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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Smurfs%3A%20A%20Christmas%20Carol | The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol is a 2011 American computer-animated short film based on The Smurfs comic book series created by the Belgian comics artist Peyo, and is an adaptation Charles Dickens's 1843 novella A Christmas Carol. The animated short was written by Todd Berger and directed by Troy Quane, and it stars the voices of George Lopez, Jack Angel, Melissa Sturm, Fred Armisen, Gary Basaraba, Anton Yelchin and Hank Azaria. The film was produced by Sony Pictures Animation with the animation by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Duck Studios. The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol was released on DVD on December 2, 2011, attached to The Smurfs film.
When Grouchy Smurf behaves badly to everyone and refuses to celebrate Christmas, the Smurfs of Christmas Past, Present and Future teach him to appreciate Christmas or else every smurf will fall into the hands of Gargamel.
Plot
On Christmas Eve, the Smurfs get ready for their Christmas party. Hefty Smurf and Handy Smurf cut down a Christmas tree, and by Christmas evening, they all finish and start to celebrate. Grouchy Smurf refuses to join the party, expressing his hatred towards Christmas. After their Christmas party, all of the Smurfs go to bed and receive a gift from Papa Smurf - a Smurf hat handcrafted by him. Grouchy wakes up to find a present in front of his door.
He opens it and finds a Smurf hat, but not the one he had expected - a hang glider. Grouchy yells at the top of his lungs, "I hate Christmas". Subsequently, he sees everything around him turn into animation, and finds himself animated too.
Suddenly, he sees an angel appear, who seems to be Smurfette. She explains to him that she is the Smurf of Christmas Past come to teach him a lesson about appreciating Christmas. She shows him a young "Smurfling" receiving a gift, which is a Smurf hat, and how happy the Smurfling was to get it. Then the Smurf of Christmas Present, who is Brainy Smurf, appears and shows how he felt about the gift he had received. He then tells Grouchy that if he doesn't like Christmas, what will happen is Clumsy Smurf will accidentally burn the Christmas Tree and while he tries to put it out the tree will burn even more. He then tells him to be happy on Christmas.
Then the Smurf of Christmas Future, who appears as Hefty Smurf, shows Grouchy his future. Hefty tells him that if he doesn't change his ways, all of the Smurfs will wander into the forest and get captured by Gargamel and his cat Azrael.
Then everything around him goes back to its original form, and the Smurfs come and see Grouchy on the Christmas tree decorating it by putting ornaments on it. He admits that he was wrong about Christmas, Christmas isn't a time for hating, it's about having a family who loves him and cares for him, even through he's "Grouchy." Happy to see that Grouchy learned his lesson, Papa Smurf gives him his present first, which he wholeheartedly accepts and embraces Papa Smurf, who returns the embrace. He puts the star on the top of the tree |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Lacey | Steve, Steven or Stephen Lacey may refer to:
Stephen Lacey, rediscoverer of the Comb sort algorithm
Steve Lacey, singer in Gold City
Steven Lacey, racing driver in the 2012 Australian Sports Sedan season
Steve Lacey (sailor), see Soling North American Championship results (1980–1989) etc.
See also
Steve Lacy (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Job%20Bank | The Job Bank is an employment website operated by Employment and Social Development Canada. It provides an online database of job listings in Canada, as well as other employment services and information for recruiters and job seekers, including career planning, resume creation, job matching, and notifications.
Provinces under Labour Market Development Agreements with the federal government must contribute their listings to the Job Bank.
In 2018, Saskatchewan announced that it would discontinue its own provincial job search engine, SaskJobs, on May 1, 2018 in favor of the Job Bank, to provide "enhanced" services for its users. This came after the Brad Wall government made cuts to employment and work readiness programs in the 2017-18 provincial budget. Users criticized the Job Bank's design and functionality, and lamented the lack of features such as finer geographical regions and unrestricted options for job titles over SaskJobs, and the account system requiring finer personal information (including a social insurance number). In May 2018, the province chose to delay the full shutdown of SaskJobs for six additional months. The following year, SaskJobs was given $430,000 in funding in the 2019-20 provincial budget, with minister of immigration and career training Jeremy Harrison stating that maintaining SaskJobs alongside the Job Bank would provide residents "with the right balance in functionality and service to grow their careers and to grow our economy".
Employers
An employer can post a job on the Canadian Job Bank, obtain information about hiring international workers and various human resources issues, learn about permit and licensing matters, and obtain information about various incentive programmes.
Employees
Anyone can find general information about how to look for a job, how occupations are described in Canada, how to make a successful attempt to obtain a job, alternatives to employment, employment and work standards, requirements for working in Canada, and advice for specific categories of people.
Career exploration
A visitor can explore careers by occupation, wages and outlook, education programme, or skills and knowledge. If the visitor searches by occupation then the site provides a list of jobs from the Canadian Job Bank accompanied by median income for the geographical region, where available, and other information. The wages and outlooks option lists one of these kinds of information for either an occupation or a location. If the visitor selects education programme then the site will attempt to identify a programme based on key words input by the visitor. In the case of skills and knowledge the site displays how well the visitor's pattern of responses matches those of a variety of occupations.
References
External links
Canada International Gateway
Employment websites in Canada
Government-owned websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Police%20Computing%20and%20Material%20Service%20%28Norway%29 | National Police Computing and Material Service (, PMDT) is an agency of the Norwegian Police Service which has the responsibility for information and communications technology, procurement, security and real estate. Subordinate to the National Police Directorate, it was established in 2004.
Equipment
As of 2011 the police's new patrol cars are four-wheel drive Volkswagen Passat with automatic transmission. New transport cars are Mercedes-Benz Vito for light transport and Mercedes-Benz Sprinter for heavy transport. The police force operates two Eurocopter EC135 helicopters, which are based at Oslo Airport, Gardermoen. In addition, the Emergency Response Unit can use the Royal Norwegian Air Force's Bell 412 helicopters.
The police have two main types of uniforms, type I is used for personnel which primarily undertake indoor work, and type II is used for personnel which primarily undertakes outdoor service. Both types have summer and winter versions, and type I also has a dress uniform version. Both types use black as the dominant color with light blue shirts. Police officers are not armed with firearms during patrolling, but have weapons locked down in the patrol cars. Arming requires permission from the chief of police or someone designated by him. The police use Heckler & Koch MP5 submachine guns and Heckler & Koch P30 semi-automatic pistols. Specially-trained forces use Diemaco C8 assault rifles. Norwegian police officers do not use electroshock weapons.
Previously the police used a decentralized information technology system developed during the mid-1990s. As late as 2012 servers were still being run with Windows NT 4.0 from 1996 and log-on times were typically twenty minutes. The new IT-system D#2 was introduced in 2011 and will have been taken into use by all divisions by 2012. D#2 will be operated by ErgoGroup and will have two redundant server centers. Personnel have access to the system via thin clients. The police have a system to raise a national alarm to close border crossings and call in reserve personnel. The one time it was activated the message was not received by any of the indented recipients. Since 2009 it has been possible to report criminal damage and theft of wallets, bicycles and mobile telephones without known perpetrator online.
The Norwegian Public Safety Radio has been installed in Oslo, Østfold, Akershus and southern Buskerud. The system is uses Terrestrial Trunked Radio and allows for a common public safety network for all emergency agencies. Features include authentication, encryption and possibilities to transmit data traffic. As the system is rolled out, central parts will receive transmission speeds of 163 kbit/s. The rest of the country uses an analog radio system specific for each police district. In addition to lack of interoperability with paramedics and fire fighters, none of the systems are encrypted, forcing police officers to rely heavily on GSM-based mobile telephones for dispatch communication when tra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libzip | libzip is an open source library for handling zip archives. It is written in portable C and can thus be used on multiple operating systems. It is based on zlib. It is used by PHP's zip extension for zip file support and MySQL Workbench. It is also used by KDE's ark archiving tool for zip archive support.
Notable features
libzip supports reading and writing zip archives. In particular, it allows extracting single or multiple files and querying their attributes (including extra fields and comments). For writing, it allows replacing files or adding new ones; the data can come from buffers, files, or even other zip archives (without recompression). Extra field data and comments (both file and archive) can be added, modified, or deleted. All changes are finalized when closing the archive, so the on-disk archive is always self-consistent.
The zip64 extension for large files is also supported. Version 1.2.0 added support for encryption and decryption using AES, while version 1.3.0 added support for compression using bzip2. Version 1.7.0 added support for traditional PKWARE encryption. Version 1.8.0 added support for Zstandard and lzma.
When opening existing archives, a strict consistency check can be requested.
libzip is written in C but can be used from C++.
Since version 1.1, libzip contains ziptool, a tool for modifying zip archives from the command line.
See also
Zip (file format)
Zlib
References
External links
Free data compression software
Cross-platform software
Computer libraries
1999 software
Windows compression software
Linux archivers and compression-related utilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balaton%20Group | The Balaton Group (The International Network of Resource Information Centers) is a global network of researchers and practitioners in fields related to systems and sustainability. The name "Balaton Group" refers to the Lake Balaton region of Hungary, where the Group was first constituted, and where most of the Group's annual meetings have taken place. The Balaton Group aims to accelerate and deepen the world's general understanding of systems, long-term perspective and commitment to achieving positive change. The Group believes that these factors are fundamental to sustainable development.
Origins
The Balaton Group was founded in 1982 by Dennis Meadows and Donella Meadows, who are most widely known as co-authors with Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III of the 1972 book The Limits to Growth (commissioned by the Club of Rome).
The first meeting of the Balaton Group was held by Lake Balaton in Hungary in 1982. It brought together 30 scientists and managers from international organizations and institutions, such as The United Nations University, UNESCO, the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, and the International Federation of Institutes for Advance Study, to review the state of the art of natural resource modeling and to identify ways to advance the theory and the practice of regional resource management. Since its first meeting, nearly 400 participants from over 40 countries have participated in the Group. Membership in the Balaton Group is by invitation only and limited to those who have been invited to attend at least one annual meeting. That annual meeting, in turn, is limited to about 50 people.
Funding comes from the members themselves, individual donations and grants from foundations and government agencies. The Balaton group has no full-time staff or office space, and the organization of the group is mainly done by volunteers. The group is incorporated in the US, but most of its members and work are in Europe and Asia.
Outcomes
A number of sustainability ideas and projects emerged from the Balaton Group meeting processes, including for example energy efficiency and wind power policy programs in Denmark in the 1980s; the development and spread of the emerging field of sustainability indicators in the 1990s; and the establishment or expansion of several NGOs and training centers for sustainability in the 1990s and 2000s. Members of the Balaton Group have produced a number of publications that have been identified as "Reports to the Balaton Group". One of these reports is Donella H. Meadows Indicators and Information Systems for Sustainable Development from 1998.
References
External links
Voices Of Balaton, Trade and Environment, 1993 Meeting (Interview Excerpt)
International sustainability organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altas%20Horas | Altas Horas is a Brazilian television program broadcast by Rede Globo since 2000. It is hosted by Serginho Groisman.
External links
TV Globo original programming
Brazilian television talk shows
Portuguese-language television shows
2000 Brazilian television series debuts
2000s Brazilian television series
2010s Brazilian television series
2020s Brazilian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Tab%202%2010.1 | The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 is a 10.1-inch Android-based tablet computer produced and marketed by Samsung Electronics. It belongs to the second generation of the Samsung Galaxy Tab series, which also includes a 7-inch model, the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. It was announced on 25 February 2012, and launched in the US on 13 May 2012. It is the successor to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.
History
The Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 was announced on 25 February 2012. It was shown along with the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 at the 2012 Mobile World Conference. Although the two devices were originally scheduled to launch in March, they did not do so, with Samsung explaining that the delay was due to unspecified problems with Ice Cream Sandwich Samsung later confirmed that the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 would be released in the US on 13 May, with a price of $399.99 for the 16GB model.
Software
The Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 was originally released with Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich including apps from Google and Samsung and the Samsung TouchWiz UX app launcher. From September 2013 Samsung released an upgrade to Android 4.2.2 Jelly bean, both as an over-the-air (OTA) update and through Samsung Kies.
Hardware
The Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 is available in WiFi-only and 3G & WiFi variants. Storage ranges from 16 GB to 32 GB depending on the model, with a microSDXC card slot for expansion. It has a 10.1-inch PLS LCD screen with a resolution of 1280x800 pixel. It also features a VGA front camera without flash and 3.2 MP rear-facing camera. It also has the ability to record HD videos. It also has a 30-pin dock connector.
References
External links
Samsung Galaxy Tab series
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2012
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire%20Girls%3A%20Julissa%20and%20Adrienne | Empire Girls: Julissa and Adrienne is an American reality television series that premiered on the Style Network on June 3, 2012. The series follows the lives of rising Latina stars and best friends Julissa Bermudez and Adrienne Bailon as they try to get their big breaks in the entertainment industry.
Background
Julissa and Adrienne met on the set of the 2006 film All You've Got, where they become fast friends to the point of sharing Adrienne's larger trailer. Since then, they have supported each other through trials and tribulations in life and love. Julissa has hosted several programs for young adults on networks like MTV, BET, and more, including shows like 106 & Park and The Jersey Shore Aftershow. Her ultimate goal is to be a major talk show personality, like Oprah Winfrey. Adrienne has had success as a singer for pop groups 3LW and The Cheetah Girls, as well as an actress. Adrienne's inspiration is Jennifer Lopez, and solidifying her solo singing career is her primary objective. In addition to their career aspirations, the girls are eager to find the right guy to settle down with. Both have high profile exes in the world of sports and entertainment, and try to put their romantic pasts behind them.
Cast
Main
Julissa Bermudez
Adrienne Bailon
Recurring
Ashley Weatherspoon
Layla Kayleigh
Angie Martinez
Claudette Bailon Alexander
Jorge Santos
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2012 American television series debuts
2012 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Style Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro%20Area%20Express%20%28Perth%29 | Metro Area Express (MAX) was a proposed light rail network for Perth, Western Australia, as part of Colin Barnett's 2010 announcement of a decade of light rail for Perth. It was scheduled to open in 2018, then postponed until 2022, then replaced by concepts for rapid buses and heavy rail, until it was abandoned in 2016.
Background
Perth's original tramway network, which linked the Perth central business district with many of Perth's inner suburbs, was in operation between the end of the nineteenth century and 1958.
Since the start of 2007, there have been four proposals for the reintroduction of trams to the Perth metropolitan area, in the form of light rail. At least two of the proposals have been the subject of a detailed feasibility study.
In September 2012, the Government of Western Australia announced plans for a new Perth network, to be known as Metro Area Express (MAX).
Construction of the first stage was originally scheduled to begin in 2016, and be completed by the end of 2018. However, in December 2013 the government announced the project would be deferred for three years. Under the new timeframe the MAX network was to open in 2022.
In April 2014, incoming transport minister Dean Nalder stated the government would investigate splitting the project into two parts, to allow an earlier start to be made on construction with priority given to the Balga - CBD section.
In March 2015, the government announced it was considering using buses to implement the MAX route rather than light rail. Transport minister Dean Nalder said a preliminary analysis suggested that using buses would cost approximately 50% less than a light rail system. In February 2016 it was proposed by the government that a heavy rail line be built.
In June 2016 the government confirmed that the MAX light rail plan had been cancelled. While still planning a northern transport corridor, Transport Minister Dean Nalder said it would not be implemented using light rail and instead would use other alternatives.
Route
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The first stage of the MAX network was to run from the Polytechnic West campus in Balga, in Perth's northern suburbs, to the Perth CBD, with spur lines from the CBD to the Queen Elizabeth II Medical Centre in Nedlands and to the eastern end of the Causeway in Victoria Park.
Stops
See also
Trams in Fremantle
Trams in Australia
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
MAX – official site
Perth Light Rail – a coalition lobbying for the introduction of light rail to Perth
Light rail in Australia
Public transport in Perth, Western Australia
Perth Max |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances%20A.%20Rosamond | Frances Ann Novak Rosamond (born 1943) is an Australian computer scientist whose research interests include computer education and parameterized complexity. She is the editor of the Parameterized Complexity Newsletter, moderator of the parameterized complexity wiki, and publicity chair of the International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation.
Rosamond obtained a PhD from Cornell University in 1981; her thesis work, supervised by David Henderson, involved developing the Cornell Mathematics Support Center, which continues to be active. While at Cornell, she also developed a program to assist adult women overcome mathematics anxiety and progress along the “Scheme of Intellectual and Ethical Development” created by William G. Perry.
Rosamond’s research in education also includes computer games, including methodology for systematically generating game puzzles utilizing NP-completeness. At the University of Newcastle, Australia, Rosamond developed a new program of computer games, and a guest-visitor seminar series. Since 1998, Rosamond and her husband Michael Fellows have provided workshops on the mathematical foundations of computer science to children and adults in many countries. Rosamond orchestrated Sonia Kovalevskia Mathematics Days for girls and their teachers when she was professor of mathematics at National University in San Diego (1986-2000), and was a promoter of the San Diego Science Alliance. She received a University of Newcastle HEEP Equity Award for her investigation into increasing the number of women in computer science.
Rosamond has served on the Mathematics Association of America Committee on Mathematics and the Environment, Committee on Under-represented Minorities and Committee on the Teaching of Undergraduate Mathematics and, chaired the Task Force on Data Collection and Policy Issues. She was the representative to the JOINT-AMS-AWM-ASA-IMS-MAA-NCTM-SIAM Committee on Women in the Mathematical Sciences. Together with Sue Geller and Patricia Kenschaft, Frances developed and acted in the MAA Skit Program, a humorous presentation of recent discrimination events with disguised identities. Rosamond helped arrange for the Mathematical Association of America to be an official non-governmental organization of The United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women and to present workshops at the conference. Rosamond has served the mathematics education community as one of the original members of the Association for Women in Mathematics. She was an invited delegate to the first Women and Mathematics delegation to the People’s Republic of China in 1991. She has served on the board of directors of the Women in Mathematics Education Association, and as a member of the Nominations and Elections committee. She has been active in the American Educational Research Association, Greater San Diego Mathematics Council, and California Mathematics Council.
References
External links
Parameterized Complexity Wiki (http://www.fpt.wikidot.co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Targowski | Andrew (Andrzej) Stanislaw Targowski (born October 9, 1937) is a Polish–American computer scientist specializing in enterprise computing, societal computing, information technology impact upon civilization, information theory, wisdom theory, and civilization theory. One of the pioneers of applied information systems in Poland, he is an executive, university professor, scientist, civilizationist, philosopher, visionary, writer, and generalist.
In Poland he is known for developing a computerized the social security number (PESEL, 1972–74) for 38 million citizens, a prototype of INFOSTRADA (1972–1974), and authoring of the first books on applied information technology in business, economy, and society. In the United States he has developed one of the first digital cities in the U.S., teleCITY of Kalamazoo, Michigan (1992–1996). He concentrated on the cognitive informatics-oriented development of the theories of enterprise-wide system, information, communication, civilization, and wisdom.
