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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODV | ODV may refer to:
Omni Directional Vehicle, a ground support utility vehicle
Ocean Data View, a software package for the analysis and visualization of oceanographic and meteorological data sets
Optimized deprival valuation, a form of deprival valuation applied to electricity sector regulation in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20power%20forecasting | Solar power forecasting is the process of gathering and analyzing data in order to predict solar power generation on various time horizons with the goal to mitigate the impact of solar intermittency. Solar power forecasts are used for efficient management of the electric grid and for power trading.
As major barriers to solar energy implementation, such as materials cost and low conversion efficiency, continue to fall, issues of intermittency and reliability have come to the fore. The intermittency issue has been successfully addressed and mitigated by solar forecasting in many cases.
Information used for the solar power forecast usually includes the Sun´s path, the atmospheric conditions, the scattering of light and the characteristics of the solar energy plant.
Generally, the solar forecasting techniques depend on the forecasting horizon
Nowcasting (forecasting 3–4 hours ahead),
Short-term forecasting (up to seven days ahead) and
Long-term forecasting (weeks, months, years)
Many solar resource forecasting methodologies were proposed since the 1970 and most authors agree that different forecast horizons require different methodologies. Forecast horizons below 1 hour typically require ground based sky imagery and sophisticated time series and machine learning models. Intra-day horizons, normally forecasting irradiance values up to 4 or 6 hours ahead, require satellite images and irradiance models. Forecast horizons exceeding 6 hours usually rely on outputs from numerical weather prediction (NWP) models.
Nowcasting
Solar power nowcasting refers to the prediction of solar power output over time horizons of tens to hundreds of minutes ahead of time with up to 90% predictability. Solar power nowcasting services are usually related to temporal resolutions of 5 to 15 minutes, with updates as frequent as every minute.
The high resolution required for accurate nowcast techniques require high resolution data input including ground imagery, as well as fast data acquisition form irradiance sensors and fast processing speeds.
The actual nowcast is than frequently enhanced by e.g. Statistical techniques. In the case of nowcasting, these techniques are usually based on time series processing of measurement data, including meteorological observations and power output measurements from a solar power facility. What then follows is the creation of a training dataset to tune the parameters of a model, before evaluation of model performance against a separate testing dataset. This class of techniques includes the use of any kind of statistical approach, such as autoregressive moving averages (ARMA, ARIMA, etc.), as well as machine learning techniques such as neural networks, support vector machines (etc.).
An important element of nowcasting solar power are ground based sky observations and basically all intra-day forecasts.
Short-term solar power forecasting
Short-term forecasting provides predictions up to seven days ahead. Due to the power mar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desio%20railway%20station | Desio is a railway station in Italy. Located on the Milan–Chiasso railway, it serves the town of Desio.
Services
Desio is served by lines S9 and S11 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
1849 establishments in the Austrian Empire
Railway stations in Italy opened in 1849 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish%20OS | Sailfish OS is a Linux-based operating system based on free software, and open source projects such as Mer as well as including a closed source UI. The project is being developed by the Finnish company Jolla.
The OS first shipped with the original Jolla Phone in 2013; while its sale stopped in 2016, it was supplied with software updates until the end of 2020. It also shipped with Jolla Tablet in 2015 and from other vendors licensing the OS. The OS is ported by community enthusiasts to third-party mobile devices including smartphones and tablet computers. Sailfish OS can be used for many kinds of devices.
History and development
The OS is an evolved continuation of the Linux MeeGo OS previously developed by alliance of Nokia and Intel which itself relies on combined Maemo and Moblin. The MeeGo legacy is contained in the Mer core in about 80% of its code; the Mer name thus expands to MEego Reconstructed. This base is extended by Jolla with a custom user interface and default applications. Jolla and MERproject.org follow a meritocratic system to avoid the mistakes that led to the MeeGo project's then-unanticipated discontinuation.
The main elements for include:
Technically stronger OS core
Improved Android application compatibility
Support for ARM and Intel architectures, including the Intel Atom x3 processor, or any platform with kernel useable (settle-able) for MER core stack (also called middleware of Sailfish).
Design to provide visibility in the UI for digital content providers and to enable OS level integration for mobile commerce
Strong multitasking (one of the most important advantage of the OS and declared to be the best one on the market)
Strong privacy and personalization features
Enhanced user interface with new UI/UX features, including simpler swipe access to main functions, enhanced notifications and events views.
Software architecture
The and the Sailfish software development kit (SDK) are based on the Linux kernel and Mer. includes a multi-tasking graphical shell called "Lipstick" built with Qt by Jolla on top of the Wayland display server protocol. Jolla uses free and open-source graphics device drivers but the Hybris library allows use of proprietary drivers for Android. Jolla fuzzily stated in 2015 that their goal for Sailfish is to become open source eventually, but some key components of Sailfish OS have been licensed proprietary by Jolla from the start and ever since (as of Sailfish OS 4.5.0.24 in September 2023).
can run some Android applications through a proprietary compatibility layer.
Targeted device classes
Sailfish is targeted at mobile devices. Since it inherited around 80% of MeeGo code, Sailfish can be used as a complete general-purpose Linux OS on devices including in vehicle infotainment (IVI), navigation, smart TV, desktops and notebooks, yachts, automotive, e-commerce, home appliances, measuring and control equipment, smart building equipment, etc. See use cases of original MeeGo to compar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maritime%20data%20standards | Data Interchange Standards
EDIMAR Electronic data interchange for the European Maritime industry (engineering data)
MTML data interchange standard for purchasing - see Maritime E-Commerce Association (MECA)
SFI Coding and Classification System provides a functional subdivision of technical and financial ship or rig information
Shipdex A modified subset of S1000D to transfer technical data typically used in equipment manuals
Data interchange platforms
SafeSeaNet: the European platform for maritime data exchange
Encryption Standards
S-63 standard for encrypting, securing and compressing electronic navigational chart (ENC) data.
External links
MTML
Shipdex
IDABC European eGovernment Services SafeSeaNet
International Hydrographic Office document S-63
Data interchange standards
Maritime transport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Communications%20Network | Computer Communications Network was a company founded in 1968 by brothers Edward and Robert Eskine in Nashville, Tennessee. The core of its employees came from UNIVAC and Burroughs Corporation. CCN was one of the first companies to use telecommunications for small business purposes. CCN used UNIVAC model 494 computers and Burroughs model TC 500 computers. They also created software for wholesale beverage distribution, hospitals, and airline reservations.
Burroughs TC (terminal computer) 500's were used at the customer level and connected to the Univac 494 mainframes located at data centers in Nashville and Atlanta using dedicated phone lines. This system gave small businesses online, real-time access to the type of data processing that in the past only companies with large mainframes and very large budgets could afford.
Telecommunications companies of the United States
Companies based in Nashville, Tennessee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIU | Checkpoint/Restore In Userspace (CRIU) (pronounced kree-oo, ), is a software tool for the Linux operating system. Using this tool, it is possible to freeze a running application (or part of it) and checkpoint it to persistent storage as a collection of files. One can then use the files to restore and run the application from the point it was frozen at. The distinctive feature of the CRIU project is that it is mainly implemented in user space, rather than in the kernel.
History
The initial version of CRIU software was presented to the Linux developers community by Pavel Emelyanov, the OpenVZ kernel team leader, on 15 July 2011.
In September 2011, the project was presented at the Linux Plumbers Conference. In general, most of the attendees took a positive view of the project, which is proven by the fact that a number of kernel patches required for implementing the project were included in the mainline kernel.
Andrew Morton, however, was a bit skeptical:
Use
The CRIU tool is being developed as part of the OpenVZ project, with the aim of replacing the in-kernel checkpoint/restore. Though its main focus is to support the migration of containers, allowing users to check-point and restore the current state of running processes and process groups. The tool can currently be used on x86-64 and ARM systems and supports the following features:
Processes: their hierarchy, PIDs, user and group authenticators (UID, GID, SID, etc.), system capabilities, threads, and running and stopped states
Application memory: memory-mapped files and shared memory
Open files
Pipes and FIFOs
Unix domain sockets
Network sockets, including TCP sockets in ESTABLISHED state (see below)
System V IPC
Timers
Signals
Terminals
Linux kernel-specific system calls: inotify, signalfd, eventfd and epoll
, no kernel patching is required because all of the required functionality has already been merged into the Linux kernel mainline since kernel version 3.11, which was released on September 2, 2013.
TCP connection migration
One of the initial project goals was to support the migration of TCP connections, the biggest challenge being to suspend and then restore only one side of a connection. This was necessary for performing the live migration of containers (along with all their active network connections) between physical servers, the main scenario of using the checkpoint/restore feature in OpenVZ. To cope with this problem, a new feature, "TCP repair mode", was implemented. The feature was included in version 3.5 of the Linux kernel mainline and provides users with additional means to disassemble and reconstruct TCP sockets without the necessity of exchanging network packets with the opposite side of the connection.
References
Further reading
Linux software
Linux-only free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After%20School%20Midnighters | is a 2012 Japanese computer animated comedy film directed by Hitoshi Takekiyo. It released on 25 August 2012 in Japan and was originally based upon a short film that Takekiyo had made for a musical channel.
The producers of After School Midnighters submitted the film for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, but it was not selected for the final round. The film did go on to gain some attention at the 2013 Fantasia International Film Festival earned a special mention for the Audience Award for Best Animation Feature, but did not win.
The movie was released in the United States on 2 September 2016, dubbed in English, on the television channel Toku, along with the short series based on the movie.
Plot
Three elementary school girls, Mako (Haruka Tomatsu/Caroline Combes), Miko (Sakiko Uran/Lucille Boudonnat), and Mutsuko (Minako Kotobuki/Lucille Boudonnat), decide to investigate the legends behind their school, St. Claire Elementary. As a lark they decide to vandalize the science room's human anatomy model Kunstrijk (Kouichi Yamadera/Bruno Meyere), who decides to take his own personal revenge on the three girls. He invites them to return to the school at midnight for a party, intending to scare them. Instead the three girls end up joining Kunstrijk and the skeleton model Goth (Hiromasa Taguchi/Christophe Seugnet) on a quest to gain a wish. The girls must find three medallions that are spread out over the school's enormous grounds. Kunstrijk directs them to go to three rooms: the Pool Room, the Digital Room, and the Music Room. Each room has their own guardian that fits each area's themes, as the Pool Room is guarded by a merman, the Digital Room's guardians are two all-knowing beings, and the Music Room's guardian is Mozart himself (Hiroshi Yanaka/Jean-Pierre Leblan). However the quest is made even more difficult as not everyone wants the girls to succeed and Kunstrijk is hiding his own secret reason for wanting the girls to succeed: the quest is actually to help ensure that he and Goth will remain in their living state forever rather than returning to inanimate objects.
Cast
Japanese cast
Haruka Tomatsu as Mako
Hiromasa Taguchi as Goth
Kouichi Yamadera as Kunstlijk
Minako Kotobuki as Mutsuko
Sakiko Uran as Miko
Chafurin as Bach
Dai Matsumoto as Beethoven
Hiroshi Shimozaki as Mr. Fly
Hiroshi Yanaka as Mozart
Houchu Ohtsuka as Fred
Hozumi Gôda as Schubert
Ikuko Tani as Dunkelheit, Lumière
Juurouta Kosugi as Pinia
Mariya Ise as Principal (Girl)
Shozo Iizuka as Shaburi
Yuki Kuroda as Sony
Yuusaku Yara as Michael
French cast
Bruno Meyere as Monsieur Kunstlijk
Caroline Combesas Mako
Christophe Seugnet as Goth
Lucille Boudonnat as Miko, Mutsuko
Katy Scott as Dunkelheit, Lumière
Jacques Albaret as Bach, Pinia
Jean-Bernard Guillard as Chabris
Jean-Marco Montalto as Fred, Sonny
Jean-Pierre Leblan as Mozart
Loïc Houdré as Michael
Olivier Angèle as Beethoven
Production
The character of Kunstlijk was originally created for a dialogue-less short film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE%20Raw%201000 | Raw 1000 was a television special that was broadcast live on July 23, 2012, airing on USA Network (in the U.S.) as the 1000th episode of WWE's flagship show Raw. It was held at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri.
The show featured five professional wrestling matches, a wedding ceremony and appearances from past WWE performers. The wedding between AJ Lee and Daniel Bryan ended with AJ leaving Bryan after being announced as the new General Manager of Raw by WWE chairman Vince McMahon. The Miz defeated Christian to become the WWE Intercontinental Champion. In the main event, John Cena won by disqualification in a WWE Championship match against defending champion CM Punk after cashing in his Money in the Bank contract, who proceeded to turn heel (villainous) by attacking The Rock.
The episode averaged 6 million viewers, Raw'''s highest viewership since June 2009. The episode also started the program's permanent three-hour format, which had been previously reserved for special episodes.
Production
Background Raw first aired on January 11, 1993, and since became the longest-running weekly episodic program in television history with no reruns. On May 17, 2012, WWE announced that Raw would expand from its two-hour format to three hours beginning with the 1000th episode on July 23, 2012.
The event took place at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis, Missouri, and was broadcast on the USA Network in the United States. Actor Charlie Sheen served as the social media ambassador for the event and appeared throughout the show via Skype.
Storylines Raw 1000 featured professional wrestlers performing as characters in scripted events pre-determined by the hosting promotion, WWE.
On November 20, 2011, at Survivor Series, CM Punk defeated Alberto Del Rio to win the WWE Championship. On July 15, 2012, at Money in the Bank, John Cena won the Money in the Bank ladder match to earn a contract for a WWE Championship match. The next night on Raw, Cena announced his intention to cash-in his contract for a championship match against Punk on Raw 1000.
In November 2011, AJ Lee and Daniel Bryan were placed in an on-screen romance. The next month, Bryan won the World Heavyweight Championship and developed heel (villainous) traits. By March 2012, Bryan started acting verbally abusive towards AJ but she stood by him. At WrestleMania XXVIII on April 1, after AJ and Bryan shared a "good luck kiss", he was surprised by Sheamus and defeated in 18 seconds. Bryan blamed AJ for his loss of the World Heavyweight Championship and ended their relationship. AJ made multiple attempts to mend their relationship but Bryan spurned her and left her distraught. As a result, AJ's character transitioned to "mentally unstable". AJ turned her affections to Bryan's rival, WWE Champion CM Punk, and WWE title contender Kane. As Bryan and Punk's feud progressed, AJ was announced as the special guest referee for their title match at Money in the Bank. Bryan made advances on AJ in an attem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasir%20Ahmed%20%28engineer%29 | Nasir Ahmed (born 1940 in Bangalore, India) is an Indian-American electrical engineer and computer scientist. He is Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of New Mexico (UNM). He is best known for inventing the discrete cosine transform (DCT) in the early 1970s. The DCT is the most widely used data compression transformation, the basis for most digital media standards (image, video and audio) and commonly used in digital signal processing. He also described the discrete sine transform (DST), which is related to the DCT.
Discrete cosine transform (DCT)
The discrete cosine transform (DCT) is a lossy compression algorithm that was first conceived by Ahmed while working at the Kansas State University, and he proposed the technique to the National Science Foundation in 1972. He originally intended the DCT for image compression. Ahmed developed a working DCT algorithm with his PhD student T. Natarajan and friend K. R. Rao in 1973, and they presented their results in a January 1974 paper. It described what is now called the type-II DCT (DCT-II), as well as its inverse, the type-III DCT (a.k.a. IDCT).
Ahmed was the leading author of the benchmark publication, Discrete Cosine Transform (with T. Natarajan and K. R. Rao), which has been cited as a fundamental development in many works since its publication. The basic research work and events that led to the development of the DCT were summarized in a later publication by Ahmed entitled "How I came up with the Discrete Cosine Transform".
The DCT is widely used for digital image compression. It is a core component of the 1992 JPEG image compression technology developed by the JPEG Experts Group working group and standardized jointly by the ITU, ISO and IEC. A tutorial discussion of how it is used to achieve digital video compression in various international standards defined by ITU and MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) is available in a paper by K. R. Rao and J. J. Hwang which was published in 1996, and an overview was presented in two 2006 publications by Yao Wang. The image and video compression properties of the DCT resulted in its being an integral component of the following widely used international standard technologies:
The form of DCT used in signal compression applications is sometimes referred to as DCT-2 in the context of a family of discrete cosine transforms, or as DCT-II.
More recent standards have used integer-based transforms that have similar properties to the DCT but are explicitly based on integer processing rather than being defined by trigonometric functions. As a result of these transforms having similar symmetry properties to the DCT and being, to some degree, approximations of the DCT, they have sometimes been called "integer DCT" transforms. Such transforms are used for video compression in the following technologies pertaining to more recent standards. The "integer DCT" designs are conceptually similar to the conventional DCT but are simp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Movie%20Firearms%20Database | The Internet Movie Firearms Database (IMFDb) is an online database of firearms used or featured in films, television shows, video games, and anime. A wiki running the MediaWiki software, it is similar in function (although unaffiliated) to the Internet Movie Database for the entertainment industry. It includes articles relating to actors, and some characters, such as James Bond, listing the particular firearms they have been associated with in their movies. Integrated into the website is an image hosting section similar to Wikimedia Commons that includes firearm photos, manufacturer logos, screenshots and related art. The site has been cited in magazines such as the NRA's American Rifleman and True West Magazine and magazine format television shows such as Shooting USA on the Outdoor Channel.
History
Launched in May 2007 by "Bunni", The Internet Movie Firearm Database (IMFDb) was originally set up to help identify the use of firearms in Hollywood films. For the first few months of its existence, it listed only a dozen films including The Matrix, Platoon and Pulp Fiction. As the site grew, so did its content. In June 2007, the site began to list television shows as well as films. The site has since been expanded to include pages for video games and anime.
As of June 2012, the data base had grown to list over 6,445 films, over 1,925 television shows, over 686 video games and 423 Anime films and series.
The site has been used as a reference source by the owners of several shooting ranges located in Las Vegas, Nevada. After hearing customers ask to rent certain types of firearms used in movies and video games, the owners of the range used IMFDb to research the weapons in question.
Prohibitions
Exclusions
One particular category of arms that is not intended to be a part of the database is fictional firearms. For example, weapons that are beyond current technology such as laser (as the projectile), plasma, and/or nuclear particle (i.e. photon, etc.) devices are typically not accepted by the contributors of the site. Often this category of fictional weapons is associated with video games and anime, but some movies (science fiction in particular) contain these as well. In these instances, the devices that represent actual firearms or hypothetical future evolution of current firearms are represented.
As the database primarily relates to small arms, categories of large destructive devices are excluded as well. One such example would be an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM).
No homemade films are permitted.
Exceptions
Exceptions to the exclusions above are small arms that are fictional but constructed from real-life firearms (modified or original), even if the projectile is completely fictional. An example would be the blaster rifles from the Star Wars movies. These devices fire "bolts of energy" in the movies, and the firearm they are based on is the British-made Sterling sub-machine gun. Another example would be the 1999 movie Wild Wild We |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenQRM | openQRM is a free and open-source cloud-computing management platform for managing heterogeneous data centre infrastructures.
Provides an Automated Workflow Engine for all Bare-Metal and VM deployment, as well as for all IT subsystems, enabling professional management and monitoring of your data centre & cloud capacities.
The openQRM platform manages a data centre's infrastructure to build private, public and hybrid infrastructure as a service clouds. openQRM orchestrates storage, network, virtualisation, monitoring, and security implementations technologies to deploy multi-tier services (e.g. compute clusters) as virtual machines on distributed infrastructures, combining both data centre resources and remote cloud resources, according to allocation policies.
The openQRM platform emphasises a separation of hardware (physical servers and virtual machines) from software (operating system server-images). Hardware is treated agnostically as a computing resource that should be replaceable without the need to reconfigure the software.
Supported virtualisation solutions include KVM, Linux-VServer, OpenVZ, VMware ESXi, Hyper-V and Xen. Virtual machines of these types are managed transparently via openQRM.
P2V (physical to virtual), V2P (virtual to physical), and V2V (virtual to virtual) migration are possible as well as transitioning from one virtualisation technology to another with the same VM.
openQRM is developed and distributed by OPENQRM AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, a company located in New South Wales, Australia. The openQRM Enterprise Edition is the commercially backed, extended product for professional users offering reliable support options and access to additional features. Users combine the services required. Simply integrate additional technologies and services through a large variety of plug-ins to exactly fit the use-case (OpenvSwitch, KVM, ESXi, OpenStack, AWS EC2, MS Azure, etc.). Over 50 plug-ins are available for openQRM Enterprise.
