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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velardi | Velardi is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Luciano Velardi (born 1981), Italian footballer
Paola Velardi (born 1955), Italian computer scientist
Valerie Velardi, ex-wife of Robin Williams
See also
Velarde (disambiguation)
Italian-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Cyber-shot%20DSC-RX1 | The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1 is a series of premium fixed-lens full-frame digital compact cameras made by Sony as part of its Cyber-shot line.
The DSC-RX1 was announced in September 2012. The DSC-RX1R, released in 2013, is a variant of the Sony DSC-RX1 without anti-aliasing filter in front of the image sensor. In 2015, both models were succeeded by the DSC-RX1R II.
Cyber-shot DSC-RX1
The DSC-RX1 was the world's first fixed-lens, full-frame digital compact camera, and as of its announcement, was the world's smallest full-frame digital camera but is also considerably more expensive than most other compact cameras. It was announced in September 2012.
Notable features
The DSC-RX1 features a 35 mm f/2 Zeiss Sonnar lens with leaf shutter capable of a minimum shutter speed of 1/2000 s (for apertures 2.0 to 4.0), 1/3200 s (for apertures down to 5.6), and even 1/4000 s (for smaller apertures down to 22). The camera is equipped with a 24.3-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor, and it includes a new Multi Interface Shoe that is physically compatible with the ISO 518 standard hot shoe, with electrical contacts for newer Sony shoe-mounted accessories as well as compatibility with the proprietary iISO flash shoe via the ADP-MAA adapter.
DxO Mark
Based on DxOMark Sensor Scores (performance), the Sony DSC-RX1 got the best overall score among high-end compact cameras and mirror-less cameras tested with 93 scored, and even the Sony DSC-RX1's overall score is just behind the full-frame DSLR of Nikon D800, Nikon D800E and Nikon D600, with 96 and 94 respectively.
Cyber-shot DSC-RX1R
The Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1R, released in 2013, is a variant of the Sony DSC-RX1 without anti-aliasing filter in front of the image sensor. This can slightly increase the effective resolution at the expense of possibly more moiré in areas with fine repeating textures.
Cyber-shot DSC-RX1R II
The DSC-RX1R II was announced by Sony on October 14, 2015.
It is the first camera in mass production featuring a continuously variable optical low pass filter. In contrast with conceptually related technology debuted in the Pentax K-3 and subsequently carried by other Pentax models, Sony's technology works at any shutter speed.
See also
List of large sensor fixed-lens cameras
References
External Links
DSC-RX1 Professional Compact Camera - Sony USA
DSC-RX1R Professional Compact Camera with 35 mm Sensor - Sony USA
DSC-RX1R II Professional Compact Camera with 35 mm Sensor - Sony USA
Full-frame mirrorless fixed-lens cameras
Point-and-shoot cameras
RX1
Cameras introduced in 2012
Cameras introduced in 2013
Cameras introduced in 2015 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FusionCharts | FusionCharts, part of InfoSoft Global (P) Ltd, is a privately held software provider of data visualization products (JavaScript Charts, Maps, Widgets and Dashboards) with offices in Bangalore and Kolkata, India. FusionCharts has 23,000 customers and 500,000 users in 120 countries, including technology giants such as Apple, Google, ZOHO, Cisco, Facebook, Intel, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, EMC, Nokia, Tibco, as well as The Weather Channel, NASA, and the Federal Government of the United States.
A 100% bootstrapped company, FusionCharts has earned $4.5 million in revenue in 2010-11. and has clocked revenues of up to $7 million, or Rs 39 crore.
History
The idea behind FusionCharts was born in 2001 when 16-year-old Pallav Nadhani found himself dissatisfied with Microsoft Excel's charting capabilities while using the program to complete high school class assignments. Nadhani subsequently authored an article on Wrox Press's ASPToday.com technology website which examined the thesis that Macromedia Flash, then used mainly for web banners and pop-up ad, could be used to build an interactive charting solution for business applications such as dashboards and reports. The article earned him $1,500 and feedback from developers, which together acted as seed money and motivation for establishing the FusionCharts concept.
In 2002 at 17, Nadhani founded Infosoft Global. The initial product had six charts and was built using ActionScript. Nadhani worked alone developing the product, website, documents, sales and marketing and customer support for the first three years. As the company began to take off in 2005, he acquired office space in Bangur and hired 20 employees over the following 2–3 years. The venture grew during this period without raising external funding by bootstrapping.
By 2009, the company had moved to Salt Lake City, Kolkata, and had grown to over 50 employees. Since arriving in Salt Lake, the staff has expanded by 250 percent of its original size, and in 2011 FusionCharts opened their second office in Bangalore.
FusionCharts' client list, with customers across 118 countries and numerous business sectors, has drawn significant attention. The company was placed squarely on the global platform following its 2010 selection by US President Barack Obama to design the digital dashboards for the federal administration, the Federal IT Dashboard. FusionCharts was the first Indian startup to gain the attention of the Obama administration.
Co-founder Pallav Nadhani is the CEO of FusionCharts and also runs a seed funding venture capital fund named Seeders Inc.
In March 2020, the company was acquired by Idera, Inc., a U.S.-based software company.
Marketing
Since its founding in 2003, FusionCharts has put together an almost completely online network of international resellers serving places like Korea, Brazil, China and the United States.
The company has also made use of search engine optimization and pay per click marketing, and engages use |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads%20in%20Georgia%20%28country%29 | Georgia's road network plays an important role in both domestic and international traffic with the four neighboring countries. This is expressed in the road numbering system. The country has a network of 13 internationally oriented trunk highways that connect the capital Tbilisi, home to about a third of the national population, with its four neighboring countries. This is also the backbone of a network of domestic oriented national roads connecting vital regions with each other.
The total length of the road network is approximately according to 2021 numbers. Only a limited number of these are express roads or motorways which are in good condition. The quality of the other roads varies greatly. Signposts are in both Georgian and Latin script, but the road number prefix is always in Georgian script. European E-routes are indicated on the signposts while Asian AH roads are not.
Numbering
The road numbering in Georgia consists of three layers: roads of "international" (Georgian: საერთაშორისო, saertashoriso), "domestic" (შიდასახელმწიფოებრივი, shidasakhelmts’ipoebrivi) and "local" (ადგილობრივი, adgilobrivi) importance. This system was introduced at the end of 1996, including a new list of major roads.
The law on roads defines:
roads of international importance as roads connecting administrative, important industrial and cultural centers of Georgia with other countries;
roads of domestic importance as roads connecting Tbilisi with cultural or economic centers, capitals of the Autonomous Republics and administrative centers of the regions, as well as accessing roads of international and domestic importance and connecting important centers of the Autonomous Republics;
roads of local importance as roads connecting administrative centers of municipalities with their communities, roads connecting them with international and domestic roads and between communities, as well as roads connecting tourist, recreational, sporting, historical, cultural or scientific destinations with municipal centers.
These three categories are denoted by the Georgian letters ს (S), შ (Sh) and ა (A), derived from the first letter of their class:
ს stands for "საერთაშორისო მნიშვნელობის გზა" (Saertashoriso mnishvnelobis gza, road of international importance)
შ stands for "შიდასახელმწიფოებრივი მნიშვნელობის გზა" (Shidasakhelmts'ipoebrivi mnishvnelobis gza, road of domestic importance);
ა stands for "ადგილობრივი მნიშვნელობის გზა" (Adgilobrivi mnishvnelobis gza, road of local importance).
The list of international (S) and domestic (Sh) roads is reviewed every 5 years according to the road law and requires government approval. Since the decentralization in 2007, local A-roads are designated by the municipalities. Each municipality manages up to hundreds of A-roads. In the Autonomous Republics of Adjara and Abkhazia, local A roads are reviewed every three years by the Autonomous Government. For Abkhazia, this is the autonomous government-in-exile recognized by Tbilisi, which ef |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%201009 | The IBM 1009 Data Transmission Unit was an IBM communications controller introduced in 1960. The 1009 used the Synchronous transmit-receive (STR) protocol to transfer data at 150 characters per second (cps) over a single point-to-point dial or leased telephone line. The system was advertised as being able to "link the magnetic core memories of IBM 1401 computers over telephone lines."
The 1009 attached to IBM 1400 series computers such as the 1401
In 1961 the transmission rate was doubled to 300 cps.
In 1962 the 1009 was part of a test of data communications using the Telstar satellite to link two 1401 computer systems.
References
External links
Photo of a 1009 at the Computer History Museum
1009
IBM transistorized computers
Computer-related introductions in 1960
Link protocols
Communications satellites
1962 in spaceflight |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Arrested%20Development%20cast%20members | Arrested Development is an American television sitcom that originally aired on the Fox network from November 2, 2003 to February 10, 2006. It was later revived by Netflix for a fourth season (2013) and a fifth season (2018).
Created by Mitchell Hurwitz, the show centers on the Bluth family, a formerly wealthy, habitually dysfunctional family, and is presented in a continuous format, incorporating hand-held camera work, narration, archival photos, and historical footage.
The series stars Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Michael Cera, David Cross, Portia de Rossi, Tony Hale, Alia Shawkat, Jeffrey Tambor, and Jessica Walter. Ron Howard serves as an executive producer on the show, as well as its narrator.
Cast
Main, recurring, and guest cast of Arrested Development
References
External links
List of Arrested Development cast members at the Internet Movie Database
Cast
Arrested Development |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kon%20%28surname%29 | Kon is a surname in a number of cultures and may refer to:
Bolesław Kon (1906–1936), Polish concert pianist
Chiaki Kon, Japanese anime director
Fabio Kon, Brazilian computer scientist
Feliks Kon (1864–1941), Polish communist activist
Fyodor Kon, 16th-century Russian military engineer and architect
Haruhiko Kon (born 1910), Japanese field hockey player
Henech Kon (1890-1972), Polish Jewish composer and performer
Hidemi Kon (1903–1984), Japanese literary critic and essayist
Igor Kon (1928–2011), Russian philosopher, psychologist, and sexologist
James Kon, also spelt Kone (born 1987), South Sudanese footballer
Marko Kon (born 1972), Serbian singer
Michiko Kon (born 1955), Japanese photographer
Satoshi Kon (1963–2010), Japanese director of anime films
Stella Kon (born 1944), Singaporean playwright
Yōsuke Kon (born 1978), Japanese professional ice hockey player
See also
Kon (disambiguation)
Japanese-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20state%20highways%20in%20Mizoram | Mizoram has an extensive highway network of 927 km with a road density of 43.97 km.
State Highways
Some of the State Highways as per PWD of Mizoram.
Champhai - North Vanlaiphai Road
Keiṭum - North Vanlaiphai
Lunglei-Thenzawl road
Tlabung-Borapansury Road
Kawlchaw -Tongkolong Rd.
Aizawl-Mamit-Vanghmun-Kumarghat Rd
W.Phaileng to Marpara
Kawnpui to Hortoki road
Saitual-Phullen-Suangpuilawn Road
Khawzawl-Sinzawl-Thanlawn Road
Kawlkulh-Ngopa-Mimbung Road
National Highways
Some of the National Highway like 54 and 154 have been maintained by Mizoram State Government.
References
Mizoram State Highways
Highways, State in Mizoram, List of
Highways, State in Mizoram, List of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associate%20family | In differential geometry, the associate family (or Bonnet family) of a minimal surface is a one-parameter family of minimal surfaces which share the same Weierstrass data. That is, if the surface has the representation
the family is described by
where indicates the real part of a complex number.
For θ = π/2 the surface is called the conjugate of the θ = 0 surface.
The transformation can be viewed as locally rotating the principal curvature directions. The surface normals of a point with a fixed ζ remains unchanged as θ changes; the point itself moves along an ellipse.
Some examples of associate surface families are: the catenoid and helicoid family, the Schwarz P, Schwarz D and gyroid family, and the Scherk's first and second surface family. The Enneper surface is conjugate to itself: it is left invariant as θ changes.
Conjugate surfaces have the property that any straight line on a surface maps to a planar geodesic on its conjugate surface and vice versa. If a patch of one surface is bounded by a straight line, then the conjugate patch is bounded by a planar symmetry line. This is useful for constructing minimal surfaces by going to the conjugate space: being bound by planes is equivalent to being bound by a polygon.
There are counterparts to the associate families of minimal surfaces in higher-dimensional spaces and manifolds.
References
Differential geometry
Minimal surfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning%20%28connector%29 | Lightning is a proprietary computer bus and power connector, created and designed by Apple Inc. It was introduced on September 12, 2012, in conjunction with the iPhone 5, to replace its predecessor, the 30-pin dock connector. The Lightning connector is used to connect Apple mobile devices like iPhones, iPads, and iPods to host computers, external monitors, cameras, USB battery chargers, and other peripherals. Using 8 pins instead of 30, Lightning is much smaller than its predecessor. The Lightning connector is reversible. The plug is indented on each side to match up with corresponding points inside the receptacle to retain the connection.
In 2018, Apple began transitioning to USB-C on iPad Pros and accessories. In response to legislation to standardize charging ports passed in 2022, Apple said it would comply with regulations. The iPhone 15 and 15 Plus (2023), as well as the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, became the first iPhones to transition to USB-C, and the last few Lightning accessories will make the transition by 2025.
History
The Lightning connector was introduced on September 12, 2012, with the iPhone 5, as a replacement for the 30-pin dock connector. The iPod Touch (5th generation), iPod Nano (7th generation), iPad (4th generation) and iPad Mini (1st generation) followed in October and November 2012 as the first devices with Lightning.
On November 25, 2012, Apple acquired the "Lightning" trademark in Europe from Harley-Davidson. Apple was given a partial transfer of the Lightning trademark, suggesting that Harley-Davidson likely retained the rights to use the name for motorcycle-related products.
The iPad Pro, released in 2015, features the first Lightning connector supporting USB 3.0 host. The only accessory released with USB 3.0 support is the Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter.
Transition to USB-C
In October 2018, following the implementation of the connector across the Mac lineup, Apple released a range of iPad Pro models that replaced Lightning with USB-C; 2020 iPad Air (4th generation), 2021 iPad Mini (6th generation), and 2022 iPad (10th generation) similarly replaced Lightning with USB-C. In October 2022, Apple released the Siri Remote for the 3rd generation Apple TV 4K with a USB-C connector, becoming Apple's first accessory to charge via USB-C.
In January 2020, the European Commission proposed laws to standardize charger ports. On October 4, 2022, the European Parliament approved regulations that require all electronic devices to support USB-C, in order to meet pressure by EU consumers regarding financial costs and electronic waste. Commentators said that these regulations will impact Apple most heavily. Apple stated concerns that this will "harm consumers in Europe and around the world", but on October 25, 2022, Greg Joswiak, Vice President of Global Marketing for Apple, said that Apple will comply with the new EU regulations, indirectly confirming that iPhone models and other devices will ultimately replace Lightning with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Protection%20%28Jersey%29%20Law | The Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 is an information privacy law in the Crown Dependency of the Bailiwick of Jersey, one of the Channel Islands. The latest version is 2018, updating the previous law from 2005 to mirror the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). It was adopted on 25 May 2018.
The law
The law implements the European Data Protection Directive of 24 October 1995, which concerns the "protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data". These include restrictions on the gathering, collection, and use of personal data, as well as forcing data collectors to let individuals know how their data has been used. Gatherers of data are called "data controllers" and must register with the Data Protection Commissioner and pay a yearly fee. The law also contains numerous exemptions for journalism, crime investigation, &c. Other Crown dependencies like Guernsey and the Isle of Man have similar laws. The 2005 law was modelled from the UK's Data Protection Act 1998. These laws can all trace lineage back to the European Directive on Data Protection, 95/EC/46 of 1995 and the Council of Europe's European Convention 108, passed in 1981.
The 2005 overhaul of the Data Protection laws was prompted by the aforementioned Data Protection Directive. It restricted the transmission of protected data to countries outside of the European Economic Area unless they had been certified as having 'adequacy' in their own data protection laws. Jersey is considered outside of the European Economic Area, and its 1987 Data Protection law was not adequate, so the restrictions could have harmed Jersey's financial services industry. (Jersey is a major international offshore financial centre and tax haven) In 2008, Jersey achieved 'adequacy status' under the EU rules.
Jersey's law is modified to suit this finance industry. One such modification exempts trusts from the law so that they can use the personal information of beneficiaries of the trust without having to disclose certain details of the usage to the beneficiary. This modification was accomplished through a revision called the "Subject Access Exemptions" in 2005.
The main office of the law is the Data Protection Commissioner (before 2005, called the Data Protection Registrar). The commissioner for the first several years of the law was Emma Martins There is also a Data Protection Tribunal. In 2011 an attempt was made to unify the Commission of Guernsey with that of Jersey so that one Commissioner office would serve both Channel Islands.
Notable cases
In 2007 charity groups had to change the way they operated the Jersey Christmas Appeal because they kept a list of the families who were nominated to receive vouchers for food, toys, fuel, and other needs during the holidays. The beneficiaries had to send in signed forms agreeing to be on the list.
The law has been used at least two times against Jersey politicians.
In 2009, Jersey Senator Stuart Syvr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love%20to%20Share | Love to Share is an Australian Saturday cooking series which aired Network Ten from Saturday 15 September 2012 at 4pm.
The show is based around people, including chefs, and celebrity guests, sharing their recipes with others. The show also has a website collection of recipes that users can share and read recipes.
Network 10 original programming
Australian cooking television series
2012 Australian television series debuts
2013 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYAP | DYAP is a callsign for:
Mom's Radio Cebu of the Southern Broadcasting Network, or
DYAP Radyo Patrol 765 of the Palawan Broadcasting Corporation and ABS-CBN Corporation. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert%20Fuhr | Norbert Fuhr (born 1956) is a professor of computer science
and the leader of the Duisburg Information Engineering Group based at
the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.
Education
His first degree is in technical computer science, which he got from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1980, and in 1986 he received his PhD
(Dr.-Ing) from the Department of Computer Science of the same university on "Probabilistic
Indexing and Retrieval".
Profession
He held a PostDoc position in Darmstadt until
1991, when he was appointed associate professor in the Computer
Science Department of the Technical University of Dortmund. Since 2002, he is a full professor at the
University of Duisburg-Essen.
Honors and awards
Fuhr's dissertation was awarded the "Gerhard Pietsch Award" of the German Society
of Documentation in 1987. In 2012, he received the
Gerard Salton Award.
References
External links
Norbert Fuhr - University of Duisburg-Essen
German computer scientists
1956 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Duisburg-Essen
Academic staff of the Technical University of Dortmund
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
Information retrieval researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTS%20Turkmenistan | MTS Turkmenistan () was a mobile phone operator in Turkmenistan.
It was fully owned by Russia's MTS (network provider).
