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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Numtums | The Numtums is a British-Australian-Swedish computer-animated children's television series created by Barry Quinn for CBeebies. It is about a group of 10 creatures called the Numtums, each with a number on their tummies. The show debuted on CBeebies in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2012, and ended on 17 December 2013, and in United States the show debuted on Qubo on 1 January 2015 with a total of 3 series.
Plot
The Numtums is about a group of 10 multicolored numbats who live in Gumnut Gorge called the Numtums with numbers on their tummies. The Numtums are based on numbats, hence their fondness for eating termites in their café, the Tasty Termite, and they are named after Australian towns, except Champer. Bizarrely, the environment in which they live (featuring saguaro cacti, mesas and rock arches) appears to be more akin to the Colorado plateau and sonora deserts in the southwest United States than any part of Australia.
Characters
The Numtums
Bendy Go (formerly named Number 1 in series 1) is the tallest Numtum in his green number one.
Dar Dar (formerly named Number 2 in series 1) is skateboarder Numtum in her pink number two.
Champer (formerly named Number 3 in series 1) is the highest jumper in his yellow number three.
Gladdy (formerly named Number 4 in series 1) acts as the parental figure of the Numtums, she likes neatness in her blue number four.
Little Sandy (formerly named Number 5 in series 1) is the smartest Numtum, and a scientist in her pink number five.
Flinders (formerly named Number 6 in series 1) is a very old Numtum and gives the Numtums adventures in his green number six.
Humpty Do (formerly named Number 7 in series 1 and also known as Humpty) is the hungriest Numtum in his light blue number seven.
Coogee (formerly named Number 8 in series 1) is a baby in his yellow number eight.
Hobart (formerly named Number 9 in series 1) is a very talented dancing Numtum in his light green number nine.
Nimbin (formerly named Number 10 in series 1) is a painting Numtum in her purple ten of a one and a zero.
Super Numtum is a superhero in series 1, 2, and 3.
Billy is an indigo numtum-like hedgehog. He is the coolest Numtum in the Gumnut Gorge. Billy appears in series 2 and 3.
Other animals
Larry is a lyrebird.
The Flamingos live in the Gumnut Gorge and need the Numtums to get them in order.
Fluffy McTuffy is Super Numtum's enemy, a koala with plans for world domination.
Frilly Lizzy is McTuffy's sidekick, a smart, timid, silent, and somewhat stoic frilled lizard.
Production
The Numtums was animated by Beakus in series 1 and A Productions in series 2 and 3. Series 1 was aimed at toddlers, but series 2 and 3 was revamped for an older audience, introducing more complex concepts such as subtraction, shape recognition and numbers from 11 to 20 with computer animation, and using a more Australian theme. The creator Barry Quinn said in an interview that "we were looking at doing a show about numbers for the early years |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20sniffing | Content sniffing, also known as media type sniffing or MIME sniffing, is the practice of inspecting the content of a byte stream to attempt to deduce the file format of the data within it. Content sniffing is generally used to compensate for a lack of accurate metadata that would otherwise be required to enable the file to be interpreted correctly. Content sniffing techniques tend to use a mixture of techniques that rely on the redundancy found in most file formats: looking for file signatures and magic numbers, and heuristics including searching for well-known representative substrings, the use of byte frequency and n-gram tables, and Bayesian inference.
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) sniffing was, and still is, used by some web browsers, including notably Microsoft's Internet Explorer, in an attempt to help web sites which do not correctly signal the MIME type of web content display. However, doing this opens up a serious security vulnerability, in which, by confusing the MIME sniffing algorithm, the browser can be manipulated into interpreting data in a way that allows an attacker to carry out operations that are not expected by either the site operator or user, such as cross-site scripting. Moreover, by making sites which do not correctly assign MIME types to content appear to work correctly in those browsers, it fails to encourage the correct labeling of material, which in turn makes content sniffing necessary for these sites to work, creating a vicious circle of incompatibility with web standards and security best practices.
A specification exists for media type sniffing in HTML5, which attempts to balance the requirements of security with the need for reverse compatibility with web content with missing or incorrect MIME-type data. It attempts to provide a precise specification that can be used across implementations to implement a single well-defined and deterministic set of behaviors.
The UNIX command can be viewed as a content sniffing application.
Charset sniffing
Numerous web browsers use a more limited form of content sniffing to attempt to determine the character encoding of text files for which the MIME type is already known. This technique is known as charset sniffing or codepage sniffing and, for certain encodings, may be used to bypass security restrictions too. For instance, Internet Explorer 7 may be tricked to run JScript in circumvention of its policy by allowing the browser to guess that an HTML-file was encoded in UTF-7. This bug is worsened by the feature of the UTF-7 encoding which permits multiple encodings of the same text and, specifically, alternative representations of ASCII characters.
Most encodings do not allow evasive presentations of ASCII characters, so charset sniffing is less dangerous in general because, due to the historical accident of the ASCII-centric nature of scripting and markup languages, characters outside the ASCII repertoire are more difficult to use to circumvent security bo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Coverage%20Processing%20Service | The Web Coverage Processing Service (WCPS) defines a language for filtering and processing of multi-dimensional raster coverages, such as sensor, simulation, image, and statistics data. The Web Coverage Processing Service is maintained by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). This raster query language allows clients to obtain original coverage data, or derived information, in a platform-neutral manner over the Web.
Overview
WCPS allows to generate pictures suitable for displaying to humans and information concise enough for further consumption by programs. In particular, the formally defined syntax and semantics make WCPS amenable to program-generated queries and automatic service chaining.
As the WCPS language is not tied to any particular transmission protocol, the query paradigm can be embedded into any service framework, such as OGC Web Coverage Service (WCS) and OGC Web Processing Service (WPS).
The current WCPS version is 1.0. The standards document, available from the OGC WCPS standards page, presents a condensed definition of syntax and semantics. In addition, there is an introduction to the concepts along with design rationales.
Currently, WCPS is constrained to multi-dimensional raster data, but an activity is under work in OGC to extend it to all coverage types, i.e., digital geospatial information representing space-varying phenomena as defined in OGC Abstract Specification Topic 6: Schema for Coverage Geometry and Functions (which is identical to ISO 19123) and refined to a concrete, interoperable model in the OGC GML 3.2.1 Application Schema - Coverages (GMLCOV) Standard.
WCPS language in a nutshell
WCPS establishes a protocol to send a query string to a server and obtain, as a result of the server's processing, a set of coverages.
The query string can be expressed in either Abstract Syntax or XML. In the following examples, Abstract Syntax will be used as it is more apt for human consumption.
The WCPS syntax tentatively has been crafted close to the XQuery language – as metadata more and more are established in XML, and OGC heavily relies on XML (such as Geography Markup Language), it is anticipated that eventually a combination of XQuery and WCPS will be established. This will unify data and metadata retrieval.
The following example may serve to illustrate these principles. Task is to inspect three coverages M1, M2, and M3; for each one, deliver the pixelwise difference of red and near-infrared (nir) channel; return the result encoded in HDF5:
for $c in ( M1, M2, M3 )
return
encode( abs( $c.red - $c.nir ), "hdf5" )
This will return three coverages, that is: three HDF5 files.
Next, we are interested only in those coverages where nir exceeds 127 somewhere:
for $c in ( M1, M2, M3 )
where
some( $c.nir > 127 )
return
encode( abs( $c.red - $c.nir ), "hdf5" )
The result might be only two coverages that pass the filter.
Finally, we want to constrain the filter predicate through a pixel mask acting as filter:
for $ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosm | Cosm, COSM, or CoSM may refer to:
Cosm (software), a family of open distributed computing software and protocols
The Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, in Wappinger, New York, USA
Xively, an internet of things platform previously known as Cosm
See also
Microcosm (disambiguation)
Macrocosm (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens%20Digital%20Industries%20Software | Siemens Digital Industries Software (formerly UGS and then Siemens PLM Software) is an American computer software company specializing in 3D & 2D Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software. The company is a business unit of Siemens, operates under the legal name of Siemens Industry Software Inc, and is headquartered in Plano, Texas.
History
Evolution of Siemens PLM from UGS: 1963–2007
The first commercial product developed by what is now known as Siemens PLM Software was called UNIAPT, released in 1969 by a software company then called United Computing. UNIAPT was one of the world's first end-user CAM products. United Computing was founded in 1963 above a hair salon in Torrance, California, and went on to purchase the Automated Drafting and Machining (ADAM) software code from MCS in 1973. The code became a foundation for a product called UNI-GRAPHICS, later sold commercially in 1975 as Unigraphics.
The following year, United Computing was acquired by the aerospace company McDonnell Douglas (now part of Boeing), who created new CAD/CAM divisions, naming one the Unigraphics Group. Finally, in 1980, Unigraphics was released, marking the group's first true 3D modeling hardware and software offering. Already home to McDonnell Douglas, the Unigraphics Group grew in St. Louis, Missouri, which became the new headquarters.
In 1991, the McDonnell Douglas Systems Integration groups, including Unigraphics, were acquired by EDS (then a part of General Motors Corp., later part of HP Enterprise Services, now part of DXC Technology). EDS branded the acquired business as EDS Unigraphics. Eventually, in 1997 EDS set up its Unigraphics division as a wholly owned subsidiary called Unigraphics Solutions. EDS took Unigraphics Solutions public while continuing to own majority controlling shares in Unigraphics. During this time, Unigraphics acquired a few companies itself including Engineering Animation, Inc., the former Ames, Iowa-based visualization company.
In 1999 the company acquired Applicon, a long-term player in the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) field.
Unigraphics changed its name to UGS Corporation in 2001. Also that year, EDS repurchased all outstanding UGS stock, and acquired a UGS competitor, SDRC. In 2003 UGS also received a perpetual, royalty-free license to the MSC Nastran source code. UGS, SDRC, and Nastran were merged into a single Line of Business (LOB) named EDS PLM Solutions.
In 2004, EDS sold its EDS PLM Solutions business to the private equity group of Bain Capital, Silver Lake Partners, and Warburg Pincus. The company resumed operating under the UGS name following the private equity sale.
In 2005, UGS purchased Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd.
On January 24, 2007 the German electronics giant Siemens AG announced that they would acquire UGS for $3.5 billion. Helmuth Ludwig was appointed president and worked with the management team on creating a long-term strategic direction.
Siemens PLM: 2007–2019
The 2007 acquisition of UGS laid the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A2nico%20na%20Band | Pânico na Band () was a Brazilian comedy television show broadcast originally by the Band network from April 1, 2012 until December 31, 2017, produced in a partnership between Band and Jovem Pan, the latter being the owner of the show's format. This is the second television version of the radio show Pânico, succeeding Pânico na TV, which was broadcast by RedeTV! between 2003 and 2011.
Seasons
The Pânico na Band has the same format of the older Pânico na TV, created in 2003, after the cast members of the homonym radio program wanting a greater disclosure of the show. Officially, was idealized by Antônio Augusto Amaral de Carvalho Filho (Tutinha), president of the Jovem Pan radio. Anchored by Emilio Surita, the show has the help of Marcos Chiesa, Wellington Muniz, Rodrigo Scarpa, Márvio Lúcio, Evandro Santo, Eduardo Sterblitch, Daniel Zukerman, Amanda Ramalho, Daniel Peixoto, Guilherme Santana, Fernanda Lacerda.
Notes
References
External links
Rede Bandeirantes original programming
Brazilian comedy television series
2012 in Brazilian television
2017 in Brazilian television
Portuguese-language television shows
Brazilian parodists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20AN/TSQ-8%20Coordinate%20Data%20Set | The Martin AN/TSQ-8 Coordinate Data Set was a Project Nike CCCS system for converting data between Army Air Defense Command Posts (AADCP) and Integrated Fire Control sites for missile Launch Areas. The AN/TSQ-8 in the Firing Unit Integration Facility (FUIF) was first installed for each Launch Area controlled from a Martin AN/FSG-1 Antiaircraft Defense System and then later for other Nike CCCS. The system included a "data converter, range computer, summing amplifier, status relay panel, status control panel, problem unit, [and] power control panel".
The AN/TSQ-8 in each FUIF was the remote terminus of the AN/FSG-1's automated data link (ADL) of AADCP digital information that included identification friend or foe status (e.g., "foe" symbol), the "prepare to engage" symbol (for the battery to track the designated foe), and the attack symbol from the AADCP director to the Battery Control Officer who issued the firing order to a ready missile.
History
The first AN/TSQ-8 training course for Army technicians was in April 1958 at the "Martin-Orlando facility" after the Ft Meade AN/FSG-1 was "operational" on December 5, 1957 (the last AN/FSG-1 was at Fort MacArthur in December 1960.) In 1961, the AN/TSQ-8 was deployed for the ADL interface with portable Martin AN/GSG-5 & AN/GSG-6 BIRDIEs emplaced at AADCPs for smaller defense areas (replacement Hughes AN/TSQ-51 systems were emplaced at AADCPs beginning in 1963 similarly required FUIFs). Firing Unit Integration Facilities had been replaced when the Improved Nike Hercules ground system (Western Electric System 1393 Radar Course Directing Central) was deployed and included an internal automated data link.
References
Cold War military computer systems of the United States
Project Nike
United States Army equipment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20highest-grossing%20films%20in%20China | This is a list of the highest-grossing films in Mainland China. Most of the data below is provided by EntGroup's China Box Office (CBO) website, with the gross in yuan.
Highest-grossing films by box office revenue
Top 50 all-time highest-grossing films
Films that are currently in cinema
Top 20 domestic films
Films that are currently in cinema
Top 20 foreign films
Films that are currently in cinema
Highest-grossing films by box office admissions
Timeline of highest-grossing films
Up until the 1980s, the Chinese box office was typically reported in terms of box office admissions (ticket sales), rather than gross revenue. The film with the highest ticket sales in China is Legend of the White Snake (1980) with an estimated admissions, followed by with ticket sales. The foreign film with the highest ticket sales in China was the 1976 Japanese film Kimi yo Fundo no Kawa o Watare (Manhunt), which had its Chinese release in 1978 and sold more than tickets in China, followed by the Indian film Caravan (1971) which had its Chinese release in 1979 and sold about tickets in China. Hollywood film releases were relatively rare in China up until First Blood (1982), which had its Chinese release in 1985, and went on to sell tickets, the highest for a Hollywood film in China up until 2018.
released in 1992 and became China's highest-grossing film with . China began releasing box office gross revenue results for foreign non-Chinese films in November 1994, upon the release of The Fugitive (1993). In 1995, the Hong Kong action film Rumble in the Bronx, directed by Stanley Tong and starring Jackie Chan, became the all-time highest-grossing foreign film in China, where it grossed ; it is not considered a domestic film as it was produced in Hong Kong (then a British Dependent Territory). It was above the year's highest domestic Chinese film, Jiang Wen's In the Heat of the Sun with ¥50 million. Stanley Tong and Jackie Chan surpassed their own record with the Hong Kong action film Police Story 4: First Strike (1996), which grossed in China. In 1998, Titanic (directed by James Cameron) became the all-time highest grossing film to be released in China, with a then-unprecedented ¥360 million. In 2002, Hero became the second highest-grossing domestic film, with . China's first domestic film to breach ¥360 million was released in 2009, The Founding of a Republic. In 2015, Monster Hunt became the first domestic film in 17 years to become the overall highest-grossing film in China, earning ¥2.44 billion.
Highest-grossing films by year
Since the 1990s, the most represented filmmaker in the chart has been American film director Michael Bay with four films to his credit, occupying the top spot in 2001, 2007, 2011, and 2014. Among domestic filmmakers, Feng Xiaogang (1999, 2003, 2008) and Stephen Chow (2004, 2013, 2016) are the most represented with three films each.
Films that are currently in cinema (as of April 2022)
Box office milestones
Highest-grossing o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20V.%20L.%20Narayan%20Rao | K. V. L. Narayan Rao (17 July 1954 – 20 November 2017) was group Chief Executive Officer of Indian TV network NDTV and the president of News Broadcasters Association.
Life and career
Born to General K V Krishna Rao, the 11th General of the Indian Army and later governor of Jammu and Kashmir in a Telugu Brahmin family in Hyderabad, Rao started his career as a journalist with The Indian Express, before joining the Indian Revenue Service. He has been with NDTV since 1995 and has earlier been responsible for the Human Resources, Administration and Operations of the Company. Narayan Rao has played a vital role in the transition and growth of NDTV from a production house to a broadcaster.
Career at NDTV
Rao had joined NDTV as General Manager in January 1995, looking after human resources, administration and operations of the organisation.
He was invited to join the board of NDTV in 1998 and had been its Executive Director since then.
Rao was appointed Group CEO in 2007 and Executive Vice Chairperson in August 2011.
In October 2016, he was reappointed for a second tenure as Group CEO of NDTV, in addition to his responsibilities as Executive Vice Chairperson.
He had held important positions as president of the News Broadcasters Association, member of the Indian Broadcasting Federation and vice-president of the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association.
Narayan Rao was also a member of the Ficci Entertainment Committee and the CII National Committee on Media & Entertainment.
Family
He was married to Ms Renu and has two sons Jayant and Arjun.
Death
He died on 20 November 2017 after fighting against cancer for two years, about 2 years after his father's death.
References
1954 births
2017 deaths
Businesspeople from Hyderabad, India
Indian television executives
NDTV Group
Indian Revenue Service officers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEYY | WEYY is a Christian radio station licensed to Tallapoosa, Georgia, broadcasting on 88.7 MHz FM.
External links
Gospel Radio Network's website
EYY |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20Chicken%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth season of the stop-motion television series Robot Chicken originally aired in the United States on Cartoon Network's late night programming block, Adult Swim. Season six officially began on September 10, 2012, on Adult Swim, with Robot Chicken DC Comics Special and contained a total of twenty episodes. The first of the regular Season 6 episodes aired on September 17, 2012. This is also the first season to be streamed uncensored on HBO Max since the first 5 seasons are censored.
Overview
The sixth season of Robot Chicken includes many TV, movie, commercial, pop culture parodies, all acted out by dolls and action figures.
Robot Chicken DC Comics Special (September 10, 2012) is a DC Universe special, in collaboration with DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation. Voice actors are Seth Green as Batman, Robin and Aquaman, Paul Reubens as the Riddler, Neil Patrick Harris as Two-Face, Alfred Molina as Lex Luthor, Nathan Fillion as the Green Lantern, Megan Fox as Lois Lane, Breckin Meyer as Superman, and Kevin Shinick as the narrator. Cast also includes Abraham Benrubi, Alex Borstein, Clare Grant, Tara Strong, Matthew Senreich, Aaron Paul, Steven Tyler, Tom Root and Zeb Wells.
Guest stars
Many celebrities have guest starred in Robot Chicken season 6; they include Whoopi Goldberg, Elizabeth Banks, Sam Elliott, Jason Sudeikis, Krysten Ritter, Fred Tatasciore, Jon Stewart, Stanley Tucci, Daniel Radcliffe, Patrick Stewart, Dan Milano, Victor Yerrid, Bill Farmer, Zeb Wells, Alex Borstein, Alan Tudyk, Christina Laskay, Tom Hiddleston, Ellie Kemper, Mark Hamill, Tamara Garfield, Liz Loza, Breckin Meyer, John Moschitta Jr., Britne Oldford, Rachel Bloom, Sarah Ramos, Dreama Walker, Rachael MacFarlane, Allison Janney, Kat Dennings, Liev Schreiber, Alex Winter, Shawn Patterson, Olivia Wilde, William Zabka, Ralph Macchio, Rhea Perlman, Ashley Eckstein, Lacey Chabert, Gillian Jacobs, Brent Spiner, Zachary Levi, J.B. Smoove, Lake Bell, Jon Bernthal, Nicholas Hoult, Robert Kirkman, Megan Hilty, Maurice LaMarche, Lucas Grabeel, Ke$ha, Sarah Chalke, Billy Zane, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jim Hanks, Keith Ferguson, Patrick Pinney, Cat Taber, Linda Cardellini, Rachael Leigh Cook, George Lowe, David Hasselhoff, David Morse, Skeet Ulrich, Stan Lee, Melissa Joan Hart, Emily Head, Max Charles, Frank Welker, Freddie Prinze Jr., Seth MacFarlane, Lauren Ambrose, Delroy Lindo, Ben Schwartz, Kathryn Hahn, Clare Grant, Abraham Benrubi, Eden Espinosa, Madison Dylan, Michaela Watkins, Henry Winkler, Laura Ortiz, Ashley Chaney, Keith David, Quinton Flynn, Joss Whedon, Malin Åkerman, Eric McCormack, 50 Cent, Judy Greer and Matthew Lillard.
