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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tout%20%28company%29 | Tout was an online social networking service and microblogging service that enabled its users to send and view 15-second videos, known as "touts." The service's core technology was created at SRI International by Michael Downing based on two patents owned by that company.
In April 2010, Tout spun off as its own company with SRI taking an equity stake. Tout gained popularity in June 2011 when basketball player Shaquille O'Neal used the service to announce his retirement. By early 2012, Tout had received over 12 million visitors and 75 million Touts had been shared by users of the service.
Investors
On July 11, 2012, the company announced a $13.4 million round of Series B funding; [[Local seo new york ]] promotion WWE participated in the funding round, and announced a two-year strategic partnership with the company. During WWE CEO Vince McMahon's quarterly conference call with investors held on the morning of August 2, WWE CFO George Barrios disclosed the amount of that investment to have been $5 million, but would not disclose what percentage of the company that sum represents. Stephanie McMahon, CBO of WWE, would appear on the Board of Directors for Tout.
As part of the strategic partnership, WWE subsequently promoted Tout via its platforms, including encouraging its talent to use the service, and showcasing posts by viewers and WWE talent during segments of its television programs.
See also
Keek
Vine (service)
References
Social media companies of the United States
Defunct microblogging services
Defunct social networking services
Companies based in San Francisco
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Internet properties established in 2010
American companies established in 2010
2010 establishments in California
Privately held companies based in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western%20Electric%20System%201393%20Radar%20Course%20Directing%20Central | The Western Electric System 1393 Radar Course Directing Central (RCDC) was a Cold War complex of radar/computer systems within the overall Improved Nike Hercules Air Defense Guided Missile System (separate from the missiles, storage and launch equipment, and command post equipment). The RCDC was installed at the "battery control areas" (Integrated Fire Control areas) of ~ each which was for commanding a nearby missile Launching Area (LA), firing a missile from the LA, and guiding a launched missile to a burst point near an enemy aircraft.
Description
The Radar Course Directing Central included a defense acquisition radar ("ACQR" e.g., General Electric AN/MPQ-43 High Power Acquisition Radar), a Target Tracking Radar (TTR), and a radar/computer subsystem for controlling the MIM-14 Nike-Hercules. The RCDC Director's Console with 4 cabinets included the electro-mechanical Servo Computer Cabinet with the analog ballistics computer ("Intercept Computer") which calculated the relative location of a launched Nike missile (measured by a Missile Tracking Radar, MTR) to the TTR track of an enemy aircraft or formation. After launch, the ground-controlled interception algorithm guided the missile to a calculated point where the missile was detonated and conventional warhead fragments (3 HE warheads) or a nuclear warhead's blast were to neutralize the target. The Central also had a mode for surface-to-surface missions to airburst a nuclear Hercules over a ground target, and the RCDC included a Missile Motion Generator to simulate a Nike trajectory. After the 10 Army Air Defense Command Posts with Missile Master bunkers were operational in December 1960, battery control areas also had an AN/TSQ-8 Firing Unit Interface Facility for the automated data link (ADL) of digital information between the RCDC and the AADCP's Martin AN/FSG-1 Antiaircraft Defense System.
Personnel of the Nike "Fire Control Platoon" at the RCDC included the Battery Control Officer (BCO), IFC crewmen (specialty 16C20 such as Acquisition Radar crewman, TTR elevation operator, MTR Fireman, etc.), Nike Radar and Computer Repairmen (23N2P), etc.
Transportability
As with preceding Nike fire control systems, the Improved Hercules van trailers (e.g., by Fruehauf Trailer Co.) allowed the RCDC to be transported after the military installation was disemplaced from the station. Van trailers included:
M381A1 Electronic Shop
M424E1 Guided Missile Director Station
M428E1 Guided Missile Tracking Station
XM446 Radar signal simulator
M564, M564A1, M564A2 Shop equipment (3 trailers for "Improved Hercules")
History
The Radar Course Directing Central was an outgrowth of the July 1945 Signal Corps' Project 414A's planned Fire Direction Center System and a 1950 prototype computer and console system. Contractor evaluation of the first fire control system for Nike was from January–May 1953, and the "prototype model battery" system for the Nike Ajax was delivered to White Sands Proving Ground on May 15, 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VM-aware%20storage | VM-aware storage (VAS) is computer data storage designed specifically for managing storage for virtual machines (VMs) within a data center. The goal is to provide storage that is simpler to use with functionality better suited for VMs compared with general-purpose storage. VM-aware storage allows storage to be managed as an integrated part of managing VMs rather than as logical unit numbers (LUNs) or volumes that are separately configured and managed.
VM-aware storage is often used in conjunction with other VM-aware components and processes such as VM-aware computer network, VM-aware backup and VM-aware virus scanning. VM-aware storage has some similarities to and can benefit from software-defined networking, but is distinct in that the latter provides general purpose physical equipment that can be customized and configured in software whereas VM-aware storage is designed for virtual machines.
Background
Adoption of server virtualization technology increased rapidly since the launch of the VMware ESX hypervisor in 2001. By 2009, IDC estimated that more VMs were being deployed than physical machines.
The ability to consolidate applications running on tens of servers in a single physical server running a hypervisor resulted in cost savings for servers as well as more automated management of the servers. Due to these advantages, by early 2010, many companies had implemented "virtualization first" policies, which stated that all new server deployments should be virtual unless there were specific reasons to use a physical server.
As virtualization decreased the cost of the server hardware, storage began to dominate the cost and complexity of virtual infrastructures. In almost all virtual management systems in the early 2000s, computing resources, such as CPU and memory, were configured and managed separately from the storage resources. Server resources were often managed by a separate team than the storage infrastructure. Configuring the servers and storage separately and trying to get them to work together often required significant advanced planning, integration and troubleshooting.
History
To improve the manageability of storage, storage vendors began to make their storage more aware of the surrounding virtual components (often called the virtual infrastructure). Initial improvements consisted of scripts and plug-ins for virtual infrastructures to streamline common workflows such as allocating storage for VMs.
As a result, these tasks became simpler and easier to perform.
To get further benefits and allow virtual infrastructures to better leverage underlying storage system features such as snapshots, clones (writable snapshots), replication and quality of service (QoS), hypervisor vendors began to publish and implement new storage protocols and extensions (VAAI, StorageLink)
for managing storage in virtual environments.
These early steps did improve usability and efficiency of storage when used in virtual infrastructures but did not addres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%202790 | The IBM 2790 Data Communications System is a family of devices intended for "in-plant data communications and production monitoring." It is described as a two-way data communications system designed to accommodate large volumes of short messages from many in-plant locations or from smaller groups of terminals at remote locations.
The 2790 consists of the following components, all connected by a two-wire loop operating at 500 kbit/s. The 2715 can support up to 32 KB of magnetic core memory with a 1.2 μs cycle time, an internal disk for microcode load, a 2740 printer/keyboard, and a real time clock.
Firstly it consists of one IBM 2715 Transmission Control Unit, which controls the other system components. The 2715 provides terminal control, transaction assembly, data-entry checking, message routing, transaction storage, and transfer of data to and from a System/370, IBM 1800 Data Acquisition and Control System or an IBM System/7.
2715 Model 1: Used for local operation
2715 Model 2: Used for remote attachment with a binary synchronous communication adapter such as a 270x communications controller.
There are numerous data entry devices that can be attached:
The IBM 2791 Area Station is a tabletop unit attached to the 2790 loop. The 2791 can read ten column identification badges and eighty column punched cards, and has a twelve key pad for direct entry of numeric data. The 2791 can attach up to thirty-two 2795/2796 data entry units, a 1053 printer, up to three 1035 remote badge readers, and an OEM device. The 2791 has nine user defined "transaction buttons". Up to 100 2791/2793 can be attached.
The IBM 2793 Area Station is similar, but lacks the ability to accept input data directly. It can attach up to thirty-two data entry units and a 1053 printer. Up to 100 2791/2793 can be attached.
The IBM 2795, 2796 and 2797 Data Entry Units are compact industrial units for reporting job and machine status and production information. Both have two ten-position switches and a ten column badge reader. The 2796 has an additional two switches and allows for manual entry of up to four digits.
2740 Communications Terminal (one)
2798 Guided Display Units. This is a versatile and compact data entry and output unit with a 56 character keyboard, 8 control keys and 16 position visual display. Up to 12 can be attached.
References
2790 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Newsroom%20episodes | The Newsroom is an American television drama series created by Aaron Sorkin, which premiered on the premium cable network HBO on June 24, 2012. The series concluded on December 14, 2014, and consists of 25 episodes over three seasons.
Jeff Daniels stars as Atlantis Cable News anchor Will McAvoy, who takes a mandatory leave of absence after a public tirade about America's shortcomings during a political debate. Upon his return, he discovers that most of his staff have quit. Seeing an opportunity to return to the glory days of televised news instead of ratings-driven infotainment, his boss Charlie Skinner (Sam Waterston) has hired Will's ex-girlfriend MacKenzie McHale (Emily Mortimer) as the new executive producer. McHale shares Skinner's vision of TV news, and she and Will immediately butt heads. The series is executive produced by Aaron Sorkin, Scott Rudin, and Alan Poul.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2012)
Season 2 (2013)
Season 3 (2014)
Ratings
References
Notes
External links
Lists of American drama television series episodes
Episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%20RBS%20Group%20computer%20system%20problems | The 2012 RBS computer system problems were technical issues affecting computers run by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (now NatWest Group), including National Westminster Bank, The Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank, which began on 19 June 2012.
In 2014, RBS was fined £42m over the incident.
Cause
A software update was applied on 19 June 2012 to RBS's CA-7 software which controls its payment processing system. It later emerged that the update was corrupted by RBS technical staff. Customers' wages, payments and other transactions were disrupted. Some customers were unable to withdraw cash using ATMs or to see bank account details. Others faced fines for late payment of bills because the system could not process direct debits.
Stephen Hester, CEO of the RBS Group, said that the problem was caused by a software upgrade. Unite union leaders criticised Hester's management of the episode, but Hester denied that the outsourcing of IT services to India was a factor in the problem, saying that the bank's IT services were mostly based in Edinburgh. A spokesman for the RBS Group said that the problem had occurred in the UK.
Impact
Completions of new home purchases were delayed, and some people were stranded abroad. Another account holder was threatened with the discontinuation of their life support machine in a Mexican hospital, and one man was held in prison. As a result of the error, RBS and NatWest announced that over 1,200 of their busiest branches would extend their hours throughout the week, including the bank's first Sunday opening, to enable affected customers to access cash. On Monday 25 June, over 1,000 branches opened for extended hours, and the number of phone staff was doubled to deal with customer queries.
On 26 June, RBS admitted that some transactions were still affected by the problem. Ulster Bank said on Wednesday 27 June that it did not expect full services to be restored until the start of the following week, but that it hoped that the automatic payments backlog would be cleared by the weekend.
On 3 July RBS admitted that some RBS and NatWest personal loan borrowers had accidentally been charged twice and newspapers advised RBS customers to check their balances.
Customers of Ulster Bank were still having problems accessing cash on 2 July and the bank admitted that they did not know when customers would be able to access cash. RBS denied that the delays with Ulster Bank meant that customers in Ireland meant less to them, saying that Ulster Bank payments followed those of NatWest and RBS. This was a result of the way the computers were set up when the three banks were merged. Monthly payments of social welfare to 48,000 Ulster Bank customers in the Republic of Ireland due on 3 July would be added to the existing backlog.
RBS said on 4 July that the vast majority of Ulster Bank customers would have normal services restored by 16 July 2012.
On 5 July the Ulster Bank CEO Jim Brown agreed to waive his annual bonus in response t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CA-7%20%28software%29 | CA-7 is a job scheduling / workflow automation software package sold by CA Technologies (formerly CA, Inc. and Computer Associates International, Inc.). It is commonly used by banks and other large enterprises with IBM mainframe IT computing platforms. In 1987, Computer Associates took ownership of the product when it acquired its archrival, UCCEL Corporation. CA subsequently renamed it from UCC-7 to CA-7, as was done with product prefixes for UCC-1 (tape library management) and UCC-11 (batch job rerun/restart), etc.
References
External links
https://www.broadcom.com/products/mainframe/intelligent-ops-automation/automation/ca7-workload-automation
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/28/rbs_job_cuts_and_offshoring_software_glitch/
http://businessetc.thejournal.ie/ulster-bank-backlog-banking-customers-royal-bank-of-scotland-507284-Jul2012/
https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043734/http://supportconnectw.ca.com/public/ca-7/ca-7/infodocs/ca7-r11datasheet.pdf
http://www.siliconrepublic.com/strategy/item/27990-rbs-may-sue-ca-over-softwar
Workflow applications
CA Technologies
IBM mainframe software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Alves | Benjamin Sapida (born March 31, 1989), whose previous screen name was Vince Saldaña and current screen name is Benjamin Alves, is a Filipino actor and model under the management of GMA Network.
Biography
Early life
Alves was born Benjamin Quiambao Sapida on March 31, 1989, in Guam. Alves is a nephew of Filipino actor Piolo Pascual.
Vince Saldaña (2006–2009)
In 2006, Alves went to the Philippines to pursue a modeling career. He entered showbusiness with the screen name Vince Saldaña back in 2008 and appeared in ABS-CBN's reality model-search competition Close-Up to Fame where he eventually became a finalist. He then signed up in VIVA and got his first acting gig in QTV's teen series Posh in 2007. In that same year, he appeared in other Viva Films movies like Ang Cute ng Ina Mo and Apat Dapat, Dapat Apat. He also starred on soap operas Dalawang Tisoy in RPN 9, Ysabella on ABS-CBN and Impostora on GMA Network. Apart from his work on television series and films, Alves also appeared in various TV commercials and magazines. He was supposed to be one of the cast of GMA Network's L.U.V. Pow but was withdrawn after the cast reboot. Alves left show business in 2009 to continue his studies.
In 2012, Alves graduated Summa cum laude at the University of Guam with a degree in English Literature. From a press interview, he revealed that he wanted to in pursue a master's degree but decided to stay on with his showbiz career.
Benjamin Alves and contract with GMA Network (2012–present)
Saldaña was relaunched into show business as Benjamin Alves by Mercator Model and Artist Management. He signed an exclusive contract to GMA Network signing a 3 movie outfit and soap operas. He was officially launched in a Sunday variety show, Party Pilipinas on June 25, 2012, as the newest Kapuso star, and was also dubbed as the newest Kapuso heartthrob. His first movie will be under Regal Films and GMA Films entitled Guni-Guni playing as Paolo Lopez. He will act as a love interest of actress, Lovi Poe. He will also appear on GMA Films's entry to the 2012 Metro Manila Film Festival, Coño Problems. In August 2012, Alves was announced as one of the casts for the remake of the famous Korean television series, Coffee Prince. He acted as Errol, a record-producer and half-brother of Abrenica.
In 2013, he starred in the film Sana Dati an Independent film starring TJ Trinidad, Lovi Poe and Paulo Avelino under GMA Films.
Personal life
Alves used to be in a relationship with singer and actress Julie Anne San Jose from May 2016 to November 2018. The relationship was confirmed by San Jose on January 7, 2017. It was only in January 2019, however, that San Jose publicly confirmed their breakup.
Filmography
Television series
Television shows
Film
Accolades
Notes
References
External links
https://www.gmanetwork.com/sparkle/artists/benjamin_alves
1987 births
Living people
Filipino male film actors
Filipino male television actors
Guamanian people of Filipino descent
GMA Network perso |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20Reference%20Counting | Automatic Reference Counting (ARC) is a memory management feature of the Clang compiler providing automatic reference counting for the Objective-C and Swift programming languages. At compile time, it inserts into the object code messages retain and release which increase and decrease the reference count at run time, marking for deallocation those objects when the number of references to them reaches zero.
ARC differs from tracing garbage collection in that there is no background process that deallocates the objects asynchronously at runtime. Unlike tracing garbage collection, ARC does not handle reference cycles automatically. This means that as long as there are "strong" references to an object, it will not be deallocated. Strong cross-references can accordingly create deadlocks and memory leaks. It is up to the developer to break cycles by using weak references.
Apple Inc. deploys ARC in their operating systems, such as macOS () and iOS. Limited support (ARCLite) has been available since Snow Leopard and iOS 4, with complete support following in Lion and iOS 5. Garbage collection was declared deprecated in Mountain Lion, in favor of ARC, and removed from the Objective-C runtime library in macOS Sierra.
Objective-C
The following rules are enforced by the compiler when ARC is turned on:
retain, release, retainCount, autorelease or dealloc cannot be sent to objects. Instead, the compiler inserts these messages at compile time automatically, including [super dealloc] when dealloc is overridden.// Without ARC
- (void)dealloc
{
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];
[super dealloc];
}
// With ARC
- (void)dealloc
{
[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];
// [super dealloc] is called automatically
}
Programs cannot cast directly between id and void *. This includes casting between Foundation objects and Core Foundation objects. Programs must use special casts, or calls to special functions, to tell the compiler more information about an object's lifetime.// Without ARC
- (NSString *)giveMeAString
{
CFStringRef myString = [self someMethodThatCreatesACFString];
NSString *newString = (NSString *)myString;
return [newString autorelease];
}
// With ARC
- (NSString *)giveMeAString
{
CFStringRef myString = [self someMethodThatCreatesACFString]; // retain count is 1
NSString *newString = (__bridge_transfer NSString *)myString; // the ownership has now been transferred into ARC
return newString;
}
An autorelease pool can be used to allocate objects temporarily and retain them in memory until the pool is "drained". Without ARC, an NSAutoreleasePool object can be created for this purpose. ARC uses @autoreleasepool blocks instead, which encapsulate the allocation of the temporary objects and deallocates them when the end of the block is reached. // Without ARC
- (void)loopThroughArray:(NSArray *)array
{
for (id object in array) {
NSAutoreleasePool *pool = [[NSAutor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOS/VE | NOS/VE (Network Operating System / Virtual Environment) is a discontinued operating system with time-sharing capabilities, written by Control Data Corporation in the 1980s. It is a virtual memory operating system, employing the 64-bit virtual mode of the CDC Cyber 180 series computers. NOS/VE replaced the earlier NOS and NOS/BE operating systems of the 1970s.
Commands
The command shell interface for NOS/VE is called the System Command Language, or SCL for short. In order to be callable from SCL, command programs must declare their parameters; this permits automatic usage summaries, passing of parameters by name or by position, and type checking on the parameter values. All standard NOS/VE commands further follow a particular naming convention, where the form of the command is verb{_adjective}_noun; these commands could be abbreviated with the first three characters of the verb followed by the first character(s) of all further words. Examples:
Inspired by addressing structure-members in various programming languages, the catalog separator is the dot.
Subsystems like FTP integrate into the command shell. They change the prompt and add commands like get_file. Thereby statements like flow-control stay the same and subsystems can be mixed in procedures (scripts).
Parameters
Commands could take parameters such as the create_connection command:
crec telnet sd='10.1.2.3'
would connect you to IP address 10.1.2.3 with telnet service.
See also
NOS
CDC Kronos
NOS/BE
External links
User's Guide for NOS/VE on the CDC Cyber 960
Computer history - NOS/VE (Most of this information was extracted from a CDC NOS/VE information leaflet)
NOS/VE Operating System
NOS/VE Command Language Syntax
List of NOS/VE Commands
NOS/VE Utilities
Control Data Corporation operating systems
Discontinued operating systems
Time-sharing operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977%20in%20the%20environment | This is a list of notable events relating to the environment in 1977. They relate to environmental law, conservation, environmentalism and environmental issues.
Events
The World Network of Biosphere Reserves was started.
September
The Venpet-Venoil collision occurred in dense fog off the coast of South Africa. The Venoil ploughed into the Venpet, eventually leading to the spilling of approximately 26,600–30,500 tonnes of crude oil.
December
The Reserves Act 1977 is passed in New Zealand.
See also
Human impact on the environment
List of environmental issues |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20%26%20Wes%3A%20Let%27s%20Do%20This | Chris & Wes: Let's Do This is a documentary reality show that was broadcast in the UK on Sky1 in December, 2011.
References
External links
Sky UK original programming
2010s British reality television series
2011 British television series debuts
2012 British television series endings
2010s British documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltego | Maltego is a link analysis software used for open-source intelligence, forensics and other investigations, originally developed by Paterva from Pretoria, South Africa. Maltego offers real-time data mining and information gathering, as well as the representation of this information on a node-based graph, making patterns and multiple order connections between said information easily identifiable. In 2019, the team of Maltego Technologies headquartered in Munich, Germany took over responsibility for all global customer-facing operations, and in 2023 complete technology development and management.
Maltego permits creating custom entities, allowing it to represent any type of information in addition to the basic entity types which are part of the software. The basic focus of the application is analyzing real-world relationships (Social Networks, OSINT APIs, Self-hosted Private Data and Computer Networks Nodes) between people, groups, Webpages, domains, networks, internet infrastructure, and social media affiliations. Maltego extends its data reach with integrations from various data partners. Among its data sources are DNS records, whois records, search engines, social networking services, various APIs and various meta data.
About the Products
Maltego has paid commercial desktop client softwares with options to self-host the servers. Maltego CaseFile is a free commercial desktop client software with features limited to offline manual graph creation.
A free Community Edition account can be created on the Maltego CE account registration page. The desktop client, after installation can be activated to any Maltego type: XL, Classic, CE, and CaseFile.
Maltego is commonly used by enterprises, security researchers and private investigators.
