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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Mark | William S. "Bill" Mark is a vice president at SRI International, where he has been in charge of their Information and Computing Sciences Division since 1998.
Early life and education
Mark received a B.S. and an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science in 1973, and a Ph.D. in computer science in 1976, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
Mark was a co-founder of the company Savoir, which developed software tools for flexible manufacturing. Mark then worked at Lockheed Martin's Palo Alto Research Labs. He later headed the System Technology Group at National Semiconductor, which focused on design and implementation of silicon-based systems, until 1998.
Mark joined SRI International in 1998. He was a principal investigator of the CALO project that eventually led to the development of Siri and related technologies.
Awards and memberships
Mark has served on DARPA's Information, Science and Technology Committee and the editorial board of IEEE Computer.
Mark is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Association for Computational Linguistics and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He was a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the University of California, Berkeley's Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department; and is currently a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of the Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technology.
References
Living people
SRI International people
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Agnew | Jason Agnew is a Canadian television producer, host, radio personality, and writer. He is also known as the founding producer and original host of Canada's Emmy Award-winning BITE Television Network, which is also known as Makeful.
Early life
He attended high school at Bishop Allen Academy. Following high school, Jason Agnew attended the Radio & Television Arts program at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University).
Career
Agnew is a host for CFRB in Toronto. He has also hosted shows such as Splatalot!, Tiny Talent Time, Live Audio Wrestling and Brain Battle on Global TV. He has hosted the interactive television game shows PopQ and Time Shift Trivia. He previously cohosted Bite TV's The Conventioneers alongside Matt Chin. He is now the host and executive producer of Sunday Night's Main Event, a spiritual successor to Live Audio Wrestling, on TSN 1150 Hamilton, and the host of The Zone and The Zone Weekend.
References
Further reading
"Agnew lays down The LAW on Tiny Talent Time". Canoe.ca.
"Celebrity Spaces with Jason Agnew". Toronto Sun.
Living people
Toronto Metropolitan University alumni
Canadian radio hosts
Canadian game show hosts
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tayo%20the%20Little%20Bus | Tayo the Little Bus () is a South Korean 3D computer-animated series for children created by Iconix Entertainment, Educational Broadcasting System and the Metropolitan Government of Seoul. The show was produced with the help of Seoul mayor Oh Se-hoon's administration. It began airing in South Korea on EBS in 2010 and an English-dubbed version of the series began airing on Disney Junior (Asia) in 2012, with Disney Junior (Australia and New Zealand) following in 2013. In the United States and Canada, Hulu is the exclusive distributor of the series, though the third and fourth seasons are on Netflix. In Indonesia, the series is distributed by RTV, Indosiar and Mentari TV.
The series is about four buses in a city populated with anthropomorphic vehicles: Tayo (Bus 120), Rogi (Bus 1000), Lani (Bus 02), and Gani (Bus 1339).
Each episode in the start, middle, and end features a brief narration and it has six seasons. A spin-off series to Tayo, known as Titipo Titipo, premiered between the main series’ fourth season and fifth season. Titipo focuses on the titular character named Titipo, a young passenger train the show is named after along with all his friends, who are also trains. After the end of Titipos first season, Tayos fifth season premiered for English-speaking audiences on October 22, 2018. Titipo Titipo was greenlit for a second season. Titipos second season premiered for English-speaking audiences starting November 19, 2020. In late 2020, Tayo the Little Bus 10th anniversary spinoff Tayo and Little Wizards () was released. This spinoff premiered on Netflix on September 17, 2021. The sixth season aired on September 1, 2021.
The series is available in Korean, English, Spanish, Japanese, Turkish, Indonesian, German, and Russian on the production company's official YouTube channel for the series.
Characters
Main characters
The series features five main characters. Each of the four original characters (Tayo, Gani, Lani & Rogi) is based on the four actual colors and types of Seoul Buses.
Tayo is a friendly, playful, and sometimes mischievous blue bus. He is the 3rd largest and 3rd oldest of the four buses. In the fourth-season episode, Who Is The Real Tayo?, it is revealed that he has a clone of his named Star Tayo, which was in one of his dreams. Tayo also appears as a minor character in the Titipo Titipo series and has appeared in the Season 1 episodes: Going to Choo-Choo Town, Genie Makes a New Friend, and Titipo and Tayo. For Season 2, he appeared in the episodes: A Long Haul: Part 1, Fix and Lift's Music Battle, Loco the Fabulous Freight Train, Oh Please, Genie, Diesel and Rogi and Genie's New Friend.
Voiced by
Jul Kohler (A Day in the Life of Tayo (2010) - Tayo's Christmas (2014), Emergency Dispatch! Tayo and Muchtar (2018) - The Little Dinosaur Friend: Part 2 (2019)
Robyn Slade (A Day in the Life of Tayo (2010) - Hana's Special Day (2014)
Carol Tyler (The New Friend, Heart (2014) - The Little Buses' Play (2016)
Janet James (UK Dub) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk%202077 | Cyberpunk 2077 is a 2020 action role-playing video game developed by CD Projekt Red and published by CD Projekt, based on video game designer Mike Pondsmith's game series. Set in a dystopian cyberpunk universe, the player assumes the role of "V" (played by Gavin Drea/Cherami Leigh), a mercenary in the fictional Californian city known as "Night City", where they deal with the fallout from a heist gone wrong that results in an experimental cybernetic "bio-chip" containing an engram of the legendary rock star and terrorist Johnny Silverhand (played by Keanu Reeves) threatening to slowly overwrite V's mind; as the story progresses V and Johnny must work together to find a way to be separated and save V's life.
The game's development began following the release of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine (2016). The game was developed by a team of around 500 people using the REDengine 4 game engine. CD Projekt launched a new division in Wrocław, Poland, and partnered with Digital Scapes, Nvidia, QLOC, and Jali Research to aid the production. Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith was a consultant, and actor Keanu Reeves had a starring role. The original score was led by Marcin Przybyłowicz, and featured the contributions of several licensed artists. After years of anticipation, CD Projekt released Cyberpunk 2077 for PlayStation 4, Stadia, Windows, and Xbox One on 10 December 2020, followed by PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on 15 February 2022.
Cyberpunk 2077 received praise from critics for its narrative, setting, and graphics. However, some of its gameplay elements received mixed responses while its themes and representation of transgender characters received some criticism. It was also widely criticized for bugs, particularly in the console versions which suffered from performance problems. Sony removed it from the PlayStation Store from December 2020 to June 2021 while CD Projekt rectified some of the problems. CD Projekt became subject to investigations and class-action lawsuits for their perceived attempts at downplaying the severity of the technical problems before release; these were ultimately cleared with a settlement of US$1.85 million. By October 2023, the game had sold over 25 million units. An expansion, Phantom Liberty, released on 26 September 2023 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, which sold 3 million units in a week after release. Its total cost to develop and market (including updates and DLC) is reportedly over $436 million, making it one of the most expensive video games to develop. A sequel, codenamed Project Orion, was announced.
Gameplay
Cyberpunk 2077 is an action role-playing game played from a first-person perspective as V, a mercenary whose voice, face, hairstyle, body type and modifications, background, and clothing are customisable. Stat categories—Body, Intelligence, Reflexes, Technical, and Cool— influence player's gameplay style. The three primary play styles are Netrunner (hacking), Techie (machinery), and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus%207%20%282012%29 | The first-generation Nexus 7 is a mini tablet computer co-developed by Google and Asus that runs the Android operating system. It is the first tablet in the Google Nexus series of Android consumer devices marketed by Google and built by an original equipment manufacturer partner. The Nexus 7 features a display, an Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core chip, 1 GB of RAM, Wi-Fi and NFC connectivity, and 8, 16 or 32 GB of storage. The tablet was the first device to ship with version 4.1 of Android, nicknamed "Jelly Bean". By emphasizing the integration of the Google Play multimedia store with Android 4.1, Google intended to market the Nexus 7 as an entertainment device and a platform for consuming e-books, television shows, films, games, and music.
Design work on the Nexus 7 began in January 2012 after a meeting between Google and Asus executives at International CES. The device's design was based on Asus' Eee Pad MeMO ME370T tablet that had been showcased at the conference. Following a hectic four-month development period during which the device was modified to reach a US$199 price point, mass production started in May. It was unveiled at the Google I/O annual developer conference on June 27, when it also became available for pre-order through Google Play. Shipping commenced in mid-July 2012 to Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, before the tablet was progressively released in other regions. Google expanded the Nexus 7 lineup in October 2012 with the introduction of 32GB versions, available in Wi-Fi–only and HSPA+ cellular-ready varieties.
The Nexus 7 received positive reviews from critics, particularly for its competitive pricing, premium-quality build, and powerful hardware. Common criticisms included the absence of cellular connectivity from initial models and no expandable storage. The Nexus 7 has been commercially successful, selling approximately 4.5–4.6 million units in 2012 and 7 million units overall. It received honors for "Gadget of the Year" and "Tablet of the Year" in T3 magazine's 2012 awards, and was also named "Best Mobile Tablet" at the 2013 Global Mobile Awards. The second generation Nexus 7 was released on July 26, 2013.
History
Development phase
In an interview in December 2011, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt announced that a Google-designed tablet computer would arrive in six months. During the interview for Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Schmidt stated that the software company would have strong competition against Apple, the designer of the iPad line of tablets. While he did not refer to it as such, the device was inferred to be part of the Google Nexus series of consumer devices using the Android operating system and built by a partnering original equipment manufacturer (OEM).
According to Asus executive Benjamin Yeh, the idea for the Nexus 7 was conceived at International CES in Las Vegas in January 2012 during a meeting of executives from his company and Google. After agreeing to manufac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RStudio | RStudio is an integrated development environment for R, a programming language for statistical computing and graphics. It is available in two formats: RStudio Desktop is a regular desktop application while RStudio Server runs on a remote server and allows accessing RStudio using a web browser. The RStudio IDE is a product of Posit PBC (formerly RStudio PBC, formerly RStudio Inc.).
Licensing model
The RStudio integrated development environment (IDE) is available with the GNU Affero General Public License version 3. The AGPL v3 is an open source license that guarantees the freedom to share the code.
RStudio Desktop and RStudio Server are both available in free and fee-based (commercial) editions. OS support depends on the format/edition of the IDE. Prepackaged distributions of RStudio Desktop are available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. RStudio Server and Server Pro run on Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux, CentOS, openSUSE and SLES.
Overview and history
The RStudio IDE is partly written in the C++ programming language and uses the Qt framework for its graphical user interface. The bigger percentage of the code is written in Java. JavaScript is also used.
Work on the RStudio IDE started around December 2010, and the first public beta version (v0.92) was officially announced in February 2011. Version 1.0 was released on 1 November 2016. Version 1.1 was released on 9 October 2017.
Addins
The RStudio IDE provides a mechanism for executing R functions interactively from within the IDE through the Addins menu. This enables packages to include Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for increased accessibility. Popular R packages that use this feature include:
bookdown – a knitr extension to create books
colourpicker – a graphical tool to pick colours for plots
datasets.load – a graphical tool to search and load datasets
googleAuthR – Authenticate with Google APIs
Development
The RStudio IDE is developed by Posit, PBC, a public-benefit corporation founded by J. J. Allaire, creator of the programming language ColdFusion. Posit has no formal connection to the R Foundation, a not-for-profit organization located in Vienna, Austria, which is responsible for overseeing development of the R environment for statistical computing. Posit was formerly known as RStudio Inc. In July 2022, it announced that it changed its name to Posit, to signify its broadening exploration towards other programming languages such as Python.
See also
R interfaces
Comparison of integrated development environments
References
External links
Free R (programming language) software
R (programming language)
Science software for Linux
Software using the GNU AGPL license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BandNews%20FM | BandNews FM is a Brazilian all-news radio network owned by Grupo Bandeirantes de Comunicação. First broadcast on May 20, 2005, it is the first Brazilian radio network that provides non-stop news programming 24 hours a day, considering that CBN does intersperse news with talk shows.
The network's format consisted of 20-minute rotating newscasts with 3 of these minutes allocated for analysis and opinion from the anchors and columnists. The vast majority of its programming is produced and broadcast live from São Paulo.
History timeline
September 2004: Rádio Sucesso, which was experiencing a financial crisis due to heavy compensation for the newspaper Jornal do Brasil in Rio and the loss of leadership for its competitors, was sold to the Group Bandeirantes de Comunicação. Soon after, there were rumours that the relaunched station would play electronica and hip-hop music, or just relayed Rádio Bandeirantes. However, neither of them became the reality.
March 20, 2005: At midnight, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre had got their own BandNews FM stations. These are the flagship stations of the network. The breakfast drivetime, from 7 to 9 in the weekday mornings, was hosted by Carlos Nascimento, and the rest of the programming consisted of 20-minute rolling news blocks. Marcello D'Angelo, André Luiz Costa and Nilo Frateschi Jr. participated in the creation of the network. In 2006, the morning band was taken over by Ricardo Boechat.
August 8, 2005: The fifth BandNews FM station was launched in Salvador, in 99.1 MHz.
January 2, 2006: The sixth BandNews FM station was launched in Curitiba, on 96.3 MHz.
June 19, 2007: The seventh BandNews FM station was launched in Brasília, on 90.5 MHz.
October 6, 2008: BandNews FM opened its headquarters in Campinas, São Paulo.
March 29, 2010: BandNews FM opened its second headquarters in Ribeirão Preto, still within São Paulo.
June 2010: BandNews FM began to be carried by the pay TV company Via Embratel (now Claro TV).
March 27, 2011: BandNews FM had its own sports team, led by Odinei Edson, Cacá Fernando and Dirceu Maravilha. The games are broadcast
January 24, 2012: The television program Agora É Tarde, on January 24, 2012, would be simulcast with Rede Bandeirantes.
December 2012: BandNews FM has a new logo that is still in use today.
2013: BandNews FM Belo Horizonte began broadcasting Minas Gerais sport coverage with the end of these local broadcasts of Esportes FM, absorbing part of the team that worked in the sports station. On February 18, BandNews FM left the city of Campinas 106.7 to give place to Band FM. More recently, it also closed the doors in Ribeirão Preto, in the interior of São Paulo, where the frequency 96.7 was, again, replaced by Band FM.
March 11, 2013: BandNews FM debuted in Fortaleza, Ceará, branded as Tribune BandNews FM, replacing Beach Park FM in 101.7 MHz.
July 31 – March 9, 2014: BandNews FM events in São Paulo was broadcast by Bradesco Deportes FM, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Rede%20CNT | This a list of programs broadcast by the Central Nacional de Televisão, more known as Rede CNT and CNT, a Brazilian television network.
Current programs
Journalistic shows
CNT Entrevista
CNT Jornal (1993–present)
CNT Notícias
Jogo do Poder (2007-present)
Sportive shows
CNT Esporte (2008–present)
Deconto Show de Pesca (2006–present)
Tempo Extra (2018-present)
WooHoo
Varieties and other shows
Del Rubens Show
Família Zoreia
Otávio Neto na TV (1995–present)
Qual Viagem
Tatti Show
Terroir Brasileiro
Locals
CNT Rio de Janeiro
Fala Baixada
CNT Londrina
Cidadão Tropical
Militão & Militão
CNT Caxias do Sul
Confraria Oli Paz
Programa Oli Paz
CNT Salvador
A Propósito
Geraldão e o Povo
Making Off
References
Rede CNT
Rede CNT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Computing%20Environment | Virtual Computing Environment Company (VCE) was a division of EMC Corporation that manufactured converged infrastructure appliances for enterprise environments. Founded in 2009 under the name Acadia, it was originally a joint venture between EMC and Cisco Systems, with additional investments by Intel and EMC subsidiary VMware. EMC acquired a 90% controlling stake in VCE from Cisco in October 2014, giving it majority ownership. VCE ended in 2016 after an internal division realignment, followed by the sale of EMC to Dell.
History
Cisco Systems, EMC Corporation and VMware (partially owned by EMC) unveiled a joint partnership in November 2009 to develop cloud computing platforms called Vblock Infrastructure Packages. The partnership was originally called the VMware-Cisco-EMC alliance, though the name was later shortened to VCE, for the “Virtual Computing Environment coalition”.
At the same EMC World trade show, Cisco and EMC introduced a joint venture named Acadia. The goal of Acadia, originally set up as a separate legal entity, was to build Vblock Infrastructure Packages in a standardized and repeatable fashion for customer data centers. Michael Capellas, who also was a board member of Cisco, was named chairman of Acadia, and its first chief executive officer (CEO) in May 2010. Sales initially encountered some confusion among customers (which often had different staffs for storage and networking, for example), and different fiscal quarter sales cycles.
By the end of 2010, Capellas told analysts the venture had 65 customers, with an average system costing about $2.5 million.
Acadia and the Virtual Computing Environment coalition combined into a single entity in January 2011, called VCE, the Virtual Computing Environment Company. Originally located in Silicon Valley and Dallas, Texas, an expansion was announced in March 2011 to Richardson, Texas with an investment from the Texas Enterprise Fund. In October 2011, another office opened in Marlboro, Massachusetts, close to VCE's EMC-owned manufacturing plant in Franklin, Massachusetts. In July 2012, Cisco executive Praveen Akkiraju was appointed CEO and Frank Hauck as president. It was estimated VCE had 1200 employees at the time, with undisclosed revenues but accumulated losses. Publicized customers included Babson College and the Mississippi Community College Board. The press debated if the venture should be considered a "startup company", with one headline joking "VCE = virtual cash erosion" and questioning millions of dollars of executive compensation. Others considered the arrangement to be a wise investment.
Through 2012, there was a mixture of some success (with speculation of layoffs), and continued confusion due to products from competing partners such as NetApp FlexPod and Xsigo Systems. Cisco had announced its own "framework" called CloudVerse in late 2011 that was not specific to VMware. In August 2012, EMC announced a VSPEX reference architecture and partnership with Lenovo and other di |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myint%20Aye | Myint Aye (born 1950) is a Burmese democracy activist. In 2002, he co-founded the Human Rights Defenders and Promoters network in Burma. After several imprisonments on charges related to his activism, on 29 November 2008, he was given a life sentence for allegedly planning a bomb attack in Yangon's Shwepyitha Township. Amnesty International described the evidence against him as "fabricated" and designated him a prisoner of conscience. He was released from prison on 19 November 2012, as a gesture of goodwill before a visit by US President Barack Obama.
Background
Myint Aye is an alumnus of the University of Foreign Languages, Yangon. While there in 1989, he married Daw La La Win.
Democracy activism
Myint Aye has been arrested at least seven times, in 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2007. In 2002, Myint Aye co-founded the Human Rights Defenders and Promoters (HRDP) network in Burma. He was also active with the opposition party of Aung San Suu Kyi, the National League for Democracy, serving as its Yangon vice chairman. According to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, he was dismissed from the NLD in 2005 "for not following the party principles", but remained active with the HRDP.
Myint Aye was arrested in 2006 for calling for the release of leaders of the 88 Generation Students Group, but was released within weeks; he attributes the swift release to international pressure from groups like Amnesty and Front Line.
2008 life sentence
Myint Aye was active in bringing aid to Cyclone Nargis survivors in 2008. He was arrested on 8 August following a search of his home; police reportedly removed him from his father-in-law's home with a black hood over his head. Initially charged with "misappropriating relief funds", Myint Aye was later charged with participating in a bomb attack the previous month in Shwepyitha Township. Activists alleged he was tortured while in detention, and Amnesty stated that his trial "fell far short of international fair trial standards". On 29 November 2008, he was sentenced to "life imprisonment plus eight years", which he is serving in Loikaw prison.
Myint Aye's sentence was protested by several international human rights organizations. The member organizations of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange called the sentencings of Myint Aye, Zarganar, and others a "historical low point" in Burmese free expression and "a clear message that the junta will not tolerate opposition in the lead-up to their alleged 'democratic' 2010 elections." Front Line stated after his arrest that he appeared to be "targeted as a result of his human rights activities, in particular his work to uphold democracy". Amnesty named him a prisoner of conscience and in August 2012, selected his case to highlight at the annual Edinburgh Festival.
Release
On 19 November 2012, U Myint Aye was released just ahead of a visit by US President Barack Obama. Reuters described the move as "clearly timed to show goodwill."
References
Livin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge%20Algebra%20System | Cambridge Algebra System (CAMAL) is a computer algebra system written in Cambridge University by David Barton, Steve Bourne, and John Fitch. It was initially used for computations in celestial mechanics and general relativity. The foundation code was written in Titan computer assembler,. In 1973, when Titan was replaced with an IBM370/85, it was rewritten in ALGOL 68C and then BCPL where it could run on IBM mainframes and assorted microcomputers.
References
Further reading
Computer algebra systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick%20Lewis%20%28radio%20personality%29 | Richard Lewis, Sr. (1960 – July 11, 2001) was an American radio announcer. For nearly two decades, Lewis served as the studio voice for the Motor Racing Network (MRN).
Career
Lewis began working for MRN Radio in 1983. His signature voice introduced and closed out hundreds of race broadcasts on over 640 affiliates across North America. He was often credited for starting every race broadcast with the signature intro `M . . . R . . . N . . . radio presents'. His segments would be usually recorded the week before every race at a studio in what is now known as the Daytona 500 Experience, a NASCAR attraction located at Daytona International Speedway.
Death
On July 11, 2001, Lewis was found dead in his home in South Daytona, Florida of an apparent murder-suicide attempt involving his wife Wanda. He was 52 years old.
References
1960 births
2001 deaths
2001 suicides
American radio sports announcers
Suicides by firearm in Florida
Motorsport announcers
People from Lake Wales, Florida
People from Volusia County, Florida
People from Winter Haven, Florida
Murder–suicides in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OProfile | In computing, OProfile is a system-wide statistical profiling tool for Linux. John Levon wrote it in 2001 for Linux kernel version 2.4 after his M.Sc. project; it consists of a kernel module, a user-space daemon and several user-space tools.
Details
OProfile can profile an entire system or its parts, from interrupt routines or drivers, to user-space processes. It has low overhead.
The most widely supported kernel mode of uses a system timer (See: Gathering profiling events). However, this mode is unable to measure kernel functions where interrupts are disabled. Newer CPU models support a hardware performance counter mode which uses hardware logic to record events without any active code needed. In Linux 2.2/2.4 only 32-bit x86 and IA64 are supported; in Linux 2.6 there is wider support: x86 (32 and 64 bit), DEC Alpha, MIPS, ARM, sparc64, ppc64, AVR32.
Call graphs are supported only on x86 and ARM.
In 2012 two IBM engineers recognized OProfile as one of the two most commonly used performance counter monitor profiling tools on Linux, alongside perf tool.
In 2021, OProfile is set to be removed from version 5.12 of the Linux kernel, with the user-space tools continuing to work by using the kernel's perf system.
