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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen%20Wetzler | Gwen Wetzler is an American producer, director and animator and is best known as the first woman to produce and direct animation for a major network.
Early years
At a young age while growing up in Erie, Pennsylvania, Gwen Wetzler found her love of art. During high school Wetzler would paint signs for local businesses because of her artistic ability and steady hand. In the early 1950s Gwen was married and moved from Pennsylvania to suburban Los Angeles. In 1955 she started in the animation business at Disney as an in between animator on such classics as Sleeping Beauty and Lady and the Tramp.
Career
In 1977, after 20 years at Disney, Wetzler became the first woman to direct and produce animation at major studios including MGM, Warner Bros. and the Hanna-Barbera Studios.
Wetzler's directorial debut was on Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids which led to further projects. Other directed titles include The Transformers, The New Adventures of Batman, My Little Pony, The New Archie/Sabrina Hour, Flash Gordon and Sport Billy among others. Her later directorial work included He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra, Spawn, Tiny Toon Adventures, and All Dogs Go to Heaven: The Series.
In the 1980s, Wetzler became the first woman to produce animation for a major studio; she produced The Transformers, Jem, and The Legend of Prince Valiant.
Along with directing, producing, and animating series, Wetzler also worked on feature full-length feature films such as Mighty Mouse.
Gwen Wetzler retired from the animation industry in the early 2000s, giving her time to focus primarily on her artwork.
Selected filmography
Films
Animator of A Snow White Christmas (1982)
Director of Mighty Mouse in the Great Space Chase (1983)
Animator of We Think the World is Round (1984)
Director of The Secret of the Sword (1985)
Director - Segment - The Cat and the Spider of Skeletor's Revenge (1986)
Animation Director of My Little Pony (1986)
Timing Director of Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1992)
Timing and Sheet Director of An All Dogs Christmas Carol (1998)
Timing Director of The Sissy Duckling (1999)
Animation Timing Director of Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman (2000)
Television
Director of The New Adventures of Batman (1978)
Animation Director of Super Witch (1978)
Director of Batman and the Super Seven (1981)
Director of Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All (1983)
Director of The New Adventures of Flash Gordon (1983)
Director of She-Ra: Princess of Power (1986)
Sheet Director of All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
Animation Director of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (Animated Series) (1996)
Director of Little Orphan Annie's Very Animated Christmas (1995)
G.I. Joe: Extreme (1997)
Todd McFarlane's Spawn (1999)
Animator in The Lionhearts (1999)
Three Little Pigs: From the Series "Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales For Every Child" (1999)
Empress's Nightingale: An Animated Special From "The Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales For Eve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sygma | Sygma may refer to:
SYGMA Network, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Sysco Corporation
Sygma, or Sygma Photo News, a photography agency that was purchased by Corbis and closed in 2010
See also
Sigma (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-Mahna | Mir-Mahna (sometimes spelled Mir Mahna) is a computer game based on the life of Mir Mahna, an amir of Kharg, Iran who successfully fought against Dutch colonial forces in Iran during the reign of Nader Shah in the 1740s. Introduced in August 2010 at Gamescom, Mir-Mahna officially was released in Tehran, Iran in February 2011 and was supported by the Iran Computer and Video Games Foundation.
Mir-Mahna is the first Iranian game about the life of a contemporary Iranian hero and the second game after Garshasp Gorz-e-Serit to focus on Iranian heroes. The game's storyline is based on a series of books entitled On the Red Marine Roads by Nader Ebrahimi, an Iranian writer, screenwriter, photographer, director and actor. By using traditional Iranian music with modern computer motion capture, the game designers sought to introduce Iranian culture and civilization worldwide. This was part of a larger effort by the Iranian government to use computer games to help convey its culture.
References
External links
2011 video games
First-person shooters
Video games developed in Iran
Video games set in Iran
Video games set in the 18th century
Video games set on islands
Windows games
Windows-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CatChum | CatChum is a text-only clone of Pac-Man written for the CP/M operating system and made to be operated on the early Kaypro line of luggable computers.
CatChum was made within the limitations of Kaypro's early text-only computers. As a result, the maze is made from a series of dashes and other punctuation marks. The Pac-Man character is a letter C, which goes from upper to lower case intermittently (to simulate a chomping Pac-Man). The four ghosts are capital As (which turn to lowercase ms when the CatChum Pac-Man chomps a power-pellet, capital Ms when the effect is about to end), and the "fruits" are represented by dollar signs. One of the major down sides of this clone is that Kaypros of that era did not have the ability to flip the text characters. As a result, even when the character is chomping pellets on his left, for example, his chomping mouth is still on the right.
There is no sound. Instead, flashing text messages appear every now and then saying things like "Get Set!", "Get Ready!" or "Go for it!"
Along with Star Trek, Aliens and Ladder, CatChum was one of the games that came with the software bundle of the early Kaypro computers.
CatChum was written by Yahoo Software of Los Angeles, California.
References
1982 video games
CP/M games
Pac-Man clones
Video games developed in the United States
Video games with textual graphics
Video games about food and drink |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset%20College | Dorset College is a private college, located in Dublin city centre. Founded in 1983, it provides training in Computing, Business, English Language, University Foundation Programmes and Healthcare. A number of its programmes are accredited by the QQI at level 5 to level 8 on the Irish National Framework, as well as this it has programmes validated by professional bodies such as CIPD, QQI ACELS (English Language) and PMI.
While many of its courses are Post Leaving Certificate and part-time professional training, it also provides a Bachelor of Business degree and a Bachelor of Business (Hons) in International Business, validated by QQI, who also validate the Bachelor of Science in Computing degree.
Dorset College is recognised by The Advisory Council for English Language Schools in Ireland (ACELS), under the auspices of The Irish Department of Education & Science, for the teaching of English as a foreign language.
In November 2021, Dorset College joined the European, Erasmus Charter in Higher Education (ECHE).
The college has four campuses, in Dorset Street, Belvedere Place, Mountjoy Square and the ABC Building in Drumcondra. There is a library. The college also offer a recruitment service to students, helping with CV preparation and interview skills.
External links
Dorset College website
References
Further education colleges in the Republic of Ireland
Business schools in the Republic of Ireland
Education in Dublin (city)
Universities and colleges in the Republic of Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luino%20railway%20station | Luino railway station () is a border railway station in Italy. It divides the Swiss network (line to Cadenazzo) with the Italian one (line to Milan and line to Oleggio).
Luino is a frontier station between the Italian network, managed by Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, and the Swiss network, managed by Swiss Federal Railways.
Services
the following services stop at Luino:
Regionale: regular service to and rush-hour service to .
: service every two hours to and rush-hour service to Gallarate.
References
External links
Luino – RFI
Railway stations in Lombardy
Railway stations opened in 1882
Railway stations in Italy opened in the 1880s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20SBT | Sistema Brasileiro de Televisão (SBT) is a Brazilian free-to-air television network, funded on August 19, 1981, by the businessman and TV host Silvio Santos. The network was established after a public competition of the federal government for the creation of two new television networks, created from revoked concessions of the extinct networks Tupi and Excelsior. SBT was funded in the same day that the concession agreement was signed, and that the act was broadcast live by the network, so that this was its first aired program.
Currently, SBT is the second most watched television network in Brazil, after Rede Globo. Throughout its existence, the network always occupied this space in the audience ranking, except between 2007 and 2014, when Rede Record took the post. SBT has about 8 owned and operated stations and 90 affiliated stations throughout the Brazilian territory, the network is also available through pay television operators (cable and satellite), by the free-to-air signal available in broadcast and satellite receivers, and also through streaming media in its mobile application (Android, iOS and Windows Phone), apps for smart TVs and in its website. Also on their website, the programming is available in video on demand for free, also available on the video-sharing site YouTube since 2010.
SBT broadcast in its programming a wide variety of television genres, whereas its own material generally stand adjacent to the entertainment. Foreign programming, is made up of mainly the telenovelas produced by the Mexican channel Televisa, and American TV series. It is the only commercial television broadcaster in Brazil which airs children's programming, even arranging a partnership deal with The Walt Disney Company, in which the company provides two hours of daily programming for the network. SBT also broadcast television news, producing in all three daily newscasts, a weekly news program and a weekly newscast.
Current programming
Reality shows
Game shows
News programming
Jornal da Semana SBT (2013–present)
Primeiro Impacto (2016–present)
SBT Brasil (2005–present)
SBT News na TV (2023-present)
SBT Praça (1999–present)
Talk and variety shows
Domingo Legal (1993–present)
Eliana (2009–present)
Fofocalizando (2016 as "Fofocando"–present)
Notícias Impressionantes (2020-present)
Operação Mesquita (2017-present)
A Praça É Nossa (1987–present)
Programa do Ratinho (1998-2006; 2009–present)
Programa Raul Gil (1981-1984; 2010-present)
Programa Silvio Santos (1981-2001; 2008–present)
The Noite com Danilo Gentili (2014–present)
Children's programming
Sábado Animado (1995–present)
Sábado Série (2022–present)
Feriadão SBT
Seasonal programs
Retrospectiva (2002–present)
SBT Folia (2011–present)
Teleton (1998–2022, 2023-)
Troféu Imprensa (1982–present)
Series
Henry Danger
ICarly
Jack Ryan
Marlon
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Victorious Movie blocks
Cine Espetacular (2000–present)
Cinema em Casa (1988–2011; 2023–present)
Tela de |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%20Bowker | Art Bowker (born 1961 in Ohio), is an author and cybercrime specialist in corrections (pretrial, probation, and parole).
His first book, The Cybercrime Handbook for Community Corrections: Managing Risk in the 21st Century, describes the process of supervising cyber-offenders.
Bowker cowrote his second book, Investigating Internet Crimes, 1st Edition: An Introduction to Solving Crimes in Cyberspace , with Todd G. Shipley. His second book provides step-by-step instructions for investigating Internet crimes, including locating, interpreting, understanding, collecting, and documenting online electronic evidence to benefit investigations.
Career
Bowker has been interviewed by CrimCast and American Hero's Radio. and is a lifetime member of the High Technology Crime Investigation Association (HTCIA), having served as International President of the organization in 2008.
He has written cybercrime articles that have appeared in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin,
Federal Probation, the American Probation and Parole Association's Perspectives,
and numerous other publications. He also writes a regular blog called The Three C's: Computers, Crime, and Corrections.
On January 14, 2013, Bowker was awarded the APPA Sam Houston State University Award, for work in promoting awareness and knowledge of cybercrime and tools to combat such crimes in the field of community corrections.
On November 22, 2013, he was recognized by the Federal Probation and Pretrial Officers Association (FPPOA) with their top honor, the Richard F. Doyle Award, for having made the most significant achievement in, or contribution to, the Federal Probation & Pretrial Services System or the broader field of corrections. Additionally, Bowker received the Thomas E. Gahl, Line Officer of the Year Award (Great Lakes Region Award), which is named in honor of the only U.S. Probation Officer killed in the line of duty. Both awards centered on his contributions and efforts in managing cybercrime risk.
On August 30, 2016, he was recognized by the High Technology Crime Investigation Association with the HTCIA Lifetime Achievement Award, an annual recognition given to one individual with at least seven years membership, who has made significant contributions to HTCIA goals. Some specific factors considered in bestowing of this top award include evidence of advancing the field of computer investigations and prevention of high tech crimes through education and/or the development of tool(s) and or technique(s) and participation as a Chapter or International officer.
References
External links
The Three C's (Computers, Crime, and Corrections) Blog
1961 births
American non-fiction crime writers
Cybercrime
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sengoku%20Collection%20episodes | Sengoku Collection is a 2012 Japanese anime television series by Brain's Base based on a mobile social networking game by Konami. The series follows female versions of generals from the Sengoku period as they are mysteriously sent to the modern world and try to adapt to a new lifestyle. The series aired on TV Tokyo between April 5, 2012 and September 27, 2012 and was simulcast by Crunchyroll.
For the first 13 episodes, the opening theme is by Abcho whilst the ending theme is "Unlucky Girl!!" by Sweety. For episode 14 onwards, the opening theme is "Back into my world" by Sweety, whilst the ending theme is by You Kikkawa. Insert songs used in episode 2 are "Love Scope" by Kana Hanazawa and "Misty Moon" by Yuka Terasaki.
Episode list
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20120827065710/http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/anime/sencolle/index.html
Sengoku Collection |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning%20Record%20Store | A Learning Record Store (LRS) is a data store system that serves as a repository for learning records collected from connected systems where learning activities are conducted. It is an essential component in the process flow for using the Experience API (xAPI) standard by ADL or the Caliper standard by IMS Global. The Experience API is also known as the "Tin Can API" and is an Open Source e-learning specification developed after AICC and SCORM. The concept of the LRS was introduced to the e-learning industry in 2011, and proposes a shift to the way e-learning specifications function.
History
SCORM has been the e-learning industry software specification for interoperability from 2001 until the present. The governing body of SCORM, Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL), realized that the specification was not keeping up with advancements in technology, and that it needed to be updated. ADL issued a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) asking for assistance with updating the SCORM specification. The BAA was awarded to Rustici Software, and the result was a one-year research and development project called Project Tin Can. The final result of Project Tin Can was the Experience API along with the concept of the LRS.
Overview
xAPI-enabled learning activities generate statements, or records of e-learning in the form of "I did this" or "Actor verb object". These statements are transmitted over HTTP or HTTPS to an LRS. The main function of an LRS is to store and retrieve the data that's generated from Experience API statements.
An LRS can exist inside a traditional learning management system (LMS), or on its own. LRSs can communicate learner data with other systems, such as LMSs, sensor-enabled devices, mobile technology, and other LRSs. Systems sending data to an LRS are known as "Activity Providers." Individual learners can have their own LRSs, or Personal Data Lockers, in which they store all of their learning data for their own personal records.
xAPI statements are capable of being sent to multiple LRSs at once. With traditional LMSs, a learner's data stays with the organization that administers the LMS. When the LRS is introduced, the sharing of learning data is possible, and the learning data can follow the learner wherever the learner goes (for example, from job to job or from school to school.)
LRSs offer the ability to create very in-depth e-learning analytics because of the large amounts of learning data they record and store. Traditional e-learning specifications like SCORM are limited to storing simple data points such as a final score, or that a course has been started or completed. With the statement structure that the LRS records, there are many data points that can be reported against. Reports can be pulled on any number of combinations of "actor", "verb" and "object". However, an LRS that is built strictly to the Experience API specification doesn't have a built-in reporting mechanism. The LRS administrator (or the administrator of the LMS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ParaSail%20%28programming%20language%29 | Parallel Specification and Implementation Language (ParaSail) is an object-oriented parallel programming language. Its design and ongoing implementation is described in a blog and on its official website.
ParaSail uses a pointer-free programming model, where objects can grow and shrink, and value semantics are used for assignment. It has no global garbage collected heap. Instead, region-based memory management is used throughout. Types can be recursive, so long as the recursive components are declared optional. There are no global variables, no parameter aliasing, and all subexpressions of an expression can be evaluated in parallel. Assertions, preconditions, postconditions, class invariants, etc., are part of the standard syntax, using a Hoare-like notation. Any possible race conditions are detected at compile time.
Initial design of ParaSail began in September 2009, by S. Tucker Taft.
Both an interpreter using the ParaSail virtual machine, and an LLVM-based ParaSail compiler are available. Work stealing is used for scheduling ParaSail's light-weight threads. The latest version can be downloaded from the ParaSail website.
Description
The syntax of ParaSail is similar to Modula, but with a class-and-interface-based object-oriented programming model more similar to Java or C#.
More recently, the parallel constructs of ParaSail have been adapted to other syntaxes, to produce Java-like, Python-like, and Ada-like parallel languages, dubbed, respectively, Javallel, Parython, and Sparkel (named after the Ada subset SPARK on which it is based). Compilers and interpreters for these languages are included with the ParaSail implementation.
Examples
The following is a Hello world program in ParaSail:
func Hello_World(var IO) is
IO.Println("Hello, World");
end func Hello_World;
The following is an interface to a basic map module:
interface BMap<Key_Type is Ordered<>; Element_Type is Assignable<>> is
op "[]"() -> BMap; // Create an empty map
func Insert(var BMap; Key : Key_Type; Value : Element_Type);
func Find(BMap; Key : Key_Type) -> optional Element_Type;
func Delete(var BMap; Key : Key_Type);
func Count(BMap) -> Univ_Integer;
end interface BMap;
Here is a possible implementation of this map module,
using a binary tree:
class BMap is
interface Binary_Node<> is
// A simple "concrete" binary node module
var Left : optional Binary_Node;
var Right : optional Binary_Node;
const Key : Key_Type;
var Value : optional Element_Type; // null means deleted
end interface Binary_Node;
var Tree : optional Binary_Node;
var Count := 0;
exports
op "[]"() -> BMap is // Create an empty map
return (Tree => null, Count => 0);
end op "[]";
func Insert(var BMap; Key : Key_Type; Value : Element_Type) is
// Search for Key, overwrite if found, insert new node if not
for M => BMap.Tree loop
if M is null then
// Not alr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booby%20Kids | is an action video game for the Nintendo Family Computer. This video game is the home conversion of Nichibutsu's arcade game, , that was originally supposed to be named Booby Kids.
In 1993, Nichibutsu released for the Game Boy a similar game entitled Booby Boys.
Gameplay
Booby Kids is a game played from an overhead perspective, with the player taking on the role of one of the titular Booby Kids, named for their ability to instantly dig booby traps in front of where they stand and bury hostile enemies that attempt to seek out and ultimately destroy the Booby Kids. Compared to Kid no Hore Hore Daisakusen, the levels in Booby Kids feature more of a reliance on puzzle-solving in addition to the maze like structures of the original game.
Levels range from the conventional prehistory setting of the first four levels to feudal Japan and even some futuristic levels inspired by science fiction. There are 21 levels in this game with five different bonus levels to gain extra points in. Objects to acquire in the other time zones include coconuts (in the prehistoric era), ancient Japanese scrolls (in feudal Japan), radios (in the World War II era), bags of money (in the modern era), and computer monitors (retrieved in the future era).
See also
Cratermaze
References
External links
Booby Kids at GameFAQs
1987 video games
Action games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nihon Bussan games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Switch games
PlayStation 4 games
Video games about time travel
Top-down video games
Video games developed in Japan
Hamster Corporation games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EtherCON | The EtherCON is a ruggedized and lockable connector for Ethernet over twisted pair wiring. It is manufactured by Neutrik and is designed for professional audio and stage lighting network applications.
Design
The design is modeled after the XLR connector with a circular hard metal shell and a locking latch. The cable connector is always male and is designed to fit over a standard 8P8C modular connector. The chassis connector is always female and has the standard form factor of an XLR panel connector. The chassis connector may be mated with an EtherCON connector and a standard 8P8C plug. The chassis connectors are rated for either Cat 5e, Cat 6 or 6A compatibility, with the Cat 5e and 6A models being cross-compatible. (The Cat 6 model utilizes a different shell design from the other models.) Neutrik makes two styles of the connector, one for assembly before the 8P8C plug is attached, and one that will fit over a pre-attached plug.
When sealing gaskets are used, EtherCON is capable of providing a waterproof cable connection for harsh environments.
Applications
EtherCON connectors are used on many audio over Ethernet and audio over IP products. EtherCON connectors are also used to transfer data across large LED displays in both indoor and outdoor settings.
References
Networking hardware
Ethernet
Computer connectors
Audio engineering
Neutrik |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV5%20Network | TV5 Network, Inc., commonly known as TV5, is a Philippine media company based in Mandaluyong, with its alternate studios located in Novaliches, Quezon City. It is primarily involved in radio and television broadcasting, with subsidiaries and affiliates dealing in various media related businesses. TV5 is owned by MediaQuest Holdings, an investee company of Philippine telecommunications giant PLDT, through its Beneficial Trust Fund, and headed by business tycoon Manuel V. Pangilinan.
Among its assets owns and operates two broadcast television networks (TV5 and One Sports), the national radio station (92.3 Radyo5 TRUE FM), and the regional radio network (Radyo5). It also operates two international television channels (Kapatid Channel and AksyonTV International) along with subsidiaries digital terrestrial television providers (Sulit TV) an exclusive sales and marketing agent (Media5) as well as digital and online portals technology (D5 Studio; TV5.com.ph, News5 Digital, and GG Network).
History
Origin
Joaquin "Chino" Roces, owner of The Manila Times, was granted a radio-TV franchise from Congress under Republic Act No. 2945 on June 19, 1960. He then founded the Associated Broadcasting Corporation and the channel "ABC 5" with the call sign DZTM-TV and its first studios along Pasong Tamo in Makati, becoming the fourth television network established in the country. ABC operated radio and television services from 1962 until September 23, 1972, when the late former President Ferdinand Marcos declared Martial Law. Both ABC and The Manila Times were shut down as a result.
Revival
After the People Power Revolution in 1986, Roces made a successful appeal to Corazon Aquino for the reopening of the network until his death on September 30, 1988.
New stockholders led by businessman Edward Tan and Roces's son Edgardo then began the arduous task of bringing the network back on the air. The Securities and Exchange Commission granted their application for an increase in capitalization and amendments to ABC's articles of incorporation and by-laws. They were subsequently given a permit to operate by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC).
ABC inaugurated its studio complex and transmitter tower in San Bartolome, Novaliches, Quezon City in 1990 and began test broadcasts by the end of 1991, officially returning on air as the Associated Broadcasting Company on February 21, 1992, with ABC Development Corporation as the new corporate name. Its radio counterpart, Kool 106 was launched at the same time. Later, it acquired a new franchise to operate on December 9, 1994, under Republic Act 7831 signed by then President Fidel V. Ramos.