See also
King & Union Avalon
Analyst's Notebook
Data Re-Identification
Deanonymization
Palantir Technologies
SPSS Modeler
References
External links
Maltego Introduction and Personal Recon
Visualizing DomainTools Data with Maltego
Data analysis software
Domain Name System
Internet architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gazdar | Gazdar may refer to:
Gazdar, Iran, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
Gazdar, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
Gerald Gazdar (b. 1950), linguist and computer scientist
Kaevan Gazdar (b. 1951), journalist
Muhammad Hashim Gazdar (1895 – 1966), Pakistani politician
Gazdarabad, neighbourhood in Karachi Sindh, Pakistan, named after Muhammad Hashim Gazdar
Mushtaq Gazdar, Pakistani cinematographer
Gazdar, another name of the Silawat community in India and Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border%20and%20Coast%20Guard%20Academy%2C%20Finland | The Border and Coast Guard Academy (Finnish: Raja- ja merivartiokoulu, Swedish: Gräns- och sjöbevakningsskolan) is a nationally and internationally networking institution for border security and maritime SAR education and research within the Finnish Border Guard. The activities of the Border and Coast Guard Academy are divided between two education centres located in Otaniemi, Espoo and Imatra.
The Border and Coast Guard Academy is a Partnership Academy of Frontex, the European Union agency for external border security. The Academy participates in planning and organising border security training and research co-ordinated by Frontex. The special responsibility of the Academy is to train teachers and Schengen Border Evaluators.
External links
The Border Guard
Borders of Finland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Music%20Network | World Music Network is a UK-based record label specializing in world music.
The World Music Network website features news, reviews, live music listings, and guide sections on world music. It also features an online "Battle of the Bands" competition.
History
Founded in 1994 by husband-and-wife team Phil Stanton and Colombian-born Sandra Alayón-Stanton, World Music Network consists of four record labels – Music Rough Guides, Riverboat Records, Introducing and Think Global.
Accolades include a 2009 Grammy Award nomination for Debashish Bhattacharya – who was also awarded the BBC Best Asian Artist award in 2008 – a WMCE Top Label award and more Songlines (magazine) 'Top of the World’ releases than any other independent world music label.
World Music Network, along with Riverboat Records, was presented with the WOMEX Label Award in 2013.
Following on from the death of founder Phil Stanton in 2019, World Music Network has been under the directorship of Neil Record.
Labels
Music Rough Guides
Music Rough Guides has been releasing the Rough Guide music series in association with the Rough Guides travel book publishers since 1994, when the first world music book and album in that series were released.
Since then, Music Rough Guides have covered destinations as diverse as Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Japan, and Hungary. They have also covered musical styles such as merengue music, klezmer, salsa and Bollywood.
Riverboat Records
Since 1989 Riverboat Records have produced artists from around the world. Releases in recent years include those by the artists; Debashish Bhattacharya, Mory Kante, Nuru Kane, Ramzi Aburedwan, SambaSunda, Kristi Stassinopoulou & Stathis Kalyviotis and 'Gaelic Americana' artist Kyle Carey.
Introducing
A separate artist label to Riverboat Records, Introducing was launched by World Music Network in 2004, out of a desire to promote exposure for previously undiscovered musical talent from around the world. Introducing showcases artists previously unreleased or unavailable outside their own country.
The Introducing label has had a number of releases including features for Ethiopian reggae-fusion project Invisible System, and Saharan blues band Etran Finatawa.
Other projects include albums from Miami Latin hip-hop collective Spam Allstars, South African maskanda player Shiyani Ngcobo, Chinese folk band Hanggai and a release by the desert blues master Mamane Barka.
Think Global
World Music Network has released a number of fundraising albums released in association with Amnesty International and Oxfam.
The Think Global series aims to promote music that reduces poverty, defends human rights and encourages protecting the environment. Releases include Think Global: Women Of Africa and Think Global: Tango.
Battle of the Bands
In the Battle of the Bands section of World Music Network's website musicians are invited to post their best original track and build their page with photos and text. Members of the public and World Mu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duo%205 | Duo 5 (formerly known as Kanal 12 (literal English translation Channel 12)) is an Estonian TV channel. It is owned by the Kanal 2 company. Duo 5 is owned by Duo Media Networks.
Shows
Kanal 12 shows mainly reality shows and serials.
Baywatch (Rannavalve)
Formula Renault 3.5 Series live broadcast
MacGyver
Married... with Children (Tuvikesed)
Walker, Texas Ranger (Walker, Texase korravalvur)
WWE Raw
WWE Smackdown
Rude Tube (Klikitähed)
Dudesons (Duudsonid)
Most Shocking (20 kõige shokeerivamat)
Most Daring (Hulljulged)
Extreme Fishing with Robson Green (Ekstreemkalapüük Robson Greeniga)
Jail (Vangla)
The Hungry Sailors (Näljased meremehed)
Sports Gone Wild (Pöörased spordiklipid)
Travel Sick (Kreisid reisid)
All About Men (Kogu tõde meestest)
Piers Morgan On... (Piers Morgani luksusreisid)
Conan (talk show)
Kommissar Rex
Cops (Võmmid)SEAL TeamMagnum, P.I. (Eradetektiiv Magnum)''
References
External links
Television channels in Estonia
Television channels and stations established in 2011
2011 establishments in Estonia
Mass media in Tallinn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fryday | Fryday was a networking club for professionals, organising series of social and business networking events in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Events
There are four types of Fryday events: Fryday Afterwork and Fryday W.
Afterwork is a business-socialising event of around 500 participants on Friday evenings in downtown city venues. These events are typically held every second Friday of each month. Entrance is free of charge.
Fryday W, is held on weekdays, and has a more professional and thematical approach to networking. Themes of W events are determined by spheres of invited speakers. There are usually fewer guests at W events, around 150, who typically relate to an industry of a speaker. The entrance to Fryday W for guests is EUR 10.
Fryday Good Morning and Fryday Training were both developed during 2015.
During spring 2013 the people behind Fryday launched an affiliated website Socialite.nu, which aimed to function as a broader umbrella for business-networking.
Fryday also provides networking through social media, connecting members from different cities. The network has presence on LinkedIn and Facebook, as well as a YouTube channel.
Branches
The biggest Fryday community was formerly in Kyiv. The first event in Kyiv was on April 21, 2010. In September 2011 Fryday started to hold the events in Almaty (Kazakhstan), following by Tbilisi (Georgia) in January and Astana (Kazakhstan) in March 2012. As of August 2013 Fryday was holding events in 29 cities in 21 countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. By late 2015 Fryday was holding events in Austria, Switzerland and Sweden.
References
External links
Official website
Socialite.nu, via web.archive.org
Restorania.com
Friends – ‘Thank God it's Fryday!’
Forbes.ua - Fryday Kyiv
SPIEGEL ONLINE - Kulturschock Ukraine: Ein bisschen Lob muss sein
TopClub - Вечеринки Fryday Afterwork
ПЛАТФОРМА - Fryday Kyiv
Clubs and societies in Ukraine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bally%20Sports%20New%20Orleans | Bally Sports New Orleans is an American regional sports network owned by Diamond Sports Group (a joint-venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios), and operated as an affiliate of Bally Sports. The channel broadcasts local coverage of professional and collegiate sports events within New Orleans and the state of Louisiana.
Bally Sports New Orleans is available on cable providers throughout Louisiana, East Texas, South Alabama, the Florida Panhandle, and most parts of southern Mississippi (including Cox Communications, AT&T U-verse, Charter Spectrum, Suddenlink Communications and Comcast), with an estimated regional reach of 2.5 million households with a pay television subscription; it is also available on satellite via DirecTV.
History
The formation of Fox Sports New Orleans was announced on June 25, 2012, after Fox Sports Networks signed a new long-term agreement with the New Orleans Hornets (now the New Orleans Pelicans) to broadcast the NBA team's games. Fox acquired the regional cable television rights to the Hornets after Cox Sports Television declined to renew its contract with the team. The channel launched on October 31, 2012, at the start of the New Orleans Hornets regular season that year; Fox Sports New Orleans broadcast 75 Hornets games during the first year of the team's agreement with the channel.
On December 14, 2017, as part of a merger between both companies, The Walt Disney Company announced plans to acquire all 22 regional Fox Sports networks from 21st Century Fox, including Fox Sports New Orleans. However, on June 27, 2018, the Justice Department ordered their divestment under antitrust grounds, citing Disney's ownership of ESPN. On May 3, 2019, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios (through their joint venture, Diamond Holdings) bought Fox Sports Networks from The Walt Disney Company for $10.6 billion. The deal closed on August 22, 2019. On November 17, 2020, Sinclair announced an agreement with casino operator Bally's Corporation to serve as a new naming rights partner for the FSN channels. Sinclair announced the new Bally Sports branding for the channels on January 27, 2021. On March 31, 2021, coinciding with the 2021 Major League Baseball season, Fox Sports New Orleans was rebranded as Bally Sports New Orleans, resulting in 18 other Regional Sports Networks renamed Bally Sports in their respective regions.
On March 14, 2023, Diamond Sports filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
Programming
In addition to carrying the Pelicans' exhibition, regular season and early-round conference playoff games, Bally Sports New Orleans also airs Major League Baseball games featuring the Texas Rangers and select broadcasts of the NHL's Dallas Stars televised by sister channel Bally Sports Southwest, as well as collegiate sporting events from the Big 12 Conference and Southeastern Conference.
In 2014, Fox Sports New Orleans began airing select Tulane Green Wave college football games, beginning with the S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20San%20Jose%20Group | The San Jose Group (SJG) is a privately held multicultural marketing and advertising agency based in Chicago. SJG is a member of the San Jose Network which operates 33 offices in 18 countries, serving 36 markets across the US and Latin America. The agency also operates SJ Public Relations (SJPR) and San Jose Consulting (SJC).
History
SJG was founded and named after George L. San Jose in 1981. In 1988, SJG moved from their offices on Jackson Blvd, to Michigan Ave. George created SJ Public Relations in 1990. The following year, George created The San Jose Network as a conglomerate of advertising and marketing communications agencies specializing in Latin America. In 1999, the company changed its name from San Jose & Associates to The San Jose Group.
Campaigns and clients
Budweiser, Bud Light and Michelob Hispanic Market.
Johnson Wax Hispanic marketing
Dial bar soaps, body washes and liquid soaps, purex liquid, powder and tablet laundry detergents Hispanic Marketing.
ATA Hispanic traveler campaign
Ameritech's Caller-ID Hispanic campaign
Hormel’s Herdez brand loyalty among Mexican-American adults.*SPAM in the American Hispanic market.
Illinois Office of Tourism (IOT) Spanish-language website
American Family Insurance multicultural advertising
Chicago White Sox Hispanic marketing
American Cancer Society in a bilingual campaign by the slogan, "¡No Fumes! (Don't Smoke) Don't Blow It!".
Pleasant Company American Girl Doll, Josefina Montoya event
National Pork Board counter-campaign targeting Hispanics' misbeliefs about pork purchases
U.S. Cellular's Public Relations
Awards
Aurora Awards
Gold Award "Three Kids," 2011
Gold Award "Nadie Como Tu," 2011
IABC
Gold Quill "Multicultural National Pork Board Campaign (El Cerdo Es Bueno.)" 2005
The Publicity Club of Chicago (PCC)
Edwin J. Shaghnessy Quality of Life Award "Saving Lives Through Awareness, 1993
PCC Silver Trumpet "¡No Fumes! (Don't Smoke) Don't Blow It!" 1994
PCC National Hispanic Marketing Award Hanes Public Relations Campaign, 2000
Golden Trumpet "Multicultural National Pork Board Campaign (El Cerdo Es Bueno.)" 2005
Platinum PR Awards
Honorable Mention "Multicultural National Pork Board Campaign (El Cerdo Es Bueno.)" 2005
PRSA
Award of Excellence "Multicultural National Pork Board Campaign (El Cerdo Es Bueno.)" 2005
The Service Industry Advertising Awards
Merit Award: American Family Insurance, 2011
References
External links
SJ Public Relations
San Jose Consulting
The San Jose Network
Advertising agencies of the United States
Consulting firms established in 1981 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20control | Flow control may refer to:
Flow control (data), in communications
Ethernet flow control
Flow control (fluid), in fluid dynamics
Air traffic flow control
See also
Control flow, in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash-36 | The Geohash-36 geocode is an opensource compression algorithm for world coordinate data. It was developed as a variation of the OpenPostcode format developed as a candidate geolocation postcode for the Republic of Ireland. It is calculated differently and uses a more concise base 36 representation rather than other geocodes that adopted base 32.
Despite the name, there are no algorithmic (not use Z-order curve) or typological relationship with Geohash. It is a publicity strategy to relate to a popular geocode of base 32. The encode/decode functions are not mathematically-similar to Geohash functions.
Coding Method
Designed for URLs and electronic storage and communication rather than human memory and conversation, it is case-sensitive, using a 36 character alphabet: "23456789bBCdDFgGhHjJKlLMnNPqQrRtTVWX".
Character Conversion:
Characters are chosen to avoid vowels, vowel-like numbers, character confusion, and to use lowercase characters which are generally distinct from their uppercase equivalents in standard typefaces.
The code can be of varying length and thus precision. Each character represents a further subdivision in a 6 by 6 grid - starting at the North-West (top-left) coordinate and continuing, row by row, to the South-East (bottom-right). Neighbouring coordinates have largely similar encodings and generally vary at the rightmost characters only; however extreme edge cases exist where neighbouring coordinates are on opposing sides of a grid division. Codes sort logically but not in ordinary coordinate order.
Without vowels, unintended English-language words are avoided that may appear in the original Geohash code. As vowels are not used, an altitude component of encoded meters is optional with a prefixing "A" character (below sea-level prefixed by a lowercase "a").
An optional checksum is represented using the lowercase English alphabet. It confirms the code as a Geohash-36 and provides a check for incorrect or transposed characters. It is calculated as modulus 26 of the sum of each character value (the altitude delimiters of "A" or "a" are valued at zero) multiplied by its position reading from left to right.
Efficiency
Compared to storing GPS coordinates using the Decimal datatype in SQL the Geohash-36 does not save significantly on database bytes. Using DECIMAL(8,5) and DECIMAL(7,5) requires 10-bytes and is accurate to about 1.1 metre squared (or better further from the equator). An equivalent 10-bytes of the Geohash-36 code is accurate to approximately a 6th of square meter.
The Statue of Liberty, at coordinates 40.689167, −74.044444, is encoded as 9LVB4BH89g-m. The reverse decoding equates to 40.689168, −74.044445.
The Shard building, London, at coordinates 51.504444, −0.086667 is encoded as bdrdC26BqH-m (decodes to 51.504444, −0.086666), or may be successfully shorted to bdrdC26B.
Implementations
C
'libgeohash36' – a pure C implementation of Geohash-36 algorithm.
Ruby
'Geohash36' – a Ruby implementation of the G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid%20plc | Cupid plc was the owner and operator of multiple high-volume online dating websites, covering the range from mainstream to niche audiences. The full network of websites is available worldwide in a variety of languages, and by the end of the first half of 2012 more than 54 million users had created profiles in the company's websites. As is customary among all internet dating companies, all of their products are available across multiple devices (web, mobile, Android, iOS) and platforms (on web browsers, within Facebook).
History
Founded in 2005 by Bill Dobbie and Max Polyakov, the company was originally made up of a range of dating websites operated from an off-shore base. In 2006, Polyakov and Dobbie acquired the EasyDate business and brand to complement and serve as an umbrella for their network of sites, which had been experiencing a steady growth in user base. The company quickly grew its user base – by 2007 they had their first million paying users, and a few years after that they hit an impressive 13 million paying users across all networks.
By early March 2010, the user base was growing at a rate of 300,000 per month, and new products were succeeding in increasing these numbers and expanding the user base. A year later, in May 2011, the company boasted 23 million members in 39 countries. The company was named as Scotland's fastest growing technology firm by Deloitte in its October 2011 Fast 500 listing, and in May 2012, went on to be awarded the UK Stock Market Awards 2012 award for Best Travel & Leisure PLC.
This success, and the desire to fund further growth, prompted the company to become listed in the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange (AIM). Upon admission, the company had an approximate market capitalisation of £45 million. The fresh capital brought about by the listing enabled the company to perform some strategic acquisitions in markets where it had detected potential, like France, Germany, the US, and Brazil. On 24 July 2012, Cupid plc announced that it had acquired the French dating site Assistance Genie Logiciel (AGL) for the sum of €3.7 million. The deal to buy the 1986-founded company includes French dating sites amour.com, serencontrer.com and ulla.com. Also in 2012 Cupid acquired Uniform Dating, a niche website aimed at uniformed services personnel such as firefighters, nurses, armed forces and police.
BBC investigation
In February 2013, the company was the subject of BBC Radio 5live Investigates programme. Users told the BBC that they had received many messages from potential dates as free users of the site but that, when they paid for membership to be able to reply, the volume of messages dramatically decreased. The company denied that it was sending the messages to entice users to pay for membership and has commissioned an independent audit into its operation. After a subsequent investigation into these claims, one of the sources of the accusations made a public apology regarding factual inacc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company%20One | Company One is a non-profit theater company located in the Boston Center for the Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The company is known for socially conscious theater programming. Company One has produced more than 50 plays since 1998.
Mission
Company One Theater's mission is to "build community at the intersection of art and social change".
Company history
Company One was started by six individuals who founded a theater company called "Island Project" in Great Diamond Island, off the coast of Portland, Maine. They went on to found Company One in the fall of 1998.
In 2005, the company created ARTiculation, a touring poetry-slam turned performance piece. It premiered at the Boston Center of the Arts and has been touring throughout colleges and high schools across the east coast.
In 2010, Company One was awarded the American Theater Wing's National Theatre Company Grant.
In 2016 the company received grants which allowed it to take on a playwright in residence; the first playwright brought in was Kirsten Greenidge. Later that year the company presented "The T Party", a play about gender transformation.
Education
Stage One
In 1999, Stage One began its summer camp at an independent site in the Boston area. Two years later the summer program was invited to be a resident at the Coolidge Corner Theater, where the curriculum began to evolve in the more intensive training that it is today. In 2010, Stage One added an educational touring production to its roster of programs. The newest addition to the program is the Page to Stage Program, which brings middle and high school students into the Company One theater for special matinee performances. By 2012, the program had reached over 10,000 students.
Professional development
The company presents a professional development for Actors, a class designed for adult actors perfecting their craft. It consists of eight weeks of study with Company One's instructors. The class culminates in a showcase.
Company One's summer production apprenticeship program is designed to create a pre-professional{What is a "pre-professional"? Are we talking about an apprentice, an amateur? What?} company of artists. Participants train with Company One Educators and create and perform their own performance pieces, as well as mentorship by the company's professional production staff.
Company One also operates a nine-week theater intensive designed to give the insight and hands-on experience one might need to work in the professional theater. Apprentices participate in the creation and production of the professional play, performed by Company One's Junior Apprentice program for teens.
Productions
Season 11: 2009/2011
The Overwhelming, by J.T. Rogers, directed by Shawn LaCount. October 30-November 21, 2009, at the Boston Center for the Arts, Plaza Theater.
The Good Negro, by Tracey Scott Wilson, directed by Summer L. Williams, January 15-February 6, 2010, at the Boston Center for the Arts, Plaza Theater.
Ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphiq | Graphiq (formerly FindTheBest) is a semantic technology company that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly create interactive data-driven infographics. Its intent is similar to Wolfram Alpha which is designed to provide users with direct information on a variety of subjects rather than going through a search engine.
Graphiq is based in Santa Barbara, California and has raised $32 million in total funding from venture funding companies by 2013.
In May 2017, Amazon acquired Graphiq for an estimated $50 million.
Graphiq announced that its features for news publishers would no longer be available on July 21, 2017, as part of the transition.
History
The company was founded in 2009 as FindTheBest by Kevin J. O'Connor, former CEO and co-founder of DoubleClick, Scott Leonard and Brayton Johnson. The site was publicly launched in 2010 with nine comparison categories, including health, education, business, and sports. The venture was funded with an initial investment of $750,000 each from the founders, followed by $2 million by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in December 2010.
In 2011, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers invested an additional $4 million into the company. It also received an additional $11 million in Series B funding from New World Ventures, Montgomery & Co., Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Pritzker Group Venture Capital and others. In May 2014, FindTheBest had reached 23 million visits per month and employed a team of approximately 110 people.
In 2011, it launched FindTheData.com. The AssistMe option was added in 2012. In January 2013, the company made its first international expansion and launched sites in Spain, South Korea, and New Zealand. In April 2013, the company launched sites in Germany and the United Kingdom. Its real estate research site FindTheHome launched in 2014.
In August 2015, the company rebranded to Graphiq Inc. and launched a new set of tools for publishers. At the time, the company's database included 1 billion entities, 120 billion attributes and 25 billion relationships.
Product
Graphiq's flagship product for online content creators, Graphiq Search, allows users to access its library of 10B+ interactive visualizations. Additionally, Graphiq offers 22 vertically aligned research sites that allow consumers to research important topics. The company states that 33 million visitors use Graphiq research sites every month. The data from Graphiq is mined from a variety of public and private sources and presented to users in a visual table with filters and ratings.
The company's primary consumer interface is a group of vertically aligned research sites, which let users research products and services on a desktop or mobile device They can also add or edit product and service listings. Each edit is reviewed by Graphiq's team before it goes live.
The company's products for online content creators and journalists included Graphiq Search, Feed and Plugins. Publishers that use Graphiq visualizations include AOL, MSN, T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Link%20Trunking | Virtual Link Trunking (VLT) is a name that has been used for at least two proprietary network protocols. A link aggregation protocol developed by Force10 and an early VLAN tagging capability from 3Com.