Biography
Targowski was born in Warsaw, Poland. His father, Stanislaw, Adam (1893–1945) was a lawyer, diplomat, politician, and writer. Targowski's father was arrested by the Germans in 1940 and sent to Auschwitz, later to Gross-Rosen and Nordhausen Mittelbau-Dora, where he was a slave worker for the production of V1 and V2 weapons. On March 21, 1945, he was publicly executed by hanging for sabotaging that production. Targowski's mother Halina Krzyrzanska-Targowska (1907–1975) was born on her parents' large estate in Eastern Poland-Podole, now in Ukraine. She was a teenager when the Russian Revolution 1917 devastated her family, which resulted in her escaping to Warsaw. During the Warsaw (Polish) Uprising (September 1944) she was wounded 14 times. She was able to take out her son Andrew (then 7 years old) from a pile of corpses, after the execution. After the War, Targowski went to the private (later nationalized) W.Gòrski School in Warsaw. When Joseph Stalin died on March 23, 1953, he and other boys shot air guns at pictures of the state officials, hanging in a classroom, celebrating the too soon conceived victory over the occupiers. Consequently, he was expelled from the school and completed his baccalaureate at the T. Reytan School in Warsaw in 1954. He married Alicja Kowalczyk in 1962 and has a son Stan (Stanislaw – computer scientist). After his divorce, he remarried Irmina Dura-Kubas (MD and Ph.D.) in 1978 and has a son John (attorney) and a step-daughter Agnieszka (geophysicist), and three grandchildren; Julian (computer professional), Marcel and Veronica.
Education
Targowski graduated from the Warsaw Politechnic (1961) from the Faculty of Industrial Engineering. Defended in a public presentation a master's degree thesis on "The Computerized Integrated Information Systems in the RAWAR T1 Factory," which was making military and civilian (commercial navy) radars. In 1962 he formulated (behind the Iron Curtain) the model of a list of parts and components |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docwest | DocWest is the name of The Centre for Production and Research of Documentary Film at The University of Westminster, London. Established in 2009, it brings together an interdisciplinary network of researchers, practitioners and students to foster creative conversations about documentary practice. In its premises in Central London it hosts a range of screenings, master-classes and conferences involving practitioners in today’s documentary world.
DocWest activities include teaching, film production, and academic research in documentary discourse, its history and its connection to art and politics. Particular attention is given to the study areas of Visual Anthropology and Human Rights, Arts Documentary and the Documentary Archive, whilst extending the range of production and research into other fields of documentary study, such as the interactive documentary and the web-based documentary.
DocWest has developed a PhD programme, with both theoretical and practice-based doctoral degrees focusing on a variety of contexts and referencing many different documentary traditions.
Recent projects include the film The Act of Killing and Arts on Film Archive and the book Killer Images published by Columbia University Press. The most recent project, the film The Act of Killing, was part of a major UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) research project, directed by Prof Joram ten Brink, the director of DocWest, and Joshua Oppenheimer, the director of the film.
Errol Morris' reaction to the film was “Every now and then a non-fiction film comes along that is unlike anything else I have seen: Buñuel’s LAND WITHOUT BREAD, Werner Herzog’s FATA MORGANA, Hara’s THE EMPEROR’S NAKED ARMY MARCHES ON. Well, it’s happened again. Here, Joshua Oppenheimer invites unrepentant Indonesian death-squad leaders to make fiction films re-enacting their violent histories. Their cinematic dreams dissolve into nightmares and then into bitter reality. Like all great documentary, THE ACT OF KILLING demands another way of looking at reality. It is like a hall of mirrors––the so-called mise-en-abyme––where real people become characters in a movie and then jump back into reality again. And it asks the central question: what is real? Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in a Paris Review interview, wrote about reading Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” for the first time, “I didn’t know you were allowed to do that.” I have the same feeling with this extraordinary film,” and Werner Herzog reacted “THE ACT OF KILLING invents a new form of cinematic surrealism.”
References
Documentary film organizations
University of Westminster |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WZZQ | WZZQ (1500 AM) is a radio station licensed to Gaffney, South Carolina.
As WEAC, the station took over the former programming of sister FM WAGI in 2007. WOLT took over Gaffney High School broadcasts. Dennis Fowler, who served as Gaffney Broadcasting station manager, bought WEAC at the time Davidson Media Group bought WAGI.
Unless the listener was in Cherokee County, it was nearly impossible to receive the AM broadcast, due to its low power 1,000 watt daytime only transmitter. WZZQ transmits from the original WAGI studio on Providence Road in Gaffney and broadcast in the daytime only until August 23, 2009, when the translator W282AX was added at 104.3 to add nighttime programming and a wider signal range.
For the 2009 season, Gaffney High School sports moved from WOLT to WZZQ's FM translator.
WZZQ began broadcasting pre-game coverage of the football games of the Limestone College Saints during their debut season in 2014. WZZQ also airs broadcasts of "Saints Live!" relating to Limestone sports from Limestone's campus and Fatz Cafe in Gaffney. The program often features interviews with student athletes from Limestone.
On July 6, 2015 WZZQ changed their format from country to adult hits, branded as "Gaffney's Hot FM".
References
External links
Gaffney Ledger Editorial on the WAGI format change
ZZQ
ZZQ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday%27s%20Bride | Yesterday's Bride is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Lovi Poe in the title role. It premiered on October 29, 2012 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Hindi Ka na Mag-iisa. The series concluded on February 22, 2013 with a total of 85 episodes. It was replaced by Unforgettable in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Lovi Poe as Andrea Manalo / Lorraine Agustin
Works in a furniture shop owned by the Ramirezes, the simple, uneducated but kind-hearted, Andrea falls in love with her boss's son, Justin Ramirez. Despite their diverse social backgrounds and the obvious opposition of the latter's parents, the young lovers are determined to fight for their love and happiness. On her way to her wedding with Justin, an accident strikes which renders her into a coma. Andrea is found pregnant. The more that Justin shows his care, love and attention for her. Another twist of fate comes to a worse when fire breaks out in the hospital. Miraculously, Andrea wakes up and finds herself in a mansion not knowing who the owner is, and even forgetting her name and her past.
Supporting cast
Rocco Nacino as Justin Ramirez
Born from a prominent family, Justin is the sheltered heir of the Ramirezes. He falls deeply in love with their lowly worker, Andrea Manalo, much to his mother's dismay. Out of extreme love, he braves all the obstacles just to be with the woman he loves. Tragedy strikes and fate takes a sudden twist and destroy their dreams of having a simple and happy family life together.
Luis Alandy as Dr. Celso Agustin
A respectable and kind-hearted doctor who saves and takes good care of Andrea Manalo during her "loss" times and even giving her a name, Loraine. Soon, Celso and Loraine/Andrea find themselves falling in love with each other. But things get complicated as the latter starts to regain her memory and unravel the mystery of her past.
Karel Marquez as Dr. Sabrina Torres
The doctor who delivered Andrea's baby. She is a bipolar woman who loves Justin Ramirez to a passion. She will do anything to lure the latter into her trap and determined to take down anyone who dares to get in her way.
Ara Mina as Josilda Ramirez
Justin's ambitious and arrogant mother and the owner of the huge furniture shop where Andrea works. She will do everything to keep her precious son away from Andrea, even if it means making life hell for Andrea in the most evil way imaginable.
Emilio Garcia as Pete Ramirez
The spouse of Josie and the strict father of Justin and Joel. Self-centered and over-domineering, Pete seeks to control everything and everyone.
Mark Bautista as Dave Serrano
Celso Agustin's close friend and confidante. He also works as a doctor. He proves himself a true friend as he constantly stands by Celso's side through all the latter’s ordeals.
Raquel Villavicencio as Conchita Agustin
The mother of Dr. Celso Agustin. She hates Loraine/Andrea for her son and will do whatever |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Andrew%20%28publisher%29 | William Andrew is a technical publishing house and an imprint of Elsevier.
The publisher was founded as an independent publisher in 1990, providing technical databooks to the plastics industry. They are based in Norwich, NY. In 1999, they purchased Noyes Publications. After an 18-month shared distribution agreement, Elsevier purchased William Andrew in January, 2009.
References
External links
Elsevier imprints
Book publishing companies based in New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Voice%20Thailand | The Voice เสียงจริงตัวจริง, (also known as The Voice Thailand) is a Thai reality television series on the Channel 3 television network. It premiered on 9 September 2012 on Channel 3. The format is adapted from the original Dutch version, The Voice of Holland. The program was commissioned after a successful first season in the United States, where the program aired on NBC domestically, and AXN Asia regionally. It is produced by True Music and Toh-Klom Televisions. After producing six seasons, in 2018, the show was acquired by PPTV HD for two seasons. After 2 years passed, during the COVID-19 pandemic, The Voice Thailand come back with the "All Stars" season in One31.
Format
The Voice is a reality television series that features four coaches looking for a talented new artist, who could become a global superstar. The show's concept is indicated by its title: the coaches do not judge the artists by their looks, personalities, stage presence, or dance routines, only their vocal ability. It is this aspect that differentiates The Voice from other reality television series such as The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent or even Must Be the Music. In the Blind auditions, the competitors are split into four teams, which are mentored by the coaches. If a coach likes what they hear, a button-press allows their chair to spin around and face the performer, signifying that they would like to mentor them. If more than one does so, then the artist selects a coach. However, if no coach turns around then the artist is sent home. There are five different stages: producers' auditions, blind auditions, battles, knockouts, and live shows.
Coaches and contestants
Coaches
Contestants
Winning coach and/or contestant, with winners in bold
Runner-up coach and/or contestant
3rd place coach and/or contestant
4th place coach and/or contestant
Season summary
The Voice Kids
The Voice Kids is a singing competition for children aged 7 to 14 years, and a junior version of The Voice Thailand. Following the success of the first season of The Voice Thailand, the series was produced after purchasing rights from Talpa Media Group in the Netherlands, making Thailand the sixth country to start producing The Voice Kids.
Series overview
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The Voice Senior
The Voice Senior is a singing competition for contestants over the age of 60, being a senior version of The Voice Thailand. The series is produced by PPTV 36 after acquiring the show from the original Dutch version. Also, this is the first The Voice Senior of Asia.
Series overview
The Voice All Stars
After a 2-year break because of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Voice Thailand announced through Instagram and other social media platforms that they will be broadcasting an All-Star edition in July, which is the first in Asia (second to air, because the Indonesian version has aired first even it announced later). The show will occur by One 31 instead of P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89coles%20nationales%20des%20sciences%20appliqu%C3%A9es | The network of Écoles nationales des sciences appliquées (ENSA, ) is a group of higher education Moroccan public schools delivering engineering courses under the system of French grandes écoles. It is the largest network of engineering schools in Morocco. In fact, this network includes 11 ENSA throughout the Kingdom; Agadir, Al Hoceima, El Jadida, Fes, Kenitra, Khouribga, Marrakech, Oujda, Safi, Tangier and Tetouan. The Forum "ENSA Maroc", organized by engineering students of ENSA Agadir, is the first high-level meeting between engineering students, professors and administrators of the network of National Schools of Applied Sciences throughout the Kingdom.
List of schools
Grounding
ENSA training lasts 5 years. After two years of preparatory integrated education these schools offer many courses in the engineering cycle
ENSA Tanger
Telecommunication and Networks engineering
Computer science engineering
Electronic and Automatic Systems
Industrial engineering and Logistics
Energy and Environmental engineering
ENSA Oujda
Computer engineering
Electrical engineering
Industrial engineering
Telecommunications and Networks
Electronics and Industrial Computing and
Civil Engineering
ENSA Agadir
Computer engineering
Industrial engineering
Engineering Processes for Energy and the Environment
ENSA Safi
Industrial engineering
Telecommunication and Networks engineering
Computer engineering
Process engineering and ceramic materials
ENSA Fès
Computer engineering
Telecommunication and Networks engineering
Industrial engineering
Mechatronics engineering
Embedded engineering systems and industrial IT
ENSA Al Hoceima
Computer engineering
Civil engineering
Data engineering
Environmental engineering
Energy Engineering and Renewable Energies
ENSA El Jadida
Telecommunication and Networks engineering
Energy and power engineering
ENSA Kénitra
Computer engineering
Mechatronics engineering
Telecommunication and Networks engineering
Electrical engineering
Industrial engineering
ENSA Khouribga
Computer engineering
Telecommunication and Networks engineering
Engineering Processes for Energy and the Environment
Electrical engineering
ENSA Tétouan
Computer engineering
Telecommunication and Networks engineering
Mechatronics engineering
Logistics and Transportation engineering
Civil engineering
ENSA Marrakech
Computer engineering
Telecommunication and Networks engineering
Electrical engineering
Industrial engineering and logistics
ENSA Berrechid
aeronautical engineering
Information Systems Engineering and Big Data
References
External links
Site du Forum ENSA Maroc
Écoles du Maroc
Education in Morocco
Engineering universities and colleges |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole%20nationale%20des%20sciences%20appliqu%C3%A9es%20de%20F%C3%A8s | The École nationale des sciences appliquées de Fès (ENSAF) is a public engineering school located in Fez, Morocco part of the national network of schools of applied sciences-ENSA. It was created in 2005 and follows a five year course structure.
Programs offered
Computer engineering
Telecommunication and Networks engineering
Industrial engineering
Mechanical engineering and automate systems.
Embedded systems and industrial computing.
External links
Site officiel
Education in Morocco
Buildings and structures in Fez, Morocco
Engineering universities and colleges |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugo%20%26%20Lala | Yugo & Lala (, lit. "A mysterious world adventures") is a 2012 Chinese computer animated film directed by Wang Yunfei. It was followed by the 2014 film Yugo & Lala 2.
Synopsis
Precocious ten-year-old Yugo, a village girl who is also a student of martial arts, meets a white "liger", a half lion, half tiger creature born from a magic stone. It introduces itself as Lala. Shocked that she can understand the animal's language, Yugo chases it up a mountain where a waiting Cloud Whale swallows them both whole. Inside its giant stomach, there are many different creatures all excitedly being transported to Animal Paradise, a fantastical kingdom that welcomes only 99 chosen ones every ten years. However, human beings are forbidden in the kingdom, any that remain for more than three days will be transformed into an animal forever. To return home, Yugo seeks the help of the seemingly ferocious Uncle Bear, a black bear with a sharp tongue but a gentle heart. As time is running out for Yugo, she and Lala uncover Tiger General's devious plot to open a magical portal into Lala's world and turn every human into an animal. As Yugo's neighbours are transformed into animals one-by-one, she desperately seeks a way to destroy the gateway between the two worlds... only to discover that her new friend Lala is the magical portal.
Cast
Lu Liu
Meng Quanlin
Lu Kui
Feng Sheng
Jiang Guangtao
Zhang Yaohan
Li Lihong
English voice cast
Maile Flanagan as Lala
Abraham Benrubi as Mr. Bear
J.K. Simmons as General Tiger
Cristina Pucelli as Additional Voices
Tom Arnold as Additional Voices
Mira Sorvino
George Takei
References
External links
2012 films
2012 animated films
Chinese animated films
2012 computer-animated films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20file%20copying%20software | This article provides a list of inbuilt and third party file copying and moving software - utilities and other software used, as part of computer file management, to explicitly move and copy files and other data on demand from one location to another on a storage device.
File copying is a fundamental operation for data storage. Most popular operating systems such as Windows, macOS and Linux as well as smartphone operating systems such as Android contain built-in file copying functions as well as command line (CLI) and graphical (GUI) interfaces to filing system copy and move functions. In some cases these can be replaced or supplemented by third-party software for different, extended, or improved functionality. This article lists inbuilt as well as external software designed for this purpose.
Related software
For software designed to copy, clone, image or author entire storage devices such as CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray disks, hard drives and storage device partitions, back up data, copiers that work on storage devices as a logical unit, and more general file managers and other utilities related to file copying software, please see:
Functionality and demands met by file copy software
Examples of comparable operating functionality seen across file copying programs:
Criteria for original files and target location: typically a location and criteria for selection within that location) and destination location
Existing target files: action to take in relation to existing files in target location (if a file already exists, does not exist, or other files exist)
A subtlety in handling existing files is whether such files are overwritten on attempting to copy, or they are renamed (or the target temporarily named) and only removed once the replacement file has been verified.
Verification: actions taken to ensure integrity of resulting compared to original files
Queuing: how multiple operations, or operations on large files (or large numbers of files) should be scheduled and prioritized, and any queue management
Operator confirmations and warnings: whether and when to request confirmation of an action
File properties: whether to copy file attributes, timestamps, and permissions
Filing system idiosyncrasies: for example, Windows filing systems may also track "8.3" short filenames or may be unable to correctly handle long file names
Program flow and algorithms: multi-threading, buffering, data speed/priority, interruption/restart handling, atomicity/integrity assurance, and other algorithms that affect efficiency of operation.
A notable function here relates to options determining whether the underlying file system will be requested to perform a move operation, a copy operation, or create or delete a new junction point (hard link), if this will meet the needs of the requested action. Moving, linking and delinking can be much faster and lower risk then copying, but are not always desirable or available. In particular they may not be available when the s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-line%20programming%20%28robotics%29 | Off-line programming (OLP) is a robot programming method where the robot program is created independent from the actual robot cell. The robot program is then uploaded to the real industrial robot for execution. In off-line programming, the robot cell is represented through a graphical 3D model in a simulator. Nowadays OLP and robotics simulator tools help robot integrators create the optimal program paths for the robot to perform a specific task. Robot movements, reachability analysis, collision and near-miss detection and cycle time reporting can be included when simulating the robot program.
OLP does not interfere with production as the program for the robot is created outside the production process on an external computer.
This method contradicts to the traditional on-line programming of industrial robots where the robot teach pendant is used for programming the robot manually.
The time for the adoption of new programs can be cut from weeks to a single day, enabling the robotization of short-run production.
Software
Examples of software and hardware supporting off-line programming:
SprutCAM
RobotMaster
PQArt
References
Robotics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Lumia%20920 | Nokia Lumia 920 is a smartphone developed by Nokia that runs the Windows Phone 8 operating system. It was announced on September 5, 2012, and was first released on November 2, 2012. It has a 1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Krait CPU and a 4.5" IPS TFT LCD display, as well as a high-sensitivity capacitive touchscreen that can be used with gloves and fingernails; the display is covered by curved Gorilla Glass and has a 9 ms response time. The phone features an 8.7-megapixel PureView camera with OIS; it was the first smartphone camera to implement that technology, as well as to support Qi inductive charging. The phone comes with 32 GB of internal storage, but has no expandable storage.
