail network for competitive freight. Thus, the RNE General Assembly decided that RNE should become ‘the service provider of choice and expert support provider for Freight Corridor Organizations in the areas of developing methods and processes and developing and operating tools. In its daily work, the association strives to simplify, harmonies and optimize international rail processes such as:
- Europe-wide timetabling,
- common sales approaches (including annual Network Statements published by rail Infrastructure Managers),
- co-operation between IMs in the field of operations,
- train information exchange in real time across Europe's borders (e.g. monitoring of train movements),
- after-sales services (e.g. reporting on train movements, including delays).
Members and network
When RailNetEurope was launched in January 2004, it had 16 founding members. RNE currently counts 37 full |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manouba%20University | Manouba University is a public university in Manouba, Tunisia.
Organization
National School of Computer Sciences
Higher Institute of Multimedia Arts of Manouba
Press and Information Sciences Institute
Business School of Tunis
National School of Computer Sciences
The National School of Computer Sciences () or ENSI, is an engineering school founded in 1984.
References
External links
Official website
National School of Computer Sciences
Universities in Tunisia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextualization%20%28computer%20science%29 | In computer science, contextualization is the process of identifying the data relevant to an entity (e.g., a person or a city) based on the entity's contextual information.
Definition
Context or contextual information is any information about any entity that can be used to effectively reduce the amount of reasoning required (via filtering, aggregation, and inference) for decision making within the scope of a specific application. Contextualisation is then the process of identifying the data relevant to an entity based on the entity's contextual information. Contextualisation excludes irrelevant data from consideration and has the potential to reduce data from several aspects including volume, velocity, and variety in large-scale data intensive applications (Yavari et al.).
Usage
The main usage of "contextualisation" is in improving the process of data:
Reduce the amount of data: Contextualisation has the potential to reduce the amount of data based on the interests from applications/services/users. Contextualisation can improve the scalability and efficiency of data process, query, delivery by excluding irrelevant data.
As an example, ConTaaS facilitates contextualisation of the data for IoT applications and could improve the processing for large-scale IoT applications from various Big Data aspects including volume, velocity, and variety.
Example domains
Object-oriented programming: Contextualization consists, at object creation time, to provide adequate initialization parameters to a class constructor.
Virtualization: Contextualization permits, at the end of VM instantiation, to set or override VM data having unknown or default values at the time of creation of the Live CD, typically hostname, IP address, .ssh/authorized_keys, ...
References
Computing terminology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calymene%20tristani | Calymene tristani is a trilobite belonging to the order Phacopida family Calymene. These trilobites lived in the Ordovician and Silurian periods.
References
Paleobiology Database
Sepkoski, Jack Sepkoski's Online Genus Database
Organism Names
C. tristani at Neosci-gw.museum
Calymenidae
Ordovician England
Silurian England
Fossils of England
Fossils of Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%206 | iOS 6 is the sixth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc, being the successor to iOS 5. It was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 11, 2012, and was released on September 19, 2012. It was succeeded by iOS 7 on September 18, 2013.
iOS 6 added a new Apple Maps app, replacing Google Maps as the default mapping service for the operating system; a dedicated Podcasts app, as a central location for podcasts; and a Passbook app, for managing different types of tickets, boarding passes, coupons, and loyalty cards. The App Store received a visual overhaul, bringing a card-based app layout as well as tweaks to search algorithms. Facebook was integrated into the operating system, incorporating status messages, like buttons, and contact and event synchronization to several of Apple's apps. New privacy controls allow users more fine-grained app permissions, as well as an option to prevent targeted advertising. Siri was added to more devices, and updated with more functionality, including the ability to make restaurant reservations, launch apps, retrieve movie reviews and sports statistics, and read items from the Notification Center.
Reception of iOS 6 was positive. Critics noted that the operating system did not offer any significant speed improvements or major redesigned elements, but instead focused on refinements, with a general consensus that Apple "isn't overhauling things for the sake of it." iOS 6 didn't "completely change the way you use your device," but "each of the tweaks will make many daily smartphone actions easier across the board," and critics noted that refinement of "something that already works extremely well" is "something other companies would do well to emulate."
The release of Apple Maps, however, attracted significant criticism, due to inaccurate or incomplete data. The issues prompted an open letter of apology from Apple CEO Tim Cook. Scott Forstall, who had supervised iOS development since its inception, announced his departure from the company shortly after the release of iOS 6.
iOS 6 is the last version of iOS that supports the iPhone 3GS and fourth-generation iPod Touch as its successor, iOS 7, drops support for both models.
History
iOS 6 was introduced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference on June 11, 2012.
iOS 6 was officially released on September 19, 2012.
System features
Siri
Apple's Siri intelligent personal assistant, introduced in iOS 5 with the release of the iPhone 4S, was updated to include the ability to make restaurant reservations, launch apps, read items from Notification Center, dictate Facebook and Twitter updates, retrieve movie reviews, detailed sports statistics, and more.
Siri received language support for Italian, Korean, and Cantonese, and device support for iPhone 5, fifth-generation iPod Touch, and third-generation iPad.