Force10
Virtual Link Trunking or VLT is a proprietary aggregation protocol developed by Force10 (now Dell Networking) and available in their datacenter-class or enterprise-class network switches. VLT is implemented in the latest firmware releases of legacy (FTOS) OS9 for their high-end switches like the S-, Z- and E-series 10/25,40 and 100 Gbit/s datacenter switches. VLT is also implemented on the current OS10
Smart Fabric OS. Although VLT is a proprietary protocol from Dell Networking (formerly Force10) other vendors offer similar features to allow users to set up an aggregated link towards two (logical) different switches, where a standard aggregated link can only terminate on a single logical switch (thus either a single physical switch or on different members in a stacked switch setup) like Cisco vpc or MLAG. The latest Dell supported OS for their ONIE based PowerSwitch devices, SONiC, also offers a similar protocol as MLAG
VLT is a layer-2 link aggregation protocol between end-devices (servers) connected to (different) access-switches, offering these servers a redundant, load-balancing connection to the core-network in a loop-free environment, eliminating the requirement for the use of a spanning-tree protocol. Where existing link aggregation protocols like (static) LAG (IEEE 802.3ad) or LACP (IEEE 802.1ax) require the different (physical) links to be connected to the same (logical) switch (such as stacked switches), the VLT, for example, allows link connectivity between a server and the network via two different switches.
Instead of using VLT between end-devices like servers it can also be used for uplinks between (access/distribution) switches and the core switches.
A major complication of existing link aggregation or bonding technologies is that all members interfaces of such a team/group need to terminate on one single logical switch. Beside increasing bandwidth another reason for link aggregation is redundancy. To make it possible to connect a LAG to different physical switches is to combine more than one physical switch into one logical switch using switch stacking techniques where the different physical boxes are seen as one logical switch for management and (spanning-tree) topology. The switches running in a stacked configuration always have to run the same firmware, which means that in case of a firmware upgrade the network manager has to implement the new firmware on all stack-members at the same time, resulting in an outage of the entire stack.
The alternative is to have different logical switches, but then one of the used links will have to be blocked to ensure a loop-free topology (which can partially be overcome by using Multiple Spanning Tree or Cisco's proprietary per VLAN spanning tree. Spanning Tree Protocol is relativel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahboubeh%20Abbasgholizadeh | Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh () is an Iranian women's rights activist, researcher, journalist and film-maker. She is a director of Zanan Broadcasting Network (www.zanantv.org), and an active member of the Stop Stoning Forever campaign and the Iranian Women's Charter movement. She has headed the Association of Women Writers and Journalists and was editor-in-chief of the women's studies journal Farzeneh. Since 2004, when her Non-Governmental Organisation Training Centre (NGOTC) was shut down, she has been arrested several times. In 2010, after she had left Iran for Europe, Iran's Revolutionary Court sentenced her to two and a half years in jail and 30 lashes for "acts against national security".
Early life
Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh was born in Khoramshahr in southern Iran. She holds a BA in theology from Tehran University, a BA in Islamic Sciences from Islamic Azad University in Tehran and an MSc in Communication Sciences from Allameh Tabatabaee University in Tehran. She studied Arabic literature at Ain Shams University in Cairo. A participant in Iran's Islamic Revolution, she became interested in feminist readings of the Quran. Participating in a Quran reading group with Monir Gurji and Monir Amadi, she founded the Institute of Women's Studies and Research (IWSR) with them in 1986. She became editor of the institute's journal Farzaneh [Wise Woman] in 1993, continuing to edit it after she left the IWSR in 2003. In her editorial for Farzaneh's first issue, she argued the need for women's studies as a science which can aid women to live a good Islamic life. In 1997, faced with repression of women's publications by the Iranian judiciary, she founded the Association of Women Writers and Journalists. She has been active in the Women's Access to Public Stadiums campaign, the Stop Stoning Forever campaign, and the Iranian Women's Charter.
Security forces first arrested her on 1 November 2004, holding her for a month as a result of a speech she had delivered in Bangkok. Her personal effects were summarily seized and the Non-Governmental Organisation Training Centre (NGOTC), where she was Director, was shut down. She was arrested again on 4 March 2007, prior to International Women's Day, during a peaceful demonstration in front of Tehran's Revolutionary Court in solidarity with five women activists on trial for an earlier demonstration. This time she was held for over a month in Evin Prison. On 21 December 2009 she was arrested a third time, alongside others trying to attend the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri, a senior cleric who had criticised the Iranian government's crackdown on demonstrators in the aftermath of the contested June 2009 presidential elections. Released after 24 hours - on condition that she remove films she had made from the website of her collective - she left Iran for Europe. In May 2010 she was sentenced in absentia to 30 months in jail and 30 lashes for "acts against national security through conspiracy and collusi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Skiena | Steven Sol Skiena (born January 30, 1961) is a Computer Scientist and Distinguished Teaching Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University.
He is also Director of AI Institute at Stony Brook.
He was co-founder of General Sentiment, a social media and news analytics company, and served as Chief Science Officer from 2009 until it shut down in 2015.
His research interests include algorithm design and its applications to biology. Skiena is the author of several popular books in the fields of algorithms, programming, and mathematics.
The Algorithm Design Manual is widely used as an undergraduate text in algorithms and within the tech industry for job interview preparation. In 2001, Skiena was awarded the IEEE Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Teaching Award "for outstanding contributions to undergraduate education in the areas of algorithms and discrete mathematics and for influential textbook and software."
Skiena has worked on algorithmic problems in synthetic biology, and, in particular, issues of optimal gene design for a given protein under various constraints.
In collaboration with virologist Eckard Wimmer, he has worked to computationally design synthetic viruses for use as attenuated vaccines.
Their Synthetic Attenuated Virus Engineering (SAVE) approach has been validated in flu and experiments with other viruses are ongoing.
A popular account of this work appears in Dennis Shasha and Cathy Lazare's Natural Computing.
Skiena played a role in the conception of the Apple iPad.
In 1988, Skiena and his team won a competition run by Apple to design the Computer of the Year 2000.
Their design, a tablet featuring a touch screen, GPS, and wireless communications was similar in many regards to the iPad as released by Apple in 2010.
Bibliography
References
External links
Home page
1961 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Stony Brook University faculty
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
Computer science educators
Synthetic biologists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraguay%20TV | Paraguay TV is a Paraguayan television network. It is the first television station operated by the Paraguayan government, as well as the country's first digital channel. Experimental transmissions began on 15 August 2011, and regular scheduled programming began on 11 December.
History
As part of the celebrations for the Bicentennial of the Independence of Paraguay, on May 14, 2011, the new Paraguayan state channel called "TV Pública Paraguay" was inaugurated, being the most modern channel in the country. The inauguration consisted of the first step for the launch of the television project that aired on August 15 of that same year. Between August 15 and December 11 of that same year, it maintained a provisional grid. On October 29 of the same year, it had its first official broadcast, with live and direct monitoring of the XXI Ibero-American Summit held in Asunción (Paraguay), which could be seen on channel 14 (Analog) and channel 14.1 ( Digital) of DTT and for the whole world through its Intelsat satellite.
On December 10, 2011, the second day of the meeting of State Communicators (ECOE), began with the presentation of the channel's schedule, and also announced that it will go on air with its official broadcast starting on Monday 12 December of that year.
On August 16, 2013, the corporate image and name changed.
In December 2015, the state television station Paraguay TV was in charge of generating the signal and clean images freely and freely available for the XLIX Mercosur Summit for all national and international television media from the Confederation Convention Center. South American Soccer
In May 2016, Paraguay TV officially announced that it would be the only air channel to broadcast all the Copa América Centenario matches, from different cities in the United States. The signal was generated by Unicanal, which gave the broadcasting rights of the matches to Paraguay TV
In December 2016 and January 2017, in co-production with Telefuturo, the state channel was the Official Dakar Rally Channel, being the only Paraguayan channel to offer more than 100 hours of screen space dedicated exclusively to the competition.
Since October 13, 2017, the channel was available on Argentina's digital terrestrial television platform on dial 22.3 nationwide through the state-owned public company Radio y Televisión Argentina SE. Unlike the signal available in Paraguay Within the Argentine platform, the channel broadcast in the 4: 3 aspect ratio through pan and scan, which represents a loss of image since the lateral ends are cut off so that it can fit on a ray tube television cathodic.
Since mid-July 2018, the signal relay tower in the city near Asunción, San Lorenzo, was activated on channel 15 UHF virtual 32.2 and 32.3, causing great interference throughout the capital because it interfered with the Asunción signal. which in the same way transmits on virtual UHF channel 15 15.1 and 15.2 on DTT in that country.
On August 14, 2018, the signal ceased its |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DZEA-TV | DZEA-TV (channel 10) is a television station in North Central Luzon, Philippines, airing programming from the GMA network. Owned and operated by the network's namesake corporate parent, the station maintains studios at the GMA Complex, Claveria Road, Malued District, Dagupan City, Pangasinan, while its transmitter facilities shared with GTV outlet DWDG-TV channel 22 are located atop Mount Santo Tomas.
History
1967 - The station began existence as DZRI-TV in Benguet via Channel 10 the first television station in Northern Luzon under ABS-CBN Corporation until Marcos declared Martial Law in 1972.
1980 - GMA started its broadcast in Benguet via Channel 10, which then used by ABS-CBN prior to its closure after the declaration of Martial law in the Philippines eight years ago, together with the network's own variation of GMA Radio-Television Arts ident aside from sporting a light blue square logo with the network name in white, also had a circle 10 logo in use, in its final years the blue circle 10 logo used was similar to those used by the ABC is some United States cities and later used the rainbow colors of red, yellow, green and blue stripes.
April 30, 1992 - Coinciding with the network's Rainbow Satellite Network launch, GMA Channel 10 Baguio started its nationwide satellite broadcast to bring live broadcasts of Manila-sourced national programming via DZBB-TV, GMA's flagship TV station in Manila, to viewers in North Luzon region, with the utilizes a new logo to correspond with the rebranding and a satellite-beaming rainbow in a multicolored striped based on the traditional scheme of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet, with GMA in a metallic form uses a San Serif Country Gothic Extra Bold and analogous gloominess of Indigo as its fonts in the letters.
2005 - GMA Network launched TV-10 Dagupan as a satellite station in Pangasinan, with the opening of its studios located in Claveria Road, Malued District, Dagupan and the inauguration of a 20,000-watt transmitter facility located in Mt. Sto Tomas, Tuba, Benguet, resulting in improved signal quality throughout North Luzon and at the same year, QTV Channel 38 was also launched in Dagupan which is now currently carries GMA News TV (now inactive).
2008 - GMA Dagupan was upgraded to a "superstation" and it was alternately branded as GMA North Central Luzon, which primarily covers the provinces of Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, La Union and Benguet including Baguio; and can also be seen on the provinces of Zambales, Aurora, Ifugao, and Mountain Province. On May 5 of the same year, the station launched its flagship local newscast Balitang Amianan.
April 27, 2009 - GMA Dagupan launched its local morning show Primera Balita.
October 22, 2010 – 2011 - GMA News and Public Affairs Dagupan launched Isyu Ngayon North Central Luzon, a one-hour weekly public affairs show on the most pressing topics and issues around Pangasinan and Benguet.
November 10, 2014 - GMA News and Public Affairs Dagupan re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetMiner | NetMiner is an application software for exploratory analysis and visualization of large network data based on SNA (Social Network Analysis). It can be used for general research and teaching in social networks. This tool allows researchers to explore their network data visually and interactively, helps them to detect underlying patterns and structures of the network.
It features data transformation, network analysis, statistics, visualization of network data, chart, and a programming language based on the Python script language. Also, it enables users to import unstructured text data(e.g. news, articles, tweets, etc.) and extract words and network from text data. In addition, NetMiner SNS Data Collector, an extension of NetMiner, can collect some social networking service(SNS) data with a few clicks.
It has been released in 2001 as a commercial analysis software specialized in social network analysis. There are various license not only for commercial use, but also for non-commercial academic use. The current version is 4 for Microsoft Windows (2000 or later version).
Release history
The first version of NetMiner was released on Dec 21, 2001. There have been four major updates from 2001.
NetMiner
Released on December 21, 2001.
Network analysis modules and network visualization modules were integrated to one package
User interface for data analysis and management was added
Generic data structure for multi-layer network was introduced
NetMiner 2
Released on April 9, 2003.
Modules for importing external data were introduced
Some measures and methods for network analyses and statistical analyses are added and improved
Some algorithms for visualization processes are added and improved
NetMiner 3
Released on May 15, 2007.
Data structure was improved for huge network analysis
Analysis and visualization modules are integrated to support standardized analysis processes
Data import modules to access external DB such as Oracle and MS SQL were introduced
Environments for visualization and analysis were integrated to one
NetMiner 4
Released on May 10, 2011.
Python-based NetMiner Script was introduced
Encryption module for NMF format was added
Diffusion, Mining modules was added (Version 4.1.0.b.130318)
Two mode analysis modules and Mining(Classification, Regression, Anomaly Detection, Frequent Subgraph etc.) was added (Version: 4.2.0)
Morphological analyzer and new features(Word Cloud, Topic modeling algorithm, etc.) for Semantic network analysis was introduced. (Version 4.3.0)
Extension 'SNS Data Collector(Twitter, Facebook, YouTube)' was introduced - NetMiner can analyze networks between user and text at the same time. (Version: 4.4.0)
Current(2018.12) version: 4.4.2
Extension
NetMiner Extension is small program to extend the functionality of NetMiner. In other words, it enables you to customize NetMiner according to your needs. By adding ‘NetMiner Extension’, you can expand your research.
Download data from web
SNS Data Collector: It collects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namecoin | Namecoin (Abbreviation: NMC; sign: ) is a cryptocurrency originally forked from bitcoin software. It uses proof-of-work algorithm. Like bitcoin, it is limited to 21 million.
Namecoin can store data within its own blockchain transaction database. The original proposal for Namecoin called for Namecoin to insert data into bitcoin's blockchain directly. Anticipating scaling difficulties with this approach, a shared proof-of-work system was proposed to secure new cryptocurrencies with different use cases.
Namecoin's flagship use case is the censorship-resistant top level domain .bit, which is functionally similar to .com or .net domains but is independent of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the main governing body for domain names. In practice, the top level domain is used by a handful of functional websites. As of 2019, OpenNIC no longer supports the .bit domain.
Transactions
A peer-to-peer network similar to handles Namecoin's transactions, balances and issuance through a based proof-of-work scheme (they are issued when a small enough hash value is found, at which point a block is created).
Records
Each Namecoin record consists of a name and a value. Each name is actually a path, with the namespace preceding the name of the record. The key d/example signifies a record stored in the DNS namespace d with the name example and corresponds to the record for the example.bit website. The content of d/example is expected to conform to the DNS namespace specification., the fee for a record was 0.01 NMC and records expired after 36000 blocks (~200 days) unless updated or renewed.
Uses
.bit is a top-level domain, created outside the commonly used Domain Name System, and is not sanctioned by ICANN. The .bit domain is served via Namecoin infrastructure, which acts as a decentralized domain name system.
Proposed potential uses for Namecoin besides domain name registration include notary/timestamp systems.
History
In September 2010, a discussion was started in the BitcoinTalk forum about a hypothetical system called BitDNS and generalizing bitcoin. Gavin Andresen and Satoshi Nakamoto joined the discussion in the BitcoinTalk forum and supported the idea of BitDNS, and a reward for implementing BitDNS was announced on the forum in December 2010.
On block 19200 Namecoin activated the merged mining upgrade to allow mining of Bitcoin and Namecoin simultaneously, instead of having to choose between one or the other; this fixed the issue of miners jumping from one blockchain to another when the profitability becomes favorable in the former.
Two years later, in June 2013, NameID was launched. NameID allows to associate profile information with identities on the Namecoin blockchain, and an OpenID provider to allow logging into existing websites with Namecoin identities. The main site itself is accompanied by an open protocol for password-less authentication with Namecoin identities, a corresponding free-software implementation and a sup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20UI%20Library | Windows UI Library (WinUI codenamed "Jupiter", and also known as UWP XAML and WinRT XAML) is a user interface API that is part of the Windows Runtime programming model that forms the backbone of Universal Windows Platform apps (formerly known as Metro-style or Immersive) for the Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows Phone 8.1 operating systems. It enables declaring user interfaces using Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) technology.
WinUI is one of the multiple UI frameworks provided built-in for the Windows Runtime; the others being HTML5 (e.g., via WinJS) and DirectX.
WinUI 2 is an extension library for UWP XAML containing controls and styling that match the Windows 11 design language. It is shipped through NuGet and is distinct from the UWP XAML framework, which provides the actual rendering engine; though, they may be treated synonyms.
WinUI 3 decouples WinRT XAML from the operating system as a separate package to be updated quickly and make new features work on older versions of Windows. It is part of Windows App SDK (codenamed "Project Reunion"), a Microsoft effort to reconcile the Windows desktop (Win32) and the UWP low IL app model.
Windows Phone
Up to Windows Phone 8.0 WinRT XAML was not supported and XAML applications were based on Silverlight XAML and deployed in XAP format.
In Windows Phone 8.1 WinRT XAML is available along with improved Windows Runtime support. This convergence between platforms enable Universal apps that can target both Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.1 while sharing most of the code, including user interface. The Windows Phone 8.1 is still capable of running Silverlight XAML apps and new features and API were also added to this too (called Silverlight 8.1)
Related technologies
WinUI is related to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight (WPF/E)—similar XAML-based UI frameworks used for desktop applications and portable applications respectively. WinUI uses a lot of the same names for its APIs as both of these older technologies—especially Silverlight, but its use is limited to the Windows (specifically Windows 8 and later) as with WPF. The major difference is that WPF and Silverlight are written in C# and require using .NET languages such as C# or Visual Basic, while WinRT XAML is part of the Windows Runtime, written in C++ and available to native code, and has tools for development, with C++/CX or C++/WinRT.
See also
.NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI)
Windows Template Studio (WinTS)
Uno Platform
References
External links
Microsoft.UI.Xaml namespace documentation on Microsoft Docs
Windows.UI.Xaml namespace documentation on Microsoft Docs
Channel 9 - XAML presentations from the 2011 Build conference
Microsoft application programming interfaces
Free and open-source software
Free software programmed in C++
Free software programmed in C Sharp
Microsoft development tools
Microsoft free software
Computer-related introductions in 2011
Software using the MIT license
Widget to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIN/GIA | The Worldwide Independent Network/Gallup International Association (WIN/GIA) was an international cooperation of independent market research and polling firms. The group was created in May 2010 when the Gallup International Association (GIA), created in 1947, and the Worldwide Independent Network of market research (WIN), created in April 2007, started their cooperation. The cooperation ended in 2017.
References
Organizations established in 2010
Public opinion research companies
Organisations based in Zürich
Organizations disestablished in 2017 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnik | Vinnik is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alexander Vinnik (born 1979), Russian computer expert
Vyacheslav Vinnik (born 1939), Soviet sprint canoer
See also
Vinnikov |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-spline | In computer graphics, a T-spline is a mathematical model for defining freeform surfaces. A T-spline surface is a type of surface defined by a network of control points where a row of control points is allowed to terminate without traversing the entire surface. The control net at a terminated row resembles the letter "T".
Modeling surfaces with T-splines can reduce the number of control points in comparison to NURBS surfaces and make pieces easier to merge, but increases the book-keeping effort to keep track of the irregular connectivity. T-splines can be converted into NURBS surfaces, by knot insertion, and NURBS can be represented as T-splines without T's or by removing knots. T-splines can therefore, in theory, do everything that NURBS can do. In practice, an enormous amount of programming was required to make NURBS work as well as they do, and creating the equivalent T-spline functionality would require similar effort. To smoothly join at points where more than three surface pieces meet, T-splines have been combined with geometrically continuous constructions of degree 3 by 3 (bi-cubic) and, more recently, of degree 4 by 4 (bi-quartic).
Subdivision surfaces, NURBS surfaces, and polygon meshes are alternative technologies. Subdivision surfaces, as well as T-spline and NURBS surfaces with the addition of geometrically continuous constructions, can represent everywhere-smooth surfaces of any connectivity and topology, such as holes, branches, and handles. However, none of T-splines, subdivision surfaces, or NURBS surfaces can always accurately represent the (exact, algebraic) intersection of two surfaces within the same surface representation. Polygon meshes can represent exact intersections but lack the shape quality required in industrial design. Subdivision surfaces are widely adopted in the animation industry. Pixar's variant of the subdivision surfaces has the advantage of edge weights. T-splines do not yet have edge weights.
T-splines were initially defined in 2003. In 2007 the U.S. patent office granted patent number 7,274,364 for technologies related to T-Splines. T-Splines, Inc. was founded in 2004 to commercialize the technologies and acquired by Autodesk, Inc. in 2011.
External links
Technical articles about T-splines
Transitioning from NURBS to T-splines (67-minute video)
NURBS and CAD: 30 Years Together
An open source T-spline kernel
References
Computer-aided design
Splines (mathematics) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLS%20Innovation | MLS Innovation Inc. is a Greek software engineering and telecommunications equipment company founded in October 1989 in Thessaloniki. In May 2001, it was officially listed on the Athens Stock Exchange. Its headquarters are in Thessaloniki, while the company keeps a commercial department in Athens.
MAIC (MLS Artificial Intelligence Center)
MLS Artificial Intelligence Center (MAIC) is the main selling point of MLS, which is now incorporated in all its devices.
MAIC has not evolved the user experience of all MLS devices while interacting with the user. MAIC uses voice recognition technologies to perform the following actions (non exhaustive list):
calls
messaging and email
search the Internet or YouTube
tracking, navigation and calls to open pharmacies, hospitals, banks, petrol stations,
information on nearby parking, traffic on the road or weather report
launch installed applications
encyclopaedic searches and dictation of their summary
translating words or sentences and spelling out the correct pronunciation from Greek to English and vice versa.
Products
Educational boards
In 2010 MLS entered the educational technology market and completed the development of its own interactive touch board, the MLS IQBoard, for use in all forms of classroom-based instructional technologies. MLS undertook the supply and installation of approximately 1,100 interactive boards, totalling 1.6 mil. Euros.
Smartphones
In 2012 the company expanded its commercial activities in the mobile phone market by launching the first Greek Android smartphone MLS iQTalk.
MLS Diamond
At the end of 2015, MLS announced the creation of a new category of products with the brand name "Diamond", which included the premium smartphone models MLS Diamond 4G, MLS Diamond 5.2 4G and MLS Diamond Fingerprint 4G.