The Lumia 920 was released to mixed to positive reception. Most critics noted the device as the first Windows Phone 8 device to truly match its Android and iOS competitors in hardware, with high-end specifications, a Nokia PureView camera and unique features such as wireless inductive charging. Following this, the Lumia 920 would frequently be listed among the "elite" group smartphone during its time, otherwise populated by heavyweights from Apple and Samsung. This represented the first time a Windows Phone device had been considered to have powerful and impressive enough hardware to qualify as a truly high-end flagship device. Many features such as the super-sensitive capacitive screen and wireless inductive charging were popularised by the device and were found in later high-end Android phones. The Lumia 920 went on to win 12 awards.
Some reviewers criticised the thickness and weight of the Lumia 920, so Nokia released the Nokia Lumia 925, a lighter and thinner version of the Lumia 920 with an aluminium body and an improved camera. The Nokia Lumia 930, successor to the Lumia 92x series, was announced at Build 2014 on April 2, 2014.
Hardware
The Nokia Lumia 920 shares the "Fabula" design language of its predecessors, the Lumia 900 and 800, as well as the Nokia N9, with a unibody polycarbonate shell. Multiple colours with glossy and matte finishes were available.
Processors, memory and storage
The Lumia 920 has a 1.5 GHz dual-core Qualcomm Krait CPU, a Qualcomm Adreno 225 GPU and 1 GB of system RAM. The Lumia 920T variant for the Chinese market comes with a 1.7 GHz dual-core Krait CPU and an Adreno 320 GPU.
All variants of the Nokia Lumia 920 come with an internal storage capacity of 32 GB and do not support microSD expansion.
Screen
The Lumia 920 has a 4.5-inch (114 mm) curved Gorilla Glass display with a resolution of 1280x768 (WXGA) and an aspect ratio of 15:9, using enhanced IPS screen technology which Nokia calls "PureMotion HD+". It has less than 9 ms average transition times, compared to an average of 23 ms for conventional IPS LCDs, which reduces motion blur. The screen has ClearBlack polarisation filters and an automatic adaptive system for adjusting brightness, colour and contrast details to compensate for lighting.
Camera
The Lumia 920 has Nokia's Pur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MobileBits | MobileBits Corporation is an American marketing technology/advertising company that operated a pure brand mobile marketing and engagement network called Samy and which markets a software platform for developing mobile shopping applications.
History
MobileBits Corporation is a United States mobile technology company. Walter Kostiuk, a former BlackBerry executive, founded the company in 2010 Between 2011 and 2013, MobileBits acquired 3 companies to help accelerate grow of its IP holdings, product platform and software development resources starting with the merger of Pringo Inc. on July 1, 2011 bringing a social media integrated development platform called Pringo Connect.
MobileBits then acquired Aixum Tec on August 20, 2012 bringing it an enterprise back-end software system developed for retailers to market exclusive offers, deals and coupons as well as deliver digital loyalty and rewards cards on mobile devices called Samy4me.
The Company also acquired the assets of Proximus Mobility, an Atlanta-based hyperlocal proximity based marketing software company on June 4, 2013 bringing the Samy product enhanced proximity and geofencing capabilities.
Product
On August 30, 2012, MobileBits introduced SAMY, a shopping application for iPhone and Android. A store, merchant, or retailer can upload vouchers, offers, create loyalty cards and create messages in the application. Those vouchers, offers and loyalty cards can be viewed by users of the application. Users can select specific companies that are listed in the application to add to their, 'My Samy' section of the mobile application. SAMY supports over 35,000 merchants in Switzerland, Canada, and the United States. Due to the success of the Samy mobile application and business model, MobileBits Inc, in 2016 subsequently introduced a white label version of their technology for third party partners to deploy in local markets. It is defined as a mobile commerce Network platform.
Partners
In 2012, Quantum Group partnered with MobileBits to provide access to SAMY for all of Quantum Groups merchants through their existing Point of Sale systems.
In May 2013, MobileBits signed a strategic agreement with DDR Corp. (now SITE Centers), a real estate investment trust. The agreement provided for the acquisition of DDR's proprietary location-based mobile marketing solution called ValuText and the opportunity for MobileBits to distribute Samy through 450 shopping centers.
MobileBits-owned marketing and engagement network Samy, finalized an exclusive multi-year agreement with Ignivia Technologies on July 8, 2013 to provide Samy services in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Lebanon.
In 2013, MobileBits received a job creation grant from Sarasota County FL with support of the Economic Development Council of Sarasota (EDC).
Awards
MobileBits has received numerous awards for its Mobile Commerce Network and Samy products including a being recognize |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%20Tannenbaum | Allen Robert Tannenbaum (born January 25, 1953) is an is an American applied mathematician who is presently the Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics & Statistics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is also Visiting Investigator of Medical Physics at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He has held a number of other positions in the United States, Israel, and Canada including the Bunn Professorship of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Interim Chair, and Senior Scientist at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1973 and Ph.D. with thesis advisor Heisuke Hironaka at the Harvard University in 1976.
Tannenbaum has done research in numerous areas including robust control, computer vision, and biomedical imaging, having almost 500 publications. He pioneered the field of robust control with the solution of the gain margin and phase margin problems using techniques from Nevanlinna–Pick interpolation theory, which was the first H-infinity type control problem solved. Tannenbaum used techniques from elliptic curves to show that the reachability does not imply pole assignability for systems defined over polynomial rings in two or more variables over an arbitrary field. He pioneered the use of partial differential equations in computer vision and biomedical imaging co-inventing with Guillermo Sapiro an affine-invariant heat equation for image enhancement. Tannenbaum further formulated a new approach to optimal mass transport (Monge-Kantorovich) theory in joint work with Steven Haker and Sigurd Angenent. In recent work, he has developed techniques using graph curvature ideas for analyzing the robustness of complex networks.
His work has won several awards including IEEE Fellow in 2008, O. Hugo Schuck Award of the American Automatic Control Council in 2007 (shared with S. Dambreville and Y. Rathi), and the George Taylor Award for Distinguished Research from the University of Minnesota in 1997. He has given numerous plenary talks at major conferences including the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Control in 1998, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control of the IEEE Control Systems Society in 2000, and the International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS) in 2012. He is also well known as one of the authors of the textbook Feedback Control Theory (with John Doyle and Bruce Francis), which is currently a standard introduction to robust control at the graduate level.
His wife Rina Tannenbaum is a chemist and his son Emmanuel David Tannenbaum was a biophysicist and applied mathematician.
Georgia Tech/Technion employment controversy
In 2011 an audit by Georgia Tech accused professors Allen Tannenbaum and his wife Rina Tannenbaum that they violated Georgia Institute of Technology and State policies by working simultaneously at Georgia Tech |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIYE-LD | WIYE-LD (channel 26) is a low-power television station in Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States, affiliated with CBS and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Gray Television alongside NBC affiliate WTAP-TV (channel 15) and low-power Fox affiliate WOVA-LD (channel 22). The three stations share studios on Market Street (official address is One Television Plaza) in downtown Parkersburg; WIYE-LD's transmitter is located in Independence Township, Ohio.
Although associated with WTAP-TV's news department, there are currently no local newscasts produced exclusively for WIYE-LD and/or any simulcast from the NBC outlet.
History
On April 10, 2012, then-owner Wood Investments LLC announced it was selling WWVX-LP (the station's former callsign) and WVEX-LP (the former callsign of WOVA) to Gray Television for $66,000. Gray changed the callsign of WWVX-LP to WIYE-LP on June 19, 2012, and changed its city of license from Marietta to Parkersburg.
On July 17, 2012, Gray Television signed an affiliation agreement with CBS for WIYE-LP and two other low-powered stations WECP-LD in Panama City, Florida, and WSVF-LD in Harrisonburg, Virginia. As a result, WIYE-LP became the CBS affiliate for the Mid-Ohio Valley on September 3, 2012.
The station, along with WOVA-LD (which took the Fox affiliation from WTAP's second digital subchannel), became the second and third full-time commercial over-the-air network affiliates in the area; WTAP has had the market more or less to itself since it signed on in 1953 (the only other stations in the area being PBS member station WOUB-TV and sister stations WIYE and WOVA). Before channel 47 signed on, WOWK-TV in Huntington had served as the default CBS affiliate for the West Virginia side of the market while WBNS-TV in Columbus served the Ohio side and was carried on the Parkersburg DirecTV feed. On October 1, 2012, the station changed its call sign to WIYE-LD.
WIYE-LD2
WIYE-LD2 is the dual MeTV/MyNetworkTV-affiliated second digital subchannel of WIYE-LD, broadcasting in 720p High-definition on channel 26.2. It can also be seen on Suddenlink and CAS Cable channel 5 (hence the on-air branding My 5).
Overnight, it aired a live Doppler weather radar feed seen during weather forecasting segments on WTAP's newscasts. It also carries programming from MeTV, which now takes up the entire schedule outside of MyNetworkTV programming, which currently airs from 1 to 3 a.m. Tuesdays to Saturdays, an increasingly common fate for the service.
On April 10, 2006, WTAP launched a third digital subchannel to serve as the area's first locally based UPN affiliate. To make the service possible, WTAP underwent a technical transformation. It carved out a new digital control rooms from space previously used for storage. The station also installed entirely digital production and master control rooms. After UPN merged with The WB to form The CW in September 2006, WTAP-DT3 transitioned from UPN to Fox's new sister network, MyNetworkTV. On September 3, 2012, the st |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying%20Squad%20%28TV%20series%29 | Flying Squad was a documentary television series broadcast in 1989 on the British ITV network. Flying Squad was a joint production between Argo Productions and Thames Television. The series followed the elite unit, known as The Flying Squad. The unit is a branch of the Specialist Crime & Operations section, within London's Metropolitan Police Service.
Episodes
The series consisted of 8 thirty-minute episodes broadcast in February and March 1989; however one of the episodes was delayed due to legal reasons and broadcast in January 1990. Each episode followed a particular Flying Squad operation in a fly-on-the-wall format through its planning stages to the conclusion. Many of the episodes featured suspects under police surveillance, planning and carrying out armed robberies, culminating in a pavement ambush by armed officers whilst offenders were in the act of committing the crime. Other episodes featured Flying Squad officers carrying out their daily duties.
The episodes were:
Operation Boxer, originally broadcast 8 February 1989.
Operation Pelican, originally broadcast 15 February 1989.
Operation Jackdaw, originally broadcast 22 February 1989.
Operation Turkey, originally broadcast 1 March 1989.
Operation Night-Hawk, originally broadcast 8 March 1989.
Operation Admiral, originally broadcast 15 March 1989.
The Team at Tower Bridge, originally broadcast 22 March 1989.
Operation Dachshund, originally broadcast 16 January 1990 and delayed due to legal reasons.
Operation Turkey
One of the most memorable episodes, Operation Turkey, featured the theft of £10,000 in wages from a Bejam supermarket in Hare Street, Woolwich on 23 November 1987. The robbery was set up by a police informant named Seamus Ray. Following the raid, robbers Ronnie Easterbrook, Tony Ash and their getaway driver Gary Wilson drove to Sunbury Street, Woolwich to swap cars. Flying Squad officers were already waiting there and ambushed the gang. In the gun battle, which took place close to Woolwich Fire Station, Tony Ash was shot dead by police, Ronnie Easterbrook and Gary Wilson both suffered gunshot wounds. One of the officers was wounded in the leg by shots from Easterbrook's gun.
Easterbrook was sentenced to whole life imprisonment. In 1997 and 1999, Easterbrook went on hunger strike over what he believed to be a miscarriage of justice in the shooting of Tony Ash by armed officers, suggesting the armed officers who arrested him had operated a shoot-to-kill policy. The hunger strikes continued and Easterbrook started several legal appeals through his solicitors and refused to accept the legality of his conviction. Despite these legal challenges, Ronnie Easterbrook died in Gartree prison in Leicestershire on 10 May 2009.
Theme Tune
Flying Squad was as much known for the haunting melody of its theme tune during the opening and closing credits as it was for its programme content. The opening sequence featured a blue and black monochromatic animation of the wings of a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spool%20%28software%20company%29 | Spool was a free social bookmarking program and social network that was launched in October 2011 at TechCrunch Disrupt. The service allowed users to cache a webpage, including any media on the page, for offline consumption on any mobile device. Spool raised over $1 million from angel investors in January 2012. Facebook, Inc. acquired Spool in July 2012, in what was rumored to be a very competitive process.
References
Meta Platforms acquisitions
Social bookmarking
2012 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Appleton%20%28entrepreneur%29 | William "Bill" Appleton (born May 23, 1961) is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as the programmer of the first rich media authoring tool World Builder, the multimedia programming language SuperCard, a best-selling CD-ROM Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, the DreamFactory REST API platform, and Snapshot Org Management for Salesforce.
Early life and background
Originally from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Appleton graduated from Oak Ridge High School in 1979 before moving on to Davidson College, where he studied philosophy, painting and economics. In 1984 Appleton passed up an economics graduate fellowship at Vanderbilt University and moved into his parents’ basement, where he developed programs for his Macintosh computer.
Career
Appleton has designed and written more than 30 professional software publications throughout his career, including World Builder, the first-ever rich media authoring tool. Appleton also created the multimedia programming language SuperCard and developed Titanic: Adventure Out of Time, a national best-selling CD-ROM game that sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. He was the founder and Chief Technology Officer of DreamFactory and developed a serverless REST API platform in the enterprise space. Currently he is the Chief Technology Officer at Metazoa working on Snapshot Org Management for Salesforce.
In 1989, Appleton won the Silicon Beach Software Technical Innovation Award, presented for his work in hypermedia development environments. Appleton owns two patents. The first, issued in 1997, covers a method for the production of digital movies. The second, issued in 1998, describes a computer display system for the real-time display of digital movie frames.
Appleton's software applications include the following:
Silicon Beach Software
1985, Enchanted Scepters
1986, World Builder
1988, Apache Strike
1989, SuperCard
TeleRobotics Inc.
1986, Course Builder
1987, Video Builder
Symmetry Corp
1988, HyperDA
Reactor
1991, Creepy Castle
Cyberflix
1993, Lunicus
1994, Jump Raven
1995, Dust: A Tale of the Wired West
1996, Skull Cracker
1996, Titanic: Adventure Out of Time
1996, Timelapse
1997, Power Rangers Zeo vs. The Machine Empire
1998, Redjack: Revenge of the Brethren
Disney Interactive
1997, MathQuest
1998, The D Show
1998, ReadingQuest
1999, Villains’ Revenge
MessageBay
2000, VoiceAnimation
2001, VideoAnimator
DreamFactory
2002, DreamFactory Player
2003, SBuilder
2005, DreamTeam
2006, OrgView
2006, SnapShot
2006, Carousel
2006, FormFactory
2006, Web Meeting Mashup
2008, TableTop
2008, Monarch
2009, GamePlan
2010, Retail Relay
2011, LaunchPad
2013, DreamFactory API Platform
CyberFlix
After stints in Silicon Valley and Chicago, Appleton moved back home to Knoxville, Tennessee. From 1994 to 1998, Appleton served as founder and president of Cyberflix Inc., a Knoxville-based multimedia computer programming company specializing in interactive movie production. While |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonik | Plutonik formed in 1999 in Birmingham, England. Comprising Chrissy Van Dyke (vocals, guitar), Alan Rowe (guitar, keyboards and programming) and James D (Rhodes piano).
Having signed to Integrity Records, Plutonik released two singles, "Sitting on Top of the World" and "Londinium", both of which received airplay on national radio from DJs such as Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 1, and their debut album Prime Numbers, which was described by The Observer as "real quality".
The band toured extensively in the UK and mainland Europe with an expanded five-piece lineup and were one of the first drum-and-bass acts to utilise a live drummer.
Over 10 years after its release, Prime Numbers was reissued by Integrity Records in the autumn of 2012 and made available for digital download for the first time.
References
Musical groups from Birmingham, West Midlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colors%20Rishtey | Colors Rishtey is an Indian pay general entertainment television channel that mainly broadcasts re-runs of programming from Colors TV and also airs shows from NDTV Imagine & DD National. International Feeds Of ‘Colors Rishtey’ Also Air Dubbed Shows And Regional Shows.
The Channel had participated in the last two e-auctions of DD Free Dish, but each time the channel pulled itself out of the e-auction due to the slot being in the back number.
Programs of Pakistani channels have been aired, such as Humsafar. Rishtey rebroadcasts series from many other channels as well.
The channel started original production of its shows as well. Produced by BBC Media Action, Navrangi Re! is the channel's first original programming.
On 1 March 2019, the channel was rebranded as Colors Rishtey.
Nick Hour
In 2016, Viacom18 launched a Nick programming block named "Nick Hour India" on Colors Rishtey India.
Programming
References
External links
Official Website of Rishtey
Hindi-language television stations
Hindi-language television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Television stations in Mumbai
Viacom 18
2014 establishments in Maharashtra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Envy | The HP Envy (stylized in all caps) is a line of consumer-oriented high-end laptops, desktop computers and printers manufactured and sold by HP Inc. (formerly Hewlett-Packard Company). They started as a high-end version of the HP Pavilion line.
History
The Envy line caters to customers looking for fashionable and potent computing devices and is renowned for its premium design, premium manufacturing, and outstanding performance. Below is a summary of HP Envy's past:
Early years (2009–2012)
In October 2009, HP bought VoodooPC, a maker of high-performance gaming computers, and this led to the launch of the HP Envy brand. HP employed the Envy brand to denote a high-end range of laptops and desktops with an emphasis on performance and design aesthetics. The first Envy laptops stood out in the market thanks to their svelte metal frame and sharp screens.
Redesign and expansion (2012-2015)
HP completely redesigned the Envy series in 2012, releasing new models with better construction, more streamlined designs, and enhanced internal parts. In order to accommodate a wider range of customer preferences, the Envy series was expanded to offer multiple screen sizes. These laptops were sold as high-end consumer goods, attracting customers who wanted a computer device that combined performance and style.
Innovation and Hybrid Models (2015–2018)
The HP Envy laptop line underwent further development throughout this time. High-resolution screens, hybrid storage solutions that combine SSDs and conventional hard drives, and convertible designs are just a few of the cutting-edge innovations that HP unveiled. For example, the Envy x360 series introduced touchscreen-equipped 2-in-1 convertible computers that let users flip between tablet and laptop modes.
Recent years (2018-present)
HP has been improving the Envy series in recent years by implementing the newest design and technological developments. This includes fast CPUs from AMD and Intel, reduced bezels, and longer-lasting batteries. The Envy range of products has grown to encompass not only laptops but also all-in-one desktops and printers.
HP also placed a strong emphasis on environmental sustainability, encouraging energy efficiency in their processes and using recycled materials in the production of Envy products.
Special Editions and Collaborations: HP periodically releases Envy models with special editions, partnering with well-known designers and artists to produce limited-edition gadgets with distinctive designs. These limited editions catered to consumers seeking unique and eye-catching merchandise by including custom artwork or design elements.