User-space tools
is used to start and stop the daemon, which collects profiling data. This data is periodically saved to the directory.
shows basic profiling data. can produce annotated sources or assembly.
converts from oprofile data into gprof-compatible format.
Example:
See also
List of performance analysis tools
References
External links
W. Cohen, Tuning programs with OProfile // Wide Open Magazine, 2004, pages 53–62
Prasanna Panchamukhi, Smashing performance with OProfile. Identifying performance bottlenecks in real-world systems // IBM DeveloperWorks, Technical Library, 16 Oct 2003
Justin Thiel, An Overview of Software Performance Analysis Tools and Techniques: From GProf to DTrace, (2006) "2.2.2 Overview of Oprofile"
Linux kernel features
Profilers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Tweedie | Scott Tweedie (born 29 January 1988) is an Australian television and radio host, presenter and producer. He previously was in the United States hosting on the E! Network. Tweedie was a network host for Network 10, hosting the hit music television program The Loop and a reporter on Studio 10 and hosted the children's series Prank Patrol on the former ABC3 (now ABC Me) channel.
In September 2022, Tweedie was announced a host of the Australian Idol reboot which broadcast in early 2023, on the Seven Network alongside Ricki Lee Coulter.
Career
Tweedie had originally planned to become a merchant banker, but later decided to become a radio presenter for Nova 106.9 in Brisbane. He graduated from university with a degree in commerce and finance.
ABC
In 2009, Tweedie became a host on the Australian television children series Prank Patrol, which launched on 4 December via ABC3, a children's digital television channel owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). Prank Patrol is based on the original Canadian series, in which kids get to play a prank on their chosen targets. Tweedie is assisted by the Ninjas and an expert to help the kids create their prank. In 2011, Tweedie and Kayne Tremills became co-hosts for the Australian version of the medieval-themed physical kids game show Splatalot!, which first aired on 5 November via ABC3. In 2013, Tweedie hosted WAC: World Animal Championships, along with Amberley Lobo, again on ABC3.
Network 10
In January 2012, Tweedie and Ash London (later Liv Phyland) became co-hosts on the Australian television music program The Loop, which first aired on 28 January via Eleven, a digital television channel owned by Network Ten. The show featured the top 20 downloaded songs on iTunes each week, classic music, new Australian releases, viral videos and trending tweets. Tweedie filmed over 400 episodes. Tweedie has interviewed a number of international artists such as Katy Perry, Avril Lavigne, Matt Damon, Ed Sheeran and Tom Cruise.
In December 2014, Tweedie with co-host Jessica Tovey and roving reporter Alicia Malone commenced a weekly movie show, Movie Juice, airing on One. The first episode aired on Tuesday 16 December 2014.
In November 2016, Tweedie announced that he would be making his acting debut as Derek Meeps with a guest role in Neighbours on 18 November 2016.
In January 2018, Network Ten announced that Tweedie would travel to Africa to host Edge of the Jungle a behind the scenes online series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!. Tweedie also joined Studio 10 as a reporter.
In 2019, Tweedie hosted Australia's Dancing with the Stars, filling in for host Grant Denyer who was injured at the time.
In November 2019, Tweedie announced his resignation from Network 10 after 8 years with the network, moving onto a new role overseas.
In March 2022, Tweedie returned to Network 10 to temporarily replace Beau Ryan as host of The Amazing Race Australia 6 after some of the crew members tested positive for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Solar%20Power%20Project | The Canal Solar Power Project is a solar canal project launched in Gujarat, India, to use the long network of Narmada canals across the state for setting up solar panels to generate electricity. It was the first ever such project in India. This project has been commissioned by SunEdison India.
Inauguration of pilot project
Narendra Modi, then Chief Minister of Gujarat, inaugurated a 1 Megawatt (MW) pilot project on 24 April 2012. The project is situated on the Narmada branch canal near Chandrasan village of Kadi taluka in Mehsana district.
The pilot project will generate 1 MW of clean energy and also prevent evaporation of of water annually from the canal. The project virtually eliminates the requirement to acquire vast tracts of land and limits evaporation of water from the long canal. tackling two challenges simultaneously by providing energy and water security.
Engineering and construction
The engineering, procurement and construction contract for the project was awarded to SunEdison at a cost of . The pilot project was developed on a 750-meter stretch of the canal by Gujarat State Electricity Corporation (GSECL) with support from Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd. (SSNNL), which owns and maintains the canal network.
The cost per megawatt of solar power, in this case, was much less than regular solar power plants, as the two banks of the canal will be used to cover the canal by installing solar power panel and the government did not have to spend much on creating basic infrastructure, including land acquisition .
Gujarat has about of open main canal, while the total canal length, including sub-branches, is about at present. When completed, the SSNNL's canal network will be about long.
Assuming a utilization of only 10% of the existing canal network of , it is estimated that 2,200 MW of solar power generating capacity can be installed by covering the canals with solar panels.
This also implies that of land can be potentially conserved along with about 20 billion liters of water saved per year.
Praise for the project
Then Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah praised Gujarat's Canal Solar Power Project saying,
Abdullah said Damodar Valley Corporation, which has over of canals, will follow Gujarat's lead and mount solar panels that can generate up to 1,000 MW.
See also
Electricity sector in India
Renewable energy in India
Gujarat Solar Park
Sakri PV solar energy project
Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission
Dhirubhai Ambani Solar Park
References
External links
Narendra Modi world’s first canal-top solar plant in Gujarat
Solar PV Project on Narmada Canal in Gujarat to be inaugurated soon by Narendra Modi
Photovoltaic power stations in India
Solar power stations in Gujarat
2012 establishments in Gujarat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computing%20schools%20in%20Pakistan | This is a list of computing schools in Pakistan, recognized by the National Computing Education Accreditation Council (NCEAC) - Higher Education Commission (Pakistan) (HEC).
SE – software engineering
CS – computer science
IS – information system
IT – information technology
CE – computer engineering
CISE – computer and information systems engineering
Bio-informatics
Azad Kashmir
Mirpur
Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST) - BS-SE
Muzaffarabad
University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir - BS-CS, BS-SE
Rawalakot
University of Poonch - BS-CS
Balochistan
Quetta
Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences - BS-CS, BS-IT
Al-Hamd Islamic University BS-CS, BS-IT
Capital Territory
Islamabad
Air University (Pakistan Air Force) - BS-CS
Bahria University - BS-CS
Center for Advanced Studies in Engineering (CASE) - BS-CS
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology - BS-CS
Federal Urdu University - BS-CS
Foundation University, Islamabad - BS-SE
International Islamic University, Islamabad - BS-CS, BS-SE
Institute of Space Technology -BS-CS
Iqra University - BS-CS
Capital University of Science & Technology - BS-CS, BS-SE
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST) - BS-CS
National University of Modern Languages (NUML) - BS-CS, BS-SE
Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad - BS-CS, BS-IT
Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS) - BS-IS
Preston University (Pakistan) - BS-CS
Riphah International University - BS-SE
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) -BS-CS
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Abbottabad
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology - BS-CS, BS-SE, BS-TN
Bannu
University of Science and Technology (Bannu) - BS-CS, BS-SE
Dera Ismail Khan
Gomal University - BS-CS
Qurtuba University - BS-CS
Haripur
University of Haripur - BS-CS
Mardan
Eurisko Institute of Science & Information Technology Mardan
Swabi
Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology - BS-CS
University of Swabi - BS-BBA-MBA
Punjab
Attock
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology - BS-CS
Bahawalpur
Islamia University, Bahawalpur - BS-CS, BS-IT, BS-SE
Faisalabad
Government College University, Faisalabad - BS-CS, BS-IT, BS-SE
National Textile University - BS-CS
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences-FAST-BS-CS
Gujranwala
GIFT University - BS-CS
Gujrat
University of Gujrat - BS-CS, BS-IT, BS-SE, M.Sc-IT, M.Sc-CS, M.Phil-IT, M.Phil-CS, PhD
University of Lahore, Gujrat Campus - BS-CS, BS-IT, M.Sc-IT, M.Sc-CS, M.Phil-IT, M.Phil-CS
Lahore
Lahore Garrison University, DHA Phase VI, Sector C, Avenue 4th Main Campus - BS-DF, BS-IT, BS-SE, BS-CS, MS-CS, MCS
Bahria University, Lahore Campus - BS-IT, BS-CS
Superior University, Lahore - BS-CS, BS-IT, BS-SE, BS-CE
Beaconhouse National University - BS-SE
University of South-Asia, Lahore - BS-IT, BS-CS, BS-IT, BS-SE
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Lahore C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20in%20Austria |
History
Pre-WWII
The first radio transmission in Austria was made on April 1, 1923 in Vienna. The transmitter used had only 100 Watts of power, transmitting in a frequency of 500 kHz. Programming started with classical music, daily news were not allowed to be broadcast to protect the newspaper producers. However, near the end of the 1920s, the political influence started to affect the medium radio as well. After 1933, Germany started transmitting propaganda directed at Austria, which was countered by the local radio stations. After Austria joined Germany in 1938, the Austrian radio stations became part of the German radio network.
Post-WWII
After the end of World War II, the studio was located inside the Soviet occupation zone, so the programming had a small but noticeable Soviet influence. The other three occupation forces started their own programming as well, which competed with each other causing a huge variety of different radio stations for that time.
After Austria became independent again in 1955, programming consisted of three national radio stations, transmitted via medium wave and FM. Because the government refused to raise the radio fees, the third program had to be closed due to lack of money in 1962. Only in 1966, after a new law was enacted, could programming restart with three programs - Ö1, Ö2 and Ö3.
Soon, the decision was made to abandon medium wave, not just due to the lack of frequencies in Austria, but also because the alpine terrain proved to be difficult to cover by medium wave. By 1976, only 80% of the population was covered by medium wave at daytime, at night this number fell to 65%. Therefore, all medium wave stations were shut off, with the exception of the frequency 1476 kHz from Vienna (Sendeanlage Bisamberg) to cover Czechoslovakia. As well, a shortwave transmitter in Aldrans was used until the 80s to cover the deep Tyrolean valleys which couldn't be reached by medium wave or FM.
Especially Ö3 was innovative with their pop music format, which was unusual in Europe in the 60s and 70s. It caused a huge popularity of the station, as well as the Austropop music genre. In 1979, Blue Danube Radio was launched to target the various United Nations personnel present in Austria.
In the 1980s, because commercial radio stations were still illegal, the first radio stations started to broadcast from foreign territory, especially South Tyrol and the former Socialist countries in the east. In 1993, the European Union condemned Austria for forbidding commercial radio stations and thus violating free speech rights. In July 1993, the monopoly of Österreichischer Rundfunk was softened, allowing the launch of the first commercial radio stations in 1995. It took until 1997 for the ban on commercial radio stations to be lifted completely, and in 1998 several new stations launched in Austria.
Like in Germany, radio in Austria was completely separated by state, allowing radio stations to transmit in one state only. A law change 20 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandon%20Berg | Sandon Berg (born July 15, 1971) is an American film producer and screenwriter, and actor with past roles in both film and television. He co-founded United Gay Network, a film production company, with his longtime partner, Michael D. Akers.
Biography
Raised in Huntsville, Alabama, he finished high school there in 1989. He then attended Florida State University, Tallahassee, where he earned a BFA. He moved to Los Angeles to work in the entertainment industry. Over the years, he worked in various film production jobs and even starred in several leading brand commercials. He had met Michael Akers in 1998 and the two began writing and producing films together, with Akers also directing and editing. United Gay Network was fully established in 2002 and its first long feature film was Gone, But Not Forgotten, a groundbreaking gay film that explores the question of sexuality as a choice.
Personal life
Berg lives with his partner, Akers in New York City. They met for the first time on a blind date in the late 1990s.
United Gay Network
United Gay Network is a production house founded by Akers and Berg. Akers and Berg release their films through the company. In forming United Gay Network ten years ago, the longtime partners aspired not only to promote the genre of "gay films" but also tried to bring gay cinema closer to mainstream cinema. As Berg stated in a radio interview, he and Akers strive to create stories that would crossover to a broader audience. Nowhere is this more apparent than in their latest production Morgan. Morgan achieves a depth that even exceeds UGN's first long feature film, [[Gone, But Not Forgotten (film)|Gone, But Not Forgotten]], itself considered groundbreaking and to have set the pace for normalizing the portrayal of gay people in cinema.
Filmography
Actor
Gone, But Not Forgotten (2003) ... Towey (Cameo)
Matrimonium (2005) ... Spencer
Producer
Gone, But Not Forgotten Matrimonium Flirting with Anthony (2005)
Phoenix (2006)
Morgan (2012)
Writer
Gone, But Not Forgotten Matrimonium Phoenix Morgan''
References
External links
United Gay Network (official website)
1971 births
Living people
Actors from Huntsville, Alabama
American film producers
American male screenwriters
American male film actors
American gay writers
LGBT people from Alabama
Florida State University alumni
Screenwriters from Alabama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%20Dance%20Now%20%28season%201%29 | Everybody Dance Now was an Australian television dance competition that aired on Network Ten. The first season premiered on 12 August 2012. The show was hosted by Sarah Murdoch, while Jason Derülo and Kelly Rowland served as dance masters. On 21 August 2012, Network Ten cancelled Everybody Dance Now due to poor ratings.
Format
Everybody Dance Now was open to solo acts, duos and groups of any age, style or size. They were divided into two teams, with each being led by the dance masters Jason Derülo and Kelly Rowland, who challenged, trained and mentored their acts. Each team had a dance captain; Team Kelly had Marco Pantic and Team Jason had Amy Campbell. The teams would face a studio audience in each episode "to do battle in a colosseum-style dance duel". During the heats stage of the competition, eight acts would perform during each episode in four duels. Once each of the duels are complete, the studio audience would vote for the act they think should progress through to the dance duel decider round. During this round, the studio audience would vote again for the two acts they think should win $10,000 and progress through to the finals. During the finals, dance acts would compete for the ultimate prize of $250,000.
Auditions
Heats
Episode 1 (12 August 2012)
Key
– Team Jason
– Team Kelly
Notes
Jason Derülo performed a medley of his songs "It Girl", "Pick Up the Pieces" and "Breathing".
Episode 2 (13 August 2012)
Key
– Team Jason
– Team Kelly
Episode 3 (14 August 2012)
Key
– Team Jason
– Team Kelly
Episode 4 (19 August 2012)
Key
– Team Jason
– Team Kelly
Ratings
The premiere episode of Everybody Dance Now, which aired simultaneously during the Nine Network's coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympics, was watched by 598,000 viewers. The second episode was watched by 304,000 viewers, lower than How to Train Your Dragon which aired on the Seven Network's digital channel 7mate. David Knox of TV Tonight noted that the ratings were also lower than the numbers pulled by The Voice (U.S.) and Excess Baggage on the Nine Network's digital channel Go!. On 14 August 2012, Network Ten's Chief Sales Officer Barry O'Brien told advertising publication B&T that he was disappointed with the show's ratings, saying "we think the format deserved better. Clearly we are coming out of the washout and the distraction of the Olympics." O'Brien also said that the future of Everybody Dance Now "hasn't been decided yet". The third episode ratings picked up slightly from the previous episode with 324,000 viewers. The fourth episode was watched by 385,000 viewers.
References
External links
Everybody Dance Now at Network Ten
2012 Australian television seasons
Everybody Dance Now |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian%20Electronic%20Army | The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA; ) is a group of computer hackers which first surfaced online in 2011 to support the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Using spamming, website defacement, malware, phishing, and denial-of-service attacks, it has targeted terrorist organizations, political opposition groups, western news outlets, human rights groups and websites that are seemingly neutral to the Syrian conflict. It has also hacked government websites in the Middle East and Europe, as well as US defense contractors. , the SEA has been "the first Arab country to have a public Internet Army hosted on its national networks to openly launch cyber attacks on its enemies".
The precise nature of SEA's relationship with the Syrian government has changed over time and is unclear.
Origins and historical context
In the 1990s, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad headed the Syrian Computer Society, which is connected to the SEA, according to research by University of Toronto and University of Cambridge, UK. There is evidence that a Syrian Malware Team goes as far back as January 1, 2011.
In February 2011, after years of Internet censorship, Syrian censors lifted a ban on Facebook and YouTube. In April 2011, only days after anti-regime protests escalated in Syria, Syrian Electronic Army emerged on Facebook. On May 5, 2011 the Syrian Computer Society registered SEA’s website (syrian-es.com). Because Syria's domain registration authority registered the hacker site, some security experts have written that the group was supervised by the Syrian state. SEA claimed on its webpage to be no official entity, but "a group of enthusiastic Syrian youths who could not stay passive towards the massive distortion of facts about the recent uprising in Syria".
As soon as May 27, 2011 SEA had removed text that denied it was an official entity. One commentator has noted that "[SEA] volunteers might include Syrian diaspora; some of their hacks have used colloquial English and Reddit memes. In July 2011, it emerged that Bashar al-Assad's page on Facebook page was run by a member of the Syrian Electronic Army close to the regime, Haidara Suleiman, the son of powerful intelligence officer and former Syrian ambassador in Amman, Bahjat Suleiman. He told AFP that "the official media is unfortunately weak... This is why we use electronic media to show people what's going on."
According to a 2014 report by security company Intelcrawler, SEA activity has shown links with "officials in Syria, Iran, Lebanon and Hezbollah." A February 2015 article by The New York Times stated that "American intelligence officials" suspect the SEA is "actually Iranian". However, no data has shown a link between Iran's and Syria's cyber attack patterns according to an analysis of "open-source intelligence" by cyber security firm Recorded Future.
Online activities
SEA has pursued activities in three key areas:
Website defacement and electronic surveillance against Syrian rebels and other oppositi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20Worner | Tim Worner is an Australian business executive. He was the chief executive officer of Seven West Media from December 2011 until August 2019. He was previously the CEO of the Seven Network. He succeeded his longtime mentor David Leckie for that role in December 2011.
References
Living people
Australian chief executives
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omek%20Interactive | Omek Interactive was a venture-backed technology company developing advanced motion sensing software for human-computer interaction. Omek was co-founded in 2007 by Janine Kutliroff and Gershom Kutliroff.
Company overview
Omek Interactive is an Israeli company that develops gesture recognition and motion tracking software for use in combination with 3D depth sensor cameras. Omek’s middleware is sensor-independent, supporting multiple cameras including those based on a Structured light and Time-of-flight camera technology. Omek's software works with the following cameras: PrimeSense-based Microsoft Kinect, PMD Technologies CamCube, SoftKinetic DepthSense, and Panasonic D-Imager.
In July 2011 Intel Capital led their Round C financing with $7 million. Among the investors was Eliyahu Haddad who invested $2 million. Mr. Haddad was also given a seat on the Board.
Intel confirmed, that it acquired Omek July 16, 2013.
Technology
Omek’s flagship product is the Beckon Development Suite, which converts raw depth data from 3D cameras and turns it into intelligence about humans in the scene, through background subtraction, joints tracking, skeleton identification, and gesture recognition. The Beckon software solution includes the Gesture Authoring Tool, a machine learning tool that enables developers to create gestures without writing any code. Beckon is no longer available as a free, non-commercial download from the Omek website.
In March 2012, at the Embedded Vision Alliance Summit, Omek announced the upcoming availability of their Grasp Development Suite. Grasp focuses on close-range, hand and finger tracking and gesture recognition at distances of 1 meter and less. At the same event Omek also announced support for Texas Instruments’ BeagleBoard-xM evaluation board, a low-cost, low-power, embedded computing platform.
See also
Natural user interface
Human-computer interaction
Gesture recognition
Computer vision
References
External links
Official Website
See Chapter 7: Application Development with the [Omek] Beckon Framework "Meet the Kinect: An Introduction to Programming Natural User Interfaces", by Sean Kean, Jonathan Hall, Phoenix Perry
Gesture recognition
Commercial computer vision systems
Human–computer interaction researchers
Software companies of Israel
Intel acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana%20of%20P%C3%A9cs | Nana was, according to a falsified charter dated to 1135, bishop of Pécs () in the Kingdom of Hungary. Although the charter itself was not authentic, its compiler plausibly used an original charter from the same period. Therefore, the existence of a bishop of Pécs named Nana in the 1130s can be accepted. All the same, Nana only administered his diocese for one or two years, because his successor is mentioned for the first time in 1136.
References
Koszta, László (2009). Nána (1135). In: A Pécsi Egyházmegye története I: A középkor évszázadai (1009–1543) (Szerkesztette: Fedeles Tamás, Sarbak Gábor, Sümegi József), p. 65. ("A History of the Diocese of Pécs, Volume I: Medieval Centuries, 1009–1543; Edited by Tamás Fedeles, Gábor Sarbak and József Sümegi"); Fény Kft.; Pécs; .
12th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Hungary
Bishops of Pécs
12th-century Hungarian people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Next%3A%20Fame%20Is%20at%20Your%20Doorstep | The Next: Fame Is at Your Doorstep is an American hour-long reality series on The CW television network that consists of a music competition to find new talent, the winner of the competition will receive a recording contract with Atlantic Records. The show is produced by CBS's Raquel Productions in association with 25/7 Productions, LLC and Flavor Unit Entertainment, Inc, and it is produced by Dave Broome (The Biggest Loser), Shakim Compere, and Queen Latifah. The series premiered on August 16, 2012.
Format
In each episode of The Next, four mentors drop in on the lives of four up-and-coming local musicians. When the session is up, the four newly groomed artists go head-to-head at a well-known local venue. with the audience consisting of friends and family, as well as local music fans. The winner moves on to represent their city in the semi-finals.
Mentors
Gloria Estefan was invited to form part of the main cast, liking the idea mainly because she would not judge, but help the contestant make a good presentation onstage.
Though Joe Jonas was about to say no to the project, mostly due to a busy schedule, the producers were persistent. After arranging a meeting with him, they gave Jonas a spiel of the show, raising the interest for the program, due to the way it would be directed and for giving the opportunity to new artists the chances they deserved. Producers of the show later stated that they wished they hadn't been so persistent in pursuing Jonas, as his lack of personality was clearly evident on the show, particularly when being compared to John Rich.
Rapper Nelly was invited personally by producer Dave Broome to the show, and though he wasn't sure at the beginning, it was the original direction different from other music competition shows which made him accept the mentoring role.
John Rich, an accomplished country music singer/songwriter, producer, and one half of the duo Big & Rich, provided most of the personality for the show. Known for being offbeat, Rich's mentorship was often the highlight of each episode. In the end, it would be a performer mentored by Rich who would end up winning the competition. Rich also performed the most of any of the mentors, being featured 3 of the 5 times. These performances displayed Rich's talents in a variety of formats as he sang and played lead guitar with Nelly on a powerful rendition of "American Woman", then did "Superstition" with Gloria Estefan, and in the final episode performed the inspiring "That's Why I Pray" with Big & Rich partner Kenny Alphin.