2-in-1 tablet & laptop
MLS Magic is MLS's latest product, which was launched in 2016 and belongs to the 2-in-1 category of products, allowing the user to own both a tablet and a laptop. It is also dual boot, meaning that it combines two operating systems, both Windows and Android.
Corporate bond
MLS announced on Tuesday 19 July 2016 the trade of a total 400 common registered titles, each worth 10,000 Euros, which would begin trading in the Fixed Income Alternative Market of the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE). The duration of the corporate bond is four (4) years with an option to extend for one (1) more year. At the end of every coupon period, which will be quarterly, the issuer will deposit the coupon amount to every holder of the Corporate Bond title(s), calculated based on an annual interest rate of 5.30%. (coupon rate).
European projects
Research & Development is the core of the company's activities and so MLS Innovation has been engaging in various partnerships and research programs while providing its expertise to third parties by developing and supporting applications in the fields of educational technology, linguistic technology, telematics and multimedia applications. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey%E2%80%93Fox%20algorithm | The Lindsey–Fox algorithm, named after Pat Lindsey and Jim Fox, is a numerical algorithm for finding the roots or zeros of a high-degree polynomial with real coefficients over the complex field. It is particularly designed for random coefficients but also works well on polynomials with coefficients from samples of speech, seismic signals, and other measured phenomena. A Matlab implementation of this has factored polynomials of degree over a million on a desktop computer.
The Lindsey–Fox algorithm
The Lindsey–Fox algorithm uses the FFT (fast Fourier transform) to very efficiently conduct a grid search in the complex plane to find accurate approximations to the N roots (zeros) of an Nth-degree polynomial. The power of this grid search allows a new polynomial factoring strategy that has proven to be very effective for a certain class of polynomials. This algorithm was conceived of by Pat Lindsey and implemented by Jim Fox in a package of computer programs created to factor high-degree polynomials. It was originally designed and has been further developed to be particularly suited to polynomials with real, random coefficients. In that form, it has proven to be very successful by factoring thousands of polynomials of degrees from one thousand to hundreds of thousand as well as several of degree one million and one each of degree two million and four million. In addition to handling very high degree polynomials, it is accurate, fast, uses minimum memory, and is programmed in the widely available language, Matlab. There are practical applications, often cases where the coefficients are samples of some natural signal such as speech or seismic signals, where the algorithm is appropriate and useful. However, it is certainly possible to create special, ill-conditioned polynomials that it cannot factor, even low degree ones. The basic ideas of the algorithm were first published by Lindsey and Fox in 1992 and reprinted in 1996. After further development, other papers were published in 2003 and an on-line booklet. The program was made available to the public in March 2004 on the Rice University web site. A more robust version-2 was released in March 2006 and updated later in the year.
The three stages of the Lindsey–Fox program
The strategy implemented in the Lindsey–Fox algorithm to factor polynomials is organized in three stages. The first evaluates the polynomial over a grid on the complex plane and conducts a direct search for potential zeros. The second stage takes these potential zeros and “polishes” them by applying Laguerre's method to bring them close to the actual zeros of the polynomial. The third stage multiplies these zeros together or “unfactors” them to create a polynomial that is verified against the original. If some of the zeros were not found, the original polynomial is “deflated” by dividing it by the polynomial created from the found zeros. This quotient polynomial will generally be of low order and can be factored by conventional met |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20It%20or%20List%20It%20Vancouver | Love It or List It Vancouver, known as Love It or List it Too in the United States, is a Canadian home design reality TV series airing on the W Network. The show was the first spin off from Love It or List It and was the second show in the Love it or List It franchise. The show is produced by Big Coat Productions and is based in the Greater Vancouver area and other surrounding areas in British Columbia, Canada.
The show premiered as a prime-time program on W Network in January 2013. It stars former The Bachelor and The Bachelorette star Jillian Harris, and real estate agent Todd Talbot. In the United States, the show is titled Love It or List It, Too, and airs on the HGTV network.
In Canada, new episodes of season three started airing on July 6, 2015, on W Network at 10pm; in the US new episodes of Love It or List It, Too (the US title, season five) started airing on July 24, 2015.
In November 2017, the series was planning to film in the Okanagan valley.
Storyline
In each episode of Love It or List It Vancouver, a couple or family is faced with the decision of whether or not their current home is the right home for them. With a list of what they would need to change in their current home, and what they would need in a new home, both hosts - a designer and a realtor - come in to try to help make the decision easier. The designer attempts to win over the homeowners by renovating their current home, and the realtor tries to find them the home of their dreams.
Host and crew biographies
Hosts
Jillian Harris – Born on December 30, 1979, in Peace River, Alberta, Canada, she is best known for her work on ABC's The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. Harris also worked as a designer on ABC's Extreme Makeover Home Edition. She now returns home to Canada, competing against her co-host and rival, Todd Talbot. Like Hilary Farr, her job is to make clients on the show regain their love for their home again.
Todd Talbot – Born on June 12, 1973, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, he is a former actor, now a realtor, and is co-host and rival of Jillian Harris. He has been married to international singer and model Rebecca Talbot since March 2007. They have a son and a daughter. Like David Visentin, his job is to get clients on the show to list their home for a better opportunity.
Design Team
Jillian has a design team who works with her on each episode. Francesca Albertazzi heads up the team with Megan Bennett, Sarah Johnson and Farah Malik.
Contractor
Kenny Gemmill - is Jillian's general contractor, also a fire fighter and owner of Kits Construction and Development Ltd based in Vancouver. He oversees all the construction teams working on the show
Episodes
Victories for Jillian are families or clients who decided to love their home and stay. Victories for Todd are families and clients who decided to list and move into a new or better home.
Series overview
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
See also
Love It or List It
Property Brothe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20Jelly%20Bean | Android Jelly Bean, or Android 4.1 is the codename given to the tenth version of the Android mobile operating system developed by Google, spanning three major point releases (versions 4.1 through 4.3.1). Among the devices that run Android 4.1 to 4.3 are the Nexus 7 (2012), Nexus 4, Nexus 10, Nexus 7 (2013), and Hyundai Play X.
The first of these three releases, 4.1, was unveiled at Google's I/O developer conference in June 2012. It focused on performance improvements designed to give the operating system a smoother and more responsive feel, improvements to the notification system allowing for expandable notifications with action buttons, and other internal changes. Two more releases were made under the Jelly Bean name in October 2012 and July 2013 respectively, including 4.2—which included further optimizations, multi-user support for tablets, lock screen widgets, quick settings, and screensavers, and 4.3—which contained further improvements and updates to the underlying Android platform. The first device with Android Jelly Bean was the 2012 Nexus 7.
, 0.36% of Android devices run Jelly Bean. In July 2021, Google announced that Google Play Services would no longer support Jelly Bean after August of that year.
Development
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean was first unveiled at the Google I/O developer conference on June 27, 2012, with a focus on "delightful" improvements to the platform's user interface, along with improvements to Google's search experience on the platform (such as Knowledge Graph integration, and the then-new digital assistant Google Now), the unveiling of the Asus-produced Nexus 7 tablet, and the unveiling of the Nexus Q media player.
For Jelly Bean, work was made on optimizing the operating system's visual performance and responsiveness through a series of changes referred to as "Project Butter": graphical output is now triple buffered, vsync is used across all drawing operations, and the CPU is brought to full power when touch input is detected—preventing the lag associated with inputs made while the processor is in a low-power state. These changes allow the operating system to run at a full 60 frames per second on capable hardware.
Following 4.1, two more Android releases were made under the Jelly Bean codename; both of these releases focused primarily on performance improvements and changes to the Android platform itself, and contained relatively few user-facing changes. Alongside Android 4.1, Google also began to decouple APIs for its services on Android into a new system-level component known as Google Play Services, serviced through Google Play Store. This allows the addition of certain forms of functionality without having to distribute an upgrade to the operating system itself, addressing the infamous "fragmentation" problems experienced by the Android ecosystem.
Release
Attendees of the Google I/O conference were given Nexus 7 tablets pre-loaded with Android 4.1, and Galaxy Nexus smartphones which could be upgraded to 4. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean%20rhythm | The Euclidean rhythm in music was discovered by Godfried Toussaint in 2004 and is described in a 2005 paper "The Euclidean Algorithm Generates Traditional Musical Rhythms". The greatest common divisor of two numbers is used rhythmically giving the number of beats and silences, generating almost all of the most important world music rhythms, except Indian. The beats in the resulting rhythms are as equidistant as possible; the same results can be obtained from the Bresenham algorithm.
Summary of algorithm
In Toussaint's paper the task of distributing beats within time steps is considered. It is given that , so there are fewer beats than steps. The question arises of how to distribute these beats such that they are as equidistant as possible. This is easy when is divisible by —in this case we distribute the beats such that they are steps away from their neighbour. As an example, below is a euclidean rhythm for and . These beats are 4 steps away from each other because .
[ x . . . x . . . x . . . x . . . ]
Here "x" represents a beat and "." represents a silence.
The problem becomes more complicated when does not divide . In this case the formula doesn't produce an integer, so some beats must be slightly closer to one neighbour than the other. Because of this the beats are no longer perfectly equidistant. As an example, take the case when and . A naive algorithm may place the beats like this:
[ x . x . x . . x . . x . . ]
Although the beats are technically distributed with ideal spacing between the beats—they are either two steps apart or three—we still have a problem where the beats are "clumped" at the start and spaced out at the end. A more concrete definition of "equidistant" might ask that these spacings ("x ." and "x . .") are also distributed evenly.
Toussaint's observation is that Euclid's algorithm can be used to systematically find a solution for any and that minimizes "clumping." Taking the previous example where and we perform Euclid's algorithm:
Toussaint's algorithm first constructs the following rhythm.
[ x x x x x . . . . . . . . ]
Then, using the sequence we iteratively take columns off the right of the sequence and place them at the bottom. Starting with , we get:
[ x x x x x . . .
. . . . . ]
Next is .
[ x x x x x
. . . . .
. . . ]
Next is .
[ x x x
. . .
. . .
x x
. . ]
The process stops here because , i.e. there is only one column to move. The final beat pattern is read out from top to bottom, left to right:
[ x . . x . x . . x . x . . ]
Other uses of Euclid's algorithm in music
In the 17th century Conrad Henfling writing to Leibniz about music theory and the tuning of musical instruments makes use of the Euclidean algorithm in his reasoning.
Viggo Brun investigated the use of Euclidean Algorithm in terms of constructing scales up to 4 different size intervals. Erv Wilson explored both using ratios andscale steps of which Kraig Grady applied torhythms wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm%20Image%20Format | In computer programming, the Arm Image Format (AIF) is an object file format used primarily for software intended to run on ARM microprocessors. It was introduced by Acorn Computers for use with their Archimedes computer. It can optionally facilitate debugging, including under operating systems running on other processor architectures.
Format
The file can be either executable or non-executable and is loaded at 0x8000 unless otherwise specified. Executable files can relocate themselves if necessary and non-executable files are prepared for execution by an image loader. An extended AIF is a type of non-executable which includes information to enable the placement of code and data within specific areas of memory.
The file includes a header and separate areas of read-only and read-write code/data. It can optionally include data for debugging and the code (with list) for self-relocation.
AIF header
The header includes information about self-relocation, entry point, exit instruction, area sizes and locations, debug type, addressing mode and memory placement (in the case of the extended file).
An allocation was later made in the header to mark executables as being "StrongARM-ready", to address some backward compatibility issues.
Debugging
The files can be run for debugging under DOS and SunOS using the ARM Windowing Debugger.
Other uses
Microsoft's MMLite modular system architecture supports the loading of various image formats, including AIF files. Porting of Wind River Systems' VxWorks operating system to the StrongARM EBSA-285 board involved using AIF files.
References
Executable file formats
RISC OS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%20810 | The Atari 810 is the official floppy disk drive for the Atari 400 and 800, the first two models in the Atari 8-bit family of home computers. It was released by Atari, Inc. in 1980. The single-density drive provides 90 kB of storage. The 810 has a data transfer rate of 6 kbps in most cases and a number of reliability issues. Third-party enhancements such as the Happy 810 address these problems as do replacement drives like the Indus GT with more storage and other features.
At the same time as the 810, Atari announced the double-density Atari 815, allowing 180 kB per disk, with two drives in one case. It was never put into full production.
The 810 was replaced by the Atari 1050 with the release of the XL series machines in 1983. It was replaced in turn in 1987 by the XF551 with a double-sided, double-density 360 kB mode.
History
Atari vs. Apple
The machines that emerged as the Atari 8-bit family had originally been designed as part of a project to develop a driver chipset for a new games console. During the time the chips were being developed, the Apple II became very popular and propelled Apple Computer into one of the largest initial public offerings of its era. Atari, recently purchased by Warner Communications, had placed Ray Kassar in the CEO position in March 1978. He decided to redirect the chipset to the emerging home computer market to take on Apple.
One of the key reasons for the Apple II's success was the Disk II, introduced in June 1978 at the very low (for the era) price of $495 () plus the interface card. The interface was based on a system Steve Wozniak had previously built while working at Hewlett-Packard to control a Shugart Associates SA-400 floppy drive. Steve Jobs went to Shugart and asked for a stripped-down drive mechanism for $100; Shugart responded by shipping them 25 prototypes of a new model they called the SA-390. Woz's controller then provided the bits that Shugart had removed, allowing two drives to be controlled by a single card. The resulting system operated at 15 kbps, making it faster than any of the competing designs of the era.
New design
The new Atari machines faced the problem that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had recently introduced standards to deal with the profusion of systems that connected to televisions that were causing significant problems with interference. The new rules were extremely strict, requiring a lengthy and costly testing suite to be run against any new product and anything that connected to it. Apple avoided this by not connecting to a television; instead, a 3rd party sold the required RF modulator and thus Apple didn't need testing. Atari was determined to make a plug-and-play system that connected directly to the television, like the Atari VCS. This precluded the idea of having expansion slots that could be connected to external equipment, like on the Apple, as the openings would be difficult to shield property to avoid RF leakage.
This led to the introduction of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari%201050 | The Atari 1050 was a floppy disk drive for the Atari 8-bit family home computers, released in June 1983. It was compatible with the 90 kB single-density mode of the original Atari 810 it replaced, and added a new "enhanced" or "dual density" mode that provided 130 kB. Based on a half-height Tandon mechanism, it was much smaller than the 810 and matched the styling of the new 600XL and 800XL machines.
By the time it was available, a wide variety of third party drives had been introduced for the 8-bit platform, many of which were faster and offered true double-density support for 180 kB. The lack of double-density support on the 1050 was a mystery to onlookers at the time, as the hardware had full support for this format. The launch was further marred by releasing it with the older Atari DOS 2.0S, S for "single", which did not support the 130 kB capacity. Atari replaced 2.0 with DOS 3.0 which supported the enhanced density mode, but used an entirely new format that was incompatible with earlier disks. The release of DOS 2.5 in 1985 finally addressed these issues.
The 1050 was launched directly into the rise of the Commodore 64 and the videogame crash of 1983 when sales of the entire 8-bit line plummeted. When Jack Tramiel purchased Atari in 1984 there were warehouses filled with unsold 1050s, which delayed production of a replacement. It was not until 1987 that the Atari XF551 was introduced, offering both double-density and double-sided capabilities and a double-speed transfer mode.
History
810 and 815
When the 8-bit series was first announced in 1978 it was often shown with two floppy disk drive systems, the 810 and 815. The 810 was an entry-level model, supporting only single-density FM encoding at 90 kB total storage. The 815 used two double-density MFM encoding drives in a single large housing, each drive offering 180 kB of storage. For reasons unknown, the 815 was produced only in small numbers starting in 1980 and then abandoned, leaving the platform only with the 810 which were described by InfoWorld as "noisy, slow and inefficient."
New design
In April 1982, Atari began the process of designing an improved version of the 8-bit series, which were to be known as the 1000 and 1000XL. Among the changes was a new design language from Regan Cheng using off-white and black plastics with brushed metal overlay on switches and other fixtures. Along with the machines, a new line of peripherals would be released with matching styling, numbered in the 1000's in the same fashion that earlier devices had been numbered in the 400 and 800 series.
For reasons unknown, Atari abandoned these plans and instead introduced only one model, now known as the 1200XL. When it was introduced at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in December 1982, it was shown with the new Atari 1010 cassette deck, and the 1020 plotter and 1025 printers. There was no sign of a new floppy drive, and one reviewer noted that when he went looking all he could find was the "old mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appro | Appro was a developer of supercomputing supporting High Performance Computing (HPC) markets focused on medium- to large-scale deployments. Appro was based in Milpitas, California with a computing center in Houston, Texas, and a manufacturing and support subsidiary in South Korea and Japan.
Cray Inc. purchased Appro in November 2012.
Company history
Appro was founded in 1991 by President and CEO Daniel Kim. Mr. Kim expanded the company in the US market as OEM high performance rackmount computer systems manufacturer. Appro quickly became one of the fastest growing rackmount computer companies.
In 2002, Appro produced and marketed its own line of branded high-density servers for the high-performance and Internet computing markets in a transition from OEM to Appro branded products.
In 2005, Appro expanded manufacturing, engineering and product development teams in South Korea and introduced its first blade cluster, the Appro HyperBlade Server Cluster Solution and the Appro 1142H, the first 1U 4-processor server available to the HPC market.
In 2006, Appro launched its first flagship product, the Xtreme-X Supercomputer based on x86 processors. The system combines high performance and high availability in a balanced architecture for scaling out data centers from medium to large-sized systems. The supercomputer features the Appro Cluster Engine (ACE) Management Software, a complete lights-out remote management system.
In 2008 and 2009, Appro announced the Appro HyperPower Cluster, a hybrid CPU/GPU computing based on NVIDIA Tesla and NVIDIA Cuda software technology and including professional services and cluster management options. Appro also launched the Appro GreenBlade System.
In 2011, Appro revealed the next generation Xtreme-X Supercomputer. The system featured the latest processing and accelerator technologies, increased performance/watt, multiple high performance network connectivity, I/O and disk options along with specialized professional services. The system addressed four critical HPC workloads: capacity, hybrid, data intensive, and capability computing. The reinvented system won several major supercomputing contracts for customers such as San Diego Supercomputer Center, Lockheed Martin (Department of Defense), NNSA (Department of Energy), University of Tsukuba, and Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, Los Alamos National Laboratories.
On November 9, 2012, Cray Inc. announced plans to acquire Appro for $21.8 million to strengthen the company's HPC cluster system offerings. On November 21, 2012 Cray announced it had completed the acquisition of Appro International, Inc.
Customers and Supercomputing Projects
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) – 113TF supercomputer for NOAA's Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP) (2012)
Virginia Tech, Advanced Research Computing (ARC) – Blue-Ridge Supercomputer (2011) featuring Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors
Kyoto University – 210TF supercomputer (2011) for the Academic Center for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolony | Kolony may refer to:
Kolony, a Malaysian social networking service from Celcom
Steve Aoki Presents Kolony, also known as Kolony, the fourth studio album by EDM artist Steve Aoki
See also
Colony (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severnside%20Community%20Rail%20Partnership | The Severnside Community Rail Partnership is a community rail partnership covering the network of routes radiating from Bristol, bounded by Gloucester, Bath/Freshford, Weston-super-Mare, Taunton, and the Severn Estuary. It was founded in 2004, and is principally sponsored by local councils.
See also
Friends of Suburban Bristol Railways
References
External links
Official website
Rail transport in Bristol
Politics of Bristol
Transport advocacy groups of the United Kingdom
2004 establishments in England
Rail transport in Somerset
Organisations based in Bristol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Suits%20characters | Suits is an American legal drama, created by Aaron Korsh. It premiered on USA Network in June 2011. The series revolves around Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht), a senior partner at a top law firm in Manhattan, and his recently hired associate attorney Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) as they hide the fact that Mike does not have a law degree. Each episode focuses on a single legal case and its challenges while examining the work environment of the firm, Mike's and Harvey's personal relationships, and problems stemming from Mike's lack of a degree. The rest of the starring cast portray other employees at the firm: Louis Litt (Rick Hoffman), a partner who manages the associates; Rachel Zane (Meghan Markle), a paralegal who develops feelings for Mike; Donna Paulsen (Sarah Rafferty), Harvey's long-time legal secretary, close friend, and confidante; and Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres), the co-founder and managing partner of the firm.
Overview
Note:
Main characters
Harvey Specter
Harvey Reginald Specter, played by Gabriel Macht, is a newly promoted senior partner at the prestigious New York law firm Pearson Hardman and is known as one of the city's top litigators. In episode 1 of season 8, it is revealed he was born and raised in Riverside, NY, the same town as fellow attorney Samantha Wheeler. In the pilot episode, he is told of his promotion to senior partner—the youngest to hold that position—and is forced to hire a Harvard Law School graduate to be his associate attorney. He is impressed with Mike Ross' quick thinking and drive to be a good lawyer, as well as his inherent ability to absorb enormous amounts of information (his photographic memory) and his extensive knowledge of law. Mike, however, does not have a law degree, but is hired anyway because Harvey does not want to waste time interviewing less-promising candidates. Mike reminds Harvey of a younger version of himself, and so they agree to conspire to pretend that Mike is, in fact, a Harvard graduate. He acts as Mike's mentor, as well as his immediate superior: although he performs these roles somewhat reluctantly and emotionally distantly at first, he later begins to show that he does care about Mike and Mike's future as a lawyer.