In iOS 6.1, Siri was integrated with Fandango, allowing users to buy film tickets by voice. The feature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Mayadeen | Al Mayadeen (Arabic: الميادين; The Plazas) is a pan-Arabist satellite news television channel launched on 11 June 2012 in Beirut, Lebanon. Its programming is predominantly news. It has news reporters in most Arab countries. In the pan-Arab TV news market, it competes against Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya, and also against Sky News Arabia and BBC Arabic Television. At its founding in 2012, many of Al Mayadeen's senior staff were former correspondents and editors of Al Jazeera. Al Mayadeen is viewed as pro-Hezbollah and pro-Syrian government.
The channel is part of Al Mayadeen satellite media network, including a production company, a radio station, a website of Arabic, English and Spanish editions, an advertising company and other media-related projects. Besides the headquarters in Beirut, Al Mayadeen has a news network and three regional offices, one in Tunisia, another in Cairo with three reporters and a big studio, and a third in Tehran.
Staff
Ghassan bin Jiddo is the head of the board of directors and program director of the channel. He is the former head of Al Jazeera's Iran and Beirut offices and a former talk show host in the channel. He resigned from the Qatar-based Al Jazeera in 2011, criticizing its reporting of the Syrian civil war. Jiddo seemingly accused Al Jazeera of deviating from "professional broadcasting standards", emphasizing that Al Mayadeen would remain objective and unbiased. Nayef Krayem, the owner of the Lebanon-based Al Ittihad TV and former director of the Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar, was designated as the general manager of the channel, but he resigned one month before its launch.
The staff of the channel include Lebanese journalists such as Sami Kulaib, Ali Hashem, the former Al Jazeera war correspondent, who said he resigned from the channel because it refused to broadcast footage of militants on the Lebanese Syrian borders in the early days of the Syrian uprising, Zahi Wehbe, Lina Zahreddine, Lana Mudawwar, Muhammad Alloush, Ahmad Abu Ali and Dina Zarkat. Two Syrian journalists, Ramia Ibrahim and Futoun Abbasi, and two Palestinian journalists Kamal Khalaf and Ahmad Sobh as well as Yemeni Mona Safwan are also among its staff. Like Jiddo, most of the channel's staff are former Al Jazeera correspondents and editors.
George Galloway, a former British MP, was a presenter for the channel. He was paid £18,000 for the first four months of 2014, for hosting two programmes a month in Beirut. He continued to present for the station in 2016 and 2017.
The channel has a network of reporters in Palestine (specifically, in Gaza and Ramallah) and also, in Jerusalem. Their task is reported to provide the channel with a daily news section in the news broadcast entitled "A Window into Palestine". In addition, there are reporters of the channel in Amman, Tripoli, Rabat, Khartoum, Mauritania and Comoros. The correspondent of the channel in Damascus was withdrawn in April 2014.
Omar Abdel Qader, a Syrian cameraman working for Al Mayade |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran%20Samanalayo | Ran Samanalayo (Sinhala: රන් සමනළයෝ) is a Sri Lankan television drama broadcast by Independent Television Network. The series first aired on 8 June 2011 and concluded on 25 May 2012. This is a mega hit of Sandaruwan Jayawickrama after Sulanga. Ran Samanalayo has been rated by many surveys as the most popular teledrama at 8:00pm. Actor Saranga Disasekara was awarded as the most popular actor of the year 2011 at Raigam Tele'es for his acting in this teledrama. Ran Samanalayo is special for its attractive color combination of costumes and other relevant things.
Story
Samanali, an innocent beautiful girl in her twenties works as a dancing teacher of a convent. She lives with her mother and grandmother. Her grandmother always accuses Samanali's mother due to a past incident. So Samanali is worrying about that and also she thinks that she has a big responsibility of her mother's and grandmother's lives. So she is living a strict life and she hasn't had any close relationship with a boy.
But Sihina is a rich handsome boy, enjoying his life freely. He just came back from abroad after completing his studies. Meanwhile, the convent, where Samanali works is going to organize a concert. So teachers have a tough time to get ready for that and they also try to find a sponsor in order to get a financial support. Then Sihina comes forward to take that responsibility. One day he comes to the convent for that matter. He accidentally sees Samanali and falls in love from the first sight. This is the start of the story.
Cast and characters
Pubudu Chathuranga as Sihina
Asha Edirisinghe as Samanali
Roshan Ranawana as Deneth
Saranga Disasekara as Nilanga
Sachini Ayendra as Menuka aka Menu
Mihira Sirithilaka as Chethiya
Robin Fernando as Devanarayana aka Deva
Sriyani Amarasena as Vinitha
Janak Premalal as Prem
Sajeewa Malmarachchi as Seththi
Thushara Jayasuriya as Wicky
Seetha Kumari
Music
Theme Song: Thurul Wenna Asai Hendewe by Bathiya and Santhush
Awards
Most popular actor of the year 2011 (Raigam Tele'es): Saranga Disasekara
Songs
Sundarai Aththamai Jeewithe Oba Thamai
Eka Malakwath Suwanda Na Oba Tharam
See also
Independent Television Network
Bonda Meedum (Teledrama)
References
External links
Official website
Facebook (Ran Samanalayo – Teledrama)
YouTube (Ran Samanalayo – Theme Song (Thurul wenna asai handawe...))