Auditions
The following table contains all the contestants of the season and the song they performed. The participants highlighted in green were chosen by the public in each city to continue to the next round. The participant highlighted in blue was chosen by the public as a wildcard to continue to the next round.
Semifinals
The first round of the semifinals were broadcast live on The CW from the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles on Septemb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenithink%20ZT280%20Tablet%20PC | ZT280 Tablet PC is a tablet computer that is created by the Android tablet company Zenithink. The main operating system used on this tablet is Android, with the latest devices being created with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. The current latest device is the C91 Upgrade, which features 1024MB RAM with Flash 11.01 compatibility and HDMI connectivity outputs. The tablet includes a media section which includes Music, Gallery, Video and Applications/Widgets. The apps also include an Office application which allows edits and creation of Word, Powerpoint and Excel files. The tablet also includes preinstalled apps such as Facebook for Android. Another feature of the tablet is that it enables the user to allow tethering of their devices Wireless/Internet connection which includes password protection and edits of the name given to the connection allowing users to personalise their devices connection without having to change settings in any way. Personalization features also include Wallpaper, Applications and Google Play
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmFIRST%20Real%20Estate%20Investment%20Trust | AmFIRST Real Estate Investment Trust is one of the largest Malaysia-based commercial REIT with exposure to office, retail and hotel sector in the Klang Valley and Cyberjaya. AmFIRST currently manages eight properties, of which three are located within the Kuala Lumpur Golden Triangle area and one each in Petaling Jaya, Kelana Jaya and Subang Jaya
and two in Cyberjaya. AmFIRST currently manages over 2.5 million sq ft of real estate space.
Corporate information
Properties
References
http://www.amfirstreit.com.my/
Real estate investment trusts
Investment banks in Malaysia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goji%20Electronics | Goji Electronics, Inc. is a producer of computer, smartphone, audio products and equipment headquartered in Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom. The audio division of the company was founded by grime artist and entrepreneur Rav and DSG International plc president Lord Kalms, and primarily produces products under the brand Goji-Rav.
Since the inception of Goji, its products have been distributed by Currys plc and its predecessor DSG International plc. The collaboration between Dixons and Kwasi Danquah III lead to an expansion of Goji Electronics into the headphones and audio equipment market.
Rav, Lord Kalms and Currys plc all own shares in Goji.
History
The company was founded in December 2011, and debuted its first product, consumer electronics accessories, in early 2012. Goji Electronics inception was made with DSG International plc granted exclusive rights to manufacture and develop Goji-branded products. With DSG International handling production of the products, Lord Kalms and Kwasi Danquah III are free to handle promoting the new line. Goji intends to primarily rely on celebrity endorsements, particularly by popular professional athletes, popular musicians, to help market the line to a demographic of fashion-conscious young men and women.
In June 2012, Goji Electronics expanded it products into the lifestyle, music technology, travel – and with audio equipment. The Goji accessories for computers and smartphones were also expanded in June 2012, inline with the introduction of Danquah's headphones and audio equipment products. The percentage of stakes between the shareholders of Goji Electronics are not disclosed.
On 10 August 2012 Goji On Cloud 9 audio equipment and Goji Tinchy Stryder headphones were distributed by over 600 retailers in the United Kingdom, by DSG International plc subsidiaries in Europe, and globally by DSG International owned Pixmania.
Products
The original product line of Goji were consumer electronics such as tablet computer, netbook and smartphone accessories. The headphones and audio equipment product line of Goji were introduced as Goji Tinchy Stryder headphones and Goji On Cloud 9 audio.
Tinchy Stryder provides creative direction on the development of the 'Goji Tinchy Stryder: On Cloud 9' product range, encompassing headphones, travel speakers and audio equipment, and outlined in promotional materials that with current headphones, the look and pricing of headphones are not as flexible in value as people would like, and with Goji, its looks, audio quality, pricing and value flexibility will make Goji headphones and audio products a serious contender in the overall music technology market. Kwasi Danquah III added: "Goji Electronics has been the perfect partner for me to work with on this project – the team I'm working with are amazing and we clicked right from the start. I couldn't wait to get the products out there as I’m sure people are going to love the sound – which it was really important to me that we got righ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track%20algorithm | A track algorithm is a radar and sonar performance enhancement strategy. Tracking algorithms provide the ability to predict future position of multiple moving objects based on the history of the individual positions being reported by sensor systems.
Historical information is accumulated and used to predict future position for use with air traffic control, threat estimation, combat system doctrine, gun aiming, missile guidance, and torpedo delivery. Position data is accumulated over the span of a few minutes to a few weeks.
There are four common track algorithms.
Nearest Neighbor
Probabilistic Data Association
Multiple Hypothesis Tracking
Interactive Multiple Model (IMM)
History
The original tracking algorithms were built into custom hardware that became common during World War II. This includes storage tubes used with planned position indicator displays, range height indicator displays, and pen-plotting boards used for civilian air traffic control and waterway management. It also includes custom analog computers, like the Mark I Fire Control Computer used with radar data to aim guns, missiles, and torpedoes associated with military air traffic control and waterway management.
Track algorithms were migrated from analog equipment to digital computers from the 1950s through the 1980s. This was necessary to eliminate limitations that include mid-air collisions and other problems linked with obsolete equipment that was socialized by PATCO and United States Department of Defense. Similar migration trends occurred in other countries throughout the world for similar reasons.
Modern civilian air traffic and military combat systems depend upon a custom track algorithms used with real-time computing slaved to displays and peripherals.
Limitation for modern digital computing systems are processing speed, input-output throughput rate, the number of input-output devices, and software compatibility with upgrade parts.
Terminology
Tracking algorithms operate with a cartesian coordinate system. This is often called a rectangular coordinates, and is based on north–south, east–west, and altitude. Sensors operate using a polar coordinate system. This is often called spherical coordinates based on elevation, bearing, and range. Some common terminology is as follows.
Human Interface
Users are generally presented with several displays that show information from track data and raw detected signals.
Plan position indicator
Scrolling notifications for new tracks, split tracks, and join tracks
Range amplitude display
Range height indicator
Angle error display
Audible alerts (buzzer or voice)
The audible alert draws attention to the scrolling notification. This will present the track number for things like separation violation (impending collision) and lost track not located near a landing facility.
The scrolling notifications and audible alerts require no user action. Other displays activate to show additional information only when a track is select |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon%20HD%208000%20series | The Radeon HD 8000 series is a family of computer GPUs developed by AMD. AMD was initially rumored to release the family in the second quarter of 2013, with the cards manufactured on a 28 nm process and making use of the improved Graphics Core Next architecture. However the 8000 series turned out to be an OEM rebadge of the 7000 series (although Bonaire is a GCN 2.0 based chip, thus being of newer development).
Architecture
The Radeon HD 7000 series was launched in 2011 and it marked AMD's shift from VLIW (TeraScale) to RISC/SIMD architecture (Graphics Core Next). The highend-mainstream cards were equipped with GCN-based chips while some of the mid-low end ones were just rebranded TeraScale-based cards. All of the GCN-based chips were made using the 28 nm process, becoming the first chips ever to be based on that technology. The GCN-based chips for desktop cards were codenamed as Southern Islands, while the mobile ones (again, only the GCN-based and not the rebranded ones) were codenamed as Solar System.
Multi-monitor support
The AMD Eyefinity-branded on-die display controllers were introduced in September 2009 alongside the Radeon HD 5000 Series and have been present on all chips since then.
Video acceleration
Both Unified Video Decoder (UVD) and Video Coding Engine (VCE) are present on all GCN-based chips (starting with the GCN 1.0 HD 7000 series). Both are fully supported by AMD Catalyst and by the free and open-source graphics device driver#ATI/AMD.
OpenCL (API)
OpenCL accelerates many scientific Software Packages against CPU up to factor 10 or 100 and more.
OpenCL 1.0 to 1.2 are supported for all Chips with TeraScale and GCN Architecture. OpenCL 2.0 is supported with GCN 2nd Gen. or 1.2 and higher) For OpenCL 2.1 and 2.2 only Driver Updates are necessary with OpenCL 2.0 conformant Cards.
Vulkan (API)
API Vulkan 1.0 is supported for all with GCN Architecture. Vulkan 1.1 (GCN 2nd Gen. or 1.2 and higher) will be supported with actual drivers in 2018 (here only HD 8770).
On newer drivers Vulkan 1.1 on Windows and Linux is supported on all GCN-architecture based GPUs.
Vulkan 1.2 is available with Adrenalin 20.1 and Linux Mesa 20.0 for GCN 2nd Gen. or higher.
Chipset table
Desktop models
Graphics Core Next (GCN) supports the Mantle API and Vulkan API
OpenGL 4.5 support for TeraScale 2 with AMD Crimson Beta (driver version 15.30 or higher)
OpenGL 4.5 and Vulkan 1.0 support for GCN 1.0 and higher with AMD Crimson 16.3 or higher.
Vulkan 1.1 support for GCN 1.0 and higher with AMD Adrenalin 18.3.3 or higher.
Mobile Models
Integrated Models
Radeon Feature Matrix
See also
Radeon HD 2000 Series
Radeon HD 3000 Series
Radeon HD 4000 Series
Radeon HD 5000 Series
Radeon HD 6000 Series
Radeon HD 7000 Series
Radeon Rx 200 Series
Nvidia GeForce 700 Series
List of AMD graphics processing units
Free and open-source device drivers: graphics#ATI/AMD
References
External links
techPowerUp! GPU Database
AMD graphics cards
Comput |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20MundoMax | The following is a list of programs broadcast on MundoMax, a defunct Spanish-language broadcast television network owned by the Colombian broadcaster RCN Televisión and aimed at adults between the ages of 18 and 34. The network soft-launched on August 1, 2012 and officially debuted on August 13, 2012.
Final programming
Telenovelas
A Mano Limpia (August 13 – December 2012)
Asi Es La Vida
Amor De Contrabando
Lado A Lado
La Vida Sigue
Rastros De Mentiras
La Guerrera
Azucar
Chepe Fortuna (August 13, 2012 – January 2013)
Cumbia Ninja (January 26, 2014 – 2014)
Diomedes
El Capo (August 1, 2012 – 2016)
El Hombre de tu Vida (August 1, 2012 – November 2012)
José do Egito"El Joe La Leyenda (August 13 – December 2012)El Laberinto De AliciaEscuadrón del Aire: Naturaleza (2016)Heroes Al Rescate: Puro Destino (2016)La GuerreraKdabra (August 1, 2012 - 2013)Las Detectivas y El Victor (August 13, 2012 – January 2013)Las Santisimas (August 13, 2012 – January 2013)Los Exitosos Perez (August 13 – December 2012)Lynch (August 1, 2012 – 2012)Mentes en Shock (August 13, 2012 – 2013)Los Milagros de Jesús (2015)Pobres Rico (August 13, 2012 – January 2013)El Rey David (April 29 – December 2013)Suleiman, El Gran SultanTiempo final (August 13, 2012 – 2016)Tres Caínes (March 6 – June 21, 2013)Yo Soy Betty, La Fea (August 13, 2012 – 2015)
Programming produced by Univision for MundoMax:
Game shows100 Latinos Dijeron (September 9, 2013 – November 30, 2016)Atrévete a Cantar (March 18, 2013)Minuto Para Ganar (August 13, 2012 – November 30, 2016)
Reality showsEl Factor X (July 29, 2013 – September 2016)Protagonistas de Nuestra Tele (2013)
News programmingNoticias MundoFox (August 13, 2012 – July 27, 2015)
Lifestyle programmingCocineros (August 4, 2012–2014)Estilo de Vida (August 18, 2012–2016)Luz en Casa (August 18, 2012–2013)Manual de Supervivencia (August 18, 2012–2016)El Sabor de los Oficios (August 18, 2012–2016)Sabores de Familia (August 18, 2012–2014)Tu Vida Más Simple (August 4, 2012–2016)
Sports programmingPremier League (August 25, 2012–2016)Copa Bridgestone Sudamericana (2012–2016)Copa Santander Libertadores (2012–2016)Golden Boy Promotions (August 18, 2012–2016)UEFA Champions League (2012–2015)La Ultima Palabra (August 13, 2012–2016)
Children's programming
MundoMax KidsAre We There Yet?: World Adventure (August 5, 2012 – May 25, 2014)Artzooka! (August 3, 2014–November 27, 2016)Finding Stuff Out (2015–November 27, 2016)Iggy Arbuckle (August 5, 2012 – July 27, 2014)The Zula Patrol (August 5, 2012 – July 27, 2014)It's a Big Big World (2015–November 27, 2016)Making Stuff (June 1, 2014 – 2015)Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies (August 5, 2012 – July 27, 2014)Toot & Puddle (August 5, 2012 – July 27, 2014)Wibbly Pig (August 3, 2014–November 27, 2016)
XtremaMaxTransformers: Prime (2015–November 27, 2016)Transformers: Rescue Bots'' (2015–November 27, 2016)
References
External links
MundoFox official website
MundoFox |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net | App.net was an ad-free online social networking service and microblogging service which enabled its users to write messages of up to 256 characters. App.net provided their own web interface to the service, Alpha, which was used by some users. However, they encouraged use and development of third-party applications.
History
The name 'App.net' was previously used for a service that let app developers showcase their applications. On July 13, 2012, Mixed Media Labs announced that App.net would change its purpose to be an ad-free social networking platform. As designed, it was similar to Twitter, but with no advertising, instead relying on user and developer subscriptions. Mixed Media Labs began crowd funding with a goal of $500,000 and about 10,000 backers. They exceeded the goal by August 13, 2012, ultimately raising approximately $750,000, with over 11,000 backers.
App.net launched annotations on September 1, 2012, allowing applications to attach arbitrary metadata to posts. This was intended to allow more complex features to be built using the App.net infrastructure. On October 1, 2012, App.net started an incentive program. They would divide a $20,000 monthly pool among participating developers based on application usage and user feedback. Mixed Media Labs' goal was to encourage developers to build on the platform.
On November 29, 2012, App.net began a free-trial invitation program. Users could invite a friend to use App.net. If the friend accepts, they could use the service free for a month.
On February 25, 2013, App.net became a freemium service. Users with a paid plan could invite people to get a free tier account with a few limitations.
In May 2013, App.net hit 100,000 users.
On November 21, 2013, App.net announced Broadcast, a way for users of the App.net service to send and receive push notifications about the things they care about. These push notifications are sent through the App.net app on iPhone or Android. As part of the freemium model Broadcast is free to members of the App.net service with channel analytics available to App.net users with a developer-tier account.
On January 25, 2014, App.net launched Backer, described as a way to crowdfund features. The first project to use Backer originated from App.net itself, in which the company asked if they should accept Bitcoin as a form of payment for the paid tiers.
On May 6, 2014, the founders announced that subscription renewals had been so poor that there were no longer funds to retain development staff for App.net and future operations would be on a maintenance-only basis using contractors.
On January 12, 2017, the founders announced that the platform App.net would be shut down on March 15, 2017. However, due to a significant number of user data export failures that deadline was extended until March 16, 2017. App.net finally ceased to operate as a social network at 6:45 AM on 17 March 2017 (UTC). The source code for App.net was made available on their GitHub Page.
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netgear%20Switch%20Discovery%20Protocol | Netgear Switch Discovery Protocol (NSDP) is a management protocol for several network device families, designed by Netgear.
Message structure
Common message header
Message body record structure
Message body records are type–length–value (TLV) structures. Type field may be one of following values in the table(list in incomplete):
Protocol flow examples
Network devices discovery (MAC-address an device model discovery):
Host with MAC=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX from UDP-port 63321 or 63323 sending packet to broadcast IP-address 255.255.255.255 and UDP-port 63322 or 63324
Header @0x00000000 0x01 0x01 0x000000000000 0xXXXXXXXXXXXX 0x000000000000 0x0000 0x0001 0x4E534450 0x00000000
Body @0x00000020 0x0001 0x0000 0x0004 0x0000
Marker @0x00000028 0xFFFF0000
EACH Device responds with message like
Header @0x00000000 0x01 0x02 0x000000000000 0xXXXXXXXXXXXX 0xYYYYYYYYYYYY 0x0000 0x0001 0x4E534450 0x00000000
Body @0x00000020 0x0001 0x0028 0x47 0x53 0x31 0x30 0x35 0x45 0x20*0x22 0x0004 0x0006 0xYYYYYYYYYYYY
Marker @0x00000058 0xFFFF0000
Device support for protocol
GS105E ProSAFE Plus
GS108E ProSAFE Plus
GS724T
GS748T
FS116E (IP-network description and Firmware version TLVs are not supported)
FS726TP (uses 63323 and 63324 UDP-ports for interconnection)
Devices firmware update
Device firmware update is made with TFTP protocol, but you need to send NSDP request to turn on TFTP-server first.
See also
IP
UDP
MAC
Netgear
External links
NETGEAR official site
openSource Perl-written cross-platform toolkit for NSDP managed devices project site (in russian)
LinNetx openSource C-written utility for ProsafePlus switches management via NSDP, not operational
ngadmin C-written admin utility; GPLv2 license
ProSafeLinux Remark: sparse information; FreeBSD license
NSDP Protocol Wireshark dissector Remark: GPL license
Nsdtool – a toolset of scripts to detect NETGEAR switches in local networks
NETGEAR firmware update
NSDP
Network management
Device discovery protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee%20Prince%20%282012%20TV%20series%29 | Coffee Prince is a 2012 Philippine television drama romance comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on Sun-mi Lee's novel Coffee Prince. Directed by Ricky Davao, it stars Kris Bernal and Aljur Abrenica. It premiered nationally on October 8, 2012 on the network's Telebabad lineup replacing One True Love. The series concluded on November 23, 2012 with a total of 35 episodes. It was replaced by Pahiram ng Sandali in its timeslot.
Premise
Andy is a hardworking young woman who supports her mother and sister after the death of their father. To sustain their daily needs, she earns a living as a tricycle driver. Arthur, on the other hand, is a happy-go-lucky and wealthy bachelor whose family owns the biggest coffee factory in the country. His grandmother constantly pressures him to settle down, but Arthur is not yet ready to tie the knot.
To avoid the dates arranged by his domineering granny, Arthur hires Andy to pretend to be his gay lover. He doesn't know that Andy is just pretending to be a guy to keep her job in Arthur's coffee shop. Desperate to pay off her family's debt, Andy is left with no choice but to agree to Arthur's plan and to continue with her charade.
Complications arise when Andy starts to fall in love with Arthur. He is likewise unable to control his feelings for Andy and he starts questioning his sexuality.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Kris Bernal as Andrea "Andy" Gomez
Because of her tomboyish mannerism and ala "boy next door" looks, Andy always mistaken for a man. But in spite of this, Andy is the epitome of the loving and caring daughter and sister. She is the breadwinner of her family, trying every job to make ends meet and pay her family's outpouring debts. She ends up pretending as a guy to bag a job in a coffeehouse. She eventually falls in love with his boss, Arthur, who's unaware that she is actually a girl.
Aljur Abrenica as Arthur Ochoa
Known for his happy-go-lucky and impulsive personality. As the heir to a huge coffee company, he struggles to meet all lofty expectations of him, particularly by his over domineering granny, Mamita. And to prove his worth, he ends up taking over a rundown old coffee shop, he named as "Coffee Prince". He is secretly in love with his brother's girlfriend. But unexpected turn of events will lead him to meet his perfect match.
Supporting cast
Benjamin Alves as Errol Ochoa
The half-brother of impulsive Arthur. He is an established music producer and considered as the most favoured child in the family. His involvement with Arlene will cause a rift/rivalry between him and his brother, Arthur.
Max Collins as Arlene Manahan
The girlfriend of Errol and Arthur's childhood sweetheart. With her kindness and sweet nature, she accidentally captured Arthur's heart, which eventually cause a rift between the two brothers. Her true personality comes out when she is with her Errol. She is possessive, manipulative and whinny. The same happens with Arthur. Thus, one of the reasons w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temptation%20of%20Wife%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | Temptation of Wife is a Philippine television drama revenge series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a 2008 South Korean drama series of the same title. Directed by Dominic Zapata and Gina Alajar, it stars Marian Rivera in the title role, Dennis Trillo, Glaiza de Castro and Rafael Rosell. It premiered on October 29, 2012, on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Luna Blanca. The series concluded on April 5, 2013, with a total of 113 episodes. It was replaced by Love & Lies in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Marian Rivera as Angeline Santos-Salcedo / Chantal Gonzales / Angeline Santos-Armada
Dennis Trillo as Marcelito "Marcel" Salcedo
Glaiza de Castro as Heidi Fernandez-Montreal
Rafael Rosell as Nigel Armada
Supporting cast
Rez Cortez as Abner Santos
Rio Locsin as Minda Santos
Antonio Aquitania as Leo Santos
Raymond Bagatsing as Romeo Salcedo
Cherie Gil as Stella Salcedo
Bettina Carlos as Madel Salcedo
Ayen Munji-Laurel as Yolanda Gonzales-Armada
Michelle Madrigal as Chantal Gonzales Armada
Recurring cast
JC Tiuseco as Bernard
Bubbles Paraiso as Leslie
Mel Martinez as Pat
Guest cast
Sheena Halili as young Yolanda
Jay Aquitania as young Romeo
Mel Kimura as Josefina Fernandez
Patricia Ysmael as Scarlet
John Nite as an event host
Robert Seña as Robert Montreal
Background
Temptation of Wife is a 2008 South Korean television drama series broadcast by Seoul Broadcasting System from November 3, 2008, to May 1, 2009. It was written by Soon-ok Kim and directed by Se-kang Oh. The series starred Seo Hee Jang, Jae Hwang Lee, Woo Min Byun and Seo Hyung Kim in the lead roles.
The series also had a huge success in the Philippines during its run. GMA Network aired the series (dubbed in Tagalog) in an early primetime slot from October 4, 2010, and concluded on May 27, 2011.
Production and development
In 2011, GMA Network's senior vice president for entertainment, Wilma Galvante stated that they would be adapting the Korean series, Temptation of Wife. Pre-production started in earlier 2012. The head writer, Dode Cruz stated that he would develop "a bit serious, sexier and edgier version" than the original. The producer assigned Dominic Zapata to direct the series.
Originally planned for a December 2012 premiere, it was later moved to an earlier date. following the cancellation of the drama series, Haram.
Casting
The cast was announced on September 11, 2012, during the series' story conference, with the main cast being, Marian Rivera, Dennis Trillo, Alessandra De Rossi and Rafael Rosell. As for Rivera's preparation, she stated that "Whenever I have a new soap, I make sure to ask some tips about the role. Then I talk to my director how he wants me to approach my role. I'd like to have an idea of the character that I am going to portray and how I would give life to it onscreen". She added that she wants every role she does to be different from the previous one |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Academic%20and%20Research%20Network | The European Academic and Research Network (EARN) was a computer network connecting universities and research institutions across Europe, and was connected in 1983 via transatlantic circuits and a gateway funded by IBM to BITNET, its peer in the United States.