Plug-Ins
openQRM utilises plug-ins to customise its functionality. These plug-ins allow for increased integration and compatibility.
Their plug-in library is ever-expanding and falls into the categories; Cloud, Container, Deployment, Documentation, High-Availability, Management, Miscellaneous, Monitoring, Network, Storage and Virtualisation.
History
openQRM was initially released by the Qlusters company and went open-source in 2006. Qlusters ceased operations, while openQRM was left in the hands of the openQRM community. In November 2008, the openQRM community released version 4.0 which included a complete port of the platform from Java to PHP/C/Perl/Shell.
In 2020, openQRM Enterprise GmbH had its assets ad intellectual property acquired by Fiveways International Ltd, who appointed OPENQRM AUSTRALIA PTY LTD as the master distributor.
See also
Cloud computing
Cloud-computing comparison
Cloud infrastructure
References
External links
OpenQRM Website
Cloud infrastructure
Free software programmed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfinder | Pfinder is a computer vision system which detects features in video images in order to recognize human figures and their movements and gestures. Pfinder was designed by Wren, et al. of the MIT Media Laboratory in 1997. As described by its authors, Pfinder is a "real-time system for tracking people and interpreting their behavior". The system improves upon previous works by not only identifying the boundaries of a person in the image, but also analyzing the regions inside the boundaries and relating them to the known structure of the human body. As an example, Pfinder can track a person's head and hands, and can determine the pose of the body and recognize gestures.
Limitations
Pfinder does not cope with multi-modal backgrounds, in which a histogram of the pixel intensity contains more than one distinct peak.
While it can handle small or gradual changes in lighting, it does not react well to large, sudden lighting changes. When there are large lighting changes, the system mistakenly labels them as a part of the foreground, and therefore tries to incorporate them into the human figure model.
Pfinder is not able to handle multiple people in the same image well. While the blobs representing each person would be detected, the system would attempt to analyze them as one distinct human figure.
Applications
Pfinder has been applied to the recognition of American Sign Language
See also
Background subtraction
References
Computer vision software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20Radio%2060s | Absolute Radio 60s is a semi-national Digital radio station in the United Kingdom owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Absolute Radio Network. It broadcasts locally on Bauer's 11B Inverness DAB Multiplex. It broadcasts nationally via Smart Speaker streaming and online web streaming. Its output is non-stop classic 1960s hits, followed by hits of the 1950s played alongside.
History
Details of Absolute Radio's plan to extend its decade-themed radio stations were released in October 2010, following the success of Absolute Radio 80s and Absolute Radio 90s, the former of which was ranked eleventh in terms of listener numbers. Two new stations were announced on the same day, 18 October, Absolute Radio 60s and Absolute Radio 70s, both of which would be dedicated to the music of their respective decades. A holding website went live at absoluteradio60s.co.uk following the announcement, with basic information including the proposed station schedule. It was later revealed that Absolute Radio 60s would share some of the DAB multiplexes used by Absolute Classic Rock, with the latter reducing its broadcast capacity on each multiplex to make space available for Absolute Radio 60s. The 60s service began broadcasting from 22 November 2011 on various DAB multiplexes around the country and online. Absolute Radio 70s launched a week later. Upon its launch the station was more widely available than its 70s counterpart, airing on DAB in London, the north and west of England, and Scotland.
On 23 April 2013, the Radio Today website reported that Absolute Radio had removed Absolute Radio 60s and Absolute Classic Rock from several DAB platforms in England and Wales, but the stations continued to broadcast in London and online.
On 18 September 2014, it was reported that Absolute Radio 60s would be removed from London and the few other remaining local DAB multiplexes but would be added to Inverness DAB. The space freed up by this move was to allow Bauer to increase the coverage of its Kisstory station. This final reconfiguration of Absolute Radio 60s occurred on 5 January 2015.
Format
Although a separate entity, Absolute Radio 60s takes a limited amount of programming from the main Absolute Radio station, chiefly The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show and the weekend programmes The Frank Skinner Show and Jason Manford. From 23 September 2019, weekday afternoon drivetime show Hometime with Bush and Richie has also been syndicated. The weekday shows are simulcast live, with weekend shows broadcast on a delay; all replace the music played with 1960s tracks using a split playlist system. Outside of these programmes, the station no longer has any regularly presented shows. Absolute 60s plays a broad mix of music from the decade, although it tends to be geared towards the genre of music heard on Absolute Radio. Tracks typically to be heard on the station include those from the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Velvet Underground and Motown. However, other bands and artis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20Radio%2070s | Absolute Radio 70s is a Semi-National Digital radio station owned and operated by Bauer as part of the Absolute Radio Network. It broadcasts locally to parts of the UK on DAB radio multiplexes. It broadcasts nationally via Smart Speaker and online web streaming. Its output is non-stop 1970s hits.
History
Details of Absolute Radio's plan to extend their decade-themed radio stations were released in October 2010, and following the success of Absolute Radio 80s and Absolute Radio 90s, the former of which was ranked eleventh in terms of listener numbers. Two new stations were announced, Absolute Radio 60s and Absolute Radio 70s, both of which would be dedicated to the music of their respective decades. Initially the 70s station would be available on DAB in London only, but would be accessible nationally and internationally through an online service. A website holding page was opened at absoluteradio70s.co.uk in line with the announcement of the station, which carries station information and an indicative schedule. The 60s service went on air on 22 November 2011, with Absolute Radio 70s launching a week later on 29 November.
Absolute Radio 70s shares the DAB slot currently used by Absolute Radio 00s, with 00s cutting its broadcast capacity (and switching to broadcast in mono) to release space for the 70s service.
At the time of its launch Absolute Radio 70s branded itself as "The UK's only 70s radio station", but was joined on DAB within a few weeks by Smooth 70s, a similarly themed station from GMG Radio which was launched nationally on DAB on 27 December 2011. However, in spite of its competitor, Absolute 70s continued to style itself as the UK's only 1970s-themed radio station. Smooth 70s subsequently ceased transmission on 6 October 2013, and its national frequency was taken over by Capital XTRA. Six years later, Global resumed transmission of a national 70s music service with the launch of Heart 70s, which is now Absolute 70s' chief competitor (other stations, such as Pirate 70s have existed in the interim, but generally to a smaller broadcast area - in Pirate's case, Cornwall).
Format
Although a separate entity, Absolute Radio 70s takes a limited amount of programming from the main Absolute Radio station, chiefly The Dave Berry Breakfast Show and The Frank Skinner Show. Hometime with Bush and Richie was added to the schedule of Absolute's digital stations from 23 September 2019. The station itself was originally fronted by former Radio 1 presenter Richard Skinner, who presented an afternoon programme. Following the station's 2018 downgrading, there were no presenters outside of shows shared with Absolute Radio and some specials; in summer 2019, former Gold breakfast presenter Tony Dibbin joined Bauer to present a weekday daytime show on Absolute Radio 70s, which became the only presented programme exclusive to the 70s station.
Absolute 70s plays a broad mix of music from the 1970s, ranging from rock and punk to glam and soul. Artists and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley%20Goldsworthy | Ashley William Goldsworthy (born 2 November 1935) is an Australian computer scientist and business executive. He was federal president of the Liberal Party of Australia from 1990 to 1993. He is deputy chair of the Brisbane Catholic Education Council, and a director of the anti-same-sex marriage lobby group Marriage Alliance.
Career
Professor Goldsworthy has Degrees in accounting, business, science, public administration, theology, and canon law.
As Chairman of the Education & Training Committee of the Business Council of Australia, Professor Goldsworthy was instrumental in establishing the Business/Higher Education Round Table, which was launched by the Governor-General in 1990. He was B-HERT Director 1990-95 and 2008 to date; President 1995–97; Executive Director 1997–2008.
He has an extensive business career with roles including former Chairman/CEO of billion dollar corporations, both domestic and international, in construction (of what was then the largest construction company in Australia), housing, hotel, gaming (casinos), property development, information technology, and banking and insurance industries.
Professor Goldsworthy's current roles include:
He is currently Chairman/CEO of companies in the fields of information technology, education and training, finance, and human resources.
Honorary Treasurer of the La Pacifique Apartments Body Corporate.
Former roles held by Professor Goldsworthy:
Dean of the School of Business and Professor of Leadership at Bond University.
Federal President and Life Member of the Liberal Party
Member of Federal Government's Industry Research & Development Board; Australian-American Fulbright Commission; Australian Science and Technology Council; Australian Payments System Council; National Library; and Australian Law Reform Commission;
Chairman of the Centre for International Research on ICT at RMIT University
President and CEO of the Australian Computer Society
World President of the International Federation for Information Processing, and in 1999 achieved the rare honour of being elected an Honorary Member of that body.
Prior to his business career he was Director of Economic Statistics for the Australian Government.
Community service
Community service includes work for:
Scout Association
Arthritis Foundation
Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal
National Gallery of Victoria
Queensland Theatre Company (Chairman)
Australian Ballet
Queensland Ballet (Life Member)
Queensland Performing Arts Trust.
Recognition
He was awarded
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1982
Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1991
Centenary Medal in 2003
Knight of Malta (KM) in 2009
In 1996 the People's Republic of China honoured him by electing him a Fellow of the Chinese Institute of Electronics.
He was inducted into the Pearcey Hall of Fame
References
1935 births
Living people
People from Culcairn
Academic staff of Bond University
Officers of the Order of Australia
Liberal Party of Australia
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian%20Business%20Intelligence | Australasian Business Intelligence is an Australian business service, database and journal, providing information on international business. It was established on 1 April 1993, and is owned by LexisNexis. It appears three times a year, and the headquarters is in South Yarra, Melbourne. Some large libraries subscribe to the Australasian Business Intelligence.
References
External links
Official website
Australasian Business Intelligence at WorldCat
Australasian Business Intelligence articles on Highbeam Research
1993 establishments in Australia
Business magazines published in Australia
Magazines established in 1993
Triannual magazines
Mass media in Victoria (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ResearchGate | ResearchGate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators. According to a 2014 study by Nature and a 2016 article in Times Higher Education, it is the largest academic social network in terms of active users, although other services have more registered users, and a 2015–2016 survey suggests that almost as many academics have Google Scholar profiles.
While reading articles does not require registration, people who wish to become site members need to have an email address at a recognized institution or to be manually confirmed as a published researcher in order to sign up for an account. Members of the site each have a user profile and can upload research output including papers, data, chapters, negative results, patents, research proposals, methods, presentations, and software source code. Users may also follow the activities of other users and engage in discussions with them. Users are also able to block interactions with other users.
The site has been criticized for sending unsolicited email invitations to coauthors of the articles listed on the site that were written to appear as if the email messages were sent by the other coauthors of the articles (a practice the site said it had discontinued as of November 2016) and for automatically generating apparent profiles for non-users who have sometimes felt misrepresented by them. A study found that over half of the uploaded papers appear to infringe copyright, because the authors uploaded the publisher's version.
Features
The New York Times described the site as a mashup of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Site members may follow a research interest, in addition to following other individual members. It has a blogging feature for users to write short reviews on peer-reviewed articles. ResearchGate indexes self-published information on user profiles to suggest members to connect with others who have similar interests. When a member posts a question, it is fielded to others that have identified on their user profile that they have a relevant expertise. It also has private chat rooms where users can share data, edit shared documents, or discuss confidential topics.
The site also features a research-focused job board.
, it has more than 17 million users, with its largest user-bases coming from Europe and North America. Most of ResearchGate's users are involved in medicine or biology, though it also has participants from engineering, computer science, agricultural sciences, and psychology, among others.
ResearchGate published an author-level metric in the form of an "RG Score" since 2012. RG score is not a citation impact measure. RG Scores have been reported to be correlated with existing author-level metrics, but have also been criticized as having questionable reliability and an unknown calculation methodology. In March 2022 ResearchGate announced they would remove the RG Score after July 2022. R |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCDN | MetaCDN is a cloud-based content delivery network company that also offers video transcoding, streaming video and web accelerator services.
Founded in 2011 from research out of the University of Melbourne, MetaCDN is backed by Australian venture capital firm Starfish Ventures and the University of Melbourne's commercialization arm.
MetaCDN leverages services such as Amazon Web Services, Edgecast, and Windows Azure to offer users access to an integrated global network for content delivery. As of July 2012, the company reported having 102 access points in 5 continents on their website.
StreamShark.io
In September 2015 MetaCDN rebranded its live streaming platform to StreamShark. The launch of StreamShark included a complete rebuild of the live streaming & video on demand platform.
References
Companies based in Melbourne
Content delivery networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Wong | Brian Wong (born April 14, 1991) is a Canadian Internet entrepreneur. In 2010, Wong co-founded Kiip (pronounced "keep"), a company offering a mobile app rewards platform through which computer game players would receive real-world rewards from brands and companies for in-game achievements.
He was replaced as Kiip CEO in March 2019 after being indicted for sexual assault.
Early life and education
Wong was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, to parents of Hong Kong descent. His father was an accountant and his mother was a nurse. He received his high school diploma at the age of 14, after twice skipping two grades at the University Transition Program at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Wong received a bachelor's degree from UBC at the age of 18. While at university, Wong launched his first company, FollowFormation, which Mashable called "the easiest way to follow the top Twitterers by subject matter or topic." One of his most recent ventures, Kiip, made him one of the youngest internet entrepreneurs to raise venture capital.
In 2010, Wong worked in business development for the news aggregator Digg, leading the development and release of the Digg Android Mobile App. Soon after a joining and after a disastrous redesign, Digg had a round of corporate layoffs. Wong was let go after five months, an experience that eventually led to him opening his own business.
Kiip
Wong received the initial inspiration for Kiip on an airplane at age 19 as he observed his fellow passengers interacting with their iPads. He noticed that many passengers were playing games, and felt that the games' advertisements took up screen space without adding any real value. Because he perceived that games are a "holy grail of achievement", Wong wanted to leverage key moments of achievement—such as level ups and high scores—with a targeted, relevant rewards program that enabled brands to reach consumers when they were most engaged.
In July 2010, Wong teamed with his fellow former Digg employees Courtney Guertin and their mutual friend Amadeus Demarzi to found Kiip. As of 2017, Kiip was sending achievement-based rewards such as coupons to 100 million consumers per month, and had raised more than $32 million of venture capital from various sources, including Relay Ventures, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, True Ventures, Verizon Ventures, and Crosslink Capital. Kiip has offices in San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Tokyo and London. The company established strategic partnerships with more than 40 major brands, including 1-800-Flowers, Amazon.com, American Apparel, Best Buy, Carl's Jr., Disney, Dr. Pepper, GNC, KY Jelly, Pepsi, Playboy, Popchips, Sephora, Victoria's Secret, and Vitamin Water. Kiip was on track to do more than $20 million in revenue in 2017.
In March 2019, after Wong was accused of sexual assault, Kiip replaced Wong as CEO. His removal came after an indefinite leave of absence, with Kiip CRO Bill Alena serving as interim CEO in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCW%20Prime | WCW Prime is an American professional wrestling show produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW) which aired on the Prime Sports Network Mondays from February 6, 1995 to October 14, 1996. Along with WCW WorldWide and WCW Pro, it was part of the WCW Disney tapings (matches were, in fact, shot on the same set that WorldWide was using at the time). The rights to WCW Prime now belong to WWE.
Format
WCW Prime mainly featured mid-card matches. There wasn't much storyline advancement or main-event wrestlers on the show. Sometimes, matches from WCW WorldWide and WCW Saturday Night were featured, along with highlights from the major shows such as WCW Monday Nitro. The main event was referred to as the "Prime Match of the Week" on-air. The show was hosted by Dusty Rhodes and Chris Cruise, who was later replaced by Tony Schiavone. The show was a little more relaxed than the other programs, with much comedy in the commentary. For instance, right before the "Prime Match of the Week", Dusty Rhodes would call it the "Moo Match of the Week" and moo on-camera because of a dairy sponsorship.
References
Prime
1990s American television series
1995 American television series debuts
1996 American television series endings
Prime Sports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSNA | PSNA may refer to:
The PSN Authority, the regulatory body of the UK Public Services Network
PSNA College of Engineering and Technology, a college in Dindigul, India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class%20Of... | Class Of... is an Australian factual program all about schools that aired on Network Ten on 15 August 2012; originally in 2011.
Network 10 original programming
Australian factual television series
Australian high school television series
2012 Australian television series debuts
2012 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anteeksi%20kuinka%3F | Anteeksi kuinka? (English: Excuse me?) is a Finnish television series that was produced and first aired on Finnish TV in 1993 and last aired in 1996 on its originally network MTV3. It later got telecasted from 1997 to 1999 on Nelonen. The program was hosted by Lasse Lehtinen, and Seppo Ahti and Ruben Stiller acted as "panelists" commenting on current affairs. In addition to Lehtinen, the program was scripted by Pekka Karhuvaara. It was made for a total of 84 episodes.
It is Finnish equivalent of NBC channel's The Tonight Show, hosted by the American Jay Leno.
A sketch program of the same name was shown in the late 1980s by Olli Kivistö and Jorma Hietamäki.
See also
List of Finnish television series
External links
Finnish television shows
1993 Finnish television series debuts
1996 Finnish television series endings
1990s Finnish television series
MTV3 original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri%20Attwood | Teresa K. Attwood is a professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Computer Science and School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester and a visiting fellow at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI). She held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship at University College London (UCL) from 1993 to 1999 and at the University of Manchester from 1999 to 2002.
Education
Attwood gained her Bachelor of Science in Biophysics from the University of Leeds in 1982. She was awarded a PhD, also in Biophysics, two years later, in 1984 under the supervision of John E. Lydon studying chromonic mesophases.
Research and career
Attwood undertook postdoctoral research at Leeds until 1993, when she moved to University College London for five years before moving to the University of Manchester in 1999. Her research concerns protein sequence alignment and protein analysis.
Inspired by the creation of PROSITE, Attwood developed a method of protein fingerprinting and used this to establish the PRINTS database. With Amos Bairoch she sought to unify work on protein family classification and annotation, eventually jointly securing a European Union grant with Rolf Apweiler to establish InterPro, with Pfam, ProDom and Swiss-Prot/TrEMBL as consortium partners in 1997.
Attwood has led major projects including the BioMinT FP5 text-mining consortium, the EMBER bioinformatics education consortium (including EBI and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics as partners), and the EPSRC PARADIGM Platform. She is the Manchester principal investigator on projects SeqAhead (Next-generation sequencing data analysis network) and AllBio (bioinformatics infrastructure for unicellular, animal and plant sciences), and was also Manchester PI on EMBRACE and EuroKUP (kidney and urine proteomics). Attwood was a member of ELIXIR's Bioinformatics Training Strategy Committee (Work Package 11) during ELIXIR's preparatory phase. She is currently Chair of the EMBnet Global Bioinformatics Network, she was a member of the Executive Committees of the International Society for Biocuration, and the Bioinformatics Training Network, and was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the International Society for Computational Biology. In 2012, she spearheaded the establishment of a GOBLET (Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training), with the major bioinformatics, computational biology and biocuration societies, networks and organisations as partners. , Attwood is the Chair of the GOBLET Executive Board.
As well as being a biocurator she has co-developed tools to align and visualise protein sequences and structures, including Ambrosia and CINEMA. The group are building re-usable software components to create useful bioinformatics applications through UTOPIA (Bioinformatics tools), and are developing new approaches for automatic annotation and text mining, like PRECIS, METIS, BioIE, and semantic approaches to data integration, such as the Seman |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20information%20management | Traditionally energy management equipment is associated with building automation (BAS) or building management systems (BMS).
Energy management systems generate huge amounts of data about a building, from outside and inside air temperature, to carbon monoxide and humidity levels, each associated with the time of day, week, and year. These systems allow you to see what is going on in the building and to set complex schedules to control light and temperature based on the current information and instructions. They usually produce a record of energy use, but generally do not aggregate the data or allow you to see trends over time and location.
Energy information management offers solutions to automate the data available from a BMS, BAS or EMS, aggregate it and apply algorithms to extract actionable information from the data. This allows the building owner a method for the ongoing, continuous improvement of a building’s energy use over time.