ITN glitters at the Raigam Tele’es again winning the highest number of Awards
Sri Lankan television shows
Sri Lankan drama television series
2011 Sri Lankan television series debuts
2012 Sri Lankan television series endings
2010s Sri Lankan television series
Independent Television Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consejo%20de%20Salud%20Rural%20Andino | Consejo de Salud Rural Andino (CSRA) is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that specializes in administering health networks and it offers services in designing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating health projects with a community-based model. CSRA was established in 1983 by its parent organization, then known as Andean Rural Health Care in the United States and now known as Curamericas Global, Inc. Curamericas Global was founded in 1983 by Duke University and Johns Hopkins University graduate Henry Perry III, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H. and Alice Weldon, Ph.D. The organization's work was initially based in Bolivia and has since expanded its services to Haiti, Liberia and Guatemala. Currently, Consejo de Salud Rural Andino in Bolivia has its headquarters in the city of La Paz, a regional office in El Alto, and a regional office in the city of Montero.
Curamericas Global and CSRA are known for their development of the Census-Based, Impact-Oriented Methodology. The CBIO is a community-based primary health care model that allows to better understand, effectively treat and accurately measure outcomes and impacts for the most common found causes of unnecessary suffering, sickness, including mortality reduction using census information and having collaboration from the community. CBIO implementation will first identify the entire programme population through visits at least biannually to all homes and then target selected high-impact services to those at highest risk of death. The CBIO approach incorporates:
A community census of households and a health assessment of the project area, a drawing of maps and numbering of households, and the development of a program plan with community members that includes both epidemiologically driven health objectives as well as community perceived health priorities.
Native doctors, nurses, community health workers, and volunteers then conduct regularly scheduled home visits to targeted households whose census information reveals a high risk of illness or death. During these home visits, health knowledge and practices are measured and vital events are recorded so that families’ illnesses, health experiences, deaths, births, and migrations are tracked. This information is entered into a health information system so; program interventions can be measured and then analyzed with the participation of local people and leaders of the community.
Recent papers describe the Implementation of the CBIO approach over the last three decades in Bolivia and present evidence of program effectiveness, including long-term trends in child and maternal mortality.
A comprehensive Primary Health Care (PHC) program that incorporates principles of the CBIO approach has achieved near-universal coverage of key child survival interventions and achieved levels of child and maternal mortality comparable to those in the United States. The CSRA/Montero, Bolivia Comprehensive PHC Program is now also addressing non-communicable diseases. Com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20Global%20Network%20for%20Reproductive%20Rights | Women's Global Network for Reproductive Rights (WGNRR) is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) that advocates for sexual and reproductive health and rights worldwide. Based in the Global South, they are a membership-driven organization that "works within the rights, justice and feminist frameworks." WGNRR works towards the realization of the full sexual and reproductive health and rights. WGNRR has consultative status with ECOSOC.
History
WGNRR was founded at the fourth International Women and Health Meeting in 1984. The conference was themed "No to Population Control... Women Decide!" and saw the formation of other important international networks including Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) and Latin American Women and Health Network. In 1987, at another IWHM conference, WGNRR partnered with the Latin America and Caribbean Women's Health Network to launch a campaign addressing maternal mortality and declared May 28 the International Day of Action for Women's Health.
WGNRR was an active participant in the International Conference "Reinforcing Reproductive Rights", held in Madras, India, in 1993. It was this year that WGNRR began campaigning for safe and legal abortion. WGNRR's position on abortion was critical during the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in 1994. According to their website, "WGNRR was part of a coalition – the Women’s Alliance – to ensure that women’s voices were heard and represented at the conference. that protested the population control theories that abounded at the time. WGNRR was also involved in workshops protesting the use of anti-fertility "vaccines". WGNRR's support of the ICPD's inclusion of right to access of safe abortion was still tempered by its concern over the language and the fear of the misuse of such a document by proponents of coerced population control."
In 1995, WGNRR undertook campaigns to address the feminisation of poverty and was an active participant in the development of the Programme of Action for the Women’s World Conference in Beijing. Following the Cairo Consensus, WGNRR held a 1996 Regional Members' Meeting in Amsterdam. Between 2003 and 2007, WGNRR collaborated with the People’s Health Movement on the Women’s Access to Health campaign. WGNRR then relocated its main office to the Global South and by 2009, the main office was transferred from the Netherlands to the Philippines.
Key areas
Access to safe and legal abortion
Access to contraceptives
abortion rights advocacy
Youth sexual and reproductive health rights
Women's sexual and reproductive health rights
Sexual rights for all people
Campaigns
WGNRR has facilitated several international campaigns on a wide range of issues including maternal mortality and morbidity, poverty, forced sterilization and the sexual and reproductive rights of youth. Since its inception, WGNRR has used "Calls for Action" to mobilize members. WGNRR's two primary campaigns are the International Day of Act |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity%20Desktop%20Environment | The Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) is a complete software desktop environment designed for Linux and Unix-like operating systems, intended for computer users preferring a traditional desktop model, and is free/libre software. Born as a fork of KDE 3.5 in 2010, it was originally created by Timothy Pearson, who had coordinated Kubuntu remixes featuring KDE 3.5 after Kubuntu switched to KDE Plasma 4.
TDE is now a fully independent project with its own personality and development team, available for various Linux distros, BSD and DilOS. It is currently led by Slávek Banko.