Episodes
Notes
References
2012 American television seasons
2013 American television seasons
Robot Chicken seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major%20League%20Baseball%20on%20Compass%20Media%20Networks | Major League Baseball on Compass Media Networks was a weekly presentation of Major League Baseball games (specifically, Saturday games involving the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim) on the Compass Media radio network. For the 2013 season, Compass acquired rights to select Tampa Bay Rays home games to increase their MLB coverage.
Background
On May 15, 2012, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim signed a radio rights deal with syndicator Compass Media to distribute 25 games to a nationwide audience, in a game-of-the-week format. These games would be produced separately from the KLAA broadcasts, and would feature veteran play-by-play men Chris Carrino and Steve Quis, with former New York Mets general manager and current SiriusXM sports talk show host Steve Phillips and former MLB player Darryl Hamilton as color commentators.
Affiliates
Many of the games, if not all, would air on such stations as WFAN New York City (radio flagship of the Mets), WTEM Washington, D.C. (a Baltimore Orioles affiliate), WQXI Atlanta, WYGM Orlando, and KFNC Houston, WHK in Cleveland, and KNEW in San Francisco.
See also
List of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim broadcasters
List of Tampa Bay Rays broadcasters
References
External links
Compass Media Networks: Sports Programming
Announcers
Compass Media Networks
2012 radio programme debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow%20Moon | Rainbow Moon is a tactical role-playing game developed by SideQuest Studios and published by Eastasiasoft. It was released through the PlayStation Network for PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita and PlayStation 4. The game borrows heavily from the dungeon crawling genre while the player traverses the game world, but incorporates elements from tactical role-playing games when enemies are engaged in battle.
A successor titled Rainbow Skies, was released in June 2018 for PS4, PS3 and PS Vita.
Originally a digital-only title, a limited physical run of the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita versions was released on August 19, 2016 through Limited Run Games.
Gameplay
Reception
Upon release, Rainbow Moon received generally positive reviews. Praise was directed toward the complete feel of the game's mechanics, length of the main storyline and the graphics, while complaints centered on content that reviewers felt forced the player to grind.
References
External links
2012 video games
Fantasy video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation 4 games
PlayStation Vita games
PlayStation Network games
Tactical role-playing video games
Video games developed in Germany
Video games scored by Rafael Dyll |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barun%20Das | Barun Das (born 15 November 1969) is an Indian businessman and media personality, and the MD & CEO of TV9 Network (largest news network in India in terms of viewership numbers).
He is an alumnus of IIT Madras, IIM Calcutta and London School of Economics. He has over 25 years of experience in the Media sector, both in India and abroad – in top managerial positions.
Das was a member of the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and was a juror for the finals of the International Emmys. A strategist from an early age, Das was selected for Junior National Bridge team.
Das was conferred with Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy by Manav Rachna International Institute of Research and Studies in April 2023.
Career
His last corporate assignment, before TV9, was with Zee News Ltd. (currently Zee Media Corporation Ltd), being the youngest CEO of any news network in India. Prior to this, he held top management posts at MCCS (owner of the erstwhile Star group's news operations in India), India Today Group, ABP Group, and Head of International Business at Astro All Asia, Networks Plc. Kuala Lumpur.
After his stint in Zee, Barun dipped his toe in entrepreneurship and started Mydia100 Communications Pvt. Ltd., focusing on convergence of technology, content and healthcare, which was later acquired by TV9 Network.
In the short stint with TV9 Network, he has led TV9 Bharatvarsh to No.1 position in the BARC ratings as in March 2022. He was named the managing director of TV9 Network in June 2022.
Barun is known for his out of the box thinking. Under his leadership, TV9 Network, has experimented with various disruptive ideas. Money9, which is India's first multilingual personal finance platform and News9 Plus, which is India's first video magazine OTT service was launched under his leadership.
TV9 Network conducted their inaugural Global summit - What India Thinks Today in June 2022. 75 speakers across domains discussed India's position in the new international order. Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron was interviewed by Das in this edition.
Duologue with Barun Das
In 2022, News9 Plus launched a new format of discussions called Duologue with Barun Das. The idea is to get up close and personal with celebrated people from different domain. Styled similar to The David Letterman Show, this is a conversation between Das and a legend. It unfolds the life and theories of both the host and the guest.
Das has hosted 8 notable guests as of now which includes the former UK Prime Minister David Cameron, Padma Awardees Narayan & Sudha Murty along with other legends across domains. Media legend Arnab Goswami said, "Barun has an easy-going and yet razor-sharp conversational style. He got me to open up on subjects I’ve been quiet about, and I’m glad we ‘duologued’ like I haven’t before."
Recognition
CEO Insights - Top 10 Group CEOs 2022
Asia's Transformational Leader - Ideafest 2023
Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy - Manav Rachna International Ins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinpyeong%20station | Sinpyeong Station is a station of Busan Metro Line 1 located in Sinpyeong-dong, Saha District, Busan, South Korea.
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Railway stations opened in 1994
Busan Metro stations
Saha District
1994 establishments in South Korea
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1990s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miku%20Flick/02 | was a 2012 rhythm game created by Sega and Crypton Future Media for the iOS operating systems iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The game was a sequel to Miku Flick, released earlier that year, and a spin off of the Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA series of Vocaloid rhythm games. Like the original, the game primarily makes use of Vocaloids, a series of singing synthesizer software, and the songs created using these vocaloids, most notably the virtual-diva Vocaloid Hatsune Miku. The game was released internationally on August 10, 2012, making it the second Project Diva game to be released in English.
Support for the game ended on July 19, 2016.
Gameplay
The game retained the primary gameplay of its predecessor, whereby the game had 10 tiles, arranged in a 3x3 grid with the middle column having a 4th tile at the bottom. Each of these tiles had a hiragana Lyric on them; when indicated, the player is required to flick the tile in the indicated direction. The lyrics for each song were given above the tiles, and flowed from right to left with a circle on the left. When the indicated lyric reaches the circle, the player had to tap the lyric tile and flick it in the indicated direction. Like the original game, PVs were pre-rendered with graphics of Project DIVA Arcade. The game also retained the "PV Mode" where players can watch the PVs of the various songs.
Unlike its predecessor, the game featured vocaloids other than Hatsune Miku, including Kagamine Rin, Kagamine Len and Megurine Luka as well as duet songs whereby two vocaloids would sing together for a song. The game also included a new "Extreme" difficulty mode, which provided players with a difficulty between that of the "Hard" and "Break the Limit" modes, retained from the original. The game also provided additional Downloadable Content via the In-App Purchases system that would include new songs and seasonal costumes. The additional "Replay Mode" was later added, allowing players to save a replay of their performance and share it with friends.
Song List
The game had a total of 74 songs. The official site featured list (deemed Initial Song Compilation) of nine songs, as well as one hidden one. Unlike the first game, the game also featured new songs post-launch via downloadable content.
Songs with a white background are part of the initial song pack that comes with the game at purchase
Songs with a green background were added to the song list after an update.
Songs with an orange background are DLC and must be purchased via In-App Purchasing
References
External links
Official Site
2012 video games
Music video games
IOS games
IOS-only games
Sega video games
Creative works using vocaloids
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangni%20station | Dangni Station is a subway station of Busan Metro Line 1 located in Saha-gu, Busan, South Korea.
History
June 23, 1994: Opening
External links
Cyber station information from Busan Transportation Corporation
Railway stations opened in 1994
Busan Metro stations
Saha District
1994 establishments in South Korea
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1990s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op5%20Monitor | OP5 Monitor is a software product for server, Network monitoring and management based on the Open Source project Naemon, is further developed and supported by OP5 AB. OP5 Monitor displays the status, health and performance of the IT network being monitored and has an integrated log server, OP5 Logger. The company sells downloadable software that monitor, visualize and troubleshoot IT environments and collect information both from hardware, software, virtual and/or cloud based services.
History
The company was founded in 2004 by Jan Josephson and Fredrik Åkerström in Stockholm, Sweden. The company was conceived to create an IT monitoring solution that can handle a large IT environment.
The company was acquired in August of 2018 and is now a subsidiary of ITRS Group.
Management Packs
Management packs are containers of pre-defined monitoring metrics. Users can create own packs and set their own standard on how to monitor a specific device within the network. They are available for Generic servers, DNS servers, Standalone VMware ESXi virtualization hosts, Web servers with HTTPS, Web server.json, and Windows server
OP5 Monitor Extensions
The OP5 extensions are a set of products that provides specific functionality to increase control. Add-ons for op5 Monitor is typically developed by partners or other software developing companies for extending or integrating op5 Monitor. They include:
JIMO integration add-on for JIRA: Two-way communication between OP5 Monitor and JIRA. Add-on developed by Mogul
NetApp monitoring add-on: Monitor NetApp systems
Bischeck add-on: An open source project providing monitoring of applications and processes with dynamic behavior
Awards and recognition
OP5 has been mentioned in news and has received several awards, such as Cool Vendor by Gartner 2010
See also
Comparison of network monitoring systems
Pandora FMS An alternative to OP5
References
External links
op5.com, official website
Network management
Nagios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Life%20FM | The Life FM is a network of Christian radio stations in the United States, broadcasting southern gospel music.
History
In 2015, 103.1 WHQA in Honea Path, South Carolina became the flagship station of The Life FM, after the station, then WRIX-FM, was donated to The Power Foundation.
Stations
The Life FM is currently heard on 22 full-powered stations, 6 translators, and 2 HD signals with stations in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Owned and operated stations
Translators
HD Radio affiliates
References
External links
The Life FM's webcast
Christian radio stations in the United States
American radio networks
Southern Gospel radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Eric%20Andre%20Show | The Eric Andre Show is an American sketch comedy television series which began airing on May 20, 2012. The show premiered on Cartoon Network's night-time programming block Adult Swim and is a parody of late night talk shows. The series is hosted by comedian Eric André and formerly co-hosted by fellow comedian Hannibal Buress and Blannibal (played by James Hazley). All episodes of the show have been directed by Kitao Sakurai and Andrew Barchilon. Gary Anthony Williams served as the announcer in the first season, being replaced by Tom Kane in the second season and Robert Smith from the third season onwards.
A total of 55 episodes have aired over the course of six seasons. On December 31, 2012, The Eric Andre Show aired a 45-minute live New Year's special, titled The Eric Andre New Year's Eve Spooktacular. A second special, named Eric Andre Does Paris, aired on February 18, 2018.
The fifth season premiered on October 25, 2020. On May 18, 2022, Adult Swim announced the show had been renewed for a sixth season, which premiered on June 4, 2023.
Premise
Each episode opens on the show's main set: a standard talk-show set-up with a desk, a chair, and some decor. The show's announcer declares "Ladies and gentlemen, it's The Eric Andre Show!" and the opening song begins to play. During this time, André runs onto set and destroys the backdrop, desk, and various furnishings around him. Once the song is completed, stagehands swiftly remove the broken furniture and replace it with identical pieces. Buress, the co-host, walks in at this time, usually to weak applause from the audience. André may then perform a monologue, incorporating dark comedy and surrealism. While he struggles to perform, his monologue usually turns defensive and aggressive as Buress derides him. The show will then typically be a mix of surreal celebrity interviews and short sketches, candid camera footage, and non sequiturs, usually focused on André's absurd behavior in regular settings.
At the end, a performer of some type plays over the ending credits. Ending performances are usually parodies of amateur acts common to public-access television, while other times they are real musicians playing their own songs with heavy twists, such as punk band Trash Talk playing while wearing volume-sensitive shock collars or a female opera singer performing while rapper Killer Mike serves as her hype man. Killer Mike also appeared in a later episode, performing a rap battle against rapper Action Bronson while the two were on treadmills. Mac DeMarco once played while André initiated a segment styled after Japanese game shows titled "Attack DeMarco!", in which numerous samurai began tormenting DeMarco. In one episode, comedian Rory Scovel had a cooking segment in which he increasingly got upset and destroyed his work station while rapper T-Pain sang "The Star-Spangled Banner" and fired a gun in the air.
André has expressed that each season of the show is shot with a unique style in mind, intended to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replace%20%28command%29 | In computing, replace is a command that is used to replace one or more existing computer files or add new files to a target directory. Files with a hidden or system attribute set cannot be replaced using replace. The command lists all files that are replaced.
History
The replace command first appeared in MS-DOS 3.2 and has been included in most versions of MS-DOS and compatibles such as FreeDOS and PTS-DOS. DR DOS 6.0 includes an implementation of the command. The FreeDOS version was developed by Rene Ableidinger and is licensed under the GPL. It is also included as a console command in IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, and ReactOS. The ReactOS version was developed by Samuel Erdtman and is licensed under the GPL.
Example
The following command updates the files in C:\delivery\ with the .exe files from C:\source\
C:\>replace "C:\source\*.exe" C:\delivery
See also
List of DOS commands
List of Unix commands
References
Further reading
External links
replace | Microsoft Docs
External DOS commands
OS/2 commands
ReactOS commands
Microcomputer software
Windows administration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiquo%20Enterprise%20Edition | Abiquo Hybrid Cloud Management Platform is a web-based cloud computing software platform developed by
Abiquo. Written entirely in Java, it is used to build, integrate and manage public and private clouds in homogeneous environments. Users can deploy and manage servers, storage system and network and virtual devices. It also supports LDAP integration.
Hypervisors
Abiquo supports five hypervisor systems.
VMware ESXi
Microsoft Hyper-V
Citrix XenServer
Oracle VM Server for x86
KVM
From version 3.1, it also supports multiple public cloud providers:
Amazon AWS
Rackspace
Google Compute Engine
HP Cloud
ElasticHosts
DigitalOcean
Abiquo version 3.2 added:
Microsoft Azure
Abiquo version 3.4 added:
Support for Docker hosts, adding multi-tenant networking, storage management and private registry management for Docker
SoftLayer
CloudSigma
Later versions continued to add features including autoscaling on any cloud, integration to VMware NSX and OpenStack Neutron for software defined networking, guest config with cloud-init and integrated monitoring driving guest automation.
Storage services
Abiquo supports any vendor for hypervisor storage, and also supports tiered storage pools, enabling storage-as-a-service from specific vendors and technologies including:
NFS
Generic iSCSI
NetApp
Nexenta
SAAS version
In April 2014 Abiquo launched Abiquo anyCloud, a SAAS version of the Abiquo Hybrid Cloud Platform software. This version lets users manage public cloud resources from:
Amazon AWS
Microsoft Azure
IBM SoftLayer
DigitalOcean
Rackspace Open Cloud (an OpenStack cloud)
HP Public Cloud (an OpenStack cloud)
Google Compute Engine
ElasticHosts
Additional security and process features include workflow, to have an enterprise administrator electronically sign off on changes, an audit trail of activity and the ability to share cloud accounts among and enterprise team in a secure way.
Reviews and awards
Finalist for the 2015 Cloud Awards
Finalist for the 2015 UK Cloud Awards in the category Cloud Management Product of the Year
EMA Radar for Private Cloud platforms 2013
Global Telecoms Business Innovation Summit and Awards 2013 (with Interoute)
EuroCloud UK Awards
References
Cloud infrastructure
Cloud computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20for%20Computers%20and%20the%20Humanities | The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is the primary international professional society for digital humanities. ACH was founded in 1978. According to the official website, the organization "support[s] and disseminate[s] research and cultivate[s] a vibrant professional community through conferences, publications, and outreach activities." ACH is based in the United States, and has an international membership. ACH is a founding member of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), a co-originator of the Text Encoding Initiative, and a co-sponsor of an annual conference.
Conference
ACH has been a co-sponsor of the annual Digital Humanities conference (formerly ACH/ALLC, before that International Conference on Computing in the Humanities or ICCH) since 1989. From 2006, when ADHO was founded, the larger umbrella organization is the conference's official sponsor.
Journals
Until 2004, Computers and the Humanities was the official journal of ACH. (In 2005 it was renamed to Language Resources and Evaluation.
The print journal most closely associated with ACH is Literary and Linguistic Computing (Oxford University Press).
The open-access, peer-reviewed journal of ACH is Digital Humanities Quarterly (ADHO).
Associated Organizations
ACH is joined in ADHO by:
Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC)
Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques (CSDH-SCHN)
Other related Organizations:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Text Encoding Initiative
References
External links
Computing and society
Digital humanities
Humanities organizations
Professional associations based in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiser%20Report | The Keiser Report was a financial news and analysis show on RT UK and the Russian state RT network, hosted by Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert, a married couple. It ran from September 2009 to February 2022, with three new shows every week. Herbert is the co-host; she bantered with Keiser on headlines and commentary. It was produced by the Associated Press.
The Independent described the show as "mischievously seditious" and Keiser as "America's most outrageous political pundit".
An episode broadcast in September 2011 featured an interview with the comedian Roseanne Barr, who stated that her solution to the financial crisis was to "bring back the guillotine".
On February 24, 2022, Keiser quit the show after 1819 episodes in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
On June 30, 2022, Max and Stacy rebooted their show on Youtube albeit renamed to Max & Stacy Report. It uses the same format and runtime as the original Keiser Report on RT and has frequent new episodes uploaded weekly.
References
2009 British television series debuts
News agencies based in the United Kingdom
Financial news agencies
RT (TV network) original programming
British television news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20School%20Augsburg | The International School Augsburg (ISA) is an English-speaking private all-day school in Gersthofen, a town near Augsburg. As an “IB World School” the ISA belongs to a worldwide network of international co-educative schools which offer the International Baccalaureate (IB Diploma) in English. Established in 2005, the ISA is the only international school within an area of around 60 kilometres around Augsburg. In school year 2011/2012, 320 students were taught by 50 teachers from 15 nations.
History
The agglomeration Augsburg (Regio A³) and the metropolitan area of Munich are two of the largest business locations in Bavaria with a large number of international companies having their seats there. For local companies an international school is an important site factor in the competition for foreign specialists and executives.
Therefore, the ISA was established with the support of the IHK Schwaben (International Chamber of Commerce in Swabia) and opened in 2005 for its first school year. The location of choice was Gersthofen, situated 15 minutes from downtown Augsburg, 30 minutes from Munich and having good access to transport.
In 2005, 65 children started their first school year in preschool (Early Learning Centre), Lower School (grade 1 to 5) and the first year of Middle School (grade 6). In 2010, the first class took their International General Certificate of Secondary Education exams (IGCSE) and in the following school year 2010/11 the High School was set up. In school year 2017/18, 342 students from more than 26 nations were enrolled in the ISA. In 2018, the seventh class took their International Baccalaureate exams (IB Diploma).
Campus: the buildings
In 2005, the school moved into the first bricks-and mortar-built building in Ziegeleistraße. In 2008, when the school continued to grow, a gym and additional class rooms had to be built. In the year 2009 the new building, which is heated and supplied with power by a gas-fired cogeneration power plant, could be opened to the students. In 2012, the campus was enlarged by a third building. ISA have a playing field, a gym, a school-owned woodland, a school canteen, music rooms, a computer lab, a Mac lab, and a science room as well as school buses.