As of 2013, it had 1.89 million subscribers. Its rival Altyn Asyr had 3.5 million subscribers. It was officially closed sometime in late 2017, leaving Altyn Asyr the only major mobile network operator in the country.
Company background
On July 25, 2012, the company signed an agreement with the TurkmenTelecom enterprise of Ministry of Communications of Turkmenistan which says that MTS Turkmenistan will on a monthly basis pay to TurkmenTelecom 30% of its net profit derived from operations in Turkmenistan. This agreement was for five years and may be extended another five years subject to some conditions. The company had also been granted GSM and 3G licenses for a three-year term.
Number of Subscribers
References
External links
Official website
Telecommunications companies established in 1994
Mobile phone companies of Turkmenistan
1994 establishments in Turkmenistan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody%20generator | Parody generators are computer programs which generate text that is syntactically correct, but usually meaningless, often in the style of a technical paper or a particular writer. They are also called travesty generators and random text generators.
Their purpose is often satirical, intending to show that there is little difference between the generated text and real examples.
Many work by using techniques such as Markov chains to reprocess real text examples; alternatively, they may be hand-coded. Generated texts can vary from essay length to paragraphs and tweets. (The term "quote generator" can also be used for software that randomly selects real quotations.)
Examples
Dissociated press, an implementation of a Markov chaining algorithm
Postmodernism Generator, generates essays in the style of post-structuralism
SCIgen, generates nonsensical computer science research papers
See also
Chatterbot
Cleverbot
Filler text, meaningless text used as an example
Natural language generation
Paper generator
References
Natural language generation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20features%20in%20Android | This is a list of features in the Android operating system.
General
Messaging SMS and MMS are available forms of messaging, including threaded text messaging and Android Cloud To Device Messaging (C2DM) and now enhanced version of C2DM, Android Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) is also a part of Android Push Messaging services. Android phones also have the ability to send and receive RCS via the messages app (if supported by the carrier).
Autocorrection and Dictionary Android has an feature called autocorrection. When any word is misspelled, then Android recommends the meaningful and correct words matching the words that are available in dictionary. Users can add, edit, and remove words from dictionary as per their wish.
Web browser The web browser available in Android is based on the open-source Blink (previously WebKit) layout engine, coupled with Chromium's V8 JavaScript engine. Then the WebKit-using Android Browser scored 100/100 on the Acid3 test on Android 4.0 ICS; the Blink-based browser currently has better standards support. The old web browser is variably known as 'Android Browser', 'AOSP browser', 'stock browser', 'native browser', and 'default browser' (from the time it was always the default). Starting with Android 4.2, this browser was deprecated in favor of Google Chrome for Android. Since Android 5.0 Lollipop, the WebView browser that apps can use to display web content without leaving the app has been separated from the rest of the Android firmware in order to facilitate separate security updates by Google.
Voice-based features Google search through voice has been available since initial release. Voice actions for calling, texting, navigation, etc. are supported on Android 2.2 onwards. As of Android 4.1, Google has expanded Voice Actions with ability to talk back and read answers from Google's Knowledge Graph when queried with specific commands. The ability to control hardware has not yet been implemented.
Multi-touch Android has native support for multi-touch which was initially made available in handsets such as the HTC Hero. The feature was originally disabled at the kernel level (possibly to avoid infringing Apple's patents on touch-screen technology at the time). Google has since released an update for the Nexus One and the Motorola Droid which enables multi-touch natively.
Multitasking Multitasking of applications, with unique handling of memory allocation, is available.
Screen capture Android supports capturing a screenshot by pressing the power and home-screen buttons at the same time. Prior to Android 4.0, the only methods of capturing a screenshot were through manufacturer and third-party customizations (apps), or otherwise by using a PC connection (DDMS developer's tool). These alternative methods are still available with the latest Android.
TV recordingAndroid TV supports capturing and replaying TV recordings.
Video calling Android does not support native video calling, but some handsets have a customized ve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Jeremiah | Daniel James Jeremiah (born December 5, 1977) is an analyst and writer for the NFL Network and NFL.com. He also serves as a color commentator for Los Angeles Chargers games on KFI radio.
Jeremiah was a starting quarterback at Northeastern Louisiana in 1997 and Appalachian State from 1998 to 2000. He was a college scout with the Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns, and Philadelphia Eagles.
Jeremiah joined the NFL Network in May 2012. He is married and has four children. He is the son of David Jeremiah, author and senior pastor of Shadow Mountain Community Church.
References
External links
NFL.com bio
1977 births
Living people
American football quarterbacks
Appalachian State Mountaineers football players
Baltimore Ravens scouts
Cleveland Browns scouts
Los Angeles Chargers announcers
Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks football players
National Football League announcers
NFL Network people
People from El Cajon, California
Philadelphia Eagles scouts
Players of American football from San Diego County, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20v.%20Swartz | In United States of America v. Aaron Swartz, Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist, was prosecuted for multiple violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA), after downloading academic journal articles through the MIT computer network from a source (JSTOR) for which he had an account as a Harvard research fellow. Facing trial and the possibility of imprisonment, Swartz committed suicide, and the case was consequently dismissed.
Background
On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested by MIT Police on state breaking-and-entering charges, in connection with the systematic downloading of academic journal articles from JSTOR. Federal prosecutors eventually charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, charges carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines plus 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution and supervised release.
On January 11, 2013, two years after his initial arrest, Swartz was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment, where he had hanged himself.
JSTOR is a digital repository that archives − and disseminates online − manuscripts, GIS systems, scanned plant specimens and content from academic journal articles. Swartz was a research fellow at Harvard University, which provided him with a JSTOR account. Visitors to MIT's "open campus" were authorized to access JSTOR through its network.
According to state and federal authorities, Swartz downloaded a large number of academic journal articles from JSTOR through MIT's computer network, over the course of a few weeks in late 2010 and early 2011. They said Swartz downloaded the documents to a laptop computer connected to a networking switch in a controlled-access wiring closet. According to press reports, the door to the closet was kept unlocked.
Arrest, charges and indictments
On January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested near the Harvard campus by two MIT police officers and a U.S. Secret Service agent. He was arraigned in Cambridge District Court on two state charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony. However, it was widely reported in the press that the door Swartz had used was never locked, making it impossible for him to break and enter.
On July 11, 2011, Swartz was indicted in federal District Court on four felony counts: wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer.
On November 17, 2011, Swartz was indicted by a Middlesex County Superior Court grand jury on state charges of breaking and entering with intent, grand larceny, and unauthorized access to a computer network.
On December 16, 2011, the district attorney's office filed a nolle prosequi declaration in the case generated by Swartz's initial January 6, 2011, arrest. The state charges against Swartz stemming from the November 17, 2011, indictment were dropped on March 8, 2012. Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20in%20Bangkok | Rail transport was introduced to Bangkok in 1893, and the national railway network was developed during the 20th century. Modern rapid transit in Bangkok includes several rail systems: the BTS Skytrain which opened in 1999, followed by the MRT, Airport Rail Link and SRT Red Lines.
History
Bangkok's first rail line was the private Paknam Railway linking Bangkok to Samut Prakan which opened in 1893. The national railway network was subsequently developed and first opened in 1896, linking Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima and then expanding to reach Chiang Mai, Nong Khai, Ubon Ratchathani and Su-ngai Kolok.
Electric trams served the city from 1894 to 1968. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, King Rama V eagerly built a tram network for Bangkok by employing foreign engineers and technicians, especially Danish engineers. However, due to a lack of interest and maintenance, the tram network was completely scrapped in 1968.
Although proposals for the development of rapid transit in Bangkok had been made since 1975, leading to plans for the failed Lavalin Skytrain, it was only in 1999 that Thailand's first rapid transit system, the BTS Skytrain, began operation.
The underground MRT subsequently opened in 2004, the Airport Rail Link began operation in 2010, and the SRT Red Lines began trial operation in 2021.
Inter-city and high-speed rail
Bangkok is the location of the Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal, the central rail hub for most long-distance trains as of 2023, as well as the older Hua Lamphong station, both operated by the State Railway of Thailand (SRT). From Bangkok, trains travel on the Northern Line to Chiang Mai, the Northeastern Line to Nong Khai and Ubon Ratchathani, and the Eastern Line to Aranyaprathet, and the Southern Line, which terminates at Su-ngai Kolok and has a connection to Malaysia (the other Southern terminus is Thonburi).
High-speed rail
There are multiple planned high-speed rail lines in Thailand. The Bangkok–Nong Khai high-speed railway and Don Mueang–Suvarnabhumi–U-Tapao high-speed railway are under construction as of 2023. The Krung Thep Aphiwat Central Terminal will act as a future hub for all high-speed services.
Commuter Rail
In addition to long-distance services, the SRT also operates a few daily commuter trains running from and to the outskirts of the city, and the newer electrified SRT Red Lines.
Mass Rapid transit (Metro Train System) in Bangkok
Bangkok is currently served by four rapid transit systems: the elevated BTS Skytrain, the underground and elevated MRT, the elevated Airport Rail Link, and the partially elevated SRT Red Lines.
BTS Skytrain
The Skytrain consists of three lines, totalling : Sukhumvit Line running southwards from Khu Khot Station along Phahon Yothin Road and then eastwards along Sukhumvit Road to Kheha Station in Samut Prakan. The Silom Line runs eastwards from National Stadium Station in Pathum Wan District, then southwest along Ratchadamri, Si Lom, Narathiwat Ratchanakharin and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian%20Coalition%20for%20Housing%20Rights | The Asian Coalition for Housing Rights (ACHR) is a network of community organisations in Asia working on issues related to urban poverty, slums and slum upgrading. It champions low-income and other marginalised groups living in cities as experts on urban poverty, and as actors capable of contributing to urban development.
Aims and practices
ACHR focuses on supporting the establishment and development of grassroots organisations of the urban poor, who can effectively advocate on housing and land reform. These organisations are typically formed around neighbourhood-level savings groups. ACHR equips these organisations with technical support, such as architects and urban planners who can help the urban poor to map their living conditions and draw up comprehensive site plans for upgrading or relocation projects. Communities will typically combine their savings in city development funds (CDFs), which allow them to leverage public finance from national and local governments, or even by international donors. This allows communities to take on much larger development projects.
By linking residents of informal settlements at the settlement, city, country and regional scale, ACHR provides a channel for the urban poor to influence policy and programmes. In Thailand, for example, ACHR has helped low-income communities to negotiate land sharing or land leasing arrangements with local authorities and private landowners, and then to access low-cost housing loans and infrastructure subsidies to upgrade their neighbourhoods. The aim is to help landowners capture the commercial value of their land while reducing urban poverty and vulnerability.
ACHR's emphasis on community finance should be distinguished from microfinance. Local groups collectively decide together how to use their savings to meet both public and private aims. The collective financial capital strengthens the group's social capital, and the two grow together. This collective aspect is not present in microfinance, where the emphasis is on individual access to credit and loan repayment, not on achieving collective priorities or addressing the structural issues that cause poverty and exclusion. ACHR has financed exchanges among informal settlements, cities and countries to allow the urban poor to share success stories and lessons learned across Asian cities. This allows successful innovations to be replicated, including city development funds.
Asian Coalition for Community Action
Central to ACHR's work over recent years has been the Asian Coalition for Community Action (ACCA), a fund supporting local organisations through professional exchanges and grants/loans in 165 cities and 19 Asian countries. The ACCA programme enabled the expansion and evolution of savings processes, so that local groups were able to offer more sophisticated financial products: longer-term savings for housing, interest-earning savings accounts, insurance/welfare schemes and loans for both individual livelihoods and comm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violations%20Documentation%20Center%20in%20Syria | The Violations Documentation Center in Syria (VDC, ) is a network of Syrian opposition activists whose aim is to document human rights violations perpetrated since the beginning of the Syrian Civil War, including victims of the violence, detainees, and missing people. The organization works with the activists from the Local Coordination Committees of Syria, and documents identified victims of the violence from the rebels and the civilians. The stated purpose of the organization is to provide an independent documentation of human rights violations within Syria, a resource that may help any future justice-related procedures. The center's main sources of information include medical records, families of the victims and information received from the Imam of the mosque that performed the burial.
The VDC was founded by Razan Zaitouneh, a Syrian lawyer and human rights activist, and Mazen Darwish, a Syrian lawyer and free speech advocate, in June 2011. It was originally a part of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), but became its own entity after the SCM was raided and disbanded.
VDC is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation. Its VDC's main headquarters are located in the city of Douma. It is registered in Switzerland. the VDC has a team of about 30–35 investigators and a ground network covering every governorate of Syria, consisting of more than 30 internationally trained field reporters. The VDC reports its findings to the United Nations Security Council. The VDC updates its statistics on a yearly, monthly, and weekly basis.
Attacks on the VDC
On 9 December 2013, VDC's office in Douma was raided by masked gunmen, who abducted four VDC members: Razan Zaitouneh, Samira al-Khalil, Nazem Hamadi, and Wael Hamada, who came to be known as "the Douma Four". The Army of Islam was suspected of being responsible for the attack. The VDC was attacked again on 22 July 2016 and 13 August 2017 by Jaysh al-Islam. Since the abduction, VDC has been led by a group of administrators inside and outside of Syria (initially in Turkey and then Switzerland) and two database managers. , Associated Press found no strong evidence regarding Zaitouneh's fate, but suspected that she had been killed around 2017 or later.
Methodology
The VDC applies international standards for documentation of human rights violations. It has a three-stage methodology as to how they document data: (1) initial information on one or more victims is gathered, mainly from hospitals, morgues, relatives of the victims, and media sources; (2) the initial report is confirmed; (3) data on the victims is added to complete the record.
According to Yale and Harvard medical scholars writing in The Lancet, it is characterised by "careful methods, adherence to international norms of human rights documentation, recording of combatant status and rank, documentation of cause of death and particular weapons involved, geographical scope, and explicit attention to the limitations of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafr%20Al-Batin%20College%20of%20Technology | Hafr Al-Batin College of Technology is a technical college that was established in Hafar al-Batin, Saudi Arabia in 2005. It specializes in areas such as computer programming and electronics. It educates some 700 students.
See also
List of technical colleges in Saudi Arabia
External links
2005 establishments in Saudi Arabia
Educational institutions established in 2005
Universities and colleges in Saudi Arabia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabeo | The Tabeo is a discontinued tablet computer developed by Toys "R" Us that runs on a version of the Android 4.0 operating system. Tabeo is officially at "End of Life" status, meaning the company is no longer providing support for the original Tabeo and Tabeo E2. Though some of the E2 devices seem to have been sold in Mexico, this seems to have happened to devices that were returned to the reseller. Tabeo is no longer fulfilling warranty repair or replacements, as the company has not produced a new device in 3 years. The company is also no longer providing assistance with any issues that may arise with the device, as the device is considerably Out of Warranty. All support has been discontinued.It was specifically designed with children in mind, allows parents to implement parental controls, and has 50 apps pre-installed. More than 6000 other apps, all considered to be safe for children, are available on the Tabeo App Store. It has a 7-inch screen and 4 gigabytes of built-in storage space, but is capable of supporting SDHC cards with up to 32 gigabytes of space. It was released on October 21, 2012.
Lawsuit
Fuhu Inc., producer of the Nabi tablet for children, sued Toys "R" Us before the Tabeo was released, claiming that the company had stolen its trade secrets, breached its contract, and committed fraud; and accusing the company of unfair competition. In October 2011, Toys "R" Us had made a deal with Fuhu for exclusive rights to distribute the Nabi tablet. However, Toys "R" Us barely advertised the device and did not order many units, eventually ending the deal in January 2012. Fuhu claimed that it did not know why Toys "R" Us did this until the Tabeo was announced. The lawsuit aimed to prevent the release of the Tabeo, and asked for any Tabeos that had been produced to be turned over to Fuhu, along with additional monetary damages.
References
Tablet computers
Toys "R" Us |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Main%20Event%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29 | The Main Event was a weekly hour-long Australian game show that aired on the Seven Network from 1991 to 1992. The show was hosted by Larry Emdur, with Don Blake and Niel Chantler as announcers.
The series was created by former football player Craig Johnston, who was also listed as "Creative Director" in the ending credits.
Game play
Two teams (one red and one yellow), each consisting of three celebrities in the studio and up to four family members at home, compete against each other to earn points. The team with the highest point score wins the game and a brand new car.
The number of points available is announced at the beginning of each round.
Round One
The first round is made up of several different mini-games that are presented in various playing orders.
What do you know?
The two teams race on the buzzers to answer. The first team to buzz in and answer correctly earns points. An incorrect answer locks out the team from further clues and gives the opposing team a chance to see the remainder of clues and answer. No penalty for an incorrect answer. There was only one buzzer per team. Team members who buzz in must answer individually and cannot confer with their partners. Questions in this round fit the following categories:
Name That Tune: A song is played in the background of a music video specially made for the show. The contents of the video are also clues to the song's title. Guessing the title of the song earns 10 points.
Odd One Out: Five items are listed. Four of the items have something in common and one does not. Guessing the one that does not belong earns 10 points.
Who am I?
A video is played featuring progressively older photographs and progressively larger descriptive clues given to the identity of a famous person. Guessing the identity of the person earns 10 points.
Name That Film
A film clip is played featuring progressively larger descriptive clues given to the title of a movie. Guess the title of the film and the team earns 10 points.
Home Team Question
A film clip and descriptive clue is played. A question and three answer choices about the subject of the clip is asked to the home viewers. The family can confer but only the captain can buzz in and give the answer. The first family to buzz in and answer correctly earns 20 points. An incorrect answer gives the opposing family a chance to answer from the remaining choices. No penalty for an incorrect answer.
Round Two – Picture This
Six hidden and numbered pictures appear on the game board. Each member of each team, alternating one at a time, chooses a number. The picture containing part of a subject is revealed. A correct identification is worth 10 points apiece. No penalty for an incorrect guess. Team members can confer with each other, but only the controlling player can guess.
Round Three – Who Lives Here?
This round is played one team at a time in three parts.
Part One – Who Lives Here?
The celebrities and home players on one team are shown |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20customer%20view | A single customer view is an aggregated, consistent and holistic representation of the data held by an organisation about its customers that can be viewed in one place, such as a single page. The advantage to an organisation of attaining this unified view comes from the ability it gives to analyse past behaviour in order to better target and personalise future customer interactions. A single customer view is also considered especially relevant where organisations engage with customers through multichannel marketing, since customers expect those interactions to reflect a consistent understanding of their history and preferences. However, some commentators have challenged the idea that a single view of customers across an entire organisation is either natural or meaningful, proposing that the priority should instead be consistency between the multiple views that arise in different contexts.