History
Services available on EARN/BITNET included electronic mail, file transfer, real-time terminal messages, and access to EARN server machines which provided information retrieval services. Gateways existed from EARN to the ARPA Internet (ARPANET, MILNET, NSFNET, CSNET, X25Net), UUCP, JANET (Great Britain's Joint Academic Network), and more than 10 other national academic and research networks. There also was limited access to VNET, IBM's internal communications network.
At the network layer EARN was based on a "store-and-forward" technology. In a "store-and-forward" network information is sent to an intermediate node where it is kept and sent as soon as possible to the next node on the path to its final destination. The intermediate node verifies the integrity of the message before forwarding it. Each time the intermediate node confirms the receipt of the data the originating node deletes it.
The EARN "store-and-forward" system was originally based on IBM's technology and used the Remote Spooling Communications Subsystem (RSCS) and NJE/NJI protocols on the IBM Virtual Machine (VM) mainframe operating systems, and JES2 (and later JES3, Job Entry Subsystem) on IBM MVS mainframe operating systems.
At the physical layer the network backbone initially comprised a set of dedicated telephone circuits connected via pairs of synchronous modems with speed varying from 1.2kbit/s to 9.6kbit/s. Each country in Europe managed its own national backbone, which was then connected via one international circuit to the European backbone.
Through most of the 1980s the entire traffic between the European backbone and the United States BITNET backbone was carried over a single 4.8kbit/s circuit and afterward, for quite some time, over a single 9.6kbit/s circuit using a pair of IBM synchronous modems. Later in the late 1980s, the backbone bandwidth was gradually augmented to accommodate for the increased traffic; but, given the very high prices for dedicated telephone circuits at the time, it became soon clear EARN could no longer afford a dedicated European backbone. Since the IBM sponsorship of international and transatlantic lines had stopped in fact each European country member of EARN, typically the organization in charge of each national academic network, was paying its own line to connect to the European backbone and was sharing the cost of the transatlantic connectivity via the EARN annual contribution.
On 20 October 1994, EARN merged with RARE (Réseaux Associés pour la Recherche Européenne) which became TERENA
Activities
A technology called VMNET was released in April 1989 at Princeton University, allowing NJE network links to operate over circuits using TCP/IP as the underlying protocol. VM |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoDel | CoDel (Controlled Delay; pronounced "coddle") is an active queue management (AQM) algorithm in network routing, developed by Van Jacobson and Kathleen Nichols and published as RFC8289. It is designed to overcome bufferbloat in networking hardware, such as routers, by setting limits on the delay network packets experience as they pass through buffers in this equipment. CoDel aims to improve on the overall performance of the random early detection (RED) algorithm by addressing some of its fundamental misconceptions, as perceived by Jacobson, and by being easier to manage.
In 2012, an implementation of CoDel was written by Dave Täht and Eric Dumazet for the Linux kernel and dual licensed under the GNU General Public License and the 3-clause BSD license. Dumazet's improvement on CoDel is called FQ-CoDel, standing for "Fair/Flow Queue CoDel"; it was first adopted as the standard AQM and packet scheduling solution in 2014 in the OpenWrt 14.07 release called "Barrier Breaker". From there, CoDel and FQ-CoDel have migrated into various downstream projects such as Tomato, dd-wrt, OPNsense and Ubiquiti's "Smart Queues" feature.
Theory
CoDel is based on observations of packet behavior in packet-switched networks under the influence of data buffers. Some of these observations are about the fundamental nature of queueing and the causes of bufferbloat, others relate to weaknesses of alternative queue management algorithms. CoDel was developed as an attempt to address the problem of bufferbloat.
Bufferbloat
The flow of packets slows down while traveling through a network link between a fast and a slow network, especially at the start of a TCP session, when there is a sudden burst of packets and the slower network may not be able to accept the burst quickly enough. Buffers exist to ease this problem by giving the fast network a place to store packets to be read by the slower network at its own pace. In other words, buffers act like shock absorbers to convert bursty arrivals into smooth, steady departures. However, a buffer has limited capacity. The ideal buffer is sized so it can handle a sudden burst of communication and match the speed of that burst to the speed of the slower network. Ideally, the shock-absorbing situation is characterized by a temporary delay for packets in the buffer during the transmission burst, after which the delay rapidly disappears and the network reaches a balance in offering and handling packets.
The TCP congestion control algorithm relies on packet drops to determine the available bandwidth between two communicating devices. It speeds up the data transfer until packets start to drop, and then slows down the transmission rate. Ideally, it keeps speeding up and slowing down as it finds equilibrium at the speed of the link. For this to work, the packet drops must occur in a timely manner so that the algorithm can responsively select a suitable transfer speed. With packets held in an overly-large buffer, the packets wi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition%20alignment | Partition alignment is the proper alignment of partitions to the boundaries available in a data storage device.
Examples include the following:
4 KB sector alignment with hard disk drives supporting Advanced Format (AF)
Track partition alignment, partitions starting on track boundaries on hard disk drives
Cylinder partition alignment, partitions starting on logical or physical cylinder boundaries on hard disk drives
SSD page partition alignment, partitions starting on NVM page boundaries (with pages typically 4 to 16 KB in size) on SSDs and other flash-based memory devices
SSD block partition alignment, partitions starting on NVM block boundaries (typically blocks of 128 to 512 pages) on SSDs and other flash-based memory devices
1 MB partition alignment, partitions starting on 1 MB boundaries
RAID stripe alignment, partition alignment based on stripe boundaries
See also
Advanced Format
Data striping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline%20Spencer | Caroline Spencer is a fictional character from The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera on the CBS network. Created by producer Bradley Bell, she is portrayed by actress Linsey Godfrey. She is the daughter of media mogul Karen Spencer (Joanna Johnson), niece of media mogul Bill Spencer Jr. (Don Diamont), and namesake of her aunt, Caroline Spencer Forrester (Johnson).
Casting
On February 7, 2012, it was announced that Joanna Johnson would reprise the role of Karen Spencer and would be arriving alongside her never-before-heard-of-and-seen daughter Caroline, the namesake of deceased twin sister Caroline Spencer. It was announced that actress Linsey Godfrey was cast into the new role. Godfrey is known for her roles on several television series such as NCIS, One Tree Hill, and Wizards of Waverly Place. The character, while unknown to viewers, would be acknowledged and known to those on-screen. In April 2012, it was announced that Crystal Chappell would enter the cast of the series as Caroline's second mother, in the series' first ever lesbian storyline. Godfrey has a tattoo to symbolize her successful battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma, which the producers wrote into the show.
In February 2014, Godfrey alongside Jacob Young crossed over to The Young and the Restless, airing from April 11 to 16, 2014. In December 2016, Godfrey was put on recurring status with the show.
In May 2017, Godfrey told Soap Opera Digest that she hasn't heard from the show since her last appearance on October 31, 2016. That same month, Godfrey announced she was back taping at the serial. Godfrey made her re-appearance from July to September 2017 and then in March 2018. In July 2018, it was announced that Godfrey had joined the cast of Days of Our Lives, effectively ending her run as Caroline.
Character development
Caroline's initial storyline revolves around a storyline about her and her same-sex mothers, Karen (Joanna Johnson) and Danielle Spencer (Crystal Chappell), entitled "My Two Moms". Caroline was noted by head writer Bradley Bell and writers Patrick Mulcahey and Tracey Ann Kelly to represent a younger generational view of her mother's sexuality; Kelly stated: "She did not understand the need to feel secretive, whereas her mother, having dealt with this in a much different time, felt very different about it. So I felt it was wonderful to see the generational difference in the attitude." Caroline's importance in the storyline was a key aspect, as her mothers had their "hands full" while coming together to help Caroline deal with her own problems. The role of Caroline was involved in three romances, first with Thomas Forrester (Adam Gregory, then Pierson Fodé), before she moved on to his arch-rival Rick Forrester (Jacob Young). She then married Ridge Forrester (Ronn Moss, then Thorsten Kaye).
Rick falls out of love with Caroline and begins falling for an underprivileged aspiring actress, Maya Avant (Karla Mosley); he attempts to dump her but Caroline begins sche |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Henderson%20%28American%20journalist%29 | David Henderson (born March 2, 1943) is an Emmy Award-winning former CBS Network News television and radio journalist. He appeared on the CBS Evening News, CBS Morning News on the CBS Radio Network; and covered stories throughout the U.S. and Asia. He served as bureau chief, correspondent, and producer in Tokyo and Hong Kong and covered conflicts across Asia and the Middle East. On assignment from CBS News headquarters in New York, Henderson’s investigative news stories included an exposé of conditions in America’s cotton industry and workers who suffered from byssinosis or “brown lung disease,” (aka Byssinosis) caused by dust during cotton processing.
In a series of reports uncovering the safety of airliners, he reported that the plastic interiors of commercial airliners released deadly toxic gases during fires. He was awarded a national Emmy Award. His reports came about after the death of CBS News colleague, Michele Clark, in a United Airlines crash at Chicago, Henderson reported on never-before published research that the plastic interiors of airliners emitted toxic gas when burned, rendering a burning aircraft a deadly gas chamber. He was awarded a national Emmy Award while at CBS News for a series of reports on airline accidents that ultimately led to a change in federal aviation regulations and made airline travel safer by banning toxic plastics in airline interiors.
After his career at CBS News, Henderson advised corporate chief executives on credible and effective ways to communicate and control crisis situations using the tenets of journalism.
Henderson worked with client Bombardier Aerospace in Montreal to enhance the appeal and image of Learjet, a corporate jet maker that needed competitive differentiation in a crowded field. With attention-catching photos and news stories, publicity for Learjet’s new model 45 soared in mainstream media and captured the attention of an important audience, tech entrepreneurs. Sales skyrocketed.
He was recruited by Gulfstream Aerospace as head of global marketing and corporate communications when the then-privately held company needed to launch sales of its new ultra-long-range Gulfstream V. His position was to oversee global marketing and communications. Traditional PR and advertising, which targeted pilots about the technical attributes of the plane, had failed to attract orders. Pilots don’t buy $40-million aircraft but CEOs do. Through a series of globe-circling media tours, the media got to experience flying at 50,000 feet, such coverage attracted the attention of industry leaders and major celebrities. Henderson showcased that the Gulfstream V was a competitive business tool to help executives win. The Gulfstream V became front page news. It was the darling of TV news. In just over a year, the Gulfstream V became the world’s hallmark of corporate aviation. Orders increased more than 80-fold.
Among many distinctions, Henderson was awarded a Platinum Record for his work to create awareness a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stick%20PC | A stick PC or PC on a stick is a single-board computer in a small elongated casing resembling a stick, that can usually be plugged directly (without an HDMI cable) into an HDMI video port. A stick PC is a device which has independent CPUs or processing chips and which does not rely on another computer. It should not be confused with passive storage devices such as thumb drives.
A stick PC can be connected to a peripheral device such as a monitor, TV, or kiosk display to produce visual or audio output. Stick PCs generally have limited computing power and are not suited for intensive tasks, but can be suitable in other applications that do not require such power.
History
The stick PC was first introduced in 2003. The Gumstix, which came out that same year, used the ARM architecture system on a chip (SoC) and the Linux 2.6 kernel. Windows CE can be installed on this stick. It was based on the idea of making a PC similar in size to that of an average stick of chewing gum.
As the popularity of smart TVs and set-top boxes to view streaming services (such as the Roku) grew, companies started looking at making these small computers even smaller and easier to use.
Several stick PCs using ARM architecture SoCs were introduced around 2012, made of sticks pluggable in an HDMI port, including the Android Mini PC MK802 series from Rikomagic, using Android or Linux distributions, both based on Linux and Allwinner Technology or Rockchip SoC and Cotton Candy, using Samsung Exynos SoC.
2013-2014 saw several manufacturers come out with stick PCs. MeeGoPad released the first x86 based stick PC, featuring the Intel Atom Z3735F Processor. In April 2013, Tronsmart released the MK908, using the Rockchip RK3188 (featuring the quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 and ARM Mali-400MP GPU). On July 24, 2013, Google introduced the Google Chromecast, a streaming device similar in function and design to a stick PC. On November 19, 2014, Amazon released a smaller version of the Amazon Fire TV called the Fire TV Stick.
In March 2015, ASUS and Google introduced the Chromebit, a stick PC based on the Rockchip RK3288 SoC and running Google's ChromeOS.
In 2016, Intel introduced the Intel Compute Stick. It was discontinued in June 2020.
Neural compute sticks
In July 2017, Intel released the Movidius Neural Compute Stick which included a Vision Processing Unit for vision-specific AI workload. In January 2018, the Laceli AI Compute Stick came out, including a neural network processor unit for AI workload called Lightspeeur 2801S Neural Processor, and claiming to be more powerful and more energy-efficient than the Movidius. In November 2018, the Orange Pi AI Stick 2801 came out, also featuring the Lightspeeur 2801S Neural Processor.
See also
Single-board computer
System on a chip
References
Digital media players
Networking hardware
Streaming media systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubieboard | Cubieboard is a single-board computer, made in Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. The first short run of prototype boards were sold internationally in September 2012, and the production version started to be sold in October 2012. It can run Android 4 ICS, Ubuntu 12.04 desktop, Fedora 19 ARM Remix desktop, Armbian, Arch Linux ARM, a Debian-based Cubian distribution, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD.
It uses the AllWinner A10 SoC, popular on cheap tablets, phones and media PCs. This SoC is used by developers of the lima driver, an open-source driver for the ARM Mali GPU. At the 2013 FOSDEM demo it ran ioquake 3 at 47 fps in 1024×600.
The Cubieboard team managed to run an Apache Hadoop computer cluster using the Lubuntu Linux distribution.
Technical specifications
Cubieboard1
The little motherboard utilizes the AllWinner A10 capabilities
SoC: AllWinner A10
CPU: Cortex-A8 @ 1 GHz CPU,
GPU Mali-400 MP
video acceleration: CedarX able to decode 2160p video
display controller: unknown, supports HDMI 1080p
512 MiB (beta) or 1GiB (final) DDR3
4 GB NAND flash built-in, 1x microSD slot, 1x SATA port.
10/100 Ethernet connector
2x USB Host, 1x USB OTG, 1x CIR.
96 extend pin including I²C, SPI, LVDS
Dimensions: 10 cm × 6 cm
Cubieboard2
The second version, sold since June 2013, enhances the board mainly by replacing the Allwinner A10 SoC with an Allwinner A20 which contains 2 ARM Cortex-A7 MPCore CPUs and a dual fragment shader Mali-400 GPU (Mali-400MP2).
This board is used by Fedora to test and develop the Allwinner SoC port of the distribution.
There is also a version available with two microSD card slots.
Cubietruck (Cubieboard3)
The third version has a new and larger PCB layout and features the following hardware:
SoC: Allwinner A20
CPU: ARM Cortex-A7 @ 1 GHz dual-core
GPU: Mali-400 MP2
display controller: Mali-400 GPU, supports HDMI 1080p, no LVDS support
2 GiB DDR3 @ 480 MHz
8 GB NAND flash built-in, 1x microSD slot, 1x SATA 2.0 port (Hard Disk of 2,5").
10/100/1000 RTL8211E Gigabit Ethernet
2x USB Host, 1x USB OTG, 1x CIR.
S/PDIF, headphone, VGA and HDMI audio out, mic and line-in via extended pins
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on board with PCB antenna (Broadcom BCM4329/BCM40181)
54 extended pins including I²C, SPI
Dimensions: 11 cm × 8 cm
There is no LVDS support any longer. The RTL8211E NIC allows transfer rates up to 630–638 Mbit/s (sending while 5–10% idle) and 850–860 Mbit/s (receiving while 0–2% idle) when simultaneous TCP connections are established (testing was done utilising iperf with three clients against Cubietruck running Lubuntu)
To connect a 3.5" HDD the necessary 12 V power can be delivered by a 3.5 inch HDD addon package which can be used to power the Cubietruck itself as well. Also new is the option to power the Cubietruck from LiPo batteries.
Cubieboard 4
On May 4, 2014 CubieTech announced the Cubieboard 4, the board is also known as CC-A80.
It is based on an Allwinner A80 SoC (quad Cortex-A15, quad Cortex-A7 big.LITTLE), thereby r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabi%C3%A1n%20E.%20Bustamante | Fabián E. Bustamante is an Argentinian-American computer scientist specializing in distributed systems and computer networking. He is currently a professor of computer science at Northwestern University.
Career
Fabián E. Bustamante was born and raised in Argentina. After completing his Licencitura at Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco, he earned a Ph.D. specializing in distributed systems from the Georgia Institute of Technology under Karsten Schwan.
He is best known for his work on peer-to-peer systems and content delivery networks (particularly Ono (P2P)) and for his tool for optimizing DNS performance . He has authored more than 50 papers in various areas of Computer Science. and released over 10 publicly available systems resulting from his research work.
Education
Ph.D., Computer Science, 2001. Georgia Institute of Technology.
Licenciatura, Computer Science, 1993. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco.
References
External links
Personal web page
Research group web page
Living people
American computer scientists
Argentine computer scientists
Georgia Tech alumni
Northwestern University faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Braille%20Code | Computer Braille is an adaptation of braille for precise representation of computer-related materials such as programs, program lines, computer commands, and filenames. Unlike standard 6-dot braille scripts, but like Gardner–Salinas braille codes, this may employ the extended 8-dot braille patterns.
There are two standards of representation of computer code with braille:
1) The Computer Braille Code as defined by the Braille Authority of North America. However, since January 2016 it is no longer official in the US and replaced by Unified English Braille (UEB). It employs only the 6-dot braille patterns to represent all printing code points of ASCII. It is virtually identical to Braille ASCII, a system of representation of braille with ASCII characters, which goal is mirrored to the Computer Braille Code. To represent ASCII code points 0x60, 0x7B, 0x7C, 0x7D, 0x7E as well as capital letters the 4-5-6 () character is used as the shift indicator or modifier. Thus, (grave accent, 0x60) is represented by , where is assigned to (at sign, 0x40). In other words, either adds (for punctuation) or subtracts (for letters) 32 to or from the ASCII value of the following character. Unlike Braille ASCII (underscore, 0x5F) is represented by .
2) The Braille Computer Notation as defined by the Braille Authority of the United Kingdom. It uses 8-dot patterns to represent 256 different values so arbitrary byte data can be written in Braille.
The 8-dot code is designed that its 6-dot subset is identical to the 6-dot code. The remainder are assigned by the following rules:
adding dot 7 subtracts 32 from the ASCII value;
adding dot 8 adds 128 to the ASCII value;
The dot-5 () character is used as a universal modifier.
The following table assumes the 8-bit data is encoding text in the CP437 character set used on the IBM PC.
References
Braille |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20%27Lights | The 'Lights was a daily morning sports highlights program on NBC Sports Network that launched in August 2012. Designed as an alternative to ESPN's SportsCenter, unseen anchor David Diamante narrated the previous day's games and highlights in a half-hour loop. An on-screen sidebar provided information, stats, and comments relevant to the game being highlighted.
Its time-slot expanded from 7-9 AM to 6-9 AM Eastern Time during its short run.
The program was placed on hiatus during the Stanley Cup Playoffs and was scheduled to be re-tooled to re-air in late August 2013. It later was removed from the schedule entirely. Its replacement was a loop of fitness programming under NBCUniversal's digital Radius brand, which aired six times in three hours.
See also
NBC SportsTalk
NBCSN
References
NBCSN shows
2012 American television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsnap | Tarsnap is a secure online backup service for UNIX-like operating systems, including BSD, Linux, and OS X. It was created in 2008 by Colin Percival. Tarsnap encrypts data, and then stores it on Amazon S3.
Service
The service is designed for efficiency, only uploading and storing data that has directly changed since the last backup. Its security keys are known only to the user.
It was developed and debugged, with input solicited from bug bounty hunters, to try to find vulnerabilities. A serious nonce-reuse vulnerability was found by this process and fixed in 2011.
The document of the presentation "From bsdtar to tarsnap" by Percival from EuroBSD-Con 2013 contains "all kinds of detail on exactly how the algorithms work, how deduplication is managed ... the innards of how Tarsnap works"
See also
Comparison of online backup services
References
External links
Tarsnap presentation on crowd-sourcing bug bounties
Online backup services
Backup software
File hosting
Cloud storage
Web services
Network file systems
S3 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch%20%28women%27s%20magazine%29 | Clutch was an online magazine and blog network whose stated target audience is "today's young, hip, progressive Black woman". The magazine was started as a print publication in 2002. It was part of Sutton Media. Following a temporary closure the magazine was relaunched as an online-only publication in 2007.
In 2009, digital media consultancy Elemental Interactive made a strategic investment in Clutch. Elemental (a former division of WPP plc's Grey Global Group), was to take an undisclosed stake in Atlanta-based Sutton Media, Clutch's publisher.
Sites on which articles from Clutch are republished include The Grio, a division of NBC News, a daily online news and opinion platform devoted to delivering stories and perspectives that reflect and affect African-American audiences.
Clutch's editorial staff included Danielle Belton, Yesha Callahan, Britni Danielle, and Jessica Andrews.
References
External links
2002 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
2007 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
African-American magazines
Defunct women's magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 2002
Magazines disestablished in 2007
Magazines published in Atlanta
Online magazines published in the United States
Online magazines with defunct print editions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pry%20%28software%29 | Pry is an interactive shell for the Ruby programming language. It is notable for its Smalltalk-inspired ability to start a REPL within a running program. This lets programmers debug and modify the current state of a system.
Features
Pry exposes most of its introspective capabilities using a filesystem metaphor. For example, it has a cd command to start interacting with a particular object, and uses ls to list methods and variables.
It is possible to start Pry at any point inside a running program. Due to the reflective nature of Ruby, this lets the programmer inspect the program, change its current state, or correct the source code without restarting the process.
A number of third party plugins are available for Pry, these add tighter integration with other Ruby projects, enhance the abilities of Pry itself, and make Pry available over a remote connection.
See also
Comparison of computer shells
IPython — A similar piece of software for the Python programming language
SLIME — An interactive Lisp shell for Emacs
Tweak — A Smalltalk programming environment
References
External links
Wiki documentation
Introductory video
Ruby (programming language)
Interpreters (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pry | Pry may refer to:
Pry (software), an interactive shell for the Ruby programming language
Polly Pry (1857–1938), reporter for the Denver Post
Paul Pry (play), an 1825 farce in three acts
Pry bar, a crowbar
Pry , A traditional English name for the small leaved lime tree Tilia cordata.