Curriculum and projects
Curriculum
The curriculum of the ISA is based on the guidelines of the International Baccalaureate Organisation IBO and is developed in close collaboration with other international schools and the Bavarian Ministry of Education. It offers, especially to German children, a foundation for their future education. The school offers an Early Learning Centre (ELC) (3 – 5 years of age), a Lower School (grade 1 to grade 5), as well as a Middle School (grade 6 to grade 8), and a High School (grade 9 to grade 12). In the 10th grade, the students take their IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) exams, in grade 12 students sit for International Baccalaureate Diploma exams. If certain criteria are met, both certifica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutsell%20Computer%20War%20Games | Hutsell Computer War Games is a series of MS-DOS computer wargames written by W. R. Hutsell. They were distributed as shareware. The games include VGA Civil War Strategy Game, EGA Civil War Battleset, Wars of Napoleon, and World War II In Western Europe. All of the games are available for free since 2017.
History
Initially W. R. Hutsell created the games and placed them free on a BBS but eventually began charging for them as people wanted copies on disk.
An early ASCII version of EGA Civil War Battleset was probably Mr. Hutsell's first creation. The game was tactical in nature. VGA Civil War Strategy followed and was strategic. Then came World War II In Western Europe, a tactical game based upon the Civil War Strategy engine. Following this was his final work, Wars of Napoleon which used both the strategical and tactical engines of the earlier games.
Mr. Hutsell lived in Kingston, Kentucky for an extended length of time, his current residence is unknown.
Later he handed the rights to distribute the games over to David Mackey, who initially sold them as well but eventually released them free at their currently hosted location.
In 2017 Mr. Hutsell gave the source code of VGA Civil War Strategy Game to Dave Mackey, who ported the game for modern platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux) with the help of SDL and other open source libraries from QuickBASIC to QB64. The source code is released on GitHub under a MIT license.
References
External links
W.R. Hutsell's Wargames
1993 video games
Video game programmers
Defunct video game companies of the United States
Video game development companies
Video game publishers
Video games developed in the United States
DOS games
DOS-only games
Commercial video games with freely available source code
Freeware games
Open-source video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia%20Pacific%20Advanced%20Network | The Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN) is a not-for-profit association of Asia-Pacific national research and education networks (NRENs) incorporated in Hong Kong as a company limited by guarantee. The organisation was originally formed on 3 June 1997 and was incorporated on 8 August 2009.
Purpose
The objectives of APAN are
to coordinate and promote network technology developments and advances in network-based applications and services across the Asia-Pacific region;
to provide a forum for user communities to come together with network engineers to help promote and exploit opportunities to enhance research and education in disciplines that are relevant to the member economies;
to hold meetings, workshops and conferences relating to network technology, the development of advanced communication services, and the exploitation of these, resulting in compelling new applications;
to arrange and organize education and training workshops, and to operate a fellowship programme to support and develop the next generation of network engineers and network leaders in the Asia-Pacific region;
to work closely with relevant organizations, institutions, groups and individuals around the world to further enhance the adoption of and research into advanced network applications and technologies;
together with peer organizations in North and South America, Europe and Africa, coordinate the building of global infrastructure that will transform the way that education and research is undertaken, leading to improvements in societal benefit.
Full membership of APAN is open to NRENs (one per country or economy). Non-voting membership is available for persons, organisations or corporations that have common interests in the objectives of APAN.
Similar organisations elsewhere in the world include GÉANT, UbuntuNet Alliance, WACREN (West and Central African Research and Education Network), ASREN (Arab States Research and Education Network), and CLARA (Cooperación Latino Americana de Redes Avanzadas).
History
The necessity for high-end internet for researchers in the Asia-Pacific region was recognized at the APEC Symposium in Tsukuba, Japan in March 1996, and then at APII Test-bed Forum in Seoul, Korea in June 1996, the creation of APAN was proposed. Meetings were held with the attendance of the delegates from North America or Europe for one year, and the APAN Consortium was formed under a Memorandum of Understanding in June 1997 to promote advanced research in networking technologies and the development of high-performance broadband applications.
APAN is designed to offer a high-performance network for research and development on advanced next-generation applications and services. APAN provides an advanced networking environment for the research and education community in the Asia-Pacific region, and promotes global collaboration.
Conference
Twice a year, APAN runs a conference for academic networkers called the APAN Meetings. Each conference is hosted by a member N |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20with%20the%20Stars%20%28American%20season%2015%29 | Season fifteen of Dancing with the Stars, called Dancing with the Stars: All-Stars, premiered on September 24, 2012, on the ABC network.
Season 15 was the first to feature an "all-star" cast of returning celebrities. Six of the returning finalists had already won the title in prior seasons: Kelly Monaco, Drew Lachey, Emmitt Smith, Apolo Anton Ohno, Hélio Castroneves, and Shawn Johnson. Additionally, it was the only season to date to offer fractional (0.5) scores. Five contestants reunited with their original partners (Emmitt Smith, Joey Fatone, Melissa Rycroft, Bristol Palin, Kirstie Alley), while the other eight danced with new partners.
Season 8 finalist Melissa Rycroft defeated season 8 champion Shawn Johnson and season 1 champion Kelly Monaco to win the trophy. This also marked the first win for professional Tony Dovolani.
Cast
Couples
This season featured thirteen returning celebrity contestants. The first twelve celebrities were revealed on July 27, 2012. A thirteenth contestant was chosen by the public, from either Sabrina Bryan, Kyle Massey, or Carson Kressley. Sabrina Bryan was announced the winner on August 27. Louis van Amstel was partnered with Bryan, while the professional partners for the first twelve celebrities were revealed on August 13. The members of the dance troupe for this season were Oksana Dmytrenko, Emma Slater, Sharna Burgess, Henry Byalikov, Sasha Farber, and Sonny Fredie-Pedersen.
Host and judges
Tom Bergeron and Brooke Burke Charvet returned as hosts, while Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, and Bruno Tonioli returned as judges. The Harold Wheeler orchestra and singers provided music throughout the season.
Scoring chart
The highest score each week is indicated in with a dagger (), while the lowest score each week is indicated in with a double-dagger ().
Color key:
Notes
Weekly scores
Individual judges' scores in the charts below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Bruno Tonioli.
Week 1: First Dances
Couples performed either the cha-cha-cha or foxtrot, and are listed in the order they performed.
Week 2: Top 12
Couples performed either the jive or quickstep, and are listed in the order they performed.
Week 3: Iconic Dances Week
Celebrities chose an iconic routine from the previous fourteen seasons and tried to make it as "iconic" as it previously had been. Couples are listed in the order they performed. There was a double elimination this week.
Week 4: Opponents' Choice Week
Individual judges scores in the chart below (given in parentheses) are listed in this order from left to right: Carrie Ann Inaba, Len Goodman, Paula Abdul, Bruno Tonioli.
All of the celebrities selected a dance style for one of their opponents. Paula Abdul served as guest judge. Couples are listed in the order they performed.
Week 5: Guilty Pleasures Week
The two couples with the highest total cumulative point average became team captains and selected teams for the Team Fr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Moursund | David Garvin Moursund (November 3, 1936 – September 1, 2021) was an American mathematician, computer scientist, author and educator. From 2002 until his death, he was a Professor Emeritus in the College of Education at the University of Oregon. He wrote and taught extensively in the areas of computers, mathematics, and brain science in education.
Early life and education
Moursund attended Condon Elementary School, Roosevelt Junior High School and Eugene High School in Eugene, Oregon, graduating in 1954. He earned a B.A. (Mathematics; minor in Physics) at the University of Oregon in 1958 and completed an M.S. in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1960. Moursund completed his doctorate in mathematics, specializing in numerical analysis, (January, 1963) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Academic career
Moursund worked as an instructor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, between January and June 1963, and then was an assistant professor, and later Associate Professor (1966-1967), in the Department of Mathematics and in the College of Engineering (Computer Center) at Michigan State University. He then moved to the University of Oregon as an associate professor, for two years in the Department of Mathematics and then as the first head of the Department of Computer Science (1969-1976). From 1976 until his retirement in 2002, he held the position of full professor, first in Computer and Information Science, and later in the Department of Education.
During his career, Moursund has been a major or co-major supervising professor of six doctoral students in mathematics and 76 doctoral students in education. In 1971 Moursund and Keith Acheson, a faculty member in the University of Oregon's College of Education, established a College of Education doctoral program in the field of Computers in Education.
Associations and publications
In 1974, while teaching at the University of Oregon, Moursund established The Oregon Computing Teacher publication, the publication for the Oregon Council for Computer Education. The publication was renamed The Computing Teacher when it became the main publication of the newly established International Council for Computers in Education (ICCE) which he founded in 1979. Moursund was editor-in-chief and chief executive officer of this organization, 1979–1989.
In 1989, ICCE changed its name to International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), and in 1990 The Computing Teacher was renamed Learning and Leading with Technology. Moursund led ICCE/ISTE and served as editor-in-chief of its publications for its first 19 years, retiring in 2001.
In 2007, Moursund established an Oregon non-profit company, Information Age Education. It provides free educational material designed for preservice and in-service K-12 teachers of teachers, and parents of K-12 students. Its publications include the IAE Blog, IAE Books, IAE-pedia, and IAE-Newsletter. All of these materials are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encore.org | Encore.org is a nonprofit organization centered around having people pursue encore careers.
Encore.org initiatives include The Purpose Prize, for individuals; The Encore Fellowships Network, for private-sector employees transitioning to encore careers; the Encore College Initiative, for higher education institutions preparing people for encore careers; and the Encore Network, a group of organizations supporting the movement.
Encore.org (formerly known as Civic Ventures and later renamed CoGenerate.org) was founded in 1997 by social entrepreneur Marc Freedman. His work in this area, including Civic Ventures, led to him being described as a "Sage of Aging" by Ken Dychtwald.
References
External links
Websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language-independent | Language-independent may refer to:
Language-independent specification, a programming language specification applicable toward arbitrary language bindings
Language independent arithmetic, a series of ISO/IEC standards on computer arithmetic
Language independent data types, a collection of datatypes defined independently of programming language
See also
Language-agnostic, development paradigm where an appropriate language is chosen for a particular task |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language-agnostic | Language-agnostic programming or scripting (also called language-neutral, language-independent, or cross-language) is a software paradigm in which no particular language is promoted.
In introductory instruction, the term refers to teaching principles rather than language features.
For example, a textbook such as Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is really a language-agnostic book about programming, and is not about programming in Scheme, per se.
As a development methodology, the concept suggests that a particular language should be chosen because of its appropriateness for a particular task (taking into consideration all factors, including ecosystem, developer skill-sets, performance, etc.), and not purely because of the skill-set available within a development team.
For example, a language agnostic Java development team might choose to use Ruby or Perl for some development work, where Ruby or Perl would be more appropriate than Java.
"Cross-Language" in programming and scripting describes a program in which two or more languages are used to good effect within a program's code, with each contributing its distinctive benefits.
Related terms
Language-independent specification
Cross-language information retrieval, referring to natural languages, not programming languages
Language independent datatypes
See also
Bilingual (disambiguation)
Language-independent (disambiguation)
Glue language
Language binding
Middleware
Polyglot (computing)
References
Software development |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naruto%20Shippuden%3A%20Ultimate%20Ninja%20Storm%203 | Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3, known in Japan as , the fourth installment of the UltimateStorm series, is a fighting game developed by CyberConnect2 as part of the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja video-game series based on Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto manga. It was first released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 by Namco Bandai Games on March 2013 in North America and in Europe, and on April 2013 in Japan.
The story focuses on the conflict between ninjas from all the villages and the terrorist organization known as Akatsuki as a world war starts between the groups. Its gameplay retains elements of Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 (such as quick time events), adding hack and slash scenarios and options to increase battle difficulty.
The game had positive reviews and good sales, surpassing its predecessors from the series. Critics praised the return of boss battles from Storm 2, the Ultimate Decision mechanics and improved graphics and controls. Reception of story-mode development, based on the number of cutscenes, was mixed. Lack of depth in the fighting mechanics and the under-use of hack and slash were criticized.
A re-release, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 Full Burst was released on October 22 and 24, 2013 in North America and Japan, respectively. Its European version was released over three months later, on January 31, 2014.
A sequel, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4, was released in 2016. In 2017, CyberConnect2 re-released it again with the first two Storm games as a trilogy. The game was also released online that year.
Gameplay
The game has 80 playable characters and seven support characters (81 playable characters and seven support characters in Full Burst) The fighting system has been modified, with the Awakening Mode, giving each character enhanced abilities when their health is low and usable by certain characters during a fight. The item system was rearranged, so a player can choose between healing and offensive items. As the game progresses, the player can store items to use in combat.
Like the previous games, a player can choose two characters to assist the player character in battle. The assisting characters can aid the playable one with thirteen combos. In the team-attack system, a player can use support characters to charge and attack. The assistants have health bars, losing health when they are hit and becoming unusable when their health bars are depleted. If a player has one support character, they have ten health bars; if a player has two support characters, each has five health bars. Several arenas are interactive, making a player lose a fight if they leave an area.
Story mode is similar to Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 rather than the previous game, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations; it features boss battles, including quick time events requiring strategy to defeat the opponent. Ultimate Decision Mode has the option of changing battle difficulties, with higher scores if greater |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Big%20Easy%20episodes | The following is an episode list for the USA Network series The Big Easy, based on the 1987 film of the same name. A total of 35 episodes were produced over 2 seasons airing from August 11, 1996 to October 12, 1997.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1996–97)
Season 2 (1997)
External links
Lists of American crime drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern%20Combat%3A%20Domination | Modern Combat: Domination is an online multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Gameloft for PlayStation Network and Mac OS X. The PSN version was ported to Japan for release on February 15, 2011, about a day before the PAL region release date.
Game Modes
The game features a progression (rank) system in the form of experience points, awarded according to performance. The user can attain up to 72 ranks in all which increases with the level of XP (Experience Point). As the user progresses in the ranks, more weapons are unlocked to be purchased.
There can be up to 16 players on a server, i.e. up to 8 on each team. If there are odd number of real players, then a bot is added automatically to ensure an even number of team members on both sides.
This game can be played on PlayStation 3 using a DualShock 3 or PlayStation Move motion controller as well as on a Mac OS X.
Critical reception
The PlayStation 3 version received "average" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. GamesRadar+ gave the PS3 version praise for its low cost, graphics and variety of multiplayer modes, but criticism its mishmash game design. GameSpot praised its quick and intense matches and good range of game modes, but criticized it for its long load times and lack of challenging or interesting offline mode.
References
External links
2011 video games
First-person shooters
Gameloft games
MacOS games
Multiplayer video games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Network games
Video games developed in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%20Criminal%20Investigative%20Division | The Criminal Investigative Division (CID) is a division within the Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The CID is the primary component within the FBI responsible for overseeing FBI investigations of traditional crimes such as narcotics trafficking and violent crime.
The CID is the FBI's largest operational division, with 4,800 field special agents, 300 intelligence analysts, and 520 Headquarters employees. Following the September 11 terror attacks, the CID was dramatically restructured with a significant portion of its resources being diverted into the new FBI National Security Branch.
Leadership
Headed by an FBI assistant director, the CID is responsible to the executive assistant director of the FBI Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch.
The current CID assistant director is Calvin Shivers.
Organization
The CID's organizational structure was reorganized during FY 2004 by FBI leadership in an effort to better reflect current trends in criminal activity.
Branch I (Criminal Enterprise Branch)
Transnational Organized Crime Global Section
Violent Crime Section
Operational Support Section
Branch II (National Crimes Branch)
Public Corruption and Civil Rights Section
Financial Crimes Section
National Covert Operations Section
Intelligence Branch
Criminal Intelligence Section I
Criminal Intelligence Section II
References
External links
Federal Bureau of Investigation Website
Official Criminal, Cyber, Response, and Services Branch Website
Criminal Investigative Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States intelligence agencies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDEA%20Networks%20Institute | IMDEA Networks Institute is one of the seven IMDEA () Institutes created by the Madrid Regional Government as part of the IV Regional Plan of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation 2005-2008 (PRICIT), of which the aim is to put in place advanced research centers and higher education and training in the Community of Madrid. IMDEA Networks Institute is engaged in cutting-edge science in all areas of networking. It was legally constituted under Spanish law at the end of 2006 as a public, not-for-profit Foundation. The full, registered name of the institute is Fundación IMDEA Networks. IMDEA Networks Institute, based in Madrid (Spain), actively collaborates with the Higher Polytechnic School of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Organization
The Board of Trustees of IMDEA Networks Institute is its highest organ of governance, representation and administration. It consists of representative bodies from the public and private sector with an interest in the institute.
Within the organizational structure of the Institute there is also a Scientific Council, or Scientific Advisory Board, composed of internationally renowned researchers in the areas of knowledge where the foundation is focused.
Research
IMDEA Networks Institute is working in the field of communication networks, aiming to develop pioneering ideas that help shape the future of networking over the coming years. Researchers at IMDEA Networks study the emergent properties of today's networks in order to be able to improve the algorithms and protocols that allow these networks to operate. Computer networking research consists of creating mathematical models as well as validating theories through simulations and measurements in test beds and/or real-world deployments.
Currently, the institute's research is focusing on the following three general areas:
Networked Systems and Algorithms
Wireless Networking
Network Measurements and Analytics
Objectives
According to its statutes, the mission of IMDEA Networks Institute is "to provide new research capacities, technological development and innovation" in the fields of networking technologies and telematic and telecommunication services.
References
External links
Community of Madrid
Madri+d
IMDEA
IMDEA Water Institute
IMDEA Food Institute
IMDEA Energy Institute
IMDEA Materials Institute
IMDEA Nanoscience Institute
IMDEA Networks Institute
IMDEA Software Institute
IMDEA Networks Institute Annual Reports
Research institutes in the Community of Madrid
Science and technology in Spain
Non-profit organisations based in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20News%20Network | World News (WN) Network (styled WorldNews (WN) Network) is a news aggregator founded in March 1995 and launched online in 1998. In 2003, Search Engine Watch praised the service for its "Special Reports", and called it "an interesting alternative" to other news aggregation services. The company runs other targeted websites as well. It was featured in Forbes's "Best of the Web" in 2000, being commended for its scope, while being criticised for having many links, but "little guidance as to which are good". In 2002, The Guardian's "World news guide" referenced the website. It was featured in Information Today in June 2011.
Ranking
As of December 2013, the Quantcast rank is 241.
References
News aggregators
Websites which mirror Wikipedia
American news websites
Companies established in 1995
Internet properties established in 1998
Multilingual websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo%20IdeaCentre%20A720 | The Lenovo IdeaCentre A720 is an all-in-one desktop computer with a 27-inch touchscreen released by Lenovo in 2012.
Specifications and features
The A720 has a 27-inch frameless glossy screen with a resolution of 1920x1080 and capacitive touch technology. The A720's screen is only 24.5mm thick. Lenovo claims it is the slimmest in its class. The hinge connecting the base to the display is key to the design of the A720. The screen is anchored by a base which includes most of the unit's hardware and all of its ports. Lenovo says that this design makes ports more accessible.
The A720 uses a quad-core Intel Core-i7 processor, 8 gigabytes of RAM, and a 1-terabyte hard drive. A DVD-drive comes standard and an upgrade to Blu-ray is an option. Ports include ethernet, two USB 3.0 and two USB 2.0 connections respectively, and HDMI ports for both input and output. The A720's ability to accept HDMI input allows for using the screen with external devices. An internal TV-tuner is optional.
A wireless mouse and keyboard that connect via Wi-Fi are included.