Harvey began working in the mail room, went to New York University (NYU) for his undergraduate degree, and Jessica Pearson later paid for his tuition at Harvard Law, from which he graduated in 1997. Though years later Jessica muses to him that he did not take his studies seriously, he still graduated fifth in his class. Although he intended to start his law career at Gordon, Schmidt & Van Dyke (the Pearson Hardman firm’s previous name), Jessica sent him to the New York County District Attorney's Office for mentoring and he worked as an assistant district attorney (ADA) under District Attorney Cameron Dennis (Gary Cole). While there, he met his legal secretary Donna Paulsen (at a bar), who became his close friend and confidante. After two years, he discovered a ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program%20compatibility%20date%20range | The Program Compatibility Date Range (PCDR) of a computer determines the date range of programs it can run. Windows XP is widely recognized for its expansive PCDR, which covers games from as old as the 1980s. Windows Vista, however, wasn't so lucky, largely due to the addition of the Program Files (x86) file that outlawed the installation of, and therefore usage of DOS Programs from Vista. This contributed to Vista's intense negative reception, along with its overly-secure structure.
Windows XP
Windows Vista |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfield%20Institute%20for%20Social%20Justice%20and%20Transformation | The Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation is a social justice programming and transformational learning institute established in 1999.
The MISJT also hosts an on-campus student organization, MISO.
Social justice programming
Past events include:
One Book, One University lectures with Michelle Alexander, Jonathon Kozol, and Katha Pollitt.
Mansfield Lecturers Marian Wright Edleman, Barbara Katz Rothman and Paul Rogat Loeb.
Matthew Freeman Lecturers Anne Enke, Eric Klinenberg and Oscar A. Chacón.
The Cradle to College Pipeline Summit which brought together academics, community organizers, legislators, criminal justice professionals and students to discuss the "cradle to prison pipeline."
Faculty and staff
Dr. Heather Dalmage, Director of the Mansfield Institute and Professor of Sociology.
Nancy Michaels, M.A., Associate Director.
Dr. Steven A. Meyers, Professor of Psychology and Mansfield Professor of Social Justice.
References
Roosevelt University
Social justice organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketship%20Education | Rocketship Public Schools (RPS) is a non-profit charter school network headquartered in Redwood City, California.
History
Rocketship was founded by Preston Smith and John Danner in 2006. The organization opened its first school in San Jose, California in 2007. At its flagship school, students scored as high as Palo Alto School District students on California's state assessment, earning praise as an innovative alternative for low-income students. As a result, Rocketship expanded quickly and opened six additional charter schools in the San Jose area over the next five years. As a result of a planned succession in January 2013, Danner left the company and Smith was named CEO. In August 2013, Rocketship opened its first school outside of California in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 2014, Rocketship expanded its network to Nashville, Tennessee. In 2016, Rocketship opened its fourth region in Washington, D.C., in 2016, where it's K-5 schools also offer preschool through a partnership with Apple Tree Institute. In August 2022, Rocketship opened its first school in Texas offering Pre-K-3.
Several Rocketship facilities received funding from former tennis pro, Andre Agassi's Turner-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund. Agassi helped to open the Rocketship Rise Academy in Washington D.C. Ward 8, its first school in the District of Columbia. He also dedicated the Rocketship United Academy in Nashville.
In February 2015, it was announced that Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, was donating $2 million to Rocketship to support its Bay Area growth. The Obama administration invested $2 million in Rocketship's growth. In September 2017, the Education Department awarded a grant to Rocketship as part of $250 million dedicated to charter management organizations for building new schools.
In 2017, Rocketship Education changed its name to Rocketship Public Schools.
California
In 2007, Rocketship opened its first school in San Jose, the Mateo Sheedy Elementary School. By 2011, Rocketship had 5 elementary schools, including Mosaic Elementary and Discovery Prep which opened that Fall. In July 2013, Rocketship got permission to build its eighth school in San Jose near the Tamien light-rail station.
In 2015, over 400 parents organized a successful campaign to bring Rocketship to Redwood City, California.
In December 2016, Antioch Unified schools gained initial approval Rocketship to open its third charter school in the district. In November 2017, Rocketship got formal approval to open a third charter elementary school worth $14.4 million in Antioch, California on a property it previously purchased on Cavallo Road. The school received a charter from the Antioch Unified School District. At the time, Rocketship operated 18 schools in three states, as well as Washington D.C.
It was announced in March 2017 that the Rocketship Futuro Academy in Concord, California would move from its location in portables of the Ayers Elementary site to the former site of Glenbrook Middle Scho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%20Dance%20Now%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Everybody Dance Now was an Australian reality television dance competition that premiered on 12 August 2012 on Network Ten. The show was produced by FremantleMedia Australia, and hosted by Sarah Murdoch.
Everybody Dance Now was open to solo acts, duos and groups of any age, style or size. They were divided into two teams, with each being led by the dance masters Jason Derülo and Kelly Rowland, who would "challenge, train and mentor" their acts. The teams faced a studio audience in each episode "to do battle in a colosseum-style dance duel." During the heats stage of the competition, eight acts would perform in each episode, with two acts winning $10,000 and progressing through to the finals to compete for the ultimate prize of $250,000.
On 21 August 2012, as ratings were dwindling, Network Ten considered changing the weekly schedule for the show, from three half-hour episodes to one full hour episode a week, but when those plans fell through, it decided to cancel the show due to poor ratings. The prize money was then donated to charity.
Overview
Format
Everybody Dance Now consisted of two phases: heats and finals. The show was open to dancers of all ages and styles, who were divided into two teams, with each being taken under the guidance of big name entertainment celebrities known as the dance masters, to do battle in a colosseum-style duel. During the heats stage of the competition, eight acts would perform during each episode in four duels. Once each duel was complete, the studio audience would vote for the act they think should progress through to the dance duel decider round. During this round, the studio audience would vote again for the two acts they think should win $10,000 and progress through to the finals. During the finals, dance acts would compete for the ultimate prize of $250,000. But there turned out to be no finals, and of course, no winners, due to the show's cancellation.
Production
Everybody Dance Now was filmed at a location in Melbourne with a live studio audience.
Series summary
International versions
References
Network 10 original programming
2010s Australian reality television series
2012 Australian television series debuts
2012 Australian television series endings
Everybody Dance Now
Dance competition television shows
English-language television shows
Television series by Fremantle (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPATH | AMPATH (America's Path) was developed in 2000 as a high performance exchange point in Miami, Florida, United States. AMPATH assists peer based and network research between U.S. and international research and education networks.
Some of AMPATH's founding partners include REUNA of Chile, RNP of Brazil, CNTI of Venezuela, RETINA of Argentina, ANSP (Academic Network of São Paulo, a state-funded network), the University of Puerto Rico, New World Symphony, the Arecibo Observatory, the Gemini-South telescope, and Florida International University.
Founding members
AMPATH's original corporate sponsors consist of Global Crossing, Terremark Worldwide Inc., Lucent Technologies, Cisco Systems, and Juniper Networks.
Julio Ibarra
Julio Ibarra, principal investigator, has been with AMPATH since its creation in 2000. In 2012 Ibarra received his PhD from the University of Twente in Enschede, Netherlands.
Heidi Alvarez
Heidi Alvarez serves as co-principal investigator for AMPATH. In 2006 Alvarez received her PhD from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University, in the Netherlands. She has held the position as Co-Pi for the AMPATH International Exchange Point since April, 2000. She is also Co-PI for the 2010 AmLight International Research Network Connections (NSF-IRNC) project for Latin America, Mexico and the Caribbean as well as for the AMPATH International Exchange Point in Miami.
Donald A. Cox
Donald A. Cox, chief operations officer, obtained his BS and MBA from Vanderbilt University, and in 2011 Cox received his PhD from the University of Western Australia.
Network configuration
AMPATH's resources are composed of multiple of organizations, including its two primary connections with Atlantic Wave and Southern Light. AMPATH's network configuration consists of four major parts; 1) Layer2 ether connections, up to 10 Gigabits per second, including Ethernet VLANs mapped using Next-Generation SONET/SDH protocols 2) Packet Over SONET (POS)/Synchronous Date Hierarchy (SDH) connections 3) Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) connections and 4) Standard interface configuration includes support for jumbo frames.
History
Over the past decade the U.S. National Science Foundation has recognized AMPATH as a major research facility, supporting international e-Science.
2002
One of AMPATH's first achievements was connecting with the Academic Network at São Paulo (ANSP), the network of the State of São Paulo in Brazil. This connection included peering services with the Abilene Network.
AMPATH along with Internet2 was able to create a new link between Gemini's twin, 8-meter telescopes, located on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, and on Cerro Pachón in the Chilean Andes.
2003
In 2003 AMPATH was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for more than $500,000 to assist in connecting the Internet2's Abilene Network with regional universities and educational institutions in the United States, Latin America, and parts of the Caribbean.
2005
In the winter of 2005 AMPATH wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MexScript | MexScript is a multi-paradigm computer scripting language used in a number of game resource archive file handlers. It was originally created for the 16-bit command-line tool multiex, and later 32-bit versions of MultiEx Commander. It is a script that enables the end user to have the interpreting program perform a number of tasks needed to access file contents, as well as to replace file contents. The MexScript has since become one of the standards to process game archives, as is indicated by the implementation of the script (also referred to as multiex, MexCom3, BMS) in similar programs, such as Dragon UNpack, Game Extractor, FusePAK, and the more recent dialect QuickBMS.
History
MexScript was created in 1997 for multiex by Mike Zuurman and fed to the tool using .INI files. The script was improved upon in later releases of MultiEx Commander. The name stems from the abbreviation of multiex to 'mex', though it is also referred to as Binary MultiEx Script (BMS) which in essence is a compiled version of MexScript. MexScript is interpreted by a Dynamic-link library called "multiex.dll" for the Windows version of MultiEx Commander, and a public version was released on the 24th of July 2003.
Implementations
Besides MultiEx Commander, the MexScript has been implemented in a number of other applications. The multiex Dynamic-link library was used after initial release in a similar game archive file handler called Dragon UNpack. The scripting language itself has been implemented in the linux tool Fusepak and the Java application Game Extractor.
A script exists to convert MexScript into Python for OpenMEX.
There is also a dialect of MexScript/BMS called QuickBMS, that first appeared on the Xentax Foundation's Game Research Forum on April 16, 2009.
Design
MexScript is a domain specific, structured functional scripting language designed for the end-user. The primary domain is the processes required to handle game resource archive formats (GRAF). GRAF is a term first coined in November 2003. The purpose of writing in the MexScript scripting language is to manipulate the contents of GRAs in order to MOD a computer game.
Script
Extensive descriptions of MexScript are found on the web sites of various implementations, most notably MultiEx Commander and QuickBMS.
The last release of the 16-bit implementation in 1998 of MultiEx Commander featured statements and commands as follows:
ID, EVENTS, NOFILENAMES, GetLong, FlipLong, GetInt, GetString, WriteLong, GetDString, GetNullString, StrCReplace, StrEReplace, LOOP, ENDLOOP, SavePos, GoTo, SET, SETFILECNT, ADD, SUBST, SETBYTESREAD, MULTIPLY, UP, DOWN, PROMPTUSER, ExtractFILE, SETPATH, FindFileID, Case, SeparateHeader.
Later dialects as implemented by MultiEx Commander or QuickBMS offer more functionality.
Data
Depending on the dialect or original implementation, the data types can differ substantially. MexScript for MultiEx Commander has the following:
Long --> 32-bit value (4 bytes, Little endian)
I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Asha%20200/201 | The Nokia Asha 200 (Dual Sim Phone) & Nokia Asha 201 (Single Sim Phone) are budget-level additions to the Nokia Asha family released in Q4 2011. Both devices run the Nokia S40 mobile operating system. There is no direct predecessor of the phones, though the closest to it is the Nokia X2-01, which has similar features and a very similar user interface, as well as having better music capabilities. The Nokia C3 is also an indirect predecessor, also using similar features, though the C3 is a higher end device. The phones are successors to the Nokia X1-01, as they use the same bright colors and the same Dual SIM support for Nokia Asha 200.
Colors
There were four main colors introduced to this phone, namely, pink, blue, black and white. In addition, other colors introduced for selected regions were graphite, green, aqua, pearl white, light pink & orange. The device has uni-colored body rather than combination.
Camera
The device is able to capture pictures at a resolution of 1600 x 1200
pixels with its 2.0-megapixel camera. The results are good for day to
day usage like instant sharing or updating profiles on social networks
as the phone supports apps like Facebook and Twitter.
Features:
Landscape orientation
Auto and Manual White Balance settings
Active toolbar
Still image Editor
Full-screen viewfinder
Self-timer
15 fps frame rate for video playback
White balance video recording modes:
Fluorescent
Incandescent
Automatic
Daylight
Brightness with intense glow
Browsing
Enabled with the EDGE/EGPRS (2G) & GSM (2G) support, Nokia 200/201 is embedded with Nokia's Series 40 browser with supported technologies of Javascript 1.8, XHTML, WAP 2.0, HTML 4.0 (XHTML 1.1). Available email solutions for device are: Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Nokia Email & Gmail, following IM (Instant Messaging) services like Google Talk, Facebook chat, MySpace, Windows Live Messenger & Nokia Chat.
Software & Applications
The phone's interface is based on Nokia's Series 40 interface featuring java games and applications. Device has embedded utilities like Dictionary, Digital clock, Recorder, Calculator, Clock, Calendar, Phonebook, Converter, Fixed Dialing Number, Notes, Alarm clock, Reminders, To-do list.
References
Device Overview: http://www.nokia.com/in-en/phones/phone/nokia-asha-200/
Detailed Information: http://www.nokia.com/in-en/phones/phone/nokia-asha-200/specifications/
Specs Nokia Asha 200: http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_asha_200-4281.php
Specs Nokia Asha 201: http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_asha_201-4280.php
Asha 200 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countries%20applying%20biometrics | Biometrics refers to the automated recognition of individuals based on their biological and behavioral characteristics, not to be confused with statistical biometrics; which is used to analyse data in the biological sciences. Biometrics for the purposes of identification may involve DNA matching, facial recognition, fingerprints, retina and iris scanning, voice analysis, handwriting, gait, and even body odor.
There are multiple countries applying biometrics for multiple reasons, from voting to ePassports.
However, this list is only partial. Multiple other countries in Africa and Asia, including China (Mainland China), collect fingerprints and other biometrics from foreign visitors.
Australia
Visitors intending to visit Australia and returning Australian residents with an ePassport may have to submit to biometric authentication as part of the Smartgate system, linking individuals to their visas and passports. Biometric data are collected from some visa applicants by Immigration particularly in cases of Refugee or Humanitarian Visas.
Australia is the first country to introduce a Biometrics Privacy Code, which is established and administered by the Biometrics Institute. The Biometrics Institute Privacy Code forms part of Australian privacy legislation. The Code includes privacy standards that are at least equivalent to the Australian National Privacy Principles (NPPs) in the Privacy Act and also incorporates higher standards of privacy protection in relation to certain acts and practices. Only members of the Biometrics Institute are eligible to subscribe to this Code. Biometrics Institute membership, and thus subscription to this Code, is voluntary.
Austria
Austria stores biometric photographs of all holders of ID cards and passports, which are Austrian citizens, but does not store collected fingerprints in such cases. It also stores photographs of driver licenses and health insurance cards issued to foreign EU citizens. For foreign citizens subject to visa or residency regimes, photographs and fingerprints are stored. The storage of photographs of its own citizens is in violation of EU regulation 2019/1157, which states, that after 90 days after issuing an ID card, all biometric information should be discarded.
Brazil
Since the beginning of the 20th century, Brazilian citizens have had user ID cards. The decision by the Brazilian government to adopt fingerprint-based biometrics was spearheaded by Dr. Felix Pacheco at Rio de Janeiro, at that time capital of the Federative Republic. Dr. Pacheco was a friend of Dr. Juan Vucetich, who invented one of the most complete ten-print classification systems in existence. The Vucetich system was adopted not only in Brazil, but also by most of the other South American countries. The oldest and most traditional ID Institute in Brazil (Instituto de Identificação Félix Pacheco) was integrated at DETRAN (Brazilian equivalent to DMV) into the civil and criminal AFIS system in 1999.
Each state in Brazil is al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20vector | In computer science and engineering, a test vector is a set of inputs provided to a system in order to test that system. In software development, test vectors are a methodology of software testing and software verification and validation.
Rationale
In computer science and engineering, a system acts as a computable function. An example of a specific function could be where is the output of the system and is the input; however, most systems' inputs are not one-dimensional. When the inputs are multi-dimensional, we could say that the system takes the form ; however, we can generalize this equation to a general form where is the result of the system's execution, belongs to the set of computable functions, and is an input vector. While testing the system, various test vectors must be used to examine the system's behavior with differing inputs.
Example
For example, consider a login page with two input fields: a username field and a password field. In that case, the login system can be described as:
with and , with designating login successful, and designating login failure, respectively.
Making things more generic, we can suggest that the function takes input as a 2-dimensional vector and outputs a one-dimensional vector (scalar).
This can be written in the following way:-
with
In this case, is called the input vector, and is called the output vector.
In order to test the login page, it is necessary to pass some sample input vectors . In this context is called a test vector.
See also
Automatic test pattern generation
References
Test Vector Guidelines.
Test Vector Considered Harmful.
Computer engineering
Test items |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untappd | Untappd is a geosocial networking service and mobile phone application founded by Greg Avola and Tim Mather that allows its users to check in as they drink beers, and share these check-ins and their locations with their friends. It incorporates aspects of gamification.
Untappd provides a platform for users to rate the beer they are consuming, earn badges, share pictures of their beers, review tap lists from nearby venues, see what beers their friends are drinking, comment on checked-in beers, and ask the app to suggest similar beverages. In 2016, an updated version of the application allowed users to find a beer by scanning its barcode
Untappd uses Foursquare for its location services.
Badges
As a user checks in different beers, they earn badges. These badges consist of local badges, beer badges, venue badges, and special badges. Local badges are earned from checking in at specific locations participating in an Untappd for Business promotion. Beer badges are earned based upon how many unique beers a user has checked in, what country or region the beer is produced, what style the beer is, or various actions by the user, such as checking in the same beer multiple times in a row. Venue badges are earned for checking in at different locations like breweries, restaurants, or festivals. Special badges are earned from checking in a specific beer as part of a promotion or checking in on a specific holiday.
History
Untappd started in 2010 at Fathers Office in Santa Monica, California. On January 17, 2014 it was announced that Untappd had passed the 1 million user mark and by April 2016, they had 3.2 million users.
On January 15, 2016, Untappd announced that it would become a subsidiary of Next Glass, a beer and wine rating and suggesting application. Both companies indicated their applications will remain independent, but will benefit from increased data integrations.
It was included in the "Top 50 Apps of the Year" of 2016 by Time.
At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic on March 25, 2020, the Untappd at Home campaign was launched, so users could check in beers from a global home location.
As of September 4th, 2020 Untappd reported 820,000 unique users checked-in at least once from almost 180 different countries.
In 2021, a Sacbee article reported that a local brewery's business was impacted by low ratings on the app.
See also
Beer rating
References
External links
Official website
Software companies of the United States
Beer culture
IOS software
Android (operating system) software
Geosocial networking
Windows Phone software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonnie%20Penn | Jonnie Penn (born January 2, 1987) is a bestselling Canadian non-fiction author and artificial intelligence researcher.
Jonnie is the creator of the MTV documentary series The Buried Life and co-author of the book "What Do You Want To Do Before You Die?", which became a No. 1 New York Times Best Seller.
The Buried life
After the death of a friend, Jonnie dropped out of university to start The Buried Life with his friends Ben Nemtin, Dave Lingwood and brother Duncan Penn. The Buried Life asks, "What do you want to do before you die?" Penn appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show on April 9, 2010 to announce a new season of The Buried Life documentary series and to discuss crossing off #95: Play Ball with President Obama. He was recorded by the Guinness World Records for the largest roulette spin in Las Vegas history with all benefits going to World Food Programme. He also helped organize the biggest speed dating event in history with the University of South Florida. In July 2011, the cast helped make a $300,000 donation to The Keep America Beautiful foundation.
Research career
In high school, Jonnie was selected to represent Canada at the Oxford University Debate Championships. He enrolled at McGill University in Montreal, with a double major in History and English. He then studied Philosophy of Physics and Logic at the University of Cambridge.
He is currently a Rausing, Williamson and Lipton trust and Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence PhD researcher in the History and Philosophy of Science Department at the University of Cambridge. His research explores the social implications of artificial intelligence over centuries. In 2018, he joined the Harvard Berkman Klein Center as an affiliate and the MIT Media Lab as an Assembly Fellow and served as a Google Technology Policy Fellow with the European Youth Forum. He has spoken at the United Nations about the future of work and at the 2019 World Economic Forum at Davos about data centralization.
References
1987 births
Canadian television personalities
Canadian non-fiction writers
Living people
Writers from Vancouver
Artificial intelligence researchers
Participants in American reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20Cantors%20Network | Women Cantors Network is an international outreach support group for female cantors, which works for the nationwide recognition and employment of qualified female cantors. It was founded in 1982 by Cantor Deborah Katchko-Zimmerman, who was the granddaughter of a prominent cantor (Adolph Katchko), and who was trained privately by her father, also a cantor. At the first meeting of what became the Women Cantors Network, only twelve women attended. In 1983 the Women Cantors Network began regularly publishing a newspaper, in 1993 its constitution and bylaws were written, in 1997 it began to commission new Jewish music, and in 1998 it created an online list-serve network.
In 2011 the Women Cantors' Network had a piece commissioned for them honoring the Liberty Bell, which they performed at the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was composed by cantor Lori Sumberg of Tucson, Arizona, and was called “Song of the Bell.”
References
External links
Women Cantors' Network official website
Jews and Judaism in the United States
Jewish feminism
Jewish music
Jewish women's organizations
Jewish organizations established in 1982 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20Rabbinic%20Network | Women's Rabbinic Network is an American national organization for female Reform rabbis. It was founded in 1980; Rabbi Deborah Prinz was its first overall coordinator, and Rabbi Myra Soifer was the first editor of its newsletter.
In 2010 Ellen Weinberg Dreyfus, a founder and former president of the Women's Rabbinic Network, was selected as
one of the top 50 rabbis in America by Newsweek and the Sisterhood blog of The Jewish Daily Forward.