See also
Sean O'Pry (born 1989), American male model
PRY (disambiguation)
Pries
Prier |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposal%20software | Proposal software also known as proposal management software, proposal writing software, or proposal automation software is a computer program designed to help users develop proposals, presentations, and responses to RFPs. Proposal management software is becoming increasingly popular in companies that manage frequent and extensive proposal writing projects. Such software allows businesses to automate more routine tasks while easily tracking multiple versions.
Proposal software allows users to create and manage all important sales and marketing documentation such as business proposals, welcome letters, contracts, quotes, and marketing collateral. Often available as a web-based cloud service, proposal software helps sales, marketing, and legal teams both administer the proposal creation process and communicate their needs through a digital document. Many software applications integrate with CRM software, content management solutions, accounting platforms, and electronic signature providers. Some integrate with Microsoft Office.
Proposal management software is considered to be a sales efficiency tool as it helps cross-selling and upselling by spending less time on creating and managing sales documents and delivering timely and relevant information. In some cases, it's argued that this software solution bleeds into an up-and-coming "sales enablement" software genre. However, proposal management software addresses inefficiencies and lack of visibility in the sales cycle, rather than "sales enablement" efforts defined as sales coaching and guiding the sale.
Forrester Research, a business technology analyst firm, views sales enablement and efficiency tools, such as proposal management software, as the key linchpin required to help a B2B company bridge the gap between their business strategies and how they execute in the field.
Main features
The core features of proposal management software vary widely between systems. Many simpler programs have only basic features, while others, especially enterprise systems, are more complex and powerful. Proposal management software is a set of automated processes that may support the following features.
Allow for a large number of people to share and contribute to both stored proposal templates and data;
Control access to proposals based on defined user roles (i.e., define information that users or user groups can view, edit, publish, etc.);
Provides multi-tier approval;
Facilitates storage and retrieval of proposals;
Control over data validity;
Simplify proposal writing;
Improve communication and collaboration among users;
Management of specific sections of a document;
Increased content and brand compliance;
Decrease in time to final assembly;
Track the time spent by various contributors, enabling management to calculate ROI of each document.
Data types and usage
Proposal software is frequently used for storing, controlling, revising, semantically enriching, and publishing documentation. Serving as a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Cyber-shot%20DSC-RX100%20series | The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 series is a high-end compact camera part of the wider Sony RX series. It started with the DSC-RX100, announced on 6 June 2012, and is part of the Cyber-shot RX line of digital cameras made by Sony. Seven annual generations have been released so far until 2019, all equipped with a one-inch 20-Megapixel image sensor and rotary knob around the lens. Filming at up to 1080p (Full HD) at 60fps is supported by the first three generations, the third additionally with 720p at 120fps, and up to 2160p (4K) at 30fps and 1080p at 120fps high frame rate video since the fourth.
Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 (original)
The original RX100 was named as the "European Advanced Compact Camera for 2012–2013" by the European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) and one of the 'Best Inventions of 2012' by TIME.
Specifications
1 in. type (13.2 mm × 8.8 mm) CMOS Exmor sensor (2.7x crop factor). This uses the "Column-Parallel A/D Conversion Technique" to create more detailed images in low light conditions than smaller-sensor cameras.
10 fps burst shooting capability at 20.2 MP resolution.
M, A, S, P modes available
Tiltable pop-up flash, allowing bounce flash.
Large maximum aperture, 1.8-4.9 Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* lens.
Focus peaking display available.
3.6× optical zoom, Carl Zeiss T* Vario Sonnar lens (28–100 mm 35mm equivalent focal length range [10.4–37.1 mm actual focal length])
3 in. TFT LCD (fixed) with 1.29 million dots, using RGBW configuration
RAW shooting possible (giving enhanced post-capture image editing options)
FULL HD video shooting (AVCHD, 50 fps)
Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 II
In June 2013, Sony unveiled a new edition of the camera called the RX100 II. New features included:
20.2-megapixel 1 in. type Exmor R CMOS sensor, notable for being a back-illuminated sensor
Maximum native ISO mode expanded to 12800 (approx. 40% more light sensitivity)
Tiltable LCD (+84°/−45°)
Multi Interface Shoe
Wi-Fi connectivity
NFC connectivity
Full HD video shooting mode (1080/24p)
Hasselblad Stellar and Stellar II
On 23 July 2013, Swedish luxury camera manufacturer Hasselblad announced the 'Stellar', a compact camera based on the DSC-RX100, incorporating a wooden or carbon grip. On 1 November 2013, Hasselblad announced another three cosmetic variants of the camera, named the Stellar Special Edition. On 26 November 2014, Hasselblad announced the Stellar II based on the DSC-RX100 II.
Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 III
The Cyber-shot DSC-RX100 III was released in June 2014.
The camera had a new Bionz X processor, as used in the Sony Alpha 77 II, and a new Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* lens (24-70mm (35mm equivalent), 1.8-2.8) giving a wider angle of view (while curtailing the maximum equivalent focal length from 100mm to 70mm). Unlike its predecessor, the RX100 II, it does not have Sony's multi-interface hotshoe (limiting flash photography to the small built-in unit), but includes a pop-up OLED electronic viewfinder (EVF). The DSC-RX100 III has customiz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census%20taker | Census taker may refer to:
Someone who collects census data by visiting individual homes
The Census Taker, a 1984 movie
Census Taker, the soundtrack to the 1984 movie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Scan2Go%20episodes | The following is a list of episodes of the Japanese/Korean animated television series Scan2Go. The series premiered on September 1, 2012, at 7:00/6:00c on Cartoon Network.
for unknown reasons, the show never aired again since 2013, either the fanfare is low, an unexpected incident occurred, or because of low income/high taxes.
Episode list
References
Scan2go
Scan2Go |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth%20Initiative%20for%20Human%20Rights |
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights (; ) or YIHR is a network of autonomous non-governmental organization active in Serbia, Kosovo, Croatia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is focused on building connections and establishing cooperation between young people from different ethnic groups in Balkans.
YIHR supported the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) through information dissemination and education and monitoring of human rights. It also organizes visits to the International Commission on Missing Persons.
In 2008 Croatian branch of the organization was established which led to transformation of national offices/programs into autonomous organizations that established a regional YIHR Regional Network in 2010.
On 25 September 2013 the European Court of Human Rights delivered the judgment in the case of Youth Initiative for Human Rights v. Serbia stating that there has been a violation of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights and that Serbia must ensure, within three months from the date on which the judgment with the information requested. The Kosovo and Serbia branches work together on campaigns against the glorification of war criminals, which occurs in both countries.
Regional network won several awards, including being the corecipient of the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize in 2019.
Regional network of organizations
YIHR - Serbia
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Serbia (YIHR SR) was founded in 2003 in Belgrade. The executive director is Bojan Stanković.
YIHR - Kosovo
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Kosovo (YIHR KS) was founded in 2004 in Priština. As of 2017 the executive director is Marigona Shabiu.
YIHR - Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina (YIHR BiH) was established in 2007 in Sarajevo. Executive director is Irena Hasić.
YIHR - Croatia
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Croatia (YIHR HR) was registered in 2008 from previous YIHR Zagreb office. Executive director is Morana Starčević.
YIHR - Montenegro
The Youth Initiative for Human Rights in Montenegro (YIHR HR) was founded in 2008. Executive director is Edina Hasanaga Čobaj.
See also
Humanitarian Law Center
UDIK
Civic Committee for Human Rights
Sarajevo Open Centre
References
Further reading
External links
Youth Initiative for Human Rights Serbia
Youth Initiative for Human Rights Bosnia and Herzegovina
Youth Initiative for Human Rights Croatia
Youth Initiative for Human Rights Montenegro
Youth Initiative for Human Rights Kosovo
Columbia Global Freedom of Expression: Youth Initiative for Human Rights v. Serbia
Human rights organizations based in Croatia
Human rights organizations based in Serbia
Human rights organizations based in Bosnia and Herzegovina
2008 establishments in Croatia
2003 establishments in Serbia
2003 establishments in Bosnia and Herzegovina
2003 establishments in Montenegro
2003 establishments in Kosovo
Youth rig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Wright | Lee Wright may refer to:
Lee Wright (programmer) (born 1970), British computer and video game programmer
Lee Wright (field hockey) (born 1944), Canadian former field hockey player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Kakus | Data Kakus (a.k.a. Apau Data) is a remote Kenyah Badeng village settlement in the hilly interior of the Ulu Kakus Tatau division of Sarawak, Malaysia elevates to 650 metres, not far from Tubau and Belaga district. To be exact, Data Kakus is located at the upstream of Sungai Burok and Sungai Nyabet. The highest peak in Ulu Kakus is called Gunung Lumut about 828m located on the peak of Lumut Range not too far from Sungai Bekuyat and Sungai Kakus.
Travel to Data Kakus involves a five hours 4WD drive from Bintulu or Belaga, to get to Data Kakus one has to take the Bintulu-Bakun road and look for the junction to KTS camp from KTS camp to Simpang Jonat. It takes about 60 km using the logging road and from simpang Jonat it takes another 18 km to reach Data Kakus. It is also possible to trek Data Kakus from Belaga and it takes five to seven hours trekking from Long Sungai Pelaran (Sg. Sanan baan Kenyah), Sungai Ngajah from Rajang river then conquer Gunung Ngajah about 444m. The Kakus River or Batang Tatau begins as a stream near Data Kakus called Alo Nyabet or e-iut Nyabet or Sungai Burok, and it flows through Data Kakus, the end point where small boats such as 'moto setinding' can navigate. It is also possible to travel downriver from Data Kakus by longboat to Tatau town, it takes almost a day to get to Tatau town by boat as the river is too shallow, winding and small.
Neighbouring settlements include:
Rumah Ado northwest
Sungai Tinggili northwest
Long Beyak southwest
Sungai Kalavang southwest
Long Basurou northwest
Sungai Kakus northwest
Nyulau north
Kampung Kenyah Badeng Senep north
Rice production
This is the main activity for most of the Kenyah people in Data Kakus, where most of the communities grow the paddy hill at a few fertile land such as Sungai Padai, Lalut Deram, Ulu Sungai Burok, Long Ledong, Long Basuruo, Usun Uma', Iut Nyabet, Sungai Kakus, Abak Uma', Diam Songan and Nyulau. The traditional paddy planting is started in early August and a few months before that we are clearing the land by burning the whole paddy field area.
Planting paddy hill takes place each year in August and September (nugan), and harvesting starts in February the following year.
Infrastructure
The only road connecting Data Kakus to Bintulu is a rugged logging road by using a four-wheel-drive (4WD) vehicle. The journey from Bintulu to Data Kakus will be tougher if the road becomes slippery, muddy or flooded during the rainy season. The lack of proper access roads has caused a high living cost in Data Kakus because goods have to be transported from nearby towns by land.
Power generation in Data Kakus is provided by Solar Panels and diesel generators. Data Kakus solar project was completed by Sarawak Energy in 2017 which led to a more reliable electricity supply. The telephone reception and Internet connection are not available in Data Kakus we hope that the government can provide a telecommunication tower and a solar-powered Very-Small-Aperture Terminal ( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tearaway%20%28video%20game%29 | Tearaway is a platform adventure video game developed by Media Molecule and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Vita. It was announced at Gamescom on 15 August 2012 and released on 20 November 2013 in Australia, on 22 November in Europe, North America and India, and 5 December 2013 in Japan. The game is inspired by papercraft and Rex Crowle's drawings and doodles left around Media Molecule's office.
An expanded remake of the game, titled Tearaway Unfolded, was released for the PlayStation 4 on 8 September 2015.
Gameplay
Tearaway is a third-person platform game which utilises almost all of the PlayStation Vita's features in some way. In one example demonstrated in the game's announce trailer, the player encounters an elk who needs a new skin. The player is able to take a picture using the PS Vita's camera and have it applied to the papercraft animal. In a gameplay demo at Gamescom, Media Molecule demonstrated how the player is also able to use the PS Vita's rear touch panel to effectively push their fingers up through the ground to interact with enemies and the environment. The player is also capable of customizing Iota or Atoi by drawing designs on virtual paper, cutting them out, and applying them to their character. In another part of the demo, the player draws on the touchscreen with their finger to cut-out a paper crown for a character in the game. The player can use an in-game camera to collect various papercraft designs, and can assist non-player characters in exchange for confetti, the game's currency.
Plot
The game opens with two characters (the "Green Man" and an unnamed Fortune Teller) introducing themselves to the player (referred to as the "You"). They inform the You that the world they occupy is a papercraft world called "ValleyFold," full of "stories" that they have grown tired of hearing. They enlist the You to help them create a new story. The Green Man and the Fortune Teller connect their world with the You's, blowing a hole in ValleyFold's sun to send an envelope through. The invitation falls through the hole, landing in a field in ValleyFold. The envelope then becomes a papercraft humanoid (Iota or Atoi, depending on the You's choice) with the envelope as their head, referred to as the "Messenger."
After introducing the Messenger and the You to each other, the Green Man creates the "Scraps", intended to be the enemy of the story. The Scraps attack the Messenger, forcing the You to save them. Following this, the Green Man informs the Messenger to head for the sun and deliver a message to the You. The You helps the Messenger navigate through a now Scrap-infested ValleyFold, and assist the people living there via helping them complete a ceremony involving apple-picking in an Orchard by defeating the nearby Scraps. The people then tell the Messenger to go to Gibbet Hill, a mountain that has a gigantic catapult which can help them reach the sun. Enlisting a Scarecrow pumpkin head for help, the Messenge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Thienen | van Thienen or Vanthienen is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Jacob van Thienen (died 1410), Flemish architect
Jan Vanthienen (born 1956), Belgian business theorist and computer scientist
See also
Van Thielen
Surnames of Dutch origin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20MundoMax%20affiliates | MundoMax was an American Spanish language broadcast television television network owned by Colombian broadcaster RCN Televisión, which was launched on August 13, 2012 under the name MundoFox. , the network currently has affiliation agreements with 42 television stations. MundoMax maintains a national cable network feed that is distributed directly to cable, satellite and IPTV providers in certain media markets not listed in this article, as an alternative method of distribution in areas without either the availability or the demand for a locally based owned-and-operated or affiliate station.
This article is a listing of current and future MundoMax affiliates in the continental United States, U.S. possessions and areas of Mexico located near U.S. cities along the U.S. border (including subchannel affiliates, satellite stations and select low-power translators), arranged alphabetically by state, and based on the station's city of license and followed in parentheses by the Designated Market Area if it differs from the city of license. There are links to and articles on each of the broadcast stations, describing their histories, technical information (such as broadcast frequencies) and any local programming. The station's virtual (PSIP) channel number follows the call letters.
The article also includes a list of its former affiliate stations, which is also based on the station's city of license or market, and denotes the years in which the station served as an affiliate of the network under either the MundoFox and/or MundoMax identities as well as the current status of the corresponding channel that carried the network.
Final affiliates
Note: This list contains affiliates that have not as of yet had their final affiliation or station fates confirmed by reliable sources after MundoMax's closure, they have not been merged with the former affiliates table, or have not been updated within this article as of yet.
Former affiliates
References
External links
MundoFox
MundoMax |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indio%20%28TV%20series%29 | Indio is the 2013 Philippine television drama epic fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Dondon Santos, it stars Bong Revilla in the title role. It premiered on January 14, 2013 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Aso ni San Roque. The series concluded on May 31, 2013 with a total of 97 episodes. It was replaced by Anna Karenina in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Bong Revilla as Malaya / Simeon / Indio
Supporting cast
Jennylyn Mercado as Esperanza Sanreal
Michael de Mesa as Juancho Sanreal
Rhian Ramos as Dian Magayon
Jackie Lou Blanco as Señora Victoria Hidalgo de Sanreal
Chinggoy Alonzo as Hernando Pelaez
Dante Rivero as Tarong
Daria Ramirez as Linang
Robert Arevalo as Cosme de los Santos
Sheena Halili as Mayang / Fernando
Vaness del Moral as Elena Decena
Dominic Roco as Tuhay / Cesario
Guest cast
Vincent Magbanua as young Indio
Jomari Yllana as young Tarong
Agot Isidro as young Linang
Bobby Andrews as young Hernando Pelaez
Alden Richards as teen Indio
Nathalie Hart as young Hidalgo de Sanreal
Lucho Ayala as young Juancho Sanreal
Jillian Ward as young Rosa
Katrina Halili as Burigadang Pada Sinaklang Bulawan
Sarah Lahbati as Ynaguiguinid
Production and development
Conception
The series was developed in early 2012 by screenwriter, Suzette Doctolero (the writer behind such epic series as Encantadia, Etheria and Amaya) and under the supervisions of historians: Dr. Vic Villan of the University of the Philippines Diliman (who was also the consultant for Amaya) and Dr. Rolando Borrinaga; and GMA Entertainment TV creative heads, Jake Tordesillas and Jun Lana. The idea for series was conceived during the time Doctolero did her research on Amaya. According to her, the series is a combination of Philippine history and Filipino mythology. The show's staged in pre-colonial to Spanish colonial period setting (1565-1663). Regarding the title "Indio" –which was a label intended to be a badge of imposed by the Spanish on the natives— Doctolero stated that "It is the first word that comes into our minds when we talk about Spanish colonization here [in the Philippines]. It mirrors every Filipino. With this series, I want to turn this label into something dignified and a source of pride." GMA Network assigned Dondon Santos to helm the series. The series is his first project for the network. Historians Vic Villan and Rolando Borrinaga were hired to ensure the accuracy of the series.
Casting
Headed the series' stellar casts is Senator Ramon "Bong" Revilla, Jr. who plays the titular character. GMA Network's Vice President for Entertainment TV, Lilybeth Rasonable said that "Indio was really made for him." Revilla finds his very first television series "exciting but very challenging" and described it as "a movie but done for TV". The actor-politician went through rigorous acting trainings under director Laurice Guillen for his preparation for the role. He also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexible%20Plug%20and%20Play | Flexible Plug and Play is a research project looking at how to improve the connection of renewable energy generation, like wind farms, to electricity distribution networks in the UK. According to the original submission to Ofgem, the electricity regulator, it will test new technical solutions to problems on the network and develop new commercial arrangements between the energy supplier and network operator.
Funding
The total cost of the project is £9.7 million. In 2011 Ofgem awarded £6.7 million to UK Power Networks from its Low Carbon Network Fund. UK Power Networks is contributing £2 million and the project partners a further £1 million.
Geographical area of research
According to the original bid submission a rural area of around 700km2 between Peterborough, March and Wisbech in Cambridgeshire has been chosen as the test bed for the Flexible Plug and Play project. There are said to be 9 operational wind farms in the area with a total installed capacity of 100MW; a further 10 renewable generation sites have won consent or are at the submission stage, with an additional 10 sites currently subject to scoping studies. This gives a total of a further 188MW of potential wind generation in the same area. However, the progress report of June 2012 says the potential has increased to 200MW. Apparently connecting these extra wind farms to the existing distribution network would be difficult for a number of reasons including voltage constraints, thermal constraints and reverse power flows. It's said that using a traditional approach of network upgrading/reinforcement would be costly and time consuming. As a result the research project will try out new ways of managing the existing network to accommodate this extra power without reinforcing the network.
Smart devices
The Flexible Plug and Play project, according to the submission documents, will test a number of so called smart devices on a distribution network to improve its efficiency and to allow more power to flow through it without reinforcement.
1) Dynamic Line Rating device. The maximum current an overhead power line can carry is an ever changing value affected by the weather. However, in distribution networks the conventional approach is to operate lines with static or seasonal limits. In theory dynamic line rating allows constant monitoring of a line's capacity. Knowing the limits of a section of the network at any moment will help to operate the network at its peak.
2) Automatic Voltage Control. An AVC device monitors voltage levels and automatically adjusts them within pre set limits. In the Flexible Plug and Play project it is envisaged AVCs will be working as part of an Automatic Network Management system.
3) Modern Protection Relay. The existing network uses directional over-current (DOC) protection relays which cannot handle reverse power flows. It's said the modern protection relay will be designed to overcome this problem. It will be tested at the March and Peterborough |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRDO%20NETRA | NETRA (NEtworking TRaffic Analysis) is a software network developed by India's Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), a Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) laboratory, and is used by the Intelligence Bureau, India's domestic intelligence agency, and the Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW), the country's external intelligence agency to intercept and analyse internet traffic using pre-defined filters. The program was tested at smaller scales by various national security agencies, and is reported to be deployed nationwide as of 2022.
Development history
Security agencies were looking to build a system that could monitor Internet traffic on a real time basis due to the rapidly escalating threat posed by terrorist and criminal elements using data communication, which had brought service providers like BlackBerry, Skype and Gmail into the focus of law enforcement agencies.
Two such systems were designed, one by DRDO's Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, and the other by the National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO), which is India's technical intelligence agency. An inter-ministerial committee staffed by members from Ministry of Home Affairs, Intelligence Bureau, Department of Telecom, Department of IT, and National Investigation Agency was formed to evaluate both systems and to select one internet monitoring system.
NTRO's system was designed with the help of Paladion, an international private company and NETRA was designed by a team of 40 scientists from CAIR. The committee selected CAIR's NETRA as it had multiple issues with NTRO's system. It had serious security reservations about involvement of an international private company in such a sensitive project, and had doubts about NTRO's ability to operate, maintain and upgrade their system independently. Also, RAW, which tested NTRO's system was not happy with the NTRO solution and reported that it crashed frequently. The committee favoured NETRA as it was an indigenous solution involving government scientists and personnel and no component of solution had been outsourced to an outside agency. The agency testing NETRA, the IB, was also pleased with its performance. The committee further observed that CAIR has been continuously investing in R&D to keep up with the fast-changing web technologies, unlike NTRO. The system was first demonstrated at the premises of Sify Technologies to capture the entire internet traffic passing through its probes.
Capabilities
NETRA can analyse voice traffic passing through software such as Skype and Google Talk, and intercept messages with keywords such as 'attack', 'bomb', 'blast' or 'kill' in real-time from the enormous number of tweets, status updates, emails, instant messaging transcripts, internet calls, blogs, forums and even images generated on the internet to obtain the desired intelligence. The system with RAW analyses large amount of international data which crosses through the internet networks in India. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RREUSE | RREUSE (Reuse and Recycling European Union Social Enterprises) is an international nonprofit network linking social enterprises active in the environmental field of reuse, repair and recycling. The NGO says its mission values the three pillars of sustainability — environmental protection, social equity and economic viability — equally.
Mission and Activity
RREUSE's mission is to empower, represent and support the social and circular enterprise community and to lobby at the European Union level for stronger policies in favour of repair and reuse of end-of-life products. RREUSE wishes to see an inclusive circular economy based on re-use and repair for the good of both society and the environment. Based in Belgium, RREUSE notes that it has 102,000 employees, trainees and volunteers working across more than 29 countries.