Reviews
A review published in the Bangkok Post stated, "With all its merits, the A720 is not the perfect home computing solution. It is the most expensive on the market, has a very reflective screen, suffers the same service issues as notebooks with its compact form factor, and its touchscreen has few applications (for now). But the screen is fantastic (reflection issues apart), it's plenty powerful and it can be used as a replacement TV, which should win many punters over."
In a review published by ZDNet, James Kendrick wrote, "The 27-inch display is simply gorgeous whether working on the desktop or playing video in full-screen glory. The latter is a key function of the A720, whether using the Blu-ray drive or other video source. There is an optional TV tuner and full remote control to turn the system into an HD TV system. This is such a good desktop PC that it's easy to forget that it supports full touch operation. This is very precise and handles 10 finger touch. The display swivels down at virtually any angle for touch operation, including almost flat on the desktop."
References
Products introduced in 2012
Lenovo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xtend | Xtend is a general-purpose high-level programming language for the Java Virtual Machine. Syntactically and semantically Xtend has its roots in the Java programming language but focuses on a more concise syntax and some additional functionality such as type inference, extension methods, and operator overloading. Being primarily an object-oriented language, it also integrates features known from functional programming, e.g. lambda expressions. Xtend is statically typed and uses Java's type system without modifications. It is compiled to Java code and thereby seamlessly integrates with all existing Java libraries.
The language Xtend and its IDE is developed as a project at Eclipse.org and participates in the annual Eclipse release train. The code is open source under the Eclipse Public License. Yet, the language can be compiled and run independently of the Eclipse platform.
History
Xtend originated from Xtext, which is the technology used to define the language and the editor. Xtend was first released as part of Xtext in the Eclipse release Indigo in June 2011. Since the Eclipse release Juno (June 2012, Xtend version 2.3) Xtend has become a standalone project.
The language Xtend described here should not be confused with the older language with the same name in the Xpand project. Initially, Xtend was named Xtend2 for better distinction. The '2' was dropped soon for simplicity. With its template expressions, Xtend is meant as a replacement of the entire Xpand technology.
Philosophy
Java is one of the most popular programming languages ever with a large ecosystem of libraries and tools. Yet, its syntax is considered verbose by some, and some concepts are missing and only added slowly. Xtend tries to get the best of Java, but reduce syntactic noise and add new features to allow for shorter and better readable code.
To make it easier to learn for Java developers, Xtend's syntax is close to Java's. Xtend maintains maximum compatibility with Java by compiling to Java code and using Java's type system. Java code and Xtend code can be mixed inside the same project at will.
Using a combination of lambda expressions and extension methods, the language can be extended by means of libraries, i.e. without changing the language itself. A small standard library makes heavy use of this.
The Eclipse-based Xtend IDE offers syntax highlighting, code completion, refactoring, navigation and debugging. It integrates with Eclipse's Java Development Toolkit.
Semantics
Xtend resembles Java in many regards. Here is an example Xtend file:
package sample
import java.util.List
class Greeter {
def greetThem(List<String> names) {
for(name: names) {
println(name.sayHello)
}
}
def sayHello(String name) {
'Hello ' + name + '!'
}
}
Xtend provides type inference, i.e. the type of name and the return types of the methods can be inferred from the context. Classes and methods are public by default, fields private. Semicolons are optional.
The exampl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20MTV%20Brasil | MTV Brasil programming is largely targeted to teenagers and young adults, based mostly on comedy and music shows, but also deals with fashion, health, politics and the environment.
The music videos and live shows aired on MTV Brasil focus on the international rock and pop scenes and on Brazilian pop rock and independent rock bands.
Former programs
Music
Acesso MTV (2009–13)
MTV1 (2012–13)
My MTV (2012–13)
Para Gostar de Música (2012–13)
Top 10 MTV (2008–13)
Top 20 Brasil (1990–2006; 2013)
Comedy
Hermes & Renato (1999–2010, 2013)
Fudêncio e Seus Amigos (2005-2011)
Furo MTV (2009–13)
Infortúnio com Funérea (2009–13)
Entertainment
IT MTV (2010–13)
MTV sem Vergonha (2012–13)
PC na TV (2011–13)
International shows
Beavis and Butt-Head (2012–13)
[[MTV Live HD|MTV Live]]
MTV World Stage
Award shows
Europe Music Awards
Movie Awards
Video Music Awards
Video Music Brasil
Other
Beija Sapo
References
External links
MTV Brasil's shows
Lists of television series by network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrypt | In cryptography, scrypt (pronounced "ess crypt") is a password-based key derivation function created by Colin Percival in March 2009, originally for the Tarsnap online backup service. The algorithm was specifically designed to make it costly to perform large-scale custom hardware attacks by requiring large amounts of memory. In 2016, the scrypt algorithm was published by IETF as RFC 7914. A simplified version of scrypt is used as a proof-of-work scheme by a number of cryptocurrencies, first implemented by an anonymous programmer called ArtForz in Tenebrix and followed by Fairbrix and Litecoin soon after.
Introduction
A password-based key derivation function (password-based KDF) is generally designed to be computationally intensive, so that it takes a relatively long time to compute (say on the order of several hundred milliseconds). Legitimate users only need to perform the function once per operation (e.g., authentication), and so the time required is negligible. However, a brute-force attack would likely need to perform the operation billions of times, at which point the time requirements become significant and, ideally, prohibitive.
Previous password-based KDFs (such as the popular PBKDF2 from RSA Laboratories) have relatively low resource demands, meaning they do not require elaborate hardware or very much memory to perform. They are therefore easily and cheaply implemented in hardware (for instance on an ASIC or even an FPGA). This allows an attacker with sufficient resources to launch a large-scale parallel attack by building hundreds or even thousands of implementations of the algorithm in hardware and having each search a different subset of the key space. This divides the amount of time needed to complete a brute-force attack by the number of implementations available, very possibly bringing it down to a reasonable time frame.
The scrypt function is designed to hinder such attempts by raising the resource demands of the algorithm. Specifically, the algorithm is designed to use a large amount of memory compared to other password-based KDFs, making the size and the cost of a hardware implementation much more expensive, and therefore limiting the amount of parallelism an attacker can use, for a given amount of financial resources.
Overview
The large memory requirements of scrypt come from a large vector of pseudorandom bit strings that are generated as part of the algorithm. Once the vector is generated, the elements of it are accessed in a pseudo-random order and combined to produce the derived key. A straightforward implementation would need to keep the entire vector in RAM so that it can be accessed as needed.
Because the elements of the vector are generated algorithmically, each element could be generated on the fly as needed, only storing one element in memory at a time and therefore cutting the memory requirements significantly. However, the generation of each element is intended to be computationally expensive, and the elemen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/FSQ-8%20Combat%20Control%20Central | The AN/FSQ-8 Combat Control Central was a United States Air Force computerized command and control system. Several of the centrals were used in the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) air defense network for Cold War ground-controlled interception to give "each combat center the capability to coordinate defense for the whole nation". Each AN/FSQ-8 (“AN/FSQ” derives from “Army-Navy / Fixed Special eQuipment”) was a smaller variant of the AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Central with less equipment since the Q8 received processed air defense data from AN/FSQ-7 centrals at Direction Centers. The AN/FSQ-8 centrals were housed in eight 3-story SAGE Combat Center (SCC) buildings similar to the Direction Center building (some were colocated) and the Q8s allowed "supervision of the several sectors within the division." The Combat Centers "forwarded the divisional air defense status to" NORAD (initially at Ent AFB in 1957, the Chidlaw Building in 1963, and the Cheyenne Mountain Complex in 1966).
Technology
The AN/FSQ-8 Combat Control Central, similar to the AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Central had four main systems used for creating commands for the United States Air Force. This includes an input system, display system, and the output system. All three of these were process or controlled by a central computer system.
The input system focused on processing manual input or autonomous information coming from radar equipment. Examples of radar detection data would be any plane detected approaching the United States, or already within its border. This information was then transformed into computer-readable data stored in magnetic drum memory. This input system is similar to that of which found in the AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Central.
The magnetic drum system retained the processed data until needed for processing. The drum memory unit responsible for input data had four sections. These included manual input coming from system operators via punch cards or light guns, from gap-filler radars , long-range radar, and intel coming from other control centers.
Information stored from the input would then be processed by the central computer system using technology created by IBM. This system performed as a rudimentary modern CPU, containing auxiliary data storage drums acting as RAM would in today's computers. Additionally, this system was capable on running programs concerned with logic and arithmetic focused on processing the input data into tactical military information for the control center and sending the output back to the drum memory used for the display system.
The processed data is then able to be displayed via the drum storage and cathode-ray tube displays(CRT). The displays on the AN/FSQ-8 Combat Control Central and AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Central are similar, except for the former having a simpler layout and fewer displays. The centerpiece of the displays was a CRT designated for showing the current plane positions and geographical information. Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCO%20Power%20Technologies | ASCO (Automatic Switch Company) Power Technologies, a business unit of Schneider Electric, makes electrical equipment used in healthcare facilities, data centers, communication networks, commercial buildings, and industrial plants.
ASCO also includes a Services branch, providing maintenance programs, modifications, upgrades, and emergency repairs. The "Firetrol" branch of ASCO provides power transfer switches, controls, and alarms for fire suppression. ASCO's headquarters is located in Florham Park, New Jersey. With over 1400 employees and 500,000 square feet of manufacturing floor space, it is the world's largest manufacturer of power transfer switches.
ASCO Power Technologies was founded in 1888 and developed the first commercially available automatic transfer switch in 1920.
November 1, 2017, ASCO Power Technologies was sold by Vertiv to Schneider Electric for $1.25 billion.
History
References
Companies based in Morris County, New Jersey
Schneider Electric |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Holdengr%C3%A4ber | Paul Bernard Holdengräber (born March 15, 1960) is an American interviewer, curator, and writer. He was director of the New York Public Library's public programming and organized literary conversations for the NYPL's public program series, LIVE from the NYPL, which he founded.
Since February 2012, he has hosted The Paul Holdengräber Show on the Intelligent Channel on YouTube. In 2019, he was the founding executive director of The Onassis Foundation, a center of dialogue in Los Angeles.
Early life
Holdengräber was born in Houston, Texas, to Kurt and Erica (née Hass) Holdengräber. His parents were Austrian Jews with roots in Romania and Poland, who fled Austria to Haiti during World War II. Kurt had been expelled during his second year of medical school, because he was Jewish. In Haiti, amid a Jewish community of 107 families, Kurt grew vegetables and worked as a farmer; it was in that country that he met and married Holdengräber's mother. The family moved from Haiti to Mexico City, where Paul's older sister was born. The family then moved from Mexico to Houston, and eventually settled in Brussels, Belgium. Holdengräber spent much of his youth hitchhiking around Europe.
Holdengräber studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He received a bachelor's degree from the Université Catholique de Louvain, in Belgium. In 1995, Holdengräber received a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Princeton University. From 1995 to 1996, he did a post-doctoral fellowship at the Getty Research Institute.
Career
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Holdengräber was the founder and director of the Institute for Arts and Culture at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art with the idea "to challenge the perception that museums are nothing more than mausoleums for Old Masters". Under Holdengräber's direction, the institute became an active and lively forum for debate with its ambitious lecture series in which painters, poets, performers, writers and thinkers address critical cultural issues through lively talks, discussions and performances.
New York Public Library
In 2004, the then NYPL President Paul LeClerc hired Holdengräber to create a public program at the New York Public Library. Holdengräber founded LIVE from the NYPL, a conversation series with writers, musicians, filmmakers and artists. As the director of LIVE from the NYPL, Holdengräber interviewed hundreds of public personalities, including Patti Smith, Zadie Smith, Anish Kapoor, and Jay Z.
He sees the New York Public Library as a storehouse of knowledge. One of his memorable series of conversations was with the German filmmaker, Werner Herzog.
He has worked in partnership with such organizations as Rolex, The Moth, and PEN World Voices.
The Paul Holdengräber Show
On February 3, 2012, Holdengräber premiered an internet-television talk show called The Paul Holdengräber Show on YouTube's Intelligent Channel. The show has featured interviews with Colum McCann, Elizabeth Gilbert and David Chang.
Teaching
He has taught |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahdi%20%28malware%29 | Mahdi is computer malware that was initially discovered in February 2012 and was reported in July of that year. According to Kaspersky Lab and Seculert (an Israeli security firm which discovered the malware), the software has been used for targeted cyber espionage since December 2011, infecting at least 800 computers in Iran and other Middle Eastern countries. Mahdi is named after files used in the malware and refers to the Muslim figure.
See also
Operation High Roller
References
Windows trojans
2012 in computing
Cyberwarfare
Cyberwarfare in Iran |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie%20Research%20Institute | The Prairie Research Institute is a multidisciplinary research institute charged with providing objective research, expertise, and data on the natural and cultural resources of Illinois. It was established as a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign by a Public Act of the Illinois State Legislature in 2008. The institute comprises four state scientific surveys: the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS), the Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS), the Illinois State Geological Survey (ISGS), and the Illinois State Water Survey (ISWS), and the institute also houses the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC). The institute has a combined total staff of more than 700 employees, with facilities located on the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of Illinois, and field offices and research stations throughout the state.
In FY 2018, the state appropriated US$14.8 million through the university to fund the institute.
Legislative mandate
In 2008, with the passage of Public Act 95-728, also known as the Illinois Scientific Surveys Act (110 ILCS 425)), the Illinois State Legislature established the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Scientific Surveys Act also transferred all the rights, duties, powers, property, and functions of the Scientific Surveys and the Sustainable Technology Center from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources to the Prairie Research Institute. Under the Scientific Surveys Act, the Scientific Surveys are authorized to investigate, study, conserve and develop Illinois' natural and cultural resources; collaborate with and advise Illinois, other states, and the federal government about Illinois' natural resources; disseminate and educate the public about their research and investigations; and maintain relationships between and among the Scientific Surveys and Illinois' public and private colleges and universities. The institute itself is governed by the University of Illinois board of trustees, with its executive director reporting directly to the university's vice chancellor for research.
Research
Researchers at the institute are engaged in basic and applied research across a spectrum of disciplines including agriculture and forestry, biodiversity and ecosystem health, atmospheric resources, climate and associated natural hazards, cultural resources and history of human settlements, disease and public health, emerging pests, fisheries and wildlife, energy and industrial technology, mineral resources, pollution prevention and mitigation, and water resources. Examples include impact and control of invasive Asian carp, Lyme disease vector ecology, Illinois water supply quality and quantity investigations, geologic carbon sequestration, development of geospatial tools, discovery and excavation of massive prehistoric settlements surrounding Cahokia in advance of new bridge construction, persistence of estrogens in dairy farm wastewater, electronic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town%20Hall%20with%20President%20Clinton | On November 8, 1999, U.S. President Bill Clinton participated in the first ever presidential webcast produced by Excite@Home Network in partnership with the Democratic Leadership Council. The forum was held at George Washington University in Washington DC, moderated by DLC chairman, Al From and directed by Marc Scarpa. The webcast made use of the most cutting edge, IP-enabled technology of the time including streaming video remote feeds that connected the President to New Democrat leaders, including Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, then Lt. Governor of Maryland; Donald T. Cunningham, Jr., then mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Wisconsin State Rep. Antonio Riley; Ron Gonzales, then mayor of San Jose, and Jeanne Shaheen, then governor of New Hampshire along with Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen.
The webcast was entitled "Third Way Politics in the Information Age", a nod to Clinton's centrist political platform and the burgeoning age of the internet. The President and participants engaged in an online discussion on a range of issues from Medicare to gun control via questions submitted by the online users. 50,000 participants logged on to chat live with the President for 90 minutes (he stayed on for an additional 20 minutes). The webcast was likened to a 21st-century version of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's fireside chats with a similar impact to John F. Kennedy's use of the television broadcast. Clinton, who acted as a proponent of access to the internet and technology for lower income areas, said that the chat utilized, "the most modern technology for . . . old-fashioned communication between the American people and their president." The President recognized the high rate of growth in internet connectivity (1.3 million computers were connected to the internet when he took office as opposed to 56 million connected at the time of the chat) and that the webcast was a new way to connect with people from all across the country and allow them to participate in the democratic process. The broadcast received worldwide media attention and was simultaneously broadcast live throughout the United States on several television news networks including CNN, MSNBC and NBC.
In 2005, the historical participatory media event was inducted into the permanent collection of the Clinton Presidential Library, in Little Rock, Arkansas and is the first Internet-age broadcast in a Presidential library.
The event has stood the test of time, as a model for real-time political communication between the President and voters.
References
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1999 in computing
1999 in Washington, D.C.
Democratic Party (United States) events
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Livestreams
November 1999 events in the United States
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United States town halls |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed%202.0 | Mohamed 2.0: Disruption Manifesto is the authorized biography of Mohamed El-Fatatry. It documents the rise and fall of his company, the online social network Muxlim. The author is David J. Cord, an American expatriate living in Finland.
Summary
Mohamed 2.0 chronicles the life of Mohamed El-Fatatry, an Egyptian national who grew up in the United Arab Emirates. While young, El-Fatatry became intensely interested in the Internet, and taught college-level courses on web development even before he graduated from high school. After deciding move to Finland to study technology, he created Muxlim there in 2006. It was intended as a social network for Muslims that was to be open and liberal, and to serve as a bridge between religions and cultures. However, both he and the site struggled against some of the more conservative elements of the religious community.
Muxlim became quite popular, particularly with Muslims resident in America and Western Europe, and the site received extensive media coverage. El-Fatatry’s ideas of using the website as a meeting place of different nationalities and religions led him to be invited to speak to both the United Nations and American White House staff. Despite the widespread attention, the company continually struggled with finances. The book describes the attempts by El-Fatatry to simultaneously secure funding, increase sales, and develop the related websites. When the social network did not develop as the company had hoped, it transitioned first into a Muslim-related content aggregator and then into a business consultant. With meager sales and no more incoming venture capital and investment, Muxlim was shut down early in 2012.
The book also details El-Fatatry’s philosophy and his future plans for developing technology-related businesses.
Development
The book was originally intended to be an autobiography, but El-Fatatry recommended the publisher contact Cord. The project then turned into a biography.
Reception
The book generated controversy even before it was released. Esa Mäkinen of Helsingin Sanomat received an advance copy and wrote a critical article about the poor financial performance of Muxlim. Mäkinen detailed the heavy financial losses the company sustained, the public funding it received, and the small size of the online traffic generated by the site. The article also erroneously reported that El-Fatatry contributed €46,000 to Finnish Presidential hopeful Eva Biaudet’s campaign, an accusation that received heavy press coverage in Finland (the article has since been corrected).
In response to some of the business-related criticism, ArcticStartup, the largest website reporting on technology startups in the Nordic region, defended growth entrepreneurship in an editorial and published a rebuttal from El-Fatatry.
Critic Tommi Aitio of the business newspaper Kauppalehti praised Mohamed 2.0, saying it was "quality entertainment, drama that even Hollywood would never have come up with. Muxlim’s story might hav |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saadatabad%2C%20Roshtkhar | Saadatabad (, also Romanized as Saʿādatābād) is a village in Roshtkhar Rural District, in the Central District of Roshtkhar County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 2,050, in 472 families.
References
Populated places in Roshtkhar County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Road%20to%20Stardom%20with%20Missy%20Elliott | The Road to Stardom With Missy Elliott is a competitive reality television show that aired on the UPN Network in 2005. The main judge and host was hip-hop artist Missy Elliott. Other judges were singer-producer Teena Marie, producer Dallas Austin, and manager Mona Scott.