Notebook models
There are three Ultrabooks in the early 2013 Envy lineup – the Envy 4 TouchSmart, Envy 4, and Envy 6.
Current models
Envy x2
The HP Envy x2 refers to two generations of 2-in-1 PCs.
The first generation Envy x2, introduced in 2012, is a compact laptop-tablet hybrid. It consists of a detachable 11.6-inch screen with a resolution and ac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boneh | Boneh or Beneh may refer to:
Dan Boneh (b. 1969), Israeli computer scientist
Boneh–Franklin scheme, an identity-based encryption system
Boneh-Lynn-Shacham, a signature authentication system
Solel Boneh, Israeli construction and civil engineering company
Iran
(Persian: بنه)
Beneh, Ardabil, a village in Iran
Boneh, Khuzestan, a village in Iran
Boneh, Markazi, a village in Iran
Boneh Alvan, a village in Iran
Boneh Anbar, a village in Iran
Boneh Balut, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, a village in Iran
Boneh Dan, a village in Iran
Boneh Darvazeh, a village in Iran
Boneh Dasht, a village in Iran
Boneh Dastak, a village in Iran
Boneh Deraz, a village in Iran
Boneh Goli, a village in Iran
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Boneh Ju, a village in Iran
Boneh Kaghi, a village in Iran
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Boneh Kenar, a village in Iran
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Boneh Kuh, Semnan, a village in Iran
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Boneh Lasheh, a village in Iran
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Boneh Zard, a village in Iran
Boneh-e Askari, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Abbas (disambiguation), villages in Iran
Boneh-ye Abd, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Abed, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Abedun, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Ahmad, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Ahmadi, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Ajam, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Akhund (disambiguation), villages in Iran
Boneh-ye Ali, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Ali-Mardan Khan, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Amir Asgar, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Aqa-ye Bozorg, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Arun, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Asad Davud, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Atabak, a village in Iran
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Boneh-ye Azim, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Ba Damuiyeh, a village in Iran
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Boneh-ye Bad, a village in Iran
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Boneh-ye Cheragh (disambiguation), villages in Iran
Boneh-ye Chahar, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Dari, a village in Iran
Bon-e Esfandi, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Esmail (disambiguation), villages in Iran
Boneh-ye Fakhr (disambiguation), villages in Iran
Boneh-ye Fathali, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Gach, a village in Iran
Bon-e Gelu, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Ghalim, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Gholamali, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Gholamreza, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Hajat, a village in Iran
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Boneh-ye Hajji, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Hajji, Fars, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Hajji Ali, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Haqqi, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Heydar, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Hoseyn Kaluli, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Isa, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Jaberi, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Jan Mohammad, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Kamtuleh, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Karim, a village in Iran
Boneh-ye Kazem, a village |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20HD | The Fire HD, also known as Kindle Fire HD in the generations prior to 2014, is a member of the Amazon Fire family of tablet computers. Fire HD refers to Amazon Fire family tablets with HD resolution. The many generations Fire HD subfamily includes: 7" and 8.9" (2012 models), 7" (2013 model), 6" and 7" (2014 models), 8" and 10.1" (2015 models), 8" (2016 model), 8" and 10.1" (2017 models), 8" (2018 model), 10.1" (2019 model), 8" (2020 model), 10.1" (2021 model), 8" (2022 model), and 11" (2023 model). These devices run the Fire OS operating system.
History
The first Fire HD model was announced on September 6, 2012, and was available in two versions: 7" and 8.9". The 7" model was released in the United States on September 14, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom on October 25 and in Japan on December 18. The 8.9" model was released on November 20 in the United States, in Japan on March 12, 2013, in Germany on March 13, and in India on June 27.
On September 25, 2013, an updated Fire HD 7 was quietly announced alongside the newly debuted flagship Kindle Fire HDX line. It was available as a pre-order until the official ship date of October 2, 2013. Changes include: price reduction to $139, processor speed upgraded to 1.5 GHz, firmware upgrade from the unnamed "Android based" OS to a compatible proprietary fork of Android named Fire OS 3, removal of the front camera, new shell form factor, and decreased available storage options.
On October 2, 2014, the next revision of Fire HD models were released, part of the Fire Tablet's fourth generation, with 6-inch and 7-inch touchscreen sizes. In addition, the Fire HD Kids Edition was released, which is the same device as the Fire HD 6 except it comes with a case and one-year subscription to Kindle Freetime apps. The branding "Kindle" was officially removed from the tablets' name.
In September 2015, Amazon released a new range of Fire tablets with 7, 8, and 10.1 inch sizes. The 7 inch was simply called the Fire 7, while the 8" and 10.1" were called Fire HD 8 and Fire HD 10 respectively. Amazon had ended the HDX line after two generations and the new model range shifted the entire Fire tablet line down-market, with Fire 7 as the lowest priced Fire tablet at $50.
In September 2016, Amazon announced the release of the updated Fire HD 8 which includes the virtual assistant Alexa, priced at . Fortune reported that, "As with most of Amazon's devices, the aim isn't to make money off of the hardware but instead to sell digital content such as books, movies, and TV shows to users".
In 2017, the seventh Generation Fire HD 8 was released. Some differences between the 6th and 7th Generation HD 8 models were the price, the gyroscope removal, the increase of maximum SD card expansion, and the better graphics chip.
In September 2018, Amazon refreshed their Fire tablet line with the release of eighth Generation Fire HD 8/Kids Edition and Fire HD 10. The price remained the same as last year's model with min |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domo%2C%20Inc. | Domo, Inc. is an American cloud software company based in American Fork, Utah, United States. It specializes in business intelligence tools and data visualization.
History
Domo, Inc. was founded by Josh James in 2010.
In October 2010, after leaving Adobe, James started Shacho, Inc. In December 2010, Shacho purchased Lindon-based Corda Technologies. James changed Shacho's name to Domo.
In March 2021, Domo was named on the Women Tech Council (WTC) 2020 Shatter List for the fourth consecutive year for hiring and retaining women in IT careers.
Investors
Initial investors in Domo include Benchmark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Ron Conway and David Lee of SV Angel, Hummer Winblad, salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff, and Fraser Bullock of Sorenson Capital. In 2011, $20 million came from Silicon Valley-based Institutional Venture Partners, which also invested in Josh James’ previous start-up, Omniture. In 2013, the company announced a Series B investment of $60 million from GGV Capital, Greylock, Bezos Expeditions, and Co-CEOs of Workday, Aneel Bhusri and Dave Duffield.
In February 2014, Domo announced Series C funding of an additional $125 million from multiple investors including TPG Growth, T. Rowe Price, and Viking Global Investors. Existing investors GGV Capital, Greylock Partners, IVP, and Mercato Partners also participated.
In April 2015, Domo, Inc raised another $200 million in Series D financing with a $2 billion valuation. The round was led by BlackRock and Glynn Capital Management, Capital Group and existing investor GGV also participated. In March 2016, the company closed a Series D investment round of $131 million with its existing investors and new investors, including Credit Suisse and Capital Advisors.
On April 27, 2017, Domo raised $200 million in Series D funding led by Blackrock, with participation from Capital Group, Glynn Capital Management, and GGV Capital. Domo, Inc. was listed on the NASDAQ Global Exchange June 29, 2018, with an initial offering of 9,200,000 shares at $21.00 per share.
Overview
Domo, Inc is a cloud-based platform designed to provide direct, simplified, real-time access to business data for decision makers across the company with minimal IT involvement. It is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) venture.
References
Software companies based in Utah
Business software companies
2010 establishments in Utah
Business intelligence companies
Software companies established in 2010
Data companies
Companies based in Utah County, Utah
Data visualization software
Extract, transform, load tools
Business software
Companies listed on the Nasdaq
2018 initial public offerings
American Fork, Utah
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Network%20Hub | The Network Hub is a coworking space launched in the summer of 2006 in East Vancouver, British Columbia, and is considered the longest running coworking space in Vancouver.
The space functions as a start-up launchpad for entrepreneurs and small businesses. The Network Hub hosts businesses from different industries, including software developers, gaming companies, designers, consultants, and marketing service providers.
The Network Hub emphasizes community partnerships and networking activities. The stated goal of the organization is “To help people with great ideas launch their business faster and leaner”.
In 2012, The Network Hub was nominated for a Small Business Influencer Award in the Corporations category. It has garnered recognition as the best coworking space in Vancouver and BC on multiple occasions. The company has also been featured in Mashable, CNN, CBC, and Get Connected magazine.
History
The Network Hub was launched in 2006 by three high school students, John Van, Jay Catalan, and Minna Van who have experience as web designers and programmers with a background in entrepreneurship, and began as a 9,800 square-foot coworking space in Downtown Vancouver, Canada.
The Network Hub hosted eight small businesses in 2006, all headed by entrepreneurs under the age of 30. In 2007, the company hosted 20 small businesses, primarily in Information Technology. In 2009, The Network Hub hosted 35 businesses. The average time of use for long-term clients is two years.
In 2009, Get Connected magazine featured The Network Hub as an example of cost-saving business models in their Spring edition, and was featured by Canadian Broadcasting Company in 2010 as part of the growing trend of coworking spaces. Sarah Kessler featured The Network Hub as a model coworking space in several articles for Mashable's website in January 2011.
In 2011, the company expanded by opening a second location in New Westminster, providing a larger workspace. In the same year, The Network Hub announced plans to use the office space as an art gallery showcasing local Vancouver artists. Artists partnering with The Network Hub received one hundred percent of all sales. Featured artists include Scott Sueme, Jonathan Taggart, and Jason Athens.
In 2013, The Network Hub made history by establishing the world's first ski-in-ski-out coworking space in Whistler. This location was designed to appeal to entrepreneurs and small businesses desiring a mountain scenery workspace. The following year, The Network Hub opened its fourth location in Nanaimo, catering to individuals seeking a workspace on Vancouver Island.
In 2018, The Network Hub's nonprofit entity played a pivotal role as a confounding member in the creation of the first cultural community and coworking hub in Vancouver's Chinatown.
Since its inception, The Network Hub has expanded to multiple locations, including New Westminster, Whistler, Nanaimo, Richmond, Calgary, and Toronto.
Membership
Members have access to drop-in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPCM | PPCM or ppcm may refer to:
Pixels per centimetre (typically written all in lowercase "ppcm"), a measure of pixel density
Packed PCM, compressed PCM audio data, also known as Meridian Lossless Packing (MLP)
Peripartum cardiomyopathy, a deterioration in cardiac function |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground%3A%20The%20Julian%20Assange%20Story | Underground: The Julian Assange Story is an Australian television film produced for Network Ten. It premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and aired on Network Ten on 7 October 2012. The film draws its title from Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier, a 1997 book by Suelette Dreyfus, researched by Julian Assange, but the film bears little relation to the book itself, which catalogues the exploits of a group of Australian, American, and British hackers during the 1980s and early 1990s, among them Assange himself. The film was not approved by Julian Assange, Wikileaks or any other member of the Assange family and there was no collaboration with the Assanges or Wikileaks during the making of the film. However Julian Assange subsequently had "a very favourable response to the movie".
Filmed in and around Melbourne, the film was written and directed by Robert Connolly and produced by Matchbox Pictures' Helen Bowden, with Tony Ayres and Rick Maier serving as Executive Producers.
Synopsis
In 1989, known as 'Mendax', Assange and two friends formed a group called the 'International Subversives'. Using early home computers and defining themselves as 'white hat hackers' – those who look but don't steal – they broke into some of the world's most powerful and secretive organisations. They were young, brilliant, and in the eyes of the US Government, a major threat to national security.
At the urging of the FBI, the Australian Federal Police set up a special taskforce to catch them. But at a time when most Australian police had never seen a computer, let alone used one, they had to figure out just where to begin.
Police ingenuity and old-fashioned detective work are pitted against nimble, highly skilled young men in this new crime frontier. What follows is a game of cat and mouse through the electronic underground of Melbourne.
Cast
Rachel Griffiths – Christine Assange
Anthony LaPaglia – Detective Ken Roberts
Alex Williams – Julian Assange
Laura Wheelwright – Electra
Callan McAuliffe – Prime Suspect
Jordan Raskopoulos – Trax
Benedict Samuel – Jonah
Broadcast and reception
1.34 million viewers watched the Australian television premiere on 7 October 2012. It was also the top trending topic in Australia on Twitter during the broadcast.
Critical reception
The film received mixed reviews from critics. Ahead of the premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, Daniel Janvier of Toronto Film Scene wrote "This film is deeply frustrating watch. It takes the approach of many biopics – cramming in as much information as possible ... If this were a televised miniseries, with multiple installments to cover everything it wants to perhaps it would be better served."
Australian critics were more positive. David Knox of TV Tonight described it as "a terrific yarn that elevates Assange as a journalistic warrior, and Alex Williams as a new star". Karl Quinn writing in The Age conclud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IASME | IASME Governance is an Information Assurance standard that is designed to be simple and affordable to help improve the cyber security of Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The IASME Governance technical controls are aligned with the Cyber Essentials scheme and certification to the IASME standard includes certification to Cyber Essentials. The IASME Governance standard was developed in 2010 and has proven to be very effective at improving the security of supply chains for large organisations.. The standard maps closely to the international ISO/IEC 27001 information assurance standard.
Background
IASME Governance was originally developed as an academic-SME partnership that attracted a lot of interest from government and small businesses
Research towards the IASME model was undertaken in the UK during 2009–10, after an acknowledgement that the current international information assurance standard (ISO/IEC 27001) was complex for resource-strapped SMEs, providing a weakness in the supply chain. IASME was developed during 2010-11 and was launched later that year. It has been revised regularly to keep pace with changes to the risk environment of SMEs. The development process with SMEs was explained in a published international SME conference paper.
The IASME Governance standard follows the same implementation pattern used by the international standards community including PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) principles and the Information Security Management System (ISMS) which provides a management framework. Both are refined and expressed in business terms recognisable by organisations of all sizes.
The IASME Governance standard was developed and piloted with the help of small businesses mostly in the West Midlands of the UK with encouraging results. The standard has been shown to be useful to SMEs both in the UK and internationally.
Large organisations can use the IASME Governance standard in their supply chains to understand and reduce supplier risk. An article explaining the supply chain benefits has been written by its developer, David Booth. Both large and small organisations can use the IASME certification as an alternative to the ISO/IEC 27001 standard.
Structure of the standard
The standard is managed by The IASME Consortium Ltd who operate a network of over 150 Certification Bodies who are licensed to certify candidate organisations. The question set is free for anyone to download without registration and is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.
The standard is available at two levels of assurance:
IASME Governance Self-assessment
Candidates complete an online questionnaire with around 160 simple questions about their organisation. This is marked by a Certification Body who awards the certification if all of the answers given are compliant with the standard.
The assessment includes certification to the Cyber Essentials standard.
IASME Governance Audited (or "IASME Gold")
The candidate organisation is visited by an IAS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Drill | Apache Drill is an open-source software framework that supports data-intensive distributed applications for interactive analysis of large-scale datasets. Built chiefly by contributions from developers from MapR, Drill is inspired by Google's Dremel system. Drill is an Apache top-level project. Tom Shiran is the founder of the Apache Drill Project. It was designated an Apache Software Foundation top-level project in December 2016.
Drill supports a variety of NoSQL databases and file systems, including Alluxio, HBase, MongoDB, MapR-DB, HDFS, MapR-FS, Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Swift, NAS and local files. A single query can join data from multiple datastores.
Drill's datastore-aware optimizer automatically restructures a query plan to leverage the datastore's internal processing capabilities. In addition, Drill supports data locality, if Drill and the datastore are on the same nodes.
Features
One explicitly stated design goal is that Drill is able to scale to 10,000 servers or more and to be able to process petabytes of data and trillions of records in seconds.
Schema-free JSON document model similar to MongoDB and Elasticsearch, without requiring a formal schema to be declared
Industry-standard APIs: ANSI SQL, ODBC/JDBC, RESTful APIs
Extremely user and developer friendly
Pluggable architecture enables connectivity to multiple datastores
Version 1.9 added dynamic user-defined functions
Version 1.11 added cryptographic-related functions and PCAP file format support
Back-end Support
Drill is primarily focused on non-relational datastores, including Apache Hadoop text files, NoSQL, and cloud storage. A notable feature also includes in situ querying of local JSON and Apache Parquet files. Some additional datastores that it supports include:
All Hadoop distributions (HDFS API 2.3+), including Apache Hadoop, MapR, CDH and Amazon EMR
NoSQL: MongoDB, Apache HBase, Apache Cassandra
Online Analytical Processing: Apache Kudu, Apache Druid, OpenTSDB
Cloud storage: Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Swift, IBM Cloud Object Storage
Diverse data formats, including Apache Avro, Apache Parquet and JSON
RDBMs storage plugins (Using JDBC to connect to MySQL, PostgreSQL, and others)
A new datastore can be added by developing a storage plugin. Drill's "schema-free" JSON data model enables it to query non-relational datastores in-situ .
Front-end Support
Drill itself can be queried via JDBC, ODBC, or REST through a variety of methods and languages including Python and Java. The default install includes a web interface allowing end-users to execute ANSI SQL directly and export data tables as CSV files without any programming.
The dashboard library, Apache Superset, is particularly well suited for visualization of data queried with Drill.
See also
Cloud computing
Big data
Data Intensive Computing
References
Papers
Some papers influenced the birth and design. Here is a partial list:
2005 From Database |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetSpot | NetSpot is a software tool for wireless network assessment, scanning, and surveys, analyzing Wi-Fi coverage and performance. It runs on Mac OS X 10.6+ and Windows 7, 8 and 10. Netspot supports 802.11n, 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g wireless networks and uses the standard Wi-Fi network adapter and its Airport interface to map radio signal strength and other wireless network parameters, and build reports on that. NetSpot was released in August 2011.
Functions
NetSpot provides all professional wireless site survey features for Wi-Fi and maps coverage of a living area, office space, buildings, etc. It provides visual data to help analyze radio signal leaks, discover noise sources, map channel use, optimize access point locations. Also, the application can perform Wi-Fi network planning: the data that are collected help to select channels and placements for new hotspots. Survey reports can be generated in PDF format.
Usual uses
Mapping Wi-Fi
Mapping Wi-Fi signal strength
Optimizing networks
Trouble-shooting networks
Visualizing wireless networks
Diagnosing signal problems
Analyzing wireless network coverage
Release history
See also
iStumbler – an open-source utility to find wireless networks and devices in Mac OS X
KisMAC – a wireless network discovery tool for Mac OS X
WiFi Explorer – a wireless network scanner for Mac OS X
References
External links
Site survey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain%20I. | Britain I. is a distribution area defined in the Fauna Europaea database. It comprises the island of Great Britain and all surrounding islands and island groups including Orkney, Shetland, the Outer and Inner Hebrides, Anglesey and the Isles of Scilly. The Isle of Man is also included in the distribution area.