In 1999, ABC was awarded the channel 47 frequency in Metro Manila, the last remaining UHF frequency in the market, christening it DWDZ-TV. However, has been inactive since 2003.
Cojuangco era
In October 2003, ABC was acquired by a group led by businessman Antonio "Tonyboy" O. Cojuangco, Jr. served as Chairman of the Philippine Lo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aso%20ni%20San%20Roque | San Roque (International title: San Roque's Pet / ) is a Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Don Michael Perez, it stars Mona Louise Rey. It premiered on September 10, 2012, on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Makapiling Kang Muli. The series concluded on January 11, 2013, with a total of 90 episodes. It was replaced by Indio in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Separated from her birth parents at a very young age, a blind girl named Fatima grows up under the protective wing of Mother Ben, an old gay man under the control of a criminal syndicate. Since then, Mother Ben has been her sole protector, and uses Fatima's disability to help her escape hardships and mischief caused by the cruel syndicate.
Aside from having a pure, good heart, a dark secret lies within Fatima. She is the daughter of a mortal man and a manananggal, a traditional demoness that separates at the midsection so the upper half can fly at night to feed on blood. Fatima is thus the subject of a prophecy that spells the end of all evil beings on earth.
As Fatima reaches the age of seven, the search for her intensifies as witches, centaurs, mermaids and other malignant creatures join forces to prevent the girl from fulfilling the prophecy.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Mona Louise Rey as Fatima Salvador
A blind girl with a golden heart who is the offspring of a mortal and a manananggal. Behind her persona is a prophecy that destined her to end the dark forces that plaguing the human race. Because of this mission, her life is now in danger as the legions of darkness are lurking to kill her to prevent her from fulfilling the prophecy.
Princess the dog as Anghel
St. Roch's dog who came to life to be Fatima's guide through her quests and battles to defeat the evil forces.
Supporting cast
LJ Reyes as Lualhati Salvador / Lourdes
Mateo's great love. Lourdes is a beautiful and kind-hearted young lady. But behind this beautiful persona concealed a dark secret—she belongs to a family of manananggal, but the reluctant one. This revelation altered the love Lourdes and Mateo hoped to share together for life. This dim chapter in Lourdes' life turns into a joy as she gives birth to Mateo's child—a beautiful baby girl she named Fatima. But another tragic twist of fate unwittingly leads Lourdes apart from her baby.
TJ Trinidad as Police C/Insp. Mateo Salvador
A righteous, very principled and reliable policeman with a scarred past—one that continues to haunt him till this very day. In the wake of his doomed romance with Lourdes, Mateo vows vengeance on the whole manananggal race, completely unaware that Lourdes is carrying his child. Years passed. In an unexpected turn of events, he cross paths with a blind beggar named Fatima and eventually became attached to her, unaware of their real connection.
Pen Medina as Ben "Mother Ben" Asino
An old gay man who happens to be under the control of a syndicate. Lo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzBuzzHome | BuzzBuzzHome provides an online database for new home construction and residential areas. The company is based in Toronto and has offices in Vancouver, New York City and Los Angeles.
For consumers, BuzzBuzzHome offers a free wiki-powered database of information regarding new developments in the United States and Canada including pricing, floor plans, renderings, and information on the builder and developer. BuzzBuzzHome also serves as a marketing tool for developers, brokers, and marketing agencies. BuzzBuzzHome employs research staff who update developer pages, and the wiki format of the website allows registered developers to update their own listings directly. For an additional monthly fee, developers can have their projects featured prominently.
History
BuzzBuzzHome was founded in 2009 by Matthew Slutsky and Cliff Peskin in Toronto.
In 2012, the company opened an office in New York City, its first in the United States.
In March 2018, the company launched a platform to sign sales contracts and pay deposits for new home purchases online.
In April 2021, the company was acquired by Zonda Home, was rebranded as Livabl, and launched in April 2023.
References
External links
2009 establishments in Ontario
2021 mergers and acquisitions
Companies based in Toronto
Internet properties established in 2009
Online real estate databases
Real estate companies established in 2009
Real estate valuation
Technology companies of Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellings | Wellings is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Andy Wellings, English computer scientist
Barry Wellings (born 1958), English footballer
Bob Wellings (1934–2022), English television presenter
Eloise Wellings (born 1982), Australian long-distance runner
Evelyn Wellings (1909–1992), English cricketer and journalist
Helen Wellings, Australian consumer advocate and television presenter
Paul Wellings (born 1953), English ecologist
Peter Wellings (born 1970), English cricketer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rascal%20%28single-board%20computer%29 | Rascal is a single-board computer. It is designed by Brandon Stafford and sold by Rascal Micro LLC in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Features
The Rascal runs Linux. Its board design is compatible with Arduino shields. It includes web server software and is intended to be programmed in Python.
The Rascal's web server includes an editor that lets users edit the Python programs running on the Rascal from any web browser, without needing to reflash anything.
Most Arduino shields are compatible with the standard headers on the Rascal.
The Rascal's design files have been released as Open Hardware
under the Creative Commons CC BY-SA license.
Those design files have been posted to github.
References
External links
Open hardware electronic devices
Robotics hardware
Arduino
Single-board computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Sippl | Roger J. Sippl (born February 22, 1955), an American entrepreneur in the computer software industry, was described in 2012 by The Wall Street Journal as a serial entrepreneur. Sippl was the founder and CEO of Informix Corporation, later becoming IBM Informix. Other sippl accomplishments included being co-founder and chairman of Vantive, and the CEO and founder of Visigenic: three companies he took public. Currently, he is the CEO of Elastic Intelligence located in Menlo Park, California.
Early life and education
Roger J. Sippl, the sixth of seven children, grew up in Wausau, Wisconsin. His father Charles J. Sippl Jr. (1924-1991) wrote the first computer dictionary in 1963. Sippl attended Corona del Mar High School in Corona Del Mar, California. For college, he attended UC Irvine where he was pre med for two years, and then transferred to UC Berkeley. There, he studied Biochemistry, Immunology and Computer Science.
Career
Sippl is the founder of Informix, Vantive, Visigenic, and Elastic Intelligence.
While still a student at UC Berkeley, he obtained a full-time position as a programmer for Bechtel. Moving on to Cromemco, he landed a job as a programmer working for Harry Garland and Roger Melen. He asked permission to leave Cromemco to start his own software company, Relational Database Systems, Inc., in 1980 and Melen licensed Sippl’s designs to him as long as Cromemco received the first OEM on the product.
Needing more money, Sippl sold 10% of Relational Database Systems, Inc. to his then future wife for $20,000. He received $184,600 of VC Angel funding. Attending a Spring Joint Computer Conference in Atlantic City, he joined a computer manufacturer’s tent where he helped to promote their product by using his new system on their hardware. He sold a copy for $5000. The name Relational Database Systems, Inc. was changed to Informix.
Informix pioneered SQL relational databases, 4GL application development tools, and OLTP database technology. In 1986, Sippl brought Informix public, with $20 million revenue per year. Informix is now a part of IBM after peaking at a $4,000,000,000 market cap. He was CEO for ten years.
He was the cofounder and chairman of the Vantive Corporation. Vantive was a leader in CRM. When brought public, it was acquired by PeopleSoft/Oracle. Vantive peaked at a $1,000,000,000 market cap.
He also founded Visigenic in 1993, the first application server with the notion of sharing business logic. It was the beginning of three tier architecture and helped pioneer distributed object computing and the concept of the application server based on CORBA. In 1997, Borland acquired Visigenic. After bringing Visigenic public in 1998, Sippl was noteworthy for successfully bringing three Silicon Valley companies public.
He founded Elastic Intelligence in 1996, to improve connection to SaaS-based data. The company's main product is the Connection Cloud, an SQL-based Platform as a Service for SaaS data.
Investing
Sippl is a founding pa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Pinkney | Robert Theron "Ron" Pinkney (born May 26, 1935) is an American pioneer broadcaster who was the first African American play-by-play announcer on a major television network (ABC). The game was played at the Memorial Stadium in Jackson, Mississippi between Mississippi Valley State and Jackson State.
Early life
Ron Pinkney was born to Robert Pinkney and Catherine Staton at Freedmans Hospital in Washington, DC on Sunday, May 26, 1935. He was raised in Annapolis, Maryland and attended Stanton Elementary School and graduated from Bates High School in Annapolis. He attended Morgan State University in Baltimore and later the Baltimore School of Engineering.
Journalist and radio career
Pinkney's first journalist job was an Annapolis correspondent for the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper in 1955.
His first broadcasting job was on radio station WANN in Annapolis, MD. He was a Dee Jay at WEBB in Baltimore, MD from 1960–1962.
In 1963, while a deejay in Maryland, he began a career in sportscasting at his alma mater, Bates High School. He hosted two daily sports shows and did play by play at football and basketball games. He did his first college broadcasts at Maryland State (University of MD-Eastern Shore) and Delaware State University in 1964. Coach Vernon "Skip" McClain's MSU Hawks teams were aired twice on WANN Radio in Annapolis. The Hawks were Black College Football National champions during this era. Pinkney became the Drive Time morning newscaster at WOL, the top-rated station in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. He later was promoted to news director and employed three other on-air newscasters.
From 1968 to 1970, he was the voice of Morgan State football on WEBB, when the Golden Bears were coached by head coach Earl Banks, and featured future NFL stars Raymond Chester (Oakland Raiders), CB Mark Washington (Dallas Cowboys) and prominent alumnus William Rhoden, a track star, and New York Times columnist. The Bears enjoyed a 33-game winning streak from 1967 to 1970 when Sam Lacy, Afro-American newspapers, sportswriter George Taliaferro, a former star halfback and Big Ten All-American at Indiana (NFL Baltimore Colts), and Ralph Jones (son of Grambling president R.W.E. Jones) were color commentators in the broadcasting booth.
Television years
Pinkney was the first black sportscaster to work a televised broadcast when he covered the famed Orange Blossom Classic, the Black college football spectacular set in Miami, Florida in the Orange Bowl arena. It was a closed circuit television production pitting the host Florida A&M University versus Jacksonville State University, Alabama. The FAMU Rattlers Hall of Fame head coach and then athletic director Alonza "Jake" Gaither handpicked him to work with another popular Atlanta broadcaster, Chico Renfro. The game was piped into the campus of the Florida A&M and Jacksonville State University, Alabama (the first white school to play in the All-black classic). Pinkney was hired as a weekend sportscaster at WTTG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meda%20railway%20station | Meda railway station is a railway station in Italy. Located on the Milan–Asso railway, it serves the town of Meda.
Services
Meda is served by line S2 of the Milan suburban railway network, and by the Milan–Asso regional line. Both of them are operated by the Lombard railway company Trenord.
See also
Milan suburban railway network
References
External links
Ferrovienord official site - Meda railway station
Railway stations in Lombardy
Ferrovienord stations
Railway stations opened in 1879
Milan S Lines stations
Meda, Lombardy
Railway stations in Italy opened in the 1870s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Ott | William Alexander Ott (1872–1951) was a prominent Invercargill, New Zealand sharebroker and businessman and Mayor of Invercargill from 1910 to 1912. During his mayoralty, the Invercargill tram network was opened.
Biography
Ott was born in Invercargill in 1872 the younger son of John George Ott, an Invercargill tailor, and Margaret Murray who had married in Dunedin in 1862. Ott also had an elder sister and a sister Margaret who died in 1870 aged four months. He trained as an accountant and became a fellow of the New Zealand Accountants' and Auditors' Association.
Ott's family came from the German village of Dörnach which is these days part of Pliezhausen in Tübingen. His uncle (Johan Jacob) Jacob Ott came to Dunedin in the early 1850s. Jacob was a shoemaker and came out employed by the Lutheran Mission under Johann Friedrich Heinrich Wohlers. Not a missionary himself, Jacob later owned the Whitehouse Hotel in Waikiwi. Jacob financed two of his siblings to follow him out to New Zealand; his sister Maria Barbara who appears on the shipping list as Elizabeth as well as William's father (Johan Georg) George. The pair arrived in Dunedin from London on the Maori on 16 April 1857.
William Ott was elected onto the Invercargill Borough Council in 1900. In April 1910, he was elected unopposed to the Invercargill mayoralty. A year later, he was re-elected unopposed. Ott did not contest the 1912 mayoral election; it was won by William Benjamin Scandrett, who defeated Andrew Bain.
During his mayoralty, he opened the electric Invercargill tram network, with the Prime Minister Joseph Ward in attendance. It was the southernmost tram system in the world. At the occasion, Ott was handed a cloak from the late paramount chief Topi Patuki. The Ott family returned the cloak to descendants of Patuki after six members of his family died in May 2006 when the fishing vessel Kotuku overturned in Foveaux Strait.
Family and death
On 17 April 1901, William Alexander Ott married Isabella Frew Campbell of Invercargill. They were to have one son and one daughter: William Frew Murray Ott (1903–1993; known as Murray) and Marjory Isabel Ott (b. 1908). Their mother died in 1922. In 1925, he married Marjory Forsyth Dobie. They had two sons, Alexander Bruce Ott (known as Bruce), born 26 March 1927 and J. Malcolm Ott (known as Malcolm), born 3 June 1930. His second wife died in 1945.
Ott's mother Margaret died in 1907 and his father George died in 1909. His eldest brother John George Ott born 1864 who spent most of his adult life in California died in 1954. William Ott died on 4 January 1951, aged 78 years. All are buried in the family grave in the Invercargill Eastern Cemetery.
References
External links
100 years ago, a 2011 article in the Otago Daily Times showing Joseph Ward, Lord Islington and Mayor Ott returning from Stewart Island
1872 births
1951 deaths
Burials at Eastern Cemetery, Invercargill
Invercargill City Councillors
Deputy mayors of Invercargill
Mayors of I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MuleSoft | MuleSoft, LLC. is a software company headquartered in San Francisco, California, that provides integration software for connecting applications, data and devices, founded in 2006. The company's Anypoint Platform of integration products is designed to integrate software as a service (SaaS), on-premises software, legacy systems and other platforms.
In 2018, Mulesoft was acquired by Salesforce for $6.5 billion in a cash-and-stock deal.
History
MuleSource, as the company was originally called, was founded by Ross Mason and Dave Rosenberg in 2006. The "mule" in the name comes from the drudgery, or "donkey work," of data integration that the platform was created to escape.
The company changed its name to MuleSoft in 2009. MuleSoft originally provided middleware and messaging, and later expanded to provide an integration platform as a service (iPaaS) approach for companies through its main product, Anypoint Platform.
In April 2013, the company announced $37 million in Series E financing in a round led by New Enterprise Associates, with participation from new strategic investor Salesforce.com, and existing investors Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, Morgenthaler Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Sapphire Ventures (formerly SAP Ventures) and Bay Partners. This brought MuleSoft's total financing, over the course of seven rounds, to $259 million.
In April 2013, MuleSoft acquired ProgrammableWeb, a website used by developers to help build web, mobile and other connected applications through APIs.
In 2016, MuleSoft was ranked #20 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list.
In February 2017, the company filed for an IPO, and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on March 17, 2017.
In March 2018, Salesforce.com announced it was buying MuleSoft in a deal reported to be worth $6.5 billion; the acquisition was completed in May of that year.
Products
MuleSoft's Anypoint Platform includes Anypoint Design Center, which allows API developers to design and build APIs; Anypoint Exchange, a library for API providers to share APIs, templates, and assets; and Anypoint Management Center, a centralized web interface to analyze, manage, and monitor APIs and integrations. MuleSoft also offers the Mule runtime engine for connecting enterprise applications on-premises and to the cloud, designed to eliminate the need for custom point-to-point integration code.
Operations
As of August 2019, MuleSoft had more than 1,400 employees and more than 1,600 customers.
References
External links
Salesforce
Development software companies
Extract, transform, load tools
2006 establishments in California
Software companies established in 2006
American companies established in 2006
Enterprise application integration
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Cloud applications
Cloud computing providers
Companies based in San Francisco
2017 initial public offerings
Companies formerly listed on the New York Stock Exchange
2018 mergers and acquisit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie%20Spira | Julie Spira is an author and media personality on the subjects of online dating, social media, mobile dating, and netiquette. She wrote The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online. Spira has written about the intersection of love and technology for numerous publications.
Early life
Spira was raised in Glen Rock, New Jersey and attended Glen Rock High School. She graduated from the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, where she received a B.S. in Television-Radio.
Career
Broadcasting and technology
While attending Ithaca College, Spira, then known as Julie Evans, became the first female on-air personality and voice-over talent at WAAL-FM in Binghamton, NY. Spira's digital career began when she worked for RKO Radio Networks as manager, Affiliate Relations in New York City. She relocated to Los Angeles, where she opened the west coast Affiliate office for RKO and was promoted to Director, Affiliate Relations. Her technology career grew further as she oversaw high speed Internet via satellite to over 100 countries while serving as Executive Vice President of Sales for Interpacket Networks.
Online dating
While a technology executive and early adopter of the Internet, Spira became a charter member of Love@AOL in 1994, which was acquired by Match.com. Passionate about the intersection of love and technology, she began coaching singles on the Internet at this time and started writing online dating profiles for single men and women.
Spira is often interviewed by the media in her role as an online dating expert. She has appeared on ABC Television's Good Morning America to discuss Tinder's background check feature. Spira was recently interviewed on NBC's Today Show as part of a story about survey results that recognized older women are dating younger men. She is often quoted by major media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Mashable, The New York Post, and The New York Times to discuss online dating safety, mobile dating, and other relationship topics. Her dating advice has appeared on numerous online dating sites. Spira has been a guest on NPR's All Things Considered as a mobile dating expert, speaking about the history of computer dating from the 1950s to the present day of mobile dating apps. Spira's Mobile Dating Bootcamp was featured in the Washington Post, where she discussed the rapid growth of mobile dating and social networking applications and she has been called on by the New York Times and other media outlets as a Tinder Dating Expert.
In 2015, Julie Spira appeared as the online dating coach in the Vice Media documentary, "The Mobile Love Industry."
The Perils of Cyber-Dating: Confessions of a Hopeful Romantic Looking for Love Online is a tell all memoir of Spira's 250 online dates. The book was published in February 2009 by Morgan James Publishing and includes Internet dating advice for singles. The Santa Monica Daily Press called it “a mu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howzat%21%20Kerry%20Packer%27s%20War | Howzat! Kerry Packer's War is an Australian drama-miniseries set in the 1970s that premiered on the Nine Network on Sunday 19 August 2012.
Plot
The Ashes is the pinnacle of world cricket with two old enemies, Australia and England, going head to head. This series is the story of World Series Cricket and its creator, Australian media mogul Kerry Packer, who signed up the world's greatest players and set up a parallel cricket competition.
The Australian cricket team, visiting England in 1977 for the Ashes series, fields a team full of legends. Cricket is undergoing a revolution and the cricket establishment will be brought to its knees.
Cast
Lachy Hulme as media mogul Kerry Packer
Travis McMahon as comedian Paul Hogan
Abe Forsythe as comedian John Cornell (known also as 'strop').
Cariba Heine as an actress (and wife of John Cornell) Delvene Delaney.
Peter Houghton as former Australian cricket captain (and also an adviser to Kerry Packer), Richie Benaud.
Clayton Watson as Australia XI captain Ian Chappell
Damon Gameau as Australia XI batsman Greg Chappell.
Matthew Le Nevez as Australia XI fast bowler Dennis Lillee.
Ryan O'Kane as Australia XIfast bowler Jeff Thomson.
Brendan Cowell as Australia XI wicket-keeper Rod Marsh.
Richard Davies as Australia XI Batsman David Hookes.
Nicholas Coghlan as journalist Austin Robertson Jr.
Alexander England as England and Rest Of The World XI captain Tony Greig.
Andrew Carbone as Australia XI fast bowler Max Walker.
Russell Newman as Harry Chester.
Tony Briggs as West Indies XI captain Clive Lloyd.
Daniel Worrall as Australia XI bowler Mick Malone.
Craig Hall as Gavin Warner (fictional character)
Mandy McElhinney as Kerry Packer's personal assistant, Rose (fictional character)
Ratings
Accolades
Book
Howzat! Kerry Packer's War, is also a book by Christopher Lee, who wrote the screenplay of the TV series. It was first published in 2012 by New South Publishing, an imprint of The University of New South Wales.
See also
World Series Cricket
Cricket World Cup
Limited overs cricket
South African rebel tours
Power Games: The Packer-Murdoch War
References
External links
Nine Network original programming
2010s Australian television miniseries
Television series by Endemol Australia
Television series by Endemol
Fiction set in the 1970s
Cricket on television
2012 Australian television series debuts
2012 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroa%3A%20Ang%20Kuwento%20ni%20Mariposa | Paroa: (International title: The Story of Mariposa / ) is a Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark A. Reyes, it stars Barbie Forteza in the title role. It premiered on November 5, 2012 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Moon Embracing the Sun. The series concluded on March 1, 2013 with a total of 85 episodes. It was replaced by Forever in its timeslot.
Premise
Mariposa, a girl who belongs to the kingdom of the butterfly people known as Paroa. However, she will grow up in the human world because their kingdom got destroyed. Her mother Aurora, the queen of Paroa, will save her from the destruction of their kingdom. Thus, Mariposa will grow up under the care of Amalia who treats her as her own child despite her strange looks — Mariposa's skin is similar to a woolly worm. Despite people making fun of her looks, Mariposa will still have a cheerful and optimistic disposition.