Contestants
Akil: 23-year-old teacher from Jersey City, New Jersey
Cori Yarckin: 21-year-old recent college graduate from Orlando, Florida
Deltrice: 23-year-old clothing designer from San Francisco
Eddie: 25-year-old construction worker from New Orleans
Frank B: 21-year-old construction worker from Brooklyn, New York
Heather Bright: 22-year-old student from Boston
Jessica Betts: 23-year-old writer from Chicago
Marcus: 24-year-old security guard from Houston
Matthew: 25-year-old theme park entertainer from Orlando, Florida
Melissa: 19-year-old student from Plymouth, Minnesota
Nic: 29-year-old disc jockey from Aliso Viejo, California
Nilyne Fields: 23-year-old make-up artist/student from Plainfield, New Jersey
Yelawolf: 24-year-old contract artist (mural painting) from Rainbow City, Alabama
Jessica Betts was named the Season 1 winner. The show was not picked up for a second season.
References
External links
Missy Elliott Project
Official Website (via Internet Archive)
2005 American television series debuts
2005 American television series endings
2000s American reality television series
UPN original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasterChef%20Australia%20All-Stars | MasterChef Australia All-Stars is an Australian cooking reality show which screened on Network Ten from 26 July 2012. It featured a number of returning contestants from the first three seasons of MasterChef Australia (including season 1 and season 3 winners Julie Goodwin and Kate Bracks), revisiting past challenges in order to raise money for charity.
The series aired for three weeks, mostly during the 2012 Summer Olympics. It was also the last iteration of the show to be shot in the MasterChef kitchen in Alexandria, Sydney, home of the series for all past seasons.
Contestants
The following contestants returned from Season's 2009 (Blue Team), 2010 (Red Team) and 2011 (Yellow Team). Notable absentees were Season 2010 winner Adam Liaw (due to shooting his new TV series) and Season 2011 runner-up Michael Weldon. The initial stages of the competition focused on the Teams raising money, but from episode 7, contestants competed separately and were eliminated in order to crown the 'best of the best' All-Star.
Guest chefs
Adriano Zumbo – Series Premiere
Adrian Richardson – Immunity Challenge
Dan Hong – Immunity Challenge
Jeremy Strode – Immunity Challenge
Martin Boetz – Immunity Challenge
Darren Purchese – Immunity Challenge
Alessandro Pavoni – Immunity Challenge
Shaun Presland – Immunity Challenge
Vincent Gadan – Immunity Challenge
Curtis Stone – Elimination Challenge 2
Neil Perry – MasterClass
Maggie Beer – Grand Finale
Peter Gilmore – Grand Finale
Episodes
Elimination chart
In Episode 8, Justine, Kate and Dani received immunity from the elimination challenge for winning the previous challenge.
In Episode 10, Kate had immunity from the elimination challenge for winning the previous challenge.
In Episode 15, Kate earned a pass straight into the finale for winning the challenge.
In the Finale, the first round was an elimination round. Kate scored the fewest points and became the 3rd Place finisher.
International syndications
See also
List of Australian television series
MasterChef Australia
References
External links
MasterChef Australia – Official MasterChef Australia Website
BoysTown
Oxfam Australia
Cambodian Children's Fund
The Salvation Army
Youth Off The Streets
Cancer Council Australia
Save The Children Australia
Starlight Children's Foundation
Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)
TEAR Australia
OzHarvest
Lort Smith Animal Hospital
MasterChef Australia
Australian cooking television series
2012 Australian television series debuts
2012 Australian television series endings
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Sydney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-605%20microRNA%20precursor%20family | In molecular biology mir-605 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms.
p53 protein network
miR-605 is transcriptionally activated by the p53 protein through interaction with the promoter region of its gene. This microRNA in turn post-transcriptionally represses the oncoprotein and p53 suppressor Mdm2, which acts with p53 in a negative feedback loop in p53-wildtype cancers. Introduction of miR-605 interrupts this p53:Mdm2 interaction and instead there is a positive feedback loop in place, enabling rapid p53 accumulation in response to stress. Such p53 accumulation induces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis.
See also
MicroRNA
References
Further reading
External links
MicroRNA
MicroRNA precursor families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explicit%20semantic%20analysis | In natural language processing and information retrieval, explicit semantic analysis (ESA) is a vectoral representation of text (individual words or entire documents) that uses a document corpus as a knowledge base. Specifically, in ESA, a word is represented as a column vector in the tf–idf matrix of the text corpus and a document (string of words) is represented as the centroid of the vectors representing its words. Typically, the text corpus is English Wikipedia, though other corpora including the Open Directory Project have been used.
ESA was designed by Evgeniy Gabrilovich and Shaul Markovitch as a means of improving text categorization
and has been used by this pair of researchers to compute what they refer to as "semantic relatedness" by means of cosine similarity between the aforementioned vectors, collectively interpreted as a space of "concepts explicitly defined and described by humans", where Wikipedia articles (or ODP entries, or otherwise titles of documents in the knowledge base corpus) are equated with concepts. The name "explicit semantic analysis" contrasts with latent semantic analysis (LSA), because the use of a knowledge base makes it possible to assign human-readable labels to the concepts that make up the vector space.
Model
To perform the basic variant of ESA, one starts with a collection of texts, say, all Wikipedia articles; let the number of documents in the collection be . These are all turned into "bags of words", i.e., term frequency histograms, stored in an inverted index. Using this inverted index, one can find for any word the set of Wikipedia articles containing this word; in the vocabulary of Egozi, Markovitch and Gabrilovitch, "each word appearing in the Wikipedia corpus can be seen as triggering each of the concepts it points to in the inverted index."
The output of the inverted index for a single word query is a list of indexed documents (Wikipedia articles), each given a score depending on how often the word in question occurred in them (weighted by the total number of words in the document). Mathematically, this list is an -dimensional vector of word-document scores, where a document not containing the query word has score zero. To compute the relatedness of two words, one compares the vectors (say and ) by computing the cosine similarity,
and this gives a numeric estimate of the semantic relatedness of the words. The scheme is extended from single words to multi-word texts by simply summing the vectors of all words in the text.
Analysis
ESA, as originally posited by Gabrilovich and Markovitch, operates under the assumption that the knowledge base contains topically orthogonal concepts. However, it was later shown by Anderka and Stein that ESA also improves the performance of information retrieval systems when it is based not on Wikipedia, but on the Reuters corpus of newswire articles, which does not satisfy the orthogonality property; in their experiments, Anderka and Stein used newswire stories as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VIGRA | VIGRA is the abbreviation for "Vision with Generic Algorithms". It is a free open-source computer vision library which focuses on customizable algorithms and data structures. VIGRA component can be easily adapted to specific needs of target application without compromising execution speed, by using template techniques similar to those in the C++ Standard Template Library.
Features
VIGRA is cross-platform, with working builds on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and OpenBSD. Since version 1.7.1, VIGRA provides Python bindings based on numpy framework.
History
VIGRA was originally designed and implemented by scientists at
University of Hamburg faculty of computer science; its core maintainers are now working at Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (HCI) University of Heidelberg. In the meantime, many developers have contributed to the project.
Application
CellCognition and ilastik uses VIGRA computer vision library.
OpenOffice.org uses VIGRA as part of its headless software rendering backend; LibreOffice does so until version 5.2.
References
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Computer vision software
Data mining and machine learning software
Free software programmed in C++ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gensim | Gensim is an open-source library for unsupervised topic modeling, document indexing, retrieval by similarity, and other natural language processing functionalities, using modern statistical machine learning.
Gensim is implemented in Python and Cython for performance. Gensim is designed to handle large text collections using data streaming and incremental online algorithms, which differentiates it from most other machine learning software packages that target only in-memory processing.
Main Features
Gensim includes streamed parallelized implementations of fastText, word2vec and doc2vec algorithms, as well as latent semantic analysis (LSA, LSI, SVD), non-negative matrix factorization (NMF), latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), tf-idf and random projections.
Some of the novel online algorithms in Gensim were also published in the 2011 PhD dissertation Scalability of Semantic Analysis in Natural Language Processing of Radim Řehůřek, the creator of Gensim.
Uses of Gensim
Gensim has been used and cited in over 1400 commercial and academic applications as of 2018, in a diverse array of disciplines from medicine to insurance claim analysis to patent search. The software has been covered in several new articles, podcasts and interviews.
Free and Commercial Support
The open source code is developed and hosted on GitHub and a public support forum is maintained on Google Groups and Gitter.
Gensim is commercially supported by the company rare-technologies.com, who also provide student mentorships and academic thesis projects for Gensim via their Student Incubator programme.
References
External links
Free science software
Natural language processing toolkits
Python (programming language) libraries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pros | PROS or Pros may refer to:
"Pros and Cons", a method of Decision making
PROS (company), a big data software company
Republican Party of the Social Order, Brazilian political party, Portuguese name: Partido Republicano da Ordem Social
PROS (PIK3CA-related overgrowth spectrum), a form of tissue overgrowth
See also
Pro (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell%20Processing%20Support | Shell Processing Support (SPS) is a set of formatted files used for exchanging Land 3D seismic data. They can also be used for 2D.
History
Shell Processing Support data format was initially defined and used by Shell Internationale Petroleum for transferring of seismic and positioning data to the processing centres. In 1993 SEG Technical standards committee on ancillary data formats adopted SPS as the standard format for exchanging Geophysical positioning data.
SPS Format
SPS format is a set of three files called Receiver file, Source file, Cross reference file and an optional fourth file for comments. In addition to the comment file comments can be entered in each of the three files as part of the header and is indicated by starting with the letter H.
Receiver file:
Receiver file contains the information about the geophones their type, position (Easting, Northing, Elevation) and their ID.
Source file:
Source file contains the information about the Seismic source its position and their ID.
Cross reference file:
Cross reference file (also known as relational file) or in short, X file, is basically a relational file relating the source and the receiver when the shot occurred. It contains the details about the Shot ID, Source and receivers associated with that particular shot ID.
Comment file:
This file is an optional file. Any other information regarding the seismic acquisition can be provided in this file for the processing center.
Versions
The first version of SPS adopted by SEG is now referred to as SPS rev0
The recent version of SPS is SPS rev2.1
References
External links
Standards adopted by the SEG including SPS rev0 (1995) and rev2.1 (2006)
Shell processing support format for land 3-D surveys
Geophysics
Petroleum industry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotient%20filter | A quotient filter is a space-efficient probabilistic data structure used to test whether an element is a member of a set (an approximate membership query filter, AMQ). A query will elicit a reply specifying either that the element is definitely not in the set or that the element is probably in the set. The former result is definitive; i.e., the test does not generate false negatives. But with the latter result there is some probability, ε, of the test returning "element is in the set" when in fact the element is not present in the set (i.e., a false positive). There is a tradeoff between ε, the false positive rate, and storage size; increasing the filter's storage size reduces ε. Other AMQ operations include "insert" and "optionally delete". The more elements are added to the set, the larger the probability of false positives.
A typical application for quotient filters, and other AMQ filters, is to serve as a proxy for the keys in a database on disk. As keys are added to or removed from the database, the filter is updated to reflect this. Any lookup will first consult the fast quotient filter, then look in the (presumably much slower) database only if the quotient filter reported the presence of the key. If the filter returns absence, the key is known not to be in the database without any disk accesses having been performed.
A quotient filter has the usual AMQ operations of insert and query. In addition it can also be merged and re-sized without having to re-hash the original keys (thereby avoiding the need to access those keys from secondary storage). This property benefits certain kinds of log-structured merge-trees.
History
The compact hash table underlying a quotient filter was described by Cleary in 1984. First known reference to using the structure as an AMQ filter is by Pagh et al. in 2005. In 2009, Dillinger and Manolios optimized the structure's metadata, added in-place accommodation of more elements, and applied the structure to explicit-state model checking. In 2011, Bender et al. penned the name "quotient filter", described several variants with different metadata encoding trade-offs, showed how to merge and resize quotient filters, presented a write-optimized version of the quotient filter for use on disk, and applied the structure to database storage problems.
In 2017, Pandey et al. described a version that uses hardware bit-manipulation instructions to improve performance, supports concurrent updates, and adds support for associating a variable-sized counter to each element.
Algorithm description
The quotient filter is based on a kind of hash table in which entries contain only a portion of the key plus some additional meta-data bits. These bits are used to deal with the case when distinct keys happen to hash to the same table entry. By way of contrast, other types of hash tables that deal with such collisions by linking to overflow areas are not compact because the overhead due to linkage can exceed the storage used to st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Armstrong%20%28director%29 | David Armstrong is the host and producer of "David Armstron's Broadway Nation" podcast which is part of the Broadway Podcast Network. From 2000 to 2018 he served as the Executive Producer and artistic director of The 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle. During his tenure there he has guided The 5th Avenue to a position as one of the nation's leading musical theater companies, acclaimed for both its development and production of new works and its innovative stagings of classic musicals. As a director, he staged 5th Avenue productions of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & Living in Paris; A Room With a View; Oliver!, Candide, Sweeney Todd, HAIR, A Little Night Music, Company, Hello, Dolly!, Anything Goes, MAME, Pippin, The Secret Garden, Vanities, White Christmas, The Rocky Horror Show, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Saving Aimee.
He made his Broadway directing debut in November 2012 with the musical, Scandalous (which started at The 5th Avenue as Saving Aimee).
Armstrong's work has been seen in New York, Los Angeles and at regional theaters including The Kennedy Center, Ordway Center, Ford's Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, and New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse. From 1990 through 1995, he served as artistic director of Cohoes Music Hall in upstate NY. Armstrong has also written the books for the musicals The Wonder Years (winner of seven Drama-Logue Awards), Gold Rush, and Yankee Doodle Dandy!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval%20Peres | Yuval Peres (; born 5 October 1963) is a mathematician known for his research in probability theory, ergodic theory, mathematical analysis, theoretical computer science, and in particular for topics such as fractals and Hausdorff measure, random walks, Brownian motion, percolation and Markov chain mixing times. He was born in Israel and obtained his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1990 under the supervision of Hillel Furstenberg. He was a faculty member at the Hebrew University and the University of California at Berkeley, and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington. Peres has been accused of sexual harassment by several female scientists.
Career
After his Ph.D. Peres had postdoctoral positions at Stanford and Yale.
In 1993 Peres joined the statistics department at UC Berkeley. He later became a professor in both the mathematics and statistics departments. He was also a professor at the Hebrew University.
In 2006 Peres joined the Theory Group of Microsoft Research. By 2011 he was principal researcher at Microsoft Research and manager of the Microsoft Research Theory Group, an affiliate professor of mathematics at the University of Washington and an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Recognition
Peres was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1995 and the Loève Prize in 2001. The work that led to the Loève Prize was surveyed in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society: "A key breakthrough was the observation that certain (hard to prove) intersection properties for Brownian motion and random walks are in fact equivalent to (easier to prove) survival properties of branching processes. This led ultimately to deep work on sample path properties of Brownian motion; for instance, on the fractal dimension of the frontier of two-dimensional Brownian motion and precise study of its thick and thin points and cover times."
Peres was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002.
In 2011, he was a co-recipient of the David P. Robbins Prize for work on the maximum overhang problem. That year he also delivered the Paul Turán Memorial Lecture. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2016, he was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences. In July 2017, he was a plenary lecturer at the Mathematical Congress of the Americas.
Allegations of sexual harassment
Peres has been accused of sexual harassment by several female scientists, including Dana Moshkovitz, Anima Anandkumar and Lisha Li. Moshkovitz said she was harassed by Peres on an informal job interview and she reported this to the Microsoft Theory Group. She also said that Peres was promoted shortly after her report.
Peres resigned from an affiliate position at the University of Washington in 2012. The university said he resigned “after receiving notice that the university would be investigating allegations of sexual harassment.”
In November 2018 th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Side%20main%20line | The North Side Main Line is a branch of the Chicago "L" system that is used by Red, Purple, and Brown Line trains. As of 2012, it is the network's busiest rail branch, serving an average of 123,229 passengers each weekday. The branch is long with a total of 21 stations, from Howard Street in Rogers Park down to Lake Street in Chicago's Loop. The branch serves the north side of the city 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Since 2005, this branch has been renovated several times and is currently being reconstructed. On January 7, 2011, CTA requested a rehabilitation program for the North Side Main Line. This project is part of the Red Ahead program.
Route
The North Side Main Line connects to five other branches of the Chicago 'L', including the Ravenswood branch which is served by the Brown Line, the State Street subway which is served by the Red Line, the Skokie Branch which is served by the Yellow Line, the Evanston Branch which is served by the Purple Line, and The Loop which is served by Brown and Purple Line trains. North of Howard, the Purple Line continues to Evanston and Wilmette, and the Yellow Line runs through southern Evanston en route to its terminus in Skokie.
The North Side Main Line serves the Near North Side, Old Town, Lincoln Park, Lakeview, Wrigleyville, Uptown, Edgewater and Rogers Park neighborhoods of Chicago, and has stops near Wrigley Field and Loyola University.
Connection
Yellow and Purple Line trains merge onto the line at its northern terminus, the Howard Street Station. Red Line trains and the weekday rush hour Purple Line Express trains continue south on the part of the line that is known as the Howard Branch. The Ravenswood branch connects to the Main Line north of the Belmont station, where Brown Line trains merge onto the Main Line.
The part of the line south of this junction is known as the Loop Branch or the Ravenswood Connector. On the portion of this branch shared by Red and Brown Line trains, Red Line trains operate express on the inside tracks, while Brown and Purple Line Express trains run local on the outer two tracks. The Red Line passes through Wellington and Diversey stations (which is served mainly by Brown Line trains) and all trains make another stop at Fullerton.
After Fullerton, the Red Line descends into a portal after Armitage, and enters the State Street subway, while Brown and Purple Line express trains continue elevated for the remainder of the Main Line to Merchandise Mart, where they cross the Wells Street Bridge and enter the Loop at Tower 18.
History
The line began operation on May 31, 1900, between The Loop and Wilson Avenue as the Northwestern Elevated Railroad. On May 16, 1908, service on the line was extended to Central street in Evanston. From 1919 to 1963, the line was also utilized by interurban trains of the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad.
Since 2002, the main line has gone through plenty of renovations and rehabilitation projects and those projects are still g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane%20Airport | Lane Airport is a closed airport located 3 miles south of Lane, South Carolina.
History
The airport was built prior to World War II, apparently by the Department of Commerce as part of the network of emergency aircraft landing fields which were set up in the 1920s and 1930s. Its purpose was to facilitate landings of commercial aircraft in emergency situations. It was a simple sod open field, about 2,800 × 2,300 feet, and perhaps had a rotating beacon for identification from the air.
During World War II, the airfield was used by the United States Army Air Forces from 1943 to 1945 as an auxiliary airfield with P-39 Airacobras assigned. It had a 3,400-foot unpaved runway and was used as an overflow field, likely by the training schools at Sumter and Congaree. It was listed as "Site 24, JX-RW" in the April 1944 US Army/Navy Directory of Airfields. The Army arranged for local civilians to provide temporary overnight accommodations and for mess services.
The military turned the facility over to the town of Lane after the war, leaving a single hangar, lighted runway, rotating beacon and lighted taxiways. It was also used occasionally by the military, with the occasional C-130 from Pope Air Force Base using it for practice landings on a turf runway.
The airport was used by general aviation for light aircraft until the early 1980s, when it was closed. Today, the former airport is an open field with agricultural crops.
See also
South Carolina World War II Army Airfields
References
Abandoned Airfields: Lane
World War II airfields database: South Carolina
Airports in South Carolina
Airfields of the United States Army Air Forces in South Carolina
Defunct airports in South Carolina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puls%202 | Puls 2 is a Polish free-to-air television channel launched on 19 July 2012.
History
The channel started broadcasting on 19 July 2012 at noon. Its initial programming consisted of lifestyle programmes, talk shows, music programmes and movies, TV series and cartoons. On 1 July 2013, the channel started broadcasting 24 hours a day.