RREUSE activities include representing re-use and recycling social enterprises, general advocacy, and research. The association also partners in international projects, working with institutions like universities and research centres. Examples include the LOWaste Project as well as the Quali Pro Second Hand Project II (an innovative European initiative on "second hand" product usage). In 2011, RREUSE received the European Week for Waste Reduction award for that campaign.
Origin
Interests in social enterprises working together in environmental services increased during 1999-2001. A few events and projects were set by a few organisations from the social economy sector. Some organisations also started working together on the forthcoming European WEEE Directive (adopted in 2001), to address the concern about the possible impact of the WEEE-Directive on social enterprises working in the recycling and reuse sector. In November 2000, a decision was made to develop a European network of social enterprises working in the waste sector to provide a forum for political debates and unfolding legislation in Brussels on a more regular basis.
A network of 17 social enterprises was constituted on 26 February 2001. Representatives from the European Parliament, Belgium Ministry for Social Economy, and the Directorate Environment of the European Commission expressed their general support. RREUSE was founded in August 2022 under Belgian law with the status of a Non-profit organisation.
In 2003, RREUSE opened a secretariat for Belgium and international environmental and social NGO's at Mundo-B house, an ecologically renovated office building in the centre of Brussels.
RREUSE members are:
AERESS (Spain)
Association Citizens "Hands" (Bosnia & Herzegovina)
Associazione Orius (Italy)
BKN (Netherlands)
Cooperativa Sociale Insieme (Ireland)
CRNI (Ireland)
CRNS (UK)
Dobrote z.b.o (Slovenia)
donateNYC (United States)
Ecological Recycling Society (Greece)
EKON (Poland)
Emmaüs Europe
Emmaüs France (France)
ENVIE (France)
Herwin (Belgium)
Humana Nova (Croatia)
Humusz Szövetség (Hungary)
Kierrätyskeskus Oy (Finland)
Klimax Plus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThinkPad%20Tablet%202 | The ThinkPad Tablet 2 is a tablet computer announced in 2012 and released by Lenovo in 2013.
The Tablet 2 is the successor to the original Android-based ThinkPad Tablet, and was one of the launch tablet devices for the touch-oriented Microsoft Windows 8 operating system. The success of the device has led to successor models, the ThinkPad 8 (2013) and both generations of the ThinkPad 10 (2014), also using Windows in place of Android.
Launch
In order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the ThinkPad, Lenovo held a large party in New York where it announced several products, including the Tablet 2. Although Lenovo indicated that the ThinkPad Tablet 2 would be available on 26 October 2012 when Windows 8 was released, it later indicated that the device would be available in December 2012. However, delivery for orders in December were not made until late January and beyond.
Features
Design
According to The Verge, "It may be a ThinkPad, but this device is unequivocally a tablet — a wide, skinny, thin tablet, more like a Kindle Fire HD than a MacBook Air. The all-black exterior is sleek but utterly ordinary, and its 1.3-pound heft is pretty much bog standard as well. It's certainly well-made, with comfortable rounded corners and a soft-touch matte finish, it's just not a particularly unique look." The Tablet 2 has a magnesium frame and a black polycarbonate case.
Specifications and performance
The Tablet 2 uses the Intel Atom Z2760 SoC "Clover Trail" (System on a chip) platform at 1.8 GHz and has 2 cores with 1 Mb of cache. The Tablet 2 has 2 gigabytes of 800 MHz LPDDR2 memory and comes with either a 32- or 64-gigabyte eMMC. The ThinkPad Tablet 2 runs the full Windows 8 operating system (32-bit) from Microsoft and will thus be able to run any desktop software compatible with this version of Windows. In a review, CNET wrote, "Windows 8 looked readable and functional, both in Metro and standard Windows-based interfaces."
The Tablet 2 has a 10.1-inch IPS display with a 16:9 aspect ratio, 400 nits, 500:1 contrast ratio and a resolution of 1,366 by 768. The graphics is powered by the PowerVR SGX545 graphics, that is part of the Intel Atom SoC. The Tablet 2 makes use of multi-touch technology for screen-based input (supporting five-finger gestures). Like the original ThinkPad Tablet, the Tablet 2 has an optional stylus (with digital pen functionality) for precision input, which can be stored in the side of the tablet. Lenovo also released a Bluetooth keyboard that can be carried with the tablet in a folio-style case.
The Tablet 2 has a full-size USB 2.0 port for connecting accessories and another micro-USB 2.0 to be used for charging only (using the built-in adapter, though other micro-USB cables also work). Powered USB devices will not work on the full-size USB port. External displays can be connected using the mini-HDMI port. A headphone/microphone combo jack and a connector for an available docking station for the device, which included three full-s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Addiction%20and%20HIV%20Data%20Archive%20Program | The National Addiction and HIV Data Archive Program (NAHDAP) is a repository of drug abuse and HIV/AIDS research data primarily including social science and behavioral data. NAHDAP’s mission is to bring the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction by supporting research across a wide range of disciplines and ensuring the rapid and effective dissemination and use of the results of that research to improve prevention, treatment and policy.
Description
NAHDAP is a program within the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), a unit in the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan. NAHDAP's staff consists of professional researchers, data archivists and technicians working together to obtain, process, distribute, and promote amongst social science researchers sharing of data relevant to drug addiction and HIV.
NAHDAP is a project of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health. The NAHDAP Web site launched in June 2010 and offers a library of electronic data and citations to publications based on those data. NAHDAP provides technical assistance and resources to investigators to facilitate preparing their data for archiving so that they can be easily and effectively archived at project completion. NAHDAP also provides technical assistance to users of the data sets, including workshops and webinars, to train analysts in the unique characteristics of selected datasets, in quantitative methods, and in the utility of analyzing secondary data for the reproduction of original research findings and addressing new research questions on major issues of social and behavioral sciences and public policy.
Notes
External links
NAHDAP Web site
National Institute on Drug Abuse
NIDA Division of Epidemiology, Services and Services and Prevention Research -- Research Resources page
National Institutes of Health
NIH Data Sharing Policy
NIH Data Sharing Policy and Implementation Guidance
Final NIH Statement on Sharing Research Data
2010 establishments in the United States
Social research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Poor | Victor "Vic" Poor (July 12, 1933 – August 17, 2012) was an American engineer and computer pioneer. At Computer Terminal Corporation (later renamed Datapoint Corporation), he co-created the architecture that was ultimately implemented in the first successful computer microprocessor, the Intel 8008. Subsequently, Computer Terminal Corporation created the first personal computer, the Datapoint 2200 programmable terminal.
Early life
Victor Dale Poor was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Pinckney Peyton Poor and Leona Lucille Poor (née Mallory). With a passion for radio, he built his own transceiver from collected discarded pieces, and qualified on amateur radio in 1951 (callsign W6JSO).
After high school, Poor joined the United States Navy. While attending electronics training at the Treasure Island Naval Base in 1952, he met his wife, Florence, in a church in San Francisco. On completing his training the couple married in November 1952, and he was then assigned to Ford Island naval base, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Career
On leaving the Navy in 1955, Poor joined the telecommunications technology team at Stromberg-Carlson in San Diego, California. Trained in computer programming, he wrote his first programme in 1956 for the UNIVAC 1103. Recruited by Raytheon, the couple then moved to Massachusetts. Although Poor did not attend college, he took electronics training classes both in the Navy and at Raytheon. A quick learner, he soon knew more than his instructors and began teaching classes himself.
Poor then moved to Maryland to help form radio and telegraph equipment manufacturer Frederick Electronics. Quickly made an executive, he developed the idea of adapting radioteletype (RTTY) machines to send data wirelessly. These were then sold to both the United States Army and later commercial media customers, such as the Associated Press, to send affiliated news reports as data around the world.
Computer engineering
Poor continued his research and development, trying to develop a method for sending photographs and pictures wirelessly. In 1969 while working his notice period from Frederick Electronics, during the Thanksgiving holiday, Poor and fellow amateur radio colleague Harry Pyle produced the underlying architecture of the modern microprocessor on a living room floor. They then asked fellow radio amateur Jonathan Schmidt to write the accompanying communications software. Pitching the idea to both Texas Instruments and Intel, the partnership developed the Intel 8008, the forerunner of the microprocessor chips found in today's personal and computing devices.
In late 1969, Poor joined start-up computer company Computer Terminal Corporation as Technical Director in San Antonio, Texas. Founded by two former NASA engineers, Phil Ray and Gus Roche, they asked him to approach Intel to see how much of his design could fit onto a computer chip. Pitching a $100,000 proposal to place the architecture onto silicon and into production, the project became th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything%20Goes%20%28Canadian%20TV%20series%29 | Everything Goes was a Canadian variety television series broadcast by Global Television Network in 1974.
Premise
The series was hosted by American Norm Crosby and Canadians Mike Darow and Catherine McKinnon. Moe Koffman led a studio orchestra.
Guest entertainers during the series run included Canadian and international entertainers such as Tony Bennett, Burns and Schreiber, Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald, Rich Little, Oscar Peterson, Martin Short, Grant Smith and Peter Foldy, .
Production
John Aylesworth and Frank Peppiatt, the writing team who also created Hee Haw, produced Everything Goes. Series writers included Dan Aykroyd, Don Cullen, Ken Finkleman, Earl Pomerantz, and Martin Short.
Scheduling
The series was initially scheduled to air at 10:45 p.m. It faced unexpected competition from The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson when the United States introduced daylight saving time in January 1974 due to the 1973 oil crisis. Carson's series was traditionally seen in Ontario at 11:30 p.m., but Canada remained on standard time – which meant that 11:30 p.m. in the United States was still 10:30 p.m. in Canada, putting the shows in direct competition. Unable to simply readjust its entire schedule to move the program out of Carson's way, the network quickly added a repeat airing at 4 p.m. the following afternoon.
100 episodes of Everything Goes were produced at a cost of $1.5 million, providing much of Global's Canadian content requirements. After the series completed a 20-week run on 24 May 1974, the weekday evening time slot was replaced by the Global News Hour from 10:30 p.m. By that time, Global encountered financial difficulties which led to the cancellation of Everything Goes and many of its other series by that August.
Some U.S. stations aired the show as well. WAGA in Atlanta carried the show during the winter and spring of 1974 at 5 p.m. against reruns of The Mod Squad on WSB and Bonanza on WXIA. By summer the station was airing The Mike Douglas Show at that time, and would continue to do so for six years.
Reception
Toronto television ratings from BBM Canada indicated that the evening broadcasts of Everything Goes attracted a one to two percent audience share at the end of its first month. It competed against The Merv Griffin Show which attracted 7 to 10 percent of the ratings, while The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson received 20 to 25 percent of the audience. Afternoon rebroadcasts received one percent of the viewership as it competed with a 25 percent share for The Mike Douglas Show.
Ray Bennett of the Windsor Star noted that the series was "effortlessly Canadian, not forced in the manner of so many CBC shows which come out with a maple leaf front and centre", although faulting it for one audience participation segment of "a mindless bit of business which is usually a written dramatic scene intended to be funny". Bennett further noted that the Burns and Schreiber guest performances involved "routines that would never see th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Mobile%20Fighter%20G%20Gundam%20episodes | This is a list of episodes from the anime series Mobile Fighter G Gundam. The series originally aired on TV Asahi in Japan from April 1, 1994 to March 23, 1995, and later aired on Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block in the United States from August 5 to October 16, 2002. The series uses four pieces of theme music: two openings and two closings. The first opening, used for the first 25 episodes, is "Flying in the Sky" by Hitofumi Ushima, while the closing song is "Umi Yori Mo Fukaku" (Eng. "Deeper Than the Ocean") by Etsuko Sai. For the remaining episodes, the opening is "Trust You Forever" by Hitofumi Ushima and the closing is "Kimi No Naka No Eien" (Eng. "The Eternity in You") by Inoue Takehide.
Episodes
Mobile Fighter G Gundam
G Gundam
Episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | Magdalena: () is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on Nuevas' comic book series, . Directed by Gina Alajar, it stars Bela Padilla in the title role. It premiered on October 8, 2012 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Faithfully. The series concluded on January 18, 2013 with a total of 75 episodes. It was replaced by Forever in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Bela Padilla as Magdalena "Lena" Fuentebella-Soriano / Angela Natividad
A poor young lady blessed with stunning beauty and a pure heart. A deeply religious lass whose twin aspirations are to alleviate the life of her loved ones and start her own family life with her one great love, Abel. But her humble dreams are shattered and her fate changes drastically with the intrusion of an evil man that will lead her to suffer into much miserable and complicated world.
Supporting cast
Dion Ignacio as Abel Soriano
A poor gentleman who luckily captivated Lena's heart. He is handsome in scruffy sort of way and works as a tricycle driver. Though he proves himself worthy of Lena's love, the latter's parents resent him, and their relationship as well, obviously because of his status in life.
Ryan Eigenmann as Baron Villa de Asis
A corrupt and unscrupulous businessman who will do the utmost to obtain whatever he desires, no matter what it takes. A devil in disguise who promised Luding and Dolpo a million peso life, just to make Lena his wife. But instead of marrying her, Baron abuses Magdalena and forces her to work as an escort girl.
Pauleen Luna as Carol Fuentebella
The mean-spirited and social climber stepsister of Lena. Cunning and never running out of schemes, Carol is the type of person who will do anything to acquire everything she wants, even if it means hurting the people around her in the process.
Pancho Magno as Jet Collado
An aspiring model whose good looks and charismatic nature made him a certified "chick magnet". He is a knight-in-shining-armor who will help Lena to get back on her feet and will eventually fall in love with her.
Irma Adlawan as Ludivina "Luding" Fuentebella
Lena and Carol’s ambitious, greedy and conceited mother and wife to Dolpo. In her quest to have an easy and comfortable life, she ends up pushing her daughter Lena to the arms of the evil, Baron Villa de Asis.
Allan Paule as Rodolpo "Dolpo" Fuentebella
Lena’s pervert stepfather. A lazy drunkard and a gambling man who wants to get rich but refuses to work. He will do anything for money, even if it means selling his stepdaughter.
Lexi Fernandez as Fatima "Timay" Natividad
A young prostitute who will become Lena’s closest friend. Indeed, a hapless victim of fate’s cruel game, Timay dreams to escape the dark world she’s in and creates a perfect home of her own someday.
Sharmaine Arnaiz as Charito "Chato" Natividad / Amparo Reyes
A former prostitute and the biological mother of Lena. In order to gi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20for%20You%20at%20Home | Mass for You at Home is a religious television program broadcast by Network 10. It is the longest-running Australian religious television program; it is also Australia's fourth-longest-running television programme overall, and the longest-running show broadcast on Australian commercial television.
The program is intended to allow observant Catholics, particularly those with mobility problems, to participate in a mass from their homes. Mass for You at Home is broadcast on Network 10 on Sundays and Aurora Channel on Foxtel every day. The programme typically has thousands of viewers around Australia.
Production
The programme has been broadcast by Network 10 since August 1971. It was initially a joint venture between the Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne and the network, which also offers airtime for the show.
Before 2021 the show was filmed entirely at 10's Como studios in Melbourne, with a year's worth of episodes typically filmed in January for broadcast throughout the year. In December 2020 it was announced that the show would undergo some production changes, including a "new look" and the filming of masses in churches. In 2021 the filming of the show moved to Wollongong, and is now produced by the Catholic Diocese of Wollongong in partnership with the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
Geoffrey Baron was a celebrant on this program for 30 years. In 2006 he received national attention as a result of an altercation with teenagers that was recorded and subsequently uploaded to YouTube.
Cardinal Pell frequently watched the program during his imprisonment in 2019-20 and expressed appreciation for its quality.
See also
List of longest-running Australian television series
References
External links
Official website
Mass For You at Home at 10 Play website
Network 10 original programming
10 Peach original programming
1971 Australian television series debuts
1980s Australian television series
1990s Australian television series
2000s Australian television series
2010s Australian television series
2020s Australian television series
Television shows about Catholicism
Black-and-white Australian television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTP-MIDI | RTP-MIDI (also known as AppleMIDI) is a protocol to transport MIDI messages within Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) packets over Ethernet and WiFi networks. It is completely open and free (no license is needed), and is compatible both with LAN and WAN application fields. Compared to MIDI 1.0, RTP-MIDI includes new features like session management, device synchronization and detection of lost packets, with automatic regeneration of lost data. RTP-MIDI is compatible with real-time applications, and supports sample-accurate synchronization for each MIDI message.
History of RTP-MIDI
In 2004, John Lazzaro and John Wawrzynek, from UC Berkeley, made a presentation in front of AES named "An RTP payload for MIDI".
In 2006, the document was submitted to IETF and received the number RFC 4695. In parallel, another document was released by Lazzaro and Wawrzynek to give details about practical implementation of the RTP-MIDI protocol, especially the journaling mechanism.
RFC 4695 has been obsoleted by RFC 6295 in 2011. The protocol has not changed between the two version of the RFC documents, the last one contains correction of errors found in RFC 4695)
The MMA (MIDI Manufacturers Association) has created a page on its website in order to provide basic information related to RTP-MIDI protocol.
AppleMIDI
Apple Computer introduced RTP-MIDI as a part of their operating system, Mac OS X v10.4, in 2005. The RTP-MIDI driver is reached using the Network icon in the MIDI/Audio Configuration tool. Apple's implementation strictly follows the RFC 4695 for RTP payload and journalling system, but uses a dedicated session management protocol; they do not follow the RFC 4695 session management proposal. This protocol is displayed in Wireshark as "AppleMIDI" and was later documented by Apple.
Apple also created a dedicated class in their mDNS/Bonjour implementation. Devices which comply with this class appear automatically in Apple's RTP-MIDI configuration panel as the Participants directory, making the Apple MIDI system fully 'Plug & Play'. However, it is possible to manually enter IP addresses and ports in this directory to connect to devices which do not support Bonjour.
Apple also introduced RTP-MIDI support in iOS4, but such devices cannot be session initiators.
The RTP-MIDI driver from Apple creates virtual MIDI ports named "Sessions", which are available as MIDI ports in any software, such as sequencers or software instruments, using CoreMIDI, where they appear as a pair of MIDI IN / MIDI OUT ports like any other MIDI 1.0 port or USB MIDI port.
Implementations
Embedded devices
In 2006, the Dutch company Kiss-Box presented a first embedded implementation of RTP-MIDI, in different products like MIDI or LTC interfaces. These devices comply with AppleMIDI implementation, using the same session management protocol, in order to be compatible with the other devices and operating system using this protocol.
A proprietary driver was initially developed by the comp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Asha%20306 | The Nokia Asha 306 is a "Full Touch" phone powered by Nokia's Series 40 operating system. It was announced at Bangkok by Nokia along with two others Asha Full Touch phones - the Nokia Asha 305 and
311. The 306 is considered to be the little brother of Asha 311 as it lacks 3G and capacitive touch screen. Its main features are the Full Touch resistive touchscreen and WLAN.
History and availability
The Nokia Asha 306 was announced at Bangkok by Nokia. It will be available 3Q in 2012 Globally. The phone will be sold at a price of €68 subject to taxes and subsidies.
Hardware
Screen and input
The Nokia Asha 306 has a 3.0-inch resistive touchscreen (multi point) with a resolution of 240 x 400 pixel (WQVGA). According to Nokia it is capable of displaying up to 65 thousand colors.
The back camera has an extended depth of field feature (no mechanical zoom), no flash and has a 4× digital zoom for both video and camera. The sensor size of the back camera is 2-megapixel, has a f/2.8 aperture and a 50 cm to infinity focus range. It is capable of video recording at up to 176 x 144 px at 10 fps with mono sound.
Buttons
On the front of the device, there are the answer/call key,. On the right side of the device there are the volume rocker and the lock/unlock button.
Battery and SIM
The battery life of the BL-4U (1110 mAh) as claimed by Nokia is 14 hours of talk time, from 600 hours of standby and 40 hours of music playback depending on actual usage.
The SIM card is located under the battery which can be accessed by removing the back panel of the device. No tool is necessary to remove the back panel.
Storage
Additional storage is available via a hot swappable microSDHC card socket, which is certified to support up to 32 GB of additional storage.
Software
The Nokia Asha 306 is powered by Nokia Series S40 Full Touch operating system and comes with a variety of applications:
Web: Nokia (proxy) Browser for Series 40
Conversations: Nokia Messaging Service 3.2 (instant messaging and e-mail) and SMS, MMS
Social: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and Orkut, WhatsApp messenger S40.
Media: Camera, Photos, Music player, Nokia Music Store (on selected market), Flash Lite 3.0 (for YouTube video), Video player
Personal Information Management: Calendar, Detailed contact information
Utilities: Notes, Calculator, To-do list, Alarm clock, Voice recorder, Stopwatch
The device comes with Nokia Maps for Series 40 and make use of cellular network for positioning as there is no GPS in the phone. Nokia Maps for Series 40 phones does not provide voice guided navigation and only allows for basic route (<10 km) to be plan. The software will provide step by step instructions, allows the user to see the route on a map and search for nearby points of interest. Depending on where the phone was purchased, regional maps (Europe, South America, etc.) are preloaded and, as such, an active internet connection to download map data is not required.
See also
List of Nokia prod |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Asha%20305 | The Nokia Asha 305 is a "Full Touch" phone powered by Nokia's
Series 40 operating system. It was announced at Bangkok by Nokia
along with two other Asha Full Touch phones - the Nokia Asha 306 and
311. Its main features are the Full Touch resistive touchscreen and
dual SIM.
History and availability
The Nokia Asha 305 was announced at Bangkok by Nokia, and the
announcement offered global availability from 3Q of 2012. The phone's
suggested price was €63 subject to taxes and subsidies.
Hardware
Screen and input
The Nokia Asha 305 has a 3.0-inch resistive touchscreen (multi point)
with a resolution of 240 x 400 pixels (QVGA). According to Nokia, it is
capable of displaying up to 65 thousand colors.
The back camera has an extended depth of field feature (no mechanical
zoom), no flash and has a 4× digital zoom for both video and camera.
The sensor size of the back camera is 2-megapixel, has a f/2.8 aperture
and a to infinity focus range. It is capable of video
recording at up to 176 x 144 px at 10 fps with mono sound.
Buttons
On the front of the device, there are the answer/call keys, on the right side of the device there are the volume rockers and the lock/unlock button.
Battery and SIM
The battery life of the BP-4U (1100 mAh) as claimed by Nokia is 14 hours of talk time, from 528 hours of standby and 40 hours of music playback
depending on actual usage.
The main SIM card is located under the battery, which can be accessed by removing the back panel of the device. No tool is necessary to remove the back panel. A second SIM card slot (hot swappable) is located in the edge of the phone.
Storage
Located on the left side of the phone below the SIM2 socket, additional storage is available via a hot swappable microSDHC card socket, which is certified to support up to 32 GB of additional storage.