Meanwhile, Iñigo will grow up hating the Paroas because her mother Rosanna told him that his father died because of them. He will be Mariposa's high school classmate. He has a bad-boy image and always gets kicked out from school that's why he is still in his sophomore year. Iñigo and Mariposa will be friends but because of peer pressure he will also mock and make fun of Mariposa. However, when Mariposa transforms into a beautiful Paroa, Iñigo will like and develop feelings towards her not knowing that she is the same girl who he mocked and at the same time a Paroa who he grew up hating.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Barbie Forteza as Mariposa de Guzman / Aira
Supporting cast
Derrick Monasterio as Iñigo Villamor
Joyce Ching as Rebecca "Becca" Sarmiento
Ruru Madrid as Rasul
Miguel Tanfelix as Joko Santos
Tanya Garcia as Aurora
Agot Isidro as Amalia de Guzman
Alicia Mayer as Rosanna Villamor
Maritoni Fernandez as Belen Sarmiento
Lexi Fernandez as Giselle Sarmiento
Lani Mercado as Dahlia
Gerard Pizarras as Adon
Recurring cast
Marc Acueza as Desmond
Bianca Umali as Leah
Shyr Valdez as Lani Santos
German Moreno as Apo Pasko
Jhoana Marie Tan as Lila
Shermaine Santiago as Talisay
Gino dela Peña as Roman
Rita Daniela as Lizzy
Rhen Escaño as Betty
Janna Trites as Tess
Robert Villar as Uno
Isabel "Lenlen" Frial as Pao-pao
Neil Ryan Sese as Armando Villamor
Guest cast
Kryshee Grengia as young Mariposa
Ashley Cabrera as young Becca
Byron Ortile as young Joko
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Paroa: earned a 12.1% rating. While the final episode scored a 12.1% rating.
References
External links
2012 Philippine television series debuts
2013 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Television shows set in Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artelius | is a Nintendo Family Computer action role-playing video game that was released exclusively in Japan on November 13, 1987.
Story
An advanced civilization once flourished in a fictional solar system. One day, a black hole appeared and sucked everyone who lived there into another dimension. This parallel universe came to be known as Artelius. Ruled by the diabolical king Sarbelor, he controls a machine that has split the universe into spaces filled with asteroid belts.
A cyborg has been built by a scientist named Dr. Rado in order to defeat Sarbelor; only he has been entrusted with this mission to save Artelius from the evil king's reign.
Gameplay
Players begin the game by customizing and modifying the traits of their characters. Warp points allow players to travel across the universe. On the map, the red dots are always bad guys while the blue dots indicate space colonies, where players can rest and stock up on supplies. Each resting spot has at least two doors or a warp point. Battles are done randomly and from a first-person perspective. Winning will earn the player valuable experience points that will make the player stronger and advance in levels.
The players attacks are determined by strength while their defensive power is determined by the strength of the shield. Having a high level of agility allows for more frequent successes in running away from unwanted battles. The laser beam is the best weapon in the game; it can eventually be upgraded to a "hyper magnum" gun that is stronger than a fully powered-up missile or bazooka weapon.
References
External links
Artelius at GameFAQs
Role-playing video games
Action role-playing video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nihon Bussan games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Science fiction video games
1987 video games
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Richter | Jeff Richter is an American music video director and editor. He has worked for Intuitive Entertainment, MTV Networks, Trans-Siberian Orchestra and is the owner of Earthquake Productions, a production company where he directs and edits his own music videos, concert films and commercials.
Select videography
1989
"Bed of Nails" (directed by Nigel Dick; editor only) - Alice Cooper
1990
"The More Things Change" - Cinderella
1992
"Foreclosure of a Dream" - Megadeth
1994
"Foreign Sand" - Roger Taylor featuring Yoshiki
1996
"Work It Out" (directed by Nigel Dick; editor only) - Def Leppard
1997
"Break on Through (To the Other Side)" (version 2) - The Doors
1998
"Ain't Goin' to Goa" ('98 Radio Remix) - Alabama 3
1999
"Nobody Can Stop Me" (directed by Gregory Dark; editor only) - Bizzy Bone
"Blue Monday" (directed by Gregory Dark; editor only) - Orgy
"Fuck Dying" (directed by Gregory Dark; editor only) - Ice Cube featuring Korn
"Thug Mentality" (directed by Gregory Dark; editor only) - Krayzie Bone
"Awful" - Hole
"Good to Be Alive" (Radio Remix) - DJ Rap
"Welcome to the Jungle" (Live) - Guns N' Roses
"The Anthem" - Sway & King Tech featuring RZA, Tech N9ne, Eminem, Xzibit, Pharoahe Monch, Kool G Rap, Jayo Felony, Chino XL and KRS-One
2000
"Whoa!" - Black Rob
"Into the Void" (co-directed with Walter Stern; also editor) - Nine Inch Nails
"You Sang to Me" (also editor) - Marc Anthony
"Quality Control" - Jurassic 5
"Wifey" - Next
"The Light" - Pharoahe Monch
"Oooh." - De La Soul featuring Redman
"Oh No" - Mos Def, Pharoahe Monch and Nate Dogg
"After Party" - Koffee Brown
2001
"W.O.E. Is Me (World of Entertainment)" (uncredited) - Jurassic 5
"It Don't Matter" - Rehab
"La Rhumba" - RZA as Bobby Digital featuring Method Man, Killa Sin and Beretta 9
2002
"The Knoc" - Knoc-turn'al featuring Missy Elliott and Dr. Dre
2003
"Send the Pain Below" - Chevelle
"Worms of the Earth" - Finch
"We Want Peace" - Lenny Kravitz
"True to Myself" - Ziggy Marley
2004
"She Bangs" - William Hung
"Saturday Night" - Ozomatli
2005
"Comin' to Your City" - Big & Rich
2007
"Rise Today" (directed by Dale Resteghini; editor only) - Alter Bridge
"Calling You" (also editor) - Blue October
2014
"Lose Yourself Avicii and Leehom Wang" (directed by Jeff Richter; director editor) - Avicii
References
External links
Jeff Richter's videography
Earthquake Productions
American editors
American music video directors
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
University of Missouri alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare%20metal%20%28disambiguation%29 | Bare metal is computer hardware that runs without an operating system.
Bare metal may also refer to:
BareMetal, an exokernel-based computer operating system
See also
Bare metal arc welding
Bare-metal stent, in medicine
Bare-metal restore, in data recovery
Bare-metal server |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus%20DataLens | Lotus Development's DataLens, originally known as Blueprint, was a standardized system for database queries used in a number of Lotus products, notably 1-2-3. It provided drivers for a number of common data sources, including a variety of mainframe SQL servers, microcomputer database files of various sorts, and even flat-file systems. Drivers from 3rd parties were also available.
Unlike the better-known ODBC, DataLens did not use SQL in the query interface. The API was based on a variety of data structures that were interpreted by the database drivers into their own internal query format - including SQL in some cases. In contrast, ODBC used SQL as its basic interface, and interpreted and translated it in the driver for those data sources that did not use SQL.
Lotus also released two user-oriented query builders, the DOS-based Query Builder which could interact with DataLens sources but was not built on it, and the Windows-based Data Query Assistant (DQA) which was built directly on DataLens.
References
Lotus Software software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Species%20Database | A Global Species Database (GSD) is a digital catalog of organisms often defined around a conservation purpose for the organisms of interest. GSDs attempt to be globally inclusive of species within their inclusion parameters versus local species databases. GSDs have a defined purpose, SPECIESDAB is a GSD for economically valuable fish species, while FishBase focuses on fin fish regardless of their human potential for exploitation. Attempts have been made to create GSDs for extinct species such as trilobites. A GSD can be broad in taxonomic scope, such as AlgaeBase comprehensively including algae and seagrasses from the entire planet, or narrow such as International Legume Database & Information Service, a GSD for members of a single plant family, the Fabaceae.
A database restricted by geography such as Calflora focusing on California Floristic Province flowering plants and ferns is not a GSD.
The Catalogue of Life links together a number of GSDs of animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms, such as FishBase and AlgaeBase, and integrates these at a high level through a single node facilitating ease of access to global species data.
See also
Global 200, a global list of ecoregions that are conservation priorities
Global biodiversity, includes species diversity, as well as genetic and ecosystem diversity
References
Biodiversity databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta%20Playwrights%20Network | The Alberta Playwrights Network (APN) is a professional association that was founded in 1985 to develop and support playwrights. It hosts a competition called the New Play Development Program. Gordon Pengilly is a dramaturge for the Alberta Playwrights Network, as is Gisèle Villeneuve. Sharon Pollock was elected president of the Alberta Playwrights Network in 1998. Sandra Dempsey had previously been the president. The Alberta Playwrights Network supported Katherine Koller in writing such plays as The Seed Savers. The association produces a newsletter called Rave Review. The Alberta Playwrights Network has also engaged in playwright exchanges with other associations, including the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre and the Playwrights Theatre Centre. The Alberta Playwrights Network also presented an annual award with Scripts At Work called the Scripts At Work/Alberta Playwrights Network Award.
References
Canadian writers' organizations
Theatrical organizations in Canada
Professional associations based in Alberta
20th-century theatre
21st-century theatre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melzo%20railway%20station | Melzo is a railway station in Italy. Located on the Milan–Venice railway, it serves the town of Melzo.
Services
Melzo is served by lines S5 and S6 of the Milan suburban railway network, operated by the Lombard railway company Trenord.
See also
Milan suburban railway network
References
External links
Railway stations in Lombardy
Milan S Lines stations
1846 establishments in the Austrian Empire
Railway stations in Italy opened in 1846 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AROS%20Public%20License | The AROS Public License (APL) is a software license which is primarily used as the license for the AROS Research Operating System software project. Version 1.1 is based on the text of Mozilla Public License 1.1, with some definitions added and Netscape-specific texts changed.
It has not been officially approved as a free or open source license by the FSF, OSI, or Debian. The license the APL is based on, MPL v1.1, is incompatible with the GPL, unless the developer offers the choice of licensing the program under the GPL or any other GPL-compatible license.
References
External links
AROS Public License
AROS License DFSG ok? Debian legal, 2005
Free and open-source software licenses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea%20Torres | Andrea Elizabeth Eugenio Torres (born May 4, 1990) is a Filipino actress, singer, host, dancer and commercial model. She is currently an exclusive contract artist of GMA Network. She is best known for her roles as Cindy Rodriguez in the WeTV Original series BetCin, Dra. Diane San Luis-Makadatu in Legal Wives, Venus Torralba-de Jesus in Alyas Robin Hood, Cecilia Peron-Altamonte and Olga Villavicer in Sana ay Ikaw na Nga, Elaine Reyes / Juliet Santos and Jasmine "Jas" Santos-De Villa in The Better Woman, Annasandra "Anna" Vergara in Ang Lihim ni Annasandra, Luisa in The Millionaire's Wife and Narcisa "Sisa" in Maria Clara at Ibarra.
Acting career
Torres was first seen as one of the contestants in ABS-CBN's teen-oriented reality show Qpids in 2005. In 2008, Torres transferred to ABS-CBN's rival network GMA and became one of the hosts of the now-defunct youth-oriented magazine show, Ka-Blog! She was also part of some drama and hit movies such as You to Me Are Everything, a Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera starrer, and Shake, Rattle & Roll X.
When Ka-Blog! went off the air, Torres concentrated for a while in her studies, taking up communication arts at the University of Santo Tomas. On March 8, 2011, Torres signed a three-year exclusive contract with GMA Network. Two months later, she landed a part in the afternoon drama series Blusang Itim.
It helped that she had joined extracurricular activities while in school. She performed during assemblies, acted in plays, attended leadership conventions, even volunteered to read Bible verses during Masses. She was also in the volleyball team. When she was younger she took up ballet lessons. She tried everything that could help her express herself as an artist.
In 2012, Torres, together with Mikael Daez, reprised the roles of Cecilia Fulgencio and Carlos Miguel Altamonte, respectively, for Sana ay Ikaw na Nga, a 2012 remake based on the 2001 popular teledrama of the same name. The said roles were originally portrayed by Tanya Garcia and Dingdong Dantes, respectively.
In 2013, Torres starred in the romantic comedy With a Smile as Isay, a rural lady who has a passion for cooking. In 2014, she starred in the fantasy-romance drama Ang Lihim ni Annasandra as the title character who is cursed to transform into an aswang every night. She also starred in the 2016 television series The Millionaire's Wife as Louisa, a single mother who decides to marry a rich, old man in exchange for financial help for her son suffering from juvenile diabetes. In the action-drama television series Alyas Robin Hood, Torres played Venus, alongside Dingdong Dantes and Megan Young.
Torres appeared on the cover of FHM Philippines' December 2014 issue. She was also voted No. 2 in FHM Philippines' 100 Sexiest Women in the World 2015 poll, and No. 15 in the 2016 poll. In 2015, she published her coffee table photo-book titled Andrea: Roadtrip.
She was a mainstay of Bubble Gang between 2012 and 2019. She starred in Cambodian and Argentinian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMAX%20%28Italian%20TV%20channel%29 | DMAX is a thematic network television owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The Italian version of the channel began its broadcasting at 6:45 pm on 10 November 2011 with the show Destroyed in Seconds. DMAX is available on channel 52 of digital television, on Sky Italia at channel 136 in HD and on Tivù Sat at channel 28 in HD. It is the first factual-entertainment channel for a male audience in Italy.
From 17 December 2012, it broadcasts on Tivùsat at LCN 28 and moves to LCN 808 of Sky Italia. From 9 April 2014 it moved to LCN 136 of Sky Italia, with the official launch of the +1 version at LCN 137. From 7 November of the same year DMAX also broadcasts in HD on the Sky Italia platform.
From 1 March 2019 DMAX HD and DMAX +1 become visible also on Tivùsat at LCN 28 and 128, replacing the SD version. On 13 March 2019 definitively closes the SD version on the satellite, also disappearing from Sky Italia. From 9 April DMAX, together with the other free channels of the group, is also available in high definition streaming on Dplay.
On 1 December 2020, DMAX +1 was shut down. It will cover all Six Nations matches until 2021.
Programming
Original programs
Affari a quattro ruote Italia
Campioni sempre
DMAX su Quattroruote
Due rugbisti e una meta
Football Hooligans – con Michele Dalai
I re della griglia
Il cacciatore di tifosi
La salumeria dei pugni
Lady Ferro
Milano City Tattoo
Unti e bisunti
Imported programs
1000 modi per morire (1000 Ways to Die)
A caccia di veleni (Wild Recon)
Affare fatto (Auction Hunters)
Affari a quattro ruote (Wheeler Dealers)
Affari in valigia (Baggage Battles)
Airport Security (Border Security: Australia's Front Line)
Airport Security: Canada (Border Security: Canada's Front Line)
Airport Security: Nuova Zelanda (Border Patrol)
American Chopper
American Hot Rod
Anatomia di un disastro (Anatomy of a Disaster)
Animal Cops
Armi del futuro (Future Weapons)
Bear Grylls – Celebrity Edition (Running Wild with Bear Grylls)
Bear Grylls – Giungla urbana (Worst Case Scenario)
Bear Grylls – L'ultimo sopravvissuto (Man vs. Wild)
Bellator MMA
Bizarre ER
Brutti, sporchi e affamati (Hairy Bikers)
Cacciatori di fantasmi (Ghost Adventures)
Cacciatori di tesori (American Digger)
Carcere duro (Behind Bars)
Cattivissimi amici (Impractical Jokers)
Ci sei o ci fai? (World's Craziest Fools)
Come è fatto (How It's Made)
Come è fatto il cibo (Food Factory)
Destroyed in Seconds
Dual Survival
Due macchine da soldi (Lords of the Car Hoards)
Dynamo – Magie impossibili (Dynamo: Magician Impossible)
È nata una... (Is Born series)
Effetto rallenty (Time Warp)
Elite Police
I maghi delle auto (Classic Car Rescue)
Il banco dei pugni (Hardcore Pawn)
Il laboratorio del cibo (Jimmy's Farm)
Il signore degli insetti (Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan)
Ink Master
Jurassic Wars (Jurassic Fight Club)
Killer Karaoke
LA Ink
La prova del diavolo (Cutthroat Kitchen)
Le meraviglie dell'Universo (Wonders of the Universe)
L |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talpa%20Network | Talpa Network is a Dutch media conglomerate created by John de Mol Jr. in 2017.
History
Talpa Network was created in 2017 by John de Mol when he merged all his various media assets, De Mol wanted to create a Dutch media conglomerate that could stand against foreign media companies entering the Dutch market. Talpa Holding and Sanoma acquired SBS Broadcasting in 2011, the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets forced De Mol to sell his minority stake in RTL Nederland. De Mol would remain a minority shareholder in SBS Broadcasting, until 2017 when his Talpa Holding acquired all remaining shares in SBS Broadcasting from Sanoma for €237 million. After the sale of RTL Nederland, De Mol took full ownership of Radio 538, SLAM! FM and Radio 10 Gold. In October 2016 De Mol merged his radio stations with the radio stations of the Telegraaf Media Groep into Talpa Radio, a joint venture in which he would hold a 77% stake. He also wanted to fully acquire the Telegraaf Media Groep in which he already had a minority share and merge it with SBS Broadcasting. The Belgian Mediahuis also made several offers for the remaining shares and were the winner of the acquisition, leaving De Mol as a minority shareholder. In December 2017 De Mol sold his 29% share to Mediahuis, but acquired full ownership of Talpa Radio. Other notable acquisitions were StukTV (2018), ANP (2018), Linda. Magazine (2019), Gierige Gasten (2019) and TVGids.tv (2019).
Cancelled merger
After John de Mol raised his stake in SBS Broadcasting in 2017 to full ownership he sought a partnership with RTL Nederland. In his opinion there wasn't enough space for two major Dutch commercial television networks in the changed media landscape, RTL shut down his offer. However, in June 2021 RTL Nederland and Talpa Network announced plans for a merger, pending approval by the European Commission and the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets. In the new conglomerate, RTL Nederland is to hold 70% of the shares and Talpa Holding 30%. Talpa Entertainment Productions and Talpa Concepts won't be a part of the merger. Both parties reasoned that a merger was the only solution to an ever growing presence of foreign media parties, giving space to a single commercial Dutch media company that's capable of producing specifically for the Dutch market. Critics however claimed that the failing of Talpa Network is the reason behind the merger. In January 2022 the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets stated that it could not approve the merger as of yet and that further investigation to the consequences of price, quality and innovation is necessary. On the 30th of January 2023 the Authority announced that it would not approve the merger, citing that the merged company would become too powerful.
Assets
Talpa TV
SBS6, flagship channel of the group
Net5, focused on the female demographic
Veronica, focused on the male demographic. Shares the channel with Disney XD.
SBS9, focused on movies and ser |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delia%20Memorial%20School%20%28Yuet%20Wah%29 | Delia Memorial School (Yuet Wah) is a secondary school founded in 1975 located in Kwun Tong District, Hong Kong.
Facilities
Computer rooms
Multi-Media Learning Centre (MMLC)
Swimming Pool
Chemistry Laboratory
Physics Laboratory
Science Laboratory
Basketball Court
Badminton Courts
Stadium
Gymnastic room
Hall
See also
Delia School of Canada, Hong Kong
External links
Delia Memorial School (YW)
Educational institutions established in 1975
Kwun Tong District
Secondary schools in Hong Kong
Delia Group of Schools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiepang | Jiepang () was a Chinese social networking service for mobile devices, such as smartphones. Users can download the Jiepang app to track and share life moments with friends. In July 2013, Jiepang launched an all new design in version 5.0, which evolved from its origins as China's leading location-based service (LBS) for the "check in". Jiepang helps users record and track all of their life activities, connect with friends in specific moments and explore communities of people that have similar interests.
In the past, Jiepang was highly similar to Foursquare and was frequently called the Foursquare of China. But the redesign of Jiepang 5.0 pivots the app away from that reference.
The service was created in 2010 by David Liu (刘大卫), and is available in simplified and traditional Chinese characters as well as English. As of July 2013, it had 5 million users.
As of June 20, 2016, the app and website are no longer working.
Features
Jiepang provides an application for iOS, Android, and a mobile website.
Jiepang homepage has an easy access check-in toolbar that allows users to post their location, tag friends they are with, share a photo and add comments ("check-in"). Users can choose to have their moments synced to their other social-network accounts on Sina Weibo, Renren, Douban, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, Kaixin001, Fanfou, and Twitter. Each post can also be synced to WeChat moments or individual WeChat conversations.
Users can create a "To Do" list for their private use and add "Tips" to venues that other users can read, which serve as suggestions for great things to do, see or eat at the location.
In addition, users can view their personal page to view history chronologically, by photos, etc.
Activity Tags
Jiepang 5.0 launched 16 activity tags: Food, Coffee, KTV, Movies, Date, Travel, Shopping, Party, Work, Exercise, Drink, Performance, Pets, Sleepless, Selfie, and Mock/Vent. Activity tags help users categorize personal posts to easily reflect on specific moments. Activity tags also allow users to explore their interests by viewing other users' posts within specific categories. Users have the choice of adding one activity tag to each post. Within each activity tag category, users can view all posts shared by friends or explore those from within the whole Jiepang community.
Badges
Badges () are earned by participating in campaigns via checking into venues with specific hashtags, using a branded photo filter, check-in frequency, time of check-in, etc. Once a badge is earned by a player, it will remain on that user's profile indefinitely.
Specials
"Specials" (), are incentives for Jiepang users to record specific moments.
Partnerships
Jiepang has partnered with over 400 global brands, including Starbucks, Louis Vuitton., Neutrogena, Listerine, McDonald's, Starwood Hotels, etc.