In 2012 Rabbi Mary L. Zamore, then the executive director of the Women's Rabbinic Network, wrote to Rabbi David Ellenson, the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion’s then president, requesting that he address the discrepancy of male candidates' ordination certificates identifying them by the Reform movement’s traditional "morenu harav," or "our teacher the rabbi," while female candidates' certificates only used the term "rav u’morah," or "rabbi and teacher." After four years of deliberation, HUC-JIR decided to give women a choice of wording on their ordination certificates beginning in 2016, including the option to have the same wording as men.
The piece "From Periphery to Center: A History of the Women's Rabbinic Network", by Rabbi Carole B. Balin, appears in the book The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate, published in 2016.
In August 2022, Rabbi Elaine Rose Glickman was named assistant executive director of the organization.
See also
Women rabbis
Rabbinic authority
References
External links
Women's Rabbinic Network Official website
Jews and Judaism in the United States
Jewish feminist organizations
Organizations established in 1980
Rabbinical organizations
Women's Rabbinic Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20Plus | Ion Plus is an American free linear television network owned by the Katz Broadcasting subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company that formerly operated as a broadcast television network until February 28, 2021. The network originally launched in 2007 as Ion Life, maintaining a format featuring lifestyle programming focused on health and wellness, cooking, home decor, and travel. With expanded cable carriage, in 2019, Ion Media converted the network into a general entertainment format that matched that of parent network Ion Television, featuring day-long marathons of various drama series.
Ion Plus was carried mainly as a digital multicast service on Ion Media Networks-owned stations as well as select Ion Television affiliates, usually to the third subchannel; its base national feed was also available on select cable and satellite providers. In select markets, Ion Plus has had main channel placement, allowing it must-carry coverage on local cable and satellite services.
Ion Plus ceased broadcasting over-the-air after Ion Media's acquisition by the E. W. Scripps Company and merger with Katz Broadcasting, but continues to air as an advertising-supported video-on-demand network through several AVOD streaming services, including Samsung TV Plus, and Vizio WatchFree.
History
As a lifestyle-oriented network
The network launched on February 19, 2007, focusing on generalized health and lifestyle programming; the network replaced a three-hour timeshift channel which depending on geographical location, carried what was then called i: Independent Television's Eastern or Pacific time zone feeds. Ion Media Networks originally planned to name the network "iHealth" to match i's name, until it was subsequently rebranded as Ion Television in September of that year. The network launched as Ion Life on February 19, 2007, over the third digital subchannel of Ion Media Networks's television stations. Under this format, it mainly aired cooking, travel, home decor, DIY design and home improvement, and automotive remodeling programs; most of the shows were imported Canadian series distributed by Bell Media, Corus Entertainment and Shaw Media, with some American content mixed in.
On January 14, 2008, as part of a carriage agreement that allowed the provider to continue to carry Ion Television, Ion Media Networks reached an agreement with Comcast to carry both Ion Life and its children's-targeted network Qubo on its systems. Subsequently, in May 2010, Ion Media signed carriage agreements with Advanced Cable Communications and Comcast's system in Colorado Springs, Colorado to add Ion Life to digital tiers in several markets.
Even though Ion Life's parent network Ion Television overhauled its logo as part of an extensive rebranding on September 8, 2008, Ion Life retained its existing logo – a green variant of the logo Ion Television used from 2007 to 2008 – and graphics package, the latter of which remained in use until 2011. In February 2010, the network added theatricall |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei%20Ascend%20G300 | Huawei Ascend G300 is a budget smartphone made by Huawei. It went on sale in April 2012 exclusively to Vodafone UK.
It initially ran the Android 2.3.6 (Gingerbread) operating system. An update to Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" has been released to Vodafone customers in October 2012. It has a 1 GHz processor with 4GB internal storage with 2.5GB available for the user and 512MB of internal memory. The phone also has a 4.0 inch display and a 5.0MP rear camera. The screen is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass.
References
Android (operating system) devices
G300
Mobile phones introduced in 2012
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zou%20%28TV%20series%29 | Zou is an animated children's television series inspired by the books of French author Michel Gay. The show was produced by the French company Cyber Group Studios for Disney EMEA. It premiered on Disney Junior (UK & Ireland) in May 2012.
Premise and format
Zou is about the day-to-day life and adventures of a young anthropomorphic zebra, Zou (Bizou), and his family and friends. Most episodes contain Zou's name in the title and usually take place at Zou's house or in his backyard. Zou lives with his mother, father, grandparents, and great-grandmother. Each episode features some simple problem or issue that Zou must deal with, usually with the assistance of his family and friends.
Characters
Bizou David Stripeman (Zou): A 5-year-old, fun-loving zebra. Zou is generally clad in a white T-shirt under yellow overalls. He is the main protagonist of the show, and shows interest in many career paths. His next-door neighbor is Elzee. A running plot of the show is that Zou exits school at the beginning of the episode. Then Zou mentions interest in a certain career. He is then countered by neighbor Elzee stating "I thought you wanted to be a (other career path)." Zou responds by saying "That was last week, now I want to be a (new career path.)" Voiced in the U.S. version by Kannon Gowen.
Poc: A Quaker parakeet, and Zou's constant companion. It is unclear whether Poc is considered a pet or a "person", since several signs of anthropomorphism are shown in Poc's character, and yet Poc cannot talk. Also, it seems like the show's conception of "humans" is reserved to zebras only. Poc lives inside what looks like a cuckoo clock in Zou's bedroom.
Elzee Blackhoof: Zou's next door neighbor. The same age as Zou, Elzee is generally clad in a long purple dress. Her ears seem to be rather large, in comparison to the other characters, and even make her slightly taller than Zou. She is far more sensible than Zou and often contradicts his outrageous ideas, but still joins in. She seems to harbour a romantic attraction to Zou, often acting shy or giggling with rembarrassment when he compliments her. She is a bit more of a tomboy than Zinnia, and seems to enjoy soccer, often taking part in Zou's extravagant activities. In the British English version of the show her voice is portrayed by Roisin Gadd (Seasons 1 & 2) and Maisie Jack (Season 3) and in the American English version her voice is portrayed by Cherami Leigh.
Zinnia Stripeman: Zou's cousin. She's a budding ballerina who sometimes tends to be snooty and stuck-up. She is never seen without dance clothes on and is more feminine in comparison to Elzee who is a bit more tomboyish. It seems that she is an unofficial antagonist of the show. Zou does not seem to like her very much and often makes excuses to avoid having to play with her. She often tries to engage Zou in girlish pastimes such as playing princesses or playing with dolls / stuffed toys, apparently unaware he has absolutely no interest in such things. Despite bein |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Town%20Like%20Alice%20%28miniseries%29 | A Town Like Alice is a five-hour 1981 Australian television adaptation of Nevil Shute's novel of the same name. Produced by the Seven Network, and directed by David Stevens, it was the second major adaptation of the book.
In the United States it was shown on PBS under the Masterpiece Theatre banner, a rare non-British production to be so aired.
Cast
Helen Morse as Jean Paget
Bryan Brown as Joe Harman
Gordon Jackson as Noel Strachan
Peter Kowitz as TAA pilot
Arkie Whiteley as Annie
Production
It was the most expensive Australian television series at the time. It was filmed on location in England, Malaysia and western New South Wales.
Reception
The series was a huge ratings success in Australia, getting a 49% viewing share.
Awards
The series won an International Emmy Award for drama in 1981 and won a Logie Award in the Best Single Drama or Mini Series category at the 1982 awards with Morse, Brown and Jackson winning Logies for their performances.
References
External links
A Town Like Alice at Australian Screen Online
1981 television films
1981 films
1980s Australian television miniseries
1981 Australian television series debuts
1981 Australian television series endings
World War II television series
International Emmy Award for Drama winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FINEX | FINEX SOLUTIONS, or Finex may refer to:
Finex, database product of Technimetrics
FINEX (steelmaking process), steel making process
Toyota Fine-X, "Fuel cell INnovation Emotion-eXperiment", a concept car from 2005. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco24Horas | Banco24Horas is a Brazilian interbank network. It is the largest interbank network in Brazil, with a market share of 38% in the country. Operated by Tecban (Tecnologia Bancária S.A.), Banco24Horas offers 11,600 ATMs in more than 400 Brazilian cities.
As of 2014, its main shareholders are the largest Brazilian banks, where Itaú Unibanco owns 31.58%, Bradesco owns 25.33%, Santander 20.82% and Banco do Brasil 13.53%. Other shareholders are Caixa Econômica Federal (Caixa Participações) which owns 10% and Banorte (extra judicial settlement) with 2.78%.
Members
American Express
Accesso Soluções de Pagamento (operates some brands of pre-paid cards)
Banco Banif
Banco Bradesco
Banco Cruzeiro do Sul
Banco da Amazônia
Banco do Brasil
Banco BMG
Banco Inter
Banco Neon
Banco do Nordeste
Banco Ibi
Banco Original
Banco Pan
Banco Votorantim
Banese
Banestes
Banpará
Banrisul
BicBanco
Banco de Brasília
Caixa Econômica Federal
Carrefour Soluções Financeiras
Cetelem - Aura
Citibank
Credicard
Diners Club
Banco Itaú
Losango
Banco Mercantil do Brasil
Banco Safra
Banco Santander
Sicoob
Sicredi
Superbank (operates some pre-paid credit cards. A Banco Santander company)
Unik
References
External links
Official website
Banking in Brazil
Banks established in 1982
Financial services companies established in 1982
Financial services companies of Brazil
Interbank networks
1982 establishments in Brazil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python%20Conference | The Python Conference (also called PyCon) is the largest annual convention for the discussion and promotion of the Python programming language. It originated in the United States but is also held in more than 40 other countries. It was one of the first computer programming conferences to develop and adhere to a code of conduct. The conference hosts tutorials, demonstrations and training sessions.
PyCon 2020 was listed as one of "The best software engineering conferences [to attend] of 2020" and "As Python becomes ever more popular in the scientific community and for big data, the influence of PyCon will continue to grow." PyCon is often attended by Guido van Rossum (the author of the Python language). Other groups, such as PyLadies and Django Girls, often have concurrent sessions.
It is sometimes referred to in software documentation and conference papers.
It is organised by the Python Software Foundation, and is supported by many significant companies, including Microsoft, Google, and Facebook.
Location history
The canonical "PyCon" has run annually in the United States since in Washington, D.C:
References
External links
Pycon: Connecting the Python Community – official website
Python (programming language)
Annual events
2003 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Computer conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%281993%29 | Home and Away is an Australian soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in 1993, by order of first appearance. They were all introduced by the show's then executive producer Andrew Howie, who had succeeded Des Monaghan. The 6th season of Home and Away began airing on 11 January 1993. In January, John Adam and Laura Vazquez began appearing as Luke Cunningham and Sarah Thompson, respectively. Melissa George arrived in March playing Angel Brooks, while Imogen Miller was introduced in April. David Dixon began playing Nathan Roberts in October. Simon Baker took on the role of James Hudson in November.
Luke Cunningham
Luke Cunningham, played by John Adam debuted on-screen during the episode broadcast on 12 January 1993 and departed on 27 July 1994. Adam previously guest starred in the serial in 1990 as soldier Dave Porter. In 1994, Adam was axed along with the characters of Sarah Thompson (Laura Vasquez), Tug O'Neale (Tristan Bancks) and Roxanne Miller (Lisa Lackey). The Serial's Producers did not inform them about their departures and they read about it in an issue of TV Week.
Luke arrives in Summer Bay after taking a teaching post at the high school. His busking annoys Alf Stewart (Ray Meagher) and Michael Ross (Dennis Coard) who resolve to drive him out of town but Luke's new colleague Roxanne Miller
informs them who he is and Michael agrees to rent a caravan to him. Luke offers saxophone lessons to Sam Marshall (Ryan Clark) and helps Damian Roberts (Matt Doran) with his training. He is also instrumental in getting Sarah Thompson and Angel Brooks (Melissa George) enrolled at school. Luke and Roxy become friends and begin dating. Roxy's sister, Imogen (Sofie Formica) makes a play for Luke but he turns her down and she conspires to split them up by playing mind games with them. Ailsa Stewart (Judy Nunn) discovers Imogen's true intentions and Imogen leaves. Luke's mentally disabled brother, Bill (Craig Beamer) comes to visit. Luke feels responsible for his condition as he was meant to be watching Bill when he nearly drowned. He becomes over protective of Bill and disapproves of his friendship with Finlay Roberts (Tina Thomsen) as Bill is clearly attracted to her and he feels that he would not be able to cope with his feelings. Bill runs away after being caught by Michael in Fin's room while she is asleep. Bill is found after a gruelling search and Luke decides to send him to stay with their aunt. This proves to be the end for Luke and Roxy's relationship as he has been focused on Bill. Luke and Roxy remain working together closely and take charge of the school musical. The musical is a disaster when Shane Parrish (Dieter Brummer) and Tug O'Neale come to blows, forcing the show to be cancelled.
Luke and Bobby Marshall (Nicolle Dickson) accept a boat ride from Adam Cameron (Mat Stevenson) at the Bay's carnival. Luke warns Adam to slow down but it is too late and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Bryan%20Davis | Dr. Margaret Bryan Davis (née Margaret Bryan; born October 23, 1931) is an American palynologist and paleoecologist, who used pollen data to study the vegetation history of the past 21,000 years (i.e. since the last ice age). She showed conclusively that temperate- and boreal-forest species migrated at different rates and in different directions while forming a changing mosaic of communities. Early in her career, she challenged the standard methods and prevailing interpretations of the data and fostered rigorous analysis in palynology. As a leading figure in ecology and paleoecology, she served as president of the Ecological Society of America and the American Quaternary Association and as chair of the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the University of Minnesota. In 1982 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and, in 1993, received the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America.
Early life and education
Davis was born on October 23, 1931. She spent her childhood and early adolescence in the greater Boston area. She married Rowland Davis in 1956. The couple divorced in 1970.
Davis received a B.A from Radcliffe College (1953), a PhD in biology from Harvard University (1957) and an honorary M.S. from Yale University (1974). During her undergraduate studies at Radcliffe, she took a class on paleobotany which sparked her interest in the field. During her final year at Radcliffe, she received a Fulbright fellowship, which allowed her to travel to Denmark to study at University of Copenhagen under Johannes Iversen of the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland in 1953–1954. There she became interested in the vegetational history of the Quaternary period, focusing her research on pollen deposits from Greenland. Her findings were published in her first paper, "Interglacial Pollen Spectra from Greenland", in 1954. For her PhD research under Hugh Raup (forest ecologist), she studied pollen data from cores taken from sites near Harvard Forest in Petersham, Massachusetts. She then obtained a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Science Foundation and worked initially at Harvard before continuing her paleoecological research in the geology department at the California Institute of Technology for two years. She then spent a year at Yale University as a research fellow, studying vegetation composition and pollen sedimentation in lakes. There she introduced the method of studying pollen influx or pollen accumulation rates (number of pollen grains per square centimeter per year) in cores, which was an important advance for interpreting fossil pollen data in terms of changes in past vegetation and past sedimentation conditions.
Career
After her postdoctoral positions at Caltech and Yale, Davis joined the botany department at the University of Michigan in 1961 as a research associate. In 1964 she became an associate research biologist at the University's Great Lakes Research Division, and in 1966 she was ap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citation%20graph | A citation graph (or citation network), in information science and bibliometrics, is a directed graph that describes the citations within a collection of documents.
Each vertex (or node) in the graph represents a document in the collection, and each edge is directed from one document toward another that it cites (or vice versa depending on the specific implementation).
Citation graphs have been utilised in various ways, including forms of citation analysis, academic search tools and court judgements. They are predicted to become more relevant and useful in the future as the body of published research grows.
Implementation
There is no standard format for the citations in bibliographies, and the record linkage of citations can be a time-consuming and complicated process. Furthermore, citation errors can occur at any stage of the publishing process. However, there is a long history of creating citation databases, also known as citation indexes, so there is a lot of information about such problems.
In principle, each document should have a unique publication date and can only refer to earlier documents. This means that an ideal citation graph is not only directed but acyclic; that is, there are no loops in the graph. This is not always the case in practice, since an academic paper goes through several versions in the publishing process. The timing of asynchronous updates to bibliographies may lead to edges that apparently point backward in time. Such "backward" citations seem to constitute less than 1% of the total number of links.
As citation links are meant to be permanent, the bulk of a citation graph should be static, and only the leading edge of the graph should change. Exceptions might occur when papers are withdrawn from circulation.
Background and history
A citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source (not always the original source). More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression embedded in the body of an intellectual work that denotes an entry in the bibliographic references section of the work. Its purpose is to acknowledge the relevance of the works of others to the topic of discussion at the point where the citation appears.
Generally the combination of both the in-body citation and the bibliographic entry constitutes what is commonly thought of as a citation (whereas bibliographic entries by themselves are not). References to single, machine-readable assertions in electronic scientific articles are known as nanopublications, a form of micro attributions.
Citation networks are one kind of social network that has been studied quantitatively almost from the moment citation databases first became available. In 1965, Derek J. de Solla Price described the inherent linking characteristic of the Science Citation Index (SCI) in his paper entitled "Networks of Scientific Papers." The links between citing and cited papers became dynamic when the SCI began to be published online. In 1973, Henry Smal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Test%20Before%20Trying | "A Test Before Trying" is the tenth episode of the twenty-fourth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the 518th episode overall. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on January 13, 2013.
The episode is dedicated to the memory of Huell Howser, who appeared in the episode "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?" This episode won the Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Writing in Animation at the 66th Writers Guild of America Awards.
Plot
A trio of proctors visit Springfield Elementary School, telling them that they must pass an upcoming standardised test or the school will shut down for having low scores. All of the students take the exam except for Bart, who spent all day playing with a beetle. They eventually fail, which causes the school to be shut down and the children to be sent to different schools. However, when Lisa learns that Bart did not take the exam, she urges him to take it, but he does not care. The following night, however, he changes his mind when he has a nightmare in which Springfield becomes the stupidest town in the country. Bart's test day arrives, but he is still not ready. As a result, he answers the first few questions with the same answer and does not fill in the last answer. However, the lead proctor mistakes the same beetle from earlier, who landed on one of the answer bubbles, for one of Bart's answers (In a conversation with Marge at the end of the episode, the lead proctor hints she has done so on purpose); she announces that he passed the test and the school reopens, despite a wrecking ball knocking into Skinner's office since Superintendent Chalmers assumed Bart would fail.
Meanwhile, Mr. Burns raises the price of electricity. As a result, Homer throws his domestic appliances in the dump, where he finds a parking meter that still functions. He decides to set it up at parking spaces around Springfield, moving to another as soon as someone pays. The scheme goes off without a hitch, until he finds out that Chief Wiggum is onto him. When Wiggum confronts him, he manages to escape in his car, but he accidentally crashes it and the parking meter flies out of the car and lands hard on the street, expiring soon after. When Marge discovers that he still has the money, she has Homer return the money to the community by throwing it down a wishing well.
Production
Valerie Harper was cast as the proctor evaluating the Springfield school system. While recording for the episode, Harper reunited with her Rhoda co-star Julie Kavner who plays Marge.
The episode is dedicated in memory of television personality Huell Howser, who died 6 days earlier. Howser appeared in the twenty-first season episode "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?" Creator Matt Groening was a fan of Howser's show California's Gold, and the show also created a character named Howell Huser for the sixteenth season episode "There's Something About Marrying."
Cultural references
"Halloween Theme – Main Title" by John Car |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20A.%20Oye | Kenneth Akito Oye (born October 20, 1949) is an American political scientist and Professor of Political Science (School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences) and Data Systems and Society (School of Engineering) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is Director of the MIT Program on Emerging Technologies and former Director of the MIT Center for International Studies.
Life
Oye graduated from Swarthmore College and from Harvard University with a Ph.D in Political Science. He is best known for publications on Regime theory and International Political Economy. His current research focuses on planned adaptation in the face of pervasive uncertainty, with applications in emerging technologies.
In 2018, Oye received the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette for his contributions to "promoting understanding of Japan in the United States."
Oye currently teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Trustee of the World Peace Foundation.
Works
"Regulate 'home-brew' opiates." Oye et al. Nature. 521.7552 (2015): 281–283.
"Regulating gene drives." Oye et al. Science. 345.6197 (2014): 626–628.
“Embracing Uncertainty,” Kenneth A. Oye, Issues in Science and Technology, Vol XXVI, No 1, Fall 2009, pp 91–93.
Edited with Robert Lieber and Donald Rothchild:
References
American political scientists
Swarthmore College alumni
Harvard University alumni
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty
1949 births
Living people
American academics of Japanese descent
American Quakers
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Recipients of the Order of the Rising Sun, 4th class |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic%20Readings%20Live | Psychic Readings Live is a live, two-hour phone-in television programme first aired on Ireland's TV3 network at midnight from 16 June to 3 December 2012. Just over two years after TV3 removed Play TV from its schedule, the network began airing Psychic Readings Live in the programme's time slot. Newspaper reports compared the controversy generated by Psychic Readings Live to the scandal caused by Play TV: "It will remind TV3 of a past life".
Produced by Eso.tv, the programme invited viewers to dial a premium-rate telephone line costing €2.44 per minute. The line gave them a chance to communicate with a team of in-studio psychics who offered predictions of future events. Psychic Readings Live attracted criticism for the number of hoax calls from viewers and its use of seemingly-stock photographs of its psychics. Concerns were also expressed about the nature of some predictions, including one in which a woman was told her property would catch fire.
On 17 July 2012, the Irish Examiner reported that the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) had the programme "on their radar" following a number of complaints to TV3. Four complaints were upheld against the programme on 9 November 2012. The show was cancelled on 3 December 2012, with its final broadcast airing in that day's overnight slot.