Where representations of a customer are held in more than one data set, achieving a single customer view can be difficult: firstly because customer identity must be traceable between the records held in those systems, and secondly because anomalies or discrepancies in the customer data must be data cleansed for data quality. As such, the acquisition by an organisation of a single customer view is one potential outcome of successful master data management. Since 31 December, 2010, maintaining a single customer view, and submitting it within 72 hours, has become mandatory for financial institutions in the United Kingdom due to new rules introduced by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme.
See also
Data warehouse
References
Identity management
Business intelligence terms
Data management
Data warehousing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FL1%20%28Lazio%20regional%20railways%29 | The FL1 (until 2012 FR1) is a regional rail route forming part of the Lazio regional railways network (), which is operated by Trenitalia, and converges on the city of Rome, Italy.
The route operates over the infrastructure of the Florence–Rome railway, the Pisa–Livorno–Rome railway and the Rome–Fiumicino railway. Within the territory of the comune of Rome, it plays the role of a commuter railway. It is estimated that on average about 65,000 passengers travel on an FR1 train each day.
The designation FR1 appears only in publicity material (e.g. public transport maps), in the official timetables, and on signs at some stations. The electronic destination boards at stations show only the designation "R1".
Route
Orte ↔ Fiumicino Aeroporto
The FL1, a cross-city route, runs from Orte, in the province of Viterbo, in a southerly direction over the Florence–Rome railway as far as Roma Tiburtina. It then continues, via the Pisa–Livorno–Rome railway east and south of Rome's city centre, to Roma Trastevere. Finally, it takes the Rome–Fiumicino railway to Fiumicino Aeroporto, in the comune of Fiumicino southwest of the city centre.
History
The first FL1 services between Monterotondo-Mentana and Fiumicino Aeroporto went into operation during 1994, bringing about an increased frequency of services on the lines through Rome.
The route also included hourly trains between Orte and Monterotondo-Mentana.
Until 2000, the FL1 route divided into two sections near Fiumicino: one train in every four branched off to Fiumicino Città, while the remaining services headed towards Fiumicino Aeroporto.
Upon the introduction of the new timetable in 2000, the Fiumicino Città station was officially closed.
On 7 December 2006, the new Fiera di Roma railway station was opened to the public, and included in the FL1 route.
Stations
The stations on the FL1 are as follows:
Orte
Gallese in Teverina
Civita Castellana-Magliano
Collevecchio-Poggio Sommavilla
Stimigliano
Gavignano Sabino
Poggio Mirteto
Fara Sabina-Montelibretti
Piana Bella di Montelibretti
Monterotondo-Mentana
Settebagni (limit of urban service)
Fidene
Nuovo Salario
Val D'Ala
Roma Nomentana
Roma Tiburtina
Roma Tuscolana
Roma Ostiense
Roma Trastevere
Villa Bonelli
Magliana
Muratella
Ponte Galeria
Fiera di Roma (limit of urban service)
Parco Leonardo
Fiumicino Aeroporto
Scheduling
The FL1 route is designated in Trenitalia official timetables as M70 Orte–Fara Sabina–Fiumicino FR1.
, FL1 services operated between Fara Sabina and Fiumicino every 15 minutes. As some FL1 services originated or terminated in Fara Sabina or Poggio Mirteto, the FL1 trains ran between Fara Sabina and Poggio Mirteto every 30 minutes, and linked Poggio Mirteto and Orte every 60 minutes.
See also
History of rail transport in Italy
List of railway stations in Lazio
Rail transport in Italy
Transport in Rome
References
External links
ATAC – official site
ATAC map – schematic depicting all |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Network%20Remembrance%20and%20Solidarity | European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS) was created in 2005 as a joint initiative by German, Hungarian, Polish, and Slovak ministers of culture. In 2014 Romania joined the structure.
The purpose of the ENRS is to document and promote the study of European 20th-century history and how it is remembered. Its fields of interest evolve around times of dictatorial regimes, wars, and resistance to oppression. The organization supports academic research, educational projects and promotional events, through a network of international scholars and ENRS partner institutions. All program decisions are made by assemblies, the ENRS' international supervisory bodies.
Since 2010, its projects are coordinated by the Secretariat of European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, which has its seat in Warsaw. From 2010 to 2014 the Secretariat was affiliated with Poland's National Centre for Culture. In early 2015, the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage, Professor Małgorzata Omilanowska appointed a new independent cultural institution called the Institute of European Network Remembrance and Solidarity.
Activities & selected projects
ENRS implements its own projects, as well as supports, in terms of content and financing, actions of institutions, non-governmental organizations and research centers, which concentrate on memory studies. ENRS’ activities include: organizing conferences, symposiums e.g. European Remembrance Symposium, seminars and academic workshops; organizing events such as exhibitions, film screenings and reviews; publishing of academic works, scientific publications, and translated editions of existing books; supporting academic research; promoting study of history in media.
European Remembrance Symposium
The European Remembrance Symposium is an annual meeting organized by European Network Remembrance and Solidarity. Its goal is to exchange experiences and establish methods and forms of cooperation between institutions from different countries. Representatives of European historical institutions are invited to discuss the challenges facing Europe's idea of culture of remembrance and promotion of 20th-century history, with particular focus on Dictatorship. The first symposium took place in Gdańsk in 2012. Subsequent editions were organized in Berlin (2013), Prague (2014), Vienna (2015), Budapest (2016), Brussels (2017), and Bucharest (2018).
Genealogies of Memory in Central and Eastern Europe
The Genealogies of Memory programme was initiated by the ENRS in 2011, based on a concept developed by Dr Joanna Wawrzyniak and Dr Małgorzata Pakier. Its aim is to facilitate academic exchange among Central and Eastern European scholars by organizing annual international conferences and workshops.
In Between?
'In Between?' is an interdisciplinary educational project which began in April 2016. The participants, aged 18-26, conduct oral history research in the European borderlands. By the year 2018, 18 border regions had been visi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo%20Gutierrez | Ricardo Gutierrez is a Mexican American actor, director, and teacher. He had a recurring role as Alderman Mata on the first season of the Starz Network drama series Boss.
Education
Gutierrez studied at Illinois State University.
Career
Theater
Gutierrez has acted in performances at The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Lookingglass Theatre Company, and Denver Center Theater. He is the former artistic director of Glass Onion Theater, Nosotros Theatre Company in Los Angeles and the Canterbury Theatre in Indiana. He was the co-artistic director of Teatro Vista, a Latino theater company in Chicago, from August 2012 (a transition period for retiring founder Edward Torres), then sole artistic director from March 2013 to September 2020.
His directorial projects include How Long Will I Cry?: Voices of Youth Violence at Steppenwolf Theater, Quiara Alegría Hudes's The Happiest Song Plays Last at the Goodman Theatre, and Kenny D'Aquila's Unorganized Crime at the Teatro Vista.
Television
Gutierrez has appeared in various television shows including Hill Street Blues, Knots Landing, Max Headroom, Hunter, and Wiseguy. In 2012 he starred as Alderman Lalo Mata on the Starz Network original drama series Boss.
Personal life
Gutierrez was previously married to actress Judith Ivey.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
Ricardo Gutierrez at the Turner Classics Movie Database
Living people
American male film actors
American male actors of Mexican descent
American male stage actors
American male television actors
American theatre directors
Artistic directors
Hispanic and Latino American male actors
Male actors from Chicago
Illinois State University alumni
1955 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maluuba | Maluuba is a Canadian technology company conducting research in artificial intelligence and language understanding. Founded in 2011, the company was acquired by Microsoft in 2017.
In late March 2016, the company demonstrated a machine reading system capable of answering arbitrary questions about J.K Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Maluuba's natural language understanding technology is used by several consumer electronic brands for over 50 million devices.
History
Maluuba was founded by four undergraduate students from the University of Waterloo, Zhiyuan Wu, Joshua Pantony, Sam Pasupalak and Kaheer Suleman. Their initial proof of concept was a program that allowed users to search for flights using their voice.
In February 2012, the company secured $2 million (~$ in ) in seed funding from Samsung Ventures.
Since 2013, Maluuba has partnered with several companies in the smart phone, smart TV, automotive and IoT space.
In August 2015 Maluuba secured a $9 million (~$ in ) of Series A investment from Nautilus Ventures and Emerllion Capital. Then in December 2015, Maluuba opened an R&D lab in Montreal, Quebec.
By 2016 the company employed more than fifty people, and had published fifteen peer-reviewed research papers focused on language understanding.
On January 13, 2017, Maluuba announced they had been acquired by Microsoft for $140M (~$ in ). In July 2017, according to the reports, Maluuba closed its Kitchener-Waterloo office and moved employees to its Montreal office.
Research
Maluuba's research centre opened in Montreal, Quebec in December 2015. The lab was advised by Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal) and Richard Sutton (University of Alberta). Prior to its acquisition by Microsoft , the lab published fifteen peer-reviewed papers. The lab also partnered with local universities: University of Montreal MILA lab and McGill University.
Machine reading comprehension (MRC)
In March 2016, Maluuba demonstrated their machine reading comprehension technology on the MCTest outperforming other word-matching approaches by 8%
Maluuba continued their work on MRC throughout 2016. In June, the company demonstrated a program called EpiReader which outperformed Facebook and Google in machine comprehension tests. Several research teams were able to match Maluuba's results since the paper was released. EpiReader made use of two large datasets, the CNN/Daily Mail dataset released by Google DeepMind, comprising over 300,000 news articles; and the Children's Book Test, posted by Facebook Research, made up of 98 children’s books open sourced under Project Gutenberg.
Following this achievement, the company released two natural language datasets: NewsQA, focused on comprehension and Frames, focused on Dialogue.
Dialogue systems
The company has published research findings into dialogue systems which comprises natural language understanding, state tracking, and natural language generation. Maluuba published a research paper learning di |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WJXP | WJXP (90.1 FM) was a radio station licensed to serve Fitchburg, Massachusetts. The station was owned by Epic Light Network, Inc. It began broadcasting in 2011, and was owned by Horizon Christian Fellowship, airing a Christian format as an affiliate of RenewFM. On February 19, 2019, the station went silent. The station again went silent on February 24, 2020, for technical reasons. Effective November 24, 2020, the station was sold to Epic Light Network, Inc.
WJXP's license was cancelled on April 1, 2022, for failing to file a renewal application.
References
External links
JXP
Radio stations established in 2011
Radio stations disestablished in 2022
2011 establishments in Massachusetts
2022 disestablishments in Massachusetts
Fitchburg, Massachusetts
Mass media in Worcester County, Massachusetts
Defunct radio stations in the United States
Defunct religious radio stations in the United States
JXP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee%20resource%20group | Employee resource groups (also known as ERGs, affinity groups, or business network groups) are groups of employees who join in their workplace based on shared characteristics or life experiences. ERGs are generally based on providing support, enhancing career development, and contributing to personal development in the work environment. In the past, ERGs have traditionally been focused on personality traits or characteristics for underrepresented groups, for example women, sexual orientation, gender, etc. With the resurgence of ERGs in the workplace, ERGs are expanding to "interest-based" groups gathered around particular activities. Some of these include job responsibility, environmental advocacy, community service and volunteerism, and workplace wellness. Further, as an emerging facet of human resources and employee engagement in the business world, the existence of ERGs is important for reference and understanding in the world of business. Exploring the topic of employee resource groups can provide insightful information for business employees and young professionals seeking to understand a new business.
History
For the past 30 years, ERGs have helped a diverse range of groups obtain a voice within large corporations. They began as race-based employee forums that were created in response to racial tension in the 1960s. ERGs got their start when Joseph Wilson, the CEO of the Xerox Corporation took action after the 1964 Rochester race riot. He and his black employees formed the first caucus group in order to address the issue of discrimination and to help create a fair corporate environment. Xerox launched the National Black Employees Caucus in 1970 and a decade later followed with the formation of the Black Women's Leadership Council (BWLC).
Hewlett-Packard (HP) employees formed Gay and Lesbian Employee Network (GLEN) in 1978. Gay and lesbian inclusion at HP was hotly debated for decades thereafter. Archived company emails from 1993 include homophobic language and LGBT employees describing harassment and violence at HP. Another early example was US West, which authorized a support group for gay and lesbian employees in 1989.
Early in their history, these affinity groups were a risky and political tactic of advocating for equal pay and equal opportunity. It was common for early members to feel nervous about speaking up to management about their minority status for fear of seeming like a troublemaker or having an individualistic mind-set. While original ERGs were often seen as threatening by managers, today these groups are often initiated by administrators and are a common tool for managing diversity. As of 2007 ninety percent of Fortune 500 companies have ERGs.
Types
There are numerous types of ERGs existing at different companies. Here are some of the most popular:
People with disabilities
Veterans
Cultural diversity
Health/Fitness
LGBT employees
Women in the workforce
Faith/Belief
Generational
Working parents
Single parents
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXRJ-TV | RJTV 31 (DXRJ-TV) is a UHF, free to air television channel in the Philippines, owned and operated by Rajah Broadcasting Network, Inc. owned by Ramon "RJ" Jacinto. The station's studios and transmitters are located at Cagayan de Oro.
RJTV Programs
Note: Two shows from RJTV continues airing (Thank God It's RJ Live! and RJ Sunday Jam) at 23:00 and 09:00 PHT respectively.
RJTV stations nationwide
See also
Rajah Broadcasting Network
References
External links
Official Site
Television stations in Cagayan de Oro
2nd Avenue (TV channel) stations
Television channels and stations established in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobikom | Mobikom is a defunct NMT mobile network in Bulgaria. It existed from 1992 until 2008, although its customer base had drastically fallen in its latter years, since the introduction of GSM.
It was established as a joint venture between Cable & Wireless (49%), Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (39%) and Radioelectronic Systems.
Mobikom originally used the network code 0799, which was later changed to 048, with the customer number increasing from five digits to six.
Mobikom also ran a public payphone service, which was for a time called Mobika (identical logo, except for the spelling).
References
External links
Official website (Still active as of Sept 2012; altered as of Mar 2013)
RIP Mobikom (in Bulgarian)'' 5 Aug 2008. Retrieved 18 Sept 2012.
Telecommunications companies of Bulgaria
Defunct companies of Bulgaria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20Masters%20%28game%20show%29 | Time Masters is an Australian children's game show hosted by Tony Johnston from 1996 to 1998 on the Seven Network, in 3 seasons at the beginning Tony would meet the two teams of two schoolkids. In 1998, the show ended and was replaced with Wipeout a year later also hosted by Johnston.
Season One
Brain Strain
Each team were asked questions and then had to negotiate an obstacle course of "The Wobbly Planks" then round a corner and go into "The Groove Tube" to get to a board at the top of the course and hit one of the six possible answers and had 120 seconds to get as many as possible. Then repeated with the other team.
Round Two
This round consisted of a Concentration style puzzle clue which spelled out the answer needed and one player from each team would run from one end of the studio to the other collecting plastic balls with letters printed on them, while the other would arrange them in the correct order. In a race to the finish.
Round Three
Was usually an arcade driving game the closest placed to first won. The game was called Cyber Cycles by Namco.
Season Two and Three
Slam Dunk
Instead of Brain Strain was Slam Dunk. Again with 6 answers to choose from, both players would take turns throwing the basketball through the corresponding hoop number to get their question correct. A member from the rival school (but not one of the players) would be brought on and sit in the SLAM DUNK chair and if the players managed to get all 6 answers correct they would be dunked into a vat of water.
Scramble
A concentration-based game - 4 buttons (2 with correct answers, 2 with wrong answers) are placed at the top of a special ramp, which is a 5-wide, 9-long grid. Once the player's question has been asked, a randomly generated path of 9 squares will light up green on the ramp three times, before disappearing. The players must step on the correct path in order to proceed to the top. If a player steps on a wrong square, it will light up pink. Once at the top, they must hit the correct buttons to finish. The player with the fastest time usually wins a special prize.
Round Three
It was usually an Arcade Driving Game, one in particular Manx TT, wherein the closest placed to first won.
Trivia
The show was rerun in 1999–2003 on Disney Channel.
This show was the second and final spin off kids game show for A*mazing.
References
Seven Network original programming
Australian children's game shows
1996 Australian television series debuts
1998 Australian television series endings
1990s Australian game shows
Television series by Endemol Australia
Television shows set in Brisbane
Television shows set in Perth, Western Australia
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner%20%28database%29 | Spanner is a distributed SQL database management and storage service developed by Google. It provides features such as global transactions, strongly consistent reads, and automatic multi-site replication and failover. Spanner is used in Google F1, the database for its advertising business Google Ads as well as Gmail and Google Photos.
Features
Spanner stores large amounts of mutable structured data. Spanner allows users to perform arbitrary queries using SQL with relational data while maintaining strong consistency and high availability for that data with synchronous replication.
Key features of Spanner:
Transactions can be applied across rows, columns, tables, and databases within a Spanner universe.
Clients can control the replication and placement of data using automatic multi-site replication and failover.
Replication is synchronous and strongly consistent.
Reads are strongly consistent and data is versioned to allow for stale reads: clients can read previous versions of data, subject to garbage collection windows.
Supports a native SQL interface for reading and writing data.
History
Spanner was first described in 2012 for internal Google data centers.
Spanner's SQL capability was added in 2017 and documented in a SIGMOD 2017 paper.
It became available as part of Google Cloud Platform in 2017, under the name "Cloud Spanner".
Architecture
Spanner uses the Paxos algorithm as part of its operation to shard (partition) data across up to hundreds of servers. It makes heavy use of hardware-assisted clock synchronization using GPS clocks and atomic clocks to ensure global consistency. TrueTime is the brand name for Google's distributed cloud infrastructure, which provides Spanner with the ability to generate monotonically increasing timestamps in datacenters around the world.
Google's F1 SQL database management system (DBMS) is built on top of Spanner, replacing Google's custom MySQL variant.
References
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Further reading
Databases
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Google software
NewSQL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic%20limnology | Forensic limnology is a sub-field of freshwater ecology, which focuses especially on the presence of diatoms in crime scene samples and victims. Different methods are used to collect this data but all identify the ratios of different diatom colonies present in samples and match those samples with locations at the crime scene.
Use of diatoms
Diatoms are diverse microscopic algae with silica cell walls that have different characteristics such as color, shape, and size. There are 8,000 known species of diatoms. Diatoms do not have specialized nutrient and water conducting tissues, which affects their dispersion throughout ecosystems. These microscopic organisms mainly inhabit freshwater environments because of their inability to survive the cleaning agents present in domestic water sources.
Benefits of diatoms
Diatoms are identifiable based on each species' unique silica cell walls (known as "frustules") and vary depending on their environment. Because they have determinant properties diatoms create flora profiles for scientists. When these microscopic algae die, their frustules become a part of the water sediment. The frustules of the deceased organisms can be compared with the living diatoms to determine characteristics of their environment. In early spring and the fall, the ratio of living diatoms to dead diatoms is high, whereas, in summer and winter the amount of dead diatoms outpopulates the living. Based on this known information, diatoms can verify the time of year that samples were taken. Different types of diatoms can also be used to identify the properties of a sample's ecosystem. For example, a higher ratio of periphytic diatoms (i.e., those that are attached to a substrate), the higher the vegetation concentration, and the shallower the water. The reason diatoms are a common tool to match water environments is because of the variability of their populations are predictable and constant, the organisms can be identified by using the light microscope, and their silica cell walls allow for preservation.