References
External links
Official website (Traditional Chinese version) (Mobile)
Geosocial networking
Defunct social networking services
Android (operating system) softw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimistic%20decompression | Optimistic decompression is a digital forensics technique in which each byte of an input buffer is examined for the possibility of compressed data. If data is found that might be compressed, a decompression algorithm is invoked to perform a trial decompression. If the decompressor does not produce an error, the decompressed data is processed. The decompressor is thus called optimistically---that is, with the hope that it might be successful.
Optimistic decompression is used as a tool to validate JPEGs that are produced by file carving. The approach can also be used for fragment reassembly carving by attempting to combine different combinations of fragments, looking for a combination that produces neither decompression errors nor visual discontinuities.
References
Data recovery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20F.%20Miller | William F. Miller (November 19, 1925 – September 27, 2017) was an American academic who was professor public and private management emeritus and a professor of computer science emeritus. He was a vice president and provost of Stanford University from 1971 to 1979, and president and CEO of SRI International from 1979 to 1990. He died in September 2017 at the age of 91.
Early life and education
Miller was born in Vincennes, Indiana. He attended Purdue University, where he earned a B.S. in 1949, an M.S. in experimental physics in 1951, and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1956.
Career
Miller was a director of the Applied Mathematics Division at Argonne National Laboratory, where he worked on problems in computational science. Miller was recruited to the faculty of Stanford University in 1964 by Frederick Terman, who was Stanford's vice president and provost at the time. From 1971 to 1979, Miller was the vice president and provost of Stanford University. From 1979 to 1990, Miller was the president and CEO of SRI International, where he focused on expanding the organization's business in the Pacific Rim and acquired the Sarnoff Corporation as a subsidiary of SRI. Miller has been a member of numerous boards of directors, including but not limited to Wells Fargo, Borland International, McKenna Group, Palyn-Gould Group, Who Where?, Quest Gen and the BHP International Advisory Council. He was an initial investor in Mayfield Fund, an early venture capital organization.
Awards and honors
Miller was given an honorary Doctor of Science degree from his alma mater, Purdue University, in 1972. In 1989, Tau Beta Pi recognized him as an Eminent Engineer.
References
1925 births
2017 deaths
Argonne National Laboratory people
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
People from Vincennes, Indiana
Purdue University alumni
SRI International people
Stanford University Graduate School of Business faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20distributed%20file%20systems | In computing, a distributed file system (DFS) or network file system is any file system that allows access to files from multiple hosts sharing via a computer network. This makes it possible for multiple users on multiple machines to share files and storage resources.
Distributed file systems differ in their performance, mutability of content, handling of concurrent writes, handling of permanent or temporary loss of nodes or storage, and their policy of storing content.
Locally managed
FOSS
Proprietary
Remote access
Comparison
Some researchers have made a functional and experimental analysis of several distributed file systems including HDFS, Ceph, Gluster, Lustre and old (1.6.x) version of MooseFS, although this document is from 2013 and a lot of information are outdated (e.g. MooseFS had no HA for Metadata Server at that time).
The cloud based remote distributed storage from major vendors have different APIs and different consistency models.
See also
Distributed file system
List of file systems, the Distributed file systems section
References
Network file systems
Distributed file systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge%20protocol%20data%20unit | Bridge Protocol Data Units (BPDUs) are frames that contain information about the spanning tree protocol (STP). A switch sends BPDUs using a unique source MAC address from its origin port to a multicast address with destination MAC (01:80:C2:00:00:00, or 01:00:0C:CC:CC:CD for Cisco proprietary Per VLAN Spanning Tree).
There are two kinds of BPDUs for 802.1D Spanning Tree:
Configuration BPDU, sent by root bridges to provide information to all switches.
TCN (Topology Change Notification), sent by bridges towards the root bridge to notify changes in the topology, such as port up or port down.
By default the BPDUs are sent every 2 seconds.
References
Spanning tree |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacadoo | dacadoo is a Zurich-based technology company that combines mobile technologies, social networking, gamification, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data analytics with the aim of helping users improve their health and wellbeing.
History and background
dacadoo is based in Zurich, Switzerland and was founded as QUENTIQ AG in 2010 by Peter Ohnemus, a serial Swiss entrepreneur. It was later renamed to dacadoo ag in January 2012. Ohnemus worked since the early days of dacadoo together with Prof. Laurence Jacobs and Andre Naef on the core research and development of the dacadoo Health Score.
dacadoo has client service offices in Boston (USA), Odense (Denmark), Sydney (Australia), Shanghai (China) and Tokyo (Japan). The company is privately funded.
dacadoo's first product, the Digital Health Engagement platform, went live in December 2011. Since then, they have released several updates and major improvements and currently runs on version 4.4.0, titled Wheel of Life™, in over 18 languages across the world.
The company focuses exclusively on a B2B2C go-to-market approach and has signed agreements with customers (insurers, corporate wellness vendors, etc.) who launched the dacadoo platform in an own branded version to their end users in various countries.
The company presupposes its health platform execution on the premise that sedentary lifestyles have increased the proportion of people who are overweight, have diabetes or suffer heart failure in our society thus pressuring further the already stressed healthcare budgets of most developed countries. One such study is the clinical data published in the Edward R. Laskowski, M.D., Mayo Clinic, 2018 publication: «An analysis of 13 studies of sitting time and activity levels found that those who sat for more than eight hours a day with no physical activity had a risk of dying similar to the risks of dying posed by obesity and smoking.» With these type of studies as their reference dacadoo has been, according to their website and press releases, developing the Wheel of Life™ lifestyle navigation platform that calculates a person's Health Score.
The score, a number from 0 to 1,000, is calculated based on over 300 million person-years of clinical data and represents a person's health status from poor to excellent. It aims to represent a directional relative indicator of a user's current health and wellbeing status in real-time. The dacadoo Health Score is based on three main pillars:
Your Physical Health (who you are): the platform captures hard data such as age, sex, weight, height, body dimensions, blood values and blood pressure
Your Mental Wellbeing (how you feel): the platform uses a quality of life questionnaire to obtain the necessary information for this pillar
Your Lifestyle (what you do): the platform captures data from physical activity, nutrition, sleep, self-control and mindfulness
According to their statement, many of the company's initiatives aim to focus on active health promotion (pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro%20Pedrosa%20Mendes | Pedro Pedrosa Mendes is a professor of computational systems biology in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester. He is a member of the Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology (MCISB), the Machine Learning and Optimization (MLO) group. He is also a professor at the University of Connecticut Health Center.
Education
Mendes did his undergraduate degree in biochemistry at the University of Lisbon. He then moved to the UK and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from Aberystwyth University in 1994 for work on computer simulation of metabolic pathways.
Career
Following his PhD, Mendes moved to the National Center for Genome Resources for a year then on to the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech or VT) in 2000. He moved to the University of Manchester as Professor in 2007, while still keeping a 20% appointment in the VBI until the end of 2013. In January 2014 he joined the Center for Quantitative Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center and he split his time 50/50 with the appointment at the University of Manchester. From July 2016 he transitioned to a full time position at the University of Connecticut Health Center as Professor of Cell Biology.
References
Living people
Systems biologists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Portuguese computer scientists
Academics of the University of Manchester
People associated with the Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Counting%20Cars%20episodes | This is a list of episodes from the reality television series Counting Cars, a spin-off of the series Pawn Stars, which airs on the cable network History.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2012)
Season 2 (2013)
Season 3 (2014)
Season 4 (2015)
Season 5 (2016)
Season 6 (2016)
Season 7 (2017)
Season 8 (2018)
Season 9 (2020)
References
General references
External links
Count's Kustoms
Counting Cars, list of episodes
Counting Cars |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilyas%20Khan | Ilyas Khan KSG (born 1962) is a British technologist and businessman. He is the founder of Cambridge Quantum Computing.
Early life
Ilyas Tariq Khan was raised in Lancashire (North West England). His grandparents emigrated to Britain in the 1930s. His early schooling was in the old Lancashire Pennine mill towns of Haslingden and then Accrington.
When Khan was at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, he stayed at Netherhall House, an Opus Dei student hall of residence. Although he was born a Muslim whilst at Netherhall House he became interested in Catholicism and especially the work of 20th century theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar and of John Henry Newman.
Business and academic career
Khan is a merchant banker by training and started his career at the London firm of J. Henry Schroder Wagg & Co. Ltd. He was also the owner of the English football team Accrington Stanley and the founder and publisher of the Asia Literary Review.
Khan remains the non executive senior partner of Stanhill Capital Partners, a merchant banking business with a focus on natural resources which he founded in 1998, during the 20 years (1989–2009) he spent living and working in Hong Kong. He was also one of the founding directors of Australia-based White Energy Company.
Khan has published on the subject of Quantum Information Processing., and in 2015 he founded Cambridge Quantum Computing, which builds tools for the commercialisation of quantum technologies with a focus on quantum software and quantum cybersecurity. In December 2021 Cambridge Quantum Computing merged with Honeywell Quantum Solutions to form Quantinuum one of the world’s leading quantum computing companies, and Khan remained as CEO. Khan is the largest shareholder after Honeywell. In 2023 Khan became Vice-Chairman and Chief Product Officer of Quantinuum.
He is a Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge and is also a fellow of the Judge Business School, where he is the "Leader in Residence". His special interests include philanthropy and Wittgenstein, and he is a member of the British Wittgenstein Society.
Khan has lectured and published papers on Ludwig Wittgenstein, among other subjects.
Philanthropy
Between 2015–2018 Khan served as chairman of the Stephen Hawking Foundation, which was established on the initiative of Professor Stephen Hawking to further the study of Cosmology, Astrophysics and Fundamental Particle Physics and to facilitate research into Motor Neuron Disease / Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (MND/ALS).
Khan served two terms as the chairman of the prominent British charity Leonard Cheshire Disability (LCD) — the largest organization of its kind in the world, with a presence in over 50 countries.
Khan is the chairman of Topos Institute, a non-profit research institute devoted to shaping technology for public benefit by advancing sciences of connection and integration.
Khan is a patron of the Christian Heritage Centre at Stonyhurst, which aims to make t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20Academy%20International | Solar Academy International is a global Solar energy training school network. Solar Academy International's first training center, Ontario Solar Academy, was established in 2009 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Entrepreneurs and founders of Solar Academy International, Jacob Travis and David Gower, created the training school in response to demands by solar companies experiencing a shortage in qualified workers within the solar industry, following the surge in interest in solar energy upon the passing of the Ontario Green Energy Act 2009 that led to the creation of the Feed-in Tariff Program. Today, Solar Academy International is the largest training school in Canada, having trained over 700 student graduates, with operations expanding overseas.
The school's most popular class is a 5-day intensive course in which students are taught the fundamental basics of the solar industry including aspects of design, sales, and installation by NABCEP-certified installers. Instructors have, in addition to sharing a wealth of field experience and knowledge in best practices, been known to take on students for solar projects, offering practical, paid experience to beginners looking to enter the solar industry. The course concludes with a field trip to a LEED-certified Platinum facility with an operational solar PV system. This intensive course also satisfies the education requirements laid out by the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) for the Entry Level Program. Students who have completed the course are eligible to write the NABCEP Entry Level Exam at one of Castle Worldwide's testing facilities by registering through the Academy.
Solar Academy International also recently started offering a multiple month internship program for interested applicants to get both knowledge and experience into the solar industry. The internship is tailored to the intern's strengths and interests and offers flexibility in length and scope.
Ontario Solar Academy
On August 27, 2010, the then-named Ontario Solar Academy was the first solar PV training school in Canada to receive the Institute for Sustainable Power Quality (ISPQ) accreditation by the Interstate Renewable Energy Council. ISPQ Accreditation is internationally recognized for having high standards in solar energy education and is awarded to training providers. Enrollment in the course surged upon approval of this accreditation, with many students satisfied with the quality of instruction and comprehensiveness of the introductory course.
Course Location
Courses in Canada are held at the Franken Solar facilities in Mississauga, Ontario. Past courses have also been held in select cities in the United States. Workshops in Miami and Toronto are slated to take place in December 2014.
References
External links
Solar Academy International Official Website
Solar energy organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daffy%27s%20Rhapsody | Daffy's Rhapsody is a 2012 3D computer-animated Looney Tunes short film featuring the characters Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd. Directed by Matthew O'Callaghan and written by Tom Sheppard, the film is an adaptation of the song of the same name which was sung by Mel Blanc and recorded in the 1950s by Capitol Records. It also marked the return of Daffy Duck into his original screwball personality after decades of being miscast as a greedy, self-centered character in most of his post-1940s appearances since the Bugs Bunny short Rabbit Fire (1951). Daffy's Rhapsody was first shown in theaters before Warner Bros.' feature-length film Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. Unlike the previous Looney Tunes 3-D shorts, Daffy's Rhapsody has not yet been released on home media. In 2016, the official Warner Bros. Animation uploaded the short to Google but eventually removed it, leaving unofficial uploads of the short being available.
It took until 2021 for the short to be officially available to purchase on Stars of Space Jam: Looney Tunes Collection.
Plot
Elmer Fudd goes to see an anti-duck hunting musical starring Daffy Duck to which upon seeing Daffy as the star of the show, his hunter instincts kick in and he chases Daffy throughout the short while Daffy (whilst singing to the tune of Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2) is initially unaware of Elmer but soon realizes the danger.
Voice cast
Mel Blanc (archival recordings) as Daffy Duck.
Billy West and James Arnold Taylor as Elmer Fudd.
Release
Theatrical
This short was initially scheduled to be released in theaters before Happy Feet Two in 2011, but Warner Bros. decided that I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat was more suitable for a film starring penguins.
Home media
On August 14, 2021, Warner Bros released the short digitally on iTunes and Microsoft Movies and TV in Stars of Space Jam: Looney Tunes Collection, making it the first official home video release of the short.
References
External links
Daffy's Rhapsody on YouTube
2012 films
2012 3D films
2012 short films
2012 comedy films
2012 computer-animated films
2010s American animated films
2010s children's comedy films
2010s children's animated films
2010s animated short films
2010s musical comedy films
2010s English-language films
2010s Warner Bros. animated short films
American 3D films
Computer-animated short films
American children's animated comedy films
American children's animated musical films
American musical comedy films
Looney Tunes shorts
3D animated short films
Bugs Bunny films
Daffy Duck films
Elmer Fudd films
Tasmanian Devil (Looney Tunes) films
Tweety films
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner films
Animated films based on songs
Animated films set in New York (state)
Animated films set in New York City
Films set in a theatre
Films set in the 2010s
Short films directed by Matthew O'Callaghan
Films with screenplays by Matthew O'Callaghan
Films scored by Christopher Lennertz
Warner Bros. Animation animated short films
Reel FX Creative Studios short films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SingleStore | SingleStore (formerly MemSQL) is a proprietary, cloud-native database designed for data-intensive applications. A distributed, relational, SQL database management system (RDBMS) that features ANSI SQL support, it is known for speed in data ingest, transaction processing, and query processing.
SingleStore primarily stores relational data, though it can also store JSON data, graph data, and time series data. It supports blended workloads, commonly referred to as HTAP workloads, as well as more traditional OLTP and OLAP use cases. For queries, it compiles Structured Query Language (SQL) into machine code. The SingleStore database engine can be run in various Linux environments, including on-premises installations, public and private cloud providers, in containers via a Kubernetes operator, or as a hosted service in the cloud known as SingleStore Managed Service.
History
1999–2010 (First era)
Cloud data consisted of retrofitting on-premise and general-purpose SQL databases.
2010–2017 (Second era)
The marketplace saw a retreat from more commonly used SQL to achieve speed and scale, instead favoring the adoption of special-purpose, NoSQL databases, and cheap object storage.
2017 — Present (Third era)
Several trends drove database market disruption: faster internet, growth in the adoption of modern applications for streaming, gaming, IoT, and more, and modern applications that drive the need for converged streaming data, transactional, and analytical processing for multi-model data. The third-era began in 2017 with real-time, hybrid multi-cloud, multi-model, and relational databases. This evolution in cloud data drove SingleStore to develop a frictionless, unified distributed SQL database for real-time, data-intensive applications.
On April 23, 2013, SingleStore launched its first generally available version of the database to the public as MemSQL. Early versions only supported row-oriented tables, and were highly optimized for cases where all data can fit within main memory. This design was based on the idea that the cost of RAM would continue to decrease exponentially over time, in a trend similar to Moore's law. This would eventually allow most use cases for database systems to store their data exclusively in memory.
Shortly after launch, MemSQL added general support for an on-disk column-based storage format to work alongside the in-memory rowstore. The decreases in cost of memory slowed over time, and the market for purely in-memory database systems largely failed to materialize, with increasing demand for disk-based OLAP workloads. Thus, over time, MemSQL's columnstore became a major focus and a crucial feature for customers.
On October 27, 2020, MemSQL rebranded to SingleStore to reflect a shift in focus away from exclusively in-memory workloads. The new name highlights the goal of achieving a universal storage format capable of supporting both transactional and analytical use cases.
In its current product release, v.7.5, SingleStore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20Hits%20%28Latin%20American%20TV%20channel%29 | MTV Hits Latin America was a 24-hour non-stop contemporary hit music channel from ViacomCBS Networks Americas that debuted in 2008. The format of the network resembles that of the classic MTV Latin America before the addition of other programming to that network in the 2000s and their slow decline of music video programming. The network had a schedule consisted of only videos, interrupted by promotional advertising for MTV Latin America and limited commercials on the network. Like the other digital MTV/VH1 channels, MTV Hits Latin America used to be based on an automated wheel schedule introduced in the first years of MTV2 in the US. This practice, though, has now been reduced, with five themed zones - namely MTV Hits Playlistism, Hitlist, Biggest! Hottest! Loudest!, MTV Classic and Weekend Playlist - being scheduled at predetermined timeslots.
The channel was replaced by the European version of MTV Hits on August 5, 2020.
Defunct television channels
MTV channels
Music video networks in the United States
Television channels and stations established in 2008
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2020 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W253BG | W253BG (98.5 FM) is an alternative rock radio station located in Arial, South Carolina area. Although licensed as a broadcast translator prohibited from carrying its own programming, it broadcasts under a legal loophole allowed by the Federal Communications Commission, by simulcasting on HD Radio channel 2 of WJMZ FM 107.3, allowing such stations to sidestep the restriction on translators, as well as regulations regarding the excessive concentration of media ownership by a single company in a given media market.
History
98.5 FM began broadcasting in March 2007 in Arial, re-broadcasting WHRZ-LP in Spartanburg, which carries a Christian Contemporary format. In June 2012, an application was filed to move the station to Paris Mountain in Greenville, with a downgrade from 250 to 200 watts, however allowing the station to cover Greenville County, as well as portions of neighboring Pickens and Spartanburg counties with a solid signal. The station would also re-broadcast Cox Radio's WJMZ-FM's HD2 signal. The station's new tower also houses sister station W258CB, 99.5 Chuck FM.
In early July 2012, shortly after the construction permit was granted, a website linked to Cox surfaced that indicated that "Talk 98.5" would launch, with a countdown to "something to talk about" on August 6 featured on the homepage. On Sunday, August 5, the station went live, running a loop of The Neal Boortz Show from sister station WSB. The following day, at 11am, a local talk show came on the air, referring to "Talk 98.5." Shortly after noon, after playing a montage of sound clips, the true format was launched as X-98.5, "The Upstate's New Rock Alternative." The first song heard on X-98.5 was We Are Young by Fun.
On July 20, 2012, Cox Radio, Inc. announced the sale of W253BG and 22 other stations to SummitMedia for $66.25 million. The sale was consummated on May 3, 2013.
The station registered websites in September 2013, referring to a format change to a gospel format as 98.5 Praise, Gospel 98.5, Praise 98, or Praise 98.5. However, this format change never took place. In June 2014, rumors began to spread that W253BG would flip to a simulcast of WRTH as 98.5/103.3 Earth FM, but that rumor never came to fruition.
References
External links
253BG
Radio stations established in 2007
Modern rock radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implosion%20of%20Radio%20Network%20House | The implosion of Radio Network House in 2012 was the first implosion used in New Zealand to demolish a building, and was a "test case" for the potential to use such a demolition method on similar buildings in Christchurch Central City that had been damaged in the 2011 earthquake. Like most other large buildings in central Christchurch, Radio Network House was damaged beyond repair in the 2011 earthquake, and the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) added it to the demolition list in August 2011. In July 2012, it was announced that the building was going to be imploded, involving a specialist company from the United States with considerable experience in this type of work.
The right to push the button for the implosion was put up for auction on Trade Me, and became that website's third most viewed auction. The winning bid of was made by a consortium of demolition contractors, who allowed the Child Cancer Foundation to nominate a six-year-old boy from Queenstown to trigger the event. The implosion, which was carefully monitored to assess the suitability of this demolition method for potential future applications, went without any problems and it is anticipated that this will have paved the way for many more implosions in New Zealand in general, and in Christchurch in particular. But as of 2020, only one further implosion has been carried out.
Background
Radio Network House was a 14-storey tall office tower constructed in 1986. The building was located at 155 Worcester Street, on the north side of the street and in the block between Manchester Street and Latimer Square. For its last twelve years Radio Network House was owned by Greg Hedges through his company Nor West Arch No.4 Ltd.
The building was first operated as the Christchurch studio for Television New Zealand (TVNZ), who displayed their logo on the building. Shows such as What Now, After School, Simon Barnett's quiz show Face the Music and later The Son of a Gunn Show were filmed in the tower block. TVNZ vacated the building in late 1998 following a decision to move all of their Christchurch-produced shows to Wellington. In the late 1990s, Telstra New Zealand, the telecommunications company of Telstra in New Zealand, owned the naming rights to the building. After Clear Communications was acquired in December 2001 to form TelstraClear, the Clear logo was prominently displayed on the building. The building's naming rights were sold to The Radio Network and it was renamed to Radio Network House during the ownership of Nor West Arch No.4 Ltd. At the time of demolition the logo of Newstalk ZB, a subsidiary of The Radio Network, was displayed on the building.