Building automation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayotle | Ayotle is a French-Mexican company headquartered in Paris, France, that develops computer vision software. It provides technical services based on motion capture and 3D sensors for interactive applications in the media and entertainment industries. The company was co-founded by José Alonso Ybanez Zepeda and Gisèle Belliot in June 2010.
Ayotle is mainly focused on the development and implementation of advanced algorithms for computer vision, from video images in all formats to the use of 3D cameras or depth sensors.
Etymology
The name Ayotle comes from the word ayotl, which means turtle shell in Nahuatl, the original language used by the Aztecs in Mexico.
Supports
Ayotle is currently supported by Paris Region Lab, ASTIA, Mairie de Paris, Oséo, Scientipôle Initiative, Cap-Digital, Telecom ParisTech
References
Computer vision software
Middleware
Agile software development
Computer animation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe%20Prelude | Adobe Prelude is a discontinued ingest and logging software application for tagging media with metadata for searching, post-production workflows, and footage lifecycle management. Adobe Prelude is also made to work closely with Adobe Premiere Pro. It is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud and is geared towards professional video editing alone or with a group. The software also offers features like rough cut creation. A speech transcription feature was removed in December 2014.
History
Adobe announced that on April 23, 2012 Adobe OnLocation would be shut down and Adobe Prelude would launch on May 7, 2012. Adobe stated OnLocation's production was stopping because of the growing trend in the industry toward tapeless, native workflows, Adobe stresses that Adobe Prelude is not a direct replacement for OnLocation. Adobe OnLocation was available in CS5 but not in CS6 and Adobe Prelude is only available in CS6. Adobe still offers technical support for OnLocation.
In 2021, Adobe announced they would be discontinuing Adobe Prelude, starting by removing it from their website on September 8, 2021. Support for existing users will continue through September 8, 2024.
Features
Prelude is used to tag media, log data, create and export metadata and generate rough cuts that can be sent to Adobe Premiere Pro. A user can add a tag to a piece of media that will show up on Premiere Pro or if another user opens that media with Prelude.
Ingest Footage
Prelude can ingest all kinds of file types. Once ingested, Prelude can duplicate, transcode and verify the files.
Log Footage
Prelude can log data only using the keyboard.
Create Rough Cuts
Prelude is able to generate Rough Cuts. Rough Cuts are a combination of sub clips that will hold any metadata a user feeds into it. Rough cuts can hold metadata such as markers and comments, and this metadata will stay on this footage.
Workflow Accessibility
Prelude is an XMP - based open platform that allows for custom integration into many video editing platforms.
Features from OnLocation
Many features from Adobe OnLocation went to Adobe Prelude or Adobe Premiere Pro. Adobe OnLocation thrived on tape - based cameras and setting up a shot before shooting it, with the change in the industry, this problem is irrelevant in post production. Adobe OnLocation also allowed the user to add tags and scripting metadata that would carry over to Premiere Pro. OnLocation also had a Media Browser pane, which is the standard for any Adobe program today, Prelude has this Media Browser as well.
Prelude Live Logger
Prelude Live Logger is an application integrated with Prelude CC. Prelude Live Logger is designed to capture notes to use during video logging and editing while you shoot footage on an iPad's camera. Editors can import and combine this metadata with footage from Prelude throughout editing to facilitate various tasks.
See also
Creative Cloud controversy
References
Prelude
Windows multimedia software
MacOS multimedia software
Shareware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zee%20Cinema%20%28Canadian%20TV%20channel%29 | Zee Cinema is a Canadian Category B Hindi language specialty channel and is owned by Ethnic Channels Group.
Zee Cinema broadcasts programming primarily from the library of Zee Cinema a Bollywood film channel from India. Programming includes classic and contemporary films and film-related television series.
History
On March 2, 2012, Ethnic Channels Group was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a television channel called Bollywood SD – Hindi Movie Channel, described as "a national, niche third-language ethnic specialty Category B service devoted predominantly to Hindi movies and targeted to the Hindi-speaking community in Canada."
Previous to Bollywood SD – Hindi Movie Channel launching, the Zee Cinema brand existed in Canada since 2005 through a partnership with Asian Television Network and a subsidiary of Zee Entertainment Enterprises, who launched a Canadian version of Zee Cinema called ATN Zee Cinema.
ATN Zee Cinema was renamed ATN Movies OK on July 25, 2012. That same month after the rebrand, Bollywood SD – Hindi Movie Channel was launched as Zee Cinema through a newly formed licensing partnership between Ethnic Channels Group and a subsidiary of Zee Entertainment Enterprises.
References
External links
Zee Cinema Canada
Zee Cinema
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Hindi-language television in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFL%20on%20NBC | CFL on NBC is a de facto branding for the Canadian Football League (CFL) games that have been carried on American broadcaster NBC or its sports network, NBCSN.
Background
NBC's first attempt (1954)
NBC's first run broadcasting Canadian football involved coverage of a collection of Big Four/IRFU (the predecessor to the CFL's East Division) games and the Grey Cup in 1954. NBC's coverage during this period (simulcasting the Canadian national broadcaster) provided far more coverage than the NFL's existing contract with DuMont. NBC aired games on Saturday afternoons, competing against college football broadcasts on CBS and ABC (at the time, college football telecasts were far more restricted than are today). The revenue from the contract allowed the IRFU to directly compete against the NFL for players during the 1950s; the American viewership arguably prompted the league to finally raise the point value of touchdowns from 5 points to 6, as it has been in the American game since 1912, in 1956, and to play some exhibition and regular season games in the United States beginning in 1957. Interest in the CFL in the United States faded dramatically after the debut of the American Football League in 1960.
Between 1955 and 1980, only one game was televised on U.S. television, the 1962 Grey Cup (which was broadcast by ABC).
1982 experimentation
NBC (with the exception of its northernmost affiliates that were located close to the Canadian border) broadcast games in the CFL for three weeks during the 1982 NFL players' strike The first week of broadcasts featured the NFL on NBC broadcast teams, before a series of blowout games on the network and the resulting low ratings resulted in NBC cutting back and eventually cancelling its CFL coverage. (At the time, ESPN held the U.S. broadcast rights, who sublicensed them to NBC during the strike; rights reverted to ESPN after the experiment failed.) The announcers who called the games for NBC are in parentheses.
Sept 26
British Columbia 46 @ Toronto 14 (Don Criqui and John Brodie)
Calgary 17 @ Edmonton 36 (Dick Enberg and Merlin Olsen)
Oct 3
Calgary 8 @ Saskatchewan 53 (Don Criqui, John Brodie, and Bob Trumpy)
Oct 10
British Columbia 1 @ Edmonton 30 (Charlie Jones, Merlin Olsen, and Mike Haffner)
There were blackouts of the CFL games. The blackouts weren't exactly because of not selling out the stadiums, but for being too close to Canada. For instance NBC's affiliate in Syracuse did not get these games. Their TV listings showed these CFL games on CKWS 11 (CBC Kingston, Ontario), while NBC (WSTM 3) listed “NFL Football New England at Buffalo (if strike settled) or movie” for Sunday, October 3.
A game between featuring the Edmonton Eskimos at the Winnipeg Blue Bombers was tentatively scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday October 17, even making newspaper TV listings. At the last moment NBC cancelled the broadcast. The network was worried that the game would run over its allotted time and conflict with Gam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict%20Campos | Benedict Campos is a Filipino television, film and theater actor, model and swimmer. He was born January 2, 1991, in Makati, Philippines. He is currently working as an exclusive talent of GMA Network.
Background
After graduating with a degree in political science in De La Salle University, Benedict Campos decided he was going to be an actor.
When in college he appeared in a number of television commercials and when he got his diploma, Benedict became an actor. He met Betchay Nakpil, who agreed to become his official manager together with GMA Talent Development and Management Department (formerly GMA Artist Center).
When GMA Network was holding auditions for its primetime series, Grazilda, Campos tried his luck and landed the coveted role of Cinderella's Prince Charming.
Campos, a member of the varsity swim team from high school (Xavier School) to college, said he would have been happy just to be in the cast. He couldn't believe he actually landed a major role.
Campos admitted that he has no intention of becoming a lawyer, even in the future. His parents seem happy with his decision. Their son finished college and that's enough for mom and dad.
The next year, Campos lay low in television series and become busy in a series of workshops and theatre via stage play Noli Me Tangere where he played the role of Padre Salvi, a deceiving and scheming priest that will do everything to harvest the most forbidden of fruits, which is Maria Clara, the lady protagonist. The same year, 2011, he became part of Cosmopolitan Magazine’s 69 Cosmo Bachelor Bash.
2012, Campos became part of the movie My Kontrabida Girl, which starred Aljur Abrenica and Rhian Ramos and directed by Jade Castro; television series such as the hit primetime teledramas Legacy (cameo role) and Makapiling Kang Muli, which he starred as Carla Abellana’s younger brother; and the hit weekly teen-oriented drama Together Forever where he played the role of Ben Dizon.
Filmography
Television
Movie
References
Filipino male television actors
21st-century Filipino male actors
Actors from Makati
Male actors from Metro Manila
1991 births
Living people
De La Salle University alumni
University Athletic Association of the Philippines players
GMA Network personalities
Viva Artists Agency
Filipino male film actors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codecademy | Codecademy is an American online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 12 different programming languages including Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, C++, C#, and Swift, as well as markup languages HTML and CSS. The site also offers a paid "Pro" option that gives users access to personalized learning plans, quizzes, and realistic projects.
History
Codecademy was founded in August 2011 by Zach Sims and Ryan Bubinski. Sims dropped out of Columbia University to focus on launching a venture, and Bubinski graduated from Columbia in 2011. The company, headquartered in New York City, raised $2.5 million in Series A funding in October 2011 and $10 million in Series B funding in June 2012. The latest round of funding was led by Index Ventures.
On July 22, 2014, the site appeared with a new redesigned dashboard.
In August 2015, Codecademy partnered with the White House, working to host in-person meet-ups for 600 students from disadvantaged women and minority groups over a twelve-month period.
By August 2017, Codecademy's CEO Zach Sims officially announced the launch of the new paid "Pro" product. A "Pro Intensive" paid offering was also launched in August 2017 but as of 2020 this product appears to no longer be offered.
In December 2021, Skillsoft announced that it would acquire Codecademy for approximately $525 million in cash and stock. The sale was closed on April 5, 2022.
Partnerships
In September 2017, Codecademy partnered with Amazon for free Alexa skills training.
By October 2018, the company employed 85 people, up from 45 in 2016. It had also raised $42.5 million from groups such as Union Square Ventures and Naspers.
By January 2020, Codecademy had expanded to a suite of languages including C++, C#, Go, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, Python, R, Swift, and SQL, as well as various libraries, frameworks, and associated subjects. According to their roadmap, Codecademy is slated to release Android Development, ASP.NET, Flask, Kotlin, and TypeScript courses in 2020.
Features
The platform also provides courses for learning command line and Git. In September 2015, Codecademy, in partnership with Periscope, added a series of courses designed to teach SQL, the predominant programming language for database queries. In October 2015, Codecademy created a new course, a class on Java programming. As of January 2014, the site had over 24 million users who had completed over 100 million exercises. The site has received positive reviews from The New York Times and TechCrunch.
As part of the Computer Science Education Week held in December 2013, Codecademy launched its first iOS app called "Hour of Code". The app focuses on the basics of programming, including the same content from the website.
In April 2019, Codecademy partnered with Adafruit for a course on electronics and hardware programming.
In December 2019, Codecademy launched a new course on Swift, a language developed by Apple Inc. for iOS, watchOS, macOS, tvOS, and mor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine%20Network%20Olympic%20broadcasts | The broadcasts of the Olympic Games produced by Nine's Wide World of Sports is televised on the Nine Network and Stan Sport in Australia. The network's last Olympics broadcast was the 2012 Summer Games in London, United Kingdom.
History
On 13 October 2007, the International Olympic Committee announced that the Nine Network, in joint partnership with subscription television provider Foxtel, secured broadcasting rights for the 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics in Australia.
On 8 February 2023, Nine was announced the exclusive Australian broadcaster for Paris 2024, Milan-Cortina 2026, Los Angeles 2028, Winter Olympics 2030 and Brisbane 2032 in a deal worth $305AUD. This comes after rivals Seven Network lost the Olympic rights in December 2022.
Broadcast rights history
Staff and Commentators
2012 London Olympics
Various Nine programs including Today, Mornings, Millionaire Hot Seat, The Footy Show, 60 Minutes and Australia's Funniest Home Videos went on hiatus during Nine's broadcast of the 2012 London Olympics. A daily highlights package London Gold aired at 9am weekdays following the live overnight coverage.
Eddie McGuire
Ken Sutcliffe
Giaan Rooney
James Brayshaw
Mark Nicholas
Ray Warren
Garry Lyon
Karl Stefanovic
Leila McKinnon
James Tomkins
Kerri Pottharst
Scott McGrory
Debbie Watson
Melinda Gainsford-Taylor
Michael Slater
Andrew Gaze
Andrew Voss
Grant Hackett
Jane Flemming
Cameron Williams
Tim Sherridan
Phil Liggett
Tim Gilbert
Simon O'Donnell
Billy Brownless
Tony Jones
Peter Donegan
Michael Thomson
Daley Thompson
Steve Ovett
See also
Olympics on Seven
Olympics on Ten
Olympics on Australian television
Australia at the Olympics
References
Olympics on Australian television
2010s Australian television series
Nine's Wide World of Sport
Australia at the Olympics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20statistic%20tree | In computer science, an order statistic tree is a variant of the binary search tree (or more generally, a B-tree) that supports two additional operations beyond insertion, lookup and deletion:
Select(i) – find the i-th smallest element stored in the tree
Rank(x) – find the rank of element x in the tree, i.e. its index in the sorted list of elements of the tree
Both operations can be performed in worst case time when a self-balancing tree is used as the base data structure.
Augmented search tree implementation
To turn a regular search tree into an order statistic tree, the nodes of the tree need to store one additional value, which is the size of the subtree rooted at that node (i.e., the number of nodes below it). All operations that modify the tree must adjust this information to preserve the invariant that
size[x] = size[left[x]] + size[right[x]] + 1
where size[nil] = 0 by definition. Select can then be implemented as
function Select(t, i)
// Returns the i'th element (one-indexed) of the elements in t
p ← size[left[t]]+1
if i = p
return t
else if i < p
return Select(left[t], i)
else
return Select(right[t], i - p)
Rank can be implemented, using the parent-function p[x], as
function Rank(T, x)
// Returns the position of x (one-indexed) in the linear sorted list of elements of the tree T
r ← size[left[x]] + 1
y ← x
while y ≠ T.root
if y = right[p[y]]
r ← r + size[left[p[y]]] + 1
y ← p[y]
return r
Order-statistic trees can be further amended with bookkeeping information to maintain balance (e.g., tree height can be added to get an order statistic AVL tree, or a color bit to get a red–black order statistic tree). Alternatively, the size field can be used in conjunction with a weight-balancing scheme at no additional storage cost.
References
External links
Order statistic tree on PineWiki, Yale University.
The Python package blist uses order statistic B-trees to implement lists with fast insertion at arbitrary positions.
Search trees
Selection algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan%20Augarten | Stan Augarten is an American writer on the history of computing.
Life
Stan Augarten received his M.A. in American History at Columbia University. He has worked as an employee at Steve Jobs's company NeXT. Since 2002 he has lived in Paris, France.<ref>Letters, 'Columbia Magazine, Winter 2007/8</ref>
Works
He is the author of two books:
State of the Art: A Photographic History of the Integrated Circuit, 1983
Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers, 1984. Internet Archive
Bit by Bit: An Illustrated History of Computers'', 1984. OCR with permission of the author
References
Sources
External links
GoodReads
LibraryThing
History of computing
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Historians of technology
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American male non-fiction writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debra%20Green | Debra Jean Green is an author, popular speaker and founder of Redeeming Our Communities, a UK-wide charity based in Manchester, UK.
Career
Throughout the 1990s Green worked for Network, the Council of Churches in Greater Manchester. She was instrumental in setting up a leaders' forum and a citywide prayer event, Prayer Network, which involved over 200 churches of many denominations working and praying together for the city. She co-ordinated citywide meetings which focused on issues such as crime, education and healthcare, with up to 2500 people attending these events. Stories from this season are captured in Green's book, City-Changing Prayer, co-authored with her husband, Frank Green.
From 1997 to 2003 Green was on the National Council of the Evangelical Alliance. She was part of the co-ordinating team for More Than Gold, an initiative which brought people together for various citywide events during the Commonwealth Games in Manchester 2002.
From 2002 to 2004 Green worked for Festival:Manchester (a joint initiative of The Message Trust and the Luis Palau Organisation), a venture which launched the church into social transformation projects across Manchester. Many of the projects were done in partnership with the Greater Manchester Police. Green was responsible for coordinating collaboration among 500 churches across the North West region.
In the summer of 2008 Green hosted a high-profile community prayer event at the Velodrome National Cycling Centre in Manchester, where over 2000 Christians gathered for an evening of prayer about the issue of gang violence. The event was attended by police chiefs, community leaders and politicians.
Later in 2008 Green organised a regional event, The Game of Life, which was attended by 6000 people at the Manchester Velodrome.
In 2018 Green joined the planning group of Spring Harvest
Charities
City Links
Green officially launched her first charity, City Links, in 2003 at the end of Festival: Manchester in the Apollo Manchester. The group's aim was to continue networking churches and organisations for the purpose of prayer and mission, with a focus on the North-West of England. Through City Links three projects were launched: the North West Leaders' Forum, Redeeming the Arts and Redeeming Our Communities.
Redeeming Our Communities
In 2004 Green founded the charity Redeeming Our Communities (ROC), of which she is the National Director. ROC is a national community engagement charity. This group aims to bring about community transformation by creating strategic partnerships which open up opportunities for crime and disorder reduction and improved community cohesion.
Over the following years, stories of community transformation emerged across the nation, some of which are collected together for Green's 2014 book 'ROC Your World; changing communities for good' published by River Publishing
In recognition of her work towards community cohesion, she was awarded an OBE in June 2012.
In 2012, ROC launch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%27s%20approximation | In finance, Black's approximation is an approximate method for computing the value of an American call option on a stock paying a single dividend. It was described by Fischer Black in 1975.
The Black–Scholes formula (hereinafter, "BS Formula") provides an explicit equation for the value of a call option on a non-dividend paying stock. In case the stock pays one or more discrete dividend(s) no closed formula is known, but several approximations can be used, or else the Black–Scholes PDE will have to be solved numerically. One such approximation is described here. See also Black–Scholes model#American options.
The method essentially entails using the BS formula to compute the value of two European call options:
(1) A European call with the same maturity as the American call being valued, but with the stock price reduced by the present value of the dividend, and
(2) A European call that expires on the day before the dividend is to be paid.
The largest of (1) and (2) is taken as the approximate value for the American call. See example aside. The resulting value is sometimes called the "pseudo American" value of the call.
Application
Consider an American call option with ex-dividend dates in 3 months and 5 months, and has an expiration date of 6 months. The dividend on each ex-dividend date is expected to payout $0.70. Additional information is presented below. Find the value of the American call option.
First, we need to calculate based on the two methods provided above in the methods section. Here we will calculate both of the parts:
(1) This is the first method calculation, which states:
A European call with the same maturity as the American call being valued, but with the stock price reduced by the present value of the dividend.
where
is the net present value of the dividends at the ex-dividend dates (we use the ex-dividend dates because on this date the stock price declines by the amount of the dividend)
are the dividends on the ex-dividend dates
is the risk-free rate of the market, which we will assume to be constant for this example
amount of time until the ex-dividend date
a division factor to bring the Δt to a full year. (example = 2 months, = 12 months, therefore = 2/12 = .166667)
is the exponential function.
Applying this formula to the question:
The option price can therefore be calculated using the Black-Scholes-Merton model where will discount the dividends from which I will denote by for the new value:
The rest of the variables remain the same. Now we need to calculate d1 and d2 using these formula's
where,
is the cumulative distribution function of the standard normal distribution
is the time to maturity
is the current price of the underlying asset
is the strike price
is the risk free rate (annual rate, expressed in terms of continuous compounding)
is the volatility of returns of the underlying asset
Inputting the values we get:
(2) This is the second method calculation, which states:
A European call t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean%20Martin%20%28disambiguation%29 | Dean Martin (1917–1995) was an American singer, actor, television personality and comedian.