Controversy
The identities of the team of alleged off-screen clairvoyants were scrutinised after a blogger, Alan Rice, sifted through the programme's online images of its off-screen psychics and discovered that it was using stock photographs. His comments led to complaints of false advertising and inspired a lengthy discussion thread on the boards.ie internet forum, where users posted screenshots of some images. On 22 June, the website JOE.ie reported that the discussion board had 2,700 posts within six days of the programme's premiere.
A number of hoax callers (known as "trolls") contacted Psychic Readings Live, the first within days of the programme's launch. The trolls ask apparently-genuine questions, then tell the psychic they do not believe the reading or verbally abuse them. The Irish Times reported that a viewer phoned the show impersonating Will Smith's character on the U.S. television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, footage of which was posted on YouTube. Another concluded her call: "They don’t have Play TV anymore so I can’t try and lose my money, okay. I’ll try and save it...I’ll be in touch with BAI soon."
Illusionist Keith Barry, expressing his disapproval of Psychic Readings Live, challenged one of its presenters (Psychic Wayne) to a magic duel. Declining the invitation, Psychic Wayne gave an equally lighthearted response: he claimed to be bowing to the greater force of Keith Barry, maintaining that such a battle (should it ever occur) would have irreparable consequences for the universe.
Conor Pope, consumer protection writer for The Irish Times, called Psychic Readings Live in July 2012 and asked Psychic Wayne about a concern that someone w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KRVU-LD | KRVU-LD (channel 21) is a low-power television station in Redding, California, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside ABC affiliate KRCR-TV (channel 7, also licensed to Redding) and three other low-power stations: Chico-licensed Antenna TV affiliate KXVU-LD (channel 17); Chico-licensed Univision affiliate KUCO-LD (channel 27); and Chico-licensed UniMás affiliate KKTF-LD (channel 30). Sinclair also provides certain services to Paradise-licensed Fox affiliate KCVU (channel 20) through a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Cunningham Broadcasting; however, Sinclair effectively owns KCVU as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. The stations share studios on Auditorium Drive east of downtown Redding and maintain a news bureau and sales office at the former Sainte Television Group facilities on Main Street in downtown Chico (for FCC and other legal purposes, the Chico/Paradise-licensed stations still use the Chico address and Redding-licensed stations use the Redding address). KRVU-LD's transmitter is located near Shasta, California.
History
KRVU/KZVU was founded by Sainte Partners II, L.P., owned by country-western singer Chester Smith and hit the air in 1993, seven years after the founding of KCVU (KZVU-LD was originally K21DS from 1993 to 1997 and KZVU-LP from 1997 to 2009). It became an affiliate of the fledgling new UPN network in 1997 and would change affiliations to MyNetworkTV following the creation of The CW in 2006. Smith remained owner until his death in 2008.
Merger with Eureka Television Group
On April 27, 2009, KRVU/KZVU merged its operations with sister station KEMY in Eureka, California, and both stations were rebranded "Northern California's My TV".
Sale to Bonten Media Group
KRVU and its sister stations were sold to Bonten Media Group in 2012. (The flagship station of Sainte, KCVU FOX 20, was sold to Esteem Broadcasting, but became operated by Bonten.)
The station was formerly known as MyTV Northern California, but reverted to its original call letters upon the station's purchase in 2012.
KEMY would be dissolved in 2014 after Bonten launched KECA-LD as its digital replacement in the Eureka market, with KRVU/MyNetworkTV programming appearing on its digital subchannel.
Sale to Sinclair
On April 21, 2017, Sinclair Broadcast Group announced its intent to purchase the Bonten stations (including KRVU-LD) for $240 million. The deal came immediately following the re-instatement of the "UHF discount", which reduces the calculated "reach" of a station for the purposes of national ownership limits if it broadcasts on a UHF channel. The sale was completed September 1.
Programming
Local programming
The Moriss Taylor Show (1997–2015)
KRVU began airing reruns of The Moriss Taylor Show, claimed to be the longest-running locally produced television program in television history, in 1997 after the show's parent station KHSL-TV ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors%20Coordinate%20of%20Damascus | Doctors Coordinate of Damascus (sometimes called Damascus Doctors) is a network of health care workers that provides clandestine medical aid to injured civilians of the Syrian Civil War. The group treats bystanders cut off from regular medical care by the ongoing violence as well as injured protesters who would be at risk during the regular security sweeps of local hospitals. According to Amnesty International, injured protesters face arrest and torture if found in Syrian hospitals, and in some cases medical staff has even participated in the torture of the patients. In other cases, injured opposition members have been forcibly disconnected from medical equipment, including respirators. In the summer of 2011, the Doctors Coordinate constructed a clandestine field hospital to treat the growing number of wounded.
One of the organization's founders, Dr. Ibrahim Othman, became one of the Syrian government's most wanted men for his work with the group. On 11 December 2011, opposition forces announced that he had been killed by Syrian security forces while attempting to flee to Turkey.
In 2011, the Czech NGO People in Need awarded the group its Homo Homini Award, recognizing "the outstanding courage and effort they demonstrate when they put their own lives at risk to help civilians who have been injured as a result of brutal repression by the current Syrian regime."
References
Clandestine groups
Medical and health organizations based in Syria
Organizations established in 2011
Organizations of the Syrian civil war |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Longmire%20episodes | Longmire is a crime drama series that premiered on A&E Network on June 3, 2012, before moving to Netflix in 2015 and completing its run on November 17, 2017. The series was based on the Longmire mystery novels written by best-selling author Craig Johnson, and follows Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor), the sheriff of the fictional Absaroka County, Wyoming, as he returns to work following the death of his wife.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2012)
Season 2 (2013)
Season 3 (2014)
Season 4 (2015)
Season 5 (2016)
Season 6 (2017)
References
External links
Lists of American crime drama television series episodes
Lists of American Western (genre) television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis%20Island%20%28miniseries%29 | Ellis Island is a television miniseries, broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard Stewart, adapted from his 1983 novel of the same title.
The series tells the story of four immigrants to America, played by Peter Riegert as a Russian Jew, Gregory Paul Martin as a working-class Italian, and Alice Krige and Judi Bowker as two Irish sisters. It starts in 1907 as they manage to leave Europe and travel by boat to Ellis Island, hoping for a better life, and follows their individual struggles, hopes, and successes through the end of 1916, as they try to achieve the American Dream. Ellis Island highlights a number of historic events in Europe and the U.S. throughout the time period, and some of the characters involved are based on real persons, such as Irving Berlin.
The series was the final screen appearance of Richard Burton. It was dedicated to his memory, and the cast includes his daughter Kate Burton as his character's daughter. Faye Dunaway won a Golden Globe award for her role in the miniseries, and Ben Vereen was nominated for his role.
Originally seven hours long and telecast in three parts on three consecutive nights in November 1984, Ellis Island was shortened to six hours and re-telecast in three parts in the summer of 1986, to celebrate the Statue of Liberty Centennial.
The miniseries features six Irving Berlin–style songs, composed by John Addison, with lyrics by Douglas Brayfield and Fred Mustard Stewart.
Plot
Part 1
1907, Russia: Jacob Rubinstein is the son of a rabbi. His father is killed and his village burned during a pogrom; Jacob is shot in the leg, and he manages to unhorse a cossack, grab his gun and kill him, and use his horse to flee.
In Italy, Marco Santorelli is the handsome gardener for Maud Charteris, a famous American actress. She helps him learn English to advance himself, but also in an attempt to seduce him. She leaves for London to perform in a new play, and Marco declines to accompany her. He tells his family he has decided to move to America.
At the Hamburg docks trying to flee Europe, Jacob lacks the full fare to New York. He passes a dance hall and hears ragtime music being played by black American pianist Roscoe Haines, who allows Jacob to attempt to imitate him, which he does well from his classical training. Roscoe passes a hat to raise Jacob's boat fare, and tells him to look up Abe Shulman's music publishing company in New York for a job.
In Ireland, chambermaid Bridget O'Donnell is sleeping with the young English Earl of Wexford in his palatial estate. She persuades him to take a night stroll, and Kevin Murray, her compatriot Fenian, kidnaps him. Kevin sends her off to America to avoid arrest, and her sister Georgiana accompanies her; Bridget begs him not to harm the earl.
Marco and Jacob meet on the ship to New York, and become good friends. They run into the Irish sisters, and Marco dances with the beautiful Georgiana.
At Ellis Isl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-trie | A C-trie is a compressed trie data structure. It achieves lower memory and query time requirements at the expense of reduced flexibility.
References
Maly, K. Compressed tries. Commun. ACM 19, 7, 409–415.
Trees (data structures) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactive%20transport%20modeling%20in%20porous%20media | Reactive transport modeling in porous media refers to the creation of computer models integrating chemical reaction with transport of fluids through the Earth's crust. Such models predict the distribution in space and time of the chemical reactions that occur along a flowpath. Reactive transport modeling in general can refer to many other processes, including reactive flow of chemicals through tanks, reactors, or membranes; particles and species in the atmosphere; gases exiting a smokestack; and migrating magma.
Overview
Reactive transport models are constructed to understand the composition of natural waters; the origin of economic mineral deposits; the formation and dissolution of rocks and minerals in geologic formations in response to injection of industrial wastes, steam, or carbon dioxide; and the generation of acidic waters and leaching of metals from mine wastes. They are often relied upon to predict the migration of contaminant plumes; the mobility of radionuclides in waste repositories; and the biodegradation of chemicals in landfills. When applied to the study of contaminants in the environments, they are known as fate and transport models.
Development of reactive transport modeling
Modern reactive transport modeling has arisen from several separate schools of thought. Hydrologists primarily concerned with the physical nature of mass transport assumed relatively simple reaction formulations, such as linear distribution coefficients or linear decay terms, which could be added to the advection-dispersion equation. By assuming linear, equilibrium sorption, for example, the advection-dispersion equation can be modified by a simple retardation factor and solved analytically. Such analytical solutions are limited to relatively simple flow systems and reactions.
Geochemical models, on the other hand, have been developed to provide thermodynamic descriptions of multicomponent systems without regard to transport. Reaction path models were created, for instance, to describe the sequence of chemical reactions resulting from chemical weathering or hydrothermal alteration in batch systems, in terms of the overall reaction progress. By adopting the reference frame of a packet of fluid and treating reaction progress as travel time (or distance along a flowpath), however, a batch reaction path model could be thought of as describing advective transport through an aquifer.
The most sophisticated multi-component reactive transport models consider both reaction and transport. Early studies developed the theoretical basis of reactive transport models, and the numerical tools necessary to solve them, and applied them to problems of reactive contaminant transport and flow through reacting hydrothermal systems.
Reactive transport models have found increased application in recent years with improvements in the power of personal computers and modeling software.
Processes considered in reactive transport models
Reactive transport models couple a large |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston%20Stutzman | Preston Stutzman is a film producer and actor. He produced the 1999 independent film Chillicothe, which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival and the 2005 independent computer-animated film Hoodwinked!, which was one of the first computer-animated films to be completely independently funded. He also performed the minor role of Timmy in Hoodwinked!
Early life
Stutzman grew up in Ohio and graduated from Anderson University in 1992 with degrees in Computer Science and Marketing. While at Anderson University, he befriended fellow students Cory Edwards and Todd Edwards through involvement in the on-campus comedy show "Cheap Thrills".
Career
After graduation, Stutzman got a job at book publishing company Warner Press, but left to be in charge of marketing for Blue Yonder Films, a film production company founded by the Edwards brothers. Though the company started out by producing commercials, it produced the short film Swanky Nights in 1996, and then the 1999 independent film Chillicothe, on which Stutzman served as a producer. The film was directed by Todd Edwards, and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The three then moved to Los Angeles, where Stutzman took on an editing job for the Game Show Network, while they looked for funding for new projects Sue Bea Montgomery, who had served as an associate producer on Chillicothe, introduced the three to entrepreneur and inventor Maurice Kanbar, who had invested in their film. Though Kanbar expressed disinterest in the live-action projects that they pitched to him, he grew excited after seeing Wobots, an animated short film that Cory had made, and proposed the idea of making an animated feature that put a twist on a familiar fairy tale. The brothers came up with the idea of telling Little Red Riding Hood as a police investigation, and Kanbar agreed to fully finance the film, before they had even shown him a finished script.
The film, titled Hoodwinked!, was directed by Cory Edwards, Todd Edwards, and Tony Leech, and Stutzman and Montgomery both served as producers on the film. Stutzman also took on a minor role, playing the part of Timmy. It was one of the first computer-animated films to be fully independently funded,
and due to its small budget, its animation was produced in Manila, Philippines.
The film was released in 2005, receiving mixed reviews, and earning over $110 million worldwide.
Personal life
Stutzman met his wife Ela in 2003, while working on Hoodwinked! in Manila, and married her in 2007. They moved to Vancouver, where their child Jacob Tyler was born.
They then moved to Fort Myers, Florida in 2010 to be near Preston's sister Trinda and brother-in-law Mike. While there, Preston worked as a director of production and video producer/editor at Next Level Church and Ela worked as a nurse. In early 2012 they moved with Trinda and Mike to Tennessee to help plant Story Church.
References
External links
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American animated film pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL%20Dream%20Season | NFL Dream Season is a TV show on ESPN in 1989 in which 20 all-time great NFL teams were pitted against each other using XOR Software's NFL Challenge, a computer football simulation program. NFL Films footage was used to create what appeared to be a "game" between the two teams. The 1978 Steelers beat the 1972 Dolphins to win the title. The following year, ESPN did a one-off show with the 1989 Super Bowl Champion 49ers against the '78 Steelers. In 1999, ESPN would run a similar mini-series, having overall "decade" teams of the 60s Packers, 70s Steelers, 80s 49ers, and 90s Cowboys playing each other.
Final standings and playoff results
East
1978 Steelers 6-0
1986 Giants 4-2
1959 Colts 3-3
1960 Eagles 2-4
1968 Jets 1-5
West
1984 49ers 6-0
1977 Cowboys 4-2
1983 Raiders 2-4
1963 Chargers 1-5
1951 Rams 1-5
North
1976 Raiders 6-0
1985 Bears 5-1
1966 Packers 4-2
1953 Lions 2-4
1964 Browns 1-5
South
1972 Dolphins 6-0
1982 Redskins 3-3
1955 Browns 3-3
1969 Chiefs 2-4
1971 Cowboys 0-6
Semis
1978 Steelers over 84 49ers (21-20)
1972 Dolphins over 76 Raiders (24-21)
Dream Bowl
1978 Steelers over 1972 Dolphins (21-20)
References
External links
Article about NFL Dream Season
Google Groups discussion with attributed results
ESPN original programming
Television series by NFL Films
1989 American television series debuts
1990 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification%20of%20European%20Inland%20Waterways | The Classification of European Inland Waterways is a set of standards for interoperability of large navigable waterways forming part of the Trans-European Inland Waterway network within Continental Europe and Russia. It was created by the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT; , ) in 1992, hence the range of dimensions are also referred to as CEMT Class I–VII.
The size for each waterway is limited by the dimensions of the structures including the locks and boat lifts on the route.
Classification
Class I corresponds to the historical Freycinet gauge decreed in France during 1879. The larger river classification sizes are focused on the carriage of intermodal containers in convoys of barges propelled by a push-tug. Most of the canals of the United Kingdom have smaller locks and would fall below the dimensions in the European classification system. In 2004, the standards were extended with four smaller sizes RA–RD covering recreational craft, which had originally been developed and proposed via PIANC. The proposal to add the recreational sizes was adopted by United Nations Economic Commission for Europe resolution 52. In 2015 an updated version was published.
See also
Unified Deep Water System of European Russia (110-210m length max, 2,5-4m draft)
Baltimax (15,2m draft, the same as NeoPanamax)
Bangkok Port (172m length, 25m beam -with special permit 30m-, 8,2m draft), Bangkokmax of 1944 TEU
Seawaymax (USA Great Lakes docks, 8,08m draft), Chesapeake & Delaware Canal (draft 10,7m)
Paraguay River (almost 2,5m in middle river, 1,6m in upper river)
Grand Canal (China)
Saimaa Canal (Finland, max length 82,5 m, beam 12,6m, draft 4,2m)
Rhine–Main–Danube Canal for ships of 110x11,45x2,5m (up to 135m length with a special permit)
References
Publications including the full classification table
Waterway article including a reference to the European classification
Map of the European Inland Waterway Network, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (4th edition, Geneva 2012), without the recreational navigation categories. Waterway Standards.
European Waterways Map and Directory, 5th ed., David Edwards-May (Transmanche, 2014),
Water transport in Europe
Transport and the European Union
Locks (water navigation)
Classification systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced%20stem%20cells | Induced stem cells (iSC) are stem cells derived from somatic, reproductive, pluripotent or other cell types by deliberate epigenetic reprogramming. They are classified as either totipotent (iTC), pluripotent (iPSC) or progenitor (multipotent – iMSC, also called an induced multipotent progenitor cell – iMPC) or unipotent – (iUSC) according to their developmental potential and degree of dedifferentiation. Progenitors are obtained by so-called direct reprogramming or directed differentiation and are also called induced somatic stem cells.
Three techniques are widely recognized:
Transplantation of nuclei taken from somatic cells into an oocyte (egg cell) lacking its own nucleus (removed in lab)
Fusion of somatic cells with pluripotent stem cells and
Transformation of somatic cells into stem cells, using the genetic material encoding reprogramming protein factors, recombinant proteins; microRNA, a synthetic, self-replicating polycistronic RNA and low-molecular weight biologically active substances.
Natural processes
In 1895 Thomas Morgan removed one of a frog's two blastomeres and found that amphibians are able to form whole embryos from the remaining part. This meant that the cells can change their differentiation pathway. In 1924 Hans Spemann and Hilde Mangold demonstrated the key importance of cell–cell inductions during animal development. The reversible transformation of cells of one differentiated cell type to another is called metaplasia. This transition can be a part of the normal maturation process, or caused by an inducement.
One example is the transformation of iris cells to lens cells in the process of maturation and transformation of retinal pigment epithelium cells into the neural retina during regeneration in adult newt eyes. This process allows the body to replace cells not suitable to new conditions with more suitable new cells. In Drosophila imaginal discs, cells have to choose from a limited number of standard discrete differentiation states. The fact that transdetermination (change of the path of differentiation) often occurs for a group of cells rather than single cells shows that it is induced rather than part of maturation.
The researchers were able to identify the minimal conditions and factors that would be sufficient for starting the cascade of molecular and cellular processes to instruct pluripotent cells to organize the embryo. They showed that opposing gradients of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) and Nodal, two transforming growth factor family members that act as morphogens, are sufficient to induce molecular and cellular mechanisms required to organize, in vivo or in vitro, uncommitted cells of the zebrafish blastula animal pole into a well-developed embryo.
Some types of mature, specialized adult cells can naturally revert to stem cells. For example, "chief" cells express the stem cell marker Troy. While they normally produce digestive fluids for the stomach, they can revert into stem cells to make temporary |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rize%20USA | Rize USA is a London and Los Angeles based television production company focusing on factual, factual entertainment and reality programming for the international market.
Launched in October 2011 Rize is a co-venture between Founder and Creative Director Sheldon Lazarus and TV production and distribution group DCD Media.
Rize USA is represented by Creative Artists Agency in the US and works with Caters News, the UK's leading news and picture agency which provides Rize USA with exclusive access to international news stories.
Programmes
Making Liberty for Channel 4 – 3 part series 2013
A Very British Wedding for BBC Two – 4 part series 2013
The Twins Who Share A Body for Channel 4 – single documentary 2012
The Curious Case of The Clark Brothers for Channel 4 – single documentary 2012
High School Moms for TLC/Discovery Fit & Health – 6 part series 2012
The Girl Who Became Three Boys for Channel 4 – single documentary 2012
Bubble Skin Man for TLC – single documentary 2012
My Social Network Stalker: True Stories for Channel 4 – single documentary 2012
Accused: the 74-Stone Babysitter for Channel 4 a co-production with Megalomedia UK – single documentary 2012
External links
http://www.rizeusa.com
DCD Media
Television production companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinking%20twelve%20problem | In software design, the blinking twelve problem is when features in software or computer systems are rendered unusable to most users by the complexity of the interface to them.
The usage emanates from the 'clock' feature provided on many VCRs manufactured in the late 1980s or early 1990s. The clock could be set by using a combination of buttons provided on the VCR in a specific sequence that was found complicated by most users. As a result, VCR users were known to seldom set the time on the VCR clock. This resulted in the default time of '12:00' blinking on the VCR display at all times of the day, which is the origin of this term.
"In most surveys, the majority of people have never time-shifted just because they don't know how to program their machines," said Tom Adams, a television analyst for Paul Kagan Associates, a media research firm, in 1990.
'The blinking twelve problem' thus refers to any situation in which features or functions of a program go unused for reasons that the designers never anticipated, largely because developers were unable to anticipate the level of understanding the users would have of the technology. The term may also refer to the challenge faced by developers of addressing the real causes of users' difficulties, as well as the challenge of providing helpful documentation or technical support without knowing beforehand how well the user understands their own problem.
In other instances, it can be used to reference the lack of basic user-friendly features in complex systems; stemming from the lack of a backup battery to keep the clock setting in a $300 VCR during even the briefest power interruption, when a $10 clock would have one.
The term appears in the 1999 essay In the Beginning... Was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson.
References
Software design
Computer jargon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshitaka%20Fujii | is a Japanese researcher in anesthesiology, who in 2012 was found to have fabricated data in at least 219 scientific papers, of which 172 have been retracted.
Summary of professional career
Fujii graduated from Tokai University School of Medicine in 1987 and holds an M.D. degree. He attended the Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, where he majored in anesthesiology and received his Ph.D. in 1991. During his career, he worked at institutions including Tokyo Medical and Dental University, the University of Tsukuba, and Toho University. According to an online CV, he spent two years in Canada as a research fellow at Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, before assuming a faculty position at the University of Tsukuba Institute of Clinical Medicine in 1997. He joined the faculty of Toho University in 2005. The main subject of his research publications was clinical trials of medications to treat the nausea and vomiting that often occurs after surgery.