The Canterbury region was hit by a series of earthquakes, and the office building was damaged beyond repair by the earthquake on 22 February 2011. About 400 people worked in the building before the earthquakes. Following the earthquakes, the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) was set up to manage the recovery pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi%20Ishii | Hiroshi Ishii may refer to:
Hiroshi Ishii (computer scientist), Japanese computer scientist
Hiroshi Ishii (swimmer) (born 1939), Japanese swimmer and Olympic medalist
Hiroshi Ishii (golfer) (1941–2006), Japanese professional golfer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aikatsu%21 | is an arcade collectible card game in Bandai's Data Carddass line of machines, which launched in October 2012. The game revolves around using collectible cards featuring various clothes to help aspiring idols pass auditions. An anime television adaptation by Sunrise began airing on TV Tokyo from October 8, 2012 to March 31, 2016. In 2015, production switched from Sunrise to the studio's subsidiary Bandai Namco Pictures. Four films were released in December 2014, August 2015, August 2016, and January 2023 respectively. Three manga adaptations have been published by Shogakukan, along with four Nintendo 3DS games published by Bandai Namco Games. The series was succeeded by Aikatsu Stars! on April 7, 2016.
Plot
The series takes place at , a prestigious school with both middle and high branches, where girls train to become idols and take part in various auditions such as live shows, fashion shows, and dramas. To participate in these auditions, players use Aikatsu cards, special cards which contain digitized dresses and accessories from various manufacturers that are used in their auditions. How well they succeed is often dependent on choosing the right combination of cards. The video games cast players in the role of a new student, who must train to become an idol and reach the top.
The anime series follows a girl named Ichigo Hoshimiya, who becomes inspired by a performance by top idol Mizuki Kanzaki and enrolls in Starlight Academy alongside her best friend, Aoi Kiriya. Along with their classmate, Ran Shibuki, Ichigo and Aoi spend each day training for auditions and aiming to become top idols.
The second season starts with Ichigo returning from America to Starlight Academy, as she now befriends and competes with the students from a new idol school, Dream Academy, which has Seira Otoshiro and her fellow idols.
The third season focuses on a new generation, featuring Akari Ōzora, a young girl chosen by Ichigo to join Starlight Academy, and her friends. They do their best in both the Partner's Cup & the Great Starlight School Festival.
The fourth season centers around Akari's new unit with Sumire Hikami and Hinaki Shinjo, Luminas, going on a nationwide tour and meeting with idols from all over Japan. With these meetings, it prepares them for the big event - The Starlight Queen Cup.
Terminology
Aikatsu Cards are cards that contain digitised clothes which are worn by idols during performances and auditions. They are divided into four categories: Tops, Bottoms, Shoes and Accessories, with some cards, such as one piece dresses, eliminating the need for others. The clothes come from various types of brands and have varying degrees of rarity. Although most clothes come in specific coordinations, players are also able to mix and match different cards to find a good combination.
A student ID that represents a student of Starlight Academy, Dream Academy, Himezakura Private Girls' Academy or Étoile Academy and is required to access the Aikatsu System. In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iyanla%3A%20Fix%20My%20Life | Iyanla: Fix My Life is an American reality television series hosted by Yoruba priestess, life coach and relationship expert Iyanla Vanzant on the Oprah Winfrey Network. A sneak preview episode aired on June 2, 2012, and the series debuted with a two-part series premiere on September 15 and September 16, 2012.
On March 17, 2021, it was announced that the series would conclude with a two-hour farewell special on May 22, 2021.
Background
Iyanla: Fix My Life features Vanzant helping people overcome difficulties in their lives. Each episode focuses on a specific problem posed by the story of one guest (or group of guests), with pre-taped production pieces at the guest's home and interviews with Iyanla that provide commentary throughout the show. Iyanla attempts to bring a different perspective to the situation and updates are provided to viewers at the close of each episode regarding the guest's progress since the date of filming.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2012)
Season 2 (2013)
Season 3 (2013)
Season 4 (2014)
Season 5 (2015)
Season 6 (2016)
Season 7 (2017)
Season 8 (2018)
Season 9 (2019)
Season 10 (2020-21)
Specials
Reception
Iyanla, Fix My Life debuted to largely positive reviews by critics. As writer and columnist Nancy Colasurdo proclaimed, Fix My Life is "what "reality" television can be. It’s what it should be. Reaching for our best selves. Focusing on what can make our lives meaningful. Learning from others’ mistakes because they are so often our own. Having hard conversations." Colasurdo further recognizes Vanzant's gutsy, honest approach to handling difficult situations.
Critic Jon Caramanica proposes that Vanzant possesses "a mystical air but with a deeply grounded approach. She speaks in a soothing, encouraging voice, makes phenomenal eye contact and has an evident distaste for polish. Iyanla: Fix My Life is Intervention and daytime talk distilled to core principles. Much of the show is given over to long, hard conversations, shot up close, a tactic of discomfort." He goes on to critique that "her truth-teller presentation can go overboard at times: In a later episode, she literally ties family members together with string to illustrate how bonds work, then uses scissors to emphasize a point about abandonment. But mostly, it’s bracing watching her poke holes in the delusions of her charges."
Ratings
Zap2it reported that "the premiere of the new original series Iyanla: Fix My Life with life coach Iyanla Vanzant scored 1.18 W25-54 rating and 1,136,000 million viewers ranking No.2 in its time period in W25-54 among all ad-supported cable networks. The series posted triple digit growth (+808% W25-54, +952% total viewers) versus year ago numbers and built in the half hour, growing +5%. The premiere, which featured Basketball Wives star Evelyn Lozada, continued ratings momentum with part two scoring 1.73 W25-54 rating and 1,590,000 million total viewers, ranking No,3 in its time period among ad-supported cable in W25-54 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RuPaul%27s%20Drag%20Race%20All%20Stars%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars premiered on the Logo network on October 22, 2012. Contestants from the original RuPaul's Drag Race show returned to compete again. Cast members were announced on August 6.
This season features 12 returning contestants representing all four seasons. It aired six one-hour episodes. Contestants were judged on their "charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent" and, since they competed in teams of two, also "synergy". The winner received a supply of MAC cosmetics, a "one of a kind trip" and $100,000. The theme song playing during the runway every episode is "Sexy Drag Queen" (dootdoot 'doot-swift' Remix) and the song playing during the credits is "Responsitrannity" (Matt Pop's Edit), the latter of which is originally from RuPaul's album Glamazon.
The first episode introduced several changes to the rules for the All Stars competition. Queens competed in teams of two, determined by the contestants themselves. Both members of the losing team would be eliminated each week. The bottom two teams chose one member to "lip synch for their lives". The non-lip synching teammates had the option during the first minute of the performance to declare a "she-mergency", hit a panic button and "tag in" to complete the performance. Mimi Imfurst and Pandora Boxx teamed up to form "Team Mandora", Tammie Brown and Nina Flowers teamed up to form "Team Brown Flowers", Latrice Royale and Manila Luzon teamed up to form "Team Latrilla", Yara Sofia and Alexis Mateo teamed up to form "Team Yaralexis", Raven and Jujubee teamed up to form "Team Rujubee" and Shannel and eventual winner Chad Michaels teamed up to form "Team Shad". RuPaul dedicated the first episode in memory of Sahara Davenport, a former competitor in season 2 of RuPaul's Drag Race who died due to heart failure.
The winner of the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars was Chad Michaels, with Raven being the runner-up.
Contestants
Ages, names, and cities stated are at time of filming.
Notes:
Contestant progress
Lip syncs
Legend:
Guest judges
Listed in chronological order:
Rachel Hunter, actress and reality television show host
Ross Mathews, comedian and television personality
Busy Philipps, actress
Vicki Lawrence, actress, comedian, and singer
Rachel Dratch, actress and comedian
Janice Dickinson, model, photographer, author, and talent agent
Mary Wilson, singer, author, and actress
Rosie Perez, actress, dancer, choreographer, director, and community activist
Wendi McLendon-Covey, actress, writer, producer and comedian
Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, actress and television hostess
Beth Ditto, singer, songwriter and model
Cheri Oteri, actress and comedian
Episodes
References
External links
Official website
RuPaul's Drag Race All-Stars on the Internet Movie Database
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars seasons
2012 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre%20History%20of%20Operations%20Reports | Theatre History of Operations Reports or THOR is a United States Air Force historical ordnance database endeavoring to catalog every bomb dropped by the United States Armed Forces since World War I.
The officer overall responsible for the project is Lieutenant Colonel Jenns Robertson.
Apart from the project's historical value, the database is being used by the U.S. and other countries for practical purposes such as helping to locate possible unexploded ordnance in places like Germany, Vietnam and Iraq although data dating from 1991 onward is still classified for security purposes.
References
Security databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Prever | David Prever (born ca. 1967) is a four time Sony Award winning radio presenter, and thriller author. As of 2023 he is Head of Programming at Radio News Hub.
Early life
David was born in London and grew up in Chigwell, Essex. He was educated at Bancroft's School in Woodford Green and attended the Sylvia Young Theatre School, appearing in an episode of The Saint with Ian Ogilvy. He left school at 17 to follow a career in broadcasting.
Radio
Prever joined Northampton’s Hereward Radio in 1984, before moving to GWR Radio in Bath and Bristol. This was followed by five years in the North East at Newcastle's Metro FM.
Returning to London, he worked for Jazz FM hosting Saturday nights and then weekend breakfast, before taking over the weekday breakfast show where he won a New York Festival Award.
Poached by Chrysalis Radio, he joined Heart 106.2 initially on mid-mornings and then the breakfast show with Jon Davis and Kara Noble, winning a Sony Gold Award.
He left Heart to join Magic 105.4 on Drivetime before landing the afternoon show on the relaunched LBC 97.3
Since leaving LBC in 2005, he has worked for Talksport, Smooth Radio and BBC London, Berkshire, Northampton and Three Counties Radio.
On 23 October 2012 it was announced that Prever would become the permanent host of the weekend mid morning show on Smooth Radio, replacing Lynn Parsons who would take over the weekday mid morning slot from December following Mark Goodier's departure from the network. Prever left Smooth Radio in February 2014. Between February 2017 and April 2023 David presented the breakfast show for BBC Radio Oxford
Business
In 1991, Prever formed EPM and Lots of Hits Music, with colleague Tim Smith. The record and music publishing formed joint ventures with Universal, PWL and Telstar Records and delivered combined sales of over 10 million units, with 10 worldwide No. 1 singles and albums. Artists on the management roster included Opus III, Undercover and Lindy Layton. Lots of Hits published hits by acts including Tina Turner, Westlife, The Lighthouse Family, Kim Wilde and Mark Owen.
On leaving LBC 97.3 David founded Brandspanking, a branded content and production company winning business from Cadbury, Ocado, HMRC, DSGi, InBev, RBS/Nat West and IKEA. A sister business, Politics on Demand, conceived and produced the first podcasts for Tony Blair and 10 Downing street, as well as the first podcasts for Labour, the Libdems and Conservatives.
Writing
As a journalist, Prever has contributed articles for The Times, The Guardian and The Express, where he wrote a regular column.
Signed to the Irene Goodman Literary Agency, he self-published his debut novel, a thriller entitled The Blood Banker, in 2012.
Personal life
David has two children, an older boy and a girl, with his wife Victoria, a food writer. Both children were born as a result of in vitro fertilisation, a journey they documented in a diary for The Jewish Chronicle. As a result of their experiences, they founded ww |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboat%20Distribution | Lifeboat Distribution is an international value-added distributor. Their customers are vendors who specialize in virtualization/cloud computing, security, application and network infrastructure, business continuity/disaster recovery, database infrastructure and management, application lifecycle management, science/engineering, and other technical products.
Lifeboat is headquartered in Eatontown, New Jersey, and also has offices in Arizona, Ontario, and Amsterdam.
Lifeboat Distribution is a subsidiary of Wayside Technology Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: WSTG), which has been a publicly traded company since 1995.
History
Early Years
In June 1986, Lifeboat Associates was acquired by Voyager Software Corp. By 1988, Voyager was a three-division company; Lifeboat was the software distributor, Corsoft the corporate reseller, and Programmer's Paradise a mail-order operation.
The 1990s and 2000s
In May 1995, Voyager Software Corp changed its name to Programmer's Paradise, Inc. and at that time, changed Lifeboat Associates' name to Lifeboat Distribution. In July 1995, Programmer's Paradise completed an initial public offering of its common stock.
On January 9, 2001, Lifeboat's European operations were sold along with all other Programmer's Paradise European operations to PC-Ware (now known as the Comparex Group).
Through the 2000s, Lifeboat expanded its vendor line card with established and emerging vendors such as InstallShield (later to become Flexera Software), Intel Software, TechSmith, GFI, and VMware.
Lifeboat developed a reputation for helping companies enter the two-tier (vendor-distributor-reseller) distribution model. For example, Lifeboat was VMware's first U.S. software distributor helping introduce that company’s nascent virtualization software to the channel.
In 2004, Lifeboat Distribution was appointed as Intel's Software Authorized Distributor in order to make that company's internally developed high-performance software development tools available to customers worldwide.
Present Day
Lifeboat specializes in technology domains that include not only virtualization/cloud computing, but also security, application and network infrastructure, database modeling, application lifecycle management, and business productivity.
Lifeboat recently added companies like Veeam Software, SolarWinds, and StorageCraft to its line card. The company now represents an extensive set of software for the now mainstream virtualization space – products that are marketed to resellers through Lifeboat’s Virtualization World View portfolio.
In 2010, Lifeboat opened an office in Almere, Netherlands in order to better serve the company’s European resellers.
Lifeboat competes against much larger "broad line" distributors and must provide service differentiators to both its software vendors and its reseller customers. One way it has done this is through the deployment of innovative technologies, such as an electronic license key stocking system, EDI–based (Electronic D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chichester%20inscription | The Chichester inscription, Chichester stone or Pudens stone (RIB 91) is an inscription on a damaged slab of marble, found in Chichester in 1723 and datable to the late 1st century.
As reconstructed by J.E. Bogaers, it reads (reconstructed parts in square brackets):
Which translates as:
To Neptune and Minerva, for the welfare of the Divine House, by the authority of Tiberius Claudius Cogidubnus, great king of the Britons, the guild of smiths and those in it gave this temple at their own expense ...ens, son of Pudentinus, presented the forecourt.
Another fragmentary inscription, reading [...], was found at the Gallo-Roman town of Mediolanum Santonum (modern Saintes, south-west France), although it is unlikely this refers to the same person.
References
Roman archaeology
Chichester
1st-century inscriptions
18th-century archaeological discoveries
Archaeological discoveries in the United Kingdom
Latin inscriptions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter%20%28supercomputer%29 | Carter is a supercomputer installed at Purdue University in the fall of 2011 in a partnership with Intel. The high-performance computing cluster is operated by Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), the university's central information technology organization. ITaP also operates clusters named Steele built in 2008, Coates built in 2009, Rossmann built in 2010, and Hansen built in the summer of 2011. Carter was the fastest campus supercomputer in the U.S. outside a national center when built. It was one of the first clusters to employ Intel's second generation Xenon E-5 "Sandy Bridge" processor and ranked 54th on the November 2011 TOP500 list, making it Purdue's first Top 100-ranked research computing system.
Hardware
The Carter cluster consists of HP Proliant compute nodes with two 8-core Intel Xeon-E5 processors (16 cores per node), either 32 gigabytes or 64 GB of memory, and a 500 GB system disk. NVIDIA Tesla GPU-accelerated nodes also are available. All nodes have 56 Gbit/s FDR Infiniband connections from Mellanox. Carter was the first cluster to employ this generation of Mellanox interconnects.
Software
Carter nodes run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL6) and Carter uses Moab Workload Manager 6 and TORQUE Resource Manager 3 as the portable batch system (PBS) for resource and job management. The cluster also has compilers and scientific programming libraries installed.
Funding
The Carter supercomputer and Purdue's other clusters are part of the Purdue Community Cluster Program, a partnership between ITaP and Purdue faculty. In Purdue's program, a "community" cluster is funded by hardware money from grants, faculty startup packages, institutional funds and other sources. ITaP's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing administers the community clusters and provides user support. Each faculty partner always has ready access to the capacity he or she purchases and potentially to more computing power when the nodes of other investors are idle. Unused, or opportunistic, cycles from Carter are made available to the National Science Foundation's Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) system and the Open Science Grid.
Users
The Purdue departments and schools by which Carter and Purdue's clusters are used vary broadly, including Aeronautics and Astronautics, Agriculture, Agronomy, Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Communications, Computer and Information Technology, Computer Science, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, Industrial Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Physics, the Purdue Terrestrial Observatory and Statistics, among others.
DiaGrid
Unused, or opportunistic, cycles from Carter are made available to XSEDE and the Open Science Grid using Condor software. Coates is part of Purdue's distributed c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChefVille | ChefVille is a defunct multiplayer restaurant simulation social network game created by Zynga. The game was announced at Zynga's June 2012 Unleashed event, debuted August 2012 on Facebook, and was released October 3, 2012 on Zynga.com. Within the first month of its release, ChefVille had become the No. 1 Facebook game. As of early October 2012, ChefVille had more than 4.8 million daily active users (DAU) and more than 45 million monthly active users (MAU).
On March 31, 2015, Zynga announced ChefVille would be one of 11 games to be closed.
History
ChefVille is Zynga's second game in the restaurant genre following Café World, a Facebook game with 456,000 DAU and 2.4 million MAU as of early October 2012. The main differences are that ChefVille players interact with the environment outside their virtual restaurant and earn real recipes as they progress in the game. ChefVille is available for free in 17 languages on Facebook.
Gameplay
ChefVille players act as chef, restaurant owner, designer and manager with the goal of creating a ‘dream restaurant.’ Players customize restaurants to specific themes, such as a 1950s diner or an Italian restaurant, and they mix and match food types while cooking and serving. Players also choose the restaurant décor, from sushi stations and cold stations to woks and grills, and cook menu items that correlate with their cooking equipment.
Similar to other Zynga ‘ville’ games, players are given tools needed to build their restaurants. Players cook dishes using various appliances, such as a brick oven for cooking pizza. As the game progresses, players help friends by sharing needed recipe ingredients, by dining in their friends’ restaurants, and by helping friends build their restaurants. Players can also purchase food and ingredients with actual currency.
With ChefVille’s ‘Game to Table’ feature, players who master a dish can receive a recipe for that dish by email. At the time of launch, the game included more than 200 in-game recipes, 50 of which players could earn. Game recipes include Confit de Canard with Potatoes au Gratin, Miso Soup, Bruschetta and Roasted Asparagus with Hollandaise. ChefVille recipes are created by Zynga Executive Chef Matthew Du Trumble and his team of 15 company chefs. Zynga CEO Mark Pincus and his wife contributed a Spaghetti Bolognese recipe to the game. Players also have the ability to show off their own recipes in the game.
ChefVille takes place on a map segmented into a grid, with new areas unlocked as players meet milestones or spend actual currency. Recipe ingredients are obtained from raw materials acquired from visiting spots on the map, such as a butcher for fresh beef, a milk truck for fresh milk, and a breadbox for bread.
Currency
ChefVille players earn rewards and receive help from friends for free. They can also use actual currency to buy recipe ingredients or borrow food from friends by dining in their restaurants.
Partnerships
On September 19, 2012, Zynga and Food Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Real%20Application%20Testing | In database computing, Oracle Real Application Testing (RAT) provides a separately-licensed environment for controlled and reproducible testing of Oracle database use and changes.
References
Oracle software
Software testing tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winners%20%26%20Losers%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of the television drama series Winners & Losers was aired in three parts on the Seven Network in Australia. Season 3A – comprising 13 episodes – aired from 9 July to 25 September 2013 while Season 3B – comprising 13 episodes – aired from 28 January to 24 June 2014, before the immediate start of season 4. It replaced Packed to the Rafters due to the series ending. Season three follows the lives of Jenny, Bec, Sophie and Frances four months on from the death of Bec's husband Matt. Filming for the season began in September 2012 and wrapped in July 2013.
Production
On 7 August 2012, it was announced that Seven has renewed Winners & Losers for a third season to air in 2013.
Julie McGauran, the head of Drama at Seven stated, "2013 is going to be a landmark year for Channel Seven's drama department. Our drama slate is at full capacity with the return of Winners & Losers as well as Packed to the Rafters, Home and Away and the new drama A Place to Call Home." Filming for the third season began on 24 September 2012 and wrapped on 4 July 2013.
Of the series, Melanie Vallejo told Scott Gavin from TV Week, "the show has evolved quite a bit. It's not just about four girls anymore. Each of their four worlds has become bigger and more complicated." Of the return of the third series, Erin Millar from the same publication wrote, "there's plenty of love in the air, but this season won't be all about romance."
Script producer, Dan Bennett confirmed that there are 26 episodes in season three.
Plot
Bec must deal with the painful reality of Matt's death, Frances's sense of security is deeply affected following a terrifying episode, Jenny is adjusting to a new life in the wake of a bombshell secret shaking the Gross family to the core, and Sophie discovers her feelings for Doug re-emerging after she returns from a traumatic trip to Nairobi. New loves enter the fray and mixed emotions make for tricky decisions. There's a lot our leading ladies must face up to. Will old loves endure? Will lives be changed forever?