References
External links
Television channels in Poland
Television channels and stations established in 2012
2012 establishments in Poland
Polish-language television stations
Mass media in Warsaw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ouya%20software | This is a partial list of software for the Ouya gaming console, from a total of 1250 games as of June 2019.
The Ouya's operating system is based on the Android operating system.
Without sideloading software or using exploits to install software, the Ouya can only run games that are offered through its own storefront. These titles were originally required to have some type of free content, like demos, or being free-to-play with micro-transactions. This rule was soon removed.
Games
Emulators
Media
Software
Operating systems
Debian and Ubuntu Linux have previously been installed on the Ouya.
Never released
See also
Ouya
List of OnLive video games
References
External links
Ouya |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optiv | Optiv Security, Inc. ("Optiv") is a privately owned information security company based in Denver, Colorado. Optiv is a solutions integrator that delivers end-to-end cybersecurity services globally.
Optiv has served more than 7,500 clients across 70 countries worldwide since 2013. Optiv is exclusively focused on cybersecurity.
Optiv's vendor partner ecosystem includes over 350 established and emerging cybersecurity software providers and hardware manufacturers.
In 2017, Optiv was acquired by global investment company Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR).
History
On November 5, 2014, security firms Accuvant and FishNet Security announced that they would join forces to create a new company. The merger would create a roughly $1.5 billion information security giant with solutions covering nearly every aspect of cyber defense.
The merger was completed on February 2, 2015, when the company announced that the previously announced transaction had closed. The new company was owned primarily by the Blackstone Group, a private equity firm that acquired a majority stake in Accuvant in March 2014.
On April 21, 2015, Accuvant and FishNet Security announced plans to launch their new, combined corporate name and brand, and to begin conducting business as Optiv Security in the summer of 2015. The new Optiv brand was officially launched at the Black Hat USA conference in August 2015.
In 2016, Optiv acquired Advancive, Adaptive Communications, and substantially all assets of Evantix. That year, Optiv also made senior executive hires including a new CIO and Country General Manager for Canada.
In November 2016, Optiv filed to become a publicly-traded company. However, on February 1, 2017, Optiv announced that it had been acquired by the global investment firm KKR. In 2017, Optiv also expanded operations globally in Canada – including the acquisition of Conexsys, a Toronto-based security solutions provider. Optiv has since continued its growth in Canada and was named a “Major Player” in the Canadian Security Services 2018 Vendor Assessment from IDC MarketScape.
In March 2017, the company announced it was acquiring Comm Solutions, a Pennsylvania-based cybersecurity firm.
Optiv appointed Dave DeWalt and General (Ret.) David Patraeus to its board of directors in September 2017.
In mid-2018, Optiv moved its headquarters into the newly constructed 40-story 1144 Fifteenth Tower in downtown Denver and is considered a primary tenant of the building.
In July 2019, Optiv announced the opening of its Dallas Innovation and Fusion Center, an approximately 14,000 square-foot facility located in Frisco, Texas. This facility features an Advanced Fusion Center (AFC), an evolution of the security operations center (SOC) model. The AFC combines global cybersecurity experts with data analytics, robotics, machine learning, intelligence and automation capabilities.
In April 2022, Optiv began offering a Privileged Access Management as-a-Service (PMaaS). In August 2022, Optiv began wor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LFER%20solvent%20coefficients%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary data and solvent coefficients for linear free-energy relationships.
Partition between water and organic solvents
The LFER used to obtain partition coefficients that uses the systems below takes the form log Ps = c + eE + sS + aA + bB + vV
Partition between gas phase and organic solvents
The LFER used to obtain partition coefficients that uses the systems below takes the form log Ks = c + eE + sS + aA + bB + lL
References
Physical organic chemistry
Chemical data pages cleanup
Chemical data pages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail%20Solutions%20Inc. | Founded in 2003, Retail Solutions Inc (RSi) is a software company based in Mountain View, CA that provides software-as-a-service products for data management, reporting and business intelligence, and point of sale applications. RSi was named by Forbes as the biggest SaaS company you've never heard of. The company started out selling radio-frequency identification (RFID) software before moving into its current business. In October 2020, RSi was acquired by IRI Worldwide.
History
Founded in 2003 as T3Ci, the company started out selling radio-frequency identification (RFID) software before moving into its current business. Wal-Mart had required all of its suppliers to place RFID tags with electronic product codes on their products in 2003. Jonathan Golovin, Richard Swan, Peter Rieman, and Shantha Mohan decided to start a company that would analyze the data from RFID tags. Later that year, T3Ci, which stood for “The Tag Tracking Company, Incorporated,” was founded. T3Ci developed software that would read and understand electronic product code (EPC) data, allowing the information to be used by retailers and their suppliers (mostly consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies) to improve sales.
In October 2004, T3Ci received funding of $9.4 million in a Series A round from Venrock, Red Rock Ventures and SAP Ventures. In 2005, it received a Series B round of $8.8 million led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Early in 2005, T3Ci and Procter & Gamble signed an agreement for developing and exploring RFID and EPC technology in the supply chain. The company subsequently opened an office in Bentonville, Arkansas, while expanding its operation in California. T3Ci processed its billionth RFID tag read in February 2007, and by the end of the year, T3Ci had over thirty customers, including four of the top five CPG manufacturers. The company also claimed that revenues had grown 150% from the previous year.
In 2007, Wal-Mart ended its RFID mandate. In December 2007, T3Ci acquired VeriSign’s Retail Data Services business unit, forming Retail Solutions Inc., today’s company. Instead of analyzing RFID tags, Retail Solutions, Inc. (RSi) focused on “ demand signal repositories” and point-of-sale data from retailers. The company formed cooperative relationships with CVS, Walgreens and Delhaize USA.
RSi’s first Chinese subsidiary was opened in Shanghai in April 2008. That same year, the first versions of the company’s Retail Visibility and Retail Intelligence products were released as new versions of RSi’s “Retail Execution Management” platform. In 2011, RSi acquired Retail Insight, a British retail/consumer goods expert.
In January 2012, RSi launched Vendor Pulse in cooperation with Delhaize Belgium, a Belgian retailer. As part of the agreement, RSi was required to offer "raw daily data" to suppliers at no charge to the supplier. RSi also offers web-based reports from a portal for purchase that incorporates this daily data. A few months later in May 2012, RSi opened for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamite%20Bowl | is a 1987 video game that simulates the traditional game of bowling. The MSX version was released for both the MSX-1 and the MSX-2 generations of the computer.
Up to five players can play on any of the 30 bowling lanes available; simulating the concept of being in a bowling league. Players can change their lane positioning, determine how strong the throw is, and even make the ball go through various curves (or even through a straight ball into the pins). Each player character can be either male or female with options for bowling ball weights ranging from to .
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Dynamite Bowl flyer at Giant Bomb
1987 video games
Bowling video games
Japan-exclusive video games
MSX games
NEC PC-8801 games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Toshiba EMI games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
MSX2 games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsangny%C3%B6n%20Heruka | Tsangnyön Heruka ( "The Madman Heruka from Tsang", 1452-1507), was an author and a master of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. Born in Tsang, he is best known as a biographer and compiler of the Life of Milarepa and The Collections of Songs of Milarepa, both classics of Tibetan literature.
Life
Tsangnyön Heruka was a nyönpa () or "religious madman", whose eccentric ways of life were considered signs of spiritual realization. He was ordained as a śrāmaṇera, but at the age of 21 renounced his vows and trained under various tantric yogis from different schools. His first teacher was Shara Rabjampa Sanggye Sengge (1427–1470) who conveyed to him the "Aural Transmissions" (snyan brgyud) of the Kagyu tradition. Tsangnyön spent years in solitary retreat on Tsari in southern Tibet, which is the major sacred mountain retreat for the Kagyu school. He also studied the tantras in Pelkhor Chode Monastery in Gyantse for three years.
After Heruka left the monastery, he became a wandering yogi for the rest of his life, never staying in one place permanently. He was known to keep his hair long, carry a khaṭvāṅga and drink from a kapala. When local villagers saw his body covered in human ashes and blood with his hair adorned by human fingers and toes, they gave him the name 'Nyönpa' (madman). He later used the name Trantung Gyelpo () "King of the Blood-drinkers", "blood drinker" being the Tibetan name for the deity Heruka. These eccentric ways were influenced by an Indian sect of yogis called Kapalikas or "skull-bearers", who practiced austerities as well as dressing in loincloths and human ashes and carrying symbols of the dakinis such as bone ornaments and skulls.
Many monks questioned his behavior and way of dress but Tsangnyön was known to strongly defend his unconventional practice through rigorous argument and accurate quotations from scriptures. He became a famous teacher and gathered numerous followers, he was also a composer of religious songs. Tsangnyön was very influential with various Tibetan political leaders and he used his influence to mediate between warring factions.
In 1488 while staying at the pilgrimage site Lapchi Snow Mountain, Tsangnyön completed the Life of Milarepa, a biography of the Tibetan poet. It was one of the first texts that was produced through woodblock printing in Tibet and it quickly became a widely circulated text. Tsangnyön's main goal seems to have been the promotion of the teachings of the early Kagyu masters.
In 1504, Ratna Malla, the king of Kantipur, invited Tsangnyön Heruka to Nepal to restore the famous stupa known as Swayambhunath. Tsangnyön traveled to Nepal and completed the renovation within three months. In 1505, he compiled a biography and a song collection of Marpa Lotsawa. He also completed his major life work, which was the collection of the aural transmissions of the Kagyu tradition. He died at the age of fifty-five in 1507 at Rechung-Puk north of the Yarlung Valley.
Legacy
After his death three of h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cracker%20Night | Cracker Night is an Australian comedy television gala event sponsored by the Comedy Channel, executive produced by the Comedy Channel programming director Darren Chau, and produced by Elia Eliades, Jorge Menidis and Total Show Productions for the Comedy Channel as part of the Sydney Comedy Festival. The gala celebrates the opening of the Sydney Comedy Festival and showcases the best local and international talent performing at the festival that year.
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Cracker Night (2010) IMDB
2000s Australian comedy television series
The Comedy Channel original programming
2009 Australian television series debuts
2011 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Tropical%20Fruits%20Network | The International Tropical Fruits Network (TFNet) is an independent and self-financing global network established under the auspices of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It is now an intergovernmental and inter-institutional international organization, with the mandate and role to promote sustainable global development of the tropical fruit in relation to production, consumption and trade. It is membership-based, with members acting through one lead agency on inter-country decisions.
Currently, TFNet has hundreds of members from 38 countries, 14 of them are governments of the following countries: Australia, Bangladesh, China, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, and Vietnam. It also has 20 associate members composed of companies and organizations including CAB International, Bioversity International, Crops for the Future, Afro-Asian Rural Development Organization, Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), and ordinary members.
Background
During the 1st International Consultation on Tropical Fruits held in Malaysia on 15–19 July 1996, delegates from 22 countries conferred about economic and trade issues that centered on the current situation of the tropical fruit industry, future prospects for fresh and processed tropical fruits, tariff concerns, and phytosanitary and quarantine measures. They also recognized the importance of tropical fruits in providing vitamins, nutrients, micronutrients, and fiber essential for human health and well-being. One of the solutions proposed to address these needs is through the creation of a tropical fruits network.
The Sub-Group on Tropical Fruits (SGTF) was established during the 15th session of the Intergovernmental Group on Banana in Rome in May 1997. During the 1st session of SGTF in Pattaya, Thailand in May 1998, it was agreed that TFNet should be a global independent network, with possibility of regional networks. Malaysia and Thailand were vying to house the TFNet headquarters. In May 1999, the Committee on Commodity Problems decided to set up the headquarters in Malaysia.
Programmes and activities
Projects and consultancies
TFNet has completed projects and consultancies in partnership with international organizations. With FAO, TFNet prepared action plans for the sustainable development of the tropical fruit industry in Bangladesh, Fiji, Malaysia, and the Philippines. A plant variety protection study for tropical fruits in 8 Asian countries was also conducted with GTZ (now GIZ). TFNet was also tapped during the 1st phase of a project with the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute (IPGRI) (now Bioversity International) and The Asian Development Bank on the sustainable conservation and utilization of tropical fruit genetic resources in Asia.
Local projects have also been conducted with the Malaysian government that focused on pineapple, watermelon, and other crops.
Internationa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Warehouse%20System%20Electronic%20Surveillance%20Data%20Management%20System | The Data Warehouse System — Electronic Surveillance Data Management System (DWS-EDMS) is an electronic database created by the Special Technologies and Applications Section (STAS) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Disclosed in a heavily redacted review of the FBI's role in the prevention of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, its full capabilities are classified but at a minimum, provides a searchable archive of intercepted electronic communications, including email sent over the Internet. Another report suggests that online chat transcripts, email attachments, and audio of unspecified origin are stored.
By the third quarter of 2006 it was involved in 130 successful investigations and 370 active cases. In June 2007 a total of 70 million intercepts from 16,500 online accounts were present on the system, and were expected to increase to 350 million intercepts from over 50,000 accounts by June 2009.
History
The DWS was designed by STAS in 2001 to record a certain class of data intercepts. In the following years it became a de facto depository of a wider category of intercepts, surpassing its original intent and straining its hardware limits.
The DWS was involved in the interception of 18 email messages between Nidal Malik Hasan and Anwar al-Awlaki from December 2008 to June 2009, although the messages were largely benign and provided no actionable evidence.
It was upgraded in February 2009, improving the user interface and tools, and merged with a related system, EDMS. The user interface was again improved in May 2009.
Capabilities
The interface of DWS-EDMS is described as relatively crude. Intercepts are stored in text format. The primary user interface is similar to Outlook Express. Users can add notes, translations, and tags to intercepts. While it provides search capabilities, it does so poorly, failing to return many relevant results. Although it is one of the FBI's primary investigative tools, it does not have a backup scheme in place. A failure scenario such as data corruption would be considered catastrophic. As of 2011, it was considered to be overburdened and incapable of sustaining its present role.
The underlying infrastructure of DWS-EDMS uses widely available commercial and open source technologies, including Java, Red Hat Linux, Oracle SQL, XML, Microsoft IIS, and Apache HTTP Server.
See also
Investigative Data Warehouse
Data Loading and Analysis System
Carnivore
References
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Signals intelligence
Surveillance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Environmental%20Data%20and%20Information%20Network | The Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN) is a United Kingdom organization created to curate marine environmental data. It is overseen by the UK government's Marine Science Co-ordination Committee.
References
Oceanography
Scientific organisations based in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saronno%20railway%20station | Saronno railway station is a railway station in Italy. It serves the town of Saronno.
Services
Saronno is terminus of the lines S1, S3 and S9 of the Milan suburban railway network, and served as well by the regional trains from Milan to Como, Laveno and Novara, and by the Malpensa Express. All this trains are operated by the Lombard railway company Trenord.
See also
Milan suburban railway network
External links
Ferrovienord official site - Saronno railway station
Railway stations in Lombardy
Ferrovienord stations
Railway stations opened in 1879
Milan S Lines stations
Railway stations in Italy opened in the 1870s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hossein%20Rahnama | Hossein Rahnama is a Canadian computer scientist, specialising in ubiquitous and pervasive computing. His research explores artificial intelligence, mobile human-computer interaction, and the effective design of contextual services. In 2017, Rahnama was included in Caldwell Partners' list of "Canada’s Top 40 Under 40". In 2012, he was recognized by the MIT Technology Review as one of the world’s top innovators under the age of 35 for his research in context-aware computing. The Smithsonian named Rahnama as one of the top six innovators to watch in 2013. Rahnama has 30 publications and 10 patents in ubiquitous computing, serves on the board of Canadian Science Publishing, and was a Council Member of the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). Rahnama is also a visiting scholar at the Human Dynamics group at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, MA. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University). Rahmnama is an associate professor in Toronto Metropolitan University's RTA School of Media and Director of Research & Innovation at the university's Digital Media Zone.
Rahnama is the founder and CEO of Flybits, "a context-as-a-service company that enables enterprises to unify disparate sources of data and create highly personalized customer experiences." Rahnama is also an assistant professor at the RTA School of Media, and the Co-Founder/Director of Research at the Ryerson Centre for Cloud and Context Aware Computing (RC4) in Toronto, Canada.
Education
In 2004, Rahnama completed his undergraduate degree in Computer Science at Ryerson University. He continued to attend Ryerson for his doctoral degree and postdoctoral work in Electrical and Computer Engineering. During his studies, Rahnama received a number of academic awards and grants for his research, including being a semi-finalist for the business plan competition at Harvard Business School for his innovative research on Flybits in 2008.
Career
As an undergraduate student at Ryerson University, Rahnama began his career at Rogers Communications as a wireless applications developer in 2000 under the supervision of Brad Fortner. In 2003, he worked at Alpha Global Labs as a software and knowledge engineer, working on medical expert systems and the applicability of mobile devices in medical settings.
Prior to his doctoral studies at Ryerson, Rahnama was a mobile applications architect at Primus Telecommunications in London, England. From 2007 to 2010, Rahnama served as the Vice President of Research and Innovation at Appear Networks located in Kista, Sweden, where he participated in a successful European Research Project (MUSIC). In 2009, Rahnama completed his doctoral studies at Ryerson and in 2010, he co-founded the Ryerson Digital Media Zone, which in 2015 became the number #1 university business incubator in North America and #3 in the world by the Swedish UBI Index. Under Rahnama's direction, The DMZ has helped fuel, grow and graduate ove |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segrate%20railway%20station | Segrate is a railway station in Italy. Located on the Milan–Venice railway, it serves the town of Segrate.
Services
Segrate is served by lines S5 and S6 of the Milan suburban railway network, operated by the Lombard railway company Trenord.
See also
Milan suburban railway network
References
External links
Railway stations in Lombardy
Milan S Lines stations
Railway stations opened in 2002
2002 establishments in Italy
Buildings and structures in Segrate
Railway stations in Italy opened in the 2000s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Virtual%20Connect | HP Virtual Connect is a virtualization technology created by Hewlett-Packard (HP) that de-couples fixed blade server adapter network addresses from the associated external networks so that changes in the blade server infrastructure and the LAN and SAN environments don’t require choreography among server, LAN, and SAN teams for every task. It brings virtualization to the blade server edge. It extends virtual machine technology. Virtual machine technology moves workloads across virtual machines on a single server. It becomes a challenge when moving virtual machines from one physical machine to another or between data center locations because changes to the LAN and SAN environments require manual intervention by network and storage administrators. By pooling and sharing multiple network connections across multiple servers and virtual machines, Virtual Connect extends Data Center capability by allowing physical setup and movement of Virtual Machine workloads between servers and Virtual Machines, transparently from the LAN and SAN infrastructure. Another name for Virtual Connect is PowerConnect Switches (the old name of the series).
Administrators can use the built-in HP Virtual Connect Manager for small configurations or the HP Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager for larger environments to define a server connection profile for each blade server bay before a server is installed. This profile establishes the Media Access Control (MAC) addresses for all network interface controllers (NICs), the World Wide Names (WWNs) for all host bus adapters (HBAs), and the Fibre Channel SAN boot parameters along with their associated network uplink connections and then associates them to a blade server bay so that even if the server is changed, the configuration and connection profile stays constant. When a new server takes its place, the same profile is associated with and used by the new server.
The technology behind Virtual Connect FlexFabric adapters and modules, part of the HP FlexNetwork Architecture, takes Virtual Connect further. Virtual Connect FlexFabric provides up to four physical functions for each blade server adapter network port, with the unique ability to fine-tune bandwidth to adapt to virtual server workload demands on the fly. All four connections can have their hardware personalities defined by the System Administrator as FlexNICs to support only Ethernet traffic as before with Virtual Connect. In addition, one of the physical functions can also be defined as a FlexHBA for Fibre Channel protocol support or an iSCSI initiator for iSCSI boot protocol support. Each function has 100 percent hardware-level performance and provides the I/O performance needed to take full advantage of multi-core processors and to support more virtual machines per physical server.