Disadvantages of diatoms
Diatoms do not inhabit domestic water sources, which limits the situations that diatoms can be used to create flora profiles or time of death estimations. Diatoms can only tell when or where evidence was found in some situations and not the time of death if there is no body fluid sample available to be collected. If a body is placed in freshwater post mortem then diatoms cannot be used to evaluate the time of death. Without the inhalation of water and some circulation present in the victim, the diatoms will not be able to enter the alveolar system and bloodstream making it difficult to extract a reliable sample. Another issue with the use of diatoms in order to provide evidential support is that diatoms can also be found on clothes, in food and drink, or air. Because the body can preserve these microscopic algae, the presence of diatoms may not only be on a victim or suspect through their relation to a crime scen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20things%20named%20after%20Adrien-Marie%20Legendre | Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752–1833) is the eponym of all of the things listed below.
26950 Legendre
Associated Legendre polynomials
Fourier–Legendre series
Gauss–Legendre algorithm
Gauss–Legendre method
Gauss–Legendre quadrature
Legendre (crater)
Legendre chi function
Legendre duplication formula
Legendre–Papoulis filter
Legendre form
Legendre function
Legendre moment
Legendre polynomials
Legendre pseudospectral method
Legendre rational functions
Legendre relation
Legendre sieve
Legendre symbol
Legendre transformation
Legendre transform (integral transform)
Finite Legendre transform
Legendre wavelet
Legendre–Clebsch condition
Legendre–Fenchel transformation
Legendre's conjecture
Legendre's constant
Legendre's differential equation
Legendre's equation
Legendre's formula
Legendrian knot
Legendrian submanifold
Saccheri–Legendre theorem
Legendre's theorem on spherical triangles
Legendre's three-square theorem
Gamma function–Legendre formula
Legendre, Adrien-Marie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent%20Horizon | Silent Horizon is a United States war exercise that simulates cyberwarfare. It is run by the Central Intelligence Agency, an independent civilian intelligence agency of the United States government. The war exercise was first held in 2005, and the scenario was five years in the future in which an attack on the same scale as the September 11 attacks takes place and includes hackers hired by anti-American organizations. The Information Operations Center at the CIA ran the war exercise, and around 75 officials, mostly from the CIA, participated in the exercise, reacting to different attacks. The exercise took place in Charlottesville, Virginia. The CIA did not make public its findings. Edward V. Linden, in Focus on Terrorism, said, "The national security simulation was considered significant because many U.S. counterterrorism experts feel that far-reaching effects from a cyberattack are highly unlikely."
Richard A. Clarke said in 2010 that Silent Horizon has been taking place every year since 2007.
References
Military exercises involving the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Hughes%20%28cypherpunk%29 | Eric Hughes is an American mathematician, computer programmer, and cypherpunk. He is considered one of the founders of the cypherpunk movement, alongside Timothy C. May and John Gilmore.
He is notable for founding and administering the Cypherpunk mailing list, authoring A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, creating and hosting the first anonymous remailer, and coining the motto, "Cypherpunks write code".
The May/June 1993 issue (vol. 1 no. 2) of Wired featured a cover photo, credited to Larry Dyer, of three masked cypherpunks, of which Hughes was one.
On September 27, 2012, Hughes delivered the keynote address, Putting the Personal Back in Personal Computers, at the Amsterdam CryptoParty.
See also
A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
Cypherpunk
References
Cypherpunks
Internet activists
University of California, Berkeley people
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cloud | The Cloud may refer to:
The Cloud (company), a UK wireless network operator
Cloud storage, Internet-available storage
Cloud computing, resources via the Internet
The Cloud (hill), a hill in England
The Cloud, a novel by Ray Hammond
The Cloud (painting), 1985, by Odd Nerdrum
"The Cloud" (poem), 1820, by Shelley
The Cloud, Auckland, a sports venue, New Zealand
"The Cloud" (Star Trek: Voyager), sixth episode
The Cloud (film), Germany, 2006
See also
Cloud (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cloud%20%28company%29 | The Cloud is a provider of public access Wi-Fi hotspots in the United Kingdom and is a member of the Wireless Broadband Alliance. It has over 22,000 Wi-Fi hotspots network access points in the UK.
The Cloud has offices in St Albans, Munich, and Stockholm. The company is owned by the Comcast group through its subsidiary Sky Group.
History
The Cloud was founded in January 2003, and began roll-out in March of that year. BT Openzone was the first service provider on the network. The Cloud launched its integrated WLAN and 3G service in 2004. It became available in Germany and the Nordic nations in 2005. Later that year, it acquired Exilan. The Cloud Networks was selected as one of the World Economic Forum's New Class of Technology Pioneers for 2006. Telenor partnered with the Cloud Nordic in 2006 to offer free wifi at public hotspots.
Steve Nicholson became CEO of the company in 2007. Between 2005 and 2008, The Cloud acquired German wifi providers GANAG, Airnyx and CANOVA Wireless. In 2008, the company received €15 million in funding from Ferd Ventures, existing investors and GP Bullhound.
In 2011, it was acquired by BSkyB Beginning in 2012, Sky began offering free wireless internet to Sky Broadband customers in the UK via The Cloud The Cloud became the exclusive free hotspot provider for Telefónica Germany later that year. In 2012, Telefónica O2 UK discontinues free access to The Cloud for customers on unlimited Wi-Fi contracts.
CEOs
20032007: George Polk
20072011: Steve Nicholson
20112014: Vince Russell
References
External links
Telecommunications companies established in 2003
British companies established in 2003
Companies based in the City and District of St Albans
Internet service providers of the United Kingdom
Wi-Fi providers
Sky Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echinometra | Echinometra is a genus of sea urchins in the family Echinometridae.
Species
The following species are listed in the World Echinoidea Database:
References
Echinometridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address%20Management%20System | Address Management System (AMS) is the United States Postal Service master database of deliverable addresses. Address-checking tools using AMS provide address standardization, as well as city/state and ZIP Code lookup features.
Business mailers use the USPS Address Management System database to standardize addresses by correcting errors in street addresses and city names and to return the correct ZIP Codes. City/state lookup services use AMS to provide the city and state corresponding to any given ZIP Code.
AMS is also a general term describing a technological solution for managing street addressing.
References
United States Postal Service
Postal addresses in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickety%20Toc | Tickety Toc is a preschool comedy computer-animated television series produced by The Foundation, part of Zodiak Media and FunnyFlux Entertainment. The first series consists of 52 episodes, each 11 minutes long, but is often shown as twenty-six blocks, each containing two episodes.
The first series was acquired by the Nick Jr. Channel as part of a global deal. The series premiered in Asia on 19 April 2012 and was subsequently rolled out internationally with localised dubs. Tickety Toc aired for the first time on British TV on 23 April 2012 and became the number 1 daytime show on Nick Jr. in the United States for the first three months when it launched 10 September 2012. In addition to the Nick Jr. global acquisition, the show has been sold to free-to-air television partners internationally. Launching on Channel 5's Milkshake slot 1 November 2012. Other broadcasters who have picked up the 52-episode series include TG4 in Ireland and Family Channel in Canada.
Jolly Roger or Amusement Rides LTD made a Pufferty kiddie ride, featuring the main characters Tommy and Tallulah. It features a mirror, so anyone can see themselves on Pufferty, the Tickety Toc theme tune, and four sound effects.
In the United States, Tickety Toc originally aired on Nickelodeon's preschool block Nick Jr., but was later burned off to the Nick Jr. Channel on weekdays. The series has a page on Paramount+, but no episodes have been added as of .
Premise
The show takes place in the world within the Tickety Toc Clock, which is located in the middle of a wall of clocks inside an old clock shop. Behind the clock's face is an extraordinary world where things don't always run smoothly. The show's main characters, siblings Tommy and Tallulah, race against time to keep the Tickety Toc Clock ticking and chiming the time. They do everything with enthusiasm, commitment, and positivity, even if it gets them into trouble. Among the characters who live in the clock's world are Pufferty, a dog-train hybrid; jaguar maintenance man McCoggins, rabbit Hopparoo, baker cow Madame Au Lait, bat boss Battersby, green and orange chicken Chickadee, and gardener snail Lopsiloo. Throughout the episodes, an owl named Tooteroo tries to do a certain activity, sometimes based on the episode's theme, but is always unlucky.
Characters
The show's characters are Tommy, Tallulah, Pufferty, McCoggins, Hopparoo, Madame Au Lait, Battersby, Chickadee, Lopsiloo, and Tooteroo.
Episodes
Season 1 (2012)
Season 2 (2013)
Season 3 (2014)
Season 4 (2015)
Season 5 (2016)
International broadcasts
Tickety Toc aired on EBS in South Korea. Tickety Toc aired on Channel 5, and is now airing on Sky Kids, in the United Kingdom. In the United States, all episodes of Tickety Toc aired from 2012 until 2018 on the Nick Jr. Channel.
Reception
The show was met with mixed reviews.
Merchandise
Zodiak Rights, the Consumer Products Licensing division of the Zodiak Media Group, launched merchandise, including toys, books, games and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CORA%20dataset | CORA (standing for Coriolis Ocean database ReAnalysis) is a global oceanographic temperature and salinity dataset produced and maintained by the French institute IFREMER. Most of those data are real-time data coming from different types of platforms such as research vessels, profilers, underwater gliders, drifting buoys, moored buoys, sea mammals and ships of opportunity.
Description
This in-situ dataset produced by the French institute Ifremer in the framework of the European project MyOcean and French project CORIOLIS is a picture of the content of the operational oceanographic database CORIOLIS. This database is the main tool of Coriolis project which is a global data assembly center of in situ data: such as US-GODAE centre of Monterey in California.
The latest version of CORA product is v5.0, it covers the years 1950 up to 2015 and has been released in April 2017. Observations are profiles distributed on measured levels (pressure or depth) and organized by dates of measurement and type of platform.
Main users of CORA dataset are ocean modelers who needs to constraint and initialize their model. CORA is free of access and can be download via CORIOLIS website in netCDF file format. The main different of CORA dataset with other available datasets is that CORA provides data at depth levels where measurements were made rather than at standard levels such as in World Ocean Atlas or ENACT3. In addition data in CORA are retrieved from Coriolis database where each profile is visually checked by specialist operators if suspicious.
Validation procedure
Validation in database
duplicate observation check
automatic checks (spikes, climatology, monotonic depth, valid date/position,...)
objective analysis (ISAS software with 21 days, 300 km covariance ray): suspicious observations are visualized by an operator
Validation post extraction
second duplicate observation check (detection and choice parameters tuned)
refined climatological test
XBT depth correction
second objective analysis with tuned parameters: anomalies are visualized
ARGO special diagnostics
Data sources
The CORA dataset is designed for operational oceanography, so most global real time monitoring networks are plugged into this database. The data sources are the following:
ARGO (autonomous drifting profilers)
The global network of moored buoys comprising the TAO/TRITON, PIRATA and RAMA arrays
EGO (underwater gliders)
GTSPP (channel of real-time data distribution maintained by the US institute NOAA)
GOSUD thermosalinograph data coming from opportunity ships
GTS (BATHY, TESSAC, drifting buoys messages) channel of low resolution data distribution
Sea mammals equipped with sensors (seals and sea elephants)
other datasets integrated in delayed-time (CTD, XBT, oceanographic cruises,...)
Versions
References
External links
official website of CORIOLIS project
official website of MyOcean project
Databases in France
Environmental science databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amkette | Amkette, is a multinational technology company and manufacturer of computer hardware and consumer electronics, headquartered in New Delhi, India. The company launched a smart TV product called EvoTV in 2012.
The company has a pan-India distribution network and heavily invests in hardware and software R&D. Its manufacturing facility is in China while the software team is based in Bangalore, India.
In November 2014, the company launched a headphone with a sharing jack, Trubeats Tango, that allows listeners to connect additional listening devices to the headphone.
In December 2016, the company launched the successor of its flagship product Evo TV 2 4k capable of playing 4k content. In the subsequent year, the company launched the next generation of Evo Tv, the Evo Tv 3 4K with an upgraded 2GB of RAM.
After a decade of the launch of Amkette TV Box which converted normal TVs into smart TVs, In 2021, the company introduced its flagship product, EvoFox Game box in the Indian market.
Projects
Android Gaming Evo Gamepad - bluetooth controller that allows console style gaming on mobile phones combined with the Android Evo Gaming app. This is the first of many gaming devices that the company is planning to launch.
Apple certified Mfi cable - launched in December 2014, certified with Apple in two variations, 8 pin (for iPhone 5/5c/5s/6/6Plus) and 32 pin (for 3g/4/4s)
Trubeats Tango - launched in November 2014, a one of a kind headphone with a sharing jack (aux out)
EvoTV - launched mid-2012; a range of connected TV devices that converge web and multimedia features onto a TV
Amkette Acoustix - a lab within the Amkette R&D wing focussing on developing new sound drivers for headphones and headsets
EvoFox Gaming - Amkette introduced the EvoFox Gaming Accessories with the launch of the EvoFox Fireblade TKL gaming keyboard in 2020. Ever since then the company has launched a number of different products under EvoFox Gaming. Amkette’s flagship product Evo Game Box TV and Evo Gamepad Pro 4 falls under the same category.
History
Amkette was started by Rajiv Bapna in 1984. It became one of the largest manufacturers and exporters of floppy diskettes from India, selling to Russia and other countries in Europe. The diskettes plant was started with the help of German technology. The plant manufactured 8", 5.25" and 3.5" diskettes. At its peak it had a production capacity of 30 million floppies daily. The plant was shut down in Jan 2013 and completely converted into a R&D center.
Current product categories
Wireless products
Since early 2010 the company has been into the wireless segment and has introduced a wide range of wireless products. Under this category, keyboards and mice that run on either bluetooth or wireless spectrum technology have been introduced.
Personal technology and audio
The company has a wide range of headphones and headsets for personal and business use including headsets that run on Bluetooth and wireless spectrum technology such as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pairing%20%28computing%29 | Pairing, sometimes known as bonding, is a process used in computer networking that helps set up an initial linkage between computing devices to allow communications between them. The most common example is used in Bluetooth, where the pairing process is used to link devices like a Bluetooth headset with a mobile phone.
Computer networking
Computing terminology
2 (number) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaDataNet | SeaDataNet is an international project of oceanography. Its main goal is to enable the scientific community to access historical datasets owned by national data centers.
Description
This project aims to provide a web service permitting to retrieve validated datasets (temperature, oxygen, salinity, nutrients, etc.) from 45 different National Data Centers of 35 countries having coasts along European seas. Therefore SeaDataNet is a standardized system for managing the large and diverse data sets collected by the oceanographic fleets and the automatic observation systems. Additional objectives consist in creating product with aggregated data such as climatological descriptions. This European funded project has started in 2004, the project is currently in its second phase with fundings for 2012 to 2016. Most of the datasets are free of access, but some are restricted to institutes.
In term of harmonization SeaDataNet has chosen standards, vocabularies, tools that are used in the different NODC(National Oceanographic Data Center). For example they use Ocean Data View to validate or visualize datasets, they also use DIVA software to perform objective analysis. Datasets are covering the years 1800 up to 2012. In 2012 400 data originators are registered into Seadatanet project.
Usage
Users of SeaDataNet who want to retrieve datasets coming from multiple Data Centers log to the Common Data Index web-service to define their request. They can provide many details such as the type of platform wanted, the parameter wanted, the rate of sampling, the position, the originator country, etc. Then users send their request, the request is analysed and split into as much request as there are data centers concerned. At the end the user receive an email giving a FTP address where to retrieve all the data ordered in the file format wanted (ASCII, NetCDF or Ocean Data View format).
References
External links
Information technology organizations based in Europe
Physical oceanography
Science and technology in Merseyside |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Conceptual%20Modeling | The ER – International Conference on Conceptual Modeling is an annual research conference computer science dedicated to information and conceptual modeling. Since the first event in 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA, the conference has evolved into one of the major forums for research on conceptual modeling and information retrieval.
Conceptual modeling is about describing the semantics of software applications at a high level of abstraction. Specifically, conceptual modelers (1) describe structure models in terms of entities, relationships, and constraints; (2) describe behavior or functional models in terms of states, transitions among states, and actions performed in states and transitions; and (3) describe interactions and user interfaces in terms of messages sent and received and information exchanged. In their typical usage, conceptual-model diagrams are high-level abstractions that enable clients and analysts to understand one another, enable analysts to communicate successfully with application programmers, and in some cases automatically generate (parts of) the software application.
Topics
Entity-relationship model
Entity-relationship diagram
Conceptual schema design
Model-driven software development
Model-driven architecture (MDA)
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Extended or enhanced entity–relationship model
Object-role modeling
Process modeling
Business process modeling
Workflow Design
Foundational theory of conceptual models and conceptual modeling
Peter Chen Award
Initiated by Elsevier in 2008 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the journal, Data and Knowledge Engineering, the Peter P. Chen Award honors one person each year for his or her outstanding contributions to the field of conceptual modeling. From 2009 to 2012, the winner received a plaque and check for $1000 by the ER Institute. Starting in 2013, the winner receives a check for $2500 donated by Elsevier. The award will be announced and presented at the ER Conference.
The selection process is done according to the following four criteria:
Research: how well the nominee has helped advance the field of conceptual modeling with his/her intellectual contributions.
Service: participation in the organization of conceptual-modeling-related meetings and conferences and participation in editorial boards of conceptual-modeling-related journals.
Education: how effectively the nominee has mentored doctoral students in conceptual modeling, produced researchers from their labs, and helped mentor other young people in the field.
Contribution to practice: the extent to which the nominee has contributed to technology transfer, commercialization, and industrial projects.
International reputation: the extent to which the nominee's work is visible to and has diffused into the international community.
Previous winners of the Peter P. Chen Award
2021: Sudha Ram
2020: Matthias Jarke
2019: Eric Yu
2018: Veda C. Storey
2017: Yair Wand
2016: Oscar Pastor
2015: Il-Yeol Song
2014: |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20%28Greek%20TV%20channel%29 | Fox was a Greek pay-television channel, that was launched on 1 October 2012 replacing FX. Its programming consists of comedy, drama, science fiction, action and animation series such as The Simpsons, Criminal Minds, Suits and Legion with new episodes for the first time in Greece. It also broadcast the biggest hit series in Greece in less than 24 hours after the US such as The Walking Dead, Homeland, American Horror Story and Empire.