Dean Martin may also refer to:
Dean Martin (disc jockey), English disc jockey on the Gold network
Dean Martin (footballer, born 1972), English footballer
Dean Martin (footballer, born 1957), English footballer
Dean Martin (politician), former Arizona State Treasurer, 2007–2011
Dean Paul Martin (1951–1987), American entertainer, son of the singer
"Dean Martin" (song), a song by Something for Kate
Martin, Dean |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Rich%20Atlanta | Big Rich Atlanta was an American reality television series on the Style Network. The series premiered on January 23, 2013. Big Rich Atlanta follows a group of wealthy Georgia women and their daughters who do whatever it takes to be at the top of the local social scene and in control of the action.
Cast
Virginia: Meyer and Harvin's mother, Virginia, moved in with them after her divorced was finalized. Virginia manages her daughters' business.
Harvin: Harvin is Virginia's eldest daughter and is 30 years old. She owns a clothing and jewelry line named She Blames Me.
Meyer: Meyer is 28 years old. She is part owner of her joint business She Blames Me.
Sabrina: Sabrina is a newly single pastor. She had a successful dancing career but turned it into a career in international dance ministry.
Anandi: Anandi is a 19‑year‑old sophomore in college. She admits that she's a nerd but she also has an interest in beauty and fashion which has led to her partaking in beauty pageants.
Marcia: Marcia is Meagan's mother and is an interior designer. She's working with her daughter to launch a mobile fashion truck business.
Meagan: Meagan is a licensed real estate agent. She and her mother are currently working on opening Atlanta's first mobile boutique.
Ashlee: Ashlee is a former Miss Georgia Teen. She was married at a young age but is now divorced. Ashlee lives in a penthouse apartment that was inherited from her grandfather.
Katie: Katie is a fourth generation Atlantan. She is a mother of two and is married.
Diana: Diana is one of Katie's children, and is 17 years old. She's involved in the world of competitive cheerleading.
Sharlinda: Sharlinda is co-owner of Tu La 2 Nail salon, which she runs with her twin sister, Brie. She is married to Q. Parker of the R&B group 112.
Kahdijiha: Kahdijiha is 26 years old and the daughter of Sharlinda.
Brié: Brié is Sharlinda's twin sister and serves as a second mom to Kahdijiha.
Episodes
References
2010s American reality television series
2013 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Style Network original programming
Television shows set in Atlanta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20charting%20software | There are many different types of software available to produce charts.
A number of notable examples (with their own Wikipedia articles) are given below and organized according to the programming language or other context in which they are used.
Delphi - VCL and FireMonkey (FMX)
TeeChart - Native VCL Charting component with support to Embarcadero Windows IDEs (RAD Studio, Delphi and C++ Builder) and FireMonkey. Commercial license
Java
JFreeChart – Free Java based chart software
TeeChart – Java charting library. Commercial license
JavaScript
AnyChart - HTML5/SVG/VML, free or commercial
Chart.js - HTML5 Canvas, MIT license
D3.js – HTML5/CSS3/SVG, BSD license
Datacopia – JavaScript/HTML5, SVG/Canvas - Free or Commercial
Dojo Charting
ExtJS 4 Charts – HTML5/SVG/Canvas, GPL or Commercial license
FusionCharts - JavaScript/HTML5. Commercial license
Google Charts - HTML5/SVG/VML, free
Highcharts
jqxChart - SVG/VML/HTML5 chart. Free and commercial licences
JS InfoVis Toolkit – HTML5/SVG, MIT license
Plotly.js - MIT license
RGraph - HTML5/SVG/Canvas, MIT license
TeeChart JS – Cross-browser HTML5 Canvas, Open Source license
VisJS – Accepts the DOT graph description language as input for network graphs
Webix UI - JavaScript/HTML5, Free or Commercial license
.NET
TeeChart - Native C#.NET Charting Control (ASP.NET/MVC/WPF/Silverlight/Windows Forms/WebForms/Universal Windows Platform (UWP)/Xamarin/iOS/Android) Commercial license
Visifire – Single API for desktop, web and mobile. (Windows 8/WPF/Silverlight/Windows Phone)
Pascal and ObjectPascal
TeeChart – For Delphi. Commercial version. Bundled with Delphi IDE
TAChart - Charting component for the Lazarus IDE
PHP
TeeChart – For all PHP development environments including Delphi for PHP. Free Open Source and Commercial versions
Python
Matplotlib - PSF license
Plotly - MIT license
R
R: Extensive support for publication-quality charting in both the base system and contributed packages.
S
S-Plus: Built-in charting commands, extended by external packages
Spreadsheets
EditGrid – web-based spreadsheet with charting capabilities
Google Sheets – Online spreadsheet with built-in charting function for basic chart types
KChart – the charting tool of the Calligra Suite
LibreOffice Calc - Built-in charting function for basic chart types
Microsoft Excel – Built-in charting function for basic chart types
Apache OpenOffice Calc - Built-in charting function for basic chart types
Numbers – iWork spreadsheet application with charting capabilities
Webix UI - JavaScript/HTML5, Commercial license
See also
Comparison of JavaScript charting frameworks
List of information graphics software
Charts
Lists of software
Plotting software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Izhevsk | Trams in Izhevsk is the main surface transport network in Izhevsk, Udmurtia. The tramway was founded in 1935 and currently operates 11 tramlines.
History
Tramway traffic was opened on the morning of 18 November 1935, eighteen months after the decision of the Presidium of the Izhevsk city Council. From this moment on Karl Marx street from Vyatsky lane to Votkinsk railway line ran the first route, whose length was 5 miles. A year later the route was extended on both ends — to Kazansky train station and Park them. Kirov. In 1941 he opened the movement of the tram through the street of Labour (now Lenin).
In the 60s the tram network is booming: in 1961 the introduction beskontaktnogo method of toll collection on the third route, from 1958 to single-track paths throughout the second path being completed in 1964, built new lines on the streets Halturina, line at Lenin street is expanding. Begins laying paths on the street Offline, Refractory; in 1966 the way to Kirov shall be extended until Bumala, in April 1965, was put into operation the second depot. Improve affect and car stock: in 1968, written off last cars with a wooden body, later another three years are written off last KTM/KTP-1, even after 2 years disappearing from the streets the trams KTM/KTP-1. As a result, the work remains only the Czech Татра Т3, first entered in Izhevsk in 1966. By 1969 the single-track lines remained, and a year later machines replaced the conductors on all routes.
Thus, during the period from 1963 to 1970 the company almost doubles the length of the paths increases from 36 to 64 km, the number of employees from five hundred to one thousand, the number of trams 104 (1965) up to 152 and is growing almost three times the number carried per year passenger — from 38.6 million to 100 million in 1976.
The opening of trolleybus movement in 1968 slowed the development of the tram: since the launch of high-speed trams in 1982 right-of-way, the current increased to 75.5 km, there is no change, the last route was opened in 1988 and since then, new routes appeared. In 1985 Poljakova celebrated the history of the tram service, then conducted the test with three-car trains.
A year later renumbering takes place — to three-digit numbers of cars on the front added "1" (first depot) and "2" (for second). In 1987 the first cars Tatra T6B5SU appear in Izhevsk. Ridership for 1990-the year amounted to $143,8 million, while the number of cars per decade increased from 203 to 244, of the peak number.
After the major flood in 1991, which led to a long period of decommissioning of the first depot, the further development of tram traffic develops quite slowly: first experiments with automatic announcement of stops in 1995, the purchase of four cars Tatra Т3RF in 1997, the appearance of the conductors in 1998, the purchase of ten cars Tatra T6B5RA in 2003, the decoupling of CME in 2011.
In 2011, the development of the tram (and public transportation in Izhevsk overall) embarked on a new s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma%20CyberKnife | Oklahoma CyberKnife is a cancer treatment center based in Oklahoma. The center treats malignant and benign tumors in the lungs, spine, brain, liver, pancreas, eye, prostate and kidney using CyberKnife technology. Oklahoma CyberKnife has treated patients from around Oklahoma as well as patients from bordering states.
Oklahoma CyberKnife opened in 2008 as part of Hillcrest Medical Center.
In 2009, the center performed the highest number of lung-cancer treatments of any CyberKnife center internationally. Lung tumors continue to make up a majority of cases treated at Oklahoma CyberKnife.
In 2012, Oklahoma CyberKnife began treating prostate patients with Medicare coverage provided they were participants in a clinical trial.
Dr. Diane Heaton, Oklahoma CyberKnife's medical director, is an expert in the treatment of trigeminal neuralgia, a neurological disorder. She appeared at the 2012 annual meeting of the CyberKnife Society to present her clinical findings from a study examining pain relief in 19 trigeminal neuralgia patients following CyberKnife treatment.
References
Cancer organizations based in the United States
Medical and health organizations based in Oklahoma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20filling%20algorithm | Water filling algorithm is a general name given to the ideas in communication systems design and practice for equalization strategies on communications channels. As the name suggests, just as water finds its level even when filled in one part of a vessel with multiple openings, as a consequence of Pascal's law, the amplifier systems in communications network repeaters, or receivers amplify each channel up to the required power level compensating for the channel impairments. See, for example, channel power allocation in MIMO systems.
Single channel systems
In a single channel communication system the deamplification and loss present on them can be simplistically taken as attenuation by a percentage g, then amplifiers restore the signal power level to the same value at transmission setup by operating at a gain of 1/ (1 − g). E.g. if we experience 6 dB attenuation in transmission, i.e. 75% loss, then we have to amplify the signal by a factor of 4x to restore the signal to the transmitter levels.
Multichannel systems
Same ideas can be carried out in presence impairments and a multiple channel system. Amplifier nonlinearity, crosstalk and power budgets prevent the use of these waterfilling algorithms to restore all channels, and only a subset can benefit from them.
See also
Water-pouring algorithm
Zero-forcing equalizer
Robert Lucky
Amplifier system
EDFA
References
Proakis, Digital Communication Systems, 4th Ed., McGraw Hill, (2001).
Telecommunication theory
Error detection and correction
Information theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake%20Needham%20%28novelist%29 | Jake Raymond Needham is an American novelist and screenwriter. He is a frequent speaker at schools and universities throughout Asia and guest on Asian television and radio networks. His English-language crime and espionage novels are set in Asia, which offers realism and authenticity to the narrative. Bangkok Post called Needham "Michael Connelly with steamed rice." Asia Business magazine said that "Needham certainly knows where some bodies are buried," and Matt Crook] said on CNN Travel that "Needham's stories have a 'ripped from the headlines' feel."
Personal background
Needham was born in Houston, Texas. He graduated from Rice University with a Bachelor's degree in History and Economics and then obtained a Master's degree in Law from Georgetown University. He has been admitted to the bar in Washington, D.C., New York, and Texas. In addition to Texas, New York, and Washington, D.C., he has also lived in Los Angeles, Thailand, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Sydney, Australia.
Since 1981, Needham has lived and worked in Asia. He is married to Pintuporn Sawamiphakdi, a graduate of Oxford University. She is the former editor of the Thai edition of Tatler magazine and a columnist with the Bangkok Post. They have two sons and reside in Thailand and the United States.
Professional background
Needham is a novelist and screenwriter. Much of his work is done at The Writer's Room in Greenwich Village. He has been the owner of a small television production studio, which allowed him to produce and write television programming. He began writing screenplays, in an effort to improve the profitability of the organization. While he lacked direct experience, his film scripts were often purchased and released on cable network television.
Film
In 1994, he served as the screenwriter and producer of the film Natural Causes, starring Linda Purl, Ali MacGraw, and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Prior to his death, actor James Gandolfini expressed interest in purchasing the film rights to Needham's book, The Big Mango. Gandolfini wanted HBO Films to produce the work, desiring to star in the film, alongside Demi Moore. When HBO failed to step forward and act on their assertion that they wanted to purchase the rights to the film, the French production house of Canal+ made an offer, which Needham accepted. While Canal+ verbally agreed to retain Gandolfini as the star of the film, they later reneged on their agreement, stating their desire to bring on Tom Cruise as the lead. When Cruise declined, the licensing deal fell through.
Print
Needham is known as one of the best-selling English-language authors in Asia. Until 2012, the print editions of books have been published by Marshall Cavendish Editions in Singapore. While Marshall Cavendish distributes his novels in Asia, Europe, Australia, and the United Kingdom, they are not available in North America. Needham's publishing contract with Marshall Cavendish ended over a disagreement pertaining to the content of his novel, The Umbrell |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quansah | Quansah is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Abeiku Quansah (born 1990), Ghanaian footballer
Derrick Ansah Quansah (born 1990), Computer Science Engineer
Charles Quansah (born 1964), Ghanaian serial killer
Jarell Quansah (born 2003), English footballer
Kwame Quansah (born 1982), Ghanaian footballer
Nat Quansah (born 1953), Ghanaian botanist and academic
Surnames of Ghanaian origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRICS | TRICS (Trip Rate Information Computer System) is a database of trip rates for developments used in the United Kingdom for transport planning purposes, specifically to quantify the trip generation of new developments.
The TRICS Consortium describes TRICS as follows:
Release history
The database was established in 1989 by six county councils in South East England county councils (Dorset, East Sussex, Hampshire, Kent, Surrey and West Sussex). It is now maintained by TRICS Consortium Ltd, based in Barnet, London.
TRICS 7, a major update, was released in late 2013.
Developments
TRICS includes the following development categories:
Retail
Employment
Residential
Education
Health
Hotel, Food and Drink
Leisure
Marinas
Golf
Tourist Attractions
Civic Amenity Sites
Petrol Stations
Car Showrooms
SAM for Travel Plans
TRICS have also developed SAM (Standard Assessment Methodology), a system to measure the effectiveness of travel plans.
References
External links
Official site
Example TRICS Output - application to Ribble Valley District Council
Transportation planning
Databases in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Gas%20Networks | Australian Gas Networks Limited, formerly Envestra Limited, is an Australian energy company that operates natural gas transmission pipelines and distribution networks in South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, New South Wales, and the Northern Territory. The company owns distribution systems in a number of towns and metropolitan areas including Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Rockhampton, Albury, Alice Springs, Bundaberg and Whyalla. It outsources the operation and management of the assets to the APA Group.
In October 1993, Boral acquired from the South Australian government SAGASCO, its vertically integrated natural gas monopoly. Boral combined SAGASCO's distribution network with businesses it owned in Queensland to form Envestra, which was floated in early 1997. In March 1999, Envestra acquired part of the former Gas and Fuel Corporation's distribution network in Victoria, known as the Stratus distribution network, and renamed it Envestra (Vic).
In 2013, APA Group announced an approach to the board of Envestra with an all-share merger proposal. In September 2014, Hong Kong-based Cheung Kong Group bought all the shares in Envestra, including APA's 33.4% stake, while APA retained the operation and management of Envestra's assets until 2027. In October 2014, the company's name was changed to Australian Gas Networks Limited.
See also
Multinet Gas
References
External links
Companies formerly listed on the Australian Securities Exchange
Natural gas companies of Australia
CK Hutchison Holdings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.%20J.%20Havel | Václav Jaromír Havel is a Czech mathematician. He is known for characterizing the degree sequences of undirected graphs and the Havel–Hakimi algorithm. It is an important contribution to the theory graphs.
Selected publications
References
Possibly living people
Czech mathematicians
Graph theorists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade%20Nations | Trade Nations was a trading simulation social network game developed and published by Z2Live. It is no longer available for download. On September 28, 2016, the servers for the game were deleted, rendering it unplayable.
Development
Trade Nations was Z2Live's first game. It was developed to have integration with JuJuPlay, Z2Live's own iOS based social gaming network, which helped facilitate Trade Nation's growth and retention. Apple later released its own Game Center which replaced JuJuPlay. Through the immediate success of Trade Nations, Z2Live achieved profitability which allowed it to continue to expand and grow.
Gameplay
Trade Nations allowed players to become the mayor of their own village and grow it into a sprawling city. The gameplay centered around collecting raw materials, refining them into precious resources, and creating goods to amass a fortune. Exchanging resources among friends was also highly encouraged and a critical component of the game.
Resources
Throughout the game, the player will collect different types of resources, some worth more than others in the market.
wood
wheat
stone
wool
lumber
cloth
cut stone
Another resource, it can be harvested regularly once the frontier is unlocked, is gold.
Magic Beans are the resource that the player must pay to get.
Z2live points can help buy special buildings and are acquired by completing achievements in all z2live games.
References
2010 video games
Inactive massively multiplayer online games
IOS games
IOS-only games
City-building games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busways%20in%20Brisbane | Since the mid-1990s, a 27 kilometre bus rapid transit network has been developed in Brisbane, Australia. It comprises grade-separated bus-only corridors, complementing the Queensland Rail Citytrain network. Management of the busway network is the responsibility of Translink as coordinator of South East Queensland's integrated public transport system.
The Brisbane busway network currently consists of the South East Busway, Northern Busway and the Eastern Busway and carried over 70 million passengers in 2011.
Facilities
Stations on the Brisbane busway network comprise two semi glass-enclosed platforms, labelled platform 1 for services inbound to the Brisbane central business district and platform 2 for services outbound from the city, with the exception of Boggo Road busway station which are numbered 5 and 6 respectively to align with the parallel train platforms at Park Road railway station.
Bus departure information is displayed at each station, with fixed LED signs suspended above each platform. These signs present four lines of scheduled bus departure times, with data provided by Brisbane City Council's RAPID system. Busway stations contain full disabled accessibility, passenger seating, 24-hour CCTV cameras and emergency help point buttons. Bicycle access and storage is provided at most stations, as are go card fare machines. Public art may be found in some busway stations, tunnels and walls.
By 2016, the city had three busways, spanning 29 kilometres, including 27 stations and 20 tunnels.
Capacity
In peak hour, 294 buses per hour (one way) (1 every 12 seconds) passed the busway network's busiest point (a section of the South East Busway north of Woolloongabba station) in 2007, a number estimated to be approaching the busway's absolute maximum vehicle capacity using the current bus fleet. Given the maximum capacity of a majority of Transport for Brisbane buses is 62, any point along the busway network has a maximum theoretical passenger capacity of approximately 18,228 passengers per hour, since the entire network is built to the same specifications as the Woolloongabba stretch.
Planning history
The South East Queensland Integrated Regional Transport Plan 1997 recommended a 75 km, 65-station network of busways to be constructed in Brisbane in order to provide a rapid public transport system to areas not served by the existing Queensland Rail Citytrain network. A busway system was recommended over an expansion of the Queensland Rail network given the existing strong role of buses in the regional transport system and its cost effectiveness compared with constructing rail lines. It was envisaged that feeder buses would serve both busway and rail stations, allowing buses to service low-density communities while bypassing peak hour traffic congestion by using the busways where appropriate.
This recommendation built upon the Brisbane City Council's earlier Brisbane Busway Plan which was broadened into the SEQ Regional Busway Network plan. A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPKG%20%28software%29 | WPKG is a server-based software package designed to allow the deployment of software and other packages to networked Microsoft Windows computers based on a set of rules, without end user intervention. As such, the program aims to make the administration of networked computers easier for the administrator, allowing security patches, new programs and updates to be installed on the connected computers without having to physically visit each computer.
WPKG is open-source software licensed under the GPL.
See also
Ninite
NuGet
ProGet
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
Windows Deployment Services
Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit
References
Configuration management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEWP | LEWP may refer to:
Leading Edge Word Processor, a word processing program distributed with Leading Edge computers in the 1980s.
Line echo wave pattern, a weather radar formation
Lower Esopus Watershed Partnership, a New York conservation coalition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Saving%20Hope%20episodes | Saving Hope is a Canadian television supernatural medical drama that debuted on the CTV and NBC networks simultaneously on June 7, 2012. The show's central character is Dr. Alex Reid (Erica Durance), a doctor whose fiancé, Dr. Charles Harris (Michael Shanks), is in a coma after being in a car crash. The show follows the life of Harris in his coma state, and Reid dealing with patients, and "hoping" that he will survive. Dr. Reid is the Chief Surgical Resident at Hope Zion Hospital in Toronto, and Dr. Harris would normally be the Chief of Surgery at Hope Zion, but had been replaced due to his current condition.