Software
The Nokia Asha 305 is powered by Nokia Series 40 Full Touch operating system and comes with a variety of applications:
Web: Nokia (proxy) Browser for Series 40
Conversations: Nokia Messaging Service 3.2 (instant messaging and e-mail) and SMS, MMS
Social: Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Orkut
Media: Camera, photos, music player, Nokia Music Store (on selected market), Flash Lite 3.0 (for YouTube videos), video player, Music Mania
Personal Information Management: Calendar, detailed contact information
Utilities: Notes, calculator, to-do list, alarm clock, voice recorder, stopwatch
The device comes with Nokia Maps for Series 40 and make use of cellular network for positioning as there is no GPS in the phone. Nokia Maps for Series 40 phones does not provide voice guided navigation and only allows for basic routes of less than to be planned. The software provides step-by-step instructions, allows the user to see the route on a map and search for nearby points of interest. Depending on where the phone was purchased, regional maps (Europe, South America, etc.) are preloaded and, as such, an active internet connection to d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Suzhou%20Rail%20Transit%20stations | This is a list of Suzhou Rail Transit stations. As of the extension of Line 11 in 2023, there are 183 stations in the whole network.
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
Line 11
References
stations
Lists of railway stations in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamoon | Shamoon (), also known as W32.DistTrack, is a modular computer virus that was discovered in 2012, targeting then-recent 32-bit NT kernel versions of Microsoft Windows. The virus was notable due to the destructive nature of the attack and the cost of recovery. Shamoon can spread from an infected machine to other computers on the network. Once a system is infected, the virus continues to compile a list of files from specific locations on the system, upload them to the attacker, and erase them. Finally the virus overwrites the master boot record of the infected computer, making it unusable.
The virus was used for cyberwarfare against national oil companies including Saudi Arabia's Saudi Aramco and Qatar's RasGas. A group named "Cutting Sword of Justice" claimed responsibility for an attack on 30,000 Saudi Aramco workstations, causing the company to spend more than a week restoring their services. The group later indicated that the Shamoon virus had been used in the attack. Computer systems at RasGas were also knocked offline by an unidentified computer virus, with some security experts attributing the damage to Shamoon. It was later described as the "biggest hack in history".
Symantec, Kaspersky Lab, and Seculert announced discovery of the malware on 16 August 2012. Kaspersky Lab and Seculert found similarities between Shamoon and the Flame malware. Shamoon made a surprise comeback in November 2016, January 2017, and December 2018.
Design
Shamoon was designed to erase and overwrite hard drive data with a corrupted image and report the addresses of infected computers back to the computer inside the company's network. The malware had a logic bomb which triggered the master boot record and data wiping payload at 11:08am local time on Wednesday, August 15. The attack occurred during the month of Ramadan in 2012. It would appear that the attack was timed to occur after most staff had gone on holiday reducing the chance of discovery before maximum damage could be caused, hampering recovery.
The virus consisted of three components, the Dropper, the Wiper and the Reporter. The Dropper, the source of the infection, creates a service with the name 'NtsSrv' that enables it to remain persistent on the infected computer. The Dropper was built in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. If the 32-bit dropper detects a 64-bit architecture, it drops the 64-bit version. This component drops the Wiper and the Reporter onto the infected computer and executes itself. It spreads across a local network by copying itself to network shares and on to other computers.
The Wiper component utilizes an Eldos-produced driver known as RawDisk to achieve direct user-mode access to a hard drive without using Windows APIs. It identifies the locations of all files on the infected computers and erases them. It sends information about the files destroyed to the attacker and then overwrites the erased files with corrupted data so they cannot be recovered. The component used portions of an imag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping%20TVA%20%28TV%20program%29 | Shopping TVA is a Canadian French language television shopping program that was broadcast on the Canadian television networks Télé Achats and TVA, from 1996 to August 30, 2013.
Shopping TVA consisted of hosts along with product representatives demonstrating and selling products to television viewers. The program feature the sale of a variety of products including beauty and personal care, entertainment, health and fitness, and home improvement items.
Shopping TVA was hosted by Louise-Josée Mondoux and his team with Julie Nault (host), Mario Beaurivage (physical fitness expert), Mélanie Marchand (kitchen expert) and Marie-Johanne Martineau (beauty care expert).
Viewers could purchase items either by telephone or internet.
History
In 1996 and 1997, TVA debuted a home shopping television program known as Télé-Achats, hosted by Louise-Josée Mondoux and Serge Laprade.
In 1997, TVAchats Inc. was founded in partnership with the French company .
From 1997, the TV program was known as Boutique TVA, hosted only by Louise-Josée Mondoux until 2003.
On March 18, 2003, TVAchats Inc. became a wholly owned subsidiary of Groupe TVA.
In 2003, the TV program was renamed STV Shopping TV, hosted by Louise-Josée Mondoux and several alternating animators until 2013.
In 2005, the TV program was renamed Shopping TVA. Shopping TVA was also known as TVA Boutiques in 2012 and 2013.
On June 13, 2013, Groupe TVA announced the closure of TVA Boutiques for the August 30, 2013. At the same time, TVA had confirmed that Shopping TVA TV program would not return the following fall at its programming.
References
External links
STV Shopping TV Official website (from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
Shopping TVA Official website (from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
Boutique TVA Official website (from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
Shopping TVA on TVA (from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
TVA (Canadian TV network) original programming
Television shows filmed in Montreal
Infomercials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATGRID | The National Intelligence Grid or NATGRID is the integrated intelligence master database structure for counter-terrorism purpose connecting databases of various core security agencies under Government of India collecting comprehensive patterns procured from 21 different organizations that can be readily accessed by security agencies round the clock. Its current CEO is Ashish Gupta, IPS. It is reported to be operational since 31 December 2020.
NATGRID came into existence after the 2008 Mumbai attacks. The government of India in July 2016 appointed Ashok Patnaik as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID). The appointment is being seen as the government's effort to revive the project. Patnaik's appointment was valid till 31 December 2018. As of 2019, NATGRID is headed by an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Ashish Gupta. Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on 5 February 2020 announced in Parliament that Project NATGRID with all its required physical infrastructures been completed as of 31 March 2020 and the NATGRID solution went live as of 31 December 2020. During the inauguration of NATGRID campus in Bengaluru, MHA Amit Shah stated that a new national database is in the process of being made which will bring a paradigm shift in the current ways of functioning of agencies once it's ready also adding that the government has entrusted the task of developing and operating a state-of-the-art and innovative technology system. It is accessible to 11 central agencies in the first phase and in later phases will be made accessible to police of all States and Union Territories and only authorized personnel are allowed access to the platform on a case-to-case basis for investigations into suspected cases of terrorism. NATGRID has a total fund allocation of 3,400 crore rupees.
Reason for establishment
The 26/11 attacks on Mumbai led to the exposure of several weaknesses in India's intelligence gathering and action networks. NATGRID is part of the radical overhaul of the security and intelligence apparatuses of India that was mooted by the then Home Minister P. Chidambaram in 2009. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) are two organisations established in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks of 2008. Before the Mumbai attacks, a Pakistani origin American Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative David Coleman Headley had visited India several times and done a recce of the places that came under attack on 26/11. Despite having travelled to India several times and having returned to the US through Pakistan or West Asia, his trips failed to raise the suspicion of Indian agencies as they lacked a system that could reveal a pattern in his unusual travel itineraries and trips to the country. It is argued that if they had a system like the NATGRID in place, Headley would have been apprehended well before the attacks.
Structure and functions
NATGRID is an intelligence sharing network that co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei%20Korobeinik | Andrei Korobeinik (born 5 November 1980) is an Estonian computer programmer and entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Rate Solutions and Serenda Invest. He is better known as creator of Estonian social networking site, Rate.ee. Between 2011 and 2013 he was a member of the Estonian parliament.
In 2005, 51% share of the Rate.ee portal was sold to EMT for 39 million Estonian Krones (approximately 2 million EURO), making Andrei one of the youngest Estonian millionaires of that time. However, in 2012 Serenda Invest; a company that manages Rate.ee was purchased back from EMT which essentially put Andrei back in charge of his web portal. The price of this deal has not been revealed.
Korobeinik is the winner of 2008 British Council's International Young Interactive Entrepreneur Award. He is the member of Estonian Dragon's Den jury and does angel investments, mostly into internet start-ups.
Korobeinik has been on the jury at the annual Estonian TV show Ajujaht.
Education
Korobeinik graduated from Pärnu Russian Gymnasium in 1998, same year he started with his undergraduate studies at University of Tartu in maths and information technology.
Other business ventures
In 2010, he started a new project Cutefund.com. Cutefund.com is a crowdsourced mutual fund, designed to buy and sell stock on behalf of investors. Cutefund.com is currently awaiting for a license to trade stock, until then users can register and compete with each other for free in demo mode. Korobeinik is the author of idea for Flirtic.com, a dating website popular in Eastern Europe and Russia.
Political career
In the 2011 Estonian parliamentary election, Korobeinik ran for Riigikogu membership for Pärnu County. He got 2057 votes but did not make it to the Parliament. He became a member of the Estonian Parliament starting on 6 April 2011, replacing Rein Lang who went to serve as the Minister of Culture of Estonia. When Lang step down on December 4, 2013, Korobeinik lost his place in the Parliament. Korobeinik was a chairman of e-parliament committee.
Hobbies
He is a chess player, and on 20 November 2011 was elected as president of Estonian Chess Union.
References
External links
Serenda.com
Uudised.err.ee
Director.ee
1980 births
Estonian businesspeople
Estonian Centre Party politicians
Estonian computer programmers
Estonian people of Russian descent
Estonian Reform Party politicians
Living people
Members of the Riigikogu, 2011–2015
Members of the Riigikogu, 2023–2027 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossbones%20%28TV%20series%29 | Crossbones is an American action-adventure drama television series that aired on the NBC network from May 30 to August 2, 2014. The series is a fictionalization of the life of the pirate Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, who is still alive in 1729 (historically, he died in 1718). The show was created by Neil Cross, James V. Hart, and Amanda Welles. Crossbones is based on Colin Woodard's book The Republic of Pirates.
The show was originally supposed to be a part of NBC's midseason schedule, but it was later pushed to summer. The series premiered on May 30, 2014, at 10:00 pm EDT. On July 24, 2014, NBC announced that Crossbones had been canceled, and the final two episodes were removed from the schedule. However, both episodes were later aired on August 2, 2014.
Plot
In 1729, the island of Santa Compaña is home to pirates, thieves, and cutthroats all ruled by the feared pirate captain Edward "Blackbeard" Teach, who the British Empire believes is dead, but who in actuality is merely in hiding. Calling himself "Commodore", he now uses this island as his base of operations.
According to the first episode:
At its height, the British Empire was the most powerful force humanity had ever known. Fully of the world's population lived and died under the British flag. Yet its true power was not on land but on the sea where they ruled with the most brutal and efficient military force that has ever been: the British Navy. But the oceans that this navy sought to control were vast, unknowable and full of terrible danger. And for all the Crown's might, its ships were often lost to starvation, to storm and tempest, and to pirates. So it was in 1712, the Crown offered a prince's fortune to whoever could create a device that would allow its navy to navigate this great emptiness with a precision never before known. With this device, the Empire would increase its dominion over the world. But without it, the ships of the Crown would continue to be easy prey, not only from the gods and monsters of legend, but from a monster far more brutal and far more real.
Cast
Main
John Malkovich as Edward "Blackbeard" Teach
Richard Coyle as Tom Lowe
Claire Foy as Kate Balfour
Yasmine Al Massri as Selima El Sharad
David Hoflin as Charles Rider
Chris Perfetti as Tim Fletch
Tracy Ifeachor as Nenna Ajanlekoko
Recurring
Peter Stebbings as James Balfour
Julian Sands as William Jagger
Ezra Buzzington as Oswald Eisengrim
Henry Hereford as Frederick Nightingale
Lauren Shaw as The Woman in White/Antoinette
Emilien De Falco as Alain Mersault
Kevin Ryan as John Finnegan
Natalie Blair as Rose Dryden
Aimee Mullins as The Women in White/Antoinette
Henry Hereford as The Wild Man
Marisé Alvarez as Nelly
Ricardo Hinoa as Anignatius Locke
Francis Rosas as Governor Fernando de Portocarrero
Episodes
Production
The network announced the series in May 2012 with a straight-to-series commitment. Ten episodes were ordered, and production began in Puerto Rico on October 15, 2013. Hugh Laur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20computer%20chess%20terms | This is a list of terms used in computer chess.
For terms used in chess in general, see Glossary of chess.
For terms used in chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems.
A–M
N–Z
References
Glossary
Computer
Wikipedia glossaries using description lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasabi%20Anime | Wasabi Anime (also known as Green Mustard Entertainment) is a company that produces events and programming for anime conventions (and other fan conventions) in North America along with their stand-alone conventions. Starting in 2001 (with the registration of the WasabiAnime.com website) the group started as an anime club before evolving into an LLC in 2007 and then a corporation in 2010. As of July 2012, Wasabi Anime has hosted events in California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, and Las Vegas.
History
Wasabi Anime was started by Tom Croom with a group of motivated anime fans shortly after the completion of Anime Festival Orlando II in Kissimmee, Florida. The group felt that dedicating help to one single convention and club didn't serve the purpose of helping all of the fandoms, so Wasabi Anime (then called "Wasabi Anime of Florida") began networking pre-existing anime clubs and helping support new anime clubs. Wasabi Anime club members had access to photo I.D. cards that granted discounts a local anime and comic stores in Florida. Clubs in the Wasabi Anime network included:
Anime Goes Anime Club Miami
Gator Anime
HIYAH! The Southwest Florida Anime Club
Japanese Animation Club of Tallahassee
Lake Brantley High School Anime & SciFi Club
Mile Stretch Anime Club
North Port Anime Club
Oukyuu Anime Club
Wasabi Anime: Deltona
Wasabi Anime: Englewood
Wasabi Anime: Ft. Lauderdale
Wasabi Anime: Green Cove Springs (went on to become the Anime Belle Club)
Wasabi Anime: Jacksonville
Wasabi Anime: Miami
Wasabi Anime: New Smyrna Beach
Wasabi Anime: Orlando
Wasabi Anime: Tampa (went on to be the original volunteer staff for MetroCon 2003)
Wasabi Anime: Titusville
Wasabi Anime: Treasure Coast
Wasabi Anime: West Palm Beach
Occasionally, the core group running Wasabi Anime would host stand-alone events to try and gather the clubs together. This included the Wasabi Anime Halloween Cosplay Parties in 2001 and 2003.
Around 2004, Wasabi Anime began to step away from networking clubs and started focusing more on designing events for anime and fan conventions. These included themed panels, game shows, dances, and stage shows (like the Wasabi Animusical.)
Appearances
Wasabi Anime has designed entertainment and programming for several anime and fan conventions since starting in 2001.
California
Anime Expo 2012
Florida
AccioCon (2009)
Ancient City Con 4 (2010)
Animation Supercon 2009
Anime Express V (2002)
Anime Express VI (2003)
Anime Festival Orlando III (2002)
Anime Festival Orlando IV (2003)
Anime Festival Orlando V (2004)
Anime Festival Orlando VI (2005)
Anime Festival Orlando VII (2006)
Anime Festival Orlando VIII (2007)
Anime Festival Orlando IX (2008)
Anime Festival Orlando X (2009)
Anime Festival Orlando XI (2010)
Anime Festival Orlando XIII (2012)
Broward Anime Festival (2009)
DreamCon (2004)
FITCON 2003
FITCON 2004
FITCON 2008
Florida Supercon 2009
Florida Supercon 2010
Florida Supercon 2011
FX Show 2005
FX |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Summa | Keith Summa is an American television news producer and executive. Summa currently serves as Senior Vice President of Content & Programming for Univision. From 2007 to 2012 Summa headed CBS News' investigative unit. For 15 years prior he was a producer for ABC News and Peter Jennings Productions. Summa has received the George Polk Award, the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, the Peabody Award, and several News & Documentary Emmy Awards for his work in television news production.
Education and career
Summa graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1982 with a bachelor of fine arts degree. Before his career in journalism, he served as the Advocacy Director for the Coalition for the Homeless.
From 1992 to 2007, Summa was a producer for ABC News and Peter Jennings Productions. He began that tenure as an associate producer for ABC News investigative correspondent Brian Ross and for the newsmagazine Day One. Summa's documentaries for Peter Jennings Reporting include Peter Jennings' last documentary, Breakdown: America's Health Insurance Crisis, which revealed the dangers of rising health care costs, as well as From the Tobacco Files, exposing failures of the public health community; How To Get Fat Without Really Trying, examining how agriculture policies and excessive marketing to children contribute to obesity; Bitter Medicine: Pills, Profit and the Public Health, an investigation of the pharmaceutical industry; The Gunfight, an exclusive look inside the National Rifle Association; and Never Say Die: How the Tobacco Industry Keeps on Winning, an investigation of the tobacco industry's political tactics. In 2007 he produced the Bob Woodruff primetime special To Iraq And Back. His investigative reporting on tobacco, health care and firearms also appeared on World News Tonight, Good Morning America, and Nightline. In addition, Summa was a regular contributor to ABC News Radio and ABCNews.com. His reporting on the tobacco industry was chronicled in the book Civil Warriors by Dan Zegart.
On August 20, 2012, Summa joined Univision as vice president of news partnerships. In this role he serves as a liaison for the network to ABC News.
Awards
In 1994 Summa, Walt Bogdanich, and John Martin were awarded a George Polk Award for network television reporting for their work on ABC News' television magazine, Day One. Summa was honored in 2010, 2011, and 2012 with News & Documentary Emmy Awards for his work as senior producer on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. He has also received the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award, the Peabody Award, and the Edward R. Murrow Award.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American television producers
CBS executives
Tisch School of the Arts alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined%20storage | Software-defined storage (SDS) is a marketing term for computer data storage software for policy-based provisioning and management of data storage independent of the underlying hardware. Software-defined storage typically includes a form of storage virtualization to separate the storage hardware from the software that manages it. The software enabling a software-defined storage environment may also provide policy management for features such as data deduplication, replication, thin provisioning, snapshots and backup.
Software-defined storage (SDS) hardware may or may not also have abstraction, pooling, or automation software of its own. When implemented as software only in conjunction with commodity servers with internal disks, it may suggest software such as a virtual or global file system. If it is software layered over sophisticated large storage arrays, it suggests software such as storage virtualization or storage resource management, categories of products that address separate and different problems. If the policy and management functions also include a form of artificial intelligence to automate protection and recovery, it can be considered as intelligent abstraction. Software-defined storage may be implemented via appliances over a traditional storage area network (SAN), or implemented as network-attached storage (NAS), or using object-based storage. In March 2014 the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) began a report on software-defined storage.
Software-defined storage industry
VMware used the marketing term "software-defined data center" (SDDC) for a broader concept wherein all the virtual storage, server, networking and security resources required by an application can be defined by software and provisioned automatically.
Other smaller companies then adopted the term "software-defined storage", such as Cleversafe (acquired by IBM), and OpenIO.
Based on similar concepts as software-defined networking (SDN),
interest in SDS rose after VMware acquired Nicira for over a billion dollars in 2012.
Data storage vendors used various definitions for software-defined storage depending on their product-line. Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), a standards group, attempted a multi-vendor, negotiated definition with examples.
The software-defined storage industry is projected to reach $86 billion by 2023.
Characteristics
Characteristics of software-defined storage may include the following features:
Abstraction of logical storage services and capabilities from the underlying physical storage systems, and in some cases pooling across multiple different implementations. Since data movement is relatively expensive and slow compared to computation and services , pooling approaches sometimes suggest leaving it in place and creating a mapping layer to it that spans arrays. Examples include:
Storage virtualization, the generalized category of approaches and historic products. External-controller based arrays includ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20Zeta | Sigma Zeta () is a national honor society founded in 1925 to recognize undergraduate excellence in the natural sciences, computer science, and mathematics. The society's purpose is to encourage and foster the attainment of knowledge in the natural and computer sciences and mathematics.
History
Sigma Zeta was founded in the fall of 1925 at the now defunct Shurtleff College as a local organization to provide recognition for Shurtleff science and mathematics students. Soon after that other local campuses took an interest in the group, and following the approval of the petition by McKendree College to start a chapter in June 1926 Sigma Zeta began its growth into a national collegiate honor society. In a letter that appeared in the correspondence section of the American Chemical Society Journal of Chemical Education Sigma Zeta was offered as an alternative for small colleges to the existing Sigma Xi honor society which often passed over small colleges for membership as they focused on larger Universities.
Sigma Zeta's annual convention has been held every year since 1926 except for 1943, 1944, and 1945 where it was canceled due to World War II, and in 2020 when it was canceled due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. The first three gatherings were held at the Shurtleff College campus which is now the site of the Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine.
Activities
The annual convention is Sigma Zeta's primary meeting where student members present papers and individual and chapter awards are presented. Individual chapters often undertake activities including the hosting of speakers and service projects to benefit their local communities. These activities can include programs for younger students at local schools helping to promote science education at early ages. Sigma Zeta's interdisciplinary nature has been described as a benefit for smaller colleges and universities because, "It brings together students from all areas of science and mathematics, including computer science, so they can all work together on projects."
Qualifications for Membership
Chapters select students for membership that have met the following eligibility criteria:
Major studies in at least one of the Natural Sciences, Computer Science, or Mathematics
Completion of 25 semester hours of coursework with 15 hours in the Natural Sciences, Computer Science, or Mathematics
A Grade Point Average of 3.0 out of 4.0 both in Science and Mathematics as well as cumulatively among all classes taken
Chapters
Chapters in existence are listed in the order they joined Sigma Zeta.
Beta, McKendree University, 1926
Gamma, Medical College of Virginia, 1927
Epsilon, Otterbein College, 1929
Lambda, Mansfield University, 1936
Mu, Minnesota State University, Mankato, 1937
Xi, Ball State University, 1938
Pi, Millikin University, 1943
Rho, University of Indianapolis, 1943
Sigma, Our Lady of the Lake University, 1944
Tau, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, 1947
Upsilon, An |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMWC-TV | WMWC-TV (channel 53) is a religious television station licensed to Galesburg, Illinois, United States, serving the Quad Cities area as an owned-and-operated station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN). The station's studios are located on 44th Avenue in Moline, and its transmitter is located in Orion, Illinois.
History
WMWC originally planned to go on the air on September 1, 2001, as the UPN affiliate for the Quad Cities market. Although Northwest Television owned the station, operations were to have been handled by Second Generation of Iowa, owner of Fox affiliate KFXA in Cedar Rapids. However, Grant Broadcasting System II, then-owner of KLJB-TV and KGWB-TV, filed an petition to deny the application, and the construction permit was not granted until July 20, 2007—nearly a year after UPN (which affiliated with WBQD-LP in 2002) closed down.