Programmes
Final programming
9-1-1
9-1-1: Lone Star
American Horror Story
Bones
How I Met Your Mother
Mad About You
NCIS: Los Angeles
NCIS: New Orleans
Snowfall
Solar Opposites
Tales of the Walking Dead
The Goldbergs
The Simpsons
Former
11.22.63
24: Live Another Day
24: Legacy
According to Jim
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
American Crime Story
American Dad!
Arrested Development
Atlanta
Awake
Beauty & the Beast
Bob's Burgers
Breakout Kings
Brickleberry
Burn Notice
Chance
Criminal Minds
Crisis
Dads
Da Vinci's Demons
Deep State
Elementary
Empire
Enlisted
Episodes
Falling Skies
False Flag
Family Guy
Feud
Friends
Gang Related
Ghosted
Graceland
Homeland
Jo
Legion
Legit
Lie to Me
Marvel's Agent Carter
Marvel's Inhumans
Outcast
Prison Break
Rules of Engagement
Scream Queens
Sleepy Hollow
Sons of Anarchy
Suits
That '70s Show
The Americans
The Bastard Executioner
The Bridge
The Cleveland Show
The Finder
The Gifted
The Hour
The Killing
The League
The Strain
The Walking Dead
The X-Files
Touch
Trust
Tyrant
Unsupervised
War of the Worlds
Wayward Pines
White Collar
Wilfred
See also
Fox Life Greece
FX Greece
National Geographic Greece
External links
FOX Greece official site
References
Television channels and stations established in 2012
2012 establishments in Greece
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2023
2023 disestablishments in Greece
Greek-language television stations
Defunct television channels in Greece
Fox Channel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miraculous%3A%20Tales%20of%20Ladybug%20%26%20Cat%20Noir | Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir () is a French computer-animated magical girl superhero television series created by Thomas Astruc and developed by Jeremy Zag. The series is produced by French companies Zagtoon and Method Animation and co-produced with Japanese studio Toei Animation's European division, and several international companies.
The series focuses on two Parisian teenagers, Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste, who transform into the superheroes Ladybug and Cat Noir, respectively, to protect the city from supervillains.
Prior to its debut in France on 19 October 2015 on TF1's TFOU block, the series was first shown in South Korea on 1 September 2015 on EBS1. Internationally, it is mainly broadcast on Disney-owned channels or on Disney+, with exceptions in some countries.
The series spawned a media franchise with several products tied to it, including various comic books, novels and video games. A film adaptation, Ladybug & Cat Noir: The Movie, was released theatrically in 2023 in France.
Plot
The series takes place in modern-day Paris and revolves around the adventures of two teenagers, Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste. When evil arises, they transform into their superhero personas, Ladybug and Cat Noir respectively, using magical jewels known as Miraculouses, which are powered by small animal-themed cosmic beings called Kwamis (theirs being named Tikki and Plagg respectively). All the while, Marinette and Adrien struggle with their feelings for each other, not knowing each other's secret identities – Marinette is in love with Adrien, but not Cat Noir, while Adrien is in love with Ladybug, but not Marinette.
Their main enemy is Gabriel Agreste, Adrien's father. As the supervillain Hawk Moth, he attempts to claim Ladybug and Cat Noir's Miraculous jewels. Using the Butterfly Miraculous, he creates akumas, butterflies infused with negative energy, to "akumatize" Paris' everyday citizens, turning them into supervillains when they experience negative emotions. He intends to use the jewels to wish his wife, Emilie, back to life after she had fallen into a coma from using the damaged Peacock Miraculous before the events of the series. He is sometimes aided by his assistant Nathalie Sancoeur, who, using Emilie's jewel as the supervillain Mayura, uses feathers called amoks to create sentimonsters, magical lifeforms with a seemingly endless variety of forms and abilities.
As Hawk Moth's villains become tougher, Master Wang Fu, the Guardian of the Miraculous, allows Ladybug to borrow different Miraculouses and recruit her other classmates and friends as superheroes. Marinette and Adrien also encounter guitarist Luka Couffaine and fencer Kagami Tsurugi respectively, developing feelings for them, which further complicates their romance. They also become enemies of Lila Rossi, a pathological liar with multiple identities; Chloé Bourgeois, a Ladybug fan and former superhero who turned against her; and Félix Fathom, a sen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FL5%20%28Lazio%20regional%20railways%29 | The FL5 (until 2012 FR5) is a regional rail route. It forms part of the network of the Lazio regional railways (), which is operated by Trenitalia, and converges on the city of Rome, Italy.
The route operates over the infrastructure of the Pisa–Livorno–Rome railway. Within the territory of the comune of Rome, it plays the role of a commuter railway. It is estimated that on average about 40,000 passengers travel on an FR5 train each day.
The designation FL5 appears only in publicity material (e.g. public transport maps), in the official timetables, and on signs at some stations. The electronic destination boards at stations on the FL5 route show only the designation "R5" for that route.
Route
Civitavecchia ↔ Roma Termini
The FL5, a radial route, runs from the west coast at Civitavecchia in a south easterly direction, via the Pisa–Livorno–Rome railway, to Roma San Pietro, and then around the southern side of Rome's city centre to Roma Termini.
Stations
The stations on the FL5 are as follows:
Roma Termini
Roma Tuscolana
Roma Ostiense
Roma Trastevere
Roma San Pietro
Roma Aurelia (limit of urban service)
Maccarese-Fregene
Torre in Pietra-Palidoro
Palo Laziale
Ladispoli-Cerveteri
Marina di Cerveteri
Santa Severa
Santa Marinella
Civitavecchia
See also
History of rail transport in Italy
List of railway stations in Lazio
Rail transport in Italy
Transport in Rome
References
External links
ATAC – official site
ATAC map – schematic depicting all routes in the Rome railway network
Ferrovie regionali del Lazio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bustec | Bustec is a company that designs and manufactures instrumentation for high-performance data acquisition and instrument control. The company's products serve applications that include engine testing, automotive and missile testing, wind tunnel data acquisition and control, acoustics, vibration applications, aircraft component testing and more. Headquarters is located in Shannon, Co. Clare, Ireland.
History
Bustec was founded in 1997, in Ireland by Dr. Fred Bloennigen, current CEO. In 2000 the company opened its branch in the USA.
The company is one of the Sponsor Members of the VXI Consortium, where it is actively working on the new VXI 4.0 standard. It also introduced the first to market VXI 4.0 Slot-0 controller, with a hot-pluggable PCIe x4 connection to host server.
In 2008, the company joined the LXI Consortium as an Informational Member, introducing one of the first LXI 1.3 class A devices (with IEEE 1588-2008 PTP support).
Bustec products are used or are selected to be used in various projects. Most notable include: Agusta Westland's helicopter wind tunnel testing, Honeywell's testing of computers for the International Space Station, VXI Slot-0 modules for Rohde & Schwarz, Atos Origin's monitoring of Nuclear Power plants in France and Lockheed Martin's eCASS system for the United States Navy.
Products
Bustec's products are modular. A VXI or LXI interface backend (VXI motherboard or LXI carrier device) can be equipped with various Bustec's function cards. This approach is a flexible solution, because the modules can be configured to meet system specific needs, allowing better space utilization. The function cards include ADC, DAC, Digital IO and Counter/Timer cards. Up to 8 such function cards can be mounted on a single VXI size C motherboard and up to 4 of them in the 1U, half-width LXI carrier. Apart from that, Bustec provides also Signal Conditioning Units and VXI Slot-0 modules.
VXI Slot-0 module solutions include:
Embedded PCs (Windows, Linux and VxWorks),
PCIe, hot-plug enabled, VXIbus Slot-0 interface,
USB 2.0 VXIbus Slot-0 interface.
Bustec's VISA implementation supports VXI, GPIB and VXI-11 (over TCP/IP).
Identification
PCI Vendor ID = 0x1BCB
MAC address prefix = 00:30:4E
VXI Manufacturer ID = 0xE70
References
External links
Bustec website
VXI Bus Consortium
LXI Consortium
Electronic test equipment manufacturers
Manufacturing companies established in 1997
Information technology companies of Ireland
Irish brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogRhythm | LogRhythm, Inc. is a global security intelligence company that specializes in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), log management, network monitoring, user behavior and security analytics. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, LogRhythm operates in North and South America; Europe; India, the Middle East, Turkey, Africa; and the Asia Pacific region.
Founded in 2003 by Chris Petersen and Phillip Villella, the company was initially known as Security Conscious, Inc. Based in Washington, DC. In 2005, it rebranded as LogRhythm and relocated to Boulder, Colorado.
LogRhythm provides self-hosted and cloud-native SIEM Platforms to help customers monitor, detect, investigate and respond to cybersecurity threats.
In 2019, LogRhythm released a Software as a Service (SaaS) version of their SIEM Platform, LogRhythm Cloud.
In 2022, LogRhythm launched LogRhythm Axon, a new, cloud-native SIEM platform.
LogRhythm's platform is utilized to ensure compliance with mandates in the US and UK, including Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), critical infrastructure protection (NERC CIP), Sarbanes–Oxley Act (S-OX), or other government regulations.
Patents
See also
Loggly
Sumo Logic
Splunk
LogDNA
Prelude SIEM (Intrusion Detection System)
References
External links
Companies based in Boulder, Colorado
Computer security companies
Software companies based in Colorado
American companies established in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bardatar%20Kisteh | Bardatar Kisteh (, also Romanized as Bardatar Kīsteh; also known as Bardatar Kīdeh) is a village in Seydun-e Shomali Rural District, Seydun District, Bagh-e Malek County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 88, in 16 families.
References
Populated places in Bagh-e Malek County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OProject%40Home | OProject@Home was a volunteer computing project running on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) and was based on a dedicated library OLib. The project was directed by Lukasz Swierczewski, an IT student at the College of Computer Science and Business Administration in Łomża, Computer Science and Automation Institute. As of 2016 it seems to have been abandoned.
Subprojects
Shor's Algorithm
Shor's Algorithm DP
GSCE-SV
ALX
Weird Engine
Shor's Algorithm and Shor's Algorithm DP were the main subprojects of OProject@Home. The objective was to test quantum algorithms (e.g. Shor's algorithm) of quantum computing. GSCE-SV verifies the correctness of Goldbach's conjecture, while ALX is a Non-CPU-intensive (nci) subproject capable of running on ARM-based CPUs running Android or Linux. It is used to research and develop artificial intelligence and computer networks. The project supports the PlayStation 3.
The Weird Engine subproject calculates the weird numbers . Numbers are available in the project database. According to the OEIS it is the largest publicly available database of such numbers.
These ongoing work on the application analyzing status of water on Earth. OProject@Home uses data from NASA and NOAA satellites. Analyzed data are taken from devices AVHRR and AMSR that are used to measure the Earth's radiation predominantly in the infrared. Based on the information is easy to calculate the sea surface temperature and ice concentration at any point on Earth. This information will enable to perform the analysis and simulations climate.
The subprojects running on the platform OProject@Home are important to science because they address difficult and unsolved problems in physics and theoretical mathematics. For example, Goldbach's conjecture, proposed in 1742 has never been disproven. It is not even clear whether the problem can be solved, as the range of numbers are infinite. It's also not known if there are any odd weird numbers. All calculated weird numbers are even. Climate change and global warming has also raised a number of controversies, and a future goal is to effectively analyze the entire Earth to predict the probability of various possible threats to people. Such systems can warn against natural disasters such as hurricanes or cyclones that may arise in the future. Although this is a future development, a sample video showing the sea surface temperature for 1982 has been generated in order to show what this can result in. The simulation is based on publicly available databases from organisations such as NOAA and NASA.
As with other volunteer computing projects, progress relies on recruiting a number of users willing to donate computing power to the project. These projects are usually run in the background and when the computer is idle and have little or no performance impact when a person is using the computer.
A side effect of the project is to develop high-performance algorithms for the various subprojects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic%20language | In computer science, more particularly in formal language theory, a cyclic language is a set of strings that is closed with respect to repetition, root, and cyclic shift.
Definition
If A is a set of symbols, and A* is the set of all strings built from symbols in A, then a string set L ⊆ A* is called a formal language over the alphabet A.
The language L is called cyclic if
∀w∈A*. ∀n>0. w ∈ L ⇔ wn ∈ L, and
∀v,w∈A*. vw ∈ L ⇔ wv ∈ L,
where wn denotes the n-fold repetition of the string w, and vw denotes the concatenation of the strings v and w.
Examples
For example, using the alphabet A = {a, b }, the language
is cyclic, but not regular.
However, L is context-free, since M = { an1bn1 an2bn2 ... ank bnk : ni ≥ 0 } is, and context-free languages are closed under circular shift; L is obtained as circular shift of M.
References
Formal languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khirbet%20El-Knese | Khirbet El-Knese, El-Knese or El Knese are two Roman temples south of Yanta, north of Rashaya in the Rashaya District of the Beqaa Governorate in Lebanon.
Data
The upper and lower temples are included in a group of Temples of Mount Hermon. The lower temple faces east with the peak of Mount Hermon to the south. George F. Taylor described it as an Antae temple with moulded architraves to the right of the south antae.
El Knese has supposed connections to the word "ecclesia".
The ruins are in dire conditions, with only a wall remaining in relative good shape
See also
Temples of Mount Hermon
References
External links
Photos of Roman temples in the Rashaya area on the American University of Beirut website
Roman Temples on discoverlebanon.com
Rashaya District
Archaeological sites in Lebanon
Ancient Roman temples
Roman sites in Lebanon
Tourist attractions in Lebanon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Long%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | John Brian Long (born 3 December 1935) is a British computer scientist and Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Engineering at the University College London, known for his work on "cognitive ergonomics and human-computer interaction."
Biography
Long obtained his BA in Modern Languages from Cambridge University in 1960, his BSc in Psychology from Hull University in 1970, and his PhD in Cognitive Engineering from Cambridge University in 1978 with the thesis, entitled "Multidimensional Signal Recognition: Reduced Efficiency and Process Interaction," under supervision of Donald Broadbent. In 2001 he obtained his D.Eng from the London University.
Long started his academic career as Reader at the University College London in 1979, and was later appointed Professor of Cognitive Ergonomics> He also chaired its Ergonomics and HCI Unit, and was Director of Studies for both their MSc and PhD programs. in 2001 he became Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Engineering. Since 1989 he is Concurrent Professor at the Northeastern Forestry University in Harbin, China, and he has been Visiting Professor at the Swinburne University of Technology in 1997, Melbourne, at the Eindhoven University of Technology in 1998–2000, and at the Universiti Malaysia Sarawak in 2000.
Long is seen as one of the founders of the field of human-computer interactions in the UK. In 2010 Journal Interacting with Computers published a Special Issue Festschrift for John Long.
Selected publications
J. Long, A. Baddeley (Eds.), Attention and performance IX, Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium on Attention and Performance, Jesus college, Cambridge, England, July 13-18, 1980 Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ (1980).
Long, John, and Andy Whitefield, eds. Cognitive ergonomics and human-computer interaction. Vol. 1. Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Lim, Kee Yong, and John B. Long. The MUSE method for usability engineering. Vol. 8. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Articles, a selection:
References
External links
John Long at UCL
1935 births
Living people
British computer scientists
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Academics of University College London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WZTH | WZTH is a Christian radio station licensed to Tusculum, Tennessee, broadcasting on 91.1 MHz FM. The station is owned by Solid Foundation Broadcasting.
WZTH's programming includes Christian talk and teaching shows such as Turning Point with David Jeremiah, Love Worth Finding with Adrian Rogers, In Touch with Charles Stanley, Truth for Life Alistair Begg, and Radio Bible Hour with J. Harold Smith. WZTH also airs a variety of Christian music.
References
External links
WZTH's official website
ZTH |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searchdaimon | Searchdaimon ES (Enterprise Search) is an open source enterprise search engine for full text search of structured and unstructured data available under the GPL v2 license. Its major features include hit highlighting, faceted search, dynamic clustering, database integration, rich document (e.g., Word, PDF) handling and full document level security.
First developed by Norwegian software company Searchdaimon As as a commercial solution, the company shifted to an open source development model in 2013, with the company offering commercial support and other services. The company has its headquarters in Oslo and a research department in Trondheim.
Enterprise search technology
The technology has primarily been used for searching companies' internal data sources, but has also been used in an internet search engine.
Searchdaimon ES can be delivered both as software, as a virtual or physical server and as a cloud computing service at Amazon Web Services.
Features:
Crawl http, databases, Windows file shares, Exchange, SharePoint and local files
Extract data from many common document formats like Microsoft Word, Excel, RTF, PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat PDF
Creates thumbnails for many common image formats like PNG, JPEG and TIF
Support full document level security and integration with Active Directory
HTML administration interface
History
The two founders (Runar Buvik and Magnus Galåen) started to develop a search engine in 1998 while they were studying computer science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The first version became publicly available in 2003.
In 2005, Searchdaimon As was founded as a company to commercialize the technology. Early investors were Springfondet (a joint venture by Kistefos and Oslo Innovation Center) and ICT Group AS.
Searchdaimon ES, the company's product for enterprise search was released in 2006.
In 2008, the company signed its first contract to delivering internet search technology to a third party.
In 2011, the company licensed a free version of Searchdaimon ES.
8 July 2013, Searchdaimon have been released as open source under the GPL v2 license. At some point after this, development on the product appears to have stopped. The last real commit was in 2015 with a minor update in 2017 to install on CentOS 6.5. While that may have worked at one time to install using a KickStart configuration, the source repose have since been pulled down and the script will not work. The main website has old virtual machines the still run on Fedora 8 and do not support https for the admin or search interfaces. And lastly, their forums have become overrun with spam bots. While the main website still has price lists for commercial support, the projects as a whole seems to be abandoned.
References
External links
Official website
Computer companies of Norway
Companies established in 2005
Companies based in Oslo
Software companies of Norway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titans%20Mobile | Titans Mobile is an online war-strategy game developed by Chinese studio Something Big Technology Company Limited for the IOS and Android operating systems. It was released on August 25, 2012. In the game, players need to choose their faction from Athens, Crete, Sparta and Troy before they can recruit Greek Myth heroes from each faction and train Infantries, Cavalries, Warships and Sieges to start battles with other players. Result of battles is decided according to abilities of players, abilities of their recruited heroes, and amount and level of their units. In order to level up and gain rewards, players also do quests and everyday tasks. Players can also duel with each other with three of their recruited heroes.