In September 2012, NBC pulled the last two episodes of the first season, and released them online, subsequently canceling the series. And then, in early 2014, Ion Television picked the up the US rights to first three season of the show and it began airing from the start and on October 13, 2015 and aired the last two episodes NBC had skipped before cancelling the show and season three premiered on April 5, 2016. And then Ion made a deal with CTV's parent Bell Media to co-produce season 4 and future seasons of the series and season 4 premiered in 2017. On December 17, 2015, CTV and Ion ordered a fifth and final season of the series, which premiered on CTV on March 12, 2017 and ended on August 3, 2017 and on Ion in early 2018 and ended in the summer of that year.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2012)
Season 2 (2013–14)
Season 3 (2014–15)
Season 3 episode titles are named after films.
Season 4 (2015–16)
Season 4 episode titles are The Rolling Stones song titles.
Season 5 (2017)
References
External links
Lists of Canadian drama television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Wilson%20%28broadcaster%29 | Jim Wilson (born 29 December 1967 in Southport, Queensland) is an Australian sports journalist, reporter and radio presenter.
Wilson has previously had a 28 year career at the Seven Network as a sport presenter, reporter and sports editor for Seven News initially starting in the Melbourne newsroom before moving to Sydney. Prior to joining the Seven Network he was a sport reporter at the Nine Network in Brisbane.
Career
Wilson made Australian television history in August 2012 when he replaced Tony Squires as sports presenter on Seven News Sydney. This was the first time a married couple has anchored an Australian news bulletin as Wilson is married to Seven News presenter Chris Bath.
In August 2013, Jim was appointed sport presenter on a revamped Seven Afternoon News. Since February 2017, Wilson has also presented the sport on the Tuesday to Friday editions of Seven Morning News.
Wilson was also a reporter for the Seven Network during the 2012 London Olympics, appearing on various Seven Network news bulletins and programs. This was also the sixth time Jim had covered the Olympics, either as a reporter or as a commentator.
Wilson anchored the panel for Seven's coverage of Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspurs' friendly matches against Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC respectively in 2013 and 2015. He is a Western Sydney Wanderers fan, and was an official ambassador for the 2015 AFC Asian Cup, which was hosted by Australia.
In March 2016, it was announced that Wilson would lead Seven's sport team and continue to present sport on Seven News on Fridays and Saturdays, making way for new recruit Mel McLaughlin.
Wilson was the lead anchor of Seven's coverage of the 2017 Rugby League World Cup.
In 2018, it was announced that Wilson will host Seven's coverage of the Big Bash League and Women's Big Bash League.
In June 2020, Wilson announced his resignation from the Seven Network, leaving the network after 28 years to join 2GB as Drive presenter replacing Ben Fordham. Jim finished with the Seven Network on 27 June. In November 2022, Wilson announced that he will host his last 2GB Drive radio show on 10 November 2022. It was later announced that Nine News reporter Chris O'Keefe will replace Wilson. In February 2023, it was announced that Wilson had parted ways with the Nine Network.
Personal life
In late 2008, Wilson separated from his first wife Jackie, with whom he had two sons. In December 2008 Wilson started dating journalist, radio and television personality Chris Bath.
In 2009, Wilson's younger son was diagnosed at age 5 with an aggressive brain cancer; he died 8 months later in April 2010.
On 12 January 2012 Wilson and Bath were married at a private family gathering in the Hunter Valley after dating for three years.
Wilson's older sister Rebecca Wilson, also a sports journalist, died on 7 October 2016 from breast cancer.
References
Australian sports journalists
Seven News presenters
Living people
1967 births
2GB presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOOP%20%28programming%20language%29 | LOOP is a simple register language that precisely captures the primitive recursive functions.
The language is derived from the counter-machine model. Like the counter machines the LOOP language comprises a set of one or more unbounded registers, each of which can hold a single non-negative integer. A few arithmetic instructions (like 'CleaR', 'INCrement', 'DECrement', 'CoPY', ...) operate on the registers. The only control flow instruction is 'LOOP x DO ... END'. It causes the instructions within its scope to be repeated x times. (Changes of the content of register x during the execution of the loop do not affect the number of passes.)
History
The LOOP language was formulated in a 1967 paper by Albert R. Meyer and Dennis M. Ritchie.
They showed the correspondence between the LOOP language and primitive recursive functions.
The language also was the topic of the unpublished PhD thesis of Ritchie.
It was also presented by Uwe Schöning, along with GOTO and WHILE.
Design philosophy and features
In contrast to GOTO programs and WHILE programs, LOOP programs always terminate. Therefore, the set of functions computable by LOOP-programs is a proper subset of computable functions (and thus a subset of the computable by WHILE and GOTO program functions).
Meyer & Ritchie proved that each primitive recursive function is LOOP-computable and vice versa.
An example of a total computable function that is not LOOP computable is the Ackermann function.
Formal definition
Syntax
LOOP-programs consist of the symbols LOOP, DO, END, :=, + and ; as well as any number of variables and constants. LOOP-programs have the following syntax in modified Backus–Naur form:
Here, are variable names and are constants.
Semantics
If P is a LOOP program, P is equivalent to a function . The variables through in a LOOP program correspond to the arguments of the function , and are initialized before program execution with the appropriate values. All other variables are given the initial value zero. The variable corresponds to the value that takes when given the argument values from through .
A statement of the form
xi := 0
means the value of the variable is set to 0.
A statement of the form
xi := xi + 1
means the value of the variable is incremented by 1.
A statement of the form
P1; P2
represents the sequential execution of sub-programs and , in that order.
A statement of the form
LOOP x DO P END
means the repeated execution of the partial program a total of times, where the value that has at the beginning of the execution of the statement is used. Even if changes the value of , it won't affect how many times is executed in the loop. If has the value zero, then is not executed inside the LOOP statement. This allows for branches in LOOP programs, where the conditional execution of a partial program depends on whether a variable has value zero or one.
Creating "convenience instructions"
From the base syntax one create "convenience instructions". The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Ryan%20Sese | Neil Ryan Sese is a Filipino actor. He is currently working as an exclusive talent of GMA Network. Sese is best known for portraying Asval in the 2016 version of Encantadia.
Background
Neil Ryan Sese was only seven years old when his parents separated. His father, a radiologist from Masbate, left their home and he never saw him again.
An only child, he grew up in Lucena City, Quezon, where his mother, Rosalyn Sese, took charge of his upbringing, enrolled him at Maryhill Academy. In 1993, he wanted to study at the University of Santo Tomas to be with his peers but his mother told him to enroll at the University of the Philippines. So he took a nonquota course entrance exam. The first year was devoted to general subjects like mathematics, but he soon found himself auditioning and appearing in Dulaang UP plays.
By the second year, he was enjoying being a campus actor, appearing in classic plays like Oedipus Rex and learning a lot from mentors like director Tony Mabesa and actor Rey Ventura. He dropped his plan to take up Mass communication major in Theatre Arts. He has been at it ever since. He appeared in both classics and Asian dramas such as St. Louis Loves Dem Filipinos, Hudhud, Kanjincho, Sepharad: Voces de Exilio, Basilia Ng Malolos, Sa Ngalan Ng Anak, etc.
In 2011, he played the role of Simeon in the highly successful TV drama series, Munting Heredera which he considered as his biggest break ever. His career is currently handling by an award-winning director/manager Maryo J. de los Reyes. The same year, he signed a three-year exclusive contract with GMA Network. His first project as an exclusive talent of the network was the series Biritera where he played one of the lead roles.
Sese is also a favorite of indie film directors, landing choice roles in acclaimed movies like Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros, Mangatyanan, Sanglaan and Huling Pasada. In Huling Pasada, he was nominated for Best Actor by the respected critics but lost to Ronnie Lazaro.
In Amphitryon, a Dulaang UP production directed by Jose Estrella, he displayed a comedic side. He played Stanley Kowalski in Tanghalang Pilipino's Flores Para los Muertos (a translation of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire), directed by Floy Quintos.
Filmography
Television
Film
Note: Both mainstream and independent films
Caregiver (Norman)
Aishete Masu (Hiroshi)
Beautiful Life (Matsumoto)
Here Comes The Bride (Inyaki's dad)
Gatas Sa Dibdib Ng Kaaway (Interpreter)
Noy (Policeman)
Paano Na Kaya?
Shake, Rattle & Roll XI
Sukob (Michael)
Kutob (Philip)
Matakot Ka Sa Karma (Poldo)
Malikmata (Medium)
Filipinas (Rex)
Ang Pagdadalaga ni Maximo Oliveros (Boy)
Kubrador
Seroks
Huling Pasada
Mangatyanan (Eric)
Buenavista
Sanglaan (Henry)
Hawang
Graveyard Shift
Layang Bilanggo (Sgt. Sese)
Tsardyer (Ahmad)
ID (Bimbo)
Colorum (Policeman)
Kamoteng Kahoy
Haw-Ang
Mark, Matthew, Luke and John
My Little Bossings
La Amigas (Hostage Taker)
Seklusyon
References
Externa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar%20Optiks | GUNNAR Optiks is a company founded in 2007 that specializes in treated eyewear, marketed as safety glasses that protect eyes from computer vision syndrome. Gunnar eyewear has received considerable attention in technical media reviews, including PCWorld, Lifehacker, Huffington Post, and Gizmodo.
The company makes marketing claims that the eyewear improves contrast and comfort, while reducing eye fatigue and visual stress, especially for people who spend many hours staring at digital displays.
A Pacific University research study of 36 participants in 2007 found significant differences in irritation or burning of the eyes, tearing, or watery eyes, dry eyes, and tired eyes, that were each improved by Gunnar lenses versus placebo lenses, but in a follow-up study in 2008, the same team was not able to reproduce the results of the first study, finding no difference in burning of the eyes, tearing, or watery eyes with Gunnar Optiks compared to placebo glasses. This study found "[no] scientific evidence for a change in accommodation (focusing), tear volume, or electromyography of the eyelid (squinting and blinking)".
Gunnar Optiks, represented by co-founder Joe Croft, appeared on the February 11, 2018, episode of the ABC television program Shark Tank.
References
Eyewear brands of the United States
Eyewear retailers of the United States
American companies established in 2007
Manufacturing companies established in 2007
Retail companies established in 2007
Companies based in San Diego County, California
Manufacturing companies of the United States
Eyewear companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBC%20Networks | MBC Networks (Pvt) Ltd is a Sri Lankan media company which owns five national radio stations - Shakthi FM, Sirasa FM, Yes FM, Y FM and Legends FM. The company was established in 1993 by the Capital Maharaja conglomerate.
References
Mass media companies established in 1993
Sri Lankan companies established in 1993
Privately held companies of Sri Lanka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%20Days%20to%20Open%20with%20Bobby%20Flay | 3 Days to Open with Bobby Flay is an American reality cooking show aired on the Food Network. The series debuted on July 15, 2012. In the series, Bobby Flay visits new restaurants that will be opening three days from his arrival. He makes a list of things that he thinks need to be fixed by opening night, and spends those three days preparing the owners for opening, and attempting to check every concern off his list.
Episodes
References
External links
Official website
2010s American reality television series
2012 American television series debuts
Food Network original programming
2012 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20C-SPAN%20Q%26A%20interviews | Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."
List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2004 and 2005
List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2006
List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2007
List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2008
List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2009
List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2010
List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2011
List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2012
References
External links
Official Q&A archives |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganso%20Saiy%C5%ABki%3A%20Super%20Monkey%20Daib%C5%8Dken | is an action video game for the Family Computer which was released exclusively in Japan on November 21, 1986. The game is based on the novel Journey to the West.
Gameplay
Sun Wukong must assist the Buddhist monk Xuanzang with his task of collecting some sūtras as they make the treacherous voyage from China to India. Other guardians can be asked to join the adventuring party after meeting up with them. Most of the storyline in this video game is based on the Chinese novel Journey to the West. Players can enter a code that allows them to return to any stage at any time; similar to a password system.
It is possible to die of starvation and/or hunger without the proper food/drink items. A meter for water and food are automatically deducted for every move that is made while travelling from landmark to landmark. These food and drink items are found inside people's houses for consumption. Houses appears as buildings representing pagodas. Certain landmarks must be entered in order to progress the game's storyline; these are represented in-game as a grey square with a drawbridge-like structure. An onslaught of enemies must be defeated in the side-scrolling segments of the game.
This video game was featured in the Japanese TV show Game Center CX. It was declared to be one of the hardest (and least comprehensible) video games in the history of Japanese video games. It is often considered a kusoge.
Hidden message
An explicit message is hidden within the game's tileset, not accessible during gameplay, containing a developer's personal sexual information.
References
External links
1986 video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Platformers
Shenmo fiction
Side-scrolling video games
VAP (company) games
Video games about primates
Video games based on novels
Video games developed in Japan
Works based on Journey to the West
Video games based on Chinese mythology
Video games set in India
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagLev%20%28software%29 | MagLev is an alternative implementation of the Ruby programming language built on the GemStone/S virtual machine from GemTalk Systems. Much of Maglev was set out to be written in Ruby as much as possible, resulting in some collaboration with the Rubinius project. As of the first beta release, the project runs RubyGems 1.3.5 natively, with support for C and Smalltalk extensions. MagLev has a distinct VM architecture that allows it to share code and data between runtimes and execution cycles through a Ruby API.
Architecture
Maglev runs inside an image like Smalltalk, offering transparent object persistence to Ruby objects and classes. Object persistence is based on ACID transactions that allow multiple running instances to see a shared object graph. Maglev uses a process-based concurrency model, mapping Ruby threads to Smalltalk Processes, which are scheduled in the VM as green threads. Using MagLev should yield performance increases when using Ruby, along with allowing Ruby processes over multiple machines to use the same objects at the same time.
Installation
MagLev is installed with RVM, using the following code snippets, copied directly from the maglev github.
rvm install maglev
rvm use maglev
The status can be checked using
$ maglev status
Ruby Compatibility
Maglev targets Ruby 1.8.7 and runs a significant number of RubySpec. It supports several C extensions including Nokogiri, JSON and bcrypt.
Gemstone/S Resources
References
External links
Free software programmed in Ruby |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinet%20Gas | Multinet Gas Networks (MGN) is an Australian energy company and one of three Victorian natural gas distribution networks. MGN is one of three main companies that make up Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG), the other two being Australian Gas Networks (AGN) and Dampier to Bunbury Pipeline (DBP).
MGN distributes natural gas to around 703,000 homes and 16,000 businesses throughout Melbourne's inner eastern suburbs and outer Eastern Suburbs, the Yarra Ranges, and South Gippsland. MGN delivers gas from the transmission network, through a network of lower pressure, smaller diameter, pipelines to customers. The network comprises 164 km of licensed transmission pipelines, 9,650 km of distribution mains (operating at pressures between 7kPa and 515 kPa), and 179 regulator stations.
MGN has over 1400 km of low pressure (7 kPa) gas mains, some of which are cast iron mains that date back to the 1880s. These older cast iron mains are subject to water ingress during wet weather and as such, are the common cause of supply reliability issues. MGN mains replacement program is aimed at replacing low-pressure gas distribution mains in the network and is targeting to replace all low-pressure mains by 2031. Upgraded low-pressure mains are typically replaced with high-pressure polyethylene gas mains by inserting the new polyethylene pipe into the existing cast iron main. This method minimizes damage to property and offers additional protection to the polyethylene mains.
History
Gas networks were first built in Melbourne by the Metropolitan Gas Company some time before the 1880s. In 1951 the Metropolitan Gas Company was taken over by the government-owned monopoly supplier, the Gas and Fuel Corporation of Victoria (G&FC). G&FC owned the Melbourne gas network area from 1951 until the privatization in 1997.
The company is owned by the DUET Group, which was purchased in 2017, by Cheung Kong Infrastructure (CKI) for A$7.4 billion. CKI controls other energy networks in Australia, including United Energy, an electricity distributor in Melbourne's eastern and south-eastern suburbs and the Mornington Peninsula; CitiPower in Melbourne; Powercor in western Melbourne and western Victoria; and Australian Gas Networks, which distributes gas through Victoria, Queensland and South Australia. After the acquisition, CKI controls three out of five electricity distributors and two out of three gas distributors in Victoria. As of 2018, Multinet Gas is operated as a part of Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG) in conjunction with the other CKI owned Australian gas distribution Networks.
Future
MGN is part of the commonly managed Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG) which is leading renewable gas projects across Australia with multiple renewable hydrogen projects in development, and the pilot study of HyP SA (live as of May 2021) successfully blending up to 5% renewable hydrogen into the gas supply of over 700 households in Mitchell Park, South Australia. After a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic%20route%20network | An Olympic route network (ORN) and Paralympic route network (PRN) is a network of dedicated roads linking venues and other key sites in a host city during Olympic and Paralympic games to ensure that athletes and officials get to events on time. Roads that are part of the network have 'games lanes' which are reserved for accredited games vehicles and on-call emergency vehicles.
For the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, a route network came into effect under the London Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Act 2006 which gave the Olympic Delivery Authority temporary powers to take over traffic management measures during London 2012.
The ORN and PRN were first introduced for the 2000 Sydney Olympics as a result of problems at the Atlanta Olympics four years earlier when athletes had difficulty getting to their events on time. In July 2012, just before the start of the 2012 Olympics, London taxi drivers blocked some games lanes to protest against the ORN. The games lanes for London 2012 has been pejoratively referred to as ZiL lanes, in reference to dedicated lanes for VIPs in Moscow.
The ORN and PRN for the 2012 Olympics were controlled by the London Streets Traffic Control Center (LSTCC). They used computer systems as well as CCTV cameras to control London's traffic. By using the technology, the LSTCC was able to make sure vehicles on the ORN were able to reach their destinations in a straightforward manner.
References
External links
London 2012 main site
Transport for London
Route network
Road traffic management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky%20Logic | Lucky Logic is a programming tool for the Fischertechnik computing models. It uses a graphical programming language.
The first version was released in 1991 for IBM PC (DOS), Atari ST and Amiga in the course of the modular computing professional.
External links
knobloch-gmbh.de - Download einer LLWin-Demoversion
pro-sign.de - LLWin-Herstellerseite (kein Support)
Programming tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VH1%20Storytellers%20%28disambiguation%29 | VH1 Storytellers is a television music series produced by the VH1 network.
VH1 Storytellers may also refer to:
VH1 Storytellers (Alicia Keys album), 2013
VH1 Storytellers (David Bowie album), 2009
VH1 Storytellers (Bruce Springsteen), 2005
VH1 Storytellers: Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson, 1998
VH1 Storytellers (Kanye West album), 2010
VH1 Storytellers (Ringo Starr album), 1998
VH1 Storytellers (Billy Idol album), 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20R.%20Shaw | Trevor R. Shaw, OBE (born 31 March 1928) is an English historian and speleologist.
An "assiduous compiler of data on caves", Shaw has published over 230 books and scientific articles during the course of his career, including detailed biographies and studies into the life of early speleologist Édouard-Alfred Martel.
References
1928 births
British speleologists
English historians
Place of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.O.T.%20TV%3A%20Hindi%20Ordinaryong%20Tsismis | H.O.T. TV: () is a Philippine television magazine talk show broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Rico Gutierrrez. it was hosted by Regine Velasquez, Roderick Paulate, Raymond Gutierrez and Jennylyn Mercado, It premiered on August 5, 2012, replacing Showbiz Central. The show concluded on April 28, 2013, with a total of 39 episodes. It was replaced by GMA Blockbusters in its timeslot.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of H.O.T. TV: earned a 12.4% rating. While the final episode scored a 6.8% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2012 Philippine television series debuts
2013 Philippine television series endings
Entertainment news shows in the Philippines
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borka%20Jerman%20Bla%C5%BEi%C4%8D | Borka Jerman Blažič (born ) is a Slovenian Internet pioneer, and the President of the Internet Society - Slovenia. She is also a computer networks scientist, founder and first general secretary of the Yugoslavian Network for the Academic and Education Community (YUNET), which introduced the first Internet services in SFR Yugoslavia in 1991.
Blažič graduated from the University of Skopje, Macedonia, obtained Master of Science degree at Faculty of Electric Engineering at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and PhD at the Faculty of Informatics and Natural Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia. She has spent her post-doctoral studies at the Iowa State University in Ames, U.S.A.
Career
Among other contributions, she was part of the Internet Architecture Board Character Set Workshop in 1996, and part of her previous work was used in the preparation of the RFC.
In 1992-1993 she was project officer and chair of the TERENA (Trans European Research and Education Networks Association) Working Group on Internationalization of the Network services. In 1996-2000 she was member of TERENA Technical Committee.