TDE releases aims to provide a stable and highly customizable desktop, continuing bug fixes, additional features, and compatibility with recent hardware. Trinity is packaged for Debian, Ubuntu, Devuan, Raspberry Pi OS, Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Mageia, OpenSUSE, Slackware and various other distributions and architectures. It is also used as the default desktop environment of at least two Linux distributions, Q4OS and Exe GNU/Linux. Since version 3.5.12 (its second official release), it uses its own fork of Qt3, known as TQt3, so as to make it easier to eventually make TQt installable alongside later Qt releases.
Releases
Early releases of Trinity used a versioning scheme based on that of K Desktop Environment 3.5, from which it was forked. The R14.0 release adopted a new versioning scheme, to prevent comparisons with KDE based on version number alone and a new visual theme. This new visual theme was based on the "KDE Lineart" background included in the wallpapers package for KDE 3.4 and covered the desktop background and was named "Trinity Lineart" along with the splash screen, "application info screens" (for some apps like Konqueror and Trinity Control Center), and banners (for some other apps like KPersonalizer and Kate). The window, widget, and icon themes were left intact, aside from replacing all KDE logos with Trinity logos.
Prior to this, Trinity kept the KDE 3.5 visual theme, but replaced the "KDE 3.5" branding with "TDE" branding, in a font that is not the "Kabel Book" font KDE used, although the K-Menu had its side image branded as just "Trinity" instead of "TDE". Kubuntu versions, on the other hand, used the included "Crystal Fire" background as the default desktop background, along with the K-Menu "side image", larger menu items, and menu layout from Kubuntu 8.04.
History
References
External links
git repository for viewers
git repository for developers
KDE
Free desktop environments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPN%20USA | RPN USA is a Filipino satellite television International channel owned by Radio Philippines Network and Nine Media Corporation in partnership with Glocal Media. The channel offers a variety mix of programming, from CNN Philippines. including classic original programming from RPN as well as programming from CLTV 36.
RPN USA is available for Dish Network subscribers in the United States.
See also
Radio Philippines Network
CNN Philippines
CLTV 36
Nine Media Corporation
Overseas Filipino
Filipino American
References
External links
RPN USA Schedule
RPN USA Station ID on YouTube
Television networks in the United States
Radio Philippines Network
Filipino-American culture
Television channels and stations established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner%20Witcoff | Banner Witcoff, Ltd. is an American law firm that specializes in the practice of intellectual property law, including patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, computer franchise and unfair competition law. The firm engages in the procurement, enforcement and litigation of intellectual property rights throughout the world, including all federal and state agencies, and the distribution of such rights through leasing and franchising. The firm has approximately 125 attorneys and agents in its Chicago, IL; Washington, DC; Boston, MA; and Portland, OR offices.
History
Banner Witcoff traces its history from 1920, in Des Moines, Iowa. The company's name was chosen when two regional intellectual property law firms, Allegretti & Witcoff and Banner, Birch, McKie & Beckett, joined forces to create a national firm. The firm opened the Chicago office of Banner & Witcoff in 1937. Subsequent offices were opened in Washington, DC (1960), Boston, MA (1985) and Portland, OR (1997).
In 2021, the firm announced the election of firm president, Binal Patel.
Diversity
The firm has offered the Donald W. Banner Diversity Scholarship for Law Students annually since 2008.
Practice Groups
It has groups specializing in practicing:
copyrights,
design patents,
jury trials,
licensing,
litigation,
patent prosecution,
trademarks, and
trade secrets.
Notable cases
Banner Witcoff has represented clients in landmark intellectual property law cases, including New York Times Co. v. Tasini and Diamond v. Chakrabarty.
New York Times Co. v. Tasini (2001) is a leading decision by the United States Supreme Court on the issue of copyright in the content of a newspaper database. Tasini held that The New York Times could not license articles appearing in the newspaper that were written by freelance journalists. Justice Ginsburg wrote the 7–2 ruling in favor of the freelance writers, who were represented by Banner & Witcoff.
In Diamond v. Chakrabarty (1980) the U.S. Supreme Court held for the first time that a living, genetically-altered microorganism constituted patentable subject matter. The Chakrabarty decision spurred new interest in patents, particularly in the then-nascent biotechnology industry. Diamond v. Chakrabarty was a pivotal decision that has led to numerous breakthroughs in medical therapies, the development of bioengineered plants and food, and the issuance of thousands of patents. Banner & Witcoff was one of several law firms representing Chakrabarty.
Notable attorneys and alumni
Donald W. Banner, a founding member of Banner Witcoff, former U.S. Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks, former Chair of the American Bar Association Section of IP Law, former President of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, former President of the International Patent and Trademark Association, Co-founder and President of the Intellectual Property Owners Association, United States delegate to numerous international diplomatic conferences. He was the first American to rec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Gold | Mark Gold is the name of:
Mark Gold, English animal rights and vegetarianism activist and writer
Mark S. Gold, American medical researcher
E. Mark Gold, American physicist, mathematician and computer scientist
Mark Gold, a character in the film 17 Again
See also
Gold mark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello%20Pro%21%20Time | was a weekly Japanese TV show featuring Hello! Project members. The series was broadcast on TV Tokyo network and BS-JAPAN from 21 April 2011 to 31 May 2012.