The following territories have their own defined distribution areas and are not included in Britain I.:
Northern Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Channel Islands
References
External links
A Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure (PESI)
Fauna of Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roar%21%20TV | Roar! TV is a television network that launched in early 2012 dedicated to empowering women's television programming.
The Network's programming includes a mix of fitness, lifestyle, comedy, mini-series and even films. Roar! TV also recently launched a Spanish-language programming block mainly featuring telenovelas.
Roar! TV is broadcast on cable television and over-the-air nationwide in the US and has announced it is launching on October 1, 2012, on Dish Network replacing WE tv after the dispute between AMC networks and Dish Network respectively.
Roar! TV is a digital sub-channel in many major and smaller markets around the country and is most commonly a sub-channel on NBC affiliate stations.
Roar! TV is the largest women-staffed television network in cable television, with over 80% of its employees being female. The Network is based in Chicago, not far from Harpo Studios, where Oprah Winfrey's talk show was filmed. Roar! TV is now the biggest competitor to Oprah's OWN TV as well as the more established Lifetime Network. Starting with less distribution then the former, Roar! TV is the fastest growing women's television network in America.
External links
http://www.roar-TV.com
Television stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WECP-LD | WECP-LD (channel 21) is a low-power television station in Panama City, Florida, United States, affiliated with CBS, MyNetworkTV, and Telemundo. It is owned by Gray Television alongside dual NBC/CW+ affiliate WJHG-TV (channel 7). The two stations share studios on Front Beach Road/SR 30 in Panama City Beach; WECP-LD's transmitter is located on SR 20 in unincorporated Youngstown, Florida.
Due to its low-power status, WECP's broadcast range is effectively limited to Panama City and surrounding areas in Bay County. In order to expand its off-air broadcasting reach, it is simulcast in 16:9 widescreen standard definition on WJHG-TV's third digital subchannel (7.3) from the same transmitter site.
History
On April 20, 2012, then owner MIK LLC announced it was selling the construction permit for the station (which initially held the call sign W18DR-D) to Gray Television. Under the transfer, MIK would receive $4,000 and would turn over the permit to DTV America Corporation which would, in turn, transfer the permit to Gray. Gray exercised a purchase option that was part of the deal to acquire the station outright on May 11, 2012. Gray changed the calls to WECP-LD on June 4, 2012.
On July 17, 2012, Gray Television signed an affiliation agreement with CBS for WECP-LD and two other low-powered stations WSVF-LD in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and WIYE-LP in Parkersburg, West Virginia. As a result, WECP-LD became the CBS affiliate for the Panama City area when the station took to the air on September 24, 2012.
It is the second CBS affiliate that is licensed to the immediate Panama City market. Sister station WJHG had previously carried a secondary affiliation with the network from its December 1953 sign-on until 1961. Since then, Dothan, Alabama sister station WTVY had served as the default CBS affiliate for Panama City; in fact, WTVY's tower is located in Bethlehem, Florida, in the Panama City market. In October 2012, WTVY was officially removed from cable systems in the market with WECP taking its place.
On January 7, 2014, WECP applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to move from channel 18 to channel 29. The reasoning is WJHG had a construction permit to relocate to channel 18. The application was approved on November 14, 2014 giving WECP its construction permit. The switch of WECP to channel 29 (retaining 18 as virtual) and WJHG to channel 18 (virtual 7) took place on May 21, 2015, with the FCC issuing the station's license on June 5, 2015. WECP moved to RF channel 35 on August 21, 2019 as a result of the spectrum auction and to offset interference issues with adjacent stations.
On March 2, 2021, WECP transferred from channel 18 to channel 21.
News operation
WJHG presently produces an hour of locally produced newscasts each weekday (at noon and 5:30 p.m.) for WECP-LD. As a result, the station airs the CBS Evening News via an additional live feed at 6 p.m. unlike most CBS outlets in the Central Time Zone. WECP-LD does not air newscasts on we |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20CERN%20Foundation | The Collaborative Ependymoma Research Network (CERN) Foundation is a nonprofit organization composed of scientists and adult and pediatric cancer researchers who work together to develop new treatments for Ependymoma, a type of primary brain or spinal cord tumor that occurs in both children and adults, and improve the outcomes and care of patients. The organization is headquartered in Dayton, Ohio, USA.
The CERN Foundation’s research is based on a model that includes preclinical evaluation of new and FDA-approved drugs in laboratory models of ependymoma. The drugs are tested in clinical trials involving both pediatric and adult cancer centers from within the CERN network. The CERN Foundation’s research is needed to design better treatment plans for patients with ependymoma.
History
In November 2006, the concept of creating an international group to develop new treatments for ependymoma was proposed to Mark Gilbert, M.D., Deputy Chairman of Neuro-Oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center, during a meeting with an ependymoma survivor.
Shortly thereafter, Dr. Gilbert was joined by Richard Gilbertson, M.D., Ph.D. and Amar Gajjar, M.D. of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and Ken Adalpe, M.D. and Terri Armstrong, Ph.D. of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. After the organization created its initial vision and established its leadership, additional partners joined the CERN team. Today, investigators representing many internationally recognized cancer centers are partnered with the CERN Foundation.
On April 19, 2012 the CERN Foundation commemorated the first Ependymoma Awareness Day in Houston with a mass butterfly release.
Research
Research Projects
CERN leads five research projects to discover new treatments for ependymoma.
Clinical Trials – CERN Foundation clinical trials test the efficacy of novel treatment approaches for ependymoma. This project serves as a testing ground for new diagnostic and drug discoveries made in Projects Two and Three.
Tumor Profiling and Pathology – An integrated histology and molecular biology grading system is used to improve the accuracy of ependymoma diagnosis and prognostication. This project seeks to improve the accuracy in the diagnosis of ependymoma and develop the necessary tools to create new assays to study patients undergoing treatment in clinical trials.
Developmental Therapeutics – CERN Foundation screens thousands of novel compounds and known drugs as possible new treatments for pediatric and adult ependymoma. These agents are then evaluated in Project Four as whether to be tested in clinical trials.
Tumor Stem Cell Laboratory Models – CERN Foundation laboratory scientists seek to understand how normal neural development goes wrong to result in ependymoma. This project provides insights into the origins of ependymoma and leads to new laboratory models for understanding disease biology and treatment.
Patient Outcomes – CERN Foundation investigators explore ependymoma epidemiology a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matroid%20partitioning | Matroid partitioning is a problem arising in the mathematical study of matroids and in the design and analysis of algorithms. Its goal is to partition the elements of a matroid into as few independent sets as possible. An example is the problem of computing the arboricity of an undirected graph, the minimum number of forests needed to cover all of its edges. Matroid partitioning may be solved in polynomial time, given an independence oracle for the matroid. It may be generalized to show that a matroid sum is itself a matroid, to provide an algorithm for computing ranks and independent sets in matroid sums, and to compute the largest common independent set in the intersection of two given matroids.
Example
The arboricity of an undirected graph is the minimum number of forests into which its edges can be partitioned, or equivalently (by adding overlapping edges to each forest as necessary) the minimum number of spanning forests whose union is the whole graph. A formula proved by Crispin Nash-Williams characterizes the arboricity exactly: it is the maximum, over all subgraphs of the given graph , of the quantity .
The forests of a graph form the independent sets of the associated graphic matroid, and the quantity appearing in Nash-Williams' formula is the rank of the graphic matroid of , the maximum size of one of its independent sets. Thus, the problem of determining the arboricity of a graph is exactly the matroid partitioning problem for the graphic matroid. The fact that the elements of this matroid cannot be partitioned into fewer than independent subsets is then just an application of the pigeonhole principle saying that, if items are partitioned into sets of size at most , then at least sets are needed. The harder direction of Nash-Williams' formula, which can be generalized to all matroids, is the proof that a partition of this size always exists.
Formula for partition size
To generalize Nash-Williams' formula, one may replace by a matroid , and the subgraph of with a restriction of to a subset of its elements. The number of edges of the subgraph becomes, in this generalization, the cardinality of the selected subset, and the formula for the maximum size of a forest in becomes the rank . Thus, the minimum number of independent sets in a partition of the given matroid should be given by the formula
.
This formula is indeed valid, and it was given an algorithmic proof by . In other words, a matroid can be partitioned into at most independent subsets, if-and-only-if for every subset of , the cardinality of is at most .
Algorithms
The first algorithm for matroid partitioning was given by . It is an incremental augmenting-path algorithm that considers the elements of the matroid one by one, in an arbitrary order, maintaining at each step of the algorithm an optimal partition for the elements that have been considered so far. At each step, when considering an element that has not yet been placed into a partition, the algo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo%20Films | Geo Films is a film production and distribution company owned by Geo Television Network based in Karachi, Pakistan. Geo Films distributes Hollywood, Lollywood and Indian films in cinemas across Pakistan.
Films distributed
Foreign films
The following is the complete list of films distributed by Geo Films in Pakistan:
Pakistani films
See also
List of film distributors in Pakistan
References
External links
Mass media companies of Pakistan
Film distributors of Pakistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADATA | ADATA Technology Co., Ltd. () is a Taiwanese fabless memory, storage and computer case manufacturer, founded in May 2001 by Simon Chen (). Its main product line consists of DRAM modules, USB Flash drives, hard disk drives, solid state drives, memory cards and mobile accessories. ADATA is also expanding into new areas, including robotics and electric powertrain systems. In addition to its main ADATA brand, the company also sells PC gaming hardware and accessories under its XPG ("Xtreme Performance Gear") brand.
In 2017, ADATA was the second-largest DRAM module manufacturer in the world and had a market capitalization of US$680 million. In recent years, ADATA has extended its business to Europe and the Americas, while competing strongly with Samsung in Asia.
Product lines
Consumer
DRAM modules for desktop and notebook PCs
Solid-state drives
External storage (HDD, SSD, enclosures)
USB flash drives
Memory cards / readers
Power banks
Car / wireless / USB chargers
USB / microUSB / Lightning cables
Media adapters
XPG (Gaming)
Computer memory
SSDs
Power supply units
PC chassis
Cooling
PC component accessories
Laptops
Gaming peripherals (keyboard, mouse, mousepad, headset)
Lifestyle gears (MANA gaming chewing gum)
Industrial
Solid-state drives / flash storage
Card / UFD / embedded
DRAM modules
Lighting
Home lighting
Industrial / commercial lighting
Smart lighting
Lighting for outdoor activities
Powertrain
Two-wheels
Tri-wheels
Industrial
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
References
Links
ADATA (Consumer)
ADATA Industrial Solutions
ADATA Lighting (Traditional Chinese)
ADATA Powertrain (Traditional Chinese)
XPG (Gaming)
Computer memory companies
Computer peripheral companies
Computer storage companies
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Computer companies established in 2001
Taiwanese brands
Taiwanese companies established in 2001
Computer enclosure companies
Companies listed on the Taipei Exchange
2004 initial public offerings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking%20Amish | Breaking Amish is an American reality television series on the TLC television network that debuted September 9, 2012. The series revolves around five young Anabaptist adults (four Amish and one Mennonite) who move to New York City in order to experience a different life and decide whether to return to their communities or remain outside them and face ostracism by their families and friends. It follows the cast members as they experience life in New York and face new situations involving work, friendship, romance, and lifestyle, plus the drama that develops among cast members as they undergo various experiences.
The cast members' move to New York City differs from Rumspringa, the rite of passage in which some 16-year-old Amish are allowed to experience the outside world and to decide whether or not they wish to remain with their home communities.
A news report on February 25, 2013, stated that TLC had ordered a second season of Breaking Amish with the original cast. Breaking Amish: Brave New World is considered the second season by TLC.
A third season of Breaking Amish, entitled Breaking Amish: Los Angeles, debuted on July 21, 2013, with an entirely different cast. The only connections with the new cast and the original cast were Abe's brother Andrew Schmucker and Jeremiah's ex-girlfriend Iva being two of the main cast members.
A fourth and final season of the show entitled Breaking Amish: Brooklyn debuted on September 18, 2014, with a new cast as well. One of the cast members, Matt, would go on make appearances in the fifth season of the spinoff series Return to Amish.
Controversy
It has been reported that the relationships between cast members were portrayed falsely and that there were many inconsistencies between fact and the reality that was represented in the television program. The production has been forthcoming with some of the 'non-Amish' activities in the background of the cast. As episodes progressed, the production steadily revealed other aspects of the cast's past activities, including items not previously released as spoilers by other media outlets.
Some of the information shared on air by the cast during the production:
Season 1
In episode 1 it is shown that Kate had spent time in Florida, driving and getting a DUI.
In the extended version of episode 3 Jeremiah states that he was kicked out of the Amish three different times, dressing 'English' each time. ('English' was typically used in the series to mean "non-Anabaptist.")
In episode 6 Jeremiah states, when Abe talks about marrying Rebecca, that he was once married.
In episode 7 Abe and Rebecca discuss how they used to sneak off – with her boyfriend and with others – to dress 'English' and go bowling.
In episode 7 Rebecca discusses how Abe once moved to Kentucky and she to North Dakota, renewing their friendship when they returned to their Amish community.
In episode 8 Sabrina discusses the fact that she had been married, in 2009, to a Mennonite man – and that marryi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sqoop | Sqoop is a command-line interface application for transferring data between relational databases and Hadoop.
The Apache Sqoop project was retired in June 2021 and moved to the Apache Attic.
Description
Sqoop supports incremental loads of a single table or a free form SQL query as well as saved jobs which can be run multiple times to import updates made to a database since the last import. Imports can also be used to populate tables in Hive or HBase. Exports can be used to put data from Hadoop into a relational database. Sqoop got the name from "SQL-to-Hadoop".
Sqoop became a top-level Apache project in March 2012.
Informatica provides a Sqoop-based connector from version 10.1.
Pentaho provides open-source Sqoop based connector steps, Sqoop Import and Sqoop Export, in their ETL suite Pentaho Data Integration since version 4.5 of the software. Microsoft uses a Sqoop-based connector to help transfer data from Microsoft SQL Server databases to Hadoop.
Couchbase, Inc. also provides a Couchbase Server-Hadoop connector by means of Sqoop.
See also
Apache Hadoop
Apache Hive
Apache Accumulo
Apache HBase
References
Bibliography
External links
Sqoop Wiki
Sqoop Users Mailing List Archives
Apache Software Foundation projects
Cloud applications
Hadoop |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Hot%20Tropical%20Songs%20of%202008 | The Billboard Tropical Songs is a chart that ranks the best-performing tropical songs of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems based collectively on each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
See also
List of number-one Billboard Hot Tropical Songs of 2009
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Songs of 2008
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Pop Airplay of 2008
References
2008
Unites States Tropical Songs
2008 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipacket%20reception | In networking, multipacket reception refers to the capability of networking nodes for decoding/demodulating signals from a number of source nodes concurrently. In wireless communications, Multipacket reception is achieved using physical layer technologies like orthogonal CDMA, MIMO and space–time codes.
See also
MIMO – Wireless communication systems having multiple antennas at both transmitter and receiver.
CDMA – Code division multiple access
External links
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/MPR
Computer networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeju%20International%20Broadcasting%20System | Jeju International Broadcasting System or JIBS is a radio and TV station that is affiliated with the SBS Network, in Jeju Province, South Korea, and it were originally established on April 10, 1994, though it had started its demo emissions, and then later, it had therefore begun its test transmissions on December 7, 2001, as well as it soon commences its official broadcasts from May 31, 2002.
Stations
Television
Channel - Ch. 33 (LCN 6-1)
Launched - May 31, 2002
Affiliated to - SBS
Call Sign - HLKJ-DTV
FM radio (New Power FM)
Frequency - FM 101.5 MHz (Jeju City), FM 98.5 MHz (Seogwipo City), FM 95.9 MHz (Hallim)
Launched - January 4, 2003
Affiliated to - SBS
Call Sign - HLQC-FM
See also
SBS (Korea)
External links
Seoul Broadcasting System affiliates
Television channels in South Korea
Television channels and stations established in 1994
1994 establishments in South Korea
Mass media in Jeju City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Cycle%20Route%20622 | National Cycle Route 622, the Preston Guild Wheel, part of the National Cycle Network in North West England, is a 21-mile cycle and walking route encircling the city of Preston in Lancashire and is one of the city's flagship Guild Legacy projects from the 2012 Preston Guild.
Preston is also the midpoint of the national cycle network.
History
The route was initiated by members of Preston Cycle Forum including Peter Ward an ex City Councillor and former racing cyclist and Mike Atkins, the County's former cycling officer. Following the completion of the Guild Wheel Peter Ward received an MBE for his services to cycling. The section along the river by Miller Park has been named Mike Atkins Way after Mike Atkins who died in 2013. The route is also promoted as a walking route.
Route
The route is a "greenway" encircling the city of Preston. The route opened in August 2012 in the run up to the main week of the Guild celebrations and passes sights such as Preston Docklands, Avenham and Miller Parks and Brockholes Nature Reserve. The route follows mainly the River Ribble to the south, and goes as far as Broughton in the north. It uses traffic free multi-user paths with pedestrians and quiet roads.
The route has led to an increased interest in cycling in the Preston area. Cycle flows at a count point on the Guild Wheel increased by 175% to just under 100,000 a year from 2011 to 2013 with peak of 968 cyclists in a day in 2013. The success of the Guild Wheel has led to proposals to create similar routes in Blackburn, Leyland and Longridge. Parts of the route are also well used by walkers and runners. The route is very much a recreation facility for all users.
Following concerns about the speeds of some cyclists, a "Share with Care" campaign was launched in 2013 promoting a code of practise for the route.
References
External links
Transport in the City of Preston
National Cycle Routes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast2GO | Blast2GO, first published in 2005, is a bioinformatics software tool for the automatic, high-throughput functional annotation of novel sequence data (genes proteins). It makes use of the BLAST algorithm to identify similar sequences to then transfers existing functional annotation from yet characterised sequences to the novel one. The functional information is represented via the Gene Ontology (GO), a controlled vocabulary of functional attributes. The Gene Ontology, or GO, is a major bioinformatics initiative to unify the representation of gene and gene product attributes across all species.
See also
Protein function prediction
Functional genomics
Bioinformatics
References
External links
Blast2GO - Tool for functional annotation of (novel) sequences and the analysis of annotation data.
Company developing Blast2GO — BioBam Bioinformatics S.L., a bioinformatics company dedicated to creating user-friendly software for the scientific community is developing, maintaining and distributing Blast2GO.
Gene Ontology Tools — Provides access to the ontologies, software tools, annotated gene product lists, and reference documents describing the GO and its uses.
PlantRegMap —Plant GO annotation for 165 species and GO enrichment analysis
Bioinformatics algorithms
Bioinformatics software
Laboratory software
Public-domain software
Genomics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datang%2C%20Zhuji | Datang () is a town in Zhuji, Zhejiang Province, China.