Cast
Main
Melissa Bergland as Jenny Gross
Virginia Gay as Frances James
Zoe Tuckwell-Smith as Bec Gilbert
Melanie Vallejo as Sophie Wong
Katherine Hicks as Sam MacKenzie
Tom Wren as Doug Graham
Sibylla Budd as Carla Hughes (13 episodes)
Damien Bodie as Jonathan Kurtiss (24 episodes)
Stephen Phillips as Zach Armstrong (22 episodes)
Mike Smith as Callum Gilbert (12 episodes)
Tom Hobbs as Flynn Johnson
Jack Pearson as Patrick Gross (25 episodes)
Denise Scott as Trish Gross
Francis Greenslade as Brian Gross
Sarah Grace as Bridget Fitzpatrick (24 episodes)
Recurring
PiaGrace Moon as Jasmine Patterson (20 episodes)
David Paterson as Ryan Sharrock (13 episodes)
Paul Moore as Wes Fitzpatrick (11 episodes)
Anne Phelan as Dot Gross (11 episodes)
Luke McKenzie as Shannon Taylor (10 episodes)
Ryan Hayward as Brett Tully (7 episodes)
Ben Geurens as Adam Grbowski (7 episodes)
Nell Feeney as Carolyn Gilbert (5 episodes)
Dani |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Jin | Li Jin or Jin Li may refer to:
Surname Li
Li Jin (Tang dynasty) (died 750), nephew of Emperor Xuánzong of Tang
Jin Li (computer scientist)
Li Jin (swimmer) (born 1982), Chinese swimmer
Surname Jin
Jin Li, Chinese geneticist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Ben%2010%3A%20Omniverse%20episodes | Ben 10: Omniverse is an American animated television series and the fourth installment of the Ben 10 franchise, which aired on Cartoon Network from August 1, 2012, to November 14, 2014, in the United States. Man of Action Studios, consisting of Duncan Rouleau, Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, and Steven T. Seagle, created the franchise.
Each Ben 10 Omniverse episode is about 22 minutes in length, with two-part episodes (such as the series premiere "The More Things Change", "Showdown", "The Frogs of War", "Weapon XI" and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Ben World") being about 44 minutes combined in length. Only forty episodes were ordered at first with the 2010 Cartoon Network Studios logo, but on August 25, 2012, production of episode 41 began, with 20 more episodes being ordered, bringing the total up to 60. However it was expanded to 80 in June 2013.
The 80 episodes have been broken into eight story arcs consisting of 10 episodes each. The series has 2 Cartoon Network Studios logos across the 80 episodes, the 2010 one for episodes from story arcs 1–4 and the 2013 one for story arcs 5–8. The episodes aired out of the intended production order. The table below shows the broadcast order of the episodes.
Series overview
Episodes
Story Arc 1: A New Beginning (2012)
Story Arc 2: Malware's Revenge (2012–13)
Story Arc 3: Incursean Invasion (2013)
Story Arc 4: Duel of the Duplicates (2013)
Story Arc 5: Galactic Monsters (2014)
Story Arc 6: The Evil Rooters (2014)
Story Arc 7: The Mad Nightmare (2014)
Story Arc 8: The Time War (2014)
Home media
In region one, Warner Home Video have released the entire first three-story arcs and five episodes from each of story arcs four and five on five DVD sets from February 5, 2013, to September 16, 2014. The entire series is also available on digital purchase in eight separate volumes, such as complete story arcs.
See also
List of Ben 10 2005 episodes
List of Ben 10 2016 episodes
List of Ben 10: Alien Force episodes
List of Ben 10: Ultimate Alien episodes
Notes
References
General
Specific
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes
Lists of Cartoon Network television series episodes
2010s television-related lists
Omniverse |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency | A cryptocurrency, crypto-currency, or crypto is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of exchange through a computer network that is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. It is a decentralized system for verifying that the parties to a transaction have the money they claim to have, eliminating the need for traditional intermediaries, such as banks, when funds are being transferred between two entities.
Individual coin ownership records are stored in a digital ledger, which is a computerized database using strong cryptography to secure transaction records, control the creation of additional coins, and verify the transfer of coin ownership. Despite their name, cryptocurrencies are not considered to be currencies in the traditional sense, and while varying treatments have been applied to them, including classification as commodities, securities, and currencies, cryptocurrencies are generally viewed as a distinct asset class in practice. Some crypto schemes use validators to maintain the cryptocurrency. In a proof-of-stake model, owners put up their tokens as collateral. In return, they get authority over the token in proportion to the amount they stake. Generally, these token stakers get additional ownership in the token over time via network fees, newly minted tokens, or other such reward mechanisms.
Cryptocurrency does not exist in physical form (like paper money) and is typically not issued by a central authority. Cryptocurrencies typically use decentralized control as opposed to a central bank digital currency (CBDC). When a cryptocurrency is minted, or created prior to issuance, or issued by a single issuer, it is generally considered centralized. When implemented with decentralized control, each cryptocurrency works through distributed ledger technology, typically a blockchain, that serves as a public financial transaction database.
The first cryptocurrency was Bitcoin, which was first released as open-source software in 2009. As of June 2023, there were more than 25,000 other cryptocurrencies in the marketplace, of which more than 40 had a market capitalization exceeding $1 billion.
History
In 1983, American cryptographer David Chaum conceived of a type of cryptographic electronic money called ecash. Later, in 1995, he implemented it through Digicash, an early form of cryptographic electronic payments. Digicash required user software in order to withdraw notes from a bank and designate specific encrypted keys before it can be sent to a recipient. This allowed the digital currency to be untraceable by a third party.
In 1996, the National Security Agency published a paper entitled How to Make a Mint: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash, describing a cryptocurrency system. The paper was first published in an MIT mailing list and later in 1997 in The American Law Review.
In 1998, Wei Dai described "b-money", an anonymous, distributed electronic cash system. Shortl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimerco | Dimerco is a Taiwanese freight company.
Established in 1971 in Taiwan, Dimerco's global network includes over 300 service outlets in 64 countries (with over 160 freight forwarding offices and 80 logistics centers).
The name “Dimerco” is an abbreviation for “Diversified Merchandise Corporation”.
History
Founding and first years 1971-1975
Dimerco was founded on July 15, 1971, in Taipei, Taiwan with a team of 8 people. In 1972 the company was certified as a customs broker and shortly established itself as a Taiwan-based Air Freight Transportation Service Provider with 3 offices.
International Expansion 1976-1983
In 1976, Dimerco opened its first overseas office in New York. Other US offices were opened in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Boston; then branches in Hong Kong, Manila and London. In 1980, the Singapore office opened to become the gateway to the Southeast Asia market and brought the number of offices to 16.
Southeast Asian Expansion 1984-1990
Dimerco expanded its presence in Southeast Asia by opening offices in Malaysia, Thailand & Indonesia.
China Focus 1991-1995
During this time, China's ‘open-door policy’ allowed limited direct foreign investment. Dimerco set up its first office in the Shanghai Peace Hotel in July 1991 with the aim to have a strong presence in China. Offices were also opened in Beijing, Xiamen, Qingdao, Fuzhou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, and Guangzhou bringing the total to 38.
On October 15, 2001, Dimerco was publicly listed on the Gre Tai Securities Market (now the Taipei Exchange).
New markets were exploited in India, US and Europe. In 2014, Dimerco achieved Top 10 APAC 3PL by air freight volume (Armstrong & Associates).
In 2020, Dimerco and Elanders entered joint venture for air and sea freight forwarding business in the newly founded German subsidiary of Swedish public company Elanders Group, ITG Air & Sea GmbH.
Dimerco exceeded revenue and profit forecasts in 2020, despite the challenges of the global pandemic.
A restructure was instigated putting in place a Leadership Team with decisions made by an Executive Management Board (EMB),
Services & Operations
Dimerco provides door-to-door international freight forwarding services in Asia-Pac countries, North America and Europe.
Freight Forwarding services – air freight, ocean freight, road and rail, China-Europe by rail, cross-border road, multimodal transport, customers brokerage & compliance and cargo insurance.
Contract Logistics – warehousing distribution, bonded warehouse and service logistics.
PO management, data integration, project logistics and supply chain consulting.
Dimerco is International Air Transport Association cargo agent.
Global Network
Dimerco is focused on China, India and ASEAN regions.
Leadership & Governance
With a team leadership structure, decisions are taken by an Executive Management Board (EMB) comprising 5 members responsible for 3 business divisions: air freight, ocean freight and contract logistics.
Paul Ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Note%2010.1 | The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 is a 10.1-inch tablet computer designed, developed and marketed by Samsung Electronics. The tablet runs Android 4.0.3 (Android 4.1.2 in Europe) and serves as a platform for multimedia consumption including movies, music, and web browsing. It is the second entry in the Samsung Galaxy Note range, which emphasises the use of a stylus, officially named S-Pen (S standing for Samsung), as an input device for tasks such as sketching and note-taking.
Details
The Note 10.1 was originally unveiled on 27 February 2012 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, with a 1.4 GHz dual-core processor. The tablet was released in Germany, Saudi Arabia and the UAE on 6 August 2012. This final version of the tablet incorporates a 1.4 GHz quad-core Exynos processor. The tablet comes with 16, 32 and 64 GB of internal storage, and 2 GB of DDR3 RAM. The Note 10.1 was launched in the United States, the United Kingdom, and South Korea on 16 August.
In 2014, Samsung began a rollout of Android 4.4.2 KitKat upgrade in Europe, both as an over-the-air (OTA) update and through Samsung Kies. Samsung customized the interface with its updated TouchWiz UX software.
Reception
The Note 10.1 was well received by numerous technology outlets. Dave Oliver of Wired UK technology magazine gave a rating of 9 out of 10. The Note 10.1 was praised for its versatility, fast processor, writing interface, expandable memory and quality camera and described as a worthy challenger to the iPad. TechCrunch stated that the tablet was "awesome, great, and brilliant," with a bunch of S-pen optimized apps as a great feature.
See also
Samsung Galaxy Note series
Samsung Electronics
Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0
References
External links
Official website
Galaxy Note 10.1 GT-N8000 User Manual
Galaxy Note 10.1 Wifi Starter Guide
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2012
Galaxy Note 10.1
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asianet%20Satellite%20Communications | Asianet Satellite Communications Private Limited, is an Indian multi system operator (MSO). It is the largest cable network services company in Kerala since its inception in 1993. It is a market leader in South India, it is ranked among the top 20 ISP's in India by TRAI. It is also one of the fastest growing ISPs in India. Asianet Satellite Communications have no connections to Asianet, Asianet Plus, Asianet Movies.
Asianet Broadband
Asianet Broadband, a division of Asianet Satellite Communications Pvt. Ltd. is an Internet service provider. It has set up its own International Satellite Gateways at Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi. It is also one of the earliest Cable ISP services that have presence in Kerala. Asianet Digital Network Pvt. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Asianet Satellite Communications Pvt. Ltd. is a Digital TV networks in India. Asianet Digital Network expanded its services to Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Telangana.
Asianet Broadband have no connections to Asianet, Asianet Plus, Asianet Movies owned by Disney Star.
Asianet Digital
Asianet Digital TV is a pioneer in Digital Cable TV service in India with Home Entertainment solutions. Asianet Digital TV service is on the journey to delight viewers in the states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Odisha with top notch Digital TV services and products with the latest technology.
Asianet Mobile TV+
Asianet Mobile TV + is the over-the-top content segment of Asianet Satellite Communications Ltd. A S C L partnered with Xperio Labs to develop the service in 2015. Asianet is the first MSO in India to launch an OTT service. The company is currently headquartered in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
References
External links
Cable television companies of India
Companies based in Thiruvananthapuram
Telecommunications companies established in 1993
Indian companies established in 1993
1993 establishments in Kerala |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20DreamWorks%20Dragons%20episodes | DreamWorks Dragons is an American television series airing on Cartoon Network (for the first two seasons) and Netflix (after the second season) based on the 2010 film How to Train Your Dragon. The series serves as a bridge between the first film and its 2014 sequel. A one-hour preview consisting of two episodes aired on August 7, 2012, with the official premiere of the series on September 4, 2012. 118 episodes of DreamWorks Dragons have been released, concluding the series.
The series was announced by Cartoon Network on October 12, 2010. According to Tim Johnson, executive producer for How to Train Your Dragon, the series was planned to be much darker and deeper than DreamWorks Animation's previous television series spin-offs, with a similar tone to the movie. DreamWorks Dragons was the first DreamWorks Animation series to air on Cartoon Network rather than Nickelodeon.
DreamWorks Dragons features the voice talents of Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Julie Marcus, Andrée Vermeulen, T. J. Miller, Zack Pearlman, Chris Edgerly and Nolan North. The sixth and final season of DreamWorks Dragons: Race to the Edge was released on February 16, 2018.
Series overview
Cartoon Network episodes
The first two seasons of the series aired on Cartoon Network.
Season 1: Riders of Berk (2012–13)
The first season is subtitled Riders of Berk. The series begins where the first movie leaves off, featuring 15–16 year old characters.
Season 2: Defenders of Berk (2013–14)
The second and final season is subtitled Defenders of Berk.
Netflix episodes: Race to the Edge
The series is subtitled Race to the Edge on Netflix. The series comes after the short film Dawn of the Dragon Racers (as the pilot episode) and the beginning is set about three years after the second season and the end a few Months (most likely 1 or 2) before the events of How to Train Your Dragon 2, featuring 18–19-year-old characters. Netflix reset the season count after the series moved from Cartoon Network, so the first season on Netflix is actually the third season released for DreamWorks Dragons, through to its eighth and final released season (labelled the sixth season on Netflix).
Season 1 (2015)
Season 2 (2016)
Season 3 (2016)
Season 4 (2017)
Season 5 (2017)
Season 6 (2018)
References
External links
Dragons: Riders of Berk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20DataWarehouse | European DataWarehouse (EDW) is a Securitisation Repository designated by both the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). European DataWarehouse GmbH is part of the ABS Loan Level Data initiative established by the European Central Bank that is engaged in providing data warehousing services and full disclosure for investors in asset-backed securities (ABS). It provides an open platform for users to access asset-backed security data.
It is the first centralised data repository in Europe for collecting, validating and making accessible to download point-by-point, institutionalised and asset class specific loan-level data (LLD) for asset-backed securities (ABS) transactions. European DataWarehouse helps to facilitate risk assessment and improve transparency for European ABS deals.
History
ABS initiative
The ABS Loan-Level Initiative was a Eurozone initiative from 2012 to standardize asset-backed securities (ABSs) information accepted as collateral in Eurosystem credit operations. It was put forward in response to the 2008 financial crisis, as the European Central Bank (ECB) wanted to restore confidence in the securitisations market.
The initiative began after support for the idea was recognised at an ECB public consultation. It establishes specific information requirements for asset-backed securities (ABSs) accepted as collateral in Eurosystem credit operations. The aim was to allow market participants access to standardized timely information on loans and their performance. Access to this information should allow market actors to make more informed decisions regarding asset backed securities. The Eurosystem believed that the new data requirements would help both investors and third-party assessment providers with their due diligence. It was hoped that the loan level initiative would help instill transparency and, ultimately, confidence back into the securitisation market following the 2008 financial crisis. The perceived problems were a lack of transparency and the absence of a standardised system across asset classes. These made it difficult to make accurate risk assessments of the securities. Enabling better risk assessment would then have the effect of encouraging investors and reducing then current levels of reliance on the Eurosystem.
Following the ECB initiative, the Bank of England made "Loan Level Information" one of their extended eligibility criteria for ABS collateral, but without a costly central data warehouse and with free access to market participants.
Data warehouse created
The result of this development work is European Data Warehouse GmbH. European DataWarehouse was founded in January 2012 for the purpose of facilitating risk assessment and improving transparency in European asset-backed security (ABS) deals.
Evolution
European DataWarehouse Ltd. was designated as a Securitisation regulation under the FCA in December 2020, which followed the establishment of a U |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wemyss%20Private%20Railway | The Wemyss Private Railway was a network of lines, sometimes known as the Wemyss Estate Railway. The lines were a group of mineral and other railways in Fife, Scotland, mainly on the land of the Wemyss family. They were built to connect coal pits to harbours and the railway network, for the use of tenants of the Estate. The Wemyss and Buckhaven Railway was built at the expense of the Wemyss Estate and carried passengers; it was later sold to the North British Railway.
When numerous collieries needed a railway connection the Wemyss Estate built a connecting line to Methil Harbour and improved the harbour itself. The local network became known as The Wemyss Private Railway and the Estate's interest was transferred to the Wemyss Coal Company. These terms have been used interchangeably by authors.
The collieries were nationalised in 1947 and the sidings connections at the pits followed; the main line railways of Great Britain were nationalised in 1948, but the central section, now known as the Wemyss Private Railway remained in private hands. However the mineral activity in East Fife declined and in 1970 the Wemyss Private Railway closed down.
History
The Wemyss Family
The family of Wemyss was "unquestionably the oldest on the County", tracing its line back to Michael Wemyss, who died in 1165. In 1633 the title of Earl of Wemyss was bestowed, but the heir to the title, David Lord Elcho engaged in the Rebellion of 1745, and was later attainted, and was unable to succeed to the title. A junior branch of the family succeeded, and in 1820 James Erskine Wemyss became the head of the family. He died in 1854, and was succeeded by James Hay Erskine Wemyss. On his death in 1864 his eldest son Randolph Gordon Erskine Wemyss (1858 - 1908) was heir to the lairdship at the age of six. It was in trust until his majority; the Trustees managed the affairs of the Estate, led by his Mother.
The Estate comprised very extensive lands in the County of Fife, and coal was mined on estate lands from at the latest the eighteenth century. Randolph Wemyss was possessed of an exceptionally dynamic business mind and developed the mineral extraction; as he did so it emerged that huge quantities of winnable coal lay under the lands of the estate.
Before railways
Coal had been worked in Fife for many centuries, probably since the thirteenth century. As well as its household use it was extensively used for salt panning; sea water was evaporated by heating to produce salt, an essential commodity, and in the sixteenth century the area around Methil and Wemyss had the most extensive group of salt pans in Fife, all belonging to the Wemyss Estate.
Coal and salt were exported, and several primitive waggonways were established to bring the coal to the shore. There many several places on the coast where boats could take on cargo, but it was only in the nineteenth century that harbours were developed.
Tubs were hauled on rails within the pits, although they can not be considered rai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison%20James | Madison James is a fictional character from the Days of Our Lives, an American soap opera on the NBC network. Created by head writers Marlene Clark Poulter and Darrell Ray Thomas, Jr., she was portrayed by Daytime Emmy Award winning actress Sarah Joy Brown, who made her debut in October 2011. Introduced into the series as the headstrong CEO of Mad World Cosmetics and as a potential love interest for Brady Black (Eric Martsolf), Madison is the longtime competitor and rival against series veteran Kate Roberts (Lauren Koslow), and her resurrection of Countess Wilhelmina. Originally introduced with an unknown past. In April 2012, it was announced that Brown was let go; she last appeared in August 2012, when the character was killed off following an explosion.
Casting and characterization
In July 2011, it was announced that soap veteran Sarah Joy Brown would join the cast of Days of our Lives as newly created character Madison James. Brown, best known for her role as Carly Corinthos from 1996 to 2001 on the ABC Daytime series General Hospital, had just finished her run as Aggie Jones on the CBS Daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful.
Brown unveiled that it was important to make every character look different and that Madison's look would be unlike any she had before, stating:
In an interview, Brown opened up about her new role on the NBC series and working as Madison James. She stated:
In April 2012, it was announced that Brown had been let go from the series in just the beginning of several cast cuts coming up in the future. Co-executive producer Greg Meng said that the show would once again be rebooted, however, returns of the exiting characters could become possible. Brown departed the series on August 15, 2012.
Storylines
Madison James appeared in Salem for a business meeting with Brady Black (Eric Martsolf) and Victor Kiriakis (John Aniston). She is introduced as the CEO of Mad World Cosmetics, a company that Titan Industries was interested in acquiring. After an awkward encounter with Brady prior to their meeting, the three got down to business and stuck a deal for Titan to purchase Mad World Cosmetics. Madison also showed off her determination and fearless to go against competitor Kate DiMera (Lauren Koslow), her competition in the cosmetics world. Not only did she have Brady and Victor in her corner, but she also hired her childhood friend, Sami Brady (Alison Sweeney), as her junior executive.
Brady and Madison began flirting almost immediately. Despite her stance that she doesn't date men that she works with, they continued their flirtation. During a blackout at the Titan offices, Madison opens up about her past and her family, which leads to the pair becoming closer, and eventually sharing a kiss. Supporting Brady, she urges him to visit his father John Black (Drake Hogestyn), who was currently in custody under house arrest, on fraud charges.
To avoid her blooming feelings for Brady, Madison focused her efforts on taking down her |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Length%20extension%20attack | In cryptography and computer security, a length extension attack is a type of attack where an attacker can use Hash(message1) and the length of message1 to calculate Hash(message1 ‖ message2) for an attacker-controlled message2, without needing to know the content of message1. This is problematic when the hash is used as a message authentication code with construction Hash(secret ‖ message), and message and the length of secret is known, because an attacker can include extra information at the end of the message and produce a valid hash without knowing the secret. Algorithms like MD5, SHA-1 and most of SHA-2 that are based on the Merkle–Damgård construction are susceptible to this kind of attack. Truncated versions of SHA-2, including SHA-384 and SHA-512/256 are not susceptible, nor is the SHA-3 algorithm.
HMAC also uses a different construction and so is not vulnerable to length extension attacks.