Network & on-air time
TV Tokyo (Kantou area and the Eastern district of Shizuoka Prefecture) - Friday 1:00-1:30 (JST)
Satellite Broadcasting - Saturday 9:30-10:00 (1 day delay)
Shiga prefecture area - Tuesday 18:25-18:55 (19 days delay)
Fukuoka prefecture area - Sunday 6:30-7:00 (17 days delay)
External links
Japanese variety television shows
TV Tokyo original programming
2011 Japanese television series debuts
2012 Japanese television series endings
Hello! Project |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous%20deployment | Continuous deployment (CD) is a software engineering approach in which software functionalities are delivered frequently and through automated deployments.
Continuous deployment contrasts with continuous delivery (also abbreviated CD), a similar approach in which software functionalities are also frequently delivered and deemed to be potentially capable of being deployed, but are actually not deployed. As such, continuous deployment can be viewed as a more complete form of automation than continuous delivery.
Motivation
A major motivation for continuous deployment is that deploying software into the field more often makes it easier to find, catch, and fix bugs. A bug is easier to fix when it comes from code deployed five minutes ago instead of five days ago.
Example
In an environment in which data-centric microservices provide the functionality, and where the microservices can have multiple instances, continuous deployment consists of instantiating the new version of a microservice and retiring the old version once it has drained all the requests in flight.
See also
CI/CD, the combined practices of either (more often) continuous integration and continuous delivery, or (less often) continuous integration and continuous deployment
Canary release
Blue–green deployment
References
Software development process
Software release |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Myspace | The social networking service Myspace was among the most popular web sites in the 2000s decade. It has faced criticism on a variety of fronts, including for a massive redesign of the site in 2012 which occurred after the majority of original users had abandoned the website, misuse of the platform for cyber-bullying and harassment, risks for users' privacy, and major data losses.
Accessibility and reliability
Because most Myspace pages are designed by individuals with little HTML experience, a very large proportion of pages do not satisfy the criteria for valid HTML or CSS laid down by the W3C. Poorly formatted code can cause accessibility problems for those using software such as screen readers. The Myspace home page, as of May 20, 2009, failed HTML validation with around 101 errors (the number changes on sequential validations of the home page due to dynamic content), using the W3C's validator.
Furthermore, Myspace is set up so that anyone can customize the layout and colors of their profile page with virtually no restrictions, provided that the advertisements are not covered up by CSS or using other means. As Myspace users are usually not skilled web developers, this can cause further problems. Poorly constructed Myspace profiles could potentially freeze up web browsers due to malformed CSS coding, or as a result of users placing many high bandwidth objects such as videos, graphics, and Flash in their profiles (sometimes multiple videos and sound files are automatically played at the same time when a profile loads). While Myspace blocks potentially harmful code (such as JavaScript) from profiles, users have occasionally found ways to insert such code. PC World cited this as its main reason for naming Myspace as #1 in its list of twenty-five worst web sites ever.
Data loss
The website has experienced three major data losses: the removal of users' fans in early 2013, the unannounced removal of user blogs and private messages and videos in June 2013, and the loss of all music uploaded before 2016 which occurred in late 2017 or early 2018 and was widely reported in March 2019. More than fifty million music tracks were lost. After users started reporting music being unplayable, the MySpace developers initially reported trying to repair the problem, but later acknowledged that it was not possible. It was speculated that the data was deleted deliberately for economic reasons, and made to look accidental.
Security
In October 2005, a flaw in MySpace's site design was exploited by "Samy" to create the first self-propagating cross-site scripting (XSS) worm. MSNBC has reported that "social-networking sites like Myspace are turning out to be hotbeds for spyware," and "infection rates are on the rise, in part thanks to the surging popularity of social-networking sites like MySpace.com." In addition to this, the customization of user pages currently allows the injection of certain HTML which can be crafted to form a phishing user profile, thus keeping th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibSBML | LibSBML is an open-source software library that provides an application programming interface (API) for the SBML (Systems Biology Markup Language ) format. The libSBML library can be embedded in a software application or used in a web servlet (such as one that might be served by Apache Tomcat) as part of the application or servlet's implementation of support for reading, writing, and manipulating SBML documents and data streams. The core of libSBML is written in ISO standard C++; the library provides API for many programming languages via interfaces generated with the help of SWIG.
The libSBML library is free software released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or any later version. LibSBML was developed thanks to funding from many agencies, particularly the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS, USA) as well as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, USA) under the Bio-SPICE program.
Description
The Systems Biology Markup Language (SBML) is an XML-based format for encoding computational models of a sort common in systems biology. Although SBML is based upon XML, and thus software developers could support SBML using off-the-shelf XML parser libraries, libSBML offers numerous advantages that make it easier for developers to implement support for SBML in their software. The premise behind the development of libSBML is that it is more convenient and efficient for developers to start with a higher-level API tailored specifically to SBML and its distinctive features than it is to start with a plain XML parser library.
Significant features of libSBML
The following is a partial list of libSBML's features:
Supports all Levels and Versions of SBML with common API classes and methods, thus smoothing the differences between different flavors of SBML from the perspective of the application software.