Sock City
By the early 1980s, the township had a population of 1,000. Designated as an industrial development zone, it quickly developed as a hosiery industry centre, becoming known as Sock City. By 2008, the town was producing eight billion pairs of socks each year, a third of the world's sock production, effectively creating two pairs of socks for every person on the planet for the year 2011. As a result, the population boomed to 60,000, with over 100,000 employed in the area in the industry via other local towns and villages.
References
Township-level divisions of Zhejiang
Zhuji |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Hot%20Tropical%20Songs%20of%202007 | The Billboard Tropical Songs is a chart that ranks the best-performing tropical songs of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems based on each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
See also
List of number-one Billboard Hot Tropical Songs of 2008
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Songs of 2007
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Pop Airplay of 2007
References
2007
United States Tropical Songs
2007 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics%20Interface | The Graphics Interface (GI) conference is the oldest continuously scheduled conference devoted to computer graphics, and human–computer interaction. GI was held biannually between 1969 and 1981, and has been held annually since then. Prior to 1982, the conference was called Canadian Man-Computer Communications Conference (CMCCC).
This conference is sponsored by the Canadian Human–Computer Communications Society. The conference has a tradition of being co-located with the Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV), which was formerly known as Vision Interface (VI).
Awards
The Canadian Human–Computer Communications Society honours the memory of Michael A. J. Sweeney through an annual award to the best student paper presented at each year's Graphics Interface conference.
Alain Fournier and Bill Buxton Ph.D. Dissertation Annual Awards are given to best dissertations in Computer Graphics and Human-Computer Interaction defended in a Canadian University, and are announced officially during the Graphics Interface conference.
Venues
References
External links
AI/GI/CRV Recent Conferences
Computer graphics conferences
Human–computer interaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheri%20Salata | Sheri Salata (born October 20, 1959) is an American author, speaker and producer. She is the former executive producer of The Oprah Winfrey Show, co-president of Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) and Winfrey’s Harpo Productions.
Salata was born in Georgia and raised in Waukegan, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Iowa in the early 1980s. Salata's first job in production was as assistant to the Executive producer at Grey Advertising in Chicago. Salata entered Harpo Studios in 1995 as promotions producer. In 2009 she was named president of Harpo Studios. Salata served as executive producer of The Oprah Winfrey Show from 2006 until the show ended in 2011. She was co-president of OWN with Erik Logan from July 2011 until May 2016.
Salata was introduced to a wider audience in the TV series Season 25: Oprah Behind the Scenes, airing on OWN January–August 2011.
Salata and Nancy Hala are co-hosts of the podcast The Sheri + Nancy Show. In June 2019, Salata published her memoir, The Beautiful No and Other Tales of Trial, Transcendence, and Transformation.
References
External links
1959 births
Living people
American television producers
American women television producers
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural%20and%20Rural%20Convention%202020 | Agricultural and Rural Convention 2020 (ARC2020) describes itself as "a multi-stakeholder platform of over 150 civil society networks and organisations within 22 EU Member States all pushing for a reform of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)". It has carried out several campaigns to raise awareness among citizens and the political world on the current situation of European agriculture, such as the Good Food March.
Organization
Founded in 2010, ARC2020 is the result of the work of Groupe de Bruges, a European think tank specializing in agriculture and rural development, a European network of local projects in sustainable rural development called Forum Synergies, and the European School for Journalists called Institut des hautes études des communications sociales (IHECS). It is funded by various European foundations.
ARC2020 states that its main goals are:
to give civil society a strong voice in the current reform debate;
to prepare common actions across European borders;
to mobilise individuals and organisations beyond traditional stakeholder interests.
It claims to represent diverse issues and interests from nature protection, human health and animal welfare, to development cooperation, global justice and climate change, as well as those of conventional and organic farmers and rural development networks.
See also
Agroecology
Common Agricultural Policy
Good Food March
Groupe de Bruges
We are fed up
References
External links
ARC2020 home page
Agricultural economics
Anti-globalization organizations
International organizations based in Europe
Political organizations based in Europe
Land rights movements
Workers' rights organizations
European Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Hot%20Tropical%20Songs%20of%202006 | The Billboard Tropical Songs chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing tropical songs of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems based on each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
See also
List of number-one Billboard Hot Tropical Songs of 2007
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Songs of 2006
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Pop Airplay of 2006
References
2006
United States Tropical Songs
2006 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Hot%20Tropical%20Songs%20of%202005 | The Billboard Tropical Songs chart is a music chart that ranks the best-performing tropical songs of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems based on each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
See also
List of number-one Billboard Hot Tropical Songs of 2006
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Songs of 2005
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Pop Airplay of 2005
References
2005
United States Tropical Songs
2005 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Trinity is an American family drama television series created by Matthew Carnahan that aired on the broadcast network NBC from October 16, 1998 to November 6, 1998. Only four of the first season's 9 episodes were aired before the series was cancelled by NBC in March 1999. Among the main cast was Louis Ferreira, Jill Clayburgh, Tate Donovan, and Sam Trammell.
Plot
Set in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, a detective from a working-class Irish Catholic family looks after his family members.
Cast
Louis Ferreira as Bobby McCallister
Jill Clayburgh as Eileen McCallister
John Spencer as Simon McCallister
Tate Donovan as Kevin McCallister
Sam Trammell as Liam McCallister
Kim Raver as Clarissa McCallister
Bonnie Root as Amanda McCallister
Charlotte Ross as Fiona McCallister
Episodes
Awards and nominations
References
External links
1990s American drama television series
1998 American television series debuts
1998 American television series endings
English-language television shows
NBC original programming
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
Television shows set in New York City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreenSpace | GreenSpace is a social network game created to promote environmentalism. The game was developed by RocketOwl, Inc. and launched December 1, 2011. The game is free with in-app purchases.
Gameplay
Humans have been sending their trash into the galaxy for the past 300 years, unintentionally littering surrounding planets in the process. SpaceJanitors of the trash-clearing GreenSpace Corps are sent into outer space clean up the planets and make them habitable again. Players select pieces of trash for their GreenSpace Corps avatar to clear. Energy is required to clear trash off the planet. Players receive rewards for cleaning in the form of experience points and credits immediately after each piece of trash is cleaned.
Credits are used to build structures. Some structures can also produce credits, releasing the credits after an interval ranging from 15 minutes to one hour. RocketFuel, a special in-game credit, is earned by sharing the game with Facebook friends and by interacting with them in-game. Rocket fuel is used to perform actions en-masse, such as repairing all the buildings in a quadrant.
Players level-up by collecting experience points. Large pieces of garbage require the player to reach higher level before they can be cleared. Players can also gain experience by completing missions. Once a quadrant of the island is clear of trash, the player can build structures to produce additional energy and credits.
Monetization
Players can purchase RockeFuel and in-game credits using real-world money to help them advance more quickly through missions and upgrade their world and Greenspace Corps avatar.
GreenSpace participated in the now-defunct Facebook Credits program. Facebook credits could be put toward in-game purchases, such as additional RocketFuel.
Development
GreenSpace cost of US$800,000 to develop over the course of 2010 and 2011. The game began its open beta in August 2011 and soft launched in December 1, 2011.
On August 2, 2012, GreenSpace received a major update.
In September 2012, GreenSpace was released for iPad.
Partnerships
In August 2012, RocketOwl and reforestation organization WeForest.org announced the Play2Plant partnership. As players reach in-game milestones in GreenSpace, trees will be planted by WeForest to reflect their progress.
In November 2012, as part of its partnership with weforest.org, RocketOwl announced that it would plant a tree for every new GreenSpace player until the end of 2012. This resulted in more than 10,000 trees planted.
Reception
In November 2012, GreenSpace hit a high of 80,000 monthly active users.
Canadian Videogame Awards 2012 - Finalist for Best Social/Casual Game.
Legacy
A sequel called BlueSpace is in development and is expected to launch on all devices.
References
External links
The GreenSpace Update: Adventures on iOS
RocketOwl Unveils Massive Update for Facebook Title GreenSpace
GreenSpace iPad App on iTunes Store
2011 video games
Environmental education video games
Facebo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse%20programming | Pulse programming in the field of experimental physics refers to engineering sinusoidal electromagnetic waveforms to have programmable frequencies, phases, and amplitudes. The main techniques and terminology arose in the study of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) during the 1970s, but has since been adopted in many other experimental settings, usually associated with quantum computing experiments. These include electron spin resonance (ESR), trapped ions, quantum dots, the phase/flux/charge across a superconducting junctions, and many other quantum bit implementations. Traditionally, pulse programmers were built using hard-wired analog electronics to produce a fixed sequence of waveforms, but modern pulse programmers make use of direct digital synthesis programmable electronics controlled by a personal computer to make precisely reproducible sequences.
Open source pulse programming
There are several commercial pulse programmers available whose designs are proprietary. A notable open source pulse programmer system was originally designed by Paul Pham as part of his master's thesis at MIT under Isaac Chuang. It was first deployed in Rainer Blatt's quantum optics and spectroscopy group at the University of Innsbruck, and was later adopted by the following trapped ion research groups:
Tobias Schaetz's quantum analog simulation group at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, now at the University of Freiburg
Piet Schmidt's quantum metrology group at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), the German national standards body analogous to NIST in the United States.
Boris Blinov's ion trap group at the University of Washington in Seattle
Hartmut Haeffner's ion trap group at the University of California in Berkeley
Tilman Pfau's quantum optics group at the University of Stuttgart
Andrew Drewson's ion trap group at the University of Aarhus
Further extensions to the system were designed and implemented by Paul Pham while he resided at 419 Boylston in Seattle, with major contributions from Philipp Schindler at Innsbruck and Lutz Petersen at MPQ. As of 2010, the core part of the pulse programmer system (the FPGA sequencer board) is no longer being actively maintained. However, the Innsbruck group has designed and assembled its own custom DDS boards which generate the actual waveforms that is compatible with the FPGA sequencer board.
A new open source system called ARTIQ is being developed by M-Labs.
Quantum information science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide%20in%20Guyana | Suicide in Guyana is a serious social problem, as Guyana is ranked worst in suicides per capita worldwide among sovereign nations.
Statistics
Domestic data on suicide in Guyana is limited, as the country's available health literature is focused mainly on infectious tropical diseases. A 2012 World Health Organization report indicated that Guyana had a suicide rate of 44.2 per 100,000 people, and that for every single female suicide, there were 3.2 male suicides. By comparison, neighboring Suriname had a suicide rate of 27.8 per 100,000, and Venezuela's rate was 2.6 per 100,000.
Sucides appear to be significantly higher among Indo-Guyanese than other ethnic groups, accounting for around 80% of total suicides. Most of suicides result from poisioning, primarily from agricultural pesticides.
Legal issues
Attempts by the government to address the issue have been stymied by political divisions. A bill was voted down in 2016 which would have amended the country's laws in order to decriminalize suicide, implemented the 2014 Mental Health Strategic Plan and a 5-year National Suicide Prevention Plan which were both crafted by the previous government, and allocated funds to treat mental health and suicide as national priorities. Speakers for the parliamentary majority argued that the manner in which the legislation was framed both politicized and trivialized the issue.
See also
Health in Guyana
Jonestown massacre, the largest mass suicide in the history
List of countries by suicide rate
References
Health in Guyana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EdSurge | EdSurge is an education journalism initiative provided by the International Society for Technology in Education. EdSurge publishes newsletters and operates databases used by venture capitalists, teachers, school administrators and others. In May 2018, EdSurge was identified by the Brookings Institution as one of the world's 16 leading "innovation spotters" in education. These organizations "are searching the globe to find, highlight, and sometimes support education innovations," Brookings wrote.
Overview
EdSurge was founded in 2011 by Elizabeth Corcoran, a former executive editor of Forbes and a former technology reporter for The Washington Post, by Nick Punt, a former vice president at Inigral, a private social network for higher education, by Matt Bowman, a former Catholic school teacher, and by Agustin Vilaseca.
As of December 2015, the company had raised $5.6 million in funding from investors including GSV Capital, NewSchools Venture Fund, Reach Capital, Catamount Ventures, 1776.vc, the Omidyar Network, the Women's Venture Capital Fund, LearnCapital. and many angels. EdSurge's initial funding in 2012 was led by The Washington Post Company and NewSchools Venture Fund, along with angel investors including Allen & Company’s Nancy Peretsman and Silicon Valley entrepreneur Judith Estrin.
EdSurge's commentary regularly appears in media outlets such as Fast Company. EdSurge's managing editor, Tony Wan, was named in 2014 to Forbes magazine's "30 Under 30" list, and EdSurge's former senior editor, Mary Jo Madda, was named to the 2016 Forbes list, which highlights top achievers under age 30.
Acquisition by ISTE
In November 2019, ISTE, a non-profit organization focused on education and technology, acquired EdSurge for an undisclosed amount. EdSurge has operated as a for-profit company, but will become a nonprofit media organization by joining ISTE. EdSurge's shareholders and investors will not receive a return on their investment.
References
Educational technology companies of the United States
Education companies established in 2011
Internet properties established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangwon%20No.1%20Broadcasting | Gangwon No.1 Broadcasting or G1, formerly Gangwon Television Broadcasting (GTB) is a Radio and TV station in Gangwon Province, affiliated with the SBS Network.
Stations
Television
Channel - Ch. 36 (LCN 6–1)
Launched - December 15, 2001
Affiliated to - SBS
Call Sign - HLCG-DTV
FM radio (Fresh FM)
Frequency - FM 105.1 MHz (Chuncheon), FM 103.1 MHz (Wonju), FM 106.1 MHz (Gangneung), FM 99.3 MHz (Taebaek), FM 88.3 MHz (Pyeongchang)
Launched - October 10, 2003 (Chuncheon, Gangneung), June 1, 2009 (Wonju), December 16, 2011 (Taebaek), September 1, 2012 (Pyeongchang)
Affiliated to - SBS Power FM
Call Sign - HLCG-FM
See also
SBS (Korea)
External links
Seoul Broadcasting System affiliates
Television networks in South Korea
Mass media companies of South Korea
Television channels in South Korea
Television channels and stations established in 2001
Mass media in Chuncheon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taejon%20Broadcasting%20Corporation | Taejon Broadcasting Corporation or TJB (also known as True Joy Begins) is a regional television and radio broadcasting company based in Daejeon. The station is an affiliate of the SBS Network. Eventually, it was originally established on April 9, 1994, although it began its official broadcast on May 15, 1995.
Stations
Television
Channel - Ch. 15 (LCN 6)
Launched - May 14, 1995
Affiliated to - SBS
Call Sign - HLDF-DTV
FM radio (TJB Power FM)
Frequency - FM 95.7 MHz (Daejeon), FM 96.5 MHz (Seosan)
Launched - March 2, 1998 (Daejeon)January 1, 2002 (Seosan)
Affiliated to - SBS Power FM
Call Sign - HLDF-FM
See also
SBS (Korea)
External links
Seoul Broadcasting System affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1994
Radio stations established in 1994
Mass media in Daejeon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthene%20quadricaudata | Anthene quadricaudata is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo and Uganda.
References
Butterflies described in 1926
Anthene |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwangju%20Broadcasting%20Corporation | Kwangju Broadcasting Corporation or kbc is a radio and TV station in Gwangju, affiliated with the SBS Network.
Stations
Television
Channel - Ch. 15 (LCN 6-1)
Launched - May 14, 1995
Affiliated to - SBS
Call Sign - HLDH-DTV
FM radio (kbc MyFM)
Frequency - FM 101.1 MHz (Gwangju, Mokpo), 96.7 MHz (Yeosu), 104.3 MHz (Yeonggwang), 90.7 MHz (Gwangyang)
Launched - February 2, 1998
Affiliated to - SBS Power FM
Call Sign - HLDH-FM
See also
SBS (Korea)
External links
Seoul Broadcasting System affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1995
Mass media in Gwangju |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeonju%20Television | Jeonju Television or JTV is a regional television and radio broadcasting company based in Jeonju. The station is an affiliate of the SBS Network.
Stations
Television
Channel - Ch. 33 (LCN 6-1)
Launched - September 27, 1997
Affiliated to - SBS
Call Sign - HLDQ-DTV
FM radio (JTV Magic FM)
Frequency - FM 90.1 MHz
Launched - August 18, 2001
Affiliated to - SBS Power FM
Call Sign - HLDQ-FM
See also
SBS (Korea)
External links
Seoul Broadcasting System affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1997
Mass media in Jeonju |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QDF | QDF may stand for:
Quality Discrimination Filter, a sneaky censorship method used by Twitter
File extensions
Financial data format used by Quicken personal finance software for Windows (Quicken Data File)
Mathematics
Quadratic Differential Form |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20State%20Canalway%20Trail | The New York State Canalway Trail is a network of multi-use trails that runs parallel to current or former sections of the Erie, Oswego, Cayuga-Seneca, and Champlain canals. When completed, the system will have of trails following current and former sections of the canals. The longest of these is the long Erie Canalway Trail. The Erie and Champlain Canalway Trails are also part of the statewide Empire State Trail system.
A partnership of national, state, local and non-profit organizations is working to complete a continuous system of trails along these canals. Among the organizations involved are Parks & Trails New York, the New York State Canal Corporation and the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor.
Before the railroad era, New York had an extensive network of canals. As commercial freight shifted away from canals and towards rail and highways, communities along the canals needed new ways to generate commerce. In 1995, the Canal Corporation issued a recreation plan, which offered a view of the Canal as a linear park, including trails linking communities along the trail. Biking, hiking, snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, horseback riding, canoeing, and fishing are among activities promoted.
The original canals were flanked by towpaths, where mules walked while pulling barges through the canals. Many of the canalway trails follow former towpaths. Some trails follow canals that are still in use, serving mostly recreational boating. Other towpath trails pass by the ruins of abandoned locks and other structures. Many communities along the canal have made progress in establishing parks, improving towpaths and raising funds for restoration of old canal structures such as locks and aqueducts.
As of 2021, the Erie Canalway Trail is 100% complete. As part of the Empire State Trail project, the remaining gaps in the trail were filled and completed, both on-road and off-road, by the end of 2020.
Some of the individual sections are included below:
Erie Canalway trails
Segments are listed from west to east.
Other trails
References
Hiking trails in New York (state)
Sports in Onondaga County, New York
Erie Canal in Syracuse, New York
Historic sites in Onondaga County, New York |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustwave%20Holdings | Trustwave Holdings is an American
standalone business unit cybersecurity independent subsidiary and brand of multinational telecommunications company Singtel Group Enterprise. It focuses on providing managed detection and response (MDR), managed security services (MSS), database security, and email security to organizations around the globe.
The company's international headquarters is located in downtown Chicago, and regional offices are located in London, São Paulo, and Sydney. The company also operates Security Operations Centers in Chicago, Denver, Manila, Minneapolis, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Warsaw, and Waterloo, Ontario.
Trustwave has customers in 96 countries.