WMWC never signed on an analog signal prior to June 12, 2009. As a result, when it took to the air on August 20, 2012, it became the first television station in the Quad Cities to have signed on as a digital-only station, more than three years after full-power stations ended analog broadcasts. On June 5, 2012, the station was assigned the call letters WMWC. A TBN affiliate from its sign-on, WMWC was acquired from Northwest Television by the network in December 2012. On June 13, 2013, TBN added the "-TV" suffix to the station's call sign.
Technical information
Subchannels
Analog-to-digital transition
Because it was granted an original construction permit after the FCC finalized the DTV allotment plan on April 21, 1997, the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television station. Instead, at the end of the digital TV conversion period for full-service stations, WMWC would have been required to turn off its analog signal and turn on its digital signal (called a "flash-cut"). WMWC's original analog allocation was UHF channel 67, though the application was subsequently amended to specify digital operation on channel 53; however, both channels were removed from the TV bandplan at the end of the digital television transition in the United States. Since WQAD-TV elected to stay on its pre-transition digital UHF channel 38 allocation after the digital transition, Northwest Television, the original owners of WMWC, elected WQAD's former analog channel allocation, VHF channel 8, as the channel on which to broadcast WMWC's post-transition digital signal. As WQAD uses virtual channel 8 because of its former analog allocation, WMWC legally could not use it; the station instead uses virtual channel 53.
See also
WBQD-LP, the low power television station which ultimately ended up with the UPN affiliation for the Quad Cities market, and later became the area's MyNetworkTV affiliate; station is now defunct
WQAD-DT3, the third digital subchannel of WQAD-TV which was previously a simulcast of WBQD-LP and is now the MyNetworkTV affiliate for the Quad Cities television market
WQAD-TV, the ABC affiliate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahdatabad%2C%20Ilam | Vahdatabad (, also Romanized as Vaḩdatābād; also known as Khānparī and Khān Parī va Shāh Parī) is a village in Zarrin Dasht Rural District, in the Central District of Darreh Shahr County, Ilam Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 923, in 181 families. The village is populated by Kurds.
References
Populated places in Darreh Shahr County
Kurdish settlements in Ilam Province |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahdatabad | Vahdatabad () may refer to:
Vahdatabad, Bushehr
Vahdatabad, Fars
Vahdatabad, Ilam
Vahdatabad, Kerman
Vahdatabad, Sirjan, Kerman Province
Vahdatabad, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad
Vahdatabad-e Mugarmun, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certified%20broadcast%20networking%20engineer | Certified Broadcast Networking Engineer (CBNE) is a title granted to an individual that passes the exam requirements of the certification. The certification is regulated by the Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) and shows competence in computer network equipment and their specialized applications in radio and television broadcast stations. The CBNE title is protected by copyright laws. Individuals who use the title without consent from the Society of Broadcast Engineers could face legal action.
The SBE certifications were created to recognize individuals who practice in career fields which are not regulated by state licensing or Professional Engineering programs.
External links
Certified Broadcast Networking Engineer (CBNE) Requirements & Application
SBE Official Website
See also
List of post-nominal letters
Broadcast engineering
Professional certification in engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sqrrl | Sqrrl Data, Inc. is an American company founded in 2012 that markets software for big data analytics and cyber security. The company has roots in the United States Intelligence Community and National Security Agency. Sqrrl was involved in the creation of, and actively contributes to Apache Accumulo and other related Apache projects. Sqrrl’s primary product is its threat hunting platform, designed for active detection of advanced persistent threats.
In January 2018, Sqrrl was acquired by Amazon.
History
Most of Sqrrl’s founders previously worked for the National Security Agency; CEO and Co-Founder Oren Falkowitz, formerly of the United States Cyber Command and Co-Founder Ely Kahn, former director of US cybersecurity policy. Sqrrl's platform relies on the open-source Apache Accumulo technology. Accumulo began development in 2008 and went open source in 2011; Sqrrl was founded in the summer of 2012 to use Accumulo for cybersecurity. Sqrrl was founded in Washington, D.C., but quickly moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In August 2012, Sqrrl announced a $2 million seed round led by Accomplice (formerly Atlas Venture) and Matrix Partners.
In October 2013, Sqrrl received $5.2 million in funding led by Accomplice and Matrix Partners.
In February 2015, Sqrrl raised another $7.1 million funding for its linked data analysis toolkit.
On January 24, 2018, it was reported that Sqrrl had been acquired by Amazon and would become a part of Amazon Web Services.
Threat hunting platform
Sqrrl’s main product is a visual cyber threat hunting platform which combines technology such as link analysis and user behavior analytics. User, entity, asset, and event data are combined into a behavior graph which users navigate to respond to security incidents as well as search for undetected threats. Sqrrl integrates into Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems, such as IBM's QRadar. The platform also integrates machine learning and risk-scoring.
Awards
Sqrrl was mentioned in cyber security industry marketing, such as SC Mag’s Top Innovator award in 2015 and 2016 and a 2017 Cybersecurity Excellence Award in a new "Threat Hunting" category.
See also
Apache Software Foundation
Big data
Bigtable
Cyber threat hunting
MapReduce
Real-time database
User behavior analytics
References
External links
Official web site
The Threat Hunting Project
Cloud computing providers
Organizations based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
American companies established in 2012
Software companies based in Massachusetts
Amazon (company) acquisitions
Amazon Web Services
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirara%2C%20Ano%20ang%20Kulay%20ng%20Pag-ibig%3F | Kirara, ? (International title: Kirara, What is the Color of Love?) is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gina Alajar, it stars Erika Ann Luna and Patricia Javier in the title role. It premiered on August 16, 1999. The series concluded on November 2, 2001, with a total of 566 episodes.
Cast and characters
Book 1
Erika Ann Luna as Kirara
Amy Austria as Rose
Sandy Andolong as Charito
Tirso Cruz III as Jon
Daniel Fernando as Ka Puroy
Joonee Gamboa as Don Romano Santillanes
Leni Rivera as Vicky
Ryan Eigenmann as Bulik
Aya Medel as Bening / Raquel
Geoff Eigenmann as Joshua
Joanne Miller as Shirley
Alessandra de Rossi as Emily
Cris Cruz as Emil
Ian de Leon as Fred
Gigette Reyes as Leona
Rayver Cruz as young Joseph
Eugene Domingo as Belen
Chat Silayan-Bailon as Elaine
Francis Ricafort as Jonard
Joepri Mariano as Ricky
Viel Lobitana as Viel
Bernabeth Joyce Elipane as Dindi De Guia
Book 2
Patricia Javier as Kirara
Raymond Bagatsing as Miguel
Amy Austria as Rose
Robin Da Rosa as Joseph
Maureen Larrazabal as Sabrina
Nicole Hofer as Jenny
Alvin Anson as Raffy
Marcus Madrigal as Michael
Accolades
References
External links
1999 Philippine television series debuts
2001 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television series by TAPE Inc.
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DUALLy | DUALLy is an MDE framework to create interoperability among Architecture Description Languages (ADLs). It is developed at the Computer Science Department of the University of L'Aquila. DUALLy enables the transformation of a model conforming to a specific architecture description language into corresponding models conforming to other architecture description languages.
ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 standard
As highlighted in the official ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 website, "the use of multiple views for design can get very complicated. Their consistency is a potential problem whenever multiple models and views are used. Sometimes, consistency rules or procedures are defined as a part of viewpoints. In other cases, organizations have practices they use to check and enforce consistency".
The solution provided by the ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 standard consists in using correspondences and correspondence rules to define the various relationships that may exist within an architecture description. Under this perspective, DUALLy can be seen as an approach in which special kinds of correspondence rules can keep in a consistent state architecture models belonging to different views. Those special correspondence rules are defined between ADLs and have the additional feature of being proactive; that is, when an inconsistency is detected between different architectural models, the DUALly interoperability engine actively transforms the models in order to restore consistency.
Interoperability
Supporting ADLs interoperability and change propagation is intrinsically complex. Furthermore, the lack of automation does not allow the easy addition of new description languages, and does not guarantee change propagation to multiple models in a finite number of steps. In general, changes occurring in an architecture model have a strong impact on all the other related architecture models (each of them possibly conforming to different architecture description languages). In order to keep models in a consistent state, changes need to be propagated from the updated model to all the others. When dealing with multiple architecture description languages, propagating changes may be a complex task; such a task is inevitable and requires to be managed by a dedicated approach.
In DUALLy, the interoperability among various architecture description languages is ensured via model transformation techniques. Instead of creating a point-to-point relationship among all languages, DUALLY defines the transformations among architecture description languages by passing through A0, which is a core set of architectural concepts defined as generally as possible (to potentially
represent and support any kind of architectural representation) and extensible (in order to add domain specificities). In other words, A0 acts as a bridge among the different architectural languages to be related together. The star architecture of DUALLy enables an agile and easy integration of architecture description languages. The DUALLy tra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YY.com | YY is a major Chinese video-based social network, a subsidiary of JOYY. It has over 300 million users. It features a virtual currency which users earn through activities such as karaoke or creating tutorial videos and which is later converted to real cash. Launched in 2005 as duowan.com (), it originally targeted gamers, before broadening to include video streaming and chat features for uses such as concerts, fashion and sports. Users exchange "virtual roses" as a form of currency, with top users said to earn as much as $20,000 per month. In November 2012, YY was listed on the NASDAQ.
The website was originally known as YY Voice (). On 24 November 2014, YY's video streaming service began operating independently as Huya Live.
On 18 November 2020, MuddyWatersResearch released a report claiming fraud in the financial and public reporting of JOYY Inc. leading to a significant decrease in the value of its shares.
References
External links
VoaNews: The Largest Social Network You've Never Heard Of
Forbes: YY.com, China's Unique Real-Time Voice and Video Service with a Virtual Goods Twist
New York Times: Lucrative Stardom in China Using a Webcam and a Voice
NPR: YY Changes Its Tune After Karaoke Is A Hit
Chinese social networking websites
Video hosting
Internet properties established in 2005
2005 establishments in China
Chinese brands
Chinese entertainment websites
Video game streaming services
Companies listed on the Nasdaq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus%20%28programming%20environment%29 | Fluxus is a live coding environment for 3D graphics, music and games. It uses the programming language Racket (a dialect of Scheme/Lisp) to work with a games engine with built-in 3D graphics, physics simulation and sound synthesis. All programming is done on-the-fly, where the code editor appears on top of the graphics that the code is generating. It is an important reference for research and practice in exploratory programming, pedagogy, live performance and games programming.
References
Digital art
Computer programming
Live coding
Algorave |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20S3%20Glacier | Amazon S3 Glacier is an online file storage web service that provides storage for data archiving and backup.
Glacier is part of the Amazon Web Services suite of cloud computing services, and is designed for long-term storage of data that is infrequently accessed and for which retrieval latency times of 3 to 5 hours are acceptable. Storage costs are a consistent $0.004 per gigabyte per month, which is substantially cheaper than the Simple Storage Service (S3) Standard tier .
Amazon hopes this service will move businesses from on-premises tape backup drives to cloud-based backup storage.
Storage
The underlying technology used by Glacier is unknown and subject to speculation.
Amazon officially states in their S3 FAQS:
Q: What is the backend infrastructure supporting the S3 Glacier Flexible Retrieval and S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class?
We prefer to focus on the customer outcomes of performance, durability, availability, and security. However, this question is often asked by our customers. We use a number of different technologies which allow us to offer the prices we do to our customers. Our services are built using common data storage technologies specifically assembled into purpose-built, cost-optimized systems using AWS-developed software. The S3 Glacier storage classes benefit from our ability to optimize the sequence of inputs and outputs to maximize efficiency accessing the underlying storage.
ZDNet says, that according to private e-mail, Glacier runs on "inexpensive commodity hardware components". In 2012, ZDNet quoted a former Amazon employee as saying that Glacier is based on custom low-RPM hard drives attached to custom logic boards where only a percentage of a rack's drives can be spun at full speed at any one time. Similar technology is also used by Facebook.
There is some belief among users that the underlying hardware used for Glacier storage is tape-based, owing to the fact that Amazon has positioned Glacier as a direct competitor to tape backup services (both on-premises and cloud-based). This confusion is exacerbated by the fact that Glacier has archive retrieval delays (3–5 hours before archives are available) similar to that of tape-based systems and a pricing model that discourages frequent data retrieval.
The Register claimed that Glacier runs on Spectra T-Finity tape libraries with LTO-6 tapes. Others have conjectured Amazon using off-line shingled magnetic recording hard drives, multi-layer Blu-ray optical discs, or an alternative proprietary storage technology.
Data storage consultant Robin Harris speculated that the storage is based on cheap optical disks such as Blu-ray, based on hints from public sources.
Cost
Glacier has two costs, one for storage and one for retrieval. Uploading data to Glacier is free. Storage pricing is simple: it currently costs 0.4 cents per gigabyte per month, which is 82% cheaper than S3 Standard. When Glacier launched in 2012, the storage charge was set to 1 cent per gigabyte pe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Intelligent%20Information%20Retrieval | Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) is a research center at the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst. It is a leading research center in the area of Information Retrieval and Information Extraction. CIIR is led by Distinguished Professor W. Bruce Croft and Professor James Allan.
References
University of Massachusetts Amherst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Advanced%20Security | Oracle Advanced Security, an extra-cost option for Oracle database environments, extends Oracle Net Services in the field of database computing to provide network security, enterprise-user security, public-key infrastructure security
and data encryption to users of Oracle databases.
Network encryption (native network encryption and SSL/TLS) and strong authentication services (Kerberos, PKI, and RADIUS) are no longer part of Oracle Advanced Security and are available in all licensed editions of all supported releases of the Oracle database.
History
Former incarnations of Oracle Advanced Security included Secure Network Services and Advanced Network Services, dating back to Oracle database Release 7.
Components
Oracle Key Vault (OKV) - key management
Footnotes
Oracle software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Soul%20Sunday | Super Soul Sunday is a self-help talk show hosted by Oprah Winfrey, which airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network. Super Soul Sunday premiered on October 16, 2011.
Format
Super Soul Sunday is designed to help viewers awaken to their best selves and discover a deeper connection to the world around them. Recognized by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences with Daytime Emmy Awards, the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation with a Gracie Award and the Religion Communicators Council with a Wilbur Award, Super Soul Sunday features conversations between Oprah and philosophers, authors, visionaries, and spiritual leaders. It presents an array of perspectives on what it means to be alive in today's world. Exploring themes and issues including happiness, personal fulfillment, spirituality and conscious living, guests who have appeared include: Elie Wiesel, Maya Angelou, Brené Brown, India Arie, Wayne Dyer, Gary Zukav, Iyanla Vanzant, Marianne Williamson, Phil Jackson, Ram Dass, Eckhart Tolle, Diana Nyad, Sarah Ban Breathnach, and Thich Nhat Hanh.
Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations Podcast (2017–present)
On August 6, 2017 Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations podcast premiered, featuring interviews pulled from the Super Soul Sunday television show and new conversations recorded exclusively for the podcast. New conversations recorded exclusively for the podcast have featured such guests as: Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Schumer, Phil McGraw, Will.i.am, Maria Shriver, former mayor of New Orleans Mitch Landrieu, Ralph Lauren, Tina Turner, Julia Roberts, and Michelle Obama.
On February 7, 2018, Winfrey hosted a live show for the podcast at the Apollo Theatre in New York City. The show was hosted by Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson of 2 Dope Queens and featured interviews with Jordan Peele, Stephen Colbert, Salma Hayek Pinault, Trevor Noah, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Yara Shahidi.
On February 8, 2019, Winfrey hosted Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations from Times Square, another live show for the podcast and television series at PlayStation Theater in New York City. The show featured interviews with Bradley Cooper, Michael B. Jordan, Beto O'Rourke, Melinda Gates, and Lisa Borders.
Super Soul on discovery+ (2021–present)
On March 6, 2021 a new streaming series hosted by Winfrey called SuperSoul premiered on the discovery+ streaming platform. Season one episodes included interviews with Andra Day, Chip and Joanna Gaines, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Sharon Stone, Jon Meacham, Dr. Bruce Perry, and Julianna Margulies.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2011–12)
Season 2 (2012)
Season 3 (2012)
Season 4 (2012)
Season 5 (2013)
Season 6 (2013)
Season 7 (2013)
Season 8 (2014)
Season 9 (2014)
Season 10 (2015)
Season 11 (2015)
Season 12 (2016)
Season 13 (2016)
Season 14 (2017)
Season 15 (2018–19)
Season 16 (2019)
Season 17 (2020–21)
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Oprah Winfrey Network original programming
2011 A |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP1 | GP1, GP-1, GP.1, GP 1 or variants may refer to:
Science and technology
Get Password 1 (computer virus)
Astronomy
GP1, IAU Minor Planet Center notation for small solar system bodies
(48689) 1996 GP1 aka "1996 GP1"
(6327) 1991 GP1 aka "1991 GP1"
Vehicles
Gehrlein GP-1, midwing sailplane "GP-1" manufactured by Gehrlein
González Gil-Pazó GP-1, trainer aircraft
Petronas FP1, a sport bike, original name GP1
GP1, an English Racing Automobiles E-type racecar
GP1, a Soviet gas turbine-electric locomotive design
Video games
Grand Prix 1, a Formula One video game by Microprose
GP-1, a motorcycle racing video game Atlus
Other uses
Canon de 75 mle GP1, a Belgian 75mm cannon
GP1, a High Efficiency Video Coding processor used by GoPro
GP1, (Gesellenprüfung Teil 1) Zwischenprüfung Der KFZ - Mechatroniker Ausbildung.
See also
MotoGP, motorcycle GP class 1
Formula 1, racecar GP class 1
GPA (disambiguation)
GPI (disambiguation)
GP (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightwork%20Design%20Ltd. | Lightwork Design Ltd. is a computer software company specialising in 3D Rendering software. Its headquarters are in Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Early history
Lightworks was founded in Sheffield in 1989, with the goal to create a software toolkit for producing photorealistic renders from 3D geometry. While originally based in the Sheffield Science Park, Lightworks is now based in Rutledge House, a building situated next to the Sheffield Botanical Gardens and originally built in the 1850s as the Victoria Park Hotel. The first Lightworks product was demonstrated at the 1990 Autofact exhibition in Detroit, USA. Sales of the initial Lightworks product commenced in early 1991, and the company signed their first major CAD developer, Unigraphics (now Siemens) in 1993. The company signed their first international customer, CPU of Japan, in 1994.
In 1995 Lightworks began to develop the MachineWorks toolkit. This led to the foundation of MachineWorks, which is now a separate company. In 1997, Lightworks launched a large model navigation system called Navisworks, which was sold in 2007 to Autodesk for $26 million. In 1999, Lightworks and Intel formed a partnership, and the company started to develop their products for the Linux platform.
Recent developments
Partnership with NVIDIA
At SIGGRAPH 2013, Lightworks announced a new partnership with NVIDIA to develop an SDK to provide access to NVIDIA's Iray technology. This SDK, called Iray+, is intended to provide physically accurate ray-tracing to clients who need to present their products to customers, and will have the ability to use cloud- and network-based rendering.
Products
Lightworks' current products are Lightworks Author and Iray+.
Lightworks Author
Lightworks Author was the first product launched by Lightwork Design. The main use of the product is in architectural design, interior design, engineering, and automotive design. The software works across Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, in 32- and 64-bit binaries.
Lightworks Iray+
Lightworks Iray+ was introduced at SIGGRAPH 2013. It uses the GPU-accelerated ray tracing engine developed by the NVIDIA Advanced Rendering Center to provide interactive product visualisations. Lightworks are also developing an Iray plugin for 3DS Max.
Previous Products
Artisan
In its 20th year,
Lightworks announced a new product called Lightworks Artisan at SIGGRAPH 2009. Also known as Renditioner for Trimble's SketchUp, this is a ready-to-deliver rendering product that is used alongside CAD/CAM programmes such as GstarCAD, ZWCAD, BricsCAD, Kubotek's KeyCreator, and several others.
In 2010, Artisan was integrated with Ascon's Kompas 3D and BeLight Software. The product introduced a number of new technologies including SnapShot capabilities and pre-loaded content libraries.
It is aimed towards 3D designers who want to create realistic images using a CAD programme. "SnapShot technology" refers to the ability to record the state of storage at any given moment. In Art |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasoft | Ultrasoft was a computer game developer and computer game publisher located in Bratislava, Slovakia. The company specialised in the development and publishing of games for the ZX Spectrum home computer. With over 40 titles published, its most successful including the platform game Towdie and puzzle games Atomix and Hexagonia – Atomix 2. Ultrasoft also acted as an exclusive distributor within the territory of Czechoslovakia for Ocean Software game software house based in the UK. Apart from computer games, the company also published a dozen or so non-game titles, mostly for learning foreign languages, as well as text, image, sound and music editors.
The company was founded by Louis Wittek in 1989, and dissolved in 1998.
Published games
Other published titles
Baby Mantrik (English for children)
Datalog 2 (Database)
DTP Machine Utility (DTP editor)
DTP Machine Professional Pack (Image/Text/DTP editor)
Mantrik Anglicky (Learning English)
Mantrik Nemecky (Learning German)
Mantrik Editor – Professor (Create your own lessons for Mantrik)
Mrs08E (ZX Spectrum Assembler editor)
ScreenMachine (Image editor)
SoundTracker (Music editor)
TextMachine (Text editor)
Tuition (Sinclair BASIC for beginners)
ZX-7 (Music & Sound editor)
Bit magazine
Between 1991–1994 Ultrasoft also published a specialised monthly magazine Bit, aimed at owners of home computers and dealing with computer games in particular.
References
External links
Ultrasoft s.r.o. at Moby Games
Ultrasoft s.r.o. at Game Spot
Ultrasoft at ZX Spectrum
Ultrasoft at ZX Spectrum Reviews
Ultrasoft at Game FAQs
Ultrasoft at GAME-OST
Ultrasoft at Games Database
Ultrasoft at RetroCpu
Ultrasoft at Adventureland
Ultrasoft - complete overview of games at ZX Spectrum Games
Hexagonia at World of Spectrum
Towdie at World of Spectrum
Towdie at ZX Art
Komando 2 - screenshots at Moby Games
Watch Kliatba Noci (Curse of the Night) on YouTube
Bit Magazine online at Old Games
Bit Magazine archive at ZX Magazin
Defunct video game companies of Slovakia
Video game companies established in 1989
Video game companies disestablished in 1998
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s%20Network%20Croatia | Women's Network Croatia is a network of non-governmental organizations based in Zagreb, Croatia. The network is engaged in advocacy and protection of women's rights. Since its formal establishment in 1996 the network brings together numerous feminist organizations from Croatia. In October 2022 organization's coordinator Bojana Genov criticized government's plan for gender equality and prevention of gender based violence as completely inadequate.
References
External links
http://www.zenska-mreza.hr/clanice_mreze/ (members list)
Women's organizations based in Croatia
1996 establishments in Croatia |
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