Gameplay
At the beginning of Titans Mobile, the five ancient gods who created the world awoke found humans had forgotten them and worshiped the gods of Olympus instead. These angry gods decided the world should suffer for such betrayal; the ground cracked, mountains collapsed and the sun stopped to rise. Fear and hatred ruled the mankind, and the world was deep in chaos. The gods of Olympus rose and fought back. Battles after battles, Zeus, the king of Olympus finally managed to seal the five ancient gods with himself. He and the five together fell into sleep forever. Zeus sealed the power of the five ancient gods in six precious gems, and 'Player's' purpose is to collect six gems so that he/she will be the chosen one to end the chaos and become the ruler of Greece. After this introduction and tutorial, to collect six gems, players do quests, everyday tasks, battles and duels against players of different factions, and buy Legacy of Gaia in the Temple.
Quest
Ten chapters of quests require players to complete for three times. Each quest has different requirement of units, number of allies, and AP. After one chapter of quests are finished for three times, one hidden quest will show. After all chapters of quests are finished, player can summon one god and recruit this god as his/her hero.
Buildings
There are four kinds of buildings: gold, food, action and defense. The more players have constructed, the more each building costs, which therefore requires players' meticulous arrangement with strategy.
Abilities
When enough experience is accumulated though quests or wars, the player gains a level with three ability points to be assigned on improve their ATK, DEF, AP, or Power. Also when a player completes one chapter of quests, he/she gets 1/2/3 ability points for 1/2/3 times.
War
Battle
Players can battle with others, and result of battles is decided according to abilities of players, abilities of their recruited heroes, and amount and level of their units. Players can loot gold, food from other players if attacking successfully. Each attack consumes 1 Power, and both sides of the battle may lose health or troops. Players gain EXP if winning in either attacking or defending.
During a battle, the system will automatically choose players' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cielo%20de%20Angelina | Cielo de Angelina (International title: Angelina's Sky / ) is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Omar Deroca, it stars Bea Binene in the title role. It premiered on October 22, 2012 on the network's late morning line up. The series concluded on January 4, 2013 with a total of 55 episodes.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
The series follows the life and love of Angelina, an orphan girl who was left by the door of El Cielo Shelter for Destitute Women and Abandoned Children one stormy night. Marco, a four-year-old stowaway was there when Sister Margaret picked the baby. Because of being abandoned, Marco and Angelina treated the shelter as their home.
Through the years, Marcos serves as the older brother of Angelina especially when her best friend, Julie was adopted. Since then, it was Marco who helped Angelina on her longing for Julie. It was also Marco who will help Angelina in trying to find out what was left by her parents when she was abandoned. But when Angelina tries to get the clue inside Sister Margaret's office, a fire breaks out in another part of the shelter causing the latter to die.
Separation ensued when Angelina was adopted and in turn leaving Marco in the orphanage. While Angelina is living a tormented life with her stepmother Czarina and stepsister Rhoda, Marco now acts very distant from her.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Bea Binene as Angelina Nantes
An orphan girl who was left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns, one stormy night. There, she grows up with Marco, who also serves as her older brother. Marco also helps Angelina to search for her parents. But just as they were on to something, Angelina is adopted and thus begins her life of torment.
Supporting cast
Jake Vargas as Marco Sevilla
When he was a little boy when he witnessed Angelina's arrival as a baby in El Cielo. Since then, he has acted as an older brother figure to her, especially when her best friend, Julie was adopted. He will soon find himself falling in love with Angelina. But under the circumstances, his love will remain undeclared and unrequited.
Hiro Peralta as James Aragon
Ashleigh Nordstrom as Marian "Julie" Dela Guardia
Roxanne Barcelo as Elaine
A mother and a resident of El Cielo Shelter for Destitute Women and Abandoned Children. She rebuilds her life after being abandoned by her boyfriend with the help of Dr. Frank, her newfound love.
Victor Basa as Frank Cordero
The resident doctor of El Cielo Shelter. Dr. Cordero is a wealthy and handsome doctor who has a big heart for the less fortunate. He eventually falls in love with Elaine, a single mother.
Izzy Trazona-Aragon as Dena
Debraliz Borres as Susan
Baby O'Brien as Miriam "Mamer" Dela Guardia
Yassi Pressman as Rhoda
Czarina's only daughter, and like her mother, she is also a self-centered and scheming young lady whose habit is making Angelina's life unbearable.
Gloria Romero as Sor Margaret
Guest cast
Jillian Ward as y |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20TV | Knowledge TV was a cable television channel owned by Jones Media Group that broadcast educational programming. The network was established on November 15, 1987 as Mind Extension University. At launch it partnered with Colorado State University and Annenberg Foundation. While the network was viewable by all, students were charged tuition to obtain credit for the course. Students submitted homework and contacted instructors via telephone. The following year, Washington State University, the University of Minnesota, Oklahoma State University, and SUNY/Empire State College also signed on. Eventually, 30 colleges and universities partnered with Mind Extension Students would submit papers and assignments either by mail or fax. In 1993, Jones Media Group CEO Glenn R. Jones founded Jones International University (JIU) as a new all-online university. JIU achieved regional accreditation in 1999 but would close in 2015.
In late 1996, the network was renamed Knowledge TV, and by that time it was carrying several programs dealing with new media and Silicon Valley businesses, including New Media News from KRON-TV in San Francisco, and many computer education programs such as Stewart Cheifet's Computer Chronicles. The network reached about 25 million subscribers, although many cable systems only carried the network part-time, using it to fill downtime on public access networks and late night paid programming blocks on networks such as Discovery Channel.
In 1999, Discovery Communications bought out Knowledge TV and it was closed in 2000, as Discovery planned to give cable operators the option of converting the channel to Discovery Health.
References
Television channels and stations established in 1987
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2000
Defunct television networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systers | Systers, founded by Anita Borg, is an international electronic mailing list for technical women in computing. The Syster community strives to increase the number of women in computer science and improve work environments for women. The mailing list has operated since 1987, making it the oldest of its kind for women in computer science. It is likely the largest email community of women in computing. The name 'Systers' originated from the combination of the words systems and sisters.
History
Systers was formed by Anita Borg in 1987 after a discussion with women at the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) in Austin. At the conference, Borg got the email addresses of 20 of the women attending and created Systers. The name came from combining systems with sisters. The administrator of Systers was Borg, who was called by users "her Systers' keeper". It was the first worldwide community for women working in the field of computer science. The group spread by word of mouth, growing to around 2,000 members in the mid 1990s. The group was accused of practicing "reverse discrimination" by others in 1993. Borg defended the group as a way for women who were often cut off from one another in the field to connect with one another. Many women did not have any other women in their own workplaces. It was refreshing to find a space where women were not "drowned out by the voices of men." The size of the group led Borg to create a system, called MECCA, which would allow members to opt in and out of various discussion topics. Later, the list would move to web-based technology. By 2004, women from 53 different countries were participating. Systers also influenced other similar mailing lists.
As of 2012, more than 3000 members were subscribing to the Systers' mailing list. Previously, the mailing list was maintained by Her Systers' Keeper, Robin Jeffries, from 2000 to 2012. The next Systers' Keeper was Rosario Robinson. During the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) at Houston Texas in 2018, it was announced that Zaza Soriano will be the new Systers' Keeper.
Systers 25th Anniversary
In 2012, Systers celebrated its 25th anniversary with Global Meet Ups and a celebration at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
About
Systers was developed as an electronic mailing list for women working in computer science. It is one of the oldest communities for women in computer science. Women using the list must stay on topic (discussion women and computer science) and they are expected to treat each other with respect. Members are expected to be supportive of other members and topics discussed generally relate to women in computing. A notable exception was a 1992 discussion of a Barbie doll, whose recorded phrases included "Math class is tough!" Systers was credited as influential in persuading Mattel to remove the phrase. Other topics which have been covered included strategies for childcare on the job or at conferences, dealing with |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zorpia | Zorpia () is a social networking service with customers in China. Zorpia is one of the few international social networks with a Chinese Internet Content Provider license. The social networking site reports 2 million unique users per month and a total worldwide user base of 26 million. Jeffrey Ng is the company's founder and CEO of Zorpia. The privately funded company is based in Hong Kong and has 30 employees.
Zorpia has been accused of spamming misleading messages on behalf of people to their address books without their consent or knowledge as a way of acquiring email addresses. In 2012, PandoDaily wrote that Zorpia "has a dreadful spamming problem that it needs to fix fast."
History
In December 2003, Jeffrey Ng founded Zorpia as a social networking service. Ng wanted it to be an online nation for people looking for new relationships. While sites such as Facebook and Twitter are still banned in China, the ban has allowed Zorpia to use its ICP license in China to grow its user base. In 2009, the company partnered with Viximo, a distributor of software for virtual goods and currency.
Leadership
Jeffrey Ng began his entrepreneurial career at the age of 13. He started his own Japanese music website and music search engine. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign with a degree in computer engineering. Before building Zorpia, he worked for Expedia Inc. and at his university's National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Services
Zorpia's features include photo-sharing, social networking, messaging and profiles. Zorpia has developed technology to analyze and predict compatibility between strangers, and has developed false identity prevention systems and user attractiveness discovery algorithms to help people make friends.
Zorpia is one of the few social networking sites permitted for use in China.
Recognition
Alexa Internet ranks Zorpia among the 6,000 most-visited websites worldwide, with a global rank of about 4000 and with 40% users from India and 10% users from China. Alexa also ranks Zorpia among the top 1000 most popular websites in India, with a rank of 933.
Business Today India named Zorpia as the growth leader in the India market from 2009 to 2010.
Zorpia has been recognized by CNN, China Daily, the biggest English-language newspaper in China, and it has been featured in Phoenix Television's A Date with Luyu.
Privacy issues
In September 2013, Zorpia was accused of cookie theft, mining and spam. The company responded that the ratio of complaints to users is very small.
Zorpia typically asks for permission to connect to Facebook or Google account, then sends automatic emails on the user's behalf to his contacts inviting them to join to read the messages. Even after deleting their Zorpia accounts, users see their contacts flooded with such emails on their behalf. One reporter testing how the email collection occurs found one of his test email accounts had a Zorpia account created without his acknowledgemen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauro%20Pezz%C3%A8 | Mauro Pezzè is an Italian computer scientist. He is a professor of the faculty of informatics at the Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland where he had been the dean of the faculty of informatics from 2009 ti 2012. He is also a professor of software engineering at the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. He has been co-chair of the International Conference on Software Engineering. Mauro is the co-author of Software testing and analysis: process, principles, and techniques published by Wiley in 2007. Since 2019 he is professor of software engineering at the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology. His research interests are mainly software redundancy, self-healing and self-adaptive software systems.
References
External links
http://www.inf.usi.ch/faculty/pezze/
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Italian computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Lugano
Academic staff of the University of Milano-Bicocca |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20state | In computer science, soft state is state which is useful for efficiency, but not essential, as it can be regenerated or replaced if needed. The term is often used in network protocol engineering.
It is a term that is used for information that times out (goes away) unless refreshed, which allows protocols to recover from errors in certain services. The term was coined by David D. Clark in his description of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) internet protocols.
While in general less efficient than well-designed "hard state" protocols when tuned for a particular network regime, soft state protocols behave much better than hard state protocols in an unpredictable network environment such as the Internet.
References
External links
"Soft" and "Hard" State
Network architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20mobile%20operating%20systems | This is a comparison on mobile operating systems. Only the latest versions are shown in the table below, even though older versions may still be marketed.
About OS
Advanced controls
Accessibility features
App ecosystem
Browser
Basic features
Communication and connectivity
Language and inputs
Maps and navigation
Media playback and controls
Peripheral support
Photo and video
Productivity
Ringtones and alerts
Security and privacy
Sound and voice
Other features
See also
Comparison of open-source mobile phones
List of custom Android distributions
Comparison of satellite navigation software
References
Mobile operating systems
Operating system comparisons
Software wars
Android (operating system) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations%20and%20Trends%20in%20Networking | Foundations and Trends in Networking is a journal published by Now Publishers. It publishes survey and tutorial articles on all aspects of networking.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Inspec
EI-Compendex
Scopus
CSA databases
ACM Digital Library
External links
Engineering journals
Now Publishers academic journals
English-language journals
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations%20and%20Trends%20in%20Computer%20Graphics%20and%20Vision | Foundations and Trends in Computer Graphics and Vision is a journal published by Now Publishers. It publishes survey and tutorial articles on all aspects of computer graphics and vision. The editor-in-chiefs are Brian Curless (University of Washington), Luc Van Gool (KU Leuven) and Richard Szeliski (Microsoft Research).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Inspec
EI-Compendex
Scopus
CSA databases
ACM Digital Library
References
External links
Computer science journals
Now Publishers academic journals
English-language journals
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20Healthcare%20Interoperability%20Resources | The Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR, pronounced "fire") standard is a set of rules and specifications for exchanging electronic health care data. It is designed to be flexible and adaptable, so that it can be used in a wide range of settings and with different health care information systems. The goal of FHIR is to enable the seamless and secure exchange of health care information, so that patients can receive the best possible care. The standard describes data formats and elements (known as "resources") and an application programming interface (API) for exchanging electronic health records (EHR). The standard was created by the Health Level Seven International (HL7) health-care standards organization.
FHIR builds on previous data format standards from HL7, like HL7 version 2.x and HL7 version 3.x. But it is easier to implement because it uses a modern web-based suite of API technology, including a HTTP-based RESTful protocol, and a choice of JSON, XML or RDF for data representation. One of its goals is to facilitate interoperability between legacy health care systems, to make it easy to provide health care information to health care providers and individuals on a wide variety of devices from computers to tablets to cell phones, and to allow third-party application developers to provide medical applications which can be easily integrated into existing systems.
FHIR provides an alternative to document-centric approaches by directly exposing discrete data elements as services. For example, basic elements of healthcare like patients, admissions, diagnostic reports and medications can each be retrieved and manipulated via their own resource URLs.
Standardization
Architecture
FHIR is organized by resources (e.g., patient, observation). Such resources can be specified further by defining FHIR profiles (for example, binding to a specific terminology). A collection of profiles can be published as an implementation guide (IG), such as The U.S. Core Data for Interoperability (USCDI). The ONC anticipates finalizing USCDI v4 in July 2023.
Because FHIR is implemented on top of the HTTPS (HTTP Secure) protocol, FHIR resources can be retrieved and parsed by analytics platforms for real-time data gathering. In this concept, healthcare organizations would be able to gather real-time data from specified resource models. FHIR resources can be streamed to a data store where they can be correlated with other informatics data. Potential use cases include epidemic tracking, prescription drug fraud, adverse drug interaction warnings, and the reduction of emergency room wait times.
Implementations
Global (non country specific)
A number of high-profile players in the health care informatics field are showing interest in and experimenting with FHIR, including CommonWell Health Alliance and SMART (Substitutable Medical Applications, Reusable Technologies).
Open source implementations of FHIR data structures, servers, clients and tools include ref |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations%20and%20Trends%20in%20Theoretical%20Computer%20Science | Foundations and Trends in Theoretical Computer Science is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes long survey and tutorial articles in the field of theoretical computer science. It was established in 2005 and is published by Now Publishers. The founding editor-in-chief is Madhu Sudan (Microsoft Research).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Inspec
EI-Compendex
Scopus
CSA databases
ACM Digital Library
External links
Computer science journals
Now Publishers academic journals
Academic journals established in 2004
Quarterly journals
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table%20diagonalization | Diagonalization is the process of re-ordering the rows and columns of tables and charts so that the data forms an approximately diagonal line. This makes it easier for people to see patterns in the data.
Diagonalization typically involves either raw data, percentages, means or residuals.
Generally once tables are diagonalized one of two patterns appears: hierarchy or segmentation
References
Infographics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG%20Optimus%20Vu | The LG Optimus Vu (Also known as LG Intuition on Verizon) was Android smartphone/tablet computer hybrid ("phablet"), released in August 2012 and noted for its 4:3 aspect ratio 5.0-inch screen size—between that of conventional smartphones, and larger tablets. It is powered by a 1.5 GHz quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU with Nvidia ULP GeForce GPU. The Korean version of the phone, known as LG Optimus Vu F100S was released in March, 2012, with a dual-core 1.5 GHz Qualcomm MSM 8660 Snapdragon CPU and Adreno 220 GPU, and with Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread. The Korean model has since received updates to Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich and Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean.
See also
LG Optimus
LG Intuition
List of LG mobile phones
Comparison of smartphones
References
LG Optimus Vu Specifications GSMArena
Android (operating system) devices
LG Electronics smartphones
LG Electronics mobile phones
Mobile phones introduced in 2012
Discontinued smartphones |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LTE%20frequency%20bands | Long-Term Evolution (LTE) telecommunications networks use several frequency bands with associated bandwidths.
Frequency bands
From Tables 5.5-1 "E-UTRA Operating Bands" and 5.6.1-1 "E-UTRA Channel Bandwidth" of the latest published version of the 3GPP TS 36.101, the following table lists the specified frequency bands of LTE and the channel bandwidths each band supports.
Obsolete frequency bands
These bands were defined by the 3GPP, but have never been deployed commercially, supported by commercial devices or are no longer used.
Deployments by region
The following table shows the standardized LTE bands and their regional use. The main LTE bands are in bold print. Not yet deployed are not available (N/A). Partial deployments varies from country to country and the details are available at List of LTE networks.
Networks on LTE bands 7, 28 (LTE-FDD) are suitable for global roaming in ITU Regions 1, 2 and 3.
Networks on LTE bands 1, 3 (LTE-FDD) are suitable for roaming in ITU Regions 1, 3 and partially Region 2 (e.g. Costa Rica, Venezuela, Brazil and some Caribbean countries or territories.
Networks on LTE band 20 (LTE-FDD) are suitable for roaming in ITU Region 1 only.
Networks on LTE band 5 (LTE-FDD) are suitable for roaming in ITU Regions 2 and 3.
Networks on LTE bands 38, 40 (LTE-TDD) may allow global roaming in the future (ITU Regions 1, 2 and 3).
Networks on LTE band 8 (LTE-FDD) may allow roaming suitable for roaming in ITU Regions 1, 3 and partially Region 2 (e.g. Peru, El Salvador, Brazil and some Caribbean countries or territories) in the future.
Networks on LTE bands 2 and 4 (LTE-FDD) are suitable for roaming in ITU Region 2 (Americas) only.
See also
LTE
List of LTE networks
List of planned LTE networks
5G NR frequency bands
UMTS frequency bands
References
External links
EARFCN calculator and band reference
Wireless frequency bands and telecom protocols reference and tools
Bandplans
LTE (telecommunication) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METRIC | METRIC (Mapping EvapoTranspiration at high Resolution with Internalized Calibration) is a computer model developed by the University of Idaho, that uses Landsat satellite data to compute and map evapotranspiration (ET). METRIC calculates ET as a residual of the surface energy balance, where ET is estimated by keeping account of total net short wave and long wave radiation at the vegetation or soil surface, the amount of heat conducted into soil, and the amount of heat convected into the air above the surface. The difference in these three terms represents the amount of energy absorbed during the conversion of liquid water to vapor, which is ET. METRIC expresses near-surface temperature gradients used in heat convection as indexed functions of radiometric surface temperature, thereby eliminating the need for absolutely accurate surface temperature and the need for air-temperature measurements.