Explanation
The vulnerable hashing functions work by taking the input message, and using it to transform an internal state. After all of the input has been processed, the hash digest is generated by outputting the internal state of the function. It is possible to reconstruct the internal state from the hash digest, which can then be used to process the new data. In this way, one may extend the message and compute the hash that is a valid signature for the new message.
Example
A server for delivering waffles of a specified type to a specific user at a location could be implemented to handle requests of the given format:
Original Data: count=10&lat=37.351&user_id=1&long=-119.827&waffle=eggo
Original Signature: 6d5f807e23db210bc254a28be2d6759a0f5f5d99
The server would perform the request given (to deliver ten waffles of type eggo to the given location for user "1") only if the signature is valid for the user. The signature used here is a MAC, signed with a key not known to the attacker. (This example is also vulnerable to a replay attack, by sending the same request and signature a second time.)
It is possible for an attacker to modify the request, in this example switching the requested waffle from "eggo" to "liege." This can be done by taking advantage of a flexibility in the message format if duplicate content in the query string gives preference to the latter value. This flexibility does not indicate an exploit in the message format, because the message format was never designed to be cryptographically secure in the first place, without the signature algorithm to help it.
Desired New Data: count=10&lat=37.351&user_id=1&long=-119.827&waffle=eggo&waffle=liege
In order to sign this new message, typically the attacker would need to know the key the message was signed with, and generate a new signature by generating a new MAC. However, with a length extension attack, it is possible to feed the hash (the signature given above) into the state of the hashing function, and continue where the original request had left off, so long as you know t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicira | Nicira is a company focused on software-defined networking (SDN) and network virtualization. Nicira created their own proprietary versions of the OpenFlow, Open vSwitch, and OpenStack networking projects.
Nicira was co-founded in 2007 by Martin Casado, who served as the CTO, Nick McKeown and Scott Shenker.
On July 23, 2012, VMware announced they intended to acquire Nicira for $1.26 billion, a deal which closed the following month. Nicira technology was merged into VMware's vSwitch and marketed with the name NSX.
References
External links
Company home page
VMware
Companies based in Palo Alto, California
American companies established in 2007
Defunct software companies of the United States
2012 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Rail%20Control%20Periods | Network Rail Control Periods are the 5-year timespans into which Network Rail, the owner and operator of most of the rail infrastructure in Great Britain, works for financial and other planning purposes. Each Control Period begins on 1 April and ends on 31 March to coincide with the financial year. These periods were inherited from Railtrack, so that the earlier ones are retrospective, and not necessarily of 5 years duration.
As Network Rail is responsible for developing and maintaining railway infrastructure, the Control Periods are used to decide priorities for investment. Infrastructure developments have taken place or are planned as follows:
Control Period 3 (CP3): 2004–2009
CP3 included the following work:
Additional express services from Edinburgh to Aberdeen
Improved interchange at Gourock
Control Period 4 (CP4): 2009–2014
CP4 included the following work as part of the Enhancements Programme:
Airdrie–Bathgate rail link
Electrification of the Liverpool to Manchester northern route
Electrification of the Liverpool–Wigan line between Huyton Junction and Wigan North Western
Electrification of the Manchester–Preston line (via Bolton) and the Blackpool branch lines between Preston and Blackpool North. As a spin off the branch line between Bolton and Wigan North Western is also due to be electrified
Electrification of the Windermere branch line
Redevelopment of Edinburgh Waverley station
Redevelopment of Birmingham New Street station (Gateway Plus)
Redevelopment of King's Cross station
Redevelopment of Reading station
The Thameslink Programme
Control Period 5 (CP5): 2014–2019
CP5 includes:
London Bridge station redevelopment
Completion of Borders Railway
East West Rail from to or via [this plan was first deferred to CP6 and, in December 2017, transferred to a private sector company to build and operate].
Electrification from London Paddington to Bristol, Cardiff, Oxford and Newbury
Electrification from Bedford to Kettering and Corby
Electrification of Transpennine line from Manchester to Leeds
Electrification of the Gospel Oak to Barking Line
Electrification of Leeds - York and Selby lines
Electrification and station redevelopment Bromsgrove railway station
Reading, Ascot to Waterloo 10-car platform lengthening.
The Streatham Resignalling Project (As a part of the Victoria Phase II Project)
The Sutton-Wimbledon Project (As a part of the Victoria Phase II Project)
CP5 ran over budget and some projects were delayed. In July 2015, Sir Peter Hendy was appointed Chairman of Network Rail "and asked by the Secretary of State to conduct a thorough review of the enhancement programme in England & Wales to see what can be delivered in an affordable and timely way within the funding period to 2019". (Table 37 of the report lists the revised work programme for CP5). Additionally, Dame Colette Bowe investigated how future investment programmes could be implemented better.
Control Period 6 (CP6): 2019–2024
In July 2017, the D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC%20Sports%20Radio | NBC Sports Radio was a sports radio network that debuted on September 4, 2012. The network content was produced by the NBC Sports Group division of NBCUniversal and distributed by Westwood One, which is the corporate successor to the remains of the original NBC Radio Network that was dissolved in the 1980s. NBC Sports Radio was available through over 300 affiliates throughout the United States as of September 2013, as well as through live streaming on NBCSportsRadio.com, NBCSports.com, WestwoodOneSports.com, and the affiliates' websites. Its launch made NBC the last major broadcast network with a sports radio network to complement its sports division.
On January 1, 2019, NBC Sports Radio switched from a 24/7 full-time network feed to a service featuring sports newsfeeds and syndicated offerings; the network's remaining operations were shut down 15 months later. It was relaunched in December 2020 as a Sirius XM-exclusive broadcast.
Programming
NBC Sports Radio programming began airing 7:00pm–5:00am ET weekdays, but sports updates aired on the hour, every hour week-round. In January 2013, NBC Sports Radio launched weekend programming beginning Saturday at 7:00am and ending Monday at 1:00am. NBC Sports Radio had a full weekly schedule of programming beginning on Monday, April 8, 2013.
Live sports
Beginning with the 2016 Stanley Cup Finals, NBC Sports Radio relaunched the NHL Radio national broadcasts, which had not been heard nationwide since 2008. The 2016-17 season brought regular season games, the All-Star Game, a playoff game of the week, both conference finals, and the Stanley Cup Finals to the network.
NBC Sports Radio also had the rights to the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing.
Discontinuation
On November 29, 2018, Westwood One announced that NBC Sports Radio would no longer operate as a full-time network and would switch to a stripped-down syndicated service providing 24/7 sportscast newsfeeds at the top and bottom of the hour. Following the change, on January 1, 2019, the network carried two daily programs, PFT Live with Mike Florio in mornings and a revival of the fan-based The Daily Line in the afternoons. While not mentioned in the announcement, the live sports programming NBC Sports Radio carried would also continue, and the 2019 NHL Winter Classic aired on NBC Sports Radio unaffected. Hosts Newy Scruggs, Keith Irizarry, Mark Malone, and Dan Schwartzman were no longer part of the lineup, although their shows continue to be available online.
Westwood One cited the increasing competition among sports radio networks—it was effectively competing with itself since it also distributed CBS Sports Radio—as a factor, as well as the network's inability to draw prominent affiliates. Unlike CBS Sports Radio, which has a core affiliation with Entercom and Cumulus Media outlets, NBC had no major station group affiliations and largely relied on lower-end independent affiliates. In March 2020, Westwood One informed affiliates that it would no |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent%20object-oriented%20programming | Concurrent object-oriented programming is a programming paradigm which combines object-oriented programming (OOP) together with concurrency. While numerous programming languages, such as Java, combine OOP with concurrency mechanisms like threads, the phrase "concurrent object-oriented programming" primarily refers to systems where objects themselves are a concurrency primitive, such as when objects are combined with the actor model.
See also
Active object
External links
Concurrent Object-Oriented Languages and the Inheritance Anomaly
Object-oriented programming
Programming paradigms
Concurrent computing
Threads (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray%20Djazz | Stingray DJAZZ is a Dutch cultural music channel aimed at the European market which launched as DJAZZ.TV on 22 June 2012. The programming consists of jazz, soul, gospel, blues and world music, like reggae, tango and Brazilian music. The productions consist of jazz festivals, jazz concerts and documentaries. The channel was founded by Rob Overman and Robert Rutten. Since 31 July 2015 the channel is owned and operated by the Canadian company Stingray Group. In October 2016 it changed its name into Stingray DJAZZ.
Former Logo
See also
Stingray Brava: formerly Brava, also operated by Brava Group, acquired together with Djazz TV by Stingray in 2015
Television in the Netherlands
Digital television in the Netherlands
References
External links
www.djazz.tv
Television channels in the Netherlands
Television channels in Flanders
Television channels in Belgium
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Djazz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV%20Linux | AV Linux is a Linux-based operating system specifically designed to cater to the needs of multimedia content creators. It is tailored for compatibility with the i386 and x86-64 architectures and boasts a customized kernel optimized to deliver exceptional performance and low-latency audio production capabilities. Notably, AV Linux has received recognition as a recommended and supported Linux platform for Harrison Mixbus, a popular digital audio workstation software.
Environment
Originally made with remastersys, AV Linux is built on top of MX Linux.
Versions before, and including, version 6 were 32-bit only, running a 32-bit Linux kernel with the IRQ threading and rtirq-init patches activated by default. For computers with more than 4 GB of RAM, a PAE version was made available.
From AV Linux 2016 onward, there are both 32-bit and 64-bit versions available.
as of version 6.0.2, Window management is handled by the Xfce Desktop Environment. While previous versions used the LXDE Desktop Environment.
It is possible to boot AV Linux from either a live CD or a hard drive. Advanced Audio playback and routing is handled by JACK, while ALSA is used for basic audio operation.
Software
AV Linux is bundled with software for both everyday use and media production.
As of AV Linux 2016, AV Linux gets its software packages from the KXStudio repositories, which are compatible with Debian, and therefore AV Linux. This reduces duplication of effort and allows the effort focus to be on a solid base distribution suitable for audio production.
For this reason, AV Linux 2016 development has focused more on base distribution than bundling it with large amounts of software, as it did with previous versions. Instead, the 2016 edition leaves it up to the users to decide what they want to install from the large repository of software available via KXStudio.
Audio
Preinstalled audio software includes: Ardour, Audacity, Calf Studio Gear, Carla, Guitarix, Hydrogen and MuseScore.
Graphics
Preinstalled graphics programs include: GIMP, Inkscape and Shotwell.
Video
Preinstalled software for video editing, playback, capture and 3D animation include: Blender, Cinelerra, Kdenlive and Openshot.
Everyday use
For typical day-to-day activities there are several programs available including Firefox and LibreOffice Suite.
Manual
A Manual was provided by the maintainer of AV Linux, Glen MacArthur, This manual provides users with "84 illustrated pages of FAQ’s and important Operational details".
Reception
LinuxInsider: "The modified (Xfce) menus add a big element of ease to finding your most frequently used apps. The menu hierarchy uses a two-tiered design. This drastically cuts down on the need to rummage through long cascading menu lists"
LinuxJournal: "AV Linux Control Panel... provides easy access to tools and utilities for system management, administration, and customization. Its amenities include an installer for ATI/nVidia binary video drivers and a very useful too |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20technology | Information technology (IT) is a set of related fields that encompass computer systems, software, programming languages and data and information processing and storage. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system (IT system) is generally an information system, a communications system, or, more specifically speaking, a computer system — including all hardware, software, and peripheral equipment — operated by a limited group of IT users, and an IT project usually refers to the commissioning and implementation of an IT system.
Although humans have been storing, retrieving, manipulating, and communicating information since the earliest writing systems were developed, the term information technology in its modern sense first appeared in a 1958 article published in the Harvard Business Review; authors Harold J. Leavitt and Thomas L. Whisler commented that "the new technology does not yet have a single established name. We shall call it information technology (IT)." Their definition consists of three categories: techniques for processing, the application of statistical and mathematical methods to decision-making, and the simulation of higher-order thinking through computer programs.
The term is commonly used as a synonym for computers and computer networks, but it also encompasses other information distribution technologies such as television and telephones. Several products or services within an economy are associated with information technology, including computer hardware, software, electronics, semiconductors, internet, telecom equipment, and e-commerce.
Based on the storage and processing technologies employed, it is possible to distinguish four distinct phases of IT development: pre-mechanical (3000 BC — 1450 AD), mechanical (1450 — 1840), electromechanical (1840 — 1940), and electronic (1940 to present).
Information technology is also a branch of computer science, which can be defined as the overall study of procedure, structure, and the processing of various types of data. As this field continues to evolve across the world, its overall priority and importance has also grown, which is where we begin to see the introduction of computer science-related courses in K-12 education.
History
Ideas of computer science were first mentioned before the 1950s under the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University, where they had discussed and began thinking of computer circuits and numerical calculations. As time went on, the field of information technology and computer science became more complex and was able to handle the processing of more data. Scholarly articles began to be published from different organizations.
Looking at early computing, Alan Turing, J. Presper Eckert, and John Mauchly were considered some of the major pioneers of computer technology in the mid-1900s. Giving them such credit for their developments, most of their efforts were focused on designing the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partysaurus%20Rex | Toy Story Toons: Partysaurus Rex is a 2012 American computer-animated short film written and directed by Mark Walsh. It was first screened ahead of the 3D theatrical re-release of Finding Nemo as the third and final short in the trilogy of Toy Story Toons, based on the characters from the Toy Story feature films. It depicts Rex getting left in a bathroom and befriending bath toys.
Plot
Rex disrupts the other toys blowing bubbles, worried that they may get soap on the floor. He is chastised by the other toys, with Mr. Potato Head calling him "Partypooper Rex". The other toys hear Bonnie preparing for a bath and scatter, leaving Rex alone; Bonnie plays with him and her bath toys in the tub, until her mother pulls the plug and takes Bonnie to go to her grandma's.
The bath toys are glad of a visitor, but become sad when the last of the water drains, as they lack arms and need water to move. They wish someone could fill the tub again. Rex initially thinks drawing a new bath is a bad idea, but after recalling Mr. Potato Head's insult, he asserts that he is "Partysaurus Rex", plugs the drain, and turns on the water.
The bath toys quickly start a rave, aided by a carefree Rex, who adds bubble bath and plugs the overflow drain with a sponge. Suddenly, he realizes that if the tub overflows, the water will pour out into the hall. However, his frantic attempts to turn off the water only break the water knob and the plug chain.
Finally, he pulls a small knob on the faucet and stops the flow from it, but this simply diverts the water to the showerhead. He warns the others that the tub will overflow, but the bath toys think this is a good thing and gleefully ride the wave over the top. Outside the bathroom, Woody, Buzz, and some of the other toys arrive to check on Rex, when the bathroom door bursts open, releasing the wave of water.
Later, Bonnie's mother pays to have plumbing repairs done to the house. Rex enjoys his moment of fame, though Mr. Potato Head doubts his story. Outside, several pool toys have heard of Rex's exploits from the bath toys; they ask him to turn on the outside faucet, to let them party as well. Rex agrees, and joins in their fun.
Voice cast
Wallace Shawn as Rex
Corey Burton as Captain Suds
Tony Cox/Don Fullilove as Chuck E. Duck
Tom Hanks as Woody
Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear
Emily Hahn as Bonnie
Don Rickles as Mr. Potato Head
Lori Alan as Bonnie's mom
Estelle Harris as Mrs. Potato Head
John Ratzenberger as Hamm
Mark Walsh as Drips
Timothy Dalton as Mr. Pricklepants
Joan Cusack as Jessie
Sherry Lynn as Cuddles
Lori Richardson as Babs
Music
Electronic artist BT composed the music for the short. He said in an interview: "I'm in the middle of scoring a film for Pixar right now. It's a short for Toy Story, and I'm not allowed to say the whole story, but quite literally, it's like a Toy Story rave, and I'm actually not kidding either.
Like, the toys get into all these shenanigans and it's like pounding club music, th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20mutual%20exclusion | Automatic mutual exclusion is a parallel computing programming paradigm in which threads are divided into atomic chunks, and the atomic execution of the chunks automatically parallelized using transactional memory.
References
See also
Bulk synchronous parallel
Parallel computing
Programming paradigms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20Force%20%28disambiguation%29 | Action Force is a 1980s range of European action figures.
Action Force may also refer to:
Action Force (video game), a 1987 video game
Action Force (Teletoon), a programming block on Canadian TV channel Teletoon
Action Force or Action Force Monthly, UK comic series featuring reprints of G.I. Joe comics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossmann%20%28supercomputer%29 | Rossmann is a supercomputer at Purdue University that went into production September 1, 2010. The high-performance computing cluster is operated by Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), the university's central information technology organization. ITaP also operates clusters named Steele built in 2008, Coates built in 2009, Hansen built in the summer of 2011 and Carter built in the fall of 2012 in partnership with Intel. Rossmann ranked 126 on the November 2010 TOP500 list.
Hardware
The Rossmann cluster consists of HP ProLiant DL165 G7 compute nodes with 64-bit, dual 12-core AMD Opteron 6172 processors (24 cores per node), either 48 or 96 GB of memory and 250 GB of local disk for system software and scratch storage. Nodes with 192 GB of memory and either 1 terabyte or 2 TB of local scratch disk also are available. Rossmann consists of five logical sub-clusters, each with a different memory and storage configuration. All nodes have 10 Gigabit Ethernet interconnects.
Software
Rossmann nodes run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (RHEL5) and use portable batch system Professional 10 (PBSPro 10) for resource and job management. The Rossmann cluster also has compilers and scientific programming libraries installed.
Funding
The Rossmann supercomputer and Purdue's other clusters are part of the Purdue Community Cluster Program, a partnership between ITaP and Purdue faculty. In Purdue's program, a "community" cluster is funded by hardware money from grants, faculty startup packages, institutional funds and other sources. ITaP's Rosen Center for Advanced Computing administers the community clusters and provides user support. Each faculty partner always has ready access to the capacity he or she purchases and potentially to more computing power when the nodes of other investors are idle. Unused, or opportunistic, cycles from Rossmann are made available to the National Science Foundation's Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) system and the Open Science Grid.
Users
The Purdue departments and schools by which Rossmann and Purdue's clusters are used vary broadly, including Aeronautics and Astronautics, Agriculture, Agronomy, Biology, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Civil Engineering, Communications, Computer and Information Technology, Computer Science, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Electrical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology, Industrial Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Physics, the Purdue Terrestrial Observatory and Statistics, among others.
DiaGrid
Unused, or opportunistic, cycles from Rossmann are made available to XSEDE and the Open Science Grid using Condor software. Coates is part of Purdue's distributed computing Condor flock, which is the largest publicly disclosed distributed computing system in the world and the center of DiaGrid, a nearly 43,000-processor Co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episode%20523 | "Episode 523" is the 523rd episode of the Australian soap opera Neighbours. It premiered on Network Ten on 1 July 1987. The episode was written by Ray Harding, directed by Rod Hardy, and executively produced by the serial's creator Reg Watson. Episode 523 focuses on the wedding of popular couple Scott Robinson and Charlene Mitchell (portrayed by Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue). The storyline was devised by the producers after some viewers became outraged by the idea of an unwed couple moving in together. They also believed that the wedding would be "the perfect climax" to the character's long-running relationship and an instant ratings hit.
The episode was filmed in secrecy and with a limited budget three months before it was broadcast. The wedding ceremony was filmed in the nave of The Holy Trinity Church in Doncaster. Episode 523 is one of only a few Neighbours episodes to include the entire cast. A new romantic style wedding dress made from ivory silk, organza and chantilly lace was made for Minogue's character. The ballad "Suddenly", which was written and sung by Angry Anderson, was chosen as the theme to the episode. Prior to its broadcast, Minogue and Donovan promoted the episode by making several appearances at shopping centres around Australia.
Episode 523 became one of the most watched soap opera episodes upon its broadcast in Australia. When it aired in the United Kingdom in November 1988, it attracted an audience of 19.6 million, making it the third most watched programme in the country that year. The episode was well received by critics and viewers. TV Weeks Kelly Bourne stated that the wedding would be the most exciting television soap opera event of 1987, while Network Ten's head of drama thought it was "a major turning point for Neighbours". The wedding has been voted one of the most memorable soap moments and is often included in lists featuring the greatest television weddings of all time.
Plot
The episode opens with Hilary Robinson (Anne Scott-Pendlebury) bringing breakfast to newlyweds Paul (Stefan Dennis) and Gail Robinson (Fiona Corke). She is surprised to find that they have spent the night in separate bedrooms. To hide the fact that they only married for business purposes, Gail tells Hilary that she and Paul had an argument the night before. Hilary tells them to sort things out and she tends to the bouquets. At the Robinson house, Scott (Jason Donovan) begins to panic about getting married, while his father, Jim (Alan Dale), and best friend, Mike Young (Guy Pearce), set up tables for the reception. Meanwhile, Lucy Robinson (Sasha Close) tries to find her pet mice. Over at the Ramsay house, Scott's fiancée, Charlene (Kylie Minogue), is getting ready. Her mother, Madge (Anne Charleston), asks her brother Henry (Craig McLachlan) not to race up the altar. Hilary brings in the wedding bouquet, while Charlene's friend and bridesmaid, Jane (Annie Jones) arrives. After receiving a blue garter from her grandmother, Charlene beco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicEase | MusicEase is a proprietary WYSIWYG scorewriter created by Gary Rader and produced by MusicEase Software (formerly known as Grandmaster). It enables computers using Microsoft Windows and MacOS to produce musical notation and listen to them in MIDI.