Borka Jerman Blažič was the first elected chair of the European Council of the Internet Society Chapters (ISOC-ECC).
Prof. Dr. Borka Jerman Blažič is a full professor at the University of Ljubljana, Department of Economics and is heading the Laboratory for Open Systems and Networks at the Jožef Stefan Institute. There she is teaching electronic communications and information security. She's also running the program on Internet technology at the postgraduate international school Jožef Stefan. She is also a senior researcher at the Department for System and Computer Sciences of the Stockholm University.
Borka Jerman Blažič is a member of the Scientific Council of the European Privacy Association. In 2011 she was appointed as a member of the Grand Jury of the World Summit Awards. She is also a member of the Slovenian Governmental Council for Electronic communications.
Prof. Dr. Jerman Blažič has published hundreds of articles in international journals, conferences, books and was an invited speaker at many international conferences and workshops in the field of Information and Communication Technologies.
In 2017 she was awarded the Medal for Merits by the President of Slovenia Borut Pahor.
The international conference Information Society 2018 recognize the work of Borka Jerman Blažič and awarded her as "The first lady of Slovenian Internet". In 2018 she published the book "Don Kihot in Slovenia or how Internet has come in Slovenia". The book was published by eBesede and Jožef Stefan institut. The book introduces the history of computer networks development in the world and the work related to the first internet line in Slovenia in 1991. The independence of Slovenia and turmoil on the Balkans in that time are presented in the book as well.
References
Women Internet pioneers
Internet pioneers
Internet Society people
Engineers from Ljubljana
Livi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Access%20Network | Northern Access Network was a Canadian unlicensed television system which broadcast videotaped programming to remote Canadian communities in the late 1970s. Although short-lived and often in conflict with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission over its lack of a broadcast license, the service did have the effect of forcing Canada's major commercial television networks to add rebroadcast transmitters in a number of communities they had previously ignored.
The service's operator, David Brough, told The Globe and Mail in 1978 that his ultimate goal was to operate five transmitters in each community: two general entertainment channels to rebroadcast content from CTV and Global, a French channel to rebroadcast content from TVA (and Radio-Canada, where that service was not already available), an educational programming service and a local community channel. In actual practice, only one station was actually set up in each community, which aired either English-only or English and French programming depending on local market needs.
In the Globe interview, Brough clarified that his position was that he was simply using a different technological method to deliver a service legally and ethically no different from a cable television provider. The networks, however, viewed his methods as copyright infringement.
History
Brough was a special education teacher at an institution for the mentally challenged and an entertainer for the Toronto-based Uncle Bobby children's TV series. In 1969 Brough travelled throughout remote northern Canada as a solo performer. During these tours he noted the lack of radio and television service in many regions and developed methods to bring television to remote Canadian communities. In 1971, Brough created a prototype television program in Yellowknife using portable videotape technology and demonstrated this to the CBC's board of directors. When the CBC rejected his proposals for extending television service,
Brough then developed an inexpensive television system which could be installed in remote communities. The station depended on taped programming which would be shipped to the station, rather than on microwave or satellite transmissions. A camera was available at the station for local broadcasts. Brough installed the first Northern Access Network station at Pickle Lake, Ontario in December 1976 with support by Umex, the operator of a local mine. Operating costs of recording and shipping programming tapes were covered with subscriber fees through a locally-run trust fund.
The television channel was not licensed by the CRTC. When police attempted to confiscate the station's equipment, local miners and loggers defended the station by chopping down trees to block Highway 599.
A Northern Access Network station was opened at Longlac, Ontario in 1977. French programming was included on that station to support the predominantly francophone community. Previously, only the CBC English network television servi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreenButton | GreenButton was a NewZealand–based software firm. The company specialized in moving independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprises to cloud computing. Founded in 2006, GreenButton was based in Wellington, New Zealand, with additional offices in Palo Alto, California, and Seattle.
GreenButton was acquired by Microsoft on 2 May 2014; its technologies were integrated into its Azure service.
History
GreenButton was founded as InterGrid in 2006 in Wellington, New Zealand, to provide small-scale customers access to job processors.
The company helped software vendors use cloud computing, offering a service called GreenButton in July 2010.
In 2011, the company was renamed to GreenButton, and they joined the Microsoft Partner Network. In 2011, GreenButton was declared as Microsoft Corp's Windows Azure ISV Partner of the Year. They won the 2011 New Zealand Partner of the Year Award from Microsoft New Zealand.
In May 2011, GreenButton allied with Microsoft.
It included an investment reported at more than US$1 million, and adding Mark Canepa to its board of directors.
GreenButton won BizSpark Partner of the Year and Software Exporter of the Year awards from MS New Zealand in 2011. Dave Fellows of GreenButton won the Solutions Architect of the Year award that year.
In December 2011, GreenButton opened two offices in the United States. The office at Palo Alto, California, functioned as the US headquarters. The second was as a sales office in Seattle.
GreenButton was a finalist for the New Zealand Hi-Tech awards.
The company had a total turnover of $1.5 million for the fiscal year 2011–12.
GreenButton partnered with the Pixar Animation Studios and Microsoft's cloud computing platform Windows Azure, on a rendering service for RenderMan image-generating software announced in January 2012. The service enhances the RenderMan Interface Specification.
In June 2012, GreenButton announced a partnership with the GNS Science of New Zealand and American based Stillwater Group for cloud computing during seismic processing. The company promoted software which integrated seismic processing to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud service. Seismic processing is part of the oil and natural gas exploration process, and requires heavy processing of data.
In 2012 GreenButton entered into a partnership with Numerix, an American company that develops software for risk analysis of financial derivatives.
It won an award at the 2012 Wellington Gold awards.
On 2 May 2014, GreenButton announced its acquisition by Microsoft with its technology integrated into Microsoft Azure. GreenButton stopped accepting new customers on the same day.
After its acquisition GreenButton now operates under Microsoft Azure product line as Azure Batch.
References
External links
Microsoft acquisitions
Cloud infrastructure
Cloud computing providers
Cloud platforms
Cloud storage
Defunct software companies of New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFL%20on%20TNN | The AFL on TNN is a TV program from TNN Sports that showed Arena Football League games on The National Network (now Paramount Network) from the 2000 season through 2002.
Background
The year 2000 brought a heightened interest in the AFL after Kurt Warner, who spent three years as quarterback of the AFL's Iowa Barnstormers, rose to fame as starting quarterback for The Greatest Show on Turf, the Super Bowl-winning offense of the then-St. Louis Rams. While many sports commentators and fans continued to ridicule the league, Warner's story gave the league positive exposure, and it brought the league a new television deal with TNN, who would televise regular season games live on Sunday afternoons.
The TNN deal coincided with the league's emergence as one with a major presence on the North American continent. Major markets such as Chicago, Detroit, Dallas, and Los Angeles, each of which had lacked franchises for many years, returned to the league, it received its first and only franchise in Canada (the Toronto Phantoms), and teams in smaller markets such as Albany and Iowa were relocated. In 2001, the league peaked at 19 teams.
Included in the deal for the league was the right to broadcast the ArenaCup, the championship for the newly established arenafootball2, conceived as a minor league for metropolitan areas too small to support arena football as a major sport. ArenaCups I and II were carried on TNN.
Commentators
Jill Arrington – Arrington was the host of the Arena Football League's pregame show on TNN as well as the sideline reporter for arena football games for 3 seasons.
Ed Cunningham – after his football career, he became a football analyst for TNN (now known as Paramount Network) calling games for the Arena Football League with Eli Gold as his broadcast partner.
Eli Gold – best known for his work calling NASCAR, also radio "Voice of the Crimson Tide".
John Jurkovic – former NFL player who called af2's Arena Cup 2001 with Eli Gold on TNN.
Mark May – former NFL player who called AFL games, replacing Ed Cunningham, as well as af2's Arena Cup 2000 with Eli Gold on TNN Sports. (Now with ESPN.)
End
TNN's coverage of the AFL ended after the 2002 season. In 2003, NBC Sports, who had attempted to establish the XFL (a league that TNN had concurrently carried) as an alternative to the National Football League in 2001 but failed to establish a permanent audience for it, tried again by signing an exclusive rights deal with the Arena Football League. TNN itself was moving away from live sports, at the time transitioning to a network named Spike TV.
2000 American television series debuts
2003 American television series endings
TNN
The Nashville Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Cook | Gordon Cook (born December 3, 1978, in Toronto) is a two-time Canadian Olympic sailor. He sails for the Royal Canadian Yacht Club. He is the son of computer scientist Stephen Cook.
Cook is a graduate of the Engineering Physics program at Queen's University. At Queen's University, he also met his 2012 Olympic team partner Ben Remocker, where they were members of the university sailing team. Cook and Remocker became the first Canadians to sail a 49er in an Olympic Regatta at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, where they finished 14th.
In 2009 Cook partnered up with West Vancouver sailor Hunter Lowden and the two campaigned together for the 2012 Olympic games. While Cook and Lowden did not make the first round of qualifications at the 2011 ISAF worlds in December 2011 they did qualify at the 2012 49er worlds in Croatia making Cook the only person ever to represent Canada twice in the 49er Class at the Olympic Games. Cook and Lowden came third in the first race of the 49er class in the 2012 Olympic games, but did not qualify for the medal race.
References
Canadian male sailors (sport)
Living people
Olympic sailors for Canada
Sailors at the 2008 Summer Olympics – 49er
Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – 49er
1978 births
Sportspeople from Toronto
Queen's University at Kingston alumni
Canadian people of American descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edraw%20Max | Edraw Max is a 2D business technical diagramming software which helps create flowcharts, organizational charts, mind map, network diagrams, floor plans, workflow diagrams, business charts, and engineering diagrams. The current version, Edraw Max 11.5.0 was released in November 2021 for Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. Edraw Max is a Visio-like diagramming tool.
Main features
Edraw Max can be used to create diagrams or charts with its built-in editable symbols and templates for a range of categories.
The current version, Edraw Max, is available in two editions: Free Viewer Version and Professional Editable Version. The latter has additional templates and examples for creating diagrams.
Compatibility
Windows
2000/2003/2008/Vista/7/8/10
32 bit/64 bit
XP Edraw Max Version 8.4
Mac
Mac OS X 10.10 and later
Linux
Linux OS X Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mint, Knoppix, RedHat, Gentoo and more.
Minimum system requirements
1GB of RAM
1G processor
800 MB of hard disk space
1024 * 768 monitor resolution
File format
Edraw Max saves content in an XML file format. The .eddx suffix is the default file format. The .edxz suffix is a compressed XML file format used for sharing.
Versions
Below is a list of updates from Edraw Max 1.0 to the present.
See also
List of concept- and mind-mapping software
References
External links
Diagramming software
Technical communication tools
Windows graphics-related software
UML tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wargame%20%28hacking%29 | In hacking, a wargame (or war game) is a cyber-security challenge and mind sport in which the competitors must exploit or defend a vulnerability in a system or application, and/or gain or prevent access to a computer system.
A wargame usually involves a capture the flag logic, based on pentesting, semantic URL attacks, knowledge-based authentication, password cracking, reverse engineering of software (often JavaScript, C and assembly language), code injection, SQL injections, cross-site scripting, exploits, IP address spoofing, forensics, and other hacking techniques.
Wargames for preparedness
Wargames are also used as a method of cyberwarfare preparedness. The NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) organizes an annual event, Locking Shields, which is an international live-fire cyber exercise. The exercise challenges cyber security experts through real-time attacks in fictional scenarios and is used to develop skills in national IT defense strategies.
Additional applications
Wargames can be used to teach the basics of web attacks and web security, giving participants a better understanding of how attackers exploit security vulnerabilities. Wargames are also used as a way to "stress test" an organization's response plan and serve as a drill to identify gaps in cyber disaster preparedness.
See also
Hackathon - computer programming marathon
DEF CON - largest hacker convention
Software Freedom Day - Linux and Open Source event
Campus Party - massive LAN Party
Cyberwarfare preparedness
CTF
References
External links
WeChall – list of wargame websites
security.stackexchange.com - hacking competitions
CTFtime - worldwide CTF tracking site
Hacking (computer security)
Computer security
Cyberwarfare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%27s%20Gone%20to%20the%20Rapture | Everybody's Gone to the Rapture is an adventure video game developed by The Chinese Room and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game is a story-based game, taking place in a small English village whose inhabitants have mysteriously disappeared. It is considered a spiritual successor to Dear Esther, also by The Chinese Room. It was released for PlayStation 4 on 11 August 2015 and for Windows on 14 April 2016. It received positive reviews from critics.
Gameplay
In Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, the player explores a small English village whose inhabitants have mysteriously disappeared. The player can interact with floating lights throughout the world, most of which can reveal parts of the story. The player can interact with objects such as doors, radios, phones, fences, and power switches.
Plot
The game takes place in 1984 in a fictional Shropshire village named Yaughton. The player's objective is to explore and try to discover how and why everyone in the village has disappeared. Mysterious floating orbs of light swim around the air and lead the player to scenes made up of other human-shaped lights, which re-enact various previously occurring events. Following the orbs' evidence from scene-to-scene across the valley, as well as finding telephones and radios that replay conversations, recordings, and broadcasts, eventually provide all of the puzzle pieces to the game's main event, the "rapture".
There are five areas in the game, each of which revolve around a different character, with the main protagonists being Dr Katherine "Kate" Collins and her husband, Stephen Appleton, both scientists at the observatory. During their work, Kate and Stephen encounter a strange pattern of lights in the night sky which they believe is an unknown form of life. They observe the pattern infecting and sometimes killing other lifeforms such as birds and cows, before spreading to humans. Kate concludes that the pattern is attempting to communicate with humans, ignorant to the harm that it is causing them. She locks herself in the observatory and spends the vast majority of the story attempting to communicate with it. During this time, Stephen becomes convinced that the pattern is a deadly threat capable of destroying the human race.
Most of the valley's inhabitants begin to succumb to symptoms of unexplained hemorrhaging; pressure in the brain that is normally consistent with a brain tumor, as the doctor notes in a left-behind recording. Other people disappear, leaving behind a room full of odd specks of light and the lingering scent of unidentifiable ash. Convinced that this is connected to the pattern and that it will spread beyond the village if not contained, Stephen urges the local government to quarantine the area, blocking the roads and cutting the telephone lines. The locals are told that it is due to an outbreak of Spanish flu, though many are skeptical of this and become even more so when the corpses of the dead begin to disappear into thin ai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dren%2C%20Prilep | Dren () is a village in Municipality of Prilep.
Demographics
As of the 2021 census, Dren had 10 residents with the following ethnic composition:
Macedonians 9
Persons for whom data are taken from administrative sources 1
According to the 2002 census, the village had a total of 10 inhabitants. Ethnic groups in the village include:
Macedonians 10
References
Villages in Prilep Municipality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insured%20Network%20Deposit | The Insured Network Deposits (IND) service was a deposit sweep service for broker-dealers and other custodians of funds. In 2021, the service was reconfigured with several other services offered by IntraFi Network (formerly Promontory Interfinancial Network) into IntraFi Network Deposits and IntraFi Funding.
Using the service, broker-dealers automatically transfer, or “sweep,” unused cash balances from customer brokerage accounts to interest-bearing deposit accounts at banks insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and savings associations. The banks may be affiliated or unaffiliated with the broker-dealer.
By sweeping funds to multiple banks, broker-dealers that use the IND service offer their customers access to FDIC insurance at multiple banks and, therefore, in larger amounts than the standard FDIC insurance limit for any one bank. Use of a deposit sweep service is an alternative to sweeping funds to money market mutual funds, which are not FDIC insured. This service also provides relatively stable floating-rate funding to banks and savings associations.
References
External links
IND official website
Financial services companies of the United States
2002 establishments in the United States
2002 establishments in Virginia
Companies based in Arlington County, Virginia
Financial services companies established in 2002
Companies established in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informix%20Corporation | Informix Corporation was a software company located in Menlo Park, California. It was a developer of relational database software for computers using the Unix, Microsoft Windows, and Apple Macintosh operating systems.
Timeline
1980: Relational Database Systems Inc. was created by Roger Sippl.
1986: The company changed its name to Informix Corporation and went public, raising $9 million.
1989: Phillip E. White took over as chief executive.
1996: Informix acquired Illustra Information Technologies, an object/relational database company. Universal Web Architecture, which makes use of Illustra and Online Dynamic Server, was announced in November.
1997: Informix was rocked by charges of accounting fraud and illegal insider trading.
1998: Informix acquired Red Brick Systems, founded by Ralph Kimball, a data warehouse database company.
2000: Informix acquired Ardent, a data management company.
2001: Informix sold its database subsidiary, Informix Software, to IBM, and renamed itself Ascential Software.
2005: IBM acquired Ascential Software.
History
Informix Software was a software company which sold database products, desktop software and development tools, and information integration products from 1980 until 2005, becoming approximately a $1 billion company in the process. The company was active in the Unix, PC, Linux and Macintosh markets, and grew through both organic development and acquisitions. Its best known products were the Informix databases, of which there were several different families. Other well known products included a development environment called 4GL, a spreadsheet called Wingz, and a data warehouse oriented database system called Redbrick, and the Ascential information integration family of products.
The Informix brand and database products were acquired by IBM in 2001, and several of the most popular products remain on the market and are continuing to be enhanced by IBM. For information on the current Informix branded database software products see the article IBM Informix.
At the time of the acquisition of Informix by IBM a smaller spin-off company was created, Ascential Software, focused on the information integration and ETL markets. Ascential Software was later acquired by IBM as well, in 2005.
Founding and early history
Founders Roger Sippl and Laura King worked at Cromemco, an early S-100/CP/M company, where they developed a small relational database based on ISAM techniques, as a part of a report-writer software package. Sippl and King left Cromemco to found Relational Database Systems (RDS) in 1980. Their first product, Marathon, was essentially a 16-bit version of their earlier ISAM work, made available first on the C8000 from Onyx Systems.
At RDS, they turned their attention to the emerging RDBMS market and released their own product as Informix (INFORMation on unIX) in 1981. It included their own Informer language. It featured the ACE report writer, which is used to extract data from the database an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligola%20%28music%20project%29 | Caligola is a worldwide network of artists founded in Northern Italy in the 1970s, active in the underground of Stockholm (Sweden). In 2008, the artists' collective was joined by the two Swedish musicians Björn Dixgård and Gustaf Norén.
History
The artists' collective, Caligola, was founded in the 1970s in Northern Italy. Her intention was to develop a worldwide collective of artists spanning diverse artistic genres to cooperatively create new art forms.
The name Caligola is derived from the Roman emperor Caligula who is most famous for his lavish, excessive style of living and his madness that reached its height when he made his favourite horse a Senator. Hence the two stallions in the music project's logo, referring both to Caligula and music's sexual energy.
According to Gustaf Norén, the artists' collective Caligola is based on the idea of building a community; the black capes worn by performers represent the equality of artists and the renunciation of their differences. Their goal is to overcome conventions and borders and to expand and connect art in all its forms.
In 2008 Björn Dixgård and Gustaf Norén, the two frontmen of the Swedish rock band Mando Diao joined the International network of artists. The Swedish hip-hop producers Masse and Salla Salazar (The Salazar Brothers TSB), who are also members of the collective, produced Mando Diao's fifth album, “Give Me Fire” (2009) and, together with Dixgård and Norén, they launched the "Caligola music project" which was active in 2011 and 2012. In 2013, the project was put to an end.
Development
The first public performance of Caligola took place at the after-show party of Rock am Ring Festival at the Nürburgring (Germany) in June 2011.
The project's first release was the video Sting Of Battle on Dec. 8, 2011 and the eponymous single on December 27, 2011.
Forgive Forget, the second single from the album Back To Earth, was released on February 24, 2012.
Following the two singles, the album Back To Earth was released on March 2, 2012. The album is an amalgamation of different musical genres: pop, rock and soul, hip-hop, dance beats, jazz, funk and electro.
On November 2012, the re-release of "Back To Earth", Back To Earth - Resurrection, containing eight new songs, was published.