The surface energy balance is internally calibrated using ground-based reference ET that is based on local weather or gridded weather data sets to reduce computational biases inherent to remote sensing-based energy balance. Slope and aspect functions and temperature lapsing are used for application to mountainous terrain. METRIC algorithms are designed for relatively routine application by trained engineers and other technical professionals who possess a familiarity with energy balance and basic radiation physics. The primary inputs for the model are short-wave and long-wave thermal images from a satellite e.g., Landsat and MODIS, a digital elevation model, and ground-based weather data measured within or near the area of interest. ET “maps” i.e., images via METRIC provide the means to quantify ET on a field-by-field basis in terms of both the rate and spatial distribution. The use of surface energy balance can detect reduced ET caused by water shortage.
In the decade since Idaho introduced METRIC, it has been adopted for use in Montana, California, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Texas, Nebraska, Colorado, Nevada, and Oregon. The mapping method has enabled these states to negotiate Native American water rights; assess agriculture to urban water transfers; manage aquifer depletion, monitor water right compliance; and protect endangered species.
See also
SEBAL, uses the surface energy balance to estimate aspects of the hydrological cycle. SEBAL maps evapotranspiration, biomass growth, water deficit and soil moisture
BAITSSS, evapotranspiration (ET) computer model which determines water use, primarily in agriculture landscape, using remote sensing-based information
References
Allen, R.G., M. Tasumi and R. Trezza. 2007. Satellite-based energy balance for mapping evapotranspiration with internalized calibration (METRIC) – Model. ASCE J. Irrigation and Drainage Engineering 133(4):380-394.
Allen, R.G., M. Tasumi, A.T. Morse, R. Trezza, W. Kramber, I. Lorite and C.W. Robison. 2007. Satellite-based energy balance for mapping evapotranspiration with intern |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickle%2C%20Patch%20and%20Friends | Tickle, Patch and Friends was a BAFTA award-winning television series for children. The series was produced in-house by Ed Matthews for the United Kingdom television network Channel 5, and was originally broadcast in the Milkshake! programming block, which ran from 28 August 1999 to 26 June 2005.
Plot
Tickle, Patch and Friends featured the misadventures of the two guinea pigs Tickle and Patch. Made and Puppeteered by Marcus Clarke and Helena Smee. Each episode would see the pair taking on a job to make money. The show featured crossover appearances from Channel 5's other children's programming. Shows included PB Bear, Plonsters, Animal Antics, and Mr. Men and Little Miss. These other shows also aired on Milkshake! The show broadcasts at a variety of locations, such as zoos, seasides, central London, churches, schools and farms.
Other characters
Pipsqueak: a baby guinea who was introduced to Tickle and Patch in late 2002.
37 Bear: a Taxi Driving Bear.
Thing: a large insect of unknown origin.
Alien: a fleece Alien Puppet.
Features
The Picture Gallery (later changed to The Farmyard Gallery in the later series) - Tickle and Patch look at viewers' drawings.
Patch FM - Tickle and Patch are being disc jockeys and they talk to viewers on their video phone and answer frequently asked questions from them.
Joke Time - Tickle and Patch read out viewers' jokes on location (e.g. outside a theme park) and they usually laugh at them so much, their socks or pants blow off for extra laughs.
Tickle's Quiz - Featured in the later series where Tickle stays in the barn from the rain and asks the audience a simple question involving what sound does a farm animal or vehicle make.
Programmes featured as part of Tickle, Patch and Friends
Mr Men and Little Miss
Plonsters
PB Bear and Friends
Animal Antics
When I Grow Up
Little Antics
Animal Express
Monkey Makes
Why
Insect Antics
Klootz
Mio Mao
Sailor Sid
Softies
Aussie Antics
Bird Bath
Funky Valley
Funky Town
In other media
During the early 2000s, Tickle and Patch were sometimes accompanied with the Milkshake! presenters in additional spin-off programmes and features in continuity links
Outtakes from the show were included on various episodes of It'll Be Alright on the Night.
In 2020, Patch auditioned for Britain's Got Talent as a comedian but got buzzed off after 1 joke and received 4 nos.
External links
References
1999 British television series debuts
2005 British television series endings
1990s British children's television series
2000s British children's television series
1990s British animated television series
2000s British animated television series
British children's animated adventure television series
British television shows based on children's books
Channel 5 (British TV channel) original programming
English-language television shows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyasarpadi%20Jeeva%20railway%20station | Vyasarpadi Jiva railway station is one of the railway station of the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhood of Vyasarpadi. It is located 4 km to the northwest of Chennai Central railway station and 4 km to the west of Chennai Beach railway station. The station lies at the western end of the 'diamond junction' of Chennai's railway network, where all the lines of the Chennai Suburban Railway meet. It has an elevation of 5 m above sea level.
History
The station is one of the oldest stations in South India. The first train to Arcot started from this station. The old ruins still remain 200 m away from the current station as a cabin room.
The lines at the station were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section. Additional line between Basin bridge and Vyasarpadi was electrified on 31 December 1985 and the doubling of track between Vyasarpadi and Korukkupet was electrified on 27 February 1986.
The station
The station acts as the junction and four rail routes branch from here. The southern line goes to Chennai Central. The eastern line goes to Chennai Beach. The northern line goes to Korukupet further proceeding to Gudur. The western line goes to Perambur further proceeding to Arakkonam. The christening of this station is unique since Vyasarpadi is the name of the place and Jeeva is the name of veteran socialist leader Jeevanandam. It is in memory of his presence in Vyasarpadi, the station is named as 'Jeeva'.
Facilities
Vyasarpadi Cabin is a control cabin located between Basin Bridge and Vyasarpadi Jeeva. Its function is to control the Vyasarpadi Jeeva station and railway lines connected to it.
The station is served by both a footbridge and a subway.
Incidents
On 29 April 2009, a suburban EMU train from Chennai Central's Moore Market Suburban terminal, hijacked by an unidentified man, rammed with a stationary goods train at the Vyasarpadi Jeeva railway station, killing four passengers and injuring 11 others. A major portion of the platform at the station, foot over-bridge and railway track were damaged due to the impact of the collision. The train which was to start at 5:15 am started at 4:50 am. The speed of the EMU train at the time of the collision was 92 kmph. There were about 35 passengers on board the train at the time of the accident.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirumullaivoyal%20railway%20station | Thirumullaivoyal railway station is one of the railway stations on the Chennai Central–Arakkonam section of the Chennai Suburban Railway Network. It serves the neighbourhoods of moondru nagar, Jayalakshmi Nagar, Senthil Nagar and Thirumullaivoyal and a suburb of Chennai located 17 km west of the city centre. It is situated at Senthil Nagar near Ambattur and has an elevation of 21.73 m above sea level.
History
The first lines in the station were electrified on 29 November 1979, with the electrification of the Chennai Central–Tiruvallur section. Additional lines at the station were electrified on 2 October 1986, with the electrification of the Villivakkam–Avadi section.
Layout
The station is the newest one in the Chennai Central-Arakkonam section. There are four tracks—two serving exclusively for the suburban trains. The suburban tracks are served by an island platform, on which the station building is situated. A footbridge connects the platform with the neighbourhood.
See also
Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
References
External links
Thirumullaivoyal station at Indiarailinfo.com
Stations of Chennai Suburban Railway
Railway stations in Chennai
Railway stations in Tiruvallur district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20S%20series | The Samsung Galaxy S series is a line of flagship Android smartphone and tablet computer produced by Samsung Electronics. In conjunction with the foldable Galaxy Z series, the lineup serves as Samsung's flagship smartphone lineup.
The series consisted initially of smartphones and the first device, the Samsung Galaxy S, was announced in March 2010 and released for sale in June of that year. Samsung later expanded the Galaxy S line to tablet computers with the announcement of the Galaxy Tab S in June 2014 and released the next month. The Samsung Galaxy Tab series is the related tablet line.
Phones
Samsung Galaxy S
The original Samsung Galaxy S smartphone was announced in March 2010 and released on June 4, 2010.
Display: 4.0" Super AMOLED
Resolution: 480x800 pixels
Processor: Samsung Exynos 3
Storage: 2-16 GB (expandable)
RAM: 512 MB
Battery: 1500 mAh (user-replaceable)
Camera: Back: 5 megapixels, 1x, 720p (HD) video; Front: 0.3 megapixels
Back cover is replaceable.
Expandable storage: Micro SD Card (SD HC, up to 32 GB)
Touch sensors for navigation keys; no dedicated camera shutter button
Samsung Galaxy S II
The company announced the Samsung Galaxy S II on February 13, 2011.
Display: 4.3" or 4.5" Super AMOLED
Resolution: 480x800 pixels
Processor: Samsung Exynos 4 Dual, Texas Instruments OMAP4430, or Qualcomm Snapdragon S3 APQ8060
Storage: 16/32GB (expandable)
RAM: 1 GB
Camera: Back: 8 Megapixels, 1x, 1080p (Full HD) video; Front: 2 megapixels; flash light added; located at center instead of corner
Battery: 1650 or 1800 mAh (user-replaceable)
Back cover is replaceable
USB On-The-Go (OTG)
Mobile High-definition Link (MHL) to HDMI
External storage: MicroSD-HC Cards (up to 32GB)
Android 2.3.4,up to 4.1.2
In 2013, a "Plus" variant was released with only 8GB of internal storage and slightly different chipset. It also features the TouchWiz "Nature UX" user interface, and the brushed dark blue colour variant ("Pebble Blue"), both known from the Galaxy S III.
Samsung Galaxy S III
The Samsung Galaxy S III was announced on May 3, 2012. More than 70 million units of the Galaxy S III were sold, making it the one of the most sold S series phone. It features a split-screen feature whereby users can use two apps simultaneously (available from Android 4.1 up to 4.4.2 "Premium Suite Upgrade"), an upgraded video player software which is first able to play in a movable and resizeable pop-up window for simultaneous watching during other tasks, and with motion thumbnails that can preview playing videos rather than only a static image, an "Ambient Light" feature whereby the screen brightness can automatically adjust to the light level, a "Smart Stay" feature that can prevent the phone's screen from turning off by looking at the phone, a personal assistant called S Voice, the ability to tag faces in the phone's gallery, an "S Beam" feature to transfer files via NFC, an LED light on the front of the phone that can be used for notifications, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Hot%20Tropical%20Songs%20of%202004 | 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 2005
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Tracks of 2004
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Pop Airplay of 2004
References
2004
2004 in Latin music
United States Tropical Songs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Hot%20Tropical%20Songs%20of%202003 | 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 2004
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Tracks of 2003
List of number-one Billboard Hot Latin Pop Airplay of 2003
References
2003
United States Tropical Songs
2003 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20Show%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of American animated sitcom Regular Show, created by J. G. Quintel, originally aired on Cartoon Network in the United States. Quintel created the series' pilot using characters from his comedy shorts for the canceled anthology series The Cartoonstitute. He developed Regular Show from his own experiences in college. Simultaneously, several of the show's main characters originated from his animated shorts "2 in the AM PM" and "The Naïve Man from Lolliland." The season was produced by Cartoon Network Studios, and ran from September 6 to November 22, 2010.
Regular Show'''s first season was storyboarded and written by Quintel, Sean Szeles, Shion Takeuchi, Mike Roth, Jake Armstrong, Benton Connor, Kat Morris, Paul Scarlata, and Kent Osborne.
Development
Concept
Two 23-year-old friends, a blue jay named Mordecai and a raccoon named Rigby, are employed as groundskeepers at a park and spend their days trying to slack off and entertain themselves by any means. This is much to the chagrin of their boss Benson and their coworker Skips, but the delight of Pops. Their other coworkers, Muscle Man (an overweight green man) and Hi-Five Ghost (a ghost with a hand extending from the top of his head), serve as their rivals.
Production
Production Began on November 14th 2009, Many of the characters are loosely based on those developed for Quintel's student films at California Institute of the Arts: The Naive Man From Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM. Quintel pitched Regular Show for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute project, in which the network allowed artists to create pilots with no notes to be optioned as a show possibly. After being green-lit, Quintel recruited several indie comic book artists to compose the show's staff, as their style matched close to what he desired for the series. The season was storyboarded and written by Quintel, Sean Szeles, Shion Takeuchi, Mike Roth, Jake Armstrong, Benton Connor, Kat Morris, Paul Scarlata, and Kent Osborne while being produced by Cartoon Network Studios.
Roth is the creative director and Janet Dimon is the producer.
The first season of Regular Show was produced with heavy use of double entendres and mild language. Quintel stated that, although the network wanted to step up from the more child-oriented fare, some restrictions came along with this switch.
The whole season aired in the same time slot on Mondays at 8:15 p.m. on Cartoon Network.
Cast
The voice actors include Quintel (as Mordecai) and William Salyers (as Rigby). Quintel states that the writing crew tries to "come up with dialogue that sounds conversational and not too cartoony so that the characters are more relatable." In addition, Sam Marin voices Pops, Benson, and Muscle Man, Mark Hamill voices Skips, a yeti, and Jeff Bennett voices Hi-Five Ghost in this season only; starting with season 2 to 8, Quintel takes over the role.
The character of Mordecai embodies Quintel during his college years, specifically at CalArts: "That's that time w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20Broadcasting%20Network | The Fundamental Broadcasting Network (FBN) is a network of Conservative Christian radio stations in the United States, based out of the Grace Baptist Church in Newport, North Carolina.
Programs heard on FBN include Family Altar with Lester Roloff, Scripture Reading with Alexander Scourby, Gospel Hour with Oliver B. Greene, Ranger Bill, along with other Christian programming. Its music is predominantly traditionalist in nature, consisting mostly of hymns and some older Southern gospel, with no contemporary Christian music.
Stations
FBN programming is featured on six full-powered stations and 11 translators, as well as 21 additional affiliated stations and translators, most of which are owned and operated by independent Baptist churches, which carry Fundamental Broadcasting Network's programming either in-part or in-whole. FBN's flagship station is WOTJ 90.7 FM in Newport, North Carolina, which began broadcasting December 12, 1988.
The Fundamental Broadcasting Network formerly operated two 50,000-watt shortwave stations, WTJC, which began broadcasting in 1999, and WBOH, which began broadcasting in 2002. WBOH ceased broadcasting in 2010.
Owned-and-operated stations
Translators
Affiliates
Translators
References
External links
Fundamental Broadcasting Network
Grace Baptist Church
Christian radio stations in the United States
American radio networks
Christian fundamentalism
Radio stations established in 1988
1988 establishments in North Carolina
Conservative media in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Owicki | Susan Owicki is a computer scientist, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, and one of the founding members of the Systers mailing list for women in computing. She changed careers in the early 2000s and became a licensed marriage and family therapist.
Academic life
Owicki received her PhD in computer science from Cornell University in 1975. Her advisor was David Gries. In her thesis, she invented Interference freedom, a method for proving concurrent programs correct, which is basis for much of the ensuing work on developing concurrent programs with shared variables and proving them correct. Two papers resulted directly from her thesis:
She was a faculty member at Stanford University for the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Departments for 10 years. Her research interests include distributed systems, performance analysis, and trusted systems for electronic commerce and she published numerous articles and patents on her research.
In 1994 Owicki was recognized as an ACM Fellow for her dissertation work An Axiomatic Proof Technique for Parallel Programs I.
Industry career
After Stanford, Susan Owicki was employed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
She later worked at the Strategic Technologies and Architectural Research Laboratory (STAR lab) where she held a role as Associate Director. STAR lab was the first laboratory devoted to research in digital rights management and related electronic commerce technologies.
She spent four years as an independent consultant doing work in the performance of interactive television and delivery of streaming video.
Personal life
Owicki is married to Jack Owicki and has two children.
Publications
Owicki's publications include
Susan Owicki; David Gries (1976). "An Axiomatic Proof Technique for Parallel Programs I" (winner of the 1977 ACM Programming Systems and Languages Paper Award.)
Forest Baskett; James H. Clark; John L. Hennessy; Susan Owicki; Brian Reid. "Research in VLSI Systems Design and Architecture". Stanford University. 1981.
Susan S Owicki; Leslie Lamport. "Proving Liveness Properties of Concurrent Programs". ACM TOPLAS. (4:3): 455-495.
Amy L. Lansky and Susan S. Owicki, "GEM: A Tool for Concurrency Specification and Verification,", in Proceedings of the Second Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, ACM, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1983.
Thomas E. Anderson; Susan S. Owicki; James B. Saxe; Charles P. Thacker (1993). "High-speed Switch Scheduling for Local-Area Networks". ACM TOCS. (11:4): 319-352.
A more complete list of publications is available online.
Patents
Owicki's patents include
- Fault tolerant distributed garbage collection system and method for collecting network objects
- Systems and methods for watermarking software and other media
Marriage and family therapist
Owicki is also a licensed marriage and family therapist. She maintains a private practice and is on the staff of the Stanford University faculty and staff help center.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle%20Slaton | Danielle Victoria Slaton (born June 10, 1980) is an American retired professional soccer player. She is currently a soccer analyst for MLS Season Pass, Fox Sports and the Pac-12 Network. A five-year member of the United States women's national soccer team from 2000-2005, Slaton also played for the Carolina Courage in the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA) and was named the league's Defender of the Year. She went on to play for the French club Olympique Lyonnais where she was a starting defender on the team in the Division 1 Féminine.
Early life
Slaton was born in San Jose, California. She attended Presentation High School in San Jose, California and led the soccer team to three Central Coast Section Championship games. She was named first team All-Santa Teresa Athletic League and first team All-CCS all four years. She was honored as the San Jose Mercury News Freshman and Sophomore of the Year following the 1995 and 1996 seasons. She was awarded a scholarship from the 100 Black Men of Silicon Valley and graduated with a 4.0 grade point average.
Slaton played club soccer for the Central Valley Mercury coached by Vicky Wagner and Phillippe Blin, former Santa Clara assistant and former head coach at San Jose State. She helped lead the Mercury to three consecutive national championships in 1996, 1997 and 1998.
Santa Clara University
Slaton played for Santa Clara University, where she was a four-year starter, three-time first-team All-America defender and team captain for the Santa Clara Broncos from 1998-2001.
During her senior year, she helped lead the Broncos to the 2001 NCAA Championship and was named the NCAA College Cup Defensive MVP. She was a four-time first team all-West Coast Conference selection, the 1998 WCC Freshman of the Year and 2001 Defender of the Year. Slaton graduated Santa Clara University having started 79-of-84 games, scoring 50 points on eight goals and 34 assists.
She was named the 2001 National Soccer Coaches Association of American (NSCAA) Scholar Athlete of the Year and graduated magna cum laude with a 3.74 GPA.