Provides facilities for manipulating mathematical formulas in both text-string format and MathML 2.0 format, as well as the ability to interconvert mathematical expressions between these forms. Internally, libSBML uses familiar Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs) to represent formulas, and provides AST-oriented methods for calling applications.
Performs validation of XML and SBML at the time of parsing files and data streams. This helps verify the correctness of models in a way that goes beyond simple syntactic validation.
Offers support for dimensional analysis and unit checking. LibSBML implements a thorough system for dimensional analysis and checking units of quantities in a model.
Provides facilities for the creation and manipulation of SBML annotations and notes. These have a specific format dictated by the SBML specifications. The formats and standards supported by libSBML include MIRIAM (Minimal Information Requested in the Annotation of a Model) and SBO (the Systems Biology Ontology).
Supports transparently r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Malta%20national%20rugby%20union%20team%20test%20matches | A list of all international Tests played by the Malta national rugby union team. All data taken from maltarugby.com.
Rugby union in Malta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University%20of%20Freiburg%20Faculty%20of%20Biology | The Faculty of Biology is one of the eleven faculties of the University of Freiburg in Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is part of a strong life sciences network including institutions such as the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, the Bernstein Center Freiburg (BCF), the Center for Applied Biosciences (Zentrum für angewandte Biowissenschaften, ZAB) and the Center for Biological Systems Analysis (Zentrum für Biosystemanalyse, ZBSA), which started operations in 2008 as offspring of the Freiburg Initiative for Systems Biology (FRISYS), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
History
The faculty of biology began to develop in 1960, when Friedrich Oehlkers forwarded the ordinary of botany to Hans Mohr and Bernhard Hassenstein took the chair of Zoology as successor of Otto Koehler. Back then, the department of biology was still part of the Naturwissenschaftlich-Mathematische Fakultät (faculty of natural sciences and mathematics), which had been established in 1767. In 1963 and 1964, the “second generation” of ordinaries – Bresch (genetics), Drews (microbiology), Grisebach (biochemistry) and Sander (developmental biology of animals) – joined the founding fathers Mohr and Hassenstein. The “third generation” with the ordinaries Elster (limnology), Hertel (molecular biology), Osche (ecology and evolutionary biology of animals), Sitte (cellular biology), Spatz (biophysics) and the female professor Otti Wilmanns (geobotany) followed between 1967 and 1969. Within hardly one decade, the department of biology had become a subject with twelve fields, making the establishment of an “own” faculty in compliance with a new constitution of the university in the year of 1970 a logical consequence.
Faculty today
In 2008 (German Wintersemester 2008/2009), teaching courses have been reorganized according to the Bologna Agreement, replacing the original German diploma with the Bachelor-Master-System. Currently, the faculty offers a Bachelor's course in biology and two different Master courses: the Master of Science in biology and the Master of Science in Bioinformatics and Systems biology. The trinational, trilingual biotechnology program offered at the École supérieure de biotechnologie Strasbourg (ESBS) is also partially funded by, and held at, the University of Freiburg faculty of biology.
More than 1300 students are currently enrolled (as of 2011), among those about 300 in the old diploma program, 400 in the bachelor program and 350 in the German Lehramt-program (Staatsexamen).
Excellence
In 2010 the faculty was ranked in the "Excellence Group" for "biology, chemistry and mathematics" and among Germany's top research universities in the field of biology, according to the 2012 CHE University Ranking, according to several criteria. Several institutions funded within the German Universities Excellence Initiative are affiliated to the faculty of biology:
Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (bi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature%20hashing | In machine learning, feature hashing, also known as the hashing trick (by analogy to the kernel trick), is a fast and space-efficient way of vectorizing features, i.e. turning arbitrary features into indices in a vector or matrix. It works by applying a hash function to the features and using their hash values as indices directly, rather than looking the indices up in an associative array. It can be used for dimensionality reduction and practical nonparametric estimation.
This trick is often attributed to Weinberger et al. (2009), but there exists a much earlier description of this method published by John Moody in 1989.
Motivation
Motivating example
In a typical document classification task, the input to the machine learning algorithm (both during learning and classification) is free text. From this, a bag of words (BOW) representation is constructed: the individual tokens are extracted and counted, and each distinct token in the training set defines a feature (independent variable) of each of the documents in both the training and test sets.
Machine learning algorithms, however, are typically defined in terms of numerical vectors. Therefore, the bags of words for a set of documents is regarded as a term-document matrix where each row is a single document, and each column is a single feature/word; the entry in such a matrix captures the frequency (or weight) of the 'th term of the vocabulary in document . (An alternative convention swaps the rows and columns of the matrix, but this difference is immaterial.)
Typically, these vectors are extremely sparse—according to Zipf's law.
The common approach is to construct, at learning time or prior to that, a dictionary representation of the vocabulary of the training set, and use that to map words to indices. Hash tables and tries are common candidates for dictionary implementation. E.g., the three documents
John likes to watch movies.
Mary likes movies too.
John also likes football.
can be converted, using the dictionary
to the term-document matrix
(Punctuation was removed, as is usual in document classification and clustering.)
The problem with this process is that such dictionaries take up a large amount of storage space and grow in size as the training set grows. On the contrary, if the vocabulary is kept fixed and not increased with a growing training set, an adversary may try to invent new words or misspellings that are not in the stored vocabulary so as to circumvent a machine learned filter. To address this challenge, Yahoo! Research attempted to use feature hashing for their spam filters.