Alongside the founders of the music project, artists Natty Silver (reggae), Agnes (pop), Per "Rusträk" Johansson (jazz saxophone), Nils Jansson (jazz trumpet), Oskar Bonde (drums, Johnossi), Bo Hansson and Janne Carlsson (jazz), LaGalyia Frazier (gospel) and Paul van Dyk (DJ) participated in the recording. Other artists contributing to the album are: May Yamani, Lovisa Inserra, Bernd Harbauer, Frederik Andersson, Carlos Barth, Paulo Arraiano, Julia Dufvenius, Daniel Haglund, Ulises Infante, Alexandra Kinga Fekete, Daniel Annbjer, Carl-Johan Fogelklou, Marcelo Scorsese, Patrik Heikinpieti, Natty Silver, Malin-My Nilsson, Chepe Salazar, Jonte Wentzel, Andrea Doria Smith, Robert Bendrik, Krippe Ibaceta, Martina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamid%20Ahmadi | Hamid Ahmadi can refer to:
Hamid Ahmadi (historian) (b. 1945), Iranian historian
Hamid Ahmadi (futsal) (b. 1988), Iranian futsal player
Hamid Ahmadi (computer scientist), computer scientist for Motorola |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shootout%20%281985%20video%20game%29 | is a 1985 arcade target shooting game developed and published by Data East.
Gameplay
Player controls with two buttons and an 8-way joystick. One button shoots the gun, the other allows the player to jump enemy bullets and other attacks. The 8-way joystick is used to specify the direction of movement, pointing down to crouch and the different up directions to indicate angle of the shot.
At the start of the game, the player is given an option to practice in the target practice room, which is similar to a standard shooting gallery game with targets that don't fire back. They then play through the main game, consisting of 7 stages to beat the game. In the main game, the player faces human enemies who fire back at the player, often while taking cover behind objects/buildings and popping out from behind cover to fire at the player.
The game will loop after the 7th stage is completed. In stages 1 through 8, the object is to shoot a certain number of criminals and avoid shooting civilians. If the player is hit by an enemy or if the player shoots a civilian, the player will lose a life. When all lives are lost, the game ends. Besides criminals and civilians, some objects in the backgrounds of the seven stages can be shot to earn extra points, such as amusement park rides and signs.
Technical specifications
The following are the technical specifications for the game's arcade hardware.
Main CPU : M6502 (@ 2 MHz)
Sound CPU : M6502 (@ 1.5 MHz)
Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 1.5 MHz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 240 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 256
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Shootout on their August 15, 1985 issue as being the tenth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
Mike Roberts and Steve Phipps of Computer Gamer magazine reviewed the game, giving it a positive review, calling it "a target shooting game with a difference." They noted that, in contrast to a standard shooting gallery with targets that don't fire back, the enemies in Shoutout fire back at the player while often taking cover and popping out from cover.
Clare Edgeley of Computer and Video Games magazine gave it a positive review. She noted the enemies "crop up in the most unexpected places" and said it was "as much fun as" Sega's Bank Panic (1984) and Nintendo's Hogan's Alley (1984). She concluded, "Take your pick, all three are great fun."
Notes
References
External links
Shootout at Arcade History
Shootout Flyer at Arcade Flyer’s Museum
Shootout Manual at The Internet Archive
1985 video games
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Cabal shooters
Data East arcade games
Data East video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Multiplayer hotseat games
Organized crime video games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set in the 1930s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Vere%20Tooley | Ronald Vere Tooley (29 September 1898 - 12 October 1986) was an English map dealer, an authority on early maps and cartographers, a noted compiler of catalogues on maps, cartography and antiquarian books, author of Maps and Map-makers, and founder of the Map Collectors' Circle which published a series of monographs on historical cartography in the period 1963-1975. He is considered the founder of the antiquarian map trade.
Tooley was born on Michaelmas and adopted the nickname "Mick".
Career
Tooley was born and raised in Islington, London, and educated at the City of London School. Towards the end of World War I he enlisted in the Queen's Westminster Rifles. After his basic training he left for France and took part in the Battle of Cambrai, where he was one of 120 survivors from an initial force of 400 men. On being demobilised in 1919 and having no definite career plans, he came across an illustrated catalogue of antiquarian books, published by James Tregaskis of Great Russell Street. The idea of working in the bookselling field appealed to him, and armed with a letter of introduction he made the acquaintance of Francis Edwards Ltd., and was summarily employed.
After World War I the book trade enjoyed a time of relative prosperity, but with the Wall Street collapse in 1929, economic depression hit the commercial sector in many countries, the secondhand book trade being no exception. In the 1930s Tooley left Francis Edwards Ltd and opened The Atlas Bookshop, just off Charing Cross Road, and started dealing almost exclusively in antiquarian maps. Between 1932 and 1934 he collaborated with a Mr M. Sinelnikoff of Orion Booksellers Ltd. Sinelnikoff's passion was old maps, charts and globes, and with Tooley's interest, a fertile conjunction of scholarly minds was created. Tooley had always been interested in Colour Plate books, and in 1935 Batsford published his first book on the subject Some English Books with Coloured Plates. When The Atlas Bookshop closed in 1936 Tooley started work at the Parker Gallery in Albemarle Street - the firm specialising in military and sporting prints as well as old maps. With the outbreak of World War II in 1939 Tooley found work as a telephone operator, but still worked with old books and maps in his spare time.
In 1946 the management of Francis Edwards Ltd, keenly aware of Tooley's considerable business expertise and knowledge of old maps, invited him to rejoin the firm. Here he continued his research, spending long hours in the Map Room of the British Museum. His talents soon led to his being appointed a director of the firm. In 1949 his second book Maps & Map-makers was published, praised as a sound introduction and guide to a complex field, and running to many editions. Tooley retired from Francis Edwards Ltd in 1975 and in 1979 joined Peter Scott and Peter Kalms in setting up a new company R.V.Tooley Ltd, he was joined by his stepson Douglas Adams and in October 1979 his stepson Stephen Luck joined them, firs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covey%20Award | The Covey Award was established in 2008 by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy, to recognise "accomplished innovative research, and possibly teaching that flows from that research, in the field of computing and philosophy broadly conceived" .
The award is assigned annually, by the association's Executive Committee. It is meant for senior researchers, while the "Goldberg Graduate Award" is meant to recognise the achievements of graduate students.
Examples of areas that are of interest to the committee in selecting candidates for the Covey Award include: computational philosophy, the philosophy of artificial intelligence, information and computer ethics and the philosophy of information.
The association selected the name of Preston Covey for this award because his life's work exemplified a philosophical concern with computer-related research and teaching.
Winners
Recipients include:
2009: Edward N. Zalta (Stanford University)
2010: John R. Searle (University of California, Berkeley)
2011: Terrell Bynum (Southern Connecticut State University)
2012: Luciano Floridi (University of Hertfordshire)
2013: Margaret Boden (University of Sussex)
2014: Selmer Bringsjord (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
2015: William J. Rapaport (University at Buffalo)
2016: Jack Copeland (University of Canterbury)
2017: Raymond Turner (University of Essex)
2018: Deborah G. Johnson (University of Virginia)
2019: John Weckert (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
2020: (not awarded)
2021: Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech)
2022: Shannon Vallor (University of Edinburgh)
2023: Oron Shagrir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
See also
List of psychology awards
External links
The Covey Award website at the IACAP
The Goldberg Graduate Award website at the IACAP
Awards established in 2008
Cognitive science awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKIDATA | SKIDATA GmbH is an Austrian company which has installed more than 10,000 access systems for people and vehicles in various sectors. These include Airports, Cities, Operators, Shopping Malls, Office Buildings, Educational Buildings, Hospitals, Mountain Destinations, Hotels, Stadiums & Arenas.
History
In 1977, Günther Walcher developed the first electronically printed tickets and cash registers, and thus replaced the handwritten ski passes previously used. To market and further develop these innovations, SKIDATA was founded in Grödig bei Salzburg. In 1979, the first cash register was implemented that used an electromagnetic stamp unit to print tickets. The System 320 was released in 1981; it consisted of a register computer and an automated output device.
In 1979, The System 320 was brought to market. It consisted of a register computer, an automated output device and an access reader. The access system supported seamless billing and connected larger ski regions.
At the end of the 1980s, SKIDATA released the first access systems with hands-free technology. SKIDATA developed the first hands-free ski ticket – the Keycard. SKIDATA utilizes "hands-free" technology, also known as RFID technology. SKIDATA expanded its business from ski destinations to parking management.
In 1989, SKIDATA introduced machines that allowed drivers to enter facilities and pay by credit card at the parking lot entry.
In 1991, the Düsseldorf Airport was equipped.
In 1992, the company equipped its first international airport, Munich Airport, with a parking management system.
In 1995, the company partnered with the Swiss company Swatch to develop watches that also provide access authorization.
In 1997, French chip card maker Gemplus becomes majority shareholder of SKIDATA.
In 2001, Takeover by the Swiss Kudelski Group in 2001, opens new markets.
In 2007, SKIDATA began its operations in India, alongside a local partner, setting up a business partnership. This endeavor expanded into a joint venture in 2009, known as SKIDATA (India) Pvt Ltd, with SKIDATA investing a 49% equity stake and Hinditron providing the remaining 51%.
During its tenure, SKIDATA (India) Pvt Ltd has achieved prominent car access references across various sectors in India. Its clientele includes GMR Hyderabad International Airport, Bangalore International Airport, Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Inorbit Mall (Malad & Vashi), Oberoi Mall, and DLF (Emporio, Saket, Vasant Kunj), amongst others.
Additionally, SKIDATA (India) Pvt Ltd has distinguished itself by securing major projects such as 10 Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) cricket stadiums in Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Ranchi, Pune, Mohali, and Hyderabad, along with a Formula One stadium at Buddh International Circuit.
In 2010, SKIDATA fully equipped Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport as a parking client.
In 2014, SKIDATA set up subsidiaries in Brazil, India, Uruguay, Malaysia and T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrews%20plot | In data visualization, an Andrews plot or Andrews curve is a way to visualize structure in high-dimensional data. It is basically a rolled-down, non-integer version of the Kent–Kiviat radar m chart, or a smoothed version of a parallel coordinate plot. It is named after the statistician David F. Andrews.
A value is a high-dimensional datapoint if it is an element of . We can represent high-dimensional data with a number for each of their dimensions, . To visualize them, the Andrews plot defines a finite Fourier series:
This function is then plotted for . Thus each data point may be viewed as a line between and . This formula can be thought of as the projection of the data point onto the vector:
If there is structure in the data, it may be visible in the Andrews curves of the data.
These curves have been utilized in fields as different as biology, neurology, sociology and semiconductor manufacturing. Some of their uses include the quality control of products, the detection of period and outliers in time series, the visualization of learning in artificial neural networks, and correspondence analysis.
Theoretically, it is possible to project them onto an n-sphere. The projection onto the circle results in the aforementioned radar chart.
References
Data visualization
Statistical charts and diagrams
Applied mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAT%C4%B0H%20project | Movement to Increase Opportunities and Technology or FATİH Project () is a project of the Turkish government which seeks to integrate state-of-the-art computer technology into Turkey's public education system. On November 22, 2010, then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan initiated the project.
Name
The acronym "fatih" is a word play about the conqueror of Istanbul, Fatih Sultan Mehmet. Like the famous sultan, the FATİH project also aims to open a new era.
The project
With the initiation of the FATİH project, classes will receive smart boards, students will receive tablet computers and classes will be enriched with the use of e-books. The project has been completely designed by Turkish engineers. All state schools spanning from preschools all the way to high school level will receive a total of 620,000 smart boards, while tablet computers will be distributed to 17 million students and approximately one million teachers and administrators. This project, which is being conducted by the Ministry of National Education and supported by the Ministry of Transportation is expected to be completed in 2015.
Content
The tablet computers which will be distributed to students, are loaded with e-books. In addition to books, tablets include class lessons, sounds, animations and graphics. Both teachers and students are restricted from entering all websites. Only websites that have been selected by educators and specialists and passed through the Ministry of National Education's filtering system and deemed harmless are granted access. Teachers are able to check on their own tablets whether or not a student is following the course. If a student is found straying from the lesson, teachers have the capability to lock a student's computer. Although "success (or failure) may depend .... on ... groups outside the formal education sector" login to the main content site was only available to state schools.
Financing
The pilot stage for the tablets was conducted with Samsung and General Mobile via the State Materials Office. For every 4,800 tablets purchased from Samsung, each one cost 775 TL. For every 4,000 tablets purchased by General Mobile, each cost 599 TL. For every smart board purchased from Vestel, 3,990 TL will be paid out.
In order to protect the software against sales, the tablet computers will shut down automatically if they go two weeks without accessing a smart board.
Analysis
Education Reform Initiative and RTI International have collaborated on a policy note on the project. In summary:
One recommendation is that "The MoNE and FAİIH would benefit from a communication plan that more effectively
disseminates information about the project, and seeks feedback in a meaningful way (and one
which is open to the possibility of change based on feedback)."
References
External links
Education in Turkey
2010 establishments in Turkey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20and%20nominations%20received%20by%20Arrested%20Development | Arrested Development is an American television sitcom that aired for three seasons on the Fox network from November 2, 2003 to February 10, 2006, and began streaming a fourth season on Netflix on May 26, 2013. The show centers on the Bluth family, a formerly wealthy, habitually dysfunctional family, and is presented in a continuous format, incorporating hand-held camera work, narration, archival photos, and historical footage.
Since its debut, the series has earned widespread critical acclaim and has been nominated for a variety of different awards. Arrested Development has received nominations for twenty-five Primetime Emmy Awards (six wins for the series, including Outstanding Comedy Series in 2004), eight TCA Awards (three wins), four Golden Globe Awards (one win), three Writers Guild of America Awards (one win), five Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Producers Guild of America Awards, among other awards.
Lead actor Jason Bateman has been nominated for ten individual awards for his role as Michael Bluth, the President of the Bluth Company, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series and two Satellite Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series. Series creator Mitchell Hurwitz won three Primetime Emmy Awards from six nominations for his role as a writer and producer of the series. Arrested Development has been nominated for 82 awards and has won 30.
Emmy Awards
Awarded since 1949, the Primetime Emmy Award is an annual accolade bestowed by members of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences recognizing outstanding achievements in American prime time television programming. Awards presented for more technical and production-based categories (like art direction, casting, and editing) are designated "Creative Arts Emmy Awards." Arrested Development has been nominated for a total of twenty-two awards and won six.
Primetime Emmy Awards
Barbie Feldman Adler, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Victor Hsu, Mitchell Hurwitz, John Levenstein, Chuck Martin, David Nevins, Richard Rosenstock
Barbie Adler, John Amodeo, Brad Copeland, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Mitchell Hurwitz, Chuck Martin, David Nevins, Richard Rosenstock, Jim Vallely
John Amodeo, Richard Day, Brian Grazer, Ron Howard, Mitchell Hurwitz, Dean Lorey, David Nevins, Tom Saunders, Chuck Tatham, Jim Vallely, Ron Weiner
Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards
Golden Globe Awards
The Golden Globe Award is an annual accolade bestowed by members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing outstanding achievements in film and television. Arrested Development has been nominated for four awards and won one.
Producers Guild of America Awards
The Producers Guild of America Award is an annual accolade bestowed by the Producers Guild of America in recognition of outstanding achievements in film and television, since 1990. Arrested Development has been nominated for three awards.
Satellite Awards
The Satellite Award is an annual accolade bestowed by members of the Interna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20First%20Olympics%3A%20Athens%201896 | The First Olympics: Athens 1896 is a 1984 American television miniseries produced by Columbia Pictures Television for broadcast by the NBC network. This television miniseries tells the story of the founding of the modern Olympics by focusing on individuals in several countries and their preparations and eventual competition in Athens in 1896. The two-part mini-series originally aired in the United States on May 20, 1984.
Plot
The preparation and events leading up to the inaugural modern Olympic Games held in Athens, 1896. The movie examines the experience of competitors from different nations, but especially concentrates on the creation of the first American Olympic team and their trials in getting to the Olympics in Athens. The series ends with a voice over giving brief descriptions of the various historical individuals that took part.
Cast
Louis Jourdan as Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the International Olympic Committee
David Ogden Stiers as William Milligan Sloane, founder of the United States Olympic Committee
Hunt Block as Robert Garrett, United States athlete
David Caruso as James Brendan Connolly, United States athlete
Alex Hyde-White as Arthur Blake, United States athlete
Hutton Cobb as Thomas Burke, United States athlete
Jason Connery as Thomas Curtis, United States athlete
Ian Morton as Ellery Harding Clark, United States athlete
William Armstrong as William Hoyt, United States athlete
Aaron Swartz as Herbert Jamison, United States athlete
Keith Edwards as Albert Tyler, United States athlete
Terrance Conder as Sumner Paine, United States athlete
Peter Merrill as John Paine, United States athlete
Matt Frewer as Francis Lane, United States athlete
Robert Addie as Grantley Goulding, British athlete
Benedict Taylor as Edwin Flack, Australian athlete
Nicos Ziagos as Spiridon Louis, Greek athlete
Edward Wiley as John Graham, American coach
Angela Lansbury as Alice Garrett, Robert Garrett's mother
Honor Blackman as Madam Ursula Schumann
Gayle Hunnicutt as Mary Sloane
Bill Travers as Harold Flack
Virginia McKenna as Annabel Flack
Historical inaccuracies in the series
Louis Jourdan was 63 when he played the role of Pierre de Coubertin, who was 33 in 1896. He was also considerably taller than Pierre de Coubertin.
James Connolly is told by Coach Graham and the dean of students at Harvard that he and Arthur Blake will be volunteering for the new U.S. Olympic Team as punishment for fighting with each other. In reality, after Connolly was denied a leave of absence to compete in the Games, he dropped out and competed anyway.
It is noted that Edwin Flack is from a family of butchers, and he would be interrupting his studies at Oxford University to compete in the Games. In reality, he was taking a month's holiday from his job as an accountant at the firm of Price, Waterhouse, and Company, which later bought out his family's firm.
Three Greek flags are raised after the finish of the Marathon. However, it is not |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecodesk | Ecodesk is a cloud based data platform used by corporate businesses to track, monitor and report their ESG data.
Data relating to environmental, social and governance subject areas is input to the platform for use in reporting to stakeholders via standards such as CDP, GRI, GHG Protocol or for use by businesses to engage stakeholders in their sustainability achievements.
Ecodesk was founded by the successful entrepreneur Robert Clarke in Australia in 2007, and migrated to the UK in 2010. In 2018, Ecodesk received the highly acclaimed ISAR Honours Award from UNCTAD in recognition of its work building a digital platform for mapping the non-financial reporting landscape in conjunction with WBCSD's Redefining Values programme, CDSB and with support from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Services
Ecodesk enables organisations to improve the management and performance of their supply chain and to reduce their inherent risk through the collection and aggregation of ESG data presented. Ecodesk is not a ratings or rankings provider but does provide flexible supplier scorecard solutions via what is termed an SAQ (self-assessment questionnaire). Like most software providers in the market it displays data to enterprise users in the form of dashboards and digital reporting functions.
The SaaS platform is supported by a managed service aspect which helps suppliers with their data submission and understanding their non-financial reporting obligations. The platform is free-to-use for entities responding to a data request and levies a charge for enterprise users to connect with their extended supply chains. This unique approach of "free data" entry and simple communication differentiates it from its competitors and encourages co-operation and data input at all levels.
See also
Carbon Disclosure Project
Supply chain management
Conflict minerals
Open data
References
External links
Ecodesk homepage
Open data isn't sexy, but it is very important
Ecodesk Adds Top Talent As Part Of Global Expansion Plan
Who uses open data?
Leading businesses address daunting scope 3 reporting
Can energy and carbon reporting rules affect the way companies do business?
Leading firms join Ecodesk to improve supply chain efficiency
Can reporting sustainability data make financial institutions more profitable?
Multinationals join supply chain reporting project
Environmental executive moves ecodesk
Ecodesk aims to improve supply chain emissions reporting
Packaging giants sign up to carbon emissions measuring scheme
Report or be damned why the industry is opening up to carbon
FM firms share data to drive sustainability
Leading businesses join sustainability reporting campaign
Guide to procurement analytics
Supply chains hold key to reducing energy and saving costs
Sustainability organizations
Organisations based in Bath, Somerset |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BD%20T%E1%BA%BF%20Xuy%C3%AAn | Lý Tế Xuyên (chữ Hán: 李濟川; fl. 1400) was a Vietnamese historian, compiler of the Việt Điện U Linh Tập (Collection of Stories on Spirits of the Departed in the Viet Realm). The text gives not the history of historical figures, but their roles as spirits in the afterlife according to Mahayana Buddhism.