Each server can support many connections—up to 24 per half-height blade—with less investment in expensive adapter cards on the server, fewer interconnect modules in the blade enclosure, and f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20New%20Eat%20Bulaga%21%20Indonesia | The New Eat Bulaga! Indonesia is a variety and game show In Indonesia produced by Television and Production Exponents (TAPE) Inc., and aired by antv Network. It is based on the Philippines' longest-running noon-time variety show, Eat Bulaga!, which made it the first Philippine TV variety show to be franchised in another country. Its first incarnation, Eat Bulaga! Indonesia, premiered on July 16, 2012, and ended on April 3, 2014, which aired on its original network SCTV. The show returned on its second network, antv from November 17, 2014, to August 8, 2016, and returned from January 30, 2023, to February 17, 2023, with a mix of original and new hosts.
Series overview
History
The show returned as The New Eat Bulaga! Indonesia on antv, airing its pilot on November 17, 2014. This version is nothing like the previous version. While Uya Kuya, Astrid Kuya, Farid Aja and Reza Bukan retained their roles as main hosts, the show debuted with a complete new set of hosts — many of them being Indian actors with shows aired by ANTV — as well as a new layout. Due to the strong presence of Indians and Indian Indonesians with ANTV, this version of the show adopted much Indian as well as Indo-Islamic influence. The show also became more drastically differentiated from the original Filipino program.
The new version also featured a new opening theme song and performance, though its tune was still based on the original and resembles an older version of the Philippine opening song. Viewers were greeted with "Inilah, The New Eat Bulaga! Indonesia", meaning: "This is The New Eat Bulaga! Indonesia," in English. In February 2016, the theme was once-more given a minor change, a faster and modern dance-like mix.
Many of the game segments also debuted with new names, since many of their original Philippine counterparts were discontinued. The show also debuted new game segments in addition to the many changes, hence the adding of "The New" to the show's name to emphasize the large changes.
Viewers also get to watch replays of entire episodes on ANTV's YouTube channel, which also has replays of its other television shows. A unique twist to this version was its celebration of Islamic holidays and feasts, hosting "Ramadan" editions on the Islamic holy month of the same name.
On November 20, 2015, The New Eat Bulaga! Indonesia celebrated its first anniversary with ANTV. The show featured an Indian-influenced celebration, since it had guest appearances by Indian actresses Paridhi Sharma and Lavina Tandon who have a large fan base in Indonesia.
The show ended on June 30, 2016, with one last encore episode airing on August 8, 2016.
On January 30, 2023, The New Eat Bulaga! Indonesia returned for a second time, with Okky Lukman, Leo Consul (from the 2012 version), Rullyabii Margana, Alifa Lubis, Devina Kirana, Ncess Nabati, Aldi Taher and Jasi Michelle as the new set of hosts. Predating the original version by four weeks, The New Eat Bulaga! Indonesia is the first in the franc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%20International%20Conference%20on%20Artificial%20Intelligence | The Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI) is the name of an annual conference covering all areas of Artificial Intelligence (AI), held in Mexico. The first MICAI conference was held in 2000. The conference is attended every year by about two hundred of AI researchers and PhD students and 500−1000 local graduate students.
Overview
MICAI is a high-level peer-reviewed international conference covering all areas of Artificial Intelligence. All editions of MICAI have been published in Springer Springer LNAI (N 1793, 2313, 2972, 3789, 4293, 4827, 5317, 5845, 6437–6438). Recent MICAI events (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010) received over 300 submissions from over 40 countries each. The conference's scientific program includes keynote lectures, paper presentations, tutorials, panels, posters, and workshops. MICAI is organized by the Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA) in cooperation with various national institutions.
Their topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Applications of artificial intelligence,
Automated theorem proving,
Belief revision,
Bioinformatics and Medical applications of artificial intelligence,
Case-based reasoning,
Common-sense reasoning,
Computer vision and image processing,
Constraint programming,
Data mining,
Expert systems and knowledge-based systems,
Fuzzy logic,
Genetic algorithms,
Hybrid intelligent systems,
Intelligent interfaces: multimedia, virtual reality,
Intelligent organizations,
Intelligent tutoring systems,
Knowledge acquisition,
Knowledge representation and knowledge management,
Logic programming,
Machine learning,
Model-based reasoning,
Multiagent systems and distributed artificial intelligence,
Natural Language Processing,
Neural Networks,
Non-monotonic Reasoning,
Ontologies,
Pattern Recognition,
Philosophical and methodological issues of artificial intelligence,
Planning and scheduling,
Qualitative reasoning,
Robotics,
Spatial and temporal reasoning,
Uncertainty reasoning and probabilistic reasoning.
Specific MICAI conferences
In the table below, the figures for the number of accepted papers and acceptance rate refer to the main proceedings volume and do not include supplemental proceedings volumes. The number of countries corresponds to submissions, not to accepted papers.
Keynote speakers and program chairs
The following persons were honored by being selected by the organizers as keynote speakers or program chairs:
Awards
The authors of the following papers received the Best Paper Award:
See also
The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.
References
External links
MICAI series website
Mexican Society for Artificial Intelligence (SMIA)
Computer science conferences
Academic conferences
Artificial intelligence conferences
Recurring events established in 2000
Annual events in Mexico
International conferences in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8Xtra | V8Xtra was an Australian V8 Supercar focused sports panel television program, that aired weekly on the Seven Network from 5 May 2007 to 6 December 2014. It was hosted by former racing driver Neil Crompton and featured former drivers Mark Skaife and Mark Larkham as analysts. Each episode featured previews or reviews of events, as well as interviews with drivers and features on teams.
Broadcast
The series aired between around March and December each year, in line with the V8 Supercar calendar. It aired in different timeslots during the show's history, however in its final years was normally a half hour show on Saturdays at 1pm. It was occasionally aired on 7mate, a digital channel owned by the Seven Network.
Demise
In 2015, the program was superseded by Inside Supercars, which premiered on 3 March 2015 on Fox Sports 5, as the Seven Network lost the broadcast rights to V8 Supercar at the end of 2014.
See also
List of Australian television series
Shannons Legends of Motorsport
References
7mate original programming
2007 Australian television series debuts
2014 Australian television series endings
Automotive television series
Australian sports television series
Motorsport in Australia
English-language television shows
Supercars Championship
Seven Sport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesics%20on%20an%20ellipsoid | The study of geodesics on an ellipsoid arose in connection with geodesy specifically with the solution of triangulation networks. The figure of the Earth is well approximated by an oblate ellipsoid, a slightly flattened sphere. A geodesic is the shortest path between two points on a curved surface, analogous to a straight line on a plane surface. The solution of a triangulation network on an ellipsoid is therefore a set of exercises in spheroidal trigonometry .
If the Earth is treated as a sphere, the geodesics are great circles (all of which are closed) and the problems reduce to ones in spherical trigonometry. However, showed that the effect of the rotation of the Earth results in its resembling a slightly oblate ellipsoid: in this case, the equator and the meridians are the only simple closed geodesics. Furthermore, the shortest path between two points on the equator does not necessarily run along the equator. Finally, if the ellipsoid is further perturbed to become a triaxial ellipsoid (with three distinct semi-axes), only three geodesics are closed.
Geodesics on an ellipsoid of revolution
There are several ways of defining geodesics . A simple definition is as the shortest path between two points on a surface. However, it is frequently more useful to define them as paths with zero geodesic curvature—i.e., the analogue of straight lines on a curved surface. This definition encompasses geodesics traveling so far across the ellipsoid's surface that they start to return toward the starting point, so that other routes are more direct, and includes paths that intersect or re-trace themselves. Short enough segments of a geodesics are still the shortest route between their endpoints, but geodesics are not necessarily globally minimal (i.e. shortest among all possible paths). Every globally-shortest path is a geodesic, but not vice versa.
By the end of the 18th century, an ellipsoid of revolution (the term spheroid is also used) was a well-accepted approximation to the figure of the Earth. The adjustment of triangulation networks entailed reducing all the measurements to a reference ellipsoid and solving the resulting two-dimensional problem as an exercise in spheroidal trigonometry .
It is possible to reduce the various geodesic problems into one of two types. Consider two points: at latitude and longitude and at latitude and longitude (see Fig. 1). The connecting geodesic (from to ) is , of length , which has azimuths and at the two endpoints. The two geodesic problems usually considered are:
the direct geodesic problem or first geodesic problem, given , , and , determine and ;
the inverse geodesic problem or second geodesic problem, given and , determine , , and .
As can be seen from Fig. 1, these problems involve solving the triangle given one angle, for the direct problem and for the inverse problem, and its two adjacent sides.
For a sphere the solutions to these problems are simple exercises in spherical tr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typestate%20analysis | Typestate analysis, sometimes called protocol analysis, is a form of program analysis employed in programming languages. It is most commonly applied to object-oriented languages. Typestates define valid sequences of operations that can be performed upon an instance of a given type. Typestates, as the name suggests, associate state information with variables of that type. This state information is used to determine at compile-time which operations are valid to be invoked upon an instance of the type. Operations performed on an object that would usually only be executed at run-time are performed upon the type state information which is modified to be compatible with the new state of the object.
Typestates are capable of representing behavioral type refinements such as "method A must be invoked before method B is invoked, and method C may not be invoked in between". Typestates are well-suited to representing resources that use open/close semantics by enforcing semantically valid sequences such as "open then close" as opposed to invalid sequences such as leaving a file in an open state. Such resources include filesystem elements, transactions, connections and protocols. For instance, developers may want to specify that files or sockets must be opened before they are read or written, and that they can no longer be read or written if they have been closed. The name "typestate" stems from the fact that this kind of analysis often models each type of object as a finite state machine. In this state machine, each state has a well-defined set of permitted methods/messages, and method invocations may cause state transitions. Petri nets have also been proposed as a possible behavioral model for use with refinement types.
Typestate analysis was introduced by Rob Strom in 1983
in the Network Implementation Language (NIL) developed at IBM's Watson Lab.
It was formalized by Strom and Yemini in a 1986 article
that described how to use typestate to track the degree of initialisation of variables, guaranteeing that operations would never be applied on improperly initialised data, and further generalized in the Hermes programming language.
In recent years, various studies have developed ways of applying the typestate concept to object-oriented languages.
Approach
Strom and Yemini (1986) required the set of typestates for a given type to be partially ordered such that a lower typestate can be obtained from a higher one by discarding some information. For example, an int variable in C typically has the typestates "uninitialized" < "initialized", and a FILE* pointer may have the typestates "unallocated" < "allocated, but uninitialized" < "initialized, but file not opened" < "file opened". Moreover, Strom and Yemini require that each two typestates have a greatest lower bound, i.e. that the partial order is even a meet-semilattice; and that each order has a least element, always called "⊥".
Their analysis is based on the simplification that each variable v is assig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t%20Tell%20the%20Bride%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Don't Tell the Bride is an Australian reality television series premiered on Network Ten on Tuesday 21 August 2012. Presented and narrated by Kate Ritchie, this series was an adaptation of the UK series Don't Tell the Bride that screened on BBC Three.
The show's format involves an engaged couple who are given $25,000 to spend on their wedding. They must spend three weeks apart without contact as the groom organises every aspect of the event and attire including the wedding dress and hen and stag parties, surprising the bride.
Episodes
Episode 1: Melissa and Aaron's Wedding
Episode 2: Tarin and Jason's Wedding
Episode 3: Stef and Jake's Wedding
Episode 4: Anastasia and Matt's Wedding
Episode 5: Shannon and Jay's Wedding
Episode 6: Jessica and Adam's Wedding
References
Network 10 original programming
2010s Australian reality television series
Australian television series based on British television series
Wedding television shows
2012 Australian television series debuts
2012 Australian television series endings
Television series by Endemol Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yug%20Ylimaf | "Yug Ylimaf" is the fourth episode of the eleventh season of the animated comedy series Family Guy. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 11, 2012. This was the 200th episode produced and was promoted as such but was the 192nd episode broadcast. In the episode, Brian uses Stewie's time machine to hook up with potential girlfriends but it goes awry when he causes time to run in reverse and he has to find a way to reverse it. The episode's title is Family Guy spelled backwards.
Plot
When Brian attempts to score a date at a bar, he gets a girl to come to his house, claiming he has a time machine. They sneak into Stewie's room and use the time machine to travel to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Brian uses this tactic to score other dates, traveling to events such as the Hindenburg disaster and segregation-era America. However, when one of his dates points out the "years traveled" gauge on the time machine, Brian realizes Stewie might discover what he has been doing; to avoid this, he sets the "years traveled" gauge backward, which causes the time machine to have a complete meltdown and a bright blue light to emerge. Stewie wakes up to see this and Brian claims Meg is responsible, before an enormous energy blast blows Stewie and Brian against the wall, knocking them unconscious.
The next morning, the two awake to discover that Brian's tampering with the machine has caused time to run backward. Stewie and Brian go around town, examining the effects of the machine, witnessing events running backward, such as a fight between Peter and Ernie the Giant Chicken (after Peter had opened his car door when Ernie crashed his bicycle into it). After noticing that Cleveland is back living in Quahog, it becomes apparent that reverse time is starting to accelerate. Even worse, when Stewie sees that he is un-teething, he realizes the reversed timeline is beginning to affect them as well, and they are also reliving the ipecac incident in reverse. When they see that Bonnie is pregnant and that Susie has been "unborn", Stewie realizes he too will be unborn if the time machine is not fixed.
While nearly completing the repairs of the time machine, Stewie suddenly loses the ability to walk and sees Meg's voice revert back to Lacey Chabert, he realizes that the time of his birth is growing near. When Stewie is taken to the hospital to be unborn, Brian is forced to fix the machine by himself. Trying to set the time forward again, he gets the idea to do the opposite of what he did the first time – he sets the time gauge forward, causing a second meltdown which again knocks him unconscious but keeps the machine intact. Brian wakes up to see that the timeline has been restored and rushes to the hospital just in time to witness Stewie's birth, and is inadvertently responsible for Stewie getting his name. Stewie thanks Brian for saving his life and the Griffins head home with their newborn baby. As the episode ends, Chris tells the fami |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Loading%20and%20Analysis%20System | The Data Loading and Analysis System (DaLAS) is an electronic database used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and United States Intelligence Community for counterintelligence and counterterrorism investigations. It is used to store copies of seized digital media, including disk images of CD-ROMs, DVDs, hard drives, mobile phones, and raw network feeds, as well as scans of physical documents. DaLAS supports the upload, processing, and classification of media, and provides a central, remotely accessed, searchable repository of data. The full details of DaLAS, including the number of files and total amount of stored data, are classified.
During a 2011 investigation in the aftermath of the 2009 Fort Hood shooting, a query of Nidal Malik Hasan's personal email account returned a result on a hard drive image stored on DaLAS. The drive had been seized in 2007 in an unrelated New Jersey tax case. The match was a message posted to a web forum by Hasan on February 10, 2005, asking whether doctors should prescribe intoxicating medications under Sharia law.
See also
Investigative Data Warehouse
Data Warehouse System Electronic Surveillance Data Management System
References
Federal Bureau of Investigation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA%20Networks | Electricity Ashburton Limited, trading as EA Networks is a co-operatively-owned electricity distribution company, based in Ashburton, New Zealand.
The company was formed as Electricity Ashburton in 1995 after a reorganisation of the Ashburton Electric Power Board into a commercial company. It adopted its current trading name EA Networks in late 2012. It is unique among New Zealand electricity distribution companies in that it is the only company that is a cooperative, whereby shares in the company are owned by electricity consumers connected to its network.
EA Networks owns and operates the subtransmission and distribution network in the Ashburton District (also known as Mid-Canterbury) in the South Island. Outside the Ashburton township (pop. 17,700), most of the district is rural with a high usage of irrigation, with the associated water pumps responsible for more than 85 percent of EA Networks' peak summer demand.
EA Networks also owns a fibre optic cable network interconnecting its zone substations, which also offers broadband internet services to customers along the cable network. It also in a joint venture with Barrhill Chertsey Irrigation regarding an irrigation project covering of farmland in the north-eastern Ashburton district.
History
Reticulated electricity first arrived in Ashburton in 1908, when private company Craddock & Co established a 220-volt direct current electricity network to supply Ashburton township. The electricity was supplied from a 30 kW generator driven a steam traction engine. A network of 3300-volt and 230/400-volt alternating current lines were later established to supply the township.
In 1921, the Ashburton Electric Power Board (AEPB) was established to operate the distribution network in the Ashburton area, taking over from the private companies and establishing a district-wide network of 6.6 kV and 11 kV distribution lines to replace the DC and 3.3 kV lines. In 1924, the AEPB's network was connected to the national grid and Coleridge Power Station when a 110/11 kV substation was established in central Ashburton. A second connection to the national grid was later established near Methven. After the Second World War, the AEPB established a production facility and reticulation network to supply coal gas to Ashburton township, and was subsequently renamed the Ashburton Electric Power and Gas Board. The coal gas system was disestablished in 1973 when it became uneconomical and the board reverted to its original name.
By the early 1960s, the need for a sub-transmission network became apparent, and in 1967 the AEPB established its first 33 kV subtransmission lines and zone substations, supplied by three 11/33 kV step-up transformers at Ashburton substation. In 1971, the last 6.6 kV lines were converted to 11 kV. As irrigation loads increased and the subtransmission network was extended into the 1980s, two 110/33 kV grid connections were established at Ashburton and Cairnbrae, near Methven, to supply the network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gever%20Tulley | Gever Tulley is an American writer, speaker, educator, entrepreneur, and computer scientist. He is the founder of the Brightworks School, Tinkering School, the non-profit Institute for Applied Tinkering, and educational kit maker Tinkering Labs. His more recent work centers around the concept of students learning through building projects. He has delivered multiple TED talks on his work, published the book 50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do), and has contributed articles for many online media outlets.
Career
Tinkering School
A self-taught software engineer, Tulley created the summer program called Tinkering School in 2005. The Tinkering School's program provides children with a week-long overnight experience at a ranch outside of San Francisco, California, United States. Participants spend the week building large projects such as a working roller coaster, a rope bridge made out of plastic bags, and a 3-story tree house.
TED
Tulley delivered a talk at the TED2007 conference entitled "50 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do". In this talk, Tulley makes the argument that a growing trend towards over-protection of children is harming their ability to learn and think. Thus, Tulley advocates for parents to allow their children to do supervised activities that are considered to be dangerous.
Tulley advises that children should:
Let children be co-authors in their education.
Trust children more.
The default answer is yes.
Focus on habits and character.
Agree that everything is interesting.
By doing so, Tulley believes children will learn concepts that they may not learn in more structured and conventional activities. Tulley has since given further TED conference talks at TED2009 and various TEDx conferences.
Brightworks School
In 2011, Tulley opened the Brightworks School in San Francisco. The school expands upon the premise of his summer program, and students from grades K-12 learn through hands-on activities facilitated by adult "collaborators". The school opened in September 2011 with an initial enrollment of 18 students. The school follows a curriculum called the "Brightworks Arc" which has three phases: exploration, expression, and exposition.
Criticism
Tulley's philosophy on allowing children to participate in more dangerous activities has attracted the criticism of some parents and child psychologists. Child psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg has called Tulley's book an overreaction to "cotton-wool" parenting, and has called for sales of the book to be banned in Australia (despite Carr-Gregg never having read the book). Amanda Cox, founder of the parent organization Real Mums, has also criticized the book, claiming that the book crosses a fine line between learning and being dangerous.