History
In April 2011, Trustwave Holdings filed for its IPO though the company is now a standalone subsidiary of Singtel. Trustwave's website says the company has more than 1,600 employees.
In February 2014, Trustwave SVP Phillip. J. Smith offered expert testimony related to data breaches and malware as part of a Congressional hearing for The House Committee on Energy and Commerce. In his prepared testimony, he presented observations based on the company's experience investigating thousands of data breaches, ongoing malware and security research and other forms of threat intelligence.
On April 8, 2015 (SGT), Singapore Telecommunications Ltd (Singtel) announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Trustwave Holdings, Inc. for a fee of $810 million—Singtel with a 98% stake in the company leaving 2% with Trustwave's CEO and President. According to media reports and Singtel filings on the Singapore Exchange, the enterprise value of Trustwave at the time of the deal was $850 million.
In October 2021, Trustwave sold its PCI compliance business to cybersecurity firm Sysnet for $80 million. The sale gave Trustwave the ability to invest more in its core capabilities of managed detection and response (MDR) and managed security services (MSS), according to research firm IDC.
Significant Discoveries
In 2013 and again in 2014 Trustwave SpiderLabs did an analysis of primary Pony botnet controllers. The results of the analysis found that the botnets had gathered more than two million passwords and credentials for accounts on ADP payroll, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and more, and over US $220,000 in crypto-currency like Bitcoin.
In June 2020, Trustwave SpiderLabs discovered a new malware family, which they named GoldenSpy, embedded in tax payment software that a Chinese bank requires corporations to install to conduct business operations in China. Trustwave said it was uncertain whether the malware was embedded in all of the tax software or if it was deployed against specific targets. The FBI sent a subsequent warning about this malware threat to companies in healthcare, chemical, and finance industries.
Leading up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Trustwave SpiderLabs found a hacker selling info on 186 million U.S. voters during its Dark Web and cybercriminal forum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExoMol | ExoMol is a database of molecular line lists that can be used for spectral characterisation and simulation of astrophysical environments such as exoplanets, brown dwarfs, cool stars and sunspots. The project is run by the theoretical molecular physics group of University College London and is led by Jonathan Tennyson. New line lists for about 30 small molecules of astrophysical interest that currently lack a complete spectroscopic coverage are being generated. The list includes diatomics (e.g., C2, O2, AlO, MgH, CaH, FeH), triatomics (e.g., H2O, H2S, C3, SO2), tetratomics (e.g., PH3, HOOH, H2CO) and a few larger molecules (most notably CH4 and HNO3). Full details on the ExoMol web site (www.exomol.com).
References
Astrophysics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastery%20Schools | Mastery Schools is a network of 24 charter schools with over 14,000 students in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey. It is headquartered at the Mastery Charter Pickett Campus in Germantown, Philadelphia.
Overview
Mastery began in 2001 with the Brook J. Lenfest Campus.
Schools
Elementary Schools
Grover Cleveland Elementary (K–8)
Clymer Elementary (K–6)
Cramer Hill Elementary (K–8)
Frederick Douglass Elementary (K–8)
Hardy Williams Elementary (K-6)
Harrity Elementary (K–8)
Mann Elementary (K–6)
McGraw Elementary (K–5)
Molina Elementary (K–8)
Pastorius-Richardson Elementary (K–8)
Smedley Elementary (K–6)
Thomas Elementary (K–6)
Hardy Williams Elementary (K–6)
John Wister Elementary (K–5)
Middle Schools
East Camden Middle School (6–8)
Mastery Charter Prep Middle School (7–8)
High Schools
Mastery High School of Camden (9–12)
Simon Gratz (9–12)
Lenfest Campus (7–12)
Pickett Campus (6–12)
Shoemaker Campus (7–12)
Thomas Campus (7–12)
Hardy Williams High (7–12)
References
External links
Charter schools in Pennsylvania
School District of Philadelphia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead%20of%20Summer%20%28film%29 | Ondata di calore (internationally released as Dead of Summer) is a 1970 Italian drama film directed by Nelo Risi. It is based on the novel Dead of Summer written by Dana Moseley. The film won the Golden Seashell at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.
Cast
Jean Seberg as Joyce Grasse
Luigi Pistilli as Doctor Voltera
Lilia Nguyen as Maid
Franco Acampora as Bianchi
See also
List of Italian films of 1970
References
External links
1970 films
Films directed by Nelo Risi
Italian drama films
1970 drama films
1970s Italian-language films
1970s Italian films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Archer%20characters | This is a list of characters on Archer, an American animated spy comedy television series created by Adam Reed for the FX network.
Characters
Sterling Archer
Sterling Malory Archer (H. Jon Benjamin), codename: Duchess, is 184 lb, 6'2", 36 years old (computer-screen readout in the show's first episode) and has black hair and blue eyes. He is considered the world's most dangerous secret agent. Though he shows proficiency in stereotypical spy skills—weapons, driving, martial arts—his primary interest in the job is the opportunity to enjoy a jet-setting lifestyle full of sex, alcohol, thrills, lacrosse, fast cars, designer clothing, and spy toys.
Egotistical and self-serving, Archer generally lacks empathy towards anyone, though he is very quick to call out others for perceived bigotry. He shares many of his mother's flaws such as alcoholism, selfishness, impulsive behavior, and the stubborn refusal to listen to anyone. Flashback sequences show that his mother, between her career as an international spy and her social promiscuity, had very little time for Sterling in his youth. As such, Archer was primarily raised by his valet Woodhouse, whom he abused both verbally and physically.
He is almost always seen with an alcoholic drink. He insists that he has an incredibly high tolerance for alcohol yet is commonly seen in an inebriated state. He wears only hand-tailored suits to the office, and often refuses to wear anything other than black turtlenecks (which he calls "tactilenecks") during operations. He claims he was the first to recognize the garment's tactical potential, and becomes enraged when his style is copied by other agents. His sidearm of choice is the Walther PPK (the same weapon used by James Bond) despite being consistently insulted due to the gun's diminutive stature by his co-workers (Ray Gillette: "You'd better put that back in your purse," Conway Stern: "Oh, I'm queer, coming from the man whose tiny gun came with a matching purse"). In the season three episode "Drift Problem," he receives a modified black Dodge Challenger as a gift from Malory Archer, but she has the car stolen from him hours later in an effort to teach Archer a lesson about taking care of his possessions. In recent episodes he is seen driving a black Chevrolet El Camino.
Although Archer has a high kill rate, having stopped and killed a number of highly dangerous criminals, he usually does so not out of a desire to uphold the law, but for his own personal selfish reasons. He has, however, demonstrated compassion for others on occasion: in "Placebo Effect" he genuinely cared about fellow cancer patient Ruth, and was upset over her death, vowing vengeance against the mobsters who were selling phony chemotherapy medication; in "Double Trouble," Archer attempts to stop Katya Kasanova and Lana from fighting, as he doesn't want them to hurt each other. Archer admits to Lana in Season 3 that she is his only friend, and later suggests that his feelings for her go bey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archos%20GamePad | The Archos GamePad is a video gaming tablet developed and marketed by Archos. It runs on the Android operating system. It was announced on August 29, 2012 and was first released on 6 December 2012 in Europe, with a US release projected for February 2013. The tablet is aimed at gaming, and features dedicated dual analog sticks along with regular gaming keys and shoulder buttons - a similar design as the PlayStation Vita. Archos have designed a technology which 'converts' the touch controls (of Android games) into physical controls from the buttons. It is able to get over a thousand games from the Google Play library.
Archos GamePad features a 7-inch screen, 8GB of internal storage, 16 physical buttons, a 0.3 MP front camera, and stereo speakers. It is 10mm thick and weights 300 grams. Archos have developed a special mapping software for developers to officially make their game(s) compatible with the GamePad's physical buttons.
Release
Archos retailed GamePad in the UK for £130, although Archos originally had said that the tablet will sell for "under £130" The GamePad has a 7" screen.
Gamepad 2
In August 2013, it was revealed that Archos is working on a successor, called Archos GamePad 2.
See also
Wii U GamePad
JXD S7300
Wikipad
References
External links
Official Website
Tablet computers
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Football%20Life | A Football Life is an American documentary series of 116 episodes, developed by NFL Films and aired on NFL Network that documents the lives of select National Football League (NFL) players, coaches, owners, and teams. Friends, teammates, family members and other players and coaches associated with the subjects are interviewed.
History
The name of the series originated in a quote from Steve Sabol of NFL Films:
Originating as an NFL Network special on the career of Bill Parcells in November 2010, it premiered as an episodic series on September 15, 2011, with the first part of Bill Belichick's documentary. Unlike most episodes, the episode on Belichick was a two-hour documentary, and focused specifically on the 2009 season; Belichick agreed to be wired for sound for the entire season. The documentary was viewed by about 657,000 viewers, the most-watched documentary in NFL Network's history, and was the second-most watched program in Boston at the time with 151,000 viewers, trailing behind a Boston Red Sox game.
Season Two began on September 12, 2012, with The Faces of Tebow.
The series was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Edited Sports Series/Anthology" and "Outstanding Promotional Announcement – Episodic" for Belichick's episode in 2012.
Season One was eventually released on DVD.
Episodes
Season One
Source:
Season Two
Source:
Season Three
Source:
Season Four
Season Four was announced for September 10, 2014.
Season Five
Season Five began on September 18 at 9 pm, and it had 13 new episodes including Terrell Owens, Dick Vermeil, Paul Brown, and more.
Season Six
Season Six premiered Friday, September 16 at 9:00 PM ET and aired 13 new episodes starting with the story of Pro Football Hall of Fame running back Curtis Martin, and including Brett Favre, Chuck Noll, and Jim Brown.
Two mini-episodes were released on the NFL's official YouTube channel. In contrast to the television series, these two episodes feature fictional characters Rod Tidwell and Frank Cushman from the movie Jerry Maguire, with Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Jerry O'Connell reprising their roles. The Tidwell episode used footage from the film, while Cushman's used edited footage of Brian Griese from the NFL Films archives.
Season Seven
Season Seven of A Football Life premiered on Friday, September 15 at 9:00 PM ET and subsequently aired 13 episodes beginning with the former Miami Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino. Other episodes featured former Oakland Raiders coach John Madden, former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly, Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and former Washington Redskins coach and current NASCAR owner Joe Gibbs.
Season Eight
Season Eight of A Football Life premiered on Friday, September 14, 2018 at 9:00 PM ET and subsequently aired 11 episodes. It featured Mike Holmgren, Dwight Clark and The Catch, Lawrence Taylor, Thurman Thomas, Carson Palmer, Brian Dawkins, Doug Williams, Willie McGinest, Cris Collinsworth, Tony Romo and Bill Cowher.
Season Nine
Season |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Are%20the%20One%20%28Andy%20Warhol%29 | You Are the One, by Andy Warhol, is an Amiga-made music video, created in 1985. You Are the One was Warhol's second foray with an Amiga computer, having originally made a video highlighting Debbie Harry.
You Are the One featured animated Marilyn Monroe images, set to a short soundtrack. Long thought to be lost, the video was found on two old Amiga discs in Warhol's studio and was restored for display at the Museum of New Art in 2007.
References
External links
Films directed by Andy Warhol
Music videos
Amiga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%282008%29 | Home and Away is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that first appeared during 2008, by order of first appearance. They were all introduced by series producer Cameron Welsh. The 21st season of Home and Away began airing from 28 January 2008. Principal Martin Bartlett, played by Bob Baines was the first introduction of the year in February. Trent Dalzell as Axel Hay, David Downer as Ross Buckton and Celeste Dodwell as Melody Jones made their first appearances in March. Tessa James arrived as Nicole Franklin in April. Jordan Rodrigues and Oliver Davis joined the cast as Jai Fernandez and Oliver Phillips in May. Esther Anderson and Rebecca Breeds made their debuts as Charlie and Ruby Buckton in June. Luke Jacobz and Paul Pantano debuted on 8 July as Angelo Rosetta and Elliot Gillen, respectively. David Jones-Roberts began appearing as Xavier Austin in November.
Martin Bartlett
Martin Bartlett portrayed by Bob Baines, made his first appearance on 12 February 2008. In one storyline Martin forms an attraction to his school secretary Kirsty Sutherland (Christie Hayes). Hayes told Jason Herbison from Inside Soap that "things are really awkward between Kirsty and Bartlett, because he's fallen for her in a big way, but she rejected him and is now dating Miles Copeland (Josh Quong Tart)." When he sacks Kirsty she takes a job as an escort. But she is unaware Martin uses escorts at the Sands resort. Hayes explained that Kirsty is "horrified to discover that her date is principal Bartlett. It's really humiliating for both of them, because Bartlett recently admitted to having feelings for Kirsty." She does not want to be there but Martin convinces her to stay.
Martin, who has taught Science for a number of years at Summer Bay High is introduced when Sally Fletcher (Kate Ritchie) introduces him as the new deputy, replacing the departed Donald Fisher (Norman Coburn). Following Sally's stabbing at the hands of Johnny Cooper (Callan Mulvey), Martin is appointed principal by the school board. One of his first acts is to hire Jazz Curtis (Rachel Gordon) as his secretary, after she blackmails him, after seeing him at an illegal fight Ric Dalby (Mark Furze) is involved in. He then sacks Jazz. After a clash with one of his former students, Kirsty, Martin hires her as Jazz's replacement. He forms an attraction to Kirsty, even to the extent of taking the blame for being Kirsty's three-year-old son, Oliver (Oliver Davis) breaking his arm while Annie Campbell (Charlotte Best) and Jai Fernandez (Jordan Rodrigues) are supposed to be babysitting him. He reveals to Kirsty that his mother brought him up on his own, like she is doing with Oliver while his father, Kane (Sam Atwell) is in prison.
Martin learns of Kirsty's relationship with Miles and he fires her but writes her a reference enabling her to get a job at the sands resort. Things escalate when Miles discovers Ki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulsan%20Broadcasting%20Corporation | Ulsan Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) is a regional television and radio broadcasting company based in Ulsan. The station is an affiliate of the SBS Network.
Stations
Television
Channel - Ch. 30 (LCN 6-1)
Launched - September 1, 1997
Affiliated with - SBS
Call Sign - HLDP-DTV
FM radio (ubc Green FM)
Frequency - FM 92.3 MHz
Launched - September 1, 2001
Affiliated with - SBS Power FM
Call Sign - HLDP-FM
See also
SBS (Korea)
External links
Seoul Broadcasting System affiliates
Radio stations established in 2001
Television channels and stations established in 1997
Mass media in Ulsan
Companies based in Ulsan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheongju%20Broadcasting | Cheongju Broadcasting or CJB is a Radio and TV station in Cheongju, affiliated with the SBS Network.
Stations
Television
Channel - Ch. 49 (LCN 6-1)
Launched - October 18, 1997
Affiliated to - SBS
Call Sign - HLDR-DTV
FM radio (CJB JOY FM)
Frequency - FM 101.5 MHz (Cheongju), FM 97.9 MHz (Chungju), FM 102.7 MHz (Jecheon)
Launched - September 26, 2001 (Cheongju), December 14, 2011 (Chungju), August 23, 2013 (Jecheon)
Affiliated to - SBS Power FM
Call Sign - HLDR-FM
See also
SBS (Korea)
External links
Seoul Broadcasting System affiliates
Television channels and stations established in 1997
Radio stations established in 2001
Mass media in Cheongju |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9%20TV | A9 TV was a Turkish television station that started broadcasting on March 21, 2011 via Turksat satellite television channel broadcasting. Much of the programming includes religious and English language content, with an emphasis on creationism over evolution and Darwinism. A substantial amount of content features Islamic creationist and cult leader Adnan Oktar (also known as Harun Yahya). In 2018, the channel was fined several times by the country's broadcasting regulator Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK).
Shows
Harun Yahya documentaries
Adnan Oktar'ın sohbet programları (Adnan Oktar's talk shows) (Turkish, English)
Building Bridges (features opinion leaders from around the world)
Ahir Zaman ve Yaratılış Delilleri (The End Times and the evidence of Creation)
İttihad-ı İslam (Islamic Union)
Adil Yargı
Documentaries for Children
References
External links
A9 TV YouTube Channel
A9 TV Turkey at LyngSat Address
Defunct television channels in Turkey
Television channels and stations established in 2011
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsan%20station%20%28Jungang%20Line%29 | Samsan station (formerly Pandae station) is a railway station in Yangpyeong County, South Korea. It is on the Jungang Line.
External links
Cyber station information from Korail
Railway stations in Gyeonggi Province
Yangpyeong County
Railway stations opened in 1965
Railway stations in South Korea opened in the 1960s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totally%20Hidden%20Video | Totally Hidden Video is an American hidden-camera television show and game show that aired from 1989 to 1992. It was one of the early shows in the history of the Fox television network and held the highest viewing share for any Fox program at one point. It was produced by Quantum Media and Fox.
The show premiered on Sunday, July 9, 1989. Steve Skrovan was the program's first host, later replaced by Mark Pitta in 1991.
Shortly after its debut, a game segment called Totally Home Made Videos was added to the show. In this segment, contestants send in their funny videos to win a $10,000 prize, the winners of which were announced by Skrovan at the end of every episode - very similar to the format used by sister show America's Funniest Home Videos.
Controversy
The show was accused of using paid actors in a lawsuit filed against the Fox Broadcasting Co. by Candid Camera'''s creator Allen Funt, who also accused the show of stealing his ideas. While the producers admitted that the series pilot had staged some of the "setups", they swore all skits which made it to air were legitimate. However, in the wake of the controversy, series producer Larry Hovis was fired for staging incidents.
In popular culture
On an episode of Saved By the Bell, Zack Morris references the show by claiming someone is on it in an effort to save face.
In the season 5 "Triple Play" episode of The Golden Girls, when Blanche calls off a scheme to meet wealthy men by claiming to be selling an expensive car, Sophia tries to help Blanche save face by telling the men that the whole thing was a setup for Totally Hidden Video, and that she's actually Kaye Ballard in disguise.
See alsoCandid Camera''
References
External links
American hidden camera television series
Fox Broadcasting Company original programming
1989 American television series debuts
1992 American television series endings
1980s American comedy game shows
1990s American comedy game shows
1980s American reality television series
1990s American reality television series
1980s American sketch comedy television series
1990s American sketch comedy television series
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood%20Residential | Hollywood Residential is an American sitcom created by and starring Adam Paul. It was originally broadcast on the Starz network in the United States in 2008.
Paul plays Tony King, an aspiring actor who had come up with an idea for a reality show in the style of This Old House in which each episode focused on his making improvements to the home of a Hollywood celebrity. Each episode featured a celebrity playing himself or herself.
Recurring themes include Tony's incompetence, his obsession with his ex-wife, and his simultaneous jealousy of and attraction for his co-host, Lila.
Tony's ex-wife Rachael was played by Rachael Harris. Adam Paul and Rachael Harris were married in real life and they divorced soon after the initial broadcast of Hollywood Residential.