References
14th-century Vietnamese historians
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Trần dynasty writers
15th-century Vietnamese historians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20Chicken%20DC%20Comics%20Special | Robot Chicken DC Comics Special is an episode of the television comedy series Robot Chicken and it was aired as a one-off special during Cartoon Network's Adult Swim on September 10, 2012.
A DC Universe special, in collaboration with DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation. Voice actors are Seth Green, Paul Reubens, Neil Patrick Harris, Alfred Molina, Nathan Fillion, Megan Fox, Breckin Meyer, and Kevin Shinick. The rest of the cast also includes Abraham Benrubi, Alex Borstein, Clare Grant, Tara Strong, Matthew Senreich, Aaron Paul, Steven Tyler, Tom Root, and Zeb Wells. It was followed by the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special 2: Villains in Paradise, which premiered April 6, 2014.
Segments
RCDC
Robot Chicken joins forces with DC Comics superheroes and supervillains.
You Can't Fly
Superman, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman have a laugh at Aquaman's expense.
That's Bane!
While staking out a robbery, Batman has his back broken by Bane.
Real Characters from the DC Universe
Meet B'dg, a squirrel who's a member of the Green Lantern Corps.
The Super Kiss
Parody of the scene in Superman II where Superman kisses Lois Lane to make her forget he's Superman. He decides to use his kissnesia on Lex Luthor, Darkseid, Solomon Grundy, Brainiac to make them forget why they hate him. It backfires on him when they show up at the Fortress of Solitude with flowers and candy as Superman claims that he should've though this through.
Two-Face's OCD
Two-Face cannot stop flipping his coin to make decisions, even when he goes to the bathroom. His latest coin flip has him not flushing the toilet much to the dismay of Penguin.
Cold Villains
Mr. Freeze, Captain Cold, Icicle, and Chillblaine all rob a jewelry auction, causing a problem between the four cold-themed villains. The cold-themed villains noticed that they took out some load-bearing walls. The building collapses as Ice is shown outside.
Funeral in Earth-C
Superman invites Batman and Green Lantern to Captain Carrot's funeral in Earth-C, but Green Lantern can't help himself from laughing at the other members of the Zoo Crew, causing him to abruptly leave. After Little Cheese comments on Green Lantern's insensitive behavior, Batman begins to snicker at his name.
Swamp Thing
Swamp Thing tries to get his girlfriend to understand his powers.
That's Bane! Again!
While recovering in the Batcave, Bane sneaks up on Batman and breaks his back over his knee again.
Real Characters from the DC Universe Pt. 2
Meet Firestorm, a "popular" and powerful superhero.
Out to Score
Batman, Superman, Aquaman, Green Lantern, and Flash hit the bar scene to pick up some ladies. But when Superman and Green Lantern strike out, Aquaman tries to pick up a woman who turns out to be Martian Manhunter in disguise causing him to go home, get drunk and try to have sex with a dolphin.
Doom Secret Santa
At the Legion of Doom's HQ, the Legion members draw names for Secret Santa as part of team building according to Lex Luthor. Sinestro draws |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sndio | sndio is the software layer of the OpenBSD operating system that manages sound cards and MIDI ports. It provides an optional sound server and a documented application programming interface to access either the server or the audio and MIDI hardware in a uniform way.
sndio is designed to work for desktop applications, but pays special attention to synchronization mechanisms and reliability required by music applications.
Features
The audio and MIDI server is the main component of sndio. It aims to fill the gap between programs requirements and the bare hardware as exposed by operating system device drivers. This includes:
perform re-sampling and format conversions; for instance to allow a program that requires 44.1 kHz sample frequency to use a device that supports 48 kHz only.
mix and route the sound of multiple programs; this allows multiple programs to use the audio device concurrently.
split an audio device into sub-devices, for instance allowing one program to use the front speakers and another program to use the rear speakers as they were independent simple stereo devices.
allow one program to record what other programs play.
control the volume.
route audio and MIDI data through the network; this allows programs running on one computer to use the sound card of another computer.
route MIDI data between programs, allowing one program to send MIDI data to another program as it was a hardware MIDI port. For instance for a MIDI sequencer to control a soft synthesizer.
start, stop and relocate synchronously a group of audio programs allowing multiple small programs to work together. This can be controlled through standard MIDI Machine Control (MMC) protocol, for instance from within a MIDI sequencer.
expose the sound card clock as MIDI timecode (MTC), allowing MIDI programs (e.g. sequencers) or MIDI hardware to be synchronized to audio streams.
The last few points are hooks in the sound server aiming to improve interoperability between audio and MIDI programs. The use of standard MIDI protocols for volume and synchronization control enables interoperability with MIDI software or hardware connected to a computer.
History
Minimal server capabilities were added to —an audio stream manipulation tool and predecessor to —in October 2008, shipping with OpenBSD 4.5. In December 2011, was renamed to and later shipped with OpenBSD 5.1 as the default sound server started at operating system boot.
Similar frameworks
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
JACK Audio Connection Kit
Open Sound System
PulseAudio
FreeBSD PCM audio device infrastructure
References
External links
BSD software
OpenBSD
Application programming interfaces
2008 software
Audio libraries
Free audio software
OpenBSD software using the ISC license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratchet%20%26%20Clank%3A%20Full%20Frontal%20Assault | Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault (known as Ratchet & Clank: QForce in PAL countries and Japan) is a 2012 platform game developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. Part of the Ratchet & Clank series, it was produced in commemoration of the original game's 10th anniversary. Like the previous downloadable game in the series, Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty, it was released on Blu-ray Disc as well as the PlayStation Store. The release of the PlayStation Vita version was delayed to May 21, 2013, when it became available for free with the PlayStation 3 version.
The game received mostly average reviews from critics. It was criticised for its short length, lack of a proper story, the new tower defense element, lackluster campaign experience and severe deviations from previous games in the series, with many calling it the worst game in the series. However, it did receive praise for its soundtrack, multiplayer mode, and replay value.
Gameplay
Full Frontal Assault uses the camera angles, weapons and third-person Ratchet gameplay used in previous versions, while adding a new tower defense element. It features five levels set on three different planets. The game allows players to play as Ratchet, Clank (in either his Giant Clank or normal forms), or Captain Qwark. This title also features the ability for co-op play, both on and offline.
Reception
Reception for Full Frontal Assault has been mixed, with the PlayStation 3 version holding a 64 average rating from 52 critics on Metacritic. Game Informer gave the game a 7.5/10 average score, calling it, "an interesting title hampered by some fundamental design flaws." Electronic Gaming Monthly gave it a 2/5, saying it, "fails both as a tower defense game and as a means to hold fans of the franchise over until Insomniac delivers a new mainline title." PlayStation Official Magazine – UK and Eurogamer echoed this sentiment, saying the game "erodes the series' identity" and has "no heart", respectively.
PC World said that the game lacks a story, estimating that the single player campaign mode can be completed in about four hours. It said the tower defense gameplay – while "neat" – makes it feel "more like a Dungeon Defenders clone than it does a Ratchet & Clank game." The review stated that the multiplayer version is where the game "really shines" but "isn't enough to outweigh the lackluster single-player experience". It awarded the game a 3/5 rating. Similarly, Marty Sliva of 1Up.com gave the game a C, stating "Full Frontal Assault is an interesting experiment that could have risen beyond the average with a bit more polish and creativity." GameSpot gave the game a seven out of ten, calling the arsenal "fun to use" and the multiplayer battles "exciting and unpredictable" while saying that anyone who hoped for a substantial single-player campaign would be disappointed. GamesRadar+ praised the platforming, tactical elements, exploration, and collecta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Bunson | Matthew Bunson (born 1966) is an American author of more than fifty books, a historian, professor, editor, Roman Catholic theologian, Senior Contributor for EWTN, the Catholic multimedia network, Senior Fellow at the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and Faculty Chair at Catholic Distance University.
He is the author of the books Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire, Encyclopedia of American Catholic History, and Pope Francis, the first English-language biography of Pope Francis in 2013.
Biography
His father was a U.S. military officer, Lt. Colonel Stephen M. Bunson (1924-1984), who was also interested in old Egyptian history.
Education
Bunson has a B.A. in history, an M.A. in Theology, a Master of Divinity, a Doctorate in Ministry and a Ph.D. in Church History from the Graduate Theological Foundation.
Career
He is on the faculty of the Catholic Distance University where he teaches Church History, including Roman Catholic-Islamic relations and Medieval and American Catholic History, and Catholic Social Teaching.
He is a Senior Fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.
Bunson is active in Catholic radio and hosts his own radio program, "Faithworks," for the Redeemer Radio network in Indiana, co-hosts EWTN's Register Radio. Bunson is a frequent guest on National Catholic radio programs, including Al Kresta, the Son Rise Morning Show, Drew Mariani, and Teresa Tomeo, and has appeared on the television networks Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, NBC News, CBS Radio, the BBC, and Channel 24 in Europe.
He served as the general editor of Our Sunday Visitor's Catholic Almanac and The Catholic Answer.
He has served as a consultant for USA Today on Catholic matters.
In 2016, Bunson joined EWTN as Senior Contributor and Senior Editor for the National Catholic Register.
Personal life
Bunson is married and lives in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
Books
He is an author of more than 50 books, including:
Encyclopedia of the Roman Empire
The Encyclopedia of Catholic History
The Encyclopedia of Saints
All Shall Be Well
Papal Wisdom
The Pope Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia of American Catholic History
Angels A-Z, an Encyclopedia
Pope Benedict XVI and the Sexual Abuse Crisis (co-author)
We Have a Pope! Pope Benedict XVI
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages
The Angelic Doctor
Apostle of the Exiled: St. Damien of Molokai
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Encyclopedia Sherlockiana
The Agatha Christie Encyclopedia
References
External links
All books by Matthew Bunson
EWTN Bookmark - Matthew Bunson and Pope Francis
1966 births
Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
American male writers
American theologians
Graduate Theological Foundation alumni
American male non-fiction writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications%20ToolBox | The Macintosh Communications Toolbox, generally shortened to CommToolbox or CTB, was a suite of application programming interfaces, libraries and dynamically loaded code modules for the classic Mac OS that implemented a wide variety of serial and network communication protocols, as well as file transfer protocols and terminal emulations.
Using CommToolbox, one could write an application that would seamlessly work over AppleTalk, a modem or any variety of other connections, transfer files using XMODEM, Kermit or other file transfer protocols, and provide DEC VT102, VT220, IBM 3270 and other terminal emulation services. Developers could also write plug-in communications modules known as "Tools", allowing any CommToolbox-aware application to use that connection method.
CommToolbox was claimed by some to be slow and buggy, and received mixed support from developers. Examples of applications using it for simple tasks were common, but single-purpose applications would have higher performance when bypassing system API's implementations and rolling their own.
CommToolbox was initially released independent of the main Mac system releases but was finally integrated and delivered with System 7. The development team was part of the Apple Networking and Communications Division, not part of the main System Software team.
Description
CommToolbox was perhaps one of the first implementations of shared libraries on the early Mac OS. Applications would find installed tools at launch time. In fact, applications could automatically discover and use newly installed tools without having to quit and relaunch.
CommToolbox API's consisted of 4 managers:
Communications Resource Manager (CRM)
Connection Manager (CM)
File Transfer Manager (FTM)
Terminal Manager (TM)
The CRM provided the Mac with its first centralized repository to register and enumerate serial devices. Early Mac's only had two serial ports and with the later Mac's allowing expandability including serial port cards, the CRM filled a critical hole in the Mac OS software architecture. Device manufacturers would create a pair of drivers that provided the same interface as Apple's built-in serial port drivers (but named differently from .AIn/.AOut .BIn/.BOut) and register these drivers with the CRM.
The Connection, File Transfer and Terminal Manager's all worked with their respective tools which were dynamically loaded code modules providing the interface between the Manager-specific API and the code implementing the particular functionality. In this manner, an application could be written "agnostically" without implementation-specific knowledge of any particular data connection, file transfer, or terminal emulation protocols. In addition, these tools also provided a set of system-wide standard UI implementations that could be automatically invoked and used for configuration.
Connection Tools provided a byte-oriented communication channel interface, implementing basic functionality such as ope |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey%20Pollard | Lindsey Pollard is an animator from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, now residing in Los Angeles, California. Her work as an animation director on the children's Cartoon Network series Camp Lazlo garnered three Pulcinella awards, two Emmy nominations, and a 2007 Emmy win. In 1994, she received The Grand Prize Norman McLaren Award and won "Best Animation" in the Montreal World Film Festival for her student film The Chain Letter. As a member of The Emily Carr Institute Alumni, she received The Emily Award in Recognition of Outstanding Achievement in 2008. Lindsey was an assistant director on The Simpsons Movie and a timer on My Gym Partner's a Monkey, The Simpsons, Drawn Together, The Fairly OddParents, The Oblongs, Baby Blues, The Cramp Twins, and Mission Hill. She is currently a retake director on the Emmy award-winning hit series Family Guy.
References
External links
Emily Carr Institute Honoree Page
Living people
Canadian women television directors
Canadian television directors
Canadian animated film directors
Canadian women film directors
Film directors from Victoria, British Columbia
Emily Carr University of Art and Design alumni
Primetime Emmy Award winners
Canadian women animators
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20Photon%20Q | The Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE (XT897) is a smartphone manufactured by Motorola which runs on Sprint's 4G LTE network. The "Photon Q" has a 4.3-inch touchscreen and a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor. It runs the Android operating system and includes a built-in, sliding keyboard similar to the one on the Motorola Droid 4.
As of 2018 it is still the most modern Android phone with a landscape slide-out QWERTY keyboard. As such, there is still demand for this phone, including those in the Android developer community. Enthusiasts and free developers have shown that it is possible to desolder the on-board SIM IC and connect a SIM socket/card to use this phone in other networks or countries.
Software
The Photon Q launched with Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, and was considered a flagship/halo device for the operating system, thanks to its 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 Plus. On April 25, 2013, the Photon Q was upgraded to the 4.1.2 Jelly Bean version of Android. However, it was excluded from future Android upgrades, and will remain with 4.1.2 Jelly Bean. Motorola has not provided any public-facing explanation for why Android 4.4, KitKat was not released for the device - or any future Android releases. The Photon Q did not receive Motorola's benchmarked two-year target for software upgrades, which was later dropped, again without any public explanation.
Community software
LineageOS
Version 14.1 (tracking Android 7.1 Nougat) was updated until February 2019 at which time LineageOS 14.1 was discontinued for all devices.
Team Win Recovery Project
Currently supported (as of May 2018) with 3.0.2-0 as the latest version available for download from the official TWRP website.
SailfishOS 3.0
Available through a community port, latest (as of July 2019) is 3.1.0.9.
Hardware
The processor of the Moto Photon Q is a 1.5 GHz Snapdragon S4 Plus dual core CPU. It includes 1GB of RAM, and notable for its time, a micro-HDMI port. The Snapdragon S4 family of processors were jointly supported by Qualcomm and Google through the Android 6.0, Marshmallow release cycles. The Photon Q shares most of its platform underpinnings with the Motorola Droid RAZR (XT925), CDMA RAZR HD (XT926), Atrix HD (MB886), and Droid RAZR M (XT907), albeit shipping with Sprint adaptations.
The device is compatible with Motorola Lapdock devices. While Motorola's Webtop desktop shell was not supported, the device works with Lapdock 100 and Lapdock 500 in "mirror mode" with the final ice cream sandwich update, however support and functionality were discontinued with the Jellybean update. Additionally, it functions as an Android laptop solution when paired with LineageOS or another modern community ROM with multi-window support.
References
Android (operating system) devices
Linux-based devices
Motorola smartphones
Mobile phones introduced in 2012
Discontinued smartphones
Mobile phones with an integrated hardware keyboard
Slider phones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP%20Fast%20Open | In computer networking, TCP Fast Open (TFO) is an extension to speed up the opening of successive Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connections between two endpoints. It works by using a TFO cookie (a TCP option), which is a cryptographic cookie stored on the client and set upon the initial connection with the server. When the client later reconnects, it sends the initial SYN packet along with the TFO cookie data to authenticate itself. If successful, the server may start sending data to the client even before the reception of the final ACK packet of the three-way handshake, thus skipping a round-trip delay and lowering the latency in the start of data transmission.
The cookie is generated by applying a block cipher keyed on a key held secret by the server to the client's, generating an authentication tag that is difficult for third parties to spoof, even if they can forge a source IP address or make two-way connections to the same server from other IP addresses. Although it uses cryptographic techniques to generate the cookie, TFO is not intended to provide more security than the three-way handshake it replaces, and does not give any form of cryptographic protection to the resulting TCP connection, or provide identity assurance about either endpoint. It also is not intended to be resistant to man-in-the-middle attacks. If such resistance is required, it may be used in combination with a cryptographic protocol such as TLS or IPsec.
TFO has been difficult to deploy due to protocol ossification; in 2020, no Web browsers used it by default.
TFO presents privacy challenges; the TFO cookie can allow persistently tracking a client across sessions, even by passive observers.
History
The TFO proposal was originally presented in 2011
and was published as the experimental RFC 7413 in December 2014. TCP Fast Open shares the goal of bypassing the three-way handshake of TCP with an earlier proposal from 1994, called T/TCP (RFC 1644). In contrast to TCP Fast Open, T/TCP paid no attention to security, opening a path for vulnerabilities and failing to gain traction.
Characteristics
TFO implementations include the following:
IPv4 support for TFO was merged into the Linux kernel mainline in kernel versions 3.6 (support for clients) and 3.7 (Dec 2012) (support for servers), and was turned on by default in kernel version 3.13 (Jan 2014). TFO support for IPv6 servers was merged in kernel version 3.16.
FreeBSD from version 10.3 (support for servers) and 12.0. (support for clients).
Mozilla Firefox from version 58. The support was disabled by default due to network device compatibility issues with TFO and TLS 1.3 and eventually removed in version 87.
Google Chrome and Chromium browsers have support for TFO on Linux, including ChromeOS and Android.
Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) from version 4.88.
Unbound DNS Resolver from version 1.5.10.
BIND Domain Name System (DNS) from version 9.11.0.
Knot DNS from version 2.6.0.
Apple's iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 bot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woozworld | Woozworld is a virtual gaming community and social network service founded in 2009 and headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. Woozworld allows users to connect with each other through customizable profiles and interactive activities.
Security
Woozworld has a strict emphasis on protecting the private information of its users and creating a safe gaming environment that parents can trust. The company complies with all protective measures set forth by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and the company is Privo Privacy Certified. These measures protect children's privacy on the Internet and ensure parental consent before account activation. If broken, Woozworld has the right to ban the offending user.
History
Woozworld was originally named KidStudio 2.0, which was launched in 2007. In 2009, it was relaunched as Woozworld. Woozworld allows tweens and teens to interact in a virtual reality based environment. In only a few months, users created no less than two million virtual spaces and organized numerous events: theme parks, restaurants. games, parties, support groups, charitable events, and much more. Woozworld allows users to design their own online realities where they can create their own avatar, do fun quests, trade and sell items, set up new virtual spaces, and create their own businesses. Woozworld was mainly created for tweens to express themselves in different ways. The service is designed for teenagers, and the average age of users being between 12 and 25.
The Innovation Exchange listed Woozworld as one of the most innovative Canadian technology companies in 2011, and About.com awarded it with the 2012 Readers' Choice Award for Best Website for Teens: Gaming and Virtual Worlds. In late 2011, Woozworld launched WoozIn, a Social Network for users. More than 14 million virtual spaces were created by 2011. In 2012, Woozworld was nominated for the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in the Best Website Category. The company ranked #5 out of 427 on a 360Kid list of highest trafficked virtual worlds in September 2012.
In 2014, Woozworld announced the appointment of Simonetta Lulli as the President and CEO. Previously Simonetta Lulli spent 10 years creating the profitable international business of Habbo Hotel as Head of Marketing.
In May 2014, Woozworld launched the official mobile expansion of the game on iOS. Players could now play cross-platform between web and mobile. Since launching on iOS in May 2014, Woozworld saw 300,000 downloads over that year, almost all viral, reached #1 in the App Store in different countries as well ranking #2 in Gross Revenues for Social Network apps, only after Skype. This made Woozworld the first social MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online) community to offer a full cross-platform experience with continuous gameplay between desktop and mobile devices. In order to adapt Woozworld’s graphically rich world of avatars and virtual spaces for multiple devices, Woozworld developed an innova |
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