Brief history
MusicEase was initially created under DOS using muLisp The first version appeared in 1987 and was completely controlled by the keyboard. In 1995, a Windows version was created using Allegro Common Lisp. Toolbars and mouse support were then added. During the ensuing years, additional functionality was added as new versions were produced. Around 2010 Mac and Windows versions were created using LispWorks.
Functionality
MusicEase is both a music score editor and an automatic accompaniment generator. As a score editor, the user can create, edit, play and print high quality music notation. The user sees on the computer screen the musical score exactly as it will be printed out. As an automatic accompaniment creator/generator, it allows the user to quickly create accompaniment styles using the full range of notational functionality and to easily apply a style to a melody to add an accompaniment consisting of any number of general MIDI instruments including drums.
MusicEase is a constraint-based system with a large amount of knowledge of music notation. This allows it to handle intelligently many of the details of scoring automatically.
For instance, bar lines are inserted automatically according to the current meter (time signature). If the user changes the time signature, the bar line placements change automatically, and beam scopes are automatically recomputed as directed by the new time signature. (Users can also insert barlines themselves wherever they like.) Slurs and phrase marks can often be inserted with a single keystroke combination. The end points, shape, direction and location (above or below the included notes) are automatically determined. The result is that users can create professional looking scores easily and quickly without knowing music engraving/music copyist rules. (Generally no one can create engraver quality printed music without having explicitly been trained in music copyist techniques. And incorrectly notated music is harder for trained musicians to play.)
Jerry Pournelle, reviewer for Byte Magazine, says The samples [of music printouts from MusicEase] I have seen, and a couple I have produced, are sure in the same league as hand engraved.
Since many people are familiar with word processors, the notation aspect of MusicEase is designed to work much like a word processing program. For instance, pressing the G key enters the note G. Pressing the Delete key (Mac) or Backspace key (Windows) then deletes this note. Pressing the Enter key begins a new system. Pressing the Delete key (Mac) or Backspace key (Windows) at the beginning of a system appends it to the previous system. Blocks can be cut from one location and pasted into another location and then everything ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Gelfond | Michael Gelfond is a Professor in Computer Sciences at Texas Tech University in the United States. He received a degree in mathematics from the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in Russia in 1974 and emigrated to the United States in 1978. Gelfond's research interests are in the areas of computational logic and knowledge representation. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, and an Area Editor (in Knowledge Representation and Nonmonotonic Reasoning) of the journal Theory and Practice of Logic Programming.
He, together with Vladimir Lifschitz, defined stable model semantics for logic programs, which later became the theoretical foundation for Answer Set Programming, a new declarative programming paradigm.
References
External links
Michael Gelfond's homepage at Texas Tech University
Michael Gelfond's publications on DBLP
Living people
American computer scientists
Texas Tech University faculty
Logic programming researchers
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20assignment%20vulnerability | Mass assignment is a computer vulnerability where an active record pattern in a web application is abused to modify data items that the user should not normally be allowed to access such as password, granted permissions, or administrator status.
Many web application frameworks offer an active record and object-relational mapping features, where external data in serialization formats is automatically converted on input into internal objects and, in turn, into database record fields. If the framework's interface for that conversion is too permissive and the application designer doesn't mark specific fields as immutable, it is possible to overwrite fields that were never intended to be modified from outside (e.g. admin permissions flag).
These vulnerabilities have been found in applications written in Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET MVC, and Java Play framework.
In 2012 mass assignment on Ruby on Rails allowed bypassing of mapping restrictions and resulted in proof of concept injection of unauthorized SSH public keys into user accounts at GitHub. Further vulnerabilities in Ruby on Rails allowed creation of internal objects through a specially crafted JSON structure.
In ASP.NET Core mapping restriction can be declared using the [BindNever] attribute.
See also
Data transfer object (DTO)
References
Web security exploits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20Starr | Barbara Starr (born September 11) is an American television news journalist who most recently worked for CNN. She was the network's Pentagon correspondent, based in Washington, D.C., from 2001 to 2022.
Career
Starr is a graduate of the California State University, Northridge, from which she earned a degree in journalism. From 1979 to 1988, she was a correspondent for Business Week magazine, covering energy matters. She then worked for the news magazine Jane's Defence Weekly from 1988 to 1997 covering national security and defense policy before joining ABC News as a producer, covering the Pentagon, for which she won an Emmy Award.
In 2001, Starr joined CNN as the lead Pentagon correspondent, covering national security issues including the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria. She served on the board of the Pentagon Press Association for several years, and was reportedly described by colleagues and competitors as "a mentor."
Starr has received criticism for her reporting, having been called "a spokesperson for the Pentagon."
In June 2013, MSNBC reporter Chris Hayes ran a segment, in which he argued that Starr's publication of leaked information was at least as potentially harmful to national security as those published by Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian.
In July 2015, Starr received criticism from Kenyans through a Twitter hashtag that trended for several hours on the Internet when she called Kenya a "terror hotbed" as President Obama headed to the East African nation. She was referring to the security threat posed by Al-Shabaab militants operating from neighboring Somalia.
In May 2021, it was revealed that the Trump administration had secretly fought a legal battle with CNN for over a year in an effort to obtain Starr's phone and email records from 2017 as part of a leak probe. The Justice Department, under the leadership of Attorney General William Barr, petitioned a magistrate court in Virginia to send a secret order to CNN compelling it to produce records of Starr's emails kept on company servers. CNN's general counsel, David Vigilante, was under a gag order preventing him from sharing the details of the government's efforts, including with Starr herself. The Biden administration's Justice Department informed CNN and Starr of the probe and said that Starr was never the target of the investigation. President Biden subsequently said that he would not allow his Justice Department to seize journalists' phone or email records, calling the practice "simply wrong."
Star announced her departure from CNN in December 2022.
References
External links
CNN - Biography
American television reporters and correspondents
CNN people
California State University, Northridge alumni
Living people
American women television journalists
News & Documentary Emmy Award winners
20th-century American journalists
21st-century American journalists
ABC News people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puddletag | Puddletag is a graphical audio file metadata editor ("tagger") for Unix-like operating systems.
It is free and open-source software subject to the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3. In most major desktop Linux distributions, it is available from standard package repositories. Under Arch Linux(-based ones) it can be obtained from user repositories.
The user interface is modeled after the popular Windows freeware Mp3tag. It uses a spreadsheet-like layout so that all the tags a user may want to edit by hand are visible and easily editable. All the other audio taggers available for Linux take a different approach to user interface design. The interface elements can be freely arranged.
In July 2008, the first version (0.1) was released via SourceForge. The website counted several thousand downloads for each release before the project finally left the platform in early 2016 and was included in the package sources of most major Linux distributions. Version 1.0 was released in 2012, introducing support for AcoustID.
Puddletag is written in Python and uses Qt 5 (through PyQt) for its graphical user interface. As backend it utilizes Mutagen, a Python module to handle audio metadata.
Features
Mutagen supports ASF, FLAC, M4A, APE, MP3, MPC, Ogg Opus, Ogg FLAC, Ogg Speex, Ogg Theora, Ogg Vorbis, True Audio, WavPack, OptimFROG, and AIFF audio files. All versions of ID3v2 are supported, and all standard ID3v2.4 frames are parsed. It can read Xing headers to accurately calculate the bitrate and length of MP3s. ID3 and APEv2 tags can be edited regardless of audio format. It can also manipulate Ogg streams on an individual packet/page level.
Puddletag includes support for the following audio formats: AAC, MP4 (mp4/m4a/m4b/iTunes compatible), OGG, OptimFROG OFR, OFS, SPX, TAK, TTA, WMA, WV.
Batch Tag Editing. Write ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, MPEG-4, WMA, APEv2 Tags and Vorbis comments to multiple files at once.
Full Unicode support
Support for embedded album cover art
Automatically creates playlists
Recursive subfolder support
User-defined field mappings
Remove parts of a tag or the entire tag from multiple files
Rename and/or move files and folders based on the tag information
Import tags from filenames, text files and clipboard
Quick search and replace text in highlighted tracks/fields without having to resort to actions
Format tags and filenames
Replace characters or words from tags and filenames
Regular expressions
Export tag information to user-defined formats (i.e. HTML, RTF, CSV, XML, TXT AND JSON)
Import tag information from online databases like freedb, Discogs, MusicBrainz AcoustID or Amazon (also by text-search)
Full AcoustID integration
Import tag information from local freedb databases
Support for ID3v2.3 (ISO-8859-1 and UTF-16) and ID3v2.4 with UTF-8
Automated Mass Tagging of multiple albums including the ability to enrich existing metadata using one or more metadata sources in a single operation
Singl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC%20T%20series | The SPARC T-series family of RISC processors and server computers, based on the SPARC V9 architecture, was originally developed by Sun Microsystems, and later by Oracle Corporation after its acquisition of Sun. Its distinguishing feature from earlier SPARC iterations is the introduction of chip multithreading (CMT) technology, a multithreading, multicore design intended to drive greater processor utilization at lower power consumption.
The first generation T-series processor, the UltraSPARC T1, and servers based on it, were announced in December 2005. As later generations were introduced, the term "T series" was used to refer to the entire family of processors.
Pre-Oracle era
Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire and SPARC Enterprise product lines were based on early generations of CMT technology. The UltraSPARC T1 based Sun Fire T2000 and T1000 servers were launched in December 2005 and early 2006, respectively. They were later rebranded to match the name of the UltraSPARC T2 and T2 Plus based Sun SPARC Enterprise T5**0 servers.
SPARC T3
In September 2010, Oracle announced a range of SPARC T3 processor based servers. These are branded as the "SPARC T3" series, the "SPARC Enterprise" brand being dropped.
The SPARC T3-series servers include the T3-1B, a blade server module that fits into the Sun Blade 6000 system. All other T3 based servers are rack mounted systems. Subsequent T-series server generations also include a blade server in the same Sun Blade 6000 form factor.
SPARC T4
On September 26, 2011, Oracle announced a range of SPARC T4-based servers. These systems use the same chassis as the earlier T3 based systems. Their main features are very similar, with the exception of:
T4 CPU instead of T3 CPU, with complete core redesign
doubled RAM capacity
small changes in mass storage capacity
SPARC T5
On March 26, 2013, Oracle announced refreshed SPARC servers based on the new SPARC T5 microprocessor, which the company claims is "the world's fastest". In the T5 range of servers, the single socket rackmount server design was deprecated, while a new eight-socket rackmount server was introduced.
SPARC M7
On October 26, 2015, Oracle announced a family of systems built on the 32-core, 256-thread SPARC M7 microprocessor. Unlike prior generations, both T- and M-series systems were introduced using the same processor. The M7 included the first generation of the Data Analytics Accelerator (DAX) engines. DAX engines offloaded in-memory query processing and performed real-time data decompression.
SPARC M8
On September 18, 2017, Oracle announced a family of systems built on the 32-core, 256-thread SPARC M8 microprocessor at 5.0 GHz. It also included the second generation of Data Analytics Accelerator (DAX) engines.
Partitioning and virtualization
SPARC T-series servers can be partitioned using Oracle's Logical Domains technology. Additional virtualization is provided by Oracle Solaris Zones (aka Solaris Containers) to create isolated virtual server |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20270x | 270x is a generic name for a family of IBM non-programmable communications controllers used with System/360 and System/370 computers.
The family consisted of the following devices:
IBM 2701 Data Adapter Unit
IBM 2702 Transmission Control
IBM 2703 Transmission Control
The 2701 and 2702 were announced simultaneously with System/360 in 1964, the 2703 was announced a year later.
The 270x series was superseded by the IBM 3704 and 3705 communications controllers in 1972.
2701
The 2701 supported up to four start-stop or synchronous communications lines. It had two multiplexor channel interfaces for connection to one or two host computers. The synchronous adapter originally supported the Synchronous Transmit-Receive (STR) protocol, and later Binary Synchronous Communications (BISYNC) when it was introduced in 1967, in half duplex mode at speeds of up to 40,800 bits per second (bit/s). The 2701 could also have "data acquisition and control adapters" for direct control of external equipment.
Initially the 2701 supported the following devices:
IBM 1009 Data Transmission Unit
IBM 1013 Card Transmission Terminal
IBM 7701 Magnetic Tape Transmission Terminal
IBM 7702 Magnetic Tape Transmission Terminal
IBM 7710 Data Communication Unit
IBM 7711 Data Communication Unit
IBM 7740 Communication Control System
IBM 7750 Programmed Transmission Control
Remote System/360 with 2701
Serial synchronous terminals
IBM 1030 Data Collection System
IBM 1050 Data Communication System
IBM 1060 Data Communication System
IBM 1070 Process Communication System
AT&T 83B2 Type Selective Calling Terminals
Western Union Plan 115A Outstations
Common Carrier TWX Stations
European Teleprinters
Parallel data devices
Contact sense terminals
Contact operate terminals
Later the IBM 2740 and IBM 2741 Communication Terminals, and the IBM 2260/2848 were added.
2702
The 2702 could accommodate up to 31 communication lines, but at a slower speed than the 2701. The System/360 Configurator indicates that in the 2702 supported start-stop lines only.
Initially the 2702 supported the following terminals:
IBM 1030 Data Collection System
IBM 1050 Data Communication System
IBM 1060 Data Communication System
IBM 1070 Process Communication System
AT&T 83B2 Type Selective Calling Terminals
Western Union Plan 115A Outstations
Common Carrier TWX Stations
European Teleprinters
Later the IBM 2740 and IBM 2741 Communication Terminals, the IBM 1032 Digital Time Unit, and a second channel interface were added.
2703
The 2703 supported up to 176 half-duplex start-stop or Binary Synchronous communication lines. The maximum speed of one line was 2400 bit/s but the total aggregate line speed was limited. By 1970 the maximum line speed had been raised to 4800 bit/s. The 2703 attached to a single multiplexer channel; each communication line occupied a subchannel. It had a four or eight byte buffer per line to reduce data transfer to and from the host computer. The IBM 2712 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenya%20National%20Bureau%20of%20Statistics | The Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) is a department in Kenya's Ministry of Planning which collects and compiles regular cross-sectoral data for the government. The Bureau was established through the Statistics Act of 2006 and initiated in February 2007. The office places staff in other departments of the Kenya Government to collect data. The headquarters is in Herufi House in Nairobi.
Programmes
Kenya Population and Housing Census
In part, the National Bureau of Statistics oversees the Kenya Population and Housing Census, which occurs every ten years. The most recent census was in 2019, and documents the population of country. An audit by the Auditor General's office published in 2021 found that half of the KSh 18.5 billion budget of the Kenya Population and Housing Census for the 2019 census, could not be accounted for.
National Sampling Survey and Evaluation Programme
The National Sampling Survey and Evaluation Programme is a household data collection program.
References
External links
Kenya National Bureau of Statistics homepage
Government agencies of Kenya |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE%20Saturday%20Morning%20Slam | WWE Saturday Morning Slam was a short-lived American professional wrestling television show that WWE produced. It aired as part of the Vortexx Saturday morning children's programming block on The CW from August 25, 2012 to May 11, 2013.
History
Saturday Morning Slam marked the WWE's first Saturday morning pro-wrestling show since Livewire in 2001. It is one of the WWE programming yet to be shown on the WWE Network.
The program had a TV Parental Guidelines rating of TV-G to meet the standards and practices of the timeslot; thus, more aggressive wrestling moves permissible on WWE's other programming were banned. While the WWE roster worked tamer matches for Saturday Morning Slam, occasional moves or holds that targeted the head or neck were edited out of the broadcast.
In February 2013, WWE announced that a General Manager for the show would be revealed on March 16, 2013. Mick Foley was revealed as the General Manager, where he would serve as such until his contract expired in March 2014.
The show was cancelled after one season after Saban Brands and WWE disagreed on its future creative direction.
Production
Saturday Morning Slam was taped on Tuesdays before WWE Friday Night SmackDown.
On-screen personnel
General Managers
Hosts
Commentators
(*) Multiple WWE wrestlers served as guest commentators alongside Josh Matthews.
Ring announcers
See also
List of former WWE television programming
References
External links
Official website
2012 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
2010s American children's television series
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimation | Estimation (or estimating) is the process of finding an estimate or approximation, which is a value that is usable for some purpose even if input data may be incomplete, uncertain, or unstable. The value is nonetheless usable because it is derived from the best information available. Typically, estimation involves "using the value of a statistic derived from a sample to estimate the value of a corresponding population parameter". The sample provides information that can be projected, through various formal or informal processes, to determine a range most likely to describe the missing information. An estimate that turns out to be incorrect will be an overestimate if the estimate exceeds the actual result and an underestimate if the estimate falls short of the actual result.
How estimation is done
Estimation is often done by sampling, which is counting a small number of examples something, and projecting that number onto a larger population. An example of estimation would be determining how many candies of a given size are in a glass jar. Because the distribution of candies inside the jar may vary, the observer can count the number of candies visible through the glass, consider the size of the jar, and presume that a similar distribution can be found in the parts that can not be seen, thereby making an estimate of the total number of candies that could be in the jar if that presumption were true. Estimates can similarly be generated by projecting results from polls or surveys onto the entire population.
In making an estimate, the goal is often most useful to generate a range of possible outcomes that is precise enough to be useful but not so precise that it is likely to be inaccurate. For example, in trying to guess the number of candies in the jar, if fifty were visible, and the total volume of the jar seemed to be about twenty times as large as the volume containing the visible candies, then one might simply project that there were a thousand candies in the jar. Such a projection, intended to pick the single value that is believed to be closest to the actual value, is called a point estimate. However, a point estimation is likely to be incorrect, because the sample size—in this case, the number of candies that are visible—is too small a number to be sure that it does not contain anomalies that differ from the population as a whole. A corresponding concept is an interval estimate, which captures a much larger range of possibilities, but is too broad to be useful. For example, if one were asked to estimate the percentage of people who like candy, it would clearly be correct that the number falls between zero and one hundred percent. Such an estimate would provide no guidance, however, to somebody who is trying to determine how many candies to buy for a party to be attended by a hundred people.
Uses of estimation
In mathematics, approximation describes the process of finding estimates in the form of upper or lower bounds for a quantity that ca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandesh%20Kadur | Sandesh Kadur is an Indian wildlife film producer and conservation photographer known for his contributions to BBC Planet Earth II. Sandesh's films have been shown on various television networks including National Geographic Channel, BBC, Discovery Channel and Animal Planet.
Sandesh is a Senior Fellow of The International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) and co-founder of Felis Creations, a visual arts company based in Bangalore, India, which work on a variety of projects ranging from natural history documentaries to art and still photography.
Life
Sandesh exposes the need for conservation and encourages the protection of the world’s biodiversity. Over the years, Sandesh’s work has garnered many top awards including the CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year, Nature’s Best Award, International Conservation Photographer Award, as well as twice being nominated for a Green Oscar at Wildscreen.
Early life
He is the second child of Dr. Bangalore Narayan Viswanath, a documentary filmmaker and notable entomologist from Bangalore. He was motivated when his father presented him an SLR film camera and a bundle of National Geographic films during his birthday. He has traveled extensively in the Western Ghats and the Himalayas.
Education
Sandesh Kadur did his schooling from The Home School, Bangalore and graduated in Wildlife Biology from The University of Texas at Brownsville.
Recognitions
In 2013 Sandesh was recognized by the National Geographic Society as an Emerging Explorer and also received the North American Nature Photographers (NANPA) Vision Award in recognition of early career excellence, and continuation of vision and inspiration to others in nature photography, conservation, and education.
Wildlife documentaries
Books
Publications
2013 BBC Wildlife Magazine March 2013 / Snake Charms
2013 BBC Knowledge August 2013 / Saving the Unicorn
2013 Nature 's Best Photography / Indian Fol Pups
2013 Saevus March/April 2013 / Of Clouds and Silver Linings
2012 National Geographic Traveller September 2012 / Macro Photography
2012 BBC Wildlife Magazine August 2012 / Cloud Pleases
2010 Current Conservation Volume 5 Issue 1 2010 / Hunting in India
Contributions as photographer
2011 Handbook of the Mammals of the world Vol 2
2011 Conservation Biology / Universities Press
2010 Survey of The Environment The Hindu
2009 Handbook of the Mammals of the world Vol 1
Awards
Personal
2013 National Geographic Emerging Explorer
2005 Infosys - Young Achiever of the Year Award –India
Photography
2013 North American Nature Photographers Association(NANPA) -Vision Award
2013 Nature’s Best Windland Smith Rice Awards – Wildlife
2012 International Conservation Photography Awards –Honorable Mention
2010 International Conservation Photography Award – 1st Place
2010 Highly Commended – BBC Wildlife photographer of the Year – One Earth Award
2009 International Wildlife Film Festival - Merit Award for New Talent, Sandesh Kadur
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%207064 | ISO/IEC 7064 is a standard promulgated by the International Standards Organization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) that defines algorithms for calculating check digit characters. The checks should be applicable to alphanumeric strings and should be able to detect all single substitution errors, all or nearly all single local transposition errors, all or nearly all circular shift errors, a high proportion of double substitution errors, a high proportion of all other errors.
Standards
Status: Published - ISO/IEC 7064:2003 Information technology -- Security techniques -- Check character systems
Status: Withdrawn - ISO 7064:1983 Data processing -- Check character systems
Usage
It is referred to by other ISO standards:
International Bank Account Number (IBAN)
International Standard Text Code (ISTC)
International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI)
Legal Entity Identifier (LEI)
and by other systems:
Personal identification number (Croatia)
Resident Identity Card (People's Republic of China)
Global Release Identifier
ORCID
External links
Official ISO 7064:2003 Standard Documentation International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Error detection and correction
07064
Checksum algorithms |
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