References
External links
Brightworks School
50 Things (You Should Let Your Kids Do) on Google Books
Tinkering School
Institute for Applied Tinkering
Tinkering Labs
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess%20opening%20book%20%28computers%29 | Opening book is often used to describe the database of chess openings given to computer chess programs (and related games, such as computer shogi). Such programs are quite significantly enhanced through the provision of an electronic version of an opening book. This eliminates the need for the program to calculate the best lines during approximately the first ten moves of the game, where the positions are extremely open-ended and thus computationally expensive to evaluate. As a result, it places the computer in a stronger position using considerably less resources than if it had to calculate the moves itself.
On some occasions, a player might consider playing a strange move outside the opening book to force a computer to think for itself. While this may introduce a strategic weakness, a lot of the time, playing out of the book early may end up compromising one's own pawn structure, losing a tempo or allow the opponent to develop more effectively, as chess engines have become significantly more powerful over time to think more deeply or accurately than in the past.
History
By 1977, 14 of 16 entries in the second World Computer Chess Championship used opening books. One of the entries without a book, DARK HORSE, defeated opponent CHAOS in part by using a nonstandard N-F3 opening.
Design
Modern chess engines are designed to be controlled by a graphical user interface such as Winboard, ChessBase or Arena through the Universal Chess Interface protocol or Chess Engine Communication Protocol. In this case the opening book may often be specified in the GUI and then the GUI makes the moves from the opening book on behalf of the engine when the occasion arises.
Format
Opening books used by computers are often in a binary undocumented or PGN format. Examples are ChessBase's .ctg format or Pgn Format and Arena's .abk format. One notable exception is the Polyglot book format which is fully documented and which is being implemented in an increasing number of programs.
See also
Chess opening
Modern Chess Openings
Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings
List of chess books
List of chess openings
Chess engine
Computer chess
Computer shogi
Shogi opening
Endgame tablebase
Chess endgame literature
References
Opening book
Chess databases
Chess
Shogi software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Mercer%20%28disambiguation%29 | Robert Mercer (born 1946) is an American computer scientist and former co-CEO of the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies.
Robert or Bob Mercer may also refer to:
Bob Mercer (footballer) (1889–1926), Scottish footballer (Heart of Midlothian FC and Scotland)
Bob Mercer (politician) (active 1993–2009), Canadian politician
Robert Mercer (priest) (born 1935), English priest
Robert Mercer Johnston (1908–1984), Canadian politician
See also
Bobby Murcer (1946–2008), American Major League Baseball player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.P.%20Morgan%20Reserve%20Card | The J.P. Morgan Reserve Card, formerly branded and colloquially known as the Palladium Card, is a credit card issued by J.P. Morgan on the Visa network. It is reserved for the wealthiest clients of the firm's global private bank. The card is minted out of a brass alloy, laser-engraved, and plated with metal palladium and 23-karat gold. Eligibility for the card is not fully known as it is invitation-only and at the discretion of J.P. Morgan. The card does not report to credit bureaus or maintain a pre-set credit limit. It is considered a status symbol among the affluent.
History
The card was launched in September 2009, following the 2008 financial crisis, for J.P. Morgan's ultra-high-net-worth clients. Its original name, the Palladium Card, reflected the card's composition: minted out of a brass alloy, laser-engraved, and plated with metal palladium. The card was re-branded as the J.P. Morgan Reserve Card in September 2016. Bloomberg described the Palladium Card as the "card for the 1% of the 1%". Clients of J.P. Morgan who are invited to carry the card must have a reported minimum of US$10 million in assets under management (AUM) with the private bank. The firm declined to confirm this figure as part of their eligibility requirements. There are roughly 5,000 J.P. Morgan Reserve card holders worldwide.
Physical specifications
The J.P. Morgan Reserve Card was one of the first U.S. credit cards to adopt EMV smart chip technology. With its brass construction and palladium plating, the card weighs 1 ounce or 28.35 grams, five times the weight of a conventional plastic credit card and twice the weight of the titanium constructed American Express Centurion Card.
Features
See also
American Express, Centurion Card, and Platinum Card
MasterCard and Visa
Credit score in the United States
Banking in the United States
Notes
External links
References
Credit cards
JPMorgan Chase
Products introduced in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astral%20Bout |
Sougou Kakutougi: Astral Bout
is a Super Famicom video game based on various forms of fighting styles found in the Japanese combat sport promotion Fighting Network Rings.
Gameplay
This video game was the predecessor to mixed martial arts promotion companies and pay-per-view tournaments like the Ultimate Fighting Championship that are popular with today's young people.
There are nine different styles of fighting to adopt: professional wrestling, boxing, karate, sambo, muay thai, kung-fu, judo, kickboxing and lucha libre, and the basic set of martial arts. Like in an arcade fighting game, each player has a limited amount of continues that eventually lead to a "game over" if they all are allowed to expire. Three different modes to this game; standard one-player, two-player, or a "player vs. CPU" sparring session. All competitors have health meters that are divided into three between rounds to keep track of the strength in the arms, legs, and the rest of the body. The difficulty level can be set for either low, medium, or high.
Rope breaks are possible to pull off; like in professional wrestling. However, all matches end in a 10-count fall instead of pinning the opponent for a 3-count. There are a certain number of rounds with a pre-determined time limit (ranging from one-minute fights to endurance events).
Fighters
There are nine fighters in the game with different fighting styles:
Barnov Gainer, a sambo grappler from Russia
Somchai Pet Noi, a Muay Thai fighter from Thailand
Akira Maeda, a professional wrestler from Japan
Kenji Takezawa, a karate expert from Japan
Shiro Kimura, a judo expert from Japan
James Taylor, a heavyweight boxing champion from America
Lee Wang-Yu, a kung-fu master from China
Billy J. Gibson, a kickboxing champion from America
Spell Falcon, a Lucha Libre star from Mexico
Sougou Kakutougi Rings: Astral Bout 3
Reception
On release, Famicom Tsūshin scored the game a 21 out of 40.
References
External links
Sougou Kakutougi: Astral Bout at MobyGames
Sougou Kakutougi: Astral Bout at GameFAQs
Sougou Kakutougi: Astral Bout at SuperFamicom.org
1992 video games
Fighting games
Japan-exclusive video games
Side-scrolling video games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System games
Super Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Video game franchises introduced in 1992
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridgea%20decorata | Cambridgea decorata is a species of spiders in the genus Cambridgea found only in New Zealand. It is classified as "data deficient" under the New Zealand Threat Classification System. The only published records are of specimens collected in the 1940s from Parnell (male holotype), and Waiheke Island (females). Both localities are in Auckland.
References
Stiphidiidae
Spiders described in 2000
Spiders of New Zealand
Endemic fauna of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northpower | Northpower Limited (Northpower) is an electricity distribution company, based in Whangarei, New Zealand.
Northpower owns and manages the electricity lines network in the Whangarei and Kaipara districts. The service area covers 5,700 km2 and extends from Topuni in the south, to Bland Bay in the north. In addition to the residential and commercial customers in the region, the network also serves the New Zealand Refinery, Golden Bay Cement and the Fonterra dairy plant at Kauri.
Ownership
The company is 100% owned by the Northpower Electric Power Trust on behalf of electricity consumers in the Whangarei and Kaipara districts. The Trust is governed by seven Trustees elected every three years at the same time as the local body elections.
The Northpower Electric Power Trust (NEPT) Deed requires that options for the future ownership of shares in Northpower are reviewed every five years. The Trustees of the NEPT must consult with Northpower consumers to determine if the current Trust ownership structure is what consumers want, or if consumers would prefer a change. Following consultation with the people of the Kaipara and Whangarei Districts between February and June 2012, a decision was made at a public meeting of the Trust for Northpower to remain in consumer ownership.
Distribution network
The Northpower subtransmission and distribution network is connected to the national grid via five Transpower substations located at Bream Bay (close to the Marsden Point Oil Refinery), Dargaville, Maungatapere, Maungaturoto and the suburb of Kensington in Whangarei.
Network statistics
* for the year ended 31 March 2011
Network performance
The Northpower reported the performance of the network for the 2010/11 year as follows:
The reliability of the Northpower network is around the middle of the range of performance of the distribution companies reporting to the Commerce Commission under Information Disclosure requirements.
History
The history of Northpower dates back to 1920 when the Northern Wairoa Hydro Electric Power Board was formed. The main predecessor organisation was the North Auckland Electric Power Board which commenced operations in 1929. The trading name 'Northpower' was adopted from 1 May 1990.
In 1993, Northpower purchased the small hydro-electric power station at Wairua Falls, near Titoki.
The Electricity Industry Reform Act was passed in 1998, and this required that all electricity companies be split into either the lines (network) business or the supply business (generating and/or selling electricity) by 1 April 1999. The energy retail business of Northpower was sold to ECNZ with effect from 1 November 1998, and renamed Northpower Energy. The name was later changed to Meridian Energy (1999).
Wairua Falls hydro scheme
Northpower owns and operates the Wairua power station owned near Titoki. This station was built in the early 1900s with the first of the generators installed in 1916. The original machines are still operating. The wate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Data%20Girl | is a series of fantasy novels written by Noriko Ogiwara. Six volumes have been released. The first volume was published by Kadokawa Shoten in 2008, while the last was published in 2012. The manga adaptation, illustrated by Ranmaru Kotone and published by Kadokawa Shoten, was serialized between 2012 and 2014. A 12-episode anime television series adaptation by P.A. Works aired between April and June 2013. The full anime series became available for streaming on Netflix (US) on August 1, 2015.
Plot
The story revolves around Izumiko Suzuhara, a 15-year-old girl who was raised at Tamakura Shrine, which is a part of the Kumano Shrines World Heritage Site. She has the ability to destroy any electrical device that she touches. Despite being shy, she wants to try living in the city. Her guardian Yukimasa Sagara recommends that she enroll at Hōjō High School in Tokyo accompanied by his son, Miyuki Sagara. Miyuki has trained to become a yamabushi from a young age. While in Tokyo on a middle school field trip, an entity named "Himegami" appears. Izumiko learns that she is a yorishiro (or, more properly, a yorimashi, as she is a possessed person, not object), a vessel for a Shinto spirit known as a kami. She also learns that Miyuki is tasked with protecting her.
Characters
Main characters
Izumiko is described by Miyuki as a dull-looking girl with twin braids. Before beginning her first year of high school in Tokyo she wore red-rimmed glasses that were given to her by her mother. At the beginning of the series she is very timid and shy, and doesn't like to share her desires or opinions with others. However, as the series progresses she begins to change and becomes more confident. One trait that shocks most people that meet her is that she has lived a few years of her life without using electronics, because they used to break whenever she tried to. It is revealed in episode 2 that Izumiko is destined to serve as the vessel for a powerful ancient goddess and will most likely be her final vessel. Later in the season, it is revealed that her mother gave her the glasses to block her vision, because she "sees too much". Without them she can identify spirit agents, ghosts, and gods; though they appear to her as frightening creatures covered in a black aura.
Miyuki is the son of Yukimasa and also a monk in training. When he is first introduced he is very cruel to Izumiko and said that he couldn't believe a goddess was in such a dull girl like her. However, after seeing her powers and learning more about her he began to soften up towards her. Even after Yukimasa gave him the chance to go back home he decided to stay with Izumiko and protect her. After moving to Tokyo together, Izumiko and Miyuki grow closer; but Miyuki doesn't believe he can truly protect Izumiko. He believes he is weak and can't even take care of himself. Miyuki has a very strained relationship with his father, whom he hates. At first when Miyuki refuses to serve Izumiko, Yukimasa took him into t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Astronomical%20History%20and%20Heritage | The Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage is a peer-reviewed academic journal. As of 2021, the journal is published four times per year. It is logged through the Astrophysics Data System. It publishes research papers, reviews, short communications, IAU reports, and book reviews on all aspects of astronomical history. The editor-in-chief is Wayne Orchiston (National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand). As of 2021 the associate editors are Clifford Cunningham, Duane Hamacher, James Lequeux, and Peter Robertson, and Ruby-Anne Dela Cruz is the Papers Editor.
It was established in 1998 by John Louis Perdrix, after the Australian Journal of Astronomy was discontinued. Until 2005, it was published by Astral Press, a publishing house founded and owned by Perdrix. From 2005 to 2012 it was published by the Centre for Astronomy (James Cook University). Since 2013, the publishing institute is the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand. All papers are now published electronically and all papers from 1998 to the present can be accessed through the journal's website.
References
External links
History of astronomy journals
Triannual journals
James Cook University
English-language journals
Academic journals published by non-profit organizations
Academic journals established in 1998 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto%20Nacional%20de%20Estat%C3%ADstica%20de%20Timor-Leste | The Instituto Nacional de Estatística de Timor-Leste is the national government agency for statistics of East Timor. It is responsible for compiling and disseminating data on the people, society, economy and environment of the nation and the national censuses.
The agency was formed in 2023 as the successor to the Direcção Nacional de Estatística (Portuguese for National Directorate of Statistics). The DNE was a state department under the Directorate-General of Analysis and Research of the Ministry of Finance,
References
External links
East Timor
Demographics of East Timor
Organizations based in East Timor
Government of East Timor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizlou%20Television%20Network | Mizlou Television Network, Inc. or Mizlou Communications, Inc., was a sports broadcast television network active in 1962—1991. In 1992 Mizlou was re-established as Mizlou Television Network, Inc., which is now based in Tampa, Florida. Mizlou later branched out into cable sports channels.
Operation
The network was not a full-time network, but produced sports and entertainment television shows offered to a set of affiliates set up event by event. It was seen on affiliates of NBC, ABC, and CBS, and on independent television stations and cable channels.
Mizlou utilized the AT&T system to distribute signals to television stations nationwide via land lines and microwave facilities.
History
Unisphere Broadcasting System
In mid-1965, radio businessman Vincent C. Piano proposed the Unisphere Broadcasting System. The service would have operated 2.5 hours each night. However, Piano had difficulty signing affiliates; a year later, no launch date had been set, and the network still lacked a "respectable number of affiliates in major markets."
Mizlou TV Network
Mizlou began syndicating college football bowls in 1968.
Maryland sold Mizlou rights to two of its Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball games along with the women's basketball Maryland versus Immaculata game on January 26, 1975. This was the first national broadcast of a women’s college basketball game with 100+ stations signing on to the telecast.
Mizlou broadcast the first three Fiesta Bowl starting in 1971 and lost money on the first broadcast. In 1979, the Network broadcast the Miss Black Universe USA and International beauty pageants. The network carried the 1975 Blue-Gray Football Classic, angering the all-star game's committee by convincing the game clock operator to cut three minutes off the clock in the first quarter.
Mizlou was hired by U.S. Tobacco to broadcast the College National Final Rodeo in 1981. In 1985, Mizlou decided not to renew the Holiday Bowl broadcast contract. In 1986, the network signed a three-year deal with the Freedom Bowl adding them to their bowl line up of Bluebonnet, Cherry, Independence and Hall of Fame Bowls for that year.
In August 1989, Mizlou Communications announced the November launch of Sports News Network, a 24-hour sports news and interview basic channel. Mizlou in February 1990 made a private placement of securities to keep SNN going. Mizlou made another attempt before July 1990 and attempted a third placement of $15–$20 million in July 1990 for the network. SNN went dark on December 17, 1990 as parent Mizlou Communications filed for bankruptcy. Mizlou was in talks with Landmark Communications and Telecable Corporation as a potential buyer of the channel and other assets. In January 1991, Landmark dropped plans for a sport news channel and its discussions with Mizlou for the purchases of Sports News Network due to Tele-Communications Inc.'s planned launch of Prime Sports News, an all-sports news cable channel.
See also
Fourth televis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20News%3A%20BC%201 | Global News: BC 1 (often referred to as BC 1) is a Canadian English language specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment and operated alongside the Corus-owned Global Television Network's Vancouver owned-and-operated television station CHAN-DT (Global BC). The channel primarily broadcast local news for the province of British Columbia. The channel's branding is derived from the Global network and its news division Global News. It broadcasts from CHAN-DT's studios on 7850 Enterprise Street (across from the Lake City Way SkyTrain station) in Burnaby.
History
On January 11, 2012, Shaw Media announced its intention to launch a 24-hour local news channel for the province of British Columbia (the first regional news channel in Canada located outside of Ontario), that would be operated alongside Global's Vancouver station CHAN-DT, with an expected launch date of summer 2012.
The channel was approved by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on July 20, 2012 under the tentative name "BC Global News". It was described as "a regional, English-language specialty Category B service that will offer a mix of local and regional news, traffic, weather, business, sports and entertainment information devoted to serving residents of British Columbia, with a special focus on the Vancouver/Victoria Extended Market, as defined by the Broadcast Bureau of Measurement (BBM) Canada." On the same day, Shaw Media announced its revised plan to launch the channel in early 2013 under the new name "Global News: BC 1".
On August 30, 2012, Global BC posted a statement about Global News: BC 1, which had expected to be launched in January 2013, claiming it "will provide viewers across the province with top local and regional stories" and will become an "important component of Global News' Digital First objective." The launch would later be delayed to March 14, 2013. The channel soft launched on March 14 at 8:00 a.m. PDT (14:00 UTC) and officially launched one hour later at 9:00 a.m. PT with the debut of the show AM/BC.
On April 1, 2016, Global News: BC 1's parent company Shaw Media (which also included parent network Global and 18 other specialty channels) was sold to Shaw's sister company Corus Entertainment, and the station earned four already owned radio stations for sister networks.
In October 2022, the channel was given a new logo and on-air graphics to coincide with Corus Entertainment's rebrand of all existing Global News properties.
Format
Global News: BC1 contains an 'L-frame' display at the bottom and right side of the channel's screen, which carries the day's top news headlines, weather, sports scores, and market indices, with regular banner ads interspersed. The channel simulcasts all local news programming seen on Global BC - eight hours a day during the week and six hours daily on weekends. The channel also airs one newscast from Global Okanagan, another Global owned-and-operated station serving the Okanagan region of British |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20interoperability | Language interoperability is the capability of two different programming languages to natively interact as part of the same system and operate on the same kind of data structures.
There are many ways programming languages are interoperable with one another. HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are interoperable as they are used in tandem in webpages. Some object oriented languages are interoperable thanks to their shared hosting virtual machine (e.g. .NET CLI compliant languages in the Common Language Runtime and JVM compliant languages in the Java Virtual Machine).
Methods for interoperability
Object models
Object models are standardized models which allow objects to be represented in a language-agnostic way, such that the same objects may be used across programs and across languages. CORBA and the COM are the most popular object models.
Virtual machines
A virtual machine (VM) is a specialised intermediate language that several different languages compile down to. Languages that use the same virtual machine can interoperate, as they will share a memory model and compiler and thus libraries from one language can be re-used for others on the same VM. VMs can incorporate type systems to ensure the correctness of participating languages and give languages a common ground for their type information. The use of an intermediate language during compilation or interpretation can provide more opportunities for optimisation.
Foreign function interfaces
Foreign function interfaces (FFI) allow programs written in one language to call functions written in another language. There are often considerations that preclude simply treating foreign functions as functions written in the host language, such as differences in types and execution model. Foreign function interfaces enable building wrapper libraries that provide functionality from a library from another language in the host language, often in a style that is more idiomatic for the language. Most languages have FFIs to C, which is the "lingua franca" of programming today.
Challenges
Object model differences
Object oriented languages attempt to pair containers of data with code, but how each language chooses how to do that may be slightly different. Those design decisions do not always map to other languages easily. For instance, classes using multiple inheritance from a language that permits it will not translate well to a language that does not permit multiple inheritance. A common approach to this issue is defining a subset of a language that is compatible with another language's features. This approach does mean in order for the code using features outside the subset to interoperate it will need to wrap some of its interfaces into classes that can be understood by the subset.
Memory models
Differences in how programming languages handle de-allocation of memory is another issue when trying create interoperability. Languages with automatic de-allocation will not interoperate well with those with manua |
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