Playing career
Club career
In 2002, Slaton was the first overall draft pick by the Carolina Courage in the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA). She helped lead the team to the WUSA Championship and was named the league's Defender of the Year.
In 2005, Slaton played for Olympique Lyonnais in France where she was a starting defender on the French First Division team and a member of the runner-up French Cup Tournament team.
International
Slaton was member of the under-21 national team pool in 1999. She captained the under-16 team from 1996-1997.
Slaton was a five-year member of the U.S. National Team from 2000-05 that won a silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia and a member of the third place 2003 World Cup squad. Her first appearance with the United States women's national soccer team occurred on February 24, 1999, against Finland. She scored her first goal on January 13, 200 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20approximate%20anti-aliasing | Fast approximate anti-aliasing (FXAA) is a screen-space anti-aliasing algorithm created by Timothy Lottes at Nvidia.
FXAA 3 is released under a public domain license. A later version, FXAA 3.11, is released under a 3-clause BSD license.
Algorithm description
The input data is the rendered image and optionally the luminance data.
Acquire the luminance data. This data could be passed into the FXAA algorithm from the rendering step as an alpha channel embedded into the image to be antialiased, calculated from the rendered image, or approximated by using the green channel as the luminance data.
Find high contrast pixels by using a high pass filter that uses the luminance data. Low contrast pixels that are found are excluded from being further altered by FXAA. The high pass filter that excludes low contrast pixels can be tuned to balance speed and sensitivity.
Use contrast between adjacent pixels to heuristically find edges, and determine whether the edges are in the horizontal or vertical directions. The blend direction of a pixel will be perpendicular to the detected edge direction on that pixel.
Calculate one blend factor for a high-contrast pixel by analyzing the luminance data in the 3x3 grid of pixels with the pixel in question being the center pixel.
Search along the detected edge to determine how long that edge goes for and what direction the actual edge goes when the detected horizontal or vertical edge ends in order to take into account the actual edge's direction in order to calculate a second blend factor. This step can be tuned for more quality by increasing the search resolution and how far the search goes before the search for the edge's end gives up, or for more speed by reducing both.
Blend the pixel using the chosen blend direction and the maximum of both of the blend factors that were calculated.
Comparison
The main advantage of this technique over conventional spatial anti-aliasing is that it does not require large amounts of computing power. It achieves this by smoothing undesirable jagged edges ("jaggies") as pixels, according to how they appear on-screen, rather than analyzing the 3D model itself, as in conventional spatial anti-aliasing. Since it is not based on the actual geometry, it will smooth not only edges between triangles, but also edges inside alpha-blended textures, or those resulting from pixel shader effects, which are immune to the effects of multisample anti-aliasing (MSAA).
The downsides are that high contrast texture maps are blurred, that FXAA must be applied before rendering the HUD elements of a game lest it affect them too, and that polygonal details smaller than one pixel that would have been captured and rendered by MSAA and SSAA cannot be captured and rendered by FXAA alone.
See also
Morphological antialiasing
Multisample anti-aliasing
Anisotropic filtering
Temporal anti-aliasing
Deep learning anti-aliasing
Spatial anti-aliasing
References
Anti-aliasing algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Tawt%20I%20Taw%20a%20Puddy%20Tat | I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat is a 2011 American 3D computer-animated Looney Tunes short film featuring the characters Tweety, Sylvester, and Granny. It is an adaptation of the 1950 song "I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat" sung by Mel Blanc. It features the voice of June Foray as Granny and Blanc's archive recordings taken from the song for Sylvester and Tweety. I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat was first shown in theaters before Warner Bros.' feature-length film Happy Feet Two. In 2014, Warner Bros. Animation published this short on YouTube.
Plot
Inside Granny's apartment, while Granny is asleep, Tweety sings about his life at home and about Sylvester, who always wants to eat him.
Voice cast
Mel Blanc (via archival recordings) as Tweety and Sylvester
Joe Alaskey as Sylvester (additional vocal effects)
June Foray as Granny
Release
The short was released theatrically with Happy Feet Two. It was attached as a special feature on the Happy Feet Two DVD and Blu-ray.
It was also included as a bonus on the DVD release of Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run.
References
External links
I Tawt I Taw a Puddy Tat on YouTube
2011 films
2011 3D films
2011 short films
2011 comedy films
2011 computer-animated films
2010s American animated films
2010s animated short films
2010s musical comedy films
American 3D films
Computer-animated short films
American children's animated musical films
3D animated short films
Looney Tunes shorts
Sylvester the Cat films
Tweety films
Films set in apartment buildings
Short films directed by Matthew O'Callaghan
Films scored by Christopher Lennertz
Warner Bros. Animation animated short films
2010s Warner Bros. animated short films
Reel FX Creative Studios short films
Films with screenplays by Matthew O'Callaghan
2010s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick%20Your%20Face | Pick Your Face is an Australia game show created by Banksia Productions for the Nine Network that ran from 1999 until 2003 and rerun on the Disney Channel from 2005 until 2009. It was hosted by Angus Smallwood.
Format
Round 1
Contestants had to remove items that served as clues from a large fake nose which, when gathered together would make the name of a celebrity.
Round 2 – Place the Face (Part 1)
Player one would move to the rear of the studio and play a game where they had four celebrity faces (originally three celebrities and the fourth being the player themselves) with the eyes, nose, and mouth each cut out and posted randomly around the outside of the board. The object being to put them back together in 60 seconds and getting points for guessing the celebrity successfully.
Round 3 – The Morph Mobile
Each player looked at their own photo as it slowly transformed into the face of a celebrity with more points being earned the quicker the player solved the puzzle. Each player had 30 seconds.
Place The Face (Part 2)
The second player got their opportunity to play Place The Face, as above with the same celebrities (but their own face as the fourth picture as before).
Round 4
All three players were presented with a photograph of a celebrity upon which cartoonish, grotesque features were superimposed. The players asked questions in a yes or no answer format which when answered with a yes removed the additional facial features until a contestant correctly guessed the name of the celebrity.
Place The Face (Part 3)
The third player played Place the Face as above.
Round 5 – Face Off
A trivia round where the buzzer was a touch activated giant eyeball.
Production
It was reported in Adelaide's Advertiser that some filming sessions were affected by heatwaves that hit the city in January 1999 and producers pleaded with audiences to attend.
It was also reported that Banksia Productions was in negotiation with Fox Kids in the United States to produce an American version of Pick Your Face with American contestants and host, but filmed in Adelaide.
References
External links
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Nine Network original programming
Australian children's game shows
1999 Australian television series debuts
2003 Australian television series endings
1990s Australian game shows
2000s Australian game shows
Television shows set in Adelaide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite%20Sentry | Granite Sentry was a Cheyenne Mountain nuclear bunker improvement program "to provide a Message Processing Subsystem and a Video Distribution Subsystem, and [to upgrade] the NORAD Computer System display capability and four major centers: (1) the Air Defense Operations Center, (2) the NORAD Command Center, (3) the Battle Staff Support Center, and (4) the Weather Support Unit." Granite Sentry was also to process and display "nuclear detection data provided from the Integrated Correlation and Display System." For $230 million the program was also to "replace display screens of the Attack Warning and Attack Assessment System", and Granite Sentry was delayed from 1993 to 1996. Granite Sentry and other Cheyenne Mountain Upgrade interfaces were tested in 1997, and Granite Sentry's processing regarding "simulated [nuclear] detonation messages…injected into the Defense Support Program Data Distribution Center [was] not adequate...".
References
Cold War military computer systems of the United States
North American Aerospace Defense Command |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbusters%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29 | Blockbusters was an Australian children's game show, broadcast on the Seven Network, where players from two schools competed over the course of a week (five episodes), in a rolling format, where games could be started in the middle of an episode, and stopped and continued on the next episode. The school team earning the most points (based on questions answered from the main game, except tie-breaks) won a major prize for their school, such as an encyclopedia. The show was hosted by Michael Pope. It ran in Australia from 1991 to 1994.
The game board consisted of 20 interlocking hexagons, arranged in five columns of four. Each hexagon contained a letter of the alphabet. A contestant would choose one of the letters, and would be asked a general-knowledge trivia question whose correct answer began with the chosen letter. (A typical question was something like, "What 'P' is a musical instrument with 88 keys?" The answer would be a piano.)
Two students from each school played in each match. Similar to the 1987 American version of the show, the shorter path alternated between the teams in the first two games, and a 4x4 tie-break game board was used in the event of the first two games in a match being split between the two teams. Five points were earned towards the school team's weekly total for each question correctly answered, with no points scored during tie-breaks (nor for Gold Runs).
The winner of the match went on to play the Gold Run bonus round. The board consisted of a pattern of hexagons similar to that of the main game, but the hexagons had 2 to 5 letters inside them; those letters were the initials of the correct answer. (For instance, if a contestant chose "BS" and the host said "Where people kiss in Ireland", the correct answer would be "Blarney Stone.") If a contestant guessed correctly, the hexagon turned gold. However, if the contestant guessed incorrectly or passed, it turned black, blocking the player's path; it was then up to the contestant to work around it. The object was to horizontally connect the left and right sides of the board within 60 seconds (or before blocking off all possible horizontal connections).
Gold Run questions had two-word answers, with a successful run resulting in a small prize for that player and their teammate. As there was no consolation prize for each question in a failed Gold Run, the game would be terminated early if the board became completely blocked from black spaces.
Board game
A board game was released by Croner in the 90s.
External links
Seven Network original programming
Australian children's game shows
1991 Australian television series debuts
1994 Australian television series endings
1990s Australian game shows
Television series by Fremantle (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20Recall%20%28game%20show%29 | Total Recall is an Australian children's game show that aired on the Seven Network. It was hosted by Michael Pope who also hosted the Australian version of the popular game show Blockbusters. The series was first originally broadcast in 1994 and ended in 1995. It was also repeated on pay TV channel Nickelodeon a few years later.
The show saw two competing schools play a memory game. On Monday to Thursday, four kids from one of the schools would play and the person with the most points at the end of the day was declared winner. They were then asked to come back on Friday where the four winners that week would go school against school. Also trying to amass the most points during the week to win the schools prize at the end of the week
Round one
A list of things was presented to the contestants in a particular order and then they had to recall which order they went in with Michael Pope providing clues to the answers.
Round two
Contestants are presented with a sillouette of an object for 15 seconds, which is the jumbled around, then are tasked with naming the object and then unscrambling the picture.
Trivia
This show was the first spin off kids game show for A*mazing.
The show was rerun in 1997-1999 on Nickelodeon.
Seven Network original programming
Australian children's game shows
Australian children's television series
1994 Australian television series debuts
1995 Australian television series endings
1990s Australian game shows
Memory games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarket%20Sweep%20Australia | Supermarket Sweep is an Australian version of the American game show of the same name. It was produced by Grundy Television, airing on the Nine Network from 1992–1994 with former Price Is Right host Ian Turpie as MC, assisted by Tania Zaetta. Col Mooney and Alan Glover served as announcers.
The supermarket on this show was originally a Coles Supermarket, but was later changed to a generic supermarket. The latter set was identical to the American show, as was the case with most Reg Grundy-produced Australian games based on American programs.
Pairs of contestants, randomly selected from the studio audience, started with one minute and are asked questions about television commercials and supermarket merchandise, with correct answers increasing their allocated time in a "shopping spree." Contestants use their allocated time to run through the mock supermarket, filling their trolleys with as much merchandise as possible. The team with the highest value of merchandise is deemed the winning team, and plays in a treasure hunt-style bonus game, in which clues suggest which four products must be found in 60 seconds. Each marked product found won a prize and finding the fourth product before 60 seconds expired won a major prize.
External links
Nine Network original programming
1990s Australian game shows
1992 Australian television series debuts
1994 Australian television series endings
Television series by Fremantle (company)
Television series by Reg Grundy Productions
Australian television series based on American television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Teenage%20Mutant%20Ninja%20Turtles%20%282012%20TV%20series%29%20episodes | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an American computer animated series based on the eponymous characters. It aired on Nickelodeon in the United States from September 28, 2012, to November 12, 2017.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2012–2013)
The episodes aired with their working titles outside North America.
The turtles emerge from the sewers for the first time and have adventures where they fight against new enemies: The Kraang and the Foot Clan.
Season 2 (2013–2014)
A conflict arises in New York when the turtles accidentally drop mutagen from a Kraang ship and not only mutate April's father into a bat, but they also mutate the common citizens of New York, creating new mutants in the process. Because of this conflict, April leaves the team but ends up meeting the one and only Casey Jones.
Season 3 (2014–2015)
Now relocated to April's family farmhouse in the woods after the Kraang invasion of New York, the turtles, now with April and Casey, fight against newer, stranger mutants, as well as train in the woods on their quest to become true ninjas, all while Leo tries to overcome his leg injury.
Season 4 (2015–2017)
Space is endless but earth has only end-ness as the turtles, April and Casey must find parts of the "Heart of Darkness" in order to restore Earth after the Triceratons decimated it. The second half of this season finds the turtles facing off against an old yet completely new enemy: the Super Shredder.
Season 5: Tales of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2017)
Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past
Shorts
See also
List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters
Notes
References
Lists of American children's animated television series episodes
Episodes
Lists of Nickelodeon television series episodes
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, 2012
2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-Star%20Squares | All-Star Squares is the Australian adaption of the American game show Hollywood Squares that aired on the Seven Network in 1999, hosted by Ian 'Danno' Rogerson. Like the American version, the object of the game was to get three stars in a row, either across, up-and-down or diagonally. The contestant in turn, chose a celebrity, to whom host Rogerson asked a question. After (usually) a joke answer, they gave a response, to which the contestant either agreed or disagreed. If correct in their judgement, they received their mark in that box; if wrong, their opponent got the square (unless it led to three in a row, in which case that player had to earn it him/herself).
Each of the first two games scored $250, the third game scored $500 and each game thereafter scored $1,000. The second game featured a "secret square" which awarded a special prize to the first player to choose that square and correctly judge the celebrity's answer. If neither player found that celebrity, the "secret square" would be moved to another celebrity in the next game. If time expired during a game, each player scored $250 per square. If the match ended in a tie, the winner of the most games decided who chose a square for the $250 tie-breaker. The player with the most cash kept their winnings and chose a celebrity, each of whom held an envelope concealing a card with the description of a major prize which the champion would win by correctly judging that celebrity's answer. Win or lose, the carryover champion returned on the following show to face another opponent.
Previous versions
Prior to this there were two other versions that aired from the 1960s to the mid 1980s. Personality Squares originally aired on Network Ten from 1967 hosted by John Bailey, followed by Joe Martin then Bob Moore and ran until 1969. It was revived as Celebrity Squares on the Nine Network hosted by Jimmy Hannan from 1975 to 1976. The format was revived again in 1981 but the Personality Squares name was reused with Jimmy Hannan as host on Network Ten.
References
External links
Page about "Celebrity Squares"
Hollywood Squares
Seven Network original programming
1990s Australian game shows
1990s Australian comedy television series
1999 Australian television series debuts
1999 Australian television series endings
Television shows based on tic-tac-toe
Television shows set in Melbourne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike%20It%20Lucky%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29 | Strike It Lucky is an Australian television game show that was broadcast on the Nine Network in 1994. It was based on a British show of the same name, which was based on an American show called Strike It Rich. The Australian Strike It Lucky was hosted by Ronnie Burns and co-hosted by Jane Blatchford with Craig Huggins as the announcer. It was produced in the GTV 9 Studios in Melbourne.
Main game
Three teams of two compete to win cash and prizes by going across an archway of TV monitors on stage. On a team's turn, one member of that team was given a category with six possible answers. That player then must decide how many answers he/she must give (either two, three, or four) for two, three or four moves on their respective 10 monitored archway. If the player can complete the contract, their partner gets to move across their archway, otherwise the opposing team gets to complete the contract.
Each monitor, bar the last, hides a prize or a "Hot Spot". There was always between five and eight Hot Spots hidden between all three teams' monitors. Each time the team in control reveals a prize, they win that prize and can decide to either bank the prize(s) and pass control to the next team or reveal another monitor. Deciding to keep playing is a risk because if at any time they reveal a Hot Spot, they lose all the prizes earned at that point and control goes the opponents. But, if they can make their required number of moves without hitting the Hot Spot, they automatically bank their prizes.
Along the way, the moving player could uncover some special spaces including:
Lucky Strike - Striking that screen won $100 is cash which was automatically theirs to keep win or lose the game; also that player would get a free move.
Free Move - self explanatory
The last monitor of the ten for each team is a question. The team can decide to answer it then or bank their prizes. The monitor before the question normally hides a holiday. A wrong answer forfeits the prizes not banked and the game continues, while a right answer wins the game.
Should time run out before a winner was decided, the team who's furthest ahead wins the game. If the game ended in a tie, the tied players get to answer the final question with the first player to buzz-in with the correct answer winning the game.
Bonus game
Instead of playing the game across the board they now play top, middle or bottom, choosing one of the three monitors in each row to play.
Hidden throughout the 30 monitors are 10 arrows signifying a free move, another 10 are Hot Spots and the final 10 are true or false questions earning a move on a correct answer or a Hot Spot on an incorrect one. These are randomly allocated throughout the board.
On each column of monitors, the winning couple elects to hit the top, middle or bottom one. The aim of the game is for the couple to get from one side to the other without hitting more than three Hot Spots. Winning the bonus game won a prize package.
References
1990s Australian ga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Generation%20%28Australian%20game%20show%29 | My Generation is a general knowledge trivia show. Hosted by Jeff Phillips and later Tony Johnston on the Nine Network in 1995–1996, each episode would be played by two 2-member teams, each consisting of a kid and an adult.
There would be a board of general topics and both teams would try to answer a question to determine who got to pick the topic. 30 seconds was given to answer a series of questions on that topic and would keep going until all the options had gone.
Then there would be a round where both generations would play a video game where they would switch over in between, mostly Ridge Racer on PlayStation.
Then in the final round, the teams were given 90 seconds of questions.
Nine Network original programming
Australian children's television series
Australian children's game shows
1995 Australian television series debuts
1996 Australian television series endings
1990s Australian game shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Ganja%2C%20Azerbaijan | The Ganja tramway network was a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Ganja, the second most populous city in Azerbaijan, for more than 40 years in the mid 20th century.
History
The network was opened on 1 May 1933, and was powered by electricity. At its height, it consisted of four lines. It was closed on 16 October 1976.
In January 2013, the government of Azerbaijan announced that it is planning to restore the tramway network in Ganja. The total length of the tramway network will be 15 km.
See also
List of town tramway systems in Asia
Trams in Baku
Trams in Sumgait
References
External links
Ganja, Azerbaijan
Ganja Trams
Ganja |
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