Note that the hashing trick isn't limited to text classification and similar tasks at the document level, but can be applied to any problem that involves large (perhaps unbounded) numbers of features.
Mathematical motivation
Mathematically, a token is an element in a finite (or countably infinite) set . Suppose we only need to process a finite corpus, then we can put all tokens appearing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soletron | Soletron was a social networking and ecommerce platform in lifestyle retail verticals. It is headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and holds offices in Philadelphia, New York City, and California. Their revenue model is similar to Etsy.
Formation
Soletron was founded in September 2010 by former Merrill Lynch bankers A.J. Steigman and Shane Robinson with the goal of becoming a social networking and ecommerce company. In March 2011 they launched their blog and their app debuted in October 2011. Their ecommerce platform was established in December 2011.
General information
The Soletron platform is designed to facilitate the interaction between consumers and independent brands. Soletron has a structure similar to Etsy as it does not hold any inventory. Sellers sign up through the website to post their inventory online. Soletron brings a social element to retail as users can create profiles to follow brands or other members. They can also favorite products and share them with the online community. Soletron features a lifestyle blog meant to keep their visitors up to date on sneakerhead trends.
Soletron is known for launching the first ever sneakerhead comic book as part of their marketing efforts and have been deemed a source of authority for the community. They cater mainly to sneakerheads and streetwear consumers, that are between the ages of 15–25.
In November 2012, the company transitioned into a full content platform for the youth community.
Soletron was acquired in July 2014, by its industry leader and the world's largest global streetwear retailer Karmaloop, for an undisclosed amount.
Statistics
Soletron hosts as many as 300,000 unique monthly visitors and makes 9,000,000 impressions per month. This company has an online presence in over 200 countries. As of February 2013, the company had over 200,000 Twitter followers and 100,000 Facebook fans.
Brands
Nooka and Dunkelvolk are two among dozens of brands featured on Soletron's e-commerce platform. Through these brands, they currently have over 1,200 products available on the site.
Advisory board
Soletron's advisory board consists of the following individuals:
Bruce Chizen (Former CEO of Adobe Systems)
Santonio Holmes (Super Bowl MVP and current member of the New York Jets)
Tom Austin (Founder of AND1)
John Friedman (Founder of Easton Capital)
Bob Rice (Founder of Tangent Capital and Bloomberg Contributor)
Press and accolades
Soletron has been highlighted in CNBC, Reuters, Huffington Post, Business Insider, and Bloomberg TV.
References
Companies based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off%20the%20Record%20%28charity%29 | Off The Record Bristol (OTR) is a mental health support and information service in Bristol which provides counselling, group workshops, anti-stigma campaigns, creative therapies, LGBTQ+ networks and support, stress management workshops and community-based support groups for young people. OTR works across Bristol and South Gloucestershire and is free at every point of access.
Founded in November 1965, Off The Record (Bristol) is one of the oldest established young people's mental health services in the country. The service began as a result of a combined initiative between the Bristol Association of Youth Clubs and Bristol Marriage and Family Guidance Council.
Off The Record receives funding from Comic Relief, Children in Need, Bristol City Council and the Big Lottery Fund.
Mentality project
Mentality is a youth leadership project by Off the Record. Young people aged 1319 with experience of mental health issues come together to campaign across Bristol for better mental health awareness. Mentality visit schools, colleges and other institutions across Bristol to host workshops and presentations on mental health.
In March 2014, Mentality celebrated three years of campaigning with an event at The Station, Bristol.
Awards
In 2012, Off The Record's youth volunteer project 'Mentality' won a prestigious Philip Lawrence Award, a national award for youth groups, judged by a panel headed by Sir Trevor McDonald. Off The Record hosted a celebratory evening at Bristol Museum.
In 2013, the charity received a cash prize for winning the Miss Millies Good Neighbour Award in Bristol.
In May 2017, OTR was recognised at the Charity Governance Awards in the 'Managing Turnaround' category, due to the organisation's growth since 200910. OTR now supports over 3,000 young people in Bristol every year.
References
External links
Charities based in Bristol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Smart%20Grid%20Protocol | The Open Smart Grid Protocol (OSGP) is a family of specifications published by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) used in conjunction with the ISO/IEC 14908 control networking standard for smart grid applications. OSGP is optimized to provide reliable and efficient delivery of command and control information for smart meters, direct load control modules, solar panels, gateways, and other smart grid devices. With over 5 million OSGP based smart meters and devices deployed worldwide it is one of the most widely used smart meter and smart grid device networking standards.
Protocol layers and features
OSGP follows a modern, structured approach based on the OSI protocol model to meet the evolving challenges of the smart grid.
At the application layer, ETSI TS 104 001 provides a table-oriented data storage based, in part, on the ANSI C12.19 / MC12.19 / 2012 / IEEE Std 1377 standards for Utility Industry End Device Data Tables and ANSI C12.18 / MC12.18 / IEEE Std 1701, standard Protocol Specification for ANSI Type 2 Optical Port for its services and payload encapsulation. This standard and command system that provides for not only smart meters and related data but for general purpose extension to other smart grid devices.