In February 2012, after initial investigations into allegations of scientific misconduct, he was dismissed from his position as associate professor of anesthesiology in the Toho University Faculty of Medicine.
Research misconduct
Fujii apparently began publishing falsified data in 1993. The first published allegations of research fraud by Fujii appeared in 2000 in a letter to the editor of the journal by Peter Kranke, Christian Apfel, and others. The letter questioned Fujii's reported findings regarding the effectiveness of granisetron in controlling post-surgical nausea and vomiting, characterizing the data reported in 47 papers as "incredibly nice" and stating "we became skeptical when we realized that side effects were almost always identical in all groups". A paper published by the same group in 2001 in Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica reported "consistent discrepancies" between Fujii's data and other researchers' findings on the efficacy of granisetron. Fujii dismissed the criticisms of his work, insisting that his results were "true" and asking "How much evidence is required to provide adequate proof?" Apfel wrote to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Japanese Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency, and the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists to alert them to the possible unreliability of Fujii's results, but did not receive any response. No institutional review of Fujii's research was requested and journals continued to accept new papers submitted by Fujii. The editors of Anesthesia & Analgesia did not follow up on the fraud allegations against Fujii until about 2010, when its editor and the editors of several other journals began a coordinated investigation into the integrity of Fujii's scientific publications after the editor of the journal Anaesthesia voiced new concerns. In March 2012, the editor of Anesthesia & Analgesia acknowledged that the journal's response to the allegations made in 2000 had been "inadequate".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel%20Magnolias%20%282012%20film%29 | Steel Magnolias is an American comedy-drama television film directed by Kenny Leon that premiered at Lifetime Network on October 7, 2012. It is a contemporary retelling of the play Steel Magnolias and its 1989 film adaptation. The new film stars an all-black American cast, including Queen Latifah as M'Lynn, Jill Scott as Truvy, Condola Rashād as Shelby, Adepero Oduye as Annelle, with Phylicia Rashād as Clairee and Alfre Woodard as Ouiser.
Cast
Queen Latifah as Mary Lynn "M'Lynn" Eatenton
Jill Scott as Truvy Jones
Alfre Woodard as Louisa "Ouiser" Boudreaux
Adepero Oduye as Annelle Dupuy-DeSoto
Phylicia Rashād as Clairee Belcher
Condola Rashād as Shelby Eatenton-Latcherie
Lance Gross as Sammy DeSoto
Michael Beasley as Spud Jones
Tory Kittles as Jackson Latcherie
Afemo Omilami as Drum Eatenton
Demetrius Bridges as Jonathan Eatenton
Justin Martin as Tommy Eatenton
Jeff Rose as Dr. Judd
Reception
Critical reception
The film has been met with positive reviews from critics, with a score of 74 out of 100 from Metacritic. Many critics praised Alfre Woodard's performance as Ouiser.
Ratings
The film premiered on Sunday, October 7, 2012, on Lifetime and earned 6.5 million viewers. It is the 3rd highest viewed Lifetime Original.
Awards
Alfre Woodard was nominated for numerous awards for her performance as Ouiser, including the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie and Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie.
References
External links
Official Page
2012 television films
2012 films
African-American films
Lifetime (TV network) films
2010s female buddy films
Remakes of American films
American films based on plays
Films set in Louisiana
Films scored by William Ross
Television remakes of films
2012 comedy-drama films
Films about mother–daughter relationships
Films directed by Kenny Leon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%281989%29 | Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in 1989, by order of first appearance. They were all introduced by the show's executive producer Des Monaghan. The 2nd season of Home and Away began airing on 23 January 1989. The first introduction of the year was Martha Stewart in January. Rebecca Fisher made her first appearance in April. Emily Symons joined the cast as Marilyn Chambers in May. In June, the serial saw the birth of Duncan Stewart, the first child of Alf and Ailsa and Mat Stevenson took on the role of Adam Cameron a fortnight later. Mouche Phillips joined as Viv Newton in July and September saw the arrival of Dannii Minogue as Emma Jackson.
Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart initially appeared from 25 January to 13 February 1989, played by Alison Mulvaney. Martha was introduced as Alf Stewart's (Ray Meagher) first wife through a series of flashbacks. The character was reintroduced on 27 March 2018, and the role was recast to Belinda Giblin, who previously played Cynthia Ross in 1991. Meagher told Simon Timblick of the Radio Times that he may have suggested Giblin for the role, saying "When it was first mentioned to me they were thinking about bringing Martha back, they hadn't started looking and I said Belinda would be terrific. I don't know whether they looked any further, it was the perfect choice." Martha has the longest gap between appearances of any character on Home and Away.
Martha was reintroduced as part of the show's 30th anniversary celebrations. Alf tells their daughter Roo Stewart (Georgie Parker) that Martha did not die as previously thought, but she had in fact disappeared as she was unhappy with her life. Roo tries to find her mother, but is unsuccessful, until Martha makes her own way to Summer Bay. The character returns the following year, after receiving a phone call from Alf, which leads them to reconcile romantically. Meagher thought that Martha was probably the love of his life, despite his marriage to Ailsa Stewart (Judy Nunn). He also joked about that Martha being alive may have made Alf a bigamist. Martha temporarily leaves after her borderline personality disorder causes her anxiety.
Martha was married to Alf Stewart and is the mother of their daughter, Ruth "Roo" Stewart (then Justine Clarke). She was presumed drowned after a sailing accident in 1985. Martha appears in flashbacks when Bobby Simpson (Nicolle Dickson) reads her diary entries while searching for leads on her biological parents. It is revealed that Martha knew that Alf's sister, Morag Bellingham (Cornelia Frances) was Bobby's mother and subsequently had her adopted out to Al (George Leppard; Terence Donovan) and Doris Simpson.
Decades later, when he thinks he is going to die following an explosion, Alf tells Roo that Martha did not drown, as Roo had been led to believe, and is still alive. Martha comes to Summer Ba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Slice | The following is a current list of programs broadcast by the Canadian TV channel Slice, and its former incarnation as Life Network.
Current programming
Original programming
Big Brother Canada
Ex-Wives of Rock
Money Moron
Princess
Til Debt Do Us Part
Unusually Thicke
Acquired programming
48 Hours Mystery
Beautiful People
Big Brother: After Dark
Border Security: Canada's Front Line
Entertainment Tonight Canada
Face to Face with David
Friends
Karma's A B*tch
Million Dollar Listing Miami
Million Dollar Listing New York
The Millionaire Matchmaker
Mob Wives
Murder in Paradise
Online Dating Rituals of the American Male
Property Virgins
The Real Housewives of Atlanta
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
The Real Housewives of Miami
The Real Housewives of Melbourne
The Real Housewives of New Jersey
The Real Housewives of New York City
The Real Housewives of Orange County
See No Evil
The Singles Project
Southern Charm
A Stranger in My Home
Surviving Evil
Past programming
Original programming
At the End of My Leash
Birth Days
Brides of Beverly Hills
Bulging Brides
Cake Walk
Cake Walk: Wedding Cake Edition
Carlawood
Child Star
Crash Test Mommy
Dogs with Jobs
Dr. in the House
Extreme Collectors
Four Weddings Canada
Intervention Canada
The Last 10 Pounds Bootcamp
The List
Lost and Sold
Marriage Under Construction
Matchmaker
The Mistress
Mother of the Bride
My Teenage Wedding
Outlaw In-Laws
Project Runway Canada
The Real Housewives of TorontoThe Real Housewives of VancouverRenovate My WardrobeRich Bride, Poor BrideRich Groom, Poor GroomRocker MomsThree TakesU8TV: The LoftersWedding SOSX-WeightedAcquired programming
72 HoursAverage JoeBethenny Ever After...Bethenny Getting Married?Big City BrokerThe Biggest LoserBuy MeCanada Sings Casino ConfidentialCelebrity Paranormal ProjectDance MomsThe Ex-Wives ClubThe Glee Project The HeroI Do, Let's Eat Kendra on TopKing of the NerdsKitchen NightmaresThe Mom ShowNewlywed, Nearly DeadOne Born Every MinuteParty MamasProperty ShopThe Real Housewives of DCSupernannyTabatha Takes OverTabatha's Salon TakeoversTim Gunn's Guide To StyleTori & Dean: Home Sweet HollywoodTori & Dean: Inn LoveTori & Dean: sTORIbook WeddingsTrading Spouses''
References
Slice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Cloud%20Messaging | Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) was a mobile notification service developed by Google that enables third-party application developers to send notification data or information from developer-run servers to applications that target the Google Android Operating System, as well as applications or extensions developed for the Google Chrome internet browser. It was available to developers free of charge. The GCM Service was first announced in June 2012 as a successor to Google's now-defunct Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) service, citing improvements to authentication and delivery, new API endpoints and messaging parameters, and the removal of limitations on API send-rates and message sizes. It has been superseded by Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) on May 29, 2019.
Development
GCM first launched as Google's Android Cloud to Device Messaging (C2DM) service, first featured in Android 2.2 by Google.
The transition to Google Cloud Messaging was first announced when the Android service was unveiled on June 27, 2012, at Google I/O. Shortly after announcing the Google Cloud Messaging service, Google published documentation to guide application developers with migrating from the C2DM and onto the new service. Migrating to the service required SDK and code changes, as well as a release of an application update to the publish repository (such as Google Play) for downloading and updating.
The Chrome service was announced before Google I/O 2013 in a blog post titled 'Building efficient apps and extensions with push messaging.'
At I/O 2015, Google announced a new SDK and iOS support.
Technical details
Google Cloud Messaging functions using server APIs and SDKs, both maintained by Google. The GCM has the ability to send push notifications, deep-linking commands, and application data. Larger messages can be sent with up to 4 KB of payload data.
Upon allowing the application permission to receive and display notifications, the client application sends a registration API request to the Google Cloud Messaging interface to begin the registration process. The GCM Service receives and acknowledges the request and responds by giving the device a GCM Registration ID, a unique identifier that the developer later uses to send a notification to the individual device. The identifier is stored onto the device, and is typically sent to the developer's application server to be stored. The GCM Registration ID is a randomly-generated identifier that does not contain any personal or device information that could allow a developer to discover the personal identity of the user. When the developer wishes to send a notification event to a device, the process begins with an API POST request being sent to the GCM Authentication Service. The POST request includes the GCM Registration ID, priority, optional values and links, and the information that is to be displayed on the device upon its arrival. Upon successful verification of the GCM Registration ID and other credent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosm%20%28software%29 | Cosm is a family of open distributed computing software and protocols developed in 1995 led by Adam L. Beberg, and later developed by Mithral Inc. Cosm is a registered trademark of Mithral Inc.
Early work on Cosm lead to Beberg co-founding distributed.net, which was used for cryptographic and mathematical challenges beginning in 1997. Beberg left the governing group of distributed.net in April 1999 to work on Cosm full-time.
The Cosm Client-Server Software Development Kit (CS-SDK) for building volunteer computing projects, along with experience in gathering volunteers gained from distributed.net, was used as the initial software framework for the Genome@home and Folding@home projects at Stanford University. The project grew to over 400,000 simultaneous machines achieving 8 PFLOPS, aiding in protein folding research. The Cosm CS-SDK was also used for the first several years of the eOn project.
Beberg worked towards a Doctorate degree at Stanford from 2004 through 2011, using Cosm for his research.
See also
List of volunteer computing projects
distributed.net
Genome@home
Folding@home
Storage@home
References
External links
Official website
Volunteer computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HARP%20%28algorithm%29 | Harmonic phase (HARP) algorithm is a medical image analysis technique capable of extracting and processing motion information from tagged magnetic resonance image (MRI) sequences. It was initially developed by N. F. Osman and J. L. Prince at the Image Analysis and Communications Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. The method uses spectral peaks in the Fourier domain of tagged MRI, calculating the phase images of their inverse Fourier transforms, which are called harmonic phase (HARP) images. The motion of material points through time is then tracked, under the assumption that the HARP value of a fixed material point is time-invariant. The method is fast and accurate, and has been accepted as one of the most popular tagged MRI analysis methods in medical image processing.
Background
In cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, tagging techniques make it possible to capture and store the motion information of myocardium in vivo. MR tagging uses a special pulse sequence to create temporary features – tags in the myocardium. Tags deform together with the myocardium as the heart beats and are captured by MR imaging. Analysis of the motion of the tag features in many images taken from different orientations and at different times can be used to track material points in the myocardium. Tagged MRI is widely used to develop and refine models of normal and abnormal myocardial motion to better understand the correlation of coronary artery disease with myocardial motion abnormalities and the effects of treatment after myocardial infarction. However, suffered from long imaging and post-processing times, tagged MRI was slow in entering into routine clinical use until the HARP algorithm was developed and published in 1999.
Description
HARP processing
A tagged MRI showing motion of a human heart is shown in the image (a). The effect of tagging can be described as a multiplication of the underlying image by a sinusoid tag pattern having a certain fundamental frequency, causing an amplitude modulation of the underlying image and replicating its Fourier transform into the pattern shown in (b).
HARP processing uses a bandpass filter to isolate one of the spectral peaks. For example, the circle drawn in (b) is the -3 dB isocontour of the bandpass filter used to process this data. Selection of the filters for optimal performance is discussed in this paper. The inverse Fourier transform of the filtered image yields a complex harmonic image at image coordinates and time :
where is called the harmonic magnitude image and is called the harmonic phase image.
The harmonic magnitude image in (c) extracted from a using the filter in (b) shows the geometry of the heart. And the harmonic phase image in (d) contains the motion of the myocardium in horizontal direction. In practice, tagged images from two directions (both horizontal and vertical, i.e., is 1 and 2) are processed to provide a 2D motion map in the image plane. Notice that the harmonic phase images are comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD | .мон is the internationalised (Cyrillic) internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Mongolia. It is administered by .MN Registry, Datacom. The domain name is composed of the consonants in the three first letters of the country name. The .МОН registry is operated under the thick registry model. Administrative, billing, technical and registrant contacts are required. In 2012 a new top domain was registered for Mongolia, intended for domain names in the Mongolian language. Registrations for the domain opened in May 2014. The first site http://мон.мон became active during that month.
See also
.mn
References
External links
Site with .мон
Buses Domain
мон
Internet in Mongolia
Science and technology in Mongolia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20linguistic%20processing | Deep linguistic processing is a natural language processing framework which draws on theoretical and descriptive linguistics. It models language predominantly by way of theoretical syntactic/semantic theory (e.g. CCG, HPSG, LFG, TAG, the Prague School). Deep linguistic processing approaches differ from "shallower" methods in that they yield more expressive and structural representations which directly capture long-distance dependencies and underlying predicate-argument structures.
The knowledge-intensive approach of deep linguistic processing requires considerable computational power, and has in the past sometimes been judged as being intractable. However, research in the early 2000s had made considerable advancement in efficiency of deep processing. Today, efficiency is no longer a major problem for applications using deep linguistic processing.
Contrast to "shallow linguistic processing"
Traditionally, deep linguistic processing has been concerned with computational grammar development (for use in both parsing and generation). These grammars were manually developed, maintained and were computationally expensive to run. In recent years, machine learning approaches (also known as shallow linguistic processing) have fundamentally altered the field of natural language processing. The rapid creation of robust and wide-coverage machine learning NLP tools requires substantially lesser amount of manual labor. Thus deep linguistic processing methods have received less attention.
However, it is the belief of some computational linguists that in order for computers to understand natural language or inference, detailed syntactic and semantic representation is necessary. Moreover, while humans can easily understand a sentence and its meaning, shallow linguistic processing might lack human language 'understanding'. For example:
a) Things would be different if Microsoft were located in Georgia.
In sentence (a), a shallow information extraction system might infer wrongly that Microsoft's headquarters was located in Georgia. While as humans, we understand from the sentence that Microsoft office was never in Georgia.
b) The National Institute for Psychology in Israel was established in May 1971 as the Israel Center for Psychobiology by Prof. Joel.
In sentence (b), a shallow system could wrongly infer that Israel was established in May 1971. Humans know that it is the National Institute for Psychobiology that was established in 1971.
In summary of the comparison between deep and shallow language processing, deep linguistic processing provides a knowledge-rich analysis of language through manually developed grammars and language resources. Whereas, shallow linguistic processing provides a knowledge-lean analysis of language through statistical/machine learning manipulation of texts and/or annotated linguistic resource.
Sub-communities
"Deep" computational linguists are divided in different sub-communities based on the grammatical formalism they adopted for de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20Consortium | The is a joint venture set up by the Japanese public broadcaster Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) and several commercial television and radio networks under the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan (NAB) in 1984 to cover broadcasts of the Olympic Games (Summer and Winter), FIFA World Cup, and other major tournaments.
Participating media outlets
Television
Free-to-Air
NHK General TV (AK)
Fuji TV (CX)
Nippon TV (AX)
TBS (RX)
TV Asahi (EX)
TV Tokyo (TX)
UHF independent TV stations
Broadcast Satellite
NHK BS1
NHK BS Premium
BS Asahi
BS Fuji
BS TV Tokyo
BS Nittere
BS-TBS
Radio
AM
NHK Radio 1
NHK Radio 2
Nippon Broadcasting System (LF)
Nippon Cultural Broadcasting (QR)
TBS Radio (TBS)
FM
NHK FM Broadcast
InterFM
J-Wave (FMJ)
Tokyo FM (TFM)
Shortwave
Radio Nikkei
Others
NOTTV (smartphones, 2012 Summer Olympics only)
WOWOW (FIFA World Cup only)
Coverages
Summer Olympic Games
Winter Olympic Games
FIFA World Cup
References
1992 establishments in Japan
1992 in Japanese television
Broadcasting in Japan
Joint ventures |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended%20basic%20block | In computing, an extended basic block is a collection of basic blocks of the code within a program with certain properties that make them highly amenable to optimizations. Many compiler optimizations operate on extended basic blocks.
Definition
An extended basic block is a maximal collection of basic blocks where:
only the first basic block can have multiple predecessor basic blocks;
all the other basic blocks have one single predecessor basic block, which must be within the collection of basic blocks.
Uses
Many local optimizations that operate on basic blocks can be easily extended to operate on extended basic blocks. An example is common subexpression elimination which removes duplicate expressions. In its simplest form it is a local optimization, operating only on basic blocks.
See also
Basic block
Control-flow graph
Tracing just-in-time compilation
Notes
External links
Basic Blocks - GNU Compiler Collection
The Difference Between Extended Basic Blocks and Traces
Compiler construction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril%20Isenberg | Cyril Isenberg MBE is an English physicist at the University of Kent, where he is an Honorary Lecturer.
Isenberg is known for pioneering the analog computing possibilities of soap bubbles; in 2012, his 1976 article on the subject was one of a set of "classic articles" selected by American Scientist to celebrate their centennial. He has also frequently given physics lectures to schoolchildren and appeared in television shows, and is the organizer of the British Physics Olympiad. He is the author of books The Science of Soap Films and Soap Bubbles (Dover, 1978) and Physics Experiments and Projects for Students (with S. Chomet, Taylor & Francis, 1989 & 1996).
In 1994, Isenberg won the Lawrence Bragg Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics for his contributions to physics education. In 2008, he became a Member of the Order of the British Empire.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
English physicists
Academics of the University of Kent
Members of the Order of the British Empire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortest%20path%20faster%20algorithm | The Shortest Path Faster Algorithm (SPFA) is an improvement of the Bellman–Ford algorithm which computes single-source shortest paths in a weighted directed graph. The algorithm is believed to work well on random sparse graphs and is particularly suitable for graphs that contain negative-weight edges. However, the worst-case complexity of SPFA is the same as that of Bellman–Ford, so for graphs with nonnegative edge weights Dijkstra's algorithm is preferred. The SPFA algorithm was first published by Edward F. Moore in 1959, as a generalization of breadth first search; SPFA is Moore's “Algorithm D.” The name, “Shortest Path Faster Algorithm (SPFA),” was given by FanDing Duan, a Chinese researcher who rediscovered the algorithm in 1994.
Algorithm
Given a weighted directed graph and a source vertex , the SPFA algorithm finds the shortest path from , to each vertex , in the graph. The length of the shortest path from to is stored in for each vertex .
The basic idea of SPFA is the same as the Bellman-Ford algorithm in that each vertex is used as a candidate to relax its adjacent vertices. The improvement over the latter is that instead of trying all vertices blindly, SPFA maintains a queue of candidate vertices and adds a vertex to the queue only if that vertex is relaxed. This process repeats until no more vertex can be relaxed.
Below is the pseudo-code of the algorithm. Here is a first-in, first-out queue of candidate vertices, and is the edge weight of .
procedure Shortest-Path-Faster-Algorithm(G, s)
1 for each vertex v ≠ s in V(G)
2 d(v) := ∞
3 d(s) := 0
4 push s into Q
5 while Q is not empty do
6 u := poll Q
7 for each edge (u, v) in E(G) do
8 if d(u) + w(u, v) < d(v) then
9 d(v) := d(u) + w(u, v)
10 if v is not in Q then
11 push v into Q
The algorithm can also be applied to an undirected graph by replacing each undirected edge with two directed edges of opposite directions.
Proof of correctness
We will prove that the algorithm never computes incorrect shortest path lengths.
Lemma: Whenever the queue is checked for emptiness, any vertex currently capable of causing relaxation is in the queue.
Proof: We want to show that if for any two vertices and at the time the condition is checked, is in the queue. We do so by induction on the number of iterations of the loop that have already occurred. First we note that this certainly holds before the loop is entered: if , then relaxation is not possible; relaxation is possible from , and this is added to the queue immediately before the while loop is entered. Now, consider what happens inside the loop. A vertex is popped, and is used to relax all its neighbors, if possible. Therefore, immediately after that iteration of the loop, is not capable of causing any more relaxations (and does not have to be in the queue anymore). However, the relaxation by migh |
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