Cast
Adam Paul as Tony King
Lindsey Stoddart as Lila Mann
David Ramsey as Don Merritt
Eric Allan Kramer as Pete
Carrie Clifford as Carrie
Rachael Harris as Rachael
Catherine Reitman as Abbey
Melissa Bacelar as Scarlett Jo Ramson
Patrick Gallo as Tom "The Hammer" Stern
Kurt Fuller as Chet
Episodes
References
External links
2000s American single-camera sitcoms
2008 American television series debuts
2008 American television series endings
Starz original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasparov%27s%20Gambit | Kasparov's Gambit, or simply Gambit, is a chess playing computer program created by Heuristic Software and published by Electronic Arts in 1993 based on Socrates II, the only winner of the North American Computer Chess Championship running on a common microcomputer. It was designed for MS-DOS while Garry Kasparov reigned as world champion, whose involvement and support was its key allure. A Macintosh version was planned to be released in 1995.
History
Julio Kaplan, chessplayer, computer programmer, and owner of the company 'Heuristic Software', first developed Heuristic Alpha in 1990–91. The original version evolved into Socrates with the help of other chess players and programmers including Larry Kaufman and Don Dailey, who, later, were also developers of Kasparov's Gambit.
Improvements to Socrates were reflected in a version called Titan, renamed for competition as Socrates II, the most successful of the series winning the 1993 ACM International Chess Championship. During the course of the championship Socrates II, which was running on a stock 486 PC, defeated opponents with purpose-built hardware and software for playing chess, including HiTech and Cray Blitz.
Electronic Arts purchased Socrates II and hired its creators to build a new product, Kasparov's Gambit, including Kasparov as consultant and brand. It was the company's effort to enter the chess programs market, dominated at the time by Chessmaster 3000 and Blitz. In 1993 it went on sale, but contained a number of bugs, so was patched at the end of that year. The patched version ran at about 75% of the speed of Socrates II which was quite an achievement considering the whole functionality of the software was sharing the same computer resources.
In 1993, it competed in the Harvard Cup (six humans versus six programs) facing grandmasters who had ratings ranging from 2515 to 2625 ELO. It finished the competition in 12th and last place. Grandmasters took the first five places and another Socrates derivation - Socrates Exp - was the best program finishing in 6th place.
According to team developer Eric Schiller, a Windows version was planned by Electronic Arts, but was never finished. Electronic Arts had earlier produced the chess variant Archon: The Light and the Dark (1983), and later followed up with Battle Chess II: Chinese Chess (2002) and Jamdat Mobile's Kasparov Chessmate (2003).
Reception
Computer Gaming World in 1993 approved of Kasparov's Gambits "stunning" SVGA graphics, Socrates II engine, and coaching features, concluding that it was "above any PC game on the market". It was a runner-up for the magazine's Strategy Game of the Year award in June 1994, losing to Master of Orion. The editors called Kasparov's Gambit "beautifully crafted", a "great teacher" and "a chess game for the 'rest of us.'" It holds the 145th place in Computer Gaming Worlds 1996 list of 150 Best Games of All Time.
Features
Gambit was intended to have the capabilities of a champion level software and a te |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docblock | In programming, a docblock or DocBlock is a specially formatted comment specified in source code that is used to document a specific segment of code. This makes the DocBlock format independent of the target language (as long as it supports comments); however, it may also lead to multiple or inconsistent standards.
Implementation examples
C#
/// <summary>Adds two integers together.</summary>
/// <param name="a">First integer.</param>
/// <param name="b">Second integer.</param>
/// <returns>Sum of integers a and b.</returns>
int Sum(int a, int b)
{
return a + b;
}
Java
/**
* Adds two integers together
*
* @param a First integer
* @param b Second integer
* @return Sum of integers a and b
*/
int sum(int a, int b)
{
return a + b;
}
PHP
<?php
/**
* Adds two integers together
*
* @param int $a First integer
* @param int $b Second integer
* @return int Sum of integers $a and $b
*/
function sum(int $a, int $b): int
{
return $a + $b;
}
Python
def sum(a: int, b: int) -> int
"""Adds two integers together.
Args:
a: First integer.
b: Second integer.
Returns:
Sum of the two integers.
"""
return a + b
JavaScript
/**
* Adds two numbers together.
* @param {number} a First number.
* @param {number} b Second number.
* @returns {number} Sum of numbers a and b
*/
const add = (a, b) => a + b;
Ruby
##
# This class represents an arbitrary shape by a series of points.
class Shape
##
# Creates a new shape described by a +polyline+.
#
# If the +polyline+ does not end at the same point it started at the
# first pointed is copied and placed at the end of the line.
#
# An ArgumentError is raised if the line crosses itself, but shapes may
# be concave.
def initialize polyline
# ...
end
end
Rust
/// Adds two numbers together.
///
/// # Examples
///
/// ```
/// let result = sum(5, 5);
/// ```
fn sum(a: u64, b: u64) -> u64 {
a + b
}
See also
Docstring – Language-specific non-volatile documentation
Comparison of documentation generators
Programming constructs
Software documentation
String (computer science) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMM%20Cluster%20Survey | The XMM Cluster Survey (XCS) is a serendipitous X-ray galaxy cluster survey being conducted using archival data taken by ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite. Galaxy clusters trace the large scale structure of the universe, and their number density evolution with redshift provides a way to measure cosmological parameters, independent of cosmic microwave background experiments or supernovae cosmology projects.
The collaboration is based in the United Kingdom and this is also where the majority of researchers are based. However, there are members of the collaboration across Europe and the Atlantic.
Science Goals
Derivation of cosmological parameters
Measurement of X-ray scaling relations and their evolution
Galaxy evolution in dense environments
Properties of unusual (non cluster) X-ray sources, such as high redshift quasars and isolated neutron stars.
Achievements
The XCS collaboration have detected 503 clusters serendipitously in XMM-Newton observations.
Publications
References
External links
XMM Cluster Survey
Astrophysics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xceedium | Xceedium, Inc., was a network security software company providing privileged identity and access management solutions which was subsequently acquired by CA Technologies. Their software is used to control and manage the risks that privileged users, privileged accounts (admin, root, etc.) and privileged credentials (passwords, certificates, digital keys, etc.) pose to systems and data.
History
Xceedium Inc., was founded in 2000 by David Van and David Cheung when the company split from Lucid Technologies Group, a company created in 1995. The company developed software for internal use that provided its consultants with secure remote access to sensitive customer systems. This software became the core technology for the Xceedium GateKeeper product. Xceedium's products were aimed at mid-large sized enterprises in vertical market segments including banking and financial services, retail, telecom, healthcare, energy and government agencies. They marketed their product through a global partner network.
Xceedium's headquarters was originally located in Jersey City, New Jersey until it relocated to Northern Virginia in March 2011. Initial funding for the venture-backed company came from ArrowPath Venture Partners and Nationwide Mutual Capital.
Xceedium was a private, venture capital backed company with funding from ArrowPath Venture Partners and Nationwide Mutual Capital. In June 2012, Xceedium closed a $12 million financing led by ArrowPath Venture Partners bringing the total capital raised to $25 million Xceedium was acquired by CA Technologies in August 2015.
Products
Xceedium Gatekeeper was the first product designed by the company, initially built with out-of-band and in-band KVM for remote IT control. The GateKeeper software was updated to provide network-based access control and session recording/playback. Later, GateKeeper and Cloakware Password Authority (a product acquired from Irdeto) were integrated to form Xceedium Xsuite.
The main capabilities of Xceedium Xsuite were: role-based access control, command filtering (white/black list), user containment (prevents SSH based leapfrogging or RDP hopping to unauthorized nodes), session monitoring/policy violation alerting, session recording and playback and privileged password vaulting and management. The Xceedium Xsuite platform enabled organizations to apply the principle of least privilege, which holds that systems and individuals should only be granted access to the resources and commands that are absolutely necessary for the required task. According to the company, Xsuite limited access for privileged users to the systems and commands for which they are explicitly authorized (Role-based access control). It also monitored the activities of privileged users and sent alerts when individuals attempted to violate a policy. The system recorded privileged user sessions such as telnet, RDP, SSH, and VNC and provided a mechanism to replay recorded session for investigations and forensics.
Xsuite Cl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFMS-FM | CFMS-FM (105.9 FM) is a Canadian radio station, transmitting at 105.9 MHz from Markham, Ontario. The station broadcasts a mixed format, with daytime programming featuring English-language adult contemporary music along with news, weather and traffic information targeted to York Region, and evening programming featuring a multilingual ethnic format in multiple languages, including Cantonese, Filipino, Hindi, Mandarin, Punjabi, Tamil and Urdu.
History
On September 11, 2012, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved Bhupinder Bola's application to operate a new FM commercial FM radio programming undertaking in Markham. The station has their main office located in Vaughan, Ontario.
The station officially launched on February 5, 2014. The station has also expressed interest in testing HD Radio for the purposes of offering time shifting for its listeners, in case they missed earlier programming.
On April 23, 2015, the CRTC denied an application by Radio Markham York Incorporated to add a new transmitter in Aurora to operate at 91.7 MHz channel 219A) with an average effective radiated power (ERP) of 45 watts (maximum ERP of 150 watts with an effective height of antenna above average terrain of 179.5 metres). On June 8, 2023, the CRTC denied an application by Radio Markham York Incorporated to add a new FM transmitter at 91.7 MHz in Pickering, Ontario.
Previously the registration for CFMS was for an easy listening station on 98.5 MHz located in Victoria, British Columbia, now known as CIOC-FM.
References
External links
Fms
Fms
Markham, Ontario
Radio stations established in 2014
FMS
HD Radio stations
2014 establishments in Ontario
Indo-Canadian culture
Asian-Canadian culture in Toronto
Indian diaspora mass media
Hindi-language radio stations
Urdu-language radio stations
Punjabi-language radio stations
Tamil-language radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NiuTrans | NiuTrans is a machine translation system. It has a platform, an API, and two open-source translation systems.
It is developed by the Natural Language Processing Group at Northeastern University (China).
Translation systems
NiuTrans.SMT is an open-source statistical machine translation system jointly developed by the Natural Language Processing Laboratory of Northeastern University and Shenyang Yayi Network Technology Co., Ltd.
NiuTrans.NMT is a lightweight and efficient Transformer-based neural machine translation system. It is implemented with pure C++ and it is heavily optimized for fast decoding. The system can run with various systems and devices
See also
Apertium
Moses (machine translation)
External links
NiuTrans platform
NLP Lab at Northeastern University
NiuTrans.NMT on Github
NiuTrans.SMT on Github
References
Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu, Hao Zhang and Qiang Li. 2012. NiuTrans: An Open Source Toolkit for Phrase-based and Syntax-based Machine Translation. In Proc. of ACL, demonstration session.
Machine translation software
Natural language processing toolkits
Free software programmed in C++ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20map%20services%20of%20Slovenia | Online map services of Slovenia are based on data provided by the Surveying and Mapping Authority of the Republic of Slovenia, such as orthophoto covering entire territory of Slovenia with detailed imagery taken from a plane rather than satellite, and combine them with additional contents that are of interest to tourists and residents of Slovenia. Orthophoto images are taken every second year and provide more detailed aerial view of entire territory whereas satellite imagery shown by Google Maps only use detailed images for city areas and along major roads, but not for the entire territory. This is why orthophoto images are cited by geographers to show environmental change, rather than images taken by satellites that are shown on Google Maps.
Najdi.si combines orthophoto maps (despite its aerial view tab being named "satellite") with other contents, such as traffic info, city bus lines for Ljubljana and Maribor, and current info on the number of available bikes at BicikeLJ stations in Ljubljana.
Geopedia.si offers a number of maps, including:
city maps from 19th century and architectural heritage in Ljubljana on geolocated 19th century postcards with comments from the book A pictorial chronicle of a capital city,
interactive archaeological map of Emona on top of (orthophoto) map of Ljubljana,
cultural places of interest,
cultural events (in museums etc.) happening in the next 7 days,
paragliding info mapping service,
online natural hazards monitoring mapping service.
References
Geography of Slovenia
Internet in Slovenia
Web mapping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20reaction%20network%20theory | Chemical reaction network theory is an area of applied mathematics that attempts to model the behaviour of real-world chemical systems. Since its foundation in the 1960s, it has attracted a growing research community, mainly due to its applications in biochemistry and theoretical chemistry. It has also attracted interest from pure mathematicians due to the interesting problems that arise from the mathematical structures involved.
History
Dynamical properties of reaction networks were studied in chemistry and physics after the invention of the law of mass action. The essential steps in this study were introduction of detailed balance for the complex chemical reactions by Rudolf Wegscheider (1901), development of the quantitative theory of chemical chain reactions by Nikolay Semyonov (1934), development of kinetics of catalytic reactions by Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, and many other results.
Three eras of chemical dynamics can be revealed in the flux of research and publications. These eras may be associated with leaders: the first is the van 't Hoff era, the second may be called the Semenov–Hinshelwood era and the third is definitely the Aris era.
The "eras" may be distinguished based on the main focuses of the scientific leaders:
van’t Hoff was searching for the general law of chemical reaction related to specific chemical properties. The term "chemical dynamics" belongs to van’t Hoff.
The Semenov-Hinshelwood focus was an explanation of critical phenomena observed in many chemical systems, in particular in flames. A concept chain reactions elaborated by these researchers influenced many sciences, especially nuclear physics and engineering.
Aris’ activity was concentrated on the detailed systematization of mathematical ideas and approaches.
The mathematical discipline "chemical reaction network theory" was originated by Rutherford Aris, a famous expert in chemical engineering, with the support of Clifford Truesdell, the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. The paper of R. Aris in this journal was communicated to the journal by C. Truesdell. It opened the series of papers of other authors (which were communicated already by R. Aris). The well known papers of this series are the works of Frederick J. Krambeck, Roy Jackson, Friedrich Josef Maria Horn, Martin Feinberg and others, published in the 1970s. In his second "prolegomena" paper, R. Aris mentioned the work of N.Z. Shapiro, L.S. Shapley (1965), where an important part of his scientific program was realized.
Since then, the chemical reaction network theory has been further developed by a large number of researchers internationally.<ref>P. De Leenheer, D. Angeli and E. D. Sontag, "Monotone chemical reaction networks" , J. Math. Chem.', 41(3):295–314, 2007.</ref>G. Craciun and C. Pantea, "Identifiability of chemical reaction networks", J. Math. Chem., 44:1, 2008.A. N. Gorban and G. S. Yablonsky, "Extended detailed balance for systems with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encoder%20receiver%20transmitter | Encoder receiver transmitter (ERT) is a packet radio protocol developed by Itron for automatic meter reading. The technology is used to transmit data from utility meters over a short range so a utility vehicle can collect meter data without a worker physically inspecting each meter.
The ERT protocol was first described in . More technical detail is explained in later .
Technical details
ERT is an OOK modulated radio signal which is transmitted in the unlicensed 900-920 MHz band. The message is transmitted in the clear and uses Manchester encoding. The protocol uses frequency-hopping, a multiple access method to avoid interference with other nearby meters. SCM and IDM packet formats are described in
SCM packet
SCM messages are 12 bytes. Each message contains single, cumulative meter reading value along with the meter serial number, commodity type and checksum and tamper flags.
IDM packet
IDM messages are 92 bytes and contain time of use consumption data.
Later patents describe further variations of packets with variable length.
Implementations
Several vendors (besides Itron) have implemented ERT receivers (usually in order to read consumption data from Itron meters.) Notably, Digi sells an ERT gateway, and Grid Insight sells a PC-based product called the AMRUSB-1.
It should be possible to decode ERT signals using general purpose UHF packet radios such as the Texas Instruments CC1101 or Freescale MC33696. A software-defined radio receiver has been implemented using inexpensive hardware: RTLAMR, and the rtl_433 software will decode SCM messages. Kismet (software) has an rtlamr data source.
References
Further reading
Grid Insight - Itron ERT technology
Dave's Tech Blog - Itron Remote Read Electric Meter
RTLAMR - An rtl-sdr receiver for the ERT protocol
Packet radio
Smart grid |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weightlifting%20at%20the%201990%20Asian%20Games | Weightlifting was contested from September 23 to October 1, 1990, at the 1990 Asian Games in Ditan Gymnasium, Beijing, China.
Medalists
Men
Women
Medal table
References
Weightlifting Database
1990 Asian Games events
1990
Asian Games
Asian Games
1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Myerson | Ted Nathan Myerson (born 1975) is an American entrepreneur and business executive who holds two U.S. patents for innovations in real-time risk management and data aggregation. Myerson coined the term “naked access” in 2009, calling on the SEC to ban it. He was quoted in the SEC Market Access Rule.
FTEN Inc
Myerson founded the software startup FTEN Inc. in September 2001 at age 26, and sold it to The NASDAQ OMX Group for an undisclosed nine figures in December 2010, remaining in place as CEO. Former SEC Commissioner Annette Nazareth nominated FTEN for the 2010 National Medal of Technology Innovation. FTEN provides real-time intraday risk-management systems to the financial services industry.
In 2011, Myerson also became Global Head of Access Services for The NASDAQ OMX Group, overseeing four business units, including FTEN Inc. Access Services accounts for fifteen percent of The NASDAQ OMX Group's global revenue, approximately $223 million in 2012. Myerson also serves on the board of the FINRA/NASDAQ Trade Reporting Facility (TRF), and the New York Metro Board of Directors for The Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), a nonprofit foundation that provides entrepreneurship education to low-income youth globally.
Real-time risk management technology
Myerson incorporated FTEN, which he named after the F10 key on the computer keyboard, on September 10, 2001, the day before the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. After the attacks, Myerson decided to focus FTEN on protecting the U.S. financial markets. At that time, risk management was only available after the end of each trading day. It became clear to Myerson, however, that there was a need to aggregate risk management across different systems and markets in real-time.
The focus on real-time risk management paid off. In 2008, FTEN secured a $25 million Series B strategic investment from a consortium of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse. The company invested in real-time risk-management technology and expanded internationally.
Myerson's company revolutionized risk-management by making real-time intraday risk calculations possible. As a result, FTEN made the top 50 of Inc.’s 500 list twice, with a three-year growth rate of 4,531% as revenue climbed from $447,033 in 2006 to $20.7 million in 2009. FTEN was named one of Crain’s New York Business “Best Places to Work” in 2010 and Myerson was named a 2010 New York Enterprise Business Report Game Changer.
When it was acquired by NASDAQ OMX, FTEN's technology was processing over $150 billion in daily risk calculations globally, including over a third of U.S. equities volume.
Anonos
Since 2012, Anonos has been developing technology that transforms data at the data element level enabling dynamic data obscurity that preserves the value of underlying data. Specifically, Anonos de-identification and dynamic data obscurity risk management tools provide trusted party control for data subjects enabling them |
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