ETSI TS 104 001 is an updated version of the application layer specification that incorporates enhanced security features, including AES 128 encryption, and replaces the previously ETSI GS OSG 001 version. OSGP is designed to be very bandwidth efficient, enabling it to offer high performance and low cost using bandwidth constrained media such as the power line. For example, just as SQL provides an efficient and flexible database query language for enterprise applications, OSGP provides an efficient and flexible query language for smart grid devices. As with SQL, OSGP supports reading and writing of single attributes, multiple elements, or even entire tables. As another example, OSGP includes capabilities for an adaptive, directed meshing system that enables any OSGP device to serve as a message repeater, further optimizing bandwidth use by repeating only those packets that need to be repeated. OSGP also includes authentication and encryption for all exchanges to protect the integrity and privacy of data as is required in the smart grid.
The intermediate layers of the OSGP stack leverage the ISO/IEC 14908 control networking standard, a field-proven multi-application widely used in smart grid, smart city, and smart building applications with more than 100 million devices deployed worldwide. ISO/IEC 14908 is highly optimized for efficient, reliable, and scalable control networking applications. The low overhead of ISO/IEC 14908 enables it to deliver high performance without requiring high bandwidth.
Since it builds on ISO/IEC 14908, which is media independent, OSGP has the possibility to be used with any current or future physical media. OSGP today uses ETSI TS 103 908 (PowerLine Telecommunications) as it |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village%20Cinema | Village Cinema, also Village Roadshow Greece, is known as is a television movie network, owned by local diversified investment holding company, DEMCO Group, under brand license from Village Roadshow. It was purchased by DEMCO in October, 2009. In 2012, it launched the Village Cinema channel in the PAY TV platform of OTE TV. It debuted in Greece on June, 11th 2012 exclusively on Cosmote TV via Conn-x (IPTV service) and Cosmote TV via Satellite.
The television channel highlights movies and programs centered on the film industry and the creative process of movie production. Operated by Village Cinemas, the channel commenced its transmission with the screening of the film Buried, which marked its debut on Greek television.
See also
Village Cinemas
Village Roadshow
OTE
References
External links
Official site
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Greek-language television stations
Television channels in Greece |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyfire%20%28company%29 | Skyfire is a software company founded in 2007, and acquired by Opera Software ASA, now Otello Corporation, in 2013. In 2015, the company became the Network Solutions division of Opera, and ceased using the Skyfire brand name. They offer network optimization technologies including video optimization and monetization tools for carriers. Skyfire discontinued its Skyfire Web Browser in 2014 in order to consolidate its focus on its mobile operator technology. Skyfire was funded by venture capital, and was acquired by Opera Software ASA in March 2013.
History
Skyfire was found in 2007 by Nitin Bhandari and Erik Swenson. The company was originally named DVC Labs but changed their name in 2008.
Skyfire received initial funding of $4.8 million from Matrix Partners and Trinity Ventures in June 2007. Skyfire increased their funding in 2008 with an additional $13 million investment from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Matrix and Trinity. As part of the investment, a Lightspeed Ventures partner joined the board of directors. In January 2012, they received $8 million from Verizon Investments LLC, Matrix, Trinity, and Lightspeed.
In 2010, Skyfire purchased Kolbysoft, which allowed them to extend their web browser for the Android marketplace with Kolby's Steel Web Browser.
In October 2012, SkyFire raised $10 million in series D financing from Panorama Capital, which is a venture capital firm that spun out from JP Morgan Chase in 2006.
On February 15, 2013, Skyfire was acquired by Opera Software for $155 millionOpera primarily eyed Skyfire for its video optimization technologies, which complements its own content optimization technologies. In February 2015, the company ceased using the Skyfire brand name, and became the Network Solutions division of parent company Opera Software ASA.
Technology
Skyfire offers two main products: its Rocket Optimizer video, audio and multimedia optimization software and Skyfire Horizon browser extension platform.
Rocket Optimizer
Skyfire's Rocket Optimizer is a platform used by wireless operators to optimize video and images and save bandwidth while allowing multimedia, particularly video, to load more smoothly at times of poor wireless connectivity. It can optimize most unencrypted online videos in real-time. It optimizes based on device type and network congestion levels. It does so by performing greater and best optimization for smaller screen sizes with minimal impact on the end user and optimizes more heavily when networks are experiencing higher traffic rates. Rocket Optimizer 3.0 is the most recent version of Skyfire's carrier-grade network video and data optimization platform, and was launched in January 2013. It offers real-time optimization of mobile video to enable smoother streaming, and allows for the ability to measure, quantify and then mitigate congestion down to a per-stream level. The platform also supports video formats, including MP4 (which comprises most HTML5 and iOS video). It can be used on both 3G a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholom%C3%A4us%20Scultetus | Bartholomäus Scultetus (born Barthel Schulze; 14 May 1540, Görlitz – 21 June 1614, Görlitz) was a mayor of Görlitz, astronomer, cartographer and compiler of biblical chronologies. He knew Tycho Brahe and was visited by Johannes Kepler. He conferred with Rabbi Loew, the famous Prague Kabbalist.
1540 births
1614 deaths
People from Görlitz
16th-century German astronomers
German cartographers
16th-century cartographers
17th-century cartographers
16th-century German writers
16th-century German male writers
17th-century German writers
17th-century German male writers
17th-century German astronomers |
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